skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely, we can make sales numbers riding on the back of their reputation in the marketplace on amazon that we can get nowhere near with website sales in the US market.

From a customer standpoint their a-z guarantee probably helps a lot.
> there's no one go-to framework for MVC work

I would say there's a lot of consensus around Symfony

http://symfony.com/
What a great Freudian slip.
> He quotes a part of the copyright law that is giving examples of the kind of things that might be fair use, and then cuts it off before it gets to the part where it lists factors to be considered when deciding if a particular use is fair use. He seems to think that anything that falls under the examples is automatically fair use.

This is a frequent misunderstanding...and one that seems to keep escaping TechDirt writers over the years. "Fair" in this case does not mean "noble"...as in, "well, educating inner-city schoolkids is noble, so it's OK for me to torrent the latest Harry Potter movie as part of our fiction reading unit."

That may be indeed a noble use, and I bet you could get any number of people/companies to donate you the DVD for it, but it's not a "fair use."
Amazon might be able to measure this effect, by taking comparing to their projections over the next day. Imperfect, but...
I use the following architecture:

Browser -> POST -> Database -> XML -> PHP + XSLT => HTML

Prevents HTML from being mixed with PHP. PHP becomes the "controller" in the MVC world. This makes the application easy to migrate to another language.
How Obama's campaign tested:
http://blog.optimizely.com/2013/01/15/how-obamas-campaign-te...
What really saddens me is there's ways to kill people using IRC and i'm only finding out now. It would have made trolling a lot easier back in the day.
Good luck with this nice project.
Great lading page.
To be fair, I'd imagine that the majority of this money and effort is spent on highly secure and fault-tolerant transport protocols, and IRC is just a layer on top of those. So it's likely not being totally wasted.

And even the comm protocols designed to replace the IRL level? Think of those from an agile-development perspective; if they don't build it to test their assumptions in the real world, then they could be making an inefficient product. And in this business, an inefficient product can mean lives lost.
Damn Samsung stealing future tech again, by ripping off the iPhone Plus a couple of years before it even came out.

Or to put it another way, both your and GP comments are stupid.
Amazon is a weird company, and it has lots of parts. Even at, say, Microsoft there can be a huge amount of variation from division to division and team to team on how things are run, the corporate culture micro-climate, etc. At Amazon this is even more true, each team is substantially on their own, and while there is a certain amount of global overarching corporate culture every group is different and some groups buck against the trend successfully.
So I looked at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market#Function_and_purpo...

Didn't see anything about rewarding better decisions about allocating society's resources. I did see a lot about raising capital for corporations and for providing an indicator of the general mood of the economy though.

The stock market is effectively a giant casino for pros. If you're not one, you're just plain dumb if you try to play their game by their rules.

And of course, with the sort of thinking you're putting forth, we should obviously OUTLAW that 66 GH/s bitcoin hardware. It's so unfair to everyone else who can only afford a cluster of 8 AMD 7970s, no?
> I don't really know the history of Django but I'd wager it took a lot of inspiration from Rails.

Not exactly. Django mainly came into existence as a formalization of a lot of helper functions that The Lawrence Journal-World newspaper found themselves building over and over again when they built web apps. Adrian Holovaty, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, and Simon Willison created Django separately from Rails, even if it wasn't released publicly for a while (and then got kinda stuck at 0.96 for a while after that).

It's like Newton and Leibniz with calculus or Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace with natural selection; there were a lot of similar problems to be solved in the web dev space in the early '00's, particularly around accessing databases, structuring URLs, and handling authentication, it makes sense that a few similar approaches would show up around the same time.

If you're really interested in the history, this "Snakes and Rubies" video is worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb9KDt9aXc8

(I should mention that I tend to personally prefer Python to Ruby, very much like Django, consider Adrian Holovaty a friend and we both once worked at msnbc.com at the same time.)
What lack of separation? Don't take this the wrong way, but have you ever actually tried to use PHP in a non-web context? Running "./foo.php" is just as easy as "./foo.py", "./foo.rb", etc. All of these complains seem to come from people that have never even tried to do this kind of stuff. It's damn easy.

