skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do sites insist on doing stupid things with scrolling?

One possible reason is: testing only smartphones and tablets.

I don't see that problem with this site, though. There is a scroll bar and the wheel works for me (FireFox 48.0.1). I allowed JavaScript from mathajax.com and from the site itself (fermatslibrary.com), but not Google Analytics.

However, a modal dialog box pops up about subscribing to the newsletter. Scrolling doesn't work until it is dismissed. HYPOTHESIS: if that dialog is somehow mispositioned off-screen, it will look like scrolling is busted.

For me, that dialog pops up after the passage of some number of seconds after a full reload of the page. It tracks the position of the lower right corner of the browser as I resize; I can't get that dialog to go off-screen unless I shrink the window ridiculously so it goes above the top edge or past the left edge.
I think one of the main things people forget in B2B stuff is that impulse purchases are less of a thing and people want to spend more time evaluating value/spending. This is why many a lot of B2B folks setup nurturing campaigns.

This is where Facebook can really shine - what if instead of pushing a hard sell when someone is in the middle of reading their friends updates, you promote a white paper to folks that are already in your campaign? Or give them something else of value, but make it about them, not you, and not about hard sales – that comes at the end of your nurturing campaign, which should not be on Facebook.
Dragging the scrubber around updates at the same speed, really? I'm not on Nightly, maybe that's the difference, but if that's the case that's great news.
How do I evolve from intermediate to advanced level as a web developer
When I lived in a nice part of London, I got letters asking me to sell the house every week, sometimes more than once a week.

"Mr and Mrs Jones are both professionals, with two children at private school. They are looking to move into this area. ... Properties like yours are selling for over £600,000 on this road." etc.

I was renting, so obviously these all went in the bin.
You can also layer the number of ~'s to skip over intermediary SSH sessions and send the escape to the proper one.

\n~~. will escape the 2nd box you've SSH'd to, not the one it was originated from.

Useful for escaping a screen'd SSH session that you might access through a jumphost.
The iPhone 5 black paint chipping problem, the iPhone 5 sleep/wake button failure, the iPhone 5 battery problem. The bending issue extends to the regular 6 as well, I've encountered multiple devices in the wild that have it. That's about it though.

I would also argue that all of these issues are more isolated than reports make it seem. No doubt, they are all grounds for a good extended warranty program at the very least but they aren't dangerous, recall-worthy or a case where all devices are affected. Just a significant enough number that if it occurs, it should be a free repair or replacement.

For a quick glance at all the recent acknowledged design flaws Apple has copped to, this page is a useful resource: https://www.apple.com/ca/support/exchange_repair/
I'm surprised the article focused on compromising the build farm instead of danger to the production. I guess a malicious agent could alter the behavior of the build that makes it to production and attempt to slide in an extra "feature" like weakened security or back door.

Nevertheless, it's a good reminder to consider build servers as part of the attack surface.
Teamwork. Reinvented for a virtual world
I would not expect housing prices to fall very much, but I suspect it would be harder for below-average developers to get jobs in the area, because companies would instead hire above-average remote workers, perhaps at lower salaries than the below-average local workers would demand.
NYTimes: "Report Finds Low Graduation Rates at For-Profit Colleges" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/education/24colleges.html?...

Having also worked in a state's higher education commission, I can that for-profit colleges were consistently two to three times more expensive than publicly-funded 4-year universities, even when accounting for room and board (which for-profit colleges don't offer, as a rule). They also lost the ability to be disbursed student loan funds due to not meeting minimum employment rates among graduates.
> Verifying checkmate is essentially doing a 2-ply search: for all moves i can make, the opponent has a reply that captures my king. This is more work than verifying normal moves, where a 1-ply search suffices to check that kings are not left in check.

Isn't checkmate a very constrained 2-ply search? If you have a 1-ply search that suffices to check that kings are not left in check, isn't the checkmate simply using that search for each of the maximum 9 board positions (including current one) that the king can occupy? I must be missing something about blockchain computation because the article says this:

"In order to verify a checkmate, Grau wrote, all possible moves must be calculated and verified, which he and his peers found was not feasible on the blockchain."
Yes, but it's still a painful native dependency in the otherwise Node-based build process. Native dependencies are getting better in Node, but still have many painful edge cases.
My biggest problem with FB advertising is that it is virtually a casino. We do everything right (I think). A/B test, segment, measure, measure, measure. But somehow it's never reproducible. A great organic post can flop completely when advertising to the very same target audience.

We're B2C selling a targetted learning subscription to students in the medical field early in their learning path. We don't have fierce competition at all. Facebook should be the right tool for us. Facebook did work great for a while, but suddenly doesn't. Or maybe it would tomorrow. Who knows.

