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Was new york that bad in 70s, really?

Because that part of the article reads like communist propaganda about rotting capitalist society.
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I'm guessing the absorption they are talking about happens below the pigment level.
"If you want something done right, do it yourself." still applies to deployment, apparently. I wonder if/when the "cloud" will grow up. Any bets on how many years until rolling your own deployment infrastructure seems silly?
"I can't imagine..." but you won't really know until you try. I thought the same way you did, but, since I bought the kindle a year ago in preparation for some long term travel, my perspective has changed completely and I don't think I've bought a physical book since. Not saying that you will necessarily have the same experience but, for me personally, it certainly has achieved the goal of "being better than the book".
People That Got Us In This Mess Are The Same People Running This Economy
we're talking about 10 minutes of coding here, not actually building some core functionality for a company that could be extracted from the interview process

startup are by definition cheap, so if you want to work for one you better come prepared for that. working in a small team is like adding someone to the family, so knowing how you think and solve problems - and what your level of initiative is - is crucial
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Datamapper (http://www.datamapper.org) is a great alternative as well.

It's not as full-featured as ActiveRecord, but then it's also not nearly as heavy!
you will be forced to realize just how cruel your stance is.

What is cruel about expecting people to live by the rules they have agreed to live by?
Yes and he is a grown up now and has known for years that he is in the wrong. Instead of doing the right thing he complains about how we should all just love him for it. It would be a big relief for him if he went home no more fear of being discovered, no more I can't do that because I might be found out, the ability to get an id, bank account, health insurance, take the GRE. If he wanted to go to grad school he could be back in a semester on a student visa.(according to travel.state.gov a student visa takes at most 120 days and $300)

The subject was immigration, specifically by
minors too young to even realize what that means.

No I was talking about the fact that the rules apply to everyone, and the fact that is not a bad thing like you seem to think it is.
Thanks. Since I have started to learn Python (for a different application), is there any way to get these Matlab-like functions in Python?
If Software Companies Ran the Country
Interesting idea.

Unfortunately, I have one of my LCDs rotated 90 degrees and, so, any sub-pixel smoothing fails miserably unless it accounts for the rotated sub-pixels.
> We’re growing at a rate of over 400 new users and 1000 new repositories every day and these rates are only increasing with time

Crazy. Interesting how the repo growth is faster than the new user growth. That's a lot of projects :)

The point-by-point listing of requirements in this post almost reads like an outline of what EY cannot do. I know that the split is supposedly amicable (on the surface), but this doesn't look so great for EY.

Also interesting is how the requirements of a given application gradually shatter through various ceilings of performance requirements, one notable one here being the following:

> The benefits of running bare metal are obvious and have been empirically proven. We need to have the option to run bare metal when it is appropriate to the task at hand
I hear that. You have to go out of your way just to make sure you stay in average shape. Sometimes I feel like I'm glued to a chair.
Pretty cool concept. We considered doing something like this briefly. I'll be curious to see how this ends up, and wishing the founders well.
Groupthink!
I would say that that is one of the only things the article does get right.

A good place to start would be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977
http://www.amazon.com/Ladies-Gentlemen-Bronx-Burning-Basebal...
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again, back to the entire point... i think that the subheadline is inline with the content of the article. it isnt an attempt to change the meaning of the article, it is what the other was trying to imply.

skewing science? yes.
but you said you doubted that the author had anything to do with the 6 month making judgements line. i disagree. i think the entire article is trying to lead you to that idea.

i'm not arguing that they didn't misrepresent things with that headline, i'm just saying that the entire article makes the same attempt at misrepresentation. the only original statement of yours i disagree with is:

"The "racy" subheading of the article (which was also used for the HN submission) was probably not written by the author of the article"

you then say:

"The actual article does NOT say that children as 6 months "judge others" based on skin color. It DOES say that one study makes the rather banal observation that 6 month old babies can detect a difference between white skin and dark skin."

which is true but beside the point in my mind because i think that the 6 month old children makes judgements based on race is something the article implies and wants the read to come away with.
Are you one of the founders? I previously ran Draftmix.com, a fantasy football site (and YC Alum). I live in Ohio, so if we're ever near we should meet up.
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True enough.

I live in Korea, where plenty of newborns notice me and stare specifically at me until I'm out of view. I'm definitely the first non-Korean they've ever seen.
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I find this odd because I have "been around the world and found, that only stupid people are breeding."

