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Ask HN: Can I move over to JSF from PHP?
I am old timer to technology. My first language was Fortran (I am an engineer) and then C. I did a few websites in PHP. Listening to a lot of boo against PHP recently, I am thinking of moving over.

As I learnt C pretty early, Java comes close in terms of syntax. But, I don't hear Java in casual computing, as much as Ruby (RoR) and Python (Django).What a pity, Java is sidelined to an enterprise architecture!

With JSF2, Java is poised to be in the limelight. With JSF and some client side javascript code, Java is suited for quick webwork that can scale very well. Guys, what do you think about giving Java its worth?
"There are no more superpowers, not when IEDs are easy enough to procure by anyone."

I think this is a myth, and potentially a very dangerous one.

Asymmetric warfare only works when the side with greater symmetric power holds back due to other (political) concerns. If the US used full power in a total-war unrestrained sense, IEDs would be wholly irrelevant to the outcome. That's true even in a war using"just" unrestrained conventional weapons.

The lessons from Viet Nam, Iraq, Somalia, etc. are valuable for both sides in situations where there is no political will for unrestrained power, but don't make the mistake of believing that unrestrained power is forever off the table.

To me, at least, it seems like making that mistake in thought, on either side, virtually guarantees that it will some day come right back on the table, and with a vengeance.
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I doubt kamaal was trying to be sexist. It's unusual in most parts of India for women to work outside their home. Hence no income if you're a sick man with only daughters.
A perfectly legitimate question! This certainly would fix MOST of the malware problems. It is only when the user can't be trusted to decide this by them self i.e they are tricked into install something bad.

Or it might be that the security reason, isn't the only reason for Microsoft to push this?
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Neither did Steve Jobs. What's your point?
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While our perception of time night be subjective, as you suggest, the distances involved are not. Even if it only feels like a few moments, the universe doesn't much care how we feel, or what we perceive.
Holy shit, it's trending on Twitter? Well that's going to change the world!
SFO is also nice for domestic because the TSA screeners there are private employees (Covenant Aviation Security, LLC). They're both more competent at actually finding contraband, and in my experience, more polite, than USG TSA employees. Obviously they're under a microscope as one of the few (only?) privatized airports, but SF isn't exactly an easy recruiting market, either (even for airport screener type jobs).

They also are one of the 4 airports Clear covers, so you can bypass the lines, too. ($180/yr, but I got 3 free months through Regus BusinessWorld Gold (also free, somehow, for being a clear member; I was able to get both starting from having a free Clear membership from starwood before Clear shut down the first time; trying to find a way to get Clear for free after 3mo.)
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The main problem is the PDS [1] in certain Indian states. In other states, where the PDS works (e.g. Tamil Nadu), things are better.

The article is very simplistic and alarmist. Things are much more complex, and it's high time Western readers stopped using the "developing" (read: industrial) world to boost their perceived moral superiority.

Why are political articles about the US not allowed on HN, but Indian are?

[1] http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1711/17110710.htm
On the Mac, you can enable continuous spell checking by calling -[NSTextField setContinuousSpellCheckingEnabled:YES]. On iOS, continuous spell checking is on by default.

If you want to put together really simple interactions, then a web page will get you off the ground fast. The problem is when you get to the details. Harder things become more difficult, or just impossible.

For example, I don't think there's any way to control a browser's spell checker, beyond turning it on and off for a given field. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

In a native app, I have implemented functionality so the spell checker would ignore text with a certain pattern, but spell check the rest of the input.
I'm not sure I'd say "unfortunately"- most of those invented words are, in my eyes, terrible! "Co"? "Zhim"?
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>>largely self-centered mindset

Can you possibly imagine surviving in that kind of jungle without being self-centered?
The movies of Andrea Arnold were revealing in a certain way. "Red Road" and "Fish Tank", as well as her short film "Wasp". All set in the world of UK council estates(like US housing projects). A poor underclass with many of the same features as the poor underclass in the US.

Great films, worth watching.

