skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Apps Script: Creating Archives of Documents and Files of User
The Google Documents List API allows developers to create, retrieve, update, and delete Google Docs (including text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings), files, and collections. It also provides some advanced features like resource archives, Optical Character Recognition, translation, and revision history.
It seems the new nationalist government of Japan wants to change the constitution:

Mr Abe has made no secret of his wish to revise three of the country’s basic modern charters: the American-imposed constitution of 1946, committing Japan to pacifism; the education law, which Mr Abe thinks undervalues patriotism; and the security treaty with the United States, under which Japan plays a junior role. To describe the new government as “conservative” hardly captures its true character. This is a cabinet of radical nationalists.

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21569046-shinzo-abes-appo...
That's the browser, not the plugin. We added it to Chrome a few years ago for out-of-date plugins, and plugins that have a bad track record on fixing their vulnerabilities (e.g. Java). Firefox recently added the same thing for out-of-date plugins, and just this week started doing it for all versions of Java.
If you hit someone with enough felony counts sooner or later something can snap.

There are the conditions for suicide, and then there's the impulse that drives it to happen. The first is visible and appears over a long period of time-- felony convictions, mental instability, or extreme career adversity-- but it never seems that things are that bad (especially because a lot of people refuse to admit that good things can happen to bad people). The second is fairly sudden and seems "random". This is why suicides are so unexpected. A person can seem to be "not that bad off" one day, and the next day, commit suicide.

The scary thing is that the first kind of conditions are being more common. We have:

* draconian sentences for minor crimes, including drug possession, white-hat hacking, and file sharing,
* an increasing willingness of corporations to use extreme and illegal career adversity (e.g. blacklisting) against whistleblowers,
* increasing difficulty for a person to "re-invent" him- or herself in the wake of a bad reputation.

Thirty years ago, if your life got fucked up, you could pull a Don Draper. You could pay people off to represent themselves as past employers and reconstruct your career under an alternate name, and move halfway across the country. (I don't consider this unethical in the context of radical reinvention, providing that you're not feigning competences you lack or defrauding people.) In 2013, that's becoming increasingly hard to do.
Google Apps Script: Calendar Sharing outside the Domain
This blog describes, how to modify Google Calendar Access Control Lists (ACLs) using the raw protocol. An access control list identifies the set of users with whom a given calendar is shared, and the level of access for each user (such as read-only access, full access, and so on).
If you have a Google offer, what are things to watch for?
Assume one has an offer from google? What are things to watch for? Someone mentioned earlier that it's important to land on a "right" project since you can't move projects in a year or two. What is considered "right" and "wrong" project types there? What else to watch for? Thanks!
How network effects are changing business models and the way we work
Does anyone knows whether if would be possible to level up $SAFE only during tainted input parsing (JSON, XML, YAML, etc.)?

I mean, Ruby's $SAFE level provides a way to tackle security issues but apparently few developers use it. Wouldn't be useful to search for patterns of use there?
When you say self-driving cars and Glasses had been done before many years ago, you must mean experimental prototypes that never made it to market, right? Making a self-driving car that "kindof, sort of" works along some desert route as part of a competition is so different from bringing one to market that successfully completes hundreds of thousands of miles in traffic, obeying road rules, and along a less predictable route.

Bringing something like Glasses or autonomous cars to market and making it work well enough to be a success counts for more than creation of prototypes that are never more than a cool experiment, in my opinion.
What is the domain, and what should the records look like?
Pingdom down for UK?
Personally why I posted this: loved the essays when they came out. And I know many people have not read them. More than that, even many people here on HN had never heard of the guy or don't know his mindset. Those essays open up a lot of who he was.
It is just a Taylor expansion around c_0. And since we do not observe any strange effects we know that it should kind of work. (That the speed of light should be well behaved.) In addition the planck mass is the only constant, that we know of, which fits there.
> we did agree on another good idea: a wiki to tell students what different jobs are like. That site should be launching soon.

Did this ever happen?
Same problem from
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.pingdom.com
What you said is probably worrying think tanks but now it's totally different from back then: S Korea is no slouch and people are more aware. Not to mention that any rise of Japan will be checked by China. The last thing you want is a China that fears no one.
No I don't need the money, I need takers for my idea
What makes you think S Korea or USA would have handled it differently? History is full of cases where governments to lie and cover up.
"I was miserable. I couldn't stand San Francisco. I couldn't stand office life. I couldn't stand Wired. I took a long Christmas vacation. I got sick. I thought of suicide. I ran from the police. And when I got back on Monday morning, I was asked to resign."