(Pure joke)
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88 comments over at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820244
If you're using PDO, it's usually going to be easier to do:

$stmt = $dbh->prepare( 'SELECT foo, bar from fooBar where foo = ?' );
$stmt->execute($foo);

The only case where using named parameters is really useful is when there are so many parameters you're reduced to counting question marks.
The design issue in this case is not making it blatantly and unavoidably obvious that the GPS had failed. The dead reckoning system should probably also give an error range instead of keeping any appearance of the same "pinpoint" accuracy.
Only if you buy into it.

We were on Windows 2000 until this year finally moving to XP for multi-media compatibilty (specifically Flash) reasons.

I've been around since dos3.3, looking forward to upgrades went out of the window a long time ago :)

The only interesting hardware innovation in recent times has been an interest in reduced power consumption / back to passive cooling.

Then again, I'm a guy with a 486 upgraded to P54C with 32Mb RAM as my email server.
From the article:

> A new chef at the highly rated San Francisco restaurant Ducca decided to make his mark by adding chili to some pasta dishes and grapes to others — with bad results.

I can't say anything about this specific restaurant, but this statement seems like it could just as easily be considered an opinion rather than treated as a fact.

Another consideration is that one leader may be highly skilled in a given trait while anther leader has a completely different core set of traits which force change to take place when there is a change of leadership. Changes in leadership style are typically changes that reflect the competency range of one leader compared to another.

Politics is especially filled with the sort of criticism that changes are being made "for the sake of change" so that someone can challenge if the change is meaningful, because there is no perceived value of that change to a person who disagrees with the change.

I don't know how this could even be quantified, but I disagree with the assumption that changes are typically made simply "for the sake of change".
That is possible, but the gene for blue eyes may also be linked with some other characteristic (biologically more relevant than attraction - like resistance to cancer) that might provide selective advantage. Linkage (close enough genes travel together) among genes plays a huge role in selection but often, and understandably, we regard the the feature that is easily visible to us as essential.
if you are judging a person by what they are reading, then you are are bit superficial

I think it's countless times better to judge a person by which books they read than it is to judge them by the clothes they wear or how they style their hair or how big their muscles or boobs are.

Judging isn't good, but books are something close to the heart.
CrowdFlower will price the task based on the amount of time it takes to perform the assignment per unit (the user does the sample task). The startup will break the task into units that can be performed by a single person and price the task accordingly.

How do they break tasks down into individual units? That seems like a tough thing to automate, so they may have a bottleneck there when they try to scale. On the other hand, they could have an upsell opportunity if they can sell people by handling more complex tasks that a "virtual project manager" would break down for them.
More evidence that Linus Torvalds is smarter than me
I must be getting old - to me yuppies have power suits and blackberries and hipsters wear hoodies :) 'Cool' is a very elusive concept; look at Napoleon Dynamite. Embracing the underdog role can be a very effective social strategy. I'm coming at this from a screenwriting perspective...Justin Long is like Buzz Lightyear or Lightning McQueen in Toy Story and Cars.

Coming soon: a brash young contender and old workhorse must overcome their differences and team up to defeat an evil giant who wants to turn the world into a giant server farm - staring Justin Long, John Hodgman, and James Earl Jones as the voice of Larry Ellison!

It'll be interesting to see what Seinfeld does on the show. I'm sure MS insisted on value for their $10 million deal with him, and that he's enough of a businessman to see the big picture.
Depending, it might still be worthwhile to use the bigger image vs. the overhead of an extra request. At least until you can shrink it down further anyway.
Stablish goals (like reading one full chapter before a break).

Take small breaks. Even 5 minutes help.

Be interested in the task.

Drink water. Dehydration reduces concentration and will make your situation worse.
http://pip.io/#register/PIPIOBETA

Using this link will prepopulate the invite code.
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Requires login - why should I care?

No one seems to learn the lesson mentioned here again and again and again. If you want users, don't demand a login until they have experienced what they get in return.
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Perhaps there needs to be a new standard for pngs where you can have one image for each subpixel order.

Or we can get everyone to use RGB. Either would work.
Live Social Semantics
While it is irrelevant to your point, I'd like to make a note about your example.

Resistance to cancer would likely have little evolutionary value. Most mating and child rearing is done before the average age of cancer, particularly in past societies. I would similarly wager that cancer would not a be a strong enough force (it would usually hit people randomly rather than the entire group simultaneously) to ruin the ability of a tribe to defend itself.

