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Seeing everything as 'no' or an enthusiastic yes. It's like always being either really down or hyperactively enthusiastic. As others have commented, there are times when something is just 'ok' and still worth doing - or things you just aquiesce to doing that turn out to be really great. I wouldn't want to miss out on such things by only ever (or even mostly) being 'no' or 'hell yeah!'.
It isn't really a monopoly if it is facing competition from the GRE now is it?
That's a very good way of explaining it. There's no point taking the chance that the person you're messing with is willing and capable of hurting you very badly or killing you...
Let's see... providing a product that no-one really wants, completely ineffective bureaucracy built on conflicting fiefdoms, incapable of an original thought, blind to the objective reality of their policy/product failures...

DHS?
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Almost everybody I know has approximately equal followers and followees. I block or don't follow anybody whose ratio is not ~= 1.

EDIT: "know" should read "follow"
This is essentially in the same class of aphorisms as "do one thing and do it well" and other variants of "be selective".

Unfortunately the process of coining a unique soundbite was a little clumsy and resulted in a false dichotomy.

That said, the link in this post to Derek's notes on the personal development book was very useful. http://sivers.org/book/PersonalDevelopmentForSmartPeople
Just to be sure, this was about using TeX, not LaTeX. The relationship between them is much like Ruby and Rails: LaTeX is a package of macros that operate on the TeX programming language.

TeX is an enjoyable language for programming--it's something like writing in lambda calculus. It's too bad most people don't realize it's a complete language. I use it all the time for generating automated documents and such.
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Can you hack database with electronic books ill pay you, my books are really expensive but they do have e-books for them i was wondering if you can do it?
There are so many (new) languages for the JVM; its becoming a curse of plenty! (Not complaining.) Its a great platform, and invokedynamic will usher in a whole new generation of languages.

Lets just hope the Java 7 actually happens given the change of ownership, and I would love to see John Rose's call for programmatic access from Java (http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/jsr_292_support_in_javac) realized. (ASM is great stuff, but I'll admit that its not a great joy to use for me.)
> How is it absurd? If my employee is trying to, in your words, "persuade people to take the other side and stop progress I'm hoping to see", then why would I want to voluntarily support that?

Because that's akin to saying if my hot secretary refuses to date me, why shouldn't I fire her. It's an abuse of power and in many states could get you sued. The employer/employee relationship is completely different than the producer/consumer relationship and that should really be totally obvious and require no explanation.

> Not all issues are like this--certainly not health care reform.

Many people would disagree. There's room for debate on how such reform should happen, but there seems to be little room for disagreement that reform is necessary.

> I think boycotts are a good way to protest against companies that actually do things to halt progress.

Writing an Op-ed in a major nationally read paper is doing something to halt progress. I think you underestimate the power of words to affect people. We don't have to agree on when boycotts are appropriate, there's room for reasonable disagreement here, but boycotts themselves are an appropriate action for a consumer to take whenever they feel they should. If you don't support a particular boycott, then don't join it, if you do, then do; that's how it works. But it's petty to stand there and tell someone else that they're not being civil because you don't happen to agree with their boycott.

You can't seriously expect everyone to agree on exactly when a boycott is or isn't necessary. It's necessary anytime any consumer feels he doesn't want to give his money to any company for any reason whatsoever, and if enough people agree with him such a boycott will be successful, if not, then it won't.
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Looks like a large squid, or some trash.
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America doesn't need native-born Americans to be competitive. Our entire history has been contingent on the labor of immigrants. Surely any American will do.

The failure of the H1B program is that we bring these engineers to America, shackle them to a single employer (relying on that employer's good nature alone to not take advantage of them) and --most egregiously-- after a few years we send them home.

The H1B program should be a simple 'green cards for technical experts' program. Bring in as many technical people as you can reasonably employ: but ffs keep them.
Running a startup = small business rather than self employed, I guess, but possibly disproportionately high working hours and low income for the actual founders...
A boat towing a fairly big wake?
I think this shows how more engineers are needed in business schools. Glad they realize this, and are taking steps to encourage engineers to apply.
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Ask HN: Portrait vs. Landscape monitor setup.
I have been doing some web design and one of things that irks me is poor use of screen real estate especially on my wide screen monitor.

After about a week I found myself looking at the standard aspect ratio monitor at my workstation and flipped it on it's side and rotated the video for a ghetto portrait setup.

So far (about a week) I love it. Web pages look great, less vertical scrolling and very few pages require any side scrolling.

Anyone else using a portrait setup?
No, it doesn't use psyco. If it did, I'd expect it to be faster of course.

