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I'm surprised there isn't more discussion of the article's actual content.

Other than makeing me crave cheese omelets, this reminded me of Google's flu trend service - http://www.google.org/flutrends/ .

It also reminds me of "Ambient Findablity" by Peter Morville - http://www.amazon.com/Ambient-Findability-What-Changes-Becom... .

I grew up in the south-east and have many fond memories of Waffle Houses (aka Awful Houses). I'm out west now and really wish they were out here too. This article has me caving their cheese omelets.

From the sounds of it, you weren't at Erik Trautman's "Job Ready" point when you were hired (and weren't going to get there without being hired). How did you write your resume and handle interviews?

Misleading HN title.

The actual article's title is "How to Hire a Live Chat Team".

FYI: In regard to articles published in the Daily Mail about cancer research results, alcohol is still in the mixed camp, but leaning toward 'causes cancer'.

beer both causes and prevents cancer (1 prevents: 5 causes) - http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/a-z/b#term52

wine both causes and prevents cancer (not counting dups - 14 prevents : 17 causes) - http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/a-z/w#term234

Thank you!

Unfortunately, I'm not in Texas and just refinanced my house, so won't be moving anytime soon.

What's even more fun is when they get a divorce and remain cofounders.

It gets weird and it gets awkward! Where I'm at, there's clearly a 'his team' and 'her team'.

@zersiax

- Thank you so much for sharing!

- You mention,

>Premier tools that coders use every day, like the IntelliJ editor, as well as all its offshoots (PHPStorm, WebStorm, PyCharm), are completely inaccessible, due simply to the fact that the developers of these programs have not adhered to the accessibility guidelines. They've failed to give screen readers textual labels or accessibility descriptions to work with. The same goes for applications like SourceTree, which is slowly getting better, but is still a pain to use.

Have you tried VIM, eMacs, Sublime or Brackets; if so, how would you rate them?

What is your experience with HN's interface? I know I frequently wish there were more visual indicators of new/unread responses, but I can at least scan the beginning of messages and skip ones that I've previously read; do you have a corresponding way to skip responses?

>Fortunately, some fellow campers at the Free Code Camp were sympathetic towards my plight and volunteered to transcribe all these slides for me. This offer left me 'flabbergasted', as our dear western neighbors across the sea would say.

Many ions ago, I volunteered for an organization called "Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic" (now known as Learning Ally - http://www.learningally.org/). Groups of individuals (mostly retired professors and other students) would record textbooks for college students. It was all volunteer and donation based. It would typically take days to weeks from starting a book until the recording was ready.

I loved almost all of it. The one thing I didn't like was that we would read a book in shifts and you wouldn't always be working on the same book from shift to shift, so you might read scene three of a play one shift, then the next day read chapter seven of a calculus 2 textbook. Regardless, it was always interesting and we always knew that there were students benefiting from our effort. As an extremely nearsighted child, one of my fears growing up was that I would grow to be so nearsighted I would be functionally blind, so it was a little personal for me.

Since then, I've been in charge of 508 conformance on many different websights [1]. I have always appreciated the sensory-challenged sharing how they are, or are not, able to use websites. I never cease to be amazed at the human ability to adapt and overcome such challenges!

[1] Freudian slip that I noticed but decided was worth sharing ;-)

According to the linked article - RFID. They are physically embedded in the tires during the production process and intended for inventory management.

Great Friday afternoon article!

Thank you for the correction. (I clearly hadn't had my morning coffee yet!)

I assume there are different levels of data collected for different types of visits. For example, Google may just collect data for the PageRank algorithm (i.e. your pages have been visited by google.com) or they may also collect safebrowsing/diagnostic data (i.e. your pages have been visited by google.com and http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic).

repost from another sub-thread [1]...

Someone briefly had a pointer to http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=code.goog..., which includes:

> Malicious software is hosted on 23 domain(s), including sms-bomber.googlecode.com/, gdata-issues.googlecode.com/, infojob.googlecode.com/.

I would actually compare it to github.com and github.io http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=github.co...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8934594

And code.google.com

Someone briefly had a pointer to http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=code.goog..., which includes:

> Malicious software is hosted on 23 domain(s), including sms-bomber.googlecode.com/, gdata-issues.googlecode.com/, infojob.googlecode.com/.

As far as I know, DDG does just browser/search. By extension they shouldn't be able to do as much harm as a company that provides many more services (e.g., safebrowsing/diagnostic). [edited the following 2 sentences for readability.] For example, one area possible threat could be code.google.com. DDG doesn't have a counterpart of hosted code, so it can't possibly be a threat.

Hence, my confusion. Yes, part of me was just trying to be humorously sarcastic. But part of me really enjoys some of the innovative ways that Google leverages data. And yet, another part of my thinks that they have stepped over important privacy and security lines in other areas. Hence, I prefer DDG for the vast majority of my search needs.

Some of it could actually be hosted through code.google.com

On the one hand, I feel smugly better about using another browser[1]. But how could I feel this without google (i.e. google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic) to provide the ammunition? I'm so confused now.

[1] http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=duckduckg...

> If you want something that keeps the HTML and JS separate ...

I guess my JS knowledge is small enough that I just expect the HTML and JS to be primarily separated. (It seems like a best practice to me, but I haven't experimented with code that wasn't primarily separated, so I'm sure I'm missing some important insights).

