skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big difference between "can access your data on domain.com" and "can access your data on all websites". (And not all extensions need to modify pages, even Chrome ones.)

I didn't say you shouldn't install extensions that require content privileges (indeed I would highly recommend that you install at least one [1] [2]); just that you should do so with care, and decide whether you trust their authors, because of the broad access they have. The advantage of the Mozilla approach of reviewing every extension is that they (partially!) offload some of the trust decision from the user onto the reviewers.

As I said above, you can respond to a review with your own review, but that's a broken way of doing it: the author's response isn't visually distinguished, and there's no way to ensure it appears anywhere near the review it's responding to, so there's a high chance prospective users will just read the negative or misleading review without seeing the response.

(Concretely: someone can "review" your extension by saying "this extension is evil and spies on all the sites you visit", and your only options as an author are to leave another review halfway up the page saying "@anonymous: oh no it doesn't", or to abuse the "mark review as spam" button.)

[1] http://rapportive.com

[2] Disclaimer: this recommendation is not without bias, given I'm part of the team that develops this extension.
It's cheaper than litigation and just as predictable.
I don't know anyone personally who thought the original iPhone was anything less than The Jesus Phone.
From Provo to Palo Alto: Why I Joined a Startup
You just detailed in your response why I am wrong and you are right and then you finish it off saying that if I do something similar but with opinions that differ from yours, I will be breaking the rules. It is really hard to know how to respond to a comment like that except to back away slowly.
So the logical course of action would be to Worship fear, stupidity, and lies in order to feel the opposite.
Because we know, those days, to sandbox raw x86 code, and not let them access the system and the drivers... However, running shaders directly on the GPU exposes directly graphic drivers, that are not conceived to block unfriendly code.
In an interesting test of Google+ I shared an open letter to HP with this suggestion to 'Public.' Since I don't think anyone from HP follows me it probably won't get anywhere but if you see it and reshare it, perhaps it could increase the odds.
> and then pick up

Would you be okay with them no longer being bound? They saw off the binding so they can use them in a sheetfed scanner.
So, you are saying the same thing that I am :D
How ridiculous is that?
I completely agree with you, but the user might have been trained by his iPhone to relate the speed of the spinner to the data transfer speed. (The spinner in the status bar of the iPhone indicating network activity has a different speed when you're on EDGE or GPRS versus when you're on 3G).
[Video] Ridley Scott Signs on To Direct a New Installment of Blade Runner
From my conversations with I-banker friends, it sounds like the long hours in I-banking are externally imposed. When a client is facing an imminent acquisition deal, it's very important that they get all their accounting straightened out, all their valuations nailed down while the acquirer is still interested. A delay usually means the deal falls through.

So when companies come to an I-banking firm, they're usually like "I need all your best people on this, stat." And because there're millions of dollars at stake, the I-banking firm will happily comply.

So I-bankers definitely fall into the "working late because of somebody else's incompetence" camp. In this case, it's customers. There're various things that startups could do that would make I-banker's jobs a lot easier: keep good accounting records, make sure they're completely covered legally, have solid revenue streams, don't get all buddy-buddy with potential acquirers. But startups that do all this rarely need an I-banker to close the deal; they just negotiate directly with a potential acquirer, have the lawyers draw up a deal, and sign it.

Basically, the I-banking business model is trading other people's stupidity for cash. It's the same thing with management consultants, and divorce attorneys, and litigators, all also professions that can make a lot of money but have shitty quality of life.
Even if track changes has been turned off, you can do a comparison between two documents that results in a redlined document. Not sure what this does other than make a pretty redlined document.
thanks! we're planning on opening things up - just made the change and will push it live in a few minutes.

we'll update the dialog as well.

really appreciate the feedback! feel free to email more to me - zach (at) codecademy (dot) com.
EPIC - FOIA Note #20 (August 15, 2011)
HP failed webOS; what’s next for the platform?
Why Sarah Palin fans like Wikipedia
I didn't know what LogoGarden.com was when I read the article. This page: http://www.logogarden.com/our-story.php on their site explains it succinctly:

He provided high quality logo design using logo symbols initially developed for large clients, but which these clients had not selected. By modifying color, lettering style and layout, John found he could provide entrepreneurs with outstanding results at unprecedented speed. John’s process — analyzed, automated on the Web and expanded to include thousands of logo design symbols ...

Blech. Good that someone found a way to get the stolen logos removed. With enough of these requests, LogoGarden.com should be hearing from their hosting company soon.
- We live and act in a deterministic universe with deterministic brains

- Right and wrong are social constructions. In science, people use empiricism as a criterion

- Free will requires the existence of a supernatural "self" or actor. Good luck finding it.
Agile methodology applied to non-technology: success shock
A gentle introduction to dependent types
How is it base72?

