skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your sandwich analogy is spot on in the sense that I can also just ask a human "please make me a sandwich" without specifying anything, and (most) humans could proceed to do so without more details. There should be more options, and a good "default" mode for people who don't want to fiddle with them. To my knowledge this is why most wizards have basic configuration options and a "advanced" button to click for the detailed configuration, and I don't see why Firefox can't just have the same thing.
Noted and agree, it's been happening for ages. I still think these tactics should be exposed every single time. And Apple/Google or any market place should be more strict about these kind of situations imho.
I think in spirit the post you were replying to meant load balancing?
Look on the bright side. At least we'll never, ever have to hear about the Principle of Least Power again from Mozilla/HTML5 advocates lionising the "Open Web" against smartphone apps, Native Client or what have you.
They like that comand line look and feel.
Chicken chicken chickens, chicken? Chicken.
App developers & publishers: beware of these lame App Store techniques
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There's also this one: http://youtu.be/nQR49JGySTM
I've been meaning to finally get around to doing this myself, so I'll shoot you a question: Do you have a fallback MX? I'm thinking of getting a super-cheap VPS running only Postfix as a mail fallback in case my primary host goes down for an extended period. How is accessing mail on the fallback host (when primary is down) usually handled? An IMAP daemon running there as well? Should the fallback just wait for the main one to come back and then send all the waiting mail there?
There is a reason to assume that it is not there, particularly if you're developing a U.S. government website, and that's for accessibility reasons.

Google Section 508 and you'll see what I mean. Go ahead and build your site to use javascript, but don't continue under the false pretense that everyone needs/can use javascript.
I'm glad you have someone who loves you irl and you FEEL it. Very very important.

The 'one thing a day' is useful because able people (like you and I) tend to think 'what the heck, I can do this and that and those' and, when we are sick, we end up doing nothing at all, and despise ourselves because 'look, I should have done all those things I am capable of and ended up doing none'. Thus, the one-thing-a-day aim is very good to focus and lift up one's self-worthiness.

Try not to think of your duties & obligations, only of things that you can do and then celebrate. By the way: celebrate even if you feel crushed and worthless. One of the main steps is to notice that one is able to 'put aside' (wrong expression but) one's feelings and ACT according to one's will. (This takes time, effort and help and cannot be done at once, just keep on trying).

Being listened to, that is so so necessary. And then, at the same time, notice how she likes, enjoys and values you. You are worthy to her: this is very very important as an objective valuation of yours.

Good luck and keep the fight on. It is hard but worth the effort.
who cares. am good with feedly
I love how even the JS implementation contains almost only the word chicken repeatedly.
Don't get me wrong, I know the difference between NAT and a firewall, but NAT'ing automatically (and by definition) hides the network behind, firewall or not.
I commented on this elsewhere, but to all the people who assume that developers can just build websites and assume that JS is enabled, please Google "Section 508".

FWIW, I don't think we should avoid educating users. Pandering to the dumbest common denominator only makes dumb things in the long run.
chicken chicken.. chicken chi-chi-chicken, kenchicken?
That's bollocks. I have my own email server on some random Hetzner IP address and have never had email rejected; and do note my domain TLD is .ro which tends to get higher spam scores.
Yes, yes, yes! Like some guys said, you must enjoy it. It's the key to success. Also, if you have enough blessings to find a mentor, that would really make it easier! There's a huge difference between programming (hacking), engineering (requires study) and computer science (easier with a compsci degree). You want to be a hacker, ie, to tinker with programming until you know enough for someone to pay you. That's what most of us do anyway.

To keep you inspired, I know people from all walks of life who have become very good at programming (and related). Drop me a line if you want, I'll be happy to help.
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It's obvious that you haven't actually read the book and have some kind of prejudice against the substance. Try actually reading it before acting so irrational. If you're going to present a debate then at least have the decency to know what you're arguing about. The entire thing is about an approved scientific study into DMT. Much of the book actually goes into the legal troubles they faced setting up such an experiment.

The entire book is about various patients undergoing experiments in their reaction to the substance and the like. It's not just a bunch of kids in a basement with something they think is DMT. The actual DMT itself is provided with permission from the government and all the findings are thoroughly documented.

One can only assume you've just seen the short film and palmed off the book as the same. It's not.
> chicken chicken

Chicken chicken, chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken chicken: "Chicken". Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken Chicken chicken.

