skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Outside of tech, I don't see items dropping in value any more than they would have a hundred years ago. Sure, used silverware commands a very low price, but I'm pretty sure that has been the case ever since we stopped making it out of silver.
And the market says "yes".
> Most famous in-band admin hack has to be the +++ syntax for Hayes modems which flipped the mode bit into 'command' mode serial comms mode.

Unlike this case the +++ hack did not really limit legitimate data you could send on Hayes. As far as I remember it had to be preceded and followed by pauses, so transmitting this comment wouldn't trigger it.
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Relevant: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/9/legos-play-doh-and-pro...
It seems like Mongo in particular is reinventing the RDBMS wheel entirely, except with a frustrating JSON query language. The benchmark blog post a couple of days ago versus an out-of-the-box Postgres deploy (i.e. memory crippled) was not very impressive.

And look: they've implemented clusters - by pushing a Slony equivalent into the DB itself.

Please forgive my bile - I was a little nonplussed with Mongo, and now I have to use it for a client. Now I'm a lot nonplussed.
It is more readable, if have multiple declarations, since the names are aligned instead of the types.

var x int
var foo map[string]int
var dummy []int

compared to

var int x
var map[string] int foo
var []int dummy
"$6 billion damages" headlines sell more ads is all
The ultimate lifehack: figuring out how to eliminate all the things you're hacking.
Why does Priceonomics posts always make it to the front page of Hacker News? The stories are interesting, but not THAT interesting. Seems like there's some gaming going on here.
That depends on what your expected payoff is.
A kink in this story, is that about 6 months ago, some TV prices were discounted between $150 and $200, and 'new' prices are higher now.
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I've read at least a dozen papers on the history of OO, not to mention books and papers on current practices. This is what I came up with. I made what I think is a pretty coherent argument for why in the article. I'd love to hear your refutation of the points I made in there.
The mundane television set has changed. No longer is it a thing to watch some movie in it.It is now a gadget that either adds or substracts to your social standing. Just like Apple did with the i-line of gadgets. TV makers are doing it as well.

Your TV doesn't have those little side-lights to add "ambiance"? You are behind. Buy a better one. It doesn't have that Symphony remote control with the little color LCD at the top? Ditto. Wait, you mean your TV is not 3D? Or that it doesn't have internet access to watch Netflix? Ditto, Ditto.

That is why the TV prices are so high. They are now a status symbol. The same way people trade-up their cell new cell phones for the newest model, people trade up their new TVs.

The price problem is a direct effect of this.Most people need to re-coup the cost of buying the high-end TV to buy another one.So they don't budge on the selling price. They keep it high to lower the amount of money needed to buy the other TV.As a result they create a niche market with its own social standing phenomenon.You see people bragging about paying high prices for an used TV, They might say "But its the XCVFRHTH-1234-TV with a digital remote, and dual LED Ambiance lights".

So, in summary, its not that the TV prices are high. Is that people cannot afford the latest gadget, and need to re-coup their money in some way. There is a a sub market of people who cant dream of buying the TV new, but can scrounge up the money to buy it used. And so, the circle of TVs keeps on going.

It does not happen to phones, because everything looks like an i-phone these days. But you can't confuse an Sony high end TV with one made my Emerson.

Same with cars, tools, bycicles...
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My point is that for the price of "free" their support is good enough. Not to mention that they did so to protect your account.
"..I'm a fool for signing the contract"

You are not a fool. You did what most of us will do
given the circumstances. The problem is with these contracts where employers think that they own your soul. Honestly, if you really want to do the side projects, start looking for another job but the bigger the corporation is, the higher the chances that they will make you sign all kinds of stuff. It is a tough battle but with a little bit of homework, you will do fine.
Do I really have to go into the musty bureaucracy of corporate hierarchies? The incestual relationship between CEOs and corporate boards? The sweetheart deals? The nepotism? The stacking of the deck against non-establishment players? The corruption of government to prevent market prices on pollution?

And sure, union culture mobilizes labor to vote because they have bodies. But corporations are more than happy to mobilize and coordinate billions of dollars to effectively bribe government officials, either pre- or post-election. And that's just directly: just as unions have fostered a culture where labor and their families will vote for their interests, corporations have fostered a culture where management and shareholders will give money to corrupt and warp government.
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Sure https://twitter.com/VenkyLeFou/status/205361434039816194
Enjoyed the post, Jason.

Along your comment of life after college being a uniquely challenging time, I wrote this post a few weeks back that seems relevant - http://zackshapiro.com/post/22010015010/9-things-i-wish-some...

