skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After about 10 minutes with Plone, a few months with Joomla, about 2 years with Drupal, and finally 3 years with WordPress, I think WordPress is still a brilliant solution for lots of problems.

The closest competitor, Drupal, is an absolute nightmare. For designers, developers and certainly for the end user. It still doesn't even ship with a wysiwyg editor—hard to disagree that this is precisely what the end user wants.

In Drupal, developing themes is a nightmare, theming Views output is an absolute disaster, and upgrading modules/core will almost certainly result in a whitescreen.

I don't see an alternative to WordPress at the moment. If you want to give you clients a reasonable admin interface I don't see another way around it. And I don't find that clients mind it changing 2-3 times a year—they all say it gets better each time.

Though it certainly is blog-oriented, and you will have to twist and bend it to act as a CMS, having to do this is a lot more fun than trying to wrangle a Views template file.
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You can always compare with http://scroogle.org/. Though I sometimes wonder if its results have been "personalized" for a collective mind.
I'll paste from my last post on this topic. There was an article that went over exactly this in Discover magazine a month or two ago. Summary is that it's harder than you might think.

"You would need more than a garage; you would need a great
garage and a lot of money. And it's not trivial. You need
the oligonucleotides to stitch genes together, and as far
as I know, most companies will check the order if the
sequence represents that of a dangerous virus."

http://discovermagazine.com/2011/oct/21-dawn-of-the-biohacke...
Hmm, thats news for me. Here also self employed are insured. Even homeless are kind of ensured. Ok, if you mean that rare case when you bill in the name of your company, but do not pay yourself any salary, then yes, this is one rare way.
life expectancy is a reasonable proxy

I disagree. The USA differs significantly from Germany, both in cultural aspects and genetic/racial makeup. Different lifestyles contribute significantly to life expectancy differences, as does heredity.
Lets say someone took your fingerprints off a glass or a light-switch or your car, is there any reasonable way to prevent this?

Lets also say that you somehow become aware of them having a copy of your fingerprints and you remember that your phone requires your fingerprints to unlock; what do you do?

It's the fact that you can't permanently change your fingerprints nor restrict access to them which make them bad for authentication. Those two qualities also make them good for forensics.
Learn to X
The Adderall example is due to our drug-war paranoia more than due to healthcare regulation; Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance whose production and distribution is micromanaged as a result.

My guess is that those problems would remain even if we completely deregulated healthcare otherwise, because there is very little political support for widespread drug declassification (maybe marijuana will happen in my lifetime, but I doubt much else).
WordPress can be installed on hosted Web server space under a user account with no admin access. Plone needs admin rights and runs a daemon. Note: I'm not suggesting that the author's organisation did use WP that way.

I agree with others above that the author could have mentioned alternatives.
The issue is with static typing. One can define a filterMap function in Scala much as you defined it in CL. The author's goal is to do that while also always statically knowing the most precise type of the returned collection. So, it's an issue that only comes up in a statically typed language.

Of course, I don't program in Scala, so my explanation may not be accurate.
I guess it made a difference back when your own food supply until next harvest was at stake.
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I'm trying to get it running on a local instance of my site. I'm hoping that works out OK. I'll be testing that out in the next week or so. If that doesn't work, I'm going with Solr. If it does, then I'll go live with that.
If I find an interesting blog post about a vacation on Google+, I can add that author in my "vacation reviews" circle. Further vacation posts by that blogger would also show up on my feed.
Why wouldn't that be a good use of personalized results?
Also, if you pay a bajillion dollars for an MRI machine, then you amortize the cost over the number of times it's used. The times you use it, it's just the cost of electricity. So there's an incentive to use it a lot.

That still doesn't explain being charged several thousand for an x-ray, though. That's 150 year old technology, this isn't like Dr. House and a team of neurosurgeons at work here.
Not tragic. Didn't happen to Americans. :)

(See what I did there? Stop being so blindly nationalistic--admit that China has some pretty heinous issues re: food safety and consumer safety/confidence [fair or not])
Fear of learning
I have a pending task, which is kind of new to me so I have to learn how to do it and do it. Although I am in the middle of it, I found it very stressful, is like fear of learning.

