skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fear of chemicals in general? Silly, but that is a bit of a strawman.

Fear of ingesting synthesized chemicals in quantities to which our species has not been exposed during its evolution? Count me in, with the obvious rational disclaimers.
Sounds juvenile. If I wasn't familiar with Bootstrap it'd certainly cause me pause.
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Because it's gratuitous and unprofessional.
nice platform for those trying to find more income+experiences :) and,i'm one of them!
The site is awsome! I just try the simplified Madarin, it is very motivating. Juts give a try to:
http://www.memrise.com/course/749/the-guardian-chinese-chall...
Nice link, thanks :)
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And when a primary source can be provided, it ought to be linked, e.g., articles based on a study, "new report," or court document. I feel like I am constantly hunting these things down for myself.
Have you looked into Partychat[1]. It is what we use for internal communication. You can easily create multiple rooms and it integrates with gtalk.

[1]: http://partychapp.appspot.com/
Man, I love bootstrap. Not only is it pretty well design from the front end and back end. The less files that are architected are awesome, I wouldn't have thought of it on my own. The guys built it for full customization for advance programmers and dead simple for beginners. Keep up the good work!

The only disadvantage to this is that all startups are now 'lazy' and begin using bootstrap default theme colors and styles -- which makes all website look the same. I'm not sure whether I feel that we're losing creativity for people who want to play with colors or we're losing the ability to actually code up some CSS to make things pretty. (Just my opinion).

Dropping support for IE7 was a good idea. I believe that is the next browser we're killing after IE6, right? After all, who keeps versions of browser these days? I mean I lost count when Chrome updates for me -- and Firefox is on rapid release (18) now. I can't keep up remember all these numbers and browsers!

Please keep up the good work! Bootstrap is an awesome framework for the web!
I think one should know what they take. Of course some traditional grandmother's remedies are efficient, but not all, and they might have unforeseen side effects. Just like any regular drug chemical. So I take issue with the tradition-sanctioned approach. Empirical evidence is of course valid, but there are different way to obtain this evidence, some more riskier to people than others, and there comes the rub. I don't think tradition / duration of use are alone good enough. I'm ready to bet you'd trust way more a traditional remedy that's been analyzed and the effect of which are understood, that one that is mysterious. However, what you're saying implies:

A) the empirical no-risk evidence comes from centuries of field-testing on people. Logical consequence is run for dear life from "new" herbal / traditional medicine stuff. It fails to take into account historical evidence of useless treatments that were still accepted for centuries (take bleeding patients for example).

B) the result from keeping naturally occurring chemicals together in a medicine can make for a more efficient / less aggressive concoction. It's true. But emphasis on CAN here. It also can make you ingest toxic compounds that are totally unnecessary and may be dangerous. The point is you don't know, and since there's nothing miraculous about this kind of stuff, it can be tested ahead, which is the whole point of the FDA, however flawed some of its processes might be. This empirical testing is also how drugs are improved with minimal adverse effect on people (and max adverse effect on mice), and how treating HIV-patients with a cocktail of chems was found to be most effective. The list goes on.

I think we absolutely need to be able to explain something before declaring it relatively safe, and remain conscious that there are always outlying risks, be it only allergy. Everything is indeed a chemical, it's a simple enough fact, and people should realize that this holds true for all traditional / herbal remedies as well. This selective chemophobia the author talks about stems imo in large part from a distaste for the pharmaceutical industry (and its shadier practices), but it doesn't make the rational approach of trying to understand how chemicals would affect our organisms, before ingesting them, any less valid.
C with a proper string and buffer library, such as libdjb. http://www.fefe.de/djb/
Paywall -- don't bother to visit the site.
I mastered PHP, Python, JavaScript, Java. For me the only reason to use PHP is availability on every low cost host. I don't found any other arguments to use PHP.
It's an interesting question to ask here because Paul Graham has said that he prefers to listen to people who do not speak well in public because they sound more authentic, and it shows they care more about their work than giving a good impression of their work.

My opinion is that people who have had to speak value those skills and everyone else has no idea that it is even a skill, so it will be necessary to teach people that your services are needed or should be wanted.

Edit: Just to be clear, I know Paul must value these skills. I meant by the first paragraph that his idea of good public speaking is at odds with what is commonly considered to be good public speaking.
I have both iPad and Surface and I've had the iPad for years. I've asked my girlfriend if she wants an iPad and she told me that she didn't because she didn't really find a use case for it.

When I brought home the Surface she said: "Wow, this I can use . Get me one!".

I don't really know why but she likes it and everyone that I've show Surface to and that have tried it out do infact like it, a lot.
Is it all still in the original, unopened packaging? A lot of collectors like it like that.

