skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Went to http://www.sonnyjs.org/ (latest Chrome, Windows 7) - there doesn't seem to be any way to scroll the left-hand menu (it cuts off at "StorageManager" sub-heading for me at default zoom level, I can see there are more by zooming out though) and of the ones I can see, the menu items "render" and "kill" don't seem to do anything.
Yep, tongue firmly in cheek on that one.
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Yep, even in Palo Alto ZIP Code 94301 my apartment only had one option: Comcast. Both ATT U-Verse and Sonic.net were out of range.
None of those alternatives are anything like LinkedIn, and this page doesn't tell me what they did that was so evil anyway.
I have not been able to uninstall searchbenny. I have a mac and I'm using foxfire. I deleted install mac, emptied trash and reset google chrome settings. And restared computer. Search benny.com still comes up as search engine. I'm very frustrated. Can anyone help.
There's a difference between being structurally racist, and viciously, personally racist. The tech industry isn't filled with KKK members or open chauvinists (and anyone expressing such sentiments in public would be ejected immediately).

On the other hand there are a lot of barriers in place, of access and unconscious bias, which cause some very different outcomes.

How else would you explain the wide disparities? There are hardly any women or non-white non-Asians in technology in North America. And it's way out of line with comparable disciplines like mathematics or other sorts of engineering. CS is the only discipline where the number of women is actually going down.

http://flowingdata.com/2014/10/30/decline-of-women-in-comput...
Reasons for Web Automation
It's not. However, he's fairly entitled to have a beef with his government, that allowed such a deal to proceed knowing likely full well what the reality would be.
To make this work, you need to get the avg LinkedIn user to opt out. I bet this page is not very effective at achieving that right now.

To get the average user to change their behavior, you must show them:

- why doing nothing will be bad for them (try to show how it will impact their daily life)

- why doing what you recommend will be good for them

+ without putting in much effort or money

+ very quickly

There are lot of angry people on the internet, the challenge is to make me care.
Twitter should be on the list of alternatives. I have found twitter to be a more valuable professional tool than LinkedIn (though I doubt my experience is like others).
It's a play on the famous "Infamy Speech" by FDR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamy_Speech
Growing co-founders?
I founded a (very, very small) startup a couple of months ago with a friend and a brother-in-law. The friend is our front-end developer, the BIL is our data analysis guy. I'm the back-end dev, but also the guy learning the business, sales, and management side of everything.

I keep wondering whether and how to start my co-founders on the business side of things. I'll talk strategy and business needs with them, but the question is whether I should be working to train them in strategy/management/everything else too, or should I let them focus on their core areas?

I worry:
1) they will begin to feel more like employees than co-founders if I'm running all the business aspects of our business,
2) they won't be able to give me good advice because they won't know if I'm being an idiot, and
3) if our company actually grows beyond 3 people, they won't have the context and skills to work as well managing as they do as contributors.

I've read a lot on co-founder management, but I don't know how to address this or even if it's an issue. Any thoughts?
I'm in this group and it seriously blows. Windstream DSL is my only option for wired internet. During the daytime, my speed is usually around the advertised 6mb down/0.75 up. But in the evenings and on weekends, I frequently see it drop to 0.5/0.1 or less. During the past year I've had a dozen or more outages, including two that lasted for a day or more.

When I want to download something quickly (or just open a web page some evenings), I tether to my cellphone which thankfully has unlimited LTE service because I've refused to sign a new contract. (Speeds are around ~18/5 if I put the phone in my front window.)

A guy working at Time Warner (which provides 50mb service about 0.5 miles from my house) said it would cost around $22k for them to wire up my neighborhood and that was too much for them.

After that, I've started looking into what it would take to run my own fiber lines to my neighborhood. It looks like it'd cost me that much or more, which is not an insurmountable amount, but it is significant. And I'm not sure if there's any way I could ever hope to make it profitable.

Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention: my price has gone up twice during the past year - I'm now paying ~$65/month.

Second edit: I just realized that my service doesn't qualify as "broadband", even under the FCC's old definition. I have zero wired broadband providers available.
"pay me and I'll tell you"
Most requests are GET, how would Content-Length help there?
Whomever said that it's technically impossible for a web application to have a memory leak is a liar.

I wrote a slightly-more-than-basic Angular.js app and it leaks like crazy up to the point that the Chrome tab will crash.

If you're having serious ram problems in Chrome though, Shift-ESC is your friend. Shows you what exactly is consuming RAM (in the event you didn't already know)
LinkedIn, like Twitter, is limiting API usage to specific use cases that dovetail with LinkedIn's own apps, instead of competing with them. The restrictions were imposed yesterday. The authors of this manifesto think that's a bad thing, but they don't give me, the reader, any more information.

Why is it a bad thing?

What cool stuff am I missing by using LinkedIn and its restrictive API?

