skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a similar streak in the American national character (although I we'd probably phrase it as "I hate France", which is a distinction with a difference). Freedom fries, etc. We know we've been bffs for a few hundred years now and if someone attacked France the same folks who voted for "freedom fries" would be the first ones suggesting we come to France's aid.

They would add "Like we always do", of course, and give France guff about it for the next century or so. But we kid because we love 'em, even though they are cheese-eating surrender monkeys. (Google it.)
What do you actually do and how do I get into a market like that?
While all the predictions were somewhat negative, but realistic about the economy, to use the term "scary" is media sensationalism at its finest.

Objectively, we all need to prepare ourselves to weather this economic storm. Whether or not that's "scary" is a personal opinion. Personally, I'm not scared. However, I'd like to believe that I will continue to react to the situation in rational ways (unlike the political classes, unfortunately, who seem to be in full panic mode).
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> it is about deviations from the expected temperatures.

So, the worse their predictions, the better it proves global warming?

If global warming is science, it should be falsifiable. So when the models predict temperatures different from what actually happens, you are saying these deviations prove global warming. But why can't the models just be wrong?
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This is only trouble from the point of view of developers. From a user's point of view, I would like all apps to be free! Why wouldn't the App Store gravitate to a model like the internet, where there is tons of cool stuff for free, and my software hardly ever nags me for a dollar. That might be too bad for developers hoping to make money with applications that aren't really groundbreaking, but it might be good for users. There's certainly no shortage of cool free games on the internet.
He could probably make plenty of money, selling these online to rich people who want a curio with a great story behind it.
And thats exactly what drew me to entrepreneurship in the first place. I love learning about it. I have notebooks full of business plans, product ideas, silly problems I've tried to solve (how to monetize twitter anyone :) T-shirt ideas, marketing plans, brand strategies. Almost all of them unfinished.

I love the idea of putting a vision into action with the help of other people. But I understand I can't skip steps. You don't get to be at the top without showing you can bust your ass as a grunt.

Sometimes I think I should start a company and just hang a sign on the door saying "Problem solver."
Then tell people to name a problem and a price they'd pay to have it solved, and I'd call them when I've got it figured out. Seriously, its kind of a dream job.
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Justin - fascinating idea mate. I'm a huge fan of original resource, seeing pretty raw stuff before it gets "popularized" and... well, you know how it goes.

If you'd be so kind, could you point me to a couple places to start learning about prize economics? I'll check here, and my email is contactsebastian -at- gmail.com. Anyone else from HN is welcome to shoot me a line too, I feel like I'm with people I like in my living room when I'm on this site.
Aye, this also has truth. I always hold the opinion that my parents sacrificed too much, they set out and worked long hours in hope to provide a better future for themselves and me. However they did not revise their thinking, and even 10 years down the road when finance was no longer an issue they're still inexplicably drudging along, all in the name of sacrifice.

This illustrates that sacrifice prolonged has dangers, namely it dulls purpose, and gives you an excuse to choose a passive approach to life.

This type of sacrifice is different in the sense you're sacrificing for 'a better life' as opposed to sacrificing for 'your purpose' or the purpose of your family. And its very dangerous to sacrifice for 'a better life' per se, because we humans are never satisfied ;p
I was disappointed to not see Peter Schiff on that list.
Amazon has a ton of them: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=businessov...
If the goal had been 5%, you would say: - It may be simply mathematically impossible to get to 5 percent...

And they are already at 9.56%.
Fraud in online transactions is almost always charged back to the business. It may be different face to face, I'm not sure. And then they make money on interest.

My ideal online payment solution (and I think it'll happen later) is for everyone to have a number they put into a site to buy. Then they have to log into online banking and approve the charge. There'd be a description of the company and the charge automatically with the debit, and "Approve / Decline / I Don't Know This User" choices or some such.

It'd reduce fraud to near-zero levels, and I don't think it'd cost too much to set up. Credit cards will live on for a long time as short term credit, but I reckon banks could offer that at much more reasonable rates with a much better idea of people's finances and credit profiles. And with widespread enough adoption, merchants could start telling CC companies to take a hike. Heck, the bank could even make it a "card that you control" or something to not break from the card tradition.
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Yup, that's true... Such as this: Go to google, type in "french military victories", and press I'm feeling lucky. It takes you to a french parody site, suggesting that you meant "french military defeats".
Start with this tutorial:

Converting a Design From PSD to HTML
http://nettuts.com/videos/screencasts/converting-a-design-
from-psd-to-html/
Personal reminiscences warning: One of the weird things about my digg experiences was where I sat in the conference hierarchy. Kevin would go to London (FOWA), Paris (LeWeb), etc, and listen to a bunch of other fake people talk about fake stuff. They sent me to 2 conferences. Webmasterworld in Las Vegas, which was all SEO, lots of hustlers, the best party I've ever been to (a Yahoo party in the Hugh Hefner suite at the Palms), met Matt Cutts; and then they sent me to Reflection/Projections in Urbana-Champaign (why would we want to go there?) - which included Steve Yegge and Randall Monroe (XKCD), and was probably the best conference I've ever been to. You pose, poseurs gather around you. You get pushed into the background, you meet lots of interesting people.
In situations like this, a lot of times a whole team gets cut. For example I think they mentioned the entire Yahoo Toolbar and Yahoo Finance teams in the U.S. were being laid off. That isn't a reflection on the skills of those engineers so much as recognizing that these products aren't mission-critical.

Also, if you have to fire people, often it's easier to fire people who are more recent additions to the team, even if they are more skilled. It has less of a social impact on the rest of the company, and you lose less institutional knowledge.

In short, there are plenty of reasons to believe there are great engineers being let go. Let's stay classy.
Sounds like a perfect opportunity to ask for a raise :).
I've used psd2html and was very pleased with the work, I have high standards. I would use them again.
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A numbered list + sensational title + appeals to a broad audience + 2:1 fluff to content ratio + broken up into 9 pages.

I can hear the Digg votes clicking away.
If you do negotiate for the job as a whole, try to be very explicit on what is deliverable. It's easy to get stuck in a trap where you keep adding just one more thing and it takes forever without you getting more money.
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kinda like: "how many gas stations are there in the US?" Can you make quick estimates and assumptions to arrive at a conclusion?
LOL. I misunderstood what you have said. Since the code will be open sourced, it will definitely benefit thousands of companies.

In fact, there was one graduate student who was in our campus last semester was doing research in this area. He did a very good job on this. And, he won the first ACM machine learning prize for the paper. If you are interested in this area, you can actually go to the library and find out the paper. Now, I think he is now working in the Microsoft Research Team(the usual career path in our campus).

I actually did a tiny recommendation engine using one of the collaborative filtering algorithm - slope one predictor last two days. It will be up on the web very soon. I am having problems updating my server because rubygems.org is down!
No... Is it Pascal? Because that would be pretty weird. I always assumed it was C++.
Google did that after the first dot-com bubble burst. I've heard Tim Sanders, who worked at Yahoo, talk about how demoralizing it was for Yahoo employees to see their employees get lured over to the new, new thing.
That one is chuckle worthy but I think this is the absolute pinnacle of the genre:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html

About the only think it leaves out is the American Civil War, where France was initially rooting for the Confederacy. The later reverted to type: switch sides after the battle is won and take credit for the victory. (Jokes aside, the UK performed similarly that time.)

See, e.g., http://www.civilwarhome.com/europeandcivilwar.htm
I came to 200,000 by guessing how many were in an area served by one high school, and trying to remember how many high schools are in the US. Odd, but I figured a high school grouping would be some indicator of economic activity and thus civilian gas needs.
This is my first semester. But, is it an easy A? I need some As to pump up my CGPA.
It's all good, I think I need to stop hanging out on YC today. I have to catch up to Matt on this Cocoa Programming book, and then I've got a final project to prep for, and finally a meeting tomorrow with the company to talk about some marketing stuff.

Clearly YC is not where I should be right now :)
But at least those are safe losses. With stocks, who knows if you can be sure to lose? Better stick with bonds...
another article from 2 years later: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-07/07/content_636244...
I believe it. I had a computer science faculty member tell me that Linux had no GUI and therefore was not recommended for most uses. This was about 3 years ago.
While I agree that the OP should learn CSS/HTML (assuming they don't already know it), I know that for myself, someone who has a very solid understanding of both, that I sometimes find myself saying "FUCK IT MAN, I JUST WANT TO CODE THE APP." When you have to know how to do everything, from concept to front end to back end to deployment, sometimes it's great to just pass off the simple things to someone else.

So I think if you find yourself being the wearer of every hat imaginable, so long as you know what's being done, there's no problem with outsourcing it. Invariably you'll need to make changes once it's returned to make it work with your back end system so you'll need the hacking knowledge anyways. But having the brunt of the slicing and dicing and coding done for you eliminates the potential for one more headache along the way...
I might be missing something here, but what about this (I didn't even attempt to run this)? Basically, just call map1 and map2 with a single-number interval, and then apply the function from map3 to that result. This avoids making a local copy, but does require a lot of function calls.

(defun compmap (fn mapper1 mapper2 start end)
(cond ((= start end) '())
(else (cons
(fn start (+ (mapper1 start start) (mapper2 start start)))
(compmap fn mapper1 mapper2 (+ start 1) end)))))
I would donate.
I think, in the context of dinosaurs doing monumentally stupid things to off themselves, he might be referring to Kevin Costner, his career, and "The Postman".

Although I think "Waterworld" would have pretty much wrapped that one up...
No I wouldn't have, because I could only make a statement like that after seeing performance information. Since at least 40 teams beat that performance the first year, I would have said they set the bar too low.
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Why is this downmodded? I can understand people disagreeing, but it is a well articulated point.
Maybe there is an inherent noise floor for the optimal estimator for the dataset they have found or bounded.
Well, I've got a bunch of pages so it will be a little bit more than $30. And I'd prefer to not have to get it redone multiple times because the quality of the work sucked.

Sure, what worked for random_yc_user_99 might not work for me, but it is also possible it will work great. And starting with some a recommendation for a service (particularly if there is any kind of consensus about who is good/bad) is better than starting with nothing.
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I started working on this about a month and a half ago. My RMSE is pathetic thus far(just started tweaking a kNN with Pearson correlation as a distance metric), but I don't really care. It's a great way to brush up on a lot of CompSci concepts at once you may be rusty on. Besides obviously machine learning, when you're trying to process 2 gb of training files on your personal computer, O(n) time/space complexity REALLY starts to matter, as does choice of implementation language...using mostly Python with C extensions for the heavy math right now...
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You don't think religions have greatly affected the culture, and hence the "common sense", in Sweden?

Common sense as in "don't kill other people at random, even if they are dorks". I think Christianity really pushed things like that through during say 12th to 17th century.
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map1 and map2 repeat code. abstract this part to a general mapper function:

(loop for n from start to end do

then you will write the content of the first mapping as a function foo and call the general mapper and pass it foo to accomplish the same thing map1 does.

same with map2, except baz instead of foo.

then map3 is easy. call the general mapper again and pass in something like this: (lambda (x) (baz (foo x)))

or actually it looks like you wanted to add the results, so (lambda (x) (+ (baz x) (foo x)))

basically if you define the interesting part of map1 as one individual thing, and ditto for map2, then you can write the combination easily.

i hope that's clear and didn't miss the point somehow.
It's better to stay in things with low returns rather than to lose 50% of your wealth. You should preserve capital. It'll be hard and challenging enough.

"When people are fearful be greedy when people are greedy be fearful"

12 months ago most of these people's advice was terrible what makes people think it's gotten better after that? It's possible to make good money by riding the economy at large, but generating actual wealth vs. paper fortunes necessitates the same approach in up and down markets. Find an inefficiency in the current system and exploit it.
Here is a whole table full of 'em here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/23/xhtmlcss-coding-s...

Heard good things about xhtmlized.
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Perhaps it would be simpler to pass the interval modifiers as functional arguments:

(def mapr (f x y . fs)
(let r (range x y)
(map f r
(apply map + (map [map _ r] fs)))))

arc> (mapr (fn (x y) (prn x " " y)) 1 3 [+ _ 10])
1 11
2 12
3 13
(1 2 3)

arc> (mapr (fn (x y) (prn x " " y)) 1 3 [expt _ 2])
1 1
2 4
3 9
(1 2 3)

arc> (mapr (fn (x y) (prn x " " y)) 1 3 [+ _ 10] [expt _ 2])
1 12
2 16
3 22
(1 2 3)
What bothers me is how CNN has decided that succession implies insight. By the screens, they:

1. "saw the mortgage-related meltdown coming"
2. "warned of a subprime contagion back in July 2007"
3. "called both the dot-com and housing bubbles"
5. "predicted two years ago that the credit bubble would devastate Wall Street"
7. "was among the first to warn that the big banks had big problems"

The problem is that none of these people might have any insight. Yes, they said something, then it came true. However, astrologists say things that come true. They're more wrong than they're right, but you can easily find astrologists who have gotten a few big things correct. CNN has plastered up at least 5 of them as having the insight to see this mess coming. If you and I decide today to make predictions - me that 2009 will see a resurgence and you that 2009 will be more of the current pain, one of us is going to look like a financial genius. Well, at least to those who infer insight from a succession of events. One of them even says, "I was right a year ago, and I think I'll be right this year too."

