skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be true if potential migrants

1) were well informed,

2) had equal opportunity to go to any country in the world (geographical distance, need for immigrant labour, language issues, already established colonies),

3) had health and quality of life as first priority (as opposed to raw moneymaking potential).
Brothers and sisters have I none...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Brothers+and+sisters+ha...
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I don't think I've ever heard of him referred to as William Deming (it took me a second to recognize who you were talking about). I've always heard Edwards Deming or W. Edwards Deming.
This is a classic story, here is what he looked like from the exposure to radiation: http://beto.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/david_hahn.jpg
I know there are going to be lots of wolfram alpha posts soon... but i couldn't resist?
Negotiation over dowry was once a part of the process in America, and it still is in much of the world.

Marriage is very much a business relationship. I don't know when it turned awkward to acknowledge this fact.
I'm curious. What "disruptive and tectonic shifting" developments have come out of Sweden?
USA: We need 100,000 integrated circuits, with a defect rate of 1 in 10,000. Can you do that?

JPN: Well... that's very difficult. But I think... yes, yes I think we can do it.

6 months later, he returns with a very large box and a very small one

JPN: This was much more difficult than we thought, but we managed to modify our processes to obtain the exact defect rate you requested. Here are the defect-free chips.

USA: Well, I'm very impressed! To be honest, I didn't think you could do it. But tell me, what's in the small box?

JPN: Those are the 10 defects.
Morning ritual? You mean like shower, brush teeth, all that? Seems like an hour would be a bit long for that sort of thing.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple+profit+%2F+apple+...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=best+buy+profit+%2F+bes...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=walmart+profit+%2F+walm...
I think wolfram alpha is a better deal than Cuil, but might get as bad a name because of their flawed positioning.

The method does not work without domain specificity. Its not a general purpose tool. Marketing it as one is the biggest mistake wolfram has done and is the reason most people will be dissapointed and inevitably try to slot it as another cuil.

However, if you are willing to disregard that largely cosmetic flaw, the computational engine is very impressive stuff. Assuming, in the future they are able to market/position it properly for specific domains for which they ensure that data is enough, this is going to be an awesome tool and may well compete with Google for the domain specific queries.
The x86 instruction set has a mechanism called "call gates" for system calls. Basically, the OS puts the entry point of the system call handler into a segment descriptor with the call gate bits set. The unprivileged user program then performs a far call to an address consisting of a segment selector for that descriptor and an offset which does not matter. Execution resumes at the system call handler, with a privilege level as encoded in the call gate descriptor.

That way, you could have thousands of system call entry points and avoid the overhead of an int instruction and the syscall-number dispatch. I believe OS/2 used that mechanism extensively (and all the other elaborate segmentation stuff).

And I call x86 segmentation "elaborate" :)
A New Kind of Science--it's a new scientific philosophy championed by Wolfram, and also the title of his book on the subject. A couple informational URLs:

http://www.wolframscience.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_kind_of_science
As for the car loan: low interest rate, upcoming wedding, upcoming house purchase. If the money isn't needed, we can always pay off the loan.

More accurately, I wasn't going to argue with my fiancee over it, and she didn't want me to pay for it before we were married. She was worried about the reliability of her current car (I'd guess mostly needlessly), but since she is a social worker occasionally moving kids around and visiting rough areas, I don't blame her for that part.

I paid cash for a 1 year old vehicle 6 years ago.
Funny how the notion of simply paying back your debt becomes "enslavement" by the "banking system" in the minds of people these days. t's as ridiculous as a fat person blaming the food companies to make it easy to overeat. The author of the article is commendable for avoiding these loaded terms and blaming himself rather than circumstances or even other people. It's a trite phrase but still true that responsibility and prudence is the flipside of freedom and risk-taking.
of course. but that doesn't mean we should ignore it when a large number of people admit that they did X and it didn't make them any happier.
The same house and yard that my aunt can't sell in central Illinois for $50,000 would be worth a good 200,000 - 250,000 in the area I'm currently looking in (Philly suburbs) and more then the $400,000 or so that my fiancee's brother paid for his place about an hour South of NYC. The .5 acres of land alone would probably be worth more then $400,000 there.

