skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent reply. My take on this is. People who spend other people's money by the truckload are rarely going to spend it in the wisest possible and responsible way. The other points are these... With government spending the money, a small percentage of people are distributing this money that was collected from the general populous and the feeling of giving someones money away to others is not the same as if it were your own money (especially when it is going to poor results programs)
I run my dev servers in VMWare in Ubuntu on my Surface Pro. It's good enough, but more than a little fussy when it comes to touch (or the wacom issues), so I tend to just use it with the keyboard.
It looks pretty on paper, but it can't ever compete with a properly designed and executed product in the real world. The reason Apple can get their devices so small is the complete omission of connectors and other internal padding. This thing (whatever it is) will just be a mess of connectors and other supporting hardware- a monolith of extendability that will never be used by an end user. Any extendability it has will be stunted by the bus abatable to it; you won't get an external screen or upgraded processor on a flimsy usb-alike connector.

I would wager that almost every "reconfigurable" device or product just ends up in a single setting, which would have been better off being found during product testing and the rest of the configurations ignored.
> Then there's Dart, which is kind of their version of CoffeeScript/TypeScript/etc.

From my point of view, it's just the next logical step after GWT and Closure. The annotations are baked into the language's syntax, you get the usual JS-like development cycle (save -> F5), and Java/C#-like tooling.

TS is somewhat similar. CS, however, isn't. CS doesn't offer any tooling advantages over JS.

> looks strikingly like Angular at times

Heh. There is also a Dart version of Angular:

https://github.com/angular/angular.dart
I was wondering this myself. Surely people are aware that they'll have to go through with this before the initial interview. 5% sounds like people who found another job and didn't feel like going through with this.

All in all, from someone with a somewhat legal background this seems like a pretty unsubtle form of age discrimination. It wouldn't be very hard to argue that this actively discourages people with families (aka older people) from applying.
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This submission has a few comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6626108

These submissions don't:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632326

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629177

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628933

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628068
Sounds like something that could be crowd-funded - pay some contributor's salary for a while to write the docs :).
This reminds me of Les Misérables of Victor Hugo published 1862. Jean Valjean stole silvers goods from a priest but was caught by the police. Brought back in front of the Priest with the goods he stole, the Priest said that he gave them to him and that he also forgot the silver candelabra. The Priest than gave them to him. It was the first time Jean Valjean met a good man and this was a shock to him which changed all his life as you can read through the story.
We have been impacted by two of these hacks (Playstation Network and Adobe). I use a password manager to generate random passwords for most sites. With this and the extend of online spying/wiretapping I am now seriously starting to reconsider the use of online services. Let alone 'offline software' that requires you to create an online account.

Adobe and Sony are nice targets when it comes to prestige. But there is a lot more low-hanging fruit - smaller organisations that have far worse security, but troves of interesting information.

Of course, it was easy to see all of this coming, but convenience usually gets the upper hand, and many people have ended up distributing more of their private information than they wished.
Have you used one personally? Any idea if it's significantly worse than the Dell UltraSharp? I've been eyeing 27" monitors recently.
That's funny because the parsec is actually a unit of distance. :)
I've no issues with either my NL droplets or their main site.
NYC2 has had lots of downtime... and there is never any contact from them about anything.

I guess this is the part where everyone says "You get what you pay for."
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Glad to see Motorola is adopting it, as impractical as it may be.
This downtime is getting ridiculous. Has been having a network issue nearly every day with the NY datacenters. Considering a move elsewhere pretty soon if there is no improvement in the next week.
Same for my Amsterdam droplet, all ok.
GitHub, Linode, RamNode, Digital Ocean, Dropbox, Google Drive, and a few others.
As you dive deeper into Angular it becomes clear a lot of it is unpolished. For example $resource seems very half baked. It has lots of quirks e.g. trailing slashes and its promises support seems to be a bolt-on.
I couldn't agree more.

1920x1080 is more than enough on mobile phones and I don't use tablets or laptops so I don't care about them.

Where are the 23" (give or take a few inches is fine) 4k displays?

Thats what we really need, a high ppi screen for something I stare into for hours a day.
With each passing day, I look less and less like a lunatic for avoiding facebook (and its ilk) like the plague.

