skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a much (much :-)) better post about "REST"/"HTTP" API best practices:

http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-res...
>> "I can't tell if he currently disagrees with web components as a concept"

From the updated DurandalJS site[0], Durandal vNext will "work well with Web Components."

[0]: http://durandaljs.com
You don't want to build your nightlies with one compiler and then switch to a different one just for the final release.
One thing for sure is apparent in the new Javascript movement is that every framework tries to script your Javascript and not be Javascript. Nothing against experimentation and there are merits to generation to target platforms, but this is a common theme.

The NBL is Javascript yet everything to support it moves away from it? Very strange, do people hate Javascript that much?

Try my new scripting language, it will help you script your Javascript.
I'll keep an eye out for this. I think the final price will reach quite close to the market price with no guarantee of being able to sell at that price.
Still might be worthwhile for someone to build up their position considerably without spooking the exchanges.
Every Email Is a Ghost Story
I had exactly one good experience with a recruiter. It got all the way to the offer stage, and then the CEO of the prospective employer told me point blank that he could not offer me more than 75% of what I was already earning at my existing job, because I was working with a recruiter, who would be paid based on that rate. He also subtly implied that I might be offered a fat pay raise after six months. With great difficulty, I avoided calling him an unethical asshole to his face. Then I told my recruiter about it, her company summarily dropped the client, and she went on medical leave with a Lupus diagnosis.

In that case, it was not the recruiter who was the sleazy douchebag, but it still didn't result in a new job.

Employers are unfair, too. We complain because we want life to be fair, no matter how often it shows itself to be otherwise.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has recently done a show summarizing the issue around Civil Forfeiture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
Chromium doesn't ship binaries to end users. Linux distros that have chromium build it from source. But I suspect that they are probably going to switch to clang as the recommend compiler for development.
Matz at RubyConf 2014: Will Ruby 3.0 Be Statically Typed?
That was me. Yes, Angular 1.x is clearly superior to Durandal 2.x.

That said, I'm happy with the news that Durandal will see a vNext. I believe Rob will make it into what Angular 2.0 should have been.
The Internet of things isn’t producing a data deluge … yet
Civil asset forfeiture cases in the US, insanely, have a reversed burden of proof and are in re actions against the assets to be seized. When assets are seized by law enforcement, you have to petition for them to be returned and prove that you came by them lawfully. You don't ever need to be convicted of or even charged with a crime in order to have your assets seized.

I don't know anything about how long law enforcement has to wait before selling your assets.
Read this investigative series and become furious:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/collection/st...
You can also handle problems like this via libraries. For example, underscore-contrib [1] does it this way:

var x = _.getPath(a, "b.c.d");

There are definitely advantages to having this pattern baked into the language, though.

[1] http://documentcloud.github.io/underscore-contrib/
Right after the news broke we saw a relatively high volume dump pushing the price down by about 8%, from 410 to 375. Curious to see where it will go now. To be honest I expected a larger dump after this kind of news..
A Valid JPG/JAR, PNG or FLV After AES and PDF  After 3DES Decryption
Boots, Scarves and Sweater Weather – OH MY
They refuse to support them today because there's no benefit in doing so. Supporting codecs they're not supporting today takes both non-trivial engineering resources, but may expose them to patent risk depending on the codec in question. And pretty much by definition, the people who use these codecs aren't Apple customers anyway.

You seem to be arguing with the assumption that Apple could support these codecs effectively for free, and have deliberately chosen not to do out of malice. That's quite absurd.
To add more context, a well-known investor who happens to have significant influence ended up buying those bitcoins.
Related topic: I just finished reading "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion" by Sam Harris and it has become my book recommendation for people that don't understand psychedelics or meditation. Sam talks about both in the most lucid way possible. Highly recommended!
Haskell: A rudimentary 2-player/Human-vs-Computer game
Using flow state to help startups succeed
Does Facebook have a fleet of 50,000 sales people going out and selling their data center software to companies? Has anyone considered the fact that there are probably a handful of companies that can staff huge, extremely skilled developers to implement what facebook put it into place? Even if you can download it and its free and open source, most companies want someone they can call when their IT software doesn't work. Cisco isn't just a technology company. They're a giant sales and services organization.
He did appear on the Polymer dev mailing list last week to pick a bit of a fight about how web components are/are-not compatible with other frameworks:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/polymer-dev/Ev7sO_BB...
> If I am using software licensed under the GPL, then the code _must_ be made available.

If you are distributing software under permission of a GPL license (e.g., you aren't the copyright holder) you are required to also make the source code of what you are distributing (which may not include all of the original on which it is based) available.

If you are using software that you received that was licensed under the GPL, the source code may or may not be available (it may have been required to be at the moment the software was distributed, but whether it will be later or not is less clear), and the source of the upstream may or may not be available even if the source of what you received is.

