skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with "buy high quality wall socket supplies" is that it is impossible these days to tell where the line is between "high quality, but off-brand" and "low quality, being sold at a huge mark up".
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Bell Canada To Track Web, TV, Surfing Habits For Ad Purposes
I've read the architecture doc (http://zerovm.org/wiki/Architecture) and I loved it.

But, when you say tantalizing things like 'erlang-on-c', you raise the question: what does the clustering control plane look like?

One of the great things about erlang is that the cluster's got supervisors that receive execution-level messages (e.g. 'EXIT') and can then take whatever action they feel like. Is that control plane level exposed to ordinary containers?

And the other great thing about erlang is that the messaging model is either synchronous if you care (with return receipts) or asynchronous if you don't (fire and forget) -- and that richness turns out to have a bunch of good use cases. What's the ZeroVM story there?

And the other great thing about erlang is being able to trace out messages, especially when your synchronous architecture just took a dump on the sheets and is staring at you belligerently. Does ZeroVM have introspection figured out yet?
submitting the blue "get updated" signup just went to a 404 for me.

https://goinstant.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=HASH&...
I believe you may be saying that if your goal is to make somebody say "Yes", then the toolset adequate for the job is one based around manipulation. One may manipulate through direct force, emotional means, whatever it takes. It is a waste of time and irritating -- perhaps condescending in that it is an obvious manipulation? -- to say things like, "Let me first say I've learnt a lot from you, I really appreciated your view on this that and that. I think you are smart person blablabla" before getting to the point. Like you said, it distracts from the actual important points of the argument. In fact, such an approach towards discussion is, as you point out, counter-productive.

You're right. It's manipulation. Building consensus, too, is a form of manipulation. Some of it is irritating, especially if it is delivered in the form you quoted. My hackles rise, too!

From your comment, I am seeing that the real issue is when the manipulation is overt, when someone expresses something in a way that is clearly intended to push you in a direction rather than actually respect and accept your buy-in.

But that leads me to seeing that this really just another form of pathos. In a conversation, the average person wants to feel respected, that their opinion has merit. This is part of rhetoric. In fact, where action and tone are lacking, some people may genuinely need the additional words of appreciation that set you and me off. My point is that logos is not the only valid appeal, and I would propose that nobody is absolutely rational, meaning that degrees of the other forms of persuasion are acceptable and useful means.

To address your first point, all persuasion is manipulation. Somewhere I read that all speech is a form of persuasion, though the reasoning behind this assertion may be a bit contrived. Instead of elaborating on that point, I want to suggest instead that even if it is not "all", even if it is just "most", we could see instead that manipulation is not an evil in itself. Clearly there is nothing wrong with asking somebody where they would like to eat as your means to coerce them into joining you for dinner. Obtaining consensus or bringing someone to agree with you is not, itself, an evil or even irritating.

Armed with all the appeals of rhetoric and following these steps with respect to the audience's needs, I think the four steps listed at the top of the thread are acceptable means in polite society of persuasion, or, if you prefer, manipulation.

Addendum: I just tried the four steps. Was this post a successful example? Did I overdo it?
We're built on a custom architecture and internal protocol, it allows us to internalize a lot of concerns.
You can make reversible connectors without intelligence (adaptiveness). Just use 2x the number of contacts, in a mirrored layout.

Requires more physical space for the same number of contacts, but USB doesn't require that many contacts to begin with.
...then pay attention? The Apple and USB logos look nothing like each other, even at a glance.
Your mistake is in conflating Java with the browser. The two are unrelated. Neither is really built with the other in mind, their development is not integrated or synchronized in any way, and the paradigms are just generally incompatible. And now, one poses a clear and present danger to the security of the other.

If you had a Java application, you would not have a problem. If you had a web application, you would not have a problem. If you had a C or C++ application built against either native Windows APIs or a mature cross-platform toolkit, you would not have a problem.

Instead, you rely on browsers continuing to put their users at risk by automatically running code in a constantly-leaking sandbox managed by a company that doesn't give a shit.

Understand this: Java is a hole in the defenses of modern web browsers. It is behind. Way behind. And it will remain so forever. It and its owner are not up to the task of dealing with the modern web.

So yes, you're going to be fighting a constant battle so long as you insist on relying on what everybody already knew was crap in the mid-90s.

Or you could just tell your users to click the magic button.
>they're more utilities for managing multiple framework instances. Still, you're likely to find tutorials that use them as a de facto standard, which only adds to noob confusion.