"Chicken chicken chicken" [1]

Chicken chicken, chicken chicken!

[1] Chicken
First evidence for existence of multiple universes?
You don't get BIOS access to low cost dedicated servers on OVH, even though they're dedicated, you can't KVM them.

mid to high range ones you can though so that might be a workable solution there.

Also, they can still rip the ram out and nitrogen it.
I wonder if he became a vegetarian after managing to write this.

And I bet he has chicken dreams.
Which is exactly why we added the disable JS button to Firefox developer tools options. It simply disables it for the current tab until the tab is closed.
--Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken?
Our experiences are different. You seem caught up with categorization.

I'm fairly confident I couldn't tell a merlot from a cabernet, blind, from a glass. But that doesn't mean one wine doesn't taste nicer than another, or goes better with a particular dish. And that's what I was alluding to.
Tools are tools.

So long as you're using a screw-driver, and not a hammer, for screws what tool you choose is up to you.

But some screwdrivers are better than others. They are made from better materials, and have nicer grips, and better heads. The warranty is for the life of the user. They have little features that advanced users know appreciate[1].

Please don't call one tool "better". Please use phrases like "I prefer this tool". So called 'religious wars' have consumed many megabytes of Internet bandwidth, and usually don't achieve much.

It's a great question though - what are the benefits of tool X that I don't know about? It's a shame that this kind of question is banned from Stack Exchange which has a huge userbase of people who'd be able to give you great responses.

[1] Some people don't seem to know that you place your index finger on the spinning end and use your middle finger and thumb to turn the driver. Also, form a loose fist, extend your index finger, insert the driver into the fist so the head of the driver rests by the tip of your finger. You can hold a screw as you move the driver to the hole the screw needs to be in.
Although they'd take a lot of flack for it, Apple and Google should really be more liberal with the ban hammer. If it can be proved that you're doing stupid things like this, your dev account should be revoked.
the word 'chicken' has now lost all meaning.
A dark background is less agressive to eyes than a bright one.
f.lux website has a section about research related to the topic.
Can you please (please!) tell me where there's proof that their definition of 'collect' has changed to mean that in their usage. I have suspected that is what Feinstein and others have used as its meaning, but I can't prove it. I have enough proof to satisfy myself they have redefined 'acquire' here, but 'collect' would be nice too, if you would oblige!

"Well, as James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, told Andrea Mitchell of NBC, the N.S.A. uses the word “acquire” only when it pulls information out of its gigantic database of communications and not when it first intercepts and stores the information." [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa....
Need a new Screensharing tool
As I'm sure many of you do, we totally rely on audio chat and screensharing to enable our remote working.

Skype has been our default tool since around 2009 but it's now starting to get a little too unreliable - cutting out/poor quality video etc.

Has anyone had success with any other tools that they could please recommend? It's purely pair programming although sometimes we do invite other people onto the calls...
Did you try join.me? It has a small footprint and is easy to install (on Windows and Mac at least). And the basic features are free.
In an ideal world, this would be perfect. IPOs used to work more or less like this (albeit at a later stage). Unfortunately, it has been decided that amateur investors will do stupid things when they have the option of buying stock in companies that could tank at the drop of a hat. Sarbanes-Oxley has completely killed off this possibility.
NSA Snoops on 500 Million German Data Connections
You imply that javascript stopped being flaky. I find that it's often flakiest on sites where it's mandatory.
Also - unless you can produce evidence that having artistic skill of Van Gogh is intrinsically valuable.
Except that the name "chicken" is already taken:

google search: "chicken programming language" returns:

#1 Chicken (scheme implementation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_%28scheme_implementatio...

#2 CHICKEN Scheme http://www.call-cc.org/
couldn't agree more - if not suspended then at least get some kind of penalty - if your ranking is in jeopardy because some marketing dude thing he's clever by paying for 1 star review, then perhaps people will rethink twice their strategy.
Let's classify this under 'No shit, Sherlock'. This happened on shareware BBS'es in the 1980's - nowadays it's about real money, so the incentives are only stronger.
Today is Day One. What now?
There is something to be said about the expectation when js is on and off. A lot of sites will have a notion of javascript is off == old mobile phones or low level device, and will assume that when js is off most css will be too.
Simple sites won't see this as a problem, but for mildly complex sites, you'll have a matrix of "is js on ? off ? " "is css on ? off ?" "does it accept cookies?" "is this html5 thing available ?" "is there enough memory for this or that?" , and you'll add to the mix screen sizes and the availability of a keyboard or not, etc.

