skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely nothing's wrong with FF, but there are sometimes reasons to use chrome. Different browsers, different bugs, after all... :]

I normally use FF, but there are situations where I use chrome instead (both very up-to-date versions, so more or less as good as they get).

chrome uses more memory on average because of the multi-process architecture, but that architecture also makes user-control of memory usage much more convenient, because closing a tab with a memory-hog page in it immediately releases a hefty chunk of memory (whereas this usually isn't the case with FF). So sometimes when my memory is running low, I'll use chrome, despite the higher average memory usage, to get the increased controllability.

There are also cases of bleeding edge html5 stuff where the chrome implementation works better. E.g., both seem to support webgl in general, but some webgl-using pages only work properly in chrome for me.

It's really nice to have available two completely independent implementations of a modern, featureful, robust web-browser... Before chrome, there was [on linux] basically FF and a bunch of toy browsers, and the latter were often not very usable for many pages.
The off-the-grid folks are surely on top of this. They also have the advantage of a 'natively' DC supply coming off storage batteries.
Writing great unit tests
You missed david's point. You're not supposed to criticize the person (ex. "You are sloppy!"). You're supposed to criticize the person's work (ex. "Your work is sloppy!").

In my experience, criticizing the person just drags down their morale and usually doesn't motivate them, whereas criticizing their work sometimes motivates them to improve their work (it can also sometimes drag down morale as well, depending on how you go about it).
I think it's rather 0 - bio 1 - free range
If you're using any Microsoft technology people around here assume that you are a boring programmer that's a slave to the evil Redmond overloards and are not in anyway interested in fancy tech news that are posted in Hacker News.

Keep up the good work, you guys in the ASP.NET team are doing great :)
https://crypto.cat/ will give you encrypted group chat from a word. But you do have to install an extension.
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There's a Spanish company called OEP Electrics[1] that makes non built-in obsolescence light bulbs.

The CEO has reported discredit campaigns and even death threat letters [2]

(spanish links sorry)

[1] http://www.oepelectrics.com/
[2] http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/06/03/economia/1338718307...
There are plenty of ways of doing this. I have the DOM Inspector installed, then you can either ctrl+shift+I to launch it and then click on the Mouse Icon to start selecting items on the page and see them in the DOM Tree. Or I also have the right click -> inspect plugin. Now you can just right click on the page then "inspect element"
Same here. For a moment, I thought my imagination was insufficient. Then I remembered I tied my imagination to /dev/random
I could say the same thing for the culture in Hong Kong or China at large too.
Platform as a Service Under the Hood [pdf]
But what if the debt outweighs the benefits?

What if you can't measure the debt?
Debuggex review - impressive regular expression tool
Given that it's private chat, there's really no need to censor it. Anyone using it has been invited.
(Just to add to the chorus.)
chrome lets you see what events are attached to DOM elements. It also lets you add breakpoints to the JS in an onclick="dothis()" so you can just step into it.
Choosing 'Ø' as my name made the whole thing go blank.. removing the cookies and choosing another name made it work again..

Edit: Great idea btw :)
Because its not opinionated at all, allows you to do what the hell you want and has very good support.

I've been burned by AWS and GAE support which is sometimes non existent. If you're running your business off it, you can't afford that risk.

I'm not concerned who it comes from.
The comments below that story are worth a look. They aren't insightful but they make an interesting contrast to the story itself.
Where does the fact numbering come from?

Q1 - universe

Q2 - Earth

Q3 - life

...

Q24 - Jack Bauer

...

Q76 - Barack Obama
Do we not think that if the NSA were so inclined they could fire up a few thousand ASIC like computers?

(Just curious)
there are quite a few videos i see out there that place augmented objects in a video which moves accordingly to the shift of the camera. However that is not live.
Combined with AR algorithms, I am pretty sure that this could be a kickass overlay for web live videos in the future.
What a great explanation. On a related note, if you liked that then I recommend you check out the game http://dragonboxapp.com/ I think it is really quite genius how they have turned solving algebraic equations into a fun game for kids.
The comparison is shit, because it compares shit (LED) with shit (fluorescent).

