skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really disagree, though it is a bit of a simplification. There is a lot to this argument, but without going into details (another time maybe) is it not a testament to the base of the language that they've managed to build so much crap on top of it??.
That or the fact that hooking up reCaptcha to Google's project Gutenberg would seem to solve some of the problems inherent to it.
Told you you could get rich being a plumber.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=800487
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Storing CC data anywhere is a huge nono. You use it at the moment you pass it on to your IPSP. No temp files, no database records, no session keys none of that.

Read the terms and conditions of your merchant account.

Edit: I'm very serious about this, CC companies periodically check the active merchant accounts and will ruthlessly block you if they see you violate these rules.

If you do recurring billing this can sting you in an extremely bad way, to lose a few days of income is bad, to have to rebuild your member base from the ground up is orders of magnitude worse.

The reasons are simple if there is any indication you store CC data in between pageviews you are literally asking to be hacked. The very best way to handle these issues is to use an IPSP that serves up your final payment page, that way even the form is not on your machine (and so not subject to having a nice little javascript payload embedded in it at some point by some joker that hacks your site).

Unless you are planning on being an IPSP you should not attempt to either receive or store CC info.
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I would like to find out how this relates to how people laugh - I have an intuition, that a bigger bolder laugh correlates with high testosterone.
People are building more and more onto the platform and relying on it more and more, this is ultimate lock-in at the moment. Whenever they want they can start charging companies for API access, search access, access to the data, access to the live stream, etc.

I think they are just biding their time (they have the money) to grow it as much as possible and then either sell it off or start flipping the switches.
For this, look to COLA by Viewpoints Resaearch Institute.

linky: http://piumarta.com/software/cola/

Thanks! I was thinking of dropping that into the post as an example of the late-binding philosophy going into the future, but I've been linking it quite a bit lately, and decided to go without it for once.

In my view of it, Piumarta's COLA is very strongly "of The Lisp Philosophy". As a matter of fact, I would call it the future of Lisp (the philosophy) :)

When things are truly late-bound, it makes as little sense to split computational instructions into these "language" silos. Allowing users (and creating tools) to modify syntax is fundamental to breaking this tribal idiocy around "languages" as atomic sets of programming system design decisions.
That's like saying a grandmaster has a 4/5 chance of losing a 5 person chess tournament. The competition must be genuinely good to have a chance.
I can tell you that the amateur radio 220MHz band was de-allocated and handed to UPS. I can suggest to you that that was true to a pattern - see Joseph Stiglitz: http://books.google.com/books?id=yxhV44nSN_4C&pg=PA110
There were 5 violins, 2 of which were fungus violins, one of those in particular received a staggering 60% of the votes. Not sure what the best conclusion to draw is but it's certainly believable that one day you'll be able to get a cheap violin with incredible tone quality.
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I still think it's interesting that, even though the violinist knew which violin he was playing, the audience liked him playing the Opus 58 violin better than playing his own Stradivarius, which he could have been subconsciously influenced to play better because of its familiarity.
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While you might be correct, I think when you have these interconnected enterprises, it's nearly impossible to say whose contribution is more important. For all you or I know it may have been Calacanis who put in 100% of the effort for the conference, and Arrington did nothing other than bestow the TC brand. Also for all you and I know, it may be that the conference vastly increased the readership of TC, in which case you could make a pretty good case that Calacanis was screwed. The whole thing could even have been financed by Calacanis. It's impossible to know.

I'm not saying that's the case or not, I'm saying that it's impossible to look at it from the outside and say one person is responsible for the success or failure.
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it's always easier to raise money when you don't need it.

Oi, that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea. What Twitter desperately need right now is a way to make money (and taking it from VC's don't count). If they want to justify a $1 BILLION valuation, they need a clear way to make a lot of money.

My prediction: they're looking to buy a company that they think will make them money. While one might hope Benchmark Capital might pass down some wisdom from AOL's botched "best acquisition EVAR" fiasco, I have a bad feeling about this. As it stands now, my feeling regarding their technical competence tells me the hypothetical merger will be tougher than anticipated, and history will see Twitter as the shining example of the "Web 2.0 bubble".
a lot of the primitives and io functionality has long been available in the jakarta commons projects

http://commons.apache.org/io/
http://commons.apache.org/lang/ (ArrayUtils contains primitives functionality)

i haven't looked at it in detail yet but a cursory look at the api doesn't show much you couldn't find elsewhere.
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I would never call pg wrong (especially not on HN ;), but I side with DHH on this one:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1159-you-dont-have-to-sell-yo...

