skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The attitude is antagonistic rather than extroverted. Anyway, it all boils down to a business strategy. The Pirate Bay enrages copyright holders, who then go after all "piracy sites". The weaker ones die because of the increased legal scrutiny, while TPB continues to live. I'm guessing that TPB served more pages after MegaUpload died than they did before. And that is money in the founders' pockets.
AS businesses scale, is it fair to assume they would want to start accepting and storing credit card information - basically the costs would be much lower? If so how do they meet security requirements/compliance?
How experienced a programmer do you have to be in order to apply? I'm a CompSci student and coded some CRUD apps for my startup (Clojure and Python), but I'm not a open source contributor, nor am I active as a contributor on Github or SO.
Unfortunately, my testing shows this does not appear to work with <canvas>. Sad news for retro game developers :-(
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Actually, the hardware is likely unchanged.

The original "Kinect for XBox" can see that close, but with error. The biggest changes are in the firmware and the Microsoft Kinect SDK. The SDK itself didn't allow for any data that close.
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This should really be "When Subversion is better than Git."

Git is better for programmers. The author seems to need something for everyone else moreso. That's fine, but it doesn't make Subversion clearly better than Git.

I do find "You can checkout only a subdirectory" really handy, though.

Edit: This article is fully 3 years old! That colors things a bit, though it doesn't change my opinion.
can you really get 'much' simpler than REST already is? it's only 5 constraints.

Why is it significant that the web evolved between 1995 and when Fielding defined REST?

To most people, the paper is well-reasoned and REST is observable in the web where the constraints appear to produce their supposed beneficial effects. I think it's reasonable to see REST as the underlying style of the web, and the web has some very beneficial properties (scalability, evolvability) which therefore stand to REST's merit.
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Thinking about it, I possibly should have organised that ahead of time, but cest la'vie.
If you read about the early founding of PayPal you will find one of the big issues they faced was fraud. I hope they give that angle enough thought otherwise they are going to start leaking cash like the Costa Concordia took on water.
I've used nHibernate for ~7 years at this point and I push it whenever I can. One of the big issues it faces is that there's no documentation equivalent to MSDN. Even if the MSDN documentation is useless (which it frequently is, with things like "The IsClosed property indicates if the object is closed.") it still "looks professional."

I think you can do amazing things with the .NET platform, but it mostly requires a certain amount of, for lack of a better term, fearlessness when it comes to what you build your system on. Using anything that isn't blessed is often an uphill battle where you are met with suspicion and derision.
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On the same topic, does anyone know the display arms they're using in that last picture? The mechanical thing holding up the Apple LCD Displays.
You can't use the Kinect SDK with Linux.

If you're interested in learning more about the driver interface, OpenKinect is FOSS and runs on any platform:
http://openkinect.org
FullContact API Version 2 Released
Data Porn (hacking off)
REST is not about pretty URLs. In fact, you could build a great RESTful API with pretty hideous looking URLs.
Any evolutionary biologist have theories on why our brains would be so underutilized? I wonder if there is a disadvantage to certain kinds of intelligence. Perhaps society works best when there is a variety of levels of intelligence, so there are larger numbers who are easier to lead and satisfied with less grandiose work. Maybe it has more to do with conserving energy or avoiding conflict?
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I'm curious what the overlap is between people willing/able to write insightful blog comments and those not willing to create a login. I would expect it to be very small.

The time it takes to create a login is trivial compared to that necessary for a decently detailed comment.
404 doesn't mean "Page Not Found". It simple means "Not Found".

This isn't pedantry, the result of a request (message) for an object is the representation of the state of that object. 404 is an application level error saying that the remote object has no method for dealing with the message. Obviously that also means it's not going to be able to send you a representation of the state of some object that was the response to the message.

