skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your point is that design patterns only exist because of insufficiently powerful languages, I disagree. Iterator and Strategy, for instance, are useful concepts to be able to talk about in any language, no matter whether they're first-class or not, or how simple the implementation is. If you've got a bunch of lambdas that define alternative ways to accomplish the same end, then why the hell not call them Strategies?

I'd also take issue with the implication that Python is powerful enough for the common patterns to disappear completely. it doesn't have macros, for a start, so implementing coupled Strategies of any complexity means you're back in class FooStrategy() land.

Recognising when you are or should be implementing a recognised pattern means that you can rely on a lot of analysis of that pattern, largely without paying attention to the environment in which that analysis was performed. That's potentially a big win.

I guess what I'm getting at is that throwing away patterns means throwing away a decent lingua franca for talking about the anatomy of your code. Given that, as someone far smarter than me once said, code is primarily for humans to read and only incidentally for computers to execute, that seems like a poor decision.
It's a white powdery substance... oh, code, never mind.
I rejected your premise. I didn't try to solve your problem. Your need for PHP, categories, and whatever else doesn't make any difference. Wordpress will be as, insecure as it will be independent of your need for it not to be.

Again: avoid Wordpress. If you can't, you have my sympathy.
Socks and laces is actually 'cross-selling'. Up-selling is getting the buyer to buy something more expensive than the thing they are currently buying/contemplating buying.
I absolutely believe that this is the right solution for content creators that aren't TV Studios - in fact its easier for them, live broadcast is painful and ugly for studios.

I'm not sure why its not applicable, please explain. In fact I think Justin.tv's role could/should be one of facilitating this process? Why not a Justin.tv Guide?

The biggest downside of live video content on the web (and this can't be resolved) is that one thing the web brings is a global reach, and you're not going to be able to adequately serve a global audience with live video.
Because liquidity returned to the market.

The problem was the NYSE paused trading for many of the stocks in question for 90 secs because of heavy sell pressure, driving those trades to other markets which had little to no liquidity for a few minutes (and are solely electronic). Compound that with a possible trading error, and HFT algorithms, and you had a short period of time where there were no bids for those stocks on those electronic markets.

When liquidity for those stocks returned to the market, the proper forces brought the stocks back to their bid/ask prices in a liquid market.
Want to pay for purchases by waving your iPhone in front of a payment terminal at checkout?

Want to advertise that you own an expensive gadget which is also primed with cash, instead of using a plastic card? No, of course I don't, what a silly question.
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I agree. I wish I knew how they were getting in. All the sites we got access so far had no logging enabled.
I was talking about behavior of employers on the margin, not about increasing employment by an order of magnitude.

Certainly I agree that my argument is limited by changes at scale and also only applies to individual companies within an industry rather than entire industries as a whole.

On the other hand, if Chevy gained a competitive advantage and could produce cars say, 10% cheaper than they used to be able to, it would usually make sense for them to produce more cars, potentially selling them for cheaper. The car industry as a whole still couldn't sell many more cars, but the Chevy would still be better off, taking some market share their competitors.

On the other hand, I think the implicit assumption in the article is that the recession shocked the economy and there was a significant drop in demand. Even if Chevy realized some efficiency gains during the recession, they are still better off cutting production and letting those efficiency gains limit workforce size because the demand curve changed.
As far as I can remember, OmniGroup has never lowered their prices or had any significant sales. I could be wrong about that though.

I'm sure they know what's best for their business and price accordingly, but personally the only software I own from them is OmniFocus. The reason I haven't bought more is nothing special--cost vs. utility. I'd love to use more of their stuff to enhance blog posts or presentations, but I don't see it happening their $50+ prices unless I have some very specific business purpose or I have a lot more disposable income.
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Great technology, underwhelming choice of a font. g's that look like q's are rather distracting.
Though in order to be more like the strip, 80% of the jokes would need to be references completely opaque to anyone who hasn't played whatever obscure video game came out yesterday.
Drupal has those features, and a pretty reasonable security record. It's not as user friendly as WP, though.
The intekone example: the app names indicate they're cheat sheets.
Can you please point out some reasons why you think WordPress code is faulty?
The Nokia N900 as a netbook replacement...
Do you have any evidence whatsoever for that? Or is it just a case of "when something I can't explain happens, it's because the government did it"?
While recognizing the validity of your argument I am having a hard time resisting the urge to point out that we are commenting on code that uses the "Observer pattern" to construct a class hierarchy with accessors for "second", "minute", and "hour" to implement a "digital clock".

The code in this article confirms the suspicion of pattern skeptics that GoF-style patterns lead to code constructed out of pick-and-mix patterns instead of actual sensible code.
I have 2 Wordpress blogs that get comparable amounts of traffic. They're both on the same shared hosting (MediaTemple), they're both updated at the same time.