GPL doesn't keep the source code that it is attached to available, it assures that the software or legal derivatives will not be legally distributed except under terms that make the source code available. This may encourage the source code to remain available (if there are factors encouraging the distribution of the software), or it may not.
I agree with your conclusion.

Worth adding this doesn't even find the two dimension distance between two points, it finds a hypotenuse length using the Pythagorean theorem and doesn't accept two points as parameters (unless they are on a number line, and in that case math.abs(x - y) would be the correct code).
it works because links are defined in the hypertext and discovered by clients (say by the browser when a page is visited), so are new functionalities. A (well designed) web app is always up to date. In an Android native app the API URL(s) are (99%) hardcoded using the knowledge about the API of a certain moment. This auto-discovery mechanism works also for a spider.

Auto discovery does not mean that links are understood (@rel may help but..) you may need a human to decide but..

Suppose a (rest) application that lists links to its "services" in home page with the "service" page describing the service following a certain standard. You may have a bot that checks periodically the application for services you are interested in and be notified if a new service is available, with the possibility to navigate to the page and possibly subscribe.
tl;dr: Not that I've dug into.

I've found a number of people who point at the Github api as a good example of a RESTful api that includes hypermedia links for clients to follow rather than constructing URI requests manually. It looks good to me.
The world has gone insane.
In field recording, sure. Film work often means going to remote locations and while generator or vehicle power is an option it may not be available if there's no night work. Additionally, running off AC power, even in an interior, means having another cable to wrangle - a pain in the rear every time the camera position is changed or there's any sort of traveling shot. It's better to have everything in a bag or mounted on a small wheelie truck. Ideally I'd like to everything wirelessly (plug-on transmitters can supply phantom from a 9v battery) but radio has its own downsides.

The current requirements are not that high so it's just a matter of a small step-up transformer for the preamp. Some older pro microphones also use T-power, which requires only 12v but delivers a somewhat less good signal/noise ratio than the 48v phantom standard.
How to compile Docker on Windows
Actual file download here: https://corkami.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/angecryption/Po...

AES/3DES setups in here: https://code.google.com/p/corkami/source/browse/trunk/src/an...
Remember the old lunar lander game?

Someone needs to make a Philae Lander game.

for those that weren't around in 1979:

https://www.atari.com/arcade/lunarlander/play#!/arcade/lunar...

(js version http://www.somethinghitme.com/projects/jslander/ )
Lower dose = lower probability of having a bad trip, FWIW.
LokiJS, the idiomatic way
The "Computer Hardware Bitcoins" term is notable and I wonder to which statute it refers. What actions were taken or crime alleged where it would be important to characterize Bitcoins in this way?

I speculate that Ulbrict needs funds to pay attorneys fees. It may be he stipulated to a portion (or all) of the BTC as his in-exchange for unfreezing the asset and permitting its sale.
Wherever you go, there you are. Unfortunately your mobile phone doesn’t
If I can do -750 net LOC in a week (while maintaining or extending functionality), that's a great week!
My understanding is this. The government found a bunch of bitcoins on a computer that may or may not have belonged to Ross Ulbricht, so they asked him "Are all these bitcoins yours?". Ross can't say that they are without admitting his guilt, so the government auctions them off.
It's amusing to see the url uses "dpr-bitcoins", DPR being the common community abbreviation for Dread Pirate Roberts. I mean, that's what they are, just funny to see the govt refer to him that way.

http://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2014/dpr-bitcoins/
That must have been a while ago – nowadays it’s just beautiful real-time latex-style math with just a few improvements where the latex syntax kinda fails (“3/4” instead of “\frac{3}{4}”, “"plain"” instead of “\text{plain}”).
It is clearly in Ross's interests to permit the sale. He's not DPR, remember? So these aren't his bitcoins and he therefore doesn't care what happens to them.
Malcolm!
That sounds like a recipe for heartburn later, when you run into some WAF or whatever that only allows PUT/GET/DELETE/POST.
So what happens if he legally obtained these bitcoins, but cannot prove that he did so?

So he basically loses them before he even can prove that they are his or not?

That doesn't seem right, it would make sense that the coins are held in an escrow status until he was proven guilty.. It seems to be a big loophole for the government to just go and steal whatever they want from you, before you've been proven guilty.
The question is, where will the market price be by the auction date? This news mean that a substantial amount of money that may have otherwise been used to buy BTC on the open market will now go towards this purchase.
Does anyone know if the highly irregular shape of the comet would cause a wild variation of the strength of the gravitational field near the surface of the comet? (as opposed to a 'perfect' spherical planet).

