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Is there actually any evidence that keeping a language alive does any good to anyone? I know people say "it gives us different ways of thinking" and "expressing different concepts" but I've yet to see an example of where that actually matters beyond the emotion of the people who feel it's important.
I think the greatest motivation for literate programming is providing context. After five minutes of reading, you can have a very good high level understanding of a complex program. This just isn't achievable in the same amount of time otherwise.
Beging part of the open source community behind Collabtive, I'm happy to release a version with much more security features and less vulnerabilities. Can't overestimate this stuff in times like these...

On a lighter note: I implemented the new color scheme with the grey and green shades. Normally I write code, but design also intrigues me. Do you like the Spring theme? Anything I could do better next time?
I'm in pretty much the same boat. The actual problems I don't really mind (I have to code to some, and it wouldn't hurt to revisit the rest), but I'd very much like to have my username back.

OK, so it's an extremely minor issue, but given that the reason for it is so silly, it's still kinda irritating.
I feel existential guilt if I visit PC World, but sometimes you can find cheap hard drives there.

I hope this helps you with your problems.
Can't you just offer to pay a larger deposit or several months up front?
There's also http://brace.io/ which is a YC company.
I use the definition for theory as a hypothesis that has received sufficient experimental validation. So, by definition, many of the frontier quantum-gravity stuff doesn't fit this, unfortunately as compelling and fascinating as they are.

Again, I'm just agreeing with what s/he said, that unless we have experiment/observation, we don't know whether this really describes our universe's origins and/or evolution.
> I am trying to find some examples online (or in the php.net site) and explanation of its usage.

There are any number of examples of entities, and lists of them. They are a terrible hassle because not all browsers understand the same ones or treat them the same.

> I'm responsible for fixing an incredible amount of encoding related bugs in the site.

That should be fun. :) There will be times then you won't be able to decide whether you're fixing an error or introducing one.

> I found a bug where some chars (Hungarian, in this case) are not properly shown in the page: ę >> &#amp;#281;

The reason should be obvious -- the original code needed to be preserved unchanged, but a post-processor escaped the ampersand -- and incorrectly as well. I wish there were some fast and easy rules, preferably scriptable, but the examples you show are too varied, as though there was more than one cook in the kitchen (an English idiom).

I still think you should simply take out entities wherever you can and use ordinary Unicode characters. That also solves the problem of figuring out what prior editors had in mind -- assuming the resulting spelling is unambiguous. But you can also write regular expressions to solve most of the syntactically correct cases, including:

&(string);

-- and --

&#(number);

The first is obviously more difficult because you have to create an associative array (what Python calls a dictionary) to do the translations. The second case is easier, and I have seen example where the enclosed number was a normal Unicode code point, or a sequence of two.

Here is a big list of entities:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref

If you hover over each entry, the equivalent Unicode is given, so it seems multiple forms are embedded in the page. You could scrape the page and create a master list / translation table.

The final problem is that you will need to establish which encoding each page has, and don't mix encodings. From your comments, some pages are UTF-8 and some ISO-8859-1, and those two are obviously incompatible.

> Also, I apologize if some of my sentences are difficult to understand; I'm not a native English speaker.

As usual in cases like this (in my experience), your prose is better than that of many native English speakers.

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After a quick skim of the article, the following stood out to me as things that could make discussion with Russia more difficult:

"the US strategic community continues to perceive Russia as a potential adversary"

"no country other than Russia has the capability to preempt the launch of US forces by destroying a significant portion of them on the ground"

also, this is interesting, but not as much:

"with the possible exception of North Korea, the strength of whose rudimentary nuclear-weapons capabilities remains unknown"
From the description in the README I feared that the entire source-code of the program would appear twice in the resulting document; first under the definition of the "" macro and again wherever each code-fragment was defined. Looking at the contents of the "examples" directory, however, I can see that the "" macro works more like a table-of-contents.

That's reasonable, in a minimalist kind of way, but it's a bit unfortunate that Lit syntax winds up unmodified in the output document; I'd wind up having to put a paragraph at the top of each document explaining what Lit was and why all the "<< >>" tokens throughout the code weren't actually part of the code.

Also, the resulting HTML doesn't actually validate: http://validator.nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent...
I submitted this yesterday and thought for a while about a better title as I felt the given one was poor. What I came up with was: "Gavin Andresen and the Bitcoin development process". However the submission wasn't getting any upvotes and so I deleted it within the 2 hour limit. I guess this means clickbait titles do work.
Except that there are plenty of people who are willing to work for these terms.

