skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a meandering tour of one developer's trials, not a solid discussion of REST at all.

I withdrew after "Whether that it's tried and tested of MySQL or shiny and new of MongoDB. This choice is probably going to affect how you scale." It was not worth continuing after that.
Aha, I'm also using HTTPS Everywhere. Thanks.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that people don't seem to be as careful and deliberate in reading things like manuals and instructions as they used to. I have on countless occasions pointed someone to an important piece of information in some documentation, and been responded to with an "oh, I looked here but I didn't see that."
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> If our intention is to kill HFT (and it probably should be), we could simply levy a very tiny transaction tax on trades. It would instantly render the practice unprofitable.

That would also kill a lot of mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, asset managers, and others. These depend on the availability of frequent rebalancing of portfolios at low transaction cost. Add in a tax to this and you penalize it significantly.
Interesting! I wonder what the difference is.
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So two features of a site run by Google are not working as expected on "third-party" software and the conclusion is, that Google is doing it with malicious intend? Thus could I conclude that if something at medium.com is not work properly on all browsers, they are trying to cripple that one browser?

To the author: Next time think a bit more critical about the topics you're writing.
So instead of MAILTO=sendmail I use MAILTO=http://deadmandssnitch/report or similar?
I agree with a lot of what you say but....

> and forever have a small dev team of 4 guys who cost you half a million dollars to support it

You lose me there. Don't tell me I won't need people to run my Oracle databases. Moreover, I'll need "Oracle" people, who earn 2x what those other 4 guys earn.
It means he had a problem and so will you. I'll stop short of calling it a profoundly disturbing assumption, but it pervades the entire article.
Agreed, never the less the topic is interesting, and the development of groups, organisations and their history is surly an issue that is worth discussing even for readers of hacker news.

Also I am quite sure that there is some overlap going on between "these" hacker communities and the hacker news community.
Or for an identity to "jump" from machine to machine at times.
Bookmarking alone is not 'always' enough ;)
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I think it's fine to submit it to a site like HN.

Please don't send random emails / Twitter messages. Even if you don't think it's spam - the other person certainly will. I get dozens of messages a week saying that someone has "carefully selected me to take part in their beta."

Invite your friends - then get them to invite their friends.
The translator initiated by Chrome's "translate" button does a pretty decent job on this page: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefontornet
The rapacious forces of bad banking is an issue tiptoed around by the compliant and blissfully ignorant masses. I applaud any attempt to make a stand and expose this scandalous behaviour, however risky it may be.
The most charitable interpretation of that quote is that after RegNMS, multiple trading venues became legalized. Liquidity providers then chose to spread liquidity out because it was now legal.

Here is RegNMS. Find me a place where it says liquidity must be divided between all possible exchanges: https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/34-51808.pdf
Why won't you DIE? IBM's S/360 and its legacy at 50
The thing is, Wayland is a simplified display server that basically pushes all the hard problems onto others. So for instance there's no rendering code (that's handled via existing projects like Mesa and Cairo), no graphics driver abstraction layer (new graphics drivers are expected to fork Wayland), no seperation between window manager and display server (fork Wayland to change anything!), the input implementation is largely copied from X, network transparency and remoting are Some Else's Problem and require co-operation from app developers...
As a programmer, I really love Cosmic Sans Neue Mono (which I don't think is related to this typeface) -- now renamed to Fastasque Sans Mono:

https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

You either hate it or love it, and I find it gorgeous on Sublime Text.
I could see this being a really interesting way of having a slim and upgradable raspberry-pi-powered tablet.

Year after year, you could upgrade the SoC and memory while keeping your case+screen+screeniopcb+batterypcb+battery.
>“Anything that is completely computer-operated is a potentially oppressive system.”

Anything that is completely people-operated is a certainly oppressive system.
Dark Markets May Be More Harmful Than High-Frequency Trading
Pavel Durov letter to UCP on attempt to seize control of Telegram
Do programmers hate Microsoft? I always thought/perceived that MS treated their developer community well.
> I think the problem is thinking of people in terms of rankings.

Yes, that's exactly what I meant.
Here's an animation showing the SIP vs Direct Feed issue: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4599.html

Much of the games being played no would no longer work if the SIP was the defacto source of "real-time" prices (as specified in Reg NMS). Sure, there would be new games, but we have rules specifying the SIP as the key to Reg NMS. At least there would be a decent audit trail if rules were being followed. People would be able to detect delays (currently obscured by the changing time stamp) and many games would be exposed.

It's helpful to actually read Reg NMS - a link is provided on that animation page.

P.S. I'm the veteran programmer in that article.
You can still use the v3 version for free.

I agree that for a hobbyist the new license fees are too high. For a company those costs are a no-brainer though.

