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> In fact, being unable to chain functions in PHP is actually my biggest beef with the language.

That's just a lie or at least a horrible misconception, depending on your intentions. Furthermore, the example line you used to illustrate this entirely made-up inability of PHP does in fact work. You can do

return implode(', ',array_slice(explode('|',$str),-3));

it's valid code and it works just as expected!
For those who want to see a serious use of this operator, see http://code.google.com/p/cii/source/browse/trunk/include/exc... line 35. This from an exception (try, catch, except macros) library for the C language. It is from a book called "C interfaces and implementations", probably one of the best books on good C programming I have ever (and still) read.

It's special in the fact that it's written by Hanson (who also co-wrote the LCC compiler, you might have seen ID Software use this compiler) and the book uses Knuth's Literary Programming technique for the source code in the book ;)
Well, it's more convincing than the last time:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2007/10/fake-apple-stor/
GNU awk has some decent built-in networking functionality.

So: gawk on goats
I worry that the maximum income multiplier would have distortive effects. For example, if all my employees make high salaries, I would have a strong incentive to hire a company that provides janitorial services, rather than hire a janitor in house. (Which is presumably more efficient, as most firms do that in the current structure.)
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Regarding the screenshots, I find that 90% of the time I'm taking screenshots it's to show somebody something, so I really like CloudApp. (getcloudapp.com) You do the usual shift-cmd-4, but instead of copying the screenshot to the clipboard it uploads it to their service and copies a link to the clipboard. On top of that, their site is really clean.
why don't you use the semicolon? the comma is only adding something more if you're using the final value.
Like sports, instruments, and any other developed skill, there will be days you feel like it and days you don't. The key IMO is to pace yourself: don't overwork on days you feel like it, and force yourself to work -- even if just a little bit -- on days you don't.

For software, having your code in a public repository like GitHub provides some socially-based motivation to keep your projects active. Just the simple act of regularly committing small changes can provide you with a sense of momentum -- and bonus points for raising (and fixing) issues, etc.

For days that you aren't on your A-game, it's also helpful to have made a TODO list from a day when you were thinking more clearly, so you can work on a relatively simple task just to maintain momentum.

Another key is to have a "big picture" goal that your projects are helping you towards. There's no reason you can't start now putting together the basic structural code (say, some core machine learning algorithms) for a later startup -- or even try your hand at writing an end-to-end web app and hosting it for free on Amazon. Whatever your end goals are, you'll be more motivated if you are writing code that helps you get there, not just code for learning's sake.
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OK, that was creepy...
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There's no need to mass deploy it for it to work for the public. It can just query requests over network like maeon3 suggests.
Hey dude buddy friend, maybe calm down a second. He has bad preconceptions regarding linux fonts and is nearly completely wrong about how he's considering Wine.

And by the way, those screenshots were, in order, Linux, OS X, Windows (default settings, font, browser zoom level, etc in each). But nice to see that confirmation bias is still alive and well. That's the whole reason I provided as much context as I did. I knew someone would reply with a comment like yours. Sad that I was right.
Will this be sufficient to ward off a hackstorm against JSTOR?
Forgive my dalliance into Shakespeare, but there lies the rub...

There are really three ways to scale a business of this sort - become a distributor with a whole lot of (small) retail clients, become a supplier to one or two large retail clients or become a supplier to a major distributor.

The problem with becoming a distributor is that the kinds of retailers you want to work with will naturally be skeptical of another distributor that gets stuff from China and tries to sell it in North America. There is an intense country of origin bias against China, so to serve really solid retailers, you are going to have to offer wonderful terms. For example, when you start a relationship with a smart (small) retailer, they are going to want generous credit terms, they will want you to pick up shipping, and they will want to know they can return anything they don't sell (at any time and in any condition) on your dime. Ultimately, it ends up looking like a consignment deal, only your margin won't be as high.

If you want to serve one or two large retail chains, you are going to have to spend big marketing dollars to reach them. Then, they are going to tell you how to run your business, how to set up your systems, how much to charge, and when you are getting paid. The last one is critical because large retailers know they are in charge of the relationship - they will pay you when they feel like. If you are a single SKU supplier, you will be the last one to get paid - if you have to go into debt to buy your stock, you can easily lose money because your margin likely won't be much higher than the interest you pay.

