skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this isn't poorly designed, there are the web specs and then there's the web itself and if it works then the spec need updating, there's no law that post should be used for session state, that was just someone writing it into an RFC, the fact that GET works just fine and a significant population of web apps use GET that way makes it reality more than any spec does.
I feel like I should give another personal experience with them. I hope they sort it out with runspired.

I've had a bunch of really great dates through howaboutwe, I never had an issue with them and they've helped us work out scheduling issues with the restaurants and places we've gone. Even after they hiked their rates a little bit, I still found pretty good value out of their service. I work way to much and I would honestly struggle to make sure I got out enough (besides my local spots) if hadn't signed up.
Isn't it Mark UP if you use funny syntax that you wouldn't normally use? Markdown should use normal syntax that you may have used anyways, losing no readbility, but at the cost of some possible ambiguity.
Yes in principle, but that's a dumb way to do it. A client programmer might infer something generalised from this example and be tempted to hard-code /sumof in his user agent, which makes the server lose controls of its URI namespace, which in turn the prevents the affair from being RESTful.

Instead, you express your summing service with a hypermedia control. In HTML you have forms, which is a perfectly fine and very interoperable way; look at all the deployed software understanding HTML forms! Another control fitting the example here is to send the client an RFC 6570 URI template (I'm uncertain of the correct syntax with the * in detail here, sorry, take this as illustration only):

Link: </sumof/{summand*}>;
rel="http://RivieraKid.example.net/summing_service";
title="RivieraKid's summing service";
hreflang="en";
type="application/hal+json; profile=http://RivieraKid.example.net/"

Note that the server can change the URI any time (and hopefully forward to the new address with a 3xx response), the client only needs to be taught the semantics of the link relation and the media type. The rest is plain internet standards.
I guess for India its good news that this is news.
Isn't their acrued "debt" actually 20% of what has been paid in? That's about 48 bitcoins as of now.

(Or perhaps that's what you meant?)
EA faces criticism over mobile Dungeon Keeper game
Hence the Ask HN.

People don't do it right because pretty much every description is unintelligible (for example, most of the attempts on this thread).
Because it's interesting?
I don't think this is a bad idea per se, but it seems to me that comparing it to Markdown is a poor way of communicating the intent and utility of this markup language. Markdown's central design principle is that, by adopting semantic markup conventions from email, it is readable in plain-text form even to someone who hasn't set out to learn the conventions. That severely limits the kind of thing you can express in Markdown, but that's an acceptable (even desired) tradeoff in the majority of situations where Markdown would be useful in the first place.

Because Markdown doesn't cover everything, and because there are other sets of semantic markup conventions used in a plain text setting, there's certainly room for "Markdown-likes" which attempt to replicate the same kind of effort with those other conventions in mind. For example, Fountain[1] is a language for writing screenplays, and its conventions are a fairly close (though not as close as possible) approximation of the same ones used in real screenplays.

I've never authored a manuscript for a book, so I don't know myself whether such conventions for things like tables of contents exist in the publishing world. But I have a feeling that if they do, they wouldn't look like this. What UBook actually reminds me of is troff/nroff macro syntax[2], which was developed for a similar purpose and is still in use today as the lingua franca of Unix manpages.

You've implied in other comment threads that you don't really intend this for writers to use directly. If this were to be the output of a more user-friendly writing tool, I'm curious what such a tool might look like, and how it could differ from existing WYSIWYG rich text editors (where everything looks like a nail and your hammers are labeled "bold" and "bigger font"). For example, how would you represent section and paragraph structure in an editable way without the use of inline control characters that you edit the same way as other text? I don't think I've ever seen an editor built that way, but if that's what you're going for, I look forward to it.

