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in essence, this would be moving away from a model of "large networks of connected pages/sites" to "a large amount of single documents with no meaningful mechanism of inter-connectedness".

Think about this like a PDF where stuff is embedded instead of in separate files.
...and the general concept of "embedding one type of data inside another" predates computers and modern civilization.
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I will submit a solo ad to a network with 60,000 members. Due to high traffic volume delievery can take up to 5 days.
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Yes, because conceptually you're still talking to a computer (it just happens to be a globally load balanced computer). It's still the unicast service model, and it's still fundamentally about building a channel between two operating systems.
I think what we should do, is to stop using their lousy service
Oh well. You and I will just have to agree to disagree on this point.
The program in question is not a conforming program in the first place. It's the Ruby interpreter and it does all kinds of low-level stuff. alloca(0) is called from the garbage collector in order to detect the end of the stack so that the garbage collector can scan the stack for pointers. The code assumes that it's running on a system where there is a stack at all, which is pretty much all systems nowadays.
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I'm fairly sure you have to either have British citizenship or citizenship in one of the Commonwealth nations to be knighted. Otherwise you receive an honorary knighthood. Also some Commonwealth nations don't allow their citizens to receive honours, for example Canada.
That's fair. I was more intending to point out that Facebook does indeed have Python developers, and they are not entirely a PHP business.
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Rather than jumping on the bandwagon of accusing tumblr for infringing on user's rights ,I think we should give the guys the benefit of doubt which is well deserved for creating an awesome free platform.

There probably are some serious technical reasons why this add-on is creating problems for them and affecting user experience.
Wouldn’t this state of affairs scream out for simple, off-the-shelf ecommerce? Ecommerce platforms have been around as long as the web, but they are enterprisey behemoths (last I looked, a long time ago).

Where is the Wordpress for retail?
Of course it's not a conforming program. That's rather the point: as a non-conforming program, the compiler is allowed to apply optimizations which may behave differently from what the programmer wants it to do. That this code works on one compiler and fails on another doesn't make it a compiler bug, though. It merely means that this code relies on the compiler behaving in a certain way which isn't actually mandated.
Basic e-commerce for such things as mop-buying is a solved problem in 2011. Not sure why you would even need a large team of top-notch developers at a place like Target. A few good sysadmins and DBAs, and maybe some graphics/front-end types.

Edit: Upon thinking about this a moment longer, I think that actually there would be (or could be) interesting work at Target, simply because of the scale of the operation. Though sadly you are still probably hitting the mark in the "bureaucratic drag" assessment.
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Agreed. Thanks for clarifying.
Considering the British honours system is _entirely_ political faffery, no, it's not at all surprising.
How is this substantially better than just sending someone a file?

Plaintext, the past, present and future.
Take it all with a grain of salt. His point is more on a basis of principles and approaches to software design that builds on the quote: "It is practically impossible to teach OO design to students that have had a prior exposure to Rails".

Too many variables come into play when devs choose their framework of choice so it's quite the broad sweep to say "Let's put our framework against yours". I think the bigger point is: ".NET finally has some innovative approaches to the web"

We've learned from Rails, Django, etc and now we bring something new to the table. Regardless of the tone of the article, that's the message I would like to see be relayed
The mechanism for click fraud isn't that great to detect 100,000 fraud clicks a day.

I bet it would cause an impact.

Is it legal? Well I wanted a cd from Sony and change my mind is that a crime?

I wanted a domain from godaddy and changed my mind, is that a crime?

Fuck SOPA and fuck the politicians
I'm not using their service, but if we burn their campaign funds others won't see them on the Internet as much
Pointers you get from malloc() usually have metadata alongside too, you're just not supposed to read it.
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> Where is the Wordpress for retail?
http://www.shopify.com/
Target itself is an enterprisey behemoth.

Not trying to take away from your comment, I think there's definitely a place for a "Wordpress for retail" and would be surprised if it doesn't exist (though it's not something I've really looked into). But I'm not sure something like that would easily scale to what Target would need.
The article itself contains a much better example. Setup fee of $65 and then $51/mo for 8GB RAM, 750 GB HD and i7.
http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq4
I'd be worried about security and data authenticity with tech like that.
Okay what we need is someone to get a list of words the SOPA companies advertise against, search google bing and yahoo

Then when SOPA company comes up the script clicks the ad and randomly clicks around the page for a couple minutes and repeats the process for 8 hours a day.

