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Many Americans still treat you like a foreigner if you look different. I know from being born here and living here for 4 decades.
Python infrequently asked questions, google cache at

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:norvig....

Seems a bit out-of-date (upcoming Python 2.5?), not sure why it's here really.
I do a lot with my email. I sort, prioritize, archive, cross-reference, index, analyse, categorize and more. With FaceBook I don't have access to anything they don't choose to do for me. I can't get the data.

The other day I needed to track down a detail someone had sent me, and it was in a FaceBook message. I had no way to find it. It took literally over 2 hours to find something that I would otherwise find with a grep and a coffee.

Please, please, don't let FaceBook take away my email.
This is just sick. Whatever happened to respecting a person's dignity?
TC cited that as the phrase being used inside Facebook. Did you RTFA?
All right I have to ask: why on Wednesday's?
A way of reading HN that lets me say "That was interesting" and "That is of no interest to me" and then presents, when asked, all the posts from the last 48 hours based on how interesting a Bayesian (or other) filter thinks I'll find them.

I've been intending to write my own, but I've been too busy of late to make any progress.
I agree, but I also like "pornoscan" as a descriptor.
Great article, bad title. Someone with more kharma mind changing it to Python Infrequently answered Questions?
The author contradicts himself.

First he says that "Facebook is killing email. It’s been happening slowly, and most techies disagree, but it’s been happening for a long time."

Then he goes on to admit "More importantly, Facebook isn’t seen as a serious platform. This is less true now than it used to be, but I would still hesitate to ask people to Facebook me in order to talk business – Facebook is for friends and family, email is for work."

"..email is for work."

So....Email will not die anytime soon then is what he is saying.

Can anyone see businesses around the world allowing facebook to peer in and access their company messaging and data? Never.

Email is dead. Long live email.
Sone people are just better at some things than others. I know some "musicians" who can't play a steady rhythm even after years. It's also connected with exposure as a child. (Works both for music and language.) It's less common for someone to achieve the high fluency level of a native speaker starting as an adult.
Everyone is talking like this is such a huge number. If it vests over four years (They mention vesting, but not period.) then it is roughly $900,000 per year. If typical is $150,000 , then we're asking how many people could possibly be worth six times that much? Maybe 10%?

Another way to look at it is that this looks small in comparison to early equity positions in startups that go on to work out. It sounds like a good way to combat a desire on an engineer's part to roll the dice on that.
I'm not convinced - there's already an incredibly powerful filter on HN that finds and reads all the articles and rates them as being of interest to the audience. I suspect that the appeal of something that filtered HN for people with narrower interests (of whom I am one) would be pretty limited. I'm looking for something that is widely useful, rather than a fun coding project (which I'm sure this would be).
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The thing that impresses me most about jQuery is how conservative they are about adding new features. If you look at the jQuery API it's hardly grown at all in all in the past 4 or 5 versions of the library. Instead, they spend their time refining the existing methods - making .width() and .height() measure hidden elements, for example.
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I don't think it's necessary to learn all the new things, but you should at least know which ones could help you with what projects... And then learn them when that becomes useful.
My son is 8 and had to deal with some minor bullying in 2nd grade. The best thing we ever did was sign our son up for tackle football at the end of 2nd grade.

Now, when needed (so far only in football) he knows how to hit, get hit and not fear it.
Regarding the "if thr wr any", and the rise of Haskell and Clojure, I wonder whether such caveat applies any longer.

As for content of the Python IAQ, I've enjoyed learning about two python idioms I had never known possible:

1. The ternary conditional operator:

x = <result> if <test> else <alternative>

2. Using or to assign an alternative value when the first is False or None

x = <option> or <option>
I was excited this might measure user experienced page load times (with all referenced resources) but it's just another Pingdom Clone.

This is a useful tool, but there are already many competitors who do this better (like Pingdom, or Yottaa).
Has anyone actually had the web clipboard work? I was trying to copy and paste yesterday ( just tried it again today ) and it doesn't work.

Found a few comment threads saying the same thing. It appears not to work anymore.
You should give it a try, see what they send you! The stuff we did when I was still there was definitely more advanced. But again, pre-screening is never a test for competence, it is a test for lack of competence. The real test for great skill comes in the form of a 90m+ coding test and a 2h technical interview.
If you are asking people to review then ask. If not, then don't state your service as around the world if it can only do 2 countries. Disappointing after getting excited by the title and spending 5 mins to learn about pinging from USA and France.
I'd never heard of it, it's free (hard to monetize), seriously, I'm not sure Google are that worried.

There'll always be some hot new fad. I don't think Google would be doing any good getting into the game of creating hot new fads.
I found this to be true years ago. Rails 1.2 had really gnarly stack traces. I have yet to see Rails 3 throw up in such creative ways.

