skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, because it's superior. And:

http://video.yahoo.com/
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us

etc

Search engines are simply always going to have video components. It's not going away ever.
True, but YouTube beat Google Video into submission. Google tried everything but still lost out to them.
Not all families can just pick up and move for four months without significant consequences, e.g. the loss of spouse's job.
BASIC (LSL, Java, C#, VB, PHP, Perl, etc)

One of these things is not like the others.
Honesty Is The Best Policy
This sounds like a problem in the contest definition. If you want to compare programming languages, come up with programs for which no existing libraries will help or require that 90% of the execution time be spent in the named language. If you want to compare libraries, call it a library comparison and not a language comparison.
I guess I was being rhetorical. The fact is, you can't say these things in America without risking significant career damage.
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$6-33k for "telepresence?" Skype video chat + cheap webcam accomplishes the same thing for $25.
It was great to see this launch at OSCON. We are going to be some interviews about it on YDN as soon as my video guy edits it next week.
Given infinite time, the number of pages that could be generated is infinite.
I'd love to see more funding wishlists for non-tech ventures such as innovative coaching/entrepreneurial training that do not include IT as a backbone!
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As someone who uses Django a lot:

1. Schema migrations aren't a big deal unless you don't know SQL. Django just doesn't fit schema migration like Rails does either. Django's models are written in Python and then the database is generated from them. That means that changes have to be made in two places (Python and SQL). Most of the solutions had things where renaming a column would involve something like address = models.CharField(max_length=255, old_name="street_address"). So, I have to do that, migrate it and then I just have this old_name in the model that's doing nothing so I have to remove it (or have the model look ugly). SQL isn't so scary.

2/3: I don't use the admin interface for most of my projects so I guess these never bothered me that much.

5. I find the install easy. apt-get install apache2 mod-wsgi and just create a virtual host. Of course, it's probably a royal pain if you don't understand things like python paths, packages, or apache configurations. It isn't harder than Rails et al, but it is harder than PHP.

6. I'm looking forward to 1.0 and releases coming regularly after that.
If there's one thing more poisonous than racism it's publicly equating the failure to denounce x with believing x. That is a classic tool of demagogues. In fact, arguably the classic tool of demagogues.

So here's a denunciation for you: lexlibra's comment is lame, and yours is 10x lamer.

People who advocate conclusions for which the evidence is weak merely lead one away from the truth, but people who drag debates down to the level of "whoever's not with us is against us" strike right at the heart of it.
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I dont want to burst your bubble or sound like a smartass, but just want to clarify this. That video is 30 minutes long, because it is hosted on one of the older accounts before the policy was changed - signing up for any new accounts limits you in the limit and size of the videos you can upload (1gb and 10mins respectively).

So in this regard the article is correct.

http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer...

Personal note: I suspect Google introduced this policy to ensure that Google Video is not rendered obsolete.
Let me not speculate as to why not. Let me just say to all who know better, but said and will continue to say nothing – SHAME.

Flinging self-righteous accusations about only makes you seem shrill and shallow. Your use of a sockpuppet account to do it makes it cheap as well. (Yes, the other guy did that too.) Most of what you're offering here is a personal emotional response. That would be more effective if you gave it content that wasn't so formulaic (reacting from a socially conforming position and expressing outrage that others have not done the same).

Your main point appears to be that you're angry with pg for not sharing your response and rushing to say so. That suggests that you haven't read his essays very closely.
monetizing news, is very tricky. i can't thinnk of 1 social news site that makes a lot of money.
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so the limit doesn't apply to old accounts, even if they post stuff today. thanks. don't see why that'd be bubble bursting or anything. i wanted to know.
Only if they take no energy to generate.
How clever could the algorithm be, anyway?
>Paul Graham (of Viaweb and Y Combinator fame)

I tend to think of Viaweb as being "of Paul Graham fame".
It's not, really. As Galton discovered, reaction time correlates with other kinds of intelligence.

I've read that modern tests show that some groups have a faster physical reaction speed, but a slower mental reaction speed -- e.g. the signal gets from eye to brain to hand slowly, but the hand moves fast.
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Owen: NOOOOOOooooooo!!!

