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Sorry if this is a stupid question but under what cirumstances would someone need to search Google programatically? The author mentioned something about keeping track of site statistics. Not sure I understand why you would need this.
There is a good TED talk along these lines: http://ted.org/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_m...
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Scipy+numpy+matplotlib, get enthought's distribution for one stop shop and an interactive shell via Ipython. my 2 cents. Although short-term, matlab legacy code is definitely a big plus for many scientific/data analysis applications.
I propose you retitle this to "Firefox 3.1 beta 3 released" :)
The article makes too black and white a distinction between tinkering and creativity. The author is also very focused on the concept of an idea being fundamentally new in order for it be a creative action. I'm not certain that you can so easily distinguish between a new idea and a variation on an old idea.

As example, was the development of a cell phone a new idea? I believe the idea of combining a radio, a simple computer, and a battery into a portable device intended to connect to the existing telephone network is not particularly creative, but an extraordinarily useful variation on existing ideas. A variation that has had sufficient impact that we tend to think of it as a new idea. If one goes back to the development of each of the pieces, I believe one can paint a similar picture for each of the priors. Even if one goes back as far as basic technology like fire, spears, agriculture or the wheel I think similar stories could be told.

The point of this is not that there are no new ideas under the sun, but that tinkering is the process of experimenting, and I don't particularly believe that it is possible to create a new idea (under whatever definition of new) without experimenting or tinkering with the priors.
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Well, you entered their (Apple's) game, you play by their rules. Their rules allow for, or are at least not resilient to, cheating.

You make it sound here as if Apple had some kind of obligation to turn the AppStore into a fair market. They don't. Their obligation is to make profits and to push the platform forward. If a fair app-market helps with that then they'll do it. If an unfair app-market helps with that then they'll do that.

Tough luck I say. You could also build desktop applications or develop for a more open mobile platform (Android?).
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Can we say dot-com bubble all over again?
Had never heard of Joseph Schumpeter. Here is a paper http://swopec.hhs.se/iuiwop/papers/iuiwop0533.pdf on how he was nearly right. It explores the Swedish economy.
Remember Dodgeball? Google bought it, then didn't do anything with it, then axed it. This is the new dodgeball.

See this article for more info.
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That is the thing! My dad paid for college so I can't just tell him no, I will not help.

My dad is a reader - if there is a problem he will read everything on the screen over the telephone - even if it takes an hour. It is absolute torture to help him (or my mother). But then again, an hour of IT- waterboarding is a small price to pay for someone who changed your diapers.
Intellectuals share a common culture and common political beliefs from that culture, which they often neglect to apply any sort of skeptical thought to. That makes them like the rest of us, except they are more annoying because they claim to be more objective and rational.
Am I alone in thinking this is quite a bizarre article which doesn't really scratch the surface of anti-intellectualism?

His argument about children and their lack of genuine creativity seems a little misplaced - they are disparaged as 'tinkerers' rather than creators, but I can think of no better word than 'tinkerer' to describe Leonardo, or indeed many other great artists/scientists.

Aside from all that, I can think of plenty of reasons why anti-intellectualism would exist:

- not all forms of expert knowledge are equally valid. It was only around 100 years ago that medical expertise progressed to the point where it was more likely to cure than kill you.

- the value of expert knowledge/intellectual capital can be hard to determine. For example, once you move past the hard sciences, to sociology and literary theory and beyond, how much is contributed to human knowledge and wellbeing? How much power/status should be accorded to people in these intellectual disciplines?

- societies are composed of counterbalancing forces, between elements which are conservative/progressive, peaceful/aggressive, practical/visionary etc. No more than every business can be a startup, how can all people in a society consider intellectual investigation the main objective, as opposed to more mundane aspects of maintaining and running the society?

- science seems to have been stranded on one side of an ideological divide, where its support/derision is now a badge of political identity.
> Apparently Arizona does not observe daylight savings time.

Neither does Indiana.
I see, so you like the idea of iteration on the policies that govern people, more than having specific freedoms. Makes sense, I wish we could open source bills for Congressional review, for example.

It's funny you should mention Holland - I visited during my honeymoon about 6 mo ago and thought it was gorgeous, especially all the clean graphic design, but read in my tourist book that there's a right wing resurgence and they're cracking down on a lot of the things Amsterdam is famous for, despite all kinds of studies showing that it's improved society.
No, you aren't alone. I was similarly unimpressed.
You need a combination of shrewdness and wisdom to exploit opportunities (or to see opportunities where others see none).

