skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, I don't think the POST vs. PUT distinction is quite that simple - PUT is often used to create/insert if you are sending all the data required to create the new object as part of the request.

NB Personally I thought this use of PUT was splitting hairs when I first started reading about RESTful interfaces but having used a few and written one RESTful service it does rather make sense.
If nothing else, the word doc look is pretty amusing :)
In order not to leave people guessing what Tesla did or didn't invent, here is the list of his patents:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nikola_Tesla_patents

And here is the section on radio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_radio#Tesla
Given the astonishingly bad reasoning behind those self-same ideas and the damage they have indirectly caused the US domestic economy - I'd say it's a well deserved potshot (compared to some of the vitriol directed at socialists).
There are a lot of billionaires born in places where is hard to succeed for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi_Mittal and genetics can give you some abilities or others but is up to you to train them to succeed and also intelligence has nothing to do with race or genetics.
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: "path/to/api",
data: "banana=yellow",
success: function (data) {
alert("Success: " + data);
},
});

can be written as

jQuery.post('path/to/api',{banana:yellow},function(data){alert("Success: "+data);});

much simpler and easy than

var r = new XMLHttpRequest();
r.open("POST", "path/to/api", true);
r.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (r.readyState != 4 || r.status != 200) return;
alert("Success: " + r.responseText);
};
r.send("banana=yellow");

nevermind got the joke. but i think jQuery helps write faster code sometimes
There's ample evidence that children growing up at a farm are on average healthier and with a stronger immune system than children growing up in the city.

Indeed, hygiene is not harmful, but we have gone overboard with it. As with most things in life, going to the extremes is bad for your health.
660 is high enough. I changed my mind with the Koh case.
To mda: what's the point of posting that to HN's comment section?
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Have a look at this movie based on life of Nikola Tesla - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNGSOCzXv80
I see a page full of grammatical errors, inane capitalization, awkward sentence structure, and spelling irregularities like "Face Book." It probably shouldn't affect how I feel about their ability to actually complete the project, but... I mean, just check out this sentence:

> The Teams Background! Wilhelm Cashen engineer and entrepreneur with a long career in electromagnet controls and systems, has followed in his mentors Nikola Tesla, throughout his career.

Anyone else get thrown for a loop reading this? The guy seems impressive and well-qualified for this project, which is why it's so strange to me that he's writing at a fourth-grade level. It certainly doesn't inspire confidence.

Maybe English isn't his first language. In any case, I wonder how much more funding the project would get if it was presented more professionally.
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What is luck? a set of favorable conditions for solving your problem, some can be in your control and some may not but in the end is up to you.

You can work on fixing the unfavorable conditions and take control of your luck, immigration, education, determination, courage, these are the tools that can shape your luck.
Ask HN: Where to get a web designer/design?
So I have a few small projects on-going that I play around with in my spare time, however I am having a hard time getting a decent web design created for them.

Examples:

1. WhatPortIs.com

The concept is fairly simple and the current design is basically made up of a landing page from themeforest that I butchered around, however it doesn't render great on some devices, fonts are awful, and you can just generally tell it's not fit for purpose.

Finally I want to add a lot more content on the pages which makes this design no longer scalable due to the layout.

Basically my problem is that I am not a web designer, web designers are quite expensive for a none profitable side project, and theme forest type designs that are in budget just aren't made with this kind of layout in mind, they are trying to satisfy the masses that want a business or shop website etc.

2. route.im

So after a few painful days of playing around with HTML/CSS this is what I managed to come up with, it's not amazing but does the job I suppose...

Still it doesn't look that appealing and there are also some layout issues.

---

So I suppose my question is, do i need to bite the bullet and pay for a web designer to create something that actually works?

Thanks!
Tom
I think you should take a step back. Honestly, you are making even people who agree with you cringe.

You are replying to a very informative post from a person who directly worked on a touch-screen device. What about that post made you think it was "desperate to rationalize this belief that Apple never invented anything"? I am trying to determine how anyone could read that post and come away thinking it was desperate.

And you are making giant leaps in your arguments. The comment does not claim that Apple never invented anything in iOS or elsewhere. He is rebutting your claim that Apple invented the "touch oriented UI". You ignored him and fell back to some more specific claims about widgets and metaphors (perhaps you should have been more specific to begin with?).