I'd imagine that would cause quite interesting dynamics and make it potentially quite difficult to calculate where it will end up?
There's a worthwhile chance that someone you already know back home has connections with others where you live now. That's how I made such a smooth social transition from one state to another twice in the space of a year: I asked everyone I knew for connections, and someone set me up with an existing gaming group even before I arrived. I had new friends within a week of moving.

In the meantime:

+ Check out as many conventions or conferences as you can, but focus on the "hallway track" and the bar (you don't have to drink, either!).

+ Check out Meetup.com or even OkCupid.com (or the EU equivalents). Other people are trying to make new friends through those sites.

+ Chat with the folks where you work. Spend time in a coffee shop or co-working space if you don't already. I made a good friend, for example, out of a totally random Starbucks encounter.

Hope that helps!
Predicting Political Affiliation from Your Neighborhood's Stores
I think the reason why rates fluctuate so much is that developers don't know their worth (positively or negatively). It's nothing you can truly measure. There are shoddy developers with $150 rate and great developers with a $70 rate. In all kinds of different cities and situations.

Sure, you can throw in a collection of achievements, but then you could just as easily end up with that whiz kid and spaghetti code while your best developer works under NDAs and has nothing to show for it.

So how do you even value yourself? You say that you're better than average but how do you know that? Are you faster? Better at architecting apps? Is it the business side or communications?

I honestly don't know about myself but balk at the idea of trying to find out and push my rate at that range. Either I'd be positively surprised (and subsequently depressed because high-paying full-time work is difficult to find) or negatively surprised...which would just suck.
Woah, I had no idea this was possible. Guess I'm one of the 10,000 today. Thanks!
NLRB, EEOC Leaders: When Hiring, Be Cautious Looking at Social Media Activity
Why would they be priced out? I'm curious why you think that. It's the first time I've heard such a view-point.
That term is parenthesized and quoted on the site, so it must refer to something in particular.

(“COMPUTER HARDWARE BITCOINS”)

EDIT-

They're referred to that way in the stipulation agreement he made to allow them to be sold

(pdf) http://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2014/dpr-bitcoins/order.pdf
Do you have models for traffic pattern differences between spikes and DDoS attacks? It seems that a DDoS attack would have different patterns (quicker spike, no buildup, etc.). Just speculation here.
Amazon vs. Kevin: A tale of corruption and fraud at Amazon
You had to have been very naive for these revelations to be so shocking to you.

You use Google for email? Don't be surprised that someone else is reading it. You have willingly and continuously divulged your personal data to an unknown number of people.

You use someone else's cables for data transfer? You are willingly broadcasting your information to anyone who's willing to listen.

You're blindly trusting an encryption system made by some strangers? Be aware of the consequences. You're merely trusting someones unwillingness to risk their reputation (if anything at all).

True security and privacy are achievable, but you need to put effort into that. If you're walking around 24/7 with a GPS tracker and listening device in your pocket willingly, don't go crying over someones ability to collect this information for their own gain.
Last time the US auctioned off bitcoins, the price was above market price [0]. A VC wanted to buy a large chunk of bitcoins for a company he invests in without driving up the price.

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-01/bitcoin-auction-end...
The ability to have expressions in the capture is awesome! That's going to clean up my Slots quite a bit.
Honest question, is your argument based around the idea of: If the person/entity who has the source of a GPL'd software dies/disappears the source of a binary you're using may not ever be available?

Otherwise, you should be able to request the source and the distributor would be required to give it to you under the terms of the GPL?
I admit that that's pretty impressive indeed. Good for you, and thanks for replying!
Nominally, governments act at the behest of the good of the people, powerful or not. Regulation is part of its purpose. If they are not operating for the good of the people, then who are they operating for?

This is a clear case where a government founded for the good of the people has been side-tracked to operate at the good of a corporation, at the expense of the people. So I will stick with my earlier statement: governments have power due to the will of the people, and blaming the existence of governmental power for the fact that corporations bought the legislation is doublespeak.

The problem is not the existence of government (unless you are anarchist), nor is the fact that the government has the power to regulate. The problem is that a corporation bought legislation to restrict consumer choice, and that neither the politicians nor the corporations are being held accountable for the implicit (or even explicit) bribery that went on to make it happen.
More people have noticed this, there has also been an item in John Olivers talkshow about it. Very funny, but also very sad.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/john-oliver-civil-f...

Also this, an article mentioned in the show:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st...
>That doesn't seem right

It's not, and there has actually been a low-level national (US) dialog on the subject over the last month.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/10/363102433/pol...
I think that is at least in part because for a few years, every time someone thought they had a RESTful system, some genius would come through and declare it non-RESTful on account of not following some rule or other. So "RESTful" came to mean a type of HTTP API that tends to look a certain way. And so of course URLs matter.

