skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In cases such as yours, you need more than phone support. You need a Customer Relations Manager, aka Account Manager.

The problem is that company execs conflate phone support for the masses with phone support for those upon whom valuable business is conducted. The problem with phone support for the masses is that there is a vocal minority who waste considerable phone support resources due to their ignorance, stupidity, reluctance to read anything or even attempt to understand anything. Anybody who has worked on phone support will tell stories, often over beers, about "customers" ringing up and abusing them for situations which basically stem from them not reading even the most rudimentary "READ THIS FIRST" material.

Instead of having a robotic voice answer your calls with "your call is important to us" it would be great if companies actually acted acted in a manner consistent with their core value of "Your business is important to us" and the more business you give them, the more they show that you are important to them. Actions do speak louder than words.
Well then any good person would want the government to pursue him to be tried, so he could be found innocent by his peers and allowed to come home. But then a lot of people don't want to see that happen, and would rather see him exiled.

Of course, if he's guilty of some greater crime, I'd always want to see him punished. For me, it's simple.

But it's really not. It's not as simple as saying you want the government to pursue him or not, especially now when the information is still coming in.

Regardless, this is deviating from my original question, and I think you are missing the point.
Corollary: get a deposit.
Well, I learned vim by building something (using vim).

I just sucked it up and ran vim, then ran head first through the brick walls... That was years ago, and I'll never regret it.
Check out grouptalent.com. It might be what you are looking for.
You'll have to let me know how getting ignored in two different mediums feels.

Protip? Getting people to talk to you is another form of sales.

Also, don't ask questions in public for which the answers that could cause them to get blacklisted in their field of choice. That's a pretty good way not to get an answer.

Rachel tends to be a drive-by participant in this community. Look at the comment/post history and the profile which is exceedingly well tuned.

Lastly, why do you care what IT people that used to work for Google think of the Triumvirate?
Intel App Framework v2.0 (formerly known as jqMobi) has been released. This JavaScript framework enables web developers to build highly customizable and feature-rich mobile websites that run on iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Windows mobile devices. Note: I'm not affiliated with Intel or this project -- i'm just a happy developer that uses this library. If you're looking to build interactive websites that run on a wide range of mobile devices, you should definitely check this out.
That's very true. But when I need to write in a language that I'm not fluent in, it would be nice to have a competent spell checker, etc. For example, my Spanish pronunciation is rather poor, so chances are that I would also misspell words when I write them. And it is very easy to innocently write something which turns out to be rude or even vulgar.
In the case where providers/servers are under NSA jurisdiction (or control, in the case of them hacking servers) -- they could also keep a copy of session keys.

But that would force them to intercept at many more points than simply various edge routers (which is what they may or may not be doing now, having (or not having) equipment at ISPs/TelCos).

Essentially, if you use gmail or outlook.com -- you'll just have to trust that no one has forced (or covertly) installed backdoored crypto libraries. I do think it is very likely security agencies (both foreign and domestic) have agents/assets working at large companies like Google and Microsoft -- I don't think it is very likely that they have been able to covertly subvert their infrastructure. But it certainly is possible.
Its not a norm, but it is now giving many people a chance to try.

If I have to compare, its synonymous with building a online presence with a blogging site. It won't earn you much and you won't buying yachts with that money. But the purpose of that blogging site is to get you some following and recognition in the community.

Then you need to go on and build something awesome that sells. That is playing the bigger game.

Pandora is the first step. Not the last one.
Lorem Gibson - Website filler text based on the works of William Gibson
The Soviet Union, nor the notoriously efficient Stasi, had anything like our automation. You have to wonder if The Wall would have come down if they had our tools.
What PFS will protect against in this scanario is decrypting SSL sessions whose cyphertexts were captured before the attacker had access to the private key. It doesn't protect against (any) man-in-the-middle attacks.
> Since I've written code to render filled polygons before (concavity is a fun corner case), I assumed this was what it was referring to,

I was told it is part of the web startup, full-stack hipster vocabulary, because "shim" is just not cool enough and a new word was needed.
Jean-Michel Basquiat and Dash Snow died from heroin overdoses. Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Frida Kahlo, and many other artists used heroin or opium.
Isla: a programming language for children
Work with a mentor or somebody who knows the technology
I'm curious but helpless, what's it called so I can learn more?
I'm a die-hard C++ guy but years ago I wrote a few 10k's of C# and found it quite productive. Here's what I liked about it:

* Garbage collection

* Lightning fast compilation

* Pointer-safe subset good enough for most common uses.

