skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that's what you believe, and it's a perception that must change in the tech industry, because it gets in the way of important things like education and it breeds contempt. When you treat people like idiots, they will respond like idiots and learn to hate you because of it.

The "VCR blinking 12:00" problem is a good one, because it is absolutely not caused from a lack of capability. The clock on the VCR is often a very low priority for most people, and while those of us that understand technology think it's a simple thing to set it and move on to other problems, for a lot of people, they estimate that it would require finding the manual, reading it for a while, some trial and error, etc, and they judge it's not worth their time. They have more important things to do. The much easier solution is to either ignore it because they really don't care, or wait until the local nerd stops by and bug them to do it. I would even suggest it's a very good evaluation of opportunity cost.

Now, computer security is very important, but it suffers from a pandemic problem: most people are ignorant (which is not their fault) of just how common security problems are, the cost of failure, and the novel problems that technology has created (e.g. automated attacks that make questions like "am I a target?" irrelevant.

You will never solve those problems by taking people's capabilities away. All you've done is give them a false sense of security, because they trust devices based on an incorrect threat model. Educate them, and they will adjust their behavior. This is significantly less technical than learning how to set a VCR's clock.

As for UI - consider the example I used in another comment: include a hardware switch that must be flipped to allow "sudo"-style access for things like installing software. People understand this (I knew a LOT of non-technical people that regularly used the write-protect switch on 3.5" floppies when they didn't want to erase their homework. Simple metaphors like this, when applied consistently (they shouldn't have to use the switch very often) can help a lot.

You will never solve everything; if you had a truly foolproof way make a safe OS for everybody, I suspect you would have solved the Halting Problem. So use technology to catch the obvious stuff and provide tools for people, educate them well (this will take a few generations), and most people will be safe enough.

What you absolutely shouldn't do is limit everybody in a futile effort to try to make it safe for everybody. This is an impossible task, so you will inevitably end up in a cycle where you remove more and more features, as clever people find ways to abuse them.
omg, stop being such babies. You can't run a startup without risk, I am sure you have been around the startup world to notice how much risk these startups take in order to be successful, as a society we should encourage people to take more risks, and help them, not become a barrier to their success.
How stunningly beautiful. It doesn't matter to me if it's real or not. The writer created a world and two people and I got to live that as the reader for a little while. If the writer sees this, thank you.
They're only cheating me out of a little money and they've made it hard for people to prove that they're right and easy for them to blame a single rep or a glitch.

If enough people complained, something might get done, but you have to figure out who to complain to first. Occasionally, someone can interest a TV show into exposing them, but it's really hard to prove something like this. You could complain to a state AG, but unless they get a lot of complaints, it won't go anywhere--they're too small-time for that. I get the impression that they were squeezing the last blood out of the business they strangled and left to rot.

I only know what I did and what the reps said to me and I knew that I didn't have enough proof to go to court with this so I didn't--I'd just end up losing more time & money to it. So I just retell my experience when it comes up again.

I have seen a few other people on HN who got burned by them, though. It's sad, because Speakeasy was a really good ISP back in the day, before it was sold and gutted. The original Speakeasy support reps were awesome. But that's gone now and it makes me sad. I've never seen support like theirs from an ISP before or since. You used to find geeks singing their praises everywhere, too, but I'm sure you've never heard that about Megapath or whoever bought them.
1. Because stories are long, it should have multiple views for the same file. SO that writers can recap what they have written much earlier without losing their current context.

2. Quick find for "Markers" / sections of the writing, so that one can easily scroll up to Chapter 1.2, say.

3. Multi-cursor like Sublime Text to edit multiple mentions of the same name, say

4. Spell-check, it is rudimentary.
Visa to China sounds like a winner: Never had to do that myself, but it seems arcane, shady magic that some friends from Hong Kong know how to perform whenever we needed to go.

