skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the author ends up proposing, as usual, is basically RPC-over-JSON. Replace JSON with XML and RPC with SOAP, and you get the sort of monster-construct the REST movement was born to fight.

This particular sentence says it all: "the message content should be independent of the transmission channel." That's the RPC dream: no matter what the pipe is, I'm sending you stuff to do. The problem, of course, is that in practice the transmission channel is never neutral: for example, HTTP and RMI are very different beasts, and in practice applications built on top of either one will end up relying on this or that assumption about the protocol, no matter how hard you try to standardize them. Same for any transmission protocol out there, really. You just have to decide when to stop trying to abstract everything away and do your work, because each additional abstraction is inevitably leaky. In this sense, REST basically tells you to stop right there and get to work. REST is not a "transmission channel", it's an application design philosophy for applications built on HTTP. End of.

Pretty much all his other objections can be fixed by using proper response codes and intelligent payloads that do not include verbs. The only verbs you need are in HTTP already - GET, POST and DELETE will cover 99% of your requirements. They make your API substantially predictable and robust. The minute you start putting verbs in payloads, you're doing RPC and you might as well use CORBA. If this is what you want, go ahead and do it, but don't say it's REST's fault if you don't understand what REST is.
Fastest ever neutrino among slew of fresh findings
UN Population Report: 8.5B people by 2030 [pdf]
The goal isn't to have cheap food, it's to have good food.

People don't say "Ferrari isn't a car technology company" because their technology isn't targeted towards the masses.
Kickstarted game's commercial failure pushes developer to bankruptcy
Saving water doesn’t make sense at all in a great many places where (clean) water is abundant, population is stagnant and infrastructure already exists. In other words, in many places water supply is mostly all about fixed costs and trouble with the water supply are not in any way related to consumer use of it in showers. (Agricultural use that leaves the water harder to clean up completely and an ageing population that flushes more and more drugs down toilets are more likely to crop up as issues, both unrelated to the amount of water that is used to shower.)

In fact, disuse of water infrastructure can actually damage pipes and be very costly as opposed to just leaving the water running from time to time. (Just the logical consequence when the infrastructure – something that in the case of water can easily last half a century or more once built – is the main cost factor, not the water.)

Obviously this is not universal and there are also a great many places where water really is a scarce resource.
Navigating Themes in Restaurant Reviews with Word Mover’s Distance
Funny that weather of 37C (Dallas) is marked in green, while 20C is marked in red.
As for me, it only makes sense if I'm on vacation, but for work 21C is the perfect non-distracting conditions. California Health Code for office conditions says the same.
Traveling to Another Planet? Just Add Water
The big currencies like the euro and dollar mostly do. That's not to say that government and central bank policy doesn't have an effect, central banks influence rates with interest rates and quantitive easing, during the Bush presidency a law he passed regarding taxation levels on profits held outside the US contributed to the dollar strengthening. But the degree to which the dollar, euro and pound can fluctuate vs each other is massive compared to the yuan.
That's a pretty sweet site. I'd vote a freemium option. You could do things like:

X conversions free per IP per month, upgrade for more

X Mb files are free, upgrade for bigger files

Do you have some stats on visitor loyalty? You probably get a lot of passer-bys, but the 1% that uses you weekly should be paying.

It's not too much work to set up a Stripe or Paypal subscription service and put up a little paywall.

It reminds me of https://www.url2png.com/ which I subscribed to for a while.
The summary of key findings report linked here are only part of the package. Check out http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/ for additional details and data.
WP was not designed for modern deployment for a number or reasons. Wordpress is definitely not a 12 factor app. And there is nothing that can be really fixed by plugins. to fix this, one has to break WP core apis. WP is "a deploy once with ftp/sftp" cms.
'Russian missile parts' found at Malaysian Airlines airliner Debris
Thank you, I get the sense that you're not trying to be overly negative. But I'm also slightly confused. If you can't gain credibility with valid arguments and research, how else can you?
> A moving ball bearing has no contact between any metal parts.