From https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget
"I personally believe that the real raw innovation in the industry is surprisingly coming from Microsoft." <-- can you give any examples?
I used to read his blog. Here's something I will always remember. When they sold Reddit to Conde Nast, back in 2007 or so, Aaron Swartz wrote something about it on his blog, saying how he felt about it and how he didn't have to worry about money anymore, etc. And then he decided to give away some money to startups in need. I replied to his blog post and he gave my old startup a $100 donation. It felt really generous. RIP Aaron.
This was an incredible piece. His earnestness and clarity is very evident, and you can tell he was once just a very curious kid with a sharp ability to focus. I'm grateful to have read it.

At the same time, I can't help but feel like he's talking directly to me. This is the kind of person who impacts you just through the sheer fact that he -lived-. As for the people harping about the notion of stress that he mentions at the end, I think it's meant differently. I think he means he's happy to have achieved what he has.

I also just watched his talk "How we stopped SOPA", and his speaking style echoed this article.

There is a quote that I've always tried to live by, which I think sums up Aaron's spirit.

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."
The recipe is published at the back of the book For God, Country and Coca-Cola. Now that you have the recipe, what could you actually do with it? Who would actually sell the product? How would you market it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula

Once you have your recipe you can go to a company like Cott who will manufacture it for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cott and then you have the problem of selling it. In many stores it is actually Coca Cola employees who deliver the product and put it up on the shelves. All the store does is ring the drinks up at the till. And the supplier often has to purchase the shelf space http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotting_fee

There are "open source" cola recipes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_cola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)
There isn't any visual indicator that there are hidden plugins, but there is a button on the toolbar for activating a plugin (activates all the elements using the plugin on the page).
Goddamnit, this is just horrible. My sympathies to Aaron's friends and families. I always found his work and his writings interesting and sometimes even inspiring. Our society would have benefitted from an extra 60 years of this guy.
It’s like when you discover a new artist you like and you work through the back catalogue. Today’s news has made lots of people discover Swartz simultaneously.
Som added bonuses: The NemID password is case insensitive and has to be types in manually.
BitTorrent Surf Turns a Chrome Browser Into a BitTorrent Client
Indeed, suicide should not be illegal, or stigmatized as it is, but nor should we not care.

Every outpouring of empathy and hurt from a suicide's community might impact the actions of another contemplating the action.

The ill conceived and hasty suicides are the ones community should and can help to prevent.
The conclusion about the Joker reminded me of this: http://thisorth.at/24yt
yeah , i'm curious about that too , MS is a follower with big money , not a leader in innovation.
I worked closely with Aaron over the last year, and knew him, though not as well as I would have liked. My belief is that the legal process weighed on him tremendously, though he didn't often show it.

I am very, very angry with our system right now.
This could be a bit of a stretch, but if German government decides to increase military spending for economic recovery, wouldn't Poland and France be alerted and ask Germans to reconsider? Or it's totally different now from back then and let Germans to play with Leopards and U-boats again all they want?
Only loosers thought of Suicide.No one in this world live depression free life.Take the case of Lance Armstrong

http://hybnost.com/index.php/why-lance-armstrong-is-still-an...
Stanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S.
You are correct. As far as I know, there is no way to not install Java browser plugin files as part of the Java installation process.

You can only disable, rename, delete or block (in the browser configuration) after installation. As of Java 7 Update 10 (12 Nov 2012), there is also a Java Windows Control Panel option to control the security configuration of browser plugin, including preventing it running. I do not know if changes to these settings still apply if further updates or other Java versions are installed.

However, all of these actions are non-trivial for typical users and besides Java is unlikely to be used on the desktop for most users.
McAfee lol'

Only loosers thought of Suicide.No one in this world live depression free life.Take the case of Lance Armstrong

http://hybnost.com/index.php/why-lance-armstrong-is-still-an...
Perhaps ironically, you exhibit the same behaviour as parodied in the comic.
You're absolutely right, we'll fix that soon! To get a better impression, you can open the widget link for now: https://my.doctape.com/s/8KL4bF?w=1
Damn you're insensitive. You should be ashamed of yourself.

And to the OP: If you're still young (under 25) I'm pretty sure you'll do fine eventually. If not, you're probably doing fine already...
mouse, touchscreen, eyetracker
Unfortunately, the only thing standard users are going to remember is "Java is bad". I've already had friends asking me about this and saying, "isn't it going to ruin my entire online experience to disable Java?". "No, that's JavaScript, different thing entirely."

And that's from people who work with computers all day as their main job. Looks like it may be difficult/impossible to get people to install Java client apps in future.
OTOH:

"The momentum would be enough to knock the Earth into a different orbit—but the Earth is no more. The energy deposited is ten thousand times greater than the planet’s gravitational binding energy, and the planet is blown into an expanding cloud of plasma, with a particularly energetic streamer extending away from the far side of the impact site, out into space."

-- http://whatif.xkcd.com/20/
Did I miss the news that Google brought Gogole glaass/autonomous cars to market, and that those products were successful?

IMO, autonomous cars will be a success at some time. Who will be the first to sell them is anybody's guess, but Idonit think it is a given it will be Google. Car companies such as Volkswagen and Toyota have the advantage that they already can build cars.

Glasses? They might sell at some time, but IMO, the call is out whether these will be niche products or not. I think something must be done on the 'when not in use, they obstruct my view; when in use, they are so tiny' problem before such products can become mainstream.
Kind of users on Linux and Windows and Mac is different, so same app would have different sales.
Most of Linux users has good computer knowledge therefore some apps like Type-Fu should have bad sales.
Also most of gamers living on windows not Linux...
Can anybody share his sales statistics on Ubuntu Software Center?
The viewer mostly based on PDF.js (http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/) with a customized UI. On server side, we leverage several components (incl. LibreOffice) to convert different document types to PDF.
Well, neither. Take a look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_theory_of_solids.

I think they see the "vibration" as some sort of wave ( with the properties as such ) and process it similarly to light wave.
My housemate committed suicide four years ago; his wife and I found the body. Since then my charity of choice has been AFSP: their programs and support were very important to nth of us afterwards. They do good work.

http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&p...
You are correct: http://www.factcheck.org/2008/06/blanket-pardons/
Examples:

"Wearable Multitouch Interaction" - http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=160684

But also things that are closer to market - like:

Kinect, Photosynth, Metro

Their retail devision has still the worst image i can think of in this industry. But their research teams seem to be far forward.
> Business hours and school hours have been shifting later in the day in the US, and I have a feeling a large part of that is due to more constant contact with Europe being hours ahead.

For the US to get more of its workday in contact with the European workday, it would have to shift it earlier in the day, which is the exact opposite of what you're saying.
I think the confusion is because you're conflating "ownership" with "copyright."

I buy a book in the store, I own the book. You create a story, you have the right to limit copies of that story. You can sell it, or you can let it sit unpublished in your desk.

Once you sell a copy of your book, you no longer "own" that book, you sold it. If your story was an iPhone or vacation home, that would be the end of it.

Most governments have decided to give you a copy right, where you limit the right to copy your work for a limited time. It's not the same as ownership. If I buy a book from you, you can't come back into my house with the police and take it back. But copyright gives you the right to come into my house with the police if I'm making unauthorized copies of your book.
There are established accounts here. On an arbitrary link page, if comments are supported, then they might support for anonymous accounts, or you have to have your own account (with registered email/password), or use Disqus/Facebook or other third-party comment system, or login through OpenAuth.

There might be user-preview and edit, or not.

It might have to go through an administrator review before posting.

There might be a way to be get notices about followups. Or not.

And on HN, sometimes I read the comments to see if it's worthwhile to follow the original link. For example, sometimes the link seems like spam-bait, but the comments suggest otherwise.
The trouble with that is that it matches '.' and '..', which you probably don't want. I don't tend to have a single character after the dot in a name, so I usually use '.??*'.
Google has some really strong engineers, and has some incredible internal tools. Its build system (Blaze) is world class. As I get older, my admiration for its engineering culture (and emerging courage in product vision) only grows.

Its problem is its decrepit HR system. It needs to fire the people who came up with the "calibration scores", the 18-month lockout, and the whole closed allocation regime, yesterday.

If you make the error of thinking that technology is smart people stuff and HR is stupid people stuff, you end up with stupid people writing your HR policies, and disaster ensues.

If Google takes out the trash and reinvents itself as an open-allocation company, it'll be a real powerhouse.
> In fact, they are worse than useless, because they channel energy that would otherwise be useful into such a feckless means.

No no, they channel slacktivism, which is always useless, no matter where it is channeled.
No one blames Turing for his mental state, and Aaron faces things much tougher than him
"For some people, obedience to the law and its flaws, is itself a virtue"

e.g. Socrates.

Perhaps.
I've always found that position extremely selfish. If it wasn't for families and friends being devastated killing yourself would probably not seem like a big deal to many. The fact that it affects the ones you love so much is the very reason for why many that contemplates suicide goes through unimaginable suffering just to save it from others - it is a huge sacrifice, one that a typical person would never, ever, in their entire life even come close to experiencing. And if it just doesn't work out people have the stomach to call it selfish.

Someone described the process in which a depressed person takes his/her life with a person standing in the window of a burning building choosing between burning to death and jumping to death. It can basically be the very same thing.

And to a certain degree, jumping just makes your problems disappear - just like that. But saying that the person jumping is selfish because he/she didn't contemplate the consequences? Do you honestly believe that killing yourself is something that people take lightly? That it didn't occur to them that they would be missed? Think. That point of view makes me sick and expressing it makes you extremely selfish in my eyes.
Thank you for your activism. RIP Aaron.
Where I am, in the summer, the sun sets, sort of, a bit after midnight, and sunrise is about two hours later.