If you echo HTML, you get HTML. If you echo binary data, you get binary data. JSON, XML (including SOAP bodies), text, nothing at all, file i/o, direct socket connections, exit codes - all are supported equally well. The only thing vaguely related is the HTTP headers that you get for free if you're running it behind a fastcgi module (apache's mod_php, nginx/php-fpm, etc).
I do PHP a lot, and no serious project uses PHP dirctly to render HTML. Well, I've seen PHP templates, but they are always separate from the actual code.

I think PHP's success is due to several factors:

1) Easy to set up and start. It even has a built in web server now.

2) Lots of useful functions.

3) Lots of useful extensions.

4) Weak datatypes. Newbies don't have to deal with too many error/warning messages. (and yes, i wish PHP had a strict typing mode).

5) The documentation is absolutely amazing (at least for the popular things).

6) The community. Even before StackOverflow, your PHP questions would be answered instantly.

Yes, PHP has its problems, and it does allow you to easily mix the PHP, HTML, JS all in on file, but while many people consider that as a path to shitty code, I consider it an easy way to tinker and try things, which is very valuable for beginners.
Makes sense, you are one reporter with little more information than everyone else before you know what the story is. Of course the thousands of people on HN are going to beat you to a story like this.
Programming the Post-Human (2002)
The 5's size was to maintain the 326ppi of the display and ensure a smooth transition for developers. A 3.5 and a 5 inch screen would have made app developers have to create 2 separate layouts, whereas this approach means that developers 2 similar layouts for 4-class phones (3:2) and 5-class phones (16:9), which should ideally mean less work for the developers
| Every time I hear somebody say they are going to
| "change the world," I cringe. I imagine those
| people as some combination of arrogant fucks
| (pardon my english) and/or depression waiting
| to happen.

During a 'cultural fit' interview, I was asked, "How I Was Changing The World(tm)." They went on to talk about how they were changing the world because someone on the other side of the globe was using their app on a smart phone to manage their business.

I just remember thinking that it was a pretty arrogant stance and question. (If the person on the other side of the world has a business and smart phone, they probably doing pretty well...)
Don't forget that pixie dust (or a saline injection) can actually be fairly effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_effect#Pain
> Put on some deodorant, shower every other day and this guy could cut down his risk massively

Yeah, if by "massively" you mean he'll only be expected to have a possibly-fatal fall twice instead of five times.

Your post is extremely ignorant. It not only offensively and incorrectly ascribes daily showering to "prissiness" and "obsessiveness" (as if that's the reason I shower every day, instead of, you know, wanting to smell nice, look nice, and feel refreshed), it also claims that this is an American phenomenon (I'm Canadian, and many/most people I know shower daily. The ones I know who don't, smell). It also assumes all people are the same. Personally, I'd feel pretty sorry for your wife if you smell like I do after not showering that morning.

It's no more "bizarre" than the Japanese are bizarre for using those funky toilets with built-in bidets. Cultures may be different. Let them be different without judging, and without projecting.
Different strokes. I have a Nexus 4 and I wish it was a little bigger. I used to have a Desire and it was way too small for me. That's why I'm really glad we aren't all forced to use the same form factor.
Who said it was perfect? I think most agree that about 4 inches is the one-size-fits-all. That means it's best on average, not best for everyone.

It's completely OK to introduce new form factors if there's clear demand.
The real calamity you risk in a bad startup is the career damage. You can easily end up in a position well below your level of ability in the next job, and once that happens, you're screwed because most people get bored rapidly and lose motivation when this occurs. I have no idea what happens to the people who fall under their age curve. I hope to never find out.

