skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NY Times lawyer Samson's response clearly indicates a complete lack of understand of what scrollkit is/does. He thinks it's a toolkit for replicating content, when it's a toolkit that can be used to replicate technique.

Scrollkit used bad phrasing. What they should have said -- "NY Times spent hundreds of hours building the groundbreaking Snow Fall article. With Scrollkit they could have completed it in only a few hours. Here's proof! p.s. NY Times Editors -- contact us and we'll be happy to get your next award-winning article built faster and cheaper!"
I've seen something new and excitingly terrible in both Sears and Home Depot recently. They have dedicated sales people whose sole job is to approach customers and try to sell them on credit cards or kitchen remodels or whatever high profit thing they are pushing at the time. They presumably work on commission based on the hard sell and they have no knowledge like the real salespeople.

They're basically training people to say "No" to people who approach them in stores. Very short-sighted.
I know I'm breaking HN guidelines, but thanks for that comment. :)
So wait - are you trying to argue on a trivial point (arguing just to argue) or are you saying that my comments are wrong?
IPv4 also has a valid decimal representation. http://1249764136/ will send you to Google!
Example of neccesary noise would be me trying to support clients who don't have a clue what they're doing with the product (and it's their stupidity to blame).

As for unneccesary noise example, that would be feedback of people whose feedback I do not value.

And as for edited and added last question - it depends. :)
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Think about the repercussions of not using a validation email. Anyone can sign anyone else up. That's even more unacceptable IMHO.
BTW Professionals are exempt from a lot of the Directives on working time and 99% of IT workers are considered professionals.

Um IANAL but I am an "approved person" as it applies in the UK (ie I could represent some one at a discipline or grievance hearing)

In the UK and the USA employment law descends from the Masters and servants act.

The argument used would be having another job without your employers agreement is a fundamental breach of trust between the employer (master ) and the employee (servant)
>Third – don’t feel guilty or pushy doing it. People wouldn’t (especially men) enter a store just for the sake of it, they want help.

That made me laugh. I usually go into clothing stores exactly just for the sake of it - I like fashion, only buy when I see something special and never know what I'm looking for. Women's fashion is far more varied of course - my male friends are always dismayed that they don't have more choice but I wonder back: would you wear unique designs the way women will, if they were offered?

Back to the question: I'll invariably refuse help unless I am absolutely looking for something specific, which case I'll seek out a staff member immediately and bother them to tell me if they have it so I don't waste my time in their shop looking.
Not sure, I find it impossible to believe that the establishment will give anti-establishment political organizations a fair shake, which is exactly what happened in this scandal. These orgs are not partisan per se, for all I know there's some anti-establishment Democrats out there that they've supported (e.g. many of my home state's Missouri Democratic "liberals" are to the right of the national Republican party/establishment), and they've collected many Republican establishment scalps.

But one of the problems is that before the fact investigation just doesn't work, for how can you tell if an org is going to do impermissible actions? The only one that counts is coordination with a campaign, which is by definition secret, because the other impermissible actions (at least that I know of) are by definition public.

Although, now that I think about it, I'm not sure where the lines are drawn. The NRA-ILA explicitly "endorses" some politicians in addition to grading all they can afford to do, and boy do anti-gun Republicans squeal like stuck pigs when the NRA tells the truth, or, worse, goes after them with a rusty knife like they did with F rated Lugar. So explicit endorsement per se does not cross the line....

Look at the examples of the suppressed orgs that said their purpose was teaching people about the Constitution. That's obviously subversive nowadays (heck, look at the IRS ex-Commissioner I think who said he didn't know the contents of the 1st Amendment), and yet they somehow deserve extra scrutiny?

Look up the concept of prior restraint, which the government is seldom allowed to do when it comes to enumerated Constitutional rights. I.e. they can't order the press to not do something, only prosecute them afterwords.
I wish the retail business model was more focused on making me leave their establish happy and satisfied than having made a purchase. Try to understand what I actually want, not how you can extract money out of me.
http://z.cn goes to Amazon China.
Radio Shack in the not too distant past (not sure now) had loss prevention policies that required a store employee to speak to each customer and checkup on them every so often (cannot remember the time interval).
Not everybody reacts the same way.

Some people don't like being approached at all and will almost literally run off the moment you go near them. They might buy, but only if you don't hassle them.

Some people want you to approach them, but don't want to engage in a cushy conversation, they know why they are there and what they want, they are genuinely just looking and you're distracting them, but they want to know you are there incase you have a question.

Some people who do want to be sold on your sales banter, after all, that's why they entered your shop.
I have two Ubuntu Linux installations. The desktop uses XFCE4. The ancient notebook uses LXDE because it's really low end hardware.

