skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't beat yourself up.

I once met an intern that is very good at abstraction and writing "OK"-designed OOP code (OK because it looks and sound good minus the ability to unit-test, but other than that it was simple enough for other people to understand and quite flexible). On the flip side, he's not that good when it comes to networking code (pretty much system programming stuff). He could be good, but at that time, software design (in OOP environment) was his forte.

You might have your own pluses. Besides, we don't know what the code looks like or whether what this intern wrote is the truth. If you've been in this industry long enough you'll start to take a lot of things with a lot of grain of salt.
(and detonatable)

No way terrorist types could misuse that one.
Sanskrit is an artificial language derived from Vedic. There is nothing different with it when compared to other classical languages. Just a lot of poetics led to a wide variety of synonyms and also compounds are easier to create than in English, very much like German. Sanskrit has nouns and verbs, of course it refers to objects like any other language. That said it was considered until not long ago to be highly beneficial from an educational standpoint to know at least one classical language - but ultimately because of it's content and not it's highly inflected grammatical peculiarities.
The recent TOS and security controversies haven't been good. Up until recently, excellent customer care has been a hallmark of YC companies. The Hellofax guys have been awesome, and incredibly responsive to feedback, as have the Parse guys. I hope when they get huge, things stay that way. It seems once these companies reach certain scale, though, other issues tend to limit this (see AirBnB). Of course customer service is an increasing challenge for all large companies, not just the ones that come from YC. But it's sad to see some of them lose their luster.

Sure DropBox is great for moving homework, but for anything where security is paramount, why take the risk? Security is one of those things that you screw up once, and X people will never forgive you. Would you trust your mission-critical files to a service that exposed them for four hours?
Comcast hosts anycast DNS servers that opt out of the "domain helper" feature (and support DNSSEC):

75.75.75.75 and 75.75.76.76

http://dns.comcast.net/dns-ip-addresses2.php
> There's no such thing as an unfunded liability for Social Security.

This is wishful thinking. Social security benefits have been promised to a lot of people, and the money isn't there. It's all well and good to say they will just reduce benefits, but that's just a nice way of saying that they'll default on the liabilities.

In reality this is no different from Medicare or Medicaid, or the military budget, or anything else. Sure, we can in theory just reduce payout. The reality doesn't work out so neatly.
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Free is fine, expensive is fine. Cheap is not.
Go choke a dick.

Once again I offhandedly discovered that my comments were going to a great bit bucket.

Why?

Who the fuck knows but some pedarest at HN who for some reason decided to flag me. They were more insightful and of better quality than the raging set of movie references and pun-threads that have overcome this place. Extraordinarily few ever went negative.

So once again - FUCK YOU PAUL GRAHAM you overrated chimp. Fuck you idiots at HN.

Die in a fire. Out.
I don't know why you were downvoted for this, it's a very cogent point— most users would probably click through a big red screen that says "DO NOT VISIT THIS WEB SITE!" We need to be thinking of them when we design our security model.
Does that hold true when you're inflating the reserve currency?
Hi and thanks for that great tips..

I do earn more money from my network of contacts, specially that when they assign a project to me, no competition is there.. so my rates are much higher..

But I never thought about linkedin.. and not sure how can I select the companies that would be a potential customer for me?
Doesn't the phrase "capacity to repay" make it clear that GDP matters only to the extent that it is a risk factor?
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there's "find ./ -type d", also (find directories only.)
A hospital's margins are only 1-2%? Do you have a source for that?

Maybe they can pull that off by paying themselves all the profits, but there's no way that I buy that hospitals have thinner margins than grocery stores before that. Hospital administrators are very well off on average. Their fees are way too large to be running so close to the wire, given their expenses.
So keep an eye on treasury bonds on monday morning. Rate goes up, people still believe the US is safe, regardless of S&P. Rate goes down, market sentiment mirrors S&P's rating, and that's very very bad.
I love this idea, I can even see an interface where the circles can be overlapping, making it obvious that only people in the "innermost" circle can call me "Marty" or see pictures of my Hello Kitty coffee mug.
Spain generally seems to have the right take on intellectual property. They also do not allow software patents.

I wonder if Spain could become the new hub for startups.
Why would it? It doesn't address any of the systematic or usability issues with Bitcoin. Or are you looking at it as an analogue for hiding money under the mattress?
Sounds like the time invested would have easily justified the cost of a fractional T3 or similar, at least in the states?