That sounds more like a problem of php. Tools like composer should be more widespread and when they are switching to virtualenv probably isn't going to be so much of a hassle.
Hmm? It did describe the major reason, and it wasn't younger people killing themselves in accidents or infant mortality:

Right away, they found our weak spot. "U.S. women have
relatively high mortality rates at the younger older ages,"
they said, which means when women hit their 55th birthdays,
for the next almost 20 years, roughly 55 to 75, they will
die more often than women in comparable countries. Americans
get more lung disease, more heart disease, more diabetes. If
Americans reach 75, they get competitive again, but that
early old age is where we lose ground. American men showed
pretty much the same weakness at roughly the same times.

They just haven't been able to explain why this discrepancy at this age exists.

Did you not see that part, or did you have some disagreement with it? I have not read the full report that it was based on yet, so I can't comment in detail: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62373/
I completely agree that people who employ persuasion tactics to win with weaker arguments are manipulative, patronizing, and probably counterproductive. I get irked when I feel like I'm being treated with kid gloves.

That being said, I think there's something to be said about recognizing when someone is debating you with winning in mind. Then it's probably worthwhile to change gears and employ some persuasion techniques. But instead of using them to win the argument, use them to turn a zero-sum debate into a positive-sum discussion.

But, yes, if you're already in a productive discussion, these sort of finding-common-ground techniques are probably harmful, but debating someone who wants to win is a losing proposition (unless the real goal is persuading an audience).
> Building a world with technology in mind means that the role of humans will shift away from traditional positions to something different. In the long run, this may create more jobs that it makes go away.

Unfortunately, as John Maynard Keynes famously observed, "in the long run we are all dead." (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes)
There's no pivot required.

Once they're "big enough" they simply won't need to spend as much as they're currently spending on infrastructure and growth, and the profit (re)materializes without any business change at all.
They are starting to limit the terms of service for Prime members, I think for this very reason but, I'm pretty unhappy about it.
I doubt fake reviews could be eliminated without making everything suck. Don't believe everything you read. At least with popular items a sort of consensus emerges.
Ask HN: Help w/ Software Development presentation to middle schoolers
My son's school just sent a request for me to participate in the middle school 'career investigation immersion'. In the program, parents come in and give

- a brief presentation of the career
- hands on activity (15-20 minutes)
- Q&A (5-10 minutes)

I'm a software developer (+10 years) that has worked on web and mobile applications, with some hobby electronics experience (arduino, pi).

Any ideas on what might be interesting for a short hands-on activity for middle schoolers? I feel like I should definitely do this, but I don't really have much experience with that age group (my son is 3 1/2, so isn't part of that group).

Thanks!
I really wish hardware makers would PAINT that side. I have no interest spending more than one neuron-firing figuring out which side is up by looking at both sides under appropriate light. I've taken to spray-painting my USB connectors, in a nice steampunk hammered copper. If a device needs connectors to be face-down, I paint the down side (i.e. the "real upside") of the socket on the device, too.

I don't care about the 0.2mm USB logo relief. PAINT that stuff up. Contrasting colours, with the USB-logo side BRIGHT and SHINY, please.
Per the NYT "In the last 10 months alone, government documents show, officials modified hardware and software requirements for the exchange seven times." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6583327), and from multiple sources we've heard those change orders continued through the last week before the launch.

They're not the only ones who "consider" these to be "last-minute requests for changes from the government", which decided to be the integrator, including testing per the AP, for this effort (HHS's CMMS, a unit with no particular expertise in that).
On the flip side, Instant Video benefits seem to be getting better (as far as I can tell).
> - inventory is limited? which amazon website are you visiting?

Idunno, maybe he's Canadian? Amazon.ca is a joke compared to the American inventory.
Hah, nice VID, easy to remember.
OS X Mavericks will have a feature I always wanted in Linux: Independent spaces for each monitor!

In Gnome (at least when I left it, but I don't think it has changed) and previously in OS X, switching to a new virtual space will update both monitors. With this update you choose virtual space independently for each monitor, and let one stay at — say — the logs window, while you change the space on the other monitor.
Hobbyist builds working quarter-scale V8 engine from scratch over two years
there are more things that are broken then that.
I will write a longer post about that.
If a dissident hacks into a government site or does something else like speaking out his opinion, will I get arrested for them, when I live in a neighbour country? Or even get arrested for their actions on hacking stuff? I mean the US and Europe both ban hacking and penalize it with more jail time than rape and in some cases even murder.
Why We Are Wired To Connect
The dangers of SaaS
He said he's going to continue working on these videos. He actually has scripts for two more planned out.

Same exact job, just on somebody else's pay.
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Global is not the same as globally recognised.
It's hard because in every class you need to accound for the opinions of a teacher, students, parents and administrators to account for. One person's "innovation" is another persons waste of funds.

I'm hardly a Luddite but when my kids' middle school rolled out a 1:1 iPad program I was uneasy and not a bit resentful about having additional parental responsibilities heaped on me. The last thing my kids need is another screen to stare at and now I'm in the position where I have to monitor what they are doing.