A-Z = 26
a-z = 26
0-9 = 10

26 + 26 + 10 = 62
No, accounting is much more subtle than that. It is about trying to figure out the value of what you have now, and that is not always trivial.

For example, how many people will demand returns for sales you've recently made? 0%? 15%? you don't know, but you can't "account" for the complete value of past transactions without this estimation of future actions.
you could rock the $25/month pay as you go virgin mobile plan

decent android phone, all you can eat data, 300 min talk. unbeatable
Instead, they are slowly bleeding the goose dry. Granted, the golden goose is still pretty fat and could sustain them for decades without doing anything significant. As it is though, Microsoft is pretty low in the innovation front. I don't think anybody has been "wowed" by any of their products since maybe Windows XP.
Justin.tv has a whole site dedicated to broadcasting video game matches now: http://www.twitch.tv/
It's likely not hash at all, just a unique identifier.
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Faceblocked: The Story of a Blog and Facebook’s Spam Filters
Getting Started with Riak and .NET
I don't know - and I absolutely loathe statements like these.

Sometimes, I prefer to work 18 hours in one day and enjoy 2 days free, rather than 9 to 5 it for 3-4 days. At this point, you're insulting my personal preferences, not my process.
You mean the one platform besides iOS that actually does have a foothold in the market?

Android is now 20% of the tablet market, while the BB Playbook is nowhere and the HP TouchPad can't even stay alive for two months.
From the screenshot:

domain-last-transferred-date: 29-oct-2010

This is an old domain. They're just protecting themselves by keeping this around.

I'm surprised that they don't redirect from this site to android.com. It's also surprising that they don't own and redirect from android.org, android.net, and all the rest.

It would be a huge stretch to say that this has anything to do with an Android version of MobileMe.
Yeah I was thinking about it and I am happy to part with most of the books as they are programming books.
Report: Stats On My Android Apps
It’s been 12 days now since my game Pixel Speed was released on the android market its quite a basic game as i have never done any type of graphics or game making before. I also put my Short silent mode up on slideme for the first time as well.
Haha, more lawsuits should be settled this way, that or thunderdome...
comparable to: http://eloquentjavascript.net/
FM didn't disclose he was funded by big players (Microsoft?). Also he is full of it with his crusade against Google.
very nice! but I have problems working this on my IPAD, appears you cant type in that box on the virtual keypad...
Apotheker has a vision. His specialty is to steer companies away from the consumer market and to make them enterprise oriented. I have to believe that this was the game plan when he was hired.
Feels great, well done on the UX side. Although I do wish you would focus on particular languages and use cases. Suddenly, "I'm learning Javascript". A normal reaction would be- "Why am I learning Javascript? What is it useful for?" for non-technical users
Tell HN: I'm taking the plunge (and would love to meet up)
Hey everyone,

I wanted to let you all know I'm taking a semester off to work with a startup in SF this semester. I'm extremely excited, somewhat nervous, and eager to move out there (Sept 1). I worked in SF this summer for the same company, and part of what was so great was meeting so many great people.

Does anybody have any recommendations on how to get the most out of this experience? I'd love to hear from you.

Also, if you're down to meet up (beer, coffee, lunch, hacking), my email is in my profile. I'd love to hear from you.
If I would want to speed up ruby I would probebly just implment a ruby interpreter with RPython. They could probebly get up to speed with pypy with much less work. The semantics of the two langauges are not that diffrent.
Who Funds the Debt Committee Members?
A little buggy. I seem to have lost my session and logging in produces an error (Invalid email or password.). Also, after completing the courses, some courses showed as incomplete.
HP folds. What's next?
HP folds with WebOS devices killed. Google goes all in with Moto purchase. Nokia’s bluff is called. Symbian is no-more. HTC bluffs with an all-out patent challenge. Apple still seem to be holding a royal flush.

Where do we go from here?
Is size actually a concern in the modern world? With transmission and storage size is practically a nonissue and we have proper rather cheap compression anyway. And in memory? We have gigabytes of ram, who cares? Of the potential situations where it may become an issue that I can think of, pretty much none of them are on end user hardware.
This is one of those times I wish Red Hat (or another Linux company) had the money to buy WebOS from HP. It would make a very interesting standard UI.
"I have venn diagram problem where lots of my friends belong circles in multiple circles."

