skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
XML processing in a typical Java application tends to take place up front, being used to build runtime representations of the same information. XML exposure over the longer term will tend to be in the context of communications with other applications where Lisp has no particular advantage. So the XML impact will mostly be present in startup costs only.

If the Lisp apps are conversing only with other Lisp applications then to compare like with like you need to look at Java Serialization not XML.
One of the salutary effects of watching open media in action is that I've become quite fond of the idea of new authors reworking the characters and stories of old authors. I'm tired of proprietary "canons". Particularly when it becomes apparent that the guy running the canon has much less talent than his fans. (Cough George Lucas cough.)

Though I think Douglas Adams is bound to be a tough act to follow. It does help that the last Hitchhiker's book is not the best work in the series. I tend to read only the parts of that book with Ford in them (which are great) and just skip all the existential despair that rounds out the book. I mean, the Hitchhiker's series is all about the existential despair, but you can have too much of a bad thing.

What I really want to see, though, is more Dirk Gently stories.
He suggests steep fines. Those funds better be escrowed before the ad is placed, or it won't work.

A much better stick would be a throttling of access to that medium for the perpetrator.

The problem is hit-and-run attacks from allied but autonomous entities that melt into thin air (as with Swift Boat and Al Queda), leaving no assets and nothing to lose.

How about punishing not just the people who placed the ad, but the side which benefited from their unfair use of the media?

The best solution would be an informed electorate that pays attention to reality, but that's just a nice dream in a country where 70% or more believe in a fairy-God.
Have you tried emailing Cuban?
I would argue completely no.
Yes, and here's another great example of outsourcing: Vizio, the flat panel TV manufacturer had revenues of $1.9b with only 85 employees. That's $22.4m/employee in revenues. I don't know what their profit margin is though. (http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2008/company-profile.html?id=2008...)
Well, thanks to you I just learned something. I had no idea the US government used the London index to figure out rates for loans. I actually went and looked it up; and you're totally correct.

Amazing.
I can't find the audiobook version. Darn.
Smallville Season 8
Green Arrow calls upon fellow heroes Black Canary, Aquaman, and the Martian Manhunter to locate the missing Clark Kent, last seen in the Arctic. Meanwhile, a new CEO is appointed the head of LuthorCorp, and Chloe is kidnapped by a secret group who have discovered her special power.
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Aquaman, and the Martian Manhunter to locate the missing Clark Kent, last seen in the Arctic. Meanwhile, a new CEO is appointed the head of LuthorCorp, and Chloe is kidnapped by a secret group who have discovered her special power.
"Lies, damn lies, and statistics." :)

When someone says "the average employee" at an investment bank made 600K last year, or brought in 1.25M in profits, keep in mind the old joke about how, when Bill Gates walks into a bar, the average guy in that bar becomes a multimillionaire.

Every trader, salesperson, and banker has dozens of people working to support his or her work with paying clients. The support staff, which includes operations and IT, generates absolutely no revenue at all. (With possible exceptions for the small handful of people who write automated trading and risk systems.) Correspondingly, the support staff is not paid anywhere nearly as well as people who work in "producing" divisions. Notice that no one talks about the median employee, which would be a much more interesting metric.
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Except that I think I read Hitchhiker Guide books more because I find Douglas Adams' writing a delight to read than because I like the particular characters and story.

Which means I should be ashamed of myself for not reading any Dirk Gently books yet.
There's going to be third Dirk Gently radio series bases on the Salmon of Doubt.
> Inviteshare.com is the nearest thing I could find

You might find something if you google for "coupon manager" or something like that.
I'm about halfway through and really enjoying it. There are many hidden gems if you pay attention.

I also like that you can read it fairly non-linear.
I'm typing this on a Thinkpad T40, and I think Macbooks are more minimalist in design.
Love your home page. Very nicely laid out, clean design. You do a great job of presenting all of the major facts in an easily-digestible format. Also, embedding the video right in the page made it much more attractive for me to click. I'm a Mac user, so I'll have to give it a whirl when I get more time. My initial impression is very positive, though.
An audio response 'from' Arthur Dent about the new book: http://eoincolfer.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/and-an...

(portrayed by the original BBC voice actor of Arthur Dent)
We add custom invite code to each application. For each app, we have an admin site that has a button that allows us to generate a single invite -- a button that says "gimme a ticket". It uses an sqlite table to store all of them. Every time an account is created, it checks if the invite code exists and has been used yet. If it hasn't been used, the form validates and the username of the new user is stored in the ticket table so we can track which invites are used.