That does not happen when I have to fix something, for some reason I get lost in finding the solution until I fix, and actually enjoy the process.

I guess is only some idea that if I am not good enough for something I really enjoy doing then I would not be allowed to do it anymore.

Does anyone feels this way and how do you fight it?
The future won't be boring - provided that all these helpful algorithmic suggestions don't completely destroy the serendipity that often adds an immense amount of completely unexpected value in the physical world. But I'm sure there's an algorithm for that too.
The introduction of Free on the provider market was a huge disruption. We used to had crappy prices with crappy services before free came around. Actually the big one was France Télécome (Wanadoo/Orange) who is also one of the big one (or was?) in the mobile market.
This econtalk podcast with the CEO of a hospital system in St. Louis is also very enlightening: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/12/lipstein_on_hos.htm...
Huh ? I'm glad that your finger is better, but you procedure was not 'out-of-pocket' $0. Here in Canada, where the similar treatment would be $0 at the time of treatment, I would've paid in thousands already into the health care system in federal/provincial pay deductions. I consider, the money lost to be a continuous out of pocket expenditure. I still like this system more tbh.
Paper denying HIV–AIDS link secures publication
>We are now at the point where Apple has become, like the world’s scientific community, the norm that runs the world, while those wishing only for increasingly cheap access to megahertz and megabytes, who harbor contempt for clever design and the option of paying a premium for a finished, polished experience, are the backwater holdouts of an ideology that simply isn’t supported by the available facts.

PC users don't harbor contempt for clever design, the biggest reason for buying a PC for most its the higher cost of Apple products ( and perhaps an unfamiliar OS ). Author makes good points in beginning but I couldn't read past this obvious BS. Perhaps he should educate himself a bit.
How is this fraud? These are essentially live commercials. They can do whatever they want.

I'd wager half the products at CES are running canned demos in flash. It's an open secret and everyone does it.
Normally I'd like to try to understand what you have against AGPL (Opa is dual licence btw.) but given that half of your wording is around words like "retarded" and "stupid", I'm not sure whether you're really interested in real discussion?
Thanks, but I am a little lost. I take your answer to mean the Checkout Helper app uses JSON to read from a database for the column of prices and discounts, but how is it cached locally?

I am just wondering how to do something similar in an app I have built, calculates a column of numbers, but in a different knowledge domain from your app.
"In the UK if you opt out of public healthcare you can't mix and match services beyond the GP level, this may change in the future."

What do you mean by this? You can have pretty much any health service privately in the UK if you want to pay for it e.g. from BUPA:

http://www.bupa.co.uk/
I thought that facebook would be the first to come out with personalized search. It is so interesting watching the Big Four poke and prod at each others moats. It will be watching to see how everything pans out in the next 10 years.
Yes, but given A = people, B = architecture, and C = language (and ignoring process for brevity’s sake), the two honking giant caveats are these:

Just because A > B > C does not mean that C does not contribute to the result and can be dismissed. C may be less important than A, but that doesn’t mean it’s unimportant.

Specifically, assuming you have a sane process for hiring people and a sane process for choosing a language (e.g. we are not talking about the gap between “I CAN HAZ CODES” programmers and Norvig, nor are we talking about the gap between Brainfuck and Lisp), the contribution of A to the result is not so many orders of magnitude greater than C that you can ignore C.

And:

A > B > C. Fine. But are these independent variables? No, we know that the language affects (for better or worse) your ability to attract and retain certain developers. So A and C are not independent. Likewise, certain architectures are just plain hell to implement with certain languages, so B and C are not independent.

Solving for the maximal result of A, B, and C does not mean choosing A first, then B, and then C. It means choosing the best combination of all three at once.

