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We are a registered company in the UK, Ireland and China providing factory-direct manufacturing, sourcing and product design to clients throughout the world.We are the best wholesale suppliers and outsourcing agent in china.
I am not a libertarian, and think there are serious flaws with their reasoning. However, I think it's great that they're willing to go try and build something of their own. That solves a lot of problems of trying to convince everyone else to do things their way, so I really hope it goes well for them.
how is this possibly competitive with alibaba.com ?
I think CL is suitable for projects which are fluid and have a very few people working on them. Speaking from personal experience 1 person can get an awful lot done in CL, very quickly. Compared to any other scripting language. I've worked with CL, Python and Ruby. There are certain things that I think are impossible to write in Python.

I started by writing a domain-specific crawler which extracted certain information from a bunch of sites. But the sites I was crawling changed their design mid way. So I then ended up writing a program in CL, to which I describe the data that the site has. E.g. Name-of-city is "Edinburgh", Address is '15 Market Place, ED12', First-Movie-name is 'Bend it like Beckham', First-showing-date is '15 Jan', First-showing-time is '14:20'. The program then produces a function which when give a page from this website extracts this information in the form of an alist so that it can be pushed into the database.

Funnily enough the my site which shows this data runs on django.
Zappos has amazing phone support. They require all employees from all departments to spend time talking to real customers. Even Tony, the CEO, does customer support calls.
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I'm going to make a different kind of statement here. Something that I've learnt from my CL experience.

When I think about solving a problem by writing new software, I ask myself, is a run of a mill problem like a website which serves data, or making use of a bunch of libraries to do something. Then use rails/django, I use django/python.

If I don't know what the solution will look like and I don't think I'm going to need existing libraries. I'll use CL everytime.

Horses for courses. Nails and hammmers.
A new SICP post makes the rounds at News.YC every week or so. As an experienced programmer (10 years, using functional languages, etc.), do I really need to read it?
Here, save yourself some money, use it as others have mentioned to invest in yourself.

If you're doing it to learn, there's no reason to do it under fire.

I'll +1 to the other advice here: go fantasy to learn. They're real numbers, so the educational value is the same. You can think rationally without getting as emotionally attached to the money, so you'll learn better. (Hopefully you won't go with real money until you've learned to keep a clear head)

Most importantly, you'll know when you're actually good enough to do well in the market -- when you're doing better than your competition over a long period of time. That will tell you when it's skill instead of luck.
Learning Haskell through category theory
> we built it over 10 years.

Which is longer than you've worked on any of your software, if I'm not mistaken. That would, in some ways, make it the biggest barrier to entry. The software is good, but certainly not impossible for good people to replicate in a relatively brief time, so what really seems to differentiate you is the blog/rails/following - that is something that cannot easily be replicated.
Yes! Go ahead and read it - this book is an amazing reading, you wont regret a second.
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No, everything should hire people with a security background to alleviate the problem. But the ROI would be too low to justify it - security is expensive. And in the big picture, even a $8K loss is peanuts.
Nope:-/
Nah - you've got it the wrong way round... You can only reach 20,000 by knowing the true nature of nickb.
Is that 75th up or down?
Instead of talking about building these things, they should be talking about a factory to build these things. The factory, with associated reduction in cost as production scales, is the trick.

I'm sure that's what they are doing, but it wasn't clear from the article.

I think it's a great idea. I'd like to see it at about 10% of the current cost, but the idea of competitive voluntary governmental structures is supposed to be what we have now (and we don't). It is in desperate need of re-factoring.
And do not forget to try the exercises at the end of every chapter. They are the key to fully enjoy the book.
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Somehow I don't think you'll find many secretaries with a security background.
With the exception of slavery that quote seems to be on the tame side of what's being suggested.

The result of one of their brain storming sessions: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9742300@N06/2946735005/
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It's not that the article is so great, I just wanted to stir up a discussion bout the subject.
Microsoft's made the case for them
Who knows the real story. This could be a case of the author taking journalistic liberties, or simply misunderstanding the process.

My understanding is that a simple diff would take care of 90% of the work by eliminating all common base pairs. Then, from the results, his job would be to cross-reference each of the mutations against the gene database. Any unknown mutation could be the one he's looking for.

Perhaps this is actually what he did, and the "no feasible way to automate the hunt" refers to the cross-referencing step, not the differencing step.

Still though, reading that part almost made me email him saying, "I'll find you a way to automate it!".
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I would agree with you if this was about any other company. Spirit is widely considered the worst airline in the industry for many reasons.

