skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt clicker.com has a lot more people required to make a single decision. In the beginning, when there many critical decisions, this is a disadvantage.

Another thing setjam has going for it is time -- it can grow at its own pace, I suspect. Clicker.com is more sink or swim, and the clock is already running.
"I treated failure to get the answer as my failures, not theirs." -- I wish more teachers would have this attitude. A while back I used to teach programming classes and asking them questions about what I was talking about was a very important metric for me. If I would notice any kind of hesitation I would focus more of that issue. I'd try to approach the same problem from different angles until I would be convinced they "got it" and were not just guessing. It's the teaching equivalent of debugging your programs and see if they run as expected.
That's a really interesting link, thanks. Something about it kinda smells though: it doesn't match my experiences with PHP at all. (I can't speak for Java in this case.)

I've got half of a CMS under development that's just recently -- sadly -- topped a thousand lines of code. It has a built-in parser for its own human-readable configuration file, which it has to parse every time; it has built-in cache management; it merges templates; it handles recursion for nested templates; and it does on-the-fly high quality image resizing. All of my out-and-back server response times are well under 1 second for all this work.

I'll look around and see if there are other trustworthy benchmarks that corroborate this.

EDIT: Yeah, IEEE disagrees: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/ICWS.20...

I'm not surprised by PHP's memory usage, actually; I long ago figured it must be enormous just based on the way it handles data types. I don't think the shootout link is deliberately deceptive; rather, all the tests that I looked at were massively recursive, and this is not a task for which PHP was designed -- I think I would expect Java to perform better in those cases.
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Not even close. This is the moral equivalent of putting a new muffler on your Honda. He is tweaking apps he purchased (all android phone owners have such a license) and distributing those tweaks to people who also have licenses for those apps. You have clearly drunk the kool-aid.
I think we have achieved a rare bidirectional miscommunication event.

I thought I was agreeing with you, you thought I wasn't. I thought you downvoted me, you apparently did not.

I think we the term is "violent agreement". I say we just call it a day before any children get hurt. :)
This may not be quite what you're looking for, but bear with me...

There is an unwritten tradition in Judaism that a non-Jew will not be considered for conversion until after his first 3 requests have been turned down. Why? The thinking is that it is so hard to be Jewish that only those who want it badly enough will succeed. They must show that desire by continuing to come back until they get a yes.

That same thinking probably applies to starting a business. It's hard. Unless you're fiercely determined to succeed, you probably won't.

Tell your friend to go with the big company. A startup is just too hard. (You'll be telling him the truth.) His reaction may tell you a lot about his desire.
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Great idea.

mike.douglas <at> gmail
Totalitarianism has its efficiencies.
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There's a problem with this. On GSM at least, my understanding is that the unique identifier (the IMSI) is rarely sent over the air, and more often an encrypted counterpart is sent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Subscriber...

You'll have a lot of problems with this, both with uniquely identifying subscribers, and ensuring that you are not violating any privacy laws.

Check out OpenBTS and OpenBSC for basic code and feasibility stuff.
This is ridiculous. Consumers want a flat-rate unlimited option because they don't want a variable monthly payment (or to be nickeled and dimed).

May times they even pay a premium to do so.
Yes, though many states have their own rules http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/state/tipped.htm
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I'd love to try this out as well.
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"Rubik's Cube
1. Disassemble Rubik's Cube into all 27 parts.
2. Reassemble inside bottle."

Brilliant :-)
Officially, you're supposed to tip 15%. 20% is just easier to calculate.

Waitstaff in any restaurant you've heard of are probably not being paid below the minimum wage. I'm pretty sure the waitress we tipped at L2o was making solid money without my gratuity. It's just a social convention.
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A great deal? At 14.99 a month? So I spend $180 for a year of service, and at the end of the year I have... oh, nothing. I'll buy 180 songs from iTunes, so someday my kid can listen to my old skool Modest Mouse tracks, thank-you-very-much.
Yeah, PHP4 was EOL'd quite a while back. Unfortunately, the transition from PHP4 to PHP5 wasn't easy for a lot of people, and application developers didn't make this any easier for end-users by having convoluted and often broken upgrade paths.

Of the two hosts I've dealt with regularly, both of them still support PHP4 on their older accounts, and both of them have handled the transition by setting up new servers and having all new accounts installed on their PHP5 servers.

I'm curious about the advantages you say that a model has over an array of strings. I can't honestly think of any.

I don't disagree that frameworks are designed to make development easier. Quite the contrary: that's why I have a strong preference for frameworks that are very clear, very concise, and very lightweight.

