skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
500k/euros over 5 years savings? Sounds like a waste of time just talking about it.

Did they actually factor in the actual costs of switching folks over?

It's going to take more than a couple 50k/year employees to support a massive upgrade.

On the other hand, I think that Linux is close enough to being ready for public consumption.
Yeah I like Sethna a lot but he is a theorist - the experiment was done for Na clusters by a guy named Haberland. It was published in Science a few years ago.

[edit]

Sorry I mean nature:
M. Schmidt, R. Kusche, B. v. Issendorff und H. Haberland,
Irregular variations in the melting point of size-selected atomic clusters,
Nature, 393, 238-240 (1998).

http://cluster.physik.uni-freiburg.de/lit/preprints/Natmelt....

There experiment is pretty hard to understand though.
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Most people think that LinkedIn is just a place where you add other friends and professionals to your network.

Well let me share with some good news - its a lot more then that!
The saying goes: one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist. I made this account especially because I knew I will be regarded as a “troll” by some.

The real world is unfortunately not entirely black and white. I never said that what Mandela fought for was wrong - I said that the way it was done was wrong. Unfortunately most people spend time on the Apartheid era's misdeeds but ignore that of the liberation movement.

I said he should use Desmond Tutu as a fine example. Tutu fought for the same thing as Mandala (equal rights) but he did it in a non-violent way. He denounced violence and terrorism on both sides (he even intervened once risking his own life to prevent a crowd from necklacing a person).

You will also notice above that I recommended moving off from the politics topic because it is unnecessarily divisive and not really the focus point of YCNews.

EDIT: Why I also think that Tutu makes an excellent example is that his actions (such as the non-violence he promotes) stems from his religious identity. This is clearly the case in which a person's identity is a good attribute.
Can't you make your video private on YouTube (http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en...), then embed it on your site?
Some of the options are 'delve', 'flowplayer' and 'brightcove'. But you're going to have to pay I think.

cf. here about licensing fees on the codecs

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=451264

I've seen this free one recommended but it's not for commercial use:

http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/
All very good tips. I prefer a smaller font when hacking because I like to be able to scan more of the codebase, but I can see how it could force a person to tighten up the scope of their methods/functions.
No one would go if it was all freely broadcast. If no one went it wouldn't be an event. If it wasn't an event there would be nothing to freely broadcast.

Their putting hundreds of lectures up for free online is already a great deal, I don't see a need to complain.
I would not pay, as a matter of pride and taste. I have a strong dislike for influence peddlers.

Instead, ask your friends to review it on Apple's site. Promote it yourself. Advertise on Google and set the ads to show on the same sites you are talking about.
Flowplayer is good. It's $95. If you don't want to pay and host your own player, Vimeo is nicer looking than Youtube.

http://flowplayer.org/index.html
There is no standard anything anymore -- everyone is playing with business models left-and-right. As long as they clearly tell end-users how reviews are done, they could be using monkeys to write the reviews on papyrus.

Can you ask them what kind of traffic they are bringing in -- and how much of the traffic leaves the site on the way to iTunes? If they can answer that question for you (and providing proof would be a bonus!), it would be an easier question to answer.

(I'd apply a formula like: 50 visitors on average go thru to iTunes after reading a link. 10% buy. That's 5 buyers. If your app is $10, you end up breaking even.)
"I have often dreamed of a study that somehow measures the impact of ego on workplace productivity. The results, I imagine, would be staggering, with as much as a 50 percent increase in productivity resulting from the eradication of egos."

I've wondered if the surge in productivity following WWII was, in part, due to something like this.
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Interesting that lawyers were the most expensive.

(Actually, it's a little hard to compare, because some of the rates are monthly, some daily, and some are per pupil.)
You should pull a Dreamhost and out this site. They are dishonest and should be called out.

http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/04/web-hostings-dirty-laun...
Here are the very basic:
Pork 1 Italian pound 12

Assuming a person eats 1/2 of meat a day, plus bread and other stuff, you could deduct that it would take about 8-10 Denarii per day for a person to feed themseleves.

The lowes wage, is for unskilled famer:
Farm laborer, with maintenance (daily) 25

So about 33% of the income is spend on food, nevermind basic necessities. But when you compare to today's countries in development, it fares pretty well. http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displaystory.cfm...

Now if you are a wall painter, things get better:
Wall painter, as above (daily) 75

You are spending only a small fraction of your income in basic food.

from that limited data, it seems that life wasn't bad at all during those times.
This question is meaningless.

Why?

1) The value of the denarius was clearly subject to inflation, and so varied greatly. You could say "how much was the denarius worth of October 1st, 10 AD?", but that value would have changed by the next day. In fact, around the time this edict was proclaimed, clearly the value of the denarius was inflating rapidly.

