skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I almost find this a bit cute:

> Without third-party cookies, they will not be able to participate in the existing industry system for privacy protection.

Their privacy is still protected, but they can't participate in the privacy protection system! Oh noes!

> They will see an increase in the irrelevant spam advertising served to them

So you're telling me that when you serve ads for "RightWingNews.com, LiberalOasis.com, MotherhoodWTF.com, and SuburbanDaddy.com [and] thousands of small businesses" there's no possible way to find relevant ads without tracking the user?
++ Chrome will just do whatever is good for Google (and hence other advertisers) unless they get pressured to do anything different. I'm glad to see Mozilla taking the user's side on this.
Asterisks are used for formatting. See https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
This interesting! Bad that I don't live in London
Just to make sure, in Chrome this option could be enabled in Preferences?
I seem to remember that sending an arbitrarily large file to someone was far more straightforward back then. Mainstream options included ICQ and AIM (with direct connect). Slightly more esoteric was NetMeeting. Windows 98 even came with a web server and your ISP probably wasn't blocking port 80.
What turnaround?
She may be making people work more but what is she making them
DO exactly?
From my admittedly limited perspective her direction looks wrongheaded. I can see more possibility for a truly modern high tech media company to uplift traditional media (They could pick up where google reader left and extend RSS to the next level for example,building relations with publishers) than competing as a more or less direct competitor to google.
Competing with google in the US without a revolutionary take on search and/or hardware is like entering an ass kicking contest with a porcupine.
I may have got completely the wrong impression of her strategy here as Im not associated with any company mentioned so I have to rely on media channels but it does sound like she is trying to recreate google in yahoo.
So what it says is, Bitcoin now has Attention.
A down vote! What a great argument! Now I see the error of my ways! Class per se is totally still a feature in our day-to-day lives.
Yeah, but C and C++ have implicit casting where Go doesn't, so this is not quite the same issue.

And quite frankly, if your code relies on a an integer to be 32 or 64 bits, you should be using int32 or int64.
Excellent point. But I suspect most people wouldn't be entirely honest with their payment and would infact, consciously or not, factor this in. So they would still pay slightly less than they actually value the product so they still feel like they're getting a good deal too. I.E; paying $4.50 for a sandwich when, if pushed, they would have paid $5. Certainly nobody would over-pay...surely?
As the article notes, Apple's Safari browser has done this since launch, and is the most popular browser on mobile. There isn't a convincing argument that's going to cause Mozilla to cave here. This isn't a bold new move - it's Mozilla following Apple's lead, given that Microsoft has caused DNT to go into a death spiral.

I'm not sure why Mozilla would care about any business arrangement between some websites and advertisers.
> "The Internet was created on the foundations of advertising," said Jaffe.

This Jaffe character is factually wrong in most of his statements, but
claiming the above is wrong to the degree of at least blatantly ignorant,
or more likely to the degree of willfully and maliciously misleading.
The intense pushback from the ad industry is testament to the fact that they're on the right track for user privacy.

Carry on, Mozilla!
In their blogs, the two groups lambasted Mozilla, predicting dire consequences, including the shuttering of small businesses and small websites, fewer choices for online users, and more ads in Firefox.

Or small businesses will have to bring their revenue in by other means, such as charging real money for valuable content and services, or simply running ads themselves, targeted at their own viewers' likely interests, without relying on third party middlemen. Either of those outcomes sucks for the middlemen, but not so much for anyone else.

Fortunately for the advertisers and the user-as-product platform services, micropayments are mostly still wishful thinking, so they're not likely to see this happen on a wide scale in the immediate future. But if they think small -- or even large -- businesses on the web can only survive by using their ad networks, sooner or later they're going to get a rude awakening about the sustainability of their business model.

I imagine there will be some last gasp effort to legislate that people can't view sites without viewing the ads, shortly before the ad networks finally retreat into obscurity, but that's so user-hostile that I don't see it gaining much traction.

In the meantime, the first team who manage to gain traction with a social network that is totally user-focused and charges a small annual fee for basic features and a few more small fees for top-ups is probably going to be very rich. And for the smaller sites, anyone with enough traffic visiting say a blog to make real money via the ad networks is probably also in a position to negotiate a direct ad deal and cut out the middleman for better returns.
Well, the thing is that those people making significant contributions probably generated just as much or more wealth. They just had a rent seeker between them and the market that absorbed it.
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What is coinduction?
This is the question I have been asking myself, and I couldn't find anyone writing anything about it. When you shouldn't apply for TechStars?
No, it arose because "saving audio in one and opening in another" is not how you work with sequences, plugins and effects in real time. You have to stream music and control data from one to another. It doesn't solve the "copy/paste audio from app to app" problem, it solves something totally different.

