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Hey Peter-- RESTful endpoints are supported. The other options are just there for convenience while testing. You can disable those routes later if you like in your routing table. Policy mapping happens at a controller level to solve this very problem and prevent devs from inadvertently granting access to a piece of code they didn't mean to.

# List of all users
http://localhost:1337/user

# Find the user with id 1
http://localhost:1337/user/1

# Create a new user
http://localhost:1337/user/create?name=Fisslewick
(or send an HTTP POST to http://localhost:1337/user)

# Update the name of the user with id 1
http://localhost:1337/user/update/1?name=Gordo
(or send an HTTP PUT to http://localhost:1337/user/1)

# Destroy the user with id 1
http://localhost:1337/user/destroy/1
(or send an HTTP DELETE to http://localhost:1337/user/1)
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Apparently that's only the case for the iPhone version, which is the only one I don't use (as I have an Android phone).
Only on the phone. iPad and desktop versions do not.
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Duplication, a.k.a. self-plagiarism, meets management-speak
Correct, treating baldness has more demand. My point is we can influence demand with things like outreach and awareness programs.

I'm curious, of all the things killing poor people, who decided malaria was at the top? Some people see clean water and food as a higher priority. Why should anyone tell me how to donate? Do people really have such level of faith in the benevolence of central planners?
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Then go for Pi approximation day: 22/7 = July 22.
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Great pic, thanks
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To a certain extent the question is not correct. Go was not designed to be beautiful, it was design to be readable. So the code can look quite pedestrian (e.g. for { } loops where other languages might have other constructs).

I believe this to be a win because learning and writing the language are fast. There are some nice 'a ha' moments (such as when you understand interfaces), but mostly the code is (in a good way) boring.

It's also a small language. I think it was designed for people who want to get things done, not for people who want to find the cleverest (i.e. least-number-of-characters) way of doing it.

The way concurrency is built into the language (based on sequential programming with channel based communication) further reduces the potential complexity. You just write sequential code and let the Go runtime handle the rest.
Include 10 years free storage and charge £5,100? :)
And Google Knol!
The main benefit that I see in writing for the filesystem first is that you _can_ defer the decision of database type and structure until it actually becomes important, then you can make that decision for each component of the system and swap them out independently.

The typical process, for me at least, has been to write out all the requirements of an app, then to start building migrations, models, and tests. Flipping this around has made me think about each layer differently and it _does_ blow minds when you show a simple "jack" that can be swapped out for any type of database at any time without affecting anything else.
Already have a print copy of the first edition, but ordered this too. Looking forward to the logic and data oriented programming content!
What new parts of C++ did you appreciate the most?
This is the least useful web page I've read in weeks/months.
Yeah, close enough. The key point though is that the figure includes military aid and even for non-military aid, most of it goes to strategically important states. Top 5 are Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan, before we finally get to purely humanitarian aid for Haiti at #6. Nigeria's got oil, or they wouldn't be getting any aid.
Oh look! -It's a Google fanboy apologist! Obviously, this is a good thing because it lets all Android users enjoy The Full Open Web, now that it's been Opened up a bit more.

Open is Good. Google is Open. Google is Good. Open open open.
It was an article about C++11 feature compliance. You're saying that no one should be allowed to write such an article unless they're also prepared to do an (essentially unrelated) benchmarking study?

And ICC tends to do quite well, though "twice as fast" is pretty spun (I'm sure there's a vectorizable routine somewhere that does that, certainly most typical code is going to be more in the "even to 10% better" range).
Not every problem "needs" a solution, or wants one for that matter. Good market research can help avoid these types of situations.
You hit my opinion exactly. I love to hate/hate to love meteor because of how easy it is, but I just can't come up with an easy testing scheme outside of full out integration test, or making some separate modules that are injected. Thanks for the link.
Given the scale at which it operates, Reader is undoubtedly very dependent on Google's infrastructure (BigTable etc.), none of which is publicly available.
It is interesting to see how much his description of invention also resemble game design.

People rarely understand why the really good games frequently miss deadlines, take lots of work and rarely end as the original vision planned, it is because bleeding edge game design is also a research effort, prototypes and tests, specially because we don't have yet sufficient psychology theoretical information to always predict player behavior, most of the best game design inventions were more a discovery than a real invention.

Like asteroids wrap around, street fighter II combos made with animation bugs, sim city disaster tool because players after a while on the prototype started to happily bulldoze the city to watch the chaos, and so on...
I'm looking forward to Pi Day in 2015.
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Would be neat if their Github desktop apps would set this up p2p automatically.
> Among the big cancers, breast cancer receives the most funding per new case, $2,596 — and by far the most money relative to each death, $13,452. Notably, prostate cancer, the most common cancer, receives the least funding per new case at just $1,318. But on a per-death basis it ranks second, with $11,298 in N.C.I. funds.

