skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I read it as "A way to convey the REST metaphor to a nontechnical person"

How exactly did you read it that way without any knowledge about his wife's background?

By implicitly assuming "wife => woman => nontechnical", that's how. That's really what makes the title work.
When I first read you saying;

> And now we are finally going to have an empirical test where the left can't wave a gun at the right to force them into inflation.

I thought you were being hyperbolic, and then a few responses down;

> I'll take debt slavery, thank you very much. So will the rest of the 99%, and if you use bitcoin to drive it to the point where it takes killing anyone who own bitcoin to restore debt slavery, it is a matter of time until we call your bluff.

I can't believe that there are people that honestly hold this position and are completely OK with it, give me debt slavery or I will kill you or die trying.

Fuck this species.
This is really bad... writing a harvester to go over all these links and fetching your name, email and phone number is super easy.

In my opinion CoinBase should immediately disable the end-point.
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Reminds me of my friend saying during our vacation, "you just want to stay on the train one more stop so you can add Switzerland to your list of countries!"
I don't get who go around and take these "gender issues" seriously. Is it femenists, males, females, trolls? (or something else not listed of course)
Here it is: http://ompldr.org/vaHp4NQ
Here's a mirror I pulled from cache and reformatted a bit: http://ompldr.org/vaHp4NQ
20 reddit.com upvotes: 0.20BTC

https://coinbase.com/checkouts/35297a275c385a75d231fd4a6edd5...

So that's currently $1.34 per upvote. Seems like a lot.
True for community college. Universities typically prefer PhDs when they are hiring adjuncts. Also, to reiterate, for the lit PhD people I knew, the end goal was personal satisfaction - not a lucrative adjunct job :-p Some people just love their subject and share it with others. Teaching is a wonderful opportunity to do that.
I've worked in environments where classic ASP, .NET 1.0, .NET 3.5 and 4.0 are all in production, some on the same server. I imagine there are similar tales regarding production environments for Java and Ruby etc. If you cannot run different versions simultaneously you have a problem. Thankfully you can.
Prolog (and by extension I assume, logic programming) is an interesting way to solve problems. However it is rather simple to implement and evaluator in Common Lisp that can read and execute Prolog-like programs.
I'll take the software bloat over the network bloat from the extra requests sending every keystroke over the wire.
Creating a new connection is slow compared to using an existing connection and also puts non-needed stress on the server as it needs to allocate a new thread for the socket. You'll also pretty quickly run out of file descriptors on your app server if you get hit by a little bit of load.
You can determine this by looking at all of the exchanges bids for BTC. Combine them, order them by price descending, integrate until you have $1 MM. Whatever BTC price that is is where someone would move the market to if cashing out $1 MM.

Realistically, if you had that much BTC to sell it would be wisest to do it in phases, or better yet, tiers. Offer volumes of BTC at various "outrageous" price levels (eg, $5 over market, $10 over market) and make sure you put a substantial amount of volume at each price level. Whenever the market surges you'll cap the exchange rates at your price levels until all your volume is depleted. In fact, you can see people already doing this on some exchanges...
Sure, but the topic of the post is Facebook creating a home screen. If you find it inappropriate at work, then I guess you just don't use it at all, and you are not the target audience for the application.
What I tend to do is create a database file (db.js) which exports an object with getters for mongoose, redis, etc. The getter connects to the db and returns the connection the first time and returns a cached copy on subsequent calls.

One big tip for mongoose is to use the .lean() function on your queries whenever you don't need to use any special mongoose features (statics, virtuals, etc), which returns a standard JS Object instead of a mongoose collection instance. It can be quite a bit faster!
desktop based system with some web stuff and some console mode stuff (dos)
Can somebody explain how Google was able to index all these checkout pages? Presumably they were only sent over email.
I wouldn't call it a side-effect but rather history recurrence. When fiat money became popular in 19th century almost each country started to issue its own currency. Issuing money gives real power. While the analogy is not complete because you can't dilute BTC-style currencies, the advantage here is in being bright and early adopter.

I think that demurrage proposed by Freicoin adds no value because hoarding isn't a real problem for Bitcoin or for any other currency. I suppose that the fear of hoarding comes from the fact that we still live in the world full of harmful keynesian ideas.
I used this article to explain REST to so, so many non-technical folks, as well as techies who were enamored with SOAP.

You are right about the gender issue being a loss for the community. Now this article is taken down because people are stupid and lack nuance when their emotions kick in.

There was never anything misogynistic about this article, but now because of an absurd responsibility of authors to never possibly offend the ignorant, or the knee-jerk reactionaries, or the (I hate to say it) offended for the sake of attention people.

