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Date: Monday August 26, 2013 20:15.29 EDT (UTC-0400)

a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on
a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.

Random Value: 22454

man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he
shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was
the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

11:2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and
they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in
our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of
Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with
him.

11:4 And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of
Ammon made war against Israel.

11:5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against
Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of
Tob: 11:6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that
we may fight with the children of Ammon.

11:7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me,
and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now
when ye are in distress? 11:8 And the elders of Gilead said unto
Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go
with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over
all the inhabitants of Gilead.
I agree that being up front about the business model and making it understandable is important. It will let people know there is no catch, but also see what value one will get out of the program
I really wish Amiga somehow would take back its former glory, yet it feels so pointless... I don't see a reason for Amiga to exist :(
Code without giving a shit. The best way to start!
My blog article on the hotfix KB972582 (involving IE8 and Explorer)
excellent books, I liked them all.
I don't think I disagree with what you have mentioned and pg has concluded. My point was, it is possible to find a dataset where the audience actually doesn't need to stop the speaker because they can tune in to the way english is spoken.

I see this happen all the time here at startups in Bangalore. Of course if the audience is YC and the investors, it goes without saying what the language requirement is.

Indira Nooyi (Pepsico, CEO and one amongst that cnn list) articulates it perfectly in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8PC5U55AUU
Is it an "own occupation" policy? If not you have to be a vegetable before you can collect the 60% you signed up for.
Maybe we need to discuss what liberty is, and what the relationship between power and responsibility is (I think these questions are one and the same btw, but others may differ).
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i think there might be a small case for the more aesthetically inclined people being in the market for replacement apps that are more in-line with the new IOS design language.

this MIGHT lead to opportunities for a very well written new app in a currently well populated niche to gain an advantage over existing entrants. Provided the competitors don't release a newer re-designed version post-haste.
As a matter of semantics, everyone has time.

But, as someone who sometimes reads the types of books recommended on this blog post, I've found they have usually been a worse use of my time than writing code.

So, "I don't have time for ___" could be rephrased as "there are better uses of my time than ___." And I think that's a reasonable point of view in this case.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243936

- covered some of these issues, with pros and cons of various ideas.
Yea, they created IEFRAME and backported the required changes to XP too as part of IE7. I wrote about a bug in this logic: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2011/07/hotfix-kb972582-and-how...
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I would go one step further and suggest people that need structured queries use the Google BigTable API to query their structured Wikipedia data. Granted, their public dataset is from 2010, so is slightly outdated, but you can write structured SQL against all of the wikipedia article metadata and then use the mediawiki api itself to grab only the article text that you're interested in.

The wikipedia data is hosted here:
https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/publicdata:samples.w...

Here is a sample query, searching for all articles that start with Positive:

SELECT id,title FROM [publicdata:samples.wikipedia] WHERE (REGEXP_MATCH(title,r'^Positive*')) LIMIT 10

Query complete (2.0s elapsed, 9.13 GB processed

1|	464347|	Positive airway pressure
2|	10008223|	Positive behavior support
3|	464347|	Positive airway pressure
4|	1354851|	Positivism in Poland
5|	1023857|	Positive set theory
6|	5154273|	Positivism dispute
7|	2871407|	Positivism
8|	17179765|	Positive psychological capital
9|	9033239|	Positive Action Group
10|	4163012|	Positive K

Here is the python API documentation: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/
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This post is a perfect example of what I'm talking about.
An open social media network that encrypts your posts and distributes via RSS
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Looks nice, but why not Qt 5 ?
Here's why: "Hi, I can't be friends with you on Facebook/Twitter/Google+ because although you've been a really great friend to me, you lost your job last year and it's had a bit of a dent on your credit history." -- or -- "Hey, I don't want to add you to Facebook because I don't know how well you pay your bills."

(This isn't a real issue for me because, like the nouveau cool, I deleted my Facebook.)

Yes, you could argue the person doing the digital ostracizing is a craptastic piece of shit, but the criteria for friendship shouldn't be creditworthiness. If I had to eliminate otherwise good friends (or funny acquaintances) because I know they've had problems paying their bills, I'd not be a happy bunny. It's trite to highlight this, but credit scores impact all kinds of things, from interest rates, availability of financial products, ease of getting a merchant account, and apparently, how easy it is to get certain jobs.

