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1. That is typically the case with parser generators. But, it is still a build-time dependency. Right now I don't really have any build-time processing except for unit tests and I want to keep "building" as simple as possible.

2. That is good to know. That indicates to me that PLY doesn't do a lot of optimizations, but maybe the optimizations that I am used to having for LL(k) parsing are not effective or necessary for (LA)LR parsing.

4. That indicates to me that the performance won't be any better than the re-only approach. What isn't shown is that I compile the "iri" and "iri-reference" regexes into two big regular expressions. AFAICT, matching one match for a big regular expression instead of a series of matches of small regular expressions will always be faster, especially if the RE engine does any (global) optimizations.

By the way, an IRI is a single token in my application so my parser is really just a lexer.
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Do sales like this actually happen? Is there any startup-type person out there who would/could come up with $10k to straight-up buy someone else's site?

It seems to me like a recipe for disaster and heartbreak.
They don't even create employment, since the salary of government workers comes from the taxpayer's pocket, and would have been used to employ other people.

There is always something to do for less skilled workers, so there's nothing wrong with automation.
Actually sounded a bit evasive/defensive for some reason. I'm not exactly sure why, but I'm at least glad they talked more about this.
Personally, I dont think anything which is bootstrapped onto another companies data will ever be worth that much, unless they buy it, that is. (...summarize)

All it takes is for Twitter to implement something similar ("What are people talking about on Twitter?") and your apps life has just got harder to live, if not impossible...

I love mashups, I just don't think you should build a business on top of another service...
> Environmental degradation is largely a function of population growth... I have no doubt the earth’s population can balloon to 12 or even 15 billion - for a while...

According to a various gov/UN reports, population will peak between 2050-2075 somewhere in the neighborhood of 9 billion.
Maybe we should focus on getting people to trade in their riding mowers for push mowers first before making the jump to reel.

It's like asking an SUV owner to buy a bike.

Also, my enviro-green conscious parents bought an electric rechargeable mower a couple years back and love it.
For those who know anything about the Warhammer "Universe"... I find Anonymous are basically like the Ork Race.

They will continually fight amongst themselves until something riles them up or a someone suggests an idea (like a very temporary leader), then they will and go off to mess with something (Waaaagggh!) until they finally get bored of that and go back to fighting amongst each other.

I find that's the best way to think about it.

There is no real motivation for doing what they do apart from the relief of boredom, it's just a swirling maelstrom of conflict. The only thing you would want to do is not give them a reason to direct it anywhere.
There are two questions: Where is the pendulum now? And which way is it swinging?

We may not be living in a Stalinist dictatorship, but I don't like the way things are going on both sides of the 49th parallel.
Having had to use one for many years, I can tell you why - because they do an inconsistent job and they're hard work.
Totally agree. I was mildly surprised that the core story was devoid of injected bias or spin. It seemed to be the best overall summary of the incident that I had seen so far.
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That's what I thought...

"Stop asking how many db servers we have, we have an automated process to make sure we have enough. I don't know how many that is."
Let's discuss the value of releasing information like this besides the usual intellectual curiosity?

Does this sharing help the Digg community grow stronger or larger? Or is this meant for potential investors to show they are 'alive and well' behind the curtain?
At the very least at $10k, a months page views works out at 2c per page view. So at $10k I'd say the traffic alone is cheap, if you have a similar service that could tie into it, or a way to monetize that traffic.
It would be a good acquisition for digg. For 10K, they would save a month's time and 1-2 months engineering time assuming single employee.
It doesn't have to be an orange <hr>. Something as simple as a centered faded "Y" or ◆ would do.
Reminds me of that twilight episode where a plant manager began replacing workers with robots, up to and including his assistant manager. At the end, the company that owned the plant replaced the plant manager himself with a robot. It poignantly ends with the plant manager and the assistant he had fired drinking together in a bar and discussing how people need the dignity of work. A perfect "poetic justice" Twilight Zone "lesson of the week".

Replacing toll workers with automated systems may save money, and may be inevitable, and trust me, I have quite a fascination with robots, but still, I am sorry for those hapless humans in their way.
Depends on your perspective. To those who organize and put on TC50 (and who fund them), these are small fish and would fit the 'startup' definition easily.

