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Bloodbath is in nobody's interest. There will be renegotiation. As for discrediting corrupt government, I think that's everybody's agenda.
And now I'm reading ladle reviews on hacker news.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbCWmY0eqY
So, in total seriousness: I'm an amateur baker, I own six spatulas, and only one of them is very good. My second favorite was doing great until I was making a double batch of muffins and the wooden handle came out of the silicone head, and then some muffin batter got into the slot where the handle used to be, and it was obvious that I was never going to get it clean again so I had to throw it away.

(Funny thing about this is I vaguely remember Alton Brown predicting this in his own review of spatulas. And then it happened just like he said.)

The good one is from Zyliss and is a silicone spatula firmly fused to its plastic handle. I have stirred some pretty viscous tubs of stuff with this spatula and it holds up, plus it's flexible enough to scrape well. My only problem with it is that it's wearing out after a few years; silicone isn't permanent and it develops nicks on the edge. I should go order three more while I'm thinking about it.

So I don't think reading ladle reviews is that farfetched at all. (Though for ladles, as for many things, I'd start at the local restaurant supply store. Those stores are big on utility and not as big on hype and markup. And, truthfully, ladles are not a hard thing to get right. Now dishers, on the other hand...)

(For some reason I am now having fond memories of Weird Al Yankovic's movie UHF. Fans will know why. ;)
To be honest, I like the AV quality better on that setup I described. Too many theaters are poorly configured and are actually losing on the quality front - too loud, too cold, technical difficulties.

Then there's the indignity of being forced to watch lame commercials thinly disguised as a "First Look"
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OXO seems to be durable stuff, but the "ergo" handles are too bulky for me- I prefer something with a low profile in the cluttered utensil drawer.
I mid-read it as "ladie" at first!
This is generally true, but just as Apple produced a couple of dud Macs back in the day so does Oxo occasionally let me down. See above under "spatulas". ;)
I'm not a big fan of these sponges with integrated soap dispensers, they puke soap all over your sink when you put them down.
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Ditto, very sad. Based on the comments alone, it's better to turn off electronics to be safe from other passengers regardless of any merit to the authors actions. Although, I feel like not bothering with turning things off now and just put it in my pocket. After all, I get a thrill from risking my life along with a bunch strangers. Yeehaw!!!!
For me plus one, it's $30 for tickets and then $15-20 for popcorn+soda, so it's about 40 trips. And the AV is decidedly better at home - I have a hell of a subwoofer, the dialogue is crystal clear, the picture is gorgeous, and the AC is never cranked way too high. And it gets used for video games and TV as well.
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Dear Hacker News,

I'm currently building up a internet service that bears a lot of resemblance to the types of things you would see occur on social networking websites, though it itself is not supposed to truly be a social network.

I've been thinking a lot about REST lately, spurred on even moreso by a recent front-page article a man explaining REST to his wife, and I want to implement it in a way that creates a self-describing API with URLs, and is made as open as possible.

My current plans are, at first, not to reveal source code because I don't have a business model (so no plans to make revenue) and I would like some recognition for my team and I if my project is a true success.

However, I still want it to be as open as humanly possible, with all data theoretically machine-readable using the most popular open standards for declaring these objects etc.

This is where the Ask part comes in.. its very hard to look up all sorts of protocols and such for how to implement things, and through that REST article I was able to understand that implementing a separate API - albeit good for business - isn't the way the web is supposed to work.

What technologies should I use for data et al.

Current thoughts:

- Login & Registration (OpenID)
- 'API' Access (OAuth)
- Activity Feeds (RSS, ATOM, some open stream thing?)
- Karma (???)
- Comments (RSS???)
- Profiles (??? RDF or something?)
- Notifications (also RSS..?)

There's so much to think about when it comes to this, and I want my service to not just be a good - but one of the BEST citizens of the Open Web.

So Hacker News, what are your thoughts? What technologies are popular/easy to understand that will encourage openness and cross-communication the best?

