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Code Complete 2nd Ed -- Pragmatic Programmer -- SICP -- K&R -- Refactoring -- CLR -- Design Patterns -- Mythical Mammoth -- TAOCP -- Compilers (Dragon Book) -- Head First Design Patterns -- G.E.B. -- Effective C++ -- Programming Pearls -- Code (Petzold) -- Working Effectively With Legacy Code -- Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Peopleware -- Clean Code -- Coders at Work -- Surely You're Joking -- Effective Java -- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture -- Little Schemer -- The Inmates Are Running The Asylum -- Why's Ruby -- Practice of an Agile Developer -- The Elements of Style -- The Art of Unix Programming -- Joel on Software -- Modern C++ Design -- The Design of Everyday Things -- Test Driven Development -- How To Win Friends And Influence People -- Agile Software Development -- Domain Driven Design -- The Practice of Programming -- Don't Make Me Think -- Writing Solid Code -- Pragmatic Thinking And Learning -- Software Estimation -- Foundations of Programming -- Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs -- The Passionate Programmer -- Facts And Fallacies of Software Engineering -- Getting Real -- The Story About Ping

Depressing.
What was your headline (and subheads)?
Isn't a rockstar by definition an outlier?
>What happens when there is more CO2 present (I mean a lot more in a controlled area for testing)? Plants grow faster.

great. We're making progress. You've just recognized the fact that CO2 emissions affect ecosphere. Supposedly you pointing to the negative feedback in this dynamic system [more CO2 - > more plants -> more CO2 consumption]. Next step - show that this dynamic system is stable (or at least not unstable) as mere presence of negative feedback doesn't guarantee stability and may even be cause of increased instability.

Let suppose there is some stability. Normal (as of 1900 lets say or pick any other) CO2 , increased CO2, decreased CO2 [back to normal?], and repeat ... The issue, is what happens with energy surplus [Quantum Mechanical "green house" effect] and its effects accumulated during periods of increased CO2.
> That ideal doesn't exist, and probably can't, in the real world.

Yes it does, and it's a reality throughout the economy not just an ideal.

> Hospitals are often losing money because they're covering the cost of procedures for people who can't pay.

No, that's not true. The costs of unpaid bills is very low and not a major cost.

> When 'spending less' means customers get less care

That's not the case. Look at the horrible reputation of the VAs and government medical facilities vs. privately run.

My grandfather had free VA due to his military service, but bought additional medical insurance so he could go to a non-VA hospital instead-- the reputation of VA hospitals has been horrible.

Also there are many top-quality for-profit hospitals, some of the most respected in my area are for-profit hospitals. But also many doctors in practice for themselves provide excellent services as a for-profit practice.

> Long and short, hospitals and medical entities exist to help people with their most basic needs

That's why profitability is important, because it drives down costs and encourages innovation, as opposed to lack of profitability.

> Seeing 'for profit' companies making a profit from misery, illness, sickness and death isn't something that is going to sit well with most people.

Profitable companies help people every day, they make a profit providing a valuable service which is complex and requires a lot of investment and expertise.

They provide advanced medical services and pharmaceuticals and they save millions of people's lives. If you claim otherwise then you are simply clueless.

Profit is what lowers costs and drives innovation and investment. I don't know why you would be on an entrepreneur forum if you think profit is bad-- without profit there would be no entrepreneurship.
If PG would add a checkbox to our profiles to make the saved history public, I'd check it.
What do you mean by the last statement? Of course my parents can sign off on contracts, etc.. They're not programmers, but they don't have to be - after all, I am the one developing the application. My point is that I do not want to pay taxes under their bracket. They can submit, etc.
>Maybe not for them, developers who have already committed to this platform and have a stake in it, but it matters to developers just arriving at the Blackberry platform.

Especially when you unexpectedly get hit by all of them at once. Also note that, on a larger scale, this is why many large, established companies love government regulations - they raise roadblocks that help keep out a lot of would be competitors.

