skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the uk at least, there was a large amount of misinformation and bad knowledge about the real effects, what happens at one drink/two drinks, etc. It's also a case of- it's so horrific, that unless it happens to affect you directly, you tend to ignore it- it's too much to take in.

I think these campaigns were incredibly effective at reminding everyone that zero-tolerance is the only safe option, and that the results are catastrophic.

Remember, it's as much about reminding normal/decent people to take their more vulnerable friend's keys away from them before they do something stupid. Peer pressure is a strong motivator not to do it again. :)
It's a tough problem. It pulls in dependencies and dependencies of dependencies. I had some difficulty replacing jQuery with CDN jQuery when it was being pulled in from a dependency, and posted an issue. I'm sure @substack will figure out a way to handle cases like this.

https://github.com/substack/node-browserify/issues/46

BTW https://github.com/substack/node-jadeify/ and https://github.com/substack/node-shimify/ are cool too, as are a lot of other libraries of his. I've got one commit to https://github.com/substack/js-traverse and am in the middle of writing a blog post about it. I've been meaning to check out https://github.com/substack/node-burrito which uses traverse.
What is an example you have? It seems that it has historic posts as long as anyone else every has followed the feed via Reader previously. Likewise, it won't display old posts in the list, but will dynamically load them as you "try" to scroll down. Perhaps one of these is what would happen for you?
And I'd consider his 3-6 months of crunch time as "never-ending". Two weeks, tops.

At my last company we spent over a year in crunch time. Never again.
I agree. But i'd like to see several magnitudes more investment in mass transit and mass transit systems before mandatory driverless cars. I think we can achieve much more if we put our minds to solving that problem (mass trans) first.
Hiring more devs is often not the answer. Setting realistic schedules is.
I think both are OK. Personally, I like whiteboards to outline solutions. A sheet of paper may serve the same purpose.

Once I decided how to solve the problem, vim comes in handy :)
As a longtime bicycle commuter and rider I have several times been on the receiving end of aggressive driving that was clearly intended to intimidate if not outright kill or injure. It is (fortunately) rare, but there are some people who do not seem to understand the responsibilities that come with the privilege of driving a motor vehicle.
IntelliJ IDEA. Because it is sooo much better than Eclipse.
For the curious, I believe this works by doing a Fourier decomposition of both images. Then the composite image is produced by taking the low-frequency components from Monroe, and high-frequency components from Einstein. This way the "details" of the image look like Einstein, but the "overall" image looks more like Monroe.
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No, because RSS readers are still stuck in the mindset of email clients. Unread counts. Keep track of read state for everything. It's better than nothing, but not much, especially for non-techies.

A better answer would be something like HN: isn't limited to certain sources, the best content floats to the top, and is in tune with the idiosyncrasies that set you apart from mainstream nonsense. [1]

[1] Oh look, I built just that http://zite.com :)
In all of the times I've hired employees or freelancers, I've only asked them to work overtime once, and that was three weeks before Christmas when we were behind schedule, based on their own timelines.

In the end, it still caused friction, and we weren't able to keep that team on long-term.

I don't regret that we had to do that (I was working overtime too), but I also don't understand why employers treat developers like garbage. IMO, developers are gold.
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Note to all writers: The idea of an Open Digital Bookcase sounds intriguing. I don't know what one is, despite having read part of this article, but I think I'd like to know what one is.

But as far as I read, the article didn't tell me what one is, and more importantly, I found no hint or promise that the article would tell me.

As far as I read, they gave me neither, and I finally lost interest. If I had been confident that I'd be shown what an open digital bookcase is, I probably would have soldiered on, but lacking confidence I had to cut my losses.

So, please, when you write something long, give me some idea of the payoff, or even that there will be a payoff.

Thank you.

EDIT: style.
I think that Nokia's problem was they tried to redesign their software stack 3-4 times, never waiting long enough to get a mature enough product with real feedback before ripping things up and starting again. The worst case was the latest switch to WP7, especially after looking at the first (and maybe last) Meego phone release. It's like trying to build a house, getting the framing and walls up and right after you paint it you decide to go to a completely different foundation.
That's pretty easy for some alpha male security analyst to say. Setting clear goals and boundaries requires discipline on the part of both developers and managers. It's not slacking off or lack of commitment unless you're hiring unmotivated hacks and leftovers. But even then, maybe you're overpaying for low quality and could hire more for less. Either way overtime is mostly avoidable. Sure, sometimes the deadline takes on a life of it's own and you need to set your foot down and say "we promised, so we will deliver. Let's do a post-mortem to ensure it doesn't happen again, but right now we need to ship".
For those of us that haven't used IntelliJ, but have used Eclipse, could you explain further how it's better?

