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I'm kind of casually fascinated with language, so when I came across a few papers on AAVE, I dug in and read both viewpoints.

It's a long debate, but the most interesting thing that this particular Standford piece didn't mention - this style of English evolved from poor, white Southern farmers in the U.S. You wonder how different the debate would be if it was about Southern/poorer English instead of Northern/wealthier. There'd be different allies and opponents on both sides, different arguments, and so on.

It's not hard to imagine some of the people most fiercely mocking AAVE would be its biggest champions, and some of its supports would be its largest detractors. Presenting the argument as a black/white thing makes it very different than presenting it as a geographical thing, or a rich/poor thing, or a formally educated/not thing, or an industrial/agricultural thing.
Interesting story. I've got a short and sweet one. Someone bought carbonmade.org after we failed to renew it 4-5 years ago. The guy contacted me out of the blue about six months ago and just said: "Do you want carbonmade.org? Happy to transfer it to you for free. I have no use for it and you own the .com." I was like "Yes, thank you very much." And the next day I had it in my GoDaddy account. A really nice gesture that never happens in the domain market.
Regarding the quote below... I don't get it. Cells are a linked list spread randomly throughout your address space. Processors don't love that at all.

"A cell is a cell in the same way it was with the original Lisp, consisting on a head and the rest, that is, a CAR part (which may be either a number, a symbol, or a pointer to another cell), and a CDR part (also a number, symbol or cell).
As a consequence, it is incredibly memory efficient, and there is little to none memory fragmentation. Processors cache "loves" our interpreter."
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RE: Your socialist links.

It would seem that our political interests appears to intersect at some point.

Mainly, this is in the anti-racisim, pro-gay rights, anti-imperalism, anti-war, pro-immigration, pro-women right category.

I placed them all as property right, or right from agression. I do support people's right to be racists, unsavory beliefs, and ideology different and in opposition to mine.
The question is, why use the framework to create the layout of project which happens to depend upon that framework at all? Instead, use a generic project templating tool to create the layout, then it's easy to choose alternate starting points depending upon what you need in your project. In Python, 'paster' is commonly used for this. It lets you create projects that depend upon TurboGears or Zope or Plone or Grok or even plain old Python projects which don't depend upon a full framework.
I doubted your comment, then I looked it up, sure enough, according to Wikipedia Powell's handling of the assignment was later characterized by some observers as "whitewashing" the atrocities of My Lai.

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

Whether or not that was why he was promoted, I don't know. It may have had a part in it. From reading more, it seems like he's a Macnamara type who thinks some evil is done in the name of good.
"Load it's own code". I guess it's my inner grammar nazi, but things like this at such a prominent position in an app make me cringe.

Surprisingly snappy and pleasant to use though. Does not work perfectly on Opera, but still more than I expected.
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Leaders follow someone I suppose and in the military, breaking ranks isn't appreciated much. He was following his Commander in Chief's direction. Perhaps he was doing it as a sense of honor to his country. I don't disagree with what you are saying. I was one of those who believed they'd never find WMD's in Iraq and was very disappointed when I saw Powell towing the line.

I was disappointed precisely because I do believe he is a good man and wants to do what is best. I too thought he was destined to be president some day. He would have been a candidate I would want to vote for.

Many times we learn more from failure than success. I say in this instance, Powell has learned a great deal and could be a better leader because of it.

In the end, his mistake was following and not being a leader when he should have been.
Maybe if an Eve online corporation has an IPO.

Would a successful Ponzi scheme qualify?

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/23/1918246
It wasn't a housing bubble that caused the GFC, if that was all it was it would have been contained to real estate. What brought down so many large institutions was the toxic debt and dodgy dealings they had accumulated, this was allowed to happen due to deregulation. Particularly, the introduction of the gramm-leach-billey act deregulating banking, insurance and securities into one finances industry... and very specifically the exemption of swap agreements from SEC regulation (ie toxic debt).
At least that's my opinion and the opinion of some very respected economists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Act#Criticis...

Further evidence is the current calling, from all quarters, for tighter regulation of the finances industry to avoid another GFC not less.
Also note that the default Django template is showing it's age. I don't think it's ever been updated and it contains a few faux-pas to look out for. In particular, it starts you off inside a python package (__init__.py file), which is highly confusing. If you later want to treat your Django project as a normal Python project, you need to create a setup.py file. But this file would be one directory up from the project directory ... which is outside of your Django project. Django puts the directory one level up on your PYTHONPATH to compensate for this, with the assumption that part of your project lives outside of version-control, etc. The solution is to remember to put the directory above the directory that the project lives in version-control and treat it as part of the project. Although then you have to put a library location on your PATH to run the manage.py commands, since this file won't work if placed in your projects /bin directory.