For regular 'joes' like you and I who are struggling to get any funding these are far, far beyond startups and represent success stories.
I have Logitech VX. It's the best mouse I've ever owned. But the free-spinning scroll wheel no longer spins freely now. Instead it's just the smoothest, nicest scroll wheel I've ever used. (I have scrolling speed cranked up to max, so I can still scroll a whole document easily, and not having any detents makes it easy to do a fine scroll anyways.)
The impression I got was not that they lied to their own computers, but rather those who programmed the alarms did so inadequately and could not handle the complexity of the transactions.

His doctor analogy is good, but not exactly perfect. Something more along the lines of hiring a med student for your physical instead of a grey-haired professional.
I had a Brill (imported from Germany, I think) reel mower in Austin. It was awesome. Quiet, and did a great job, as long as you cut the grass regularly--if it gets too long, it just pushes the blades down rather than cutting them. And then you're kinda SOL, since there's no way to get back to a regularly mowed state with the reel mower. It also obviously didn't smell as bad as a powered mower. No gasoline smell and the grass wasn't pulverized into sneeze-inducing particles...just snipped off in pretty little pieces.
I wouldn't use the phrase script kiddies to describe 4chan since a great deal of them actually know what they're doing, I'd be so bold to say the overwhelming majority actually are very intelligent on what they're doing.
While my CAC on Yahoo's system is a bit lower, I actually wouldn't mind having 1 interface to manage my two CPC campaigns as Google's system is slightly better.

I am however worried about what this means for cost, as MSN isn't even competitive in this market.
Crisis driven collapse & revolutionary reform which is a lot like flipping a coin and ending up with either a small democratic government or even more fascism.

If you end up with the first, you're still not safe as it tends to grow over time. Think of fascism as the highest entropy state of society.
... and most publishers will ban them in their adsense setup. the end.
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I, for one, hope my neighbors never stop using their gas powered lawn mowers. It just brightens my day every time I get to hear the sweet music such machines make
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They are not easy to push around.
They do not do the best job the grass is usually cut but uneven.
But I like mine because it allows me to chat with my wife or the neighbors or play with my dog while getting a pretty good work out.
Also they are cheap and easy to store.
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Everyone has their own definition of "startup" For a lot of the people here, it seems that startup==web2.0.

I tend more towards young companies that are building a hardware product (containing various proportions of hardware and software invention), when I hear "startup" I tend to think more along the lines of a new physical device.

To me, 2 guys collaborating on a project at night is not a "startup" it's an "experiment". And those 2 guys might think my job at a hardware-type company with a couple-dozen-million in VC dollars with an established process is "working for a big corporation". Doesn't really matter though, ultimately I think "Startup" is one of those words like "Pretty" it means something a little different to everyone, but the common denominator is that it tends to also be synonymous with "Good"...
I think everyone is missing the point here. Macs get people laid. If your face isn't beautiful, accessorize yourself with beautiful things.
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Yes, it would be trivial for me to spread a few hundred thousand around a few banks so that I could be within the FDIC limit. What is not trivial is a brokerage spreading around $50MM across 500+ banks.

What I was trying to explain is that the people buying the T-Bills aren't individuals looking to put their money some place safe. These are large institutional investors looking to park millions (hundreds of millions?) of dollars in a safe place till they can figure out what to do.
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i wish to meet an hacker to help me with what i need to do like getting any bank login in united state
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I'm sorry, but this article just doesn't pander to the audience enough. Please edit the title to something inane like "The Gear You Need for Agile Yard Hacks" or something.
This write-up is spot on the money. The only addition I would have, based on my own experience, is that you need to fill out your banking/tax info AS SOON AS YOU ARE ACCEPTED. It's a 4-week wait for approval on that part right now.

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I am sorry for those hapless humans in their way.

