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I take on the role of all 4 parties along with various other ones; I have my entire career. I still think there's something to be said for having specific skill sets. A great designer will usually design a better site than me; a great frontend developer will always churn out more elegant Javascript more quickly. As they say, a jack of all trades; a master of none. It probably doesn't take 4 people to build most web apps, but could 4 people have done it better? I think that's the real question.
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Kayak is running TokuDB. They're even paying for it :-)
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For complex boolean rules, this looks good, however most code that I deal with has pretty simple conditions. Personally, I prefer plain text, then I use pencil and paper when things get complex - best of both worlds.

Although, having something like this that could be involved when required, and was smart enough to construct the table from existing code, would be useful.
Just realized that all my python code's tabs are converted in to 4 spaces (so the show-tabs is no dice... took me a while to realize what's going on.

I guess the real usage I was looking for was, show/highlight indentations in python code.
really? see, I think having your DNS hosted separately from your other stuff is _essential_ - so long as you control your dns and you have good backups, you can always migrate to a new provider.
I don't think any less of you for disagreeing with me. And I don't think we should be using HN to organizing WP editing drives.
I kept checking that this wasn't the onion while reading it...
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No, it's Stack Overflow's fault for using such a terrible authentication system. OpenID has pretty much proven itself to be a failure in user experience.

Facebook Connect has accomplished most of the goals of OpenID, anyway. They should use that instead.
The best example of this is Posterous. You just email something to post@posterous.com and you instantly have an account and a blog.

You can then just keep using it or you can add a password and "claim" it later to get access to other features.
My cofounder spent 6 years at Apple-- they do it by just doing it with fewer people. It's astonishing how much work gets done with such small teams.
most of Oprah's viewership are not tech-savvy enough to "grok" Twitter in the first place

I don't buy that.

If anything the uptake I see in Twitter is nearly ALL people nerds would describe as "not tech-savvy." The nerds I know are all haughty and dismissive of Twitter. Most of the people I know on Twitter do not work in the tech industry, nor are they programmers or any other type of self-described "tech savvy" person.

At this point in history I'm not sure if it still makes sense to brand anyone as not tech-savvy enough to use something on the internet. Everyone in the developed world uses the internet all the time. My grandma has used email for 15 years. My mom has an iPhone and is in charge of curating her work's wiki. My 16 year old cheerleader cousin is on FB, MySpace, five IM networks, sends 4000 text messages a month, etc. The us vs. the not-tech-savvy attitude is a bit archaic at this point.
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Your (barely visible) footer "We hope all of the data here is accurate, but if you find that it is not please send comments/suggestions/bugs to @countrycodes."

what's the email ID again?

I'm sure you would've already seen it, but incase if not, try getting in as many features (OR NOT) from http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/dialing.html

It already supports abbreviations like USA and UK, but not UAE. Also auto-completion should come in only if I press the arrow or down keys. If I enter UK, it should not automatically assume UKraine.
A 1% pay cut would have no appreciable impact on my standard of living, but it would communicate that my company was not interested in keeping me around, and I would probably respond accordingly.

Given the UK's recent announcement of a new 50% rate of taxation for the highest earners, the only thing keeping those people around is that tax is even higher in Paris. If Amsterdam or Frankfurt played its cards right, it could be the new European financial capital almost overnight, and then the UK's economy which has been propped up by financial services for years would be well and truly fucked...
This led me to go read a number of entries on alarmingdevelopment.org

There's some great interesting topics here, along with some of the most patronising discussion I've seen in a while. There's only so much of this "This is a topic that literally kills programmer brain cells. I’m going to do my best to be fair and not kill brain cells, and avoid getting called a loser by the peanut gallery for disagreeing with you." I can read
I use it on my mbp. I agree the feature set is inferior, but its the only browser that can handle the 50+ tabs i like to have open at once. ff3 eats up cpu and overheats things.
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I see one graduate thesis, extended into a sparse handful of conference papers, then somehow converted into the holy grail of database technology: an index algorithm which can be used as a drop-in replacement for B-trees, offering a 2-order-of-magnitude increase in performance with no downsides.