Some good features to have for a ticketing system:
- ability to type in an email or set of emails and it automatically sends a different beta code to each address
- ability to have one invite be able to create more than one account (sometimes we send a code to a company and tell them to create a few accounts for their staff, each invite can create X users before it expires)
- have a date expiry on invites so you can toss-out old ones
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That may work if you're the tech guy at a non tech company, and your work comes in short spurts.

But if you're a coder, essentially dong applied math for 8 hours a day, piece and quiet make a big difference.
On Mac there's a nice new application called Silverback that can record the screen + the image and audio from the webcam.

http://silverbackapp.com/
You can already add DVD capabilities through a tiny hack that works on modded and unmodded Wiis:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/13/the-wii-finally-gets-dvd-...
Agreed. Coincidentally, that's the sort of thing I used to see on Reddit shortly before it turned into some monstrous Digg/Youtube hybrid.
A larger site can usually afford to staff up in ways that smaller sites can't.

So, someone needs to make a Linux distribution targeted explicitly to those companies that currently spend as little as possible on their infrastructure. I smell a hugely profitable business model.
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Ask YC:How do you create a website?
Does the person having an idea create the new website around his own needs(such website never existed so i'll create one so i'll get around my time on the internet more efficiently) or is the build more concerned with the future visitors the site expects?

Also,how does one start on building the website:does he create the main purpose fulfilling html elements first and then the other elements? or the systematic planned future approach?

For eg.If you were creating digg.com what would you create first
the submit new url button and view the most popular and then add the other elements as time passes.
or
you would first the plan the whole page layout(as in final design)and then build the whole thing like categories at the top,sign in button,user pages (the way the elements appear from top to bottom on a page?
Get this book because it puts everything in context. Put it rigt next to Hackers and Painters on your shelf.
http://www.rpath.com/corp/

Their "conary" package management system (developed by at least one of the same folks that were involved in RPM, presumably with a reasonable amount of confidence that RPM didn't really get it right) is designed for the construction of specific purpose distributions. It, obviously, hasn't taken the world by storm, so they seem to have evolved in a different direction of late, and also changed their name I'm pretty sure--though I can't remember what they used to be called (I could only remember the name "conary"). Anyway, technologically speaking conary is awe-inspiring. But, I'm not using it...so obviously, it's not providing value that I can figure out a use for.
There's one thing that keeps bugging me about every depiction of a Neanderthal.

The thing started bugging me after I had been watching a Neanderthal special on TV, for almost an hour it went on and on about how cold adapted they were.

A huge list of cold adaptations due to 200,000 years of living in an ice aged Europe.

Then modern man comes on the scene, fresh out of Africa.
And what do you know, the newly arrived African is snow white and blue eyed, facing a brown haired, brown eyed, Neanderthal.

That's when the light bulb went on over my European blue eyed head, this is bullshit.

The Neanderthal in the linked article has brownish red heir and brownish green eyes, and so is the by far the fairest depiction I've ever seen.
If its already in beta then why do you want to limit the # of people who are actually excited to try out your application? If its not ready for prime time then call it an alpha.

To me Beta is pretty much something that's ready to go prime time, everything works, you spent a few days testing it to make sure you don't crash the system, but you still want to spend some time with a much larger audience testing it to sort out all the missed bugs. Alpha to me is when you just finished coding it up and only did the most basic stuff to check if everything works.

If its an alpha then use the one at a time invite, if its beta set max # of users and use one at a time method if you need to give out some extra invites to more valuable testers
Do you know for a fact that they will print it?

I would imagine they would have other alternatives.
s/with the//;

Fixed that for you.
I'll tell you what would actually work: Education.

The problem with American politics is that everyone has a vote, not that this is bad of course, but since the average American is so poorly educated he is easier to trick with talking points, fancy rhetoric and downright lies. As a consequence of this any politician that wants to stand a chance of winning must adress the people in simple language and with simple messages - even if they're stretching the truth or are outright lies. Lowest common denominator.

