skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm late to this, but if I understand your problem correctly, you could tweak your firewall to auto-reject outbound packets being sent to Yahoo or Yahoo subdomains. You could also do this with a proxy intercepting all the requests your browser makes. Look at the headers and bodies of the packets and see if you can get a sense of what's going on in them to find out origin or referral codes for a possible abuser.

The next step is to remove the malware from your system. I'm assuming that you're using Windows (I don't think that's a dangerous assumption, as I've only ever seen toolbar malware and related on Windows). You'll want to google-fu the details you found in the packet headers. If that turns up nothing, dig around in your registry.
KDE has a web browser too, Konqueror which uses KHTML and KJS which then Apple forked into Webkit to use in Safari. Google then got into the Webkit action with Chrome. Now Google is forking Webkit itself.

So yes, nothing good ever comes out of rarely used web browsers.
the feds only have power from the states, so that's pretty clear.
What isn't clear is what the states will do about the federal government over-reaching like with obamacare.
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It's funny, I've been telling people about the arrow as an indicator and how it was on every car... until I realized that it wasn't on my own car... Which is actually the only car I have noticed it missing on.
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Dear HN,

I've been on quite a journey finding a proper time tracking solution. I'm looking for a simple 'tool' (can be web based, but preferably with OSX client) which allows me to track time for several clients. Some kind of timesheet export would be good. But I don't need a whole business management software with it.

https://www.toggl.com
doesn't look too bad, but recurring $5 for a start/stop button? I'm not sure. Maybe if the interface would be awesome.

http://www.flamebrain.com/download-watchme/
is a great little (!) windows app which I have been using a few years back. something like that with timesheets, and for OSX would be it.

http://www.getklok.com/
is horrible UI wise. the features are quite interesting though, but I don't wanna use it.

Aren't there some nice, contemporary open source projects out there? I couldn't find any...

What are you using?
DDG is my default search engine, I do find myself needing to occasionally throw in !g if I'm not finding what I'm looking for. Results are generally decent though, and the trend seems to be that they are getting better and better (though I have not objectively measured that in any way). The other ! shortcuts are worth reviewing, as they can dramatically improve the results if you're doing a focused search.
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Okay, then 5%. I doubt there's any good reason you can come up with to give to those less fortunate than you.
Funny how the author doesn't live on the streets in order to be invested in finding a solution to homelessness.

OR, she doesn't live in rural India to become invested in ending third-world malnutrition.

Seriously, how can anyone take this moron seriously. Her basic argument is that you should suffer the consequences of all world ills, so you will be motivated to solve them.

Some people take every opportunity to preach as much as possible, even though they are idiots.
This ( http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html ) is part of what made me like computers:

>I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
A child who is homeschooled compared to attending a school meet so much fewer people in their lives - all else kept equal; This means they're more likely to be socially awkward when they grow up. How to compensate for that?
This is interesting. I wish I understood what was going on. YouTube's automatic translated captions were little help.
>As far as I can tell, based on what I experienced, public schools aren't teaching anything worthwhile.

OK, the writer holds idiotic ideas, and/or dellusions of what's worthwhile. Case closed.
Not with current life expectancies, but I was intrigued enough by your comment to look up current best predictions:

http://www.wunderground.com/climate/greenland.asp#IceFree
Nope, that's something I take care of immediately on OSX. I think Terminal.app is just slow when redrawing the screen while scrolling.
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Not to mention that, because of they types of people that choose homeschooling for their children, the child is more likely to be indoctrinated to all kinds of BS shit.

With all the failings of the school system, home-schooling still remains a fuck-you to the humankind -- like some BS bubble created by the kid's parents is inherently better.
Equality and Achievement: An Introduction to the Sociology of Education (2nd Edition) - Similar to the above, but focusing on equality-related differences (e.g. SES, class size, etc.) as mediating variables for achievement.

Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement - Research on variables effecting achievement. The only book in this list I haven't read yet, but it's slightly newer that the Riordan book above and it has good reviews so it's probably worth checking out. IIRC tokenadult recommends it also. The only caveat is I'm not sure how it deals with the research that Ravitch is critiquing, so maybe read it after that one.

Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children - Basically a book-length academic journal article on why the amount of language spoken to children is the most important variable effecting their later academic ability. A very good read.

