skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you play russian roulette with four friends, it is in no way a certain thing that someone will lose, but given the odds and the stakes, it's best to assume it as a near-certainty.
You should look into Moneris (RBC+BMO venture). Sane API, good support, decent fee structure.

http://www.moneris.com/
Thanks!

Last time I checked seenon, they picked like 7 items from the latest movie and ran those as exclusive offers for a week. There are tons of sites that pick out a few items and write blog posts about them or something.

We're trying to be more than that. We want to catalog items and provide a more comprehensive, permanent database. We also focus on similar (dress-for-less) items. Shows like Gossip Girl routinely have $5000+ items that have very similar knockoffs available.
Thanks for taking a look at it; sorry you found some bugs. I should point out that I only posted it publicly a week ago, and this has been my first traffic spike (thanks YCombinator!). I actually only started working on it less than three weeks ago, so I'm not surprised some boundary cases cause trouble. I've got more plans for it in the future. One thing I should note - a lot of people are working against the sample fiddles, but those are probably not where most people will be doing actual fiddling with their own queries, when they use the site for real. Different schema definitions are completely isolated (with little traffic), and so shouldn't see the sorts of problems you stumbled on.
The only thing I want to know: how can I get myself one of these?

How hard is it to build one of these things? Is it safe to use them? Cost?
Well, our brains already use up 10 Watts, about 1/10 of our total resting energy budget, so I could certainly see that being a limiting factor.
Interesting - are Facebook users really better-behaved than average blog commenters? Or was it just that the lazier trolls gave up when their old cookies stopped working?
That experience would be enough to get me to give up all technology for 90 days. And in those 90 days, I could get a life.

http://news.yahoo.com/90-days-without-cell-phone-email-socia...
How do you plan to unseat Cool Spotters? Is it mainly an organization issue, i.e. looks sorted by specific episode?

http://coolspotters.com/tv-shows/gossip-girl

http://coolspotters.com/characters/beatrice-grimaldi/and/tv-...
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FUD? No.

This ain't the Halloween documents, and Google ain't Linux at the turn of the millennium. This is MS trying to take advantage of the (real or perceived) missteps of the incumbent market leader. This is two very large companies fighting it out in public.

The term FUD is intended to prompt an emotional response in geeks that detracts from the conversation; it's unhelpful editorializing. Let's just deprecate the term entirely and move on with discussing the relative merits of these two tech giants claims.

Edit:spelling
Yep, we're out of EU zone and got one server with them. We don't pay VAT.
My $0.02. In general, I've found many people describe something as "RESTful" but not actually know what RESTful truly means. Instead, they use it as an acronym to say "A web-based API", which is not necessarily the same thing as RESTful.

The best follow-up question to ask someone is: "What level on the Richardson Maturity Model is your RESTful API?" If they can't answer that, they're probably using the term RESTful to describe something else.

Richardson Maturity Model:

Level Zero Service - URI API. Usually just POST. SOAP, XML-RPC, POX.
Level One Service - URI Tunneling via URI Templates. GET/POST.
Level Two Service - CRUD (POST, GET, PUT, DELETE). Amazon S3.
Level Three Service - "Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State" (HATEOAS).

The higher up the level, the more "RESTful" your API (you can argue about the order of level's 0 and 1), but the more complex it will be. Not everything fits perfectly in those levels either; you're free to borrow concepts and mash-up your own custom API.

HATEOAS is the most complicated. Imagine you're browsing the internet. You go to a webpage, and it loads with lots of text, links, images, and videos. You can interact with it, click on links, watch videos, submit a form, and go elsewhere. You have no idea what appeared on the webpage until after you visited it, and the next time you visit it might change entirely. The link might become broken and you get 404'ed, or you need a username/password otherwise you get 401'ed. HATEOAS is similar to that, but instead of a "person" browsing a "website", it's "client software" browsing "XML/URIs/Resources" received from a server API.

