skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, PUT can be for creating too, if the client already knows the final URL. From the spec:

If the Request-URI does not point to an existing resource, and that URI is capable of being defined as a new resource by the requesting user agent, the origin server can create the resource with that URI. If a new resource is created, the origin server MUST inform the user agent via the 201 (Created) response.
I guess a future bitcoin client could build in that feature (or an online wallet).

Anyone can build a bitcoin wallet right?
404 fixed: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/81
I didn't say making a movie is very profitable. That's the nature of art. Some works are going to be wildly successful, others will never make a dime. But that isn't a result of piracy, it's a characteristic of the market for artistic works regardless. And on average they make a lot of money. The major studios are posting record profits.

You're also not addressing the point: If a new technology increases piracy a lot and increases sales a little, why should it be prohibited? Why not allow it and then give the market a chance to convert those new pirates to purchasers over time by experimenting with different distribution models, so that eventually (like the VCR) it can be made to increase sales a lot and piracy a little?
There is a serious concern in that. Spy agencies buy and commission zero-day exploits. Compared to the cost of satellites, they can easily spend so lavishly that exploit authors have an incentive to worm their way into open source projects. That quite a bit less direct than buying or commanding a back door in a proprietary product, but it's going to be difficult to defend against. It will be interesting to see if such shenanigans are ever uncovered due to the "many eyes" approach.
I guess Red Flag Linux didn't work out.
I find it difficult to accept that Adria Richards would have acted differently depending on the PyCon code of conduct. She had her own agenda, and it had nothing to do with sexism, decency, or respecting PyCon's rules.
It is interesting that google almost seems to take Wikipedia bio boxes as gospel, which is a questionable decision given that Google "rich snippets" in the search results now have such high placement. I wonder how much Wikipedia specific logic is used in the googlebot...I'm guessing that longevity of article and number of edits is a factor in taking an entry seriously.
Really not necessary, relevant, helpful, or even funny, dude.
The same applies there, albeit to a lesser extent - if typing slows you down, you might not have thought things through.

That said, I have been typing more than writing for many years and am now thoroughly incompetent with a pen.
Working with Java Executor framework in multithreaded application
Spatial browsing, fit to width, and being able to disable images easily.
I think that the biggest privilege one can have, at least when it comes to matters of career and finance is being born to middle-class or better parents and having an above average IQ.

I would imagine a lesbian black woman with an Ivy league education has much greater odds of success than a straight white guy from the trailer park/slum who struggles with reading/writing skills.

I find it interesting that it is generally considered correct and fair that somebody has better income and quality of life because of high intelligence when this is a factor as much outside your control as race or gender.
Why all of these "HN for x" sites also copy HN's less-than-optimal¹ look?

(¹ I'm being nice here.)
No, but introspective human being might be.
Working with interfaces in JAVA
To return the compliment, as a now-mostly-Ruby programmer with experience on most of the other open source stacks, when I built a C# desktop app a few years ago, I fell in love with the language. The APIs for Collections and IO aren't as clean as Java's, but the language is great. In many ways it felt like I was still in Ruby. I'm super-impressed how Microsoft was able to out-innovate Sun, since starting with basically a Java clone. If you haven't ever tried C#, I encourage you to whip up a quick desktop utility and give it a try.
Is "shut up and listen" a more winning group strategy than "keep telling others about our grievances"?
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2013/03/my-plan-for-feeddemon.h...

> First, open-sourcing FeedDemon sounds nice, but I don't see it working. I use a number of commercial third-party components which can't be open-sourced,
Wow, I haven't been following Kickstarter projects as closely before, but this seems to be rising quite quickly!

I guess all the right ingredients are here: someone competent providing a useful service with an achievable goal. Nicely done and good luck!
Firefox 19.0.2 on Linux shows the JS Pishing link on mouseover, Firefox 19.0.2 on Windows 7 doesn't! So, Firefox 19.0.2 on Linux is the only safe browser.
Slides: https://github.com/pedestal/samples/blob/master/slides/pedes...

It's a PDF file with a mangled filename, rename with .pdf on the end.

via https://twitter.com/pedestal_team/status/314520340711759873
6. Small businesses employ about 50 percent of all private sector workers.

Not-so-small businesses do have slightly higher production per employee, but not that much more (assuming that "more than 50%" implies "less than the next round percent after 50").

What it really means is that 99.7small-business-size == 0.3large-business-size ==> not-so-small businesses average 330x as big as small businesses.

Which is perfectly understandable, for example my employer has something like 10k employees.
We got hacked
One of the biggest (maybe the biggest?) contributions to language and framework adoption is marketing in the form of blog posts, training sessions and quality tutorials. This is why RoR is so popular even when it isn't all that great (there are many technically superior alternatives across many languages) - it has amazingly good marketing for a framework.

