skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HTTP is already painfully complex to implement correctly. It's also a terribly wasteful and poor engineered protocol for anything other than fetching documents.
I have one of these since February and it's far better than any Chromebook - x64, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, extremely portable, and runs Ubuntu 12.04 LTS by default. No weird ChromeOS limitations, no push to cloud storage by all means etc. Just the keyboard could be better...
I think it's often the case (not necessarily in this one, I have no idea) that people don't realize or convince themselves they're not doing anything that's wrong or a big deal. Still damning enough, mind you, but less malicious maybe and it explains the ignorance of the risks involved.
I do all these things on the clock and in my experience it makes me more effective in the long run. Citation: a consistent history of rapid increases in responsibility and salary
As with everything else it seems to be a case of misplaced incentives, both good and bad.

Imagine in 2 out of every 100 raids (numbers completely made up of course) that these style raids are called for - the people inside are incredibly dangerous and bargin in unannounced is the safest thing to do. Based on what I've read these police forces seem to treat every situation like this. Whether a hardened criminal or some dude playing poker with his friends they assume the worst and barge in guns a blazing.

And what happens? 2 times out of 100 they nail the bad guys and are probably congratulated on the local news and within the department. And the other 98 times? Nothing. They hand out some minor violations and leave, none the worse for it. Or again that's what it seems the case is based on these articles. So why wouldn't they just barge in and do whatever the hell they want. They are either heroes or the people they are terrorizing have no way to fight back. There needs to be some way to either punish them for this or positively incentivize more civil raids/raiding at all.

As the financial crisis showed us, bankers would bet the country if it meant they get a bigger bonus. It seems we are a point where the police will essentially do the same.
For what it's worth, I spent many years in the Navy and I've seen dozens or hundreds of issues with pay and benefits, but the vast majority of cases (almost 100% of the time) where servicemembers have money "clawed back" from their paychecks is because of pay and benefits that were improperly given.

And that's what happened in both of the major examples cited in the article. One soldier doesn't notice that he's still getting benefits for his wife after getting divorced. The other soldier continues to get paid at his prior paygrade after being demoted for using illegal drugs.

None of this excuses any of the other points of the article (although I do have strong opinions of everything else in it, too) but everybody with more than a few years in the service definitely comes at this article in a different way. Two sides to every story, is what I'm saying.
I remember reading "Hire the Right Customers"1), which kind of goes against this notion to try to please everyone. Some customers are just the wrong customers and not worth collecting.

1) http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch04_Hire_the_Right_Custome...
This article is incomplete, as well as the submission title.

The article says he was arrested for having a firearm along with schedule I&II drugs, which is a big no-no (Please, save your opinions about the legality of the drug war for another topic). Unfortunately, it goes into no further detail about whether he was in possession of them while making the video, or if they were at his house, etc.

This submission's headline completely ignores that aspect of the story, sensationalizing it to make it seem like the video by itself was enough for a police raid.
> The devices had about 4 percent to 5 percent

> share in the first quarter

That is really quite stunning in the context of the whole laptop market. I am kind of intrigued at how Google is pulling this off. There are so many good arguments against a Chromebook for most people. You can buy an ordinary laptop for similar price and just run Chrome and get the same thing but with more features. Even without that, this seems to violate the law that a new entrant into a market has to be not just better but compellingly better to get market share.

How is Google doing it? Are they going direct to pitch these to bulk buyers like academic, students, businesses, governments? Or are "normal" consumers actually wandering into Best Buy and choosing it over the Windows laptop right next to it?
I too go directly to a search engine's map service for location stuff. One reason being that I don't want to become addicted to the overly accessible nature of Google's AI and service integration; becoming addicted would make an eventual switch to a competitor far more jarring. It's for the same reason that I use email clients rather than a service provider's webmail interface. Or Open Office over Google Docs.
>I implicitly assume the consumer market is populated with people of basic numeracy and logic skills.

Hehe. Nice to see at least some people have faith in humanity.
>what you're referring to is the quality of deal flow of an existing investment firm. There is no shortage of investors already actively involved in funding startups who wish they could have invested in a particular company.

Had they know about it. Yes, that's exactly what we're talking about. Sure there's a difference between a startup that is already working the angel and VC networks and a group of guys who want to buy a bar as a hobby, but there isn't much difference between the bar and a bakery who want to expand, or an established bar who wants to open a new location, or the two guys who want to turn recycled junk into interesting furniture. None of these are looking for large investments, and none have access to VC and angel networks. Though the risk is high, there may be investor who are willing to take the gamble.

Lifting the ban provides a channel, where one doesn't currently exist, for these organizations to reach potential investors. Likewise, it provides a channel for interested investors to find out about opportunities they would otherwise not know about.

