skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's another case of bad naming. The feature should be called something less absolute like "do not track me across websites" or "track me less".
Nanotubes Isolate Quantum 'Bits' for Computing
Ha....We're only allowed to use Kindles in our bedroom, too.
So glad more people than me frequently misspell pacakges...
You think life is a video game, don't you? There are some other geniuses suggesting the same useless solution.
Let's say he did what you said. Do you think he will be able to build a life easily in another country as a refugee? Even opening a bank account will be a huge pain in the ass. The rest of his life will be ruined basically. And it seems he don't care about going to jail, he wants to keep his business running. Escaping the country will do the opposite.
I don't know anything about whomever created that account.

Also, probably my browser identification doesn't match what FB wants, and I have no idea what FB wants.

Third, they ask me about a birth date I didn't introduce. :(
Another example (SQL Server specific, perhaps) is parameterizing the COLLATE option. You just can't do it, so you have to string-concat it, which means that your query cache has n versions of each query, where n is the number of locales your app supports. Good thing RAM is cheap.
I use Spotify because I have the convenience of not having to think about music - it's just _there_ whenever I want it, without me having to transfer it anywhere, dig out CDs to rip, etc.

I've listened to vastly more new music since I got Spotify, because I could try things without having to buy a single or an album.

That's worth £10/month to me.
I don't know why you would just assume that, but considering this:

> Sex bloggers Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee have been charged and imprisoned without bail

It clearly isn't him
Don't go to Australia. We're mostly locking up asylum-seekers on small off-shore island detention centers. This is not a good thing.
If you're outside of the US you can apply to be a refugee and be granted a visa. Only once you're in the US can you request asylum.
He won't be that guy, as they're already in jail.

And I'm a non-Muslim, and it wasn't offensive to me, so perhaps less with sweeping statements and judgements?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Seriously.
Black Holes + Wormholes = Quantum Answers
Might be, but in the HP article it says "without bail" and TS says he is out on bail?
I have an idea for a note taking app...
offensive to non Muslims how?
I think if you make (negative) comments on religion, sexuality and race, you are bound to offend some people. Maybe it's a matter of opinion. But if he made an unsightly comment to the gay community at the gay parade, he will probably be deemed offensive too.
That's not the issue; of course he's not allowed. The problem is whether the US would give him asylum.
Microsoft delivers Office Mobile for Android phones
Yeah, thought about that too. Not very effective satire then, because this HN-announcement and the tweets by the developers don't give any hint that this is to be considered a joke. (Even though they would want it to appear as such by now.)

Well, another example covered by Poe's law.
Zynga sues sex app maker over Bang With Friends
Tackling the Android fragmentation myth
The WP Butler: More bang for less buck
NavigationController: API proposal for offline webapps (FF, Blink)
New digitally-signed malware hijacks Facebook, Twitter, and Google+
Seriously? This is a photo of someone eating pork. I can only see how you can be 'offended' by this photo if you think no one should be eating pork.
You don't need a passport to leave a country. You need a passport to get into a country.

People who enter a country illegally and then claim asylum status are unlikely to be in any position to keep their business running.
Your comment is FUD. The article you link to starts with truth and then drifts into FUD at the end.

See https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads#optout (I have opted out).

I am annoyed that they accept money to whitelist ads and am also annoyed that they allow whitelisting like this at all; however there is a considerable distance between having opt-out whitelisting, and what you're implying.
Slow Swordfighting at the World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament
Knocking Out Bugs with greatest (C unit testing)
Life isn't a game of "Prison Architect." I suspect prison sucks more than anything you could imagine in a video game. The poster's comment is useful to the OP, especially considering OP could be facing 10, 20, 30, or more years for his "infraction." We just don't know, so we can't assume that OP would prefer to remain in his country of origin.
More discussion in a parallel thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6131786 (43 points, 9 hours ago, 27 comments)
Port your ActionScript games to Mobile platforms through Xamarin playscript
I failed people that didn't pass the technical part of the interview.

Nowadays, people seem to care less about this technical aspect and more about whether they like you (but perhaps it has always been this way). They also seem to be stuck on very specific ways of doing things (to the point that their reasons for not hiring you may seem arbitrary and stupid), and anything that's even slightly off from this will result in failure. So you have to figure out how to have them like you, what they will perceive as you demonstrating competence, and the true reasons they are looking to hire for your position, then you have to do everything to fit that description.

It could be something out of your control and discriminatory, like you aren't the right age, gender, or race, but hopefully that's not the case.