One never seems to be touched, the other seems to have gotten a high spot on some l44t hax0r's list and is exploited just about every time there a security flaw is discovered. It's annoying to say the least.

Slowly over the years I've been moving everything that I don't absolutely have to host off shared hosting or VPS's and onto hosted services (I love Tumblr) that allow backups/exports. In my experience, it's just not worth the headaches to self-host things like blogs.
Got an email about donating to this project at work. Apparently if you donate enough money, you can get a flamethrower.
My intellectual curiosity has been gratified to the fullest extent.
You should look at using software RAID. The performance is not as bad as it once was. Plus you don't get a corrupt controller which tend to be proprietary.
It looks like timmp.com is just using the search api provided by yebol.com. Do the same search on both of those websites and you get the exact same results, but formatted slightly differently.
> "why is 40 hrs the optimal number?"

This number was determined during the industrial revolution to be the general maximum working hours for productivity to remain constant over a long period.

Which is to say, over 40 hours it was observed that factory workers' productivity decreased over the long term.

Without scientific evidence, I would say it's a pretty good estimate for software work also.
But it gives you an excuse to wave your iPhone around, just in time for the release of the newest revision!
Here's a clip of that exchange: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtfNE4z6a8
To be fair, typefaces aren't natural, and they don't exhibit periodicity. If they were and did, we could probably predict properties of yet-undiscovered typefaces.
Doesn't seem to be working for me, but the mobile version does: http://m.hbr.org/12763/show/c66232388036dd9da4780e91b5bbdb0c...
How do the open source medical equiptment projects jibe with all of the FDA regulations?

I've always wanted to start an open source ultrasound project but I figured there would be too many hurdles.
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Plus, if you run a card for that small of an amount, you're actually losing money.
Has anyone ever seen a comparison on phoronix that isn't riddled with blatant errors? For a site about testing they seem a bit vague on the basics.
A kit seems hard because of all the different models of bikes out there, no? What other obstacles are you finding?

I love the idea BTW!
I'm wondering, how does that work from the store's end? Would they still be able to get the coupon amount back from the manufacturer even though the transaction was made past the expiration date? Do manufacturers even check that?
Employee productivity isn't the most important variable in such a case. More important is the productivity and capacity of the bottlenecks and constraints within your production system (and that's not always the workers themselves).
Not a bad infographic/linkbait, although these are getting a little tiring.
How about... an "App Store for Excel"
Question: is there any way to make Wordpress more secure? Otherwise, why're most people here recommending a move away from Wordpress?

(Not saying they're wrong, just ... curious.)
Indeed, this table is pure cargo cult. The superficial appearance of information without the true inner workings of it.
Virgin America is king at this. My $300 fare always manages to cost me $500 by the time I return from my trip. And magically, unlike when I get upsold by Continental, I don't mind the extra cost at all.
and if you donate even more, you can get your own private run of Dance Dance Immolation or 2pir
Why isn't there a "ignore all apps by this developer" button?

This is one of the reasons why I like using AppSniper. If a developer has a history of making crappy/spammy apps, I have no qualms with ignoring them now and in the future.

I don't know if this is against Apple's TOS, but there's room for a better App store browsing program (like AppSniper and BargainBin) that is targeted towards not-crap programs. Having a developer black-list and a feedback mechanism to nominate developers to this list could go a long way.
Note that you could tell me that Wordpress has changed drastically for the better since I stopped paying attention to it. I would concede that you might be right, but wouldn't change my recommendation at all. It's simply not worth arguing about. Here goes:

* It's written in PHP, a platform on which "remote file inclusion" vulnerabilities --- where attackers can source code to run on the server from MySpace --- continue to be found. I hesitate to bring this up, since (for instance) the last public vBulletin flaw that would have cost you your site goes back to 2008.

* It has an authentication design that uses the same database tables to track administrators who can run code on the site and anonymous Internet commenters.

* It has a template language that allows graphic designers to write templates that run code on your server.

* It hand-codes SQL statements largely out of concatenated queries.

* It is internationalized but has no coherent strategy for dealing with character sets and input filtering, on which it relies heavily, resulting in relatively recent vulnerabilities enabled by for instance UTF-7 inputs.

* It includes in the admin interface an editor for site templates that amounts to a remote login to the server, since, again, templates can run code.

* It has a vibrant community of plugins implemented by people who know exactly enough PHP to get their code working, which means every one of these flaws is repeated for every plugin developer.
"For about five years now, particularly after dinners that featured wine, human-resources executives have been telling me, "We've come to realize we don't really want most employees for the whole of their careers. We want their particular set of skills when we need them — but then things change so fast, we don't need that particular skill set any more." And many of these are companies famous for being good at H.R. "

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but the solution would seem to be not hiring people based solely on short-term requirements. In other words, hire people that are good no matter what the requirements are.

