skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While they're at it, add in an apartment so that your work computer is not kept at a private residence...

It sounds like this was a summer internship, having to lug a separate computer around because Dropbox doesn't support separate accounts seems like a huge work around. The whole point of Dropbox is that the files are wherever you need them.
Being A Frontend Developer For A WeekEnd
So what's improved since then?

1. Bandwidth
2. Hardware
3. Language ease of use

With respect to the implementations of these "services", things were actually better back in the day. That's because users were generally more responsible (because you had to take an interest in how the network worked in order to use it) and there was no NAT. Peer to peer connections were the norm.

By comparison, todays "web" (which people confuse with the internet), is crippled, functionally.

So all of these "services" use ugly hacks. Like trying to stay in touch with people you know through some sociopathic stranger's website. As if that was "connectivity". Or trying to run programs through a "web browser".

NAT forced people to use the web, and forget about the internet.

The future lies in moving beyond NAT, and beyond a port 80, web browser-centric model of what people call "the internet" (which is actually just the crippled web).

We will never get the full functionality of the internet through only "the web".
That's fine, but then you do pruning of the elements you don't need. It's a lot easier to prune than to create every single time. I think the overhead added by Bootstrap is easily covered in the amount of boilerplate coding you get to skip.
In practice, software is assessed by its functionality not its underlying quality. This applies in spades to the target of the advice proferred.
Actually no. There is a lot you could do to make it easier to reason about that function. Just because you picked a poor type signature does not mean that Haskell is fundamentally limited. By making the signature a.) More generic and b.) restricting behavior through the use of better types you could achieve exactly the expressiveness you are looking for.

Also, while we may all choose to "trust" the C++ standard library, where it really comes in handy is reasoning about code written by your team on a day to day basis and being able to quickly re-factor code you did not even write.
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The thing about the great firewall... It only affects expats or visitors to China.

Any Chinese person who wants to read the NYTimes can get access to it. Anyone who wants to read about the "Three T's" can find away (good luck finding anyone). Chinese people who want to spend all day on the Facebook or the Twitter, will.

But the rest of the Chinese internet, the 99% of them, being disconnected from the rest of the world's internet, doesn't matter that much. They have neither the desire nor the interest to look at blocked pages. They're happy with the Chinese-language internet they have.

Personally, I'm starting to believe the Great Firewall is mostly there to annoy expats like me.
> The fact that he sources the user's profile is hilarious.

Why is that?

Also, if all he wants is to run a command, why not use sudo? Isn't that what sudo is supposed to do (i.e. pretty much what su -c does)?
Pretty damn impressive.
As a founder, I would be so depressed if everyone around me was too doubtful and embarrassed to ask if I would ever be successful. However, I can satisfy this additional restriction by asking in what manner you hope your doctoral research to terminate or if you intend to pursue it perpetually.

Additionally, the odds of degree completion are much better than that of an IPO. I might put successful IPO (as opposed to the desperate fund-raising kind) and a feature article in the New York Times, possibly a Nobel, on about the same level. Most doctoral candidates finish their degrees in a timely manner; most of my friends with them have had theirs since about age 29-32.

If you have lives, then I can ask when you take time off. The original article suggested there was not such time. I don't think the restriction of not talking is realistic given that the original article assumed two people would find themselves in a conversational setting with time to talk.
Well said — non-compete clauses etc. all make sense, but insisting on owning everything per common law is actually counterproductive.
Yes, good point, but I think Torvalds was reminding the unfortunate developer of the need not to break user space applications. I can see why that is very important. But still...
I don't know. It does seem very plausible.
No need to deal in probabilities, just use an MSA that makes sense--it will cost exactly the same amount as one that doesn't.
I think the best first book to read on Buddhism would just be The Heart of Understanding by Thich Nhat Hanh. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is really good, but I would read that next. It's much longer, and although parts of it are really insightful, there are also large sections that are repetitive or esoteric. It's also about ideas and practices that are important to Tibetan buddhism, but that aren't central to most other forms of buddhism.
What's the difference between a login shell and a plain one?
The trick is to never use IE or Safari for demos that use new technologies! =)
It would be cool to see something similarly simple differentiating various electronic social portals through the years. I suppose BBS is the base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system.
If someone asked for my recommendations for reading on state machines I would point them to Michael Sipser's Introduction to Theory of Computation.

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Michae...

Though I get the impression you're looking for something a bit more like an oreilly cookbook or nutshell book.
Chromium Blog: No More Silent Installs for Chrome
Chrome 25 to limit registry install process by requiring enable step for silently installed extensions. Extensions previously installed with this method will be retroactively disabled and require re-enable to function.
except that the iPad runs safari...

