skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's still an oversimplification. POST only implies that the request is NOT idempotent, and that the request body is submitted to the origin server for "processing". Consider for example, resources that search for other resources via information in the request body and redirect to them. There's nothing wrong with this pattern, and in fact it works nicely for rapidly-changing server-side information since caching the result of a POST is not allowed.

The core problem in my mind, is not whether one should insert or update on PUT/POST, but whether one should even be considering HTTP-based APIs to be gateways to what amounts to a database. The domain concepts in the application might not map directly to a resource-centric design, and that's ok. When you focus on the resources, their behavior, and hypermedia, then you "get" REST. If your application isn't shaped like HTTP/REST, then maybe it shouldn't try to be.
There's also a selection bias at work, since the type of person who is likely to move to improve their career is likely to overlap pretty heavily with those who want to work hard. But you're definitely right that it's not just a matter of "companies getting it", but rather a whole culture feedback loop.
Looks interesting. I would have prefered the use of () in place of {} though.
That doesn't explain his middle-of-the-pack class ranking. Even at a prestigious boarding school that's not exactly "Harvard material". (Well, I guess it is...)

Clearly he got in because of family connections.
Exceptions don't make the rule.

Nobody said it couldn't happen. The problem is that we want it to be always possible. It isn't.
Actually, I didn't, and I found the comment entertaining. But I can see how it gets annoying after a few times.
Yeap, UK people are heading for the Valley and for NY. Curious migratory movements, isn't it?

My question is, where is the ultimate cause? what about USA people? Are they heading to China? :)
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thanks for the links.
Reductionist thinking like this is tempting but not really helpful in the real world, in my experience, and I'm a physicist. More is different, and even though it might be possible to simulate the emergent properties, this is really not feasible at scale. Calculating the wave function of a mole of unordered matter numerically is not possible for example.
Something similar from the Tcl world: xmlgen / htmlgen http://wiki.tcl.tk/5976
That would require a lot more escaping when you aren't writing markup (as using parenthesis in regular writing is so common).
Years trying to move the style to the css and be semantic in the html.

I like it, but comes a little bit late. 8 years ago probably was nicer.
Minor downside: You have to ensure that the contents of a {code ..} block have all their open-brackets matched with close-brackets. This can be quite tricky with larger code examples. The bbcode [/code] equivalent is slightly less problematic.

Other than that it looks like a good alternative.
After spending way too much time reading all of these comments, I think I have figured out the difficulty behind most of this subthread:

You're simply not clear or precise enough in your comments and statements. It takes you awhile to fully explain what you mean, and in the interim, rather than immediately realizing what has happened and making yourself more clear, you convince yourself that everyone else is crazy for not understanding exactly what you mean.

Please don't take this as a personal attack. I am merely observing. I don't think anyone here is out to get you. Most people are well-intentioned and are arguing against the precise statements you've written, not the ideas in your head. If you can't see that, then there may be no hope. But I'm hoping you will re-read some of this thread and come to the same realization.

Here's a quote from you:

Except that the major parts- like a touch oriented
UI- don't exist until Apple develops them.

This statement is horribly imprecise if, as I now believe, what you intended to convey was something like:

Apple does not merely put together existing pieces of
technology like legos. They created iOS from scratch,
which represented a significant amount of original work
in the area of touch oriented UI.

If you slow down a little, and really read what you are about to post to ensure that it reflects the thoughts in your head, I think you'll have a much more successful time debating with others here on HN.
"I suspect that the mediterranean IT guy/pal will be the new Polish plumber in UK"

That actually made me laugh.
I will be a stereotype!
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The web page is unreadable on my iPhone. Right side is clipped; same as another post says about Android.
> In Spain people a few years ago said stupid things to justify not moving to other countries where salaries were like 3 times Spanish ones: weather, food and «quality of life».

I don't think that's stupid. I get seriously depressed when it's gray, gray, gray all the time, which is one of the reasons I moved from Oregon to Italy many years ago. I also like how some interpersonal dynamics are here: all my 'nerd' friends here have always fit in pretty well, and don't seem to have the stories that people do in the US about cliques and being excluded and intellectual achievement being looked down on. Maybe some teasing, maybe not being the most popular people, but they all seem to fit in pretty well.

