skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is definitely optional: http://www.freenews.fr/spip.php?article12949 (even with my limited French I find the original text less confusing than google translate, ).

But yes, the fact that it's on by default is questionable.

However, most ISP-supplied consumer routers have firewall rules on by default, for very good reasons. Although I personally think this one should be opt-in, on by default is not necessarily evil in this particular use case.

Besides being a bit ham-fisted, there's nothing inherently wrong with an ISP offering filters against malicious content.

Also, with the user-accessible opt-out, it would even be legal under the Netherlands' much praised Net Neutrality law. Unlike most of these alarmist headlines, the ISP is not blocking anything.
I've read speculatiom [1] that while the freebox blocks ads more broadly, the move is meant as a slap at Google's revenue specifically in a longer dispute over the cost of bandwidth consumed by YouTube watchers.

The same article suggests that this move to block ads without user consent breaks net neutrality, in the sense that the ISP doesn't let all content pass on the same terms.

[1] http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1237031
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Certainly, it is similarly to mobile versions of websites: build the best representation for the device and situation and be aware of the differences and potential effects of these differences. I think that smartphones do offer great opportunities in education, not as the main information gateway, but as an auxiliary tool for students and teachers to interact with the content, each other, and the learning environment.
Yes, analogies can work very well.

Actually, come to think of it, TFA provides some good ones. If a customer has contradictory requirements, just tell them they're asking for a line that is red and green at the same time.
@chezmo I'd love to see a write up on the technology stack used for this project!
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Nice work. I have an unfinished project that is similar to this. It's neat that you have made it so the shape is chosen after drawing. Consider either not changing the cursor to a pointer, or remove the space between the buttons.
Yes but getting the transition from one to the other takes a long long time.
Are you also browsing the web by issuing HTTP commands directly in a telnet session?
I'm actually thinking less of them being poisoned but rather if their aggression levels went up as a result, i.e. more wars.
That was true but there have been some recent developments so I'm not sure if it is still the case.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17218968
Really love this design, it is eye candy, maybe not very user friendly for most. Reminds me a little of the new MySpace design. One thing I did notice about this design, you have not added any space for advertising space. We all know how much Facebook love to ply our feeds and right hand column full of sponsored ads these days. If this was seriously a option for Facebook (which i know is hypothetical) they would first look at how they can montenize from this design.
Freebox Revolution = 2 M users only !!!
5.5 M users, but 3 M are using the Freebox V5 (the previous version is unable to block ads).
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Helvetica has important faults that any designer who takes typography seriously should be aware of, and could even warrant alternatives.
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Come on, you are all very brainy people - is really anybody here using Facebook? Ok, for making money out of the dumbheads that do not care about their data, but using it yourself??? Crazy idea!
I am currently connected to 7 channels on Freenode!
This has got nothing to do with Android other than the fact that google translate and voice synthesis is available on Android.
Yes. It's not just goof off time that you can spend willy nilly until you figure out a productive project. I imagine that the problem isn't just lack of self-direction it's work saturation. If you set your coworkers expectations based on your level of effort sans 20% time and you set your work-load the same then even if you come up with a good idea it might be difficult to carve out enough cycles to work on it without letting obligations drop on the floor in the short-term. And then that situations persists indefinitely.
I haven't read any of the studies it talks about. I think the evidence for lead causing brain damage is very strong. Its effect on the crime rate is a different story. Admittedly it says it holds up over multiple countries, which seems like it should be stronger evidence.

Honestly I don't know, but I do think there is a real problem in our understanding of how to interpret population level trends. The rigorous camp simply wants to throw out everything that isn't a double blind study. The optimistic are convinced of every similar looking graph. I think we should be doing more meta-analysis of these things and building up a Bayesian sort of set of priors to apply to these results.
Many people don't even know what a router is.
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That's twice you mentioned 'being shot' for failure. Sounds like a real culture of fear. I get the excitement for a chance to innovate the future of computing, but I sometimes get a sense of real Stockholm Syndrome from people at Apple. I personally don't want to work at a place where people are so afraid of failure. Look at Forstall's recent exit. All those years changing the world through computing, and at the end he gets a disgraceful boot out the door.

You can change the world from a growing startup without having to fear for your career at every turn. You can have fun without being afraid. Imagine that!
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I don't know about anyone else, but I just tried this on my Galaxy Note 2 and the first certificate was a TURKTRUST certificate! Apparently, it sorted that way because the name started with "(c) 2005". There was also another certificate further down, but I'm amazed by the apparent coincidence (unless sloppy procedures led to an unusual certificate name, I suppose).
How do the spinning glyphs work?
Have you tested that? I don't code in PHP, but I'm interested to know what it prints for 15.
The fact that it's not easily scannable, when looking at someone's profile I'd much rather prefer it to be a top-to-bottom list of updates (status, photos, video's, likes, ...) instead of a timeline with boxes scattered left and right mixed with other nonsense like places, friends, ...

