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You must be joking. The Pentagon Papers were broken by the New York Times. The "Deep Throat" espionage controversy with President Nixon's administration was broken by the Washington Post. American filmmaker Linda Poitras introduced the person responsible for the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history (Snowden) to ...	> American filmmaker Linda Poitras Laura Poitras
You must be joking. The Pentagon Papers were broken by the New York Times. The "Deep Throat" espionage controversy with President Nixon's administration was broken by the Washington Post. American filmmaker Linda Poitras introduced the person responsible for the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history (Snowden) to ...	> American filmmaker Linda Poitras Laura Poitras
This is going to be slightly off-topic. I'm mostly a "backend" dev (C/Java, server side things) that recently had to do some frontend dev again after about 4 years. The last time I did this jQuery/Bootstrap was the trend. So this time I played with React for about a month, then went to Angular (coincidently starting...	Unless you're working on a big project you should stick with Jquery / Jquery UI. I suspect in a year or two React will come close to what you want.
There is nothing more reviled by people who were born during the cold war than a criminal who defects first to china and then to russia. No amount of tech industry pr can facilitate a comeback from that. Almost half of the people in this country will always see Snowden as a traitor. Government surveillance has become a...	We got laws protecting whistleblowers of big corporations. Why not protection for someone who reveals CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS!?! Why not ADMIRATION and GRADITUDE?
Whats your email id.	Since you asked: haakonn at gmail.com. Thanks! :-)
Wait, the Facebook app is bad? I honestly hadn't noticed these nitpicks until I read the article, and even now they don't really bother me. I'm convinced that the only people who can tell and even care about the performance difference between Path and Facebook's native apps are software developers. My wife was using th...	"I'm convinced that the only people who can tell and even care about the performance difference between Path and Facebook's native apps are software developers...most people don't care" the story you're commenting on presents evidence which contradicts what you're saying. unless you count a brief introductory paragraph...
When I was in college, one CS professor explained the difficulty of coding to me in terms of discreteness vs continuity. In the real world, things are continuous. If you accidentally build your structure with 9 supports instead of 10, then you only lose 10% of the strength of the structure, more or less. The strength v...	i say its "brittle" ...those words discrete and continuous dont really apply cleanly, though i understand the idea somewhat intuitively
I've lived under surveillance before, so I feel my perspective might be somewhat appropriate. I won't comment on the specifics (uninteresting and irrelevant, had to do with where I was living). I won't even make a statement about whether it's justified in my case or in general. I'd just ask everyone here to do one thin...	chailatte, your comment is dead. I think it triggered the beautiful prose filter.
That... is pretty much exactly the list of problems I've expected out of optional typing. I think other dynamic-type language communities should read this and think really hard. I've said before, I'd rather see a language become the best $LANGUAGE it can possibly be, for whatever that $LANGUAGE is, than try to bolt thi...	Amen to that.
I'm scheduled to be on that exact same flight in 10 days, so I'm not thinking very clearly about this right now. Can a cool disconnected mind give me a rational perspective on this? Does logic dictate I have nothing to worry about? ("Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place" argument.) Or does logic say I woul...	You should find whether they'll change the flight route. I clearly remember my plane from DXB to NCE dodging Syria by less than 10km. And Syria was not officially "at war".
This reminds me of my buddies beating a casino. It goes like this: Play roulette, start with a low bet ($5) on black or white (50/50). If you win, you've profited the amount of the original bet. If you lose, double your bet and play again. Repeat until you win and you will have profited the amount of the original bet. ...	The Martingale only wins in the long run if you have unlimited wealth and time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_%28betting_system%29
One pain point I've really felt recently with Python is in the deploy step. pip installing dependencies with a requirements.txt file seems to be the recommended way, but it's far from easy. Many dependencies (such as PyTables) don't install their own dependencies automatically, so you are left with a fragile one-by-one...	There's nothing like a good old deb (or rpm) package. Learn fpm[1] and bundle your dependencies instead of hoping that they get there. [1] https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
Apple's going to be fine. Steve's most extraordinary work isn't the Mac, the iPhone or the iPad. It's rebuilding Apple in his image. It was creating organizational culture and habits that mimic his weird brain, like their aggressive software prototyping to prove that things work well and feel good. Fuck, I'll miss him,...	Apple is not going to be fine and to think otherwise is deluding yourself. Apple has about a year worth of Steve awesomeness built up before it starts to show cracks, before the Steve clones start to leave Apple for Facebook, Google or The Next Big Thing. However you summed it up well. Fuck I'll miss him. Seriously.
