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This is basically a dup.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428606
> What's your point?

That the problem is with your coding. Invalid or not, if you can't make it work properly that's down to you and bugger all to do with validity.
Ask HN: Is there a site dedicated to startup news and job postings?
Is there one site dedicated to news about startups, while also providing a list of available jobs? In my mind it's a duo tech news site and craigslist job search.
Discussion of Google's response, here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=430272
Poll: How does consistency of result affect your usage?
Imagine two scenarios : You have to travel 300 miles by train. There are two trains - 1 requires 4 hours to arrive at your destination (the slow train), and the other requires just 20 minutes to arrive at your destination (the fast train).

However, the slow train ALWAYS requires 4 hours, never less, never more and is 100% reliable. The fast train however, 1% of the time does not arrive at all, but stops at some random town somewhere in between. How to get from the random town to your destination or back to the start is not known to you, but it is possible.

You want to travel home from a conference. Which of the two trains do you take?
The fast train
The slow train
1. It should be possible to turn a sheet into a function. So I can then define my own 'inputs' and 'outputs' for that sheet, and 'call' it with whatever parameters I like from another sheet. Sure it can be done in code, but for building large, maintainable models that's not practical.

2. 'Hard' and 'Soft' numbers (i.e., numbers I manually enter vs. numbers that are the result of a formulae) should be automatically coloured accordingly if I want them to be. Manually plugging in a number on top of a formula should not necessarily over-write the formula. It's quite common I want to preserve the logic but 'hack in' a variable. Instead, it's either or (and I have to copy/paste the formula into a comment for the cell, which is a pain and clumsy as hell).

3. Track changes.

4. Non-euclidean topology ... by which I mean, making it possible to vary the number of colums / rows and column / row sizes within a single sheet.
If you really want something that is peace-of-mind, you should just use something like rightscale.com. We have a giant ad server on there load balanced across 40 ec2 instances running perl code, seems to work well so far. Sometimes an instance will get fussy and we'll just create a new one from scratch by running scripts that essentially fetch everything needed from CPAN and installs, configures, and boots in one step. It's definitely a more expensive solution, but if you want peace of mind, that's probably the way to go.
I wonder if your question isn't a little off though. If I'm coming home from a conference of other important event, that's more lax than trying to get there on time. If I have to be somewhere and it's really important and I can't miss it, I would likely take the slow train. I can build my schedule around that and be guaranteed to get there. However coming home means I can get there any time that I want, so I'll take the fast train. If I get the 1% train I am minorly inconvenienced but 99% sure to get home in 20 minutes.
I read from the RSS feed - and I was rather surprised that the main link leads to the other site, and not HN. My main habit with RSS is to go through a feed, opening the interesting links in new tabs, and then read them - I keep forgetting and ending up with a bunch of links rather than the HN comments!
Instead of the programming angle, I would like a user-interface that works for right-brained people and doesn't drive you bonkers after spending more than a few hours on it. That would be a blue ocean in the world of spreadsheets.
Yes, the point is that there is no real time pressure, it's just a matter of preference or convenience.
You wouldn't be able to do that with someone who plays fast enough. Even if you could do it on your serve 25% of the time, that's only an 1/8th of all points. And you'd probably hit a lot of your attempts to hit the edge off the table.
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I've heard that logging companies play the same game of plunder in the pacific northwest, though oftentimes they're shorter term leases, and leave soon after. The stewards appear to be convinced one by one through a calculated program of propaganda. It seems that people will do anything to bring jobs into their town, but nobody wants to think about when they'll leave.
It is true that a bid signals a committed willingness to pay a certain price. But then what disqualifies this kid's bids as not being part of determining the true cost? He says that he accepted possibly going to jail, and I'm sure he'd rather be in debt for the bid amount instead of jail, so in essence his bids were backed up by a commitment.

You know, now that he's got a bit of money and publicity backing him, it'd be kind of funny if he sued and got all of the sales that were completed after he was escorted out invalidated, as he was denied participation, and therefore they are _undervalued_.
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I wish I felt sure they were convinced by anything as innocent as propaganda.
Great conversation!

I like the pervasive biological metaphor that they use. Intercellular enzymes might operate with the precision of programs, but they float in a forgiving, scalable goo. I want that goo in my software.

