skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the author suggesting using Macs is a new trend? Or is the main point that a new desktop focused on using cloud hosted services would become popular?

Nine years ago Paul Graham wrote about hackers returning to the Mac (http://paulgraham.com/mac.html), where he concluded that his dad, who had not taken Paul's suggestion to buy Sun stock 10 years prior, should buy Apple stock (it turned out to be a good bet but for slightly different reasons).

A developer-targeted desktop environment that is better optimized for most developer's workflow, and that has native integration to Github and the like sounds nice, but considering the effort needed to coordinate an effort, wouldn't it be better to advocate a cloud-based IDE and use a Chromebook or iPad?

Separately, it's interesting how little argument there is about which OS is better in this thread. It could be the sort of people that comment here, or it's an indication about how much people care about and identify with an OS nowadays.
China Confronts U.S. Envoy Over Cyber-Spying Accusations
Mirror1: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28866085/OnlineTutoringG...

Mirror2: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/www.matthiaseisen.com/hts...
The track-pad on the Macbook Air I have is crap. No buttons.

You can click, or emulate a double click with two fingers. No third button emulation that I have worked out (and no, using your other hand on the keyboard does not count). As far as I am concerned that is a big disadvantage not having the paste buffer functionality available for the track-pad.
When you get that idea that you can't let go, it makes it easier to deal with the obstacles (like mortgages)
This is pretty much how we do it. We have many sites that only allow a single user and we use LastPass for sharing passwords with the relevant groups of users that the site accessed by.
Yeah good on them for being protectionist and resisting foreign influence, but I doubt it's to their benefit. The Chinese alternatives to websites are worse in that they are highly cooperative with their censorship. The alternative to Windows 8 is likely going to be XP.
Good to know; I haven't been able to find a lot of detail on the subject of how D-Wave uses Lisp, so I was just repeating what I've heard, which I concede I probably shouldn't have done.

(And I'm a Lisp hacker myself, so I'm not really interested in attempting to further wreck the reputation of that language family; indeed, I'm delighted to see projects like Clojure beginning to resurrect said reputation, and the only way I could be happier about that would be if Clojure did a better job living up to its predecessors.)
Not really, we have our own datacenter and DNS servers. We have HSMs for somethings (like CA certs) and yubikey/similar for things that require passwords but those are all protected by user-specific certificates.
The colors used for the map on the homepage are basically indistinguishable to colorblind folks like myself (the trusted vs. untrusted colors, specifically), just FYI.
Your main issue is whether your current boss will be a good reference or not. Secure that.

Then, all things being equal, take the unemployment. When looking for a job, wanting to leave a remote position for something local is reasonable. Make sure your boss will give a good recommendation that is consistent with whatever way you want to describe your old situation.

If the fact is that in one year, you held a sales position and made $0 worth of sales, then it doesn't matter if you quit or were fired -- you need to explain that.
To clarify, this is not a DuckDuckGo product and having your autosuggestions come from Google means passing your searches to them as well.
The next version of DuckDuckGo was released today: https://duckduckgo.com/
and includes our own autosuggest (with !bang autosuggest as well--just type !) . You can get autosuggest in your browser's address bar with some of our browser addons like the Firefox one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-fo...
That article makes even less sense. It confuses UEFI secure boot with TPM and Bitlocker. Also claims UEFI secure boot makes things less secure by locking out other OSes. What?!

Can't find the link right now, but if I remember correctly, they backtracked on those claims about Windows 8 and made them more general about OSes. There is nothing in Windows 7 that makes it more secure or less vulnerable than Windows 8.
I thought there should be a Gulp plugin, and then I found this: https://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp-uncss/
We use https://commonkey.com/, it works pretty great and all the encryption is done client side (although the usual caveats about javascript encryption still hold)
In my completely uneducated opinion based on heresy China seems to care a great deal less about intellectual property, patents and licencing right of companies that aren't Chinese.

Given its regular practice of trying to get companies to manufacture goods in Chine to steal their process' and technology.

This is also the exact reason SpaceX don't file patents and do not use anything from Microsoft.
Get a better chair, better shoes, and a better bed. More money doesn't necessarily get you a better model. I know there's a bunch of other suggestions on here for other things to do, but sometimes the solutions are really basic.
Not sure, but I've never seen a US union that didn't use seniority in layoff situations. End of the day, that drives the contracts.

A typical scenario is that the company wants to save money, which is achieved via concessions from labor or via layoff if nothing is forthcoming. Usually the senior people bear less pain because the impact of compensation cuts is really debilitating, as it affects long-term pension payouts.

In other cases, they screw new employees. This is common in public sector and other big industrial union shops. The newbs get a 401k, bigger health contributions and the old guard keeps the pension and free healthcare.
And I wouldn't usually complain much about that, but the other fact is that the TrackPoint nipple is probably equally as bad in build quality and when you move the pointer a bit, it seems to get stuck and continues to move your pointer until you rub that nipple left or right.