I'm a bit confused by this post. The author seems to celebrate a private office. I strongly prefer open work spaces that you share with others, as do many companies I've worked with/seen. Care to share your opinion? I'm curious...	A poll about preferred work environments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270424
Anybody willing to share how Schengen/EU borders are for foreigners?	I'm a South African living in the UK, so I need Schengen visas when ever travelling to the EU. I have found the staff at the borders fine (have travelled to the EU about 10 times); I've never had any problems. Sure, they're not the friendliest, but I've never found a country that did have friendly border staff. My issu...
I like this theme, and used it for a while but I find myself going back for monokai. A little off-topic: What do HN people prefer, light or dark themes?	Light, though only with off-white backgrounds.
Look HNers, let's be honest with each other. There's a lot of H1B's on here. You have friends overseas who you want to see succeed in the Bay Area. In my experience at many tech companies in the Bay Area, H1B Visas exist for one reason, and one reason only - to get skilled engineering/STEM labor -- and to exploit conne...	I have said this before here and I will do that again. What hurts the market is L1 visa. H1 visa holders are almost in the same boat as local talent. Why? Because there is a government dictated minimum prevailaing wage that companies have to adhere to. I am yet to meet an H1B who is earning less than his/her peers (wit...
It's so true. I can do routine work with noise, but not the kind that requires insight. The sad thing is that noise is yet another example of the phenomenon of "the tragedy of the commons." Which means things tend to get noisier and noisier. In fact, what has surprised me most about living in Palo Alto is how noisy ...	The New Yorker ran a good article about the leaf blower issue in Orinda a couple years back. I can't stand leaf blowers either, but the article does a decent job of (among other things) pointing out that blowers are a necessary competitive technology for the gardening services. http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2010-10-...
I'm one of those drivers who hates sharing roadways with bikers. It's not that I have to share, but between slowing traffic down, pure safety concerns for the biker (who I as the automobile driver am responsible for in the case of an accident) and the generally shitty entitled attitude lots of bike riders seem to have ...	Agree with this completely. What I still don't understand is everyone is ok with someone going 15 mph or less, only wearing a helmet, with no license or understanding of traffic. Cyclists should pass a road license just like motorbikes to be on the roads IMO. Bike lanes, fine, no license. Get on the road with cars, you...
I read a quote somewhere (forget where) saying "folks in favor of universal healthcare keep saying 'lets have a debate'. OK, then Mackey's editorial was a PERFECT example of having a debate ... and he's getting castigated for it. This shows that folks in favor of government run healthcare are not really interested in...	You remember that quote verbatim but don't remember where you read it? I thought my memory was screwy ...
Not to acknowledge we are at war, but allow me to react to your act of war. This article demonstrates one thing that Ruby does awesomely, and python does not at all. Wether that makes Ruby better than Python.. well yes it does, no point in being diplomatic now, we're at war! In Ruby there is only one way to express a b...	This explanation is an excellent way to teach and vs &&.
In grad school I managed to take advantage of the pacing effect in an educational setting. I was teaching linear algebra. What I did was make the homework incremental - 1/3 of homework on today's material, 1/3 on the previous week, and 1/3 anything in the course. Those thirds were in increasing order of difficulty. ...	Please do a more detailed version, if it makes sense to do so. You actually managed to say a lot in this little space. I had a teacher too who did this on a small scale - the first 5 mins was a summary of the previous calls. The first day of each week he summarized the entire chapter or section in the first 10 mins. Th...
For some reason, this paragraph irked me more than it should have: If the subscriber has tabs but they didn’t opt to include the Promotions tab, Gmail will deliver to Primary instead. That’s good news. Other than that, we’re definitely testing the new inbox and trying to figure out how it works. My sense...	What else can you expect from professional spammers? At least he is honest...
The problem is that this method disproportionately hurts people who don't have the time or energy to effectively hold two jobs (one full-time position at their day job and one as an independent developer or open-source contributor by night) because of family, friends, or some other facet of life beyond their laptop. I ...	Yes, my article might be a little misleading, as I was really looking for the excitement more than anything, work-related projects fully included. The most important objective of my question was to put the candidate in a full comfort zone. No surprises, we talk about your stuff, the stuff you prefered. And we go deep i...
Hey guys - Dropbox product manager here, tl;dr: The scenario described by the OP is now less likely to occur. Since October, individual Dropbox users are encouraged to create separate accounts when invited to a Team and warned that Teams admins will have control over the account. We want individual and Team Dropbox use...	less likely Well, I guess that's a start...
