skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not, you're not the only person who uses it the same way. Indeed, it's incomprehensible to me that people would intentionally change how they use something that they know is functionally identical just because it has a different image and word associated with it. I can see how the change might have a more subtle, subconscious influence over the long term.
It is not FUD. It is a factor to consider, especially if you are thinking of creating mission critical software. There is no doubt that Google has plenty of form in killing projects, some of which were quite popular and/or highly visible. After all what percentage of Google income/infrastructure depends on Go? I presume it is really, really tiny and could become a casualty in corporate politics.

I personally think it is highly unlikely that Google would kill Go, but I do think one has to consider the possibility before betting the farm.
The US banking system has not adapted to the modern world at all.
Anyone who has worked with ACH will tell you how bad it is from a payment processing point of view - for those who don't know - you only receive negative ack, i.e., when a transfer failed and it's nowhere close to being instantaneous.
It's common elsewhere to have a "read" password and a "write" password. Basically, you'll be prompted with additional security measures when you are doing a transfer.
Also, the details I give out to somebody to receive money is the same details someone needs to take money out from my account. What the US banks have is a "digital" cheque processing system and not a digital banking system.

It's antiquated.
I'm not sure but do I sense a bit of sarcasm in your tone?
So, human rights should be debated as to warrant their existence? I don't think so. If that makes me a the "big meany weany" for folks like him then good. I don't have time for it. Being transgender myself and having to deal with all the issues that it comes with on a personal level makes less empathetic towards non-transgender people's concerns. Simply put, if he and others thinks my life should be contingent on his feelings then I'm just not going to discuss the matter with him. I'll just cut them out of the conversation entirely. Nor do I owe them or other people with similar sentiments a say in my life. If I pay my way (which I do) then you get zero authority over my life: fact.

I've heard for years that being transgender is bad, evil, and all other kinds of undesirable adjectives without a hint as to how or why. And when something that resembles a coherent argument is made, I often find it's dependent on an irrational belief that's easily dispelled. Even when the arguments are dispelled the opponents refuse to acknowledge it and move on. They just double down on the vitriol and expand their program to deny rights to even access opportunities in the marketplace, be it healthcare or employment opportunities. When it becomes a choice between living in the closet (probably killing yourself in said closet) or living outside the closet and getting abused for being transgender (physically, economically, psychologically, and so forth) then enough is enough. There's literally zero excuses to be made. And many like myself now have a zero tolerance policy in debating the matter.

Either you're on board for civil rights or you're not. There's no nuance from the opposition. The opposition made their argument and it was lacking. Deal with it.

/rant
In my case a 3-credit class in Engineering program included the following:

- 3h lecture / week,

- more often than not weekly/semi-weekly homework assignment (at least 4h to complete),

- optional weekly lab work (1-2h),

- optional 1 or 2 midterms,

- optional projects/presentations/demos/competitions,

All of the above included in the 3 credits.

Unlike what you say, a 20 credit course load is not 4h work per day. It is much more work.
Isn't that Bit Torrent today?

Frankly, I think the only plausible way to deal with this is to compete with it. That is part of what Creative Commons is about.

Culture is getting dull. As we continue to extend these copyrights to protect Mickey, we dilute our own creative potential.

And I'm not sure Mickey is worth it. Disney makes an empire out of the Brothers Grimm, and refuses to give back.

That's the problem.

People can't easily understand what is being lost either. That's the other problem.

Personally, I find myself less inclined to participate. Rehashes of the same stuff just doesn't appeal. But, many people are fine with it all, or they don't realize the difference in overall "vibrancy" possible.
> in two years ... grew the business ... to over $30k/mo in revenue

Combined with the fact that your About page shows 5 people, this is easily the most interesting part of the post :)
Wells Fargo has this via "guest users". I have a read-only user that mint uses
Pre-existing and they left because of tech/service issues. We interview all outgoing customers.

And I agree our lack of preparedness to scale was part of this, but it's shortsighted to only look at a simple conversation rate for determining success.

"Success" is relative and we define it on a higher level than just conversion. The fact is, software isn't infinitely scalable...or rather it takes orders of magnitude more resources for it to approach that level.

There's a certain inflection point where the time spent "getting prepared" simply outweighs the potential benefits. We could have spent years "getting prepared" but there was a point where we just had to say "ship it"...and that's what we did.
It was probably a joke on the often-expressed opinions that Twitter doesn't know what they're doing and doesn't innovate.
Freemium is definitely hard. We do this with Quill Engage (quillengage.com) for Google Analytics reporting and it certainly took us a long time to fully understand the workload associated with maintaining a free product while trying to support our main paid product.

For what its worth, we'll be signing up and trying out BareMetrics shortly. I love what we've seen of your product so far and look forward to seeing what your team has delivered.

