skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that building a "properly written PHP app" is way harder than in almost every other language in widespread use.

The number of pitfalls and traps you can fall into almost surpasses the 'safe' parts of the language (and its environment).
See the entire field of number theory for something that didn't have applications when it was conceived. Gauss, Euler and the other early number theorists were essentially just amusing themselves with stuff like the phi function. Then cryptography became a serious open problem, and boom.
Yes it is - you just currently export the entropy in the form of Aluminium reduced from Aluminium oxide, in the future you will export it in the form of bits.
>How can you do a comparison of iOS / Android and not even mention Google Maps & Navigation?

It's funny that I just bought a touchscreen phone with an UX that most will consider to be unquestionably worse than both iOS and Android - namely the Nokia E6 with Symbian Anna - for the same reason that a lot of folks here are touting Android: Ovi Maps and navigation.

Or more specifically, Ovi Maps and navigation with offers downloadable maps which is extremely important to me since my business travels often take me to places where there is no cell phone coverage.

It's interesting how we let our specific needs color our decisions. In my case, I would much rather have an iOS or Android device, but the downloadable mapping options on either platform (that I've been able to find) are inferior or far more expensive that what I get with Nokia, so I'm willing to live with the Symbian failings.

That said, I am one of those folks that also carries an iPod touch along with my phone.
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While we're on the topic of lightweight JS validation libraries, I released my own and have used it for well over a year on a number of production sites. It's quite feature rich and also very low on LOC. It already includes much of the support you guys mentioned here, including live validation and support for passing params. It's garnered towards those already utilizing jQuery sitewide who like things short and sweet. You can override and customize everything, but it also provides you with decent defaults.

Salid - The Simple jQuery Form Validator

http://www.jqueryin.com/projects/salid-the-simple-jquery-for...

The version I use now is tweaked with improvements. I'll gladly share it; I've just been busy and not posting much to the site. If you see problems with the validation methods, they've been fixed over the year in the new version.
It's a broadcasting company, not a tv channel.

Their charter "specifies that the mission of the Corporation is to inform, educate and entertain. It states that the Corporation exists to serve the public interest and to promote its public purposes: sustaining citizenship and civil society, promoting education and learning, stimulating creativity and cultural excellence", according to Wikipedia.

A free market comparison might be BSkyB. They have about a 20% bigger revenue. I don't think they do work just as well. I think the BBC is a national treasure (and I don't live there, I just buy their DVDs such as "Planet Earth").
What are your plans for integrating with mobile devices? I think alerts throughout the day would be cool so you could know who to stay away from :)
I noticed this a few months ago, when I realized that my phone's Google navigation, all the GPS devices I'd ever used, and most of the text-to-speech I've heard in general, default to a female voice.

Why? I have no idea, but I doubt it's because we have this unconscious desire to "keep women in their place". Could it be rather that men are less likely to "argue" with a female voice than the perceived competition of a male voice? And that some women, in turn, might not like being ordered around by a man's voice while driving? Plus, as another poster mentioned, the higher register of a typical female voice may stand out better against the noise of the road, the engine, etc.

Of course, I could just be fooling myself--maybe subconsciously I just want to keep female voices in these kind of "support" positions. Who knows.
Outside of possibly Amazon-Google, I don't see anyone joining up. Google hates Facebook, Apple hates Google, neither has integrated facebook into their mobile OS, and everyone seems content to ignore Amazon. We'll see how that changes with the introduction of the Fire, but I can't see facebook moving beyond their niche, and there's too much direct competition between Apple-Google and Apple-Amazon to allow for a partnership between anyone other than Google and Amazon.
Which sounds like you're agreeing with me. Rails (I'd extend the argument to most web frameworks, honestly) is simply too complicated for newbies. They should use something else.

So I ask you: if a platform is so complicated that it simply doesn't support new developers, can it survive? By analogy, is Rails turning into the C++ of web development?
This has got to be the most ignorant response of the day. One, have you ever been to Detroit. And two, have you ever heard of this thing called capitalism? Last I checked, as natural born Americans, we've got the right to do what we want, where we want to do it.

Please, do take a moment to explain to me how it would be in anyone's best interest to just "let" Detroit die? (Assuming it was actually near death) Also, help me understand how building resources in and around Detroit would affect your resources wherever you are (in the Valley)?

By the way, you might want to check the data before you go trying to throw anyone under the bus, as Detroit... the dead city that you refer to. Yeah, it's a big part of what gave Michigan the lead in technology hiring in 2010.

http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/10/michigan_was...
*http://www.freep.com/article/20111006/BUSINESS06/110060525/M...
Thank you for answering the question.