"We provide the browser for free, like Opera desktop and Mini, and then we generate revenue through our content partners." Opera's been free for quite a while; does anyone know why it still hasn't gained popularity? I imagine a lot of Firefox users don't use extensions whose functionality isn't available on Opera, so t...	IE has the backing of Microsoft. Firefox, until Chrome came out, had the backing of Google. Safari has the backing of Apple. Marketing and marketing budgets has a lot to do with it. Opera supports most of the extensions that are popular on Firefox http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/2006/07/04/top-150-popular-fir...
Does GoPro do any kind of video stabilization? I am a bit worried about getting one of these and having a video that's completely unusable (I am thinking about taking it for some trail running). Also, are things like Gear Pro and other knock-offs worth anything?	VirtualDub+Deshaker.
What measurement would you use instead to represent the amount of climbing involved in a route? The main issue I have with this "total climb" measurement is that it appears to depend on the "sampling frequency" - the closer together the points you sample the altitude of, the more rough the surface appears, and thus the...	I'd argue that the sampling frequency is each footfall.
The biggest problems with reddit aren't so much how to read it, but rather what can be read there. Most of the major subreddits are no longer worth following, unless you're interested in hipsterism or curious about the meme-of-the-hour. The smaller subreddits generally have limited traffic, resulting in very slow discu...	The other problem is you can't really trust the bigger subreddits because of astroturfing and too many groups with something to gain. You can't know for sure who's up voting what you see who's down voting what you don't see. Often redditors will accept what they read as the rational voice of the people when it could be...
Quote: "This is a Beta release of Nearline Storage. This feature is not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy and may be subject to backward-incompatible changes." So should I believe in Google's good-will? I would be fine trying out some services, which are in Google Beta. But my valuable data? They should have a S...	If your data really is that valuable, any compensation promised by an SLA is likely to be meaningless. Far better to use multiple redundant solutions, and although Nearline is only beta* it offers us an easy and cheap way to increase storage diversity. *How long did we all rely on Gmail while it was beta?
I wanted HomeJoy to work and tried to use the service a few times. What the failure came down to: 1. The cleaners were not professionals. It felt like they were just recruiting anyone who wanted a job. You could really feel this with the lack of passion from the cleaners and the severe lack of quality cleaning. Most of...	>>1. The cleaners were not professionals. It felt like they were just recruiting anyone who wanted a job. You could really feel this with the lack of passion from the cleaners and the severe lack of quality cleaning. Most of the people complained and were quite rude sometimes. Cleaning is very much a skill as much as i...
I do not know why makerbots keep getting more expensive than the next. I thought with advances in tech, they would get cheaper and eventually I would be able to afford one. What the heck are they thinking?	3D printers are still several years away from regular consumers.
There has always been a strong "case against using CoffeeScript", from day one. Like any other new language, it's a new, strange thing to learn, there's new tools and a new compiler, and your team doesn't already know it. In addition, CoffeeScript has it's own distinct burden to bear: the entire point is to compile (in...	those who care and think that they need an abstraction on top of JS / feel like it's a good approach / can't understand or find it hard to use plain JS, are free to use it. I think people can have positive or negative opinion about things. deploying application frontend of which was written in CoffeeScript was the bigg...
So where does this space stand at the moment? Off the top of my head, I can think of: -this (Digg) -feedly -feedbin -theoldreader There's probably a ton that I am missing	Been warming up to https://mnmlrdr.com (Minimal Reader) lately. I recommend it.
Roger Horn is one of the best linear algebra and matrix guys around, and I was, by wide margins, the star student in his class, effortlessly. For the notes, I found serious problems in just the first half of the first column on the first page. F'get about the four pages. If enough people want an outline in a few pages,...	Adding a request.
Now that we have to consider the iPhones to be backdoored by the NSA, I wonder whether I really want to give them my fingerprint together with the rest of my data. I'm also not so sure whether a fingerprint can't still be easily faked (like it was possible on that Mythbusters episode for example). Personally, I think I...	Doesn't the DMV requires thumbprint?
What a complete load of tosh. Education is about teaching children valuable skills they can apply in their daily lives. How many of them would ever see a PC running Linux again? The cost argument doesn't really stand up either, books cost money and 'do nothing but line the pockets of the publishers' to paraphrase the a...	You're contradicting yourself in the rush to sound like an authority. Androids is a Linux computer. Learning linux is vital - because Linux runs everywhere, and almost everything! Been on a train in Europe? Your life is being protected by Linux. Made an Internet connection in the USA? You're using Linux, somewhere. ...
If you've got JavaScript disabled, no one is interested in catering to you. You are the pathological customer in the ad-driven content consumption world of the Internet. It's impossible to make money off of you. Sure, you enable JavaScript but you don't disable AdBlock and so now you're just consuming resources and con...	well said.
