skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
robots.txt in the past has been the legal defense against claims of copyright infringement.
Metaprogramming is a more general concept than the author claims. For example, lisp macros and eval/quote (at any level of compilation or runtime) are particular metaprogramming facilities. You can even metaprogram using only explicit code quotation if you prefer (with no implicit reflection exposure of regular code).

I agree with the definition at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaprogramming
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I love the large, fresh-feeling tree... but your home page doesn't actually tell me much about your solution. Some questions I had that I would hope you can overcome when you next update your home page:

1. How can I create an estore in 3 clicks?
In persuasion, there's a trick called the 'optimal level of dissonance', in which you make a claim that's just about too impossible to believe... but that is still believable. In your case, you're not quite there with the "3 click" promise. Perhaps if you add a demo to show just how easy it is to get started? For those people who don't believe it'll take just 3 clicks, prove it by demonstrating it.

2. Large offer in hero section.
Your offer --- written in bold, large font --- next to the tree might be compelling... if I had a frame of reference to let me know why this price is great. Or if I understood your product by the time I'd read the discount. But neither is true right now. Have you considered putting a line about your offering (i.e., your value proposition / USP) higher on your home page?

3. Proofread, please.
Credibility is obviously huge for startups. If no one knows who you are, they don't know to trust your site. So correcting the seemingly minor things -- like "Why Choosing Us" (which should read "Why Choose Us") -- can go a long way to keeping people on your site long enough to persuade them to sign up.

The idea is super cool! If it really is as easy as you say it is to build an estore with your solution, that's going to be fantastic for users. Perhaps as you go along, you'll have some testimonials, etc (i.e., social proof) to share to help convince people that your service is better than others and 100% trustworthy.

Best of luck!
I recently quit my job too, and am doing the same thing you are. All the people that think you're crazy are saying that because they are very risk averse. A normal life includes getting a job, buying a house, getting married, and having kids. This is considered "progress". Anything that deviates from this is viewed as crazy.

If you want a 9-5 again, there will always be a big corporation to go work for. Surely, they won't fault you for having the courage to do your own thing.

"Ambitious programmers are better off doing their own thing and failing than going to work for a big company." - Paul Graham
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Here ya go: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+tos+robots&l=1
Yes, entrepreneurial ism is how you make a lot of money.

That or massive entitlements in commodities from the government. Or just growing a basic commodity compony, like a steel firm.

So not surprised by this statistic.

To make a lot of money, it's good to be an entrepreneur. But being an entrepreneur isn't necessarily good for making a lot of money.
Similar for me. I started with just the bar (20kg) in April, and am now at 120kg (i.e. bar plus two 45 pound weights and one 12.5 pound weight on each side).

Just make sure you log everything, and keep pushing yourself, but with good form. Squat to (slightly below) parallel.
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So, are you heading overseas?
He means that it didn't need pilots. The one time it was launched into orbit and landed, it was completely automatic.
> I haven't read as much Chomsky as I should either. [emphasis added]

See?! Now they've convinced you that to be fulfilled you have to read Chomsky!
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Note that "given the opportunity" meant "given the choice between execution and turning double agent".
Egypt gets $1.5 Billion per year. No pocket change.
FBI goes after Wikileaks cyber attackers
I read this, and become more concerned about bills to give the US President an Internet kill-switch. They say it's to protect against cyber-warfare, but something makes me think it's just as likely to be applied to civil unrest, and civil unrest doesn't usually happen unless there's something pretty wrong with the government.
Note that "given the opportunity" meant "given the choice between execution and turning double agent", though some chose to turn themselves in and offer themselves up as double agents of their own will.
Omnigraffle, OmniGraphSketcher, Numbers, Pixelmator, and rarely Keynote.
That's too bad about MailChimp. We experienced something similar when using MailChimp for Page99Test.com: our pre-launch signup list was not quite as clean as MailChimp (or we) would've liked. It was dirty. Like, pornographic dirty. ;) Not good. Too many bounces, unsubscribes and complaints.

But they accepted our excuses and let us stick around. And we're good now. Our list is clean as a whistle.

That said, we've also tried Campaign Monitor. Although CM isn't quite as straightforward or pretty as MailChimp, it has served our needs well.

LESSON (we learned the hard way) FOR PRE-LAUNCH SIGNUP LISTS:
Always be sure to confirm email addresses (i.e., use double opt-in). The trouble single opt-in can cause -- specifically re: dirty email lists -- is just not worth the time savings of not doing double opt-in.
"Also, their results seem to be at least as good as Google's which is pretty impressive."

