skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't the worst case. The Windows using victim* could install something accidentally by careless clicking (the "Yes,Yes, Yes" Windows installer process).

I recognise you are treading a fine line between defending a company you feel a duty to and practices and business model that you probably wouldn't select for Y-Combinator on the publicly visible business model. I hope they pivot to a less controversial model and leave you in a more comfortable place.

* You are right that the users are the advertisers but that must make the person running the installer the victim or at best the product.
Yes. The entire discipline of game theory is designed around making light of serious decision making. </sarcasm>
Simple sprites and images management tool for HTML5 games
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1) As part of a budget I am charged for the floor space that my team uses in the facility. I would welcome open space and closed space, but don't have the space in this facility to make closed spare look like more than a closet - something most won't respond well to working in.

2) Many tasks (especially engineering that deals with work in the physical domain) require tools, items, equipment of more than just a computer. While we can do shared lab space for development - it does get tricky when you need certain hardware or test setups to do design/work.

It did take me time to adjust outside of academia too.
3. It's included in the EULA of the app itself. They modify the installer.

4. I don't think there is any claim that this can be fixed instantly.

5. This is not for OSS-using libraries -- that's totally cool. Everyone uses open source. What they've banned is people wrapping VLC to make money off software they haven't written. That's not cool.
i'm sure you have all your intermediate steps as well. i really liked an example i've seen a while ago that described an optimization process in git history. you'd simply check out the right step and have a look for yourself.
I wonder how many of those multi-founder companies were in practice single founder. If a cofounder contributes most of the important ideas, makes most of the important decisions and has controlling share in the company, I don't think that qualifies as multi-founders. They are just de facto single founder with multiple early employees that owns equity.
If your test to see if you can pick a lock is actually trying to pick the lock, then the test can of course be indistinguishable from attempted burglary. If you were caught in the act, any defense will be suspicious. However, if you confessed of your own free will, there is usually no reason to suspect criminal intent.
So why was '~' chosen over '^'?
They seem to go out of their way to make their designs available to the general public too which is something that wasn't common before.
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I installed these things from an Install Monetizer install on my own computer. I uninstalled them. They were all completely uninstallable. None of them broke my browser.

IM actually screens out advertisers and publishers who break browsers, and they don't work with them.

Seems better to me. As another commenter mentioned, IM is trying to legitimize a space that's scummy, the way Google did for PPC.
I'm sure this is just a bad quote:

> “Every time I hear that a class of 8th graders are learning how to blink LEDs I realize that we’re making a difference,” says CEO Nathan Seidle

Or there is more to it than that, sometimes I do get the sense that the explosion of using microcontrollers for hobby projects have been hammers looking for nails to hit.
That this story ever got this much publicity is largely thanks to LiNK (Liberty in North Korea).

http://libertyinnorthkorea.org/

Please consider a small donation of money or even time (the "Get Involved" menu).

Or even just re-tweet, re-blog, and talk to your friends about this story.
Yes, it would be for a jury to decide. But a jury (or a judge) is perfectly capable of distinguishing between someone signing up to two Gmail accounts and someone gaining unauthorized access to a network by circumventing countermeasures taken specifically to prevent him from accessing said network.

Application of law is not a an execution of a script applied by a stupid robot: It does allow for intent and the bigger picture to be factoring in.

There are many reason to claim that Aaron's actions were rather harmless, and that, taking all factors into account, they do not warrant significant punishment. But claiming that he did not do anything illegal at all requires some serious twisting of the facts.
"There is a trade off between designing all sorts of safety checks into a language and raw power"

This is a false dichotomy. Safety checks can be disabled if they become a performance problem in languages like Lisp. Safety checks can often be removed by a good compiler when the compiler can infer that the check will always be satisfied.

C++, however, provides nothing by default -- as opposed to being safe by default, and allowing programmers to be unsafe if they explicitly request that.
I think it's shadowed globally, which has the same effect as it being overwritten. But I'm not certain.
This is because writing letters and making phone calls takes (sometimes marginal, but still) more effort than sending an email.
> In this thread alone, I've read people claiming that it's unequivocal fact that Swartz committed suicide because of his prosecution, because his lawyer said so,

I was skeptical at first too, but statements from his friends and family as well bear that out.

> but that we can't trust a single word out of Ortiz's mouth... because she's a lawyer.