I suppose they're both correct in their own ways, but that's a pretty good description of why I'm working on a startup right now.
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I've heard of companies having an internal policy: if in memory (in their data center's control) PCI sensitive data was allowed.

In some cases (memory mapped files) it could persist to disk, so either encryption, or a Compensating Control Document was created (limiting access to the filesystem).
I think Java™ is more like Starbucks®

Java:Starbucks::C#:Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Java:Starbucks::Scala:Peets

Java:Starbucks::Groovy:Mystic Mocha

Java:Starbucks::Algol60:Vesuvio Café
You can't have a bubble at these valuations. Twitter may be a little frothy, but the industry is nowhere near exuberant.
There are only so many times anyone wants to hear about his MacArthur Genius Award or how both Microsoft and Google fought over recruiting him and how instead he took the high road and decided to stay at CMU. Maybe it was because it was his first time leading 251 and he was out to prove he was worthy....

That said, he was a very good teacher. Great lectures with lots of student involvement. He also had some creative ways of catching cheaters.
But it's quite plausible that the performer played slightly differently on the various violins. A more robust test would include several performers, playing the different violins in arbitrary order, to rotating groups of listeners.
Like most standardized testing ... like the largely invisible 'accreditation' establishment ... like most education ... certification has been politicized. That's because education has been twisted into a vehicle of social-engineering.

I'll quote Zinn the Wise here: "... honest, and therefore unmanageable."
When you have to join two tables, both with an unrelated field called "id", you'll regret that.

Or when you have to join a foreign key, and you end up with two fields both called "id" in the same table - and don't ever give a foreign key a different name in the parent and child tables.

And even if you say: I'll just prefix the column name with the table name in the query, remember that when your app gets the field, it'll just be called "id", and you'll be tempted to alias it just so you know which id field it is, at which point you'll realize that you should have called it something else from the start.
But you're assuming the only thing teachers do is grade papers and teach. This isn't a spreadsheet calculation here.

Teachers also council students, tutor, do extra work such as activity clubs (debate club, for instance), coach sports, etc. Some of these, such as coaching, they may get paid an extra fee for, but it's not usually much. Most teachers (I know a few) feel lucky if they get to do these things, because it's usually working in a smaller group with the students that are excelling in the subject. In other words, the reason teachers want to teach in the first place..

Oh yea, and there's actually preparing to teach the class. When's the last time you gave a speech to 30 people with no outline? And then, you still have to grade the work.

And don't forget time to deal with parents too. Trust me, I've seen what they do, I'll take my 9-5 cubicle any day.
Initiatives like this make me smile. Good to see people taking things forward and trying to innovate in the name of good.
Why, when one tries, the answer must always be another implementation with 'more' features instead of creating the cleanest possible implementation with 'the least' features allowing maximum compatibility?

This was said in 'The Next Lisp'

http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/nextlisp(1).htm
Hilarious. The guy asking that question is a very close friend of mine and I've never stopped giving him crap about it.
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They're also highly dependent on imports of US produced food, and so probably not a great example of something to emulate.
No, think Zaire Ebola with a month or two of transmission before the first symptoms. That would seriously suck.

There are horror movies that scare me much less than something like that.
How does this provide any more promise than similar distributed data structures? A distributed b-tree will not get around the CAP paradox and the necessity of client code to understand that it is running across a distributed service. Other than an efficiency gain how will this be any different than wrapping changes to the various internal nodes of a standard b-tree in a lot of paxos calls and sharing it across a cluster...
I think this might spawn a whole new category of very-small, energy-efficient laptops primarily used to access electronic mail, world-wide web sites, and those new-fangled instant-messaging services.
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Keep in mind jeff is the guy who wrote geneforge (http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforge/index.html).
Heh. Now there are three TR35s from the same year at Google.
What is this "printing" of which you speak?
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Maybe it's a different crowd, but most people I know like Arrington, a lot. Jason Calacanis, on the other hand, is a weasel with a custom light-gray-on-white wordpress blog/mailing list (and light purple links), where each post seems more confident and wrong than the last. How he got to a position of any authority anywhere is beyond me.
It depends on what you do with it. ;-)
I've open sourced the code here

http://github.com/godavemon/TwitTornado

A bit more about TwitTornado

http://twittornado.com/about

It was a fun and short project. I highly recommend Tornado to anyone needing a push framework.
If the criterion here is the number of messages sent out by windows machines then this is a definite yes. Unfortunately the users of those machines have not much to do with the messages being sent.

