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I could not agree more with you. Even if I created Pygreen I would not use it for big projects. But I know what I'm doing when I create my small web sites and I know for a simple static web site 'start with html and add dynamic bits' is just fine. See it as a bash script, it's not meant to be readable nor reusable. It's quickly created code that serves for one purpose.

I'm the first to say it's quick&dirty. Yet quick&dirty has its advantages in some cases, even for good programmers that know how to make solid and maintainable applications.
Good story.

I've always thought that the situation in Afghanistan can be pretty much summarised in these pictures:

http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5112c4a969beddd0720...

p/s: it shows the stark differences in Aghanistan from 1967 to 2007
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It's sort of nicely ambiguous. If you hate the period (some people do, the Renaissance guys obviously did), you can interpret it as "the time when people were in the dark (about stuff)". If you love it (I do, for a plethora of reasons, as do many contemporary historians, now that our reconstruction shows that the life of the people in that period was as rich and study-worthy as any other historical period), the obvious interpretation is "the the time we've been in the dark about for quite some time (i.e., due to scanty records)".

To me, it always seemed that in the provinces, quite little has changed after the end of the 5th century from the POV of your ordinary peasant. The more remote provinces have never been that much urbanized to begin with, and the non-Roman east of Europe didn't notice a thing anyway.
Wow, you're really making a ton of assumptions based on no evidence. I'm sorry you have such trouble assuming good faith.

Fact is, we just forgot to mention it. Django's working so well on Py3 that it kinda seems like no big deal any more, so we forgot to mention it in the release notes. I'll fix that once I get a chance.
Again, see my comment up-thread. Your assumptions are rather incorrect.
I agree, it was discussed to death in the story about the original article.

This exact phrase actually was in the NYT article rather than the paper itself, that as far as I remember made no such claims.

There is no doubt that is more beneficial than actually doing nothing, but let's keep it real.

About the app, nice.
I'm a bit confused.
We're trying to, yeah.

For this release specifically we wanted to have it out before the end of summer so that we can be ready to merge Andrew's migration work and any GSoC code and turn around another release quickly.
I thought the Kandahar green belt stuff was "help this third-world country develop with the promise of the green revolution" showplace stuff from the west, not the organic state of Afghanistan overall in the 1960s, though. It was certainly otherwise far better back then, but my perception from people from Kandahar (who admittedly weren't really experts; expats who had left in the 1980s) was that it was sort of like Epcot Center or something which had fallen into disrepair.)
We started a mail list for Dropbox users to find the software you're talking about. Maybe you'll join the list and post some links.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/dropbox-u...

Note I tried not to be enthusiastic about your comment. Didn't work. ;-)
Some providers make often 1$ .com or .org without asking you spamming Twitter followers... They may be estimate that a tweet has a ROI of 5$. This is not the case, because influencers will not retweet to avoid paying 5$. My twitter followers worth better content.
Quebec cracks down on Airbnb
Worldwide Protest in 436 Cities Targets Monsanto and GMOs
I had to do a chargeback to get my money back from Dreamhost. They refused to refund me after I asked for a refund less than 2 hours after signing up.

I would never recommend Dreamhost to anyone.
Incredible - even though it's 37 out of 511 companies.
Im in no position to recommend anything, but the 4 Hour Work Week has opened my eyes, maybe it can do something for you too
As for the donations, none of them are local. On the other hand, I now live in an area where the politicians are in general aligned with my positions. And then there are cases where one must absolutely be fired, and the people largely agree: https://www.google.com/search?q=rita+hunter+jasper+county
Of course it grows. Accelerated growth even. How else would you explain that when walking out a window the earth grows to meet you?
Well, this is just the alpha release of the Django 1.6 so production recommendations (other than "don't use this for production yet") are probably a bit premature.

If you are very concerned about this, you should bring it up on the django-dev list:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/django-de...
'All of this means that it doesn’t matter what an object’s lineage is, only what it can do at the moment.'

This made me chuckle for reasons entirely unrelated to JavaScript and prototypal inheritance. :)
>Look around you at the Web: all the top sites use JS heavily and without "heroic efforts" compared to Java (dead on the client) or .NET (WPF is dead too).

Java isn't used in the browser because of awfully bad user experience, and bad security (personally, I disabled Java in the browser). JavaScript applications just look much better and behave much more smoothly, which is more important on the web than ease of development and performance.
Web applications are much more readily used than desktop applications, and that's why we have to use them. It's just economic incentive. If we create a desktop application, user base which we sell too will be much smaller if the same application will be provided on the web. I'd love to use technologies, which make me more productive than JavaScript like JavaFX and Silverlight, or at least Flash. However, there's a large percentage of users whose browsers don't support them and if they support them they provide inferior user experience.
I (and many other people) use JavaScript not because it's great but because it's the only platform which is universally supported by browsers not and provides superior user experience. It's the only reason to use it.

