skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEO consulting - it can be learned relatively quickly, is not that technical for the basics, and is a great complement to your programming/web expertise for your projects
Indeed. But, again, we could already do that without the 428 code. And so the situation is: response code 428 tells the client nothing beyond the info gotten from any 4xx response code. The response body tells a human something. The addition of the new response code helps neither one.
> Go to North Carolina or Georgia? I may as well be in Greece for how at "home" I feel there.

But the language is the same, the newspapers are the same, the political parties are the same. Compare that to Europe where there are, what ? 23 languages for 27 countries, political parties specific to each and news sources totally different.
Mother Nature doesn’t use TDD, and she’s done pretty damn well. « CompPhi
The worst feeling is working in someone else's overly complicated, messy code. It's like having to work covered in shit. The ick feeling is constant and overpowering.
Hey. Glad I ran into this post. My girlfriend likes paperwork, has been working as a nurse for four years, and is looking for a change for at least a bit. Can you tell me where your girlfriend got her transcription certification and how long it took?
Holy crap, 40 million miles? That's over 1,600 trips around the world (1,850 if you use nautical miles) and nearly halfway to the Sun.
And if the airline can secretly put you on a Greyhound bus if they think you're flying too often.
I interpreted his statement as meaning that google searches replace the requirement to memorize minute details of things that aren't commonly used or necessary to commit to memory. For example, I may know about php's preg_match, but I haven't used it in 2 years... so if a project calls for it I can just do a quick search for preg_match and see all the details that I need to know. I didn't have to have everything in memory since I wasn't using it. We have a built-in garbage collector in our minds that slowly clears out things that we don't use. But when we do learn it for a second time it comes back very quickly.

Good coders are clever problem solvers and well-organized thinkers. They don't need to have photographic memories that store every possible command and instruction, even ones that they have never ever used and find no use for. As long as you know what is relevant for the current task and have a peripheral awareness of what else exists, you can do your current tasks and know what to search for in books or on google if something out of the ordinary is required.
It's what ChaCha was supposed to be, I guess they still are.
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I cannot comprehend why they even thought about allowing the use of a reward scheme on an unlimited product. Reward schemes are there to increase the purchases of one-off products, whereas you want to deter unlimited customers from abusing their product.
But look at a query like "!hoogle (a->b) -> [a] -> [b]". That's a search on the type of a function, and I'd have to go to hoogle first, then search it from there. This adds value greater than the drawback of not using !python, or hitting the back button and deleting the ! when I forget
That story is nonsense. The military wears caps outdoors for largely practical purposes - keep the sun out of your eyes. Dress hats are worn because dress hats have always been worn - the same reason that ties, epaulets, collars, brass buttons, and so on are also part of the dress uniforms.
And in that case, you can use !twitter to go directly from twitter via DDG
QA, testing web sites in late development and logging bugs.

Most developers hate doing this, & PM's are not good at anything.

I usually pay $40/hr for this, however it only takes a few hours, and that rate means the bug report is reported in a way that it's easy to read and recreate without having to have a conversation about it.
There is always going to be a subset of people who are adept at finding ways around promotions and special offers, or the systems meant to regulate them. In addition, most companies don't understand how customers will react to contests and special offers.

For instance, when iTunes first launched, Pepsi had a promo that involved codes on the underside of 20oz plastic bottle caps that could grant free songs. Someone figured out that if you turned the bottle upside-down and at a certain angle before opening it, you could see the code and enter it into iTunes to determine if you got a free song. If the code was a dud, you could return the drink or sell it to someone else. Someone ended up putting the diagram on the Web. The promo ended not long afterwards.

There are also folks who figure out extreme hacks that can result in truly oversized rewards. I call this the "crates of cheese" phenomenon, after an airline promotion I read about that awarded people x frequent flier miles for purchasing a package of cheese. The rate was way too generous, and the marketing people setting up the promotion never anticipated that people would literally go out to buy crates of cheese to get cut-rate flights.