I didn't imply that lifting the ban would make funding automatic. Nor, do I expect, does anyone actually believe that it would (though you seem to think that's what people are saying). What it does do is allow the two ends to connect when there's mutual interest.

What this does is open a channel of communication. It's a way for small businesses to reach investors. That doesn't imply that the small business is going to get funding (or even a conversation with an investor) any more that getting on Shark Tank implies that Mark Cuban is going to invest in your fancy new shoelace company. On the other hand, there may be an investor out there, somewhere, who just happens to have an aglet company in his portfolio that would make your shoelaces a billion dollar company.
I'll second this. Balanced has been pretty awesome to work with. I looked at switching away at one point, but everything "just works" and no other solution had all of the requirements met for running a legit marketplace.
(I work at Stripe)

If you're looking to split payments to multiple parties, you may want to take a look at sending transfers, rather than using Connect: https://stripe.com/blog/send-payouts-with-stripe

This only requires the sellers' bank account information in order to pay them out.

Stripe provides a Customer abstraction that makes it easy to save credit card information for later and use it multiple times. Instead of charging the card immediately, you can create a new Customer object and save the card to that customer. See more here: https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/charges#saving-credit-card...
> If a couple of guys with easily available automatic weapons decide to stroll through a shopping mall

I think that these sorts of incidents, and similarly the Ned Kelly / North Hollywood Shootout incidents, are rare enough that we really should not be wasting resources planning for them. Have a few squad cars have guns locked away in the boot, only to be removed with explicit approval (perhaps unlocked remotely), and then proceed to not worry about something that will almost certainly never happen to you.

These things rarely happen despite the fact that the required equipment is readily available. That's because there just are not that many people interested in shooting up lots of people.

Particularly the Ned Kelly / North Hollywood situations... there is really no good reason to attempt to arrest those people while the crime is in process. Like how how high-speed chases should be handled, just fall back and arrest them later. Don't confront those people on their terms, use time to your advantage and arrest them later on your terms. That's not the appropriate attitude in every situation (for example, Columbine), but I think it is the appropriate attitude in nearly every situation.
I stopped at the cursor-trail effects and started watching anime and playing video games instead ;_;
Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) privilege escalation vulnerability
Yeah... but that's still the 90's???

Again.. what violence are they seeing now, that they did not see at that time?
I'm with you on this, it was just a suggestion. I would probably walk in somewhere to sell something and walk out having been sold something else. :-)

Good luck and I hope whatever it is you end up doing you enjoy, I am in a similar situation.
And we've wasted vast mountains of money dealing with the resulting brokenness of the web.

Those people would have figured out how to ship a web page; they'd just would have had so much trouble figuring out why one they shipped was't working, because the browser would have told them.
Any plans on spreading this to other Office formats?
The interesting thing is, I usually spend hours preparing for even a phone screen, researching the company, its products, its market, its competitors, and so on as one should expect. But your point is taken: I typically stumble on some of the soft/behavioral questions that get asked.

Networking has always been a difficult thing for me, and this is definitely an area I'm falling short. I'll have to be mindful of this going forward.
Here's another use case: I'm in a wheelchair and shopping is tricky. I'd LOVE this system to start up in Australia.
What do you think 'native' platforms are? They're the platforms built to support app development.
Tell me, if someone was firing on you with anti-tank ammunition and about 20 or 30 AK-47, you would be a pacifist and not shoot back?
This seems like a story without an ending. A customer did something, she reacted and regretted it. Sure she's saying she should be more empathetic in the future but based off of what? The customer didn't reply after she made the "mistake".

How does she know it would have made any difference? Maybe it wouldn't. Maybe things would have turned out worse. I don't see any evidence of a lesson.

The article she linked to is much more useful IMO: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3566-found-in-translation It explains a technique and why it's worth doing.
Not to derail, but wow! Thanks for pointing out those old Kilobaud issues on TIA.
Relevant to your last point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
This I will definitely try. Thanks for the tip.
I fully agree. I would never dream of giving up my laptop for my tablet - I find them both indispensable. I don't personally know anyone who feels differently on the subject either. However my 5 year old laptop works pretty much just as well as my 1 year old one for all practical purposes. That's the issue right there...
I think the solution is to prevent people from playing vs other players until they've won enough games vs bots. There's nothing more annoying than someone who is too lazy to learn the basics before ruining a half-hour game for 9 strangers. And then abusive, as though they're entitled to do so.
Who said tracking had to be client-side?
Kivo looks a lot like DocVerse. Which was eventually bought by Google and became Google Cloud Connect[1].

