skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USA is a lovely country, too bad it's inhabited. ;-)
Actually, yes, grocery stores in Germany may sell porn (if they sell magazines). From more classy stuff like Playboy and FHM to just downright cheap and simple porn magazines. Slightly hidden away so you only see the titles, of course. (And England has the famous "page three girls" in their newspapers.)

Of course it's Apple's legal right to deny what they want. That doesn't mean that I think it's right that they have that right. Apple is a quasi-monopoly, and people are dependent on them. There is no second app store for iOS devices really. A more fitting analogy would be when the postal service would decline to transport mail with porn in it. Would that be a good situation?

I'm sure if they would take away the porn magazines (even if the grocery stores just use their legal right to stock only whatever products they want), many people would scream bloody murder. But in the digital world, we are so used to clean walled gardens, that nobody cares. It's a bit like the movie Demolition Man...
Define 'enough money'. Should they cut back every non-essential employee until they have 5 people in a room, one of them responsible for all Firefox development? Should they assume that the Google revenue party will last forever, despite the fact that Google clearly is motivated to get all users on their own browser?

I think it makes sense to diversify the ways they can earn money, and advertising is a reasonable approach as long as it's honest. Nothing here seems to indicate that they will be disguising advertisements or sacrificing usability in favor of advertisements.
His constitutional right to a speedy trial would have been suitable, instead he was sexually assaulted before he got bailed out by an anonymous donor.

Texas owes this poor guy.
A COO is in charge of daily operations of the company and reports to the CEO. A famous COO would be Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook.
Incarceration rate by US State:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_incarcer...
Have you ever seen a good movie? Think for a second about that movie. What made it good?

Now imagine if you could make that movie even better for yourself. Imagine this movie was distributed along with a plastic box with a few knobs and dials on it. Wouldn't it be a better movie if you could turn the knobs to adjust the parameters of the movie -- there really aren't that many fundamental parameters to movies. You could adjust the heights of the actors, or the amount of furniture in a scene, or the physicality of risk and harm that characters endured, or even just add more redheads.

What if that box also asked what kind of movie you're in the mood for, or who your other favorite directors are. Then the movie could switch out some plot elements and style decisions to become a little bit more like another movie you wanted to watch.

Or what if instead of watching one particular movie you could just add movies together. Like say you wanted to watch Terminator 2, but alternating scenes with Clueless. Or maybe you could just put picture-in-picture, with all your favorite movies together on the same screen!

How great would that be!
That's fine - they have a road map of useful functionality - just add that and don't have to worry about removing it later.
> For instance, most of the literature I could find does agree that there is a biochemical basis for schizophrenia.

Basis != the phenomenon though. But try reading Julian Jaynes' "The Bicameral Mind" which will give you an idea into at least one possibility into how culture fits into it.

That there is a biological aspect to mental illness is beyond dispute. However that does not make it a biological phenomenon. There is probably a biological aspect to language too. That doesn't mean that language is biologically determined.
I can only really speak for myself, but the reason I feel angry is because advertising is a manipulative and often dishonest industry. Mozilla is the total antithesis of this, and it seems very wrong the way it was announced and the manner in which it was done.

I certainly don't see any discussion around the decision - who made the decision to prepopulate the tiles? Where is the original debate? How involved was the IAB in this decision? When did this get decided and for how long now? What stakeholders were notified?

What about privacy concerns - how will these ads target me? I don't want Firefox to turn into some sort of Facebook where my data isn't safe. There are no details about how they will achieve this increased advertising. In the original blog post, they have said they will target advertising via the country you are residing in - but what other data will it start detecting?

All very worrying.
The Google search bar that appears in Firefox when you install it, with a Google icon, is effectively an advertisement paid for with Google's money. The fact that it's an effective advertisement (and most people use that search bar) doesn't make it not an advertisement.

Note that for example the default search provider has been different in other countries at times based on other advertising deals Mozilla made - not just Google. It's easier to view it as not-an-ad when it's a search provider you use; less so than when it is a random provider that bid the highest amount.
I borrowed one for a few weeks from a friend.
This man's facebook post alone, and especially absent of any kind of access to a gun, are no grounds to assume any actual intent to cause physical harm. Far from it, I would say artists who have a history of violent confrontation, write/sing/rap about stabbing, shooting, or otherwise assaulting other people, and actually are in possession of weapons they could use to do so, could be assumed by any reasonable person to be more guilty of actually having an intent, or at least an overzealous willingness, to cause harm to others.
It doesn't sound like you've tried appealing the ruling. This sounds like the sort of thing that would get through on appeal once you've explained why it can't have more features.
I'm not sure how these services operate, but I wonder if a difference to traditional hotels is that they get applications, rather than reservations on a first come, first served basis?

