skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the 'Like who?', I'm too lazy to check which companies are our customers that have a "can be used to endorse our service" clause, the categories off the top of my head are: major telecom providers, major PC sales companies, office furniture sales companies, major clothing companies, major beauty product companies. Note that this doesn't cover new companies or technology focused ones, there's a particular demographic that they are selling to that at a minimum browse their sites while at work. And after rereading everything, I may have been a bit ambiguous, so I'll clarify. People, while they are at work, use browser A because they work for shitty company X. While at work, they browse, add to cart and buy from an unrelated company. And for whatever reason, people buying from the unrelated company are disproportionately doing so while at work and working for a company with outdated browsers.

For the degradation, I especially don't mean a lazy approach. In fact, having good degradation is typically harder for newer developers (or requires them to check in more browsers). The core way to do it is to develop for what's common across browsers (what's handled the same way), then for ambiguities in the spec (does the border count as part of the width of a div or not?). Once that's done, you then add the extra. The idea is, if browser A supports, say, easily defined gradients on a button, but browser B doesn't, should we have a special case for browser B to load an image to give the identical gradient, or should we let it be a flat colored button? Or let's say a browser has some extensions that make client-side form validation easy and simple. Using that functionality for that browser makes sense, but is the development effort to do the validation on all browsers worth it when server-side validation will happen also? The functionality is the same, the experiences are both good, but the experiences are not identical.
That's a shitty situation to be in. Sounds like a great opportunity for someone to disrupt that industry titan, though.
Indeed, this is where common usage hasn't really caught up with best practice. It really is no better than showing the user their cleartext password.

Ideally you'd regenerate the key each time the user wants to show it or just use OAuth 2.0 (it's not as bad as everyone says it is).
Time to see if Obama and his office are going to follow through with their veto threats and play their hand. Considering the amount of publicity his opposition to the bill has received, it would be in his best interests to follow through.
sorry, wasn't meant as criticism, although i do think tor try quite hard to package things - it's certainly improved over the years. perhaps posting a bug report with your issue is the best way to get them to improve?
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor
OK, that's what they say ... the body measurements these women say they'd submit, are they their actual measurements in units of length or their "dress size" in the shop that makes their sizes bigger every year to flatter their customers? Maybe that goes for men too?

What I can't get my head around is why anyone would choose to get clothes that don't fit when they could have ones that do? It seems like going to a restaurant and refusing to tell the waiter what you'd like to eat and instead hoping that what they'll bring is something you like.

Well I can imagine some scenarios, perhaps a spendthrift likes to get roomy clothes and so doesn't want a "perfect fit" because they can't afford to grow out of them after Sunday lunch. Or, maybe a "perfect fit" is interpreted as "skin tight"?

People are strange.
It's pretty clear that you don't know many people who use IE8. What you're saying sounds nice in theory, but falls down in practice. Many people lack the knowledge of better browsers, or are simply afraid of changing, because they've learned how to use IE, and they don't want to learn a whole new set of routines. They don't use computers in the way you do, because they don't understand the underlying principles - they learn step by step how to do a task, and then they replay those steps every time, like an Excel macro. This is why, when something unexpected happens, they're helpless.

Switching browsers may break many of those macros, and at the very least, will be very uncomfortable for many.
Its a real pain when you want to inspect the files, delete or copy them.

Try taking 300,000 files and copy them somewhere. Then copy 1 file which has the size of the 300,000 combined. The single file is MUCH faster (its also why we usually do a tar operation before copying stuff if its already compressed). Any database that's not a toy will usually lay the 300,000 records out in a single file (depending on settings, sizes and filesystem limits).

The 300,000 files end up sitting all over the drive and disk seeks kill you at run-time. This may not be true for a SSD but I don't have any evidence to to suggest this or otherwise.

Even if the physical storage is fine with this I suspect you may run into filesystem issues when you lay out millions if not hundreds of millions of files over a directory and then hit it hard.

I have played with 1,000,000 files before when playing with crawling/indexing things and it becomes a real management pain. It may seem cleaner to lay each out as a singe file but in the long run if you hit a large size the benefits aren't worth it.
The url I pasted. Strange! :)
My guess is convenience. If you had to authorize a certain amount then in some cases people wouldn't authorize the right amount which would cause exceptions. It's much easier to just write merchants a figurative blank check and chargeback in case of an error.
That's super weird, because it's just a static web server.

I'm lookin!
Bear in mind that Azure storage includes "Blobs, Disks/Drives, Tables, and Queues" however S3 is only blobs (other services like Amazon's DynamoDB would be analogous to table storage). Hence, it's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
> As I said to your other comment, sometimes it's in everyone's best interest to promote engagement. If you're running a product with a strong social component, it isn't an "arbitrary business priority" to want to get people back to the site.