What's that, you say? There must be some trade-offs involved? Well, sure, maybe...but you'll never be able to find out, because you can't look at anything other than said early research results without waiting for a sales representative to contact you. No downloads, real-world benchmarks, or testimonials from users == a pretty dubious set of claims, at least to these cynical eyes.

I'm not disputing the fact that these guys may have an honest improvement over the state of the art for certain search tasks. If they do have anything close to the 50x speedups they claim for general MySQL workloads, though, why hasn't Google simply written them a check and stuffed their great discovery away with all of the their IP portfolio?
As I understand it, the reasoning was three-fold. A better education than public schools, not enough money for a private education, and the desire for religious education.
> The language "save my info for later", and versions of that, are much better.

While I understand what you're saying, I believe that would trip me up. I'm very much used to scanning for "Register", "Sign up", "Join" or "Create account".

I'm also unsure how much people really hate giving up their information. If anything, people are looking for places to hand over their information: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.

I think the problem is really that the more steps needed to convert your users, the more likely it is a part will give up before the end.
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Maybe I'm missing something. Does this not apply to just about every sentence in every language?
As I wait for the multi-hour download to complete, I wonder: What does Harvard's Berkman Center have against YouTube?
Agreed. I have a silly item on my todo list that says "become an expert at emacs," but the trick is to use it everyday, and each time you find yourself doing something repetitive, ask yourself "maybe there's a smarter way to do this," google it, and voila.

On a sidenote, I shelled out for textmate and it's very nice, but now that I work in a more diverse dev environment (Mac/Linux/Windows, and ssh'ing to boxes) learning emacs has become critical for increasing my average productivity.

Still, I don't regret buying textmate. It's beautiful, functional, and inspired some nice features that were subsequently copied/incorporated by others. I wonder what the next version has in store, and how far off it is...
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Its long but there's a lot of good information in here about future policy and funding for science - at least in the first 10 minutes.
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The link here is older than the article at Wikipedia itself.
can you pls give the (appx) breakdown similar to what's given in the article? thanks in advance.
Not that young, but it is true that I don't know many women in IT. Most men in IT I know would be thrilled to have female colleagues, though.

I am not "claiming", I just resent taking things at face value. Possibly people are not used to competent IT women, because they are rare. But does it really take the form of "no, we don't want this person on the team, she is a woman" (without knowing her)? I doubt that - and if there are companies like that, it is their loss (not all men get hired by all companies, either - and good IT staff is rare in general).

Also, bias against the tech skills is hardly the same as sexism of the "she only is good for porn" kind.
I think you're responding to my request for screen integration features. (Understandable from the flow of my disconnected paragraphs). However, I didn't mean integration with vi specifically.

I mean more like you can do with links browser (I think) where you can get it to launch a link into a new screen 'tab'. Very cool. The reason I want the alt+tab is that 0-9 goes quickly and I want to be able to more quickly switch between windows.
Can you imagine the impact on society of 20k freshman attending some Y Combinator-esque hacker / entrepreneurial program every year?

I don't think YC could, or would want to, replace college. The average age of founders that get into YC has increased slowly but steadily...it's now about 25, so folks have been out of school for maybe three years, on average. pg has said on more than one occasion that he likes founders who know what they're avoiding (corporate drudgery, primarily) by starting a company, and he's found they're better able to hold the line when things suck (which they always do to some degree during the first few months to a couple of years of a startup).

That said, I think high school kids who show an interest should be given access to resources along the lines of YC. A fellow from Tulane ran an entrepreneurship program at a high school in New Orleans a year or so ago, I think as some sort of project for school, and he raised money via a ChipIn to bring the best of the lot out to Silicon Valley to see it all in action. Several YC companies volunteered to sit down with them for a few hours and talk about the process, and make it seem human and do-able for ordinary non-genius type folks. He also lined up visits to Google and Facebook and a few other valley highlights. I'd be stunned if that didn't have a positive impact on at least a few of those kids (underprivileged kids from poor neighborhoods in this case, but I think it'd work for most kids). Maybe one or two of them have businesses of their own today. So, I think that kind of thing would be great for the economy and great for the kids...but it's not something you could do as an investment company. It would take funding that you don't expect to get back, either donated (perhaps by companies) or grants from the government, and involvement by schools. It's just not something that is going to produce a profitable portfolio...but it could certainly put the kids on the right track.
We have some experimental Google Adsense running on our consumer site (www.newscred.com), and we get around 1.80 CPM. Which is better than I expected, but still pretty shitty.