The professional victimization cult that has hijacked gender and race issues on so many fronts take away from real victims of real gender and race discrimination. These professional victim cults are easy to recognize: they will do absolutely nothing to help victims of discrimination unless they belong to one particular group that they identify with. How many parenting articles written by women discriminate against "bumbling men" who "can't handle the kids?" Where are these groups then? My mother bailed on my 4 siblings and I when I was 3, and left my dad to take all of us on. She never paid a cent of child support, but I had to grow up watching crap like "choosy mom's choose JIF" and "Dr. Mom recommends Robitussin." My mother was a drug addict, and a feminist organization paid her legal bills when she tried to take us away from my father after being gone for 5 years. They never once asked me or my siblings what we thought, for them there was a bigger battle to fight that was beyond the immediate victims.

The professional victim cults don't care about discrimination, they just care about the streams of funding they get from particular special interest groups. In the meantime, take a look at high school graduation rates of females vs. males, and ask yourself who needs more help these days.
OK, in this regard, I am totally with you.
Not that I know. SpaceX has considered sending an unmanned mission based on its Dragon platform in the 2018/2020 window which would prove a lot of technology that they could used for a manned mission later.
That and the fact that the headings of the two members of the conversation are: Ryan and Wife. Giving her a name probably would have helped...
Though I'd like for the new version to be Web only.
Ask HN: How can this post end up on page 3 so quickly (just refreshed the page) and still have increased in value (more points)?
Fedora has always been bleeding edge. In my experience, to the point of being unstable, at least when a version is new (Installed Fedora 15 the day it came out, segfaults galore).
The one thing that this shows is that the world is indeed getting smaller. Travelling to all countries in a life time is something that is not possible, or extremely difficult to do without plenty of money and resources.

Hopefully, within my kid's lifetime, the amount countries that he can travel to, quickly, is achievable. Imagine travelling to between Berlin and Singapore in a couple of hours.
While I do appreciate clean URLs, the reason behind all those random obfuscated query parameters in Google's url is not a mystery. They are hidden indicators that are only available at query time and/or experimentation flags and things like that to improve the results. URLs only need to be readable for the portion that the user inputted or is consciously aware of, the rest is for computers.
What's a good alternative to robots.txt?
That's a damn good question. I'd also like to know why these pages are still public? It's like, PULL THE PLUG, THEN FIX THIS, THEN PLUG BACK IN.
Frankly, having re-read it from Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org/web/20110225075111/http://tomayko.com...), the dialogue might have been unrealistic, but the "wife" this is aimed at is substantially more technical than most people. (EDIT: and reading the comments to his original post, it was a conversation with his actual wife.... )

If I tried explaining REST to my mom or some of the non-technical guys at the gym, for example, it'd have taken vastly more explanation.

Frankly I consider taking it down like this cowardly. If he wanted to address these "concerns" then replace "(my) wife" with "Bob" or something else and add a line that "some people took offense to the original version, so I've changed it to avoid taking the focus away from the purpose" or something to that effect.
I don't think you're right that he made up his wife's words to achieve a Socratic dialogue, and then pinned it on his wife. I think she actually did it. The evidence is this comment by Ryan Tomayko, taken from the Wayback link (which appears elsewhere in this thread):

> There’s a bit of context missing from the beginning of the post: I had been busy at work and hadn’t seen her much in the past week or so. When that happens she starts getting jealous of the laptop and wants to hover over my shoulder — that’s a sign, it means: put it down and pay attention to me. If I don’t heel to that hint, she’ll start asking me about whatever’s on the screen. If I’m lucky it’s vim and a terminal running screen, which freaks her out and she leaves. Otherwise, I’m usually in the browser or my newsreader. It just so happened that at this time, I was reading Roy’s Bio so she saw his picture and says, “Who is Roy Fielding??!?,” using the exact the same tone and inflection you might when saying “WTF?”

> When this happens, I usually just say, “Oh, it’s nothing,” or something like, “it’s just some stuff about a thing.”

> Anyway, the funny thing is that I wasn’t really trying to explain anything at first. It started out as a bit of joke — a be careful what you ask for type thing. But then she says, “Oh, I get it.” and I so I kept on going and the next thing I know we’re talking about polymorphism and URL canonicalization and all kinds of crazy shit.
I considered posting this, but wasn't sure how the HN community would react. Glad someone else did. Here's something scary:

https://www.facebook.com/harley.skyberg?ref=ts&fref=ts

bought

https://coinbase.com/checkouts/dd24f66b49e34b97d2bbe0e3a9a2e...

