skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that in the case of something like sprinting, looking at it in a linear way isn't going to get you much. I don't know much about it, but it seems to me that every time you cut X seconds off your time, it's that much harder to get down to X2. If you looked at it from some sort of a logarithmic basis, I find it really unlikely that Usain Bolt is just* 2x faster than you.
Talk about stuff as you learn it (at your local user group or whatever). That way it forces you to consolidate what you are learning - plus you become viewed as an expert by the people who are learning from you (which of course you are, as you are a step ahead of them).
Haha I see...thanks for replying.
Glad you said that.

I'm old and can remember the moon landings. I loved the images as well. I'm sitting in an open plan staffroom with hundreds of Windows 7 PCs with bright high colour screensavers. The room has primary colour (slightly pastel) desks and white walls with displays of student work. The building we work in is new, with curves and a 4 story atrium. Not sure how many will recognise the images here and what the younger people will think about it.

The moon shot images on my monitor just disappear into sludge from more than 10ft.

Not sure about the moon shot images or the modernist skyscrapers.... nostalgia?
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Here are details regarding how the ghost towns are funded and why China keeps building them so far from present city centers.

"It is hoped that these new towns will, in addition to alleviate urban congestion, spark further in-fill development in the expanse of farmland that sets the new town apart from the city center – a kind of pre-planned suburban sprawl. Funding for these new towns comes from the difference paid to compensate farmers to relocate (a calculation based on potential agricultural yields) and the substantially higher revenue generated from leasing the same land to developers."
http://blogs.worldbank.org/transport/rise-of-the-chinese-gho...

In the comments the author also mentions that many of these buildings are offered at below cost to government employees.
I've had a reality in which 0 (zero) things makes two things ... [particle-antiparticle pairs appearing in quantum fluctuations in vacuo in case that's too terse].

Similarly thousands of things can make up a single thing. [Like bosons in a Bose-Einstein Condensate].

Or in the case in point where you just stick various particles in a pot and pull out some other particles with corresponding energy. For example in beta decay a neutron changes to a proton emitting a W- particle which itself decays to an electron and electron-anti-neutrino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beta_Negative_Decay.svg).

Ultimately maths is axiomatic, so not universal, and Godel shows that it's not absolute.
In what sense? I feel it's better than PHP's docs (tutorial, index, module list, everything.) Besides, you rarely ever need to look at the docs. `help(...)` works well enough 99% of the time.

Method and module names are clear and easy to guess. If I remember PHP well enough, it was a sorry_mess_of_underscored_function_names (with no namespaces) and had $funky $dollar $signs before variables. Some of the functions worked one way, some of them worked in another way (I mean that similar functions didn't work the same way.) Don't get me started on the type coercion system and the equality operators (among other things.)

EDIT: Quite a few people have mentioned that it's easy to deploy PHP software and while that might be true, (as I remember it from when I used to develop in PHP) it's much harder to set up a PHP environment than a Python one. Some of PHP.ini's defaults are (were) horribly broken, Apache has (had) problems finding PHP, etc. In contrast, setting up a Python/WSGI environment is like a breeze.
it is someone who is working nights and weekends unbeknownst to whoever is grading developers. It's easy to create the rockstar illusion over a short time.

Other times it is money bias. If a dev makes a lot of money for someone they are considered an A developer without regard to ability.
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At my company we've been looking into this. We've been in contact with a security company who gave us a quote of £6k, for probably what amounts to not much more than just a port scan. We've only got 4 VPSes, so this seems a bit crazy! Keep up the good work, I want this now! :D

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> Not by me. I make no assumptions on the matter at all, the entire topic never even crosses my mind...This is a common complaint? I've never even noticed the gender of someone contributing an article. Who are these people who tally these things up?

Anextio was pointing out the the tech industry is sexist, not trying to call you in particular sexist. It's cool that you make no assumptions if that's the case (although, to be honest I find that a bit unbelievable since you think the tech industry doesn't suffer from sexism), but that doesn't change the tech industry.

> And you call me sexist? And how do you know if the author is male or female anyway?

There are links (e.g. http://blogs.perl.org/users/steven_haryanto/2012/07/so-appar...) that show that the author is male.

