skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine a worker at a company, using this function to search for internal document including a string with company secrets. Whooops, now that data is at Amazon.

Some people used to say that you should not search for domain names at Google, because then Google would have the name and someone in Google could snatch it and squat it and you'd lose out.

That's a paranoid extreme, but you get the idea. Some things are realistic, some other things not so much.

> Imagine a police worker, seaching for email with witness details. whooops, now that data is also sent to Amazon.

I really freakin' hope that police have better policies for keeping details protected. I recognise (from many of the leaks recently) that this might not be the case.

> Imagine a normal person searching for emails that includes their credit card. Whoops, gone gone.

Wait, what? 5275655718086695 is a credit card number, but what use is that to anyone without a name, address, and CVC/ CVV2 number?

Considering that many many people have emails stored on someone else's machine not on their local network, and that email is sent in plain text, this has been a problem for very much longer than Ubuntu's search box has existed.
This is pretty crass on Google's part, and horrific PR.
Terrorist was perhaps taking it a little far.

Despite claiming that it has a "peer review" performance system, Google has secret "calibration scores" which are set unilaterally by the manager and regularly destroy people's careers. (That they exist is not secret, but the specific numbers given are hidden.) There's a known problem with managers using low scores (but positive verbal reviews) to keep their reports captive but unable to transfer. I managed to find mine out, and it was substantially below the (completely respectable) 3.4 that I was promised, but that's another story.

Whoever came up with that idea (a parallel performance review that can silently ruin your career) was either deeply stupid or thoroughly evil. Google claims to hire only smart people, which leaves... evil.

A decent company will know that this is an opportunity for corruption and take performance reviews out of the transfer packet.
Sony begins testing online Entertainment Network Store
The Slovenian / Slavic startup house in Silicon Valley
What gimmicks are you talking about? They offered a deal on xbox 360 and people found it good enough to buy.
> but i've seen far more people w/x360 than ps3.

That would make sense if you live in the U.S. The PS3 is ahead worldwide, but the 360 is winning by a landslide in the U.S.
The Walking Dead: A statistical look back at the series so far
Citrulu: Plain english tests for live websites
The did all right with there casual gimmick - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12697975
The first thing I do when I come across a site that tries to speak my language? I switch it back to english.

Localization makes sense when you're a shopping site aiming at mom & dad and non-techies.

For technical services (pretty much all SaaS) the translations usually turn out so terrible that everyone turns them off. Also good luck googling for the solution to a problem in any other than the primary language of the site...
So a handful of contrary tweets now count as backlash? Oh please. This is the problem when any journalist tries to use twitter to provide an angle to a story: you can always cherry pick enough tweets to justify whatever narrative you wish to push. Without hard numbers this article is completely meaningless.
The obvious incentive for voters is to let them "subscribe" to an idea, so that if it launches, they get an email/beta membership/discount/etc.

The other perk to this is that idea-submitters get a home-grown email list for their new app.
Google+ Ruby Community
You're conflating two things, I think.

Most Linux users might not buy into a boycott of Ubuntu -- in that sense they reject RMS's ideology.

But I think few would argue that proprietary software does tend towards bullshit -- the very DRM and the like that RMS is calling malicious. They might not go around calling it malicious, but they wouldn't consider RMS's attitude there extreme, just the actions he advocates.
Not sure this post is really comparing tools. More like "here are 5 best tools and one of them is our startup" :)
Does this make you feel any better?

http://goo.gl/QhrXs
Well, I can't speak of Android malware in general but from my personal experience of owning both a phone and tablet with Android the idea of malware has never crossed my mind.

Then again, I don't worry much about malware on Windows because I pay attention to what I'm doing.
Companies highlighting problems in their competitors has been standard practice for as long as I can remember. Can we stop with the Microsoft bashing for things that everyone does? It's really sad to see HN jump on these hate-bandwagons.
Manufacture based GPS tracking services vulnerable to thieves
I don't get why Google + goes after Facebook, when it is sooo much better positioned to go after LinkedIn. Most of what Google + does well is what LinkedIn needs to do better. If Google+ allowed people to upload resumes, they would dominate. Think about the value of a Google search friendly resume, coupled with a community graph.
It's the same user installed stuff that is problematic elsewhere, but it is apparently really happening:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/sophisticated-botnet...
Well, you _can_ disable it, so no need to cut off your nose to spite your face.

Unless you're boycotting Chrome on the principle of this feature.
I'm not sure if top in growth, but the US manufacturing sector is at the forefront of GDP growth.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/602691-u-s-manufacturing-lea...
GitHub used to have localization, back before I joined, but it got dropped. Many non-native speakers switched to English anyways, and it just wasn't worth the effort and maintenance hassle.
I use Postfix and Procmail.