I'm sure one of you guys could make this
Spammers quickly figured out how to make a mockery of Bayes based solutions. And who is still out there filtering spam using IP addresses & domain names? Spamhaus.

For what it's worth, the SpamBayes plugin for MS Outlook has reliably trapped at least 99.9% of spam for me for several years now, with essentially no false positives at all (where false positives are defined as legitimate mail that bypasses the Unsure folder by receiving a spam score greater than 90%.)

In practice, this is enough to keep my email account essentially spam-free despite the arrival of over 1,000 spam messages per day.

On the other hand, blacklists accomplish nothing beyond interfering with my own legitimate outgoing email, just because somebody else with a Comcast account happens to be infected by a spam-spewing trojan. Gee, thanks, guys.

As a result, I see blacklists the way some people see unions -- as defensive tools that may have been needed at one time, but that are now just unnecessary, parasitic middlemen.
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No one is down playing the role government has played in helping liberty flourish and prosper in certain conditions we just do not want it to be to become to big and threathening to freedom.
I'm doing the same thing and writing a blog at www.codepo.st. I don't think it really matters what language you start with. After a couple of months you'll find out about different languages and naturally find you way to ones that you like.
Yes, it's honorary for non-Brits. Bill Gates, for instance, is just below knight, though he still holds a high honor bestowed by the Queen.
BigCommerce, Shopify, Volusion are probably the closest to 'Wordpress for retail', but they seem to be mostly focused towards small businesses. Not that big businesses can't use them, but yea.
I'm not sure why Django was brought into the mix. The view and callback function concepts in Django allow a workflow that is a lot less restrictive than say Rails or ASP.NET MVC.

Granted, I submitted the article because I'm one of the principal devs on the framework. However, see my comment above for clarity on what I think the message should be.
Well, it is the job of the government to govern their country, so it's not that strange they also want to govern companies affecting their country.
This article consists of speculation, factual misstatements, and some jingoistic China-bashing. Terrible journalism:

"Many rare earths are also geochemically rare". No, they're actually as common as many industrial metals, including copper.[1] China does control 97% of world supply, as the article states several times, but that's largely due to a lack of developed mines in the Western countries.

"If geochemistry and politics weren’t enough, though, we even have to factor in ethical concerns: Just like blood/conflict diamonds — diamonds that originate from war-torn African nations, where forced labor is used and the proceeds go towards buying more weapons for the warlord — some rare metals could be considered “blood metals.” Tantalum, an element that’s used to make the capacitors found in almost every modern computer, is extracted from coltan — and the world’s second largest producer of coltan is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the home of the bloodiest wars since World War II." True that the mining of these minerals has occurred in the midst of some of the worst conflicts of the 1990s and 2000s, but neither tantalum nor coltan are rare earth elements, as the diagram immediately above the text clearly shows. This is just hysterics.

"Just like oil and energy, this will probably require drastic technological leaps. Instead of reducing the amount of tantalum used in capacitors, or indium in LCD displays, we will probably have to discover completely different ways of storing energy or displaying images. My money’s on graphene." That's nice, although again neither tantalum nor indium are "rare earth elements", nor does graphene possess many of the unique geochemical qualities of rare earths.

It's very difficult to accept any of the author's articles on face given this level of inaccuracy and distortion (and that's only errors via a quick skim).

[1] http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2002/fs087-02/

(Edit: Added last line)
Ask HN: I'm building a directory of JS Libraries. How can I make it useful?
As I've become more and more interested in JavaScript over the years, I started collecting quite a few bookmarks of libraries. More recently, I decide to better categorize them so I would be able to better search them as well as share the links and access them no matter where I am. As I get further into the project, there's a number of choices I need to make and I was hoping to ask the HN community what would be most helpful as it's not just for me. This is intended as a resource and won't be monetized or plastered with ads (assuming the track stays low enough to afford). I've got a few questions below and I'd welcome any and all feedback or criticism (on topic or general).

Website: http://resjs.com/

1) Categorizing all possible libraries is quite a task and I'm trying to find a balance between too few categories and too many. I decided on categorizing rather than tagging and searching as it allows easier browsing and discovering of new libraries without needing to know specific search terms. Is this just my preference? What would you do differently?

