skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reply to all but the last clause of the last sentence: good for you! I was going to add to my original comment that nothing else about your site felt shady or unethical, so the chances were very good that you were one of the non-shonky email marketers. I've got a couple of your other pages open in tabs now because I suspect you have some good advice for me. I'm please to have it confirmed that you considered those issues of ethics and put your money where your mouth is.

Reply to the final clause: to be employing an ad hominem argument I'd need to be bringing up something about you that's irrelevant: "I won't read an article by a guy with blond hair, because a blond guy once ate my cat" would be classic ad hominem. But I think your history as a (suspected) spammer is definitely relevant when the matter in question is your eligibility to give advice about customer relations, so I stand by it as valid, and not ad hominem. And on the flipside, your explanation of where you went with your pseudo-spamming career makes your articles more credible, don't you agree? It works both ways, which an ad hominem argument doesn't.
Have you considered a MBP and installing windows on it?
I don't like the Internet search feature, and his argument that it's the same thing your browser does isn't true. If I type the name of a personal or confidential business document into my local search, I don't want that data going out over the internet.
All the resistance is from only the rear wheel. So its like rear wheel breaking, and potential lock ups in the wet. Surely its better to spread the load. Also means twice the surface contact. Wouldn't that be better, perhaps safer, to ride? Especially in the wet.
Wondering what it's like to build an iOS app?
Except that it might be in Mozilla's best interest to make it compatible with all the major browsers if they want this to see any sort of real adoption.
Only to a first approximation. The exceptions are increasing as more people realise that ethics and marketing are not incompatible. But I believe it's reasonable to be suspicious of email marketing by default, and look for reasons to be forgiving, rather than the other way round.
Yep, there are. And, yeah, I think that's another good acid test: if not stocking beer would alter the quality of life for a job here, that'd be a good sign that there was a problem.
5 participants.

Stop getting emotional.
Ditto. I'm waiting for the Haswell machines to come out. I'm considering the Thinkpad T440 or T440s (whichever falls within my budget). It's been previewed, but not available yet. No pricing info. http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t440/
UX302 is 1920x1080 with 6GB RAM. UX301 is the one with the 2560x1440 screen. It's a weird pair; they gave the discrete GPU to the one with the lower res screen.
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There was an interesting ruling in California a few months ago[1] and you don't need to look too hard to find cases in which an employer was found liable or settled[2].

Keep in mind that when a lawsuit is filed, the strength of your defense doesn't matter if you don't have the funds to pay a quality attorney. In many kinds of cases, you can easily rack up tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills before you even begin to address substantive matters, and plaintiff's counsel has no incentive to approach the matter in a fashion that reduces your costs.

[1] http://www.xperthr.com/news/marriott-ruling-highlights-risks...

[2] http://www.tprglaw.com/wolowsky-v-bum-steer-restaurants-inc
> is it really that much to ask that users install a certain browser which literally runs on any OS, is free and open-source, and can be installed in seconds/minutes?

Yes, it can be.

Can you think of certain situations where doing this is extremely costly (in money, time or both) or do I need to give you a few examples?

In my experience, people displaying this kind of naïveté have never been in a situation of large leadership (where you are in charge of a large organization or when your decisions can impact hundreds of employees across a company).
And the soldered-in-non-upgradable 4G of RAM.
I'm not sure they would be well suited together, NetBSD has a huge list of old hardware they support; I don't think Mike Pall will be porting LuaJIT to m68k anytime soon.
I've always wanted a Herman Miller chair, but unfortunately I've never been able to afford one. Some day...
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Yay user agent sniffing: https://twitter.com/jdalton/status/390538182116143105

"So @togetherjs blocks IE via $.browser.msie. Glad IE11 changed their UA string so it bypasses that nastiness. Works great btw :)"
You're probably too late to get space in one, but a Chez JJ or similar airbnb where you sleep 6 to a room of like-minded individuals can be interesting (and a pretty cheap deal versus a hotel).