You should try it.
You can also put this in your bashrc:

bind '"\e[A":history-search-backward'
bind '"\e[B":history-search-forward'

It's one of the things I always tell people to use since it makes using bash so much easier.
I complained to Adobe (through chat) for a similar reason and suggested they give at least one month of service for free. They extended my subscription on the spot.
Check this out:

http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/home.html#equation
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Biological things can be transmitted just as raw information through a radio broadcast or something. Just upload the genetic code. Same with most art. Even physical things, you could upload the data necessary to replicate them.
Two comments on this:

We started http://www.nymrights.org to combat issues like this. One of our long term goals is to get companies to adopt policies preventing data demands like this unless sufficient protections (read, laws) are in place. (if you're a company debating adopting such a policy, I'd love to chat!)

Second, if you're European, check out the European Court of Human Rights, which offers protection against privacy intrusions like this. It's worth noting that some countries get more specific: Germany has the Telemedia Act, which specifically protects against problems like this.
I'm curious to see some references and figures here. As far as I know, only Hate Speech, and holocaust-denial are forbidden. Libel laws apply too, and some people are trigger-happy with them though.
Could you direct a signal of some kind in a way that only people in the direction you send it could receive it?
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That's the joke -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenium_Falcon#Depiction

A reference to the Millenium Falcon completing the Kessel Run in "less than twelve parsecs"
> maybe some lovely Picasso’s for GL581, or perhaps a couple of Caravaggio’s?

Depressing to see even Scientific American's sub-editors failing to catch grocer's apostrophes.
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Damnit how will I keep all my software up to date now! It's not too nice being several galactic rotations behind.

Also my beryllium futures contract's electromagnetic time latency premium is too high!
If you're interested in Angular, you really should go back to the school where you gave the talk. Back when I was a student there (about 6 months ago), I was one of the few to choose it for a project. At that time, Angular didn't offer enough (like Meteor) and wasn't marketable enough (like Backbone) to compete for our time.

But now the school is positively flooded with Angular know-how. In fact, the primary author of the ng-book, Ari, is a guest instructor there, and @gdi2290 (lead FE dev at Keychain, huge Angular guy) is a recent alum who hangs out there all the time basically showing people how much easier their lives could have been if they'd used Angular instead of Backbone or Ember.

http://www.ng-book.com/
DigitalOcean got 99,99% SLA.
All of NYC droplets are down from here... again.

Back to http://linode.com/ or http://vr.org/ - AMS seems to be a lot more stable than NYC - but that's not where we are.
Yeah, but that's a shitty thing to do if you can avoid it.
Related: https://github.com/samsaga2/js80

I'm writing a z80 assembler for nodejs.
I've seen it suggested that the higher EU count of the HD 5000 allows it to be clocked lower and thus operated at a lower voltage, adding up to a net power savings for the same level of performance. I imagine this could be particularly significant at moderate GPU loads, rather than fully loading the GPU with a game.
People spending their own money are almost always less wasteful and more careful where that money goes.

Almost everyone wants to help needy people. Most are just too busy, don't want to see that part of society, or don't know how to get involved.

If someone that you knew said that you could pay $1000 less in taxes next year if you looked through a list of families that needed help and wrote a check to them for $1000, how many people do yo think would refuse?

Do you think that they would spend more than 30 seconds randomly looking through the list for the person they will be helping?

The government largely only cares about that family in terms of employment and re-election. They are nothing but a number in a database somewhere. Most people don't even know the level of suffering some people right here in the good ol USA go through on a daily basis. The more money that one has, the more insulated from that reality they are. This will provide a window at least.

This illustration does not exactly follow the original concept, but hopefully you get the idea of an individual vs govt.
Haven't had time to read the paper yet, but the blogger seems to miss the obvious. We could probably assume civilizations capable of interstellar trade would have advanced enough genetic engineering and biological 3D printing such that trading lifeforms and their by-products between planets wouldn't be required. Different planets, with different atmospheres, geologies and ecosystems, would lead to comparative advantages in production though, which is the primary incentive behind trade relations. However the net benefit of trading would be at least partially offset by the cost of transporting goods over such long distances. With low thrust, high efficiency engines attached to the cargo the cost could be low enough to make trading an economic benefit, but that would require even longer time periods between the production of a good and its being put to good use. Civilizations would have to plan ahead and estimate the supply and demand many years, centuries or millenia into the future. You could really have a lot of fun with this kind of analysis. Looking forward to reading the full paper later.
As someone with similar interests in a large Finnish company...

God help the antenna engineers assigned to this project.