Where does it end? Phone records? Emails? Chat logs? Who you Tweet with most? CCTV hooked up to facial recognition software to figure out who you're going to lunch with?

There's nothing good about this and I hope their business fails.
"You wouldn't start building a webapp by building your own web framework first."

If I were starting from scratch TODAY, then I agree with you.

I started a small ecommerce site back in 2003, and django, etc didn't exist. So I did develop a framework from scratch in C. 10 years later, it's the engine my new data storage startup (Nuevo Cloud).

Point is, things like web app engines and game engines aren't things that pay off immediately. They require _a lot_ of development, and during the entire time that you're working on it, you're basically handicapped until it catches up with other engines/frameworks. But after it's far enough along, it can be a big advantage, letting you do something unique compared to your competitors.
I see what you mean, actually in my experience even supposedly cheap countries turn out to be expensive, there isn't really many truly cheap places, and hotels tend to be surprisingly expensive, especially the ones that cater to westerners, that are found easily online (i.e. in english).

By the way, when I think of "Cost Of Living" I am thinking of long-term stay of 6+ months, especially since many landlords insist on 6-12+ months leases.
it is possible to find a dataset where the audience actually doesn't need to stop the speaker because they can tune in to the way english is spoken.

Of course. But again, what does that really tell us? To be effective, you need to be able to communicate with a large variety of people, not just a carefully-chosen subset of people. As Indira acknowledges, it is your own responsibility to ensure this- not your listeners.

I've met people in America with accents almost this unintelligible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XyecKONu8 (although typically their mother tongue was of Asian lineage so the sound was different)
I did, but haven't noticed any impact. I'm in the minority :)
Some people smart and fast, while others are also smart, but, well...slow. Meaning that both would get the right answer to a tough question eventually, but the fast one would get it faster. Some would argue that this makes the fast one "smarter," including, one could guess, the designers of timed tests, such as the SAT.
And REPNE RET, among others, similarly has an interpretation in Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (lawyers made me write that) to help make the new pointer bounds checking ABI transparent & interoperable with other code.

[1] http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/introduction-to-int...
[2] http://download-software.intel.com/sites/default/files/31943...
I know a good accent-reduction service (among other language services) via skype, hit me up by email and I'll hook you up. It's definitely something you can improve!
Yeah, I liked a lot of books, I made this list based on what I was familiar with.
I worked on electric vehicle space in early 2000s - there are many improvements for sure since then, but in the battery technology, not much has changed. 10 years ago, top of the line 18650 Li-Ion cell (same ones used in laptops and the Model S) weighed 46g, had capacities of 2.6Ahr, and cost about $10 a pop. Now, it weighs the same but have capacities of about 3.4Ahr and cost about $5. 30% improvement and half the cost is nothing to laugh at, but that also took 10 whole years!

The biggest problem with batteries is that they're chemistry-bound - you don't get the free twice-every-2-years type of thing that we're used to in computing world.

Even with the Nissan Leaf type of vehicle, the growth in battery capacity and more efficient / lighter chassis may result in extension of range to, say, 150 miles from 100 miles by 2018. Will that make it a no-compromise electric car? What would the no-compromise range be?

Looking at what Tesla has done, and what Elon has said (who actually very carefully said "sort of affordable" - http://greenenergyholding.blogspot.com/2013/08/teslas-next-e...) what's more likely is a new model starting at, say, $40k ($30k after tax credits) with fairly limited range, with really usable range starting at around $50k. Is that affordable? Probably not. But probably does fit the label of "sort of affordable".
Jaron Lanier's books are must-reads in this area.
The point is that a cellphone is the best tool we have and that you are severely disadvantaged not only practically but also socially if you don't have one.

So you are free to not choose one but the consequences are huge to most people in fact to big.

It's not a rational choice as the free market philosophy claims, its a choice thats primed by whats considered desirable at any given time.
You can work on your accent. I know a good coach who can help reduce your accent, send me a message and I'll put you in touch. He works via skype.
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" It's not hard at all to rack up a couple of million dollars in hospital bills if you get unlucky,"

That's at least in part due to the fucked up nature of the medical industries strange relationships with the medical insurance industry in the US. In many other countries that "couple of million dollar" hospital bill would probably not cost as much as a couple of hundred grand for exactly the same time/care/procedures/drugs/expertise.