Thank you so much.
You can read as much into it as you want to, but it is essentially a content-less post.
I think you're on the right track, but I'd suggest specifically checking out the Federated Social Web XG:

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/

Join their mailing list and participate (or at least lurk) in those discussions to get a feel for what people are doing in this area.
I'm not anticipating a rash of ladle reviews requiring my (apparently unpopular) flagging.
This. I clearly remember the day my mental default switched from "trusting sales people" to "ignoring sales people". It was the day my mom was trying to buy a two-line phone, and she had three sales people trying to tell the three different things that she actually wanted ("this cordless phone has two handsets", "this phone has a flash button", "one phone can't have two lines, you need two phones").
Since they don't advertise, they don't have as much volume. So, if you assume a similar cost to provide services, they require a higher margin.
Yes, so much deadlier than, say, "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile".

I'm guessing this is some sort of joke, but you can bever be too sure.
Haha. I just Googled "Fuck You Network", and got this link on the first page of results.

http://theangrydrunk.com/2011/11/15/fuck-you-google

It's just one big circle. Oh wait! Doesn't Google+ have circles? And so it goes ... :)
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the fewer data formats that one has to use to consume your service, the better. i would advise going with REST + JSON, and i would emphasize that your API will live or die based on its documentation.

here's a video i found useful that lays out the some basic considerations to keep in mind when designing your API:
http://confreaks.net/videos/710-rubyconf2011-advanced-api-de...
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How do you organise your files and folders for maximum efficiency?

I've read quite a few articles detailing various people's strategies, but I'd be really interested to hear how fellow HN readers do it. Here's a few prompt questions:

- How do you achieve a balance between separation and integration when it comes to personal/work documents, reference material, code & repos, sideprojects, client work?

- Do you prefer wide or deep folder structures?

- Does your approach differ between your home directory, external drives, network shares, or Dropbox?

- Have you come across (or created) any neat hacks (i.e. with external services or third-party software like GitHub, Dropbox, Evernote and so forth)?

For the last year or so I've been working with a system (very) loosely based on this lifehacker article: http://lifehacker.com/156196/geek-to-live--organizing-my-documents. It's worked pretty well thus far, but I'm sure there's room for improvement.
Let's petition Google to rename it as Google Real People Store+ then.
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Speaking of spatulas, I've utterly fallen in love with these machete-shaped ones: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Cook-Touch-Spatula-Spreader/dp/B0...

They get more stuff out of more things better than anything else I've used, conform to more weird shapes so they scrape better (a huge amount of that is flexible), a different handle/scraper setup that hasn't even remotely started to separate, all that good stuff. My only complaint is that the tip of one has cracked after a year or two or so of use.
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If I was buying a ladle on amazon, I'd maybe check the reviews (by force of habit if nothing else). But I'd feel silly asking about pros and cons of ladles at the store.
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I sort of read it as something you'd clinically describe to your psychiatrist as the point at which you think you went off the deep-end. I do the very same thing, and their reaction to doing it cracks me up to no end, and I love how it's written!
A really well made utilitarian thing -- a ladle, a drill, a car -- gives me the joy of discovering its excellence and the design behind it. If I have a really good ladle, that works noticeably better than any other ladle I have ever had, then each time I pour soup, I get to contemplate the many flashes of brilliance and care that went into designing and making this ladle. As I pour soup and contemplate the design of the ladle, I become a better engineer myself even, pondering how the makers thought to curve the side just so, etc.

And that is EASILY worth $20.00 and 15 minutes looking at reviews.
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> users did not value these accounts

Why would they value their password to one of 30ish different systems/websites?
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You could go to http://www.americastestkitchen.com/ for in-depth reviews of ladles, they get really technical.
naive question. Is it a violation of law to download these files? I dont want to be in any kind of trouble for five minutes of excitement.

edit: I currently live in the US.
That ended when they passed the DMCA.
That's the way i implemented it in an iphone app i recently made: a 'sync now' button to pull anything new and push any updates to the server. Works quite well - I recently deleted my app (iphone died) and reinstalled it, one 'sync now' later and all my data was back.

I'm a big fan of using dropbox like this, and am hoping to explore this approach in a lot of productivity apps i plan to make in the future. I like the idea that the user can 'see' their data in a readable format (json,csv,yaml - i still haven't decided which i prefer!) in their dropbox\apps\MyApp folder.