I will close by quoting from another of your comments in this very thread. You would do well to read these as a reply to your own reply above.

The bottom line is you're following an ideology, and
because that ideology has supplanted reasoning for you, you
believe-- with the conviction of a religious zealot-- what
you hear that fits your reality distortion field. And thus
it is inconceivable to you that I might actually know what
I am talking about.

See the thing is, you aren't even arguing on the topic--
you're just throwing out (false) claims to try and create cover!
You're forgetting the point we are debating here. No-one claims the iPod was innovative. It was simply an excellent product with a well-thought out blend of features that was marketed well.

So you're having a 'was the iPhone a great product' debate whereas this discussion is 'was the iPhone a radical innovation in design'.
This is his application to Harvard. Of course they are his high school grades...
This is my main issue too, but I played around at the Apple Store with scaled resolution and decided to go for it.
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How TeX made it to the iOS App Store - running on DOS, inside an emulator
I did both of these. This resulted in the "flag" links disappearing.
Thanks for your opinion guys. Looks like we'll have to invest much more time in creating a new website that will explain Rublon more precisely. I can see that there is way too much confusion and misunderstanding about the product.
You jest but a Boeing patent on a specific satellite manuever had the effect of decommissioning a satellite.

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6116545
Reputation, identity, shills, and reviews: skullduggery in the literary world.
Lest the moderators change the title to something uninformative, here's the title I used when posting this link:

Reputation, identity, shills, and reviews: skullduggery in the literary world.
The applications didn't have API access to anything "phonelike" about the phone; it was just a PDA glued onto a phone. You could write your own PDA apps, but nothing really interesting.
Planet Fitness with their "lunk alarm". That's not a gym.
What is happening to Joyent and Node.JS by Isaac Z. Schlueter
Perhaps because obamba is the current president? Why so sensitive?
Good point, it strikes me that with the changing landscape perhaps Eric Raymond and others who claim "open source" has won and we no longer need "free software" may want to rethink that.
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The situation is really preoccupying, because if the best tech talent emigrates the economic potential of a country is immediately reduced, and this is not going to help economies that are already stagnating.

I'm wondering myself if it would be possible to start consulting part-time from Italy to finance my startup attempt. I wouldn't like to be forced to leave, but that is becoming more and more likely at the moment.
I'm working on https://github.com/wazari972/WebAlbums3/ , a website + FUSE-based Filesystem to organize photos
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The full story here: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Boeing_Patent_Shuts_Down...
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The First Mobile Client for App.net Launches on Android
Isn't this inevitable given the freedoms given to people to work and live where they like within the EU?

Doesn't something very similar happen within the US where, in general, the brightest and best are drawn to locations where they can get the best opportunities?
I wish there were more gardens that could educate children and weren't just for entertainment. Now all I have to work out is a system which can add numbers in a binary way with water. The carry seems to be a difficult one ..
It is quite an improvement over the late 2011 MBP, but still gets fairly hot. The fans don't seem to engage nearly as often either.
I lost 44 pounds by drastically cutting out sugar ... no more junk food, sweats, beer, sodas or sugar in my coffee. The only sugar I get these days is from fruits and milk.
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How about sugar from soda?
Yea, it's just that we Europeans fight it. National sovereignty and all that.

EDIT: And let me add - the usual weapon is taxpayer money. ;)
Not really, both these designs look allright for their purposes - if you can't get more visitors/usage, then I guess there is no mass need for this kind service - or you are doing a poor job at marketing aspects. Design won't fix that and you'll be better off spending money to get traction

EDIT: If you really want a designer I'd recommend checking http://folyo.me
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I like yours.

I generally use the example of a slave given sudden democracy: now they can vote which of two slave owners they want to be a slave to.

Vote, no vote: they're still a slave.

Sometimes, "choice" doesn't matter at all.
MONIAC: an analogue computer using fluidic logic to model an economy.
Looks a lot like TeX, which is a good thing. In fact this might even be better. I'm tired so I might be missing an obvious weakness but to take the analogy a bit further here are some comparisons between this suggestion and a more TeX-like version.

