skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the 'fashions' in the list are alive and well, in one form or another and (usually) helping someone. While the dogma eventually does wear off, there's almost always something that can be taken away from each of the approaches.

The religion aspect stems from individuals and organisations finding that a certain approach works really well in one case and thinking that blindly applying the same techniques will result in the same good outcome in all cases in the future. This is worsened by managers (+developers) wanting to make software creation/maintenance more predictable and less ad-hoc (I mean, just look at how the average civil engineer approaches large projects to see how chaotic/immature most software development processes are - this is the case for pretty much every professional occupation except software). There are obvious constraints that make software difficult, but it's this search for something better that gives these fashions, and it's IMO really only the shortsighted or foolish that wake up one day and decide to apply only one of the approaches across the board on all of the lines of all of their applications.

It's all about having a light touch - there's nothing wrong with structured programming, OO, patterns, functional programming, TDD, IoC, etc. because they're really only tools that come in handy sometimes. You don't need to worship the ideals at all times, just use them when they're convenient or beneficial.
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Here's a quick script I whipped up. No warranty, etc. Also, you need OpenCV installed.

https://gist.github.com/4476997

OpenCV: http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/
Nice format. I like the simple design you've got going on. Building some projects at the moment... tagging my projects with the different tools I've used is especially useful. I can see how when there are more users I can connect my projects with others using the same technology. Nice Job!
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GeForce Experience?

GFE?

I know there's this long-standing stereotype of gamers as lonesome, horny males, but geez Louise.
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This lifestyle is awesome when you're single or don't have kids, though.
are you saying that "_why" is a metonym for the Man Himself? i don't think that's valid (in a linguistic sense) - he was _why in a much deeper sense than "_why" being some small part of him that was used as a stand-in for the whole. a metonym can derive from a role, but the role is not the metonym.
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discussion happening here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5022075
Yes.

I was graduated from high school in Slovakia 2 years ago. In my town (about 45,000 inhabitants, 12th largest in Slovakia) there are 11 high schools (with 50-1000 students).

I was actually attending 8-year grammar school - a special school that merges elementary and high school, allowing me to finish my studies 1 year sooner than standard education. This was intended to be for "smarter" kids. (It isn't.) However in terms of quality I think it is similar to most of the high schools.

Out of about 11 classes I've taken every year, only 7 actually required some effort to get an A.
Some teachers did not even care about "cheating" on the exams - it was pretty common for me to solve all variants in 20 minutes and then distribute it in the class.
At the beginning of the school year, we got about 20 textbooks chosen by Ministry of Education. Half of them were never used, some were 15 years old. We paid only for few textbooks.

Students were bored, teachers were bored. Only few took their job seriously, only one was doing more than required.

During the classes like Biology, Geography, Chemistry, History and Slovak literature, the teacher dictated what we should write. During the next class, one was chosen and graded based on how good he/she memorized the notes.

The more students the school have, the more money it gets. Every school keeps as many students as possible. Even if they do not pass the entry test.

The last year was by far the most wasted year of my life. Student chooses 4 subjects from about 9 possible for the state exams. We were however still obliged to take 12 subjects. All teachers stopped teaching the other subjects, because it "was not required for our state exams" and "gave us time to learn the important subjects". They were simply lazy. Sometimes they didn't even attend the class.

Today I remember almost nothing except Maths and English.

On the other hand, free WiFi. And a lot of time for personal projects.
If you're on a PvP server or a PvP zone of a regular server, when you die to respawn at a graveyard and have to walk back to your corpse (most of the time). Your items take a hit to their durability, and you eventually need to repair them for in-game money. Being "ganked" really does detract from the gameplay.
Even without administrative privileges, your malware can still do lots of interesting things: full access to the user's files, settings and browser history, full internet access, automatic launch on startup.
I really think that before you haul off with accusations of dishonesty, you should have more to back them up with.
God says...

the wise shall preserve them.

14:4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the
strength of the ox.

14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter
lies.

14:6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is
easy unto him that understandeth.

14:7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not
in him the lips of knowledge.

14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly
of fools is deceit.

----

THE FOLLOY OF FOOLS IS DECEIT.
Here you go: https://gist.github.com/4477015

Replaces and error page in WordPress with a search for the request URI. Now we just need someone at jQuery HQ to use it.