These opportunities often present themselves when you work hard.
Has anyone checked out the TOS of this thing? I'm a pretty connected guy, and I don't mind technology infusing with my lifestyle, but where does the line get drawn?

With Google Voice, they now have access to every bit of your private life. Even if they are a "don't be evil" company, that doesn't exactly sit well. I'm surprised there hasn't been more negative press about this addition. Those wire-tapping cases got massive amounts of attention in all the major media outlets.

I'm not a paranoid person, but wow. I'm definitely staying away regardless if it makes things more convenient.
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On that note, even though HN is not usually well suited to jokes, I'll contribute this one:

--

A lawyer and a doctor meet up at a party. They're chatting, and the doctor tells the lawyer "You know what really bugs me? When I tell people I'm a doctor, they always end up telling me about their health and basically asking me to diagnose them right there and then. They don't seem to care that I'm, say, at a party, and that I don't want to spent my party time working."

"I know exactly what you mean. Used to happen to me all the time with legal advice."

"Oh really? Can I ask you... what did you do to stop people asking you legal questions at parties?"

The lawyer eyes him up. "Sure. Here's the trick. I answer the question, graciously, efficiently. Then, the next day, I send them an invoice."

"Oh, that's really great!"

They enjoy the party and then go home. The next day, the doctor receives an invoice in the mail.

--

Perhaps we should start invoicing our friends for tech support work?
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You wouldn't use SQL? Something like django or rails is pretty handy if you are already using those languages, as annoying as it can be.
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I find the reasoning specious because self described "liberals" and "conservatives" mean all types of things when they describe themselves as such. The results of studies involving correlations between conservative or liberal ideology and other traits tells you more about differences in favorable word connotations than anything important about individuals.
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514119
Kind of cool - would be great it the zoom actually was levels of detail though.
I just bought a notebook computer to give to my mom in Florida at the end of the month. She's 74 and she wants to keep up with the kids and grandkids on the internet, although she has no idea what that means. My mom thinks cell phones are the epitome of hi-tech. The last time she used a keyboard it was an electric typewriter and the year was 1990.

I'm thinking about changing my number.
Sounds non startup-friendly. ;)
my god I loved SICP -- finally, a computer science book that taught actual concepts. If Brian Havey (one of my profs at Berkeley) gave this a two thumbs up, I'm sure it's worth keeping as a reference.
When I voiced a positive opinion of the bad stock market, the people in my office became outraged and I was ostracized and ridiculed for being Un-American.

The bad stock market and bad economy in general are perfect for people in my position who are just starting out and are looking for an opportunity.
Nice party tricks, but I was kind of hoping for some philosophical or scientific revelation at the end of the article. Unfortunately, it never came... :-(
My problem with most of Flynn's books is that he is a political scientist and a passionate left-wing campaigner. He is basically a Gould-light--distorting science to fit his own world view.

There are a lot of Ph.D. psychologists who disagree with that statement. Here is what Arthur Jensen said about Flynn quite a few years ago, and he hasn't retracted this statment: "Now and then I am asked . . . who, in my opinion, are the most respectable critics of my position on the race-IQ issue? The name James R. Flynn is by far the first that comes to mind." Modgil, Sohan & Modgil, Celia (Eds.) (1987) Arthur Jensen: Concensus and Controversy New York: Falmer. Here's what Charles Murray (all right, not a psychologist nor a geneticist) says in his back cover blurb for Flynn's book I mentioned in this thread: "This book is a gold mine of pointers to interesting work, much of which was new to me. All of us who wrestle with the extraordinarily difficult questions about intelligence that Flynn discusses are in his debt." As Mackintosh (1998, p. 104) writes about the data Flynn found: "the data are surprising, demolish some long-cherished beliefs, and raise a number of other interesting issues along the way." Flynn has earned the respect and praise of any honest researcher who takes time to read the primary source literature. Robert Sternberg, Ian Deary, Stephen Pinker, Stephen Ceci, Sir Michael Rutter, and plenty of other eminent psychologists recommend Flynn's research.

As for what we can conclude about the Raven Progressive Matrices test, one thing we certainly can't conclude is that it is not influenced by the cultural background of the test-taker. The test publisher says culture matters in Raven scores.

http://www.eyeonsociety.co.uk/resources/RPMChangeAndStabilit...
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Sorry, yes -- I definitely don't want a running mozilla process. Plus it's not at all clear that it's possible to run mozilla headless, though I didn't look that hard.
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My god, from looking at the table of contents this really looks like "SICP 2"!
The actual paper behind this talk is here: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/316/5827/998?ijke...

