skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really don't want to mess around with this without consulting a lawyer first. A misstep could mean committing multiple felonies and possible jail time.

Seriously, talk to a lawyer.
"Now imagine going through that every day in your college career."

Except for the US college system is dominated by women. There are roughly 6.4 million men and 8.7 million women currently enrolled in college. By 2016 the gap will jump to 7 million men and 10.3 million women. And since the top colleges can get away with accepting more men to even out the gender ratios, that means the median college classroom is entirely dominated by women except for a few niche departments like computer science and physics.
I attended a Python3000 talk by Anthony Baxter last month (Anthony is the release manager for Python).

He mentioned that Python 2.x is will be supported for a very long time. They definitely expect to have 2.7 and may be even 2.8. They are also going to backport important features and security fixes from 3.x

Google has a very large codebase written in Python 2.x, it's in their interest to support the language for as long as needed.
Of course. You don't take things to extremes. Add in "readable" into my statement :)
Awesome idea, and they already exist...

http://www.eaieducation.com/530397.html

http://www.amazon.com/Advantus-Corporation-Rubber-Stamps-Clo...
Take the ads that work in GMail and are sort of based on your conversations. Apply to twitter streams... Done, seriously I am sure it would make a decent amount of money.

If I am talking about a restaurant in Boulder and it shows me other places to eat, I might even finally click an ad on the internet.
There are two lines:

1. Public solicitations is a no-no. What constitues "public" is quite well-defined.

2. Investors must be able to fend for themsleves - either be educted in the area, rich enough to hire someone who is or otherwise be able to assess risk.
What if OpenID became the default option to log in, rather than hidden behind a tab, as it often is?

From a technical perspective, I don't think it's possible to ask folks to input a username and password combination into an untrusted third-party Web site. What would prevent a hostile site operator from stealing passwords?
heh I don't take life seriously enough to get offended.

I'm just looking for a bit of consistency here though. Either every instance of racism/sexism is offensive, or they are all fine.
You underestimate my bacon eating prowl. :-D
PBS has a new Masterpiece series that includes plot elements related to these systems in the UK:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/lastenemy/index.html
This does a good job of exemplifying the Sex & Cash Theory (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=333278).

One sexy writing job, and another that pays the bills in a pinch.
That's a bit reminiscent of "you just need 512k of RAM!"
I think a good place to start looking for a model is donorschoose.org. Don't invest in companies: invest in projects. If you broke the company up into small, discrete, chunks you could probably get under the investor limits and not have to file a disclosure. You would basically be letting the market allocate funds within a firm.Then, the firm just breaks up profits and gives dividends. Of course, the term "firm" doesn't really fit here, things would be much looser than what fits into our present definition.

You would still need a crazy team of lawyers to avoid trouble, but it's certainly a loophole worth looking into and a very efficient system for allocating capital.
It is? Oops.
I actually kinda like this idea. Groups usually make things less awkward. Unless we're talking orgies.
Unfortunately, not really

http://blog.macromates.com/2006/elastic-tabs/

Who else has noticed that textmate has stagnated from 2006-2008
I don't blame them. GPL'ing libraries is obnoxious, especially when its something as general as ExtJS.
This elastic tabs thingy, REINDENTS everything based on what you type on the next line... keeping your code formatted in consistent blocks.

Honest question: Is that what emacs does?
Some simple stuff I do myself. For the more complicated stuff I started out with using digital point...but then I switched to http://99designs.com/ and haven't looked back. You get way more submissions so you have a much higher chance of getting something truly good.
Probably getting a designer from eLance/Craigslist may be relatively easier, but finding a guy to do overall UX design may be hard to find. I am looking for one myself, without any luck.
This is even worse than forcing people to set their tab width to a certain value to read your code. If their editor isn't set up for it, they don't just have to change a setitng; if they're lucky, they just have to install a plugin, but if there isn't one available, they have to change editors entirely.
My BSc dissertation was on a simplified English dialect (language) which can be translated into triplets (or data items) while still being readable as English. However, I never really finished the editor it required which hooked up to a parser to show you the triplets as you type.

Also, I'm bad at getting traction on my ideas.
Nope, you can do this. Brian Singerman and I did it. But it's a boatload of work. We did it once, and I'm pretty sure we won't do it again, at least not any time soon.
I didn't get a chance to attend the OSCON talk by Anthony Baxter but I saved the link to the PDF.

http://www.interlink.com.au/anthony/tech/talks/OSCON2008/por...
Ruby is great, segments of the Rails community are kool-aid. Don't let Rails culture ruin Ruby for you. :)
Not to mention Google didn't buy any of the many webmail services out there, nor IM services... If anything Google is more likely to develop their own twitter.
Awesome built in demo, made it way more interesting to get to play around with the idea a bit.
I do a lot of development in Java, Java Server Faces specifically. We used RichFaces which comes with some slick templates and modules. We added FamFamFam silk icons, used JFreeChart for charts and some scriptaculous for transitions and effects, and the whole thing came out looking great.

