skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no :)

Indeed, PHP's __get()/__set() behave the way you describe.

And if you have numerous getter/setters, it will feel and look like shit indeed -- in any language, no matter how terse the syntax. However, in that case the problem is with program design, not with the language itself. Ask your co-workers kindly not to carry over Java thinking into PHP world. Really, each language performs best when used in its default way.

Second, the PHP's ``own semantics when it's invoked with the "wrong" field name'' is simple: issue a warning with E_NOTICE level on read access. You implement that exactly with trigger_error("some msg", E_NOTICE). Same semantics, end of the story. Will be reported, or not reported, depending on error_reporting configuration.

Also, you have __call() in similar vein, which lets you do pretty neat results: http://scriptor.github.com/pharen/index.html
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> But think about the costs of such a system, regardless of inefficiencies / the problems of the current system that make things cost hundreds of thousands

That's why Germany has a social system where people pay in a fixed percentage (15,5%) of their income. That way, everybody pays the same percentage and everybody gets the same service.

If I wasn't self-employed, my employer would have to pay 50% of these costs, so it would be about 8% of my income.

The nice thing: this gets automatically deducted from an employees pay, so if he gets a raise or a cut, the percentage always stays the same.

The downside of it: I make decent money at the moment and have to pay 600-700 euros/month for healthcare.

If you make over a certain amount of money or are self-employed, you can opt-out of this system and move to a cheaper and better private one.

I won't work for long because of demographic change, but it's an ok starting point
You should sort the books by the number of times they have been quoted.
Thanks :)

For ranking, instead of textual relevance (which will be hard to achieve :/) and # of quotes (it can be easily hacked/spammed or new announced books will have a huge weight on the ranking), I suggest you to check timelines: if a book is quoted once/twice/... a month regularly, I'm pretty sure it worths reading it

I'll love to read about the architecture behind the site... yep, technically curious :)
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Hi guys,

I discovered these guys' small business. You may want to check it out for your "hacker news" section.

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Useful, and also a neat way to make some side-cash via your affiliate link. I suspect I'll be checking this regularly.

One thing that would be really handy - or at least interesting - is a "most recently mentioned" list. For example, when people were talking a lot about Program or be Programmed a while back, it would have been fun to see that rise to the top.
Thanks!

On AZ ratings: I wrote that down. It's somewhat complicated because Amazon just made it a bit harder to embed that. It now has to be an iframe; the iframe url must be refreshed every 24 hours.

But overall this should be doable to, I'll see if I can make it usable.

Thank you!
I'd track the comments page. http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments

In this respect you'll see new Amazon links every so often in: http://twitter.com/hackerlinks (the tweet will begin with Amazon) http://hackerbra.in/links

This site is really a good idea. The Amazon links can get quite popular (I know from looking at my Amazon stats on @hackerlinks when I had the affiliate code inserted.)
Actually, everyone pays, and everyone receives an amount related to but not equal to the amount paid if they live long enough. You are less likely to live long enough if you are black or poor, and you are likely to receive 924 times the amount you contributed if your name is Ida May Fuller.
The real WTF in that article is the trace of DropBox issuing calls to its API over HTTP instead of HTTPS.
I'm a Ruby programmer and totally agree with you.
That was what I was doing initially, but actually it has (big) sideeffects: if you search Ruby and get the most quoted book, you get... an ASP.Net book!

So I'm currently working on balancing textual relevance (eg: Ruby) with the number of quotes.

Thanks for your feedback!
The site is just released, so it's currently 0$ :)

We'll see how it goes.
I will offer a more advanced search with similar features, definitely!

On the architecture: I'll create a side-blog that will outline all I learned while working on this. It's been a crazy ride actually (especially because I started using chef and vagrant full speed).

I'll post it back here in all cases.
I live in a forsaken backwater, and I've seen several people using iPads in cafes.
> spending some session in seated meditation.

First I misread this as "sedated meditation", which had me wondering: Does moderate alcoholic influence impair or improve a meditation session?

I know it may sound weird, but I find it tremendously easier to concentrate on and really understand heavy mathematical material after a glass of whisky or two.
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It may generate some side-cash via the affiliate links - it would certainly be useful to us. We'll see how it goes anyway :)

The most recently mentioned list is a very good idea. I had something similar in mind, like a news-letter that would send the "most mentioned this month", so you can get the trends.