(Speaking of /bin directories, it's always bugged me that Rails renamed this directory to /scripts ... if it's executable, it goes in /bin, it makes no sense to split executables based on arbitrary implementation details)
I don't get it. Flag.
Extrapolating strictly from my own browsing behavior while reading the first few on this list, I've noticed that the more interesting I find an article, the more tabs to linked Wikipedia articles I open up for further reading.

Of course, articles with more links are likely to spawn more tabs, so this score would be expressed as a fraction of the total links in the article that were followed.

That's just for starters; none of this considers the actual text of the article. Once you throw in semantics...

EDIT: I generally don't follow links to articles on more well-known topics [e.g. places], but that shouldn't penalize the article. So there needs to be a ranking for well-known-ness, and consider the fraction of followed links to articles that are less well-known.
>Does the HN community have any ideas on how to test a new idea out without building the actual product.

Aren't you already doing that? At what point does the question change from not knowing how to market to not accepting the results?

You may in fact have a great and useful idea that solves a real problem. However, the third part of that equation is a willing marketplace. It is entirely possible that your marketplace isn't able to grasp the idea, through no fault of your own. They might not be in the same headspace that you're in. In other words, you're slightly ahead of your time.

I'm in an industry (also in Canada) where I've had to actually accept this outcome recently. My market is a lot bigger than yours, but I simply can't afford to evangelize and convert the old school thinking that permeates the decision makers.
Sociopath manipulated into a clueless role by greater, literal sociopaths...
You speak in tongues?

Gospel planets guarded tumultuous abridged Eternal decay
exultation detail solaces reference wanting signify Enlightener
pricked says qualified EDITIONS prayers deaf blessedness
Living sake unanxious churches abated member drowsiness
preferred shook Balaneion witting shake bawler having
seduction
Don't waste your time. This is a 4MB pdf consisting of slides that say things like this:

git commit – commits added changes to the local repo
True, Haskell isn't a lisp clone. But it is functional nevertheless. More 'purely' functional too.
So why do people, who have ignored functional programming in lisp for all these years suddenly taken to lisp?
Is they Hype-field around Haskell really that strong?
I've been using the auto correct functionality since Word 2.0 to do the same thing. Granted, it doesn't work well when you need to type the character in a post on a message board, but 95% of my need is in Word Processing Programs and Spread Sheets. So, 5 minutes of effort turns (c) to © and
(s) to § forever.
No, just someone who deemed it suitable to present to the UN security council false intelligence based on biased, unconfirmable sources, to justify invading a sovereign country.

This is not a baseless accusation, since he has admitted it fully himself; nor does it necessarily invalidate his lessons on leadership. It is, nevertheless, a fact to keep in mind when reading anything he has written.
It should have a section that explain how it works because I do not understand how does it works. I have not joined because I simply do not understand. Screenshots, video and some explication text would be a good start to have people sign-up.
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This is only about a third or so of the full transcript (which is about 130 pages of typed text, of a 5 day meeting). You can find the pdf online (I haven't read it all so I can't comment): http://www.google.com/search?q=raidersstoryconferencetranscr...
Why is Haskell popular? Static typing done right.
Yeah, it wasn't lack of regulation, exactly. It was corruption.
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It occurred to me a few weeks ago that I could simulate a PC ISA bus using one of those "tiny, slow chips!" Yup, all those bags of old ISA bus peripherals I have in the closet could be run by one of these little CPUs.

Still never got used to the fact that the "tiny, slow chips" (I like that expression) littering my desktop are faster than the first three PC's I owned. Seriously, an AVR microcontroller I paid $2 for runs at 20MHz -- roughly the speed of a PC AT.
decidedly underwhelming both in interface and quality/clarity of results, hard to figure out why certain things were returned for my searches.
Read a program that's at least a few hundred lines long in Haskell. Now read it in Lisp.

Readability counts!
Which specific pieces of regulation made borrowing easier?
An interesting wiki on the subject is the GFC timeline-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_crisis_impact_timeline

There's mention there of a political goal ... "of increasing minority home owners by at least 5.5 million by 2010 through billions of dollars in tax credits" ... which is not the same as regulation.

