skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mazel Tov, if people in underserved markets find online arrangement and pricing simplicity a real value-add, more power to 'em. However, I live in <insert large city here,> where the local laundromats all do free pickup as a service anyway, so I have a hard time not thinking that for urban areas 'just walk the street nearby or talk to your neighbors, people!' Or, just do your laundry like you do your dishes in places that have machines in your building - unless you're so important and valuable you have a staff to arrange these things.
Heh, I had some clients in Oregon for a while.
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Right. You could have a container which has universal dylibs and static libs for x86_64/i386 compiled for Darwin in one directory and ELF shared objects and static libraries compiled for x86_64/i386 for Linux, logic to detect the platform and the main application binaries compiled for multiple platforms. And why not throw Windows in there too?

This would create a universal container, assuming all major OSes acquire facilities for process control groups, namespaces and chroot.

Disk space is no longer a consideration. The containers can be as big as we want - why not make them run natively everywhere?
First they criticize the Great Firewall of China. Then they start building it themselves. And who better than a Chinese network operator to do it? After all:

"The Public Pledge on Self-Discipline for the Chinese Internet Industry is an agreement between the Chinese internet industry regulator and companies that operate sites in China. In signing the agreement, web companies are pledging to identify and prevent the transmission of information that Chinese authorities deem objectionable, including information that “breaks laws or spreads superstition or obscenity”, or that “may jeopardize state security and disrupt social stability”."

-From Wikipedia
If you are working as an external contractor, it isn't done until it's signed. This isn't Thompson Reuters hiring you as a permanent employee, it's them hiring you versus someone from a bodyshop.

Without knowing their side of the story, it does seem like a poor move on their part. But.... I've seen situations where people have told firms, "You are my first choice" only to say, "I need some time to think about it" after receiving the offer. It definitely ticks off the hiring manager, who then thinks they misread the enthusiasm, and their offer is being shopped. Could something like that have happened here?
Do so if you wish to. Interested to know what you intend to do with that kilo, or how someone else earning a few hurts your cause.
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I just read this, interesting concept, albeit dirty. I still think we should all accept a logger and use this to work around bad libraries. $0.02
A significant portion of the ML/NLP world runs on Java. Its the worst language for the job, except for all the others.
In the mean time, try Reddit Illustrated. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apptuners....
As I've been saying for years, the Great Firewall of China is -- or was -- the prototype.

Look at its early history: Built with "Western" technology and consulting.

Did you think all these firms were creating a one-off?

And, the following observation is perhaps stretching the interpretation a bit (or not), but I find it somewhat ironic that, after all this, it is a Chinese company that is pushing this implementation forward. Use domestic market access to acquire the knowledge (sometimes, by hook or by crook), and then use your control of your own labor market to undersell the competition.
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It turns out that the slope was very slippery indeed.
If the block itself is only a technical measure, it only boosts alternative access methods. But if they make it illegal to do things like watch port or download torrents without government permission, like they do now with the requirement to hand over private encryption keys to the officials require them, then GB will become worse than China in the freedom of information flow aspect.
That wiki page doesn't mention tilde does it?

I know tilde escapes from cu(1) (part of uucp)
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/uucp/cu.1.html

But it may well have originated before then.
"I would advise the applicant to put this behind him and move on. Nothing good can come of going public with a rant like this. You'd be surprised at how such actions can come back to haunt you."

This is the wisest thing I've read about this post. TR won't retrain their entire management team because of any angry blogger. Big companies don't operate like that. But an angry blogger may find the next interview a little harder to come by. Would you or I ever want to interview someone who publicly lashed out at a prior interviewer?
As an aside, I find it very interesting that the BBC website is so selective about which articles they allow (moderated) comments on, for example here is an article with a comment form

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23465992

It would be good to hear them explain what the process is for deciding which articles are allowed.
You'd think, but jQuery had to remove code.jquery.com/latest.js because people were linking to it from production sites and complaining when things broke.
Yes, absolutely learn it. In the US Android developers make 130-170K per year [1]. You could get an awesome paying job, probably buy a house.

[1] http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/112042?google_editors_pi...
Here is another issue about not charging enough: clients don't respect you. You are the same exact person at $50/hr versus $500/hr, but a client will bend over backwards to make you happy at $500/hr, whereas they will walk all over you at $50/hr. You need to charge higher rates just to maintain a healthy relationship.
So perhaps the saying should be "the frenemy of my frenemy is my end"
I didn't call him retarded, I called his theory retarded, I called him self-deluded.
The application author can provide an updated container if there's a security problem.

If not you can install the updated version of the affected package within the container.

