skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a minimum, I hope that this means that when violations are exposed, the violating entity is in turn treated as a single, opaque unit it has sought to be: Criminal prosecution for all its members and investors, and fine and jail time for all.

Live by the sword, die by the sword...

This sounds extreme, but I've about had it with such people who want to "have their cake and eat it, too". If you are an ethical, well-run business, your own employees communication as well as your interface with the public keep you honest and efficient.

If you play a part in insisting that all this be "swept under the rug", then you should de facto play a part in paying the consequences. Whether or not you were individually, directly involved.
And how is that blind adherence?

More specifically, please characterize what makes something "blind adherence" vs. "adherence" in general. When can I say that someone blindly adheres to vegetarianism? When can I say that someone blindly adheres to a support of representational democracy?

Going back to the topic, how does that blind adherence prevent someone from being an out-of-the-box thinker of any sort?
Don't rely on that ;)

Ruby 1.9.3

> (1==1).object_id
=> 2

> (1!=1).object_id
=> 0
> Is this hostile to users who need custom CSS for accessibility?

Its just plain hostile to users. Accessibility is just one of the many ways it is hostile to users. (Generally, the designer-centric app-ification of the web which has been going on for since commercial interests other than those whose interest was in selling access to the internet first discovered the value of the internet to reach the public is user hostile, and this is just part of it.)
Your sloppy writing doesn't help.
Sadly, gox.com may be a nice three-letter domain name, but you'll have to depreciate it on the same schedule you'd use for a barrel of cesium 137. Nobody is going to want a piece of that action for a long time.
As I said a few weeks ago, RIP Moto X and G and their line.

I was about to pick up an X; I'm left wondering whether I can now count upon a couple of years of good support.

--

P.S. I see the article mentions Kutcher having signed on in October. If so, that would be at a point where the generally unliked ThinkPad redesigns were already done and locked, I'm guessing.

If so, then I don't want to unfairly blame him. If you're reading this, Kutcher, please spend some time looking over comments here and on Reddit (amongst others) about the dissatisfaction with what has been happening to this line that has been a longstanding mainstay of many developers and other technical people.

If you want our trust, maybe your celebrity can gain enough attention from Lenovo management to at least consider keeping one or two lines of "traditional" ThinkPad design. Those of us who really want/need it will pay something of a premium for it. It might not be a big revenue line, but it should be capable of remaining net positive. And it would gain back a lot of good will from people you seem at least in your words to value.
Another point is that evidence of significant tx-mal can't be found on the block chain prior to Feb 9 [1]. Now, it's possible that the search wasn't thorough enough, but I find that unlikely. Any reissued transactions must have occurred within a very short period -- a couple of weeks in February -- that could have been attributed to malleability.

[1] http://www.righto.com/2014/02/the-bitcoin-malleability-attac...
Mt. Gox's Homepage in 2011
Downvote... apparently people don't like being reminded of income inequality.
>> Mac laptop, Windows tablet, Android phone. My digital ecosystem is confused.

Is it though? I know a lot of pundits like to use the phrase "Post-PC", but I think of it more like "Post-OS". I am in the exact same boat as you, except that I have a Nexus 7 in addition to my Surface Pro.

Contrast that to 2010, when iOS was much more compelling at the tablet and phone level. Android, Windows Phone and Windows have pretty much caught up, and I love how all this competition has created consumer choice. I can pick the device that best suits my use case for computing, tablet and phone.

In 2010, I was all-in on OSX, iPad and iPhone. Today, just like you, I'm using three OSes. Moving data between the devices is painless. In my mind, there's really no need to go all in with a single company's ecosystem any more.
Typical scenario:
- layoffs for short term EPS
- current pipeline continues momentum for a bit
- CEO gets credited with great success... and moves on to the next company
- then the "oh shit" moment, when the lack of personnel becomes apparent

Some CEOs are like locusts. Moving from company to company for a short term frenzy, then moving on to the next.

I hope this is not happening here.

Personally I do not quite follow the current mentality of only thinking about the "shareholder value".
If a company is just break even, it still pays earning the livelihoods of its employees. That should count for something - but of course is doesn't because investors can make more money elsewhere.
Extensions are not a much better way of doing what CSS is designed to do as its normal mode of operation. Requiring extensions to do this is user-hostile.
similar to what university you choose. (only i didn't figure that out until much later.)
IMO: Neither iOS or Android really nail what a touchscreen could be. The Surface Pro seems to be the closest real step in this area.

But I'll pass on buying it - it's spendy and I don't have any other Windows tech to interop with it.
Supercomputer-generated weather animation
Plus, I was under the impression that one of the major reasons why US-based people still had accounts on MtGox was that it was so difficult to get USD out. It's not like they were winning customers before. A great deal of them were just locked in and couldn't leave.

