skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the reason why the iPod took over in the first place - all the old companies like Sony and so on knew what worked, because it was selling. Changing everything was too much of a risk, so they preferred to stay with the safe stuff. Apple had nothing, so whatever it could come up with could change everything. They did, and became successful.

But now that they have a product that people like, they can't change EVERYTHING again, because it may not work. So they just keep things the same, and at some point, someone will come up with something that is niftier than the iPod, and capture the market.
That may be true (about women) but my experience is that it's yet another bell curve and there are some very sexually active women who act more like men at one end of the tail.

(And they should feel free to contact me :-)
The chance of Snow Leopard using Python 3.0 as its default python is statistically indistinguishable from 0.
Wow, even the introduction is incredible.

"Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, the standard library has been reorganized in a few prominent places."

I have never seen a release for a new language be so clear and straightforward. That's awesome.
Oliver Selfridge, an Early Innovator in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 82
As it stands, help is a string.

If help does what you suggest, it becomes a keyword. Then it has to go into the parser. Then somebody has to maintain that code. And document it. And the backend code gets larger.

If it doesn't become a keyword, it becomes an exception to the rule. Which means you'll have to deal with edge cases where the user tries to fudge with the value of `help`. Does it act like a keyword? Should it have different semantics? Should there be a separate category for it?

And then: What about `quit`? And `exit`?

The problem with DWIM is that doing what you mean in one case can create doing-what-you-don't-mean in several other cases.
Care to share the 'minor tweak' to use it on Massachusetts' Minuteman Library Network?
Neat... the recipe database sounds like grounds for a quick recipe app.
The opera I used at the time of writing gave the text its own little scrollbar.
Twice I've had fraudulent charges on credit cards. Needless to say, I lost exactly zero dollars in the process--in most cases, the merchant sinks the cost to keep Mastercard happy. That, and the fees, are probably the real reasons why this person doesn't want credit cards.
You should have a look at the freenet documentation. They thought about all those problems already. (And your guesses about their solutions are partly right, partly wrong. For example your node does not have to know the keys and no VM is necessary.)
Just to clarify for non-Pythonistas, a "long" is an unlimited precision integer.
I agree that it's a good time to learn Python... because it's always a good time to learn Python.

However, be aware that no one in the Python community expects 3.x to be used widely for a few years. Even for new projects, if you want to depend on an existing 3rd party library that hasn't yet been ported, you'll probably have to stick with 2.6.

To accommodate this, they allow you to import almost all of the 3.0 features in 2.6 on a file-by-file basis. So you can pretty much write code in Python 2.6 as if it was 3.0 provided you do the necessary "from __future__ import XXX" at the top of your file to do things like make "print" a function rather than a language keyword, etc. You won't have the reorganized standard library, but for most tasks there's either no difference or minor differences.

So yes, definitely learn Python, but be sure to install both 2.6 and 3.0. I recommend learning with 3.0, but you may have to do "real" projects in 2.6 for some time.
It's ridiculous for those who are good at managing your money and debt, of which this site's audience probably has a decent percentage who can. As Entrepreneur's it's a necessary skill.

But the fact is that we're a minority and the majority of people are bad at managing money.

And so long as you're anything less than good at managing your money, a credit card represents risk. And so for those who don't pay off the debt, the risk grows.

I like Ramsey, he goes balls to the wall and is over the top, as the site mentions he can get repetitive painful at times. And the NO-Debt approach, as you are noting, is a bit crazy but for those who have proven they can't be trusted with debt, then this is the safe choice.

Your response is fine, but I think you're approaching it from a normal, well balanced and money conscious individual. There are people who call into his show with literally $250,000+ in debt between their house, car, boat, property lots, and they've got a sliver of that as income. These are the people he's marketing towards. Not you.
Perhaps we should differentiate between bribers and bribees? (Can all kinds of corruption be reduced to this framework?)
Babo's right--remember that Python is "batteries included," which means all the standard libraries (which cover a huge range of uses) are already 3.0-ized.
I'm a little unclear on what you do. My understanding with OAMC was that you cooked the meals (once a month, obviously) and then just reheated them on the day. Reading your post it sounds more like you just prep the ingredients once a month and then cook them on the day you eat them. Have I read this wrong?

I'm certainly not doing OAMC but I'm moving in this direction. Mainly with ingredients though rather than complete meals. My main limitation is freezer space.
Guido (BDFL) has said that the GIL will not be removed in 3.x, so we'll have to look for other implementations to tackle this problem head-on. As someone else remarked, there's a new multiprocessing library that attempts to make this more palatable.
Either way deducts money from your checking account in the same method, but using it as debit requires your PIN and using it as credit requires your signature.
You might also want to look at Scipy's weave:

http://www.scipy.org/Weave

It's not as small or self-contained, but it looks to be more actively maintained.