I really don't have any issues with Eclipse, as long as I'm using a fast PC with a lot of RAM (SSD helps as well).
I am saying in android case. The command-line tools for android not in general. Have you developed android command line ?
Where's the "Yes, but I never actually use the interface, only third party apps like Reeder on iOS" ?
When you're mailing something that needs more than one stamp, you still have to know the current value of that Forever Stamp.

That being said, the reason you can't just print postage online for anything but Priority/Express seems to be a really bad deal the USPS made with PitneyBowes.
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Even if it can't carry cargo one day, it could still be outfitted with a tiny camera, some sort of radio, and maybe a little onboard storage. Paint it like a bird, and boom — a sneaky surveillance system.

[Somebody's already said this, huh?]
1. "Ok references" aren't great, and years of experience don't mean much. It's possible that your software is too complex, but if that's the case I'd recommend letting contractors in relatively easily. Give them something isolated and well-defined as a goal, and as they work on it, they'll get familiar with the codebase and be able to work on something larger scale.

2. In this circumstance, I think you absolutely have the right to give a bad reference, although given the short-term nature of your relationship I'm not sure what would come of it. Taking an advance and not doing any work is almost certainly a breach of contract. While it might not be worth your time to pursue this in small-claims court if the amount is relatively small, telling as many folks as you can about what happened is certainly a reasonable avenue available to you.

3. I may be interested, but I know nothing about what you're doing. Shoot me an e-mail if you'd like to talk.
What difference are you supposing that would make?
No / Yes. I use Reeder daily on the Mac and iPad. I can't stand going to Reader, the UI sucked so bad for so long. Reederapp was a huuuuge win.
I assume the chromebooks support html5 video, which youtube also supports. Apple was able to have iPhones still work with youtube without supporting flash, so Google could have found a similar workaround even without including html5 video tags.
Old news.. You could get this done on Freelancer.com since the beginning..
I'm sure you could even go cheaper than $10 these days..
http://twitter.com/#!/freelancer/status/58323985988984832
Same for me. I guess that just means I don't need glasses that badly. They still help prevent eyestrain though.
They'll have to point their MX records at you if you run your own in and out servers, or at Google Apps or Fastmail or similar if you outsource.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record

Buy yourself a play domain, get a new gmail account, and set things up so that you appear to be your play domain while you use gmail. Then decide.

If you don't outsource, you probably don't need a server on each VM, but I suppose that depends in part on your contracts. But think about it, I use my own domain at gmail and Google doesn't maintain a mail server just for me.
I use it indirectly to sync NetNewsWire on my Mac, iPhone and iPad. I don't use the app itself though.
This is definitely among my favorite tools, alongside substacks dnode and es5 shim it's even better. :)
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…and then after you get one of those "hot-shots" testing your product, create an artificial scarcity by doling out beta invitations slowly. [Of course, this will only work if you set up some kind of website with pretty / cool-looking screenshots.]
Here is the arxiv preprint: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1102/1102.3931v2.pdf Some background on the 'naming game' convention from whence the binary agreement model originates is available in this paper: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1009/1009.4798v2.pdf

It might be worth noting the Xie et al.'s observation is specifically about the relationship between a the fraction Pc of a given population which is committed to a particular state and the time required for that state to propogate through a complete graph. The significance of the tipping point is that in a binary agreement model you simply don't get liftoff below Pc of 0.098, whereas above that threshold the overage makes (relatively) little difference.
Looks like a good list. How about also asking if the businesses know the ROI or at least costs of providing customer support the way they do it now? That way, you might get more insight into whether they think of this as a problem area and what would attract them.
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According to foreign media reports, recently a expert of market research firm called Isuppli disassemble the HP Tablet PC - touchpad found that this currently sells for $ 599, 32GB Tablet PC, raw materials cost about $ 318, plus the $ 10 manufacturing cost, the total cost is about $ 328.
Good work there! Just wanted to point out that if you cycle through the feeds quickly on Chrome, the memory footprint keeps increasing and drags the system. Worked fine on IE though.
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Yes... although I should probably moderate my rss habits with a little more discipline
How do you pronounce that? corganize? queue-are-ganize? kwarganize?
Still, a large number of people breaking a law is a good sign that there is a problem with the law.
I'm pretty sure they are suing them, but it still means they won't see the money for 3-10 years.
The term is 'disruptive innovation'. It's an often misunderstood concept - the key point is that not all innovation is disruptive. The defining feature of disruptive innovations is that they are initially worse than the technology they displace, but as they are significantly cheaper they allow the tech to reach new markets. Since the iPhone was a high-end product, it can't be called disruptive.
Not much to show, sadly, since it's not ready. :(

The feature I'd really like to see in something like this--for QR or NFC, etc.--is for the app to know when you scanned a code and when you took a photo.