A couple years ago, the CEO accidentally replied all to a customer complaint when he meant to forward it to a customer care manager. All it said was "get this bitchy asshole off my hands."

It does not surprise me that a company run by a guy with that philosophy would make such an error.
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http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...

gumstix.com
toradex.com
sparkfun.com
parallax.com

digikey.com
mouser.com
Do you mean Adsense?

Why can't he find anyone to replace them?
If HAML's not your thing then ok, to each his own. But the people here dismissing HAML out of hand because it's "easier" to just write the HTML by hand sound like people advocating typewriters over word processors. The whole reason to abstract HTML away is because it's easy. Writing HTML by hand is repetitive and boring. If you still enjoy it, you probably haven't been doing it for very long.
I've pointed out one of the brainstorming boards in reply to rw talking about whether, "laissez-faire [is] at all desirable?"

There are some other interesting nuggets.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9742300@N06/2946731651/
For prisons and mental health you're going to want all but the very worst individuals to be eventually re-integrated into the community. For me that means they really need to be close to the communities they serve.
A spaceport is a potentially interesting idea with a proven track record. That track record works both ways. What advantage would a seasteading community have?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9742300@N06/2946734321/
A patent-free zone may work well for the community but presumably if they want to sell the goods they produce to countries that respect patents they're going to have problems.
Data/document storage sounds a little unlikely. I would expect the risks with a seastead to be higher than a building on dry land. They can't compete on security and I doubt they could compete on price either. We may have trouble making new land but in terms of acreage it is still significantly cheaper than seasteads are expected to cost.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9742300@N06/2947590204/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9742300@N06/2946733673/
Nothing too crazy here though I see no real advantage for seasteading.
Well, let's see.

Experimenting with various forms of government is what got you to where you are today.

Should we continue? Or is the system of government we have (wherever we are) the most perfect we could ever hope for?

There's no reason to think mankind must always get worse. From time to time he'll get better. "laissez-faire", in this context, is non-sensical, ie, there is no government to allow anything. The concept is beyond that.

Personally, I think some form of representative republic with three branches of government with checks and balances is the right way to go. But even in the U.S., we have virtually a permanent legislative branch by gerrymandering, an executive that is split between only two political parties for over 140 years, and a court system that seems to misunderstand its own role. Is there a reboot button? A way to start over, with perhaps time-limits on laws, a constitutional balanced-budget amendment, (insert own ideas here)

New ideas, even ones which are scary dangerous, are not to be feared. No new ideas? That's what to be afraid of.
My proposal was meant as a practical interim step. Selecting ends democratically works better than selecting means. While people can agree in a democratic fashion that certain goals shall be reached, the market fares better at choosing the method to execute.

In the longer run though, I would like to fund public goods using dominant assurance contracts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contracts#Variants). They solve the free rider problem of voluntary funding. And they allow private provision of public goods --- for profit. (http://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/PrivateProvision.pdf)

Of course, dominant assurance contracts and social policy bonds complement each other.
Before panicking, it is worth noting that Seagate says [1]
"Seagate has isolated this issue to a firmware bug affecting drives from these families manufactured in December 2008"

[1] http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp...
That's more than fair; I appreciate the note. Good to know what to expect when I apply after we exit from Dawdle. :)
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A friend of mine created http://www.muvium.com/.
It lets you build the device virtually using java.
No matter what experience you have you probably will learn something from SICP.
Not quite. From a preliminary reading, it seems to me that there might be special exemptions on dividends from stocks and other instruments for nonresident alien individuals that don't extend to other kinds of income.

On the other hand, does Apple really need a TIN at all? Some people report that Apple is happy to have you skip it on the W-8BEN you submit to them because the 70% on iphone apps is 'sales/commission' and not 'royalties', hence not taxable at all (for non-US developers). I have asked Apple for clarification and am waiting to hear.
Thank you. I did read the article I am just saying the majority do everything the same in a similar matter with similar inputs.

When it comes down to it we are a computers.
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If you work through this, make sure to catch at least some of the video lectures available at http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
Abelson and Sussman rock big time, plus: the outfits and hairstyles of the participants are just wonderful (mid-eighties!) ;)
So I just emailed Dr. Rienhoff, linking to this page, and encouraging him to post any problems he encounters to HN.
It's a monopoly as far as the 'competition' is unbelievably lame.

