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Identifying spam does not require building a profile of your browsing and communication habits, nor does it require information of what videos you watch on YouTube. If I put a task on my schedule to buy va from the nearby pharmacy, would that mean that I'd like to receive spam about it?

Habits is what we are. Habits make us predictable. There are habits that you don't know you have or just refuse to accept that you have them. That's why Google's algorithms know more about you than you do.
There is no Pope of Python to tell you "you can't write new code to do xyz, because someone else is already working on that."

How would that be enforced? Would someone's Python privileges be taken away?

What if the person working on xyz was inactive for a while? What if their xyz had a problem and they didn't want to fix it?

The "obvious way to do it" does not and was never, ever intended to bind anyone's hands from writing a library or app similar to something someone else wrote. It is a principle of language design, that it should give SOME consideration to readability and learnability rather than giving 100% of everything to nifty obscure features that help you write awesomely clever executable line noise.
An alternative solution would be to allow different levels of "like" - that data could be translated into a ordered list of "who you want to date most" and they could run the stable matching algorithm to suggest initial dates.
could be working on something that matters instead

Sorry, but what does this even mean? You may it seem like there is a universally accepted definition of the word "matters" to which these folks are not living up to.
Yes, it should be. It's at the very top of our list to fix this, but we're hoping to collect feedback while we undergo the certificate approval process.
"Arguably" every API ever written is a domain-specific language.
Yeah, I just graduated and I'm excited to finally have time to teach myself through programs like this. At my university, I would have had to officially change majors just to take this sort of course.
I'm rather curious as to what the "comprehensive test suite" includes. If I were to write something like this, it seems like it would take nothing more than installing the various gems on a basic rails app, and adding a little glue code to integrate bootstrap. Or am I missing something?
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Django has such numeric superiority that there is not a lot of point splitting hairs on whether it is "default." While it isn't in the stdlib and there are other good choices, Django might as well be the default, just as Rails might as well be the default in Ruby.
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Ask HN: How is Pinterest different from a Tumblr with a masonry theme?
I understand Tumblr doesn't necessarily encourage creating a new account for every 'interest'. But if/when they do, how will Pinterest differ?

From Pin Etiquette:
"Pinterest is special because of the people who use it."

Well technically, MySpace is special because of people who use it too. Is there anything beside the focus on interests that makes this product special?

edit:// I haven't tried the iOS app, but there's no mention of being able to pin things in MobileSafari.
MG is right that much of what gets written in blogs and the press is BS. That's a truth that is not confined to technology. And of course to MG it seems like "it's getting worse"--from his perspective it is, because he is crossing over to the other side of the information asymmetry.

It is an asymmetry that is purposefully and carefully maintained by businesses and investors. MG himself could help better "align the sides" by simply publishing or sharing this new info he is privy to. But he won't.

So I hesitate to lay all the blame at the feet of bloggers and journalists. They are doing the best they can with the info they scrounge up or are given.

Daniel Ellsberg's meditation on the limits of knowledge is applicable to this type of situation IMO.

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsberg-li...
Thanks. I enjoyed watching that.
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I'm pretty sure even if he'd read it he'd still mangle it. MG's not exactly known for his prose, just his unapologetic opinions and perhaps connections.
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Just like in reality most kids didn't go to the library unless forced, and spent half their time looking for dirty books.
It's true that this generation just receives information differently. I was pretty much a non-reader my first 2 years of high school, like most people I knew. Then I received a Kindle for my birthday. Knowing where to find thousands of really great public-domain books and the ease of access gave me so much (free) knowledge I wouldn't have taken the time to discover in a library.
Good question.

I've got good coverage with unit tests and cucumber features.

The tests do things like bang on the credit card form in a bunch of ways and make sure things work correctly. The integration tests actually hit Stripe's test servers to ensure that payment processing is working correctly.
I have this question as well. I read through the TOS, Honor Code and what have you but I did not find anything concerning re-enrolment/negative implications when not able to finish the course/drop out half way or be just really bad at it.

I would really like to do it and could most likely also take the time to do so but for me there is a possibility of something more important coming up in the future resulting in me having to cut back on the curse. If something like: "If you want to enter the next course/a different one and your record shows that you began a course which you did not finish, then you have to do X/will be given a lower priority etc." applies, I would reconsider enrolling.

Does anyone have any further information on that?
People writing tools to learn, or because the existing ones didn't suit their needs or tastes, occurs in every language and is very different from Perl-style "more than one way to do it".

