skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But don't they realize that then this gets baked-in in people's expectations. I.e. when they say 5% people know to adjust accordingly and think, oh 10%, and so on.

Short term this might work, but long-term (year or more) it becomes useless.
Sony is evil.

They put rootkits on CDs. They sued a kid (GeoHot) that tinkered around with his private PS3. Most likely, they are one of the originators of ACTA.

I hope they loose more money. Much more.
If you poke around the newly redesigned http://html5rocks.com/, this is pretty much exactly where they're going with it. Thick rich HTML5 app, cached in the client, and passing data back and forth between the server.
Don't you still have to render server side for crawlers and screen readers (accessibility)?
No, they didn't. Pop the inspector's network panel open and watch what happens on Twitter. All the content comes down as JSON.
The circumstances do matter here. First, electric cars are novel which means the market is susceptible to FUD, and manufacturers like Tesla have to be sensitive to their customer's fears even if those fears are overblown. Secondly, I don't know of any conventionally powered car that can be permanently ruined simply by parking it in a garage for a month, unless that garage is on fire or underwater. For every other vehicle on the road, a reasonable person would say that leaving it parked in a garage is taking good care of it. It's up to Tesla to overcome the cognitive dissonance that comes from the idea that simply parking your car for a long time without plugging it in can actually destroy it.
Part of the reason why hospital software is bad is because of the intense politics involved, complete with fiefdoms and sales reps with shiny toys.

A friend of mine used to be in Quality management at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, here are two (of many) stories

The hospital patient management process is somewhat paralysed because every department has its own custom system for managing patients. He was involved in trying to get a hospital-wide system in, but the CEO was more interested in "making her mark" than managing the hospital, which would require forcing the point with the department heads. So quite frequently patients moving between departments would not have their receiving department ready or even aware of their arrival. Generally the issue was that either department heads liked the shiny toys brought by sales rep -foo- (doctors get a lot through sales rep gifts) and didn't want to change because they'd stop getting them; or that the doctor was stonewalling because they didn't want to learn a new system. Classic case of everyone saying "something must be done... by someone else!". The kicker is that no matter how persuasive your argument might be, the doc would have the last word with "children will die if I can't use this software" and the argument would end.

The other story is much shorter: at one bigwig's meeting, one of the senior specialists - a 27-year veteran - shot down a new doctor's comments saying that he wasn't familiar with how things work here. The new doctor's reply? "I've been here 17 years..."

I've had a microcosm of this experience as well. While installing monitoring gear for one of the departments, the department chief went ballistic because the new computers had power cables that were touching the desk: "It's written into the quote that the power cables will not touch the desk!". Nonsense, of course, but it's how she gets things to her liking - she was the poster girl for post-contract feature changes. I would have called her on it to try and forestall the next few things that were 'in the contract', but my company was spineless and would never have backed me up.

I guess the short form is: a large part of the reason why software is terrible in hospitals is because not many people that have a say are actually evaluating the software properly.
There are a couple of pinball documentaries I watched recently which are probably interesting to some here: "Special When Lit" and "Tilt: The Battle To Save Pinball"

RIP Steve Kordek. Great contributions to an amazing game.
Yes, after reading Good to Great by Jim Collins (because it was recommended by another author I respect, which was, IIRC, Steve Blank), I decided to sit down and formalize some stuff about the vision / mission / values for Fogbeam Labs. The first draft that we came up with looks something like this (not to suggest that this couldn't use some more work,mind you)

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Our mission...

Build software and provide services that enable organizations to display greater “organizational intelligence;” sense, respond and react to their environment in a more agile manner, and support more adaptive and effective organizational structures.

Democratize access to advanced information processing software by participating in the development of F/OSS software which can be used freely by organizations of any size or nature.

Give back to the world by participating as an ethical member of the world-side free-software / open-source software community.

Create an organization where people dedicated to the advancement of technology will want to work, will be rewarded for doing well, and will receive nurturance, guidance, and encouragement.

Promote entrepreneurship as the best tool available for raising the standards of living for people worldwide, by sponsoring educational initiatives and supporting charitable organizations which promote: STEM ( “Science / Technology / Engineering / Math”) education and education on Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship.

Core Values

We favor...

Transparency and openness... over secrecy and information hiding … in our relationships with each other, our partners, the F/OSS community, and our local communities.

Critical thinking, logic and reason … over … superstition, blind adherence to dogma, and groupthink.

Respect for the individual and their freedom of choice … over … herd mentality, conformance for the sake of conformance, and fear of what we consider different.