You can see Wasp, which won an Oscar for best short film, here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aJjj8v3xVs

Trailer for Fish Tank, featuring Michael Fassbender: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg1yMOdjyp0
Also check out public libraries with Overdrive (eBooks).

Another thing to do is see if your college will let you keep online or other library access for a nominal fee. I remember (ab)using MIT libraries for a while after leaving.
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Addressing only this part: "Chromosomes are directly responsible for most developmental differences between living creatures."

Chromosomes are only part of sex differentiation in utero. Many of the developing embryo's/fetus' sex characteristics, both neurological and physiological, are the result of how it responds to the particular mix of hormones it is exposed to at different developmental stages. Sometimes the levels of androgens and estrogens are not consistent throughout the entire development process so the baby can be born with neurological characteristics of one sex but physiological characteristics of the other.
Last year, I spent seven months traveling the world and came back with a much greater appreciation for the U.S. Does America have its issues like any other country? Of course. And are there things as an American I would change? Absolutely. But in spite of its flaws, it's still an incredible land of innovation, personal opportunity and a (relatively) corruption free country.

It's certainly chic to hate on America these days, but I now tend to give much less credence to those who do.
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they do, however, have a wavelength, which might be what you are alluding to

Yes, thank you for correcting me. Cosmic radiation comes in all sorts of varieties from the very powerful (that passes through nearly everything to the less powerful. From my very basic knowledge of x-rays, they can pass through or stay in the body. Then can also affect tissue they pass through which is why too many x-rays are bad.

"humans can't breathe water, but we still can enjoy it using a biosuit (SCUBA equipment)"

True. But how would you like for you and your entire family and ALL subsequent generations had to live either indoors or in a scuba suit for the rest of your lives?

Also while in space, as cosmic radiation passes through an astronauts eyes and brain they see flashes of light. Even with their eyes closed. Going at light speed would mean an almost constant white out. This is despite shielding space shuttles from radiation as much as possible.
Do you really believe that spending trillions fighting for oil is somehow money better spent?? Do you have any clue how much the US blows away on airconditioning in Afghanistan?

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It sad that people still believe Space Colonization is so pointless.
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Its really a mixed bag. Some regions have phenomenal growth and are driving all the growth. Where as the poorer regions of the country are left in a vicious circle. Although that is changing but at a very slow rate.
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I was not making an argument; I was stating a fact. Refraining from addressing someone's statement other than to label it "ad hominem" is itself an ad hominem argument, however.

The major thrust of her article is where she presents herself as the typical specimen proving that women both exist in the tech world in large numbers and are oppressed by pronouns in comments on the internet. Unfortunately, her chromosomes, as well as the male privilege she spent the majority of her life reaping the benefits from, make her the ultimate antithesis of her own point, and she does the opposite of dispelling any stereotypes people may harbor.
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Doesn't giving something for free totally counters the effects of buying it at higher price to begin with?

sounds more like "helping my friend producer with tax money" than "keeping market stable"
I can't see this working legally for privacy reasons without the glasses having an LED go on when the camera is recording anything.

Not to mention the more sticky social issues: Imagine a guy in the subway with these glasses on - every woman in that subway will feel "watched" any time he looks in her general direction.
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I would call BullShit, but you are right, Southern states are
marginally better. Especially Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Though they too are degrading every year. Stats: http://www.satyamevjayate.in/issue01/learnmore/detail/4/
Interesting - if only he had square, you wouldn't have needed to go to the ATM
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You're not going to change this. Yes, virtually every great programmer or computer scientist is a male. So much so that we're all going to assume they're male, and when we see a female name (like "Leslie Lamport") we double-check to see if it's actually a female. This is just a normal tendency. We assume basketball players are over 6'3", we assume nurses are female.

There are many stories of people overcoming discrimination (say, Indian immigrants being thought to be unfit for executive positions in Silicon Valley), and they make the current hot topic of women in tech look incredibly dumb. We're talking overt discrimination, not occasional pronoun misuse.

Indians in Silicon Valley started a group called TiE to help establish a presence. Does it hurt for them to have labeled themselves as "Indus Entrepreneurs" and try to help each other? Doesn't seem so.

