skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, that comment was too light on substance.

The problem with strings being mutable by default is that one has to do a lot of defensive copying to avoid unexpected behavior. Mutable strings do have their place, inside a function that's building up a string, before that string is visible to any other part of the program. But it shouldn't be the default.

See also: "The Value of Values" by Rich Hickey (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values)
Indeed. I'm always ashamed of using it, but I have a stupid tendency to forget css selectors from time to time (I don't do web design or tweaking that often) and the same goes for how string.match or regexp.test or the likes in JS.
Ask HN: Damn quick (and cheap) MVPs - anyone?
Please check out:

http://httpd.co/damn_quick_mvps/

If not you, could someone you know be interested?
But how small of a consulting biz? would this be something IBM then acquires?
D.C. would look much more like a real city without the restrictions. This is a good thing!

Cities grow! The choice here is between upward and outward. You can keep buildings unnaturally short, which forces the city to spread out, increasing commute times (and a whole lot more). Or you can let things grow, and let the place be more livable for the people that actually live there.
Clickable link:

http://httpd.co/damn_quick_mvps/
You can import DRM free content into iTunes with tools like iFlicks. But you are correct about the collection residing in iTunes.
In the past (I haven't tried recently), a call to customer service could raise or remove your ATM limits.
As usual with Apple, eye-candy is much more important than security. Their BSD foundation is pretty good, and then everything they add on top of it, pretty shoddy as far as security goes.

I'm guessing Gruber and the rest of the Apple-crowd is not going to try to spin this one as vividly as they would have done, had this been an Android-exploit.
I disagree. Variables are mutable in C++, unless otherwise stated. Interfaces can indicate they will not modify a value by taking a const (reference).
Isn't the reason for this because Christina Kirchner's son owns one of the fab plants? And the tarrifs they impose on imports is prohibitive?
Most implementations are reference counted with copy on write. No point.
"Any one of us would be lying if we said we didn't learn plenty of web development from that site when we were getting started." Well, I remember where I was sitting in the summer of 1993 when I first read about the www -- while browsing gopher. I made my first web page in 1994. I can honestly I didn't learn anything from that site when I was getting started.
I have a confession to make and a risky one, well to the extend of every karma I got. I own http://www.w3fool.com/, the one with missing 's' and you don't want know where it redirects to. I bought it when I saw it at an expired auction. I couldn't stand at thought of a website existing just to shame another.

On one hand, I agree with most of you that W3School isn't accurate or up-to-date or is riled with example that have security holes but on the other I am really thankful for them for getting me into web development. Back then there weren't much options, W3School was the easiest and the best we had. I remember sitting late nights learning to build simple web apps by referencing W3School every few minutes. Getting someone interested into something is very hard, to get a kid interested in sports, you don't start with a ruleset, instead you give him a start and correct him as he makes mistakes. That start was what W3School was for me.

Although I have been defending it, I think they should expire/update w3school. Times have changed and there are better resources to take its place.
I use plexconnect with mine and it works well. But it is a bit of a hack. I'm getting more and more convinced that switching to the roku would be better.
Linux is not a company, they don't have to care about public image. I say they should let their curse machine on.
Please, you need to study statistics again.

Check the graph in the parent article.

Zoom into any 17 year period between -3000 and 1900 and it will "look flat", and during many 17 year periods the temperature temporarily went up, but nonetheless you can see there's a clear downward trend throughout that period.

It's impossible to deny that this trend has been sharply reversed.

A 17 year period is normally supposed to tell you nothing interesting - but the 17 year period up to 1996 clearly indicates something quite disturbing is going on.

Climate change is not negated by a temporary plateau.
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This starts to get old. This guy manages a 17 million line low level open source project with more than 1000 contributors each cycle and best thing people can do is bicker about his inappropriate language use on some occasions (which get way more publicity than the usual workflow discussions).

I really wish we'd have a more progressive tone here than a tabloid.
I only know of him what I read on the Internet, but Wikipedia says he is Finnish. Your original point stands though.
I have personally found that Tizag[1] provides a much better HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL tutorial than W3Schools while still having a really easy to navigate website. Instead of reinventing the wheel all the time, maybe we should all focus our efforts into making the Web Platform[2] better or encourage people to use higher quality websites like Tizag.

[1] http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/
[2] http://www.webplatform.org/
This is probably the case you are talking about:

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vo...
The funny thing is - it doesn't even show a warning compiled with -Wall.
> why we're not focusing more on adaptation to than prevention of climate change

The reality is that prevention is cheaper (there is also an issue of distribution of the cost, though). Prevention of climate change effectively means not using energy from fossil fuels, while adaptation means paying extra energy cost for each unit of energy you get from fossil fuels.