I'm way beyond busy right now, but I'm considering writing a competing procedural approach to leftnode's code, just for fun.
Using the technology that you suggested would be a great way to pay at toll booths.
No, but apparently it takes better than Google can muster to implement that MAC in such a way that Nate Lawson can't extract secrets from it remotely. You will never win this argument.
I understand... and will consider it. But could you give a clearer evaluation since I've put a great deal into this and would appreciate more helpful feedback.
Thanks!
Remote Logging with SSH and Syslog-NG:

http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/SSH-SyslogNG.html
It might help to broaden the question to: how can mobile devices provide meaningful information to businesses? With this, you've expanded the realm of use from just quantifying ad efficacy to all activities a mobile device user might pursue. Perhaps there is a way to incorporate mobile internet use, cell phone use and physical location into a meaningful picture for the business, to help understand not only how many are responding to ads, but who they are - other interests/buying habits, other stores frequented, events surrounding decision to enter store/make purchase. Rather than a device owned by H&M, why not a service provided to all retail establishments?
Construction will happen in China (Qingdao), with project management and components(?) split between China and Europe offices.

And not that funny; I know of heavy manufacturing companies that multiply their selling prices by 10 for equipment that is destined for China just for that reason.
Most of the crypto you're going to run across as a pentester will be in apps written in Java and C#, and in almost every one of those cases, garbage characters won't break a parse. ".split()" works just fine even if you have 16 characters of random high ASCII. It's one of those things C programmers definitely have to unlearn.
Indeed, this could have been handled with understanding and tact, instead they throw their weight around.

Google should be willing to support people who support their platform in my opinion. Why not have the lead of the Android team approach him and offer him a trimmed down marketplace application (or the old version), and then sell the "google experience" through that store allowing you to upgrade your phone as need be?

Support the community that supports you I say.
There can be only "Many"!

You don't have to be No.1 or the only one to be successful. If you are a player, I think this is good enough. And good luck!
Critique which might be taken personally, please don't read unless you're prepared:

You might want to run these blog posts past a proofreader before submitting to avoid things like"1+1=5-4." Also, if you're trying to impress a site full of hackers, you should probably brush up really quick on very basic algebraic field theory on wikipedia and pretend you know it, instead of admitting you don't even recognize it.

I'm sure you're very good at psychology and internet application investment, but I don't think this blog post really showcased your strengths.
>"All input on touchscreen including innovative gestures still requires users to place their fingers directly onto their eyeballs: either with head looking down or with hands rising up. Both postures are not very productive for programming or desk jobs and can't sustain for long hours."

People have been doing desk jobs under just those conditions via pen and paper for hundreds of years. Is it really so uncomfortable to write on the same piece of paper that you're looking at?
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I hope not. The shinkansen is lovely, don't get me wrong (+), but they estimate $40+ billion (which is likely about 40% of what it would actually cost given the persistent cost overruns in infrastructure projects) just to connect Sacramento through San Diego.

The only thing that would come close to making trains economical in the US is a massive firebombing campaign of every city you hope they're going to run through, and even that would be pushing it, since even with cheap right-of-ways you'd still have to string them across the country.

See, in general, http://green.venturebeat.com/2008/04/11/why-the-california-h...

+ If you priced US high speed rail like Japan prices the shinkansen, it would cost you about $250 for a round-trip ticket from New York to Boston. I do the Nagoya to Tokyo circuit every once in a while for work. The system is one of the wonders of the modern world but, holy cow, is it expensive. (Its expensive to ride, its expensive to subsidize, and HOLY COW was it expensive to build. Shinkansen-related debt hit nearly 30 trillion yen -- that's in the general vicinity of $300 billion, folks. And that is for a country that would fit in California, with room to spare.)
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High-speed train competition is a fascinating topic (if you're a.. uh.. trainspotter :))

For about a decade, Germany has been trying to sell the 'Transrapid' mag-lev trains and tech to China. Transrapid was sponsored by various German governments (both federal and state) for well over two decades, with the occasional state PM or federal minister turning it into their pet project (e.g. to link an airport to a city, or to link two big cities), etc. The Transrapid patent is from 1934 and the first test track was completed in Germany in 1987, almost twenty years after planning first started.

Unfortunately (for the Transrapid guys), 'normal' train technology started catching up, and the technological hurdles to implementing long-distance mag-lev trains remain prohibitively expensive, despite vast sums being sunk into it by the German government (not only is the actual technology quite sensitive, but the tranches that need to be built tend to be elevated and very straight - which doesn't work well in densely populated areas like Europe).

In the late 90s and early 00s, the only way forward seemed to be selling it to a place needing fast trains and having no scruples about building the tranches wherever they damn well please. Enter China. A few years ago, a German-Chinese joint venture built a single 19-mile track to connect Shanghai to its airport.

The real kicker? The German companies behind Transrapid continue to allege that the Chinese are stealing the technology and implementation details from the German side of the joint-venture so they can build their own -- much cheaper. Or as China Daily reported, the State Council is 'encouraging engineers to "learn and absorb foreign advanced technologies while making further innovations."'

