skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear this (rather pretentious) phrase about "telling a story" quite often in the UX field. Many of the "big players" have hundred or thousands of employees and "telling a story" can often feel manufactured or contrived. Sometimes you don't need to "tell a story" and just because you don't pursue that line of thinking doesn't mean you have a "generic thing". It's the designer's skill to take this "generic thing" and give it an honest, usable and creative design makeover.

I agree all designers want challenge and recognition. Do they all want to work for the big players? Perhaps, if they happen to admire the design output of the company in question. In the end, every designer is different and makes their own choice about what appeals to them.
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The developer mode warning only occurs on boot, as you say. Having owned by the ARM Chromebook and the Pixel since both were released, I've probably seen that warning less than 8 times since install. The Chromebooks very rarely need to be turned off, and the one time that does happen often, on update restarts, actually bypasses that warning.
I'm on the opposite end of the transaction - I'd like to buy some BTC but everyone is (rightly) so scared that the only mechanism available is via bank account. Great...except im not in the US. I'd have to string together multiple online currencies to arrive at something that is accepted. Or trust a tiny local exchange.

So much hassle to cover VPN costs...
Something I believe that needs to be delineated is if the NSA is doing this work or if one of their contractors is. For an example of a contractor doing such services, Endgame Systems[1].

"Endgame executives will bring up maps of airports, parliament buildings, and corporate offices. The executives then create a list of the computers running inside the facilities, including what software the computers run, and a menu of attacks that could work against those particular systems. Endgame weaponry comes customized by region—the Middle East, Russia, Latin America, and China—with manuals, testing software, and “demo instructions.” There are even target packs for democratic countries in Europe and other U.S. allies."

With news of payments rendered to companies complicit in handing over data under dubious laws, I believe much more attention should be put on the 'plumbers' themselves.
[1] http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Endgame_Systems
Same here. Plus, those of us that do move once in a while know that books weigh a ton.
When I helped my dad move, I think the boxes that had his books weighed more than his fridge ;-).
> I realized it would make a pretty neat demo just by itself, so I built that in too, to the dulcet tones of Selah Sue—whose last name I hope is not indicative.

The demo and technology are amazing, and he should be proud of his hard work. But I was a bit surprised by his appropriation of someone else's work to add a soundtrack. Why not try to reach out to the artist and ask permission first?

Now before you hit the downvote icon, here's a thought exercise: What do you think HN's reaction would be if a random musician used this web visualization in a music video without asking permission first? How often do we get irate about design theft, and why is doing the reverse in this case okay?

> The songs are used here entirely for educational purposes of course. Not that it matters, since they're all on YouTube anyway.

This is simply untrue. Although the blog entry has educational value, the music itself serves no purpose other than to provide a soundtrack. It's being used for entertainment value, and if the developer does professional web design and references this work on a resume or contract offerings, then it arguably serves a commercial marketing purpose as well.

And saying that the video is available elsewhere? That's again no different than appropriating images or artwork from elsewhere on the web and reusing them for other purposes.

It's good that he credited the music, and I'm glad he thought about reuse issues. But again, why not ask permission first? And if it can't be obtained, why not find a musician who needs the exposure and would be happy to have their music included?
You can still make Android apps that don't use Google's billing service. You just can't sell them on the Play Store. There are alternative app stores. I think Amazon's is the most popular.
Yes you did!
Posted from a Crouton'd Chromebook Pixel.
(I know this is dragging on)

> You see a little girl running toward a minefield, you jump and save her, there is no reasoning.

You see a little girl standing on top of a tall building, a crowd gathered below. You grow frustrated, tension rises. You start chanting "Jump! Jump!" and watch the girl throw herself to her death. There's no reasoning. [1]

I don't think anecdotes like that prove much. Human nature has us do things without thinking, for better and sometimes for worse. I don't think these moments of impulse necessarily embody any higher principle, or stand "above" rationality.

Having moral principles that stand "above" the law is fine: those will let you decide in favour of what's moral instead of what's legal. But that's still reasoning.

[1] This is surprisingly common when people jump from buildings.
Obama wants all the info in your smart phone without a Warrant
If it's a recent version of Firefox, the "use asm" in [1] probably explains the difference.

[1]: http://alexey.radul.name/ideas/2013/cleverness-of-compilers/...
I have good chunk of books that are 25+ years and still look close to new, so 50 years sounds easy to achieve for all but the most well worn books.

For my digital media I'm paranoid - I have a mirrored NAS, rsynced to a third drive, copies on my laptop, and two offsite backups of most of my media, and I'm still concerned about how easy it is to lose it.