Life and Death of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch -- Exposing the fraudulent nature of the research behind Bill Gates' education reforms. The second half of the book is especially good, the first half is mostly about the history of failed school reforms by corporate leaders, which is interesting but kind of dry. Not only is it a must-read, but it's also very much worth going through all the footnotes and reading through the actual methodology of all the studies she's talking about. It's pretty ridiculous, and pretty much exposes Bill Gates as a complete mouth breather.

Anyway reading any of these books will be pretty much like dropping acid; you're going to come back a different person, probably for the better, but don't ask me to predict how.
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Well, anecdotally, nothing like jumping off a cliff to see if you can fly right? It probably will motivate the average parent to work harder for the sake of their children and by extension others, but yes, you will end up sacrificing a child in the process...for the glorious peoples republic of america.
If you look into actual research on education (it exists), private schools and charter schools are no better at educating than public schools.* It is just a matter of other pre-existing differences, like socioeconomic status (poverty), etc. As numerous people have pointed out - you want to fix education, you need to fix poverty and inequity. Sure, other things will help, too, like requiring all teachers have masters degrees and paying them like other professionals, as other countries like Finland do.

That said, the article that is the subject of the blog complaint states that it is morally wrong to send your kid to private school. I disagree with that - even people who send their kids to private schools pay taxes that go to support public schools. It is a little more of a shame when parents send their kids to (some) crappy charter schools, which DO take away money from public schools, but sometimes it is because the public school really is bad, or because the kid isn't doing well in the public school and the only other alternative is homeschooling.

*
http://www.edline.com/uploads/pdf/PrivateSchoolsReport.pdf
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1670063,0...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/are-private-sc...
http://www.nea.org/home/18142.htm
The incident took place in Nebraska, if that changes anything else about your reply.
Sure,

Seems to go with what I posted above.

If these sponsors want younger developers, I would assume they have the money to recruit them. Otherwise, things seem to be going fine for the Kernel as it is.
I read that as "huge crayon", and for a moment thought all my long held suspicions had proven true.
This almost sounds like an oblique commentary about the diligence necessary to implement secure systems. One buffer overflow and you fail.
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The Web browser is WebKit via WebKitGTK+ (the reference is a little oblique, but it's mentioned in the article, or you could do a basic search), so no need to fret over other people working on a browser you don't even use.
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Because Web adheres to the human interface guidelines.
Maybe Doctors should also give themselves cancer so they can more motivated to cure it.
Apple already approves applications written using the Xamarin tools (C#/F# compiled with LLVM), and RubyMotion. They are ok with other tools. Haskell is a more compiled language than any of F#, C# or RubyMotion (if thats even possible). There is no reason to worry about that.

Worry about the normal reasons for getting an app rejected :)

its also worth noting that XCode 5 (as of Dev Preview 5 or 6) has some patches backported from Clang HEAD via the Clang 3.3 Point release that fix bugs that have only ever been triggered by GHC, namely http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16371 and http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16363
(and I'm incredibly grateful to the engineers who work on Clang for helping get those patches backported to the pending Clang 3.3 bugfix release, and thence to apple Clang, I owe them all a beer or something like that)

I think Apple, as a business, wants every community of smart Developers to write amazing, profitable applications for their Desktop and Mobile ecosystems. Haskell targeting iOS immediately grows the pool of smart developers who might write iOS applications, and hopefully also just make writing certain very interesting applications much less painful! This is exciting!

tl;dr the latest xcode 5 Apple Clang dev previews have backported patches from Clang HEAD fixing bugs only ever triggered by GHC. Interpret that however you please :)
One of the most zen states is when you can just say "it's like that because it's like that" for most things in you life, while celebrating the tiny examples of loving design that are less frequent, but equally as all around us. It's the other side of that coin, and it's pretty darn peaceful : )
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There ARE people who send their kids to private school because that's the best option for their individual kids - especially if their public schools suck - but still do all they can to improve the public schools, whether through money, time, political advocacy, etc.

If I could, I would homeschool my kids, with liberal use of supplemental outside resources.
Another response, this one from Ken White at Popehat:

http://www.popehat.com/2013/08/29/this-is-no-surprise-to-you...
well at least crappy charter schools can be identified, and closed down.
That doesn't have to be the case. You might find Leo Babauta's blog http://zenhabits.net/unschoolery/ interesting reading. It's encouraging to see the discussion. Hopefully its the kind of debate that challenges and redefines what "school" in the 21st century should be about.
Must be the same in every profession. How many of e.g. your school teachers were good? About 10%.

