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With the availability of browser plugins and user scripts, I anticipate an "off-HN" application popping. Interested people can shadow the "canonical" HN discussion and continue a discussion that has legs, possibly grafting it onto HN itself.

Of course, it may be simpler to bot up a subreddit and do the same thing via convention. That may be the best result, redirecting the reddit-like dross back to reddit, where it belongs. Throwaway accounts will be mechanically discouraged along with the me-too, ya rite, and other useless posts.

Your CI server should be running a stack very similar to production, but there are excellent reasons to use SQLite/H2/etc. in dev.

Being able to do a "git clone foo; cd foo; do my job" is a great way to start working, especially if you have struggled with front-end stylists using real data and back-end services, or any other specialised, possibly short-term, experts who are working on your project and don't have a need to learn basic db admin skills.

Never mind if you use RAC in production - you're going to make some concessions in your dev environment.

I think the nostrils are too close together for 3d smell detection beyond very short odor wavelengths.

The problem I had with both those terms is that they're not anonymized (and unless the usernames are obscene, bowdlerization isn't really a good fit). With the other leaks, at least for the older accounts, a name can be associated with these charts. For the newer accounts or those that lay dormant for a few years before trading, I suspect those who have been logging the web socket and IRC traffic could create a correlation with an individual.

Anonymize is probably fine, but I want "reversible anonymization". :)

Yes, you used to be able to trade via dark pool in large amounts (at the time, that would be 5+ kbtc) to avoid upsetting the market price. Not sure if they still supported it at time of closure.

This is actually rather scary. Enough people have logged data that these can be dereferenced despite the feeble attempt at depersonalization, but I guess the names will come out in the legal proceedings anyway, depending on jurisdiction.

Then we'll have Newsweek writers at our houses asking how we feel about "losing millions" when our cost basis was really around $10. :-)

To head that off: "Umm, now I don't have to worry about how to declare this on my taxes? 'Miscellaneous Income' was making me nervous."

Except that it nicely ties up that 'motive' part of probable cause.

The challenge will be for the prosecution to suppress the stack rank system from any trial as it could prejudice a jury.

If the truth were more worrying?

"Select id from attachments where introspective_function(part) contains 'LPCSTR'" as a scheduled task?

The Fluke 25 and 27s could be had either in fading black or get-dirty-yellow and fading black. Both came with decaying LCDs for no additional cost.

They definitely used yellow and black in the mid-to-late 1980s, primarily on "ruggedized" field gear. Bench gear tended to look pretty much like most bench gear, as far as I can recall.

As a consumer, I find it confusing when "cheap" (in both senses of the term) meters knock off the Fluke visuals.

My first Fluke multimeter was a hand-me-down from my father, and he had made it clear how it was a better instrument. At the time, there were no "Fluke yellow" instruments on the market. They were generally considered ugly.

Fast forward through the 1990s and I'm in a builders supply shop looking at meters. I grab what I thought was a Fluke, got home, and only then realised I had a cheap knockoff. Yes, my fault for not reading, but a large number of second generation tool users have been raised to invest in the products of a few companies that have maintained solid reputations.

Assuming arguendo that data = information, a printout will suffice. Your conversion will be manual, but you should not expect a complicated, performant, object serialization format to last through several generations of computer architecture.

What's nice is that you often don't realize you need a document from several years ago until you've already upgraded through two or three computers, none of which have the (non-app-store) older versions of the software. You thought backing up your data was enough when upgrading computers and installed apps as needed to avoid bloat and clutter.

It doesn't even degrade gracefully. Pages tosses out a lot of formatting and embedded media from earlier documents, which has pushed us to eliminate iWork from our 'productivity' apps.

Read faster. ;>

Trolling was much, much better. There was a delicate obscenity to it that was appreciated by the smaller community.

That's because no one cared about the Internet back then. You could read everything interesting on Usenet, refresh rn, have a few new articles, and then...nothing.

The web was the same way, except that we could kill time looking for material for our one-page sites on deformed baby skeletons.

I think their wit was clouded by their desire to be a twat.