But then again, this is HR departments we're talking about.
These are patterns from the GoF book. Learning to use these patterns in Python is like learning Esperanto so you can pray. Python doesn't need these patterns any more than God needs you to speak Esperanto.
I still don't understand what it does. An animation that explains embedly will help you greatly.
Show HN: My notes from the Web 2.0 Expo
http://web2expo.heroku.com/

I had the opportunity to attend the Web 2.0 Expo earlier this week. While at the event, I was inspired to build out a prototype for a problem I saw with the Twitter stream.

The problem is that hash tags are fleeting; Twitter focuses on live results, and we lose track of tweets over time. This was especially true during the Lean Startup Intensive. #leanstartup was great when it was live on Monday, with the results consisting of live tweets of each presenter. However, if we search for the hash tag now, we get a mess of content not specifically tied to that event.

The concept is to "save a moment in time" in Twitter for a particular hash tag while also adding additional media content (SlideShare, blog posts) related to that subject.

I would appreciate any feedback on this prototype. Is there value in a product like this?
Is 0% unemployment a good end in and of itself? Sometimes industries go through changes that reduce the number of people required to get the work done. It seems like if you're too aggressive about driving unemployment to 0, you end up with all your companies looking like GM.

That isn't to say that unemployment is desirable, and at current levels, it's almost certainly destructive. But the measures required to take unemployment from, say, 2-3% to 0 may cause more harm than good.
It forgets wasted time, too. In most situations that are not manual labor, you can't just trim 10 hours from one person's schedule, give them to someone else, and expect equivalent or better performance. In most clerical positions, time is spent accumulating knowledge, socialising, and waiting for process related bottlenecks.
I wonder if Wordpress is especially poor security-wise or simply it's popularity attacts too much bad attention.
Are you sure this is a new feature?
Doesn't this expose the fact that the app store walled garden isn't for the protection of consumers, but for the protection of Apple?
I was wondering about this too. I often get document conversion errors (using the JavaScript API), especially with UTF-8 documents. Think HTML5 will help?
If this comes together, I will be seeing it in person out there.
Well, at the risk of derailing the conversation... I've extensively customized tumblr. I have beefs about some other elements of their service, but what sort of customization are you talking about that's not possible with tumblr?
For the folks thinking about the "they just don't want the hassle of changing the order"/cash versus credit card thing, I could have also shared a very similar example at Chipotle. Same girl, Stephanie, wanted a burrito bowl, but wanted the onions and peppers added on top. Back then (not sure they still do this) they always said, "that's a fajita burrito without the tortilla" and instead of the $5 for the "bowl" she'd have to pay $7.

So I reminded her about the sub place. The next time she went to chipotle she ordered the bowl, and then waited as they were making the thing and while it was in the middle of the line, this time she would ask as an afterthought can they add peppers and onions, and they never again raised the $7 versus $5 argument.

And if you know Chipotle, you pay AFTER your order is complete, so they could have easily charged her extra without any hassle. But I believe just like the ice cream example, since they already started making a bowl, they had it in there head that they were committed to making the $5 bowl.
Also I might have a way to simplify your idea.

Have the user keep an iPhone or Android phone in their pocket (or on a leg strap) and then sending the accelerometer data to the arduino (or switch from xbox to PC games and send the data over wifi or bluetooth)

Have you considered something like that?
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Total employment is certainly bad from a productivity POV. For a better overall level of production, it's necessary for any system (even one as large as the entire labor market) to have some idle capacity to cope with growth and expedition.

That said, this is an economic standpoint, rather than a social one, but hopefully I'm not being too opaque with my bias :-)
Why not wait to submit this once it's actually live?
This is a definition of "dying" that appears to reduce to "becoming less and less likeable to the author of the article".
For those interested in social psychology, I recommend Influence: The Psychology of Persuation by Robert B. Cialdini. The book elicited facepalm after facepalm after facepalm as I figured out exactly why people behave the way they do. It even helped me explain my own (often erratic) behavior.

If you're into sales or marketing, you're probably familiar with a large number of "compliance tactics" Cialdini talks about. But if you're a confused student like me, you have an eye-opening experience ahead of you.
Ahh yeah. And Apple too. It's just a little prettier than GoDaddy :) After you configure your $3000 laptop it's do you want this for $25, or how about this for $50 kind of stuff.
It's not, at least not completely.

Arbitrage and market-making are legitimate businesses that provide liquidity to markets, making it easier for other traders to get fair trades. (Whenever you trade, the fair value is assumed to be somewhere between the bid and ask, so you're paying about half the spread on every share you trade.)

