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I recently evaluated this space for my startup's needs. We ended up going with Uservoice because it seemed to be more "product focused". As we grow we can opt-in to the different uservoice products that focus specifically on more product management (things like idea aggregation/voting, feedback forums, roadmapping)

Our support volume is manageable by just a few agents. If we needed to manage teams of agents and different support channels, freshdesk or zendesk might have won out as they seem to be stronger in that area.

That said, you can't beat a free tier if all you need is a basic ticketing system. Just thought I'd share some of the other options out there.
I use Windows primarily for entertainment, and some personal software projects.

For developing code I want to deploy to production on my Debian VPS, I run a nearly-identical (in terms of specs and OS) Debian VM using VirtualBox.

I develop server software, so I prefer developing on Debian (using a VM) and pushing development releases into production without worry.
I use a bunch of NUCs for prototyping cluster development for Cassandra, Celery, and Storm. I believe the economics are much better than doing the same with cloud, because I don't feel that nagging "tick tock" of metered usage. I bought 6 gigabyte BRIX PROs, stuffed them each with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD, each has 4790 CPUs, and I feel very good about prototyping in my own time on this little cluster, for deployment later. Perfect "training" system.
I think you might be confusing LVT151012 which was including in the announcement back in February and all the subsequent papers. That is a low significance trigger that may be another binary black hole merger. GW151226 is only being reported on now as it was still in the vetting process back in February.
Good points, both of them. My experience with indispensable people comes from a big manufacturing organization. When I talk about people trying to become indispensable, I mean the engineer who had her hand in everything her department did and supported the line 24/7, and the technician who told me, "they'll never get rid of me, this place would fall apart without me." Among others. They really do exist, but perhaps it's less of a thing in software? I haven't worked with enough programmers to judge.
I have some pages with passwords but not usernames, and chrome keeps trying to treat it as a login, picking an arbitrary nearby field as username, and ignores all markup suggesting otherwise. It's on my todo list to figure out something that bypasses its stupidity, like setting it to a normal field with a weird font, as it's not necessary to prevent copying out of the field.
I've been waiting for a long time for decent TB3 peripherals, manufacturers are very slow. I simply want a thunderbolt to dual hdmi with a few USBs so that I can put my tower on the opposite side of my room.
> ClickHouse manages extremely large volumes of data in a stable and sustainable manner. It currently powers Yandex.Metrica, world’s second largest web analytics platform, with over 13 trillion database records and over 20 billion events a day, generating customized reports on-the-fly, directly from non-aggregated data. This system was successfully implemented at CERN’s LHCb experiment to store and process metadata on 10bn events with over 1000 attributes per event registered in 2011.

Might want to rethink that consideration. :-)
AI has already gone through at least one prior boom and bust cycle. Expectations in this area have a tendency to get wildly inflated. Does AI mean general AI? Or just a cleverly applied machine learning algorithm? Seems wise to me to stay away from the term.
A platform the app developer can't secure isn't a good platform for a secure app.

It speaks negatively of the web over a native app for this to be disabled by default.
If you have a field for the user to change their password, you don't want to autofill it with their current password.
Sounds like you choose to spend your free time not at parties. Which is cool. So do I.
That is exactly what the link/paper says, "By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor."
Indeed. But I'd worry about both false positives and far too many meanings for the same letters based on context.
Installing an Adblocker is the first thing i do on every browser i come along.
Even on computers which are not mine and i have to use for 5 minutes.
It is just an automatism for years now.
Is that uBlock Button missing? I will install it.

I did not even now that youtube serves adds until someone told me a couple of months ago...

This makes posts like this even more weird.
It is like staring into an unknown abyss or standing in front of a lake which glows in the dark because someone dumped a ton of radioactive waste.
If I recall the moths were glued to trees for photos.

http://hoaxes.org/photo_database/image/the_peppered_moth

This whole thing was BS, or at least a huge part of it.
Ummm... because Westerners' prior beliefs about endemic corruption in Nigeria is a given, which is what the scams are usually asking you to facilitate.
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> Meanwhile, public utility water outclasses bottled,

Bottled water is often just tap water.

Flint Michigan has undrinkable water as a result of decades of mismanagement from the entrenched local politicians.

The water in my city makes me nauseous to drink, so I have to buy distilled in gallon or larger containers. It is fortunate that most of my water usage is showering.

Ah, but these are anecdotes.

> Americans have been working together to foster functioning and great societies through government for ages now. It's you that wants to test this brave new world.

The victims of the Drug War (primarily poor and minorities) must live ruined lives from this "functioning and great [society] through government for ages now."