[1]: http://fountain.io/

[2]: http://liw.fi/manpages/
While I agree with making code editable in single lines as much as possible, I think this is a particularly bad example. I do prefer the comma first style for arrays and objects, but not for variable declarations. I used to use this exact style a couple years ago, but now I prefer to explicitly declare every variable with `var` to prevent any possible, syntactically correct, error that would result in a global variable.
Actually, this is the kind of CEO I was... if truly interested http://bit.ly/tyjohnpepper
As usual, RMS had this sussed out years before everyone else realised what was going on http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/sep/19/android-fr...
Time and time again I've found the following classification useful for thinking about REST and web-APIs in general: http://www.nordsc.com/ext/classification_of_http_based_apis....

Most of the stuff people are describing here as REST would be classified as HTTP-based Type I/II according to the above resource.
Wanna Be Ambassador to Argentina?
A small, readable edit of AngularJS
I think it's about more than money for this guy
Kellabyte has the best explanation: http://kellabyte.com/2011/09/04/clarifying-rest/
Just because it is [a naked/unabashed Ponzi scheme] is precisely WHY readers are interested. You obviously know this and are feigning I-don't-know-what...
By the legal definition of fraud, yes, they are currently guilty of it.

Is 48 hours too short a period of time to wait before calling them out on it? I debated. What ultimately swayed me to write this vs not write this was that I got another email from their system this morning about a deal I'd expressed interest in.

I selected that deal in the same user session as I paid for the event. I received no email confirmation or receipt for my purchase, am told an account for my email address doesn't exist, yet get marketing emails about deals I selected during the same user session.

My post exists because when someone else goes to interact with HowAboutWe, they ought to know in advance that this is a company with poor customer support, poor technical development, and poor billing practices.

Even if HAW refunds me, or does eventually respond to me, new users have a right to know that this is the experience they could receive too.
I'd love people to donate a few BTC that I can use for more noble causes.

1P6yGa6nerZZ7jFDVPtFuXUPvLSfku4kWj
This might come as a shocker to many people on HN, but many people do not like money.
I love Shpaml (HTML abstraction language)
> once or twice

That's what they all say
Mount Vista - An Ipad app for travel enthusiasts

http://visualino.com/
Hm, you might actually be right.

I am not sure what the balance actually represents.
he probably funded the first 10-100 btc, 20% profit. do the math.
Hi incision, to be clear, I was only at a 4.3 for the "trailing 7 day" metric. My overall never dropped below 4.72 (now it's back to 4.84, most rides still in Jeep by a great margin). It just was worrisome to think about what would happen if a driver scaled the 4.3 for any period of time. Night scores seem to be lower than day. And yes, sadly, the Tesla seems to have a much better reaction than the Jeep (and not surprising)
4.3 was only for the trailing 7 days. Overall I was still at a 4.72. Trust me, they aren't getting soft ;)
I don't understand this, I drive drunk people on lyft almost exclusively, and I have a near 5-star rating.
I think the reverence it gets is owed to people desperately wanting to follow a standard when it comes to offering an HTTP API. You want to make it as easy (=standardized) as possible to use it, and REST has emerged as a viable standard.
It's hard to imagine a reason to even think about taking it down and seeing its poor command of the language it looks like we'll never know. If I had to guess, I'd say it's because he's a lone developer, too much to handle for one guy.
Just how fast are GitHub Pages?
Options Pool For Startups Explained
yes. thank you for explaining so well how tiring gimp is. I feel like they actively reject any good ui idea if its photoshop like.
It doesn't cost $70 per day to go 125 miles in a city. Otherwise my car with 59000 miles would have already costed me $33K in all expenses. It hasn't.

Further, this is what the IRS allows you to DEDUCT. So his taxable income is reduced by the 56 cents per mile - to the extent that his costs are less than 56 cents per mile, he is making more due to the tax-advantaged nature.

Also, at the end of the first year he can elect to either use per-mile deduction, or, the MACRS method, which may or may not give him an advantage (but he has to choose and use one or the other for subsequent tax years).
It isn't so much government vs. the crypto-anarchist community as much as it is government vs. corporations or individual actors operating within the crypto-anarchist community.

