skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The degree of squinting you're applying to call the results "equal" is not scientifically useful.

In fact I'd suggest you consider this a clue... you're clearly explaining away, rather than explaining. "Explaining away" is in a way the most fundamentally unscientific operation there is... the fact that you're joined by a number of people who call themselves "scientists" even so doesn't change that.

(No joke. The fundamental breakthrough of science philosophy is that instead of asking the cognitively-natural "How can I prove I am correct?", science teaches us to ask "How can I prove I am wrong?" Everything else is just elaborations on that theme. "Explaining away" is one of the easiest ways to do the first, and is thus one of the easiest unscientific things to do. The fact that we've managed to train a great number of people who fancy themselves scientists but think their job is more about the first than the second is an indictment of our society, not an excuse to follow those people.)
Did Germany Cheat in World Cup 2014?
Genuinely curious, what "amazing stuff" have Microsoft and IBM done for the web?
"Twitter encourages and amplifies bad behavior while inhibiting intelligent and thoughtful conversation."

Ok. So, how is Twitter unique here? How often do you read an intelligent and thoughtful article in your local newspaper? Doesn't your local cable news channel choose to focus on the 'bad' instead of the 'good'? Or are you living in some alternate universe?
Browser updates can have major effects on enterprise level webapp behavior. It's a major headache to maintain support for n browser versions for something that doesn't add functionality to the application.

We have to re-certify our app with each major browser release and at the same time make sure we're still functioning with older versions, and make sure that older branches of our app is patched and customers are aware of limitations.
I'm shocked at how often a "bar rush" is the primary example used to define it's utility. Keep it up and people will hate insular millennial techies even more. :/

Also note, even in the bay area, that once you leave the Big City limits the cab companies quickly become small business and not the monopolies we easily blame things on. It's those companies that are getting murdered and shit poured on them unfairly.
I run ssh inside emacs, and I also leave emacs running in server mode on my targets. I drop my signal, no big deal; I reconnect and reattach to emacs. No fuss, no muss, no lost work. It then becomes immense that I can do almost everything in emacs :)
It's very, very rare that someone successfully takes on a big, entrenched competitor like IBM or Microsoft, and wins a head-on fight.

It's much more likely that they exploit some new thing.
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You hit the nail on the head. Even here in Bolivia I can call up about 30 different cab services to pick me up.
As a developer, I need less communication and more documentation. That may be what I need.
Preventing monopoly creation is an important regulatory task. Fighting them after they are powerful takes years, often dozens of years.
> "why not make an operating system that has only 45 syscalls?"

Because much of Microsoft's licensing revenue is contingent upon continuing to support the edge cases that are inevitably not part of the set of programs that can be dropped into such a sandbox without problems.
Twitter and Facebook have been pretty effective for Yes campaigners in the Scottish Independence referendum. It's taken the No Thanks folks by surprise by how effectively it's being used.

Social media can be a force for good under certain circumstances.
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Its mildly frustrating that I have to click a link to know whether it's something I would have wanted to click or not.

Why not, "Mailvelope - OpenPGP encryption for webmail"?
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Two remarks to your comment:

They haven't only closed the doors for Uber, they have prohibited Uber and any other potential competition. Thus, perpetuating a cartel with huge entry costs.

Uber's prices are competitive and they are allowing potentially anybody to become a driver, hugely increasing supply. The service they offer is much better than that of a Taxi; no Uber driver has ever tried to trick me or gotten lost. On top of that, if the 20% cut that they take is too much, don't worry, competition will show up.

Really, Uber's "monopoly" is a momentary phase and any regulator should be able to see this.
There is a difference: Regular insurances do NOT cover commercial activities – so if you want to drive for uber, you need to get a commercial insurance.

This is everything the court asked for: Appropriate insurance and regular checkups (yearly instead of biyearly).
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My resources are running out fast, and I still find myself unable to work. I'm not up to date with the latest web technologies (like AngularJS which seems to be in high demand). I've started a project to learn it, but often find myself unable to type even though I already know what I should type. Maybe it reminds me too much of Java (Spring), but that's besides the point - such concerns shouldn't stop me from working.

As a result I don't really have the confidence to accept consulting gigs at the moment, because I am not sure if I can work consistently.

