skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have been trying to demonstrate effects of Denmark's 1992 change from 40-hour workweeks to 37-hour workweeks, but afaict nobody's come up with much that's solid, whether showing a negative impact on output, a positive impact on employment, or much of anything else except the mere fact that hours worked per week went down. There are a lot of before-the-fact theoretical papers, from the late '80s and early '90s, but post-1992 nobody seems to have succeeded in validating them. That doesn't mean there was no economic effect, but at the very least it doesn't seem to have been a particularly large one.
Because of Chrome: http://krzysiu.net/misc/history_version_numbers_internet_bro...

I think it's a marketing strategy to convey active development.
NoScript gives you a chance to evaluate a site for trustworthiness. Yes, you have to click 1-2 times when you load a new domain that you trust, but it's worth it for that one site that looks sketchy or that you get mislead into clicking onto. For people who automatically execute JavaScript, it's already too late, but NoScript users have an opportunity to avoid this cantankerous situation.

NoScript will expose phishing schemes immediately, for instance, because it will recognize that the scripts being executed are not coming from the previously-whitelisted domain for Google.
This article is a mishmash of ideas that don't really work together. The author advocates for treating telecom infrastructure as a public utility, but then uses AT&T as an example of an "intelligent" network that wasn't innovative. But the phone system, under the AT&T monopoly, was regulated as a public utility! It was a system that prioritized stability, universal access, and yes, neutrality, over innovation. That's the nature of public utilities.

The author suggests that the cable companies should be forced to lease out their hybrid fiber-coax networks to competitors. Leaving aside the fact that these are private networks built with private money, there is the issue that this would destroy any incentive on the part of the cable companies to enhance and upgrade that infrastructure. Why pour billions of dollars into upgrading a system only to get razor-thin returns?
Focus on more sales.
BBC Basic (from 1981) let you mix 6502 assembly in your code.

But you had to have line numbers and this caused me a bit of a headache when I got to learn Pascal. Things just seemed to be floating around. Which is funny, because Perl is now my weapon of choice.
I wouldn't pair socks, personally. I would just create piles and offload pairing to each sock-wearing instance. This becomes efficient by creating piles based on intended use, and allowing each pile to have easily-distinguished differences such as color difference or size. What's interesting is that your pile criteria changes based on your socks. For me I have a long-warm pile, long-cool pile, and short pile. But if I didn't have long or short socks i'd have to create new piles: dress, casual, athletic, for example. Another pile set might be long-short-dress, long-short-casual, long-short-athletic, or long-short-warm, long-short-cool, long-short-athletic, etc.

In each case, the pile has socks that are so distinct that it becomes trivial to identify a matching pair in the pile. This is also why I don't sort by color.
Not sure about firefox, but in chrome you can get around it by appending a trailing / to things
> the simple controller is forbidden from talking directly to Active Record [..] This is not better.

It is. The controller layer should be as dumb as possible, it shouldn't contain your (entire) application logic. It's a matter of single responsibility if anything.

Also, I find it very sad that we're still discussing the usefulness of the active record pattern. Other than convenience, it has none. It's a pain to maintain an application that uses it once it reaches a certain level of complexity.

And not just because of testability, it's a pain in the ass to replace/fine tune certain queries if you're calling active record methods in your controller.
You need to be using version 29 when you click that link to see a tutorial that accesses the menu.
Analysis of 2014 South African Elections Twitter Interactions
App looks great and really useful, but those Dropbox permissions are excessive.
It's not really a straw man. Driving your application with tests at the unit level doesn't make a lot of sense, in the case of a web app at least. The BDD approach makes more sense to me. It's how I work and in my experience tends to inform design a lot better.
Decreased Congestion in Beijing Undermines Air-Pollution Efforts
Code dicks
Finished with 19k in cash an 977k in valuation Fun game stressful when you first land though.
AOL hack causes zombie spam
"exactly like" is a bit of a stretch. I see the resemblance. Enthoughts looks exactly like Gamecube's icon if we're being that vague.
FWIW using the Add-Ons tab's search for "tree style tabs" gives 9 results, none of which include this add-on.

