skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a beginner, I'd say learn Rails. The other frameworks are nice in their own ways but Rails has the largest community by far. PHP is, as others have mentioned, just a language, and while there are good frameworks for it (CakePHP as you mentioned, CodeIgniter, Zend), the first point applies: Rails is still the hot thing right now.

PHP is probably more mature than Rails for web apps (please don't hurt me, Rubyists) but strictly for speed of setup of new products Rails is probably faster.

My answer would likely be different if you were looking to learn to program as a professional.
https://schemaverse.com/

I think this has an AI element to it.
one example: it is used that way in Germany and applied (mostly) to right wing parties
If the goal is to randomly probe the parameter space of a model, the author is correct that independent Gaussian random numbers are a poor choice (although it's not really related to the central limit theorem). However, this isn't a novel revelation. There are other/better ways to do it, for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_hypercube_sampling
Yeah, I noticed that: Sometimes success is not the only aim for starting a startup. There is also the sheer joy of working on something that you conceptualized and thought about. Irrespective of whether it succeeds or not, that feeling is probably one of the factors that motivate people to leave high paying jobs to do stuff like this.
That is common practice already.
Yes, but one would assume that this case from Sweden is part of what he's seeking asylum for.

I would imagine that if the Ecuadorian government was to grant asylum that its courts would likely find the extradition request to be political persecution and thus dismiss it for violating his rights under the UNHDR and/or Ecuadorian constitutions.

So, yes while most countries have extradition agreements, some have more respect for the rule of law than others.

He's not trying to avoid extradition so much as seeking a jurisdiction where he believe he'll be tried more fairly with respect to the UNHDR and other inalieable rights endowed by his creator.
I am having a hard time understanding how the writer is so impressed. This tablet is not new. It's what we expected from Microsoft.

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The Facts:

- For a long time Microsoft has said windows 8 will have a tablet mode.

- A few years after the iPod came out, Microsoft came out with a copy called the zune.

- A few years after the iPhone Microsoft partnered with Nokia and other OEMs to come out with a copy of the iPhone.

- The Keyboard cover idea isn't new http://uk.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101/

- The magnetic cover isn't new

The result:

This press conference was expected and what was announced wasn't surprising.

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How was this tablet a "Knock out of the park"? It seems to be more like a base hit. Microsoft made a base hit with the Zune and it went no where. We will have to see where this base hit goes.

All that said, it seems like this product is up to the caliber of Zune, which was a decent piece of hardware. I am sure creating this tablet was hard for Microsoft. And they seem to have captured the interest of many people. However, this mix of design and interest didn't result in success for Zune. So we will just have to see what happens next. Either way It's great to see some competition for Apple. Competition is always a win for the consumer.
At this point, we don't know price or release date. It is another of the "announce early" to keep enterprise IT from buying someone else while Microsoft catches up (ask any number of software devs in the 90's).

I do wonder how this will affect traditional Microsoft partners. What does Dell and Lenovo think and will is stifle their tablet efforts.
+1 on the 'death valley.'

I think it's when you realize that this is the piece of the talk that is more interesting to the audience than myself. However, in my head, the doubting self-talk of "I'm boring everyone!" comes up.

The beginning is fun - that's the point you're trying to hook the audience. The end is fun - that's the point you're trying to give the audience a final take away. That middle point? That's what they've come for, even though it's the most boring part of the speech.

To that end, try to build in little peaks to your presentations. If you give yourself little "endings" and "beginnings" to work toward, it breaks things up into more managable chunks for your audience, helping their attention, but it also helps you avoid the self-talk and worry and "I hate the sound of my voice"-ness.
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No mention of sc http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10699
Julian Assange is seeking asylum in Ecuador's Embassy
That contradicts your original point?
You're being quite dramatic with your description of the security process.

-I've been randomly selected too and questioned. They do this in most countries. It happened for me in Germany as well.

