skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get this all the time on the "suggested connections" page - names and email addresses extracted from my Gmail contacts, but the name is not a link to a profile (on normal suggested connections you can click on the name to see their profiles). I could easily spot those and not request to connect but it can be confusing for non-technical people.

What changed recently is that these fake profiles are also listed as having "shared connections" with me which is hard to believe considering those are not Linkedin profiles at all.
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> "LinkedIn allows you to sign in to your email account and it will scan your contacts..."

Hand my contacts list to a website? No thank you. When is letting a website have this a good idea, not just Linkedin, but ever?
re: your last thought. Google isn't really taking over your SMS messaging in Hangouts as it stands with their current implementation. If you enable "Hangouts SMS" -- it's really just a client side merge of the SMS and Hangouts UI (i.e. SMS does not flow through Google's servers). It just makes it easier to manage SMS and Hangouts conversations side by side through the same app.
Wouldn't it cause the same distress if the deceased person really had had a LinkedIn account? Seems to me that the distress is not caused by the tactics in and of themselves.
Scala has never really competed for the same territory as Java. If there's a language that's endangered by Java 8 it's more likely to be Kotlin.
I use tmux at work to manage at times up to several dozen sessions each with several windows/panes (I make one session for every conceptual task that I take on, and sessions live until I complete the task). In my experience it is much more robust than screen (not as many dungeon collapses, if you know what I mean) and well worth switching to.
Completely agree. I don't actually remember doing it and it's certainly something I do not do any more.

I wasn't quite so security-conscious a few years ago.
"there is no way that can ever go wrong"

I just love this assertion :)
I'm absolutely loving React. The component-based architecture is perfect for making site/apps that contain lots of re-used elements such as widgets. We can pull down JSON from the server and dynamically decide which components to create, passing them their relevant data.

Furthermore, the other thing I'm enjoying is that it's just JavaScript, and updates are done explicitly as opposed to implicitly (ala AngularJS) - coming from Angular, I am really not missing the magic and need to design plugins specifically to work within $digest loops - you can just use normal JS (e.g. SuperAgent, Director, Backbone, or jQuery) and call setState as needed.

It's scary initially because of the "DOM in my JS...wat" part, but once you start breaking stuff down into tiny components, the amount of HTML you actually need to put in your JS is minimal.
Wasn't Trader Joe's the American branch of a notoriously cheap and low quality German supermarket? Is its US reputation really one of more expensive higher quality products?
Silverlight = null
Depends. If you have a ThinkPad with a TrackPoint-style mouse, it's actually really convenient having a mouse in the home row. Hold the middle button and scroll up/down easily.
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That's interesting. I think your decision makes sense, since your french users all speak English and you have much more content in English. In fact it personally irks me when I see reddit's UI in French (for example when I'm not logged in) because I'd rather have the whole site in English than parts of it in French.

In any case I think that if you really wanted to target the French-speaking population, it would be best to have a separate site or at least a clearly separated part of the site.
Oh wow, this explains so much! LinkedIn seems to be slacking with UX across the board IMO. The contacts page is entirely unusable, I have no idea what they were thinking when the built that.
I noticed this and don't like it. I even wrote them a complain through their Help Center and never got a response back. Sad.
The culprit...

Silverlight.WaitForInstallCompletion = function() {
if (!Silverlight.isBrowserRestartRequired && Silverlight.onSilverlightInstalled) {
try {
navigator.plugins.refresh()
} catch (a) {
}

if (Silverlight.isInstalled(null) && !Silverlight.__onSilverlightInstalledCalled) {
Silverlight.onSilverlightInstalled();
Silverlight.__onSilverlightInstalledCalled = true
} else {
setTimeout(Silverlight.WaitForInstallCompletion, 3000)
}
}
};

I've seen this popping up on more and more sites... if you're getting janky performance suddenly on sites that are normally fine this might be the culprit.

I'm on Linux and have never even tried to install Silverlight... looks like they're pretty optimistic about changing that.

Silverlight = null

In JS console == fixed.

That is all, g'day.
Cool, one less glasshole.
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I actually prefer milk chocolate over dark chocolate. And yes, I've had all the good, high percentage cocoa, chocolates from Switzerland, Belgium etc. I like the sweeter, milder taste, and and tired of some of my friends who keep annoying me with this "you're not eating real chocolate". They've turned into chocolate snobs.
I've already said that I believe the most likely thing they are looking for is the wikipedia page. How many times do people actually buy flowers? Once or twice a year? If they are doing it any more often than that, then they shouldn't need to google "flowers" each time....
Sure, that's true. However, 4G is completely patchy across Australia.
Recently deceased is forgiveable. Long-deceased is massively insensitive.