2) Currently I'm intending to list the following information for each library:

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Short Description

Main URL (e.g. to a main website or documentation if available)

Demo URL

Code URL (usually Github repo)

License/s (with a direct link to the license file if possible)

Dependencies

Is any of that redundant or not useful to you? Are there important characteristics I'm missing? I don't currently plan to list size as it can change quickly and I think microjs.com is great for listing tiny libraries if that's your primary concern.

3) I plan on limiting the site from having jQuery plugins or Node specific libraries. NPM is great and there's so many jQuery plugins I'd probably want to keep them separate even if I intended to include them at some point. Do you agree or disagree with that choice?

4) If I put this up on Github, would there be any interest in contributing? Either in terms of adding libraries or assisting with site development like adding some stats from the Github API?

Thanks for taking a look.
> The Spamhaus people are bad guys. I gradually realized that during the time I worked on spam filters. They presumably started out with good intentions, but the position they're in has corrupted them.

That's a very attacking statement to call people "bad guys". Not just "they're not doing a good job", but actually "bad people". Ouch.

Worse, I think it's totally wrong.

While I do agree with the problem of "power corrupts", I believe that Spamhaus have been highly successful at avoiding that.

I've dealt with and spoken with people at Spamhaus regularly, and they're smart people fighting the good fight. They know what they're doing, and take their responsibilities seriously. They don't blindly attack people or use threats or accuse them of misdeads. They gather evidence about bad behaviour and act on it.

The proof is in the pudding. 100's of RBLs have come and gone over the years, either run as temporary projects that the owner gave up on one day, or gone the "power corrupts" option and just ended up listing so many IPs they've generated too many false positives (e.g. SPEWS).

Spamhaus RBLs are still being run today, and being done so very successfully. Virtually every small/medium email server I know uses them in one form or another (blocking or scoring). They generally have very high block rates, and very low false positive rates.

From a time when Al Iverson was still keeping stats on the various RBLs out there, you can see the Spamhaus zen RBL on it's own generally caught 75% of spam with 0% false positives.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080703181952/http://stats.dnsbl...

Certainly some listings are controversial (eg google docs), but it's always been for a good reason, and forced the provider of the service to come to terms with the fact their spam policies were lax or their service was being seriously abused by spammers. They were thus forced to take action, something they should have been doing anyway.

Without Spamhaus, the internet would be a way worse place, with way more spam/junk emails and websites.
It's a horrible article and misleading title. Sending different CSS based on the browser UA doesn't equal not supporting a browser. In fact, just the fact they are doing that shows that they are still supporting IE7 by not pushing features that would be broken to it.

That being said, I would guess that bug fixing and the like for IE7 are probably prioritized lower, hence things like the busted layout shown in the article picture.

I'll wait for the official announcement from Facebook, just like they announced when they would stop supporting IE6.
It's a terrible plan. Paying a bunch of rock star salaries just gets you a bunch of people that say they are rock stars. If you don't have any on staff, you don't actually know if they are or not (pg has an essay about exactly this).

History is filled with these kind of rock star failures.

Buying the company gets you a team that can verifiably build the product you want, because they already did. That kind of conservative risk management is worth a ton of cash in the real world.
"On the contrary, you can do something safely with such a pointer - compare it with another pointer. If the value of 'alloca(0)' is _unspecified_, then this comparison is legal, and its result, while not specified, must be consistent."

While you would expect a comparison to another pointer to be legal, I don't believe it has to be consistent. That's the whole point of undefined behavior. In one sense, it's like the question of whether NaN == NaN. In many implementations, that expression is not necessarily true--even though based on your pointer example logic it should be.

Referencing the OP: the real problem here is not that the NULL check got optimized out and so seemed inconsistent. That's within the tolerance of C's undefined behavior (which is designed for optimizations like this and is what makes it so hard to write truly sane C code.) The real problem is a bug with the code as written. One should never check against and undefined result. Instead there should have been an initial boolean guard against the case of alloca'ing 0 bytes. I __could__ see an argument for expecting that to be always null (in fact, that's the argument for higher level languages!) But expecting it to be a specific value in relation to the stack? That seems arbitrary at best.
You are using averages where the min and max are extremely wide apart. For example, the Moon is not actually at -25C, it is either +130C or -110C (or transiting between). We know the time when those temps occur, so we can look for other objects not at those temps at that time. Same goes for the other objects.
If the add-on is actually causing excessive page requests and erroneous support inquiries, this seems like a very reasonable response. And they didn't ask the users to uninstall the add-on, they notified them of a supplement to the agreement stating that users shouldn't expect support if they wish to continue using it.
I'm currently working on something I've called 'wordpress for e-commerce'.