We're still spending money and trying to optimize, but somehow it always feels like we're basically gambling the money away. We some times get lucky, some times not. The house always wins.
Scrolling especially should be much better in multi-process Firefox, because it will be async, so web pages no longer block it.

It doesn't fix performance in your react app, though. I've filed a bug about it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1300848
I know what you're talking about re: the management changes, as I work for an agency that has a close relationship with IBM. I was looking at applying to Watson for remote work of some kind, but due to that short-sighted shift, I've ruled it out for now!
I have a friend that got an offer to be employee #15 or so, but turned it down because "nobody wants to buy books online!".
Yes it is von neumann, code runs out of RAM, as far as I understood it, someone please correct if Im wrong.
Edit - I suppose it is a draw rather than a stalemate

Fide Rules 5.2 (B)

The game is drawn when a position has arisen in which neither player can checkmate the opponent’s king with any series of legal moves. The game is said to end in a ‘dead position’. This immediately ends the game, provided that the move producing the position was legal. (See Article 9.6)
A sufficiently advanced understanding of the finite difference operator might well be considered indistinguishable from understanding "calculus"...
He's incredibly ageist and cynical about man's abilities to do great things. Definitely a curmudgeon, but mixed in with some good quotes and advice.

I particularly thought this was cute:

"It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in
any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his
subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking
‘Is what I do worth while?’ and ‘Am I the right person to do it?’
will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to
others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his
subject and himself than they deserve."
I don't know about that, there may be extensions or add ons that provide such features though.

Many browsers will start loading a URL as soon as you type it in, even if you don't press enter however, try this with a local server sometime, it can be a little jarring.
Why would someone on SSRIs not notice a thing?

In the case of ayahuasca, quite possibly because they're dead. You don't mix SSRIs and MAOIs unless you have a very good idea what you're doing, and even then probably not without a reasonably well-equipped clinic to hand.

Serotonin Syndrome is not something to fuck around with.
Health care in the U.S. is not about health care. It's about wealth transfer.

1. People don't get effective treatment. 2. People start avoiding the system and its giant suck, even when it is to their detriment. It becomes difficult to discern whether this detriment is greater than that of "participating".
East Palo Alto is actually a slum that was perniciously excluded from the resources of Palo Alto for decades. Only recently were the residents permitted to access the better PA schools and more easily cross the barrier into Palo Alto.

The above is just interesting trivia, from what I understand Palo Alto schools have always been good.
So true. So, so true.

So true that I often question technical interviewing practices that look solely for ability to memorize complex algorithms exactly, vs ability to seek out an even better solution and apply it effectively.
Typing +++ will bring you back out to your modem's firmware, at which point you can issue further AT commands
How does it compare with TinyMCE and CK Editors?
Synthesizing information or ideas into something useful, such as a complete solution to a problem.
ASP NET Core Buildpack for Heroku
Prop 13. It's destroying the market here. People don't want to sell because it could cost them dearly.

If I wanted to sell my house and move next door (our houses cost about the same), besides the fees to the real estate agents, my property taxes would literally double (from about 10K a year to 20K) and I've only lived here (Cupertino, right next to Apple HQ) for eight years.

My neighbor, who has been in the house for 35 years, would go from 1K a year to 20K a year.

Because of Prop 13, I'm highly unmotivated to sell.
Thanks! I was thinking of starting practising with tools like typing.com every day, slowly upping practice time and taking weekly tests to gauge progress.

Then, once able to type regular sentences without banging my head on the desk, switch to touch type for short tasks, then side projects and then non-urgent work stuff.

Might track this and see how long it takes me to get comfortable with it.
"Cry into this jar and write your name on it."

"I've printed a copy of my bill with the test lab fees in case you have trouble getting welled up"
Exactly, and if you feel there's isn't a safe place to discuss social responsibility regarding PCI and HIPAA, you can check out

http://www.reddit.com/r/hipaa (250+ redditors)

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcicompliance (250+ redditors)

As well as ##CompSec in irc.freenode.org
Almost 10%, for myself and a child.
It's really important in management. You can draw a line between the great and the bad managers based on emotional intelligence. It's not even about being a decent boss who cares about your people as humans, although I'm a big proponent of that too. Emotional intelligence is the "thing" that enables a manager to step back and consider why an idea that isn't his or her own might be the best path forward. In other words, empathy means allowing the people you've developed to impress you with what they know, rather than making them conform to your own ideas as a survival mechanism. If you go the latter, you better be brilliant, but even then the good people will leave you.
Lest anyone think this is a Hajj-only phenomenon, Wikipedia has a nicely sourced List of Human Crushes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_crushes
Which meshes with my own confirmation bias: It's mostly about the way people feel about things. Such experiences often don't offer any kind of concrete insight on their own. Instead, they put the person in a frame of mind where they are more open to new ways of looking at things. (Personal experience: I've tried psychedelics myself.)
Note : I'm not part of the "softtrends" company. Just sharing. There is sample app on another repo https://github.com/heroku-softtrends/dotnetcore.mssql.sample