The hospital has not actually incurred a couple of million in costs – did you see yesterday's NYTimes (I think) article about the ~$1 saline solution getting marked up to $500+, while the patient was also invoiced a couple of hundred dollars for using the emergency room and another several hundred for the staff who administered the IV drip? Saying that someone is "mooching off society" for risking defaulting on payments for things artificially marked up over 50,000% seems a little harsh.

(Having said that, I'm fully aware that those of us in "the rest of the world" piggyback freely on a lot of medical/health research that the "unusual" US health system funds…)
I guess I'm just not seeing how that's going to result in anything different than a userspace freelist library.
Can someone elaborate/clarify this:

> Users connect to a web tier which talks to an application tier.

So, I'm assuming the web tier is nginx/haproxy and the application tier is Pylons.

Are the 240 servers mentioned all running both the web tier and the app tier?
I've never worked on compilers, or anything near the assembly level; but wouldn't changing the details like delay slots be minor changes to the compiler that could be made with fairly minimal effort.

Also, wouldn't it be possible to ship the code in an intermittent form that closely resembles the hardware, but allows the OS to finish compiling it with the correct details.
I think a lot of the slowness is because it's being compiled in your browser. It would be much better if you compiled all the less files down to one minified css file.
The problem with $30k Tesla in 2018 that doesn't differ too much from Nissan Leaf... is that we already have the 2013 Nissan Leaf. :-)
I would assert this is the worst time in history to get started in app development. I have been building apps since 2008, and things have been going downhill for indie developers. Back in 2008, many large companies didn't understand the space, and indie devs were able to carve out very lucrative niches. Now, with the abundance of simple toolsets, tutorials and classes, there is an app for seemingly everything. Worse still is the price for apps has been pushed down to effectively $0. Without creative marketing or a sizable marketing budget, creating an app in today's market is brutally challenging. Sure, you can hack up a quick utility now, but the chance it pays your rent for a month is approaching zero, quickly.
There's just a lot that has to be rethought for mesh networks to work as "show up with an antenna and you're on the internet/ are the internet". IP layer, I'm looking at you.

I remember being told about research being done on multi-core processing in the 70's, but no headway there could outpace the standard of shrinking the technology and increasing the clock rate. Now we may as well assume n-cores. It's my hope (because mesh networks sound way more democratized and just "seem" like the next logical way of scaling the internet) that antennas become cheaper at a faster rate than wired infrastructure (given the fairly inelastic cost of digging shit up) and mesh networks start to make sense.
Too bad we need to create an account (in clear HTTP) to try it.
As someone who has had to port code that made use off assembly (x86 to arm), I appreciate the fact that also made a portable C implementation that could easily be switched on.
You get pulled aside while the agent manning the scanner yells for a "male/female assist" (depending on your sex). It takes somewhere between 30 seconds and 30 minutes for them to find someone to grope you.

You're then taken around the scanner, asked to identify (but not touch) your luggage. They pick up your luggage, lead you over to a screening area (which is in public view; they give you the option of a private patdown. I always elect for the public one, as I want people to see and question what's going on), explain their procedure, have you pose as though you're being crucified, and give you a very thorough groping which includes putting their fingers into your waistband and feeling your junk and buttocks with the backs of their hands. They then swab your luggage and their gloves (with which they have just groped you) and put it in an explosives detector. If the machine doesn't find anything, you're free to go. If it does, you're pulled into a small room and given an even more thorough search. The last time I flew out of LGA, I was subjected to this secondary search; the agent said it was probably alerting on the sunscreen I'd put on the day before.

The second search came up clean, but I was extremely amused to find that the room they searched me in was the room in which they kept their 5-gallon buckets of confiscated cigarette lighters. I was left alone in this room - with my luggage, past the security checkpoint - while the agent ran his second explosives test. I didn't do anything untoward, but man, if I was a bad guy it would have been trivial to stuff my bags with a bunch of containers holding flammable liquids.

I don't get hassled all that much when I opt out, but I'm also extremely white. I imagine that would be very different if I were brown and/or had a foreign accent.
That's a overall very good list. My only problem with it, it's that, apart from ocasional ones, only has books that were published since 2011. Where are the classics? I don't think entrepreunership or leadership is something new and you can just learn from the new books.
For the example given ("conference app"), a chromeless web page that can optionally be saved as an icon to the homescreen seems appropriate. Web applications already have many restrictions on privacy - you need to fetch the data in any case, and these types of apps are sandboxed from each other too in FirefoxOS.

