skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said, your implementation would depend on context, but to adapt my example, I'd probably put a function on the Property class to determine which Contract class to use - something like:

contract = property.create_contract(seller, buyer, agent)
contract.sign()

However, I think from what you're saying that your sell_property() function would need awareness of all property types, so adding a property type not only requires changes to the part of the code which contains the property data structure, but also to the sell_property() function - and any other function throughout your code base which uses properties. That is of course possible, but OO does make it easier to find where to implement logic specific to different property types.
"So you really need an automatic re-linker of some sort and probably a new binary format that can be re-linked, and some infrastructure to keep track of what binaries exist on the system and what they depend on. Plan 9 never had that."

Plan 9 has all of those things. Namely 7l† and mk††.

† http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/2l

†† http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/mk
Welcome to Metro Apps
I see now what you are saying about that issue, NaNboxing makes it worse but at core it is a deoptimization issue. Which is good, I hope this is fixed soon (so emscripten-compiled code runs more consistently across browsers).

> I am not sure I entirely understand. If you are running in a cold code then performance does not matter and you can tolerate quickly allocating a small amount of boxes which will be as quickly reclaimed by scavenger once you are done with them. If you are running in an hot code --- then it should be optimized in a way that minimizes the number of boxes produced.

Let's say that performance matters in the application, but it is huge in code size and all the code matters, not a few small parts. Would you call all the code hot, and would v8 optimize the entire application? (i.e., how is 'hot' defined in v8?)
There are plenty of dangerous lifeforms we could realistically stamp out -- grizzly bears, for example. The pertinent question is whether it would be worth the cost. This organism can be defeated forever with handmade water filters, and we'll never miss it. But we could burn all the swamps in the world (along with countless "bystander" species) and still fail to wipe out malaria.
I think the idea is not bad, but there are a few off-putting things.

First, it asks me for my location before I know what it's about at all. Maybe delay the geolocation request until after I click something?

The description of what the site does should really be up there under the logo and not in between content elements, it's slightly confusing.

Random question / change location buttons should get some more attention. Especially random question.

Alignment/padding inconsistencies make the site look cluttered or messy. Border colors do not work well with the background green.

And as mentioned by oinksoft, the logo is confusing.

Otherwise good idea.
No. It said that spending money on advertising was protected speech. Citizens United actually stated that direct donations, or advertising in concert with candidates (essentially gifts in kind) could still be criminalized.

(I actually read the opinion.)
exactly what i am thinking.
I could be wrong, but I don't think it was closed for off-topic (non-programming). I would guess it was locked for "not having an answer."

They say you should be soliciting answers rather than opinions... and, for better or for worse, that is probably why this was locked.
You seem to have mistaken my comment for a criticism of Erlang.
Amazon.com down
You can check it out here: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/amazon.com

Their health check for AWS is all green (http://status.aws.amazon.com/), though.

I'm curious what the issue is, and if we'll hear anything about it.

EDIT: Back up, now.
> "graduate student descent" of the parameter space

that is a wonderful phrase :) going to keep it in mind :)
> Grizzly bears, for example

And a terrible example!
Other folks opinions?
It's our community's Ford vs Chevy vs Dodge argument. It's going to come up again and again.
I really don't think this is the kind of question to ask on HN, which hinges on the latest fads, the latest of them being Ruby on Rails and possibly Node.js. Use PHP if it's most convenient for you. Heck, I would say you should even use Perl if it's most convenient for you.
I've never met a great programmer than didn't also love other stuff besides programming. Variety is the juice that creativity runs on.
Oh absolutely. The idea that there's a comprehensive catalog of species extinct and extant is a joke.

And humans, with their ability to thrive in basically any climactic zone, are the ultimate pest species. No wonder that vectors that spread human disease are also so successful -- so much meat to prey upon.
This is not an example of a controversial issue.

The consensus for years has been to store a path in the DB to a file resource, and if you store images in the DB you should have a really compelling, edge-case reason to do so.
To decide whether advertising is being done properly, I think we need to have an honest, most likely philosophical, discussion about the purpose of advertising. I'd say that advertising is at the very core adversarial in most but not all instances.

Advertising (and other "distribution hacks") are essentially externalities (visual and audible pollution and user-friendly utility trade-offs). They have nothing to do with the product being sold and utility of a product and the only way advertising helps consumers is to help a product reach enough scale that prices drop. Besides that benefit, advertising is mainly for the benefit of the company selling the good at the cost of the consumer. There are a lot of products in the market that meet many needs. In the absence of all advertising, i.e. in a consumer-driven, not producer-driven model, the opportunity would lie with consumers paying money for people to tell them what products provide the most value and an honest assessment of one product versus others. It's the Consumer Reports model.

