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How would you word it to come across as being more helpful?

I want to disambiguate in case people google "push it" or have read me talking about it here or on twitter. I do not want people to hear about my Push-It and think that it is this project. While progress in features and popularity have been slow, I've been working on Push-It since march of last year and would like to maintain a clear distinction around an open-source project with that name. If you're not vigilant with any brand, you risk dilution and confusion.

While it is a little rude to name your project the same as another currently-active project, I did not think my original post stated or implied anything of that nature.
I recommend using Hashie::Mash[1] and turn all those hashes into objects, just like those you get when you parse the json in Javascript. This is how ruby's twitter[2] client handles json data.

[1] https://github.com/intridea/hashie

[2] http://twitter.rubyforge.org/
For a temporal or time based key value store (I think this is kinda what the presentation shows) I used a collection that was something like:

Temporal Collection
{ _id: "X1", data_temporal : [ { time_start: SomeDate, time_stop: SomeDate, _id: "ID2" }, { time_start: SomeDate2, time_stop: SomeDate2, _id: "ID2" }]

Data Collection
{ _id: "ID1", parent: X1, data: { field1: "some info", field2: 34 },
_id: "ID2", parent: X1, data: { field1: "Some info new", field2: 34 } }

What is cool about this is that if you have access to the data like ID1, you can easily find out when it was added and how it changed.

If you have access to the temporal ID, X1, then at any time you can see what the data looked like.

If you need to relate data, the "foreign key" used is the data_temporal ID. In this way, it is possible to ask what your key value store data looked like at any time.

But, this could be off from the article.

This also works quite well in a relational database.
I may be an outlier, but I can type nearly as fast on my iPad's on-screen keyboard as I can my laptop's keyboard.
As far as I know, the 27" iMac already does video pass-through over mini-displayport/thunderbolt. I think it has to be turned on, though.
Yeah, I agree that those are close, but having full control over flying at varying speeds, landing with ease, taking off from anywhere, and going anywhere, is what we are really after.
All this bureaucracy sounds terrible... people focus on gaming the system rather than doing their actual job.

I also wonder why Ballmer has to use all this corporate-speak:

"For all employees, we will shift a portion of stock award targets into base salary, providing more cash up front and obvious incremental employee value."

"obvious incremental employee value"? Huh? Ballmer actually seems like he is a person (if an odd one); it's funny that their communication has to be so neutered.
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From what we've seen so far (early users and people we've met at conferences, etc.) there are a fair number of enterprises who write their numerical code in C# so that it's easy for them to maintain, integrate with the other applications, and so on.

It's designed to run on Linux (via Mono), but I need to fix one or two minor bugs and create installers for Linux and Mac OSX. I'm aiming to get this stuff done within the next couple of weeks. The upside here is that you'll be able to create single, GPU-accelerated binaries which you can "xcopy-deploy" to Windows, Linux, and Mac clients.
Good idea, Daniel. Hashr is a tip too: https://github.com/svenfuchs/hashr :)
On one hand I suppose nobody should get a free ride. Apple put a lot of hard work into building such cohesive and user-friendly ecosystem. If they have their own bookstore they're trying to run why should they enable a competitor's in their own home?

On the other hand this stinks for consumers. Slightly. They can still go to the website on their own but Apple made it a bit more inconvenient. If you're already a Kindle or Kobo user this shouldn't be a stretch but if you're a startup you've probably alienated your early adopters.
I disagree -- I was referring to the "ultimate" intent of openness and transparency. Shall we focus on the intent of the Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in as a purposefulness to deprive white people of their midday repast?

Edit (appending as reply chain is too deep):

Thomas, I see you that your focus is computer security, so I can understand how you are focusing on the breach of security and not the end goal. Perhaps I'm naive, but from the posting this thread is discussing it appears that his intentions clearly are honorable.
Congratulations! Looks fun. Is this your first app? How long did it take you?
Fortunately giant legacy codebases are well known for their excellent automated test coverage, otherwise this comment would sound ridiculous.
Dissenting opinion, it looks like it just got hacked by phishers.
I don't think it should matter... but I happened to do it with a paper notebook (since it was 1993!)

I don't think I could write in a notebook anymore -- my handwriting has atrophied and my hand would cramp up... :(
Depending on which style book you are using, an apostrophe can be acceptable when pluralizing an acronym or number, e.g. the 1990's. My preference is to omit the apostrophe.