Visit Hacker Dojo, Google's campus, and Computer History Museum, all in Mountain View.

Try meetup.com to fill in time gaps.
Please shoot me an email. I might have an opportunity for you. My contact details are on my profile. Thanks!
Paypal isn't accepting payments.

There's a problem with the merchant's PayPal account.
No, that's just the time it takes for funds to transfer from one bank to another via ACH.
Hi Taffey,
Its all about making your presence felt.
have a showcase and web presence that is significantly attractive and distinguishing from the rest.
take reviews, iterate ... feedback ... iterate
Then start working on SEO and other things.

Its all about Creativity, Content, Consistency and Persistence
All the best for the future.
That's a great idea. I don't use homebrew myself, so that didn't occur to me. I'll try emailing the upstream author first and see if they want it, and submit to homebrew if I don't hear back.
If you read up on this it's a simple UA block. IE10 and up support sockets.

https://github.com/mozilla/togetherjs/blob/develop/togetherj...

https://twitter.com/jdalton/status/390538182116143105
< $3/day to be comfortable while hacking code?
"We are running on Cocaine." Seriously? They don't even have the excuse of being French (do you like Coq?).
Why not load a MBP with your preferred OS? I get not being an OSX guy but whats wrong with the hardware?
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Looks like it was too good to be true:

> This recipient is currently unable to receive money.
The temperature reported by Flux about the light on the screen is not the temperature of the light hitting your eyeball, because of the white leakage of the monitor. It is currently not the subject of any study presented what effect this additional white light has on the human body, and if it negates the benefits of using F.lux.

Your definitions suck, because they're imprecise. I'm talking about and asking for specific answers, and you're writing in generalities and using weasel words.

And polyfractal's link was a study of 5 people. Just because it's on PubMed doesn't make it gospel. Please stop treating PubMed like a bible.

Why are you so afraid of saying, "I don't know"? You very clearly don't, but for some reason it's anathema to you to admit it.
I saw some Mahindra vehicle going with Cameras in Bangalore wondered if it was google in hiding from the strict laws now I connect the dots of those MH boards running around then.
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Yep, seems pretty darn sketchy --> PayPal says: "This recipient is currently unable to receive money."
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If they are new and had a ton of revenue in one day it probably triggered an automatic lock of their account.
But from a business perspective, people who care about their bikes enough to spend big coin often care about the way they look. And attaching a battery w/ leads to an electric wheel is a major buzz kill imho.
... and I'm just sitting here, finding it horrible that even ZDnet articles make the its --> it's mistake these days :-/
Documents reveal NSA’s extensive involvement in targeted killing program
Rather than a huge, unsearchable image imagine if all of this information were in web form.
As we convert more and more Twilio tools to a service-oriented architecture, these logs have been invaluable at debugging failures

I'd love to know more about how Twilio does SOA (and no, the linked document doesn't expand on it).

Do they use an ESB or do they rely on individual services connecting directly to each other?

I'm 100% convinced of the ideas behind a service-oriented architecture. I'm less convinced about the need for an ESB, but I'm happy to be talked around.

Experiences/Opinions/War Stories eagerly sought.
He didn't do a laudable thing, two wrongs don't make a right.
I'd not sure that the thread model is that much worse than other text editors. It's just that its customizability makes the deficiency more apparent.

However, Emacs has 3 fundamental weaknesses versus modern alternatives:

1) Out of box, it doesn't do a whole lot unless you need to edit plain text or elisp. This has improved in recent years. It needs to improve a lot more.

2) Emacs is not "pretty". Specifically, even "native" ports never look quite right and there's a limit to what you can fix (it's a surprisingly high limit, but still). Since the value of the first run experience is underestimated by people who have been using emacs for years, this is not improving.

