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Many answers here say "No" because it talks about regulation. But the article is an interesting study: What website features could be disabled because they're systematically addictive? The article suggests:

> 1. To forbid infinite scroll,

> 2. Sites should be required to flag users who display especially compulsive behaviours,

> 3. Certain sites or browsers would be required to include tools that let users monitor themselves – how long they’ve been on a site,...

I'm an addict of 9Gag. I'm also to a lesser level a compulsive reader of HN, fb, commitstrip, my sales dashboard, support tickets and emails. I'm not sure however what would be the solution. Actually it all started because the compilation time (60-90s) is just long enough to lose focus from programming and let me wander onto other topics (and if it were not fb, I'd find something else like my bank account).

During compilation time, do you think it's possible to let your mind stay idle, as to avoid distraction and internet compulsive disorder?
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Is it always the case that liquidation preferences are wiped out in an IPO?
http://www.vcdeallawyer.com/2010/02/15/understanding-liquida... suggests otherwise.

The Series Preferred investors will have a priority in receiving distributions from a liquidation, sale, merger, IPO or dissolution.

If it were the case that an IPO was treated differently than a sale, that would suggest to me that preferred shareholders might be strongly at odds with the common shareholders, when it came to decide whether to IPO or simply sell the company.

This was a much better article, http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/10/squares-s-1-of-ratchets-and... - and it captures the use of ratchets - which seem to me a kind of IPO liquidation preference.
At first I thought they would call it a misguiding label. Because for real protection of sea life best is to stop buying sea fish.
My work ICT department recently upgraded us.

To IE 9. :(
Because "regulation" is not a solution, it is merely the process of delegating the power of each individual to choose to a selected few.
Case by case basis is a way to avoid stating clear principles that might apply to someone we dislike. It's a sign that our reasoning is flawed and our (racist, sexist, ugly-ist, etc) emotions are driving our decisions.

Applying principles is a way to force ourselves to either make unbiased (or less biased) decisions, or to acknowledge and codify them (e.g. "my principle is that black people = 3/5"). Of course, acknowledging and codifying them makes their horribleness pretty obvious...
>I.e., Python3 code with perfectly implemented type hints would only make it easier on the developer, and not the interpreter/compiler, yeah?

At the moment no. But there's nothing to say that it couldn't happen in 3.8 or 3.11 or 4.x, since the groundwork is there now.
Because the terrorists had their AK-47s legally. Wouldn't it just be easier to put up a sign "no entry to terrorists"? Then they'd have to just shrug and go away.

(Assuming that criminals are law-abiding. Ahem.)
> Forgiveness is certainly a valid path for some in some cases, but a person doesn't have to forgive to move on. We simply hold on to the light in our lives and forget the broken, narcissistic individuals who hurt us. No forgiveness to the perp needed. You're already forgotten.

Forgiveness in Marshall Rosenberg's view is all about moving on. It means letting go. If you keep on hating the criminal who stole your money or killed your kid, you keep feeding it energy. That energy can be used for other things, and it keeps you from living your own life. It doesn't mean that you should forget that it happened. It doesn't mean that you approve of what the other did. It just means - in his view - that you let go.

Forgetting - as you say - will not work. Well that's what I think. It depends on what has happened of course. If you were called a bad name in school (not systematically mentally beaten down but occasionally called stupid or something), then forgetting is a real option. When your kid is killed, forgetting is not a real option that allows you to move on. Forgiving can be. It will mean a lot of work, especially in saying goodbye to what once was.
Mono performance was at least an order of magnitude worse than MS .Net. At least before the open sourcing of .Net.
Yes and that sounds unfamiliar from Python cultural POV. Python used to be the language that didn't try to please everyone and kept a coherent design philosophy that resulted in a clean and simple language.
The whole question sounds wrong from the beginning. It is not 'the internet', which is being addictive but certain services, who use the internet to provide their service.

I do not think that it is questionable, that, for example, facebook or online games like world of warcraft have a huge potential to be addictive, but this is not a problem of the internet itself.

You would not blame drug addiction to transport infrastructure, calling for its regulation, just because it is involved in bringing the addicted and their dealers together.
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If Mark Stone had a relationship with a woman outside of his profession then he should be entirely free to do whatever he wants, within the limits of what that particular society feels is acceptable.

The fact that he's doing this as a deception at the orders of his boss makes this relationship a-symmetrical and causes the lady to lose a number of years that she'll never have back and will likely cause her grave trust issues for many years to come. The fact that it lasted for 6 whole years makes it a lot worse. How big a chunk of someone's life wasted is 'acceptable damage'? 10? 50? All of it?

You don't mess with people like that, especially not when you're nominally tasked with protecting people.