Credit scores will stay perfect as long as they are paid off. Greater debt with no faults creates better FICO numbers.
As the Founder of the Institute, it genuinely sucks to have to say 'no' to smart people with a a passion to build great companies. This is already an apparent flaw in the model. After the inaugural Semester is finished, I will dedicate a couple months to the study of scaling.

The vision of the institute is simple: help great Founders build great companies by learning lessons from their experienced peers, by getting amazing deals from world-class vendors, and by closing financing from top-rated investors.

The Institute has had to do everything differently because nobody has backed the Founder in a long, long time. All of that is about to change. ;-)

- Adeo
What are the bad parts of the bay area? It's probably the biggest metro area with the fewest and smallest bad parts in the country.

There's Richmond, Hunter's Point / Bayview, West Oakland, parts of Hayward and... ?
My first search was "google" which sent the CPU to the skies. Had to kill Firefox.
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What were the tests like?
You'd need an interest function. Use historical data? Specify a regression? Have it try to calculate last average?

Even then, you'd need to have some objective value of worth to understand what $0.92 means. Right now, it only measures the value of the dollar. :-/
The Institute charges a course fee of $450 to help cover operating, catering, broadcasting, materials, and location costs. This amounts to $27 per session, by the way.

In terms of investment, the Institute does not buy equity at a discounted or at below market rates. Instead, it works with professional investors to secure the best possible rates and terms for the Founders, and then the Institute has the option to invest alongside the others if it makes sense for everyone.
i'd throw acid in her face, then shoot myself in the head after explaining to the kid that mother has always been as ugly on the inside as she now is on the outside.

the sheer unexpectedness of a reaction like that from someone like me would be brilliant, completely undermining peoples faith in their ability to "know another".
Thanks, and sorry about that Darwin. Ping me offline if I can help in any way. Just give me until after the first session to get some more time on my hands... ;-)
http://www.wolframalpha.com/WolframAlphaAPI.pdf

works and more up to date (updated on May 14, 2009)

Looks pretty good.
It's a trade off. The first place I worked mis-planned their moved, and was suffering the following 3.5 years to maintain profitability. The margins weren't high enough and through put did not increase enough to justify the more expensive location. I think they moved out of that location about 10 years later, when the employee base had shrunk to a quarter of the original size.

Yes, it is a single antidote, and there other complicating factors ... such as it being 2002 when the markets were already difficult.
Or, perhaps, government should simply let them figure it out by themselves. And by the way, loan provisions are not mandated by government but negotiated up front. If you make a non-recourse loan, you won't get access to the borrower's personal assets even if his business goes belly-up.
Current undergrads do turn out to be at a disadvantage as startup founders. But because of the gravitational attraction of college, not because of their age.
No low-level API yet! Maybe it's just for paying customers? I saw no indications of supported syntax (how do you group?) or data schema (what is the smallest fact I can extract and how?). If the natural language processing isn't good enough to read my mind, at least tell me how to speak to it effectively!
Apparently he was at it again in '07: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0a6_1186335230

What a shame. In the right environment, he could have done great things with his talent.
Guys who seriously consider moving to somalia or north korea to avoid alimony payments usually don't have to worry about getting married in the first place. It's hard to meet a spouse in your parents' basement.
That's really fatal thinking. Actually, it's a well-documented psychological bias. To many people, a dollar earned != a dollar saved (or a dollar less in loss), although they are all conceptually the same.
Would the laborer have been transported, on such a long voyage, without the reasonable assurance of payback? If they'd been left behind, stranded far away from the "land of opportunity," would they have been better off? I'd guess no on both. There's a reason immigrants flocked to America, event with a pledge of service.

So quit with this slavery nonsense. Slavery is not slavery when opted for, in full knowledge. Likewise, honest mortgages are no more slavery than education loans.
The original article doesn't claim income equality is the only factor in wellbeing.

A less equal society that attracts more productive people could easily do better than more equal societies which lose said people.

That assumes, amongst other things, that productive people will flock to where they are best paid regardless of other factors, and that more unequal societies will pay them best, and that the impact of such migrations is an overriding factor in the overall productivity of a nation. For you that's probably common sense, in my experience it's utter BS. That's why studies like the OP are necessary.
Actually, this is precisely what they are not teaching in economics: That people are weak, stupid, and make mistakes. Instead it teaches that they are informed, rational decision-makers who carefully weigh their options and choose the one that maximizes "expected utility". Schmoo! This is why we are in this mess!
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I know one who, along with her current husband, is raising her ex-husband's ex-wife's daughter. Mom is 27, dad is 25, kid is 12, and she's not biologically related to either custodial parent.
I completely agree with the comment above.

