skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This trend suggests to me that a centralized, trusted "outcry" system would be useful.

It'd be great if I could just add outcry.js, then on outcry.io enable this campaign instead of having to add new banners every time the Internet gets up in arms about SOPA/CISPA/NSA.
Is that true?

The Great Lakes are cleaner now than they were in recent history (I guess if you consider zebra muscles, lampreys and the ongoing dangers of Asian carp that is less true). From the standpoint of industrial contamination things are certainly improving.

Licensing programs have succeeded in increasing fish harvests (that is, given cooperation the number of fish in the ocean can be increased alongside increased extraction).

There are all sorts of situations where the problem is that we aren't doing something we know would work.
This whole thing just seems like an employee misinterpreted a phrase by the CEO and instead of apologizing for publicly calling him out based on the mistaken interpretation doubled down so he could feel self-righteous about his original decision.

If you google "silence as consent" the top results are filled with the parliamentary interpretation and given the context it's obvious that's what the CEO meant. The employee assumed the worst rather than the simplest explanation and made a fool of himself in the process. His heart was in the right place, at least, and had the CEO actually made a joke about rape during a quarterly meeting, calling the CEO out on it may have been a courageous decision that could have changed a toxic company culture. That wasn't the case though and he just threw away his job for nothing.
It also adds another piece of infrastructure that needs to be maintained and can go down. Not necessarily the best option for everyone.
OP here and article author here.

Eh... might have come across as mean-ish, but it's nothing personal against Quip. They just did something I see a lot of companies do, which is gloss over some of the finer points of email engagement.
I doubt many people really want to copy/paste a piece of AGPL 3 licensed code into their website.

Is people "stealing" this code really that much of a concern?
:) some people are using C and openFrameworks which is all cool and hosting it via Compute Engine.
Not to mention when it is that hard to get in it becomes difficult to really test your students.

Thus you end up with graduating from an Ivy League school basically meaning got into an Ivy League school.
this link http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
talks about the application to the torus. It states that it is possible to completely comb the hair on a doughnut. That is the point I was trying to make earlier. I think it does imply that the wind could start blowing in the same direction if we lived on a torus. I think it would be the same if we lived inside like in science fiction movies or if we lived on the surface with a normal atmosphere.
Most resolvers rotate the records in a record set on every query. The main thinking behind this is so that all of the resolver's clients don't just hammer the first IP in a multi-IP recordset. Some resolvers make exceptions to this behavior for MX/NAPTR/TXT records, some don't.
The Social Introducer app
I was about to say the same thing, but I haven't read A Modest Proposal since high school, so I poked around Wikipedia a bit and had lots of fun reading about the kinds of satire.

There's Juvenalian, which "addresses social evil through ridicule" and includes works like 1984, American Psycho, Family Guy, A Modest Proposal, and, I guess, this 67signals thing.

Then there's Horatian, which "playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour" and is a lot of Twain, The Simpsons, Dr. Strangelove, and the Friedisms thing I linked to.

Hard to say what the social evil is that the folks who wrote 67signals say they're fighting against. Possibly success. Possibly some angry comments DHH made when a startup took their code: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/31/this-site-mocks-37-...

(Anyway, apologies for the tangent--I went to a liberal arts school and there's a dusty corner of my brain that still likes this stuff.)
We don't say that, you can use anything you want with the constraint that it needs to use one google tech... For example if it is hosted on Compute Engine that it is a valid entry.
Since you brought it up... Hulu has some of the worst ads I've ever seen. In my geographic region I have to suffer through upwards of three Cricket Mobile ads in an hour long program and they are the WORST. The Geico commercials are pretty bad too - I have a friend who likes them, but he's a cheese ball.
Considering that every single thing we could eat would have an impact on the environment (typically negatively), it's not as simple as abstaining from eating a particular substance.
I'd add more controversy here: if deadline is unrealistic it is ok to miss it and do things the right way.

Deploying ugly piece of shortcut that is going to give you grief for the next 5 years is not worth making for the sake of pulling your skin off to met unrealistic deadline that was created by the layer of clueless management.

Follow your professional intuition of course.
The astounding decline of the ocean's fisheries is an incredibly important issue. But we all know that.

What we all don't know is the solution. What we've got is a classic tragedy of the commons. It's made more difficult due to the international nature of oceanic fisheries - those little guys like to swim around, paying no heed to national boundaries. Plus there's all of that international ocean to police. Who's going to ensure that 3rd world fishermen aren't catching too much tuna, inadvertently killing too many dolphins, etc etc? Is it reasonable to expect the US to police the entirety of the Pacific Ocean's fish stock?

We've seen this play before. And the only practical solution is not something which the leftists here are going to like.