The Consumer Reports model, absent "payola", provides the greatest utility because it most benefits those that offer the best products and services and not those who are just better at making those product and services known. IMHO, in an ideal world every single producer would compete strictly on value, which lies at the intersection of price and quality (i.e. "fitness for use").

Advertising at it's core is often about adding the perception of value instead of actual value.
This is the second time I've seen when someone has posted a

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

link here on HN to announce that a major site is down, when it is NOT down for me. Amazon.com is working just fine for me. I've just been browsing around. What is the methodology of

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

that sometimes spoofs that site into reporting a major site is down? I'm having no trouble whatsoever navigating Amazon.com just now.

After edit: I checked my personal website. It's up. But then, oops, I was told that Hacker News is down (even though it evidently isn't).

What do you see when you follow this link?

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/news.ycombinator.com

I just saw

"It's not just you! http://news.ycombinator.com looks down from here.

"Check another site?"

P.P.S. I am in the midwestern United States. I was just browsing Amazon.com some more, and it is working great. Hacker News is still reported as down.
Fray Bentos is a place? And the name of a tank?
Missing Autistic Child Spawns Virginia's Largest Manhunt
Sounds rational but the numbers dont't add up. There is still a net loss of forests. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest#Forest_loss_and_manageme...

Quote:
In the United States, most forests have historically been affected by humans to some degree, though in recent years improved forestry practices has helped regulate or moderate large scale or severe impacts. However, the United States Forest Service estimates a net loss of about 2 million hectares (4,942,000 acres) between 1997 and 2020; this estimate includes conversion of forest land to other uses, including urban and suburban development, as well as afforestation and natural reversion of abandoned crop and pasture land to forest. However, in many areas of the United States, the area of forest is stable or increasing, particularly in many northern states. The opposite problem from flooding has plagued national forests, with loggers complaining that a lack of thinning and proper forest management has resulted in large forest fires.
Yeah, there's a lot of bullshit in this article.
Except that if I want to accept a self signed certificate I have to click 6 times through scary warning screens.

And that is a good thing because that cert is for both encryption and identity.

If it were JUST for encryption, there'd be no issue just auto accepting that certificate.
Rock Stars Went Where?
> It means the course wasn't about programming.

Parent of your comment might have been talking the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Likely it needs no introduction, but it is absolutely about programming, and goes right down the rabbit-hole to implementing interpreters, virtual register machines, and a compiler for said machine. Yes, the first couple of chapters is mostly purely functional, but that doesn't detract from the rest, which includes mutable code as well.

Really, I don't know why you're so hostile to this pedagogical approach. Do you have experience with teaching CS and/or programming, and have found using C or assembly or following some kind of Java school curriculum more effective? Have you found teaching functional programming first deficient? Or maybe you're looking at this from the perspective of an employer and have had to deal with hiring new grads who are brain damaged by functional intro CS classes?

I, for one, welcome this kind of experimentation or change of pace on the part of CS educators like Robert Harper at CMU (http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/). It can't be worse than what I had (mediocre, big box state Java school)
Social life after college is broken. This isn't a complaint. I'm OK with things as they are, but probably because I'm pretty introverted and also because, after years of getting used to cynical networking being the norm, I'm as much a part of the problem as anyone else.

We have too much income and social stratification in this country. It's starting to become unreasonable and lead to unexpected adults, including the impoverishment of social life. We have a society based on climbing and positioning and maintaining ground, and that causes a lot of these problems. People don't realize that when they live in gated communities, they've essentially taken up a mentality that confines them to isolation, because once you start to conclude that most people are undesirable and need to kept away, you become cynical and just starting rejecting people for ludicrous reasons, until you end up alone because no one (not even you, if you evaluated yourself honestly) can meet your high standards.

Socially, college was better because a 3.2 English major and a 3.9 math major could eat at the same table and attend the same activities. I didn't even know most of my friends' GPAs. It didn't matter. That enabled a certain diversity of thought that doesn't exist in the adult world.
It's one of the cheap tricks AOL and Engadget pioneered and now everyone else emulates because it's so successful. They also love giant images at the start of articles to ensure you'll view the ads below the fold.
CHURCH, CHURCH, CHURCH.

