skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if I'm a gifted salesman who's hit upon those methods by chance and paying attention, that's fine, as long as there's no Science?
From the article:

> “Dell Configuration Services, including the application loading service, ensure customers have a complete, ready to use product when it arrives,”

How do they not get it this badly? Customers expect a complete and usable product just by purchasing it. Paying extra to ensure it is "ready and usable," is nonsense. Is this really what Dell thinks their customers want?
It was something they only ever rolled out experimentally to a few users as far as I know. Having worked on a relatively popular social network before the reason they did it made perfect sense to me. A lot of people are really willing to buy in to the idea that they'll get some special treatment if they say a magic incantation into a thing they don't understand.

Just look at those "Forward this email or Bill Gates will kill MSN/sell your children/make the moon landing fake!" things that used to go around. People fell for them.
The side effect of sexual dysfunction is sometimes used therapeutically - for example, citalopram (an SSRI) is also prescribed to treat premature ejaculation.
I agree when read literally (pardon the pun). However, I think the point is that this is a beta product and features are limited; thus the term 'literally' is used ironically in this case.
> you greatly reduce their inclination to do so by making it their personal fault.

AirHelp should really include Hans Rosling’s video on how blaming yourself really improves service. I swear, I remember him explaining that in one of his speeches (he usually talks about developing countries). I can’t find it back, but he is perfect at it.
I didn't spend a dime on SAT prep and I did reasonably well (good enough to get into Caltech).
Would it be possible to use something like an attiny2313 or even an attiny45, do the job of handling the reed switch data and then delegating the rest of the logic to a central server? I would think you'd get the most power savings that way.
I'm glad you like it. I plan on it being mostly a game of discovery, exploration, and collection. I plan on there being several hundred species of plants, animals, and insects each with their own special use within the game. I want the world to feel very alive and dynamic, obviously I'm not there yet but thats the goal. :)
> You have to neglect things if you intend to get what you want done. There's no question about this.

—Richard Hamming
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
Central nervous system depression (what alcohol causes) is not the same thing as clinical depression (what anti-depressants aim to treat).
Yeah, I'm not wed to a particular number... I'm just observing that larger numbers seem to make it more intuitive than, say, 3 doors.
Why don't you say what you believe?

I have read a lot of international coverage of this situation, but the international news coverage is so different thn USA news.
According to the stackoverflow link, it appears to be a soak test on certain accounts. If you aren't affected (or if you have developer tools on) it will likely not do this.
They still don't seem to know what happened. That is not good.
Except...I'm not?
I don't see exactly how it is a concern for Netflix, but sadly "self-XSS" is real on Facebook. Not among us tech-savvy people obviously, so consider how much you look from inside a bubble.

If people read of a "h4x0r trick to read their bf/gf private messages", they will execute it. And hey, "it has this l33t keyboard shortcut that will make a strange window pop up, it must be what the hackers in the movies use!!". And then "Oh well, thanks to this friend of mine for sharing this cool trick that gives me the stuff to paste there, I would not know how to use it!". And finally "Booooo, Facebook sucks, my account got hacked".

I remember of the internet making fun of a girl that believed to be enrolled in some secret police because she popped up the Dev console. Well, that is just normal people, not uncommon.

I trust that actual developer can find their way around blocks and warnings, that however raise the bar for social engineering.
the alternative is "don't negotiate with terrorists"

but given that Netflix got where it is today on the back of our broken copyright system, I don't for see that happening anytime soon.
It's easy just stop using Facebook
Opposite is also true: I have nothing to do, let me call a meeting a blowhard.
Is it really any more resource intensive to inspect a header vs a url? Why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurion suggests currency has some common features.
That seems to be a plausible suggestion.
Thanks
Honestly I would rather Dell try to charge me to install extra crap than install it without asking/charging on the assumption that I want it (or more accurately, on the assumption that I won't be annoyed enough by it to pick a different vendor in the future).
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Aye, in AngularJS we often use

var serviceInterface = {};

// a bunch of code for the service/factory/provider

return serviceInterface;

I personally think of services/factories/providers as "implementation details" which I group as "client-side services". "Services" in this phrase does not have the same meaning as "service" in Angularese, and this helps me think more clearly more often than not about how my code relates to my goal, so "serviceInterface" is really a shorthand for "clientsideServiceInterface".
This is slightly tangential:

I'm a big fan of A Levels (my experience in late 90s) because of the depth they can bring. Between the ages of 16 and 18 I was exposed to group theory, n dimensional linear algebra, (basic) proofs, curvature, complex numbers, various series and convergence. It was very eye opening. And the same is true of virtually all disciplines. The insight into a discipline A Levels gives, at a quite young age, cannot be achieved with a broad syllabus where depth is diluted.
Your relationship example is more about dependency or addiction which you see in game reward techniques to keep players leveling up. Standard fare where there's a subscription model.