The cost for the aforementioned 19-mile Transrapid track was $1.4 billion dollars. The cost of 80 high-speed Bombardier trains (running on presumably standard rail lines)? $4 billion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid
Totalitarianism is very efficient until the people realize material wealth without political freedom is hollow.
> Embargoes allow real journalists to do better research

That's true, but basically irrelevant because "real journalists" (by that definition) are only slightly more common than unicorns.

And it's irrelevant even wrt real journalists because the significant value that they actually add is their "scoop". If readers don't care, if they're satisfied with the reprinted press-release, ....
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If you have nothing to say, say it anyway.
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No apologies necessary. After all of Ireland's contributions of culture, music, brewing and -- in my opinion at least -- some of the prettiest girls in the world, you are entitled to the occasional lapse.
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They tend to do that in a more subtle way:

Bombardier Transportation announced today that its Chinese joint venture, Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd., has been selected by the Chinese Ministry of Railways ...

I imagine that the cars will be manufactured in China and the joint venture company will gain a lot of experience from the effort.
Same, I'd love access too; my email is in my profile. :)
I'd like to second the thanks.
The game would be pretty boring if the best team always won.

Indeed, as many sports folks have pointed out, one of the most popular annual sporting events in the USA is the NCAA college basketball tournament. A single-elimination event which is pretty much designed to improve the odds of having the "best" team get accidentally disqualified by an improbable fluke. The winner must win six consecutive games, while under enormous pressure, without making a mistake.

As it happens, the distribution of talent in college basketball still makes the seedings work fairly well. Just as World Cup soccer seedings work decently well, though it too becomes a single-elimination tournament after the first round. But these tournaments could obviously be much better designed if the objective was science.
Point of fact . . .

It is actually Authoritarianism.

That said . . .

Yes, it is very efficient.
Actually you can download 10 song per month. So you will have 120 songs at the end of year to keep.
Isn't it unfair to say that they raised "$8 million on a PowerPoint like it’s 1999"? It definitely was harder otherwise SetJam could create something in PowerPoint too.
Multi-platform is key. Shared folders can be used to collaborate not just with people, but with Linux servers too. I let users send files to my site by sharing a folder with it. I predict a lot of services will do that in the future. It's an easy way to give people offline functionality.
In a year, do you only listen to 180 new songs? Do you know which songs those will be ahead of time? Subscription is about discovering music, not owning it. For people who value that, it's a very useful and fairly priced service.
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Oh, it's miserable. If they can't even explain what differentiates one from the ta' other, they shouldn't have the options.

They also have too many things called "Java" that are really unrelated technologies. Is Java on the server side (say JSP) the same as a Java client app? Outside of similarities of language and libraries not really. All of the frameworks are really different things. The language and the VM are different things (both called Java). The entire platform is called Java.

In my view, Java should purely be a "kind of technology" or perhaps a "particular software development pipeline/toolchain". Namely, Code in some language that is compiled to bytecode designed to run in Sun's(Oracle's) VM technology.

So instead of just packing in different kinds of cruft and slapping an obscure two letter appendix to the title, they should really call them entirely different things.

Sun/Oracle Client VM

Sun/Oracle Mobile VM

Sun/Oracle Server VM

Sun/Oracle IDE/Compiler/Libraries

There's no sense in packaging it up and calling that package "Java 7 SE R43" or 1.7 or whatever insane marketing logic non-standard version scheme they're using now.

End users download Sun/Oracle Client VM. Period.

Server admins download Sun/Oracle Server VM. Period.

Mobile VM shouldn't even be a download, it should just be included on all phones that can run it (like it basically is now anyways).

Developers download The IDE/Compiler/and Language Libraries. Heck, they compiler and library toolchain should really just come with the branded IDE.

The VMs don't really change that much. The standard library shouldn't change that much (if the Java team could ever get their act together and write reasonable interfaces to common things like I/O and hurry up and deprecate bad design decisions). And the class libraries for Client VMs and Server VMs are ultimately very different anyways.

The names should be clear and make sense. SE/EE/ME/whatever doesn't help anybody. Client VM, Server VM, Mobile VM does. It used to be this simple, but then they let the monkeys in to the packaging process.
I think you may be reading it wrong, both syntax and purpose. The section for '.th' reads:

// th : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.th
// Submitted by registry <krit@thains.co.th> 2008-06-17
th
ac.th
co.th
go.th
in.th
mi.th
net.th
or.th

This means for any of the seven listed 2nd-level domains -- 'ac.th' ... 'or.th' -- the 3rd-level is considered the assigned-by-a-registrar level. Only if another 2nd-level domain, other than those seven, were encountered, would the list suggest it be considered its own level-of-assignment.