This extra cost is actually greater than extra cost that would be incurred if you used non-fossil fuel source. So if you decide to continue to use fossil fuel sources at all, the total cost (savings due to cheap fuel + mitigation costs) will always be higher than the non-fossil energy sources (higher cost to get the energy but savings on mitigation).
As a lifelong DC resident, I have to admit I've thought about how DC doesn't look like a "real city" and how other places look so much cooler, but seeing this made me cringe. I really hope that the monuments in DC don't get blocked out by office buildings.
Wow, nice. What kind of work do you do?
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24.00? I would argue for a sample of the data and not the complete dataset.
How about the reason given in TFA? If you're living on the edge, financially, cascading fees and fines from a single incident can cripple you.
Stallman is a prolific programmer, but ask yourself, how is he was able to out-program entire teams of his former colleagues? Answer, because the code wasn't the hard part, figuring out what to do was the hard part, and copying it once that was done was easy. The lesson which still hasn't sunk into the "free" community today is, because a thing is cheap to reproduce, doesn't mean it was cheap to do. Stallman did a massive disservice to his friends and the entire computing community. We are still paying for his sabotage today.
Juvenile language and problem statement.

You really took the high road with this understatement. If OP didn't reference he was in his senior year of college over a decade ago I would've thought he was an angry young teenager.
Sure:

7.1.5.1/4: Except that any class member declared mutable (7.1.1) can be modified, any attempt to modify a const object during its lifetime (3.8) results in undefined behavior.

const_cast is not undefined behavior, but modifying a const object is.
iTunes is a pretty low-margin service; it's really there to shift iPods and iPhones, not to make money as a store.
Same message on Chromium.

Probably you shall request site re-check by GGL.
> They would be too appaled at general policy to worry about particulars for a while

Yeah, see, this kind of thing is mostly just a way of projecting modern preferences on to the founders. If you look at the founders as a whole, you see very little consensus on general policy.

Hamilton and Jefferson, for example, didn't agree on much (and certainly not on what government of the United States should look like beyond "more like the Constitution than the Articles of Confederation".) To the extent that "the founders" would be shocked by (or even "opposed to" -- they had familiarity with enough extremes in government that they probably wouldn't be shocked by much) features of our present government, they wouldn't be the same features for different founders, and the features some of the founders opposed, others would probably find the most desirable.

Hamilton -- who wanted Presidents and Senators to serve, like members of the Supreme Court, for life, would probably be generally pleased with the way the power of incumbency works out so that short of major scandal, turnover is not all that common (and be displeased with Presidential term limits being written into the Constitution.)

Jefferson, OTOH, might well see things 180-degrees the opposite, given his keen focus on the need for periodic renewal.

> Wait, did you start a two-party system as well?

The two-party system was well in place by Washington's second election, most of the founders were still alive and active in politics -- and, for that matter, provided the leadership for both factions.

So, no, I don't think they'd ask that question, except perhaps as a result of senility. They started a two-party system.
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I used Amazon's Music for a long time on Android before switching to Google Music. Their stuff was generally a lot cheaper, and still is - but their Android apps are terrible across the board, so I made the switch.
Absolutely true, Working on multiple ideas will make you out of focus & socializing which will help you grow yourself and your Idea.
To an extent, iTunes has done what it needed to do; it helped make iPods and then iPhones viable. By all reports, it's pretty low-margin (for a while, it was apparently negative margin), and was more about selling the devices than anything else.
I don't see why Apple would do this when the chromecast is out there...making a useful device and creating strong network effects for iOS and OSX hardware by making streaming anything from those devices onto tvs seems like a wiser choice than bending over for the media companies. It isn't as if labels will pull their music from iTunes Store at this stage of market penetration; if they were going to withdraw their consent they would have done it early.
A number of public speaking coaches will tell you to be 'angry' as a slightly off vector emotion to passion. If you can be passionately angry about something other people will be more influenced by it than if you are passively happy about it.

Not that this is news to anyone who has been in a group situation where the calm rational person with the good idea was over ruled by the angry person, resulting in the group doing what the angry person suggested instead.

I had lunch at a conference with a woman who identified herself as a cultural anthropologist who identified this observation as part of the fight/flight nexus of responses. People she said prefer active directed action to random undirected action, and anger is nearly always directed.

And in my own experience people seem to pay attention to angry speakers more (perhaps out of a fear to see if they are going to get targeted by that anger? I don't know).