A comparison with some other optimization methods:

http://www.scipy.org/PerformancePython
IANAL, but it is my understanding that at issue here is the deal would (could) have created / extended a monopoly. Antitrust in the US does not disallow monopolies, per se, as you note; however, it does disallow creation or furthering of a monopoly via contracts, M&A, conspiracies, collusion, etc.

From US Code Title 15, Chapter 1, § 1:
Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal.

Source: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode15/usc_sec_15_0...

The other sections of that chapter discuss some specifics (such as §18, which specifically covers M&A) and there is a wealth of case law backing it up and clarifying, as well.
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Perhaps I've interpreted your comment incorrectly, but I would hardly consider the fact that a preponderance of social networks eventually devolve into "hook-up sites" to be "encouraging". It may be a reflection of society, but I imagine some of those places could have more productive uses. Certainly not HotOrNot, but Loopt?
I disagree that people won't be deterred by a lack of a convenient link. Everyone has a threshold for how much work they're willing to put into something - this, in fact, is the driving principle behind Amazon's One Click.
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It's interesting so far, but, my, isn't Jessica a pacer. I feel slightly nauseous, as if I'm watching a rolling horizon at sea. Thought I'd hit pause to put out the stabilisers and post. Hope you have hard floors at home, Jessica, and not carpets. Looking forward to listening to the rest of it. Think that's decision made over my Christmas reading.
We actually just do the food prep and then we cook the meal the day we're going to eat it. Meat tends to dry out if they're frozen after they're cooked.
I think he is using the "enterprise" definition of "stable", which means "really, really old for no really good reason".

2.5.2 is "latest stable" for me, I've had no problems with it.
It's a silly thing to get worked up over. People who want to steal content can simply copy-and-paste the info from Amazon to the P2P search; this extension is merely saving them a step.
They introduced a new "bytes" type which is basically just the old "str" type. So you can still do things the old way; if you say b"Hello World!" then it'll give you the bytes type, whereas if you say "Hello World!" then it'll give you the unicode str type.
Most companies that are not publicly laying people off or frozen are still "hiring", but they are extremely selective and conservative in their hiring practices. This is true of all major US markets. It's a decent time to be an established programmer, but it's probably utterly terrible for a 22-year-old CS grad.

For aspiring hedge fund quants, it's bad (bad all around) but not nearly as bad as the financial news would have one think. Talentless, unskilled IBD/M&A kids are toast and will never earn that kind of compensation again, but quants and IT are still in high demand.
Hiring is getting harder here in Brazil. Too many openings and too few available professionals.

Most companies, even the ones on consulting, have an increasing number of openings and it's only getting harder to find qualified people.

Quite a few companies will take English speaking only professionals, just in case.

If you are on a large city and have some marketable skills it's trivial to get a contractor position in less than a week.
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To Start or Not to Start
Every year, the University of Michigan publishes a survey of salaries for its Engineering graduates:

http://career.engin.umich.edu/salary/

Average annual full-time salaries for computer science graduates finishing in the 2007-2008 school year, by degree:

Bachelors - $73,761

Masters - $79,762

PhD - $103,740

All of these amounts are up from the previous year.

Caveats: the sample size is small, it's a top Research I University in Engineering, and participation is on a volunteer basis, so the participants may self-select in certain unknown ways. Also, the most recent survey is from the class that graduated in April, which was before many of the scary economic things began happening.
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Not quite. In Python 2.5:

>>> print("hello")
hello
>>> print("hello","test")
('hello', 'test')

In Python 3:

>>> print("hello")
hello
>>> print("hello","test")
hello test
Awesome work on the surgeon's part. Is there a reason this couldn't have been done by telephone, or that text was a better option?
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Just a note, this idea that wages have been flat relative to inflation is true. But that doesn't mean quite what you think it means. Inflation (at least CPI inflation) measures the cost of a basket of goods in dollars. But that basket of goods has grown over time! So the same wage now buys more stuff.

Incidentally, Elizabeth Warren is a propaganda artist. She has "hard stats", but they often don't mean what you think they mean. Read Todd Zywicki's debunking of her to get a flavor for how she works:

http://volokh.com/posts/1108558247.shtml

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_04_27-2008_05_03.sht...

I'm not claiming the video you cite is right or wrong (it's 57 minutes long, I'd rather just skim the paper), just suggesting that she deserves Michael Moore levels of skepticism.
sounds correct

also, it seems like a large % of cs graduates are unable to get jobs in programming due to lack of experience
There are a lot of ways AI algorithms can be parallel. Chess being an easy example, but there are parallel approaches to most AI problems. I could go on but feel free to suggest a specific example that can't be run in parallel.