The most advanced programs we have now are about the equivalent of unicellular organisms. It will be some time before we figure out how to make systems with "life" and resilience.

Kay also mentions funding, which seems to be a cherished topic on this forum: "[ARPA]'s like the goose that laid the golden eggs. When you start forcing the process, it kills it. ARPA succeeded because they basically funded people instead of projects. They didn't really care what the people were doing. They figured neat people would do neat things... And, boy, it's really hard to find any funding like that nowadays. "
Same here, it all depends about the target domain.

For example I'd never click a Seth Godin, Zed Shaw, or any other self-promotion writer link but the HN discussion tends to be very constructive. I always click links to Wikipedia, New Yorker, Wired, and many other good sources (from experience.)

Perhaps a feature could be a Agree/disagree vote for stories to distinguish from up-voting the HN discussion.
what disqualifies this kid's bids as not being part of determining the true cost

The fact that they were fraudulent. He had no intention of ever paying the amount which he bid.
you can do that in yahoo if you're in the know... yahoo owns the famous overture patent so that may be why.
Funny, I became an avid /r/programming reader after reading all this groupthink bashing. There are very valuable discussions on Reddit if you ignore the obvious trolls and jokes.

I found Reddit's programming significantly more technical than HN, with most people talking from experience instead of guessing. Compare recent discussions on the same technical story on HN vs. Reddit.

Also HN gets to me because it harder to find reasonable arguments with completely opposed views without massive up/down-votes [by the masses backing their side]. Reddit [discussions] [often have] opposed but very insightful comments together and both [have] hundreds of up-votes.

The traditional HN bashing of other sites lowers the discussion and actually it's very typical of, er, Digg/Reddit (pun.)
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This is the old giver/taker argument.

IMHO the interesting part is even though both are highly related you need extra parts of the brain for the former. For example reading vs. writing. This pattern tends to repeat from reading about fMRI studies (completely reader there myself, not my science.)

I find [pure] takers to be incomplete and get close to be social parasites, even if harmless.
Excel: The world's most popular functional programming language.
Algorithm actually explained here:

http://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/

More about the theory can be found here:

http://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/wiki/Theory

The talk is also here:

http://neil.fraser.name/news/2009/01/11/

but has links to other stuff by the author. Recommended over the youtube link.

It would be interesting to run a real comparison between this, etherpad (http://www.etherpad.com) and CollabEdit (http://collabedit.com). I suspect that this is a problem everyone is trying to solve. Etherpad's extremely good, I've used it "in anger", but no doubt Google will win because it's Google.

I'm not yet sure whether the data in MobWrite is "public", but it is in EtherPad (if you can guess the URL).
What else are they supposed to do? The other side has better weapons.

What they should do is give up - they lost. And then they should work to get the best situation possible for their people. Instead they are trying to keep their cause alive, and who cares about the casualties. They lost and everyone knows it - but they refuse to allow themself to admit it, and so they kill their own people.

Sad that humanity is still entralled to degenerate tribalism at the dawn of the 21st century

What makes you think the 21st century is anything special? Humans haven't changed in the slightest since those "delusional Bronze and Iron age cult leaders". (That comment doesn't even make any sense since the bronze age was before, or at the very edge of, recorded history, but whatever.)

I checked some of your other comments, and they seemed normal - this one isn't. Are you just a troll trying to provoke responses?
"Programmability in something other than VBA (Python?)."

Resolver One is a spreadsheet that has that: http://www.resolversystems.com/products/programmability.php

OpenOffice Calc has some kind of Python programmability too, though I don't know how good it is.
IsArray: Why is it so bloody hard to get right?
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When I want to read both the article and the comments, or I don't know if I want to read the link at all (for the reasons others have said) the comments page has the link in it, while the linked page hasn't a link to the comments.
In the author's case, its Objective-C.

May not have the elegance of a dynamic language but it won't have the sluggishness either.
Yeah, I suppose that was a stillborn argument, given that the debt in question isn't the result of a creditor explicitly loaning money for the purpose, but arising from a non-fulfilled transaction.
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#1 is really important - VBA is an awful language.

My two cents: add support for arbitrary precision math. Sometimes you need it, and when you do, you really need it.
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if you want something like a singleton why do you just:

var singleton = function (args) {

/*object constructor stuff*/

}(arg-values)
Upmodded. My firm produces semantic analysis software for Chinese text:

http://popupchinese.com/words/downloads

The major issue hampering adoption is that unlike services based on pattern-matching, services based on semantic/NLP analysis don't have a simple mechanism to hide errors.