I own several retail stores. Labor is by far the largest manageable cost and whether or not we make any profit is often a direct result of managing our labor cost.

Re: being the one who should bear the risk, I am also the one who bears the responsibility to make sure they have a job tomorrow. If we don't make money then there is no job.

Of course, the alternative is that we could raise prices so that we don't have to be ruthlessly efficient. But then, the market doesn't tend to like that.
>That's why you have so many Canadians coming to the US when they get really sick.

Hardly any Canadians come to the US for medical care, it's a silly rumor that has no grounding in reality. The US has one of the most expensive health care systems in the world for people without insurance, but we're supposed to believe that all these Canadians are rushing over the border with tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for marginally better care?

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/21/3/19.full

"Results from these sources do not support the widespread perception that Canadian residents seek care extensively in the United States. Indeed, the numbers found are so small as to be barely detectable relative to the use of care by Canadians at home."
On the topic of handwriting, I remember this link[1] circling around during my senior year of high school. I pretty much took all of the advice.

1. http://www.johnkerl.org/doc/ortho/ortho.html
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I think this is my favorite PM tool to date. It even has the ability to add plugins, so you only end up with the features you want and need. Very nice to be able to reduce the clutter and customize.

It feels like a better Asana and, after trying a million PM tools, it's the only one my company uses besides Basecamp (which I personally hate).
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I'm worried that the census data is too stale. Capitol Hill has been seeing rents skyrocket in the past few years. I think the same is true in Graduate Hospital, Philly. (I have lived in both Seattle & Philadelphia).

I can't speak to the other areas, but running big numbers doesn't necessarily give you better information than people who were already living near "the good areas". And they've been rushing in to them, driving up rents, since before the census took its data.

It's a frustrating phenomenon.
"The market" did just force them to change. Did you read the article?
Maybe I'm doubting myself, but I'm not ready. My programming skills have deteriorated so much. I'm also utilizing law school as a safe haven where I can try to fully grok combinators, functional programming (Haskell), and meta-programming (macros in Lisp).

Since I only aim to pass in law school, I don't go to any classes at all. It is almost exactly the same as not having school or a job. Having this kind of free time and the (temporary) lack of financial pressure is valuable and I can use it to grok more hipster things that will hopefully help me code better later on.

On another note, I am in Canada but want to move to the US. I'm thinking of building a good portfolio and then grabbing a job down in silicon valley to get into the US. I'll need time to do that, law school gives me time.
The article suffers from the same shortsightedness seen in many other recent articles -- the point is not to train everyone to be professional programmers, the point is to teach computer literacy as we teach print and number literacy. The reason? In the future, the distinction between programming a computer, and using a computer, will become more blurred than it already is.

The article asks questions that might well have been asked when printing presses became accessible -- "should everyone be trained as a scribe?" But that would have been the wrong question then, and it's the wrong question now.
I'd be curious how recent his affordability data is. He mentions Lower Haight and The Mission, which have an average 1-bedroom rent of 3000 and 3250 respectively[0]. They have, however, increased dramatically over the last few years, which may not be reflected in his data set.

[0] http://priceonomics.com/the-san-francisco-rent-explosion-par...
I agree...reverse proxy would cap this off awesomely. The other item I have been really wanting out of a local server tool is host definition as well.

In other words, I can setup a local site but instead of going to localhost:81 ... I can go to something like site1.dev or site1.local

I would love this.
Wouldn't literate programming encourage a very linear style of programming with long methods? It seems like it would encourage the opposite of single-responsibility-principle, since it's really hard to read a narrative that jumps all over the place.
The project is still early, and the html generation is rudimentary. Will be working soon to validate.

Not sure what you mean by appearing twice. I debated removing the "<< >>" syntax in the generated html, but I don't think it's bad. It's essentially the syntax for macros, which aid in providing context. It's useful in html, because you can quickly refer to the defn of a macro by following the anchor.
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Go and have a wander round a Sikh gurdwara.
The salt for the email could be a CRC, or a Fisher-Yates, or any of a dozen other novel one-way transformations.
> ... a specific issue that slows productivity while coding?

Not periodically getting up and moving away from the task for an hour or so, to gain some perspective on the project and a bit of distance from the minutiae of coding solutions to many tiny problems.

Any number of times I have taken a break from coding, only to realize I was crafting the wrong solution by being too immersed at too low a level in the code.
> if we are to claim we're free to record the actions of the police while they work, surely they have the right to record what goes on as well.

