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> Agreed, actions should be represented as nouns. It's just that rest tends not to encourage this

How, specifically, is this the case -- what is it about REST that is concretely bad for this compared to alternatives?

As I see it, REST is about what you do with your domain model, not how you make the domain model. They are orthogonal concerns; people very often suck at domain modelling, but that's not any architectural pattern's fault.

> He should have a sale resource and put to it but because he doesn't he transfers the price to the client which then gets out of date. The client is being coupled to the server and the server lacks cohesion; all for the lack of thinking in terms of actions/behaviours at the interface level.

And how is choosing the wrong resources REST's fault?
Is interesting that this has made itself on here and not been flagged yet.

I have noticed that HN normally has an aversion to issues that are directly to do with contemporary politics outside the realm of telecoms, patents and copyright and I wonder if this seems more of an acceptable discussion for the site, given the wider issues raised, purely because the material being discussed is up on Github.
You can watch a talk I gave about how we use Datomic at Two Sigma to manage our cluster's state: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHctJMUG8bI

It's been a great experience using it, and I'd be happy to answer any questions.
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Well, for instance we heard about Charles Ramsey finding those three missing women. Also, today on the local news I saw a report about truckers saving a woman and child from a burning car on the freeway.

The things that police are used for are things like 'the war on drugs' etc... not necessarily positive, helpful, community level things.
Were any of the trolls that brought lawsuits (before MJ joined the fold) actually one of IV's 2000 shell companies?

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121220/02365821447/intel...
most of that article reads like nih.. cgroups, namespaces, seccomp, capabilities.. portable app distribution.. no similarities there.
I completely agree, but I still see how purchasing patents can encourage innovation.
Nah, I usually have to append a 'g' myself, but I got in on gmail early. :)
Excerpt:

"There's evidence suggesting that negative factors of the neighborhood, things like density of fast food outlets, violence, noise, and poor air quality impact health,” lead researcher Eric Kim, a psychologist in his final year of doctoral work at the University of Michigan, told me. I'd add broken windows. One 2003 study found that “boarded-up housing” predicts high rates of gonorrhea in a neighborhood, as well as premature death due to cancer or complications of diabetes. (And murder.) More recently, researchers from University of Pennsylvania looked at the health detriments associated with vacant land. By their understanding, abandoned buildings lead to isolation and erosion of social relationships, mutual trust, and collective efficacy, which leads to poor physical health.

Kim’s team is focusing on the other side of things: the positive elements of a neighborhood that “might perhaps be protective or even enhancing of health." For a young scientist, Kim is precociously well versed in the language of hedging

So, what gives? I am baffled as to why this is not being discussed in earnest as a piece on research into health factors but is being talked about like it is a criticism of the social climate of HN and the social skills of its members.
Yeah,

> As long as Joe doesn't start getting delusions of terrorism.

...seems to be the real problem.
Local news in the US is highly dependent on police sources, and therefore VERY reluctant to be critical of police. There is far more pro-police bias in reporting than the reverse.
This article is defining a new notion which is different from the derivative of a function. It's called derivative because of its inspirations and similarities to the classical idea of a derivative. It's interesting because it appears to have close relationships to important open problems in number theory, such as the Goldbach conjecture.

And it's not restricted to primes, it's just defined first for primes and then extended to all integers later.
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Is it expected that I respond to the throw-away account of a down-voting anonymous coward?
Correct. If it comes from the government it's automatically public domain, and according to the repo description the NYT is just sharing what the government provided. NYT is getting very good at the digital journalism approach, I'm pleasantly surprised to see them using Github for this.
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Perhaps, but I don't think it's fair to judge this bill on how legislators might amend it in future, or we'll never pass any laws at all.
It sort of depends on what you're asking for.

If it's around the business model, the easy answer is to point them to a book like http://www.amazon.com/The-Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continu... There are great techniques in there for how to do customer development -- at this point it seems like required reading for business/product folks.

If you're looking for more mockups, something like Balsamiq is a good starting point.

Is there something else you're looking for?
Without an excellent argument, I don't think I can agree. Many members of the public believe patents are a bad thing for society because 99% of all reporting on them is about the negative aspects; you rarely hear about the good that has come from them. It's the same reason people in the US feel less safe than ever from violent crimes even though the rates have dropped significantly. the norm is boring and the exceptions are newsworthy.
I have just been looking at tickets to the US. My intent was to stop for a few days in Japan or Malaysia, and book the first and second leg separately.

