skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
David Mitchell's point is different with respect to this one. Although both valid, he argues that living in the moment is not possible whereas the video is saying that we're kind of not living in the 'here' but somewhere else.

On the topic of the video it's suggesting that we all spend far too much time on our phones. This is probably true but the time that I see people doing this is when there's nothing better to do, like on mass transit or waiting in line. Which seems fair enough to me.
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RulersGuides.js - Photoshop-like rulers and guides
Sure, but I like the convenience of web-based no-install gtalk. I think as far as google is concerned convenience beats security.

They "read" your mails, know what you search for and who your friends are. It would seem strange for them to go out of their way to provide truly OTR gtalk. And I'm totally fine with that, there are plenty of alternatives if I ever need encrypted chat.
Erm, no. The Tamil Tigers were avowed atheists.

Here's one citation, you can probably find many others: http://preview.tinyurl.com/p6s9n9k
Here's the status link - http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1380220199...
Well, you shouldn't do that, ever.

That said, the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Ask HN: How do you discover project requirements and transcribe them to specs?
As a team of web developers, we having trouble getting robust sets of specifications together for our projects. What we do put together is normally half-baked and incomplete, not addressing all of the issues or features. This is something we want to change as we realise how important they are contractually as well as functionally (for testing etc.)

Some of these projects we are ourselves closely tied with, so we actually have all the information. Others we need to get that information from the clients. The problem is trying to get it all down on paper in a useful format and structure.

How to you manage requirement gathering and spec writing?
Suddenly I'm very glad Talk has never been available in my country. After this I doubt they would have any hope of getting it past EU privacy laws anyway.

Edit:

As the people below have pointed out Voice isn't available to me - Talk is.
I would love to see a github hosted repository that demonstrated the best practises as default configs for Apache and Nginx.

Such a config would be heavily commented and include links to the source advisory notices and explain why.

This way we would have something we could easily implement from a config perspective, have notifications when the advisory changes, and also be educated about what various things in the config would do.

Weakening SSL/TLS is surprisingly easy with the wrong options, and instead it should be really easy to get it right.
> "I would refrain to send any sensitive information over Google Talk right now."

Why only "right now"? Why ever send sensitive information over a 3rd party's server. While I believe that Google will find and fix the problem, they probably make little to no claims about the level of security they offer. So using them at all should be a calculated risk.
No religion doesn't have something that Western society doesn't have moral difficulty with. Christianity has a load of crap about stoning people, homophobia and subjugation of women for a start. Also includes God sanctioned rape and murder of non-Christians. Leviticus, Exodus and Deuteronomy is full of that crap.
Well, don't know exactly but it's obvious that wxWidgets came to a point where they are now developing some rust..

Sorry.
With Google Glass coming I can only imagine this getting worse. People that look like they're paying attention to you will be checking their stream. You will no longer even having the privilege of knowing you are being ignored.
I have the opposite problem: I can't find a business cofounder.

My startup makes a software library, it is pretty revolutionary in its category. But most people are just interested in websites, since they 'scale' and look nice on presentations.
So how else do you send them?
This article sucks? why? because it's not semi-accurate, it's totally inaccurate, everywhere.
And writing "sucks" every paragraph doesn't make it right.

10% speed improvement a year isn't nothing. The small battery improvement this year? Oh.. We went from from 6H battery life to 13H.. it's only double, it sucks! Heck, it's better than my smartphone with screen on.

The rest is on windows, which is an OS, not the OS. (Which isn't even a _bad_ OS, despite the hate for Microsoft)
> By "invisible", do you mean that webapps that use JSP typically use URL mapping so that you never see the .jsp extension? If not, then I'm not sure I get your meaning.

Oh, I just meant that JSP is never, ever mentioned in any mainstream web development magazine - it's absent from discussion, not practice.

Back-end programming seems to be exclusively PHP/ROR if I go from what I read on web dev blogs, forums and news sources. I may simply be reading the wrong sources, of course.
My experience has not been the same. I've written complete blog posts based on Twitter and Facebook status updates.
FTR, I've been emailed by quite a number of Sri Lankan citizens who were very happy about the name of the project. But you can't please everyone, I suppose.

Also, FTR, Sri Lanka has been an independent nation for _65 years_. If it's unclear, the Ceylon project does not endorse, nor were any of us alive during, the former colonial rule of the island. Indeed, we're much more interested in elephants than in british guys with funny hats.

> Can any company just trademark the former colonial name of a now sovereign nation?

Yes.

A trademark is a claim of exclusive use of a name for a certain type of product or service, in this case, our trademark prevents other people from naming their programming languages "Ceylon". You can find lots more information about trademark law using Google, if you're curious.
I am from Nepal. This happens because of poverty and people need to make a living. Awareness is high among migrant workers about the conditions - given hundreds of thousands travel each year and news travels back. But hope of 200-500 USD per month makes people take risks and the exodus continues.