There is probably a threshold at which error rates are tolerable for consumer-facing services, but we are not there yet. So the uses are largely on the backend in areas with narrowly-defined problems where semantic tech can help with automation and content processing and where people have an incentive to improve performance over time by customizing the software itself. This is happening, but you don't see glowing write-ups in Wired magazine since the uses are extremely field specific and usually not terribly sexy.
You are weird ;-)

I actually agree with the author on both points. There just isn't a good way of measuring how you use your time refactoring and cleaning code, when you could be fixing bugs or adding features (both of which are always-present).

Hence, it's difficult to justify too much time in "beautification" if your code works, even at competent shops. At some point, all of us just need to get the code out, so we must all strike a reasonable point between beauty and reality.

On the first point, I release a fair bit of code into the public domain. Even though I do make it nice and pretty as I code, it always takes additional beautification work before I'm ready to release it to the world (i.e. better commenting, code structure, or documentation). I'm pretty sure it takes a rare programmer with a lot of free time and great experience in the domain to actually have beautiful code at the conclusion of a project.
I would argue that people often read the comments because the headline-only format of YC leaves them guessing what the article is actually about.

If you are considering putting the leading comment text up there, please consider getting submitters to include a one sentence summary of the article instead.
Almost always, the links are only an excuse for discussion, really. HN blurs the line between social news and traditional forums, and because of the quality of the comments that is just fine.
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But do they adhere to principles preached by Edward Tufte and other data vis "gods?" (I don't know, I'm asking)
Because Arrays don't really exist properly in javascript. They're just objects, with a magic 'length' property that is set to the largest positive integer index plus one, and a few convenience methods.

What sort of example do you need to know if an object is an Array? Never come across this problem yet...
The quality of comments are excellent in HN and Slashdot.
Often. I also find myself waiting until articles have comments before bothering with them.
For start-up jobs there's startuply.com

For start-up tech news and information, there are a million sites for every taste and size.
Maybe a better contribution would have been to say, "highly customizable keyboard navigation, to make using it mouseless possible"
Cool! I'd buy that as a media center remote more than a phone.
I think economic models are largely independent of the environment. Saying "these are 20th century models applied to 21st century economics" is a bit like saying "these are 20th century physics applied to a 21st century world" - yeah, but physics hasn't really changed that much.

Put differently: 21st century/internet has not changed the wiring of the economy, only the parameters. So the old models (if they are good) still apply, just stick different parameters in there. A parameter being something like "cost for finding a matching product for my needs".
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Mars has never invested in Earth currency. Therefore, and because of that, the Earth economy must have continuously experienced hyperinflation.
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Perhaps I'm the only person here who doesn't fit (a), but I have never done any drugs().

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I re-titled the article for HN readers because "Ending the West's Proxy War Against Israel" did not seem descriptive enough to me of the interesting issue involved for HN readers (demographics as a reason for conflict as opposed to ideology)
The quality of the best comments at /. are good. The quality of the average or mean, not so much.
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For conventional programming I've been working on laying the logic out as a graph automatically. Instead of cryptic formulas in the cells, you would have an easy to understand graph that shows how information is related and computed. In addition the intermediate results for selected input values could be shown next to the nodes and links, to allow inspection of the computation.

This could be adapted for the spreadsheet concept. Actually, it might be more appropriate there.
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HN Idea: Show links in questions after N upvotes
Several 'Review my app' type of questions are posted here every day. The questions are either just a link to the app in question, or an explanatory post containing the URL which we are supposed to copy/paste to visit it.

Am I the only one wishing that I could just click the link in the latter type of questions? I understand why the restriction is in place, to prevent spam/abuse/etc, it's even in the FAQ. However, if the question is legitimate and gets upvoted, why not just show the link after a certain number of upvotes?

Do I make any sense?
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Comments first, always. Most of the time I don't even read the article.
This is an interesting example but I think it's not very really helpful in understanding Libertarianism.

