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ARROGANT is precisely the word. The 'teachers' are showing off their real time javascript interpreter in an ersatz form of diluted rote learning. Monkey-see monkey-do is like putting blinders on someone.It's like telling you I am going to show you how to eat ice cream and giving you a scoop of vanilla out of your freezer.. I'd rather go to Kimball's and see people getting all sorts of flavors, all sorts of ways-and then when I see something interesting-ask them what does it taste like. Arrogance is when you hightlight the difference between you and me and then doing something to maintain that divide. Arrogance is the mechanism of maintain inequality. False advertising is a subtle, but commonly used form of arrogance.

Like I said earlier, show me a way to interact and tinker with an already existing codebase that does something interesting. Make sure that codebase is extremely well commented and hyperlinked. And I will be swimming with freedom in a limitless sea of knowledge that people have cultivated over decades.
So if this is just an issue of certain add-ons being disabled because they're incompatible with X version of Firefox (something that's always been the case), then we're merely in a transitional phase where the good developers with popular add-ons will have to adjust their development cycle to fit with this new trend.
Getting your article to the top is all about building early momentum. It's easy to imagine a jail if you post at bad times or don't have an interesting title. I've submitted quite a few articles and have seen the difference.

No votes will get about 100 hits and an hour on the third or fourth page. One vote could propel you to page one or two with hundreds of hits. It's reasonable to project that it scales from there.
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Your genuine humility and down-to-earthness never cease to amaze and inspire me.
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@zds, it's difficult for users of foreign layout keyboards to access certain symbols, for example '@', which on some european keyboards is achieved using alt + G.

It'd save a lot of annoying c'n'p if you could fix this.
Cheers

R.
"many of our weaknesses are actually strengths"

So when you say that you are nothing you mean that you have many strengths, flip the ladder again, this is a circular double helix
Mate, let me tell you, the USA does not have a monopoly on rent-seeking behaviour.

That said, you have weak party discipline in Congress, which makes horse-trading inevitable. That and the separation of powers means that there is no incentive to run a sensible budget and every incentive to pork-barrel.

I don't blame Americans. The US Constitution was state of the art when it was written. Australia has been lucky in that we got to see how it worked in practice before we wrote ours.
Not that I downvoted you, but is it because no-one else is able to spot any errors?
I don't think you'll be locked in at all. Given that iCloud is already a web-facing service which you can use from a browser I can imagine we'll see clients for windows and possibly even android: Apple will want people in the cloud because ultimately it's a win for them. (They'll no doubt boost marketshare as well as "mind" share in porportion to the success of iCloud.)
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> What happens if a country like Switzerland or Singapore has a sustainable competitive advantage over the USA or Germany, that simply cannot be overcome?

You may find the theory of absolute and comparative advantage to be enlightening in its detail; but the broad conclusion is that even if country A is better than country B at everything, it will still make sense for A to focus on some things and B on other things.
See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/154097/whats-in-your-emac...
the little schemer series was very good. you can safely skip the first 5 chapters if you're comfortable with recursion. learn scheme in fixnum days is good too for learning the language right away.
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Nice stuff.

It would be really nice if someone with some background in bioinformatics could provide examples for operations that could be done an such a huge data set, and what could be learned from such computations.
Since they also make the data available as a public snapshot on AWS it would seem more practical to just look at the data that way instead of downloading.
In the first paragraph a dialect of Lisp is considered a functional programming language. So I don't read any more. 133 points for this?
Easier to read: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
I think the mention of the use of the jail was for banned accounts, not for getting articles to the front page.
Oh, I think I have a winner:
"I would be better off if you killed yourself"

I wish I was making this up but one my friends told me that shortly after I was diagnosed with severe depression. We are no longer friends.
Wx uses "colour" everywhere:

http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/wx.Colour-class.html
Not necessarily doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Right now the gap between rich and poor is widening just about everywhere.
but they will not let you pickup on stores (not even with the usual 3-5 ship-to-store). you have to pay a minimum of $10 shipping on them

*edit: link for free shipping:
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(keeping the slickdeal redirect they had since they are the source anyway)

it's still $114.74 in california after tax and 'recycling fee' --first time i've seen the last one.
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That proof is "easy" though: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/pm54.43.html

It's a lot harder when you try to prove that 2+2=4: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmset.html#trivia

That's right, there are 25,933 steps in that one if you trace 2+2=4 all the way back to axioms.
Excellent points. To add to this:

a) Taxes are used to pay for a whole host of things that large majorities find highly undesirable, including bombing Libya, harassing air travellers, and bailing out Wall Street. Whether you are on the left or right, you can add a slew of other programs that are of dubious or negative value.

b) Taxes are also extracted involuntarily, literally at the point of a gun if one thinks about the limit case of tax resistance. Try protesting the war(s) by not paying your taxes, and soon enough the IRS will come with guns and throw you in jail.