I was wondering if you could talk about this a little more. My first reaction was "But... but you can add people to multiple circles!", but I think that I've misunderstood what you mean by "venn diagram problem."

edit: I don't have any delusions about luring you back to a service you dislike with Impeccable Logic. I would like to better understand your reasons for signing off.
I"m a little surprised that given your market, that you don't have a disclaimer / terms & conditions on your web app, or did I miss that?
...or at least collecting a licensing fee
Wow, maybe we'll finally get a digital edition of "The Four Steps to the Epiphany".
I all but launched to users one of these in 1999 (deathswitch, I even let the domain lapse in 2003) and decided that I'd have two kinds of customers, those I didn't want to be responsible for , and nutters. Didn't launch. Happy to see this person do so!
What do you get from a $16,000 music speaker?
That's a plausible interpretation of patio11's comment. I, however, think it's a bit of a stretch given the language of the comment. Perhaps it was his intent to say what you interpreted, but I'm inclined to disagree.
Live DavidU interview right now this second...
http://techzany.tv/live/
Infographic: Should you let your employees work from home?
Excellent article; skip the pre-preface which is meta (start at the banner). PDF just looks like a printout from browser.
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Awesome! This is using my console library, jqconsole https://github.com/amasad/jq-console
I am on Linux_x64 and chrome. Can't click the GetStarted button.
You've made two grand mistakes.

(1) You've stepped into and apparently completely ignored the exact fallacy pointed out by the grandparent of this comment.

(2) You offered arbitrary assertions without evidence. You know what I think; if you want to counter it, give evidence. Shouting louder doesn't do you any good.

To respond to your arbitrary assertions:

- Yes, but not in the sense you mean.

- No. Right and wrong must be discovered.

- No. Depends on your definition of "free will," but in general, no.
1. Heisenberg would not agree. It's more accurate to say that the universe is ruled by probabality and the probability distributions are deterministic.

Even leaving quantum mechanics aside, complexity of deterministic processes is often such that they are effectively random unless one knows the exact starting conditions and all the inputs.

2. generally agreed. social in the sense that good is what is beneficial for society.

3. Humans are essentially modulating the probabilities that occur naturally and to that extent free will is real. I'm tempted to say free will is as real as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle - but since I'm not sure, I'd say the probability of that is greater than 0.5 . Why ? Because biology comes from first principles and modern physics is ruled by probability. The first chemical forms would have to have taken it into account.
From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14584428

"HP is recognising what the world has recognised, which is hardware in terms of consumers is not a huge growth business anymore," said Michael Yoshikami, chief executive of YCMNET Advisors.

"It's not where the money is. It's in keeping with the new CEO's perspective that they want to be more in services and more business-oriented."
HP Cedes Greatness to Apple
LetsListen Aims to Be a Turntable Killer
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2711918
Making structural sense with CSS selectors
There really isn't a whole lot of story to this blog post. Mostly, Facebook blocked me and I haven't heard from then in two weeks oh by the way please fill out this appeal request for me. If you really want help you should at least post more details, there must be some back story to this. Also, how do we know you weren't spamming in the first place?
ICU is one library.
Show HN: Hacker News Threshold
1. looks great. I would suggest fixing the next button vertically so that it doesn't get pushed down by apps with long descriptions.
Don't forget Akamai is not the only game in town anymore.

There are in fact so many CDNs around now that at least one seemingly independent comparison site[1] has been created.

[1] http://www.cdnfinder.com
Wonderfull idea and nice execution too but on Android keyboard fails to show up. Tried 2 different devices.
Manage Instagram From Your Desktop with Inkstagram
Second Circuit negates first sale right for foreign-made works of authorship
If they had successfully turned WebOS into a major player in the phone/tablet market it could have been a business worth tens of billions. It's perfectly possible that they thought "there's a 90% chance that this will fail, but it's still a smart gamble"

The part that surprised me is that they're apparently killing off the hardware entirely. I'd assumed that their fallback position would be to become another Android manufacturer and at least make use of the Palm hardware expertise they bought. I guess they don't even think they can make a go of it in that market.
I think the term you're looking for is perhaps "tech socialite".
They seem to stay silent or downplay it when IBM is a patent aggressor. So I don't think their friendliness towards IBM is based on principle.
thanks!

we're opening it up to free programming asap and we're going to stop the fake errors thing.

this is exactly what we're planning on doing - let me know if you'd be interested in creating a lesson or if you have other feedback - zach (at) codecademy (dot) com.
Chrome 13 / OSX 10.6.8 - I can navigate the courses pages, but don't see the CLI interface (just the section list, and the Disqus discussion). Also it's not redirecting to any shebang URLs. Works fine in Firefox.

(nice work btw)
That's a bit of a straw man. You don't have to choose between working harder or smarter. And I never said anything about happiness.

Say we fork the universe now and one version of you works 25 hour weeks henceforth, which the other works 50 hours per week henceforth. Who retires with more money and more impact on the world? Both version of you are equally smart. The well-rested you might make SLIGHTLY smarter decisions due to happiness/lack of fatigue perhaps... But surely you wouldn't contend that the success outcomes (professional impact and wealth, for the sake of argument) wouldn't be different.

