skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like Install Monetizer was previously known (or is also known?) as Optilly.

http://optilly.com/

http://www.installmonetizer.com/

Maybe they "pivoted" from a clever take on ad campaign management to toolbars as a way to increase revenues?
I think it's cognitive dissonance ( maybe I'm thinking of the wrong phenomenom ) that you 'see more and more of [these people]' every day. It makes this seem like a big bad trend, when really it's been happening forever and it just happens to support your point.

Lots of people release ad-supported free software, not because they want to turn a profit, but because they don't want a net loss. They aren't comfortable with asking for outright donations, but a small cash flow offsets the costs of serving the download and docs, and a little forum for users.

If you don't like software with ads, or software that bundles other software, that's fine. Don't use it. But I think it hurts free (as in beer) software development as a whole when you demonize any attempt to cover costs like this.
What about prenatal counselling and early childhood nutrition programs and parenting classes? What if those things in underprivileged areas has more affect on educational outcomes (however defined) than teacher selection?
"An example from Reddit, which is very much the non-academic Real World I've been talking about:"

Seeing as they did not state what you claim that they did, you still lack for example.
Last year there was an interesting article about Emmy Noether in the NY Times [0]. Corresponding HN discussion [1].

[0] The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/science/emmy-noether-the-m...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760447
Congrats guys. If I ever need to spin up a server, I'll definitely be sailing your ocean.
Based on my experience with OKC I am doubtful this will be successful. I went on a lot of first dates w/girls from OKC and most of the time ones that were supposedly 90% matches were the worst dates.

I met my girlfriend on there too, and we were only supposedly 70% matches according to OKC but she's my perfect partner.

In other words, the algorithm is kinda off. At least in my case.
Mh looks like he wants to protect his wife and take a stand, this would work in reality but he does not quite get how the internet works.

He put even more fuel into the fire and he gave up his anonymity.
I used to have problems falling asleep. I used to lay in bed for 30 minutes to an hour trying without success. That was when I used to drink caffeine all the time and rely on it to get through the day. Since I have given it up completely, I can fall asleep in about 10 minutes. So if you're reliant on caffeine, I suggest trying to stop consuming caffeine completely.
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My prediction: burner phones or Google Voice leads to some very bad scenarios. Stick with blind dates from friends.
Down for me, but Google has it cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
If there were a rolling release Fedora, I'd be all over that as a drop-in alternative to Ubuntu for friends and family.

* Systemd > Upstart in performance usability (for me, at least).

* selinux > apparmor when properly integrated (personal preference, but it sees more active development and feature parity).

* RPMs and debs are basically the same thing except not. I have to say adding repos in Ubuntu is much easier than in Fedora.

The choice of GUI during installation is also nice. I just can't keep putting relations and friends on distros that break on really major updates (like 10.04 to 12.04 for Ubuntu) and that is one of the reasons I run Arch. Problem is Arch has really bad support for MAC and takes forever to set up.
I think this is a dangerous thought and I'm sorry you feel that way.
The Copywriter's Handbook is a decent book.
I got hit by that "take this rose, I will pretend to be mute until you do" ~18 years ago in Boston and Detroit, and hadn't seen it since. I thought it faded away, but maybe it sweeps through in waves as new people move into the city.
Nobody should ever take their own life

With all due respect, sir, this is simply not true. Oftentimes, choosing nonexistence to loss of freedom, prison rape, and in general the hollow, empty existence of a caged animal is NOT an irrational choice.
"They are liars, shady business, IP violators and are downright dangerous."

This is completely prejudice! You've never met Install Monetizer, and don't know if they participate in the same activities as the companies that you're referring to.

"I believe OP is very polite: There are no good reasons to not shame them publicly."

This is childish, and I'd expect better from any contributing member of VLC.
The concept is interesting, although OkCupid actually launched this service in 2007 and it never really caught on. I'm guessing that they're betting mobile will change things significantly.

What I really don't understand is why the design is so bad. OkCupid has always looked reasonably impressive (at least in my opinion), and this new site feels flat and amateurish. The mobile apps don't look good either.

It almost feels like they've fallen for the new "me-too" trend of exceptionally flat design, inspired by Metro, but the execution here is just not good. The typography is particularly bad. Maybe it's just me, but I think it could really use some additional polish.
No, he's not speaking for IBM. The internet will recognize he's speaking for his wife. IBM might pull him aside and tell him he's not helping things if they have any common sense.
It also doesn't help that his last name is "Dolan".
I recall waiting a couple of minutes for my computer to just boot in the 80s. When I want to use my phone, it becomes usable in well under a second.