If there is such a 2nd-level domain inside '.th', that should be another public suffix, you should file a bug against the list with the Mozilla Project. (If it is policy of the '.th' registry that every 2nd-level domain with '.th' should be treated this was, an entry of...

*‍.th

...should be added to the list.)

Also, don't be caught up on the 'public' part of the name -- it doesn't mean this is a guide to what domains are registerable by 'the public'. Many of the TLDs/2LDs/3LDs listed only allow subdomain-registration to specific entities, like governmental bodies. In my project, we call the subdomains that are one-segment-more than these 'public suffixes' "Assignment-Level Domains" (ALDs).

So if you're considering 'www.whitehouse.gov', and 'gov' is the longest suffix in the list, then 'whitehouse.gov' is the Assignment-Level Domain. If you're considering 'www.grad.mahidol.ac.th', and 'ac.th' is the longest suffix in the list, then 'mahidol.ac.th' is the Assignment-Level Domain. (It's one more than the best-matching suffix.)
That's the standard line, but I'm not sure that it's as inevitable as that. It might well be that an efficient and well-run dictatorship or monarchy can compete with Western-style democracy (though I'm not sure China is "well-run" enough in this sense to be a good test case).
Chrome and Safari might be rounding errors, but resources wasted on supporting 'your' browsers definitively are NOT.
If I get an invitation, I'll come back to this thread and spread the love. pohl.longsine [AT] gmail
When talking about a single game, yes. But in larger numbers of games you'd still expect to see a bigger difference between better teams and not so good teams, and the article argues the difference is not so big (17% intransitive tuples vs 25% in random pairs).
There's no such thing as "8 million dollar gorillas". Companies with 8 million dollars in funding are monkeys just like you.

The gorillas make more than 8MM in profit.
I requested an invite on the first day and haven't yet gotten one. If you get a chance to spread the love that would fantastic and much appreciated.
> "I’ve dedicated my life to how the web helps companies connect with customers, it’s something I knew I wanted to do for many years, I’m lucky I fell into my passion. It comes with costs however, I’m out of shape, stressed, I don’t sleep well, and my blood pressure is up."

> "That’s OK, though. In fact, that’s how it’s supposed to be. Start-ups are evolutionary creatures that don’t care one bit about your schedule or how many items are left on your to-do list."

that's not OK. falling into your passion is crucial for maximum work-time efficiency. i hardly ever procrastinate, and i frequently come back from sports or dinner and want to work again. but being stressed and out of shape? i think that would completely demotivate me, not to mention literally sap my energy away. i want to be my most energetic, productive, clear-thinking best. for me that means being healthy and focused. i make my own schedule, so when i want to pull a 16hr work day or wake up at 4am with a burning desire to solve some problem, that's fine. but i don't feel stressed out or out of shape. i feel great.
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i wont be surprised if 80 is "few" for China as they might be planning to have 800 trains in next 10 or 20 years (its a huge country - geographically ) ... who knows?
This is a demo of mapping crimes in San Francisco within 1,000 feet of schools that are drug sales of meth/crack/heroin that occur during school hours. There's a new SFPD initiative called "Operation Safe Schools" that focuses on these crimes in the Tenderloin. These crimes have harsher prison sentences, so the SFPD is organizing sting operations during school hours.

I'm one of the developers of SpatialKey, we're very curious for any HN feedback you guys have about the app in general as well.
Yes: please sort by score!
No: I like the chronological sorting
I'm sorry, but if you're stupid enough to send sensitive information to a web-based email account, where it could be forever archived on servers you don't control, then you deserve whatever happens. This is completely ridiculous.
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"God told us to" isn't logic unless God is first proven.

Not really. This, for example, is a perfectly logical argument:

All burritos are Platonists.
Batman is a burrito.
Therefore, Batman is a Platonist.

It does not require either of the premises to be proven (or even true, or even semantically meaningful) to be rational.

To be reasonable, on the other hand, is a much fuzzier concept.

You're invoking Sagan's dragon. The burden of proof is on you, not on reality. Until you prove it right, you are wrong and have no argument to make.

"Burden of proof" has no real connection to rationality as such (beyond determining whether the logic itself is valid). It is fundamental to the scientific method, but that's another thing altogether.
If you can read Mandarin,
one of the things you can see on the
blogs in China is that these things
are so cheap to manufacture that it
costs more to steal them!

The Mag-Lev from Pudong Airport cost
what ... 1.5 Billion. It only goes
about 20 miles into Shanghai. They
are getting 80 of these trains for 4
Billion.

Stealing a new fangled industrial
adhesive might be profitable, and
useful in your construction projects.
But if you are going to build it the
regular way . . .

it just doesn't pay to steal a nail.