Once there, dodgy contractors and employment agents take advantage when they can. The exit visa system really doesn't help either. Neither do unstable government, weak economy and low employment back home.

It is an actual fact that in desperation, the poor migrant workers are made to work long hours in extreme heat (direct sunlight). At nighttime, close to the desert where many of these fetid labour quarters are get suddenly cold. Extreme variations in temperature and strenuous manual work is said to have contributed to all these heart attack deaths in young people - as young as 20. I'm not sure exactly because I'm not a medical professional - but the conditions are definitely not conducive to human survival.

The way international community has taken notice with this article does help. Business communities and political interests might do their best to keep the blatant human/labour rights violation under wraps but spreading the news will make their task harder. People from countries with vested economic stakes in these gulf countries etc could do well to pressurise their governments to demand accountability. Work is what the workers want - but in humane conditions. Death should not be an acceptable condition of employment.
I just opened the chat tab and i was shocked to see the conversation i had with my co-founder sent to my college friend. Two more lines from the same conversation was sent to my friend's brother. This is serious.
(a) That's not my experience. This site of mine is secured with a StartCom cert, and Safari has always been perfectly happy with it: https://mappiness.me

(b) Why? I understood they were among the better providers.
it seems that in 2001 everyone has 4K prototypes at work. Well, according to HN at least.

Personally I had to pay $500 for a 19 inches that would do 1280x1024, CRT. the screen isn't even flat. flat screen crts were out of my price league.

Yesterday I bought a 27" of much higher resolution, for $300. So yeah, right.
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A few people at the top are greedy and exploiting these laborers or slaves. But it appears religion and culture and being used to justify it in the general population.
I think you're right.

Even if the law was changed to explicitly disallow these unconstitutional surveillance programs, these agencies would simply break the law and cover it up in a shroud of secrecy. The whistle-blowing provisions might help encourage upstanding individuals to pierce that shroud of secrecy, though.

Unfortunately, so long as government officials and the political elite have de facto immunity from prosecution of any and all criminal behavior (up to and including torture and premeditated murder of US citizens), all the laws and exposure in the world won't change their pattern of criminality.
Hi! I'm just developing one at http://github.com/msmuenchen/skynetrss (demo instance at http://dtmp.vm-dg.de/rss/ - don't rely on this one working 100% of the time;)).

The only other FOSS project I know about is TinyTinyRSS aka TTRSS.
:-)

Releasing is hard to scale up like google have to. How many apps are they releasing to daily...!

It's not technical building blocks (they can all be automated), not even busy work, just complex intertwined dependencies from completely different, often non-electronic, domains.

Hypothetical release co-ordinator speaking: "Did app A release this morning into EMEA prod? Ok that means app B can go but only once the security review team drop their veto. Has release candidate 2 been promoted to the canary environment yet? Remember B's new deployment process is in scope this release, and do not release to the 5 servers in the BCP datacentre today..."

Could you imagine managing the constant evolution of a rules engine to replace a good quality release co-ordinator? I don't think i'd be able to sleep!

As far as i can see, continous deployment doesn't have the general applicability that continuous delivery enjoys.
Here you go: https://github.com/ioerror/duraconf

I don't know how good it is because I have not looked.
During the BBS modem era there was a proper term for people
who was only sucking out data from the system but not giving anything back they were called Leechers. Patent trolls are Leechers that pray on the true innovators in society and suck out money.

How come we allow and tolerate this type of software patents at all? Algorithms are similar to mathematics and mathematics you cannot patent because the next step builds on the previous one.
Which country are you from, by the way?
It costs the same as the wireless X360 controller for windows, does it have any advantage over it?
Yes, we do. Especially all those business users who have paid for GApps and have trusted Google with their comms.

In general, we deserve to have more decentralised services that are built on the principle of 'privacy by design', rather than 'trust by design'. Maybe, screw-ups like this can help spur more efforts in that regard.
Will Detroit story repeat in Bangalore?
Sounds like chat roulette on a grand scale!
We do, this is a huge violation of the trust people place in google's chat / hangouts. It doesn't matter that many people don't pay for the product, free or not there is an implicit contract between google and its users that things like this should not happen. Moreover, many people have paid subscriptions to google apps and obviously give them money directly.
This description of the process from Nathan Barry I found very useful: http://nathanbarry.com/wireframing-web-application/
I think there is nothing special about this period - the problem of being present is not new and I think it might be useful to remind us of 'greatest hits' on this topic. My personal favourite is "To Have or to Be?" by Erich Fromm.
on tablet, with touch. development will be fun!
oh, also no rooting allowed, no multi window, multitasking that freezes background tasks, just to make things more fun.

another fun fact: the OS for tablets and phones is compiled on x86, every time, all the time. Compiling on ARM for ARM is just way slower.
What if this happened with Gmail ? My bank details and other data getting displayed on someone's Inbox !

