skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact is that the French and US intelligence services enjoy a degree of cooperation and interdependence that no government in Paris would ever dream of jeopardising.

Well, but France isn't one of the Five Eyes. I can't imagine that the French have intercepts from President Obama. But from what I've read, it's conceivable that Israel does.

Given that information is power, who's in charge?
One thing to do to cure yourself of the whole the world is too crowded feeling is to take a flight from Europe to Either Vancouver or Japan and just marvel at how many hours you'll spend flying over Russia or Canada and not seeing any signs of civilization.
I actually prefer todays web video to having to install RealPlayer, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Flash player, Shockwave player just play video on the web.

Choice is not always good.
Yes, that's my point. It caused little concern beyond a certain tech savvy community. That's why I wouldn't go as far as calling this a "large backlash" (even though I wish it was). Overall, my feeling is that the French don't react differently than the Americans on these issues.
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The US government owns 28% of the land in the country (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands) - Most of this land is not being used for parks or any other public resource - it simply is unused and unoccupied.
If it lives on in an unbreakable, throttleable sandbox, that's not a disaster. It was the leaky native code that was the problem.
I tried one firmware (maybe it was finless?) downloaded from a sketchy looking site that cause the wifi to no longer connect. There did not some to be many firmware choices that supported 1080 output. Even getting an app to run automatically on bootup felt like a chore.

Regardless, I would gladly pay twice as much for the device if it came already set up. I am very pro-hobbyist, but in this case I want a fully formed product.
On the suit front the thing I always bear in mind is that it is always easier to dress down than it is to dress up. Removing a tie or a jacket is much easier to do, and an easy way to start a discussion about company culture. Much better than belatedly realising the developers may wear jeans but this interview process also involves HR people or senior types. Unless the company is the sort of faddish place which makes it clear that they never wear smart clothes I would personally always suit up.

"Business casual" especially is a social minefield. That said I don't mind wearing a suit to work, if you're vehemently pro-casual clothes then you might want to go the other way and make a point of it. That said I've yet to be convinced that in tech there is a time you won't need to dress smartly, even Zuck wore a suit recently...
Pretty hilarious, would you use it? What about an app that lets dogs find new friends by inspecting objects 'marked' by other dogs - owners can indicate which objects in town are 'marked' by their dog. If a dog gets really excited about a certain 'marked' object, then the owner can find the dog who 'marked' that object in the hopes that excitement indicates willingness to meet the other dog. Let the dogs make the decision...
The Apple Watch is simultaneously awesome and pointless
Google Calendar discontinues SMS notifications
I paid; while I'm not a power user, and it's a bit finicky to code for, I don't see why I shouldn't pay.

If I released a "pay if you want" product I'd want people to feel like it's worth it and give me money. It'd be hypocritical for me not to pay.
I'd rather see his expression if he ever found himself face to face with someone his false testimony put away for a couple decades... the majority of the prime of someone's life gone in a flash because of such incompetence... it's hard to fathom.
I found out a few years ago that HFCS was contributing to my digestive issues and that gluten was contributing to digestive issues as well as sinus issues. I cut the two out (and caffeine for more sinus issues) and I feel great. There seems to be this spectre about fad diet gluten free eaters. I've never met anyone who doesn't eat gluten for fun. Even for me, it took a year on and off to actually stop eating it.

I'd really like to see a study done on how many people follow these diets for medical reasons, diagnosed or not, and how many people are doing it for 'fad' reasons.

I'm not diagnosed with anything, but I've had these problems my entire life and discovered the root cause by an elimination diet. If a hospital had pointed out these issues when I was a child or teenager, it would have changed my life. Recently when I brought up these issues to my doctor his response was more or less 'well then don't eat gluten'.

Big food is losing market share and I'm sure they're fighting back. Not to get too conspiracy theory but all the media on GF sensitivity being made up has made me doubt myself multiple times, and multiple times I have regretted those decisions to 'test to confirm'.

All told, I feel a lot better with the dietary changes I've made, and from the health issues I hear other people describe I think they could benefit from an elimination diet as well. If you have gas, diarrhea, or a stuffy nose/sinus headaches on a regular basis, look at your diet as it could change your life. Unless of course you enjoy those symptoms, in that case, carry on!
This is cool. However the problem with $65 products like these as a business model, is laser printers, 3-d printers, and gray market Chinese clones at the dollar store. If you run in a very small market with basically no competitors, then no matter what price you select you'll be leaving great piles of cash on the table that someone else is going to want to scoop up.