It depends on who you are and what you like, and how much you're willing to sacrifice. Currently, the sacrifice is much larger because of how poorly things are going in many Mediterranean countries, so it makes more sense to leave.
"Phones never were free - carriers controlled what went on them"
This is only relevant for USA, not the rest of the world. All around the globe you could walk into a store, buy any phone you wanted, buy a carrier's SIM and insert into that.
So the Apple model is a kind of dropback.
That's awesome! Is following @NASA_Phonesat the best way to find out when that happens?
I believe Clojure has something similar to what the OP is talking about thanks to Hiccup's macros: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
They also have to ensure there aren't any objects that might bounce back during lift off. :)
I've been living in Portugal for ~6 months, working remotely for my previous employers in Brazil (I'm 1/2 portuguese). The quality of life I get here is 10x what I had in Rio, while my cost of living was almost halved.

Indeed I've never understood why the tech industry here isn't 100x stronger. It's a very attractive place to live, with low cost of living, lots of space for offices and buildings, fairly decent infra-structure, etc. Somewhere the portuguese politicians must be screwing up big time.
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If you consumed the same amount of food, how did you substitute the sugar you took away? Sugar has a lot of calories per weight, if you simply reduced the calories intake then losing weight isn't unexpected.
Is there something similar for Ruby gems?
Its worth noting that this is an old post.
Isn't that exactly what he/she said?
As I understand, this particular point is about quantum-aware molecular dynamics of the whole organism; but I agree it is a mainly a buzzword collection.
I agree that copyright and especially patent law is ridiculous these days and that the government propping up the music industry is wrong.

But my wider point was that the reason they capture so much value is because they're businessmen, that's what they do. It's not that society chose to pay them 80% or whatever, it's that they figured out how to make that money. If we kick out the foundations, the major labels, dinosaurs that they are, will crash and burn, but this won't lead to artists reaping the rewards, it will lead to new businessmen who spring up to figure out how to extract value from the new status quo.

All of this is to say that I don't think it's effective to measure what percentage artists end up as a proxy for the quality of the law. There are just too many ways to game that, and you know who's going to come out on top. Rather I think the original principles of copyrights need to be revisitied, and we consider only the maximum benefit to society, with the simple goal of having a richer culture. The question of "incentive" to create is especially slippery since it can never be tested, and the full-time lobbyists are all on the big content side. But the real problem is that the law is woefully out of date with regard to the ease of copying bits, and the value of a remix culture.
Yes Davidw, but I can tell you something about quality of life... it doesn't exists if you don't have money :) Salaries in Spain for IT are so absurd: 600~1500 EUR/month in the south. If you are in the 1500EUR/month salary you are a lucky bastard!

Spain is going to change in a really bad way in the next one or two decades and no one wants to be there when they can stay at 5 hours of flight in UK (including bus/train to the airport and arriving home in Spain).
It may have actually happened a week or two ago, but it seems nobody covered the subject yet.
Make news.ycombinator.com your homepage on your favourite browser. When you start it up, it magically appears :-)

OR

Firefox 14 and Chrome (ever since I remember) have a feature that when open a new tab, it shows a screen snippet or capture of your most frequent visited sites. You just have to click on that snippet.
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The accept header seems natural place for versions.

oh and tacks not tax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Tacks
I agree: it's a tradeoff. Some people aren't bothered by the weather in Berlin, and so the extra cash is great for them. Also, like I said, right now things are particularly bad in many southern European countries, so for more people, going abroad is going to be a more attractive option.
In my opinion all tags should have an optional short/long form i.e.: {code ..} and {code}..{/code}.
You just reinvented the RTF spec. It quickly gets out of hand, trust me.
That is correct, but it takes more energy for a European national to move country because of the barriers of language, customs, laws, tax systems, etc...

As an example, I have worked in Portugal, Spain and now the UK and I don't know if I will ever be entitled to a state pension when I retire even though I payed pension related taxes in all of these countries.

In the US, AFAIK, it's a bit more homogeneous, no?
You've written an incredibly interesting comment addressing something I had no idea about, thank you.
> Lakshmi Niwas Mittal was born into a Indian business family [son of steel magnate] in ... Rajasthan, India. ... He graduated from St. Xavier's [rich private school] College, Calcutta with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in business and accounting. His father, Mohan Lal Mittal, ran a steel business, Nippon Denro. [the magnate]

So a rich steel magnate's son in a developing country about to explode under the greatest GDP growth seen in world history, along with the greatest demand for steel seen in world history becomes a billionaire.

How ... predictable.
«Oh, there are plenty of entrepreneurs, mind you. But many of them are “serial” entrepreneurs, whereby “serial” I actually mean lazy, ineffectual bums living off subsidies for years on end while they latch on to one incubator after another and leech them for all their worth.»