Of course, many hedge funds out there are scams that exist to take fees while taking ridiculous (and poorly-disclosed) risks with others' money, but not all of them are.
That's funny. I was checking out Cialdini's site in particular when I saw a mention about the Dentists named Dennis thing, which made me look up the original research it came from and inspired this whole post. There's another Cialdini post I have coming up I think. That stuff has a lot of great food for thought.
The software is actually available to play with now. At present it's intended primarily for musicians who will be writing sets using Ableton Live.

Info on the software is here:
http://music.syzygryd.com/help/Install_And_Setup_The_MDK

The software is open source so source code is available.
Are there no natural metrics for typefaces? I doubt that. If there are some, then order typefaces along those and project that higher dimensional space down to 2 or 3. Jigger a bit with the projection to make the output as legible as possible while preserving all or most all of the information it can covey. Done.

That is what the chemists did. It took them quite a bit of work (years, iirc), and that is why we laud them. They didn't lazily appropriate some previous table's shape and force the elements to fit it. Well, hell, maybe some chemists did do that sort of cargo cult "info"graphicing. But we rightly forgot about them because what they made was silly in comparison to the actual periodic table, which conveys real information about our world.
Clever - I could see myself using this.
As I understand it, with Tumblr you can't customize your URL structure, you need to use external commenting systems, and your themes can't run non-js code. Also, many people use Wordpress as a hybrid CMS/blog; the ability to have pages (again with a defined url structure) is important.
Eh, I don't really care about downvotes. I don't usually bother to post if all I have to add is an agreement, but this was basically a request for opinions.
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It's a market for intangibles; over the short term it's zero-sum. The only way to profit is to induce mistakes; to get someone on the other side of a trade that's profitable to you and damaging to them.

If algorithmic trading causes vulnerability to mistakes, they need to revise their algorithms or factor in the risk of this type of loss; that's the way free markets work. The externalities of a sudden crash suck, but other than as a one-time emergency measure, rolling back all the trades isn't a good solution. Wall Street firms should've learned something since 1987.
People get up early to boulder because they like to climb while the weather is nice. Humidity and temperature affect friction on the rock. I can't imagine weather has that great of an effect in this situation.

I think they included the alpine start as a further joke at the ridiculousness of it all.
Wow. I would love to see a technical write-up about how they generate these documents. (I assume they're programmatically generated...?) How do they get around issues of font licensing? (Where do the font file themselves come from?) Really, really cool.
I think there is a simpler solution than using drugs.

Like noted above Skinner found out that random rewards are much more addictive than predictable rewards. So to make something less addictive you need to make rewards more predictable.

So the tip about checking email (or whatever) a few times each day or in specified intervals is generally good as this will make rewards more predictable and less addictive.
Thomas Baekdal is danish.
I've been using Movable Type for years, the differentiating factor being that it generates html pages. No worries about database load. No worries about database hacking, the only access to the data or files being through the admin login. The additional ability to customize the code at any depth is a plus too.
The future of O3D
One of my apps was also targeted by a "spammer" last year, but that spam wasn't as egregious as some of these examples.

For me, one key takeaway from Marco's post is - don't just be annoyed, "the proper procedure is to send a clear notice to appstorenotices@apple.com citing your intellectual property and which apps are infringing it"

However, I'm not sure how responsive Apple will be to these infringement-notices.
Given the title and the city associated with the article was I not the only one expecting to read something like, "Sex. Lots and lots of kinky sex. With Disney characters."

And yes, you will be disappointed.
Honest question, can you upload a script file (PHP/Perl/Python/ASP/Whatever) to tumblr and integrate it with other parts?

When I was freelancing I used to get a lot of requests like this: I want blog/comments/sharing, image gallery, video, and --insert business specific thing here--.

And Wordpress and its plugins make this easy(ier).
It looks like the sweet spot in pricing is the 16G + 3G model, at least for the Euro market. I was recently in the US and almost purchased one, which would have been $686 after taxes, or €539 - only a €40 difference (and I wouldn't have had warranty coverage in Europe of course).
There's YC-funded Appsaurus, which tries to predict apps you like based on what you tell it, but I didn't have a great experience with it.
Wow thats pretty cool. The sharedy.com example is particularly compelling. This really advances link sharing a step. It would be awesome to have something like this preview links in emails, IM's etc. Nice work
Digital information will grow to 1.2 zettabytes this year
Those Europeans. Always up to some crazy but entertaining antics.
The problem stems from a history of flaws in Wordpress' code, not its administration.
Hey guys - this is a serious question : what is the alternative.

Is there anything that provides 80% of the features of Wordpress at significantly higher security ?
What about Textpattern ( php), Movable Type (perl+php), Expression Engine (php), Mephisto (ror), Type (ror)... what ?