skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you got to the real problem here. Weak types are quite useful for some tasks, and of course they are nothing new. Languages that convert between integer and string types automatically are well suited for text processing in general (including generating web pages dynamically).

The problem with PHP's weak typing is PHP's hit-and-miss implementation. Check out AWK, another weakly typed language, for example:

BEGIN{printf "%5.2f\n", ""}

prints "0.00" as would be reasonable.
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set editor=(command line here), if you were curious. I've found you can easily check if an option for something exists by using :set and its nice autocompletion.
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If Google can deliver a semi-decent IaaS offering that works well with App Engine IMO they will have a uniquely powerful platform.

App Engine is often criticized for being expensive compared to AWS, but putting together a production ready setup (i.e., automatic failover in the case of data center failure) on AWS isn't cheap since you need at least two of everything: multiple EC2 instances sitting behind a load balancer (ELB) and redundant databases (i.e., RDS Multi-AZ). I know because I'm setting up exactly this configuration right now for my DNS hosting service (http://slickdns.com).

But if Google's IaaS offering could fix all the fiddly bits that App Engine currently doesn't do (e.g., custom SSL, native binaries) it would surpass AWS in terms of functionality.

Selling bandwidth and white-label servers is easy. Building a production ready arbitrarily scalable web platform is much harder.
Yeah, they are using an annoying tool called onSwipe that is supposed to deliver a delightful experience on the iPad. In reality, it delivers an aggravating experience on the iPad.

I don't know why sites still use them.

I had to switch to the desktop version, repeatedly, until it actually took, then everything worked fine.
It's not a matter of repaying the debt. It's a matter of being able to afford future debt. Sovereign debt is generally sold as bonds, which either pay interest or are sold at a discount. The question is: how much interest should they pay, or how large should the discount be?

Ultimately, bonds, like much else, are priced by the market. A $1000 bond is only worth $1000 if the issuer does not go bankrupt before the bond matures. Therefore, the bonds are discounted by some amount that correlates with how high investors think the risk is that it will be paid back in full.

A concrete example: Spanish 10-year notes. At the start of the year, investors demanded about 5% interest to account for the risk that the Spanish government would not be able to repay its debts. This means that for the Spanish government to raise €1000, it has to pay investors €50 every six months. However, this week that rose to 7%, effectively increasing the amount of debt the Spanish government must take on to raise the same amount of money.

This effect can create a death spiral (as we saw with Greece) where skittishness in the market raises the cost of borrowing, which unnerves investors even more.

So there's no way for investors to force the government to pay back all the debt. However, they can make it impossible to raise more money in the future.
Studying Political Science/Business.

Really regret not opting for Computer Science. However, these regrets are fleeting. More focussed on capitalizing on my political science/business education (and liberal arts education as a whole) to expand my interest, while learning computer science/programming on my own (lots of reading).

Will be tough to break the barrier of "oh you didn't get degree in X" but I don't think it will be that big of an issue. Paul Graham's first major was in philosophy :)
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I'm sure being female had some impact on her empathy towards the author. But it sounds like simply being a "grown up" was the more decisive factor here.

Lord of the flies.
Craigslist does not allow you to sell or give away animals -- it likely had nothing to do with a misspelling.
> I don't think anyone is arguing that Craigslist don't have that right.

I most certainly am arguing that. Not only is the concept of ownership of information fundamentally mistaken in the first place (copying information doesn't deprive the original holder of anything), but even if you believe data is property, it's the property of the people who created it - not of Craigslist.
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Thanks. I have got better at titles over the last 10 years, true. Now I'd call it something like 'Turing: the movie you'll never see'
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I'm sure that's nothing like being discounted because you're a woman.
The most valuable customers are either on EC2 or their own private hardware. The number of companies who can trivially port their software to Google's new offering are a small fraction of the total market (when accounting for total $ spent).

There's an even bigger problem as well. Google hurt their reputation as a hosting provider when they significantly raised their rates without advanced notice. Companies want to know what their costs will be, and want to know that someone will answer their questions if they have support issues. Google has a negative reputation in both areas.
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Without going to the craigslist this information is vastly incomplete. You just see where the property is. Then you click through to the craigslist website. Well, I haven't used PM for a while, but when I was renting it was that way.
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Craigslist, Plenty Of Fish plus some others are examples of sites that took a really minimalist approach to design but managed to pull in a massive market share through fulfilling a customer need. Revenue from advertising paid the bills.

We wrote about ugly design before, how in some cases it actually increases conversion rates. It's odd but sometimes ugly is beautiful...

http://sparknlaunch.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/keep-it-simple-...
Here is an answer from Quora that really resonated with me: http://www.quora.com/In-recent-days-trillions-of-dollars-of-...

Basically, these wealth were expectations.
Well, it is obvious the if you don't need in-browser drawing you should just use static image files; but if you do, Raphael is way more versatile than canvas api or tricks with CSS.
About bugs, I haven't seen any yet; what kind of them are you talking about?
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>> They allow mobile apps to display their listings if you buy a license from them, but not websites.

