skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2) It has a free, optional hosted service that stores encrypted passwords with pure client-side decryption, so you can get your passwords from any web-enabled device without having to trust the host.

This is an unbelievably audacious security shell game; I can't really believe this nonsense idea has somehow managed to gain traction.

The server is ephemerally delivering the code that supposedly encrypts your content securely.

How do you not have to trust the host?
Doctors definitely understand how CAT scans work conceptually, to the extent needed to interpret the results, including whether or not the results are valid. They don't know, and aren't expected to know, how to build one, or open one up and fix it.
Church Numerals using C++1y Generic Lambdas
Agreed, but two important notes:

1) Automation doesn't have to be complete automation. I can use Chef tools like knife-ssh to run a single command on every one of our boxes in near-real time. This might not be automated to the extent that the OP is referring but it's 99.8% more efficient than logging into 500 boxes to do it (or 200,000 in Facebook's case). If you can get 99.8% with ease, it may not be worth pre-automating for that final 0.2%.

2) Knowing what is worth automating comes from experience. If I have to do something nasty once, it might be a total waste of time to automate it. There are lots of one-off things I type at a command prompt that are quicker to run than to automate. I think being so dogmatic about automation as to say you should never run things at a command line requires you to spend peple's time non-optimally.
The best book on git is only 30 pages long. It's called git from the bottom up and it describes the architecture of git, which makes understanding it much simpler than studying command line options.

http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf
> I'm not sure why I had a 2x2x1" neodymium magnet laying around, but I'm glad I did.

The same reason why there's beer in the fridge, condoms in the night stand and a guitar pick in your pocket: just in case.
The Freelancing Technologist Success Ladder
Scientists support retraction of the Seralini GMO study
That sounds like it would take an awful lot of battery though. And it would mean most of your friends would have to have the app for it to be "useful" don't it?
Google and Kobo use it if you download a file to read on an ereader, but not for their back end systems.
Not if you're a project manager.
Would a thinner wall tube work just as well? It seems the effect depends on electrical conduction which should be sufficient even with much less copper. Or does it depend on how many flux lines are hitting the copper cross section?
You pretty much hit on a pretty big problem I'm facing. Initially, I charged $40 a month under an unlimited subscription assuming a vendor would have a new product every month or so. However, it turned out that most vendors only needed the service for a month or two in order to churn all their labels out then cancel.

In terms of price sensitivity, current vendors are charging $100-$150 a label, so the subscription plan is either an average deal, or a great deal if they have 5 labels.

The subscription model stems from a problem in purchasing an individual label. If vendors purchase say one label, there is a possibility where they might have made a couple of mistakes and they have to fix their label. The thing is I don't really know if they are fixing the label, or generating an entirely new label. At the end of the day my goal is to be as hands off as possible.

Of course, I'm open to ideas though.
But it's not a foundation. A production Angular app really shouldn't rely on this (if for no other reason minification becomes impossible). This flavor of parameter parsing really only exists for demos and throw away code.
It's rules such as these (and all the other rules of app stores) that keep many developers from working with such limited platforms. Too bad Google doesn't focus on keeping malware out of its app store as much as it focuses on keeping porn out of it.
You can say the same about Apple. Dell still the best workstations, though, unlike HP with their stupid redesigns.
I know this is sad for the families and I know that in another thread people commented on statistical likelihood a for suicide and how this is within the bounds of "expected."

But there is another point. "Prominent". One of the three carried the title of Vice President. I don't know if banking now is like when I worked for a bank, but "Vice President" is a nothing title. I was a Vice President and trust me I was nothing. (Bank: Security Pacific, acquired in 1991 at which point I was one of thousands who were put in the ejector seat.)

I think these articles tell us more about the authors' predilections for finding conspiracies than anything else.
Special forces have used tampons for a while. There's also the powder that coagulates. But if it saves more lives...
Or, you understand why git works the way it does, but since you don't work on the Linux kernel and don't consider your code ephemeral, you find git's tooling to be be incredibly frustrating and complex to use when all you want or need is a safe, immutable version control system.
I'm not so sure. I suspect writing a near-optimal Candy Crush AI would be quite difficult.
>But if I only want to work 30 hours a week, and I only need to make about $25 an hour to live - so far that seems like a harder situation to find.

My experience is that finding consistent independent work is "easy" up to $50/hr. Beyond that, and I need to go through agencies where they expect me to pretend to want to be full time.

I have manged to leverage that to get a part time gig that paid better; e.g. I got a high paying gig through an agency, proved myself difficult to replace, /then/ suggested they let me go part time on the same hourly rate. Worked okay for a while.

