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I have AdMobs on a couple of free Android apps - motorsport calculators. They make about $20 every 3/4 months, which has come from 6,000 total downloads / 1,200 active installs.
is it ironic that I can name the last libertarian presidential candidate, Gary Johnson, and you can't name a socially repressive policy?
That looks simple enough to customize, thank you.
It's not my job to know how they can keep these things under wraps; I don't work in intelligence. But I do know what "Top Secret" means. It means that it's not supposed to be on the front page of every major news website in the world, no matter how scandalous or controversial. That the people whose job it is to keep these things secret have failed miserably is of great concern - who knows what else is leaking.
Especially since AT&T data is probably routed to the NSA as well.
Me too, and getting the filter removed on pre-pay either costs money by way of an insignificant charge to a British credit (not debit) card which is added to your account (foreign credit cards don't work) or a trip to a store with ID that takes 15-20 minute in which they attempt to upsell you on other products.

The only reason I'm with them is because I get truly unlimited data and flawless coverage.
Nice, looking forward to trying it out!
I live in London.
Because an ISP should be dumb pipe. They should only provide connectivity and not mess with people connections. Opt in is enabling. Opt out is intrusion.
That might have worked when most households had 1 or 2 desktop PCs and a 56k modem between them.

Now, everything is starting to have internet access in one way or another including games consoles.
Whilst very young children might need a lot of supervision regardless, I don't think 12 years olds are going to be too happy with their parents sitting in their bedrooms with them all evening while they play xbox.
You are assuming that most people fulfil their potential.

As I mentioned on another post the way I look at it is that we are granted a "fated" potential that we must strive to reach. I don't think most people do this effectively.
Fair point. I will make sure that there is an explanation/mention about this.

It is worth mentioning though that the link points to a hosted app - not an extension. You do require an extension for this to work but it is very lightweight and rather simple. The extension only provides the ability to send HTTP requests as you see them.
Simple to fix for three.

Change the APN to 3internet from three.co.uk

This hasn't caused me any problems on my "one plan" phone, I don't know if this will cause issues on lower tier plans.
I am a teenager, I enjoy watching pornography and I believe it has yet to mentally effect me in a negative way. These filters are just annoying if anything and take significant amounts of pleasure away from my life.

As an atheist, I have no religious grounds to forgo frequent masturbation and only partake in content that doesn't cross other laws. (Abuse, Child-Protection etc.)
I am able to have sexual intercourse myself and therefore see no reason why I shouldn't be able to watch it.
There are entire books written on pricing. I recommend Strategy and Tactics of Pricing. It's a short, focused textbook and very illuminating. I reviewed it last year[1].

Remember: all passionate arguments about technology are close to being total irrelevancies in the face of the leverage good pricing gives you.

Rails vs Node, Ember vs Angular, ConfusingName vs PuntasmicNomenclature: these arguments have next to zero influence over your profitability and cashflow.

It is a lever you will not get to pull very often, so you might as well take a little time to think about it.

[1] http://chester.id.au/2012/09/12/review-the-strategy-and-tact...
There are times when I've taken it upon me to believe that if I post something I've worked on to HN and it doesn't draw any attention (good or bad), that what I'd assumed to be 'important' in the judgement of my 'peers' is actually no. That way, I get myself simple, but effective feedback...
So it was because they wanted people to move to Google+, like everybody has been saying since day 1.
REST Console is pretty good too https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rest-console/cokgb...
I agree. There are some that are worth a lot of money. But to be worth that kind of money you need deep domain knowledge. I won't pay $120/hr for someone to tinker with jQuery. I will pay that for a machine learning specialist.

The fact is that 'coders' are today's version of auto mechanics in the 70s. The barrier to entry is low- an old box, a linux distro, google- and off you go. So everybody who can't do something else can give it a try. Some will fail; some will succeed at a low level, and a few may find their calling. And a lot of people will pay for it because they don't know the difference.

But the one's who are truly good- who obtain that domain knowledge- are valuable. In their domain.
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All UK ISPs have compulsory blocks already - courtesy of the unaccountable CEOPS under the guise of Thinking Of The Children/Child Porn. All sorts of URLs/IPs are blocked (many of which should be blocked because they ARE CP but some are not, just judged by The Powers That Be as being unacceptable [e.g. pirate bay]). There is no way to know what is on the list and no way to find out - anyone inquiring is automatically classed as a CP supporter and subject to investigation.

