skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone find it ironic that the background in the zdnet website is one huge clickable ad designed to capture accidental clicks? I tend to keep my hand over the trackball while reading for quick scrolling. I move the cursor off to the side so as to not cover the text. Yup, accidentally clicked on the zdnet background add twice while reading these articles. Funny that they are taking Oracle to task for their practices yet take an equally slime-o approach to monetizing their site.
Problem solved.Thanks.
People sometimes leave their site logs public, which I suspect means google could find links to private pages in the referer logs.

(Of course, people should be relying on more than obscurity to hide their private pages! - but I believe people have been known to make mistakes and/or not know what they're doing.)
Programming the Mandelbrot set in photoshop
Join the right league. :)

Seriously though, I understand what you are saying. Some people - men especially - seem to forget that there isn't much chance that there are scouts for premiership teams in the stands, because there isn't anyone in the stands at all.

There are rec leagues and co-ed leagues that are significantly more geared to people having a good time and not thinking they are the city's version of Messi. Seek those out. Also see if you can play in a Master's league (there are often 1-2 spots allowed, and often no age restrictions on keepers)
Doesn't seem to be localizing prices to local currency? For travel search, it's really important to localize prices if you want to get some of that outside USA business.
"After reading the whole thing, I was a little shocked to realize the answer is 'No, there was no one important who would listen.'"

There is a scene in the Fifth Element where Gary Oldman knocks a glass off the table to demonstrate how destruction is "good" for the world because it gives all the support actors a chance to play their role. Its a pretty chilling example when you realize that there are people who actually think that way on a daily basis.

I heard a story when visiting London, which may have been completely fabricated, in the context of comparing the morals of banking vs gambling. It told of a book maker who learned that a critical soccer player's girlfriend was planning to commit suicide. Rather than report that information to the authorities to save the girl he used it to bet against the team (the favorite) and won a much bigger return than he would have otherwise when her attempted suicide kept their star from playing. Part of our discussion was whether or not the 'criminal element' which was attracted to gambling (I grew up in Las Vegas just as they were cleaning out the Mafia influence there) was the same or different than the people attracted to Banking. In both contexts 'score keeping' was a simple metric of how much money you had.

If you are an "important person" and someone communicates to you that something is rotten in the bowels of the system and its going to come exploding out in a vile smelly mess. You might ask yourself, "What am I going to do with this information?" What would a gambler do? What would a banker do? What would a politician do?

If you are a TV news conglomerate you might say, "Hmm its one small story of abuse now, but if it really does take out a big chunk of the financial industry its going to be huge! Lets sit on it and plan on how we're going to get big market share from people tuning into us for our indepth coverage!"

If the person getting the information convinces themselves that there is nothing they personally can do to stop it, they can give themselves permission to exploit it (which is usually, but not always, easier). If you can profit handsomely if it happens, and not so much if it doesn't, then what? You see a shark in the water do you yell "Shark!" or do you start recording video thinking about the 10 million YouTube views this will get if you catch it eating someone?

Its Ethics 101. It's why you fire people in your company for even minor ethical violations. It's why you volunteer to run oversight on a local public utilities commission or school board. It's why you go back into the store and return the extra $10 they gave you in change, or pay for product you absently stuck in your pocket and wasn't charged for. It's why you stop interacting with people who aren't ethical.
How is this different from children learning programming or a musical instrument early?
I found myself thinking of this essay by Mike Turitzin as I read your post:

http://www.miketuritzin.com/writing/how-to-be-a-naysayer/

It's clear, concise, and well worth consideration.
Not in the case of firing the company outright but the article clearly illustrates what happens to the children these companies employ against contract terms:

>Apple requires its suppliers to return the workers back to a school chosen by the family and finance their education. "In addition, the children must continue to receive income matching what they received when they were employed. We also follow up regularly to ensure that the children remain in school and that the suppliers continue to uphold their financial commitment," wrote Apple in its latest report.
Bipartisan group of senators to introduce high-skilled immigration bill
To me, it sounds like your quote is simply saying that the companies were legally obligated to pay the travel expenses for returning the kids to their families.

Perhaps I'm missing something. I hope that the kids are being cared for after they go home, but my understanding from reading the article was that it was just a requirement Apple imposed on it's business partners. If Apple terminates the contract, why would the companies still have to pay the children's salaries?
http://dcking.ir/
So within 24 hours, lots of people are going to find out what a goatse is I reckon.