The timeline does attribute removal of regulation for the financial sector .. and also the exclusion from regulation for credit default swaps, which is pretty much the reason Bear Sterns, AIG, Lehman Bros et all went under. They stuffed themselves to the gills with toxic debt, which is fine while everything is going swimmingly, but when the housing bubble bursts it becomes more than just a burst bubble... which is all it would have been if the finance sector had been properly regulated.
The gramatical differences between "high" forms of British and American English are comparatively small. Certainly the dialectal variations within each country are further departures than standard American English is from standard British English. In each the differences are more of preference and still usually considered correct in the other.

A more apt example would be Swiss and high German, which are (aside from the fact that Swiss Germans are also fluent in high German) mutually incomprehensible. To a high German speaker, Swiss German sounds decidedly silly and has moderately different grammar. However since there's no conflation of social class with the Swiss German dialect, the comparison of Swiss and high German is much less politicized than AAVE and standard American English.

Austrian German, on the other hand, is virtually identical to standard high German grammatically – it just sounds funny and has a few regionalisms in its vocabulary: kind of like the difference between American and British English.
If research is successfully commercialised, then the government is already getting money back through taxes on the company.
Let's just say I wouldn't use the spread of allocations across address space as a PRNG. Depends on your allocator of course, but you should normally see some fairly linear patterns. The allocator can be very simple if all (or almost all) allocations are the same size, so you can easily optimise for cache efficiency.

I suspect the cache angle they're playing up refers to memory footprint of each cell. I don't know how big their cells are, they could be anything from 2 machine words up. Integers are supposedly directly represented, and if they've embedded their GC liveness info into spare bits (or stored it elsewhere entirely) then that makes it extremely compact and thus cache friendly.
When you're an entrepreneur, that's the kind of demand you always get. I'm not an investor, I'm an entrepreneur and I don't care if you work on something "big" and that I could be "part of it"... just pay me and I'll do the work...

Ok, I have to go now, I have to work on something "big" of my own...
That's an oft-repeated request I get. Sounds like it's about time that I took the hint. :) Thanks for the feedback.
If I was on the ICANN board, I'd pass some resolution that says that squattered domains can be claimed back.

I'm sure I can come up with a decent definition for squatters.
Linguistically, there's no agreed-upon rule for what makes a "dialect"[1]. What I heard from Linguistics people is that they're all just separate languages, some with and some without a written form.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect#.22Dialect.22_or_.22lan...
That I don't disagree with per se. The tech transfer process is something that definitely needs to be modified. ibridge networks has a model that I find quite interesting and is along the lines of making pools of technology available that might be commercialized (not all university research, in fact only a small percentage can be commercialized).

http://www.ibridgenetwork.org/
IIRC, there is another license (guile, maybe?) that's identical to GPL except it doesn't affect the outer program.
Ever-increasing choice leads to the tyranny of the hit
Artificially low rates would force anyone to seek yields at any costs, so portfolios were stuffed with all sort of junk, so your 'contained to real estate' point is not correct.

I would also argue that banks accumulated toxic assets because theey believed that they would be bailed out (moral hazard argument), which is the direct consequence of regulation.

'Too big to fail' idea has been around for quite long, one can start from LTCM more than 10 years ago, and it of course existed before that.

Fraudulent behavour is common to free market economies, but normally market participants develop mechanisms to filter out scammers (for instance J P Morgan used to say that nobody could become client of his bank without an introduction). It is when the government takes over controlling responsibility and then fails to deliver (Madoff) we have massive problems.
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Right, I removed that line just before you posted for that reason. :-)

I think usually the difference (as mentioned in the OT's paper) is more political than linguistic.
Actually, you could argue that the bank had the resources. It's just that one manager didn't want to share his with other people.

People liked and used these apps a lot at my bank too. And that's what made the problem worse. The apps didn't scale, the data was inconsistent or simply not structured (so it was hard to pump it into the main database) and the code was terrible, so it was very hard to add new features.

These things work well for a while (not much data, few users), but when the going gets tough, IT pays the price.
By the way daok, did you notice the "Learn more" link? Did you click and read that and find that page not useful enough? Or did you not notice that link at all?

Just trying to get an idea of if that link is visible but the info inadequate, or if the link is not even noticeable at all.
Instead of drawing a straight line between points, try using a great circle. Also try other projections besides mercator.
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These adjustments are more than just putting the distributive method into practice. If you have 2 separate time series which do not overlap and you are attempting to put forward a theory about the long-term trend of the underlying data, then you very much do need to provide a justification for any adjustment you make to each time series.

How does that even make sense? If the human activities at the airport location are causing an increase in temperatures at the airport, then that by definition is an increase in the temperature of the local climate.