The story of overture + yahoo etc is amazing.
There's a lot of people out there that invest without any prior knowledge at all, I wouldn't doubt that many of them don't even realise how much there is to stock trading. I have known someone that put down £30k without understanding even the basics, and obviously they lost it all. I don't think you have to beat the pro's, you just have to beat the idiots, and be blessed with some luck.

I agree with other comments, you have to be ready to lose the money, hopefully in exchange for knowledge. If you can't afford to throw the money away, don't risk it. But you never know until you try..
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I read about this on heise the day after I placed an order on a 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11. Hope they manage to get an efficient firmware update process in place - having to email support individually with the serial number is just not going to work.
From what I can tell, Spirit hasn't done one thing right in this whole situation for these passengers.

Spirit cancelled their original flight, booked them on USAir.

USAir is the carrier that employed the pilots and cabin crew that got everyone out, saved lives, etc.

Spirit then said "That'll be $90 cancellation fee, please."

(Spirit has since gone back on the very last point.)

That last point is merely the reversal of a wrong, which doesn't make it worthy of an "Atta boy, Spirit!" IMO.
There are companies that will get the data off the drive for you. The prices for this kind of service have come down quite a bit in recent years. Backups are cheaper though...
I honestly cannot imagine why someone would want to get into the x86 server market. It's a brutal race to the bottom. The only way to make money here is as a systems integrator.
Are you using Prolog?
I decided to take a Prolog class, since the only languages I know are imperative. I'm curious if you are using it to solve some real concrete problems? Most realistic one I've encountered in my own work was using Prolog as a parser for a query language in a search engine.
Poll: Do you know about the poll feature?
I fairly often see people ask poll type questions without using the poll feature. Did you know there is one?

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
There is also the online tutor:

http://icampustutor.csail.mit.edu/6.001-public/
I am sick of people tarring Libertarianism with the Anarcho-Capitalist brush. There will not be slaves under a Libertarian government because the #1 responsibility of a Libertarian government and the duty of every good Libertarian citizen is to act to prevent coercion. With decisive physical force if necessary. Maximization of societal freedom, not individual wealth, is the Libertarian goal.

There might be indentured labour of course, but that's a whole 'nother discussion.
Given that it's difficult to ship oil without pirates appearing on the horizon I think it will be difficult to create a floating state without weapons, standing armies, police, judges... and before you know it your in the mess we are in. am I being too pessimistic?
Aww. Thought this was actually a "proper" PDF instead of just a printed copy of the online book :-(
This feature isn't open to all (I believe you need some karma to `unlock' it.) I also believe this post would be more useful and appropriate as a comment on a thread that you feel could have used this option.

Also, some people deliberately choose not to create polls to harbor more comments and discussion.
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Twitter Like Parsing URLs with JavaScript.
This tutorial explains about how to Parsing URLs within the posted text like Twitter with Javascript. My last post I had included this Script. I was developing project I found this nice javascript prototype property script in mozilla labs site.
We're lucky we developed genetics when we did. The study of human gene migration depends on people staying relatively immobile over time, and population groups remaining genetically separate. In a couple generations, if populations continue to mix (which, in all likelyhood, they will), much of this information may have been lost.
A friend of mine recently got a #1 offer from Ryanair, which turned out to be #80 once taxes and fees where added on, and that's before even paying #5 for a sandwich on-board. It would have been cheaper to fly BA, and much more pleasant.
This quote caught my eye:

The ABC group strived for perfection. For example, they used tree-based data structure algorithms that were proven to be optimal for asymptotically large collections (but were not so great for small collections).

That seems like a common thread in my own experience. It's too easy when you start a project to over-engineer to meet some imaginary future need for scale. Fix it later, and 2^32 is big enough for most things :P.
What about Quigo? http://www.quigo.com
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Have you tried recording RTMP streams?

What tools did you use and did they accomplish the job?
Err.. ok, but you could have attached that to a different comment. I wasn't talking about slavery or anything, just that I'm not a libertarian, and think it has issues. Slavery probably isn't one of them.
Considering I am knee deep in Haskell right now, can anyone here tell me why Category theory is necessary to learn Haskell, and furthermore, a text that they know of? (No offense to the other, but that was a lot of books he listed. I am looking for a starting point)

Edit - I meant to say "No offense to the author
Don't do it. You are wasting your time and it's very inefficient. In China, there are factories that have pre-rolled boards that will give you what you want at very cheap prices. Build a prototype, then get in contact with a chinese sourcer to find you what you need. You'll need to buy in bulk of about a thousand pieces or so - but on the positive side, you can get your frame and so on done there also.

Anyone who is even thinking of building such a device themselves is grossly inefficient.