Even better, a lot of people in the UK have Thomson routers which have an easily calculable WPA default password. Most of these also have smart tvs these days too which will allow anything to be pushed to them.
In fact, we force parents to send children to school without their consent.
Hedonic treadmill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
I should have shared this link instead...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocks_(C_language_extension)
Point one is really good. I like your way of thinking.

I've got to say that the problem for me comes down to one of competence versus theivery. I don't think that the guys I worked with were outright thieves. I do think they were not especially competent in recommending investments.

These guys are salesmen. They could be selling you printers, but they're selling investments instead. They really are not paid to understand the stuff...they are paid to move product.

When I say that the consumers are equally complicit, what I really mean is that in many cases they just listened to a sales pitch and accepted it as truth.

Not to say that there weren't defrauded consumers or evil salesmen. I'm sure there are individual cases of fraud. I just think it's a really complex system with overlapping spheres of incompetence that defies easy characterization as "fraud" or "not fraud."

We can strenuously agree it's broken though.
Then one user's password gets stolen, as opposed to thousands.
Http://dcking.ir/
hacker
No, it was a checkbox array (I took the survey). The thing is, saying you use jQuery is not the same as saying you use Javascript. The only Javascript I really use is jQuery. I have no deep JS needs, so I only use jQuery to make interfaces pretty. I chose jQuery (and C#, and some others) but did not choose JS.
The history is complicated, but it has a lot to do with the housing shortage in Amsterdam (and other places in NL) and the concept of a right-to-live.

If many buildings in an area are sitting unoccupied, unused, and potentially falling apart while simultaneously affordable housing is unavailable, it becomes morally justifiable to squat. This is especially true if the landlord has had ample time to renovate, find tenants, or sell the property... If he has failed to do so, he is actually contributing to the shortage of affordable housing by driving prices up.

Regulations permitting squatting put pressure on landlords, which seemed to work pretty well. Landlords used "anti-squat" tactics - renting out vacant properties on a temporary basis (i.e. with the option to evict at any moment) to prevent a squat. These rates were excellent in Amsterdam, and many students and would-be squatters took advantage of this, effectively bringing 'squatting' into the economy.
Waiting for it to supports gaming analytics like flurry and Apsalar. Awesome support service, too!
Introducing Apk2Gold, an easy and comprehensive Android APK decompiler
Can you really argue in good faith that you are legally authorized to print something on their printer?
One metric I would have liked to see was whether people were more or less able to find _good_ answers to questions. A lot of times my questions are answered with "you shouldn't do that" and usually, I know that it is bad, but turn to SO for tricky stuff. I can't change things like the build process or build scripts easily at work for example, I want to know how to adapt to it instead of getting told me how wrong I am.

I mostly code in C/C++ and the number of meaningful answers to my questions has declined over the years. Maybe I don't ask stuff as trivial as I used to but I just can't accept as many answers as I used to, despite community's pressure to "work on my acceptance rate". I end up accepting the answer that helped me the most, even if it was very little help.
> This limits the rate at which the real economy can grow

I don't believe this is true if you allow speculation and credit in the economy. AFAIK even on the gold standard banks were not required to be able to satisfy every gold-backed bill they distributed out.

Of course, it helps more than having no scarce item would, but if the problem continued then people would eventually shift to trade in something else while conserving their gold-backed currencies to pay government taxes.
The best way to help developers is to leave them alone
Overcoming [side-project] Distraction
China's Skies: Toxic levels of pollution
Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier goes into this, among other things, in the context of 1930s England. I don't know how much the situation in China is similar:

http://www.george-orwell.org/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier/6.html

The time was when I used to lament over quite imaginary pictures
of lads of fourteen dragged protesting from their lessons and set to work
at dismal jobs. It seemed to me dreadful that the doom of a 'job' should
descend upon anyone at fourteen. Of course I know now that there is not one
working-class boy in a thousand who does not pine for the day when he will
leave school. He wants to be doing real work, not wasting his time on
ridiculous rubbish like history and geography. To the working class, the
notion of staying at school till you are nearly grown-up seems merely
contemptible and unmanly. The idea of a great big boy of eighteen, who
ought to be bringing a pound a week home to his parents, going to school in
a ridiculous uniform and even being caned for not doing his lessons! Just
fancy a working-class boy of eighteen allowing himself to be caned! He is a
man when the other is still a baby. Ernest Pontifex, in Samuel Butler's Way
of All Flesh, after he had had a few glimpses of real life, looked back on
his public school and university education and found it a 'sickly,
debilitating debauch'. There is much in middle-class life that looks sickly
and debilitating when you see it from a working-class angle.
You forgot to mention in the tittle a very important piece of information: beer! :-)

