skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer having multiple monitors. The bezel is not an issue for me. I like the ability to compartmentalize in different monitors for different tasks. But I have used a primary (larger) monitor as my main monitor and a side monitor for accessories. The dynamics may be different with two equal size monitors.
The basic Chinese Landlord principle is this:
The best tenant is one who sends a check every month and never calls.

That's a pretty good principle. But speaking as a non-Chinese landlord, I doubt you'll find a landlord of any ethnicity who disagrees with this principle. I'm all for catchy names, but this is really the Landlord Principle.
Google drops another turd in the punchbowl
> HN so badly needs a simple messaging system.

I certainly don't feel that way. I have enough things clamoring for my attention right now; I don't need another. (And I imagine I'm not alone in this.)

So, HN can get a messaging system, I suppose, but it would need to be opt-in.
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..Really? There's a reason they are and have been trying to move away from this script kiddie style of programming..
To be fair with the analogy, McDonalds did not invent fast food. Drive ins and walk up fast food burger joints were everywhere before McDonalds started.

McDonalds just took efficiency to a whole new level. It used processes that pushed modern cooking equipment to its limits and invented a few new tools to fill the gaps. One store could serve and reach so many more customers every day for so much less than the competition. Combine that with repeatable best practices and an expansionist vision and you've got an empire.

By the same analogy, Zynga took that same social game model and jacked up conversion rates to the max. It pushed social networks to the limits and invented new tools to fill the gaps. It got more money from each user and had more users than anyone else. It took this formula and repeated it again and again with an expansionist vision.

Mob wars, farm town, etc looked the part, but the way those businesses operate isn't in the same league. Talk about physical presence, Zynga has multi-millions of users in 100% Zynga owned virtual real estate every day. All it needs to do is mention a new game to its millions of users and that game has an instant million user base. For a no-name competitor to do the same would require millions in marketing or a miracle.
I would probably choose the 27"
I currently use 2x24" and the bezels get incredibly annoying when moving things from one screen to another (which I do often).
If you want POTS, you get a telephony card from Digium. If all you want is VOIP, then you can use your box as-is.

Might be outdated, but you TFoT2 is free:

http://astbook.asteriskdocs.org/
The Ten Commandments for journalists (or are they?)
Why would a ruler marked in binary not need to be as precise as a ruler marked in decimal? Changing the base of the numbers does little to affect how one attaches it to the wall.
Well, it's solar panels look like bug wings, its stereo cameras certainly resemble two eyes, and it has arms on the front... of course it's going to be anthropomorphized.

Being that the rovers are both nice looking pieces of machinery and popular, I'm surprised they don't make more & better toys and models of them. I'd have a few sitting on my desk, if I could find any decent ones.
Isn't idea guy actually domain expert which understand certain problem in a area like nobody else? She or he could be a medial doctor, maybe veterinarian, maybe small business owner, maybe cook, etc.
Idea guy does not necessary need to be business guy which means that idea guy might be also a geek - and matching two geeks from different field is a big challenge.
A large part of the reason Firefox chose to keep them separate is for privacy. Everything you type into the search bar is sent to Google--even before you hit enter--for autocomplete purposes. The Firefox team felt that many privacy-conscious users trusted that the URL bar doesn't send info until they hit enter.
How close are the two rovers? A great follow up to the Google Lunar Challenge would be some sort of Mars Rover Challenge. Must make contact with Spirit then drive on to Viking, or some other human lander.
New EU rules on data privacy, security, and spam go into effect tomorrow
Silly geeks. A whole scientific study is completely unnecessary. You could have arrived at the same answer simply by asking any woman.
Yeah, but how long can they really keep that up? You can shuffle people from Sim-farm to Sim-town to Sim-restaurant to Sim-space-station to Sim-mafia to Sim-factory-that-makes-little-models-of-factories but someday they're gonna stop paying attention. Games come and go, game genres come and go on a somewhat longer but still finite timescale.
I'm excited for the Juno mission, launching in three months. In my opinion, it's the best-looking space probe that mankind has ever built. But it'll never be anthropomorphised.
And Yet They Complain
(Some NSFW language) http://www.theonion.com/articles/mars-rover-beginning-to-hat...
Speaking as a landlord's son (who has had to clean places post-move-out) and live-in landlord, "the best tenant" as described leaves for some really weird edge cases...
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My experiences with Newegg lead me to believe their security policies are severely lacking and have been for years. Many years ago I sent them an email asking whether they offered any type of affiliate program. At the time they didn't ... but instead they sent me a login providing access to many of their back-end systems. More recently, my credit card number was compromised and I've narrowed the leak down to Newegg with almost complete certainty. It's not a site I trust with protecting my information based on those experiences.
We use Python server-side and the Python implementation of Google protocol buffers is extremely slow.
Roughly on opposite sides of the planet. If you've got a rover that can drive halfway around Mars, there's a lot more interesting things to look at than that, I'm sure.
Malware is so rare on the Mac that Apple set up an entire web page to deal with the one trojan currently known to be impacting Mac users.