There's none of the financial worries, pecking orders, or time constraints of workplace friendships, plus more of the freedom. You do it, supposedly, once a week, or more. There's no pressure to make small talk because you're there for another purpose as well, so if you get uncomfortable, you can just leave. As you get more involved, you start joining committees, planning events, coaching teams, going on retreats, leading the local Boy Scout troop, participating in Bible studies, etc and are able to bond with adults there. As long as you're set on your denomination, there's no reason to leave while you're still in the geographical area. Your kids can encourage interaction with other parents, and if they stop being friends, they'll probably still be forced together through sports/school/service events. And you're operating on the same general life philosophy as all of them--supposedly.

When my parents moved, their "friends list" literally became a subsection of the church directory.

Church literally fills every requirement in the article, since it's a very social event with a purpose besides being social for its own sake. I'm amazed the author didn't mention it. Well, not too amazed, since there's nothing more socially unsexier than church groups. I know most people here aren't too warm on religion but it sure knows how to built community.
Wow that's an amazing view. First of all she didnt say anything it was a god damn look, she couldve had a stomach cramp and made a face for all the person on the phone knows. The article also states that this was during a difficult pose the instructor was demonstrating, what about the "happyness" of the other employees in the class? Don't you think distracting them by talking on the phone ruins their experience and makes all those other people less happy, just to make 1 more happy? This type of rule seems in place for business purposes(business related calls comming in that can't wait) not for what might or might not make a person happy. If this employee has such ego problems that shes rude enough to answer the phone, not step out of the class and distract everyone else then complain about the a god damn look she got from the teacher, the only word i can think of using for her is "bitch" and i wouldn't want some one like that at my company.
The other factor is non-profit open source social networks.

A lot of people like me are determined to popularize open/p2p, distributed or decentralized social networks.

Technically, we're lunch cutting the for-profit networks. But I think both can coexist. However, if open/free networks come to dominate, closed platforms will diminish in popularity.

Search: "Diaspora", "distributed social network"
"You like your friends; you like the rich guy's money."

Oh?

So you think that there aren't a large number of rich people that are interesting and have achieved something which is the reason they are rich? And it would be great to spend some time with them?

Steve Jobs was rich and had power and fame. So the only reason anyone would want to be around Steve is because of the money, the power and the fame? Or Larry Ellison? Or Warren Buffet? Or even Paul Graham? He's doing ok and I'm sure he would be interesting to be around even for people who have no interest in the startup scene and nothing to gain by knowing Paul.

But even if someone was born into money for that matter then as a result of having money they also could be interesting and nice to be around for exactly that reason. Or at least entertaining (the Kennedy's come to mind..)
Behind Wahooly's failed launch - Unrated version
This is what I got when I went to Amazon.com: http://i.imgur.com/VzOHf.png

https://amazon.com gives me an SSL error and then it can't resolve.

What country are you in that you can see it? I'm on the Eastern seaboard of the US.
russellballestrini or foxhop

You cannot delete your account on stackoverflow without writing to the administrators via email. It is a manual process for them,and they don't delete your account they just rename it and prevent you from logging in. The questions do persist. I'm pretty sure they also deleted my "spam" questions when they banned me.

edit: the stack overflow account is the only one they deleted/renamed.

Here are my related accounts:

http://superuser.com/users/28269/russellballestrini

http://serverfault.com/users/27551/russellballestrini

I was active, honest, helpful and used my real name.

on stackoverflow my username was renamed to user221014

or

https://www.google.com/#q=user221014&oq=user221014
Totally unfair of PZ since Hallquist did say "surprised ... if it took only a couple of decades". 20 years of computational/biological advances should give us quite a lot.
Beef especially is very taxing on the environment. It takes a lot of energy to get to beef and there is methane from cow manure causing greenhouse effects. I enjoy a nice steak but suggesting there is no negative side effect to the environment....
I understand the mods there are volunteers, and appreciate that.

On your #2, it seems you're saying the mod has to call it an off-topic question even if he/she is locking it for another reason. If so, then it wouldn't be the mods' fault, it'd be the SO developers'. It's still a path to ruination.

I disagree that a valid on-topic question for SO should be limited to definitely answerable questions (in this case, where a pro or con can be proven). If that's the case they should make that clear in their FAQ; I don't think they do that. While that can be their unwritten rule if they want, it makes SO much less valuable for programming questions for me, because not all programming questions I find valuable are definitely answerable, like the one I referred to. 400+ people (on net) found that question to be valuable. I don't think a question asking about pros/cons for a programming design decision is a discussion question. A discussion question would be more like "Would you store images in the database, or just links to files?" Even someone who prefers the former could potentially list out pros/cons for both choices.
Oh absolutely. But when did people come to Hacker News to discuss how much they love doing stuff besides programming, or how to reduce the amount of programming you do?

