skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all index methodologies are created equal, the way that Russell handles periodic reconstitution is particularly susceptible to front running. Other indexing methods are not as bad.
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recently discovered aria2c, it's an excellent client for bittorrents files, would be run great on any EC2 instance.
The solution is to not let the private company get a commission. It should be a flat fee.

Ireland recently outsourced some 'speed vans' to catch people speeding. They went to great pains at launch to point out the company wasn't getting commission.
You've already got the odds stacked against you when you want to do a software-based startup and you're not a good developer yourself (or have a tech co-founder that is).

Once you've decided to go ahead and do it anyway, you've a number of options, and you're not doing yourself any favors by ruling out options the way this article advocates.
So 22% of facebook users either have no "friends" or welcome any interaction, regardless of its source?
I did freelance consulting for years, and will undoubtedly do it again, because it's fun to see a small slice of many different companies. And it's not just startups who need custom software—many small businesses need it as well, and they rarely give up big chunks of equity to hire a CTO.

Two major factors will affect how well outsourcing works for most people:

1) The quality of your programmer. It's an old cliché that the productivity of programmers varies by a factor of 10. You also need to take into account how good their code is, whether they write unit tests, what languages and platforms they use, and whether they're reliable business partners. If you're using open source tools, there's a shortcut to finding somebody good: Track down the project maintainers, and see if any of them run consulting businesses.

2) How well you understand your business. Some business people have a good grasp of what they need, and it's very easy for a good programmer to help them succeed. But my least favorite clients were always the ones who didn't understand their markets, who had dysfunctional committees, or who otherwise made it impossible for a programmer to earn them money.

If you have $10K to spend and a good grasp of what you need, you absolutely can succeed by hiring a good hacker. (Assuming, of course, what you need is genuinely in the $10K range.) On the other hand, I've seen small businesses spend the better part of $1 million on a simple database application and still crash and burn.

And finally, ask yourself what happens if don't quite achieve product / market fit, and you end up needing to pivot twice before you get traction. Nobody's going to lose too much sleep over a lousy code base if your business is successful. But can you afford two more iterations at $10K a pop?
There should be a distinction between books that can be read cover-to-cover and "reference bibles".

Also, where is Snowcrash? It surely belongs in that list.
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This is an interview with a non technical single founder who outsourced a v1, did serious business development, raised capital and then leveraged all this to attract co founders. It might help you decide.

http://mixergy.com/rafael-corrales-learnboost-interview/
> What happens if another guy with one of these locks comes along and parks his park on the same post as yours?

Presumably, if these were mass-produced, each device would have a rare or unique signal similar to car remotes.

> Also as far as I can tell this lock relies on the poles/posts being of a certain diameter

I thought of that too. There are standard light pole sizes, but they might be different in different countries. I wonder if it would work s well on wooden posts.
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The best way to measure the effect of speed cameras on speeding to have some hidden cameras monitoring the section of road, recording speeds. Motorists should not be able to see them. Then collect some baseline data. Then install the speed camera. Collect more data (from the original camera). Compare the two.
Yeah, with the free usage tier you get 30GB data transfer (15GB in + 15GB out) included but that would soon run out.
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I agree that it is a right tool for the job type of situation but I think there are many times when canvas is that tool for certain types of games. I understand the complexity of the Aves engine and what they are trying to do - but their performance needs are greater than most of the other games out there.

I think for simple tile-based games (pac man, mario bros, bejeweled) and casual 2d games (side scrolling shooters, puzzle games, angry birds) canvas is a really easy way to go.
This is incorrect, as posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946539
wrong. If that was true then the cables would have included reports on alien activity and the US connections with the aliens walking amongst us.

Now, where did I put my tin foil hat.
There's a number that do... and apparently you can install transmission as an add-on to dd-wrt:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Optware#Installing_torr...
This is just silly for all sorts of reasons.

One that is common for generalizations about outsourcing code is comparing apples to orange marmalade. Outsourcing to someone on elance for $3k vs having 2-3 higher value per hour programmers work on it full time for six months.

This is about as sensible as comparing an off-the-plan house to a plastic shed.
FYI, Microsoft Press ebooks, which are also sold through O'Reilly, qualify for this deal too. For whatever reason, they are not listed on the parent link though.

http://microsoftpress.oreilly.com/

I've heard (many times) that Code Complete is very good-- I'm strongly considering purchasing it.
I wasn't claiming that it invalidated anything. I was claiming that it was an expression of his biases.

