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I don't think this article does a very good job of explaining the distinction.

I know what a Bayesian is. I'm not sure that even frequentists know what a frequentist is.
Erasing my home directory would be plenty of damage.

The hard part is propagating to other computers.
I say it's an acceptable cost if it results in schools' main product, education, sucking less.
From that URL (http://9to5mac.com/crazy-displayport-virus) I expected to see an article about a crazy DisplayPort virus.

A virus that infects computers via the monitor connection. That would be crazy.
"Google recently hired a new chief financial officer, Patrick Pichette. Trained in "Six Sigma" management practices -- a rigid quality-control system designed to eliminate waste -- Mr. Pichette is looking to reduce inefficiencies and delay spending when possible."

That is a sign that something goes bad at a company. When they implement "scientific" methods.
Is that you Stallman?
I think this is more of a "when we said twice as fast, you should interpret it as much faster, not 2.00x as fast"

Admittedly, still a pretty weak argument.
loved that ;-)
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Such syntax'd popped up before. http://code.activestate.com/recipes/276960/
I was interested how it affects readability and code size. The script's version with pype is both clear and concise (compared to the sloppy version without it).

The concept of Unix' pipes (as in books "Unix Programming Environment" and "The Art of Unix Programming") or SICP's stream processing (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-24.html... ) is applicable to a large number of problems.

It would be interesting to see how pype transforms the code from "Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers" (http://www.dabeaz.com/generators-uk/ )

Python lacks a convient syntax for chaining of function calls suitable for a functional style programming (too many parentheses and ugly lambdas). Ruby and Perl do a better job here; Haskell with its overloading of whitespace is a clear winner. pype could help with parentheses but lambdas stay.

'|' is unambiguous for non-arithmetic types and easily understood (via shell analogy). Swapping pype's backend by a multiprocessing (package) based implementation could leverage multicore for large pipes.

Having said that IMO Domain Specific Languages are a no go in Python. It is the Ruby/Lisp Way to invent a new syntax/language for every problem domain possible; unless pype could be included in the Python's standard library. In that case it would be the Python syntax. pype implementation is straightforward, the syntax is familiar so there must be some simple reason why this approach haven't received a wide adoption.
Dude, that's at the UW.
"Scalability isn't a magic pixie dust you find in some boxes of cereals and not others. Scalability is extremely application specific."

Absolutely correct. I have an app that is not scalable in most of the traditional ways because one live memory based database needs to be fast, have very large capacity, and be instantly accessible to all users concurrently. This appears to require a custom coded C program whereas the front-end web servers are a minuscule issue in comparison.
How about a code monkey? Sorry for hijacking your thread.
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I've seen some reasonable SF lawyers on CL. You should vet whoever you work with well, since you might be working with them for a long time. Also, consider an S corp election initially, which has tax advantages.

Some lawyers will try to keep you coming back for technicalities, so they can charge you. If they want to keep the corporate book, consider it a red flag.

My advice: buy the Nolo book on corp records, and incorporate through LegalZoom.com. You really only need lawyers for litigation or patent stuff. You can also do your own trademarks.

One more thing, don't give your lawyers equity. It only muddies the water, and can lead to conflict of interest. You can find some interesting advice on http://www.venturehacks.com.

Finally, good luck with your venture! I envy you :)
I am a Rails. But, I am more a Ruby(Rubyist).
No problem, the more the merrier
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Everybody should have an accountant. They had to run somewhat buggy software (tax laws, bilancing laws etc) on unreliable hardware (humans) since a long time ago.

(It's constrained based programming.)
This happens to many who drink diet soda. It gives them a free pass to eat large, greasy meals.
It's not the bug. It's the money.
But he would have seen it earlier.
Opera handles this intelligently, it seems. (Or the bug/feature is already fixed.)
I'm not sure what UW you're referring to, but I took that at an ACM conference at UIUC: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2006/
here's a better though longer frequentist vs bayesian article from brad efron. http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~ckirby/brad/papers/2005NEWMode...
Personally I prefer Lenna as a test image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

;)
Is popularity a linear scale? If it isn't then it seems to me that simply multiplying the price by the popularity is bogus. e.g. in terms of units sold what's the difference between a popularity of 0.1 and 0.2? Double? Ten Times?
The standard shortcut for this is :TOhtml (although I always screw it up and type :toHTML). Of course, you can ":help TOhtml" to get more info.
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Usually, at a test, a kid will be as focused as he/she will ever get. It is specially cruel to show adds to a kid in such situations because maximum attention is required for someone doing a test...
Just confirms my feeling that TheRegister is another one of those sites that should be banned here. It's basically just a shitty tech tabloid. The quality of "journalism" there is horrible.