If you want to become a supplier to a distributor, you need a very compelling product. Distributors are tremendously smart and they have already thought about importing your product directly. Your prices/quality have to be good enough to justify going through a middleman (and not sourcing it directly, with all of their contacts to help out).

As a general rule, I would rather perform open heart surgery on myself with a spoon than work with large retailers. And frankly, going after distributors eats up a whole lot of time/marketing dollars. Consequently, the small retailer option is best, though they are still a very difficult group to reach.
Anonymous civil disobedience just gives the powers-that-be the excuse to arrest anyone they choose.
Yes, Jitter has more nice features.

I don't need "successfully compiled!" notification because it is nothing special.
Coffee icon is cool, though.
The "yacht tax" is proven to be a terrible idea; last time that was tried it basically killed the US boat industry. But otherwise I absolutely agree that we should eliminate corporate income tax and replace it with higher taxes on the individual owners of and creditors to those corporations. The government wouldn't be collecting any more revenue. This would encourage economic growth by avoiding the need for corporations to waste resources on tax planning.
What's that supposed to mean? That PHP devs don't actually have to use array slicing? That languages without a dedicated syntax for array slicing are unusable? Or that you prefer a syntactical shortcut and everyone who disagrees is an idiot?

I mean I'm with you on the fact that it would be nice to have this in PHP. I just don't get how you can argue this point to show that it's supposedly a bad language. The difference between

array_slice($array, -3)

and

$array[-3:]

isn't that important to a lot of people. Interestingly, this criticism never comes up when, say, C# or Java are discussed. Only PHP is treated this way. As I said: sure it would be nice to have this feature, but I wouldn't imply that any language that doesn't have it is unusable. Ruby and Python are fortunate in this regard, but this feature alone wouldn't sway my choice either way. In the end, the number of array slicing operations per line of code isn't usually that big.
Do better at what? The kind of test we're talking about here is just a bozo filter. It's designed to keep out the flagrantly awful candidates who can't even write a simple program, not to test for actual job suitability.
Would you like an ExpressCard slot with that?
Apple patent scam?
Since people seem to be missing the point, those three screenshots are (in order): Ubuntu, OS X, Windows 7. Latest versions of each, default fonts (msttcorefonts installed in Ubuntu), with the default browser zoom level.
It's excessive, and I don't think that's what he'll serve. But he was warned multiple times that MIT and JSTOR didn't want him doing what he was doing, and he continued doing it, so as far as I can tell he's getting exactly what he asked for. He probably thinks he's the Rosa Parks of scholarly communication. I think he's reckless and grandiose.
I seriously thought that it had simply been torn down and replaced with a bank in the mean time – hey, it’s China. That could happen.

It used to be "Only in America" that the world muttered in disbelief. This century, I'm thinking "Hey, it’s China. That could happen" might just be the new black, as it were.
Just saying they "contribute" doesn't get the whole point across. They do pay taxes, it's just not visible. Payroll taxes have to be the most ingenious method of hiding taxes from voters ever.
Not really. The assumption here is that the attacker installed malware on the target computer to get their traffic redirected to the proxy. Once the computer is compromised there are any number of ways to nullify any signing benefits from ssl or dnssec.
Here's another idea: drop the corporate tax rate to 0% and raise income, high-end property (let's say houses that cost 2x the median in a particular area), and high-end consumption taxes (a "yacht tax".)

If corporations don't pay taxes, then won't everybody who can afford to just do all their business (income and all) through shell corporations? Sort of the way that currently wealthy people skirt the estate tax by having a company own their land, so their next of kin can just inherit the CEO position of the company?
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In the San Jose case, all 14 suspects are accused of using a free program called Low Orbit Ion Cannon

...

When you have a decentralized group,” Ms. Granick said, “the question is, Are there big fish, and are any of these people big fish?”

No.