Also their "Products Available on Other Websites" "Concise slide rule No 300" link is dead and should probably be something like this:

http://www.concise.co.jp/products/list.php?category_id=31
The best thing since IRC is IRC.
I've been grinding my own beef in a food processor recently, for things like hamburgers. It started to worry me that the ground, preformed hamburger patties were actually cheaper than chuck roast. So, homemade hamburgers for me. And they come out better!
Why use Sublime at all if you have vim and emacs?
The top 100 apps as defined by which corporate entity? I would say the lists provided to me by the system I'm invested in is almost completely useless in determining quality and usefulness. I look at the list on my phone of the "top" apps and almost all of them seem completely useless crap to me. Of course, I understand they are useless to me and everyone's mileage may vary.
yeah my view is coming from just my experience, those around me, and general perceived vibe on the 'tech net' at the time. Digg was the spot where links broke. Then in the backlash due to the botched design launch etc, we all started giving reddit a chance, submitting there first/checking there first. It had always been around, but was more for maybe community/comments on links...not where they broke. Then that started to reverse very rapidly until well.....
most developers hate paying for development tools. thats just how it is.

I payed for Sublime a long time ago for 2 reasons: 1) if I'm publishing plugins for it, I should probably have a legit license for it. 2) It's the best text editor out there for me, period. I use it enough I owe it to Jon to buy a license.

That said, I doubt I'll pay for any future versions licenses. I don't want to rely on closed source tools, and the editor/IDE arena has always been one of the areas I can't seem to go totally FOSS. Hopefully atom continues to improve; I might switch over when 1.0 comes out.
most developers hate paying for development tools.

I payed for Sublime a long time ago for 2 reasons: 1) if I'm publishing plugins for it, I should probably have a legit license for it. 2) It's the best text editor out there for me, period. I use it enough I owe it to Jon to buy a license.
yeah, and having real world socialism with vastly underperforming economy, forcing everybody to have a job, creating pointless jobs to to fill this criteria (and unleashing state terror on those who don't fit in).

if you think i'm joking, unfortunately no. had lived in socialist country and i can still see the damage on people 20 years after we switched to democracy. people went to jail if they refused to work. if they spoke against the regime, things might got worse. economy-wise - our neighbor Austria after WWII borrowed from us money to rebuild itself. after 40 years of socialism, when curtain fell, they were light years and more ahead of us, in everything, thank you central planning. i felt like a poor beggar coming there first time.

Sorry if my reaction offended anyone, i'm just too allergic of anything reeking of socialism. nothing beats first hand experience
The peak of negative equity was in 2012 [1], and it has since fallen to a level more on par with historic norms; chart 5 in [2] shows that pre-2004 vintage loans experienced mid-teens negative equity rates.

Even so -- the raw percentage of homeowners experiencing negative equity is not a good predictor of the impact of raising interest rates and falling housing prices. Negative equity doesn't trigger a distressed mortgage, or force an owner to abandon the property. But positive equity does have an anchoring effect.

[1] http://www.zillow.com/research/zillow-negative-equity-q3-201...

[2]http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/09v15n1/0907haug.pdf
Quoting from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Japan#National_grid

"The two grids were originally developed by separate companies. [..] In 1885 demand had grown enough that TELCO bought generation equipment from AEG of Germany. The same happened in the western parts of Japan with General Electric being the supplier to Osaka Electric Lamp. GE's equipment used the US standard 60 Hz while AEG's equipment used the European standard of 50 Hz."

AFAIK they never managed to convert the network to a common frequency due to cost concerns and politics.
Based on the title I arrived here to explain how the X display server works :P
24 hours. Can apply for up to 96 hours for a serious crime. Or 14 days under the Terrorism Act
What is WebAssembly and why it affects web developers
It sounds like you would have been saved a lot of stress, indignation and hassle if they had simply asked you, and spent five minutes checking up on your answer, before arresting you.

Considering the number of fingers that may have touched a telephone book during its manufacture and distribution (surely the cops have phone books and knew they weren't sent in the post, or if they had found a post worker's fingerprints on a piece of mail they wouldn't have arrested the postal worker) it seems to me that they may have been reckless in their conclusion.
Being able to send files in an appropriate format is a communication skill, a basic skill for any employment, and .docx is almost never appropriate.

You're going to be dinged for a Word doc by some people, some of the time. You created a % chance that your job application got thrown away for something easily remedied. At least take one second to convert to a more generally-viewable PDF.

Besides which, the article is talking about code. Why would anyone cut and paste code into a Word doc at all? A waste of time for everyone involved.
I would agree and think it's equally important to focus on flat lining retention well within 30 days. Most products that fail, fail because retention falls and falls until it hits 0. If you find product-market fit that establishes a flat line of say, 10-30% retention within ~30 days, it likely means you've found a user who actually values, and continues to value, using your product. Just my 0.02
Chrome really needs to stop bundling this garbage. Even with whatever Google magic attached to flash, its still a very dangerous plugin, if not the most dangerous. There was just a CVE for the version previous to this one. And the one before that. Its an endless treadmill.