That was a good one, a perfect description of the standard Spanish entrepreneur :)

You have to innovate and innovation is something decided by a committee of bureaucrats who have never worked in the private sector in their life!

No real VCs, there are a few in Spain but they invested in risky things like construction, subsided agriculture and in companies with government contracts.

It's so easy to flight to London and meet real investors instead of doing all the ass-kissing of government agents and banks to get subsides... yet no one did it. Hubris was the cause.
Also there's Hiccups older Common Lisp relative CL-WHO - http://weitz.de/cl-who/

Other languages also have similar solutions - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/671572/cl-who-like-html-t...
Why do we procrastinate so much?
Not rational to say the least.

Your prediction is on equally magical ground.

Good luck and have fun.
I developed an educational app in one day. Apple featured it right around Christmas. Best Christmas present ever. I made enough money in that one month to pay off all of my credit cards and student loans. I even paid cash for a late-model car that month. Part of that money also helped my company lease a kick ass office. We went from subleasing a dark attic above a video production studio to leasing our own class A office.
that is a great article. makes a strong argument for the point of hypermedia links too.
That look nice, but four things:

divs. How to write something like <div class="text" id="lore">Test lore ipsum</div> ? Does this have a chicken scheme style named parameters?

Inline HTML, especially useful for macros. {html <i>i</i>} should become <i>i</i>

A unification <script> <img> <video> <audio> and <iframe>. It's not that easy to translate to html, but i felt there should be one mechanism, since they all just embed a another medium. The sematics would make more sense IMO.

The macro expression takes a argument (the macro name). Can my macro aswell do this aswell? Any why doesn't the colour use it?
Dr. Lindeberg and co. found the same thing (albeit using less sophisticated methods) in the study of the Kitava islanders more than 20 years ago.

http://www.staffanlindeberg.com/TheKitavaStudy.html
I'm one of those about to graduate students from a technical university in Lisbon, and for me, there is no doubt anymore, I'll start to work outside of Portugal.

When you look at it from one side, South European countries have everything: they have the food, the weather, good universities, kind and welcoming people (not to say that other countries don't), talent. They have the potential to be the best countries to live at. What's missing then? For me what is missing in Portugal, and what makes me want to go away from it is mostly bad working conditions: the notion that the IT guy is the new slave. I have had older colleagues saying to me that they were working on a Sunday at 11pm and have seen people from consulting companies coming to my university and proudly saying that when we would be working at their company "we could say goodbye to that cinema evening with friends". These consulting companies, some of which are always eager to hire (which leaves us wondering what is happening to their workforce), exploit the fact that these graduates are used to semesters of constant crunch time and exploit them by putting them in the same state in their companies. People are expected to work past their time, and most of them do... and for what? 1200 euros before taxes and you are considered lucky. If you don't accept that paycheck someone else will.

I did in my last college year an Erasmus in Sweden that came now to an end, and I'm not coming back to Portugal. I've found things to be very different here. There is a huge respect for life outside work, and the jobs actually pay the graduates with the salaries that reward them for their effort and knowledge.

The problem is maybe precisely this one: graduates feeling that there is no reward waiting for them by the end of college.
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I got 60% CAGR on AAPL (90-660) and I've pulled 20% CAGR on GOOG (570-670). I will have fun. Check back in a year and see how my prediction pans out.
"small things like the difference between the staff in Worten and Mediamarkt"

I'm curious, what do you mean? Having bought from both stores (in Lisbon) I have noticed no difference.

Edit: never mind, I just saw your answer to this comment's sibling.
Is there anything new to the site? Or why is it up here?
And how are you going to help that? Or you don't care? The asinine tax system is more or less the same as I'm used to in NL/DE. Taxes are not for your pleasure. Sure it could be easier, but it's not easier in most civilized places. I'm not Portugese, but I would do my best for my country and not leave like you have no other choice.
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Yep, my thoughts exactly.

If you call it lispy it's gotta use parens.

The curlies immediately suggest some broken json or perl hash.

I can see the lispy spirit in applying the car to the cdr, and I like it!

One first bug report (or feature removal request):

&nbsp; makes it to the output, but is replaced with the U+00A0 character in the input textarea.

{p like &nbsp; so}

What's the concern with a real lisp syntax?

I for one like it!
Service culture can change relatively fast with the right catalysts, which include better management and getting people more involved. The UK used to have terrible service (Fawlty Towers was based on real life), but has got much better. Immigration helped a lot though...