Either way, I'm sure that no matter what they are looking for, they'll have trouble turning down a strong candidate, so figure out what it takes to become one of those, then enjoy. Also, you may be applying to the wrong companies.
1984 Day - Rally Against Surveillance
NSA tool that collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
At a glance, it seems that the whole opinion turns on the word "shall" in the statute. Turns out, "'shall' is ordinarily 'the language of command'". This leads to conclusion that as long as the government meets the requirements of the statute, "the court does not have the discretion to refuse to grant the order".
Can't an IE user turn tracking on if they want to?
developer here: Can't believe I met you here :) your domain was the first one that we wanted to buy but isn't available.
In Norway it's the same, although it lasts for several months or years.
i realise that this doesn't affect the main point of the article, but the example on non-random symmetric keys in https is wrong, isn't it? the key is chosen by the client, not the server. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3936071/how-does-browser-...
Politics is the answer yes in an ideal world. But politics does not scale, encryption does. What I mean is its very tough for just one country to respect privacy in their laws. So if we want the world to do so will be impractical.
It does seem stupid but they have to. It's like the Bethesda / Mojang trademark battle over "Scrolls". Trademark law, at least in this country, is strict. If you don't go after potential trademark infringements diligently and in a reasonable time period, then you will quickly lose the legal right to do so.
LOL "arbitrary" we have an imperfect justice system to figure out if nooses and death threats are "disturbing the peace" enough to result in some criminal justice punishment.

LOL "unpopular". A short yet semi-accurate explanation of why civilized societies have a criminal justice system, is they've defined certain activities as uncivilized aka "unpopular" and want to suppress those activities. So, yeah, anyone not living in Somalia either agrees with, or consents to the idea of, people who do unpopular things should be punished. Its impossible to describe his behavior as civilized by any rational standard like "do onto others as you have them do onto you" or... well any standard I can think of. Even fairly savage backwards civilizations, like if she were a slave woman owned property of someone else, he would still at least be committing a property crime. Generally speaking you're probably doin' it wrong if appeal to an obsolete brutish standard is the best defense strategy...

Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting capital punishment or lock him up and throw away the key. He deserves about the same punishment for writing what he did, as a drunken moron who runs thru a public park screaming the same phrases would get... probably a night in the slammer to cool off and a municipal citation, although if he persists, like he did, involuntary mental commitment for evaluation/treatment seems the best outcome for all involved.

The ridiculous BS with AT+T is an injustice. Just because it happened to a guy who acted like a jerk and got away with it, doesn't mean the AT+T thing is OK or even remotely appropriate.
Stubbornness, Optimism & Storytelling: A Discussion with Josh Kopelman
Thanks for sharing this comical story. lol. Zynga, of all companies. Suing? They're crazy.
> What you did was quite offensive, for Muslims and non-Muslims.

Let me assure you that I don't know one single person in my circle that would consider that offensive.
If your five orders of magnatude below system RAM and the OS runs out of memory then it's someone else's problem. Granted the system might runout of swap space due to say the 100kb you allocated but reolistically other things that take up ~100,000 times as much space collectively are the actual problem.
Posting a picture of them eating pork is not offense to me as a non-muslim. What is offensive to me as a non-muslim is that their lives are in question because of religion. It's 2013: get over it. My religion doesn't forbid eating pork, would you be offended if I said I had bacon for breakfast this morning?
That's only offensive to some Muslims and it is definitely not offensive to non-Muslims. It is also a ridiculous reason for being jailed, offensive or not.
He was released on bail a few days ago.

http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/ge/newsgeneral.php?id=9...

I second the call from other comments to flee the country. Doesn't sound like he wants to live in those rules/conditions. At least the startup can continue.
Completely agree. 3D printing enables long-tail manufacturing.
Jeez, I wouldn't listen to anyone who is certain you should become a fugitive from justice based solely on the three sentence description of what's going on. (C'mon guys, really?) If you want legal advice, talk to a lawyer.

To answer the actual question you asked: well, it depends. I don't think you've provided enough information for me to help. What industry? What sort of bugs and features? What platform? How many customers? Feel free to send me an email with specifics and I'll promise not to share if that's what you wish.
Cartoons I think we are referring to.
People are entitled to free speech and opinions. Not feelings.
I agree with this. To get out of this local trap we are going to need something revolutionary. This is not something you can plow money into, it will come, if indeed it ever comes, from left field. My bet is there is a new 'frame' to be found somewhere out in the land of mathematical abstraction. I think to solve this one we are going to have to get right down to the nitty gritty, where does complexity come from, how specifically does structure emerge from non structure? How can we design such systems?
Well, it's prefaced by "allegedly".
How Exercise Changes Fat and Muscle Cells Via Gene Activity
Permeate - An overview of popular tweets from your followers
Some people take the "don't be a dick" thing a bit too seriously, perhaps?