And you still have the issue of different connections from the same machine will show up from different IP addresses, which could certainly cause issues with some of the more paranoid sites.
For the domain? So mark can get the mark@yahoo.com email address he always wanted!
"the IQ profile of the US is trending down."

citation needed.

Last time I looked, the flynn effect was still in full swing.
Ah, my bad. Checked for submissions for only a few hours back; must have missed this one on my RSS.
iPhone for its elegance, superior UX, and tight integration with Apple's other products. As for lock-in, it's like being stranded on an island full of hot, horny women. Why would you _want_ to be rescued?
The grandparent post's statements were related to game theory (the branch of mathematics), not law.
"Spending cuts" is a dog whistle for the idea that the Federal government shouldn't exist at all.

Please. The government spent far less during Clinton's administration (the last vaguely fiscally responsible president), and I don't recall having to step over that many starving homeless people to get to work.
End all offensive military actions overseas. Finish winding down Iraq and abandon Afghanistan wholesale. These actions have cost several trillion dollars over the last 10 years. We can't get that money back, but we can stop spending more.

Once you realize that the military is not a collection of armed forces so much as it is the US's largest social welfare program, these policies and figures start to make more sense. Put it this way: We're paying our troops there so we don't have to pay them here.

Don't look for this to change anytime soon.
> "when they go in together to keep Google"

Don't see any arrows out of Microsoft or Apple at Google either. Google's failed bid doesn't make them the center of the universe.

Apple learned a couple years earlier it's an arms race after they got hit from all sides. Lucky for them, they'd been doing handheld R&D for over two decades, and were able to fight back.

Despite its investment in Intellectual Ventures, Google hasn't stockpiled enough relevant ammo yet. They were trying hard to get some, to play the cold war detente licensing game the way the others were playing it long before Google or even Apple showed up, but 4x didn't beat 5x, and now they're trying PR as a tactic.

And yes, the existence of 50 arrows pointing at not Google compared to 3 at Google (from companies not shipping phones) does do something against the claim Google is being picked on.
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Great ideas! But please someone fix this site design. Current design undermines all data credibility.
Citation, something, anything to back up such a stupendous claim.
I'm sorry, but a $10B valuation for Dropbox is just retarded. I haven't been to Dropbox's site in months.

I use my computer less and less each day for editing the content I create and consume for personal and work use. I'd much rather create/upload photos, prezos, docs, spreadsheets, etc. to a SaaS service like Google Docs than store and edit it locally.

Dropbox's sole value to me today is syncing my content across machines. I rarely use (if at all) their website to consume content. OTOH I use Google Aps every SINGLE day to consume and create content.

A $1B valuation I could maybe get comfortable with, but $10B is just stupid.
Not true. NATO staff discussed Article 5, decided that it was appropriate, spoke to Colin Powell, who supported it, and by the time the NATO council met to approve the draft statement concerning Article 5 George Bush had also signalled his support for it.

http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2006/issue2/english/art2.htm...
US Long-Term Rating 'AA+' Due To Political Risk, Rising Debt; Outlook (-)
Allied, yes -- but that was NORAD, not NATO.
Object Orientation Considered Harmful
related: a benchmark of mochiweb vs cowboy vs misultin (all Erlang) vs node.js vs Python Tornado:

http://www.ostinelli.net/a-comparison-between-misultin-mochi...
S&P source:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2853064
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First of all I fail to see how taxing people sustains jobs.
You said it, "When you make military cuts, you're not just removing tanks and guns. You're also sending a lot of people to the unemployment line." So, to fund the military, you have to either sell bonds or levy taxes. Playing World Police for 60 years has been fun, but it's getting a little expensive.

I know it's obvious but...
It's not obvious. What if those tax dollars were reinvested in universal health care? A small business wouldn't have to incur the cost of insuring its full-time employees. That would help stimulate growth, as it would cost less to hire each employee.

The premise that your argument stems from--lower taxes means more jobs--has been, time and time again, false in practice. Trickle-down economics are theoretically sound, but in 30 years of attempted trickle, nothing statistically significant has come down.
This is Kevin Rose's startup yo, you dig brotha? He's going to get all the glory while you're carrying pagers and fixing bugs like a loyal employee #7.

