skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a load of tosh. What is this, the "if it's not on the web, it's not real code" party? Show me an embedded system codebase that any of the duct tape people have put together, systems where failures kill people, and tell me you'd be happy depending on those systems, for your chemotherapy or your ABS brakes or your ATM code or your airliner's fly-by-wire system.

Bugs in systems like that will kill people, and we're getting to a state these days where those systems are becoming more and more embedded in day to day life and the risk to Joe Soap is getting higher. How long until a bad UI in a GPS iPhone app turns out to be a contributing factor in a bad car accident? Or until a web-based medical app with a hidden bug screws up a dosing calculation for a patient?

This whole duct-tape-it-and-ship-the-sucker mentality has got to stop, before someone gets badly hurt.
http://www.quantcast.com/loopt.com

17k monthy people isn't too many. Odd really.
Yes, I was quite surprised to see it being picked up after such a long time! It's just a quick implementation that I ran up in a lunch break one day.

If you want to see a better implementation of a Ruby to JavaScript compiler, have a look at http://www.ntecs.de/projects.html
watch football.
You still oppose carbon regulation

In fact I do not, and you've placed me into one of the two mutually exclusive categories I accused you of creating earlier.

I'm only arguing that relevant data/predictions should be reasonably vetted (this article makes some pretty strong claims against that point). And second, that whatever policies we enact should be supported by rational gathering of evidence, not just fabricated urgency.
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"The market" was the motive behind the Ford Pinto memo as well, wasn't it?
If it's like the last two weekends, I'm going to be working. so far 18 days without a proper day off.
Email bloggers, or reply. Email distribution partners, or reply. Make changes on the site. Then from 11PM until 2 AM I actually go out.
You are looking from the perspective of the owner. Look from the perspective of the user. This will really filter out the best websites and no one will use over-the-top headings, bait and switch tactics to gain more impressions. There wont be much duplicates of the same stuff and things will be so much easier to find on the internet. Yes, it will make crappy site owners die, but they should anyway. It will also make targeted ads more popular.
This is interesting as a curiosity. But the fact that oil is (generally) fungible means that the particular proportions are completely coincidental, based on relative pricing levels, probably largely dependent of transportation.

Did you know that America exports oil? See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sassoon/us-oil-exports-h... -- in 2008 we were shipping out 1.8 million barrels per day. It's all determined by how expensive it is including how far it must be transported.

Things shuffle all around, and a change at one point causes lots of lines in the graph to be pushed and tugged, until a new equilibrium is found. One can't just say that Canadian oil is twice as important to us as Saudi oil.
So perl is not hard to read because there's a book about best practices, and optional libraries that enforce coding styles?

I respectfully disagree. Reading perl requires understanding a significant amount of perl-specific trivia for any given block of code, that's why it is hard to read.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ Binary trees problem.

Perl:

sub item_check {
my ($tree) = @_;

return $tree->[2] unless (defined $tree->[0]);
return $tree->[2] + item_check($tree->[0]) - item_check($tree->[1]);
}

Lua:

local function ItemCheck(tree)
if tree == 3 then
return tree[1] + ItemCheck(tree[2]) - ItemCheck(tree[3])
else
return tree[1]
end
end

These demonstrate the REALITY of what it's like reading perl code vs. other languages. Count the number of different symbols you must know in order to understand the perl code, versus the number of symbols you must know to understand the lua code. Anyone familiar with functions, variables, and standard control flow will be able to read the lua with no problem. If you look at other code snippets, like Javascript and C#, you'd amend the comment to say that anyone familiar with methods and object-oriented programming will be able to read the code with no problem.

With perl, you have to know perl. You have to know perl's control flow ("unless"), you have to know perl references(->), you have to know perl's parameter passing semantics and the meaning of @_, and you have to know perl's variable prefixes.

That's why perl is hard to read. That's why people who use perl all the time don't understand why it drives everyone else crazy. They have all that crap in their heads already. You never smell your own bad breath. Style guides don't fix this problem.
Well, its not an informational site. Cream is an integrated set of macros which makes starting of vim use less painfull. It works under Linux and Windows.

I use vim on remote hosts.

I'm curious which distribution contains vi?
You misunderstand -- or i did not make clear -- what I meant. I believe for economic reasons, "clean" sources of energy will dominate less "clean" sources of energy -without- policy intervention. I am saying that I believe technologically we are approaching economically viable cleaner sources. I am against carbon taxes, trading, etc, partially for the reason you mentioned but mostly because I think they are unnecessary.
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And conveniently now everyone knows about them. hmm...
The thing that really blows my mind about this whole story is this:

What the fuck was a bank doing sending the confidential information of thousands to a GMail account in the first place?
its a pretty disingenuous of phrasing it, the panel that sees the final pitches are limited to the people who have invested into seedcamp (or are part of the seedcamp team etc)

and while I am at it they dont pay for "exclusive access" to the startups plans either, there is an entire week at which you can ask the startup any questions you like.

whether having an open or closed investor day is the best solution I certainly dont know, but I am pretty sure the motives arent as insidious as implied
For what it's worth, much of my income comes from the CPM model yet.. I agree with this piece, but it flies in the face of the "Chinese Wall" ethic (between editorial and advertising) in the publishing world.