The notebook can't run Unity. The desktop can, but Unity is optimized to get the best use of small screens, and I have a large one.
Where are you located? Will you help me with my project?

I am 29 and moving back to my home state because I failed to get funding out here and want to go be with my parents.

I have worked on the same project for most of my 20s and invested everything into it.
First you verify the email, then you process the emails. What good is a list of email addresses if you haven't verified their authenticity?
That said, with Haswell coming out soon with 50% bonus to battery life, its probably a bad idea to get a laptop right now :-p.

Haswell officially ships on June 3. IIRC, Dell will have their first models in somewhere between June and July, with additional models coming out in August. I'd expect their competitors to be roughly on the same timeline.
After "printcrime" there will be: "look-crime"

And after that, there will be "mind-crime".
http://raspberrypi.collabora.com/ though Daniel Stone is intending to update that (hopefully soon) so the .debs include a weston-launch script that does the necessary XDG_RUNTIME_DIR setting and misc setup for a simple easy to run demo.
It depends on why it was taken in house. If it's because Siemens were making a mess of it, then it sounds like the BBC should have canned the whole thing in 2010.

The BBC have been held hostage by Siemens for a long time due to a very restrictive support contract that basically froze their technical infrastructure in aspic for years[1].

[1]http://old.iamseb.com/seb/2007/12/perl-on-rails-why-the-bbc-...
f.me would be excellent.
Yep, that's pretty much what I do too.
> * Was that test just on new users - or subscribers in general? If the latter you're going to self-select for folk who are interested enough in your stuff to read regardless, which will skew the results somewhat.

I don't have 'subscribers' or 'new users'. Just people visiting the site. (I suppose there's people visiting from the RSS feed, but they're well under 1% of page views.)

> you've got a pretty technical audience...I'd be leary of generalising that to other markets.

OP's blog seems rather technical.

> This will make the improvement on larger displays seem less significant.

True, but this still wouldn't explain why the smaller max-widths - the max-widths that would hit the most viewers - would not win.

> * Tests like this can be really skewed if you have audiences that shift device over time

Certainly, but the 2 tests were separated by something like a year. Is it really likely the audience changed in both a/b tests in the same way?

> * The line length is something that has interactions with other typographic features like line spacing and font size. Optimising on one alone can lead to poor results.

Sure, but in the absence of any specific reason to suspect an interaction...
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Because it takes system resources to deliver email. Furthermore, if people make a simple typo, why go to the extent of attempting to send something to it when it's obvious?
What awful advice. I prefer someone to ask me "Can I help you?" If I need help I'll tell him, if I don't right now I'll tell him. Cornering me like that with a two choice question would just provoke me to rudely answering "I'll let you know when I need help".
I'm talking about the US (I don't know anything about pricing in other countries).

We're in the processing of spec'ing two new ambulances. We're looking at 'mid-range' rigs, and most bids are coming in around $185k-$190k.
Well it's not true that there was no existing relationship. And I'm not sure what anyone gains by your wild speculation.
my favorite is google chrome built in email check which is enabled with a required tag.
> This puts the burden of checking email validity on every user, even perfectly capable valid users.

? Whenever I hit a form which wants me to retype my address, I just triple-click to select the entire address, then middle-click to paste it into the confirmation field.
I won't address the "I cannot believe" part...

>If you are already familiar with OSS, but so far never found anything "interesting", the best thing to do IMHO would be starting your own

I couldn't disagree more. If you haven't found a project that is "interesting" or simply useful, then you're not really programming (or perhaps aren't looking in the right place?). There are SO many useful projects, or semi-useful projects (and lots of not very useful ones) that there's got to be at least one (if not dozens) that would be interesting.

Regardless, if one couldn't find an interesting one to contribute to (at least a little bit), starting a new one would be a bad idea because, unless it's really unique or compelling, won't get a lot of attention and you won't get any good feedback on what you're doing (which is critical if you want to learn).

I do agree that the social aspects of contributing to and/or running an OSS project is important. So even if you're not contributing code to a project, if you're filing issues or making comments on other issues, that's a great way to learn.
I worked computer retail for a bit over 3 years and I think the best opening line was always "hello" or "good morning/afternoon/evening", with a by "welcome to [store]".

The best follow-up was to not only look busy but be busy. Stocking shelves or merchandising was always effective. People who want help but are shy about it always seem willing to spontaneously talk with employees who are busy doing something... it's a strange concept.