Personally I think it's way overpriced. The seller is factoring their own sentimentality into the price, something unlikely to be shared by others. At $50 a game and $200 a console, it's still only $408K.

But then, maybe there's a sentimental billionaire who wants it...
Corporate insiders support hedge fund manager's bet on Apple
Small nitpick: it irks me to see "yerba mate" spelled as "yerba maté." I wonder where the hell that came from. I suspect it's about not confusing it with mate as in pal or buddy.
Being the sole person responsible for a system that customers rely on 24x7 to make them money is just about the most stressful thing I've ever experienced as a developer, so I can definitely relate to that weight on your shoulders.

If it's any small consolation, I'll bet you beat yourselves up about the downtime issues way more than your customers ever would.
App signing and certificates - a PITA
Does this not apply equally to ingesting any chemicals that humans have not been exposed to during our evolution?

What about tea and coffee? Or beer and wine? Or tomatoes? Or capsaicin?
I went there from news.google.com and did not see a paywall (I am not registered w/ FT).
Yeah, PHP is a lot funnier :)
http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...
this is why I read HN. I'm going to enjoy reading about behavior trees for the next week :-) Thanks for posting.
The slate article isn't providing any medical advice, it's merely telling people that they shouldn't fear synthetically manufactured medicines while being completely trusting of naturopathic ones. If anything it's telling people to be more informed, skeptical, and to use reason rather than emotion when making informed choices about medicine.
I suspect there is a strong social stigma attached to having advertising displayed on one's car. It might be seen as the automotive equivalent of wearing a sandwich sign.

But bumperstickers are popular. They're not advertising, at least not usually. Sometimes people have so many of them that they might as well be a billboard.
Large code bases are rarely rewritten from scratch. They evolve over many years, and over time, old code gets replaced with new code, piece by piece. If a language evolves over a similarly long time span (10 years or more), and new features are adopted gradually, I don't see why a backward-incompatible change would require anything more than the usual amount of change when the last of the old code is retired. Call it inertia if you want, but this looks to me to be a good thing if you have a large code base to maintain.
Anyone else with their mouth agape as they scroll down the listing looking at those images? 8-0
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I think it's got to do with preserving north south east and west angles. Also, the distortion is only noticeable when you're zoomed out. When zoomed in most things are in relative proportion to each other.
What about localStorage? I thing that's what http://nextepiso.de/ uses.
> Parameters require you to be well-behaved with using them consistently.

That's the whole point! Since it looks like O.php was intended as a framework for new projects rather than integration into existing code base, you could just tell people that they should use parameters when using O.php. No legacy code to support = all queries will be written from scratch anyway.

Please, don't reinvent the wheel of preventing SQL injection. It's a solved problem, and solving it again is boring. Bringing a bit of sanity to PHP, on the other hand, can be a much more exciting task.
Hi Amy,

Thanks for sharing your experiences in such an open manner. It certainly takes much courage and bravery to shutting down your service and even more so, writing honestly about it.

Could I ask you a few questions:

- Is it true to say that if this product required less maintenance (in terms of uptime, server administration, future migration), you would not have abandoned it?

- Secondly, assuming that you are not against raising external funding (which you are not in favour of, as mentioned in your blog post) and hiring the right team for it, would it be fair to say that you would be willing to continue with Charm?

- Lastly, and hypothetically, if Freckle and your other opportunities were not around, would you have continued with Charm? Would it be fair to propose that because of the high maintenance required by Charm upon you and your team, the opportunity cost is simply too high, relative to the other options that you have?

Thank you, and hope to hear from you. :)
...if you want to learn about the true beauty of viruses, learn about how they work, how their genetic code is written and "executed" to produce the simplest and smallest possible viable replicator (though not an independent replicator), grab a molecular virology textbook like [1] (it's not that hard - you can skim a more general molec bio book like [2], which is written in a style very friendly to all technically oriented people, including coders). Or check out a really cool virology blog - http://www.virology.ws/ (by one of the authors of book [1]), though latest posts are more about politics and social implications than cool basic science.

I have a feeling that von Newman would be extremely fascinated by modern molecular virology if he'd be alive today, considering his interest for minimal universal replicators [3]. If you think about it, modern computer science may very well owe its existence to von Newman's and Turing's interest in mathematical models of life itself!

(...if you want to learn more about the topic above, just google "von newman universal constructor" or "turing morphogenesis" or "schrodinger what is life" and start exploring, I don't want to spoil anyone's fun of finding out about this for yourselves :) )

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[1] http://astore.amazon.com/virologyws-20/detail/1555814433
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-Bruce-Alberts/d...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construct...
VfsStream - a virtual file system for PHP
You're laughing, but the other day LinkedIn actually asked me to endorse one of my contacts for "Crime fighting".
And an inevitable one.
What's up with having so many of one console? Eg, all these PS2s? http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/607/dsc03114h.jpg/
VelcroStrip?
In the same breath you should also not assume any doctor is an impartial scientist.