Back in the day, IBM made some good hardware. The Trackpoint was one of the things they made that were cited as examples of good engineering. Specifically, it was designed not to do what you just described.
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Speech starts at ~1:15
Totally agree.

I used to love KDE, then they messed it up with KDE 4. Moved to Ubuntu / Gnome. Then Ubuntu screwed it up when they made it all Unity based. Screw that, I was happy working the way I was without to much shiny. Now using XFCE, and its refreshingly simple.
TLDR:

"New Oxford American Dictionary is the TLDR of dictionaries. There are others out there if you have extra time to look up a word."
> Then each port maintains a small staff of captains who are ferried out to each ship and brings it to port.

Which is already the case, so this would be a fairly easy transition.
I once edited the Wikipedia entry for "boma" to add that the word (which in much of Anglophone East Africa denotes the seat of a district administration) derives from the acronym British Overseas Management Administration. I did so after having seen this acronym listed in numerous government and NGO-issued reports in Malawi, so theoretically I'd have been able to add citations to back me up.

It turned out that this etymology is a popular myth believed by foreigners traveling in the region, some of whom must have acted as consultants for local government and civil society organizations and written their "knowledge" into official publications in this capacity. Nobody edited their dead tree reports to rectify their fallacy, but on Wikipedia somebody jumped in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boma_(enclosure)#Etymology_and...
Chinese here, would love to share some observations:

1) It's likely that the ban on Windows 8 has nothing to do with "power-saving". To me power-saving is just a buzzword in the title of the notice.

2) This notice is concerned with a specific round of bid. So it's not an administrative order, but rather a requirement list for the bidders. If I understand correctly this only applies to computers to be purchased during the bid. I'm not sure about how large the scale of the bid is, though; it may affect 1% of the government computer installations, or 99%. Either is possible without further information.

3) This notice doesn't say anything about Windows 7. What this means that bidders are allowed to provide computers pre-installed with Windows 7 and IMO this is pretty likely. Yes there are conspiracy advocates who would rather stick with Windows XP (I have never been able to understand their reasoning...), but I believe the computer vendors are more sensible. After all it's they who have to provide customer service.

4) This notice is also only concerned with the pre-installed OS. It's totally possible that the government officials may replace the OS with anything they like (which are, unfortunately, most likely pirate copies). I don't know about the central government, but it's common practice in local governments. The central government has very weak executive power when it comes to such detailed things. (Why bother enforcing such regulations after all?)
Isn't this a function traditionally fulfilled by a Thesaurus?
For the wordsmiths out there, you can visit Websters actual house at Greenfield Village in Dearborn Michigan, along with a number of other historic buildings. Note: I didn't say "home" because that's not where the house - nor any of these buildings - originally was. However, they are well preserved and all in one place. Mr Ford's idea of a history museum was rather unique.
I use e-junkie as well. Their UI is horrendous and there are a few features that are not listed in the admin section (support will clue you in) but they are generally reliable and just do the job (for very cheap).

That said, I'm moving off of them to a WP + WooCommerce shop this month to have better control over the process and offer something besides PayPal (several countries are blocked from PayPal).
Unfortunately proxying BBC iPlayer[1] doesn't play any video too. Would be great if you could fix it, thanks!

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk.prx.uk.teleport.to/iplayer
I use etymonline.com for similar purpose. Searching for the etymology of words gives you something akin to older dictionaries.
That's awesome! I've been using the beta for a while and it's been much better than the old site.

A bunch of ideas/complains:

- It's awesome that you're showing me a nice map when I search for places/address, but let's be honest, I'll probably need to load it into an online map (OSM, MapQuest, Google Maps) to get directions. So a "open in map" button would be great (yes, I can copy/paste the address and !bang it, but it's not exactly a great experience)

- Sometimes I just want to search for images or videos. Yes, I can search "Images X" or "Videos X", but it's not nice. Also you get the minimized image/video box. I'd add two bangs, !i and !v (those right now alias to Google Images and Youtube, which have !gi and !yt anyway) to search for images/video and that will auto-open the images box.

- Auto-suggestions are neat, but please add an option to remove the "select-on-hover" behavior. It's really annoying to casually move the mouse and select something else.

That's mostly it, otherwise I'm really, really happy with DDG. Thanks, and I wonder what the future will reserve!
For example whilst there are graphical Git clients available, there's nothing as polished as SourceTree or Tower available.

What's wrong with GitX-dev (rowanj fork)?
The first time I saw that (so called) design I literally hit refresh 5 times to hopefully get that missing CSS file. Having all in just light grey and white doesn't really help finding anything quickly and why hide the path of the url onMouseOut is beyond me.