Update: Nothing I’ve said here disagrees with Norvig, caveats are warnings not to oversimplify, not suggestions the advice is incorrect. Also, http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
Hey, you're both [edit: mistake, see below] new here and obviously knowledgable about the topic at hand. At HN, we try to maintain civility - it's an explicit goal of the community. What this implies is that if you're in a discussion with someone, and you realize they don't understand an important point of the discussion, instead of using sarcasm, it's much better to say "Oh, I see, you're missing point x."
Well, I'll take your word for it. I do think that the major problems come from being in a halfway-space between public and private sector for the whole industry, combined with the fact that the entirely-private insurance system breaks any market forces which could lower prices.
Drupal.

(Although it has it share of cons too, it can do many of the items on the list. Some require coercing, but doable.)

edit, in progress:

- Document management- No, not Word, Excel files etc. but can do revisions/diffs on site content, and manage files to some degree.

- Workflow management- http://drupal.org/project/workflow

- Digital asset management- http://drupal.org/project/media

- Link management - http://drupal.org/project/pathauto and others... not sure what you need here.

- User management - Default may do what you need, can do more.

- ESI Caching / CDN ability. - (no esi in drupal 7) / http://drupal.org/project/cdn

- WYSIWYG editing- Many options but sometimes flaky.

- Single Sign-on- http://drupal.org/project/bakery

- Multi-side Admin - Not sure. Different user groups can have different access.

- Publishing options - Quite a few. what do you need?

- Access Management - http://drupal.org/project/acl and more.

- Application - ?

- Multi-lingual - http://drupal.org/project/i18n

- n-to-n content sharing- user to user sharing?

- Reporting - what kind?

Disclaimer: I've used it for a few projects; More experience than word-press or joomla.
Thanks. I'd love to make one for the desktop App but I haven't figured out a way to do more then Previous, Next, etc. No searching.

I've contemplated building my own desktop app though that basically embeds a browser plus the extension.
It's also pretty large for me too, font size 25px.

Another error I caught: softwre

I guess he needs spell check on top of WYSIWYG, too?
Wikipedia's Identity Crisis
I agree with you. Prior to this, the only way to get global search was to add &pws=0 to the URL. Now, it's a button. It's a big step forward, and not that I don't like the "bubble", it has its advantages (increased relevance). It's fantastic to be able to switch between the two modes at the click of a button, and it's something we didn't have before.
For some reason I never thought of doing this before:

alias might='ssh matt@might.net'

So you can do things like "might df" as he mentions. This seems super-useful if you deal with remote servers.
Except that Drupal is, interface-wise, even worse than Wordpress; and management of the damn thing is difficult even for the developers among us. It's hard to recommend it when you know clients/users will struggle with it.
very cool. Sent you an email with a token!
This is horrible and the worst part is that you are opted in by default.
> That still doesn't explain being charged several thousand for an x-ray, though

If you want to try and understand this stuff, you have to abandon the idea of the charged cost of a procedure relating to how much it cost to provide. It's truly depressing.

This econtalk podcast does a good job diving into the nightmare of non-prices in the medical system: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/12/lipstein_on_hos.htm...
The real scam perpetrated by hospitals and doctor's offices is rebilling.

It works like this:

1) They send a bill with no information about the services performed.

2a) You waste your time tracking down what it was and then pay it.

OR

2b) You pay the bill without wasting your time to verify.

3) They wait somewhere between a month and 6 months.

4) After receiving payment, they bill you again for the same services.

5a) You waste your time tracking down the services and the fact that you already paid. Then you waste more time calling and forcing them to stop billing you. You get an "Oops, sorry! I can't imagine how that happened."

OR

5b) You pay the bill without wasting your time to verify.

Repeat steps 3 through 5 until they've sucked as much time and money out of you as possible.
"I was in my early 20s, overeducated with a series of non-performing degrees from New York University and Columbia, and frustrated"

I think the author acknowledged that...

Everybody has their own side of story. While I respect your side of story, his side of story was that he's frustrated with the way of life in the USA and he went east to China.

