skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
initial impression : not bat at all.
While I had the same thought, I did a few searches and haven't been able to find a site(trying everything from facebook and google to this site and disney) that doesn't have 'blocked' in the 'Parental Control' row in at least one of the boxes that appears. It's to the point that I think I must be interpreting the results incorrectly.
The submitted link redirects to sealedabstract.com. The correct link is http://sealedabstract.com/rants/hey-programmers-we-need-to-t...
Enter the URL to your Github profile - you must have a profile with PHP projects on Github to be taken seriously in this questionairre

The GitHub fallacy in action yet again. Normally you would expect developers and people immersed into technical culture (this excludes 9-to-5 enterprise developers) to be quite skeptical of mainstream solutions and not accept a one true medium. Yet in the case of where they host their software projects, the hipsters have elected a solid winner: GitHub. Ignore all other Git-based services like BitBucket and Gitorious, or... heaven forbid, version control that isn't Git.

Carry on.
Enter an URL and the tool will list a variety of block details, including "Open Access", "Default Safety" and "Parental Control (opt in u12 service)". Sometimes a categorization also appears with different access settings.

Many benign sites show as blocked by the "Parental Control (opt in u12 service)" service. Try these:
http://www.gov.uk http://www.guardian.com http://www.amazon.com http://www.orange.co.uk http://www.youtube.com http://www.blogspot.com http://www.bing.com http://www.apple.com

A few sites seem to be allowed, such as http://www.google.com and http://www.o2.co.uk and http://www.amazon.co.uk

I'm not 100% clear on whether I'm reading the reports correctly, or whether the opt-in filtering is the same as the forced-choice filter that Cameron has pushed on ISPs. I'm assuming the forced-choice filter is something much less restrictive as I can't imagine anyone applying this filter to themselves by choice.
I'd be interested in what feedback you get, so I can make sure all the top ones run well on HHVM. Can you email me your results?

Thanks (email at the top of http://paultarjan.com/ )
For anyone who isn't using it already, the Template Timings Panel[0] is a plug-in for DDT and is a fantastic profiling tool.

[0] https://github.com/orf/django-debug-toolbar-template-timings
I want f.lux and the ability to open all web links in Chrome and all map links in Google Maps.
Step 1 in security: Assume that every connection is untrusted. Now think of their model; does it hold up in that situation?
"What do people do when they see snow? Think tounge out."

I thought that as well, especially with the detail in the article about 'billows of metallic-tasting snow'.
Scientists Send Text Message Using Vodka
>I don't know why you were voted down. Had I invested heavily in learning Silverlight a couple of years ago, I would find myself with my thumb squarely secured up my own ass.

Not really, as someone who specialised in WPF since it's latter beta stages, I still am finding plenty of work at a very good rate. Same thing goes with silverlight, even in a discontinued state, it still is going to have years and years of bug fixes. Just no new functionality.

The fact is, even today with all the frustrations I have with WPF been 'unfinished' it is still a lot more pleasurable than HTML/Knockout or something that tries to make HTML palatable.

A quick search in London on your favourite job site shows that learning WPF hasn't been a waste of time, my skills are not in a vacuum, I also have strong OOP skills, whilst knowing how to run software projects. Plus learning something is never bad. Obviously I wouldn't recommend someone learning it now. But compare it with whichever flavour of the month framework people are loving right now, people who've learn say Ruby on Rails aren't as fashionable as say Node.js is right now. But just do a quick jobs search in London and you'll see that you'd be better off on average doing WPF/Silverlight than RoR.
+1 for Oh My Zsh. Has plugins for git, sublime_text, etc, and great support.
Some discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933579 (drive.com.au)

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933924 (engadget.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932885 (gizmodo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932820 (theidler.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6926804 (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6925534 (superawesomemicroproject.com)

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937314 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942548, but they've been deleted.
Oh damn, the aspirations of COBOL on Cogs are now a reality?

I call shotgun on "Why You Should Use COBOL on Wheelchair Instead of Ruby on Rails For Your Startup".
I was in the Army for a few years and recently got out. The Army is considered to be the service which is the least concerned with its service members.

That said, the Army most certainly DOES have regard for its enlisted. When things like this happen, bad PR follows. Bad PR is bad for a variety of reasons, one of which being that it makes recruiting more difficult. People will be much less likely to join an organization which doesn't care about them, and would thus require more incentives to do so, incentives which cost money. Two: soldiers, airmen, etc go through a pretty intensive training process that lasts several months at a minimum, and that training isn't cheap. By the time you're a full-fledged member of your respective service, your service has a lot of money invested in you, and the more advanced in your career you are, the more valuable you are to them. Soldiers cost more money than you imagine. Three: morale in the military is of paramount importance. Without good morale, operations break down. If a group of soldiers feel that their leadership doesn't care about them, morale quickly goes into the toilet, and that has all sorts of detrimental and pervasive effects.