In theory. In practice however balls do contact the races and eventually wear them out even when properly lubricated.
Think deeper: what is the use case for a GPS unit setting airstrike coordinates to its own location?
Windows 10: The desktop goes to the cloud
easier said than done.
There's a fairly common saying about it being preferable to "beg forgiveness" than to "ask permission". In this case, I was referring to Google possibly mentioning to BMW their intent to use the Alphabet name.
GitHub's Code of Conduct
Backyard Hibachi Grill
Sensible and actionable advice that many techies overlook in the desire for virality. Building long-term, personalizable relationships with customers to help them get their important jobs done -- it's a scalable and sustainable solution.
>It's time to end this ridiculous liquidity trap and punish the hoarders.

actually, the low rates force the investment. The higher rates create hoarders.
The lack of basic C++ development features like "go to implementation", "add to header", automatic updating of prototypes or even the most basic refactoring tools like moving definitions, extracting functions, if I'm remembering correctly it didn't even have rename... yeah it drove me away pretty easily.
The dollar does float freely, it is only indirectly influenced by interest rates and I believe (Financiers to correct later) the purchase of bonds. Typically, The Fed tries to maintain low inflation -- a measure of the purchasing power -- not a measure of value against other currencies. Manipulating your currency value against other currencies may be a legit complaint.
Flux is a way to organize interactions with data and business logic, so that React only has to worry about the UI. Specifically, it breaks down behaviours into functional streams that don't interrupt each otherr.
What? Are you deaf and blind? Look at rents, college, healthcare, food staples, inflation has been destroying the middle class especially when combined with stagnant wages.

I can only assume you are a shill, mind controlled, or tremendously challenged to believe inflation is a non problem.
I would be surprised if anyone who would but a $250 shower head cares about saving money on their water bill.
Finally, we can convince our management to start to use it.
All of the beautiful of ReQL, then addhing high availability What else I can expect more.
Fun Easter Egg on ABC.XYZ(Google - Alphabet)
If you're interested in picking apart a small self-contained project, I wrote a simple IRC bot in ARM for GNU/Linux a while ago:

https://github.com/wyc/armbot

There are instructions to run/debug it on an x86_64 machine via qemu.
I couldn't really find any good docs on how to use the various async Python drivers...? All I found was some references to Tornado under `set_loop_type`.

Also, very much looking forward to trying this out!
In a way they may have not or they would have confirmed that BMW wouldn't have an issue with it.
Completely agree. It'll happen slowly. You already can see more companies willing to hire remote so you're not limited to candidates that fit your requirements within 0-50 miles of your office.
> I don't think IRV is worse than first-past-the-post (FPTP) at all. IRV eliminates vote splitting, reduces strategic voting, and results in fewer wasted votes. Also, the fact that IRV ignores all rankings except the first until the first is eliminated means that you won't hurt your most preferred candidate by changing the order of your other preferences. If you're voting A>B>C, then if A wins, then you wouldn't really care whether you helped B win or not.

IRV doesn't eliminate strategic voting. Yes, if A is going to win, then A>B>C is great. However, voting A>B>C rather than B>A>C can cause C to win instead of B. It doesn't "eliminate vote splitting" except in the case where a third-party candidate has no chance; in the case where the third-party candidate actually has a chance, IRV can break horribly.

See http://minguo.info/election_methods/irv and http://minguo.info/election_methods/evaluation .

> Approval voting has the problem of electing a candidate that's acceptable instead of one who the majority actually likes.

And that's a bug? Approval tends to find satisficing solutions, yes. Condorcet does better, though; it's just harder to deploy (but no harder than IRV).
I'm sorry, were you under the impression that creating a modern video codec was an effort that was not burdensome in any dimension?

The entire anti-patent argument has rarely elevated beyond attempts at justifying people's desire to have everything they want for free. Do you have something to contribute that will help, or do you simply believe you are owed access to every technology everyone has created because your want is that meaningful?
Take a look at this -- http://rethinkdb.com/docs/async-connections/
Exactly, holding companies do not need to worry about their marketing. http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
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By "Fastest" they mean "Most energetic".