-The notes are a good thing. I'd rather the TSA or whomever tell me when they search my luggage.

-X-raying is probably the most efficient way to search through all luggage going on a flight. It's also been around for a loooong time, way before TSA.

-Shoes is a direct result of the shoebomber incident. I think it's a little silly though.

-You have to empty your pockets/take off belt to go through the metal detector and not set it off.

-The full body scanners are opt out. I have always opted out. Recently that means you get a pat down. Fine with me, given the two choices.

-You sure it was your ponytail?

-Several hours is overkill. 2 at most for international, 1.25 domestic just in case.
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I'm willing to work on an open source app - and you can do a lot with HTML5 web-based apps now and they work on any tablet since they all have browsers.
> The landing page looks nice, but it really doesn't tell me anything about the product.

Agreed. I'd never heard of Greplin or Cue and all I got from this site was 'just some sort of calendar app'. Still don't know what either one actually does.
Note, however, that ITAR is not the same thing as EAR.

They are two different laws pertaining to two different "export" situations (both with serious penalties for breaking).
What is the point of this? The person can just call back or send someone else to buy the phone. Or refuse to answer where they are from.

If you really want to enforce something like this, REQUIRE a valid passport. If they produce an Iranian one, then don't sell it. That would be better than penalizing people for speaking a language. Especially since they can call back.

I guess Apple is covering its ass, but the law sounds like it wouldn't be possible to perfectly enforce. Maybe it is just there to crack down on what would otherwise be Iranian citizens being won over by shiny goodness "evil" American corporations :)

Apple products arrive in Iran.
Iranians start using shiny iPhones and iPads. The app store has plenty of family friendly goodies.
Before they know it, they are playing angry birds and they love american stuff.
Then, someone releases a "how to build green energy" app in Iran.
Iran develops green sources of energy and abandons nuclear energy program. Affirms nuclear non proliferation treaty.
US rejoices.

LOL
http://blogs.balsamiq.com/peldi/

http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/
Many Iranian women are fair-skinned. Why do you think this girl was "brown"?
And now? Any other projects by the ClamAV team?
Here in Europe it's used to refer to politicians who pander to the sentiments of the common people, without having a well thought out long-term strategy; e.g., "I'll lower all taxes AND give free healthcare for all."
> It took more than five years to build the 828-meter ‘Burj Khalifa’ in Dubai—the current world’s tallest building.

> ...projected cost at US$628 million — as compared with the US$1.5 billion Burj Khalifa.

Seems like the only thing the Burj Khalifa has going for it is that it, well, already exists. This is a pretty big advantage though. Anyone can talk big before construction delays, government regulations, and other interference come into play.
> For all other cases you would be using floating point or decimal numbers

If I'm trying to avoid mathematical anomalies, floating point is not what I would run to... "Equal" is a matter of degree, you have to be careful with anything near zero and you can't carelessly mix together numbers that are a few orders of magnitude different than each other.
There are a number of reasons why companies like to keep salaries a secret. The competitor angle is one. A big one: The general rule is that the first one to offer a number loses. For example, if you tell me your salary range is $75k-$90k, I can feel pretty safe telling you that I'm looking for $105k but your company is so awesome that I might just be willing to give up a bit in exchange for $AWESOME_PERK. Thus disclosing what you're willing to pay in your job listing puts you at an immediate disadvantage when the negotiation comes up.
News video here, including interviews with two of the people mentioned in the article.

http://www.ajc.com/news/north-fulton/farsi-speaking-customer...
Anecdotes vs. anecdotes. As a paying customer and someone that cares deeply about education and user experience, I'm well within my rights to complain about issues I'm not the only one dealing with.
any links related?
The Post is running this as basically a quasi official confirmation of something that I think everybody already assumed.
You'll need to process that file into something that your DB can consume. If all you need are minor syntax tweaks, you can stream straight through.