Obviously this is a problem that doesn't exist for most file types that don't have to be passed in real time between many apps to be manipulated at once (i.e almost all of them).
Using Multiple PHP Versions (PHP-FPM & FastCGI) With ISPConfig 3 (Ubuntu 12.10)
It's the term "strongly" that concerns me as that's not really a guarantee. However I think I will take your advice and start development on it regardless (if I've written it correctly, then any breaking changes will be confined to their respective module so fixing them shouldn't be much of an ordeal).

Thanks for the feedback :)
>It seems like we're seeing evidence that the class system is alive and well in the UK.

Yes of course it is, I think anyone in the UK would know that. But do you imagine you're making a contrast here? The class system is alive and well in most places. Do you know what Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have in common? They all grew up well to do.
Using Firefox and AdBlock Plus I actually expect I will continue to see exactly zero irrelevant spam advertising. Still, it's funny to see the mental gymnastics going on when someone obviously wants to exploit people but does not want to admit it.
We had a similar long-drawn experience but kudos to the guys @Braintree who got us over the line.

We don't blame or otherwise hit on Braintree -- it's the bankers that are the real problem.
Drawing the most artistic vaginas on the web
The Summly deal makes no sense
I would think that Debian would be especially sensitive to the Closed Source environment that Oracle is generating for MySQL. It seems like it would be an easy choice between two software stacks; one OSS and the other CSS. Granted, Stable probably won't move for at least a release cycle, but I would be disappointed if Sid didn't make the switch soon.

Ubuntu, on the other hand, doesn't have the same strong OSS sensibilities and will probably tow the Oracle line, at least for a little while longer.
Jpm4j - just another package manager for Java
I've only recently installed AdBlock as, although I know advertising revenue is important to some of the small sites I use, I've been a bit perturbed as to how creepy a lot of online advertising has become. I spend a few minutes thinking about buying something (e.g. an electric raclette coooker) and for weeks I am pestered on loads of different websites about them - which I find really annoying.
Looks like it is down again. It was very tempting and they should've known better.
Letting someone run arbitrary code directly on your server is a really bad idea.

oh_no {
while true; do
yes > /tmp/windows_vista_$RANDOM
done
}
while true; do; oh_no &; done
Xavier Niel (CEO of French provider Free) launches 100% free programming school
As a person coming from a country that used to be a Soviet republic for almost half a decade, I can only partially agree.

There was no place for criticism of the entire system. Doing that would get you a very brief visit from the local KGB department, followed by your swift disappearance, and seeing your family again was not-guaranteed beyond that point.
And yes, you could criticise individual members of the government, and you could point out corruption. But there were two problems with this approach - everybody(and I mean everybody) were corrupt one way or another, you had to bribe officials to get anything done, and it wasn't frowned upon, it was just how things were. And the other problem was, that that particular person whom you are reporting for corruption might be a close friend of a local communist party member, in which case, it's you who is going to Siberia, not them.
So yes, theoretically you could criticise. But it was very unsafe to do so. Authors especially had to find new ways to write books which contained symbolic criticism of the government,but not too obvious, so it would go through the censorship.
nice drawing effect but the copyright claims are pretty dangerous: they claim any art created with it must have a creative commons attribution license. this is total BS.
I found a brief blurb on TechCrunch[1]:

> Their say: Socially accepted bragging: crisp profiles for freelancers, consultants and hustlers. Freelancers & consultants have to spend too much time to make sure their online profile is up-to-date and professional looking – to the extent some can’t be bothered. Achoo makes it very easy to spread your achievements and lessons learned which make up a crisp-looking profile. In addition there are networking features added to make sure opportunities find you.

> Our take: Alas there are a lot of profile page startups but worth kicking the tyres on this one.

Sounds like About.me for LinkedIn.

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/19/20-startups-demo-and-launch...
Am I the only person who actually likes relevant ads? I like finding new things I didn't know existed to buy...
Silk creator here – what version of Chrome? I haven't had a single browser crash for me during testing and development (with testing in the latest Chrome/Safari/Firefox), but I'd like to look into it.

(Edit: Also, a tip for Hacker Newsians – you can double-click the ? in the corner to hide the big app advertisement in the corner.)
How Mathematicians Think About Patterns - Professor Ian Stewart FRS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLkQFC-Z-Vk

there is a section about tiger stripes, leopard spots etc etc
I don't know anything about "the industry", since I go out of my way to avoid working in "the industry"--but I want "going to work" to be another way to say "going to go goof off with my friends in a way that makes us money somehow." And I like it when my friends act like assholes; it's amusing, because I know them well enough to know it's not really all that serious.