I did not see such a comment. Why not respond to it instead of a new toplevel statement of how HN sucks?
I'll give you 9/11 and Connecticut, but this is different. This woman has ZERO principle or sense of morality. No one is panicking over the death of Aaron Swartz, but many are angry. Angry over overreach that is (finally) getting some attention. The furor over Ortiz is mainly due to her relentless pursuit of a poor boy who was suffering depression and also facing many felony charges that he would be stuck with for the rest of his life. That is why people are angry. The root cause is BECAUSE of the government, not because the government itself failed to act.

The leaders are not succumbing to panic. The "leaders" (whom I should actually call "rulers," because one day they decided they should rule instead of lead) are succumbing to their own mistakes that the American public is now waking up to and demanding action.
How about we leave age/sex/race out of it all and accept them into the community as peers and equals?

I'm all about encouragement, but if we treat them differently because of age, we are just sheltering them from the real world (the Internet hardly counts there, I know). The Internet may not be the safest place to be taught how to accept criticism, but it is a lot easier to take (and more productive) when the attacks aren't personal and instead directed at an app.
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Well that's embarrassing. Looks like I need to revamp my searching skills. I did do a search before posting, but evidently it was a poor one.

My bad!
I think this is an interesting model and Sujay definitely seems like a talented fellow, however, am I the only one repulsed by the name "Developer Auction"?

It makes me think of another kind of auction of human labor — Slave Auction. I don't like the objectification of talented engineers or humans in general.
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It's getting worse. My Nexus 7 doesn't allow it either, although you can work around it and (use it as a flashdrive at least) by pretending it's a camera.

I understand the problem is having a disk mounted by two OSs similtaneously. There is newer protocol called mtp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol) that is supposed to be the answer, but it isn't supported by older OSs. Feels like they reinvented the wheel though.
Yeah, that's a good point. If I had a enough money I could hire a few smart devs at market price to make what I wanted. Even bounce ideas off of them, but I'd still the single founder.
I was able to totally remove Babylon from my system after installing it through an IM ad unit.

I can't speak for installs from other sources, because I hear what you say is true. But I saw with my own eyes that it didn't happen with IM.
"Prefer" is a higher bar than "don't care" / "not a nuisance".

I don't know what IM installs - but I see Norton on their webpage. I can easily see "most end-users" installing something, seeing the opportunity to install Norton Anti-Virus, and thinking to themselves "oh yea, that sounds like that'd be useful".

Just about everybody on HN is extremely technically savvy - we can't assume that our computing preferences are shared by "most end-users". Note that I am just responding to the assertion that "it['s] hard to believe that [PG] truly think[s] it is anything but a nuisance to end-users".
Don't you find it distracting listening to people ask the consultants questions all day? Often times about projects you work on? I don't think there is any cure for interruptions other than no at-desk meeting rules or private offices.
> As I said even without direct participation in religion there is a power structure evident in society vis a vis a teacher and a pupil, a slave and a master, a husband and a wife, to name a few controversial examples.

Don't forget white man and black man, cisgendered and trans, hetero and homosexual, sexual and asexual. I'm guessing you stand on the side of the powerful in at least one of these.
Most people seem to be asking for her to be fired. I waited for a while to see more evidence appear, but at this point it looks pretty clearly like she abused her power. Asking for her to be fired is perfectly reasonable, not a mob.

I am much more concerned that she had that much power in the first place. I don't think she is any worse than many of the other prosecutors. I think we need to reign in the laws that prosecutors use in these situations.

A recent link also said that she liked to use civil forfeiture laws. I can't say I have much sympathy for her.
What is happening in the comments section?
The same could be said for Stocks, Game Center, Videos, Voice Memos, Reminders, and Newsstand. In my experience, I don't use these apps but they clog up my apps list. They should be optional - They could come pre-installed, but if I deleted them and wanted to re-install Apple just needs to make a Separate "Official Apple" tab in the App Store. The only App that arguably shouldn't be removable is "Settings". Even the App Store could be activated (or not) from within there.
Thanks for the update, pg.

I'm glad they're looking at a different avenue. While we can debate the particulars about whether or not certain windows installer ride-alongs or all of them are scammy, I don't think it's a valuable business. Comparing to GoDaddy doesn't make it sound better via association.

Hope to see something more awesome from these folks soon.
One important detail is that the funguses are not necessarily radioactive [x]. They absorb the gamma radiation, that it's similar to the X-rays. After a radiography, x-ray or gamma-ray exposure the things don't become radioactive. But too much radiation kills almost anything. This process is used to produce irradiated food (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation) that is safe for eating (when the irradiation is done properly).