This may be off topic, but I think part of is it the graphics, and part of it is the AJAX "feel". By that I mean, even though Google Reader and GMail are AJAX apps, they don't "look" like it. I think that is kind of the point though: they're functional, and they don't get in the way. We used lightbox type effects, loading buttons and drop downs sparingly, to really enhance the user's experience.
i'm sure one could make that happen on their own. if it were to come with this, it would make it no longer a pure js deal
Ask HN: What prevents more countries from creating nuclear weapons?
Why is it still so difficult to create a nuclear weapon? What information is not available through an advanced education at a top university? Is it simply a matter of difficult to find materials?

I ask here because I assume there is at least a small population of regulars with a great deal of knowledge in relevant areas such as physics.
Right?

I wouldn't say that. It might be the best time a company. It's not a good time to sell one.
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That's the talk, although I watched the SyPy version of it.
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I'm interested to see how the distro's manage this. Ubuntu seems to always have the latest and greatest, but I can't see them upgrading to Py3k any time soon. There's just still too much that relies on 2.x.

GvR said that new stuff should be built on py3k, but I'm betting it will be quite some time before anyone develops anything of significance on it. At work, even though we're in the early stages of developing our product, we're still sticking with 2.5 for the foreseeable future.

I imagine the adoption rate for Py3k will be worse than PHP5.
With vim you need sts. It lets you you backspace over spaces just like tabs. Now I never need tabs anymore.

I don't understand your point about search regexps.
Can you find someone from a local college or Craigslist to build Google? Prolly not. Same goes for Vimeo's design. It may seem really simple and easy in appearance, but that's the result of clever design, not chance.

It's really hard to hire a talented creative director if you know nothing about design. You may want to consider working with a design studio for now, just to learn the ropes and gain a higher appreciation. Poke around design award websites or places like deviantart.com to find one.
Rails coders are more expensive than e.g. php coders. Given the same head count, a Rails shop will burn more cash. Many managers don't see productivity, but cost = headcount x salaries. It's the easiest variables for them to tweak to change their bottom line.

Of course, productivity depends far more on the quality of the programmers and coding practices of the team than the language. I'd take a team of kick ass php guys any time over a group of inexperienced/douchy rails guys, and I hate php with a passion. Ceteris paribus I'd go with Ruby.

(Come to think of it, it kind of reminds of the martial arts comparison mantra: "It's the quality of the individual practitioner that counts far more than his chosen style")
Google bought Jaiku, one of Twitter's earlier competitors, about a year ago.
I'm using the free Silk icons from http://famfamfam.com/ -- they're pretty popular, a lot of apps use them.
iirc, the major issue is that you need some serious money, coordination, and brainpower to make it happen. many countries just aren't coordinated, rich, or connected enough to make it happen.

one of the major inhibitors are, indeed, the "nuclear secrets" as it were. there are a few special sauces that just take experimenting and tinkering and brainpower to work out. all of which also cost more and require more supplies.

or, at least, thats my simplified, non-physicist understanding of it.
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Myself. Photoshop is extremely easy to learn - mainly for regular web sites/graphics. Spend some time and read some tutorials. Get yourself very familiar with CSS. And begin scanning through CSS galleries to get inspiration. Sites like Vimeo are extremely easy to design. Don't waste your money.
It's safer on the bases than "over the wire", obviously.

If you're hanging out in the slums of Baghdad by yourself, that's another story.

According to
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx
3 of the last 500 American deaths in Iraq have been on a base. None of them were classified as hostile. Those deaths go back over a year, to Aug/07.

Compare that to your hometown (be it Vegas, Silicon Valley, Cambridge, or Boise), and it probably stacks up favourably.

3 deaths per year is a mortality rate of 2 per 100 000. The rate for the US total is ~900 per 100K, for 15-24 year olds is ~90, and for 24-45 year olds it's about 200.

...I'm just saying, is all.
I wish I had something intelligent to say as a response, but I can't. Teh awesomez!
I'm not saying Google is going to necessarily buy Twitter, I'm just saying that is Twitter's best chance to exit.
Or you can buy / make a small drafting template:

http://www.cutting-mats.net/drafting-template-3441.html

Although the rubber stamp is cool, I don't really want to carry something extra.
Not to pee on your parade, the only one of that gaggle of technicians that was any good was Hieronymus Bosch!

