skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You likely have an extension that typically loads at the top of the page, like a toolbar or overlay. I've seen similar from things like VWO, SEO toolbars and even Wordpress. When they're not needed they sometimes hide themselves REALLY badly, creating a gap at the top of the page on certain sites.
Front End JavaScript Error Tracking
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Execution Discipline
This is great.

Surprising really it has taken so long to get an app like this on Windows. I've been using My Data Manager[1] on Android for a the previous 2-3yrs.

The closest I've gotten on Windows up to this date is CFosSpeed[2] in traffic shapping = off mode + process explorer. There have been other apps that attempted to present the data, however none have done it like GlassWire.

Looking forward to the paid version, this is awesome :)

Got a few rendering issues on Windows 8.1[3]

Hopefully these issues get sorted out, quickly.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobidia.an...

[2] http://www.cfos.de/en/cfosspeed/cfosspeed.htm

[3] http://i.imgur.com/0jOFvos.png
Alcohol is also one of a very small number of drugs where the physical symptoms of withdrawal can be fatal. That doesn't mean being an alcoholic is worse than being addicted to some other drug (salt withdrawal is invariably fatal, but nobody's out there saying "salt ruins lives"), but it's potentially an argument for alcohol being especially nasty to the body.
Isn't that what caveat emptor means? No it's not to be perfect, it's to basically be part of the great hollowing out - either you buy commodities priced and regulated by the market or you buy to support your core competancies - that's is unless you are great at it, it should be a commodity not a complex contract.

Oregon clearly are not great at software. So they should either become great at it or buy commodity (ie OSS).

The fact there is no OSS solution for them is a problem but Oregon, Wisconsin and so on could club together to dove the problem or let USGDS do it.
Yes - it's impossible to reliably and accurately estimate (which is why it's an estimate).

But you've got to have some form of figure, both of cost and revenue - even if it's just back of a beermat guesswork based on a vague hunch - to make any form of sensible trade-off judgement.

I do a fair amount of work around business cases for new projects, and simply forcing the proposer to go through an exercise of answering "how do you think this project will increase revenue/reduce costs/whatever, and by how much?" helps weed out ideas that don't really have legs or haven't been properly thought through, as does having a first stab at "What's involved in delivering this? Is this a 2 week project or a 6 month one?"
True. I don't think I'd be caught routing marjuana anywhere, so I'm going to be more devastated were I to land up in prison. Still, credit where credit is due!
Don’t do what you love
The downside he mentions to "pinned versions" actually applies to everything on this page. If you don't pay attention to security updates, you will be vulnerable whether or you forgot about your pinned versions or you forgot about your stable distribution.

"Stable" distributions have an additional downside he doesn't mention: when you upgrade every package all at once it's a LOT more effort than if you had upgraded them slowly over time. Dealing with multiple library changes at once is an order of magnitude more difficult than dealing with them one-at-a-time.

And also, to some extent, if all the libraries you are using have a long term stable API, then it doesn't actually matter which one you pick - anything is painless.
I don't know if it is related, but there used to be a limit in shell parameters expansion in exec, that's why xargs was so handy when "rm *.txt" wasn't possible.

That was changed some years ago: https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/19/44
As well as the below, you can also get software (now illegal in the UK [1] ) to change your IMEI on your phone.

[1] http://www.staffordshire.police.uk/info_advice/crime_prevent...
Both. Elixir is the future, but mostly, you write the same thing with a different (better) syntax. No way you will write Elixir without understanding Erlang
Not surprising given Google's acquisition of QuickOffice. There are a few interesting angles to this story.

One the one hand there's the native app versus web app issue. Modern mobile devices have a ton of horsepower compared to the early devices, but Google continues to heavily invest in native client apps on mobile. Do they still see this as being a stopgap before device performance and mobile browser capability make native apps unnecessary or are native apps here to stay? What impact does this have on Google's web app strategy generally? I'm wondering what Google's long game is for these productivity apps. Are they a strategic play in themselves, or are they supporting services to somehow complement and protect Google's revenue generating services? I'd love to understand how Google's own understanding of the role these apps play in Google's portfolio has evolved, and how that has mapped to reality over that time.

