skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot (edit: all) of these are dumb correlation = causation crap. The most egregious one is the "don't win awards" point, on which all the following ones are predicated. The suggestion that you can have better performance by not winning the award in the first place is indescribably poorly thought out. It's the same as the Sports Illustrated curse. Think it through: if you win an award, you presumably are at the top of your field, at the high point of your career and your powers. There are those demigods who go from strength to strength, and being the best is the norm for them, but the vast majority of people only reach those heights for a few months or years before their performance normalizes. The awards don't cause your performance to suffer, they simply mark your high-water mark, the moment when the stars aligned and you had a great team, strong vision, and everything went right for you. This doesn't happen all that often so of course everyone's going to drop off after winning an award.

Meanwhile of course you're going to write a book after winning an award, and be invited to sit on panels. And the article doesn't even give evidence that this is a bad thing: it just said that it is linked to winning awards. My God! What an astonishing result! Notably successful people are desirable and feel qualified to speak on their success! Somebody call the New York Times, I think we've got a front page for them!
My narrative has always been "I could do research about building cool software or I could actually build cool software. I've opted to build things because that's what I enjoy more. I still keep up with research in my area of interest, but what really gets me excited is building new things."
Novartis to test Alzheimer's drugs in patients without symptoms
Hmmm... job-for-life with enforced zealous national patriotism, vs five-year job with enforced zealous corporate patriotism (and everything is so god-damned colourful).

They'd have a tough sell to get the NSA employees I would think.
Show me the exact mechanism.

What measure of proof do you require?

PS- AnthonyMouse has been exceedingly gracious and patient with you.
Standard advice is that accepting a counter-offer is usually a poor career choice because the employer sees you as a risk to leave and starts planning for your replacement rather than advancement.

Does anyone have insight into how Google handled employees who took the counter-offers to stay at Google?
Sounds like s/he signed a contract with the gym which s/he only break if leaving town.
> Which success are you referring to?

Keeping Mao in power would be the major success, again very much from the perspective of the architect...
Study: U.S. Alzheimer's rate appears to be dropping
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Agreed. This writer is just being a dick to stir up controversy. Microsoft has a lot of potential and what looks like good leadership from their new CEO. I think and hope things will go well for them.
Not entirely. The spelling reform (about 10 years ago) somewhat reduced the use of ß but you still use it frequently after a diphthong (as in "Straße" [street]).
Is it possible this could be related to removing lead from gasoline in the 70s?
I love this. The letter route might be the best way to go with some providers. Perhaps the service would require the client to sign a very very limited power of attorney- to disconnect the service- in order to get e.g. Comcast to comply.

Servicenuke.com is available...
What Happens Next? Designing User Interactions That Work
Wow, I was wondering about that just yesterday. It seems to be common among realtors and mortgage company underlings - people that I don't normally have to deal with, but that are likely to use emoticons to end every paragraph.
Looks great so far!

Any thoughts into a comparison tool?

I have a PC that was pretty powerful when I built it, but has aged (5-6 years old now).

I'd love to find a way to easily compare my current system to these ones. For instance, the 'AMDicted' sounds good, but I can't easily tell if it's an upgrade from my current rig or not.
This is a really cool tool for beginners or just shopping around to get the best deal. I def would have appreciated this when I first started out.
A Relevant HTML WEB Article Extractor
It's interesting that you would mention that Nodemailer is not appropriate for mass mail due to the callback structure - does it make sense to write off mass mail because of this? I'm not convinced it does. What if you could specify a write stream that the result of each send could be streamed to? Or maybe do callbacks with batch results? Throwing away mass mailing in the biggest mail library available for Node seems sort of silly to me.

Of course, a big thanks is in order - Nodemailer has been a great system to work with and I'm glad it's still getting the love it deserves. Keep up the great work Andris.
I believe the blame should be shifted towards the legislation that these companies must adhere to.
Six California plan has enough signatures to hit the ballot
"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /pages/sliceofmit/2014/07/15/yougogirl/ on this server."
Time Warner has been creeping into home automation - I've been getting ads for their home automation service for "only" $40/month with my monthly bills for the last few months.

If TWC has their way I imagine this will go about as well as Google Wallet did, which was killed because all the mobile carriers wanted to promote their own version (formerly Isis), and had the power to do so (since they could prevent Google Wallet from working on their devices.
The HN discussion on the Wired article was interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8035726
I see the next PR headline:
"We found so many bugs in all the vendors' programs. In google, there are no 0 days. Why not switch to our platform ?"
Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0
Show HN: FarBox, An amazing blog platform syncing from Dropbox, not static blog
You should have a mode that simulates "the spins."
His (valid) point is not that the Chinese Cultural Revolution was a success but rather that, in their twisted minds, its architects perceived it as a success. They probably aimed at establishing ideological "purity" and authoritarian rule, they probably never thought of your valid concerns as being relevant.

