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I'm going to chalk this up as a cultural thing. The relationship that people have with pop music in Asia is different from the relationship American tweens have with pop music. The closest thing we have is a WalMart selling Hannah Montana beach towels and trapper-keepers. But you can't extend much more than that. There's no digital immersion environment nor do we have a fanaticism with pop stars.
How cool, a Dutch minister on news.YC. Must be a cold day in hell today.
Is it accurate to call this a login? Or is it just an unlock screen thing? I can't tell from the video.
If you're nice and honourable to people, they will be with you for years. It's not about being friendly ("Hey Dave, GREAT to talk to you again"), it's about just being genuinely nice and giving people good deals. It's good to be fair.
sorry, elbot isn't any better a chatbot than any others that have come out over the years. Started talking with it and it just started giving the same nonsensical responses that are typical with these things.

Also, people need to get off the Turing test as this line in the sand that has to be crossed to meet some 1950's concept of AI. Actual human-equivalent AI will need to be judged by modern concepts of neurology and psychology.
From the first comment on the blog post:

>While I'm at it though, I'd like to point out that I don't think the "Turing test" is meant to be an actual test at all. To me, the point of the Turing test is as a philosophical proposition: if, when the communication interface is limited to a bidirection terminal, the other end is indistinguishable from a human, then we could conclude that the other end is intelligent. Since each response is simply an iterated (i.e. stateful) function of the previous response, it follows that intelligent machines are possible. It doesn't tell us anything about how to create the function, though.
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It makes some hard problems simple to solve. Other times you end up wasting a lot of time figuring out how to send the return value to an accumulator without accidentally creating an infinite loop or doing things twice.

Anyway, in Python you can always fake TCO using decorators. As long as someone invents the same thing for Javascript, no harm, no foul.
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Yes, but the managements sole responsibility is to make money for the shareholders. Not for the employees.
Even if you owned nothing else, and had no other debt then a standard 80/20 mortgage has been considered a good deal all around for decades and still is. That's 80% debt to 20% asset at the time you assume the mortgage. Yeah, I'd say a 50:50 debt/asset is OK. The bigger concern is cash flow as shown by Debt to Income ratio because it speaks directly to your ability to service that debt.
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Oh, god. How many times does this point need to be made? Yeah, cool. The compiler is fast.

Probably 1% of all websites on the internet ever manage to get enough traffic to make the language matter, right?
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Unfortunately this will often mean the recessions are named after the person trying to fix them rather than the ones who are chiefly responsible.

I despise Bush as much as anyone, but he's only had a small part in getting us into this mess.
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Yes, but not just some people, the people who caused the recessions in the first place.
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Backwards compatible changes can be quite dangerous... If you are exposing new behaviour you need to consider that it's actually a new version.

Either way, if you're exposing Web Services (REST or otherwise), a versioning strategy is a must to consider - even synchronising a change over a handful of consumers is difficult, let alone if you get hundreds or thousands. This type of environment is almost impossible to maintain without a versioning strategy.

Aside from the mechanics of versions you need to think about the bigger picture - you have a resource with a lifecycle now - so - how do I tell consumers about the versions that are available? how do I deprecate and decommission versions, and how do I tell the stakeholders in this? how do I test multiple versions? are there any coexistance issues I need to be aware of? etc... etc...
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¡Ya basta! We got it. Enough of these articles, please! Let's get back to tech and startups.
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Good ideas can inspire you even if they are not your own, in any case, you probably end wishing you had thought about it before :)
Although it probably also depends on the person who explains you the idea (their ability to let you see the point, their enthusiasm...).
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There's nothing inaccurate about this:

The United States is bankrupt, in the sense that its assets (housing stock, corporations and cash flow, plant and machinery) are now worth much less than its liabilities (in the form of mortgage-backed securities, other debt and loan instruments). In particular, large parts of the housing stock are now worth much less than the owners paid for them, and less than the outstanding value of the mortgages, or the collateralised bonds that have been issued against them.
That's an interesting question, what would looting in modern society look like? Can you "confiscate" securities? Companies?
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To be frank, at this point in time when I'm developing for the web, just about the only thing I care about when it comes to what language I'm using is that it's not PHP.

I understand why people use PHP, but as someone who has a decent amount of experience with a variety of languages, I really want a language that's designed sanely, especially for things like web-(sites|apps). I'll gladly take a hit on the language-speed side, or on the ease-of-finding-hosting side for the sake of not having to put up with PHPs craziness.

Why? For just the reason you pointed out - the vast majority of websites don't get enough traffic to make the language matter. I'd imagine that things like learning how to configure apache and/or a caching tool like memcached would handle most of the performance bottleneck on a site that did get that level of traffic.

Seriously - if a language is "fast" enough to allow the creation of responsive GUI apps, it's "fast" enough for web-apps.
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The value of diamonds will eventually crash when the manufacturing process becomes widespread enough.

The raw material, carbon, is cheaply available. The scarcity is an engineering problem, which is being solved.
I agree, I also reject the premise of the question.