In my .procmailrc file in my user directories, I set up forwarding rules. I've set up several servers this way. It's always a bit of head scratching, but it's fun when you get it working and it's not that bad to set up.

What's fun about .procmailrc files is that you can do anything with the email based on regex rules of the subject, to, from, etc. You can even run scripts. I can reboot my server by sending a properly formatted email to a certain email address, for example.
> Bitcoin experienced it itself when it went through that massive devaluation a few years back.

When?

I remember one major dump taken by the price of Bitcoin, and it was a few days into a great big bubble.

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25zv

If you were counting on the price to keep going up and up, maybe then you saw it as a massive devaluation. I myself would have called it a bubble that burst... compare the price in May of last year to the price in May of this year, or September-to-September, and it just looks a bit volatile, but on average rising.

EDIT: OK, so when I look at the chart and stop trying to argue a point, I do see a protracted devaluation. I remember hearing it was because a large account was hacked and the hacker dumped a large number of coins on the market. That was after that peak in last June. No explanation why the price would have soared so high, but for folks who weren't on the scene, that might explain the downturn.
hm, just a shorturl. but the readability is as bad as the other one.
Which version, QQ or 13.04? I'm on QQ with Unity. Everything Everywhere is having some fun with their 'profile generator' at present, and we have exactly 0.24Mbit/s of bandwidth, so that might be an issue.
Car Black Boxes Raise Privacy Concerns
I think economics consulting firms pay > $150k for recently graduated phds -- just looked at your cv... you must have former classmates working for NERA, bates-white, etc. who could give you specifics. Given your research interests that seems like a natural fit.
Given the (relatively) low cost of domains, I hardly follow that logic.

Between their customer service, their ethics, their past poor behavior, their shitty admin, etc I would happily spend a much greater margin for !(GoDaddy) than I've ever seen in .com/,net/.org type domains. (And the ones that vary more between registrars aren't even available on GoDaddy anyway.)
Since it is an improper comparison, what do you base your hypothesis on exactly?
The linked site is not authored by GitHub. Just hosted there :).
Not sure how that makes much of a difference, other than the fact that they still chose to purchase a 360 over the PS3 or Wii U after such a hardware failure.
Looks like it is time to re-write some code
Not that I disagree with you in general, but there are a lot of entrepreneurs for whom $50/year is a major impediment.

When App Engine had its major round of price increases a year or two ago, a number of small developers in Africa and India complained on the mailing list. Apparently the nearly-free service of GAE was supporting a number of entrepreneurs who live a very different life from the typical bay area startup groupie.
Their marketing's pretty terrible even when they don't try to be hip. To promote Bing, they hired a political strategist who came up with this atrocity -- http://www.scroogled.com/
Using Personality Testing in the Hiring Process
The main takeaway from this article for me is the part about questioning the use of jQuery.

jQuery is a great tool for doing things, but in the context of a rich javascript application, its tight coupling - and the even tighter coupling its plugin style encourages - lead to very hard to test code.

For example: jQuery.each is a fairly nice iterator function, and since you're going to use jQuery anyway - lets us that!

But then you want to try and test something in isolation, and you suddenly find that in order to iterate over an array, you need to load jQuery - which means you need a whole DOM environment!
Unless it's changed in the last few years, GoDaddy's administration panel is so atrocious that even MySpace would be embarrassed to release it. If you're as frugal with your time and sanity as you are with your money, GoDaddy is far from an obvious choice.
If you liked this article, you might also like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4887057 which for some reason didn't make the front page when Alex's did and is thus lingering without the attention that this one is getting.
Question here: how do you teach a new developer using pair programming?

When and how often is it the newbies' turn at the keyboard?

And as the senior feels slowed down, how can he then cope with impatience?
Which inflation number? The government one where anything that has gone up is removed or some other made up random number we like to call 'inflation?' :)
I'm going to go against the grain here and say that after almost a decade of trying, pair programming is just not for me, for a few reasons:

1. Cluttered thoughts

When I develop software, very little of that time is spent typing. If you were to watch me program, what you'd see is someone sitting in a chair doing nothing. Before I write a single line of code, I'll examine my future program in my head, poking, prodding, trying out different approaches, weighing the benefits, considering edge cases, and so on. I cannot do this if distracted by talking or typing, as it clutters up my thought process (unless the task is quite trivial). Because of this, pair sessions tend to be awkward, with me not saying much and not typing much 90% of the time. What I can do effectively is design a system and then ask someone to critique it before I start coding it out.

2. Social exhaustion

I have a hard enough time dealing with the exhausting process of social interaction as it is. I don't avoid it entirely, because I know that it's important. However, my mental stamina is also important if I'm going to be doing anything useful, so I try to strike a balance between social obligation and isolation. I've never paired for more than a couple of hours, which is draining and becomes stressful before long. I can only imagine that I'd be climbing the walls after 8 hours of that.