</flamewar>
Well, emacs lets you hit tab anywhere on a line, at which point it reindents the line to the appropriate depth, depending on the syntax of the current and preceding lines. I'm pretty sure that most of the modes I use don't look at lines after the current line when performing indentation, but I'm not sure there's any reason why they couldn't.

If you want to reformat an entire block of code in this way, you can set a region (the emacs equivalent of "selection") and then press Ctrl-Meta-\, which stands for "indent-region". Then either the whole region will magically become properly indented, or emacs will yell at you because your XHTML syntax is broken (at least, that's what just happened when I tried this in XHTML mode. Every major mode can be slightly different.)

I know that emacs supports all the indentation tricks shown in this guy's example ... except that I don't know about the end-of-line comments. I never use end-of-line comments.
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Understanding how Photoshop works and being able to make some graphics does not mean you will be able to design a usable web app. It takes practice - just like programming.
I haven't read it all. However, I applied for a new 10-year passport in 2005 to bypass the ID card scheme. But they keep coming up with the same old crap and I don't know how to evade them indefinitely.
In Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness in the Sky, there is a line (which Google can't seem to find) something like this: "Any ubiquitous network on which local nodes are compelled to run government code inevitably devolves into tyranny." It sounds like a very dangerous slippery slope to start down.
Even if the peak for non-VC was raised, it would still be too simplistic. This is probably more like what the probability distribution looks like:
http://www.dabbleboard.com/main/public?created=dummy8&my...

VC is characterized by large probability spike at $0 and 0 probability at intermediate valuations. Non-VC (i.e. what founders typically want) is closer to a single-mode normal distribution.

Though Matt's point (and his graph) about mean and variance are correct: VCs -unlike founders- only care about mean because they can diversify with a large number of startups.
Refining potentially fissionable material is difficult. Remember that U-235 and U-238 are chemically identical, so you can't separate them by any chemical means, and U-235 makes up only 0.7% of natural uranium ore.

The Manhattan Project employed 130,000 people... many of those were NOT the guys designing the bomb, but the guys trying to set up refining operations and the like. It cost the equivalent of $21 billion dollars in today's money, and took five years to get a bomb.

So, if you have a country that has $21 billion dollars and five years to spare, and can avoid getting bombed by the United States during that time, and is sitting on minable fissionable materials, they can develop a bomb... Even if you give them a 50% discount because it has already been done, still, $10 billion dollars.
the indenting commands work the same way in vim with tabs or spaces -- either select a visual range and hit >, or hit >a} to indent a brace delimited block, or... well, you know the drill. the > or < compose in the same way you'd expect any other vim command to do.
The hard part is getting enough enriched uranium. it's chemically the same as all other uranium ore, and the only difference that you can use to separate it is a 0.85% mass difference of the atoms. Once you have the uranium extracted, the bomb itself is trivial, as far as these things go. You need some knowledge about how it works, but the actual parts are simple enough. In fact, you could probably put together one with steampunk technology without too much trouble if you had the uranium
If you watch the screencast, it offers an option to save as spaces, so the "I hate tabs" argument is kind of irrelevant. Unless you also hate tabstops.
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No. pretty much (gross oversimplification, but this is the essence of it) all you need for a nuclear bomb is to slam 2 or more subcritical chunks of sufficiently enriched uranium into each other fast enough to fuse them to a single supercritical chunk of the above, and you have a boom. The hard part is the uranium. Compared to producing the uranium, designing and manufacturing a viable bomb is trivial.

I remember reading about a US research project where someone with reasonable physics knowledge, but no specific knowledge on the workings of atomic bombs, managed to put together viable plans for a bomb from only publically available information.
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Your graph is probably closer than mine, but the odds of a 1x return aren't 0 at all. I think Fred Wilson said the odds of a mediocre return are like 1/3. VCs abandon ship when it looks to be the correct play just like anyone else.
I think alert() has been gone for a while. firebug/firebug lite and console.* seems like it's on the verge of a de-facto standard.
Sometimes you can, until the rest of the market catches on and bids up the going price until you have low return and low variance.
The fissionable material is the big part. But don't underestimate technical details like the shaped & coordinated charges, etc. A few years ago the US government posted all of the documents turned over from Iraq's nuclear program. A few of those documents were taken down quick after nuclear experts warned them that they were releasing vital and hard-to-discover engineering details.
(good thing I deferred my pro-PHP argument)
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It's trivial to design and build a nuclear weapon.

The trick, as others have mentioned, is getting the Uranium.

You do not need billions in R&D, or a crack team of scientists.

A working bomb was actually designed by two (ableit, smart) students... in 30 months... in 1964. It would be far easier today.