REST is not easy to understand or explain, as it entails learning about many different concepts, ideas, and custom-building something based on them. This is probably why there's no single-sentence which easily describes REST. Saying that something is RESTful is like saying something is Drivable. You can drive a car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, or boat, but they're all very different from one another. There are similar concepts between them, like accelerating, steering, breaking, but how they do each of those things is very different.

A good book I recommend is "REST in Practice" by Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis, and Ian Robinson (http://www.amazon.com/REST-Practice-Hypermedia-Systems-Archi... or http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596805838.do). That helped me grasp what REST means.
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Not a lot going on in these updates now that they come so often...
It was working for me on the "2.0wip" branch. I'll test it some more, but I'd love to hear if anyone else is seeing any issues.
I've been meaning to add links to other useful SQL resources, such as that and http://dbdsgnr.appspot.com/. If you think of more ideas, I'd love to hear them - send me a message @sqlfiddle on twitter. Thanks!
I've discovered that you have to look at your life as moments in time, especially as a software engineer. You will build something awesome, and you will be proud of it, and all will be right with the world. And then, the company you built it for will discontinue the project or die altogether and you're left with nothing.

The key to staying sane is remembering those moments when your accomplishment was there in front of all those people and you were excited and showing it off to your friends and family.

Chances are that almost everything you ever made will be obsolete in a few years, and probably long forgotten in 20 -- unlike, say, a civil engineer who's roads will be around for the foreseeable future.
So cranking up the caloric drain of the brain should burn more body fat, right?

I can already see the TV-Shop infomercials... :p
THIS is what's hurting PC gaming

That seems overly dramatic and quite inaccurate. Non-functional games are very low on the very short list of reasons why 'Steam is everything wrong with the PC game industry'.
Wait, what? OMeta uses libcairo and X11?! Where did you see that? The only thing I saw it use is a host programming language (Javascript or Python or Ruby…). You may want to count those lines instead. Anyway, remember that they also claim a full language stack in less than 2000 lines. Including a variant of OMeta. Even Lua is 5 times as big. Not counting GCC.

I know it's unbelievable. But other personal experiences make me think they're probably right. I have written equivalent OCaml and C++ code where the C++ version were 5 times larger (both where optimized for clarity). In my day job, I routinely divide substantial portions of C++ code by 2 through light refactoring.

VPRI's miracle doesn't only come from the awesomeness of their ideas. It also comes from the awfulness of current systems. A full desktop in 20.000 lines may not be so small, if you consider that current ones are way too big.

Addendum: I omitted a rather important detail: while the STEPS project aims to build a full desktop system, along with networking, publishing, messaging, and programming capabilities, it makes no attempt be compatible with anything (except the hardware on which it has to run). It doesn't do HTTP nor HTML, for instance.
That shouldn't prevent things like scripting languages or web browsers to be ported.
Why isn't it possible for me to pick what episode I want to see the accessories from? The first thing I want to do after clicking "Gossip Girl" is pick the episode.
Cool, but I couldn't close the java 'ScreenLeap' dialog without using chrome's task manager to kill the java plugin.

(I'm running Ubuntu 11.10, and chrome 16.0 if that helps)

Also, I feel "No downloads, installs" is a little disingenuous - just because it's not installed as a full-time application doesn't mean that it's not downloaded or installed.
>> A C# SOAP client will have trouble consuming a Java WSDL, and so on.

I have had no issues getting a C# client on Windows to work with a Java SOAP server running on Tomcat using AXIS.

I even have an Android client talking to that SOAP server with no issues.

>> In theory, no. In practice, interoperability is by no means a given.

That's because it's contract driven, with REST any changes on the server in the API will not break the client's compile so you won't know it broken until the customer calls at 2 AM. Unless of course you have 100% unfailing testing processes.

>> if you make a breaking API change in any system, you should have a way to do it so clients aren't caught flat-footed when their app breaks.

Cool yes right, SOAP.

>> REST does allow for custom media types that include versioning.