I am wondering if the ratio holds for crap to good parents.
The scarier aspect of this is that people are actually being trained for their professions, as opposed to parenting, so the ratio may be even worse.
Is this some weird kind of alternate reality? I've never even heard of people claiming teachers and parents telling someone high school is the best time of their life before this article. It's always the reverse: students think high school is the end all be all, while adults let you know it's nothing in the grand scheme of things.
I'm on the school board of a small private school and I can (anecdotally) tell you the factors that determine a child's success there are the same as they'd be at the public school - engaged parent(s).

I can also tell you that the social environment at our school is dramatically different from that of public schools.
"You have neglected to discuss the many many failures Uncle Fester was responsible for....Even my pre-teen children knew it was destined for failure..."

Sure, even your pre-teen children and other arm-chair analysts would have grown revenue and earnings like Ballmer did. It's easy to say "revenue and profit increased tremendously over Ballmer's tenure" but find a thing here and there. How about wondering how bad Microsoft might have been under a different CEO? Ballmer's Microsoft might have screwed up a few things (who hasn't!) but a nice $25 Billion profit a year allows room for that.

P.S. These writers get paid to write and attract clicks : Ballmer is in the news so I am gonna fill my quota with Ballmer today.
I lived in Thailand for 16 years. We had a successful 3D animation studio in Osaka that had lot's of business but our expenses were so high that we weren't making a profit. We thought that moving to Thailand would save us money, and we wouldn't have to live in a damp shoebox smelling of stale cigarettes (actually I loved Japan, but it's just too damn expensive).

At that time (in the 90's) it was still a pain in the ass to get a work visa and run your own business, but it could be done with a bit of money paid in the right places.

But as the years passed by, the government kept changing immigration rules almost every other month. The amount of paperwork needed to renew visas increased dramatically. You have to have a map showing where you live. You have to show photos of you working in your office, photos of you and all of your staff outside your office. We had an application turned down one time because I wasn't wearing the same color shirt as the staff in the photo.

Then they came down hard and changed ownership laws so that foreigners can't own 51% of a Thai company and closed the common loophole of using proxy shareholders.

Meanwhile we had been having a terrible time with Thai staff. Cambodian and Laos workers don't know how to learn but they try very hard to learn, and put real effort into learning english (which we need in order to deal with our customers around Asia). We are primarily a Unix and Linux shop (back then we were using SGI workstations for animation, modeling and rendering). But we had a difficult time finding staff who could even be bothered to learn different systems.

So it finally got to the point where we closed up shop, and I continued to live in Thailand, but ran my business out of Hong Kong (where I lived for 10 years before Osaka).

But in the end, the cost of living in Thailand had grown so high, and immigration had become such a pain in the ass that I finally gave up even living there.

We've now consolidated all of our business and are headquartered in Phnom Penh and it's been, all in all a very good experience. In thailand, expats spend 15-20% of all conversations talking about visas (even if you have a work/marriage/retirement visa). In the past year in Cambodia I don't think the subject has come up more than a couple of times).

I love Thailand in many ways, but the governments xenophobia, and the tendency for girls there to treat you as an ATM card with no pin number just wore me down.
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I would argue the opposite. A child who is homeschooled (typically homeschools operate like co-ops, these days) interacts with a few individuals across a broad spectrum of ages. This is a better model of adult social interaction than schools where you are jammed in with a firehose of your near-exact-age-peers.
My thoughts exactly. I got to the end of this and thought, "This is a stupid response to a stupid article."

I can't fathom why something so dumb, which clearly has nothing worthwhile to say and doesn't even bring up any interesting topics, made it to the front page.
Hey, Finland pays their teachers less than the U.S. does.

http://www.cato.org/blog/no-teachers-finland-are-not-paid-do...

