skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those figures would be interesting, but none of them are going to give accurate numbers for the numbers the original comment was talking about, because they tell you nothing of the number of people who buy the books (with no intention of reading them) by more conventional means. They don't provide any way to infer those numbers.
I'm remaining firmly unconvinced.

REST is an anti-standard. It doesn't tell you what to do, it just gives you some guidelines of sorts. And honestly, you don't even have to follow them - the spirit of REST is in simple JSON + HTTP-based operations.

As an example, this?

createAccount(username, contact_email, password) -> account_id
addSubscription(account_id, subscription_type) -> subscription_id
sendActivationReminderEmail(account_id) -> null
cancelSubscription(subscription_id, reason, immediate=True) -> null
getAccountDetails(account_id) -> {full data tree}

Could be this:

POST /accounts/ {username, contact_email, password} -> {account_id}
POST /accounts/:account_id/subscriptions/ {subscription_type} -> {subscription_id}
POST /accounts/:account_id/send_activation_reminder_email/ -> {}
DELETE /accounts/:account_id/subscriptions/:subscription_id/ {reason, immediate} -> {}
GET /accounts/:account_id/ -> {full data tree}

...Or an unending number of other interpretations. You can, for example, flatten the tree and put `/subscriptions/` at the root. Doesn't matter. It isn't that ridiculously hard to understand or formulate.

And if you want, you can make everything perfectly RESTful and make everything a resource. Kubernetes and its API objects concept are great examples. Deploying services with POST/PATCH/PUT? Just add some layers of abstraction.

Having REST bindings for many languages is not a ridiculous thing to do either. If your API is huge, autogenerate it somehow. Swagger/OpenAPI exists. Or, maybe don't make bindings at all. If I wanted to write payment handling code for Stripe, I'd feel no hesitation doing it by making the HTTP requests directly. It's not hard or scary. Them having rich, quality libraries for many languages is a marketing decision, and a damn good one in my opinion. It does things that no cross-language abstraction layer could to make life as simple as possible.

Honestly, people can do whatever they want, but I genuinely do not get why REST-based services are so bad. Honestly, if anything is difficult nowadays, it's authentication. I'm a big fan of OAuth2, but there's a thing that isn't fun to write client libraries for.

(I have. The problem isn't that it's complicated; the problem is that nobody implements it right. Google's OIDC implementation has all kinds of bugs. Losing scopes on refresh is incredibly annoying.)
Anecdotally, the door-to-door sales and the aggressive sales guy camped out at the entrance to Home Depot seem to have largely gone away. I suspect it's a combination of, as you say, a less attractive financial payback and the fact that people who really want to do it have already done it.

(I'm not sure what the tax incentive situation is. As I understand it, that's still in place.)
"You need just an unverified comment to get fired and to wear a mark of blemish for life."

Do you have an example of that?
Learning Cassandra was really fun, it’s very complicated behind the scenes but also incredibly powerful and the ideas behind it helped me learn a lot about what databases are really doing under the hood. Thinking about table shapes (which is effectively the output your application needs to consume in the right order) up front is very difficult but in return you can scale to almost as many writes as you need. Recommended.
>I've never heard of a man being ignorant enough to hit on a female boss, but it wouldn't surprise me.

It's far less common, but it certainly does. You just won't hear about it if they find each other attractive.
If it's a monthly lease, then that means they can very easily switch if the laws do change.
me: already groaning at the thought of fixing stuff after that one who didn't "read all that stuff," the "left", and thankfully the right was too busy pontificating to do anything so there's no fixing to be done.

Read. The. Damn. Stuff.
I don't see making it harder to bring over family members as a really positive move. It's difficult already.
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With respect to the article it is over a 17 year period. According the the U.S CBO annual spending is around $4 trillion. I'm personally not surprised by these numbers.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52408
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Anyone who hasn't tried a whitespace-significant language in anger is missing out.

I had started with F# and was put off by it like you described. I moved to Haskell and had difficulty understanding it yet again, but when I moved back to F# one more time it was a delight.
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Try building a Web site with Blade, i hope to get advice
I mean at a certain point hope becomes delusion.
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How big does a block needs to be to allow around 4k transactions?
TIL about SpeedCrunch!

http://www.speedcrunch.org/

http://www.speedcrunch.org/download.html even links to 32- and 64-bit prebuilt Qt binaries for Linux. Nice.
Have you considered the browser, Brave? Built-in micropayments. Https://brave.com
This is probably another comment that is less meaningful given the url change.
They came after Satoshi still.

God knows what Satoshi thinks about all the stuff going on around bitcoin...
Part of the reason to have comments as part of your site is for SEO and capturing the long tail from user generated content.