Why should I put effort into an alternative?
I haven't used IRC since middle school, back when I was 31337. Way back from the days when there was a leading '3.'

It's great you mention 'being a prick,' because that's what I said out loud as I read your article. I was tickled by the fact that you mentioned it, so I do respect that you know your strengths.

This might work for you, and for the projects you work on, and I think it's not a bad recommendation for positions that need... that kind of stuff.
Why Mike Maples thinks Apple should buy Tesla right now
So simple it doesn't apply. This isn't automobile insurance.

You're no less risky with your money because the FDIC backs your bank account - in fact, you're more likely to leave it there with less risk.
When I was in college studying CS, music composition and Linguistics simultaneously (not the best plan it turns out) I dreamed of making this exact app. Thanks for this, it's amazing!
It would be helpful to have real-world examples of who is losing out due to this and why...beyond the entire free peoples of the internet (some of whom I'm sure do not use linked in).
If you examine the cert, it's not expired. Akamai is serving the wrong cert so there's a hostname mismatch.
You assume right!
I don't have to agree with the author's justifications, I switched back some time ago for primary browsing because FireFox makes a browser for me and Google makes a browser for them.

Privacy Extensions always seem to work better in FF because it's produced by an organization, if imperfect, whose values center around privacy and not subservience to advertisers.

I've worked in offices of companies with ad-supported site where we could barely support the product without an ad blocker, but these days I primarily lean toward privacy badger or other privacy-oriented extensions like Disconnect.
He has such a great command of the subject and of related disciplines like logic and philosophy. It's interesting that he really kind of kept to himself over the decades rather than speaking more.
I tried this. Among other things, I do LSAT tutoring. I don't think I saw a single inquiry.

People have specific places they go to look for LSAT tutors, and google helpouts wasn't one of them.

LSAT is more specific than some other niches, but I imagine this same problem occurred in most areas.
Keyboard controls to switch tabs. But I can have about 20 before they get too small to click on my laptop -- but they've already become too small to know what is in what tab at that point. I do it anyway. Because my browser is just about as messy as my physical desktop or my apartment.
This article is more informative about why they are upset with LinkedIn:

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/linkedin-api/

tl;dr: LinkedIn is pulling a Twitter.

I can't say I'm surprised. It's a common pattern: Step 1: plant a nice open garden that attracts lots of people. Step 2: put wall around garden.
>Stop using Linkedin
>Here is a list of 16 sites where you need to be registered at teh same time to have an access to the same audience as on linkedin
All alternatives miss the main reason that people use linked in, which is it's social graph.
Whether or not you agree with Eich getting fired (stepping down) over it is another thing, but donating to a cause whose sole purpose is to prevent a group's right to get married (and reap the tax benefits!) seems pretty hateful. You can get into semantics about what was or wasn't written in religious texts, whatever, still doesn't make it right.

What CamperBob2 said was probably inflammatory but probably also right. If you're against same-sex marriage you're probably on the wrong side of history.
I forgot what the word meant so here is the definition for anyone else:

---

A custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important.

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Besides the mentioned Github and open source project participation other shibboleth I use is some experience or knowledge of functional languages -- Scala, Haskell, Lisp, Erlang, F# and such.

I don't use them as hard guidelines but these just proved to be good heuristics in the past. Chances are high if someone is good at Haskell they will be good at many hard problems we throw at them.
Half the time I encounter pages that don't render well with FF it's because they use API only available in Chrome and those pages and/or spa have not even been tested in other browsers.
I wonder if it has to do with the MASSIVE amount of head hunter spam that we may get from LinkedIn. Maybe they actually restrict its access for the Greater Good?
That is what mattered! The programmer (the driver - you) should have fixed the bug when he noticed it. It wasn't a problem with the language, just the implementation.

PHP is not well known for language-level security issues. It's well known for logic-level security issues.
I thought we all used Slack by now?
This is something I have been working on too (and have even taken some of the same steps). Thanks for sharing!
This is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. IRC is an extremely narrow, exclusive and whitebread club. I'm personally kind of skeptical of most diversity-based complaints about improperly biased screening in hiring -- but man, this would really take the cake. As a daily IRC user, it would still be off putting to me.
Radio Journalist Who Put His Life on the Line
I feel like many of us are searching and probing around the same space. It definitely seems to be the case that existing programming languages are way too rigid, but that the current popular example of "just make the language whatever you desire" (Lisp) is not quite right, either. It's close, but just far enough away that it seems alien.

I'll definitely be paying closer attention to this as it agrees with a lot of hunches that I have about what's wrong with programming as we currently practice it.

Thanks so much for the link. I'm taking notes :)

EDIT: Anyone who likes Avail, and particularly the points made in the History section, should probably read CTM. [1]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Techniques-Models-Computer-Pr...
I pay Comcast (ewww I know, but my only choice) $60 for 105 down / 25 up (megabits) and basic TV (no hd, but I hardly even use it). Not terrible and I actually get these speeds when downloading stuff at 2am, but at peek hours I get sporadic connection loss and slow downs which makes gaming... frustrating to say the least.
that's for olap, while I was talking for oltp
Imperative Creep in React
A few questions were asking for chrome "alternatives"

FWIW, there is SRWARE Iron: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_faq.php
This.

Making potentially baseless claims and not explaining their impact beyond "they're bad!" is the kind of rhetoric a middle schooler uses before he or she learns to write proper persuasive prose.

While I agree that data should be as freely available as possible--so long as the person to whom the data belongs approves--I really can't get on board with this histrionic garbage.

Make an assertion. Back it up with evidence. Explain the consequences.
the cert on www.whitehouse.gov is down as well (that's where the *.whitehouse.gov cert would fit in nicely). I think the setup is messed up
That's not irony, it's coincidence.

Possibly even Baader-Meinhof phenomenon / AKA Frequency Illusion [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_cognitive_...
Chrome doesn't run Adobe Flash; it runs its own version called PepperFlash by default.

I know because I witnessed them breaking one Flash video-recording feature after the other trying to reimplement the damn thing...
Hopefully this can be a constructive conversation. Instead of just bashing google for once again shutting something down, I'd like to hear what obligation people feel a company has to keep a service alive that isn't living up to it's expectations.
Develop a better service for the end-user, and I'll use it. Once enough people are using it, then I'll stop using LinkedIn.

And more details with a clear explanation of why the website wants us to stop using LinkedIn would be appreciative.
"Being a prick is generally not a good thing, but it is conditionally necessary" – this is where I stopped reading!
Saying “so long” to Google Helpouts
No... read the Wikipedia article linked to above, Siracha is believed to have been created in Si Racha in the 1930s.
> I live in Virginia and have access to ZERO wired providers and zero wireless -- all we have is satellite. That's because the state allowed Verizon and others to chomp up the lucrative northern Virginia market with FIOS without requiring that they upgrade the rest of their wired switching equipment in less-populated areas. So Verizon makes money on the nicest part of the market -- and the rest of us get nothing. And this is from a company using eminent domain to provide their service.

The eminent domain thing is a red herring. Most places in northern VA, fiber is routed along utility poles owned by the power company, or in underground conduits owned by the power company. In any case, being allowed to run some cables at their own cost in no way justifies forcing them to build miles and miles of fiber in the middle of nowhere.

The Virginia market is actually a great example of how telecom should work. There are relatively fewer regulatory barriers, so companies build infrastructure in places it makes sense to do so. My parents have 150 mbps cable or 75 mbps fiber because they live in a close-in suburb where people can afford to pay enough to justify that investment.

In contrast, the dense, wealthy neighborhood next door to where I live in Baltimore has no fiber service, even though Verizon has fiber in several buildings mere blocks away. Why? Because the city's quid pro quo for allowing Verizon to wire up anyone with fiber was wiring up the vast swaths of the city where it makes no economic sense to do so. And the end result is that nobody gets fiber.
Sure but the full version starts at $399 per year. If you only occasionally read the books that the $100 might be a better deal supplemented by buying specific books you really want.
Awesome. I started building a toy C interpreter to the k5 spec (http://kparc.com/k.txt) based on the k4 data structures (http://kx.com/q/c/c/k.h) and documentation (http://code.kx.com/wiki/Cookbook/InterfacingWithC). That k2 manual is a good find.
Do you happen to know if there are there realistic risks of permanent desertification of the great plains? (like what happened to the sahara) Or does that involve changes of a more dramatic sort than 'less rain'?
How painless is the transition with a fairly large collection of custom filters and the like?
And it's a pretty unfortunate failure mode. IMHO, it should at least render a basic failure message that is removed by a working site.
A more appropriate name would be "An introvert's guide to being extroverted".

I like the idea of using your actual name for usernames, but that could lead to some unnecessary risk if you don't practice proper password security.

The meetups aren't a bad idea, but telling people to "talk to someone" is a bad idea. How about "Listen to someone"? That's much better, especially for introverts.

You're preaching as an extrovert to introverts. Associating yourself with your work, thinking through it, positively engaging those who criticize it while remaining calm - those are ways to get noticed as an introvert. Incorporating what you hear from others - that's how you get noticed. Talking to people and talking, talking, talking... that's how you get noticed for the wrong reasons.
Please provide evidence for your assertion.
Google Helpouts is shutting down
Stable Node.js Release
Cuba now trying to make its mark in luxury purebred horse market
How NASA uses quantum computing for space travel and robotics
You're completely right. My original comment wasn't really fair to the Nest alarm device. It clearly does have it's benefits, but not enough for me to overcome the potential issues with the device. I don't think the cost is that terrible, but I don't entirely trust its reliability and durability. A $100 smoke detector is fine if I don't have to worry about buying another smoke detector for a long time, but I don't trust the Nest to provide that longevity.
IRC is still the bread and butter for a large variety of free software projects. I don't see that changing soon.
"My memory says that Choi claimed N^6 in theory, but could be reduced to N^3 in practice. I can't find the reference, so best assume I'm just wrong here :)
"
:)
I emailed Choi, i'll see what he says.

