skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's the solution if there was a problem? Create a 'dev-mode' button, give the user a warning they shouldn't use it unless they're software developers, and put your tricky settings behind that wall.

That's my preferred solution. On both Android (tap the build version 7 times) and Chrome (chrome://flags) it works extremely well, allowing you access to settings you wouldn't dream of giving the general public.

They could also move some of this from the general settings panel into the Developer Bar. Chrome allows you to disable JavaScript for your current page from there (although it still has the global setting too).

I'm all for Firefox reducing the complexity/gotchas within the general public's settings panel. Just allow advanced users to continue to access them via some means and everyone is happy. It wouldn't be a big deal to e.g. have to type in About:DeveloperSettings.
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I do not understand. The first screenshot has nothing to do with flat design for me. There are reliefs, shadings, etc.
> Wearing a uniform is part of the job, but your employer is not required to pay for it.

Under federal law, for FLSA non-exempt employees, if the employer chooses to have the employee pay for uniforms, the additional cost cannot reduce the employees effective pay below minimum wage, so, in effect, the employer is required to pay. [1]

Under California law, it is more straightforward -- the employer is required to pay for mandatory uniforms, period. [2] And, in fact, for "all necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee in direct consequence of the discharge of his or her duties, or of his or her obedience to the directions of the employer". [3]

> Pizza chains aren't required to reimburse their delivery drivers for mileage.

They are in California (under the same law cited above.)

[1] http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs16.htm

[2] http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_deductions.htm

[3] http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....
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_LOL_
Was anyone else's antivirus software triggered by their website?
Avast thinks http//www.magicleap.com/js/app.js is malware.
>will completely break the user experience, without any clear path to resolution. //

Checkboxes have a clear path to resolution, you [un]check the box to return it to it's original state.

To prevent the user forgetting then perhaps configuration changes could be added to the history (or a different "undo-history") so the user can easily back-track.
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Really like the campaigns you've highlighted.
The joke is that the job description for an HR employee excludes basically anyone with a disability.
Press Alt, which is the standard menu shortcut in Windows.
I find that a useful way to look at this is to compare the time you would spend on that to the growth you would get by spending time elsewhere.

For example if it takes 1 week to add support for JS disabled clients and they are 1% of your target market but you could spend a week on a feature that would likely add 2% growth, it's a pretty easy decision. The exact numbers are sometimes hard to work out, but the thought process can make the decision easier.
you mean how ICMS continues to operate? How section 66A of the "IT Act" is still valid and you can be sent to jail for writing anything "offensive" on any electronic media?

Nope, nothing has changed, and while everyone had high hopes for the new govt, it will be foolhardy for any government to simply let go of such easy censorship on the public.

In India its okay to burn a bus in `protest', but not post a facebook comment to criticize some politician.
Arresting Uber vs. The $17B Giant. It really is a transport war now
Speaking of inequality, what about the gender ratio caused by the One Child policy? How stable can a country be when 10s of millions of men have no hope of getting married?
If NorthPaw was half the size (and didn't make me look like an escapee) I'd buy one in an instant.
Following one of the SO answer links in the sibling comment, the front UK.gov page, in 2013, had 1.1% of visitors with JS not-functioning. 0.2% of the visitors either explicitly disabled JS or were using browsers that didn't support it. 0.9% had JS, but it did not work for whatever reason. The author supposes corporate or local JS blocks or malfunctioning browser addons that effectively disable JS functionality.

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi...
In the case of Hipmunk and other javascript-required sites, I would say that's their problem, not the browser. Obviously, Hipmunk made a choice, and that's well within their rights, to not deal with browsers that don't have JS enabled. I've done the same thing.

But never once did I, or would I, blame the user.

These are just the decisions we have to make to get things done some days.
> in europe there is a widespread distrust of these systems

What makes you think that? In the UK maybe, but certainly in Spain no one thinks twice about their ID cards. It's just something you have and use to identify yourself - both in public administration and in private transactions, for example paying money into a bank over the counter.
Is the same principle as electromagnetic forming that is commonly used in industry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_forming
What is an "SPA." Google doesn't even know, since I'm assuming it isn't a reference to a:

> A spa is a location where mineral-rich spring water is used to give medicinal baths. Spa towns or spa resorts (including hot springs resorts) typically offer various health treatments, which are also known as balneotherapy. The belief in the curative powers of mineral waters goes back to prehistoric times.
Or, y'know, have coloured prompts but place the escape characters such that they don't mess with prompt-detection regexps.
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because the problem still exists? ooh no wait, we Indians should just forget about it and continue being blind idiots.
Some of YubiKey's products claim to be compatible with the U2F FIDO standard. https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/
The tower can (unilaterally, probably without any notification on the handset) select "A5/0" as the encryption algorithm. That's no encryption.
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On gentoo, we have virtual/service-manager[0], that allows you to use openrc/systemd/runit/daemontools.

[0] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/virt...
I was the first with http://flatuicolors.com
For anyone interested in this subject, highly recommend reading Steven Johnson's book "Where Good Ideas Come From".

To get a summary of the book you can also view his TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_com...
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iPhone Home Button – Hidden Gestures?
I upgraded my iPhone 6 to iOS 8.1 and noticed my home buttom has a new gesture. If you put your finger on the outer edge of the home button and run your finger in a circular motion, this makes the home screen icons or any app screen slide down to open a blank space on top. Is this for new gestures coming to the home button?
I think it's insane to restrict programs to just STDOUT & STDERR. Why 2? Why not use another file descriptor, maybe STDFMT, to capture all the formatting markup? This would avoid -0 options (newlines are markup sent to stdfmt, all strings on stdout are 0-terminated), it would avoid -H options (headers go straight to STDFMT), it would allow for less -R to still work, etc.

It's possible other descriptors would be useful, like stdlog for insecure local logs, stddebug for sending gobs of information to a debugger. It's certainly not in POSIX, so too bad, but honestly stdout is hard to keep readable and pipe-able. Adding just one more file descriptor separates the model from the view.
Press the alt key.
It should be:

https://fidoalliance.org/adoption/video/yubico-fido-alliance...

https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/fido-u2f-se...
There is no support for T-Mobile's Wi-Fi Calling on the iPhone 5, even though its almost identical to the iPhone 5C.
Do you have a cache of comments or photos from Twitpic? Could you stop by #quitpic on efnet and say hi? :)
I don't get this, what about malware pretending to be a browser? Is there a protection against this in protocol
Sounds like an interesting idea but isn't it a bit limited? I can only use it on a computer, not on mobile devices.
With more interaction online moving to smartphones and tablets, what do we do instead of USB hardware keys like these?
It doesn't "look good" because some weird combination of large screen and flatUI, rather its easy to render on the screen because it has the same flat color in large areas than some sort of shading.
Yeah...no way India can invest billions of dollars storing and processing peta bytes of data like NSA does. Its just too poor to do that.
If I can evangelize for a sec, I went to a Sudbury[1] school and I would highly recommend it. It's a very free environment and, as someone who is fairly self-motivated, it was amazingly helpful for me. There aren't a ton of locations, but if there's one near you, I'd recommend at least checking it out.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school
I'm not opposed to doing some soldering - I'm mostly interested in the entry price. The lack of arrow keys concerns me a bit (but I suppose I could use their layouts to account for that). I'll give those keyboards a look though, thanks!
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I thought the big concern is that it isn't hard yet.
Could we instead use smartwatch Bluetooth or NFC (probably better, I don't like the long range of Bluetooth for something like this) to unlock sites instead of these USB keys? Does the FIDO Alliance support such a protocol? I know Android 5.0 supports that but it's only for unlocking the phones (and Chromebooks I believe). But what about sites? Or is that too risky compared to an USB key?
Shouldn't he be looking at empire level data e.g. the growth of the US economy over the past 100 years, the British Empire in the 1800s, or the Roman Empire at its height.

No-one is saying Singapore or Cambodia is going to be the next world super power so how relevant is it to compare their 5 year growth spurts to what China is undergoing?
Idea: someone should create a slightly snarky design site that tells you all the fonts, styles, and colors you should be using now to look 'modern'.

Bonus points if you mention the last time a particular trend surfaced.
The job descriptions offer interesting insight into what's about to come - http://www.magicleap.com/#/jobDescription/games/z2&post_id=1

"Magic Leap and Weta Workshop are collaborating on a truly next-generation Dr. Grordbort’s first person shooter on a world-changing new platform in an effort to defend Earth from robotic overthrow"
I don't understand what you're objecting to. Rent control is indeed the reason the person I was discussing has only had their rent rise with CPI.
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You can double-tap the button to make everything 'scroll' down. This makes it easier for the user to get to those hard-to-reach top areas of the phone using one hand.
They have fear of systemd becoming the mainstream init system. It's more easy for a project to become obsolete if we start to forget about it. Although sysvinit still has an chance to evolve.
Google is supporting the FIDO U2F standard just like Yubikey now.
But they continued that with e.g. the F-117 stealth fighter(-bomber), after Kelly Johnson was no longer running the show. The story of the prototype's development is stunning, see e.g. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316743003/

As for the F-35, the TFX like requirements are its biggest problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111_Aardvar... see also The Strategy of Technology if you want the whole picture).
I went to one (not the one in MA, but one of the bigger ones) as a child and I highly recommend the model.
If only there was an operating system that would let you to choose from different themes for the desktop environment. /s
An observation and a questions...

I've observed that Group 2 (your 75%) frequently winds up in "Director of IT" positions where they can productively re-use that year over and over again keeping the ship running. Some of it is a lack of imagination, some just a simple desire for stability. Either way, they get very stuck. Their firms can't afford for them to do anything else, and they have to take a pay cut if anything bad happens.

Now my question.... By keeping a low profile, do you feel you are artificially lower your wages or opportunities? You're in the same boat as the top 3 or 4 developers I know - very talented, well paid, jobs find them, and employable in any market. But sometimes I wonder if they could get paid more if they were more visible, simply from supply/demand. (They have a scarce skill, increasing the demand for it should increase the wages) Or is it that anyone who would properly employ them is by definition outside mainstream hiring and would know them already?
Interesting. I hope you're right. I've been waiting for the finished version to pay Backpack much attention, so I also don't know whether you are.
It's the soft double tap gesture apple introduced because of the huge screen. This way you can use navigation panel elements without moving your hand that much and it's less likely that you drop your phone.
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As someone who went to a Sudbury school as a child, I highly recommend at least giving it a look.
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Security Key does not work on browsers other than Chrome.

Well that's a bummer.

Doesn't mean it can't be useful in some settings, though.
With the new higher dpi displays, they now follow modern print design conventions instead of some pseudo 3d look, which does not look all that good when viewed at high resolution.
Congrats. This deserves a beer. Sorry I can't share.
Oh, ok, news to me, but it sounds plausible.

.... But, uh, why would the government require that, when they can just listen to the signal after it's been unencrypted at the base station?
One of the things that McConnell's "Software Estimation" repeats a lot is that estimates are _intervals_. I'm a bit surprised not many people here have mentioned that.

If you give a single number, there's a 100% chance that it's wrong -- you're never going to hit it exactly.

Instead, what you should be aiming for is to give an interval that is correct, say, 90% of the time (so still wrong 1 out of 10 times).

If you do it honestly, the intervals have to be much wider you than you are used to -- the "two weeks" you would usually say is realistically more between 8 working days and six weeks, with 90% confidence.

A major benefit of giving intervals to people instead of fixed numbers is that it makes it really clear that it's not a deadline and can't be treated as one.

If they tell you this is unacceptable, then only give the high number, and McConnell's book.
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Probably a similar device but with some sort of low-power NFC transponder rather than a physical connection.
Am I to understand, based on the post you are replying to, that a client should pay extra to have a site that has a working text box while images are disabled?
If there's malware on your computer, it could just as easily keylog your password and one-time code the next time you try to log in to google, silently drop those packets on the floor (so you think there was just a connection issue), and then use your credentials to get access to your account.

If there's malware on your computer running as you, with access to things like USB devices, it becomes significantly harder (if not impossible) to do anything security critical on it.
Not every program will be able to take input in stdin and output to stdout. If you have a --file (or -f) option, you'd do well to support a "-" file argument, which means either stdin or stdout, depending if you're reading or writing to -f. But you won't support "-" if the -f option requires seeking backwards in a file. Neither will you be using stdin or stdout if binary is involved (because tty drivers).

'One thing well' is often intended to make people's lives easier on the console. Sometimes this means assuming sane defaults, and sometimes just a simpler program that does/assumes less. Take these two examples and tell me which you'd prefer to type:

user@host~$ ls *.wav | xargs processAudio -e mu-law --endian swap -c 2 -r 16000
user@host~$ find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -name '*.wav' -exec processAudio -e mu-law --endian swap -c 2 -r 16000 {} \;

Write concise technical documentation. Imagine it's your first day on a new job and you need to learn how all your new team's tools work; do you want to read every line of code they've written just to find out how it works, or do you want to read a couple pages of technical docs to understand in general how it works? (That's a rhetorical question)

Definitely provide a verbose mode. When your program doesn't work as expected, the user should be able to figure it out without spending hours debugging it.
When a minor inconvenience hit 1%, I think it is fair to call it few, when I major breakage hit 1% of users I think it is fair to call that a lot.
See my previous comment about what their technology might be:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8452013
This seems to me to be a bit of a narrow market. At the upper end of secure machines, USB ports will be physically disabled. And if you're not hyper security conscious, you're not going to bother with a physical key.