Google Cloud Connect was supposedly replaced with Google Drive[2]. No idea if it offers the same functionality. There may be 100,000s of people missing Google Cloud Connect which just isn't enough of a market for Google to pursue.

Personally, I don't think the problem is lack of tools or a better way than email. It's just lack of training or willingness to do something different.

[1]http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-cloud-connect-...
[2]http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=30170...
For some background, Intel issues SINIT authenticated code modules (ACMs) which are used for the trusted boot process. According to this advisory, these modules are vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack which could compromise system management mode. That compromise is likely undetectable at the kernel level. Here's a background paper on a different attack on SINIT:
http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Attacking_I...
The problem with ASN.1 was ASN.1, BER, and DER themselves not the fact that a binary encoding was used.
Scaling Human Systems: From individual achievement to teamwork
It's interesting to contrast the approach taken in different countries. I spent the majority of my life in New Zealand but the last 9 years in the UK so I've witnessed it first hand.

Within the first couple of months of arriving here (London) I had attended several large gatherings, for example festivals in and out of London, and there was a marked difference in the police handling. I was genuinely surprised when I realised that the police controlling the events were interested in the safety and enjoyment of the public. They weren't looking to stir up trouble, they weren't searching for the "bad eggs" to antagonise - they were just trying to do their best to control the situation by working with those involved.

In my time in NZ I saw the police carry out all sorts of actions that were completely unnecessary.

I saw someone arrested for overloading a car with people leaving a party - prior to that I watched the police insist that the driver allow the car to be overloaded in the first place.

I was once tripped from behind by the police (on the pavement) for walking alongside a protest on my way home from University.

Might not seem like big issues but I've seen countless similar examples where the police were actually responsible for instigating the problem.

There's very much an Us vs Them attitude in NZ that, thankfully, isn't the norm in the UK (for the moment).
Save txt notes to your Node.js server as you type
^ An important point. I emailed SoftLayer sales when setting up Alikewise and got a much better price, around $300/mo.

This is probably still overpaying for my needs, but substantially cheaper than buying via their web interface.

Another thing I haven’t done is renegotiate in the last 2 years. Moore’s law and all, I suspect I wouldn’t save $$ but would get more horespower for the same price.
I think he might have a point that emerging markets are skipping the home PC. I'd be surprised if they're really skipping over to tablets, though, they're skipping to feature and smartphones, which do many of the things ordinary people used to need PCs for. And there are always Internet cafes for the other stuff.
Interesting. My experience is different; I never use Google Search signed in (except once in a blue moon by accident) and clear their cookies every time I restart my browser (daily, at a minimum). Consequently, they don't know that much about me.

I still find their results better than DDG's, unfortunately, and reverted my default search from DDG to Google after I found I was prefixing almost every search with !g.

But unlike you, I rarely search for anything as general as "Egypt". I wouldn't even think to. For general info about a whole country I would go to Wikipedia or Wikivoyage or similar instead. I hit Google when searching for something more specific, like info on a particular protest in Egypt, or monad libraries for JavaScript.
If I smash my keyboard I perhaps produce a program; if I smash a piece of paper I produce a program.
Heh. What do you think "classic" means when it's part of the title of a product? It means that it's a derivative of something else, and wants to capture some reflected glory. Don't go thinking that "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", the 1994 movie, is the original.

Team Fortress was a mod for Quake before HL1 was a twinkle in Gaben's eye. TFC was someone saying "that sure was a fun gameplay mode, but I can't get anyone to load Q1 any more... maybe I'll recreate the same thing over again"
But that's supposition. Have there been any border skirmishes, or skirmishes in cities with large Hispanic populations, (I assume you are talking about Mexican Cartels), where the police faced these well equipped Mexican Cartels?

I don't know if there have or haven't... that was not snark, but a serious question. My suspicion is that there have not been any such engagements.
CES 2014 registrations are ON
Absolutely +1 for awesomenauts. I'm usually not a fan of this genre but I started playing this and I'm already high lvl 40's. So addicting yet casual!
Some cool ideas for developing future applications
This is the right answer. DFAS is not only the largest payroll department in the U.S. (probably the world, unless the Chinese Army has something similiar) but the pay and benefit system is incredibly complex, with different amounts being disbursed depending on (just to name a few) your rank, marriage status, number of children, years of service, geographic location, type of job specialty, type of job duty, whether we're at war, what type of housing you live in, whether your job location offers meals or not. And all of these can change multiple times during the year.

None of this excuses errors, but it's the members' responsibility to notice any errors and report them to their disbursing office. Once reported, the vast majority of errors are fixed within two weeks.
Apparently they dont do any code reviews, QA, etc? I always find it interesting when things like this "slip" through...