Whether he can hack it in USA today, tomorrow, or in the future, who knows. But he made his mind up and move to China. That takes a lot of guts.
I skip a beat, but any shell user will need this at some point in his life : http://mywiki.wooledge.org/

So many 'I wish I'd known earlier'

Other links straight from #bash@freenode

Topic for #bash is: FAQ: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ | Guide: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide | ref: http://xrl.us/bhk9ww | http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/ | USE MORE QUOTES!: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Quote.html | Scripts and more: http://www.shelldorado.com/ | New official help mailing list: http://tx0.org/31f

They're all deeply useful
So...
to summarize this post:

Use whatever feels comfortable and enables you to get work done.

Insightful post.
>>Is making murder illegal the "regulation of killing", and thus murder "shouldn't be regulated"? No, that's absurd.

Of course it should be regulated, stupid. The only way you can regulate it is by giving rent a cops license to kill if their donut burps are offensive. And not kill just murderers - anyone they want. The right way to handle murder is with immediate murder back by armed citizens. Stupid.
http://imgur.com/wgxXN

I made the above in a couple of minutes using the Gimp. (1)Create path. (2)Stoke path. (3)Modify path. (4)Create new layer. (5)Stroke path in new layer. (6)Goto (3).
I've used Wordpress on a number of sites for small businesses & restaurants lately. In every case it has fit the bill.

Other CMSs I've looked at are way overkill, and while I've toyed with the idea of building my own custom CMS, the fact is I can get everything I need in a 5-minute WordPress installation and 30 minutes of plugin configuration. Theme development is straight-forward and relatively well-documented.

The investment in rolling your own is a mite more than 35 minutes. Even the act of walling off or hiding portions of Drupal is more involved than that.
IIRC, the default shell on many BSDs is tcsh. I guess it was probably csh before that in some point in history. That might have something to do with it.
Why? Just because he is no longer using it for business purposes doesn't mean it isn't still perfect for what it was designed to do, blogging.
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It is mostly done (at least in this case, probably most cases) because it doesn't actually work and they aren't finished yet.

I think it is in good faith - they aren't intending to lie or deceive, but it's show and tell time and the product isn't ready. I still think it goes against the spirit of a tech demo and is pretty dishonest. Intel have very aggressive schedules lately, so this isn't surprising.

That is also why they knowingly ship broken chips lately:

http://www.techpowerup.com/156625/Intel-Core-i7-3960X-and-i7...
I like it. Simple and clean with clear messaging. Nice work. The one nit I have is on the About Us page: I don't care what tools you use and I'm not sure anyone else will either.
SOPA Would Render DNSSEC Useless
Aside from keyboard shortcuts (Mac still trips me up), I am fine on any platform and notice no difference.

I might occasionally find myself typing 'putty' in Spotlight, or 'dir' in linux, but largely it's all blurred together.

With Sublime Text 2 I'm even more confused. When I'm not in a terminal my editor is consistent everywhere.

Now the big question is more likely to be "What hardware?", not "What OS?", which is great as it gives me the whole world of products to choose from.

The only thing I'll add is: This is all only possible if you didn't put your life in one of the vendor's walled garden.
I think the author's problem, and the problem of nearly every frustrated WordPress user, is that the alternatives aren't nearly as enjoyable to work with as WordPress. It has a nice, understandable, and flexible API, and even though its greatest strengths are really only in blogging, the friendliness of the environment naturally invites stretching its use.

For these people, I would strongly recommend a look at ProcessWire. It's kind of like a radically simplified Drupal that is at least as easy to use as WordPress, if not more so, and has a similar attention to design and detail. I've been using it for a few months now across two very different projects, and I'm wishing I'd found it earlier.
Yeah yeah, you are such a professional. Never touching a colleague. Never making a joke. Never presuming to try to start a friendship. Never making a comment on personal appearance. Etc, etc, etc.