True believers have awful perceptions of what success means.
Yeah, but that requires giving the locks brains, at which point you might was well just embed an RFID tag in everyone's badge. We had some areas that required both a badge swipe and a PIN.
Decent windows on unlocked devices with root and sideloading to the users. Still a winning idea.
Yep. This pains me no end. At least to search the inbox there is always a search box in the upper right. I could never figure out how to search the text in an opened email.
The real question is why does Outlook hardcode Ctrl+F to Forward instead of having a user-configurable keyboard mapping.

Maybe that's just the emacs background talking though.
I thought that the "buy a bunch of old MiGs" model was blown apart by Middle Eastern MiGs getting annihilated by Israelis in F-15s.
Presumably breaking forever the grip of the Confucian design pattern (left behind by the former imperial bureaucracy) on the imaginations of the low-level functionaries, without who no top-down empire can operate.

An example uppermost in Mao's mind must have been that, despite Lenin's putsch of 1917, by 1927 the USSR ran along lines that would have been instantly recognizable to a Tsarist-era bureaucrat from 1907. The structure of governance of the vast Russian empire re-asserted itself under the guise of Actually Existing Socialism, once the Vanguard Party had replaced the top and middle tiers of the Imperial nobility and bureaucracy with nominally-loyal functionaries. The same sorts of person are attracted to power whatever the ideology of the regime, and aside from joining a party and paying lip service to the party's ideology, they make the same set of assumptions about how power is to be exercised. True revolutionaries are discredited, expelled, or purged: see the fates of Trotsky and Zinoviev, for example.

Mao and his inner cadre saw the Chinese people, a generation after the revolution (itself largely pushed through by force of Russian arms, in the shape of the Manchurian campaign of 1945 that kicked the Japanese army off the Asian mainland), reverting to the social and political patterns of the Confucian bureaucracy that had run the empire they supplanted. True, the new bureaucrats paid lip service to communism as a guiding eschatology. But they weren't communists, much less revolutionaries. This was repugnant to Mao, so he fired up the whole social revolution that cost so many lives precisely to break that design pattern.

It sort of worked. In the short term, it caused chaos and starvation and massive deaths: but in the long term, it laid the foundations for a technocracy. Today's Chinese party politburo are primarily engineers and scientists who grew up during the cultural revolution, not the spiritual heirs to the earlier system. Although I think the direction they've taken China in probably has Mao spinning in his grave so fast they could hook him up to a dynamo and power their national grid ...
I wonder if you stalled and wasted time and waffled back and forth like a window shopper if at some point they have to drop you or take a hit to their call performance metrics?
~3 hours per day. When you become specialized it's easy to complete work quickly. The salary is paying you to be reliable.
How can you suggest builds for the budget if you don't have a real store providing updated components prices? Amazon is by far the most popular online store so I think it's a safe bet using it as a de facto standard.
Its very upsetting to me that you are correct in saying this is naive.

At the same time, I wish them all the best.
Don't forget the part where they make significantly more money than working for a federal acronym.
Get a Macintosh. Emacs key bindings are ubiquitous.
This post glosses over the fact that F3 is also a standard Windows key command for find. Does that work in Outlook?
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AT&T has also been advertising home automation and security (on national television).

I think they don't care too much about the technology, they want to market the monitoring and connection services, which I guess means they will still choose whatever favors collecting those monthly fees.
Show HN: SMSCMD – Command apps/devices via SMS
I almost gave up when he said "I don’t mean to be a pedant but which is it — mobile first or cloud first? Only one thing can be first."

If you don't recognize that those are two different areas then you are either dense, or being intentionally contrarian. Given the earlier statements he made it is clear the latter is certainly true and quite possibly the former as well.
>>> In Android apps, you can freely send users to another platform to do a transaction – how much revenue is generated that way? iOS blocks this, by the way, and insists on a 30% cut.

This feels like a key insight...I wonder how many android apps are using alternatives to Google Play for their transactions, and how this affects the revenue numbers.
> The problem is that it's hard to find that community. I mean, in computer science is born every day a new linux distro, a new programming lanquage, a new "revolutionary project" etc.. It's really hard to find THE project in which devote my free time.

I think you shouldn't let it distract you. I think it's great that so many people are making new things, but the fact is that main distros five years ago are still the main distros now, and same for the programming languages (with the possible exception of Go lang).