3. The zone

I like programming in the zone. Everything becomes so easy and flows so nicely, but it can sometimes take a long time to get into the zone, and it's fragile and breaks easily. I find it impossible to enter the zone if I'm talking.
Dotcom gets go-ahead for spy lawsuit
Cue - a set of vector touch gesture icons
I think the problem Microsoft has is that FUD is in their DNA. I worked well 10 years ago.

Seriously maleware on Android?
I install a lot of crappy apps and one abused notifications for promotions.

This coming from Microsoft is reality satire. Now they call their phone "windows" and the tag you should use is "droidrage". It never occurred to anybody there this could be a bad idea?
You mean Ctrl-Shift-N (for a new Incognito window). Ctrl-N just opens a regular window.
Wii U's restrictive DRM is a confusing throwback
I'm interested in hacking and contribute mostly due to positive motivators
I'm interested in hacking and contribute mostly due to negative motivators
I'm interested in startups and contribute mostly due to positive motivators
I'm interested in startups and contribute mostly due to negative motivators
I'm interested in technology and contribute mostly due to positive motivators
I'm interested in technology and contribute mostly due to negative motivators
I participate for other reasons (please describe in the comments)
I've never seen a facebook or twitter campaign not going terribly wrong.
You should add the intend of the g+ community somewhere. Also I wouldn't name it "The Official Hacker Community" unless it's started by pg.
The best tweet was

I tried to install Hotmail app and guess what it contained Malware.
Sweden offers bus stop light therapy to commuters
Political strategist comes up with a smear campaign, nobody saw that coming...
Hollywood's piracy awareness programme to launch in January
rms is being....well, rms in that article.

But if more among us adopted this nuance, it will kill most arguments before they are raised. :-)

Well put.
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OP here.

I think it's often hard to tell. One way of addressing this problem is to eliminate the friction associated with switching roles.

We always pair with two keyboards, two mice, and two monitors plugged into the same machine. There's just too much friction associated with switching spots if you only have one keyboard.

If you don't have the equipment for that setup, you can set up a virtual pairing station with ssh and tmux pretty easily.
This is a good point that we discussed, too. While Hal, like HATEOAS is very interesting and definitely a simplification that's necessary to make our lives better, we're aiming at something different: we're trying to describe existing (ReST) APIs in a way that a single library using a Factory Pattern can turn into connections that you as a developer can use to work with that API.
We settled for the swagger format, because its very flexible, human-readable and honestly can be turned into very nice looking documentation pages.
how did this turn out in the end? Are you still with the team? And if yes, how did you cope with the knowledge difference?
"Hammock-driven Development" I think.
Seeing this reaction coming and not caring is a reasonable strategy. In free software, RMS holds a lot of philosophical sway, but Ubuntu operates in the larger open-source ecosystem.

Let's say that free software adherents decide that Ubuntu is bad for their interests. How will they react? The GPL prevents them from forbidding Ubuntu from bundling their work as long as Ubuntu's use of the work is GPL-compliant. This leaves them with few options. They can refuse to support Ubuntu, which is fine; other software developers can patch the bugs and fork projects that the original maintainers refuse to update. They can call out why Ubuntu is bad for a free software ecosystem; this is a good thing to do, but has little impact on those who are familiar with the four freedoms but don't buy into their absolute necessity.

As a tool to exercise free use of software, GPL is very strong. But as a coercive tool, GPL is pretty weak (by design). Shuttleworth recognizing these strengths and weaknesses and adapting the company's motion to account for it is shrewd business.

Accepting the notion "I don't approve of your use of my software, but I respect your right to use, study, redistribute, and modify free software" is an implicit aspect of the free software philosophy.
No, but are they really as fun as one thinks? I mean, theyre cool because theyre small, but other than that it's nothing I could not do with any other computer. That is, run debian.

Or maybe I just don't get the fun of them?
I'm genuinely curious about the meaning of your last line. Do you mean missing out on the quality of having two people looking at and collaborating on the same code (vs solo), or the quality of sharing the knowledge with the junior developer long term? or both?
Didn't bother me, got the point across rather well I thought. At least he didn't put the negative ones in red because that would have really hurt someone's feelings.
I own a Galaxy S (first gen) with Touchwiz-enabled Android 2.3.6 on it.

My next phone is going to be a Nexus, but the first generation of Galaxy S is the best phone I ever owned and it replaced my iPhone 3GS. Battery life lasts for 4 days of normal usage, after I installed an app from Google Play that disables data/wifi when in standby or at night, otherwise it lasts for 2 days.