It's not a myth-- working hard correlates with success (plenty of studies out there to back it up). Working smart correlates with success too... Though one of the things that really surprised me about being in Y Combinator was that the founders WEREN'T universally brilliant/clever. They DID universally work their asses off and generally had irrational stick-with-it-ness.

Happiness is a whole different discussion, of course. Whether "top 1%" success is even worth it is another discussion.
No, it is absolutely not an implementation detail.

When I was setting out to learn programming, I bought every book I could lay my grubby teenaged hands on about the language. Knowing the name of the programming language allows you to ask questions about it of other people and the Internet.
I might not mind Olive Garden, but part of being a gracious and generous host is ensuring that your guests are well-fed with the best you can offer. It's admittedly a very ancient and possibly wasteful ritual, but one which persists culturally. How many lawyers do you think actually enjoy playing golf? :3
yep, expect online course submission in the next couple of days (with some other cool stuff sprinkled in). we're taking emails now so that people who want to get started right now can do so (we haven't built the form but we'll show you how to get started). feel free to shoot us an email if you want to get started before we have it built out.
working on ironing out the bugs and upping the speed, thanks for the feedback!
So optimizing an existing design just for Apple isn't customizing it? I disagree.
I understand where you're coming from, and the battery issue is probably the largest obstacle.

I disagree with the wired-ethernet argument though, because without wifi, what other option do you have for connecting to the internet? Without bluetooth, you could use the 30-pin connector with an adapter to connect a pair of headphones.

This isn't like connecting to the internet via usb or something obscure like that, as lots of devices already use the 30-pin connector for audio i/o.
You raise an interesting point. That throbber does have (exactly) two speeds — but if you are experiencing EDGE-speed transfer rates over 3G for some reason (low connectivity), it still spins at the normal (3G) speed. So it’s not quite the same as what’s being suggested here, as I understand it (a variable speed throbber tied to current transfer rates). Certainly an intriguing design decision though.

I have to imagine the slow speed of the EDGE throbber is saying, “Expect this to take awhile. Look, I take 6 seconds to even spin around once…”

Thus if we were to take the concept to the Web, it might make more sense to tie rate of revolution not to speed, but rather to expected time to complete (based on speed and file size) such that we expect the spinner to make exactly (say) 15 revolutions before the upload completes (with a min and max cap on revolution speed, of course).

I still maintain that if we know this much information, though, we ought to just show a progress bar and optionally text as well.
They could call it "XMPP"!
For one thing, he correctly predicted that in the Nokia vs Apple case, Apple would end up paying Nokia a royalty, which seems to be what actually happened.

For another, his predictions of the judge's likely reactions to damages requests and requests to suppress evidence in Google vs Oracle seem to be largely playing out as predicted.

I do get the feeling sometimes from reading his stuff that he may have anti-Google biases, but his facts and predictions are generally accurate and his analysis seems informed.

He's predicted that it's likely that Apple will be admitted as an intervenor in the Lodsys case, let's see if that one comes true. Likewise he predicts that Motorola Mobility will likely suffer an ITC import ban due to the Microsoft case (if not settled before then). Let's see what happens on that one.
It's basically "The People's Court" for the web. Makes perfect sense.
bug noted - we're on it! thanks.
It does however prove you have to either be incredibly lucky or talented to make lots of money which is not what a lot of people want to hear.
This reminds me of (what was previously _why's) "try ruby!" at http://tryruby.org/

I always loved that, and I think this has a lot of potential. Tomorrow being Whyday, I think I'll send this to some people to try and spread the joy of programming.

I do think that the parentheses and semicolon stuff might appear sort of abruptly for the completely non-technical, but it's hard for me to judge, really.
It may not be the romantic ideal, but I don't see the fix. Try as you might, some work has dependency trees.

About all I can think of is over-hiring, or release cycles could be extended, but for us TTM is pretty sensitive.
Please read again, benatkin talked about names.
A shareholder sued Motorola Mobility and its CEO Sanjay Jha over the price paid to the company.

People will sue over anything. Google bought it for 60% more than the stock price at the time, and the analyst consensus was that was quite a high premium.
Bit of blogspam, the original was posted yesterday with a lot of comments. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2895491
Nope, not a road block for me. By the time you get to that point, the user has already got a taste of the fruit; it's decision time. I registered.

I love this. Keep doing what you're doing, expand the library in a few months and contact foundations like Rockefeller for financial support if you need it.

Kudos! I'm excited.
Snake game in Pygame, using only 282 bytes
Recreating OS X media keys on the command line
This pulled me right in... and it has me intrigued and I'm playing around with it. This made me realize that the more you get me using it, and the more you teach me, the more likely I am to come back to you when there's a language I want to learn that I don't already know. Love the jump-right-in setup you have going.
Reid Hoffman Shares 5 Tips for Startups