Whether the antenna is part of the "endo" (and thus subject to interference from potentially unknown external modules) or àn external component itself (and thus subject to interference from potentially unknown adjacent modules) it's going to be an unholy nightmare to try and engineer.

That said, I would love if they could figure some sort of genius solution to the problem and further this concept. Wild things like this are exactly what Motorola should be doing (along with continuing to iterate on the solid Moto X)
> it can't ever compete with a properly designed and executed product in the real world

Apple isn't going to create a GPS tracking module for a truck. The goal of Ara is to provide small factor computer platform for new applications.
Bad Adobe
This is a smart move by Facebook; they already sit on the worlds largest data trove (user profiles with likes, family member info, network info, tagged pictures, etc. etc.), and now they add the last part of the user verification step...
People think those who don't use Facebook are lunatics? Why?
Do you think they'll issue actual refunds, or service credit... toward more DO?
It's online here on Australia.
Not as bad as Paypal with their requirement that you provide proof of SSN to unfreeze your funds that were frozen for no apparent legitimate reason.
I don't see why that's playing devil's advocate. This is exactly the point of the program, and arguably its most important use case. Whether you frame the failure as "we didn't hire him because he's an asshole" or as (from his pov) "i just couldn't stop myself being a dick, their company culture was annoying" -- the employer has achieved his intended outcome, which is to filter out bad fits for the company.
Simple, do rely only on Facebook, be ready to ditch it at any moment.
What amazes me even more is that almost all of those people are screaming an shouting and are entering the ID the next day and forget about it.
How is this smart? (Not disagreeing, just requesting more info.)
Yeah, the 4th gen-based yoga 11 doesn't exist yet, AFAIK. don't even think it has been announced...yet
you should try out closure. it has static typing and a really well developed and tested library alongside the fantasitc compiler.
So I'm not the only one feeling like an idiot keeping my servers there over the problems after the last 3 days... Wondering about the SLA, or refund at this point. Definitely moving once servers are back up.
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Intentionally or not, your comment seems to stereotype "those actually
using Linux" as unable to appreciate the value of the time and effort saved by a prepackaged solution. While that certainly happens (and is more common in the Linux community than in many others) it is not universal. The popularity of Linux distributions like RHEL and Ubuntu among developers and IT people speaks to that.
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New management, and don't forget the very talented Nokia engineers that are inbound...
It's actually a plugin bundled with oh-my-zsh, but I copy-pasted the default keybindings from the github page you linked, and it's indeed pretty awesome.
They would likely be millions of years ahead of us. It's very unlikely two intelligent species would happen to evolve within a few thousand years of each other. So either natural evolution, or more likely self-modification, would have had tons of time to improve. Not to mention artificial intelligence.

They could be millions or billions of times more intelligent than us. And imagine a mind the size of the Earth, or the size of Jupiter, with the energy of their entire star.
depending on the demographic, sure.
Can you really not imagine feeling good for giving away something to musicians trying to publish their music?
A response to 'The Zuckerberg Files' (http://zuckerbergfiles.org/)?

I find it hard to justify a use for this type of info online? You can get money-related businesses because of the need to comply legally but why facebook?

Off topic: Does anyone think Google's floating barge is a way to evade compliance when it comes to data monitoring? Theoretically they could go further offshore
There's always the Asus PQ321Q (3840x2160 32"). Make sure your graphics card supports DisplayPort 1.2 MST though.
I voted for both themeforest template and bootstrap as the static 'sales' site for BugMuncher is a slightly customised themeforest template, but the control panel is all customised bootstrap.

I did initially use a paid theme for the admin area, but bootstrap allowed me to build something that worked much better for BugMuncher, instead of trying to shoehorn in a one-size-fits-all admin template.
While the Phonebloks concept got a lot of hype, I haven't seen any mention of Modu, an Israel based phone manufacturer (startup). They introduced the first modular phone but it wasn't never a success and the company went bankrupt in 2011. Interestingly enough, Google bought their patents and now we have a modular phone concept from Google owned Motorola.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modu
Relativistic physics often measures the passage of time in units of distance, though I doubt Han spent ~39 years making that Kessel run.
My point is that capitalism allows a significant majority of people to have the basic necessities of life taken care of in exchange for some other contribution to the world.

Fair enough. My point is that something is going very wrong, as here we are in what is apparently some kind of recovery yet in the United States, one of the richest nations in the world, more people need food stamps than before. Luxury? A phone is cheap. It's not a luxury. Food is becoming a luxury. This didn't happen last time, or the time before that.
They are 'supposed to' but, will they.