If you need a company in china, send me an email I'll direct you to one.
And if it's in the kitchen and had an e-ink display, it could have a battery life of a year and I could stick it on my fridge to show me my Google calendar when it wasn't doing recipes.
Their JavaScript is y2k compatible...seriously, view the source for yourself.

function y2k(number) { return (number < 1000) ? number + 1900 : number; }
If you deny any link between benefits and utilization, then I understand your argument. But I think your argument is wrong because it contradicts the very purpose of buying capital goods.

You buy capital goods because utilizing them makes you a profit. Just owning them does not. But I agree that this is just a general rule which is not true in all situations, particularly not in economic downturns.

If I buy 3 TB of hard disk space expecting to serve 300000 customers and then only 100 customers turn up, I have wasted much of my expenditure because it's useless. If I buy a dynamic amount of hard disk space from a cloud service on demand, then I have not wasted that money.

So, clearly, opportunity cost has a lot to do with utilization if you assume a positive connection between utilization and profit, which you apparently don't. Go ask any airline about it :)
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> When you have a language who's syntax is directly capable of representing that structure natively, it's a huge programmatic boon to simply write the markup directly in the host language.

IFF the other people you have to collaborate with, such as designers, artists, new programmers, etc... are all fluent in that language. That's a big 'if' in my opinion. I can hand someone a Rails template file, and they can hack at it even if they don't know Ruby.
I just bought copy and started reading it this morning on the train, though I like the idea of them giving it away for free nothing beats a paper copy. There are lots of used copies available on amazon that aren't that expensive.
Is this anything more than a really fancy gated community for rich people to hide in?

It just seems so brutally selfish.
How come airplanes float in water?
Does anyone want to take a bet that at the first sign of trouble they'll come running to nearby countries asking for (wait for it...) a government bailout?
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I really find it refreshing that more people start questioning "relational model" databases. The discussion here inspired me to write a little on what the problem actually is with relationships in RDBMS, read it here:

http://blog.nawroth.com/2009/01/aging-databases-and-relation...
That was worth reading to find out that I could rename origin to github. For some reason I find the word origin really confusing.

There's a couple of other good tidbits in there if you're still a git neophyte like myself.
i was wondering about the change, too, but i didn't find this article interesting. in fact, talking about the icon at all isn't interesting. i was just startled by the new favicon and it took me a few google pages (maps, gmail, search) to drive home that, yes, these funny tabs were for google and all of google. i don't like it, but by now i'm used to it. i'll probably forget these ever had another icon by the end of today.
I wish this guy a lot of luck. Whether he has a chance or not, I respect him immensely for not "standing on the sidelines".

The story really hits close to him for me because I have one of the disorders they narrowed out for the poor girl. Like it said, 90% of the battle for surviving some of these is just knowing what you have. It's an overwhelming feeling of frustration and helplessness to have your life 100% at the mercy of a dysfunctional healthcare system. At the risk of using a gratuitous nerd metaphor, this guy's writing his own OS instead of using Windows.
poor grammar actually gets in the way of understanding some of this, kind of like the lack of code indention. i feel like i was thrust into some lesson half-way. what's he trying to do? why?

that said, the pictures are good. i have a clear idea of what the javascript is supposed to do, just not where it fits in the big picture (greasemonkey? personal site?).
How ignorant can people be? Half those answers are wrong. If you don't know something, don't post about it. Sorry but I'm not upmodding this story.
For example, this bit:

# git stash (all my changes are saved away, and I have a clean tree)

# Fix the bug

# git commit -a -m "bugfix"

# git stash pop (changes are back)

This is the type of stuff that make SVN people "get it".
Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?
When you have a startup, you hear a lot of mean words about people who want you to fail. It's time to talk about it. Feel free to add a link.
If financial metrics are not important for entrepreneurs, and if the most important things are good products and good markets, then why did you write a whole article on creating a PROFITABLE freemium startup? Do you think profit is not a financial metric?

Of course it is, just not as useful in this situation. Hence my suggestion to use metrics that are more meaningful. The metrics that are useful should show you what the risk / reward is for pursuing the business.

It is very important for any entrepreneur to estimate how much investment is required to cover initial operating losses and capital expenditure. It is just as important for them to determine whether this investment is worth the expected future profits.

Just to drive the point home: you can spend 1 billion dollars in year 1 on advertising, if you had the money. And year 2 will be profitable. But you have a terrible business if the profit curve over the next years isn't steep enough to offset the original investment. Simply making profits is not enough.
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