So maybe the right way to overcome this "oppression" you feel is just to quit fucking bitching, put your head down and code, and maybe help a few other women out along the way when you achieve success.
Interesting Analogy.

I always knew 'reward' vs 'punishment' motivations always exist. But only today I had a blinding flash of obviousness that 'no-reward' 'no-punishments' scenarios are equally demotivating.

And understandably so, I would not put in extra hours at office if not rewarded, yet I'm not getting punished either.
10 years ago Paulo Coelho was already very popular!

Well, I haven't read the book so I can't comment on the rest
Given that many streets are full of cameras (CCTVs, mainly) that already record you, I don't see this as becoming a problem. Private homes or some businesses may be more of where the privacy discussion centers on
For a second I thought about signing him up on the spot. At one point during the conversation I did walk him through the entire payment flow of the Square app. That's what got us on the topic of humanizing computers!
Only because phones are too big to wear on the wrist, I think
You forgot "and then the share of grain you were going to profit from now is worth half, because some people were buying it to make grain alcohol"

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The subway is already full of cameras
I think you hit the nail on the head (to borrow a theme from further up the thread) - I don't think there is such a thing as objective value.
Well, in my opinion you are wrong.

The Android widget system is tremendously useful.
It is an information gateway that gives me the up to date information I need almost instantly by just turning on and off the screen for a few seconds.

Every widget on my home screen has a purpose and a well suited one.
From simple tasks such as displaying date and time beautifully arranged, to allowing me to keep track of several services on (as well as themselves) my EC2 instances, upcoming calendar events, snippets of the latest incoming email and latest tweets.

Android is a wonderful tool and very very useful.
And, the best part; It allows you to customize your experience.

So my advice to you; If you feel it to be "cluttered", then simply remove all widgets from your screen.
Society's stereotype is that straight white men have it easy, but I haven't seen any careful analysis supporting this conclusion.

For example, I would guess that gay men have an easier time getting laid. Was that factored in? See also "female privilege" lists like this one: http://www.feministcritics.org/blog/2008/06/08/female-privil...

Is there any point in arguing which faction has it the worst? Let's just help each other out without regard to demographics, eh?
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Futures do not change how big the price swing is from year to year - they just let you control now the cost you'll have in a few months.

It is also a technique mostly for businesses, not consumers. How many consumers do you hear about controlling next month's food bill by buying their produce on a future's market? Right, none.
Not really. It's perfectly common as addressing a singular person of unspecified gender, and I can't think of a common way to use it to specifically reference royalty offhand.
I think that's cause the demographic is mostly teenagers that have been forced into a religious upbringing for most of their lives, and are discovering atheism for the first time.

(Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that.)
All you people are a joke. Still discussing religion and historical shit and whom to blame. What's wrong with you people? Seriously, what's done is done. Wake the fck up.
What is the job of the patent office, then?
I actually prefer controllers for FPSs now, but mostly because I rarely game on PC anymore.

In addition to those you list, I would say that anything largely mouse controlled on PC should work reasonably well on mobile devices -- RTS games, Diablo-type games (looking forward to infinity blade dungeons) and sim games (theme hospital, etc.).

In fact, the only games I'm really missing on iOS are the FPS games. And it really is just the attempt to have virtual dual-stick controls that I dislike -- the games are there (mass effect infiltrator, dead space, etc.). If someone could just produce a decent Bluetooth controller and get developers to support it, I'd say that iOS could be the most well rounded gaming system out there -- capable of both console-style gameplay as well as game types that are weak on consoles (RTSs and the others listed above).

I'm also excited about onlive, which I already use with the TV-connected box. I think they were also working on a universal controller…
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Many solutions available are better than the one that NASDAQ implemented. For example, they could halt trading when they realize their matching engine doesn't work.
'No matter what happens, I am not responsible' is the attitude of nearly all of us.

When asked who actually is.. The answer is obvious.

'Its the government'.
In the long run, yes, this is true.

However there is a long lead time for changing how many animals there are in the food pipeline. Thus the amount of meat animals does not increase very rapidly to respond to a bumper crop in wheat. (The meat supply can, however, drop rapidly after a drought or flood...)