They are just anecdotes.

World-class government sucks.
What you raise is a valid concern, but letting websites decide on enabling/disabling auto-complete is solving it entirely wrong way around.

If local admin is incapable of configuring user accounts, how are websites supposed to figure out who is who, and which browser is on shared computer?

After all, if managing user accounts is too hard for said admin (or we are talking about a shared PC in a library, which doesn't have user accounts as a matter of principle) - just make browser always start in private/incognito mode on shared computer. It is as easy as adding command-line argument "--private-window" for firefox or "--temp-profile" for chrome. That's it. Window closed - autocomplete gone. Problem solved.
Probably. That was certainly the tone the interviewer took in that radio show. That was my first time I've seen someone do something "for the lulz" and then be confronted by a rational adult and asked to discuss the consequences of their actions.

That's why the memory of the episode stayed with me for so long- that show is from 2008.
Good idea. What if we include an attribute in the form itself. I propose "autocomplete" You can set it to "on" or "off" depending on your needs.
There is no reason for a test of perception like this to be blind.

You are not trying to isolate a scientific truth, but engaging a lifetime of biased neural pathways with the goal of maximum enjoyment. When listening to music in the real world, your biases will affect your perception so trying to remove specific ones in the name of science is only muddying your measurement of actual preference.
Yeh conveniently when YouTube started to have paid offerings, rentals, etc, they started cracking down on those pirated copies. Obvious is obvious on that one.
You'd need the sphere to be more than massive enough to collapse under its own gravity, into a black hole; such a structure wouldn't be hypothetically possible. Building black holes with anything other than stars or giant gas clouds (in the early universe) turns out to be hard; your black hole generators inevitably keep collapsing into black holes or at least neutron stars.
Google says keywords in TLD part of your URL are ignored
Meanwhile you can't have deep discussion on Reddit or HN. When a new submission is made, the peanut gallery storms the top-level. Then a little bit of discussion nests a few levels, but it's pretty much a one-on-one discussion due to the nesting. And since topics can't be bumped, the discussion is ephemeral. And if you have something to say on a topic that's more than 24 hours old, then only the person you're replying to will see it.

Traditional forums have other issues, but longform discussion among multiple people over periods of time is possible.
Mind Blown
/puts hadoop down and reads this.
> Rip meant taking physical audio CD's you own and migrating them to mp3

Rip meant taking physical audio CD's you, or anyone you knew, owned. One kid buys a CD, and the next day it's in every kid in the school's iTunes library. I think iTunes even had an ability to just grab and copy MP3s from anybody's library that was broadcasting on the network, circa 2006-07.
Apparently a keyword in your TLD doesn't count towards rankings. But what Gooogle fails to point out is the fact that anchor text still DOES count. So if I have a domain like Jacksonville.Attorney, there's a really good chance that people will link to that site using those keywords. And yes, anchor text still does count towards rankings.
I prefer to grant my person-user access to run any command as deploy, so I can kick off deployments from a remote machine using Ansible:

- include: deploy.yml
become: yes
become_user: deploy

And grant separate access for my person-user to restart services as root. And use sudo groups.
I thought YouTube was built on the backs of videos of cats and stupid human tricks.
...Which is at least one going notion as to why the arrow of time exists at all.
CHIP's $9 pitch is nothing special anymore, with that Rpi device for $5 now, but the PocketCHIP wrapper is still a strong USP. Here is an IoT device where you don't need a soldering iron to actually get basic, useful stuff going.
>Decision making is different when you can only make a small amount of spins.

You should still be maximizing expected utility. For e.g. recreational gambling, factors in your utility function such as entertainment come into play, which explains why gambling recreationally can be rational behaviour.
$649.99 (+tax/postage). You can buy it on NewEgg, B&H Photo, and Adorama search for NUC6i7KYK. Amazon has a listing but it is for a third party seller who is charging $669 (+$19).

Best of luck :)
Yeah, the all-day breakfast thing isn't being done here. The grilled cheese they have is just another option for kids' meals like mcnuggets and burgers - they don't really advertise it but it's good for my family.