Also, charter schools are public schools. They just have more flexible management and curriculum structures.
Is there a demonstrated correlation between the number of people you meet in your childhood and social awkwardness in adulthood?
Perhaps you've been living under a rock, and haven't noticed tons of indipendent verifications and evidence showing his stuff is accurate.
What actual research says is that cultural factors in the home and school effectiveness factors in the school matter even more than poverty as such in constraining educational outcomes. One thoughtful article on this point is mathematician Patricia Kenschaft's article from the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, "Racial Equity Requires Teaching Elementary School Teachers More Mathematics"

http://www.ams.org/notices/200502/fea-kenschaft.pdf

Read the article, and see if you want any child from any neighborhood, rich or poor, to have elementary school teachers as poorly prepared to teach mathematics as the teachers Kenschaft found in New Jersey. Another interesting set of research articles are those by economist Roland Fryer, such as

"Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City"

http://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/getting-beneat...

or

"Achieving Escape Velocity: Neighborhood and School Interventions to Reduce Persistent Inequality"

http://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/achieving-esca...

or

"Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools"

http://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/teacher-incent...

Yet another good author on education policy is Caroline Hoxby, whose publications include

"Competition Among Public Schools: A Reply to Rothstein (2004)"

http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/11216.html

and

"Would School Choice Change the Teaching Profession?"

http://ideas.repec.org/a/uwp/jhriss/v37y2002i4p846-891.html

Sure, other things will help, too, like requiring all teachers have masters degrees

Masters degrees in the subject taught, or masters degrees in "education"? There is no evidence in favor of the latter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/us/19gates.html

"He suggests they end teacher pay increases based on seniority and on master’s degrees, which he says are unrelated to teachers’ ability to raise student achievement."

http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/20...
Thank you!

It's quite frustrating to watch people completely ignore the fact that if a power and capability exists, it will be abused (accidentally or knowingly) for dubious ends. And those with power and capability seldom relinquish it willingly.

It's quite something for an individual who has never experienced the discomfort of being watched because that's the way it's always have been. Once you taste time away from an unblinking eye, you never quite feel the same under its gaze... whether that gaze is obvious and plain to see or not.
It looks like NE is also a modified comparative negligence state.
Especially for tech folks, I would start with research on how people actually learn.

The electronic version of this book How People Learn can be downloaded for free: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=9853

See also "What Technologists and Entrepreneurs Should Know about Education": http://guide.hackeducation.com/techies.html
> It's easy to delude yourself into thinking that it'll all be fine if you just work hard and have an open mind.

Work hard? For travel? You mean work hard to learn foreign language etc.? For me that's not hard.

There is nothing hard to work on when travelling. If getting interested in other culture and open minded to differences is something one needs to "work hard on", then it is much better to just not do it. And it is OK. It is OK not to like travelling around the world. For young people it may be uncool, but uncoolness is much preferable to self delusion.

It is ok to prefer home's bed, and to be not able to take a shit on a squatty, it is ok to stay home.

But if you travel, basic curiosity and interest in the others is largely enough. Then you just go and do not need to consider "harsher realities". After a while, you may round-trip and find yourself.

http://chinaheritagenewsletter.anu.edu.au/tien-hsia.php?sear...
In some Scandinavian countries private school is against the law. They perform very well because the people who call the shots actually have a dog in the race. How many governors, senators, mayors and business owners are putting their kids in private school and then undercutting public school in some way because they are disconnected from the consequences?
> How would you think Woz would have fared in deep technical discussions involving the iPhone?

I think he would fare quite well, even if he hasn't done any coding or engineering since leaving Apple in 1987.
I wonder if you might prefer something like Darcs to Git. I've heard a lot of amnbivalence about Darcs as a practical software project (just seems to be losing momentum, and it has never matched Git for speed), but I wonder if the model is more apt for writing than Git.
Not really a shallow analysis, but they don't make their point particularly well. I think bringing in "sacrificing your kids to make a point" is unnecessary linkbait.

The basic issue for me is that western democracies and the US are founded on principles of equality (qv. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_men_are_created_equal).

If public education is left to rot (as well as transport and healthcare and everything else), but the rich are allowed to buy their way out, surely this is a subversion of the principles that your country is founded on?

Edit: wow, you've added a hundred links since I replied. Perhaps you could condense your point down into a couple of paragraphs?
I read it as both "NSA" instead of "NASA" AND "crayon" instead of "canyon".
if it's your first time in costa you should know that it is a very expensive country, though Osa is a bit down the less expensive end,

beyond rent, meaning food and entertainment, the prices are basically the same as stateside, sometimes more expensive...~4500 calones for a six of pilsen cans...

just letting you know so you and yours can aptly prepare

that said, i think this is a wonderful idea, and you are going to have a great time in costa
Unless they cook the books. Which happens.