We have to privatize the oceans fisheries. It is imperative. It has to happen now. It has to happen yesterday. Fish stocks are collapsing. Fish stocks have collapsed.

The fisheries have to be delineated by whatever means appropriate (species and/or location, depending upon the migratory/wandering patterns of each fish in question) and auctioned off to the highest bidder. The highest bidder will then have the right to determine how many fish each year/month are harvested, and by whom. The highest bidder can police the fish themselves. If they fail to police the fish, their ownership is revoked and the rights are re-auctioned.

This is simple stuff. It's been done before with other natural resources. We all need to get over our political differences and make it happen.
While I mostly agree with the article, it's a bit short sighted. "Building crap is ok as long as it's done".

Whether you plan to stick around long term matters here. Are you just pumping some crap out at a 6 month contract and don't want to hold up any sprints? This is a good approach. Are you working at some stepping stone type company where you don't really care and are looking for something else?

If you're at a company you love and you plan to be there a while, you really should make a more concerted effort to build better stuff. The shortcuts you take now will catch up with you later. Also Technical debt is a real thing.

Hacking it and "Getting it done" for some hyperactive project manager who doesn't understand tech is fine and dandy for the short term, but if you stick around long enough you'll pay for those sins.
I used Basecamp a few years back. It was neither horrible nor great in my opinion.

But, I don't think the software needs to be bad or they need to mistreat people to be parodied. If you can capture an element of something, then exaggerate it into absurdity. it's parody.

Also not so sure about attributing jealousy or hate as the motive here. I mean, it could be, but I just don't know what's on the author's mind (except that he/she clearly believes some things about the company to be absurd).

But, it does strike me that the only things worth parodying, for the most part, are those that either succeed or that fail in some very public or fantastic way.
Losers Have Goals, Winners Have Systems
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If we can never be judged then you cannot judge those who support our current system of inequality of rights and wealth - they are just acting according to their two variables.
> It should be prefetch_all_keys=False.

It does not prefetch any key (maxkeys is set to 0), it performs a query on the bucket to validate that the bucket exists and blow up if the bucket does not exist. With validate=False, you can call get_bucket and get a bucket object where no remote bucket exists.
Stop thinking of web sites as hypertext documents, and think of them as apps. The solution is to have OS-level scaling that works, or at worst, futz with the video drivers or buy larger hardware. Most desktop apps (at least in Windows) break when you change font sizes, too.
I wasn't going for finely-tuned accuracy; I was making the point that $1500 is not enough to go from never-played-EVE to flying-a-titan. Your numbers make that more true, rather than less.

> Read the full context of their hard up for money comment and it's clear they are using hard up for money to mean rich not poor.

The context was that the titan pilot needs $1500 badly enough that they're willing to sell their character for it. That doesn't mean "rich". "Hard up for money" is not an ambiguous idiom.
I didn't get any sense of meanness.

> It's not optimal to send identical emails to every user, but everybody knows that already.

Do they? I don't think so. The company being discussed doesn't know it (or knows it but doesn't do it), and they're not alone.
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>> While Indian newspapers were over the moon about Nadella’s elevation, with some justification, there is another side to the story we need to consider: why is it that India’s tech and other geniuses flower only in the US or Silicon Valley?

The assignment of Nadella to CEO role appears to be a very smart move from Microsoft board for many reasons:

1) He's not involved into scandalous business decisions as Elop
2) He's internal candidate and been in Microsoft for 22 years
3) He's Ballmer's man, and
4) Ballmer and Gates are still on Microsoft board, so no uncomfortable decisions and surprises for MS board from the new CEO.
5) He's Indian, which brings even more diversity to Microsoft LT.

Given all of the above, I doubt any drastic and revolutionary changes will happen at MS.
Got the british definitions from brief google searches, so take them for what they are worth.

wide - living by wits/hustling ("wide awake"). Probably "hustler", maybe "shyster" or "con man"?

blagging - obtaining/disclosing personal information without consent - maybe social engineering/"conning" in the sense of "con man"/"con artist".
“We’re losing our middle class in Silicon Valley.”

I think the term has been eroded, but historically, white collar was the middle class. Blue collar, white collar, rentiers.
OR You can move from S3 to some cheap servers with lot of data bandwidth.
France 'to make €1bn tax claim against Google'
If you think the Surface tablets are overpriced, then you don't understand why Apple makes so much money when all the other computer companies are failing - profit. Without profit, it's hard to do interesting things.

The Xbox is quite successful, but it's a lot of work to make not a lot of money. Why? The razors and blades concept doesn't work so well as making a 30% margin on a product people really, really want to buy.
>> While whites and Asians are making more money, blacks and Latinos are falling further behind.

What is the author trying to say? The truth is blacks and Latinos need to step it up.

