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Sorry, but I really do hate your attitude. It takes a very big person to never think of yourself as better than anyone else (I'm definitely not that person), but a few points:

- Why does the fact that it is people who are less important than you screwing up annoy you more than anyone else? I get just as pissed when I'm screwed around by a CEO as when I get screwed around by a taxi driver.

- Some people find it difficult not to get angry at stuff, I don't know if that's just because they've learned to be that way or if it's unavoidable. But for lots of us it's possible to, for example, have a drink spilt on you and think "fuck that's annoying" without getting mad at, or even blaming, the person whose fault it was. Even if for some reason it does make you angry, you shouldn't need any motive for hiding that anger rather than being a jerk about it, assuming they didn't do it on purpose (again, no-one's perfect, few people manage to never act like a jerk, and, again, I'm not trying to preach, I'm a long way from perfect when it comes to being a dick to others.)

- The fact that people have done less well in life (and/or were less lucky) means you can think "I've done better than them", you can't think "I am better than them". They're not "inferiors", and you're not at the "top of the pyramid", at least not in society, just (I assume) in your wealth. Being rich doesn't mean you're good for or important to society.

And for all your comments about having come across badly in your comments, that really hits at the heart of the problem so many people have with this rule. The last time the "waiter rule" came up on HN it was talked about in comments as a "yes, you should always be nice to waiters or you will appear like a jerk". No, that's missing the point; you should be nice to waiters because otherwise you are a jerk. And the fact that normally these views are kept in your head rather than spoken outloud doesn't change the fact that they are your views, your problem isn't that you told us, your problem is that you have them.

I know I've been pretty negative to you, but I do feel like you were asking for it.
I had a similar idea cloned from chrome2phone for iOS at http://whopushed.me and the associated App Store app.

Never got around to creating the bookmarklet since uptake was low and I find going to the website simple enough.

The integration is very nice though!
I know the point of this article is not to give the fastest n-queens algorithm. But what the heck; here is an iterative backtracking solution. On my machine, this code finds all solutions for the 10x10 board in about 1.2 sec, while the code from the article takes just under 18 sec. Using CPy 2.6.5, just like the article. Have not tried PyPy. Output is essentially the same format, except that my generator spits out lists instead of tuples.

Yes, it's twice as long and harder to read. Improvements, anyone?

def hit_last(p):
x = p[-1]
i = len(p)-1
for j in range(i):
y = p[j]
if x == y or i - j == abs(x - y):
return True
return False

def n_queen(n):
p = [0]
while True: # Begin iter w/ board good, except maybe last Q
full = len(p) == n
hit = hit_last(p)
if full or hit: # Will we backtrack?
if not hit: # Found solution?
yield p
while len(p) > 0 and p[-1] == n-1:
p.pop()
if len(p) == 0:
return
p[-1] += 1
else:
p.append(0)
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He's an incredible landscape photographer. He is a creative genius, but his limited technical knowledge and misleading writing style hampers his objectivity.

Many of the benefits of RAW digital photography aren't relevant to landscape photographers, which is why he often comes to the conclusions he does. But rather than acknowledge this, he's turned his preference for film into a religion.
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It shouldn't. Open source version numbers greater than 1.0 dont mean a whole lot.

Chrome, the browser, around version 8 (give or take). How much sense does that make?
One thing that helped us a lot was setting

checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9 # up from 0.5 default

So the checkpoints get written out more evenly and cause less and shorter "stop the world" events. This was especially painful on Amazon EBS (which is a relatively bad idea by itself btw) with large shared memory size. Decreasing this actually improved performance for us.
I love the "money is a formal token of delayed reciprocal altruism" bit, attributed to Richard Dawkins.
I've been using QSQRCode to send data to my phone: select, send to Quicksilver and display QR code for the phone to scan. Tap2Tab sounds like an interesting approach, though, and I'm curious to see how much it could do.
Side projects are great. They are great motivator for learning new stuffs. There are so far you can go with tutorial or sample codes. You have to do it in a serious enough project to learn the nitty gritty details.

Some of them will die away but some will stick. Here're my recent more successful side-projects.

http://www.previouslook.com/hnews

http://www.topchan.tv

Android game Starxscape.
My father has worked at IBM for 25 years and they have these kind of contracts, and hes gone as far as to try to get them to release him from any IP responsibilities for his homebrew beer and the labels he designs for the beer, and legal wouldn't clear it.
Now try something useful like: "where to buy low cost computers in miami florida"; or "what is the temperature of the water off the coast of miami beach".