One other comment -- I love how you pulled in the output of your product to so clearly support the point of your blog post. Not a bad job selling your product while discussing technical issues :)
I've definitely been experiencing the frustration of not knowing whether or not I'm writing idiomatic Clojure or not. Looking through the actual Clojure + other's source code and occasionally asking on IRC when I feel like I'm doing something wrong has been a big help.
I think the quality of the answers would be along the lines of Yahoo Answers.
Could you give some toy example to illustrate this? I honestly don't understand what you are trying to claim.

Toy example to illustrate my claim: Suppose a given finding has a probability p of replicating, but the biased market estimates q < p. This means that you must spend $q and if the experiment replicates you'll earn $1.00.

On average you'll win $p from these bets - $1.00 exactly p of the time. Your net winnings will be $p-$q. As long as your theory more accurately predicts the replication probability, you make money.
I believe the opposite. If you're making money off of it, then you do have a moral obligation to support it, at least to the point where they can use it under the original circumstances they were sold it under. The idea that one could charge for a product and completely disappear with the customer's money is extremely unprofessional, and quite frankly makes it much harder for the rest of us to sell software.
With the PosReady tweak XP will be around through 2019

But whew, just moved from XP to Windows 7 this week, I needed the memory for virtual machines for testing and didn't want to use the 64G hack because of instability.

I cannot describe how much I dislike Windows 7, everything simple in XP has been horribly mutated into something much less configurable and "dumbed down".

Classic Shell makes a dent but it is not enough.

Even the Cleartype tuning is a pain in the *ss on W7

Fortunately Firefox has made the change less painful, it looks virtually identical from XP to W7 because it has its own cleartype manager and is mostly independent from the OS otherwise.
> At this point we should choose our own recursive DNS provider

Assuming you control your device (non-corporate non-government users) and know how to configure your DNS server (elite users only) and wanted to do this extra step (privacy-conscious people?), this will break for hotels, airports, cafes/restaurants, corporate/government networks, anyone with an ISP that intercepts public DNS requests, and various home routers. Not to mention making surfing the web much slower and less reliable, since we distribute name servers specifically to rely on caching to lower latency and increase availability in case of various network failures.

But otherwise, sure, that works.
Tons of open source projects faltered and died when they lost core contributors. The core will remain open source and available, and you might even see a few commits here and there, but that will be it.

Go for the most part is written by a small team of paid contributors -- it's not certain at all that if they went away, other people would step in their shoes.
Actually, unilaterally deciding what the constitution means is actually how it works. You don't vote to see if you feel it's unfair - you feel it's fair/unfair and so you vote to express that.

The constitution isn't a promise we-the-people made to government, it's how we-the-people define government.

Now it's okay that the NSA employees had different opinions, but what's not okay is that when called on their actions they used their interpretation of the constitution not just as a defense, but as a reason to continue. As if we owe the government its rights instead of the other way around.

Clearly unconstitutional according to anyone who cares about the will of the people they serve as opposed to the letter of the law.
Yes, but the headline and tone is different until you slog through to the discussion & the comments making similar points.
What a silly conclusion. The fact that a human called his land line does not mean M (the thing in messenger) isn't an AI. At best, it proves that M has humans who work for M making phone calls.

I don't have any insight or opinion about the question of how human M is, but this article seems makes a bunch of assumptions that make the whole investigation somewhat silly.
The first hit is this page:

http://www.apple.com/uk/osx/how-to-upgrade/

which says you can upgrade directly. What goes wrong? I upgraded 10.5 to latest 10.5 then bought 10.6 in store and got to 10.6.8 a year or so ago. I recently upgraded another machine to 10.6.8 too.

I find free, smooth upgrades (not just updates) for a decade to be pretty good but guess you are having problems with "smooth".
> Favoriting tweets for later review is a substantially more convenient workflow.

So, you favorite it, read the article later and then unfavorite? If you don't unfavorite, how do you differentiate between a bunch of links int he past week that you may/may not have read?

If I want to read something later, I add it to my "Read It Later" service of choice: Pocket.
What’s new for designers, November 2015
I tend to agree that there is no need to control for sector. In fact, I'd say one reason that a "shortage" exists in certain fields (such as software development and especially science) is that the people capable of going into these fields have better options elsewhere. A lot of people are surprised to learn that in San Francisco (ground zero for the tech "labor shortage"), the median salary for application developers is only a whisker higher than for dental hygienists and considerably less than for registered nurses[1]. That's fine by me, but if H1Bs for nurses come in at a higher level than for software developers, why wouldn't we let in all the nurses in first, and the allocate the remaining spots to the software developers and dental hygienists? What's wrong with that?

