skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a stretch, but it could be possible for your SF friends to hire a company in India. They'll have to check with their legal if it's possible and pay your own company in India which in turn would transfer the resources to you wherever you happen to be (if you happen to be in the US, I think you'd need a B1 visa).

IANAL and I hope nobody gets in jail for following this advice.
What is bad about median is that a compiler that performs well on most benchmarks but then falls off a cliff for many other, but less than half, performs well altogether.

I think the distance-weighted estimator would serve the purpose of the ranking better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-weighted_estimator

This measure finds a measure of the centre of the distribution that gives less weight to items further away from that centre without discarding them. In this way, the measure is not dominated by outliers, but they still contribute to the final result.

I don't say that this is the best measure, only one that is better. A factor analysis might get at the extent to which the different benchmarks are doing the same thing. Some attempt to find measures of how these activities are represented in larger pieces of code might suggest weights for the benchmarks (there's a literature on analysing loads that might be relevant here). But this would make their analysis more complex and more prone to bias leaking into their analysis, so I don't say they ought to do this; my point is that median is simply a bad population measure for the purposes of their survey.

You have argued against me without trying to defend the choice of median as the measure used for the ranking. Is that denialism?
> 5: The Nigerian courts and legal system are too hard/expensive/slow for Mocality and Google to navigate, so Mocality have turned to PR to motivate Google to change.
...
> 3: Has Mocality retained a lawyer in Nigeria, have they formally asked Google to Cease and Desist and requested compensation?

Kenya is sorta different country.. :)
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Though doubt it would made one iota of difference.
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The UK Government is coud sourcing opinions about what red tape should be removed to encourage disruptive business models. I say we have a right to access the data we have created in an easy seamless way - in a way that is machine readable. Everyone who holds data on us should be compelled to offer that data back to us via API's
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All I can say is, that I know two guys with a quite successful blog (in terms of traffic), that made about 4000$ in their first year through amazon only. though not much in a grand scale, you have to know, that amazon only pays about 5%.

if (and only if) you can build a fairly successful niche-site, than you might think about affiliate-marketing. but don't underestimate the work, building that site. (and the audience)
There's some slight differences between "Google as a company is responsible for the actions, even the unknown unsanctioned actions, of their employees" and "Google is responsible, and they did it deliberately."

The former is recognised in some laws in some jurisdictions (off the top of my head: In England a company director is responsible for the piracy of their employees during company time, even if the director doesn't know about it and didn't ask for it.)

In my opinion it's fine to say that Google is responsible, even if they didn't know about it. Maybe they need to start improving their governance procedures, especially in cultures where bribery and corruption are rampant. "Don't be evil" should include "don't be evil, even if evil is usual in the region we're working in".
In the UK they use linezolid for drug resistant infections of all kinds. I think there have been a few cases of resistance already. In the dept I work they use tazocin as first line (it was considered second line til recently)

Without innovation we will have major problems within 20 years
Is it real that people make money from affiliate marketing? Yes.

Is the stuff you're learning from useful or real? No clue.

Is it worth spending the time to learn and implement stuff? Depends entirely on what you define as worth it or not.

Side note: HN isn't really the targeted audience you're looking to get advice from when it comes to affiliate marketing. While there are some affiliates on here, you'll be better off targeting affiliate communities for your questions.
It's comforting to see that other people fluctuate between thinking they're awesome and thinking they're awful.

Experience has taught me this:

Never build your self-esteem on comparison with another

And by that I mean, you should never judge your own programming abilities based on other peoples' apparent abilities. If you're programming new stuff regularly, enjoying it and listening to what other programmers have to say, then the chances are you're getting better at it, and that's enough.
Yep, I confess I take a probability-hit on this one. I'm surprised; it's hard to make out who within Google was benefiting by going rogue. (I maintain that if Larry Page knew about this I'll eat a small edible hat.)
RIP free speech.
Amazon pays on a scale base on traffic volume. That said, when you refer to affiliate marketing, Amazon is probably one of the more well known programs out there but more than likely not the core program most affiliates pushes, if at all. There are also a ton of different types of affiliates so you might not want to narrow the definition here.
A technical solution to a social problem.