But when I click "269 more results", then Tree Style Tab is the first result on that addons.mozilla.org page.

(This isn't the first time I've found add-on search to be a bit wonky. Maybe "everyone" knows to ignore the first results (?), but I don't search for and install add-ons frequently enough to have learned that, quite yet.)
That's what's keep people in those "boring" jobs rather than taking risk when they are around 30-ish.

That's a great misconception about the social net. It is considered a socialist idea, but really it has its place in capitalism too. Knowing that you do not risk being in the street with health cover for you, your wife, your kids and dependents is a great relief that stimulate people starting new businesses.

Obviously the downside is that other more (money-)conservative people will have to pay in taxes. However, that's a political scapegoat. The real reason why people complain they are being taxed to pay the lifestyle of others is mainly because middle class is slowly disappearing. They are getting poorer, an other people lifestyle is hastening that process, however not causing it.
Agreed, I think it's totally relevant and thanks for the Splitwise link.

I've been waiting for Venmo to integrate roommate-inspired features for ages.
Pajamas/Home Clothing
Pajamas/Home Clothing
(Over)simplify your code
The advantage is Google can wave this mobo around in Intel's face to get a better price on xeons.
you can put it in quotes, and it should execute it as search vs address. the only argument for having a separate box i can think of is it you wanted a separate search engine associated to address bar, vs search box.
With this author and a lot of people, I agree that network neutrality is vital to the social benefits of the internet, and that the "public utility" model is best. The question, however is how to get there.

Historically, once big-money, rent-seeking [1] entities start profiting from some arrangement, it becomes extremely hard to dislodge them, because they protect their position by hijacking the government to their interests.

There's a little cause for hope in that there might be a mass protest like with SOPA.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
I believe Safari solves this on iOS/Mac by treating the address bar as the "search option" - whether that's your memorised URL, stored bookmarks, google, history or (and my favourite...) the page.

Like the chap above your comment, I absolutely despise having the Firefox differentiation because my habit is to click the address bar and then depending on whether I have realised the mistake before/after hitting enter it's: (1) "S&%^ I have clicked the wrong one, <tab>" (2) "FFS I didn't want http://byron burger locations"
I like it. There are a few changes that I will need to get used to, but in a few weeks I doubt I'll notice the difference.

One thing that I think FF doesn't get enough credit for is how efficiently it runs these days. I prefer Chrome's developer tools, but for browsing, FF gets my vote.
Actually, you can do this in Firefox 29! Click the Customize hamburger-button on the right and then click "Customize." Drag the search bar from the menu bar down to the tools page. Then drag "Bookmarks Toolbar" up next to the URL bar. It should display as your bookmarks, listed next to the URL bar. Here's how it looks on my machine: http://cl.ly/image/1M3N3L0h3v1s
Wrt the 'omnibox vs address-and-search' conundrum: why not just let the user decide in Settings, defaulting on omnibox?
BASIC was my own personal intro to programming. First on an HP3000 mainframe while in high school in the seventies, and later GWBASIC on a Columbia luggable in the 80's. Someone... I think it may have been David Brin, wrote a great article a few years back about the lack of an ubiquitous, easy to access interpreted language that any kid with a computer could discover and begin using. I think it's a valid complaint, but probably not addressable given all the platform and library dependencies these days. Python comes close.
It's a combination of 3 things.
1) Storing of the data is not what is central to my business case. It is an operational requirement, not what I'm selling. My major architecture requirements therefore do not get driven by what data store I'm using.
2) I frequently have data migrate from 1 format to another.
3) The actual data store formats don't change often, but each one of them has changed at least once in the last 3 years. That means that every six months we are migrating data store implementations. I don't want this to actually impact my business (see point 1) and therefore data store specifications are highly isolated from the other code.
With the "complicated" repository model mentioned you can transparently introduce other behavior, like a caching proxy, retry-on-fail proxy, migrate-on-write proxy, whatever. It might not be a valid use case for you, but I have seen tangible non-testing benefits of using the repository pattern.