Would you find that useful ?
I found AZ ratings to be mostly useless, what would be better is the total number HN/SO points accumulated from all the recommendations for that book.

edit: not a mix, but separate points for each community
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It should be a given that people change their email address occasionally, and so using an email address as a unique user identifier is a bad idea - but nevertheless I've seen programmers do this on occasion, and I was reminded of this today when I contacted Tradeshift (an otherwise good invoicing startup) about why I couldn't change my email, and got the reply that email addresses were being used as user IDs, but "we're working on a different solution so that in time it'll be possible to change your email address." Hmm...

(Note: There's nothing wrong with using email addresses for log-ins, i.e. letting users enter their email address and password when they log in. But there should always be some sort of other unique user identifier (typically an integer) so that users may change their email address without breaking any database references).
Wow, good idea. I've browsed it this morning and it's an excellent website. Some things I might add is a link to the context of where the book was cited and also better categorization. (i.e. effective C++ in compiler book). But otherwise, amazing. Thank you
I didn't know about this page - I'm currently doing a 2-days late crawling, so this will help me make it realtime instead. Thanks!

I didn't know about hackerlinks either - just subscribed!
I agree. The article I link below (and which I believe I first saw here on HN) should be closer to the model of what I would hope to see more of around here.

It gives you easy to read data which I believe is often more helpful than any opinions because at the end of the day you want to know, what are the trade-offs between performance and development time*, among other things. And it's also careful to point out many relevant caveats.

http://faves.eapen.in/performance-comparison-c-java-python-r...
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Thats not so.

Lets assume that 5% of the people use your offering because there is an ios option. A lot more may use it, but they would have paid you anyway so you didn't get those as a customer and a lot of them is going to choose your ios sign-up because its a lot more convinient.

Now you have to pay 30% on everybody's signup fees, even if your offering is much larger than just the ios.

You also depend on electricity, computers, safety and security, a server OS, the internet, etc, etc to have a Saas business - do they also deserve 30%?
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I noticed that the Kindle 3.1 update addresses one of the concerns I've heard about the Kindle - the fact that the location can't really be translated into a page number.

Granted, this doesn't solve the problem of which version of a book the page number corresponds to, but it's a nice update nonetheless.
Thank you!

I plan to display the actual conversation in some way on the site itself, if I can. Lot of people told me it would be useful.

I will also work on some topic extraction, yes!
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I think it could be useful for sure. Both a most recently mentioned list, and most often mentioned list. I'm more interested in the latter as it is more telling.
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This is the #2 reason I am sorry I didn't grow up during the 60's.

A competent programmer could known the whole stack, down to the micro-controller. (Mainly because there wasn't much stack there..)

* Free love&drugs is #1
I don't mean to belittle this app, but why do we need a person finder in the era of e-mails and social networks?
There is a difference between criticizing the implementation of a policy (e.g. the AppStore review process is too slow, the AppStore review process sometimes makes embarrassing mistakes) and criticizing the policy itself (e.g. Apple's control over the AppStore is a bad thing). Gruber (and Marco et al) might criticize specific tactics by Apple but the Mac pundits largely agree with the strategy and the goals—whatever the strategy or goals may be.
Most IDE's use this for auto-completion.
What meditation technique(s) do you use?
Why let it die?

We can never recreate the cast, but that doesn't mean that we can't watch Firefly:TNG just like we did with Star Trek.

Of course we will then end up having endless who is best Mal or rbanffy.

Personally I hold out for Mal, but that is just me.
Mmm - a kind of book karma. Something like mixing the karma of the commenter with the heatness of the discussion etc ?

I think being able to filter on SO vs HN would definitely give different results, too.

The topics are sometimes fairly different on both sites.
At what level would that apply?

If they're using EMC for storage, then even if their database says they have 1,000 copies they would only physically have 1 (although not quite true as then you have backup, replication, etc).

It's a meaningless distinction and certainly not one that should be dreamt up by a tech company.
This is a great idea, and executed well! Awesome!
I agree about the context, very important to judge the value of the suggestion!
Overall I must work on making the data more exploreable, definitely.

