skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife crochets and several times we have looked into what it would take for her to run a side-business with her talent. We always get stuck on the task of selling these at a price that makes sense given the time and effort involved. Others make it work, for example on Etsy, but I can't help but wonder if they're practically giving away their works or if there really are those who can throw together a blanket in a day.
As a .Net developer I am a little bit ashamed to see the .aspx extensions in this API. We're not all like that... I swear. You believe me right?

Sadly, I can imagine how they got to this point. They were tasked to create an API and they did it with the knowledge and tools that they had.
Most of the proprietary APIs I've had to work with were just as bad. Sometimes I wonder if the NDA they make you sign before seeing the API documentation is so that you won't be able to show anyone else how bad it is.
Looks like an RPC-style API with multiple endpoints + custom authentication scheme.
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It's a lot easier to get heard now.

Was making enough to retire their goal? Making enough to keep making music as much as they can seems like enough for a lot of musicians. If it could reach that level, I think it would be a "success".
Without the Windows version being available as a MSI, this still isnt going to get enterprise support. At least not support/migration from people deploying FrontMotion's Firefox MSIs.
The closest match would be http://leaseweb.com/, which is more expensive but they do have US based boxes too.
+1 for newLISP. Agreed, it will not please the purists, but I've built some fun stuff with it (although no web apps ... that's next).
It looks pretty standard to me. Tech companies have their IP stolen and (imho) it's hard to not be inspired in your private works by the job you're doing 40+ hours per week.

If you don't like it talk with them. It's not set in stone. Sometimes people can be reasonable =) Just don't sign it if you're not certain you'll abide by it.

Sorry, just re-read your post. Did you already sign this? I don't know if anyone else has another experience, but I'd say your 2 choices are abide by it, or look for another job. Read the contracts before you sign them.
I was going to mention this. If this documentation completely removed the word 'REST' would we have cringed as bad?
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Because it's fun, creative, connects with fans on a different level to just music.. not to mention some acts have built careers just on self-made youtube videos.
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That's the point.
In France it's forbidden to sell at a price lower than the production cost.
As the Google Maps service was sold at a price of ... zero, chances are it was under the cost of production.
The house that a billion euros built
3 reasons why the UK is the best place to launch a tech startup in 2012
Perhaps he means liberty in the sense of freedom from being America's lapdog. One might be considered a "liberty fighter" for wanting to be held accountable by their own country's morals and mores, and not at the insistence of another country. The method "free music and videos", might be irrelevant to that perspective.
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In other words, something you might hack together if you never really gave any thought into what makes a good API.
I think that's 8.8.4.4, not 4.4.4.4?
You can run on any remote machine and connect to the terminal or managed appliance as long as your usage complies with the data license.
And then...silence
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Then only independently wealthy candidates or publicly funded candidates could run.
Dutch court rules that virtual items can be stolen just like physical ones
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With SOPA, ACTA, PIPA, the MegaUpload situation and now this, these really are dark times for the internet.
Short answer.. I'm working on it :) I want to see it happen, but obviously can't guarantee it.
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Yup, that's why it's naive. One possible patch for this issue is to forbid spending money on elections, but again, that just opens up new cans of worms.
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This is awesome because it pretends to be fiction, but it's true.

When does it come out as a movie, and who will you get to play Professor Bonhoeffer?
That is spectacularly bad, I wonder if they know RFCs exist.
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As someone just starting to learn about secure restful web services: what is wrong with this security implementation of theirs?
Then why does TPB mention Syria and North Korea at all?

Why not be honest?

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Agree that its a great campaign. Not sure they've created a movement. Really?

The PR they're generating does seem to rely on the analytics though, which is why I raised my sceptical eyebrow but as you point out, that's really not the goal.
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yes, i realize this. still doesn't help the situation much :(
How will Facebook's IPO Compare to other public tech companies?
What do you think will happen? Will it skyrocket then dwindle down in a few weeks? Will it fail miserably?
Everyone should learn [about] programming
The crucial bit in the NYTimes article:

> The company’s analysts had forecast it would take as long as nine months to find that many qualified engineers in the United States.
In China, it took 15 days.

Nine months vs 15 days.

Also many didn't get the point from the article, that the benefit in producing in China isn't any longer low cost labor, but because it is so big and the whole world produces there it developed enormous long-term advantages in flexibility and infrastructure. Like the silicon valley attracted and fueled programming jobs/companies, just because other computer firms are nearby. The hundreds of factories/suppliers in China, the short distance to high-tech firms in Taiwan, South korea, Japan etc, make it a hub to which manufacturing gravitates.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Just a simple question. Can somebody tell me how this gratifies their intellectual curiosity? It seems to be politics and is certainly not an interesting new phenomenon.
I beg to differ.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Various-Artists-Warp-Vision-Videos/d...
PG wrote something similar once (http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html) and it strikes me as accurate. The social context of sharing kind of overwhelms the technical difficulty of implementing it, so it becomes less a "where are we going to put the bits" problem and more of a "who is sharing what with whom and how" people problem. It's never been a huge thing to me, but as I grow older I've come to learn that a lot of people close to me really, seriously care about the life stories of their families as documented by photos, and they're (still) not really well-served by the existing techy-friendly options. (And that is a subtly different use case than other photo sharing needs those same people have, to say nothing of what other people have.)
I wasn't cool when tech wasn't cool, and I'm still not cool now that tech is cool. Maybe I need to start wearing sunglasses when I code.
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That's a shame - this is my main complaint about bootstrap. If you do plunge ahead and do a bunch of color customization, it also makes upgrading to new versions a pain.
Probably not, but after seeing how nice REST API's can be with sensible url mappings, HATEOAS, HTTP methods as verbs, etc. it's almost insulting for sharefile to call it RESTful (presumably because it can return JSON?).