Also, REST doesn't preclude having a static list of messages. It's just prescribes that it's up to the remote object to report the messages to which it can respond and up to the local object to decide to statically record those messages somewhere so that it doesn't have to unnecessarily ask again. The remote object can even helpfully tell you when that list of "procedures" might expire so that the local object can know when it should ask again.
Great keyboard ... have 3 of them. Really wish they would make a Bluetooth one.
Get them a decent GUI for git. SourceTree for one is very nice. Or get a manager that's willing to learn new things. :)
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Depending on what you're going to use it for, I would recommend just sticking with the XBox Kinect and either of the major other options: OpenKinect (http://openkinect.org/) or OpenNI (http://www.openni.org/)
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But who are Bespokio?

I mean, we know who they are. But from the corporate perspective, you're downloading an MSI from a relatively unknown party (when compared to Mozilla). Not encouraging.
I've used both git and svn--probably a bit more time using git on the command line. I wouldn't want to say that git is the best choice for every system, but I've had more hair pulling with svn. Specifically, merging a commit from a branch into trunk got messed up. I did find svn pretty painless when used with Eclipse however.

The things about git that make me like it better are that the branching and merging are easy and the distributed nature of the system. If your development process doesn't exploit the features of git, then svn would be a reasonable choice.

EDIT: Another key thing I like about git is that repos can be nested. The parent repo simply ignores the child repos. This is something where I get a lot of benefit.
Have we reached Peak People?
I love the attitude of "meta == death" that stack exchange has. They have just enough meta to get the job done. The absence of social networking stuff is pleasing too. Compared to, for example, Wikipedia which has gigabytes of useless meta trollery and weird social norms.
Israel and Korea share many things in common. Yet, Israel has become one of the hottest country for startups. The author attributes the success to leadership and technology training in military. I'd say the biggest reason is immigrants.

It's just like mutation and evolution. I truly believe growth in homogeneous society will be severely limited. When you mix different ideas and perspectives together, you get stronger outcome.

Good for them!
"We recommended using IE, version 6.0 or greater, when viewing this site."
Stripe looks so awesome that it's got me thinking about charging for things that I might not have bothered charging for in the past. I think that's one of the unseen benefits. I'm looking forward to using Stripe.
Samsung going to launch Galaxy S3 in India in May, Galaxy Note successor in Q3
None of this has anything to with what I said, or with the criticism of REST that you replied to originally. I don't agree with his take on REST (at least not entirely) but it wasn't lazy. This argument, which uses the string "Fielding" at least once per comment, is lazy. That's all I'm saying.
The problems you had when trying to switch to git are the exact same problems I have as a git fangirl when trying to use svn. To a large extent the choice of version control system comes down to what you feel happiest with, but there are certain workflows which suit one or the other slightly better.

If you're making heavy use of svn externals then you'll find git submodules pretty horrible. But if your aim is to manage files between multiple users then git's distributed nature may make your life much easier if you give it some more time.
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Love it - As Seen on Screen (http://www.asos.com) used to be like this for the UK - started off with the clothes from Trainspotting I think - but now it's just another highstreet type brand.

Definitely a gap in the market for this, esp if it's done well. Good luck!
There are plenty of 'average Joe' kind of people who don't use stuff like Twitter or Facebook much.

Some of our customers seem to have some difficulties finding information on pricing here, for instance: http://www.liberwriter.com/

If that navigation link were at the top in a small black band, it might as well be on Mars.
I can't wait to see what sorts of apps come out of this. I have a dual 30'' display set up, and I'd love to be able to have some sort of "cursor follows my eyes" type of feature so that I can quickly move around all of that screen real estate.
Or the top level document looks something like (in JSON):

{
"characters": "<uri>",
...
}

Doing a GET on the supplied characters URI gets you a list of characters, each with a mixture of relevant properties and a URI for the character itself so you can interact with it directly.
Hehe the desk shown there is exactly the same setup at http://stripe.com/jobs page. And yet none of the other workstations come with $1500 Herman Miller Embodys...