The current codebase is far from the spaghetti you claim. Active Record is probably the closest to it but it's been greatly changed internally from the original.
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OT but hey I can afford the burn

The charging a cow should do is with its horns, right in your fat belly.

Cows milk is for baby cows.
> "...and there were probably hundreds of thousands of users on it"

I'd be really surprised if usage was that high. I'd believe there being maybe a few thousand using it regularly.
(I'm the author)

I don't think it's a contradiction at all. Email is used for a lot of things. Facebook has replaced one use of email. Their next move will be to try and replace all the other uses, by making Facebook into a more "serious" platform.
There's no indication that they "allowed" it to pass - but, rather, that they caused it to pass, with great glee and evil rubbing of hands.

It seems like any political resistance has been mere theater.
You asked for a pain point, I provided one. These days I'm finding most of the "new" page to be uninteresting, and worse, most of the front page to be uninteresting as well. Many, many good, interesting and useful items slip through the net and get insufficient upvotes to hit the front page, and yet on occasion when re-submitted get noticed quickly enough, hit the front page and stay there for hours, sometimes more than a day.

So when you say:

> there's already an incredibly powerful filter on HN
> that finds and reads all the articles and rates them
> as being of interest to the audience.

... I guess I don't know what you mean. And if you just mean the current mechanism of having a wide readership that rates submissions, it's not working for me.

But I would guess that you're unconvinced and won't work on it, but that's your choice, and I fully support it. Someone might build it, it might be me, and I'll be really interested to see how much use it gets.

If any.
I agree.

The article actually contains the "if u cn rd ths..." phrase and it's a nice touch. However, it would be better to keep the original title and mention the phrase in the comments.
Well, there was an effort in developing the Xserve line as well, apparently it was no problem for Apple to throw the entire Xserve effort in the trash bin.

I think Apple will put less emphasis on the Mac in the next years, simplifying the line and reducing the products in the market, not so fast as he wishes, and this will be a trend in the entire industry, not only Apple. But that's my opinion and not a detailed analysis.
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I love shopping around and trying out different apps to find something that fits my criteria. I hate when apps don't offer a demo account and only show basic screenshots.

My biggest hate (and one that can't really be controlled) is discovering that there is a better app out there but that we can't use because our system and processes are tied into the current app.
Since you have a few hundred customers already, your project is obviously not in stealth mode. I think most here could give you better feedback if you posted a link to it.
But can it play Crysis?
I worked in Gurgaon a couple of years ago. Don't go to Gurgaon, if ever they were to remake the Office series in India, that's where it would be set.

I went to Delhi from Gurgaon a couple of times and thought it was a great place to go. I would've liked to have done Agra and Shimla, but I didn't have time. I can't speak for the rest of India (as it's huge and I haven't been) but I have friends from Calcutta who like it there.
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For facebook users, yes it can replace personal communications.

Businesses are more likely to totally block facebook rather than allow their important and legally binding email communications be run through an American social networking company.
I'd believe it
That would be true except there's no British planes on the carrier. Of course, the French will be upset that the carrier doesn't have 12 reverse gears and that the compass points to the South Atlantic :)
I tried to address most concerns on my post. But I missed your comment about the accountant and the truck driver. I'd never ask a truck driver to travel hundreds of miles.

In fact, bringing in people to an interview right away without at least calling them IS like asking the truckie to drive a long distance just for the sake of it. I'd avoid that. But I would ask him to send me a photo of his current truck (if he claims he has one). I'd maybe also ask him to name five roads he'd avoid between his main destinations (say in SF, if he claims to be from SF). Someone who's actually a cab driver in NY would find that hard to answer. :-)
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Personally I don't really like the wording of 'extraordinary evidence'. In fact, for most extraordinary claims the level of evidence the scientific community requires isn't that extraordinary at all.

There is also a very real danger of misinterpreting the adjective 'extraordinary'. Take for example statistics. It might be tempting to say that a higher correlation and/or significance is more extraordinary, but I would say any significant result should suffice.

My point is that, 'extraordinary' should not apply to the result, but to the experiment itself. To test an (extraordinary) hypothesis, we should design experiments as if we really want to disprove the hypothesis.
Ehh, they don't have to worry about that until the cameras on phones stop being so shit. The reason people like the vintage effects is that lots of phones end up taking blurry, slightly out of focus, under and over exposed photos. Slap some vintage filters on that and it looks somewhat charming.

