skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say they always come in two varieties: a) disagreements on some future action, methodology, goals, etc., and b) disagreements on past action (e.g. is the other person pulling their weight, being effective, etc). And of course, the latter usually leads to the former, because once you're convinced the other person isn't pulling their weight, you have to figure out what to do about it.

Beyond that, it's hard to say exactly what you'll find to disagree on. But don't worry, you'll definitely find something to disagree on. In fact, if you never disagree on anything, then you're probably missing out on all of the advantages of having a cofounder as well.
What really baffled me about that anecdote is that I wonder what he was "learning about his customers" by migrating hosting providers and database systems. And yet, somehow, foreign keys get all the blame.
http://www.facebook.com/profileart

The login is dovafacebook@gmail.com

the password is psswrd

Very Uncreative, I know, considering my department's name is DOVA, the department of visual art.

I'm not sure what is going on. I took the liberty of contacting some people last night in a panic, including the EFF and a friendly acquaintance who formerly did systems work and now does Patent Law in New York, among other things. As well as someone here to see if we can port parts of this. People are still making changes though. I have no idea what is going on.
I'm gonna have to talk to my adviser too. Not fun, because I can't say I am in full control of this Facebook profile. The only similar case was WikipediaArt, and that was deleted by Wikipedia among a storm of controversy over the meaning of art on the internet and place on the internet.
Only if your worries prove valid.

And only then iuf your government is inclined to listen to the loudest amongst us.

If the the treaty appears less extreme than is complained about it pretty much invalidates all the panicking.. wrongly of course but that is politics.

They're playing a game; we should too. Stay calm and see what appears - then go out all guns blazing :)
I've been using the jailbroken Red Laser for a while-- it's accurate but not really "impossibly accurate". I spend a lot of times looking awkward trying to position products if the lighting or package shininess isn't just right. I've had it misread codes before, too.
"Hard to counterfeit" is the key point there. The difference between gold and dollars is that dollars are very, very easy to counterfeit. Just get Congress to order more from the Treasury!
Right. And allow the economy to go into a long-term depression with 25%+ unemployment. A government "for the people" does not have a choice in this matter. The real problem is that bankers/speculators have so much power on the outcome for people who are not at all related to the industry.
Ruby has a lot of web frameworks too. All your experience means is that you don't pay much attention to Ruby (which is fine, I'm only vaguely aware of the 3 you listed for Python)
Our future I think is a number of specialist devices that focus on one thing that will improve our lives

What utter nonsense. I _could_ carry around a mobile phone, camera, email device, MP3 player and GPS. But why on earth would I want to when I have one device that does all of that?

Sure, it's not the best GPS, MP3 player or camera in the world - but I don't _need_ to have the best ones, I just need one that gets me to my destination, plays some music on the go and takes snapshots.

If you _do_ need a top-notch GPS then sure, buy a separate device, but most people will be happy to have one at all.
There are a few technical bloggers I follow that I might watch a few 'at work' screencasts.

However, I think I prefer the polished type of screencast where, for example, someone shows good use of Emacs + Slime working with a remote server (just an example :-)
That's one way it can go. But can also work where the final vision is a collaborative effort on the part of all the people working on it.

Apple's strategy is actually originally inspired by the Beatles, where five people all contributed and the resulting songs sounded nothing like any one of those people in particular. I'm certain if Steve Jobs designed everything on his own, Apple would be different than it is with a dozen people all working on one thing. And Jonathan Ive says this directly in interviews. He refuses credit for his work, because in his mind it's the entire team working together that's responsible for his final work.
I think Fred Hoyle is a more appropriate comparison. Both did great work that will last in the history books. Both held controversial opinions that were marginalized by the broader research community.
I agree that for a novice a trivial example doesn't inspire them to learn more. But an experienced programmer who just wasn't familiar with this concept might appreciate more a stripped-down example like this that demonstrates the essentials of the idea. And in general, different people have different learning styles.
It appears that he's been updating this presentation over the years:

http://www.fefe.de/know-your-compiler.pdf
http://dl.fefe.de/optimizer-isec.pdf

Regardless, it's a good read!
they have a very similar syntax, and haml reduces line noise of plain html.
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i'd also wonder why a unit test didn't catch this. In my experience if you catch a bug close to the time of it's introduction, it's easy to debug.
The most interesting idea there is the "third cloud" - that our phones might share information with each other automatically.

I've often wished that, as I sit just out of signal inside a building, that my phone could talk to one nearer the window and use its signal to connect to the outside world.

But this then raises all sorts of questions, both security related (man-in-the-middle attacks) and business related (how do I pay for using their bandwidth).
My android phone has been able to do this for about 2 years now
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Thanks.
How much to pay a skilled intern?
The startup I work for is looking to hire an intern to help us with front-end development.

