skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By the way, would you still call it harassment if you never got in the way of the person you were following, never acknowledged your presence, and generally let them go about their business while you were busily recording everything they did? Most people would still be very unhappy.

Google "paparazzi". Notice the distinctions between a legal claim of privacy intrusion and the legal claim of harassment. And also, notice the legal claim of freedom of the press.

Your model of "people with cameras following you around" might sound really novel and clever to you, but we've had such people for a long time. And guess what? In public, no one considers it a privacy intrusion. It's harassment.

> Now I'm using arguments that appeal to the aforementioned "common people," and you're jumping in to say they aren't technical enough

Technical arguments are not philosophical arguments. Believe it or not, programmers do not have a monopoly on The Right Way To Do Everything. A philosophical argument can depend too much on jargon and be perverted by political spin, this is true. But you can still methodically break it down and explain it to a non-technical person if you've put it together well.

Watch http://justiceharvard.org sometime.

Failing to convince someone is your fault, not theirs.
If I stop using any hosting provider that someone has complained about online, what exactly are my options now?
From the 2011 kernel summit, "The attack turns out to have been part of a widespread credential-stealing network that has been operating for some years now; it is clear that the site had been owned by this network for some time before it was discovered. What also seems to be clear is that this was not a targeted attack; kernel.org was just another on a long list of broken machines."

- Jon Corbet reporting on a talk by H. Peter Anvin,
https://lwn.net/Articles/464233/
Did not see your interest in fixing this until today.

Just verify the expected variables/methods exist prior to using them (lines 99,197,365 right now):

if(hbspt) hbspt.cta.load(
^ added ^
> David Brooks made a case for why he thought Snowden was wrong to leak information about the Prism surveillance program ... “For society to function well,” he wrote, “there have to be basic levels of trust and cooperation, a respect for institutions and deference to common procedures. By deciding to unilaterally leak secret N.S.A. documents, Snowden has betrayed all of these things.”

What gets me about this quote is complete lack of introspection as to who exactly lacks respect for institutions and deference to common procedures. Snowden revealed a lack of respect for institutions in those very institutions. The hypocrisy is thick.

But we all know this. And we all know that this is spin. And it's this lack of self-respect the institutions have for themselves and their own actions that fosters questioning the moral stance, value, and intrinsic worth of the "System" by those brought up on messages of double-standards, question authority, and buck the status quo. The emperor has no clothes, and comes right out and says it.
First, I don't think we agree what desperate means. Desperate makes it sound like revenues are shrinking or something.

You do not know how Wall Street works on tech companies with high PE. Even a 10% increase might shave Google $200 off their share price.

Second, if your theory were true, why is Wikipedia not #1 for "laptop"? Wouldn't that be a more powerful keyword to force people to advertise for?

I have a feeling that the fastest Googler reading this is about to get a promotion thanks to your tip.
My Verizon phone started showing an IPv6 number a few weeks ago.
There's a boundary between playing devil's advocate and taking the piss outright.
I disagree. As a user, I don't want my queries passed on to the sites I visit for privacy reason. As an advertiser, I use the organic keyword reports to buy ads frequently.

It is very common that I would find organic searches where we got conversions, but were low on the page or on the second page. I would use that information to buy ads. For the last year or so, this technique hardly works because there is so much less keyword data available. Now it is completely gone as you can't match the webmaster tools data to conversions.

This change is going to cost Google significant revenue and growth over time.
We don't use AWS/etc, we have 3 colo spaces in various locations around the country. We've never visited two of them; a small fee gets your equipment racked and connected, and remote hands does the rest as needed. The local one we visit maybe 3 times a year, usually to install new equipment.

The overhead of dealing with hardware, especially for applications that don't have massive exponential growth, is really not as big of a deal as it sounds.
Or tablet, for that matter.
The harder question is where do I got when I don't want internet access. Meaning no one around me has it either.
This is really interesting but I worry about the share of the net you all have crawled/are actively gathering stats on. Perhaps you need a way to request the crawling of a site or keyword?
After some feedback the example (the piano implementation) is updated to include black keys.
I get what they're going for, but doing a completely non-discoverable interface is ballsy to say the least.
I think the thing that makes the Seneca/HN approach so effective is that it can be applied to the minutia. No one wants to look bad in front of their mentor, no matter how trivial the act is.

When you're on your deathbed most individual events will be irrelevant. Not to mention that it doesn't really work until you have a visceral appreciation of your mortality, something many younger people lack.