As an archive it's great, you can exactly see what someone liked/posted in previous months, but it's not a feed, and that's what I would like someone's profile to be, a feed of his activity.
Does confidence really breed success?
Discussion from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4997388
> 3. Cell level.
Ask your enterocytes how they feel about glutens and friends. Ask your neurons how they feel about sugar surge and Coca Cola. Its total disaster here. Way to much for adaptation. Thats why we have rogue cells converting to metazoa 1.0 software (i.e. cancer).

Is this true? (The bit about cancer)
Having the cheek to just redesign and rebrand an entire website with absolutely ZERO concept or guidance from a client is always a red flag for me with a designer.

Shows they don't really know what they are doing and deep down are just making things look pretty or on trend.

Also for god sake make your filler copy a bit more realistic, don't just copy a single name down user lists. The over use of unrealistic stock photos is making me gag too, feels like I've stumbled onto Microsoft.com FYI the real world doesn't look like that.
There are a number of HN people who hang out on #startups on Freenode. It's quite informal, rude at times, and entirely off the record.

Interesting that IRC actually predates the web. I find it very useful at times.
Most ads are not malicious content at all. Wake up, the web has changed in 15 years. And like it or not, the whole web economy is based on advertising. Do you prefer to be charged 5 cents for every query on Google?
But that's now how this works. If everyone on HN went and created an account and went to great pains to post relevant things to it, it would still be useless.

The success of a social network hinges on a wide base of appeal. Facebook was inherently mainstream from the get-go, starting with colleges. Twitter bootstrapped off of celebrities and famous people who have an audience that transcends simple subcultural boundaries (Lady GaGa instead of Edward Tufte, for example).

"People who care about software freedom" have little relevant content to anyone but themselves. Getting these people to create accounts and post will only succeed in creating yet another place from a niche, isolated demographic to hang out - and we're not really in desperate need for yet another meeting ground for free software folk.

Google+ for example has seen tremendous uptake by photography enthusiasts. I enjoy using it greatly for this purpose - but break into the mainstream is certainly has not, and never will with this group.
Getting other people's hands dirty. Learning the basics of xCode.
HTML5 is for the web, not for mobile apps
It's using CSS animations.

animation: spin 2s infinite linear;
I have an odd infatuation with favicons. I must say your's is the coolest I've ever seen. Awesome attention to detail.
It's been a long time since I read any of Asimov's work... but didn't the stories conclude that the Three Laws were ultimately both unworkable and inadequate? I remember a zeroth law being added in (a robot must act in the general interests of humanity as its top priority).

I think the petition is great as a debate starter, but lousy as a prescription for public policy.
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I keep considering making an effort to investigate Diaspora, either as just a user but preferably by running my own pod.

Two of the key features I want to see before I make that effort though were heavily talked about at the start but are still listed as "coming soon": "export your data" and "move pods". If the data is locked to a pod, mine or anyone else's, many of my contacts will see that as no different to facebook. I know there is facebook integration so I can play without needing anyone else to move over, but I'd rather wait until what (for me) are key items driving the desire for something else (i.e. addressing control/ownership issues) are actually working features rather than aspirations.
I also use a lot of IRC. But it just seems that most of the networks are already rather quiet. Though Freenode, galaxynet and some others, I believe, are still growing?
Konqueror was by some distance the best browser available at the time (even today there is Konqueror 3.2 functionality that I can't find in anything else), and the fact that they were able to keep it that way with about 5 devs total spoke to the quality of the code.
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It's still the case that it's a good career move to ask for more work, the key is asking for the right work. I'm not going to volunteer for photocopying duty, but any opportunity to do mentoring, supervising, or other managerial activities I'll take because those are the strengths I'm currently looking to reinforce.

Essentially you want to maneuvre your boss into assigning you to work on things which are on-the-job training for the work you want to do.
Presumably it still checks the certificate is valid otherwise the worse case would just be that the legitimate site would not work.
As already mentioned it is not an Android bug.

As long as one uses statistical machine learning, edge cases like this are unavoidable.
THis is really nice! Not sure if this is intended, but the annotations show underneath the other elements, I expected the annotation dotted background to appear above everything else
Is it possible that there is a color our human eye can't see?
I just recently stumbled on it and boy oh boy, that's much better than HN itself. Not complaining about HN but I'm from the time of the web when things got a little better than the table-like structure of HN. I do feel comfortable when there's a better interface/design.