The website does not tell if Cree is using two band LEDs of a blue LED with yellow dotation, or a 3 band UV LEDs with R, G, and B dotations. Its likely only two band, because those are much cheaper. So they are worse than any 5 band fluorescent lamp. And not comparable in light quality with a good old light bulb or tungsten halogen lamp.

They are not suited for sewing, when you need to match the color of the thread to the cloth, and they are badly suited for electronics, when you need to read the color code of a resistor.
How big a slice of toast do you need to use all this peanut butter?
Since BTC is at an all-time high, at the very least if he didn't believe in BTC anymore he could get out now without a loss. So he still seems to honestly believe.
My guess would be they spread random false positives for privacy reasons?
man, are you just kidding? is this a joke project?

this "ambient noise" is the reason why I have open offices.
Uptime is not a problem. Stuff breaks. Being able to contact someone, get a root cause of an issue and get help to mitigate it is what is important.

In our case, a trial with Hetzner found their support to be somewhat lacking if something went wrong.

The azure outages didn't affect us at all.

Out load characteristics are somewhat higher than that. We can shift 10 million http hits an hour quite happily.
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* >Incorrect in what parallel universe?
>Yes. OS X is just a collection of applications of which iPhoto is NOT one. IIRC, they don't even bundle iLife anymore (you're supposed to get it from the App Store) but that's beside the point.*

iPhoto IS one. As I distinctly explained in my previous post, iPhoto comes installed on every every single Mac that Apple sells with the sole exception of the server configuration of the Mac Pro. Go to the Apple web page and click on any Mac and look at the "Built-in Apps" section, you will see iPhoto displayed right alongside "system" apps like Mac App Store, Mail, and Messages. iLife is just a marketing name. iTunes used to be part of iLife too. Now they're just apps, apps that 99.9% of people that purchase a Mac will find on their computers pre-installed when they open them. That was half my point: that iPhoto today is just about as much a part of a default installation of Mac OS X as any.

>Are you some naive end user OR an HN commenter that CAN tell the different between OS X and iPhoto, and doesn't complain about the latter on a thread about the first?

Now that we've gotten the fact that iPhoto will almost certainly be on my machine when I open it, it should be clear to you that it doesn't matter which of these I am. For better or worse, iPhoto is a part of the Mac experience. Drawing an imaginary line around a subset of applications and calling them "OS" or "not OS" does not take away from the fact that a bad iPhoto experience will understandably contribute to a bad Mac experience. As such, both by technical and laymen's understandings of OS, the critique is valid.

Edit: My mistake, iPhoto is included in the server one as well. So it turns out iPhoto comes installed on every single Mac.
I kill my ears day by day with loud music to stop hearing this shit.
Some years ago, I had to do several personal development courses. Most of them were absolutely useless (at least to me), but one I found tremendously useful in various job and life settings. It was a course about assertiveness (and, in particular, assertive communication).

Assertive communication is about expressing a contrary position in such a way that you are totally firm, but not aggressive. Your interlocutor must understand that your stance is strong, but that you are a person who listens and is not just trying to impose mindless authority on them.

A basic template for assertive communication is something like:

1. "I understand that [description of your interlocutor's position and why it's understandable that he holds it]",

2. "BUT [description of your position and firm arguments to support it]",

3. "THEREFORE, [conclusion, which will typically match your position but make some concessions to theirs if you can]".

It sounds like something pretty trivial, but believe me, it makes a load of difference. People will be way more likely to accept your arguments if you explicitly show them that you have carefully listened to theirs and respect them. I have had people coming into my office to complain about something, and going out almost thanking me for that very thing!