I just rewrote it in C though:

$ time ./fib 40
102334155
real 0m3.063s
user 0m2.912s
sys 0m0.014s

Which makes the python version something like 35x slower in wall clock time.
Isn't this effectively a legal system DoS?
How much better am I at solving work problems if I have some sense of perspective? Technical perspective, that is. I'm now reverse engineering a grammar to monitor the interactions with a legacy system. ANTLR is cool, but I wouldn't have known about it unless I had spent a lot of time web surfing over the years. How many people do you work with who have no clue about what's going on in their profession except for what they're told by their bosses to work on?

Edit: Learning of any sort provides perspective, but it's the technical perspective for which I have the most direct evidence of employer value.
Nothing is more important than a human life. Not all the institutions, policies, procedures, systems, etc. we have built.

If it's too much trouble to modify existing systems and instutions, the just use this handy formula for binary decision making:

The greater of (existingResult) and (any instance of a HumanLife)

Dilemma solved.
A large squid in Loch Ness would also be rather big news...
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Two directors get £1.6m pay off. SOmething wrong here
- There are currently no presentations. There have been discussions about adding them in the future (right Dave?).

- Everyone is very social. There are usually circles of conversations going and people bounce around between them. I have never encountered anyone unfriendly. I usually meet 10-20 people and have worthwhile conversations with 4-8.

- At its core its a networking event. From it, I have personally made new friends that I collaborate with and hang out with on a pretty regular basis now. I have also started a project with a guy I met there. It really depends what you want to take away from it.

Is there something specific you are looking for, or types of people you want to meet? There is a pretty solid group of regulars that could help point you in the right direction. Its definitely worth checking out...
He could have left out the “Top 10” in the headline and all the numbers. Then, I guess, you wouldn’t hate it anymore (at least if you don’t also have something against ordinary lists), even though nothing has changed about the content. Is that really the case?

(Please note that the author doesn’t claim that the myths are the definite ten or something similarly grandiose – they are just his ten personal favorites.)
I had to download Google Earth and then when I saw it, I was sad that I had. Uninspiring clickbait ripe for flagging.
Two directors get £1.6m pay off. Workers face the unemployment line. Something wrong here.
"Shocking as it sounds, Davis could end up proving his innocence and still be put to death."

Not really from a practical standpoint. No President or Governor would dare fail to pardon a man exonerated in court yet still sentenced to death, or it would be his career in the electric chair.
Thank you, and the same to you my friend.
Google's 20% time would be more successful if interviews tested creativity.
Google interviews test technical ability, not creative ability. This is suboptimal when it comes to innovation via 20% time.

One possibility is to also test creative ability via on-the-spot brainstorming during interviews.

I think the real issue here is that most people at Google think that people with strong analytic abilities are also creative, so there is no need to test for the latter.
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The site is down now, but from looking at wikipedia, you are probably right. (Sorry, I just glanced at the way they were using the matrix before, and assumed they did n matrix multiplies to calculate fib(n)) I think you are also right about the complexity, though people would usually just write log(n) since log(a*b)=log(a)+log(b).
Lets write a iphone app for that in less than 24 hours. That is the only way I can think of making it relevant to YC.
Only in America.

As long as the death penalty exists and supreme court judges can be of the opinion that "even if the district court were to find Davis to be innocent, there would still be nothing unlawful about executing him." there is still a long long way to go.
why wouldn't you follow someone who has more followers than followees? i follow about 20 folks and am followed by 400. those 20 already tweet so much i am not sure i want more traffic than that. what does that say about the quality of my output?
There was this apocryphal rumour going on, when I was doing my Ph.D, that if you could master LaTex and TeX you deserved your Ph.D, your reserch was actually a marginal note! Excellent article!
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I thought this years loch ness monster was the swine flu scare? Plus, summer is already almost over.
Ask HN: Which language is better for fast web developping?
I currently use PHP (with some homemade Database/Templating/Routing utilities) for fast developement (little web projects for friends or just a "week end thing").

I also use Python for any other purposes (console programs, scripts, long-running processes, batches). I had a look at Webpy, Django and Turbogears but I don't feel comfortable with those framework for little web apps.

What's your choice?
"The employer/employee relationship is completely different than the producer/consumer relationship and that should really be totally obvious and require no explanation."

The employer/employee relationship is a special case of the producer/consumer relationship. It's not different at all.

"There's room for debate on how such reform should happen, but there seems to be little room for disagreement that reform is necessary."