This is the other side; more fraudulent than evil. He summed it up in the first paragraph; make it so the player has insufficient information to make an informed [investment] decision.
Thanks, I only have slight reading knowledge of the subjects (mostly Wikipedia, then following the sources at the end of the page). I've never done DMT or Mescaline though they seem fairly similar in affect, but extremely different in intensity and duration. My days with psychedelics have been few and far between for a while, though I'm sure there are others on here who have experimented heavily with these. I recommend checking Reddit too for a more diverse intellectual, social, and experience set regarding these types of chemicals.
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If I was on a college admissions committee, I'd take into account ESL status when comparing verbal scores from one applicant to the next. It only makes sense.
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Perhaps you didn't give money to Princeton Review or Kaplan, but I'm guessing you didn't walk home barefoot to abusive parents in Louisiana either.
You can specify '-c' to require interactive confirmation from the agent before signing the key, but not all ssh agents (gnome's keyring, for a prominent example) support this, and will silently ignore it.
I use to work for a small OEM that primarily serviced local (quarter of the state or so) school districts and small businesses. Often the customers would request that we flash the computers with an image that they provided. Basically meant that we could go to the school in the evening, install the computers in all the different computer labs, and the next morning those computers would boot and be ready to go.

Obviously there was a good deal of trust required there, but for organizations with moderately sized computer orders (10 to 300 typically) but small IT staffs, it made a lot of sense. Larger schools typically requested the machines with clean images which would be promptly wiped by their staff.
The only question I recall from my SAT required knowledge of the recipes for various alcoholic drinks. I thought that was a bit unfair as I was well below drinking age, so why would I know that stuff? I'm sure I got that one wrong.
So, I as a user see the remember me option ONCE, and it's only the first time I check out with stripe, right? Then in theory I go to some other site and it increases conversion on site b because it pre-fills my saved CC info, etc. It seems plausible that change will increase conversion on the second site, but as appears to be the case anecdotally, the change can decrease conversions on the first site. Seems like this could be painful for a site with one-time sales. Could it instead be a dialogue that pops up with clear stripe branding that asks if you want to remember the card for future visits on the web and explains what it is?

We roll our own stripe forms, so this hasn't caused us any issues. Knew that checkout was not something we would use for this reason.
This is a really neat concept -- I always thought it was a bit arcane to sign up for disparate services (Fitbit + SumAll for tweet data) with no way to correlate them.

The only odd part is the backer model: unless they have over 1,000 users on the waiting list who have committed to buying it, it seems like they should have a prominent button to pay and start using it somewhere, rather than email invite.
Hope they add support for the Narrative Clip. That would be quite a cool dashboard.
Why can websites disable use of the developer console? That seems like a critical security bug,.
You know, there's a time and a place for quiet reflection. If the author needed time to reflect, he should go for a walk — alone, not go to a party.

I'm a shy introvert, but I see this fellow's problem a mile away: he needs to get better at saying no to people. Sure it's important to be present for social functions, and there's an art to "making an appearance" that is just part of playing the game. But if you're consciously aware that you should be somewhere else... GO.

A room full of tech geeks will get this. Actually, they most likely won't notice that you're leaving. That particular neurosis is rooted in ego: part of you wants someone to notice that you're missing, so that you can be not just doing something important but be a hero about it.

Deep down, we're all frequently irrational in similar ways.

"I don't want to be alone, but I want to be left alone." - Stephen Fry
Humans aren't things[0].

Les choses sont contre nous.

—

[0]: http://synapses.co.za/report-on-resistentialism/
But bad for actually keeping jobs, so she wouldn't stand to gain much, would she? Sigh.
> Or am I reading it incorrectly ?

You're reading it incorrectly. It's saying that the number of certain deaths is the same, whether it's phrased as "400,000 deaths" or "saving 200,000 people".
Stanford has to protect the integrity of their program, and I'm sure one of the biggest concerns was discouraging future applicants from lying.

If they let him keep his degree, they're sending a message that as long as your lie holds up for a couple of years, it's all good.
Nicely found. I was trying to look up the paper, but the article had named the wrong journal - shoddy journalism indeed.

