skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's the real purpose of the all-encompassing surveillance.

That may be the eventual place that it ends up, but the road to hell is easily paved with good intentions. Statements like yours make it sound like you're about to break out into tales of the Illuminati (or whatever secret society you choose) and their designs to rule the world that stretch back to Medieval times.

Do you really believe that (e.g.) President Obama says, "Let me implement this, so that we may control the general populace through fear?" Or maybe could it be that those with the responsibility to protect (e.g.) their country are drunk on the information that the fire hose provides, and fear what tidbit of info they might miss if it is turned off?
If most of your classes are small, I don't see why people have to resort to static methods.

If your methods are static, there are tendency/lust to use static member variables (hence stateful) which will cause side effects.

Don't forget the following points too:

1) You still have pooled objects somewhere (stateless business logic classes like XYZServices, repository classes that may be backed by pooled DB connections and Transaction Managers) provided/managed by your Application Server or by 3rd-party framework (Spring does this).

2) Your Application Server tend to have beefy hardware, good enough not to care of GC hiccups.

There are other reasons to use static methods but I don't think they're strong enough in this case.
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"I wonder if they also fired the government people..."

Heh. That's a good one.
> B is not at all a fair description. If a robber has a gun to my head, any transaction is far from voluntary, because there is a risk of death otherwise

Option B was running healthcare as a business, with voluntary customers. You seem to be talking about something else.
I keep my 10 year old cell phone number alive and well on voice.google.com, it works great.
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This isn't an important enough specialty to make a living out of, because the number of people who are about what the actual code is such a tiny % of the viewing audience that it's not going to have any meaningful impact on sales. If there's a big budget with lots of VFX (like Iron Man) the VFX crew will get the job of sourcing 'teh codez' and most likely will just use some deprecated code of their own since high-end VFX software is all script-based anyway.

For non high-end productions (eg where you just have one person with After Effects or suchlike) you can just buy/rent/pirate sample material or fake it up quickly with some 'computerish' looking font - hence the proliferation of fake smartphone screens. It's a pain to photograph a real smartphone with an actual camera; they're usually too bright (even on minimum setting), the screen has reflections, and there are often awkward interference artifacts between the camera's frame rate and the refresh rate & lag of a phone. So if you're doing things on the cheap it's usually easier to just use some color app and make the whole screen a dim green and then match in a generic screen showing a text message or picture of the character who is supposed to be calling.

While this is certainly something a video graphics person could develop a specialty in, you'd have a hard time making it your only thing, same as being a sound designer that only does automobile noises or something. Likewise, when you look at a shot of someone fixing a car you probably don't pause to eyeball the diameter of the nuts and bolts lying on the ground, though pro car mechanics probably hate watching such scenes.
They did not pay $3.2 billion for some employees, but for a company with a proven track record of creating great hardware. Why not let them develop more household hardware for the upcoming internet-of-things revolution (provided it does come), with Google on top?
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while its hard to argue with your point. YT is a huge revenue generating product. Now more than ever Google is probably being pressured by the "content owners" and trying to balance the need for creators to market their channels and helping them grow through questionable content. I think with a mature, product like YT its understandable.
Uh, good for you? That is not the value proposition, that is trivial information about your personal life. I don't know why you felt it necessary to try to duplicate a manufactured device by hand, but that is most certainly not the value proposition.

The value proposition is that $200 and letting Google extract value from your life by way of energy prices will somehow pay for the fractional energy saved when the device realizes that you work on weekdays.
I understand why this is a good aquisition, but still 3.2B...
The valuation was 'only' 2B. That escaleted a lot!
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Is there a functional difference between putting...

set editing-mode vi

... in one's inputrc and...

set -o vi

... in one's .bashrc?

I realize that .inputrc is the config file for Readline, and .bashrc is essentially a start-up file for Bash. But is it ever necessary to use both snippets?
Clearly, the antidote for the poison is.... more poison!
weird proprietary XML database called MarkLogic

MDD: Mortgage Driven Development

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-testing/refuctoring-yo...
Yeah, honestly, I wasn't entirely constructive and that was wrong.

I was irritated by your "...we are now a species that can't even figure out what to eat for ourselves...". It is certainly only my interpretation, but your comment wasn't unlike CNN headline blowing out of proportion another piece of trite consumer business.

Btw, no "we" (as in HN community) can't do better than that, as evidenced by multiples of such posts and comments.
Everytime there's a "government app costs $x million" story, someone always chimes in with "Lol I could build that in PHP for $2."