Don't worry! If you really care about reintroducing useless inefficiency by paying people to do things a robot could do instead, there are plenty of outlets for your passion. For example, why not hire someone to transcribe your email by hand, instead of writing it directly? All the benefits of useless labor, but taxpayers don't feel disgruntled about it!
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Well, that explains that. Now explain this: If these MBSes were so complex that Wall Street MIT-trained quants and Wharton-trained traders and their computers didn't see it coming...how exactly did I see it coming? Me.

I mean...liar loans and ARMs starting at record-low rates and housing prices that looked like the NASDAQ right around AD 2000? I mean, the reason they didn't see it was...because they did see it, but the hand that picked up the commissions had a mind of its own.
How can you tell that? So far all we know for sure is that they're being talked about, and going in, most people were questioning if/how that would happen.
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"Windows was great in that it allowed multiple hardware vendors to compete on hardware..."

Well, that is the "commotitized the complements" part.

The other part of your argument is that it is/was good enough for most users.

But let me put the question this way: If had it been 3x more expensive than the Mac, would have it been successful?

If not, then there's a clear distinction between a great product and a great price.

Remember the 3 Ps (Price, Product, Promotion)? Product and price are different things, specially in the software market, where the price doesn't necessarily reflect the cost.

So if people would not buy a 3x more expensive Windows, great product it not the motive by which it was successful.

I think the most accurate explanation in this case is not that Windows was a great product, but as another commenter said, that it offered a better value proposition for the money invested - and Microsoft had not the better product value, but the better price proposition, so they won that equation:

MacOS had a product value of 10, and a price of 5, so the value proposition was 2.

Windows had a product value of 5, but a price of 1, so the value proposition was 5, for each dollar invested.
I prefer saving the earth by being lazy; I don't mow my yard very often.
Nah, I believe it was the plan. Those ads take months to produce and land on television. From what I've read, politicians excepted, the lead time on TV ads is generally 3-6 months or so.

Whatever the third ad is, it had to have entered the planning stage before the Seinfeld ads even aired.
This is anecdotal, but I'm pretty certain that most programmers don't have a high IQ. However, readers of this site probably have a higher IQ than the average programmer.
Who needs to read that. How to make a million dollars - be passionate about hacking and never give up. That's the way to make a million dollars.
Though I'm all for cycling awareness (100+mi/wk myself), I can't see how this is hacker news.
Maybe radical, but maybe ms should first concentrate on releasing some things that don't suck. Then advertise.

At the moment what are they even advertising? Vista? The promise that windows 7 won't suck as much as Vista?
But it's not extortion. It's perfectly valid and legal. The client list is entirely comprised of huge corporations that could afford to fight frivolous patent suits. Do you think that as soon as they get a letter from a "troll" they just mail a check?

Also when you phrase it as "Technology companies agree to pay patent-licensing fees to inoculate themselves against potential lawsuits by Intellectual Ventures." it sounds like extortion. Another way to phrease it is "companies agree to pay patent-licensing fees because Intellectual Ventures owns the valid patents they are infringing on."

You can phrase almost any perfectly moral activity to sound like extortion by using the same trick. "I pay taxes to inoculate myself against potential lawsuits by the IRS." or "I pay rent to inoculate myself against being evicted by the landlord." or "I go to the grocery store to inoculate myself against starvation." Is the grocery store extorting me?
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Anyone who's had to use one can tell you why. They're freaking hard work.
It's neutral on whether they're intelligent or not, the idea is that they're mischievous and destructive because they're bored.
Not Hacker News. Downvote needed before it is too late.
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Lisp (any lisp, be it lisp-1 or lisp-2) are currently fighting a fight on multiple fronts. From one side, each iteration of Python or Ruby gains new ground as they incorporate more and more lisp-concepts, while being "Visually friendly" (ie, with common syntax). They also have the ability to lure many more users from, say Java or C#.

On the other side, you have any language with type theory governing the language design: haskell, ML, etc. These have long since gobbled up most people interested in type theory and even these are loosing out to the new batch of languages with richer type zoos.

Lisp is not a failure and it has had more influence than people think. However, I think Lisp has played its major part like IBM has played theirs.
What is an acceptable way for a pure researcher to make money?