I think the most innovative thing we could do in our classrooms is to give teachers only a blackboard and chalk instead of trying to compete with all the online distractions our kids are dealing with already.
Create & publish web page in a single click. literally.
This would've been immensely useful when starting out.

Official tutorials and docs don't cover nearly all of the accepted standard practices. As a relative outsider it seems a lot of this Django/Python knowledge is taken for granted by the tightly knit community of the skillful developers who interact with each other and exchange various tips, while a beginner who is not really embedded in the community misses out on all that and picks it up only when it's widely enough used that it hits the blogs and podcasts in bits and pieces.
Dear_Tony is an unauthorized, distributed Tony Smith retrospective
original forum thread: http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/f31/1-4-scale-v8-fir...

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EGXo5HwIHk
Amazon increases free shipping minimum to $35
We'll take a look ASAP, thanks for letting us know.
ROI: Challenge the Model "The conversation is the currency"
And your "friend" on the other end would also need to be running it on Chromium from trusted source.
I see uProxy as giving a friend my wireless network password. I'd compare a Tor exit node to printing the network password on my mailbox or posting it to craigslist.

I regularly share my wireless network access with friends without thinking, while running a tor exit node/publishing my network password gives me serious liability concerns.
That's already in the article:

> Instead of filtering the image in its native resolution, I used OpenGL's native support for linear interpolation to downsample the source image by 4X in width and height, blurred that downsampled image, then linearly upsampled via OpenGL afterward.
10" high with a 6.6" diameter qualifies as huge?
Which could be said about so many such knockoffs; however, the issue of Chinese and other non-US counterfeiting is harder precisely because they're non-US, and operating in manners and areas where the legal system is not prone to caring about US regulations (for better or worse).

So whether you can safely ignore this depends largely on how easy it is for this body to successfully throw the book at you, and others' success in this area doesn't really mean anything unless you're able to operate in the same circumstances, which I doubt most of us are.
Does anybody own these?

0xDEAD
0xBEEF
0x1337
0xFACE
0xF00D
0xABCD

...and so on?

Maybe, if they're reserved as unassignable (due to being an inappropriate value for professional, business puposes), then perhaps it's open season on those.
Nope, I didn't recognize it. Please ignore my post :)
Can Verizon save HealthCare.gov?
When Amazon first introduced Prime I was able to get any of their products next day regardless of what warehouse they were in. I live in NY and occasionally some stuff would come next day air from say Arizona at probably a large loss for Amazon. Recently though they took the 3.99 next day option away from items that they do not have located in my warehouse (PA). Then the 2 day items do not ship directly from the other warehouses, they must have trucks going from KY to PA and then UPS takes final miles. Previously I would get 2 day items direct from other warehouses.

So I think they are transitioning to a system where they maintain stock in every warehouse, and every warehouse is within 2 days UPS ground to everyone in USA. If you ship things to Amazon for Fulfilled by Amazon they want you to ship to at least 3 warehouses. Prime is a major reason I buy everything from Amazon. Often I can find goods at lower prices from other retailers online but the free second day shipping that is always on time cannot be beat.

So this latest super saver shipping change I think is Amazon basically making shipping free due to its superior distribution system. Paying UPS for to door delivery from nearby warehouses for all these items is most likely less money than it costs stores for rent and other costs associated with brick and mortar.
Short explanation: You can use multiple monitors just fine in extended Desktop mode.

However, there are two issues that drive people crazy:

1) When you go enable full screen mode for an app, the app fills one display and all other displays are blanked with a gray linnen texture. That's may be useful if you are watching a movie and don't want other displays to annoy you, but it's really annoying if you just want eg. Mail full screen on a secondary monitor.

2) Mac OS Lion also added a feature named "Spaces" (I think this is called virtual desktops or so on other platforms). The problem is that when you switch between spaces, both screens switch simultaneously. Now let's assume you use your secondary monitor to show an IM client, or to show some live error log, or similar, it's really annoying if that disappears when you switch between spaces on your main display.

So OS X 10.9 finally makes two features introduced in 10.7 (Full screen mode, spaces) usable for people with multiple monitors.
That's pretty messy though.

I have a knock-off xbox controller that is an exact copy of the Xbox controller S, but claims USB ID ffff:ffff.
It turns out there is also some unrelated cheap IR receiver that does the same and if you are unlucky this driver gets loaded instead, leaving you wondering why the gamepad doesn't work.
We just eat too damn much. Any chain restaurant has 1,4000 calorie 'salads' and you get served 2+ lbs in a pasta dish. That doesn't even count the appetizer or dessert that cram down your throat for the $12.99 3-course meal
ThoughtWorks is not proud to be the toughest company to interview
Okay. I'm game. $1998
Yeah but I think more beginner material should spell out the proper way of doing things even if it is "unrelated". My pet peeve is beginner material that reads something like:

"to make this example simpler, I am going to do something incredibly insecure. In production you would never ever do this, but I'm still going to do it, so if you are unfamiliar with foo, make sure you know all about bar too."