It seems a fair percentage of HN'ers have not experienced the sheer Khafkaesque deadlock that is a large corp or govt department.

The cost is not in the dev effort, quite often there is actually a very small team of devs doing the "real" work. Outsourcing the dev work is not going to help because it is the massive bureaucratic pyramid which is crushing the devs, and that pyramid can't be outsourced.

This is not a technology problem. It's an enterprise management problem.
Really what this boils down to, imho, is a need to educate users on the meaning of the permissions that are granted (with approval) to these extensions. Certainly the vast majority of users confirm the security permissions without comprehending the weight of access they've just provided the extension author.

With JavaScript, it's nearly impossible for Chrome to reasonably explain, with any level of granularity, what exactly an extension will do with its access - hence the "access your data on all websites" warning.

A proof of concept to demonstrate how you can take advantage of this access for nefarious reasons, even after getting approval into the Chrome Web Store, would be quite simple.

Long/short of it is: make sure you trust the author of any extension you install!
Also, since privacy policies generally aren't contracts that need the approval of all parties before being altered, pointing out what today's policy limits doesn't seem particularly reassuring.
They will hand the data in serious disgust. ;)

It's another case of just slightly affecting your wording so that customers believe that past returns will guarantee future returns. All that is said is true for the past and the present.

(If you really want to read it in PR glasses, "this will not change" means that whatever was effective today will not change for the period up to today; in other words, the past can not be changed.)

"We (Nest the company) have a stringent privacy policy. We've (Nest the company) taken privacy seriously and our (Nest the company's) actions will not change."

Four months later, [Nest the company] is dead and a Google subsidiary dealing with home automation appears. This subsidiary is no longer bound to [Nest the company]'s promises.
"I don't have a problem walking into any clinic in my area and getting free, prompt medical service." - does "prompt" mean waiting 265 days for an elective surgery?
I can see a market for things that are explicitly "anything but Google" growing as more and more things like this happen. Not now, probably not next year, but soon.
I'm reminded of Ron Swanson's joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py7OHW3HELk
I use it every single day. I wouldn't call it dead.

We'll see if Google tries to wholly replace it with hangouts. I wouldn't be mad unless it were missing features.
Fn... urgh. I hate these crippled laptop keyboards (and tiny neck pain inducing laptop monitors).
I'm well aware that the US healthcare system is utterly fucked, for the reasons you listed (and more).

> I could go on, but health care isn't car repair.

That's why it was an analogy.
"does every new web business need to be Facebook-scale these days to be worthwhile?"

To a VC yes. That's the business model of their fund. I think if Everpix had attracted a different class of investors they might have been more successful fundraising.
So it doesn't have "null" but it has "None." On the linked page:

// Remove the contained string, destroying the Option
let unwrapped_msg = match msg {
Some(m) => m,
None => ~"default message"
};

Now why is there that ";" at the end? Before that there is a construct without it:

// Take a reference to the contained string
match msg {
Some(ref m) => println!("{}", *m),
None => ()
}

And did we have take the "reference" to print the value of m?

And one note more: the linked page doesn't explain that the Some actually introduces "Option" type. It writes about the Option but the code uses just "Some."

let msg = Some(~"howdy");

Some as a "keyword" seems to have two different semantical purposes, depending if it's in the "match" or not. I don't see that explained too.
The HTTP site of the middleware server should be able to make and receive HTTP requests. If something causes an event in Django, it can make a request to the HTTP server side of the middleware and send a message to all listening websocket clients.
Wow. That is ugly.

Imagine you just, like me, bought your dream house. In the den you installed new hardware floors and custom builtin bookshelves, that you built yourself in a few hundred hours, using a gorgeous hardwood and a stain you picked after testing more than a dozen shades.

Which thermostat goes on the wall, about 15 inches from the bookselves. That POS or a Nest?
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You think that the unmarked claim for "best development book" has the implicit qualification "including books I haven't read"?
If you decide to go out to eat, your self-driving car will take you to TacoBell. Only TacoBell.
I guess you shouldnt consider HN comments and Google+ jokes to be representative of general population or even elusive "techies" audience. Even more, HN is so different in comparison with HN a few years ago.

However, I agree with you about Google losing the control of the narrative.
> So you only have one binary relationship with everyone(friend\not friend)?

Basically yes, but let's place the binarization threshold on whether or not I recognize someone and care enough to have a conversation with that person in the future.

