skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a serious point though.

Flash, while pretty atrocious, is part of the cultural legacy of the web.

Someday shumway may be the only way reasonable way to access this via archive.org etc.
There is a lot of back story you aren't aware of.

This is not an "if" it's a "when".

They have been in bed together for years now. This is coming from someone who works specifically in the Vacation Rental industry.
I believe it is hooking the explorer launch process not 'scanning' the desktop. But I may be wrong. Like the author I got tired of all the issues I was having (exactly two extensions, OnePassword and Evernote) and switched to Firefox.
It's called Chromium.
When working on an early version of http://recent.io/, I added a physics animation of bouncing/falling balls during the network request to the server. When the network request completed, gravity pulled all the balls off the bottom of the screen.

Some early testers liked the animation, but it turned out engineering effort was better spent on getting the backend tuned for better performance. Now the request for user-specific news is down to around 500ms on WiFi, and the physics animation has gone away. :)
First, work on typing more professionally. I received my first paid programming position while I was still in high school working for a collection agency handling data. At the time I was very excited and they informed me that I got the position for a few reasons. First, I was relatively inexpensive. Second, I was very professional in my interview and my resume was light weight but highly polished. Third, I had some of the technical skills they needed, but they felt that with my professionalism and my work ethic I would be able to complete the work. They were right, I did well and I moved on from there.

So, for you, I will go down this list. First, set your salary expectation according to your experience. Have you had other, non-technical positions before? If so, get ready to leverage them appropriately. If not, get ready for a very low salary for your first position. It is highly unlikely you will make $80k on your first position.

Second, work on your professionalism. "U" is not a word. "i", the first-person pronoun we all know and love, should be capitalized. You need to watch your punctuation. You don't need to be perfect, but work on your writing and presentation skills. How you present yourself really does matter.

Where you should be perfect, or as close as possible, is in your resume. Make sure it is polished. Make sure it presents you well. When you go in for interviews look your best. Lately in our business there is an attitude that everyone can come in looking like they are hung over after a long night of coding followed by partying, dressed like a skater, and often riding on a skateboard. You can look like this as long as you have skills to back that image up. If you are really Junior, and you are, you better look like the type of guy who is going to show up on time and get his act together to get some work done.

Third, be ready to show off and discuss your technical skills and most importantly, how you are going to acquire more. They are taking a risk on hiring you. There is a cost to hiring, training, and letting a developer work on your code. You need to show you will provide more value then you take back. From what you write above, I think you will have no problem showing your value.

Finally, getting a job, any job, is a numbers game. Apply to 20 different positions. You will interview at a bunch and you will get the one job you are looking for. After that, learn all you can and then feel free to move on when the time, and your skills, are right. Good luck!
After reading this I fired up Safari (on Yosemite). Never really tried Safari before - opened it once when I got my first Mac, wondered who moved my cheese, and downloaded Chrome. But the last half hour with it have been great actually!
Well, as one piece of anecdotal evidence: I only use one browser extension (Vimium on Chrome, VimFx on Firefox) and still find Firefox significantly faster than Chrome.

Also, I like using the same browser on my Android tablet as on my laptop and websites that use MathJax render incorrectly on Android Chrome (these sites render perfectly well on Android Firefox and on both desktop Firefox and desktop Chrome). So I'd probably use Firefox even if it were a little slower than Chrome.
I browse with cookies and localStorage disabled by default (I whitelist sites I need to log into). Your site just comes up blank for me... maybe it requires localStorage for some reason? Not sure why it would, but at least you might want to display a message indicating such.
Aurora looks like an extremely advanced PaaS build for Mesos. There are certainly things Marathon works well for that would be overkill if done with Aurora. Will be interesting to see community adoption further evolve Aurora.
We consider ourselves NewSQL http://schemafreedb.com/. We are looking into using Nuodb as one of our backend storage options when scalability is a concern, default is MySQL with TokuDB.
To be fair quite a few users left Firefox because they found it "bloated" or "it didn't work anymore" but never realized they were the ones that installed the bloat/adware/malware.
> One can implement the step function of a Turing Machine in Coq and one can write a function that runs a Turing Machine for k steps, but one cannot execute a Turing Machine for an unbounded number of steps.

I know we can't execute an unbounded number of steps during compilation, but how does this work with program extraction? Can we extract a Haskell/Scheme/etc. program which implements our unbounded, corecursive step function?
It's also interesting to see that Microsoft is one of the first to obey (a voluntary "order") - the first company to ever participate in the PRISM program, and the one we know most about for its "cooperation" with the NSA from Snowden's documents.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/sony-microsoft-and-others-a...

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/nsa-gets-early-acces...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...

Whatever the debate about the "old" and the "new" Microsoft, Microsoft has definitely remained the same when it comes to happily giving its user data to the government, even when not obligated by the law to do so. Sometimes they excuse themselves with the argument "that it's the law". Well this time it's not the law, Microsoft. So what's your excuse now?
At Homeaway's most recent national conference it seemed pretty clear that this was the first step in acquisition.
Ug. I know how you feel. I've had success using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...
Ahh, thanks, good looking out. "safe" seems like an additional layer of perceived good intentions.
Though most of time, I still use Chrome, yeah, most of time, because recently(about one or more years), Chrome crashes a lot and when it keep crashing in some pages, I have to use other, like Firefox, I plan to switch to Firefox as well. Chrome crashes everyday. That's really annoying. I am on Ubuntu 12.04.
Whitehouse Website Let Their SSL Certificate Expire
I was one of the lucky citizens to have their "Broadband" connection de-classified... 18 down 1 up... Now they just call it "high speed"... all for the low low price of $70 a month! Thanks AT&T!
Google Helpout is shutting down
Helpout is shutting down
Sure. Vanguard has the widely publicized view that HFT helps to bring down the cost to retail investors for instance

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ff8c6486-cb37-11e3-ba95-00144feabd...
It's more work and more cost for a small gain. Why take on extra cost and work without a business impetus?

And no, production and hosting costs are not nearly as high as they used to be. It's now possible to produce content for minimal marginal cost.
I'm not sure how you get Firefox to use more memory than Chrome. Like literally, I wouldn't manage it even if I tried. (Cheating by installing extensions notwithstanding)

I left Chrome open overnight and by the time I came back it was pegging the CPU at 100%. No extensions, no nothing. Seriously Google?
Roger Ver believes Bitcoin could be worth thousands of dollars
I think everyone who writes in detail about a topic has opinions about it, they just don't always have the decency to share them in editorials.
> IIRC you are basically the average of your four grandparents in IQ. So he's wrong, but clever.

Assuming that's true, it would be better phrased as "you are on average the average of your four grandparents in IQ" otherwise you'd never have geniuses ;)
An extended abstract is basically just a short paper, and not usually the abstract to anything [1]. So that might be everything the authors wrote on the topic. It's reasonable to assume that any full paper by P.T. Withington would be posted on his personal site[2] alongside the abstract.

[1] http://academia.stackexchange.com/a/1352
[2] http://pt.withy.org/
It could take 2+ hours to commute from SF to SJ during rush hour.
Exactly, Safari handles 90% of web needs and doesn't clog up my memory the way Chrome does. It handles my battery exponentially better then Chrome as well. Then with adblock plus, lastpass and pocket I'm all set on extensions.
Major security alert as 40,000 MongoDB databases left unsecured
It's strange he doesn't mention Google's Spanner, or references a paper (http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...).
There is a W3C spec for a web clipboard API but I don't know if any browsers have implemented it:

http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/
> Finally, it's still not multi-process (though it's finally getting there.) [2]

In fact, Nightly now is by default.
The "Frameworks stopped receiving offers after a while" bug is concerning, I wonder when it will be fixed.
But we can trust them with "cyberpolicy".
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How long since you last tried Firefox? This is almost completely opposite my experience with Firefox vs. Chrome. Chrome for 4 tabs consumes about 600MB, Firefox for those same 4 plus 8 more consumes 400MB.

I also haven't seen any significant memory leaks in the last year or two.

Sad to say, but 1.4 G is not uncommmon (or even unreasonable) for any browser these days, mostly due not to the browser itself, but the resources consumed by the individual web sites.
The Firefox Devtools team regularly probes the webdev community on the features they need - make sure you let them know (and don't be surprised if they're in Aurora already).
My experience with relatives' computers has been that trying to completely remove Chrome from Windows is a lot like trying to remove a rootkit, specifically one that phones home a lot.

If any other company did those sorts of things in persisting pieces of their software all over the OS without easy removal for non-technical users, people would be calling it malware or spyware.
You could say that they purposefully created a single point of failure - just like every other agency with monopoly over some area.
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Waves hand. Multiple OS libraries.
I love firefox, mostly because of the pentadactyl extension(not compatible with firefox 35, sadly) but it has a huge number of problems. Namely, it crashes far too often. It's extremely frustrating, and no number of bug reports I fill out or new releases ever seems to address the problem. I'm thinking of trying to find a better productivity extension, or go back to emacs type shortcuts with chrome or safari.

Of course, maybe the grass is always greener on the other side. I left chrome a few years ago because I had an linux install where any non-trivial js would cause the computer to lock up.
Which article did you read? Everyone in the article was demonstrating their innocence by doing things with their real names, with public profiles describing their place of employment.
Hackers can’t solve Surveillance
The first time I ran into the NewSQL term was several years ago with VoltDB [0].