There are plenty of these infrequent, but non-zero, official, lifestyle and corporate customer processes that are PITAs, for a variety of reasons. People would gladly pay to avoid the hassle themselves, where cost-efficient, eventually-expert, standardized "schlepping" can make a good business model or 10. Relieve pain for $; enough people will gladly hand you $ to make it happen.
Nothing is free. You still pay for healthcare and schooling.
I'm a user. I haven't found something as good.
Urban activists set out to sue San Francisco’s suburbs
In case this posting expires, here are copies:

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/3n86wi/i_met_you_in...

https://boingboing.net/2015/10/02/the-greatest-craigslist-mi...
What Does Fiction Know?
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

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Technologies: PHP (5+ years, intermediate experience, 10+ sites on production), Java/Android (2+ years, intermediate experience, 7+ small apps), JavaScript/jQuery (Basics), Node.js (Basics, Launched one app on HN a couple of years ago)

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That's not evidence of age-ism.
Years of experience != talent/quality of work.
The Fall of the House of Saud

The Atlantic. May 2003 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/05/the-fall...

"A former CIA operative argues, in an article drawn form his new book, Sleeping With the Devil, that today's Saudi Arabia can't last much longer—and the social and economic fallout of its demise could be calamitous.

Five extended families in the Middle East own about 60 percent of the world's oil.

The Saud family, which rules Saudi Arabia, controls more than a third of that amount.

In the air in Riyadh and Jidda is the conviction that oil money has corrupted the ruling family beyond redemption, even as the general population has grown and gotten poorer; that the country's leaders have failed to protect fellow Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere; and that the House of Saud has let Islam be humiliated—that, in short, the country needs a radical "purification."
Beautiful. I also like this NYC Craigslist story http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/4301059953.html
Those are good advice and they are battle hardened experience.

I would like to add a few points.

1. Design the program as if it has crashed the last time. Always start up to recover from the last crash state. A normal shutdown is just simply the degenerate case. This would make restart and retry of program so simple.

2. Do retry with RANDOM exponential backoff to spread out the load. You don't want all the retries end up at the same intervals.
Wow, reminds me of visiting the first internet cafe in the UK.. it seemed weird getting served coffee and cake while using a computer, + using very early internet browsers and Gopher.
Very true. Many people insult Apple over their factories, but the fact remains, those jobs some of the best in the area and are subsequently heavily contested.
I actually have fond memories of DARE. But we had a really cool cop come in the class and tell us stories that were interesting to me. Usually the stories were very honest and real stories which I found riveting compared to the daily repetitive humdrum of school. I don't think it was the reason I didn't do drugs but it definitely supported and provided foundation around what my parents would tell me.
Weathering the Indiepocalypse
The article slants like stereolithography is a difficult to achieve ("magical") tech and these guys are pioneering some new kind of revolutionary product but I'm pretty sure outfits like Formlabs were doing this years ago (and now many others; see kickstarter). I didn't see it on my skim through but have they developed some revolutionary improvement to the old UV developer resin and projector technique?
Or hold Command (⌘) if they have a Mac and KeyCue.

(It uses the accessibility information for the visually-impaired to construct an exhaustive list of every possible key-binding in the current application context. Another example of many of designing for accessibility paying dividends for beneficial, unintended uses.)

Screenshot: http://content.screencast.com/users/xzxzxzxx/folders/Jing/me...

KeyCue: http://www.ergonis.com/products/keycue/
Ah the HP 88780, my cubicle-mate for a summer job 15 years ago
Yeah but bunch of Twitter TG wants to take pic on Instagram
First, Congrats on your Launch! I really like the site it's simple, clean and to the point. I also like that you have consistent content on your blog which should be helping you with SEO.

Now for the fun stuff!!!

I have this process I follow called the ABLE process. It stands for Access, Build, Launch and Evaluate.