And the yearly fluctuations in crop yields tend to be fairly large. Certainly larger than the variation we're likely to see in how much people want to eat.
It was not submitted as a political problem, but the discussions have devolved into a political debate. Sad.
Wow, rude.

Your misogynist default behavior isn't the fault of the OP and kinda your own failing to overcome.

The onus isn't on the oppressed group to overcome discrimination, it's on the privileged group to cut it out.
And downplaying everyday casual sexism just because it's not literally witch burning anymore is a really privileged thing to do!
I've never had a problem with the standard Arduino IDE, including libraries, or compilation times. And I suppose the remote flashing might be useful in some circumstances, but for any actual development I want to be in the same room as the board with an oscilloscope/logic analyzer. So I'm pretty unclear on what pain point this is trying to solve.
By that reason it seems a list of female tech bloggers would also make sense.
#BoycottApple is now trending. On Twitter.
http://www.crimsonhexagon.com/ does (did?) this pretty good.
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See I was agreeing with your post up to here, but I can't help but view the cynicism and angst as reflection on your character.

>6. Apparently verroq somehow thinks this double standard is fair and "better in the long run", probably because what he means it "it's better for me as a dude, since I don't have to do any work and can keep irrationally blaming women for my failings."

I said women should speak out against this double standard, even if they get hit with some personal attacks. I like the way you twisted my words to suit your self-righteous indignation.
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As much as I disregard Apple for its über-shady (lack of) ethics, it's hard to look at this as anything but extortion.

Hopefully this doesn't set any precedent among Chinese-businesses the same way patent-trolls have invaded the west. it wouldn't be good for anyone.
>>I would call BullShit

You would because, you are not 60 and you are not being forced to do small time jobs for paltry income to just afford food, clothing, shelter and medical care.

A person goes and works small time jobs, struggles to put food on his table. He spends almost nothing. Struggles to pay rents, or buy clothes. All this while his hand and legs have no strength. Yet his peer who has a son eats dal, roti and kabab at home watching television.

Go and all the best trying to lecture that person, why not having a son was OK.

Honestly if you were to ask me, merely the thought of being that person scares me. I would save like hell now, have enough money to feed me until I die than be in such a position when I am 60.
I enjoyed this story, even though I'm unsure about the message I should take away, it does make me think.
dilettantism is way easier than work. And recently may be as effective. Heck i usually get hundreds of upvotes just by pretending i have some knowledge.

This one will skyrocket because i may be a woman. And maybe Indian.
so you are saying android is not doing well. Just to put in perspective growth from 100 millions to 400 millions in a year is doing well. Activating million devices a day is doing well. I am using Android now to. type this and my swift keyboard is way awesome then any virtual keyboard I have used. As far as UI is concerned I feel Android got the UI right with ICS and JB. It's very intuitive and very useful. I use plenty of widgets on my phone and to tell you what you like it when you use it.
Now also trending on twitter:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4187672
Also part of it is from the form - a series of separable claims. That way if a judge finds prior art and strikes down part of the patent, they are leaving as much leeway as possible to leave as much of the patent as possible standing.
It seems so weird because women are actually more valuable than men, biologically seen. It's probably crazy/outrageous, but I wonder if one day matching women from India with Men from China might become a huge success (they'll have a shortage of women in China soon I think).

But I can see how there might be a long way to go - if women could work, they could provide and so on...
Not surprising. If it was trending on Twitter that would be news.

You have news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4187672
This just gave me a thought that could potentially be great but also scary at the same time.

What if homeless people signed up for square? They will now be able to accept Credit Cards. As people don't carry cash anymore, the common thing people say is "I don't carry cash." because they don't, but then he whips out a device with square and says "No problem, I accept Credit Cards too!"

Though, getting an Android or iOS device plus be near Wifi or pay for cell service and have a bank account. Sounds a bit tough to set it all up for a homeless person.

Great story, btw. Sounds like you met a nice guy. Most of the Homeless I run into in SF are pretty nuts.
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