Doctors are humans and are therefore also subject to being lazy, greedy, ignorant, etc.

Just because they seem to have more knowledge and use something of a scientific method doesn't mean they aren't locked into their ways, always giving the same kind of diagnosis for certain symptoms without questioning their limited knowledge.

They also face pressure from insurance and government agencies to behave in certain manners.

As many of us are coders, let me put it this way - have you ever looked up to another coder because they seemed to know so much more than you? Then after some years you surpassed them in your knowledge and looked back on their code and realized it was a "bit cr*p" in parts?

Yeah well your doctor is like that too. If they aren't constantly learning and researching, they are set in their ways and being moved by forces that may not make the best decisions for your health.
Comperable to what you can get for unlimited ADSL from providers like earthlink, I should also note, that based on what I know, those prices are for capped service, versus unlimited for most american ADSL.

That said, one thing Europe does beat us on is footprint, only a very small percentage here has real broadband access (sat access doesnt count). But that is the nature of the differences in population density.
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For all my love for Steam, Valve, Linux and Newell himself, I cannot help but gag a little every time he opens his mouth as of late.

Not a single fuck was given about Linux prior to the release of Win 8. Then, suddenly, once Valve's profit margins and business model is threatened the company shows some interest. This is all--of course--perfectly rational behavior, but there's no need to be all righteous about it and feed into our superiority complexes as Linux users. We don't want an 'us vs them' mentality here. What we want is for all the Windows users to get curious and come explore what Linux has to offer, not dig in and defend their OS just because they were pissed off by smug flamebait rethoric.
The secret behind Amazon.com's growth isn't what you'
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Let's be clear though - this is your personal list of requirements. Be that as it may you should address how each of your points is in conflict with clojure.
I've been reading more about security lately, and one thing I don't understand is how buffer overflows allow for true RCE these days. I believe all modern processors support having non-executable pages; why is any program-writeable page executable? Especially in C, where there's no JIT. It also seems like address space randomization would make RCE pretty hard.

Obviously they can still arbitrarily write the instruction pointer, which is very bad and possibly bootstrappable into fully RCE, but I still see more conventional RCE described in recent books and wonder if and why it's still doable.
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I like Python and JavaScript. But I code in Java because of robustness, speed (runtime and ... development speed, yes!) and because here (in Germany) Java is first choice language and because of good salaries.
I have been wishing for a long time to have an outline feature in Google maps (or any map tool for that matter). I always want to compare the size of things (partly because of the distortion of the projection), say is the city of SF larger or smaller than NYC? I was stoked when Google added city boundaries, so that means they know them. Now there just needs to be a way to select a city, state/province/department/whatever, or country and drag it somewhere.
There might be more attack vectors with this, but generating a long random string is the basis of a lot of security mechanisms.
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Imagine how much harder this would be if you also had to rotate.
How do you know this ruined his life?
RPG Maker 2000? Boy, that takes me back. Anyway, it’s always good to see more pixel art software. The medium is alive and well. You should post a news item on PixelJoint[1] and a thread on Pixelation[2].

[1]: http://www.pixeljoint.com/

[2]: http://www.wayofthepixel.net/
Not sure if this makes sense, but couldn't they have different projections for different zoom levels?
My sister is a recently turned vegetarian. As her meat-eater engineer older brother, it's my insolent duty to explain to her that carbon chains like protein are all the same, come it from a bean or a cow. Chickens are no more than organic machines that turn molecules around so they taste rich, especially when deep fried and extra crusty.

Needless to say, that won't do anything to change her mind -- not that she has to, it's just me being a pain in the butt gaucho. She is a vegetarian for a myriad of subjective reasons that I could never even start to debase or crack. I've never heard of chemophobia (and the Chrome spell-checker hasn't either), but I think that turning a desperate quest by a mother into a bunch of molecules and atoms is an oversimplification of a complex, subjective choice made by complex, subjective minds.
It's a good article. Human beings are wired to believe that things that are "natural" or "pure" are better than things that are "artificial." It's a quality of human nature that seems to show up in all cultures. Steven Pinker lists many of them in The Blank Slate. It pretty much explains the huge market in "organic" food.

Since people have a bias for the "natural" it is hard to have any sort of a conversation about what chemicals might be good for you that don't occur naturally. And, people are unduly scared of "artificial" chemicals while turning a blind eye toward the dangers than many "natural" chemicals have.