My pet peeve is allowing to find books quoted by X, where X is some instance of someone I appreciated on HN :)

I think I will create a labs section with various experimentations like these, so people can try them out and see if it's useful.
Thanks for the kind words! Really glad you (and others) like it after the time I spent on it :)
That's a caricature of my comment (given the smiley this is probably intentional). The primary motivation was educational fitness, the second consistency within the education program, the third popularity. Of course, not popularity according to the TIOBE index, but to what typical employers require. Of course, in the market C# and Java are more popular, but popularity is just one factor.
And consider expanding your profile to point to github, your CV, or anything else where someone might be able to gauge your skills, interests, competencies, etc.
Awesome leading question, thanks!

BugHerd is a tracker for web developers and designers run within the website you're working on. Part feedback tool, part bug tracker, part QA tool. It's a bug tracker that engineers, designers, clients and stakeholders can all use. Each group has a different interface meaning no one is ever in over their head. A lot of the stuff you normally have to enter manually is logged/tracked automagically, meaning more often than not a short description is enough to get all the detail you need to reproduce a problem.
You don't appear to be aware of what's going on in the US right now. I would also suggest reading what pg has to say about identity (and keeping it small).
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You must have misread my comment. Popularity (as in what typical future employers require) is one of the factors (besides fitness for education and program consistency), TIOBE is not.

The TIOBE reference was to show that there are nearly always metrics that show your point.

But I guess it is easy to stomp on people based on presumption. Let's just stick to arguments, rather than poisoning the well.
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An Amazon link will look like: http://twitter.com/#!/hackerlinks/status/39864047344029696

Good luck!

Perhaps I should make an Amazon only Hackerlinks-style feed! Or you could have one coming from your site of new books as they're added!
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Yet another know-it-all blaming the victim. There is no magic immunity which accrues from being 18, the kid knew what he was doing and wilfully committed criminal acts.
Amazon owns (or licenses) that content and is therefore 'publishing' it. Readability doesn't own or control the content, they are simply rearranging it like an intelligent RSS reader.
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We know there are many similar solutions but our service is simple that's why not expensive and has satellite iPhone application.

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Their universe is interesting and someone may be able to get some good, solid sci-fi out of it.

But, apart from the Firefly name and brand, what would be left? Would we still call it Firefly without Mal?
One I think is libraries for API's, sure this might not be the case among the latest breed of startups but I think overall your most likely to come across a PHP library and example code than Ruby.
>go to prison for a long time?

Go to prison? Prison should be reserved for violent offenders. IMO, putting non-violent offenders in a pen with violent offenders is very clearly "cruel and unusual punishment".
Fringe has become the last series I truly enjoy watching these days.

I'd definitely be in for $40 if there was a good chance for another 13 episodes of Firefly.

They should maybe use WePay for the largest collective payment ever?
Nice, using the words of the antagonist in Serenity.
My own PHP work where I have been the sole developer for most is great for me to work with. Having to mod a zen cart over the past week though makes me agree with you, that thing most be the kind of messy and obscure PHP open source projects.
OK, maybe in Season 7, but in Season 1?
Apropos RefinedPixel's comment (in the post's page) about webapps, the other day I accidentally found http://www.apple.com/webapps/

However, the current 'most recent' entries are dated December 3rd of last year. The small print does say "Apple is providing links to these applications as a courtesy [...]"
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You sound like a very vindictive person. How is society helped by Madoff sitting in jail? He should be working in McDonalds with 60% of his paycheck garnished. The mugger is the only one who belongs in jail, because he's violent.
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A very salient point. Whether Apple will notice through the haze of Havana smoke while polishing their monocle is another matter.
If you do go the middleman/finder's fee route, consider structuring his reward on a 'sliding scale', possibly with a cap.

Also check the Lehman Formula:

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

HTH
I thought you only had to pay 30% of the iOS users that subscribed using IAP, and not 30% of everybody. So lets say those 5% all used IAP, you would have to pay 30% of 5% of your total.

Now if your margin is less than 30% you could eat the loss of those 5% of users or increase your prices for the other 95% (and hopefully not lose more customers). Or somewhere in between where you up the price, but not enough to cover the loss of the iOS cut.
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In Britain, when actual Tudor houses exist these modern builds are always called 'Mock Tudor'.
In the UK healthcare related costs are extracted from income tax. The monthly cost depends on your income:

£12k (grad student, trainee) - £62 per month
£24k (young professional) - £114 per month
£60k (moderately wealthy) - £318 per month

The average price is probably near your lower bound but the fact that it scales with income means that you aren't a slave to your workplace. You can quit your job and start a business without fear of crippling medical costs.

