skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but what I was alluding to was that if someone wants a different behaviour on Android that all they had to do is write their own music player (or fork the stock one, or similar).
The OOM killer has almost never worked for me. I think once or twice only, the rest of the time, high memory pressure combined with high storage pressure effectively locks up the system. Easiest way to trigger it is to start eclipse, virtual box and start a system update (just package download, not install) and I can't move my mouse any more.
If employers were looking for cheaper workers, your brother would have taken the cheapest job available wouldn't he?

After all, working as a Mech Eng even at minimum wage should for him be preferable to flipping burgers at minimum wage or being unemployed, especially with a family...
We learn that there has never been such an interest in the hog-calling competition before and that in 2012 it was significantly higher than ever before.
Unfortunately everything is written in Chinese.

But heck, 10TB is 10TB. I'm signing up, I hope I press the right buttons.
>Why isn't it their responsibility to ask if they might use my name first?

Jesus, listen to yourself, you sound like a freeman on the land.
Zhang proved that there are infinite "twin primes" separated by 80,000,000 or less. People have been lowering the bound, but it seems like this approach will not reach the goal of 2 without another breakthrough.
You can add youtube videos or some short clips from movies and ask your user repeat after protagonist. Everyone likes to repeat catchy phrases from movies)))
Are you one of these "people" who are actually Scott Adams?
The subject matter becomes obsolete, but the mental processes and skills stay relevant.

Too much of education is aimed and evaluated for data storage rather than brain training.
The thing with EULAs in Android apps is that I always click decline. I tend to assume that if an app is including a EULA they're asking permission to do something egregious so I just uninstall the app because I don't have the time or inclination to actually read the EULA. (Yes, I actually read, or at least skim them when it matters!)

Anyway, the guidelines seem fairly easy to meet and pretty inconsequential:

> Tell users about your ads—Create a simple, complete disclosure that tells users how your app uses ads, where the ads are shown, and how they can manage ad options. Take common-sense steps to make the disclosure as clear as possible.

Do this in the app description on Google Play.

> Make sure users know—Present your ads disclosure is an easy-to-see location, rather than hiding it where users are not likely to find it.

Do this in the app description also.

> Ask for consent (opt-in) at launch—Where possible, include your ads disclosure in the app description as well as in an Ads Terms, End User License Agreement (EULA), or similar document. Display the terms at first launch and ask for the user's consent before continuing to the app.

This is optional; don't do it. Any modal dialog that asks for permission to do something is UX friction and EULAs are offputting because they're not the norm on Android.

--

The submission title is misleading but I think Google has intended to mislead developers into doing stuff they don't need to do.
No, they aren't, not after the Guardian backtracked on "direct access." It was independently reported elsewhere as well.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/no-evidence-of...
Yeah, but isn't the IOS app localized to english? I know the android version isn't :/
The part of this I hate most is that if you have physical access to the machine and can hit ctrl-alt-delete you are given an out-of-band dialog that functions flawlessly; this dialog happens to have a "task manager" button, but as the task manager functionality is part of a normal user application and not that magical dialog, you get thrown back into the swap storm, only now with yet another process (taskmgr) competing for memory :(.
I've never paid much attention to model numbers when trying to buy a phone; for feature phones I usually just walk into the carrier-of-choice's shop, filter by form factor, and then look at which one has the right price point. Most of the time, a lexicographically larger model number means "bigger, better, and more expensive", which is enough of a heuristic if there are only ten models on display.

Having lots of models at different price points seems crazy for Apple, but it makes sense for just about anyone else making cell phones. Flooding the market with tons of choices at different price points happens in everything else we buy, from CPUs to cereal boxes to jeans.

Plus, if they change a part inside (say, update the CPU, or cut the RAM), the home-tech-support person in me would rather that they change the model number, than sneak in a nontrivial "Rev. 2" update. (This was a big deal with the WRT54G, when people were buying them and flashing custom ROMs that only fit in older models with more memory.)
I'm using Android. That is so unfair, considering Android is dominating the rest of the world, esp. Asia (and not all Asians read Chinese).
Damned if they do, damned if they don't. It's really an impossible situation for the companies involved as their actions, as the comments so far state, will be viewed through the biases of the observer.