Source [http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/cancer-funding-does...]

We should look at normalized figures of funding per death, or funding per incidence.
> The new problem is: I'm bored already. The game isn't as deep as I first thought it was.

Interesting! So you're saying the lack of fixing problems appears to be a nice cover for a the lack of an interesting game?
The most important difference between Gopher and HTTP were not images, it was hyperlinks instead of a hierarchical structure.
Basic advertising is important in that you cannot sell a product without letting people know it exists.

However, I think the advertising industry grossly exaggerates the importance of advertising.

The trouble is, it's impossible to ask, "Does advertising work?" and get a conclusive scientific answer. There are usually far too many other factors in play to be able to look at a company or product and say, "X failed/succeeded because they didn't/did advertise." Is X successful because they advertise? Could they have been more successful if they'd invested their ad-campaign funding elsewhere? Did Y fail because of lack of advertising or simply because they tried to sell a rubbish product? Did they even fail because they devoted too much of their budget to advertising, not leaving enough to properly develop their product?
Capitalism is not the problem. It's our culture. We need to find a way to funnel more people into STEM jobs. The west has failed. India and China have drastically different governments but they both have been able to do one thing. Produce Engineers.
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You can't see how it disrupts anything?

It steps in-between two third-parties:

The person who developed an app that shows ads, and the people who bought the ad space.
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You're right, I did skip over some of his point. I would like to think that there is more to the notion than theory though. In practice, cures and treatments for baldness are self-sustaining --advertising > want > investment in treatments > more ads. Malaria (or similar affliction) have different dynamics and are not self-sustaining. (at least I don't see that). It's nice to think we could convince people to care about Malaria the same way they care about baldness (superficially this is a crass comparison), but the benefit (re Malaria) is remote and not immediate. Now, maybe it's not impossible. People unaffected personally by bigotry can show interest (and put effort) into ending bigotry, for example. I think that and Malaria are examples of 'big society'. So, maybe there is hope...
You had me at 'logic programming' :)
That's kind of like touching a boiling pot of water to see if it's hot. You know you're going to get burned, but you have to check anyway.
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Actually I think hospitals in the US are more profitable than casinos. I believe that was pointed out by the latest Time magazine article. The author said on The Daily Show that the hospital lobbies make the oil and gas industry lobbyists look like homeless people. Hospitals are assisted by a government enforced monopoly.
You left out all the big commercial UNIX vendors, embedded market, real time operating systems, HPC and game development.
It would not be trivial, since the client verifies the SSL certificate of the server, which is stored in the client binary most likely.
The Higgs field is something like the idea of an ether, pervading all space, but it is not related to the propagation of light.
http://www.gizmag.com/best-google-reader-alternatives-2013/2...
Thats the thing: I don't know what the most important thing for me to be doing is. So the best thing I can do is figure it out. Putting myself in a position of wealth and power opens more doors so that I have more opportunities to figure out just what the hell I'm supposed to be doing here. If I were to "give up" and not strive to grow, I'd have less access to the variety of things which can be done. Therefore, I must work hard and must get better and must do things that matter so that I have a better chance at figuring out what I'm here for. If it turns out that I'm not actually here for anything at all, then I really haven't lost anything because there was nothing to win in the first place. But, giving up before you even know the answer? Thats a sad story.
"Is there any reason not to use them if you're often a target and don't want to deal with it yourself?"

I don't think github became a target until very recently, and I imagine their corporate customers (using github enterprise) were unaffected by github.com uptime
It's fine as it is?

It's fine, as long as it crawls every feed, merges the contents, archives them, serves up the bandwidth, allows people to write custom front-ends that prohibit Google from even showing you any extra data like say an ad?
except it will be 2013-07-22
I don't think that people want to spend money on medicine like they want to spend money on phones. Even when they are ill, it comes across as more of a necessity than something inherently desirable, though at least when feeling ill they might give more thought to how much nicer things would be if medicines worked better than they do now.

But to expect folks to cash their paychecks, run out to the store and buy some new cough syrup just because it's so cool?... that's what happens with phones, but it seems unlikely to happen with medicine.

And in fact that'd be ridiculous. If one isn't even feeling ill, why should they go out and buy medicine? Unless they are buying it for someone else, but this sort of gets us into the realm of charity and donations.

I don't know; what do you think? What sort of situation can you imagine in which a consumer treats funding medical research the same way they treat buying a new phone?
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So I'm in the UK. I pay their licence fee and yet I get this:
"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee."