Basically rank higher on keywords searchers actually use by letting them use their own words on your site.

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Can somebody explain the reasoning behind step 5?

It's clear that the algorithm works (assuming it converges), because it only uses manipulations that preserve optimality. Why, though, should I choose these manipulations instead of others that also preserve optimality?
Your original comment was great, and this exchange really just cements the point you made there.
This is evidence that net neutrality is an imagined monster for a lot of people.
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.
Yeah, looks like I got the terminology wrong, but the concept is the same for these purposes. Whether you track the outputs or the account balances, there's a lot more information that you need to keep an accounting of than what you can glean from just the last N blocks. Which makes sense; it is a distributed ledger after all.
> The ultimate insult being not getting back to you even though you scored the maximum on their silly CS undergrad tests.

The score is always too low and there are always some tests failing. Just submit the tasks blank or with dummy code. This way they waste time and money for the license - that's the only thing one can do in defence.
So piling up lead/zinc ore leftovers outside the mine in Alaska is clearly polluting? Would need more data.
I assume the chance of experiencing a Tesla is much lower.
I’ve always wondered about this: does this include military spending? If half of our taxes go to military and many countries have little or no military, are Americans doing more with even less? Or are we just getting relatively more screwed?
I doubt most of the people here would be alive and the population would be significantly reduced.
At the start of his tenure, Rumsfeld said that the DoD couldn't account for about $2T dollars, so regardless of whether $21T seems plausible, this (first ever!) audit is long overdue.
Surprised to have scrolled this far and not see one mention of GraphQL. It has a discoverable, schema based design, strongly typed. It segments requests into three types, queries, mutations, and subscriptions. Queries are simple data fetching. Mutations can be treated like RPC calls. Subscriptions are for long lived connections to receive live updates for data queries. I think it fixes a lot of problems with REST. I think it works extremely well with microservice architecture.
As a male with a family to provide for, I can’t just hope for the best or hope that those I’d interact with are reasonable. I’d rather simply not work with any women in the current climate (not a hiring manager, and my industry is predominately male, so it works out).

Disclaimer: I have seen presumably reasonable people act irrationally in the workplace. I’m not anti-women; I have a daughter and want the best work environment for her when she grows up. I’m anti-witch hunt.
I agree with almost every point of this article. REST is terrible. The only thing I don't agree is that SOAP is bad. Web services are awesome if used with some limitations. Major platforms have autogeneration, so you are spending zero time to build a robust API. I've yet to see anything as simple and fast as Web services. I think that world migrating to REST is a huge mistake.
We've asked you many times to please comment civilly and substantively, and yet you've continued to repeatedly violate the guidelines, so we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll start following the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That actually sounds more reasonable, I was using "63 kg of lithium in a 70 kWh Tesla Model S battery pack" from here: https://electrek.co/2016/11/01/breakdown-raw-materials-tesla...

Anyway, my point was we currently mine highly concentrated lithium, but as long as we are willing to spend more it's not going to be an issue because it's not used up and overall it's very abundant.
Hate gets more clicks than producing.

Twist on “easier to destroy than create.”
Flattr tries to be that.
I worked for the DOE for 12 years. There certainly were shady, sweetheart, and down right suspicious deals that happen for services, hardware and software.
In addition to what the person above stated about the period of time over which this occurred, I'd like to add that I would think the "don't believe everything you read on the internet" file would be filled with statements of the kind made by disreputable sources. This article concerns research done since at least 2015 which has led to an investigation from the Department of Defense. I don't think it should be taken so lightly, yet your comment seems to be trying to sweep this issue under the rug.
You mean I am too paranoid?
Many of the works that have received the most cultural success have been science fiction.

Of the five top grossing films, Avatar and Jurassic World are very clearly science fiction, Star Wars and The Avengers are arguably science fiction. It's only Titanic that couldn't be claimed to be science fiction.

The situation is probably similar for TV Series too.

The status problems of science fiction are arguably related to its extreme popularity.
Same, the article states that the Army alone is missing $6.5 Trillion from 2015...

Roughly speaking that's like 8.8% of the GDP of the planet. That... just doesn't make sense.
The end of the article mentions the code is available and PCB's will be coming soon. The next step beyond that is that someone has to fill in the rest.
Thank you for an interesting answer to the question raised. The censors still down vote it. Unbelievable.
Yeah, totally makes sense to have a comment section. This is for websites that don't offer that.
Yeah, and this was announced right before Sep 11, 2001. Funny how it never got more attention...
I think these won't let you write WASM. Am I wrong?
> Whatever you are free to say in America, you have said many times already, and the marginal value of exercising that freedom yet again doesn’t seem so high. But you show up in China, and wow, your pent-up urges

Except that one country has built up a perception of allowing more freedom of speech than another.