On a slightly off-topic talk, I think the whole thing basically boils down to the crux. People aren't too bothered to change the looks of HN because it just works good as it is and that's most important. Now, ages from now Apple's design philosophy might look pretty old but may be people will be okay with that because it's a brand. I tend to think of HN like that.
Bookmarked. Great example of MVP.
It may be my browser, but they look pretty naff.
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Look: http://codepad.org/wsNKZ25Q
HN is hosted at SoftLayer in Houston, TX. The IP block and reverse DNS indicate hosting by ThePlanet; ThePlanet merged into SoftLayer.
> I really don't believe that many people would have bought an iPad if they didn't already have a computer of some sort, though I could be wrong here.

When the iPad came out didn't you need a computer (with iTunes) to activate it? I vaguely recall Apple offering to activate iPads at Apple Stores at some point, but I'd presume the vast majority of iPad users didn't need that.
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It’s in LISP. Which has had fifty-five freaking years to catch on and become mainstream

I dislike how a lot of people keep saying that Lisp is 50+ years old when they talk about Common Lisp or Clojure or whatever. Non of the modern Lisps are even close to that old. That's like saying that Ruby is 50+ years old because you can trace it back to algol and fortran. Sure, the original Lisp may be that old, but the modern dialects in the Lisp family are just that: dialects in the Lisp family. They're new languages and just because they kinda look like the original (and really only kinda) doesn't mean that they had fifty-five freaking years to catch on. Clojure has had only about five years, for example.
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the UX on tablets is sometimes just absurd, isn't it?
I thought it is a practical joke.
Thousands of tech savy folks driving the internet use an interface from the nineties.

how often I missed this upvote button or saw expired session..
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I think that by their nature, things like creativity are not easily assessed in a fast standardised way. These skills are usually assessed by their application - if someone produces good creative and analytical work then I can count on them having those skills. That's why artists have portfolios and hackers have GitHub accounts, right?
Of course the issue is that hiring people with those skills is harder because you can't screen them so easily - it requires people with skills equal to or greater than the applicant to spend considerable time evaluating their work product. That costs a lot more than just giving HR a minimum GPA for graduate hires.
That would probably be illegal for Google, as they have a dominant position.
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You have to go throug some hassle to make your pone display pdf/ppt/xls/whatnot files, let alone it's a pleasant experience on a small screen. But you cannot (easily) hook up your phone to a bigger screen. You cannot add all kinds of common usb devices to your phone. You cannot quickly start an ssh session to your server. Etcetera. These are all valid use cases for netbooks. Not for phones, no matter how smart they are. Face it, your phone OS is kinda limited compared to whatever OS running on a pc. .
Doesn't the article really miss medical evidence like the influence of lead on the brains, neurons, MRI scans and experiments with animals and stuff?
Any chance you could release a scrubbed setup or a blog post?

I'm looking at doing this and rather not have to slog through the nuances if possible. (I deal with certain on a sufficiently infrequent basis that I have to actively try to figure the steps again. One of the frustrating things of having to deal with cryptic options)
It's horrific whether you have a daughter or not. People are vicious animals.
Back around 1990, some forward-thinking IT person secured for Apple an entire Class A network of IP addresses.

Pixar has a large block too... I wonder if Steve had something to do with it?
Well, that's the point. If you think "I am visiting HN to make more money.", then unless you have a very good reason for it (except of killing time) you will be like "Oh wait, that doesn't make any sense! Better do something more productive then!".
Anything that tracks me without my permission it is malicious. I view the web the way I want - and that includes using AdBlock, NoScript and RequestPolicy.

If it happens to be that enough people share that preference with me to make the current ad-ridden web unprofitable for many sites, well, then so be it. In that case a new model will appear in due time.
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Of course it is. Blocking at the router level is still blocking. And the fact that it's on by default makes it only worse for websites depending on ad revenue.
"Lawyers are an essential component of society."

Well obviously not in this instance.
Thanks for sharing how to do this on desktops.

My frustration is with mobile devices. Given the huge proliferation of devices incl. idevices in recent years, it's annoying that we do not have the same options.

I just tried looking for a way to disable said CA in iOS and can't find a way to do so. Maybe someone else has figured this out. Halp?
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& I switched from an iPhone 4S to a Galaxy Nexus & back to an iPhone 5 , couldn't be happier. These posts are pointless. Whatever device works for you. All of these platforms have strengths & weaknesses. You can make equally cogent cases for the upcoming Blackberry 10 or Windows Phone 8. The First iPhone was a significant leap in mobile computing, since then, the way I see it, it's been mostly polish. Google & MSFT caught up to the competition, RIMM retooled. The more competition the merrier.