> You are aware that discriminating for women on good things is just as sexist as doing it for bad things, right?

I don't see where you got the idea that anextio was doing anything other than pointing out that women in the tech community don't get the credit they deserve.

> Because that's how English grammar works.

So it's suddenly not sexist to assume that the author of an anonymous blog is male? (Just to clarify: I don't mean sexist as in 'I'm out to systematically repress all women!', I mean the follow-the-leader sexist as in 'it's okay to x because everyone else does it.') 'He', unfortunately, isn't a gender-neutral pronoun.

> I don't get why gender even matters for these topics. You aren't dating them.

So...the gender of another person only matters if you want to get into their pants? It's really quite obvious that you don't respect whichever gender you are not.

Edit: formatting
In high school I had a fellow student that was ortodox. So, he believed that the Bible should be taken as a literal story.

So, when I asked him if he believed in Dinosaurs, he said that some fossils were from before the Great Flood, and that those animals where the beasts that died a few thousand years ago.

When I asked him about Carbon-14, and that those fossils were dated millions of years ago, his answer was simple:
Two options, those experiments are wrong, or is God testing our faith.

This could be God testing our faith again for them, so... nothing will change.
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> (Also the link to your other product http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker/ doesn't seem to work?)

Is it still not working for you? I just checked and it was up, also pingdom didn't report any downtimes, maybe a temporary issue in your side?
We still couldn't understand this completely,

What is the significance of discovering a particle without a spin?

Does this answer some questions about black matter, anti matter, big bang etc.

Then it would be interesting thing for us, laymen.
Thanks for your feedback. The screenshot arrows seemed to work in all the browsers we tested with. Can you tell us what browser you're using?
How is moving to Ruby/Python needs a rewrite, but moving to Symfony2 does not?
The title is hyperbole. Neither group claimed "discovery". They only are claiming observation of a new boson.
> I believe that the top trait in A players is the same as in the top founders, which is determination [1].

Another important trait in the A players is that they are good procrastinators. Or as pg says it, they procrastinate to do "something more important."
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So, the only way out for anyone who wants to survive is to lobby? Seems like the only solution out to me.

I've always had this problem with lobbying. If everyone has to lobby and I guess it mostly requires money these days then how is it not "legal bribing"?
If the authors of computer programming books wrote arithmetic textbooks...
Why are Israelis so hard to work with?
As a merchant it feels like you're being screwed over, but the fact is you'll sell more and at higher values than if you don't accept paypal or credit cards.

There are plenty of studies showing that customers spend more if they pay by credit card. In fact just having a credit card logo visible will increase spending, even on cash puchases.
> So, chose to also show weaker data that actually reduced the significance slightly

Well, they are not trying to convince anyone here. They are trying to prove something. So, choosing to hide that data would've been dumb, as the two possible outcomes would have equally interesting I think: proving that the Higgs Boson does exists, or proving that it doesn't.

Beyond that, yeah, it's a good day today for science :) !!!
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For me it depends.

On programming searches DDG goes better for me (than Google) because it uses the English data. Google insists on using Spanish data even though I disallow results in other languages than English or Catalan.

For other searches, mostly local information but if it's something recent too, Google goes better. So I use DDG at work, and Google at home.
Was the feedback from Jobs, 'Not to my taste' or 'This is what's wrong with your design' or 'Not where Apple wants to do' or 'It sucks'?

Chinese whispers is a sad thing when it turns a potential insight into an anecdote.
Hahahahaha! No, Heroku has simplified it down to:

- git push

- fix all the stuff Heroku complains about regarding which assets have to be precompiled and where

- repeat until someone who's used Heroku a long time knows your specific problem
Even when I show this bug 1st, I was totally shocked how this can be possible..
Yup, I've registered! When are you looking to open the doors?

The link seems to be working now, thanks! I also signed up for a trial of Netsparker so it'll be interesting to compare the two.
While I don't think "as an Israeli I don't find this offensive" is enough of a justification to post (even though it's true), I find the answer very interesting in the context of the discussion "why Israel has many startups and entrepreneurs per capita?", which I think may interest the general audience of HN.
If people who bash about PHP , had used symfony2 framework, they would have changed their mind to some extent..
ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39
Great explanations and very exciting. I might have been more inclined to study physics if I had read something like that 10 years ago.
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The actual screen-cast which I made for them, I deleted it for security reason..
Citation needed. Both CPython and MRI are slow - if you need computational speed, use something else. But when your are comparing them to each other, CPython is faster. I don't know where you are getting that significantly faster bit from.