LINQ is also considered a huge win by many, though I suspect it could also be done in C++.
Type "feedly keyboard shortcuts" or "feedly tutorial" into google

Um...
I wish Pocket would adopt Feedly's UED and discovery engine, or that Feedly would pick up on Pocket's browser extension and archiving ability. That would be almost perfect.
What is really missed is the larger picture.

People who used/use Reader digest information. A lot of information and quickly (at least if you are using it correctly).

They are often the hubs in social/meme networks. I find cool stories all the time and propagate those stories out. It is hard to value that, if there is value there at all.

When the demise of Reader had been announced, bluntly feedly sucked. It looked like Pintrest (is that bad?) It was missing the key feature in a reader... the reading part. Pictures are nice and layout is ok, but seriously I just want to read really quick.

Feedly has gotten better or maybe I just have figured out the correct way to use it? Hard to say.

What I have really learned from google closing reader is that you cannot trust someone you are not paying with your data. And maybe you cannot even trust someone you are paying... how depressing.
Yep - I have the same approach. My subscriptions generate 5-10 posts a day, I look at them once in the afternoon, mark all as read and move on.

Open sourced mine here: https://github.com/swanson/stringer - it's <10 minutes to deploy an instance to Heroku and be on your way. All the data is in your own database - do whatever the hell you want with it.
> Not having the information is one thing, but provided you had the information and are able to mentally process it, you absolutely are "entitled" as anyone to make such decisions.

I completely agree. And I agree with this as well:

> I think it's very tragic that we are so eager to hand off our opinions to "experts".

But I think it's important to understand that whether you think Snowden is a whistleblower or a traitor, you are making that decision in part based on "experts." You are trusting people who haven't proven themselves to be untrustworthy.

We don't know everything (or maybe we do, it's difficult to say). Sure, we can say "Hey, he told us these things that were true." But I also don't have any reason to trust him outright. So, on one hand, I have valid reasons to distrust the government, but I also have valid reasons to distrust Snowden.

So on one hand, I want to believe he's told the entire story, and is being completely truthful. But on the other hand, on multiple levels he's demonstrated his untrustworthiness.
Also, if you live there, you can’t be called ‘bridge and tunnel’, because there is neither a bridge nor a tunnel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_and_tunnel
Good nitpicking. But as you indicated, the change of behaviour should only affect people with a very dubious/interesting approach.
> Javascript being used by non programmers is 95% of the problems with javascript..

Well, I wasn't advocating Lua as a good language for non-programmers to write programs, but for scripting. When I make games/applications scriptable, it's closer to configurating than programming, and Lua's table constructors allow for great declarative DSLs.
Looks fun but I don't think the ROI on this would be all that great..
Yeah, but now we are in the world of fantasy. I really can't speculate there.
Business is extremely competitive. How is that any different from a car race? No entrepreneur starts a business to fail and lose all their money; they start a business to succeed, just like a competitive racer races to win.

Why is it okay to dismiss his example as "just another privileged rich guy" and then you give an example of a friend who started a business. Being in a position to start a business is extremely privileged compared to most people.

I'm not in the financial position to start a business, can I dismiss your example as "just another privileged rich guy (relative to me)"?
There's copyright in many other industries - book publishing, software, etc. - but in those industries the government doesn't control how much the parties get paid. Yes, the government grants the copyright and its courts enforce it, but that's all. For example, if I write an e-book, I can determine the price I sell it for and I'm not forced to allow Amazon to sell it.
Let me emphasise your point with a bit of shameless self-promotion. It may not be what the OP is calling for but some of you might like it. It's a web based feed reader that I've been working on since before Google announced the imminent shut down of Reader.

http://Readable.cc
Life as an expat coder in middle-of-nowhere Japan
No language has zero warts. I use it everyday, and love the language, and it's still sometimes painful to do good OO compared to Smalltalk. No meta classes sucks, static methods are a poor substitute, can't override them, can't call them on passed type references without reflection which is ugly. Multiple equivalent syntaxes for anonymous delegates is a wart, they should have just started with the shorter one. Foreach over a container lets you declare the wrong type and throws a runtime cast exception when it could often know at compile time that it's not valid.

Still, great language, love it.
FWIW, Chef doesn;t work atop ssh. It and puppet both use HTTP.
I'm a Reeder user myself, though 99% of my reading is done on the Mac version. So far, ReadKit ($4.99, MAS) is the closest thing I've found to a replacement. I'd still prefer Reeder, but I can comfortably live with ReadKit if need be.
Another spy bungle exposed (New Zealand)
Pressure is fine.