Weirdly, other reports suggest that FB closed the account.

> The couple’s page was closed down subsequently. According to their twitter, Facebook administrators had done so due to “strong negative feedback”. But in an act of defiance, they tweeted on Saturday night, “You may shut us down now but we will be back and be stronger and better than ever. Enjoy your Ramadan for now.”

So, jokes about raping women == fine; mislabelling something as halal when it is haram == closed account. (If that's an accurate quote.)
XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
I am not saying that people should not be fired, some of the fired people did deserved it, since their productivity dropped a lot.

The thing is, their productivity dropped because the open plan office allowed other people to easily distract them. And before that, they were perfectly productive.

Also the quitters, were mostly high-level people (that started as junior coders and ended being managers) that were unhappy with how the most senior managers handled all the stuff.

If the office was not a wide open plan, people would not waste time alt-tabbing a lot (they would read whatever news they want, and then return to work) or distracting other people (ie: tired people that feared opening a news site would open a news site instead of drawing productive people into conversations), or by getting distracted by the junior programmer that decided to watch youtube and screw the alt-tab behavior.

Yes, it is a quite extreme example, a sort of outlier, not all open offices will have a massive loss of employees (either due to firings or quittings) but it is a good example of how the paranoia of being watched, and then the complete lack of it, can totally wreck the workplace.
Summary:

Object Oriented Programming: Everything is an object

Function Programming: Everything is a function

Scala: Everything is a function and an object both
Urban Organics Starts Up Aquaponics System
Cheaper than most, better than all: the 2013 Nexus 7 reviewed
There is something distinctly disgusting about Zynga suing somebody for using a phrase "[someting] with friends", that they feel they own - when the whole company is basically built on stealing ideas of other companies and adding "oh-look-wow-facebook-spam" to them.
My Steve Jobs: The NeXT Years
Personally, none of my friends or family, have ever bought a phone outright. We've always done some 'pay over x months' type of plan.

I'm particularly hesitant to pledge a large sum (and yes, for some of us $775 is a "large sum" to drop at once) to a Kickstarter, even a Canonical Kickstarter. But, I understand and believe in the idea.

I'd be much more willing to kick in a sum in the range of $20-80, to get a reward of my name on the founder's page and a discount of the same amount once the hardware is sold to the public.

This means I can actually afford to make a contribution that is reasonable for my budget, and that if the hardware doesn't see the light of day the I'm only out a month's cell phone payment. More importantly, if there are others out there like me, it means that Canonical's Kickstarter would be getting a little bit more of a financial boost, and people like me would be buzzing about it a lot more.
Woah. I have an S4, and I wouldn't say the screen is a piece of shit at all. The colors are very slightly off sometimes, but the brightness certainly isn't low and I keep my screen at a very very low brightness level. I haven't noticed any artifacts.
I thought "big data" meant huge volumes that can't fit in a traditional db (despite that those can scale to several terabytes), or sometimes data collected from multiple unrelated detailed sources (such as correlating local weather, the stock market, and recent cricket scores with how much time your employees spend on HN). This doesn't sound like either.
Are you seriously comparing the difficulty of opening a bank account to the difficulty of losing your freedom and liberty?

You know, people did live before banks..

The only reason you think that he doesn't care about going to jail is the fact that he's prioritizing his livelihood. You're conveniently missing the lines where he calls it a mob action. He clearly doesn't agree with the sentence.
Quality not factored in as you say. Our time is also not considered. How many services/products do we buy only because it would cost us too much time to do it ourselves? That said, I think 3D printing has bright future as long-tail manufacturing.
financial security is freedom in a very real sense - see the work by amartya sen et al.
Protecting trademarks is serious business.

Remember when Monster Cable sued Monster Mini-golf? Personally, I think Zynga has more important things to worry about, and I get this is a big deal for the startup, but it's just a corporate lawyer doing his job.

I'm not saying it's right, but if someone made another, more accurately targeted, ____ With Friends game, they could cite Zynga's inaction with respect to Bang With Friends as not protecting their trademark.

As with all things legal, the underlying reality is less interesting than the potential interpretation. Granted, if I'm wrong and they actually wanna put Bang With Friends out of business, well that would be just plain sad.
Then rather than call it "Do not track," it should be called something like "Do not allow third party tracking."