I do think it's worth thinking through privacy/security/freedom implications, here is my opinion (not necessarily my employer's):

All web apps can of course operate completely in offline mode (as well as privileged FirefoxOS apps[1], which have access to APIs to use more of the device features and are the bigger concern here) - all of the apps that ship with the phone do operate and store data offline, for instance (e.g. you can have a local calender, it's not stored on Mozilla's servers).

Knowing whether you can trust an app to treat your data as they say they will is not anything unique to the platform (who/where do you get it from, etc). Mozilla is very serious about this type of thing (I work full-time on various Mozilla server projects so I constantly experience first-hand how important this is to everyone, e.g. application design, handling crash reports, etc.)

However there does need to be a balance between the needs/desires of the platform provider (including built-in apps), third-party app developers and the end user - developers of third-party apps should have the ability to make choices about where data is stored, privacy policies and so on, and users should be able to install the apps that they want to.

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
Something interesting: a lot of people thought Airbnb was terrible, including YC and Fred Wilson.

I was 23 when Airbnb was founded. I had had many happy experiences with Couchsurfing.

For me, and many Couchsurfers, the idea of an upscale, paid couchsurfing was trivially obvious. None of us built it, but I assumed someone would.

I'm not sure what the lesson is.
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To address your first point (my other comment was focused on the second):

You do not need to search every time, this type of app can be saved to the home screen. You could think of it like a bookmark to a tab that will run chromeless in it's own process (so no access to cookies etc. in your main browser process). For all practical purposes it is a low-privileged "hosted" app like any other - has it's own icon, possible to terminate, sandboxed and so does not share data with other apps.

FirefoxOS has a feature that allows you search and browse a set of these apps provided by everything.me but it's also possible to do this directly from the built-in browser app.
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I don't think the argument is really an argument against power. America has a wider political class, that holds power through democracy (at least partly, we hope). In many ways, in fact, democracy, free expression and privacy have the unique selling point of the West's system of governance. The argument is that this power isn't strengthened by surveillance but rather weakened and threatened (and the value of America-as-brand as well, I'd add). It is thus in the interests of those who hold power through democracy to put an end to the present level of surveillance. Whether there is really enough leverage for that to happen is another and less comforting question.
Both of those projects implement fairly simple type systems, they both even look simpler than even ML. Having at least outer rank-1 quantification is what I consider a "modern" typing system.
As far as I understand, since user most likely voted only on a small subset of those 100 comments (say 3) and negative lookups are very fast because of bloom filters [1], therefore all lookups combined are fast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
Lets play devils advocate - How might VR change the nature of narrative storytelling, and what would that evolution look like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6280754
Totally. That's why I was so surprised the recruiter's only dimension to evaluate communication skills was a candidate's accent. I assumed it would include presentation, negotiation, project management, etc. skills which would be relevant.
Yep, just use LESS normally and you'll see the huge up-front load times go away.
An outside perspective is valuable in its own right, and especially when it comes from a widely respected programmer. I think it's valuable to have both long time expert users, intermediate users and relatively new users chime in on issues: the experts often lack a certain perspective, since it was so long ago that they were novices themselves. And of course the intermediate and novice users lack experience. Together they can hopefully complement each other.
First, yes: You can only tell someone, "Don't reinvent the wheel" if the wheel has already been invented.

Re: your last sentence: Isn't it even more likely that it could end up being a complete waste of time and effort and be inferior to other frameworks/engines?
Is anyone else digging the Tevas with long sleeves look being sported by PG?
That's what I came to the comments section to check out - it seemed like a diamonds to doughnuts bet that unless the insurance provider has an exceedingly good reputation, one should assume that the secret to their policy is that they never really pay out.
While i can see his point, I'm not entirely sure this is the case. A text-book example of a multi-paradigm language is Scala. And yet with Scala, the more I've learned about the functional side of things, the more tempting it is just to avoid any imperative or object-oriented idioms or patterns and just go functional all the way. it's almost as if the designers of scala knew if they could convert java programmers over, the temptation to do bad things would go away if only because functional is so much more elegant that it doesn't make sense not to use it as much as possible.
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It's much, much simpler than that. It's laziness, and the desire to look like you're doing something. It's much, much easier to simply collect, collect, collect than actually analyse the intelligence... intelligently.
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