(The problem isn't that people follow or fork WIP repos; it's that you care whether they do or not.)
Google doesn't just make money off both iOS and Android - they make MUCH MORE money off iOS than Android, at least twice as much. [1]

But they don't control iOS, so all Android is is a hedge in case Apple tries to disrupt mobile search somehow. I honestly wonder if there's any tension at Google between the search team and the mobile team, since at the moment Google is flogging something directly against the interests of their cash cow (search).

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2011/09/21/google-23rds-of-our-mobile-sea...
It seems to me like they are efficiently capitalizing on the ethnocentricity of the US. In a way I'm even happy they are reminding US startups of that.

While living in the states as a youngster I actually searched for that word quite a bit to describe what I was seeing around me: the sense that everything besides the US hardly existed at all.
Norwegian hospitals use forms of penicillin which simply do not work on patients from countries where antibiotics usage is more lax. Treating a patient from Spain with the same penicillin which is used for Norwegian patients would not have any effect and kill the patient. This is _solely_ because poor discipline in drug usage leads to antibiotics-risistant bacteria.

Wait what? The efficacy of an antibiotic is depended on the bacterial strain not the patient.

The rest makes perfect sense however and I strongly agree.
I'm always fascinated when writers use the phrase "defeat terrorism." It would be equally stupid to say: defeat murder. It's the kind of jingoistic bull that led to the Patriot Act and Homeland Security.

If someone told you the price for living in the most free society possible, is that 5,000 of your fellow citizens would die annually by terrorism, would that not be worth it? I would willingly risk my life, given the threat ratio, for that exchange. Particularly given the counter-terrorism efforts are already killing that many now.

If someone wants to blow their self up, or randomly stab you in the throat with a knife, the odds favor they're going to do it. You can try to prevent it, you can deal with the outcome, sometimes you'll succeed, sometimes you'll fail - what ultimately matters is that you don't fail big (nukes). That's it. You battle and deal with terrorism, you don't defeat it. You can't argue with irrationality or insanity, and someone somewhere is always going to be willing to commit terrorism.
But it means a higher cost of entry for competitors in the mobile space; something that seems like a good thing for both Microsoft and the Android makers.
Here's another word I have yet to see in the wild: "condign".

Where did I pick that up from? One of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels.
"""Well no, because the job doesn't end when it's "done"."""

By definition, it does.

"""In the earliest versions of the game, blocks were all basically homogenous cubes of some material, so they didn't need to be oriented. Later, blocks were added that did need to be rotated in various ways (...)"""

So you are suggesting that they should have set up a system to allow that from the beginning.

Have you sat and thought how adding things like that could delay the initial release?

Also, have you sat and thought that if the initial release was not successful at the marketplace, all that extra work would have been in vain?

[downvote? Thanks, parent]

Just build what you need at the time, and make it flexible enough so that it can be refactored to something else later.
this cloning work could bring only moderate rewards, and it's sad. russian investors are too risk averse.
Given that he found a correlation between company size and industry you'd need to find a few companies that matched in those regards too as well as geography (weather) and other things.

Oh, and this wasn't something he had any data to support, it was just something he felt was probably true.

Speaking as a manager, I'd like not to be fired on the hunch of a bagel salesman / economist if that's OK.
I'm interested to know where this certainty that these patents wouldn't hold up in court comes from.
Ah, ok.

Legally I don’t think this is a problem. The login servers are not needed to play Minecraft. Singleplayer obviously works without them. Multiplayer does, too, but servers can (and in practice do) require you to be logged in.

Morally? I don’t know. I don’t think so. People might disagree.
I agree. I also have serious concerns about keeping my data private. I don't want anyone to be able to access my data. But, having said that, there are a bunch of government databases that are unconnected and it'd be great if I could give them permission to talk to each other; that'd mean I could do a bunch of stuff (report changes in my circumstances to 6 different benefit providers and the tax people) with just one phone call instead of the 11 calls it takes now.

Maybe what's really needed is a better encryption / permission model?
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I'm getting the following error message for your link:
(I'm using Chrome 16 on Windoze)

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /nfs/c08/h01/mnt/125333/domains/ripeapps.com/html/v3.php on line 2
No, I most certainly don't.
Trademarks don't really affect that, that's why I don't like the term IP. Trademarks simply say you can't present yourself as others, not that you can't use any kind of information.
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Am I the only one who almost always starts projects as private repos and only puts them public once they're at a reasonable alpha or beta stage?