Since most benchmarks are unscientific, this one is as good as any. So here goes:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...
Google Code shut down last new year. I have been missing it a lot. It was a search engine for code repositories and tarballs and had a lot of stuff indexed. It had a nice Thompson regular expression search and an ability to filter by metadata like file name or programming language.

Google Code was very useful at giving me examples of how to do a certain thing. I've used it to search and compare different methods for matrix inversion, sought for examples on using certain API calls or samples of using a certain assembly intrinsic function.

GitHub's code search can do some of this but it's not a very good replacement. Has anyone got suggestions on good search engines for code?
Ya because at that time I wasn't able to find any way to get in direct contact with them via phone call..
Even I was shocked when I 1st show this bug..
Don't really know the specifics on the response. But the best part for the guys was probably getting feedback from Steve Jobs, even if it was negative. Probably a good learning experience.
It's better than PHP docs simply by virtue of being versioned and annotated with version information.
Microsoft's track record with cooling is far from flawless if the gigantically expensive Xbox 360 recall is any indication.

I really wonder if they can tame the heat problem in the device using current-spec chips, or they're going to stall until Intel's 2013 chips hit and they have more margin.
that biden is a stooge for the entertainment industry is no secret, though i doubt he could've made this happen at a drop of the hat, as the article purports.

mpaa chairman chris dodd is an influential democrat with strong ties to the obama administration, biden in particular. entertainment industry has historically had an oversized presence in washington, and the tech industry an undersized one. this is why our copyright debate has been driven by an incumbent-dominated industry rather than the innovator/disruptor one such as ours.

it's telling that we've all so negatively reacted to recent story of washington telling apple to spend more on lobbying, calling it a shakedown - but we'd be wise to think about that more carefully and not dismiss at our own peril.
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Ya it is a kind of noob error but as its a human made thing so mistake can happen..
Ask HN: Is CloudFlare hurting my SEO?
A while back I decided to use the services of CloudFlare for a website as it promises a lot of advantages.

Google Ranking for the site was pretty good at that time.

For moving on CloudFlare I need to change the DNS to point to CloudFlare.

After somedays Google Ranking for the website started to go down.

Few days later I decided to go away with CloudFlare, as it did not make much of a difference in page speed, but it was for sure keeping away some Threats.

After getting away with CloudFlare, google ranking was getting better.

So do CloudFlare affect Google Ranking??
For my case it seems to me that way.

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Prof Rolf Heuer, director-general of Cern, commented:

"We have a discovery - we have observed a new particle consistent with a Higgs boson. But which one? That remains open."

Either way you're being incredibly pedantic. What's really the difference between discovering and observing something that's never been observed before?
You are deliberately trying to miss the point. But in the off chance that you don't really get it, the point is quora, asana were started by early facebook programmers, and they didn't use PHP. If they liked PHP so much, they would have used it.

I can't find a citation, but there was a thread where a fb engineer claimed fb's internal PHP wiki starts with "There are two kind of people. People who hate PHP, and people who don't use PHP."
> Well, they are not trying to convince anyone here. They are trying to prove something.

A nobel prize is at stake! If ATLAS only had the results and not CMS, they would have lost the nobel. For them to put aside personal glory for science is impressive.
When scientists present results to scientists, they present in a scientific way. I.e. methods, analysis, etc. There is no way a scientist can get by with just a short summary when talking to fellow researchers... it's just not how science is done.
This is what drives the rumors wild. The stronger they deny it, the more it's apparently confirmed.

WWDC 2020 will undoubtedly feature a flying car.
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Just curious, what do you think is the BBC equivalent in the US?
One major problem I see in this article is that the stats that are cited as "proof" that PHP is the most widespread language are skewed.

* The sample is not representative. It's the top 1 million according to alexa.

