skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This doesn't mean that Java for client-side applications is broken[...]"

I don't know. Java on the desktop requires administrator privileges to be able to notify me that an update is available. Also, it tries to install a virus in the form of "Ask toolbar" every frigging time.
One reason is that those "public licenses" are still based on the notion that the creator of digital content inherently has some sort of exclusive authority over that content, which some content creators dislike.
I am just re-reading this and something has struck me - my posts sent by iPhone are always less coherent and more difficult to read than those I type at a desk.

It may be because I am more rushed on the phone, but I suspect it is a function of how I think - I seem to think by typing and my typing speed on Iphone is much slower than my brain can handle
Because most bells are not clear (transparent), and language can be interpreted many different ways.

Take the classic sentence "Snoptic, go help jack off a horse."

Most people would assume you meant "Go help Jack, [get down] off of a horse." Throw a lawsuit, some lawyers, and a village idiot in there and you may find you are contractually obligated to masturbate a large domestic animal.
Is your code structured like this?
I don't use it either. Even the git commits comments are more than enthusiastic: `Provide a fucking help topic`.
Made me laugh for the first time today.
But there's clearly a culture that needs to be attacked, and if one of the elements of that culture is that remote workers ARENT LOGGING INTO THE VPN then maybe Yahoo shouldn't have remote workers for the time being.

Wait, so instead of revoking telecommuting privileges on the case-to-case basis, it makes more sense to ban telecommuting? I mean, just to make it perfectly clear, you're advocating that it doesn't matter whether someone is abusing a privilege or not, everyone gets punished. I invite you to stop and think about what message that sends, both to the good people already employed at Yahoo and to anyone evaluating Yahoo as a potential employer.
Haven't read the article yet (I will), but I recognized your site due to my work with userena :)
"And if you have no expectation of an outcome, how can you be happy or sad at all at the end? Or how can you tell there has even been an outcome?"

I've had a problem with this for most of my life, sad to say. It works really well for blocking out sad times but it obviously blocks out happy times as well. I have not yet figured out a way to correct this because it's well ingrained. Have any HNers worked out solutions for this?
You expect your software to do what you ask? ;)
+1 for releasing it under the WTFPL.
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Beware of advertising scams in the age of Java vulnerabilities
at Google, where hundred-hour weeks are de rigueur

Really? Maybe for execs, but that's not the impression I have from people I know there. Anyone care to comment on Google's work/life balance?
How about Qubes OS? http://qubes-os.org/trac
It's better, I'd say. The chances that it's just a software or sensor problem are pretty high, and they can just issue an override.
I don't think so. Any designers interested in collaborating on something like this? Email me!
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Cool idea, congrats on getting an MVP released!

My input isn't worth much but the "Ranchers" font bugs me like crazy. I switched that over to Tahoma and all of the slides instantly looked cleaner and better.

Also, you have quite a few JS errors in chrome.
I don't use Heroku but, from the help page, it seems the point is to push users to learn the new syntax. I don't know if it's a good idea or not, but I can see how they got there. Without this, they'll never be able to remove the deprecated command.
Samsung's Knox should have Apple worried about the enterprise
By applying secure technology to its flagship Android devices, Samsung just made its devices more appealing to the enterprise.

Samsung’s Knox, the secure enterprise enhancements to its Android devices, is not unique, but it is brilliant nevertheless. Market dominance, control over mobile hardware, and Android’s open source model made this a straightforward development for Samsung that should pay dividends. It could even create a contagion of secure Android products from other Android device manufacturers.
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Censorship at Hacker Conference? Violet Blue Cancels Her Sex Ed Talk at B-Sides
Have you considered reading the fucking presentation before snarking out on it?
I got back from a 10-days backpacking trip to Thailand and Laos a few weeks back and I totally enjoyed it partly because I went with zero expectation. I did not know what to expect (no research) and I did not expect anything. I did not book any hostels and just went with the flow.