Can't find any examples just right now, but the mentality of "I am a programmer and I want more time away from programming" seems to be everywhere at the moment, I don't get it. Not so much "why do people love other things", but "why don't programmers love programming as much as other they love other things".

(I am a guitar player and would die without 1-2 hours of jamming every couple of days, just so you know I'm not lying, I can love other things as well! :P)
If I was a funding body I'd knock a few thousand off the initial grant and say "have the journal send me the bill when you publish a paper".

That way, you only have the expenditure if the research leads to published papers. If the research doesn't lead to papers, well, at least you're a few thousand better off. And of course the funding bodies would know exactly who published what when where, and they'd get the right details in the paper's acknowledgments every time.

As an alternative, if there was funding to publish only a limited number of papers that could reform the incentives that lead to "salami publication". Or perhaps it would lead to a worst-of-both-worlds where salami publication cost funding bodies a bunch of money. We shall see!
Aren't quiet pubs/bars for that? Or say you've had a busy week but how about takeaway and some trashy TV in the background? Been meaning to try some local restaurant, you guys want to see if it's any good?
It doesn't have a specific verifiable answer. It's an invitation to discussion.
I think people who enjoy programming, really enjoy it,don't communicate here as much as other places.

I am with you though, I would have rather stayed home and worked implementing gradual engagement on one of my "pet" web applications then going to the jack-and-jill party with my wife today.

Oh well, there is always tonight, after hours.
Your CV is "meh". Only interesting thing is the grad school class. Your GPA isn't listed.

Do GPAs go on your CV? I didn't know that.

Your internship this summer details don't tell me why you're awesome. It's too generic.

How can I make those more specific? In my eyes they seemed like pretty specific details to me.

Your S12 research is ambiguous. what did you find? I don't know what you can do for me.

I don't know how to compress a research paper into a two sentence resume description. Even the abstract is longer than that by an order of magnitude.

* You should highlight your leadership experience in tutoring. You should highlight your Honors courses.*

People care about either of those??
Because if your startup is just another way for people to share pictures of cats, you can get things done perfectly well with a strong candidate from a state school instead of wasting months of time and thousands of dollars per month of burn rate on Stanford and MIT graduates.
Your DNS may be poisoned. I guess this is another positive argument for SSL cert pinning in browsers so you are less likely to accept the invalid cert
To the vast majority of the people using StackOverflow, it is a site for getting information about programming. The mods and superusers may know that it is a site for getting specific 1-to-1 answers to questions, but I'll guarantee that the average user browsing the site does not know that. You have to click to the FAQs to find that out, and many people will not do that. Even if you go to the About page, you see this: "Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site that’s free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions..." No mention of the types of questions that are acceptable.

The above plus SO's popularity (and prominence in search engine results) are the very reasons I find the moderation a bit over the top. IMO, it should be up to the community, not a handful of mods to decide which questions are valuable and appropriate. Some questions, while they don't have a specific answer, are extremely valuable to gather opinions, particularly for those who don't have as much experience in a given subject.

So yes, I find the moderation disturbing and over-zealous, but will continue to put up with it since it is the best resource for finding quick answers to questions.
"you have fewer choices if your pool of potential friends is rich people"

How many friends does someone need?

I don't see any evidence that wealthy people or upper middle class have any problems friend wise.

Not only that but nothing prevents them from mingling with anyone even a lower "status" if you want to call it that.
"And humans, with their ability to thrive in basically any climactic zone, are the ultimate pest species." Oh I don't know cock roaches thrive really well in every zone too. And they carry countless diseases too, along with their redundant systems and all. Or how about rats? Also littered with pests themselves there isn't a place on this earth that hasn't been touched by rats.
The internet running out of space is a red herring. The concern is a dilution of focus of Stack Overflow.
I m using Librarything to manage my physical collection of book and to avoid buying 2 time the same book. I still need to add some of the book and I m not sure to include my ebooks.

So if I was both an avid reader and also book into book collecting: would I use both of this applications?
If you enjoy programming in it, mostly doing http work and you think you can find talented , smart php developers in your area, go for it.

If your ideas need thing like massive concurrency or lots of number crunching, you may want to look at some other options as well.
Breaking Bad Inspired 500 / 404 Error Pages
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Happiness makes us perform better