EDIT - I don't use gtalk for sending confidential info, so this doesn't affect me, but this could also happen with Gmail that I trust lot of data with (bank, school, government etc)..
How does using Amazon's services make you any less of a "product"?
This means we can finally ditch Windows for Linux.
It also means it will be really important for video graphics cards makers to have fast Linux drivers.
Radeon opensource drivers are just fine. KDE with composite WM runs smoothly. Sometimes I play heavy games with Wine (Civ4, Stalker...). And did I mention resolution: 3000x1600
I'm doing an information technology degree needless to say the majority of my interactions are with fellow info tech students and despite the fact that everyone carries a phone, laptop and/or a tablet this sort of social dysfunction never happens.
> perfect is the enemy of the good

While I agree with that statement in general, I couldn't quite make out what you meant by it in this context.

Are you saying "good" = "most of the times your Google messages will go to the intended recipients" and "perfect" = "all of the times your messages will go to the intended recipients"?
Except that the apple A7 has already trounced baytrail, despite being hobbled by a 28mm process: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/5

baytrail has the vast expense of cutting edge foundries and the entire expensive might of intel r&d behind it, and it just got beaten by a cpu produced with far less engineering and r&d expense on a last generation foundry.

Doesn't look good for baytrail then.
I think Islam is compatible with evolution, though many Muslims would beg to differ. There is some notion of God having a hand in designing humans, but that is worked around easily enough by assuming either extremely high precision in initial conditions of the universe or allowing for strategically placed genetic mutations and such. Clearly unfalsifiable, but it this isn't science, or any sort of proof, but just a lack of contradiction with science.

Note, this doesn't mean I believe everything in Islam is the one and only truth.
I've not had any problems myself buying new machines for my company but personally I tend to buy 2-3 year old ThinkPads off a eBay. They are less than 20% of the retail cost and are in perfect condition always.

I'm typing this on a T400 Core 2 2.4 Duo, Radeon HD, 8GB RAM, 1440x900 screen, 9-cell unit with 3G card built in and windows 7 x64 pro license sticker purchased in absolutely perfect unused condition for £145 (!). The battery had done charge 11 cycles to give you an idea. Chucked a Samsung 840 Pro in it for £102 and it's a perfect machine.

I have 2 spare ones (T61's) lying around as well so I always have a spare handy.

This puts me in a better position than a new Lenovo or fruit purchaser.

I'm a firm believer of letting someone else pay for the immediate depreciation in value! :)
Tut, always so negative. I told an old friend this morning that I was going to charge the anal probe, of course I meant that remark to my co-founder.

Haven't talked to him in ages, we had a good chat and we're going to meet for a drink at the weekend (sans probe). Cheers Google!
I'd also be interested. But I want strong verification that it hasn't just gone straight into a local officials next holiday fund.
Happy Petrov day, everyone. I thought I was the only one that recognized this holiday. Thanks, Omegant.
I am not sure whether _you_ have resolved to one understanding of entanglement yet.
That's twice today I've recommended this guy:

http://nathanbarry.com/

Read some of his articles about how he marketed his books.
Good means that GTalk is really, really good. Perfect means that it will never have a bug.

Nobody is talking about that this is some acceptable status quo. It's a bug and it will be fixed. If past performance is considered, it will be fixed fast.
Holding back a world on the brink of madness cant be easy. A good man.
:h 'option'
:h :command
:h i_ctrl-w
:h ctrl-w
:h v:
:help auto<Tab>
:help <C-d>
:helpgrep foo | cw

<C-]> on an highlighted word to jump to its doc
<C-t> to jump back

The vim documentation is the best place to go for Vim help and it's on your computer.

Its size is a direct consequence of its completeness and its "unsearchability" is a direct consequence of the ignorance and possible unwillingness to learn of those who can't find their way.
The whole situation arose because the government wasn't supposed to invade privacy, but it did anyways. So if policy is changed we'd just be back where we were before.
>The phrase "The PC is over and PC sucks" appears several times with little explanation other than citing the grow of other markets.

There are some non-market explanations in the article and I could personally think of many more.
The PC could be way better than it is in technical terms and mostly (but not only) on the software side. The main problem is that once Windows reached the de facto monopoly, it had little incentive to innovate and instead had reasons to stay backwards compatible.
>There is honestly an element of fear when you use Firefox for the same thing

I don't know what you mean. No Android browser matches mobile Safari for the slickness of zooming into pages, but FF mobile just works fine.
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Two days back, the Mute function did not work on Google Hangout. Had to use the mute function on Mac.
This is a real problem. I was traveling last year in South America and suddenly found that I was looking at my phone while on a wonderful trek or while climbing a pretty amazing mountain. I started doing 'no phone days' or 'no phone outings'.