> without "heroic efforts" compared to Java (dead on the client) or .NET (WPF is dead too).

Most of the top sites are quite trivial in code complexity. They are more complex design and ui-experience wise than codewise. There are, of course complex web applications, like google docs, cloud9, gmail, google reader, but they were created with definitely heroic efforts, and they don't reach the complexity of the top desktop applications. Where's web based Mathematica, 3DS Max, Autocad, IntelliJ? When web based office applications will have performance of MS Office?

As an indicator of how complex these web applications are, you can take a look at how many web frameworks have non trivial collections, like HashSets, HashMaps, TreeMaps etc. Only the following frameworks support them: closure tools, GWT, Dart. Most of the popular JS frameworks which are used by top sites don't use them.

>JS these days has a lot going for it, including IntelliJ-style IDEs (Cloud 9 offers one) and not-too-OO-or-huge frameworks.

I actually work at JetBrains (the creator of IntelliJ), and I can say that Cloud9 provides IDE experience from 90s. The only meaningful feature that it supports is code completion and error highlighting. It has no refactorings, find usages, and many other smart features. I think, the JavaScript is to blame, and I feel that so complex code is near impossible to write in a language such as JavaScript (because of its lack of static type system).
I would take a look at the actual implementation [1].

It is clearly not a full-featured connection pool. Sure, it gives some quick performance wins within each thread, but this is no proper cross-process connection pool.

[1] - https://github.com/django/django/commit/2ee21d9f0d9eaed0494f...
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Not exactly. It's not proper connection pooling -- for that, you still should be using an external pool like pgbouncer. Instead this is a single persistent connection per thread. The speed improvement should be about the same, but you something like pgbouncer gives you more control over the number of connections and offers a ton of extra features.
How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
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In a transaction where one asset is inflationary in relation to another, another one is deflationary, right? So if I apply your argument of deflationary spiral to currently deflationary assets (in relation to USD), we would have to withhold selling our services and goods for USD because tomorrow we would be able to get even more USD, right? So no trade should happen in a USD economy too? (Buyer of one asset is a seller of another and vice versa.)

Another argument: there are time preferences. Even though tomorrow I can buy 10% more beer for my money, I want some beer today. If my money gets expensive faster, I'd spend less of it, but not necessary zero.

Third argument: even if everyone is holding their money, what's the problem? The minute someone needs something, they'd have to pay for it. They would prefer to consume less if cash appreciates and consume more if cash depreciates. But there is no magical threshold after which money becomes so expensive that everyone stupidly dies of starvation. On contrary, price will stop growing as soon as everyone got what they wanted and trade stopped (no one wants to sell his bitcoin). Then, as people see more stable prices, they will resume trading cash for something to consume.
Search Google for $0.50 domains and you can get .com/org/net domains for a $0.50USD for the first year from companies like Register or Network Solutions.

The downside is you have to be very careful when you sign up as to not forget to remove the $100 worth of junk they throw in your shopping cart, but a few months after you register you can then transfer your domain to another registrar so you don't have to renew at their ridiculous $30-$40 price tag.

The upside is you don't have to spam your Twitter followers.
again from the rules:

If the deal gets enabled, your account should meet the following criteria to take advantage of the offer

so it clearly says that if you want to take advantage of the offer, you need to retweet and follow
Looks like the hotel lobby is strong in Canada as well!
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And they've been doing so for a long time. "You wouldn't steal a car" etc. were all about equating piracy with stealing from a shop or whatever.
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I've been the top #1 provider for years and up until vWorker got sold to freelancer. I honestly think that was an awful move, since what made vWorker different from the rest is that it had less number of providers (and clients), but with a much better quality.

This, and the fact that being a freelancer for years helped me identify lots of things that were poorly done on sites such as freelancer, made me realize that we needed something new.

I joined other fellow freelancers and long time remote working clients, together with highly successful entrepreneurs (founders of a +55 millions users social network, Google managers, DMGT as a strategic and finance partner) and we launched www.workana.com

We initially built it to let other markets (particularly Latin America including Brazil) join and benefit from the freelancer way of life. Shortly after launching, though, we realized we had something much bigger than what we thought: we were making top quality professionals be available for clients that did not know they were even there, since this talent was not a part of any other platform.