Re. the rest of the article, anything attached to emails of that size will get the sender a nice bill from me with a reminder that sending email with 3Mb attachment might end up on a mobile phone.

It won't be a very friendly reminder.

Send me a link where I can get the file (and a password if you feel that it is precious stuff).
This appears applicable to whites in the west and Asians in east Asia. I'm not so sure this is universally true. You see big differences in fertility rates in different ethnic groups in the US.

And it may not even generally be true. It might just be how things appear right now given current circumstances. If you cut off immigration to the US, which is driving growth, I doubt the white fertility rate would stay at or below replacement. Wages for low skill labor would rise and fertility would go up. Who knows what the birth rate in Japan would be if their economic policy were not so incompetent.
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It's cool because the b-trees are spanning several servers in a cluster. Presumably this would make increasing capacity transparent to client applications because you could just add more database machines while still connecting to a single "instance" of the server.

No more replication. No more sharding.
> that doesn't mean you pass on traits like demographic fertility, or intelligence.

IQ is well known to be highly heritable. I would be very surprised if proper research came up with a null result on fertility heritability.
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I'd imagine part of the reason this was released was for the same reason a stripped down version of their web server was released-- to allow other internal Google projects to be released as open source without much modification.

Not as much "new stuff" there as opposed to guice, GWT and google-collections.

Their concurrency utilities, on the other hand are interesting.
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I'd love to see this built own. A live-updating, clean, and light weight web based twitter client doesn't exist. I'd subscribe for a few bucks a month to use it.
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I don't understand. What exactly does Twitter do that you don't think Facebook wants to move into?
This is quite true, and I didn't put my point across very well - I apologize for all the hand-waving and sweeping statements.

I see porn as a bit different from other content in 3 ways: 1) it's smutty, so it's not worth much of the industry's time/money to serve DMCA takedowns or RIAA-type lawsuits, since they're unlikely to gain much public or legislative sympathy; 2) distribution is very fragmented - 80 distributors serving approx. 8000 adult stores in the US; and 3) branding is relatively weak, due to the factors above. These differences put a lot of pressure on content providers and limit their growth potential (quiet there at the back).

The reason I think this matters, in the context of the OP, is that with such a fragmented market it's difficult to identify serious long-term investment opportunities. I think the most successful adult product in the last year or two was some 'male enhancement' pill marketed on cable TV, which isn't content-related at all. For porn media, the market is like thousands of independent or small-chain bookstores that sell fanfiction-quality-dreck right alongside premium offerings, creating an inexorable trend towards lowest-common-denominator content. since advertising opportunites are limited (porn mags and websites) providers have to produce a constant amount of relatively low-profit material, rather than being able to follow a more traditional launch & cash-in cycle like movies or pre-internet porn where the barriers to market participation were higher.

tl;dr the unique distribution challenges in the porn industry significantly limit profit margins compare dot other media. All IMHO.
based on what? we have a sense of prices, but how is the underlying value measured?
Ask HN: Anybody's driving to the XKCD event from SF next tuesday?
I got the seat so I am going to attent the event next Tuesday at YC. But I don't have a car so it will probably take ~2h on CalTrain to get there from SF (my office is on the second and howard).

So I guess it is worth asking if anybody's driving there? We can split the gas, etc.
The order confirmation screen only needs to display the last 4 digits. They know the rest. If any of the other digits were entered incorrectly, you'll both find out soon enough.
Hey Tim, lemme know what you're interested in hearing specifically about.

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Twitter seems to be pretty dodgy at the moment with the increased # of requests going to it. Its giving 503's. Refreshing a few times (brute force!) eventually gets you through.
It's working for me. I think Twitter was down for a few mins.
Harbor look cool. I'll keep an eye on it!!
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How are you looking to make money?
Sure you can go to b2c -> b2b, but there's a huge market for software that only makes sense in a enterprise b2b market. Plenty of startups exist solely targeting large enterprises, it's not something you have to "grow into".

For example:

* Adapters to connect Hospital ERP systems to Pharma companies

* Financial market liquidity masking servers that combine internal trade books with market trade books.

* Industry specific databases

* Warehouse logistics management

* Ultralow (microsecond) latency middleware

None of these are particularly sophisticated, and are all areas with active startups. But they're all in areas where the only companies who the software is useful to are large enterprises.
They show all sorts of ways to circumvent various systems in the Boston rail system. Really neat presentation, especially if you've taken any courses on hardware design or cryptography.
Useful link, but I think your interpretation is slightly off.

