skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the OP is specifically talking about information specifically besides that "supplied here". Like, measuring how much it really costs, the hidden challenges, etc, in setting up a large automated mailing system.
Why can't the venture capital go there. Every article on Venture these days says American VCs are looking overseas more than here. Surely they'll find the best and brightest with great ideas and can invest at a better exchange rate by keeping entrepreneurs local. We have more than enough innovation in this country. Our problem is once the idea is proven we can't make an industry out of it without being undercut.
Of course there are lots of exceptions to that, like protracted and pointless wars in the Middle East, but those are not fundamental artifacts of the conception of America; they are side-effects of bad culture today.

This is fundamentally the same argument that communists use when they are asked about Stalin or Ceausescu. I dislike the notion that all bad parts of an arbitrary system can be explained away by saying "Well, that's not really the system. The real system has zero-latency networks and functional immortality and no-one ever cries."

The "fundamental artifacts of the conception of America" are infinitely less important than what America actually is. The same applies to communism, anarchism, and C++.
Except he's circumventing the DRM in order to make fair-use backups.
gzipped sources:

http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus7/public/Opus7-1.0.tar.gz
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While I think your number is pretty low, your last sentence makes a lot of sense. These aren't investors. They haven't been looking for the the best shares to own. This is equivalent to more risk / lower value of the share to them.

It shouldn't be possible for them to buy shares at a price attractive to both founders/investors & employees.
Other parts of rails: actionmailer, actionpack, activeresource, and activesupport.

Forms and validations don't depend on ActiveRecord at all in edge rails.
Why is no one here mentioning plug-in laws? With proper governance (ie: laws) we can remove the market externality that exists in the natural monopoly of telecom infrastructure. These laws force all infrastructure owners to sell access at bulk rates (like a T3) that allow new ISPs, etc. without any burdens (ie: throttling). Most people would pick the independents without restrictions.

Net neutrality, as it's currently setup, makes it too easy for companies to influence the law. Plug-in laws are at work in many developed economies, and are more subject to market forces due to the competition for bulk rate product.
In 2009, it's fair to say the market doesn't understand the term market.

Less flippantly, "the market" and "the market for a well-patterened home" are two different things, and with zero properties of any kind changing hands for 10 - 12 months in certain affluent zip codes (home prices from seven to eight figures and sellers withdrawing listings rather than lower pricing), data is insufficient to establish what the broad market is, much less what a niche market would be. With no comps, pricing becomes arbitrary.
The reverse is often true as well. Anywhere you see rationing and price fixing, you can find black markets nearby, assuming the distortion is high enough.
Our tax money at work. . .
Didn't work for me, it seems like their streetview tilecache is broken. Then again, it could be a corporate firewall problem too.
Dunno about this. My desk is in my bedroom, and I've worked from there for years. I worked a full-time job there, I wrote a book there, I write my open-source projects there, etc. I also get out of the house as much as I want to. (And I don't need to be "reminded" that the kitchen is where food is. If I'm hungry, I'll go find something to eat. Basic human instinct...)

I work at an office now, but I basically look at it as a time to socialize. For getting Real Work done, I still prefer my desk in my bedroom. (But actually, my desk in the office is quite nice too... when everyone else is working from home.)
How do you program something like that? I'm impressed.
Always nice to see stuff like this happening here. +1 for both of you :)
Don't you trust the Swiss?
A single crankshaft is probably more practical for small cars.
Nonetheless, his work thus far has been a remarkable achievement.
These days it is generally accepted worldwide that the only legal source of power for a government is the one that originates from the people.

Citation? Perhaps sociologists or philosophers accept that, but governments certainly don't. If they did, North Korea wouldn't be generally recognized as an independent country. Since it is, and since the current government there is generally recognized as such, it's legal.
This thing is really blown out of porportion now: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1...

This "Climategate/Warmergate" thing is just another case of FUD, an invented scandal.
I have neither
Thanks for the correction. I thought silver would've kept up with gold, but it still illustrates loss of value.
They went down on not paying income tax on the proceeds of selling that hooch. If they just had it in a closet somewhere, it is doubtful that the government would ever find out.
It is a college:

http://www.math.nyu.edu/courses/Calculus/2009/Fall/122/hw.ht...
That's like asking (in 2006 after the Intel switch but before everyone heard of the iPhone), "If it's so much better, why doesn't anyone want a Mac?" Arguably, "the market" didn't even know what it was, much less why they should value one. It's not that no one wanted a Mac, it's that less than 1 in 25 did. If only 10 people went shopping, odds were none were looking at a Mac.