I invite you to try Workana, where you will not only find awesome professionals (and in your time zone) but we will also, personally, help you identify the best candidate, and guide you through the whole process.
Looks fun. I assume it's still up to the application devs as to how they handle those annotations then (say on a build server or when the docs are generated)? Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't appear to be any direct effect of using them other than the meta-data that they add.

Edit: looks like "gag-agent" is there to react to the annotations, but it's not clear to me where/how that would work
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There are many different kinds of pressure.
I don't always handle 'interview pressure' well (depends on the job and interview), but in most positions that is unlikely to tell you anything about my performance during the actual job. Unless you are hiring me to do short-term placements at clients.
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A domain name is much more than storing an entry in a database. The root name servers are not cheap to operate. Domain names can also have glue records which mean more records in the root name server.

Also the more expensive a domain name is, the less spammy domains you see. If domains were $1 all the time, there would hardly be any domains left since everyone would register anything they can think of. Adding a price point reduces the number of unused domains.
Thousands of bridges at risk of collapse in freak accidents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagons_New_Map from Thomas PM Barnett is probably the "official" version of this -- a small, lethal military designed to win wars, and a "SysAdmin force" designed to build nations after the fact.

I'm not sure how well this theory has held up (it's from 2004...), or how much support it has. I think what happened is we got lucky in Iraq in 2007-2010 using the old British strategy of allying with semi-enemies against real enemies (Sons of Iraq and the other Sunni tribes, and non-aggression with the Shia militias), eked out a borderline draw in Iraq while calling it "a victory for COIN", applied the "COIN" model rather than the "British" model to Afghanistan with the surge and all, and have proceeded to lose from 2009-now in Afghanistan.
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It's also available on youtube, just use something like youtube-dl.
I've heard this semi-seriously described as the "Turn Them Into Detroit" strategy, and arguably this is the long term strategy we've selected although in an unspoken manner. Follow the money. I'm talking long term as in over decades of occupation not long term as in next financial quarter.

I've also seen the same argument in reverse, if we cut back on social service payments, as seems economically inevitable in the long term, our own inner cities will rapidly look much like Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc. So if you want to see a realistic projection of "Detroit 2030", just look at "Somalia 2013".
Ask HN: about Oauth integration
I tried to implement some Oauth from 3rd party services (Linkedin, Facebook, Google, Soundcloud) and I'm asking if I'm the only one to take hours/days to make it well for each.

- How long did you take to implement each of them?
- How many different Oauth specs you encoutered?
- Each time it is different or after practicing few it is ok for the other dozens ones?
TL;DR - we didn't read the HG manual, so we had to change as we did't know how to use its features.
Take a look at this paper.
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/papers/maxover.pdf

It's about 6(n^(1/3)) compared to (1/2)(log n) in the article.
http://iwantmyname.com is not as cheap but they provide a bullshit-free service, contrary to most domain peddlers.
Creating printable 3D models with Ruby (Example included)
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In both Mexico and Afghanistan, it's not so much local consumption of drugs which is the problem, but production/distribution/etc. of drugs for export or transshipment.

Yemen has a drug use problem (with Khat), leading to a lack of water, etc., but that's nowhere near as serious as narco-insurgency.
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Flickr is now so in-your-face and slow loading, I can't stand being on the site. And this is from a guy who would spend an hour on the site looking for the perfect image. Not any more.
I followed the same route:

Starting with Adwords on 2003 it aligned well with my business as a complement to SEO. I could test different keywords and it worked. Nobody beats AdWords at the audience and self service system.

But then, we started to see keywords at $ 2, $ 5, $ 10 ... wow, for just one click! At the end we stopped all our campaigns and spend our promotional resources to our blog. And our blog, scientifically, have a better ROI.

I would add that now AdWords is more difficult to administrate than Windows Advanced Server with Exchange.
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All Adblock does is guarantee that the user won't cost the advertiser any money because the ad is not shown ergo can of be clicked. Google ads are pay-per-click. Adblock does not affect the conversion rate of the people who don't use AdBlock. AdBlock does make it more difficult to reach markets that use AdBlock disproportionately, but those markets don't like advertising anyway, so the difference in reach caused by AdBlock is only a percentage of the user count for the market being measured.

P.S. If you clicked on an ad because it was what you were looking for, then you did exactly what the advertiser wanted you to do. That's the whole idea behind PPC, and why that top spot is such a good one.
Probably, there is a old TED talk by Thomas Barnett [1], where he argues quite similarly. He argues, that one needs a force for projection of force and a force for stabilizing the country. And because of the tension between trying to be as small as possible, when defeating the opponents army, and the need for boots on the ground for defeating insurgents these two need very different organizational structures.