The deathbed concept I had heard frequently with little effect but reading that letter from Seneca had a profound impact on my decision making process.
anybody thinks they have guts to take ms money and buy into Jolla? that would be bombastic turnaround :(
Laying off thousands to pay the executives a few million dollar more!
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But even in that case there is a single point of failure in the host. That's all manageable, but it is effort, that could otherwise be put into developing the application
While "1.5% of messages" doesn't sound like that much, it probably added up to millions of e-mails over that ~2.5 hour period.

(Also: it's probably not feasible to do for everyone at your companies, but offlineimap[0] is a great tool for ensuring that you always have a local copy of your mailbox.)

[0]: http://offlineimap.org/
Wait, They are trying to remake Lynx?
... And all of Airbus's blueprints, courtesy of the NSA.
Perhaps it was fiduciary duty that led them to sell the Company.
Google the expanding earth animation, it will blow your mind.
The data in Webmaster Tools has been historically unreliable[1][2]. If you compare it to data in Google Analytics, the two have often been world's apart. Sadly, this isn't going to come close to replacing accurate keyword data in GA.

[1]http://www.portent.com/blog/analytics/google-webmaster-tools...
[2]http://moz.com/blog/comparing-ranktracking-methods-browser-v...
I know, it's almost as if they lied about their mission statement and it's really "maximize shareholder profit."

This is really disturbing my worldview.

You don't think other huge corporations might have mission statements that are really marketing tools aimed at disguising their profit motive and disregard for users?

No! it's unthinkable. We must be missing something!
Digital signing on the login process? Could you be more specific? I was under the impression that verifying data is coming from an 'approved clients' over a reverse engineered protocol is impossible.
The way all the icons zoom in to the home screen.
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Finally, my router has a feature that shows what the user googled for, it's creepy.
Can you elaborate on "would like to see a calendar with the different checks"? Do you mean a history chart that shows you how you're doing?
This is probably the best looking of the habit tracking/streak apps I've used.

However, there's no way to track progress and view history, so I'll stick with Habit List. I'll happily download it again after you add that feature.
I'm having trouble imagining how the delegation mechanism works unless it's just incredibly broad[1].

To wit, how do I delegate my 2024 vote on whether or not to allow unaglisivation[2] to be legal or not? Political issues are emergent phenomena, and that would seem to be a problem with such a delegation system. It seems like it might be better to just mandate voting, or tie it to some basket of broadly sought after government gated entitlements, such as driver's licenses, etc. so as to make it generally more inconvenient not to vote than to vote[3].

[1]Obviously "incredibly broad" is not going to be very broad in relation to the current US vote delegation system which is pretty much "delegate all of my decisions to X", but if you're talking about creating a brand new system harnessing the power of information systems that didn't exist in the late 1700s, there's not much reason to constrain yourself to comparisons with such an archaic system.

[2]This is a made up term

[3]Though in such a coercive voting system, I think you would have to randomize option placement and offer a "no opinion" option for every issue so as not to unduly skew the results by the people who really do not want to vote, or don't feel well enough informed on a particular issue.

[edit to add footnote [1] and for clarity]
Coincidentally, I'm currently working on a project to make IPython an (even) better tool for instruction and writing interactive 'textbooks', like what OP has done.

If anybody on here is an instructor who has a similar workflow, or is interested in trying something like this out, please drop me a line. We're in the middle of researching the most important areas for improvement, and we'd love to hear your feedback!

(EDIT: Email my username at Google's email service.)
> Everybody is now an expert

Everybody is an expert in deciding what they don't like. It doesn't matter how much designer-speak bullshit you can spew, if the person using it doesn't like it or finds it too confusing, it failed.
It's a government subsidy just like any other. It's a huge one, and many carriers are complaining about it. They argue Emirates should be charged extra fees for their US service because of unfair competition. I think that argument has merit given US carriers have to pay market price plus taxes on their jet fuel.

Emirates gets huge subsidies because its a goal of Dubai to become a world air hub. It certainly makes sense for them given their geographical position but I don't see how US carriers are supposed to compete with that.
Gedi, an absurdly powerful model API
At that rate, I'm curious why Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) wasn't in the lineup of considerations.
This kind of post annoys me. It's driven by the fact that the author has some theories about UI design, and wants to share them with us. There's nothing wrong with that. But this post pretends to be like a real usability audit, which it is not.

> When I tap it, it turns red — but wait — it doesn’t give me the visual feedback. Did I break it?

> The alarm is shown as a red filled square, so when I tap it, it should perform a negative action, right?

These comments are disingenous. You didn't get confused by these things.

You, as a person who's analysing a UI, have an almost totally different mindset to someone who is just using the thing for real. You know this, so here, you're just play-acting. You're thinking, what might I get confused about if I was a normal user? That's a bad way to look for what's really wrong in a UI design.