They're basically going to ruin a few kids' lives in order to deter other kids from "hacking" with things like LOIC.
I think it's really strange how the father of the minor went onto Reddit to discuss what happened. And somewhat naive if this is a significant FBI investigation.
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Their price schedule divides "Public Library – Small" into "US", "Canada", and "Rest of the World". It's possible that someone phoning them up from Senegal or Paraguay would be able to negotiate a lower price, but it's not as if their existing price list doesn't recognize the existence of different countries. (Still, lumping Switzerland and Malawi into the same category might not represent a deep level of consideration of the issues.)

For what it's worth, I was using their web site from my house here in Argentina, which is usually classified as a "middle-income country," but where you can hire a full-time employee illegally for US$4000 per year.
I work for Amazon (and wrote the blog post referenced by GigaOm), and I certainly won't speculate (or place a bet). However, note that the growth from 262 billion to 449 billion objects took place in 6 months.
Yes, very creepy. And here eyes are bloodshot. She looks like she's been toke'n some virtual weed.
Ask HN: How can I encourage insitutions to update book lists?
I'm working on a project involving institutions uploading book lists to a website to be accessed by the public. (You can see which books are where, like your local public library website)<p>Besides for the incentive of a free and easy 'inventory' list, how can I be sure that users will be updating their book collections as books come in and 'die'?<p>Creating an initial inventory list is moot if its not updated. Users might not have time or reason to occasionally update. I'm not talking everyday, just every so often. I'm looking for a powerful reason for them to make a point to do I on their own besides for my email reminders which they can simply ignore.<p>Thanks.
Google Suspends Launch Google+ Account - But Not Other Media
You act like that's a bad thing...

DDoS attacks are serious business and I was on the front lines for the "fun" that Anonymous was ginning up. If you didn't think there would be consequences, you are sadly mistaken.

A little deterrence goes a long way.
I think the gift part is necessary.

Agreed. I don't agree with "it doesn't even take any time" as clearly ("...go to Trader Joe's and get some...") it does - far more than it takes me to click a mouse button, but still, the gift suggestion would seem a must...
Well, people are down voting me, but everyone ripped the developers of Diaspora apart for basically the same exact flaw in an early alpha release of their system. The Google fanboyism seems to be running strong here.
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I see that there are some people living in Kansai here ! I'm living in Kobe too, let's catch up some time.
I'm calling 1T+ objects for Q2 2012. The S3 object count is growing by between 150% and 200% every year.
Also this is still open for only development environment. Production environment is yet to release
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That's not just the uncanny valley, that's the uncanny canyon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Civil disobedience usually requires that you perform your action openly and notoriously. Running a program in your home and using an alias hardly qualifies.

Seriously, you're defending DDoS attacks?
Were we Americans this crass and exploitive in the late 1800's? Not rhetorical, but a genuine question. I've heard the opinion expressed that we indeed were.
"That was really the core idea that made me want to do this site"

It's always more fun when you find your inspiration - even if it's not specifically selling nuts in your particular case :)
Um... so they violated the terms of service and got their account suspended... boo hoo. The fact that other media plus pages haven't been shut down yet is just a matter of the profiles being reported. The profiles are monitored and flagged by the users.
Recruitment?
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Ask HN: what programming language is most suitable for building a translator?
How long do you think this will take? Is there a good tutorial out there to get started?
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And mounting an attack is..., with the right skills, relatively simple.

Do people think any more? Yeah, driving a formula one car is, with the right skills, relatively simple.

Anything is simple from the perspective of the person who has invested time to learn how to do it.
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I wonder what the world would be like if Google were still tied into Stanford.
Defending? No. Stating an observation that tyrannical institutions can use Anonymous as a pretense to arrest anyone with a computer. At least in the USA there is a shred of evidentiary requirement, but much of the world is not so lucky.

I suppose it's arguable that Anonymous is acting out of a sense of "Civil Disobedience". Perhaps it's more along the lines of "vandalism". Philosophically speaking, that is.
<i>In my small (12-person) design agency we have 244 repositories and we have a custom plan with Github just to pay for it. Other than rent and hosting, it's the most expensive thing that we pay for on a monthly basis.</i>

And how about wages for 12 employees?
I also want to note that the USA is the only country in the world to base income taxation on citizenship/green card and residency, vs residency only for the rest of the world. Be a citizen of anywhere else and you can be really tax free/low tax.
Ask HN: Trademark Trouble
tl;dr someone is claiming trademark infringement on a logo that they trademarked 4 years after we had had ours

This is my first post, I hope you guys can help. I am doing some marketing work for a small startup job board for medical device professionals (http://meddevicejobs.com). We had a logo and brand designed in 2004 by a design firm here in Phoenix, AZ.