Ideas don't belong to anyone, anyway.
It's just the unlock screen.
Not a chance. Given diamonds the same price of glass, you can bet that in three months you could buy cheap (and tasteless) diamond jewelry in the same stores you can buy cheap (and tasteless) glass jewelry. Diamonds look better than glass, so why not use the real thing? There will always be markup for good design, but cheap design is cheap. Most diamond pieces would be much cheaper.

The instinct of demonstrating class with expensive jewelry will not go away, however. Some other material will take the place of diamond - maybe some alloy of rare metals. Or maybe new luxury brands will arise, with a 30,000% markup on some quality, (well-)designed piece, maybe or maybe not containing diamonds.

This is, of course, assuming that diamond reaches the price of glass, which I strongly doubt that it will.

Last, in response to the OP, it is not the diamond trade which is the main problem. It is people doing evil things to one another. Just as crushing one monopoly will not end the practice of monopolies, crushing one evil empire will not end the practice of evil empires. Just wait 20 years and some evil trade will pop up in some other place. This focus on one particular phenomenon is counterproductive, because it blinds us to the general principles behind it.
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the points in this article are clearly worth discussing. no doubt america spends too much and it needs to be curbed.

at the risk of sounding jingoistic clearly america has the most stable and transparent economy in the world. and in times of chaos and uncertainty people seek out stability and security. that is what people all over the world can be assured of when they invest in america and us government backed financial instruments. the us treasury doesnt default.
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Hey Phil -- I minimize stuff like shopping and eating -- I basically know exactly what I want from the store and live on simple, healthy stuff like sandwiches and müsli. I maybe spend 15 minutes a day messing with food. I sleep about 6 hours a night. So that still leaves like 24 hours a week for meeting up with my friends, etc. It's really not that grueling.

Tonight however is an exception to the cooking rule. Tonight I will be cooking Tex-Mex (fajitas, I think) for about 5-8 people from the local startup scene. You're welcome to drop by if you're in Berlin at the moment. :-)
I've found that true love for the idea comes after you jump in and start owning/developing it. Fake or surface enthusiasm happens when you're just speculating or supposing. In a lot of ways, this is like the difference between seeing a pretty girl in a magazine or something and actually meeting and getting to know a pretty girl. In one case, you're just falling in love with your self-delusion about how something might turn out. In the other case, you're actually experiencing reality and developing a deep relationship.

I love cool ideas. But I really love the cool ideas I'm executing. So execution counts more than initial infatuation, even though it doesn't always seem so before you get started.
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> at the risk of sounding jingoistic clearly america has the most stable and transparent economy in the world

There are many other first world countries in the world other thna America. America is the largest and that does make it the most important. But that does not automatically make it the 'most stable and transparent economy'? The fact that you just automatically believe it to be so actually does demontrate your ignorance and jingoism.
If people couldn't support an idea that wasn't their own, we'd never see any startups funded...
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A gem I heard from a director at Trilogy, my ex-employer.

This is something I have been able to relate to at every company I worked and with great and poor leaders at all stages from delivery heads to CEO.

Thought the HN community will have more to add.
From those who didn't want to be invaded or bombed I suppose.
Shameful edit:

Should be Dummies(t) = 5A(t + 90)

This error woke me up in the middle of the night.
The white bars are time, the black bars are memory usage. Ergo, in most cases, PHP is running 2-5x faster than Ruby, but using about 3x as much memory.
Perhaps instead of labeling the poster, you could just ask for support for his statement? That usually works better than name-calling.
Bump for the morning crew. :-D
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True I think another bottleneck would be the web server serving the pages. Albeit a distant one as compared to the DB. What I don't get here is what is everyone's obsession with speed and shootout contests. What gives? I think we as developers have to focus on the bigger picture.

To build apps that our users will love.

No matter the language, framework, or whatever. If we miss this point which is a very crucial point for that matter. Then all of our optimizations are for nothing.
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No, a lot of people ARE angry about it, and not because of the money. The Web 2.0 crowd have been singing "It's not a bubble" for years. Some of us who lived through 1.0 knew better. Not taking it seriously, not realizing a company HAS to have revenue to survive, and that VC is not a revenue stream has contributed to this meltdown. It's hubris, and the video is an example of it. Not to mention a Wall Street Journal reporter - WALL STREET JOURNAL - is hanging out drinking with the people she's supposed to be covering objectively and making stupid drunken videos. It's a massive fail on all counts.
(T)hey're investments and no investment is a sure thing.

That's why your "investment" in the bank is insured.
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I just saw hardline REST create some problems and solve none.
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I know you are being sincere in raising your doubts, but please keep this in mind: Even if you do not receive 100 arguments and careful essays explaining the value of TCO and comparing inductive vs. iterative algorithms, that doesn't mean that those arguments do not exist.

