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If you like perl, and want expression compactness, try the perl data language. To quote

"One can write simple perl expressions to manipulate entire numerical arrays all at once. For example, using PDL the Perl variable $a can hold a 1024x1024 floating point image, it only takes 4MB of memory to store it and expressions like $a=sqrt($a)+2 manipulate the whole image in a few milliseconds. "

http://pdl.perl.org/
not for an acquisition offer... so if your startup makes $2 a month, would you let someone buy you out for $48? What if your startup is losing money, is $1 a fair offer?
Actually, I think 'arguably' could be removed in that context without being disingenuous. Thank you for the feedback.
Did they allow users to disable the "awesome" (ie, "shitty") bar? Serious question, because at some point I'll have to switch to IE or something...
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There are firefox extensions that turn it into a normal entry box, although personally I love the awesome bar. I can't switch to any other browser now because I hate having to type out the whole url all the time. I can just type "hac" in my toolbar to go to hacker news.

FYI, in IE8, typing "hac" in the url bar sends you to a google search on "hac". In Safari, you end up at http://hac.com.
Steve Jobs Deposition on Backdating Posted by Forbes
Honestly, not much.
Pirate Party may gain seat in EU Parliament
Karl Popper: The Open Society and Its Enemies

Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France (long out of copyright, you can google for the full text)

I am not trying to compare sea steading to storming the Bastille. I'm trying to point out that your ideology has a lot in common with theirs. You seem to agree with me that the French Revolution was bad. Great. But that does not remove your commonality. I urge you to take your similarity to them as a danger sign, and to learn more about it, and to get a clear idea of where you think they were right and wrong, and how you will do differently. A plan like "Well, I just won't use violence" is not good enough. Many people involved in the revolution did not want or intend violence. It happened anyway. Why? Because utopianism leads to violence, and because our society has knowledge and institutions that prevent violence which should not be destroyed or abandoned.

I also think you should consider carefully what is preventing reform in the US. It is not democracy, which Thiel seems to think is his enemy. It is not the Government. If enough people want change, they can get it. (In fact they just voted in a President promising change.) The real problem is people with bad ideas, isn't it? If only most people had better ideas, change would come quickly.

The only reliable way to deal with bad ideas is to learn how to persuade people of good ideas, not to start over and try to exclude everyone you judge to have bad ideas. (And what happens if some of your kids have ideas you consider bad? Or some existing members of the society change their mind? You will need persuasion.) Attempting persuasion has the added bonus that sometimes you will find out you were mistaken, not the other guy, and change your mind.
Eight things you didn't know about the internet - New Scientist
IAC in talks to buy Yahoo Personals
More like 2012
I would set a price of USD $75000 for your website/business.
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Demonstrating a keen knowledge of what users want in their mobile phones, Sony Ericsson offers a device that contributes forward-thinking design with efficient software that makes Sony Ericsson T303 phone a must-have.
Insert and Load Record using jQuery and Ajax.
That's pretty secure if nobody will see it.
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>The entire 10 days you do nothing more than watch your breath.

Your memory may be a little rusty - they have you watch your breath for 3 days ("anapanna") to sharpen your concentration and then you spend the rest of the time doing vipassana, which they define as scanning your body focusing on the sensations.

Everything else you said matches my experiences there.
Change your brand name NOW and contact the media everywhere explaining what has happened.

1. You get tons of traffic.
2. Lots of people know about you.
3. Zillow's competitors are now interested in acquiring you as well.
4. Zillow is now in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation - exactly where you want them.

If you need access to the Realtor.com guys, let me know.
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Haha, I am Jarrads soon to be ex manager. It is a small world after all. I don't think he was quite expecting the media attention this has attracted.

It has been a great start to his new career.
Drew from zillow. I've been in contact with Mr Bunson about this issue. I don’t think that it’s appropriate to discuss our conversation in public, however, I will say that what is described here is not a complete representation of the conversation. He’s welcome to continue to use the API as long as he doesn’t infringe upon our trademark and use our brand name "Zillow" on his website.
Helicopter sabotage targets Indian billionaire
IronPython 2.6 Release Roadmap
Make sure to click on the slideshow.

You may have read one of his calculus books. http://www.stewartcalculus.com/index.php
The point, according to the people who run the course, is to develop your equanimity - your ability to take life as it comes without reacting badly. I found that it worked, but I didn't keep up with the practice after leaving the retreats and I'm about as equanimous as I was before.