That might not work very well when your coworkers aren't your friends--but really, that's the problem with that, not anything to do with objectively objectionable behavior.
The thing I miss most about the year 2000 is that randomly meeting new and interesting people was literally effortless.
Build A Vitamin. If People Like It, You Can Charge At Will.
> Oracle allowed you to use Oracle RDBMS free for "prototype development" but once you were actually generating revenue from that you are supposed to buy the necessary licenses, even for continued development or support purposes.

Hm... I vaguely remember (but it was a really, really long time ago) you could use Oracle for as long as you wanted as long as you didn't process your own or your customers' business data.
They should probably make this more obvious but other than that, I fail to see how it is total BS. If you don't like their licensing terms, don't use the product...
A good portfolio can be created well before one goes into--let alone graduates--college. I understand the graphic design industry to be largely portfolio-driven, and it continues to confuse me that the IT industry isn't the same way.
That's fine until you go to a site looking to buy something for your daughter. Suddenly the rest of my day's browsing is polluted by pink ponies.
I could be wrong, but hasn't this been an option in Chrome Preferences for ages?
This is just GCHQ's way of saying that they already know how to reverse bcrypt.

On a more serious note http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk does not appear to be run by GCHQ. The Terms page says that it's run by TMP Worldwide (http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/terms-and-conditions/).
...And yet two of the adverts on the front page specify years of experience.

"5-7 years of development experience in a working environment" http://hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs/2013/3/25/the-amazings-lead-rai...

"a PHP Developer, with at least 2 years commercial experience." http://hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs/2013/3/25/dxi-limited-php-devel...

FWIW, I agree with the legislation. I want someone with a track record of success - not a set number of years grinding away.
"The facts are that [Firefox users] will get more ads, not less, and those ads will not be tailored to their interests," he said. "They'll see untargeted ads, which will look like spam.""

If this is truly the case then Firefox users will notice and either turn the third party cookies back on or complain/switch to chrome. If the effect is that big, and people want to see the targeted ads, what do the ad networks stand to lose?

Firefox is making a right move, there is now a distinctive conscious choice you can make: Firefox, privacy by default. Chrome and IE can never counter that (because of their affiliations with ad networks). Maybe its not the biggest reason to use a browser, but it's a big one and it enforces Firefox's position in the market.
The article doesn't cite the particular statute that is believed to make this unlawful. I didn't have time to read the entire equality act, but based on the linked FAQ this was the closest I could find.

"Indirect discrimination occurs where the employer applies a provision, criterion or practice - such as imposing a requirement for a minimum number of years' experience for a particular job - that places persons of the claimant's age group at a disadvantage, is to the claimant's disadvantage and is not a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. For example, it may be indirect discrimination against a young person to impose a requirement for employees to have held a driving licence for 10 years. The employer would be able to justify this only if it could show objectively that it was a genuine requirement of the job and not based on stereotypes of what makes a "reliable" and "safe" driver."

So in other words it doesn't look like it is unlawful to ask for X years of experience as long as it is a "genuine requirement of the job".

I don't think that would be too difficult to argue, if you are hiring somebody to be the lead developer of your critical java application, you don't want somebody who's only experience with Java is reading a Java 101 book over the weekend.
The output leaves something to be desired: only 1375x918.

I imagine it could be a popular tool to generate custom desktop/device backgrounds, but the low resolution combined with incorrect aspect ratio (not 16:9, 16:10, or even 4:3) makes it unappealing for that use.

(Edit: actually based entirely off how big your window is, see child comments)
Or just check out some weird novelty item on Amazon out of curiosity. Then you also get emails about it for the rest of your life.
Down, down, down: Books, e-books and apps all trending to zero
Things are starting to shift. More and more employers are looking to see code repo's prior to even looking at your CV in detail.

On our blog we do a series of interviews called Hacker Jobs Meets... where we pose ten questions to CTO's, Tech Directors and start up founders across the UK and almost all place a significant amount of emphasis on the importance of having visible code prior to an interview.
There is also a preference in Firefox. I think the original article is talking about default settings.
Just FYI: possessive "its" does not receive an apostrophe.
> Either of those outcomes sucks for the middlemen, but not so much for anyone else.

It actually also sucks for the businesses themselves, at least in my case. I'd much rather spend my time creating valuable content for everyone than creating valuable content for a few who pay me.

Of course there are alternatives I can try, I can keep content free and solicit donations, I can create various merchandise or I can directly sell advertising space hosted on my own site. All these options essentially take time away from creating content in the first place. My fear is that I'll be too busy trying to make money to make good content. Ad networks at least have the benefit of a "fire and forget" and having someone manage that whole aspect of my business, leaving me to work on content.