If a demo doesn't work on the iPad it's broken.
We may wish we're doomed to space colonization.j

"The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand."
- Carl Sagan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

What he's saying is that anything viable is too far away. Forget about the Moon or Mars, we cannot protect a population against radiation, and if we could we may as well build that same habitat here on our then presumably inhabitable planet that we're already on.

Don't just use the planet up and walk away from it, because there's nowhere to go.
Seven Questions for Google Enterprise Chief Amit Singh
A "no trespassing sign" doesn't cary any force on its own.

It conveys the property owner's intent regardless of whether there are any laws to back it up. If you choose to disregard the owner's intent, you are disregarding his property rights, whether or not the law makes that illegal. Using signs, fences, and other boundary markers to delimit property is logically prior to any laws about property rights, and those boundary markers can succeed in defining property rights even if there are no laws to enforce them.

If you know your neighbor doesn't want you to walk on his lawn, and has a sign up conveying that intent, is the law the only thing that can keep you from disregarding his intent? If you know that the goods inside the corner grocery store, whose owner is known and respected by everyone in town, aren't yours, and you find the door unlocked, is the law the only thing that keeps you from going in and looting the place?

People can have other reasons besides laws for defining and respecting property rights. It's easy to forget that now because our system of property rights has been evolving for thousands of years. But that doesn't change the fundamental game theory involved. The fact that many people now think that the law is the only thing that keeps them from violating others' property rights is a bug, not a feature.
I have a four-year old, and I've actually started thinking about that quite a bit.

I think an infant has no expectation of privacy. Any decisions regarding a baby's on-line presence is limited to the parent's common sense.

Now that my son is in pre-school, we're dialing back on his on-line presence. Pictures on flickr and facebook are being re-categorized to "friends and family."

As he gets older, we're going to respect his wishes as to what should be made "public." If he doesn't want the story of the cute thing he did put up on facebook, we'll honor that request.

I'll also help him navigate being on-line. I know a pre-teen whose parents won't let him use a Minecraft public server (because of the risk of creepy douchebags), but a LAN server for him and his buddies is okay.
Submittable (YC S12) on Flavorpill's Coolest Lit Mag Innovations of the Year
I grew a mustache in November. How's that for crazy.
My interpretation was that he was saying the arrow of refactoring is <i>easier</i> when refactoring in the direction of less abstraction.

I suspect he agrees that generally the arrow points in the direction of <i>more</i> abstraction. This would be the problem he thinks exists.

Not sure where I stand on either side of this; just trying to clear up what I saw as a miscommunication.
Fully 3d mind mapping software
Honestly, OP didn't give them enough time to respond. OP said that it was only yesterday that the team revoked his account. I could imagine that given it was both a sunday and a day or two before Christmas (depending on where you are) that the Dropbox support probably wasn't fully staffed.
Why startups shouldn't be afraid of Facebook cloning them
I love how that last picture shows two people, one glass. Reminds me of something a bit more contemporary.
Rejection therapy has its ideological roots in Stoicism, just as the central ideas of this article does. Seneca talks about spending a few days each month wallowing in the things that you fear the most, so that they can't control you.

And with regard to the anti-fragility thing, this is discussed at length also in Letters from a Stoic. Seneca talks about not being overly dominated by your fears, but also you can be a slave to hope as well. The idea of being happy and free when poor, and cautious when prosperous is also straight out of stoicism.

When I read Seneca in Letters from a Stoic, I get the impression that he's a mental martial arts master, constantly training to be in control of his mind and his happiness, always pursuing excellence.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/04/13/stoicism-101...
I believe the following links explain it pretty well:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38175/difference-bet...

http://serverfault.com/questions/8882/what-is-the-difference...
I got my wife to use it for home projects and it actually works really well.
That's what we do. What are the advantages of the Team plan over this?
A good intro to this frame of mind (and also relevant, since the dude works at Google ;) ) is to watch this video of a talk by Chade-Meng Tan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8fcqrNO7so

And then if that interests you, see if you get through this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc
nvm works perfectly on my vps. I guess my local machine is just a bit messed up. Dam MAMP.
Seems to me like hosted ipython notebooks could be a product all its own.

I can imagine an instant evaluation aspect to this - on keyup (_.debounce'd).fireEvent('play') - an awesomely tight feedback loop, light-table-esque.

makes me excited for some better tools on their way.
I don't understand why FA are so difficult for CS students to grasp.

I have the reverse problem. The concept of FA makes perfect sense. It's how I naturally think of a computer. It's the theory stuff that is not based on state machnes which I can't get my head around.

So my question is, what enlightenment would I attain if I understood all the theory (instead of just the reality)?