As Howard Beale would say, "I'm mad as hell and not going to take this anymore!" :-)
The real answer is that he didn't.
Indeed that is misleading but that doesn't invalidate the content though.
It isn't even that strange. Grocery stores have provided check cashing services for decades.
>> namely that the US model was appropriate for its time

There was no model other than freedom. Freedom to invent, create, build, farm all as we saw fit. This is completely different and perhaps antithetical to what the Chinese are doing now. Their government is trying to will the result of prosperity into existence rather than allow it to culminate on its own as it does in a truly free society.
Paris is often seen as one of the most beautiful cities in the world and totally does feel like a real city despite the height limit.

In fact the new financial district off to the side with its skyscrapers and, I imagine, no height limit, while modern and fancy, just doesn't feel as city-like as the rest of Paris. It feels like a dead place where people only come to work.

I've only spent a good week in Paris, so it might feel different when you're living there for a long time. But not-tall cities are totally cool.
All the primary missions were completed by 2010, so you got your money's worth. And 267 million is nothing for a mission with that level of complexity, for comparison, producing GTAV was between $200 and $250 million!!!
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My point about custom software might have been unclear. Here's what I meant. A one-off ticketing app is a classic example of software that would normally get developed either in a spreadsheet or as some custom app that a team would build for the occasion. Such custom apps are typically bad at data validation and error handling, so it's plausible that the same typo would have had the same effect outside of Excel.

When I read that Eusprig literature on spreadsheet errors a few years ago, it seemed to me of rather low quality. Certainly many spreadsheets contain errors, but what are we comparing this to? Software in general contains errors. Custom app software—the only alternative to spreadsheets in most cases—tends to be of poor quality and is very expensive compared to spreadsheets. So it's far from clear that spreadsheets are a bad tradeoff.

Programmers take it for granted that "proper" software is better than spreadsheets, but I think that is mostly bias. Intellectually and technically, spreadsheets are low-status. Among users, on the other hand, they're high-status, for very good and deep reasons.

I'm also biased. I think that these problems need to be solved by innovation within the spreadsheet space itself.
Canvas is a vector drawing API. Scaling a drawing to retina resolution or 300 DPI for printing is trivial.

Ultimately if you want to draw truly giant giant data sets, you need WebGL. What's missing isn't a new browser drawing API, but a good WebGL charting library.
It's really good in my experience. Though the UX is far inferior to Google Music (which is generally more in line with iTunes as far as cost).
So it's like if you're not disputing smoking is bad for health, but you're saying it's not "catastrophically" bad?

It's like the sooner one stops smoking, the less chance he has for a "catastrophic" lung cancer; it's not like when you smoke 10K cigarettes you sure won't get cancer but if you smoke 20K you sure do.

Of course, different people call "catastrophe" different things, but the analogy is quite apt here. There is no "catastrophe" coming, in the sense of a sudden disaster. We can stop any time, and the sooner we stop, the better overall result (and less costly) will be.
5 year ban for parking violations? That seems extreme.
I give them credit for using MySQLi and not mysql_* though. I still suggest PDO.
I generally agree with that, but there is a potential downside to it as well. The slack that humans will cut you is not a right, so it can be taken away at will for completely arbitrary or malicious reasons such as stereotypes against particular groups or even because you didn't bribe a particular offcial.

I'm still convinced that your point is correct, but it only works in combination with the utmost transparency.
Hi Alex, you say I "claim[s] that objects accessed via reference to const can modify themselves". Which paragraph are you referring to? It don't see that? I'm happy to update the article to make it clearer. Thanks, Craig
Some background from the WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/24/s...
Never be ashamed of looking up a reference if it saves you time, besides web standards are too much of a moving target to bother committing all of them to memory.
I think the implication is that since void output(std::string const &msg); takes a const reference, that function cannot change the value of msg. What the function does not know is whether or not anyone else outside of the function could change that value. It doesn't know if the original creation of the object was const or not const.

The example is misleading because there isn't any reason why you would be concerned with such a distinction in this case.
> either join the ecosystem and gain the advantages, or don't.

Yar - har - fiddle-dee-dee....
I find the lag noticable and annoying when dragging something, e.g. scrolling a web page.
It's a double contraction, the word “of” doesn't appear at all: who'd've (who would -> who'd, would have -> would've, who'd + would've -> who'd've)
I can't speak for anyone else as I don't and have NEVER used W3Schools for anything related to PHP or MySQL but used PHP's manual and MySQL docs for anything, but when someone needs help and asks me, I usually use my experience and write up a quick example and do not go through the whole sanitizing of inputs and that, as they're just an example and sometimes are written right on the spot but I do let them know it's only an example and not to be copy and pasted into their documents and that they should properly secure their stuff with input sanitization.
I don't know about the internals of Symbolics ones but the MIT/LMI/TI machines didn't have any hardware assistance for bounds checking.
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I personally am fine with exemptions to the height limit, especially if they can be tied to a meaningful concession from the developer like a significant number of affordable housing units.
And what does that particular choice of boundary represent?
I'm with you on #2. One way to look at this chart is that if we 'correct' all of our input into the system then the system will revert to its previous norm, i.e. we'll plunge into an ice age and glaciers will begin to move south over North America and Europe. On the other hand our ability to 'fine tune' our control is all but impossible on these large scales so "control" of the climate is still beyond our reach.