I don't claim any personal experience forming a startup but I've never heard anyone complain of adverse effects of a failed startup on their professional careers. The skills that you develop in the mere act of trying are always touted as a consolation prize for a startup that fails. Within reason[1], these skills are presumably valuable in themselves and would make for good additions on a CV/resume. Do you have any examples of anyone hurting their career from a failed startup?

[1] Obviously, claiming failure of a startup trying to market perpetual motion machines would probably not be wise.
> If you don't think full Windows 8 with full Office on a tablet in that form factor isn't a potential game changer for enterprise, you're insane.

I think full Office in a tablet form factor is potentially a game changer, but that's exactly what Surface RT offers and look how well it's selling.

I don't think full Windows in a tablet form factor is otherwise attractive. Aside from a small niche of people, nobody wants to run non-touch optimized legacy Windows apps on a 10" screen. Microsoft has been peddling the stylus/tablet shtick for almost a decade now and it just hasn't been taking off. It's not something people want.

Microsoft made a huge mistake by releasing two different versions of Surface. They should have put all their eggs in the "Office on a tablet" basket, and released Surface RT with a high-res screen and Clovertrail processor at the $500-$600 price point, with a perfect, fully touch-optimized copy of Office ready to go. By sandbagging Surface RT they released on product without features people want (high-res screen, fast performance), and one product with features nobody wants (aside from a few nerds who think they're going to run CAD apps, nobody needs Ivy Bridge on a tablet).
Wall Street Journal Says It Was Hit by Chinese Hackers Too
Should I post a newsletter on a week-end?
Hey, it sounds as if you don't know what you're talking about - at all.

You can write a single PHP file that includes HTML, Javascript, MySQL, CSS and PHP, but that would make you a bad developer, or it's such a simple one-off thing that you don't worry about it.

Or, you can develop with maintainability in mind and separate those 5 concerns out.
Cisco Movi/Jabber. But it was down once and we used Google Hangouts pretty effectively. If a connection dies, you just fire it back up again.
From https://github.com/jeffkaufman/apartment_prices/blob/master/...

The guy who wrote Padmapper says this tool puts a pretty heavy load on his server and he
would rather it was run no more than once a month. If you're just looking for some
apartment data, I've put some in apts-2013-01-29, which is for Boston in January 2013.

Please be considerate when running this. It does multiple querries to padmapper, one for each choice in number of bedrooms (0 to 9) times the number of 25$ increments in rent between 100$ and MAX_RENT. Consider tweaking those variables and maybe the 100 lower limit at https://github.com/jeffkaufman/apartment_prices/blob/master/...
Can we please try to avoid making generalisations like this? Yes, the ruby community has some very vocal contributors with very questionable social skills. Please don't assume that all ruby developers are egotistical hipster hackers. The creator or Ruby, Matsumoto Yukihiro is one of the most softly spoken and humble individuals I have encountered in technology. We can all learn by his example.
Makes sense and should come as no surprise. Lots of people enjoy the large screen, Apple may release a phone in that size arena to compete and join in on the action.

Samsung has proven that people like that screen size (S3). I live in Bolivia and the vast majority of people I've asked, "Why do you prefer the Samsung S3 over the iPhone?" answer "Because of the screen size".

People like to get their money's worth.
No more or less than Cake, Zend, CodeIgniter, ...

Heck, the second Google hit for "php mvc framework" for me was a 2009 guide to writing your own (talk about not getting the point of a framework). There were two more pages in the top ten for PHP MVC framework comparisons.
In many cases. the LBS(local bike stores) are at the mercy of the bike manufacturer.

I worked at PerformanceBike (corporate - MIS) for many years. There the economy-of-scale did help somewhat when negotiating purchases from the manufacturers and I wouldn't say margins on bikes were "razor thin" but I do agree the bulk of sales were accessories and services. However, I have no insight into their current operations.