But yeah, my experience is that you can demand $50/hr from random craigslist gigs. There is a /lot/ of remote work available at $25/hr. I remember in the early to mid aughts, I supported myself for a few years this way; I had a primary gig that gave me a retainer that was large enough to cover rent (I think I was charging them $35/hr for retainer hours, and $45/hr for hours above that. I mean, I was in my early to mid 20s, so it wasn't great money, but it wasn't terrible. ) then I would take random gigs over and above that for more money; I had about three regular clients that I didn't have "retainer" agreements with, so there was always enough money.

Hm. I wonder if it's easier as a SysAdmin, because it's very clear that my work is going to be required on an ongoing basis? Some people seem to think that after the project is done, they won't need the developers. But most people understand that you need a sysadmin ongoing.
Thanks, this is helpful.

In designing things for users, I think a lot about the difference between meaning and mechanism. In early computers, you were confronted with a lot of mechanism: switches to flip, magnetic media to treat worshipfully, mysterious incantations to type. But something like the iPad, the surface interactions are mainly about meaning.

When you say, "Git is a uni-directional acyclic graph for tracking patches," I believe you, and I believe that's how people like Linus think of it. But that's mostly mechanism.

For people who were soaking in large open source projects, I think that mechanism reflects their meaning pretty well. But for people putting stuff on the web, or building internal tools, it's very different. The base case is, "thing that is live now," and "thing that will be live soon". Patches? Don't need 'em.

For those people (which I think is the bulk of developers today), they are forced to deal with a lot of git's mechanism, to no real benefit. If git had been designed to be a popular VCS, I'd call that a design mistake. But I think it's hard to claim that; as you say, git makes sense in its original context.
Thanks for replying. It's not so much that I don't realize there is a huge world of programming outside of web frameworks and cell phone apps, as it's nice to hear about those jobs. I don't get the opportunity very often.
That's a great accomplishment in such a short period of time. I'm glad that you were able to save time and money by using another service. Thankfully, there are tons of options out there to suit every business' use cases.
I will say, I only use the command line for a few things like rebasing. 99% of my work is done in SourceTree which is incredibly easy to use.
Two Bears, Revisited
> Men have invented every major technological advance in history.

That was your original statement. It has been refuted pretty well. Now you are changing your assertion without admitting it.

Actually, we still have a pretty sexist environment, and women aren't really free to do any thing they want. There's a pretence that they can do anything, but it isn't really true in many ways.

My argument is still perfectly sound. You are just ignoring the bits of it you don't like.

For all your talk about "facts" you seem to be particularly blind to the ones that have been offered to counter your vague arguments, both here and elsewhere in this thread: verifiable matters of historical record.
Pure JIT compilation is historically slow at startup. There are hybrid approaches, such as caching code once it's been compiled, and just loading the cached version on the next startup. IBM Java 7 does this (not just for shared classes, which client-side Java has done for a long time, but for an application's classes, running on a server vm), and it cuts about 70% of the startup time out of my app.
> Git continues to surprise me with its code wrangling abilities.

That's not a good thing. Perhaps it's not that people are "tripped up" by thinking in terms of SVN, but rather, are frustrated that things that should be simple aren't.

Instead, you want them to adopt an anything-goes git model where nearly everything is mutable, no data is sacred, branches and tags can be dropped at will and be gone from the repo refs, and people run around rewriting history willy nilly because they can.

Meanwhile, the poor SVN user wonders why they couldn't just commit, update, and get back to coding already.
Looks like Google just lost a large percentage of the entertainment market:

- The large percentage of people who like porn, plus...

- The smaller (but outspoken) percentage of people who don't like to be told what content they're allowed to watch on the devices that they've purchased.

We'll see if the market segment they're trying to attract with this policy (families with children, if I had to guess) will make up for this loss.
ZenPayroll (YC W12) is looking for senior front-end developers to join the team
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+ We raised a $6.1M seed round last year and are funded by the CEOs of Yelp, Dropbox, Yammer, Box, Parse, and others, as well as Google Ventures, Salesforce and Y-Combinator. Full list at www.zenpayroll.com/investors.

+ We’re in this for the long haul and are committed to building ZenPayroll into a truly significant company that we’re proud of.

THINGS WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

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PERKS:

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Most public libraries in the US use Adobe's DRM to cover their ebook loans.
Barring total catastrophe, I simply don't see how a relatively stable population with incredibly advanced automating technology and biotechnology would be incapable of "fixing" the world.
You must love the cold. I cannot fathom living in an area like that.
Neat.