Now, on the other hand, take some serious optics and truths same and unless you explicitly start blowing things out on the photo you've got something weird and artificial looking.
I disagree with this. This creates a situation of; throw a punch, does he give up yet, throw another, ok, surely he wants to stop now. That's how you really get hurts. You've hit the other person so the fight so it's on, and now you're stopping.

Personally I would advice that you do whatever you can to avoid a fight, but if you must fight you go until the other person is incapacitated or you get separated (in school this happens really quick anyway). Once you start a fight all further reluctance has to go out the window or you're going to get hurt.
Personally, I was never a fan of indian cities when I travelled there. I'd like to live near a cheap beach town like Gokarna or this place near Mangalore : http://surfingindia.net/node/10 . That said there's likely no tech/startup culture out here, but hopefully much less smog/air quality issues.

Upvoted Pondicherry as that looks pretty promising too.
But if Facebook integrates an email client into their ui, what will businesses do? No one blocks gmail because it is technically "controlled" by Google.
Ask HN: Should a supplier hold the client harmless?
In terms of context here is an extract from a typical software development contract, which is specific to UK law, but the principle remains the same.

8.	INDEMNITY AND INSURANCE

8.1	The Supplier shall indemnify and hold [CLIENT] harmless from all claims and all direct, indirect or consequential liabilities (including loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and similar losses), costs, proceedings, damages and expenses (including legal and other professional fees and expenses) awarded against, or incurred or paid by, the [CLIENT] as a result or in connection with:

(a)	any alleged or actual infringement, whether or not under English law, of any third party's Intellectual Property Rights or other rights arising out of the use of the Website; or

(b)	defective workmanship, quality or materials in or in relation to the Website; or

(c)	any claim made against the [CLIENT] in respect of any liability, loss, damage, injury, cost or expense sustained by the [CLIENT]'s employees or agents or by any [CLIENT] or third party to the extent that such liability, loss, damage, injury, cost or expense was caused by, relates to or arises from the Services as a consequence of a direct or indirect breach or negligent performance or failure or delay in performance of the Agreement by the Supplier.

8.2	The Supplier shall effect and maintain with a reputable insurance company a policy or policies of insurance providing an adequate level of cover in respect of all risks which may be incurred by the Supplier arising out of the Supplier's performance of this Agreement, including death or personal injury, loss of or damage to property or any other loss.

The Supplier shall take out and maintain as a minimum:

(a)	Public liability insurance, which shall, for any one occurrence or series of occurrences arising out of one event, be not less than £5,000,000; and

(b)	Professional Indemnity insurance, which shall, for any one occurrence or series of occurrences arising out of one event, be not less than £5,000,000; and

(c)	Employer's liability insurance in respect of staff in accordance with any legal requirement for the time being in force.

8.3 The terms of any insurance or the amount of cover shall not relieve the Supplier of any liabilities under this Agreement. It shall be the responsibility of the Supplier to determine the amount of insurance cover that will be adequate to enable the Supplier to satisfy any liability arising from this Agreement.

Is this clause usual? What are the risks?
This creates "abstract" images.

A few weeks ago I was looking for a solution to get some more or less random "figurative" images to use as a background image (I fade the image a lot, so that is does not come too obstruisive).

Alas I could not found any (I wish google image had an API for that, I haven't found it).

So I wrote something, it gets a random image from flicker's "interesting" images. I use the image as the background of the entry page at http://simpliwiki.com, I got some inspiration from http://www.codealias.info/technotes/javascript_for_getting_f...

For those interested, the source code is at the end of the page, feel free to use it the way you want.
Sorry if I came across unappreciative - I do appreciate your idea. I just tend to enjoy seeing items that I wouldn't otherwise consider reading - perhaps this is still a bit of novelty from not having been here very long.

I find that if I'm away for a few days the Best list helps me catch anything good I missed.
The follow-up article from his friend that he links to is perhaps more useful advice:

http://www.muhuk.com/2010/02/top-5-untrends-according-to-me/
Most of the most talented won't have those credentials and, in my opinion unlike getting sample problems, being asked for the credentials is such a red flag that the best won't apply.
The environment needs to be Turing-complete.
It might be argued that the point now is to attract attention and buzz, rather than hide it as they claim to be doing.
Why are al-most all the mul-ti-ple syllable words split with hypens?
Whoever called it "enhanced" has a very dark sense of humour...
"In the scheme of things, it is a parking ticket" ;)
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I live quite close to Bletchley Park; we used to go on school trips there when I was a kid. :)
Partying hard at college seems a relatively good way to propagate your DNA to the next generation. I would be wary of ascribing any worthiness to the ones that do so compared with say childless nuclear physicists.
Check the article, I'm linking Muhuk's post :)
No, indeed, and I wouldn't want to read only those items marked as being of interest. I just want to catch those that I should see, but missed because no one upvoted them.
The fact that "win over" as a phrase has a different meaning than "win against" renders your comment somewhat confusing. :)
"You went through a machine which took photos of your naked body without your knowledge and you don't see a problem with that?"