If REST ever gets to that level of specification we will have SOAP.
I've been using Quickbooks since the 1990's. Currently running QB 2004 in XPmode.

But my accounting tends to be pretty basic.

In my opinion, there's unlikely to be a compelling reason to switch Peachtree to some version of Quickbooks.

So what is driving your desire to change?
Of course it isn't. But Google do it just fine with Chrome:

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/chromebrowser.ht...
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SSL certificates take time to authorize/generate, depending on the issuing CA.
This is also ignoring the fact that Israel basically owns the US Government with their sympathetic policies and billions of dollars we send them every year.

The article makes it seem like Israelis have balls and that's why they are successful. While its true they have balls, Israel wouldn't even EXIST if it wasn't for US foreign policy.
I don't allow stored procedures or other programming (custom functions, triggers, etc...), because I worry about the danger of opening up that to the whole world. It should be pretty much open for any other standard database+sql commands you would need to do.

BTW - I basically built this site to facilitate answering SQL questions on Stack Overflow. Here's my SO profile: http://stackoverflow.com/users/808921/jake-feasel
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Yeah, I think the comments by user, I had done using Foursquare's Rogue, so thought it was part of mongo natively.

At least they have tickets open for it.
Yeah, but they can still make it illegal to work on such projects (like they had crypto algorithms illegal to distribute outside the us), imprison the programmers if they insist, close down the project site, etc.
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Cloudera is hiring for everything. Lots of cool distributed systems problems to solve, plus some unique opportunities like being a trainer--live anywhere, travel all over for free.

I interned there last summer, and I was totally blown away. Everyone there is brilliant, and they get to work on technical problems that are at their level, not just making another webapp.

And they're completely exploding. They're aggressively establishing themselves as the Hadoop company. They just signed a big deal with Oracle that should help legitimize them even more in the places that matter (ie. with big companies that are willing to pay big money): http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2012/01/oracle-selects-cdh-and-...

The culture is great. Fun people to be around, they really appreciate that taking care of engineers is vital to the company's success, management is deeply technical all the way up to the CEO, and they have regular all-hands meetings where they say just about anything you could want to know about the company.

I was so impressed that I've kept working on-and-off when I have the time, and I convinced my brother to apply and take a job there.

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I don't think it's really about criticizing MS for putting out new stuff-- I think .NET developers are trying to read the tea leaves about the future of .NET in general and WPF specifically, to figure out which of the new stuff to use. WPF is still new to a lot of developers. A lot of .NET shops are slow to change.

My two .NET gigs have been enterprisey, line-of-business-type apps. What the whole Metro thing is going to mean for line of business apps is hard to say. WPF might continue to be the choice for things like that. I have a hard time picturing a Metro-style data entry screen, but I haven't really looked that closely at Metro. I've been figuring that it's kind of like PhoneGap for the desktop, which may be a completely mistaken assumption. Even if Metro replaces WPF universally as the preferred way of creating Windows desktop apps, I agree that the need for desktop apps in the first place is diminishing.

Prior to the big Windows 8 announcement, it was pretty clear that WPF was a high priority for Microsoft and, a pretty safe bet in terms of skills to learn. That's not the case anymore, and even if Windows 8 and/or Metro fail with consumers, the shift in resources for things like Visual Studio, etc. will could really hurt WPF (which needs better development tools pretty badly, based on my experience). That could hasten its demise and possibly .NET's as well.
My question is: why don't apps already exist? It's not like they haven't had a beta for months... why lose the momentum of a launch and not have some killer apps they can demo?

I must be missing something, because I don't see anything it will do for me out of the box.
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> No it's not. In theory, you can just consume the WSDL and have all the methods available to you, but in practice, there are huge and unbridgeable issues with interoperability. A C# SOAP client will have trouble consuming a Java WSDL, and so on.

This is something I have a hard time understanding. Your hypothetical generic REST client will have a hard time understanding my HATEOAS, discoverable, fully REST-ified service, if it has no idea what the service is supposed to do contextually. If my 'blog' resource has links to 'metadata' and 'related' things, without knowing what those are, how does a 'generic' REST client do anything with them?

