skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most adults in the real world are never going to be able to physically defend themselves from violent criminals. They learned to be doctors and engineers instead of effective violent criminals.

How do I want my kids to respond to bullies? I guess it depends on the situation. But I won't condone my kids throwing punches, and if they have to walk away from somebody at school activities more than once, I want to know about it.

(Whether that attitude means my kids are going to be reluctant to tell me about what's happening at school is my problem to deal with.)
Exactly. In that sense then I don't take your method to be something we should be teaching our children. No offence.
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I have pretty awful memories of bullying, fights, etc. from growing up and the tyranny of the schoolyard pack. I had visions of those scenarios when my own kids started public school but I’ve been very impressed with how the school has made creating a good environment a top priority. A couple of things that really impressed me:

1. At the first meeting the principal said that he wanted to know if a kid was having trouble fitting in, making friends. Creating a good environment where kids enjoyed coming to school was obviously a priority at the top of the organization.

2. In addition to all of the classic recess games like kickball and four square, the school put out some chess sets and got toys for the sandbox so that kids had alternatives. There was a playground rule, “can’t say can’t play” that instilled the notion that games were open to everyone.

3. Counselors entered the classrooms early to talk about things like conflict resolution at a level that the kids could understand.

This approach seems light years ahead of what I remember as a kid. In short, I agree that schools can be very effective at eliminating bullying if it is a priority.
> It sounds good, but I don't see why he needs to curse in his introduction. I almost stopped reading. It's unprofessional and unnecessary.

Unprofessional and unnecessary? May I remind you, sir, that your username is "doodyhead"!
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I'm in the middle of a taiko apprenticeship.
I found it interesting that, unlike Microsoft (and Joel's own company), Google does not give their developers their own private offices.

Are developers at Google as productive as they can be even sharing an office with 3 other people? Does it not matter if you are a certain caliber of programmer that shares an office with others of the same or similar caliber and level?

Perhaps those who work at Google have greater self-discipline and awareness to know when collaborating starts to cross the line into interrupting someone so the need for private offices is not as necessary as with other companies.
I like to curse. But I'm sorry if it offended you. I have removed it from the post. (note to self: don't be so fucking immature next time around).
Maybe a part of the reason it's not "are you insane?" on the playground is because that's how we've (incorrectly) chosen to handle playgrounds.
ugh. they caved. too bad. this kind of hurts their movement towards OO. now we'll probably see see tons of people using goto as bandaid measures instead of learning better techniques to solve their problems. look out for raptors.
This is disgusting--plain and simple. Not only is this an obvious abuse of the judicial system, but it is a valuable insight into the real attitude of Google HQ. I'm taking my personal data elsewhere.

Its been bung, Google.

EDIT: I understand the implications for a domain-squatting precedent here, but the tactics used by Google are still inexcusable. As a company as influential and powerful as they are, they have an unwritten obligation to treat their customers with respect. What the author of this post did was wrong (note: I am not the author, blhack's reply is not directed towards me). With all of the data Google has at its disposal, however, how difficult is it to give the man a straight answer when he asks for it? Our society is in a constant battle against corporate greed and the evil that it brings. The last thing we need is Google leading the way with this despicable behavior (selling term papers? really??).
Well said. Let's not live in our cubicles any longer than we have to.

I love the fact that this guy feels there is a huge gaping hole out there, and that he intensely wants to do something about it. For me, that counts for more than fitting in as a company man.
I've gotten my last two gigs through recruiters. One was an internal recruiter, one was a subcontractor.
Job 1 (connection) 1998 $17 tech support for 100 person architecture firm.

Job 2 (unplanned connection) 1999 The CEO of the 15 person software company went to highschool with a girl cousin of mine. He obviously use to like her.

Job 3 (no connection) 2001 thank you monster.com

Job 4 (no connection) 2002 side job, thank you careerlink.com

Job 5 (no connection) 2004 thank you monster.com

Job 6 (no connection) 2006 January..thank you monster.com, literally insane boss

Job 7 (no connection) 2006 July..thank you indeed.com, bored had to leave.

Job 8 (no connection) 2007 June..thank you craigslist

The thing that I am most grateful for that has helped me get jobs without connections is Job #5. The company was growing fast and had hundreds of areas where I could work on sql performance tuning. Even when I arrived home I would always dial in to work on sql performance tuning. I gained most of my confidence (not arrogance) making significant contributions during Jobs 3, 4 and 5. That confidence gained through experience helps during an interview.
normal, but silly.
Agreed, here too. This would be a great resource to use and also to browse. I could also donate my time if you're looking for more hands - my name @ gmail
What did Google expect of this? Did they think they would fight this guy, and suddenly he would give up writing about this case?

I feel like they got a pyrrhic victory here.If your customer is getting his answers in the form of evidence at a hearing, you're doing something wrong, regardless of whether or not he was actually in violation of the terms of use.

Anyway, thanks for adding this. It's good to read how it all ended up.
Thank you for changing the title Paul. Please add a comment of yours as well - it would be awesome!
Sometimes I just wish that they would focus more on the customers' needs :)
This is impressive, but how will this not be abused for spam? Fluid's window.fluid.addDockMenuItem() is alarming, but even just growl support for arbitrary sites will get spammed to death pretty quickly... it's just a new species of popup.
The "trouble" that schools can dish out is nothing to the "trouble" life will dish out.

The law doesn't punish you for defending yourself, why the hell would you expect your kids to live to a standard that nobody else is subjected to?
More importantly, the Federal CALEA wiretapping law basically requires any ISP (including corporations, colleges, and other organizations that provide 'net access to their community) to record the identity of anyone given access to their network so that law enforcement agencies can gain access to usage logs.

The fact that Microsoft chose to conform with the letter of this law is to be expected; rather, the fact that Google's lawyers somehow decided they didn't have to do the same is surprising, at least to me.
So you denigrate a perfectly good solution that works while offering none of your own.

In adult life, you have the legal right to physically confront burglars and drunken assholes on the street. It takes a degree of tactical judgment and skill to know how and when to confront them, but outright pacifism is wrong for two reasons:

1. It leaves you vitally incapable of handling emergencies. If someone breaks into my house, brandishing a shotgun isn't going to solve the problem completely, but it is going to ensure my immediate safety until the police arrive.

2. All you're doing is delegating the physical violence to someone else, which means "implicitly trust authority". In the school system, the authorities don't care. In real life, the authorities are the bullies more often than not.
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> The competition has had that stuff for ages.

Then by the performance of the competition, we have to surmise that either users don't care about said features, or said features have such flawed execution that the majority of its target users simply choose not to use it.

I would lean to the latter. Sending MMSes on most phones is a pain, recording a voice memo less so, but still convoluted. Search? Oh boy, yeah, some phones have this, but it's an even greater pain to get to.

And this is where usability rears its big ugly head again - the one thing that software engineers tend to ignore (because they themselves do not demand it). It's turned out that all along the UI has been the magic key to everything. For better or for worse, Apple hasn't just made the iPhone easy to use, they've made it fun to use, and that's something the competition has yet to clone.
Re (c): I'm not really interested in the semantic argument. Does bullying exist along a spectrum that also includes office politics? Ok. That doesn't change anything for me. I'm not a pacifist, I'm a pragmatist. It's worth learning how to fight back against office politics.

Re (d): Look, I'm a pretty big guy, and I just don't get fucked with all that often. I also grew up with a brother one year younger than me, so I've exchanged my fair share of punches. I don't think it's good to be afraid of physical violence. Would I like my kids to be able to stare down a bully? ABSOLUTELY.

However, I'm unwilling to confine their responses to playground violence. I don't think anybody should be willing to do that, if only because so many people can't reasonably expected to play this BS game on the bully's own terms, and having your own kids play along makes it that much harder for them.
That's not what he's saying. He's saying that the market suffers because of a lack of competition - and I tend to agree with that.

And as a side note, this article seems to sort of be leading towards that sentiment: "there’s very little reason for start-ups to even attempt to pursue the wonky world of hardware."
It's just gratuitous. It doesn't add anything. I don't have anything against profanity, but it doesn't really work well in that introductory phrase. With all the problems in the world, "notifications for web apps" is just not enough on my list for the f-bomb. Also, good writers can find plenty of ways to evoke emotion and passion without resorting to swear words.

> "Unprofessional"? What the hell are you talking about? It's free software you nong,

Plenty of free software is very professional. I should hope so, I've worked on a variety of open source projects in a professional capacity.
No, I'm not there. I'm sure there will be people to ask the right questions though - security is on many people's minds.
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Add:

- Breadcrumb in Finder Windows. This is uber-annoying.

- Revamped open/save dialogs. What do you mean I can't right click to rename a folder in the save dialog?! What do you mean I can't search for a file in this folder?

Sadly the Finder has nothing on Windows Explorer.
I'm going to go ahead and give you my feedback, since everything else here is nonsense crap.

I think it's a great idea. I've definitely wanted something of this sort for a while now. A notification system that alerts me when someone has written on my facebook wall, messaged me on meebo, replied to my HN comment/submission, posted a blog post, etc - a consolidated system. You should start integrating it with more services and give users the option the to pick and choose which ones they want to use your service for. I'm not quite sure how feasible that is from a technical standpoint, but from a consumer's point of view, that flexibility to hook my various services into a consolidated notification system would be awesome.

Good start.
I play music in many different styles; from electronica to folk. When I recently bought a banjo, my girlfriend forced me to count how many musical instruments I had. I lost track around 14... The only problem is that with my time divided between them I never have a chance to get very good at any of them.
A lot of hard-asses delude themselves about how helpless they are against the forms of physical violence they are most likely to confront. It's simple survivorship bias. The people you deal with day to day can't get away with violence. The criminals who can are going to win, or at least put you in a situation with an unacceptable probability of permanent injury.

(I don't think you're a hard-ass, for what it's worth. You're just using one of their arguments!)
My last three jobs have been w/o direct or indirect connections:

1. I was working at an ISP help desk and a local computer repair company called in desperately needing help with a *nix box. Went out on my own after a shift and helped the tech out. He emailed me the next day and asked if I was interested in working for them as a repair tech and if so when would be a good time to do a short interview. I eventually moved up to the director of web dev at this job. (Side note: Getting the ISP job was because of a direct referral)

2. I applied for a web dev job at the local newspaper about 4 years later. They offered me the positon about five weeks after applying - two weeks after my second interview. They were notoriously slow for interviewing and hiring people.

3. (current gig) Two years after that I applied for a web dev gig at the state university and was offered the position about 4 hours after my first and only interview. The interview went really well and all my referrals were awesome.

Now between all those jobs (about a 6 year span) I've probably applied for at least 5 other web development jobs and didn't even get interviews for all of them. For some I'm sure the lack of a college degree really made them think twice. In one interview I got burned on some technical questions that I couldn't answer which probably removed me from the pool.

While knowing people can be extremely helpful, I've found being ready when opportunity knocks much more useful. To put it another way, don't stop learning new things.

By continuing to expand your knowledge you prove that you're smart enough to learn and use new things, and that you care enough about your work to make yourself better at it.
1. http://www.brighternaming.com/Naming_Portfolio.html

2. http://www.namesharks.com/#services

3. http://www.namedevelopment.com/product-service-naming.html

4. http://www.stokefire.com/we_name_stuff/ << this one looks pretty good.

More: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=product+naming+service...
Personally, I would have picked the better of the two jobs regardless of how I got the interview.
Am I the only one sypathetic to Google here? It seems to me that this guy's self-righteousness is based on a serious misunderstanding:

After pointing out that in the United States of America, the accused are generally given the right to know both the crimes they are being accused of, and the identities of their accusers, Mr. C. responded by saying that such thinking did not apply to Google's terms of service. Effectively, Google's position was that it was above the law, and if not any law in particular, then at least the spirit of the law. Irked, I decided to find out if such a position was tenable.

Well, he found out, through the appeals court, that his position was not tenable. The rights of those accused of crimes have no bearing on the TOS, a contract he agreed to, which clearly states that his account can be cancelled for any reason. His whole lawsuit was predicated on the fact that he didn't think the reason they gave-- that his account "posed a significant risk to [..] AdWords advertisers"-- was good enough.

Now, based on this, why would Google let a lower court ruling stand? It's not the $761, it's the precedent.
He has not had a problem since.

Key phrase in your comment.
The bigger issue for me here is that Google even has an Adsense For Domains program. This program essentially legitimizes domain-squatting by making it extremely profitable. If Google were to withdraw support for domain-squatting (as it does on regular adsense) this parasitic industry would collapse overnight, leading to a measurable increase in the quality of search results for everyone.

Sadly, Google took the evil pill a few years ago.
well, to draw a better picture, they were about the same.
Because such design is the first thing that comes to mind when I read apple's wording of "iPhone 3G S offers highly secure hardware encryption that enables instantaneous remote wipe.".

So such design would work and is simple enough, hence "pretty sure".
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For two reasons:

(1) Because regardless of whether the standard is fair, in real life, off the playground, violence is as likely as not going to break against my kids as it is to break for them. This "standing up and fighting the bully" mythology is exactly that. The outcomes are simply better if you avoid violence and use the other tools at your disposal.

(2) Because some standards are intrinsically correct, regardless of what the law allows.
I've never had a private office with a door. Does it make a difference? I can get into the zone easily enough in the space I share, so I am curious as to what others have found?
I got my current job at Connected Ventures (CollegeHumor) with no connections and my first job at Cablevision as well. I found the CV job on Techcrunch.
Florida is pretty much the payments center of the US, especially the major credit card companies.
Wow, it appears that they finally made an attempt to FTFF.

One feature I really, really, really wish someone would do would be to allow me to explicitly disable my DVD drive until I actually need it. This is partially a Finder problem, no doubt, but I would say that 90 percent of the time it spins up, it is unnecessary. I've looked into fstab alterations, but on Leopard when you open it up, you're greeted with a very ominous and threatening message:

IGNORE THIS FILE.
This file does nothing, contains no useful data, and might go away in
future releases. Do not depend on this file or its contents.
Tragedy of the commons. Wikipedia won because it did a better job than proprietary encyclopedias, but with a finite category like movies (IMDB) or concerts, it's hard to do better than complete. Something bigger like the sum of all human knowledge is harder to do a good job of.
The "need" for private offices for developers is based on an evaluation: the cost of interruptions vs the benefit of improved communication among the staff. I doubt there's a "slam-dunk" case to be made for either side.
> Am I the only one sypathetic to Google here?

Legally, I think they're right. Morally? Not really.
Well exactly. Even if the code sucks, someone who spends 6 months of his own time implementing something he thinks will be good, and then just giving it away, deserves respect.

But man, what really gets my goat is people looking past the effort, looking past the code and the project, and just zeroing in on some absolute red herring like "cursing" or what not. Christ, it's his project, he can say whatever he wants. If it's good, use it, if not, don't, it's not rocket science. "Cursing" is about the most irrelevant thing you can possibly judge a project on. Geeze.
Not only that, but he even acknowledges that he did the wrong thing by failing to understand or adhere to the TOS in the first place. It's okay though, because he feels entitled to use private services.

> Though AdSense for Domains was closed to the public for years, Google did finally open it up December 11, 2008, just two days after my account was cancelled. Had it allowed my company to join in the first place, I would have had no reason to create my own billboard using "normal" AdSense since Google would have already taken care of it for me, and no violation would have occurred.

"Had prohibition been repealed before I did my rum running, no violation would have occurred."
Have you read the backstory for this?

I know the guy that did this posts here. So this is to him: I am calling you out.

What you did was wrong. As a geek you should know this. People that squat on domains hoping that people typo a URL and land on your page covered in ads is a cancer on the DNS.

NOT ONLY is it a cancer on the DNS, it steals money from people who are legitimately trying to promote their own products.

I have a little social news website that my friends and I post on. Yeah it is tiny, yeah it is worthless, yeah it is probably a complete and total mess of code that is wide open to any number of vulnerabilites, but you know what? It's my baby.

I'm broke. I'll admit that. I don't make a lot of money. But ONCE, I decided to splurge a little bit on some google ads. Yeah, it was $50, yeah it was stupid and pointless and I'm not going to recoup it, but this is my hobby and I think it's fun.

I cannot even imagine how absolutely blindingly infuriated (not to mention heartbroken) I would have been if I would have found out that this small ammount of money that I decided to "invest" in my little project had been squandered on some asshole leeching money from people with a landing page.

Those clicks are expensive. That $700 or whatever you earned came from people like ME.

You violated their terms of service and you deserved everything that you got as a result of it.

I know we're supposed to be civil here, but honestly man, fuck you. What you did was very barely (if at all) above a pyramid scheme.
Fighting back is specifically not playing along. It's imposing your will over yourself in place of the bully's. Not fighting back, telling the teacher, a parent whatever is playing along to the bully.

Humans are pack animals with a social order. By suggesting your child escalate confrontation out of the pack at all times, you have ensured that the bully remains their superior to them when the higher authority is not there.

There WILL come a time in life when your child has no higher authority to appeal to. If they aren't able to establish their own place in whatever pack they are in, it will be established for them, possibly in ways that are not in their own self interests.
Not a lawyer, but yes, his case was predicated on that the answer was not good enough. It was a non-answer, and hypocritical to boot, given their "AdSense for Domains" offering.

When using three specific words in a page can get you banned for life, basic fairness suggests that they at least tell people what the hell those words are.

Legally he had no standing, but what does that mean for regular people? We can be abused at will because all corporations force us to sign contracts full of weasel words?
Due respect, but in real life you're a moron if you have the option of escaping a fight with drunken assholes on the street, and you choose to engage them directly on their terms.

The rest of your argument is a straw man. Did I make a gun control argument? Did I say you should be incapable of self defense? I did not. Anticipating this exact stupid argument, I made it clear that I (a) appreciated self defense training and (b) have my kids involved in it.
I wasn't getting snippy with you, dude. I was really wondering if you knew something we didn't beyond speculation. My comrade Stephen (author of article above) suggested pretty much the same thing.
Create a public/private key pair. Have the client encrypt some relevant information such as the MAC address, IP Address, and software serial number, and phone home occasionally for authorization. This takes care of the problem of moving to a new machine or fail-over, but allows you to identify stolen keys or someone putting copies on multiple servers.