Instead, you should find something you care about and work on it, at your own pace. Maybe something related to the Physics class you are taking or a CS course you liked, you're the only one to know.
Shopify Merchants Can Now Accept Bitcoin Payments With Coinbase
That fibers have been tapped by state actors was well known pre-Snowden (I recall reading a story about how subs were used in Russia etc), yet Google only completed encrypting their private fibers post-Swnoden.
That's right. Keep it very short and sweet, and include the information they need to process your request. "Dude, cancel me" probably isn't going to work so think it through and refer to the contract. Everything you need to cancel is in there.

If you have any equipment to return add that too, and tell them you will be returning it to the store (you might even mail it if it's just a card).

A properly written letter is really effective, and makes great evidence in court if things go wrong and the company fails to honor their side of the bargain. Been there, done that, and won.
Home Depot now carries MakerBot Replicators in a handful of retail stores
I believe Outlook is still using Word to render HTML content in emails as well.
Love your hack, I want it! LOL.
Can't actually reach the previous one, still this one is
more related to http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2014/07/a-new-open-source-w...
Coverage of a Linux environment, and supporting the use of ELF binaries, as an alternative to Windows, would be cool. Not necessarily instead of, but included as an option for the student.
But it's not missing. This is like saying capital s is missing because you have to press shift+s.
Is it technically correct to say that frivolous patent lawsuits "drag the economy"?

Ignoring for a moment the moral issue, if such phenomenon causes a (relatively) large amount of money to flow from (software) companies to "patent trolling" ones, isn't it still positive for the economy?
How about energy return on energy investment. You have to vaporize a lot of water (of course you will have all those gold, iron, rare metals "waste" which will help the economic case).
What I actually mean is that you probably should not try to build your own SendGrid on top of Nodemailer. You might try and it might even work but you probably should not.

If you want to send 10 000 e-mails at once, then it works just fine. If you want to send 10 000 000 messages from a for loop then it probably breaks.
Yep :-) Working between Windows and OSX all with different application behaviour can be quite taxing on the muscle memory. Esp. for heavy users of emacs and I suppose of vi.

Countless times I have wished that there was an operating system level option to choose keymapping (emacs, vi, cua, whatever) and _all_ applications will respect that.
This reminds me of that study a few months ago about how customer satisfaction has no correlation or possibly a slight negative with profitability. I guess I see why now.

One example link to a new story covering the result: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-17/proof-that-i...
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These are the arguments people have been making for/against open source software for decades. They are old, tired, and well traveled. If we want to rehash them yet again, let's go to the Slashdot archives or Usenet and have a nostalgia party. Otherwise, let's try to focus on something actually interesting.
So that works "On Startup" only, not when I open a new tab. Works great in Safari though.
"And if you weren't feeling nauseous before, this tool should certainly do the trick."
Thanks for the in-depth answer. Was there a hardware access issue here, or did you just write this for the challenge/practice?
> I've spent the past 14 years in the EMS world and am happy to help/advise anyone who has a hardware or manufacturing problem.

You should include an email or url in your HN profile :)
Wow, it's been so long since I've built a desktop I had to look up APU. (a CPU that does more than just central processing, possible a GPU on the same chip)
The Wikipedia Entries Which Are Most-Edited by Members of the U.S. Congress
Does a prepaid card name verification occur during an auth? Also, does Digital Ocean disallow prepaid cards from being used to pay for service?

Their pricing/billing page indicates they'll accept these cards if the payment is made through Paypal, which will shield them from payment fraud, but not if the card is prepaid but the users actions on the instance are malicious.

https://www.digitalocean.com/help/pricing-and-billing/
As I recall that includes the Z80 instruction set. I remember this because I wanted to program my Ti-83 with assembly rather than the included basic interpreter, and was surprised to learn that the CPU in my graphing calculator could only add, subtract, and move data around.
Gah, I should know better about the name. Let's just pretend I was yelling it because I was excited? k?

Anyway, it's a gradient. Sure, most places don't need 99.9999% availability, but most places also can't afford to be down for a few hours to a day, especially during their peak season.

So, do you need automatic failover and promotion? Probably not. Do you need contingency plans (with may/should include accounts with multiple vendors (even if something like a LiNode account with no boxes)) and have practiced brining everything up (or if you're e.g. a small retail shop, how to checkout), yes, most defiantly.

Even if your distributed system isn't "moving" you still need to plan for things. Like I said, if your database server becomes unavailable, you need to know how much data hasn't made it to the spare, otherwise you need to ask "How much will I loose if I restore from my last backup". Things of that nature need to be planned around and known, even if the code doesn't need t care.
One thing that bugs me at first glance is that after I pick a preset denoted with a "starting price", when it gets to the next page with the component breakdown the starting price is $100-300 higher.
Vim will type every character you paste, one by one.

