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I've been doing something similar with my blog, except it is currently for people who do care what the text says. The diff algo is tricky, I should have built up a larger corpus of material before designing.

It looks at paragraphs, sentences, sub-sentence structures, words. It even draws little sparkgraph-ish diagrams. It is not really that long (250 lines by wc) but it has been a huge time sink for tweaking.

For an example of some heavy editing:
http://kmkeen.com/inabow/2009-01-07-11-22-00.html
I believe that was OS 8, actually.

As I drift off to memory land, I still remember the System 7.5.3 update that made icons that were being dragged translucent. That was so exciting back then :)
If the people leaving are scientists and engineers, people aren't going to be concerned. These folks are getting laid off in droves no matter where they come from and if some ultimately leave the country no big deal.

Looking at the last 50-100 years, if there's suddenly a market demand for these fields, students will reappear. It'll take a few years, but people chase money.
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I think it would be useful. Consider this example.

The original sentence is: "He went to the stoar." Person A sends this to person B for review. While Person B is reviewing this, Person A changes the sentence to "Bill went to the stoar.". Then, Person B sends back the spelling correction; "He went to the store.".

If the sentence translated to one line for `diff` to work on, this would be a merge conflict. If each word was its own line, this would merge cleanly.
Ask HN: E-learning startup and blackboard failure
After being linked to this thread [link at bottom] on reddit which describes many college/university students anger at how bad the "blackboard e-learning" suite is I started to think about my experience with blackboard at my university. If you haven't used it, imagine web appplications from the late 90's!

This got me thinking, there are no 'really' good contenders in the e-learning market, of course blackboard has a few competitors in the open source and propietary markets but none of them are a great deal better.

I'm pretty sure me and a couple of guys from my comp sci school could create something significantly better than the current market leader (blackboard) within the space of 3 months (summer holiday).

Unless we go all out and run this like a startup business it will obviously go nowhere, do you think this is something we should run with or would getting other schools to use it be to much of an uphill battle?

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/81bk3/i_submit_a_paper_on_blackboard_called_hw_2docx/
I feel that a plan such as that proposed would just increase the "noise" level on the site while doing little to add to the overall quality of the content - indeed it could just have a negative impact.

I am guilty (if that's the word) of posting the odd Seth Godin item but I am pretty selective about the ones I post. From time to time Seth's blogs can sound like they came out of a fortune cookie and then along comes an absolute corker with direct relevance to HN. Blindly posting them all would just add to the (rapidly growing) stream of new stories that are not going to get any up-votes - adding yet more noise and making the signal just that little bit weaker.
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Literally this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/7/6/f/76f99713cf111eb035d90...

What's being implemented is pretty simple to write with an English explanation. But my interviewer expected me to get it from the notation above.

It's been a decade since I left high school, and the programming in my career doesn't involve formulae. After a bunch of successful interviews I bombed on this question, and was never forgiven.
It's tempting to think that the job market works that simply. However, it takes at least 10 years to train a good scientist / engineer. Waiting 10 years is a luxury.

Moreover, people who choose a career based on earning power tend not to be talented or creative. In other words, people who would be attracted to Science / Engineering if the salaries would rise a bit are exactly the kind of people that make mediocre scientists or engineers.
The main reason I'm usually not a huge fan of the college-no-college discussions is because they're "big identity" discussions (http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html). Most readers of this site made a choice when they were kids or very near to it and the position that they defend tends to reflect the choice, well informed or otherwise, that they made then.
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I left USA after being an H1B for 5 years with delay after delay in my GC application. HARD decision. Hated leaving...

Went to my home country, created a software company with successful products. Now a few dozen jobs are here instead of there and some million $$$ are flowing into my country.

Still, I would move to the US and open an office if I'd have a legal, fast way to get a residency there. Not likely though.
Link, please. I think you are painting with too broad a brush. Many people are attracted to many things, and economics is one of the factors they use to discriminate between them.
How does he "lack their talent?" I see little talent on display. Though perhaps that's Rand's poor writing ability - not much is ever described to the reader, she just says "talented" or "great" about her protagonists, and expects us to accept it.
My point is that he inherited his wealth. And pissed it away. Objectively that's what happens.
I almost want to amend the title to read ...