EDIT:

Crates of cheese:

http://consumerist.com/2006/11/buy-cheese-fly-for-free.html

Pepsi/iTunes:

http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/tutorials/hackpepsi/index....
IIRC the chemicals that plants produce naturally to fight off pests are responsible for some of the flavor, so when you use pesticides that actually reduces the flavor somewhat because the plant no longer needs to spend energy producing those chemicals. E.g. terpenes, which are both insecticides and flavor molecules:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpene
What is her current skill set?
Why Are We Different?
As pointless as this discussion is, I originally wrote `x` but considering my audience is mostly programmers changed it to `*`

I don't think anyone will have difficulty grasping that 'Simplify Simplify Simplify' and 'Simplify x 3' can be considered equal.
I agree, and have no love for Monsanto, but from what I recall the huge class-action lawsuit brought against them was recently thrown out for, among other things, lack of evidence that that was in fact happening to a significant degree.
http://www.icanlocalize.com/ has been very good for iPhone apps.
YMDV. I'm not even selling a high ticket item but back when I courted the press (simply by writing emails whenever a topic I knew about was mentioned) I've had results that have well paid for themselves in a) the effort and b) the misquotes and annoying downsides. (In one case my small company at the time was mentioned right next to AT&T in a list of 4 companies mentioned.)

I really can't imagine how it wouldn't pay for you (business wise) to be mentioned given what you do in mainstream press. In order to be mentioned in mainstream press it pays to have mention elsewhere as a starter. I can see a CEO with a security problem reading a quote of yours in the WSJ and handing the tearout to someone with the instructions to contact you about some issues they are dealing with. I can see links and quotes from both online and offline mention of your name appearing on your website and giving you and edge on your competition.

By the way mention on your website such as "Our work has been featured in Network World, eWeek, Forbes, Macworld, Wired, and the Washington Post, and at conferences ranging from Black Hat to Gartner" and links to or copies of said articles will not produce the same results. And if the articles are old that is why you need fresh mention.

That said I can totally see (which is why I asked) how a security researcher frequently mentioned in the press, like a former boxer sentenced to prison, becomes a juicy target and that is definitely a downside.
Hm so that explains why it's so hard to debug rails apps. :-)
Yes and no. It's true that you can't just have Congress pass a law that says "future Congresses can't do xyz," because future Congresses can just repeal it.

But you can do something even better. Pass legislation that takes a step in the other direction. Repeal the DMCA anti-circumvention clause and demand an international treaty that requires other countries to do likewise. Reduce copyright terms. Eliminate statutory (as opposed to actual) damages for noncommercial infringement.

This would do three things. First, all of those things are good policy, and passing them would help us. Second, it would put the copyright extremists on the defensive and makes them spend their political capital to try to prevent a series of sensible bills from being passed. And third, when we succeed in passing them, it shifts the status quo, so that the next outrageous bill they propose looks like an even larger departure from the baseline, making it easier to defeat.
Only slightly related, but this thread bears a striking resemblance to another HN exploit discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3925452

The exact same back and forth:

Wow! This is really bad... but it only affects a small subset of users... but they knew about it for months and didn't fix it... come on, nobody real actually uses such a setup... what about me... you're all fanboys, this is just another example of how your religion doesn't hold security as a core tenant among its faithful.
I'm looking forward to BrowserID becoming mainstream. I'm sick of trying to remember account numbers or usernames and passwords for websites that I use infrequently.
I think the real lesson here is:

Never offer "unlimited". Because if you promise "unlimited" people will treat it as "unlimited".

The results usually aren't pretty.

EDIT: As the post below points out, telecoms are a prime example of companies getting burned on this.

My other go-to example would be all you can eat buffets. I know I've read about at least one lawsuit over people being kicked for eating too much at a buffet. (Or in the case of the only result I can get search engines to give me, too little.)

Of course, in the case of the buffet they're relying on the hope that people eat less than what they pay to get in on average. And since this sort of restaurant seems to stay in business that bet must be in the owners favor.

I hypothesize that business owners use this logic and offer unlimited only to watch it crash and burn all over their profit margins. From what I can tell, buffets appear to be the exception; not the rule.
Um, the answers sometimes change with time in this business.
Because it keeps the signal to noise ratio high. I got thoroughly downvoted for making a few wisecracks when I first arrived here and didn't get why.

After being here a while I appreciate being able to read comment threads that are centered around useful conversation from people who know what they're talking about and not a contest to see who can crack the funniest joke. If you like that, Reddit's good.
We do have one but there are other sites for this.
IMHO you should credit the author of that video. While your work is amazing and you should be praised for your achievement, you should also make it clear about your inspiration.

Awesome job, I'll install it as soon as it hits the App Store
>"Then there is also the question of how much baby sitting / bureaucracy / micro management can a company like Google should/could afford."

This wasn't a small side project.