Of course, this is a personal informal explanation and you'll be able to find much better explanations of this principle on Google.
Yup, manual updates and the occasional bot is how it works (or, more often, doesn't) in the pre-Wikidata world.
Oh yes, never chicken to chicken. But we give them fish, ham, bacon etc.
No not silent majority, not even close. Naming a single instance is not representative of the real-world at all.
Unfortunately Amazon/Azure are coy with their numbers but I expect there is likely an order of magnitude more instances deployed on Amazon than Azure.

Some rough numbers to provide some meaningful context of Microsoft's overall server market share:

Microsoft only has 11.62% of the total web server market share of active sites, 12.86% activity from the top 100M busiest sites:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/03/01/march-2013-web-...

Only a fraction of the top internet sites are deployed on a Microsoft platform:
http://www.seomoz.org/top500

C# (the most popular .NET language) is the 12th most popular language on GitHub:
https://github.com/languages/C%23
here .. and so are half the devs i work with .. ~20 people or so
I always picture battery cages as being like a Super Max Federal prison.
Whatever I try to use as group name, "it may already exist":

“Failed! "almzirfmzeurfuerzf" may exist, try another name”

“Failed! "lalalalalalalahello" may exist, try another name”

…
Any painful, unpopular decision is mostly for dying companies. That doesn't necessarily mean its a bad one.
I think BitCoins are fractionable to more than 8 decimal places, it is just that the current clients only support 8 decimal places. If the need arises, that part of the spec can be changed without problem (so I seem to remember).
DrEd: Senior/middleweight web app developers

London, United Kingdom

DrEd is a funded healthcare startup building the leading online doctor service in Europe. Our patients complete online assessments or engage in real-time video consultations with real doctors. The result is either mail order delivery of medication or a paper prescription that can be reimbursed at local pharmacies.

We're looking for talented web developers with a backend focus. You may be a senior developer who can head the technical team and act as system architect, or a middleweight developer with more interest in coding and less in leading a team. Either way you'll be comfortable with the LAMP stack, can work with HTML, CSS, JS, & PHP, understand MVC, and can cope with the idea of turning legacy code into something testable/maintainable.

It's a great company made up of people who care about their jobs and actually listen to/involve the technical members. There are no marketers standing over you with bullwhips & chairs demanding the impossible and no mushroom management. There is good coffee, a nice office, an openness to new ideas, and a strong work/life balance.

For more details & to apply, there's a more traditional job advert on Stack Overflow: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/30634/healthcare-start...
Agreed. Since when did scrolling become a page navigation? If I'd clicked a title, then sure do a hash change, but otherwise leave my URL alone.

On top of that, clicking an anchor (which on any normal website would take me _instantly_ to that point in the page) scrolls slowly from top to bottom. Do that a couple of times and watch what happens when you hit the back button a few times... shoot me now.
Not just for reproducibility, but to avoid human errors. I always just get nervous when humans make changes to production environments. I'd much rather have a tested script do it.
Just override the isProfanityPresent() function:

function isProfanityPresent() {return false}
I like it! But it seems that it still have some bugs.
Try:
/^.(youtu.be\/|v\/|e\/|u\/\w+\/|embed\/|v=)([^#\&\?]).*/

This is suppose to match: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Y3XJ44icU
Yep the consumers buy a laptop because it is pink or cheap which usually ends up running windows as its the only thing at the price point. When they buy a tablet, they buy a shit no brand one running an ancient android release, realise it sucks and just go and buy a shit windows laptop.

Less than ten percent of consumers are not moronic enough to buy something better the first time.

The businesses buy windows because its good enough and already works for what they need and they don't want to learn it all again.

I live in an expensive bit of London where people can afford i-this and that and everyone still had cheap pink laptops running windows. Phones are different but there is a definite shift towards blackberry and windows phone around me from iPhones. Most people whinge about their iPhone these days.
Sadly I only have one up-vote to give. I compulsively scroll up-down and the page keeps scrolling me back to the viewport it thinks i want. While this take over the user's scroll thing is a neat trick it reminds me of when much of the internet was flash. It's my fcking browser, let me control the fcking scroll.
One feature I love is, When I right click on the tab it should give an option to stop the music or video I am playing. May be you should provide hooks for the web page developer to integrate their music/video player to your menu items.
You can't resend network requests that's true, however I'm pretty sure Chrome's JS console beats FF/FB's http://smotko.si/using-chrome-as-a-javascript-editor/
Cree LEDs (not just bulbs) are sold to 3rd parties, too - and I've seen them used a bit on various Kickstarter projects. e.g: this one: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1324892969/open-source-u...