Still uses WP's built in search functionality, which is less than great.
And, if you don’t or can’t use ARC, turn on -Wuninitialized or use the static analyzer (clang warns on uninitialized values only with -Wall).
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I'm not talking about addiction - I'm talking about filling up a person's time because they have all this free time and if not filled, they have to deal with reality and/or hard choices. They choose to quickly fill the time up, so they don't have to do (and deal) with anything else besides said activity, eat and sleep.

It doesn't have to be gaming - it can be Reddit, Facebook, Drinking, etc.

(It's also different than, say, a new game is released and we all go on a 3 day gaming binge. Work/Career/Paying Rent/Job >>>> Leisure Activities. Prioritizing.)
DI is also used quite heavily in C#. And in most - if not all - functional languages, one of the flavors of dependency injection (what a C# programmer would call method injection) is so pervasive that it doesn't even have a name. People just think of it as an idiom rather than a design pattern.

If I may speculate, I suspect that the reason why DI is discussed so much more in the big enterprise programming languages isn't because of the languages so much as the problem space. Enterprise software has a tendency to be enormous, live for a very long time, and involve stitching together components from a variety of sources, none of which are being modified or replaced on exactly the same schedule. Hard-coded dependencies always have the potential to be a maintenance hassle, but that kind of situation compounds the problem immensely. The promise of DI - that if you follow it scrupulously you can produce software that's so easy to modify that you might even be able yank out and replace entire modules without so much as a recompile - becomes very attractive in that kind of situation.

It's also a huge win for huge teams. If you make good use of dependency injection then it's easy for different teams to develop different modules that depend on each other in parallel. All you have to do is whip up some stub implementations of the modules that aren't available and get to work.
Debugging WordPress 101
Here's our take on some basic things one can do, to debug WordPress sites.

https://www.zippykid.com/2013/01/07/how-to-debug-wordpress-themes-and-plugins/
Considering that California is home to most of America's production and distribution media companies, and derives significant direct and indirect tax revenues from these companies, it is highly unlikely that a Silicon Valley-based "copyright liberalization insurgency" would succeed.

Moreover, people in SV vastly overestimate the political influence they are likely to have in the rest of the state. The silly issues that "matter" in SV (like "liberalizing copyright") quite honestly don't matter in the rest of California, where jobs and local governance are much bigger, more important issues.
Thanks for the great presentation. I especially like the weekday/month visualization.
Probably because you're the only person that bothered to notice this/actually care about.
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I have POC for Rails 2.x and 3.x. If you are running any version of Rails from the last 6 years you are vulnerable.
I guess I see what you mean, and I agree that the world (especially regarding work) has changed / is changing a lot because of the internet. I also believe that the traditional model of working the same job for 40 years and then retiring is pretty much dead for current and future generations.

That said, I don't quite understand how the internet supplies one with the type of enjoyment s/he would get from retirement. Retirement, in the traditional sense, means having some kind of freedom from financial burdens, for many, the ability to travel the world and see things, and time to do other things besides work.

The internet provides many kinds of information and entertainment, but I would never say that it's a substitute for traditional retirement. If you're stuck working a crappy job flipping burgers and spending the rest of your time doing things online, there's nothing wrong with that, but you're going to have to go a long way to convince me that this is a viable alternative to being free from work, able to travel where I want, etc.

I spent high school and college playing video games as well, and I've spent a lot of time online in my life (we got the internet back ~1996), but I see the internet as more of another thing among many things to do, and not really as the only thing there is to do. At the risk of sounding like an old man (I'm 31), I would say, don't underestimate the value of real-world experiences. Watching a YouTube video of a concert, for example, is nothing compared to being there... and even with all the crazy VR tech that will be here in the near future (or even now), we're still a long way away from replacing real experiences with virtual ones.

I'm not trying to say that you shouldn't be content with how things are though. If you like to spend time online doing things, and that's all you want to do, then by all means - have at it. Just adding my own two cents worth here. :)
Mindstorms is pretty cool...but the price puts it out of reach of any but the well-heeled.

I run an after school tech program for kids in grades 5 - 8 where we've worked with Scratch quite a bit, and did one session on robotics using the Pololu 3pi line-tracing/maze solving robots and the Parallax Mini-Sumo bots. These robots run $100 - $150 each as opposed to the Mindstorms $250+ (now $350) price point.

There is a huge untapped market for a programmable robot at the $50 - $100 price point.
I have an incurable medical problem, genetic in nature. I have gotten off a lot of prescription medication. How I eat is a big part of how I manage my condition. Caffeine is a stimulant similar to some of the prescription drugs I have gotten off of. I consume plenty of diet coke but I am not a big coffee drinker. I do occassionally drink it for medicinal purposes, usually something mocha since I really am not crazy about coffee. As I resolve underlying issues, my general consumption of coffee, chocolate and diet coke has gone down. I just no longer need so many stimulants, so I just don't crave it.

