skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First thought would be to graph it against miles driven per person per year.
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I have to agree with you. Having started life using PHP, Python, Ruby, etc... I had no idea what memory management even was. I think learning the hard fundamental languages like C and Assembly (HLA) are super important - C is easily the most influential language of our time (I'll get slapped for this, but do know that I actually don't like C, I would rather use D, but C is so widely used and pretty much every important program has - at least - /some/ C in it).

I also agree, knowing syntax is very different from working in the language at a production level for five years. Syntax, idiom, paradigm, and culture are all hugely important - some of those things are remarkably subtle for certain languages and only get picked up after being slapped by the more experienced programmers of that language!
The only thing missing for some metaprogramming issues in haskell, in my limited understanding, is the ability to have dynamically created names (function/methods or types).

But that may be orthogonal to static/dynamic typing (e.g. scala 2.9 has this ability, and javascript doesn't)
I order a lot from Amazon now, but there's no local store that will do that... I really don't mind waiting a day or 2 for the groceries if I can skip all that other nonsense and code or play games instead during that time.

Sadly, the last food I bought on Amazon was about 30% cheaper than the grocery store, too. It's practically forcing my hand at this point.
Just an (evil) idea: Create some free iPhone app/game, scrape the site in user's iPhone and send to your server.
This is a great resource. It's a little difficult to get started (people won't trust you without references a lot of the time) but if you can find a host in a similar situation you can pretty easily make it work.

It just takes one person taking you in to get the ball rolling.
Is this what things have come to? "Tweet to watch this video"
I used to hate shopping with my grandmother, mom, aunt, and sister. It usually meant an all-day outing going to nearly every aisle of every store and lugging around incredible heaps of stuff. Endless eye-glazing hours. Much of it spent not actually buying anything, but just looking at things. It seems like it should qualify as a form of torture.

I loved to go shopping with my grandfather. Whether it was clothes, electronics, or groceries. We knew the layout of the store. We knew what we were going to get. We went in on one side of the store and efficiently navigated the quickest round through it to hit the areas we needed without wasting time in those that we didn't. We went down aisle, things went into the cart, we hit the checkout, and out to the car and back home.

As an adult, I'm the same way. The only difference is that I have the benefit of technology to make it even more efficient. Where the women in the family would have spent an hour or two grocery shopping and my grandfather and I would have spent thirty minutes, I'm able to spend five minutes. Login, click a button for the same order as last time, and answer the door the next day when they delivery it into my kitchen.

I have happily not been inside a mall in over a decade or a grocery store for almost a decade. It seems like such a small thing, but liberating yourself of some of those chores is so damn wonderful! Now, if only there were an alternative for doctor visits, so I didn't have to waste an entire day of my precious time to spend five minutes with my doctor.
You don't actually understand program mode on a DSLR. It's actually like not having to switch from A to S rather than the old "I don't care what my camera does as long as my photo comes out" mode you get on point-and-shoots.

> well, ISO + TIME + APERTURE are ingredients of EXPOSURE, and that should be all you need to know to start shooting

So depth of field and the way metering actually works aren't important?
That isn't me. I am male. I enjoy shopping for clothes and other items. Walking around a mall with friends is a good way to spend an afternoon. (And carry a set amount of cash instead of a credit card to prevent overspending)
My experience of Sortfolio, tested paid listing for a few months - 0 leads, just lots of outsourcers looking for work, would be interested if anyone had a good experience
I believe that very little of the MS/Skype deal is about the technology behind Skype. With 8.5 billions Microsoft could have developed the same technology or even a better technology, and it's very likely that they will completely change it in the future to better integrate Skype with their other products. The real value of Skype is in its user base and the significant number of companies that use Skype as a valuable business resource. That is potentially a much more profitable user base than that of Live Messenger and the two products together now represent a large majority in the entire instant messaging marketplace.
Look. iPhone is superior to Android. I know it every day I use an Android. However I cannot buy an iPhone because:

a) I use sprint and am happy with it.

b) I don't support Apple's control on a moral level. So I will not support Apple by buying the iPhone.

c) I won't develop for iPhone except as an after-thought or short-term project. This way I make money, and get out. I won't make any long-term plans for it. In fact that is true of EVERY mobile platform. Never bind a single long-term plan with one platform. Tomorrow Android can fail and WebOS rises to beat everyone in one swoop. You can't build a company on hopes and luck alone.
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A fulltime nanny (aka, daytime, approx 9-10 hours, not live in) is only going to run you about 25-35k in many areas of the country. (I'm speaking of a legal resident with a green card or US citizen).

I think you'll find buying a smaller home or going on fewer vacations or eating out much less and getting some domestic help will drastically improve the quality of your life.
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I'm glad to have figured out at the age of 20 or so that dressing well (or at least reasonably) is a small investment of time and money that pays off hugely in the long run in terms of how other people treat you. If you're smart and poorly-dressed, you're that useful freakshow. If you're smart and well-dressed, you're the master of the freaking universe.

General principles:

a) Spend some damn money. I'm not gonna tell you how much, but if your spending on clothes is way below average for your age and income bracket then you probably look like a slob. If you earn $100K a year and your pants cost $15 then you have a problem.

b) No free t-shirts. In fact, no t-shirts with logos on them. In fact, no visible logos on any of your clothes at any time. Legible words are generally a no-no.

c) When in doubt, plain colours, nothing too garish.

d) Fit is everything.

e) When in doubt, read magnificentbastard.com
It might also increase the capacity of human productivity. I've always been amazed at the amount of collective concentration that keeps everyone in their lane and not hitting one another. Just imagine if you could channel that concentration into productive endeavors, such as answering emails, looking for a better job, or learning a new skill.
I have 2.5 year old and work from home part of the time. My girlfriend is home with her in the morning. I go to the office in the morning then come home at lunch for the handoff and then my girlfriend goes to work. We play for a bit then she goes down for a three hour nap and I do more work. On the rare occasion she doesn't sleep then I just hang with her and do the work at night. If I have a hard deadline then I resort to DVDs (they are a lifesaver) but try to avoid it.
Being a "male" has nothing to do with your issues.

Maybe the girls who did approach you did so despite the fact that you're dressed and groomed like mental patient (I say that lovingly fellow HNer)

Anecdotal evidence is fun and all ("I have a GF so I must know everything about women!") but to think that wardrobe means nothing to the opposite sex is just crazy.

As soon as you enter the room your entire presence is scrutinized immediately by every woman (and most likely some men) in the room. Most won't need to even ask you how much you make after they approach you, they will have already deduced it from what you're wearing and your personal grooming (or lack thereof)
But the strategies they are using now are a lot more sinister than they initially seemed. They're not just organizing links to data, they actually want be a sort of universal turing machine. They don't want any two people to communicate with eachother without going through a Google server. Between language translation, Google Talk, Chrome laptops, Gmail... they're not even being coy about it anymore.
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Thanks for the informative response. Redirecting clients to separate site is a nifty idea. I might do just that.
"In Chrome, get to the command line of your operating system and add the --disable-webgl flag to the Chrome command. "

Wow, this should do a nice job of confusing everyone.
I have nothing against private insurance. I have something against laws which make it mandatory. I think people should be free to decide for themselves what risk they are willing to take. For instance, the choice to do business with a relatively unknown payment service which offers low transaction fees or great customer support, at the risk of losing money.
Depending on the size of your city, you may want to check around. In the places I've lived the past decade (Portland, San Francisco, Denver) stores have had online ordering and delivery for over a decade. Safeway, Kroger, and Albertsons and if places like Homeshop, Peapod, and Webvan are still around, they do a similar thing. I suspect those chains only deliver in cities large enough to justify the cost of infrastructure, though.
I'm with you. But I do know guys who Do care. They aren't All gay, and some of them look very good.

In fact one fellow, Josh, never wore a single company clothing giveaway in the entire time I worked with him. We even got leather jackets after one release, and he gave it away! No logo, stylish, just not his style.

I don't think he spent any inordinate amount of time on it, he just had opinions.
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61 points.

I'll admit to having edited it half a dozen times to appropriately capture the nuances. As a Silicon Valley professional (Started at Netscape in 1996), and a huge fan of Apple Products (I'm typing this on an MacBook Air in a Redwood City Coffee Shop, I tracked my workout this morning using GymBuddy on my iPhone4, and I read Practical Programing for strength training last night on my iPad2), yet at the same time not unaware of how much damage a Monopolist can do (I believe that they eventually stifle innovation) I wanted to toe the fine line between being a hater, a realist, and, because we are on YC, effectively communicate the market realities of building on someone else's platform.

I also always keep grellas, patio11, and tptacek in mind when reviewing tone to keep out snark or discourtesy, and maximizing content.

How's that for Meta. :-)
His argument makes no sense. He says that 43 other states have such regulations, so that if you want to do business nationally you have to get licensed in each, at costs ranging from less than California's new cost to more than California's new cost.

So what is the significance of California making it 44 states? I doubt a new payment system that only works in a handful of states has much of a chance, so if regulation kills payment innovation it would have have been killed long ago, when the majority of other states adopted regulation.
Acting like a college admissions board, instead of seeking out and meeting entrepreneurs year round?
My daughter was exactly the same at age 2 and has completely flip-flopped at daycare.