I run a popular(ish) programming blog that sells advertising. I suspect that a very healthy CPA would encourage me to provide a better service to readers and advertisers alike as I'd need to ensure the way the advertising is integrated is appealing and useful (otherwise I don't earn anything). But some readers (and many journalists) would scream at the falling of the advertising/editorial barrier, even if I tried to remain as ethical as possible (disclosure, etc).
The same thing I do every weekend, Pinky...
OpenID hasn't failed at all -- I've been noticing more and more sites allowing sign-ins using it, and even a few (primarily for tech audiences) which are OpenID-only.

Of course, there are a few sites which claim OpenID support but implement it poorly (such as news.yc), but that's not a reflection on the protocol.
I do not use OpenID for privacy reasons. All accounts are using different names and I don't sites to know that "this person A" and "that person B" are in fact the same. It's no one's business.
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Yes. I've made anywhere between $4 and $50 CPM on a variety of programming related sites (alas the high end of that is well and truly dead for me now - but $10 CPM is reasonable).

I'm talking CPM in terms of "per 1000 pageviews" rather than the more traditional "per 1000 ad impressions", however, since even if you can only get $2 CPM, if you can put 4 of those on a page, you're making $8 CPM at the pageview level.
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"Show me an embedded system codebase that any of the duct tape people have put together,"

StrawMan.

replace "duct tape programmers" by "TDD/Agile consultants" What do you get? ;-)

"tell me you'd be happy depending on those systems, for your chemotherapy or your ABS brakes or your ATM code or your airliner's fly-by-wire system."

More Strawmen.

Would you be happier if methodology consultants whose only programming experience in the last 10 years was working on a PayRoll System at Chrysler (which failed btw) used TDD to develop your chemotherapy/fly-by-wire/ABS brakes? ;-)
If you're Paul, I just want to give you a virtual knighthood for your work with iplayer-dl - as I'm sure thousands of others would love to.
A $2 CPM would be great. These days I'm lucky if I can get a CPM of 12c. Although that's still much better then what I've been able to get with CPA ads.
Play with the kids and try to get caught up on my homework for my Master's program.
Are you sure your algorithm is O(n)? It seems like in the worst case (if you have strings with lots of repeated letters like "aaaaaaaaaaaaaax" and "yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" the inner loop may run O(n) times with O(n) complexity, leading to O(n^2) total performance.
And why all emails were not strongly encrypted?
> Anyone familiar with functions and standard control flow will be able to read the lua with no problem.

Who cares? Why does that matter? Do you really hire or recruit people to work on your projects merely on the basis of reading code with no problem?

I care a lot more about being able to understand the problem domain and maintain the code than merely being able to read it by way of familiarity with an Algol-derived language with class-based OO support and dynamic typing.

> With perl, you have to know perl.

... just like every other programming language ever written. (Oops! Lua's array indices customarily start at one; good luck with those fencepost errors by people who can merely read the Lua code but don't know Lua.)
- On call

- Sleep

- Spend time outside

- http://sfgames.org/

- http://www.berkeleygoclub.org/
Sometimes I'm on the computer, sometimes not, but I always try and catch the Arsenal match (whether on TV or some online feed).
http://dieselweb.org/

http://shoptalkapp.com/

Ah, the joys of bootstrapping a startup on the side...
doing nothing but following links on Reddit

ah, the good old corporate job.
Those applications are Google's sole bargaining point with handset manufacturers and carriers to have them build Android devices meeting certain requirements in order to make sure the Google Experience is up to par. If carrier/manufacturers don't agree to Google's terms, then they aren't allowed to distribute those "killer" apps with their phones. Making those apps still available to end-users who potentially may or may not have a Google Experience-worthy phone would kill much of their bargaining factor...

That said, as a user of CyanogenMod on my G1, I'd be absolutely heartbroken if his builds could no longer distribute these apps.
It's a play on the expression "WWJD", "What would Jesus do".
What program did they use for their metrics/graphs?
I'm not in your target audience, so I've seen very little of you guys' blog, but it certainly didn't feel marketing-driven to me.