This should be a wake-up call to make flash non-default and, if installed, click-to-play only. Its time we started treating it like Java. Like Java, its clear its owner can't secure it. I imagine its borderline unmaintainable spaghetti code at this point.

Its also very hypocritical of Google, who has taken issue with SSL encryption levels and NPAPI, to be bundling what's essentially the second largest malware vector in browser history, only behind Java. This SHOULD be our wake-up call.
The Blacksmith – Unity 3D short real-time film
To me the brand matters less than the target sales channel. A laptop targeted at sales to individuals will optimize around one set of features. A device targeted at 2k units a pop to enterprise will optimize differently. Generally the enterprise class unit will tend to be more robust and have a better support pipeline. Or to put it another way, the SKU with a three year onsite standard warranty is designed around business needs. That class matters more than brand.
Linkin Park is now a venture capital fund that operates like a tech start up
It must be... hang on, what day of the week is it?
> They value "the right technical decision" over human relationships and it doesn't seem to occur to them that the right outcome might be the one that makes someone else happy, or is the most diplomatic, even if it isn't "technically right".

No we're paid to do a job. The right outcome is the one that achieves that job. Making you happy while you implement something that will cost the company money isn't the right outcome.
> Don't want to troll you guys here, but if you're a video game company why are you spending so much time building a Slack clone?

I think a better perspective is that this is a tool they needed/wanted and built it - it's really no different than a map editor. Also some companies like Google have a X% time to work on a "personal" project during work hours - and this could be the result of that.
Mozilla needs to have a separate web browser project that only focuses on cutting out the cruft of the top 100 websites plus top 50 news sites. Filter out the ads, filter out the JS that launches advertising modals, cache the content, in short do anything to make sure they load in under 2 seconds with 1 second or 500ms the goal.

When you control the client you can stop so many unnecessary requests and you can patch sites (GreaseMonkey and Stylish were/are the best extensions) when they arrive.

This is exactly why the web is built as it is; you don't have to take whatever crap is shoved at your browser, you are in control.
What's X? Never heard of it.
This sounds very much like you're advocating for the exact thing I was talking about when I coined the phrase "Kumbaya approach to Project Management" a few months ago in a HN thread. In short, you favour "everyone's opinion is valid" over technical correctness.

When you are dealing with a highly technical field, such as software development or server/infrastructure administration, why on earth would you not value being technically correct above all else?

If five people on your team think it's ok to accept logins via plain HTTP and one person says "uh no, you need to use HTTPS" would you ignore what he or she says, because the other five disagree?

In my experience, the highly opinionated people who are willing to fight and argue to make their point are usually the ones you need to listen to.

If someone don't care (or doesn't know enough about the subject matter) enough to argue at length for their point of view, why would you listen to anything they have to say?
> An extension that is enabled is not the same as an extension that is actually running. To see the list of Chrome processes that are actually running, use Chrome's task manager. Hotword Triggering, as well as many other extensions will run briefly at startup. Those that are not actually being used will quit in about 10-15 seconds.

I'm sorry, what?! So I still have to trust that it's not doing anything malicious for 10-15 seconds?
Small rant:

your chances of getting a response from any single application are slim.

Every company beyond a certain size is using some kind of ERP to keep track of applicants, and even the smaller ones use something like Outlook or a similar calendaring app to keep track of people they've interviewed.

Is it really asking so much to get a "We decided not to hire you at this time" email? Without that, you don't know if they decided to skip you, or if you're still in process because the company's hiring process moves at a glacial pace.

The sheer amount of deception and silly dance nonsense required to get hired is insane.
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Go is awesome!!
I hope this does not play out as the vm specs did before. I still cant get OVF to work consistently across any of the supported hypervisors
Music is (dis)harmonies over rythmic patterns. There isn't anything inherently artistic about humans that computers can't replicate with time even the ability to compose an original song. That is besides the lives of humans and their appearance and history which is important but not the only factor.

The irony is that musicians are actually striving for, but failing at, reaching the perfection level that computers have.

And so for computers to sound more human like they have algorithms that make them more "sloppy"

What composition algorithms lack is not the ability to compose like humans but a life that will give them angels and a story.

Then again a lot of music is really formulaic anyway and computers are used for most of it. There is nothing in a few years that will hinder some sort of computer star to be born. But it's probably never going to connect with us the same way another human can. Not for now at least.
You know what else is a great open-source on-premises Slack alternative? Most IRCds.
OK, so productivity increases and in 100 years 1 worker's production can support 100 retirees. How? They create stuff using natural resources. That stuff gets sold, who is buying it now that 99/100 people are out of work? How are those 99/100 going to pay in to a pension?