How is that significantly different than SOAP?

I would love to see an actual example of the difference, rather than abstract discussion, as this is the point I have the hardest time understanding.
This would be ridiculously awesome together with blink=click.
But also offered it for all platforms in a DRM free format as well. Steam was just an option because people (like myself) find it convenient. There's no way to give away a DRM-free version for iOS.
> My story is about another perverse way in which puritannical culture considers sex taboo, but violence perfectly acceptable.

It's not really that complicated. Sex is private, violence is public.

No one likes violence but they don't try to shield children because it's a public matter and kids can know about it. People like sex, but it's a private matter and kids shouldn't be watching it.

You are trying to make it about approves vs disapproves, but that's not what it is.

That's also why the same parent would not be OK with a scene of someone on the toilet, even if they arranged their clothes to be fully covered.
It's less the match, and more what is returned by Mongo. If he matches comments.name, he wants the comments.text to go with it, not the entire document.

It becomes an issue when you have extremely large arrays in the document (e.g. thousands of comments).
Wow, this is effortless and works well, just like Dropbox. Nice job.
Thanks for the offer; at this point, testing and new ideas are the main things I'm looking for. Shoot anything my way : https://twitter.com/#!/sqlfiddle
I guess I can see where you may have read into my comment.

I don't consider myself a hacker in any way, shape, or form.

I didn't mean to imply that I thought I was a hacker....just that I would imagine that "change the world" is mentioned often by hackers.
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I'm not sure.

I still haven't quite figured out what a Honkey Tonk is. The locals seemed to know what I meant when I called it a Bar-B-Que pit.

Oh, and it was all smoked brisket. Which we don't really have as such here on the East Coast, we tend to do pork or chicken, in a sweeter sauce.

Some of the places have grown up a bit over the decades and have other meats and pies and biscuits and things now.

http://www.saltlickbbq.com/ is one that started as a pit and apparantely hung on to become slightly more established.

"But in 1967, Thurman, who was known for his delicious barbeque at family reunions, decided he would cook meat for paying customers. Thurman and his two sons built a huge barbeque pit. Thurman would go to the pit on Thursday night and start cooking. He stayed for the weekend, sleeping on a cot, until all the meat sold. He kept coming home earlier and earlier. After a few months, the boys and Thurman built a little screen porch around the pit. The Salt Lick has grown from there. The Roberts family now serves mouthwatering barbeque to thousands of folks each week."
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Great concept, and I like how it's actually possible to scale it to have everything up to date, so you don't have to manage something at the size of IMDb.

I imagine the vampire shows will also be very popular, if you add them. The Glee Project as well.

Less excited about the Facebook log-in, but it's better than nothing for those with an account.

If I were you, I'd shop the site around to gossip sites like Perez, Popsugar and Buzznet as opposed to the tech sites like Techcrunch most of us think of.

I'd be interested to see to which degree this is a "website" versus a "start-up", but time will tell. Just remember that you should start this at a grassroots level with places like Zetaboards-powered forums. You'd also be doing yourself a major disservice, if you did not integrate a Tumblr blog with the site to capitalize on its viral capacity and its central fan demographic; Tumblr is basically the new Livejournal for TV show blather.
Ironically his code sample makes me think we need a new language right away.
I have fun when I write code with Go. I love the syntax, type inference and standard libraries. I wrote a transcoding video http server with html frontend in like a hundred lines of code and it doesn't make my eyes bleed. I don't think Go needs to replace C++ but I certainly prefer it. I think there are tons of uses for C++ still obviously (least of which is Go's GC-nature), but I don't think C++11 makes redundant the space that Go can occupy.

I know it's personal preference (but frankly, so is the article's position) but that C++11 code looks terrifying to me, I'm still guessing at what several of the pieces of code do. A python programmer looked at my go-code and very easily deduced what it was doing and made good suggestions immediately.

edit: s/VM/GC
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