Coupled with the English removal of right to silence (discussed a few days ago), the UK long ago became a scary place for anyone interested in freedom and justice. [Scotland retains the silence right but don't expect that to help you much.]

We're just seeing an extension of this as people have been prepared already so it is time to extend the state monitoring and intrusion as everyone now believes it is a Good Thing(tm) because they know deep down that they truly love Big Brother.

(edit:spelling, twice. That's embarrassing)
And, like lots of other things that shouldn't happen, they will. Their parent will be desperately trying to get some work done, or cooking dinner, or watching another child. Children now increasingly get to use tablets for entertainment, and a parent won't be constantly watching the screen, even though it can access the web.

I don't think network-level filters are the best way to address it. But let's stop pretending this is as simple as telling some lazy parents to get their act together.
245lb? Finally a plane I can deadlift.

Seriously, though, these look really cool.
Seriously Github has been such a pleasant surprise time-and-again. I love to find these little nooks & crannies hidden among all the other repos.
Only if you have a big wallet. And that's the problem.
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I don't really get why governments would want to do most of this, it's mostly just a waste of money if they don't plan to establish a totalitarian regime.

I mean, they collect all those phone records, internet records, they know your movement patterns, and now what? What good can you do with it for your citizen ?
Is it just me, or is the photo a rather unlucky pick?

I'm seeing roughly 20 people, sitting in what is essentially a dark cellar. It would be completely colourless, if it wasn't for a handful of bizarre, childish gadgets here and there. I couldn't imagine working in such a crowded, depressing environment, let alone feel relaxed.

And from what I've seen, that's one reality for many programmers: The offices are often quite bad.

Open plan offices are popular (it's not like developers need to phone or anything, right?), developers are put in basements, under the roof, or into an unattractive second building. And home office is generally more difficult to pull off for programmers than for other knowledge workers, which I think is mostly caused by a general lack of trust.

Sure, the salaries are pretty good lately (although it's pretty much at the level of other professions requiring degrees, isn't it?), but I don't see much appreciation of programmers in most settings. The startup world is different (from my experience), but it's a very small part of our industry.
You lost me at "In today's world, web developers have it all: money, perks, freedom, respect."
> Hacker News is a cocktail party

This makes me feel so fancy online at 8AM in my pajamas.
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He points out that he got lucky in his choice of professions (or one of his professions) and that it's easy for people to conflate that sort of luck (being in the right profession at the right time) with somehow being deserving of all the rewards associated with it. I know I don't work any harder than say a mechanical or chemical engineer, I'm just better paid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Don't reboot the system, rewrite it. Instead of a representative government most western countries suffer, switch to democracy.

I mean, democracy. Where the people decide for their rules directly. Where real democratic processes such as random trials are used, instead elections which by nature are heavily influenced by a tiny elite. Where the constitution itself is not written by those who will later rule the country (that's such an obvious conflict of interest).

Good luck, though.
I was in nyc manathan. Data Network was often unavailable. I had the 4g unlimited dataplan but only using 3g (iphone 4).
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Nice work. I wonder if there is a way to build the cheat sheet in a collaborative fashion kinda like a wiki. On thing I noticed, I am no expert in ML, but recently I was reading about K-means algorithm that enables you to quickly find the number of clusters with unknown number of clusters. This seems to be missing in your example where the clustering branch end with "tough luck".
I think what you are describing is pretty common among developers. The good thing about your situation, is that you have the power to change your self limiting behaviours. You have to push yourself. Finish a webapp and post it to HN. Get involved in a local tech group and do a talk. Sign up for a MOOC from Coursera or Udacity. All of these requires hard work, but will give you confidence. Beeing successful as a software developer is as much about how you market yourself as how good a dev you are. So if you want success, you have to learn how do those things. I'm learning this as well. It's not easy, but necessary.
Bad programming (coding) is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are Dummies.

-- HtDP2

btw, 5 opening paragraphs with so many Is and numbers hardly could be considered a good writing. I guess that the word for this (writing style and the content) is hipsterism.)
The author seems to be attributing some general and unrelated comments to Google Reader - very irresponsible on her part.
Why should it all be behind a paywall? And how would one define pornography?