I can also identify a pair of grados in the far right. Aging SR60s if I had to guess...
It comes with a library called APE (see [1]), which provides most POSIX-y things implemented in terms of Plan 9 native API:s. (For example, BSD socket operations are just functions wrapping the normal file reads and writes that you would do in native Plan 9 code.)

Some things do not work, though (permissions models are a bit different, and chroot is entirely unimplemented, for instance).

1: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/ape
Why is this marketed only towards Bootstrap users? This will work fine for anyone. Great tool nonetheless!
i agree with not feeding the troll, but its a good opportunity to make other clear statement regarding the privacy policy and the tools available to control your data on Google. The latter is really helpful to the consumer so they understand what is available to them, so the more they say it, the better (even if it is as a response to a troll).
The Todos example is handy, but not every app is a todos app, and there's plenty of Backbone functionality that is not exercised in this simple app.

And when there isn't an existing example of what I'm trying to do close at hand, I find the Backbone docs to be quite good.
> Plan 9 lacks emacs

That's a feature: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/emacs
Not really.

Take a look at WSJ comments. Lots of real names, tons of flames.
I have always attributed PayPal's problems to having to perform fraud prevention on a massive scale. That's where I understand most of the initial difficulty comes from in getting a PayPal account setup: they have to weed out scams and money laundering. Same with the horror stories I read: most of those people have circumstances that would also preclude them from a standard merchant account.

So is Stripe doing fraud prevention differently? Put another way, are they an entirely different animal from PayPal and Google Checkout, or are they betting that they can do a better job at what PayPal and Google Checkout already do?
Should workers die so I can have a fish dinner? (Fishing is dangerous.) Should workers die so I can wipe my ass? (So is forestry.) Should workers die so I can charge my iPhone? (So is generating and transmitting power.) Should workers die so I can have a larger house? (As is construction.) Should workers die so I can drive to work? (Oh, and manufacturing.)

We live in an imperfect world. Everything is somewhat dangerous. People are - literally - dying while making every single product you have ever consumed or seen in the stores. To phrase your argument in absolutes is to reveal yourself as hopelessly naive.

There's a conversation to be had here, but it's probably going to be in the following form: "The fatal accident rate in factories supplying Apple is X per 100,000. I believe it should be Y, and I believe that because of specific reasons A, B, and C." And then we can discuss if X is really too high, and if Y is achievable, and maybe evaluate your reasons, and the likely outcome of trying to bring the rate from X to Y.

But the implication here is that the rate of fatal accidents per year should be zero, and that's ludicrous. Foxconn employs around a million people. How many people do you think have died there in the last year? (Please provide citations to government statistics or independent news articles.)

Meanwhile, the death rate for manufacturing workers in the UK is 1.1 per 100,000; 27 people died in fatal accidents in the UK in the manufacturing sector last year. So...what? "Workers should not have to die so Rolls Royce can build jet engines?" Are these workers being exploited? Should we be boycotting jet engines, air travel, and all products which have travelled by air? Or is, perhaps, a death rate of 1.1 per 100,000 actually an acceptable trade-off?
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Git, or any other distributed source control offers much richer tool set to control your source code.
How Does Hacking Work?
I'm not suggesting you need to learn the flavor-of-the-month, merely that you don't become so comfortable in your current toolset that you perhaps can't quickly learn something new. For me, it's a matter of assessing whether, in certain instances, language/framework A offers some benefits for the given problem over language/framework B. Too many developers just say "well, I've got this here hammer, and that screw kinda looks like a nail."
What's your definition of "critical"? Because people have these plumbed into systems trading billions unattended...
Do managers really need to use version control? Give them Dropbox if they just want to share files simply.
>Enterprise support is not easy to do.