I have no must-see travel list nor do I have any must-do travel stuff. Anything interesting was a net positive feeling for me during the trip. Anyone interesting I met was a net positive feeling for me. If I had expected to see a certain place or do a certain thing and could not accomplish that during the trip because of bad weather or schedule, I will be disappointed. I did not feel disappointed at all for 10 days.

Well, different people might like to plan their life differently and you can feel right in having expectations if that's what you prefer. I just found it awesome to see a place without knowing what to expect.
> If a content creator wants to release everything they've ever created without copyright, or for free, they should absolutely have the right to do that. However a content creator should also have the right to be restrictive

Of course, the difference between these two options is that one requires a massive government bureaucracy and potentially millions of dollars of money and time spent in court.
Has anyone from Sun/Oracle commented on this yet? Are certain parts of the code being exploited? Have they done anything to secure the VM? Is it all just spaghetti code at this point?
I think the fundamental problem is that non-technical people end up in positions of power and then feel they need to assert their decision making power or they will lose it. In fact, in my experience, it becomes an article of faith with some of them that the technical people are being short sighted in some way, and thus going with "industry standard practices" (eg: currently popular buzzwords) is superior to the "indulgent" suggestions of the technical person.

I worry that today's generation of hackers have cottoned to the need to start companies so that they can do great work, rather than being forced into mediocrity by non-technical middle "managers"... only to turn around and be hampered by non-technical investors making absurd demands. (Maybe VC meddling has declined precipitously in the last 5 years or so, I hope so.)

In my experience at many startups a few VCs mostly left us alone, but most VCs forced decisions on us that were bad decisions, often bad market decisions, but many of them bad technology decisions Just one example: "You're getting $4M in funding but you have to spend $2M of it on this other portfolio companies product that claims to do what you need." Even though that other product didn't actually do what we needed, targeted something else entirely, but the VC was not technical so he didn't understand this. It was akin to "javascript, java, whatever". This decision set us back 2 years and ultimately cut the exit return by about %90 of what it would have been (given the value of similar companies at the stage we were when we sold, even one year earlier.) Did the VC learn his lesson? Of course not, he never heard (or was willing to hear) that it was a mistake and due to liquidation preferences and other double dipping, they made out great. The employees, however, lost out.
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I contacted Name over twitter and their response was sarcastic and they don't seem to care. https://twitter.com/namedotcom/status/307523296910532608
BYOD in small businesses
This has bugged me too. Thank you.

Also, watch your language young man!
This post wasn't very well thought-out.

"Gruber summed up this sentiment as “Yahoo employees have been allowed to work remotely, and they have not excelled”. In other words, Yahoo is a rudderless basket case, so it must be because of those 2-4% of the work force who are “goofing off”. Heh."

That was a leap of logic, for sure. What this really says is: if 2-4% of your workforce isn't working out because they're remote, then 2-4% of your workforce should not be working remote. It does not place the blame entirely on those remote workers, though.

I imagine this is a small move in a larger, company-wide shift. It just seems to be getting the most press for some reason.
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Just change your mindset. If you are an expert in your technical domain, what is obviously wrong for you may be difficult to grasp to a non technical. Imagine that your boss is very smart but that all you says looks like a foreign language to him. Maybe, the boss is smart enough to learn your domain in order to communicate with you, but the more obvious solution is to find an interpret.

Find someone who will translate your technical point into something that your boss will understand. Or improve your capacity to convince non-technical people.

In my first job, I had to convince a boss of how to fix some performances issues in database. He did not understood anything and organized a small meeting with someone he trusted a lot and who was more technical. This third person was really helpful to answer all the questions of the boss because I had difficulties to explain what was obvious for me.
> Moving your Vim cursor around using the arrow keys is a bad habit ...