When I'm still regularly trashing all my code and starting over, it doesn't do anyone any good to follow the repo.
The UK tax system is a mess.

The UK benefits system is a mess.

Sorting both of these out would reduce costs; increase productivity; get people back to work; make life for businesses easier; etc etc.
As a Stuyvesant alum and a supporter of Z (a.k.a. Mike Zamansky), I can't wait to see what Z does here.

While Stuy was immensely fulfilling and I learned a lot, it was not thanks to the general history and drafting classes. While those were (sometimes) interesting, it was the fact that I was no longer bored as I was in JHS and got to take subjects that allowed to me excel and "stretch my brain," for lack of a better term. Those were limited to my CS classes (Z's classes), the math classes, and psychology.

The CS courses I took at Stuy were on par with, and occasionally better than, some of the courses I took at MIT. At the very least, it prepared me to do very well at MIT and allowed me to take more advanced courses.

If it hadn't been for Z, I know for a fact I would have been significantly more bored in HS and probably wouldn't have done as well. Being a part of the 'Z-Team,' as we affectionally called the network team at Stuy (yes, we were lucky enough to have a network team; sadly, due to the roadblocks placed in front of Z, I'm not even sure this exists anymore) was easily the best experience of my academic career up until that point, and one I still fondly look back upon.

I truly can't wait to see what Z does with a bit of freedom to build what he's been trying to build for over 10 years.
Thanks for your reply. The reason I posted question on HN is because I've noticed ppl here are true to their heart and they give the best advice so I thought I should ask these questions here. The stuff I'm learning is not something like become a millionaire overnight, it focuses on teaching me the concepts involved in affiliate marketing instead of promising me millions outright. I think I should atleast give this stuff a try.
"""Yes, it's very easy to add an accessor later. But then you'll most likely have to edit every line of code that accessed the now-defunct member variable. Your IDE may make this easy, but I'd still prefer not to have to do it."""

Easy is an understatement. It's 2-3 clicks away in Eclipse.
Thanks for your reply. Can you post the blog addresses here?
For the record, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (which is mostly law in most EU countries), does, unfortunately, state (in Article 17.2):

> Intellectual property shall be protected.

It's unfortunate that, unlike the US Consitution, there is no explicit mention of purpose, limited time, etc.
Take some notes of Freedom of Press for the Freedom of Internet.

The counterarguments can be simpler than you think;

Senator, would you prefer ineffectively blocking child pornography that paedophiles can work around or allowing children the chance to innovate and communicate freely for their future?

Senator, would you prefer ineffectively blocking occasional terrorism that will piss off terrorists or allowing political discussions freely?

Senator, would you prefer blocking piracy or allowing anyone to share their content freely? DMCA cracks down on this; a catch-22 that the creator must sell it to claim damages against DMCA notice abusers unless the police charge them with perjury. Not to mention that the notice is scary not only to creator but to other people wishing to re-share. The DMCA does not discriminate against non-commercial sharing.

Here's a good history of anti-Internet measures by USA: http://www.rense.com/general85/net.htm

Here's Australia's version: http://libertus.net/moreinfo.html
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I have to echo this. I learned emacs, python, scheme (and then elisp, and then lisp), linux system administration, and assembly all as direct results of either Z's classes or being on the ZTeam and being pushed to learn more. Most of what I do now on a daily basis stretches directly back to those days.

So thanks, Z. :)
> If your fingers protest at the additional "get" in your function names, go and buy yourself a real IDE.

If you can't see how abstraction layers affect performance, go buy yourself a real education. This isn't about premature optimization, it's about not applying premature generalization.

Sometimes it immediately makes sense to add accessors. In that case I add them right away.

Sometimes there is no apparent need for accessors, so I don't add them yet. They're easy to add (you argue so vehemently yourself), why would there be a problem adding them as needed?

A blanket rule of "just add them, always" is just a crutch for mediocre developers who aren't capable or willing to actively think about what they're working on.
Agree - privacy is a huge concern, the default situation should be strictly private. But it should also be up to us to decide who we grant access to our data.

I dont just mean government held data - but data the supermarket holds or the bank etc.