I tried upgrading, but battery life is too important to me and the device is too under-powered for newer Android versions, not to mention that all Exynos devices, such as the Galaxy S family, have problems with custom ROMs like CyanogenMod because of a lack of source-code for drivers. Phones like Sony Xperia T are much, much better in this regard.

Also I discovered that even though Jelly Bean is completely awesome when it comes to UI and new features, it doesn't really do anything groundbreaking that my Gingerbread doesn't do. I do have 2 or 3 apps that have been bundled by Samsung, but I just ignore them. Considering that I got the phone for $20 on a reasonable contract, it was a steal anyway.

And can your Windows Phone or your iOS device block phone calls / sms messages? Can it save battery life by turning data on or off on schedule? Can it run Firefox? I thought so.
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Hi guys,

I'm the author of this plugin, and first of all : thanks for your comments!

About the static image, I preferred a faster homepage to load. But according to your comments, I will at least create a link to the demo with this image.

This way, clicking on it will redirect you to the demo.
I don't think this will be chalked down as a total failure. With the low market share that WP has, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
There are also ways to convert an X11 compose configuration into Cocoa keyboard shortcuts. Google around. it's not a ton of fun, but it's very doable :)
12.10. It was one of the last changes before the freeze on QQ (re: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-lens-shopping/+bug/1060979 ), and a server-side change.

BTW, you seem to have the name/numbers convention backwards :) it's codename during dev, numbers once released. So it's 12.10 or RR now.
And the funny thing is that they ended up looking like tools even when they used (use?) CP + B, the same ad agency as Apple (and a very good one at that). But as anyone who has watched Mad Men knows, the clients can completely screw up a marketing campaign with their ridiculous demands.

The problem with trying to look hip is that if you have to try in the first place, you're just not hip. This is a problem that seems to have to plagued Microsoft over and over throughout the years.
I'm referring to the Wii motion control and the Wii U GamePad. Traditional gamers don't find those appealing, yet it seems to be where Nintendo has focused a significant portion of their development and marketing attention.
I don't get it....
It's not meant to compare tools. But hey, at least we mentioned one of our competitors. I can't say that most people would have done that.

Also: We've been getting a lot of requests about what tools we use hence Taige's blog post.
Right :-) Shortcut is wired to my fingers and I look for the guy with the glasses and the hat anyway :-)
Yup. Something like this might work better: http://is.gd/google_plus_html5

But it still doesn't matter. Just because you can produce a pretty URL using a 3rd party service doesn't mean it's going to be utilized.
My point is based on what is happening with all current legal tenders. They are being replaced by methods and promesses. Example: checks, debit and credit transactions, et al. They represent a value, but are not the value. Most of the time, we buy things with a promess of payment, not with value itself.

So I came to the idea that bitcoins are actually more useful as a way to store value (bank notes, bank money) than currency (dollars).

So, your bank would store your bitcoins for you and you will still using the miriad of payment methods. Example: you use your current visa debit card, pay with the promess that your bank will transfer the bitcoins to the merchant.

That way we could be using bitcoins today instead of next decade.

That said, I see bitcoins becoming the value (think of bills) but the current payment methods will remain the same, except that cashiers will type X bitcoins instead of X dollars.

(Sorry about typos, tablet..)
I guess you can skip the 2nd monitor and maybe the 2nd mouse

But yeah, 2 keyboards are a necessity
Sorry. If your business is built on marking up and reselling free things, I can't feel sorry for you. That was one of those reflex apologies. Not a real apology.

If your clients have waited until 2 weeks before Christmas to sign, then they are actually the bad guys and they deserve to pay more. When exactly are you supposed to do your gift shopping?
I appreciate this guy's effort, but honestly most of his concerns has ever impacted my productivity. Sure, the editor isn't great yet. What I really want to see, and I'm not the first to say this:

* Explicit licenses: If a repo lacks a LICENSE file, this is almost as annoying as it lacking a README, and GitHub's interface should complain to the repo owner. Searching and filtering by license would be nice, too.

* Explicitly "official" forks. It's way too hard to find the right fork when you just want to improve a public gem, for instance. I was there was an explicit "why does this fork exist" field on each repo. acts_as_solr is a particularly morbid example of why this is important.

* Their code search is basically useless. Last I checked, they don't even index branches. They should just buy or reimplement Ohloh.
There is also the Lipson-Shiu corporate personality test:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/LipsonShiuTest.html

The test itself is here:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/LipsonShiu.html

I'm an ILIE.
"Traditional gamers" are an increasingly small market when compared to "casual gamers", though.
I want to see statistics and studies. Until then, pair programming is just really one of those things where it seems like it's gone too far in one direction.

The only time I've ever used pair programming is during education, but at that point you're basically sockpuppeting the other programmer.