[1] http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-b..., drill down to salary details which will show salary by region. This is a roundup of BLS data. You can query that directly at the BLS site, with more than just the median. Interestingly, software developers do earn more than nurses at the 90%ile for both fields, but only by a small margin. At all lower percentiles, registered nurses out earn the equivalent percentile for software developers.

Every time I mention this, someone points out, reasonably enough, that nurses are hard working, smart, valuable people. I think they may be worried that I am implying that it is unfair that nurses make more than software developers. I assure you I have no problem whatsoever with higher salaries for nurses, I think they deserve them! I just see absolutely no reason to help corporations pay a lower value type of worker (software developer) the lower wages they deserve.

There's also a data problem - anyone is allowed to call him or herself a software developer (or even engineer), whereas there are controls on who is allowed the title "registered nurse." Keep in mind, though, higher paid nurse specialists and physicians are not in those numbers either, nor are the lower salaries for nurse orderlies. So I do acknowledge the data is not as simple as I have presented it. What I do think this suggests is that trying to set up separate categories doesn't make much sense (imagine if you could set the H1B minimum pay for a radiologies by averaging it in with the nurse orderly category).

If H1Bs end up going to finance and health care, well, fine. That's a good sign that there isn't a shortage of high tech workers in the first place. If google and netflix want a visa for a $275k a year worker, they'll get one. If someone wants to pay someone $60k a year to update payroll information with .NET and SQL Server and the visas go to better paid nurses and financial analysts, how on earth is that a problem?
Funny, my reaction to people who two or more languages fluently, or at least somewhat, is to give them extra IQ points. Bonus points if English is not the native language.
I like the "wait in line" idea. :) Something for us to test down the road.
Works great in Chrome without underruns.

(Is ScriptProcessorNode here to stay, though? Mozilla's documentation marked the feature as deprecated for quite some time now [1], suggesting the use of Audio Workers instead; in turn, the same documentation states that these are not yet implemented in any browser. At some point I got very confused about the one true way of generating audio using Javascript.)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ScriptProce...
After reading this report, I find it difficult to dissuade myself from this analysis: that the US military deliberately targeted the hospital in order to kill a couple of Taliban officers, in complete disregard for the lives of the civilian volunteers at the facility. It is very hard to believe that there was a mistake attributable to the fog of war, or a failure to communicate the coordinates of the hospital, and the fact that it was a hospital, to the targeting officers.

This was a war crime. I am ashamed to be an American today.
Gusto did a great blog post series about this, I highly recommend taking the time:

http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...
Not my circus not my monkeys but I find the public discourse around immigration pretty astonishing.

Somehow raising the H1B cap from 65K to say 100K would take away American jobs and drive down wages but legalizing few million illegal immigrants (many of whom are barely educated) is a humanitarian gesture ?

Even if those thousands are Chinese and Indians are willing to work for lower wages and aren't technically special, they are indeed far more productive than illegal immigrants, have significantly lower crime rates and probably lowest reliance on welfare. Not to mention, higher you go up the skill level more people does not mean driving down wages on the contrary it means increase overall output of that industry.

Two engineers can invent a bike 5 can invent a car. On other other hand 1 gardener is useful 2 gardeners drive down wages of each other.

H1B and overall immigration policy of USA does not seem to be based on sound economic arguments but rhetoric. No wonder results are a disaster.
It sounds like people were paying for the side project.
Trigram Search in Rails and PostgreSQL
Ah pinball.

I got banned from all school computers for "hacking" after I started using the MS Word 97 pinball easter egg to play pinball in typing class when they removed the "official" pinball game:

http://www.eeggs.com/items/763.html
Okay, fair point. Given empirical evidence wrt my blogging discipline (and the fact that I probably can't), it's unlikely that blog post will ever happen.

I'll leave this thread alone because there's some useful technical information in here, and amend with an apology.
I've yet to see heart/fave/star/like buttons being context aware. I've heard anything from people using these mechanisms to read articles later, to using them as attention grabbing devices used to steal eyeball hours from distracted phone users, and everything in between. "Like" activity is a misleading metric and could mean anything because it's stripped and devoid of context.
is this really news? I find this an embarrassing headline to top this site. "Social Network X changes wording/icon on link, sees change of a few percent in some direction over the course of a week, trend may change direction at any time, we'll keep you posted"

DON'T CHANGE THAT CHANNEL!!
Thanks! Quill Engage looks cool. Let me know if we can help with anything!
That's what these "finance sites" already do. That's why you have to enter your bank username and password to use them - they just scrape the website.

Incidentally, I have never used one, because that requirement is completely insane.
Suppose they renamed it to "Hate" and made the icon a skull or something, but kept the functionality the same. I bet you (and others) would use it differently, not only because of the psychological difference for you but also because of the difference in how other people will likely react to "voyou Hated this" rather than "voyou Liked this".