As well, if I was teaching someone Django/Python development from scratch today, I would definitely include pip, virtualenv, and git/mercurial as part of the baseline. HTML is a hypertext medium so you could let people who know skip ahead.
This argument is a bit of a red herring. Ever since the dawn of OS X Apple changed nothing at all about how multiple monitors work with the OS. If you don’t use (the much later added) fullscreen function in some apps or (the much later added) Spaces there is no problem at all. That’s why all the arguments about multiple monitors being unusable are honestly a bit ridiculous and over the top.

The problem was always how those two features interact with multiple monitors, nothing more. And, honestly, I think the fullscreen functionality was never intended to be used on larger screens. That’s for the MacBook Air, not anything larger.

But, yeah, Apple changes how the fullscreen functionality and Spaces interact with multiple monitors. (And personally I cannot understand why anyone would use apps in fullscreen mode at all. It just such a waste of space.)
Same here. My girlfriend and I both buy basically all non food items from Amazon because we live in a small town and we are a 20 minute interstate drive away from any stores other than krogers. This has saved us a ton of money on gas and lots of time that easily makes up for the prime cost each year. The one time I have had to return a package was very easy as well. I can't imagine ever going back to spending gas money and my free time driving to a store because they might have what I want, usually at a higher price, without a rating system to see what others who bought the same thing have experienced.
Where? I don't see it.

edit: nevermind, figured it out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6592283
As someone who has worked remotely for most of their career (which isn't very long since I am young) I can definitely say that working from home has a lot of negatives as well.

I've ended up thinking that remote working is for people who are traveling a lot or people with a family they would like to stay at home and spend time with.
This cold email technique worked for me
I definitely think you have a point about the target audience. This looks to be a great resource for someone wanting to get into django who has experience in other web frameworks.

I would recommend the site qualify what they mean with the term "beginner".
Thats 400k uniques, pageviews are a bit higher. All of the users actually view the pages as we dont allow gifs to be viewed / hotlinked directly.
I build web apps, but almost anything else I do, including a full Python based backend for $WORK is all done in a virtualenv. Virtualenv's are not just for web apps.
You mean the 5-star reviews which state that Product X is amazing, and the reviewer would buy it again, recommend it to their friends and purchase all future products made by that company... Are fake?

Kidding aside, it's horrible. I find myself going to other sites for reviews (NewEgg is a good one), then buying on Amazon. Crappy of me, I suppose. But they've hooked me with Prime.
Python Web Frameworks Benchmark
I would be interested in selling - email is in my profile.
Learning from Failure: 9 Lessons.
Likewise. Would love to take the advanced class if it were happening sometime in the next month or so.
How about BSU? It could stand for a lot of things... but I like Bull Sh!t USB. Which I think is an appropriate eye-poke response to an annoying organization.
This $2.42 3D-printed ‘sunshade’ makes Google Glass easier to use
I worked with Next Fab Studio in Philadelphia to develop 'Sunshade' a 3D Printed Prism Cover for my Google Glass.<p>I open sourced the code and it's available for anyone here to print and test out: http://prserve.com/sunshade/Sunshade1.0.zip
I have to say, these are kind of obscure corner cases. Should be fixed, to be sure, but I don't think they are an accurate representation of pip to people who are not familiar.

What do you expect me to use as an alternative? easy_install?
The thing that's really annoying about the whole "Add-On Items" bit is that they won't ship them AT ALL, even if I want to pay to have them shipped. Forget the free shipping thing - they won't even let me pay shipping and just send it to me.

One of the great utilities of Prime (and Amazon in general) is that it saves me a trip to Wal-Mart for smaller items. Need a pack of Sharpies? Ship it from Amazon, because a trip to Wal-Mart is an hour of my time wasted and a level of frustration that I really could do without. I'm willing to pay money for that convenience.
I think DerbyJS appeared on HN a year ago.
Call it BSU2 and BSU3.
I worked with Next Fab Studio in Philadelphia to develop 'Sunshade' a 3D Printed Prism Cover for my Google Glass.

I open sourced the code and it's available for anyone here to print and test out: http://prserve.com/sunshade/Sunshade1.0.zip
Throw 100 $1 dollar bills around the room like Paul Graham
While the Add-On Item thing is annoying, I have to admit, there were a few times in the past where I've ordered small items that were shipped for free and I couldn't help but think it was pretty dumb that Amazon was doing that. Such a waste of resources.
There definitely is something to getting a package to open all the time instead of going through a checkout line at the store, sometimes it feels like Christmas every week!
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