One way out, to appease the outrage over what happened, would be for a few CEOs to spill the beans on what took place at their organizations. But after they were carted away to jail the company would still be in the situation it was before. Another would be simply to shut up shop in the USA and move somewhere else - but where? It would need to be a county where the intelligence services did not have the capability - end of business. About the only realistic and probably credible response is not to sue but to put a lot of effort into supporting third-parties opposed to the situation such as the EFF. Then at least, despite what they were forced to do behind closed doors the company would at least have a visible position and be seen to be trying to getting of the handcuffs put on it by the government.
Perhaps, in the end, the NSA has done us all a favor: they have shown us the fundamental insecurity of giving 3rd parties access to our data. With this move, Google and Microsoft clearly believe that there is demand for privacy, and understand that loss of trust has real, possibly severe, bottom-line implications. They act not of idealism, but out of fear.

The issue, of course, is that if someone wants to talk to me they need to connect with my physical equipment. In a perfect world, people would look me up with a simple IP address, and I'd have whatever services I wish to provide running on various ports from that IP. This machine could be my phone, or a computer I keep in my home. But what's funny is how the modern internet appears to conspire against this extraordinarily simple idea: the first problem is IPv4. There aren't enough IPs to give every internet-connected device a unique IP address, which means NAT, which is, AFAIK, fundamentally insecure when handling inbound traffic. The second is that virtually all internet providers forbid us, in their terms of service, from running "servers". Which brings us to this interesting syllogism:

1. Communication sent through third parties is not private.

2. All internet communication involves a third party

3. There is no private communication on the internet

Until the problems of IPv6 adoption and contractual restrictions on how you use your internet connection are solved, people do not have a viable alternative to using 3rd party hardware for communication over the internet.

Of course, if the "no fly list" is any precedent, the government argument will be something like, "then don't communicate with the internet".
Wait that happened? Do you have a link? I tried to google around but did not find anything.
I didn't really "place" it in the public domain, I just let nature take its course. The inevitable result is that there are now only versions of the program online in which my name and copyright notice have been removed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FDtXflMBmw

I searched for the original program online, but couldn't find it -- only the pirated version. By "pirated" I mean someone has removed my copyright notice and offered the program as their own, successfully replacing the original in all online archives.
Here's an image search:

https://www.google.com/search?q=buckyballs&source=lnms&tbm=i...

As someone with two small kids, this is not the kind of packaging used for toys aimed at that age group.
You are a bully. Do you realize that? Even though a C&D has no direct legal power, it abuses your position of having a nice fat legal fund, and will most certainly lead to stronger charges in any actual legal action.
Yes, 99 c/wk for :

1. ad-free listening
2. iPhone app (to start with)
3. weekly curated playlists
4. higher quality streaming

API not right now, but maybe later.
Wow, that was ridiculous. So, because you don't understand how planes work this is the pilots' fault. Even if you were serious about the fuel exactly where do you propose they put it? In-flight refuelling of commercial planes doesn't exist.
The worst bullshit interview I experienced was one where I was asked all sorts of questions about OO- design principles and concepts. I got the job, and was very surprised that the system, written in an OO language, was in fact, almost entirely procedural with large amounts of code duplication. I wrote a few code generation templates to speed things up for myself, updated my résumé and left after a few months.

Ironically, someone else who I knew, happened to interview for the same job, and didn't know OO jargon as well as me, but was vastly more experienced and very intelligent (he had math, not CS background). He would also have been a great fit culturally and technically for the team, but was rejected.

I still haven't figured out if it was vanity, self-delusion or plain dishonesty that led to those interview questions. But whatever led to that interview format, it failed to choose the right candidate for the job.
> Is this you?

> http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...

Yep, that's me.

> If so, how do I end up end where you are, in regards to wilderness programming and whatnot?

Rather than try to duplicate my story, why not see how yours turns out? I bet it will be just as interesting.

> Do you have a book (of any sort)?

Only a free one about my around-the-world solo sail -- it includes lots of stories about my technological adventures:

http://arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html

You can read it online or download a free Kindle file.
While I wholeheartedly agree with your reasoning here, I'd also like to ask why it would reasonable if it were, in fact, merely an inconvenience. Let's say, for example, that instead of the no-fly list, we had a hassle-me-extra-at-the-airport list with the same lack of transparency and process. Still absurd, in my view. Even if you establish something is a "privilege" and not a "right", having an arbitrary and capricious system for deciding who has it should still be illegal.

I do understand that the judicial system applies different rational-basis scrutiny standards based on whether fundamental rights are being violated; I'm not protesting the legal logic at play in this case, especially since I haven't yet read the decision itself. But it could well be that the standards themselves are crazy. I plan on reading the decision in full tomorrow.
Sure, so let's start simple.
Wikipedia's definition is not perfect, and you are trying to hang your hat on a technicality that does not exist.