3) Emacs cannot be ported effectively to "limited" platforms that don't respect the GPL or allow downloaded code in applications cough iOS cough. This might be the final nail in its coffin in a decade or so, as more platforms take this stance for protectionist reasons (everyone wants 30% rent and malware/piracy/whatever will be cited as justification).
Examples of US gov't agencies engaging in industrial espionage
Any hope for some of these to be running Ubuntu pre-loaded? Potentially they can be cheaper due to lack of Windows licensing. The only alternative today is Chrome OS (and there are quite a few new ones released already) and Windows 8 (oh the horror)
It polite (at least!) to link to where you copied text from[1], so people can see the context.

[1] http://forums.redflagdeals.com/archive/index.php/t-1392062.h...
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Niko (the CEO) is real deal - he used to work across my cubicle at Projective Space in SoHo. He first introduced FlyKly electric bikes in NYC (he did manage to sell a lot in the area). His personal story is full of inspiring entrepreneurial journey! He is now back with smart wheel! Good luck man!
And? Vanadium is not one of the REE.
They have a smart rate program, where they give you small discount on regular rates in exchange for high rates in high-consumption days (they choose them and tell you in advance) between 2pm and 7 pm. That's when you get the crazy rates. But if you avoid consuming too much power in these hours, it still comes out as beneficial for you. Outside of the peak rates, highest rate I see on my bill is tier 4, $0.35114/kWh.
That's why I was surprised that I didn't see it on the kickstarter page. I skimmed it twice, but missed it. I would have expected it to me a bigger callout feature.
As far as I understood from the article, this thing is not set up and forget affair, it requires maintenance. I imagine if you leave it and some cooler breaks, it could very well cause a fire or melt down completely.
Of course it could be costly (in time mostly). But eventually, everything reaches end-of-life. Windows XP, IE6, IE10 will too...

For years, organizations said switching to Linux is more costly than paying the MS tax. Recently, many large organizations rolled out Linux installs on a massive scale (European government institutions).

Anyhow, installing Firefox on some workstations is relatively small compared to say, replacing COBOL, or Windows XP...

Edit - and while I don't manage a large computer install base, I use them at a large organization with thousands of installs (a University), and they somehow managed to install Firefox on every single computer.... (but they still advertise COBOL jobs)
Scare Mail - Makes email “scary” in order to disrupt NSA surveillance
Assuming the 5100 can handle 2560x1440, I'm guessing it's so benchmarks show higher FPS averages due to the lower resolution.
Which is a completely different thing than a rare earth metal. (Which incidentally are not rare or precious.)

To be fair, the group is badly named, but rare earth metals has a very precise meaning -- if something is not one of the lanthanides, Scandium, or Yttrium, it's not REE.
I think it really depends upon the business. I mean, a genuinely bad programmer, who doesn't merely fail to positively affect a codebase but actually manages to worsen it, will be bad in any programming business. However, many software shops just won't see the return on having a superstar. For instance, consider a shop writing Excel VSTO plug-ins: it's not wildly difficult work once you've done it a few times, but the work is time consuming, so it'd make more sense in that business to have good programmers who can work together and cover each others' backs than it would to have one brilliant programmer who annoys the rest of the team into leaving, or bores the rest of the team into losing what little enthusiasm they have for an already fairly boring niche of software development.

It may not make sense to choose personality over technical chops if you're trying to hire a language designer, but it may make sense to do so if you're in a niche which requires teamwork.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll see if we can improve the wording at all.
>Yeah, it is. That's exactly what "not guilty" means.

No, it isn't. Stop attempting to slaughter language and logic. All "not guilty" means is the state of guilt could not be proven. That does NOT imply innocence.

It is completely possible for a defendant to be guilty of a crime but be found not guilty -- that is, neither innocent nor guilty -- by virtue of lack of evidence, or process error, or whatever.

Here is a professor proving you wrong [1]:

>This means that the jurors found [the defendant] not guilty; it does not mean that they found her innocent. It does not even mean that any or all of them believe she had nothing to do with the demise of her daughter. All it means is that the jury was not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Anthony committed the offenses of which she was accused (other than giving false information to the police, the minor charge she was convicted of). In other words, the prosecution failed to meet the high standard to which society holds the state in criminal cases.

