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> should Chrome confirm me before remove them all?

1. I am sitting at Chrome right now, Version 25.0.1364.152.

2. I choose "Settings".

3. I choose "History".

4. I choose "Clear all browsing data ...". See the ellipsis? That means it won't take any action until I allow it.

5. Next, I see a dialog that says:

Clear all Browsing data

Obliterate the following items from the past hour/day/week/month/etc.:

☑ Clear browsing history
☑ Clear download history
☑ Empty the cache
☑ Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data
☑ Clear saved passwords
☑ Clear saved Autofill form data
☑ Clear data from hosted apps
☑ Deauthorize content licenses

[Cancel] [Clear Browsing Data]

6. Here's a picture of the dialog: http://i.imgur.com/Du84Y4O.png

7. At this point, I have the choice to [Cancel] or [Clear Browsing Data]. Nothing happens without my permission.

So tell me -- what Chrome version are you running, that doesn't have a very complete way to alert you to what's going on?

I invite you to go to your Chrome settings page and see if your experience differs, and also say what Chrome version you are running.
Speaking of lousy web design trends...

This page is unviewable on my Opera Mini browser.
I haven't been to I/O, and have only seen a few of the talks online. Can someone explain what the biggest appeal for going to the conference is? Talks? Networking? Workshops?
Probably because most people playing a beta just see it as an opportunity to play the game before it's released. Most people don't understand that they should be _testing_ the game. That's the whole point of a beta test right?
M-x doctor ;)
I'm always perplexed by the way that they handle these ticket sales--they know that the demand considerably exceeds supply.

Why not have a 24-hour period for people to register for a lottery, then randomly assign tickets? Tickets that aren't claimed (and paid for) in a certain amount of time go back in the pool.

The advantage would seem that the attendees aren't just those who were best able to buy the tickets and thus more representative.
Thank you for stopping me making a right t.i.t out of myself :-)
Worthiness? They're all examples of cracking as well.

However, although he's cracking sites, this guy's obviously a pretty leet hacker.

As such, "hacked" and "cracked" are equally good in the title as far as I'm concerned.
Or. . .even if doesn't stop, we now have an excuse to sit back and do nothing until our chain is yanked again.
Reddit comes close. I don't know that there can really be a 'canonical' discussion site, any more than there can be a canonical Q&A site (Stack Overflow is not that, given the existence of Quora, Yahoo Answers, etc. serving other large niches of Q&A).
It really does set the stage for some inappropriate office humour.
Does Diigo support reading and annotating quotes offline on the iPad app? Like InstaPaper + Quotes / Annotations? The iPad app does not look too fancy in the app store, I have to say. Apart from that I like the service's offering.
Boxer vs Twitter troll. Boxer wins.
Congrats to Prof. Hinton, Alex, and Ilya, I have worked some with these techniques and they are so powerful. I'm sure being part of the Google team will give them the access to the processing power and the raw data to make some really cool stuff.
If you work in a Lisp dialect, the time you invest upfront in learning Emacs keybindings will pay off massively later.

besides which eclipse is a finicky monstrosity like visual studio
Ubuntu, Shuttleworth & rolling releases: The debate goes on
This is exactly what I was thinking --- is it really that helpful to see a long list of what your friend watched? I think being able to live chat/talk/connect DURING or before/after an actual show would be much more "social".
windows ME, windows vista, windows 8, IIS 7, SQL...How did they get to be so bad
The whole 'give some random [small] company pointers to everything on the Internet that I care about' creeps me out approximately the same as giving Google that info indirectly (for different reasons), but Google provides an indispensable convenience.
Free gear. Last year was the Nexus Q, Nexus 7, and Galaxy Nexus.

The talks are good too, but the appeal has definitely been the gear, which is unfortunate.

Edit: to add, interacting with the devs is really nice. I went 2 years ago and was able to talk with the GWT team a bit after one of the talks. As well, if you want to network, there is definitely lots of opportunity for it, but it is not something I've cared about.
That's a fairly paranoid assumption. The current documentation of the Firefox OS front end suggests that it will be happy to run third party applications that run outside the browser/front-end layer:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
You're allowed to call a cross-compiling language questionable, and I'm allowed to call you out for suggesting that the application of basic computer science is a sign of incompetence.
Pixar's senior scientist on Math on Making Movies
I just checked and Chrome does have an elaborate, multi-step confirmation procedure to delete the data under discussion. Here's a picture:

http://i.imgur.com/Du84Y4O.png
It is a blast! Come join us and help increase the rate we deliver :)
Railroads are experimenting with liquefied natural-gas locomotives
Oh, I thought he meant that the invention itself was obvious, i.e. unpatentable because anyone knowledgeable in the field in question would come up with that solution when presented with that problem. In theory, "obvious" inventions aren't patentable, although in practice the bar is set pretty low.
Where do I find it? Can't find it on Google.
No thanks, I'll stick to Gambit.