If AirBnB landlords receive applications, maybe they just wait for an attractive one (ie a single male landlord could prefer to rent to attractive women).

I'm not trying to defend racism, just wondering how to alleviate the problem. I suppose traditional hotels don't get to look at a profile of the people who book with them. At most they could infer something from their name.
I got a good trend chart by using the category-filter:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US&q=/#cat=0-5&q=...

Btw. when I input "Python programming language", I get Java and C++ as suggestions... funny as Google itself uses Python ;)
Mozilla has publicly stated that they make at least $300 million per year from Google (as of 2011) [1]. Although there are reports that this is closer to $1 billion per year now (including all search-related revenues).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing
You got rejected for using rounded rects? What rule did they invoke?
> Or would you prefer FF effectively no longer exist and have to use Chrome instead?

With this anti-feature, I would use Chrome anyway -- even if it was otherwise identical to FF.

> Honestly, explicit ads marked as ads in the UI are preferable to hidden advertisement/deals - like defaulting to Google search without communicating to users that money has changed hands for that preferential treatment.

Whether its the default I prefer or one that I don't, the why they set the default doesn't matter. What matters is (a) is it clear up front what the default is, (b) is it what I prefer, and (c) if not, is it clear and simple to change.

OTOH, ads in the browser UI are a significant anti-feature compared to all the browsers that don't do that.
In my config I set browser.newtab.url to about:blank

I have someone javascript bookmarklets and they don't work with the regular new tab page, but they do with about:blank
I wouldn't lose any sheep over it.
I'd agree that his timing was a bit off, and he didn't land his punchline. But being a failed comedian and telling off-color jokes is, luckily, not a crime. Look at all of those dead baby jokes.

So yeah, making a joke about a bomb or something might ruffle some feathers. But how many terrorists tell a plane full of people that they have a bomb BEFORE the people actually get on the plane? None of them. Because that's a stupid thing to do.
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GoGrid wants to be your open source alternative to Amazon's cloud databases
Thanks for the feedback, and woo +1 future customer :)

Our developers page is really new, so there's definite room for improvement. 1+2 definitely need a look tonight.

3. The UI here could use work; the template is actually in the horizontal section ABOVE the curl box ...

You can signup (no cc required) and check the editor out, or just watch our getting started video (which we need to make more public): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQhLeBU9wrs

4. Yup, responsive emails included out of the box. We'll be adding more templates shortly (a lot of requests for this lately!)
So what role does the Bitcoin Foundation play in the Bitcoin world? Is this a threat to Bitcoin itself, or is this just some people who thought it'd be a nice name to give themselves some superficial credibility?
That didn't stop the original European settlers now did it? ;D
> You can run Debian with any init you choose.

When layers above the init system begin to make hard dependencies on it, this will be unavoidable in practice. This is the problem, since it either takes away my choice in init system, or requires unpaid volunteers to work on removing the dependency. Neither is desirable, and the grandparent's argument is that this could all have been avoided if the systemd developers had made better design choices.

Don't get me wrong, I want systemd to be an option. I like the idea of using cgroups to manage services. I do it every day. What I do not want, however, is for systemd to be a requirement for having a working system.
I'd say it depends on the occasion. For instance, when Louis C.K. says something similar while performing a comedy show, it's absolutely clear that he's not actually going to shoot up a school. It's meant to shock his audience. When you're posting these things on the internet to people you probably don't even know in person (so they have no way to know wether you're joking or not), things can get hairy quickly.

I'm sure the person he made the threats to knew he was joking, and thought it would be a good troll to report him to the authorities. Bad taste aside, when you're not 100% certain your 'threat' won't be perceived as such, please don't write them down.
First of all, 'people' do not get to decide whether this is a direct threat that needs punishment. Judges of laws make that call.

We have rules for a reason. The police broke them and this accused kid is suffering for it. There is no justification for putting him in jail just because someone thought they might feel threatened. There were multiple breakdowns in the legal system that should have protected him from illegal arrest and prosecution but comments like this make it seem ok to turn a blind eye.

He's never been convicted of anything. Why the rush to punish?
Will let you know, the potential won't be visible at first, because it's impossible to create all from the start.

Iterate...Iterate...Iterate ;-)
Why even hack? They went with a screenshot. A second hand screenshot!

Note to 4chan. Create screenshots of terrorsm acts from DA and judge and send to other states PD
Reading the original article [1] this doesn't look like such a big issue.

For new users that don't have any recently used sites rather than blank tiles they will get some Mozilla suggested sites and some sponsored tiles.