I don't mean to take away any attention from your article, just thought it would be some good, direct advice for recent college grads.
I don't understand why people are so afraid of compile time errors. They're great! They help us write code and reason about it.

If someone changes some ossified piece of code, and that has the effect that it makes an automatic cast semantically dangerous, I'd be extremely grateful if the compiler scolded me with a helpful error message.
Truthfully, C does what you tell it to do. As it turns out, most people don't want it to do what they tell it to do, they want it to do what is in their head. Those warnings are "did you really mean what you just told me to do?". For some people, the answer is "no, what, wait!" -- those are what they are for. Not that the behavior is insane, just "less common". I don't think people fully grasp the idea that C does what you tell it to do when they first start using it.

If you told C "make me a sandwich", it'd give a warning about not having enough mustard to cover your entire body and an error about not have a large enough bun type to fit you in.
Great news for Google, Android, and an entire ecosystem. Bad news for my ORCL stock :/
Will this work on the free Heroku plan?
I think Knighthood benefited from this more than Jonathan.
This post made it to #1 on HN in less than 10 minutes.

Is this a record?
I just tried logging in with a random '.' in my username and got in.
The defaults are not very good, no, and "how to use gcc effectively" is not part of many C tutorials. That said, you do get most of the benefits by using just -W -Wall.
Time to take Cody to a hackerspace.

Get that kid an arduino, some welding classes, and a set of basic tools.

ASAP.
which means pennies for every hundred user, the support is good enough for ~free.
good design implies that there's some advantage to its use
Fantastic news for Google and the rest of the world. And a good thing for the other Larry as well, at least now he has some confirmation that he really isn't god.

Next up, the appeal.
I found the story interesting, but it was this single line that made it for me.
Well, for one thing, a move like this is traditional. You were just piling more wrong on top of wrong.
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ORCL is down 0.4% as of now, vs 1.08% for the NASDAQ, so maybe not?
Who's the paid blogger?
While you're right that they are two separate topics, they are quite closely related. Both are about the search for truth and getting a clearer picture of what's actually happening on your site.

Looking at your 95th percentile with RUM data means something totally different than looking at your 95th percentile with synthetic data. With RUM you are looking at your actual visitors across every page on your site. With synthetic testing (Keynote, Catchpoint, etc) you're looking at a small sample of pages from random nodes in random locations around the world. The problem with synthetic testing is that it makes all sorts of assumptions about your visitors like their browser, geography, connection speed, state of browser cache, etc. This doesn't mean that synthetic testing isn't useful (it is!), but it's important to recognize the shortcomings of your methodology whether that's from looking at an average or looking only at synthetic data.
Why do you have ORCL stock?
"Single responsibility principle (SRP): ... ActiveRecord::Base already has a responsibility: persistence."

Wrong. I'm hearing this more and more, but let's be clear: Active Record as a design pattern, before Rails, has always been a joining of business logic and persistence. (http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/activeRecord.html) It's always been in violation of the single responsibility principle. If you want to avoid that, don't use Active Record! Use a Data Mapper, which specifically separates Mappers and Finders from Domain model classes. (http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/dataMapper.html)

I'm not saying you can't move logic out into reusable modules or whatever is being recommended here, but please don't make it out like people are in the wrong when they're using the library or framework the way it was designed to be used.
Why was the incredibly important caveat -- this vulnerability only affects configurations which are using netmask-based permissions -- left to the last paragraph?
You make it sound like Google prices Gmail for free out of the kindness of their heart. They're a business. I use gmail for free because I feel it's in my best interests to do so, and they provide it to me for free because they feel it's in their best interests to do so.

The moment that agreement becomes invalid is the moment a person has the right to become frustrated.
I remember back in the 90's that every time Bill Gates sold 1 or 2 percent of Microsoft, people would freak out that Microsoft's collapse was imminent. Even though he did it every six months.

Whatever you think of Facebook, it is extremely prudent for Zuckerberg to diversify. If he had $1 million in non-FB assets, he would still have 99.99% of his assets in Facebook. That's a crazy amount of his wealth concentrated in one stock.
Plus there is some other hint:
" This page is not sponsored by or affiliated with Google."
I have written this post and I am at the origin of the program Startup Dream Team so I am really curious to know what other people think about this.
I've certainly noticed this myself. I always assumed it was because people overpaid originally. Paying sales tax, not buying on a deep sale, etc. Then I come along and use deal shopping tools which pick out TVs on websites that skirt local taxes.
There are no signs of voting rings or other anomalies. I think the reason they get so many upvotes is that they know what HN readers like. Look at the number of comments, for example.
Thanks for the link, but sadly there's no one in London looking for PHP devs from that list (checked this year's) - it makes me think my side projects should be ruby / python focused...