The other issue is platform support. I understand these capabilities have been available on Android for some weeks now, so how does iOS support fit into Google's plans? I know Google wants to support and promote Android, but ultimately Android makes them no money. It's only purpose is to try to ensure there's always a web and Google services friendly option available in the Mobile world, so of course Google will support those services on competing platforms with significant market share. However, to what extent is platform support a political football within Google?
And it get's worse. Because your not really tripping but rather fighting poisoning, it effectively cuts the connection to the better part of who you are. If it wasn't for alcohol, a lot of the trouble we see in society simply wouldn't exist.
Another simple fix: tell us who you are. The contact page is woefully generic and anonymous. Glasswire appears to be a company, more than one person. Where are you based? What's your background? Funding?
UNIDO's Back to Reality
You felt paranoid and made an app which a random binary from internets we should download and run.

Feels like a trap.
So Norway isn't violating a whaling ban?
Yes ... But absolutely everything you say could apply to alcohol during say Prohibition. Look people taking the moonshine to be tested, people enjoying booze sensibly ...

We have a legalised and fairly sane alcohol policy in most countries, we can hardly hope to have a better policy and set up for any other drug, and yet alcohol is still a devastating blight on many lives.

Yes, stop this crazy war on drugs, but don't expect some nirvana to appear - people with a variety of mental and personality problems are not going to "grow up". They still need to be dealt with - and we are unforgiving of mental illness and have barely moved past the "cut it off and cauterise the wound" phase of treatment.

The war on drugs is mostly masking a war on mental health.
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"Facebook decided to take action against click bait headlines, you won't believe what happens next"
I don't view it as pedantry, I view it as avoiding dilution of the meaning of the term 'Open Source'.

It's important that people understand that it's not just having the source code, but also a license that allows you to do a series of things with the code. That's a huge, and critical difference, not a minor quibble.

In any event, it'd be fun to see Oracle's crappy code.
Is a Used Vehicle protected?
It depends on what State the car was bought in. Some states include the used vehicles in their Lemon Law statutes, some don’t. Some states have different laws concerning the used cars. Some states defend only new cars. Pay attention to the State Statutes and look through the Lemon Law Summary of your particular State to know what is covered.
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Sweden is fucked up as well, and I'd expect Norway to be the same or worse. Sweden jumped on the war on drugs-train head-first and tried to do it better than the US. And I don't think they got the other memo about the whole approach being a complete failure. It doesn't help that the famous German bitch we insist on keeping with "food" and "shelter" is running her own No Drugs-campaign with religious overtones. Or that the politicians in charge believe that overdosing on Cannabis is like overdosing on Heroin.
Peach Pear Galette Recipe
I don't think a heatmap is the best representation for this kind of data:

1. if this is meant to show both votes, then a pie chart for each position (town/council) would be more effective
2. the blur is not clearly visible at all when zooming out completely
3. taking into account 'votes' from outside the country concerned is a bit confusing as pointed out in another comment, the rules for the referendum states that you have to be in Scotland to cast you vote.

However, I had a look at the http://bubb.al/ website and I can see how this could be used in a contained area (like an attraction park) or more generally if you could tie this up with a social media to show the mood of a user population in a wide area.

On a side note, I am surprised you are not located near the Quarter Mile. ;)
I always go from top to down and open a new tab for everything I find reading worthy. Then I close the original tab (e.g. facebook) and go reading them.

I guess that all articles I find reading worthy are going to take a hit as worthless for facebook.
Artificial Intelligence May Doom the Human Race Within a Century
Seems to me erlang adoption has been chugging along just fine (with or without HN posts). There are some high-profile startups using erlang: WhatsApp and I think Facebook Chat is/was.

