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You're going to love restify. We use it at TrackIf and can't imagine our API running on anything else. Couple it with Swagger and you won't be looking back :-)

Better conversation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8583257

When I see contests like this, my first thought always goes to "But do they really have the money to pay me if I figured it out."

For big prize payout contests, I'd get a lot more serious if they provided proof that the funds were waiting in escrow until end-date/winner.

But I'm probably unnecessarily suspicious of the depth of a startup's pockets...

Now if only Apple would do the same thing for Safari...

For any unfortunate souls using IIS, Digicert has a walkthrough of disabling SSLv3 at https://www.digicert.com/ssl-support/iis-disabling-ssl-v3.ht...

Here's the link to it as a PDF for anyone else wanting a printable copy to pin to their wall: https:/docs.google.com/document/export?format=pdf&id=199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa8eMWi8zzAn0YfcApr8Q

Sorry, I should have phrased better. I issued a "stop and start". Per the AWS thread:

> While executing a stop/start is absolutely fine to do, there is not a guarantee that you will land on an updated host. We are periodically polling for new instances and those impacted will receive new maintenance notifications accordingly.

Which I take to mean there's a chance you could land on an updated host. I'll update if any of those machines come back to the Events view.

So far I'm 3 for 3 on stopped/started machines that come back no longer having the scheduled reboot event - maybe the problem isn't as annoying as we're thinking?

(Edited because I said "reboot" and meant "stop/start")

> It seems that CoffeeScript isn’t anymore popular for new projects.

I'm happy to see some research behind what my gut has been sensing for a while. The distinction between "popular" and "popular for new projects" is very important too. Is anyone else talking about whether-or-not this is an active downward trend?

I've bounced between Newsblur & Feedly, but keep sticking with Feedly because of their Android app.

My biggest psychological point that I've learned of myself is I find myself skeptical & leery of long-term using Feedly because they won't take my money. My gut is telling me "I want a RSS Reader with a business model so I know its worth my time investment", although my brain knows that a subscription models ensures viability with the same guarantees as ad models.

When teams halt development on projects, I really appreciate when they say "People should go use project X" instead. I know it is difficult to full their full-weight behind a single endorsement, but the team is obviously picking an alternative and since their followers trusted their original code they should trust the successor.

It would be great if the YUI team stood up and said "We're moving to something, and think you should too."

We set it up so https://TrackIf.com can track if a HackerNews story gets a new comment (or if a comment gets a new comment, etc. etc.) It was 100% for selfish reasons and once we did it we recognized we don't actually use it that often.

As awesome as HN is, there's never a reason* that you need to immediately come back and respond unless you're getting your flamewar on...

* Or if you're wearing your PR hat and there's a story about your company, but we really don't want to make things easy for those people unless we want to see the forums overrun.

Suspiciously close to when the former CEO left to be with his family...

People can donate to his legal defense fund at https://fundanything.com/patenttroll?locale=en - it has already raised nearly $500k!

I sure hope Sara Golemon gets the recognition out of this that she deserves (and which the article starts to build.) Having met her at a couple conferences, she continues to demonstrate a brilliant understanding of what it takes to build a programming language WHILE being a tremendous advocate and builder of a community where being a member isn't always... popular.

Rock on, @saramg

Another conversation along the similar vein of "Debian putting its foot down about a license" is Firefox (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_re...)

Don't worry. I called him out on that too. He just got excited about discovering a new community (HN showed up on Google Analytics.)

/me inserts obligatory Dilbert marketing reference

We do this at my company, https://trackif.com. More than products (for instance we'll track rubygems, npmjs & github). I just haven't gotten off my butt to write a blog post about it since I figured "price tracking" wasn't a topic that'd interest the HN community.

I wonder how the community over at addons.mozilla.org (AMO) feels when they see something like this. On one hand, there's a sense of "We'll never see any playful plugins like this because our approval process is slower than Apple's and less well defined."

On the other hand, their garden is well groomed while the Chrome Web Store has a lot of noise...

In all fairness, their old interface was a disaster too. From their confusingly interconnected upsells, to DNS management, to renewals - its only my distaste for GoDaddy's misogynistic attitude that's kept me from crawling back (and hatred from transferring domains from finding something new #theDevilYouKnow)

Yes. 100 times yes.

One of the greatest things about Docker is it lets you consolidate your setup environments. You can great a handful of 2k scripts, store them in Dropbox, and then if you current development machine bites it, a simple "docker add <script>" gets you up and running exactly as before.

Docker lets you stop treating your personal machine as a server. And that's a beautiful thing.

TrackIf - Minneapolis, MN https://jobs.lever.co/trackif/313867c9-6614-451c-8aa7-d1c77c...

I really don't find the long post about job openings all that useful, so I won't bore people with company back story or the marketing spin that makes us/this position unique...

If you know PHP and live in Minnesota, checkout this position at TrackIf. If you have questions about it, reach me at eric@trackif.com. If you're contacting me and are anything other than a candidate, I'm going to ignore you :-)

Paul Irish has a list of alternatives at https://plus.google.com/+PaulIrish/posts/12BVL5exFJn, but I really don't think any of them compare to this (TrackJS). So while I think everyone should be doing client-side reporting and evaluating all the options, I suspect TrackJS just brought this to another level (think awstats vs Google Analytics)

Deeper conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7436401

I'd rephrase the question to be "Would Facebook be Facebook without PHP?"

Do you imagine a future where Hack will merge back into PHP (like PHP 7), in the same style that Beryl & Compiz then rejoined? Or does the team intend for the two to always be adjacent-yet-separate?

tl;dr; "Every solution that isn't made by us isn't good."

Can someone provide a tl;dr; for this? I'm not nearly on the inside enough what audience this site is targeting...

I'd redact my suggestion then if I could. Thanks for answering so directly and promptly! (and great seeing you on HN)

I bet one of the leading factors is the number of sites blocking the AWS servers. As a scraping service, the fact that Amazon makes all their public IPs known (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1701) is really inconvenient for anyone "crawling" the web. Rackspace also makes their list available, albeit incomplete (http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/cloud-site...).

As more websites setup default blocks for all accesses from AWS services, the Moz exit was inevitable.