I was looking back at my last few years of utility bills recently and noticed that May (Avg: 60F) and October (Avg: 62F) are apparently the only months of the year where I don't feel a need to heat or cool the house.

If this were adjustable I'd be looking for the place with the most 60° days per year.
>I was quite embarrassed to learn how poorly my clever loop works in modern browsers!

What's really embarrassing is IE js performance.

Since I keep an ancient copy of of Netscape 9.0.0.6 on my computer I decided to try it so see how much browsers have improved. It doesn't seem to upload results I'll post them here in the same order as the testing page.

17.25
16.72
5.94
8.81
18.90
23.28
20.92
23.58

This is on the same computer that was pulling 5000+ on the fastest tests. Browsers have come a long way.
and now the count goes to 4 [ http://rt.com/business/russell-investments-chief-economist-d... ]
Except that Lastpass doesn't know your passwords. Everything is encrypted before it is sent to Lastpass using a password you control.
I'm pretty sure it means, "Don't do anything that Google worries might get them bad press in the US."

If you'd like to know the details of that, just ask! Just ask your nearest lamppost, garbage can, or alley cat. They're much easier to reach than developer support at Google, and they're almost as likely to give you a useful answer.
1) Download all the Kindle books you've owned (either onto your device, or using the desktop reader - I think there is even one on Linux). You can mount a Kindle as an external drive, so you can easily move files to your hard drive even if you have too many to fit onto the Kindle.

2) Use Calibre to unlock the .mobi files, using the serial number (conveniently located under the "Device Settings" or "About this Device" menu - I forget which it's called, but it's a ~16 digit number and very easy to find.

3) Upload to S3

This works on Linux - I assume it works on OS X and Windows too.
Also: "missing since Jan. 29", "what’s strange is that Dueker is the third prominent banker found dead since Sunday.".

He was probably dead several days before Sunday. I don't think there is much significance in when the bodies were found, the important part is when they died.

Now, it is possible that all of the estimated date of deaths are close together, but close date of discoveries really doesn't make this story interesting to me, and that is how the story is being sold.
Does anyone know a way to read usernames/passwords from a KDBX file hosted on Dropbox/Google Drive (similar to 1passwordAnywhere)? That way, if I'm at a new computer, I do not need to download KeePass to open my KDBX.
You're right, I just run my own product company from my couch, and we'd never be daft enough to ship something critical right before disappearing into the ether.
If the elevator carries the magnets, the magnetic field relative to the phone is constant, thus no induced current and no fried components.
You can get Charles Dickens for free.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

of course the library also has tons of free literature for you too.
The link is pretty convincing. What it amounts to is that there is so little CO2 in the air that sublimation into the air happens faster than any freezing out of the air.
I also saw this somewhere else, and one of the people worked for 'Tata Motors' - seems a stretch to call this finance.

I don't know what the population of VPs and CEOs worldwide is. Given that it is overrepresented by men between 25 and 40, which coincides with the peak risk group for suicide, I would say that what we are looking at here is cherry picking to prove a point. The fact is, because of the relatively safe lifestyles of most of the group, suicide would actually be a leading risk factor for premature death (apart from motor vehicle accidents).
How did you valuate your startup?
Introducing Conceal: Efficient storage encryption for Android
The slinky trick is better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCMmmEEyOO0
I really have to wonder if non-tech companies are seeing the benefits that you are. I once tried to start a "Save the NBN" group here in Australia (the NBN was our ill-fated fibre-to-the-home project). One of the problems is communicating how important fast, reliable broadband is to non-techies.
Only if you interpret small fraction to be 100%.
Sure, and not many. That's more or less Mercurial.
There is always an incentive to make a product better and as cheap as possible in order to make a profit. That's how the free market works. Your experience shows you that government intervention, which is so prevalent in most markets, kills off competition and leaves the "big players" to make whatever decisions they want. These "big players" exist thanks to the state.

It's a vicious cycle: government jumps in, makes competition harder (whether with taxes or regulations) -> smaller businesses have trouble competing with large players -> larger businesses take advantage by offering worse service to cut overhead costs -> customers complain, ask for more government regulation -> makes competition even more impossible -> and so on.

You can observe this cycle in every industry, including food, ISPs, etc.

Before you bash the free market and show me example of how it doesn't work, first look and realize that what you're pointing out to me is not actually a free market.
How long have you been in the STEM field? I've got 25 years. My observation is that the field is in fact fairly filled with sexist pigs.
> I mean code repository as a software developer is an essential tool it should be as intuitive to use as a text editor.