We've found a guy that we like, but we are ignorant to the fair amount that he should be paid.

The position would be in the bay area.

What do you suggest?
The results shown on the map are organic!
Why is writing good code slower than writing bad code? I'd rather write good code once, now, rather than bad code now and good code later.
Great link. Thanks. Funny thing is, when just about everyone I knew was "getting their war on" and "getting their granite countertops on", it all felt ominous to me. I'm afraid that the U.S. is in for a very humbling penance.
I agree on the 500 word rule, it's my minimum daily target. However, I should add an addendum: Just because you did 1,000 words yesterday, doesn't mean you get away with doing nothing today.
The picture on the redlaser homepage shows someone scanning a packet of Quaker Oats. Does SnapTell handle food/drink/other supermarket goods?
Of interest, we spoke to some (good) lawyers in London who advised us that convertible notes, while popular in the US due to the difficulties surrounding share issues, are much less recommended in Europe, where issuing shares is considerably easier.

Anyone have an opinion on that?
It could have, but I have seen no evidence to support this. In fact, that is why the econo-blogger Megan McArdle at The Atlantic supported the bank bailouts, because she feared that would happen. But despite reading her blog regularly, she has presented evidence only her (and others) fears about what could have happened.
You write like you have a crystal ball and can see the future. There is no telling what "letting the banks fail" will do for the long term. However, we do know that increasing national debt to the degree that has been done is not good.
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Their marketing material reminds me of CueCat. Yup. Barcodes are the future. Any day now. "Query into a sea of information."

http://www.redlaser.com/Next.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuecat
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Travel startups and APIs
At a VC event there were 3 or 4 travel startups that pitched, some with nothing more than vague business plans. One had working code in the form of a website, but there was no demo.

The pitch of many of these startups was, basically: "we search low-cost airlines, and none of our competitors do" where in competitors they included Expedia, Travelocity and even Kayak.

After cursorily looking at the source of one of those sites, it seems basically built on an Amadeus API [1]. It seems that what they're doing is essentially the equivalent of

(select * from flights where type = :LOWCOST or type = :highcost)

and consequently, the advantage they trumpet over the other sites is simply that they claim the others use

(select * from flights where type = :highcost)

Am I missing something here? Does Amadeus perhaps need licensing agreements before they let you search low-cost fares? Why would existing sites not be able to compete by searching the very same fare type buckets?

[1] I assume that although different pricing engines could be searched by the backend, they are not doing so, because if they were, they'd hide their front-end Amadeus API calls behind their own API, and then on the backend they'd mux the search out to Amadeus and any other pricing engines. Also, since the code is so liberally littered with API calls, I'm guessing Amadeus/Sabre make it really easy to use their API, perhaps almost to the point of plug and play.

(edit: wording)
True entrepreneurship involves risk taking.

The disapproval directed toward this guy is not because he gambled and lost. It's because he scammed people. It was wrong. If he had flown below the radar and become rich and successful, and later moved to a more respectable business strategy, it would have still been wrong. How did you read the discussion of this issue and misunderstand? Do you think all the moral disapproval expressed here is a sham? That we are just dumping on a loser and would have applauded him if he got away with it?
It should be possible to make the machine "pinch" the tire slowly until a certain pression is detected that is enough to keep the bike in place yet not too much to avoid damage.
8 elements every company blog SHOULD have.
nitpick: Janus Friis is Danish
Uh oh. Smart voice recognition prediction.
I thought everybody had agreed that "above the fold" means nothing.
Could be a function of your town. I see tons of cyclists in Chicago even when it's -10 outside. Seems like there are more and more people out everyday, and that we need a lot more bike parking downtown.
these bailed out banks want to hand out billions in bonuses to their non-performing employees

If I worked for a bank, and I had nothing whatsoever to do with its subprime business, and had made a trading profit (or was in an unrelated function like IT and had fulfilled all my targets) then damn right I'd expect a bonus, and I'd deserve it too.

It's interesting to note here in the UK that the 70% taxpayer-owned RBS has just posted record losses, where as Goldman Sachs who repaid their TARP money to the US government, plus interest, as soon as they could is doing good business and paying their employees decent bonuses this year.
Gloom and doomers keep glooming and dooming because they can't see outside of their valuing system.

Change is the only constant in the Universe. Anytime something no longer changes into the same thing, people freak out because the majority of human understanding has been erected around the idea that the Universe is a static container in which material agents interact (which is false). Therefore, people are afraid of change, otherwise known as: the un-known.