The author's suggestion:

{b {i This is in italics and bold.}}
{Henny+Penny We can use google fonts anywhere if we just import them first with the google-font code}
{macro foobar {u {b %s}}}

TeX-like (yes I'm making up the keywords):

{\b {\i This is in italics and bold.}}
{\font {Henny+Penny} We can use google fonts anywhere if we just import them first with the google-font code}
{\macro {foobar} {\u {\b #1}}}

I would definitely prefer the first alternative over the TeX-like. The analogy also suggests though that instead of HTML "<br />" you could have a TeX-like atom "\br" instead of "{br}"; saves only one character, but easy to see inside a block of text.
One thing to keep in mind for prospective buyers that already have a MBP is that the keyboard is really quite different. The travel is a lot shallower. I loved the MBP's keyboard, so for me the redesign was a bit gratuitous. You do get used to it, but it may be best to try before you buy.
Fired a big'n'awfull client once, gained months of happy living.
That icon doesn't appear on all sites. Sometimes it seems like the site does feature detection, comes to the conclusion you don't have flash, and refuses to serve anything useful.

Also on OS X the Flash mouse capture is broken if you enable click to play in Firefox.
PUT should be idempotent and addressed at the location of the resource to be created / updated. e.g /books/[isbn], while POST should be addressed at the location of the collection and give the location of the new resource or an error. e.g. POST to /books to create a new book entry.
nVidia chipset graphics were better than Intel's earliest iterations, which is why Apple took so long to upgrade from C2D + nVidia (that, and costs).

You're right - Intel (like nVidia's chipset) gives you a GPU that's a rung below the cheapest current cards. In the bad old days, it used to be an order of magnitude worse if you were lucky, and wouldn't run your game in the worst case.
Reminds me of the hydraulic model of the economy, the MONIAC "computer".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438081

I assume this was the inspiration for "The Glooper" in Terry Pratchet's book "Making Money"
I'm a soon to be MSc graduate from a top university in Portugal (Technical University of Lisbon).
I've been thinking about my options, and right now I'm pretty sure that I'll try to find my first job outside of Portugal.
I've got very few colleagues that I know of that will do the same. Most will go to consultancy companies - that's the market in Portugal. The remaining will go for PhDs.

However, one thing that they all have in common is that they have spoken of leaving Portugal sometime in the future.
Be it after their first year or so in consultancy or after their PhD, the thought of leaving has crossed their minds.

Given that other industries are a lot worse than tech right now (civil engineers, lawyers, etc) I'm not really sure how this will turn out for the country.
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The best thing is to make sure there is a reason, and support for returning: people going abroad and bringing back knowledge and money can actually be quite beneficial. In India and China, tons of businesses are started by people returning home after some amount of time in the US, for instance.

In terms of being pleasant places to live, Italy and Portugal are lucky, but they need to fix some other things...

This is a good book detailing some of what needs fixing, although it's mostly "old hat" for anyone who lives in Italy: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008F86HBK/?tag=dedasys-20 so it may not be worth reading if you're Italian.
We just opened up in PT http://appsalad.com/appdesign/nieuw-appsalad-portugal-is-een... (Dutch) and we'll be opening a second office in Faro soon. Most devs want to stay in their country and we don't mind giving them that opportunity.

I never understood why people would leave what they love though; be that India or Portugal or whatever; there is plenty to do and live for if you are resourceful and the Portugese I met so far definitely are.

It's like when we tried to open an office in Spain; everyone (from the uni there) was complaining there are no jobs and they have to move to Germany. So we opened a company and started recruiting. The people who applied didn't want to work actually. So I asked the university dean and he said; they want jobs for eternity they won't 'risk' anything else. The logic eludes me, but suffice it to say; there are plenty of jobs, there is simply a mismatch between expectations and the jobs provided. Naive expectations. When people go to Germany, expectations lower because it's the promised land. Wages are higher, but the conditions are not better and definitely not what you would have gone for in the 'home land', but they take it anyway because the grass is greener.

