skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh, if only it were so simple.

The program manager wasn't initially aware of the arrangement. When I mentioned it to him, he basically threw a professional fit along the lines of "To get work done I need you here when everyone else is here." He'll even readily admit that I got plenty of work done while contracting and setting my own hours and location - enough that he and the company wanted me salaried - "but it's not the same now". The execs that I negotiated with don't have much backbone and won't stand up to him or our owner. They are well aware of the situation, and when I go through them and leave the PM out of scheduling, they're always okay with whatever I say I'm going to do (I don't even bother asking, I just tell them); after the fact, he'll huff and puff for a while, but he never actually says anything explicitly. Unfortunately, he and I work very closely together, so I don't often have the opportunity to go through the execs.

The night before a particularly harsh snowstorm, I even had a conversation with him about working from home the next day. We talked about what I could do from home, I literally showed him the printouts of the background material (and had digital copies on our office server and on my laptop), and he said he was okay with it. When I wasn't at the office shortly after 9:00am the next morning he started calling me. Even though I had already been working for close to an hour and sent him updated files showing what I had already completed, he wanted me to drive in.

To add to the frustration, we frequently have to travel for work. Of course, no one, including the PM has a problem with work done remotely in those situations.
No, I'm not. I was watching the live feeds - they even put both iPad plus MacBook Air on the scale versus the Surface Pro with the pure intention that one would carry both laptop and tablet on a daily basis, and that they are aiming to have the Surface be a full solution in a single, smaller form factor. Again, it is pretty clear that the intent wasn't to present the weight of product A vs product B, but rather the weight of one solution versus others.

Edit: Otherwise, the comparison is completely redundant - different form factors, different materials, difference screen sizes, etc.

Even the whole theme of the event was that the want the Surface to replace laptops. "You've been told to buy a tablet, but you know you need a laptop. Today we're going to focus on that, and only on that, taking that conflict away."
The fair and forthright thing to do, if that's really the case, is to charge me more. I am their customer, Netflix is not. Comcast's job is to deliver what content I ask for.

Except, they won't do that, because an ISP who will play in good faith will come along and eat their lunch, and their plans are already absurdly expensive.

It's not as if Netflix is blasting unsolicited traffic into Comcast's network that they should somehow compensate them for the inconvenience. "Oh, So sorry! That neighborhood scamp Netflix, blasting their packets all over the place".

The fact that it's Netflix is utterly irrelevant in truth. In the end, Comcast's customers are the ones requesting the data. It's just the simple fact that it's all coming from one source starts the wheels turning, where if it was more spread out, they couldn't come after any one person in particular to seek rent.

>Now, you might expect the capacity of the network to simply increase as a matter of technological progress.

As it has been for the past couple of decades? Yes, that is exactly what I expect.

I'm not saying they shouldn't charge more. I'm saying they shouldn't piss on the internet's leg and tell them it's raining. Don't come to us with that 'But but but capacity!' argument when their behavior with Netflix clearly indicates the opposite, and less so when you're a monopolist with the second worst customer satisfaction score in the entire country, and even more less so when it's their damn problem in the first place!

On top of that, streaming video is a time-sensitive medium and others are not. The sane thing to do (again, assuming this is really a capacity issue, which I absolutely believe is 100% grade A horse manure) would be to throttle down the other, non-time-sensitive packets like torrent, http, mail traffic. Basic QoS.

If you believe this company's stated reasons for anything, you are being played for a fool. They can not be trusted.
Bitcoin is one such thing. Well, not the bitcoin protocol directly, but the basic idea of a block chain can be used for many interesting things, such as decentralised encrypted communication.
I've heard tale that because of the lack of formal structure at Valve, you need political connections to actually get anything done.

Perhaps even more so than places with a formal structure.
> The problem is that we're not starting from scratch. It's a lot harder for the government to justify that expense when there are a number of viable privately-owned alternatives.

This is what the condemnation process is for. The government is unlikely to have to spend $500B to rebuild it; probably much less for the depreciated capital.

> Furthermore, do you trust your city to properly maintain said infrastructure? Because I sure as hell don't. All I have to do is look at the pothole-strewn roads outside my house to know that.

I wouldn't judge that quality of municipal infrastructure maintenance by the number of potholes, because fuel taxes pay for road maintenance, and many jurisdictions haven't raised fuel taxes in decades (i.e. they're not keeping up with inflation).

Instead, you might look to your water, sewage, garbage and electricity services - there, public utilities score quite well, and it's because they're usually not operating at a significant loss.
Maybe some embedded systems distro have tried but as far as I know not any major distro. That would probably uncover quite a lot of bugs and require adaptations since lot of code assume Intel and compatible are either x86 or x86_64 and address memory accordingly.