"Are you looking for pants or tops" is assumptive and manipulative. Remember this chestnut from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4795139 : "Which one are you most impressed by?" How about neither, you swarmy ass?
That supports gjm11's reading.
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They do but throw away any feelings of compulsion to buy things to make the salesperson happy. And if you don't like them or find them helpful, totally just walk away or say: "Thanks for your help, but I am going to look on my own now."

It's not a personal relationship and (basic human decency aside) you have no need to please them.

But don't categorically reject all salespeople. Maybe go to better stores where there are higher quality folks at work?
Bingo. I'm sure there are some HNers with arpanet emails who would appreciate this; it's not just about ipv6!
I don't want to get in to a discussion of scrollkit's technical merits, so I'll concede for their sake that their current product is a technical marvel beyond what I could ever conceive.

That said, here is the key problem that scrollkit runs into: Content management. I never saw the Snow-Fall-reproduction video, but I'm assuming it involved cutting-pasting wide swaths of the final product into its editor. For the sake of argument, let's pretend that scrollkit's replica was pixel perfect.

OK, but here's the part that scrollkit does not solve at all: how does their tool manage the actual story-creation-editing process? Most writers do their writing in a text editor (Microsoft Word), then paste it into their CMS (Wordpress for example). Multimedia developers, ultimately, do kind of the same thing...build their thing (video, JS graphic, whatever) in their dev environment, and place its representation into the CMS.

OK, that's easy enough...until the writer decides that they want to remove a paragraph, switch others around, etc. etc...In a system like scrollkit's, which as far as I can tell, is a single page template editor...the writer cannot simply just select-all-delete-copy-paste because, well, that would delete the multimedia artist's work.

That's just one logistical hurdle, and probably the most minor one. But when you try to edit this piece with several people, you are going to run into major, show-stopping, hair pulling issues. This is hard to explain to developers, because we have such things as Git, automated testing, IDE's etc....imagine working on a codebase without any of those things. That is the world of virtually most content producers...which is why we have CMS and templates in the first place.

This is all descending into pedantics...but that's precisely the issue. Content producers, if you give them a bespoke tool to create something "beautiful", will happily work 24/7 doing such things as manually kerning text, fixing paragraph widows, hand inserting links over and over, etc. etc....because they don't know of any better way to do things. They don't realize how much time of their time they're wasting into reinventing the wheel. And when a production involves multiple people with varying objectives, you will have a serious clusterfuck.

And we haven't even gotten to the part of how these bespoke feature creations are linked (not just hyperlinked) into the creator's site.

So that's my issue. scrollkit solves (if it works completely as advertised) one of the least important problems in the online publishing workflow. Which is not to say that it's useless, but the problem is that it, IMHO, is doing a massive disservice by telling people that this, the problem they focus on, is the real barrier to creating compelling journalistic features.
I went to Sears two days ago for a brake inspection. The guy quoted $700. He pulled me off to the side and said, 'buy the parts for $100 and we will charge $300 for labor. Quote around for better prices, or you might be able to do the labor yourself, so, give that a try too and just bring it in if all else fails.' My memorial day weekend is going to consist of attempting these repairs, but thanks to him, I may become a man this weekend.

(No, brakes are not my first repair. Most of my repairs have been in the car, electrical, hoses, injection, dropping the fuel tank, etc. I have always stayed away from tires/suspension and usually paid the hefty fees. Thanks for the _valid_ concern!)
How is the Detroit crime rate?
I worked in retail for a few years and the approach I always took was to say hello or make eye contact and smile. That way if the customer needs help they know you are there but they dont feel harassed.
Totally love jEdit, especially the search functionality. I've been using it for more than 7 years now, though development of jEdit and plugins have slowed in recent years. I've tried using Sublime and Notepad++ but both of them don't feel right.
Even if I know more or less what I am looking for, I'd still rather do it on my own time than have a sales associate "help" me. I always feel like I am pressured in to making a decision faster than I would otherwise. If they are helping me and I do try to take my time to make the decision I always get the impression of mounting frustration at my indecisiveness. That's why I prefer sales associates who say "let me know if you need any help" and then just leave me alone.
I had a job in college where I was supposed to sell worthless "protection plans" on every goddamned product in the store. Second-to-worst job I ever had.
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Another thing, I just saw the prices for your services, going upwards to $1,800/mo. If you're intention is to attract companies with that kind of budget, you'd definitely have your work cut out for you. There is 0% chance a company with that kind of budget would sign up with a service that isn't 100% polished and offers more than just, here's a server. They can get a dedicated server with those specs elsewhere for probably cheaper at a more reputable vendor. Sorry, but I think you really need to rethink the market, and definitely stop your paid advertising. It's just going to waste.
You're right about this. On my GNU/Linux machine, main is in the data segment. The process receives a segfault for trying to execute from a page marked as not executable.