I come from a country with an excellent education system, which means that the lowest common denominator is much higher, and thus politicians can start talking about the issues, and still appeal to the broad masses. A candidate that lied would instantly be held accountable by the press and by the people.
I was going to write a nuanced reply dissecting the parts of what you posted I agree with from the parts I disagree with. But I decided that would be too much minutia. The important thing is that Java and most Lisps are in the same general performance class. People have found success with the slower performance class represented by php, python and ruby, so today it makes no sense to describe Lisp as slow. I think we're in agreement on this.
Look at AIG's dividends over the last few years they where pumping out about a dollar a year in dividends and now their stock is worth ~4$. The reason they where able to generate that type of money is the reduction in banking regulation alongside absurdly low interest rates and a willingness of the federal government to bail out companies that are "to big to fail" all off which is giving money to the people who own and or run AIG and companies like them.

PS: If AIG still had all it's dividends from the last 10 years it would not need any government money.
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Thanks for voicing my thoughts!

The problem is that there is an incentive for the politicans in power to keep people stupid. It makes them easier to control and manipulate.

But, I see you are from Denmark so at the same time it seems that it is easier to have a higher level of education for a more homogenous population.
It's a very good read. Jessica Livingston has a really smooth interview style. Her questions are right there in the text, yet it reads as if the founders are just spontaneously telling their story.
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I'd be interested in an all YC edition of Founders at Work.
A less modest but more useful angle might be to free America's media from the control of the elite. More critical analysis would flourish, more Americans could make a critical decision and maybe the planet would be a better place.

We are lucky in the UK as we are all taxed to pay for the BBC. Americans can also watch BBC America if they chose.
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it's not really crazy in East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea). it's more or less the norm. sacrifice everything for big corporation X and yet not expect a sizable reward within a relatively short time frame (well at least by Western standards)

I take it no one has heard of Samsung's dormitories? For the 1st 2 years of employment there as an engineer, you have to live in the company dorm with your team (sharing a room with a bunk bed with 1 team member). o yeah they also get to regulate when you can leave company grounds (like for going out on a date). it's a very dif world there...
You expect someone to explain web application engineering in this comment section?
Why "Build to last" is bullcrap consultants suck and how Digg failed to innovate
Its not competition between companies but business-models. It’s not about product lifecycles but about shorter strategy life cycles
Google Launches Audio Indexing
Unfortunately this article uses a terrible example to "expose" Google's practices. The site http://www.sourcetool.com/ is trash. The whole point is to force you to click through as many pages before getting a decent list of results, and of course every page has a nice block of ads.

For instance, I picked a category at random. Eventually I got to a page to choose between two sub-categories. One was "Brominated retardants"...so I clicked it. The next page just had a single sub-category "brominated retardant". There are plenty of examples like that including one where clicking a sub-category just took you to the same page over and over. The whole site seems to purposefully bury information in as many pages as possible to force you to view as many ads as possible.

I'm not saying that people should give Google a free pass, but honestly, I'm glad to see they are giving that site a hard time.
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You're mixing up a couple of questions here. One is "should I build just a minimum set of features and then add features slowly, or should I first draw up a design that includes every single feature I think we might eventually want?" The other is "should I build a site that works well for only one user -- probably myself -- or should I design with the assumption that there will be a lot of future users?"

These are important and controversial questions with answers that depend on the circumstances. The general approach advocated around here tends to be "start small; don't build things you aren't sure you're going to need; launch your site as fast as you can with the minimum number of features and don't build more until you're sure that users are interested and that they want more." But that approach is tuned for certain problems -- specifically, it's tuned for bootstrapped startups that are exploring new classes of application that might or might not have a market. One might argue (I would) that the majority of problems are well suited to that strategy, but no doubt there are some problems where other strategies are more appropriate. (e.g. you're designing a site for the Olympic Games, which will have relatively few users for months, then have thousands of hits per second for two killer weeks, then have a much smaller number of users going forward. You're not going to get to iterate the design over and over after the Olympic opening ceremonies; you have to plan ahead and build all the features you want, in a scalable fashion, in advance.)

Your question is related to the problem of categorizing software development processes. You might want to check out these two links for a start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)

Or, if you have an idea for a website, you might be better off skipping all this management-class stuff, learning some HTML and/or PHP or Ruby, and putting a site up! Design it just for yourself! Don't put in more than one button at a time!
Outsourcing is a perfect illustration of the revenue/profit per employee analysis. If a particular function your company is doing is low-value-added (i.e it can be done by companies with lower revenue per employee than yours), you should consider outsourcing that function.

Employees are the most valuable resource of most companies, and efficiently utilizing this valuable resource is the most important function of management. Managerial complexity is a super-linear function of headcount, and complexity kills productivity.
that's what I thought too but you can buy it easily in the US market if you look for OTC:NTDOY
When starting a new website or any business, I think the most important part is being passionate about the product or service you are trying to sell or the problem you are trying to solve. Usually, being passionate about something, means it is closely related to your own needs.