I come from a Mexican-American family, and have ten aunts and uncles. I'm constantly amazed (or is it baffled) with the disparity between each of the grandchildren, even within the same family.

My aunts and uncles all have at least 3, and at most 5 children. Some ended up in prison, some ended up pregnant at the age of 14, some dropped out of high school and some went on to finish college. Most are employed at various levels. But when it comes to which ones are 'successful' and don't have the problems the others have, it basically came down to personal choices they made along the way, and continue to make (the oldest is 42 years old, the youngest are just now finishing high school).

The worst-off grandchildren generally have parents in equally bad situations. But one family has two convicts, a do-nothing, but then a nurse and a teacher. The biggest 'help' seems to be from the parent marrying someone who's from a better situation, but it's not always the case. Only about 5 of the grandchildren are married.

My point is these kids all came from the same schools, same neighborhoods, same families, and some of them managed to make it through while the rest became statistics. Much of the problem is that the majority have all stayed put in this rust-belt city with no jobs and no future.
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So the Internet Defense League [1] do this already, and we'll be distributing the widget through their code as well.

The reason for not doing this natively through the IDL codebase [2] is that we are doing a load of custom stuff that they don't generally support. At some point we'll abstract it all out and add it to IDL though ... generally our Taskforce.is group builds something for a campaign and then reuses the code as much as we can. For example, this project recycles a bunch of code from Project Megaphone [3].

[1] http://www.internetdefenseleague.org/

[2] https://github.com/fightforthefuture/idl-members

[3] https://github.com/tfrce/project-megaphone
Many Pieces of a Puzzle: Target, Neiman Marcus and Website Hacking
Win stuff just for going on-call
Win some stuff for doing your job.
Docker 0.8: Quality, new builder features, btrfs, OSX support
I think we all just take HD for granted these days. Back then everyone was watching everything in SD and we just didn't know any better.
From movie critic Leonard Malton: (4-stars, highest rating) "Spellbinding, senses-staggering nonnarrative film soars across the United States in search of vistas both natural and man-made. Much of the photography is slow-motion or time-lapse (the title is Hopi Indian for "life out of balance"), all of it set to a mesmerizing score by Philip Glass. So rich in beauty and detail that with each viewing it becomes a new and different film. Should be seen in a theatre for maximum impact. Followed by POWAQQATSI and NAQOYQATSI"
Any "insiders" have comments on this? Is this the Chrome team just trying to keep pushing forward, or are they technically sticking to the referenced compatibility guidelines they published?

I'm just wondering if there has been a lack of progress with Shadow DOM and their solution is just go-go-go to get things moving.
So true. Deadlines are the enemy of quality software but if you can push a few deadlines back up front you can build scalable workable stuff later on and it pays off.
Hmm this replaces Vagrant (which I know and like) with a custom script (https://raw.github.com/steeve/boot2docker/master/boot2docker) which I have to learn.

Also running docker on a non-ubuntu host means you're doing it differently than 95% of people out there, so you'll be on your own when it comes to mysterious errors and the like.

In case you're feeling brave, here's an anecdote from just this morning. My colleague ran into a mysql bug on docker he couldn't figure out. Googling the error messsage + "docker" instantly produced this page http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21026790/cant-delete-mysq... where it was explained that by using ubuntu 13.10 instead of 12.04 would make the problem go away... saving us many hours of further debugging. What good would that advice do if we were using TinyCore Linux?
I read it that way, too. Quip is still a young company focusing on product more than anything, going down the rabbit hole of long-tail user re-engagement optimizations would be a waste of time at this point.

I'd go as far as saying that at this point if a "New Features" email isn't enough to get you re-engaged then you aren't the type of user they need to be optimizing for at all. And that goes for basically any startup pre-P/M fit.
... Or they can just add one sentence to their emails explaining who they are. That's much easier than integrating a whole new service.
I've done a bit of development on a 7" tablet and it's kind of painful, even if you're using "just" a text editor (or an IDE like Eclipse with most of the chrome hidden).

At some point you start hitting some physical limits of the human body. At 7" or 8" you can't have a full-size physical keyboard and there are only so many lines of code you can fit onto the screen, and so forth.

Personally (and I do mean this is personal preference and not the One Right Solution For Everybody) carrying around a 3-5lb notebook isn't a big deal because I'm already going to be carrying pen, paper, a few medications, and a charger or two. Even if my main computing device weighed zero pounds I'd still be carrying a small bag.
Do you think all Trans Fats Are Bad? –
> If under total load, with every customer pulling the maximum possible bandwidth simultaneously, Comcast could give you 250Kbps, you want them to sell a product that only gives you 250Kbps all the time just so their advertising will be accurate?