There is a decent body of research and references behind it.
Clearly since ASM isn't bad enough already.
Maybe the news was posted here so that somebdy, who was not added on the scala mailing list could help find that guy. And a person's life is more important than following Hacker News etiquette any day ( according to me atleast ! )
"The world’s greatest producer of entrepreneurs continues to be America."

It will be interesting to watch how/if this changes over time, specifically in regard to the seemingly new attitude exhibited by the world community (i.e. the indian example discussed in the article).
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The bit about adbusters using Google Analytics is pretty funny.
points for the orifice comment, i liked that one ;-)

But a few more points

One the time isn't lost, as long as I've been working we've been changing our clocks. Its time already counted for in the natural cycle of business. Same as the lost productivity around 3 day weekends - and productivity gained by leap years.

Second if you can it would be interesting to compare productivity from the 3 weeks prior to the time change to the 3 week post the time change - I posited that I'd work more in the days after the time change due to the additional light at the end of day. I'd like to see if this is true.
i'm curious as to how the black market on something like this would work. my knowledge is limited on the chips themselves, but they seem like something that would likely only be purchased by companies serving a high volume of traffic (thereby making the chips hard to sell on the black market because of the reluctance of large companies to deal with second hand goods of questionable origin).
Assuming malice over the OP's protests is kind of an assholish thing for you to do. I don't view 'bit rot' as a loaded term and if the OP says he doesn't either then perhaps you should take him at his word and not accuse him of 'pretending' otherwise. If a large part of the community sees the term in the same light as you do then perhaps it was a poor choice of title but I see nothing to indicate that there was bad intent here.
If america doesn't come around to the fact that our success is due to creating a positive environment for entrepreneurs we will quickly (by historical standards) go down the tubes.
This is purely anecdotal but my grandfather was 60 when my dad was born. By all accounts my dad was a highly intelligent man who achieved well in the Navy despite not finishing high school (needed money).
An excellent article on the whole - as is often the case with Economist articles.

It kind of lacks a point, though. It's a shame that we only have the introductory article. I'm sure the "special report" (which usually consists of several articles) will have a lot more meaty recommendations.

Fortunately, I'm subscribed (it's the only magazine to which I subscribe) and so I'll read it when it comes in the post tomorrow :-)
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He is getting lots of free press, but most people who know about TC already know about Mahalo, so it probably doesn't help him that much.
"thigh-speed" users? I've dealt with some unusual users, but this sounds like it could be interesting... :)
YC has taken an amazing "niche" that the UK doesn't get.

I've been looking seriously at seed/angel investment in the UK - and it's all so heavy, if we want £20k to take our product to market its impossible. It isn't the money hackers need it's the people, the marketing, the community. And if you're investing hundreds of thousands of pounds you can't have a portfolio of 100 companies you've invested in, so you can't have the great community.

Hackers like other hackers. Not money, not employing dozens of people -- hacking!
I think they mean locked as in, screen powered off, slide the block to unlock - not "enter your password" locked.
Most of Indiana.
"Sometimes it's nice not to have to search for the little button and press it that opens the next mail or goes to the next picture"

Beats having to go look at the documentation to determine what gesture corresponds to the action you want to accomplish. Also, with gestures it seems to me there aren't very many intuitive gesture/action matches... I can only think of:

left = go back
right = go forward
circle = reload
X = delete
left, right, up, down = pan in that direction

There's certainly others but not a lot I think.
"The internet: Why Stephen Fry is such a wondrous thing"

(I see the fryuniversity.com domain mentioned at the end of the article belongs to a domain squatter. Doh.)
Am I missing something - why not simply use Django's built in caching layer. For the sake of setting a one line decorator and one setting in settings.py you'd get all the benefits, and more reliability. Rather than manually generating the static versions of pages, the Django filesystem caching back-end does that for you.

The overhead of Apache->mod_python is so low on modern hardware, that you are likely to saturate your network connection far more quickly than your CPU or disks.
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More info:

http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol4_3/tpj0403-0013.html
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Perhaps it wasn't the most tactful thing to say, but this is most certainly the right forum to discuss this. His post was about this very situation. It's 100% relevant. While I don't agree with his viewpoint myself, discussing what we want HN to be helps avoid confusion and unmet expectations.
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As others have already said, to me the definition of "release early and often" doesn't mean "release something as soon as possible". But rather...