A standard 100 Watt lightbulb gets about 16 lumens/watt.
The 9.5 Watt lightbulb here can get ~ 84 lumens/watt.
The 9 Watt (more blue) lightbulb gets almost 89 lumens/watt
The above project can get about 90 lumens/watt.

.. but higher efficiencies and cooler temperatures are possible ..
e.g: this one spaces out the LEDs and claims to get 133 lumens/watt: - I don't know if they are from CREE or from a competitor:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/619878070/nanolight-the-...

Higher efficiencies are coming from Cree and others in the future - so it's going to get better. In the lab they're sometimes getting even in the realm of 200 lumens/watt.
Feature request: The ability to associate an gravatar email address after I've entered a room..
In the general purpose business IT world. Just about every small to medium business that isn't heavily tech focused is built around Microsoft software.

There is a ton of business IT that is entirely based around the Microsoft platform, and they are making good inroads there with their cloud services. Why run your own Sharepoint? Why buy everyone a desktop license for Office, when you can run it in the cloud and easily sync?
Actually there is an option, if you go to chrome://flags on Mac you can turn on "Tab Overview", which lets you hold down option and swipe down with 3 fingers to see an expose type overview of all open tabs. Pretty nice.
StopHeroku
That's not a meaningful context. That web server market share doesn't include all the on-premises servers for Intranets, mail, shared folders... Neither the Github percentage is representative. In fact, when your parent was referring to with 'silent majority' is that those C# projects are not on GitHub, not open source, just internal tools.

I don't say that .NET is a majority, or minority, or whatever. I sincerely don't have the data. But those numbers you gave don't prove anything.
If so, I wonder how it got on my system. I can't remember myself ever voluntarily installing Comic Sans.
It's not any worse than IO in other languages, which is the original topic.
[Following up: the answer appears to be "it's a designation for premium eggs at the supermarket".]

Well, it's a designation as to the conditions in which the chickens are kept.
Azure is going to win was the only thing I agreed with.
It seems to be what's most important to you. Uptime and Value are other important metrics cherished by sites that want to scale reliably and efficiently.
Thanks to noscript, I never even noticed.
I'd like to be able to use this for my telepresence rig. Please let me know if I can license this.
An HTTP client in Haskell using io-streams
There are often campaigns to "get children/young people interested in science". Except you don't have to teach people how to be interested in science, instead people/society teach people to not be interested in science. Children sometimes ask "why" constantly. Some people tell children to "not ask questions" or "just because". Then when they're 15 we wonder why they've stopped asking why. Grrr.
That's web sites. That's a fraction of the real world, which is my point. Most businesses don't run over HTTP. If most of the top 500 web sites disappeared, the world wouldn't stop.

GitHub is not a good measure of popularity of a proprietary language mainly aimed at internal and closed source software. In fact, if you added our 4.2mloc of total c# code to githib I reckon the stats would be different.
Very worthwhile. I'm sure he would be glad to hear from you.
I had a good laugh when someone on the chat mentioned this. "It's client-side?!"
It's sequential.
Of course not since I don't have one to check. All I have is this pic and my experience modding laptops.
But it is a silent majority. Because the majority of .NET software is not written to be public facing; but rather written for some internal IT need. Everyone who needs some little custom piece of software that will plug their special domain-specific software into their accounting system has it written in .NET.

Yes, Microsoft only has a small fraction of total public webservers. But theres so much that's not public that you don't see.

