skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly this is something I was thinking about the other day. I was trying to explain to my parents that they wanted to download and run a program on their Windows company - I called it an "app". They were confused as that is the term for things that you install on a smart phone.

Like yourself, I'm not sure. It does seem a bit of a disservice to call something as complex as AutoCAD or Photoshop etc by the same term as a stupid fart app. But then, it is an accurate term - they are both applications, so I tend to use it as such.
This specific instance might or might not have been. I'm just telling you that the pirate base stations have been operating in the Maidan area and have been used for nefarious purposes since November at least. Knowing some of the petty phreaking criminals that do stuff like this, I assumed that it's much more likely to be a prank.
How is protesting in a residential neighborhood allowed? Did this group have a permit? Is the SF Bay area different in this regard - no permit allowed?
The text is TFA is strongly anti-surveillance state.
> Good luck. I'd encourage this even if you are not a Google employee.

How come?
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned yet the Seinfeld scene with Kramer and the Postmaster General about junk mail:

http://www.siyumhaseinfeld.com/eps/season9/905-TheJunkMail.h...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nKlzQo3Wqo
(was thinking of this as I was driving this morning) -- actually all the argumentation in that article, iirc, is essentially an inverted pyramid that all rests on one point: "there is a natural limit on the ratio of the $$ value of food production to that of the rest of the economy". This is clearly a "surely" argument (it is not being supported by anything other than his intuition), and a pretty bad one at that -- for example, we've seen agricultural employment collapse from ~90% to ~2% of the population, and the process continues, despite farming subsidies and other conscious attempts to slow it down.
Ah, didn't realize this was a third party thing.

Yeah, it seems like the Octocat Mark is the recommended option now: "Use the Mark in social buttons to link to your GitHub profile or project"
https://github.com/logos
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=green+username
what negative things do you really think google are doing with their capital? if you're talking about rising house prices in san francisco making it difficult for people to get housing and apartments I understand, but do you specifically blame google and other tech companies for that? is there something else that has made you angry about this? I am genuinely curious as I personally don't see anything wrong with the companies actions and do not agree with a protest that ( I think) constitutes personal harassment. full disclosure I'm from the UK and somewhat removed from the situation so there may be news stories that have passed me by, if you think they're relevant please link them.
Travel to the end of a road. If you're starting in CA:

- Travel all the way to the east coast, using no interstates.

- Head north until you reach Alaska.

- Head south until you reach Tierra del Fuego.
What they're doing is trying to make it socially unacceptable to assist the NSA/ DoD, and quite frankly it's overdue. I get the feeling that most of the criticism here against the protesters is because HN identifies with the Google employee(s), not because the protesters are wrong. It's a purely emotional reaction.
I've had to cross picket lines (not outside my house). Not fun.
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There is an upshot to this and the (over-)reliance of the surveillance state on technology - leave your cell phone at home when going to a protest or riot and never be suspected of being a participant in the first place.
This comment make so much sense to me.
It largely stalled because of the web. Lots of SV startups for example are using GPL'd code, but because they only provide web apps they don't have to release their code. Worse still those startups often think they are on the 'good' side of the free software debate because they use some open source code in their products and maybe even contribute a bit back.

In my opinion the FSF screwed up majorly by concentrating on local software and the GPL while ignoring the much greater danger of software as a service. The AGPL is too weak and the FSF never really pushed it. The GNU project have tried to create some online services/protocols themselves but they are a total joke (e.g. GNU Free Call).
IKEA is now using Israeli technology for its new gift registry application
A designer I work with hands me AI files that I'm then meant to convert to a WordPress theme. She knows near zero about coding. It's a nightmare and I'm constantly in battle of functionality and her wanting things pixel perfect. The worst is that she hands over the designs to the clients who do not understand that it will not be pixel perfect and many things will change.
Hi, i'm the developer of this website.

The only goal was to test angularJs and find random people on facebook. It's a simple html page with js :)

Checkout the source code ;)
I love that people keep experimenting with new programming languages. I hate that there are so many people experimenting these days I can't examine them all.
Thanks for replying! That's what I love about HN - someone almost always has an expert/inside answer.

I gather when it's that fast and that big, you might not need that 10x multiple.
Yeah I really don't see how you've formed that opinion, My connection isn't even at least 10Mb reliably. Within a couple of years I could put 10Gb ethernet in my house for not insane money. My internet connect would then be 0.0001 the speed of that.

Why would anyone want that? Well would could all move to ipv6, use modern web browsers with webrtc and p2p stream iplayer like a torrent stream. That must substantially reduce the BBC IT costs therefore its licencing requirements.
Absolutely horrifying.