ADDED: Before someone downvotes me for being too much off-topic I should say that I meant to point out that the incentives of existing developers and of the platform owners are not particularly well aligned here. The platform benefits from more developers, but existing developers don't.
That's awesome. I'll have to hang onto that site for my next lorem use :)

Though I don't know if I want to know what this means: "we gonna chung a funky fresh"
Sure. It doesn't fix the core problems. Global Interpreter Lock is still there. The semantic issues that make it very hard to optimize JiT are still there. It makes no effort to move towards the multicore era -- very minor changes would make the language potentially scale much better. Still no tail recursion. The C API still locks you into a bunch of non-scalable data structures. Those are the kinds of improvements worth breaking backwards-compatibility for.

On the other hand, it makes a bunch of syntax tweaks that don't make things much better, but break backwards compatibility. You no longer have the same kind of tuple expansion in function calls. Why? No good reason. Print syntax changed. It's a little more consistent, and a little less readable. Better? Maybe, maybe not. Just an arbitrary little change. Personally, I would have just made subroutines (in addition to functions) language constructs. C-style string formatting was deprecated. Why not just leave it around? It wasn't causing any harm.

Iterators replace lists. I can see why you'd want the performance -- but the way it is done makes the language a lot more complex for newbies. It also breaks backwards-compatibility. In many places, the break is arbitrary, capricious, and just lazy. E.g. .sort() no longer works. It'd be easy to make a .sort() that changes object type and just works. Instead, you need to make tweaks in thousands of lines of code to go to sorted().

And for each speedup, you've got a slowdown. Ints are now infinite precision. I think the old way (no iterators, normal ints) was probably both faster and more readable than the new one (iterators, long ints), but hey. We gotta swap things around. The old way is just so... old.

It's nice to have Unicode, but the way Unicode is implemented is seriously broken. You run into deep issues dealing with files. It's also seriously not backwards-compatible. It'd be easy to come up with schemes that are only a little not backwards-compatible.

Oh. And just to be ass-backwards, we'll call the executable "python" just like in Python 2. If you install Python 3, and scripts begin with #!/usr/bin/python, suddenly your system breaks.

I could keep going for a while, but personally, I prefer Python 2 to Python 3. Python 3 doesn't fix many things that were wrong (printing of floating points being the exception), but seriously breaks backwards compatibility. Most of the changes are just that -- changes, and not improvements. You can make an equally plausible argument that the old way was better. I fail to see the point.
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I definitely think there should be a combination of all. It's all about convenience, accessibility, and economics. I am a provider of serviced office suites, and coworking facility. I also provide my clients with online communication and collaboration tools, because you have to be prepared to work anytime to meet opportunity. Be a part of resource suites and have the best of all worlds.
My point is that Cato's professed ideology is contrary to the fights it actually undertakes, while the fights it undertakes are in service of those who pay its bills. Cato's corporate funders are opposed to free markets, and so is Cato. Cato uses the rhetoric of free markets to advance the interests of its funders in keeping control of their markets.
> and trust me, I have some pretty obscure apps

This is a very good point. Everyone gets fixated on being the top-whatever in the category but the key is to be in the top 5 for your niche category. For example, search Salsa. I have on good authority that one of those top 5 paid apps was selling in excess of several thousand copies a month.

Do your market research. Dominate your niche. Compete in that niche. The App Store is a closed marketplace - people are looking for their niche interest. Some niches are more profitable than others.

> But I can earn twice as much in the corporate world. (Software engineers are paid well.)

I don't know why he is doing this silly line of argument. This is mostly passive income. He creates a product and it sells itself (with updates irregularly). When you work for a company, you trade time for money. Time == Money in the corporate world. That is a linear relationship. The beauty of marketing and creating your own product is that the linear relationship can become geometric - you can change the equation - with hard work, luck, and delivering what customers want.

And stop thinking of apps as revenue generators and start thinking of them as lead generators, portfolio pieces. Not all businesses make money from product.
Hah, I should really write these with more care. I'd feel entitled to demand, but more meekly expect that there's a bit more trust and convention in scientific publication. Though that can be taken too far.