Folks like Lindal Cedar Homes spend money marketing livable homes as an experience, but the general population isn't yet aware of the benefits or why they should even desire such a home.
"It all depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." - Bill Clinton.
Thanks for your answer, I'll take a look at them.
My advice to these guys:

"Better start including defenses against this stuff in your planned activities - I think since the Dutch boys showed Counterfeiting and Cuff keys on their site(s) in relation to the reprap they may as well have painted a giant red bullseye on all open hardware projects. Naivety is a fearsomely expensive trait. I too was raided 11 years ago lost 8 PC’s and a bunch of software (20,000 worth) all on a false accusation - I gave up even thinking I’d ever get it back years ago... Disperse your assets, wake up to the REAL situation, Police act, then justify those action as necessary. Analyze why you where targeted and THINK. Police time is a scarce commodity, it is not used accidentally.
There are 10’s of thousands of us to each one of them. Good Luck.

Sure, I’m paranoid, but, am I paranoid ENOUGH?"

and the last line is a recursive joke... ;-)
zoning prevents the market from meeting demand properly. the justification is preventing externalities such as turning what was a nice small town into a condo complex etc. but the citizens who want to keep it a small town shouldn't do so at the end of a gun (legislation), if they want it they should pay for it.
Sure: http://lindal.com/homes/gallery/dwell_homes.cfm

I don't own a Lindal home, but do love this collection and their "small home" collection:

http://lindal.com/homes/gallery/small_treasures/summit.cfm
"we could either break it up".. aka, the market not handling things at all, and government intervention being necessary.

There's a whole set of well-defined problems in which everyone following their individual interests, the "invisible hand" so to speak, lead to a clearly terrible situation -- monopolies, prisoners dilemmas (collusion), tragedy of the commons (pollution, resource extraction, public education)..

Talking about how "ideally the market would take care of those problem" is just silly, the market will categorically not care about those problems -- it's not an intelligent force, just a sum of individual actions.

I hate my health insurance company, cable company and cell phone company -- what are my options here in this supposedly free market, start my own multi billion dollar nation-spanning infrastructure?
But then North Korea nukes Seoul, Shanghai, and Tokyo.

Nuclear war has no winners.
>> "Do-it-yourself dreidel"

It seems quite odd to include this one IMHO. I had to look it up to know what it was. Is it more widely known in USA?
For source, see the constitution of pretty much any country that claims to be democratic. Most of them state explicitly one way or other that the exclusive source of power is the people.
Assume learning by doing, and Alpha's ability to solve any introductory problem, and you are screwed.
Cheating is now easier. That's good, for two reasons:

1. The steps are small and have clear documentation. Copying a wall of numbers does nothing. Copying delimited steps while being told exactly what they are helps. Actually, it's a lot like typical classroom instruction!

2. Cheating from someone "smarter" allows rationalization. The class is hard, you suck at math, they're smart. But here a dumb process spits out answers. The typical response to this sort of narrow AI is "well, it's not that difficult after all". This suggests that you don't need an abundance of ingenuity to do rote math of this sort. And that's motivating, if you're feeling daft.

The mediocre borrow and the great steal; if a novice learns from brute copying then we shouldn't give a damn.
More Africans are enslaved today than at height of slave trade
IMO, it's generally bad form for a program to be dynamically creating named functions, filling the namespace.

That's what inner functions are for. This isn't the best example, but you get the idea:

def foo(mylist):
def n_to_the_n(n):
if n > 1:
return n**n
return 1
return [n_to_the_n(i) for i in mylist]
It's literally FUD (UD?), in that the skeptics are spreading uncertainty and doubt about the legitimacy of the models and the underlying data that the world leadership has accepted as gospel truth for the past decade. But it might be good FUD, because it might reopen intelligent discussion on a topic where debate has consisted of name-calling for just as long.
Sure, there's some hyperbole in his post… but don't underestimate the ability of good technology and a REPL to aid you in actually understanding the problem, or the available technology, or how you might solve it.

As a recent example, I find Clojure's REPL to be invaluable when wrapping my head around Java libraries. The features of a Lisp make sketching and exploring easier, and that's part of understanding the problem.

I forget the exact quote, but it's something like "I never learned to see properly until I tried to draw". Pertinent.
Yeah, but that's the US and this is North Korea. Don't you see the difference?
That's fine if you only need _trackPageview. The Google solution provides more capabilities though. Also, be careful of using 3rd party solution. They don't always work correctly. The jQuery plugin for GA used to cache-bust every request to ga.js, which definitely slows down your page.
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Why do they need to acknowledge anything? Is this an American concept?
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You make a good point - I forgot about indirect light and banded spectra interacting with surfaces.
The people saying 5% are probably wishful thinkers. It's a fact of life that in all but very very few cases it is only the VC's and (sometimes) the founders that get rich.

There are exceptions, I got a tiny part of google because I was there (briefly) very early and that paid off nicely. And there are other examples of non-founders doing well, where "well" means life changing amounts of money (measured in millions).