It was so close to getting you that lovely vacation to Tahiti you so richly deserve. Sorry, dude. We're still rooting for ya, though.
With a finite amount of memory, the amount of information you can generate in infinite time is finite.
No: with a finite amount of memory, the amount of information you can generate in infinite time is finite.
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A better SNR than the others.
Remarkable... I wish the US system were more like that but I can't see it happening. My high school was nothing like that. Montessori schools seem to lean in that direction though. Can anyone with first-hand Montessori experience comment on that?
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I think that while it is unfortunate that Amazon went down, they handled the situation properly. I'm sure that within a couple of years they'll hammer out all the kinks in the system.
lol lexisnexis is a web 2.0 company now?
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"I'm personally with Joe on this one. Steve Jobs is an arrogant fuck who thinks he's above the law."

"So honesty is the best policy. And calling influential reporters 'slime buckets' should be avoided as well."

Does not compute.
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One thing I like about Google Video is that you can download the files.
This was posted earlier on Hacker News:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126608
You didn't cary the abstraction far enough: programming languages are an implementation detail. An INTJ tends to find it Very Important That Things Are Done The Right Way Using The Correct Programming Language and would be more than happy to give you their reasons why. A stereotypical INTP doesn't care so much about the how, and in general tend to be less polarized on specific technologies.
Steve is free to do what he wants. Owning apple shares is not a good enough reason to expect someone to give up their privacy.
exactly. my point is that there is something more to it than the parts being special or unique.
"... one of the lowest percentages of immigrants of any Western European country: only two percent of its 5.2 million residents.

And a substantial fraction of Finland's immigrants consist of spouses of Finns, Finnish-speaking citizens of Russia (there are pockets of Finnish-speakers throughout the forests of northern Russia), Estonians, whose Uralic language is closest to Finnish, and Swedes (Swedish is the second official language). Third World immigrants make up less than one percent of the population."

http://www.vdare.com/sailer/070319_diversity.htm
The reason why [Computer Science] research produces so little that can be called creative programming these days...

I'd like to see some examples of "meaningless solutions to irrelevant problems". CS research was never really about producing "creative programming", but rather about furthering what we know about computers, which involves a lot of math and theoretical research.
Interesting article, I think that while America has a long way to improve our education system, Americans sell themselves short. America has sprawling metropolises with a lot of urban poor. Trying to improve their education by throwing a couple of books their way is dismissive of the large problem at hand.

But also on the opposite end of the spectrum, we have a lot of the brightest minds in the world. Most of the top universities in the world are based in the United States, and our top students obviously do well in the global arena.
Time to brush up on my Mandarin:

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Translation: http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/index.html
It was never the University's role to innovate in the manner that the article says they do. But just look at google summer of code: All of these projects—really, really cool things—are university research projects. Besides, it was never the university's role to innovate in the manner that the article insinuates: i.e. tangible code. Most of the "innovation", or creative code, you see in today's world are simply the application of already existing theories.
I think he's pinned down the groups wrong; here's how I see the poles of language snobbery:

- Language snobs come in a couple of sorts; hard core programming language wonks, and tinkerers. Tinkerers play with every technology and get excited enough about a new technology coming out that they have to get their hands on it. They know and use lots of programming languages because programming languages are neat. The downside is the depth of knowledge is often somewhat limited and they tend to get distracted by the next thing.

- Luddites who code. Luddites consider new technologies, aside from the ones that they're making, largely annoying and quite possibly evil. They tend to stay behind the technology curve, but tend to know their tools quite well. They like to get things finished, since that was the point, right?
Does anyone know if there is a "best" paper that describes gossip protocols? They were mentioned in the Dynamo paper, but they didn't really get into them.
"meaningless solutions to irrelevant problems"

Sounds a bit like web 2.0, doesn't it?
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Steve Jobs might have cancer again, and all people care about is Apple's stock price?

I know its logical. I know its rational. I know its the hackeresque response to consider privacy vs. corporate governance. But please, try to have some respect, try to have some compassion.
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If I were to guess, he's talking about problems which don't affect his life or aren't "interesting"; That, however, is where the money lies. Just think about the founders of google: their research wasn't exactly thrilling, but it's led them to be one of, if not the, most successful tech companies of all time.
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my father told a similar story. his friend, a camera man, wanted to assemble a film camera from scratch. This is Soviet union in the 1960s. cameras were pretty impossible to "own". Studios owned by the State owned cameras. But he had access to the cameras at the studio. He was not a machinist, but could take them apart and service them. If he went to a machinist to copy the camera privately it would cost him a lot of money. possibly a year's salary. So he would take a part at a time. he went to different ones and told them that it is apart that broke on his movie studio camera and that getting a part from the factory would stall the production. So they did it sometimes free of charge and sometimes he paid them with money, they would charge him about a worth of a quarter for a small part.
Unfortunately the URL I submitted is different, so the duplication wasn't caught.
The best way to do it is to make software that is so good people will want to buy it. It's really the most effective piracy solution.

Also, a smart programmer can provide a better solution that anything digital river can offer.
Not the same.

"Depending on the number of screens used, these high-definition video teleconferencing systems that deliver life-size images of the participants used to cost $500,000 or more per room."

Life-size video chat!
That's the problem with Montessori. It's unclear what they actually believe. If you go through the mainstream literature on various educational theories, the proponents of each theory make a clear case about what this method does for children and why it is better than other methods, with some set of empirical results. With Montessori if you want access to their materials then you have to pay.[1] It's like the Scientology of the education world.

[1] With the exception of the original books from 90+ years ago.
You're assuming the systems themselves wouldn't grow or be upgraded over time.
Jesus, as if there weren't enough populist demagogues blaming every problem on immigrants already, now we have to put up with you here on HN.

http://www.siteselection.com/ssinsider/snapshot/sf011210.htm

Have a look at the rankings at the bottom, and then explain why Canada, with about 3-4 times more immigration per capita, outscores the US.
are you sure that google introduced this limit? as far as i know, youtube had this limit quite a long time before being acquired.
I use Lisp whenever I can. I think most people who have been initiated into thinking in Lisp would prefer to use it over other languages in most circumstances. Many recent languages have grown to accommodate Lisp thinking in differently branded packages for this reason. It is fair to view Lisp as the ultimate high-level language that will persist as other languages come and go. The main reason is its ability to process itself. That's a key innovation that makes it more than just another programming language. There are programming languages, and then there is Lisp.
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digg died several months ago when their comments slowly started looking a lot like youtube's
I'm Finnish and I would say "I don't know". Article paints quite a rosy picture which isn't necessary true. Finnish schools(elementary to high school) are very boring. There are almost no other activities, no special classes, no school sports(only p.e. for everybody), no advanced classes and teaching is mostly done with books, paper and board.

Teachers maybe still care little bit about there students and think the main difference is that we are expected to learn and know more from the start. I started learning a second language when I was on first grade and third language on fifth grade. The bar is set high for everyone.

Getting to a college through admission test is quite a pain in the ass if you want to study medicine, law, economics or engineering in a decent city(and there is like three). You need about 6months of study and probably a training course for the test.

Edit: And I would say that low immigration helps. Over 12years of schooling, I didn't have a single classmate that didn't speak Finnish as native language.
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Why would you post this on hacker news?
So... Godzilla might be real after all.
I don't doubt that environment plays a role. And note that the paper you cite did not rule out genetics, and I think he quite overstated the conclusion based on the evidence presented. For the opposing case, try this article: http://www.jonentine.com/reviews/UPI_reconstruction.htm

Even more telling is the case of West African sprinters:

1) In the past six olympics, all 48 male finalists in the 100 meter dash were of West African descent. The chances of this happening by chance is infantesimally small.

2) Despite having the same West African descent, they all grew up in very different environments ( West Africa itself, the Carribean, U.S., Canada, England)

3) Sprinting is one of the most universal of all human activities. It's also one that requires the least number of hours to acheive world class training and conditioning ( I believe I've read world class sprinters only train about 10-20 hours a week ).

Studies have also shown that men of West African decent have more fast twitch muscle and higher levels of testostorone. The evidence for a substantial genetic component seems overwhelming to me.
Of course. The original post was dealing with averages, and that's what I was trying to explain.
I am sorry. I think this is a dumb idea that will set you up for failure.

This makes one person the bottleneck, and the startup very rigid and inflexible.

Just go get a real team, convince great coders of your idea--people you can trust--and share everything with each other.

Its hard enough to do a startup as it is.
Don't bait him. His SEO technique is to spam more popular blogs/forums with links back to his, and to get into these types of arguments, producing more link opportunities for him. Worse, we may get more of his constituency moving in. (There goes the neighborhood).

The best method to protect the site from being inundated with more stuff like this is to try to stay as hacker-focused as possible, perhaps relegating the race/gender/IQ trifecta to the same status as religion and political discussion, or to accept the likely degradation in discussion.
"Teachers maybe still care little bit about there students and think the main difference is that we are expected to learn and know more from the start. I started learning a second language when I was on first grade and third language on fifth grade."

I've heard people speculate that learning more than one language early on encourages a certain "flexibility" of mind that helps with knowledge acquisition in general.
I've stopped trusting "improvements" to office life. It is obvious that all these ideas help everybody do more faster, but as we all know, the increased productivity has not had any material effect on the wages of American office workers. This article attacks the wrong side of the issue; it's not about whether telecommuting will cause problems for the individual worker. If this is really a good idea, any problems will be sorted out in due time. The real debate should be about whether the individual employee has any interest in accepting things like these.

Telecommuting has great promise, but I'm almost at the point where I'd like to say 'fuck you' to any company incorporating such aids. Giving half my wage (and rising, thanks to this!) to an executive is not my idea of earning a living.

Where they are applicable, startups use all of these techniques anyway. And the workers actually get more than superficial benefits. There's nothing to prevent small companies from going the same route...
I grew up without cable TV, didn't have it when I left home for college, and haven't really found a need for it since. I'm still occasionally tempted to switch from my DSL line to cable 'net access to save money, but I just don't think I can bring myself to write that check to Comcast every month.

For that matter, I haven't had a POTS phone line into my home any time this decade. Now that my cellphone runs over my home WiFi, I really don't need much more than a single twisted-pair line running out of my house for all my entertainment and communications. (Of course, I'd gladly move to fiber instead of copper, were it available in my area...)
Thank you for your comment. For me it's only temporary to get a foundation ready - the startup itself will have a full team. Am doing this to give myself time to continue to talk to possible investors and decide where I want to locate.
You can download the files from any of the video sites... it just takes a bit more effort.
This screams naivete to me (but maybe perhaps I'm naive myself ...). I can't imagine how this system would possibly scale or how integration with all the small parts would work. Software is unique in the world of engineering. People know how to build bridges. We, for whatever reason, just don't know how to build software on that scale at the same reliability and with the same consistency that we build bridges.

Software is not made up of interchangeable parts in the sense that you can't outsource each individual function in a giant library and hope for seamless integration. This guy's working at a lesser granularity than that, but I'm just waiting for the day when some unexpected behavior from his controller causes massive failure in his backend and no one knows how to fix it because no one understands the whole system (or at least a big enough chunk of it).

Edit: Just saw his response:

Am doing this to give myself time to continue to talk to possible investors and decide where I want to locate.

If you're prototyping for investors, that may be reasonable, as long as you throw it away and start with a fresh coherent team at some point.
It's been like that for a long time.
Can I point out that this explanation did not identify a root cause? How was the corrupt message originally produced?

If they know how it happened, it's not reflected in this article. The solution they describe addresses the detection of and recovery from future mysterious occurrences rather than identifying, understanding and eliminating whatever bug or condition caused this one.
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And what's your point?
There's probably a correlation with being a "happy" country: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24371878/
There are two ways you can look at an aphorism such as this "brick wall" business. Either:

1. These words of wisdom are a useful way to motivate myself when things are rough.

2. These words of wisdom should be used as a criteria for judging other people.

I think it's a damn nasty metaphor only when you apply it to someone other than yourself. Let me put it this way... we should celebrate those people who have pushed past whatever tremendous barriers they found in their way, but we should never look down on those who tried and failed.

Probability of success in many areas of life is at least partially dependent on attitude... and as cheesy and vapid as they may sometimes sound, I will take whatever comfort and confidence I can from these sorts of inspirational messages when I come across them.
The reason why [Computer Science] research produces so little that can be called creative programming these days is that the modern process of grant-funded research is fundamentally incompatible with the task of writing interesting, cool and relevant software. Rather, its goal is to produce publications and careers, and it’s very good at that.

This is quite a naive point of view. To paraphrase Dijkstra:

Computer science is no more about programming than astronomy is about telescopes.

(s/programming/computers/ for the original)

Look at this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science#Fields_of_comp... and tell me what percentage of that consists of programming. It's like saying math is about numbers.