If anything, cancer resistance (which would probably mean less cell mutation ability) would be disadvantageous from an evolution standpoint because you would have less variation and consequently may have trouble adapting.
It will ALWAYS be better to do it yourself.
IMHO a lot of tasks that they talked about seem to be be repetitive, large-scale tasks that already can be broken into small pieces. For instance the sentiment analysis demo (each tweet is a task) or image moderation (each image is a task).
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learning JavaScript & prototype i wrote a Twitter clone around this idea. I put up a number of textfiles in different user directories, and turned apaches directory listings on, and voilà a very basic restful interface. I also added post somehow, maybe a php script.

The client-side script could read who to follow from the server and by itself performed the task of assembling the timeline which was the CPU and IO extensive task that twitter had problems scaling with. Not sure the extra bandwidth cost of performing this client side would be worth it, but there's almost no logic at all server side so there's not much scaling of processor power at least. Programming with prototype was fun, but then I found jQuery...
Clearwire unveils largest WiMax test area
Is starvation a disease?
have a look and see if scipy/numpy have what you want

matplotlib comes pretty close to the nice plots if you need those
(I don't have a Kindle.)

One of the most convenient things about a book is that it is rugged. I can take it with me, read it anywhere, throw it down, and it doesn't break. And even if it does "break", I'm only loosing a few dollars on it (by the time it comes apart, it's old).

So, if I'd be on the Kindle design team, I'd make it ridiculously rugged. You should be able to handle it like a book. Also, the outside appearance should be such that people automatically are handling it like one (eg. throwing it around) instead of doing everything to keep it nice and scratch-free (like an iPhone or Macbook). I'd put it in textile or hardpaper book-like covers that you can grab and tear and then replace. Also, it must not get hot (or even warm).
Well the advantage of increased melanin in the skin is protection from UV damage. Perhaps this is what they are referring to.
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I hear all the negatives of why it wouldn't work, and everything that's wrong with it. And it's certainly healthy to be skeptical. But I don't hear anyone talking about what its possibilities are.

While it might be the new old thing, it's happening in the context of a different tech env, different market. The limitations of the old old thing might be different for the new old thing.
They have a blog post and have some comments in this HN thread as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=817864
How is this different from amazon mechanical turk?
I dont think it will be too difficult to automate for mundane jobs. They will need a database to calibrate and then use that calibration to automate the process. There will always be deviations but the deviations can improve with more datapoints.
I actually hate the one on the right. I don't want my favicons to be necessarily readable, or a blur of colors like that.. they're ICONS. Visual REPRESENTATIONS. Infact, most of the 'better' versions on that page sucked a lot more to my eyes.
yes, this is more of a follow-up submission to one earlier.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=817864
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That is far from true. There are lots of things to do to get a site up and running that don't require managing infrastructure.

If you spend time "doing it yourself," then you don't spend a lot of time and money on other parts of the business or the site. There is a scalability path that includes cloud computing.

If you have a large complex site like GitHub with an architecture that isn't conveniently accommodated by your cloud host and you can do it yourself, then it may be better.

Never say never and never say always.
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Unfortunately, this doesn't provide any useful actions to the individual; by his own admission, he would've invested as if expecting a depression in 1987.
Novelty? I have red hair, which I'm not sure is adaptive (eg it puts me at greater risk for skin cancer) but which partners have rated highly as an attractive feature specifically because it's unusual. Then again I have a compulsive draw towards partners from outside my own ethnic group, so there's some selection bias going on with that interpretation.
Visual REPRESENTATIONS can still be improved using subpixel antialiasing, even if there's no text on them.
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I know many people who are good at critical thinking. Every one that I have had this conversation with believes that you can't learn critical thinking without practice, and you can't practice critical thinking without learning lots of facts. Therefore you can't teach critical thinking without teaching many facts.

This does not, of course, imply that teaching facts teaches critical thinking. It doesn't. But it is a key part of the process.
It's a lot cheaper to run on your own hardware, but maybe there's a scale issue here as well -- if you're big enough you might get a cheaper price per unit.
Why not just reference a larger .png file in your HTML and let the browser deal with the specifics?
Hiring Rackspace to handle ops isn't exactly "doing it yourself," either. It's just paying for a custom solution instead of using the generic one-size-fits-all "cloud."
Cancer may simply have been an example of kind, rather than specific to the case at hand; however, I wouldn't disregard it as quickly as you do.

The grandmother hypothesis [http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/evolutions-secret-w...] supports cancer resistance as an evolutionarily beneficial gene. You also miss the obvious unstated point that cancer resistance itself may just be a side effect of another characteristic, such as more efficient mitochondria.