"When the 15 million unemployed Americans do find jobs again, they'll return to a workplace that is likely to have grown accustomed to less pay for more work, or at least working less hours in a week. The raises that were once part of an annual employee review, if not entirely gone, will take years to get back to where they were before the recession."

This statement is silly and comes from a person that stands in a static place, not a dynamic place; a place of lack rather than abundance. They haven't allowed themselves to grow outside of their own valuing system and are therefore stuck inside the old one continuing to observe and judge events from within that system.

The alternate point of view, could be, that the workplace has changed for the better and more Americans now value their personal time more than they had before. As more jobs are created in the coming years, the employed will have a greater sense of self-respect (something the author was not giving the American workforce) that companies will be obliged to heed. Or, more Americans now see the glass ceiling of working for someone other than themselves and realize they could very well start their own business, or provide their services as a contractor/consultant...

Static thought is perishable because the system it is apart of evolves too quickly for any-thing to not keep up. Dynamic thought allows growth and evolution on the micro-personal level and the macro-social level; this evolution is what creates recessions and booms.

The expansion of something is often seen as contraction because as "things" fill up the bubble it appears to be a "boom", and once the bubble is popped because it has reached capacity, it expands and all the contents of that bubble spill into the next larger bubble with more dispersion appearing to be a "recession".
Indeed. A $3500 bike does not look like a Velib. With that much money to spend, you are at the professional racing bike level. Maybe remove two zeros and you have Velib :)
strangely enough, that's not what happened when harding kept his hands off the market during the major crash of 1920-21.

and why did the bankers get so much power in the first place? there is a LONG history of government centralizing, cartelizing, supporting, and regulating the market's major financial players.
Well, we're a SaaS company that sells business-to-business so things are probably different. One paying customer for us is probably like 10 or 100 for you.

We entered what you might call a "saturated" market about 10 months ago. What we did was:

1) We made our product much, much better than the competition, who were all pretty stagnant.

2) We marketed our product directly. Like, calling potential customers on the phone.

3) For each customer that we won, we rolled out the red carpet and tried to give them everything we reasonable could.

4) We taught some of our customers to be evangelists.

Although we're just barely ramen profitable, we have piles of opportunities. Our sales cycle can be anywhere from 2 to 6 months, and we have lots of potential customers that we think are almost there.
So if I wrote a really buggy program but you could still use it to make a million bucks in the next week, I would be committing fraud?

Could somebody please defraud me like that? Please?
Right, but keep in mind that (as Derek Sivers put it so well) 1% isn't the smallest percentage that you can get. Zero is also a percentage.
BTW, how do you ever get to that rfs3.html page?
C.f. for what (possibly) happens when banking systems collapse: http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_08.ht...
> Stay calm and see what appears

It is easier to fix bugs earlier in development
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4) We taught some of our customers to be evangelists.

This is obviously not an issue for all products, but how do you teach customers to be evangelists if most other potential customers are their competitors?

In fact, scrap that. Can you expand a little on how you accomplished this, in general?
"Original and fresh" is generally not conducive to understanding. People are more likely to understand a new concept when that new concept is applied to concepts they already understand. It lets them filter out everything but that concept.
I wouldn't say that was the main thrust of the article, by any means. You take one sub-point amongst a set of much larger and more important points and mine it out and claim that yet again, government intervention has proven useless.

Her main points, for those who will tl;dr the article and take your post for granted:

1. People do not always act in ways that are inherently good, either in an ethical sense or in a sense of what is "financially good." Rand does seem to suggest that this will be an inherent property of people who are capable of rising to positions of power.

2. The current system rewards people who can amass capital and take risks with it more than people who actually create that capital in the first place. She points out scientists and engineers who make the world a better place and invent new technology that can revolutionize markets are not proportionally rewarded for this change, while speculators who can take big chances with money are rewarded disproportionately. This creates a strong draw away from the allure math, science, and medicine towards the better paying jobs in the world of finance, thus weakening our ability to innovate and generate new capital for capitalism to draw upon.

Your complaint addresses neither of these, and I can't help but feel like you were being a bit disingenuous and dodging the actual issues she raised by hiding behind a straw man outside the crux of the article. Please address her substantive complaints if you're going to argue with the article.
http://ycombinator.com/rfs3.html
Keep in mind for people living in the city, the bicycle is a utility, not something ridden for sport or enjoyment. I do however enjoy passing cars on the bicycle and instigating races from bicycle road racers during my commute.

Your second sentence contradicts your first. How do you encounter road racers if the bicycle is "not something ridden for sport or enjoyment".

I live in a city and it is all three for me. All my trips to the grocery store are on bike, but I also enjoy the occasional leisurely ride to nowhere, and a regular "sport" ride.