The analogy doesn't cut to the core of the issue.

And the whole "pent up" phrasing makes it sound like Sam was just waiting to express some horrible things and couldn't do it here and had fly to China.
On my desktop:

Firefox: JavaScript ~372ms, asm ~121ms, WebAssembly ~91ms, Shader ~0.1ms

Chrome: JavaScript ~115ms, asm ~150ms, WebAssembly ~105ms, Shader ~0.1ms

Edge: JavaScript ~3340ms , asm ~(230-240)ms, WebAssembly ~(160-180)ms, Shader: Broken

IE11: Broken.

Interesting values.....
They published a bunch of documents, supposedly downloaded from official websites. One of them talks about $6.5T not properly justified in a single year: https://solari.com/00archive/web/solarireports/2017/unsuppor...

Maybe the reports don't say what they claim (I'm no accountant), but if they do, the only other possibility I see is outright fabrication of official documents (with signatures!) by people who aren't exactly anonymous loonies.

https://missingmoney.solari.com/dod-and-hud-missing-money-su...
CDC gets list of forbidden words: fetus, transgender, diversity
> Why is REST so popular?

REST is not popular, there are only a few RESTful public API in the wild. The rest (unavoidable pun, sorry) are simple HTTP APIs with JSON serialization which maps with various degree of coupling to internal data layer.

The main cause you don't need REST limitations to achieve same goals.

OP has strong opinion about why we need to reimplement rpc over http every time for every application and write clients for every popular platform to be able to consume it.

Every time I use REST from any google cloud api, my hair is moving and you definitely will have nightmares if you look into their python client code.
This is a self limiting mindset.

"All good solutions to existing problems have been discovered. There may be new problems which need new solutions, but no one will ever improve on what we have already done. Anyone who things they can is a child playing in the dirt."
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You are the Q for Dick Tracy.
I'm guessing black ops that they don't want put on the books.
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But interesting project you run there. Kinda like Disqus? Also, whos legal responsibility are the comments? I guess yours, as you host them?
You forgot the other reason on many sites: showing more and more ads at each step :-)
Sadly, I've yet to see a group in the city of Chicago consume this data in either a programatic, or useful, manner in the context of city operations.
How hard would it be to buy some land and build a solar farm? As an investment.
Again, I did not have a chance to review whether or not the add-on would be installed and run on my computer, because you installed and ran it without my consent.

This is not hard. Don't automatically install stuff on your users' computers. You're defending something every other software company has found themselves in trouble for previously. I really don't understand why. The fact that Firefox is open source in no way excuses it.
Organized violence begins with the organization, and why most countries in the modern world have some provision to prevent inciting violence, riot, etc.
Just wannabe mega-Corp. Believe it or not, most mega-Corps are pretty ethical by Uber standards.
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I’m sure Snowden and Manning would be shocked to hear that.
it's not that glamorous.
"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." -Kafka

John Le Carre, Salman Rushdie, John Banville, Anthony Horowitz. All had superlative novels out this year.

Also just started Francis Spufford's Golden Hill. Absolutely sublime way to spend a snow bound winter night.

The crisis is obviously in readership. Not writing. And the chaotic divergence of attention.

It may be true that the text no longer acts as Bildungsroman. The primary method to impart moral and spiritual character to young influence-able minds.

But then the Mountain must come to Muhammad. And the great works rendered as digital classics.

http://joycestick.com/
Y Combinator leans on WaPo
What’s the story about YCombinator and their seemingly overciting paywalled news sites like Washington Post?

Net Neutrality, much?
The FCC exempted ISPs from the arcane rules. Who would’ve sued to test that allowance? Verizon again?
Your first and second paragraphs are FUD. Your second paragraph is also nonsense because Title II isn’t nationalization. Ignoring the exemption, are companies operating under Title II nationalized? I don’t know where this kind of ignorance comes from. I see comments like this and can only assume it’s astroturfing or trolling but it has to be rebutted.
Can anybody comment on this?
There are women/men that are flattered/aroused when kissed without consent.

This is the crux of the problem, some of these people have done the exact action many times before with positive outcomes.

Those complainants may be outliers or they may be the majority, it's up to the organization to properly research which is the case and act accordingly (ie, apology, or firing).

Everyone has different wants and expectations.
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You need more than 64GB for your IDE and electron apps?