The tenets of wordpress that I think are applicable:

1. Totally free, open source, unrestricted license
2. Ability for developers to form strong community and share
3. Easy to hack, simple architecture

There's more to it sure, but these are on top of my mind.
You would think it would be as impervious to human frailty as the choice of the pope or the winner of the Nobel peace prize.
One problem is not everyone has imagination--just like there are some photo-memory people there are those with no capability of 'picturing' anything in their mind.

Another is that people's mental imagery is probably very different, how can you teach it directly? If the school is good at getting people to discover that mental imagery on their own it will probably work out, but it's hard to teach it to someone who doesn't share it. (I'd love to see some other psychology studies on this, I think I first ran across the view from a Feynman video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y&feature=BFa&#... )
Doesn't USPS offer this API for free? https://secure.shippingapis.com/registration/
These are more like 'squarespace for e-commerce'
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It is worth noting, however, that Mountain Pass primarily produces "light" rare earths, while the mines in southern China will remain the predominant source of several "heavy" rare earth metals for several years to come (e.g., dysprosium).

That said, such a nuanced argument appears nowhere in the linked article.
Actually the top 1337 and 314159 articles, respectively :).
For a time you could simply buy your way to a knighthood. At least for the last 50 years they've been an almost entirely political construction, recommended by the government and rubber stamped by the queen.

The Victoria Cross and George cross however, are earnt on merit alone.
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Not to mention hi-light, scribble in the margins, fold corners, add postit notes.. I like to get to know a book like an old friend.

When I first came to Japan a little j-e/e-j pocket dictionary did wonders for learning vocab. I may just pick up a new one...
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'....its own official “app store” instead of whining about support and server issues.'

No, you can't just willy nilly suggest that each website have their own App Store.
How long would it have taken you to write that?
In some situations deadlines, even if pulled from thin air, are at least something to focus on to get the project done. I've been on projects with no real deadlines, and they seem to meander forever and never actually get done. Finally someone will put a foot down on a date and magically everybody gets things wrapped up.
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On many systems, malloc(0) returns NULL. I recall one man page describing it as "a stupid answer to a stupid question" or some such.
Maybe the limiting factor is the ability to integrate with backend inventory, etc. I suspect there is no lightweight (read: inexpensive developer) way to do this.

(Which makes me wonder if there is a Wordpress for ERP.)

The other way to look at it is that for the 2-3 top players in a sector, there can never be off-the-shelf. WalMart’s differentiation is incredible supply chain, which they had to invent. Being a big guy means you are doing something different, almost by definition.
Whining? Just make an app store? I don't know which is worse the stupid complaint or the absurd solution?
A middle class lifestyle is based upon the products that companies produce, not so much the jobs they provide. A house with a garden is within reach of the masses only if cars are affordable (ford model T ) a yearly holiday to a sunny location is only within reach of those same people if travel is affordable ( boeing 747 ).

The pressure put upon established jobs originates from technology at least as much as it does from outsourcing lower skilled labour to Asia or Latin America. The unemployment we are facing now is not the result of outsourcing but of the misallocation of resources. Besides, production follows consumption and much of the investment overseas is not in service to American consumers but aims to build up access to those markets.

Middle class Americans have access to more products and services than ever before, the biggest threat to a sustained middle class is a re-inflation of houseprices and a sustained political attack on free trade, not on the lack of foresight of the CEO's of mature organizations.
I am against SOPA just like everyone else; however that does not mean we don't have a duty to police our own sites. In this case, someone misusing a service caused the whole service to suffer - including paying customers. This has nothing to do with SOPA but with making sure your business runs properly, and won't affect or cast a bad light on your service.

As for the disappointment at BlueHost - they should have probably let the customer know before taking action - but other than that I think they did the right thing. As a veteran of the hosting industry, if one of your customers wordpress blog was hacked and hosting a phishing site, would you not disable the site and let the customer know right away that they need to clear things up? That's just a random example, but any sane company will protect their servers via a TOS - if they didn't I would be quite concerned about the service they are offering. Just my $0.02 on this..
Well GP did say "Assuming they had a way to bootstrap an idiot-rejection-filter"

Though why would it not be possible to hire a person with a track record of building the sorts of things you want, and let that person hire the team?

Buying a company may or may not get you a team, depending on whether or not they stick around.
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