skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most officers in WW2, certainly in Britain, were enlisted rather than career officers. This particularly applies to the lower ranks of officer, such as captain and lieutenant.

Leading from the front was common, for officers up to the rank of General, because it was the best way of knowing what was going on. There was no "blue force tracker" in those days!)
Sorry, I didn't mean to say at birth. Perhaps shortly after the zygote is formed.
In this case he was using the username "celtics" to provide updates about the Boston Celtics, with their logo as the page background.
I think it just means writing a programming language but a little one. So use pyparsing as your parser. The May 2008 Python magazine has a good article on making an interpreter/compiler for brainf*ck using PyParsing.
I plan to learn Galois Theory and Quantum Field Theory.
This page explains most of it:
http://www.trulia.com/submit_listings/

Listings are either: individually entered by agents, fed to Trulia in an XML format by real estate firms (or other aggregators) or screen scraped by Trulia. They also I think have deals with some MLSs to bulk send them listings for member firms.

I work for http://www.streeteasy.com we do this for NYC.
“Secondly, he saw an opportunity when most people did not, so he should totally benefit from it.”

That happened to my wife a couple of months ago; she was trying to use her laptop on the street to record a protest, and someone saw an opportunity where most people did not, and ran off carrying her laptop. I bet he benefited from that.

That someone “saw an opportunity when most people did not” doesn't really tell you anything about whether exploiting that opportunity is moral or immoral.
Actually, http://sup.appjet.net was part of an earlier, unfinished project. http://frittr.appjet.net/ is complete and standalone. I just changed sup.appjet.net to redirect to frittr.appjet.net since there's really nothing at sup.appjet.net.

I'm glad that you like frittr though :)
I refuse to believe that there isn't a tool better at that job than human teeth.
Also see http://code.google.com/p/simpleupdateprotocol/
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I have implemented two languages in Python, one a DSL, the other a general-purpose language. Both times I used the SPARK parsing framework http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/spark/ which I recommend.
> Study up on context managers, decorators, and meta-classes, which will be vital to creating DSLs. However, you don't really need to use these features to build DSLs.

Make your mind up. Either they're vital or they're not. You can't have both.
Because you worry there wouldn't be a unique way to link to you, or because you don't want your potential customers to know who thinks they're your competitor, or because you're worried people would get confused?
Exactly.

From profits that real businesses should have.
No one I know uses Facebook Chat.
DNS's dispute resolution process is pretty badly broken, don't you think?
You should read "The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach," by Caltech professor Christof Koch, which is a book about this subject.
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A DSL is a language that is specific to a domain. DSLs may or may not be Turing-complete, but typically you wouldn't write the whole of a big project in one.

The difference between a DSL and an API? An API uses the host language's syntax, but a DSL introduces its own syntax, which must then be parsed.
Dupe - HN discussion here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=403287
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Twitter-squatting is not the same as domain-squatting. It's more in line with MySpace which has also reserved the right to manage names as they see fit.

Steve's doing nothing more than assuming an opportunity and making an * of himself by complaining about it.
No. I won't make my mind up. I'm not providing a recipe for DSLs in Python. I'm simply stating ingredients and saying "now go create."
I use MarsEdit (http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/), though I'm probably not a good reference as I haven't updated my blog in awhile and I have over 20 draft blog posts (some have been sitting around for more than 10 months).
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> The difference between a DSL and an API? An API uses the host language's syntax, but a DSL introduces its own syntax, which must then be parsed.

Well, this is a conundrum then. You can't just create new syntax in languages that don't support a way to extend the syntax (see Lisp macros, and I even get to mention TCL here). So, most of what we normally call "DSLs," (i.e. method chaining languages, overloading operators) aren't.

So, I guess we should start calling them Domain Specific APIs--DSAPIs, if you will.
We go through cycles. Right now we're in a slump so bad that things with real value and profits look bad. Before, we had been in a boom that thought value was limitless for crap.

Trying to look at Digg objectively. They don't make money with their current number of staff people and revenues. Maybe their readership will increase to a point that they will make money (assuming they don't need more staff as readership increases). Maybe they'll be able to cut staff and slow down "product growth". Of course, that risks a competitor out-doing them.