Release Early: Find the minimum amount of features needed to let your customer achieve their goal, implement just those and release it.

Release Often: Stage the release of new features rather then letting a load stack up and releasing them all at once. Release feature, receive feedback, refine and repeat (Wow 4 Rs!).

If something is not right or not finished. It should be kept back.

A philosophy shouldn't be the determining factor as to what and when things are released, only you can decide that.
> why should the persistence code know anything about the controller?

They don't know anything about each other. The question is not whether M,V, and C should be the same entity. The question is why they are scattered all over an application, such that adding a single field to a model involves going to one place to add a migration, another place to add validations and other model logic, a third place to change controller logic, a fourth place to change one or more views, and so forth.

Should they be separate files? Perhaps yes. Should they be far away from each other? That is what I am questioning. The "Separation of Concerns" you are describing is not a very persuasive argument in Rails apps, IMO, because I often have a concern like "add a field to this model" and I rarely have a concern like "Change from HTML 4.0 to XHTML" or "Add a created_at column to all tables."
I agree, this "feature" is horrendous. When I saw someone (forget who, the Mahalo guy?) offering to PAY $250K to be on the suggested people page I just about dropped Twitter altogether.

If you look closely, you can see a growing trend AGAINST the "social media" corporate blog SEO follow-me trend. Savvy users (the kind marketers like to attract "eyeballs" from) are growing ever weary of every Internet trend being whored out for marketing.

Twitter appears to be experimenting with a lot of business models. This one is a good way for Twitter to become a collection of "social media experts" all stroking each other...
Plenty of cash strapped small companies need to push lots of bits around, no? Especially if they're 1/3 to 1/2 of retail
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> are the most respectable critics of my position on the race-IQ issue?

The race-IQ issue is separate from the issue of general intelligence and neuroscience of the brain. Even if he is a successful political scientist, it would not make him an educational psychologist or neuroscientist. Much of the popularity of Flynn is his opposition to certain views of Intelligence - not his research.

> one thing we certainly can't conclude is that it is not influenced by the cultural background of the test-taker

With language and cultural negativeness I meant that there is no cultural specific references. One of the main complaints of the IQ test was that it contained western concepts and examples and language (i.e. it was culturally loaded). For example – the pictures in RPM are the same and contains the same meaning from whatever culture you are. Here is a quote from “How Biased are Culture-Loaded Tests?” (Jensen, A):

> Probably the best known and most widely used of such tests s Raven's Progressive Matrices (citations). Such nonverbal tests are expressly designed to reduce item dependence on acquired knowledge and to keep cultural and scholastic content to a minimum while getting at basic processes of intellectual ability.

Also note that that study did not just use RPM but included a verbal section.

The study you gave me showed differences in RPM between what they labelled “cultures” - other authors used other “labels” to try and explain the difference between groups. Here is a quote from the study you gave me:

> On the one hand, the absence of cross-cultural differences in RPM scores between cultures which do differ on a variable
The market for Cisco equipment is large and diverse (not just Web 2.0s but ISPs, enterprises, universities, etc.), there are plenty of vendors of used Cisco equipment, and given the economic collapse more people are buying used equipment. In particular, the Cisco 6500 is a very popular family of switches.
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Ah, cool -- it's just that my servers don't run X. Or really have enough ram to spare to add 30 copies of X, mozilla, and other associated stuff. I really just need a relatively compact parsing engine.
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The biggest problem is that the design decisisons of some of the projects listed are pretty poor. Who decided that dataset size should be limited to available memory? Not only does this mean you have a severe limitation to the framework, but it also effects the programmers mentality. It shows. Take a look at the R-source (and tests cough) and you will see the assumptions.

[speaking from experience writing both in memory and disk based data analysis packages]

Disk based work is pretty straight forward. It's not rocket science, and makes your code much, much faster when working in memory in most circumstances.
Definitely true. My dad worked as an instrumentation engineer (valves, gauges, etc.) in the oil and gas industry before retiring. I don't think anyone has ever known immediately what I was talking about if they didn't also happen to work in the oil and gas industry in a technical capacity. Most folks have no idea what someone in pretty much any technical field does.
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I was going to go with them back in the day but the biggest turn off was no SSH access. Seriously, wtf?
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