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Most people try to counter this by deleting all photos and comments, but still, if what you're suggesting is the reality, then it's only a half-measure.
Well for now Obvious is implemented in ruby, so everything happens at runtime.

There is no explicit dependency between layers. Dependency injection is used to pass the data jacks into the actions. That allows for incredibly fast tests and pluggable data persistence.
I would prefer to call B a child of A as it can be instantiated with its own properties.
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Sweeet, can't believe github still dont have something like this
That rapidly changes the moment you get knocked off. Someone pulled out on me in Clapham and clipped my panniers and nearly knocked me off. Scared the shit out of me.

Humans are just sacks of jam in an accident. No thanks.
This is one of the many reasons I'm glad I live in the EU. We're not perfect, but we take the privacy of personal data much more seriously than the rest of the world seems to.
I understand 'this', that's why I avoid it. All languages have their quirks, and some programmers like to think they're 'smart' by taking advantage of those quirks. Then when you or your team members run into problems you blame the person and not the language, which you're right, but maybe you should of just kept your code simple in the first place.
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I think what you have would count as an expensive bike. Since you can get a working bike from a place like Walmart for just about 200.

That said, if you are counting what you have in the not too expensive department, I agree completely. I got a pretty good deal on craigs list. Is an older bike, but unless you plan on going competitive, it is hard to go wrong with a quality bike.
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Relative to the Android price. It seems unfair for iOS users to pay for development of the platform across all platforms.
No docs aside from some cryptic nonsense in the readme, why is so much stuff like this hitting the frontpage on HN lately?
Does doing that actually work? Sites have backups which I presume would get sold along with the company. I am just not sure if any service (other than maybe the Well) actually deletes stuff when you say to delete it. The TOS for every site can be modified at will, so I wonder if any service guarantees removal.
This would be far more useful as a general curated open source database if github access were not required (one useful side effect is that, when it is down the next time, gitrep would still be up). Then it would be possible to specify alternative repo locations
Not a personal rant, but for folks who have been following the saga, the final step in trying to develop for the Windows Store. Folks are wondering why the Windows Store isn't doing well, and I think this explains it.
The only mortal threat to the US military is a cut in their trillion dollar budget. This super-soldier horseshit belongs in comics.
Closing out the 2012 year with a mini-project that was always on my mind. Spent some time this weekend to scratch my own itch.

SITES

1. http://www.googlestockchart.com/

2. http://www.applestockchart.com/

3. http://www.amazonstockchart.com/

4. http://www.ibmstockchart.com/

GOAL:
Watch my fave stock quotes in my browser while I am at work/play. Just wanted minimal chart and stock price ... that's it. Don't need the rocket science portal charts on Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, etc. just to watch stock price. I can visit those when I need number overload for in-depth research as needed. Inspiration from http://facebookstockvalue.com.

FEATURES

1. PHP and Morris.js charts for clean, minimal graphs.

2. Auto refresh every 30 seconds.

3. Page title updates with stock quote. Can have multiple browser tabs open and just peek over at the latest stock prices. (see http://imgur.com/uV1K5)

NOTES

1. May work on a central tool to show same clean graph for ANY stock symbol. Thinking of a good domain name ... hmmm.

2. Planning to add other graph timeframes (eg 3mo, 6mo, 12mo, YTD).
If you're writing abstractions to avoid bad language features, maybe you shouldn't be using bad language features in the first place.
I have RSI. The benefit of it is that it forces you to not take typing prodigiously for granted and by extension - to look at the long view of your programming career. So many people glorify in pounding out code, working hard - a 21st century pissing contest. Once you have symptoms of RSI, you are forced to think different.

It does not happen all at once. Boiling frog, eta 5 years. The warning signs are pain after a coding session, maybe a 2 or 3 on a scale of ten. However, eventually it gets worse. And your youth will act as such that the pain goes away. After a long weekend, you are recharged and re-healthy. That is a falsehood. Eventually, it gets to the point where the pain never goes away, it just subsides, constant background soreness, maybe on a 2 to 3 on a scale of ten.

Don't take your typing ability for granted. RSI can be managed but never completely cured.