Courage and the willingness to commit to our principles … over … knee-jerk reactions, conformance to peer pressure, and compromise of our fundamental values.

The long view and building for the future, while not sacrificing the present … over … short-sighted compromise of our vision and values in order to achieve a tactical objective today.

Being Good … over … Being Evil.

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As far as how long it took... when I sat down and started thinking about my values (which, because I was a solo founder at the time, meant they were the default company values) and the kind of company I am trying to build, it didn't take long to get the basics in place.

Did we publish it publicly? Yes, as part of a post to the company blog:

http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2011/06/blogging-fogbeam-custome...

We then revisited the "mission statement" stuff in our very next post:

http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2011/06/blogging-fogbeam-episode...

Honestly, I think this stuff matters. I can't prove it scientifically (and supposedly neither can Jim Collins, since some of his research has subsequently been "debunked") but I believe it very strongly.
In probably 99% of Perl code, you only need to know two cryptic symbols: $! for errno and $? for child-process exit status. And if you're programming in shell now, you're already using $?.

Yes, there are symbols for handling autoflush on handles, input/output record separators, etc. But rarely will you need to use these items. In fact, we have methods for handling these situations for quite some time now.

For instance, to unbuffer your output you'd use $|, but now you just use $filehandle->autoflush(1). Another example would be undefining the input record separator so that you could pull in an entire file with one read, but now that's handled via Slurp::slurp_file.
Not necessarily... UK VAT is 20%, and so is Corporation Tax.

Between the two, you need a lot of extra income to make up for the tax!
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It has just been fixed in master.
If you own MS Stock then you've had dividends, quarter after quarter. That "Stagnating" stock you talk of is as much a reflection of the dividends as it is anything else.

How is it that everyone forgets that Microsoft has continued to be a massively profitable enterprise for the last 10+ years, and continues to dominate in the Desktop OS and Office Productive suite space in the same time period.

Nobody even _tries_ to challenge Microsoft in those two sectors, they are so dominant. Plus, they've seen some good traction in the Game-Console environment as well.

With all that said - I actually agree with you in principle, it would be nice if someone just said "We have two versions of Microsoft Windows, Professional and Home" - and call it a day. The seven versions result lots of angst for small IT managers visiting CDW - this thread, 2 years laters, (and freehunter's _excellent_ description) is the first time I've ever really understood the difference between all the versions. (BTW Freehunter - if you aren't already in it, you've got a great future in product management - great and succinct product descriptions)
But in a class action you'd probably only get $8.
Stop spreading this misinformation. The control channels do not have unlimited bandwidth and it has been shown[1] that cell phone networks could suffer from DDOS attacks of fewer than 1000 properly-targeted messages per second. Calling them literally free is extremely disingenuous; even if the marginal cost in an existing network were zero, the total cost of the network would increase if the number of messages was significantly increased.

[1]: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~tlp/paper/JCS308.pdf
Forgive my ignorance, but why 0MQ pubsub and not redis pubsub?
Full Text: Google's Application 2 Provide Video Services in KC, MO
According to most people who follow TV closely, it's lead to a TV renaissance. Most people agree that, post-Sopranos, we've been living in a golden age of television with shows like The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Arrested Development, Community & Louie all being an order of magnitude better than what's gone before it. We're currently suffering from a glut of amazing television and if you haven't been paying attention, that's your fault, not TVs.
Getting a membership would have cost him money & hassle. Showing up at the client's place of business without permission from your company sounds like a good way to get reprimanded, maybe even fired if the company got the impression you were "going rogue" & trying to steal the contract from them.
The argument I heard is that if they publish these ridiculous values, they get to pay a much smaller amount of debt. I don't know if this is true, but many people claim this is a good reason for lying in the INDEC. (I think this is the worst reason, if true; because then this is a world-wide con)
The first problem to solve is to eradicate completely JavaScript from the entire programming world 100%.

After that, program the server and the client in Java or if on Windows, C#. GWT works this way although they compile the client code to JavaScript. If we remove JavaScript we get better performance, more deterministic behavior across platforms and totally eliminate one language we have to know making our lives easier and the browser thinner and better performing.

When someone comes out with a browser that does that we will be seeing the next killer app.
> I guess the short form is: a large part of the reason why software is terrible in hospitals is because not many people that have a say are actually evaluating the software properly

There's a special case for England's "connecting for health" $18billion nightmare.
Now Windows users can suffer along with Mac users.

"What email software do you use?"

"Mail."