Your argument is about the domain name itself rather than the content.
He has not named a product after another product. He does not have to call it "thestatusofvariousphotosharingsites.com".
It is okay to name your website "walmartsucks" and talk about how much walmart sucks (though it's not okay to do that and then try to extort money from walmart, as one guy did).
His website is about tumblr, the product. he can name it after tumblr, the product, as long as he does so in a way that confuses no one, and satisfies a bunch of other factors. Nobody is visiting his site and thinking "oh shit where are my photos". If there was some possibility of confusion, or if his website directed people to instagram, or any of a few other things (like tumblr was planning on expanding into what google tells me is a pretty competitive "is tumblr down" market), you may have a point. But it doesn't do any of this. It simply gives people the status of tumblr. He makes no money, he offers no non-substantiated facts, he dilutes no trademark.
In this way, it isn't even an arguable case like "walmartsucks", because the domain name is literally a description of itself.

Yes, it would be a lot clearer if he added disclaimers, but that's again, completely irrelevant to whether it's necessary or required.

"Neither Ford nor Consumer Reports publish an unidentified 'do toyotas break down a lot' magazine or website so this seems somewhat different."

It isn't. It is, as they say, a "distinction without a difference".

The EFF has a page about this, btw: https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/IP

search for "Can I use a trademark in my blog's name or in the title of a blog post?"
I'm confused as to why a product like this is being sold (directly or indirectly) to the students. Do you know what the commissions for recruiting undergrads in CS/ECE/Software jobs is? With the right student body, the commissions alone could subsidize the software for students in every other discipline.

Consider looking at Piazza's model.

If you already said you'd license it to them... I'd get a lawyer. I'd also think about what the universities' software procurement policies are, and what sorts of things they might ask of you later. (Do they want a white-label product that they can rebrand? Do they have custom reporting needs for e.g. student aid programs? How much support and training will you need to provide, and how many people will you need to hire to pay for that? Do you want them to renew the license every two or three years and pay an annual fee, or are you going to sell them software one-off and let them tinker with the source themselves? Who retains copyright?)
I don't understand this whole parochial line of reasoning. We shouldn't protect local capital and products with tariffs, and neither should we protect local labour.

Free trade (and movement of labour and capital) is better for our economy, and better for the rest of the world. The people on the other side of the fence are human, too!
I think websites in general are getting away with bloat overall. Ever since I started using noscript I've gotten increasingly annoyed by how every site seems to wanna run scripts from at least 3-4 sources that I know aren't essential to my experience on the actual site. Some sites have upwards of 15 sources and I have to wade through them to allow the content servers, etc..
Chris Callison-Burch's (UPenn) open letter to Obama.
It's a shame that pg felt he had to write that, and it's also a shame that it was presented the way it was.

It could've been shorter, more positive, and to the point:

CEOs need to inspire, lead, manage, hire, sell. All of these things have one thing in common: Effective communication. If an accent is so thick that it prevents effective communication, then you have a major issue.

That it had to be any longer than that says far more about the people who read it than the one that wrote it.
it can be worse than zero-sum. If you dilute the workforce with idiots, you could wind up with a situation where projects requiring insight get completely derailed and moreover actually competent people get passed over time after time and quit the endeavor in frustration. This is what is happening in the sciences.
I got the QQ signup page in English. After signing up the iOS app appears to be in Chinese but a login & password box looks the same everywhere.

There is also a desktop client (in English or other languages) that connects to the same backend (at least I can see my 1TB quota there and the files are visible on the iOS app as well, not sure if adding files there will trigger the quota increase): http://blog.imqq.com/what-is-qq-disk/
> If you presented any worthwhile ideas, I could discuss them.

Translation: "In my search for surefire rules to success, I am going to avoid any advice from successful people." Sadly noted.

> But all you've presented is that success is unmeasurable chaos ...

And? That's correct. The only problem is that you have the modern equivalent of a religious outlook, i.e. there are rules that, if followed, assure success. It's false, but you can't accept that.

The fact that life is unmeasurable chaos doesn't mean people can't be successful. Those who are successful accept life as it is, not as they would like it to be.

> You have such a strong disposition ...

Just like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, an a thousand other successful people. But you have a belief in authority, in the power of rules, so you don't need to learn anything from successful people. Dream on, pilgrim.
I remember going to summer camp and getting my classmate's shooter game program ;)
One of the study proving my "dishonest nonsense" is explained here: http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2010-02/studie-bewerber-ausl...

If you say a "part of this underperformance has a genetic cause" that can't be falsified. How could it?

But: Can you show that genetics has a practical relevance in HR and social policy decisions? Can it have any? Should it have any?