I will say this, though: it is entirely conceivable that "document X" provides context that completely changes the significance of "document Y." Deliberately withholding that context is therefore a form of dishonesty.
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This video presents a neat idea, however they haven't explained their method. So we don't know how they arrived at the "22% reduction" conclusion.

* Was there a speed camera visible to motorists on that stretch of road before this experiment? If not, people might be slowing down because they are now passing a speed camera.

* What time of year was the before and after done? From the video it looks like Scandanavia. Was the after section during the winter and the before during the summer? People would (I assume) adjust their driving speed based on weather conditions, which might explain the reduction.

etc.
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I think the bigger issue would be how would your bike descend with another bike under it?
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+1 for iReader. I had to use it too. I find myself using it surprisingly often, even in this day and age, and even on some UX-savvy websites who should clearly know better.
To everyone talking about "sentiment analysis": that's not easy. Sentences like "John has stupidly said foo[1], and even went so far as to say bar[2] (which was demolished by Jane[3] and Jan[4]); he's now capitulated[5]" would be quite difficult to parse. The following articles may also be instructive: all by the same author, all quite critical, but with links with quite different intentions.

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/05/dembski_responds.ph...
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/12/id_garbage_csi_as_n...
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/08/quick_critique_demb...
I'm hoping for a book to help me learn Python!
Related material:

http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/RMA/

and some links for background supplied by andrewcooke
(http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andrewcooke)
when I submitted this a year ago:

http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_6_28_99.html (short summary)

http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~majm/bib/GAFoS.pdf (two page magazine article)

http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~majpk/papers/67.pdf (heavier)
What's the issue here? Enforcement is only a problem if the laws being enforced are restrictive. If they make it illegal to be a Jew, then we have a problem with the cameras. If they're only using it to do what police officers already do (monitor traffic violations) then the only difference is that police have more resources to deal with more important crimes.
Interesting. I wonder would the cars in this video be significantly different than cars in the US as I have a hard time keeping my car that slow regardless of the road I'm on?
The only thing I would ever use this for would be legal files shared with friends - I'm not sure how often Amazon ripples their IP addresses, but I'm sure the RIAA/MPAA would have a field day with an IP address linked to a billing account in the US.
Your bike would still be stuck up the pole until they removed their double parked bike.
One way to beat index funds is through piggyback investing on those who can beat them.

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Are you less free because of trash cans?
Missing a market is as big a problem as blowing a software project.

Outsourcing can work.

Insourcing can work.

Both approaches can and have gone down in flames, too.

Screwing up the responsibilities for the oversight of code development or failing to account for maintenance, well, that's a problem; outsourced or in-house.

You must get the motivations and the goals aligned.

The problems here can parallel those of paving roads, building bridges or other chunks of civil engineering. If you cheap out on the specs or on the construction (eg: low bid; too good to be true) or if you entirely separate the construction from the requisite and ongoing maintenance (in software: what, no code reviews before acceptance?), you can receive different results and differing construction materials and techniques.
Sal used to work for a VC firm (MVC Capital) before he started Khan's Academy.
I'm finding that the best "SEO" is creating quality content and using web assets creatively. Creative being the key word here, since even the best SEO can't make bad content good.
The "[don't] violate the sovereignty of our allies and friends." clause covers your concerns.

I'm not advocating US unilateralism. Your comment was apropos of nothing in what I said. Your rhetoric is misplaced.
http://mixergy.com/free-apps-interview/ - these guys make $80K a month in app sales by outsourcing everything.
Keep in mind that putting anything less than about half of your stock money in foreign securities is a bet in and of itself, given that American stocks’ share of the overall global equities market keeps falling.

Could someone explain this sentence please? What does he mean by "a bet", and why is the fraction of global shares that are American important?
So how do the numbers fall in the UK? What is the market share of Android vs iPhone where they have equal availability?
Yes & No - even in a subscriber / product model, the Uniques and Pageviews is a gauge of general public interest. Which speaks to product potential.

From there you can split test your landing page, try to up your conversion rate etc...

Revenue per month is great, wonderful, "le raison d'etre" - but - those other metrics are useful for a number of business functions.
I don’t know about the US but nearly two in five deaths in traffic accidents are caused by speeding in Germany.