If you can't get people back to the site by providing value, then it's worth spending time figuring out how to provide that genuine value, rather than trying to force your users into it.

As you said, good judgement is key.
Which companies? Give us some names--that's why I'm proposing this list.

We always, always hear the same threadbare stories about mythical magical enterprise customers that can't/won't upgrade, and the little tail wags the dog, and the life for the rest of us is made harder.

All this for a use case which is basically hearsay and rumors.

As for inexperienced developers--I'll go and say that the experience I've had of watching bad compilers and system headers and christ only knows what else force native code to get uglier and uglier and less maintainable are what motivate me to try and discourage the same mistakes in Happy Web Land.

The web is barely twenty years old, arguably much younger--let's at least try and avoid sins we don't have to commit.

Edit: Or, you know, downvote me without explanation. That's pretty cool too.
Gabe Newell apparently owns more than 50% of Valve's equity so yes, he can do whatever he pleases with the company.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-08-gabe-newell-is-...
Sure, for $30 each. Or you can use "bill pay" to have your bank mail a paper check.
I agree. I once asked a mechanic in my military unit a question about a car problem, it quickly turned into an hour-long lecture on thermodynamics and ambient heat. The guy is absolutely brilliant.
Didn't take it personally. I support TOR. I just don't like them complaining about network congestion/overloading when they don't do enough (IMO) to make it easy to expand the network.
Fair point. Do we have any other numbers that might make it a more apples-to-apples comparison?
Sorry guys got way behind. Updating with all of the new ones now

EDIT: Updated all the way to the most recent. This is crazy that it's still going...
>They will stay on XP for ages because it works with everything they bought when they last "modernized" their practice ten years ago.

AFAIK the only reason XP was supported for more than that was the Longhorn delays.
I think it will. Especially when you can say, "If we can drop IE 6/7/8 support, development costs will go down significantly." Remember, it's not just JS compatibility, think about all the CSS hacks you need to do to get your design just so. HTML 5 is another issue (I'm talking tag support). Requiring flash versions of your custom skinned player. There are so many factors we need to attach to old browsers, that it just makes sense to move forward. Maybe not right this second, but soon. And I think this is a great place to start.
people really only use credit cards for online purchases or when they're already living beyond their means

If I'm parsing what you're saying correctly, then that doesn't match my experience.

Most people I know will use a credit card at an EFTPOS machine in preference to using their ATM card, and lots of people use the credit card regular because it's simpler than regularly getting cash from the ATM.

My current trip from Home -> Work does not go directly past any ATMs that are free for me (I pass a couple, but the ATM operator will charge me to use them), so I regularly buy everyday items on my credit card.

Heck, I buy my train ticket (a whole $6.60) on my credit card each morning because

1. it doesn't cost me any more than paying with cash

2. it saves me from having to worry about whether my wallet is empty, when my focus is on getting in to the office

Now, I also have a cheque book in a drawer somewhere, but I think the last time I used it would have been when about 3 years ago when I needed to give my parents some money and my Mum didn't have her bank account details with her (which would have allowed me to transfer it electronically)
One key difference: banks in Australia have high assurance of identity because of the 100-point check, which non-Australians may find sounds a bit like what Dwolla were asking for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_point_check
How claiming to be "big government" different than wanting policies that necessitate big government?
There are macros in IE8? Really?

Look, there are two camps: companies that refuse to run modern browsers, and individual users.

I posit that we should list the members of the former camp, and that we should educate the members of the latter camp. Changing from IE to Firefox to Chrome shouldn't be a big deal, and if we've only managed to instill idiot monkey-level tools usage in our users we have (as developers and human beings and tool-users!) failed.

You do not, do not want to encourage the intellectual sloth of these folks--it will come back to bite all of us.
I'm really interested in how organizations are organized. Does anyone have any suggested reading material for things like this? I've only ever heard the term "cells" before as it relates to terrorist groups, but I'm not sure if this is a similar concept. But I often wonder if organizing a business more like a democracy would yield better results in the long run ...
Why the government burdened journalism.
Slightly OT: but I've always loved how Finns are so direct in their writing and speech (yet also able to be really funny at the same time). I suspect that it might have something to do with their famously small alphabet, but it always comes across pretty cool in English :)
[EDIT: just realised that the writer of the article is here in the forum. Hi, Bemmu!]
Is print journalism dying?
Nitpick: it's a per-district office. Massachusetts only has one US Attorney due to population and judicial district organization, but a number of states have more than one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney
They were not your friends. Friends don't do that.
Things I Wish I Had Known Before We Got Married
The title of this is complete bullshit!
Did the writer actually read the study hes referencing?
One of the conclusions is that crossed arms is meaningless!
That's fine. Veto the budget. Send them back to the drawing board. That would have been the best outcome.
China censors the word 'censorship'
To be actually fair - if we could label the parties with anything it would be:

Republicans stand for strong tribalism - doing only what the tribe approves and not applying any actual rationality to it. Insanely pro-team people are regularly kicked out of this party for mild disagreement with a small subset of this weeks ideals.