PadMapper already has an app so couldn't they continue to use the listings in the app?
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It's Windows 98 all over again, hehe.
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Thanks. After reading your comment and rereading the article, I agree with your interpretation (but I can't stand the author's presentation).

It's too bad that the author chose to put the "male" spin on things[1][2][3][4]. I found that offensive enough to distract me from understanding the main point of the article on my first read.

(Also, the bearskin part was far-fetched. As another commenter here said: unless there was more context involved, she was probably reading into that too much.)

[1] "[...]young, plain-looking guys in T-shirts, gazing at their
screens, seemed startled—if not displeased—to see a strange new woman
in the office."

[2] "[...]it seemed like the kind of thing that suburban boys from
Harvard would think was urban and cool."

[3] "[...]or the unrepentantly boyish company culture that it
represented[...]"

[4] "As Mark wrote on his business card with boyish hubris[...]"
Why, so pinch can actively undermine yet another sucker who will soon accept an enormous golden parachute in lieu of suing?
The real world has texture and is most familiar and comfortable. The perfectly smooth shapes and surfaces created by not defining any texture are unnatural and elicit psychological uneasiness (cognitive dissonance) in the viewer..
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Well like it or not with the App Store you need to go Big or go Home. There is almost no place for default interface elements in most Apps because you get lost in a sea of crappy generic apps. I only use them as a placeholder to wireup the button in IB and the off to custom button land I go.
Frankly it's about time. They need to do something to come into compliance with parts of the world that have standardized on USB connector/power brick requirements. Right now they are the only cell phone that doesn't except a standard USB charging cable.
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Great project, and especially great that the data is available for public study!

I'm not keen on the article title though. 'Scientists trace a wiring plan...' sounds like it has been done already (present tense in news articles tends to read this way), which is completely false - as work on the 'wiring plan' has hardly even begun. I didn't expect Nature would be so 'headliney'...
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A possibly relevant, interesting wiki I ran across recently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_money
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> after a while of using it people get faster and develop the muscle memory to become efficient on the site, so the UI fades into the background anyway.

Jared Spool has said that when you change the user interface - fairly dramatically - you frustrate your regular users because they are now unfamiliar with it and have to restart their learning/experience curve.

"At eBay, they learned the hard way that their users don't like dramatic change. One day, the folks at eBay decided they no longer liked the bright yellow background on many of their pages, so they just changed it to a white background.

Instantly, they started receiving emails from customers, bemoaning the change. So many people complained, that they felt forced to change it back."

http://www.uie.com/articles/death_of_relaunch/
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imho you forgot to mention the key difference between US and Europe.
The US can print money because there is still demand in buying $. This demand is an artificial one caused by the petro-$, the binding of every oil purchase to $.
So everybody involved in oil trading has to purchase $ to purchase oil!

Iraq and Iran threatend to sell oil in €, for several reasons, they couldn't and didn't deliver, unfortunatly.

The BRICs countries establishing their own trading in other currencies than $. So this dominating role of the US will end long term.
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Somewhat related: There is a crowdsourced project to clean up data for neuronal connections visible in sections of mouse retina:

http://eyewire.org/
It is their property still. They gave Craiglist the right to use it. Padmapper is a 3rd party with no rights here.

Can I create a LinkedIn competitor and just scrape your profile information to put on my site? After all, its the same situation.
The title is a little misleading. What they've done is effectively created hundreds of snapshots of neural connectivity, each focusing on how one particular region of the brain hooks into another. The goal is to make this data available so experts and hobbyists alike can potentially identify connections that offer insight into brain function and disease.

An analogy would be trying to reconstruct the street layout of a city by taking pictures from a plane as it flew over. Each time you fly past, you might get a different angle, different weather conditions, or try a different camera. Now you have hundreds of photos, and you are hoping people who know things about cities will find useful information there, like where the best restaurants might be located.

Disclosure: I worked on the front-facing side of this project (data browser and image viewer).
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5. Delete alias.

Done.
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Both protestant and catholic theology (Schillebeeckx, Rahner, Kasper, Moltmann) have largely moved past such a stop gap god. The original poster is right, me and most practicing christians in my country (arguably it's different in the US) don't see a problem with evolution. Within the framework of Catholicism (the largest organized, most developed christian denomination) believing so is no problem at all, the "deposit of faith" allows this. The seeds for this have been sown in the early part of the 20th century.
Concerning the specialness of the human person or soul, and the need for God; this is first and formost meant as theological language.
I hate when I start something and then think "you know, I bet someone's already done this and done it better than me", look and then find that its true.

I hate it more when it happens on the scale of hours or even minutes.

Programming is indeed humbling.
Here is the catch in the 21st century - we are creating debt in exchange for things that can create goods without human intervention.

The entire monetary system is built off the idea of trading goods and services that are the products of human labor. Things like automated assembly lines are a precursor - when we had 3d printing, you remove all human factors in the creation of goods besides the raw resource acquisition, and sufficiently advanced printers can also decompose trash into reusable pieces so you don't even need raw materials any more besides power.

All our financial woes and economic malnourishment is the product of this system, beneath government welfare overspending the budget, it is why corporations post record profits while laying off thousands and why all that money goes to the top of the management. When the actual consumable and usable goods are not produced by people, the sale of individual units breaks down.