She was initially very reserved around kids (and still is around new adults), but is very social with the other kids in her daycare classes. It took a couple of years, but her personality and openness to other children is now commented on by her teachers and other adults.

She actively attaches herself to new kids in class and integrates them into the class. She's still not a very aggressive socializer with new kids in new environments, but she is much more open than I would have ever imagined.

Good luck - I don't have any advice other than to continue to trust your instincts, but wanted to let you the "fitting in" thing might change in unexpected ways.
I'd love to watch CBC's Hockey Night in Canada and view some TSN videos but alas, only available in Canada.
I have a hard time getting too worked up about the prospect of squelching the money transfer company that can't afford 1/10th of 1 FTE to post a bond. That same company can't afford to secure their software (software security for a money transfer application is almost certainly more expensive than the cost of a 500k surety bond).

Meanwhile, if you're against basically all licensing and bonding, you're naturally going to be against this one too. Personally, I think that if we're going to require bonds to move furniture, it seems sane to require a bond to move cash.
And when you have a security bug in your static library (let's call it "library Z", just for kicks), what do you do? Is it enough to just let the software know? What about big vendors, whose products might have 42 different copies of Z kicking around in the source base.

What if they miss some? Wouldn't an architecture that allows the distribution to define and replace Z on its own be valuable?
Novell developed Vibe in Scala: https://vibe.novell.com/

BankSimple is building on Scala: https://banksimple.com/

Nasa uses Scala in production: http://www.scala-lang.org/node/6605
You probably missed the "No thanks, just show me the video".
Without knowing anything about what you do aside from what you've written here, it seems like you've fallen into the same trap that most folks who move from Perl to Python fall into. They are used to having the swiss army knife of string tools with regex, and don't know what to do when handed the complete toolchest of specialized string tools that Python provides.

I do a fair amount of text parsing in Python for my job, and only very rarely import the regular expression module - because most of the time I don't need it. My code is faster and more easily read for it, as well.
The social graph isn't what's important. The platform is what is.
props to modernizr.js for making it so easy
I've been working on my new startup with a local designer I found on Sortfolio.

I think it's a great tool to find top quality local designers, because in general someone who's listed there is not the typical low-quality outsource design firm.
What Apple is doing here is not new. They want to eliminate the middleman of any type, and thus become the only middleman.
I hate it, too.

But hate it or not, this is reality in the corporate world. Knowing the correct technical answer is nowhere near as difficult as getting the powers-that-be to agree with you.

For small startups, perhaps you can stamp it out. At large corporations, it isn't quite that easy.
so that you can update a dependency without relinking every binary that uses it.
> Private companies have killed, enslaved, tortured, kidnapped, etc. There are a tremendous amount of examples of private companies being coercive.

These are instances of private companies acting like governments. What characterizes private companies is that they do not use coercion (except of course when it's justified as in enforcing voluntary agreements and protecting property.)

So for example, the original post was about banking regulation. Private bank regulators could not force banks to operate according to their standards. Instead, they would rely on banks' cooperation. If a bank did not cooperate it would run the risk of being rated badly and shunned by customers relying on regulator's rating. In no case would a non-cooperating, non-conforming bank be subject to being "killed, enslaved, tortured, kidnapped, etc" by a private regulator. On the other hand, a bank which does not conform to government regulation is in danger of killed (dissolved) and its officers "enslaved, tortured, kidnapped, etc." (arrested and imprisoned.)
I will answer this with an anecdote:

My friend bought a building. 50 apartments. He got investment money from family to put a down payment on the loan. Fix it up. Have tenents pay rent and cover the loans while looking for a seller. Sell it for a proffit.

This was great. Except that he had ABSOLUTELY no risk-mitigation. He could not afford to keep the house on the market for 3 yrs to ensure that no matter what, he does not lose all the invested money.

Guess what? Problems arose trying to sell the house. Took 3 months longer than expected (9mo total vs expected 6). Money ran out. Boom foreclosure. Lost 800k.

The lesson I learned is that take what you are assuming will happen, and make at least SOME risk mitigation. How can you get out? If you can't what will you lose? Etc. Don't make long term risky goals based on hopes that everything will be alright. Assume the worst, can we still come out even if that happens?
> No I don't think most regulations are good for society in aggregate, including building codes.