For example, I take a picture of poster, then scanned the QR code at the bottom. The app would recognize the two actions as being connected and associate the QR with the photo. That way I can search back over codes using visual reminders of what I was looking at. Add in location and I'd really appreciate the whole thing.
"But [Bing] has more value to a buyer that could bring it traffic."

If Microsoft can't bring it traffic... who can? Whatever other company you cite, can its putative advantage compete with owning the default browser? (Wikipedia still has IE in the lead [1], though an ever-thinner one.) Even mighty Facebook can't really compete with that sort of advantage.

Honest question, interested in the answers.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Actually, getting the code from the server (and caching it) and storing data locally is already a solved problem. Take a look at IndexedDB, which is already supported by Firefox 4.

The idea here is to think of apps as being built on web technologies but don't think of them as being delivered like and acting entirely like today's most common webapps.

Beyond B2G, Mozilla is exploring what it means to be a "web technology-based app" and interesting things are already coming of the project and even more interesting things are yet to come.

https://apps.mozillalabs.com/
Yeah, game programmers have it tough. I hear you're treated just like a male porn star, they use you all up until you burn out and then toss you in the trash as another young stud walks in the door willing to accept lower wages and willing to burn himself out just the same. Some luckier ones make it into management though. Others just stay away and either make indie games or program something else entirely.
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What if I asked you: "Did I make a mistake using cream cheese?"

How the heck are you going to answer me? What's the context?

I think you couldn't give us less information if you tried. You need to explain the problem you are trying to solve, the solution you came up with. We need to see data model, example queries.

Also, this isn't a help forum. Ask in the CouchDB group, or on stack overflow.

For what it's worth, I'm going to guess that the problem is with how you wrote it.
I've added a video demonstration if anyone is interested:

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I don't have the deisre to support a Canadian company simply because they're Canadian, but I'm with you on the rest of it. When I heard RIM bought QNX I was ready for a game changer from them, but alas... too little too late. Perhaps it never could have worked; maybe Google with buy the QNX part of RIM and do something with it with respect to Android. I'd like to see it shine someday.
You're going to need to provide some evidence for those assertions. "Nearly every" is a lot? I can't think of any controversial brand names off-hand.
Isn't there research to the effect that making employees work more than 40 hours per week ultimately lowers productivity?
HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2125742
Fwiw: JSTOR is non-profit, not commercial.
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yes, and also Reeder for OSX and iOS. keeps all devices in sync. i wish i found a similar setup for podcasts. i've been trying to use itunes but that is a disaster when you use multiple computers.
The second one there is most accurate :) QR is all caps so pronounce that as you would an acronym, then ganize.
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I've been using Galileo. Is there a reason to upgrade Eclipse? I haven't had any problems so far. I only use Eclipse for writing Android apps and don't really see a point in upgrading unless there is something special I'm missing.
Have you tested them?

How about finding them from Weekend Camps?
Filing a bug for Apple is worth the effort even if they mark it as duplicate. Duplicate reports count as "votes", the more people file the same bug the higher priority it enjoys. Apple employees mention this regularly on the Apple Developer Forums and encourage everyone to file bugs.
The gaming industry ended up being invaded by the media industry, which is notorious for chewing up people and spitting them out. Luckily digital distribution is putting all the bargaining chips back in to the hands of the content creators instead of the content distributors, and hopefully a lot of the absurd conditions will die away.
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If Microsoft can't bring it traffic... who can?

Facebook. Even though IE is still in the lead (for now), everyone "googles" and "facebooks" their way through the internet. No one "microsofts" anything.
I do all my Android dev in VIM, and I use ant on the command line for building... what do you find horrible about the command line build? I just use 'ant debug' for debug builds, and 'ant release' for release builds - and 'adb install -r' to install the package once it is built. Usually, it ends up being a couple of up arrows, and enter, on the command line to build / deploy.
ooh its like one of those 3D posters. if you stare at it long enough and make your eyes blurry Marilyn emerges.
That's a really interesting idea there. Don't worry it'll be ready, looking for feedback, thanks for your comment.
I think you catched a glitch for some specific blog, I just subscribed to an interesting blog and can go back many years ago.
From one of my friends who worked at RIM on a co-op job less than a year ago: "I definitely saw a lot of redundant jobs and am not surprised they're cutting this many".