> If he was to be extradited it would be breaking international law.

What international law prevents a country from willingly deporting a foreigner?
Personally, I think he's playing his side of the story pretty well. It's hard to demonize the nice geek kid, a least with the tech community.

The espionage charges reveal how awful Obama, really all of Washington, is on the Bill of Rights. I think this whole thing is going to backfire on them.
My favorite swag to get at hackathons have always been the credits to use a service. I also enjoy t-shirts, especially if they are quality and a service/company that I like as I actually wear the shirt.

Example: Last hackathon I was at, Amazon was giving away $100 credits for AWS. I never used Amazon but I am more inclined to keep my projects up there after the credit runs out.
Everything in this sums up my feelings on the matter.

It is impossible to get freedoms back, too easy to give them up. And if all seems well now, you have to understand that decades from now and many leaders later there is too much trust not to be abused.

If there is question of unconstitutional natures for systems like this, the authority and agencies need to prove themselves beyond a reasonable doubt in the open not in secrecy well over anyone calling it into question. You don't side with authority when freedoms are at risk, those don't come back.

Individuals are innocent until proven guilty, authority has to be guilty until proven innocent due to the sensitive nature of freedoms going away. It seems people have this flipped.

People think that the law or the Constitution will always provide a failsafe, but that is only a piece of paper if the people have no backbone and don't push back. It can happen here and is well on the way if we don't watch out. There are lots of patriots and good people in the CIA/NSA/FBI but it is not their job to contain overreach, it is the people.
I installed the feedly extension and it proceeded to trash every page I viewed by inserting itself at the bottom. Even in plain Javascript files I was viewing
Surveillance has kept pace with technology. I doubt Mr. Church really imagined the Internet. Do you really think that China today has nothing like our automation? And do you actually think the way China acts on this information and the way we act on this information are comparable?
I use Reeder (iOS) w/ Feedbin (https://feedbin.me/), and the Feedbin web UI on the desktop.

Reeder for OS X is scheduled to get Feedbin support in the near future.
I'm already angry about that, thanks :)
I find someone to pay me to build something using it. It's how I learned jQuery, Sinatra, Bootstrap. Bout to do the same with Angular and Rails.

I wish I could learn a tech from a book, but the signal-to-noise ratio is generally too low in the vast majority of books I see. I don't need a bunch of "recipes" or a disgustingly short bash rundown in a book on Ubuntu, I need clear, server-oriented insight into how the OS internals work, and what went into the underlying design decisions.

Every book on a programming language I pick up spends 90% of the time on basic stuff you could pick up in a few hours with the same language's "getting started" page. I'd love a teardown of the source code with commentary on the intentions of the language designer. I don't want a gentle introduction, that's just a waste of my time. I've already introduced myself with a dozen or so hours of playing around and reading docs. But the people that could write useful things about technologies generally aren't. Or maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.
I saw Newsblur quite some time back, maybe in 2011 when I decided to move myself off Reader. It didn't look like anything I wanted: so many frames!

Reader itself had a whole bunch of stuff which got in the way. One time I tried mocking it up with most of that stuff gone and I liked what I found. That's the sort of ideal I went for with my own thing: enough of a bar so people know it's a feed reader and not some scuzzy content thievery site (since they arrive when they see it in their referrer logs), and a way to flip through the posts.

The Kickstarter was an attempt to try something really "out there" for me and see if it would work. It looks like it will not.
It is so disheartening to see the media bicker all day about Snowden and Greenwald. What can be done to steer the story back to the travesty at hand?
So far Snowden hasn't revealed much that wasn't already said by NSA whistleblowers Drake, Binney, et al. Yet most folks had never heard of them or much about the issues they were trying to raise.

Yet Snowden is an international superstar and the substance of his disclosures are, in fact, front page news on a regular basis. If it takes paying some attention to the fact that his girlfriend was a pole dancer, I guess that's OK with me.
Looks interesting... If doing everything in javascript is not sufficient, another nice open source project with a slick interface on top of a real OLAP server (Mondrian) is Saiku - http://analytical-labs.com/
Drawing an accurate surveyed map would cost less than 30K? Really? I honestly had no idea that maps were that cheap to produce. I figured they had a pretty large initial cost that only was recouped due to the fact that only minor changes would be needed and they could be sold for years.