(gdb) print &main
$1 = (int *) 0x600864 <main>
(gdb) run
Starting program: /tmp/s
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000600864 in main ()

If we are to mark the data segment as executable (quite easy for ELF), we can see execution starting at &main and continuing until end of the page and then segfaulting for trying to execute from an unmapped virtual address.

(gdb) print &main
$1 = (int *) 0x600864 <main>
(gdb) run
Starting program: /tmp/s
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000601000 in ?? ()

If we change the source to main=0xC3; as per your suggestion and we mark the data segment as executable, the program exits correctly (but with an exit status we don't control).

(gdb) x/i &main
0x600860 <main>:	retq
(gdb) run
Starting program: /tmp/s_ret
[Inferior 1 (process 10588) exited with code 0140]
> She doesn't know what kind of price range I'm looking at, or even what particular clothes I'm currently looking for.

I would wager she could probably make a very good guess based on which shop she works in. You don't get £10 t-shirts in a Hugo Boss shop, and you probably don't care as much about labels if you're shopping at Ross.
Were there two generations of the 5 550? I clearly haven't followed it closely enough. I have some kind of chromebook made by samsung. I bought it just after they were commercially released. The model under the bottom of it says 500c.
a₂) Your investors believe in the value of patents.
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Plain and simple introduction to the rendering technique that uses distance fields.
You imply that malnourishment, lack of medical care, and hard labor, all contributing to an earlier death very soon after the end of productive capacity to be superior to a longer, less physically taxing, existence with more (Maslovian) needs met- that also has a high probability of retirement;

given 98% of your productivity in both systems profit other before yourself: your goals are clearly suicidal or trolling
Ah, so I must choose between funding murder or being murdered. Seems reasonable. I can't just, say, move to and support with taxes a country that doesn't attack others?
Indeed, I'm French and I'm really bad in English. Sorry for destroying your language so much.
I don't have just one. Under Windows, I use a fork of Florian Ballmer's Notepad2 to replace Notepad. It's one of a number of editors based on Neil Hodgson's Scintilla edit control. It's small, starts fast, and can replace Windows Notepad through a registry hack. I also have Notepad++ and an assortment of other things installed.

Under Linux, I use Vim, emacs, and Geany, which is a lightweight IDE also based on Scintilla.
As a non-commissioned retail salesperson in a previous life, giving honest and helpful recommendations and trying not to annoy people that don't need help, was the only pride to be found in that work.

Not everybody is an introvert, and some people do want help but are too afraid to ask. Although I suspect that for each of those there are three people that would just like to shop on their own.

It's also important to note people can often give the wrong signals. Wearing a baggy coat and making sideways glance at the staff because you're worried they may come over may flag you as a shoplifter and attract their attention.
If it were bottom 5%, then one out of 20 Google employees would have their careers over every year. That's not the case.
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I think your reply is interesting because you're advising taking specific useful experience and kind of like, just working on selling the experience (which is absolutely worth something) rather than continuing pushing the 'next best thing'.

Reading tech news sites all the time kind of makes me feel like unless you're pouring your heart and soul into your job or startup or whatever you're just a useless asshole. Maybe that's not the case and experience is worth something, enough to coast along and be useful while you find new direction or new inspiration.

I don't know!
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Why? I have heard (I mean, read) people reporting having felt slight tremors. Example ([ru]): http://nina-petrovna.livejournal.com/797021.html
They're paid to say that. They could come to no other conclusion except that "IP" "theft" costs some other Large Number of dollars per year.

You can't believe this kind of thing.
Don't most startups end up failing? A few make it and I guess that is what we all hear about.

I felt the same way about a project I was working on. It sucks when you think you made something cool, but no one else does.

Maybe that is why most people just stick with the corporate job. I think hope along with greed might be the two most powerful human emotions. You just can't give up that hope.
"As programmers, we make it our job to automate people out of employment"

This is a Luddite view: you are focusing on the particular form of employment that is made obsolete, while ignoring the bigger picture. Automation puts some people out of work. It also creates jobs for others.

This will not change until we create machines that can not only repair themselves, but also design better versions of themselves. We still need people just to keep software systems running -- if even our software, which is supposedly automating people out of work, needs constant attention from people to keep it in a sane state, what sort of automation do you think is putting us into a post-scarcity society (rather than simply shifting the scarcity around)?
Kicksend has a library for that: https://github.com/kicksend/mailcheck

I actually think that this library functions as a really great client-side validation that won't get you tripped up in trying to be RFC compliant. There's really not anything more that I'd do aside from sending that blessed confirmation email.
Information always finds a way to propagate

There are 1.3 billion people in China who would probably disagree.