Apple's Safari hits 10% browser market share on my sites.

or

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As I understand it, "absolute truth" refers to when all actors in all interactions know and understand everything relevant to their interactions - and that will obtain the theoretical optimal equilibrium.

Problem is, to know everything relevant, you must know everything - otherwise, how do you know that what you don't know isn't relevant? Since this is obviously not possible, you strive for the best approximation. Sovjet-style communism attempted to set up a political system to handle all this knowledge, and failed miserably. Free market capitalism, with free price formation and supply and demand seems to be an orders-of-magnitude better approximation.
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These are definitely good things to know, but I wouldn't necessarily expect a fresh-out-of-college 22 year old to know them all - I think you can pick them up on the job in the first couple of months/years.

The important thing is to be willing to learn and improve yourself, and to just have a natural talent for programming. Nobody expects you to hit the floor running in your very first job.
THE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG by Jack London
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Basically, the story tells that a tribe figured out that the basic "law" was that no man should use his strength to abuse others, so whenever one would abuse his strength, the others would kill him as to not weaken the tribe. Much later in the story, they figured out that money (among other things) also was a strength that you can use to abuse others.

This is why (more or less) I don't agree with Ayn
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I'm not saying I would do it :) You said it couldn't be done, I disagree.

I do think it's something people want too. Distraction is a huge problem on the web. I know it's not what you want being an ad supported business, but I do believe someone will do it at some point.
They are getting a lot of mentions on Twitter right now, it will be interesting to see if they die down quickly or if they continue for a while.

http://twist.flaptor.com/trends?gram=skittles&table=0
Ask HN: Please, review my startup - Mobiquus
After months of endless work, finally we have a public beta. We have developed a email-push application for cell phones, we think that we have some nice features, but we like to know your opinion.

So, please take a look at http://mobiquus.com/ and tell me what you think.

Thanks.
A clickable link - http://www.mobiquus.com/
My opinion is based on my personal experience, not on anything I have read. Of all the people I met, the ones who achieved the most were driven by a desire to do things, to deliver impact, to create. Of course, people are attracted to many things... and money is a very important motivating factor. I never argued otherwise.

My mentor, a former academic turned serial entrepreneur, once told me: "The best engineers in the world are the ones driven by dreams."
I could use this as part of git itself for comparing latex document revisions. The current line-oriented diff has all the problems that sentdiff tries to solve.
This is overblown. Estimate 10 objects per page (if you don't have good cache headers)... 43 million GETs a day (1.3 trillion requests a month) at 10/page is around 4 million pages a day and 130 billion a month. Adjust your estimate as necessary but it's quite a lot of page views...

Plus, you can request a quota increase here:

http://code.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=A...
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>> "No, this is definitely selling candy. People are talking about Skittles. That sells candy."

Yeah I'd be more interested in evidence actually.
You've just described dwdiff. Not the smartest diff algo, though its strong point is producing diffs of prose that are human readable. I used it as the core of a wiki with 'perfect' collision resolution. Two people could edit at the same time, and the 2nd to hit save would have their work merged in with dwdiff instead of having their work automatically discarded.
This is a tough one. I sometimes regret choosing to go to college, but it truly changed everything for me. I studied Materials Engineering, and now I'm doing a web startup, but I really believe the college experience, the connections I've made, and the failure in multiple ways in college (not in classes thankfully) has helped me prepare to take the leap to full time entrepreneur.
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It's a work of fiction, by the way. But each of the characters has their own sets of talents and strengths and they are described rather than asserted throughout the book.

The question of whether these descriptions are 'true' is quite pointless in an entirely fictional setting.

> not much is ever described to the reader
> she just says "talented" or "great" about
> her protagonists

It's only fair to say you failed to sum up these 1000 pages accurately.
Hm. I guess there must be something wrong with me because I'm so utterly not impressed.

Why would I go to the skittles homepage in first place? Why would I more likely go there when they have a twittr stream of the #skittles tag?