So to answers your question: you don't hear about Stripes because Stripes is bad at marketing. Just look at their website - it looks like its from the 90s. A small bit of CSS work is probably the best thing Stripes could do to increase user base.
Haha, that's a horrifying situation. To be safe, it's gotta be best to agree on the house's price IN BITCOINS before sale, regardless of future price fluctuations.
The popularity of the idea that a language becomes "mature" when it is no longer the popular fad makes me sad. Ruby was already a mature language before it become a fad. Evaluate the language, don't avoid a language just because it is trendy, and then jump on it after the bandwagon has moved on.
Has it really joined those ranks? Maybe in Jeff Atwood's bubble Ruby isn't the new hotness anymore but I'm still seeing everyone and their dog gush about how awesome they are for ditching their old and busted language for Ruby. To be clear, I'm not saying Atwood uniquely lives in a bubble, we all do, and I don't mean it in a bad way. Just that maybe the people he's talking to feel that way but it's been my observation that the larger developer community is still all about Ruby for coolness' sake.
Or, rather, REST level 2, instead of the [ideal level 3](http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...)
>Says the guy who resorts to name-calling.

Notice I said being an idiot. Name calling would be saying that he was an idiot as a state of being. I didn't say that, nor do I believe it.

>No, being an upper middle-class white male is the most privileged thing to be.

If you have to be poor or middle class you want to be white male. Do you honestly think you'd be better off being poor and black or poor and a woman? Maybe some day we'll get there but we're not there today.

>Think positive, maybe one day a minority might become president.

Yes, one half-black person getting elected president means there is absolutely no racism of any sort (never mind all the racial motivated attacks Obama has had to deal with since before getting elected...).
From the front page of gitlab.org: "A fast, secure and stable solution based on Rails & Gitolite."

Gitolite is gone, long live gitolite?
How about this:

- I use South which is pretty good

- I use a NoSQL db. I will lose some things, but gain a lot as well (and in my point of view, the gains are bigger)

I'm not sure 'buying features' of software is a good way to go. (I'm not saying it's bad)

Edit: Why the hate? It certainly is better to have an integrated solution, I'm not saying this proposal is bad, only that there are other alternatives.

And the point is moot, donations went over the target already, hopefully this is going to be something big!
I find it very annoying when I try to open a site and it says something like:

"Why the hell are you using IE? Please switch to a modern browser and come back later!".

It turns out I'm not using IE, I'm using Chrome configured to say it is IE (user agent) because the company I work for has a proxy that only answers to IE...
If you think that recognizing one's own privilege is about self-flagellation, you really, really don't understand the concept.
I've organized a Mini Nodecopter event in London and another is on this weekend in Bath, UK. They are, in my experience, some of the most exciting hackdays I've been too, bringing software and hardware hacking together to command flying robots!
Just learned about asm.js , awesome ! but other browser vendors need to support it ! great work again -moz ;)
Thanks, I did not know what to expect, but I thought people might just shoot from the hip with impressions and thoughts about me/the product. Yours was very practical advice I will utilize in the final draft.
> I find it interesting that it is generally considered correct and fair that somebody has better income and quality of life because of high intelligence when this is a factor as much outside your control as race or gender.

I don't think it is generally considered correct and fair, which is why so many people are critical of libertarians and Objectivism. Class struggle is a major issue, and post-industrial capitalism is itself often criticized for creating these inherent imbalances.

None of that, however, has to do with this particular issue, which is absolutely worth discussing. If you submit a story about the unfairness of upper- versus lower-class opportunities, I'll certainly upvote it.
Preparing for the Collapse of Digital Civilization
EU to 'monitor' Apple
They're not his intended audience IMHO - people like you (who already approve of his politics) are.
Jeff claims that they want to make the Ruby install story as easy as PHP's (e.g. download and unzip into a directory accessible via mod_php). I'd love to see that happen but it strikes me as a bit of a risk to their business. I guess Jeff is independently wealthy already, though his team may not be.
Awesome. I will make a donation if I can get approval.