There are some government programs each person will agree with. But it's the lump sum, involuntary nature of taxes that make them a highly inefficient way to fund said programs.
I generally agree with alot the autor said and I will surly check out kernel.

About JITs
----------------

I agree that Scheme missed the JIT thing. Most Scheme compiler are AOT but Scheme would be nice to do research in JITs for dynamic languages. Now we have it in JS witch is more complicated. It would be nice if there would be a fast and small JIT for Scheme that is good for learning. is there something like that? I know Racket has something like that but Racket is much more then just a JIT for Scheme.

About Clojure
----------------

I think the author missunderstands Clojure (not just in this article). The "see the need (... of eval)"-statment was not about eval in general. Clojure has eval. The statmand was about having eval in ClojureScript (Clojure that AOT Compiles to JS) and there is not a priorety because its need is much less then the usfullness.

Clojure wants to be practical now and not be revolutionary. It never said it want to be ideal it just makes the best of what we have.
Great comment. As Seth Godin said in http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/05/marketing-le...
"Sell a story that some people want to believe. In fact, sell a story they already believe."
Found it on the Google Web Fonts blog. It's not currently there though. The html of that blog post can be found here: http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://googlewebfonts...
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It's great to let go of labels--it helps you stop worrying about whether you're being a good enough <whatever>. But saying that you're "nothing" isn't a good way to put it. You're still something, you just don't have to worry about being a particular, externally-defined thing.
Because of Twitter's hashbang URL routing, you'd often just see "http://twitter.com/ as the referrer.
That does it! I've read about both these extensions before, but tomorrow morning I'm taking the time to set them up on my machines. The setup looks like exactly what I've been wanting. Split windows only go so far, and still doesn't let me easily have more than a few buffers visible at once.
I know comparative advantage, but does it really apply to competition with tax rates?

For example inside the European Union it doesn't matter in which country a company is based, you have basically freedom of trade for goods and services.
In Germany the medium age is 45 years, in Ireland it is 35 years; Population > 65 years is 20,6% vs.11,6%. Even if all other regulation in Germany + Ireland was identical, it seems unrealistic that Germany could sustain as low a tax rate, since the government has bigger expenses due to demographic issues alone. (Retirement benefits, medical)

If every company moved to Ireland because of the lower tax rate, what should be done with the old people in Germany?
It may look like a weird way to type things, but it has hidden advantages when you try to do more complex things, like treating data as a program... or programs as data.

It's a small price to pay, really, for the power to make some really complex things a lot easier, even if it's a bit weird at first.

After a while, it won't even seem weird any more.
Even small governments generally have more financial
resources than all but the very largest corporations. They also have militaries and police forces and can compel people within their borders at gunpoint. The only card the company really has to play is the ability to leave.

Playing the "exit" card is a desperation move, but its importance can be seen by the fact that it was actually revoked in every communist country. This was the purpose of the Berlin Wall, for example: to stop the brain drain of the skilled and talented, and keep them in a country with a 100% tax rate (the abolition of private property = 100% tax).

Therefore, it is somewhat arguable that governments are the "weak" ones here. Playing the exit card for MS or Google would cost them many millions and is a last resort.
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>maybe the would need to be a time limit within which the mouse couldn't be captured again

Why not re-capture only when the user clicks on the game again? In fact, I don't think the permission bar is needed at all, it would be implicitly given by clicking.

Of course, ESC should always work. Which would actually work fine for most games, since ESC presents a menu where the pointer isn't supposed to be frozen anyway.
Related to nothing, I worked one of these bastards too: http://www.mailmarketplace.com/inserters/5250_001IN.htm. It shoves mail into envelopes so I can swamp you with useless credit card offers, retirement fund statements, and solicitations from nonprofits. Notorious hand mangler. At the time, this was the best job I had ever had.

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They can achieve some efficiencies by "freeloading" that bigger countries cannot match, for example Switzerland doesn't train enough doctors at their own universities but relies heavily on hiring doctors from Germany.