Thus I suspect coffee is "healthy" for some people in much the way that an albuterol inhaler is good for some people: If you have some mild health issue which is treatable with stimulants, having moderate treatment as part of your diet is better than having no treatment. If coffee is something you seem to need, you might do well to look into things like allergies, respiratory problems, etc.
If my memory serves me right, somewhere in the range of 100-200k per core for licensing.
so in trading what thing would you describe as robust for trading?..
I used isightcapture (The original source is offline, but i think this is the same thing http://distfiles.macports.org/isightcapture/)

https://gist.github.com/4477040 is the cron script I use on a 10 min interval.

There might be other ways to do this now days, but i've used this successfully for a few years.
Yeah, but it takes lots of grinding to level up.
So every name that ends with Pal is off limits?
Is Batman a name or a role?
thanks for the tip. I thought gpu programming and cpu micro-coding were the popular things these days.
There has also been massive copy+pasta of the code in question and some other ruby frameworks / libraries are vulnerable as well.
Show HN: A site to upload, share and review creative work and presentations
http://previewcloud.com

The idea came from a product manager I used to work with. He had a bunch of website comps that he needed to show some remote employees but didn't want to zip them up and email them out. Ideally he wanted to put them online somewhere and just send out a URL. Going to the URL would show the first image and clicking it would take you to the next. I put that together one weekend and it did exactly what he needed. He started creating new "decks" and sharing them on a daily basis.

I've since added the ability to attach a note to an image and for viewers to leave comments. You can come along and use the site completely anonymously to upload images and create a deck for sharing, but you can't edit it after the fact or keep multiple decks organized in any way. Additional pay features are inviting multiple users to your account so you can work together on decks, customizing the URL to your deck as well as the subdomain.

In the feature queue: CNAME your own domain to the site, ability to markup and draw on an image via <canvas> (almost complete), versioning, ability to lead a review with the presenter controlling the navigation and multiple users viewing, grouping and archiving of decks...the list goes on.

I see three groups as my primary audience: 1) product managers that need to share site comps or presentations to remote folks, 2) independent designers and 3) design firms, both of which need to share creative work with clients and collect feedback.
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Read the Four hour work week, where Timothy talks at length about the kinds of businesses they run.
Really cool! So what aspects of the report surprised you?
I'd say it's almost never the main problem. I would be entirely unsurprised if most cases of "videogame addiction" turn out to actually be simple depression.
> When it started, LinkedIn was about connecting you and the people you know (and endorse) professionally. It was the answer to not wanting to add your boss on Facebook.

LI launched before FB and years before FB opened to the public.
This has been my experience - every organisation I've left has got by irritatingly well without me. The ones without solid metrics to measure success just fudge the metrics anyway; the ones with solid metrics notice quickly what they need to replace.
Just to recap over the past few months. We should quit Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Don't forget quitting Google (that was front page yesterday). And of course caffeine, carbs, 8-hour sleeps, email, fructose, the office, the home, and on and on.

While some of the "my silver bullet" posts seem to hold interesting perspectives, recently such pretense is gone and it is simply people clucking along.
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We have a page for Providence on Lanyrd - not much upcoming at the moment, but the HP Lovecraft conference in August looks kind of fun... http://lanyrd.com/places/providence/
Ask HN: Are trackbacks and pingbacks dead?
At the heyday of blogging* , trackbacks and pingbacks were lauded as the great distributor of conversation and community: to comment on someone else's blog article in depth, you could simply link it in your own article, and through the power of track-/ping-backs, a link back to your article would automatically appear in the comment section of the original.

Is there a place for such functionality in a world of walled communication gardens (e.g. social networks, Obvious Corp products, online newspapers/magazines) and Jekyll-based static content publishing (which either disregard discussion or rely on Disqus)? Or is the devil in the details (e.g. spam problems doing more harm than good in some insurmountable way)?

(* I define this heyday as the time when Wordpress or Blogger were most popular among "average Internet users" just looking to have a presence online beyond a MySpace profile, about 6-7 years ago.)
Battlecode is actually also open to the public and the two years some friends and I did it (09 and 10 I believe) we came in #1 and #2 outside of the MIT teams (since we didn't have it as a class and it was only free time it was a bit harder to compete) but I agree with all the points, it was a great experience and I encourage everyone to give it a go at least once!
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Lua, btw. I wonder if someone could package a nice Lua IDE for Mindstorms and charge $10 or $15 for it?
Fair enough, but I still think an iPad is a fantastic supplement to using paper materials. It can completely replace them in a lot of use cases, and offers capabilities (such as taking literal photo copies of printed materials, whiteboards, notice boards, etc for reference later) that paper can't compete with.