[0] http://voltdb.com/
He is thinking of what POSIX specified, which does not have backreferences. See http://www.regular-expressions.info/posix.html for details.
There's an article about Shumway on the front page :)
I would buy and look into the following books:

# HTTP: The Definitive Guide - O'Reilly Media

# Algorithms by Sedgewick

# Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen.

Check out some Machine Learning books:

# Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

# Computer Networks (5th Edition)

I would look at the following book if you wanted more Q&A and interview questions:

# Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions ...

Tutorial memberships:

# I would buy a Tuts+ account, they have been very slow in releasing new content (too bad), however they have lots of great Web Development stuff.

I would read some other non-technical books:

# Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham

# The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

# The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change The Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christenen,

# Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

# How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

If you wanted to understand some Cloud stuff, look into the Whitepapers from Amazon Web Services:

# https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/
Are carriers keeping the unlocking commitments they made to the FCC?
I find Chrome's web dev tools to be vastly superior to FF and last time I tried it it didn't look good on my Mac and I had the same memory problems as with Chrome.

Until FF get's much faster or better devtools than chrome I'm not interested. Not to mention how often does a Chrome extension hit the front page of HN vs a FF one?

Don't get me wrong, I don't love Chrome unconditionally (the RAM usage is crazy but so is FF) but I still think it's the better of the two. Just my two cents...
oh, it uses localStorage to store your chart data so that you can refresh the page and you won't lose your changes.

But you are totally right that it should not be requirement. I will fix that today. Thanks for letting me know!
This quote was not about the reporter or the news outlet. Michael McSwain was the FBI agent in charge of the case, and the reporting seems to suggest that having 'subversion' in Sergey's Web history was a component of building probable cause.
Plus Firefox crashing is a huge downside.

How do you get Firefox to crash? What does about:crashes say? Did you report the bug?
...and that's why something "simple" hardly ever works in real-life! :P
It's time to finish Twitter
Yes. I brought one a year or so ago (40 inches I think) and it isn't smart (that is it doesn't have an internet connection option) but it does have the ability to e.g auto tune channel discovery and play music and movies from the attached usb stick (super useful feature btw) so it isn't like a tv of yesterday either.

I imagine the televisions you tend to see ads for or that are displayed most prominently in stores are those that they want to sell (no shit) and thus those tend to be the smart tvs.
Just don't sign in? I don't feel being pushed into anything. If you're annoyed by that new button near the window management buttons, there's a chrome:flags thing to disable it (enable the new avatar).
cvim for chrome is really fantastic. I was like you, up until a month ago. I don't miss FF at all.

I'm waiting for someone to encorporate vim bindings, umatrix, and webkit into a package... I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't use it.
Wow, this actually looks really cool! Nice work!
I think shibboleth is a shibboleth.
Chromium still has Google logins.
I think packaging falls under the rubric of "trade dress" -- different than trademarks, which generally involves words and symbols.

So if a competitor is selling red hot sauce in a bottle shaped just like a Huy Fong Sriracha bottle, along with similar writing, Huy Fong might have a case for challenging that, regardless of whether the competing product says "Sriracha" on it or displays the symbol of a rooster.
I agree with you about the developer tools. One of the main reasons I use Chrome over Firefox.
1) What do you do to make "Firefox memory goes too high"
2) What does about:crashes say for the crashes you get? Are those known bugs?
So, do good, but only to those whom I approve, or else don't do it?
Sysadmin at work as a 40inch 4k monitor. Not sure if it has external speakers though.
Several people I know call it Cock Sauce because of the rooster as a double entendre.
Ask HN: Software release alerts?
How do you keep track of new software releases? Interested in a tool that alerts you when the latest jQuery version is released?

I purchased the StackUpdates.io domain name last year. I am now figuring out what can be created to broadcast software version releases to the world.

PROBLEM: "Wait? What? Bootstrap 3.3.3 was released last week? Drupal released a security patch yesterday?"

Corporations and individuals who rely on software releases for their tech stacks have no easy way to know when new versions are available. Users are left to hunt down software release pages across the web, find where the download links are located within individual sites, then realize they have fallen way behind on keeping up with the latest & greatest versions. Let’s not forget about the occasional misses on urgent security patches or high-priority bug fixes that impact live websites and apps. With companies and brands needing to keep their websites and applications up to date, knowing when, where, and what to download is critical.

PROPOSED SOLUTION: Online Dashboard + Email/SMS Alerts

If we can make it easy for software users to receive alerts when updates are available, we hope to solve this "I didn't know" problem. We want to build a one-view dashboard showing the current available version #s for today's popular software (databases, build tools, programming languages, front-end frameworks, etc). Also, we want to setup email alerts for new releases and possibly text/sms alerts for critical software patch releases. The plan is to either (a) automatically pull latest software updates from sites (scraping), or (b) provide mechanism for software maintainers to announce releases.

So, what do you think? Would you be interested in receiving software alerts regularly? Would this help in your day-to-day work duties?
So? Nobody who lives in SF would drive themselves to San Jose every day. The traffic is insane. You would kill 3-4 hours a day easily.

Hence the point that companies (say in San Jose) should allow remote work to attract employees in SF.
It's actually addictive, I can't wait to get more reps to invest! Couple comments: seems like you need an invite your friends functionality, I want to invite them all so I can invest in them (jokes I just want them to invest in me :-). Might also be nice to allow some content to be embedded, just a large image or a youtube embed in the content section. Nothing too extensive just a highlighted content box or something.
I am not sure this issue has anything to do with that. I believe it is called svn because it was replacing cvs and developers do so love symmetry.
Did the same a while ago due to Google trying to push it's services too hard. Also, the less I rely on Google the better :)
I'm honestly curious about the scenario where not having a linked ID caused you data loss.
I was an early adopter of Chrome but have not used it for a while. Is this linked ID just the Cookie or another mechanism? How could not having it cause data loss?
I'm pretty sure any future archaeologist would quickly figure out the overwhelming number of rounded rectangles with glass screens had something to do with the decline of other media.
Though I fully agree on every point, I worry that IRC has fallen more and more into disuse and finding candidates who use it is going to be more and more difficult over time.
Right, open standards. I think there's an XKCD comic about this...

There's no "open standard for wireless control of a light", because there's not one standard way to do it. For a dollar in parts, I can build a wireless light switch that uses 433 MHz, just like your wireless doorbell.

Oh, you wanted a network of addressable lights? Well now it's a dollar fifty. We'll move to 900 MHz and switch to a ZigBee radio.

Oh, you wanted to address them through WiFi? Well, here's the problem. Light bulb's don't have keyboards to enter your AP+Key. You could try and use WPS with a fixed pin code, but there's another issue. Putting an embedded Linux device that handles POST requests in a lightbulb is rather silly. We'll keep the ZigBee radios, and build a crossover "base station" that has a RESTful XML based JSON buzzword complaint interface.

Did I mention my ZigBee radio only talks with my brand of ZigBee radios?

The problem in making a standard comes down to the radios in the lightbulb. That interface will likely always be proprietary. Even if you get a standardized web interface, no one will be able to make a universal base station for all "smart" electronics. Wink is trying to do that, best of luck to them. I don't see it happening.

http://thegadgetflow.com/blog/wink-wants-new-standard-smart-...
Welcome to the rest of the world where people talk that way everywhere, everyday.
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Isn't taking about them freely(Joking included) the first step to addressing the issue?
I think Flash only allows SWF content to access the clipboard in response to a user click.

GitHub's "copy repo URL to clipboard" button uses Flash to write to the clipboard. Shumway has implemented Flash's clipboard APIs (which it can do because it can access Gecko XPCOM APIs as a Firefox extension), but they are currently disabled because Shumway hasn't implemented the "in response to user click" bit yet.
Chromium doesn't opt you out of linking the browser to a google account. Opting out of linking the browser to a google account is called "not doing it", because it's an optional step anyway.

Also, chromium seems to be getting less and less care from google now. See this bug for example which prevents using screenshare in hangouts: https://crbug.com/416856
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So the copy failed to get you as a client?
Spaces. Use them. I read "musthave" as "mutshave" :)
I'm not sure how you can use Chrome with a lot of tabs anyway. Maybe with a mouse with a DPI switch so you can hit the few pixes they size down to if you have 20+?
Wow, the first time I actually played Breakout was during the loading of a C64 game from its cassette drive. As there wasn't even a guarantee that that succeeded, I think I played the loading game more than the actual one.

Plus ca change…

(And it had parts of the theme from One Man and his Droid as the sole background music. So it's going to take a while until I can scrub that out of my hearing canal now…)
This was the driving reason I switched back to Firefox as my main browser about a year ago. It reached a tipping point when I discovered that there was no way to unlink a Google apps business account from Chrome without resetting the browser entirely.

Being that I'd never intended to 'sign into Chrome' in the first place (the form looks awfully similar to the gmail login), I essentially rage-quit Chrome and haven't looked back since. I've embraced Firefox and I feel better using free and open source software.

Performance has been excellent. The only thing I regularly notice is that many startups seem to only QA their products in Chrome.
Yes, they're allowed to/required to do that. Otherwise, I agree with you that it would be impossible.
It's almost as if browser bloat is a cyclical phenomenon, as formerly kings of the hill struggle against the upstarts that displaced them by streamlining and improving technologies. Firefox has made strides against Chrome, but IE is the current major underdog.
Hairspray is a bad idea IMO. It will leave residue behind. There are cans of fake smoke you can get at the hardware store. I worked on ships and tested smoke alarms that way.