More so because there are actually people here in this thread defending the crazy person who's trying to destroy somebody's life because they don't like the company he works for.
^^ left-wing degeneracy for all to see.
popcorn
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/12/18/10378...
Why does it matter to the user how many characters are in the password? Xe never interacts with that string directly anyway; and password _length_ strongly correlates with password _strength_. 16 is way, way too low - the rainbow tables for this size are already widely available, and most sites still go for the lowest security possible (single password hash, unsalted).
6. When you hit the windows button, and then start typing the program you want to launch, DON'T FUCKING SEARCH THE FUCKING INTERNET AND SLOW THE WHOLE PROCESS DOWN. Jesus.
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https://www.pwdhash.com/ and its browser extensions works great.
That's not really a fair comment and it trivializes the issues these guys are trying to raise.

Getting a job isn't the issue; it's a complex mix of the privileged position and hard work that led to them being able to get that job, which these people cant do and the extremely obvious difference in economic status having that job grants, which includes people being evicted from their homes so that higher paying individuals can move in.

You can see how people can get upset about it.

You can't just tell them to go get jobs; that won't solve anything. All it does is make you feel better, for now.

If you want to solve the problems like this you have to actually engage with the community which is feeling disenfranchised. No one wants to, but problems like this don't just 'magically' go away.

(To be clear, I don't like what's happening here at all, but comments like yours are inflammatory and make things worse for the people on both sides)
In my mind, app is simply short for application. I think it has good connotations that come along with it as a result of mobile apps, such as being a single contained package that doesn't interfere with other apps, but we've seen that on OS X for years anyways, so that's hardly something new to desktop computing. There are complex, CPU intensive apps that are developed for tablets to do things like 3D modeling, are those any less of an app than a desktop version of the same thing? Does anyone have a problem with those being called "apps" vs "desktop applications"?
And esr is saying that perhaps it is (no longer) a good design.
or its from being run over by the rover
Meanwhile in another thread, people are lamenting the idea that the government can require you to get a permit to peacefully protest, and arrest you otherwise...
You can't even resize the window past 80

You can if you know those good ol' mode-commands. But yeah, no drag'n'resize like on all other platforms unless you install third party software like MinTTY and ConEmu.
I watched it before it was cool
I tried that once, but it is hard to determine what the name is actually. Especially after you forget it and have to reconstruct it.

Is it? = "Hacker News", "HackerNews", "Hacker news", "ycombinator", "news.ycombinator.com"... you get the idea.

Even if you have a 100% way to determine the name. Then the main problem why this doesn't work, is that the name might get changed slightly and ruin your scheme. And you can't remember the password because you didn't visit the site for 4 months.

Example:
Hacker News -> News for Hackers, or the domain you used for name gets slightly changed.

Then what?
Well that's just crazy right-wing hate radio talk, man!
/sarc
Not really. If I told you that I owned a TV and you did too, we could talk about the things we watched on TV.

If I told you I don't own a TV there's literally nothing else to talk about on the topic.
This is pretty much my exact reaction to the article. That was the exact line that gave me pause, then I looked up at the byline and saw Dvorak's name.

I do find his pining for the failed WinFS particularly odd, though. It's something that was pretty much intended to back up the kind of anti-desktop model he's complaining about.
>nobody, bloody nobody will move a finger to do something that is not strictly what they are being paid to do.

That reads as an excuse for not paying somebody to do something. I certainly don't do anything for my job that I'm not being paid to do - why would I expect a social worker who is being paid a third of what I get paid to work for free?

It's easier to think of societal problems as moral problems rather than problems of governance, but it's not productive, just bikeshedding.
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The analogy between Google and McDonalds only works in regard to commercial creepiness. It does not sufficiently cover collaboration with the surveillance state's organs.
This is a high-brow flame war. The last post bothered me, and this one bothers me all the same. Let's cut the shit for a minute and examine the lay of the land.

"PSD to HTML is dead" panders well to developers. But it doesn't make it true. Let's dig a little deeper into why a developer may want to believe that the incredible toolset contained within Photoshop is completely useless and unnecessary: The inability to use Photoshop.

No one is slicing and cropping a PSD into images anymore. If there are still some who believe that, you need to spend some time talking to designers and front-end web developers. There's really no excuse for this misinformation.

I'm not arguing for Photoshop here. I'm arguing for a design reference point – something that has been created by a (web/UI) designer, for the purposes of reference. It can be a piece of paper, Photoshop, etc. Photoshop makes it easy to manipulate a design. That's it – the central reason for using Photoshop. Moving divs around, adjusting CSS or erasing pencil off a piece of paper is never going to be as efficient as clicking on a layer and moving, resizing it, etc. That's just the reality of why Photoshop is used. This "debate" is reckless abandonment of logic, or simply passive-aggressive anti-design irreverence.