And here is a criminal lawyer proving you wrong [2]:

>Juries never find defendants innocent. They cannot. Not only is it not their job, it is not within their power. They can only find them "not guilty." ... A verdict of "not guilty" can mean two entirely different things. It can, of course, mean that you believe the defendant (I would use my client's name) is innocent. However, it can mean something entirely different. A verdict of "not guilty" can mean a verdict of "not proven." Even if you are very sure the defendant is guilty, but the state has not proven it "beyond a reasonable doubt," then it is your sworn duty to return a verdict of "not guilty."

Now will you drop the unjustified arrogance?

[1] - http://articles.philly.com/2011-07-07/news/29747182_1_reason...

[2] - http://www.oregoncriminalattorney.com/Criminal-Defense-Overv...
It doesn't appear to support bicycles with gears. Is that something planned for a future model? Or do gears somehow become unnecessary with electric assist? Could you even retrofit this to a standard cheap 15-gear bike, or is it strictly fixed-gear only?
I'll second what mahyarm said about being aware of calories.

Download Myfitnesspal (or bookmark the website) and use it for one week.

I'll disagree with mahyarm about needing anything fancly like liquid egg whites. For most people substituting water for softdrinks will make a substantial difference to the calories. Carrot sticks do make a good snack though (they have a high satability index). Pears are also good if you prefer something sweeter.
yeah... my first thought was 'orange? really?' It just seems like they are going to look very dated in a few years. I mean, I kindof like the look of the aeron, but part of that, I'm sure, is that I came of age during the dot-com, when they were super cool. I'm still kinda disappointed in myself for not getting one at a dot-com closeout. That would have been... appropriate.

I have a few '70s steelcase chairs... they are not bad chairs, they are still in pretty good shape and work okay, but the avocado green is... avocado green.
It replaces the need for gears. The motor does all the work for you so you don't need to gear up or down.
Maybe in Tokyo, but I have never seen them in Sapporo. That must be why everyone is so fit :)
I've been shopping for a decent replacement for my Lenovo x220. Best I've found so far is the System76 Galago. It looks pretty nice with an i7-4750HQ, Intel Iris Pro 5200 GPU, 16G RAM, etc.

https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/galu1
It is true that communication between processes is more difficult, but solving ipc also allows distributing actors across the network for free, so there is a lot of advantage to be gained by allowing for out of process actors.

I don't understand your counter example at all. Are you saying that sometimes you share memory (the counter) between Actors in the same process? Because that is not Actors, and you should probably find something else to call it instead.
concurrency --- albeit not at this scale --- is something that that you sometimes have to deal at a low level with when writing android apps. animating custom views, for example, often winds up involving direct use of Runnable s rather than (what i assume are) system-level AsyncTask s. a lot of the die-callbacks-die neatness on the java side of this relies on a coroutine library, but that library doesn't run on android. there is a continuation library that does
> http://commons.apache.org/sandbox/commons-javaflow/
which could be used to create coroutines and from there user-level threads

... but if we just want some generic kind of concurrency-niceness on a java virtual machine, might it make more sense to use scala rather than write your own lightweight thread library? is the user-space thread implementation really necessary or even helpful if you're abstracting toward actors anyway? do these questions even make sense to anyone?
Where does the article say anything about Kevin Rose?
Say, for example your company just got a new order that will double their profits.

This sort of info is already kept secret for as long as possible, for both contractual and commercial reasons. At least if the officers are trading on it the info is leaking out in some way. So, for this specific example, allowing insider trading will decrease volatility. (I'm not convinced that's so valuable, but it's the sort of thing many people care about.)