"work with others to solve problems, not assign the blame"

He doesn't want office drama, he just wants you to fix code even if it means staying at the office because his pall wrote shitty code bro.

You dig?
You've got to be kidding.

Even as we speak the Euro is breaking apart. Europeans are pouring billions of dollars into U.S. currency, bonds and investments even at a loss, even after the S&P downgrade. Yesterday Bank Of New York Mellon told depositors that they would only accept investment if the investor accepted a _negative_ interest rate!

http://www.24hgold.com/english/news-gold-silver-bank-of-new-...

Why?

Because things are worse in Europe! The Greece financial crisis is ripping the Euro apart. The U.S. remains the best haven in a lousy neighborhood (the world): better than Europe, better than China, better than Asia.

We should obliterate S&P, Fitch and Moody's for their financial crimes during the financial meltdown. More trustworthy firms will rise to replace them. Meanwhile investors will become appropriately wary of investing in financial instruments about which they know nothing.
It is a lot better in the second half.
The path you mention exists, but not every program is fast tracked - nor should they all be. If you go too fast and mess up, soldiers can die. If you go too slow and mess up, same result.

I get frustrated too at too-slow, too-big companies running projects with billion dollar price tags resulting in no workable product, but I'm not as sure that the solutions are simple. I am sure that without constant oversight from within and without it could be much worse.
That's because there isn't an Android side. There's an HTC side, and a Samsung side, and a Motorola side, and so on.
I've been working on a tool for doing simultaneous page-load measurements and back-end profiling. Here's a paper my supervisor and I published on it: http://portal.acm.org.cyber.usask.ca/citation.cfm?id=1958746...

Depending on your environment, we could talk about getting you a copy to try out. It's ... a little rough around the edges, but I've found it quite useful.
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Electronic cigarettes have become much more user friendly
electronic cigarettes have become much more user friendly than earlier versions which perhaps were a little too large to encourage a mass market appeal. The "mini" is the most realistic e cigarette to date with its length of 100mm being the same as a conventional cigarette.
The chickens will come home to roost. It's just as simple as that.
Or why not point out the obvious? Erlang is hard to learn.

Anyone claiming to have mastered it in a couple of months like most fanatics here are (pardon my language) full of crap.
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That's just completely divorced from reality. There are so many areas of the economy that could not reasonably be directly profitable on their own, but magnify the profit of the overall economy. Many of these things are funded by taxes.
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Just because the government has the printing press doesn't mean it won't default. When China downgraded US ratings last week they said it's because "neither the Democratic Party nor Republican Party has shown any consideration for the general interest in order to argue for their own partisan interest; they had a hard time making the correct choice in a timely manner"
The EFF link is at #27 on the fornt page.
>Don't see any arrows out of Microsoft or Apple at Google either.

And that's a fault of the image. On the other hand, I'm not aware of any suits levied by Google in relation to Android.

>Despite its investment in Intellectual Ventures, Google hasn't stockpiled enough relevant ammo yet. They were trying hard to get some, to play the cold war detente licensing game the way the others were playing it long before Google or even Apple showed up, but 4x didn't beat 5x, and now they're trying PR as a tactic.

I don't understand. If you grant that Google was trying to buy the patents defensively, then what is your problem with their "PR as a tactic", it fits perfectly in with their story. They wanted to buy the patents so that they would have leverage to protect themselves and HTC/Samsung/Moto who have been sued and are paying out to Apple and Microsoft. It didn't work so their only remaining stance is to argue that the system is wrong. The fact that they tried to excel or protect their interests, considering that their partners are very currently and very really having to pay out to Microsoft, doesn't seem to damage their stance in my opinion. The act of defensively buying patents and calling the system broken are not mutually exclusive.

>And yes, the existence of 50 arrows pointing at not Google compared to 3 at Google (from companies not shipping phones) does do something against the claim Google is being picked on.

I've not seen anyone claiming that "everyone who's not Google" is teaming up against Google. But I and others are suggesting that Apple and Microsoft collaborating to buy patents that would prevent HTC from having to give Microsoft $5 for every handset sold... is at least cause for suspicion of collusion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking

Fractional-reserve banking might be a good topic to review. It is entirely possible for more debt than currency to exist. Suppose you deposit $100 at a bank, which lends $80 of it to Alice. She deposits her $80 in another bank which lends $60 to Bob. So that's a perfectly legit scenario where more debt ($140) exists than currency ($100). And it doesn't mean that the debt can never be paid back.