I'm the Chrome browser security tech lead, so it might help if I explain our reasoning here. The only strong permission boundary for your password storage is the OS user account. So, Chrome uses whatever encrypted storage the system provides to keep your passwords safe for a locked account. Beyond that, however, we've ...	This is so typical that the software designer looks at things only from the engineer perspective. Now I can see all the passwords my girlfriends saved in her chrome browser without me knowing any hacking knowledge. All I need is once in a while she didn't log out her browser account when she goes to restroom. God knows...
http://binaryage.com my first commercial app TotalFinder seems to be covering my living expenses soon (launched a week ago)	Buying now!
Quick question - what are the killer features that you would want to see in Windows 8? I can't think of any. While Windows XP was getting a bit old (in terms of age) it did pretty much everything you'd want from an Operating System and some security weaknesses aside (which as someone working in that field matter to me,...	Hardened security, automatic restrictions on applications to stop them hogging memory/processor cycles and slowing down your machine.
I hate to say it, but I agree. The commercials aren't the only red flag for me. The recent releases (MacBook Pro Retina, Mountain Lion, rumored iPhone 5, iOS6) haven't thrilled me at all and I have been looking forward to the MBPR and iPhone5 for a long time.	The rMBP, widely hailed as the best Mac since forever? You seem to be the only person on the planet disappointed by it (besides people disappointed in the glued-in battery – but that’s nothing new). Besides, there are a few years to go until we run out of Steve Jobs products. (I think this whole discussion is utterly p...
What I don't get is all the companies actually setting up shop in San Francisco. If I were a tech startup, I'd actually setup shop in a nice area relative to cost of living, then attempt to draw people out. If you can get someone already in SF out to say Boise, Denver, or Phoenix they can make 80% of what they made in...	When I was at a startup many years ago, we were so busy that no one had time to take advantage of the various entertainment and cultural offerings of the Bay Area or Silicon Valley during the week. It was only on the weekends that we might have time to take a break and go out to a nice restaurant, or a show, or a club,...
It's unfortunate that a possibly productive member of society has to go to jail for this. At the same time, I wonder at what seems like a tone of surprise about the outcome. What he did is not materially different from breaking into secure offices and stealing copies of private documents. Apparently he or others workin...	> I wonder at what seems like a tone of surprise about the outcome Where are you seeing a tone of surprise? The caption on the main image is his quote: 'I knew when I started out with Anonymous that being put in jail and having a lengthy sentence was a possibility,' and the article goes on to make it quite clear that h...
Can someone explain to me the opposition to red light cameras? I don't get the problem with giving people who break the law fines for it, but maybe I haven't looked at it the right way.	They are a burden to the free flow of traffic because the incentive is to make as many people have to stop at those lights as possible. I have seen this in practice in my city. All camera lights are synchronized with the previous signals so that you are forced to stop just as you are approaching the signal at traffic s...
I feel like I live in a different universe. Can please someone explain to me what rational thinking might be behind such offers?	This was way before Google+ took off. Likely, the Color team would have been an integral part of their social strategy. With that in mind, a $200M offer isn't unreasonable.
The most interesting reveal from Tim Cook's quote is that he only mentions the music service and the talent, not the headphones. That's super interesting. It basically means Apple looked at this like a typical Apple aquihire / component technology purchase (of the service), that just happened to have a multi-billion do...	This makes it the third fashion (aqui)hire for Apple, after Angela Ahrendts (Burberry) and Paul Deneve (Yves Saint Laurent). But 3 billion for a fashionable headphones company/music service? I don't know, the feeling I get of this deal is like Nike buying Crocs in 2007, when Crocs shoes were at the peak of their popula...
So here's HN in 2012: the Hiring Thread, which leads this month with a chorus of comments about how effective HN has been for finding people awesome jobs or companies awesome candidates, is at the bottom of the front page just a few hours after submission. Meanwhile, "Occupy Portland's Dec 3rd Tactic to Neutralize Poli...	As t→∞, HN→Reddit
Anyone who believes 100k is underpaid has serious entitlement issues they need to examine. You need to look around and see how the rest of the country/world lives. Sure google, apple, and others may generate enough revenue to pay people more than that but they would also do it without you because 100k will buy them goo...	For the level of education and skill needed to make a good engineer, it is underpaid. It's not about entitlement -- it's the real economic forces the article mentions. The most skilled people will be attracted to other careers. Maybe it means engineering isn't as valuable as we think. Or maybe it means engineers are...
STRONGLY considering going on unemployment to start my next startup. I have about 10k saved, live the simplest life you've ever seen, and live in a city with amazing standard of living. I also have a good job, I'm just fed up not building something, and I want to try to build something amazing. I've thought a lot about...	Would that actually work? I thought for UI, there was some requirement that you be actively pursuing employment in your field.