It's like icloud but you feel in control, rather than 'my data is out there somewhere but i can't see it'.
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Thank you. I've been frustrated with all of the comments making these same mistakes this past month on Hacker News.

Thought: one problem that might lead to the confusion is that in some situations aesthetics is the where the solution to the problem lies (think apparel design or poster design). In those cases, the other problems have long been solved and all that is left to iterate on is the appearance. http://www.usabilitypost.com/2011/11/11/timeless-fashion/

Side note: it's interesting how people are quick to admit Steve Jobs was a genius and built great products, but they fail to take away what was probably the thing he advocated most.
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I guess it depends on where you live... but I'm not touching anything with that much CC data in it.

Good luck.
I have. Not that it means anything to you or anyone else. :)

I've been using namecheap for domains and dns for a number of years now without issue. I transferred a majority of my domains there after numerous people (on other social news sites) recommended them over GoDaddy.
Interesting blog.

"radical low-complexity"

Love that.

"Retro"? Nah.

More like:

- responsive,

- easier to understand,

- capable and worthy of being maintained and repaired

- hence "built to last".

"Radical"? Nah.

More like: "Practical."
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I think you're absolutely correct to sum it up as "opportunity". When people complained that "Occupy" lacked a coherent message, I would say "the Tea Party connotations that through taxes and regulation the government curtails the liberty part of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", Occupy feels their right to an opportunity to pursue happiness has been taken away."

I'd actually guess (and bust a guess) that issues 1 and 3 are bigger deals than 2, though I think they all apply. For the third, I'm reminded of the British documentary series "7 Up", where 7 year olds were asked what they wanted to be, and what they wanted in life. Every seven years the documentary creators caught up with the people to see where they were. The three young white boys from well off families even predicted their lives largely. From their universities to one even serving in government. It was kind of creepy.
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Compound interest is a strange omission from such an article.
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A bachelor friend of mine, who comes from affluent background left his job at Microsoft and joined another established start-up(which was about to get acquired) and his facebook wall reads "It was a very tough decision".

I thought "Really"?

Entrepreneurs take much bigger risks when they leave their full time corporate job to chase start-up dream and plunges into unknown with the hope that he would be able to raise money in next 3 months and everyone would be fine, including wife and kids (who would no longer have best medical coverage) and are not going for vaccation this year..and not sure when they would next. Maybe they would have to leave the country if nothing works out...

Whats your story? Want to share how much risk have you taken and what was the lowest point from which you came back?
Completely misses the fundamental difference between "not allowing", "not displaying" and bluntly "removing" the photo.

Online companies seem to be completely insensitive to what is pretty intuitive in the physical realm: you may tell me what not to do in your shop, but don't touch my stuff.
I like Recurly a lot. They are somewhat expensive ($70 a month minimum + fees) in comparison to some alternatives, but I've found it to be worth the extra cost.
Views work on UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE with some restrictions, in MySQL 5.0 anyway: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/view-updatability.htm... More expensive RDB's might too.

(I should have included this link in my other reply on problems with updating aggregated queries).
The antivirus system at the company I work found a virus (keylogger) in fheroes2-20111117-win32-r2705.zip.
Perhaps browsing items on Stackoverflow tagged "Javascript"? If you've read The Good Parts (&etc.) and you're comfortable with closures in JS, you'll already be familiar with a lot of the stuff there. Still, you'll find things like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2628672/what-should-every... , which probably contains something you might not know or have seen before.

Good luck to you! Khan Academy is amazing.
I would consider that a form of passive income. Does that seem unreasonable?
Thank you for making such a good argument against his ridiculous straw man comparing the transition pre-globalization to a transition nowadays.
I'm not sure merely downloading the data from a public source is a crime, but I'm hiding behind academic research anyway.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Could it be Blackberry is popular because of the free "ping" service? At least that is what seems to drive the mass adoption of them (and the peer pressure) among teenagers here in the Netherlands: the free unlimited "texting" with other Blackberry users.
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And—as Kenneth the Page put it—ten fingers, "which must mean that God really wants us to poke things!" [1]

I'd argue that creating something is significantly harder than simply consuming (YouTube comments and the like notwithstanding). Fear may enter into it at times, but more likely just simple complacency and inertia.