I presume for existing users you'll never even see these and, for new users, as soon as you've actually visited some sites these will disappear.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publish...
I've lived in the south my whole life. It's a hell hole of backwards racism, fear. I stay here for my family and my wife's job. But it's hard.
And I think that's exactly the point being made.
> Should they assume that the Google revenue party will last forever, despite the fact that Google clearly is motivated to get all users on their own browser?

Building an additional layer of advertising into the FF browser is a good way to advance Google's goal of getting all users on Google's browser.
Should have gone with Android.

I really want this app, and now they are having to spend time getting it accepted by apple, it's just going to delay an Android version.
Considering that their entire goal is to supplant all currency, No. But I don't really trust any forms of control.
What happened to "beyond a reasonable doubt"? Hacking, Photoshopping, etc all seem more than reasonable these days...

But I'm pretty sure burden of proof on the prosecution and 'reasonable doubt' went the way of the Dodo years ago.
Fine him for what? He has been convicted of nothing.
acapela infovox have the best voices I've heard.

http://www.acapela-box.com/
"Mozilla said that the ads are part of an attempt to connect new browser users to sites that they might find relevant."

I understand that Mozilla is looking for ways to fund itself. But they should not join those who use the word "relevant" in this disingenuous way.

This phrasing is an obvious attempt to sugarcoat the fact that we are being inundated by so many schemes to grab a piece of our limited cognitive capacity that we wouldn't even be able to notice something relevant if it were actually there.

Mozilla's advantage over other browser makers is that users trust them not to use the kind of deceptive chicanery that we're being subjected to left and right. So they better not ruin that trust by using dishonest language.
The ads in fact are placeholders in the empty dial screen. They will disappear after you visit 6 sites. I'm not 100% sure, but I think that you will not be tracked if they are shown to you.

If Mozilla does not cross this border I'm fine with this very passive advertisement.
They help set national policy for regulation of virtual currency, which is pretty important. They've testified before Congress twice and have had a number of closed-door meetings with federal agencies.
The US police are bad but it's the prosecutors that are at major fault here. This case should be dismissed.
What if the movie came with the full set of trailers (preview, theatrical, etc.) for the movie? And had a director's commentary track? With a second audio track that had the actors telling jokes? Or even just take all of the funny moments that happened while filming, where people missed their lines, and put them on the same DVD? Maybe they could even throw in an entirely different ending for the movie that was replaced or removed late in the process?

Seriously: I appreciate the point you are trying to make here, but you chose a horrible example that I think actually argues that adding random features isn't a big deal :/. Besides, they already claim to have a bunch of features planned anyway: it isn't like the developers are seemingly of the "this is the exact app that should be released, and there should be no random additions or extra features added, as doing so would ruin the whole experience"...

> The next couple planned releases on our roadmap will heavily rely on native iOS functions and code to include things like tagging, additional graph views and scrubbing, ability to add media. etc... And by eventually letting people combine their data, you will be able to see how their relative happiness aligns to other users, a neighborhood and even the world.

(It is also possible, however, that I totally misunderstood your response, and you are actually saying that having a happiness index that you kept track of on a moment-to-moment basis while watching a movie would let you optimize the movie according to your personal tastes. I feel like that's lower probability--more dots need connecting for that--but if I did actually misunderstand your comment I'm sorry that my response just adds to the confusion.)
> On a side note, do a lot of people really listen to music while swimming?

In all fairness, the moment the video dove under water, I was like "oooh, sweet silence".

On the other hand, I always have fast upbeat pounding techno music on while running, and it really helps me.
Yes, it would taste like a mix of rare steak and ruined steak
I stand corrected. Achmed the dead terrorist was hilarious!
Once you see / use them, they become obvious inventions. You know, lightbulbs are so boring right now. Nothing original about them.

Before Apple came up with iPhone, I had a freaking Ericsson brick thingy. None of Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung were innovating. None of those old, non original ideas were in any of those devices. Nokia had a webkit browser with a ridiculous cursor that you operated with that joystick thingy. I'm glad that Apple actually pushed them forward.

So yes, I think Apple has original products and they are innovating.
I would have guessed the percentage was higher on HN than most sites.

I've never lost my fascination with the world and how it all works (from the level of politics and human interaction right down to the atomic level).

How could you not be fascinated with the universe, it's so big and so complex and there is so much to learn about.
The article was interesting, but it's more interesting seeing that Apple is Hacker News favourite whipping boy now.
I usually despise wired, but publishing a paid advert about some silly google Easteregg? That's a new low.

Hint: press menu, download offline maps.

