skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does not make any sense.

Mozilla is claiming they do not want to enforce a preference for the user, and instead would like the user to make the choice. But Mozilla has previously enforced their preference for a number of different features:

* Mozilla has disabled java plugins and silverlight in the past to protect their users (from security vulnerabilities).

* Mozilla has enforced their preference for blocked popup windows in the past to protect their users (from annoying content).

* Mozilla has enforced their preference for the handeling of cookies to protect their users (from privacy violations). https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2013/02/25/firefox-getting-...

Why not disable tracking features to protect your users (from privacy violations)?

Their explanation does not make sense.
Yes. Also defaults matter.

Countries that have opt-in default on organ donations have at most around 30% of consent.

Those that have opt-out have above 90% consent.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/archives/11953

Basically Mozilla is saying: "It your decision to not be tracked." and thinking "But we think you should allow everyone to track you if you don't mind that much."
Are you trolling us?
DnT is a HTTP header sent by the browser, it does not block or delete cookies.

On another note, cookies are domain specific, which means that a cookie can't be accessed by another domain.
Wrong. The CoC asks attendees not to participate in public shaming.

https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/harassment-i...
At the risk of down votes, the Mac was "kaput" because of liquid ingress and it only takes a drop on any component to do the damage. The fault my friend lies with you. Honest question, do you think you'd have been treated any better elsewhere?
That is a very good question/suggestion. It is a good idea to make the option easier to find. I definitely think it is important to educate more people about the issue.

There may some validity to the idea that "the journey is part of the gift"--that is, the harder the option is to find, the stronger the signal of user intent. But, I don't think the current balance in Firefox is correct. I'm not sure that a checkbox at startup is the right answer either. if you ask on Mozilla's dev-privacy mailing list [1], you might get a response from some somebody that has thought about it more than me. Then I'll get to learn about it too.

[1] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy
I think this could potentially be a worthwhile outcome. Advertisers ignore it, eventually someone manages to explain successfully to enough people with clout that this is a bad thing, and hopefully something is done to require advertisers to respect the setting.
And this is why industry self-regulation will continue to fail.

Opt-out from privacy invasion is not sufficient. In Europe at least, it is politically and socially unacceptable that people have to opt-out. So as long as the industry comes up with half-assed protocols and self-regulation that is based on the assumption "we have the right to violate your privacy unless you stop us" instead of the other way around, this will continue to trigger ever stronger anti-tracking legislation.

And please don't think that the faltering so-called "cookie-law" will be the end of it. That was just the softest option, and just like with early anti-spam laws the industry chose to sabotage it instead of trying to make it work. I wouldn't be surprised if this ended with a full blown ban on any form of cross-site tracking.

Of course "do not stalk" should be the default. The whole notion that having your privacy violated by the marketing industry is somehow about individual choice is bullshit. It's as idiotic as "do not film me in the privacy of my own home" being opt-out and we're all Big Brother contestants by default.
Not funny. Disgusting. Clear-cut harassment.

Estelle Weyl's actions and twitter bio (an emoticon with two middle finger gestures) reveal a lot.
Google wants your data so it can better target you with ads (how Google makes money).

When they realize they want more from you they change things around to make that easy.

If/when they figure out it costs more money to run that pseudo-free service they unplug it.

People then get upset. But that's not Google's fault. We need to consider ourselves lucky that it lasted as long as it did.
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

I'll submit a feature request to Spotify to get them to support Persona log in. When Gmail and Spotify are gone I'll be two big steps closer to getting rid of that pesky Facebook account ;)
You don't. Choices produce results. That's life and not because of a particular country.
Limited to US only for now - our main limitation is on the payment processing / bank account side. Once our processor (balanced) is ready for international payments we should be able to jump in pretty quickly (they're working hard on it now - hopefully its ready soon!)
@sbuk

Yes. I have been treated better by practically every other manufacturer I've dealt with, including Dell (The M1330 I had prior to the Air actually survived several far worse spills because it had a removable battery). At the very least, no other manufacturer has made painfully bad jokes at my expense to my face.
I think the majority of criticism is that she escalated things so rapidly to publicly shaming people who didn't deserve it costing a man his job over a silly dick joke that that majority of women wouldn't have batted an eye over.

If she didn't publicly identify him, no one would have cared.
If she had simply notified the conference staff, no one would have cared.
She took it to extremes, and now the internet is responding in kind.
iOS developers can use the Google Drive SDK.

I don't think Apple will block that.

Apple already allows Dropbox SDK apps.
These stats hardly rank some companies like Disqus where they should be. In all honesty, I'm surprised (with the metrics used) that it ranks Disqus as well as it does at all.

It also can't gauge the most important metric of them all: revenue.
Amen.

