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Wow, if I had a kitchen like that I would get even less coding done than I do now. Hard to imagine...
Well, actually I was using cdbm and thought it might be nice to mention it on HN. Then I noticed you added some other interesting stuff as well, so even more reason to submit it to HN :)

So not an adventerous PyPi visitor, just someone who was looking throught his bookmarks ;)

Oh and thanks a lot for creating and sharing it. It's a great tool which IMHO should become part of the 'default' cd, mv and cp.
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> They were the lucky ones, of course. The consensus estimate is that 70 million human beings have died so far during the CCP's reign of terror, mostly from starvation. My wife spent much of her youth hungry. She and her friends used to pull the stingers out of honeybees to get a bit of sweetness in their lives. The things little girls do, huh?

I dated a Chinese girl for 3 and 1/2 years whose father was sent to a labor camp for a lot of her childhood.

I really don't understand how the Communists don't have the same reputation and stigma of the Nazis. They killed over twice as many people, most of them civilians, and did it for twice as long. They ran their countries into the ground in pretty much all meaningful measures, destroying civilizations well known for science, commerce, and innovation. They accomplished almost nothing of value, in any of the areas mankind finds valuable. And they're treated with a mild disdain, but nothing like the Third Reich, where they probably deserve even worse treatment.

If anyone doesn't know who Deng Xiaoping is, it's worth reading a little bit about him. He was probably one of the most important and good politicians of the last 100 years. He helped lead China out of the Communist mess they were in, declaring, "It doesn't matter what color the cat is as long as it catches the mouse." Was imprisoned for a while due to his views before taking over and putting China back on the path to being a global power with healthy, happy citizens.

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

But as a casual historian, I'm still baffled why the Communists don't have the same or worse of a rep than the Nazis - input from knowledgeable people is welcome.
Boy am I glad I don't live in San Fran... for $1.5 mill that place sure is tiny.
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Also, deciding the bottom 10% is not always as straightforward as it seems.

That's exactly right and the biggest problem with a rank and fire policy is that there are so many pitfalls in quantitatively judging relative performance. In the case of a high performing or highly specialized group, the question comes down to who does the measuring and how much power would she have to say letting someone go isn't necessary. I'm just speculating, but my guess is that the powers up high at Enron wouldn't have let that slide.

We should also remember that this article was published just 6 months before Enron filed bankruptcy. While ranking and fire sounds sane in principle, we have to wonder how much this sort of hire-fast-fire-fast policy contributed to the systemic and ethical break downs that have made the company infamous.
Sounds like its time for MS to change the name again and re-launch!
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Sure, but my concern isn't chiefly about the financial consequences. It's more like, if I'm going to buy a tricky $1.5m pad, it's because I like it as a place to live. So, I don't want my awesome place where I like living to be in such relatively higher danger of being destroyed. Insurance can't replace the satisfaction I derived from it.
If I was running a startup with no solid revenue plan I'd be squirreling away everything I could, not blowing it on real estate during unstable valuation swings. granted with the success of twitter under his belt he'll probably never hurt for a job for the rest of his life...
True, but I was not really referring to the ass-kicking weapons, but rather the features of the modern Chinese economic boom seen in the background (not literally - I'm talking about the all-around context and its aesthetic ligaments).
No offense, but US immigration restrictions have very little to do with terrorism. It is more about "protecting" our jobs, or something.

We have plenty of natural-born citizens that like killing people (Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, etc.), and the 9/11 hijackers all had valid visas. INS (DHS now) is not in a position to prevent terrorism.

Now, why anyone would want to come to the US illegally, with our lack of health care, crumbling school system, horrendous prisons, and so on, is beyond me. Someone should tell the illegal immigrants that there are many better places to immigrate to.
One. I prefer deep focus into one thing: my code. I alt-tab to get to my app. That little gesture is just enough to require me to think about what I'm doing. It's just too easy to change my glance from one screen to another; focus is ruined.

I have tried two or three screens before, but just got irritated by the noise.

I check email and hn on breaks. They don't have dedicated screens during work periods.
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I think our society often thinks a person is smart when the person merely came up with a clever new way to be dumb. truly brilliant ideas often get a reaction of "that's dumb" from the general populace. too far outside their scope.
I thought the same thing, not just because of my dirty mind, but also because it's at the TOP of HN. There must be something interesting about it. Some particular issue of PH Mag, maybe (an interview with Tupac or Elvis or something).