You're right that model choice can still break your analysis given large amounts of data. I was thinking more in terms of a whole inquiry where large amounts of data will help you to locate a model that extracts the maximal information from your observations. If we're able to keep experimenting forever, we pretty much assume we'll eventually get highly accurate maps of the world.

The primary difference was in utility functions where no matter how long you experiment they remain exogenous and static.
This is actually something that I would use. I always need dummy images to use as placeholders for layouts. Sometimes I'll use some of my digital images, but then I'm dealing with 300 DPI 15 megapixel images that need to resized in Photoshop, which is kind of a hassle. And as a cat lover, and fan of good photography (am a sucker for nice B&W images) this is a win-win option. Bookmarked.
It's official: Node.js surpasses Clojure in popularity
Why is it "depressing"?
Middle East Conflict and an Internet Tipping Point
Oh dear, posterous :(
Either Linus's or Linus' is acceptable in current English usage. Source: "James's hat (James' hat is also acceptable" http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/01/
Must be something about Alex Rodriguez...

When the guy showed up at the same country club in Miami my father asked him if he played for the Dolphins...
How do I report spam?
Not necessarily. As long as other byproducts like Plutonium 241 etc. are created in reasonable measures as well, the resulting Plutonium will be way to unstable to use in bombs.

Any Uranium reactor produces Pu-239 but don't present a serious proliferation risk. Breeding reactors or MOX factories are risky.
How does the rest of the team feel? Ready to walk or eager to charge forward and continue trusting the VC?

If there's some team solidarity on the matter, you could try renegotiating the terms or buying him out.

i.e. you could say: "We feel like that deal broke down because of you, which was contrary to the interests of the founders and other shareholders of the company. It's hard to be motivated to grow this company when we know that you could submarine any exit or additional financing at a whim. We talked it over and 6 of the 10 people on the team are going to walk, though of course we'll give you a month to find new management if you'd like to. As an alternative, we'd stick around if you'd be willing to legally adjust your rights so that you can only block a sale of less than $1M dollars. As an additional alternative, the company will buy back your shares for $X over Y months."

If there's no solidarity and everyone but you wants to soldier on (either for the lifestyle job or trusting that the VC will act sensibly next time), then you should probably announce your intention to step away and see what your co-founders want to do.
Good analysis. I have to agree with Gyardley. If he will not acquiesce to a sale and does not want to participate in future rounds then most likely he wants to do a down round.

That seems to be the only option that explains his behavior unless I am missing something.

So what are the chances that you can line up another buyer? Even at a valuation less than before would be worth considering because it looks like he is out screw you over. You might at least get something out of it even if it was not what you imagined.

If you line this offer up you and the team can give the investor an ultimatum. I think that sometimes directly calling out people's bad behavior can help.

If you can't line up an offer and then working out the math it might be best to quit.

Also I might recommend 'Getting to Yes' as a great book for negotiating. Might be too late this time, but there is always a next time!
Except that we got ten times more thorium than uranium in the crust.
guilty as charged.
"It's even worse than it appears / but it's alright"
- Garcia / Hunter
Audiofile is a great name. Paying customers give honest feedback - hadn't thought of it that way! I understand 37signals took some (small amount equity) from Bezos.
Ask HN: What to do with archived social media data?
I have been using the Twitter API for sometime now for a project, and have a large amount of archived data (roughly 10 million users). All of this information is publicly available through the Twitter API, so I don't have any private information. I whipped up a super simple (and ugly) website (shameless plug: http://www.tweetheap.com) to display this data, but it seems like a waste as there are already websites that do this, such as Twitaholic and Twitter Counter.

This brings me to two questions:

1) Does archived social media data have any value in itself, or is it the application which determines the value of the data?

2) What are some possible uses for archived social media information?
thanks for the feedback. will try not to swear unnecessarily, but it does serve as useful / unintentional emphasis sometimes... guess that's the hillbilly talking.
> This is mostly passive income.

As a non-iOS developer I don't really know if an app that's 1 years old and has not been updated will continue to generate sales.