I have the same setup as you - vanilla vim, barely customized and the development pace is hardly any slower than when I use Visual Studio with all its auto-completion, deep syntax parsing, etc. I saw Jonathan Blow (of Braid) saying that auto-completion and better debugging support is a deal-breaks for him, but everyone`s work pattern is different and I`ve seen plenty of cases where people using vim accomplished far more and faster than those with fancy editors. Tools are important, but they are secondary.
Some specific questions:
Is the site easy to understand and use? If not, what is unclear?
Is paid search or PPC ads my next step? Is it usually worth the cost to get discovered faster? Right now, my operating costs are fairly low. Running this on an M3.XLarge EC2 instance.
Should I branch out of clothing to tech products? What other niche do you think would benefit from this kind of sorting (real estate?)
> I don't think benefits are the main reason to work anywhere -- doing meaningful work and working with great people far exceeds financial benefit

You've got to be kidding me. I mean that's nice. But it's just so idealistic and so outside of the realities of the vast majority of people that live on planet Earth. I just see too much anti-money stuff on HN sometimes. It's as if everyone thinks their startup is changing the world for the better but many times it's just some CRUD based marketing tool or something ... not exactly feeding kids Sudan.

> (I pay $118/mo for better coverage than ~any company I've seen)

I don't know how old you are but that is unlikely to last. If it does, you are in such a minority here that I don't see how that furthers a point (along with the "money's no big thang" deal, it's a very anomalous situation). Just being honest.
It seems the pycon staff acted appropriately, but Adria certainly did not, posting pictures online with this kind of comment is not okay and goes against pycon guidelines.

And to me this report seems arguably abusive in the first place, but taken as a whole it amounts to witch hunting and hurts everybody to the benefit of no one.

Now both PyCon, the python community, women in tech and people working towards a more women friendly tech conference have a bad image that's impossible to restore. All because one single person misinterpreted a comment and found a joke not funny, well done !
I'm also looking to support some file syncing services in my new iOS/Mac app and as technically interesting as Google Drive SDK looks I think I can trust Dropbox a lot more.
Welcome to hacker news. I bet if I write up some fake article about "Why I left [popular company], and why you shouldn't" I'll get in the top list in no time.

Articles like this one are popular as well. Just write some nonsensical nostalgic story about some sort of computer or digital device, whining about how the company who built it has sold its soul and you are golden as far as HN kudos are concerned.

The reason people like this type of article is probably because, 'back then' was when they knew very little about computers. Now, when you reach a certain level of experience and knowledge, that magically looking Mac will suddenly be 'just a computer'. People don't want to go back to the olden days here you'd type commands into your Commadore 64, but they want to go back to that naive state of mind where when your computer did want you wanted it to, it felt like magic.
If that's how someone is using Vim, they truly, seriously, should not be using Vim. Sublime really would be better for such a user.
I'm absolutely agree with you, using Vim just to editing text, nothing more.

Sometime, Vim user tend to make their Vim into full-fledged IDE, like completion, file-browser, etc. That things I though, makes Vim user gone insane.

Seriously, Vim just for editing text, nothing more, nothing more.
In the next article : "Buy a lot of software and don't learn programming. It's hard, and after four years, I still can't write anything someone else didn't do better !"

Not only I can confirm that after 7 years of vim, I feel really more productive than when I use any "intuitive" editor, but now I've remap all my window management (either X or tmux) to similar mapping.

One point I can agree, though : vimscript is a real pain in the ass, which defeats what Bram Moolenaar say should be our process - detect repetition and automatize it seamlessly. [1] It will only be empowered when we'll have a full featured language to do so.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6K4iIMlouI
You're citing a procedural detail that I don't think really supports the claim that his termination was unlawful.

All that section says is that if the guy files a claim with the labor commissioner for wrongful discharge, then the commissioner can "take assignment" of his claim, meaning they can sue the company in his name. It doesn't really say anything about whether his firing was OK or not.

A better reference on at-will employment in California is at http://business.ca.gov/StartaBusiness/AdministeringEmployees....

Edit: s/employment/discharge/ (doh)
"near-0 resistance" nails it.

As a Vim user, I consider the whole productivity thing about it quite over-rated. Yes it's efficient, yes it's faster, but in the end, anyone with a decent editor is going to go faster after a while.

The point is comfort. Once vim's mechanics are assimilated, you starts to memorize meaningful sequence of letters, like ci". And those sequences are just words you're typing, so typing code or entering commands is exactly the same thing.