Macs aren't more secure than Windows machines, but they're still undeniably safer (at least for normal people).
I use SimpleWorker for some background jobs in our Rails apps, I like the service! It's totally the only service with a really nice dashboard to see how your jobs are doing, as well as scheduling them to run. Resque is good, but I wish it had a real scheduler.
On topic, an old interview with John Scully about Steve Jobs. I believe it's been posted to HN before.

http://www.cultofmac.com/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full...
Top Colleges, Largely for the Elite
Great post. Worth bearing in mind that it is a government (more than one, in fact) that is involved, not a country.

Apparently Sarkozy now employs Orwell's ghost as a speechwriter:

- "You have a tremendous responsibility that weighs upon you, ... The responsibility has to be shared between you and us."

- "behind the anonymous Internet user there is a real citizen ... and a nation to which he or she belongs"

It defies parody.
While I'm sure they're doing the right thing here, this is a little sad to me on a personal note. At the end of my ninth grade winter break (January, 2004) I spent all day following every bit of info I could find about Spirit's landing. The next day, back at school, I joined the school robotics club where I eventually learned C, began using Linux and decided to pursue Computer Science.
One of the things that a lot of the idealistic internet people tend to forget is that governments operate in ways that are outside the ability of normal companies. It is doable from a governmental level to simply nationalize and take over its country's Inter-network. Quite disruptive and would be fairly ham-handed, I'm sure, but it is possible.

If the internet is to remain free, spokespeople will have to come forth and present cogent arguments that demonstrate how it is both (1) in the interests of the populace, corporations, and governmental elites and (2), for the aforementioned to encounter negative impacts for the Internet not to remain free. For individuals (e.g., Cory Doctorow) to simply abstain from this discussion is not going to work.

I appreciate the blathering about New Democracy! Disruption! Social Media Revolutions!, but those are not realpolitik, and, today, we need - all of us need - realpolitikers who are committed to a free internet.
> 'Anonymously' put up a bunch of papers around your apartment complex to direct residents' attention to those terms in the lease contract.

Kind of hard, when they have security cameras.
The naughtiness stuff works on HN despite this, probably since you can't downvote articles and an article eventually getting flagged into deep space doesn't negate the upvotes it received beforehand. The system relies on humans not rewarding intensely but shallowly interesting articles, but perversely these remain a quick route to points.

Nb. I think that recent discussions have put a moderate damper on this, and perhaps the newer ranking algo (in which flagging has greater weight I think?) has played a part, but the problem remains.
I like it too obviously. I randomly met the guys last week and learned about it, it was very simple to take my script and just make it work. In general I see the Ruby/Rails community as being very receptive to services like this (and ours).
Don't see a mention of Pwdhash in the comments. That Firfox/Chrome extension would have protected you. https://www.pwdhash.com/
I'm sorry, but I have to agree with Eliezer; I've known the details behind a half dozen stories or so personally, and in almost every case in the MSM there have been factual errors reported as truth.

One time is an anecdote; two times starts to be compelling. 6/6 times has a reasonable level of statistical significance.

FWIW, I'm somewhat convinced that a majority of computer programmers would fall under the general umbrella of "bumbling," though I don't think I'd use that term. "Marginally competent" might fit the bill better.
If you're implying that Newegg or any public-facing authentication system could be implemented with a non-exposed password vault, then I don't see how.

If user passwords are encrypted with symmetric encryption, either the application must have access to the key in order to compare your provided password to the password stored in the DB, or the DB has to have a stored procedure with access to the key.

Therefore it's not -only- customer support that has access, but anyone who hacks the production system also gains access to the key. Of course there are ways to obscure that if it's kept in memory and required as input before the server starts up, but theoretically it's available to anyone who compromises the relevant server.

(And even if there were a system that were implemented as you describe, with access allowed only when a support staffer and a supervisor provides an asymmetric key each, who supervises the supervisors?)

(edit: The offered suggestions show that I wasn't considering non-symmetric or non-software approaches; in any case, at best those seem like complicated band-aids for a situation that should not exist.)
If literally the only thing distinguishing your product from one of the most identifiable brands in the world is a subtly changed brand logo, you have a legal problem.
Fantastic link, thanks! I'm amazed that money invested in 1928 was negative in real dollars if withdrawn in 2011. It's also interesting how devastating inflation can be -- notice how the great depression and the dot com bubble look mild compared to stagflation in the 1970s.
Furthermore it's undoable in general. Equivalence of lambda terms being undecideable and so on.

