skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quick answer is "no, it doesn't, nothing does":

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/491.html

The better answer emerges if you think about the example a little more closely. The big power law brands driven by customer appreciation are in media -- people love Lady Gaga (say), so she sells gazillions. Nobody loves yellowtail or sutter home. Many people love Screaming Eagle or Chateau Lafite. However, wine is an agricultural product; you cannot produce more bottles of a great wine than you can grow in some very particular fields in a year. The way scary hit-driven industries work is that you sell things way above marginal cost to everyone who wants them; in wine, since there's actually scarcity, very few people who love a brand can get as much as they want of it, so the prices at the top are insane (recent vintage screaming eagle is indicated at $2-3k per bottle), but the brands are smaller.

I'd guess the way to think of it is like the music industry before recording devices or electricity -- sure there are stars, but because supplies are limited nobody can by a megastar.
I was curious how they implemented prefix matching, so I went and looked at the code [1]. Unfortunately, this is just a simple linear scan that calls .startswith(). It is possible to do fast (log N) prefix matching with radix / critbit trees.

[1] https://github.com/Greplin/greplin-lucene-utils/blob/master/...
I've had several domains with Namecheap - never had any problems whatsoever with them, and as far as I know they don't have the lack-of-ethics baggage several of these other really questionable registrars seem to have.

I estimate I helped 50-some people to switch from GoDaddy to Namecheap after GoDaddy's last meltdown. I haven't heard any complaints, and they're all happy not to be doing business with the likes of GoDaddy any more.
The original paper is always at the bottom of Ars articles. That's one reason I subscribe.

Anyway, there seems to be a growing body of evidence contrary to Chomsky's universal grammar–see Dan Everett for some more, e.g. It's interesting to see some more about it.

(http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...)

EDIT: As pointed out below, you probably can't view this unless you're at a university/college with access to Nature. Sorry about that. Open Access is something you should support if this pisses you off.
John Carmack on Android Gaming
A friend of mine, who is a graduate student in linguistics, told me the following story. (Caveat: this is urban legend-ish; the details could have been exaggerated.)

Once Chomsky was giving a lecture on different features of languages. For some feature (call it X; I forget the technical details), he boldly asserted that no human language could conceivably do X and proceeded to go on and on about why X was absolutely impossible.

There was a hand from the audience. "Estonian does X."
John Carmack Interview
I was amused when I realized that any substance with nonzero mass is "toxic" in sufficiently large amounts (even if, say, it gets removed from your body as fast as you ingest it): enough of it will collapse into a black hole that swallows you up.
That's one of its major intentions. There's a fairly good summary here:
http://ulf.wiger.net/weblog/2008/02/06/what-is-erlang-style-...
Chomsky didn't claim that all grammars obey the same word order

I didn't get the sense that the article was saying he said that. It does seem pretty clear from the article that the research suggests that the Generative theory is wrong.
The author hits on it slightly with his first and last listed challenges, but for me, the hardest part of the "business guy" role is the waiting. Waiting for clients to call back. Waiting for bugs to get fixed. Waiting for features to be completed. It's stressful, and since I can't code (or at least at the level to contribute), there's not much I can do about it. I can market, hustle, oversee, and vision cast all day, but it's all moot without product execution.

Alexis Ohanian once said in an interview (can't remember where) that "someone always needs to order the chinese food." That's very true, but the team can only eat so much chinese food, and the ratio of red bull chugging to productivity isn't linear :) I always feel like a stereotype when I go home at 5-6ish and my dev cofounders keep on working into the night. But if I'm there after that time I become the intrusive, over-the-shoulder parent that hinders productivity.

Because of all of this, I've become more patient than ever, and just trust my cofounders to get it done -- they always do. I've had to do so -- otherwise I'd go crazy, and I'd drive my cofounders out due to my neuroses. Sometimes you have to let the art breathe and take shape organically.
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It is also a tautology.
I must say that is a pretty good troll. Not much I can say except don't feed the troll
I'd say they also have some advantage design-wise. I might force myself to play with its SDK because of this update...
Old data (and I can't really tell you the source exactly -- possibly internal data from when I moderated something and the owner had done some measures combined with some external stats), FWIW:

As I understand it, about 20% of members of a forum will be "active" posters and another 10% will be "occasional" posters. According to data in "The Tipping Point", the average/typical human mind can follow the interactions of about 150 people in a group setting. In my experience, the above combined stats results in a community of up to around 750 members will result in around 150 active members and works just fine. Above that and things begin breaking down socially. As far as I know, the only solution humans have come up with so far to counteract/cope with communities larger than 150 is formality of social interaction. I think the transition from warm cozy community of about 150 active members to the need for something more formal to keep coping as it gets bigger is the growing pain that most communities seem to trip over the worst.