When I write programs, I write state machines.
Makes sense. If you don't think a company is going to succeed at a particular valuation, you're not likely to change your mind for half the cost.

My assumption was that there's a group of investors that would love to invest, but just don't have sufficient capital to do so at the valuations companies are getting. But I guess that's too small a number -- especially when you consider that you want quality investors, too, which shrinks that pool -- to be a general solution, as you say.
One solution to the problem you pose in your first paragraph is to identify the vector and not the position through testing. Perhaps a person's profile would be visualized with positions and error bars mapped across time. It would be impossible to perform such a test usefully on a five-year-old boy, but adults are more stable.
I use Backblaze. I have restored a few small files from them. I've never had to do the whole system, but I expect it to work well from what I've heard. Maybe I should actually test it....
A lot more storage and some more features.
> Why is that?

Because he just did a login:

silver:aram$ sudo su aram -c 'echo $PATH'
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

silver:aram$ sudo su - aram -c 'echo $PATH'
.:/home/aram/bin:/home/aram/bin/linux:/home/aram/bin/linux/amd64:/home/aram/bin/linux/386:/home/aram/go/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/home/aram/plan9/bin

silver:aram$ sudo su - aram -c '. ~/.profile; echo $PATH'
.:/home/aram/bin:/home/aram/bin/linux:/home/aram/bin/linux/amd64:/home/aram/bin/linux/386:/home/aram/go/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/home/aram/plan9/bin

> why not use sudo? Isn't that what sudo is supposed to do (i.e. pretty much what su -c does)?

Sure, he could have used sudo.
Thanks for the comment - appreciate it and thanks for reading. I qualify that point with the following paragraph:

"When you look at the decision tree from that perspective, it seems not so bad: failure is always the same, a zero, while the return (however you define it: monetary, happiness, utility, etc.) is astronomical, and worth it."
> Disabled accounts are not immediately deleted: We can work with Teams admins and users to sort out account issues and recover users’ files.

Wait a sec, does this mean when I delete my files they are ... not being deleted?

> We’ve contacted the OP to help resolve his case and are sorry for any pain this caused!

Great, good for him. So basically next time when I or others have problems with Dropbox, post a rant about it and pray it will get to #1 spot on HN to get customer support response? Ok, dully noted, thanks.
Today, the USPS is supported by Direct Mail. Kill it, and you either kill the USPS, or pay directly in taxes to support it.
Sounds like you ought to figure out why people want to merge their personal accounts, and then implement that functionality in a way that doesn't require merging such that it's not possible to reverse the change afterwards.

This may be way harder than I make it sound, since I don't know about the hurdles this would face. But that does seem like the place to aim.
Trello is definitely better suited for something like this. Heck, Kitchen Remodeling is even used as an example on their Tour page: https://trello.com/tour.

The reasons for using GH Issues that frabcus mentioned, such as simplicity, setup time, being public, etc. are all covered by Trello as well. In my opinion, GH Issues shines when used with an actual software project, otherwise you're better off using something else.
I don't disagree. Like most large socio-economic issues, pointing to one thing is overly simplifying things. Growing up near D.C. I remember being terrified of going into the city. Stray rounds regularly found their ways into people's living rooms, and just a block or two from the national mall, one would have been ill-advised to spend any time.

I definitely subscribe to the national trends impacting local crime rates. D.C. today, while not an exceptionally nice place to be, isn't comparable to D.C. of the 1980s and 90s.

But there are other things that impacted D.C. w/r to very local issues. For example, I don't think it's a stretch to think that the end of Marion Barry's tenure as "mayor for life" and the reversal of decades of population flight which started around the time of his first term is all a big coincidence. The drop-off of crack-cocaine as a local drug of choice was also a major contributor.

The gentrification that followed, while often viewed in negative terms by many, has resulted in a city with large physical areas of relative safety and good maintenance. The only comparable city I'm aware of is New York, which had a similar dangerous reputation, and is now a pretty nice place to be.

Gun crime in D.C. was and is significant. In the interest of being mindful that correlation does not equal causation (gun control up and gun violence down in the same period does not mean that one caused the other), I'd probably argue that there's little evidence that gun control in either direction has had the majority impact on D.C. gun crimes, but that external factors that have contributed to improving the city and have had larger impacts.
Pictures of my kid are about all I post on Facebook anymore. The constantly changing privacy settings mean I don't trust it for posting anything especially interesting, so I've mostly stopped posting at all. Every once in awhile I put up a kid picture to make relatives etc. happy, but that's basically my only use case for FB now. Especially since I stopped wanting to read other people's updates too, when I discovered that many people I know have moronic political opinions that they feel compelled to share.