Amen. I had to do double takes in the past few years when I read about some tech thing at SXSW. This year I thought there must have been a hash collision on SXSW and I was reading about some other convention or conference.

It's like CES suddenly becoming all about crazy Ukrainian 36-bit vinylcore bands that were barely allowed into the country because CBP was afraid they'd claim asylum.

If you see a CEO/Founder/Chairman focusing on a new, spin-off, company, this is generally the American way of handling a volatile situation when the offender is perceived as irreplaceable.

Gary Friedman is an excellent example (I'm lazy, so HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/17/gary-friedman-resto...) of a pro forma separation of a major shareholder/chairman/CEO from the company.

Agreed. Keep this handy for when you have an event such as this. If no attorneys were involved in drafting this, I would be surprised.

It admits no guilt, declares that individuals are the possible cause and that action is being taken to prevent their continued damage, notifies the community that a new HR head started very recently, and attempts to be as graceful as possible in acknowledging the points made by the victim.

If you get a chance, watch 'Wing Chun', an informative documentary on the same topic, and note the effectiveness of 'cotton belly'.

It's lazy and I lost the "flag articles" bit hammering them. :) Just ignore them and scroll past.

With this technique, the lowest I've scored is in the 6,000s, and that was when I veered from the protocol. (That bloody 3×4)

You can always pay some sort of % as tribute, but you've created something that we all find a horrendous waste of time :-) so a way of remunerating you to some degree is not in the least bit unethical.

It's good to get paid for your work, even if it was fun.

Rewriting à la Cornell is another huge step for retention.

Wow, parts of that ruling are stunning. Thank you.

"Look for the ghillie suit" narrows it down to 3-4 options per image. Of course, by that time, if I'm the target, he's already de-assing the place where I turned into a fine, red, mist.

Also, there's a big difference between the snipers that take you out at a distance where you could pick them out of the undergrowth and where you don't get the chance to hear the shot that took you out.

Snipers want to live, too, and they're very valuable. You may complain about the low resolution or the lack of IR or depth perception, but those won't help you find someone with the thermal signature of a rabbit 500-2000m away.

That's awesome. Can you tell us anything about how close they have come and how they've avoided SAS's competitive litigation? :)

Then leave it out or make a new post. This is not somethingawful or 4chan. We should be above doxxing people because they have opinions.

Nice. I was able to read and understand the whole implementation on my phone.

Of course, thanks to Apple, I can't load and eval it, but I will take it for a spin when I get to a machine. :)

The pop is awesome. Also, the sheer grossness of a really good extraction is a thing to be respected.

The best are people who lie to the doctor. Unless you're hoping to defraud someone (get meds, insurance, whatever) it's not only pointless, it's so counterproductive.

"I haven't pooped in a week." "Hmm, how many servings of roughage do you eat per day?" "All of them. I eat ten apples for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I eat the solids left in the juicer after making my all-organic smoothies." "OK, I guess we'll have to do a DRE. Do you mind if my interns help?"

"How often do you floss." "Ten times a day." "That's curious, because your gums started bleeding like a Tarantino movie when my hygienist waved the box of floss in your general direction."

I learned the hard way when I faked appendicitis and ended up in surgery when I was 12. :-)

Fair question.

I've been doing projects with people who have no technical background to speak of, but immense domain knowledge. They wrote their theses in word (god help them), published in journals that required submissions in word (there are more and more of the things), and include a lot of figures in their papers or grant proposals.

Sharepoint helps a lot with collaboration, but even word's basic change tracking and commenting facilities are good for people working around a document via email, Dropbox, or even git.

Word still creates those weird situations for which it is infamous, but they are generally rare. Also, word has become much more stable, even with larger documents.

In an earlier age, I ran everything through squid to consolidate browser caches. About five minutes after setting it up, I realised that pulling all the references in the log file and then indexing the lot with htdig would be tremendously useful when I was on the road without internet access.

I spent way too much time pruning stupid crap such as slashdot and started to learn this 'Bayesian classifier' thing.

Your idea is much better.