There are some people trying to port Archlinux to x32 but I really don't know the status.

[edit] An one year old LWN article :
http://lwn.net/Articles/548838/
I don't have a lot of hope for environmental issues. Cable news has managed to turn climate change into a debate where everyone's opinion matters. You even see people who should really know better, on sites like hackernews, saying things like, "there's no scientific consensus" and "we think global warming is happening, but we don't really have an idea of how much of it is the fault of humans".
"Understand the processes you're working on, and the problems that your co-workers are dealing with."

Go further than that. Step back and look at the environment as a whole. It helps to spend time understanding a situation before assuming you have appropriate ideas about changing it (ref. below).

https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=46870dcd-70cb-4ef...
Twitter Considered Buying German Music-Streaming Service
I thought there should be a Broccoli plugin, and then I found this: https://github.com/sindresorhus/broccoli-uncss
Ansible Text Message Notifications with Twilio SMS
I think by labor law you mean socialism, maybe communism.
Sorry to bring up the whole native vs web app debate, but this kind of app is actually a good fit for a native app: access to files, very specific workflows requiring fine-tuned user interface and user experience. Not impossible to do in a web app, but much harder to do right, particularly when your main competitor is a paper notebook that has so much flexibility and is so easy to use.
I just donated $25 to the EFF. I hope everyone else will do the same or more.
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ISPs charge users for the bandwidth they consume (or you pay extra for an unlimited connection, which is often not really unlimited).

So ISPs are already charging consumers for amount of data transferred, and consumers for the size of the pipe (maximum bandwidth).
Can we please stop linking to websites with meta viewport tags that set the maximum scale to 1.0?
I bought a Surface Pro 2 a while back, mostly excited about the digitizer. I was definitely not disappointed.

From a casual digital artist's perspective (read: I draw a webcomic and occasionally dabble in hobbyist animation), this is a dream device. The ability to sit at my desk with the tablet hooked up to KVM via a USB hub, write and edit my script like on any desktop computer, then simply unplug and start drawing right on the screen is an amazingly satisfying work-flow. Looks like the Surface Pro 3 will only make that even better with the larger screen area.

With the right tools that are touch-enabled for panning, zooming, and rotating, it's basically the perfect way to work.
This again? Lavabit was forced to shut because of the way it was implemented, and its proprietor has been cashing in on that design flaw ever since. There is no reason why complying with one search warrant should EVER require disclosure of the SSL cert for the whole domain, or any other disclosure sufficient to read data from customers other than the one covered by the warrant. But this is just what everyone claimed when Lavabit was closing.

If you build a business on selling security to people and you make such a mistake in the design of your software, you failed to deliver what you promised to your customers and you deserve to fail.

And not get bailed out because you thumped your chest about having to service search warrants when you chose to set up in US jurisdiction. If you don't want to be obligated to comply with lawful US requests like search warrants then don't set up in the US.
This is due to patents. I blogged a solution some while ago, but since then removed my the entire blog, here is a raw paste of the original commit: https://gist.github.com/klrr/73ce6da0fb6947ed92a5
Piston: a user friendly open source game engine written in Rust
I've done it multiple times now since I've graduated from college. It makes you uneasy each time and shortly afterwards I definitely questioned myself. But today, I don't regret it one bit.
Smartisan donates 1M RMB to Openssl
The founder of Smartisan, Yonghao Luo, donates 1M RMB to the Openssl organization from the income of launching conference.
Why trust it to a service? Encrypt it yourself.
You just described this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y
Good idea, and no, we don't have anything like that at the moment.
A free alternative for the etymologically inclined is the excellent Online Etymology Dictionary at http://etymonline.com/
Hah, reusing Leaflet is a smart move !

I have 3 remarks:

- I'd like to be able to download the panoramas. They look like a particularly good fit for wallpapers

- If I can't download them, I'd like to see and explore them in fullscreen

- The "back" button doesn't work if you opened a direct link to a panorama

Nice work anyway !
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it is interesting to read that he expected to use the facilities to broadcast a number of his shows while also being part of the park experience. that would likely make it easier for him to spend more time at the park versus at the main studio in burbank.
My (not very scientific) findings while working on nautical equipment for stuff like barges and buoys are that the more weight-efficient a battery is, the less environmentally tough it is. We use SLA batteries wherever we can simply because they are likely to last for years where they're deployed.
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Federal judge rules same-sex marriage ban in Pennsylvania unconstitutional
I mean...there are plenty of really good people who don't smoke marijuana too, and they do an exceptional job recruiting them from schools in the DMV area.