How is this "freeloading"? Medical schools located in Germany train doctors, who then pay the medical school. People in Switzerland pay the doctors for services.

Is Germany also freeloading on Switzerland if they purchase Swiss chocolates or watches? Is the US freeloading off India because the US buys BPO services from India?
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He does have a point with the abbreviations.

The use of abbreviations and underscores in PHP is maddeningly inconsistent.

Example:

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str_replace
You seem to labour under the illusion that if the money isn't taxed in a particular country, it somehow disappears from that country altogether. Yet wages are paid to employees and profits are distributed to shareholders. Lower taxes allow companies either to lower their prices or distribute more wages and profits. That's generally considered to be A Good Thing. If Germans want a slice of those profits, they can buy shares in the Irish-domiciled companies like everyone else.
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I was quite recently on £15k (just under $25,000)/year for a job that involved PHP/MySQL dev and all the frontend (across 5 pretty big sites), sysadmin, graphic design (I did all our ads) and developed a couple of iPhone apps.

If anyone is feeling they are underpaid then please use my tale of woe to cheer yourselves up :)
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Although this is indeed much easier to read, the handwriting in the original is beautiful. Love the 'f'.
I am a novice programmer, but full time gardener. Can someone please explain to me what the significance of this is? I can't understand what data is in the datasets and what I will be able to figure out if I do go for the 400gig download.

I have lots of marijuana/entrepreneurial posts and this one seems to have gained some good interest. I am curios if someone can explain more. Thanks.
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Out of stock...ordered the 32GB one though...
Seems pretty well reasoned to me.
Not anymore. Both are completely gone.
Managed to get a 32GB piece, seems that both models are gone now. Looks like the entire stock was gone in less than five minutes after the post.
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Ask HN: SaaS Startups do you accept bank transfers for payment?
I'm curious if b2b SaaS startups generally accept bank transfer as a method of payment and:

(1) If so how do you deal with reconciliation of payments

(2) If not, why not ?
I think this 'tax amnesty' borders on extortion. So all these companies used every loophole they could find to pay lower taxes, and now they want to bring the booty back, and it has to be for free. Assuming this happens, what prevents them from doing the same thing again?
As an argentinian... fuck this.

seppo$ ping 216.239.32.2
PING 216.239.32.2 (216.239.32.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.239.32.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=163.108 ms
^C
--- 216.239.32.2 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 163.108/163.108/163.108/0.000 ms
seppo$ curl 216.239.32.2
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
seppo$ curl https://216.239.32.2
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
I look at these extra chains as more like experiments, iterating on different ideas that are too dangerous to try on the actual bitcoin chain. At some point someone will hit on some good ideas and they might be fed back into bitcoin, or form the basis of a better currency.
Not entirely comparable. Most universities don't have tuition fees in Germany, the highest fees are 1000€/year, while it is estimated that the costs of educating a medical student are at least 30,000€ / year. Basically the education is heavily subsidized by the German taxpayer, so if a huge number of doctors later work and pay taxes in Switzerland it is somewhat suboptimal.
You are not the only person to think so, it has been turned into a font multiple times (for example, here: http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Uncategorized/34398/Dijks...).
I DID NOT know that and I withdraw my advice above :)
Turth has nothing to do with tone. And if you don’t care about tone I don’t want to work with you on anything. Scientists are humans, too.
Eh? If you reason that way then all I/O code is evented and that makes the discussion meaningless. Event-styled code doesn't have anything that blocks except the event loop I/O multiplexer and everything returns to the event loop ASAP.
A couple of points:

- Why do you want stock in this company? Is this "marketing agency" something that is going to scale 10-100X with the intention of having some sort of equity event [get bought or IPO] so you can make money on your equity? Is there any evidence that someone else thinks so i.e. VC and angle investors?

- Like pace said, you need to be mentally prepared to leave in order to have any control in the negotiation. My personal ethos is that I want to create value and if I can't create value sufficient to justify the pay I want, I owe it to the company to train a better replacement and move on to where I'm a better fit. In your situation the compensation (re)negotiation might go something like this:

(Over lunch with your manager/partner/etc) "Now that I've been working for the company a while I like where it's going and I'd like to be part of that i.e. with equity. Obviously I want to deliver value to justify that and if you don't think I can produce that value I owe it to both of us to move on so you can get someone who can."
When/If the "Can't this wait until your December review?" comes up you could reply with "I think the position I'm filling is critical to the company's success and the longer I stay, the longer I'm keeping you from getting someone who is a better fit."