2) The only way you could come up with a relative value for even one day is by looking at how much comparable goods cost. The thing is, are there any comparable goods? The average "consumption basket" (used to calculate the inflation index in modern times) was drastically different back then. The standard of living of people around that time was incomparable.

A kilogram of corn, which you might think would be a good item to evaluate relative prices, was harder to come by back then. Relative and absolute scarcity of resources was different.
It's a complex question. Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting With Jesus, can be a good explainer of evangelical religion in America to the rest of us. He asserts that there have always been people who are this deeply religious in about this proportion, but the difference is that now they are a political constituency and a valuable demographic for advertisers. Perhaps it's very simply that culture isn't controlled by the city anymore, nor by the three big TV networks who all had similarly liberal urbanites in control.

If I were to guess I'd say that what's on the decline is nominal religiosity. Those who don't believe, don't worship, in greater numbers. At the same time, among those who do believe, there's been an assertion of cultural power since the 1980s or so.

No data here, just an observation from someone about the same as as pg.
Because disruptive, game-changing, mind-flipping innovations take years to be accepted. Only a few individuals will understand the potential impact, the rest won't see it or understand it if they witnessed it.

So maybe that "next big thing" is already here. Maybe you saw it, read about it here or heard a couple of nerds talking about it, but chances are you would not care for it, or appreciate it because you would not know it.

The next big thing is the unknown unknown and it takes years for people to comprehend it.
I think he's worried about the branding on the embedded player. It will say "YouTube" and also have the extraneous features included in their player (like what on youtube to look at next, etc.).
No one’s happiest at work. Ever.

A minor nit-pick perhaps, but I am happiest when I'm working. Fair enough, I work for myself, from home, on my own business (and other endeavours), but I'm happiest when I'm doing that. I can go on holiday, and enjoy those, but nothing feels quite as good as a quality day of hard, productive work.
The above comment is a summary of the article. (there, even shorter)
a) is it disclosed? If it's disclosed as a sort of paid advertisement, then it's okay. It's more of an ad, than a review.
b) what's their traffic? See if there really is a "backlog of apps to review".
c) Be concerned that they will only publish it if it's a positive review. That means they're only doing this if it's favorable.
d) What other apps are there? If it's third rate apps that look like they can only get a positive review if paid, then id abandon it.

Everyone is going to have their own opinion on this. No one is right or wrong, this is just my point of view. I hope it helps.
Yes, the iRex is prohibitively expensive but if you buy the 1st edition while its on sale, you can get it for around $100 cheaper than that.

In the end, I justified the purchase because of the features I'm getting over the other 2 readers.
- The sony and kindle both have a 800x600 screen while the iRex has a 1024x768.
- The iRex also has a wacom stylus embedded into the screen which you can take notes with
- The iRex is open-sourced, the developer released the SDK a while ago and there is a bunch of 3rd party free software for it.

However, I can definitely see how the iRex can be overpriced for some people and the sony and kindle could be a better fit for them.

A good resource for ebook reader information is http://www.mobileread.com/ (i'm not affiliated with them in any way) . You can read other people's experiences with them and find out which reader is right for you.
Seed (http://seedmagazine.com/).
Tagline is "Science is Culture." It's very young; it just kind of came out of nowhere a year or two ago and started doing really, really good work. It's really content-dense, unlike Wired is now, and aimed at a more technical crowd.
That is a complicated issue. If it's not meaningless to ask what a dollar 50 years ago was worth in present terms, then it isn't meaningless to ask about further back. E.g. the answer would appear not to be a trillion, or a trillionth.

However, while this seems to be the view of most economists, I think it's meaningless to ask even what the value of a dollar 50 years ago was, because we are so much richer now. A dollar now can buy you computing power that would have been unthinkable then, cures for diseases that were then incurable, and so on. Economists deliberately ignore immensely valuable new innovations till their prices stabilize (= decline dramatically), since otherwise the CPI would jump around wildly. But this means the CPI greatly understates the growth in wealth.
Making a computer that works like a brain (16 min flash video)
I think pg's topic was more inspired by observing online discussions rather than actual religious wars.

That said, your observations are not contradictory. If clashes and intolerance arise naturally because of self-identification with religious positions, how much more convenient for a aggressive ruler to exploit that as a pretext for war. The same has been done for nationalism, for at least a few centuries.
Please Explain.
I think it's fairly likely that in the next 50 years, strong anti-aging therapeutics will become available. This could reshape business practices significantly: long term strategies would directly reward their practitioners.
I was at the College of William and Mary for three years as a graduate student. One of those years, a girl was graduating who did something similar to get in. Her application was wait-listed, so she showed up on campus with a sandwhich board saying so, and that she desperately wanted to come to WM. She did, and she did well.
Not edit it, but those who took the time to read the actual article could submit summaries and/or vote on which was the best summary (== most accurate).