I was at Performance during several of their acquisitions such as Supergo, Nashbar and another chain in NOVA and all of those operations did have very low margins as the OP mentioned.
Michel @ RethinkDB

We are building a tool to explain in a nice way how the query is executed, what are the bottlenecks etc. It should make it for 1.5.

You can track progress here https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/175 (it's kind of empty for now)
Nobody stands up and says, "boy, that phone is just the perfect size for my hand" at random. The reason size became an issue at all is because the competition made it an issue.

With that in mind, saying "perfect jeans pocket size" and later saying "perfect purse size" is not a contradiction. Each device manages to satisfy the user's needs and is perfect for them at that given time. That doesn't mean other screen sizes cannot also be perfect, but it is not reason enough to just dump what you have.
It depends on the product, a lot of cosmetics they seem to be selling at a decent margin and getting undercut by marketplace sellers.

If you are going up against the loss leader kindle though it is going to be a lot harder.
77% of the people say no but I have read articles saying the opposite. I wonder What's your experience on this.
Huckleberry is where Midtown Rags used to be. Google just hasn't updated it's streetview image I guess.
A social reform group run by a paramilitary organization who operates forced labor camps? No thanks.

It also poses as an "independent" group when its operators are looking not to reform psychology/psychiatry but subvert and replace entirely with Scientology practices. Frontgroups are not a sign of good intent.
That guy is me. My application for permanent residence in Singapore -- another place "swamped with applicants from all over the world" -- was all of three pages long but managed to cover skills, education and criminal records, was processed in a few weeks, and cost precisely $0. By comparison, my employer and I have paid approx. $10,000 to date to the Australian government in visa fees, not including the charges of the agents my employer hired to navigate the morass, despite being unusually versed in this sort of thing.

As I state at the end of the post, I'm quite well placed to deal with all this and thus personally find it mostly rather comical. However, dealing with this as eg. a refugee fleeing war or persecution is another kettle of fish, and the sheer rigidity of the system means that plenty of people fall through the cracks: a friend of mine recently had to leave the country after 10 years (!) of legal residence and entrepreneurship because his self-employment didn't fit squarely into Immigration's boxes.
Apple patent turns every stranger into an ATM
It's not just you, I recently used a SIII and it is giagantic compared to my iphone 4 which makes it difficult to use. (And I don't have stubby fingers).
A very expensive and inconvenient placebo.
Stickam shutting down today, Jan 31st
Why people love large screens because:

1) It's easier to see and read. Especially for kids and elderly people.
2) Bigger is better right? Almost like a cultural thing. You can show off to your friends!
3) Now you don't have to pinch zoom in anymore because everything should be readable without any action. Save some time, especially when you're driving -- which also makes the GPS more feasible.
Since Hacker News uses a dynamic sorting algorithm for comments, "below" can quickly become "above". It's best to just say something with a link, like, "See my post elsewhere in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5147300)."
I will not be getting a surface. I took a borrowed one home to show my wife, she hated it. She wanted the interface switched around since she's left handed, charms on the left and swipe right for more pages, I couldn't figure out how to do it, but I didn't look that hard.

I'm also forbidden from installing Windows 8 on her laptop and the games machine.

Personally I don't like how I need to be connected to the cloud all the time to do anything.
XSLT plus PHP? Are you a masochist?
Maybe conemu is what you want? Not made by MS though. I spend far less time copying and pasting into terminals in Windows, so the relative oddities involved aren't that bothersome.

I think cmd/powershell is different, and lots of people write it off without even considering it. Parent wanted something "developer friendly". That could mean anything to anybody. I can only give half-answers to a half-specified problem. :)

Sorry, if I wasn't very helpful. Far too often, it turns out "real development tools" means "exactly like on linux", and it's a waste of time to explain how to achieve similar features.
Apple Introduces Ability to Reset Advertising Identifier with iOS 6.1 Update
I think it looks like a trap, frankly. Give me a good definition for "local". If I mail a patch to someone and they apply it to their tree, what breaks and for whom if one of us then "publishes" it?