My guess is that they will be happy to cut your pay and give you some (worthless) equity. Google "start up stock dilution".
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I think you misunderstood me. I was referring to Symbian in the 90s, at its popularity peak almost everyone was using a licensed Symbian. Not that I agree with the model but it once hasn't a reality of the mobile phone market.

As for the open sourcing and then reclosing of Symbian, it's another story. I wasn't talking about the Symbian of the past few years.
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Ah, I see. I'm sorry, I thought the object was ego, but if it's thought in that abstract form, then that was my misunderstanding of your explanation.
Indeed, you are correct in that analogy, to that extent.
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As much as I'd like to browse the depths of the Amazon from Google Maps, we still don't have Street View in Buenos Aires. Google please fix this!
I thought he summarized it accurately in the last paragraph.

"So rework, reference, release. Flow through the landscape of your own strengths and weaknesses. Count to 10,000 rework hours as you walk. If you aren’t seeing accelerating external results by hour 3300, stop and introspect. That is the calculus of grit. It’s the exponential human psychology you need for exponential times. Ignore everything else."

It took a lot of wording to get there though. :-)

He seems to be very good at summarizing many pop-theorists (Gladwell & Friedman) and synthesizing an interesting core idea. My interpretation is, "It takes time to get to the limit of well defined fields, but if it doesn't get easier over time, you're on the wrong path." This rings true. Not everyone that takes an introductory CS course finds it easy, but if the third or fourth one is still awful instead of exciting, perhaps it's time to find a new major. Same with music. Or Literature. The great ones put in the time, but it gets easier. (& Perhaps that's why they can succeed!)
> I have a theory that I haven't found expounded before.

Nietzsche represented this point of view better in his 'Will to Power' back in the 19th century. In the decades since, a lot of paper was devoted to criticism of his work.

Also, one nation that actually tried to live by his principles failed spectacularly.
I've seen once on Discovery Channel, that Buddha said:
"You will only be happy when you kill all your desires, when you want nothing". It was something like that, so, as soon as you want nothing, you are free, and then you are happy.
I haven't seen anyone ask the obvious question: just how many of Twitter's ~175 million accounts [1] are simply bots for this and other reasons?

I haven't used my Twitter handle in the better part of a year (I tried it; sorry but for me it's just a glorified link aggregator and not a particularly interesting one at that) but somehow I still get people following me.

Number of users for a site like Twitter is no doubt an important metric. It probably comes up in funding rounds. Those funding rounds will probably have goals/targets for Twitter to reach. Twitter has, to my knowledge, only ever stated the number of accounts, rather than the 7 or 30 day actives.

This all begs the question: does Twitter have a vested interest in inflating their own numbers such that they like bot auto-registration and, well, anything that increases the account total?

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-how-many-use...
"an element's ordinal (subscript) equals the number of elements preceding it in the sequence."

That is going to make the "the 2nd item is number 1" thing SO much easier to explain when teaching. Thanks! (And it's good to have the rest of the reasoning there to answer the particularly curious students...)

Definitely falls into the "wish I'd thought of that" and "wish I'd heard someone say it that way 5 years ago" camps.
Ask HN: How could I (a highly skilled individual) work and immigrate to Canada?
On a throwaway here...

I've an MS engineering degree from a top 3 school in the US. I'm very keen on working in Canada, but in most job postings (mainly on indeed.ca), I've not been able to see anything about employers sponsoring a work visa.

1. Any Canadian employers on HN that do sponsor a work visa?

2. Any pointers from successful immigrants to Canada?

Thanks.
Employees and shareholders do not get their money from the government. But what about old people, government employees, social services? It just seems to me that the "assets" of the government move to a low tax country, but the "liabilities" stay the same...

If there was a hypothetical "ZeroTaxCountry", to which companies could declare their allegiance and pay no taxes at all. Would you consider that "A Good Thing" as well, since it seems to have all the benefits you alluded too?
You can also use the arrow keys.

(and there is a hint that there is more to it, in that it showns the slide # in the bottom right corner)
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Interesting bits:

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ctrl+l/h for changing tabs

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Search improvements:

set incsearch
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Best theme ever (very objective of course):

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colors inkpot

Making sure tmp files are stored in only one location, not all around the system:

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endif
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else
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endif