Reducing deaths is probably the first priority, which would explain why infractions that usually only result in low speed collisions with no deaths are not as strictly enforced.
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This is a clever idea. The 1 in 9 captcha test was a poor decision, but if he forced everyone to type in a reCAPTCHA instead I think it would be a good service. Simple and effective enough. I wish I had thought of it.
I heard he totally would have made it too, except no one would sign his NDAs.
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You're right, I edited my remark.
"There is nothing unfixable but death". Bullshit, mom.
"What is interesting about this is not the damage it does, which will likely be minimal as it's really just embarrassing."
I believe that you underestimate the insanity of some of the individuals that have been insulted. I'm certain that many of these megalomaniacs put their ego at such high regard that they go to war and kill people for less then a personal insult.

Still, I'd rather see a war fought over humanitarian values like freedom of speech and the rights of wikileaks then for money and oil.

/Setec Astronomy
Same issue as "what happens if someone locks their bike next to mine and they are dumb enough to put their lock through my bike".

You'd have to assume that anyone who double parks on the same post with a lock like this probably isn't smart enough to ride the bike in the first place.

The actual question should be "what happens when there are too many people using these locks so no-one can find any places to use it?"
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I like the idea. My penny pinching mother and father will LOVE the idea. I'm just wondering how you can make any kind of serious money from uber-thrifty people like my parents.

I'm going to spread the word about you guys anyway. Best of luck!
From what I see Data Transfer is $0.10 per GB in $0.15 out http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

Assume you seed 50% more than you use 1GB (10c in) + (15c * 1.5 seeding) + (15c download) = ~47.5 cents per GB ouch.

However, a blue ray rip is something like 8.5GB * 47.5 cents = 4.04$ which is not that bad. Assuming you get the actual content that you want, don't end up in jail etc, it’s still cheaper than HD PPV let alone buying the Disk.

Edit: I chose a BR rip as the lowest value content per GB, for most other uses it seems fairly reasonable.
Same thing that happens when another guy puts another lock on your bike!
It's based on Peter Norvig's article of a similar name. I think that the '90 lines' was a reference to that former article rather than a literal description of this one.
In advertising, there is the concept of "above the line" and "below the line."

Below the line is anything that directly contributes to sales, and above the line is the less measurable stuff, like brand awareness (usually television ads, billboards, etc.).

I can think of a lot of cases where a web site should be measured by its reach rather than its immediate profit.

For example, a web site for a movie would measure its success in terms of trailers watched, time spent playing with interactive features, etc.

Web sites for cars measure success by the number of people who use the configurator, download brochures, or similar activities. It's very hard to tie monthly sales to monthly web visits, because the customer's consideration time is often much longer than a month.

Even a pure e-commerce site can't go on sales alone. Huge numbers of people use Amazon for product research, wish-list building, reading reviews, getting recommendations, etc. Just because they don't buy something every time doesn't mean it's not measurable. It's that kind of activity that cements Amazon's central role in many people's online shopping behavior. The lifetime value of a customer doesn't show up on a monthly sales report.

Determining the value of each touchpoint in a customer journey is an inexact and difficult science. There's an entire industry evolving to try and do that, called Attribution Management. One quite I've heard repeatedly from people in that field is "if you only count the places where money changes hands, you'd dismantle everything and just keep the cash registers."

The idea of a "revenue per month" metric sounds good on the surface, but it misses the entire value chain.
Nobody is currently preventing this from happening and I doubt there is much Apple could do to stop it. That is to say, Openstep is an open API that anyone is free to develop an implementation of.

Of course, this isn't the same as if, for example, Sony directly circumvented or undermined Apple's security or certification technology.
"The table also mentioned Powershell, VS.Net and VBScript"

Selective quoting, much?

- The context in which it mentions VS.Net: "Limited to primary IDE (VS.Net, Eclipse etc.) "

- The context in which it mentions Powershell and VBScript: "Perl/Python/Ruby/VBScript/Powershell "

So it describes a number of alternatives, some of which are for Windows-only, and all of a sudden the table is 'Windows-centric'?

I mean if you don't like Windows, fine, I don't care. But playing ostrich for anything Windows is just ignorance, and I mean that not in the 'not knowing' sense, but in the 'not wanting to know and proud of it', the 'ignorant hick' sense.

The 18 upvotes (as of now) of the GP make me sad. It makes me feel like many people voting are offended by the table because they don't score very well on it, and are looking for a reason to dismiss it, and oh look - something about Windows, that must be bad, because anyone using Windows or programming for it must be a moron.

I don't agree with all the details in this table, either; but that's irrelevant. This is a conceptual framework, a skeleton to apply further critical thinking on. It's been around for years and has been repeatedly upgraded and refined. It's not perfect but it's at least something. Outright dismissals of attempts at making programming and software engineering more quantitative processes, and - dare I say it - more like 'real engineering', and especially the dismissals based on hype technology fetishism, hold back real progress down in the trenches.