If a government is properly elected by the people to represent them and is transparent about their decisions and why they have made them, they are much more likely to do the right thing than a single corporation (which will be one to a handful of people calling the high-level shots, operating as secretly as they possibly can) in an unregulated fully laissez faire market. There is safety in the combination of number of decision makers and public access to the decision making process.

The biggest problem we face with this in modern America is that despite unprecedented access to instantaneous news sources, the government is becoming increasingly less transparent. This is in large part because of the insane lack of campaign financing rules, a frighteningly large portion of the decisions being made are coming directly from corporate America in the form of lobbyist bills that the corporations have written themselves, but also because of a culture of fear brought on by the whole "war on terror". Obama's call for vastly increased government transparency really resonated with me. Unfortunately this is one of a number of areas in which he was either completely full of shit or horribly ineffective in achieving his goals.

So I understand why people aren't super pro-government, because our current government has a lot of warts, but I really don't believe the answer is to go crypto-anarchist and put faith into small amounts of people making really big decisions at the top of private corporations which might actually have become "too big to fail" without causing massive collateral damage to people who have put their trust (and currency) into them.

People individually are too flawed to trust to make society-altering policy decisions in private, we just are. We need the safety in numbers and transparency that a good government structure brings us and we should be striving to fix that problem rather than replace it with what I believe would be a far worse one (corporation-backed anarchy).
It's the whole "next 22 hours" that's the kicker, he's explicitly warning his market that it will be an exclusive item.
"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." - I maintain that a "good" hacker wouldn't find a blatant scam interesting. Especially not "just because it uses bitcoin".
I just had a lot of fun playing box jump! Cheers!
It's a Jeep Wrangler Unlimited... it's nice. So most people actually say nice things when they enter the vehicle. But, clearly, it's not a Tesla either. A Camry, as you say, would be great.
Use a service like BitPay and it converts instantly.
Ah, I remember seeing this. Looks a lot like @dumpmon (http://github.com/jordan-wright/dumpmon)
That's why it works. Get 1.2x on your penny, in for a pound.
Every line of code is always documented (if it's in a VCS and the commit message is good)
Why bother with a faceless ponzi scheme? Send your bitcoin directly to me, and I will invest it by hand, making sure to maximize your return: 1HbNxRhrv5Jocr7Q9ZqbbqCwuNNy4UsR77

This is totally legit. Seriously.
Yes! You hit the nail on the head.
are you sure 20% profit is the right number? Imagine two people use it, and they both pay 1 BTC.

Time | Event
1 | First person pays 1 BTC
2 | Second person pays 1 BTC
2 | First person gets paid 1.2 BTC

The creator makes .8 BTC in this case. Pretty solid return if you ask me.
He's averaging $50K per day from in-app ads according to an interview with The Verge:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5383708/flappy-bird-revenue...
I love how people send over $1000 to this site. Why not play poker if you have that much money to spend on gambling? Or, you know, buy an instrument and learn something beautiful?
No one finds this repulsive? People will lose money to this. Yes, they are dumb, yes it is obvious. But those who participate are still morally complicit. Enabling others who suffer from serious issues (addiction, gambling) seems like a pretty shitty thing to do.
Just like Bitcoin. :)
> Brains work probabilistically at least in the sense that the underlying biomechanics have some statistical distribution.

No, it's us that use these distribution to model them. Reality might be deterministic after all (no proof of the contrary), and then brains are not working probabilistic at all.
Yes.

What's your point? Google must be incapable of poor design? Everything a big company does is good?
it was only one night... so my data points are minimal compared to yours... you may be right (or you may be a better driver!) :)
Indeed, the liquidity here is the popularity of the site itself so as soon as the media buzz fades out the last ones to invest are going to lose everything; just like it always happens in ponzi schemes.
what consumer protections? I drive for lyft, and a large portion of the clientele is the GLBT community, who have stopped taking taxis because finally there is an alternative to being harassed and mistreated by the driver on account of their sexuality.
If he really couldn't take it anymore, and really wanted out of the game, he would have taken it down without any fanfare and gone off the grid completely.