There has been progress in cleaning up syntax, library and package management cruft that have helped ease adoption. Elixir (a new lang built on erlang) seems to be coming along well.

For most types of webapps, erlang has all the batteries included. The problem is that for many mainstream types of webapps, getting v1 out the door quickly in Rails/Django works well. I think that may be part of the adoption problem...if the problem domain doesn't clearly require erlang to get v1 out the door, many will use Rails/Django and never look back.
Got me thinking...could you integrate a wireless AP into a light fixture without fear of interference, either EM or physical? I'm sure there is a clever solution for something like a hanging chandelier.

Maybe there are products out there already that allow people to hide their networking hardware in plain sight?
Word of the day: “tsundoku”: 積ん読
This is awesome. I would be happy to pay for your upcoming "pro" version. Do you already have an in-app mechanism that will warn me when this is available?
Yeah, it's slowly and steadily coming along. But it seemed at a certain point a few years back that there were people beating the hype drum, and nothing much seems to have come of it: the slow steady growth continues.
Sometimes IMEI blacklists mean too much. There was a batch of cheap Chinese counterfeit phones in Bangladesh (IIRC) that all had the same IMEI. One got stolen, the IMEI got blocked, and all of that make of phone was unusable.

Background info here: http://www.moremag.pk/2012/11/08/3-million-mobile-phones-in-...
I don't live in Oslo so I can't comment on the situation there (or anywhere else for that matter), but in Kristiansand the EVs are a very real issue in the bus lanes. Granted, the bus lanes weave in and out of the general lanes so congestion in the general lanes is the root of the problem for sure.
The demographics of Vermont makes me curious. Many people say that the war on drugs is racially motivated in that more blacks and hispanics are prosecuted than whites. Vermont is 95% Caucasian. I wonder if this fact influenced the new policy in any way.
Ask HN: Equity terms don't align; other compensation options?
I'm a consultant. I've built software for 8 years. Approached ~2 months ago by a friend with a business idea for which he & partners need very complicated software. My quote landed at $200-250K.

Met with friend & majority partner (MP) today. MP asked for 50% rate in exchange for 5% equity. So, ~$20K per 1% equity. MP admitted not wanting to pay my quoted price. MP suggests it is an extremely overvalued stake. His version of failure here is 2,000 businesses paying $400/mo, totalling just under $10M in annual revenue (times whatever multiple he has in his head for selling at $XXX million).

I've learned there are 6-7 partners who already divided up equity. Friend has been promised 30% (divided 3 ways 12.5/12.5/5 among him, his wife, & a minor partner). MP splitting remaining 70% among 3 or 4 others, unknown distribution. No revenue, no software, etc. MP has ~30 years experience building/selling businesses, made millions. MP financing the endeavor. Others putting up $0 & time/experience in business, sales, marketing, strategy, etc. Entire strategy is build & sell in 3-5 years.

Based on 1% @ ~$20K, friend's portion is valued at $600K for giving up $0 & supplying marketing/strategy. Other 65% at ~$1.3M. Right? With the offered 5% for 100K, initial valuation of the company--with no clients, revenue, software, anything--to $2M total for 100%. Being soberly realistic, it's just an idea that could be wildly successful or mediocre at best. Only individuals discussing cash in the business right now are MP @ ~$100K (paid to me to develop the platform), & me @ $100K in the form of foregoing half my rate as a consultant. That means we should be starting at equal equity since we're the ones discussing real money, right?

Am I reading this all wrong? I've never taken equity, completely inexperienced in evaluating anything like this.
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as an australian, i m sadden by this. Why isn't there public outrage and change? =(
It's not your jargon to decide whether it should be diluted or not. And even just using the term "diluted", you suggest a great level of superiority and arrogance towards anything that doesn't fit within your narrow view.