DDG is my search of choice and the pain induced yesterday is not enough to swap back to google but still, not happy at all :(
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I never said the hardware was bad, not detracted from any developer's preference to use a mac. I just expressed my opinion. Yes, its true that the apple hardware is very nice, but at the same time, it was much nicer 10 years ago. Today its just stuff I'd expect from any laptop. There is on groundbreaking changes any more. And good marketing - you bet! The best marketing there is. Its herd mentality taken to the extreme. Have you seen an apple store on launch day?
Yes, this always seemed like a gross usability faux pas to me. If you don't wait for some unknown period after you see the first result, you risk clicking on an unwanted link that unexpectedly appeared under your cursor.

Maybe this is fixed with the redesign?
It loaded fine for me - Google account in hand... The tutorial seems like a great basic 7 step program to start an online tutoring business. The one criticism I have is that more time should be spent on customer acquisition as that is the most difficult part of the process. It is also something that can be researched on one's own as well...
I would use gumroad or whatever is easiest/fastest to get it out there. Don't worry about fees and junk right away. Get your product available to sell and focus on selling it. Don't spend a lot of time on how you are going to process money and deliver the product. Focus on the sales. When you have $10,000 in sales and 1% margin starts being worth $100, you can spend a few hours maybe worrying about if gum road is the right choice. Even then, it's probably not worth worrying about.

Just sell things, enough things that it actually matters who you are using for processing. But, with 0 sales, you are doing 0 order processing so it doesn't matter.
Sure, but it doesn't need to be. The recipient doesn't need to care if the payment is coming from a bank account or a cryptocurrency (as long as there's a party to convert in between).
Unrelated UI nitpicking: I feel like I should be able to scroll on this page. Just seeing the top of the virtual screen is annoying.
I think it's a combination of many reasons, many of which the article cited, but then from other articles I've read as well.

At least for myself, I've noticed that I have used busy-ness as an excuse to not do something I dislike. A rapidly growing synonym by the way, is I'm "tired."

As for why people stay "busy" beyond the excuse factor, I buy most into the argument about keeping up with the Joneses. We live in a very consumption-driven society and people are always scaling up their "needs" rather than being happy with what they have. Consider the consultant that buys a house upon making manager, and then a bigger house upon making partner. Were any of those upgrades truly necessary for the 2-person couple? No, but they"felt" necessary because that's what we do. We climb ladders and scale up.

I'm less inclined to buy the argument that people stay busy because working provides meaning. It's not that I don't think work provides meaning, it's that I don't think most people find meaning in their work today. Rather, work is the tedium that you experience so that you can climb a ladder and get stuff, and continue the up-and-to-the-right cycle.
Who suggested that having the client bear some of the load unburdens developers? I've done that kind of work, and it was some of the hardest work I've ever done.

And "servers shouldn't work hard" is a similar oversimplification, perhaps even a misapprehension. It's not so much that the server's cores should ideally sit idle, as that in almost any non-trivial application where scalability is even a concern, the server is probably already working hard, and having the client bear some load where it makes sense to do so can offer vast improvements in how quickly and well you're able to scale the application to meet demand.
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IIRC, large customers--and China's Govt is one of them--have access to the Windows source code so safety and security probably aren't the top concern. They can surely audit the code, they have the expertise, money and manpower.

My guess is that US and China went to war over cyber-spying...
>* [...] they’re addicted to and dread what they might have to face in its absence.*

This definitely was me. Meditating was very hard for me to take up. Eventually I realized it was because whenever I had a quiet moment, I would start to think about something I didn't want to think about. I'd get anxious and suddenly find that I "had" to go do something.

People catch on if you drink all day. But if you're busy (always working, always coding, always arguing with somebody on the internet, always caught up in an absorbing game) they (and you) may never think, "Gosh, maybe there's something wrong here."
The Future of Quantum Computing Could Depend on This Tricky Qubit
Are you seriously comparing the NSA to China?

I'm sure the NSA would love to ban VPNs, break Wikipedia's encryption and openly have censorship / spying programs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project . But lets be frank, China is far ahead of anything going on in the Western world.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/13/china-crac...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/28/china_vpn_great_fire...

In the US, any hint of censorship or spying is met with extreme resistance. In China, censorship and spying isn't just accepted, its public policy. You can disappear for saying the wrong things on a public blog, and bloggers have developed codewords in response.
There isn't any specific prohibition against owning US jets AFAIK, but not many ever hit the market. WWII era stuff is common. Some of the early jets (e.g. F-86, F-100s, F-5/T-38) exist in private hands.