At the University I went to, anyone who expressed interest in security and had good grades could get a ridiculously generous scholarship (tuition + $20k stipend + books + $1000 for conferences, and a guaranteed summer internship). A catch to this is you must be able to get a clearance, and if your clearance is denied you lose the scholarship and have to pay back the money.

Basically, all the students who were not into that kind of stuff went straight for it and had jobs at 3 letter agencies on graduation.

Yeah a lot of security people like marijuana but a lot of them don't.

The way I looked at it was "If I'm going to choose to smoke marijuana I have to be twice as good as everyone else in order to ensure I get a job that does not require a security clearance" (which is odd because I later chose not to smoke marijuana).

But...there are plenty out there who already have no problem getting jobs at these agencies after being clean for 1year or just not being interested in those things.
And/Or paranoid for your personal safety.

"Have someone else start your car for you for the next few days"
Does anyone have any actual working experience with the new pen/stylus capabilities?

The only interesting part of the surface pro was the Wacom digitizer and they are ditching it.

Pricepoint is more attractive, that is for certain.
I'd hardly say it's difficult to upgrade, they've been rolling out network upgrades for the last decade, starting with the 21cn network, then fttc and persumably ftth as an eventual goal.
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The FBI has a much bigger problem: their pay scales are crap. A non-field agent tops out at the end of his or her career as GS14, $110K. You won't get hired into that, of course.
FBI Needs to Hire More Cybercrime Experts, Applicant Pool Is a Bunch of Potheads
This summary is probably misleading. A different perspective on the facts of this case is on display in the 4th Circuit ruling on Levison's contempt charges:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1114...

In short: Levison claims that the DOJ demanded access to the content of all his users messages, and implies that after he complied with that order, they escalated to demand his TLS keys.

But that doesn't seem to be what happened. A fuller timeline of Lavabit might (please correct me) look like this:

t-n..t: Levison complies with numerous court orders demanding information about users of Lavabit.

t: Levison is served with a court order demanding the metadata associated with Snowden. It is unclear whether this demand is actuated by a device that DOJ mandates installation of, but what is clear is that there was a debate between Levison and the DOJ about Levison's capabilities w/r/t/ furnishing the DOJ with information about Snowden's account.

t+1: Levison refuses to comply with the DOJ order, while indicating that he has the technical capacity to comply with at least some of it.

t+2: DOJ escalates with a magistrate court order requiring that Lavabit use its technical capabilities to defeat its encryption of Snowden's information --- a capability that Levison acknowledges having, that is obvious from the design of Lavabit, and that has a precedent in other "secure" email providers.

t+2..t+13: Levison spends 11 days stonewalling DOJ, refusing not only to comply with the order but also to meet with the DOJ. Per the 4th Circuit: "As each day passed, the Government lost forever the ability to collect the target-related data for that day.". Levison is playing chicken, and DOJ is now furious.

t+13: DOJ arranges to compel Levison to appear at a district court hearing, while reiterating that it requires only the metadata information surrounding Snowden's account.

t+14..t+17: Levison delays 4 more days.

t+17: Levison, via his attorneys, replies to the DOJ's order with a counterproposal that involves billing DOJ for his time, collecting a limited set of information, and furnishing it to DOJ only at the conclusion of the entire collection period.

t+20: DOJ, furious and contending that they've lost all reasonable faith in Levison's cooperation with their investigation, demands the TLS keys for Lavabit in order that they can control the collection of the data they need from Lavabit.

Again: please correct details here where I'm wrong.

Most readers of this thread will have enormous sympathy for Levison and his efforts to stymie the DOJ's investigation of Snowden through his account on Lavabit.

However, a jaundiced, cynical, or purely pragmatic reader might also find grave flaws in Levison's response to this situation. His position on the matter does not appear to have been content-neutral: he complied with previous orders. More importantly, when an order came in for an account he had a personal interest in, he escalated matters so that DOJ would end up compromising everyone's information, by playing a game of chicken he was sure to lose.
I think this review does a great job of talking about this book in relationship to our cultural moment, heavily directed by Silicon Valley and the internet, about the question of living a life displayed. Because that's what we are encouraged to do. Blog us, Post for us, Make Videos, Dance for us, Mug for us, Twitter us, on and on.

Stoner suggests that this is not what matters, and I think the book is right. What matters is not what we display ourselves to be, but who we actually are. Almost the antithesis of the internet.