Have a good day :)
To be clear: I totally believe the Palo Alto schools are good. But lots of places --- really, a whole lot of places, have fantastic public K-12 schools. In fact, as long as you're willing to settle in a suburb, pretty much every major metro area in the country does.
I'm so glad that Raymond Chen is writing all of these stories down.
It's only rational for the upper-upper-middle class and higher. Even the upper-middle class would be better served in a different community.
Even after reading the piece, I'm still struggling to understand the mechanics of it all.

Under normal conditions, when people walking in front of you stop, you stop also so you don't bump into them. Makes sense, right?

So you would think that as long as everybody obeys that simple rule of movement, this should never happen.

But having been caught in a much less serious "crush" once, I know it's not that simple.

In my case, I was at a similar event -- religious in nature, lots of people from all around the world, and mostly traveling in groups -- and although everybody was polite and non-aggressive, as groups traveled through the crowds, nobody wanted to be separated from their groups, and that caused major issues.

For instance, a lot of groups traveled while holding hands in an effort to remain together. But imagine how much more difficult it is for a bunch of worm-like people chains to travel through a crowd than it is for discrete individuals to do so.

The surge I was caught in was little more than a momentary push forward, but it was very scary to lose control over my ability to move freely.

I would hope that with most people having cell phones nowadays, which gives them the ability to more easily regroup after separation, it should be a priority in cases like this to urge people to not form chains and to devalue staying with their group if it affects the flow of traffic.
> Manually updating to the production iOS would be fine; but remotely disabling my phone without warning was not acceptable. This is why I refuse to buy an iPhone.

If you're savvy enough to manually upgrade to a beta OS (which comes with tons of warnings) you should be savvy enough to then update to the production release and get all the associated further updates. That's a really bizarre reason to refuse buying an iPhone.
That was one of the better descriptions of psychedelics and their value that I've read in a while. No new-age "woo" while still not discounting the value that can sometimes be found in them. It's been a while since I've had any similar experiences but the main thing I always took away was that these things, occasionally used, can be valuable tools for deliberately shifting your perspective. Just as (physically) looking at something from another angle doesn't always offer great insight, occasionally it gives you some new bit of info that you can integrate into your overall concept of a thing.
that is a popular saying.
The rent they are coasting on is dictated by government and NGO bureaucracy. Until universities and grant distributors stop judging researchers mainly by the amount they publish on Elsevier journals, no newer publication will become prestigious. In fact, a few years ago I was doubting newer publication would ever get as far as they did.

Besides, research publication does have hight costs. But nearly all of that cost is not beared by publishers.
If you don't mind me asking, what is it like (going back to?) working for a large company after working for yourself.
I'm in the happy Prius owner camp, too. The styling (or lack thereof) is also driven by aerodynamic efficiency:

http://motorburn.com/2014/01/12-of-the-most-aerodynamic-cars... (#5)

For people like me who consider cars a utility item, I couldn't really care much less about its outward appearance to other people.
It's 5-10 fps in Firefox Nightly for me, and 50-60 fps in Chrome Canary, on OS X.
Extensive previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12427073
I did mention that, as you can see :)
Several days, actually. But your point is fair, it's hard to judge in such a short time. But you have to go on something, right? For instance, my asking locals where one might find a trail to go run on was a source of endless amusement amongst those I asked (IOW, "no, are you kidding me?"). More so, other than working at Apple, what did SV have to offer that I couldn't find where I'm at now? And I came up empty. The area more than likely does have much to offer, but it might just be that what's on offer doesn't appeal to me.

I'm not saying, "don't move there, you'll hate it." I'm simply relaying an experience that many here might have: that being you get flown into a place you have never been or (in my case) haven't spent much time in, have an interview, then decide based on that little bit of information if you want to tear up roots and move. It's not a lot to go on, but from what I had to work with I concluded it wasn't for me. (Doesn't matter, Apple didn't extend an offer anyway.)
Lots of columns can be great. Newspapers have been doing that for centuries.
I've seen several references to Google magic. Give a quick tutorial or provide a couple examples? I know you can do things like +this or -that and other sort of basics for more precision. I'm guessing I've barely scratched the google search service. You guys are at Google Level 12 or something. :-)
As much as I'm not a fan of the forced automatic update (even on pro), I think your post is extremely mis-representative on multiple levels.
Man, I hope whoever thought of that got rewarded accordingly. What a surprising fix. Nice combination of low-tech/low-effort and creative.