Github isn't a very good metric; Git is a lot more popular on Mac OS X and Linux than it is on Windows. Furthermore, most of the code written in C# isn't open source, so an open source hosting site isn't a good way to measure it; and the stuff that is, is more often hosted on Codeplex, Microsoft's code hosting site.
What is there to misread? Boost Software License is there?

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html :

Boost Software License (#boost)
This is a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL.
I found both types of examples you gave insulting.

Obviously being called dumb is insulting, but being treated like a baby is too.

What's so wrong with just saying

"This should be changed because ___"

"You should avoid doing something like this because __"
?
Great.

Except for those outdoor pictures at the bottom, because all I see is a massive amount of light pollution. Does a Burger King really need to be lit like that?

No-one is there, perhaps the lights should dim dramatically and sensors should make them come on depending on movement.

For indoors these bulbs are great, but for outdoors I care more about the excessive light pollution than the power usage.
It also can be copied over the internet by a malicious sw, unlike physical money.

There are multiple efforts from different groups/companies developing hardware wallets to precisely reduce this risk (think tamper-proof chips storing your coins). This format would still allow backups to exist (eg. saving coins in a 2nd identical chip, or saving the "seed" generating private addresses externally, for example on paper if you want to mimic the security feature of physical money).
I have been a customer for quite a while, the only problem I have is, that they use used hard drives in their servers. If one of them fails, you can get it replaced for free but it is used one. You can get a new one but you have to pay for it
I agree, yet usage some of these technologies seem to be indicative of bad QA. Smoke, if you will.

Some time ago I purchased The Binding of Isaac which is an amazing game, but it suffered from slowdowns on my computer. I guessed that it was Flash and this was indeed the case. It’s ridiculous that a game of that style does not run properly on a modern computer. These and similar incidents have left me very wary of Wine wrappers and Flash.
I'm not a huge fan of Cree's heat sink design - I prefer the Pharox bulb personally when it comes to esthetics, http://www.solarengineeringltd.com/renewableenergy/images/Br...

However, we aren't buying a car here. Nice that Cree's 60 watt replacement which actually produces 800 lumens, compared to other bulbs that claim to replace 60 watt lightbulbs that actually produce 400 lumens. Amazing that they managed to produce that amount of lumens with such little amount of energy - has anyone tested this bulb here? Also, very affordable compared to most manufacturers!!

Disclaimer - I use to work for Pharox. They were leading for a while but seem to have been overtaken.
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HTTP-based services and websites is going to be the majority of what services that are going to be hosted on Amazon/Azure.

Yes, many enterprises also makes use of MQ's and NoSQL, which due to their weak offerings and poor positioning is relatively non-existent on Microsoft platforms.
Ok.. The problem was the initial and final "/". :-P
I love it.
> Right, and taxes are the government robbing my family at gunpoint.

To be fair, they will come after you with guns if you stop paying taxes.
You are not the only one.

I actually threw out all my flourescent bulbs and bought a truckload of incandescents while they were still available because the flourescent light was too dim and "hollow" to feel comfortable.

I am not sure LEDs are any better, I believe the cheaper ones have huge spectrum gaps.
> Failed! "sodihfoihvocin" may exist, try another name

Hmm. Every name I tried gave me this message. At first I thought it was because I used obvious names that other people had used, like "test" and "foobar", but even the above random string of gibberish failed.
Yes the NSA can, and has, developed custom ASIC chips. They currently do it via http://www.trustedfoundryprogram.org However I doubt the NSA will ever care about Bitcoin (their primary mission is intelligence, not breaking decentralized currencies). And by the time they do (if they do) it might be too late for them to be able to attack it (the network hash rate might have grown too much, making such an attack too costly).
Or a hash with not enough bits to avoid collisions, and no chaining.
Heh, that's completely the opposite of my experience.

I've seen extremely few LED bulbs that say they are "dimmable" and I've been looking around a fair bit as I'm transferring all the lights in the house over to LED if on-time matters and CFL if it doesn't.

(in UK I should note)