Those suggestions should be restricted to profiles of people recently active that you may know.
I think the best thing here is to let a court of law determine this. Either way, a lot of people got hurt. There has to be some level of culpability for committing a crime.
For more technical searches, Google has become next to useless for me.

Same here. I used to have corrections for java -> javascript but that seems to have been fixed.

Just this morning I tried searching for this:

µC/gui button detach

... "detach" gets corrected to "remove" and "disconnect", resulting in useless links. The top 2 links are general features overview pages.

Which is odd, because googling this:

button detach

results in lots of uncorrected queries for event delegation. You'd think that adding "µC/gui" would narrow the context, but no.
Somebody who read the paper, can you tell us how much was the achieved length change? It doesn't seem that much in the video.
happens with firefox, works with chrome though
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Heat controlled, so you'd need a central heating and cooling reservoir to achieve motion with any rapidity.
US prisons are pretty far away from justice
Microsoft/Hotmail deal normally considered to be at the top end of the price range of pre-bubble acquisitions. I.e. it was really expensive back then too.
> That would be fine except Hershey's chocolate really isn't very good. They use way too much sugar and not enough cocoa to really make it respectable chocolate.

That description sounds a lot like the chocolate milk we drank in Indonesia; it tastes very watered down with added sugar. Totally undrinkable. Chocolate milkshakes were the only way to get something chocolaty, milky and drinkable.

Interestingly, lots of stuff about Indonesia struck me as surprisingly American (for a former Dutch colony in Asia), but I hadn't considered that this could also be true for their chocolate milk.
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I know I'm a bitch for laughing that an article about Linked In inflating its usage figures is posted on Google+.
I use emacs inside tmux all the time (on a Mac, in iTerm2). Works great.
Well, one would hardly consider them beers in the first place.
49%, from the abstract, although this is an extreme in their results.

Quite an impressive application actually. It has quick actuation, large force generation, and large displacements. Typically these "muscle replacements" are lacking in at least one of these and thus make them impractical outside the lab.
He should inform the press and TV networks, that would make for a good story.
It's a misrepresentation; LinkedIn lets you assume a person from your address book already has a LinkedIn account, and that you should connect with her, whereas in fact she doesn't, and your action will result in inviting her into the system.

(Even more difficult to do when she's dead, although it's unclear whether LinkedIn has a way to know the living status of its real users).
I deleted my LinkedIn account last year because I got tired of dealing with spam emails from them and people bugging me to endorse them for skills. I still get emails from LinkedIn telling me someone would like to connect. For a site which is supposed to be about building professional connections I find them horrible to deal with.
Why can't you have both efficient mouse AND keyboard control?

Sometimes your hand is on the mouse and it makes for sense to use it.
Am I the only European who actually likes Hershey's?!

I can't say it's better than Swiss or than Cadbury chocolate, but it's not worse either! It's just a different experience!

...I like the "rugged" and slightly "sour-ish" taste of Hershey's and that fact that it actually fills your mouth with a strong flavor. And that it doesn't just melt instantly in your mouth, but you can actually chew it. And that it doesn't feel like "50% sugar": to me all European chocolates are just too fucking sweet, except for the dark chocolates. But I like milk chocolate that is not so fucking sweet and doesn't just fucking melts in your mouth before you even had the chance to taste it, and the extremely subtle yogurt-ish flavor of the Hershey added on top just makes it perfect to me. Cadbury too has some of these attributes but the Swiss brands taste just wrong to me.

Even if it was a historical accident, to me Europe just misunderstood chocolate (except for the dark high cocoa chocolates that they did get right), and I really hate it that Hershey's is so hard to find in Europe.
Very interesting if this plays out. NSN would have capability to offer full stack mobile networks made all from in house equipment. NSN probably sees this as a tool to fight Ericsson, also Alcatel probably does this already.

On the IP security side Nokia has history in firewalls with their IPSO business, which was sold to Check Point in 2008.
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This is really a large problem, and i wonder why this is not more common today? Is it because Facebook advertising is dying?
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I can't believe I'm saying this here, but just wanted to show that I agree with you, that peoples tastes are subjective and should not be stated as fact. Even if I happen to agree entirely that I find US chocolate disgusting (which I do), I am capable of entertaining the possibility that other people may prefer that taste over European chocolate.

EDIT: As in fact nnq does (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7276196)
Sure the Z80 was simple, then the 68000 on the Amiga was nicer, but at home I only had x86 as 16/32 bit processors.