We can see and show factors of discrimination that are definitely not genetic and definitely not a general genetic disadvantage between Germans and other "races" (I shudder at these words...), and that makes it really hard to believe we shouldn't try and ameliorate those because "Hey, it's all genetics anyway!"

So far no one has been able to show me any practical consequence from the theoretical allegations of intellectual performance being genetic.
I really would reconsider that: http://hashcat.net/forum/thread-2301.html
I couldn't sign up because the email field is limited to 30 characters. Emails can be up to 256 characters long, sometimes longer.
Sorry, my fault. cool @openbadges.
Really? So why should I pay 30 bucks a month if I can go to TextEdit on my Mac, paste some text (maybe even a story) and have it read out to me for free, any text I want, forever?
You are aware that one of the reasons we do this is to take away parents ability to indoctrinate their children in a nationalist ideology?

In German _public_ schools, children learn about the Holocaust, the Wars, the STASI multiple times over the course of their education, with progressing depth of discussion as they grow older. How many other states educate their resident children on the bad parts of their history this thorroughly?

Sorry, but your views from afar are quite skewed.
I am terribly sorry if it came across like this. To be honest, the only reason I did not have a public subscription page is that I was too lazy to add logic for displaying buttons with "account signup" links, instead of "payment" ones for anonymous visitors. And now it bit me back today.

I just a deployed a fix for this issue, you can now see the prices at http://www.sayafter.me/subscribe
Here's an idea: How about you create a read-only view where all the elements are inlined, just like in a 'normal' document? As I see it, right now it's useful for creators to organize their thoughts, but there is no way for consumers of your thoughts to grasp them in an easy manner, they basically first need to learn the structure of the thought in order to navigate it. This is why we create linear documents, where everything is put down im some sort of coherent order one can follow. We basically apply a sorting algorithm to our content - the difference is that with your new tool you can try to automate that sorting while enabling the creators to follow their thoughts in their own preferred structure.
"And, in the face of not knowing, why default to an explanation other than what has been given to us?"

gut feeling based on existing evidence and experience.
I own several sets of buckyballs and did quite a bit of research on the issue when it was being litigated. I have no opinions on the CPUC's later personal litigations but I would like to note that the Buckyball corporation did a wonderful job fanning unfair populist outrage against the CPUC and that the story is significantly more complicated.

I have no dog in this fight but in the interest of fairness, here are points presented from the other side:

* The risk from buckyballs is highly non-obvious and hard to intuit. I, personally, did not perceive the risk until I read about it. Most items should not be swallowed because they're a choking hazard, they have sharp edges or they contain toxic chemicals. Buckballs are small spheres of stainless steel which present none of those risks. Instead, the risk is if two balls attract each other through layers of your intestine, eventually causing gangrene and sepsis. That's not something I had ever thought about when playing with them.

* The severity of harm was far greater than other swallowing hazards. Treatment for people who improperly swallowed buckyballs involved major surgery and the removal of sections of their intestines. This is orders of magnitudes more severe than most swallowing related injuries, something which also does not fit most people's naive threat models.

* Injury happens days after the event, making cause and effect hard to pin down. The usual response to a child swallowing something improper is to monitor closely for 6 - 24 hours and only seek medical attention if something untoward is happening. Because buckyball injuries occur days after the event, it's hard to pin a stomachache problem on Thursday with swallowing on Monday and treat it with the severity it deserves.

* The design of the toy makes it intrinsically impossible to keep the warnings intact with use. It doesn't matter how dire the warnings may be on an attached sheet of paper because the toy could be sold, given away or played with second hand and there was no way to guarantee transmission that information to the 2nd party. With larger toys, the CPUC could have mandated that warnings be injection moulded into the plastic for example but there was no such recourse with buckyballs.

* There's a finite number of compelling uses of buckyballs and one of them was to make fake studs by attaching them together through a thin fold of skin. On the face, there are only 4 places where this is possible: The earlobe, the nasal cavity, the lip fold and the tongue. 3 of the 4 places allow for a swallowing hazard and magnets are very easy to make fall apart with just the wrong nudge. This greatly increased the likelihood that this toy would be swallowed compared to similar toys.

* Swallowing a single buckyball is harmless, potentially giving people a false sense of security after accidentally swallowing one and having nothing bad happen. This would make them subsequently less careful in the future.

I'm pretty libertarian but I can certainly see the CPUC's rationale in banning these things. Yes, they're incredibly fun to play with and I still tinker with them to this day but the safety risks shouldn't be trivialized either.