But some guy selling an apartment? Gimme a break.
the poor can't afford to take risks, so the smart poor don't

What about those who start a business from scratch? The outcome for many are debt, but the smart or lucky end up being profitable, some even rich — I would call that risk taking, and lots of “poor” people take this risk.
Neither.

I don't randomly walk up to people and discuss my opinion of them. But if someone started a conversation with me about how many people do or don't like them then yes I would have to tell them I find them irritating and walk away. There is nothing 'tough' about it.

Nor am I an Internet tough guy, just giving an opinion is all I'm doing. People that obsess over who like them or not and why, I just don't like them.
He's already had a successful exit, selling blogger.com to Google.
I don't know why you were voted down: as a cartoonist, his over-simplifications are funny, but as an essayist they just make you scratch your head.
You can get a next day VISA for China (it costs extra though).

It is actually a suprisingly fast system (all the admin when entering or getting a VISA is very efficient).
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That strikes me as a particularly wierd thing to do in the absence of attribution or explanation.
The same point was made in the book "Clean Code"
they react to bad PR when it costs them nothing to fix it. The whole Chinese incident would have cost them billions, and it blew over after a few weeks
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Fantastic story, and it pointed out that there is a beyond excellent graphing calculator on my computer! No more Wolfram Alpha for x= equations!
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Three. (Sort of.) I have Windows and Mac systems side-by-side running Synergy, so it feels like one machine. Each machine is running on a 25.5" Samsung so that I can get a broad view of what I am doing. However, the downside of the big monitors (and limited budget) is that they are both TN panels, which is a no-go for design. So when I am pretending to be an artist, or doing color picking for websites I work on, I use a 19" Dell monitor (S-PVA) which actually produces colors accurately. The rest of the time it is hanging out in the corner on an Ergotron arm.
There were precious little weapons originated under Mao regime. They were either of Soviet manufacture, or straightforward copies of Soviet designs. The (often brilliant) Chinese engineers were instead plowing paddy fields in correction villages.
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Interesting. If you are on a Mac you can get a similar effect from CSSEdit, which (I believe) actually swaps the CSS styles out as you type and feels really smooth.

The downside is, changes to the underlying layout require a manual refresh.
I remember reading somewhere that there are hourly hotels in Japan, because of the extreme hours many "salarymen" work. You pay by the hour, just for the time you're there, for a shoebox barely bigger than the bed.
> If you have read all the other books "completely"

Presumably you meant "If you haven't read all the other books", unless you intended to imply that even if one has read all the other books listed, one still isn't ready for Lisp in Small Pieces!
I use one monitor -- the one built in to my laptop -- but 8 desktops in X.
I work on a laptop hooked up to a docking station with an extra video card in the docking station. I keep email and IM on the laptop screen, IDE on one monitor and my web browser and documentation on the third monitor. I've been using this setup in the office for about 5 years now and I really like it.
Organic growth vs investment is an interesting question.

To play devil's advocate a bit, think about their competition. What if a competitor with a slightly inferior but "good enough" service invests a lot of money into sales, marketing and business development, then eats their market whole? What if a large real estate firm with deep pockets more or less copies the service? What if craigslist suddenly decides to redo their apartment listings? As an entrepreneur, you need to count on your competitors being absolutely ruthless.

Having already taken Y Combinator money, they're now obligated to steward that investment. That implies a couple of things -- growing fast enough not to get outpaced, paying for some benefits for yourself (what happens to YC's investment if these guys get really sick?), and building some cash reserves to weather variations in the market.

They're lucky to be faced with the dilemma to be sure. And for whatever combination of reasons they've decided to go for the investment. It's a pretty modest size, and they'll be able to retain control.
If you're staying in the same city like he is, all you need is a fixed mailing address. Even moving between cities you can use a mail forwarding service (paying a friend you can trust would probably be better than a commercial service).
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"If the original title ends with the name of the site, please strip it off, because the site name will be displayed after the link anyway. If the title begins with the site name, you can leave it on if you prefer."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

this person's submissions often have this problem, so i think it's time for a reminder.
Right, it's like the dark old days of Alchemy before the scientific discipline of Chemistry. We are still transitioning from quirky weirdo/geniuses doing arcane things in secret for a wealthy patron to doing things in the open, with peer review and an open fact-based debate.
"Why does intelligence have to be a function of living being?"