Oh dear.
Mongoose does the same. Once you're connected to mongodb in your app, all subsequent requires to mongoose will have access to that connection.
It's not when the price of coins is 5 USD per coin...
mkvirtualenv <name> --python=pythonx.y --no-site-packages
We use TinyMCE and a .NET plugin that uses the GoogleSpell check service. It's dead right now and we are trying to find a solve for it.
Introduction to x64 Assembly
Not only is the status of Somaliland questionable, so is his bad mouthing goat. It is delicious.
Could they not set those parameters in a POST request so they don't show up in the URL?
> Well, someone also has to not die from small-cell lung cancer to give the disease its 6 percent survival rate, but would you smoke four packs a day with the specific intention of being in that 6 percent? No, because that’s stupid.

Yet lots of people smoke even though they're fully aware of the risks. It appears that the author knew of the job outlook for a Lit PhD all along but chose to ignore it. I think we all exist in that optimistic dream-world state of mind at some point.
Objpool - generic object pooling solution for Python
1. Create Linked in profile with all your skills and work experience.
2. Create github and upload some of your personal projects, etc. or create some code there.
3. Read books on big data, data analysis, machine learning algorithms and learn some of the libraries and search engines (Lucene/SOLR/ElasticSearch) - create some simple applications with them and upload to github.
4. Polish up basic communication skills if required.
Spam - don't click
Similarly, search for "Tube Ace" in the dataset. Not something you want your personal e-mail address forever associated with.
Purposefully causing an accident is an order of magnitude or two beyond "stupid stuff" that can be excused by youth. It is despicable and criminal and suggests the person needed immediate intervention (medical or judicial) that they never got. This is not something you laugh off, this is equal to firing a gun in a crowded room.
You get that long and obscure URL while visiting google logged out, with no cookies.. So they all must be the defaults.

If they are the defaults, why put them in the URL?
If there's a fixed supply increasing demand by getting more people involved raises the price, which makes current BTC holders money.
I find it sad, yet indicative of the status quo, that this topic has relatively few points, yet the one about a film 'critic' who died at an advanced age has several hundred points.

It seems that more people are interested in fiction than fact.

Also, the world appears to be a bit more accessible today than when Nick Danziger completed his overland trek through Eurasia during the mid 1980's.

http://www.nickdanziger.com/index/books/danzigers-travels/
>After receiving a number of reasonable complaints about the gender-oriented nature of this article from people I respect very much, I've decided to take it down for good.

Possible translation: after a lot of people with nothing better to do took offense at a tech article, I took it down because: 1) I don't want to be hated, 2) I don't want to lose my job, 3) I can't be bothered to even argue against the flock.

It might not be what Ryan means (I can't speak for him), but it sure is what many people mean when having to take down something because of PC complaints.

This thing is getting out of hand. It's the first world idea of a "cause" by people whose idea of "revolution" and "making society better" is blog posts and twitter snark.

The very first programmer was a woman. For a lot of time, computer operators were mostly women. There are not many things stopping women at entering IT, and sexism sure is not one of them. Women thrive at other places with much more deep and inherent sexism (or, to put it better, with actual sexism, instead of mere tit jokes, which is what is mostly mistaken as sexism in the tech community).

I attended uni 15 years ago for Comp Sci. On my year we were like 70% men and 30% women. Not because they feared for sexism (actually there was nothing of the kind -- students were either good or bad at lessons, regardless of sex). We all had fun together, in large mixed groups. Sexism never was an issue, and I've never heard any woman complain about it in the university. Other fields were like 70% women 30% men (Applied Math, Medicine, Biology, etc). Men mostly wanted to get into comp sci because they liked games, programming and this internet thing already. Women avoided the Comp Sci not because of some fear of sexism and such, but because it was considered to have bad work prospects (times/salary/etc), whereas biology was considered to be "blooming" at the time.
Wow, this company went through YC? I hope they only invested bitcoins...

It's one thing to lose people's bitcoins or randomly delay/cancel transactions (both of which Coinbase has been accused of). People know that bitcoin is still young and the companies supporting it are inexperienced, so they expect that. But exposing personal info and purchase history goes beyond any definition of 'unacceptable' or 'incompetent'. Over in the Reddit thread, they're already linking Facebook accounts with illicit transactions.

Users from Bitcointalk told Coinbase a week ago that they were starting to get phishing emails, which means someone has been mining this data for a while now. Yet there it is, still available through a simple Google search.
>>For all we know, the difference between google and facebook here is simply maturity of the company

Facebook is not some new company struggling to find its way in the world. It's huge.

Nor is it new. Google was started in 1998; Facebook in 2004. So Google is 15 and Facebook is 9.