So maybe people block my updates because they are tired of seeing my kid, but I've probably blocked them because I got tired of reading about how Mitt Romney wants to ban tampons or whatever.

Also, "toeing" and "hijinks".
Totally agree. I've seen several things like this surge and die before.

With the Nov. 2011 edgerank changes, ie forced "close friend" newsfeed, the one magical thing about FB, which I call digital osmosis -- ie keeping up with people without interaction -- has gone the way of the dodo.

I'm planning my escape: Valentines Day 2013 I'm closing my account. Working on a toolset to host my own timeline, on my own server. May keep a fake account to access a site here or there and keep up with a few vague acquaintances, but will stop posting and handing my data over to FB.

FWIW, I find many high quality conversations on Google+ these days since they've launched their communities (e/g/ big data community, DDD).

Now get off my astroturf ;-)
Yup, more information will be up soon and all of our code will eventually be open sourced. There are no secrets to what we're doing at all, it's just a question of putting it all together in digestible form (and in the meantime--or any time at all--my email is in my profile and I'd be happy to hear from you).

The really sticky parts of Parley (ie. crypto) are already open source, made and reviewed by far greater minds than ours. We're mostly trying to solve the network problem that has impeded adoption of end-to-end email/IM encryption in the past by building a system that is ridiculously simple for anyone to use.
er no. iPad is broken. If apple provides a platform that doesn't respect standards and disallows other browsers from working as they're intended to, it does not mean the entire world that does not feel like supporting the walled garden is broken.
Thanks for the great comment! I just updated the article and explained that I misunderstood how "su" works. I also removed the statement about running untrusted binaries. I had simply added it to the article without thinking much to have a closing line for the article.

I found sourcing the profile trick useful in case the chrooted users need a customized environment such as custom PATHs or something else user specific.
Diversity - More than meets the eye.
Good point about the security. I removed that sentence and just replaced it how this is a beautiful way to combine commands!
Sorry you found that insulting - wasn't my intention at all. It was a generalization I used to make a point, but would take an entire separate post to unpack, so I didn't do it justice. I agree with you completely.
I removed that sentence and just replaced it how this is a beautiful way to combine commands! :) I wrote that one earlier without much thinking, just to have something as a closing line.
Expect to soon be reading about the loss of jobs for such proposals. Iceland plans to expand their port to handle Northwest Passage traffic. Governments and industry are planning to drill the Arctic seabed. Big business will fight attempts to reverse global warming.
Wait a sec, does this mean when I delete my files they are ... not being deleted?

This is true of almost every service on the internet. If it wasn't, whenever the only disk that had your account on it failed you would be absolutely livid about the fact that they never made any backups. (It is generally infeasible to purge backups of any deleted data, because they're stored in compressed blobs.)
Instagram furor triggers first class action lawsuit
Here's the thing- if it's based on location, social data, influence, hair color, none of that is illegal. Two things are illegal: 1) discrimination in the -ism sense of the word, and 2) price discrimination based on proximity to competitors in the markets wherein the company doing the price fixing holds a monopoly. #2 is what Staples could be running afoul of here. In the US, it's not illegal to have a monopoly (ie be the only Staples in a small town without an Office Depot/OfficeMax etc). It's also not illegal to engage in anti-competitive (ie under-cutting your competition in price, signing exclusivity contracts etc.) or anti-consumer (ie price discrimination, restriction of choice, etc.) practices. What IS illegal is engaging in anti-competitive practices in situations where you hold a monopoly, and that's what Staples may be in danger of doing here. And yes, I know Staples doesn't hold a monopoly over the entire internet but the value of brand identification / trust and convenience of in-store pickup shouldn't and won't be overlooked by regulators.
Does anyone know if Awesome has a one-workspace-per-monitor option yet? That's one of the things that drew me to xmonad instead. When you have multiple monitors, being able to change the workspace on each one individually is very useful.
Can anyone compare this to Selenium? Which do you prefer to use and why?
That quote was written specifically to make you feel uncomfortable. Older people love to quote it, because we all have a catalog of things that we'd love to go back and relive more fully, or do right the first time, or not do at all. The cruel irony of it all is that you probably don't know how you're wasting your youth until you look back on it in retrospect and facepalm. Sorry.
Just to qualify this further - what if you're not selling a service on top of your blog? (i.e. design services in your case) - could you still create a labor of love, like a blog and pay rent with the cash it generates? how?
Sorry about that. I updated the article and removed that statement.
Like what features?

It seems its a can of worms right now and the suitable fix seems to be removing the storage limit on shared folders (shared to those individuals who do not own the original folders being shared).