It´s not a rule, i think, but what´s the point onto copying the functions of the brain and all other stuffs from "nature" if you don´t copy the most important, LIFE ? All the functions of human brain exists to support LIFE, including intelligence.

Sounds really dumb for me to try to recreate intelligence in a dead being, if intelligence is an attribute of living beings. You can get close (like data mining, neural networks and so on) but, maybe, we cant get REALLY at there.
Oops! Thanks and noted :)
I would amend this to "Work Harder on the Right Thing".

What's the right thing? That's something you'll just have to figure out for yourself. Sometimes finding the right thing is harder work than actually working on it.
thanks for that! I only use one screen (because I found more unproductive) but it's still a handy app (if it doesn't bring the browser in to the foreground)
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"If intelligence is a matter of the kinds of mental activities someone/something is able to perform, what activities require DNA?"

DNA structures are like algorithms. The DNA is the information that tell our cells (and cells is the most basic unit of life, most important too) how to do things. So everything requires DNA ...

Life is not something inside you and me. Life is something present at each cell of our body. It´s not just the brain that can die, our finger, our foot, our skin ... everything can die. We are the combination of all this, we are not only our brains like Artificial Intelligence tend to think. Everything is interconnected to perform life. Including intelligence. Intelligence don´t exist for itself, it exists for the living being.

Look, i´m nothing and i just have very basic knowledge of AI, i´m much more a philosopher than a researcher. But, i´m trying to bring new points in order to find new ways to do things. So i´m just trying to bring up new points, not the final truth.
Honestly, I don't know where to begin, but suffice it to say, everything else is NEVER equal in the real world.

1. You're assuming "success" is zero-sum-game.
2. There's no opportunity cost for working towards a different goal.
3. There is some sort of equitable measure of "success" across all participants in "the game".
4. The effort/reward curve is averages positive for your given set of stratagems.
5. You are the ONLY vested participant in the game (e.g. no ancillary costs for increased efforts to other parties (e.g. family, friends, partners, investors etc.).
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Malcolm Gladwell says, a gifted child is a gifted learner but a gifted adult is a gifted doer and the two are quite different.

Mensa members are gifted children who never grew up.
Looks like a comprehensive volume covering the state of art in late 90s.

That's also about the time I stopped following the domain. So I wonder if there have been any advances in terms of new models and topologies since then?
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This works even with several computers, over a network.
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I'm reminded of the advice of Thomas Jefferson to his daughter: "It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing," from this HN post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=675308
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One of the reasons I come to hn so much is for motivation when things get tough (which is often). I don't think I've ever read anything here that motivated me more.

This is already on my bulletin board. So the next time I opt for the "easy way out", I can look at this and remind myself not to be such a wimp.

Just a few of the gems inside:

The three of us spent the next six hours editing fifty thousand lines of code...It would have taken weeks for any one of us working alone.

Since that left no managers in the loop, we had no meetings and could be extremely productive.

"This doesn't suck" (high praise in Apple lingo).

This feedback loop created an ever-increasing spiral of productivity.

It is a cliche in our business that the first 90 percent of the work is easy, the second 90 percent wears you down, and the last 90 percent - the attention to detail - makes a good product.

The secret to programming is having smart friends.

I gave a twenty-minute demonstration, eliciting "oohs" and "ahhs."

programmers are the least qualified people to design software for novices.

...we were in full crunch mode, working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week...If this story were a movie, you would now see the clock hand spinning and the calendar pages blowing away in the wind.

...it was a macho computer guy thing - we had never shipped a million copies of software before

I answered to no one, and no one had to do anything I asked...We were hackers, creating something for the sheer joy of making it work.
Perl is by far the worst widely used language that I have ever seen.

Why promote it here?

It has caused enough damage, particularly in the bioinformatics community where it is required/used by people who don't know any better.

From http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/02/bioinf.html:

"But Perl programmers may be surprised to find that their handsome language has become one of the most - if not the most popular - of computer languages used in bioinformatics."
Unfortunately the ps3 slim doesn't have support for otheros(linux).
Linux devs can just use Epiphany, which has this built in :)
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I'm still baffled why the Communists don't have the same or worse of a rep than the Nazis

The simple answer is that many "intellectuals" in the West find the notion of "to each according to his need, from each according to his ability" very appealing. They "need" to do lots of unproductive (and unrewarded in the West) things such as sit around talking about abstract philosophy, and those poor suckers with "ability" will support them for free.