I checked flying Tokyo->Minneapolis and was given a few prices, in the $1100 range without having to rely on sprint etc.

I then checked KL->Minneapolis and got a price for $700 that flew first to Tokyo with AA. When I tried buying just the Tokyo->Minneapolis leg for the same flights I was quoted $4000!

Airplane routing and pricing is really unclear and deliberately opaque.

While I am glad this service exhists, it reminds me of early SEO and search engine wars. If this gets popular enough, this loophole will be closed.
How do you plan to handle security (both network and employee)? Target was breached through their HVAC system (which was linked to internal networks in some places). It's suspected that a bad actor got a job at their HVAC vendor long enough to find some good vulnerabilities, and then just went to town.
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But see, those are kernel features, not Docker features. We use them in different ways from Docker. You wouldn't say that two apps should obviously share code just because they both open files. But using a file is honestly at least as complicated as setting up a namespaces.

Also, about 1% of Sandstorm's code is actually dealing with those things, while the other 99% deals with implementing all the high-level features in my bullet list, none of which Docker does at all.
No, hunting isn't "sexist", it's gender biased. "Sexist" is a normative term.

It's easy to see where the gender bias comes from: most hunters come to the sport via their fathers, and hunting as a father-son tradition is deeply ingrained in the culture. There are, despite that, plenty of women hunters.

That's the case with hunting. But it's hard to extrapolate from hunting to technology jobs.
What type of funds do you like? Value?
It seems like the kind of high risk thing VC money should be thrown at. It would be cool to see more research into cold fusion, too. The well was poisoned back in the eighties and the field never recovered.
True, the owner should paid less than 500$ per house because, the investment no real improvement about the house.
>An authorized user of a smartphone may affirmatively elect to disable or opt-out of enabling the technological solution at any time

How much you want to bet that "opting out" happens on the government end and not the device end?
I just have to say, for a long time, I have read sentiments like yours. Namely that, because the government has the big arms, they can win a fight against a civil militia. I would argue that we need to look no further than the middle east and how intense urban warfare really is to see that big weapons don't help. When you can't reliably root out the enemy force from the civilian force it is very hard to apply your big weapons. When the enemy eschews the Internet and uses traditional couriers (like the ISIS leader), they can be very hard targets. All that technology and weaponry, but you still need somewhere to aim it. Look how long it took to get OBL. It would be a brutal civil war. Brother against brother again, if it ever happened at scale in the US.
That doesn't explain why the bill includes all the restrictions on government, though. If the aim was to empower government, they could simply have been omitted.
Worse, this kind of sentiment is undemocratic. The sheeple pass the laws, and the few Nietzschean supermen with the guts (and money) to do it disregard them, to prove they're wrong.
Of course IV does not only make revenue by litigation, they also make revenue by licensing patents without litigation. If the patent system were not broken this would be a perfectly reasonable business model, funding new inventions and selling the rights to produce them (which of course would require litigation if people produced those inventions without paying). For your argument to be valid you must establish that not only is the current patent system broken, but that it would be fundamentally impossible to have a non-broken patent system.
Police don't kill people almost all the time. Police generally are a net good.

I read this book once called Crisis Management. The main idea was to minimize the consequences of rare actions. So, even though train cars carrying lethal chemicals rarely derail, you build the train tracks so if one were to derail, say on a sharp curve, it derails far from populated areas. Or, even though nuclear reactors rarely release deadly radiocative gases, you don't allow people to build shanties nearby, where they would get lethal doses of radiation if there were an accident.

You can't get rid of adverse cases completely in most real-world situations. But you can work to minimize the consequences when the adverse case shows up. There are times when improving the worst case is pretty cheap, if you think ahead.

Policing is like this. The police very rarely need to use force ('rarely' in the sense of force used/interaction with civilian.) But when they do it makes sense to reduce the worst case: that the force will cause mortal injury. In the MOVE case, just wait them out. There is definitely increased cost, but it improves the expected value of the worst case by much more than the cost. Or, as I saw someone ask, speculatively I have to assume, on Twitter 'what would you do if some 6'4" guy was running at you threateningly?' The rational answer might be 'close your car window and call for backup.' It's never 'get out of the car and shoot him in the head.'
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there are many derivative uses of sports statistics, but i think the value of stats ultimately stems from (1) an athlete's desire to compete and excel and (2) an expression of the athlete's identity.

so what stats you take should be useful in one of those two contexts, e.g., how many aces, faults, breaks, etc. do you have? does that mean you have a power game or a finesse game?

the first order of tennis stats comes from the open vision system described in the article: where the players and the ball are on winning shots. higher order stats come from understanding strategy and tactics (e.g., how each shot placement affects the outcome of each point, each game, each set, etc.)