But I do agree that most people don't think of a bike as a tool, they think of it as a toy. I think of cars like that, though, so I guess it is just a matter of perspective and experience.
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Since Dyson contributed half of quantum electrodynamics, and we have numerous Dyson theorems; and since Penrose contributed half of present classical gravity, and we have numerous Penrose theorems, including celebrated Penrose-Hawking incompletness theorem; I think Fred Hole, whose lasting contributions beyond narrating popular books I do not recall, is a fine comparison to Penrose as a pop writer, in addition to mine, perfectly deserved one to scientists of certain calibre who also happen to have some unsubstained and marginalized indiscrete opinions.
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I agree.

You can create a much better user experience for a certain way of performing a task by using a dedicated device, but that doesn't mean that overall user experience of achieving your goal is better.

Separating features to different devices doesn't seem a very good idea. For example, if I can't reach a person by calling, I want easily to pivot and reach him through different, possibly asynchronous communication channel (email, sms).
First free iPhone app with in-app purchasing?
Are they similar in any way to Python generators? They are functions with a state, at least.
The problem I have with the "Late 2007" start date is it doesn't seem to be backed up with facts. GDP grew in Q1 2008 (http://useconomy.about.com/b/2008/04/30/still-not-a-recessio...) and Unemployment was flat from Dec. '07 to Jan '08 and actually went down a tick in Feb '08 (http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?series_i...)

In fact, GDP continued to grow in Q2 of 2008 (albeit slower) and in Apr. of '08 the Unemployment rate was at 5% (up a mere .1% from Dec. '07).

I was always taught that a recession is 2 quarters of negative GDP growth. Lately that definition has changed to "when economists say the recession began based on rules they made up". The problem with that measuring stick is you are defining behavior based on rules that are supposed to measure behavior. If you've decided the unemployment rate is a lagging factor than you define the Recession as having started earlier so that it fits the rule.

The reality is GDP didn't start to fall until Q3 of '08 and Unemployment had been going up steadily since Apr. of '08 (a full 3 months before the start of Q3). In my book that isn't a lagging sign.
I think you are confused. Google shopping results are not paid advertisements.
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Further proof that premature optimization is the root of all evil. (Compilers can automatically solve the performance issue of boxed native types now, so there is no reason to provide the programmer with unboxed types. But of course Java does because... it's Java.)
But when I look at the Hacker New logo, I don't perceive photons of wavelength 590 nanometers bouncing off my retina--I pereceive the color orange.

If you did perceive photons at 590nm that would be rather remarkable! More likely, you would perceive a mixture of photons at different wavelengths, mainly a combination of 615nm and 550nm or thereabouts.

In actuality, you perceive this "orange" concept; in fact, you would perceive the same orange whether exposed to 590nm photons or the mixture, which emphasizes the point that what we experience in the real world doesn't necessarily relate to reality in an obvious way.
Because most of the day-to-day things you do in jQuery involve doing something special with an element by id or class, and Haml's syntax for special classes and id's is painless. For instance:

%a.post_link.confirm_link.destructive_link{link_to(@x)}
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I'm probably not selling it very well. But basically, you know the old DOM tutorials that talk about how you can do you own tags like:

<box name="foo">
<item number="1" />
<item number="2" />
</box>

and then convert it to

<div class="box" id="foo">
<div clas="item" id="item_1" />
<div clas="item" id="item_2" />
</div>

or whatever; in Haml, that's just:

.box#foo
.item#item_1
.item#item_2
Exactly. The other perspective: When you see 'difference', think 'derivative' .

Approximately, what the difference table is doing is differentiating until the leading term is constant. If we end up with a constant k levels down, we must have had a.x^k in the polynomial, as the derivative of a.x^k = ak.x^(k-1). Repeating this k times gives constant = a.k!

So the leading coefficient of the polynomial, a = constant/k!

I guess the next step is to subtract the values generated by this term from the sequence, then repeat to find the next term in the polynomial...
My first result for the same search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=django+video+tutorial

was this page:

http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=1100000&fr...

Is it possible they fixed the results since you searched?
So you're arguing that an accounting trick to statistically suppress risk and get a few more million people into homes that they ended up having taken away from them is fundamentally the same level of contribution to society as people inventing the Internet, the Telephone, Chemotherapy, Relativity, etc.?

You, sir, have an interesting outlook on life. But hey I guess a few high-risk buyers got to hang out in someone else's house for awhile, and that's good right?
The point isn't whether or not the government should have intervened, the point is that because they did we can't blame Capitalism for the outcome of that specific action. A purely capitalist market would have let the financial crisis run is course, right or wrong. At least, that's how I see it.