By announcing it, though, he's drawing an incredible amount of attention to the game which leads me to believe this was the intended effect. Heck, it made me download it as I've never played it before.

Genius move.
I agree that the result of these APIs can be a dumbing down of your cloud infrastructure. IMHO, the major challenges inherent in having multiple cloud providers with differing APIs is absolutely not writing code to use them, rather:
- infrastructure management
- workflow process security
- credential security
- offline workflow (local emulation) support
- cost comparisons
- performance observation / guarantees
- SLA
- recognition of disparate legal jurisdictions where required
- managing nontrivial inter-service build and live dependencies
- complex or non-standard network topology support (ie. not "single default route to the internet" or "single default route to the internet, secondary route to cloud provider specific renamed VLAN concept")
- embedding real time failover

Keeping all of the above out of the way of regular programmers who just want to write cloud provider neutral services is the real challenge. None of these libcloud/libvirt type solutions ever target the above, which mostly border on operations concerns.

I am now working on the second functional prototype of a system that I believe goes a long way toward resolving these issues by taking a broader, more operations-centric perspective on the evolving norm of multi-provider cloud infrastructure within companies that may include remote developers, require offline development support, and still need to maintain higher standards of trust and security.

Those curious can browse the presently rather obtuse documentation at http://stani.sh/walter/cims/ .. I am considering asking my company to allow me to open source it.

Right now we have storage providers for LVM and ZFS, and support for an internal, high availability corosync/pacemaker cluster + LXC based cloud provider in addition to a range of popular commercial ones. Very interested in feedback and/or experienced/motivated help.
Yep they either have it already or they are fucking idiots. It's a fundamental lack of appreciation for good luck.
Total security in a PostgreSQL database
This works as well (using jquery):
var a=0,t;setInterval(function(){t=$("#question").text().replace('x','*').replace('÷','/');t=t.slice(0,t.length-2);if(t!=a)$("#answer").val(eval(t)).keyup();a=t;},0);
Well, this is how folks get rich in the smartist era, by creating schemes like this. Or buying facebook & google stock. Or creating/investing in the next web 2.0 billion dollar company. A 9-5 chump would have to work for years to make this kind of money, assuming he paid off all his college loans.
Sorry to hear that, sounds like it might indeed have been helpful to speak to someone about this. On the other hand, you did make it so far :)

Though I wasn't good at those speed tests, I'm generally not that frightened to do them. If I fail, so be it, nothing to change about it at that point except do my best. The period of anxiety is always just before starting, doubting whether I put enough work into it and whether I could get any studying done in 5 minutes.

Contrarily to most other students it seems, I'm hardly ever anxious to learn the results of a test after I've made it. I'm curious of course, but not anxious to know whether I failed or not. It even gets on my nerves to hear everyone analyzing each minor detail of the test like a post-mortem. I usually ask around if someone knows the answer to something I completely missed out on (if anything) and that's about it.
So, at University, at the end of the course the students often create a project, and maybe a paper. A lot of these are pretty awful. Really. You can lookup a lot of them online to see. We'll wait.

Back already? That bad were they? Told you so. So, anyway, one of these awful papers somehow got far more attention from the web-tards then it was due.

As a result we cannot have a discussion about web and APIs without the church of RESTful dogma sticking in their two-penneth.

REST was and is a bad idea, but hey, it sells books, passing on the moronic tradition to the next gullible generation.

Sigh.
Your Progress As A Programmer Is All Up To You
I don't think I've ever seen a post get downvoted so hard that it's actually invisible. Severely faded, yes.
Still the same project I've been working on for some time... Fogbeam Labs[1]. We're an enterprise software startup specializing in enterprise social networking, social BPM and semantic integration + knowledge management. We're an Open Source[2] startup pursuing a model similar to the model used by Red Hat... which is probably not a coincidence, since we're in the Raleigh / Durham area, basically in the shadow of Red Hat Tower.