So with this, you need to be somewhat paranoid, but not totally paranoid.
apt-pinning (something that I have always thought is a bad practice) and using a shim. Honest question: isn't this just a giant hairy hack? Am I missing something?
I also really enjoyed the course. The book behind this course is called "The Elements of Computing Systems". I've been recommending it to lots of people.
I've never used it but, https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-neo... seems to fit the bill.
I wonder how the new iMac 5k Retina is going to influence sales for their iMac line numbers. They increased but I don't think it's just because of this release?
Time to buy a YubiKey NEO.
Me and my wife are working together on our new app (http://alephz.com). It's very early stage, and it's really just a side project for now, but I can see it's going well. I think the secret is to have a very clear separation of roles. For example, in our project I'm doing the technical stuff, and she writes the questions, and moderates the community.

Also, I think it's good for our relationship because we share the same hobby. I don't know how it's going to be when working together on something that isn't a side project, but a day job.
- Government's support to freedom of expression depends considerably on availability of resources. If enough resources are unavailable, government has to give priority to law and order instead of freedom of speech.

- Surveillance is bad but depending on country's internal and external security situation, it may be a necessary evil.

- Removing content offensive to politicians is unacceptable.
To me, USB seems more and more like a security problem in general. Operating systems trust USB devices implicitly, despite the fact that every single one is a little computer of its own that can be compromised.

2-factor auth via a mobile device airgaps the devices from one another, which seems like a great idea for security. If both factors are directly connected by a trust-by-default data channel, it seems at least possible that one exploit could affect both factors.
I did a web search on those sentences and they appear thousands of times in job descriptions, e.g. 133,000 results for the "Specific vision...focus" sentence. The "taste and smell" seems to appear mostly in food service jobs, where it makes sense.

These seem to be some sort of standard conditions that many jobs cut-and-paste from somewhere. I wonder what the original source is. But they seem very out of place for an HR position.
Authy allows Bluetooth communication to get 2FA codes from your phone onto your Mac.
Good points. It's not unreasonable to assume the problems you mentioned are reality. It would take a couple of generations for people to even start to notice the harm that has been done
Wearables with BTLE.
You don't just buy the hardware, you have to maintain a staff of individuals with the related expertise. This is difficult to achieve on a scale that the US Government does with the NSA et al.

Right now a lot of ex-intelligence employees are whoring themselves out to state governments and international businesses, offering their products and consulting services. There's a lot of money to be made, especially since a lot of the expertise is held quite tightly by the incumbents.
In Cython you can use Python modules/functions/variables as you normally would, dynamically and without declaring them. To integrate with C code you do need headers and type declarations. Other tools (ctypes, cffi) can load libraries dynamically, but I think that has its own tradeoffs.
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As someone who has tried out various MOOCs and entry level resources on machine learning, this is the same conclusion I came to. Beyond any sort of trivial example, I found I lacked the mathematical and statistical knowledge to not only interpret the results in a relatively unbiased and error-free way, but to know "what to do next."

What scares me is that MOOCs are really pushing the data scientist field -- see Udacity and Coursera -- but giving people only enough knowledge to be dangerous. It's tough because data science is a fascinating field and many people who have the interest and aptitude don't have the means or life situation to go to grad school for it. These MOOCs are trying to appeal to such people, but they're not nearly rigorous enough.
> he is intelligent

His past record suggests this is debatable. He is very well connected but that is all you can say with certainty.
I hope they're OK with remote work, and that they're open to paying more than the typical IT wage in Florida, because I can't imagine their talent pool will be substantial otherwise, being in Hollywood, and all.
Hey! Of course it wasn't what Charlie was talking about. It was me, adding to the conversation. Chill!
You're entirely right, after looking into it a bit, it seems it's blocked now in everything but content pages (which is where I use it)
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Interesting that disney didn't invest, seems like they are right in their backyard and the potential to use this in a theme park....
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I'd recommend connecting with a few amazing & sex-positive accounts on twitter.

@cindygallop
@makelovenotporn
@happyplaytime
@mikandistore
@oactually
@simplysxy
@missemmamcg
@orgasmatronics
@xSyncTech

There are so many more, but that should get you on track to surrounding yourself with people who want to positively effect change through sex tech.
Ouch. I'm sorry to hear that. Given that we're located in Dubai, we seem to generally be routed via your Singapore data centre.

It would be nice if HTTPS traffic for paying customers was re-routed automatically to an alternative location.
apt pinning, like most systems administration software, is a bad thing if applied without forethought. while I withhold judgment on this particular application, apt pinning is a very useful feature when dealing with e.g. proprietary binary software with specific library version requirements, for instance.