Climate and local weather are not the same. If I build a parking lot the local temperature may increase by several degrees C on average, yet this represents an inconsequential change to the local climate within a radius of, say, 100km. More so, it represents an inconsequential change to the climate of the entire Earth. The significance of the urban heat island effect with relation to temperature records is that the proportion of weather stations which are affected by an increased urban heat island effect (due to increased urbanization) exceeds the percentage of the Earth affected by many orders of magnitude.

Yes, urban heat island effects can be accounted for, but I think the criticism is that for the most part they have not been.
Agree completely.

Jobs himself has said what Apple (and he) has compared to others is "taste." I believe that to be true.

In relation to the human side (leading people), what Jobs has going for him is "judgement."

The older I get, the thing that attracts me to certain leaders is good judgement. Without that, a leader is a manager and not a very good one.
Depends on your premises. Another logically consistent solution would be to have the government invest in research, and allow anyone to use the findings.
DanielBMarkham is correct.

The goal is to first get a feel for estimating tasks relative to each other.

Then, over time, see how many story points you complete in a given time, and eventually use that to make a correlation between points and hours.

The advantage of not going straight to time estimates is that you avoid the tendency to think you can get more done in a given time that is realistic.
FlightCaster lies in the predictive equivalent of the 'uncanny valley'. The problem with this kind of service is that while even 90% accuracy would be a great technical achievement, even 99% accuracy is probably insufficient for practical use. How many people actually change their arrangements because FlightCaster 'thinks' the flight is delayed vs those who simply wait to hear the official word? My guess is, not enough to build a business on.
The yes/no chart at the bottom is hilarious.

I can't believe he still asked if he would do the work after all that.
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I think it needs to be visible like buttons are
I like the fantastically unfounded assumption about selling his company for 40 million dollars.
And his amazingly offensive attitude. Not good founder material IMHO, with old debts hanging off you, not paid and feeling justified about it, and swearing at people who don't want to work with you.
Good luck doing anything useful :P
Use AB testing, try a bunch of minor, but easy-to-do changes and evolve the product over time. This works, trust me.
I'm curious to know if Ryan has spoken to any of the local (I live in the same town) agents about the lock-in to see what they think? I don't know a huge amount about the industry, but it has some interesting dynamics.

There are a handful of major franchises (Re/Max, Century 21, CBRE on the commercial side) that folks sign on to. Why are such companies so enticing to agents? Is there a benefit to doing the same thing as every other agent in your region, or is the barrier to standalone entry to the market too high?

I presume that the franchise groups are heavily wedded to the existing MLS stuff, even if they have their own separate listing facilities (certainly the largest Re/Max group here puts all their listings on their own website).

I should talk to one of my neighbours about it, as I have some interesting ideas :)
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True story: I was at an OpenID developer meeting some time ago and BradFitz was asking people to explain all this crazy nomenclature, because even he can't quite follow it any more.

OpenID is a simple idea that was seized upon and overwhelmed by a large number of asshats who wanted to embrace and extend the concept with dopey shit like XRIs.

Unfortunately, those people have way too much influence on the written spec. This is not to denigrate anything daveman692 is doing and BradFitz did, it's the other people that I wish would fall off a cliff.
Hilarious, but flagged.
There's a survey of different approaches here:

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/financing...
You make an interesting comment about the larger brokers. In my area there is one that is, relatively speaking, bigger than the other 'big fish', but there are probably three or four "significant" brokerages, and a lot of smaller ones too.

What is it about the market that causes nominally entrepreneurial people (they're commission-driven after all) to tie themselves to a large brokerage that will eat a lot of their earnings?
Sometimes I wonder if they renamed the pattern just to keep up the music theme...
Thanks for a few laughs! :)
Very useless!
They are fancy looking PC's. What'd you mean "that's not true"?
Ah, Lucas, if only he read this every time he made a sequel:

"It's a spaghetti western, only it takes place in the thirties. Or it's James Bond and it takes place in the thirties. Except James Bond tends to get a little outrageous at times. We're going to take the unrealistic side of it off, and make it more like the Clint Eastwood westerns. The thing with this is, we want to make a very believable character."
Doing that as we speak. :)
This freedom to innovate without risk is part of what makes universities valuable. There are already plenty of companies that innovate under market conditions. It's important to also have a place where more blue-sky research, of the sort that wouldn't get green-lit in a corporate environment, can happen.
Welcome to the world of dialect continuum! Please enjoy your stay.

Notable thing here is that AAVE has useful features absent from "just" English.