But people need to keep in mind that those are exceptions, not the rule.
Most non-founders end up with what amounts to a nice bonus, a year or two's salary.

Unless I'm mistaken this question was sort of "what's normal for this situation?".

What's normal varies but not by much. 5% is high. I agree with tptacek, 5% is what you give the 2nd CEO (which is a different topic, that's usually 5% wasted because that CEO will probably drive your company out of business. Anyone remember the Pepsi guy running Apple?). .5-1.5% sounds about right for the first engineering hire.

Remember, you can always give out more stock but it is close to impossible to take it back.
When I opened this for the first time I was really excited. It seemed like a really in-depth API/library with a lot of options. But when I started actually using a lot of their demos with Firefox 3.5 I noticed how many visual and coding compatibility issues there are. Things are quite often visually "odd", and sometimes values simply return NaN.
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Thanks for the suggestion! I didn't know posterous supported github gists.
If Mars is heating up a the same rate as earth, they [martians] must have quite a complex underground freeway system to produce all that CO2 on Mars, which is obviously causing Marsian Warming...
Perhaps "human rights" is too broad an umbrella, but I still think it applies.

My primary complaint is not about wage. It's about the treatment of workers in general. Unsafe conditions, unsustainable hours, exposure to chemicals, dangerous equipment, forced labor, physical abuse, etc. And, yes, people can be underpaid even relative to their cost of living.

Combine those things with governments that afford little or no transparency and you have what amounts to a "human rights" problem (in my opinion).

Seriously, it's not hard to find reports on working conditions in China ... yes, I know they aren't all bad ... but it aint Willy Wonka's chocolate factory over there. Nothing wrong with putting a little research and thought into your purchasing decisions–that was my point.

Oh, and I don't think your last question was honest ... because it makes no sense. The solution obviously isn't to have no employees in China.
I'm intrigued... I'll post a more in depth comment after a brief reading and source code inspection.

I took particular interest in your article on "Why DOM-ready still sucks" due my heavy usage of jQuery on all of my sites. To skip the gory details for everybody, there is a JS script hack linked from the blog post to solve the issue and allow jQuery and LABjs to play nice:

http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev/msg/f039573c689cef...
Um...

(filter #(> x 10) seq)

sure is readable for me, and I'm fluent in Python and various Lisps. (That example is Clojure.)

I would like to point out, however, that CL allows you to write:

(loop for x in seq
when (> x 10)
collect x)

which you might think is verbose ("why do I need that 'collect'?")... except that loop allows you to write things like

(loop for i in *random*
counting (evenp i) into evens
counting (oddp i) into odds
summing i into total
maximizing i into max
minimizing i into min
finally (return (list min max total evens odds)))

Loop knocks Python's trivial list comprehensions into a cocked hat.

I switch between map/filter and loop depending on whether I'm working with predefined functions (e.g., (filter 'less-than-ten seq)), handling multiple sequences, doing side-effects, etc.
Seoul, definitely. I would be mildly surprised if it actually managed to hit Shanghai or Tokyo. North Korean military hardware is not known for it's quality.

On the upside, North Korea isn't suicidal, and it's not like China was going to stop giving them aid anyway, so it probably makes little practical difference anyway.
How is that noscript strips URLs with brackets is WolframAlpha's problem?
There's a difference between things being possible and being encouraged.

De-emphasizing functional operations makes it more likely for libraries to work in a non-functional style, for tutorials to do so, etc.

It's tiring fighting against a community and a (benevolent) dictator that disagree with you.
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Ah, now I see why I was downvoted - the original title called the thing "offline ebay", hence my comment that such a thing is traditionally called an auction. Now that the title is changed to stock exchange of course my comment doesn't make sense anymore.
No, the example given was voice clips. Your idea of a "trial run" is interesting, but I doubt that they're doing this to get some extra logistics practice. Unlike gmail or wave, mass mailing is a well-explored domain.

They're doing it to put the gmail logo on your fireplace mantle. Which is just fine, because you might not otherwise have sent a cheerful card. Plus their snowflake pun is hilarious.
Soo cool you made these stats public. It's not only that you can't loose anything by sharing this data, but you also inspire people by giving out data like this. Really really cool. One question... can you expand on how you marketed this website, sounds like you really did some marketing on this website, I already saw this affiliate program you're running, are their other ways you target your customers, like adwords? Organic traffic? And what's your ratio of development/marketing? Thanks very much for sharing.
Much more likely is they just engineer a coup and quietly shoot Der Leader.
I think this may strongly depend on the home country (thus creating more distortion).