Edit: Since this got downvoted, this was the article that "broke" the story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/02/apple_mac_av_advice/
If I ran HN I would remove the delete button and keep the edit, but I would keep a record of changes so that users could look back through the edits made to a comment (a simple diff would do).
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thats almost amazing
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i agree to u.y all guys wanna go to moon or else.

to find helium3 or other fuel.

lot of people in our world is now under starvation.??
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... but not very humble, eh? :)
I think that's the big flaw with this, and that's simply that it's a small company. The one thing I can't risk in my cloud app framework is that the company will suddenly go under or that it won't truly scale.

Otherwise, it's cool.
Spread spectrum doesn't help (much). Compare the signals observed on opposite sides of an electromagnetic broadcast source, and you can measure how fast it is moving without needing to know what frequency it is trying to emit.
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Article on The Register published: 2nd December 2008 11:33 AM GMT

Articles on Washington Post[1] published: 1st December 2008 9:55 AM ET (2:55 PM GMT)

So really, it wasn't The Register that "broke" the story at all.

[1] http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/12/apple_m...
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The journalist who wrote this is following 0 other twitter users and has only made 1 update, yet still managed to write a whole article about it
If it's not tough, then why hasn't there been one yet? A trojan is easy, but a trojan is not the same as a virus.
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Wow, that quote should be mandatory for everyone thinking about becoming an entrepreneur. Getting started is toughest hurdle to cross for most people...
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I know git performance is much much better than bzr but as thats not a major concern for small/medium projects, could someone who has used both bzr and git give some pointers on what one would be nicer to use than the other in areas other than performance?
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I am a European living in the Philippines and to me this sounds just like the system here. Corruption is not considered very bad, it is a part of the system.
I can't help but think of ImageJ here. Except Mathematica is much more of a scripting language than Java, so much more convenient if you don't yet know if you're doing the right thing.
I don't know how you use "boutique" in the US, but it's a commonly used word around here (when speaking English anyway).

I do think there is definitely a qualitative difference in the way people speak in Europe and in the US (also when speaking languages other than English).

I was a bit surprised when I have heard a (supposedly, could have been Canadian AFAIK) American tourist saying something like "they were just a bunch of dudes hanging out" (she was a woman in her 40's, in Austria using an equivalent form of slang is something normally reserved to much younger people).
I completely agree. I don't own an iPhone, but this would practically be a killer app for me.

A relatively simple concept, but I think the iPhones user interface could be excellent at it, and I think it could be extremely popular within a niche. There's a lot of scope for features and development, and you could certainly charge more than $5 considering the real cost of a graphics calculator.

It could also be better than current graphics calculators in some ways despite the lack of physical buttons - every graphics calculator I've ever used has seriously struggled with making a decent UI.
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I think you could broadly divide Europe to 4 parts along the north/south axis and the west/east axis.

I believe this thread pertains mostly to the northern and in particular north western part.
But even if lately people have been quitting church, the culture of Sweden is very much affected by Christianity. I mean work ethics, being honest, and other such values.
In the ideal world we'd see only comments like this:

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I've been using I Want Sandy and I really regret you've chosen to close it down. I hope you reconsider your decision. Some people pay $x for service $foo, so I'm sure many wouldn't mind paying $x+1 for Sandy.
Still, thanks a lot for the free ride."

But no, we get a lot of entitled whiners and opinionated bloggers complaining.
Holy smokes! A $7000/month mortgage on $150K per year? That's a HUGE mortgage payment. (Mine was considered steep at around $2K/month).
Side note:

Everybody telling you that there is a solution for the current world-wide financial crisis is simply a non-expert.

There has never been a situation like the current one in history:

The Big Failing of Communism is already past.
The Big Failing of Capitalism is currently happening.

You rich ones should prepare...

P.S. You don't need to believe me, you will simply see it happening soon...
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If reality is deterministic, it can't possibly be frequentist. If you had total information you would assign every real event probability 1, or some reliable 0<p<1 for continuity-of-experience with a self traveling down one of the branches of an as yet unresolved quantum event.
My favorite bit was the "On competition" one:

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Sage advice for any entrepreneur, and a word of warning for big companies that are losing their touch.
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Maybe they've improved this in recent versions, but I remember this being excruciatingly slow.
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Hi, i have watched this site for quite some time but never posted anything but i would like to hear your opinion about a website idea i had these days. I'm not an entrepreneur although i have considered for a while to get on the roller coaster and try some of my ideas.