Eventually one learned to live with those quirks, the same way young developers nowadays learn the C quirks, JavaScript/PHP WTF and so on.

Sadly the best technology is not the one that usually wins mass adoption.
They did some tests at 1Hz for >1M cycles.
Is there an alternative to LinkedIn in that isn't (as) ethically dubious?
The irony wasn't missed. It was just the first place that sprung to mind to write at length on the topic.
Wow, that actually makes it useful, unlike what was shown on the video.
So, yeah, but, like UPDATE can employ a WHERE clause, to apply conditional logic, whereas INSERT, not so much. You insert one record to a table. As long as you know the table? Boom. Done. Oh, but now you'd like to change some records in the table? Well, that's great, but which ones? Tell me where?

I think the whole readable natural language premise is a neat idea, but much in the same way that natural language can be easily complicated, so too, with SQL. Heap abstractions of logic and arithmetic on top, and it gets even worse. But it's still a cool idea. If it works out in your favor, you'll get self documenting code. But alas, there is no floor or cieling to the complexity one can introduce, be it deliberately or accidentally. And not only is it the query itself (or the author) that might over complicate matters. The data schema, defined by the DDL, can easily induce unwanted complexity in subtle ways, and this might be a problem deliberately placed beyond the reach of the person attempting to read or change the data locked within.

As for complaints about parsers, that's not a deficiency of the language. It's a deficiency of the tools used. If the development environment isn't presenting problems to the developer in a convenient manner, then the utility sucks. Get a new one. Don't blame the text-mode clients though. They are just as bare-bones as a command line, and deliberately so. At a certain level, SQL can be regarded the same way a shell script might be regarded, in terms of possessing the convenience of (or lack thereof) a basic TTY command interpretter. But there's no real reason why it should be impossible to create a SQL script authoring tool, which provides syntax validation as convenient as any compiled language might employ, when communicating compilation errors to the developer.
I used to love Hershey's, but then in a trip to Uruguay ("free shops" for brazilians) I found the (until then) mythical Lindt. I have no idea about its market share in US though.
This is not the only underhanded practise from LinkedIn. I've had endorsements from people whom I know haven't logged into LinkedIn for years, including one from my partner who was sat next to me at the time and had even forgotten they had an old account there.
Reminds me of this excellent short story on the kill Hitler time travel theme told through wiki edits.

http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/08/wikihistory
There's a great short story in the style of a forum about not killing Hitler – http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/08/wikihistory
Which came first?

The Hershey's "milk chocolate" recipe or the lax standards?!
Really surprised by all the comments here. This seems like a solid business decision by LinkedIn, riding the line of what a user is willing to accept and balancing it well with the potential rewards.

Look at every famous company and you'll find tactics that you don't agree with, and sometimes downright illegal (Path).

If you're not willing to do desperate things, to do what is necessary for user acquisition, good luck trying to build a successful business, because pure blind luck is exactly what you'll need.

Stuff like this is what really separates successful businesses from the failures. It was never about some grand vision, or some belief in connecting the world. It was about figuring out how to acquire users, retain them, and monetize.
LinkedIn's copy is as misleading as the title of this post. LinkedIn doesn't "increase its user numbers" by doing this, i.e. they don't report these ghost accounts to wall st analysts or include them in userbase statistics. It's simply a question of disingenuous language on their site.
you can scroll just fine in tmux, in fact better because you can search in your scroll back. <c-b>[

as for selecting copying pasting. i use these options

set -g mouse-resize-pane on
set -g mouse-select-pane on

i can now select and resize panes with the mouse, and i can select while holding the option key on the keyboard.

also if you set

setw -g mode-mouse on

you can scroll back with the mouse in the scroll back buffer without having to press c-b[ and it will still properly scroll everywhere else... vim/weechat/etc.

on a mac, iterm2 does this natively(in linux it works anyway). but if you want to use that in terminal or totalterminal(quake term) you'll need to install mouseterm. I recommend using mouseterm-plus as i recall mouse term is no longer maintained.

edit: looks like the link is dead you'll have to build it yourself https://github.com/saitoha/mouseterm-plus
> I don't actually remember doing it

This probably indicates a dark pattern at work ( http://darkpatterns.org/ ) - it was presented as a quick, default and normal action and/or of little consequence, when actually it's quite invasive.

You said that Linkedin would "scan your contacts to see if those people are on LinkedIn" and this is likely what it is presented as, but actually that information might be retained indefinitely and may be used for other purposes that are thought up later. But hey, it's just metadata, right?
The government body:

http://aat.org.uk/

The government subsidises the courses.