The idea of lossless compression in a smaller file size than anything else on the market spoiled the entire show for me. Call me picky, but...	I gotta admit, as soon as they said "and it's lossless!" I was a little disappointed
All of those are what I would call common knowledge that an average human being should know. Not that they are relevant in any way to the job Edison was offering - but they would serve as a GREAT way to indicate whatever a person answering these questions is well educated and well oriented in the world surrounding them...	"... but they would serve as a GREAT way to indicate whatever a person answering these questions is well educated and well oriented in the world surrounding them." So then you have to decide, is having a person that is "well educated" and well oriented preferable to one that isn't?
What's everyone's times? I did 7 minutes	Just under 3 minutes!
The reason Outlook is the world's most used mail client is because people are often forced to use it to access their company email. While anecdotal, I don't know a single person that uses outlook because they choose to. However, hopefully, outlook.com can introduce some innovation in the space, although, I'm skeptical ...	The only thing I really miss compared to GMail are vim key-bindings. The default key bindings are weird.
There is one more important thing here: the 8 bit computer immediately invited you to start coding. The barrier to entry was incredibly low to the point of nonexistent. Compare this to a laptop today or even worse a tablet. I very strongly believe that perpetuating a "code me!" mindset vs the "consume me!" mindset has ...	Earlier the barrier was the high price of a computer. Today the barrier is that you have to specialize you more. But on the other side you have more tools, more ressources (the internet), more help, more tutorials, ....
The disparity between the U.S. and Belgium is huge: I have a nice GitHub public profile. I am a capable and experienced Python and Haskell developer. I am building Reesd (https://reesd.com), a redundant storage service made of: - Several Docker containers, linked through Open vSwitch, - Web frontend, - SCP ...	Is this a team project or a party of one aka you ?
Skip Germany and go to Sweden or England, where people are more than happy to speak English, and there is already many Syrians in Sweden, especially in Sodertalje. Sweden will accept you based on your skills far more easily than Germany, all you need is to find a job, and right now the market is open for a guy of your ...	It's very cold in Sweden. May not sound important, but people with genes from warmer countries get all kind of medical problems from the cold weather - joints are especially vulnerable. Also Sweden is the poor neighbor of Norway and Denmark ;-)
MSDOS is the new mobile OS from Microsoft Announcement: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft... Product page: http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/ Edit: Even an app http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ms-dos-mobile/85... Wow, the app is really well done. SPOILERS: Can cd into a pro...	Is it a full DOS emulator that could run other games, or just a simple shell?
Link to poor people art please? (And please don't let it be Homer Simpson art---i.e. garbage smashed together. And I don't count digital prints as art.)	Why don't digital prints count as art? I have some lithographs that I got framed, they look amazing.
Has anyone actually confirmed that Chrome is continuously sending audio back to Google? I highly doubt that this is the case. Instead, the plug in knows how to recognize "OK Google" all by itself. Once activated, then it starts sending audio data. IF it where really listening even when inactive, then people would be...	good point. However, don't trust them to care about your privacy too much. This is never the case.
Sorry to nag, but I haven't yet brought myself to make it past the first paragraph. Maybe it looks elegant or classy on someone else's screen, but I had to go re-enable Evernote Clearly just to be able to read it. Am I the only one?	Chrome 25 on Windows here and the same problem -- the font has extraordinarily poor hinting (or Chrome is malfunctioning), leading to critical elements of the text being discarded at that size.
Are you serious? You can question everything you want as an ordinary citizen. The moment you sign a contract, specially for the military, you agree to keep your word. So, right, how dare the government hold someone to their word? You're basically advocating lying and not honoring your promises. BTW - I basically make...	Well, the moment you become part of the state (government), you agree to FOLLOW the constitution. The question here is not who broke "promises", but who acted against the constitution.
1TB isn't that impressive when you have to deal with a 300MB/month upload rate limit: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ It'd take 291 years to fill up the 1TB allowance: https://www.google.com/search?q=1TB+%2F+(300+MB%2Fmonth) (Also looks like there's a missing </ul> on that limits page, there.) Edit: Looks like the p...	I don't actually see the 300MB/month limit on that page. Was it possibly a vestigial FAQ list item that just got removed?
Perhaps this was mentioned the other day, but Neovim did make me think of this old chestnut from Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html I realize Neovim is being characterized as an "aggressive refactor," but I'm sure that's the way Netscape thought of it as well. tl;dr Things you shoul...	There is probably no Spolskyism that I disagree with more. And yet, I don't really disagree with what he said in context. The context is within a business where the opportunity cost could make it not worth it. If the only concern is making the software better, my experience is that rewriting does wonders for old code.