Assuming before you built and launched your product you accessed your market by doing research and conducted user feedback. If not this is a great place to start. If you want to gain users, you have to know who your users are. In advertisement data is key, You say you used Facebook but what if your users are the people on twitter? You have venues, What is the most popular event/s at these venues? Advertising can get expensive, advertising on the wrong channels can kill your startup.

Once you know who your users are you can use that data to market on platforms they use organically. Some times organic users come from partners or places. When I think Venue, I think weddings just like you tried on Facebook. Have you tried partnering with wedding retail stores, wedding planners, cake decorates etc? These are all people who connect with your potential users that could promote your business. That is of coarse if your users are people getting married. Your venues might book more birthdays than weddings. Thats why the research is important.

Hope this helps!
So where is it documented?

There was a time when F1 meant "Help". Some keyboards even had "Help" on the keytop.
http://www.mediaatelier.com/CheatSheet/ is a free alternative on the Mac to KeyCue.
The Case for Expensive Clothes
>if you look lower on the RPM curve the difference is significant. The car lost 15 horsepower around 2,800 RPM, and 32 lb-ft of torque near 2,700 rpm

so, looking at the picture, the power/torque at 2800rpm is about 120/260 while in "cheater" mode it is 105/228. And that ratio is preserved through whole 2000-3000rpm range, the range that really matters as most of the driving happens here.
Is there a search engine for that?

You should be able to search all Government surveillance cams for your own history.
He didn't try hard enough. OpenJPEG has a file size parameter, which can go well below its -q 0 size. I was easily able to generate a 16.9K jp2 by specifying the size:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54412753/doom9/fish.jp2
which in png looks like:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54412753/doom9/fish.jp2....

Looks better than anything else but BPG at that size, to me, although FLIF obviously isn't optimized for lossy.
JavaScript’s structural weaknesses
A designer failed if help is needed. usually holds for relatively-straightforward apps and real-world designs.

The issue where clear, succinct documentation is needed is complicated, enterprise applications which have expert interfaces.
Three words: carpal tunnel syndrome.
can I ask : What is "Craigslist and these Missed Connections"
It's impolitic to notice it, but America used to be a lot like this as well. See, e.g., Bowling Alone by Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam (http://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Commun...). One of Putnam's main conclusions: a principal factor undermining social cohesion (corresponding to a decline in "social capital") is diversity. We're constantly bombarded with messages that "diversity is our strength," etc., but you'll note that Japan isn't exactly diverse by our standards. Neither does it face much pressure to allow massive immigration to change that.

You may still believe in the benefits of diversity, but there are also costs. One of them is that little kids can't ride American subways alone.
It's the same principle, I tried it.

KeyCue lets you perform the action by interacting with the semi-transparent HUD and has themes to make adjustments. 20 € is crazy high for modern app pricing, definitely not at an optimal supply-demand point.

Here's the zillions of options, which vary widely in usefulness:

http://content.screencast.com/users/xzxzxzxx/folders/Jing/me...

http://content.screencast.com/users/xzxzxzxx/folders/Jing/me...

http://content.screencast.com/users/xzxzxzxx/folders/Jing/me...

http://content.screencast.com/users/xzxzxzxx/folders/Jing/me...

Plus, you're buying support and sustainability (unless someone were to torrent it, which risks malware and reduces support & sustainability).

Cheat is very limited. It won't show modifier-only keys as KeyCue does, and it won't even let me take a screenshot of it (because that involves Shift).

Minimal and free, or expensive, pretty with features: pick one. ;)
-1 interesting but wrong place here
Over 8,400 images from NASA's Moon missions are now on Flickr
I miss the pulsing N.
Email me at Braysonware@gmail.com

I have a bunch of ideas, problems to solve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missed_connection
Thanks for sharing! I didn't expect this to be a real post given the title, but it was a great read.
I said that when cancelling my cell phone - the rep just kept hounding me, not believing that I simply didn't want a cell phone. Finally the ended with "well, good luck on your new life in the Yukon" - to which I replied - "did you even look at my address or listen to a work I've said to you - I've been living the Yukon for 4 years". "oh".
Right, I'm aware of those, but I assume most people aren't, so there's still a novelty factor there.
I think searching for things on the internet should be taught as a core competency, like reading, writing, and arithmetic.