Not necessarily. The police are acting as government agents and as such have fewer rights to privacy.
What is your target market?

I own several retail stores that usually have 2-6 employees on the clock at any given time and don't see any meaningful benefit at our level. I could see how a place with 20 employees on the clock at one time might have more benefit, but that seems like a pretty small market to me.
The problem with a lot of liberal sentiment is that it can only ever work if you assume all religions are the same thing with slightly different colors and the same prayer said in a different language.

If something, like, oh, say islam's apostate laws, existed, it would be plain to everyone that you can't have freedom of religion and islam (not limited, of course, to that one religion). Only one of those can exist.

Of course that doesn't mean you can't just deny any of this exists, especially because there are liberal muslims (less than 1%, sure, but of course it doesn't look like that in San Francisco. But even in San Fran you won't have any trouble finding people who'll use violence against apostates either).
As someone who actually creates irregular schedules, that has absolutely nothing to do with it :)

It is about making money. Plain and simple. Occum's razor at it's finest.
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Basically it's just to interface to get geotagged photos from several photos databases.

I created this because I was curious of what people were doing at the same place I went to. Now I'm using it also to see pictures of a specific place, I think it beats google image for image search of a specific location.

I hope you will enjoy it and do fun things with it!
And then they beat them up if it's the first one doing that that day, or kill them if not. Or riot and destroy the entire town, burning down any house from anyone who doesn't have the exact right tint on his skin ?

No ?

Then, sorry to say, it's not comparable to what happens in the middle east at all.

And God forbid it's a woman were to try that.
Context here is important. Your hypothetical leaves out why. If you just need to learn a skill for no reason other than to catalogue it as a line-item in your accomplishment list it will be hard. If what you are learning is relevant there will be a bunch of similar data streams or skills that you can practice in parrallel.
With the title being “… and keep them from leaking out”, I thought this would be about mental compartmentalization and doublethink.
> And you have to be sitting in the back of a Land Cruiser! (For the uninitiated the most popular car in the Gulf, far and large, is the Toyota Land Cruiser, in all of its carnations, and the Nissan Patrol in a distant second).

That's because it takes significantly more effort to break the wheel's axle than with most German or French cars (never mind GM cars).

And of course, they're cheaper too.
Just hosted. cmr's github page says he works for Mozilla.
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The narrative doesn't have to jump all over the place. If anything, defining macros allows you greater flexibility. Also, using macros allows for defining different levels of languages that encapsulate a "single-responsibility". Could you be more specific?
The advantage for many is the actual physical association.

I liken it to learning how to get around a building by actually walking around the building, as opposed to just seeing a map. Ultimately, when there are no other distractions going on, one is probably as good as the other.

Not that I don't think you can't get this in a notes.txt. Just, I understand why some would want a physical card deck where they flip a question into an answer. Involving your body seems logical as a benefit for some.
You can just sell it off on a site like judgmentmarketplace.com. sometimes trying to collect could end up costing you more.
I made an interactive map a year ago to explore the same question (where do you live taking into account factors like income, weather, walkability, crime, education, politics, etc), check it out if you are interested http://two88cities.herokuapp.com/
By "high end" I mean what real, successful people actually wear, not runway nonsense. Italian tailoring on a man is a bit ridiculous in most places.
Would like to see some more complex examples. I like the philosophy behind it though.
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Alrighty guys! I've been at this for about 4 hours straight with no dice!

I'm hoping some genius here can help me out.
Open a new tab and type in a band name like: "All Time Low"

You'll notice a box on the righthand side with more info about the band.

If you click the down arrow you'll see a "People also search for" section.

My goal is to get those names.

I've tried everything I could possibly think of to do it.
The only thing I got working was phantomJS and the time it took to scrape just one page was over 5 seconds.
Thats way too long...

Anyone got a better solution than me?
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Having been in both places, let me tell you it's different. I managed to dent a rental car into a local's car in Southern Italy though. That, that was similar. Although the threats there were implicit, rather than spelled out.

The big difference being that in New York you don't find yourself surrounded by the 50-person family of anyone you have the slightest grievance with in 5 minutes flat.

In Italy you just get surrounded, and there may be vague references to that fact. In Egypt, the references won't be vague, but explicit and colourful.
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Previous submission here, with 194 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171340
Is anyone surprised that a person publicly advocating a reduction in weapons is unwelcome at a place where a large number of people derive their livelihood from making weapons?

For the record I agree with the guy. We (in the US) spend far too much on military gear and endeavors I think and it is both unnecessary and destructive.