[1] http://nymag.com/tv/30-rock/bestlines/
I appreciate the link, but I definitely disagree with you.
Indeed. The majority of people seem to think it's an insignificant article and that he's endangering their lives by not turning off his iPod.

These are people who are using the internet, and seem to have some technical ability to find their way onto a website and comment on the article.

I am without words.
So what exactly has Stratfor done? I mean aside from posting their own (informed) articles and running a business?

These people aren't protesting anything reasonable anymore -- they are flat out against people who earn money. Personally I consider them traitors to America.
Start with PayPal, add a merchant account once your volume makes it worthwhile. Billing code is really not hard to write, at least in the beginning when you're not dealing with a lot of special cases yet. With PayPal subscriptions, you basically just need two things -- some code to generate a link to start the subscription (which you can then put in a webpage or redirect to after someone fills out a form), and a script to receive the POST-backs from IPN when subscriptions are created or canceled. And that's all part of their standard service, not the Pro/PayFlow plans with monthly fees... why commit to monthly fees for Chargify or Recurly or anyone before you even have revenue?

I tried the subscription-as-a-service stuff before, with both Spreedly and Recurly, and ended up with just as much work and just as much code, while tying myself to startups that are much less stable than PP. That came back to bite me when Recurly screwed their beta users on plans/pricing and I had to rip out all their code and start over.
I have a hard time imagining Tim League fabricating this. It would seem out of character from the way he runs the rest of his business, at least.

But the most important thing is, the enforcement of the rules behind the scenario in the voicemail is unflinchingly real. And given how much that clashes with the over-entitled brat crowd, I have little doubt that there have been voicemails like this left on the Alamo machines.
If the account does not hold any "vital" information, password "stratfor" could be quite a harmless password to leak, as I couldn't imagine anyone using that password for any other site/account. Although I don't know what user information is contained within the account.

Anyway, it is stupid to use such passwords and it tells something about the persons using those. Maybe they would use site names as passwords on other sites also.
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Is that a happy side effect because of the fact that Ruby has a gold standard package manager ?

I think so - Python would do well to figure out the distutils/packaging/pip/easy_install confusion.
Same here. A lot of google+ pages have this effect. It seems safari on the ipad 1 got a LOT les stable with iOS 5. It used to never crash, and now I won't even try to visit techcrunch, as it crashes 100% of the time.
I borrowed many dozens of thousands in student loans. I did not graduate, and on top of that, let my skills deteriorate.

The come back is something of a work in progress. I think it's in that "getting worse before it gets better" phase of the film. I hope.

I share not because it's an insane story, but because I'd love to hear others' answers.
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Did you actually read the article or is this: "Yeah, it might reduce the cost of printing calendars slightly, though a lot of people use new calendars yearly so they can write on them, and a lot more just use their computer." made to be a straw man on purpose?

It seems like you thought "redesigning the calendar of every single organization in the world" meant re-printing the shifted dates when it actually means doing all of the work that has to go into scheduling events.

You also missed: "From simple mortgages to complex financial derivatives, he said, calculations could be made much simpler if there were only one calendar to use, year after year."

And: "Hanke said drug prescriptions could be more accurate with a fixed calendar, sports teams could have a fixed playing schedule year after year, and schools and universities wouldn't have to waste time devising each new academic year."
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Database-as-IPC is about the transport aspect, not the logical integration (which is the problem of back-compatibility).

Ian F Nelson's blog post is about a DB that is tightly-coupled to the app: “my” application is using NHibernate as an ORM layer, so until this invasion we have been able to perform database schema refactorings with relative impunity.

Conventionally, RDB schemas are designed in terms of the data itself, not a particular app. In the Enterprise (where RDB are most used), data typically outlives different applications for the same task over decades, often written in different languages. Typically, the data needs also to be accessed by several different applications.

But here I'm talking about logical back-compatibility (surviving version changes) - the blog makes good points about "caching and application-level security". Where those vary with the application, it makes sense to separate them from the DB. But like Database-as-IPC, they are closer to the transport layer than to logical structure.
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