What Demis has done with ServiceStack (and now having made it his full-time job after leaving Stack Exchange) deserves remuneration in my opinion.
How to make your tests run 8-10 times faster under MySQL and Rails
It's win32 only.
http://mixtopten.com/top-10-largest-gold-producers-in-the-wo...
GPL alternative library to Microsoft Detours for binary instrumentation
Isn't the Pi incredibly underpowered for use as a compute node?
Where can I download medium.com's web browser?
The "fo" pair looks decent, but many others leave a lot to be desired. I don't have an explanation for the differences though. Maybe Libreoffice is using a different layout engine.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r7ghhhq1ys3l5am/firefox_youtube.ta... for what it's worth, several different copies of the same video across different browsers/browsers pretending to be other browsers
> Maybe. You seem at heart to be a consequentialist. Although I wouldn't call myself religious, morally I sort of see myself as a straightforward product of Catholic school.

Interesting--normally I see neo-reactionaries linking progressivism with christian tradition; and it's not meant as a compliment. I don't think I've ever seen a progressive endorsing that link before.

Also, I should note that I'm a consequentialist (although in practice I try to use virtue ethics), and closer to tptacekian politics than yummyfajitian politics.
You do realize that 600 dollars a year is next to nothing for a business? I don't even run a business, I am just a freelancer, but I'd happily pay 600 USD/year for this service if I needed it.

The price doesn't make a real dent in any serious budget, so why bother? And 600 dollars is really cheap compared to anything that could happen when you miss an important event. Email campaign not sent? This could cost thousands of dollars or more. Backup not done? Could be millions of dollars for some kinds of businesses.

I think the service is priced reasonably. If you think otherwise, start a competitor. If you can convince me that your service will reliably mail me on incidents no matter what catastrophe happens to your data center, I might use it over theirs (Should I ever need such a service. As I said before, I don't need it right now.).
Based on my blog post at http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/04/wanted-simple-apis-without-a...
" they will signal up to their other machine to say, “Buy everything that’s available.”"

This sentence is very problematic as it implies that HFT are injecting themselves between 2 intermediaries that don't need the HFT in the first place. What is actually happening is the HFT is not buying or selling anything. They are changing the prices they themselves were offering originally. There is no intermediary involved.
If you really learn the Y it will be hard for you to come back to X instead of one of the much better Zs.
If you have already written a competent relational schema, written a SQL API on top of that, and mapped that API to a RESTful service successfully, this article is not for you.
as much as I hate to admit it, jenkins makes a superb replacement for cron.

It keeps a history, has excellent error handling capabilities, and can scale quite well.

also the integration with git and the like makes updating jobs super easy.
How does an HFT bot get advance knowledge of an order?
Kind of like a modern swyft card, eh? http://hackaday.com/2014/04/06/vcf-east-the-swyft-card/
That's funny. I've always found it very readable. I have also ridiculed it in the past. Probably unfairly. These days I actually have a soft spot for the font.

I really like the update.
> Specify a time and date, rather than trying to sort out other people's schedules. Usually Tuesdays or Wednesdays around 8pm work best.

Everybody knows Tuesday nights work best, so everything gets scheduled on Tuesday nights :)
Can someone tell me why people scoff at the use of Arial or Verdana or whatever? Helvetica and Arial look extremely similar, what's the problem?
Clever.

Since it is highly unlikely that Larry Ellison was in any way involved in these decisions within Oracle, however, it adds nothing to our understanding or interpretation of these events. Instead of broadening the context it replaces it with raw ad hominem.
Am I the only one who doesn't see a huge problem with this?

I don't think anyone really sees a problem with it, although it might be somewhat of a gotcha for people coming from languages where variables are local to the loop.
> arrangements are being made to incorporate a nonprofit for Ethereum in the legal free-for-all of Switzerland

Swiss Law might be a bit idiosyncratic but I would hardly call it a "legal free-for-all".
+1

That mega-JOIN that brings back the entire client context is more awesome for db throughput, than plethoras of single-object calls. THIS IS WHY you build an API, rather than exposing CRUD. CRUD is not an API.
I'm not sure why they still use Sourceforge, however they did move some of their projects to Github: https://github.com/nasa

This one even has its own separated account: https://github.com/visionworkbench
I just noticed that if I switch to "https://", Flash-based videos are now served. Back to "http://", same video served HTML5. So this is it, "https" is the culprit (for whatever reason)?

Edit: On Chromium, "https://" or "http://" I get served HTML5.

So, could it be that Firefox somehow doesn't provide the proper cookie value telling the site to use HTML5 when using "https://" (I did set HTML5 pref with "https://")?

Edit: A cookie named "GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY", used for "[e]ncrypted connections only", is used on Firefox only. I don't see this cookie on Chromium on an encrypted connection. So, there might be a link with the presence of this cookie and the serving of Flash-based videos.
No matter to which country you go, you will find all kinds of people. Only not in the same proportions.
I love these. I posted several on my blog a few years ago.