When a front-end/UI developer has a reference for their layouts, it allows them to skip over "where does this go?" and get to their actual job. Some developers are agile enough to extrapolate other form factors based on how the design is structured. Some developers need a desktop, mobile, and tablet design to reference. At the end of the day, no one is slicing images. I am just trying to understand what the actual argument is.

I can only assume that most would agree that an architectural design is essential for constructing a building. Are we really arguing that we don't need a solid foundation to start building from?
http://HarpJS.com is the URL, not harps.com :)
Isn't it tedious to copy/paste passwords on your Android phone? I want to move to a password manager but I feel like I'd quit after a few days.
>do we really think that Adobe isn’t aware that Photoshop is becoming less suitable for modern web development process? Do we think that they will just sit there and watch their flag-ship and de-facto standard in web design become a plain photo editor?...All these actions show that Adobe is trying to overcome Photoshop’s limitations for modern web design.

If your business depends on Adobe's competence you may want to have a contingency plan.
McCarthy is mentioned for that, but I guess more work on that was done in the Smalltalk and Self context.

Since quite some time most Lisp systems don't use a JIT. They compile the code ahead of time or explicitly incrementally.
I have real bad ADHD, and everything you say rings true.

There are (only) two things that seem to help me: (social) commitment that would be unthinkable to back out of, and random fluctuations in neurochemistry.

I have a job, and find that I have very little trouble maintaining a good work ethic at work. Especially when the boss tells me to do something differently. The social and commitment aspects really motivate me. Beeminder (https://www.beeminder.com/) is really awesome as well, until your brain figures out that you can cheat. For doing work outside of work, I have a few friends that I just meet up with and mutually enforce work-time, which is really helpful and always productive.

On top of that, I notice major shifts in ability to do work that seem to have nothing to do with anything. Some days I'm randomly on top of the world and able to do huge amounts of highly productive and creative work, other days I can't even focus on what's in front of me (sometimes literally). I can only explain this in terms of random neurochemistry quirks. Unfortunately I can't control it. One thing that seems to help is standing in a dominant victory pose and counting to 300 as fast as possible, which raises testosterone and lowers cortisol. It seems to help a lot if you can remember to do it.

(Solving neurochemistry would be extremely lucrative; there are thousands of people who are separated from large wealth only by this factor.)

So I'd say you are fine on holding a job, but the jury is still out on becoming great.
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There was a time that I would have agreed that an "app" is, in essence, a minimal application designed to perform a simple, narrowly circumscribed task. The distinction was natural because this was about the level of sophistication of most software that the average user would encounter on a mobile device, all of which were sold through "app stores." (And app stores sold only apps, thus defined.)

Since then, however, I have found that the definition has more to do with the purchase/installation process than the functionality of the product itself. The emerging definition that I perceive is that an "app" is something purchased and installed through an "app store." App stores are environments that greatly reduce the normal friction involved with purchasing and installing an application such that this can all be accomplished without leaving the app store interface and without the user's being required to enter any configuration information. (This step, if it is necessary, is typically reserved for when the app is first run.) Uninstallation of an app is similarly streamlined (or, at least, a user expects it to be...). Apps are also not typically conceived of as running in windows. They are presented full-screen with no OS-chrome. This is an obvious hold-over from the demands of the mobile-device environment.

An obvious counterpoint is Steam, which would seem to meet all of these criteria. This anomaly is perhaps explainable on the basis that it pre-dates the modern app store and, thus, users' expectations of it are not framed by the mobile environment as they are in other ecosystems. The fact that it typically is used only for PC games helps with this differentiation. It is worth pointing out, though, that Steam does sell non-game software, though to my knowledge it is not terribly successful in doing so. This lack of success might be attributable to its failure, in this capacity, to comply with the symbology of the app/application distinction that users have come to internalize.
If you told me that you don't own a television and then I told you that I don't own one either, we could talk about why we don't own one.
I really don't see that happening. Google engineers are the largest contributors to LLVM/Clang these days. Why would Apple reject the contributions of a company that employs some of the best compiler engineers? It would make it much more expensive for them to maintain and develop LLVM.
That something is possible does not detract from the weight of making it orders of magnitude easier. Noting participants and tracking them down later has always worked ... but tech verging on applying those actions classic actions automatically and instantly is very significant. Used to be it could take days/weeks/months to "get" some of the participants; now we're not far (if not already there) from correlating cellphone tracking, face recognition, etc to automatically freeze their funds (credit/debit included), suspend driver's licenses, issue arrest or "person of interest" warrants, and otherwise disrupt & hinder the bulk of participants before they even leave the protest site ... maybe not outright arrest & prosecution, but pushing back hard with little/no human involvement.
Interesting that they are working on a hardware solution to a software problem.