I want to be able to see my Nectar data alongside my bank data in a google spreadsheet or any other service that I trust.
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Graph theory is a very complex, and broad field of mathematics. The routing algorithms are an absolutely trivial application of it in a minuscule amount. Anybody, without formal training in mathematics can understand routing algorithms, because they are so simple and easy.
"According to the authorities, the Facebook updates written by the NinjaVideo founder pose a danger to the community."

That's so absurd. It's like the 1st Amendment doesn't even exist anymore, or the authorities simply don't care it exists.

This is why it's so important to stop the US Government from banning "Twitter propaganda speech" from Middle East, too. If they succeed with that, the next action is doing the same in US.
> In East Germany, toddlers and grade schoolers were required to go to the bathroom together, with no partitions between the toilets. Privacy was irrelevant because individualism was irrelevant. Even extending into bathroom habits the communist goal was to make people cogs.

Oh please, what a ridiculous example to bring up in the context of the rest of your post. The GDR did not fail because of a different approach to bathroom privacy for small children. It might seem weird to us, but our comfort zone is a completely arbitrary area along a scale. Note that western urinals work in basically the same way; I'm sure there's a huge political significance to that.
They don't cut your head off during surgeries :-).
I don't think a free market solution would work - airports will cut costs until there's a disaster. But airports could do it the way they handle general aviation safety. You don't have a TSA minder next to the pilot, giving instructions on how to lower the landing gear - there's a system in place which seems to work pretty well.

You could argue that no solution (an honor system?) is better than the TSA. Or that it would be better putting the police in charge (and giving them the funds to put a couple of officers in each airport gate). If that's a waste of valuable police time, they could reduce their presence.
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This post shows how to visualize a function of two variables with an intensity image and a shaded surface.
So, seriously now. Can we do this? It seems like a lot of fun!
First they came for the torrent site admins...
>There is a certain danger in being educated, for example a self educated programmer might have a problem and just implement a O(n^2) solution and move on whereas a college educated programmer might spend excessive time trying to work out a way to do it in O(log N)

The CS graduate will have covered big O classifications but if they immediately focus on this form of optimization it's probably because they have spent years reading blogs that tell them this is the nature of tests at places like Google.

If every CS grad automatically thought this way by virtue of their education there would be no reason to test for it in interviews simply because a CS degree is often a minimum requirement for the kind of job where you'll be asked these questions.

It's only a priority if you make it one and those self-taught guys can probably self-teach themselves big O.
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It seems like a cool idea, but as time has gone on with hosted apps I always find myself now asking this before I sign up:

How will you make money to stay in business?

If you can't answer that, and you don't, I'm extremely hesitant to sign up. Personal opinion, of course.
Great work Martin! Such a simple tool that makes Bootstrap more available to everyone - not just those of blessed with Less skills ;)

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Maybe Microsoft's requests are legitimate? Maybe the OEM really infringe on patents? Maybe Microsoft provide support for the technology in exchange of money?

We have little or no information, let's just not jump to conclusions.
Google, good work on the Android design guidelines, but is that enough to tame the wild west in the marketplace and the current "anarchy"?
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I dunno... I think you have a point worth considering, but to call Minecraft a service seems misleading, or at least incomplete.

Minecraft is an Internet-based leisure activity, and its well-admired benevolent dictator has declared a day of protest about an issue that he feels affects his community. I suspect his community will mostly support it, and might even like Minecraft and Notch all the more for it.
The sort of maths the article is referring to has very little to do with arithmetic computation, and is present in the type systems of those languages you're developing sites and apps in.
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Thankfully the veil is likely to start getting lifted with the Barnes and Noble lawsuit and anti-trust complaint.
There's interesting maths to be around proving the IO glue correct, though. Opa is an fun take on that problem.
My comment doesn't directly relate to the issue in the article (how she's being put in jail early) but I'll go ahead anyway.

Does anyone honestly think piracy should go unpunished? People that upload movies, music, games etc should be punished, as they are doing something illegal and and the people downloading should also be punished as they are getting the content without paying the creators.

I'm curious if anyone has any logical argument about why they should go unpunished.

Edit: I hate to be the dude that posts the stupid downvote edit, but seriously, I'm posing a question, I'm not stating what should or shouldn't happen. Please post why or why not you disagree instead of just blindly hitting the downvote. The downvote button is for unsavory comments, trolls, etc
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