The value of not having to support 5 different web servers and 5 data bases etc... is far far too great to ignore.

If anything it will likely reduce a lot of issues and bugs.

Since you are dealing with only one stack you can devote your time to make sure it is rock solid.
So basically its a business deal between Huawei and the UK and they're using the angle of "Think of the children" to sell the idea.
Your techniques, as effective as they maybe, aren't really 'Growth Hacking'. I think there is fine line between the good 'ol 'Internet Marketing'(read spamming) and growth hacking. I'm not sure your's fall into the later.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the things you mentioned will not help you to get more users and eventually make more money. Then again, if money is the only thing you're after, you could as well be making crapware or promote 'Work From Home' guides. Trust me, they can make you a lot of money, I've been there. There's a reason you're making iPhone apps instead of crapware. That reason should be honored.

Anyways, I hope I delivered my message correctly. There's is nothing wrong with what you're doing. Zynga did the same things you're doing with twists on a large scale and made millions. But we don't want to be Zynga, do we?
Sorry, I don't know...
Maybe this can help you, but its about the cheapest new Mac http://stackoverflow.com/questions/190662/whats-the-cheapest...
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For what it's worth, I'm working on a Mint competitor of sorts (that takes advantage of Machine Learning to automatically help you save. It will be based in Australia, not the US, and the basic app will be released as open source for personal self hosting.
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You can link to stylesheets in HTTP headers?

What's the benefit, faster page rendering?
So what are the speculations on circumvention?

Would an unblocked proxy suffice, or do we think UK internet users would need to purchase a VPN?

Also, is the idea to block porn sites, or any site that contains pornographic content, like NSFW subreddits?
> My needs in dev are different from production - e.g. Everything from basic settings, URLs, networking, reloading behaviour to performance tuning. My needs for my dev DB are quite different from those in production.

But you'll need a lot of things to be configured identically, and you'll need it to be reproducible (say for when a server fails). That's the point - nobody forces you to have just one identical script.

The containers vs. vm's distinction otherwise makes a difference for one reason only: Because containers allow higher density, it is acceptable to employ them in situations where the cost of vm's would be too high.

This is how it hangs together with standardised workloads: They're lightweight enough that standardised workloads becomes viable for many more use cases.

(In fact, on Linux, LXC is built on top of cgroups/namespaces which are far more flexible than that: Instead of building full containers, you can run individual applications in their own containers, or you can have servers with built in cgroups support that could e.g. do stuff like take an incoming connection, authenticate the user, look that user up and see "ok, this users connection is allowed to use 5% CPU and 10% of disk IO and 100MB memory", fork() and assign the forked process to cgroups accordingly, while at the same time isolating him so the process in question can only see a certain directory, can't see other processes etc.. Heck, you could even give the process its own network, and firewall it so it can only connect to certain specific network resources. )
Thanks for the tip.

Anyone here have personal experience of Titanium?
I recently bought a Huawei phone from a large mobile phone dealer. £70 contract-free, with a dual-core processor and Android 4.1.

Is there something I should be concerned about with this thing? It is remarkably cheap and seems good quality so far. I'll probably put Cyanogenmod on it if they come out with it, though.
> Isn't Google's viewer really the default PDF viewer in Chrome? The one which doesn't add a toolbar or any tooltips that are popping up despite my mouse not hovering over them.

No, it's not, unless, Google figured out a way to install their PDF viewer plugin in my Firefox without me noticing. ;) The link 6ren posted is to Google Docs's file viewing component, now sold separately: https://docs.google.com/viewer

I'm not completely sure, but I think that for PDFs what the Google Docs viewer does is (1) generate a PNG image of each page, (2) extract the text and put in on the page as invisible HTML, positioned carefully to correspond to the PNG. The point of (2) is that it makes text selectable.
Too bad that actual planning seems to take a backseat to "my own swiss bank account in 10 years" planning. The same problem "islamic democracies" (or the "islamic republic") or dictatorships have. And then western (and Chinese) companies come in who promise personal kickbacks in trade for contracts. And soon the situation happens that companies who don't do this simply can't get any business at all.

China will get killed by it's own politicians much quicker than any western democracy. They're still growing, today it's easy for them because China is growing at 7% per year. It will get hard soon and things will change. Fast.
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The one I used serves a number of postcodes in East London (and had another location in Essex) and was called "The Ironing Board". They charge by weight, their site is here, but you have to call them rather than arrange it via the web - http://www.theironingboard.com/

I would expect there to be others in other parts of the city. I could be wrong :)

--edit-- It looks like they've been doing it for 21 years!
He's not a psychopath or even a sociopath.