Saying something is "RESTful" is a surefire way to find out the ways in which it fails to match up with what some obscure document says.
Using TouchID to Authenticate Against Websites
I don't understand how an anti-war screed to Condi Rice over the Iraq war is "evergreen".
Apple Drops Fitbit After Healthkit Diss
Civil forfeiture is really screwed up [1].

>So he basically loses them before he even can prove that they are his or not?

Yes goods are guilty until proven innocent in court.

>It seems to be a big loophole for the government to just go and steal whatever they want from you, before you've been proven guilty.

It kinda is. Watch the link.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
Everyone seems to be going off on a tangent about civil forfeiture. From the order: http://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2014/dpr-bitcoins/order.pdf

WHEREAS, the Government and Ulbricht agree that, due to the volatile market for bitcoins, the Computer Hardware Bitcoins risk losing value during the pendency of the forfeiture proceedings;

WHEREAS, the Government and Ulbricht agree that the Computer Hardware Bitcoins are to be liquidated or sold by the Government before the conclusion of the forfeiture
proceedings, with the net proceeds of the sale to be held as substitute res pending further order of this Court;
Using ngAria
> The "Computer Hardware Bitcoins" term is notable and I wonder to which statute it refers.

It doesn't refer to a statute. It is a short form to refer to what is described in long form in the first paragraph of the notice as "THE BITCOINS CONTAINED IN WALLET FILES THAT RESIDED ON CERTAIN COMPUTER HARDWARE BELONGING TO ROSS WILLIAM ULBRICHT". (The same long description, and the explicit linkage of the same short form to that long description, is in the linked Stipulation and Order from the court allowing the sale.)

The stipulation also refers to the reason -- Ulbricht and the Government agreed to the sale to convert the bitcoins into dollars to protect both parties from risk due to volatility; the bitcoins are not being forfeited at this time, the forfeiture action will continue with the proceeds of the sale as the subject property rather than the bitcoins themselves.
Why would you want to get rid of C?
In the agreement document he explicitly claims ownership, and agrees to the sale since the price may go down before they are returned to him.
> It seems to be a big loophole for the government to just go and steal whatever they want from you, before you've been proven guilty.

Happens all the time. You can be driving along, get pulled over, and the cop claims the money in your wallet is the result of illegal activities (usually drug dealing), and takes it. You can get it back by winning the civil lawsuit that will get filed: "Hazzard County Sheriff's Office vs. $150"

Is this constitutional? Lots of people don't think so, but the cops believe it is.
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It isn't right, but that's the reality of civil forfeiture in the United States.
I disagree...
My guess is that if you choose to enable features like that you're most likely opening a door, but if you don't it won't compromise anything.

At least, that's how any competent developer would code it.
When a large buy order comes in price rises. Front running would be buying before that large order can execute, and selling immediately after it completed and moved market price up.
Stopped reading at "Version your API". Clearly this guy has no idea what he's talking about [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/fielding/status/376835835670167552
Mushroom-Body Drone Biodegrades into Almost Nothing
Actually, these bitcoins are ones that Ulbricht claims are his, not the (much larger) set of bitcoins that weren't on his personal hardware which were linked to DPR which he did not claim (and which were the subject of an earlier sale.)
Cisco stock has a flat to negative 10 year return (2004-2014).

Tells you everything you need to know.

Nothing has proven durable for them.

- Broadband explosion

- Two bull markets

- Social media revolution

- etc.
Ah, the New York Times. That rag which just makes things up and can never be trusted for anything. Suuuuuure. If you're not willing to accept that as evidence, then I doubt you'll accept anything.
>That statement is far more reasonable than 'It's literally impossible for Japan to default on their debts', which is false.

This is slightly pedantic. The argument was about whether incurring ever-greater amounts of debt would result in the default of Japan, a country with a sovereign currency. It's a fallacy that is often repeated. As long as the debts are denominated in said currency, the answer is: no. A country with its own currency will always be able print more money to fulfill these obligations, making default practically (not literally, I guess) impossible.

The fact that they can choose to default, or that we may run out of trees, or ink, or whatever, is a bit outside of the scope of the argument.
Let's be honest: There is zero chance that Ross William Ulbricht obtained those coins legally.

While that may be beside the point, a rousing speech about how asset forfeiture should be changed would resonate more strongly if the subject was someone other than a person who hired people to murder others.

Also, it seems like supreme court justices aren't going to turn against asset forfeiture any time soon, so there's really no way to stop the practice.

EDIT: It's interesting how far people are twisting my words. I made two assertions: One, that there is no way Ulbrict obtained those coins legally, so if you want to reform asset forfeiture, choosing Ulbrict as your mascot would be a tactical mistake. Two, that unless you can convince the supreme court justices to turn against asset forfeiture, the practice will not change.

If you're reading into my words more than those two assertions, you're reading too far.