Approaches to building the actual website vary greatly. Some people prefer writing detailed specs first, while others prefer a prototyping approach -- to start working with a tangible product sooner and get feedback early. I prefer the prototyping approach for new websites.

When you start the actual development, focus on the core elements first (e.g. Digg couldn't function without it's core news algorithms and digg tracking, but did not need other peripheral features to move forward). I also like to work out my database design and user interface (screen mockups) early in the process. 37Signals recommends rough sketches and HTML mockups at the outset in their "Getting Real" book. After a few projects, you will likely have your own optimal approach that works well for you.
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you're right. even when Nintendo was a dismal 3rd in the last console war with Gamecube, they were still making very healthy profits with the console. still dominating the handheld market helps too.

Before Wii, I could wrong, but I think they had about 3 billion in cash reserves.
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You can't plan for hypothetical future visitors with unknown needs and wants.

Design and build your idea based on your research and if/when you survive the first 6 months, then start to add features requested by your community (and thank whatever almighty you believe in that you do in fact have a community)

Now, if some VC dumps a bunch of money on you, then by all means throw in everything but the kitchen sink and burn, burn, burn that cash until you exit ;)
Thats why you need better security settings if you are in public office, considering all the secret questions one might ask about you to retrieve your password can be found on your wiki page
Sure. Behold the miracle of hypertext:

http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/

Rather dated now, but the basics are still the basics. For somewhat newer material (but geared toward comp sci students):

http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/?

There. The rest is detail. ;)
Sorry to be negative, but this is really old (2001 writeup). A lot of things have changed. For a good 'visual' example of semWeb in action, look at Reuter's openCalais project. Install the gnosis firefox plugin, and be amazed at the possibilities :0

Another good site to monitor is of course readwriteweb. They published recently an OPML file with good rss feeds to follow this movement. And for state-of-the art, see larkc.eu (disclaimer: I work on that project). larkc.eu aims to do semantic web reasoning at a scale never before seen (i.e., the entire web).
Of course not. It really boils down to this: some people like for their possessions to be beautiful, and others don't care. Neither group can see things from the viewpoint of the other, hence this ongoing pointless flamery.

It has nothing to do with impressing girls or anyone else. It's a personal preference. I'm particular; I like for my things to look a certain way. All of us have our own proclivities, so why don't we all just shut the hell up about this already? How does it harm Matt Maroon if I "spend too much" for an Apple product? Just tell yourself that I'm a moron and move on.
Birth Announcement for Twins
Unlike before, it is possible today to know your baby’s sex and whether it is going to be twins or triplets etc. Though this knocks of the element of surprise, it certainly helps the parents in getting ready for the birth of the new born whether it is buying clothes and accessories for babies or selecting the birth announcement. If it is going to be twins then the joy is doubled and it is a unique experience waiting for the twins.
At this point, I don't know how anyone can not admit that the U.S. healthcare system is an epic fail, and that we're long overdue to go universal.

One of the reasons doctors are "over-booked" is that they have to spend a inordinate amount of time fighting with these scumbag insurance companies just to get properly paid. Some top-notch Manhattan doctors won't even take insured patients-- cash only. As more doctors opt out of insurance, we're headed toward a three-tier healthcare system, with the uninsured at the bottom, the insured in the middle, and the very wealthy (self-insured) at the top.

The interesting reversal is in the fact that, decades ago, the AMA spoke out against "socialized medicine", fearing that, if doctors became government employees, their compensation would decline. Now, the AMA is coming out in favor of universal healthcare, because it turns out that the insurance scumbags are eroding doctors' remuneration more than government ever could.
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Some revolt... as the commenter said they should just stop using the damn site and leave the third party developers alone.

That fact that they need classic Facebook so much they're willing to become a 'developer' to exploit a profile work-around means they're more addicted to Facebook than the average user.

It's a win-win for FB.
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Apple's North American notebook share jumps 60 percent
Money quote: One last point, has the irony of 3 of largest companies in the country who make their money giving financial and insurance advice to companies and individuals, are facing ruin from the advice they gave themselves ? If this isnt a lesson to every individual who is taking advice from an investment firm, i dont know what is.
(c) view into the future.

We're still waiting for a useful programming language or environment that has something significant that wasn't done first (and usually better) on Lisp machines.