Did they have that brief experiment with the Santa Fe wrap and the Mediterranean Vegetable vegetarian wraps? The latter involved feta cheese, and you can imagine how wonderous McDonald's feta cheese was. In the end they killed the Santa Fe wrap but they made the Mediterranean wrap better, and so now that's my go-to McFood.
People have the right to blame something for doing something wrong. If McDonald's burns my burger, I'm going to blame them, even though I can choose to not go there.
Except that on a very real level, a website is a collection of resources along with instructions about how to assemble them. This is like getting upset at someone for putting together a Lego set "wrong."
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The beauty of DRM free data is that it can be copied and thus backed up, offsite, which I do. It's more likely that someone will attempt to hack a Steam account and trigger a hold on an account. I did leave out that my money for the 3 games I had bought was refunded while the investigation was pending which may have made it sound less scary, but I wasn't trying to claim anyone was stealing my money. However, the whole reason I signed up for Steam that day was to buy a game that was on sale, even though my computer at the time was not good enough to play it. When I finally got my account back, the game was no longer on sale and they said they couldn't give it to me at the sale price so I ended up paying full price for it, about a $15 difference.
The corollary to that is to always go out of your way to treat ops/it with a bit of respect. They'll usually pay in back in spades when you need it since they get so little recognition in the first place(and they deserve it most of the time).
This is one of the few cases where I'm actually in favor of Chrome's rogue behavior, though I think they're probably doing it for the wrong reasons. I've been annoyed one too many times by webpages that refuse to allow me to autofill login credentials from my browser, to the point where I had to keep a js bookmarklet to strip that attribute from every element on the page. I always hated that it took such a hacky solution to do something which is so simple, and resented sites that attempted to take that ability away from me.

So to me, any change which puts control back in the hands of the user is a good one. I suspect though that the motivation is mostly to "increase engagement" rather than to empower the user.
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They don't discuss if the preferred shares are participating or not. Makes a huge difference. If non-participating, typically investors can elect to convert preferred into common.
Does anyone experience the Netflix recommendation system being useful? If you use their web browser experience then you can tell it to never show items again. But if you use mobile apps, Chromecast, Roku etc you do not get that option. My experience is that they keep recommending the same content over and over again, despite me already having watched some of it, and not wanting to watch the rest. It is also an incredibly user hostile experience: "here are the same items we showed you last time that you didn't want to watch, so you must look at them again".

Heck they even go so far as recommending items where they accurately predict I'll give it low ratings, while ignoring the items where they accurately predict I'll give it higher ratings.

I really don't understand why they do this. Is my experience unique?
That's a critique that may or may not apply to a given implementation of this idea.

However, if the people being fired are treated with respect, severance, good references and if there's a general consensus amongst those remaining that the individuals were, in fact, low performers, I imagine there would be high morale.
Not sure what your point is. Are you saying Apple should use this? AFAICT it's still under the CDDL, which is the main reason Apple abandoned the ZFS plans in the first place.
Norquist and the current GOP aren't neo-liberal; they take it much further.

The Dems fail to provide an alternative narrative; they let the GOP frame every issue and the debates are over before they begin.
3 LLCs, a trademark, a patent application, and 10 years later and I've learned so much more of solo founder success has to do with pure dumb luck. I've since given up. For every success story like in the article, there are 10 failures.
And all of them auto play

And play ads...

Oh god no
I come off the opposite end, where this browser thinks it knows the data I want to enter better than I do. It doesn't. Neither do developers. I just want to use my browser plugin and ignore them both.
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Curious to see whether websites will start using DRM features for this purpose.

Also, as long as changing the User-Agent header is recognized by a jury as impersonation, I can imagine that some country with retarded lawmakers [1] could require that browsers display the website the way the website owner wanted it.

[1] a.k.a. where copyright owners are allowed many things over the citizen
Banking websites do this. I cannot stand it. Thanks.
Ha ha. Generate the piles of code but keep the generation program private. Then being a hero and refactoring thousands of lines takes you five minutes at the weekend. Evil!
It's exactly this attitude that prompts my colleagues to introduce Mongo/Node.js/Ruby/the-next-hype for no good reason.
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I've been trying to use the Facebook page on my phone since they've killed the FB Mobile web messenger and the amount the FB autocomplete and the Chrome autocomplete fight each other and mangle my text is spectacular.
Encryption is a big one that's been annoying everyone. Oracle baked encryption into their own ZFS implementation ages ago, but not in a way that works with the open source variety. Years later, we're only just now starting to see some solutions for this.
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I agree with a lot of this. GNU/Linux distros are going down a very dangerous path with Snappy, Docker, Flatpak, Atomic, etc. I think a lot of this is responding to the fact that traditional systems package managers are quite bad by today's standards. They are imperative (no atomic transactions), use global state (/usr), and require root privileges. Snappy and co. take the "fuck it, I'm out" approach of bundling the world with your application, which is terrible for user control and security. Instead, I urge folks to check out the functional package managers GNU Guix[0] and Nix[1], and their accompanying distributions GuixSD and NixOS. Both Guix and Nix solve the problems of traditional systems package managers, while adding additional useful features (like reproducible builds, universal virtualenv, and full-system config management) and avoiding the massive drawbacks of Snappy and friends.

