skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should try http://www.flippa.com. You'll reach an audience specifically interested in buying domains and websites.
I think it can be traced back to the pretty and ugly modes. Haml returns nicely indented code by default (at least in development, as I just learned), Slim uses ugly mode by default which doesn't add any whitespace or indentation
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One sign that you're lying to yourself: you're actualizing a vision.
Oxford University gives JSTOR access to all alumni
Which CDNs support edns-client-subnet?
Why not? It may be useful to people who already have their data in MongoDB and don't want to migrate their data to an RDBMS.
As good of a model that this is in explaining the experience of finding "your life's work" it's useless in terms of how to get there. The best algorithm would be "keep looking until you find it, unless you stumble upon it by accident" Cal Newport has a slightly more actionable algorithm based on Self-Determination Theory. He has a detailed post on it. http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/04/09/corrupted-callings-the...
Well I'd say this is targeted more towards people who have already done it. 10-25 bucks seems to be the going rate (25 dollars for a non-trivial/non-100% NLP task? Come on) now to write it from scratch is not worth it unless it's like, a half hour thing you already know how to do. Now what would be worth it is if you already had a solution that you don't mind selling. Like the zip example, supposing I'd already written something like that the five minutes to look at it, make sure it works, maybe tweak it for 10/15 minutes to suit what they want and then upload it for 25 bucks seems worth it especially since I'd guess the majority of people posting bounties are going to take the first working example.

tl;dr: post code you already wrote and then get a coffee with the proceeds.
The article started off a little strange with "it was a just an elaborate publicity stunt", but makes some really good points further into the article. It does seem that by not explaining more about the science and just what Felix was attempting created a 'flash in the pan' type event. I think more people saw it as an elaborate stunt rather than anything scientific, relegating it to passing conversation at a dinner table than the history books. It will be interesting in 5 years to see if anyone remembers this.
Something that could be "funny", if that governments, when they don't understand something, they just call it outlaw/illegal, as they almost did for P2P. That's not because someone make a bad use of something that the whole thing must be considered as dangerous. How long before the "cloud" is declared illegal by governments ? :)
> First off, this is completely false. With symfony2 the action needs to return a Response object. This annotation isn't required and the team I work with, we rarely use this.

Correct. But if you want use the form where you just return an array of variables to use inside your template, and have Symfony smartly located the template for you, you have to use an annotation. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12922827/symfony-2-php-te... for an example.

> and you state the same with with Doctrine2 which you point out there are other ways to do it.

Yes, there are other BETTER ways to do it. Making comment-based annotations available as one of the ways pretty much guarantees that people will use it, and that seems like a bad idea to me. Just remove them so no one is able to choose the bad practice.

> All your points for "DX Regressions" are completely wrong.

Uhh, OK? How about comment folding in text editors? Would you, as a developer, be happy if you encountered some code that made heavy use of annotations for critical application logic? I wouldn't--this is what I mean by DX.

> What do I gain to hope by using var_dump() on an annotation?

The same thing you gain by var_dump()ing any variable--an understand of what's happening under the hood.
so that the cloud providers don't actually know they're hosting The Pirate Bay.

When the IP addresses of the 'loadbalancers' are known then it takes any cloud-provider the better part of 5 minutes to determine which of their instances are exchanging how much traffic with those IP addresses.

However, if a country really wants to go ballistic on TPB then it'd be much easier to just knock their public-facing IPs out at the IX-level[1]. A fairly low-cost operation (if your legislation enables it) and the only circumvention is then to proxy through a different country - a significant barrier for most users.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_point...
Introducing the Link-checker Ruby Gem, for Octopress (or anything)
Amusing easter eggs throughout. One guy has rick roll videos playing on both his computers.
Open Letter to Matt Cutts: On Penalties & the New Link Disavow Tool
There is a whole lotta things outside ingested and inhaled chemicals which can lead significantly impact a persons impressions of the world around them. I always found Julian Jaynes take on the interpretation of the schizophrenic mind as being one of degrees and perhaps just a few neuro-physical variations away from "normal" as interesting ponderage.
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Faster, less resource-intensive, more durable, fewer application errors, lower TCO, etc. etc. ...
> ...because I have other shit I need to do.