When I was in the Army, I got sick of having to always go to another meeting about another program that, should we need it, was available to us. Everything from PTSD counseling to going outside of your chain of command if necessary to financial counseling to healthcare to complaining about the food, barracks, or what have you - there were channels galore to address grievances. They not only create these programs, but they force you to be aware that they exist. These aren't programs created just for show; they're programs which are created to be used.

This isn't the Vietnam Era. The military is an all-volunteer force, and unless the draft comes back, it can't afford to not care about its members. In an organization of many millions of people who constantly deal with difficult, dangerous things like this, incidents will occasionally occur, but they are the exception, rather than the rule.
Such troll message, I don't even know where to begin.

Is this really what some people revert to when offered useful software, often for free, which access to source and permission to use, modify and share the program?

If sharing is an "people-hating ideologies", what must proprietary software then be?
zsh is broken and breaks X times per year. It's annoying, really. I'm tired of wasting time configuring terminals time and again because the new version of XYZ package is broken.

Anyone who does not enjoy spending huge amounts of time trouble-shooting on the terminal should use bash. It's the default in most distributions, it supports all major features a modern shell should.
There are a lot of addon applications that make window management much more palatable in os x. Even if you don't use all the whizbang consumer features in os x there is still a lot there as a result of the continual iteration and a complete focus on the desktop user. I don't think Linux and Windows have had anything like that kind of focus at all. The applications for os x also seem to be much higher quality than those for linux and windows. I honestly couldn't go back to windows or linux at this point even if I wanted to go back to a tiling window manager.
Github required, Social media required. Fuck that.

I use Fossil SCM, I personally regard git as having one of the worst CLI's I've ever seen. But I still wouldn't impose my choice on others the way github retards attempt to.
Crowdhoster (http://crowdhoster.com) is different from those third-party platforms because it's an open source, extensible toolset to launch your own crowdfunding website. So whether you use our hosted solution, or fork the code yourself on Github: you maintain full control over the site, can plug in any tools you want (Google Analytics, AdRoll), and it's free to use. You can think of it as a WordPress-like tool, for crowdfunding.
I don't have a critique of this on technical merits, and obviously, an initiative that helps all users better manage information is step forward. And this isn't a critique of Microsoft specifically, but the descriptive copy for it follows a trend that bugs me:

> View and download sample apps, learn best practices, and see how other app builders are using Project Siena to build visually stunning interactive apps today.

Why does everything have to be "visually stunning" these days? No, I don't mean in actuality, but described as such? A service that can build useful apps that improve our lives should be associated with adjectives like "powerful", "flexible", "intuitive"...And no, I don't endorse the use of adjectives in general, I'm just saying I wish copywriters, their managers, their product designers, etc. would not worry so much about "beauty" especially when "beautiful" is something that can be seen and should speak for itself.

I guess it's not the copywriters' fault as so much as just writing what the public likes to see...I wish the public would expand their concept of what good software is, how "beauty" is great, but not at all the primary requirement for the domain of something like the OP.

And of course Microsoft is not alone at fault. If anything, Apple probably inspired it, and who can blame Apple considering their success? Look at how their copy for a spreadsheet application:

http://www.apple.com/creativity-apps/mac/

> Numbers helps you make spreadsheets more insightful — and more beautiful. Drop your data into a stunning, Apple-designed template. Or start with a blank canvas. Add in some quick calculations. Then visualize the numbers with a dramatic interactive chart. Suddenly, you see what it all means. How beautiful is that?

(I'll be the first to admit, I do like having nice typography in my Terminal, though)
Wow, I don't even know where to start. This OP is so insanely arrogant and ignorant, I can't even find the words to describe it.
Once a radioactive source is in your body, even alpha radiation will kill you.
Access is a horrible example (they still sell it, and it still works), and you have so many better ones to choose from. WinForms, Silverlight, and..., hmm that's all that really come to mind. Maybe FoxPro, but MSFT didn't create it and everyone expected them to kill it when they bought it (they kept it around for over ten years after).

And "M$"? Am I going to have to go find the link to that Penny Arcade cartoon?
Whether it's row-major or "row-major" is not the point, what matters that it is the ordering C programmers will be most familiar with.
They transition from dusk to artificial light....what does that mean?
Well at least http://www.conservatives.com/ is blocked too.
As for the TextSecure/WhisperSystems guys, stop being like the politicians we hate who campaign by slinging mud on opponents instead of selling their stuff.

It's funny that you mention politicians at the end of the post, because as I was reading your posts in this thread, I couldn't help but think you were feeding into the huge cable-newsification of this disagreement. It is what happens when a bunch of lookie-loo viewers want to be involved in the debate but can't keep up on the issues. I struggle to completely follow the tech here but my job occasionally brings me close enough to crypto that if nothing else I understand the huge disparity between the technical discussion and the superficial one at play here.