It's ridiculous to act like the mere existence of multiple independent projects for one task is some kind of searing indictment of the "one obvious way" principle in language and API design.
This is one of the benefits Iceland's prime minister claimed came from letting their banks fail -- more physicists, programmers and engineers moving from finance into technology.
I agree with everything you said, but do not agree that this is relevant to laws about copyrights or patents. This is THE most important thing that people fail to understand about the copyright debate, because they are not aware of the history or the purposes behind copyright law:

Ideas and words are NOT property. They cannot be "owned". Any system that allowed otherwise would be a blatant attack on the freedom of speech. The framers of our Constitution (and the creators of our copyright laws) were keenly aware of this. In the words of Thomas Jefferson:

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive
property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an
individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the
moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and
the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
...
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the
moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to
have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them,
like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any
point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being,
incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in
nature, be a subject of property.

Copyright law does NOT make an idea your property.

What it does do is give you a financial monopoly. It gives you the exclusive right to publicly display your work, publicly perform it, distribute copies of it for money, etc. If that's all copyright law does, why was it created? Well, let's look at what life was like in the old days:

Let's say you were a brilliant author, and you just wrote a book. You would begin the laborious task of making copies of said book, and either selling them or distributing them to libraries, friends, etc. Then some rich guy who owned a printing press would find it, make a zillion copies, and you wouldn't get a dime.

Nothing was innately wrong with this, because one has no right to own or control an idea or speech. But from a utilitarian point of view this was a bad system, because nobody had any incentive to create works of art. And so for the sole purpose of incentivizing the creation of art, governments began the "embarrassment" (Jefferson's words, not mine) of restricting speech in order to give artists monopolies, rather than giving monopolies to the printing press. And I actually agree that the copyright system was a sensible thing to do.

However, the laws we have today are an absolute perversion. Copyright is meant to prevent businesses from profiting by ripping off artists. It was not meant to prevent individuals from sharing or enjoying art for free in the privacy of their own homes. But we're allowing big media companies to reframe the debate using misleading terms like "intellectual property", "piracy", and "theft". And we're allowing them to strip our rights away from us, not to promote the progress of science and the arts, but to line their pockets.
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I think it's funny that people argue Google's more relevant. One of the reasons I got fed up with Google was the constant link spam in it from the content mills like Demand Media. Which is why I gave DDG a go. Maybe things have changed at Google, but they lost me as a heavy search user. Habits have completely changed.

I've been using DDG for quite some time (months) as my main search engine and it's been great. I'd say I only need to hit Google once every 50+ searches.

The inline results from Stack Overflow, Youtube and Wikipedia are excellent. That and the keyboard shortcuts are more natural to me (specifically j/k) than Google's (tabs and arrows).
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My modern kids visit the local library every 2 weeks and in each visit borrow about 10 books. I don't think I could afford to buy all those books and I would have no space to store the books after the kids read them.
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Nature also lessens this problem by correlating seriousness with physical affection and hormones. Kissing is a much more meaningful signal than texting "I seriously like you".
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Hmm. I'd love to seem some hard stats on that.

Don't forget that libraries host community events, children's books, story time, literacy programs, and give poor people access to computers, printers, and the internet.
A new trying-to-be-hip library just opened up in my city. They do a pretty good job of it too. The theme seems to be "How well can we copy Barnes and Noble?" Not only does it include a small coffee shop, but they have a dedicated children's section that looks a lot like Barnes and Noble's (the whole fairy-tail etc. style with elaborate decorations). They even had an opening night where they had the local hit-music radio station came and hosted dance party, complete with neon lights, glow sticks and pounding music (no old lady saying "SHHH" that night).

They rent out conference rooms and have a large auditorium with a theater-sized movie screen. The last time I was there they were showing Kung-Fu Panda which attracted a decent crowd. It's one library that has changed with the times.
Exact same argument could be made for books. Why don't we rent books?
After Panda and a few other search ranking improvements were implemented, the spam you're referring to has pretty much disappeared.
I think it's more a reflection of the decline in paper books as tool for education.

I've always loved libraries, but our local branch functions more as an internet cafe than a library.

>The most important resource any country has is intelligent people.

When I was younger my local library was a gathering place for students, and scholars (the intelligent people you mentioned). However, the last time I went, it was primarily full of people who couldn't afford internet access surfing Facebook.
I yield to no one in my steadfast love of libraries, and I'm sure that the state government could have found better places to make cuts. However...

...this would be slightly more interesting if it wasn't only a 3% cut to the funding of Californian libraries.