Just recently, I noticed a different local design firm using a logo almost exactly like ours. This is the first I've heard of them, so I sent a sarcastic tweet from the company account, just "Cool logo." They tweeted back that it was cool and it's interesting that they've had it trademarked for "many years."

Next I get an email from them asking me to take our logo down because it infringes on their trademark. I looked up the trademark and they have the "M" thingy trademarked, but reversed. The trademark was for 2008. We had this logo in 2004. We didn't trademark it as we didn't think it was necessary and we put our money elsewhere.

What is the best thing to do?

Thanks
yeah, but where's the tooling? ;)
Reminds me of that one Microsoft search site that was interactive with some lady at a desk, used to launch Bing or something. From 2008 I believe. it was http://ms (name of chick).com I remember.

Also, there were other swfs like this from way back on ol feanor's directory: http://www.feanor.net/z0r/shock/
Creating things that aren't real
Anyone considered the possibility that github doesn't have the tooling to charge by disk usage? That would practically require them to add quotas, and tracing information so you could determine (read: audit) where space is used in your repositories.
HN: What else would you improve on Google+?
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Your objection to me not having read the patent would hold more water if you could show something I was mistaken about as a result.

I'll take your word on the definition of "server". I'm not sure why you think I misread the patent, though. If I thought the "server" had to be on a different machine, I'd be claiming Android didn't infringe.

You are correct about claim construal, but no narrower construal suggests itself to me for this claim. So perhaps you are mistaken and there is no such cited prior art, or perhaps the examiner should have stricken this claim, or perhaps there is a narrower construal that isn't obvious to me.

You are mistaken about my worldview. My worldview comes from patent law. In your example, if people have been buying frobnitz flanges before Apple's new invention, they are clearly adapted to some other use than displaying blurple. So, in my worldview, they are a "staple article of commerce", a term I have used several times in this discussion and which you would do well to look up, so their sale is non-infringing. However, a piece of software whose installation and use on a computer necessarily infringes the patent is not suitable for substantial noninfringing use (unless perhaps you can argue that its use to paper your wall or as an illustration in a discussion about software patents is substantial), so selling it separately is clearly just an attempt to infringe the patent in a sneaky way. (Presuming, of course, that the patent is valid at all.)

This is not some hare-brained theory I just thought up on the spur of the moment. You'll find it explained in any patent law textbook, in quite a number of online introductions to patent law, and in §271 (c) of the Patent Code. You are welcome to attempt to explain to Congress and the Supreme Court that their logic doesn't work because it forbids the sale of frobnitz flanges or whatever, but don't blame it on my worldview.
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The patent claims refer only to printed documents, ie: hard copy. nothing about onscreen UI. I can´t see this working in court.
I can't find it via searching the app store and from the direct link (on my iPad) I get "Your request cannot be completed". Guess I'll try back tomorrow or in a few days.
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Somewhat related: I wish GWT had a "pattern" removal.

With one of my sites, by the time I noticed that certain pages were missing the "noindex" tag Google happily indexed over 4000 pages. Considering the rate Google is crawling those pages it may take years to be removed from the index. Obviously, submitting each link one by one is rather tedious.

Hopefully the author is going to release that extension after Google fixes this bug. I may actually bother clicking 4K times just to see that site "fixed"...
Could you please stop posting this on every article you come across?
A temporary workaround for newlines is to copy/paste them in the box. Adding the bookmarklet and then going to http://arcturo.github.com/library/coffeescript/ gives a good way of experimenting with CoffeeScript.
It is a pretty good naming scheme.

Looking forward for steveholt, featherbottom, annyong and nevernude.
> Anyone who ranks highly for lucrative keywords and does not check their ranking is asking to lose it, whether ethically or otherwise.

Your ranking is not your responsibility as a webmaster. It's Google's responsibility to its users to rank good answers highly.
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