I too support a minimum wage. I believe successful societies work and thrive because they create more of those 'win-win' scenarios that I have referenced a few times here.

So would you support a period of time in which an artist can monetize their creation?
In the last year, since I started using Mojolicious, rolling out web apps has been just amazingly nice. Good work people!
I work for Readability. No idea who goforth is. — I assume just a passionate user ;)
There are no main chain grocery stores (like Meijer) in Detroit proper. So I guess there are some grocery stores, but not quality ones.

"Stop believing lies and anecdotal evidence and your failed assumptions from living far away from the city itself."

These aren't assumptions. By continuing to deny the problems with Detroit, it will never get better.

This is exactly what has been happening for years. The population continued to deny that Kwame was nothing but a corrupt thug and the city suffered as a result (in crime and people leaving).

"Did you know that downtown Detroit proper has a lower crime rate than basically every other major city in the US?"

Like I said, right downtown is fine. You go even a mile outside the main strip, and it's worse than almost any city in the US. I know, I've been there many times in the last year.

You can't safely live and work in a city like this.
If you are an Instapaper "subscriber", you get access to a "Send to Kindle immediately" bookmarklet.

I use it all the time (and vastly prefer it over the timed, once-a-day-at-most send-a-batch-of-stuff option).
Oh man, that guy is good. Chris Jennings. I wonder if he would do consulting work for another company? How did he work for pixelcloud and disqus? I would really like to reach out to him about possibly designing stuff for Qbix.com if he's interested.
Curious, but why scheme? FWIW I can only code in Python, and that not particularly well.
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I was under the impression that weather models are at least partially chaotic. Is this not so?

In such systems, even if we have a perfect model we cannot know the initial conditions with sufficient accuracy to make reliable long term predictions. This is not just a limit of our current technology, but a property of chaotic systems. If weather is a chaotic system, then we will never make serious progress beyond short term forecasts.
And 117,000 for "ruby sucks". This game doesn't really prove anything.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22ruby+sucks%22
Quantum Levitation
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I think the site went down? Here's the text from the cached version:

"Nice one, Google suspended my Google+ account because I created it under, well, my name, which is "Lennart Poettering", and Google+ thinks that wasn't my name, even though it says so in my passport, and almost every document I own and I was never aware I had any other name. This is ricidulous. Google, give me my name back! This is a really uncool move."
How much personal time would the process have to waste of yours in order for you to forfeit being reimbursed for $1500?
For starters, having a real bathroom with a bath tub, not these tiny solitary confinement cells.

This a typical mid/low end first-world bathroom: http://www.apollo-plus.co.uk/Design/Leigh.jpg

This isn't: http://images.travelpod.com/users/skylarking/1.1230340500.ds...

Edit: According to http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/111335, this "cute" style has its own name and history:

the type of bathroom typically referred to as a "Copenhagen bathroom". It basically means, that in the "old days", none of the working-class-apartments had showers. Eventually, this changed, but many of the apartments were so small, that it was almost impossible to fit in a big, modern bathroom. However, you get used to it very quickly and it is quite charming in its own way :)

Um, no, I'd rather not have to get used to it.
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Will suggests that even if you have crazy ideas, you should write them down and remember them, and think about them later, because later on they might not be so crazy.

I've been playing Glitch, which is a "casual" MMORPG designed by the original developers of Flickr. They came up with the idea for Game Neverending years ago: http://www.gnespy.com/museum/ ... But more than simply having an idea, they developed a playable prototype of the game in 2002, that they put online and actually tested. I think it was a brilliant design, but it was a horrible time to come out with something like that (since The Sims Online, considered a bellwether for casual MMORPGs, was tanking at the time).

Unfortunately (or ultimately fortunately), they were running out of money, so they sidelined the game, took a module they had developed for uploading pictures, and developed it into Flickr, which they eventually sold to Yahoo. Flickr was so successful that they were distracted from the original game, but they kept it in mind for later.

Now that technology's caught up, and they're in a better financial position, they've finally re-implemented Glitch from the ashes of Game Neverending (and with the fuel of Flickr). They certainly learned a lot about online communities from their experience with Flickr, which they're applying to Glitch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr#History
"I’ve found home-screen widgets — save for the quick access to turn radios on and off — to be useless, ugly, space-and-battery-life hogs."

Is there any data for that? When I check my Nexus S battery usage meter, homescreen widgets are nowhere to be seen in the list of things that used up the battery.
I'm one of the 3 developers who built Moodbeat. I commented on this in an earlier thread: We are looking into an HTML5 mobile solution for now.