Southern Europe is going to have to change a lot, fast. It is a huge opportunity if done right, but people dont even understand whats going on fully yet.
Maybe they actually have a Worten company chef who knows what he is doing, or maybe you are just unaware who customer service should be. I don't know. The natives here (south of Spain) don't see that everyone is downright rude to you. Until you go to a scandinavian / north eu place and you see the difference. But it might just be the people here; there is a huge difference between the two.
That is a (mis)perception most people have (myself included) regarding career development. Professionals follow the path of the higher salary.

For me, the path can be something like this:
South America < PIGS < France/Germany/UK < Rest of The USA < SV/NYC

That being said, there's also people who give more value to quality of life. The place that work for in Spain have several people from The US, Sweden and UK, even though they could be making more money back in their countries.
I assume his reason is trite and superfluous because it's a stupid question. When you're a high school senior, all you know about colleges probably boils down to

- General reputation

- About famous people (or family members) that went there

- A brief visit to a few of them that you pick out of a hat

- How much it costs

What kind of non-superflous evidence do you expect him to be able to bring to bear?
or even use linux . . .
The color diagram in the article is of the MONIAC.
Everybody hates Endesa. In Spain is highly probable that when someone takes your call to a company he/she will be in South America ;)

And about Spanish companies and how they treat their customers, I'm with you. This is ingrained in many mediterranean countries: no ones got rich doing hard work or through a strong work ethic. You can only get rich stealing, abusing and lying. The rate of people who evades taxes is so high that in countries like Greece it's seen as normal. In fact in Greece you are a malakas («stupid/loser» yet the literal translation is «wanker») if you paid all your taxes.
The waiter of Fawlty Towers was Spanish :)
Good catch. They are not really the same, just different authors describing the same thing.
For all I know they might have been "thinking" about it,
but why didn't they do more than think about it if it was
that obvious at the time that capacitive touchscreen
phones would dominate the future?

Note that obviousness of an idea and obviousness of the quality of that idea are two entirely different things. It is possible for two companies to have an obvious idea at the same time, but one doesn't think it's quite obvious that it's a good idea while the other does.

For example, many of us here on HN would agree that tv/movie video content streamed over the internet was an obvious idea even in the late 90s. But it wasn't necessarily an obviously good idea at the time.

Maybe you would agree (or not, doesn't matter, the point stands, just pick a different company) that Netflix was the company that made watching videos online enjoyable. Should they enjoy a monopoly on streaming video content over the internet simply because they had the vision to decide that the idea was obviously good enough to pursue at the time that they did?

If they had patented streaming video, or something smaller, like auto-detecting your available bandwidth to optimize delivery quality, would we be so accepting of them trying to destroy Hulu or Amazon VOD in order to protect that "innovation"?
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All these Java exploits --both client and server-side-- are really bad. I'm (mostly) a Java dev and I'm really sad at all this (probably deserved) bad rep Java is getting.

I run Java on Linux and my setup is simple: I install Java in my "dev" account from the .tar.gz. There's no way I'll ever ever login as "root" to install Java on a Linux machine and there's no way Java ever gets installed in something else than my "dev" user account. I surf the net from another account which, of course, has no Java installed.

I also admin two Java webapp servers and closely follow all the security issues: had to patch them twice "recently". First the DoS SNAFU related to predictable hashmap hashes where anyone could remotely DoS any Java webapp server (quite bad) and then the "infinite looping" when parsing I don't remember which HTTP header triggering a bug in floating-point code. Both bugs where known since more than ten years and Sun/Oracle never acted.

It's really a quite sad state of affair.
The inscription in I.7.1 - 8075 translated here as: "The finances officer of the emperor Nero says this food is poison" is in latin "CVCVTA AB RATIONI[B]VS NERONIS AVGVSTI".

An alternative, sarcastic, translation has been proposed: Poison is Nero's secretary of finance.
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Remember when everybody had a sound card?
Main problem with author's suggestion is that he mixes everything together, so he'll get into the markup version of DLL-hell.

E.g. How do I use relative links? Is {subdir Hello world} a relative link, a font-name, or a new and yet unsupported tag?

Html handles this: <a href='subdir'> versus <font name='subdir'> versus <subdir>...

Oh, and why support font names and colors directly in tags in 2012? He should support class names instead!

Why is "fontname from URL" hardcoded for Google fonts? Why not a generic syntax that handles whatever site you might want to use.

Why support simple macros without any support for formatting numbers and currency? Your server-site language should support this, so why send it to the browser?

Image (pic) elements are missing height/width, so we're back to the relayout flashes that the NCSA_Mosaic browser had whenever it loaded an image.

Exercise for the reader: let your editor remove one } by random. Figure out yourself where it's missing by just reading the source.