"This neutrino packs about 1,000 times the energy of the LHC beam. It is spectacular."

They have evidence for a neutrino arriving with at least 2,600 trillion electronvolts (teraelectronvolts, TeV) of energy - hundreds of times more than protons inside the Large Hadron Collider, even after its historic revamp. IceCube's previous record was 2,000 TeV.

Really amazing.
haha. this can be the only explanation!! jk
BBC article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043648

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by "Fastest" they mean "Most energetic".
Ransomware Hiding as Windows 10 Upgrade
+1 and I really like the idea of that model and wanted to support Synergy in particular, but I almost gave up when I saw I'd have to compile from source, then did give up once I started encountering errors building from source. I would have happily given them money if they could have proven that the product worked on my equipment first (free trial, etc.) but given that it didn't seem to work, I bailed.
Runs into in the sense that the first website people will type when trying to access the website of Google's Alphabet is surely alphabet.com.
Do not discuss your own downvotes.

Do not interrupt the actual discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system.
PolyAuth can bring auth through Google+, Facebook and others to your app today
Lastpass: now you can get started on your phone for free
(cough cough)

http://bit.ly/1N1jAWF
Besides the documentation article Slava linked to, you might find this blog post helpful: http://rethinkdb.com/blog/async-drivers/

If there's anything else you think is missing from the documentation that would be helpful, open an issue here: https://github.com/rethinkdb/docs
This really depends. If you are targeting a local market get a domain in that country also. If you are a tech firm you may also want to get .io The truth is: Nobody will really bother about domains beside your .com
So why do we hear stories like the parent comment of people being refused a fare, or have to go through this elaborate theatre of getting the begrudging cab driver to take them to their desired destination

Unless the authorities don't give that much of a crap when people report it? Seems like a failure of the law enforcement tbh. Although granted, being refused a cab fare is hardly top priority in the grand scheme of things
"NETVC is shooting for the next generation."

What makes a codec "next generation"? I assume, broadly, it involves trading off more yet more computation for a tighter encode? (As nearly an embarassingly-parallel problem, video coding continues to get faster with more silicon even if serial performance is stagnant.) What kind of gains can we expect from the "next generation"?

All honest questions, BTW. Links welcome, though something focused on this question and not just a laundry list of features with no reference to the past would be preferred.
Medical care and tution is part of the BLS measure of inflation:

http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpi_methods.htm

OTOH, I'd be a fool to disagree with your assessment given how much greater of a percentage goes to the items you listed today.
That is a logical POV but it's compelling to leave rent & real estate out of it, because it's also true that cheap money is one of the primary factors that has quickly driven up the prices there.
> On top of that, all donations are refundable

I see a massive exploit available on that clause.
This was the paper I loved for drawing Dungeons and Dragons maps in the late 70s. I loved how a #2 pencil looked on the faded blue grid. The paper has a distinctive smell, it's just delicious.
Changing concepts is natural as best practices evolve. 3.3 introduced live binding, but it didn't break any of the older ways of writing apps.

3.2 to 3.3 is actually mostly syntax changes that are documented in the guide linked in the other comment.

What specifically is preventing you from upgrading? If you want any help or tips, please reach out and we'll gladly help you or give some pointers.
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A guy here recently got quite an important medal for doing exactly that.
Feds bust $100m insider trading scheme using hacked newswire sources
Yes, MPEG-LA publishes lists, and they need to be looked at closely. Most of the patents have expired. When you go down the list, you see things such as US #6,181,712, which has to do with multiplexing two unrelated video streams into one. Broadcasters and cable systems do this, but Internet video does not. US #6,160,849 only applies to compression of interlaced video, which nobody uses on line. US #7,627,041 is about dealing with missing header data due to transmission noise. US #5,878,080 is about backwards-compatible multichannel (>2 channels) audio, also seldom used on-line. US #6,185,539 is for video with overcompressed extra-low-quality audio. So is US #6,009,399.