Disclaimer: not a rails dev, ymmv, etc.
Or just pay for answering machine rental instead of hooking your unapproved device up to Ma Bell's wires.

Demarcation points were invented for a reason.
Filepreviews-node: generate image previews/metadata from almost any kind of file
They release every 6 weeks. Chrome is on a similar strategy with similar version numbers.
Tweet@Length allows users to tweet more than 140 characters in their tweets. The additional text is converted into an image and posted with the tweet. Therefore, the users do not need to split their message across different tweets while posting.

Tweet@Length unlike other solutions does not require the users to move to another site to read the tweet because the image is automatically converted into twitter compatible image size and is readable from the twitter client itself.

You can log into the website http://tweetatlength.com with your twitter account and take it for a spin.
It's what the cool kids at google were doing, so mozilla had to copy them, as usual, without any real thought as to whether it made sense.
Maybe, maybe not.

IBM was pretty close to cutting off most funding to future development, and they just closed the factory in Minnesota that made the servers. They are pretty much the last survivor of the Unix wars.

There are major customers using this stuff and scaling up, but the industry as a whole is shifting to scale out. There might be a good story here with POWER8, but can you trust that the platform will be around?
basically it's all depends on the usability of your product. Honestly, I don't use Landing Page services because of limitations, that they gave [css, js,html soo limited].
Same here, apart from I'm home by 6pm, but I cruise in at 10am
Found this fairly annoying - only because I went through this exercise recently, and now all the research i did has been made redundant.

I bought this book to help me out:

http://www.amazon.com/Fair-Division-Cake-Cutting-Dispute-Res...

It's a great book, though it didn't include exactly what i was looking for regarding this subject. I emailed one of the authors and he kindly pointed me in the direction of Sperner's Lemma:

http://www.inet.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/fg234_tdc1-s11/FDS_SS...

and I was able to find:

http://www.math.hmc.edu/~su/fairdivision/calc/

Which is the same sort of calculator...

Anyway same end result...though i highly recommend the book above if anyone is interested in the subject.
It's your own fault if you use Vodafone. Overpriced, fucked up consumer support, and at least in Germany, multiple occasions of fraudulent behaviour by the sales agents (e.g. signing you up for stuff you didn't ask for etc). Oh, and a fucked up network, too.
Well, in SeaMonkey (another Mozilla suite), when you type in the address bar (there is no search bar), there is always the suggestion to search for what you are typing at the bottom of the suggestions. But it does not provide you with suggestions.
Only seen the "pushed out by board" ending. Getting up to $4M valuation on some runs.

My gut level guess of the underlaying mechanic is your most popular activity becomes your ending and focusing most on sales results in "pushed out by board"
How hard would it be to offer both options? I.e. access restricted to one or several folders, vs. access to the whole Dropbox. Also at least between users you can grant permissions for folders to other Users from within Dropbox. Is there a way to do the same for Apps?
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Intel has a massive advantage in process technology and fundamental physics research and a huge, talented staff. A good executive team can print money in any line of business with all those assets.
I've been using and loving Splittr[1] frequently on iOS.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/splittr-cost-sharing-made/id...
Yep, it's almost as annoying as using "Apple adjectives" (flowery prose like wonderful, pleasure, beauty, love, etc... applied towards any tech).