Thank you for making the knockoutjs.com recommendation. For someone, with primarily Angular experience, who is looking to broaden their horizon, which of the three would you recommend as the next framework to learn: React, Riot, or Knockout?

I'd modify it to "Don't present just a problem, present a solution, or all the solutions you've tried and why they didn't solve the problem."

I've also heard some companies have time limits on seeking help, e.g. if you're a junior developer and can't solve the problem on your own within 15 minutes, ask for help.

Maybe I'm missing something, but that comparison looks like apples versus oranges, or more specifically JavaScript-side versus HTML-side. The React example looks like the JS-side only, while the Riot example looks like the HTML-side only. What am I missing?

edit: I see a touch of embedded script (i.e. handleSubmit) in the Riot example, but not nearly enough to replicate the JS code in the React example. And there is a <script> call, but it looks more like an Angular partial than an actual script.

My father was a CPA and was trained to use spreadsheets for things like double-entry accounting.

The first time I ever saw a computer it was when he got a job where the accountants had computers [1] and he was so excited to show me a "computer-based spreadsheet" [2] and how it would do calculations automatically! Even with the computer doing the calculations, he still insisted on double-entry.

[1] I remember visiting a very large room with raised floors; raised so that the cooling system could do it's job properly. I believe he was actually using a DOS system, so my memory of the computers being like big lockers must be of tape-backups or something like that.

[2] i was a wee lad, but if memory serves, it was a predecessor to Lotus 1-2-3

"deodorant causes cancer"

"being southern causes cancer"

"being black causes cancer"

"being male causes cancer"

"fatherhood causes cancer" / "childlessness cause cancer"

"work causes cancer"/"working causes cancer"

"bras cause cancer"

"bacon causes cancer"

"burgers cause cancer"

I feel sorry for deodorant-wearing, southern, black, working fathers (or not) that cross-dress and enjoy bacon-burgers - they clearly don't stand a chance against cancer! Who knew?

@JonnieCache - Thanks for sharing! Kill or cure does a great job highlighting how research can be contradictory, as well as how research headlines are often made sensationalist.

I'm glad to see that this is being researched and talked about. Increasing awareness can lead to necessary changes in attitudes and policies.

> how they saved the rolls during the war, how it is transferred back to USA

If he was killed or seriously injured in action, then any possessions he had with him would have been returned to his family in the U.S.

To add to the copyright conversation, assuming the work is covered under U.S. law [1] then wouldn't it be covered under the Copyright of 1909 law [2]? This law only granted copyright for 60 years, which means copyright would have expired no later than 2005.

[1] Because the photographer was a U.S. soldier. If he took some of those photos in other countries there may be other laws in effect. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1909

If I'm reading the information on your provided link correctly, then no, the photographer can not claim copyright - precisely because they are orphaned works. In the U.S. there have been bills, but no legislation to change this.

I've seen a couple of comments expressing confusion at @asicallydan's comment, but it seems pretty clear to me.

For the last five years he has been in an environment with private offices. Initially he liked the private offices, over the years he's liked them less and less. Now he likes the idea of large, interesting open spaces more than private offices.

I believe most of them still require sizable amounts of work. For example, this individual comment might be able to narrow me down to native U.S. English speaker with higher education, but not much beyond that.

I have played with gender-identification software[1], which has such a limit. Frankly, the identification seems to be more topically sensitive than it is gender sensitive. For example, if I put in my writing about robots it will id me as male, but if I put in my writing about cooking it will id me as female.

Combining the 'author identification' software with known identities (such as we have here on HN) will certainly make them more accurate. Hence, my desire for a system that limits such computations.

[1] http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php

Not quite building off of your current system, but I've long wanted a service where I could log-in and be approved to participate anonymously in conversations that are still somewhat moderated. "?&%$#?#$&?", you ask.

There are a lot of sites that I participate in that allow you to rate and flag other users (e.g. HN). I actually really like this ability. But frequently I want to make many posts to such site, but I don't really want all my comments to be able to be tied together

For example, there's an HN post about BFE, Idaho and I mention that's my hometown. In another post, it's relevant to the conversation, so I mention I'm Italian. In another post it becomes clear that I have extensive professional experience in underwater basket weaving. Put these three facts together and they can quickly undermine any anonymity (i.e. I'm the only Italian born in BFE, Idaho that has a career in underwater basket weaving).

So having a log-on system that allows me to be held accountable (i.e. If I make a comment on HN that gets downvoted, my HN rating still goes down) but where I can still be anonymous (i.e. no one can aggregate my comments). From a service perspective, I'm thinking of something like a Disqus plug-in architecture where I could log-in to the primary service, and only that service would ever know that I'm a singular entity. That service would provide an api that other sites could use set and grab general reputation data.

For example, I log into Service as 'yaddayadda'. I navigate to HN, and log-in. The Service reports to HN that I'm an authorized user currently known as 2051013165142 (new, random user id each time I visit HN). HN polls the Service API for my current user id. The Service reports back that my identity has earned a total of X HN submission up votes, Y HN comment up votes, and Z HN downvotes. HN can then do what it does to calculate my reputation. When I subsequently make a submission or comment and am rated, HN reports those points back to the Service, which aggregates them into 'yaddayadda's' HN totals.