Never mind that the one of the first things real Communists do when they take over is send all the intellectuals for re-eductation...
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To sum up what this article says along with the insightful amendments in these comments: Perhaps it is best to work smarter and harder.
Synergy is a great app, I recommend anyone who has more than one machine check it out.
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Here is a better quality video (in substance and resolution):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTCSUDovxRw&NR=1

2nd video: http://vimeo.com/6853452
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Implementation in french is usually "Mise en Oeuvre", "Mise en place", "Application" or "Exécution" depending on the context.

In this example, implantation is probably more directly translated to "layout".
These are not new points, and I suspect they have been considered by nearly every AI researcher.
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Three: one widescreen 24" in the center (for code), two 19" square screens to the left and right (left used for web, right used for communication - IRC, IM, etc.). The center screen is great, because I can crank my font size up to 16pt (I have bad eyestrain problems). When I'm really working, I typically pop out Firebug and cover the right window with it.

I also have an old laptop set up to the left of the left monitor that shows the key metrics for my startup (user count, etc.) Sometimes it's bad to have this right in your face, but usually I find it motivating. :)

Someone else mentioned Synergy; Windows-only devs can also check out InputDirector: http://www.inputdirector.com/
Firing the bottom 15% every year automatically is just going to lead to a corporate culture of politicking and backstabbing, glory-hounding and not helping each other. I hesitate to call this an "unintended consequence" since it looks perfectly obvious to me.

I really don't think it's going to lead to the best actual performance of the company. With any metric, you really do have to ask "how is this going to be gamed" before implementing it. Unrelated example: http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/04/more_m....
No offence, but this is something that I see every day from my Indian colleagues at work -- instead of stopping for a moment and finding a right way to go, they just keep pushing harder in some unoptimal direction. Yes, this might fill you with a sense of righteousness, but no way the carpenter (see comments to the blog post) who works 10 hours a day is better off than the one who does only 5 hours of _right_ work.
The courts of public opinion, history or even the actual international courts are poor ones. The Nazis are unique in the treatment they got. Many of the judgements do not contain the consistency to be called justice.

The Nazis lost to deeply injured enemies, Europe, the Soviet Union & the US. They were clearly proven to be malicious. That is they were evil in theory, intention, strategy, tactic, rhetoric, practice and in practical outcome. Communists tended to have at least some of these which were palatable. This leaves the possibility that they have good intentions, got waylaid, failed, etc.

Nazis brought terrible suffering and disgrace to their own people and were recognised by Germans in this way. But this is extremely unusual and it is a consequence of regime change. Look at Turkey and the Armenian genocide. Modern Turks do not believe in it and it was almost 100 years ago. You can't be friendly with Turkey and bring it up.

Communism has not really fallen in the same way Nazism and Fascism fell. Even Russia is still really a descendant of the Soviet Union.

The places that do consider communists similarly to fascists are those places that felt colonised by them.
My guess is that this stack is getting out-dated, or at least improved vastly as Google tries to do index updates in near real-time. The major problem with map-reduce is that the results aren't in real time (e.g. you collect data and then you run analytics on this data), running the analytics can take a lot of time depending on the data set and the hardware in play. Calculating the PageRank is done via map-reduce and this task can take an awful long time, since the data set is huge. This has resulted in slow index updates. I don't know how Google has solved this problem, my guess is that they have thrown an awful amount of hardware at the problem or have improved their stack.

What's a better way to do it? I think it's creating an algorithm that can be updated in real time and where you don't have to re-calculate the rank for every page on each update. Such an algorithm would require a very different stack than Google currently uses and my guess that their architecture will move into this direction as they try to make their search real-time (which from what I have read and experienced they are trying to do).
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I don't think "the ruling Communist Party of China celebrates 60 years in power" would be a good title. The current governance of China is communist in name only and has morphed substantially multiple times over those 60 years.
Intelligence is important to save human lives, and to make human lives better. That is the answer to the question of "why". We need machines that can do thinking better than we can, so that more thinking gets done, so that we can get more of what we need.

Non-life intelligence is to support human life, not its own.

There are serious ethical and practical reasons why non-person AI is preferable.

Compare to artificial movement.(cars) Wasn't autonomous motion once a unique feature a living things? Why would you create a thing that moves if you don't also make it alive? All autonomous motion exists so that the organism can support its LIFE.

Why create motion in a dead being? you can get close, like clockwork automatons, but you can't REALLY get there.

Likewise, there are ethical and practical issues with creating people to move things to support your life.