I've been playing with code since I was 12, mostly HTML5, CSS3, JS, PHP, SQL, because that was easiest to approach, now almost 2 years commercial experience working in agency with these technologies. I understand it's not enough to work for one of the big players, but I think I'd be most happy in a small agency where I could work on side projects to learn other technologies :)
With the glaring exception of LinkedIn(jobs only), I am social media free. No Facebook, no twitter, nada. I wish I could say that I had it figured out better than everyone else and give a compelling reason to not use facebook. All I can really say, is that I used to have both a facebook and twitter account that were pretty active, and I am much happier without them. YMMV, though, so do what works for you.
Oracle vs Google verdict: Android does not infringe on Oracle’s patents
Simulating Cell Chemistry for Health and Medicine
Or hey, get a real host, domain, and E-mail account.

In other news: Someone else's blog is under my Blogger account, and there's absolutely no way to contact Google about it.

The new credo of doing business is HIDE FROM THE CUSTOMER. It's disgraceful.
Don't all posts start at #1 immediately, then trail away until they get upvotes? Or is that just how a user sees their own submissions?
Jury says Google did not infringe on Oracle patents
Florian Mueller. http://www.dailytech.com/Top+AntiAndroid+Blogger+Florian+Mue...
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Why are people building frameworks to sit on top of yet another framework to try to write cleaner more maintainable code???

What is wrong with writing your core application logic physically removed from any of these frameworks. Why do people insist on fitting their application into the Rails framework or any other web framework.

Write your core application code in Ruby (or your language of choice), package it in another gem, use tools and patterns we've had all along to plug that code into a dependency for persistence (if needed)...communicate with it through a standard API that you define for your delivery mechanism (i.e. Rails).

I just don't get this idea of trying to contain my application code within the confines of a specific framework.
Florian Mueller?
No, the instagram buyout was #1/Pg1 less than a minute after it hit /newest :-)

I suspect a lot of people (like me) are following this closely so as soon as there is news it gets voted up here.

Glad the jury found in Google's favor, I think that was the right call. And I really hope that Judge Alsup finds that APIs are not copywritable, Still waiting on that one.
I love priceonomics detailed analysis!
"Especially sudo with all the magic that goes behind executing a process as another user."

Your last sentence kills your standpoint totally.

Please check out the mentioned "toft". It's lxc inside vagrant and designed to test complex infrastructure code from the outside in. Nothing web related.
Unless they stipulated to something I missed, there's actually another very important issue on the table: Fair use.

The jury decided Google "infringed", but couldn't agree whether the fair use defense applied.

If Alsup rules APIs are not copyrightable, the fair use defense is moot and we're done (barring appeal, which will surely happen), but if he were to go the other way, fair use may have to be re-litigated in front of a new jury.
A guide to getting started with python/flask, with an example MVC app
This might hint at one reason CraigsList still exists as it does. There is powerful signaling built into how people make their listing. It conveys a lot about who the seller is and how the transaction will work.
We've been assimilated by a hive mind whose neural impulses are electronic banking transactions.
Yes, I've been told to look first and then resign, I'm a bit concerned about telling my potential new employer not to ask for my references just yet haha - I'm sure they'll need to know what my reasons are and I hate making stuff up, not sure how to explain this and actually many other reasons for looking for new job without smearing my current employer.

I've found one company I'll probably get in touch with and before sending my CV I'll phone them ask and try to explain I need this to be confidential. Think it's reasonable to ask for that.
The point I was making was that you can use the library in a different way successfully.
Physical manufactured goods tend to be depreciating assets. Cars, electronics, houses less taxes and maintenance, all come to mind.
It'd be interesting to hear about how you built your SAT site and the process of improving/selling it.
Florian al-Sahaf
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You see it as #1 on the 'newest' page, but not on the 'new' page.
I've stopped watching televisionm listening to radio, movies, or even browsing the internet. In fact, I disconnected the cable service, and told my internet provider to take a hike.

My life? A hundred times better. I can now focus. I play with my daughter for at least an hour every day. I've lost more than a hundred pounds. I now run marathons. I program like a madman. And I was able to begin doing my own startup (which is about to launch my first MVP).

Have I missed anything? No.I'd say I'm now living, instead of just being here.