I'm a little unclear on that, myself. I don't understand the idea of holding someone's bitcoins hostage. As a depositor at MtGox, couldn't you just send the bitcoins out to another exchange or to your own wallet? What would possess someone not to do that at the very first hint of a liquidity problem?

I'm probably missing something rather fundamental but I don't see how these clowns ever had any genuine control over anyone's coins. Transferring them should always have been an option.
There are doubtless plenty of reasons, but discussing them would seem to be substantially less a waste of time than answering obvious questions that weren't asked. Particularly since at least one person doesn't seem to understand them.
This is a terrible question so I'm not going to answer it, but if you are interested in reading about the corrupt history of Myrtle Beach (and the greater Grand Strand area) I strongly recommend Will Murdock's Banana Republic: A Year in the Heart of Myrtle Beach. http://www.amazon.com/Banana-Republic-Heart-Myrtle-Beach/dp/...
When you calibrate, you also need to make sure you hold the pen vertically. Even after the more detailed calibration, you'll get a few minor issues, but it's way better than the 8 point calibration.

Landscape vs Portrait will also cause issues, because the angle of the pen is different, and causes tracking issues. It's imperfect, but I still love how good the pen is on the Surface compared to all the tablets that don't have a Wacom digitizer.
I don't refactor with fear in my Rails apps since they have pretty good test coverage. I'm not saying it's perfect, but I've never had slow development because I wanted to refactor in this context.
Pretty sure that's the Insert key that turns on "overtype".
Obviously.

What I'm saying is if they continue to improve their tablets at their current rate it will be to their benefit because other manufactures (i.e Apple) have been slacking in the specs department as of late. If this keeps up Microsoft will be able to close that gap.
What plus operator did Google remove? Are you referring to the adjacent sibling selector? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Adjacent_si...
WhyNotTheBeach.com? Answer:

* The first link in the list of what you "offer" is broken
* Hurricane Hugo
* Hurricane Hazel
Sadly, no. Neither http://reminderhero.com or http://surveylitics.com are profitable. And that's not because of high costs - it's because of a lack of sales and customers :)

I think I need more appealing landing pages and better web design in general.
Sorry, I meant "blue collar workers" which we unfortunately have come to expect as victims of gentrification.

EDIT: Disarmed previously snarky response.
If an opinion echos the line pushed by propagandists and PR firms, would you be more likely to be skeptical of it? Would you start looking for the polished turd, the pig with lipstick on? After all, if nobody was influenced to parrot those lines, the PR firm would find itself out of business.
XML, Schemas, XML-RPC, SOAP and Thrift were all invented to solve those things. It got to verbose, so JSON was created to make thing simple again. If we add back all the staticness, we'll end up where we started.
Unfortunately, there really are dedicated and heavy operations by government organizations and corporations to try and sabotage debate. These operations are well recorded, especially corporations such as Microsoft and Samsung who are well known for it. It's just a fact of online forums. Of course, it's also a fact that a lot of people obviously hold diverse opinions. It is just plain impossible to be able to reliably tell the difference between astroturfing, trolling and genuine opinions.

Honestly, the best solution is simply to state your argument and leave as back and forth debating is generally useless. This applies in both the case where you are arguing against someone who appears to be astroturfing and where you are in the position of having an unpopular opinion. You're just wasting both your time and others with pointless arguments. HN is pretty good on this point by having that 'deep thread cooldown'.
HTML Plays Pokemon – a TPP clone with less than 1s lag
That's a rather small "except", as I wrote "My own practice is to have good, automated tests, but these don't get put into place until the cost/benefit ratio makes the tests worthwhile; which is rarely at the start of the code development and always by the end." The difference between you and me is "some tests first" vs. "rarely do tests come first."

The useful skill I think should be practiced more often is of breaking code. Take a code base and find out where it doesn't scale, where it core dumps, where it sits in an infinite loop, or where it lets you write read and write arbitrary files to the file system.

It's pretty fun, but it's a mindset contrary to that of most programmers, who are optimistic and goal oriented, rather than pessimistic and defensive like me.

In my essay I'll ask for pointers to public projects developed in full red-green-refactor style.

Cheers.
(I have no idea what your technical expertise is like; please don't take offense to this.)

Have you noticed whether the blinking cursor has changed from a vertical line to a block? If it has (or, maybe, even if it hasn't, depending on OS + other factors), it's possible you've accidentally hit the "Insert" key on your keyboard, which toggles whether text is inserted or overwrites other text.

It's an ancient feature that very few people consciously use any more and still results in the occasional call in to our shop from a bewildered client.