I don't think that table is limited to full time teachers.
Table 10 seems to make it clear that it isn't.

The full time teachers that I know put in more than 40 hours a week. That being said, the pay is usually decent when compared with the cost of living. I certainly make more than many of my relatives who are teachers in central Illinois, but the costs of living tend to offset most of that. The teachers working locally are fairly well compensated for their jobs.

From everything I've seen, outside of the sciences, computers, and mathematics fields, teachers are paid well for their education. (I'm not sure how business fits in there. )

Lies, damn lies, and statistics. :-)
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Yes, my cursory look also suggests a lot of overlap with Apache Commons, even among the small number of classes.

A few things stuck out of possible interest:

- The InputSupplier/OutputSupplier interfaces, and classes that work on such suppliers of in- or out-streams instead of composited streams

- The UnsignedBytes helper methods

- The TimeLimiter utility for turning any method into a time-limited version

- The ListenableFuture with Runnables as 'listeners'
When you join those tables, you won't regret it. You may have to think about it for a moment; if you need the ids in the join they're there: SELECT A.id FROM A JOIN B ON A.project = B.project; this is concise and makes sense.

When you do a self-join, the table-name-prefixed-column-names strategy doesn't buy you anything anyway, you'll have to explicitly qualify or rename the column(s) regardless.

Don't name foreign keys the same as the referenced column, name them to make the represented relationship clear, if you have a parent-child relationship, name the column "parent" (or if you must, "parent_id"; redundant if every table has a synthetic primary key named "id").
Righting your own CAPTCHA seems like a small task for Google. reCAPTCHA wasn't exactly encroaching on Google's market share... so what exactly did this get Google? I think they have a bigger plan, as always.

Ideas?
"Identify these sounds" is a fundamentally different exercise to "decide which of these sounds you prefer". And the sample size in that instance was three.
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sounds like self hypnosis or NLP or landmark seminar info. What are you reading these days?
Define greed? Selling a 2-bit p2p company for 1.6 BILLION and then bitching about it.

Even the YouTube guys haven't done that and theirs was a bigger initial investment.

[Edit: Not saying the YouTube guys would, but it's a good comparison]
Good point. I don't get that sense about the rest of the industry (as much), but twitter seems like a good example of a company which is "breaking the heuristics" - they got wildly popular via SXSW, which has many influential minds, but also hugely inflates the growth-to-usefulness ratio. They used that bump to raise enough money to do enough PR to get Oprah and half of Hollywood on board. This let them continue growing until this coming valuation. Throughout, they've struggled technically, leaked documents, and just haven't polished their UX enough.

Facebook and Google, on the other hand, have been growing out of being useful to their users, with no comparable technical issues (I'm hoping the FriendFeed acquisition does some good things for Facebook's architecture).
Right, that's a different kettle of fish - or brains.

Consider this though: a neuron is not particulary 'smart', if you have enough of them they get smarter.

A single human of some given intelligence may not be able to solve that puzzle, but many humans of a given intelligence working together might be able to do it.

So, a true 'superintelligence' should be able to solve things that we collectively can not solve.

Anything less would be just a speedup, not a breakthrough.
Perhaps if they start bleeding due to bandwidth and maintenance costs, they've got some serious bank set aside until someone figures out a way to make Twitter a highly profitable venture? Okay, maybe not. But I'd like to see the break down on what exactly their dropping $30 mil on. That's a lot of money for a such a simple idea that is already a household name with no real competition.
It's possible to teach a subject while not being an expert. That's where a good teacher pulls them in and helps teach the students how to learn on their own. That being said, this requires a teacher who is at least as intelligent as their students.

Apparently my grandfather ended up teaching a course he was taking while in the military. He was able to teach it better than whomever was originally assigned as the teacher.
Interesting. I hadn't considered that possibility. I'm more familiar with hg than with git, but from what I gathered in #mercurial, it should be possible to write a combined extension + a commit hook that:

* allows people with appropriate permissions to lock and unlock files

* sets locked files to read-only on pull from the canonical repository, so that users are warned beforehand that the files are locked

* rejects commits that modify locked files except for by the person that holds the key

There are a bunch of issues that need to be worked out, but I think the problem is tractable. Nice, thanks for the idea!
SUre. extra competition. An extra place for innovation to happen. All good. But it doesn't seem to amount to using the browser does it?
I read that article when it came out - it's an excellent snapshot of a niche industry in flux, if you don't mind the adult orientation.
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Now I really want to know what was in that deleted comment.
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