Nearly every large earthquake proves you wrong on building codes. Compare deaths for a given magnitude quake in areas with strong building codes vs. areas with weak or no building codes.
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By the way, where have they listed it for sale? (I haven't heard the interview yet.)
How does requiring a bond not help with fraud? Consumers who have been refunded from frauds with bond money certainly disagree with your statement.
I switched to using Vundle this morning (before seeing the article). It is an excellent way to manage VIM plugins.
From my point of view, the main arguments for strong typing are that everyone makes mistakes, and that your tests might not be as complete as you would like (due to time pressure, or whatever else).
This is a fascinating analysis of Skype from a few years back:

http://recon.cx/en/f/vskype-part1.pdf

http://recon.cx/en/f/vskype-part2.pdf

Looking at how complex it is, and considering that Skype probably have more obfuscation and crypto ready to roll out if anyone cracks it, I can see why nobody's implemented a compatible client:
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I'd not picked up that the wildcard fee was a one-off - that makes it all the more attractive.
The gist of my point wasn't that women don't necessarily care about clothes and hairstyles and so on (of course they do) as much as it was that I don't care that they care. You can dress nice and look good without following whatever the latest fashion was dictated to society in this month's GQ and Vogue and unless you're really into primping, you may as well just go with a look that is relatively timeless.

Frankly, you have to determine that you're living your own life at some point and stop caring so much about what everyone else thinks to the point that it impacts the way you even clothe yourself (beyond stuff matching, belonging to this century, and being clean). If anyone here, for example, really cared that much, they'd all be race car drivers and pro athletes.
I did that just the other day, and will probably do it again soon. I just get fed up with all the garbage tweets that I see. It is nice to see something personal every once in a while from someone you follow, but more often than not, I am looking for value that will either 1) help me do my job better or 2) teach me something I didn't know about something I care about.
I also hate to shop. When I buy clothes, I'm in and out, like a ninja. And if I had my way, I'd wear my jeans / t-shirt / hoodie combo every day for the rest of my life.

However, there's times when your clothes matter and your usual garb won't cut it. Want good service at a posh restaurant? Doing a bizdev presentation at an ad agency or media company? Getting deposed in front of a grand jury? You'll want to have a broader sartorial range. It's not about your self-esteem, it's about the (often unfair) reactions of others to your looks.

I haven't seen the product, but a dress.me-like service could be useful here. In the past, I debated signing up for hendrickspark.com, an online personal shopping service, but I don't spend enough on clothes to get value out of it. Perhaps dress.me will be better suited for someone who only occasionally buys posh clothes.
"Anecdotal evidence is fun and all ("I have a GF so I must know everything about women!") but to think that wardrobe means nothing to the opposite sex is just crazy."

Precisely. I think having a style does say a lot about a person. This doesn't mean having to dress in luxury brands, it means taking a stance. Women definitely notice a guy who takes the care for their appearance. That doesn't mean she'll instantly be attracted to him because obviously attraction relies on a combination of factors, but it does give him a slight leg up over other guys, not unlike personality, height, facial appearance, etc.

Caring about appearances isn't a bad thing. It's not like men don't judge women by comparable metrics.
Absolute overkill; totally worth it.
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I recommend that people go one level deeper than this. Keeping things running smoothly is the lowest level requirement of IT work, not a major accomplishment.

The really great IT folk that I know spend 5-10 hours a week on trouble tickets, keeping things running, etc. The other 30-40 hours are spent on projects, improving the business. And those projects get visibility.

So you have the guy in the corner who is so good that everything runs smoothly, and nobody knows he is there. Or the guy next to him who chooses to do that... and then even more.

Guess which guy really deserves more recognition?
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That's pretty much every attack - the holy grail of malicious code.
Fun idea!

Tiny nitpick: Change the width of #content to auto. Same effect (as wide as the page) but right now there is a horizontal scrollbar.

At Shuffler.fm we used a small trick that, for all our ajax links would forward the Facebook crawler to a page with just the metadata for a specific page, worked very well.
> He also said that there's no mechanism to compensate for the absence of duck typing.

Whereas, in reality, there's a whole class of static type systems which do the same thing, except statically: structural type systems (example: OCaml's object types).

Much as duck typing, they only make sense for object-oriented languages. Structural type systems treat (concrete) objects and object types as method sets (where a method is a triple of name, argument types and return types), where, given the types A and B with A a structural subtype of B, A's methodset will be a superset B's methodset.

> I think that some Scala mechanisms provide that power.

Scala provides structural types (via type refinements) since 2.6.0: http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/ch12.html#Structur... http://scala.sygneca.com/patterns/duck-typing-done-right
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Exactly. That comment is like the usual "too much time on his hands" insult:
http://boingboing.net/2002/02/03/too-much-time-on-his.html