Pretending to be someone else as a private individual would be deplorable behavior, setting this up as a government institution makes it actionable and in my opinion this sort of operation should be illegal unless there is a very clear and very present danger related to that particular person, I see no evidence of that.

Note that the lady was never charged with anything whatsoever, she was simply used as a tool for a substantial chunk of her life and then discarded the moment the game was up.
What a time to be alive
Other platforms don't have it as simple; but you can accomplish similar things via manipulation of TCP_NODELAY on most systems. e.g. see http://stackoverflow.com/a/22118709/282536
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> Should we blame Michael S for wasting hours of his life hitting a small button? We could.

Yep we could, and we should. I'm all for personal responsibility, and this feels like setting up a massive excuse for someone wasting their day on Facebook or Reddit. Unlike the Pigeons in the story, you're not locked in a box and are free to not use the internet if you so wish.
> “The results are beyond our expectations,” said Springer chief exec Mathias Döpfner at the time. “Over two-thirds of the users concerned switched off their adblocker.” He also noted that the Bild.de website received an additional 3 million visits from users who could now see the ads in the first two weeks of the experiment going live.

Then trying to shut down ad blockers by legal routes must be completely pointless if just asking people is so effective?
There are hundreds of ad blockers.

They aren't desperate. They're stupid.
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Even more money? The delicious graphs at http://www.bildblog.de/auflage.php show twelve consecutive years of decline. That's not "even more money".
Essentially the defining property of dark matter is that it does not interact electromagnetically, so there is no point to consider it.
more likely the former
Well-informed consumer my ass.
After which you'd have to load 8Gb from disk/SSD in under 1 second...
I live in Iceland, and it is not possible for me to buy anything with a magnetic stripe.

Here is the campaign that was ran by the largest payment processor letting everyone know the old system was going away. It was heavily advertised all over the country.

http://www.valitor.is/fyrirtaekjalausnir/pinnid-a-minnid/

Perhaps there is somehow an exception for foreign cards? But this is news to me, and seems like it defeats the entire purpose.
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The arxiv pre-print is http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.07009.pdf
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Why isn't any phone doing it? (either smart or feature variety)
Has someone tried GNOME Builder? I found it quite good for C, but the Python mode of PyCharm is still superior regarding search and introspection, yet it is not Free Software…
Drink verification can.
I find this fascinating, but still purely hypothetical, yes? Basically:

IF the observed expansion of the universe is indeed due to dark matter as we think of it, and

IF such dark matter exist as streams, and

IF such streams mix with ordinary galaxies, and

IF the solar system is passing through such a stream

THEN Earth MAY have dark matter filaments in its vicinity.

IF we locate such a filament and send a probe, we might be able to learn about dark matter directly.

Fingers crossed. That would be an amazing discovery.
I'm more than happy to extract clear principles from a number of cases. But this is the case we have and it has nothing to do with me liking or disliking this particular lady.

I note that: if the case had been reversed and the operative had been a female and the victim a male I would not see the case in any different light.

If the person had been black (which I have no idea about, they might be for all I know) or white, or any other skin color it would not make me feel any different.

If they had been ugly or pretty it would not make a difference (again, I don't know what she looks like).

And finally, if they were assholes in general or sweet personalities I'd not make any difference about it.

What would make a difference is whether or not there was any actual suspicion about this person and whether or not this person was charged with some crime, which is what the case-by-case referred to.

The rest you simply made up.

Absent some grave danger that we are currently not aware of I really see absolutely no reason why a government operative would engage in a multi-year exclusive partner-level relationship involving sex with another person under false pretenses.
> That the state cannot take actions perfectly legal for citizens to engage in to prevent crime?

Well, that's generally the case. Free speech is essentially a restriction of government power.

Also you are purposefully ignoring the scale. It is ok to jail someone for a few days, even weeks until their innocence is proven. If you jail them for decades, that's another story.

So pretend relationship is fine, 6 years of pretend relationship is not ok.
No - we're eating tuna, as in most cases, humans are at the top of the food chain.
"wanted the title to be intentionally provocative"

Click bait adds no value to the discussion.

There's no either/or when it comes to karma/mocha. As the commenters above mentioned, it's best to use both. Mocha for quick unit testing, karma for in-browser testing.

In-browser testing can be automated to run on a wide range of browsers and platforms using integration tools such as Browser Stack.

By faking the DOM, you remove nerf the greatest advantage of client-side integration testing. Checking functionality under realistic circumstances.
> Do you think it's possible to let your mind stay idle during compilation time, as to avoid distraction and internet compulsive disorder?

Meditation is a good start.
> I hope she takes the government to the cleaners for an extremely large sum of money. Millions of pounds at a minimum.