Your third paragraph fails to support any of its assertions; cancer resistance takes many forms, and most mutations are negative in nature: some math would likely be necessary to support a (carefully worded) argument in either direction.
Github is hosted by 10 virtual machines. I expected this to be much more.
> Crazy. Interesting how the repo growth is faster than the new user growth. That's a lot of projects :)

Not that surprising. I see a lot of people fork repos only to do nothing with them. It's like forking on github is a 'packrat-ish' form of the 'watching' feature.

I'd be more interested in a number that excluded either all forked repos, or forked repos with no new commits since the fork.
Different kinds of events.
Drag racing is a single run over 1/4 mile

Land speed record events time two runs within a set amount of time, both runs in opposite directions to account for wind. I think in this case a mile.
"Nobody 10,000 years ago had blue eyes,"

My reaction is that he misspoke here or he overstated his claim to make a point.

I know nothing about the proportion of people with blue eyes back then or right now for that matter. But I think at the very least, you could only make that claim with a tiny, tiny, tiny amount of confidence.

Maybe the proportion of humans with blue eyes was smaller back then, maybe it was larger, or maybe it was the same. I don't know. But to claim nobody 10,000 years ago had blue eyes is an impossible point to prove unless you have DNA samples from every human alive 10,000 years ago. We might be able to say that all the people alive today with blue eyes descended from one ancestor, but we can't claim to know about the population of people with blue eyes back then. For all I know, half the population 10,000 years ago could have had blue eyes but then got wiped out by swine blue.

That's like saying no one 100 years ago was over 7'6" tall. I know a bit more about height and think that this statement may be true. But it would be real hard to prove. Now shift the timespan back by 2 orders of magnitude, and I think it'd be harder to prove.

I'm not saying that the general idea is wrong, but I'm just it would be a good idea to question that claim a lot before thinking about reasons why that might be the case.
I think this Steve Jobs quote adequately explains it.

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products. "
There was an explanation of this during the TC50 presentation and in the Q&A afterward.

From my simple understanding, this is a management application layered on top of the Mechanical Turk platform which is able to provide more robust/advanced management and analytics in terms of tracking the quality and speed of repeat turkers, as well as being able to integrate with other commoditized/outsourced labor systems. Due to being able to maintain more state concerning tasks and turkers, they are able to provide valuable intelligence about how trustworthy and accurate the results are.

It was very interesting during the Q&A when Bradley Horowitz asked the company rep if he thought that Amazon might simply do this themselves - but the presenter stated firmly that they had a pretty good personal relationship with the people at Amazon and they took pride on the turk service as really being a black box type of platform.

Regardless, the main problem this business faces (which was handily pointed out by the experts) is the issue of gaining traction - how do you make big businesses aware of this as a possible solution to their labor issues? Even at MySpace where they pay 300 people to moderate photos for obscenity they have not realized they could much more effectively and cheaply be leveraging MT for this task.
I agree about the child bearing age point..resistance to infectious disease may have been a better example.

but re your last point, being prone to cancer could speed up evolution but at the same time could wipe out a sub population? infact- that (probably) holds for anything that speeds up evolution - but again math models would be needed to prove that.
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The split probably was amicable, frankly. No one disputes that Rackspace can do things that EY can't at this point. People outgrow things all the time. You start just accepting PayPal, and then you add credit cards when enough users want that. You start with an AIR app, but go to dedicated Windows/Mac/Linux apps when you have enough users on each that are worth it.

There's been nothing that I've read - anywhere - that would suggest that someone else shouldn't use EY for their Rails app.
I did´n like the video, a very poor quality. So i read just the excerpts. Nice observations. Good story. But they did well for around 10 years. I don´t think they were a startup anymore.
I don't know if they specifically said that they supported it, but he claims that the iPhone software was reporting to Exchange Server that it did support it, and Apple was claiming full Exchange support (while not specifically talking about encryption).
This guy was an investment banker before. If they plan and execute the same way in investment banking as he did in his startup, no wonder we are in this mess now.

I appreciate that he shared his story, though.
Um, no, it's paperwork for the sake of SEC compliance
Exactly. Killacycle is very cool too, but a whole other kind of beast.
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I think that the point wasn't divorcing CEO responses from reality. The point is that the CEO -- in this case -- is probably over-stating the gap between the Pre and the iPhone.
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anyone reaching out to them?
I hope it is taken further. There is really no reason for each and every startup to go out and find living space, internet connections, cook food, clean, etc. themselves; rather such things are rather cheap if they are brought by a company.

What I hope this will end up with is that some investor gets an old apartment house, then offers these things for free to the companies they end up investing in. That would be very interesting and useful.