"Yes, but which one?"
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear is a pretty well understood fallacy (http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/the-data-trust-blog/2009...) (which im kinda sad to see on HN).

As for patterns and keywords, your "guarantee" is pretty shallow and baseless. A reasonable time i guess to quote Niemöller:
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Plantronics GameCom 377 headphones are inexpensive and are comfortable for my big head. I'll never, ever buy anything other than open-ear headphones again.
Many of the trappings of modern day life require active measures to ensure they work properly, and this is no different.

It's different because people are familiar with all the things you mention: roofs and rain, bikes and rust. People aren't familiar with electric automobiles. Once someone buys them, sure, they'll become familiar and the vast majority won't brick them. Tesla's problem isn't the owners, it's the people thinking about becoming owners. And those people (if they've heard the story) are now fearful of bricking their cars, where they're not at all afraid of bricking the Mercedes they were considering as an alternative to the Tesla. Now they're thinking, maybe I'll wait another few years on this electric car thing. That's Tesla's problem right now. Not bricked cars, but the fear of bricked cars. And that's why they should cover this under warranty.
This may be the first time I've ever found myself disagreeing with you, patio11. I think you're taking an overly short-sighted view on this. Just the act of publishing the mission statement doesn't necessarily - in and of itself - make anyones life better. The question is, does the mission statement help your organization over the course of years or decades. Does the culture that you wind up with reflect the decisions that you made - and made concrete - very early on? Is it easier to make decisions that are in keeping with your principles if you've taken the time to articulate your principles and record them? I argue that the answer is "yes" to all of the above, which is why I believe a mission statement / values elicitation does have a purpose.

That said, it's not something I'd spend 3 weeks on, or something I'd pay $500,000 for a team of consultants to come in and assist with! It's - IMO - an exercise of a few hours of focused thinking and writing.
I didn't bother trying the return-to-libc approach since the bruteforce way worked for me. I guess your result is much cleaner though. Do you have any code online?
>"You can dired into a remote directory via ssh"

If that relies on TRAMP then I am not impressed. (TRAMP is slow and seems to stop working after a while.)
Nope. Screen readers have been able to handle javascript-generated content for years. According to WebAIM's most recent screen-reader survey, 98.4% of screen reader users have javascript enabled: http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey3/#javascript
I think you've gotten to the real point. Apps like Mail, Photos, etc. are not standalone products; they're just features of Windows.
Even "techies" click on Facebook ads. I can share my experience: how do you raise awareness for a startup conference, since obviously no one goes on Google to search for it. Facebook is great at telling you about things you may want to know, but are not currently looking for.

The reason it works for Facebook is because of the amazing (scary) imformatiom they have on their users. But it can be put to good use.
originally it was the HTTP actions

Not really. The web is a RESTful system, but there's nothing specific to HTTP in REST. It's just an architectural style, it doesn't specify nothing in concrete.
I then do what I should have simply done in the first place. I hook up the iPad to the free hotel wifi and hand it to her. She fires up the Netflix app, chooses a show, and she is happy.

No. You shouldn't have. Thanks for making the free hotel wifi choked for everyone by pulling down a long-term video. What you should have done was bring along some videos of your own.
Legally I don't need a licence but I buy one anyway.
Another funny fact is that one of the USD 8.50 combos is the "Triple Mac", which is basically a Big Mac featuring yer another slice of meat on top of the lowest one. One can build his own "Triple Mac" for arround USD 7 by buying a Big Mac and another hamburger.

Also FYI no official information about the government really regulating the Big Mac price is available... only rumors. Both the government and McDonalds deny theiy have engaged in talks regarding the Big Mac price, McDondalds alludes they are only segmenting the market to allure to cheapskates and the lower substrates of the market. I'm not defending the government here, only telling what I found out.
That's barely a defense since it just links to dropbox.com, not to an invitation as he claims. It's clearly intended to deceive.
I'd love to use it but I need 1 TB for $10. When that happens I'll be a regular user.
Deposition line of questioning suggested after reading this piece:

Q. Is it true that the battery has catastrophic failure when it drains to zero and is left in that state for a sustained period?

A. The company has built in countless safeguards to ensure that the battery never drains to zero.

Q. That is not what I asked. Please answer the question.

A. It is an unfounded rumor that many owners have incurred such a catastrophic failure and only an irrational fear would permit anyone to believe that.

Q. I didn't ask about many owners, only whether it is possible to incur a catastrophic failure as described. Please answer the question.