The problem with this kind of punishment is that when we refer to taking "the government's money," we really mean making taxpayers pay because of the government's mistake. How many police departments (or school districts[1], for another example) are going to go bankrupt because they got sued into the ground for doing something abominable? Would that really be a net benefit for everyone if they did?

Ideally, the cost would force taxpayers to force the government to institute some kind of reform, but the repercussions are usually far too indirect to create real reform incentives, so we basically just end up paying taxes to people we hurt because of our bad policies, while nothing really changes.

Lawsuits against public sector entities without reform are basically useless. They have no reason to care when it's not their money. Rather, I'd prefer to see the careers of everyone responsible for these things thrown into the gutter, maybe criminally prosecuted for it, to send a real message that such things will not be tolerated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School...
As I understand, we can detect them through their gravitational effects and not much else. If we fully account for the pulls of all the non-dark bodies in the vicinity (Earth, Sun, Moon) and then manage to measure an anomalous gravitational pull (say on a mass connected to an extremely fine sensor) that changes with the motion of the measuring apparatus, that (I think) ought to do it.

Disclaimer: not physicist.
》So what is your underlying moral principle? That the state cannot take actions perfectly legal for citizens to engage in to prevent crime?

Yes. That's the entire point of the United States Constitution. The State has an overwhelming amount of power and resources relative to any of its citizens, including the richest ones. Our entire union is based on a document that outlines limits to that power, limits that often don't apply to citizens and corporations.

That's why the state can only rarely stifle speech or actively exclude minorities (at least jn theory) but private organizations like the Boy Scouts of America can discriminate against legally protected groups and corporations can fire employees at the drop of a hat if they say something publicly that the employer disapproves of.

》Would it also be wrong for the state to send a sexy lady cop to seduce a gay basher/abortion doctor killer/female genital mutilator/other unpopular terrorist group?

On a sting or a short term undercover op to catch someone who is actually dangerous to the public? Sure, it would be acceptable. This isn't an issue with an absolute answer, but six years of subversion that cause immense emotional pain to an environmentalist who clearly poses no threat (assuming they were competent it should maybe take 6-12 months to figure that out)? Are we talking about US Law enforcement or the Soviet era KGB?
Hemp seed has 36g of protein per 100g and is a lot cheaper and environmentally more sustainable to produce, contains omega acids in the perfect ratio for humans (but dose not have the same bio-availability), dose not have high levels of mercury (that's more of a problem with farmed fish not wild).
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As well as snap.svg, you may want to take a look at Pablo (I wrote it). It is for SVG manipulation and includes some animation methods [1] that utilise CSS or JavaScript callbacks (also SMIL which is recently deprecated).

[1] http://pablojs.com/api/#Animation
Funny, HN already does 3... Maybe not a bad idea after all.
Here in the UK, if you don't mind buying in larger cans, salmon gives you practically the same protein for your money. Example from the most popular supermarket chain:

Tuna -- 26.4g protein for 0.55GBP (48g/GBP):
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=283723541

Salmon -- 84.8g for 1.80GBP (47g/GBP):
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=258098027

And the salmon is from Alaska, where the fishery is well managed and sustainable.
Yes, whoever VC deal lawyer is needs to work on more late stage deals. An IPO is not a liquidation event - it's just another funding round. There are no liquidation proceeds for the preference to apply to.

Here's Brad Feld[1]:

Jason once had an entertaining (and unenjoyable) debate during a guest lecture he gave at his alma mater law school with a partner from a major Chicago law firm (who was teaching a venture class that semester) that claimed an initial public offering should be considered a liquidation event. His theory was that an IPO was the same as a merger, that the company was going away, and thus the investors should get their proceeds. Even if such a theory would be accepted by an investment banker who would be willing to take the company public (no chance in our opinion), it makes no sense as an IPO is simply another funding event for the company, not a liquidation of the company. However, in most IPO scenarios, the VCs “preferred stock” is converted to common stock as part of the IPO, eliminating the issue around a liquidity event in the first place.