Fast, RnRS/IEEE Scheme compliant, has a great runtime layer and FFI, can integrate with anything written in C.
Of course you are not killing off FogBugz! But what about the version for your own server? Is that going away or staying? I read your message like it's going away, otherwise you could have written that FogBugz will still be available for your own server!
This is a huge problem, as big as the server issues and the DRM.

The game is, IMO, mostly unplayable at this point. I have no idea how they let this one out the door with the pathfinding problem, which in my book is an absolute showstopper.

Clever, dedicated, and somewhat masochistic players have found ways to "hack" the poor pathfinding behavior. The most popular format right now is to build a city with no intersections, since the AI deals so spectacularly poorly with them. Which is to say, the entire city is a single, long, winding road. This forces your dumb sims to have no choice but the right one.

Some apologists have claimed this is simply the rules of the game, but I still maintain that SimCity fails unless it maintains some semblance to real-life cities. If the only way to play the game effectively is to build something that bears zero semblance to any real city, then it has failed.

The funny part is that this loosely resembles the recent Heroku fiasco. In the game your civic services (police, fire, ambulances, garbage) are supposed to intelligently service the city - in reality their pathfinding results in basically random behavior, vastly increasing the amount of capacity you need to build to statistically serve an area. You have to grossly over-build your fire and police departments because their pathfinding is awful and random.

I'm not usually this hard on others' hard work - but this game is a travesty that should never have shipped in this state, even disregarding the server issues. There are core gameplay mechanics that are still fundamentally broken.
It was discovered, but someone decided it was worth the risk to release with the known bugs.

This is becoming quite common with games, on PC or consoles. You just patch it later. Some games even have patches available on release day.
With games you always have to create illusions of complexity in order to get acceptable performance. Smoke isn't real smoke (no real time smoothed particle hydrodynamics) but instead you billboard couple of semi-translucant textures. Bullets don't use real physics, but act as a point mass with specialized collision detection mechanics. Enemy AI is often just a simple state machine and hacked together heuristics. Everything is fake.

With SimCity 5 you can easily have over 100.000 Sims in one city region. SimCity has to model the economy, happiness, education, water, waste, power, pollution, traffic, industry, and much more. So if you want to do this for 100.000 Sims in real-time you've got to cut many corners. There's just no other way. And the illusion in SimCity 5 is pretty damn good, from what I've seen. Cars drive with purpose from one place to another. Traffic congestion seems to make sense. Air flow affects pollution in a sensible way. Sure, there are a bunch of bugs but in general the illusion holds up. It's really quite impressive.
This was a global waste of developer time resource.
Disable 3rd party cookies, tracking woes averted.
I wanted to go too, wow the tickets really sold out fast.

Ah well, the sessions are available online; though of course, lose out on the networking not being there.
Firefox isn't trying to compete with anyone though. They're not interested in blocking competition. In fact, they're trying to encourage web apps that run on every device over native apps that only run on one platform. If everyone switches to a more open system, the Mozilla team will be ecstatic.
It's because you suck
That guy kind of looks like whiskycraig.
This isn't really a generic OAuth bug though. This stems from the fact that you can trick the redirection scheme that Facebook uses into thinking that you are the legitimate owner of an application whilst using your own backend-flow URL.

This isn't going to affect 99.999% of Oauth implementations and arguably just shows that Facebook made an error in their design.
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This is actually being used to comply with data privacy laws here in Germany, in a way. Right now it's not entirely clear whether it's legal to use these social buttons, so to be on the safe side, many sites opted for this "click to enable" system.
I was in the beta - from the get-go it was clear that EA was interested in using the beta to test their backend, not the game itself. There was no built-in mechanism for feedback or suggestions.

It was a server-stress-test beta (heh, fat good it did), not a gameplay beta.

Also, the beta is time-limited to one hour of play, and almost all buildings were locked out. There was not enough time for anyone to play enough to actually expose these problems (that come about only after your city has grown to some size).
Ask HN: What supplements do you take to care for your eyes?
Beside the regular rest from viewing LCD screen, do you take any supplements or other measure to care and protect your eyes?
Google Ordered To Teach America How To Put Passwords On Wi-Fi Networks
Honestly, my bookmarks are a dramatically better resource than Google for many things.

Remember: Google is full of SEO optimized bullshit and the highest links are generally the ones that want to be highest and not necessarily the best.

Or, another way: The best resources online are not always posted by SEO-friendly people on major websites. I can curate those gems into an awesome list.

