skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually lived with a DRE for several months, and he's a drinking buddy of mine (works at GM too). The first thing you need to understand is the pressure DRE's are under.

It sounds odd, but General Motors is a large and complex entity. Their release system is old and buggy, not to mention never completely overhauled, just constantly having more checks ticked on when ever a recall happens. This is actually true at Ford too, the Big 3 hold on to technology a lot longer then other companies. Ford's time clock system is still ran on emulated System360's using MTS a circa 1967 OS.

Lastly DRE's are more of a projects internal sales arm (they sell the product to management. A DRE's job is to also get the test results from the test engineer, get it to the management, take the managements complaints to the designers/hardware engineers, and relay the tests plans back to the test engineers.

Basically high technical middle management. Their responsibilities at some companies may involve actually writing test plans, sometimes not. I don't believe GM does directly but somebody under the DRE does this.

Ultimately the DRE is just the guy who gets all the forms to all the right people so he can push the plans into the system. And takes all the responsibility when a product fails. On top of that your normally managing 5-6 products concurrently, each taking 18-72 months to clear the system. Your work load is basically endless meetings 500+ email a day, and 100+ phone calls.
I'm completely on the other side of the fence. I NEVER use Facebook or Google (or Twitter) to log into anything. If a company only allows that for sign up, I never sign up for those products.
What's the export format, do you know?
It's kind of interesting how both Norton and McAfee faded into obscurity (or tried to) after publishing and eventually detaching from security software -- and probably not coincidental.
OT: I tried to get hold of a copy of Sidekick plus so I could play Vogon Poetry, but could not find this anywhere. So if anyone has a copy of Sidekick plus with Vogon Poetry....
I think there's more to it than being cyclical. We have experimented with a lot of styles over the centuries and we have arrived at a situation where many of them have been absorbed into the mainstream.

For a person alive today, there is just an immense repertoire of clothing styles to choose from. If you look at the crowd in a reasonable metropolitan street you'll probably see most clothing and hair styles of the last 100 years around, at least.
The Moto E SOC has two relatively slow A7 cores and a slow graphics chip though. Something to keep in mind.
> Very few people got hurt and very few people do today. Even if they completely burn out its a low risk.

Exactly; many people never seem to realise the relative risks. From [1] and [2] we find that "consumer products" (in total, and not just defective AC adapters) electrocuted approximately 50 people in the US in 2008, while in that same year 37,423 were killed in a car accident, or over 100/day on average. In light of this, is it really safer to drive to the Apple store to exchange a fake USB adapter for a real one...? Once in a while someone does get killed and it makes the news and causes panic, but the fact that these stories are so rare compared to all the other fatalities reported in the news should be an indication that the risk is almost negligible in comparison.

[1] https://www.cpsc.gov/Media/Documents/Research--Statistics/In...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...
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We tried both in the UK. Conclusions, roughly, it works for health, not so well for telecoms. I think the best is some sort of hybrid.
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"OH NO HOW DO I SIGN INTO FLICKR NOW" said the 0.00001% of people who still use Flickr.
"A loss of X dollars is always the responsibility of an executive whose financial responsibility exceeds X dollars."

- Gerald Weinberg's 'First Principle of Financial Management' and 'Second Rule of Failure Prevention' [1]

[1] 'First-Order Measurement', Quality Software Management, Volume 2, Gerald Weinberg, Dorset House Publishing, 1993
I was hoping Mozilla Persona would have taken off by now. It's a more usable and has better privacy than OpenID. I'm still excited for it.
Can't imagine life without this anymore. How it frees up the ~5 tabs of docs I used to have open in another window is worth it alone

For those of you on OSX, the integration with Alfred[0] is also stellar.

[0] - http://www.alfredapp.com/
I'm of the opposite opinion because the seven laws of identity (http://www.identityblog.com/?p=352). Specifically law 3 (justifiable parties):

Digital identity systems must be designed so the disclosure of identifying information is limited to parties having a necessary and justifiable place in a given identity relationship.
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How about the upgrade[1]? The Redmi/hongmi/redrice 1s has a 1.6GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, rather than the 1.5GHz MediaTek MT6589T

[1] http://www.ishoppstore.com/en/quad-core/4697-xiaomi-red-rice...
Looks like a solid option, I love it when companies ditch non-integral aspects of their budget to improve functionality or form of their product. That's also why I shop at Aldi, because you get lower prices with the same quality products, at the cost of having to put a quarter into the cart, bag your own items, and even bring your own bags (or use empty boxes).