I suppose you'll never experience any female trouble either, at work or anywhere else.
Now I can no longer recommend the MPL to people that don't want to license as GPL and don't want their code to suddenly become GPL'ed because someone used it in their project.
I think it may seem like more work, but without strong package management things like reinventing the kitchen sink & copy pasta from various unreliable sources becomes the norm. You could almost say that the comments in the PHP manual were relied on more often than PEAR.

Although package management can cause it's own problems like dependency hell or multiple packages that do the same thing but none of them do it well.
It's a fair point. Android isn't free. Sooner or later people will realize that they're the product. Google is building/has an amazing database of your life, your browsing habits, your app habits, your emails, your calendar, all of it hooked up to your phone when you first turn it on.

They make literally billions helping advertisers find you.

Apple makes billions selling hardware.

Honestly, I prefer the demon I know. I have no idea what Google is doing and is capable of, and what decisions they will make in the future with my data to protect their advertising revenue.

With Apple it's simple. They want me to buy another device, and they're willing to make a good enough device to convince me to upgrade.
I would say that is checkmate Foxconn
Networking is a form of leverage as well.

Your (raw) talent is also a leverage.

Your skill is also leverage.

Depending on any of them individually is a disaster.
As requested:

Biography in English

http://www.economist.com/node/14402214?story_id=14402214

There's more available on French-speaking web - here are a couple links about his porn debuts and his jail time for misuse of company asset.

http://www.liberation.fr/societe/010160359-le-x-versant-obsc...
http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/prison-avec-sursi...

The part about him doing it "for the lulz" was never officially acknowledged. With that said, French media have nicknamed him "le Trublion" which means roughly "the troublemaker", and he clearly likes it.

An example of pure trolling from Niel: as a justification for why he invested money in a newspaper in financial trouble, he said "You're asking me if I have 35 million euros? Don't take this the wrong way, but this amount is roughly equal to the daily variation of my fortune on the stock market" - "Si je dispose de 35 millions d’euros ? Je ne voudrais vexer personne, mais cette somme correspond à la variation quotidienne de mon patrimoine en Bourse."

http://www.capital.fr/enquetes/hommes-et-affaires/xavier-nie...

Now I agree that businessmen should be judged on their actions. He is smart, he is good, and I like his way of dealing with things. But he was always and will always be a Troll at heart, a well-intentioned one maybe, but "very decent ethics" clearly does not accurately describe him.

- sorry for the mix-up I messed up my reply earlier.
The music on Tetris is wrong :(((

Works far better than some other GBC emulators I've seen though, nice work.
Actually you simply offer to pay whatever they would have gotten from the insurance company -- they are likely to get even less if they sue you into bankruptcy.
You could argue that the reason outpatient care is so high in the US is because people who can't afford, insurance or otherwise, for "normal" care only go to the hospital when their condition becomes acute and emergency departments that can't turn away people have to treat them. You could probably argue that in this case acute treatment cost is higher because the primary condition has been left untreated for so long ; xref the stories of poor children dying from tooth abscesses, something that could normally be treated with $15 worth of antibiotics and $25 worth of dental work; tooth pulled, hardly aesthetic but it works. That $40 of timely intervention is probably hundreds cheaper than a child presenting to emergency with septicemia.
Thanks a lot! Checking it out now.
The codebase will be updated soonish, so I'd expect this to be for Firefox 12.
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Most people who deal with password security treat it as a one-time thing. You come up with a good scheme and stick to it for a lifetime. But there have been a number of large shifts in attacks on passwords, and you have to keep up.

The main focus is usually on entropy. But the admin can also adjust factors that limit attacker guess rate and respond to attacks. These other factors are easier to control than users' password choices, but have as big an impact as entropy in the realized security.
Making Basecamp even better… using Basecamp
In the OP: they dont have a Tester. They just load it on their MacBooks and presume it works for the other 95% of the world

Really, wordpress.org users are the testers, wordpress.com users are the customers. I'd love to hear what the OP now recommends though, that would provide some good perspective.
And use pws=0.