Why do Apple, Google and major IT companies seem so much interested by our health suddenly ? What are they planning to do with the data ? Just selling it ? (life insurance companies ?)	People are interested in their health. The people that work at these companies, and the people that use their products.
The article has a pretty obvious slant in one direction. A lot of times small businesses will require this of their entry level workers not because they are afraid of their workers going to a competitor, but don't want their employees to go and start a competing business, which in the small business world is a very rea...	If you think a contract keeping a fast food worker from working for another fast food chain for a year is reasonable, you're a tool. Hell, a side benefit for many (most?) of the posters on this site is CA doesn't allow this for software engineers, who make a hell of a lot more money and have far more insight into a bu...
My life has been a search for quiet for as long as I can remember. I think the fundamental problem with noisy people is not that they're inconsiderate, but that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt, and they thus don't realize the havoc they're wreaking. When I was living in Providence, working on On Lisp,...	Anecdotal, but: I can be noisy as a consequence of having a train of thought. Sometimes, for certain types of problem, I think best while talking out loud, waving my arms, and diagramming on a whiteboard. Not a quiet process but definitely underpinned by a train of thought.
There is something chillingly unconvincing about their attempts at informality. Big Brother jokey is a lot more frightening than Big Brother bureaucratic or Big Brother bombastic. Too bad this insight wasn't available to Orwell or he could have made 1984 even scarier.	The spelling and grammatical errors tell you within 5 seconds that this person is not very intelligent. For obvious security reasons, we can’t discuss our technology's detection capability in detail, however TSA conducts extensive testing of all screening technologies in the laboratory and at airports prior ...
Hmm, I don't want to be spammy, but this could be a good idea. Anyone else have thoughts on this?	Yes please.
I'm an Exchange user with a Nexus 4, and the most recent Android update has really made my life tough. First, they removed the normal email app, forcing me to use Gmail. I really dislike the Gmail app. Next, they removed the normal calendar app, and replaced it with Google Calendar. I preferred the old one, and I don't...	Nine is just brilliant. Only thing it is missing is alias handling.
This is an important article, but I doubt there will be a useful discussion of it here. The developed world has incredible productive capacity. With 1% of the workforce in agriculture and 8% in manufacturing, the US produces as much stuff as China. There are no significant shortages of any manufactured good anywhere i...	Sorry, but the financial system exists at the behest of the political class. The political class is the one percent who runs it all. They may talk that we have a capitalist society but with the heavy amount of regulation that exists that is pretty much a stretch. You have a one percent group (politicians and their appo...
I happen to live in SF, but I don't care if you're in SF, London, Podunk or Peoria, the protocol for going to the bathroom in a coffee shop or other public space is to pack up your stuff and take it with you. You may lose your seat but it's much better to keep your stuff. Asking someone to watch it - if it's not someo...	The protocol in Japan is to leave your stuff at the table and go take your dump. In fact, it's protocol that when you enter a coffeeshop (starbucks, mc donalds, etc.), first find out if there is a free seat. It could be on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd floor. Leave your stuff there to claim the seat. Then go back to the 1st flo...
"I don’t think it’s going to work that way any more. I think that the power has decentralized. Successful people on Twitter basically can fulfill a lot of that same role. You can follow Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble and Tim Lee and you can get a pretty good summary of what’s happening around the universe." But then, I...	I think tools like Nuzzle can help solve this. Basically it watches my friends' Twitter and Facebook feeds and bubbles up popular links for today.
I've had this idea bouncing around in the back of my head for a few years for an idea to use technology to reimagine churches into "micro churches". I feel like with communication such as it is, you could turn churches back into what they once were 2000 years ago, small gatherings of a small number of people (10-30) in...	This is exactly how I worship in New York; Boston; and Portland, OR. It works well. It mixes Quakerism’s meeting for worship and evangelical bible study. It’s popular with 20-and-30-something Christians.
Too bad it's a mirage. No, really. "Modern C++" doesn't exist outside of blog posts, books, and tutorials. Real-world C++ is an array of sometimes mututally-exclusive dialects, patterns, rules, sub-dialects. Reading MFC is nothing like reading Qt which is nothing like WxWidgets which is nothing like Boost which is some...	What experience are you speaking from?
Yet it still swaps to disk ALL THE TIME and a new Terminal.app window can take up to 5 seconds to open. That's not swapping. That delay is /usr/bin/login searching the system logs so that it can display the date and time of your last login. Create a .hushlogin file in your home directory to prevent that.	Doesn't OSX rotate logs? Seems weird that it should take so long.