Anyways, Read Stoner.
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I applaud Ladar for making the right choice on this one. On one hand, there's a lot of skepticism about an email service whose security breaks as soon as the private keys are stolen. On the other hand, assuming Ladar is a smart individual who knows how to securely store the keys (he is), he couldn't possibly have foreseen that the government would embroil him in a cat-and-mouse game.
Ok, so the thing where heartbleed 'disproves' the many eyes theory has really got to stop, especially when used like a mallet as it is here. Many eyes has diminishing returns, but that doesn't mean that it isn't effective to a point. Bugs of similar scope have existed in proprietary software as long or longer, and have often even been deliberately placed as backdoors.

Not to say that many eyes has been proven either, but you're going to need something a lot more solid than heartbleed to assert that it's demonstrably untrue that proprietary software has more bugs because fewer people read it.
Google may provide results that are more relevant based on you looking for someone you are in a community with, whose pages you are searching for are relevant based on searches you have made.

This specifically relies on keeping information about you that DDG won't.
One of the biggest things I took from making my web front-ends section 508 compliant is to ensure that any icon doesn't use color alone to convey information. I also take this into practice when doing presentations, as one of my PMs was R/G color blind (we decided to include a letter to indicate G/Y/R status in addition to the color).

What's amazing is how many interfaces in real life still fails at a level where even a non-color-blind person like me can see it on a daily basis.
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> But around 2006, Apple started focusing on the upcoming iPhone and downprioritized OS X development. Nowadays it's all about making OS X more and more like iOS. They no longer care about pro users.

This is a very compelling narrative, but the set-up simply does not support the conclusion.

Making OSX more like iOS (sandboxing, for instance) is an incredibly welcome feature for pro users and newbs alike.

The other changes you point out are not related to the iOS-ification of the OS, and are not specifically "this isn't for pro users" sorts of changes as much as they are rearchitectures of the subsystems... it doesn't seem related to some "ignore the pro users" push.

I suggest you buy a usb network interface and pass the device through to a VM (Vagrant+VirtualBox is great for this) for your pentesting - then you get the best of both worlds.
Your website is seen to reflect the quality & state of your product - by extension it _is_ your product.

I realize all the negative feedback must be demoralizing, but humans are silly beasts who have knee-jerk reactions to most things, and don't bother delving any further. Unfortunately, it's often best to cater to that.
It seems a little much to blame lavabit for sitting in the USA with its constitutional protections of free speech and privacy, and suggest it should set up in say a offshore banking haven, few of which have constitutions and a couple have dictatorial-like powers.

Additionally can you explain how he got the architecture "wrong"?

Edit: Précis of the architecture of Lavabit from http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/lavabit-critique/

Lavabit kept your private key on their server, but encrypted it with your plaintext password which you sent them if you wanted to read your mail. That's pretty rubbish in many ways as the article rather even handey points out. A sentiment I am agreeing with - we applaud him for standing up, not for being perfect.
My settings already include antialiasing and hinting (with medium level). The only difference I see is that in your configuration autohint is true across all fonts (not in mine). I enabled it for a few fonts only, since it's recommended not to use it for all:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration#Auto...

> The Autohinter attempts to do automatic hinting and disregards any existing hinting information. Originally it was the default because TrueType2 fonts were patent-protected but now that these patents have expired there's very little reason to use it. It does work better with fonts that have broken or no hinting information but it will be strongly sub-optimal for fonts with good hinting information. Generally common fonts are of the later kind so autohinter will not be useful.

Anyway, I don't think it's related to the shifted letter "i".

By the way, how does fontconfig translate to the Web fonts? Is there any way to affect them through it on the individual basis and not with global configuration?

UPDATE: Just found this: https://necoro.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/matching-web-fonts-w...
Most devs I've seen on macs use vim, which not to get into a flamewar, seems obsessed with turning into emacs in about 10 years or so. It seems to be completely bandwagon to me.
I think what we witnessed was a tipping of the scales on those issues in terms of public opinion. Very slow to get to this point, but once it starts moving, it moves pretty fast.
I guess it's possible I got a really good deal! I got a late 2011-model from ebay around this time last year (so May 2013), which turned out to be new in the box (but I wouldn't have minded a refurb), for $1199 plus tax.

I guess you're right that PCs retain their value even worse, but even $2000 to $1300 in a bit more than a year seems like a good deal.
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In my experience, anything with display:none is not rendered by the browser and doesn't take up any real resources. I've used this trick with infinite side scrolling slide show type interfaces when I found that beyond about 20 elements, things started slowing to a crawl. Setting offscreen elements to display:none fixed it right up.
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but I think this will do that:

https://code.google.com/p/nsscache/