Check: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science

"You could have taken any number of classes at Beloit with Professor Dobson, until his recent retirement, without having any reason to know that in his mid-20s, working entirely as an amateur and equipped with little more than a notebook and a library card, he designed a nuclear bomb.

Today his experiences in 1964 - the year he was enlisted into a covert Pentagon operation known as the Nth Country Project - suddenly seem as terrifyingly relevant as ever. The question the project was designed to answer was a simple one: could a couple of non-experts, with brains but no access to classified research, crack the "nuclear secret"? In the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis, panic had seeped into the arms debate. Only Britain, America, France and the Soviet Union had the bomb; the US military desperately hoped that if the instructions for building it could be kept secret, proliferation - to a fifth country, a sixth country, an "Nth country", hence the project's name - could be averted. Today, the fear is back: with al-Qaida resurgent, North Korea out of control, and nuclear rumours emanating from any number of "rogue states", we cling, at least, to the belief that not just anyone could figure out how to make an atom bomb. The trouble is that, 40 years ago, anyone did."
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Replace 'spam' with 'ads' not to piss off everybody
I use ruby. I use merb. I think they are great choices for what I needed to build. I do not see bean counters making the same choices. I see them making decisions purely from a cost perspective. This means more outsourcing to PHP programmers in Ukraine and India. It means more outsourcing to graphics design and html/css work to people with native Western business understanding and shedding the full time staff.

I do not see how ruby will be a preferred choice the bean counters will stumble onto easily. Over time, merb may have enough productivity metrics available to sway the bean counters while at the same time showing the production cost/scaling benefits as well (where rails has a hard time). But this understanding by the PHBs will take time...possibly a long time.
Taking trade advice from twitter is just like taking trade advice from CNBC. Dumb.

But it is a good community. Not really based on hot stock tips, more like a high-level financial community.
I'm a pop musician, and I put out a few records, but I found that once committed to vinyl (not necessarily with the medium of CD-R), I got bored with those songs and couldn't enjoy them anymore. Vinyl is the most long-lasting medium for music, so this act of your music going on permanent art is more satisfying than the music itself.
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Yeah, it's pretty trivial. Here's a quick implementation description in CS terms:

1.) Keep two heaps, a min-heap for sellers and a max-heap for buyers. The top of the seller heap is the "ask price". The top of the buyer is the "bid price". The difference between them is the "bid/ask spread".

2.a.) When a limit order comes in, put it in the appropriate heap. Then compare the tops of the heaps. If the prices overlap, send a fill message to the parties. Pay attention to quantities; you may have to send a partial fill to one party and a fill to another, and then repeat the process with the next order in the order book.

2.b.) When a market order comes in, immediately pop the top of the opposing heap and send out the appropriate fill or partial fill message.

That's basically it. Depending on language, you're looking at anywhere from a page to a few hundred lines of code. An actual stock exchange is a bit more complicated, since it has to handle things like order cancellations, cancel-pending messages, transaction logs, and fault-tolerance, and has to operate on thousands of trades a second with minimal latency. But conceptually, it's simple.

(And if Joshua corrects any of this, listen to him and not me. He was an actual quant; I just worked at a financial software startup.)
I whoised this about thirty minutes in to the debate.
Someone PLEASE point me to the blog entry where Twitter announces to the world "We need some sort of model to make money". Not in those exact terms, but somewhere, anywhere, where Twitter makes some sort of reference to a long term financing model aside from investor funding.
Maybe a good time to buy one?
It sounds simple but you've got two roadblocks to overcome. The first is "sufficiently enriched uranium" which is expensive to obtain.

The second is "fast enough", since if you don't assemble the material fast enough and hold it together for long enough it will blow itself apart before there is a chance for the chain reaction to build, and you will have a dud (at least compared to the intended yield). To get around this problem you will probably need some fairly advanced shaped charges and a properly designed tamper. This is what the "nuclear secrets" cover. Obviously it is possible to derive this information for oneself, but it's non-trivial to say the least.
Well, yes. I was simply addressing the post's mention of patents and such.
according to my understanding, again, one of the major issues of the fission-based bombs (that you describe here, instead of the thermonuclear weapons), is that one of the major issues and one of the "nuclear secrets" is thus:

how do you ensure that in that collision, how to ensure that the "slamming" consumes enough of the uranium, converting it into boom, before the boom destroys the weapon itself, halting the reaction.

but again, not an expert. i'd love to hear more on it if you or someone else are.
> While both strategies can be used if all of a project's programmers can agree on how many spaces wide a tab should be

A better strategy that works just fine for a lot of developers (e.g. Linux kernel crowd) is to use tabs to indent the start of the line only. No tabs inside of the line, only spaces. Very simple and works really well.
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