I make lots of comments on HN. Each of those is theoretically `passive income` for karma, but that doesn't mean I will keep getting karma for those comments...
>Maybe times are different now.

Yes - the music industry is doing significantly worse. I wonder how this leaves everyone.
I got here after both people posted. I posted below both people to indicate that I wanted the convo thread killed. I downvoted both people.
Why would Flash sucking or not influence Apple's decision?
That completely defeats the point of using Node.js; that is, to use an evented model so your app isn't sitting around waiting for IO. s-node wouldn't be node at all.

FWIW any other runtime/framework will do what you suggest. For example, Rhino.
How exactly is preventing the government from regulating the internet anti-free market? I agree with Cato most of the time. I haven't given them any money. Isn't it possible that they get financial support from the Kochs and vocal support from myself because of their support of freedom (i.e. limited government)?
مديونة بمبلغ يصل إلى 50 ألف دولار
:: مديونة بمبلغ يصل إلى 50 ألف دولار ::

ألقت الشرطة في فيتنام القبض على زوجة صحافي محلي بعدما اعترفت بأنها حرقته حتى الموت وكانت الزوجة قد سكبت مواد كيماوية على لي هوانغ هونغ صحافي التحقيقات بصحيفة نجوي لاو دونغ و أضرمت النيران فيه ليلة 19 يناير الماضي.
وقد لقي حتفه بعد عشرة أيام في المستشفى. وقالت الشرطة إن تران ثوي ليو رؤى (40 عاما) قد اعترفت بقتل زوجها بسبب الخلافات بينهما على خلفية ممارستها للقمار.
وقالت وسائل الإعلام المحلية إن القضية أنهت التكهنات التي استمرت لمدة شهر ورددت أن الصحافي (50 عاما) قد قتل بسبب تقاريره الجريئة بشأن العصابات الإجرامية و الفساد. وحازت القضية على اهتمام المواطنين في فيتنام وفي الخارج.
ووفقا لبعض التقارير الصحفية فأن قيام ليو بممارسة القمار في صالات القمار في كمبوديا جعلها مديونة بمبلغ يصل إلى 50 ألف دولار. وقد أنكرت هذه المزاعم وهددت بمقاضاة الصحف المعنية بالقضية.
There using an fpga for the video chip with public verilog sources - so you could adapt it to different fpga devices if you had to.
90% of Chrome traffic to Google SSL services going over SPDY
Who didn't see that coming after the embarrassing fiasco with Anonymous? I've been following this story pretty closely via Salon.com and the excellent series at Ars Technica and it seemed to be only a matter of time for Barr to make an exit.
I'm kind of surprised it even made the list. It fills a very small niche currently, and has a more academic flavor than the more popular books on the list.

I think it will increasingly come to be recognized as important, as functional programming becomes more popular. I hope so at least.
As Profits Dip, Salesforce Exec Talks Up Chatter
So people are voluntarily buying and putting tracking devices on their wrists to update Mark Zuckerberg with their location in real time?
The Day Facebook Lost Half Its Value
"... Corporation are MADE of individuals. ^A corporation is not a person^ and does not think. ..."

Yes they are.

"... In the United States, corporations were recognized as having rights to contract, and to have those contracts honored the same as contracts entered into by natural persons, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, decided in 1819. In the 1886 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U.S. 394, the Supreme Court recognized that corporations were recognized as persons for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment. ..." ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation#United_States

A dubious outcome in what was meant in spirit to uphold a person's (black or white) civil and political rights being interfered by any state. cf: 14th amendment ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...
To most people, Linus Torvalds is probably "that evil guy on Lost".
Tell HN: Mechanical Turk Deletes all Spam Hits
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

Mechanical goes from over 120,000 hits to 67,106 hits in just a few days. I believe they bowed under pressure from Google but regardless the spam hits are gone.
I can't cross my eyes :(
The solution: whenever you make a decision, explain to yourself why it is you made that decision. If you can't, think about it some more.
How Rich Are the Companies of Demo 2011?
"... I don't understand your question. Can you elaborate? ..."