I feel like way too much of formal education is focused on memorization. Especially now that we have this ubiquitous searchable memory called The Internet, this time should really be spent teaching kids and young adults how to actually do things.

But education focused on developing skills has its roots in trade schools, where kids with bad grades were sent to learn how to retread tires. That precedent makes skill-driven education a tough sell to parents. But I think technology has advanced to the point where skill development is the way to go.

There's also resistance from academics who believe distilling university down to a way to attain job market viability somehow cheapens academia; that academics should at least to some degree be academics purely for the sake of academics.

But I really believe that if someone has internet access and can wield it well, knowing things is a problem that will solve itself over the course of that individual's life. So why don't we just get on with actually doing things? That's the part of education that benefits most from instruction and traditional academic social structures anyway.
Pressing Cmd-L, typing the URL then pressing Option-Enter is the equivalent of pressing Cmd-T then typing the URL and pressing Enter.
It's entirely possible if by daycare the person means a 1:5 or higher teacher:child ratio in a rural part of the country, or possibly just a babysitting service with a zoo of children and very few teachers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10301881
VW owners may be looking at the kind of retrofits California requires for older heavy trucks.[1] The muffler is replaced with a filter which has to be cleaned periodically. This seems to be working; it's rare to see a truck belching smoke in California. So there's a path to a fix available.

[1] http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/truckstop/truckstop.htm
I agree completely. I'm currently working on a text editor tutorial [1], and one element I emphasize is learning how to use keyboard shortcuts. Future tutorials [2] will cover shortcuts for browsers and other apps as well.

Cmd+L, URL, Cmd+Enter

This trick doesn't work in Firefox, so I prefer Cmd-T Cmd-L URL Enter, which works in basically all browsers. But the point remains the same: these little productivity hacks add up, and after a while it's hard to imagine doing without them.

[1]: Learn Enough™ Text Editor to Be Dangerous, http://learnenough.com/text-editor

[2]: Learn Enough™ to Be Dangerous, http://learnenough.com/
I've noticed something else about less-computer-savvy folks. They have a harder time finding items at various locations on the screen by name. If I tell someone to click on e.g. the 'Tools' menu item, they'll spend a lot of time focusing on different parts of the screen trying to find it. They don't seem to be taking in the 'entire' screen at once and pinpointing all the visible words.
Something I made for Sanders recently[0] which has gotten a little traction on r/SandersForPresident[1], a simple website backed by the NYS electoral rolls. It generates self-mailing fliers to voters who are not registered Democrat informing them that they have until this Friday to register if they want to vote in the 2016 NYS Dem primary. The fliers try to make it as easy as possible for the recipient to register by providing the form and a way to mail it back to their county Board of Elections. Volunteers can go to the website to generate and mail fliers for a unique set of at-risk voters.

Critical feedback is welcome. I know just walking through a CSV file and using python's HTTPServer is terrible, though. :-)

If anyone knows about setting up full-service bulk mailing with USPS, I'd love some help getting started. It's probably too late for this particular project, but I think this distributed approach to mass mailing potentially has a lot of promise.

[0] http://nysmailing.xyz/ https://github.com/coventry/nysmailing

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+nysmailing...
Show HN: Lorem Ipsum Username Generator
Visual Basic 6 :D
I live in Victoria. That mesh doesn't always do the greatest job of sieving out the feminine products. Definitely have seen some wash up on Cadboro Bay beach.
It will be revolutionary when users can just say: "Siri, search this document for ..."
I told em so many times. They will just not care using it. The difference is in the approach. First time we used the search in page, we went there expecting to find such a feature. Until they find themselves asking "what the hell, isn't there a way to search in a page?" they won't use and remember it.