"I think we're just using different words here: when people discuss escape analysis, I think they tend to mean running an algorithm which has been referred to as such in the literature (usually Choi's) - in which case it's unlikely to be as fast as a mature pointer analysis. One can certainly take a mature pointer analysis and use the results to determine escape sets and do the same optimizations of course, which I think is what you're saying. Is that what Go does?"

Go does not do this, it uses a linear time algorithm last time i looked.
But they could use a linear time points-to analysis too, and still get better results :)

My point is - there is no reason to ever use an O(N^6) algorithm for escape analysis, since good points-to would give you better results, and are worst case N^3 (and in practice, about N^1.x)

>Why do both if the improved GC negates the need for stack >allocation? That is, if you had an amazing GC, would you >bother with SA?

Stack allocated variables are easier to reason about than heap ones.
So it enables other optimizations.
Not sure if this would solve your issues, but next time you try Firefox you should check out Instantfox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/instantfox/). It implements a Chrome-like unified URL/search box and lets you run custom search engines with single-character prefixes (e.g. "w Barack Obama" hits Obama's Wikipedia page).
You do realize that Chrome is different from Chromium, the open source browser, right?
Jon Stewart's America
I thought I saw the article in some small town newspaper. Oh well, I guess the memory isn't quite as good. I swear it was a weird editorial.
Nono, those corporations are just rational actors, as the book of the free market tells us.
Which is exactly my beef.

Nobody here is demanding that any one company do anything. The thing is, we've electrified the country, we've run phone service to just about everybody. This is a solved problem. It's not like the internet was some super weird thing that's just impossible to do. You want the business in the lucrative areas, you gotta provide it in the not-so-lucrative areas. That's the trade we made with those other services, and that was the trade anybody in their right mind would have made with the internet.

Verizon's not to blame -- aside from just being weasels. There's no crime in that. (In my mind they could have made out better had they kept their eye on the public interest instead of quarterly reports, but that's neither here nor there. No crime in being short-sighted)

The problem here, as you point out, lies in the government officials. I swear after watching this go on year-after-year I find it extremely difficult to believe that anybody can be that inept. I strongly suspect payoff money somewhere, but I doubt anybody will ever prove anything.
The Deutsches Museum in Munich is the world's largest and IMHO best museum of science and technology. Especially the mechanical engineering, cars and airplane departments are one of its kind.

Though, the computer history department is a bit too small and similar in size as the equivalent Science Museum in London. In both you find a Cray super computer, first Zuse computers and many older mainframes and terminals, etc. But everything is death, every historical computer sits just there. There is no interactivity, what a shame. They should at least re-work a Cray 1 or 2 super computer and let visitors play around on its terminal - that would be awesome.
Prison for a tweet: Turkish journalist faces prison for post about corruption
I'm very technical, I've written hacks for online games, boot loaders, my own micro-operating system, accounting software, http servers. I've written patches for snort (the ids, not public) and a ton of other stuff.

Yet I'm not on irc, I'd be a hire you'd miss if you used irc as a screening filter.

> "and I have actually decided not to work with specific developers before in a professional setting because they literally could not figure out how connect to freenode and join a keyed channel"

How about you just talk to people in the way they're used too? Instead of deriding them for not using <insert favorite means of communication here>. I know how to use irc, so this scenario does not completely apply to me, but it's very possible that a very technical person has never seen it before and has trouble with the irc commands or w/e. Especially since irc is really becoming a relic of the past, and newer hackers/programmers might never have used or seen it.
The difference between real & perceived value is only a price tag away. Be wary when seemingly trivial choices with potentially fatal consequences are made based upon marketing trends and convenience. Perhaps these systems will mature & increase their reliability, but remember that 'latest, greatest' gadget is still just a useful toy...and revenue/data stream for the supplier.

*I work with commercial building automation controls, it's pretty useful tech, but nothing I would ever risk my welfare on.
It's interesting to examine which historical figures have been remembered and which have been forgotten. Money is part of it but not the full story. Political leaders during times of chaos are remembered. Artists are remembered, many of which died penniless. Mass murderers are remembered. I think in general people just need a simple story to attach to a single person to remember them. Building a computer and making a billion dollars is a simple story. Walking on the moon is a simple story. Designing packet switching protocols is not. It's not a tragic situation it's just interesting to note.