And none of this require going too far frome the home row with your hands. This in my opinion is why Vim is so good :)
I on the other hand always wonder why discussions so often degenerate to pointing out who's funding who without considering that, actually, the official explanation may be true. They are funded by Google, but they are not slaves to it. Also, even if their decision was influenced by a will not to offend their money source, their official explanation is reasonable and stands on its own.
This is going already too far, but anyway, here it goes. First of all, during the '80s (the time when I grew up) the KGB or the Securitate (the institution that was operating in my country) had already left their "harsh" methods behind, for the most part anyway, but they were instead operating through the peer pressure of those around you (friends, neighbors, strangers on the street, even close relatives).

More exactly, had you by chance happened to listen to Radio Free Europe or made negative comments about the fact that there was no meat for sale in the stores, some of those mentioned above might have just "snitched" you to the powers that be (the Securitate in my country's case). You weren't risking that much, "just" your day job (like one of the guys in this story) and probably also the roof above your kids' heads (now if you don't have a job and you can't pay mortgage/rent you're in the same situation). Like I said, maybe it didn't seem much from the outside, but it was enough.

All this because someone might have overheard you say something that wasn't abiding to the rules of the time. Yes, I do find the power to speak freely a little bit scary.
Wow, this guy worked with Doug Engelbart and Kelly Johnson!
Every OS comes with a browser other than firefox by default (except certain flavours of Linux, but they could make the choice part of the install process). If the user needs to look at something on the internet right now, they won't go searching for firefox, downloading and installing it. Having one simple checkbox that takes half a minute to decide on won't make installs take all that longer. Or just display a configuration page the first time the browser starts up with a "you can set all these later too from <here>, btw" message.
My two cents: trust only apps that allows to export 100% of your data, or even better saves your data in an open format accessible through API.

At the end of the day it is not about Google or Microsoft or Evernote, but about not losing data You created.
This post probably should've been titled, "Don't use vim. Use something else. Sublime Text, if you like."
It's like you think the other PC makers are any better. Not to defend Apple, but this is an industry malaise, and it's been going on for a lot longer than you think. Is it right that they do it? No. Of course not. That said, my 2007 iMac is still perfectly serviceable. It won't receive the next OS X update, but by then it'll be at least 6 years old. I doubt the components would cope - much like my 2006 HP Compaq nc6320 (catchy name) ran Windows 7 well enough but won't run Windows 8 and struggles with most of the recent Linux distributions. There is nothing wrong with feeling let down and putting your money elsewhere, as a consumer that is your right. I'd argue that your reasoning in this instance is flawed.
This is great! We’ve been working on something similar at https://starthq.com to automatically generate a popularity score for B2B web apps: http://starthq.uservoice.com/forums/198432-roadmap/suggestio...

dmor: Would you be OK with us adapting your method, with attribution of course? We would be able to calculate the scores automatically and update them daily.
Heck! If I can't crack an innocent dick joke at my friend while attending a conference because others think it is inappropriate, I won't be attending any conference anymore.

Or would it make more sense to use IRC chat to talk to the person sitting next to me ?
> Nobody expects to have their privacy maliciously and constantly invaded. This is emphatically WRONG behavior.

Nobody is disagreeing with either of those two statements. Like I said, DNT isn't Mozilla's final or only answer to the tracking problem.

> And so broadcasting to all parties that the user of your browser is willing to be tracked by default is precisely the wrong thing to do.

No browser does such a thing. Anybody that infers that the lack of a "DNT: 1" header implies that it is OK to track the user is using faulty logic. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance#Absence....

Back to my analogy: I never said it was OK to take a doughnut without explicit permission. I just said it was obviously bad to take one when there is an explicit message saying it is bad to take one.
It sounds like something Google would actually do.

Like a black hole service for making objectionable internet material just vanish, never to be reachable again when logged into your Google account.

I'd add " https://drive.google.com/keep/ " to it.
Yeah, I learned Vim before I was a professional programmer, too. I think that practicing programmers get more frustrated, because the learning curve is really disrupting their productivity.

I started with gvim, then eventually got comfortable. I never felt like I had to cram down vim facts. I just took them as they came.
How would you surround selected text in gvim with parentheses? I've been using it a bit recently, with help of a touch pad I think it could be ok.
I found it easy to understand and use. The interface is fresh and engaging.
I don't know
Yes it is
Definitely not real estate. Tech products yes.
Agree with you there. Presumably eBay is looking for more volume of the smaller stuff, which would fit with the theme of strengthening competition with Amazon.

For the larger stuff, they don't have as strong a competitor (outside local options like craigslist), so they probably figure they can afford to boost their margins, and bundling it in with a 'simplification' and cuts elsewhere is a convenient time to do it.
Voyager 1 exits our solar system after 35 years
Notepad++ is good enough until you need to do a regex search that includes new lines in it.
I'm both amazed and skeptical. This is some very nice work. I'm not sure if, in its current form, it would work well for all aspects of the design process. I think there are some trade offs compared to coding with text editors and dev tools.