Look no further than media. Media is an upfront cost of creation, but reproduction is free. The current system is so broken because it tries to charge per unit as if unit production has an associated cost, where the cost is the funding, not the distribution. That problem only gets worse as we automate everything more and more (automated cars replace drivers, 3d printers replace small scale manufacturing...).

That leads to a big one. Automated mining and farming. Fully, with no human intervention, where you can set off a robot with some pre-programmed track of land to till or dig and it will extract all the resources from that area for you. Once that happens everything goes out the window, because a single point of sale unit of production (plus maintinance, which then gets ursurped by the singularity making machines improve themselves) where once one of these machines is available, resources are no longer scarce.

And then money breaks down. Because when human effort is no longer involved in the day to day operations of goods production, there is no continuous "cost" involved anymore, in the terms the Reddit thread describes, or how most people interpret goods and labor.
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An intriguing idea... can you extrapolate on the possible value of deriving histograms or feature data from pop art?
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I have heard of pythonbrew[1][2][3], but I didn't feel the need to list everything.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3183721
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2795333
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856131
I think he knows the difference which was why he had a problem with it. But of course the problem is not that some arbitrary function no longer returns him a preferred default value, the problem is that he is sending it garbage to begin with (and he claimed this was used in "thousands" of places...shudder).
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I understand your viewpoint here, because that's more or less how I interpreted the article on my first read through. However, you likely misinterpreted the article. See pnmahoney's response to my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4150139 (and try to ignore that it's the same pnmahoney who responded angrily to your comment :)
gumtree is where it's at for apartment rentals and other big hard-to-ship odds and ends. then there's carsales.com.au for automobiles, and ebay for everything else. seems to work out okay.
Who says "the user" will see that splash screen? Firstly, I think typical users will switch on their PC, then look elsewhere for a minute or so. Secondly, there is the case of having a nefarious sysadmin (Internet cafe, hotel, etc)

A splash screen that required acknowledgment would work for case #1, but would be annoying, too.
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I think those who argue for patents have to show how exactly patents promote entrepreneurship and innovation.

What patents do is to boost the value of ideas relative to execution. They are supposed to help individuals with great ideas but without access to the resources required to execute on them.

For patents to make sense, there has to be a very large gap between the capital required to work on the idea itself and the capital required to bring it to market. Something like building a factory or conducting 10 years worth of clinical studies. Something that enables a big encumbant to copy an idea and win every time against the original innovator.

I don't think that is generally the case in the software space. It is certainly more true for enterprise stuff that you need sales people for and that's why MBA types may think more favorably about software patents. But even for that kind of software, the gap isn't nearly as large as for inventing a new type of nuclear reactor or jet engine or cancer drug.

Another problem with patents is that they are supposed to make people publish their research instead of keeping it secret, but many small companies and individuals cannot afford to go through the patenting process.

I can say for myself that I do not publish my research nor do I open source it. Secrecy is the cheapest option to have a head start with exactly the kind of ideas that might really benefit from patents. Ideas that you don't think someone else could have tomorrow by accident or by gradually expanding on existing ideas.
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http://www.quora.com/What-is-Borg-at-Google

"It's the system that manages machines. If you want to run a program that uses x CPU and y memory on 100 machines, you don't specify which machines to run it on. Instead, you request 100 machines using a Borg library."
I have a question about this, I know that we have a complete wiring diagram of all 302 neurons in the C. elegans nervous system, so are we able to simulate that neural network and see the same behaviours as in the living nematode worm? I've seen papers that's focused on the locomotion circuit and other parts but I don't seem to be able to find any attempts at simulating the whole thing at once.
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Getting "injured" can be very interesting from time to time, i guess.
"I just found out a few moments ago that Craigslist has sent a cease and desist to one of the most valuable sites for apartment renters ON THE PLANET, Padmapper." (emphasis mine)

Never heard of the site. Curious after this introduction I opened the site, went to my chosen hometown of Cologne, DE (1 mil people). Map's empty. Berlin, maybe? Nope. Tel Aviv, IL? Nothing.

So for all the places I care about on this very planet the service doesn't seem to work for me. That's not to slight their service at all, padmapper might be a great service. But either they depended on craigslist too much (and that's why it's barren now for me) or the writer of that blog post should tone down his introduction a bit. Is it planet or US now?
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They depended on craigslist too much. It worked really well when craigslist wasn't stopping them from using craigslist. craigslist is international. Does craigslist have listings for Cologne, DE, Berlin, or Tel Aviv, IL? If it does, they would have appeared on PadMapper. I've used PadMapper before. I didn't even know they had any other sources; I thought it was strictly a mapping of craigslist listings.
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Yes, usually any misogyny on hacker news is at least concealed behind pseudo rational arguments.
Iraq only couldn't because they got invaded! There is a strong case that this was the real reason for Gulf War II.
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That makes sense. I think a lot of folks advocate maps and filter sliders because they over-estimate an average user's comfort level with such advanced features. I think a non-technical person is much more content with spending several times more time just sifting through listings manually instead of having to learn some whiz-bang (in their mind) gadget.
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