I have made one correct prediction for the future, therefore future predictions of mine are likely to be correct. I guess I'm sick of the doom and gloom the media wants to sell us. Part of what happens in economic crisis is that people stop trusting the economy. In that distrust, people do things that aren't economically useful like hoarding (since they fear for the worst). It's a natural reaction and these stories heighten that reaction making the crisis considerably worse. People say credit is tight. People (banks) hear that and don't want to lend money since they might need it to cover something unexpected. As banks stop lending, credit actually becomes tight.

While I certainly don't believe this crisis is merely a factor of public perception, public perception can (and has) led to real problems in other nations and does cause problems like our current situation to become worse than it is - similarly, when we're all happy about the economy, our perception puts ourselves into a bigger boom than is real.

Live simply. Don't overextend. Save for the rainy days. Ignore the news.
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I agree that many of the interview questions traditionally used are silly. But it difficult to avoid them if you want to be successful in the job search process.
It looks like we might have in office someone that actually knows what he his talking about. That doesn't seem to be that common...
You could use lazy lists like (I think) Haskell uses:

(define (lazy-range start end) ; create a lazy list that returns the next number in the range [start end]
(if (= start end) (cons start '())
(cons start
(delay (lazy-range (add1 start) end)))))

(define (lazy-map fn lst) ; map a function to every element of a lazy list, returning a lazy list
(if (empty? lst) '()
(cons (fn (car lst))
(delay (lazy-map fn (force (cdr lst)))))))

(define map1 (curry lazy-map (curry + 10))) ; equivalent to map1 from your example
(define map2 (curry lazy-map (lambda (x) (expt x 2)))) ; equivalent to map2 from your example

(define (lazy-list->list lazy) ; convert a lazy list to a list (for printing, etc)
(if (empty? lazy) '()
(cons (car lazy) (lazy-list->list (force (cdr lazy))))))

(lazy-list->list (map1 (map2 (lazy-range 1 10)))) ; example use

Because the lists are lazy, the maps will only be applied as each value is actually needed, like you described.
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Just a note: you need to quote the parens in the link like so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_%28computer_scien...

And no, I don't know why this isn't mentioned in the FAQ or (better yet) the formatting options...
I'm not sure I understand. The app store is a tiny segment of the app market.
PSD2HTML is reliable for delivery, but it depends on if you're a css snob or not if you will like their code.

They get it done, and that's it.
There's an extra one in the comments that is particularly appropriate for this venue:

“Never trust geeks bearing formulas.”

(and the whole sub-prime debacle)
I'm so awesome that it makes other people feel inadequate. Sorry.
I envy you people with better design skills than HTML/CSS skills. I need the reverse, which tends to be a bit more expensive...
Question: What can a sincere smile, a kind word, and a friendly ear get you?

Answer: Plenty.

I like the sentiment of this post, but as someone who has traveled a great deal on business, it is easier said than done.

Even so, I too have gotten my share of car upgrades and free airline drinks by taking the time to talk and listen to some hardworking, often overlooked people. The toughest part for me was finding the energy to 'care enough' to enter into such conversations.
Abstract out the mapping itself, and then apply the composed transformation from map1 and map2 to it. map1 and map2 don't need to do any looping themselves, just work take an int and return an int.

Think of it in terms of doing all of your transformations in one pass, if that helps.
I'm really confused as the hostility here. It's a pretty reasonable question, and there really is a difference between the different entities doing this type of service. Sure, it's a good skill to have, but it's rather menial work in my opinion. I definitely don't like doing it, especially the browser comparability stuff.
It could be something simple. It could be that the people who decide whether Gmail is a beta or not aren't the people who decide whether Chrome is a beta or not.
I know that, but for someone using mouse gestures in FF, I can't do a right click+drag left/right/up/down, etc.

"Until you spend a lot of time becoming proficient with OS X... it goes both ways. I don't understand how people come to these conclusions."

Right, it goes both ways. So if you spent a lot of time becoming proficient with OS X, I wouldn't recommend you switch to Windows. But if you spent a lot of time becoming proficient with Windows/Linux, I wouldn't recommend you switch to OS X.
why is France the face of European tech scene? Shouldn't Britain have that job? I mean for Brits its easy as hell to release world wide apps since English is so popular.
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I think the death of Java is long overdue. It will happen as soon as it loses it corporate backing from Sun (which has its own problems nowadays). Who else can maintain such an ugly beast as the JVM?

A nice point in the article is that many (most?) people that like Java started programming at the time it was created. Younger people think it is too clumsy, older people prefer C or C++. I personally started programming with Pascal and C, and hate the way Java downplays the capacity of its users. C#, although inheriting many of the problems in Java, is a much more interesting and inclusive language.