I'm definitely not a fan of his, but I do think he cares about people and has empathy. You don't become a Community Organizer for the power and money.

When he made those promises, he did so because he was(still is) naive and had very little real world experience.

He's an astoundingly awful President and possibly a closet-Marxist, but he's no cold-blooded sociopath.

[edit: clarification]
Of those 3 languages, I would blame C++ for laying out a minefield.

Considered FreePascal or Go, maybe? Pascal doesn't have a garbage collecter, but it's not "pointers everywhere" like C, and string values are reference counted. Having done a lot of C, I really miss function pointers when working in Java. (Pascal calls them procedural types instead of func ptrs)
HR pointed the finger at Procurement for signing a contract with the staffing provider that included those terms. Noone could really justify why that clause existed, and likely to still be the case.
Why did it seem unstable? I didn't get that impression from Apodaca's book: Advanced Renderman. Seemed like a really cool place with a bit of shuffling between Lucas and Jobs later. I always wondered why Pat Hanrahan wasn't more prominent in Pixar... then I looked him up. I haven't realized he co-founded Tableau.
STO is okay as a part of defence-in-depth, IMO.
> "one of the biggest security leaks in the American history"

Is the prism slides really one of the biggest security leaks in the American history, comparable to the Pentagon Papers, the war logs or the diplomatic cables? The prism power point leak looks a bit tiny in comparison.

It seems to me as the reason prism get so much media attention, is that it confirmed something everyone already knew but refused to accept. That shock hit at peoples heart, and felt more than 250,000 United States diplomatic cables or 500,000 army reports. Knowing, rather than just suspecting that Google, FB or microsoft channels data over to the NSA feels worse than hearing about kids being shot at by an attack helicopter using 30 mm fire.

Still, using the description of biggest security leaks in the American history might be a bit much?
Good article, but the title is a stretch. This isn't about everyone hating economics. It's that people operate for reasons other than just money, and this can appear irrational. That's where behavioral economics comes in. And keeping someone around to keep others happy does have economic benefit.
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Who cares what he's charged with. Look at what they did to Bradley Manning. Actions speak louder than words.
I'm in a similar situation, very good pay, comfortable, family. No room to advance in anything but pay, the job is rarely interesting with a very high level of frustration due to ever present politics.

I've basically given up on fighting the politics and instea focus on working on self-starting things that can't be derailed while studying for a career realignment.

My biggest fear is staying to so long that I atrophy and/or find myself molded by the culture such that I'm unhirable.

I'm hoping to move on without taking too dramatic a pay cut (<25%).
Us hackers need to make a new "web" a web where censorship is not possible and everything is encrypted, a "web" with no single points of failure, a "web" where domains cant snatched or censored, a "web" like the web used to be :(
i'm turning 30 this year, have been dealing with this issue for 15 years, and still mini-panic for about 2 seconds whenever i hit ctrl-s by accident. it's good to read about.

chill out man.
Why bother? I'd be far simpler, and more resource efficient, to run whatever the user prefers of Xen/Virtualbox/Vmware or "bare" Linux as the base and not have to create monstrous franken-containers.
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Which is, of course, an excellent reason such projects should never be tolerated in the first place. Government-mandated filters simply should not exist. Full stop. It's an easy question: Does the law in question require that access to publicly-available information be blocked in any way? If yes, then it is a bad law.
I don't get it. Online laundry shops have been there for years. I've had my laundry picked up, washed, folded and delivered a few times.

Why does it need a Y-Combinator backed-startup? Can't wait to see a job posting asking for a "full-stack engineer". This is a typical laundry business: there's hundreds of them everywhere, all "startups" (in the original non-techy sense) who make money. They don't need a Techcrunch article, or any of that hype.
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As a juxtaposition consider this, just out today.

Halliburton, the US energy services giant, has admitted destroying evidence relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst such disaster in American history.

A Justice Department statement released late on Thursday said the company had agreed to plead guilty to criminal conduct that occurred when it was carrying out its own post-accident investigation.

Is any one going to pay for the fact that they broke the law, screwed up in the lives of so many people in Florida, stuffed up the environment for years to come all for the sake of a dollar?

No. The Justice Department is going to do nothing more than slap them on the wrist.

And why is that? Obviously money talks!
> For one, there can’t be 2 [clientID, userID] couples with
the same userID: with the way mixpanel does things, this
is essentially a technically impossible scenario (...)
And yet one user can access your site through different
clients, leading to a systematic overestimation of the number
of visitors hitting your site.