Another possibility is that it's a contraction for "VC has," referring to the entire category of venture capital. This is less likely given that it destroys the parallel structure.
Flatline, read the site. Read the links. I would never spam this site with wacked out bullshit. Look past personality here and read the science of plasma and electricity explaining, repeatedly, many questions that the popular hypotheses simply don't, at least not without creating mathematically abstract "things" that "must be there, except we can't see them, or measure them, or even prove via experiment that they exist. Dark matter and energy, for example.
The plasma explainations DO address these things, and to my critical eyes, very compellingly. Just give it your time, and be objectively critical.
Very cool, I'm going on a trip soon so maybe I'll try that!
There are two views I would consider valid. One, you are a co-founder getting some split of the equity. Who then turns around and sells your equity to the other founder(s), this is where your salary comes from. Second, You are really employee number one. The founder(s) are giving you a nice title and a sign on bonus of 6% equity.

On the whole you give way too little information on the deal to make a real call. Though it sounds closer to the second option than the first.
So... a laptop docking station. I know those haven't existed for Macs... but they do exist, right now.
I realize that. My point is that existing locking systems work this way. For example, MySQL releases any table locks, rolls back the transaction and drops all temporary tables whenever the connection is closed or times out. This is no worse than what we already have.
As others have mentioned, he's crossed the Feds in the past, but I also must point out that there have been a ton of press as of late about "hacking" at large. Anonymous and LulzSec come first to mind: if federal enforcement is ramping up a broad campaign against computer crimes, a lot more people may get caught up in prosecution.
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My servers always crash when I'm literally somewhere in the jungle in Asia and can't possibly get to an online connection for at least a day.

Get a watchdog timer.
Any idea if there was any success with it?
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Probably, because of generic template and generic approach it is so clear where to look for what you need. generic stuff is not always bad. And this company do not need that much brand support to get down to colors marches. Just my IMHO.
Based on past conversations with my mother (teacher) and a friend (linguistic researcher, can't for the life of me remember what it's actually called) I would actually expect that to be the slowest period of learning in this area - slowest, but not that flat. So my suspicion is that it's 80% down to lack of data.

(But equally possible that I'm proven wrong, as it certainly isn't my area of expertise and this knowledge comes from purely random conversations in the past.)
I don't think hiring a good lawyer and understanding these things are mutually exclusive.
IMO, you will be much more successful and less screwed by understanding how it works and participating directly in your negotiations while working with a good lawyer.

Whether this book helps in understanding or not I don't know since I haven't read it, yet.
The sit-in directly targeted an unjust law; the sit in was both the means and the end. Swartz is accused of breaking laws as a means to a different end (unless he planned on dumping the database to BitTorrent, in which case the whole thing was a grand act of civil disobedience; for his sake, I hope that's not what's going on.)

In either case, I don't have to agree with the prosecution to point out one obvious way it could be structured.
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Actually, I tried to implement something like this as an undergrad and I found that the search space was simply intractable and the fitness function too coarse grained (I.e binary). What I really like about this approach is that they do a trace of the program execution as a heuristic to guide the evolutionary strategy. That's awesome.

As a side note, a few months ago I reached out to this team to ask them a few questions. They are super nice.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html to thread! Falls foul of - at least - points 16, 18 and 24. (Could anyone find any falsifiable predictions, for that matter?)

On a more serious note, the quality of scientific debate on Hacker News is really, really low. Part of it is this community's insistence on contrariness – which comes out in a bunch of weird ways, global warming denialism probably the most prominent – but part of it is a really unattractive arrogant streak which refuses to accept that some issues are just complex. Kind of a Dunning-Kruger effect, really.

(I have no solutions, but it's worth noting).
When attacking a bunch of systems, I'd simply try one key after another on each system.

This was a good idea in 1990. But now you get IP-banned after three bad login attempts, so you have to be smarter.
There is a difference with charging him locally though (in my mind). The attorneys that would prosecute Aaron in MA were hired by a left government accountable to a fairly liberal population. Those prosecuting Schwartz federally were hired by a government that leans slightly to the right. I honestly think that makes a difference in the outcome of this particular case, given the nature of the crimes. Also when we consider Aaron's personal history, I think it's safe to say he has fairly influential friends in MA and possibly some enemies on the federal level.

All of this is pure conjecture and speculation of course. But I would be lying if I said I wouldn't be more comfortable about the situation if Aaron was being tried by the MA government.
I assume it would be like finding the interpolating polynomial of a bunch of points in a row. (Like this: . . . . . .) The resulting polynomial would go through all of the points, but have very large peaks/valleys in between.