I agree about Spolsky & Co. not being that technically strong, which is a little ironic given how much he's written about attracting the best programmers, etc. Still, although I don't read him regularly, I almost always enjoy when I do. And a lot of what he says about the software business is really helpful. Chris Dixon linked to a post of his the other day about lowering the price of complementary products which was a great example.
Technically, Google isn't the one ruining your business...

Though I agree with the other commenters. Get a lawyer and go after the blog postings. If what they are saying is really "80% untrue" and it's causing you a loss of business, they may be guilty of libel.
Seems to work fine on the iPhone.

You probably have this in mind already, but it would be nice if I could:

- See my entry immediately added to the table (rather than having to refresh)

- Remove my entry. (In case I get a phone call and have to leave before the time is up, or have a change of heart.)

Other than that, I really like the minimalistic design. The dashed border doesn't bother me at all[1] as it gives it a nice hacker feel --- unless that's not what you were aiming for --- and goes well with the [coffee][talk] header.

One thing that I'm not too sure of is the red text on gray background (the column headers). But I can't seem to think of another color that would go better.

[1] Not that I'm a web designer or graphic artist.

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EDIT:
Additionally, maybe you should number the instructions at the top of the location page as it gives the impression that you can click on them, like a menu. e.g. On the iPhone I scrolled back up with the word "instructions" out of view, and thought it was a menu.

There also doesn't seem to be a way to get back to the homepage, although that's not too much of a problem since there is only one location.
Good luck talking about this on HN. When I tried to talk about acid, I got a bunch of wonderfully nasty remarks and demands to "get off HN", which I did for awhile. Oh, and my submitted post was killed.
Even if you think you can win in court, it may not be your best option. You risk bringing even more attention to your critics, and creating more Google results that are about the court case rather than about your business. I side with the suggestion to move on, generate positive coverage, and hope the criticism is eventually ignored or forgotten.
Not to circle-jerk, but I'm glad to see you're posting here again grellas.
Curious as to what your reply is referring to?

(Still Friday here..)
Does Google have any incentive to fight this? I find myself wishing that they would just reply with "No, that is ridiculous."

Why, WHY?, would someone be held legally responsible for not replying to an email!? That is the most ridiculous and stupid thing I've ever heard in my life. The bank messed up, we all mess up, but isn't it within his legal right to publicly distribute that list if he wanted?

Obviously he didn't, but it's not his problem that they sent it to him!

Frustrating. Maybe I should move my email to my own servers.
From http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/09/21/seedcampweek09-recession...

"It’s worth pointing out also that the slight ambiguity of past Seedcamp years has now gone. Seedcamp T&Cs now state that a startup cannot go into the programme unless they will take the investment offered. To remind you, that’s 5-10% equity (stakes are flexible) for a 50,000 Euro investment. That’s totally fine. They’ve assembled an awesome network of mentors. It would be a huge waste of everyone’s time if a startup got all that great advice and then effectively threw it back in the faces of the organisers and didn’t take the investment."

WTF?

I read that as saying teams have to take investment if offered? Is that even legal? But why should "I just decided not to take investment" be " throwing it back in the faces of the organizers"?

Shouldn't each party enter a transaction because they think it is a good thing at the point of transacting? This looks like it is possible for a team to be saddled with investors they don't like.

( I could be completely off base. Please correct me. Thanks in advance)
This is a solved problem: http://willnorris.com/2009/07/openid-directed-identity-ident...
If you're still interested, the "decision" and "framework" that they talk about seems to be "Telecom Decision CRTC 2008-17" ( http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2008/dt2008-17.htm ), in which they decide to institute a new framework for the mostly public telco/cableco to sell internet wholesale to the smaller ISPs.
I doubt he would be able to legally distribute the list.
HA!

Also using vim will cause your escape key to be heavily hit constantly after typing anything especially if you are not sure what mode you are in, then only realizing you are not in vim period.
And unlike Apple, Google won't reject your app from the Market for duplicating core functionality or competing with core apps.
So how exactly will duplicates go away by getting rid of CPM?

Killing CPM will actually make it worse. Right now I can put the CPM ad anywhere on the page, without interfering with the user. But if CPM dies, I'll need to make sure that people are clicking on the ads. That means they'll be much more prominent. And let's not forget, with the death of CPM, we'll get a ton more of those full page ads that hijack the screen. If you think the user experience will get better without CPM, you are mistaken.