Six Visual Proofs: http://www.billthelizard.com/2009/07/six-visual-proofs_25.ht...

Visualization of (X + 1)^2: http://www.billthelizard.com/2009/12/math-visualization-x-1-...
> My best guess is that they do not want to buy into the CA infrastructure and provide security using GPG itself.

This may be true (I really have no idea) but isn't it like travelling on a highway at night with your normal lights turned off because you have a better system based on infrared? After reading about the story of that guy who hacked into a computer by MITMing the notepad++ site, I became even more convinced that all pages must have certificates. Nowadays it's also possible to get a basic ssl cert for free, I can't figure out what the catch is really.
You don't need to pay $100,000 month for access. My NDA forbids from revealing pricing info, but I can say I worked for an HFT fund that was just a programmer working out of his living room.
It depends what you want to use it for. I'm imagining this being used in small embedded projects where the physical size of the current Pi is undesirable.
On a meta-level... I think this style of reporting is terrible for the topic. There are three main voices: the journalist, the scientists, and an everyday person. The only one I trust on this are the scientists and the others are just confusing the whole issue. On top of this, there are some humanities professors the journalist treats as scientific authority. All of this is woven together in a pseudo-science tale that's really not worth a careful read.
How Techmeme Became The  News Site For Everyone In The Tech Industry
Wow - SODIMM form factor is a game changer.

A few years back I built a bunch of robots with the main processing unit a SIMM Java processing module - http://www.systronix.com/tini/tini_simm.htm. Having a standard (and super compact) form-factor for processing was a game changer. It meant I could quickly prototype the main robot board and add in processing module really easily. I wish I had this available then.
I think people hate Comic Sans because of how many people used it inappropriately.
I would actually really like to see a lengthy investigative journalism piece that looks at all the factors that go into the costs of internet access around the world. I hear lots of hand-wavey stuff all the time about how Japan or Singapore have low population density so it's cheaper there relative to the US. But that can't be the total picture. Major US cities also have high population densities and that doesn't seem to be enough. Different countries have also spent public funds to build out infrastructure which likely never goes into the quoted prices of access. Japan's price for 2 gigabit (quoted here: http://valme.io/c/technology/vkqqs/the-cost-to-connect-inter...) is a good example. What's the hidden cost? How much do taxpayers pay to maintain the parts of that infrastructure that are government owned? There are lots of countries that have higher tax rates than the US to subsidize public services. In some places, people are probably paying a lot for this stuff, just parts of it are hidden because they are indirect through taxation. However, I bet that's not totally the case in all areas (perhaps in a place like Romania, given the comments elsewhere in this thread).

Are there any places that have vibrant commercial competition for broadband in the absence of significant government intervention? Are there places where because of government ownership of infrastructure in part of the market (e.g. fiber backhaul) there is increased consumer choice in providers, such that the fully-loaded costs are cheaper that the current US situation? We know from numerous markets that lots of competition drives down prices and drives up quality. The problem with broadband is it feels like a situation where you have a natural monopoly, so what is the right policy mix to enable competition? Or isn't there one?
Really fun. Especially the last one.
Related video of a presentation of Ethereum at one of the recent HN Kansai:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jjzz...
That's entirely dependent on what you're trying to achieve.

Sure, if you're trying to mine bitcoins, this hardware alone probably won't be much use.

But if you just want to learn about distributed systems, and how to manage a cluster of hosts and distribute tasks between them, this is a great place to start, eg: http://coen.boisestate.edu/ece/raspberry-pi/
Yeah, I love MS. I hate their licensing (too complex), and think they've not had a spotless track record, but compared to Oracle and Apple they're definitely in the good guys camp.
The intention is that Telstra and the NBN are apples and oranges when it comes to the consumer. Telstra is (soon to be was?) both the network and the retailer whereas the NBN is just a network wholesaler.

The argument of government vs private infrastructure projects is a whole other kettle of fish.
'Gods' Make Comeback at Toyota as Humans Steal Jobs From Robots
How would people compare this to Improv? http://makeplaylive.com http://aseigo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/introducing-improv.html
Spherical Harmonics – the strange power of the CGI image
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" Is About Obama's Terror-Suspect Kill List
It's gotta be one of the best things I've ever read.

>Instead of reaching for the fellow man, we want to set ourselves apart, andthus, remarkable.

So true.

>Modern life nearly conspires against the collective. We are tormented by a relentless flow of information as well as the daily worries of an eternally insecure, unwarranted life.