More likely, you'll need to rebuild the dump to be more than quads ordered by arbitrarily assigned unique id, and with nearly 600 million quads, it's not completely trivial to do, might involve temporary index files, etc.

Still, it's doable.

(also see: http://code.google.com/p/freebase-quad-rdfize/ )
Was it rebuilt badly due to bad engineers, or just because the soviets had a lot to rebuild?
Here's a another one: Multi-user!

Finally, a tablet where you can setup users with different privileges. You can setup accounts for the kids so they can play their games and not have access to anything they should not be able to touch. You can setup an account for house guests or for those occasions when you know you might be handing the device to someone who, as an example, should not be able to log into your Facebook or eBay account automatically.

Multi-user is also great for business applications. Take medical applications where the nurses have access to what they need and nothing more via user-level controls.

I think these guys are going in the right direction.

Where is the Surface "mini"?
Punchcards are a form of price discrimination - only customers who are price conscious will keep the paper card in their wallet and remember it every time. Price-insensitive customers still pay full price.

From the store's perspective, the inconvenience is a feature.
"point that was made in the essay, which is that there are no working Lamarckian mechanisms in biology"

Fair enough - Pinker seems a bit too firm about that.
I wonder how much of this will go unused. The "largest mall in the world" was build in China in 2005 and has remained 99% vacant. Having the "tallest building in the world" is an even bigger feather in their cap, but it won't be very impressive if no one actually uses it.
Wow, from this link I learned that Adam Bosworth was one of the original programmers of Quattro Pro. Bosworth's talk on simplicity and sloppiness (http://adambosworth.wordpress.com/2004/11/18/iscoc04-talk/) is one of my favorite things in the field:

It is an ironic truth that those who seek to create systems which most assume the perfectibility of humans end up building the systems which are most soul destroying and most rigid, systems that rot from within until like great creaking rotten oak trees they collapse on top of themselves leaving a sour smell and decay. [...] Conversely, those systems which best take into account the complex, frail, brilliance of human nature and build in flexibility, checks and balances, and tolerance tend to survive beyond all hopes.

So it goes with software. That software which is flexible, simple, sloppy, tolerant, and altogether forgiving of human foibles and weaknesses turns out to be actually the most steel cored, able to survive and grow while that software which is demanding, abstract, rich but systematized, turns out to collapse in on itself in a slow and grim implosion.

He features spreadsheets as an example:

Consider the spreadsheet. It is a protean, sloppy, plastic, flexible medium that is, ironically, the despair of all accountants and auditors because it is virtually impossible to reliably understand a truly complex and rich spreadsheet.

...but I had no idea he'd worked on one. He worked on MS Access too.
"For example, infants don't have spacial awareness, or understand how objects can be relative to each other, until they learn the words for describing relativity."

Where's the citation on this?
World of MapCraft
The different ways to write a function in JavaScript
And then we look at the defense budget, and it is in the trillions. I would bet anything that Google contracts to the NSA.
Not long ago, the same store suffered a break-in attempt. Some guys in another state wanted bail money for their buddy, so they drove several hours to this store, waited 'til after hours, smashed a mall window, crawled in, and tried without luck to break into the Apple store. Turns out the stores, despite having lots of glass, are built like bank vaults.
Please link to the actual presentation, not a 1.5 paragraph blog post with an advertisement larger than the whole blog post.

For those who want it direct:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/What-Sucks-about-Clojure-...
It calculates a cellular automata called Rule 110 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110) which is very difficult to code for. I've seen a paper which shows a method for coding any Turing machine into rule 110, but most of it is beyond my mathematical ability at the moment. So far as I know nothing resembling a normal compiler exists for it.

It's actually much simpler to make a mechanical implementation of rule 110 directly, but Turing machines are more widely recognised.
Europe. It usually means when one tries to grab votes at the cost of doing what's "correct" from one's point of view. A stereotypical case would be providing "bread and circus" in the short term while the country is sinking in the mid term.