And in the winter, the sun rises at nine in the morning, and sets before three in the afternoon.

Your suggestion is hilariously myopic. Go live in Alaska for a year, and then come back and tell me if you've re-evaluated it.
I think the media is already heavily distorted because everyone is reporting from either Hong Kong, Shanghai or Peking and using these to represent (Greater) China. The one exception is probably Shenzhen due to the occasional Foxconn scandal.
This is a fluff piece. Weren't all of those products in production or development when Jobs passed away? And hasn't Page continued to cut and EOL products since then too?
You can try OpenPhoto (https://openphoto.me/)
Most of the population IS in the east, its just a few unlucky Xinjiang/Tibet residents who have to deal with a weird time zone. You don't even notice it very much in Kunming or Chengdu. I didn't even realize it was an issue until I visited Urumqi.
The premise of the article is jobs told page to focus Google, and Page ignored that but succeeded anyway

However IIRR Page shut down dozens of projects (wave being a big example). Just because a large company is doing a lot of things does not mean they are not focused - I expect Page has a list of 5 things and thinks its all focused quite well
Aaron is a hero.

I wish you and yours much strength.
Cory Doctorow: RIP, Aaron Swartz
Show HN: Text Messaging and Unlimited Email Marketing for WordPress
Thanks for posting, amazing read.
Carvoyant Is Ready To Put Your Car In The Cloud
Ask HN: Are online free sms services illegal? 
There dozens of sites for sending free online sms worldwide. Most of them are ugly websites with tons of ads, looks like they are built in 5 minutes. But the service works. I follow them, after sometime they shut the service down, something happens. I don't know why, and I'm not sure how do they do it.

In most of countries SMS is very expensive and there is no way to send SMS for free. I'm sure there are millions of people would use this kind of service. Would it be possible to build a paid service for sending SMS worldwide? Is there any legal way? I know that there are some API services like Twilio but they are too expensive. What do you think?
meh. That's just circumventing bureaucracy. Actually having the technical chops to be involved in such a notable standards process is far more impressive. Especially at 14.
Have you checked whether some of your mails are getting forwarded to an unknown email address?

Go to Gmail settings page and check all the settings.
Hackers and mental health (violet blue29c3)
Total rubbish and there are two ways I can back this up.

Firstly there were two kinds of missile used in jet planes - the wire-guided and the fire and forget. The problem with guided is the pilot had to remain focused on the target despite needin to swerve and dodge

Secondly remember the Douglas Adams quite about gesture radio - you had to remain infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program

No - humans learn to use tools and the preferred tools will be those that can be done with hands and fire and forget

Eventually people will want to program their own interfaces - on e the option has been given. They will never let that go - a user programmable UI - with whatever macros and shortcuts - that's the future not this rubbish - IFTTT is the right bet in GUI
Isn't it just a phrase? Like "USA English"?
On plain terrain...
There are javascript's i18n libraries by Alex Sexton.

https://github.com/SlexAxton/Jed
https://github.com/SlexAxton/messageformat.js
This, seriously. People need to stop excusing the federal government for the monster that it really is. Yes Aaron was depressed, do you really think the DoJ had absolutely nothing to do with that? I'd argue their constant indictments had a lot to do with it.
I kind of find it in poor taste to post this link at this point in time. Just my thoughts.
Flags provide quickly recognisable iconography, much easier for me as a brit to recognise a union flag in a long list than the word "English".

But yes there are dilemmas, for example most Portuguese speakers live in Brazil.
Grails versus Google App Engine (GAE) - what's best for startups?
In which way was he involved in the RSS 1.0 spec? There's nothing (so far) about him on the Wikipedia RSS article.
Sorry, I got it mixed up with the US-Philippines Mutual Defence Treaty (as the Philippines are also involved in the conflict).

Which, as I found while googling, has been ... umm ... cancelled by the US already?

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/14118/us-not-coming-to-ph-aid-v...

Same as for the Taiwan treaty I guess, the US would be insane to help the re-elected KMT government. I take it back, it's only Japan that would drag the US in.
Aaron's death makes it even more obvious how much we need to support the mental health of people in our community.

This is a talk from the Chaos Communication Congress 2 weeks ago, about using "harm reduction" methods from drug and HIV prevention programs. First, you accept people's existing behaviour without judgment. That gives you a baseline, from which you can discuss how to reduce the harmful effects of the behaviour.

I'm not sure this talk really nails any practical steps we can take to help one another, but it's a useful perspective to have around.
And all over Reddit the posts to the news get removed. :-(