They're Bing with some twiddles on top. DDG uses Yahoo! BOSS, which is Yahoo's API to its search service, which is now powered by Bing. Your DDG results all originally come from Bing's index, they just get filtered and possibly re-ranked by some custom code Gabriel's written.
Welcome to the opening salvos of the Age Of Preferred Internet. By publishing the streaming performance metrics of consumer ISPs, Netflix is making sure providers know they can influence the ISP choice of their customers. This as a warning, pure and simple.

p.s., in case you missed it -- 21 Dec FCC ruling: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-21/ne...
Ask HN: Can someone recommend some reliable China domain registrars?
I am working on marketing a service that's focused on Chinese culture, and would prefer to provide a Chinese domain name for the website. However I'm confused by a number of reports that suggest it's difficult to register a .cn or even a .com.cn domain, and I'm concerned about being scammed. Cany anyone offer any advice? I'd also like to know if it's worth registering using Chinese characters, or Latin.
"High-speed rail and solar shingles? If that's the president's idea of meeting our Sputnik moment, then Houston, we have a problem."

Really? Why is that a problem? Also, there was more to the speech than these two items.

The author of the article seems pretty confused. He wants to see vision in the President's policies. And yet he dismisses 'green jobs' as ' that's an industry off in the future. ' and demands a solution for a 'here-and-now economy.'

Perhaps the author has a point to make, but I can't see it.
specifically we are held up at the final sign off.

For example, we have a set process in place from initial wireframe through to website launch. We are typically held up during the final sign off process where endless design changes are requested. Some the same element being changed back and forth.

This is despite the fact that we have gotten sign off at the both the initial wirerfaming stage and then again at the design concept phase (this is the PSD version of the website, so what they see in the PSD is what will be converted to a website)

I point to the fact that they are making changes to a design they have already approved, to it becomes difficult to draw a line for what are further changes and need to be charged, and what are small changes that one would assume come with the initial website design?
I'm curious about the salary ranges comparing to london's. Do you know anything about that?
Considering it's basically just a syndicated Bing search, I don't see what the fuss over results is.
It's been awesome to watch RowFeeder's progress -- nice to see the product(s) going post-beta, in a complete package. Onward...
I agree.

Something specific: I recommend you look into power cleans.

Power cleans work lots of muscle---like the squat, and they give you fast strength. They are also hugely exhausting for my cardiovascular system and get me out of breath even on the low weight warm-ups.

The Stronglifts website has a suggestion on what exercise you can replace with them. Or just add them. Rippetoe has them every second workout alternating with deadlifts.
Rock on guys~
Hardly, because for your life to be intellectually interesting, you must discriminate between information. You're choosing not what people will think of you, but what is interesting to you.
"65 million unique monthly visitors. 5.5 billion page views in December, 2010."

It's extremely ominous that they're only offering such disingenuous metrics. They even admit as much in the footnotes:

"We define unique visitors as users who have visited our website at least once during a month regardless of whether they are a member, based on data provided by comScore"

In other words, they're counting people from India and other countries that aren't worth anything to advertisers, people who get there accidentally by clicking Google results and email signatures, etc. And not only that but they aren't even using their own analytics data. It wouldn't surprise me if 80+% of their traffic was fake. Not to mention the fact that:

"The number of our registered members is higher than the number of actual members, and a substantial majority of our page views are generated by a minority of our members."

This whole thing has scam written all over it. It wouldn't surprise me if this IPO ends up throwing cold water on the valuations of the entire sector, similarly to how eToys destroyed the first dotcom bubble after they couldn't deliver their shipments in time for Christmas.
Part of the problem is that we write facebook content as "public" content (i.e. the press release version of our lives) but we tend to process it as "personal" updates that substitute for actually catching up with someone on the phone or in person.

So whereas if you were chatting 1:1 with a good friend, they'd be just as likely to gripe about problems as brag about what's great, they're not going to do that to 500 of their closest "friends". And it skews our view of the world since we are now getting only positive info in a channel that used to provide a more realistic ratio of good to bad.
Some of them did it as employees. You can earn a million over your lifetime as a doctor in a hospital or whatnot.
A PhD is a formal license to do research and it marks the start (not the end) of a lifetime of research. You need such a license if you plan to work at a company with a rigid corporate ladder or in academia.

The only additional reason to get a PhD besides the license is an increased probability of being in contact with peers who you can collaborate with. People often undervalue this but empirically it's pretty clear what the benefits of having at least one research collaborator are.

If you actually do decide to go for a PhD, you're going to need at least one strong recommendation that speaks to your research ability if you want to get into a top program. Your undergrad institution and GPA put you in the running to be sure, but admissions committees are looking for evidence that you can perform research. Recommendations that say "this kid got an A in my class and is a good student" don't really have an impact on your application either way.
I agree on the proper form. But free weight are on of the best ways to fix your posterior chain and upper back.