Hitting the "Insert" key again should fix the problem next time.
Actually, it was Bush, via a consultant from Fox News, that changed the language from "global warming" to "climate change." (No joke.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#Global_warming
Sorry for not being clear. I meant the + operator for searching. I've edited my post to be clearer.
Can't figure out if this turn of phrase originates outside of the Laurie Anderson song Let X = X. Were you quoting it?
To say that tech companies have bottomless pockets actually shows that you have a fundamental understanding of the problem. Since you don't live in SF, I'll chalk that up to you buying into the media hysteria and not really knowing how life has been here over the past little while. People have always been predicting about how basic services will stop functioning because the workers will be unable to afford it, and it just won't happen. There will always be people to pick up the work.

In terms of tech companies having bottomless pockets, tht's simply nonsense. Startups can't afford to keep up paying Google-like wages (~200k/yr + $100k/yr in RSUs). And just like the dotcom boom, there will be a reckoning when "promising" startups don't get bought up by Google or Facebook, and their investors start fleeing en masse. Then, as people start moving out of the $5000/month 2 br condos in Mission Bay (as one of my friends were actually paying), prices will drop. It's just the nature of the beast.
In a world of A, B, and C players, Jobs was an A+++ player; you can probably count them on one hand.

How can we distinguish this statement from Jobs-worshiping woo? It feels like the truth, but we 21 century thinkers now know that that's not nearly enough to take something as actually being true.

Basically, this subscribes to the 19th century "Great Man" theory of history. I think there is something to Steve Job's insight, but he was also around in the right place at the right time.

There is a lot to be learned from hanging around a scene which is a little outside the mainstream experience, like music. If you get a little behind the scenes in a music scene, you'll find that there are a lot of people just as talented or even more talented than the stadium tour headliners, but didn't have the same strokes of good luck and/or weren't as good at marketing themselves.

The problem I have with applying "Great Man" theory to Steve Jobs, is that it tends to blind us to what he did right and what he didn't get right. Steve Jobs was very perceptive and had a demonstrated track record showing that he could analyze products in the marketplace from first principles.

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html

Steve Jobs most certainly was a great man. However he wasn't a god, he didn't possess an unknowable magic, and the harm to Silicon Valley done by people who blindly imitate his surface qualities in the hope of somehow receiving the same "cargo" is, I suspect, disturbingly large.
Would be nice, however it's current processor is decent enough and including an i5/i7 would likely sacrifice battery life.

Maybe when Windows 9 is released next year something like that would be available.
Yep, availability of current games probably plays a role. Though the Mac App Store does show a pretty good selection of games.
You Don't Roll Your Own Crypto
"We were all of us entrepreneurial"

All is a strong word. I was more #hack, but also spent time in #!r00t and the two communities overlapped a bit (tim(al), etc). I was terribly non-entrepreneurial back then. I ported the original iss.c to SunOS and Solaris but distinctly remember telling kewpie that a business around this would never fly. This is one example (of a few quite notable ones) of why people should not take business advice from me.

All that aside, yeah, this smacks of mostly post-hoc fallacy to me as well.
drpgq might have been thinking of this (Seems to match you described as well):

IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe as 'slaughter' and 'massive' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7223582
True. I was being maybe a little pedantic.

Accidentally toggling Sticky Keys is fairly common, and also causes beeping on keypresses.
> -The user-stylesheet feature requires the user to put a CSS
stylesheet in the right location in their user-data-dir.
Extensions are a much better way of doing this.

Uh ? Why remove that feature ? It's not buggy, unmaintainable or resource hungry.
"So, the supply-demand equation is very real, and at some point, prices will abate."

Only if demand goes down or supply goes up. The dotcom bust was an example of demand going down, but I don't see that it had anything to do with the high price of housing.

"Nothing goes up forever."

I don't think you can count on anything going up forever, but I'm not sure I would want to bet too heavily on any particular thing not going up forever - particularly when you consider that something could "go up forever" while having a horizontal asymptote.

Note that I'm not saying nothing else can solve the problem - another decline in tech certainly would - but for it to be the high prices that solve the problem requires those high prices be able to motivate useful behavior.
I'm the same way. But I found that the Surface was, compared to the iPad, not as nice for tablet-y things like reading PDFs. And when I wanted to get real work done, the screen was smaller than any 13" or 15" laptop. Using it with a larger display connected was confusing because you couldn't always take advantage of the pen or move seamlessly from one screen to the next. And I missed the Mac's Terminal app -- PowerShell doesn't have tabs.