First let me answer your question directly: in this example, Libland is undoubtedly screwed because Xia has a monopoly on the food supply. The people of Libland would not be able to cope with this situation and they'd most likely be overrun. Sure, there will be pockets or resistance with guerrillas doggedly fighting on for years or decades, but as a state, Libland would no longer exist.

Nevertheless, I think that the example isn't helpful because of two positions:

1) The unexplained reason why Xia can produce food so cheaply.
2) That it would be uneconomical for anyone other than Xia to produce food.

In the real-world, there would be a competitor for Xia to supply food. Even if Xia started off as the only supplier, someone would realise that they could enter the market supplying food that's a little cheaper, higher quality or just a little more different. The people of Libland, knowing the dangers of relying on only one source, would then also start purchasing from the competitor _in_addition_ to Xia.

I therefore think that your hypothetical scenario wouldn't exist outside of the 'thought laboratory'.
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I believe the Russian ISPs are highly interconnected, so Russian users get more bandwidth and less latency when they use local sites vs international.
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I've never quite understood the fascination with slavishly copying the limitations of the physical world. BumpTop has always struck me as being in this camp.
did you mean SQL? You can connect to a .xls via ODBC
Wow this has lots of grammatical errors - made it hard to read.

Sounds a bit optimistic too:
"if you put heart & soul and are with the right team there is good chance you will succeed"

Even if you're with the right team and working on a valid problem chances of success are very slim (<5% at a guess).
the example isn't helpful because of [...] 1) The unexplained reason why Xia can produce food so cheaply.

No explanation is needed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_advantage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
I love that gas station analogy, but I have to say it is a bit hard to swallow. One might spend 5 minutes at a gas station for every 5 hours on the road. If I could work 3 weeks a year and make enough to pay for rent and food for the other 49 I wouldn't care too much about money either.
Microsoft Word has a versioning feature, under the File menu, not automatic though.
My favorite:
ns/cmd/xfe/src/PersonalToolbar.cpp // crap from marketing
The issue with this is that Excel refreshes the active workbook by default after every change. Any quant or someone dealing with huge sheets of formulas learn that you can change this behavior to default to refresh via shift+F9 (I think)
After searching for a decent reverse polish calculator for the iPhone for months, I finally realized that a spreadsheet app fits the bill there as well.
FWIW, I would often query a database and make completely de-normalized datasets that I'd paste into Excel. Then I would pivot the crap out of them and figure out how I wanted to slice the data...
I sometimes read the comments first if the link looks looks like something that will be slow to load or full of annoying advertisements.
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That would be interesting, although in addition to clutter it will give the highest-ranked comment even more weight than it has already. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I click comments first because I know what I'm going to get, vs. clicking on a link that might not even finish loading before I get back to work. As far as that goes, having a preview wouldn't change much.
unfortunately it has an CJK characters issue.
The ability to do regex matches to cells, not just full exact text with a case sensitive/insensitive option.
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Hyperinflation is caused by a loss of confidence in the ability to exchange the local currency for foreign currencies. The Zimbabwe $ became difficult to change following the land reform exercise, and that started the cycle. Once the cycle starts, it's very difficult to stop.

All this has almost nothing to do with the actual economy of the country - many countries have fallen into much worse economic times than Zimbabwe currently is in, and did not have the problem with hyperinflation.

In actuality, Zimbabwe belongs to the top African countries in terms of infrastructure, education and production. It still does so, but it's currently under a lot of economic pressure from outside countries, and one of the effects is this hyper-inflation.
whoa--that was cool! On fedora 9, that increased the transparency of the window (so I could easily see beneath). That is sweet for this display, where I don't have the room to lay things side-by-side. Thanks!
The earth economy is closed, and is not dependent on external planets. The Zimbabwe economy, like all African economies, is strongly dependent on imports of manufactured and industrial goods.

If you actually have an argument and you understand the facts of what you want to argue, then please lay out your points. A silly non-relevant statement does not contribute to the discussion in any way.
The article's tips are mainly aimed at beginners, but I think correct.
No, but I can see how it could be interpreted as such.

Just tired of seeing people killing and being killed for what I feel are absurd reasons.
(That comment doesn't even make any sense since the bronze age was before, or at the very edge of, recorded history, but whatever.)*

FYI,

The bronze age in the M.E. is commonly held to have occurred between 3300-1200 BCE, directly overlapping the time period of Moses, who is said to have authored the Pentateuch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_age

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses