skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I would say that the very first example is the correct organisation with proper separation of concerns. The reason they are often merged into the form of the second code sample is for convenience rather than for organisation. From a code design perspective, this is not a good thing (and I know many people who complain that Rails made a mistake with that). From a testing perspective, for instance, the coupling between the User object, the methods that save and load that object from the db, and the validation code, make it much harder to write cleanly isolated tests.

There are plenty of architectures where "data objects" are dumb and are passed to more intelligent objects that can save them, serialize them, etc.

MMM|VVV|CCC is a better system than MVC|MVC|MVC because it encourages separation of concerns, and loose coupling between concerns. Tight coupling between mostly unrelated pieces of functionality (why should the persistence code know anything about the controller?) is a very nasty code smell.
> I've attended a lecture by John Raven, the publisher of that test, and he doesn't make that claim.

I never said that he made that claim. Several other people compared RAPM and other intelligence tests to determine the g-loading. It was found by other people (not Dr. Raven) that RAPM has a high g loading. Testing for the general intelligence factor and the use of RAPM is widely accepted. Here is an example of a recent article: “Just one g: consistent results from three test batteries”, (Wendy Johnson, Thomas Bouchard, etc...) 2004. Using Google scholar you can find several other results. Even if you reject RAPM as a measure of g, there are less g-loaded tests (such as IQ) that can be used that predicts more or less the same thing (heritability of intelligence, etc...).

> The long, careful examination of what the Raven tests show, in conjunction with other evidence, can be found in James R. Flynn's excellent book What Is Intelligence?, which is about to come out in a new, expanded edition.

My problem with most of Flynn's books is that he is a political scientist and a passionate left-wing campaigner. He is basically a Gould-light – distorting science to fit his own world view.

I usually prefer to read papers or books on intelligence matters from people with a PhD in areas such as educational psychology or neurology when it concerns brain structure (e.g. prof. Haier).
If possible, it might be interesting to compare the data for Arizona with neighboring states. Apparently Arizona does not observe daylight savings time.

While the conclusions from such a comparison may not necessarily apply to more northern states, it would give an additional point of reference. (It's a pity they don't have data for Indiana in 2005, which only went to daylight savings time in 2006...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_United_States#Dayli...
Firefox 3 beta 3 released
Oh, I'd do it for free. Its just a simple Facebook clone.
Yea, we've had problems too - I've consistently benchmarked their cloud sites servers with a load time 5-8x slower than other hosts.
Google Ad Chief Tim Armstrong Replaces Randy Falco As Chairman And CEO Of AOL
Some companies are now worth less than their accumulated cash
It refers to pretty much anything. It's such an empty phrase.

I have heard it used to describe anti-rationality, though. Some people think that it's easier to decide nothing has meaning and nothing makes sense: that way, their own problems aren't their own fault.
I've heard a lot of stories lately about mobile payments in Africa and other places that do not have strong established banking system and there's a real and interesting innovation happening there. I just wish that same could happen in the Western world.

Btw. Nathan Eagle referred in the article above did really interesting social science work in his PhD thesis by tracking people's daily behavior with mobile phones running Jaiku Mobile's precursor ContextPhone. (Jaiku Mobile was developed by Mika Raento and me)
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So, it's cool to read your thoughts about how services supported by ads are dead, but unnecessary to report about someone who was in need?

I prefer raising awareness of an important issue than reading your propaganda about web services.
Yes, it was propaganda because you lacked data. Hard core data to support any of your suggestions.
Here is a web spider in 1 line:
perl -MLWP::UserAgent -MHTML::LinkExtor -MURI::URL -lwe '$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; while (my $link = shift @ARGV) { print STDERR "working on $link";HTML::LinkExtor->new( sub { my ($t, %a) = @_; my @links = map { url($_, $link)->abs() } grep { defined } @a{qw/href img/}; print STDERR "+ $_" foreach @links; push @ARGV, @links} )->parse(do { my $r = $ua->simple_request (HTTP::Request->new("GET", $link)); $r->content_type eq "text/html" ? $r-> content : ""; } ) }' http://www.google.com
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I agree. For the IRC folks, I think contacting the police and his family was appropriate. I don't think anything further then that is appropriate or helpful. Everything after that is just gossip. I'd be interested to hear how the OP feels in retrospect, and if spreading this around helped even slightly. I would doubt it, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. I think it's important to remember that the Internet is not real life. It is fantasy. How else do you explain lulz?
and Android (with 3G)
Here's a little web spider I just wrote: "wget -r".

I haven't got a problem with people writing their own quickie scripts, but they aren't really worth putting online without some other compelling reason.
Once I tried to chat up this girl in a party. I told her that I'm a programmer and her response was, "you're what? a problemmer?!"

These days I just tried to avoid the subject. It's lots of fun to talk about technology with hackers. With other people it's actually one of the worst topics to bring up.

If people ask, I say that I'm a technologist. If they press to know what it is that I actually do I tell them that I talk on the phone a lot, and sometimes write emails, which is partly true and something almost anyone can relate to. Then I change the subject.
Ask HN: Luck or Hard Work?
Please explain why...
Sorry, their site went down for maintenance shortly after I submitted...

I found another copy here: http://www.mindswap.org/~aditkal/research/papers/ontoSW/ont-...
Statistics like this are just as silly as "Employees using YouTube costs the US 500 Trillion a year". Most knowledge workers don't work 9-5. They work until the work is done. What they missed Monday morning will be made up for during the rest of the week. I do hate Daylight Savings though..
What turns a lurker into a contributor? The fear of not being able to lurk. Oh well, back to lurking.

4 points minimum is a start.
true, it's as empty a signifier as "conservative" following the rise of the neo-cons. Basic terminology has been blurred to the point of hilarity in regards to any political term. I think this last election has pretty much ruined "intellectualism vs anti-intellectualism" for a few years at least.
Both.

You need hardwork to exploit the luck you get.
(~_~) I know what you mean about the sun in your eyes. As a kid, I spent year after year with the sun in my eyes as I rode the school bus 15 miles each way. I told myself, "This is stupid. When I grow up, I'm not going to live west of town." The odd thing is, the vast majority of development takes place west of that city, for no major geographical reason. I shake my head in wonder at the thought of so many people trying to drive with the sun smack in their eyes a couple hours every day. And yes, you're right, the time changes reposition the sun in front of your eyes.
Yeah but on the other hand some people that come off as close minded simply have different axiomatic beliefs than you do. Things that look like logical flaws to you can be perfectly consistent if they hold "belief x". Until you address belief x arguing against specific flaws in their argument is about as effective as hoping to convert catholics by making fun of the pope's hat.
I think of it more as being a de-emphasis on grades versus sports in school, how people will make fun of you for using a wide vocabulary with multi-syllabic words, that being smart or well educated is much less important than looks, being good at sports, etc...

You heard a lot of this sort of fuss over how Obama's speeches were phrased. Lots of people were angry that he didn't "sound like one of us", or that he was "talking down to us", etc....

For some reason seeing a football player make a touchdown doesn't make the average person feel fat or slow, but hearing someone using "big words" and talking about something harder to understand that last night reality tv show seems to make the average person feel dumb or talked down to. And they lash back.
On the other hand, that it threatens/opposes traditional values doesn't automatically imply that it's worth doing, any more than something being traditional meaning it should be exempt from revision.
I'd agree with some sort of account signup requirements. Maybe invites from current members etc... but doing the Erlang homepage is just weak sauce. I would think that even the "1337 hackers" on this site don't need 5,000 more erlang links they could find using google or delicious. Sites like this are only interesting when they are broad enough to introduce us to new things, not barrage us with details about someones fav language.
Perhaps, but which is more important?

It seems more likely that someone could succeed by simply being lucky, than if they worked hard and never ran into the "right" person, found themselves at the "right" conference, been born into the "right" family or country or situation, etc...
The link to Useit.com on loaded cost was interesting too, if a little dense in language:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/loadedcost.html
A lot of "luck" is previous preparation - aka hard work.

And some luck is genuine luck, such as when your main competitor is out flying a plane when VeryLargeCorp wants to buy the software that both of you produce, reducing your competitor to irrelevance, and giving you a huge boost.
Very true - I've found myself arguing to death with people before realizing we had different goals. I just took it for granted that they wanted "xyz obvious thing that anyone would want" from the situation. And often it's me who overlooked something big and was being dense.
the better reason than being afraid of such a test is that in the long term everybody has their moments when they contribute a stellar bit of insight, even those who woule fail such a test. By testing for a certain 'level' you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
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sure, that'd be dandy
Ok, then I have a follow-up: Do you think that what you do is more important than who you know?
nobody asked for help -- this is an announcement of an announcement. pure hype in fact.

get real. android and iPhone aren't competition? the comment wasn't "ftw" it contained real information: that apple's wishlist is android's 1.0. sure android has its flaws too, and you accurately point them out, but to claim that it's somehow out of bounds to compare the two SDKs is really desperate.
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I may be out of the loop, but who is Tony Morris?
Despite the downturn, entrepreneurs are enjoying a renaissance the world over
Ah... I have some good memories of adapting some of these for microcontrollers while still in school.

My favorite is Kernighan's method for counting set bits. It's as short and clean as the naive method and not immediately obvious: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#CountBit...
both necessary, none sufficient
de Tocqueville noticed anti-intellectualism was rampant in the US when he wrote Democracy in America 150 years ago. He wrote to try to explain why the US revolution resulted in a democratic nation, while the French revolution a couple years later turned out so terribly bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America
I'm a bit annoyed by this:

"Why did the same society that flocked to Star Wars decide only a few years earlier that the real adventure of going to the Moon was too expensive to sustain?"

I kinda liked Star Wars, but I'm opposed to spending money on manned space flight. IIRC, many in the scientific community think it's a waste of resources as it costs 10x as much to build a vehicle that has a chance of returning a human to earth safely as it does to send up an unmanned vehicle that can be jettisoned when its work is done.

My point isn't to argue about the benefits of visiting the moon, but it's somewhat ironic that an article on anti-intellectualism would pose such a false question.
Supermodels seem to make the average woman feel fat though--enough that there are people advocating plus-size models, etc.

What's shared between intellectuals and supermodels that isn't with football players?
Interesting. I happen to gut feel nurture >>>>>>>>>>>>> nature, but I think nature plays a part too. It seems unlikely to me that we all have slightly different bodies, and those bodies are heritable to some extent, but our brains are wired consistently the same and/or not heritable.

But I do over to the nurture side of the equation more - the interesting part on more freedom and growing up for older siblings is interesting. Also supporting your idea, older siblings often take on more responsibility in family affairs too.
I usually say something like, "I'm a programmer. I make apps for the iPhone." As soon as I utter the word "programmer", I can see the light in their eyes begin to fade - but mentioning the iPhone brings them back and suddenly I'm a person with a cool job. The nice thing about being an iPhone dev is I can avoid the usual "computer stuff" response that results in doing tech support because people don't realize that the iPhone is just a computer platform. :) I also have the advantage of having previously worked for Tapulous (as one of the original employees, actually), so people who have an iPhone/iPod have almost universally heard of Tap Tap Revenge - which has/had a little of my code buried in there somewhere.
"The parent's argument is that it isn't news because he doesn't know Tony and questions its suitability on HN because it's not interesting for people who don't know him. Well, welcome to the Internet. Not everyone is going to find every article posted relevant or interesting to them; suck-it-up my friend!"

I think this about sums it up. If the OP is looking for a link aggregation site with only links pertinent to himself, he is in for a lot of disappointment; the current state of technology makes that a virtual impossibility. While I don't find the majority of links posted on HN that interesting, I feel that it does a better job of linking to stories that I want to read than just about every other link aggregation site out there.
what sort of despotism democratic nations have to fear grows more timely every year as the bureaucratic mess that runs the country gets worse.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/ch4_06.htm
Luck is a multiplier of work. It's exceptionally rare to benefit from pure luck-- to find buried treasure, or something like that. Usually you have to be working on something to give luck room to strike.

Luck can also set you up in a better position initially. E.g. you could be lucky enough to be born in a country not run by kleptocratic dictators, or to have a received a good education, or to have good health. But you always seem to have to work a certain amount to make a bridge from this initial luck to later stage luck.
I don't understand why. I'm of the same slight build as a supermodel, but most people aren't and a beutiful "plus size" model will still make them feel ugly. Though at least it would give more girls a reasonable weight goal.
Annual revenues/profits take a hit on leap years, too.
Based on your name I think you might not be a native English speaker; so just in case you didn't realize, "hard work" is two separate words.
Among all the awe here, I might add that this thing breaks horribly if you already have mouse gestures in your browser.

I'm not uninstalling Firefox extensions to use a webpage proper. Not today, and not any day soon. While I'm sure it's all cool tech, I personally hope this kinda thing will not take off ever.
I come from a nerd background, therefore one of my axioms used to be "what you know is more important than who you know." I ran for election last year and I found that our society values the exact opposite: fads, fashions and popularity are far more important to the general public.

While I recognize that networking is important in a business environment, I also noticed that much of it is not very distinguishable from the popularity contests of high school cliques. It is as if the world pg describes in "Why Nerds are Unpopular" continues in a far less dramatic fashion after high school: that we can escape much of the harshness, yet not all of it.

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
in-group out-group dynamics.
notice how everyone refers to a sports team as "our" team. As if the people watching have anything to do with the team's success.
I did laugh - I always stumble over spelling accommodate as well...
In India, the city that most qualifies the requirements if Mumbai(Bombay). It has got an IIT, and well rich people love to live here.

Banglore, Hyderabad, even Pune and New Delhi belt are seen as thriving IT cities of India largely because of the government incentives to companies offering to setup shops there. The employees all hated that those places. A lot of batch mates of mine went to Banglore or Delhi and preferred Bombay to live, but big companies are not around.

I guess what is lacking is success stories.
Designing the Democratic
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I don't understand how youtube would be allowed but Hulu wouldn't. The real problem is that all the content is licensed regionally; Hulu has the rights to content in the US but not Canada. And we're probably just not worth the hassle.