* The percentage cited is "x percent of all pages that we can determine are..." which skews heavily in favor of PHP since PHP exposes it's version by default at least in older versions while other languages such as ruby don't. The percentage of pages that turned up as "unknown" is not listed.

* They don't give an error margin for their stats.

* Same is true for the Content-Management Sites. It skews heavily in favor of wordpress because lots of sites do have a wordpress blog installed somewhere.

I do acknowledge that PHP is probably leading by market share, but I'm not convinced that it's as pronounced as Fabien wants us to believe.

Composer is a nice step forward, but it's still behind of what bundler can do. One of it's main problems is that it created a completely new package format, so you need a new package repo - now they're at a respectable 1900 packages. Bundler uses the regular rubygems packages and has the full list of over 40.000 gems available. All tools that used to work with gems still work. There's also a couple of features that it's missing (local overrides for development, binstubs, etc.) but I guess that's just catch-up work. That the commandline interface looks plain ugly is probably just personal preference (heck, why do I need to call 'php composer.phar' instead of 'composer'?) Last but least, it's pretty much a feature-wise copy of bundler - that's maybe "on par" but not "the most awesome and best thing in existence".

So yes, PHP has taken huge steps forward but it's still ugly. You can get shit done if you know your way around and you can write amazing and elegant software in it - it's just harder than it needs to be.
Thank you! It seems very few people understand the immense pressure and intense atmosphere that surrounds work like this, especially in culminating times like these.

Fabiola would likely rather spend her time improving the quality of her analysis, which is undeniably more valuable to the scientific community than agonizing over the font.
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It's a shame that Patch isn't idempotent.

My preference for updating data across the web is to send only the information that is different, and the service ensures everything else remains the same. Put doesn't quite cut it in this case (technically, it's supposed to completely replace a resource).

Are there any advantages for declaring Patch to be not idempotent? I'm assuming it allows appending to a single resource?
Funny. People criticize PHP the language and the PHP fanboys retort by praising PHP the platform.

Jeff Atwood more or less said that we should provide the platform advantages of PHP in other languages in order to steer new developers there.
As someone else pointed out, the concept of Intellectual Property, its goals, and how it is enforced continues to diverge on the two sides of the Atlantic, which is probably a good thing.
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I'm not sure you've used a Surface device, either. In fact, I'm pretty sure you haven't.

A $100 keyboard case turns the iPad into as much of a computer as most people need. What do you think people are doing these days that requires a "computer"?

If you're like most people, you'll check your email, visit your social networks, flick through your favorite apps, maybe some games, and then you'll watch movies or listen to music.

I don't see what Surface adds to help anyone in that department. It might get the Office crowd all jazzed up in theory but if I crunched spreadsheets all day, I sure as hell wouldn't be doing it on some crappy ARM Surface device.
The c't had a good opening "story" about this a couple months back. I, for one, will keep using firefox even if chrome is tempting, because I haven't forgotten what happened the last time someone got a monopoly on the browser market: The stiflement of web evolution for a decade.

And make no mistake, IE6 was revolutionary at it's time too.

Google is abusing it's monopoly on search and other things to convert people to chrome. Good, in many ways (if you visit google with an old IE, it displays a chrome ad). But now that I think about it, I'd rather have to bear IE for a year or two than give google the power over what becomes part of the web and what doesn't. Anyone remember flash?
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few of us are formally trained in CS. some of us are good. others are not.

my understanding is that the computer engineers at CERN are mostly tasked with IT work, the rest (including DAQ software/firmware, network code, distributed+realtime data processing, etc) is made by the physicists.
I'm very happy about this. Not only because ACTA was bad, but also because this shows the views of the parliament were fairly congruent with the views of the public - and that's always a good thing in a democracy.

Of course, the battle ain't over yet.
> Hacker News really doesn't like PHP.

But Y?

function Y($F) {
$func = function ($f) { return $f($f); };
return $func(function ($f) use($F) {
return $F(function ($x) use($f) {
$ff = $f($f);
return $ff($x);
});
});
}
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Twitter solves much the same problem as CB radio without the spectrum or distance limitations. Just because there is also a lot of frivolous chatter does not mean 'stuck in traffic behind a 3 lane accident on 495 south mile marker 77' or 'EC2 zone Y is down' is useless.