To put it in short i'm a huge fan of any gadget so i was wondering if there would be any interest in a website, where members have profiles showing their gadgets (phones, game consoles, mp3 players etc), where each member can post a personal review of his gadgets, post notifications on new gadgets, sell old ones.

Could have a microblogging platform like:
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Thank you for your time :)
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What kind of complaining?
I can't believe that anyone still believes anything they read in the NY Times.
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I can't agree with your first paragraph. It's a small breach of trust if I send mail to an innocent domain and it ends up on the servers of an advertising company where it is scanned for keywords without my consent. Remember that you agreed to Google's terms of service, but the persons that send mail to you did not.

I'm grossly exaggerating now, but if we replace gmail with IRS, I'm sure that most people would regard the forwarding as a big breach of trust.

You say that a lot of people could read the mail while it is in transit. This is of course true, but a student running ettercap or a sysadmin grepping the mail queue would face criminal charges. By scanning inbound mail from third parties, Google is operating in a legally dark grey area.

I'm not aware of other webmail providers doing the same thing.

Regarding Google apps:

If I find out that a company uses Google apps, I would probably take my business elsewhere for the same privacy reasons.

Interesting that Google feels the need to use non-google.com domain names for handling the mail of apps customers:

dig -t mx salesforce.com

salesforce.com. 300 IN MX 100 salesforce.com.s8a1.psmtp.com.

whois psmtp.com

Google, Inc.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but an honest name would be e.g:

mx12345.apps.google.com.
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Isn't most businesses started with a small group of people wanting to go into business together? They may have a slightly more articulated idea of what to do, but still nowhere near an elevator pitch. The HP founders just took the "hey, we should do something together" conversation over lunch and formalized it.

Once they struck sales with their model 200 audio oscillator, they became as focused as any successful company.
Cloudbursting? Seriously?
"Think in the morning, act in the noon, read in the evening, and sleep at night." - I guess I never thought about it that way.

Lately I have been trying to get up earlier, though unfortunately, I don't know what to do with my mornings. I guess I need a plan of action. Further considering I am in Columbus, OH, it gets very cold this time of the year (and for the next few months) so going out to do something isn't very appealing.

Though doing some exercise at home in the morning does not sound like a bad idea.
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It might, but I don't think it will.

That kind of defense hasn't worked very well in filesharing cases (or has it? at least I'm under the impression that it hasn't), and is even less likely to work if the offense is more severe. Like when the infamous "terrorist networks" put things there, or the kiddie porn people. At the very least you'll get hit for aiding the baddies.
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I think you forgot the in that sentence.
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>non-acceptance of dirty cops is something inherent to American culture.

That is exactly the case. America would not have succeeded economically without certain traits, relative immunity to corruption being one of them.

In game theory a player may have two strategies - to 'cooperate' or to 'defect' (law-abiding behaviour vs corruption). It has been demonstrated that in absence of punishment the defection (corruption) may be the best strategy for an individual, even though it may be harmful for the society as a whole.

Americans have developed a virtuous cycle where certainty of punishment (the society and the legal system there as a whole are relatively not corrupt) stimulates intolerance towards corruption among individuals. Remaining non-corrupt and rooting out corruption is profitable in the USA. But in an already corrupt society it may impossible for the individual to remain honest.
Is it that hard to guess? There are perhaps hundreds of companies using Twitter as a rapid-response support channel ( http://twitter.com/slicehost ). And not just small companies, but big companies like JetBlue, Comcast, etc. Some of these companies have people actively participating, others appear to have scripts that look for the mention of a company name and auto-follow those users' streams as a good-will measure (how easy and cool -- "JetBlue is following my tweets!"). Because of the novelty, Twitter-based support generates a great deal of word-of-mouth press, which is very important in a time when products and services that used to be considered necessities are now considered luxuries.

Will companies pay to have access to that channel? Absolutely. How much? Who knows, but I do not think that $100/month is unreasonable for small-to-midsize companies and $1000/month or more for larger companies -- it can be based on the number of tweets sent perhaps. Given that, twitter could be free for personal use but corporate use could require a subscription.

There - that wasn't so hard, was it? Not that I'm claiming I'm right or anything, but that's what I'd be considering.