The same traits that may make us good problem solvers (focus - as in not getting up, breaking that slippery, seductive state called "Flow", OCD - ignoring some things to focus, sometimes right, sometimes wrong on certain aspects, sedentary habits (biking FTW)) can make RSI an eventuality for a few.
Same, I live near a National Forest boundary and it's showing a substantial number of dots inside that boundary in places where there are most definitely no homes. There are occasional chunks of private land within the boundary, but not where these dots are showing—they are, in fact, often within a designated wilderness boundary which allows no permanent residents or active buildings.
This is one of those things where it's going to be 5 different people with 5 different ways of "solving" the issue, and they're all going to be right -- FOR THEM. Finding your own personal way that will work FOR YOU is the hard part.
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Keep in mind that the interference will be different in the air. The desired signals that the avionics need fade as the distance squared from the transmitter. There is no corresponding fade from the interference in the passenger compartment.
> this is more likely related to the current social norms rather than an anything else.

Again, no

>> Studies have shown that there is surprising agreement about what makes a face attractive. Symmetry is at the core, along with youthfulness; clarity or smoothness of skin; and vivid color, say, in the eyes and hair. There is little dissent among people of different cultures, ethnicities, races, ages and gender.

Symmetry works across species. Are zebras influenced by the current social norms?

>> Female Zebra Finches Prefer Males with Symmetric Chest Plumage

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/258/1353/267....

Search for symmetry and sexual in Google Scholar and you'll find hundreds of studies showing that those preferences are obviously innate. Maybe not all of them but a lot of them.

And the resulting judgement is instantaneous — humans can judge attractiveness unconsciously, without noticing it, in 13ms! http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/04/how-long-does-it-take-to-d...

> If you were to transport a person from 400 years ago into the present then you would find their idea of ugliness would be very different from our present opinion.

That's not falsifiable.
Very good to see more sites utilizing the GitHub API. I do have a few comments to make though. First, you mention badges on the homepage, but this feature isn't complete so I don't think its even necessary to mention it yet. Second, the search is somewhat confusing. I'd love just a single search box at the top of the site where I can type whatever I'd like. Maybe make the current search the "Advanced Search". Third, I probably wouldn't emphasize the tagging so much. I'd probably never tag anything and rely entirely on the data you're gathering from GitHub. I think it's much better to focus on the sorting algorithm and how easy it is to find popular repos.
> I think what you have would count as an expensive bike. Since you can get a working bike from a place like Walmart for just about 200.

No, that there is a cheap bike. Average bike prices are around $700 or so. An expensive bike is ~ $4K with carbon fiber/titanium frames. Sure, you can get a Walmart bike for $200, those things fall apart very soon and encourage bad posture.
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The use of internet in Lahore is growing at a rapid speed. As the statistics reveal, there are hundreds of people who purchase a new connection every month and hundreds of websites are created in Lahore every month.
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The Evening School of Erlang San Jose is starting on the 20th of February and consists of two- hour evening classes which are conducted twice a week (every Wednesday and Thursday) over a four week period from 6:30 - 8:30 PM. Some classes my run till 9pm. The classes will be held on the following dates in February: 20, 21, 27, 28, March 6, 7, 13, 14. The classes include exercises which allow participants to put the theory into practice and these are automatically tested and assessed using the Erlang e-learning feedback tool.
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Where's the exaggeration? All I see is a direct quote from the pilot (who may or may not be exaggerating how he felt), and the FDA warning. Seems like perfectly good reporting to me.
A coach is just going to tell you to do the stretches that this document already prescribed.
Wow, those are some... some sources there. A tabloid and one of Scientology's recruiting tentacles.
At the very least, deleting your account means they won't be getting any extra information. Also, it's much harder for people to link you in bad photos and events, and you won't show up in searches, etc.

Just because they have some of your information is no reason to let them get anymore. You gave Facebook your personal information? Fine, you fucked up, live and learn - but have the sense to delete your account now and stop giving them more. They're only getting better at collecting and using private data.
>Huh? I just applied the exact same reasoning as you to a different field. But I guess it's easier to appeal to godwin than to actually use logic and reason.

You call "applying the same logic to a _different field_" ...logical?

As if eradicating el-cheapo employers is the same as getting rid of "ugly people"?