To me, it's worth doing for the experience. You perceive the world and your own perceptions differently when you've been meditating all day for a week or more. According to the instructors, this is playing a sensation game and isn't valuable, so I'll probably be reincarnated as an syphilis spirochete or something like that.
How can I get a hold of you?
Useful Time and Date Functions in Erlang
XSLT Mandelbrot
My favorite phrase in this article was "four-dimensional enraged-leprechaun hypercube visualization".
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I'm surprised that neither HBase nor Hypertable are mentioned. Both HBase and Hypertable have much larger community and deployment than many of the mentioned alternatives.
Are we Java Programmers done for?
Just be sure to bcc TechCrunch on all negotiation emails.
Took me a moment to work out this means 'Creating HTML / Webkit / GTK GUIs using Python'
Here's a fun factoid about my experience: the water was contaminated, and had flat worms in it. I got Amoebic dysentery, for the second time (having just recovered from the first), DURING the session. This made the session all the more challenging, nevermind that you're on a pretty severe caloric deficit in the first place :)
What a load of hogwash. I'm considering adding a netbook to the stable. This would add to the 3 laptops and 5 desktop computers already in this house. The reason is for the portability, not because of the power. Small enough to take with you, large enough to have a proper screen and keyboard and run real applications. They're everything PDA's definitively are not. People buy them for the cheapness and portability, not because they can't afford something bigger.
Tangurena/micks56 provide extremely useful tactical information. But that information does not change my point. The objective is still to raise the $250 number. The strategy is still negotiation. Disclosure of bullying to the world at large is still an available tool.

The trademark/cybersquatting issues increase complexity of that negotiation moving it more towards the realm of a legal rather than a business negotiation. Some additional legal research/advice is probably needed.
Ridiculous. Netbooks and phones are convergent.
No. In the EU Parliament. The election in Sweden is in September 2010.

And this was just one poll.
Looking back, it's funny to see how long it took them to make the whole A-Z connection that finally appeared in the 2000 logo.
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Needs moar audio equipment. Tried 5 different items, found all of them on google. Obscure, I know, but that's why I like search engines. Great concept though, bookmarked for future use. Don't know if it would help to scrape results looking for .pdf extensions.
Very creative. An impressive start to a new career, certainly! I hope he can find a good place in between crush-your-soul-cog-in-the-machine EA and fun-but-dirt-poor indie studio.

On a side not, here's the actual game: http://www.farbs.org/Message.html. Had to click through two blog spam-ish postings to get to it.
Makes me wish there's US equivalent political organization to the pirate party. or is there?
Does this mean it's out of beta?
how is it shitty? I personally think its great, since you no longer need to remember urls, since it matches both urls and page titles.
That's a fair point, but a balance needs to be struck, at times it seems like every other article is from a large circulation newspaper or magazine and if that trend continues it could spoil HN.
I find that the awesome bar is increasingly awesome with more usage. I didn't like at all at first, but it really grew on me after a while.

As far as I know, there is no official plan to remove the "awesome bar".

Also, I can't until Ubiquity becomes standard. There's a disappointing lack of plugins for it at the moment, and standardization will really help that. :)
It's a neat little device but it would be so much more useful if it had GPIOs. A 1.2ghz Arduino-alike running Linux would be really cool.
well im sure few would argue that the "best" and "optimal" way is to get a lawyer ...
My understanding is that major walk-in retailers like Wal-Mart do multivariate testing to maximize the conclusions they can draw from simultaneous experiments. Apparently an approach called 'taguchi split testing' is especially valuable for evaluating combinations of changes, and is also applied in online situations that go beyond simple A/B testing.
Personally, when I started as a fresh young grad happy to put in 2x hours for 0.5x pay I would look at some of the older guys and say 'I never want to end up like that'. I still feel that way. 'like that' refers to a bitter, cynical attitude born of two decades in the cube farm, navigating endless rounds of layoffs, restructuring, business-management fads and other nasties.

The key is to keep your skills up to date and avoid the sticky-trap that is management roles. If you drift into hands-off management, the meetings-and-flowcharts current will swiftly take you away from the technical shoreline and you won't be able to get back. It takes a conscious effort to stay a technical person in most companies, and you'd better be prepared to be looked down upon from other people who go into management roles.

Of the people I started working with as fellow grads, I'd say that less than 10% are still actively writing software of any kind. I nearly gave it up several times, but I'm glad I've stuck with it, because you can be so much more creative in code than with management.
Amazing? Really? There are an awful lot of companies dramatically smaller than Facebook that have released a lot more code. 37signals, with maybe a 10th the valuation (if we're being very generous to 37signals), has given away a lot more code than Facebook.