Ironically, that's often also the attitude of programmers who don't use comments in their code (in any language).
Definitely paid much less in my area then. By about half.
To me equality is whatever an = sign represents. shrug

But this reminds me of something amusing. I will never forget how hard it was for me to understand the distinction between isomorphic and naturally isomorphic. You see I thought of "isomorphic" as meaning "the same as". But then how could these two vector spaces be more the same than those two vector spaces? After all they're the same, right?
This has been discussed before, it is not just a linked list.

It is a list which has elements that not only point to the next element, but the element after it, and so on. (As to provide a recovery method if one element is to be destroyed, or to ease implementation for removal etc.

However that's still fringing on patent trolls.
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I agree, If you would be using Express.js or something similar I think node would give you numbers that look more like the rails stuff.

But I'm really interested in eliminating as much of the framework as possible to get more comparable numbers even to other platforms.

I'm also sort of blown away by the throughput node allows you.
I like and occasionally use Git, but I started with Mercurial and still prefer it. Can anyone tell me why/how Git allegedly become way better than Mercurial? I seem to have missed that.
I, being approximately a contemporary of yours, seemingly, was going to post something similar. AP calculus let me skip the equivalent in engineering school and left me better prepared than most of my classmates. Perhaps things have changed, but it used to be a good way to go.
Really? I don't think it matters. After I learned about bootstrap I started noticing it everywhere but beyond "oh hey, they're using bootstrap" (and stealing ideas like crazy when I notice) I don't get offended if someone is using it.
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Don't need to inline the function, it could instead just be a reference to static member of the same class:
...
'nullable' => self::getNullable,
...
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Well, OOP in PHP seems to work rather well for thousands of large projects out in the wild - making your argument invalid.
Is it just me or is a bounty just more likely to deter people from trying to give a worthwhile response?

I can see it turning to the point where the answers will degrade in quality as more and more people join the site in an attempt to make money. (Similar to Yahoo answers.)

Compare to Stack Overflow, where people are answering questions and solving problems for arbitrary points. (Mainly to help their fellow man.)
$6.99 on the iPad to print? Mine prints for free. I also set up a print server at work (also free) so a couple dozen enterprise printers are accessible from the iPad on the internal wifi.
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I like Ruby on Rails, but "coming" from a Java background I find it odd to have lots of stuff in the models instead of using utility classes or services.
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"It's like robin hood taking from the rich and giving to the poor"

No, really, it's not. For the most part it is encouraging people to consume something for free they should have paid for.

I really don't get the love for TPB and copyright infringement in general on HN when most are dreaming of starting businesses where you need people to hand over money.
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I know a few aspects of the .gov redev have been held outside of London, so they might look at that as a possibility.

(I think it's unlikely, most uk.gov seems to be focussed on London, which is natural and annoying)
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Awesome catch. I think that its the 3rd party reporting that makes the biggest difference.
Agreed. A 5 on AP Spanish allowed me to opt out of the foreign language requirement at UCLA. 5's on AP Chemistry, Calc BC, and Physics B and C let me skip a lot of intro science classes. Another bonus is that i got 8 quarter units for the AP exams, compared to 4 for the actual college class equivalents.
This guy has to have some massive balls to do this.
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Also PDF reader is built into iOS. There is also iBooks and Adobe Reader (all free). If you get Pages you can also export documents to PDF with it.

Perhaps someone who knows the ecosystem better should be doing the reviews?
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>An important factor in TPB living forever is preserving its image in the hearts and minds of ALL hackers everywhere, worldwide, collectively we can outsmart those who wish to catch us, a small group of us will eventually be defeated, as all robin hoods must be.

Heh, reminds me of the Hacker's Manifesto..

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html
Which can happen very quickly. Sometimes I am not certain whether a posting just isn't interesting, or the wind is so strong the voice gets lost in the roar.
I see people are already paying out for their homework[1]

https://bountify.co/8
Good point. See http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/ for download information.

Puts getting required lisp libraries in the "extremely easy" category.
I use this productivity system, I just call it pair programming.
If annotations are in comments, how are you going to leave actual comments containing annotations that you don't want to actually affect the code?
Good article. Concise. Something I will come back and reference.
I was using chrome and nothing was moving or updating so I just left (got a warning that something was happening though)
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I tried before just alot of scammers on that site. They buy then dont pay but you are still stuck with $29 fee to list
Ok -- you got it. I've updated the gist with the same template running through Express.

https://gist.github.com/3905579

Take note that the margin of variance on these numbers is several hundred, so don't read too much into small shifts ... but:

With Express, and "c=1", I get 1,876 requests per second.

With Express, and "c=10", I get 2,730 requests per second.

There isn't meaningful overhead imposed by Express for this particular simple template rendering.
Because it's important that recorded information about my interactions with my government doesn't cross borders and escape from the data protection laws in the UK and the EU.

If it was a traditional software system that actually ran on the servers owned by the government then that would be fine.

With GA, at the very least Google get to know when I visit the site, and likely which pages I visit, simply through the requests my browser makes.

I'm not familiar enough with GA to be able to judge how much else is transmitted to them.
Actually, that's me (the founder), seeding the site with some bounties. I don't want the site to get a bad reputation as a cheating hub, so I'll be closing questions that are excessively homework-like. https://bountify.co/8 and similar bounties were inspired by Project Euler.
by escaping them?

Some annotations are meant to affect the code, some aren't. Those who do and need to be given as pure comments need to be escaped.
What this author has done is full disclosure. Writing a bug report falls under "responsible disclosure".
What is the git front end to perforce they talk about? All I know about is git-p4 (open source python script, still a little buggy last time I checked) and P4-Sandbox, which is supposed to be DCVS type features implemented in perforce.

A real git front end would be awesome!
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That is a really good point. The conference is at least game/entertainment oriented so I'm hoping that some of the vendors will be game developer types. I guess we shall see.

Veronica Belmont is speaking, and Billy West, so even if we don't get some folks, we at least get to see cool people :)
And, as presented in this patent, its a trivial enhancement on a conventional linked list. This is a patent for a data structure. There is no implementation there. Hell, there is no algorithm there. Its just someone who said, "Hey, I can put two forward pointers in each element of a linked list!" and wrapped a bunch of legalistic crap around it. This patent doesn't need prior art to be invalid.
In the end, I think it will fall on the dns system to decide if the site will survive or not. Currently, most TLD's just redirect any request of censoring by saying "go where the server is and solve the issue at the source". When that is no longer an option, the political pressure will increase.

Hopefully, TLD's like .se will stand fast and refuse to use the DNS system for censoring.
So now you have a system for putting comments inside your comments? Are you going to eventually start putting meta-annotations inside your meta-comments, and inventing meta-meta-comments so you can comment on the meta-annotations?
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Yeah i agree with you on the last point there.

I really like your t-shirt design! So cool. Gotta add a selection in your "Where did you hear about us?" form for "T-shirt"!
I haven't used Mercurial for a while, but on the top of my head:

- lightweight branches (your branch is just a different head, there is nothing permanent about it)

- git rebase -i (rewrite your history)

- git add --patch (add parts of a file to a commit instead of the whole file)

- the philosophy of preparing the commit by putting the files or portions of files you want to commit in the staging area, as opposed to committing everything per default

I know Mercurial has alternatives to most of these functionalities, through various plugins. But I can't say I found them nearly as usable as Git. And that's saying something considering Git's command line interface.
Really cool article - would be amazing to walk through that facility.... love the Google coloured pipes from the pictures
Well, at least in the USA, advocating that someone consume an illegal drug is itself illegal.

However, old people can benefit greatly from the proper use of psychedelic drugs. Certain types of psychedelic experiences, called unitive experiences, have been found to be very effective in alleviating death anxiety. More information can be found through searching but this video should be informative:
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Two excellent, little known books about the phenomenology of psychedelic experiences are:

_The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience_
http://www.amazon.com/Antipodes-Mind-Phenomenology-Ayahuasca...