Democrats stand for weak triablism - they are sort of in the same camp on some stuff, but generally are allowed to disagree with the cult on things too. No one is kicked out, but bickering gets in the way of standing up to a strong voting block of the super-tribalist republicans.
Yeah the last time I trusted Obama to do something.......

Won't get fooled again on this one.
How about you just press up arrow to recall the previous command, ctrl-A to go to the beginning of the line, and then type "sudo "? It's the same number of keystrokes as typing "sudo !!". And I'm sure you can use something other than up arrow to recall the previous command if you don't want to take your fingers off the home row.
Do they ask for it up front, or at some random point without warning after telling you the account has been successfully set up?
I'm just trolling the STEM grads. I got the professor's permission to do that!
I would agree with the last line, but I don't think that's a bad thing and I think the language can still be used plenty widely.

As for IRC, I was in the other day asking about trait usage - static vs dynamic. I got the 10-year-PL-designer explanation and had the ELI20 explanation from a few other people. I walked away with a rough understanding and working code. That's what I'm looking for in IRC. Quite pleased!
I'd be interested in this too but I doubt the information is public. They must be doing something right for such a small operation.
Thanks a lot! Best of luck, too! :-)
I'm still waiting for Information Theory to be updated with the errata I submitted. In at least two places (pages 458 and 459) he mentions the possibility of accepting (!?) the null hypothesis.

snark.
Please send ripples through to market Google.
I don't think 5% requires support.

1) Opportunity cost. Supporting them takes time and makes your code more bloated and less able to use cool new stuff without hacks and workarounds (and that cool new stuff can give you a competitive advantage to the other 95%).

2) This 5% is only gonna go down.

3) 5% is too small anyway.

4) There might be 5% of traffic, but how much is quality traffic? Depending on the site, a guy with the latest laptop, OS, browser and everything might be more likely to spend money, compared to some XP using guy that might have gotten there accidentally. This needs more search into your user data to tell.

5) Even if you want to still cater to IE6, you don't have to support it per se. You can just make it generally sure that its user can click around and see the pages, even if they lose a lot of formatting and cool options. I mean, don't even go for "progressive enhancement" stuff. Just let them be able to at least see the page, even if it looks like crap without the necessary css etc support.
Actually you're succumbing to a silly strawman. A huge chunk of government "bigness" doesn't come from those programs, it comes from a penny-wise and pound-foolish stance most americans seem to take of: we must spend 300-800% of any given cost on accounting, oversight, tripple checking etc. That isn't a typo - it costs so much to do things because most of the money goes to oversight crap. We could simplify all the red tape, let a full 25% of costs go to grift, and still come out ahead by a lot.

Note: this assumes that there isn't just fancy grift in the whole set of red tape procedures.
Because it gives Congress a chance to revise the bill before putting it to vote.
My favorite quote from the article:

In the real world, if you build a bookshelf and forget to tighten one of the screws all the way, it does not burn down your house
Thanks for sharing! I have only toyed around but I also really like the simplicity.
Folder structure in some repos seems like a game is being built.
As a word of warning to those who would try Dwolla. Not only do they ask for tons of information as many posters have mentioned, but they will not remove your data if you close an account. If you read the Terms of Service Closely they dictate they they will keep your data for a _minimum_ of three years and possibly indefinitely. This includes your name, address, phone number, SSN, and Drivers License. Think twice about how much you trust them before you fork over information to a company that provides you with that kind of ultimatum.
I've been meaning to try these but have been avoiding the scheduling headache… but it just sounds like too much fun, so I finally sent you guys an email. I'll make time for it somehow. Thank you for doing this, you guys are awesome.
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If they are good, yes I want to hire them regardless of age.
Experience is a valuable asset as well.
I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but:

A game that lets you top the leaderboards by paying buckets of cash is a game designed around exploiting their players. It's a kind of shallow and unethical game design that's basically the junk food and cigarettes of games. It's fine that it exists, and everyone should have the freedom to partake in it, but I hope no one looks up to it as a model of good game design. Sure, it's a good business model or whatever, but so is selling cigarettes.
MarK Z is and his Friends are for low wages paid to out of country workers, look up some headlines in the past few months about microsoft, They only want out of country workers for low wages, what makes me sick is these companies are prospering bookoo bucks and they are not concerned about the thousands of unemployed american workers who have earned twice, maybe three times as much wages in the past before the pink slip and economy slip in tech, look at all the cool miners, auto workers etc also that could use some training to help these tech co. out. Mark Z and his friends just want to pay low wages to immigrants and forget about hiring or training americans- This Fwd.us is sooo antiamerican it sucks, American Businesses and Proprieters-Do Not advertise on their sites and do not utilize their services-They are not For Immigration and
they are not For Americans, They are for their selfish selves. For those that won't help the economy or the unemployed, there will be those that pop of like bad weeds that do, there will be a shift change no doubt!
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I'm hoping to see Google move out to the east & west coasts with their fiber speeds as well.
When has a Republican senator or representative been kicked out for voicing a differing opinion? I'm assuming, according to your logic, John McCain will be kicked out sometime soon for his vote yesterday? What about the Republican senator who is now pro gay marriage (Dick Cheney is one too as a matter of fact)? Will they be kicked out too? Or what about Ron Paul and his foreign policy? Will they call for his head soon?
Dwolla shill located.
Scala vs. Clojure
No. Given a fixed inflation adjusted income ($), they have less square feet, less nice neighborhoods, longer commutes, etc.
This was a long scam then. Over a year of being gym partners, playing racquetball, drinking, all the stuff you would do with people you consider friends.
Likewise, I ditched Dojo for jQuery because of the docs.
You know darn well your question points to a strawman. It's pretty standard patent theory anymore to wait a little while, until there is lots of infringement, then to get a patent troll involved.
Or it's political calculus...or he flipped a coin.
The domain name (celebsbukakke.com) is NSFW (and might get you in trouble if your webfilter picks up on it)
So Microsoft hate WinXP so much they made dropping support in MSIE a new major release?
Nokia Q1 results
> In your mind, what investments that appreciate over time are not "undue credit"? Do you have a certain amount of gain that we can all know is fair, deserved, or not lucky?

Investments generally appreciate over time because they create increased value. If your Apple stock goes up, it's because Apple is making more money each year. That's due credit. Investments that appreciate simply by virtue of fixed supply result in undue credit to older generations.
If I refresh sometimes I get a 404, sometimes I get the page ...
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>Or at least, that was the case at the time I was on Mozilla's IRC server.

That. It can vary with time, mood etc. It's not like there are that many people hanging around at the channel yet, or using the language in general. Heck, it's not even beta or frozen yet!

The mailing list I found to be quite friendly.
Bitcoin, Artificial Intelligence, Economy and Buddhism
Greed has been a major problem for both bitcoin and our society as a whole. It surely leads us to both economic and environmental disaster and the time is running out. Even though bitcoin was envisioned as decentralized exchange system the reality shows us that it turned into the vehicle for speculators, day traders and bankers plus professional miners taking control away from a little guy who is left behind as usual.

Did Satoshi think about that when he envisioned bitcoin? What we see now is that bitcoin exposes one important issue, namely human psychology and the fact that it absolutely has to be factored in.

Now, what if we will have bitcoin 2.0 or some other crypto 2.0 that is based or run by AI that bases its principles of work on fairness, altruism, and kindness? (i.e. Buddhist values)? The system will be designed in a way that everyone will have a fair chance to get a block, and it will not depend on the capital the person has. Furthermore, the AI could be trained to detect "greedy" transactions and mitigate them, so no matter how much fat banker or day trader try to accumulate bitcoin 2.0 he will not be able to. Imagine what this could do for human society as a whole. It is like we can erase everything and start from the scratch all over again without any fat cats having any advantage.

What do you think?
This reminds me of the scene in Shogun (Richard Chamberlain, 1980, etc. Doesn't ring a bell? Do yourself a favor and read the book/watch the film.) where he's in jail and the Spanish Friar tells him: "in Japan, all crimes have only one penalty: Death!"

As an aside, my wife is Japanese (born and raised there) and in her mind, once the police or the authorities say something, it's God's Truth.

It doesn't help that in Japan, the Emperor is believed to be descended from the Gods.

I'm breaking her of that concept, because, let's face it, man is fallible, but it's been an interesting struggle.
This kind of article doesn't address the issue known as Chesterton's fence [1]. If so-called "low power" poses are so bad for you, why have they survived evolution? Why do we have such strong ingrained impulses to assume them in the first place? "Experts" need to give a very, very convincing answer to this question before urging us to abandon such poses.

Anecdotally, I've often been with groups of engineers where everyone was assuming "low power" poses. The discussion seemed to flow more constructively in such circumstances; it was as though everyone admitted that they didn't know the right answers. They felt free to submit very rough ideas because everybody else was just as ignorant and not in a position to shoot them down. Enter a "confident" program manager, however, and the group quickly devolved into silence and/or banalities; everyone felt reluctant to express opinions that they didn't feel completely certain about.

[1] http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2012/03/chesterton-fe...