Yes, when you present points like these, they sound reasonable, but that doesn't mean they're right. Perhaps the alternative (e.g. banning the use of red anywhere in the OS other than for a negative action) might be over-restrictive as a requirement, which could cause excessive complexity elsewhere in the UI and lead to a worse overall result. Or perhaps you're right, the colour–meaning thing should be 100% consistent above all other considerations. Either way, you don't know, and speculation about what might confuse a real user should not be presented as fact.

Theories just guide us in what to test.
>EC2 lets you roll a globally distributed solution with good tooling for low cost

This is the Crux. There are other options available, but going cloud makes it very easy to roll out something big without the necessity to have experts in all the lower level parts of your infrastructure. It lets you focus and the price for that is absolutely reasonable
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Are you sure? I've never heard that aspect to it.
I have tried gitflow in the past... too much for my needs, I only need the feature/hotfix branches and the master branch.
DO doesn't have a console access utility like Linode's [Lish]?

[Lish]: (https://library.linode.com/using-lish-the-linode-shell)?
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SSL to SSL should still pass the HTTP referrers. If this is the case, this is a non-story. If it is not, then its interesting.
Same thing here. Got it in 2007 on my 2nd day w/ a physical trainer after being a lazy slob for several years. Physical trainer said his method was "push to failure" and it was the proper way to learn my limits and establish a routine. My CK was over 110,000 and I spent a week in the hospital. It was painful and no fun at all. Doctors were surprised I left the hospital with both kidneys. Long term effect, for me, was nothing. Got a rough education though and now approach my physical fitness with a lot of caution.
If the stopwatch timer didn't record time properly, I'd see where you're coming from. UI polish isn't going to make fix an error in the timer. But here, all the core functionality works, the clocks show the right time, the stopwatch starts and stops. The main complaint here is about the colour of the buttons, which I agree could do with some polish.
I've just started using ZeroMQ, and it's been a whole heap of fun. I really like the idea of opinionated sockets.
From my understanding, all IPython Notebook viewer does is convert a notebook to html, and serve the html.

So I am comfortable investing in this format, with the notion that I can dump to html and be no worse off than I was making blog posts or writing up tutorials.

On the other hand, IPython is 5+ years old(?), and it has some pretty strong backing and momentum. I have a good deal of confidence that it will be around for a while.

Edit: If you miss the comment below, IPython is almost 12 years old!
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I guess I'm a spambot.
I have no twitter handle, no personal blog, my company website is a large corporate site with no mention of me, and my facebook profile is completely barren.
It will only charge the hourly reserved costs.

From: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/

Easy to Use: Reserved Instances are easy to use and require no change to how you use EC2. When computing your bill, our system will automatically apply Reserved Instance rates first to minimize your costs. An instance hour will only be charged at the On-Demand rate when your total quantity of instances running that hour exceeds the number of applicable Reserved Instances you own.
Why, you're right. I don't know for sure that the NSA didn't fake dozens of threatening emails from Weev, and several forum posts, and then used mind-control satellites to keep him from posting that it wasn't him or telling any of his meatspace friends that it wasn't him, and then used mind-control satellites again to make him brag in person to that reporter. Oooh, or maybe they used mind-control satellites on the reporter to make him slander Weev's good name, and MCS once more to keep all the people in the article from revealing the truth!

Give it up, man. The guy whose image you're trying to clean prefers it nice and dirty.
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Haswell is more different than ivy bridge. More changes, more verification. Apple and thinkpad lines are also the slowest updating, IMO. They keep existing models around for a lot longer than the two weeks it seems acer or asus do.
Not just "cheaper land" - also NIMBY because of the noise.
A better link would be the front page: http://www.urbit.org/

I guess on the Internets, you never release anything - it's released for you. Please be warned, (a) the doc is incomplete, (b) if you create an Urbit ship you'll eventually have to destroy it, as we don't have continuity yet.
> Which is still really fast, especially when you know how mail work and remember the "old days".

Mmm, dialing in to QuantumLink at 300 baud... ahh, the good^Wold days.
What about the crawling? How much traffic does that generate? I'm just wondering if you are hitting one or more of the sites very hard and they complained to DO about it.
I currently work at a place that is mostly Macs and I use a Thinkpad. 3 of us are working on the same Android app and one of us uses Eclipse with stock ADT, one of us uses vi and ant to build and I currently use Android Studio (was previously using Sublime Text and ant to build).

I've worked at other places on other types of software in similar situations where each dev may have had a very different setup, and in my experience while this may introduce a bit of one-time hardship at the very beginning of a project, it actually leads to a much better and robust product later because there tend to be issues with the code or overall process that are hidden from you (but can still bite you) in a homogeneous environment that become extremely obvious quickly in a heterogeneous environment.