> So you have two possibilities for the U.S. "debt" - AAA or F. Rating it anything else just demonstrates extraordinary ignorance.

Did you just call the entirety of Standard & Poor's, a leading financial firm for over 150 years, extraordinarily ignorant? What basis can you demonstrate that you understand the world and national economies and credit markets better than a few thousand really smart economists? There certainly does exist a spectrum between being the safest investment in the world and currently actually in default (which is what an F actually means.)

That said, it's true that S&P changing their rating doesn't have much concrete meaning. S&P didn't actually make the government any weaker than yesterday. Nobody knows what's going to happen next. S&P is guessing like the rest of us, although the guess is built on the strength of some very sophisticated financial models and analytical tools.
I wonder if Jevons paradox applies here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Jevons paradox is that "technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource". Watt's more efficient steam engine increased the consumption of coal, the cotton gin increased the consumption of slave labor, and virtualization has increased the consumption of servers. If technology can increase the efficiency of human labor, won't it increase the demand for labor as well?
It's not just US the whole world economy system is screwed. Look what happens in Europe.

People should really make some radical improvements to the way economy and finance system work. The main things: it should be simplified and transparent.

If only a few experts understand what happens how could the system be reliable and secure? Everyone also knows that the more complicated is the system the higher is the failure rate.
Heh if only they could pretend that the performance of one T-Bill could be assumed to be uncorrelated to that of another T-Bill...
Facebook apparently already has a facial recognition system, which startles me a bit. Not surprising in the least, of course, just I'm worried that I hadn't heard of it before.
Dropbox is filling a whole that Amazon and Google have failed to serve. The founders were scared of the GDrive according to their YC application. GOOG and AMZN have still failed to fill this gap however many years later. I'm guessing some of it has to do with the superb UX of Dropbox.
Um, yes? We could certainly be spending less and providing more social services. That's not what the tea partiers mean when they say "cut spending", though.
FWIW, I'm skeptical that this would end in a lawsuit.
Facebook is not a startup.
What is happiness
Is this a bug or a feature? Shouldn't we be figuring out how to embrace this? Isn't this an symptom that the abundent future is arriving, but not evenly distributed? Is it not time to start figuring out how to create the vocabulary and institutions of modulating abundance instead of maintaining 19th Century institutions whose main purpose was to modulate scarcity?

The fact that "Finance" is now over 30% of the US GDP shows a major bug in the current set of institutions. That is where abundance is being dampened into wasted wealth for 0.1% of the population who are using it to maintain artificial scarcity. It needs to flow to help fund creativity, R&D, experiments that will blow the doors off of scarcity and allow abundance to be well, abundant.

And most people don't want JOBS, they want to live. But most of us have forgotten that and thus we keep trying for 100% employment when we should be working towards 100% UNemployment aka Living Life.
Everybody's missing the point here.

The credit rating agencies (S&P, Moody's and Fitch) don't know what they are doing! They enabled the financial meltdown. Their ratings are not useful. Their numbers are bad. They are either corrupt, inaccurate or both.

It would be nice and easy to believe that, since S&P puts a "AAA" beside a company's name, that the company is solid. We now know that is false.

Pay attention to Nicholas Taleb's writings: the financial models commonly in use don't work - don't trust them. Use more conservative measures. Avoid markets where you cannot quantify risk.
sure, I thought that was obvious
I just hope you're not suggestion the author should never have written it - not every blog post needs to be a dazzler. I'll assume you're angry about the upvotes instead.
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The API server described in this post is actually a very very small part of the Mixpanel codebase and was the only part written in Erlang (as far as I know). The Erlang server was written in the very early days of Mixpanel and worked well enough for a year and a half, mostly untouched. The statement about iteration is a bit ambiguous, because there was actually very little iteration on the Erlang server, but a ton on the rest of the (Python) product.

So, the lack of iteration wasn't due to high turnover, it was due to having something that worked and other problems to solve.
(I'm an intern at Mixpanel)
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"Those employees go spend their money on goods and services produced in other countries"

Is that a rule?
Glad to share! Cosmic Gate is also great.
This is almost a weekend project, except it requires daily production of the newsletter (which I love!). Would love to get some feedback from HN users.