Full text here if anyone fancies a read: http://ge.tt/55GwqzO1/v/0
just a reminder that they still control the license and can do anything with it whenever they want. if you can find something that's "free" under creative commons, I would still do that instead.

http://search.creativecommons.org/
You have a bit flipped in 2^6, it should be 2^6 oz = 64 oz
Of course, that isn't a defense for disabling the developer console (which should be considered a critical security issue): all of those were as stupid and immoral and indefensible as this.
Great to see others are doing this too! I like your solution, very cool. I have some of those digispark boards but decided to go in a different direction making a standalone sensor board that transmits its sensor data to a hub for pushing to the cloud. There are tons of ways this could be done. The way I describe here worked best for us and achieved my goals for it.
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When everything is tradable, the influence of something bad could propagate.
Many families of uCs (e.g. MSP430) are extremely power-efficient. Power consumption is dominated by the radio; the fewer packets the better.
> The ideologically driven 'but the web should be oooopen' argument won't go far.

lmao, which site am i on again?
Nailed it. At least in my day, tactics were the most important factor in standardized test (SAT, GRE) scores. You could draw some tables to solve the logic puzzles, and skim the "reading comprehension" BS looking for keywords based on the questions. The only thing that took serious cramming was vocabulary.

That said, SAT prep is a great way to separate rich, anxious parents from their money, given that in NY (where else...) tutoring companies charge up to $800/hr.
People with depression do not generally have low serotonin levels, and it's unlikely low serotonin is the cause of chronic depression. If it was, serotonin agonists would be effective much faster than the 4-8 weeks they currently take. There's some evidence that increased serotonin levels modulate glutamate after about 4 weeks, and glutamate antagonists like Ketamine are effective on depression more rapidly than serotonin agonists (as quick as 40m in some studies).

Also the depression effect of alcohol is completely different to chronic depression, any mood effects you feel during a hangover are likely related to reduced dopamine.

Sleep is very important though, and, in Australia at least, melatonin is commonly prescribed for sleep issues that have a psychiatric cause.
The socioeconomic correlation isn't a bias - it reflects the reality that a poor childhood leaves you less prepared to do well in college. Erasing that effect without fully erasing the causes of the effect is a cover-up that defeats the purpose of the SAT.

Making the test harder to hack by acquiring shallow knowledge (like memorizing "SAT words" without actually being well-read enough to have seen or used them before) is a good thing, because it will make the test a more accurate predictor of the applicant's general level of knowledge. But simply making those test-prep tools more affordable and easier to find will only have the effect of compressing the distribution of scores, making the SAT a less discriminating test in the technical sense and thus a less useful measurement.
Reminds me of playing games like R-Type in the arcade as a kid. When you died you had about 5 seconds to decide whether to continue or not.

Continuing was always the wrong choice as you would find yourself on the hard level with level 1 weaponry.
Unfair Mario
so obsessed lately with these Mario spinoffs
I did exactly this for my home light, I connected the Arduino as a USB peripheral to my home server and use a PIR sensor and a photoresistor to turn lights on/off when it's bright/dark/I'm home/I'm away. It works very well.

Partial writeup: http://www.stavros.io/posts/control-rf-devices-with-arduino/
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I totally agree. There are definitely some more things like this that I could have done to reduce power further and use normal external interrupts. I was going for more of a general purpose sensor board though and wanted to keep it minimal. I could also have used the HIGH and LOW level interrupts on those pins and just change which it triggers on every time it triggered. But I decided to go with the WDT.
But by specifically focusing on the SAT questions aren't you not focusing on the fundamental skills, but rather the specific of how they show up in the SAT's?
Great to hear it! Don't worry about sales & hosting platform; Softcover supports custom domains, so you're never locked in. You could switch your domain over to your own website at any time. I just know from experience what a pain it can be, so we figure lots of people will be happy to pay a small percentage in exchange for the convenience of not having to build and maintain everything yourself.
I know and have met the author of this blog as they used to own a business that organized developer conferences, published books, and a monthly magazine. If I had to hazard a guess, after many years of cat herding developers (many of whom do fit the profile you describe), Marco is enjoying a respite from humans and enjoying getting back to the relative simplicity of coding.
My point was that if they consider their installation service something that makes their product "ready and usable," then it should not be an optional charge.

(And in the end, isn't it just choosing a different disk image in their configuration system? Hardly a 'service.')

I would want Dell to sell me a computer that they would be happy and proud to use themselves. Not try to fill up my shopping cart with optional extras, deals, and crap.
Let me know what you guys think so far and if you have an account feel free to follow me!
Love the writing style of this post. He may be in an introvert but he's a damn good writer!
The double entendre of "goes to his head" in that quotation is pretty amazing — it has both descriptive meaning as something of which intellectualizing occurs and also contrasts the heart and the ego, suggesting that the ego sits in the intellect.

Very good.

What I'm getting at here is that this idea of Mandela's also applies to samewise monolingual speakers — as we each have our own idiolect, so far as descriptivist linguists are concerned.

Double very good.
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2 years ago I was struck by a car which resulted in a TBI that I still deal with from time to time. Early on I was prescribed different anti-depressants (and anti-seizure meds) as a prophylaxis and they were beyond terrible. I've probably tried 1/2 dozen and each one made life a chore. Overall numbness, sleeplessness, insomnia, minor depression, etc. In the end I decided I'd rather deal with the occasional debilitating headache than be on that sort of medication.