This is what burnout looks like. Unless Yelp has a toxic work culture, it's likely the author brought it on themselves by pushing too hard. After several months, the author will probably start thinking about work again, and begin the job search once more. Not to say that the author's points are invalid; it's a terrible...	Be sure to check back in a couple months. :)
Why can't I just get any computer with no operating system installed whatsoever. This isn't rocket science here, just format the hard drive and give me the computer. Then subtract the money you pay Microsoft for the windows license. If there is some contractual obligation Dell has with Microsoft to not do this then we ...	> Why can't I just get any computer with no operating system installed whatsoever. Because it's a very small market. Not very many people want to buy something that they can't use out of the box.
In my opinion this is a bad precedent. Call it a non sequitur but what if they eventually decide they want to remove the 140-character limit from tweets? I mean, the thing I liked the most of Twitter was how simple it was, but they have started adding so many things to it (especially GIFs, Twitter Cards and videos that...	>what if they eventually decide they want to remove the 140-character limit from tweets 8-part Tweets (or larger) are extremely common. Like it or not, people use Twitter as a blog engine. Making it a less shitty blog engine might be a good thing.
That experience radically changed my opinion about my daughter’s future. All of a sudden I was frustrated that she was stuck wasting her time in high school taking yet another history class, when she could be doing what she wanted to do with her life and spending all day learning skills that will help her in her chosen...	As best as I remember high school, my junior and senior history classes were a repeat of the freshman and sophomore history classes. Basic American history and world history.
What do you use instead? or do you just use the sites themselves/Twitter etc?	Most of the Hackernews readers can install their own feed reader like TinyTinyRSS or ownCloud News, and they should.
Putting aside the layman for the moment, has anyone else found Chrome particularly annoying to use as a power user? There are so many issues, such as the uncustomizable download bar (can't even have it autohide!), the inability to fine-tune history/cache/etc. deletion, inabilility to set filetype-specific download sett...	It's true that Firefox is much more extensible and has way better extensions. Like you, I also hate the download manager in Chrome. However, the single feature that makes me try to use Chrome above anything is it's sync features. They are just too good. Sync happens instantly (in my eyes at least) no matter how many co...
This is a terrible idea[see edit]. What incentive is there for any store to use this system when they're providing their data in a single easy to query location? Brick and mortar stores have custom because of brand loyalty, a large part of brand loyalty is saying "I shopped around twice and both times x was cheaper, I'...	Read the post, came back to look at hacker news comments knowing the most popular one would say "This idea sucks", was not disappointed. First sentence, boom. But hey you know you'll always get some constructive criticism no matter the idea, and that's definitely worth something.
Can you argue that there is ever a social (not private) benefit to NOT open sourcing your code?	A lot of serious security advisories affecting closed source programs often don't become exploits in the wild due to the nature of closed source and the impied secrecy involved. For example, IE had a major, major issue regarding SChannel that more or less trivially gave attackers an ability to run arbitary code at eith...
I really don't get why people don't just declare their work public domain. I hate having to dig through and grok licenses to figure out what using some random library does to the precarious legal framework of my project. Developers often engineer software dependencies badly, but we don't bother engineering legal depend...	> We bag commercial licenses for stealing developer freedom, You have completely missed the point of the F in FOSS. It is not just about developer freedom but user freedom as in all users to modify (or pay to have modified for non-developers) code as they need.
I've tried to keep it as tiny as possible with just under 3kb when gzipped. What would you change? What would you add? Any feedback or pull request is greatly welcome! MIT Licensed	I would make the default grey button colour a little bit darker so it's easier to read the white labels.
People here live in a bubble. We're afraid of an orwelian society, but in the case of france, we're still unable to catch those guys eventhough they : - killed people in the center of Paris, including cops protecting the area. - left their id card at the back of the car - had 2 car accident while running away inside Pa...	Well it's just more proof that mass surveillance doesn't work...to catch terrorists or those willing to commit massacres. If someone wants to go at a subway station tomorrow and start stabbing random people or shooting them (especially in US), a surveillance state isn't going to stop that. What does work, however, is b...
This is actually rather disturbing on multiple levels. Is there any actual basis for this science, or is the guy a crackpot? The article kinda seems vague on it, which makes me think the guy straddles that fine line between insanity and genius. I mean, I'm sitting here rather terrified that I can't comprehend such a st...	I don't believe it is true. You would see some evidence of it, among the many isolated and recently contacted tribes. There are lots of people in the Papuan rainforest who only joined civilisation in living memory. So we don't need to guess what life was like "before", we can just ask.
I don't know a single person in real life that has a chromebook. Who is buying these?	Schools are a large market for lower-end chromebooks.