I know web development (especially front end) is not my dream job, but time seems too short to learn anything else. Usually I can pick up new programming technologies fairly quickly, though.

I wonder if I should try to work at a cafe for a while, but of course it doesn't pay well, and it might also be beneficial to exude happiness which I don't atm.

Any ideas? I am at a loss. I think people often recommend to take a break, but I can't afford it at the moment. My wife is expecting a baby any day so I can not just simply go away either.
What was that? I am so disappointed to see that they featured a video showing net neutrality being ONLY about facebook, youtube and more video streaming...

If they wanted to go mainstream, John Oliver did a much better job (and funnier, btw) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU
Hey, Tanuj from Estimote here. We're constantly challenging our engineering team to extend battery life through a combination of better hardware but more importantly smarter software, delivered via OTA updates. For instance, our first generation beacons just had their battery life significantly upgraded recently (blog.estimote.com/post/91749152580/estimote-rolls-out-the-worlds-first-power-management) without any need for a hardware change. We'll do the same with Stickers. 1 year is the default battery life at launch but it'll get better, quickly :)
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A very rough estimate: assuming you have 10 experienced developers on the team, each can read and comprehend 1000 lines of code per hour. Given a 10-hour workday, the team can digest 100000 lines of code per day. To finish just reviewing the code, it will take 1000 days, about 2 years and 8 months. Not sure how much time you have and when you would expect to deliver the final product. On the other hand, if you can find out the use cases and even take a look at the current product, you then may not have to review the source code but just go ahead implementing the features.
I love the idea, especially since I live in Switzerland and chances are that the EU laws won't apply to us. BUT the device is way too bulky for my taste. I'd love to see something like a usb/data stick instead of this huge box.
Not the New York Times, so stop posting it.
Mailvelope is awesome - been around for a while, works as well as it should but isn't really solving many problems inherent in PGP.. Guess everyone saw this article: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/whats-matter...
NASA is building an air traffic control system for drones
In my simple model here, staff is per-capita; fixed costs like property, plant, and equipment are per-unit-area. Which wins in this case? I don't actually know, but I don't believe it is a trivial calculation. (Further, the medical events are not necessarily comparable in the two cases---rural means farming and resource extraction, etc., and that shit's dangerous, compared to white-collar work. And then there's transportation costs.)

I do know that in other similar situations, wealthier, more populated areas end up subsidizing poorer, less populated areas.
Food is way cheaper in Paris than SF... both groceries, and restaurants.
Taming Forms in AngularJS 1.3
That was my IDEA!!
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I recommend you keep a close eye on the work of the VPRI:

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf
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For those living in US I recommend buying TMobile service for travel - free data roaming abroad (speed-capped) and 20 cent/minute calls. I think text messages are free as well.
I use twitter for one thing and one thing only - moaning at companies, ie. supermarkets, train companies, airlines etc. who have given me bad service. They're surprisingly responsive.

Other than that, I find twitter little to no use at all. There are better places to get my news from (RSS).
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This seems to map more to Chrome's Native Client/PPAPI than to anything like container virtualization: a reduced set of pretend syscalls that actually go to an interop library that talks to the host OS. It's just missing the "static analysis to ensure it only uses those syscalls" step.
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Incredible app. I love it.
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Bitbucket has better pricing for closed-source projects, Github has better pricing for open-source projects.

It really depends on the structure of your market and your competitors. There's not enough information in your post to say anything more helpful than that.
Even if you put a good title the HN mods tend to strip it to be more bland anyway. I'd much rather they just allow duplicate story submissions with different titles and let the crowd pick the best title with voting. They aren't doing a good job with staff enforced titles.
But that's fine: having users write it down and/or forgetting it is better than having them compromise their security.
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I wonder how this will integrate with sketch? But excited.
It was unclear to me what the terms of the contract were in terms of early termination of the agreement by either party. If you're moving for a 3 month "try before you buy" agreement, it's good to have that clause in the agreement or at least discuss it.

Say something like, "You guys seem like you're pretty organized, but I've heard a horror story or two about startup hiring... Companies pivoting and laying people off/etc. Given that I'm moving for this opportunity, can we have a clause in the agreement that spreads the risk around a bit? Say, if you guys let me go for any reason before the end of the contract, I get $X as a severance in consideration for my moving expenses, etc."
Losing one of those things would not be fun.
It is important to note how this will shake the current state of the application virtualization market.