When in doubt about naming something, name it what it is.
To reply to your question: Hire someone or sell the business. This is pretty much everything you can do. Leaving the country is actually an option but might be quite dangerous depending on your current location.
Zynga will do better to actually make better games that someone will play than going after small app developers over flimsy reasons. Oh and they can't own the phrase "... with friends"!
InsightSquared Powers Sales Intelligence Across the OpenView Portfolio
Unless it was really violently hateful, he'd probably be deemed a bit immature. But being immature's hardly a hanging offence.
I think it is him:

They are out of bail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXw4qTp2GWQ
4 Examples of AB Split Testing of Email Copy That Worked
Middle click doesn't seem to work on Chrome 28.0.1500.72 on Win8 x64... It does, however, work on 30.0.1582.0 canary.
Ssh_list_indicator - A unity indicator for connecting to your SSH hosts
Nice pre-emptive "attack" by Greenwald today, just before the NSA hearings.
I think he has a reasonable shot at it. Notice how many high-ranking pols have publically spoken up in support of Snowden...something that never happened with Manning.
Intel's first 'open-source PC' on sale for $199
When many people hear you have a degree from a prestigious school, they automatically assume you're smart and talented and right about whatever you're talking about, even if it's unrelated to your degree. This is a general effect that goes far beyond individual fields like science or law. Just being aware of your school will cause many people to unconsciously defer to your opinions and automatically treat you like their social superior.

This effect is so pronounced, some people try to avoid saying where they went to school, instead saying things like 'I went to school in the Bay Area' or 'I went to school in Boston'. They find the automatic obseqious treatment they get awkward, so they only mention their school when they need to use it for something they want.

In practice, this general 'we automatically respect your opinions and assume you're right' effect makes getting all kinds of opportunities easier. Jobs, promotions, meetings with and mentorship from powerful people, etc. It can also help with petty bureaucrats, law enforcement, medical doctors - pretty much everywhere.

It doesn't surprise me that programmers say a prestigious degree doesn't matter - this is America, after all, and automatically treating someone as your better seems profoundly undemocratic. But saying you don't care about prestigious degrees is kind of like saying 'advertising doesn't work on me'. People who actually don't care about and react positively to prestigious degrees are very rare.

I'll add that I didn't know this effect existed when I was going to school - I just wanted to be a history professor! I only noticed it later, when I realized the game board of life was oddly slanted to favor me. But I bet your parents are very well aware of this, and that's why they want you to stay in your school.
if anyone here helped you it would be a real shame for HN. if you did offend another religion and rightly convicted then you should pay the price of your apathy and recklessness. jail should not be the price you have to pay, but instead you she be outcast by the community, at least on HN.
Thanks, that's very helpful!

I am blissfully unaware of almost all C++ specific syntax beyond basic class definitions, as I use it to add the odd syntactic construct to C (like operator overloads for + etc for my math 2- and 3-vectors) so I had no idea of this.
Huh. What do you think would be the gay parade equivalent of the pork-eating image?

Maybe a picture of a naked woman with the caption "I'm a heterosexual male, pussy is great, sucks to be you."

Mildly offensive, I guess, if you're extremely sensitive about your sexuality. Do you think someone should go to jail for displaying such an image during a gay parade?
> Should I provide an "opt-out" of all advertising for people who just don't like looking at ads?

This isn't about advertising, it's about ad networks tracking users.

You could serve ads from your own domain/server and disclose everything you record and share in your privacy policy?
Actually, I do primarily listen to people who have never made a living out of their compositions. Most of what I listen to is niche electronic music including 8-bit "chiptunes" and demo-scene music which does not exactly do well commercially. Some of them do make a little bit of money from music, but frankly most of these musicians can't even cover the cost of their equipment from their sales.
I think you should get in touch with avaaz.org They have an influence on such issues. They will get their members to sign up in you support, create international awareness on this issue and then generate massive awareness regarding the situation. Not only will this buy you more time, it will also boosts up your chances significantly.
Would it satisfy the bug reporter if we show a HTTP 401 unauthorized for anyone who has DNT turned on?
I was worried the leaks may have peaked a bit early, but this was very well timed.
Out of curiosity, could you elaborate a bit more on what's causing downward pressure in the Domain market?

Is it the proliferation of new TLDs?
With regard to prepared statements, If you use prepared statements across the board you don't even have to bother with sanitizing user input

This is not always the case. Consider an application that presents a table, and that the application can sort on any of the columns presented. Perhaps there is a dropdown, listing all of the column names.

Column names not parameterizeable in prepared statements. Thus, you will need to do input sanitization in this case.
Creating Virtual Networks With KVM on Gentoo
If you're under the impression Puppet and Chef simply replicate a manual config, you're doing it wrong.

Look at concepts like Puppet's exported resources. The tools to accomplish service discovery have been around (and many of us have been using them) for year. I'm just excited to see the concept finally getting a bit more mindshare via Docker and now CoreOS.