How will the new rebase command be different from truncating the migration table and regenerating initial migrations?
Self-flagellation? I went back to make sure I didn't miss anything but it looks like a post about understanding your privilege and how your success relates to it. It's a post about understanding the depth of experience that other people live with, experiences he has not had because of that privilege.
But was it generated code? I've had pretty bad luck with old scheme/lisp implementations that compile to C.
You're right. That was a broad stroke.
Exactly, the value here is in linking it directly to the models and apps paradigm of Django. South already does this, and people love it, so it seems reasonable to continue down that path and make it even better.
You should reiterate in this thread that you are the originator of South as well so if anyone knows its limitations it should be you :)
Nobody does though. I don't think even Google knows what to do with Glass (or how to sell it) just yet.
Why don't you use OAuth for your Web app as well?
The article really tries to be serious, with lots of charts and data. But they are all from StatCounter. There is an endless debate about which source of browser market share is best, and no clear answer, so why consider only one?
Me too. I switched back to Firefox after 2+ years using Chrome. But it's more because I like Mozilla's way of doing things, principles and filosofy. And I'm trying to avoid stuff that companies like Google offers.
JS Git
"HN is at its best just the way it is right now. "
How exactly is it the best? It doesn't even have a "forgot password" button.
Orangutans at Miami Zoo Use iPads to Communicate
Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. -- http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182
John Scalzi is an award-winning author with a considerable fanbase. Last time I was in Times Square, his latest book was being projected on the largest screen there.

I humbly suggest that among his immense readership are people who either disapprove of his politics, or who are not quite as aware of their privilege as he is and would benefit from having a smart, eloquent person point it out publicly.
I'm pretty sure parameters are not limited to those provided by IANA (just as media types are not necessarily IANA-registered incidentally) e.g. RFC2616's Accept doc shows a `level` parameter to text/html which is not IANA-specified (and seems entirely unspecified)
"Developer evangelist" is a very common title for folks who manage developer relations. Apple, Google, MS, etc. all have them. It's unlikely she made up the title.
That is some ingenuity in sneaking the easter egg in, under the watchful eyes of so many others. I always thought, easter eggs were a mutually agreed upon things with a company and never occurred to me that they may involve having to go great lengths.
Now I can't help but wonder, how many of the recipes on the site have easters inside them.
I'm reading Jaron Lanier's _You Are Not a Gadget_ now (came out two years ago), and the phrase "but if some government agency decides that Google is smarter than them?" resonates. A major insight of this book is that, in fact, the dominant technological ideology does advance the idea that Google and Wikipedia are smarter than actual people. And we are, in fact, in deep trouble because of this.
I have developed with C# since it was in beta. I absolutely love the language. Prior to that I had done extensive C++ and some Java.

Last year I gave Ruby a try (for an ambitious project) and I have to say that it felt like going back in time to my C++ days. The syntax is very, very different and the environment support (command line + sublime) is clearly not something that I have done in the past 10 years.

I like the flexibility of it but coming from statically typed languages I find myself trying to replicate the same way of thinking in Ruby. Which in turn is making me less productive. Given the mental blockage and fear of productivity loss I am not certain I can push through to get to the point of productivity with RoR.

I am giving Python a try next! I would also appreciate any pointers to get me up to speed w/ Python frameworks for web development.

PS: The rails part is just fine, I have developed an Active Record based framework to do web development on C# in 2003. So I am more specifically talking about Ruby the language.
Good point, I send Dmitriy a merge request for this just now.
I'm stunned that RubyFringe is on this list. The writeup you linked to is brutally one-sided: the partner track ("girlfriend daycare") was conceived of, named and run by women working in the larger context of supporting a conference run by a woman who happens to be the managing partner of the original Rails dev shop.

The men who had a blast as partner track participants would agree that this controversy was the ultimate tempest in a teapot.

The name change happened because there was a conference to be run and there was no battle to be fought and won.

Luckily it didn't seem to matter as none of the DevChix folks had any intention of coming in the first place. A good time was had regardless:

http://www.rubyinside.com/rubyfringe-success-and-roundup-956...
> 20 second music clip file from a popular song

Rick Astley song, no doubt.
True, but that is only one solution and a flawed one, as device ID can legitimately change - no developer needs to know whether I am using the phone I bought today or the one I bought a year ago.
There are various charges that could be brought in the second case based on what dumping 10,000 cans versus 1 can says about intent.
I've said it before I will say it again. Apple should spend less money worrying about and suing it's competitors and spend more time and money on improving their mediocre products.

Do you honestly think that Apple are incapable of developing products and suing people simultaneously?
Rather than thinking of different perspectives (which the author mentions in the last paragraph), I like to think of the list of facts I know as divided into two categories:

"the things which I think are actually true, based on data I've obtained from lots of first hand witnesses and, perhaps, first hand"

"the things which I dreamed up in my head, which allow me to tell a narrative about a phenomenon, but about which there are other people who actually know the real answer if I can only find and listen to them."

This is mostly so I can fit an anti-relativist empiricist worldview into one where I have to listen to other people (especially when they're talking about interesting things) - i.e. while the universe (and morality) are deterministic, I have not measured everything about them yet (and I will never finish this task).