That's "logic and reason" to you? For one, the first is merely putting an end to a business practice, whereas the second amounts to racism and/or murder.

Different fields call for different thinking to be applied.

And what you call "logic" are merely "arguments". Only mathematic and predicate logic (both of which are well defined) can be applied the exact same way to different inputs, not mere arguments in a discussion. We might call them "logic" too, casually, but it's not at all the same.

Conversational "logic" is not "one size fits all". For example, what makes sense for pests (they destroy my flowers thus they must be exterminated so my garden is kept nice) doesn't make much sense for pets (even if they destroy the garden just the same).

>This is silliness. Most employers pay well over minimum wage. If they did not do this, no employees would be willing to work for them. This is true in the US as well as in many countries where the minimum wage is so low as to be irrelevant.

In the countries where "it's so low as to be irrelevant" you answered your own question as for why the pay more than minimum wage: because it's bloody irrelevant, so they don't care paying a little above it.

In places where minimum wage is _not_ irrelevant, OTOH, they do care, and they would pay well below it, if they could afford it.

That can be prevented in two ways: if there is a minimum wage law, or if there are enough jobs.

But I'm not talking about either situation -- I'm talking about when employers CAN get away with giving any kind of wage, because of lack of jobs or because some people have some specific issue and nobody would hire them (e.g ex convict).

Notice also how what you say invalidates your own argument. You try to present it as a non issue:

"Most employers pay well over minimum wage. If they did not do this, no employees would be willing to work for them. This is true in the US as well as in many countries where the minimum wage is so low as to be irrelevant"

whereas the whole thread started because you very well _do_ consider it an issue -- and want employers to be able to do so, without minimum wage law regulating against it.

The situation is clear: employers that CAN take advantage of below minimum wage (in the situations that I described) often do.
Just a reminder:

> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's probably one of those things that vary a lot person to person. You should really find what works for you.
> not an amphetamine in the strict sense of the word

It's not an amphetamine in any sense of the word. Scientists were hesitant to even call it a "stimulant" at first.

It also does not have aggression inducing effects, or a lot of the other negative side effects of amphetamines.
As a 22-year-old I have been fairly warned and for many reasons take breaks every hour and have a walk around the room. RSI is just one of many reasons to take breaks, people.

Edit: I stand up and code every now and then, and also use Dvorak!
>Would you prefer it if instead workers were paid in equity, and needed to use the public markets if they want to convert equity to cash?

No, I would prefer it is instead workers had a say in the workings of the company. Equal say divided between them.
Everyone in the tech world is going bananas over the same stuff. Technology helping technology: things that make Facebook easier/harder to use, things that make software development easier/harder to do, mobile this-that-and-advertising.

BOOOOOR-IIIINNNGGG.

The companies that are doing actually interesting things are using technology to make non-tech stuff easier/better/faster/brighter: Uber, AirBnB, Zipcar, that female-led startup connecting farmers with buyers, etc.

Technology for technology's sake is done and boring and short-sighted. We've got news aggregators that aggregate other news aggregators. Mobile ad platforms that resell ads from other mobile ad platforms. Photo-sharing apps whose entire purpose is to create filters for other photo-sharing sites. And it's all ad-supported.

Arrington's right: it's all just the same thing over and over, and it's boring. And I never thought I'd agree with Arrington about anything.
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Bravo! I've already found 4 new awesome projects to follow.
I purchased my home in an oldish (early 1920's) area a little more than a year ago. We knew exactly what we wanted and that helped tremendously:

* Price we were willing to pay "out the door" (a hard, absolute max that wouldn't leave us in dire straits if one of us lost our job)
* How much work we were willing to do after the sale
* Tied in with the above, a minimum 1-year, preferably 2-year warranty on major repairs paid for by the seller
* Within a 30 minute rush-hour commute to the furthest employer
* 30-year mortgage that we can afford to pay off in 15 years
* Any school district except the worst few in the area (no kids yet, but this is our first home and we'll have it 5-10 years; when we move kids will be just entering the equation and we need to plan that we may not be willing or able to move)

As with any negotiation, the most important thing is knowing exactly what you need, what you want, and what you can (and will) spend. The hardest part (for me anyway) is getting a deal that is everything I need, most of what I want but is 2% more expensive than my max and still being willing to walk away.
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There is previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4276625 (106 comments of discussion, in fact).
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IMHO it's a bad thing. Too many projects and services depend on github so that downtime represents a systemic risk (homebrew was unusable during the downtime last week). Sure, you have your code backed up, but you don't necessarily have your issue tracker or gists backed up.

