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Not so fast. If you abandon your house anything in it will be trashed in 20 years. Humidity, fungus, animals, whatever. Data you mention has been wiped or the medium has been destroyed. I have some old Seagate 6GB IDE hard drives that are still working properly. So maybe web companies data could have been around if their hdd had been stored in a nice location.
Simple box might end our need for antivirus
the UI did appear to show that you can stay in play after the request has been completed. - letting to of scroll to exit Im assuming.

however, consider the ramifications where losing a life on breakout drops your requests and makes you try again ...

might be a cool option for a 'youve refreshed too many times, beat this level or wait 10 seconds' scenario?
Increasing the productivity of farms reduces their impact on the environment, too, so there's a powerful incentive to maximize productivity even if we're overproducing.
this is likely not a CO2 issue. If anything everything grows better in a higher CO2 environment, let alone a warmer one. We can see this from when it happened before.

Trying to go through the NA Drought Atlas, curious if there are other geological events they can tie some of the really severe past droughts too. If anything their document simply states that severe droughts are a matter of record and its possible that current climate issues attributed to man by some may exaggerate the effect of subsequent droughts; frankly as far as I am concerned it can go either way because some past droughts were incredible and in no way affected by man though they did a number on a nontech world
> Reforming the DMCA is critical

should be "Repealing"
It's not cross-platform.
To spin it more positively, he and his ilk more generally represent our users than more "in the know" tech-journalists.

I think this is a rough article, but likely one that either many users will empathize with, so the overarching idea that browsers should be doing something to prevent bloat is probably a sound one.
I thought that sriracha was very hot when I first tried it. I quickly became addicted to the stuff and pretty rapidly developed a strong tolerance for the heat. I suspect the same happened to you, I don't actually think he changed the formula.
Interesting, what specifically are you having trouble with?

I would think it just uninstalls. Are you claiming otherwise? I'd love to try and reproduce what your claims are (fact check).
Over a 50-100 year timeline, I envision us using cheap renewable energy to replenish massive aquifers. While it seems far fetched, the US has the strategic oil reserve for times of need. Why would we ever consider water less strategic than fuel?
My favorite "feature" of Chrome is the way it invites people to look through your browsing history every time they open a new tab, and there's no way to disable it. There used to be a way to disable it, but they removed it sometime last year.

Because users don't know what they want, right Google?
I left Firefox because it was measurably slower than Chrome at the time (and not by a small margin) and because crashes/hangs would usually take the whole Browser down.
In theory all this stop using X campaigns sound amazing as in this era value and revenue of X is often determined by its active users. Vote with your wallet! Practically, only a subset of all active users will actually care and permanently stop using X until the situation has improved. In the end, cost of living without X is often bigger than the association you feel with the campaign its values. If there were solid alternatives straight away and everyone would switch, that cost would decrease but until then "stop using linkedin", " drop dropbox", "don't buy Nike" are just drops in the ocean.

Which is a bummer because if you would be able to actually manoeuvre a big enough user base, those campaigns would certainly be effective due to the "adapt or run out of business" effect it has.
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If your users are willing to play a fun game that is unexpectedly presented to them, you're doing it right.
That is pretty comparable actually.
I actually found that even if you pay there's STILL a lot of "people who've viewed you" that you can't actually view!
The first couple months tell us whether they can write good code or not. We're not going to get a good sense of their coding skill from how well they can spout off buzzwords, or even from a code test. Only by giving them tasks we'd expect one of our devs to do and seeing how they interact with other devs, use information-gathering tools (Google, books, coworkers, etc.), and solve complex problems in a social scenario (no dev is an island) do we really get a sense for whether they can write good software.
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Why do you think this is your personal data? Who put that idea in your head?

This is C2C data, this is file MD5s, this is registry keys, this is domains, this is file sizes...

And why the hell would we throw out good intel? "Well this md5 is 6 months old, let's throw it out!"
This. I use Firefox specifically because it allows you to set history to NEVER be remembered. Really wish Safari did the same...
You should probably understand this: Google doesn't give a shit.

The total market share of people who care about whether or not their browser is linked with their Google account is probably less than one percent. The value they get from knowing everything you do online? I'm not sure how you'd calculate that, but I'm positive it's greater than losing the tiny number of hackers who are protective of their personal data.

Google will continue to build the browser under the assumption that your browser will be linked with your Google account. If you don't link, you'll be a permanent edge case.

If you don't want to link your account, it's much easier to just switch browsers.
For me the bloatware was Firefox 3.0 that installed itself against my wishes.

I was using then Firefox 2 or 2.5 (don't remember) quite happily.

It was just great (compared to Explorer).

Chrome showed up... But Firefox 2.5 was still much better.