[1]http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_barnett_draws_a_new_map_for_... (Hope the link works, I have somehow managed to break the TED site...)
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Earlier submission and extensive discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5773117
Now days, you also have to include a legal cost of operating a DNS registrar.
There is no user blaming here. In normal circumstances Firefox is very stable so if it is crashing the fix is extremely likely to be one of the things I mentioned.

You should never have to reset your profile but if your PC (or Firefox) crashes it can cause profile issues and a reset then helps to regain stability.

The most common causes of crashes are extensions and addons. Because Firefox allows extension developers very deep integration with Firefox they can occasionally cause instabilities. Of course we want users to use extensions but occasionally one gets through that causes problems.

Most extensions do not make the browser slow and unstable, just badly written ones.

Nobody at Mozilla has problems with accurate criticisms about Firefox as it shows us where to focus in order to make the browser better.
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Based on science meaning essentially the same as based on a true story.
They have a couple examples down the page on it - a few of the annotations have runtime effects. eg:

@Roulette(
probability = 0.005,
exception = PayYourContractorException,
message = "Courtesy reminder")
public Service getRockSolidService() {
I can see where you're coming from regarding anonymous voting on legislation, but I'd definitely disagree. It's much more important in my opinion that our representatives are transparent, or else how do we know whether we want them to continue representing us?

It's true that campaign donors have too much influence over the success of legislators, but maintaining a representative democracy is far too important to lose in order to deal with that issue.
Graveyard of Empires? The disasters of WWs I and II surely had more to do with the decline of the British Empire than anything that happened in Afghanistan.
From the research I have done, the majority of Afghans want peace to the point where they would accept a Taliban strict rule of law over the continued war. Its confusing, but it just shows the war really needs to end.

And so would have the majority of Americans back in 2001, but they wouldn't give up Bin Laden, so they paid the price.
Google's Native Code browser tech goes cross-platform
You can follow today's Metrics Monday live via Google Hangout. We have a Google Analytics expert from Google to tell us about power features of Google Analytics. It is definitely something that should be interesting for Hacker News audience.

Metrics Monday is a regular monthly meetup of data hackers and metrics geeks and this is our first virtual event.
I suppose if he was to actually start it up, he would ask people to stay away. He is just sitting in it for the photo shoot.

And wooden blades might not be so crazy. Apparently, the Bell 47 heli uses wooden blades, and the Kaman K-MAX use a wood/fiberglass construction for the rotor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaman_K-MAX

Smaller props for airboats and such are sometimes made of wood, but the stresses involved might be different.

I know model RC helis often use wooden blades too, but the difference in scale and safety requirements would make that a moot point, I guess.
One nit pick: "failure to cooperate" is very different than "obstruction of justice".
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I think the problem is that the enemy changed the rules and the generals unlike the foot soldiers took a lot of time to understand it (if they even have). http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/general-...

There are no military objectives or territory worth holding for them. Their goal is to just inflict as much pain as possible on the US troops knowing that they can outlast them. The US has army that can deal with any conventional threat (from which there are few) or properly defined objective, but seems unprepared for country occupation/building mission (and with good reason, the Army as a foreign policy tool is not wise).
I was a much better parent before I had kids, the old saying goes. It proves itself out every day on sites like Reddit and Hacker News.

The description you gave above sounds like any working parent anywhere. If the answer is "No" to a startup, then it would have to be "No" to being a simple employee as well.
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My first though when I saw this question was "Please let the law of headlines be wrong". I'm a co-founder with two babies. Its hard but not impossible, having an understanding and supportive spouse is imperative.
Comunitats
The first knowledge-sharing network based on the philosophy of Time Banks.
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I use both odesk and elance a lot. I find that the former is better for work that's more commoditized.

E.g.,

For PR work, I'd go to elance. For SEO work, I'd go to odesk.

For a mobile app, I'd go to elance. For wordpress customization, I'd go to odesk.
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I haven't mentioned anything about UK. I was saying USSR and the USA.
This article is from 17 May, detailing how Facebook could also be interested in Tumblr and hence buy it before Yahoo can.

Not exactly relevant anymore.
Ethics is really important for me, but rootkits makes the official distribution as ethical as the pirated content.
A friend of mine is currently trying to sort this problem by creating OnSite (http://onsite.io/), it's not live yet but it's one to keep an eye on for the future.