Amen to that!
A nod to Roy Lichtenstein might be in order, since the graphics are almost literal copies of his work.
isn't if funny how PG bridges the gap between true hackerdom and pure commercialism/capitalism? I too want to be a ruling VC /ruling hacker when I grow up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDA0t49AaZ4
I know this thread is making me sound like a raving loon or communist and I'm not, honest!

It's the sense of entitlement that bugs me. As to your point, better educating the populace has not been a solution so far. The glut of college educated people has not improved the employer/employee relationship. The lack of jobs is a systemic thing that more education is not going to fix unfortunately. Few people will admit that though.
You might be interested in EOMA-68 project. They have similar ideas, albeit using proper HW instead of RPi
Americans have loved awful sports metaphors (especially when talking about money or war) since the middle of the 20th century. You have to have a general grasp on them to be educated, just like competent atheist historians have to know the Bible.
Dutch government pays millions to extend Microsoft XP support
I'm disheartened by their conversion to Webkit. Tab grouping + session save is one hell of a killer feature : I used to archive websessions in order to track my references when writing a academic paper.

I've switched to Firefox from then, but it's not as convenient as Opera12.
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Ask HN: How can I find beta testers for a Windows email client?
I need help finding beta testers to commit for a full year to a desktop email client for Windows. How can I find them?
Even if he's not involved in this particular decision, he certainly sets the tone with which Oracle treats with third party (users, developers, competitors, etc...)
First impression: Improv has still all those bulky connectors on it. Second impression: It costs twice as much as the RPi module.
This happens to me a lot. I have to take a pause and consciously focus on reading the text that is in front of me. Otherwise, I simply skim it. Sure, I get enough information to understand the article and talk about it, but I hate how I can't read a whole text as easily as I once did.
Well, uglier featurephone-like webpage, no swiping menu from left, no card-like results display, etc. Now it's better than months ago but still quite a different experience than stock android browser or chrome.

Maybe it's me being naive and not tech-savvy but I used to think one page should look the same on different browsers.
Indeed. It is a great read. I just had to include it on Superhero.js when I finished reading it a couple of days ago. Especially valuable if you already know some JS.
So Google pushed a new code/technology, supported only by Chrome.

This is not far from the "Google crippling Firefox" point of view.
I was just about to add that. I don't even know how many comments are in my archive echoing that sentiment. It's a fantastic book for any programmer.

Javascript is honestly a weird language if you're coming from the typical imperative languages (C, Java, Python, etc.), it's also not really functional enough to be in the spirit of Lisp, and it's doesn't have the type system to be familiar to Haskell or Scala devs. It's really a descendant of the Smalltalk/Self lineage, but with some major diversions. I always thought it was a shit language cobbled together with no consistent philosophy. Reading that book proved me wrong. Javascript does in fact have a soul and Reg Braithwaite totally changed how I view the language with Javascript Allongé.
I have a BA in philosphy and am employed as a programmer. It's been pretty good to me. Skepticism, logic, and good communication are important for any job. I went back and got an MS is CS because I wanted the technical background in a more formal way.
Bootstrap style pages look gorgeous, but don't tend to say anything useful, and I hate it.

I know it has nothing to do with CSS, and it is technically possible to have a link to something useful when using a pretty design, but I have yet to see an example. Judging by the 25 (now 26) karma I lost I think a lot of people here really like good looking pages with no links or information.
I'm a little disappointed that this isn't a compute-addon for the rPi that gives it some serious calculation power. Ah well .. guess I'll stick to the IMX platform for that ..
I think that might partly be due to the deluge of useless information in most documentation. I read through the instructions for a meat grinder we picked up the other week. It had about 10 pages. About half of one page somewhere in the middle was real content (how to attach it to the stand mixer, how to prepare the meat, etc.), and the rest of the packet was recipes and pages and pages of warnings and warranty information and other garbage.

It's easy to skip the important bits when they compose just 5% of the whole product.
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MS-hating opinions come from the old times of IE6 and practices like FUD, EEE. A lot has changed since then but this hate still shows up sometimes.

There's an interesting article about this by Scott Hanselman titled "Microsoft Killed My Pappy": http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
Is it a matter of the stock exchanges profiting from this, or the fact that it's possible at all?

I can't see how it can ever be possible to give everyone the same information at the same time. Latency will always be there, and renting rack space in a building near to the exchange will allow the information to reach you before the opposite coast of the country. Although this might mean that the owner of the neighboring building is the one making money, and not the stock exchange itself.
As funny as it is to see this kind of thing online and spread as common knowledge, i'd much rather see someone take a legal stand and take banks to court on charges of fraud.
We want more great stuff of Superhero.js, so we're open for suggestions here or in the GitHub issues: https://github.com/superherojs/superherojs/issues

We are thinking about adding a section on the most used libraries or frameworks, such as Backbone, Angular and Ember, but we will focus on the core JavaScript essentials until we feel it's good enough.