Facebook may be many things, but "amazing" generosity is not one of their characteristics. Call them "somewhat" generous, if you like. Heck, I'll even let "pretty" generous slide. But let's not be over generous in our assessment of just how nice Facebook is to the community. They're nice guys, and all, but they aren't saints.
I wish I could downvote. I rarely post,so don't have the karma.

A friend and I went for a free seminar by Sri Sri himself and had to sit through the parody of meditation and acted humour, which the paid patrons enjoy. He evaded questions from everyone and all he 'preached' was to join this course and not one person(outside their organization) I met afterwards told me anything positive. It's a good way to loot you of 400usd.

I have my first cousins who attended the course and told me firsthand about the "materialistic" association related to this course.[for instance, you are told not to worry about money by a person who worked as a banker(made his money) and now is a spokesman, then you are told to put in more money and rope in more people for this course by 'volunteering" ]
You can turn autocomplete off or have it only complete history/bookmarks (I just upgraded and checked.)

This turns all completion off though, even URL prefix matching (as opposed to the awesomebar 'anywhere in the URL/page title matching'), which I'm guessing you don't want. There are some entries in about:config (browser.urlbar.match*) that might make it do what you want.

Safari 4 does some subset of the super-matching thing too now; I find it kind of a mixed bag (I end up autocompleting to HN/twitter way too often) but am slightly on the side of it being helpful, although more intentional history search would probably work just as well.
This is too hard. Why don't you have some boxes that you can drag and drop to?
I have to say, this makes me nervous. I'm getting out of college and I was considering buying some equipment to do iPhone development. 7k is small potatoes and Apple doesn't process that in an automated fashion? 4-600 dollars isn't cheap for people in my socioeconomic bracket.
Very interesting discussion, so I followed up and asked Zillow for their thoughts on the matter.

Here's what their spokeswoman just told me:

"He misused our trademark and we had to follow up. He's welcome to continue using our API as long as he doesn't infringe upon our trademarks and use the brand name Zillow. As per his post - it's not a complete representation of our correspondence with him. This is about defending Zillow's trademark, nothing else."

John Cook
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But we can all see this window on the mainstream; where HN is special is finding those whom have synthezised a clearer or more thought provoking picture of the mainstream either through direct experience or a unique perspective.

I think the distinction is between hacks and hackers. They may provoke discussion and grab attention but its just the previous media's generation's form of flaming on an industrialized scale, these articles are without the kind of integrity you get from the truly engaged and first hand experience that HN is so good at fishing out.
white noise (set to your liking) really helps.

url:http://www.simplynoise.com/

If you prefer something more flexible, sbagen is a freeware binaural beat generator. you can create your own(and risk?) or use several beats generated for you.
There are about 40 beats just for focusing

url: http://uazu.net/sbagen/
Seconded. The awesomebar is one of the best Firefox features.
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I have ADD. While I've tried a lot of tools, I wouldn't pick out anything specifically as being crucial. None are very helpful if used alone.

Medication can be helpful, and organizational lists are definitely useful. Also things like sleep, diet, and exercise can play a big role.

I don't exactly know how ADD will be affecting my life years from now. But I believe since I'm currently working on managing it, it'll get better.
I think the support for web worker threads (OS-level, presumably preemptive multithreading for JS) is potentially the most interesting part of this release, although I don't know how lock-free they are.

Moz: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_web_workers
WHATWG: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/
why do you care about him infringing on your brand? He's helping you guys out.
I would argue that the "optimal" way depends on how much funding you have.
Memcached is not a database: it's a caching solution because it's not a persistent store. So many articles make this mistake.

MemcachedDB is a memcached-compatible database backed by Berkley DB for persistent storage.
I met someone from Sun at a cloud computing meetup on Tuesday, and she had a slide that showed the "old" model, and the companies that participated and thrived in it (including Microsoft, Peoplesoft, Oracle, etc.), and the "new" model (encompassing cloud computing, openness in protocol if not in source, etc.), and Sun was in that group. She then had to concede that the slide was a little bit old, and that now Sun and Oracle were the same company...and we'd all have to see how that played out.

She seemed hopeful, if possibly a bit concerned.