[1]http://www.feld.com/archives/2005/01/term-sheet-liquidation-...
I think he's defining "worked" to be "clearly demonstrated to be significantly beneficial for a wide range of applications in numerous production uses in the industry". Seems reasonable.
Motivation means creation of incentives to do something. To be successful in that, you need very few things:
1. You should know what you are going to achieve. That is, you should have SMART goal (see Wikipedia article "SMART criteria"). Unclear of definition of the goal may become the biggest obstacle: you will always try to avoid the uncertainty by switching to other activities.
2. The benefits must seem to you realistic and the path to them short. For example, if you set the goal as "build 1 billion dollar business in 5 years", it will be SMART, but will look like a fairy tale to you. Building MVP in 3 months won't make you richer, but you'll be rewarded with positive feeling of creating something working and useful, something that will enable you to go further.
3. Not doing what you want (let's call it "A") must be painful. If life is good enough and you won't be harmed by just living it, you'll probably will not start, because there's no real reason for it. Some people are saying that you'll need to move out from your zone of comfort - they are close to what you really need to do: you need to move your zone of comfort, not yourself. Imagine, how good life will be when A is done. Think, how bad is your life while A is not done. Now you have real incentive! But don't do that until you've done 1 and 2.
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> Regulate the endpoints, if you must

Only one relevant endpoint, namely the human sitting at the computer, and they're quite capable of self-regulating. If they choose not to, fine.
Yes, you are also free to choose your food at the supermarket, but there are still regulations in place to prevent selling of potentially harmful stuff. Although I agree, the author has somewhat missed the point here as Facebook != Internet.
Yes, it's the taxpayers money. And that's a good thing because those taxpayers voted for the government that makes travesties like these possible. Money is the only thing that seems to be able to send the message and if enough people in situations like these get very large sums of money to compensate them for their lost lives then maybe this will end.

> Lawsuits against public sector entities without reform are basically useless.

No, they send a very clear message about what is and what is not appropriate behavior on the part of government entities and their representatives.

Note that it still won't give her back those 6 years of her life and it will not heal the psychological scars. But it will send a message.

As for the careers of those involved: good luck bringing criminal charges, the star witness and principal agent made off to the United States.
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The article strikes me as phony and light on substance. The author talks about five traits that everyone will agree are important and states that they are working on improving it. So far so good.

But take dependability for example. Improving it might take some boring things like improving employees' competence (ok, maybe not so relevant for google). Or some unpleasant things like holding people accountable. It is in odds with psychological safety (if risky behavior is encouraged the number of errors will inevitably increase and thus dependability will decrease). How is this tension resolved? The article says nothing.

Or take meaning and impact. Improving it might require working on a really important project and not some low-grade maintenance which big companies are full of. How is 10-minute pre-meeting talk going to help?

"improved 6% on psychological safety ratings" - seriously? What does it mean to feel 6% more safe? Please at least share how this rating is calculated and ideally also its impact on less ethereal metrics.
> That the state cannot take actions perfectly legal for citizens to engage in to prevent crime?

This man changed his name with the intent to deceive. That's not legal for other citizens.
She would lose 6 years and trust issues if he were a private actor also. Again - would this be OK if he just wanted a shag while undercover and his bosses were unaware? If not, then the boss thing is a red herring.

Is sending a sexy lady cop go seduce anti-gay terrorists also unacceptable? Particularly if it turned out that they weren't actually gay bashing but instead just protesting gay weddings, pushing employers to fire gay employees, and other assholeish but legal behavior?
I started using iOS ad blockers on day one. Judging by the amount I have to recharge - I'm on pre paid - I use about 50% of the data I used to and spend proportionally less.

I also stopped using the Twitter and Facebook apps in favour of the mobile web sites. I only see Twitter ads now.

There really needs to be another model.
That's only offline sales. They know this business is dead and aggressively push their online services.

I don't see a downward trend in their over-all profits:
http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/451654/umfrage...
You can have a nice vacation in Russia for less money.
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> Actually it all started because the compilation time (60-90s)

Stand up, stretch, do some pushups.

Imagine the benefits after 1 year.
Holy moly +1 for this answer.

Forming habits and getting to the point of autopilot is how it happens for me. At some point you don't even notice it because you are so focused. It's just like getting up to go swim every morning. It's cold as hell and you don't feel like it, but you know that after 10 minutes in, you will feel great. And then you just get into the routine.

The last part by dropit_sphere is a particularly good thing to understand about oneself. Can't have it all the time and you gotta use it efficiently when you do.
The odd part is it seems like the guy enjoyed the work enough to maintain it even after he stopped being a police officer. From the article, it seems he actually went out of his way to resign the police force when they were going to move him into another position, and then found another company who would pay him to continue his undercover role.

> His covert mission was terminated in October 2009 when he was summoned by his handlers to a meeting at an anonymous truckstop.

> In January 2010, he mysteriously reappeared. What Lisa and the other campaigners did not know at that time was that Kennedy was quitting the police to avoid being assigned to a humdrum desk job. But he had not discarded his fictional persona of “Mark Stone”, and continued to be involved in political campaigns. He has admitted that he was employed by a clandestine private security firm that was paid by commercial firms to monitor protesters.

Presumably this wasn't just due to his desire for the relationship itself, since he could have simply resigned the police force and continued the relationship without being an undercover operative.