Is that such a big difference? Has Google ever behaved the way Facebook has?

Facebook has faced multiple privacy scandals. It has not said, "whoops, that was an oversight, we'll ensure it never happens again." It has said "meh," and waited for people to get over it.

This is not about maturity, this is about philosophy and character. Facebook's business model is about harvesting and exploiting your data. They are doing that deliberately, and they're more likely to go out of business than to change.
Because it's a mediocre interview. Wow, he ate goat. Tantalizing.
Same comment as I made on the other thread. These are not your email addresses. These are buy it now / donation pages. If you haven't created one of these you aren't effected.
> I'm a little shocked that the writer used this as evidence of fraud.

I think it's evidence that he needed help long before he committed suicide.
Google uses the "completion" feature of Google Chrome to collect new URLs to scrape. If you have that on, they crawl after your visit.
I think there's an important distinction that needs to be made here.

The appropriate use case of an exit bag is where it is not in fact suicide, where you're dying anyway of something like cancer or Alzheimer's, so you don't have a choice whether you live or die, only whether you die cleanly or are tortured to death. Avoiding torture is healthy and sane behavior, and full credit to anything that assists such avoidance, and if this thread were about terminal illness, your comment would be appropriate and on topic.

But it's not. It's about a healthy man who had much to live for and was driven to suicide by depression and stress. And here's my view on what to do if you find yourself becoming suicidal in such a situation:

1. For heaven's sake, talk to someone. Family, friends, Internet contacts, or if you can't bear admitting your troubles to anyone who knows you, get on the phone to the Samaritans or somesuch.

2. Failing all else, if you really are at the point of committing suicide, no, DON'T use an exit bag or a gun or jump off a cliff. Take an overdose of sleeping pills instead. Why? Because maybe, just maybe once the deed is done you might change your mind, and if so, you'll be very glad indeed to have chosen a method that lets you call an ambulance and maybe get a second chance.
Holy shit, they have to take it down immediately.
Every time she mentions that stuff I have to be careful not to say "Arbiter, cool - just like Halo!" [although I always think it].
> his journey to Norway, the last country on the list

I wonder how Norway feels about that.

Seriously though, this seems like a poor way of measuring travel. For instance, I can cross the border to Canada and almost nothing changes, not the landscape, not the people, etc... However, if I fly to New Mexico (from MA), I'm in the same country, but so much has changed.
Fiat currency savings accounts almost universally have negative rates of real return. (The small amount of nominal interest is cancelled out by a couple percent per year of inflation).
I wouldn't be surprised if that were edited out. It has happened in the past with other criticisms of coinbase.
It's been a while since I've been in IT, but don't failing UPS batteries put off fumes that destroy your lungs?

A friend of a friend was a hero and shutdown his datacenter cleanly/recovered some hard drives during a situation like this. He got severe lung damage (not from fire).
As of version 1.7 (2011), --no-site-packages is default behavior.

I still specify it every time anyway, but thought it'd be worth mentioning. :)

The --python switch is really great, though, particularly now that 3 is getting distro traction and most of us who work in Python are likely maintaining a lot of 2.x projects. Thanks!
Blocking access to googlebot for those pages is the easiest. But robots.txt would work, if you just did

Ignore /checkouts/
Actually, it can help in a node.js app if a single db connection can only complete one request at a time. The javascript in node.js executes in a single thread but a database connection is I/O. This is exactly what node.js is good at.

With that said, you shouldn't create a connection per request, you should use a connection pool.
Well, either they are going to have to support their existing offline consoles indefinitely. so there's nothing to worry about, or are leaving gaping holes for competition to step in...

Valve must be happy too.
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Nice! This is one of the better looking ones I've seen.
I've recently just sold all my BTC, whilst the hype is still there :) A few friends said I was mad and they would be keeping theirs, but frankly I don't have time to keep an eye on the market and wait for the true peak.

Which made me think of a problem; BTC's are really a speculative market at the moment, rather than a currency (i.e. most people are buying them to trade, not to purchase items). I feel like that defeats the object.

But, hey, it was a tidy profit.
That's true for anything though. If I convince you to get into model trains it's not because it will significantly raise the after-market value of my current (rolling) stock.
Proper access control on your web site.
I'm especially annoyed by http://outlook.com. When I go there, I get redirected to a garbage URL on http://login.live.com, and then automatically to another garbage URL on http://bay156.mail.live.com where I can see my inbox. Yuck.
I tend to disagree. It works in a sense that it can take a person with no knowledge of the syntax and flow of a language and remove some of the fear of getting started. I think it is a great non-intimidating way to get an overview of a language. Yes, they are going to need more instruction, but it's a start.