If I decide to post some naked pictures of myself online should I have to start processing credit cards and treating it as a business?
Here here, meddling with SMTP connections to my own servers one minute so to ensure they get sent via their own (and often blacklisted) servers, the next they're hijacking DNS and taking further measures to filter and control what I can and can't see. It's infuriating!
Thanks, I reassurring that other have that kind of question.
You'r right, I keep trying to avoid any failure, maybe I should embrace it.
Then surely those cameras should be available to the public as well. If anywhere a policeman can stand also counts as anywhere anyone can stand, and if it's a public space as you say, then the people have just as much right to see what's going on as the police. Public is public, right?
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It's kind of frightening that a boycott can be considered a better course to defend civil rights than democracy.
You need to add an 's' at the end of "provide".
Did the Austrians realize she was a slave? Did she realize it herself, for that matter? Everyone has stereotypes when it comes to slavery, and it's actually pretty hard to detect it, especially when the victim has been institutionalized as I can imagine this woman was.
Fraud against the VC's own investors – they are spending money on lawyers for a deal, which is logically an expense of the deal, but accounting for it as a productive investment, for which they receive commission.
Thats great, lets minimize government, lets privatize schools, police, prison, the fire department and everything else! "Ultra limited government" for the future! Lets deregulate everything, because you know you can trust Corporations!

The part you need to realize is, there already are on their way to your utopia. The point is, that you need a strong military, police and surveillance state in order to make the transition fully. There some people that don't like to be corporate slaves so you need power to force people into their brave new world! :)
I wonder if one of those citations is to PLIF:
http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc072.gif
It's a valid observation, but does anyone have nice offices?

My parents are medical professionals, their offices were terrible. My sister runs a government org in Australia, has horrible office. One of my old bosses was the head of a department at Harvard, also had a disgusting office. I personally am not a fan of the open space bullpen, but almost every other professional I have met had an office that was worse. The only people I know with legitimately cool offices are interior designers.
Now just wait until the media starts reporting you've hacked them :P
Not unless he had a TARDIS at his disposal. I mean, skip lists were discovered in 1989, and by that time, the Oberon compiler had already existed for a few years. I don't recall the source now (I'd have to dig for it) but I believe that the Wirth anectode referred to his intervention in a case of overzealous students some time before that.
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I would set one up, but my experience of doing this in the past, even when it was specifically requested by several people, is that no one contributes.

No one.

More, people not only don't contribute, they don't even adhere to the guidelines that they themselves proposed. As a result I am more than just sceptical about such collaborative efforts, I'm now utterly cynical.

Note: I submitted the link, but I'm not the author.
Posting to HN is effectively equivalent to seeking negative feedback.
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Having done some work with watermarking, I would assume it's extremely accurate. There is so much information that makes it through the transmission process: your speech cadence, inflection, pronunciations, word choice, interjections, background noise, etc. The only way I'd feel reasonably comfortable defeating something like voice printing is using a text-to-speech engine.
This is actually pretty accurate for when I was in school; I learnt a lot about proxies and networking whilst bypassing the school's content filters :D
This was a depressing article. Sometimes, I often think of this myself. And then I think about investment bankers and what they do. That makes me feel better.
These efforts should not be made because quite apart from being immoral in themselves they are ineffective and have negative side effects.
https://github.com/huseyinyilmaz/talkybee . I haven't work on it lately due to a class I am taking on coursera. But I will finish is as soon as I am done with the class I am taking.
Well, yes, that's basically the converse of the Principle of Charity (let's call it here the Principle of Political Doublespeak): in est, when a politician makes a promise, what they're actually promising is to temper all the decisions which they themselves are presented with or hold sway over through that promise. For example, a promise to make the sky blue is really a promise on what color to paint the exteriors of all outgoing NASA satellite missions.

The only reason this is allowed is that everyone involved in the promise--the speaker and the lobbyists and the corporate executives and the military generals and the foreign policy analysts, and congress and the senate, too[1]--all share an understanding that all promises requiring certain attitudes from other parties the executive must work with--at least within a non-dictatorship--are empty, so no one is actually confused as to whether they will be fulfilled (they won't.) Thus, the stances behind them become a means of signalling, showing that one stands for the views of one's base even if one can do practically nothing "within the system" to advance the proposed agenda.

[1] Note that "the voters" aren't part of this list. This is one of the effects of truly representative democracy: there is no incentive for political language to be informative to anyone who doesn't have a say in "how the sausage is made."
There is one reason: the government will make sure there are laws which enables them to require providers to give them decypted dumps. If the provider says "can't do", they will be shut down.