I think that's caused by the already high level of distress the average user is feeling when using a computer to browse anything else than Facebook. If I remember good how it was for me, they would go like "ok now I'm doing this, browsing this new webpage and I got so many things to remember already, the site name, how I got here, will I find it again, ...", "do you know that you can search a page with this key combination?? Stop! That's just too much! I will learn about it when I finally arrive at level 2 of my progress on using computers."
> AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333 (2011), is a legal dispute that was decided by the United States Supreme Court.[1][2] On April 27, 2011, the Court ruled, by a 5–4 margin, that the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 preempts state laws that prohibit contracts from disallowing class-wide arbitration, such as the law previously upheld by the California Supreme Court in the case of Discover Bank v. Superior Court.[3] As a result, businesses that include arbitration agreements with class action waivers can require consumers to bring claims only in individual arbitrations, rather than in court as part of a class action.[4]:708–09 The decision was described by Jean Sternlight as a "tsunami that is wiping out existing and potential consumer and employment class actions"[4]:704 and by law professor Myriam Gilles as "the real game-changer for class action litigation".[5] By April 2012, Concepcion was cited in at least 76 decisions sending putative class actions to individual arbitration.[6][7] After the decision, several major businesses introduced or changed arbitration terms in their consumer contracts (some of which were based on the consumer-friendly terms found in the AT&T Mobility agreement), although the hypothesis of massive adoption of consumer arbitration clauses following the decision has been disputed.

-- Wikipedia

TLDR: Class-action lawsuits against Comcast are not allowed because they include a class-action waiver in the consumer agreement.
I went through DARE in Canada 11 years ago when I was 9. They had an RCMP officer come in everyday for a week for a about 30 mins and I had to write an essay specifically on the negative effects of marijuana at the end of the week. I really didn't even understand the concept of taking drugs to get high and the only alcohol in my life was the beer my parents drank. It seemed like wasted time to me.
Also. It's now 2015, and they still haven't done shit about it, and likely won't for some time.
The two current biggest issues with thermoplastic 3D printers are:

- electricity usage: heating a baseplate, feed head and mechanical effort of moving a massive apparatus bazillion^3 times.

- speed (or lack thereof) of moving one or two heads those bz^3 times to get anything made

We're still in the "horse-and-buggy"-days of distributed manufacturing, so one approach or another will eventually find something scalable, Edison-style. More inventions and approaches are definitely a good-thing.
Almost all of the links on the "What's Cool" section are now, sadly, defunct.

http://home.mcom.com/home/whats-cool.html
I'll just leave this here.

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9214015/tech-nerds-politics
I guess I don't even follow what this means, does every single stop light where someone could possibly turn left now have the green arrow in your town? That seems ridiculous to me, coming from a city where thousands or tens of thousands of stoplights would need to be retrofitted just because people don't know how to turn left on a two way street.
Adblock extension sells to mystery buyer
> LSD leads to a high danger of psychosis or schizophrenia

Citations please.

It's a powerful drug but has incredible value when used properly. If you're going to start wringing your hands over dangerous drugs, start with the killers of today: alcohol, tobacco, and prescription drugs.
When I last visited, I found it interesting that the silent mode on phones was named 'manners mode'.
Could be summarized as "I murdered some people and felt guilty, then I flirted with a beautiful woman which saved me from suicide, then I forgave myself for my crimes, now I'm lonely so I want to meet that woman again."

I don't have any sympathy for this man who's had just about the best possible life he could have, given what he did.

I'll bet there are plenty of prisoners serving life for murder who would also like to meet some old flame but don't have the freedom to post on Craigslist.
Sigh. Then have them read Bukowski and have them never touch a drink again.

Edit: my brother died of a heroin overdose, so I have zero fucking tolerance for this bullshit simplistic reasoning.