The following headlines are example use of "populist" with negative connotations (they are not the only ones, I just provide anecdotal evidence of the common use of "populist" as a negative trait).

British English:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17837098

http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_lords/newsid... (beware starts parliamentary video automatically)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/23/punitive...

French:

http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/ensemble/2012/02/09/le-populisme...

Spanish:

http://www.abc.es/20120515/opinion/abcp-populista-eres-20120...
That's not relevant. Th U.S. export restriction does not apply to language, ethnicity, country of origin, etc. It applies to _sending_ export restricted items to (in this case) Iran.

Any sale at a brick-and-mortar store in the U.S. does not constitute export. Apple, and the store are safe from legal liability.

edit - hmm, as pointed out elsewhere, there does seem to be some cases where selling to an individual is still restricted.
The UI on that page is quite borked[1] for me. Chrome latest on osx.

[1]http://imgur.com/a/Tm4p6

Also, interestingly, it appears imgur has moved to europe...
Because I watched the video in the linked post. What do you think would have happened if she was white?
I think part of the problem is that running a temporary place - like a hotel - is regulated completely differently than running an apartment complex/building. By accepting money from their tenants, they would be implicitly running an unlicensed BnB anyway. Probably not particularly legal.
WHy is it a problem if it is opt in? People should be able to make their workspace look ugly (or more beautiful) if they choose.
A small cheap tip I like to use when I need to do a bunch of research or comparison would be to use something like fiverr.com and pay someone $5 to do it for you.
No it doesn't. There will be a Windows Surface offering that is 100% Windows 8 Intel-based. That is what my entire post is about. You are choosing to focus on the other unit. I devoted 0% of my post to that other offering.

The fact that MS if offering a version of Surface that will not run standard Windows programs is of no consequence. There will be lots of valid use cases for that device. What is important here is that MS if offering consumers something very valuable: A choice.
the Wikipedia article on this changed over the years (not looking for conspiracy theory here). About 2 years ago the lawsuit section was more detailed. It said something similar in logic to this article's title; the defendant replied that no room of such nature exists, BUT this lawsuit should be thrown out of the court because of National Security :)
I hadn't heard of this, are you the Paul that is associated with it?
I would disagree, and say it's usually negative -- the idea that you win short-term approval for a dubious policy by appealing to the masses who are ignorant of the true consequences, as opposed to appealing to the elites who would presumably understand that the thing's a bad idea.

For example, promising to cut the gasoline tax would be a very populist tactic -- people think "I pay less for gas, that's great!", whereas elites would think, "we'll have less money for infrastructure, leading to decline, or else we'll have to raise taxes elsewhere, making non-drivers subsidize drivers."

And by calling this tactic populist, you would generally be indicating that it appeals to the electorate's ignorance. Most people consider that a bad thing, since it leads to worse outcomes. Hence, populism is a pejorative term. I'm referring to use of the word in the US only.

If you want a positive term, you would describe something as "democratic" instead.