Neither Facebook, nor real life support an explicit "scale" of friendship. You don't define someone as 90% - BFF or 63% - just friend, etc. Relationships are defined by shared experiences and mutual feelings, and those are supported by the Facebook platform in the same way as they are supported by the direct face-to-face communication platform.

In other words, Facebook stores connections explicitly (calling them "friends" might be what confuses people), but is otherwise as much of a sandbox as the real life. You can do whatever you want, talk with whomever about whatever you care - that is what creates friendship.
I don't know why you feel confident, the old Nexuses stop getting updates too. They get them slightly longer than the average Android phone, but not by a lot.
> the second announcement after the acquision is all about how Google won't be privvy to your data.

For approximately as long as it takes for the AdWords team to figure out how to mine it, and then they're absolutely privy to it because that's what Google does, is harvest and aggregate your personal data in order to sell it to advertisers and the NSA
strawman and goalposts. PP said google's database, not government databases.

google data breach in last 30 days: http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/technology/security/password...

inside job at home security company in last year: http://www.wbng.com/news/state/198129651.html
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. You're talking theory (or more precisely, you're talking ideology).

The observed data is that the American system is over twice as expensive as the average of comparable countries, and half again as expensive as its nearest competitors, while the results are little better and often worse.

If your ideology of confiscation and motivation does not explain the observed facts, then your ideology is wrong, not the facts. That's what makes them facts.
I was mainly referring to the commenter who said the G+ issues being his first problem with the YouTube acquisition. If that was your first major issue, I'd call the acquisition a success. Also, how much of content ID was YouTube covering it's bases legally with the DCMA? I guess, are there easier ways they could have been compliant while being less irritating to users like yourself? I honestly don't know.
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since they arrogated to themselves the roles of general contractor and system integrator

...and also attempted to arrogate to themselves those future roles. Would that there were taxpayer protections against that kind of anti-competitive (on face, at least) strategy.
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The dot makes all the difference.

:^D
Doctors: people who go through years of hell because they don't actually care about their patients.
I go one step further and bind it to Hyper (ctrl+alt+cmd), and use hyper for tiling window management, like "snap window top left of screen grid", etc.

https://github.com/lunixbochs/reslate
Worse, it easily enters Mythical Man-Month territory where more staff (especially more managers) are thrown at the problem, which actually makes it worse.
...a very niche market for techies who are aware of and take issue with Google's privacy issues.
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Free? It's paid for by taxation and national debt. Funny thing is, you probably couldn't even calculate the cost, because prices are heavily distorted or even incalculable in socialized markets.

``...pricing systems in socialist economies were necessarily deficient because if government owned or controlled the means of production, then no rational prices could be obtained for capital goods as they were merely internal transfers of goods in a socialist system and not "objects of exchange," unlike final goods. Therefore, they were unpriced and hence the system would be necessarily inefficient since the central planners would not know how to allocate the available resources efficiently. This led him to declare "...that rational economic activity is impossible in a socialist commonwealth."''

http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
Is the idea that you'd compile a virtualized OS in with your application to produce one really streamlined VM appliance? I get that you'd be able to avoid the overhead of the OS in the VM but effectively making the VM a single application again.

Is this any better than the Docker method of reusing the same base-OS and compartmentalizing the applications? Is there that much to be gained in avoiding kernel/user-space transitions?
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"You guys are awesome and we wish you all the best."

Fundraising is such a giant waste of time. (I've been there)
Maybe he thinks "3.2bn" is less impressive than the actual number, and is just righting a wrong. That would be a reasonable thing to believe.
ctrl-arrow jumps to the next word boundary under Linux.

Yes, other systems have other key bindings, but why do common things like jumping to the begin/end of a line need a key combination? And why aren't the characters written onto the keys? Every time I have to type some code on a Mac I have to press all the keys in order to find { } [ ] etc. At leas I learned not to quit the terminal when I want to enter a @ by now. Whose brilliant idea was that?
I think you can unlink it:

std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
What if your motivation is to care for other people and to provide the best service you know how to?

Your model is flawed.
why anyone believed the government could sell a product is beyond me. It's as if all the tech professionals have a blind faith untested by reality.
Alright, I thought I was missing something :)
Google and most other tech companies never sell your personal data to advertisers. Google provides advertisers an opportunity to pay to engage Google users and get a piece of their attention on Google platforms. The actual user data as in personally identifiable user data never leaves the company servers.
Who are these people who create these "code" snippets anyway?