I like having a tool that is super fast and responsive, and you lose some of that when it's embedded into the same page the site is being designed in. Having said that, it's easier to play with a design when you have an ui such as this. This mixes some of the advantages of photoshop with some of the advantages of designing in the browser. It's tricky to compete with the strengths of both tools and merge them into one.
Just sent you an email. Would happy to connect and see if my experience could be help.
My methodology doesn't currently include mobile, I will add more data sources and update the approach in the April version
> No that is NOT my point, in fact I specifically said: "it would still be improper to try to enforce a CR when the 'alleged' infringement is obviously permissible under the Fair Use Doctrine". Although I think you knew that and did not intent to include the word "not" in the above statement, in which case, yes, it is improper to send out a DMCA Notice when you know the alleged CR is being used permissibly under Fair Use.

Sorry, my response was confusing. By "to actually get to will_brown's point" I meant "to address" your point, because then I did mean to disagree with you :)

I agree with you that fair use is almost certainly considered by attorneys before advising about filing suit, but unfortunately in practice, the repercussions for filing suit while on the wrong side of even obvious fair use are unlikely enough that it often is done.

There are of course always going to be legitimate disagreements over what constitutes "obviously permissible" under fair use, and cases that seem obvious to some will still end up in court.

But there are many, many flagrant abuses of the system, under the same kind of incentives that give us SLAPPs, with the same issues of not enough legal tools to fight them without also having plenty of money to back you up.

For some examples, check out this EFF article[1] after Rush Limbaugh used the DMCA last year to take down clips from his show used to criticize what he said after the whole Sandra Fluke testimony thing. It also includes a host of other examples of people using takedown notices in this way, from Uri Geller to network news programs.

It highlights the example of Michael Savage v the Council on American–Islamic Relations, where Savage did take them all they way to court after the notice/counternotice dance, the judge did dismiss the claims under fair use, but did not award attorneys fees. If CAIR had instead been an individual or a poor advocacy group, it's likely that Michael Savage would still have taken them to court, but there would be huge disincentives for that other party to allow the situation to escalate to that level. Better to not file a counternotice and just accept defeat than go into massive debt (hence the comparison to SLAPPs).

In any case, I do agree with you that that's how the law is structured, and there are likely many ethical lawyers out there going through exactly that decision process, and we never hear about it. My point is merely that, like the "knowingly materially misrepresent" clause in the DMCA, the disincentives to being a bad actor are often toothless (and just the threat of a fight are enough to prevent people from even getting to the stage where they do have any legal remedies), so there are plenty of bad actors. And unfortunately, the people most likely to want to trample fair use rights are also often able to afford a lawyer willing to make forays into expanding intellectual property rights in new directions at only a small to moderate risk.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/limbaugh-copies-michae...
GMO coming back to haunt us and it's just the beginning
Graphene's just a one atom thick sheet of graphite ;)

(Source: I research graphene.)
I wouldn't be surprise if the DoJ actually intended for Aaron Swartz to kill himself. The US government did this before with public right activists.

And I agree that without the twitter post of the picture with the accompanying accusing comment, there would have been no firing involved.
Mostly agree. Easy motion does wonders for jumping to arbitrary places.
You could get a quick start worldwide by accepting Bitcoin, then add alternate payment methods later.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681

> While I did make a big dongle joke about a fictional piece hardware that identified as male, no sexual jokes were made about forking. My friends and I had decided forking someone's repo is a new form of flattery (the highest form being implementation) and we were excited about one of the presenters projects; a friend said "I would fork that guys repo" The sexual context was applied by Adria, and not us.

Straight from a primary source, who all in all seems to be taking this like a champ.

>No. You're totally being bullied by people who expect you to have a little basic courtesy in mixed company.

It was bullying. Plain and simple. She could have informed the conference staff and left it at that. But she didn't, she took it to the internet and bullied them there and someone lost a job. if that's not bullying then i don't know what is.

>they're walking ads for their company and they agreed to a code of conduct before attending.

and so did she, and she broke that code by posting online and publicly shaming them. If he deserved to be fired, she does even more so.
80% on HN, 20% on other tech sites, <1% overall.

I don't think it's very likely. And even if it is I would just export my data and go to another service. "But I'm used to it" is no argument since we're so adaptable.
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الشهيرة المزرعة السعيدة علي الفيس بوك والتي يقضي اللاعبين الساعات امامها ظهرت
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Given the benefits you get out of it in certain places, I would surely appreciate it.

It all depends where you work.
That was 2011. While Mozilla still will not turn on DNT by default, they are now going to block most third-party cookies by default, which to a large extent has the same effect: https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2013/02/25/firefox-getting-... . (Edit: typo.)
Most private companies don't publish revenue numbers, no matter what industry they're in.