I guess this sort of thing wouldn't happen today with the always-connected, always-phoning-home world we live in.
please add a mute feature, tga is annoying
This is a pretty amazing project.

That said - as someone unfamiliar with the project it took me FAR too long to work out (by reading the site) that it's not a text editor in the Sublime/Atom/etc sense and in fact a different kind of library like the TinyMCE type things.

Except better.

I think it could be much clearer from the home page what exactly Quill does (and what it does is fantastic).
You should try having that conversation face to face some time with someone who lost someone dear because of a stupid gun accident.
Actually, this is a feature of libreadline (in its default configuration). ^Y mimics the yank command from emacs. At an actual terminal input (like you can get by running `cat` with no arguments), ^Y will just echo back a literal ^Y (assuming it too is in its default configuration).
So your super power is self confidence? :-)

I'm serious. That IS useful.
Schools and commute time. If you work at Google of Facebook (or near them) PA is the only reasonable commute, and if you want your kids to go to great schools, it's the only option.
I disagree, it is valuable to be able to easily know where in relation to the day someone else is.
You had no idea that could possibly help you make some cash at some point? :-)
This is a distinction in terminology that has no effect on gameplay.
Have you ever worked with anything ... High tech?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l31I9RvluEA

I asked that once during an interview, and was met with blank stares. Haven't asked it since, but I feel like it could have been hilarious.
The one that you like better. Which one "looked a lot more stylish/sporty/refined" is not going to be the same for every person.
It'd be cool to see an internal study, at least within the engineering group, of how commit activity/issue resolution changed before and after the new structure. On an aggregate basis, at least.
Ok, now it's 23. It's 23 everywhere. You still have to know in what part of the world 23 means nighttime and what part means dinner time and what part means mid morning.
I'm at 2.9G virtual 1.277g resident with about 130 tabs open (yeah, I'm a goofball but I like my tabs). It's pretty responsive on a thinkpad x220 i5-2540M @ 2.6ghz, 8G of ram and an SSD.
Cupertino does have great schools. That is more a factor of the cultural heritage of the city - it has a rich history of attracting Asians, who have instilled the schools with their drive and focus on education. The only negative people will ascribe is the high pressure to achieve at schools like Monta Vista.
Some studies have concluded that there is now more social mobility in Europe than in the US. Now I see more and more "bellwether" laws and executive actions coming from Europe first. Does this mean that the US, being at the top of the hierarchy and in charge of the world's largest empire, has now ceded innovation to the up and coming powers, much as Britain did to the United States in the 19th and 20th century?
I am amazed by the fact that I never accidentally trigger this feature.
I don't know if I misread it, but I found this article almost entirely devoid of information about this transition. This is the only trace I could find:

> Wanstrath told staff of the switch to bosses the month after his co-founder’s departure, and the software engineering department began assigning managers in the spring.

It doesn't explain how their new management structure works, or how they picked the managers, or what. Half the article is about the Github gender bias controversy, and the other half is about other companies with flat organizations.

Does anyone have any real insight about how Github's new management structure works?
Taxpayers do this already: it's called grade school and high school. The public has an interest in an educated populace.

I'm not seeing any direct correlation between the cost of an education program and the earning power of graduates from the program, so in the absence of that evidence, I couldn't say with any confidence that tying subsidies to earning power will do much at all to bring program costs down.

If I were to guess, what's more likely to happen is these programs would be canceled wholesale at low-margin institutions, leading to an effect opposite that which you describe: liberal arts programs would be available only at the institutions where graduates are more likely to obtain well-paying jobs, meaning Ivy League and other prestigious (and expensive) institutions.

Simply limiting access to federal loans across the board, rather than subsidizing STEM/MBA degrees at the expense of liberal arts, would probably do much more to incentivize the reduction of post-secondary education costs without completely ditching the notion of a liberal education.
While you are at it, maybe make it work without javascript as well? Not everyone has it enabled for untrusted web sites, especially here.
I think yes, but it's long ago that I read about it. I'll try to dig up some info on this, it's interesting and now I want to know the exact details.

I've found another reference to this(dutch):

http://www.philipsradios.nl/forum/index.php?mode=thread&id=1...
Sadly it will shutdown only the 'outer' ssh session, so if you ssh to foo, and then from foo ssh to bar, and type ~. then the client->foo session is shut down but the foo->bar session is still around.