It can't replace paper completely, sure, but they are very rapidly becoming indispensable tools in a lot of situations and I think that will soon include education.
Retirement is a 40 year commitment to doing something you don't want to do (working) so that at the end of it you can have 20 years you do enjoy. The internet isn't an alternative to retirement, but it changes the 40 year investment from "why not?" (for my parents the alternative was sitting in their bedrooms staring at a wall) to "why?" (for me I could spend 18 hours a day browsing the internet and never be bored, it's what I do anyway but I'm paid for it).

> Watching a YouTube video of a concert, for example, is nothing compared to being there... and even with all the crazy VR tech that will be here in the near future (or even now)

Definitely, but is being there worth spending your life doing a job you hate when you could not do that job and get the same thing (the concert) but with a not as great experience (via Youtube, not in real life)?
Of course you can.

Here [1] is a family of 7 driving from Alaska to Argentina... because they want to.

I met many similar family expeditions during my drive [2] and it was always a joy to meet the kids - who were all bi or tri-lingual.

One of my favorite quotes from a ~10 year old was "I don't like homeschooling.. I like WORLDschooling".

[1] http://www.discovershareinspire.com/
[2] http://theroadchoseme.com/
I always thought about comparing products as the direct competitor. Very enlightening to think of it by taking a step further to figure out what the real problem being solved is. Then, it is much easier to understand who the real competitors are. The Clayton Christensen paragraph's were the highlights for me.

In theme of the post, I typically catch up on blog posts over lunch while eating at work, so if someone is building a product for me to use while eating lunch, your competing with the likes of Dan's posts.
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I totally agree with you, but there's something here you're missing.

When I joined LinkedIn, I did so because I wanted to keep in touch with people I worked with, like you know, a curated Facebook - which works well, because the people I worked with aren't necessarily interested in pictures of my baby boy or of me getting drunk this Holiday season and this goes both ways.

Unfortunately LinkedIn failed and failed hard at being that kind of social network. Nowadays the only thing I receive in return for my membership is Spam from incompetent recruiters that don't even bother reading my profile, and no matter what I do I can't turn those emails off (a perk you get for paying them), which is why I simply flag all LinkedIn emails as Spam.

I feel like LinkedIn missed a great opportunity here and now it's too late, their role being filled in my life by Twitter, GitHub, Google Groups and even Facebook.
... sigh. If you want to name a laundromat SuitPal that is a drastically different situation than building a service designed as a frontend for a service called PayPal, naming your service with the same naming pattern as the service you rely on, and then building a logo using the same font, styling, and color scheme.
Both sides of this story sound incredibly suspicious, and nobody involved sounds like a person I'd go into business with.
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I was really hoping someone had a built a replica of the Logic Memory Center complete with illuminatied Perspex "logic modules" or whatever they're called.
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Like I said, timing. Most citizens clearing immigration know they have a legal right to return. They don't know how long CBP can detain them. I think the rules say a "reasonable amount of time" without actually assigning a hard value.
Good times which Facebook pages brought traffic are over
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I plan on going with a coworker or two. I'll be the girl with a half shaved head and circuit board plugs, come say hi! (Though this is Providence, I may need to be more specific ;])
oh well, look at the core of his site:
http://postmasculine.com/10-best-ways-to-make-money-online

awesome.
A lot of people here have a strong interest in reduced taxes, deregulation, and privatization (included in 'small government').

This is what I hate about political messaging. All of those vague terms are nice and all, but the different ways to implement/achieve them are all over the political spectrum.

That is not a refutation of the idea 0 repubs are on HN. I know they're here, but you're merely saying some people on HN happen to agree with some of the vaguest of vague messaging ideals also used by the R's.
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You only take a durability if you're killed by a NPC, not by a player.
Would following their advice of changing your password actually help in this situation? While it's a good practice in general, if I'm understanding this right, the attacker never has your password.
Yep - it is real. No worries though, I wasn't offended :)
From a curious alum, and excuse the inside baseball: Long ago, there used to be a 6.270 contest. I noticed this is a 6.370 contest. Anyone know the history if they're related?
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