There is no docker like solution for Windows. All the big players (VMware, Microsoft, Symantec, etc) do tricks to isolate the applications. The tricks are instrumenting API calls and adding filtering drivers. With these solutions only less than 70% can be virtualized and the process can be really difficult.
looking forward to see the beta
> maybe the author has simply not worked with people who are good at refactoring

I agree with you 100% but this line got me thinking... shouldn't a methodology/process in principle lower the skill level required to be effective? I understand that Agile does to an extent, but perhaps the fact that "refactoring" is hard means the process has shortcomings?
Native apps already have good support for encryption in general. The default Mail app in OS X has a button for it, for example. The only thing new here is bringing it to the big webmail clients via browser add-ons.
I like this. Hate his non xhtml-strict compliant markup (old school).

This is a very creative way to tackle a problem and I love the fact that his JS doesn't add any elements to the existing markup. I feel that once your JS starts drawing dom elements, you've messed up somewhere (unless your front-end is completely JS, different topic). There are of course cases where it is necessary -- supporting older browsers or shimming functionality -- but I've grown to love the separation of markup and interaction.

One could probably build on this idea (wrap your favorite lib) and do things like:

'clicking on ".selector" sends post ".selector[:href]" ..."

But that may make things a bit more complicated in the long run.

Either way, should be fun seeing the 2048-ification of this in the upcoming weeks
Will this tool really help app developers?
When getting to multi-level complexity like your example projects are, why wouldn't you use a solution which can handle more complexity such as MS Project?
> Work is work

I agree, but in what way is Unbabel not compensating for the work actually done? They just prematurely said no more work would be done for them.
Hacker News got big as well, judging by what's popular here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252323
I was neck deep in this very issue for most of today. It is surprising that there is no usable solution to this issue without resorting to what seem like pretty awful methods. If I am wrong about this please do let me know.

Based on what I found today, there are a couple of ways to handle the problem of variable sized images. If anyone knows others please do tell.

1. Use picture and srcset with a polyfill (Picturefill). With this you end up with verbose markup as well as needing stuff like "<!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]-->" to make it work. It also results in requests to multiple images for browsers that support srcset but not picture, meaning twice as many images are downloaded. Many browsers are in this group with the current or next versions.

2. Use javascript. This is the method employed by various saas solutions that I looked at, and there are of course libraries that you can use yourself. Waiting for javascript to execute before the images can start being pulled down has obvious problems.

3. User agent sniffing. This method requires server side logic to implement, and relies on data that in many cases will not result in an appropriately sized image being rendered.

Is there another way? Has anyone got a workable solution to this and could give a recommendation?
Ask HN: Is JavaScript a good girl to marry?
My crush is Ruby and probably will always be. She is beautiful but sometimes her mind is slow and I always liked fast girls.
She is great girl, don't get me wrong, but not to marry. I'm afraid one day she will run away.

In my street there are also 2 sisters, Lisp and Clojure. A cousin of them (Autolisp) was my first real girlfriend but we grew apart. Lisp, the older sister, was the most beautiful woman I ever met, it's a pity she is too old for me. Her younger and gothic sister (Clojure) is still a teen and unpredictable. Anyway their family is not very apreciated in my town, people say that they are weird and anti-social. I like them but what would my parents say about a relationship like this?

Then there's Javascript. I don't have a passion for her, neither she is the most beautiful and perfect girl I know. Anyway she is good enough for me, I'm just a hobbyist, not a ninja. She is the kind of girl that will be always there for me. Slowly I will love her also, I'm sure of it. If I get really bored I'll take her unstable but so damn pretty co-worker as a mistress (Coffeescript) but I will never divorce Javascript, she's a woman for life.

Im 34. I played around already, I don't want to look for more women. I'm old enough to marry and put on my leash.

My reasons to "marry" Javascript:

- JS is present everywhere and will be for a long time. Coming from a struggling field, I'm tired of begging for work;

- I'm an hobbyist, JS still have a lot of amateurs, I'm still in time to jump on board. It's the wild West now;

- Autocad (my field) just got a JS API.. ;

- Meteor. IMO it has a bright future: it's cool (it's a kids project), user friendly (women involved in the development) and open to newbies (including hobbyists from different fields like me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cOLFP-ZyQ&list=UU3fBiJrFFMhKlsWM46AsAYw

This short video of a Tattoo designer on Meteor was an epiphany for me.