Likewise, Facebook hasn't found a way to be popular. Their userbase keeps increasing, but they're at a level where the scaling problems get real bad and require lots of staff. They're also adding users from places advertisers don't pay as much for (while they cost Facebook more in terms of things like bandwidth).

The question really is whether these companies can become profitable and whether they can become profitable to the extent required by their valuations. For example, assuming a yearly profit of $100,000,000 and an opportunity cost per year of 10% (investing in something else) and a 100 year lifetime, Facebook would be worth less than $1B. And that's assuming they're able to make $100M per year for 100 years.

Even if you say they're going to make a billion per year for 100 years from this date, they're still worth less than $10B. And why should we assume they'll be around in 10 years never mind 100. Friendster of 2002 is (6 years later) a has been.

I'm not saying that Facebook is bad, but 100 years is a lot of staying power. Heck, what technology firm can claim such a thing. Venerable IBM will hit 100 in a few years. But IBM is not the dominant company many people invested in over the years. They don't even have a PC business anymore.

Many technology firms go under because they aren't able to produce efficiently enough to stay afloat. Unlike Microsoft, Facebook can't just raise prices because their paying customers (advertisers, not users) can go somewhere else unlike Microsoft's lock-in. They can't charge users because the value they have is based on having so many users and the competition would love if Facebook gave them such an in.

Many of these things are cool, but there's a big question as to how much money they can make. With high valuations, it's not just about making money, but enough money to justify that valuation. I think investors are looking at that now rather than thinking, well, this is really popular therefore has a lot of value.
I am working on this issue right now.
Off topic, but Street Easy kicks serious butt. If anyone living in NYC is ever looking for a place to buy/rent, start there. I don't work for the company, I'm just an avid fan and frequent user. And I recommend it to everyone I know.
Well, no, they don't bother, because people keep telling them that hardware is cheap and they're too expensive to work on anything that isn't new features.
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Isn't it possible that the trauma of living through war actually lowers your IQ a bit? It's not a huge difference here, a few IQ points.
I think there is some hope for the UDRP. OTOH Twitter is completely unregulated. Between corporatism and benevolent dictatorship, it's a tough decision.
Bruce Schneier in February 2008 (the first simultaneous outage of the year) - http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/02/fourth_underse...
contentEditable and designMode is nothing new.
They said that they are still going forward with previously filed lawsuits. So it looks like Joel Tenenbaum is still getting sued. Charles Nesson, his Harvard professor lawyer is trying to argue that the entire campaign by the RIAA is unconstitutional. If he succeeds, it'll give some precedent that cutting off people's internet would be unconstitutional.
Wonderful. Ever consider generalizing it? You'll probably need a different domain, but...

netbook.tracker.com
laptop.tracker.com
etc

The small, simple sites are what I love. Get to the point, leave me alone :-)
A Domain Specific Language is optimized for performing tasks within a limited problem area. Usually the syntax is simplified to strip out features that dont pertain to the problem. Examples are shell scripting languages like bash or windows shell, awk, sed, SQL, HTML, TEX, or JSON. Imagine trying to typeset a document in raw java.

There used to be lots of little declarative DSLs. Think make. Now they have been co-opted by XML. Ant uses XML, but would be much prettier if it had its own DSL. Another example: you can hand code a parser, but it is much easier to code and debug, if you use BNF (YACC or Bison).
Leave my job, get out of my parents' basement, do a startup.
Before: If you get busted you have to pay thousands of dollars.

After: If you get busted you have to switch from cable to DSL (or vice versa).

I suspect many people will welcome this change (until they get their sixth strike).
I enjoy HP's service for this reason. It's a joy reading my online content while riding public transit and I find I can keep my focus and delve as deep as I need to. Sure they are just trying to sell more ink cartridges, ($1500 a gallon- I would too) but in doing so they are giving us a worthwhile tool/service. Here is the link-
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Every time one of those cables has a mishap, we get one of these stories... and every time, I find myself reading the story online...

So no. Give it a rest with the doom and gloom already.
It's true. Probably because Meebo tends against lock-in and everyone is obsessed with being the next company with lock-in and, therefore, Microsoft-like profits.

Twitter has users with accounts, histories, people they follow. Same with Facebook, MySpace, etc. Meebo can be "easily" replaced by a competitor. Easily in this case means, you don't have to transfer all your data nor do you need to get your friends to move services.