We've tried making the ads look less gross so they are more inviting, and some minor tweaks have helped.
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This is one reason why NLP is hard.
thanks geeko! we've worked hard on this over the past few weeks.

it's been nearly impossible to get financial support from our community by simply asking for donations. hopefuly this will make it more fun for people and turn things around.
Looking for hacker room mates in SF
I just moved to the city and thought it would be fun to get together a bunch of hackers to rent out a nice apartment in the city.
I think we could help each other out on whatever projects we're working on, exchange ideas and it could also be a blast!
It seems like you get a better bang for the buck the more people you are (3BR or 4BR have much better value/money).
I was thinking of spending somewhere between 1000-1700 per person per month, which should get us a nice spot when 3 or 4 people.
If your interested in doing this, write me an email to hackerroommate@gmail.com with what price range / part of the city your looking at.
I'll organize a meetup of the interested people so we can see if we all match together and define criteria for a successful hunt!
Quote: "even if you have to include exclusive live audio content from major sporting events around the country, it is possible to make an app that people will happily pay $9.99 for"

What an odd sentence.
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"a country that can't afford blackboards and toilets goes shopping for computers"

Can they really not afford it, or are there other factors at play?
This is incredibly handy! Just scanned through the page and I picked up a couple things I never knew about.
Yeah, it's quite cheap. You just forgot rent, food, utilities (including a broadband connection) and the depreciation costs of your laptop :)
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While it's important to try to squeeze out as much performance out of a single box as possible, it seems to me that the future lies in scaling horizontally by adding more servers.

CouchDB is an obvious contender here, but as far as i know they still don't have partition of data across multiple servers (yet.., i saw a GSoC project about it).

ScimoreDB is also interesting (disclaimer; i know them personally); a full RDBMS with ACID properties and all that jazz that can partition data over a set of servers. (www.scimore.com if you are interrested)

I'm a bit tired of using SQL/Tables/Columns for storage; the perfect solution for me is CouchDB w/ partitioning where you "just add more servers". It would be cool to get to the point where we can eliminate memcached and the likes from our infrastructure because the database itself scales just as well.

just some random thoughts.
No kidding. There should be a disclaimer that stops people from wasting their time downloading this...
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Perhaps a moderator could change the subject line to "Stephen Wolfram discusses Wolfram|Alpha (no screens)" given the absent shots.

If this wasn't a request of Wolfram's, I wouldn't want to be the cameraman this week.
I have major issues with this sentence

"Stands to reason that if developers can make their app at least as functional and useful as At Bat, they too can make a million dollars."

Are they seriously saying this sells 130,000 copies at $9.99 because it's "functional and useful", with no support from the MLB brand?

That's like saying if I were as funny and insightful as Ashton Kutcher I would have 1M Twitter followers. That if my url shortener had the capabilities of bit.ly I could raise $10M.

There's more to an idea than just having one - you have to do something with it. And there's more to a product than just building it - you have to get it into the market place, make it known, and find ways to distribute it.
I honestly don't understand how a back-room deal that results in a sale like this going to help. Clifford Stoll's Silicon Snake Oil, though it sounds a bit luddite is worth a read. There are problems that deserve far more attention like basic hygiene and access to primary education.
What would you get out of this? It's pretty easy to see the indentation level without resorting to extra color.
If you can't wait for Wolfram, give START a try

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Wow, I've not read Liars Poker but I'm a little surprised by the comments. I thought the author of this article really had some intense and interesting points about the humanity of it all. Eating outrageously wasteful meals then putting into motion the loss of jobs the next day. I think it's an interesting if not sad window into a strange world.
The facebook stream is just completely winning against twitter. It's usable. You don't have to worry about 140 characters, you can post vids, pics that actually show up inline, and comments show up under each post.

For the "keep up with what friends are doing" use case, there's no comparison.