Git's no harder to use than vim.
4chan's /g/ made an open source multimedia chatroom
Nice! I'm donating $50 to you for project now. (And $50 to Wikipedia)
By wasting more tax payer money making examples, I am pretty sure that solution is worse than the problem.
Well, saying "Git is a uni-directional acyclic graph for tracking patches" is a bit like saying "Monads are endofunctors in the domain of (whatever)". It doesn't really explain things unless the audience is really heavily into CS.

Despite the available complexity, you can choose to ignore most of it without issue. If you use a good client (I like SourceTree) you can avoid the command line's warts and some things like staging and remotes become more clear.

When we switched to Git, I had my team (pretty small) basically treat Git like SVN for a little while. Once they got comfortable with that, it was easy to explain some of the differences (like local/remote) and they could quickly pick up the rest.
Lullabies, music video by new artist, Avery Blake
Two dissimilar brothers find a way to connect when older brother, Zane Schwartz, (21, junior at Chapman U in cinematography) breaks out with Daft Punk "Get Lucky" Chapman Undie Run music video then directs and shoots the debut music video by younger brother (Avery Blake - 19). Avery, a student at Frost School of Music at U of Miami, has just been signed by Stampede Publishing,(arm of management company that has Snoop Dog among others) .
Don't even know where to start when it comes to those comments...

"Bill and Hillary killed 23 people in Arkansas. I'm sure there's a Bengazzi link to this, or maybe Whitewater. You never know, you know? I've always thought Bill Clinton had something to do with that Jon Benet deal"
So... it's like iOS, YouTube, and countless other environments that enable User Generated Content?
Using it and loving it.
At the office, we have a usb key that contains the key file to open Keepass. So it's like a key that's also a key, you know...
10M msgs were sent in one minute on WeChat on the eve of Chinese New Year
UUID "contained in the work" would be troublesome in many mediums (music recordings, film, paintings, for instance). Perhaps "travels with the work" would be manageable though.

And it's worth considering that every tweet, every photo on Flickr, every video on YouTube, every status update on FB, and so on, constitutes a new copyrightable work. Not everyone will care about the copyrights of their tweets, but some will. How do you copyright something for which you have no control of the identifiers? I assume you don't intend for people to hit up the service for a new UUID before tweeting and embed the token in their tweet?

(Obviously this problem would go away if e.g. Twitter itself signed onto this scheme, automatically registering and UUIDing your tweets on your behalf.)
Great! What I did was download Lastpass Portable Version and then exported it as a CSV and imported it into KeePass. KeePass already seems more ideal than LastPass.
If hosts don't use this, then you get sold out listings.

I was in Boston in November. Normally there would be a range of listings in the $60-$120 range, and then some in the ultra-pricey $250-$500 range.

Except there was a yatch race on, an ALL but one of the affordable listings was booked. I researched, and there really were dozens of listings that were normally cheap, but they were full.

I fortunately got the last affordable place in town. But I would have been much happier if some of the other hosts had charged a small premium. I was almost forced into a luxury listing.
And one day we might even be able to reliably use bookmarks.
You live a far more exciting life than me. Although mine might be more surreal.
For personal use, I've been using LastPass for a few years but have been slowly migrating away from it in recent months. I'm switching to KeePassX which I already use for $work-related data. (I have intentionally avoided the Mono-based applications.)

KeePassX has similar "auto-fill" functionality as well. It's not as perfect or as seamless as LastPass but it is definitely usable (after a bit of one-time per-site tweaking in some cases). Having recently decided that using LastPass presents a non-zero risk, the extra effort I have to spend w/ KeePassX is certainly worth it, IMO.

Although I don't do it now, I have in the past kept my password databases in Dropbox. With Dropbox also installed on my iPhone, I am able to access my password databases use "MiniKeePass" on iOS without any issues.

In addition, there are Windows, Linux, and OS X versions of KeePassX and all of them can open up my .kdb files without any issues.
I'm guessing the best predictor of whether Julia will be the "one language to rule them all", is the difficulty of writing macros in it. If they somehow figured out a way to make writing lisp-like macros in a language with infix notation easy, Julia will easily become the next big thing. Otherwise I would have to say that the trade offs between syntax and macros would make lisp a better choice (see pg's argument for lisp macros[1]).

For someone who has used both Julia and lisp macros, how do they compare?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Broke people have kids that turn out fine all the time.