Also, Silly Valley is a bit north of Malibu, ~300 miles north.
Thank you for responding to the central point and not attacking the author's identity.
LOL why didn't you try it for the remote team??
> This seems highly suspect; either they have to snoop on you to see if it's okay to snoop on you, and/or do some probabilistic mumbo-jumbo to guess at whether you're a foreigner.

They have these amazing things called IP addresses that tell you what country traffic is coming from.

> Doesn't basic encryption (HTTPS) imply an expectation of privacy?

Privacy as against who? Even if you use HTTPS, you still expose the clear text to Google, Facebook, etc. I don't think it is an unreasonable interpretation of existing precedent, on the NSA's part, to argue that if random sysadmins at Google can access the data, then the government doesn't need a warrant to subpoena the data.

> Also, assuming the tech companies aren't BSing us, it certainly seems like the data is being consumed against their will as well, so it's not necessarily a matter of Google selling search histories.

It's not a matter of Google selling search histories. "Private" for the purposes of the 4th amendment means "inside your desk drawer" private, not just "not public." Bank records aren't public, your bank doesn't sell them, but they're not covered by the 4th amendment.

> There isn't, but there should be. The deeper moral issues notwithstanding, we're well on track to destroy our leadership in the global internet industry right now.

The Constitution determines the rights and obligations of Americans to each other and those on U.S. soil. It's not a vehicle for determining who we treat non-Americans, and should not be so. The country's foreign policy is a political issue, not a legal issue. Indeed, it would be a massive violation of the separation of powers for the courts to start policing how the U.S. treats foreigners, because foreign policy is the exclusive domain of the elected branches, especially the executive. This is by design, the framers intended the U.S. to "speak with one voice" with regards to the outside world.

If Americans want to spy on the rest of the world, it's not the courts' job to tell them that they can't. If that hurts American competitiveness in the internet industry, well that's an issue for political debate too.

I think as a practical matter the U.S. is far too dominant in software and online technology for NSA spying to be more than a blip, and it's not like other countries don't do it too.
I think what this has all really indicated is that the law is not ready for the Internet.

I used to think that imbalance disadvantaged the government.

Now I'm not so sure. I wonder if the tech community will be ready to talk about regulation now that the NSA has shown what a nearly-unfettered government agency with a blank check can really do with TCP/IP.
Yeah it's a weird default that is quickly disabled but the point is moot now that we have a full web client of Feedly.
I accept my downvotes, yet remain unbowed.
Hit shift+E then shift+F. That opens "Everything" which is the river of news, then fullscreens it so it's a single framed river of news.
The nice thing about NewsBlur is that it exposes the API so that, if you want, you can make a completely new front end for it. This is what I did: http://www.altfeedreader.com/
I never met any of them. I doubt they'd know me if they saw me.
You don't have to go to Europe to look up population statistics. In fact if you live in a big international city like London or Paris, you might have a skewed perspective on the diversity of European nations.

But most of the crime is in the big cities, which attract people from all around Europe. Using the population statistics for countries as a whole could be seen as a little disingenuous with that in mind. Though, I'd be willing to bet that the Gini coefficient is more relevant a measure.
The new php.net
Woah, thanks!
Not trying to change your mind on what is the greatest race, but I came across this the other day and realised how little I personally knew about this race.
Truth in 24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27F26UA1i6M
Feedly is an example of an app that is extremely over-designed in a counterintuitive way. It is a remarkable case of form over function.

"There's a list of articles, one per line, stacked vertically on the screen. After you've scanned your eyes to the bottom of the screen, how do you see more? You scroll it up, right? Ha ha ha. No. You swipe right. Madness."

Oh. THAT'S how you do it. I thought it was impossible to scroll down a list of articles. When you swipe down on an article list, feedly alternates between showing you a single article and a portion of the article list. I have no idea what the intended function is.

And do the different width bars on the homescreen mean anything?

I switched to newsblur which looks like it's from 2003 and has a terrible home page. But at least it doesn't surprise me.
a bad precedent for leaking classified information at a time when serious military operations may be compromised. What right does this one guy have in making that decision and what are the odds that he has enough information to evaluate the consequences of that action? He may be a hero for revealing unconstitutional actions, but that doesn't mean he didn't commit a crime (possibly getting people killed in the process) nor does it mean he should be spared the consequences. I think we live in an international arena where traditional clearcut boundaries have mostly faded and a reality of exponentially increased personal destructive power is that we do indeed need to sacrifice some liberties for security.