Attempts to fit this disagreement into the same oblique, non-existent, ideal behavior for a disagreement subverts the ability to productivity disagree and makes behavior worse overall. Your remedy is for them to not disagree. I take it differently. I want them to disagree, but I don't want anyone involved in the disagreement to dishonestly play to the masses. But that would involve conceding a point, and what would that do to the bottom line?

Focus on selling the TextSecure app and not looking to takeout anyone who has a different approach.

You mistakenly seem to think that TextSecure exists primarily for profit. It is obvious the aim is good crypto. They're playing a different ball game than Telegraph's freemium model, one where marketplace success doesn't determine if they implemented their crypto right. Promoting _that_ involves explaining why the Telegraph tech is deficient.

Back to the cable news analogy, in a post of yours further down the thread, you bring up what the right level of security is for this app. That's a good question, one moxie (I think) brought up days ago by pointing out they didn't have threat model and tptacek (I think) called them out for using nation-state actors as the adversary in selling the app. They played that card in technical criticism, you bringing it up here for goalpost shifting now that they're starting to look bad and you want to keep driving down the middle of the disagreement.

PS: I have no relationship with either party. I am a neutral observer that has his own opinions.

Oh, I know. You're playing into the US-politics detached observer rote well. You should know that the system adapted to account for that stance years ago. You're getting played as hard as everyone else.
"Tschüß" = I can't spell German either, or I haven't been paying attention for over a decade.

In many instances, "ß" has been replaced by "ss", namely where the resulting sound ought to be sharp and short. Schuss, Tschüss, Nuss.
because apparently parts of america are an insane sellers market where you can command 100k+ fresh out of school. If you don't want to deal with these questions there's ten more jobs down the street that won't ask you any hard questions.
Just out of curiosity, when did you live there?

I live in SF without a car and I'd be hard pressed to name three friends who do have a car.
I don't use a framework, and I don't have php projects on my github, yet I've been a PHP developer since 2005.
Since everyone likes mentioning oh-my-zsh I figured I would mentioned prezto

https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto

which is a very nice alternative and much smaller.
Unless, of course, you're a homeopath. On a slightly more serious note, I would expect to see a variety of illnesses occurring at a statistically ordinary rate around the variously-projected times of arrival to be blamed on radioactive seawater regardless of the actual concentrations (which will probably be in the high-C, or incredibly powerful because it's incredibly weak, homeopathic dilution range).
>As a result, every developer wouldn't need to know how to write a parser/compiler, but rather would need to master the usage of the API the compiler-as-a-service offers. (For example, imagine JetBrains Idea for Java or Resharper for C# as a suite of open source, api-driven libraries).
>Then, we could have IDE's with all kinds of features. In addition, we could write programs that transformed or modified our code bases.
>This lets the "hard work" of compiler/parser building be centralized to a few developers, but spreads the benefits around to most everyone.

Oh no you are not wriggling out of that one. Every developer should know how to write a parser and a compiler, not full fledged ones, just enough to implement a small language. That is in essence what computing is about, composing and instantiating formulae, with a full grasp of its semantics. To call your self a computing professional without knowing about parsing is like calling yourself a medical professional without knowing anatomy. This can only happen in the world of computer programming. It is the very essence of what we do, and how such a situation exists is an indictment of the computing profession, its educationists and educators.

It is the very soul of computing.

We might get away with it in the eyes of the public who don't know better because we produce the results they want, internally we shouldn't kid ourselves.
Totally agree! Interesting though that Denmark has better social mobility than the US, even though Denmark has historical attitudes like the Law of Jante, while the US have "The American Dream."
50 bucks an hour doing something I like is a lot better than nothing.
Even someone with an anti-nuclear stance should look at an article whose primary source is an attorney suing TEPCO and think "this is not adding anything valuable to the conversation."
I actually got a good laugh out of it personally.It sounds like something an honest kid would ask. Refreshing.
Actually, it looks like Ford-class carriers use, or will use (?), reverse osmosis for desal:

http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/657412.pdf

RO is already used in utility-scale desal plants:

http://www.pub.gov.sg/water/Pages/DesalinatedWater.aspx

"This plant can produce 30 million gallons of water a day (136, 000 cubic meters) and is one of the region’s largest seawater reverse-osmosis plants."
microsoft; dr
The first time I've scrolled through the title I've read: Netflix uses NetBSD and I thought that's strange. When I had to re-read the title and realized it was using FreeBSD I wasn't that surprised.

FreeBSD is a natural choice if you want stability, even over Linux. I enjoy their update scheme although the lack of an official 'pkg' repository gives in to my nerves.