Now try it in Google. See the difference. ;)

You right, WolfmanAlpha is not a search engine. It's a fancy encyclopedia.
Yeah, I know. At one time though, version numbering was used as a signal to other developers that relied on your software. Changing the major version number indicated a large change -- either API, or architectural, or both -- that was expected to break software that relied on it. So then, as an end-user, it was easy to keep track of which pieces were likely to be compatible with which other pieces; if your add-on or what-have-you worked with version 2.1, then it would work with 2.1.1, and probably work with 2.2, but probably not work with 3.0.

I guess people got bored with the sensibility of that, or something.
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I develop using 3 different computers every day. My work laptop, my personal desktop at home and my personal laptop. This is the setup that I find myself using most often - even with my laptop:

1. Eclipse (with Aptana plugin, remote system explorer plugin) on all computers
2. Github hosting my project repos
3. Two personal linux servers. One at my apartment on my personal internet and the other in the cloud

With those three things, I am able to SSH into whichever Linux server that benefits me most at the time and pull my most recent code from Github. I usually SSH into my cloud-based server if I am not at home, otherwise I SSH into my home server over the LAN. Once I have the most recent repo cloned then I just use Eclipse-over-SSH to connect to that Linux server and edit the code.

This setup works great for me. It's awesome because it's the same editor on all different computers of mine - one being a MBP, the others Windows. I also don't have to install all of my dev related tools, such as databases and stuff, on my main machines. Also, I can leave my sites running, for testing, on my linux servers while the rest of my machines are turned off.

Granted, prior to this I used to just SSH into the servers and use Vim for everything. :P
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Actually, this is a great opportunity for YC alums to deliver some of PG's knowledge to non-alums.

I look forward to discussing my ideas with PG-bot.
The increased unemployment due to automation isn't a new problem, just finally getting attention. As also said in reply to you, farms make the perfect example. An arce produces far more food now than at any point in the past.

The bigger question is: Will we enter a new social contract where all people benefit from automation, our will only the property owners? Currently, we're trending heavily toward the latter. Regardless, that is a political issue, and unavoidable. Whatever we decide, even to my detriment, I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't let it guide technological progress. At least not just yet.
Ak - I'm bad with a lot of homonyms.

Also, just curious, why were you brought up in Champaign-Urbana? Did your parents teach at UIUC or they just happened to live there?
Not exciting, but 07 Chrysler Pacifica V6. It hauls the kids around nicely, ~18mpg, looks better than a minivan, less than $300 in repairs, and best of all... the back seats fold flat so we actually hauled a boxed 52" HD set home with it.

Overall, not a bad set of wheels for the family hacker.
I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and started taking Ritalin, and it's helped tremendously. In the past I took that, and sometimes Vicadin, to help. They both helped me focus and get much more done. Obviously the Vicadin wasn't prescribed for that, I just found out by accident that it worked.

I just tried this test and scored a 99% for ADD (ADHD was recently changed to be all encompassing - you can have either inattentive or hyperactive or both).
I had a 350z and then a G37S but got rid of it last year before moving to SF...and now I just walk haha

btw both were coupes and 6MT, definitely fun to drive :)
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The typical example is an underage child in an adult seatbelt. Because of the difference in dimensions, a crash causes the seatbelt to impact the neck.

I'm not sure that would be classed as "used properly", though.
That's great, but one problem: molecules don't stay molecules over two thousand years. Certainly not oxygen, which is extremely chemically active. N2 somewhat less so (but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_cycle), but the chances of any particular nitrogen molecule retaining its identity over two thousand years is incredibly low.

Redo this calculation with atoms, and I might believe you. But it'll need to be a bit more complicated, since I don't think the amount of oxygen and nitrogen getting sequestered in the ocean or the soil is actually "trivial" as stated.
To be fair, Python doesn't throw a fatal error. It throws an Exception, which most people know to handle. The idiom is use a try/except block, but if you're clever you can usually avoid the need.

Scala borrows the option types from SML (or, at least, SML has them and is much older). I love SML for its strict semantics (if something passes through the type system it most likely works as expected), but sadly design really doesn't inform platform choice (case in point: C++ is still common. I don't hate it as much as some people do, but it can't be said to be particularly well designed).
Mustang. When I moved to America I decided to buy something American, and it was either that or a giant Cadillac.
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I just graduated, and am also going into Computer Science. I just pulled up a list of top CS schools and started researching from there. I ended up applying to MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, U of Illinois UC, U of Michigan, and a few others. I only got into U of Illinois UC, but I'm happy with that and am excited for next year.

My advice: Apply to where you really want to go. The money is something that you can work out if you try hard enough. don't be afraid to reach for the top tier of schools, but don't leave yourself with no fallbacks.
And thank God for both those facts. Too many of one and not enough of the other.
I commute from Pleasanton to SF every day, and it's basically the exact same commute described in the article. 40-50 minutes each way, last stop so I get to work on the train, farmers markets near my SF stop, etc.
Here! Here! I currently commute up the stairs to get to my office. Much more sane than spending 2 extra hours in the car every day.
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Audi A6 (4.2L V8 variety) that I bought when I was 19 in SF, drove it back home to Toronto.
2012 911 turbo s cabrio (got at 24) with a 335xi beater car (got at 21) -- both new.

FYI: If you are going with a luxury car, always go new. I tried test-driving a used gallardo and concluded that many first-drivers abuse their cars.

Edit: What do you drive?
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I'm still living off Ramen and boot-strapping my company. But when I was an employee I bought a 2005 Dodge SRT-4. I had wanted this car since it came out back in 2001. Not really an expensive car but at the time it was the fastest car one could buy under 20K dollars.

0-60 in 5.8 seconds, 2.4L 4 cylinder turbo charged engine with 230 HP, a LSD and only 2900 lbs. Not too shabby for a cheap economy car and very fun to drive!

Back in high school I bought lots of Honda Repair Manuals and studied them. I swapped out a 1990 Honda Civic's original engine with a more powerful Japanese engine. Then I figured out how to install a ZEX dry nitrous system.

Although I estimated a measly 160-170 HP to the wheels, the car only weighed a little over 2000 lbs. When I took it to the race track I had plenty of fun embarrassing 50K luxury cars with my shit brown Civic!

How much had I spent of my $5.15 an hour pay check?

Used 1990 Honda Civic - $500
Used Japanese performance engine - $600
Used nitrous system - $500

Embarrassing the driver of a 50K dollar car? Priceless.
I think this is a pointless calculation. Why burn cpu cycles on such an old, meaningless question? Wouldn't you rather spend your brainpower helping other people?
As Edward Tufte would probably put it, I feel some fidelity to the comments has been lost without the scores. The score for me added a 'feel of the community' for each of the comments left and that only mattered IFF the comment actually was worth reading.

As to the disturbing situation you mention I'd look to finding a way to make such behavior more shameful.
Yeah, I loved my commute when I moved to Manhattan from Jersey City (40 min -> 15 min). That until I started working remotely. No commute. I can work in my underwear from my bed, when I feel like it. There's so much stress working from the office, I don't want to do that ever again.
One the one hand, the "benevolent dictator" model has shown itself to work pretty well for Linux, compared to some major failings of the "committee" model on other projects. On the other hand, does anyone think the fact that "major" changes can be done by one person who is "just going all alpha-male" will potentially spook people? I mean, I doubt too many people here on hn have a problem with Linus' personality. I imagine most of us appreciate his sense of humor and respect him as a penultimate hacker... I'm just thinking about starched-shirt types who call the shots in big businesses -- can you imagine being an IT manager and trying to explain to your boss that after 15 years there's a new major version of the Linux kernel because "well the head guy got tired of calling it version 2."

Edit: Penultimate apparently doesn't mean what I thought it meant, so, what I meant was "...respect him as a very good hacker...".
I'd worry about someone who mistreats waiters for the simple reason that it is a sign that person is a complete idiot. Unless all that's left is for the waiter to bring the check, you are pissing off someone who is going to be handling your food. Mistreating the waiter is just asking for the next dish to be seasoned with spit or worse.
I recently applied to a PHP dev position. I told the CEO that if hired I would still be working on a side project or two...didn't get the job. Obviously not the kind of place I want to be working, anyway.
Agree with this 100%. I'm a Californian in New York (arrived in January) and it was too cold/gloomy until about a week ago, and now it's too hot.

One week of perfection? Really?
There is a nice open-source (which github is not) web front-end for git repos, http://www.gitalist.com/, and would you believe it, even they use git-web on their website.
I agree with ww250.

I always have had some small-ish projects on the side. Some for fun, some for more serious things.

Most didn't make it past the prototype phase, expect two of them. And one of them helped me a lot when I was interviewing for the current job (it is actually a non-trivial/large project).