F12 should switch you to paste mode and paste it as a block, though on my new Mac this was already mapped to some GUI function so I had to disable that for it to work.

Some relevant info: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5585129/pasting-code-into...
From the site: Version: 0.8.11
I have a feeling Samsung pushed for that.
Im in Australia, and have been with about 12 ISP's over the years and have never had this sort of problem. Not that our Telcos are without problems, they are often horrible to deal with when requiring support. One thing we have which may be a deterrent for this behavior is the Telecommunication Ombudsman (TIO) which is basically a government watchdog for the Telcos. Every formal complaint to the TIO results in a fee charged to the Telco even if they are not at fault, and if they are proven to be at fault the cost is much greater. I would think that Comcast would think twice about this sort of behavior if it was going to result in a governmental fine in every case.
The script runs only when you Archive.
> PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "\033]0;remote_host\007"'

thanks for this, didn't know this was possible!
Cool. What year can we expect "photos-server.bounces.google.com" to stop sending spam?
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-goo...

There's also the fact that Google only started challenging the FISA court post-Snowden. To my knowledge, they're not even challenging the unconstitutional spying, just the gag order preventing Google from telling you how frequently Google turns over your data to the feds.

This isn't just some theoretical, might be spying on "those people" sort of thing either. If you're reading this website, you probably are/have been a target:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/03/20/hunt-...

Since Google openly acknowledges that Google never really deletes anything from gmail and other services (disk is cheap), they're providing information about you that even you have long forgotten.

And finally, if you say "I have nothing to hide, I have nothing to fear" then you have completely missed the point of how this stuff works. Remember they target you, everyone who contacts you, and everyone who contacts that extended group.

With that information, they find out who you love, and which ones of those people have pressure points. "Viraptor, it has come to our attention that your father is evading taxes. You wouldn't want anything bad to happen to your father, would you? We would like you to do some work for us in your role as sysadmin. Then we can forget about that incident..."
Hey don't forget AFT, DEA, EPA... IRS. Fighters for everybody!
Seems like there's a good mid-ground between pre-configured systems and expert mode. A mode which offers some alerts for silly mistakes (or prevents them from being made in the first place) would be nice. i.e. an Intel chip paired with an AMD socketed motherboard.
This is awesome. I remember building my first computer at 12 years old. :) A nice fat gaming rig with dual boot to Linux. My parents bought it for me after I got all "E's for effort!"

At the time all I had to go by was a "how to build your own computer" book. I would have loved something like this.
I didn't write this at all, but I assume it was just for hack value, much like the myriad 2048 clones.
I've notified them, that is quite embarrassing.
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I heard this guy talk at this year's Launch.co conference. It's great that people are actively trying to solve California's famous issues, but it's hard not to see the Six California plan as socio-economic gerrymandering. The wealthy Bay Area essentially gets to wash its hands of the less wealthy interior cities. I think there's a better way.
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>Both require a fairly high level of understanding discipline, and organization to produce high quality large-scale products.

When is that not the case?
I already felt Apple GUIs had something special and I didn't even knew this fact.
One could make the argument that it's taking money from productive entities who would put it into R&D or future production and giving it to non-productive entities who will just use the money to sit on the patents and potentially sue more people.
No it doesn't, if you ensure it will run only on "Release".
When you deploy an app to a device via Xcode, unless you specify differently, it will compile in "Debug", so that won't cause an increment. Every iPad will have the same build.
For months I thought my girlfriend was signing her emails with her initial. It wasn’t until I saw her typing an email to a friend that I realised what was going on.
In this case, isn't that ultimately the customer, who's now here wondering why Ctrl+F doesn't map to find?
I could have used part of that yesterday!

Suggestions:

As I have installed HAProxy in a Docker container, I noticed that the dependencies for `sudo add-apt-repository` are quite numerous. Instead I created a new sources.list and added the signing key manually.

Since you use SSL, a nice addition to your configuration is to redirect non-ssl trafic:

redirect scheme https code 301 if !{ ssl_fc }

Examples on the web leave out the `code 301` (the default is 302).

Finally I had to try a few different ways to get my certificate and key to work with HAProxy. The order in my case was certificate, private key, intermediate, root ca (concatenated in a single file).
Ha. As someone who had written synchronization applications against Outlook and Exchange, I can totally relate.

Programmatically rescheduling an instance of a recurring meeting that has users on different timezones and daylight savings time adjustments. That's pain that I will never forget.

For bonus points be that guy who had to implement such things on Lotus Domino.
It has nothing to do with the areas being different or similar. The point is that only one thing can be the first.