[x] The funguses inside Chernovil are surely radioactive because they also absorb the water that is contaminated with radioactive elements. Don't eat them :).
What is her mission?
I've heard of some analytics being done but I can't remember any resource. Maybe you could scrape crunchbase or something to get it? There aren't a whole lot of startup directories out there.
Welcome! :-)

Actually, I stumbled over that question during my quest of unifying my keyboard-layouts (Mac=Work and Linux=Private) via xmodmap.
posting the ones with comments is helpful; posting the others is not.
Most of the comments are discussing interruptions in general, and could have been posted on any article about programmer working situation etc, but I think some of the most interesting in this blog post is the attempt to measure cognitive/memory load (both retrospectively, in a research situation, and perhaps eventually live).

Imagine something like the ubiquitous sleep trackers for mobile devices which can track your sleep pattern, and both give you feedback on how you sleep, and also select the best time to wake you up within a certain boundary.

Could we imagine something similar for engineers? We already have very rough tools to provide feedback on productivity, like RescueTime, but a context-aware tool that can model cognitive activity based on edits, switching from one function to another, viewing two files simultaneously, git commits, etc, is far more advanced.

Perhaps if you wanted to ask a programmer a question, you could ask for him to be interrupted sometime during the next half hour, and the system would choose the time where it would be least disruptive?

And I'm also interested in the discussion of ways in which it would be easier to remember/reestablish context. I wonder if some of this is transferable to other domains, for example deep academic "knowledge work" - working with annotated articles, several windows of notes, trying to synthesize ideas etc.
Everyone of web-programmers?
Do you have other benchmarks to show that the VM is not really that fast? Maybe it really is that fast. Try installing Win7 in the VM and benchmark it.
Building the Bing apps for Windows 8
Honest question, because I'm confused and still don't understand HN completely:

Why was Sujay's age added to the title of the submission when his age isn't even mentioned at all in the original article?
The outline of type is rendered in much more detail on Retina – which makes the font seem thicker and accounts for the better readability.

You're right: that has nothing to do with the contrast.
Isn't it horrible to be surrounded by people who do not notice the evil that goes around them? I mean, the problem is not in the disgusting conditions of the camps, but in the belief that there is a justification to put people in camps anywhere in the world. It is absolutely disgusting that the worse examples of institutionalized violence do not ring any bell in the heads of western people when they have to solve their own problems of violence.

Consider: why is that when we talk about P != NP, everybody needs a super-strong proof on 200 pages, but when it comes to pushing and killing people, it is enough to believe a word of a bunch of random people regarding ethics, democracies, laws etc.
Some people prefer a quiet environment versus listening to something, even if that's white noise. So, while getting a good pair of headphones is great for those who like having some auditory stimulation while they work, it just doesn't compare to having a quiet office if that's how you work best.
A more cost-efficient way of ensuring you're ok in OP's scenario (blown out tyre, phone battery dead), than buying an iPhone? Get a charger for your vehicle.
I think you are taking that comment out of context.
I have one wish: that the iOS programmers at Apple learn how to write efficient concurrent code and that they stop leaning on the next, faster, generation processor so hard that any phone that is just one generation older than the leatest and greatest becomes slow as shit.

My iPhone used to be fast. Most things used to be snappy. Now it is slow as shit. From the address book lookups (which I have timed to usually clock in at 8-9 seconds, but which can take as long as 20 seconds) to the atrocious piece of penguin dung that is the podcast app. Seriously, Apple could not have created a shittier app if they had hired a bunch of Microsoft engineers to bang their foreheads on keyboards for 88 hours.

iOS software is fucking slow.

(Firing Scott Forstall to stop the skeuomorphic wankery was a good start. Now they need a real software engineering director to beat some sense into the engineers and to make sure they have "Concurrency 101" under their belt before writing another line of code)
using $a or $b for a throw-away script, but Perl uses these internally for sorting

Everything I learn about Perl just makes me hate it more. But a lot of people seem to love it -- it must have some redeeming qualities, right?
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I've literally worn noise-canceling earbuds inside of over-ear Beyerdynamics to keep the noise out and ensure that people can see that I am distracted/not listening/not available, but if someone really wants to hang over your cube wall to try to have a conversation with you instead of just emailing you, nothing stops them and it's considered rude to suggest anything otherwise. That's the reason we have an open floorplan to begin with; the company's attitude is that everyone is available at all times. To non-technical staff, it's "faster" for them to walk up to us than it is to write it out. It's also worth mentioning that headphones were outright banned from the office for this reason, but slowly the creative departments have taken to ignoring it.