Oh right of course, new areas of industry develop so now all 100 people are still employed and they're producing enough stuff for 10,000 people. But that means they have to also be consuming 100 times what they did. Where is the energy coming from, where are the resources coming from to make this stuff?

Isn't it really the case that improved productivity gets to benefit the wealthy disproportionately - suppose in 60 years a worker can produce 2.4 times more output and thus support 2.4 times more retirees. That's not how it works financially, the worker gets paid maybe enough to support 1.5 times more [through taxation] and the other output increase goes to benefit the wealthy capitalist. Regardless population has tripled in the last 60 years [Wikipedia figures].

In practice state pensions in my country [UK] are reduced year on year and recently pension ages have been increased.

It sounds like you're banking on a sudden reversal of global population growth (the best case scenario of UN statistics shows continued growth for at least a couple more decades; their "best guess" is continued growth until at least 2100).
Years, according to the New York City Department of Corrections.
I think maybe it's just semantics. I seem to be incorrectly assuming that the inside of the bottle is the space where the liquid goes. And the inside of the möbius strip would be the gap where you put your neck if you were to wear it as a necklace.

Would it be more correct to say that there is no inside surface? And it was just a pun that went over my head?
I'm not aware of any particular feature that doesn't fit into XMPP with a couple new namespaces at most.

And before you get too down on XMPP, bear in mind that anything that standardizes half-a-dozen chat clients will end up pretty nasty on its own, too. It all looks simple when you're a user of the client, but under the hood chat systems get... "interesting". In the apocryphal Chinese curse sense.
They should put solar panels on wind turbines then :)
How can you possibly believe that there is a contract. If I send you a link to an article I think you might like, and you click on it, do you really believe that in doing so you have just agreed to whatever Terms & Conditions are waiting for you on the other side of that link?

Just to be clear, you haven't.
noice app...highly useful!
Yes, yes, it's not very gentlemanly to read each other's mail. We know, Mr. Stimson.

And the world will go on, with diplomats and heads of state spied on, like they have been for the past 60 years, because that is how the Great Game works these days.
You could tell the `ssl` application to avoid SSL-3.0, TLS-1.0 and RC4. Here is an explanation by RabbitMQ:

https://www.rabbitmq.com/ssl.html

It is different from an end-user application in the sense that you can configure this in a safe way, and that has indeed been the typical workaround.

Now we just make it impossible for people to misconfigure this in any way.

The fix was also backported to 17.5 w.r.t the padding for TLS-1.0.

Another point worth mentioning is that Erlang/OTP uses OpenSSL, but only for the cryptographic ciphers. `ssl` is a complete standalone implementation of TLS in Erlang and this automatically avoids a lot of trouble. The common case is that an attack on OpenSSL leaves the `ssl` application unaffected by the error.
taking it to the next level:

[0-9][0-9][0-9]-?[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
It would amuse me.

But otherwise, it arguably wouldn't matter.
But that's 8 times the price of a Chromecast (if you include the keyboard and mouse).

For me, a Chromecast is very close to the perfect device, as my iPad lives in the living room most of the time and allows me to conveniently control the Chromecast, without any keyboards or mice lying around. While it's not as powerful or flexible as your setup, I prefer its convenience. It does everything I need it to (Netflix, Youtube, other players [ZDF Mediathek etc], play local files with Plex or Videostream for Chrome, ...), and does so hassle-free. For surfing, I prefer the iPad over the TV anyway.
JavaScript beats Java at number of stackoverflow questions
There are more Javascript related questions on http://stackoverflow.com/tags than Java related!!
That's mainly a problem for people that can't look further than Amsterdam. Which is not by far the nicest place to live (or visit) in the Netherlands, anyway. It's not the worst place (that's Emmeloord), but randomly picking another spot won't hurt.
> Your problem is that if you put your developers ahead of your customers, you’ll end up with just the developers.

This implies it's just a matter of priorities. In fact, it's a matter of cost. The OP admits that what he advocates "isn't easy", technically. That means it's more expensive. More developer hours, more highly-skilled developers, or both.

It is a matter of priorities in the sense that an organization needs to understand what a good product looks like and be willing to spend the money to create a good product, trusting the investment will ultimately be repaid (as the OP argues but is hardly guaranteed). But it's not avoiding "putting developers over customers", in fact they need to be spending more on developers than they are now to get a good product, they need to 'elevate' their developers further, always remembering the ultimate goal is serving users of course.