Triggered alerts based on your friends moods would be cool!
Absolutely, the BBCs output is frankly the best in the world. That's not being questioned here. What is being questioned is the cost that all must bear, whether they can afford to or not. Remember, this is not a proportional tax like income taxation which takes a %. This is an absolute tax of approx. $200. Not a small sum for the UK poor.
This could be an optimal moment for a Netflix competitor to step in given Netflix's recent issues.

Vdio will probably have the same content licensing and windowing issues. Not an easy hurdle to overcome.
I love it that our CTO still codes, debugs and shares the pain as everyone else. He would even apologize, as anyone else for making mistakes here and there.

Fuckin awesome chap!

We used to have a TD long time ago, russian dude, that somehow forgot how to run Visual Studio, yet he was just a coder year before that. Amazing transformation!
4) There are some great iOS podcast apps. I use Instacast, which does everything you'd want (allows searching, subscribing, streaming, downloading, etc.).
The 3GS is from june 2009. The Atrix was unveiled in january 2011 and hit the market in april 2011. It was considered the top of the line phone in may 2011.

It's useless to compare overpriced flagship phones and say that android phones are as expensive as iPhones. It's just not true. It's like taking a high end desktop PC with the very latest hardware and comparing it to the price tag of the iMac and deduce that PCs are more expensive than Macs.
The vertical control of Apple (most notably) as well as Amazon and Google is almost complete. The author noted that they don't have:

1. Billing/banking control - Purchases on all three go through credit cards, where a portion gets siphoned off.

2. Internet access control - Apple has a lot of clout, and can do basically whatever they want, but they're still limited by the ISPs and telecos.

I really hope to see these companies compete in these industries. However, he left off one more space where they don't compete: at the bottom of the stack, selling silicon. Companies like Samsung and Toshiba can build their own SoCs for the devices they manufacture. If those manufacturers start doing more internally, we might see some impressive and competitive new devices.
Glass has numerous applications
The glass in your vehicle is used to block out bugs, rocks, rain, and wind and serves a greater purpose in the infrastructure of your vehicle in case of a roll-over. As you drive down the road and scan the horizon with perfect clarity it is the windshield and its many attributes that make it all possible. The glass can refract sunlight and block-out heat or ultra violet (UV) light which could greatly reduce the risk of serious sunburn or cancer, making the windshield or the glass in your vehicle a major benefit to your well being.
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Ideally though, you should make sure that anything not part of your system, doesn't get passed through PHP. This will take away this common security risk, as well as limit the overhead required to serve those files.
wanna sell the ipad you don't use much anymore?
Ok, yeah I want blazing fast, so bluehost is prob out.
I mostly agree with his conclusions. Android is a very manic experience. Half a dozen icons I don't understand in the notification bar, beeps and bloops that make no sense to me, settings hidden under layers of menus, totally inconsistent UIs between apps including Google's first party apps, micro-management required for some of the most basic things (like getting acceptable battery life) and probably worst of all ads everywhere and you often have no choice of a premium ad-free version of the app. That may work for some people but it drives me a little insane. I'm hoping ICS will be the release that cleans up some of this mess. (if my phone ever gets the update, probably not)
Never used unmanaged. How hard is it for newbs to install, update, patch and all that?
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I would just add "test automation" and "restore from backups" to that list.
That is such a good article! Managing Humans (book written by him) is also a good resource for managers. I loved that book!

http://www.managinghumans.com/
FB. AOL looks like it's trying hard to be casual, but is coming across as decidedly corporate.
It's true; and I love that the production server, hypnotoad, is a managed set of morbos. Code re-use done right.
1) Make sure you have a Google Webmaster Tools account and see if your site has any warnings and/or other problems identified by Google.

2) Think about reducing the number of links on the homepage, and increasing the amount of content. Maybe a greeting for new users letting them know what your about. Overall your homepage is covered in links and as a user at first glance nothing stands out and I'm likely to hit the backspace button.

3) Create a better site structure (clear tiers of content), its very hard to navigate your site.

4) Get rid of empty pages like this: http://www.cardboardconnection.com/2011-topps-tier-one-baseb....

5) Make sure you aren't copying other's content and they aren't scrapping yours see: http://www.copyscape.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cardboardconnec...

6) Save posts like these for Twitter and Facebook: http://www.cardboardconnection.com/hockey/amazing-patches-fr...

7) A new design with larger font, different colour scheme and better plugins (commenting, ratings, etc) is in order.

8) Get rid of the Hot Auctions tab, link to eBay from the product page and not a secondary link farm looking tab.

9) Despite all these minor problems (and there's more) the quality of content on site is pretty poor, I guess if I was coming for the history of some cards maybe your site would be helpful but the content is written in a detached, impersonal tone that doesn't garner links or Google rankings.