I totally get the whole point of no tracking, I'm not even really against it. I'm just trying to point out that it's not just the big business ad networks that will be affected here.
You're absolutely right. We don't tell employers how to word their adverts but we do try and provide guidance. The majority of roles on our site (and pretty much every other IT job board in the UK) have that stipulation somewhere in the job spec.
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I'm a non technical co-founder and am building a combination of a serviced based business and technology business.

I think this article is spot on for most people. A lot of very successful businesses can be started with a wordpress blog and very little technical capability.

A business based around the technology itself is a highly risky venture. I would argue it's a lot lower risk to first develop a business without much technology, build up your customer base and then gradually build technology to automate more aspects of the business as you go.

PayCycle purchased by Intuit for $170million is an example of this. They started doing the payroll for businesses completely manually. Literally writing out checks etc. Then they gradually automated each step of the business.

For most businesses it's a better strategy to build the business first get customers and then build the technology second. Technology startups where you build the technology first are the exception not the rule.
Hi itafroma,

If you go fullscreen (there's an icon for it right under New), you can export a background that's exactly the right size for your browser.

Right now the output is exactly the same size as the input, but it's a good idea to let people download cropped or scaled versions.

~ the silk creator
A thousand times this. "Oh no! Somebody else will stop doing our job for us, the horror!".

Go die in a thousand fucking fires, people working in advertising/marketing[0].

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo

(edit: Jeez, hyperbole detectors seem to have a calibration problem today.)
A person (A) discriminates against another (B) if A applies to B a provision, criterion or practice which is discriminatory in relation to a relevant protected characteristic of B’s. [1]

I don't think that this is actually illegal, it is only indirect discrimination if it is based on a certain subset of criteria, of which the following list makes up:

age -
disability -
gender reassignment -
marriage and civil partnership -
pregnancy and maternity -
race -
religion or belief -
sex -
sexual orientation

And while you may consider age to be valid criteria, it isn't discriminating directly or indirectly against age, only against the amount of experience someone has in a particular field - the person could be 60 and only have started their career the year before.

Personally, I think that the law is left up to interpretation, but in practice, if someone tried to use this law in court against this practice, I doubt there would be a positive outcome.

[1] http://www.employmentlawsolutionsuk.com/Employment%20Law%20A...
I can't seem to access the site.
In the mean time, codepad has been compiling and running code for years now.

http://codepad.org
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So in other words it doesn't look like it is unlawful to ask for X years of experience as long as it is a "genuine requirement of the job".

That's correct. The issue is that it is incredibly difficult to justify legally and the UK employment law courts side primarily with the employee. There are plenty of examples of cases where potential employees have claimed indirect discrimination due to their age. I'll dig out some examples and update later.
'was'?
But that's impossible!
I grew up with Pascal and its derivatives, so I have a strong sense of the aesthetic of programming languages. I can't take Go seriously, or bring myself to use it, because it appears to have no aesthetic sense at all. It's ugly! Strings of keywords and punctuation, no rhythm to it, just a lot of mess. Like a cross between C and Prolog, perhaps, with a smattering of Python but only the ugly bits. I really don't like it.

Now, if you want to see a recent language with a bit of style to it -- and bear in mind I know nothing of how it is to use in practice, so I'm basing my opinions entirely on the look of it -- I think Rust is one of the best of the pack. So much smoother.

TL;DR (for any Redditors who may have stumbled in on their way to the Ron Paul fansite): languages have a flavour, and Go's flavour is "mess".
Pi's Epic Journey
If I want to create a new wrapper class, the last thing I want to do is either make it hold an Object, or have to write a new version of it for every type it can hold.

Can't you solve this problem with an interface defining the behaviours your wrapper expects? The interface can then be passed in or held as a ptr without requiring a specific type, allowing a generic implementation. You can create a generic iterate or sort function for example which operates on slices of a given interface. Sorry if I've misunderstood, if so a code example might help clarify what you mean.
Sounds familiar - we shelved our business (Every Daydream Holiday) this week for similar reasons, having found we couldn't put in the necessary time to deliver a great product AND build a business. Being in separate cities didn't help either. Or, as Achoo put it so nicely, "And though we put in lots of hours, too many of them were evening hours away from each other."

Congrats on making the decision.
This is probably different in the UK... but here in the US, it most definitely is not illegal.

"The reality is, it isn't an attempt to discriminate against the young, which in most cases is perfectly legal, as you are only in a protected class after you turn 40." [0]

[0] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505125_162-44942857/are-years-of...
Chrome eventually added the option to block 3rd party cookies, but it certainly wasn't there to begin with.

I don't think the option is there on their mobile browsers either - it didn't exist on Android when I last looked, and definitely wasn't there on iOS either.
HMRC does not accept passwords with special characters, so it only shows that these sites are run by incompetent IT departments....