(I'm an American from New York who follows politics a lot.)
Anyone have any sources for what the situation is?
Congratulations Daniel, Robby and team!
Sounds like everyone who has ever sold a computer needs a new way of moving their wares if this is really a concern. ;) That or, every sales rep needs to be trained to recognize Farsi and distinguish the Iranian dialects from the other places we don't have trade restrictions on.
You should change the GET parameter utm_source to Hacker_News.
I'm so happy that between us and them, stands a low-wage retail Apple employee.
He says most X, and then supports that with anecdotal evidence some of which is false. In fact I can come up with more examples of exceptions than he can come up with examples that conform to his thesis. Jack Dorsey (twitter,square), Elon Musk (paypal, tesla,spacex), Tony Hsieh (linkexchange, zappos), justin kan (justin.tv, twitch,socialcam) are some examples of entrepreneurs with serial success. I can think of a lot more. Not disputing the thrust of the article but he doesn't support it with a lot of solid examples.
How Vegan Carrot Cake Taught Me To Sell
I use SourceTree, but it is slow.
Just Google it, this is a humongous deal in HooVille. I'll write a brief description above
The "F" word Silicon Valley loves and hates
What sucks about Clojure…and why you’ll love it anyway
They are doing that with the Bay Bridge:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/business/global/26bridge.h...
It's possible, but China doesn't exactly have a good record regarding this, as their experience with the recent Sichuan earthquake proved. I'd definitely be wary of living in this building. Sure, on paper, I'm sure the building is structurally sound. But who know how many corners were cut during the process of construction to meet schedule pressure?
Great point. Wonder if there's an analog here with the building of technical platforms. Hind-sight is 20/20 and explaining how one feels he/she made tech decisions could come out similarly subjective. But asking about the story behind the platform might tease out more color.
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My oldest thinks in pictures. Sometimes, it is like speaking to a foreigner in that he makes translation mistakes. He and I have lots of interesting conversations about language and have talked about the blue green issue -- that it is one word in Japanese. One thing we wonder is if having one word says something about their eyesight.
http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/CN/prefab-shipping-cont...
It's all accessible, that's how Remail (not to mention iPhone, Apple Mail, etc) gets at it.

I interacted with Greplin support, they were aware searches weren't finding things that had been auto filed by Gmail rules into labels. I have been annoyed this "for pay" service didn't handle this.

(Note that I do not expose the "All Mail" virtual folder through IMAP because that ends up doubling mail.)
Microsoft Surface's Liquid Metal Is Not The Same As Apple's LiquidMetal
How to Start a Cult
As if Chinese building practices (and QC generally) weren't bad enough, I am definitely never going inside
...and...how is this related to this story? Also it's something that you would expect from a store that has several thousands of dollars in it...
Indeed. Infants can home in on a breast or a bottle from the get-go; babies are crawling by about 6 months, and walking at about 1 year. They are able to grasp and manipulate objects around six months, I believe. All these seem to imply spatial awareness.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/u-va-board-a...
Funny to think laws might change because of this one website changing the game, so to speak.
I get that, but 95% of my iPad use is as a reference/reading device and I really don't need the keyboard or the (comparatively) short battery life of a MBA for that.

On the off chance I'm going to a meeting or an overnight, I swap Apple's smart cover for the Logitech which is also a smart cover.
so, my startup used to be a Codecademy competitor but we allowed users to build full blown Rails applications in their browser. our customers ran into the same problems you described and we also felt like an online environment was cheating our users because a real developer needs to know how to use the terminal and set up an environment.

we decided that the automated, "interactive" approach just doesn't work -- the feedback systems are just not flexible or responsive enough. So now we do online bootcamps for WebDev, iOS, and Design where we mentor you and a group of peers virtually. You can check it out at http://bloc.io

It's expensive, but people who are serious enough about learning know that it's an investment in themselves and pays itself back 10x.
Brief description of what's happening: a bit over 2 years ago, Teressa Sullivan was appointed the first woman president in the history of UVa, a school that was all male until the 70's.

Suddenly, last week she was forced to resign because of a "philosophical difference" with the Board of Visitors, a group that is appointed by the state of oversee University Affairs and top level hirings. It was later revealed this was the result of a coup by a bunch of Darden MBA's because they wanted "radical" change to the future plans of the University, not incremental change.

The students and faculty are outraged because this was done in secret behind closed doors, which is very much contrary to the way things are typically done at UVa (because of Jefferson's vision or whatever, I find a lot of the Jefferson talk to be crap but let's take it for what it is for now).

There have been protests, yada yada yada everybody is pissed and people are starting to quit.

This is a big damn deal that's only getting worse, and although I'm a UVa alum who for some reason doesn't really care, I suggest taking a look at this if you're interested in the bs that can go on at the ivory tower institutions