Note that you've already excluded "publish your invention and charge other people to use it".
I think cycling is the perfect hacker sport. It can be done individually or as a team, there's a tech component that you can geek out about if you want to, and it's a great way to get outside.

Definitely not hacker news, though!
Great writeup. I'm currently on step 8.
Even though the process looks dense and problematic, it's still leagues ahead of the process required to get apps up on Verizon, TMobile, or other AT&T devices...
"Startup" doesn't actually mean anything, but I'll remind you that in the late '90s, there were "startups" on the NASDAQ with 8 figure market caps.
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Because they blow? I was stuck with one for the last few years; they're fine out of the box, but a few months later they're extremely hard to push and they leave tufts of grass uncut and smooshed down so they can't be cut on a second pass.

More importantly, what the hell does this have to do with this site? Have you invented a better mower? Tell us about that.
> they're hard work.

Not my experience at all. Mine is barely harder to push than a gasoline mower.

There are two drawbacks: 1) To get an even cut you often have to go over an area twice at a right angle. 2) If you let the grass get too long it simply doesn't work: the reel will just push over the blades instead of cutting them.
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i don't get it

Symbian has a 70% of the market. Why is Android suddenly so important?

sorry but as much I like Google I don't want them running the O/S on my phone.
Why is it bad to make money off of something purchased from a professor?

After all, if one can't make money off of a thing purchased from a professor, there's no reason to buy said thing from a professor. Is it wrong for professors to make money from what they invent? In many cases, the school also makes money. Is that wrong?

Or, is it just wrong for middlemen to buy and resell?
In other words, professors should only license to end users.
I had a push mower (made in USA, BTW) some 4 years ago. Like the mower in TFA, it came with the type of handle that comes in n parts that you need to bolt together. It worked for a month or so, then the handle fell apart. Bought a gas-powered push mower, which I still have, and it has worked OK these years.

Maybe I'm too much of a caveman, I don't know. Still waiting for a push mower with a 1-piece handle like they used to have.
The iPhone has the best browser available for a smartphone... and if you have a browser you can do pretty much anything.

What is the lure going to be for people to stop moving to webapps, and suddenly embrace an open platform and installable apps?

The web, through a browser, is the best open platform IMHO
flagging the article is just as effective.
I think it's a blog post. Sometimes just answering a common question is enough justification for that. But it also probably contributes to both of your points, and gives employees a feeling of contributing to the public face of the company.
Getting funding does not mean you are a success story whatsoever.

I would say if these guys had millions in sales coming in - they are becoming success stories.
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Let's see now, the system almost crashed, the client pinged the server, the server issued an interrupt and instantiated an xxxml dialog box, the client responded with boolean logic, and the entire episode has been archived as text.

How is this not hacker news?
#2 was the deal-breaker for me. I couldn't keep up with the grass, and once it got to a certain length, it just became impossible.
Just remember, someone could've posted "DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS" as the first reply to that message using the same credentials and it would be just as verifiable.

As ars points out (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080918-alleged-1st-pe...):
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Hit the nail right on the head.
I'm going to draw the obvious conclusion that most of the models were built on the premises of mediocristan, when in fact the world they were modeling lived in extremistan.

The thing is that quants who come up with models showing large amounts of risk to otherwise profitable investments aren't as popular as ones who say everything is just fine. So there is a clear incentive for models to be optimistic.
Yep, which brings me to my interpretation of a "start up".

In my mind, a startup as defined by an entrepreneur is a tech-focused company shooting for rapid growth, with a liquidity event in mind.

On the other hand, a small business is built to operate for a substantial time period (sometimes generational) while providing a steady and reliable stream of income. Business growth is typically a lot slower (often intentionally controlled) but more sure-footed.

A vast portion of the multi-millionaires in this country are small-business owners...
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With the new Macbooks being released shortly, the MBP will need quite a substantial upgrade to justify the price premium. It seems likely that many of the enhancements will be implemented. The HD webcam is probably pushing it a bit, but at MBP pricepoints, the system seems is geared towards power users anyway.

Of all the suggestions, I think the 18.4" hi-res screen with SSD drive would make it worth the premium.
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