I never worked on UI all my life and when I started learning the infamous 3 - html/css/js - it opened up a whole new world.

I think I actually like it now, though it was tough initially. I know I am not stellar at good looking UI, but I can whip out "passable" designs which you wouldn't puke at.

More tips for an all dev team:

- I found the typography defaults that blueprint css has, to be sane and easy to tweak.

- Use good icon sets (psptuts, smashing magazine) - dont reinvent the wheel there.

- Read. Read. Read. - ALA, smashing mag, psdtuts.

- Practise. Practise. Practise. whatever you have read.

- Enjoy doing it. Once you add passion to the mix, life gets easy.
There is a very big difference between knowing something and being able to act on it. By reading this forum, you undoubtedly know a whole a lot about entrepreneurship. Are you rich yet?
If this bothers you (it does me), you should look at Redfin.com. They do realty for 1% each, rather than 3%, and can afford to because they do much of their work online.
I remember reading this a long time ago (~10 years) in the Reader's Digest.
If you're going to do Euclid's algorithm, cut to the chase and read Euclid. Nothing will ever teach you more about logic.
> And by the way, loan provisions are not mandated by government but negotiated up front. If you make a non-recourse loan, you won't get access to the borrower's personal assets even if his business goes belly-up.

I did not know that. Admittedly, I don't have any examples that work quite as well. Maybe medical malpractice... or is that just a breach of contract?
A dollar earned is actually more like $0.60-0.70 saved after taxes.</pedantic>

Anyway, I know a bunch of people that think the same way. I knew one girl who basically couldn't afford to eat - she'd go hungry for several days at the end of each pay period because there was no money to buy food. (Not too surprisingly, she ended up with an eating disorder.) But she had more "stuff" - big screen TV, DVD-player, IPod, home entertainment system - than I've ever had. Her logic was that a few hundred bucks might by food for a couple weeks, then she'd just be hungry again. Or it could buy a big-screen TV, and she'd be hungry longer, but at least she'd be entertained in the meantime.

When she put it like that, it almost seemed rational. Being able to save and invest for the future is a luxury I have because I've never really had to want for the basic necessities.
Trying to make uranium out of lithium batteries....?
Sure, but doesn't this increase the average age of YC founders, especially since you still advise young people to go to college?

Put another way, rather than telling 18-year-olds to start companies, you now tell them to go to college for the experience - where, as you say, they're at a disadvantage as startup founders. I assume you wouldn't tell them to do both at the same time.
If your were giving your age in octal, it's the same thing. :-)
it's missing: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=The+Odds+of+Winning+Sol...
Aaronson rips NKS a new one in this review: http://scottaaronson.com/papers/nks.pdf
The Biggest Scandle In American History [video]
Of course it can:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=p+%3D+n+p
More likely he was trying to harvest the americium-241 from the detectors:

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=340
I'm currently working through Practical Foundations of Mathematics: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pt/Practical_Foundations/index.html

The full text is available online, but I recommend you buy a hard copy. Oh and I can vouch that the back cover blurb is totally true.
From my newspaper today. Direct quote from Wolfram - "It will change how people search online".

I don't think it's the news outlets fault if the founder is making outlandish claims.
You have just described the academic paper "Women's Mating Strategies" by Elizabeth Cashdan, Evolutionary Anthropology 1997.
Wolfram - what is the speed of an unladen swallow?
"for less than a day's worth of work"

Look, if Google earns x cents on a click from you, does it earn it on "less than a second's work"? It does not, because someone had to take the risk to acquire the necessary skills and contacts/reputation over a long period of time, had to set up an office and legal forms, had to acquire a rolodex, etc etc. There is a lot of risk involved. THe fact that the transaction itself, if sufficiently isolated, takes place in a blink so much as doesn't matter!