Google Now is amazing. iOS fluidity still has no equal. Google play automatic app updates are convenient. iOS apps polish is extraordinary. Windows Phone tiles are fantastic. BB contact integration is a thing of beauty...etc.
What I find most confusing about this article that the author finds that netbooks went away for good.

Since when choice is that bad? No one's forced to buy a netbook if he doesn't want to, right?

I bought an eeePC 900A in late 2008 and it's travelled all over the world with me now, gone to several conferences and troubleshooting gigs at friends and relatives, and basically everywhere I didn't want to carry a 15" notebook (don't have anything between)

Yes, it was a bit slow, but it's running a default debian install on a LUKS-encrypted 8GB SSD - what's not to love about it?

I indeed mourn the downfall of the netbook, and if mine ever dies I'd be very much tempted to get a new one for ~250 EUR just before a larger trip.

Edit: I have HTC Desire Z and a 7" ainol tablet, I like both - but for nearly everything I've ever used my netbook, I can't use them really. Only exception is writing blog posts on the road...
"Even if you ace the course you get nada. zip. zilch."

You mean other than the knowledge you've acquired? I guess it depends on your goal. :-)
> Easier majors like mathematics, physics, biology, the other "real sciences", medicine, etc?

You do realize it takes about a decade to become a doctor, do you? Also, remember that Math and Physics continue well beyond the parts comp-sci majors have to endure. One day, try to read a real paper on Math or Physics (or Biology) taken from a reputable journal. Get back if you can figure it out.
Humans are notorious at prioritizing obvious short-term costs over nebulous, indirect long-term costs. And this applies even across huge orders of magnitude differences, hundreds, thousands, even billions. To bring this back to HN relevancy, consider how to get on top of this problem at a corporate/startup level. Companies that solve those deep, omnipresent, indirect costs problems (often through development of high quality internal tooling) have a huge advantage over their competition, because doing so is a huge force multiplier.

At one point a coworker of mine raised the idea that when you do some process that is painful sometimes it means you need to do it more. Because doing it more frequently can force improvements in process, technique, or tooling which then produce dividends.
sorry my bad, I have updated it.
Interesting - I switched from android to the iPhone 5 recently (after having the N1, NS and Galaxy Nexus). I thought this was the first iPhone that finally had the necessary hardware (LTE being required after the galaxy).

The main things I miss are better google voice integration on the nexus phones (the ability to use the web interface for texting is something I can't give up). I also used to not pay for texting this way and could actually afford to have a smart phone because of it since Tmobile has a $30 no contract 100min/unlimited data plan for unsubsidized phones.

I also needed some sort of google talk app which I finally found with the $5 version of the verbs app. A bunch of people I communicate with are on android and use google chat instead of facebook chat or imessage.

The current iPhone does some things much better. The biggest thing is battery life which is at least twice as good as any nexus phone I've used (probably even more). The difference in battery is really incredible. The new native Facebook iOS app is also great to use. The iPhone hardware is also subjectively much nicer, it both looks and feels a lot better to me - makes me wish Google had partnered with Nokia.

Really though they're both pretty equivalent at the point.

Edit: Almost forgot, the critical feature of android was turn by turn navigation which apple finally came out with in iOS6. Now that google's released their maps app as well the core differences that mattered are gone.
Yes I know, this is a bug in Google Translate. However, the bug was found by a user using Google Now and was reported in the Android issue tracker. The issue was described very well and is reproducible. I am criticizing that nobody seems to check the reported issues and the time it takes for Google to fix the reported problems.
Thanks, I will try to get a look at this when I get home from work tonight.
I didnt get the impression that the author was trying to convert me, just that he loved his new phone. I'm sure he would agree with you.
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There's a really striking contrast between the treatment this guy gets, and the treatment HSBC got for knowingly laundering billions of dollars.
> Facebook was inherently mainstream from the get-go

I joined Facebook in 2003, didn't get what the point was (they wanted me to fill in my school schedule, etc), and got a friend request from someone that I wasn't on good terms with in highschool. I never bothered to remove the account, but I think I've logged in < 10 times since then.

I think that Facebook was only 'mainstream' within a certain set of people from the get-go. Also, Facebook 'from the get-go' wasn't just the Facebook of today with less users.
That's just me being facetious. Don't read that much into it.

Apple was an excellent place to work and I had a great relationship with Scott, Bertrand, Avie and Steve. Nobody was going to shoot me. AFAIK. :)
Can't we go back to calling him Father Christmas?