All of that said, we don't really use the word "pivot" a lot and our basic focus is now still the same as it was when we started this thing. But we have a few new initiatives lined up for 2014, including some things we're going to do in terms of taking our technology, making it more of a "platform", and building some domain specific SaaS offerings on top of the platform.

It's an exciting time right now, as we have some leads in the pipeline and have a real chance to get some movement and traction this year.

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com

[2]: https://github.com/fogbeam
if the costs are 'forced' on taxi drivers, how do you know that they are not more than than the actual external costs?

And take it with a grain of salt, since it's internal PR, but:

http://blog.lyft.com/post/75739276230/introducing-the-p2p-ri...
"Working 18 hours a day in a windowless room"

I hope you feminist wannabe engineers have prepared yourself for this.
Something to read:

Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of Human
Decision-Making Using Wiener Diffusion http://gandalf.psych.umn.edu/users/schrater/schrater_lab/cou...

Decision Theory and Human Behavior
http://www.umass.edu/preferen/Class%20Material/Bounds%20of%2...

Beyond Accuracy: How Models of Decision Making
Compare to Human Decision Making http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/cs/Personal/Carl_Christian_Rolf/c...

Forgetful Bayes and myopic planning: Human
learning and decision-making in a bandit setting http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5180-forgetful-bayes-and-myopic-...

>Our result shows that subjects’ choices, on a trial-to-
trial basis, are best captured by a “forgetful” Bayesian iterative learning model
[21] in combination with a partially myopic decision policy known as Knowledge Gradient [7].
snip

Ponzi Scheme Enforcement Actions

Curtailing Ponzi schemes and holding those responsible for these scams accountable is a vital component of the SEC's enforcement program.

Since fiscal year 2010, the SEC has brought more than 100 enforcement actions against nearly 200 individuals and 250 entities for carrying out Ponzi schemes.1 In these actions, more than 65 individuals have been barred from working in the securities industry. The SEC also has worked closely with the U.S. Department of Justice and other criminal authorities on parallel criminal and civil proceedings against Ponzi scheme operations.

snip

Source: http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/enf-actions-ponzi.shtml

Keep in mind that BTC or virtual money is just another asset class.
A Better Firefox Sync
Oh sorry, I read it as a jab against Android for its reliance on non-free drivers and firmware. Sorry for assuming!
Aparently, this is not just an advisory, but this issue has already been used 'in the wild'. Hackers have been able to make VOIP calls through users modems.

Even worse, AVM decided to store password only encrypted (and, as turned out, easily de-cryptable), not hashed! I am very surprised that such a well-known manufacturer took security so lightly. Storing password almost in plain text in 2014 is just not tolerable.

Class action lawsuit anyone?
That sounds really cool. Are you really, really wedded to Skype though? It would be awesome to be able to participate using something open source... :-)
I think the ease of use isn’t just about being standardized, it’s also about being simple. REST (in)famously doesn’t support higher-level concepts like transactions neatly, but it provides the magic four database operations if you only need to work with a single resource at once, and for many applications that is sufficient.
Hangout Fishbowl - A way for the audience, of a Google Hangout On Air, to request an invite in real time. In the next iteration, I hope to add automated invite moderation, like auto-accept if the number of participants is below a specific number.

But, honestly, it was more of an excuse to learn NodeJS.

https://www.hangoutfishbowl.com

http://blog.lobberecht.com/2014/01/hangout-fishbowl.html
Good point. I guess, on a very ground level view, all game concepts have more or less been around for years. It would be an interesting study of why this one went so big when so many others didn't.

Also, I was thinking of more of a blatant rip off. I'd imagine those rip offs that are already out there are going to see a spike in downloads in the next couple days when people go to find this game and it isn't there.
It's beyond blatant; it's unabashed and self-aware. That's interesting - who would make such a thing? Who would pay into it? Will it still work even when people know what it is?