Maybe you can incorporate some of that info into your thinking.

Peace.
I don't think you read the original blog post...

But good for you, since it was crap and my only goal in that comment was to point that out quickly and politely.
If you don't explicitly pass the objects referenced in TLS to outside or to other threads, I don't see it breaks the concurrency isolation.

Sure. That's the same as if you never share any resource in any shared global heap between threads.

The point is that Erlang's concurrency model allows the programmer to never make that mistake, because you're storing immutable resources not references to mutable data. See my longer post on the subject, further down the page. :)

OT: if performance comes into picture, one can claim excessive copying of immutable objects cause performance problem as well.

When you have a share-nothing immutable-data concurrency model like Erlang's, heap type is an implementation detail (and you'd probably choose it based on your performance requirements, as you've alluded to.) To wit, as TFA says, you can run the Erlang VM with either a shared heap or a separate heap model. Language semantics stay the same.
Android wasn't mimicking iOS by the way. A grid of icons for links and applications has been a staple UI component of computers and phones for well over a decade.

iOS goes for pure shortcuts, WP7 goes for pure widgets, and Android has a mix of both. That being said, WP7's implementation of a widget home screen / phone "desktop" is quite nicely done. I agree with you that this upcoming update is impressive to say the least.
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Ten years and counting and undoubtedly numerous other ways in which it could be measured as "massive". But well worth it. :-)
I'd say it is realistic for what you're probably trying to do off the bat with Javascript.

It's what I did. Since I'm already comfortably with Ruby and CoffeeScript's simple syntax, I used CoffeeScript's "Try CoffeeScript" console to insert Ruby-like code and get the Javascript equivalent. Helped me rapidly map Ruby-Javascript equivalences in my head.

Now that I'm quickly comfortable with Javscript's surface and my foot's in the door, diving deeper into the language isn't the obstacle I used to consider it as.
I'm curious to hear more details about your "tipping point". What sort of metrics seem to put investors at ease? Was it a specific revenue goal, a more polished plan of action, a certain user-growth model, or all of the above? My limited experience from working at a consumer internet startup has taught me that once you hit about a million users, everything else seems to fall into place a lot easier. Of course that varies widely depending on the business, so I'm just interested in hearing other data points.
DynDNS is my go to DNS provider as well. They really are a great bunch.
"But when I asked how many peple had spent 20 bucks on a game in the Android store, there was a big difference."

I am unaware of any games that cost $20 in the Android Market. Maybe he asked the wrong question.
Austrlians: http://salaryshare.me/34675bce652fe030839ff6d0fa349647

Assume Parity with $USD to make it easier
Might be a bit off the wall, but playing strategy games has helped my negotiation skills fairly substantially. Anything where you sit down and hammer out alliances/agreements with other players, so Diplomacy (both face-to-face and online), Settlers (face-to-face; online tends to be a bit boring) and other more hard core ones like Olympia and Atlantis.

Alternatively, head down to your local markets around closing time :)
what games in the android store are worth $20? maybe if developers made them, people would buy them.

though, i don't know anyone with an iOS device that has spent $20 on a single application or game.
thanks michael, seems like the right plan ;-)
Perhaps the Flip acquisition was a tilt at being a new consumer brand, but it never got enough traction to warrant further attention for something the size of Cisco.

Or it never got enough management love to grow to what it could have been. This is typical of large companies when they buy up smaller units. Flickr, Danger (MS Kin). The political landscape changes rapidly. The acquired CEO suddenly poses as another "threat" to the promotional opportunities of other managers, especially if he pulls off something bigger using Cisco's leverage.

(incidentally, my kids' school just bought a whole lot this year)
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Ruby & Redis: working with multiple databases
So You Want To Version Your Database
Indeed, plus legal liability etc. etc. etc.

The longer they wait, the better it might end up for the rest of us. The SEC suffered major embarrassment when Americans were dropped from Goldman's (?) recent Facebook investment vehicle and is at minimum looking to revise the current rules which date back to 1935.

That's not going to fix SarBox, but maybe, just maybe that sort of bad attention/publicity will help.
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I understand your point of view but just because you might do something by accident it doesn't mean it's a design mistake. There's some advantage for each method, I prefer to make a mistake a day a week than being forced to click twice everytime I'm using side-by-side windows (like when I'm writing code and testing).
They're very good. I use them for several domains, and I have never had any issues with their service.
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For passwords, my method is individually salted and one way hash will eliminate most attempts, pretty much leaving brute forcing the most efficient way. However, it's known that people use common passwords like 'password1'. For more paranoid security, read documentation, discussions and even black discussions regarding the technology you use if you really want to lock down everything. Eventually it'll be a performance/usability vs security compromise in some cases.

I suggest a failure plan to prepare for security failures including several PR messages depending on severity of failure even if you do not know if you're compromised.

It's highly unlikely that you will be able to avoid potential leaks.
The syntax of LessCSS is a superset of CSS, meaning it maintains backwards compatibility. It doesn't just look like CSS, it is CSS but with additions.

That means you can use that CSS file provided by the designer directly, and gradually improve it, or you can copy/paste examples given all across the web.
Am I right in thinking that, with an embedded database such as Neo4j, I would be required to use the server standalone and use the remote capabilities from a separate JVM in order to escape the virility of the license? (And if distributing, refer to their site for installation of the server?)

Though this is a much welcome change from AGPL or commercial.
Thanks - I knew it looked like a proper vector display but assumed that it couldn't have been due to the fact it had color.
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This has a vulnerability of single point of failure as well as home attack (someone nicks computer/paper).
Can't they just use auto-graders? I got the impression that for many of my CS courses, the TA and professor labor went mainly into creating assignments and lectures. But many of the assignments were self or automatically grading. If you have suitably lab-based assignments, then it shouldn't be too difficult to lower the cost of adding more students into the lower level courses.
Practice by negotiating every day on small things. Someone wants to schedule a meeting at 3? Push for another time. Buying new tires for your car? Ask for a discount, say you won't pay more than X.

That's how I've improved my negotiating skills. Start small, build confidence, learn how to deal with hearing 'No'. Everything is negotiable.
I don't think that's an off the wall idea but I haven't felt my negotiation skills improved from that. With games, there is less on the line so I'm more inclined to push back as well as have far less hesitation to walk away from a deal.
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Wait, is the intent of the video to draw a comparison between the over-saturation of unpolished iPhone apps with an endless supply of interns?
Why was I downvoted for asking for clarification?
The assertion was about the chemical pathways. i.e. same enzymes, same intermediate products, same end products.

But you are right. The physiological effects are generally identical, not exactly identical.
Actually this is kind of mean and will probably be downvoted, but the way I found best to practice negotiations were in job offers.

Over the last year, I racked up job offers and had to negotiate them, which gave me practice and made me realize I had room to improve.
Re: Android mimicking iPhone, okay I'll concede a grid of icons had been done before iOs, if you concede that Android clearly took a lot of guidance from precisely how iOS did it.
I negotiate deals pretty much every day. Here is the best book I ever read on negotiation http://amzn.to/ggXkLl

For me, the key to negotiation is to try to get to a fair deal for everyone, not a deal in which someone wins and someone loses. Ask everyone involved what they want out of the deal, what they think would be a fair outcome. Where there is a gap between what the parties want, ask each party how far they are willing to move.

Don't do deals that are unbalanced or unfair because the deal falls apart a bit further down the track leaving people feeling annoyed, angry, let down, ripped off.

Remember if the parties are too far apart on what they want then probably there is no deal to be done. Just let it go - no deal, move on and do business somewhere else.
This seems strange...the most recent ad basically says "if you need an industry level professional for cheap we've got it." If you are an industry level professional why are you at HyperIsland doing internships? The ads are slick, but by definition they offer a product that doesn't exist. It will be difficult for them to bridge the expectation gap created by the ads.
Why did it take me 10 years? Because I had 10 years less experience 10 years ago. I was a C++ developer with only a couple years of professional programming experience. At that point, Java was the new upstart with the promise of GC and libs that actually worked across platforms. I grew up along with Java and learned a lot along the way. As a professional programmer, I didn't know anyone that used anything but C++ or Java. CL was not a career choice (I'm still hard-pressed to say that it is).

I spent many years building some pretty good production software in Java and it certainly paid my mortgage and let me grow in important ways. I did tinker in the background with Ruby, Erlang, Python, Groovy, etc etc and tried to bring them in as testing tools or whatever when I could. There are still many things I like about Java and working in Java obviously makes your work available to a vast number of programmers.

I feel incredibly lucky that Clojure (and Scala and ...) are possible choices now and that I've managed to get to an experience level where I can make the judgement to recommend it and have an employer listen to me.

I do apologize for not personally making the majority of the industry use Common Lisp 10 years ago. My bad.
Cool. Is the consensus algorithm straight-up Paxos, or are there modifications? The Paxos Made Live [1] paper from Google raised some interesting issues.

[1] http://labs.google.com/papers/paxos_made_live.html
> given that there aren't obvious word order patterns across languages, how does the human brain do so well at learning the rules that are a peculiarity to any one of them?

That simply means there are rules at a deeper level in the brain, and they may crystallize this way, or that way, depending on the particular language.

The study, if correct, simply says the rules are not apparent at the outermost level. Well, dig deeper, go closer to the hardware, and at some level the universal order should appear again.

After all, my neurons don't work any different than your neurons. But I suspect the highest level where universal rules operate is higher than that.
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I use DynDNS for all my Registrar and DNS-related stuff; I couldn't be happier with them. Whenever I change a record, it populates hella-fast; and considering how wishy-washy I am about sticking with an email provider, it's very helpful.
Yep. I'm a pragmatist at heart. I don't think that either Underscore.js or Backbone.js would have gotten the same sort of adoption they've seen (eg. github.com/popular/watched) if they had been written in CoffeeScript. Perhaps in a year or two it would be different.
Maybe you experienced a different history of the last decade than I did, but in my history the IE team completely disappeared from 2001 until 2007. Suggesting that the Firefox team has ever been anything like is just silly.

Yes, a year between major releases is kind of a long time today, but it's not the better part of a decade and it's not "disappearing" either.

Given the choice between 1 release per year with (hypothetically) 12 new features or 3 releases per year with 4 new features each, clearly the faster releases are better for the Web and for users. But delivering 12 new features a year in one lump rather than in three lumps is not a "slump" and can not rightly be called "malaise" either.

The "pace" of development has never been slow at Mozilla, only the pace of "releases" and that's what we're fixing here.
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Firefox throws an untrusted connection warning that this certificate belongs to another website.
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I'll give you a full answer for $10. In the meantime, try this: http://changingminds.org/disciplines/negotiation/tactics/tac...
Please link to source material: http://www.nowgamer.com/print/feature/1308
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I don't see how GPL would make much difference to Android here.

Even if AOSP (Android Open Source Project) was GPL licensed, Google owns the copyright. Which means they can still make early releases to vendors (like Motorola for the Xoom) under a different license, and then make the public AOSP release under an OSS license later.

This is no different from Trolltech's former model with Qt, or the dozens of other free software libraries where the developer makes some extra money from non-GPL Licensing on the side.

The point is that Android 2.3 is Free Software, even if Android 3.0 is not Free Software yet. Google can't do anything to take back 2.3 now, it has freed it.

<Speculation> I'd be very surprised if Motorola got Android 3.0 for the Xoom under any OSS license. I imagine it would have been given to them under a special proprietary NDA-equipped license, or maybe even only licensed as a binary. </Speculation>
Logging in Django is meant more for writing out application logs, which can be seriously useful for support purposes.

But in no way is anybody suggesting writing an access log to the database using django, it's not what it's designed for.
You're calling John Carmack a troll? The man is possibly the most respected game developer ever.
I doubt Gruber would have posted anything about this if the mentioned poll had a result favorable for Android.
What's wrong with (HTML5) appcache?
sass-convert is your friend and takes care of both of your problems for you.
Just going by the audio, which I am glad Gruber posted, it is pretty clear Carmack's "poll" could pretty accurately be described as a push poll.
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Reminded me of a guy who I interviewed who had "dozens" of billion dollar ideas which, with a bit of funding, he could make real. I remember thinking, "This guy doesn't want a job he wants a patron."

For anyone interested in 'seasteading' (a play on 'homesteading') might look at what the Seasteading Institute [1] has done along those lines.

[1] http://seasteading.org/
Depends on the game, how seriously you take it and how seriously the other players take it. Some of the play by email games that I've played in run for more than 12 months (with weekly turns), and the negotiations over borders, terms and conditions put the Cold War to shame.
Incidentally there are some studies with rats showing that sugar/sweet addicted + cocaine addicted rats prefer their sugar hit over their cocaine hit, and plain sugar-addicted rats when removed from sugar/sweet had opiate-withdrawal like symptoms.
Yes, it is Paxos. We have a post coming up about it.
Spent $20.99 on SupportDesk to integrate with my last employer's ticketing system. Great app, no regrets, and I'd even bought it before they updated it with iPad support.
Blender looks and feels different from any other UI I've ever seen. That said, I would hardly categorize Maya's UI as "easy-to-use." Fairly conventional, yes, but not particularly easy. 3D art is a difficult problem, so it rather makes sense that the UIs take time to learn. Blender just takes an unusual approach, and honestly — there's nothing wrong with that. For comparison, Emacs takes a different approach to text editing than Visual Studio.
Oh most definitely.