I'd love to find the article on the normal BBC site but no luck.
Pitchfork (http://pitchfork.com)

Chicago

Hey all, Pitchfork (http://pitchfork.com) is expanding its dev team. We’re looking for a someone with sharp UX skills and some level of Django experience.

If you want to hack on things like:

- http://pitchfork.com/peopleslist/
- http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/bat-for-lashes/
- http://pitchfork.com/advance/

and help push us further, this is the job for you. Your contributions will be seen daily by millions of people around the world, and you'll be a part of a design and dev team whose work has been praised for not only redefining music journalism, but influencing the medium itself.
About you: You should have real-world experience w/ Django 1.3+ as well as MySQL or Postgres. You should have a good eye for design even if you're not designing the project. You should love music; ideally you're familiar with the music we cover and the audience we cater to. Bonus points for experience with Jinja, Sass, Backbone, RQ, Redis, ElasticSearch or Solr, audio/video encoding, Vagrant; with AWS offerings such as EC2, RDS, SES, and CloudFront; with typography and grid layout fundamentals. Extra bonus points for familiarity with the infield fly rule, the ARP 2600, 2600 Quarterly, and/or Green Flash Brewery.

About us: We're a small team of full-stack devs. We move quickly and fluidly because the publishing environment demands it — not that we'd have it any other way. We juggle a few large sites and several satellite projects, so we make sure we spend our time coding, not staring at whiteboards.

We code a lot, we're rewarded by what we do (and win awards for it), and we've been known to have a beer while doing so. If you're interested in doing those things with us, send your resume and/or Github/Bitbucket profile to mattd /at\ pitchfork /dot\ com.
That is not such a bad idea.
Deductions for charitable contributes are capped.

Not for capital gains if you sell the underlying asset. If I buy a stock for 1 cent and donate it then I avoid all capital gains even if it's now worth 30 billion. Considering the original baseline Gates working with it's ~30 billion * .15 ~= 4.5 billion tax savings. You also get to deduct the original 1 cent from your income, but as I said your avoiding the 50% income cap on donations.

I agree that his paper worth and taxes are separate issues, I am simply stating that having a charity sell stock is much better than having a person sell stock for the amounts involved. And it would be reasonable to charge capital gains at the time of donation for the same reason it's reasonable to remove the donation tax break. To further prove the point if your dealing with a deprecated stock it's better to sell and then donate.

PS: Wikipedia has a good example (Ordinary Income Producing Property and Short Term Capital Gain Property)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_contribution_deducti...
You should take your technology and apply it to the nursing industry. I've been saying it for years: Healthcare is an inefficient marketplace. Hospitals always have a hard time filling nursing demand, so they go to extraordinary lengths. For instance, we currently live in Portland, OR rent free while my wife makes more than she would if she lived here, all because they don't have enough nurses. My wife has a recruiter, who sends her loads of paperwork.

There's totally a startup that could make a lot of money. Maybe start out as software for recruiters to manage their "inventory" of nurses? Then expand into a full on marketplace, eventually disinter-mediating said agencies.
Google separates its mapping and commerce unit, Jeff Huber steps down
You got it wrong: more DOLLARS want to cure baldness than malaria.
I think buzzfeed gets automatically marked dead.
Are there any open source alternatives (I'm thinking Ruby/Rails/Sinatra) where I could throw up my own RSS read/sync server onto Heroku or something?
when the rest of the infrastructure around it is changing all the time, it's hard not to end up spending a considerable amount of time and effort just to keep the service up and running
Different video games provide different cognitive benefits
>The nice part about markets is they can adapt very quickly. If we were to convince enough people malaria was worth curing, we could do it! There's no rule to a marketplace that says you can't.

This is a big problem of free market fundamentalism, in my opinion. It's far too optimistic about how rational people are.

I do still think that capitalism might be one of those "it's crap but all options are worse" kind of thing. At least for now.
You'll probably be disappointed. Ignoring the fuss of DRM/offline-play the game just wasn't very good IMO. Perhaps if you like watching little Sims and feeling connected on the micro-scale to a city it's interesting. If you're into Macro city management simulation, don't bother.
They added some interesting new features, it showed some creativity. But the implementation is poor IMO.

Even if they enabled an offline mode I still wouldn't be playing it. Course that's all subjective so I guess there will be those who disagree. I think most of the yelling and screaming for an offline mode is the gaming community making a Custers' Last Stand on the issue. People are mostly upset about the concept of not "owning" the game and that at some point in the future they might not be able to play this game. I doubt very many of those upset would actually want to play this game in 10 years time. Course I do agree with the fundamentals of that argument, but unfortunately I don't think we'll win.