In the end the government can force the OS vendors to install keyloggers.

The ones who make the law always win.
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It's not really about the office, more about appreciation and respect.

I've been in only one big company so far, but anecdotal evidence suggests many are similar.

It was a software company. Software was it's core business. Yet the programmers, about 10% of the employees, where kind of the lowest in the food chain. Sales got all the money and a lot of attention. Professional services and product management got a lot of attention, shiny offices and regular praisings. The developers were all but ignored.

I stuck to smaller software companies (mostly startups) again ever since. I always felt valued there, and that's important for my overall job satisfaction.
If you rewire the brain to reframe criticism and rejection as positive, ala Rejection Therapy[1], you'll learn more from each experience, and any negative aspects will be "water off a duck's back" as the saying goes.

In fact, getting rejected feels like a win now. It feels like accomplishment and relief.

[1] http://rejectiontherapy.com
> I hate to use this tone but, so be it. Maybe now you morons who continue to vote in the pieces of shit into our government who are bent on taking more and more power for themselves will wake up and figure it out? How much more proof do you need? Does this make you angry yet or is Obama still your diety? Oh, and Republicans don't get a pass either.

> The point is that all of you morons voting like robots along party lines are destroying my country, from the inside, one fucking vote at a time. And it is sad. And it is painful. And it is almost unbearable to watch. You are destroying what this country is supposed to be about and turning it into something our children will have to suffer with.

I'm sorry but this is a load of crap. The US gov't at all levels has always suffered from this problem due to the way it is structured. Blaming individual people for not participating in that system the way you think they should is completely unhelpful and puts the blame in the wrong place.

> Terrorists won. You morons saw to it. Our way of life is, in many ways, unrecognizable from what it was before 9/11.

This is not true. Although some policies and attitudes have changed since 9/11, US society has not fundamentally changed and the major problems pre-9/11 are the same post-9/11.

> When are you going to understand that a conservative Libertarian (as opposed to extreme and nearly anarchist) approach is the only path to recovery? Ultra limited government. They are OUR servants, we are not their property. They need to get the fuck out of our lives, homes, businesses, bedrooms, schools and more.

I find it funny that you slight anarchism here while claiming that a different type of political candidate is all that is needed to change society. Limited government isn't just about reduced budgets and programs, but removing the bureaucratic and hierarchical elements of government. Further, if you feel that existing political parties all are contributing to the problem, picking a different party isn't going to change anything.

> Time to take it back. Peacefully. Vote with intelligence. Email. Write letters. Make calls. Let them know who they work for. Reboot the system.

This isn't rebooting the system, this is how most people interact with and solicit the government already.
I can see how closures would take some work. Thanks.

There's evidence garbage collection was not the desired solution but a plan B. McCarthy writes the reason reference counting was not implemented was a hardware limitation [1]:

"Since there were only six bits left in a word, and these were in separated parts of the word, reference counts seemed infeasible without a drastic change in the way list structures were represented. (A list handling scheme using reference counts was later used by Collins (1960) on a 48 bit CDC computer).

The second alternative is garbage collection..."

[1] - http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node3.html#S...
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Not aware, or simply indifferent? After being educated in what really goes on in NK, he still chooses to return, and besides talking to the police and providing valuable intel on the NK government's insides, he didn't - at least not in this article - do anything to improve the situation.

Or at least, not directly. He introduced Jong-Un to basketball and both him and his father to a lot of western culture, influencing to the point to where Jong-Il's burial is modeled after a movie they once watched.
I agree with the first problem with the freemium model, but not really the second. You don't necessarily need to rely on psychological tricks if you can provide premium services of actual value.
I wouldn't worry, the Chinese already have anything that might leak in future.
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Because it essentially results in a list of people who say "Yes, I watch pornography".
It's a state issue. Some states have appointed, for life judges and others use voting. Personally I think voted-judges are wrong for a lot of reasons but particularly because it makes judges political beings which they really ought not to be.
interestingly in my experience in the north of England this culture is much more applicable to designers - web development doesn't pay very many standard deviations above the average wage, where designers can command high freelancing rates and comfortable working conditions.
>I actually believe that all pornography should be behind a paywall

That's absurd! Really? Cutting off huge portions of the internet for 'safety' is both wrong and impossible. That's the beauty of the web: Nobody decides 'what gets put up' and what doesn't. Guess what would happen if a country implemented such a thing? People would just use international sites as many do already.
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