Hacker hasn't really meant anything for decades. I remember the old guys getting mad when "hacker" became a boogieman for the news, but the recent round seemed to start when some dude wrote a book that used the cachet of "hacking" to sell impressionable youths on the idea of working for him in a tech-adjacent position. By appealing to someone's desires and by giving your thing a unique je ne sais quoi (no matter how flimsy it really is) you can influence them into your personal brand of chasing their desires.
I enjoy the separate boxes as well. That said, the chrome-style 'question mark prefix' is not ambiguous.
You're being downvoted because you are incorrect. Ubuntu GNOME does not have an equivalent of OS X full screen build in to the windowing system. It has a maximize button that doesn't remove the chrome, it just makes the window take up the most of the screen. In OS X, there is no window. The app is completely edge to edge similar like an iOS app except without the status bar.

Edit:

Ubuntu "Fullscreen": http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EnulBlkjTEM/Tzo7Fo3l3uI/AAAAAAAAHw...

OS X Fullscreen: http://www3.pcmag.com/media/images/237835-iphoto-11-albums-i...
Public-utility "last mile", far from being opposed to competition, would facilitate it. The local or state government would own the ROW and maintain the fiber - maybe thru a contractor whose role is restricted to that function. Then your household or business line goes to a box where different companies can compete for slots/ports/whatever, and then you would choose which provider to connect you from there to the big pipes.

The "to the premises" provider would make a regulated profit, just like utility-model water and power companies, and the upstream providers would pay the going rate for their connections to customers, and compete for customers with rates, policies and over-the-top services.
I took notice of that passage also. But the main reason the 99.5 to 99.95 percentages is meaningful is that they were measures of a daily risk. So it quickly compounds into a meaningful percentages; the 99.95% rate meant an 83% chance patient would stay well this year, the 99.5% rate meant only a 16% chance of staying well for this year.

Many of the medical percentages that we see quoted in media are derived using a lifetime risk basis, _not_ a daily one. On a lifetime basis the difference between 99.95% and 99.5% _is_ negligible.

I wonder how many people reading this article are aware of the difference.
When I worked at last.fm code that assumed all the data would always be in a single postgres database was a constant source of pain - we spent a lot of time migrating tables out of the big central database, either because the data simply didn't fit any more, or because we wanted it to be available to a Hadoop job. (There were probably other reasons, but those are the ones I remember). Maybe last.fm's an extreme case, but it does happen.
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> Separate address and search bars is old-fashioned. As a user, I don't want to have to make this distinction, and it's hard to imagine most users-on-street wouldn't find this confusing

As a user, I want separate edit bars for separate functions. I don't want Google know everything I type (or mistype) in the address bar. When I type foobar in the address bar please give me anything that returned the web server at foobar or give me an error if there is no foobar or the foobar have no web server. If I want to search foobar then I will type it in the search bar by myself.
Are you concerned or have you looked into any patents IBM might hold on this?
> The author advocates for treating telecom infrastructure like public utilities, but then says that competition is the answer. These are not compatible ideas!

They are compatible if you decouple the infrastructure owner from the service providers, as it happens in other industries.
Thanks for your thoughts. Sounds like you need full control over your css,js and html
That was my point. Testing is not the primary factor that determines the quality of design. I see it making a marginal difference at best.

Edit: Stupid autocorrect.
I can't read the instructions either, and the keyboard shortcuts don't seem to work. Drag and drop is not efficient to continuous playing, so I quit...

The first two times I was able to "pay myself".
"It is often asserted (for example, in the Bitcoin white paper [22]) that a cartel can double-spend Bitcoins. In a strict sense, this is true: a cartel can spend a Bitcoin by paying it to a player Alice, receiving goods or services, and then shifting the consensus choice of history to a branch where that coin is instead paid to a different player Bob. However, we argue that double-spending by a cartel has a limited payoff. Bitcoins have value because people are willing to trade them for goods and services. If players were unwilling to accept Bitcoins for trade or unwilling to spend Bitcoins for fear of having their payments nullified, the value of Bitcoins would diminish significantly as players lost confidence in the system.