In general, the Russian stuff translates better to private ownership because there is much less specialized support equipment or maintaince required - in general the soviet's built stuff for a real SHTF scenario, where-as the US was much more willing to complicate the design to gain a small edge.
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Small but surprisingly annoying thing about DDG: I have to hit TAB too many times to start cycling through search results, on google one TAB takes me to the first search result, on DDG it's an unintuitive series of links.
Ask HN: Any crossdomain way to share information in the browser?
Since XAuth first was proposed by Meebo 2010, and adopted by Google et al. Meebo was bought, its site was taken down, and whatever happened to xauth?

http://www.abstractioneer.org/2010/06/xauth-is-lot-like-democracy.html

Is there a way today for domains (at least in SOME browsers) to read and write to the same place, so I can know the preferred sites for various services (such as authentication) without having to type them in myself on every site?

Web browsers are notoriously reliant on servers to load pretty much anything. This makes any sort of distributed scheme using JUST THE WEB vulnerable to whatever centralized server they are relying on. For example, xauth relied on xauth.org just for storing and retrieving cookies in a cross domain way.

Three years ago I wrote this hoping to fix the problem:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024164

Nothing has been done about it as far as I know, but on top of that I would add a third thing now: a space for websites to read/write. Possibly requiring the user's permission every time a website writes. Maybe even have structured schemas that limit what can be written. But HAVE this space, so that websites can signal the user's preferences to other websites (e.g. urls of preferred services) in ways browser makers won't anticipate.
3D-Pad: Open Source Touchless Gesture 3D Controller for Arduino
3D-Pad is a touchless gesture control interface that provides 3-D coordinates and gesture recognition by means of an electrode plane, an Arduino shield, and an Arduino Uno board. It is based on projected capacitive technology, which is used in most current touchscreens. The 3D-Pad was born out of a collaboration between its creator Jean-Noël Lefebvre and Elektor Labs. Jean-Noël, founder of the Ootsidebox touchless technology project, is a serial and natural born inventor who wanted to make this technology available for everyone. And so he did: 3D-Pad is entirely open source and open hardware.
We've just started using https://www.mitro.co which seems better suited for us, we've created an org, and have teams for different projects/level of access.
> With that in mind, what would you have to see to be convinced that native scrolling is not as important as many people claim it is?

Something that actually is provides basic scrolling function effectively that replaces native scrolling -- as opposed to something that stutters badly on current, top-of-the-line mobile platforms, performs poorly (and, with many expected interaction methods, doesn't work at all) on desktop, etc.

If you are going to convince people to buy into your reinvention of the wheel, it better at least roll properly.

Native scrolling isn't actually important -- what is important is access to content that meets expectations either because it works as expected from past experiences or because there are clear affordances that make the transition easy. Native scrolling is an easy way to achieve that because users of a platform are almost certainly familiar with the platforms scrolling behavior, and every major platform has native scrolling that works acceptably in virtually all reasonable circumstances.

If I have scrolling content with no scrollbar, that's bad.

If I have a scrollbar I can't interact with as expected and nothing that clues me into how I should interact with it, that's bad.

If, on desktop, I can't scroll with the keyboard, that's bad.

If scrolling is erratic and jumpy on any platform, that's bad.

If content obviously extends past the viewport and there is no obvious way to scroll the viewport at all (as happens horizontally on mobile with the Famo.us website), that's bad.
When we HAVE to share passwords, we email them using Virtru (encrypted emails). All of the encryption is done client side. You can set the email to expire after 1 hour. No one would ever be able to read it again. https://www.virtru.com/other-platforms

That being said, we use personal accounts for all external services. All personal passwords are stored in 1Password.
Dear Google, could your iOS libGoogleAdMobAds.a be even smaller?
I clicked on "press" at the bottom (which happened to be at the bottom left of the screenshot on my device). Thinking it meant, "press me to continue" (which seemed a bit weird). Nope. It's their press page.

So, yeah, the "what's new" page is real clunky, but I haven't, so far, been offended by the changes to their actual design. I haven't used it much since the changeover, but DDG is my primary search engine, so I'll probably have opinions on it soon.
I just see it often at the hands of devs. At my work we got everyone a Thinkpad running Ubuntu, but some wanted Macs and they got them. At the end of the day, this is a theological discussion influenced mostly by emotion. Pretty much a zero sum game - these are all tools best used at the hands of those who use them.
Hands down: https://www.meldium.com/
Anecdotally, "which OS is better" arguments seem to be dominated by fanboyism rather than substantive functional differences.
Why tab? You can just use arrow up and down to navigate the search results directly.
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When I went to Facebook.com login page, using the UK proxy, I had a popup for a VPN provider invade the screen. Is this injected by the untrusted server?
A couple of KeePass files in DropBox.
Thesaurus will give you synonyms but won't provide any detail about the nuanced differences between their semantics. The article specifically talks about why Webster's unabridged dicts are different from thesauri...
Sendinc.com is an option for secure self destructing emails. As much as you trust a 3rd party.
+1 for commonkey and their client-side encryption/decryption
Cringely: Apple's iPad Problem (They Last Too Long)