And only show one summary to normal viewers, the highest voted one. If people want to contribute to the summary pool or vote on summaries, they can perhaps click in somewhere.
Even though I don't really know what Roman courts were like, I bet a lot more things were punishable by death, so I figure a good lawyer might be the difference between being let free (or at least getting out alive) or being executed.
Sorry man, it wasn't my intention to ridicule a valid concern about people who get stressed out beyond imagination.

I think there is reason for entrepreneurial people to be more open about the negative effects of the emotional roller coaster that starting a business is.
Privacy and evilness issues aside, there's always the problem that what was once awesome and free is unlikely to stay so forever. New policies (max attachment sizes, storage restrictions) etc can also ruin the service.

I pay a very small amount to have my own mail server on my own domain. It is unlikely to ever change (great for long-term networking) and I control exactly how crappy or excellent the service is.

Considering how important email is to each of us in our daily lives, even non-hackers, I'm surprised more people don't pay for it.
Getting equity is pretty spiffy. It also implies you're taking on risk to receive it.

Would you be willing to forfeit your salary for a few months if things didn't work out and revenue dried up, or are you only interested in an arrangement that rewards you with ownership and a guaranteed salary regardless of performance?
I agree with the disclosure rule. Look through their current reviews; do any of them mention pay, or even be vague about it, such as "we were asked to review this application" or something ?

If not, then what you want to do is "pull a dreamhost" with a post on your own web site. Then post that here, and on reddit and on slashdot etc -- the resulting traffic may be more than this site could give you, and your conscience will certainly be clearer.
Columbia and NYU grad students make about 25K/year.
Looks pretty good, thanks
So Lawyers always made more money than most people.
I think he was just trying to explain the difference which we intuitively see between the two kinds languages he lists, because it's not obvious what exactly the difference is.

One of these groups he calls the "puzzle languages" and the others are "not puzzle languages". Puzzle languages are usually clearly oriented toward one particular way of doing things; trying to use a different way sometimes works, but is usually fairly fragile and almost always out of place. This can be intentional or unintentional; Haskell's purity is an example of intentional limits, while the ugliness of using function pointers in C is an example of an unintentional (perhaps?) one. Converting from the original solution to a cleaner one is the "puzzle". The advantage of this is that, if you learn to use the constructs in the way the language "wants" you to, your code will be nicer and you will be able to be more productive.

On the other hand, the not-puzzle languages don't limit you as much. There is little stigma associated with doing things in any particular way, and often the methods considered "dirty" in puzzle languages are the easiest or accepted way. There is often a "cleaner" method of doing things, but the language and the language's culture don't try to push you towards it. This can make the non-puzzle languages somewhat easier to work with, because they don't push more complex abstractions on you, but as a result they lose some of the expressiveness which forcing abstractions can give.

I'd disagree with him for making such a strict distinction between the two. It's a bit of a spectrum, based on the degree to which the languages try to restrict you. For instance, one (debatable) ordering of some languages is Javascript, Perl, Python, Java, Assembly, Haskell. Note that these distinctions don't necessarily convey the existence of high-level abstractions within the languages; it only conveys the degree to which they attempt to force you into whatever abstractions they have. (In fact, it seems that the less puzzle-y languages tend to support a wider variety of abstractions.)

I don't think the idea of puzzle-yness captures the distinction quite like he wanted it to, but it nonetheless is an interesting idea.
Well, not what he meant in context, I bet, but the question certainly isn't meaningless when the context is collectibles:

http://ri.ms/ebay_denarius
I don't mind paying for the service, I would pay for Gmail. But now that they allow people to download all their email, I see no reason to run my own server.
Competition is great.. but if they are planning to go head to head with Intel, that is a recipe for failure. Hopefully that have something novel in mind.
the result of [core criticality] is furiously boiling water.

Not in a PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor If a nuclear reactor's core is not critical, that nuclear reactor is not on.
I have only run Win7 in a virtual environment, but it was awesome.
This will be a good reason to keep people on the Windows enviro.
Ask your friends to review it? How is that ethically superior to just paying for the review?
You appear to lack the business sense to point us to your iPhone app with this question. ;)
What do you think about 100 year languages now? :-)
Hell no don't pay. That's crap, for all the reasons you mentioned.

How many blogs have you sent your info to? 10? You should be sending it to 100.

I publish a tech blog. We're small but publish on Google News. Hit us up. Can't guarantee we'll review it. If we do and it stinks we'll say so. If we do and it's awesome, we'll say so.
don't do it. we (colloquy, the irc client) submitted promo codes and requests to review to multiple people and review sites, and there was only one website who did exactly what you state. none of the rest wanted payment of any sort (ars technica, tuaw, daring fireball, etc.) and were all too happy to mention and review the app.