As long as they don't become your main focus, small projects will actually help on your day to day job. (you end up applying a lot of the things that you learn on your side projects, to your day to day job).

Cool, game ww250.
BTW are you looking for a job? I am working currently at Yammer, and we are looking for few good Android developers. (iOS as well). shoot me an email at ardit33@gmail.com
It may be fugly, but it's also functional

It probably works in text based browsers too
Nobody's making that complaint, so that's a classic straw man.

Well, I've met at least one person who advocated the idea that wikipedia should contain any information that was true. When I asked him if I then should be able to create a many-terabyte article entitled "List of random numbers that hugh3's computer generated at [such and such a date and time]" then he said it should. So there are certainly some folks taking up that extreme position.

Otherwise you're just arguing at the margin. Maybe the notability criteria for schools are too strict. Maybe they're not. I can't think of anything about which I give less of a damn. (For what it's worth I checked, and my high school is certainly listed while one of my two primary schools is and the other [no less intrinsically notable] redirects to the particular suburb in which it is located].)
Hey, it's better than burning 'em generating bitcoins.
It's free, it's open source. If you've got a problem with how Linus does things, you can always fork it.
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Am I the only one that finds this request a little creepy?
Hopefully this takes off.

After years of complaints and issues with rampant deletionism and abusive editors, Wikimedia has finally started to collect statistics on how this has negatively effected the quality, depth and breadth of the project.

I can't find the Wikimedia Foundation report on this (it coincided with the great programming deletion incident), but it was almost universally negative. Some of the more recent data collection tells a similar story, it shows that new users, while attempting to make good faith contributions, are quickly drummed out of the place by established wikipedians via negative comments and rampant deletionism.

Despite this, and years of evidence that this is a serious problem (to the point of being blindingly obvious) with the project, the foundation hasn't taken any particular move to rectify it. I fear they will never get around to doing anything, or the response will be tepid and pointless.

With bits being basically free these days, there's just no real reason to limit Wikipedia to just being a duplicate of a Paper-and-Ink encyclopedia.
Anonymous posting never goes well. See the comments on any story in the SF Chronicle for a myriad of examples.
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I live/work in Silicon Valley. Have a 25-30 minute commute, driving alone at skewed-from-peak-traffic times (10a,7p). It's not unusual to see wildlife on the way: deer, wild turkey, jackrabbit, rarely coyote. I listen to podcasts most days. Unless there's a wreck or other cause of stopped traffic ahead, I don't particularly mind the drive, and parking is not a problem (no snow or freezing weather either). Switching to mass transit (bus stop is 1 mile from my residence) would at least triple my travel time. No thanks. If my work habits evolve, it will most likely be toward more working from home.
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But Leibniz (unlike Searle, who is pretty inconsistent on this point, apparently) isn't denying or overlooking the similarity between the idea of "sentient meat" and that of sentient mill mechanisms. It's precisely the basis of his argument.
On notability, if wikipedia only contains things that are generally known, what's the point of putting that information in a reference resource? The point of a resource like WP is so people can find things that they may not know.

Absurd examples like people's cats and random numbers are not really the problem and I suspect you know that. The problem is not the notability guidelines per se. It's the abusive use of the guidelines (evoked as gospel) by deletionists to keep n00bs out of their playpen.
I use it regularly for nutrition (calorie counting) and comparing foods, e.g. 100g of salmon, 100g chocolate etc. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=100g+salmon+100g+chocol..., or http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=potassium+in+1+cubic+li....
>"Given enough back-and-forth communication, however, a human will always realize that the bot is just parroting words and phrases that are statistically relevant to the human's questions."

That however is not the Turing Test at all. Here is what Turing actually wrote:

I believe that in about fty years' time it will be possible,
to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about
109, to make them play the imitation game so well that
an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent
chance of making the right identi cation after ve minutes of
questioning.

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It'd be great if everything2 was converted into a wiki instead of the individual submission model it follows now.
I like side projects. I have a few myself for many of the reasons listed here. In fact I'm much more inclined hire someone who has side projects. It shows they have a passion for programming/creating things.
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> During the day, almost everyone has a smart phone out. I've never had a problem, never expect to.

This pretty much summed up my feeling about crime on the subway until I got mugged in a full train during normal commuting hours. One mugging does not a crime wave make, of course, but apparently grand larcenies on the subway are up 18% in New York year over year:

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