Home country is not necessarily Bangladesh, it could be UK or Switzerland, in which case the H1B holder can and does negotiate for market rate salary or he will go to his home country where he is payed fairly and life is just as good.
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Maybe I'm totally missing something, but how exactly do they expect their citizens to buy food now? If everyone suddenly has $40 and that's it, that sounds an awful lot like an awful lot of people are going to starve to death.
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how do you guys feel about .. how much equity first employee should receive with little to no pay, as sort of like a side project ?
Let's treat this as an interview question:

First, I'll assume alpha works similar to a compiler. It parses the text, and generates an AST for the input expression. Your goal is to replace the tree with the 'best' possible equivalent AST. Best here is a fitness function, that provides a score for a given AST. At first glance, we'll say the AST with the smallest number of nodes is optimal.

Then, create a list of legal operations on a subtree. Try an operation, and see if the AST gets better. Repeat.
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Finally! Finally? I'm getting tired of hearing "news" about the Moller Skycar.

Also, I used to be excited about flying cars until I noticed all the bad drivers of non-flying cars.
That sucks and I agree you have a big grievance.

However it's not an example like I talked about. Even if this guy wins through I don't see how it would affect the broad DRM laws such as hounded you. As I see it it would be a test case for personal use being allowed?
Well, here's a potentially-relevant quote from the North Korean constitution:

Comrade Kim Il Sung elucidated the fundamental principles of nation building and State activities, established the best State and social system, the best mode of politics and system and methods of administering society, and laid solid foundations for the prosperity of the socialist motherland and for the continuation and consummation of the revolutionary cause of Juche. Regarding “The people are my God” as his maxim, Comrade Kim Il Sung always mixed with the people, devoted his whole life for them and turned the whole of society into a large family which is united in one mind by taking care of the people and leading them through his noble benevolent politics. The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung is the sun of the nation and the lodestar of national reunification.

Here's another:

As a veteran statesman in the world, Comrade Kim Il Sung opened up the new era of independence, carried out energetic activities for the strengthening and development of the socialist movement and the non-aligned movement as well as for world peace and for friendship among the peoples and made an imperishable contribution to the cause of human independence. Comrade Kim Il Sung was a genius in ideology and theory, a master of leadership, an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, a great revolutionary and politician and a great man.

And one more for the road:

Article 4. The sovereignty of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea resides in the workers, peasants, working intellectuals and all other working people. The working people exercise power through their representative organs―the Supreme People’s Assembly and local People’s Assemblies at all levels.

Note that this last one is phrased as a statement of fact, and not as an imperative given to the government. That is to say, "North Korea's government is derived from the public", and _not_ "North Korea's government should be derived from the public".

I will concede that these snippets are taken from the 1972 constitution, which has since been revised a couple of times. However, given the addition of an article declaring Kim Jong-Il to be Supreme Leader in the 2009 constitution, I suspect what the North Korean government is doing is entirely legal, unless you are suggesting that they are somehow bound by (e.g.) the U.S. constitution.

EDIT:

Ooh, here's another good one:

Article 11. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea shall conduct all activities under the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

So, it would actually be illegal for the current government to not be the current government. They are legally obligated by their constitution to maintain the dictatorship.
if there's no pay, that's not an employee- that's a founder.
The "correct" alternative to multiline lambda might be not a named function but an explicit code block: no clutter at the prize of vertical space.

result = []
for item in iterable:
# here goes multiline lambda as an explicit suite
# that computes value
result.append(value)
Ran into this same situation with a previous employer filing suit against me for allegedly violating a ridiculously overreaching non-compete agreement. In the end, we had to shut down and agree to some ridiculous settlement because we couldn't afford to fight them.
You're right, assuming the H1B employer is honest. However, the defacto primary use-case of an H1B is to depress the wages that MegaCorp pays its employees.

The current advocates of the Startup Visa probably have honest intentions, but I guarantee that after 10 years, the startup visa will work similarly to the H1B program.
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> the alternative is not coming here at all

That is one alternative. Another is coming up with a program that doesn't allow MegaCorp to abuse its H1B employees and depress market wages for US citizens at the same time.
my point exactly / sorry for confusion.
Way to break alpha-substitutability, guys. I expected this from the Rails crowd, but somehow I thought better of the .NET community.

Or, as Steve Summit put it to me when I told him about this, "The audience leaps to its feet and shouts 'NO!'"
Word on the street is that the 2to3 tool is magical. Just run the Py2.6 interpreter with the "-3" flag for warnings, fix the warnings, and run the 2to3 tool to get your port.
Facebook just announced updated privacy controls, etc. How does that article evaluate after these are place?
Ah, it's literally a "Search engine for programmers."
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So these are people who are unemployed or risking getting fired by looking for a job in public?

Isn't it better to find people who already have a job they like and try to convince them that they would be even happier in your company?
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