(Well, according to my back of the envelope calculation. The linked article claims the entire $30m of state funding has been cut. As of 2007, Californian libraries were apparently getting total funding (federal, state and local) of $26.47 per person. The population of California is 37m in 2009, which implies that California has total library spending of around $920m/year. And $30m is only 3% of $920m. To crosscheck, I found a report from 2000 that estimates total US library spending at $12b/year, and since California has around 12% of the total US population, that would imply around a $1.5b/year in spending. I assume spending has gone up quite a bit since then, so $920m/year certainly doesn't seem too high. I'd welcome better numbers if anyone can find them!)

Again, I don't support these cuts. But the article lacks context, and what context I can find from a few minutes of searching makes this seem very underwhelming.

(Related: back in around 2003 some people loved to talk about how Bush had increased federal education spending by 70% in his first three years. Quite true, but quite misleading if you didn't know that it was being increased from a base of effectively nil, since the federal government isn't responsible for education. Context matters!)
I've been using the dev branch of VLC for a while now, and the complexity is very easy to ignore. It's not nearly as bad as what happened to Amarok.
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I'm so signed up :D

There are so many offerings, even since I last made a little list of them for myself ( http://gergely.imreh.net/blog/2012/01/adventures-into-online... ) that it's incredible.

Let's get down to knowledge...
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This is a flat-out rip off. All three of those tools can plug into any Rails app pretty easily:

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Can we have a better UI for subtitles? Maybe double clicking on a subtitle file automatically adds it to the current video, just like GOM. I seem to remember behavior like this on the Windows VLC. That seems to be my only peeve with VLC, as a non-native English speaker.
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The San Jose library system alone runs a budget much larger than the total of these programs. The programs being cut are supplementary funding, most library funds come from local taxes.

It's going to be a major problem for some libraries, especially in poorer and/or more rural areas, but it's not a total state-wide catastrophe.

Edit: By the way, for more context, the library in my relatively wealthy city (Santa Clara) of 120,000 people, had a budget last year of $6,847,849. That's for one main library location and one small branch.
One reason is that whole ecosystems and expertise grow up around manufacturing, so it means the U.S. would lack both the knowledge and secondary industry. Also we'd be basically screwed in any standoff with China! Especially since their economy is heavily state-controlled, they would have a de-facto veto over any U.S. equipment that they didn't want built.
Disclaimer: I used to work for Microsoft

I think Microsoft needs to take a ton of heat for this one.

a) They outsource something running on a Microsoft domain, with the Microsoft logo, etc to an external entity, something customers wouldn't know about unless they read the ToU

b) That external entity wasn't held to even the most basic of security precautions - no MSFT online property would even be allowed to store passwords (that's the job for the LiveID guys) let alone do it in cleartext.

This is the sort of move for which people should get fired over.
Starting a company is about 1% interesting stuff, with the rest going to grunt work, marketing, meetings, etc. ad nauseum.

Staying within academia is up to about 25% interesting stuff, sometimes more, with the rest going to teaching / outreach / departmental involvement / begging for grant money. If you enjoy teaching, interesting stuff can be 40 or 50 percent, sometimes more.

If anything, the IP workflow for collaborations bridging the gap out of academia needs to be improved. Take the horror show that is the US patent system and convolve that with university bureaucracy - it's not pretty.
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> That's not enough. Contacts should not be accessible by third party apps without explicit permission, period.

Well, that too. But eropple (the parent poster)'s point is that social networking apps are the kind that would typically ask for this permission. Controls on this behaviour before and after the fact can work together.

Now that I think about it, doing the "find your friends" thing without uploading address book data at all would be tricky.
I don't necessarily want to be around smart people but around wise people. However, there's no specific place to go. They're both all around but also in very small quantities.
It would be nice if you can discuss the differences, like how Capybara is meant for integration tests, and replacement for have_template etc. At some sections the tests are still referred to controller tests (Listing 10.46) although it looks like you intend to convert them all to integration tests.
- What's the licensing look like? Can I buy it once & use it on every project?

- When you say "a UI", what are we talking about above & beyond what Bootstrap gives me?

- Since it's a stock app, and not an engine/gem, how am I going to easily merge back in your bugfixes?

- Is this just for a one-time purchase? What kind of support do you have for recurring billing?

Looking at what you've laid out so far, I'd probably be billing ~2-3 hours for it, so the pricing sorta lines up there, assuming it supports multiple recurring subscription plans, gives me a decent reporting interface, coupon codes, all the nice things that Stripe gives for me out of the box.

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That will not happen again. It is a bygone era. Now it will either be country to country attacks (Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam) or full blown nuclear wipe-out. In either case protecting Cleveland won't make much of a difference.
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I probably should have submitted this as a 'Show HN'
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