MPEG-LA has been padding their patent portfolio by dumping in all these patents on little-used features. Until this year, they still had some good patents, such as the ones on motion estimation, which is a hard problem and is needed to make compression work. But those have now expired. What's left looks like it can be avoided as unnecessary for Internet use.
yes, so true! :D
Sponsorship works for me. Companies got in touch with me directly saying they'd like to sponsor my project. I put on my project pages "This nice company sponsors my project". I ensure that's actually a company I can endorse, and my users aren't exposed to any nasty ad scripts.

Both donations and sponsorship pale in comparison with development/consulting fees. When a company needs a feature they're happy to pay a proper daily rate.
Inflation and base interest rates are not the same thing, though they usually affect each other. If inflation is higher than the base rate, then people tend to spend more as money is losing the purchasing power.

The problem is that inflation can't be simply 'set'.
You have to know that organic vs. Monsanto is a hot button to push, so throwing that into your initial comment is a sure way to derail the conversation into arguments.

If you really just want to talk about the "tech" label, then you should just stick to that point.
TL;DR: Alphabet can't buy alphabet.com but clearly didn't intend to because it is already using abc.xyz.

Just a click-bait headline.
Thought this would be about Palantir, the surveillance company with a philosophy PhD CEO.
I guess subatomic was the wrong word, but we took the same thing away - that itinerant electrons are inherently unstable rather than being due to a particular lattice configuration.

Although, insofar as the electrons have the instability within themselves, to use your words, how is the cause not subatomic? Does it not arise out of some aspect of the electron's internal structure? Maybe I'm just using it too loosely.

Thanks for taking the time to explain it properly.
I didn't make an estimate, I asked you to justify your assertion.
There should be efforts outside of large corporations dedicated to building these standards. Because in general even when large corporations promise free / open-source licensing they really only mean non-commercial licensing or "open with caveats". So they pretty much own the commercial rights.

I want open-source to subsidize a small team of engineers to create a completely open standard where no single entity owns it and everyone is free to branch / fork it.
Not to mention that food itself does not elicit rational behavior. If we were remotely logical about how we consume food, we'd all be voluntarily eating a nutrition paste out of a tube every morning.

Eating food is an animal need, and therefore we have instinctual animal behaviors around supplying it and consuming it that just can't fit into any sort of rational mental model. There are functions around food behavior built into our DNA and we haven't had enough generations since the invention of agriculture to evolve beyond them yet. Heck, I'd even guess we would all benefit if food supply chains were more decentralized and chaotic than they are already.

This irrationality is unfortunately a difficult thing for engineering-minded people to accept, so it makes sense that the valley would just keep on making these same mistakes with every generation. So it goes
Would it be presumptuous of me to mention why that is not me? Because, in 10 years of doing this, I've seen one small business do decently well with the donation model. (It's Paint.NET. Rich asked me not to mention the numbers when he told me them, and I respect his wishes, but let's say "A quite happy result which supports a small team in a sustainable fashion.")

I have also seen many developers try it. Monks take a vow of poverty, because it can be spiritually fulfilling, but I do not believe many people would take a vow of poverty so that they can devote every waking moment to fixing the problems of for-profit companies. (There are individual people I'm thinking of while writing this. I won't mention their situations, for the obvious reasons, but I'm generally a quiet restrained guy and, after a coffee date with one of them, I nearly put my fist through a mirror out of vicarious frustration with injustice.)

There are so, so many better business models than taking donations. Let's move the conversation to those better models. "Charge money for goods and services" provides plenty of room for experimentation and has the desirable property of actually working.
There is another piece linked on HN today with many of the same sound bites. I haven't spent any time to speak of on college campuses in many years, and I wonder how much of this is a steady problem and how much conspicuous cases mentioned over and over.
> but they forget that we lived through a decade (the 70s) averaged over 5%.

I'm pretty sure people in government remember that, remember how people responded to it, and remember how it worked out for people in government at the time.
You say gerrymandering doesn't help the GOP, then link an article which describes how gerrymandering has allowed for the complete and uncontested domination of half of the legislature by the GOP for over a decade.