We've gotten more money from iTunes affiliate links to the application on our page (http://mobile.colloquy.info) than in sales from most of the iPhone-specific review sites that we could see. We've also probably made more sales promoting ourselves and providing support on Twitter.

(Also, for what it's worth this site in question seems to be super slow if you don't pay up $50 or pay for advertising, it's been a little over two weeks with nothing whatsoever. the promo code we sent will probably expire before they review, heh.)
One thing that really helped me when I code is to switch to a real "coding font".

Wile the default monospace font on OSX (monaco) is fine, I find that my eyes adjusts better to the "proggy clean" fonts (avaiable for free here: http://www.proggyfonts.com/ ).

With good coding fonts, you are able fit more into the screen, distinguish between 1 and l, 0 and o more easily..etc. Here's a discussion on programming fonts a while back on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=255257)
Using the prices listed and assuming a 10 hour work day, one denarius was worth:

1/4 of a decent beer, or 1/2 of a Egyptian beer
1/2 an ounce of Pork Mincemeat
1/12th of an Italian pound of Venison
1/2 a bath

With a 10 hour day, laborers made:

2.5 denarii an hour for farm labor
5 denarii an hour for carpentry
2.5 denarii an hour for data entry (scribing)
1.5 denarii an hour for entry level teaching
(assuming 10 pupils and 10 hour workday
I think that having your javascript fail gracefully is important. (i.e. click on a link in the slide show and it actually takes you to the next slide.) This is not only for the people that have javascript turned off for whatever reason but also for the search engines. If they cannot navigate to it you will not get ranked. Hook your javascript into the next link after the page has loaded and then override the behavior if they have javascript turned on if they don't then the link will still work because it is a valid link to the next page. There are plenty of resources out there that teach this javascript idiom.

Have a good url structure using rewrites such as foo.com/why-ip-cameras-are-bad/ and translate it behind the scenes to whatever slide it maps to.

I also agree with inerte that the slides are too text heavy. Make it more succinct for the presentation and people will be more likely to actually read the whole thing. You can go on in more detail on other pages of your site.

Overall it looks like an interesting product and I wish you luck.

Are you planning a OS X Version?
Who can do numbers 3, 5 and 8 in six minutes? I guess they will make you a Better Programmer (tm), but will consume slightly more time. Or does the article claim to make me a Better Programmer by just letting me know how to become a Better Programmer?

On the positive side: I like the idea of automatic uglification of "bad" code.
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It is listed in his profile (which I though was the more accepted approach here).
"Sometimes, when I'm looking at the code of a complete stranger, I get that same, weird feeling I get when I'm creeping through my neighbour's house. Picking up their stuff, looking through their fridge."

Um...
disable this: A password will be e-mailed to you.

make the domain not look like a typosquatting site. Eg, graphics.

add ruby syntax ;)
One good font-related tip: Make comments stand out (dark, bold) rather than fade into the background. Forces me to write better comments, and prevents comment from getting out of sync with the code.
Why Learn Lisp When There Are Perl And Python
I didn't mention ethics, only pride and taste.
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You might have noticed that this language definition is short on specificity. I haven't specified how big the number can be (such as if it can be bigger than a 32-bit integer) or even if the number can be negative.

The grammar itself (which, in this case, is expressed in EBNF notation) says nothing about details such as the size of numbers. Grammars only describe what can be said, not what that means.

The C grammar, for example, has many different number types. But it's not the grammar which determines if an unsigned long is 32 or 64-bit. That's determined by parts of the language specification outside of the grammar.
I believe that if you hold certain opinions, strongly enough, they change who you are. If you truly believe in the value of altruism (for example) you can't help but become more altruistic. If you don't let your opinions change who you are, it's a fair question to ask, whether you even hold those opinions.

Granted, I understand that you are more concerned with making sure people keep a certain emotional distance from their opinions, so that they can maintain a level of objectivity, but I'm not sure that that is always feasible, without adopting a certain kind of passivity or relativism.
Throw up a quick blog post talking about this trend for apps. In the post make sure to talk about your app. Then promote the post on reddit/digg and let other blogs know about it.

You'll get more exposure for your app than a mere blog post on a 3rd rate blog(gotta be 3rd rate if they only want $50 for a positive post). And who knows, you might get some of those big name blogs to cover your story as an example of how their particular blog is so much better than others that charge money for good stories.
Joel never discusses what his designers/support staff/everyone else think of his company. I wonder if they love their office as much as the developers.

As a designer, I wouldn't be able to stand a company that values its developers so much higher than everyone else (note: I have no idea if Joel does this, I seriously doubt it, I'm only going via his statements on his site about how his developers get fancy chairs/offices)
Totally unrelated to anything.

1. I love your program.

2. I just bought your iPhone application because you guys deserve at least that much from me.
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