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After 10 weeks of working with Yale faculty and New Haven based lawyers, accountants, etc, they'd have much more reason to stay.
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Then stay at home dear Icahn! :)
be wary of tuple unpacking inside function headers. PEP 3113 removes it from python 3000. See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3113/ for more details.
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Wow, that actually sounds really good. Scrapbooking is big business and this could really generate some cash.
Forgive me, I must vent here (treehugger does not approve such comments there)...

Treehugger is a disservice to environmental news. They are consistently technically uninformed and making no progress as the years go one. You will routinely see articles like this one where there is a story but they get it wrong. If they are going to fill the space, they should do it adequately.

Consider this article:

Bigger Benefits Up North
Because Anchorage has 85 days a year with less than 8
hours of daylight, any benefit over the tradition [sic]
lighting architecture are compounded.

That is their first big benefit of the lights in the article. And during winter it is true, but what about summer when the sun barely sets? Doesn't that make streetlights less useful? Doesn't this all come out in the wash? Is the 50% reduction in power use enough?

Shoddy journalism, mountains of ads (69 items loaded for this article), and suppression of source articles (this one is just a summarization of a press release published elsewhere , but good luck finding the link. The first couple that look likely are just links back into treehugger) should not be tolerated at "One of the most influential tastemakers".
What?!

Why is Python 3000 consistently removing all the cool stuff?!
I think the slanted strips background is a poor design choice. People may not have complained but have they applauded you on it?
Though the project is a failure, there are some of ideas from Chandler that might worth a look.

They had this notion of items - everything is an item and you can stamp an item into an item of a different kind. For instance, you get stamp a mail as a TODO item.
Since when do people have a choice?

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=254513

I like your do-the-dull-stuff-first philosophy. But you can't discount the fact that we stay in dull, drab workplaces as a matter of choice.

If you hate your work we each have the choice to go somewhere else. Be an electrician, or a garbage collector. Move to a different company that offers more compelling work, or start one that does!

I'm just saying we do have the choice to do work we enjoy, even if it means we sacrifice some security to drop the status quo and never look back.
A few have given us complements on it, yes, but both were students (i.e. younger probably with better eye-sight). The one I remember well enough to quote said, "I usually don't like dark-colored sites, but this one I definitely do."

Maybe we'll do a poll for our existing user's and see what they say. I've got no problem changing it if people don't like it... and I'm the only designer, so I've got no red tape to go through ;)
These guys don't seem to understand that the critical ingredient is investors. Half the startups we fund start out in Boston, which is much more of a startup hub than New Haven. And still most of the successful ones end up in the Valley, because that's where the investors are.

If YC doesn't cause startups to take root in Boston (not that we care; we're neutral on the question), this program is unlikely to make startups take root in New Haven.
"which is a stateful chat protocol"

You're missing that it's not stateful chat protocol, it's stateful xml protocol (that has, so far, been use mostly for chat).

People are excited that it's fast, stable (some of the implementations anyway), and they don't have to reinvent the wheel.
My point is you don't. The system is still working fine. If Godfather sank to #300, then there would be something to fix. Even with all of the shenanigans of Dark Knight fans, the result on Godfather's rankings is a minuscule blip that could be explained by chance and should have no effect on whether someone thinks Godfather is a movie worth watching.
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Isn't Yale where you go when you can't be bothered to start a company, because you're inheriting one from your family?
Some mention of what a continuation is in Scheme would have helped... (Not that I'm asking for it, it just would have made a world of difference to the reader)
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I wouldn't advise startups to create advisory boards. They're useful in a few cases (e.g. if the startup is tied to a specific industry), but if you look at the startups you admire most, you'll find few have formal boards of advisors. Advisors, yes, but not with any formal title.

If your startup is good, the people you would want to recruit as advisors want to invest in you, so you get them as advisors in their capacity as investors. So having a board of advisors = experts choose not to invest in you.
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I'd agree, but Scrabulous made their game for fun above everything else. If they were in it for money they'd have sold out a long time ago. And I can't be angry at people building a tribute to a game they love, not if it's not harming anybody else.
http://grobli.com (pronounced grow-blee)

“The new millenium’s repository for all knol-edge.” ;)

My hard work is shown below.

1) Pick random language: German.

2) Translating “great library” from English to German yields “große Bibliothek”.