Guess what I'm trying to get at, is the passion surrounding this game is more due to principles than enjoyment or zealous fandom of the game itself. Well perhaps some of the outrage is over how EA has destroyed a classic series like SimCity. But that doesn't mean the game is good and you should buy it for the playing experience.
> the point you missed is the money point.
Explain how I missed the point. Nothing you said indicates anything about how I missed the point.

You don't need a 5 page business plan or a 15 slide presentation to answer those questions. You can answer all of those questions in 5 minutes of questioning from investors.

And yes, you CAN avoid answering those questions if you have traction. If you have MASSIVE traction, your cash flow and balance sheet is pretty much irrelevant since the assumption is you can monetize later (see: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, many other social companies). Even in Silicon Valley this is the exception, make no mistake, and generally doesn't apply to B2B or B2D(eveloper) companies, but it is one possibility.
You need a hedge-fund billionaire that is obsessed with wine to back you. He would own, (or have a perfect lean) on all the inventory allowing him to buy $10M in wine as a business investment. He would get the satisfaction knowing that he was arbing the wine market as a side project, and if it failed, he would be "stuck" with a bunch of inventory that he liked.
Exactly, and we all know the internet cannot be the internet if it doesn't have cat pictures.
Sure. Specific, well-studied examples abound. You can get scurvy, or gout, or type II diabetes, or other problems from your diet. But "billions" of people don't get scurvy or gout.

If you want to use some kind of idiosyncratic definition of "sick" that pronounces somewhere between a substantial minority and a majority of the world as "sick" at any given time, I guess I can't stop you. But as a practical matter, we're comparing shake-guy's food to the other foods that people actually eat, not to whatever your idea of the best diet in the world is.
if you have cron configured correctly, anything that a cron job prints to STDOUT will be emailed to the configured email address.

this is how we did newsletters back in the day.
Having read many of Paul Graham's essays about his time trying to start a company selling web services to art galleries, I can totally relate to the fact that there are indeed still many industries that are extremely archaic and uninclined to change the way they do business (even if small changes would make their lives simpler and their businesses more profitable).
Wow, living in Spain at the moment I often get the problem where videos aren't viewable outside the UK, but I didn't realise the opposite problem could exist!
Right, I was thinking prof_hobart's comment above.
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Many of the parameters are actually not specified by the theory, and have to be fitted by experiment. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalization for one of the reasons why.
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Not the OP, but I'm going to put my vote down for a simple and comparatively less discussed feature: initializer lists. Declarative programming is a huge win, and being able to declare objects just like you do "static data" is a huge readability win.

Other stuff is mostly about fixing bugs in the standard (<cough> rvalue references </cough>), cleaning up the syntax (auto) or providing new syntax for useful but comparatively rare operations (lambdas). That's all good, but initializer lists can change the paradigm of how the code is presented, and that's better.
That is the problem, ideologies are more about story telling (narratives) than modeling the world. You need a hero, villan and a great problem. Ideologies are often not good at solving the "great problem" since they often have really naive model of the problem (see Communism/Capitalism/Libertarianism/Fascism/Democracy/Anarchism) but they are extremely useful. They can bring people together and bridge divides of culture and religion (and create new divisions and hatreds). They can inspire us to work toward a grand project. They can manifest changes that never would have been possible.

I believe one of the reasons that large scale innovation was greater in the mid 20th Century than in the late 20th Century was the death of ideology but also one of the reasons that the late 20th Century and early 21th Century has been so peaceful.
BETA-style inheritance for Python
Is reader really a money drain? The bulk of it is crawling and serving cached text, which is core to google's search anyway.
Jeff Huber steps down as SVP Maps/Commerce at Google
Really surprising to see as Jeff was widely viewed as a star within the company.
You seem to be using a different definition of colonization of state than what I considered nominal i.e. maintaining power structures that are closely aligned to the colonizing force or transferring people to create such power structures. Of the top my head, I can't name a single one, I can however name several botched attempts at colonization.

My "solution" doesn't require much cooperation, other than having a NGO and government tolerance of such NGO. IF NGO count as colonization than colonization is pretty meaningless.
When a good product isn't good enough...
Then Pi approximation day: 22/7
Any additional special deals for folks who own the first edition? Maybe for just the diff ;)
This isn't good news because it means we are going to be suffering along with setuptools even longer, which is substantially the cause of all the packaging pain in Python.

If it made sense to reject distutils2 as having too much cruft, it makes even less sense to accept setuptools which will be even cruftier and provide an eternal excuse not to switch to anything better

It certainly wasn't ever the problem that "distribute is not enough like setuptools" which is all this should "solve".