No, their advertising just needs to be accurate! They need to say "250Kbp bandwidth, max peak 20Mb". The real number has to be the lead, not the BS peak number. There's a parallel here to audio amplifiers. Advertising the peak wattage and not the RMS is stupid and deceptive.
> interestingly enough, here's the original commit that defaulted `validate=True`:

It's a commit which specifically added validate to allow skipping validation. If you read the diff, the call originally unconditionally performed the validation call.
The problem with that is that they cannot make Win32 a legacy product.

They tried to do so because you can argue that in the enterprise, iPad can deliver a better Windows experience via VDI than the garbage PCs that dominate the market.

Once I'm delivering a quality Windows experience to my users by turning the client device into a TV, the next step is to further simplify. That expense app? I can use VDI to deliver some awful Enterprise Software via IE9.... or buy a solution with an iOS app! Something like 40% of enterprise users are using a defined set of < 7 PC applications to do specific things. That's easy pickings for a mobile application, and a great way to reduce Microsoft spend -- which is a big black hole in every enterprise org.

The other issue is the channel. If they get real about hardware, they are screwing Dell, HP, Lenovo. That's a symbiotic relationship that generates alot of MSFT business.
There are no sins to atone for, stop feeling guilty.

Live life, mother nature isn't going to flood the earth and destroy everything if you don't accept the saviour into your heart.
The radio shack ad where the 80s calls and wants their store back.
This is because Google are trying to turn Chrome into an app platform to rival Cocoa, while almost every other web player (except Mozilla) has a vested interest in keeping the web a document viewer platform.

The recent arguments regarding Adobe's arbitrary region stuff were very enlightening on this.
First - it's not about elegance. It's really about organizing, arranging, structuring the code so that the brain can handle it efficiently (which in turn gives you the nice properties of maintainability etc.). As a side effect, the brain also perceives it as elegant.

Second - it is not one or the other. It needs to both work and be comprehensible. Delivering "non-elegant" code that works though, is job half done.
Sanjay Jha, former CEO of Motorola Mobility and current CEO of GlobalFoundries, is also not from IIT/IIM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Jha
Dammit! You're right, I'm (very) wrong. (The stackexchange answer I used as a "check" was wrong too. That'll show me.) I was lazily using Gauss's law and ignoring the fact that a torus isn't spherically symmetric.
Indeed, I hope they add the mail option, and get rid of the email option. Too many people will default to it (sending an email is much easier than placing a call) and as far as I recall, most representtatives don't tally "concerns raised via email" like they do for phone and mail (mostly because they have to open their mail, and take their calls, but they can just sit on email forever without the box getting "full.")
I don't know enough about food, water, antibiotics etc. but I do know a lot about finance, especially US based finance. Here are the issues that will be hugely pressing and very difficult to solve in the next 10 years.

1) Retiring baby boomers have no savings, retirements and no plan for retirement. Over the next 10 years, a lot of people will be entering retirement age in the US with no plan for surviving. Demand for government services will increase dramatically, many people will be very upset when they find out that they barely have enough money to eat.

2) Student loans should cause a drag on the economy as many, many young Americans will be pressured by paying nearly 10% of their income (which represents a much larger percentage of disposable income). Savings rates will be negatively impacted as well.

These two issues have no known solution and will both be huge underlying issues facing Americans in the next 10 years. They are certain, not hypothetical.
Seneca's essays aren't terribly long, either.

http://www.amazon.com/Stoic-Philosophy-Seneca-Essays-Letters...
the Pruit Igoe music has been repurposed for a number of other films. You will hear it a lot in the Watchmen adaptation. Also visually, this film basically invented the city-as-a-circuit-board visual metaphor.
A recent interview with Godfrey Reggio (the director of Koyaanisqatsi), http://www.singularityweblog.com/godfrey-reggio-koyaanisqats...
How Josh James landed $125 million in funding from his hospital bed
What counts as "linking against a library" for JavaScript code?
Can someone explain why we do not see the "us vs. them " in NY/NJ/CT. I used to live in LI , where a lot successful Wall Street Bankers lived and never once did I hear about this kind of resentment. I am just puzzled .
Chromium is mostly free software, but it's sketchy enough territory that afaik no fully free GNU/Linux distribution packages it.
Here's the reply: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Feb/0138.h...

the money quote: "We feel the
standard is sufficiently advanced, the remaining issues sufficiently
small, and the benefit to authors sufficiently great to justify
shipping sooner rather than later."

the Shadow DOM is pretty awesome, so I'll agree with the "benefit to authors sufficiently great" part. No comment on the rest.
I really hated working with boto for s3. The abstractions they chose are really ambiguous and it feels like it's fighting against the underlying api. If you're building anything on top of s3, it might be easier to write a thin S3 REST client and use it directly instead of going through Boto. So many fewer surprises, and no more digging around in the boto source trying to figure out what so and so function actually does.