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You're overestimating peoples inclination to fuck around with cruddy hacks. The vast, vast number of iPhone users aren't nerds, and have no desire to become nerds.
for every dev who leaves the app store there are 100 waiting to join. that's the main problem - you can't pressure apple as long as there are masses of devs willing to play by apple's rules.
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This is a great idea. Simple, yet effective, and well executed.

I wish I'd thought of it.
Indeed. Because of the insanity of the rules, finding the cheapest fares is in EXPSPACE and (at least) in NP-HARD.

http://www.itasoftware.com/pdf/ComplexityofArlineTravelPlann... is a really cool read if anyone's interested
It's also easier to manage if you don't bother with politeness or try to be clear. One line vague replies seem to be the go.
You need to adjust your tokenization settings. --Searching for C, C++, and C# all return the same results right now.
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Thank you - need to learn a bit more of solr to do that. I Will definitely to it!
On the reddit thread, the guy says that was inaccurate and they were actually "really nice" in waking him up.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/fpkav/the_boy_who_st...
Thank you! Really glad you like it.
I can't see any book details / list now. I haz error 500.
One possible solution is an "indent-on-commit" plugin. It pisses off EVERYONE equally =)

It does get around some of this though; you don't have the diff issues, and everyone can indent how they like. Those that choose to use the same settings as the auto-indenter get pissed off the least. It's not ideal, but I think it does a reasonable job of at least minimizing the standard deviation of pissoffedness by spreading it around.
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Read it again. The paper says that if you use a specific quantum mechanics model then you get results with several free parameters. These parameters can be tuned against 15 existing molecules and the equation gives some explanatory power of why the folding is non-Arrhenius.

Several things must occur before you can say it's real: does it apply to other molecules, what are the sources of the differences between prediction and measurement, do molecules while folding really undergo some sort of non-continuous motion and can it be detected and why hasn't it ever been seen before, and do the matching corresponding Newtonian+statistical dynamics give similar predictions?
done. maybe let me fill in my mail address so we can stay updated about any results?

Made me rethink some of my deployment strategies; mainly I'll just deploy doing a git pull on the server and issuing a graceful apache restart (passenger). db migrations through "rake db:migrate".

Would be interesting to see what others have as deployment strategies.
1. Get yourself a blog.

2. Learn to use paragraphs.
If my HR folks could parse github repos, I would have much less noise to weed out.
Thanks, I'm diving into it currently.
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What are we discussing here? Do you not know the difference between elastic and inelastic markets? Health Care cannot ever be a free market because it is utterly inelastic.
yes of course thats a valid reply; the next question they'll ask you is "Can you think of another one?" and try to steer you towards it.
But they don't act as a "gateway" to the content, so I don't see how they can be considered a publisher. They are effectively an XSLT script run through a remote server. You say to readability "here, make this webpage better", readability doesn't publish a list of formatted webpages.

(Although I appreciate they probably don't use XSLT and I don't mean to demean what they do).
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No, really, get yourself a blog. Then you can write in something more legible than medium grey on light grey.
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Perhaps a combination, like a sort of TechMeme for books?
The level of effort required to create a high-quality professional app is more than many dev teams are capable of. Despite the numbers you hear about 100s of thousands of apps the truly valuable apps are few and far between, Apple squanders those at their peril.
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I know what you mean - this scenario sounds quite backwards, but I'm really having quite a lot of trouble understanding why Apple has decided to go ahead with this.

If they honestly think they can get away with it, I think this might be a signal that they're losing touch with their community.
Fixed - I was out of memory slightly, which sent solr and mongodb to the graveyard. I need to upgrade memory a bit.
What about the IPRs? Is it patentable?

I'd strongly recommend investigating this asap. You can conduct preliminary research on this at USPTO site (I'm assuming you're in the US):

http://search.usa.gov/search?affiliate=web-sdmg-uspto.gov...

If possible, consult a (reputed) patent attorney. A patent will not only deter competition but also add (significantly) to the valuation in any possible buy-out deal.

Since it is this useful, if you can't patent it, think about how long it will take for competition to enter the market and then devise the future course of action accordingly. In case patenting is not an option, I'd suggest ramping up your marketing (very) quickly to grab market share fast while you still have the first mover advantage.

HTH