Really? Anyone can confirm this behavior? I'm pretty sure KissMetrics doesn't have this limitation.
It has to be after they started putting Intel processors in. If it is a PowerPC, it will not work for iOS dev.
I tried to look it up, but UK's law is still a mystery for me. Can someone help: what is a definition of ISP in the UK?

Especially: is a VPN provider an ISP?

Additionally, what definition of ISP is used in Mr Cameron's proposal?
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I started using gmail to send through my personal domain and had been kind of perplexed by this myself. Nice to know it's possible to fix it (even if it's really convoluted just how many steps you have to take to configure everything correctly). You have to send through SMTP instead of through Gmail's servers (Though oddly enough, the SMTP server belongs to Google...), set up SPF and DKIM manually, etc etc.

EDIT:
Just found this, great way to create SPF DNS strings:

http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/...

It actually explains all the syntax and lets you edit it easily. Much less confusing than trying to figure out what the hell the elements of the SPF string do by yourself and then waiting hours to see how verifiers parse it.
You're describing what you see as the advantages of the shared hosting scenario and in the blog post I linked, I explain why I think that business will be progressively squeezed out by VPSes and SaaS.

In any case, there's no difference in kind between relying on an upstream app developer and an upstream distribution. You still need to trigger the updates.

And you might have noticed that stuff is left alone to bitrot anyhow.
I don't know anything about spy exchanges, but based on the term I would imagine it works the other way: an American spy captured in Russsia would be traded for a Russian spy captured in the US. Do they usually trade defectors too?
A car dealer was hot linking to pictures of our cars from a sports car forum I belong to and using them to sell his same models on eBay.

We changed to pics of Male Enhancement devices and medication and shared with other car forums, we all watched for days and the guy was pretty clueless on what was going on and apparently didn’t check his ads as often as he should.

We even had a vote for what pic appears today poll.

Remember: The first rule of Changing hot linked photos club is to never talk about changing hot linked photos.
I don't know how things are going to change but I ordered Talk Talk a couple of days ago and they only ask you if you want content filter and antivirus filter on; whatever you choose they say you can customise it later in your control panel.

So far I like what I have seen. I just don't want any filter, thanks, and I did't have to say why (ie. porn or anything else).
I think the implication was that there was a time when one frequently wanted to mess with the flow control.
I didn't think twice, I almost came back and edited it to remove the last part. Then I realized I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people.
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I think cjdns[1] is a step in this direction. You should check it out if you're interested in an encrypted and truly distributed web.

[1] http://cjdns.info/
Was it a pink beam of light?
Not since 2010 it doesn't:

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/847-1/impact-compilateurs-ar...

It can generate code which when run on AMD is faster than GCC and MSVC.
I hate to be that guy... the message of your post is clear, but I think it should be flee and not flea.

https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aflea

https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aflee
You don't have to send through alternate SMTP servers (even if they're Google's). Let me know if that's unclear in the post and I'll edit it.
And yet we continue to give them more authority to control our lives as though they were our "better angels".

Politicians are no better than we are. Often, they are worse since a strong desire to control others is often what puts them on the political track.

Obama said the other day, "The government is us, and we're doing things right"

HUH?!

If the government is us, then why are we spying on ourselves? Why can't we get any answers about the NSA spying, the IRS scandal, Benghazi, or even the Fast and Furious gun running scandal?

If we are the government, then we're kind of masochistic.
It seems after loosing your phone you have a few hours to disable access to your email account.
You pretty much have to set the SPF field regardless of where you host your email. I don't know if Mandrill signs DKIM and give you a key to add.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_(file_sharing)
The Go Wiki (https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/w/list) is also a good place to find Go language resources and information.

GoDoc (http://godoc.org/) is a great place to search for Go packages and read the doc online.
PaaS is definitely something I didn't foresee. Happily, I think it proves my case, if only indirectly, that shared hosting is a dead end.
It's already there, developed by the US military no less. It's called Tor. If the installing and usability was improved it might catch on for normal people concerned about their privacy.
Everywhere I've worked, the developers have needed to figure out the dependencies requires to get the software working. Sometimes with the assistances of a dev-ops or ops guy.

All this does is say "while you figure that out, put it in a script". First, it means we can test the dependencies easily by re-running the script to see that it actually accurately reflects what needs to be done.

Secondly, when you're done, you have a reproducible deployment environment that massively simplifies ops and dev: Ops can decide on upgrades, re-run the scripts, have QA run their tests and know the upgrade won't break stuff in production. Dev can make code changes and be confident that what they hand off will actually work in the production environment because they've test deployed it on VMs built from identical templates.

As long as your team can figure out how to deploy the software they write, they can do this. If they can't, you have bigger problems.