Already requested a SLA credit for all these network issues as I have quite a few droplets in that region, however awaiting a reply from billing management.
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>Sounds like a recipe for even worse corruption. Pay into your friend's charity, have your friend pay into your charity.

I never said that there would be no rules or regulations. If fact, I mentioned that the government would be needed for this purpose. I don't claim that there would be no abuses, but I can't see how it could possibly be as riddled with abuse as our current system. I think with the taxpaying citizens personally involved, they will demand a high level of adherence and enforcement. They will also feel a greater sense of personal violation when someone they know abuses the system. I know several people who claim that they know so and so who are collecting welfare and making all kinds of money under the table. If they feel a personal with that money and that system, they are more likely to report that person or at least discourage them. Likewise, the fraudster is going to feel more pressure by the whole movement to avoid committing the abuse.
In some demographics it's seen as at least sort of quaint/eccentric disconnection, like not having a mobile phone.
How does it vibrate my android device on step?
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How can they detect user who refers the fake account. I would love to get this functionality in my site too.
Never ever registering or browsing facebook was the obvious thing to do, at least it is for people who have been around and online for a while.
It's the total opposite of the web and the internet, not pseudymous, centralized, using shady tactics to grow, spamming at times and so on.
I don't care everybody, their grandma and their dog have an account, until it is decentralized p2P, encrypted and my data stays my own and in my own vicinity, I won't be part of so called "social network" services/websites. I have email already.
By the looks of this:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/what-is-you...

It will be service credit
They can validate their social network graph with ease and therefore ensure they are selling perfectly valid data.

It's really disgusting to see people willfully submitting to this.
Using JS 1.7+ features in Chrome
> This thing (whatever it is) will just be a mess of connectors and other supporting hardware- a monolith of extendability that will never be used by an end user.

Yes, it probably would be a mess compared to an iPhone - just like the PC vs Mac.

I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss this, you might be surprised how many users would prefer the ability to customize their devices over one-size-fits-all solutions.

Just ask yourself why there are so many people buying all those high end Android devices.
See also: "Is there a secure cryptosystem that can be performed mentally?" http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/844/is-there-a-sec...
For what it's worth, my droplet in nyc2 appears fine.
He covers that somewhat in the article, and basically comes to the conclusion that intellectual property will still be interesting and have value. People might also be interested in hand(/tentacle?)crafted wares from other planets. I know I would be at the right price.
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I'm in the same boat (I use git a lot at work because I work with the linux kernel but I prefer Mercurial for my own projects) but I feel the thing that may end up killing mercurial is git's superior branch support.

For local dev branches mercurial patch queues work great but working with multiple remote branches becomes a bit of a head ache. Generally you end up using several repositories instead of branches within the same repository.

That being said that was the state of the art a few years ago and I haven't followed Mercurial development closely so maybe it's not the recommended way of dealing with that anymore. Is there a way to properly delete a branch in mercurial these days?

Git branches is the only thing I could imagine a git user miss when switching to mercurial. And possibly staging, it's sometimes convenient (but can be emulated using extensions).
Did I not mention that there would be rules/laws involved? You may say that those with lots of money can get those laws bent in their favor, and generally this is true with the government. The people of America today are so uninvolved and uninformed that this happens without repercussions.

With this system, people are going to be watching things a bit closer. They are personally vested in this whole process.
How would you formulate such a law? What does Germany's Telemedia Act actually say?

I can refuse to let you into my house if you won't show me your passport. If you don't have a passport, then I can just refuse to let you in no matter what. How does that change if I'm running a business? Or a web-site?

Surely it would be better to focus on supply rather than demand. If government ID is mandatory for everyone (e.g. Germany, Belgium), then it makes it easy for businesses to demand to see it. If government ID is entirely optional (e.g. UK) then insisting on seeing it will exclude too many potential customers.

If FB asks me for government-issued photo ID, then they will effectively be kicking me out - I'm not going to go through the rigmarole of applying for a passport just to get a FB log on.
> Adobe is not one of those companies that just lets you drag a binary into the right place...

Photoshop used to work exactly like that, 15-20 years ago. It was actually quite nice when setting up an office full of workstations.
True, but at some point in the not too distant future, electronics will have shrunk so much, that this shouldn't matter any more. Phones can only become so small before they become unusable. So development is on their side.