I feel kinda sorry for Sun, as they'd just recently started to get the hang of this new Internet boom and were starting to participate in a meaningful way. Now the hackers that fought back up to the helm at Sun and had started to turn the ship around are now going to have to head right back into battle with an even stodgier pro-business, anti-hacker company. I suspect there will be a large outflow of engineers as the reality of the new company sets in. But, I would like to think Oracle would be smart enough to recognize that they bought themselves one of the best engineering organizations in the world, and that the best thing they can do is stand back and let them invent...and then use that sales juggernaut they wield to sell those inventions.

Tim Bray's "Us and Them" article was the best I've seen from the inside, but it's been taken down due to advisement from Sun's legal staff.
I'm based in Islington, and have a background in copyright and internet regulation campaigns. By complete coincidence - also have a missing left eye ('maties!').

I've been unable to find details for any UK organisation (there appears to have been one but it may be defunct?) but am interested in getting one set up, hopefully in time for UK elections.

If any British readers are interested - 'mailto:%s'%os.sep.join( ['craig', 'cowoh', 'org'] ) I'm doing manual spam processing for the moment as part of a project so be careful with subject lines :)
PGSql/MySQL don't really offer concrete solutions to protect data - apart from common sense like patches, secure passwords, et al. Now look at offerings from the big co's.

You're comparing commercial databases favorably to Open Source databases on the grounds of security? This differs vastly from my experience. Oracle is an impenetrable mess:

- do or don't use TNSLSNR

- if you use TNSLSNR, do or do not secure it with password protection

- my experience with Oracle has been that port allocation is rather nondeterministic. I've attempted to perform identical installations several times and ended up with TNS and the databases on weird ports for reasons I can't explain.

- user management of oracle behaves differently on different platforms, i think. IIRC it integrates with NT credentials on Windows, and UNIX credentials for certain connection situations, but there's also a username/password file that controls who can connect

- you issue alter password commands in unquoted SQL. Because of this you don't get to use things like mixed case (?) or spaces or most punctuation characters

- but you CAN use quotes around the password, in which case it behaves sanely. I didn't even know this until I looked it up it's so uncommon.

- Oracle attempted to market Oracle 9 as "Unbreakable": http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5808928-7.html . They had enjoyed a pass from hackers since systems/network folks tend to bury the DB at the back of the architecture, rarely accessible on the public internet. After those shenanigans security minded DBAs had not the best time of their careers as they had dozens of security patches per quarter for a while.

Perhaps the commercial guys have security "features", such as row based security or encryption, that the free products don't have. While it's surely better to have those than not, I'm not convinced applying those proprietary features to an otherwise insecure design is satisfactory "defense in depth". You can, however, have sufficient defense in depth without those features.

Sarbanes Oxley isn't too bad: the crux of it is that you have to enumerate your controls and stick to them. I understand PCI compliance is another matter. I don't know much about it, though.
Can anyone on YC share personal stories? If you're afraid of being identified, maybe you can create an anonymous account.

I've been thinking of going into the iphone market myself, and more info will certainly help.

Thanks!
This part is interesting (from slide 65):

Ziv's law - specifications will never be fully understood.

Humphrey's law - the user will never know what they want until after the system is in production (maybe not even then)

Wegner's lemma - an interactive system can never be fully specified nor can it ever be fully tested.

... though Google reveals that it was obviously lifted from http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum/2007/07/origins-of-scrum.htm... (and in neither place are citations given).
Oh christ, get over yourself.
$250 is not a fair price - for a domain and an app it's a kick in the teeth.
I believe you have to be able to show that you tried to stop others from infringing on your brand to protect your trademark at some future point in court.

Google sent letters to many people when 'google' was becoming a verb most likely for this reason.
A bit off topic, but related:

There have been many complaining about the pain in sitting.

I am not a meditation expert, I have had numbness to my legs after 20 mins of sitting and I tried Kneeling- sitting such that, your balls of the feet touches your butt and the bottom part of the feet is completely parallel to the floor. (http://media.wiley.com/assets/6/99/0-7645-5116-7_0703.jpg)
why? this forces you to have a natural posture i.e. keeps your spine in its natural state, thus prolonging your meditation time.
But, don't wear any footwear.

PS: I found the image doing a google search, this link is hotlinked to a "meditation for dummies", where there are more postures described. I won't post it here and make it messy. I trust your knowledge in doing a google search!
It also means non-techies in big organisations can hire people by certification and have a reasonable idea of what they're getting. "We run Oracle."
And you can wget the install directory to a local web server while you're burning/booting the net install ISOs and by the time you need the files they're local. This makes installing the OS actually faster than doing so from CD.