That's why we aren't as giddy about Meebo. They need to keep working really hard to stay one step ahead of the competition. As opposed to Twitter/Facebook/MySpace who have to work just hard enough that users won't take the effort to transfer data and bug their friends to switch to a competitor.
Article summary:

We found an interesting statistic.
We don't have any conclusions to draw at this point.
It's the inside of a cow for heaven's sake. What do you think you're going to catch? Mad cow disease?
Your elipsis suggests you find that suspicious, but why?

The second time in less than a year sounds suspicious, but the time you are thinking of was in late January. Is it really any more suspicious to happen again 11 months later rather than 12? It's only a cognitive bias that makes "one year" sound like a much longer time than "11 months". Also consider that this would be the same season and thus similar weather conditions and fishing seasons, and that the accepted conclusion about January's event was that particularly bad weather conditions at the time caused a large number of ships in the Mediterranean to drop anchor, the dragging of which is a common cause of cable cuts.

That it is multiple backbones and they broke simultaneously sounds suspicious, but these cables are all located quite close together, close enough that it's possible they could be severed by the same event. No coordination or intent is necessary.

That it is the Middle East sounds suspicious, but who is the suspect, and what is the motive? The fact is that this is more of an inconvenience than real harm to anybody, and doesn't appear to benefit anybody, either. If it was a US action, why does it primarily inconvenience US allies and economic partners? If it was a terrorist act, why has nobody taken responsibility for it?
For me the keyboard was a deciding factor.

I went with the MSI Wind, for what it's worth.
I would be incredibly surprised if such a thing happened. Not because GitHub isn't awesome (it is), but because most non-programmers would look at you funny if you said "distributed version control". I mean, most people can barely use the Internet competently.
I suspect that you can get 80% of the comfort level of an Aeron for 20% of its price.

Almost anything beats a folding chair, couch, or bed.
I have no sorrow for land squatters. You have land being created by the universe at no charge. Just because you got to the country a hundred years before anyone else, now you think you can claim all the land you roped off and all the useful mineral content of that land? Sorry, but that just earns a big f*ck you from me.
It's rare that I come across a problem where resource and speed constraints do not become an issue. Javascript and the DOM and latency has been an issue with client side web-apps. DB bottlenecks have been an issue on the serverside. Numerical performance and AI performance is an issue in CAD/CAM/CAE games and scientific analysis. In every scenario there have been algorithmic and software level improvements that have speed up the system by a factor of ten or more. Certainly it plateaus after a while, but one cannot hope to throw hardware at complicated problems and expect them to be solved without some serious elbow grease on the part of the programmer. Programs become increasingly more ambitious, and expand to fill the resources allocated to them: a kind of Hacker's Parkinson's law.
I respectfully disagree. It's a simple message passing system, of which there are a ton of examples. This isn't rocket science.

The problem is that where once it would have been written in c as a server, it's now written with big databases and 'popular' languages - so it's harder to scale.
> So, most of what we normally call "DSLs," (i.e. method chaining languages, overloading operators) aren't.

I don't call these things DSLs. Other people might.
I downloaded a relatively successful IT company's accounts today. Been going for 12 years, profitable for 11, innovated product (now ecommerce platform developer) and brand, creating stable employment - 68 staff, doing 12million sterling turnover and two million profit after tax. Respect.
Good idea, clean execution, BUT are you really prepared for the effort that is required to stick to the "unbiased comparison" motto ?

You will start acquiring affiliations if your site rises above the noise level and this will test the hell out of your integrity. Say Acer sends you nice top-of-the-line yet-to-be-released netbook, which is also complimentary. Even if you write a bad review. They will even send you the next model too. And they will keep sending and sending them showing you a considerable amount of goodwill. Will you be able to ignore it ? Alternatively, are you prepared to fight defamation lawsuits and bogus DMCA notices ?