Besides, if people want to understand what they can do with the code then they should read the software licence (that's the whole bloody point of it!) rather than just make guesses based on a common perception of a broader software term.
>We have a legalised and fairly sane alcohol policy in most countries, we can hardly hope to have a better policy and set up for any other drug, and yet alcohol is still a devastating blight on many lives

You don't just need to have a "sane policy".

You need to have a sane culture.

For one, a culture that doesn't treat alcohol as something necessary for having fun (e.g binge drinking on weekends, etc), but as something social you can have while eating with friends, etc.

Second, a culture (society) that doesn't cripple people, produce mass stress and depression, etc so that they take it to alcohol and drugs.

As long as you don't have those, there will always be people taking it to alcoholism. Heck, even with those you'll still have some people (but much less). But then again people can destroy themselves in 200 other ways too, if they are so inclined (from over- and under-eating to straight suicide).
I own a content website with well targeted affiliate partnership. Currently at a bit over 1,000 Euro a month pure profit, as all traffic is organic.

I didn't touch the website in about 2 years. Now that numbers are growing month on month, I'm freeing up some some time add more of the specific content which brings in the money.
Also trying to scale the above for different related markets and languages. Hope to get it to +2k within the next year.
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Yes. They are. However, the IWC resolution to ban whaling is not binding. It's advisory and in my opinion not based on facts but feelings.
Typo: Self begat Strongtalk.
I'm French but from what I've seen and read about French prisons they are not much better.

I know that people see it as being only punishment but it's rather self defeating as proven by the high reconviction rates across countries. In france, 38% are reconvicted [1] and in US, 51.8% [2] (in 1994)

I feel that the way prisons work now is a waste for society in term of money used and results.

[1] http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/justice/justice-les...
[2] http://www.bjs.gov/content/reentry/recidivism.cfm
There is no law which bans it. Just an agreement among several countries which Norway isn't a part of as far as I know.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...

Oh, and they controlled for the obvious correlations too, like lifestyle differences etc.
>I wonder why the government needs to force everyone to hit a collective rock bottom before considering a new strategy. Throwing everyone involved in jail was a bad idea from day 1.

Population control. For blacks, it's the modern day equivalent of Jim Crow laws, but for keeping a huge majority in prison.
I've often said the Nordic countries in general are as close to a Star Trek style civilisation as we've ever gotten.

As someone who lives in America Lite (the UK) your policies on just about everything strike me as insanely reasonable.

I pretty much feel shame whenever I think about our last two governments.
In this case, it could make sense to give internet access in lower security prison where they are unlikely to be exposed to threats and blackmail?

I agree that psychologists, social workers and drug therapy are needed but I do think that access to internet and the information it contains is a huge help for people to better be prepared to the world as it as evolved.

But you're right I'm rather naive about the conditions of prison, the little I know I know it by having read articles by Michael Santos through HN which while interesting do not provide a complete view of how prison really is.

The thing is from what I've read of reconviction rates in US, France and other countries, the prison system isn't working. It's expensive and doesn't rehabilitate prisoners very well and from the percentage of the population who is convicted in the US, I'm not sure it even works well as a deterrent.
Fair enough. Although I personally would prefer it if whales were left alone.
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Hah. I'm assuming things, you attack my arguments with .. assumptions.

If you look at the code [1], you'll notice that it exists _today_. There is no feature in Windows that says 'I want to restrict this account to a "safe" internet experience' and that wouldn't make a tiny bit of sense as I expressed elsewhere. Again, if you look at the code it seems (Disclaimer: I'm neither familiar with the Fx codebase nor really a C++ guy) easy enough:

DWORD settings = 0;
wpcs->GetRestrictions(&settings);

if (settings) { // WPCFLAG_NO_RESTRICTION = 0
gAdvAPIDLLInst = ::LoadLibrary("Advapi32.dll");
if(gAdvAPIDLLInst)
{
gEventWrite = (decltype(EventWrite)*)GetProcAddress(gAdvAPIDLLInst, "EventWrite");
gEventRegister = (decltype(EventRegister)*) GetProcAddress(gAdvAPIDLLInst, "EventRegister");
gEventUnregister = (decltype(EventUnregister)*) GetProcAddress(gAdvAPIDLLInst, "EventUnregister");
}
mEnabled = true;
}

While I admit that I argued based on 'assumptions' (more .. based on what I know about these parental controls and what the article states), these are the facts.

If I translate that into prose (correct me..) that reads as "If the OS supports parental controls and ANY restrictions are active, then set this boolean flag to true". Now, before you argue that these still are just assumptions about how this flag is used ... let me present [2]:

// add the "Send Hint" header
if (mSafeHintEnabled || mParentalControlEnabled) {
rv = request->SetHeader(nsHttp::Prefer, NS_LITERAL_CSTRING("safe"));
if (NS_FAILED(rv)) return rv;
}

Ignoring the weird comment: That translates into "If the user _opts in_ to use this header via a setting OR if we detected random parental control restrictions from [1], add the crappy header to the request"

The documentation of the Windows parental control API can be found here [3]. Note that there isn't a feature that says 'add a random useless header' or somesuch nonsense. Glancing over the docs it seems to be possible to register extensions to the parental control environment, and _those_ might offer a 'Get a random different version of the internet, maybe' option in theory. But that doesn't seem to be the case and the check at [1] and [2] seems rather broad.

IF this whole thing would be a configurable (by the responsible admin) feature (and .. ideally opt-in, not a crazy default), THEN I'd just laugh at the people that want that, but wouldn't complain. Based on every fact I can get my hands on that is NOT what they do.

Do you still disagree, at least with the implementation?

1: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compon...

2: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/protoc...

3: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms71...
Is that so, or is that old wives tales? Because in most "layered" languages, you can go quite far without understanding the base language, as long as you understand the semantics of the higher level language.

I don't need to know Java to write Scala for example -- I just need to know the relevant semantics of Scala's object system and interoperability.
http://www.twitch.tv/cohhcarnage is a rather family friendly variety streamer. Be aware, though, that he does stream 18+ from time to time(he'll make it known in the title, though).

http://www.twitch.tv/giantwaffle is primarily a minecraft streamer, and he generally doesnt curse and explains what hes doing. Beware, he does do nightstreams with Lirik, including cussing. He'll announce these, though.
Portugal is certainly one step in the right direction. I lived and worked there for three months and it's all very relaxed. Cops don't really care about people rolling joints or even doing lines of coke in public if there's a party (and if you are in Portugal, there will be). Quietly puffing a joint while walking down the street in the middle of the day is cool as well. I actually never saw the cops interfere with anything while I was there, even though there are cops everywhere. There is one more thing about Portugal and drugs that needs to be said though: never, ever buy anything being offered to you. And you will be offered drugs ten times a day while just walking down the street. It's all fake, they're just out to scam you and steal your stuff, and they're pretty good at it. Just say no, thank you and go ask the cool kids hanging out in Martim Moniz instead. Good hash, coke and heroin is easily obtainable and cheap.
I have a question about the "founder" status. I've been working on my project for quite some time and it's taking off. It's very likely I'm going to be able to afford inviting a friend on a part-salary/part-equity basis in the next few weeks. I'm still going to have a vast majority of shares. Will it be OK to count him as a co-founder?
yeah yeah, I read the previous post (http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2014/03/just-what-we...) too.

Maybe this time we can talk about how to meaningfully solve these problems instead of just fighting pointlessly about if old tools are so great should be used for everything.

Decentralized package management huh?

How would that work?

A way of specifying an ABI for a packages instead of a version number? A way to bundle all your dependencies into a local package to depend on and push changes from that dependency tree automatically to builds off of it, but only manually update the dependency list?

I'm all for it. Someone go build one.
Assuming Lisbon of course, but I guess that's where most people end up on their first visit to the country...