So don:'t get me wrong, I kept the surface, but my dream tablet is 13-15" with a pen that runs OneNote on Mac ;-)

Oh and for Android dev, turn off Hyper-V and install Intel HAXM to speedily use Intel simulators. That said, for testing on device, it's really fast with Android, no signing issues as with iOS, though they're easily overcome too.
Our side project (http://grabaperch.com) became our main source of income in January 2013 however it took almost four years to get to that point. Perch was profitable if you didn't take our salaries into account after 24 hours, in that it was paying for it's own expenses. However for it to become the entirety of our business was a much longer road.
Mt. Gox to Open Call Center for Disappearing Bitcoin Questions
I'm not sure the companies moving there think "good employees" can want to own a home or have children.
I'm not sure what your concern is here. What makes you assume these people live in the city?

While the cartoon is cute, One of two things will happen:

1. The service will decline, people will complain, and the salaries will increase until they are enough to live in the city, or attractive enough to someone to commute.

2. The service won't decline, because these people were not living in the city anyway.

Most of the police officers i knew for DC, for example, lived in the suburbs of Maryland (a 1 hour commute).

I doubt most teachers in the bay area were living in SF, they were priced out of the market a long time ago.
I believe you have to have about 500 karma to downvote comments.
For me it was: Karma = 500, the number might change over time.
The current CEO has been at IBM for 33 years while the previous one had been there for 39 years... So no, these CEO don't move on to the next company.
FYI - @comex created this using browser side emulation (gba.js)
Buses don't require a lot of capital, which is why there are tech company shuttle buses and not tech company train lines. It would make sense to make public buses work better (more dedicated lanes, more expresses, and so on).

Also, tech companies are already outsourcing shuttles to contractors. Those contractors could run other lines if someone were willing to pay them.

If it made sense for the tech companies to pay the city to run buses then they probably would. The question is how to provide better service while serving the general public.

I wonder if a company like Uber would eventually start running buses?
At the very least, I wish people would stop comparing downloading movies and music from the internet as stealing.

Games released via Steam have shown evidence that when a singleplayer game is unavailable as a torrent for free, then people will pay for it. The counterargument to this is that most people who torrent wouldn't pay for it anyway. But I assert that there is a third class of people: those who first check to see if it's available for free, and if not, pay for it. Whether these people constitute a significant portion of revenue is an open question, but it's hard to classify their actions from a moral standpoint as something other than stealing.

The closest classification other than "stealing" would probably be "sampling." I've often been frustrated at an inability to try out a certain kind of dev tool before buying it outright, and their free version is usually missing features which I really need to test. But there needs to be a large-scale study as to whether people really behave this way normally, or if they just take what they can get for free. Unfortunately it's difficult to find an unbiased source of funding for such a study, so the resulting research paper would probably be slanted in one moral direction or the other instead of presenting the raw data.

It's not an easy question to answer. I think technological capabilities will decide how companies will behave, because those who don't accept reality will go out of business.
On Consecutive Numbers in Lottery Draws
I think Mt. Gox is doing this just so they can say they tried to help the customers. But at the end of the day, this call center won't really help much with helping people retrieving their bitcoins.
Born in France, so he speaks French.

Involved with the internet, so he speaks English.

Lives in Japan, so he speaks Japanese.

This is not impressive.
A "rich range" of anything is contrary to the spirit of JSON. JSON became popular in part because it was a much simpler contrast to technologies like XML that provided a "rich range" of everything.

Leaving it unspecified means that JSON as a format is capable of arbitrary precision, without requiring that implementations carry around bignum libraries if their particular application doesn't need them.
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Gox also mentioned a lot of stuff before it went dark with everyone's coins. Something obviously went horribly different than planned.
If Apple doesn't do it, I will. My own lock screen
I like the ring-shaped indicator around people's avatars to indicate not only that they're typing, but how much they're typing.

Interesting, but might be a little creepy in practice, I'm not sure.
How is Computer Architecture(CA) differs from Computer Organisation(CO)?
Common Belief (may or may not be true)

CA= Hardware Prospect ; CO= Software Prospect

CA: to be studied by electronix enggs. ; CO: to be studied by programmers
Might as well fire everyone and sell everything then. Maximum shareholder return!
Turns out "superior browser" is subjective. Firefox has great developer tools (the built in ones, not to mention Firebug). Firefox syncs nicely (and doesn't spy on what you sync). Firefox is easy to use.

For the vast majority of users, none of this stuff matters. What matters is brand recognition and stuff "just working". In-built Flash probably helps Chrome's case.

It doesn't matter which browser is "winning", the vast majority aren't picking which browser to use based on features. If Chrome is the "superior browser", why is IE dominating in market share?
Gorgeous is a little bit of an exaggeration. It looks nice, but I think it fails to reach "gorgeous."
Probably an attempt at ensuring the properties you're about to add will apply to this and only this element and not any element of the .my-element class.