Essentially, you'd get a system that passed all of your tests, but produced garbage for anything not covered by the tests.
It'd be one thing if this gem caused any arbitrary query string to be executed as ruby code

That's pretty much the exact designed intent of the software. Read the Repl code, specifically, Repl#call at line 59 or so.

https://github.com/codegram/rack-webconsole/blob/master/lib/...

You'll note the code has recently been enhanced with check_legitimate, which was designed to patch the issue I raised on this thread (and via email). I am going to very carefully avoid commenting about whether check_legitimate actually works as designed. My main worry is that pronouncing it done well would make me professionally responsible when it gets cracked, and committing to endless rounds of "Actually, that won't really work" throws good hours after bad in pursuit of securing a bad idea which is architecturally insecurable.

Do not allow your web application to execute arbitrary code. It will not end well.
Well, they fixed the only thing I ever noticed on the old site... they no longer have a ZIP code field on the form for looking up a ZIP code by address. So, there's that.
If this is for an employer, there should probably be someone monitoring the servers when jgc is on vacation.
Now only if they can figure out how to accurately track packages. For me their tracking almost never works (in other words never ever updated), and if it does it is usually updated after the packages have been delivered, which is useless.
Fix: Unknown or expired link.
I'm sure the majority of readers understand why you're serving page specific links, and why solving this problem correctly is time consuming. However, this isn't a very valid reason for throwing clients to an "Unknown or expired link." page, requiring users to start clicking back buttons on their browser as a workaround.
I think the larger point is: if you want to be in the public eye, then you need to fully expect that someone is always digging for dirt, and thus it's better to keep your nose clean. Perhaps Spitzer was taken down because of his investigation, but that just drives home the point. Certainly, opponents could make up charges, but they didn't do that in this case.
The "Why" question? I don't know, to me it's pretty simple. It's their job. Justice? Sure that has a role somewhere in there, but let's be real: A prosecutor's job is to get convictions. They have a set of rules which they can shape around a group of facts which they use to get their convictions.

In an era when digital security is such a hot topic, I'm not really surprised that someone in the Justice Department would be attempting to prosecute Aaron for as much as they can line up against him.

I think that ascribing some larger legal agenda behind this is a reach, or even a political agenda targeted at "silencing" Swartz is a reach. Does the DoJ likely want to crack down on anything that smells of security issues? Sure. And I'm Not saying that the idea that legal and political agendas are pursued is ludicrous. I'm just not so sure this case is anything remarkable. He (allegedly) did what he did, the DoJ thinks they can make a case against him. So they will.
Show HN: Weekend project - onepic.me
I had this domain for some time and I never got around to make a project for it. This last weekend I finally managed to find a few hours to work on it and I've just finished putting the code into production.

The site lets you choose some pictures from your Facebook photos and then it will let other users vote on them, as long as they know your URL. This way you can find your best picture.

Some random facts the HN crowd will appreciate:

- Technologies: Tornado, mongodb and memcache, served with nginx

- The site took around 5 hours to design and write (including time spent in Photoshop and shopping around for stock photos)

- 1055 lines of code, including Python and Javascript

http://onepic.me
Fix: Unknown or expired link.
I'm sure the majority of readers understand why you're serving page specific links, and why solving this problem correctly is costly. However, this isn't a very valid reason for throwing clients to an "Unknown or expired link." page, requiring users to start clicking back buttons on their browser as a workaround.
That's a strong dismissal with little evidence to back it up. I am not saying that I expect NASA to become a lean organization tomorrow, just that there incentives are all messed up.

Anyway, you might think that government organizations are always full of bloat but compare the SSA with your 401k and you will find they are vary low overhead. The problem with government organizations is they tend to make really big a stupid decisions for political reasons, aka if SSA had invested in a mix of stocks and bonds vs. US treasury bonds people would be talking about how over funded it was right now. Instead the SSA “surplus” was used to subsidize government borrowing and treated as yet another agency.

PS: I have 64 Karma on a 2 week old act that may suggest something about my activities. If you actually have something meaningful to say feel free to support your argument, but right now I am feeling trolled.
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Why aren't Google and Bing going to prison every time one of their bots crashes some web server?

(Perhaps because "systematic downloading" isn't actually a crime?)
Clickable link: http://onepic.me
disaggregated: http://www.king5.com/news/Road-rage-suspected-in-fatal-Kirkl...
"You are promoted to the rank of... Caption!" What, were you just a footnote before? Maybe you'll make it all the way up to headline!

You might want to fix that screen shot. :) (And the game itself, if it's still like that in the game.)