Inclination toward "natural" makes a lot of sense as an evolved bias. Doubtless, it kept our ancestors alive. But our bodies don't have any sort of magical scanner to detect whether something is natural or not, they simply reacts in mixed ways. To us, some of those reactions are positive or negative, even for the same chemical.
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I'll work with either, but kebab-case(or snake-case with dashes if you prefer) is a lot more readable in HTML source for me.

Also, all their CSS classes were kebab-case anyway, so it makes sense that they'd change their variables to match. It's a nice move towards consistency.
I think the author was talking more about rockstar/genius developers with many years under their belt than simple "good" or even "great" developers.
I also think the author fails to realise that a lot of what he recommends isn't easy to come by.
Don't get me wrong, it all makes a lot of sense; every word. However I agree more with antoko in that perhaps the focus sometimes needs to be on increasing developer confidence. After all, we can't all be rockstars can we?
It's just a word.
I think hackers should tell good storys. All consultents and workshops says they must teach "communication skills" and these are just some words for saying: "talk to someone in the level he understands". A Hacker should focus on translating a techstory in the language that everbody can understand. Good Story + Translation for the audience = Public Speaking Skills.

Disclaimer: I'm german and this is my bad school english.
Here you can read about defeating the protections you mentioned: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-09/Fritsch/B...
The hope, then, is that when taking something more "natural" as opposed to man-made is that that natural product will inherently contain a wider variety of compounds that taken together create a more potent, but gentle effect on the patient.

And why would they? You are pretty much literally assuming an intelligent design behind the mate plant or Meadows's Montmorency cherry juice. But from an evolutionist perspective, what reason is there for a random plant to contain just the right mix of chemicals to produce the most beneficial effects in humans?

There is none, of course - except where the plant has been cultivated, that is, subjected to artificial selection. But while farmers can and did select for taste, yield, size, color, how could they select for an ideal balance of chemicals they don't even know about? How could they optimize for medical benefits without double-blind trials, and when most of their harvest is used for other purposes anyway? Why trust an imprecise, blind form of artificiality over a scientific, informed one?

By the way, some of the plants more painstakingly selected for human benefit - cereals - are the source of one of the (real or supposed) villains in Meadows's story: gluten. And even more exotic (and therefore appealing) South American plants like the Solanaceae (potato, tomato, eggplant...) contain significant amounts of toxic alkaloids. So much for the harmonious, "gentle" blend of compounds in natural products!
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I see dead code (homage for IntelliJ Idea)
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It can be parsed to an AST -- as you note, it can be parsed into two ASTs. It's called an ambiguous grammar, which can still be context free.
And second in command to TOTUS. You will want to google that one, too.
Turbo Pascal.

It has a similar set of capabilities to C (including pointers, in line ASM, arbitrary memory access, etc.), ability to call C code, so integrates nicely with C libs.

It has slightly better type handling - e.g. you can declare "feet" and "metres" types based on float, but the compiler won't let you assign one to the other (unless you force a cast).

The major safety advantage is that by default access to strings, arrays and memory management is bounds checked. You can turn this off with pragmas in the code for performance sensitive bits.

In fact, standard practice in C now is to use bounds-checked functions (the strn* functions, etc). Except instead of the compiler keeping track of data sizes for you, you have to do it manually!

Normal string handling is also faster in TP since it stores the length of the string, so it doesn't have to scan through to find the zero char during string operations.

Of course, all this is possible in C, but it's not part of the standard language and API. This has two disadvantages:
1) Lazy or inexperienced programmers will write the most dangerous code. Yikes!
2) Each careful programmer will solve the safety problems in their own way, code from different sources will not necessarily be compatible, forcing library APIs to fall back to the unsafe standard structures.
http://www.united-domains.de/landingpages/welt/

This Site check >=270 tlds.
Full disclosure: I built Candy

You could use Candy (http://candy-chat.github.com/candy) as a nice web UI for XMPP MUC (Multi-User-Chat). It supports basic features but is easily extendable through plugins.
Looks really nice though I'd like it more if it would also use XMPP as the protocol. (Or did I miss that it actually uses it?)
All the different revisions?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2#Hardware_revision...
"No bag" isn't the unique advantage of a Dyson vacuum cleaner, it the short marketing version of "there's no loss of suction as you're using it".

Equally, the ballbarrow is of use to gardeners, not brickies.

Entertaining rant, but if I can pick holes in it, what could someone with actual knowledge do?
It's still worth it.
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As far as I can tell that actually could work very well, though the implementation might be quite difficult: 15 different zoom levels (I think) that google uses probably wouldn't be enough to make transitions between each seamless, requiring client side scaling during the zoom animations (which will either make the images slightly blurry or require loading higher resolution images).