I have a 16GB macbook pro and I run two different IDE's, firefox with about 20-30 tabs, Eagle, and various other programs. I rarely run into swapping problems.
> in reality it means paying taxes so the CBC can make a shitty Canadian version of Law And Order

I never understood this cheap attitude. If you broke down your tax bill maybe 10$/yr might be going to the CBC. What's the big deal?

Also, here's a perspective you might not have thought of. In my opinion, CBC should not be allowed to fund itself with advertising, and should be fully funded by tax dollars.

This would be good for private TV networks because it would free that ad revenue and make it available for the private networks to use.
The entire 2015 federal budget was around $3.9 trillion. If just the army had spent $5.6 trillion in 2015 that would be noticed. This article can't make extraordinary claims with extraordinary proof (or any proof) to back it up.
This post wasn't touched by moderators, and it also wasn't flagged (that has a specific meaning on Hacker News). What makes you think that it was?
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My usual cover letter:

Dear Sir/Madam,
in reply for Your job offer placed at <website> I would like to apply for a <position>.

I'm <someone> with <x> years of experience. I <do stuff> and <do other stuff>.

My current tech-stack is:
<my tech stack>

I've included my CV as an attachment for this message.

Looking forward for a reply from You.

Best regards,

<me>

Enjoy ;)
btw SOAP was supposed to be "xmprpc standardized"

I remember well the meeting when things started to go off track...
Those two trillion dollars Pentagon could not account for where for just one year or a longer period? I remember that. It happened right before 9/11 so it was forgotten after the terrorist attack but Rumsfeld went on record saying all that money was missing. Could it be corruption in military is so widespread that we talk about trillions of dollars being siphoned away?
There is competition in most markets, but people are lazy and stick with the incombent telcos and cable companies which slows the expansion of competitive players. I live in probably the most competitive market and I am paying 100 CAD/month for unlimited gigabit, unrestricted Internet.

Net neutrality has been critical because the incumbent players have usage caps, and have tried to offer bundled services that aren't metered. This was stopped by the CRTC, but it is exactly how regulation restricts anti-competitive activities.
it's things. it's in an array. what did you want?
Thank you jjuliano, I can assure you it will be an active project as long as I live because I'm continuously developing new applications using my framework and also putting more features to the old ones that are already developed using this framework.
“...motte and bailey...”

removes monocle

Oh yes. Quite.

Did you just learn what “motte and bailey” means or something?

He’s saying look at the section the piece appeared in (op-ed; opposite the editorial page; the OPINION section)

It’s the one part of the paper that is specifically meant for opinions. It has featured climate change deniers, flat earthers, and 9/11 truthers. Because it’s expected that people know what an opinion piece is and can use their own experience and wisdom to form their own opinion.

Second, it’s easy/fun to crap on Comcast, but it’s possible to be pro-net-neutrality AND pro-repeal. See: Marc Andreessen.
The US is known to have a massive budget for the defense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
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I am working on a SOAP service and it is a nightmare.
Sure, that's economies of scale. Does Norway have that much demand for radio where they would reach that?
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So what?

If this weren't the case all we'd hear on air is American news, see only American shows. We'd have Anderson Cooper telling us what the Canadian perspective is on world events. We'd effectively be DOSed by the American perspective.

To say nothing of the francophones in Québec. They'd all be speaking English only by now, and tourists would go there like they go to New Orleans (which used to be 100% french) and say how wonderful the French 'influence' is in the region.
There are many layers of bureaucracy, and every dollar unaccounted for in every layer counts towards the total. The headline number is much bigger than the number of actual tax dollars spent, but the larger number is indicative of the bogus bookkeeping done throughout gov't agencies: 21 trillion in accumulated errors.
The article has a link to https://missingmoney.solari.com/dod-and-hud-missing-money-su...
The number sounds ridiculously large but I'm not surprised that these things happen.

The entire financial system is built on fraud. I think that most people understand this at least subconsciously.

Many years ago, being honest and forthcoming was beneficial and people appreciated honesty.

If you made a mistake and were honest about it as soon as it came to your awareness, people would respect you for it and would be more lenient. These days this is not the case, being honest is actually a disadvantage. Lying and cheating is always the best option. People don't give a crap about honesty anymore, only money and social status.

So in a world where the value of honesty is a negative number, it's not surprising at all that fraud is rampant.
I think it’s more accurate to say that the valley has done an incredible job of dressing up the tactics of organized crime under some weird, half-intelligible fetishism of “disruption.” Most of the things Uber and their ilk do are indistinguishable from mob tactics, they just have better PR.
I appreciate that using WebP has its advantages but when I look at canIuse, it’s support isn’t as widespread as the author suggests.

https://caniuse.com/#search=WebP