Comments: This is a truly excellent book, it's published by OUP and the scholarship is the best I've ever seen in a book about psychedelics. Benny Shannon is a cognitive psychologist and philosophy and he's personally taken Ayahuasca over 200 times in addition to gathering second hand reports from many informants over years of investigation. In particular, he stresses commonalities between different people's Ayahuasca experiences despite vast cultural differences in their lives as well as the idea that Ayahuasca experiences proceed in sequences reminiscent of a course of schooling.

_The Ecstatic Imagination: Psychedelic Experiences and the Psychoanalysis of Self-Actualization_
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ecstatic_Imagination...

Comments: This book is also very strong in its own right, although I think that the Antipodes book is superior. In _The Ecstatic Imagination_ Dan Merkur takes a dispassionate, objective phenomenological view of psychedelic experiences. The many, many block quoted experience reports from drug-takers using LSD, mescaline and psilocybin are the best part of this book. Merkur has taken almost all of these reports from published works about psychedelic psychotherapy and they illustrate the diversity and healing potential of psychedelic experiences.
Funny, I was actually manipulating C structures from Java, and after hitting a nasty issue, went procrastinating on twitter where I stumbled upon this blog post :)

For those interested, there are less low-level ways to access fields in structures, for example Javolution http://javolution.org/target/site/apidocs/javolution/io/Stru...

I'm working on a very similar lib but where Structs are stateless, allowing to use them concurrently from multiple threads.
Pretty much as expected. I'd be interested to see a comparison with object pooling (obviously not appropriate to the algorithm as written, but in a real system you're more likely to be streaming in data in chunks rather than putting it all in a big buffer and then reading through it), which lets you get a lot of the performance advantages of avoiding GC without completely abandoning Java's safety guarantees.
give us a pointer to an example please.
> I don't even bother to write the kind of comments that I used to

Please do. Good content is always welcome.
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Given Musk's vision for the future, MCT clearly means Mars Colonization Transport.
Ask HN: What would you expect from an event service?
I'm a part of a 3 member team and we're building an event service. By events we mean all sorts of them: conferences, expos, cultural happenings, etc.. Mobile apps and a web one are in progress.

We're to launch beta in few weeks and we're interested in what would a user expect from this kind of service. It's really important for us to have the key segments polished and to have an insight if we're on the right track.
I know there's claims and counterclaims but if/when Office for iOS goes on sale it'll be interesting to see how they price it.
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Google now services one can have the latest updates of an area which can be anything including games, weather, sports, traffic, current affairs etc. at real time speed.
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You can buy Git support from several different vendors. Were you honestly not aware of this? Try googling for "Git support".
>For the most part it is encouraging people to consume something for free they should have paid for.

So, the Robin Hood analogy works perfectly then.

The movie and music companies aren't suffering, artists aren't suffering (in fact, in can be argued that artists embracing the new media world are flourishing), software companies and developers aren't suffering. There is more music, movies and software than ever before.

The whole piracy issue is overblown.
Yes, and it's not limited to PHP. I don't particularly like how Flask (python) uses decorators for its routing as well.
I'm glad to see that $15 is what we're getting hung up over. My apologies for the misunderstanding.
Migrating data can be automatic: https://github.com/crowdtap/promiscuous/

We use this tool to replicate data across our main MongoDB database, and a PostgreSQL one (eventually consistent).

We haven't wrote a comprehensive readme yet.
The only documentation we have so far are slides: http://viennot.biz/promiscuous

Stay tuned :)
It's doubtful that they could directly compete as is. Amazon has done well with their services because they eat their own dog food. From everything I read Bezos basically forced them to build this system and consume it for Amazon's own needs. Google has never taken this approach with their APIs and the difference shows very clearly when you consume these products.
That's mostly a SVN problem; checkouts are exceptionally large due to that they have a lot of metadata and a second copy of each file for local diffing/etc. which are uncompressed. Perforce doesn't do the same thing.