To be honest: No - don't see a problem with that.
Yes, that's right, this is a list of things that had proven useful for me during my projects.
Because I got it all messed up with a plugin :) Fixed, thanks for the bugreport ;)
Wow I'm really shocked that this story is getting so much credits.

First of all I'm 22 and not living US so I can only talk about growing up in Germany but there is one thing I learned growing up in Germany: Fist fighting is not a solution.
I never used my fists in my entire live (!!) to beat someone cause I don't think it could change a situation into a better situation.

I think we can all talk. Saying that it is what works because of our "animal nature" it's plane wrong. We would never live in this democratic world if everyone would use their fists to make things right.

Also it is really URGENT to tell kids that this is not a solution cause this will never be a solution while getting older and sometime a job. At work it will not help you to beat someone if he/she is bullying around with you. You will lost your job if you do so.

So please stop telling your kids a solution which only COULD (I don't think it works though) work in school. Worst thing what can happen is that your kids will try to solve every problem with a solution father told him/her.

Last but not least I know very well how hard school can be for kids but developing a good personality needs downs and ups. We are all "nerds" and I think we know hard times really well.

Thank you for listening.
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How is it that the efficacy of these machines in preventing terrorism has not even entered into this discussion??

I don't have strong feelings one way or another, but to read these comments (and much internet commentary) you'd think these machines were totally useless and the TSA was a department of perverts, rather than a government agency tasked with an extremely difficult job with zero margin of error.
Still appears messed up to me.
I am more worried with the radiation. The volume of the body that's exposed to the radiation is smaller and that makes the energy absorbed per volume much higher. Since I plan to have kids soon, I really don't want to be exposed to X-rays.
interesting:

This is the first study to link meditation and positive psychological change with telomerase activity.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.09.010

Background:
Telomerase activity is a predictor of long-term cellular viability, which decreases with chronic psychological distress (Epel et al., 2004). Buddhist traditions claim that meditation decreases psychological distress and promotes well-being (e.g., Dalai Lama and Cutler, 2009). Therefore, we investigated the effects of a 3-month meditation retreat on telomerase activity and two major contributors to the experience of stress: Perceived Control (associated with decreased stress) and Neuroticism (associated with increased subjective distress). We used mediation models to test whether changes in Perceived Control and Neuroticism explained meditation retreat effects on telomerase activity. In addition, we investigated whether two qualities developed by meditative practice, increased Mindfulness and Purpose in Life, accounted for retreat-related changes in the two stress-related variables and in telomerase activity.
Visitors might want to be a bit patient on the guided tour - largely seems a waste of time initially, with the guide talking a lot about the history of the land/park itself, and the WW2/code-breaking info being somewhat superficial.

Then he takes you into the National Museum of Computing and demonstrates the machines, and sometimes lets you touch and feel as well - awesome! The guided tour ends on quite the high!
So it's more like a hotmail killer. Gmail users tend to be "power" ones.
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Could you give me an example pls?
This kind of comment would be more credible if the same person would admit the equivalent: More dumb, tax-eating people makes a country weaker and life worse for the average person.

It's rare, let me tell you, for the same person to hold those two ideas together.
Ask HN: How to close a sale?
This is a follow up question to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1698842

We have built a web application for educational institutions and been working on our sales over last 3 months.

There is one school that has shown keen interest in our product. We have had one meeting that went well. They asked for a proposal which we sent to them along with a live demo. Five weeks later we had a phone discussion with their IT team.

Its been now 6 weeks since we had the first meeting. We had been following up with them over phone once every week. While we are confident that they are looking for a solution that we are providing, we are trying to figure out what we can do to close the sale and sign a MOU/Agreement with them.

---------

Update - Just to add some more context, we are mostly tech folks and newbies to sales
A lot of people compare Facebook to MySpace, but isn't AOL also a good comparison?

Remember all the companies that were AOL keywords. Now they have Facebook pages. AOL has a messenger, now Facebook does. It just strikes me as AOL for the 21st century.
So Apple hasn't changed tactics in 7 years? Or are they still same old same old?
I went through the physics program at the university of Minnesota and the point at which the rigorous nature of the scientific process really hit home for me was when I successfully reproduced the results of the famous Milikan Oil Drop experiment for measuring the fundamental charge e and having my professor tell me that even that experiment had controversy over whether Milikin was "picking bubbles" with bias. Real science is hardcore; you better have phenomenal data and explain every potential source of errors and what exatly those error margins are.