I can't think of any company that acts as if they care to be "viewed as being transparent and shareholder friendly", so apparently that isn't so important.
I'm sure it's a bad data point, but I bought an HP 2000-240CA in 2011 and it's been the best laptop I've ever had. It's been apart and back together a few times for regular maintenance (wore the keyboard out and just recently the fan was caked with dust). I like that it's a beater and goes with me everywhere.

Simple and cheap at $340 new in 2011.

I use it for web development and playing older or indie games.
I'd buy something similar: a convertable made from SONY that can run GNU / Linux / *BSD, except with much more RAM and SSD. For: $199- since we get taxed heavily for shipping here. I'll need to upgrade my Dell Inspiron 1121 soon.
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Why?

Firefox + Chrome make up the majority. In mindshare, a vast majority.

Mozilla's only interest is in advancing the web, and web technologies. Not catering to a competitor's old technology...
Blue light's deleterious effect on sleep is well-established in scientific literature: http://justgetflux.com/research.html
I've used lua in kernel space elsewhere. It links easily, it can invoke your C functions easily, and it's great for testing stuff. I could see some clever hooks being out in so you could custom tune some stuff. I bet typically they use it for testing though.
Spending money on a good chair is totally worth it. I picked up an Aeron back in 2006 and it is still going strong today. I think I paid around $700 for it, so that breaks down to $100 a year. I know up front costs like that are hard to do all at once but if you can buy quality items such as a good chair and desk and keep them for a long time it totally pays off. I did this with my desk too. The Fit System from Anthro is bad ass, aside from having to move it.

http://www.sit4life.com/products/Herman-miller/Aeronreg-chai...

http://www.anthro.com/getdoc/406c4518-c3e1-4447-8e77-bfd5944...
Bad timing!
herman miller: chairs that are ugly as all hell, but comfy as a cloud in heaven.
Hard to tell from looking at them but you never want to leave them once you sit in one.
Personally I wouldn't mind working with him as a fellow employee, but he'd make me nervous as a manager of a small business. He sounds like he's great at his job, but has zero emotional ties to it, which translates to him being less likely to weather any bad times the company may face.

Ultimately, you clearly agree that gaining and retaining great talent is what makes a software business stand ahead of its competition, so isn't it risky to gain someone who isn't going to feel bad about leaving the business (and take all his experience with him)? If I can hire someone who'll fit in well with the team and produce good quality code, then I'd consider him a better long term investment that someone who fits in poorly with the team and writes great quality code, purely because the latter person has fewer reasons to stick with the business than the former.
I love my Embody. For the past year and a half or so, the chair has single-handedly made my work more enjoyable. A good chair is more important than perhaps anything else. You don't know what you're missing until you've found the one that fits you best.
That provides a default happens, which it would not. First of all, looking at last year's budget (or, whatever we have instead of a real budget which we didn't have since 2009), the government income is about $3trln, while the government spends about $250bn for debt service. So there's plenty of money to pay the pension funds. The problem is that the budget plans to spend another $3.55trln on other stuff, and 3.8 > 3. Which is the source of the trouble. But saying "we have to cut 0.8" is not the same as "we can't pay 0.25 out of 3". We can, we just prefer to spend it on other things. But if push comes to shove, the possibility to prioritize debt over other spending is there. Of course, other spending then needs to be cut. But it needs to be cut anyway, just preferably in orderly manner, not as a firefighting measure. Which, of course, is not easy since we can't even have proper budget since 2009.
The 5200 GPU and 90W AC adapter were good hints for what a search turned up -- a 4 hour or less battery life despite a big, heavy 52WH battery (compared to 8 hours for a 5100 and smaller battery). This is one of those "gaming monstrosities" I mentioned. For a couple percent speed bump over a 3-year-old 2nd-gen computer, and relatively unappealing styling, I agree with the reviews which seem to be "avoid". I can only imagine how hot it gets that it needs venting around both sides and the entire rear of the case.
Have you looked at used ones?
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Maybe not because doesn't support IE, maybe because IE doesn't support... You can't count on this.