(i'm working on a system to capture real-time stats for amateur sports)
But aren't you overlooking all the thousands of everyday things that policemen do, things that aren't newsworthy? Little things like giving people directions, explaining why your Metro card isn't working, or simply being someone to call and talk to and file a report with when someone steals your stuff; along with bigger things like stopping an abusive spouse or arresting assaulters, rapists and murderers; all of these are things that policemen do every day, which of course makes them non-newsworthy. IMHO the silent majority of cops are good people doing good things most of the time, but there's nothing to report there, so instead our perceptions of the police force are completely skewed by the reporting of rare, horrific actions.
A good Engineer is not afraid to push back in the interest of the company. A bad Engineer is a cog in a system and cannot think for themselves.
Yes, that provision does state that any type of wire cut conducted pursuant to 7907 that cuts cell service is also labeled as denial of cell service as discussed in 7908, but denial of cell service is not limited to such situations - there can be other means of shutting down cell service, such as police co-opting a kill switch.

More importantly, this subsection certainly doesn't change the fact that your above description of 7908 as a law that "prohibits interruption of communication by law enforcement in anything other than a hostage or barricade situation" is completely inaccurate.

It is broader, and could apply to protests if there is a claim of imminent risk of great bodily harm, as police have been claiming for the last week during mistreatment of protesters and journalists in Ferguson.
Paul Allen. Huh. So what is it about these pathetic Microsoft guys?

http://www.wired.com/2010/08/paul-allen-patent-lawsuit/
I believe it was Mayor Goode that called for the action.
been a fan of it for years, and i don't even do game programming :)
Barbeau was a professor of mine back in the late 1980s, great to hear that he's still around. It was a wonderful class, with Ravi Vakil [1] and Nima Arkani-Hamed [2] in it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Vakil
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nima_Arkani-Hamed
Thanks. It might be experimental but its certainly well commented :)
Loved the blog and the thought process. Long way to go but an amazing ambitious dream I must say. All the best!
Right, at a certain point it comes down to the officer's life versus the life of the civilian. This is a tough situation because you essentially saying "I am going to kill you before you kill me" - which is definitely not how police should operate.

Unless the civilian is armed I see no reason why the police should even arrive at the scene with a gun, unless the situation is violent to begin with, or after being called in as backup.
Well if you assume the judicial system is corrupt - then the real problem lies in the courts - not necessarily in patents.

>The claim that one can own an idea is silly on its face

You do realize that the la-la land you want to live in doesn't preclude the ownership of ideas. Trade secrets will always exist and there is no practical way to prevent their existence.

Not only do patents allow innovations to be shared - but it also opens up the limited-time monopolistic advantage to other industries. It's easy for Google to have a secret algorithm on their servers, or for KFC to have a secret recipe - but it's harder to have a secret algo in a DLL, or a secret engine in a car.

In your world, hilariously, in-house server side software development would be significantly more profitable than client side software development.
My company has a coding practical. It is designed to be done in about an hour or so. http://cloudspace.com/hiring/ (description at the bottom).

Ultimately it's going to come down to a harsh reality: how bad do you want that particular job? If you really want a particular job and they tell you that they won't hire anyone who doesn't wear a funny hat to the interview, you'll be browsing Amazon's hat section (unless you are pre-equipped with funny hats, in which case you may be an exceptional hire).

Companies equally have to make a decision although they may not realize it. If their interview process seems more painful than necessary, a well-qualified person (who is in demand) may choose to apply somewhere else.
We're talking about the same book, _Exceptional C++: 47 Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions_, by Herb Sutter. The takeaway I had from reading that book (a long time ago) was just to use RAII religiously, which also tends to make other things easier.

So I'm curious about why you think RAII makes writing exception-safe code difficult?
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> The problem isn’t “patent trolls.” The problem is patents

It doesn't make them any less guilty. It's like saying that criminals aren't the problem, but weapons they use are.
It's currently in the South China Sea

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Dear Satya,

As we discussed, this paves the way for you to use the first envelope.

Best wishes,

Steve
You're right, it's not the normal definition of derivative. He's defining a function on numbers that has some similarities to the derivative (the multiplication rule is the same, and therefore so are some other properties), but isn't the derivative.