In fact, our system works such that people are not paid based on their (highly subjective) work effort but on result. Result in terms of what other people are willing to pay for your services. If you go down the slippery slope of "fairness" in pay based on effort, you will end up in pure, almost literal communism -- everything owned by the community, nothing for yourself, because there is no basis for judging effort from outside. Effort doesn't count, results do.
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You're right. On http://news.ycombinator.com/classic it's only 3rd.
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How much did Twitter cost to develop vs TIBCO Rendezvous?

The real question is how much VC has Twitter wasted reinventing the wheel (and making it square) when they could have just bought an R/V license?

"Not invented here" is the definition of hubris.
But it is the State's interference in marriage that is the problem!
>which I assume means that I.P. detection is being used to geographically customize answers.

Yeah, the screencast a couple days ago mentioned this. They use it for more mundane stuff, too - like guessing which Springfield you mean.
macroeconomics is about as much a science as astrology.
Hills don't stop them in San Francisco, that's for sure.
Do you have more insight into why Amazon's turnover is so high? I'm starting there fairly soon, and things look pretty peachy on the outside, but I am aware that for some reason or another people up and leave after about 2 years.

I honestly didn't mind the office - cramped sure, no fancy furniture sure, but I'm there to work, not marvel at the finishing and grain on my desk...

I do agree though, IMHO from the article the biggest loss was putting people into their own offices - but that's a failure in planning and understanding the company's development dynamics, not necessarily in the very act of moving.
Who else started with "air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow"?
Iteration #2: http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2009/05/15/new-firefox-icon-...
20-somethings believe in "life long marriage".

EVERYONE is in love when they get married. EVERYONE says "for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, 'til death do us part".
On the contrary, I don't believe excessive spending was the problem - it was the fact that they were spending on things that were counterproductive to the company.

Your own office? Great on paper, and as the article points out, deadly on productivity.

There's nothing wrong with a nice lobby and reception area - it does help get business, and honestly, assuming the author is right about how well they were doing at the time, well justified.

Another point to take from the article: your engineers may know what they want, but this may not be the best for either themselves or the company (case in point: your own office).
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At the same time "Armenian Genocide" is not a historical event, it's just a movie according to WA.
This is pretty amazing, considering that the guy essentially made a mini-symphony out of an Atari 800-XL, a Texas Instruments TI-99, an 8" floppy drive, 3.5" hard drive, and some HP scanners.

Thanks for sharing this, will definitely pass the link along to some of my buddies... Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey, eat your hearts out!
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The general impression I got from this article is "never write software, since the software could have a security problem"

What he's saying is that this specific piece of software is very tricky to get right. Moreover, if it becomes popular, then the consequences are enormous if they get it wrong, as in the case of ActiveX or Flash exploits. The aggregate damages from viruses and malware must surely run in the tens of billions of dollars.
You are suggesting that available of opportunity and future outcome make slavery ok. I do not believe that. I guess we just have fundamentally different world views.

Honest mortgages and education loans are not slavery. Intentionally ignoring checks to economically subjugate someone... I am not gonna call that slavery but it's really not that far from it or at least thats how I see it.
Seems to me that the title of this article is a bit exaggerated.

The author should have titled it "I think Github should use pulling/merging instead of cherry-picking when dealing with forks". Of course, that would probably not have been voted to #1 on HN.
I've seen that picture before, but it reminds me more of a meth-addict than anything else.
You mean http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=NYSE+composite+index+19... ?
Try this one:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=answer+to+life%2C+the+u...
You're right, I don't get it: did he just put the sun on top of a treasure chest? (The slowness of the animation might have hindered my understanding. Is there a larger section of play as a video somewhere?)
> you have so many high-level considerations that also thinking about the low-level implications would simply be too much

You still have to have a high-level perspective on how things are working, because abstractions are often leaky.

For example, I don't care much about tasks related to systems administration, allowing me to concentrate on what matters to me ... for instance I don't care about the difference between Postfix and Sendmail, or the difference between Apache and Lighttpd ... I just use the one I know until I have a problem with it, but when I do have a problem I have to find ways to solve it. And some knowledge on how the protocols and processes work really help.
http://xkcd.com/16/

W|A is an attempt to let us query all of human knowledge the way we query our own memories. And the best use of it is to see if it also likes Monty Python?
Because sometimes there may be barriers in place that make it slightly harder for an X-er than a Y-er, meaning the achievement is significant to some extent.
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