But when you bite the hand that is feeding you and everyone around you.....you can expect to get slapped.
Sorry, my point was that I didn't even attempt to explain the boring stuff other than a "this was all incidental stuff that I needed."

Even without literate programming, this is the harder part of the program to document, to me. To really give it credit here, I would split these out into different files. But, I have pretty low interest in really delving into some of the stuff there. Hence, "and this is the support code for the figures I did."
I need to read more of Knuth on literate programming. The plan is to finish the source in literate style.
What is the discrepancy you're seeing between those two graphs?
How come there is not a single link to the actual app in the article?

Here is a link to their app on their website:
http://pinetartinc.com/?p=44
The Uptrack service was obviously proprietary, but the Ksplice software itself (everything to actually make and install the patches) was open source. There are plenty of mirrors on github: https://github.com/linux-kernel-live-patching/ksplice

But there's also kgraft and kpatch.
I think the catch is the the majority of programs are more linear than the index of methods would give credit to. Sure, some folks are making utility data structures that don't really have much of a narrative to them, I suppose.

I would think for most programs there is a very direct sense of linearity in getting a task done. Sure, you will often have a lot of support methods. But seeing them just directly listed can be as much of a distraction as anything else.

Note, also, for nontrivial applications, you will likely have a collection of literate programs. Not just one giant literate program.
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The study you reference seems a bit weak. They polled hospitals in Michigan, New York and other border states? The Canadians that I know who have got to the US for care go to places like the Mayo Clinic or Sloan-Kettering.

At any rate, rationing of healthcare is a reality in Canada. A few years back the Supreme Court of Canada stated that the ban on private health insurance violated Canadians' right to security as the waiting times for the public system were so high.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaoulli_v._Quebec_(Attorney_Ge...
It is a starting point. Any one statistic is just a summary. (We all summarize, one way or another.)
Those graphs look pretty spot on
That is really awesome. I love it.

The one thing that would make it really useful to me in the next year as my family decides where to move is the inclusion of public grade school/high school national rankings. I've been looking for some way to easily cross reference cost of living with quality of public schools.
Yeah there is something fishy in this analysis if Russian Hill appears more affordable than DC suburbs.
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Even with a dynamic software updating system in place, you shouldn't be deploying dynamic updates directly to production without testing them. It'd be pretty stupid to deploy an update by any mechanism that would render a service unstartable.
intel's xdk platform might be worth looking at, as is titanium.
"Having been in both places, let me tell you it's different." ... "In Egypt, the references won't be vague, but explicit and colourful."

I was not aware that Yemen and Egypt were so interchangeable. Perhaps they are not. Have you been to Yemen?
fwiw, this is my neighborhood. I live on the very southern edge of that box.
This is what I hate most about online journalism. Even tech-centric web sites will do it intentionally. Just the other day there was a TechCrunch article about some .io company getting bought out and they made it a link, but instead it takes you to the TC page about that company.

I'm pretty sure people working at these companies are just so certain that any link leading people away from their web site will cost them money. As if people will just wander onto their site, and as long as they can't find the exit they'll be stuck there forever.
Why did I know something like this was going to show up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBdY6WXeRE

Note: the radio station verifies the caller as best they can but, yes, we don't have a positive ID on the caller.
Their website is a little basic, but man, when I was 14, my websites used rainbow gradient backgrounds and were written in Microsoft Word. I love seeing this!
Yeah, I think I understood that. My point -- at the risk of repeating myself -- is that it becomes less important to document low-level details in great gory narrative detail if calls to such functions are close to their implementations, and you can see tests that exercise them along with their callers. If you can do that, pervasive narration even seems to hit diminishing returns. I can understand what a simple function is and why it's needed just by seeing why its caller is needed, often-times.
Why modern articles are so long? 6 long pages, isn't worth it.

By the way, only in English internet I see that articles are broken down on pages. I presume that's for showing more ads.
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he rules of the Ice Bucket Challenge are simple: either donate $100 to an ALS charity, or dump a bucket of ice water on your head (or both, if you're sporting). After, you can challenge a few people to join in, too. ALS advocate Pete Frates posted a video that went viral, and in a blink, celebrities, athletes, and tech CEOs all started taking part, raising millions of dollars in the process.

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@Zikes: I HATE this! I've complained on TC about them not linking to Kickstarter projects and instead linking to other stories about Kickstarter on TechCrunch. I feel like they've gotten better at linking to Kickstarter/Indiegogo for projects lately but they still are guilty of this tactic consistently.