Multicast support would cure the majority of the streaming and torrent issues if the ISP's enabled it.
Seems like ESR is still fighting the Open Source vs Free Software battle of the late 90s. It hasn't dawned on him yet that everyone else thinks that there's little purpose in cannibalizing the movement over minor philosophical differences.
But but but ESR is a social hacker! http://esr.1accesshost.com/
The more reasonable direct action would be to simply not use a smartphone, not use the internet (or Google Maps), and not host a website. Opt out of the whole thing. I'm not clear on how these people can justify blocking the buses and showing up at people's houses, but then organize using Google's products.
What do you mean by “military attention”?
3. Firefox on Linux, but only when I click next to go to the next photo, then it's permanent.
For me it's mostly just because I have to do a lot of type-switching or writing pseudo-inheritance when I'm still in the prototyping stage of a program in order to have some kind of polymorphism. It's often not very pleasant.
I agree.

I'd imagine if a bunch of google employees did something similar at the house of the person who organized this protest, it wouldn't be seen as being fair.
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That's not a picket line as it is not a legal strike
Might as well get an edgy bumper sticker to really let everyone avoid you!
I just double checked and I don't have any issue with this in 8.1.
Agreed, at this point why not sue 90% of Android's custom keyboard makers into oblivion? At their core most of them have the same feature as the patent. The Samsung keyboard is barely different from the stock Google Keyboard anyways. Selective patent trolling at its finest.
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I don't really see how someone openly expressing their displeasure with a popular product makes them a "tool".
Yup, there are many, many times when I want to be able to do simple things with C or C++ code. Writing a little static analyzer tool that can check some internal code for a practice we have found harmful, parse some headers to automatically generate python bindings, documentation stubs, generate really good unit tests stubs with the information the ast give you, grab all of the comments and run your own verification on them, automagically re-write code to not use an old api anymore. And this is all just with using the source parser side of things of llvm

These are the tools I write, they are not big commercial enterprises, most of them are one off projects that are used and tossed away within a year, very few are ever published. Clang makes me more productive because they give me the ability flat out do this type of thing. It doesn't matter what GNU political agenda is, their tool flat out doesn't let me do this like llvm can. As long as this is the case long term I will use llvm more and more over gcc.
Some necrophobes earn their own fates.
But what pixel perfect means in fact? That it looks as it was supposed to. If I'm a designer and design something which looks perfect, do I want a coder to alter this perfect look to something ugly?

Ideally pixel perfect is replaced with "looks perfect" and designer works closely with coder to achieve perfect look on various devices and resolutions. But I don't think coder should make assumptions how the coded design can differentiate from the original design (unless they have very good aesthetics feeling).
With respect, you are wrong. It's neither interesting nor reasonable, and indeed is barely coherent.

Gentrification is a real problem, with inequality at it's roots. I think most people would agree with that. And I'd also agree that it's easy for some in the tech community to lose touch with the relative privilege that they often live in. But this is not a "reasonable backlash" – it's a bunch of incoherent knee-jerk harassment by people who should really be doing something better with their time.

The proper channel for dealing with housing issues is local government; for NSA issues, national government; in neither is the correct channel the harassment of individual employees of a company which may (or may not be) the cause of those issues.
Facebook is the new myspace. People are leaving it in droves.
Agreed. It's time to obstruct these money-making corporations. We can slap their hands with lawsuits brought against them for making money, or we can shut down their greedy, wealth-building schemes. These money-loving fat cats have it coming to them and we need to stand up against them, especially since we have nothing better to do after quitting our mindless jobs at our former corporate greed houses.

Anyone who wants money should be obstructed and shut down!

Anyone who starts a new company should be seen as a money-loving greed-inducing pawn in the corporate cog, renewing their vicious cycles of greed!

Anyone who takes part in a money-making company is no better than taking part in Nazi Germany!

Who's with me? Who's with me??!!11oneoneone
I think this approach is a bit dated.

Your method relies on a person not reading your password (or maybe two passwords) in clear text and seeing the pattern.
Like it or not these Silicon Valley types are coming in and pillaging the local economy with capital that isn't even theirs. It's a very unsustainable and disruptive environment that displaces workers, creates instability, and increases civil unrest.

Innovation and economic progress, while essential to the advancement of society, needs to be amortized to decrease these negative side effects.
What I'm thinking of would be a visual editor that works with things like bootstrap.
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