So perhaps investing in keeping old people alive during hot and cold snaps might be a good investment and infrastructure that is impervious to same.
First of all, we are not "hairless monkeys". Second, we did not "evolve to do this". Both of those statements are factually wrong.
> You can import DRM free content into iTunes with tools like iFlicks.

Or using File/Add to library (Cmd-O) in iTunes.
See linked screenshot.

Also there is one funcionality you want there: type in gene name (or prefix) and highlight matches and fade out rest of them to lets say 0.05 alpha.
Maybe the size, but not the price. DC building restrictions just mean to pay more for less.
The bigger picture is that the MIT AI Lab was working on projects for DARPA ( DEFENSE Advanced Research Projects Agency ). This sponsor wanted to commercialize the research results, so that that at the next stage companies would be suppliers of AI hardware and software for the military (for space-based weapons, fighter planes, autonomous vehicles, ...). Many of the early Lisp machines were bought by Reagan's star wars program.

Thus it was not LMI or Symbolics who raided some innocent lab, it was a new stage in a government directed and financed technology development program, primarily for the military.
There's an argument that forcing the city to "spread out" rather than "up" has been partly responsible for the rapid improvement in crime and livability in many parts of the city over the last decade. What would H St NE or Upper 16th St look like if one could just build huge buildings in Dupont and Adams Morgan.
> W3Schools, Wikipedia, and a few others. And it's a great example of the central failure of the pagerank idea: if the strongest signal is popularity measured through linkage, the highest quality results will rarely be at or even near the top.

Actually, I find that the top ranked things usually have what I was searching for -- often that's W3Schools or Wikipedia. I'm not a big fan of W3Schools site design, and I wish they had output examples, but, really, the site design isn't bad enough that it makes it unusable as a reference, and usually when I get it at the top of a search results page, I'm usually looking for a quick reference.
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I did switch to the Roku, and, even speaking as somewhat of an Apple fanboy, it is miles better.
My site is having some issues so I've added this blog post at http://paulyoung.github.io.
I actually really like the height limit in DC aesthetically. After living there and Bethesda for 6 years it's strange to think of anything else but the monuments physically dominating everything in sight.
This doesn't really attempt to hide the fact of communication from computers - only from humans casually viewing the image.

steghide has a far superior approach:

http://steghide.sourceforge.net/

But that can be broken too:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1578445
Oh, so construction companies are running out of places in DC? And they need the location right next to the White House?

Please.

There is space right across Anacostia river in the South East. Metro goes there pretty fast.

Build the buildings there, just make sure to hire more police to make it safer for workers.
Limiting housing supply in desirable locations is the new redlining. I understand liking the character of a place, but it seems morally problematic to use the police power to enforce that character at the expense of those who will no longer be able to afford to live there as demand increases while supply doesn't. Those same people are often the first to support affordable housing mandates without recoiling at the inefficiencies of the Rube Goldberg machine of policy they've constructed.
Sure, and that's sort of what happened around Navy Yard. But c'mon, it's not that simple and you know it.
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"However, the object to which it is a reference is not const and can change its value, and msg is not immutable."
reminds me of: http://www.w3fools.com/
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I disagree with this completely. The CA Model is absolutely flawed, and this is just patching a flawed model. I'd love to see a push for [DANE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...) - where you publish your public key in DNS. When doubled with DNSSEC, this means your IP address is irrefutably tied to your domain and so is your TLS public key.
I'm now worried that Apple will update the AirPort Express to require FairPlay for audio as well. The precedent has been set. (The Express + Airfoil makes for a really nice multiroom audio setup.)
That has not been my experience, ever. I only had "problems" with my bank once, that was when I was buying parachute equipment from France. The transfer went through, the bank contacted me and said "we have turned off international transfers from your account due to what we believe could be fraud committed by a third party". I contacted them, was told the cause of the "lock", said it was a legitimate transfer, they unlocked the international transfer thingy, really smooth.

I regularly withdraw money from ATMs in excess of 500 USD equiv.

I have not heard of this 2K USD equiv. / month thing either, is that the policy of your bank or is it regulatory? Do you have a source?

EDIT: I live in Sweden
Agreed, it is completely irrelevant that it could be modified before or after.