while I don't like the idea of being identified, inferred by what I read, I can't actually stop you.
There is nothing wrong with your HIGH TECHNOLOGY. Yes, it is S3, and it is kind of boring because from the customer's perspective it just magically works, but you know what they say about things that are indistinguishable from magic... ;)

There is also nothing wrong with your flock of kittens on HN. Into each life there must inevitably come some kittens. We all know the first rule of HN: When kittens appear on the top ten, the Apocolypse is nigh. Unfortunately, the second rule of HN is that too many of us, when presented with a button clearly marked APOCALYPSE, cannot always resist the urge to press it just once just to see what happens next:

http://xkcd.com/242/

And besides, at least the kittens aren't discussing politics.
Website Uses Dictator Game for (Mostly) Charity
Maybe they're using this: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
Here's the thing - Varnish is cool. Well made, purpose built - a great tool.

But I can't help but think that in quite a few cases, people are jumping to it to compensate for a lack of proper engineering at the application level. Rails likes to add timestamps so things won't cache? WHY are you caching them then? Change the behaviour of rails for goodness sake.

This may be because Varnish gets deployed by a different person/team than those writing the apps - the web-turned-php developers can get sloppy and a decent frontend engineer can speed things up again by tossing varnish in front and fixing things up (which is a very common situation in my experience).

Certainly varnish can compensate for a wide variety of problems.. but it's also one more thing to go wrong.
Please please post the name of your the partner, and if not that, the VC firm on TheFunded.com in the private area and post a link to it here.
Futuristic Kiosk Spits Out Cash for Recycled Electronics
Exactly, The only leverage this guy has left is to reveal the antics of the VC in public, and potentially leave the company.

At this point, I would anonymously blog about the entire situation regarding the VC's behavior while never revealing your own name nor the name of the company - only the name of the VC.

Sure, the internet will find out the company name in due coarse, but you will have several days or so of the VCs behavior out there all on its own for the rest of the community to evaluate.
It was Godel, Escher, Bach that got me interested in computer science in the first place. Good to see that in the list.
You are right. I am unable to edit that post unfortunately. The final table becomes:

| blue | red |
--------|------|------|-----
pearls | 25 | 40 | 65
--------|------|------|-----
empty | 15 | 20 | 35
--------|------|------|-----
| 40 | 60 | 100

And the final answer is 5/8.
It's due to the nature of the market place: hits-based due to the charting nature of iTunes. So you typically get a huge boost in exposure when you launch (it's in the "new" chart as well as due to the PR that is drummed up externally) and as long as the resulting sales is enough to give a boost to it's ranking (in the "top X in category" chart, "top X in app store" charts, as well as being featured, which is really another chart), it keeps climbing. If downloads is sustainable at a certain level, the app settles at a particular ranking and earnings. Otherwise it fades and becomes forgotten. Some type of apps — games, novelty apps — are more susceptible to this.

Think of it like music or books. Apple is selling apps (to buyers) like it sells music.
these reasons make sense, but they don't seem to be representative of anything uniquely "lady". i'm sure there are plenty of guys not interested in coding for free in their spare time, as well as girls that feel just the opposite.
My visual system fought back too. I'm normally able to free-fuse, but in this case my right eye just started hurting.
Whole site immediately disqualified for having anything to do with Cliff Moon.
Unfortunately, if the VC has decided to not to participate in any future financing, the failure of the company may be a best case scenario for him. Think about it from his point of view--two of the worst things you can do as a VC are:

- Throw good money after bad by pouring more money into a loser, and

- Give up on a company, only to have it succeed without you, either through a cram-down or an acquisition on unfavorable terms

So in that situation, the VC's interest is that your company either succeed without further investment or go out of business.

I wish I had good advice for you--perhaps, as some others have suggested, threats may help. My guess is that you don't have much to lose.
The Highly Diversified Entrepreneur
Was it a VC (= a partner at a VC fund) or an angel? This would be odd behavior from a VC. From a VC's point of view, your company would be "going sideways," and they are usually happy to get out of those because it frees up a board seat.