Especially as most of my early writing (of little value to anyone but me, but of great sentimental value) only survives on printouts - even faded acidic printer paper from the early 80's to early 90's have long outlasted the storage media holding the files it was saved on. Not because disks can't live long, but because the density and relative fragility makes it so much easier to lose or damage the data.
Agree. Calibre is best known as a ebook converter. Most of non-tech savvy the people I know, talk about Calibre that way.
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I'm not an american, but yes, I believe verbal contracts do apply in the US. I called it unrealistic because it's much harder to prove. As you pointed out, it's possible.
The EFF is doing some great work. I just made my annual donation, a bit early this year. Will likely make another one.

https://supporters.eff.org/donate/
I think it hinges on the paper and print quality mostly. The binding can be repaired if one treats a book a bit rough (my library offers a workshop for that...). While I have heard that the usual paper quality used for printing has degraded, I haven't seen any indications of problems in my own books so far. I also regularly consult books in libraries whose printing dates range all over the 20th century. Of course, they may not be pretty any more, and the paper often becomes yellowish, but treated somewhat decently they seem to age well and still be completely usable.

CD's and DVD's are another matter unfortuntaly... I am now basically operating under the assumption that any CD or DVD will be unreadable after a few years.
A few years ago myself and a friend wrote a simulator for a 90's toy called "Smart Start" ("Pense Bem" in Brazil), which has a crude piano (square wave only) mode as well.

It is still online at http://labs.hardinfo.org/pb/.

To play, turn it on (green button), then press "Memória Tons" (third button from the right in the last row).
Deploying code to Amazon Opsworks using Codeship
I'm not sure why you've been downvoted because I think you make some perfectly valid points.

I agree that a design job is what you make of it and approaching a project with the mindset that it's just another run-of-the-mill project will only produce run-of-the-mill output.

Everyone needs variety in their work to keep learning and feeling like they're facing a new challenge.
In the US, truth is an absolute defense to the claim of libel, so venue is pretty important.
With all this revelations about spying and hacking and people still use windows. Priceless! I bet Bill Gates laughing his ass off, and at same time uses Mac/Linux him self O_o
You need to start by asking the question "whose problem is this solving ?" - presumably the answer is "people who are failing to get interview because of poor CV presentation" so you need to figure out who those people are, what they do and how you can reach them.

Are they students ? - in which case student forums, partnerships with careers services, etc. may be the way to go

Are recruiters seeing a lot of candidates who fit this category ? - then maybe you should partner with recruiters

And so on...
Tried a few Gitlab versions, stick with Redmine for now, though I do hope Ubuntu to support newer Redmine versions, which should not be too hard, but most plugins are not catching up with newer core releases.
> And because the US didn't do exactly the same for similar Chinese projects.

That is irrelevant, I answered to a message in context, and that context was "if china did the hacking, US would be on the brink of war".

Which is why I pointed out that the US mostly had no real reaction when China did hack twice not just some UN politician emails, but the biggest military project of the US, one meant to replace pretty much every other fighter planes they have except the f22 for the foreseeable future.

So if they did not do anything about that, no, they would not be on the brink of war over a Chinese hack of the UN. But I'm sure they would write a strongly worded letter.
If the password submission was handled in javascript couldn't the website rewrite the password field with a one time password. This would let people use password storage, but give the ability to revoke later on. The only difference between a stored password and a cookie, is that cookies are trusted less. Both can give password equivalent access.
Very nice, thank you =)
No, the firmware doesn't disable Hyp mode; it just starts the kernel in Secure-SVC, rather than in Hyp mode. It's pretty trivial to get from Secure-SVC to Hyp in the bootloader before starting the kernel -- there are u-boot patches floating about which do it.

http://www.virtualopensystems.com/media/chromebook/chromeboo... is probably a good place to start if you want to tinker.

As far as I can tell the main issue with the Chromebook is that there's no one organization who's taking responsibility for making sure fixes and changes like this get upstream, so every distro/person ends up reinventing or locally maintaining patches.
I already using Νetsparker fοr 3 years, they're best solutiοn
For end users there are several updates that are welcomed, such as apps not being allowed to show ads thru notifications, or that apps cannot add shortcuts that are ads.
I love how it starts with this, which is so crystal clear but has obviously been violated on every conceivable level from your local police to the NSA.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,

against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,

and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation,

and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

So what part of "persons" "effects" "unreasonable" and "particular" has every level of government decided to purposely not understand?
It's almost like there is a reason for the hate of USA from some people and a reason to be scared!

UPDATE nsa_no_flight_helper SET confidence = confidence+0.23 WHERE person = 'hnha';
That platform already exists. It's the "platform" that naturally happens when there aren't any "app stores" or "app marketplaces", and when devices aren't artificially crippled to prevent users from freely installing software.