Now, let’s mix it up a bit to give it that Web 2.0 flair.

3) Use “grob” for great (ß looks like a “b”, doesn’t it?) and “li” for library.

Bonus) Using namecheap, it looks like grobli.com is available! :)
I despise the facile and mocking reuse of negative catchphrases, like "you're doing it wrong" or "epic fail". It's just a playground taunt.
Emmett and Justin of Justin.TV went there.
As far as I can tell, he's saying that history repeats itself, and the same sort of itch that Ruby on Rails scratches was also scratched in Cobol. This is definitely a recurring theme in computing -- "what's old is new again", "those who dont' know history are doomed to repeat it", and so on.

I can't judge the accuracy of this statement, and I definitely disagree with his conclusion that new languages are bad. I do long for a common ABI (like VMS had, for that matter) though. It seems like Microsoft is aiming for this with the CLR. What's old is new again.
But that one worked because people liked the looks of Halo to begin with. You can't get around a common mentality by pointing that mentality out. People don't change that logically.
I'm confused how this is like Netflix at all, except for them paying for the shipping. You're giving them something instead of them giving it to you, and you're selling it, not renting it.
Looks like you're using .NET. Heresy!
"Type name, brand, and type of anything for your home or garden." is not easy to read.

My first impression is to try something like "Ikea dressers" just give me an example how I can search, like "Dresser" or "ikea" or w/e.
Yes. Usually they are.

Especially "Top 10" lists, because packing lists into such a cookie cutter format means you tend to skimp on at least a few of the list points.
Ask YC: What is your background?
Is your B.S./M.S./PhD in C.S. or Software Eng.? Or did you come from a different area? Which one? What brought you in to the Hacking world?

I would guess quantitative fields, like Physics or Math would be the most common, but I'm sure there are some bio people out there too.

I'm a Physicist by training with a bit of formal CS background and I've been debating whether I should try to transition in to the corporate/entrepreneurial world or not. How easy was it in your case?
...and has terrible pollution.
There.com was/is pretty awful.
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I'm waiting on someone to comment with a "listified" version of one of pg's essays. I'd do it if I had more time.
An accident. I saw it on proggit, and the first thing I did was check the front page to see if it was already here so I could read the comments and maybe add my 2c. I assumed it would already have been posted, I just failed to assume it would have been posted 171 days ago!

As for the one page thing, isn't that the "standard?" If not, please post the printable versions or one page versions of stories like this. Why page through an article just to cause exaggerated page views and ad impressions for someone with an old-school magazine business model???
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This is very interesting. If possible, please write more.
What about allowing users to submit "related links" that will appear at the top once a certain submission threshold has been reached? It would give your active commenters a way to separate "good" dupes from "bad" dupes while at the same time enriching your passive readers' experience.
It's better be a poll
I feel the same. I love their search engine, but as a company I don't like many of the things that they do. Not that I "dislike" G though.

It would be super nice to have some serious competition to Google.
You make a good point. In the age pyramid plots the group in the US born in the 1950's and 1960's appear to stop dying. For India it is the group born in the 1980's and 1990's. I agree that this has nothing to do with decreases in infant mortality.

Between 2005 and 2006 the age adjusted death rate dropped 3% in the US. The largest ever. Of this deaths due to either influenza or pneumonia saw the biggest decline, a 13% drop. The average life expectancy in the US is now increasing at 4 months per year. Between 1950 and 2005 the average life expectancy in the US was increasing by 2 to 3 month's per year. http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/612/2
http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t...
You know .NET is not that bad, plus a great percentage of popular domains are done in .NET. Let’s not let our hatred for Microsoft shadows our vision of technology.
Was there something wrong with my original post? (I understand that responding to flamebait may have been a mistake.) I was legitimately trying to add to the discussion. And from what I've seen on HN, I didn't think there was a particular ruling towards manners in posts. Would it have been more appropriate to etiquette if I'd been less emotional in my post?
There are some topics that come up so often though that it gets a little old over time and where the answers don't significantly change on a weekly basis. Favorites are:

- How do you stay motivated?

- Which books should I read?

- What music do you listen to while coding?

- What's the best web development framework?

If the question was, "What do you think is the hottest startup right now?" that would have a higher delta. I don't think most of the time these questions are reposted because the posting user wants an update -- usually they're by someone that's only been in the community for a couple weeks. Hence I think it'd be nice to make a search tool more visible so that people could more easily check.
No, I agree. I much prefer one-page posts. The the OP didn't, and that's why the system let it through.
No, this is Stewart Butterfield's Yahoo! resignation letter, inexplicably posted as an image on Flickr.
qhoga.com?
The thing is, the things it faces competition to are things that they just do a terrible job with. Orkut, anyone? Shared Items?
Really nice. It was very fast and the couple searches I did gave great results. I'll spread the word. The name is a little hard to remember though.
"I don't think of any good faith contract as being un-American."

It was kind of a joke. My American friends often tell me that the country's strength is its unfettered capitalism, so I was trying to point out that things that suppress competition are un-American.
So...obviously they are reselling them somewhere else that has a similar assurance of re-payment. The question is, who is that? I'm guessing that their buyer gives them a shopping list of items they need and only then do they offer to purchase them through "gazelle".

There are a lot of super, super shady "electronics dealers" who sell crap using high pressure techniques, and who keep costs low by not having inventory. I'm guessing that these people are gazelle's buyers.
I agree with what Fred says, but I'm surprised he hasn't shown up urging us to post on his blog via Discus instead of HN.
1) link to the previous posts

2) http://www.searchyc.com

3) continue on with your discussion

I'd like to see more technical solutions to the dupe problem. For instance, if someone feels the need to start the "what is the value of a college degree" discussion again, the site could present them with a McDonald's job application in convenient PDF format, then redirect back to reddit.
No. You didn't.

But the context is different. XMPP as MQ mechanism may work better in Internet scale distributed system. Just like HTTP works better as a client server mechanism on Internet scale distributed system than other protocols before it.

I worked in a startup called PubSub from 2003 to 2006. We in fact used XMPP in 2004 internally to relay our error message log of our cluster of machines in real time to our office's archive server. It was an experiment but it seems pretty useful. We called it as fuselet before in our company.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3113/#why-they-should-go
That's very possible. We should try halving the heavy sync frequency and see if that affects our uninstall rates.

If so there are various ways to fix it, from win32 stuff to more intelligent sync'ing to using new sync APIs in certain cases.

We've been working on this kind of stuff for two years, and still have a ways to go. : ) Looking forward to hearing how it goes!!

Best,
Adam
Thanks for your feedback. I agree about the name being weird; I lost a coin flip contest to my partner on name choice so I assumed it and getting use to it.
"Could it be that he's trying to imply that language innovation has been a chimera for fifty years and we should all have been satisfied with COBOL?"

What's interesting about that sentence is what happens if you replace COBOL with L---, aw shucks, let's not go there...
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I wasn't actually talking about the circumference per se, just that Balsamiq has come "full circle" which I represented using pi.
It does "home" all right, but not "garden." I typed in some searches for flowers and just got home accessories.
for stuff like this, i spend a lot more time really clearly designing the solution.. then you've got an end in sight, and you just have to plug through the todo list (when it's fun work i just play around and try things, since i don't mind backtracking in those cases).

also, i make incredibly specific todos when i'm in a slump - dull work is way easier when you're constantly finishing little parts of it and crossing them out.
Don't settle on that name because of a coin flip. :P

I've looked at that name for a minute now and not only do I not know how to pronounce it, I don't know how I'd tell someone about it without having to spell it out, which makes it very easy to forget.

Something like decorefind.com is available. That's easy to remember.
I know it's just a saying, but taken literally, "coming full circle" would mean the circumference. That is, going around in a circle.
I disagree. On average, the Japanese get over 80% of their calories from carbohydrates, and over half from rice alone. They're also the thinnest of all economically developed people in the world, and have the greatest longevity.

Furthermore, in the 1970's the Japanese diet was even more dominated by carbohydrates and people the populace was even thinner. At that time, 75%　of calories were supplied by rice, and close to 90% by carbohydrates in general.

The phenomena isn't restricted to Japan either China is also seeing increasing obesity, heart disease and diabetes as its people living in top-tier and second tier cities adopt diets higher in fat and higher in protein.

The current American diet is actually unusually high in protein and fat by historical (i.e. pre-WWII) standards.
There's no reason you can't do this 'classless' in Python.