(Original title of this entry was "Feed a man pizza and he will blog about your startup")
There goes my Evil-Nazis-Conspiracy.
Damn!
The same goes for smart tvs. Most of them you can push stuff to via dnla without a password. Much amusement to be had.
Sounds like they are still there, just hidden as part of the trackpad. Still a bad thing IMHO, I never use the trackpad (using the little Lenovo nipple thing exclusively) and will sorely miss those nice buttons under my thumb.
couchsurfing.org, great way to meet people as well.
This is why I find it ridiculous that you would request for someone else not to suggest that they find one experience superior.
Ruby Elliptic Curve Certificates
As a client, it is perfectly reasonable for me to say to a sales rep "I want X% average return, I'm willing to accept Y amount of risk to get it, and I don't care particularly much about how you give it to me", so long as X and Y are reasonable. My understanding is that the financial institutions were accurately describing the average rate of return but drastically under-representing the risk of these instruments to their clients.

Calling consumers 'complicit' for failing to understand a company's offerings significantly better than their own salespeople is at the very least insulting.
Enslaving people because of their race in a country that was otherwise prosperous, and hiring children in an economy and society where any thing else is nearly impossible are two entirely different things.
Kera's awesome; right now (at least, I got the email about this very recently) they're building presentations for you, for free if you just make a little screencast of what you want. I don't have anything to use it with but it's the most streamlined/natural/intuitive experience I've seen yet.
0.0000014286% of the damage that happens when Sony's database gets hacked (assuming equal payload).
I've felt for years that we could do better with our mpg, and BMW's have been the only manufacturer to seem to be trying to achieve great mileage with traditional internal combustion engine technology. I'd love to see our country take on such a challenge. And I'd buy the car such a project produces.
But you already have HoN! They really improved it for Linux lately, with HoNTV support and everything!
That's all fine for the handful of children involved here. The obvious plan is to deter further violations by firing the underage workers before they get caught, or not hiring them in the first place.
I didn't think that we were getting "down to the dirty politics of maintaining monopolies" nor did I ask for evidence that MSFT did the opposite of what I wrote. Weird. If someone wanted to make a case that you are clearly a "biased individual", you would have given them ample evidence to dismiss whatever comments you make as "Comments from someone who clearly has an axe to grind."

I'd challenge you to re-read our discussion from an impartial 3rd person's POV and see if it is possible that a reasonable person would come to that conclusion on their own without prodding...

Now have someone prodding them, someone who is their boss or a peer in a conference room that other people respect...

It's fine to have your opinion but when you go out of your way to make points that people weren't asking you to make, it seems as though you have an agenda.
To be fair, "(time (map identity (range 0 99)))" -> 0.037 msecs, "(time (doall (map identity (range 0 99))))" -> 0.13 msecs. :)
Microsoft makes a great ad (seriously)
Yes, especially the value of your home, or your yearly income... quite interesting, that they do have this kind of info (even your customer segment). And more interesting, that they do show all this in the json-File...
Hmm...that seems to have potential, but it requires custom integration and users to use your app.

Is there an open protocol for this?

Looks like you're doing something similar to the mutual auth that wikid does...a whitepaper or two with more depth would be useful on the site
"Anonymity and cruelty are orthogonal concepts - there is nothing about anonymity that implies or requires cruelty"

Yeah, there's only scads of research that shows that anonymity leads to bad behavior and that being reminded of yourself (mirror) and other people (photographs) watching you -- even non-human robot faces watching you! --causes people to improve for the better.

Mirrors and pictures of faces cause people to behave better -- to steal fewer "honor system" vegetables, bagels, flowers, to donate more to charity jars, to stick more closely to their diet plans, etc.

In the 60s, an anonymous student wore a black bag to class at Oregon State for a long time… the essay reporting on its effects that I read that 'The Black Bag' suffered a lot of bizarre and anti-social behavior from fellow students, so bad behavior related to anonymity cuts both ways.

You may think that the "concepts" are orthagonal, but let's be honest, aren't you just working a priori here without any evidence?
Yeah, and the commenter makes this distinction himself. I find it a strange, and aggressive, to make this point to someone who feels the same way.

People may be disappointed, people may feel like the commenters in this thread do, and people may appreciate both.

This is why it's ridiculous to ask someone else not to express their opinion on which is better.
I'm a little unclear as to how how exactly they planned to enforce payment for un-solicited toner. What am I missing?
> When I say that the consumers are equally complicit, what I really mean is that in many cases they just listened to a sales pitch and accepted it as truth.