There's already so many moving parts, saying "this browser handles cookies, every newest features of css, html5 and everything. Except js won't run." is just a recipe for ugly user experiences.

Slightly OT, IMO blacklisting specific js (e.g facebook, twitter etc), or having browser giving an option to kill scripts that take too much time or too many resources should be healthier for the devs and the user than just turning js off on the whole site.
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Just release them. Since the US was the country which arrested them in the first place, interrupted their lives and kept them for 11 years without a trial, at least the US could grant them residence permit. Sure, there might be a terrorist or 10 among the 500 detainees left but no real court would ever be able to convict them after a decade of torture and other human rights abuses. Also, since the US already has state-of-the-art surveillance in place they would be able to keep an eye on these guys in the future ;-)
Outing this kind of shit is needed.
Yes. "To find an X, you have to think like an X."
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Yes. Exactly. This is the least we can do in the Europe. There are at least 3 reasons to do so:

1. This way we can signal we mean it with the democracy thing.
2. We can prevent random despot to claim moral superiority to EU because of granting the asylum.
3. EU is relatively safe from US revenge, unlike smaller countries.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but GPL protects free software from being converted from free and open into proprietary shareware, and you can use it anywhere.

Why would Apache or Modified BSD be better?
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Is it just me that can't see the videos? On Chrome with Ghostery disabled, I can play it and hear the sound, but the image remains a black screen.
I'm not sure the protection of the German state is something the US will care about:

Khalid El-Masri (born June 29, 1963) is a German citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian Police, and handed-over to the U.S. CIA, whose officers interrogated, sodomized and tortured him. While in CIA hands, he was flown to Afghanistan, where he was held in a black site, interrogated, beaten, strip-searched and subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, tantamount to torture. After El-Masri held hunger strikes, and was detained for four months in the "Salt Pit", the CIA finally admitted his arrest and torture were a mistake and released him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_al-Masri
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Humm .... I don't believe that just the presence of an "Advanced" button somewhere in the settings makes a software hard to use. May be FF usability experts do. :)
French's Green party made the same request during the night (asking to grant him asylum in France)

http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/07/01/eelv-d...
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"The monolithic, hierarchical companies of the mid 20th century are being replaced by networks of smaller companies."

"There might be 10x or even 50x more good founders out there. As more of them go ahead and start startups, those 15 big hits a year could easily become 50 or even 100."

I wonder how those two things work together. The first predicts a world with more, but smaller businesses. The second seems to predict no change in the threshold for success. If the future really does allocate a larger portion of the pie to medium seized companies (say, 100 - 500 employees to take an arbitrary definition of 'medium'), isn't that definition of success and associated financing model problematic? There isn't much of a market for medium sized tech companies that have moved past rapid growth. Without that market, VCs can't get their money back.

The essay talks about opportunities for more risk tolerant investors at the bottom of the pyramid (earlier stage, smaller investments). That seems to cover the idea of more, cheaper, riskier startups. But, the other idea about a higher resolution economy implies (I think) a need for smaller lower risk investments too.
That's spot on. Their biggest concern would seem to be to re-word things in a way that later they can't be accused of having lied. Clapper lead the charge on that one at the very beginning.

No attempts to actually clarify what they are up to.
You should probably submit the link.
I'm actually suprised Russia,Ecuador, and Iceland were the only viable candidates mentioned for Snowden.

Although not a certainty I would imagine Belgium, France, and Germany would be good candidates also.
Definitely. Just because it's been going on forever doesn't mean it's right. Google understands the need to fraud/abuse protection in AdSense: advertisers would flee if there was no trust in the system. Same thing here: if you want to grow and keep a motivated developer audience, especially in the light of new competitors and because they're pushing Android for more device types, this kind of unethical practices should be punished.
IIRC the analogue audio out on a Pi is fairly low quality: It's a 1-bit PWM signal @ 100MHz. That's about 11bits of SNR for a standard audio input supposedly.

Use the HDMI audio, or a USB audio device if you want decent quality sound out of a Pi.
I use a meeting ticker sometimes - one like this: http://tobytripp.github.io/meeting-ticker/

Set a low ball hourly rate - so £50 (depending on where you are and who you're with) so that people suspect the meeting actually costs more.