Try it out. It works.

Edited to fix formatting. Sorry for the annoying one line paragraphs.
On a sidenote:

I think most people should be much more questionable about groklaw. I am big open source and FSF advocate, but I'm not above thinking that groklaw is controlled/funded by a much larger power.

I hope it's just a conspiracy theory. But I do think that anonymity works both ways; it can imply that you want to say the truth unencumbered, but it also can imply astroturfing.

Just because the wind blows this way doesn't mean it always will.
Can someone explain what the practical outcomes are of this verdict? For programmers and companies?
This is facile; there is no good reason why C couldn't have a less-dangerous switch statement, or why compilers don't have nicer defaults. (If you run gcc without -W -Wall -O2, you either really know what you're doing or you're doing it wrong; in either case, having those options as defaults makes sense.)
Maddox on Link-Baiting Aggregation Sites
Which is fine of course. But if you already test features a la modernizr then use that power for good and tell me that my browser (which is very modern, thank you very much) lacks support for X, maybe 'audio'.

It's the words I'm annoyed by, not the fact that it doesn't work. Chrome is crap in my world (entirely subjective opinion) and branding it as the only 'modern' piece of kit is.. just the same.
Wait one or two more years :) .

Here in Uruguay no-brand LCD TVs are getting to U$ 300, they were U$ 600 last year (LED TVs pushed them downwards). Branded ones are still U$ 500 and upwards.

It's still surprising how expensive they are to you (I always thought Uruguay was the most expensive country on earth, with our 100% import tax and 22% VAT).
Frustrated, sure. The remedy for frustration is to take your business elsewhere. Frustration doesn't entitle you to get support on a free service.
Most likely a reference to Florian Mueller, of http://www.fosspatents.com/

Detail: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/19/1357207/florian-muell...
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> Regardless of any minor difference of opinions, I think what you're trying to bring to the rails community is to be commended.

Thanks a lot, man.
Of my approximately 150 friends on Facebook, it seems like it's only the same 10-15 wankers actually posting things and liking stuff. I suspect that the majority of Facebook users are like me---logging in once and awhile to see if they got a message, not posting anything, then going on with their lives.
I think the pitch is that it's a way for an artist to promote themselves while remaining independent (i.e. not tied to a label). The benefit for earbits is they're also not subject to the whims of the major labels that have plagued every other music service.
What a relief that I haven't even noticed this status symbol pressure and that I'm perfectly happy to roll with my ancient TV from 4 years ago.
So at this point I believe we're still waiting on the judge's ruling about whether or not APIs are copyrightable so Google's not completely out of the woods here. But even so, the judge has already indicated that he doesn't believe Oracle could get much out of even a ruling against Google on the API issue.
So, this is really a symptom of a much more interesting effect. What happens when established markets suddenly experience dramatic change? A good example is the used car market. Post 2008 meltdown leasing and buying new dropped dramatically. The recession also convinced people to buy used rather than new. Given the normal 3 year lease by 2011 there was a dearth of used cars yet due to the recession still a strong demand for used cars. Many people began grossly overpaying for used cars relative to new cars. It's one of the factors highlighted in the rebound of this years new auto sales - buyers began connecting the dots.

TV's are less of a supply and more of a price issue but it's still the same thing. A dramatic external shock hasn't flowed through the market yet. BTW, TV's make for horrible landfill so either way use that TV as long as you can.
Same here. I was able to sell a 5 year-old, 42" LCD TV with no table stand (only good for wall mounting) along with its wall bracket for $350 earlier this year. Given that there's no fee for listing on Craigslist, I just put the highest price I could think of on it and kept posting it until I had a buyer (it only took two weeks.) Granted, it was $1500 when I bought it, but 1080 LCD TVs were at a huge premium back in 2007 and this thing was just taking up space in a crate in my apartment, depreciating.

My only explanation for why someone would buy that price was that they 1.) appreciated the quality of that model versus lower-priced generic new units and 2.) they would have to pay another 10% in state sales tax if they went to a store, which increases the effective discount for buying used from a private party.
? I can use a simple command to request tweets on my dumb phone. How is that not an advantage?
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That's an interesting point.

Although your example argues against round-tripping the conversation rather than the conversion per se. Which I'm not proposing.

In your example, my proposal would have an index get automatically cast to an int, then undergo division, remaining an int. Who knows why you divided it? But you wouldn't get an index back.
file_get_contents() had huge problems working for me on my host. I think it was HTTPS, but I could be wrong.