I've seen similar Python code that takes the Perl approach, as well as code where the 'daemonizer' is a function that takes a function (which is the main event loop of the daemon) as an argument.

In this case it's a design, not a language decision.
I don't know, the name is already notorious...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=263022
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and focus on his last point:

"Using right tool for the job"

Sometimes, it doesn't make sense to include 124kb of Prototype (yes, before gzip and cache) just to be able to do $("myFavoriteDiv").hide()
Yeah... if you're already being referenced as having a worse brand name than cuil/knol, a name change is necessary.
But they're not technically programmers. I'm talking about applications that require extensive customizations to be useful. There's a lot of cases where people are having to trick people with the business knowledge into doing the configuration for them because the 'real' programmers can't or won't do the work. _This_ is where we should be looking at applying DSL's.
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Thanks, we’ll definitely work on this.
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Yeah, that part seemed really odd to me, too. Aside from post office interaction, it doesn't feel like it's much like Netflix at all.
Looks good, its clean, its fast, and it returned good results. I'd agree the name isn't great and the initial text in the search text box should be reworded. Is this an example of what can be done with Intelliverb's hosted search service?
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Great feedback, thanks. Yes it is an example of what can be done with intelliverb search service. Also check out qwili.com.
Sigh. It was an extension of the joke in the parent, based on the elaborate "25 reasons you're doing it wrong" (or whatever, I'm too lazy to look up the link) list that was high up in the rec list yesterday and the day before, and much maligned. So you see? I, too, (ahem) despise the facile and mocking reuse of negative catch phrases.

I guess subtle humor is just an epic fail on this site.
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The trouble with 'cuil' is that I keep thinking it says 'cull', which makes me think of the mass slaughtering of BSE-infected cattle.

Although, more appropriately, another meaning of 'cull' is to "select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources" (from the dictionary OS X Dashboard gives you).
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Also, the "submit" page has no custom color.
Damn! Realplayer....
The MQ people don't seem to be explaining their value to the Web 2.0 kids. When I read the ZeroMQ site the other day I kept thinking "but what is it used for?"
Because Caterina Fake is joining Hunch? I don't get it.
Japanese lifespan and health have improved as fat consumption has risen almost geometrically. The healthiest Japanese are the Okinawans, with the highest fat consumption.

I can't comment on why Japanese have relatively low rates of obesity for the industrialized world with a starchy diet. But the pattern does generally hold true.

> The current American diet is actually unusually high in protein and fat by historical (i.e. pre-WWII) standards.

This is simply wrong with regard to fat. I don't know about the exact change in protein intake, but people eat much less fat and oil now than historically. You can't even get things like beef kidney, suet, or lard anymore at American grocery stores.
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Strange.

I'm going to have to disagree with the BFDL here. Tuple parameters are probably not used much because people don't know about them, not because they're unhelpful. And all the code transformations he shows below end up longer. And they don't seem to be any easier to read. :-/

Consider what PG says in the arc tutorial.

"Since functions of one argument are so often used in Lisp programs, Arc has a special notation for them. [... _ ...] is an abbreviation for (fn (_) (... _ ...)). So our first map example could have been written

arc> (map [+ _ 10] '(1 2 3))
(11 12 13)

Removing variables is a particularly good way to make programs shorter. An unnecessary variable increases the conceptual load of a program by more than just what it adds to the length."

It's strange that this would be what pushes me over the fence, but I think Python and I are going to end up parting ways...
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And in french it sounds like couilles ,which means bollocks.
"It's hard to completely kill off something as totally decentralized as Usenet; as long as two servers agree to share the NNTP protocol, it'll continue on in some fashion."

So... dead to the author, but not everyone.
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Ahhh, how I love misconceptions and prejudices..sigh!
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We did not "move", we just came here to see what Silicon Valley was all about and if maybe we could make it work down here... it was more like a field trip; besides, no matter how much you read about a place nothing compares to actually being there.
There are even websites dedicated to stealing textbooks, like Textbook Torrents and Scribd.

I hope scribd is aware this might be a common misconception about what they're trying to do.
Understood... but even getting the reference, and understanding part of your intent was to mock that 'doing it wrong' tone, I'd rather not feed that meme at all.
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Oh, man. I did just that very idea, only I substituted "War Games" because I couldn't find a copy of Hackers around. Worked just as well. :D
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