Streetview is a major initiative which required the sustained deployment of significant resources on a worldwide scale and an vast ongoing commitment to the bandwidth necessary to serve the data collected.
Cluster2 on nodejs
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You do know that these features will only work within his app, not across all iOS apps right?
While I like a fast boot, you've go to get these things a little into perspective, a minute to the desktop isn't that bad.
Why are the events at the far end of the scale dated to pi^foo-power years?
I'm surprised by the lack of peripherals for tablets. An iPad with a stand and a wireless PS3 style controller would be a great semi-mobile game system now that it has such a great display.
Your thoughts on this? Would you rather use native cluster or this one? (native: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.0/api/cluster.html )

Back in time when node didn't have clustering built in then the cluster (1) was great but do we need one now?
An eerie wobbly effect is definitely visible to me in the videos from that paper.
The iPhone 3GS is still using a 65nm processor which means it's using almost twice as much silicon for the same number of transistors as an iPad 2, driving up cost

That's not how it works.
As has been mentioned full disk encryption loses a lot of its efficacy if you just put your laptop in standby all the time. I'd add that as long as a faster boot doesn't compromise your system in other ways, why wouldn't you want it?
Interesting. 3l is about 12 cups.

I remember back in the 80's and 90's Dr. Dean Edell on his talk show routinely tried to bash this "8 cups of water a day" rule of thumb as an urban legend.

He says in this 2002 post that your body weight * 0.08 is the approximate number of cups of water you should get, but I think that includes all that you normally get from food too.
JetBlue offered something similar, albeit in a much more limited fashion, through it's All You Can Jet program. It cost $499 (no travel on Fri/Sun) or $699 (travel any day) and gave you unlimited flying for a month. It looks like they had the program in 2009 and 2010, but discontinued it after that.

They later introduced 3-month unlimited flying passes from Long Beach, CA (to select destinations; $1299) and from Boston (passes available for both limited and all destinations; $1499/$1999).
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> Japan is a highly uniform society and very xenophobic. They have an almost uniform cultural, religious, and genetic makeup.

I'm French, my wife is Japanese. We have experience of both immigration procedure. Let me tell you that Japan's xenophobism is a myth that dates from WWII. France is far more tough for foreigners.

It is true that they are basically more uniform culturally and probably genetically and religiously than US. But you missed an important point : I did not compare US's healthcare to Japan's. I compared US' best county to Japan's average. That makes the uniformity of the country quite irrelevant, don't you think ?

2. You exaggerate the differences. 96% of Americans speak English. 87% as their primary language. Of course institutions are limited ! That's how it works in a democracy ! I agree that states are different, have some freedom (but probably not much more than a German Land or a Swiss canton, these are federal countries too) but my point is that stating that these differences are as big as the ones between EU countries is ridiculous.
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Right. Learning Python 3, once you know 2, is really easy.

Library maintainers have two problems: they have to twiddle their thumbs until all their dependencies have ported, and then they have to get their code running against both 2 and 3. The former is exactly why I'm saying to use 2 for now, and the latter is easy if you only support 2.7 but rather more difficult for projects that still want to run on some archaic thing like 2.3.
For a modern codebase, yes.
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But 20 seconds is even easier. When I switched to an SSD in my laptop I saw boot times from drop almost one minute to just about 15 seconds. I no longer dread having to reboot after system updates.
I've only read about Ruby strings, not used them, but they seem like a middle ground between Perl's approach and Python's approach. What do you perceive as the problem with Python?
It's not bad, but spread over X million workers on desktops 5 days a week means a lot of wasted time, and maybe energy.
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Another notorious scheme was people buying $1 coins from the US Mint (which included free shipping) with their credit card and depositing the coins in order to pay off the credit card.
Sorry, but you're not getting my point. Most of the whining about "stolen tech" is by people who delude themselves into believing that they have created unique value when they haven't. It's easy to test: Can people easily copy what you've done? Do your barriers to entry consist of more than some theoretical IP that would be murky at best to defend in court? Would the cost of defending your IP put you out of business?
I saw that, too; it's from an interview at TechCrunch50 in 2008. You'll see that he actually bought the lifetime pass before Broadcast.com. Most people don't realize that Cuban was already rich when he started work on Broadcast.com, and came out of early retirement to do it. He didn't have buy-the-Mavericks money until Broadcast sold to Yahoo! at a bubble-era valuation, but he had buy-an-AAirpass money (and then some) long before that. I especially like the story of how he once used his pass to kick Magic Johnson off a flight. "That's how I roll!" Here's the full video:

http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/mark_cuban.php
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Statistics, dear boy. Sure, it's complex, but this is loan companies' bread and butter.
Exactly.

Its either some use case that everyone needs im ignorant of, or one so small its not a market worth chasing.
• Pages could be altered by nodes in the network for nefarious reasons.