As far as the "go-to" person people have noted having above, everyone on my team works on different aspects of what we do, so no one person can answer every question. Our PM is also not super familiar with what those roles are nor are they technically competent enough to answer those questions on their own (as of now, anyway).
I'm 19, and I can give credit to a couple forums (The Web Squeeze and Forrst) and Hacker News for making me successful. If it weren't for a handful of people out of the buckets of everyone, I wouldn't have had the encouragement or motivation to be where I am today. I skipped college, and am cofounding my second company now and leading a team of talented people. I would have never guessed I'd be doing that..even two years ago. If it weren't for you guys and other forums giving me critique, criticism, and encouragement, who knows where I'd be. I've learned soo much from HN, it's ridiculous, but it has helped me in more ways than I can acknowledge.

Anyone can be an encouragement to someone like a younger me, but a lot of people don't. The ones who do however can really make a difference in peoples lives.
I tend to automatically flag posts with a title like this one, usually devoid of any content worth reading.

See this recently killed post: http://vishnumenon.com/2013/01/21/im-35-months-old-and-i-mad...

HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093365
>>congress critter

I know this isn't Reddit, but this was one of the most hilariously appropriate uses of the word "critter" I've heard lately.
> but if we treat them differently because of age

So, to set up some obvious strawmen, you're ok with child labour? Or child soldiers? You're against laws preventing children from working more than x hours a week, or the age of consent?

Of course we treat them differently because of age. They haven't had the time or the exposure to "toughen" them up - and (based on my own life), at that age they're quite possibly shy, insecure, nervous and unsure of their place in the world. So yes, of course they get treated differently.

I'm not proposing an unquestioning "Wow, you're totally the best" attitude. But I am saying that one doesn't shit all over a kid just because one can.
> How about we leave age/sex/race out of it all and accept them into the community as peers and equals?

How about because it's not that simple? Being a teenager is fraught with insecurity, loneliness and the perception of being misunderstood. Lots of their maturity is still cooking.

The teen years are also very formative. So if we can take an extra moment to give them the right nudge early in their trajectory, the final outcome of that tiny investment of time could be huge.

If things about a shared project are crappy, that's worth mentioning, of course. That can and should be done in a way that's constructive and encouraging, though.

I don't like the idea of a community that's too self-important to indulge the ambitious fragility of youth.
Tim here - I work at GoCardless.

That's what we recommend. It's super easy to sign up and integrate so it's absolutely worth signing up and just giving it a go. That way you can see whether it works for you and your customers.
What Makes a Mind? Kurzweil and Google May be Surprised
This. When I worked as a PM, preventing distractions and "drive-by management" was also one of main focuses. My favorite quote about this is from Gmail PM Todd Jackson, who said, “You can either be a shit funnel or a shit umbrella”
Ew, float.

Hasn't everyone moved on to inline-block?
I prefer Erlang.

Just out of curiosity, why is that? (With reference to the linked example, I mean.) Clearly they're in the same league, and so it's a close call. From my perspective, I like that Haskell reserved the single vertical bar for the list comprehension notation, so that it would be as close to familiar set-comprehension notation as possible. I also like how Haskell takes advantage of how the cons operator already implies in the pattern-matching that you're working with a list, and so the square brackets become unnecessary, whereas Erlang needs the noisy extra layer of brackets on top of the parenthesis needed for the pattern.

But once languages get this elegant, it's a close comparison. They're both beautiful to my eyes.
Introducing Sage, a simple Documentation Generator for PHP
Sage is a simple and flexible documentation generator for PHP code. It outputs basic API documentation in markdown format suitable for projects which use GitHub, but most other markdown tools should be able to parse and format it properly.

This is extremely well suited for creating API documentation that can be browsed and and is visible in your source tree on GitHub.

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I'm reading the Gulag Archipelago right now. In it he says that many Russian authorities were actually relieved when they read Ivan Denisovich, because the all new of prison camps with conditions far worse than those depicted in the novel.
Machine Learning: Building Image Based Search
Alan Watts - Life is a Hoax
More importantly than emacs, design orientated people use wxWidgets? Frankly that's far more surprising!
If you use EUI-64 as your interface ID in IPv6, your MAC address is part of your IPv6 address. That said, no modern OS does that anymore, times 1% of IPv6-enabled users, so the closer term is "almost never".