It's common in mathematics to take a word that already means something, and re-use it for a different but related concept. For example, in group and field theory, you talk about addition and multiplication, but they're not necessarily the standard definition.
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Don't get me wrong, there are definitely good cops, but at the same time - they protect the bad ones, so it's hard to say.

The same officer that helps someone with their Metro card can be the officer that 5 minutes later is "stopping and frisking" someone.
Delete "sample page" or at least remove it from the primary menu.
Police are not supposed to be a net good. They are a classic solution to a game theoretic prisoner's dilemma. If there were no enforcement of laws by police, it would be in everyone's best interest to e.g. steal. Regardless of whether other people steal, you'd be better off doing it. So as a classic solution to the prisoners dilemma, you introduce a force that strictly decreases everyone's utility function. How can this be a good thing? Well, because it changes everyone's optimal strategy from stealing to not stealing, reaching a global optimum. Now you'll notice that this strategy only improves things if it actually changes people's behavior. If people continue stealing anyway at the same rates, then things have only gotten worse (unless you subscribe to punitive, rather than deterrent punishment). So the primary purpose of police is deterrence through the threat of negative reinforcement, not "helping people". Further, whenever police actually have to enforce laws, its a sign that something has gone wildly wrong. The deterrent didn't work, and things are worse off than if there were no police at all. Of course, in reality criminal behavior has a lot of motivators and it's not possible to change everyone's optimal strategy just by raising punishments, so you're going to have police enforcing laws. But there is no police department that is more successful than one where the police just sit around and do nothing.
I swear I saw this before, or a similar thing. Also I swear I saw something similar in Independence, MO; but I cannot find a thing about it. Perhaps I was conflating it with this event.
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It implies that the features are somehow new and ground breaking.

Lambdas have been understood for many many years, the same goes for GC. The were not only in the domain of academia.

Common Lisp has many of these features and more, being a multi-paradigm programming language. And has been used in industry for many many years. Yet people say CL is antiquated while it has so called 'modern' features.
> They aren't claiming to be Sublime Text, they are claiming they want to be better than it

Sure, but, they're using sublime text's brand to draw attention to their own project. If they called themselves, say, "Cherry edit" and just had a comparison matrix to sublime text without saying "we want to be sublime", I bet this wouldn't have made it to the front page. They're piggybacking off the other projects success by invoking its name and lineage, while positioning themselves as a competitor by undercutting the price (in this case: free).

That's what I mean. It's not illegal or whatever, it just feels like poor sportsmanship.
Hmm, its really you know what they need? so what your style in convincing them that you know what they need?
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not.
I thought democracy == people rules, but it seems like you are suggesting we discard "sheeple"'s opinion and follow the lead of a few "supermen with guts and money".

Not sure who's being undemocratic here.

Also, whenever someone uses the word "sheeple" in their argument they lose all credibilities in my eyes.
Do all the YC companies get a chance to demo? I know that http://permutive.com/ are part of this cohort but I didn't see them mentioned.
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There is a difference between the two situations though. A train isn't going to adapt based on the your policies though a person might. If your only thinking about short term suffering you might in effect increase the overall suffering by decreasing the deterrent effect of policing.
Ahh, I see. That makes more sense.

However, I'm not sure I understand how the definition extends to all numbers. Edit: nvm, I'm dumb.
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Ask HN: Tips to become a great programmer
Hello HN,

I'm coming up on my sophomore year in college as a cs major. I feel as though I understand a good bit more than majority of other people in my classes but I still feel as if I'm only an "okay" programmer. I understand it takes writing a lot of code to get better but other than that are there any tips you might be willing to share to help me on my journey to becoming a great developer?
it runs iOS browser and everyting (since according to Apple that is the only browser that works at all)?
I've heard that for things like this you start at $1m per finished minute, and then go from there.

This is about 12 minutes long, has a fairly well known British Actor narrating, a well known film director, involved lots of world travel and various types of specialist equipment operators, lighting and sound folks.

I wouldn't think you'd get away from this for anything under $20m, and wouldn't be shocked to hear it was $30m.
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Thanks for the +1 jbarrow, appreciate it!
Sometimes it goes down that way, if the military feels it needs to hold back and win the narrative, not just the ground.

On home soil it may well do this, but equally it may go completely nuts if it feels subject to a genuine existential threat.

Look to the end of the Tamil Tigers for an example of what a modern military is capable of against insurgents when it pulls out all the stops. - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/01/17/death-of-the-ti...

And remember that the Tamil Tigers were one of the most experienced of the various guerrilla groups around the world.
They might have demoed off the record.