It's a bunch of people and organizations around the world offering their software for download over the Internet. It's other people who then possibly pay for and download those apps.

It's distributed, it can optionally include compensation, and how that compensation is delivered is up to the app creator and purchaser.

It may not be as pretty or convenient as what Apple or Google offer, but at least it has the freedom that's desired.

Of course, a package system like dpkg or pkgsrc can be used to help make it far more convenient to find and install software. And websites offering a directory of available software can help with this, too.

All of this already exists. I think that a lot of people have just forgotten about it within the past five or six years.
This HTML5 Piano has a terrible latency, at least in my Chrome 30 @ wheezy64 on Athlon 64 X2 4600+.

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Relevant: http://www.jamwithchrome.com/
Wouldn't it work on firefox for android?
I completely missed this. Thanks.
It really depends what you want to do. If you just run a chroot inside the stock ChromeOS then what you say is true.

But if you're dual-booting to another Linux distribution or just replace ChromeOS altogether (that's another issue with the linked article: what it describes is not a dual-boot) you can't escape frequent reboots. Especially due to flaky suspend/sleep mode support in other distros.
> Car dealerships don't work that way,

Quite true. This isn't a car dealership. Doing website support for small businesses in medium and small markets often does work that way. They have a site, they would prefer that things are added to it, instead of a complete replacement. Back when I was doing webapps in this situation, the business would often insist on running the site from their T1 or ISDN line, refusing to spring for hosting someplace where they can't see the physical hardware to reassure themselves that there is something there.

"You want to back up the database for testing? No, just connect to the production database."

"No, you don't have access to webserver config; just build it in a folder." (It turns out that they don't have such access, either, since they "had a disagreement" with the guy who set up the box for them before he left on bad terms. Asking about how to contact this guy is apparently suspicious).

"You want us to sign a contract? We'll look at it." (They never get back to you, since they can find a dozen other people who are grateful for the promise of payment).

"Pay before it launches? Oh, no, we pay net 60, but our site says 'New site coming Oct 1st!', so unless it's up then, there's no reason for us to pay you." (Of course, they put this up without consulting you after you agreed to start prototyping).

And this is to say nothing of the people who insist on detailed designs and specification documents, then say, "Actually, we're going to wait a little while", and then you find your designed system on their site creaking along like it was written by the nephew of the boss's secretary, who totally learned computer science stuff in high school this semester. Surprise! It was written by that guy, except they hired someone else at $15/hr to randomly change things until it worked, since he had to go back to school when spring break ended...

It's not that there are a few businesses that operate like this: this seems to be the majority of small-town businesses who need webapps. When I ran a business doing webapps and web design in the mid-2000s, I'm not sure I ever ran into an end customer who didn't try to pull something I found really shady, though for them it was just the normal way they think they have to deal with vendors so that they can stay in business.

When I gave up and got a salaried job in 2008, my stress evaporated, even though it was a job at a failing startup. :)
The one that is used by all of the great devices makers, Sony, Kobo, B&N or Google in Play Books.

Change the wording to "de facto" standard
Change to "de facto" standard if you like
As opposed to the non-inane significant 'actual politics' that go on at the UN?

Also, what a clever dig at 'the sheeple'. That means you're intelligent, right?
>I also regularly consult books in libraries

If I'm not mistaken then libraries buy a higher grade of books designed to endure much more. I've seen it on Amazon. i.e. a book comes in ebook, paperback, hardback & then another category - the name of it currently eludes me though.

I agree on the re-binding though.
Sadly if you keep stuff in secret you could try this justification - the person spies on terrorists - so you have connection to them. S/He is connected to you so is only two hops away. So is legitimate person of interest.
Sounds cool, do you think you could find an example? I googled for 'procedural call tree' but wasn't really certain what I was looking for.
This is indeed a bad career move. Not because it's unprofessional, but because that pin sitting on top of the sheet of paper rather than indented into it shows a lack of attention to detail and poor design.
Expanding our Startup Idea Comfort Zone
>I have good chunk of books that are 25+ years

Exactly. They were made 25 years ago. I'm talking about books being printed right now. Quality is not what it once was.
This is absolutely the crux of the matter. The power granted by these programmes involves granting power to entirely fallible human beings. Conceptually there may be good reasons for allowing this level of control, but as abuse is always possible in a closed system, this level of control should never be allowed.
An alternative is - from the commencement of the project - to have a watermark or other visual design element present which makes the site unusable to the client but still allows them to evaluate the work.
The NSA is having a really bad year...
As I said, it's all a matter of taste, but I love 'clutter'. As long as it's my clutter placed by me to my exact specifications (other peoples clutter is different matter all together). I find it really hard to concentrate or relax in a too sterile environment.
Zeiss makes great lenses, but they are also available for Nikon and Canon. Canon and Nikon do make some mediocre lenses but they are all cheapies for cheap bodies. The top end is what will keep them in business.