Then one day, Firefox started to INSIST to install 3.0, then 3.5, then one day it just did, no matter how hard I tried to keep my old version.

And then behold, Firefox 3.5 had a bigger interface, that used more screen space (and I am in Brazil, bigger screens and bigger resolutions get expensive FAST, my current laptop, that is a ASUS gaming one, is still 14 inches and the maximum vertical res is 768, screens better than that were unaffordable to me), and it was SLOW, VERY, VERY slow, like RIDICULOUS slow.

So I hopped into Chrome... and I wish I could say I never looked back, but hogging 600mb just to load reuters.com webpage is NOT nice.

I am only still using chrome for google-ecosystem reasons.

If I could get rid of relying on google stuff (several work-related things depend on google) I probably would get on Firefox or Opera (or see if I can put Konqueror on Windows? I never tried that...)
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The most interesting part is the meetups section. I just can't fathom that meeting people and listen to them talk about themselves is using my time wisely. As you mentioned, most of them are bullshitters. I feel as though it should be spent improving my product, or writing a blog post about my product.

Is this the wrong way of thinking? I am the only employee. I'm supposed to do what I'm good at, and that's coding... not talking.

Eventually, if my product is good enough, someone has to notice. Right...?
same. never heard of them before
LinkedIn screwed me over real good a few weeks back.

They sent me an email saying "There are 108 people you might want to connect with", so I click on view all and it shows a giant list of people with checkmarks by their names. Nice. I uncheck all of them, and scroll through checking a few folks who I want to network with (5 people in total). Click next, it takes me to a screen showing the 5 people and the banner clearly says "Send connection requests to these 5 people?". I click next.

The next screen says "Congratulations, we've sent connection requests to 300 people.". What the flying fuck? Ok, well that's a bummer but oh well, probably just a bug in their system. Then my inbox starts getting spammed with "I'm out of the office right now blah blah blah" from people who I don't even know who they are.

The assholes sent 300 people linkedin connection requests through my own personal gmail account. With zero warning whatsoever. That really pisses me off.

I like LinkedIn, it's a great networking tool, but they really need to stop doing this shit. Something similar happened a few years ago, but they only spammed people in my address book who were already members and the emails were sent by LinkedIn, not through my gmail account.

I've revoked LinkedIn's access to my gmail account. I regret ever enabling it in the first place. I recommend you do the same.

For those who don't know how: https://www.google.com/settings/security (click the view all button next to Apps and Websites).
Mozilla is not dropping NPAPI support. Having said that, we are trying to replace NPAPI plugins whereever we can (PDF.js, Shumway)
I don't have any custom filters, but AFAIK it uses exactly the same format for its black lists. The "my filters" pages says:

> A filter can be a plain hostname, or an Adblock Plus-compatible filter. Lines prefixed with ‘!’ will be ignored.
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@SCHIM the permise here is that if you are technical person you should be able to find all that information out. If you can't then .. oh well...
Not sure if I agree that everyone wants a single Node (Isaac's first point), but I agree with most of the points. That said, I don't know that we will get to reunification. :/
> 3. It’s technically more work to maintain multiple projects

It's only more work if you haven't picked one. There haven't been a lot of people working on joyent/node over the last while, but there has been a growing crowd working on iojs. It seems to me that iojs is actually _less_ work than joyent/node because the barrier to entry is so much lower.
The clickbait comes from the fact that you submitted it as "I quit my YC alum job" when the actual article title is "I Quit My Job (Again)".

The addition of the YC alum phrase is irrelevant and is pure clickbait toward the HN audience.
Yes, that's exactly right. But then you're not using _irc_ as a screening filter, but your applicants ability to research new things.

Which is not what the article says you should use this screening tactic for, since there is a large group of technical people out there that is irc-literate. Which implies that irc was not chosen, as you suggest to figure-out a persons autodidactic abilities, but rather because the author (kind-of-correctly) assumes that most technical people have at least a passing-relation with irc.
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I've done that for our company's websites. We were sort of forced into it by search engines but overall it's much better now. The frontend is written in Backbone.Marionette and it wasn't exactly simple.
Given that the OP installed "cloud to butt plus" into Firefox, I think it's fair to say that he's doing a fair comparison.
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> dog-whistled

You seem to be confused about what "dog whistle" means. She wasn't using secret SJW shibboleths.

> no doubt that mob gave death threats

"No doubt"! What a convenient way to assert that something happened without having to provide evidence for it.

> typically completely ignore the same happening to men

No doubt you have evidence of this, too. No doubt you have evidence that this happens to as many men as women, and as often, so as to warrant equivalent reactions.