Also my chronic fear of embarrassment in unfamiliar social groups is helpful in making me shut up and listen for a while, and generally stops me contributing where I would "show my ass" as the OP says (although, as a white, straight, cis-male with too many qualifications, I tend to speak up and make a fool of myself depressingly often in spite of this.)
It has nothing to do with the Chinese international students being bright (which they generally are) or malleable (which they're not - they're just studying machines). It has to do with the fact that there are a ton of Chinese websites that only work in IE.
> It is interesting that google almost seems to take Wikipedia bio boxes as gospel

FTA, I don't believe the data was taken from a bio box:

> So it’s not too surprising that my original Wikipedia entry, as conceived by Joel, was — let’s be honest — more about my father (a famous New Jersey judge) than about me. Joel began the entry with my connection to my father, and immediately mentioned my father’s birthdate and the date of his death.

That's the scary part, as she alludes to in the next paragraph:

> If your name on Wikipedia is followed by a birth and death date, apparently those belong to you from that day forward, no matter whose dates they may be.
It looks to me like you can set what TZ you want to retrieve dates in when performing queries, with the default being the TZ associated with the calender; this is substantially different than simply returning times with whatever arbitrary TZ was used when creating the record.
The part about avoiding rabbits really hits home. You see so many SaaS companies going for ~$19-$99/mo business models. Think about the thousands of customers you need to gather & retain to turn a few million revenue with that. Feasible if you can automate and scale the customer acquisition process but any direct sales effort is likely to be a non-starter.

And since it's Friday, here's some folks who are really nailing the recommended approach: http://goo.gl/ue7uo :-)
Great idea! First time pledging to kickstarter. I think there are a lot of improvements to be made related to database migrations. I built DevJoist (devjoist.com) with a similar goal in mind, but primarily for PHP developers. Multiple people have pointed to Django south as a great solution, so I'm happy to hear you're going to make it even better. If you ever want to chat hit me up! Email in profile.
I'm sorry but you're incorrect. Getting "offended" by a sexual joke is not unusual, nor does its normalcy matter in this situation. What they did was create an unwelcoming environment around them by engaging in locker room-level humor.

I personally am not offended by the joke nor do I think they are clever or unique, but saying that they don't matter because they're the status quo is a really weak argument and it speaks to the lack of progressive thought in this community when it comes to diversity.
I did a study of release duration at Citrix Online to see whether our adoption of Scrum and Enterprise Scrum (something we developed to manage project portfolios) was working. You can see it here: http://senexrex.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Release-Durat...

It shows that agile reduced the shipping duration of projects from 24-42 months to around 4 months. During that time Citrix Online's market share increased.

It's going to be hard to get the side-by-side comparisons you seek, and, sure, it could be that the agile-focused management happened to also be competent (hey, I'll accept that. :)). However, I actually think Scrum specifically is a science that measures production, and that its outcomes are usually pretty good.

Since I've now helped convert a couple of huge enterprises to Scrum, and since I love tracking data about those conversions (and it's good), I make money in this field. So you could say I'm a flogger of the religion. At the same time, I have a computer science PhD and I could be out wrangling code or running a startup.

And you are right, there are a bunch of religious zealouts out there. They annoy me too.

Dan Greening
dan@senexrex.com
http://senexrex.com
I disagree. I think the biggest privilege one can have is a fair start. Being able to live as you'd like without picking up hundreds of years of stigma and injustices or having to work extremely hard to distinguish yourself as someone that can be trusted.

> I would imagine a lesbian black woman with an Ivy league education has much greater odds of success than a straight white guy from the trailer park/slum who struggles with reading/writing skills.

Privilege isn't about odds of success, it's about proportional work to become successful. When someone doesn't trust you or has something against you because of your ethnicity or gender, you have to work two or three times as hard for the same success someone else has. That's the problem.

> I find it interesting that it is generally considered correct and fair that somebody has better income and quality of life because of high intelligence when this is a factor as much outside your control as race or gender.

This is just the American Dream blown out of proportion, as usual.
Just threw $100 your way.

I'm a big believer in this type of model and having you be a Django core contributor and South developer makes it a no brainer. Paying for quality open source is always a win in my book.

Godspeed!
>And I argue against misinterpreting a statistic here

Pretty much everyone who studies the issue concludes that there is a gap. It is likely that if anyone is misinterpreting a statistic it would be a laymen like you or I, not experts in the respective fields.

>I wonder why you are so emotionally invested in the belief that women are being oppressed?

I'm not emotionally invested in anything but the truth.

>And what is absurd about men wanting rights?

Obviously nothing. But /r/mensrights is a well known group of women-haters [1] who love to spout off one-off anecdotes to show how men are "actually the exploited group" and other such nonsense. There are cases where men get a raw deal (divorce court in the US comes to mind) but they are by far the minority.

[1] 2 seconds of searching: http://manboobz.com/2013/01/28/the-mens-rights-subreddit-a-n...