If they used SVN of GIT wouldn't other developers have noticed files changing and reviewed the changes others are making?
If people react to the end of drug prohibition the same way they reacted to the end of alcohol prohibition...

Have you ever visited the USA? Or any other area where it's legal for adults to purchase and consume alcohol? If not, I think you should do so at your earliest opportunity. It might blow your mind.
Explaining the Apple Ebook Price Fixing Suit
"the recently popularized figurative sense"

so how many % is the recently popularized figurative 1%?
Those were interesting articles, but there was a much more recent example. The kid in question was interviewed on talk shows and stuff. His mom divorced his father over the insane treatment of their child, and she gained custody.
Another option is https://www.nitrous.io/app

Fully-featured web IDE; supports Ruby, Python, Go, and more. You provision a box to do your development on.
Wow I didn't realise how little traffic they got previously. They must have had like... 5,000 regular users? Hopefully a lot of the new traffic sticks around.
MOBA gets my award for worst initialism ever. It's hopelessly meaningless, as it describes everything from WoW to PBEM Chess.
I think one thing to consider might be a language-gap - not many Japanese speak English, and read English pretty slow, to the point that Japanese Internet is sometimes its own island. BitTorrent started in the English-speaking world and had Japanese support a while later (edit: and there are still few torrenting sites in Japanese), maybe too late and the other new clients had already moved in?
WebP is huge in apps but not on the open web due to lack of support. It saves Facebook a lot of bandwidth in their native app, though. WebM could have been swapped out for MPEG in WebRTC. It would actually be better due to hardware support.

Chrome apps are still web apps packaged for a single browser in a proprietary app store. It's not the open web.

You do realize there are a ton of Firefox contributors that don't work for Mozilla, right? And, for the third time, Google is paying Mozilla for a service that Google makes a TON of money on. It's not charity as you seem to keep implying. Without Mozilla, Google wouldn't be where it is today. And vice versa. But you seem to only harp on the latter.

You mean the other techs I already acknowledged but you continue to harp on?

On speed, Firefox OS isn't bad for a 1.0 on middling hardware. It'll get faster (remember, Android was a DOG in its initial released on the TMobile G1, which I still have sitting on my desk). And ASM.js will make things interesting, too (and is far more open than Google's native code in the browser attempt). And the article you mentioned is talking about mobile Safari mostly which, don't forget, is completely gimped for packaged web apps on iOS due to Apple's anti-competitive 'you can't use the faster Javascript engine' stance for everything except Safari.

Google Chrome OS is a web-centered OS but it's not an open web OS like Firefox OS is. It supports Chrome apps but it don't think they have any plans to support other ones. It's also funny that you mention Chrome OS and that the web is too slow in the next sentence.

Firefox OS uses the Android internals as a base, which is in turn built on top of Linux. I'm aware of all of that as I've tested it. And I have an Android phone. I think I'm missing your point here as it's unrelated to what we're discussing.

In the end, I have a lot of respect for Google and the contributions they've made. I think they can be a force for good when they want to. And, honestly, I'd love the chance to work at a company like that. But let's keep a balanced eye on their motivations and contributions compared to Mozilla. You make it sound like Google has done everything and Mozilla nothing. I get that you're a Google fan. I am, too. But I'm also a fan of Mozilla and their commitment to openness and a level playing field for everybody.
I think one fewer syllable and fact that neither yahoo or google were commonly written (or said) make them better names. I use DDG, but think the name is terrible. It also can't become a verb as easily, as google has.
A 1:1 dud-to-success ratio is to die for!
In a word, VMs. If you make sure you can open that NEF or CR2 file in a virtual machine, and the virtual machine image is in a standard, open format, you're set. You just have to worry about the image format becoming obsolete and not 10 or 20 different proprietary formats.

That said, I used to be a pretty prolific hobbyist musician and I haven't pulled this off myself. I have tons of old songs I can't open because they rely on a fiddly collection of old freeware plugins for freeware music apps from 11 years ago. I also have songs I can't open because they only play in a music tracker I wrote, which is open-source, but only runs on OpenBSD.

It is a tricky problem and it seems hard to tackle because the market for professional software inherently favors closed-source, which has no incentive to adopt open, non-siloed formats.
There's one thing I'm particularly concerned about:

At this point, I know I have a solid, unique background and a great skill set, but its been several months since I graduated without a job. I have to believe the gap alone is sending my application to the trash in most cases.

So one of the big things I'm probably doing wrong is not addressing this. But how would I go about doing so?
That's not really what I meant, but I guess that's what I said. Sadly, Sequoia funding is no guarantee of success as I know from personal experience.