> but there is no way to achieve without use of totalitarian control over the world/internet

You need to have a very limited imagination and near-total ignorance of history to think that positive change only comes about via totalitarian means.
Hey so I work for one of the orgs that uses cyber threat data to catch bad guys, and I can help explain a bit about what "cyber threat data" actually is.

Obviously the caveat here is I'm speaking as an individual with experience and not really as a rep for my company, but I see a lot of misinformation about what kind of information "cyber threat data" actually is, so I'd like to help clear the air a bit.

Also keep in mind I'm a developer, not a guy "in the field".

Edit:

Just for a little background, I can give you guys some examples of what this "cyber threat data" actually looks like. My company came up with this format called an "IOC", or "Indicator of Compromise" that can be fed into network and endpoint detection tools to search for threats.

Here's the website: http://openioc.org/

At the bottom are a few links to some examples, where you can see exactly what "cyber threat data" is, in reality.

http://openioc.org/iocs/c32ab7b5-49c8-40cc-8a12-ef5c3ba91311...

http://openioc.org/iocs/6d2a1b03-b216-4cd8-9a9e-8827af6ebf93...

http://openioc.org/iocs/ea3cab0c-72ad-40cc-abbf-90846fa4afec...

http://openioc.org/iocs/72669174-dd77-4a4e-82ed-99a96784f36e...

You've got FileExtension, FileFullPath, PID, EventLogItem, DriverItem, and so on.

It's not like this information can't be identifiable, as it's not anonymized, but it's just plain unfair to say this is your email address, social security number, browsing habits, or anything like that. This isn't data about you.
If you don't know how to count, you learn arithmetic from people who do. Nobody owes you a proof that it "objectively exists". Neither does denying it constitute a valid disproof of every theorem in existence. Such is the nature of abstract concepts.
Superfluous RAM use hurts battery life a lot. Using Safari over Chrome easily saves 2+ hours for me.
Which is why I added an interesting / informative link rather than just a nit pick.

btw. obvious troll was obvious
For now, for me, Chrome is my go to #2 browser because of native HTML5 Netflix on Linux. My primary browser is Midori, but it does not render all sites well, and since I already have Chrome installed....
I had to deal with this recently for a trip abroad and can echo the article's findings that AT&T basically did what they are supposed to. I was able to get my older out of contract iPhone unlocked in about an hour without too much insanity.
Only if you're not already the "in crowd", right? I mean... if you have commit rights, it's the same...
If you think that a voluntary exchange for mutual gain is "taking advantage of someone" then I honestly feel sorry for you.
Bad science reporting is yet another bad commercial exploitation of the scientific data, but quite often you don't even have to go that far. We're talking about really long-term effects and lots of variables. It's quite rare that you can just watch something happen metabolically and draw your conclusions from that. Most of the time, we're talking about surveys or small studies. And it's not like the people surveyed are getting in-depth tests every single day. Then add some bad statistics and interest groups on top of that.

Your example ain't that easy, either.
I think you'd be stunned whom you can hire (and for how much money) in any area where a basic middle class home doesn't go for over $1m and a 500 ft^2 apartment in soma reasonably close to offices for $2.6k/mo, ie the first $52k of pretax income is solely for rent.
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I would be real happy if employers would focus more on adding reserved parking with chargers instead of reserve parking for mid level management. It would send a much better message.

It might take something akin to handicap parking to convince people to think different. I would use the carrot method, get better parking with your plug in (hybrid or otherwise) instead of taxing the other to death.
Reminds me of the extremes the hackers had to go to to recover images from the nasa tapes http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/181241-lunar-recovery-pro...
Yes, I have and I found this was useful. Would like more sites like this or a central location for standard tricks which are tagged as being C99 or GNU specific.
Thanks for explaining that to me. To add to the confusion, tabasco is also a pepper cultivar named after the Mexican state.
Would future civilizations go through the trouble of understanding our video codecs? Machine language?

Isn't there far more complexity in our current stack than beowulf?

Even if data survived, it would take an incredible effort to use.
I guess yes. What difference does it make in the context?
I'm going to. I just don't want it to be half-done, and this paper requires a lot of time :(
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In other news, all-cause mortality has been steadily declining in all developed countries throughout our lifetimes,[1] so with that in mind, maybe unemployment today is less dangerous than it ever used to be.

[1] http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v307/n3/box...
Prepare to be disappointed, especially by the meetups. The meeters-up may not be a bunch of "greasy salespeople", but that doesn't make them (the meetups) awesome by default.
Can anyone use the phrase "undersigned and federated bodies of the internet" and expect to be taken seriously?
There is any browser that tolerates flash properly?

My associate had a machine that would RESET because of flash (we know it is flash because it would only start to randomly reset if flash was running somewhere on the machine), no matter what browser.

And in my personal experience flash could crash ALL browsers open at once, one time flash crashing on MSN Messenger partially froze my entire machine, after 10 minutes wrestling it to get to the task manager (yep, sometimes I am stupid) and close flash process, the machine came back to normal.
I made the switch a few months back when I got a new computer, but found that Firefox was slower for me with less extensions than Chrome (on mac).

That being said, I keep the number of extensions I use low: json formatter, a rest client, adblock, cloud-to-butt, clearly, and pocket. Chrome works a lot better with multiple windows open in my experience (on a new iMac with 2 external monitors).
Certainly HN who's hiring threads are going to be weighted towards startups and smaller companies, and especially web and mobile companies, with less emphasis on hardware.

That said, it does occur to me that android allows you to write native c/c++ code and link it to your java program. You'd think there would be more people looking for that.
you guys rejected me as a customer even though my team is building data science stuff on open source technologies, because my employer does translation which is "a competing staffing service".
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This. Have the scales tipped the other way recently? Chrome still feels faster to me, but I only have one active extension (Ad Blocker).
LinkedIn is useful for more than just "showcasing your skillset" though.
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Ironic that shortly after reading this, chrome crashed on me. I've only got 2 extensions loaded other than the 3 Google doc ones that came pre-loaded.

One thing I did notice the other day is that chrome will reload webpages on it's own even if they don't have focus. I was running an express.js app on localhost and periodically I would see traffic in in the logs even though I wasn't interacting with it. It may just be enforcing some ttl/cache header that was automagicly set, but it will make me close my browser more often.

It might be worth installing firefox and see if it behaves the same.
Good to know. Only thing remaining would be a way to distinguish between them.
Find an entry level job for on-paper resume experience and keep jumping ship to better paid positions.

You have no paid work experience and no portfolio and no open source code so no one is going to pay you $80K. Gotta work your way up.

I started working at my university as a student webdev. Then got an entry level job at a firm, then kept finding better paid positions. Employers want to see work experience.
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Because it would be a bad hire. Those 50 miles are at least a 90 minute drive each way most of the day.
I used to have a job like that - I never visited the head office. In fact, I was never even in the same city.

And then there are the jobs were you work remote with a week of office time every couple of months. Still a far cry from "working a day or two a week from home".

http://weworkremotely.com/ claims to be a directory of mythical places :-)
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Are there any apps that help manage an offline reading queue that includes local files (e.g. Office docs) rather than online web pages, without having to upload them to a distinct service beyond perhaps DropBox / Box / etc? I want to be able to save or drop files into a folder, organize them into a queue, have them show up on other devices, and check them off somehow after I've read them on iPad or similar. Some are sensitive so I'd like to avoid uploading them to shared services like Instapaper or Pocket.
The problem is using many open tabs with Chrome. If you use no more than 3 or 4 tabs, Chrome is generally fine. If you use more than that, Firefox has some built-in features to help with tabs such as delayed tab loading and tab grouping. It also has more and better extensions for helping with multiple tabs. Furthermore, it doesn't launch a new process for each tab.

In a browser comparison I wrote last month, I included a section for users who like to keep a lot of tabs open. Even Opera, which uses the same code base as Chrome, does tabs better than Chrome:

http://www.filterjoe.com/2015/01/23/best-browsers-2015-which...
You're right. We can add this (already predictable) aspect to our visions of the future where we get into our self-driving Googleobile that on startup signs into our Google accounts...
The scale is achieved through the local communities. I understand we would still need large scale farming ventures, but local communities can use aquaponics to be more self-sufficient. A large "regular" ag business can support many smaller satellite aquaponic setups. Much like a distributed computing system achieves scale.
I don't, but good on Apple for exposing that functionality. My understanding last time I looked was that in Android it's not even exposed to developers (though I didn't look too deeply into it - there may just be no native API functions for manual focus).
Is this what passes for journalism? That was truly awful. Did that take 3 minutes to write? Maybe four?
Well, the trade we made, by and large, was allowing for monopolies, regulating them, and allowing for charges like a universal connection fee--in the case of phone service. Rural electrification in the US came through a fairly major federal program (during the Great Depression).

None of this would be impossible to do with broadband although there would certainly be side effects--almost certainly including increased costs to those who already have broadband. It's also the case that satellite is an alternative for many. I understand that it's not ideal but I know quite a few remote tech workers in rural areas who use it and don't have a particular problem with it.
"but you have no right to prevent others from doing the same"

That's not quite right. It's not you have no right to prevent others from doing the same. Neither GPL nor MIT let you stop other people from standing on the same shoulders you stood on. The difference is whether you must let people stand on your shoulders. GPL forces you to open your shoulders. MIT lets you choose to share your shoulders or not.
Very true. I have endorsements in C++ from my auto insurance guy, which doesn't make any sense either.
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