If only there were another woman to whom very similar events had happened at GitHub...someone well-respected, like, I dunno, the very first hire they ever made...if only she had an incredibly similar story to tell that ended with her leaving and then winning a settlement from the company for the abuse she suffered...OH...	This is great and all, but it's something that happened in the past and was settled, so I'm not sure how relevant it was in this case in particular. I think you're blurring a past mistake (this should have raised flags from the beginning) with the current events.
Yay, more touch screen in cars. More ways to distract, frustrate and confuse users who are operating a big box of steel weighing 3 tons and going at speeds the human brain has never evolved to appropriately deal with. 1) Not only are touch screens a very poor interactor in the first place [0], but why do you think plan...	Do you seriously think we'll have widespread self-driving cars — and not just the bare bones technology, but ones that we can ride in without any control at all, even while intoxicated — within a timespan short enough for every other advancement in car technology to not matter? I am almost 100% certain that we won't se...
Why the obsession of economic growth? In Sweden we currently have negative prime interest rate and people have higher salaries than ever and housing prices are all time high. This greed doesn't lead to less global warming or happier people. I think politicians and economists should start thinking about what actually ma...	Ask the Japanese with a Mortgage caught in the deflation spiral.
Why the obsession of economic growth? In Sweden we currently have negative prime interest rate and people have higher salaries than ever and housing prices are all time high. This greed doesn't lead to less global warming or happier people. I think politicians and economists should start thinking about what actually ma...	> In Sweden we currently have negative prime interest rate and people have higher salaries than ever and housing prices are all time high To which I say: Good for you! > Why the obsession of economic growth? There are many reasons. Here is one: http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-pr... Our work is...
When people see that I highlight text while I'm reading, they always want to know what practical reason it serves. The simplest answer is that it kind of helps me track the text, but it's less than that. It also isn't quite just a nervous habit. The only description that makes sense to me is that it feels like a phy...	Although I still think the contrast & place-tracking stuff is part of it, I'm realizing the want-to-fiddle thing is a big factor for me too. One thing is that when I use a trackpad (makes it sort of cumbersome to select text), I find myself idly playing with the two-finger scroll, pushing the page up and down even thou...
I'm an immigrant myself and not very familiar with the problem: if gentrification good or bad? The reason I'm asking is that, to the best of my knowledge, there was a period of "white flight", when urban core was basically left to poor people (or at least that's how I interpret this). My understanding is that at the ti...	Is gentrification good? Like a great many things, dose matters. Some gentrification is good, but take it too far and you get SF where even high earning professionals are priced out the minute they consider having children. The result is a workaholic equivalent of the "man camps" that surround oil fields-- a "six figure...
I see a lot of articles claiming that programming talent is a myth. Yet none cite a source or back up this claim. The closest they get is arguing by consequence against it - if it were true, people might be discouraged. That's a logical fallacy since some things can be both true and discouraging. This article is even w...	10x programmers do not exist, because programming ability is not a scalar. Give a hello-world task to write to an average programmer and a super-hero programmer. You won't probably see a big difference in their productivity. Actually if the task is too easy, your super-hero might get bored and become even less-producti...
Out of curiosity: are there any objects that are "pure black"? (i.e. 100% absorption of the entire visible spectrum of light) My naive guess is that the only way to have pure "black" is an absence of light (ex: deep caves, deep sea, etc)	I believe everything has the capacity to reflect some light except a black hole, which is able to trap that too[1]. But as far as the human eye can detect, there are probably a lot of things (whether real or artificial) that are indistinguishable from this 'true black'. [1] Black holes can trap light outside the visibl...
I hope I didn't just get screwed then..I've been given 1.5% equity as a first employee, with an option to get additional 1.5% over the next 9 months (0.5% every quarter). With a salary of 65,000. I'm the web programmer developing the product from the ground up. We haven't yet raised any VC money, it's self funded by...	Did you discuss the papers with a lawyer?
If love is about ignoring race,class,gender,age shouldn't it be about ignoring numbers, too? Polygamy is the next hurdle for society. The judges should declare all consenting marriage legal !	I agree with your sentiment, but no with your account name. I don't think you deserve to be downvoted.
While the idea of teenagers literally worshiping Satan was a moral panic, I suspect many Christians would find D&D incompatible with Christianity, given its emphasis on violence, personal power, and the occult.	For the amount of people that profess to Christianity, its amazing how many ignore the core tenets. I'm sure Bush was praising the Lord as he set the war machine in motion, or Bernanke saying a humble prayer as he pillaged the wealth of the middle class. Ah, the land of Christian principles. Thank God I'm not there.

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