Not if you use a BitTorrent model. You'd get checksums from a known source and discard any chunks you receive from nodes that don't match the expected checksum. Not impossible to spoof/alter, but exceedingly unlikely.
I'll admit I wasn't thinking of databases when I posed the question, and you're absolutely right about sessions. Anything with a log-in would be quite difficult, and out of my league to even imagine.

As for alteration of pages, what about "hashes"? Isn't the point of a hashsum to make sure the torrent is correct? My thoughts of how this process would work are:

1. You browse the internet as usual, except for a browser add-on that would check links to see if they were available in torrent form.

2. As you click on a link, your browser either loads the webpage in torrent form, or saves the site in torrent form for seeding.

3. More users = more sites in torrent form = faster browsing speeds.

Again, wouldn't work with log-in sites, but for something static like Wikipedia, wouldn't this be incredibly helpful for cutting costs, reducing server load, etc? And whenever a page is updated, Wikipedia simply uploads the new version with it's new hashtag for browser checks.

I hope that clarifies my thinking. So is this a good idea at all? Or still fraught with downsides?
When it was originally offered the airlines were regulated and they were high margin. At the time, in the 80s credit was almost nonexistent and they needed to raise money so they let their customers finance them. This is not so different then what startups do.
I guess that's true, but you know... so what? Can't we worry more about building something cool than about shaving seconds off the one-time setup cost involved with sharing that cool thing with the world?
As someone who did 39 flights in 3 months last year using JetBlue's Bluepass[1] I'd LOVE a lifetime unlimited pass. It's pretty clear the prices they were charging were far too low, especially for first class.

If I had an unlimited pass I'd probably average 2-4 flights per week, many international. It's even more practical when you have unlimited access to their lounge. Take a red eye and shower at the lounge and you just saved a day of hotel expenses.

1 -
http://bluepassers.com/users/expertdan
The pi symbol is an icon denoting that the event was determined by mathematical principles. It's not part of the "years from now" value. See the legend above the TOC.
If she's tech-minded she might be able to learn how to do some SEO work for local businesses. She can literally call up every restaurant in town and see if they want help with their website or their Yelp page, etc.
The hero image there doesn't look like a book. It looks like an awkwardly skewed image.
I think you should read his comment history and then consider apologizing.

Obviously I am well aware of his comment history, hence why I made the original point. While I don't argue with the premise that, yes, there may have been occasions where he was less than severe on non-Apple, as a whole, he has a profound, unavoidable pro-Apple bias that is impossible to ignore.
Another recent example on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/t7ma1/so_my_roommate_...
After five years in the industry, I'm mortally afraid every time I see one of those four wheeled demons speeding past me on the road.
thanks! I tried implementing an area to slide over the keyboard, but the touch events of the keys were always getting priority. I'll try out some different methods and see if I can get it to work in a way that will get approved by Apple.

I like the idea of the acceleration controlling cursor speed, I'll try it out and see how it feels.

After I get it to a place that feels good, I'll either release it as a component that can be dropped in, or open source it.
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I've been quite pleased with TinyTinyRSS lately - it's got some UI bugs, esp. in the web client, but self-hosted web-based RSS reading + sync to Android client is full of win for me.
with Chacha you ask "a person" (maybe, if the question wasn't asked before), with Ask Gloria you ask Gloria. but yeah, the product has similarities, but the marketing and selling point would be different.
It's really hard to tell what the right number is since there are so many variables involved. And you're right, water comes from other places too. The one thing that is certain is the 8 cups is definitely on the short side.
I don't quite understand the purpose here. Is the idea that you can keep rolling your credit card debt forward interest-free indefinitely?
That's pretty crazy.

It takes an incredible faith in the good intentions of other people to believe that everything that happens after a talk is solely the responsibility of the speaker.

Just as all speakers are not created equal, the audience isn't a uniform group of do-gooders ready to ask excellent questions given the correct provocation. There are bad apples, and there are stupid questions, and they get asked whether the speaker gave a good talk or not.
I'll use this article as an excuse to point people to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vavilov who set up one of the first seed banks, and whose followers protected it through the siege of leningrad; some even starving to death surrounded by bags of rice. Seeds in a bank in Syria were recently moved out of the country to a nuclear bomb-proof vault in Norway protect them from damage. Preserving biodiversity is serious stuff.
Zynga's Going Down.
For others who were confused like me: the title refers to argument order that is easy to write in CoffeeScript, not the (non-existent) "friendly argument order" feature of CoffeeScript.
Sadly yes some of this does work, but you have to buy the tools and resources promoted by these sorts of sites, most of which would only seem to have experience using them to market SEO tools to other wannabee web marketers. The search engines are getting smarter though as you say, and depending on these sorts of techniques is asking for trouble.