Worse, because players are encouraged to generate a new identity for each transaction and because identities are not linked to any side information, players cannot easily determine whether a proffered payment is coming from the double-spending cartel or an honest user. Thus, a rational player should refuse to accept any payments when there is a significant threat of double-spending. As a cartel must outmine the entire Bitcoin network and thus outspend the entire Bitcoin network for as long as it would remain a cartel, we believe it is very unlikely that a cartel could double-spend enough to recover the cost of the attack." - The Economics of Bitcoin Mining in the Presence of Adversaries (11-12)
If you think selling "elevator passes" is profitable, wait until you can hit up freshmen for BTC.
I've been using Pop App for a couple of months, but I downloaded Marvel's app today and love it. Just so much smoother and a lot more features.
As I noted below, I'm a Vodafone user and they didn't squeak when I tethered and hammered the shit out of my three months' unlimited data on a new contract. (I presume they were letting me run loose so they could try to sell me a data package on top.)

In my experience the UK's a cosy oligopoly between Voda, O2 and EE, with approximately equivalent fuckery between them. YMMV of course.
The instructions were cut off for me. screen on my machine is only 13"
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> Not the best idea to rely on the cyclist's signals.

Not the best idea to rely on car's signals, either, given how frequently they're incorrectly used (or not at all). Not really any different to the cyclists case.
You're right, and as I read your post I wondered if you'd suffered the voices, or at least been around it enough to know.

The running commentary was the worst. For me it was 20 years ago, first year uni. Made lectures interesting but also ridiculous as your brain interprets sounds around you.

I was lucky it only affected me for a year or so then faded away after I tackled the subject and read a lot about how the mind works and other people's experiences. I had to get objective and not take shit from myself any more. I never sought professional help, but haven't had the voices since.

Even just regular noises like a car horn in the distance... your brain's imagination is secretly working overtime in the background to connect dots that aren't there. Your own mind delivers you a frank and confident explanation about the story behind the "car horn in distance". That car horn, you learn, was actually sounded by someone you know, and they're checking in as arranged, they have connections with people in this lecture hall...etc. But you never grasp exactly the explanation, or receive real proof, but there's a conspiracy nevertheless, a rambling unflattering, disapproving conspiracy - and you're at the center. That you're sure of.

It's like you're constantly on the verge of exposing the conspiracy, if only you had one more piece of evidence. But you don't need to fish for evidence, your imagination drip-feeds it all day.
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Light would travel about 660 millimetres in 0.22 nanoseconds, and the chip is about 25 millimetres on the side, so a beam of light could run a few laps around the chip in one clock cycle, or bounce off the sides 20-30 times. Maybe you wanted to say across the motherboard?

I don't think 4.5 GHz is somehow ridiculous when 3 GHz is routine (and POWER7 was 4.2 GHz). Hundreds of cycles of latency when accessing anything off the chip is now routine - that's the world we live in now. I think that the biggest problem is that IBM is not able to make the investments (especially in semiconductor manufacturing) to match Intel's rate of bringing technology to market. The current POWER7 is a 45-nm device if I remember correctly, and this 22-nm POWER8 is not yet on the market. Intel has been selling 22-nm Haswells for how long now? And of course the POWER7 chips have been up against next-generation semiconductors for most of their life.

EDIT: I see that IBM started selling POWER8 systems a few days ago. That's close to a year later than Haswell, and what's more, this chip is likely to compete against 14-nm processors for most of its lifetime.
> Separate address and search bars is old-fashioned.
> As a user, I don't want to have to make this
> distinction, and it's hard to imagine most
> users-on-street wouldn't find this confusing

Although a UI problem, this is actually a privacy feature.

As you type into the search bar, autocomplete queries are sent to the search provider. This happens even if your intention was not to search, but just to enter URL manually.

In simpler terms: you are telling Google what sites you are visiting even when you don't use Google.

(AndrewDucker mentions this on this thread too, but his comment emphasises the UI aspect, whereas I think the privacy aspect needs to be stressed).