From the advertiser perspective, sure CPM isn't that good, compared to CPC/CPA...but it's a crapload better than traditional advertising. A $250,000 New York Times Ad will get your ad in front of 1.5 million people. That same $250,000 will get you 25 million page views(at $10 CPM)
I've hit Ctrl-W to try to delete a word, and ended up closing an IRC window. It's not exclusive to vim. :)
While we're at it, we really need the blame command present in version control systems to show who added particular text to a bill.
So it's like saying Sequoia paid $2 million to come to YCombinator's demo days?
I want proof that there is a good possibility of a problem happening before I do something about it. You would really venture into throwing around labels and debating against that stance? Regulation is bad if it's not needed, that doesn't make me and absolutist. That means I've evaluated the potential of a problem and the proposed 'fix', and I think it does more harm than good. I don't write code unless it solves a clear problem, why should I treat regulation any differently?
There are many things wrong with this order, but the most obvious ones are:
1. Both the emails could be in the spam folder of an account which the user is heavily dependent on.
2. In the future, to deactivate somebody's account just send a sensitive mail to that account.
Also coming soon from Microsoft Research: projects called Bracemonkey and B8.
Not sure about a book, but this blog seems to explain the term sheet pretty well:

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/05/term-sheet-vesting.h...

Admittedly, I just googled. But, if anyone knows of a better book or resource, let me know, since I'm in exactly the same situation as the poster.
When Bell was a monopoly, they had a phone in every household which you leased from Bell. Monopolies seem to penetrate the market very well, regardless of their level of innovation so I don't think market penetration should be by any means a measure of innovation.
I am still waiting for Vim FPS style (WSAD navigation keys, sniper scopes to skip words and all... sure it might need 3d graphics but hey, its the price you pay).
I'm not going to play that game. If I gave you a list of papers to counter man made global warming, you'd say "they are sponsored by big oil" or "those scientists are shunned by the scientific community".

How about this, I think the burden of evidence should be for proving man made global warming. Has it been done? No, it hasn't, despite all the "consensus" noise. Buried under all the "concensus" you'll simply find computer models. Computer models that don't even agree with each other, of impossibly complicated systems.
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Instead of a literal ^M in the file, just use <CR>.

And I think you mean "set hidden".

And regarding E173: You can :qa, which won't lose any unsaved changes.

And the proper vim package for Debian or Ubuntu is "vim". "vim-full" is the old name and it just installs "vim".
actually those were bad explanations

its like complaining that I wasnt allowed in the room when pg / jessica interviewed and decided on the yc teams, there are 2 other events much more along the lines of demo day later on.
At this point I plan for burnout. It's just part of my productivity cycle. Small burnouts happen 1-2 times a year and involve about a week of doing nothing; large burnouts happen every 2-4 years and require a couple months. This happens with or without weekends.
Get the hell away from a computer. Heh, that sounds negative. I love by job but I find it easiest to keep balanced by getting away as much as I can for the weekends. For me, that's hiking, climbing, and back-country skiing. I pay for managed hosting for a reason.

Or work on code of a more interesting variety. As a startup founder, there's usually an interesting problem percolating in the back of my mind, and some days just finding a nice coffee shop and working on code with less distractions is perfect.
Oh, sure, and I've got no axe to grind with YC, pg, or anyone else there. I was more irritated by the reaction in the Boston area than anything else.
I duno, its not that hard to believe that Microsoft can innovate. They do hire smart people. Sure Steve needs a nice kick in the bald-head, but that is beside the point.
My friend James Watters talks about the new markets created by something viewed as a "replacement" trend.
I skimmed these papers and it's a mixed bag. They are showing clear speedups for some operations on large (>16-core) systems, but they are also introducing what looks like significant complexity (like replacing shared data and locks with two-phase commit).
50000 Euro actually.

Source: http://blog.seedcamp.com/2009/09/and-winners-areseedcamp-con...
I understand Bracemonkey is like Greasemonkey, and B8 is like V8, but what is Barrelfish like?
":help help-context" explains this. And :h 'si' is for an option, not a variable.

And what's up with highlighting the most abused and misunderstood option ever? 'cindent' replaced 'smartindent', and usually you want "filetype indent on" in your .vimrc, not "set si" or "set cin".
I'm sorry, I still don't see the advantage of OpenID. Can anyone explain why it's any more convenient than username/password? I still haven't bothered to sign up for StackOverflow because the signup seemed far more complicated than it is for just about any other Web 2.0 site.
New business idea: start a email service similar to Gmail and operate it in a country with a more reasonable judiciary and/or better privacy rights.
Its the Y combinator guys I was thinking of when I wrote this one. Sincerely curious for their thoughts.
haha, when deniers have no argument they resort to downvoting. go ahead, guys :)
Well, Arch Linux for one. At least until you upgrade it yourself.

I can't imagine that Arch is the only one either. Xubuntu, anyone? Ubuntu comes default with some strange flavor of vim that I can't stand, so I always install vim-nox ASAP on new machines.
No. Barrelfish is awfully close to Squirrelfish. Hence Tracemonkey -> Bracemonkey and V8 -> B8.

Then again, a joke that needs explaining is a bad joke. So, sorry.