Is Javascript is a good girl to marry?
That isn't well formed, you're missing two </src>.

I dislike XML, the confusion between attributes and sub elements is one of the worst bits.
The real lesson to be learned: don't jump out on a limb without pre-established safety net.

Moving to a new country seems like pretty big risk to take on a 3 month contract. Heck I wouldn't move from a current job to another one in town without a signing bonus to cover the risk.
It's called inexperience and immaturity - people seriously expect a bunch of twenty something's who've never operated a business to get things right in 3 months? Or better yet, can you imagine the abuse if you worked for a startup led by 28 year old Steve Jobs today?
"Inessential complexity is the root of all evil" this should be the wallpaper of every programmer.
I don't think there's anything wrong with user-names and passwords in concept. It's familiar to users and easy to implement. Users need to create better passwords and we need to help them do it.

Don't impose any restrictions on what the password should be, e.g. "Must not contain any special chars. Must contain a number..."

Use the word "pass phrase" instead of "password". Encourage people to use memorable phrases and quotes as their pass phrase. The English language has approx. 250,000 words. If a pass phrase contains 4 words, that's 1.62764322e+20 permutations. That's a naive view since "habit osteopath circumference telephone" isn't a particularly memorable password. With this in mind, You could use statistics to reduce the number of permutations, but that's no small feat.

Use email addresses instead of user-names.

Finally, use Bcrypt.
This sounds a lot like Docker for Windows, am I right ?

I might have to try it to understand it, but it is exciting.
buro9 mentioned native mobile apps. Does e.g. iOS Mail have similar support?
It's a trick from calculus, when you do an operation on a constant, that doesn't make it dependent on the variable, it is still a constant.
Civil disobedience is a form of political pressure that consists in the disobedience to laws considered unjust. Uber obviously considers taxi laws unjust. It obviously, unlike back robbers, aims at changing the laws. Their actions are civil disobedience.

Whether civil disobedience is unwarranted here is another discussion entirely. I happen to consider they are jumping the gun, but I understand the fear of getting their business entangled in lawmaking, unable to make a profit.
If OSX has a backdoor then the data can be compromised before it's encrypted. A smartcard would be useful for signing though.
Single Page Applications? Bah Humbug
Reddit launches first official mobile app
I've had a rough design for something like this in my notes for a while now, under the heading "what do to when you can't buy incandescent bulbs anymore?" It's a serious concern for me as my collection of 30 or so Lava Lamps (from the 70s through modern ones) are far less interesting when they're cold.
There's no syntactic difference between an attribute, an object and an array.
The 140 character limit and general focus on brevity encourages people to drop specificity and shift to bold proclamations and absolutes.[1] This is guaranteed to cause miscommunication and hurt feelings. The resulting arguments are impossible to effectively reason out at 140 characters. And even if you do work it out in another medium (email, phone call, etc) - the re-tweeting spreads the old arguments like wildfire.

[1] When the concept "some people in Philadelphia suck" hits a character limit, what gets removed? Exactly. Now someone who's just had a bad experience with a particular person is shouting to the world "people in Philadelphia suck". And having said that, in that way, the larger scope is re-inforced into the writer's brain and tied to their ego and pride. Cue screamfest.
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Beta is the next release, less than six weeks and ALL FF users will be affected unless Mozilla disables it.
Taxis are nearly worthless in SF. I've called them many times and they only show up half the time, and that's if they are open and serving your area. There's no penalty for them if they pickup someone else on the way to pick you up. I had to call 4 different numbers on a trip to Redwood city once. Sometimes they don't answer and sometimes they have no one in the area. I've never managed to hail one off the street as I do in NYC.

I'm happy if all the Taxi companies die because they aren't providing good service. Uber and clones let you tap a couple times on an app, know instantly without asking anyone if there are cars in the area because you see them on the map, and then watch the cab come to you on the map. If the driver has trouble finding you they call you. Then at the end payment is all automatic, you just get out.
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