They were hiring anyone and everyone they could for a while there, so I think this is a good move. Keep the best employees are double down on them.
Patents are precisely government-granted monopolies. That's the working definition of a patent. Does this come as some sort of surprise to anyone?
So google has more than 90% RSS reader market share?

That seems surprisingly high to me.
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Not to take this off-topic, but I never understood how an image can be converted into a Fourier series. It always made sense for waves, but images?
I don't see why dev's don't ask for more money during crunchtime. I mean, if the studio's dependent on you to finish their $millions budgeted game, then it seems like you should have quite a lot of leverage over the company, since hiring someone else to finish the game would only make it take longer.
The availability of the Kindle app was a big factor in my decision to spend $500 on an iPad. If this goes away I'll be much less likely to upgrade later.
Travelling through a lot of airports in China I often see the "free wifi" stickers inviting you to connect. Upon connecting to the wifi, a gateway page asks you to go the customer service counter where they take a copy of your passport before issuing you a user/pass for internet access. All I want to do is browse HN or blogs to pass the time but knowing they have tied my browsing to my passport makes me feel incredibly paranoid about it. If i go to the wrong blog, will they stop me at immigration on my next trip?
If you're looking for a good Android client for Google Reader, I'd recommend Reader HD (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ageofmobile.reader), which is vastly superior to the official app.
I'd say that's true.

What's the difference between the scenario you described and forgetting to pick up a basket by the door then using your pockets to hold what you intend to buy?

There's a reason why security normally waits until the person leaves the store to nab them.
Hackernews is a biaised sample.
there are plenty of other providers available, most of them have api clients in several scripting languages available (php, ruby)

e.g. http://deathbycaptcha.com
I have preconceived ideas but I am not a security specialist by profession and hence the question. Perhaps you can explain instead of a downvote?
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"A sale would be a boon for Microsoft’s investors. . . the unit would be worth about $11 billion."

So a boon to investors is a short-term sale that's the equivalent of 4.6% of MSFT's market cap (235b)?

And in exchange surrender an asset that's fundamental to their mobile strategy (with NOKIA blowing in the wind towards MSFT) and strategic in distracting Google from eating their primary lunch?

I am a proponent of FOCUS but this article seems shortsighted.
I remember reading a forum post (maybe on HN), where someone from China made the comment that in the US the propaganda is so much more subtle than it is in China.
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"Facebook, or even Apple, might make a better home for Bing. "

At this point, the article stopped making sense. Yes, bing is draining money, but why on earth would Facebook want to buy something they already have a pretty good partnership with? There are other investments that make way more strategic sense for both Facebook and Apple.

" Apple might even be interested, given its growing online ambitions, evidenced by its consideration of a bid for Hulu. "

Apple wants to buy a company that streams TV (which ties in pretty well with their hardware strategy), therefore they want to get into everything web? Again, I don't see the logic here....

(Disclaimer: MSFT Employee)
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Google is cornered and is taking the appropriate stance. They did not get the patents from the Nortel sale and Apple is already successful in putting pressure on HTC and perhaps other Android manufacturers in the near future. If the situation was different, Google was successful, and released Android before the original iPhone, they would be the one holding the patents to fight off competition.

Unfortunately for them, they are late to the party and unwilling to invest enough in mobile intellectual property. They clearly are not only playing and supporting the game but also complaining about the rules.
There are quite a few people who aren't so tech-savvy that unknowingly use Bing because it's the default in IE. I'm guessing they're the majority of that 27%.
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I am also a big fan of Fever. I actually use the Sparks feature a lot. It has completely changed how I use RSS, from attempting to read all my feeds to just reading what is "hot." The key is finding RSS feeds of sites that are link aggregators on topics of interest to you. The Hacker News RSS feed is actually a classic example of a great site to add as a spark in Fever.
Trouble is Facebook doesn't have $11B. Would be interesting to see Facebook paired with a decent search technology, though. With Google+ on the horizon, it can't be far from their minds.
I use Firefox live bookmarks.
I tried many feed readers but I never find them as convenient. I must be broken.
If you find yourself newly in need of glasses while going through the social crucible that is high school, consider jumping straight to contact lenses. Might not be for everyone, but it's something that I wish I'd done.
yeah we use this too, can't believe the amount of stuff they let you do for free. You can even generate video showing your site verses your competitors loading at 0.5 fps.
Needs more blink tags and have it play music at maximum volume you can't turn off.
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VIM not vi. You insensitive clod. Using pure vi as IDE is close to suicidal.
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fascinating. i can't find any subject that includes both red and blue. and the most consistent seems to be "truce" (white).

most varied seems to be 4 colours - death, happiness, intelligence (all muted!), love, respect, wisdom. perhaps those are simply the most popular/general/global concepts and so have more entries?