I'm currently studying level 2 AAT, I missed out on level one. I believe it goes up to level four which is a hefty qualification. Because I receive jobseekers allowance I was waived on some fees, but I still had to pay for the books and the AAT membership. Overall this came to about £260. The membership must be renewed annually if you want to get a decent position, but it doesn't include the initial administration fee.

Regarding the content, it's mostly double entry. At the beginning of the year we were taught some basic business knowledge, like costing and professional ethics. In a few weeks we start SAGE. If I were to continue into the second year ... just double entry but far more complicated.

> Double-entry is fundamental to accounting, in the same way that memory is fundamental to computing.

I couldn't agree more, but to get an entry level job, say purchase ledger clerk a lot of employers want experience with SAGE more so than paper T-A/Cs. One of my fellow students mentioned someone who works at a fairly high level in accountancy - almost completely ignorant of dub-entry, but was a whizz with SAGE. A look at a lot of job descriptions mirror this sentiment among typical employers. Using SAGE and the like contrasts sharply with the phrases some of my fellow students utter to remember the fundamental rules. My Zen Koan is: Debit the thief's A/C, credit the victim's.
Anyone reading HackerNews qualifies as technically sophisticated, so I'm curious to ask:

- If you gave your email password to Linkedin or Facebook, did you change your email password immediately afterward?

- Are you very confident that Linkedin and Facebook wouldn't retain your password for future use or do some other mischief?

- Would you do the same thing again today?
I like some of the examples they provide, however this is very platform dependent. Some advanced platforms have highly optimized query engines, to where even bad queries can be handled if they are run many times. Expressions can be reordered without the users knowledge and the results will be the same.
There's also plenty of variety in European chocolate. Personally I consider Kitkat among the lowest quality. Personally I prefer stuff like Verkade (no idea how big they are abroad, but they're the giant in Netherland), or Tony Chocolonely's (small but growing fast, pioneered slavery-free chocolate).
I'm not sure how anybody other than LinkedIn knows what they report but in any event I never said they did.

This practice leads registered users to attempt to connect with people who are not using LinkedIn. In effect, LinkedIn uses its user base to spam non-users with requests to create accounts.

The lie (this person has an account already) leads to a potential increase in user numbers via the emails that are triggered by the request to connect.
How did you configure the Command key as Meta? I could never get it to work.
If you're on Windows, ConEmu offers the same functionality. And as a bonus you can also run windows apps inside the terminal window.

Here's how it looks http://i.imgur.com/dEpQYJf.jpg
I think ALL of those leaks should have been prosecuted.

I feel like impeachment would have been a fine option.
http://perlstalker.vuser.org/blog/2012/10/16/emacsclient-and...
The printing API's that I use in the UK seem to be mostly for photos or high quality prints.

There is www.docmail.co.uk/API/ but I've not tested their services so I can't say if they're any good.
Completely tangential, but given all the recent online privacy debates, and the likes of Steam sniffing dns caches etc I actually thought twice about visiting tor.com (having never stumbled across it before).

For reference it's a Macmillan Sci-fi / comic site, not the Tor project, but you all knew that right.

Great link btw.
From their Mission and Core Values:

We operate on the basis of responsiveness, openness, honesty and trust with our members, business partners, employees and stockholders.

I won't quote other parts of it as it would simply hammer home the point - don't openly commit to things like this if your business practices do another.

Just stay quiet.
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I'm extremely lucky to have a good understanding of every step

This is really the key and is the reason that many "makers" stumble when they go from a breadboard to small production. There are a lot of steps and you don't always realize how time consuming they are in aggregate, nor which ones to optimize for.

Something as simple as standardizing your designs on an industry standard family of connectors so you can always be assured of a cheap supply and have common assembly processes can be the difference that keeps your inventory and manufacturing costs in control.

I'm also a small (1-man) shop but I had the fortune to work for a very small company right out of college as an EE. As a result, early on I got a lot of experience in every aspect of the business from concept through design, to manufacturing and marketing. I would hate to have earned all that knowledge on my own dime.
That tmux broadcast trick sounds interesting. Are you able to provide some more details about it please?
Reminds me of http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3116
> Good stuff should be above 57% cocoa.

Replacing cocoa butter with cheaper fats is also a good way to turn chocolate into a crappy chocolate-like product.
You can find plenty of screen shots of HyperCard applications (or rather, "stacks", as they were called) by using Google image search.

But HyperCard wasn't really a visual programming language. Indeed, it wasn't a language at all (the language is called "HyperTalk"). Anyway, HyperCard did allow you to design user interfaces in a slick visual way. But the code is purely text based. You can see example code at the HyperTalk wikipedia page