Point being, at some point functions become sufficiently different that it's hard to tell. What if you write one md5 function in Erlang, another in whatever that Ruby syntax for Erlang is called. I'm sure the Erlang they both generate, or bytecode, or what-have-you (I don't know how BEAM or HIPE work on the inside) are very different, to the point that checking that they are truly equivalent is going to be near-impossible, even for a very strictly defined program like MD5.
True, but on the other hand, with US-dollar interest rates being what they are at the moment, the alternative to keeping your money in shares (or a similar volatile liquid investment) is keeping it your savings account at 1% or less. I keep a few grand in cash, but everything else goes in the sharemarket.
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I'm starting to move more and more away from this point of view. I can see much of the merit in it - but have come to think that drawing some kind of uncrossable line at the browser level that demands uniformity is ultimately arbitrary.

Why shouldn't browser vendors innovate at the cutting edge? Why shouldn't application developers have to make a choice between platforms just like they have to at any other layer of the big grand tree of tech?

I know it wouldn't be popular among folks who want to build enormous websites that centralise distribution of media etc... and mega-corporations that rely on such mass distribution... but I'm all for a kind of severe nominalisation of the web where technologies are allowed to freely develop to serve smaller and highly targeted niches.

I can understand the desire to have one platform that works for everything... If there was just one smartphone platform in existence at any one time that'd be great too from that point of view. Reaching the masses would then be a snap!

But I guess I've never really understood the argument for this rigorous standardisation of the web platform. At least, I've never understood what people think is special about the web such that this standardisation is an absolute must - beyond the view that people are too lazy to use multiple browsers. It's ironic because no one believes that there should be one single smartphone platform - yet it's a hell of a lot harder for people to switch platforms if there is an app on one that they particularly want to use. It takes 30 seconds to install a new browser - a couple of seconds to launch - if you need to switch.

What am I not getting here?
Based on the source, it's kind of clever. Each "cow" and "haystack" are a pair of radio buttons, so clicking on the cow toggles the select state for both simultaneously. This combines with some fancy CSS animation to make the cows fly around so they're harder to click.
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Sorry, poor choice of words. By random I mean someone whose opinion is informed only by their impression of the care received, which was specific to them.

Sites like www.ratemds.com are encouraging patients to review their doctors like they would review a restaurant or hair salon on Yelp. A collection of customer reviews of a restaurant can be very useful in two ways. First, the main point of a going to a restaurant is the customer experience, which is more or less the same for everyone. If a lot of people are leaving a restaurant happy enough to write a favorable review on yelp, that's pretty a good indicator that you may enjoy the experience as well. Furthermore, many customers are well-qualified to critique the details of the service. The food, environment, atmosphere, busy times, and various other features can be described. For something like a hotel or a hair salon, those feature descriptions will probably be more important. You can look for mismatches between what's advertised and what the customers are saying

Doctors are different from restaurants in a critical way. The point of going to a doctor isn't to feel good about the experience (although hopefully you will) the point of going to a doctor is to get good, personalized, medical care. Ratemds draws focus to the incidental features which are useful but not especially critical (staff, punctuality) and on very vague evaluations of the doctors ("helpfulness" and "knowledgeable"). For the most part, the patients don't do an especially good job of rating the actual medical care.

In terms of surveying patients, all I really want to know is how many are dramatically unsatisfied. Occasionally I hear major complaints about caregivers from multiple people (extremely rude, very painful, etc.). That's about the extent to which I trust the average patient to inform my decision about what doctor is right for me, although I will admit standard Dental care (cleanings, fillings) is more reviewable than internal medicine.
I still don't get how the counter is incremented.
so does Safari books online.
in fact they emailed it to me.. in plain text.
The point wasn't about your stats. The point was that you chose a "garbage" title, designed more to get clicks than to enlighten and guide potential readers.

Don't worry about the faux pas, though-- you're still new here. Next time, though, you might try belonging to a community for longer than 15 minutes, before rejecting feedback out-of-hand.
"...and we do everything possible to avoid calling, including changing our own light bulbs and other such tasks."

Wait, people call their landlords to change their light bulbs?
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Highlight.js does support Perl, does mark up q{...} as strings and has no problem with quoting in Lisp. I'm not sure about Haskell thing you mention because Haskell is a new contribution. But I'm sure it's fixable if it doesn't do the right thing.