That said, I've been ditching smart phones lately in favor of dumb phones. Not only is life too short to be attached to a gadget all day long, but you can't beat the price (roughly $7 a month for an emergency mobile phone).
Would you really need to buy Mozilla to use Rust lang ? For App development, isn't Go a nicer language then Java ? And isn't that enough ? Firefox, just released Firefox OS. It's been my primary Browser under Ubuntu and Mac OSX.
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Hi Bill! I think it's a great idea and got here doing a search to change my email provider.
Some thoughts:
- Provide my old email to you in order to create a new one is a leak of privacy.
- Pay it with credit card would be too.
- Anonymity is good together with privacy because you diminish losses when something goes wrong
- This is trend and I bet on it.
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You're not alone on that side. Every service must have its own user/password. Single sign on with fb/g+/etc is convenient but it is good especially for those companies.
Flickr does have one huge selling point, which is the 1tb account size for free accounts. Combined with a python upload bot, you can backup all your photos and videos for free to private albums.

The newest version of the UX is also very nice, IMO. I often use it to show friends and family photos over and above just using Windows because the albums look so nice on a big screen.
Only if you had enough money to survive for 2 months...
I have a Huawei Ascend P1 LTE. It's certainly cheap. I wouldn't describe it as reliable; it was very prone to locking up if you disabled and later re-enabled the wifi. They released an OTA firmware update which mostly fixed this, but now the screen is starting to blister in a few places.
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Same here. And for the editor, I stick to Sublime Text.
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This has been the single best investment i've made to my workflow for years. Really communicative, friendly developer too.
Dash is great. The only reason I don't use it is that it offers only latest docset versions; once you update (in-app, great feature) the docsets, there is no way to access previous versions.

I would pay and use it immediately if I could access all versions (for example, Django 1.0 thru 1.7 etc)
OS X is surprising to me. This is something that should be cross platform.
I've been getting into electronics lately and really loving it! My inspiration was my new Atreus keyboard[1] (first one ever sold!) and the epiphany while playing Minecraft that making your own (useful) stuff is tons of fun and super rewarding. And it doesn't have to be computer programming anymore!

So I booked it to Radio Shack and bought the Make: Electronics book and the accompanying kit. (I could have scoured for the individual parts, this book lists them and recommends it, but it was a nice convenience to have a pre-made kit by the same company, and presumably the same author.) And so far I've only learned about resistors, capacitors, and other basic circuitry, and it's a bit math-heavy, but it's really exciting!

I also have a serious electronics project in mind that acts as really good useful motivation. It's a toy that's probably relevant to HN, and if I ever accomplish it, I plan to share it here.

Hobbyist electronics is really fun, and so far I recommend it! (That said, I have no ambitions about inventing the next great CPU or memory chip -- you probably need decades of college-level education and experience on this to be able to innovate at any serious level these days.)

[1]: http://atreus.technomancy.us/
The latest update of Dash added support for older versions. If any version you need is missing, let me know and I'll add it ASAP.
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Let me add: Hopefully they will end using 3rd party comment systems that forces you to either break the rules (fake Facebook etc accounts) or sign every comment with you full online profile.

(In at least a few foras I frequent the result is that in most controversial case you miss out a whole lot of reasonable but not politically correct voices. Real trolls either don't care about Terms and Conditions and create another fake account or they troll using full name and address.)
For #1, we use Fourchette (https://github.com/jipiboily/fourchette), which means we have a Heroku fork of our QA env for each GitHub PR.

For merges to master, we submit other pull requests that we call "Release: ...". We can then see if CI and Rainforest tests are passing, if all is green, then we merge! :)
yes, what's your email address?
Really like the syntax highlighting in the Markdown editor! Is this an open source lib, or something custom?
This is amazing; I'm sure I wasn't the only one to make that feature request on twitter - so happy to see it, thanks very much.
That functional might not be the best damned paradigm on the planet for every use case? :)
What about if you make a screen capture from the page and use coordinates to read back the colours and correlate with the URLs? Seems a possibility based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9250505/how-to-upload-a-s....
Blame the engineer.
Hmm. Lets see. Will I ever buy Government Motors in my life?
That would be a no.
Ask HN: what app would you use for this job?
I am currently working as a consultant for a company in the tourism/travel/leisure sector.
Sometimes I have to sit to the side of one of their users and ask them to work through the steps they have to follow while using a legacy system (partially exposed via web, partially via character interface).

I noticed that what I tend to do is to take notes on a notepad, and supplement these with screenshots I ask the user to take, or just shoot with my iPhone.

Considering I also have an Android tablet which so far I haven't found much use for, I was wondering if there is an app (either iOS or Android) that could allow me to take notes (typed via keyboard), interspersed with pictures taken with the device camera, and annotated with freehand writings, doodles, drawings, all as a single document (a sort of vertically infinite scrolling sheet) and finally export it to some sane document format to postprocess on a desktop.

Thanks for any suggestions.
Coincidentally, I cancelled my Yahoo/Flickr accounts earlier this week. Perfect timing.
I'm Dash's developer. Currently there is Zeal, that has access to all of Dash's docsets - http://zealdocs.org. Native apps for iOS and Windows are also under development and recently an app for Android has been released (http://lovelydocs.io/). Note: these apps are made by other developers, I'm just providing the docsets.
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Excuse me?

Google+ share the quota with gmail. Gmail currently offers 7 or more free GB. Additional GBs are cheap (although they have new price structure now.)

Also pictures 2048px (*) or smaller doesn't count towards the quota (and you can easily, in g+ settings on phone, choose to only upload photos resized to that size if you don't want to pay for extra storage.)
I had a very similar idea a while back, except I was measuring onAnimationFrame times with a carefully crafted CSS stylesheet to determine which links were being painted as :visited automatically and completely hidden from the user.

Accuracy varied a lot between computers but in ideal circumstances (only browser running) it would have ~90% accuracy on each of 25 links I was testing against - the test took about 8 secs to run though.

Interestingly it never worked particularly well in chrome - chrome seemed to stop painting :visited elements after a certain amount which prevented it from working.
Commits with unrelated changes should be multiple commits.
My use case was an online IDE where instead of using javascript to code webapps,users would use Ruby to do the same.But since opal doesnt expose window object,it's pretty useless for me. Maybe you have a solution for that,but I just didnt find one.
Isn't this just evidence of how broad of a definition "functional" programming is? It is the scottsman of programming debates. (Though, I suspect any "paradigm" example will fall into this trap.)
I think the dynamics of photo sharing changed from the "old" days when everyone with an SLR thought they were a pro.

Finally people are taking photos for themselves and sharing the majority of them with the people who can appreciate them (aka friends and family).
Should explain itself better.
All I get is a bunch of grey boxes (no red ones) and if I click done I get "Your interests are:"
Great developer too. I've put in docs request (for ColdFusion) and he constantly sought feedback from me to ensure it was presented in the best way possible and if he was unsure about something himself.
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Didn't like it. Why use Dash if you have Google?
But maybe I'm missing something. I'll try new version.
I can't believe you two are talking about this crap. Come on.
Beside technical reasons I think that Mozilla is more trustworthy than Google or Facebook.
Why do people hate images and videos so much? It's a GUI library! I skimmed the whole readme and have no idea what it looks like and found no link that would make me any smarter. Am I weird in this regard?
We're obviously not all in agreement about how identity should work online (let alone how it works offline), which is kind of a big problem considering identity is something every single one of us automatically has from birth. We may never agree on it, but we may at least mostly agree on it one day (outliers never go away).

In the meantime, I'm okay with some level of fluctuation in the practice of online identities, since it indicates some level of (at least attempted) innovation, and trial-and-error at the internet level is never really that bad of a thing.

So yeah, this would probably be annoying for a while. But let's see how it pans out.
My use-case is the three hours a day I'm on the train without stable internet :)
Hello, It's an open source lib called http://codemirror.net/

But we add a lot of custom features on it.
This fallacy is in a nutshell why people are irrationally mad about HFT.

He's providing liquidity to the market for the tickets. Think about it: if he can come along and sell the tickets for a markup, why won't the sellers sell directly to the buyers and capture that whole amount for themselves? The reason is that they want to unload the ticket quickly and with less hassle, and finding that high-bidding buyer takes more time than finding the scalper. Similarly, why doesn't the buyer seek out a seller himself? Because it takes more time. Otherwise, both would be irrational to interact with him rather than directly. By interposing himself in the transaction, he makes the process easier and quicker for both buyer and seller, and that provided value.
Just bought this recently. I feel that I got my money back with all the time won over Google searches multiple times already. The low latency and absence of unrelated results helps me stay in the flow. For me the trick was to assign a global shortcut to invoke the tool.
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As far as git is concerned, the PNG file is just a bag of bits. It will record the changes in the IDAT chunks just as with changes in any other files. The images would appear identical on GitHub because they haven't changed visually.
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It's platform-native. It looks like your platform. What else do you need to know?
We use Fourchette (https://github.com/jipiboily/fourchette), which means we have a Heroku fork of our QA env for each GitHub PR.

Also, once something is on develop/staging, it is about to be shipped. If there is any bug in there, they are they should be fixed ASAP.

As we grow, we might have to do things differently, we'll see, but this works really well for us right now. :)
For anyone planning to hack on this data with Python, you might find some kindred spirits at the Beijing Python Meetup this Monday June 9th:

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Depends on how social and how photography-focused you want the service to be. Pixter is one option: http://pixter.in.
Yes, let us create an in-house crappy forum system. Better yet, let's use a crappy Open Source solution which was designed 15 years ago.

Some cloud services are used because they're actually useful and good at what they do.
Call me stupid, but I can't get simple question answered by reading the page: What is Dash? A website? Locally run server listening at 8080? Desktop application? From the screenshots I guess it is probably OSX app, but is it so hard to put it clearly somewhere in the top?
Offline use, speed, and software integration.

When I'm at the cottage (no internet) I can still use the keyboard shortcut from my editor to instantly pop up the docs for something.
They practically are in the UK under misuse of computer act.
Agree. Some kind of group hope, a part of issue w/ the Java lang. Data points in the other direction:
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/java.php
I'd rather have the tedium of managing 50 different logins than consolidating them all to something like Facebook.
pngcrush optimizes the file losslessly. Looks the same, smaller file size. Since the file does change, git will see a difference (doesn't care what it looks like). To a user, viewing the diff through this Github feature, it would look like nothing changed between commits.
Yeah, the links are about stand up comedians, because he tried to relax a bit and make the presentation fun!

"Professional environment", as in "Advertising a product". Take 10m and watch some advertising. This is no better or worse!

The world don't need more Drama Queens.

Would it be sexist if this was "Boyfriend", this has nothing to do with gender. The presenter could be a girl.

This "tech sexist" thing, is bullshit! Skills worth more than your balls. No one cares about your gender.
Dash is great combined with Alfred. I changed the keyword to a period (.) with no space so lookups look like ".extend" and bam I get the results for extend from four docsets.
Wait, are you talking about 2.1.1? Can you describe how it works or point to docs or something?
You brave soul. I hope you accomplish what you've started - LibreOffice GUI improvements, especially regarding the foundations, are greatly appreciated.

Would it be possible, long term, to use Qt? I mean switch the current components to be based on Qt and then, over time, actually start using Qt?
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I travel a lot. And I'm thinking about buying a houseboat in France. I wish I'd seen this years ago. Happily purchased.

I can't believe this hasn't come up before - we had a big discussion about working offline on cruise ships and it wasn't mentioned. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697787
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I have a background in sysadmin work both server/application level and also have background in security (monitoring, scanning, analysis and remediation). Looking for a collaborative environment to join no problem is too big or too small! Remote or within the Midwest but open to the idea of other places if the fit is right.
Netflix does allow for caching at the ISP level.
> Excuse me?

Unrelated to your original comment, but as a British person when I see the use of "Excuse me?" it seems very coarse and sometimes can appear rude.

It is interesting, because my wife (who isn't British and English is her second language) uses this often (as do her friends) and sometimes it appears out of place and is misread as rude (which she is not usually trying to be).

I'm not complaining or dissing you at all, I find these small linguistic nuances very interesting :)
Objective-C doesn't have generics either and is/was the blessed API language on your chosen OS. The horror!
I only use it for writing comments on blogs, where it's easier than making a login I will never use again.
Of course people do mistakes and fail to follow procedures. That is why the company should have processes to catch dangerous mistakes and omissions in place. If one low level guy can cause such huge problems, then there is something very wrong with the way whole process works.
Still surprised there's no intermediate version though. Usually there's one in the 300-500MB, the 90MB is a tiny bit too small.
If anyone has a friend spot available I would love to learn how to create games with this course.

thechinpokoman@hotmail.com is my email. If everything works out I might even work with someone on a small project too, I'm an artist in my spare time and must admit my game programming skills aren't very good.
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There is no DRM on music files, and I don't think the movie/TV industry cares about the analog-out audio.