"Like" versus "Favorite" is a much smaller change, of course, as is "heart" versus "star" -- but they're still changes. Why shouldn't they have an effect?
We are talking about the company that got a license to use json for evil
They'll never disclose what the security issue is, I assume?
No Status Page? You're Failing
It seems like the Internet is quickly turning from a "liberating force" to a "maintaining the status quo force", as more and more companies take the easy way out of "complying with local laws" (code-word for censorship).

Is there no serious tech company alliance that can fight back against this sort of stuff in many countries?
I concur. I tried on several occasions to use Dropbox, and Google Drive for my backup needs, but the initial sync was so large (numerous files) that the Windows software would crash (memory). No 64-bit client on the horizon so...

I found Backblaze and never looked back.
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> Fundamentally, if you control a domain you can get a CA-signed certificate for any label under it.

It's worse than that. All an attacker needs to do is passively monitor the target domain's emails, and he can get a valid CA-signed certificate. If the attacker can only monitor some networks, not all globally: no problem, since the attacker gets to choose which CA the email gets sent from!
Weaker, as opposed to non-existent.
Double Tap to Wake on smartphones: A story of Wizards and elves (and muggles)
I think Elon Musk is an example of the opposite -- he actually put himself in threat of poverty because he wanted to innovate.
Crain's: Password-security startup lands Samsung, two big carriers
Tumblr has several ways for one user to send text to another user with varying levels of how public they are and who can respond. It's all over the place and many users are jaded by how dysfunctional it is. These have changed several times over the years and there have been a few major browser extentions/user scripts designed to overhaul these (xkit, missing E).

@mentions/tagging: A user could add another person's username in the tags of a post, and quite a few people "track" the tag of their username and could see and reblog the post from there. @mentions are newer but work similarly, without the user being mentioned needed to do anything on their end.

Reblogging: Append a message/reply at the end of the post. The first user can then reblog the second user's post and add to it, resulting in a loose thread. I say loose since a third or higher number user can reblog and the conversation chain can become wildly different once a post hits a high number of notes. Reblogs are always public.

Replying: A user could "reply" to another user's text post which would be visible in the notes of the post. The OP would get a notification, but there's no way to reply directly to that reply. Most users used these as a quick one-way (from follower to OP) type of communication. Tumblr confusingly removed replies altogether a couple of weeks ago stating they were "rarely used".

Fan-mail: Completely one way communication from one user to another directly. Fan-mail is private and doesn't post on your blog. Users can send fan mail back and forth, but there's no concept of a conversation chain. Mostly used by spam blogs ("test my game", "do this survey").

Asks: A user can send a message to another user, as themselves or anonymously if the other user has it enabled. Asks can be answered privately, or publicly, which makes a post on the answerer's blog that others can see/reblog.
Apologies, that tweet is mine, and was posted shortly after the company all hands that day, and reflected my understanding at the time of the nature of the reorganization. Clearly, @mdemmer 's post is more accurate. Apologies for the confusion.
Glad to hear at least one sentence was interesting. There are 83 sentences in the article for an Interesting Conversion Rate (ICR) of 1.205%. Not. Too. Shabby. :)
From a Boeing Senior Manager:

Actual, with the volume of airplanes sold to non-domestic carriers the need to have foreign companies maintain them is very important. It is important that the global capability to fix/repair and maintain the airplanes grows with the demand in order to assure safe reliable flight. The world is full of MRO’s, (maintenance repair and overhaul) centers for many years. So this is not new.
I love The Exile's summary of Byron.

Excerpt:

> With fame, money and sex settled, he had to find something else to fight, and, like any honorable man, he chose to fight his own people. And that was how Byron the sentimental poet of graveyards and lost loves became the Satanic joker all England loved to hate.

http://exiledonline.com/lord-byron-the-exiles-patron-saint/
Analogy doesn't really work is TMT work is the same world wide - and that's not counting the nice opportunities for kickbacks that would obviously occur.
You didn't make much of any point; you simply claimed there was a 'giant externality', without saying what it is.

The thing most people complain about are how software developers will be reduced to penury if people from other countries are allowed in the US. Were you referring to something else?
Which is not actually a loophole, it's illegal. If a job is substantially different from what it was supposed to be, you're supposed to get it reclassified.
I can't edit the parent anymore, but it has been fairly pointed out that my tone of piggybacking on Backblaze's great blog post is a shameful bit of thunder-stealing. The technical community owes a great debt to them for their transparency about building storage clusters.

I get excited about large storage systems since that's what I've been focusing on for the last few years, and my enthusiasm overran my tact/prudence. Sorry Backblaze.
Does someone from BB want to jump in here and explain why this guys "file list" could be 8GB and how re-starting the sync will fix it? Sounds like something went awry.