You're probably talking about a hoard of simplistic regexp parsers. Highlight.js is not one of them, it's a proper context-aware parser.
I've always thought that systems were inherently evil. By goerdel's theorem, you won't be able to exhaustive list enough rules to make the system perfect. Therefore, we always must rely on individuals making human moral judgements. (This is a way simplified personal philosophy that I've never seen anyone articulate well. Maybe I'll have to write a treatise on of someday.)
I wouldn't say that non-attendance of a geopolitical summit means Doctorow is abstaining from the public debate. Part of the responsibility of people who care about the internet as a platform for free speech is to avoid unduly privileging the preferred broadcast channels of governing elites.
It's good to see something that is advertised as 'only CSS' or 'pure CSS' that is actually pure CSS and doesn't have any javascript.
I believe the only thing that survived each remake is probably the strippers.
I assume he meant known, yet undetermined, expenses, which is sensible. For instance, you know that your house and car are going to need repairs eventually, so it makes sense to have some money set aside for those rather than dipping into your "emergency fund" -- otherwise what happens if a real emergency occurs before you finish paying it off?

Once you have enough money in your savings, though, I think you can stop thinking in these terms.
> Don't see a mention of Pwdhash in the comments. That Firfox/Chrome extension would have protected you.

Your statement is misleading. That website is essentially creating a hashed password of the original password. But the target website will still consider it your password in which case it will not protect you once the 'password' to the website is known which the author is talking about.

To put it another way, if your password is 'abc' and hashed it becomes: 'ABCDEFG'. The website stores it plaintext as 'ABCDEFG' to which a hacker has it. Then if anyone later accesses the website, they would be able to just type in 'ABCDEFG'.

Pwdhash is just another form of a password manager.
I get you, but politely disagree. I would prefer an amazing game fourteen years late to any number of mediocre games in the interim. There's been no shortage of lackluster games that could have filled the void for me as a gamer.
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There should be an open way for patients to give public feedback. HIPAA makes it impossible for a Doctor to defend herself from a BS review.

For EXAMPLE:

Patient X: This Doctor is terrible, I had a broken leg and he told me to get the hell out of the hospital and walk it off.

Doctor Y: This Patient has been to the ER 30 times over the past 2 months, every time he asks for narcotics for broken bones that NEVER show up on X-rays.

Patient X's Lawyer: You are now being sued for a HIPAA violation.
I normally run Chrome. Out of curiosity, I opened it in Firefox 4. It renders more prettily in FF4, the triangles are more tightly bound together and without the odd jerkiness that I saw in Chrome.
The Tragedy Of Checked Exceptions
Gnome 3 sounds yucky. Here's a much more meat and potatoes review which is more precise in what they like and don't: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2011/04/ars-revie...
If you'd like to know the answer to this question I suggest reading a statistics textbook. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised to hear that we can not only answer your question but put nice precise error bars on all our answers.
> For individuals (e.g., Cory Doctorow) to simply abstain from this discussion is not going to work.

Doctorow isn't abstaining from the discussion. Far from it; he's been an early and regular reporter and popularizer of important events and arguments related to freedom and the internet. As I understand it, he didn't want to lend credibility to this particular forum by attending it.
Skype are probably just dropping support for the Asterisk specific plugin. They still have the standards based Skype for SIP (http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/skype-connect/), which Asterisk should also be able to support via its own SIP support.
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I'd refrain from reading too much into the precise word choice in the English translations of speeches presumably made en Francais.
My apology for not being clear. The five points are summary of what you said and I hope there is no confusion.

Right after the five points, I object to your "surgical arguments" which is along the line of "Jpeg is not too bad, and even if it is bad, there are ways to fix them". The truth is that Jpeg is actually a very poor format. Image artifact is very poor at low quality, and compression is very poor at high quality. While I don't know for sure whether WebP is really that much better at high quality (my limited experience showed that it is), I disagree with your arguments that there is "nothing wrong or unfixable about Jpeg". Our eyes are accustomed to poor web Jpeg quality but I think if something better comes along people will see it.

Also, given Opera and Chrome already support WebP, if Mozilla throws its weight behind it, I think Safari and IE will oblige in short order. The browser landscape is very different from the days of early PNG, and adoption will be quick. Just look at how quickly Microsoft transforms into the "#1" advocate of HTML5.
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I thought the same thing at first, sadly.
They have an odd definition of "elite" (top 1/4)... That's what, household income in the ~$100k range for a family that has college-aged kids? That's pretty much every household with at least one parent with a professional job (especially on the east coast, where I'd imagine most people at Georgetown are from).
The article mentioned that the patient wasn't allowed to take the form out of the office.
Anyone keen on a longbet that SpaceX still beats them there?