When it comes to the end of the meeting, you say "Did this meeting produce £376.42 worth of value for the company?"

If the answer is "yes" - you're doing something right.
If the answer is "no" - hold a meeting to discuss how to become more productive in meetings.
Why would they be so stupid as to rate both apps with the same account?
I meant in the way of how would this provenly improve my productivity to justify the expense
My dad takes great pride in complex VBA code. Unfortunately, this can backfire. A few years ago he was brought in to help manage a particular support system for a large telecoms company here in the UK, which involved a lot of Excel donkey work. He understandably figured out a way to automate about 50% of the work of the entire system.

This meant that he freed up plenty of time for the entire team he was on. Unfortunately, this meant that they now had surplus staff, and as the newest arrival, he was the first to let go.

Yeah, incredibly backwards internal politics, but I swear it's true.
The interesting bit are the new metrics proposed for company performance, in page 2, after the first paragraph ( http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/business/an-unstoppable-cl... )
Try Hangout with screen sharing. Way better than skype.
I use Sublime Text 3. I code faster in ST than in vim.
Is this the sort of technology that P2P systems like BitTorrent use? I've never understood how BT works in setups that block incoming connections.
What can FF extensions do that Opera extensions can't?
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A classic example of Apple trying to fix this is a Maps app for Mavericks that has a "send to phone" feature. Something Google had and already retired in favor of Now and that works amazingly well.

If I use Google Maps on my desktop, search for directions, then choose public transportation, that's what goes to Now. If on another day I choose bike directions, that is what goes to Now.

Same goes for open tabs in Chrome, searching for flights and more. You perform the task on your computer and your Android phone, with Google Now, "just knows" what you are/were looking for.

One cool feature that I think came from ITA Software purchase is that, if the flight you looked for is delayed, Now lets you know it's delayed and change your directions to fit the new flight arrival if needed. When I first saw the delayed info on Now I didn't believe it, so I dismissed. Upon arrival on Heathrow, the arrival board was showing the exact same delay as Now. I was blown away.
That is because beyond rhetoric. EU countries are mere colonies of the US and EU politicians will not do anything if they do not get a nod from the US.

EU is not independent and is a mere satellite of the US. I feel sorry for feel good hipsters that currently feel superior to the US in terms of freedom and democracy.
The wizards can use about:config or download the addons that do this already.

Adding more in the way you prescribe isn't just adding more, but officially supporting more at the code level and user level.
I recently used http://thereq.com/ for a similar purpose. Features I liked:

* I can set interview questions in various languages
* Candidate can write code right away, I can see everything he/she writes
* Code can be executed to see the result right away
* This even works for SQL, they have a sample schema the candidate can manipulate
* They have a fairly large library of questions you can just add to your interviews
* It's completely free as far as I can tell

No affiliation with the site, but it was very useful for me.
I can't seem to understand if people really do think they can learn a language in X minutes. It takes countless hours of writing code in a specific language to learn it, and many months of writing on it to call yourself a good programmer in that language, or expert. </rant>
cool :) But isn't the EOL character a second meaningful symbol in your language?
The source code, combined with my utter lack of sleep in the last 24 hours, caused me to giggle uncontrollably.
I am confused. First you describe privacy precautions as "noise slowing you down", a few arguments later you have reached the conclusion "this is the reason why privacy matter".
From TFA: "In theory, this limits one’s visibility to aerial surveillance vehicles employing heat-imaging cameras to track people on the ground."
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"I feel sorry for feel good hipsters that currently feel superior to the US in terms of freedom and democracy."

hmm, not sure why you felt the need to add that part. Were you even responding to my question or just reading off an internal script :P

As far as freedom goes, I can only speak for Belgium, my country. I am certainly envious of the economic freedom you see in the US. We have slid a little too far to the left over here. We also don't have the same level of free speech as the US: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism_(negatio...)

That being said, I won't be jailed for smoking a joint or experimenting with psychedelics. Our government isn't secretive and elusive in the way yours is and I'm not terrified of ever landing in prison here.
It's not a matter of which one is best, it's which one do I trust. I know source is available but these applications may not be subject to the kind of scrutiny and monitoring that better know packages might be. How long would it take before anyone noticed if the binaries for one of these was altered? How difficult would it be to carry out spear phishing attack against one of the authors allowing that to happen?