I don't get it. Why on earth do you guys get so excited over this?
Maybe a little design realignment (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/redesignrealign) would help (not that it's ugly, but that would help). For example, clarify the font in the logo, play a bit with the general colors. The header background could be re-arranged. It would be refreshing for your audience to see that it's evolving.

Make it look fancy! Good luck. :)
Talk about much ado about nothing.

If Google's limits are, somehow, a problem for you.. go get yourself some EC2 servers, or co-locate or.. a hundred other possible things.
Congratulations on #500000 ;)
That's the Fibonacci Series. It would be hard for me to forgive anyone who wouldn't at least recognize it too, since it is so famous and is basically the classic example of recursion.

EDIT: seeing as this thread is about a CS major trying to get a job, this is also something that is taught quite early in a CS curriculum ;)
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From the article...

Growing demand for their skills and shining career opportunities back home were cited by 87 percent of
the Chinese and 79 percent of the Indians as the major professional reason for returning. Most also
cited the lure of being close to family and friends.

No surprise here. A few years back, when I was working for a IT company in Chicago which went through a kind of "reverse takeover" by an (East) Indian firm, most of my co-workers gave similar reasons for leaving our U.S. office soon after the .com bubble popped. The stories told me by my supervisors reaffirms the article's contention that Indian programmers have a lifestyle in stark contrast of the countrymen in the rural areas of India proper.
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I wish articles like this would provide more detail (such as a link to the study itself). At the moment I don't know how to act on this information. It was a survey, so what exactly were the questions? How were "those who keep a check on their frustrations" determined? Lacking that, it's difficult to guess which way causation worked. Were these frustrated people failing because they didn't express anger, or were they more likely to reply that they had unexpressed anger because they were not doing well personally and professionally? Or maybe the causation is that successful people feel more free to express themselves while unsuccessful people don't like to draw attention to themselves.

The BBC article on the same study (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7918622.stm) mentioned that "Outright fury was destructive, the researchers added", which sounds like an important caveat. If I were convinced that this survey shows that anger leads to creating value, I'd like more detail on constructive ways to express anger.
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Not much meat to that story...

"those who let their anger out in a constructive manner"

The article doesn't explain what this means but sounds like it's probably "don't lie down and take it when you encounter bullshit" which is of course "good for your career."
I'm a US citizen in the SF bay area, bootstrapping a web company by myself, and I'm heading out to Beijing this summer. PG talks a lot about reaching 'ramen profitability' and there's no easier place to hit that than China. It's going to cost me about $400 a month to live (frugally), and if I needed to, I could teach English for about $60 / hr. Worst case scenario, a native English speaker could dedicate one or two days a month to paying the bills.

There is no lack of tech talent in Beijing - from personal work experience, Tsinghua's tech alums are just as bright as MIT's or Stanford's. And you can hire a fresh graduate for about $20k / year.

If you can speak Chinese and you don't want to take external investment, screw Silicon Valley, Beijing is a bootstrapper's paradise.
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I'm beginning to think I'm the only person who dislikes these sites that regurgitate other people's content into a list.
How do you calculate your donation ratio? 10% seems like a very very good conversion rate.
If you do go down the freemium route, don't forget to give the people who've already donated free access to the premium features in excess of the amount they donated. Keeping these users happy strikes me as the key to expanding the user base via word of mouth.
It's about fast scale-out. If you are getting that kind of sustained traffic, then you can likely pay for the conventional hosting.

The problem is what happens when you have normal trafic but get spikes? The NY Times links to your startup one morning and suddenly you have hundreds of thousands potential new customers kicking the tires at the same time. You'd like to be able to handle that easily, so you can convert some small % into paying customers and take advantage of the free publicity. But if your site goes down in flames you give a bad first impression to all those potential sales, and they will likely never give you another chance.
They moved on to http://socialbrowse.com
But there is a problem in that the App Engine is not Open Source, or is it? So to move one's site to EC2, a lot of reprogramming would be necessary.
That's pretty impressive. The demo needs a better loading screen (applets can do that you know, http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2008/08/a_better_...).