Point being is that virtually all review sites are started with an intention of being unbiased. You appear to think that there are no such sites in your niche, but surely there were some in the past ... ever wondered what happened to them ? :)
I checked on it, and it's giving me errors even with the latest Java from here:

http://download.java.net/jdk6/

Sigh... I wish the Java guys would get it together.
apgwoz has a excellent suggestion. Python has a clean syntax, so you may not need to invent your own. Meta-classes allow you to do the DSL magic behind the scenes. It's less fun than inventing a whole new language, but you can get something working in a couple of hours. Even more useful are the mind stretching exercises inherent in understanding meta-classes and their friends. You will see programming in a whole new light.
Here's a non philosophically trained attempt to at least establish a distinction between mind and matter:

What is it that people say distinguishes conscious things from non conscious things? Consciousness is affected by what other things are, vs only being affected by how other things interact with it. For example, given the right momentum, area, and angle of impact, one lump of matter has exactly the same effect on my red bouncy ball as any other lump of matter. The kind of object the lump of matter is makes no difference. On the other hand, the kind of object has a very definite effect on consciousness, more so than the material make up. This paragraph can be embedded in any kind of medium that you can read, and the medium makes no significant difference in the effect of the paragraph on your consciousness.

Does that kind of distinction seem coherent to you?
Officers made up 7%. A non-commissioned officer is simply an enlisted person that has stayed in service long enough to be promoted. Commitment is in no way indicative of intelligence. In some cases it's the opposite.
Digg just needs a new leadership team. Kevin and Jay spend so much time promoting themselves ("parallel entrepreneurs" hasn't worked out all that well for anyone) that they've done significant damage to the business. They need to go.

Even this article is full of half-truths. Employees are "committed for the long term" yet the bulk of them have been hired during the last six months, and 40% of the early employees have left.
Everybody is faking it.
Definitely, but the point I'm getting at is that there are loads of things we discuss without having to define them. Especially the basic terms of whatever you happen to be defining. I.e. do I need to define the words I use in this question for you to understand what I am asking?
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OK.

I was kicking around a definition involving trademarks. In general, owning a name that can be seen to infringe a trademark is a problem, no matter how you slice it. The Celtics baseball team have an actual, legal claim to the word "Celtics", which is not unlimited by any means, but is certainly stronger than "some guy registered this name on this site".

Now, had he been some sort of Celtic organization (and I mean the ethnic group, not the team) it might be a more interesting discussion, legally.

(And I'm just skipping out on the ethical issues.)
The unknown is vast in all disciplines, especially neuroscience.
I always preferred this one: "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination." -- Andrew Lang
If lots of people get "rich and powerful" all of a sudden, then the criteria for being considered "rich and powerful" will go up.
He said "30-40K too low", as in "30-40K lower than I would reasonably expect".
It's suspicious if the events are getting more frequent. Have these cables broken much before last Jan?
My home is completely without external connections, except for a cell phone. To waste time online I have to go through quite an effort. Apparently, I've succeeded.
4. Game consoles and games are very expensive and thus not very popular in Israel. So all the kids need a computer in order to get their video game fix.

5. There isn't much poverty in Israel.

It would probably be very difficult to find a household in Israel that doesn't have a computer. (Not counting old people who don't know what a computer is)
If it were effective, its benefit to investors might exceed the cost to companies; in that case it wouldn't be a tax increase but, effectively, a decrease along with a change in the tax structure.
Number of Firms by Employment Size of the Enterprise
These statistics are relevant to Paul Graham's recent essay. They show that the number of firms with large numbers of employees is growing faster than the number with small numbers of employees. The years covered by the data are 1988-2001; it would be better to have more recent data, and also to have data broken down by field. It's possible that the US Census Office (which is the source of these data) has more recent figures, but I haven't checked.

With these limitations understood, the data here still contradict the essay's assumption that there is a trend toward smaller companies.
Sharp, strong, impossible to lose, and they leave your hands free to hold down a distressed lamb.

Teeth do have some advantages here. Forget high-tech and low-tech, this is no-tech.
Thanks, we work hard at it :)
Quoting Richard Feynman --
"During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas — which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science. And it developed very well, so that we are now in the scientific age. It is such a scientific age, in fact, that we have difficulty in understanding how witch doctors could ever have existed, when nothing that they proposed ever really worked — or very little of it did."

"Yogis have nailed this...." You are saying Yogi's have nailed where consciousness comes from? Do you have any references we could look at?
I was surprised to see Windows Live recommend Firefox among the options for upgrading.