Waiting a few seconds every time I hit save was fun. Didn't stop me from developing a ferocious ^S reflex. Fortunately, save is fast enough not to be noticeable these days, to the extent that it usually happens automatically now.

Watching a WYSIWYG font menu draw each individual entry was fun. We certainly don't get that pleasure now.

But yes, things certainly felt faster in the 80s.... /s
OkCupid probably has a very good idea of how attractive a person is based on how many profile views and messages they get. I'd be very surprised if they aren't using that data to match roughly equally attractive people. Perhaps they are even taking personal preferences into account with probabilistic matrix factorization that is often used for recommendation systems. Basically if person X shows interest in A, and person Y shows interest in A and in B, then this makes it more likely that person X will like B as well. Whether A and B are movies, products on Amazon or people on OkCupid, PMF can exploit this kind of data to match people to products or to other people.

The biggest problem with algorithmic blind dating is probably not actual average quality of dates, but rather (perceived) risk of going on a bad date. People trust their friends a lot more than an algorithm.
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Fully agree with this statement. Mainframe had 3270 (or vt) dumb terminals and cloud has tablets and smartphones, but this is mainly the same architecture, with more colors and animations.

It is interesting to see that the applications themselves move very slowy, despite addition of colors/animations. Corporate apps are still mainly forms and databases systems. The technologies change, but they still have same architecture than in 60s/70s. Nothing new since mainframe, lisp and smalltalk.
Despite her tremendous insights, Noether suffered constant discrimination from the male-dominated academic society of her time: she was sometimes not even paid for her work, and when she fled Germany during WW2 the best position she could find was at the women's college Bryn Mawr (in an era when other fleeing German scientists were landing positions at the best American research universities).

When she died, the story I recall is that the New York Times printed a very short obituary that mentioned only her brief work as a teacher at Bryn Mawr. Einstein was horrified that such a luminary would receive so little recognition, and he responded by writing a glowing tribute which the Times promptly printed: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obits2/Noether_Emmy_...
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Maybe we could write a chrome/firefox plugin that highlights downloads that are from the same domain? Or perhaps hides non-domain ones? Would that clean up most of these issues?

You'd probably have to have a button to toggle this on and off.
Her work on physics was nothing compared to her contributions to algebra and topology. Not only did she basically invent homology groups as we know them today, but she revolutionized the way we think about rings. The ascending and descending chain conditions in algebra are like bread and cheese for the culinary world.
Thanks! Seeing "unlimited" bandwidth is actually a deal breaker for me and may other people.

Even if you mean it in all sincerity, when I see that, what I assume is that there's a secret hidden limit, and I can't know what it is. So that means the site is instantly useless, no matter how good of a deal it might have otherwise been!

An thought-experiment example I've given otherplaces - Let's say I start a site called DevUrandom.org - It has an API which pushes out network-limited random bits.

I fire up computers around the world, and have them filling up their crypto systems using DevUrandom.org, at 100Mbit/sec.

Is that OK?
What if I love the service so much, I spin up 100 such boxes?
etc, etc.

It's not that your service doesn't sound awesome, it's just that if I'm going to rely on it, I don't want it pulled away for arbitrary reasons, because I hit a double-secret limit. I'd rather know what's OK and what's not OK going in.

Further, it aligns our interests- If I'm paying you, for the things that cost you money, I have an incentive to minimize them! If you have to pay for it, and I don't, I'll do whatever's easiest for me, and not bother spending time/money to reduce bandwidth.

(A classic example of this is seen in with Landlords/Tenants - Tenants pay for Electricity, but Landlords generally buy appliances. This means that Landlords have little incentive to buy energy efficient appliances.. They won't be paying for the energy anyway)
I'm curious what the ethics are in the legal profession as far as a prosecutor sharing details of plea negotiations with a federal defendant with a spouse.
Ahh, I love the settings of some of Banks' stories. I was born in Oban, so Iona, Staffa and Fingal's caves are happily familiar :)
I don't know any Libertarians that would support government employees who have stolen from parking meters. You can disagree with the meters all you want but stealing is stealing.
I like it better than "Beefy Miracle"
"Its about the team, not the idea".
It is a great loss to know such an entrepreneur has died because of legal problems. I, myself, have faced similar been in a similar situation. I feel that Aaron was a martyr for the open source of academic papers. Unfortunately he will not see his impact on this modern and technology dependent world.

R.I.P. Aaron Swartz!
He's obsessing over this supposed 6-month offer. Sounds exactly like what I'd expect the husband of a prosecutor to sound like.