Off the top of my head:

- API method urls are all the same .aspx, regardless of method used

- All calls are sent as GET (ignoring the whole point of HTTP methods in REST)

- No HTTP method codes as responses for automated parsing

- Custom authentication putting credentials in URL or in headers instead of relying on proven HTTP auth schemes we've been using for years (basic, form, etc)

- Return format is done with get arguments instead of HTTP content negotiation in headers (not so bad)

They've completely missed the boat here.
I think the title is a little bit misleading. The moment you can drop support for browser versions is pretty dependent on the requirements of your client, and your visitors. 7% for users with IE8 or lower is a pretty tech-savvy crowd, many developers might not have the luxury of dropping support for IE8 because many of their visitors still use that browser.
What else is flawed with this API? I'd be nice to have a "Dos and Don'ts in REST API design", with the Don'ts exemplified with Sharefile's API.
Username and password are still sent in plain-text. You could use HTTPS to make the communication secure.
The first mobile platform all of these games were released on was iOS. Most of them have been there for over a year. The only one that is relatively recent is Anomaly, which was released late in 2011. You can't get them as cheap as the HIB, but they are available. I'm actually surprised that they're not offering iOS keys as well for all of them, but these are all iOS bestsellers anyway.

EDGE is $2.99, World of Goo is $2.99 for iPhone or $4.99(I believe) for universal, Osmos is $2.99, and Anomaly is $1.99 for iPhone and $4.99(I believe) for universal. I don't have prices for the universal apps because I've already bought them for my iPhone.
Elsevier's response:

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You are right sir!
its not inaccurate

GAME X sold 50,000 licenses.
Can you honestly say that the pirate bay isn't dedicated, and almost exclusively used for the distribution of material protected by copyright? Drawing attention to the fact that he hasn't cited any specific research on what is plainly evident for everyone does nothing to promote an adult discussion about the topic. Furthermore, claiming that the author hates extroverts due to some underlaying psychological issues is really unnecessary.

Why is it so hard to have an open, honest, mature discussion about piracy and the pirate bay? All the attempts to make P2P out to be some political statement, is highly disingenuous in my opinion. I pirate quite regularly. But it is never about some lofty ideals regarding personal freedoms, or commentary on corporate influence, in truth, I just want something, which happens to be easily and readily accessed, free of charge. Is this stealing? I'm not sure, but I'm inclined to think its a close cousin. Is it a plus for society, and something that ought to be fostered? Quite possibly.

Why not talk about this stuff and stop acting like piracy is some noble pursuit?

I find it hard to believe that anyone seriously believes that the pirate bay is an agent promoting peace within the world, and liberating oppressed peoples. Why do we kid ourselves?
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Minor quibble but on his second example:

> perl -le 'print map { ("a".."z")[rand 26] } 1..8'

The double quotes are not needed around a and z. (Verified in 5.14, 5.12, and the truly ancient 5.8).
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I believe it's important to keep things honest. If an API is nowhere near the definition of being RESTful, then don't label it as such.

This company, along with others (e.g.: Flickr and their infamous "REST" API), are responsible for turning "REST" into yet another buzzword.
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Give up on no-ops
Right now there is not a lot of incentive for the "average" user to install Tor, Freenet or any other de-centralized to make such a network popular commonplace.

But if pirated bay or other popular torrent sites started telling people that for direct downloads they can use this ONE particular software and assuming the software is easy to use (as compared to the fake Usenet software scams) a ton of people would download and install such software in a jiffy and when enough people do it (for whatever their reason be - free internet, file sharing, etc) we get a free internet developing side-by-side which the govt. can't seize.

The software is free and anonymous (unlike Napster, Limewire which can be shutdown) and is easy to use for the avg. user. So while sharing files like uTorrent could be the main feature, it will also give options to add a local DNS resolver (that does not depend on the root servers), and a custom web server (to host mirrors of sites). I'm sure millions of people are running uTorrent but just imagine if those same people were running this software instead of it!
Vendor agreements are only part of it. We actually run one of the largest private networks in the world. There are huge fixed costs with just the physical logistics of the operation. On the data side, I was curious and checked.. The aggregate amount of incoming ticks/messages is upwards of 45 billion a day.
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It's not compliant with the HTTP standard.
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Any Startup using Grails framework and has open positions?
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One notion that I didn't really see mentioned much in the comments so far is the opportunity for facebook to expand their product. Facebook is essentially a browser. Almost anything can now be done inside that browser. As Geee mentioned, they are collecting so much data, they can expand their ad offerings. Their search product could be more useful than google's. They could become the hub of the internet where all shopping, media consuming, searching, communicating is done.

Because the sheer numbers of users, I am LONG Facebook for the long-term, but will not mess around with the IPO.

Right now, they're making about $2 a year per user. That's not very much. But they're growing users agressively and have only begun to tap the potential of the platform.

If you believe there's a greater than 50% chance they could execute well enough to be successful in just one of the different verticals they could expand to, then I think it makes sense to get in early on the stock.
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Yup, that's explained in the book, section 5.1. :)
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Strange to hear that about OVH. I use them since 2010 and never had a hardware issue yet.