The electronics companies are in a terrible position. The only people who will buy their bodies and lenses are cost-conscious hobbyists--a group that is rapidly shrinking. You're never going to show up at an NFL game or press conference and see a bunch of Sony and Samsung systems.
Does this require different "types" of upvotes? If so, this kind of idea runs counter to sites like YouTube that have figured out that even things like 5-star rating systems are more complicated than users want to deal with.
There is a place in the market for anonymous social networks. Checkout racut. (racut.com)

From the site -

racut is designed so you can be anonymous as you want. Choose a profile picture, craft a witty bio, and you're on your way.

You don't have to tell us where you went to school, what your favorite color is and if you're in a relationship.
Not even the entire US, just its government, against everyone else, including its citizens. Too much power in too few hands.
One thing that in hindsight may be related that's not on the timeline is the DoJ losing its lawsuit against Google in January 2006.

"Google Resists U.S. Subpoena of Search Data" (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/technology/20google.html?p...)

"Judge tells DoJ 'No' on search queries" (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/judge-tells-doj-no-on...)

According to the slides (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg), the PRISM timeline begins the next year on 9/11/2007, and Google is added on January 14, 2009, almost 3 years to the day after the the DoJ ruling and only a few days before Obama takes office.

In a Q&A after a talk at Stanford in 2006, Marissa Mayer is asked, "How much information does Google share with the Federal Government?"

Here is her answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soYKFWqVVzg#t=1819
Easier to read, all around better source of information: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Likes
Ask HN: Continous growth as a C++ developer
Hi HN

tl dr: I'm looking for a good way to learn more in depth knowledge of C++, as well as something to motivate me to learn in my spare time. Is a course/certificate a reasonable option and can you recommend any in particular?

I know this might be a bit more of a "career programer" question than what's normal for HN, but I still thought it would be worthwhile to ask.

I've been working with C++ for about 1.5 years now and find my growth stagnating. During normal work hours I find myself solving the problem at hand and moving on to the next problem rather than allocating enough time for deep learning and really gaining an understanding of C++ internals. This is mostly since there's always more to do than we have time for.

I've been thinking about how to solve this and started thinking about taking a course/certification (probably in my spare time) that would allow me code in a more learning oriented way, while also forcing me to code in my spare time. (I read a lot of about programing and technology in my spare time but find most of my own projects fizzling out due to lack of motivation)

Do you think a course/certification is the right way to go? And if so can you recommend something worth taking?
If this passes, it will be a ruling as bad, if not worse than Citizens United.
Definitely "unreasonable", when you're a crazy paranoid government full of weapons nothing seems unreasonable.
I'm not saying that it's good or bad. I'm saying that from the POV of production, a stoppage is a stoppage, regardless of what caused it.

If you improve safety by removing humans from dangerous situations, you reduce interruptions to operations. For a company at the scale of Rio, that's millions of dollars per day.
I hate to say it, but proofschool is a really bad name for this.

Thinking back to being a kid, I would not like to tell my peer group that I was going to proofschool, as the obvious mockery available from that name would be merciless.
I believe Windows 8.1 ships with IE11, which means now all current desktop browsers support WebGL!

http://caniuse.com/#search=webgl
A lot of the recently printed books I have are printed on substantially higher quality paper than a lot of the older books I have - I really haven't seen that loss in quality.
I hope this means Google Wallet will be able to do what Google Checkout couldn't - finally take on Paypal. But before it does that, it needs to be ubiquitous on Android devices at least, and used by hundreds of millions of people, globally. Then maybe a day will come when you can withdraw the money out of your Google Wallet, in your own country, just like with Paypal.
That's a hollow victory. The momentum is much weaker in most cases when people care about something for the wrong reasons and then it gets easily quelled by distractions. In fact, that's how a lot of this nonsense stayed on for so long.

Imagine if more people cared about Iraq for more than the price of oil. Some did, but not nearly enough in number.
precisely what we have been thinking..now the problem is we aren't so big that we would talk to recruiters directly..while we hv reachd 1000 users in a month we still have a long way to go before we bring recruiters into picture..we are thinking of doing demos in colleges since they would be our early adopters..n talking to LaTeX devs on how we can shape this platform better..we are brainstorming on which direction to grow and how to spread the word while we stay free for users..