My heart goes out to the people with MDD that deal with these side effects as part of their daily routine.

Sort of related-- wear a fucking helmet.
While this may not be for everyone, I say skip these drugs. Instead talk about the crazy things that bother you with your family, friends, peers, etc.

9 out of 10 times they too will tell you they have suffered from something similar, which for me made me feel normal.

Overall this is what helped me deal with OCD, anxiety and depression. It wasn't some whiz bang drug - one you hear about on a PSA years later, saying "If you took this drug call us and we'll sue the pants off of the drug company for their negligence."
From experience, they hire top level by religious affinity however, this time they most likely were burned by this tradition.
Cool, there probably isn't a huge difference between idle and deep sleep modes so I'm sure it could still last a long time. In deep sleep you can still use the HIGH & LOW level interrupts but just not the CHANGE one.
If you attend parties or go out for the sake of being social, you're not an introvert.
They realize it, they just think their interests are always more important.
Indeed. Fluoxetine (Prozac) was exactly what I needed for depression. Friends of mine, not so much. And for Parkinsonism, my personal cocktail is probably (the pharmacological equivalent of) a little bit sweeter and not quite so bubbly as what works for others with the "same" symptoms (which, by the way, resemble Huntington's more than they do "classic" Parkinson's disease). Brains are complicated.
The US has a few "early acceptance" colleges like Bard College (https://simons-rock.edu/) where you can get a HS equivalency and Bachelors whenever you're deemed ready. I had a friend who went to Simons Rock after his Freshman Year of HS - he got his BA right before his 20th birthday.
Don't blame the web page so much as the user agent that respects such silly things. Use a better browser.
I think that's true at smaller organizations where the head of IT isn't on the exec team. But at large companies, the head of IT is a pretty serious role (Jacob was CIO/EVP), with a very large budget, mission-critical systems, and a big team. Someone who successfully runs IT at a company like Target can pretty much get hired into a similar role at any other Fortune 500 company.
Thanks Jeff, its appreciated.

Can we work on SPDY support for ELBs? That forum thread is getting pretty heavy with +1s.
So, what is the deal with the quantified self obsession? Is it a young persons thing? Has it always been that way and I just missed out on it? Or is it a newer phenomenon that is catching on due to technology making it easier to capture data about ourselves?

I'm really curious.
Background: I spent the last 2.5 years working as a product manager at another payments company. I've integrated Stripe.js in various side projects. I saw first hand what happens when you make a checkout highly customisable (dozens of options): you introduce huge complexity cost.

Here are some ways this manifests:

- longer dev cycles/increased difficulty in testing/more frequent release rollbacks

- higher merchant support costs

- harder to innovate

- a need to support dozens of legacy use-cases that only some merchants use

- harder to onboard new merchants

- more complex sales process

- inconsistent user experience for customers

- higher staff training costs/time

- impossible to optimise conversion for the majority, as each merchant is showing a different checkout.

It all starts with 1 option, but it's a slippery slope.

In summary, I think Stripe are probably taking the right approach here, and I wish them the best of luck.
"Yeah dude that Snowdon guy? The one with the NSA stuff? Yeah he's, like, gonna be talking at South-by. Yeah, the government is, like, spying, and it's, like against people's rights, and everthing, so... #noNSA #SXSW" (Sent from my iPhone 5)
"part of you wants someone to notice that you're missing, so that you can be not just doing something important but be a hero about it."

=> Besides the ego, there's also a cultural component. My Finnish friends tend to excel at leaving without saying goodbye or hugging, not because they have weaker ego but because that's a part of their culture. That said, in my culture (South Korea), your saying nothing when leaving will immediately strike people as socially incorrect or weird to say the least.
I think the take away is that sometimes you can't see the forest through the trees, so look at the sunset.

When I'm working on something and I just can't figure it out, I take my dog for a walk and hold some ridiculous one-way conversation with him. Yeah I know I must look like a manic talking to an eight pound pomeranian, but the point is to put your mind completely somewhere else. It's amazing how the solution just appears when your mind isn't engulfed in the problem.
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This is called Rubber Duck Debugging (no joke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging). It works astonishingly well.

Edit: I misread the comment. Thought you were explaining the problem to your dog. I'm wrong. Different thing. :)

Still, your way also works astonishingly well, too.
An introductory tutorial about web development. The plan is to assume the reader has no prior knowledge, start at the basics, and hopefully walk all the way up through building a dynamic web application. It's only just started, http://trevorhunsaker.com
This is one of the best articles I've read for situations like those. I fall into such situations every now and then! And I'm going to pass this on to my friends as a "nice article". ;)