I still do them because when I have my phone, I feel the need to check my email or reddit or hackernews. Logically, there's no reason to do it while I'm out - it feels almost like a disorder! I do regret no phone days sometimes because I don't end up having a camera on me.

After doing no phone days for a while I managed to get better at not looking at my phone when out. Nowadays I manage to not look at it while out for dinner with friends and stuff like that. But I certainly wish my friends wouldn't look at their phones either.

Unfortunately, not everyone realizes what this habit is doing to us. Certainly not the programmer nerds I usually work with, or the business types who are always looking at their blackberries. I also took down a lot of notification services on my phone (twitter, facebook, etc.) because I DO NOT NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS STUFF ALL THE TIME. I need notifications for the really important stuff (someone died, server went down, my best friend got engaged etc.), when did a picture of a cat on facebook become that ?

As someone who uses technology a lot I think I'm getting better and better at filtering this stuff out and focusing on stuff that matters. I feel like most people aren't even aware though of how distracted they've truly become.

I'm happy there's a video about it. This one's pretty good.
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Freeing a slave for missing a day of fasting? If that's the most charitable act in Sharia then you pretty much proved his point. And regardless of how people practice Islam, its texts are full of crap that I'll never have any respect for. Fuck Islam.
Sitting behind a triple monitor setup with large displays I don't think display tech is what is holding us up, neither are gesture control or higher bandwidth.

It's simply 'good enough' for just about anything that I'd want to do with a PC (and then some). The problems - if you can call them problems, I'd prefer to call them challenges - are to reduce the need for all these interfaces.

The best computer would work like siri does, only it would be really intelligent. That sort of quantum leap would transcend any mere improvement in hardware. All this eye candy and visual stuff does not allow me to work any more productive than what I could do 20 years ago with just a 15" green phosphor CRT. Displays are not the problem.
In situations like this I would actually prefer it if the service went offline until fixed.
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WebRTC?
I've had this happen with facebook chat once maybe two years ago. I wonder if there have been other places where something like this has happened...
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You were thrilled by SHARKNADO.

Now get ready.

To experience a new terror.

Coming from 419 million years ago,

it rises one last time to swallow you whole!

It's the ANCIENSHARK!!!!!111eleven

Yes, I know it's not a shark, but really - who would go to see the ancient not-shark fish that just sits there with a dumb look on its face?

In the end they cook it and eat it. Then the sequel is that the people who ate the ancient fish start evolving into Neanderthals (sharkderthals?) IN 3D
This reminds me of a scene from Mad Men, where Roger Sterling shares his new found wisdom with Don Draper:

Roger: You know, it's very interesting, but a lot of times you think people are looking at you, but they're not. Their mind's elsewhere. Don: Lots of people that haven't taken LSD already know that, Roger.
Wait, Talk is country restricted?
The exclusion of third party servers is meaningless. Any communication over the internet will pass through at least several third party routers, which are by all intents and purposes servers.

What you shouldn't do is transmitting sensitive information without controlling the end-to-end encryption chain. If you do that, you can involve as many third party servers as is convenient.
I'm really hoping they don't have to repay that debt. If it's illegal according to Nepalese law, then surely nobody can force them to pay up?

If they will be forced to pay, that makes an already terrible and inhuman situation even worse.
It's useful to illustrate the big gap that wasn't covered between some species.

I don't think the analogy with "links in a chain" is good though, but instead "link in the tree diagram".
Cache last N frames? (I don't know anything about video codecs)

I guess that would break when you jump to a specific location in the video, without the benefit of having cached the previous frame(s).
For that suggestion I was just considering it a two-dimensional problem with a "sea or not sea" distinction, not using heights above sea level.
I'm also sticking to Opera 12, missing quite a lot of features in the Blink version...
Because I'm lazy and didn't read the entire article. You got me.
Wouldn't a problem like this call for pulling the service off while it's being investigated/fixed?
Except Christianity broadly doesn't believe in the Bible being the literal word of God and thus all of those rules applying now - and no country accepts it as their view of Christianity.
Biblical infallibility is a modern, revivalist concept. Even during the good old days of the Mediaeval Church no-one stoned adulterers.

No Christian country has laws stoning people on the basis of "it's in the Bible". However it is the law in many Muslim countries.

That's the problem. Christianity is a religion that has had philosophy and interpretation bedded in from the off. US revivalists may ignore that rich history but it is a minority. Islam lost that argument many centuries ago, before which it led the world in scientific discovery and culture, now only a few, oppressed, sects think that way.
One thing I would add to the list of requests is: being quiet. Ideally, fanless.

For that I need processors that don't become small suns 20 minutes after booting up.