Does he have any idea what even 6 months in jail would have been like for a 20-something? How would he feel about spending 6 months in jail for, say, that March Madness office pool he might have joined (illegal gambling!) or that time he recorded and re-played an NFL game to his buddies (violation of the disclaimer at the start of the game!). Etc.
Aggregate to an offline reader on my phone so I can read it while commuting in what would otherwise be "downtime".
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Wow, nice! At last. This one packs a lot of goodies!
They haven't figured out a damn thing regarding what makes a good teacher. At best, they've figured out how to find which teachers are good. That's not nearly as helpful. It's barely helpful.

What happens when you find the bad teachers? Fire them and hope the fresh-faced college grads do a better job?

So much of this debate on teachers is leans towards the carrot or the stick. Wanting to reward the best teachers because it makes you feel like you're helping is fine, but don't fool yourself into thinking it'll hugely improve instruction. Teachers aren't going to suddenly go, "Oh, wait, you'll pay me more if I'm a good teacher? I'm going to start trying!" (One or two might, but those outliers exist in any field, and are hardly the issue.)

In every district I've taught, very little time is given for teachers of the same subject to collaborate, observe each other, and improve their own teaching. Every year, we have to get 20 hours of professional development. Tell me, are 6 minutes and 20 seconds of development per teaching day going to improve instruction?
Ok, so if I understand this: with the fb/twitter stuff, they are intercepting your private data and selling it. With Google adverts they are removing them and inserting their own (and their own ppc sales, I presume). And with the Google results companies pay them to alter the organic search results and place their link higher. Wow.
You can install whatever 3rd party software you want on a Mac, side by side with software from the App Store. Note that this article is about PCs, not mobile. You seem to be conflating the two.
Because your browser is incredibly carefully sandboxed, and your desktop is not.

Worse yet, even the low level of sandboxing that desktops posses are almost always defeated by installers: "This installer requires administrator privileges to run"

... aka. yes, you will take our spyware-crapware-rubbish, and you'll love it, or you wont use our app. Capish?

You don't get that with websites. That's why it's ok.

(Incidentally, this is the same reason why its not ok on mobile platforms, where your options of permission are to read your contacts and make phone calls and 'services that cost money' or no, you can't play this game of Cat Pong your friends are talking about...)
Why don't distributions provide an image that can be dd'd onto a USB stick? I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds USB mass storage infinitely more convenient than CDs nowadays. Sure, they provide a USB image creator, but you have to have a fairly standard (and graphical, last time I checked) Linux installation first. And sure, you can extract the files and make one yourself, but is that really necessary?

This goes for both Ubuntu and Fedora.
How so? I don't see this as reflective of his employer. Looks like a guy trying to defend his wife. I imagine his personal life is in a bit of disarray at the moment.

I'm not defending anyone here and I believe there was prosecutorial overreach in this case, but I disagreed with the family's use of their son's obituary to make a political statement.

He was obviously a troubled man if he believed suicide was his only option. He needed assistance (and reading through his posts, it seems obvious in retrospect) and I think a better statement would have pushed for improved mental health awareness and assistance in the US.
I think that's just "we need to have a laptop under $1000".
Most of these freeware download sites tend to use mirror sites for the actual downloads.

The download link for the actual product will often really be a redirect to a page with a "your download will start in 5 seconds" and then some JS triggers the actual download.

Even the legit download will usually offer you toolbars and crap anyway.
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Agree that I would not love working with 40 years older COBOL programmers. However, I for sure would love to work with 40 years older lispers or smalltalkers.

I am wondering if in 40 years from now, youngsters would love (or not) to work with [ruby|java|js|nodejs] programmers.
The only necessary book on design, at only 46 pages, is "Notes on Graphic Design And Visual Communication."

I have met AIGA award designers and Internet design celebrities who don't know some of the basics laid out in this short book.

It's probably the only handwritten book you'll ever read.

http://www.amazon.com/Crisp-Graphic-Design-Visual-Communicat...
I have some sympathy. His wife, a public servant, is implicated in the suicide of a well-loved young man and a great deal of anger is coming her way. It's deeply distressing when one's spouse is attacked, especially by outsiders, and I respect him for sticking up for her in public.

His message and his timing are terribly misguided, but he is at least trying. No doubt she appreciates the support and, I hesitate to say, he does have a point: the 6 month offer hasn't been widely discussed by the mob.

(Just for the record I think it's a scandal that these charges were ever bought. Proportionality utterly failed here, and I hope the government and the nation learns something from this tragedy.)
I don't know what you were using but I was booted and operational in under 3-4 seconds on everything I used in the 80s (BBC Master, Acorn A310)
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Babylon is the worst of the worst malware. I've never battled tooth and nail to get such supervirus crapware off my computer in my life.