That's not what the article says. At one point it suggests gerrymandering is good for maybe 6-8 GOP seats (and it's not clear that counts any offsetting gerrymandering in Democratically controlled states).

Much of the rest of the GOP "lock" on the House is described thusly:

Even so, “by far the most important factor contributing to the Republican advantage,” Mr. Chen says, “is the natural geographic factor of Democrats’ being overwhelmingly concentrated in these urban districts, especially in states like Michigan and Florida.”

Which is exactly what I said.
From Brian Thacker's Medal of Honor citation:
"Then, in an act of supreme courage, he called for friendly artillery fire on his own position to allow his comrades more time to withdraw safely from the area and, at the same time, inflict even greater casualties on the enemy forces."

John R Fox's citation:
"As the Germans continued to press the attack towards the area that Lieutenant Fox occupied, he adjusted the artillery fire closer to his position. Finally he was warned that the next adjustment would bring the deadly artillery right on top of his position. After acknowledging the danger, Lieutenant Fox insisted that the last adjustment be fired as this was the only way to defeat the attacking soldiers. Later, when a counterattack retook the position from the Germans, Lieutenant Fox's body was found with the bodies of approximately 100 German soldiers."

Pretty sure you can find some more if you look.

[1] - http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/3431/thacker-brian-mil...

[2] - http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/2744/fox-john-r.php
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They keep coming in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043718, (archive.org) 1 pt 2 comments {Deleted}
The protein, RPE65 [1][2] allows cells to produce a required pigment necessary for both rod and cone-mediated vision. Getting that sequence into the (correct cells in the) patient was the hard part. This particular protein helps prevent blindness in these patients precisely because their natural version of this protein is an ineffective variant of the canonical RPE65 (the sequence of the RPE65 they have is different or truncated from the sequence in [1]). The delivery via Adeno-associated virus works because the eye is special - immunologically privileged. So gene therapies work well for tissues that are immunologically privileged, or can be extracted from the body, affected, and then re-implanted (the eyes and T-cells respectively). This allows the therapy itself to avoid triggering your immune system and fighting the therapy. This is why most of the first gene therapies you will see here soon are targeted towards these two systems.

Different disorders will require addressing the truncations/deviations of different proteins. But if the delivery mechanism works properly, and the knowledge about which proteins are ineffective for particular diseases, this [gene therapy] is the mechanism for curing a whole host of diseases not caused by a foreign agent. At this point, the delivery is the significant technological hurdle. Combined with the effectiveness of Cas9-genomic targeting, and the past 20 years of reading genetic code, there is a lot here to watch.

[1] the 534 amino acids of RPE65 that are required - to the bit - in order to see:

MSIQVEHPAGGYKKLFETVEELSSPLTAHVTGRIPLWLTGSLLRCGPGLFEVGSEPFYHLFDGQALLHKFDFKEGHVTYHRRFIRTDAYVRAMTEKRIVITEFGTCAFPDPCKNIFSRFFSYFRGVEVTDNALVNVYPVGEDYYACTETNFITKINPETLETIKQVDLCNYVSVNGATAHPHIENDGTVYNIGNCFGKNFSIAYNIVKIPPLQADKEDPISKSEIVVQFPCSDRFKPSYVHSFGLTPNYIVFVETPVKINLFKFLSSWSLWGANYMDCFESNETMGVWLHIADKKRKKYLNNKYRTSPFNLFHHINTYEDNGFLIVDLCCWKGFEFVYNYLYLANLRENWEEVKKNARKAPQPEVRRYVLPLNIDKADTGKNLVTLPNTTATAILCSDETIWLEPEVLFSGPRQAFEFPQINYQKYCGKPYTYAYGLGLNHFVPDRLCKLNVKTKETWVWQEPDSYPSEPIFVSHPDALEEDDGVVLSVVVSPGAGQKPAYLLILNAKDLSEVARAEVEINIPVTFHGLFKKS

[2] http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q16518
The real problem is that inflation is only occurring in those areas. Other areas are flat or deflationary.