PS: It's normal to consider several options, weight them, and pick the best one. All of these processes can be run in parallel.
Sorry axod, they're right.

You should have a full expectation of nothing but the highest level of privacy when you are on a service that GPS tracks you wherever you go and allows you to publicly view everyone in a given radius. Not only that, but you should also expect these strangers to be absolutely discreet when you proceed to brashly proposition your entire radius for sex.

Let's also take this online example to a similar public gathering in a small radius -- a party, where you proceed to ask roughly half the people at the party to hook-up later that night. You would definitely expect every individual to maintain the highest level of confidentiality in that scenario.
In that case it sounds a lot like what I'm doing but on a bigger scale.

I would definitely be interested in seeing your recipes.
Logfiles [:] where useful data goes to die, alone, unloved and ignored.

Priceless.
Yes he does. He doesn't use any credit at all. Ever.
Not odd at all - hedge funds thrive on volatility.
Sounds like these are custom selections rather than a straight track for track copy of an album.

I could be reading your comment incorrectly though.
I've done this on a smaller scale and with fully cooked food. I work full-time and have class 2 or 3 days a week at night. I try my best to avoid fast food, so if often involves cooking double portions for the days that I'm away all day. My wife is starting law school next fall and when that happens, we'll probably switch to a system like this.

Fresh ingredients are great but the time saved is generally worth the loss.
it's not clear for me (from Europe) if or that this site is US-focused. Maybe that should be made clear in the ZIP code edit field.
If you're going to do any processing on the data you're going to need to decrypt it, and then you'll need the keys. And unless you -really- trust random people on the net, you'll probably want to run that processing in some sort of sandboxed environment. I went one step further and put it in a VM, since that should be easier to close down.

Just running a Freenet node doesn't it of course, but I was thinking of the 'peer-to-peer servers in the cloud' thing.
Now the question is: when is Stackless Python going to go 3.0?
Keep in mind the context of the link. It's Merlin Mann posting a screenshot of Dave Ramsey's site. Mann isn't anti-credit card, he is pointing out that Ramsey does the rare act of taking an unpopular position, yet follows through on it completely, even to the point of potential lost revenue.

He's pointing out Ramsey's integrity here, not the position.
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what are the roles you're looking for at the startup?
Don't know about anyone else, but http://nytimes.com/timesextra returns a 404 for me (7:20 a.m. PT).
Yeah, this whole idea actually sounds like an idea for a website that I would visit regularly.
Usually we call that "aiding and abetting".
Here's his full policy as stated on his website: http://www.daveramsey.com/etc/cms/debit_card_policy_32.htmlc

Note the bit at the bottom about not actually being able to tell a debit card from a credit card. This is really just a philosophical position. He can't enforce it online due to how the card processors work. I believe he tries to enforce it at his live shows, though, by simply not taking any cards that appear to obviously be credit-only.
Startups don't go against the traditional grain of society. They are part of the fauna that resulted from an economy of extremely large scale. Things like anti-trust laws, and investment banking - the food for startups - only happen in instances of super-scale.
I think this kind of thing is actually really important.

People don't want to admit the rampant rate of piracy.

This often comes up with respect to Tipjoy in our plans to expand to payments for digital content. While we're going to be flexible in mandating payment for those merchants that want it, I'm really interested in the voluntary payment side.

Potential partners often ask about our payment rates, and I usually then ask about their payment rates. What percentage of people consuming the content actually bought it? I doubt they actually know. Considering only a few percent of music on ipods is purchased in the iTunes store, I wouldn't be surprised if voluntary payment increased their effective payment rates.
I'm looking for two people:

1. A Java developer who's done lots of back-end work. Ideally someone who's built a server in Java that's had to scale to either a large amount of data or a high number of transactions. Someone really familiar with multi-threading.

2. A UI developer who's done stuff in Ajax and/or Flex. Would be very interesting if there's done extensive work on data visualization in a web browser, or on web-based applications that do fast real-time updates.
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Hmm if I'm in the position of making something public, that I then decide don't want to be "public", I'll bear that in mind.
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I saw him interviewed on the news yesterday evening and he said the signal was too poor to communicate effectively, but texts seemed to go through fine.

Edit: I just wanted to double-check this so found a video of the interview - it was the voice-over that said the line was poor, not the surgeon himself: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7762920.stm
How low can laptops go? Coby says $99.95
Also, most of the people they were trying to write to were probably at academic institutions, which function as their own ISP.
Microsoft Now 5th Most Spammer Friendly ISP
"A lot of the requirements are driven by regulatory mandates. If you're a financial services company, you can't have a datacenter with no roof."

Does anyone have a reference to the regulatory mandate that stipulates that a datacenter must have a roof? How is a roof defined?
Rich countries carry out '21st century land grab'
Sure, it's possible. But this now sounds similar to arguing that you can do OO programming in C. Doing inheritance with function pointers and defining all "object" methods to take the data structure as the first parameter. I just think if you're going to code in a specific style, it's better to choose a language that better supports the style.
Its simple to you or me. It's not so simple to my dad, or half of iPod users.
Fourth, "average" usually refers to the mean, and for distributions with big upper tails (like salaries), the mean is higher than median.
On the part of the extension author, sure -- not on the part of Amazon. You can't control how a user chooses to view the information they download from your website.

Edit: On reflection, my comment was not as clear as it should have been. I meant it's a silly thing for Amazon and the media to get worked up over, as the article implies this is somehow a problem with Amazon that needs to be fixed.

What the extension authors are doing isn't right, but there isn't much that can (or should) be done about it. The net effect of the extension on piracy is minuscule, and the potential for collateral damage to all the legitimate extensions (and internet use in general) is enormous. Presumably the extension authors are as untouchable as the Pirate Bay owners themselves, so preventing the extension's effects means attacking its use. And the path to attacking the extension's use leads to laws on what browsers you can use and how they must render the page.
That's true. All of the reasons why women are like that became unimportant when the pill was invented. The behavior largely persists due to its being ingrained, but nothing is absolute.
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http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/venturejobs/?cp=all
Icahn against selling Yahoo piecemeal
How can you possibly interpret my response to your post as critical of Amazon?
"Never mind that credit cards are basically the only safe way to spend money on the internet! Give us your debit card so we can really inconvenience you when our database is stolen!"

Credit cards are terrible if you abuse them, and the whole credit system is mucked up. But they are otherwise very pro-consumer, because you have no liability when you are defrauded.
Over 1 million U.S. layoffs so far this year
Note that TFA in question was written in September, using an alpha release. There was no "What's New" for 3.0 yet...
Most of those changes get masked behind loops that I don't think either is very different for understanding.

I think the plusses outweigh the edge cases.
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Thanks Brushfire, that was really useful.
Open source is dying -- or maybe it isn't
(1) The comment is not very specific as to who is doing the aiding-and-abetting. (2) The article's title describes a problem with Amazon, and the content implies that they should be doing something about it.
I think this is a defense in depth issue, with large walls to cut down on wind you can use really simple roof over what you want to protect and you end up with a strong defense vs rain, wind, and snow. When the outside is 1 foot from your equipment a 1 in 1000 fault becomes a problem, but you can use two 1 in 50 solutions to end up with better protection if the failures don't cascade. (1/50 * 1/50 = 1/2500.)

PS: A friend built some really cheep rooms using plastic and plywood inside an old barn that had large gaps in the walls but an OK roof to protect his record collection on the cheep.
In my text, I said "cannot easily". When you consider the general search problem, it seems so easy to parallel. But to adapt the search process to thousands of threads, the cost to avoid repeat search is high because you have to maintain a list of taboo area. By carefully design, you may avoid that problem. But here, I am talking about extra-time cost and not intend to say that it is impossible.
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> the goal of an ambitious person was to own his own business or farm

Establishment elite have used government to pervert the risk-return relationship. You can get relatively low risk high returns as a doctor, for example, because the profession is cartelized.

http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2007/02/risk_reward_and.h...
I can't do the whole month thing because I actually enjoy cooking as a side hobby, but I do make one big dish that lasts us (girlfriend/I) for at least 2 days (dinner / lunches for work)

It's easy to get a list of recipes you'll enjoy throughout the various seasons. For example, right now it's a mix of Beef Stew, Spaghetti, and Risotto dishes throughout the winter and in-between I cook whatever I bought from the market that weekend
I'm just trying to move back into I.T., and even entry-level positions are asking for 2-3 years of experience. I'd say there are probably a lot of underemployed programmers since getting the foot in the door is tougher these days.
Sure, people know that they shouldn't spend more than they make and --Oh look! There's a sale today at the mall; I have a credit card and it's a good deal, brb.

It's about discipline more than it is being good with numbers. Sometimes I would imagine it would be hard for people to look at their bank account and see enough money in it to purchase X, so they use their credit card to purchase X only to spend the money in their bank account on something like groceries later.
...for a sample size of one?
Interesting that despite numerous cases of success, he still believes in the big ol' bag of luck. Highly successful people usually loathe to admit the part of luck in their lives.