Pull-ups, press-ups, running and jumping also work wonders for beginners, and it's even harder to get those dangerously wrong. (That is, as long as you don't wear shoes while running. Shoes will make good running form much harder.)

Just start slowly, log everything, and build your way up.

Don't waste your time, and your form on the gym-machines.
Thanks for that. A nice little tool for isp admins to check how they are doing in general.
I'd say Iran managed to show that brutal repression can be pretty damned effective at propping up a regime that couldn't survive the free flow of ideas.
The only thing is that Ruby is still growing, and so represents possible future revenue. But Oracle aims for short-term profitability now... which you have to admit, has worked out pretty well for them.

Taking a wider view, I love the work to make things better (such as at Xerox PARC), but it hasn't made money for those companies. Which is partly why Sun no longer has any say in Java, or in general research, or indeed in anything at all.
How, and why, do these things get leaked? Is it in either Zynga's or Whereoscope's interest to get a little PR before a sale? In other words, is this sort of thing strategic, or a lack of discipline on one party's part?

Whatever the case, congratulations to both sides if this comes true.
I don't want a green energy solution that requires lots and lots of new high-paying jobs. Why not? Think about where the money will come from to pay for them. Money that will not be going into productive industry.
It has as much to do with net neutrality as banning someone from an IRC server.
> Two things that weight training doesn't address is inward shoulder rotation/slumping and "turtle neck," something all people working at a keyboard are prone to.

On the contrary, weight training will address exactly that, provided you balance pulling with pressing. Most "gym rats", as you say, seem to do nothing but bench press and curls. The bench press will, if not balanced by pulling, exaggerate the internal shoulder rotation.

Deadlifts, Rows, Pullups (or lat pulldowns if you must) -- all strengthen the back, and offset the shoulder rotation issues.

> Apparently squats and deadlifts will give you pretty extreme imbalances in the hip muscles (that's what the posture specialist and a deep-tissue masseur told me after working on me). You can fix that by stretching. I don't know if it matters, because it doesn't seem to affect me functionally or aesthetically.

This is also not true. Many gym trainees who actually attempt to squat will do it with a very narrow stance, and a very shallow depth. This makes it a quad dominant exercise, which could be a problem if they didn't also deadlift. However, a full depth back squat is a very balanced exercise, and will do wonders to increase hip mobility, not to mention strength. Deadlifts are the single best exercise for strengthening the posterior chain, which anyone who picks something heavy up off the ground needs.

Many people avoid squatting and deadlifting because they think they will hurt themselves, so they end up doing much worse things: leg press, smith machine squats, hack squats. Instead, learn the lifts properly ("Starting Strength" by Mark Rippetoe is a fabulous book for this), and you will realize how valuable they are.
hey jacob, great to see you finally got this off the ground. good luck, it looks great!
I should. I should read lots of things. Reading more is good for you.

However, in this case, what I meant was, "I really should read more Chomsky before attempting to claim that I am fully and accurately representing his viewpoint in an argument."
Apparently a large number of autonomous systems are not announcing their prefixes[1], so there's no route for some Egyptian networks.

There's also a small thread on NANOG mailing list in which a user acknowledges the fact that he cannot access a server in Cairo[2].

[1]: http://bgpmon.net/blog/?p=450 (by @atoonk on twitter)

[2]: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-January/031315...

EDIT: formating

EDIT2: grammar, I think everything is passable now
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One vector is that investors and lawyers talk. It's hard to move millions of dollars around quietly. Once I was visiting the office of a company in acquisition negotiations. The office phone was ringing off the hook with personal wealth managers cold-calling the employees by name.
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> If you've been sitting on a chair for 8-12 hours a day you will have lots of muscular imbalances that needs to be corrected before starting a program like this.

Perhaps. But what can you recommend to correct those imbalances that's at least as good than e.g. very low-weight deadlifts and (air-) squats?
Nice job, MaxS!
Generally not in either party's interest to leak (unless it's a negotiation tactic). But unfortunately when you are closing a sale there are a bunch of people you have to talk to (investors, lawyers, accountants etc) and it only takes one person with questionable scruples to email techcrunch.
Well said, ericmsimons! Pavel commented earlier that "hard work and working up the corporate ladder to some executive position at some big company [will get you rich]"... but most of us were frustrated by or left the corporate world --- or never joined it in the first place --- because hard work doesn't make you rich. Sucking up to the right person does. And, damn, there's gotta be a better way to get rich than fake-laughing three times a day with your boss. :) That 'better way' is working for yourself. If you can be happy along the way, all the better!
I'm sure most people at least in some way try to develop interests in certain areas so that other people find THEM interesting!
This article spends way too much time clearing throat with an explanation of why we need to make our interfaces usable.
The whole premise of the article is flawed. Middle-class folks want jobs that can't easily be outsourced so they can build careers and lives from it.

Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur, and selling more SUVs and mining more coal isn't going to be enough for the 21st century.
Interesting. Though Rippetoe recommends not training to failure, because you'll also train to fail. He recommends also having proper form. I have to think and research about what should prevail.

Anyway, I've also seen some extremely big relative improvements in my squats on the first month I started.
I.e., it's good fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
On another note, if music recommendation is not what you want you might want to try Grooveshark for listening to music without interruption.

http://listen.grooveshark.com
At the time it wasn't general use, I only went through it due to special circumstances. And no, of course they had no effect, you don't get scanned to go into the arrivals lounge.
Wow, this is an almost unprecedented scale for Internet-vandalism-related crimes. Part of me wants to ask where this level of effort is with respect to spammers and other sociopathic internet goofballs.
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Site looks great, congratulations on the the name!
Yes, that's sounds plausible.

I've looked at a friend's Haskell program for Huffman encoding, that used raw recursion in a undisciplined way instead of abstracting the control flow out into, say, filters, folds and maps. That was the closed I ever got to ugly Haskell.
How I became a "payer" after spending my Internet childhood as a pirate
I think the answer is no, because it's on an endpoint. Net neutrality is about making sure that middlemen don't abuse their position.
One thing that helps books transition is that people who actually _buy books_ are probably educated, wealthier, and technically savvy.

There are multiple people I know who I don't think have ever bought a book in their adult life. The fact that the market to entice is smaller, makes it an easier market to become bigger than.
FWIW, most of the "Major Players" support the Crawl-Delay directive in robots.txt, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#Crawl...

I know at minimum GoogleBot and Yahoo! Slurp respect this value. I believe Google AdsBot (Landing page URL verification for AdWords) also supports this value, but GoogleBot and AdsBot each will crawl at the rate you specify (so if you specify a Crawl-Delay of 1, each bot will crawl at ~1qps). I don't know if it is in the spec, but fractional crawl delays appeared to be respected (Crawl-Delay: 0.25 would result in ~4qps, for example).

I too have fought with this problem - at times more than 90% of the capacity of the site I was running was devoted to serving up content for bots. I sympathize with small (and large) companies who don't want to add capacity so that new/random bot can add another <x> QPS to the daily baseline load.
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Victorian England is definitely a good candidate, yes. But for an example of a "free market" society that is nearer in time and space to modern Americans, read Upton Sinclair's _The Jungle_ : http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Jungle/Upton-Sinclair/e...
Thanks for the followup.

I am not an economist of Hayek expert, but my understanding is that he address "markets as information" as being markets. Even gambling markets and futures markets, which are both classes of prediction markets generally, are actually information markets even though they are ostensibly about goods or events.

I agree and disagree about your characterisation of technology. While yes, computers make authoritarianism more tractable, I don't think they can completely solve the calculation problem.

Suppose you use Leontiev input-output matrices to do your central planning. Matrix multiplication is an O(n^3) problem (I've been told by a mathematician that it can be done in n^2.75 with some tricks). If we take GDP growth as a proxy for the number of matrices required, it would need to be kept below a few percent or it would outstrip Moore's law in the long run. And that's ignoring the problem of populating the matrices in the first place.

FWIW, I host an economics blogger in Australia, Dr Nicholas Gruen, who has proposed to reduce market volatility by requiring blind clearances on a once-per-minute basis.
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The new iPad's coming out any day now to address this pressing concern.
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Any government currently in power will have an item in its playbook titled 'shut down public internet access', right next to a folder labeled 'island mode' and 'totally dark'.

Some will be upfront about it, some will be more circumspect but media control has long been one of the central points in crowd control and just like newspapers, radio and TV stations are with some regularity taken over by the government (Italy is a special case here I guess...) when it is in distress you can expect the internet as a major mass communications medium to be viewed much the same way.
Almost half the world's population lives on less than $2 per day. http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=120118...
How is Google playing catch-up? Android is the clear market share leader, and is still accelerating.

According to Google's most recent numbers, Android is shipping 300,000 devices per day. While Apple has a lot of mindshare, the reality is that they're in a solid #2 position in the US, and #3 worldwide.
It's also not useful to take some aggregate 5% of businesses succeed so I have a 5% chance. Some business lack the talent, idea or plan to make it and have a virtually zero chance while others are way on the other end.
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finding designers is so hard...too many programmers too few designers

(I am developer myself and having hard time finding designers. Maybe it has to do something with my circle.)