(oh and yes, I'd subtract just as many point for not knowing what 'PowerShell' is as I would for not knowing what 'Ruby' is, if any, in any interviews I'd do around this chart.)
This page links to Sirin Joseph's page as the source, http://weblogs.asp.net/sjoseph/archive/2008/04/30/programmer... That is turn links to the IndianGeek source. That should resolve it.
Relatives know I do "business", so I constantly get told stories like this.
this is link spam. one of the most common linkbuilding techniques is to make a 'top X Y' post and then contact those people telling them they made the list.
Meaning they think that corporations somehow stole their ideas, and complaining that companies won't accept their great business plans.
Okay fine, but the article doesn't really tell us anything about why Germany is able to base their economy on export and manufacturing. Is it simply a matter of political will? What do worker wages and income distribution look like? How about education? Without examining these elements, the implication that other economies should be more like Germany seems pointless.
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i wudn't mind. more people attending the meet, the merrier it is.

Get in touch with ankeshk. he is organizing the meet.
You can throw away pidgin if you really want to, and just use an IRC gateway to the IM networks: http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html
"It's been around for years and has been repeatedly upgraded and refined."

Hmm looks like I have to retract this part - I'd swear I read this at least 5 years ago in a slightly different version and that I'd seen several updated versions since then, but now I can only find it going to 2008 on indiangeek.com. So I probably misremembered that part.
A side note on counterarguments that is useful for marketing: Every logical argument you make has a counter argument, and if you make claims in marketing people will automatically think of the counter. However, if you tell a story, you can give across the same message and not activate that 'counter' reaction.
They of course react totally wrong to WikiLeaks. Should they close the site down, arrest Assange or something similar, the same will happen, as with any BitTorrent-site take down: Two new ones will appear tomorrow.
VMS acquired this circa 1995, via a mechanism called protected subsystems, and specifically via a subsystem ACL.

The associated access control list entry added additional access onto the running program, and the rights were stripped off at exit.

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/6346/6346pro_030.html

tl;dr of that web page: an administrative user can configure running programs to have their own identities granted via an access control list entry; identities which where then considered in conjunction with the user's identities.
Having your organization on that list means that any members of it, or associates become non-persons (people without rights). It is striking that this is happening in a Western country today.
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I wonder if you've listened to this story:

http://storycorps.org/listen/stories/julio-diaz/

I don't know this man's beliefs, but I can think of no better example of loving thy neighbor, being selfless, being unconcerned about possessions, and not judging. I think this is what Jesus would do.

Taking this story as an example of what it means to follow Jesus, I don't see how following him could leave a sense of unworthiness about one's character or lack of healthy ambition.
This seems useful where you'd need a really quick, easy part of the problem to be parallelized. For entire multi-threaded applications, maybe something like the multithreading library would be more useful?
http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html
Not to mention that there's a grammatical error in the first sentence of the text on their front page - "Starling Software is currently dormant, as the principles are both deeply involved in projects that grew out of it." So they fail on that component (communication skills).
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>> I am aware of many people that are successful traders.

> You have to ask then if they own personal airplanes, yachts and private islands? If the answer is 'no', then you have to wonder why not?

I am a software developer. Am I not successful because I dont own personal airplanes and a private island? I don't think these things define my success. Regardless, you have provided a straw man argument.

The people I know who are successful traders all have different MOs. What defines there success is that they stay in the black. Hence, they are able to time the market.

You don't need minimum latency to the exchange, fastest computers, insider info. As an example check out the performance of Fund My Mutual Fund. This is a virtual mutual fund that is soon to launch for real.

http://www.fundmymutualfund.com/2007/07/portfolio.html
You just have to trust other cyclists. If you use a regular lock, anyone with another regular lock could lock your bike and screw you anyway.
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> You'd have to assume that anyone who double parks on the same post with a lock like this probably isn't smart enough to ride the bike in the first place.

Such thinking is exactly the sort that is guaranteed to end up with your bike stuck up a lamp post due to a double parking incident ;)

(it doesn't quite fit, but the spirit of "Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools" applies)
Note that this experiment (balancing an inverted pendulum, then moving on to balancing an articulated inverted pendulum) is one of the examples from the original Papert LOGO papers of neat robotics problems which grade schoolers can understand and start working on (using the LOGO turtle or similar), but which can be refined as far as the student wishes to take it.