Google misses gems and Google is curated only by an algorithm that is heavily targeted for manipulation.
6 Kickass Tips to Minimize Distractions & Increase Marketing Productivity
Netflix also needs a "share with your friends how you watched the last season of this show which is not in Netflix yet" feature.
I don't really see a problem with releasing patches on release day. If you need some lead time to get all your DVDs pressed and manuals printed and whatever, why not take advantage of that time to also polish the game in parallel?

However, going any further is just not right. If the game is hopelessly buggy after release and needs to be patched later just to make it playable, well, what are people paying for?
Same thing done 3 years ago with an iPhone and some Waterloo/UT students: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x5IziyOcAg
Oh right, no. By 'obvious' I meant that if two people come up with the same thing independently then maybe the thing they came up with is comparatively not that special or innovative, and that perhaps if you have multiple folks in a field coming up with the same ideas then those ideas are not the ones deserving of protection.

--edit-- this would be because patents (in my mind) are the exchange of protection/exclusivity from the state in return for disclosure to the commons of an idea that might never otherwise become known or publicised.

If loads of folks are coming up with the same idea and racing to patent it, that points (to me) to a situation that patents aren't meant to address - giving exclusivity to someone based simply on them being first of many. If many can come up with it, then the deal is lopsided and the exclusivity shouldn't be granted. IMHO.
That would be really awesome. It remindes me of Wahwah, an iPhone app that lets you listen to music with other people.
At long last, over three years after its ignominious removal, Netflix Friends makes its return.

I don't think I really want to use this, though. I'm cautious about what automatic data I allow into Facebook (I'm sure they're already inferring enough from my friends), and while ironically I wouldn't really care if my viewing habits were automatically shared with my friends, I don't really want that data accumulating in Facebook's graph portrait of me.

[edit]

I get that sharing with your friends doesn't happen unless you opt in, but the way it's described, it's not clear if that default state is "all activity is sent to Facebook but not posted to your timeline" or "no activity is sent to Facebook at all."
Ah, ok. Didn't play the Simcity beta, but that was just my experience with other games.
And why did they get great marks from the press? They should have noticed, if it really affects the gameplay (I haven't played it).
I still think that the occurrence a of situation where multiple parties file for patents on essentially the same thing in a short period of time independently should be considered unassailable evidence of obviousness and consequently unpatentable subject matter.

Whatever happened to a "person having ordinary skill in the art"?
Ask HN: When to incorporate a SaaS startup (with partners)
Hi,

I am working on a project that would be a web-based service (a mission critical service which gives me concerns about liability if we, unfortunately, have an outage.)

It is likely that I will be offering a percentage of the 'company' to two people in exchange for their work.

This service will be taking payments from customers (through some sort of credit card processor i.e. Braintree) and it will also talk to partners which I will need to pay for use of their API.

Does it make sense to incorporate up front? If so, S-corp, C-corp, or LLC? Delaware, Nevada? Or Massachusetts (where I live)?

I plan on consulting a lawyer but I'd like to go into that meeting with some knowledge and preparation. I'm hoping for some advice from people who have been there and done that (especially if they were offering a service.)

Thanks.
i do love how dragdis implemented that scrollable demo animation

http://www.dragdis.com/#a

moving the scroll back slightly back and fourth actually makes the animation move smoothly back and fourth!
Whether or not you actually click on them, you are "using" them. Last I checked (admittedly, a couple of years ago), if you've used that browser to log into facebook and haven't cleared your cookies (or configured / installed a privacy add-ons), facebook is able to associate that page view with your account through the like button on that page. They bypass the 3rd party cookie mechanisms that are suppose to be in place to prevent this.

If anybody knows if this is has changed, please chime in. I'd love to know.

edit: whoops, looks like somebody made the same comment before me, so i assume its still something they do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369214
Step one is to get a good, versatile amendment written. For that, you need a "legal hacker". Step 2 is getting support, which probably would not be particularly difficult. Step 3 is actually going through process, and is probably the most difficult step.
I agree, doesn't have to be p0rn; just the example I remember.
It took me 1 week each to go from 0 to being productive in javascript & ruby and it took roughly the same time for some other developers in my team. I think it's more about knowing where to start, knowing various paradigms, etc than the language itself.
Hello,

as someone who shied away from regular IDEs to use Emacs for programming work, I would recommend that you start setting things up for some very specific need.

As it was already pointed out, Emacs is huge and you will never stop learning it. Therefore, if your main line of work implies writing Java code, I would recommend you look for some tutorials that are particularly aimed at that, and build on those as you need more out of your editor. For example right now I am looking at learning org-mode to be able to do time tracking with it.

If you seriously consider using Emacs all the time I would recommend remapping the Ctrl key to Caps Lock for easier typing.