My 2.3 phone has this feature...
Yep, they sure liked it.
The above is an expression we use a lot in my own country (Romania): "Our country is great, too bad it's inhabited".
It can easily be extended to any country, imho. :)
Disliking all races different from your own is xenophobic. There is a different word for it. :)
I once worked on a project that pivoted the business logic so many times, with one hack after another, that technical debt went through the roof - at which point it became next to impossible to further evolve it. Because of legacy and tight coupling, simple features would take longer and longer to implement. And because the architecture was completely based on assumptions of low traffic that would grow organically (it was a web service), the shit really hit the fan when we started getting tens of thousands of requests per second, again because the architecture was so bad that it seemed as any optimization we did was worthless and actually made matters worse. The web service actually had to be stopped for a while, because as a startup we couldn't afford to rent a thousand frontend servers and even if we did, you're only moving the problem up the chain, which in our case was the data storage and again, because of tight coupling, it was unfeasible to move it to something that scales horizontally.

So the solution was to basically rebuild this web service from scratch. This decision also came with business logic simplifications - as we realized that certain features were unfeasible at that scale, so many features ended up being dropped based on technical considerations. Which IMHO was OK, because the best way to approach problem solving is to build less and sometimes we end up building features instead of solving the problem that we set out to solve in the first place.

I wish I could say that our initial approach allowed us to iterate fast. But it didn't. I was there from the start, I've built the prototypes, I did the pivots, I made all the wrong choices, I managed the team that came after and I could've made all the right choices without sacrificing fast iterations. All it takes is experience and tools that do "the right thing" in regards to your problem, without sacrificing productivity - being able to recognize the best tool for the job, being able to simplify problems, being able to tell the cost of something - now those are traits of good software developers.

The article does have a point though - you can learn all day about tools, best practices, algorithms, paradigms or whatnot, but in the end the goal isn't and shouldn't be to write "beautiful code", but rather to produce artifacts for solving problems that people have.
That sounds more interesting.

I'm not looking for a a monolithic solution, but something in which I can integrate all of our current scripts, third party tools, semi-manual processes and what have you.

In the real world, server management is a mix of tons of little tools and procedures, usually run over SSH.

However, handing SSH access to our systems to a third party SaaS tools scares the crap out of me.
I'm not surprised since this is pretty similar to what all communication hubs are trying to do (for obvious marketing reasons). You are serious competition and they have the power to sweep you under a rug.
http://www.reddit.com/r/actualmoney/
>I think this is a false dichotomy -- developing a masterful understanding of what things cost must be coupled with a masterful understanding of what makes things valuable.

It might be a false dichotomy in theory ("well, no reason why these two concept should not be orthogonal") but it sure is a real dichotomy for very many developers.

People lost in the details of coding, best practices, new fancy languages, monads et al, while not producing anything of substance for real users -- or getting lost in the process and not getting anything released.

There's even a kind of term for these people "architecture astronauts" (coind by Joel Spolsky IIRC). And the even older, "worse is better" notion is also related to the same issue.
I think it would. It's not like a piece of charred meat 'cancels out' a piece of cold, uncooked meat. If you were flavoring a batch of yoghurt, and 1/4 of it has 10% too much, and 1/4 10% too little, then yes. But for processes where the not-measured characteristics of the elements on the left side of the curve are different than those on the right, no.
I'm pretty sure openrc uses (or has the option to use) cgroups for dealing with just this. Containerizing services isn't a new idea--Solaris and FreeBSD can do this already, for example.

Regardless of the init system, we've had the ability to control daemons with cgroups already for some time (cgexec and friends). Even in humble sysvinit, I can edit an initscript and ensure that the service it starts runs in a cgroup. Hypothetically, I could even do this inside of start-stop-daemon.
Could be. It was probably 10 years ago. But basically it's back when the "mobile WMD trucks" were the talking point of the day. U.N. Inspectors and U.S. Inspectors had been all over the place and had been looking for these supposed weapons but they couldn't find any. And so the President said very clearly that, no, they couldn't find the weapons or even the mobile units. But that was evidence that they were being hidden and that we should thus begin preparations for a ground campaign.
Because humans tend to be obsessed with one or the other, humans have limited capacity, humans tend to go overboard.

At the end of the day you have to learn to make compromises, and that you can't always have "both".
I was hoping to live in some of these places in the future. Would you mind clarifying why the states on this list are especially bad rather than others?
In Smalltalk you define points with '@' so you could do...

drawRectOrigin: 50@50 extent: 10@21.

drawRectOrigin: 50@50 corner: 60@71.

If you really wanted, on class Point you could define method ',' with parameter 'otherPoint' as follows...

, otherPoint
^ Rectangle origin: self corner: otherPoint.

then you could do draw rectangles like this...

drawRect: (50@50),(60@71).

drawRect: (screenLeft@screenTop),(screenRight@screenBottom).
Missing out on Dotmailer http://www.dotmailer.co.uk integration which would stop me from using it.