Seriously, stay away!
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Ask HN: App Store donations using in app purchase or subscriptions, any ideas?
We want to develop a newsstand iOS app for a client that is a well known international humanitarian organization. They want to receive donations using in app purchases or newsstand subscriptions, any ideas? Any success stories?
Of course writing fiction (for entertainment) is different from writing nonfiction (for information). For excellent fiction first-sentences: "Doro discovered the woman by accident when he went to see what was left of one of his seed villages." --Wild Seed, Octavia Butler. It introduces the main characters, and shows you their relationship and their relative importance to the plot of the novel.
The type of person who would read that disclaimer is the type of person who wouldn't have downloaded from the wrong site in the first place.
While I understand that he stays by his spouce, it does not mean that he has to agree with her point of view, part of being spouces is to be and stay critical.

My reply to him is and stays:

The qualities of a good prosecutor are as elusive and as impossible to define as those which mark a gentleman. And those who need to be told would not understand it anyway. A sensitiveness to fair play and sportsmanship is perhaps the best protection against the abuse of power, and the citizen’s safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility.

Source:
http://www.roberthjackson.org/the-man/speeches-articles/spee...
Ah, yeah, I think you've misunderstood the implications of what I've suggested; from your tone, I think you'll find a corrected interpretation both more and less radical.

JSTOR sends messages into the marketplace that they are a faithful steward of the public domain, but knows that its TOS a) prevents unrestricted access to the public domain, and b) knows that a US Attorney will prosecute violations of that TOS as felonies requiring several years in prison; I argue that their speech does not match their actions and that this is dishonest. Aggravating this, the extreme negative consequences of taking them at their word (as Aaron did) is why I've selected to say that their actions probe the depths of intellectual dishonesty.

Full-text search, like printing, is a value-added service. There is no reason to keep public domain works hostage by the threat of sending people like Aaron to jail for decades just so that they can offer FTS. If JSTOR wants to offer FTS or other services on the corpus of public domain works, let them charge for access to those services.

An existence proof: arXiv offers bulk download access to the works in their repository (~490GiB) via Amazon S3 Requester-Pays buckets [1]. The requester is paying Amazon, not arXiv; so, arXiv doesn't earn "pennies per article", it earns nothing. Incidentally, arXiv also provides full-text search [3].

Let's talk about capacity planning. Let's guess that average size of a digitized journal article is 5 MiB, that comes out to ~361 TB, or $44,400 to stream from S3. The at-rest cost of those articles is far lower because there are far fewer articles than downloads (I don't have a number, but would you argue otherwise?).

My proposal: JSTOR removes its watermarks and puts all public domain works and associated metadata into S3 Requestor-Pays buckets. They finance their operations by selling non-public-domain works and value-added services like FTS at a price the market will bear.

Earnings made by restricting bulk access to public domain works is blood money. Watermarking these documents is confusing - no one seems to have answered my questions about whether they are claiming a new copyright.

[1] http://arxiv.org/help/bulk_data_s3
[2] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=386
[3] http://arxiv.org/find
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I too did it for the shirt.

I come across mainframes all the time at work, but I'm an IT auditor and I deal with legacy systems on a daily basis.
It's just another Softonic. That's not 'the future'. Just the annoying present.
wouldn't be windows without the chance of catching computer aids every time you open an installer
Don't confuse the government-mandated standardized tests with the SATs. They're not really out there to measure individual students. These tests are to ensure individual schools, districts, and states are giving the proper instruction to their students. They exist to make sure that Springfield High and Franklin High are both teaching the students the required material.

Universities do use standardized tests: they use the SATs and the ACTs, the GREs, LSATs, MCATs, Miller Analogies. They use AP exams to determine who gets college credit for courses the school never administered. They use their own standardized entrance exams for placement.
Can't you just dd the ISO image to the USB stick?

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installat...
Email delivery is almost commodity nowadays,
This is what stands out (on top of a respectable quality of service of course)
> FWIW I hold a MD

It's not worth much in this discussion.

Your logic here is fuzzy man. Asserting that everyone has a point at which they will kill themselves? Maybe you're basing this on knowing that YOU have a point at which you'd take your own life.

But what in the thousands of years of human suffering gives you this certainty that "everybody" has this suicidal breaking point?

You can't make an assertion into a "plain old fact" just by repeating it.
And those who use this will no doubt be the ones who can't get a date on the regular site (like, hm, me).

Which means your potential pool is limited to those who can't get a date in real life (which may be because they have just moved, are atheists in South Texas, etc) and who can't get a date on the site.

So I doubt this will be effective, but hey it is a nice try.
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I prefer to solve problems like Hercule Poirot