Yes, as is having a keyboard with more than 64 keys, a pointing device, software that allows character insertion, deletion and cursor motion all without changing modes, or any computer designed after 1980. We must all fight against this rising tide of convenience and efficiency by insisting that everyone use vim and its descendants.
I read the entire thing and still can't figure out whether it's a work of satire.
The NTP config on the machine would have to allow automatic changes without regard to the skew. I don't believe that is a default (or typically desired) configuration.
Google Glass is a giant chisel to pry me out of Apple’s ecosystem
Andrew Mason's Last Interview As Groupon CEO
wherein Mason discusses market reaction to Groupon
I hate hjkl for the simple reason that I learned to type with my index fingers on F and J keys. I use search a heck of a lot more but I guess I should add w, b and e to my repertoire.
if you actually read the article, he wrote open/closed had nothing to do with companies' successes.
This is excellent advice. I've met so many people who thought HJKL was the only way to move around in Vim. Moving around with other keys really boosts your productivity.
I love it when software is written out of hatred for other software that "f*cking sucks".
Not that I'm biased or anything ;), but I can confirm this is an awesome place to work! We're building some really great stuff, our vision is nothing short of enabling people to create more effectively, and our team of engineers and designers truly is world-class. Keep on creating. =)
I know what you mean, a lot of the time these things read a bit like this:

> In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.

I'm just waiting for the bit where the interviewer gets bashed in the head with an axe, or the interviewee has to cut the interview short to return some video tapes.
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European history is full of petty dictators claiming heir to a new and resurgent Roman throne.
While his claims certainly aren't airtight, ie the cynical idea that Yahoo is blaming its remote workers for the trouble, I do think there is some truth to the general sentiment; failing companies often grasp for any action they can take to stop the bleeding, and these actions, undertaken in haste or amidst great anxiety, can yield very little value or even cause harm. I'm not sure if that is what is happening at Yahoo, but I've definitely seen it happen before.
You have low expectation of the end-result. If something pleasant happens at the end, you will be happy. If something bad happens, that's expected. Make sense?
Why do they need to remove it? It's a simple alias.
Agreed--I want this bad. I could care less about taking pictures and video. I want this to read books, surf, and watch movies/TV while I'm doing chores that require my hands. It's that simple.
I understand your frustration, but what if the program thinks you're doing something you're not? You may do irreversible damage. I guarantee that you'd be far more pissed if you trashed an entire project than you are about 'shitdick excuses'.
That question makes as much sense as asking if car owners should be able to give lifts with his own car.

I think that most copyright owners are interested in restricting the making of copies because selling copies is a source of revenue for them. Revenue with which they buy food, and clothes, and housing, and cars.

When food and clothes and housing and cars are all able to be freely copied just like music recordings and books and movies are, then the makers of media would likely be less interested in making sure they get paid for their work. If they need a new car, they can just copy one, for free.
We got Psychopathic Corporations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_%28film%29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw
Google Hindi Input now in Google Play Store
Being rude is a bad habit too.
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It's not like this is the first or only change that Mayer has done as CEO.
It may feel awful but the previous poster's point was probably that there's no stress to go along with it. For middle class people who get fired they may have all those feelings and effects as well but they also have the stress of needing to get a job within a few weeks.
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How did you configure vim to use only three colors? Did you create your own colorscheme or is there another way to do it?
I tried the java demo and the wireworld computer (not the applet) crashed... the whole display, all of the bcd converter, and 90% of the registers and bus got stuck in electrion head/tail mode. The "ERROR" in the left hand side "BUS ERROR" was lit up too!
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Sure, I wouldn't say to take everything he says as "gospel" truth. But he certainly provides another perspective to counter-balance the "Google is amazing, everything is perfect here and the streets are paved with gold" kinda fanboi'ism that sometimes crops up.
The fonts can be changed by creating a prezo and then editing the HTML. Here's a new prezo that took 2 minutes to patch for it: http://www.utter.io/prezos/45001/.

I refreshed the hero prezo cache to get rid of few of my errors, but Mike's viz stuff is still floundering around looking for it's resources. It's in an iframe, so there's not much I can do until I put the viz directly in the prezo.

Thanks for the comments!