I'm sure there's an answer to that question, but I'm equally certain it's not the only question. It's not that git solves all this stuff perfectly, or that it does it in the best way possible, it's that lots of problems in SCM are human communication issues that simply cannot be solved by software. One of git's virtues is that it knows its own limitations.
@ is extremely slow.

@$arr['key']

is the same as

$er = error_reporting(0);
$arr['$key'];
error_reporting($er);
unset($er);

Probably more importantly is that the internal errors are still being raised, there's just additional comparison logic within the PHP engine to suppress them internally.
Or they had an algorithm that was cocked and ready for the data release, engineered for maximum speed at the cost of fail-safes, which had its moment of premature excitement.
I'm still wondering why governments see it in their best interest (if it is in their best interest) to make it illegal. I know they can't track their citizen's activity on the network but when an individual cashes out, they would pay taxes on their earnings.

To me it seems to be a choice of what does big brother value more - money or information?

Banning a business from accepting bitcoin would be as hard as telling a business they couldn't give stuff away for free. I think they could shut down the exchange portals, but they couldn't keep people from trading goods for BTC.
Just leave the video conference software on. I'm working on an agile project with a distributed team and it works well once people realize that working in front of a live camera isn't any big deal.
i've migrated from iphone to galaxy note
really like form factor

my wife's iphone5 works much faster and more stable (plus ive $500+ content in itunes)
once apple released big iphone i'll buy it right away
Tuesday is the best everyone knows that
No, the desktop is needed to run Microsoft Office.
Claims, Benefits & You: Which Benefits Are Available In The UK?
I'm curious -- what's the prevailing methodology for defining the "proper amount of food and nutrients" for an individual?
So we are in agreeance then. MongoDB IS durable but it will be slower doing so. Hardly a surprise there. And still have to disagree about the joins but hey agree to disagree.

As for MongoDB performance well making a blanket statement is pretty silly. On a previous project I had queries that were upwards of 40x faster in MongoDB than MySQL. Why ? Because MongoDB allows the ability to embed documents within other documents to the point where I could make a single query with zero joins to fetch 20 entities worth of data.

Every database is optimal for different use cases.
Business card thunderclap - and you
Pretty close. ERIKS is still is one of the biggest Specialized dealers in the country. I was told by several people (the Specialized rep, ERIK himself and several buyers who worked in the corporate office) they clear maybe $50-$100 per Specialized bike they sell.

You also have to take into account you have to pay the mechanics to build the bikes before they go to the stores. They you have a driver and warehouse staff you have to pay to unload and get the bikes to the store, so there's some labor involved which cuts down on the margins they have.
App Store keywords checklist: 21 tips to work around Apple's horrible search
Early in the morning, pre lunch, post lunch, end of the afternoon?
Show HN: codeee.com — yet another online editor
I'd like to see more text written in that font in the example (before downloading). Does it have a slashed 0? Monospaced? Some ALL_CAPS text? How is the * verticaly aligned?

I googled some images from the original font: http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=Gohufont
I've been talking to possible employers recently and I have a whole list of reasons not withstanding some family circumstances. Note that I'm talking about partial remote work, not full telecommute.

1. My commute is a drain, doing it five days a week drives me to be less motivated and productive
2. Working remotely has less distractions.
3. I know I work better when I'm not in the same place all the time, I have to mix it up or I end up staring at the wall.
4. A company that can't handle remote work has some major process issues, this is a red flag for me.
5. I have a kid, if I'm at the library or the coffee shop near home, I can come home to him at lunch. If you want to make me hate my job, ask me to spend all my time working in an office without seeing him.
6. If I can work remotely, I'm going to do more work. I'm going to keep working past 5 because I'm on a roll. If not, soon as five comes around, I'm gone.

An office is good, and having the option to come in is great. Forcing me to come in all five days a week says something bad about your culture and process. At least to me.