So much for the World Wide Web; I feel like it's getting more regional every day.
Building Large-Scale Information Retrieval Systems - Jeffrey Dean, Google
FAT should have been public domain long ago, the fact that microsoft is still milking this is perfect proof that file formats/file systems should never ever be subject to such restrictions.

If you re-implement FAT just to be compatible you should not have to license anything from anybody.
Microsoft's own speed tests show IE beating Chrome, Firefox
The worst thing is that everyone expects you to help them with their IT problems. Over the phone.
Apple exploring Magic Wand controller for next-gen Apple TV
Datacenter Security: A Cautionary Tale from Last.fm
33k users per day is piddly little bits. I think that a platform change is called for, the current recipe is clearly no longer up to the task. Which is a pity, because the lisp code really is quite elegant. It's just that the web and high performance and lisp are not usually used in a single sentence (other than this one...).
These are good for showing off to other programmers and ensuring your job security/future contracts at your present place of work.
It's not idealistic, it's realistic and Apple will -hopefully- put a stop to the gaming sooner rather than later because I know for a fact that it's killing their approval process (every update has to be approved), among other things. Application updates use to take 2-3 days, they are now taking 5+ days and more, and new apps are being stalled by weeks/months on end.

For the last 3 months, two of our products been Top 50 in Social Networking. That's pretty difficult to do for an indie shop not leveraging an established/existing brand (ie: twitter client), yet we've maintained a position without gaming the system. Things are changing now because devs are putting their apps in Social Networking section, even though their app shouldn't even be there in the first place, and obviously it's those guys that focus their time on exploits rather than the product. The health & fitness charts are filled with top apps that are ONLY in their respective place because they're being gamed, not because it's a quality product that deserves that spot.

These people don't want to work hard, they just want easy money cause they got caught up in the fool's gold. It's easier to post a fictitious update in 2 minutes, than it is to spend a week building a new feature and improving.

Honestly, I could go on and on but I'll just stop. I'm becoming redundant explaining the problems of the AppStore to people that don't get. You can call me idealistic or a whiner, but I have 4 months of daily sales and marketing data across multiple products and monitor the AppStore on a daily basis. I've been living and breathing this since August and its frustrating to say the least.

ps. Apple has promoted 3 of our products, and I'm still whining because the economics of the AppStore are flawed and hurting more people than it helps.
Review of Google Voice
Here are some tools to go with that:

http://www.atariage.com/2600/programming/index.html
Also check out Hacker's Delight :

http://www.hackersdelight.org/

http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-Henry-S-Warren/dp/0201...
Does Cisco's WebEx for iPhone Really Work?
March 2009: 20 years of the web
Older lady here. My little sister and I were children when Nixon instituted DST for January 1974. We stood in the Minnesota cold in complete darkness (no streetlights, often no moon) waving a flashlight at the morning school bus. We checked the flashlight each night to be sure we'd be ready the next morning. And my sister was always terrified of the dark, even with a flashlight.

That's a fine story for little-house-on-the-prairie anecdotal value, but I wouldn't wish year-round DST on anyone. Not when you're farther north. Not when the nearest ocean not blocked by mountains is the Arctic. Winter "morning" per the DST clock is just too dark and too cold.
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Thanks for the information, sounds like it might not be a fit for me (yet).
This article could be titled how to destroy twitter in one easy step. 10 messages a day of spam, madness.Especially ironic after Erlang day.

The author actually identifies why, the personal nature of twitter is what makes it what it is, if the first user experience is getting spam marketing messages ten times a day, someone else will take over. If they had any sense they'd rip that cheque up and find other ways to monetize the site.
I just tell people I invest in startup companies or that I don't really have a job.
Its worst with relatives, I just can't say "no" to my dad. Anybody else i can either tell to call me later(if he is my friend), or to get lost(depending on my mood, I may say this politely).
I once spent a half hour discussing (arguing) with a girl on why I am an agnostic. I knew we had different goals, but I thought if I could explain my axioms she would at least concede that my position was consistent.
The discussion went in circles at least three times.

This quote made me smile: "The ability to accept uncertainty requires extraordinary intellectual discipline." But, overall, unfortunately, the article explains why my interests are so shallow. :/
Semi offtopic, but Ze Frank's attitude to anti-intellectualism.

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/05/050506.html
Oh, and for double-extra bonus points add in the fact that you might have more than one presenter for a single model -- content type negotiation, don'tchaknow.
I always remember the time abstractbill decided to teach me a harsh lesson - He was probably 9, me about 7.

Him: "Hey! You can start with all the money, and I'll start with all the property"
Me: "Woah good deal! I've got tons of money now!"

An hour or so later I'd lost obviously.
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