It's just that Language feature X is clearly unnecessary because Language Y has feature Z instead, and I'm perfectly happy programming in Y has been raised, refuted, defended, and debated so many times that the people with the most experience arguing either side of it are the ones who are least likely to consider trotting it out again productive, and the people with the least experience are most likely to find arguing it again productive and intellectually rewarding.
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To clarify: I think it's really a sad state of affairs when the people who commit most of their waking hours to a company and depend on their salary for day-to-day living aren't the ones who are paid first.

Everyone knows: Bros (employees) before 'hos (shareholders).
I never suggested it is impossible, merely it requires some work from the ground up. For lack of a better word, features like continuations and TCO are global, not local rewrites. They aren't bolt-on features like some sort of optimization stages you throw in on top of an existing implementation.

And that's the political problem here: The implementors don't want to start with a blank sheet of paper, they want to work from what they already have and find convenient to build.

You know the expression "Lisp is a black hole?" TCO is one of those massy features that drags a language inside Scheme's Schwarzschild radius. They will end up writing a Scheme implementation with JS syntax and DOM support.

They know it and obviously don't want to go there, thus the mealy-mouthed "this feature is not necessary because we provide the all-powerful for loop and OO programming." Meanwhile, as the OP points out, the other features they provide can be written by programmers and supplied in libraries, so they really are not as essential to the implementers' debate as TCO.

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Yes, but that wouldn't mean they're expected to murder & steal on behalf of shareholders if opportunity presented itself.

That money is owed to employees by shareholders.
In your defense, a lot of "elegant" GUI designs are like this: they lack affordances, so you have no idea that they can be manipulated. But once you learn them, they seem to make sense.

The common alternative, some sort of configuration wizard with 1,000 controls, seems worse. But only just.
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i don't see the advantage vs. adding a version header.
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I think you can. The task of the entrepreneur is getting everyone else passionate about the idea. Give them ownership in the idea, let them help you create something great and not just build it. America and the constitution were founded because a lot of people were passionate about the idea of freedom. The leaders got people behind the vision of what they could have. And that was a lot harder than getting people to get behind a start up, because people gave their lives for that idea.
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The scarcity is an engineering problem, which is being solved.

But scarcity is what makes mined-diamonds valuable.

http://www.google.com/search?q=exclusivity+luxury

How did you get the idea that diamond-scarcity is a problem?
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And I liked the part about "younger girlfriend" ;-)
A manufactured diamond is not a mined diamond, and it never will be. A manufactured diamond cannot help but lack the authenticity of a mined diamond, even if the two cannot be told apart.

It is where a luxury comes from -- not what it ends up being -- that is important in determining its value.
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I think I have an ideal schedule:

Most weeks, I work 9 or 10 hours a day, (5 on the weekend days). This is a completely sustainable pace.

When my wife leaves on a business trip, I sprint for 12 to 14 hours per day.

Because I'm forced to take time between sprints, and because I anticipate them coming up and get excited about them, I manage to get into the "programmer flow" on almost every sprint.

I don't believe capping your work week at 40 hours (as recommended in many books) is the right way to maximize productivity because sprinting can be useful and fun. But you can't try to sprint every day, either.
Now that's just not fair, I want it, but it's not for sale.
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oil. That's not some silly slap at the Iraq war which wasn't over oil IMO. But conquering for oil has already happened, japan in WWII and Iraq over Kuwait in thefirst gulf war just to name two.
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Because countries should always let the exception dictate the rules.

Ugh.
It is the story people believe -- not the truth of the situation -- that is important in determining value.

If DeBeers can convince people that manufactured diamonds are inferior (and believe me, they will), then diamonds will become like wine or coffee, with connoisseurs who know where the diamonds came from, depth and geologic history, mining conditions, etc. People will brag about how much they paid to signal wealth, since a diamond will no longer be inherently expensive.
In conclusion: never trust a doctor without verifying things on your own. Doctors are no smarter than the financial professionals who have obviously got things disastrously wrong lately.
Either are most YC startups.
Broken on my iPhone, but I guess that's to be expected...
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If you compare the university student populations: Math has around 50% females while physics has perhaps 20%.

I wonder what causes this.
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Well, I disagree with that generalisation. A good doctor makes decisions based on evidence (symptoms of the patient, proven effect of the treatment) as well as experience as a doctor.

When "verifying things on your own" you run into all kinds of unfounded and delusional ravings on the internet. Doctors may err on the side of conventional wisdom, but that's not a call to disregard them and err on any nonsense that you come aross.
I heard that, too. Do you recall any sources?
The author reads like a kook, but the good thing is that they put forward a testable hypothesis (that vitamin D deficiency causes autism, or at least increases the risk of it) so it should be either confirmed or disproved by further studies.
It's already researched to hell. This has been clear from the evidence for a long time now. It just contradicts the dogma.
Some economists are causing tons of trouble by using economic-style research design to show autism rates are linked with cable television and the rain. Certainly tv watchers in rainy city washington are going to get less sunlight, so that adds more credence to her argument.

Their study:

http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/Waldman/AUTI...