Since you were asking for some tutorials, these are the two tutorials that I found most useful in defining my Emacs setup:

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs - specific things that are very useful in your configuration

http://devblog.avdi.org/category/emacs-reboot/ - someone in the ruby community, remaking his emacs config from scratch and explaining it as he goes

I am no where near a proficient Emacs user, but maybe I can provide some insight as a fellow learner if you get stuck. I believe my e-mail should be in my profile if you have any problem starting up with Emacs.

Have a nice day,
Vlad
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google latitude is actually okay for #2, as long as people have it on so your location updates aren't too far out of date.
Even if this were a better approach, all I see it doing is forcing an even bigger torrent of patents into a system already so overloaded that it hardly functions as it is.

How is the patent office going to manage the increase? It's not, the system is going to slow down even further.

This also increases the cost of innovation. If I have a business, invent something, and don't patent it - I'm screwed regardless of if I prove I created it three years prior to the filing. In other words, now you have to file patents for everything to protect your ass (because it's not good enough to be able to prove you invented it first X years ago), and that's a very expensive proposition, particularly for small companies. This encourages the patenting of every little detail possible, even more so than today. Because if you don't patent every little detail, now you will have no right to self defense on the basis that you were the original inventor - they can come after you for every rounded corner you failed to patent, so to speak.

This forces everybody into the patent game.

The rationalizations being offered up, such as that this will be good because it forces openness on innovation are not only wrong (all it actually does it make it easier to steal technology for countries that already don't respect foreign patents), but the negatives are going to far outweigh any supposed benefits.

In five years everybody here is going to be complaining about how they really botched this piece of legislation and how it created more problems than the old system. This will turn out to be an extraordinarily expensive and destructive change; it is not the right approach.
SpaceX is in a very distinct position that its products are launched into space, making it very hard for a third-party to dissect and reproduce them.
It would have been better for aspirant attendees to have been able to put the price of the tickets into an escrow attached to Google Wallet and/or pre-authorise the transaction with their payment provider.
Our yardstick is pretty good. We have characterized a vast range of the objects we share out universe with in immense structural detail, from lifeforms here on earth to astronomical objects billions of light years away. The human brain sticks out.

I wrote my comment precisely because it has become a cliché to say what you're saying – how small, ignorant and insignificant we are in relation to the universe, how we compensate by being arrogant. Taking a different view, that human brains are really quite extraordinary compared to everything we can see out there, is not necessarily egotistic. The more I feel a sense of wonder at the preciousness and privilege of human life, the more I want to spend mine being helpful, nurturing, productive.

:)
RPS already knew this is how it worked prior to release.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1a7tat/simcitys_sims_...
The fact people have to ask this because of "secure boot" is, in my opinion, some incredibly sad shit. Locking down hardware, or erecting barriers, bothers me a lot.
>How do they ensure that teachers know what they're talking about?

AFAIK, they don't. There was a big fiasco recently when some guy who was teaching a C++ course was featured as "course of the week" or something, which got posted to /r/programming, and they basically tore him to shreds.

A lot of people were claiming that some of the problems were nit-picky, but there were certainly some significant issues with the code. It was the sort of stuff that someone who read C++ Primer probably wouldn't do, but someone who read "How To Program C++ in 21 Days for Dummies: the Absolute Moron's Guide" might.

The presentation was pretty terrible too, but that doesn't necessarily speak towards whether he knows what he's talking about.

EDIT: Here's the thread http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/197dn1/introduc...
Bingo! As a former EA senior engineer, my money is on someone in EA marketing setting the dates and forcing an 80-hour week crunch time for the duration of this title's production. They probably even brought in "experts" who ignored foundation code and slammed in their own logic "'cause it works" and now they have a clusterfuck of logic no one understands. Been there, been screwed by their managers, and left for good. EA can rot in hell.
Rule #1: show, not tell.

Why does their code supposedly matter? We'll never know..
Getting such a law passed does nothing to prevent a future law from saying the opposite.
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and you absolutely cannot follow a Sim anywhere – once they’ve entered a building, whether residential, commercial or industrial, the game stops following them, and good luck finding them after.

This made me laugh sadly. I remember playing SimTower when it was released in 1994, and you could follow any Sim around as he went about his day. It's now almost 20 years later, with vastly more powerful computers, and the AI engine is actually worse.
In the article it specifically states that it's rolling out this week, and you may not get it till the end of the week
There's nothing wrong with creating illusions of complexity, but if you hype up your game for months by saying that the smoke really is real-time smoothed particle hydrodynamics, it had better not turn out to just be a couple of sprites.
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What are the current barriers to agencies sharing intelligence with private companies? Can you give an anonymized/abstract example, where the FBI/etc might have actionable info about a 'cyber threat', and under current law can't pick up the phone or send an email warning private companies?