Now using GitHub for user credentials makes things even worse. Soon we'll see horror stories involving github being down ...
Very cool. I publicly tagged at least 25 things as I went through my starred list.

I did notice that the auto-completion of the tags is likely experiencing a missing table index as it seems to take quite awhile to find any matches. This could be as simple as increased DB usage from hitting HN, but it might be worth looking into.

One other suggestion I have, and I'm sure it's likely on the horizon, is to give users the ability to star/watch repos directly from the listings page. I've found some cool shit I'd like to star on the fly without having to jump over to github.
I am sure there will be people that make money on the advice that's given. And I am sure most of the advice is valid. The question is: is it really worth $1000? Maybe you could have saved that $1000 and done these optimizations yourself (they seem pretty straightforward and you can find thousands of articles about retainer fees and fixed bids if you just search Google). I.e. maybe he is not selling anything extraordinary or "secret", it's just common sense packaged at a ridiculous price?
War advances technology is like saying business needs advances technology.

Both of those statement are true. So what?

Bottom line, they may not create a superhuman they want, but they certianly will create some cures for other now and happening issues in health as a sideline.

Technological development tend to have side effects. It's completely normal. Bitcoin have a side effect on the development of decentralized DNS system, which we won't adopt until there's significant ongoing censorship.
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Can you be held to a TOS that changes after you've deleted your account and stopped visiting a site? Just curious.
Let's improve U.S. copyright law in 2013
On January 23, I'm going to mail four handwritten letters[1]: one to each of my state's senators, one to my district's representative, and one to Barack Obama.

In each letter I'm going to explain that current copyright terms are way longer than necessary for copyright's stated purpose[2], and I'm going to ask for copyright terms to be limited to a maximum of 10 years with no exceptions. Compared to current copyright terms this sounds really short, but think about how long 10 years is---it's maybe still too long. I'm also going to ask that currently active copyright terms all end within 10 years.

If you're a U.S. citizen, I challenge you to do the same (though you can mail fewer people if you want).

By the way, if you're buying stamps, you'll want to buy "forever stamps". You can use them for mailing letters even if the price goes up after you buy them.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/omar_ahmad_political_change_with_pen_and_paper.html

[2] "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
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If we just follow the lifting guide posted a few days ago [1], wouldn't "computer guy posture" fix itself?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971196
I've replaced the outbound_link urls with the direct ones. The original intent was to track clicks so we could do some analytics on it but it's not worth it at this stage. I'll look into changing the behaviour of filters, thanks!

edit: Deployed a patch that will change the filters to permalinks.
The biggest problem with books is that they cover things exhaustively. What tutorials do is teach you a few interesting things, that cause you to become more interested, and then you want to learn more. If books started off with an interesting tutorial up front, more people would want to read them, but they typically start with very elementary things that bore the readers before they get to the "good stuff." That's been my experience anyway, not sure if everyone shares that same view.

I'll be writing more about the benefits of learning by doing, because in my experience there is a LOT that you DON'T learn when you just buy hosting and use CPanel to manage your servers. It pays to just setup a server yourself at least once, you'd have a new found appreciation for what many developers take for granted =D
I don't get why so many product screenshots focus on showing use on an Apple computer/device when statistically most of your users will not be using Apple.

Perhaps more early adopters are using Apple? Or it just makes it look cooler?
Mike Arrington is bored with blogging. Does that mean he'll stop?

Personally I think we're on the edge of a revolution, with the rapid shrinking (and increase in power) of computers, and Google boldly pushing into some pretty deep AI.

Intelligent personal assistants. Self driving cars. Wearable augmented reality.

There's going to be a lot of exciting stuff to write about in 2013.
Seems like it's already been slashdotted (HNed?). I spend too much time trying to do this manually and really hope that this works out, though!
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