Also, it's "Congratulations".
For me their philosophy is clear. Each G+ user needs to be identifiable. They are not against pseudonyms per se but if your pseudonym means they can't identify you then "off with your head" - Otherwise how can they sell advertising?

This is the real cost we pay for google's "free" services. (BTW I don't as long as I can use a pseudonym of some sort).
buzzword again ! Don't think this language is the most attractive though...
I can't quite decide whether I really failed to bring my point across or if you're just pulling my leg here. Okay, I'll be more specific. Things happen to servers when you're not around. It helps to have someone you can call who can fix small things when they go wrong. You can't meaningfully automate every single thing that might happen. It might not even be a technical malfunction, maybe something unexpected needs to be done and it requires a person to do it...
Gravitons are the kookiest theoretical particle I have ever heard of. I had an intuition that they were kooky and contrived when I first heard of them as a child, and now that I know more about them and gravity, I have even more disbelief in them. Why people still believe in them I will never know.

Here's the latest thing I have seen, btw:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785
Pop science interpretation of it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13gravity.html
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The dude thinks neutron stars and black holes are unfindable pseudoscience. You could legitimately claim that there are better ways to interpret the evidence for those phenomena, but claiming that there is no evidence only demonstrates how confused he is about the field.

This site doesn't get past a first-pass bullshit filter, which is why nobody's investing any more of their time on it.

Do you understand how many people come up with "theories" out of left field in exactly this fashion?
Even if you like watching DVDs on your laptop you'd likely still be better off with a removable optical drive. Rip the discs to the hard drive and run them from there.
Yes, that connection could be problematic, but not nearly as big an issue as when people took a developer's name and started posting personal details about that developer (including, but not limited to, where that developer's children went to school).
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Where do people get this idea that future science disproves past science? It really doesn't work that way. We're not going to suddenly discover all of modern physics is wrong and oh hey look, it's easy to travel faster than light; that just isn't going to happen.
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Hm, I was never aware Adobe even had a app store.
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I'm not a lawyer, but my guess is that they're operating under ConnectU as a CYA measure. That way, if the suit goes bust and/or they get countersued, then the company ConnectU is on the hook for the financial damages, and not the Winklevosses individually (or their families).
I know this is a religious debate but this one bugs the hell out of me:

Use singular for table names (i.e. use StudentCourse instead of StudentCourses). Table represents a collection of entities, there is no need for plural names.

NOOOOOO!!!!!! The table stores MULTIPLE things, ergo, the table name should be pluralized. SQL makes more sense to read aloud this way. I mean, does anyone name their (code's) collections as singular?
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Agreed. This is the second time this has happened to me in the last few months. Using GitHub repo followers as a spam list is unacceptable and makes me immediately dislike the project that the spammer is trying to make known.
Think positive, that is why you and I are on HN and our colleagues live in 30 year old specs space.
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I see what you're coming from but I don't really buy it. I think the difference between federal and state is strictness and deliberation, not right vs. left.

The state criminal justice systems are deluged by drug violence and domestic violence and are largely reactive (I write while missing the court date for my mugger's prosecution, due to a sick daughter).

The federal system is more deliberate (word chosen carefully) and somewhat less reactive. It has more discretion about what cases to chase down. It's probably more inclined to keep its teeth sunk into anything it starts too.

The same political environment that appointed this prosecutor also appointed the prosecutor that took down Scooter Libby.
When Google and Bing start sending 'human bots' out to Universities to facilitate the downloading of data, I'm pretty sure a lot of people will be going to jail. Just saying.
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I don't think I can properly say how cheap this looks to me.

HTML mixed with code in the same file? A new language? A new database? What makes an app written in opa better than a PHP codebase where HTML is mixed with PHP all over?

This opa project doesn't look like such a big deal to me. It just limits freedom too much from what I can see.
Build something like this which merges the HTML with some weird looking code and you've wasted quite some time for nothing.

Wt has been around for a while with an approach not far from this one and I never stopped thinking it's one major piece of junk.

There also doesn't seem to be any functional website / web app built with it. They all seem heavily javascript-ified chunks of HTML which work together to create something which looks like pages from 2003-2004.

To the guy who posted this link for SEO purposes:
I'll make sure to block that site from my browsers, it's 100% trash.
Never bought a SIM in India, but if it's anything like, say, Argentina where it takes 30 minutes and several pages of paperwork just to get a SIM... I'd opt to go with the guy that doesn't require all that paperwork too, just to avoid the hassle. Can't jump to the conclusion that all the renters are intent on "doing bad things".