Mackey agrees that reform is necessary, he's just engaging in the debate on how such reform should happen.

"I think you underestimate the power of words to affect people."

That's your mistake: to you, words are insufficient to respond to words. If you're dead set against paying this guy's $1 salary that's your call, but in the long run, all you're doing is discouraging rational discussion and encouraging dumb conflict.

Plus--and here's the kicker--there are lots of people who make far more than $1 from Whole Foods whom this boycott personally hurts. Not getting paid because your boss is a libertarian seems a lot less fair than not getting paid because you work for a company that racially segregates its customers or puts rootkits on CD's. It's arguably immoral to work for a company that engages in racism and destruction of property, but working for a company that was founded by some opinionated dude? Do people really need to be punished for that?
Not I but I have seen folks who successfully use a mix of the two - their "main" being landscape and the monitor on the right or left (or both) being a portrait set up.
Or you could simply make your python code tail-recursive:

$ time python fib.py 40
102334155

real	0m0.013s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.010s
Good question. I'm not exactly sure what I want to get out of it. I guess meeting friendly founders would be ideal.

I am a hacker/founder, and I'm still surprised at the lack of NYC support we get. Why is nobody talking about us? Is banking that boring?

As a response, we've started a company to lend a public voice to NYC founders.

http://www.hypepitch.com/

We have some good responses so far, but we've just begun. We're willing to highlight any NYC startup or founder with an idea, so start submitting.
Whenever I can, ever since I was spoiled by getting readable 80x60 on a "portrait" Ann Arbor Ambassador (which, being a hoarder, I still have) as a child.

Nowadays, though, it's more about vertical resolution rather than aspect ratio, so a 2560x1600 isn't worth the effort to rotate, Given the choice, however, I'd rather have two 1200x1920s instead, which provides more pixels and has been (even with a Matrox GXM to facilitate connection to a laptop) cheaper.
That's exactly how I felt, so I changed the title (which I rarely do) for submission. This is interesting content which only becomes distracting by putting it in a list.

No matter what you do, someone will find the weakest link to pick on. Reminds me of a few years ago when my mother gave me 2 sweaters for my birthday. When I next saw her, I wore one of them and she said, "What's the matter, don't you like the other one?"
"Screw input validation, love output normalization." to quote larholm from this page

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/86kgp/xss_cross...

Input sanitation is not the solution to XSS style problems. The author of the article and the people on this page who support this view are wrong.
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Wow, that's a lot of overblown hyperbole. Free software actually suffers from variants of a number of these, at least to the same extreme that "Microsoft" does them in Windows 7.

This is the kind of stuff that avoids critical thinking in favor of "OMG WINDOZE"
Using Google Earth's ruler the blob is about 67.5 ft at the longest.

Anyway there's a similar object at 57°19'49.38"N, 4°27'0.44"W, it's probably just a boat with some lines behind it.
As I understand it, this is a case of whether a re-examination or re-trial can be compelled based on future factual revelation, even if the trial was free from error.

I had always assumed, of course. It only makes sense that you never, ever want to punish the innocent and should always err on the side of being sure; particularly in the case of life- and death sentences.

If this man winds up being shown innocent and is still to be executed, it will be an absolute miscarriage of human justice and an indictment of our entire legal system.

Even if extraordinary powers are exercised to keep the State of Georgia from executing this particular man (and I can only hope they would be), the simple fact that our system would otherwise allow it to happen absent special dispensation is abhorrent to everything our nation supposedly stands for.

(EDIT: clarified)
Why are you not happy with PHP? What dissatisfies you about it?
Another nitpick:

I searched for burritos - naturally - and it grouped "tortillas," "flour tortillas," and "wheat tortillas" in separate categories, with "flour tortillas" having a larger percentage than just "tortillas." There are probably a few thousand cases where something like this would happen, but you will eventually want to edit it so that you have a more logical ingredient structure and better semantics ("Tortillas:", with subheadings of wheat, flour, etc., for example.) Getting your search results right is going to be a great deal of drudge work, but it will make the app better when you get to that level of refinement.
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why don't you use a php framework?
This does not solve it at all, because if he is pardoned he still spends the rest of his life in jail, doesn't he?
For little web apps? Webpy. Or are your apps not so little? Then I've hard good things about pylons, but I'm not sure how fast to develop it is. Fast compared to learn, use, fast how?
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Right, that was my initial inspiration. I have a portrait tablet to my left I use for keeping documents and man pages off my main screen and I thought, "Why not both monitors portrait?"
Neat hack, but needless, and besides that, irrelevant: the author didn't really care about the fibonacci sequence. He cared about function calls and additions.

See Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems, http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Timrep.pdf, for more discussions of the nature of benchmarks.
Some recent news articles involving legal proceedings and executions in Texas:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1119362...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-texas-execute-0...
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I just tried it with psyco. I get about 103 seconds with normal python and about 4 seconds with psyco. (Including the imports.)
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It is? Strange, mine still works. Am I a PHP zombie?

On a side note: I'm tired of the "Pull a Calacanis" type of headlines like "x is dead", "x sucks" or "x is bullshit".

Please come up with something better.
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I guess the author named it. Book (because it's his book, probably the first so for now just "the book"), fall '07 - the revision.
Given that you know and are happy with PHP then I would stick with it. There is no 'one size fits all' answer to this, I develop in Rails and Perl so I find them faster to use than PHP and Java (which I am also familier with).

Other people find Java easier to use, it comes down to what you know.

Just a point of caution, the only 'little web apps' that I know of are the ones that got abandoned, what might seen trivial now could grow quite large and the effort made to use a good framework can pay off down the road.

Also knowing a framework de jour is not a bad thing CV wise.
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Sorry, I didn't mean log (2n), I meant (log sub 2) n. Or in other words, the computation times is proportional to the number of binary bits in n.

The algorithm is remarkably simple. Given that fib(40) can be extracted from:

40
[ 1 1 ]
[ 1 0 ]

The simplest implementation, as you surmise, is to do 40 matrix multiplications. I don't think that part is dynamic. the dynamic part comes in observing that n^40 = (n^20)^2. This can be followed downward recursively: n^20 = (n^10)^2, n^10 = (n^5)^2, n^5 = (n^2)^2 * n and n^2 = n * n.

So... The actual matrix multiplication is much slower than a simple bignum multiplication, but there are only six such operations to perform.
Curiosity HN: Is there a study on patterns in "random" numbers people pick?
I just saw today's XKCD: http://xkcd.com/628/

The caption says "You can do a lot better than 1% if you start keeping track of the patterns in what numbers people pick."

Is there a study about said patterns?
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I've tried CakePHP, CodeIgniter and some other PHP frameworks, but I don't feel comfortable with any.

In fact, I just want to build little apps (a few pages, an embedded gmap with some info added through the admin and some mice) in a few hours. Maintaining my own libs is something I'd like to avoid using self-mantained librairies (I don't have enough time to mantain the code), and, why not, learn some new things...
Thank you, I am aware that the author was deliberately picking a "most pessimum" algorithm as a benchmark. I am not commenting on the nature of benchmarks, but rather on the relative importance of algorithms and implementations.

You may find it irrelevant to the author's point, others may find it an interesting byway to follow in a larger conversation. Or not.
That would be a commutation. A pardon ends the sentence in its entirety.
It's a crappy title, but the article is pretty good.

PHP is a niche language, the niche is probably best described as "for want of something else that seems so easy to use and has such a low barrier to entry we are forced use it for web development".

The interesting thing here is that apparently the difference between PHP and the 'rest' of the languages out there is not large enough to supplant PHP in the WWW domain.

It's close enough to C that a whole generation of C programmers is intuitively at home in PHP, until they start using its advanced features.

But as long as you have to do simple stuff and get paid for that it almost always works. The few times that it doesn't you wished you never knew about the language though.

Just imagine, a language where the default 'scope' is global but globals are not available to functions and silently get replaced with empty variables. Who came up with that gem ?
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The Georgia Constitution vests the power of executive clemency in the Pardon and Parole Board. The Governor of Georgia can't pardon him.

This is a matter of state law. The President can't pardon him, at least there is no legal precedent for him to do so.
Well, in your case the ads (secondary information) are above the fold/scroll as well and they are quite distracting.

Also there is the issue of too broad text chunks known both in typography and usability for making reading more difficult.

Apart from that I tend to agree with you.
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For anyone who enjoyed reading this you may want to check out his (Lance Fortnow) blog (that he shares with Bill Gasarch).

http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/

I am not in TCS, but I do enjoy what bits and pieces are understandable to me.
With "little web apps", I mean, for example, little sites for some little, local companies (from friends!) that just need to keep a news stream, a map or something like for their clients). I help friends to have "decent" webpages, and not those "frontpage-like" webpages.
While the games may be declining, I think they have led to a resurgence in people willing to try to play real instruments. I know a number of people who play these games who have been inspired to take up real instruments. It would be interesting to see the impact these games have had on the sales of real guitars and drums in the marketplace.
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