Sure, but other projects manage to do it just fine, without users having to yell to the heavens about it being a dealbreaker for nearly a decade.
Ask HN: Feelings on building a backdoor killswitch in your program?
What is everyone's opinion on this? Do you build a backdoor into an application that you build that you can kill an application remotely even when all hosting access has been restricted?<p>You would use this in case a client doesn't pay the retainer, or owes you money. I've used it once and it worked to get my money, but only for one specific client that I had a feeling wasn't going to pay.
Superpower Apple Makes us Worry Too Much
SQLite is the next option on my list of databases to support.
Has this been tested with twbootstrap 2.0? The gradient is messed up when I hover over the button when I tried it on my bootstrap 2.0 site.
I might be missing something from the post (which I skimmed), but when the author states that "there’s no way to get only the matched comment back" in the "When Nested Documents Become a Problem" section, isn't that exactly what the $elemMatch operator was designed for?

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Advanced+Queries#Advance...

The syntax is a bit wonky, but I believe it does exactly what the author says is impossible.
Is anyone else to seeing this on 37signal's blog?
We think a lot about risk, and actually do more verification than traditional merchant-account providers. We just don't make you do busywork like mailing us a voided check or a utility bill.

We certainly believe that the approach is sustainable, and the data so far strongly supports this.
We had a more subtle approach at a forum for IT pros I used to moderate. We called it the Crazy Cafe. Known trolls wouldn't be banned -- they'd just create a new login and start trolling again, leading to a metagame amongst our community of guessing which of the old trolls the new troll really was. Instead, we'd simply flag the troll as a member of the Crazy Cafe, and their posts would be invisible except to other members of the Crazy Cafe (and to mods, if we so chose). The trolls didn't know they'd been made invisible; all they saw was that no one (save other trolls) responded to their flame bait, and thus they lost interest. It worked shockingly well.
Was it this one? http://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/comments/ohp9u/doe...
Interesting how some sites create a news out of a statistical blip and present it with a sesational headline. All or clicks and pageviews...
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I'm not at all in your target audience (I suspect), but this seems like a very good idea, well executed. No doubt to me that you'll find success.
ASOS used to do this in a basic way and built a huge following amongst women. Nowadays they're more of a typical online fashion store: http://www.asos.com/

My wife says that ASOS didn't categorise by show/actor quite like this.
Tom, in what ways did the web not work the way Roy describes REST? I'm honestly curious why you think this.

All of the elements he describes in the thesis were deployed by 1994 and codified in the first internet draft for HTTP 1.0: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-fielding-http-spec-00

I am generally in agreement that it's best to advocate REST on the merits, but I also think you may be making light of the constant barrage of attacks against the Web architecture through the 90's (with CORBA) and early 2000's (with SOAP) that were defended against by a small core of people, some of whom (Mark Baker) did so at great personal and health expense.

There's a reason people wave the flag - we can't keep arguing complicated topics from first principles if we are ever going to progress.
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Or, at the very beginning of when evolution reached a "high enough" intelligence to make us use tools (to make tools), it ceased to be of significance compared to the rate of civilization evolution we experienced. We domesticated fire 400,000 years ago, I don't think human level intelligence hasn't evolved much since. (Nutrition, education, knowledge sharing increased much though!) So, our current brain architecture is "one" reached solution (not an optimal) in the possible states of evolved intelligences. Also, our brains are not under-utilized. We don't really know how everything works, and for startes our brains are very robust!
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The people writing and promoting these stories are going to be really bummed out when they find out where wedding rings, light bulbs, clothing, toys, gasoline, oil, electricity, food and water come from.
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Seems like a great service. Thanks for the article.

How does Stripe line up in terms of services compared to GoCardless which was up here the other day: https://gocardless.com/

Differences in the agreement / metrics / UI / API? Seems like the 1.9% fee difference could add up.
For me, the Bootstrap-101 videos got me from "wtf do I do with this thing" to "oh, I get it now". The pacing was a bit slow for me, but overall I got a lot from the videos.

http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/complete-websites/tw...
Great idea. Good luck!
You should post this here as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice