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Not accurate right now. Firefox and Chrome spoke about this at EdgeConf this year, along with the remotedebug founder, and basically said "Please go forth and develop a shim layer common protocol in the community. However, all browser vendors standardizing to a common protocol would slow us down too much."
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQG6PljqmLc#t=1013 (around this timecode)
I thought it died years ago - had no idea that it was still a live service.
How are your funemployed friends financing their lifestyles? Are they single or married?
I believe you are reading the text too lightly. "Consensus reality shared by everyone around her" and "reality as all of Dani’s friends and colleagues knew it" is an explicit way to say that this was not "reality" but only what people believed was reality in the early 1980s.

I thought I understood what you meant by "set protocol." Now I don't. Could you tell me what it means? Why doesn't he get to set the protocol? (You may disagree with it, but that's different, no?) If not the author, who does? The subject? If the author is correct, then "post-op Dani was never offended in the least about being referred to as a man when conversations came around to her years of living as Dan."

The blog series is a historical progression of the evolution of computer games, with an emphasis on adventure-style games. It tries to place the reader in the context of the times, and include quotes culled from various references. At that time, she was known as the man Dan Bunten.

Consider the quote "(Speakeasy’s founder Brian Beninger: “Dan called out of the blue one day and spoke to Toni [Brian's wife]. She had never experienced an accent from the southern United States and had trouble understanding him…”)". Should the author rewrite the quote to use "Dani"/"her" instead of "Dan"/"him"?

BTW, are you basing your response only on the first essay and the single quoted paragraph from the second essay I linked to? Because the author goes into more detail which I didn't quote but might be relevant. Based on the paragraph previous to the one I quoted, I believe the author has decided the protocol will be to include a bit of explanation of future events, before settling in on a non-anachronistic telling. For example, Bunten is not the only important trans individual in gaming. Consider http://www.filfre.net/2014/03/10/ :

> According to Hales, it was he and another of Wolosenko’s favorite programmers, William Mataga, who planted the idea of doing adventure games in Wolosenko’s head in late 1983. (William Mataga had a sex change some years ago and now lives as Cathryn Mataga. I refer to her by her previous name and gender in this article only to avoid historical anachronisms.)

I think this is similar to, say, a history of Malcom X which covers the historical period when he was still called by his slave name of Little, or of "many young women [in the feminist movement of the 1960s who] changed their patronyms to more descriptive ones or dropped them altogether", quoting from Jo Freemen's description of her movement name Joreen.
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This is fantastic and I'm really glad it's being bundled with Firefox and not as a separate download.

As I've said elsewhere, a lot of kids still assume that programming is essentially "magic" done by professionals and they implicitly assume there is no way to getting started at their education level (This is especially true if their parents are non-technical, as mine were). All the resources in the world may exist, but they may not be obvious unless you look for them. When I was a kid I assumed that programmers were all professionals with a billion years of training and their own special equipment. Today I know the only difference between a programmer and a yet-to-be-programmer kid are bigger feet and a coffee addiction, the computers are the very same. But I didn't know that back then - I wish someone told me.

I think it is extremely healthy to have the lowest bar possible to go from "Hey I like that" to "Can I do that? Can I make it myself?" Putting an IDE inside the browser, having no other dependencies between viewing web-pages and making web-pages is an incredible first step.

I await the day any kid asks "How do I make my own webpages?" and we can answer "You've already got everything you need, just press F12."

There's an art to making seemingly insurmountable things appear doable, like becoming a programmer if you have no programmer role models, and I think we should give it more attention. The web makes it easier than ever, and while a bundled IDE isn't going to be the Geocities or Bob Ross equivalent, it's definitely the next step in reducing the friction of getting started.

Bravo, Firefox team.
So the governments are responsible for every bug now? I'm not so quick to absolve guilt from shitty development. There are many developers that take a lot of shortcuts, with hardcoded passwords and the like.

If we were talking a handful of bugs, your argument would make sense. But we're talking about tens of thousands.
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Unemployment rocks.

I've done quite a bit of it over the years. Americans (and probably a lot of other people around the world) have internalized this utterly BS "you are your work" ethos that causes them to actually feel guilty when not making money. The widely-believed, though not always stated, societal value judgment is that if you're not useful enough for others to pay you money, you're not valuable. If you're not willing to trade life-hours for money, you're lazy and therefore not valuable. The only escape from this judgment is to do socially accepted "wow that's so cool I wish I could do that" things like travel or taking extended ski trips or spending weeks climbing mountains. The key is, you should be expending considerable money and/or effort doing this things in order for your lack of money-making initiative to be excusable for any extended length of time.

Thoreau spent much of his life not working, but "sauntering" in the woods, studying and enjoying nature. He would be excoriated as a worthless loafer in today's America, and that only shows how far we've fallen, in my opinion, in our vision of what a life should be like. When people ask me, as they frequently do, what I've "been doing" (meaning, what work) I frequently respond "hanging out". Out of embarrassing weakness I sometimes add "and traveling", knowing that I'm being judged and that traveling is a semi-acceptable excuse for a lack of effort to turn the hours of my life into money. Articles like this help to lessen that weakness.
I think you hit on the real problem. Most American's do not really care about other American's problems unless they're very closely related or the other problems are impacting them in some negative way.

I do not see a good way to fix that since that attitude seems to directly spawn from our highly-individualistic vision of society.
I think I may add your description of a senior engineer to my CV. I can see that these are the qualities I have built up over the years, while my intimate knowledge of programming languages has gone down, as I have used more of them. No one ever list these skills in job ads though....
US Citizens anywhere in the world, and non-citizens in the US are afforded legal protections unavailable to anyone else. I don't remember exactly what they are, but I think it's whether or not the protections in the Constitution apply, Greenwald has written about it if you want to do some googling.
We're you notified of it's removal?

Imagine having 10,000 files up there and they delete one...that would keep me up at night.
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What is your goal here? You say you want to "bring it alive" and that could be as easy as sharing your idea somewhere like HN.

If you don't have a good budget for the project, or don't want to partner with a technical cofounder then I would advise against trying to run a business based on expertise you don't have.
Could someone from the US please explain the whole thing behind US citizens/foreigners being considered deserving of different levels of protection with regards to human rights? Are those of us not blessed with US citizenship somehow less "worthy"? Is it really the case that conducting surveillance or drone strikes against foreigners is any different, morally and ethically, than those against US citizens?

To be honest, from an outsider's view this comes across as a very arrogant and entitled attitude. I most certainly sympathise with and share the outrage many Americans feel about their government's abuses of human rights, but there seems to be a view among some quarters that it's only because they're Americans that it's a problem, and forget everyone else. I've also seen this attitude in my own country (Australia) with regards to some of our regional neighbours.

What happened to "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"?

I realise that to some that these questions may come across as trolling, but I'm genuinely curious about how we arrived at this state of affairs.
It's neat and all, but please Mozilla, don't include this with Firefox. At the very least, have a separate lean-version that doesn't have this "fluff" included. And a developer/power-user version that includes it. I understand that web-app development is big, and it's the "new-desktop", but that doesn't mean that this awesome browser should include everything and the kitchen sink.
I'm quite familiar with what it is, thank you, you missed the point.

If/when you start working professionally, you'll learn why my initial comment got upvoted.
The "Google analytics from Yandex" does it pretty good as well. https://metrika.yandex.com/
This architecture can definitely save a bundle on storage costs but usually it runs into slowness when resizing, or, run into problems with image quality when resizing repeatedly.

22ms for a GraphicsMagick resize is quite fast. I'm curious what the average input and output sizes were used when computing that number?
This is mentioned in the comments in the TCP implementation of the Linux kernel:

373 * ... Note that 120 sec is
374 * defined in the protocol as the maximum possible RTT. I guess
375 * we'll have to use something other than TCP to talk to the
376 * University of Mars.

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/n...
From a business point of view, Second Life is a huge success. Just in the last few years, it's been massively profitable. Hence why Linden Labs has been able to fund so many new projects at once (I think they are working on four new games now?)

So, saying that it's "dying" is overstating things a bit. They found their niche (whatever the hell niche they are serving), and there's little motivation to change.
Qualifications are hard. I just graduated, and now that I'm a CEO I can tell you there's no way I'd hire someone just because they have my degree. At RPI (my school), there are at least as many completely worthless developers as there are diamonds, and they all have one degree.

I don't trust qualifications alone.
They have a small amount of savings, they live a very cheap life - no phone, no TV, no new car. They live off the land a little (hunting, fishing, vegetable garden) etc. etc.

EDIT: I should add, some are single, some are married, some have kids.
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I'm currently making my living on a game that's hosted within Second Life, http://mossms.com. I used to work for Linden Lab. It's good to see them trying to move forward. I've long felt like the people there mostly don't understand Second Life, what draws people to it, what makes it special, or what it could be. There's a future in virtual worlds, but I'll be very surprised if that future is brought to us by Linden Lab. They've been kind of adrift for a few years. Maybe they'll get their groove back!
Thanks, I've never heard of this before and it sounds very useful.

...Or rather, it would be very useful were it not for the fact that it only appears to run on Linux and OS X, whereas my employer-granted computer is running—drumroll, please—Windows XP! And like I said, these are all internal applications, and I don't have the authority to VPN in on any computer that I please.

Ah well. Enterprise bureaucracy strikes again. :\
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After working in SF for ~6 months, I returned to Oklahoma to graduate from University. That turned into 4 months of fun-employment in Arkansas.

Things I learned:

- You can live about 4 months in Arkansas on 1 month of SF rent.

- When you set goals for yourself and miss them, it is very easy to isolate the cause. You.

- Time seems to pass slower.
Personally, I am shocked that everyone applaudes such a thing on HackerNews. Is that what programming means nowadays ? Copy-pasting random code snippets from StackOverflow, gluing them with other code snippets found elsewhere and hoping that it compiles. Anyway, OP seems to have done a good job; he has identified what modern programming means and provided an excellent tool to increase today programmers productivity. Excellent ... and hopeless.
Freedom is cyclical...
When oligarchs rule, they unknowingly give power to anyone who will appeal to the mob... Whoever picks up that power will claim it's for the "good of the people", and the people will gladly trade their freedoms to be free of the oppressive rich elites...
A people without freedom and dependent on their king for everything is a weak people, and eventually their empire will fall to pieces through some combination of internal fighting and weak external threats.
Falling apart is hard as the people have no emperor providing free bread anymore and the people must learn to fend for themselves again... from this rises individualism and freedom once again. Cyclical.
Browsed around your site - how do you guys handle encryption of data? Or do you even? I'd look into using this with S3, but only if client side encryption is somehow offered.
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Did you see the quote I provided?
But gives another ways to track the money that was paid. It's a matter of authorities catching up with the technology.
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Google Interview is toughest above all, So just added about it. I want to set the bar higher, prepare for "Toughest Google Interview" and all other interviews wouldn't be too difficult to crack.
It's funny, strong type systems are really about explicit documentation. I'm sure the comments are good but translating a spec into Haskell types is a form of strong and explicit documentation that is also functional.
Ask HN: where/how to find programming tutors?
What are some of the successful ways HNers have found programming tutors/advice?

As a junior develop doing contract work, I don't really have access to senior-level engineering advice, and I would pay for the ability to have a stronger / senior engineer mentor me on the week nights/weekends, run through old and current code projects, teach me best practices, etc. In-person would be ideal, but open to the idea of virtual sessions if there's a good resource out there.

(I attend programming-related discussions and hackathons via Meetup, but am looking for more direct mentorship from developers)
I'm curios about the CSS naming conventions.

I'm assuming for example that component--modifier-name denotes a class modifier (ex. .button--primary and .button--secondary) and component__descendant-name denotes a a descendent node of a component (ex articles-list__item).

It looks similar to SuitCSS (https://github.com/suitcss/suit/blob/master/doc/naming-conve...).
Is there more information about them?
Show HN: Hublo – Retarget your visitors based on what they do on your site
Thanks, I gave up after a few pages
Great comment.

Things like the military bureaucracy or the financial system can be hostile to us because their incentives are very much out of line with humanistic goals.

I do think it's legitimate to be at least a little concerned about future even more powerful and non-human AIs being hostile in the same way. What happens when/if there are corporations out there run by alien computer minds that seek goals that have no overlap at all with human beings? Would an AI care about climate change? Would it care about the health of the world's biological ecosystem? Would it care about providing a decent life for its employees? It could -- out of mere indifference -- seem quite sociopathic and evil to any humans that live under its influence. Imagine a super-intelligent mind whose goal function is maximizing short term quarterly shareholder value. This isn't just a programmed-in goal function either... this is actually a form of intelligence whose embodiment is the corporation, so it's a survival and fertility imperative. In a sense you can't blame the thing, but you could blame its creators.

Humans can of course do the same, but even with sociopathic humans there is some sense of common overlapping interest. At the very least their motives are comprehensible. AIs may have motives that seem almost "Lovecraftian" to us-- completely alien and bizarre. On top of that biological short term shareholder value imperative, try layering an Aspergers-like obsession about certain patterns in information, or some kind of bizarre AI-conceived religious mission, etc. Extremely intelligent humans can be religious fundamentalists, so why couldn't similar forms of "functional madness" exist among non-human intelligences? One of the pollyanna assumptions of the singularity crowd is that AI would necessarily be rational. Why?

Edit:

I cannot recommend this book enough. It's probably the best and most overlooked work of SF in the past 20 years:

http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts-ebook/dp/B003K1...

It deals very intelligently with this kind of thing. It's basically a monster story where the monster is something out of Ph.D level evolutionary ecology-- and it manages to actually be scary. Very intellectually satisfying "reveal." :)

I think what it ultimately comes down to is this: we do not live in a post-scarcity world, and we're not going to for the foreseeable future. Given that our existence involves a certain amount of unavoidable haggling over resources -- and given that our own labor is itself a resource -- we should be a little concerned about what sorts of beings we might end up having to haggle with. This also applies to human genetic engineering and augmentation, since that could also produce essentially alien intelligences.

I'm not against researching these topics. In fact I'd almost call myself a transhumanist / posthumanist in sentiment. But I do think it's advisable to give the matter some serious thought. Bad things can and do happen. We want to try to create positive outcomes, not blunder into the future.
Credit card companies now a days tend to keep the existing recurring payments going even when they cancel your card for these types of reasons up until it would normally expire so thats not a real problem any more.

If they had bogus charges it would have been dealt with the same as any credit card fraud. They would sign a statement that they didn't make the charges. The funds would be reversed and they'd be sent new cards.

The fact that they know its related to Target means they probably didn't have those issues.
We took "Show HN" out of the title because Show HN implies something you've made that users can play with. Things like landing pages, fundraisers, and email signups don't meet this criterion.
Then we will have communication issues and it will be difficult to work with you. The question was worded "On a scale of 1 to 10 how fluent do you feel in X". This is explicitly -fluency- (or phrased another way, "how well do you know X"), not something completely undefined like "How good are you at X?". The question is asking you to project your own perceived scale over a reasonably definable axis, not an ambiguous one.

Project the question into another domain - "I passed my intro Spanish class", "Oh yeah, on a scale of 1 to 10 how fluent are you in Spanish?", "I'm a 10". Nope.
"The Good Parts" is still a good one, but my recommendation these days now goes to Effective Javascript:

http://www.amazon.com/Effective-JavaScript-Specific-Software...

Outside of books, http://superherojs.com is another good resource to recommend.
>> I'm genuinely curious about how we arrived at this state of affairs

Most Americans have no idea this is happening, and those who bother to vote don't make informed votes on issues like this. As a naturalized US citizen, I'm not exactly your typical US citizen, but I'm as disgusted by this as you are.
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Apple is launching iCloud Drive with iOS 8. Pricing is pretty reasonable - $1/Month for 20GB, $4/Month for 200 GB.
As an Indian student, it is really a big burden for my family to support a masters program as of now. So, I dropped the idea of masters.
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Isn't that difficult to enforce, unless you also blacklist the public mixers? It's easy to launder moderate amounts of Bitcoins through the mixers, after which blacklisting the original wallets would no longer impede the money being spent. Though if the major mixers were willing to go along with such a blacklist it'd get considerably more effective.
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It seems arrogant and entitled to many Americans as well, the issue is that unelected and unaccountable government officials don't care.
No client side encryption, yet.

Coming in the fall in v4.5
Thanks, Justin. Have you ever set up something like this?
Ask HN:  Should you be able to change git history
This HN Thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932624
Talks about a tool where you can change your git history to draw in your GitHub profile.
Obviously I think its a good idea. Wanted to get the communities thoughts.
I second this.

It may seem archaic here, but it is standard terminology in sales to refer to a physical stop-in as a 'call'.
> I agree we have little basis besides movies for autonomous AI just deciding to attack for no reason or for human-equivalent reasons.

And a 100 years or so of SF literature that served as the basis for some of those movies.
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In general Chrome has terrible DPI support. I've noticed this across-the-board, not just in Win8/Surface.
My wife left a miserable job a few years ago. The work conditions were horrible, and her boss was verbally abusive, but she had tenure. It was hard for her to quit, even in this situation, but it turned out to be a great decision. Facing unemployment is scary, and you should make sure you can handle it financially, but I would recommend getting out if you can.
I think you might have misunderstood me (or I've misunderstood you). The whole point I was trying to drive home is that life is long--60 years after college is a good number--and so acting as if you only have 20 years of good work to prepare for that shows how important saving really is. Like I wrote at the end of my post, the idea isn't to literally retire after 20 years of working, but rather to get yourself in a position where you could suffer a large loss of income--say 50%--without a major impact on your retirement prospects.

The idea is to use the most productive and highest-earning period of your life (per the hypothesis that the tech industry is ageist) to amass savings, so that you don't have to worry about socking away for retirement later on in your career if you ever do face problems with your age.
Best advice I can give is don't do that. Dropbox is not a good version control system. You'll get burned at some point.

Use git with one of the free providers like github or bitbucket. You will find it so much easier.