Focus on writing high quality articles based on your/author's personal experience and expertise.

Check out www.copyblogger.com for more information on how to write well for the net.

10) Try and get in touch with Matt Cutts (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Matt_Cutts), he regularly helps out sites that feel like they have been harshly treated (proof: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-ban-cutts-support-14164.h...)

11) After you have fixed all these problems submit a reconsideration request to Google.
Sure. My point is that two out of the three don't appear to have anything to do with Android.
with a little explanation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOtIsnG71U&feature=relat...

(from http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/lfcea/quantum_le...)
True... but who gives a shit.
I don't know why articles like this always demand some homage be paid to Apple. Apple did a great job with certain key elements of the user experience and Android jumped on board. As somebody buying one phone or the other it really doesn't concern me who invented it. Same thing on the other side of the argument. Android had notifications first.. and now iOS5 has them too. I really don't care who "made it all possible"

If I'm buying a sexy-looking stainless steel oven made by Samsung... I couldn't care less that General Electric was the genius that made the first one.
So right now, they're flaring off natural gas in North Dakota from the Bakken oil fields because it's not worth their time, money, or effort to take it to market. Figure out how to transport that to someplace they need it, or to build something that can take advantage of cheap gas there. (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/business/energy-environmen...)

If you're going to use a ship for this, it would also have to be able to liquefy the natural gas (you have can store about 1000 times more energy with natural gas as a liquid than as a gas)

Basically, the capital costs and operating costs for this probably don't make any economic sense.
and 4 for "amazing broccoli lasagna".
Firstly, I haven't downvoted any of the comments in this thread, including yours.

2) It would seem odd for me to refer to San Fran as 'the city' from outside of the city, since, for me, 'the city' likely refers to either DC or Baltimore, depending on which I'm nearer to at the time.

San Fran might identify the person as being from out of town, but generally, that's exactly the type of person you'd expect to be saying something like that. Doesn't make it outdated in my view. If, perhaps, it is not in trend, that doesn't make it unmodern.

As for the brand of Detroit, admittedly, there's a lot of bad press about it from the outside. I'd argue that efforts like GrowDetroit are exactly designed to combat.

Lastly, the point I was making about DC is that yeah, it's a crappy place on paper, but it has benefits. Detroit might also seem like a crappy place on paper, but might also have its own set of unique benefits and luxuries even. As you mentioned, the low rent is a great advantage for a startup. As I understand it, there are plenty of areas in Detroit that are safe to be in at night.

Again, I can't really speak for it, having not been there, I'm just suggesting that perhaps you shouldn't dismiss it out of hand so quickly. Of course, it's your life, and I'm being pushy by suggesting you do other than your natural intention.
Vim's text objects are one of the fundamental things that make using it so awesome.

I've had a bit of code in my vimrc that creates "next/previous" text objects for a while. Someone came along and helped me make it more compact a while ago, but I can't remember who.

It lets you use "din(" for "delete in next parens (on the current line)", which saves a bit of typing.

https://bitbucket.org/sjl/dotfiles/src/1b6ffba66e9f/vim/.vim...

Maybe I should turn it into a pathogen-installable plugin one of these days.
What would be the utility in doing this other than increasing the number of "coders"? I would make the argument that there are other, more practically applicable areas of study that would benefit the general population. Basic physics or even basic anatomy and physiology comes to mind.
??

I'm confused. As I understand it, they are Monthly plans - you can get them online. I just did it two weeks ago:

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans
Indeed it would be a major change for me, but I am still holding out so I can get on the other cycle.
I feel like you would need to wait and compare iOS 5 to ice cream sandwich for it to be an accurate comparison.
Putting the article's content aside, how many "beginner's guides" to Vim do we really need? It seems like every other week I find a new author writing about basic vim commands. Now, considering the article's content-- I'm not sure it contained anything that couldn't be learned from `vimtutor`, but it's been quite a while since I've run it.
In the linux kernel community, you'd get shot for this attitude. Now granted there are not many projects out there with this scale and complexity, but still: A one-liner commit-message for anything else than a trivial refactor is stupid. You want motivation for that change, references to bug reports and analysis of the problem (and potentially other ways to solve it and why they were rejected) in there.

And you absolutely don't want all that crap in the source code, because it routinely happens that a few lines of diff require a few paragraphs of commit message to explain why this is the right thing to do.

And browsing that massive amount of information with recursive git blame (or gitk's equivalent) and the more specialized history digging functions is easy. At least much easier than browsing through the equivalent embedded in source files, and I've seen the latter.

One thing you're right, though: Writing concise one-line summaries of a commit (which is the only thing a git shortlog shows) is a must.
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