A. Our documentation clearly tells owners that it is vital to keep their car plugged in and we give them ever-escalating warnings to ensure that no rational person could ever let the car get close to that state.

Q. I didn't ask about the likelihood of this happening, only whether it can happen. Please answer the question.

A. We value our customers more than you can imagine and it is slanderous to suggest that we would subject them to risks that can be avoided.

Q. Again, not what I asked, please answer the question.

A. Every car has risks of catastrophic failure if it is badly misused.

Q. Does this mean the Tesla does too with its engine?

A. We will not dignify a mere rumor with an answer to that question.

Q. And is it true that it costs $40K to replace the battery?

A. I object to that as irrelevant.

Q. And that it is not covered under warranty?

A. Ditto - irrelevant.

Q. And constitutes an uninsurable risk?

A. We really are off track here. I will not answer.

Q. So you do not regard it as worthy of disclosure to your buyers that, should their battery drain to zero for any sustained period, the only remedy is to replace it at their own expense at a $40K cost.

A. That disclosure would not fit with our marketing plans. Plus we say something of the sort at page 487 of our owner's manual.

Q.Well I guess this was all pretty pointless.

A. Of course, nothing wrong here. Ignore the man behind the curtain. What a stupid thing to ask about anyway. The revolution is apace and you shouldn't bother me with little details.
"Modern" algorithms and data structures: Bloom filters and Merkle trees
Ah - I was wondering how you use 11.5GB a month on an iphone. He's probably tethering with it.
Flash Storage Long Term Faith
It just means that you will have to keep your app up to date with their dev cycle. As for free, I really doubt it. Apple will milk you, one way or the other.
Wikileaks Releases Insurance File
Jass, simple CSS diagnostics
Don't tell a lie.
What's the best way to interleave two Python lists?
http://blog.jarrodmillman.com/2010/10/whats-best-way-to-inte...

Fucking many ways to do something also in Python.
At the moment it's pretty minimal, but does what I wanted it to do (tell me the number of rules and duplicates.)

I started this to help with IE7 debugging, since IE7 and other IE browsers have rule limits. I plan to add some more features in the future, but wanted to get some feedback and ideas.
I imagine with free brick replacement, people would more easily and frequently forget to keep the battery charged.

It wouldn't really be free; the car would be out of service for some time. And Tesla could charge some kind of nominal-but-not-insignificant service fee. I doubt that the bricking rate would be sensitive to the actual dollar cost: as Tesla points out, it isn't that easy to do. Just being careless isn't sufficient, there would have to be other circumstances like a long trip away from the car where the cost of repair wouldn't have any impact.
Well nobody recorded the conversation... But what I just realized this week directly is that I can't find certain very important medications because the same minister (Moreno) stopped importation of foreign elements. So... if he stopped critical imports related to health I can only think that the big mac story is real.

Also, Mc Donalds will be harmed if they recognize it, this is the reality.
Heh. I thought about that, but I also thought, why not just tranquilize a human who believes he is about to be uploaded, then euthanize him? He'd never know the difference, so who does it hurt? And it'd be a lot cheaper. I suppose that you'd somehow have to convince people they were going to be uploaded. Maybe you say that you don't have enough computers here so all the uploaded people are running on the moon.
There are only six constraints to be considered RESTful, and those are reasonably well defined. Anything else is either not really a part of REST (such as having to use all HTTP methods, or having clean URLs) or derived from them.

In this case, sending some representation as just JSON (application/json) clearly breaks the Uniform Interface constraint, particularly the HATEOAS principle: a client is supposed to only know the base URL and the mimetypes. If he gets 'application/json' as a reply, how is he supposed to know what to do with it? It may be a user profile, or a blog post, or a description of an UI, etc, there's no way to tell.
The two-month period to reach 50% has nothing to do with the original poster's issues. He said that in unusual circumstances - driving it heavily, then not charging it for a short time - was sufficient to brick it. If it only takes two months for a 50% charge to drain, how long does it take a 10% charge to drain?
Sennheiser's are too open air for the workplace imo, I keep those for home. At work I prefer high quality earbuds such as SE530's (Shure) since they're passive noise isolation which blocks out literally every sound there is in the office. I hate active noise canceling so noise isolation is the best!
There is a strong negative financial incentive for owners to do a simple thing like plugging in the car.

Which the author of the original article discussed, along with Tesla's obfuscations and downplayng of the issue.
There is a solution, but the community doesn't generally tend to like it even though it's for their own good. The solution is aggressive culture pruning by trusted lieutenants.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/