But to each their own. As long as you're upfront about your one-size-fits-all process I can easily avoid working for you!
you don't suppose this came about because steam announced steamOS?

edit: noticed it's in the article.
I run 100 droplets on DO and fetch 7MM feeds a day and have never had an issue with DO, either limiting me or turning off my machines. In fact, I've had the opposite experience: fast support, fast spin-up times, and an overall great service.

I realize you sound angry because you were asked to verify your account, but this reads vindictive and makes me think that the same behavior that caused their abuse department to flag your account is what's responsible for this attack blog post.
Hoon is a high-level language which defines itself in Nock. Its self-compiling kernel, 7000 lines of code, specifies Hoon unambiguously; there is no Hoon spec. Hoon can be classified as a pure, strict higher-order static type-inferred functional language, with co/contra/bivariance and genericity. However, Hoon does not use lambda calculus, unification, or other constructs from “PL theory.” Hoon also excels at handling and validating untyped data, a common task on teh Internets. Its syntax is entirely novel and initially quite frightening.

Crank detected. Homing in for the kill.
Is the code open source? If so, I could give you a hand with the UI.
"Help My Boss Doesn’t Think Usability Testing is Worth It"
already got pulled.
yes it does. It uses the HTML5 web threads. In fact, there is a big button in the droplet settings called Console.
Thanks for the feedback! This is definitely something that's on top of the priority list. The first version collects the history, and as soon as the second version is released, you'll have a new "Performance" view so you can see how you're doing on all of your routines, as well as performance graphs for each one.
How many of the other 98.5% weren't even aware that anything happened and, thus, haven't complained about it? My mother probably doesn't even have a clue that there was an issue.
A week ago, I'd read "Google" and "desperate" in the same sentence and smirk.

Then I saw a hey, you're using an ad blocker, could you just turn it off for our domains? kthx message on top of a search results page.

(I don't know if it's a new thing or it's been done for a while but my filters were hiding it.)
I am working on average size web applications, which simplifies things greatly, but I do not think your characterization of kernel development is correct.

The official kernel mirror on github[1] does not have any of these extraneous branches, and, unsurprisingly, makes good use of the tagging ability built into git.

In fact, the kernel developers prefer[2,3] that feature branches are always based on a known working state if possible, rather than some arbitrarily moving branch, be it called master or develop. That said, the master branch of the linux kernel is, by no means, relegated to only having merge commits from feature branches that correspond to releases.

1. https://github.com/torvalds/linux
2. http://lwn.net/Articles/328436/
3. http://lwn.net/Articles/328438/
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If I wanted "witty" puns I'd read reddit comments.
The author gives off a sense of both entitlement and arrogance that permeates the post. It was a major turn off and I would not recommend this writing style to anyone trying to win people over.

Then again it may not be arrogance so much as the naivete of a youth who think himself much wiser than he should.
We use email communication for our help ticket systems and all our users were affected (~20k).

After this event are you considering a different architecture?
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That[1] was interesting, but apparently, the theory is not widely accepted as fact.

“The scientific community finds that significant evidence contradicts the Expanding Earth theory, and that evidence used in support of it is better explained by plate tectonics” [2]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kL7qDeI05U

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_Earth#Scientific_cons...
10MB once no, but lets say hypothetically, if the dropbox api returned an error or wasn't available which denied your request but your script didn't account for it and it constantly kept making the request over and over and over. The 10mb would soon add up.

Also, are you sure it wasn't something else, not the dropbox db script which could have caused problems?
First, a person with such poor grammar has no business criticizing another person's communication skills.

Second, having worked for a hosting company, I suspect the OP violated the TOS and wants them to articulate why he was suspended so that he can try to argue his way back in. He was probably successful the first time getting them to reactivate his account after promising not to use his "dropbox script" again. But that was probably a convenient lie to talk support into thinking the problem would not reoccur. When he violated the TOS again, the automatic safeguards kicked in again. DO has a good reason to believe it will happen every time.

Hosting companies do not suspend accounts for no reason. Something he was doing was negatively impacting other customers. I suspect he knows exactly what that is.

Hosting companies have zero responsibility to tell customers what their scripts are up to. It's the customer's responsibility to make sure that they aren't violating the rules and hurting other customers.

Where are the OP's logs?
Huh? All prices I see are priced 'tax included'. The breakdown is available to look at, but the core price - in my case, $720 - is what came up when searching/comparing. It was only after I purchased that I looked at the breakdown - $400/$320.

Someone was willing to cart my body and luggage 24 hours around the planet for $400. Amazing, really.
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The author's wish is coming true. CSS techniques are already becoming unified through frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation.
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