If you tell me something that you know or should know to be false, I act on what you told me, and you benefit from my action, then by definition I have been defrauded.
At that point it's extortion and you can tell the police where the criminals are going to show up. No different than any other "We're going to keep dumping stuff on your lawn until you pay us protection money."
Is this just thinly veiled spam for that site? I can't tell if you work for them or not but, if you do, it's not in your profile. If so, I think it's pretty tacky when companies to take every possible opportunity to get their name out there...
This seems to jump into web-based APIs without mentioning it. An API does not have to be web based: it could be a set of classes, or methods, or modules or functions to be used from a language directly.

Web services, of course, tend to have web-based APIs. But that's a subset of all APIs.

Since this article seems aimed at beginners, I think it's an important distinction to note. You would not want beginners to think that APIs are always web-based because then they'll be confused by things like WebGL, which is also an API but does not involve web requests or AJAX.
They never were out of business.
Basecamp and Basecamp Classic are having some troubles
Yeah that was weird but you can argue it has become a kind of DSL for DOM manipulation.

Yes I know it's not a language per se but because many questions request answer specifically in jQuery and not vanilla JavaScript, 84% JavaScript questions have jQuery tag and only 39% of jQuery questions have JavaScript tag, I think it's pretty fair to include it as a language of its own.

I don't think they cared about pedantic at all.
Part of the $172 million Sony reports includes "rebuilding their user management and security systems." But having satisfactory user management and security systems in the first place is what would have allowed them to avoid such an attack. It's not an extra cost from failing to engineer things correctly; it's the cost of engineering things correctly.
Regardless of what type of coffee people drink or how they drink it, what is the best way to understand the short and long term impacts of child labor on quality of life?

A researcher looking at working conditions alone, without considering whether the alternate is worse conditions on a rural farm or some form of schooling is a sloppy researcher. It is a sloppy researcher, too, who doesn't acknowledge that labor-intensive production is a source of wealth that aids economic convergence for poorer countries.

The perspective of children living in poverty informs a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of child labor and growth economics, but it is not the final word, nor is the child remotely likely to provide any better policy guidance than someone who has the training and tools for sophisticated analysis.

Is squeamishness and moral indignation a blunt tool? Much as children can be easily compelled to act against their own economic self interest, squeamishness can lead adults to act counter-productively in pursuit of their loftiest ideals. That doesn't mean that people should just throw up their hands in despair, or defer to the idea that whatever factors lead to current conditions must be ideal factors.

These aren't new topics, and there is no shortage of research and findings on when, why, or how different types of labor are a benefit or detriment to poor economies:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=economic+growth+%22child...
There is actually a crawler for "Machines and Devices", such as routers, IP Phones, WebCams, Dell Dracs, HP ILO , VMWARE ESX and so on.

http://www.shodanhq.com/browse

Also, check your server ip on Shodan to see if your firewall rules are not exposing a little to much
No, they will just make crappy Android phones.
As I noted in the article's comments, I'm pretty sure you can't just add "dataType:jsonp" and have it automagically bypass all the cross-domain security restrictions.

What actually happens is jQuery appends something like "callback=some_random_function" to the end of the querystring when it makes the request, and then the server is supposed to return you the standard data, wrapped in a function definition with the same name. jQuery then automatically executes the function, making the json data available.

Some servers require a specific function name, which can be specified as an ajax option using "jsonpCallback: functionName". All this effectively does is uses a specific function name instead of a randomly generated one, so that it matches up with the function returned from the server in the response.
Make sure to watch Ang Cui's demonstration on printer malware at 28c3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njVv7J2azY8
Yeah, right... By the way, how is all that rain and gloomy weather working out for you?
Just to add to this, the Cocos2d team has been advising developers to use the Javascript bindings since the last half of last year. The same codebase can be written and deployed cross-device and to the web with Cocos2d-html5.

With Spidermonkey and the bindings wrapping native implementation of Chipmunk physics lib, etc. the performance is great.

I've had proof of concept working with ClojureScript on Cocos2d-x for a couple weeks now.

Good code always comes with the requirement of figuring out which bits to optimize. OP seems to be confused if he thinks none of the bits in a game can be delegated to higher layers.
Can a tablet/laptop combo save Apple?
This is what happens when you do not converse with enough people who are peers. He'd do much better if he had to actually work instead of pontificate nonsense that has no basis in what anyone else is thinking or doing.
In real life land, people are responsible for their own careers. Temp jobs are an option if a worker so chooses and not a cure all. If a temp job to get a temp paycheck to get temp experience does not help fulfill their goals then they should not choose it.