Either twitter will need to adapt - and fast, or I suspect they'll die.
I like how nobody tried in the past to do this, then Google does it, and everyone whines about the anti-trust implications. Sometimes I think there is some sort of conspiracy to slowly push society back to the stone age.
I understand a few slides were removed from the version on the web... but did the version as presented include 'hard core porn', graphic depiction of actual sex acts?
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"Can you imagine the impact on society of 20k freshman attending some Y Combinator-esque hacker / entrepreneurial program every year?"

I'm at the University of Waterloo in Canada, we have something that is (conceptually) similar to your idea, but it falls flat on its face for a few reasons. First, a bit of background:

- It's a residence where entrepreneurial-minded students can apply to live. The hope is that close proximity of a bunch of smart, ambitious people will serve as a pseudo-incubator for startups.

- The residence hosts workshops and invites speakers to shed some insight on the startup process, and hooks students up with technological resources (servers, bandwidth, hardware, etc) to build their projects. The residence takes no stake in any companies.

Now, I was there for its inaugural semester, and the whole thing fails for many reasons:

- Unlike YC, which draws from a pool of talented hackers and businesspeople, the residence draws from a pool of untalented, ambitious dreamers. Of the 70 or so people selected to live there, I can count the number of capable hackers on one hand - the rest were hopelessly unable to code at any level that approaches hacker proficiency. Most people were CS or engineering majors, most people also fail at producing their own side projects. There were people who could write Java, but didn't know what MySQL was - in short, the people there were technically incompetent, and even the ones who were able, didn't have the huge breadth of skills necessary to put on many hats.

This is a problem to most, if not all colleges - the number of people who have the depth and breadth of skill necessary to run a small, lean startup simply do not exist in large enough numbers at a single college. Maybe if 10 schools gathered together they'd have enough talent between them to pull this off.

- Zero business knowledge. The vast majority of the ideas that came out of that place were your standard "build app, pray for users, show ads to them, ???, profit!" formula. There were several econ majors selected to live there, I suppose in hopes that they will provide some business knowledge. They too were clueless about business models and weren't much help at all.

I did meet a couple capable people there that I still keep in touch with, so I suppose it's not all that bad. But IMHO building an incubator during college is a waste of time, especially at the scale you're suggesting. You can't will a successful startup into existence - you need talented people, and good luck finding 20k talented college freshmen with a strong portfolio of past work and entrepreneurial drive.
It looks like there is a build for hardy in PPA

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You are underestimating what is necessary to do implement tractable algorithms on big dataset.

The classic index/search problem would be extrmely simple if it weren't for the big data involved: it is basically hash table lookups plus set intersection, and you're done. Doing the slightest bit more is disproportionally harder.

Improving relevance is probably best viewed as a recommender problem, and just look at the Netflix prize how hard it can be to squeeze the last bits of performance out of their (toy!) dataset.
I'd love to see some numbers on "Lazy Registration". How many users does it save? How much effort goes into implementing it?

I've seen the idea before and I'm not really convinced. Sure, it sounds like a great idea, but let me offer some thoughts.

1. I have never been to 11 of the 12 sites mentioned in the article. Before I read this article, I knew exactly one site where lazy registration is actually practised: Stack Overflow. The idea has been floating around for some one or two years now. It hasn't really catched on. To me this suggests that many authors find it difficult to implement.

While difficulty in itself is not a problem, the time and effort invested in something needs to pay off, and it needs to pay off more than investing it into another feature. Opportunity costs apply here too.

2. How many potential users really care about registration? Does a "registration reddit-style" really put off that many people? In my experience, people will just pick their normal username and mash a laughably simple password into the appropriate box. There isn't much cognitive overhead there. This will, in my opinion, really only be a problem to people who have never registered an account before, anywhere.

Sure, you need to convince them that your product is useful. They won't explore further if they aren't convinced that it may provide some value to them. But it's probably a lot easier to put a tour on your website than to implement lazy registration.

3. If it does indeed give more users, do the extra users remain users for the same amount of time, or do they switch more easily to competitors? What happens to the users that you would've gotten with registration as well? Do they switch more easily? It seems to me that that's a very real possibility.

Currently, my intuition tells me to just use a registration form if you need it. In places where you don't need your users to be logged in, don't require them to be. Just let them do as much as possible without an account, but I wouldn't go for "unregistered accounts". That's too much effort for something of which you don't know how it will turn out.