Having talked to so many people in the south, it's a thing only few people 'get'; you have to embrace the crisis and see the things you can change. It's a turnaround point for all those things which are not well; small things like the difference between the staff in Worten and Mediamarkt. The way to fix the economy must come from many places and this crazy way people treat clients in the south must come to a complete halt. Changing the system from within will work; leaving the country won't, that's just selfish and lazy in a lot of ways. And you have no excuses; there is work, there is opportunity, you just need to try a bit harder as well, it's a crisis.
Great idea, and so very obvious in hindsight.
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And while this author notes Portuguese contacts headed to the UK and Germany, I've noticed the same but with several leaving the UK for the Bay Area (with zero going to the rest of the EU).
Thank you for the insights, but this post is way too long, you might want to split it into series :)

Congratz on the effort though
Ah yes, lets skip all forms of projections... I guess the stockmarket will have to close because just because someone thinks a stock will go up it does not mean it will do.
you mean like CURL? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_(programming_language) - used it years ago and it did not make my life easier.
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Fun fact: Portugal is about as big (area and population, though it has half the GDP) as Ohio, the seventh largest US state.
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Same problem in Spain. There is so much paperwork, red tape and bureaucracy that I incorporated in Delaware.
Exactly, that's why the POST/PUT distinction makes perfect sense when you actually write code but seems a bit academic when you read most descriptions of how RESTful interfaces should work.
Not surprising.

I left Portugal in 2003 to work in the games industry. There were still plenty of jobs in Lisbon then and salaries were not so bad.

At the time I thought I would be away for a couple of years "just to get some experience".

I would love to go back to be closer to my family and old friends, to enjoy the weather the beaches and nice food, but as another expat told me, our jobs just do not exist in Lisbon.

Setting up a business is hard with the asinine tax system currently in place ( taxes are complicated, very high and if your business has zero profits it pays a special tax ), a culture of late payment by clients ( it is so common to have unpaid invoices that you can give these to your bank in exchange for a loan ), the absolute aversion to risk taking by most businesses, the ingrained idea that what is foreign is better and the implied notion that to win a contract you need connections to a politician or a civil servant.

I know a lot of professionals in knowledge based industries that have left, some with their entire families.
In a recent poll, more than half of university students plan to leave the country.

At this rate Portugal will become mainly a touristic destination.
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However poor his grades, Harvard still had an interest in admitting him as a legacy, and it paid off.
"this crazy way people treat clients in the south must come to a complete halt": Care to specify you mean here?
You do realize Gehry has designed plenty of buildings that don't leak, right? His track record on leaking water after construction is probably better than Facebook's track record on leaking personal information after privacy setting changes.
[ Someone, from a southern European country, talks about incorporating in Delaware ]

There may be some tax issues with that, though, if you live and work at home, but have your company in the US. It's something to be careful about.
Same situation in Spain, incredible brain drain of IT people. In the last months ~ 40% of my IT colleagues in Spain have decided to move to other countries (UK and Germany mainly).

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».

There is another factor for this delayed and flood-like emigration... FAMILY!. In all Mediterranean countries family is very a strong influence. I even can say that individuals doesn't exists as they are in other countries. A 18 years old in Spain is like a 13 years old in UK. You can be in your 30's and the family will still be pushing you to be in the «right path».

For many, many years family decided that the best prospect for their young college graduates was, without any doubt, working for the government. In Spain it means a decent salary and a job for life (you cannot be fired under ANY circumstance, ANY AT ALL, you kill someone, go to jail and when you get out your job will be there waiting for you!).

Once this absurd situation ended (the government in Spain duplicated its work force in 3 years) the «family» didn't know how to react. But the government knows better, in the last 3 years the tv programs «Spaniard around the world» showing happy people living in other countries. So now, the «family» is pushing their children to go outside.

My company is hiring people in London and we only receive CV from Spaniard and Greeks. My boss told me that 1 year and a half ago it was really rare to find people from these countries in selection processed but that now the recruiters are flooded with their CVs.

I suspect that the mediterranean IT guy/pal will be the new Polish plumber in UK
I'm just the submitter. The author of this amazing piece is actually one of the top 10 HN contributors: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm

Some of the best startup options/acquisitions info I've read from HN community, along with the comments on this[1] thread, and ChuckMcM's comments[2]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2623182

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4425364