So, why is this news, is beyond me...

ps. I see a lot of people complaining that they use an open platform (FreeBSD in this case) to create a closed product. If I'm not mistaken (I'm not a US citizen and Netflix doesn't work in my country) it's a media-content rental service. So what exactly is the open source alternative, www.PirateFlixbay.org? :-)
Is it also more than mortgage + taxes + broker fees + interest to borrow the downpayment?
Related post from NBC (27th of Dec 2012): US sailors sue Japan's TEPCO for post-quake radiation exposure (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/27/16197507-us-sa...). Interesting they used almost the same photo on the article.
From TFA:

The shop was selling data stolen from the magnetic stripe of each card, which thieves can re-encode onto new, counterfeit cards and use to go shopping in bricks-and-mortar stores for items than can easily be fenced or resold.

Is that possible to do with a chip and PIN card? Most of the focus from these articles seems to have to do with replicating the cards and using the replicas in stores, not online.
Not to mention the fact that you need to be an open source contributor to have an opinion these days.
You forgot a few steps:

(1b) American taxpayers bailout insolvent securities firms whose whole business is supposedly predicated on competent risk assessment as a core skill yet totally ignored best practices to threaten the entire economy.

(1c) Pays themselves handsome commissions.

(3 addendum) buys the houses at a low cost made so by the bubble they created _with the bailout money of the taxpayers!!!!!_

(4b) destroys communities, defunds schools, further atomizes and disorganizes the modern American society
Thanks sn0v!
The biggest thing for me is that it allows you to profile your SQL queries from AJAX calls which Django Debug Toolbar doesn't handle.
> Please list all the frameworks you're proficient with, and examples of their use as proof. [..] App must exist on Github profile, or must be live somewhere online as proof.

Well that rules me out - too many internal company applications, and the few that are 'live online' (without needing a VPN) would only show a login screen. And source code of any serious app I've written on GitHub? Pah - they're commercial. You've made a very small audience for your questionnaire.
yeah it is somewhat similar to having all outgoing calls being blocked even 911 unless enabled by the parent.

I mean who is even allowed to block outgoing 911 on their cellphone? it works even without a sim card!
I had the same feeling. I already know my username, and if there's a directory name before my prompt the "in" is implicit.
Netflix is declining. Their selection of movies available for streaming has been steadily losing mainstream, popular titles. Now it's mostly B movies and kids shows. Probably the main thing keeping it going are the few popular television series that they still have (Breaking Bad, etc.); I can't remember the last time I actually watched one of their movies.
Not only that, non-PHP-developers with opinions, no matter how well-informed, apparently aren't to be taken seriously.

You must also have at least one active and public social media account.

Plus, you have to have a favorite. Just one, and it's stated that this will be the only one that comes to mind for new projects. And you need to explain why you hold this incredibly narrow view of your toolset.

It'd have been hard to make such an objective 'survey' useful in the first place, but the selection bias and questionable assumptions behind this one certainly make it worse than it could've been.
Such a hateful post. I feel sorry for you.

Some people do not believe that society would be better if everyone had access to basic needs. Food, shelter, and ability to improve their status in the world. Infrastructure like roads, math, and software to take a few examples helps to create those basic human right.
If you use pip it is just a `pip install django-debug-toolbar` away so it can't get too much easier than that!
The snorkel just has to go somewhere other than the helmet area where the water is leaking. I read that it goes down near the chest. This assumes, of course, that their isn't enough water to fill the entire suit.
Business opportunity: software to calculate welfare cliffs?
No, you changed the argument from correctness to performance.

Makes me wonder if the problem is not entitled sloth with a dash of anti-JS animus, rather: wholesale, '90s-Microsoft-style-lock-in, submarine-the-other-browsers dirty pool.

Of course, if dart2js produced too-slow-JS, that might limit Dart adoption. Not a dilemma, given a good-faith effort to optimize per my comment above -- and much better than forking the language between DartVM and dart2js, leaving a trap for the unwary Dart programmer to fall into when using dart2js to run on all the non-DartVM browsers.

"Make it correct, then make it fast." Is this no longer done where you work? (Which would be Google, amirite? :-P)

/be
No, because what is "considered safe" in the first place is not reachet at by scientific consensus aimed at the well being of the population, but by how far private and state interests can raise the "safe dosage" in order to cover their asses and go about their polluting as usual.
Isolated Expression Scope in AngularJS
Firfox doesn't fire paste events unless an editable element has focus. You would have to bring focus to an input element to make sure that an event is fired.
Japanese robot beats the Americans in Pentagon talent show.
I would believe this even if I hadn't 100% seen this for myself, except that I have.

As a side note, realtors are the absolute scum of the earth. Worse than lawyers.

Apologies in advance to any lawyers.
And I hope I don't offend anyone by saying that most of the numbers reported after a radioactive disaster are BS spin in order for the company/state to save face.