[0] https://gnu.org/s/guix

[1] http://nixos.org/
> Take it up with the standards body then.

But, in the standard, the autocomplete attribute is a hint to the user agent, not an authoritative direction. [0]

The people who want to make it an authoritative direction ought, as you say, to take it up with the standards body.

[0] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#autofill : "User agents sometimes have features for helping users fill forms in, for example prefilling the user's address based on earlier user input. The autocomplete content attribute can be used to hint to the user agent how to, or indeed whether to, provide such a feature." (emphasis added)
Government also developed or funded: The Internet, fracking, most academic research ... and the educations of everybody reading this, to at least some extent.
Can you point to anything about PG and college buddies? I'm not seeing much on the subject.
Google Internet Explorer.

Might as well adopt the name now, rather than later.
I see this mentality at work in the Internet decentralization and OSS communities when they discuss the growth of closed platforms like Slack vs. open ones like IRC. They totally don't get it for exactly the reason you describe-- Slack's UX is infinitely better than IRC (especially on mobile which is almost nonexistent for IRC), yet that's totally ignored and glossed over.

Marx had a few insightful criticisms of capitalism but Marxist ideology buries those in a substantial amount of poo. Of course most Ideologies(tm) have a similarly poor BS ratio and require a lot of deliberate ignorance to swallow whole cloth.
So are they outdated now?
That's pretty much the story of the web from day one, and I'm not sure if it can actually be avoided. The incentives and desires of the content producers, browser makers, and users are all too different.
My understanding is that gravitational waves are only radiated when there's a dipole moment: two (or more, I guess) objects in rotation around each other. A black hole just sitting on its own doesn't radiate any gravitational waves at all. According to http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/public/ask/2519 , the Earth and Moon should also be radiating gravitational waves (and therefore losing a little bit of energy) but this is surely dwarfed by other effects and not measurable.
Stack/Stackage now solves this problem.
actually, i would say yours is the narrow point, and it's also a POV whose reach you are looking to broaden. The negative aspect of your POV is that some of us get tired of hearing it over and over (and I'm not picking on you, just explaining the different attitude) Labelling our worldview negative is also a negativity.

My goal in reading hacker news is not helping contribute blasts of cold air in order to preserve every little snowflake; but every little snowflake is welcome, nay, invited even, to read sober analysis of what processes are really going on. That's real math, science, and engineering.

I had to laugh the other day when I saw an effort to promote STEAM. STEAM? It's STEM, but including the Arts! OMG. Did we leave anybody out?
You could equally argue that it was down to women entering the workforce.
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Software is by no means immune to what you list. Indeed, as Hubris is one of the Three Virtues of a Programmer, you definitely find it. That said, I think (my opinion) that you'll find more devs/admins that are PROUD to be indispensable than you will devs/admins that SEEK to become indispensable.

Both cases are ignoring what you point out: having a indispensable person is a bad thing for the long term health of your business. But one case (pride) is just mistaking doing a lot of essential work as not also creating a problem, while the other (seeking it) is less forgivable. And of course, there's a third, much worse option ("spaghetti code is job security") that doesn't rely on good work at all.

I've known a lot of devs that were close to indispensible and trying to fix it, fewer devs that were indispensable and proud of it, and only one or two that did crappy work so that they became more vital. A fair number of all of these devs were "responsible" for becoming indispensable simply by improving things to the point that their improvements became essential...and no one else had the skills/knowledge to easily replace them.

But of course, my experiences are subjective.
I've noticed that a great deal of secure websites will disable autofill in their username and password fields on purpose. For ages I've had a Chrome extension installed that disabled autofill=off to get around exactly that, and I believe I'll leave it enabled. I know better than to trust plain password auth anyway, and mostly use the feature to remember one-time passwords to things like forum sites that have the ridiculous policy of hiding plain URLs to non-registered users. (I will never understand what a forum gains by having a large number of users in their database who registered once to download that one attachment, then never came back again.)

Regardless of the intent, I think when you try to make decisions on behalf of your users, you're doing them a disservice. I mean, really, the security risk of autofill on password fields is that the user's passwords are now saved on their computer? I think users who need to utilize this feature and have it denied them will just end up typing the password into a word document named "Passwords.docx," and that's a heck of a lot less secure than Chrome's encrypted password store. Not that Chrome's implementation couldn't be better, but still.