Junior visual FX slaves straight out of art school. Picking it out of an Intel Architecture Manual is the sort of thing you do to neutralize producer/director/supervisor insecurities about authenticity: 'yeah, this is the stuff that the engineers at Intel use, this is as real as it gets.'
Considering that Google can (and will) change the privacy policy at any time, that statement has no relevance.
Prefacing this with that I'm about as Libertarian as they come, and I'm under no auspices that the US/anywhere has a free market in healthcare.

edit: I also went from dirt-poor (and I'm assuming really horrible) health insurance plans in the US to having ridiculously good private insurance in the UK, so I'm already aware I'm entering into a supremely Apples v. Oranges scenario as is.

I've lived in both the US and the UK (well, the Isle of Man; I've heard NHS is much more of a pain in the ass in the mainland UK), and I'm just shocked at how awful the customer service has always been in the US.

In the US, I have never arrived at a doctor's appointment without waiting far past the time the appointment was scheduled to start and then waiting for the GP to actually come to the appointment room once you're seated there. In the UK (so far), I've seen the estimated time left before my appointment on an LED screen, and then both been led to the room on time and had the GP come in almost immediately.

In every aspect of healthcare in the US, I've been shocked at how long you're just expected to wait for absolutely everything.

Even if you arrive early, you sign in, wait in a room full of sick people for (on average IME) 40+ minutes past your appointment time, and then you wait an additional 15+ minutes for the GP to actually come into the room to begin the appointment.

It actually makes me physically angry to think about how much time I've spent waiting in a doctor's room over the first 20-something years of my life.

In your scenario B), I'd expect to be able to book an appointment online, arrive two minutes before it's scheduled to start, and walk out fifteen minutes later with whatever result you were looking for 99% of the time.

To be fair, I've visited my general practitioner exactly twice since I've moved here, so I have no sample size; and as I previously stated, I live in an area that has a reputation for having much better healthcare than the mainland UK.
I didn't duplicate anything. That was my rationale behind not doing what you suggested.

Honestly, I'm having a lot of trouble following what you're trying to say.

Now you're talking about unauthorized data use and Google manipulating energy prices? I guess?
You can drag/drop many things onto an application icon in the dock to open them in a new window.

This includes dragging a folder's proxy icon to the terminal app to open the current Finder window in a new terminal.

The proxy icon is the little icon in the top middle of the window, to the left of the name.
Touche! Good point.
Not precisely my thoughts, but the sentiment's the same. As someone who doesn't trust Google with my information it means Nest isn't a product I'd buy any longer.

If, on the other hand, you're a fan of the Google ecosystem I would expect that it will be a nice tie-in and a great acquisition for them. If they could add something along the lines of Belkin's WeMo devices and maybe Dropcam they could put together a nice home automation dashboard suite.

They're going to need to honor the legacy of Nest's design, though. No one is going to spend that kind of money and settle for an ad-ridden attempt to coerce you to use Google+.
It's not a talent acquisition. It's not a move towards more government monitoring. It's not meant to increase G+ sign-ups or sell ads for more efficient furnaces.

It's a play into the growing "connected product" / smart home segment. When you combine google's resources, their current software and hardware products, and the type of products Nest is likely to move on to, you get some strong synergies that Google would be dumb to ignore. A little more discussion on where things could go from here (that doesn't touch on the NSA or government subpoenas) would be really refreshing.
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Dead in the sense that there has not been feature addition one for several years, yes.
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> Statements like yours make it sound like you're about to break out into tales of the Illuminati (or whatever secret society you choose) and their designs to rule the world that stretch back to Medieval times.

Unfortunately I can't do that, since I don't know what they're up to :p

> Do you really believe that (e.g.) President Obama says, "Let me implement this, so that we may control the general populace through fear?"

You want to hear a "no", yes? :p But let's consider another question: Is whatever the NSA is doing up to Obama personally? Did Obama order the NSA to surveil the whole world? -Doubtful, especially since it started before his first term.

> Or maybe could it be that those with the responsibility to protect (e.g.) their country

Responsibility, you say? Tell me, who exactly are they responsible to, for anything they do? -You? What power do you personally hold over the NSA? -What about any other ordinary person?

Furthermore, if you're talking about the NSA protecting the country, how many other countries would be foolish enough to attack the world's prevalent Empire with the most massive army in the history of the world? Do you think the "protection" the all-encompassing surveillance (directed at the masses of ordinary people) is necessary?
The lug nut question is an important verification step and indeed data-entry on the part of the user.
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