What is Mobiquus?
Mobiquus is a push-mail application for your mobile phone.
>what is that? - I know but most people won't

It works with any mobile phone that supports java and it has some features that make it unique.
>your second sentence should make me want to use it, more than the first. Technical specs need to come later after you have me.

What does using your product give me? Spell it out.
the number of maps that donated divided by the number of free users. It's not linear, though: there are months when I get a lot of donations (on various sizes). The smallest one being two cents (that was just once, though) and the biggest one having reached 120 usd (yay!!!).
The donations are also higher during specific periods of year (like christmas)
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The website is a local (Nigerian) news aggregator, and most of the work is done in the background.
I'd like to hear opinions on the layout, design, idea or anything at all.
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You can say that the owner would not have been able to create the wealth without the system. And if you've seen enough of the world, you know that this is fair. But when the wealth is taken from the owner, it does not go to the system. It goes to the politicians, who redistribute it to other individuals who did not create the wealth. That's the rub.
yeah, that's DEFINITELY one big improvement that needs to be done...

I'm still wondering how to make it hit more people, though - I suppose updating the looks wouldn't be enough (although an important step, of course).
I agree but still think that's possible with the quota (before you request an increase).

In an eight hour period (the work day), 500 requests per second is enough to serve 1 million people 17 GETs. And the vast majority of people will bounce away after one page view.

So unless you cured cancer or something, I wouldn't worry.
How do you know a vitamin actually does anything? How do you know it actually contains the vitamins it says it does?

Selling a Vitamin is a considerably harder sell than pain relief.
yeah, I was thinking it would be cool as an option for git diffs or something for when you have text files under git.

Never really looked at the git source code, so I'm not sure how easy it would be to do.
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It's interesting the dynamic that IT fields have added to the immigration issue. In a broad sense, it makes for different "kinds" of immigrants, with different skill sets, etc. And I can't help wondering if this adds an element to this country's understanding of race. That's to say: IT has changed the way we see immigration from China and India - more so, I think, than from any other country. Has it changed the way we see the people themselves? Is it a pos. or neg. influence? What does that mean for the way we see immigrants from countries like Mexico that often work in jobs that are harder to organize? And what are these magic factors that so well prepare one or two groups of immigrants for the American work force? Is it the educational systems in India and China? And maybe I'm crazy - does anyone else think IT is playing a role in our collective approach to race?
Is there any reason why Beijing is better than other large Chinese cities? I heard it was expensive and polluted. As for teaching English, do you have first-hand experience backing the (very high) 60$/hr figure? And what kind of visa will you get?
This article is about the problems that happen when foreign nationals with engineering backgrounds no longer want to live in the US. But it could just as easily be about what happens when the US is no longer able to fill these positions from its own population. And I suspect that there is a correlation between the huge numbers of visas issued and the slow decline of interest among Americans in these fields.

I know, it isn't entirely a zero sum game. But when I graduated with an MS in Engineering from Berkeley, we definitely weren't pulling in the starting salaries that the law and business students were earning - even the PhD students weren't at that level, not even close. And guess what? The MBA and Law programs had no problem attracting Americans, whereas Engineering had very few.

This article does highlight a danger, but it doesn't really suggest one good solution - encourage Americans into these fields, and this time, don't undermine their careers.
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How about a video? I tried the demo and I don't get it...
The article writer complains about not being able to enter text, but that's what the Key Caps desk accessory was for. It provided text entry via copy/paste for keyboard-less "kiosk" systems, which were common back in the day. (My university used them for printing stations and short term internet/e-mail terminals. Unlike Windows 3.1 (which could to be used without a mouse), classic era Macs could be feasibly used without a keyboard.)
This is an email client for phones? But most phones that support java already come with an email client - and in most cases, you can set this client to auto request emails every once in a while. How is your service different?
Gotta agree that 500 req/s for a scale on demand service. I'm building my service on the Azure platform, though nothing has been officially announced, it doesn't look like they'll have similar limits.
Fake blog, disperse posts, incendiary article against google.

Smells like propaganda, follow the money trail to redmond.
See also: The Y Combinator in Scala http://scala-blogs.org/2008/09/y-combinator-in-scala.html
Interesting - have Google dropped their funding for Firefox?
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