skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one hand, Dell seems to think there is a market of people willing to pay to install Firefox. Whoever conducted that research probably found people trusting Firefox than IE or Chrome or Opera. That's just my guess. I have heard people saying "web download is broken. You first have to use some browser like Chrome or IE to install Firefox, but what if that IE version is compromised? What if people click on the wrong mozilla.org by googling and instead installed a malicious, modified Mozilla firefox?" Maybe Dell read HNs and thought "yeah let's help the poor souls out there!" (http://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-safe...)

On the other hand, this charging practice is ridiculous. I can understand some people are not technical at all (espeically the elders and new computer users), but come on, this is a ripe off. If you already created a custom image to load into every hard drive you sell to your customer, modify that image by adding Firefox. How much effort is that, Dell?

edit:
Does Dell's installation bundles with third-party addons? Remember the old toolbar spam? It would be interesting one day Dell decides to sell Tor installation service.
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Funny and mostly accurate retitling but probably should be changed to correct title.
Besides it's fun to tell people you have logolepsy, but the seizures are controllable.
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Having taken several such tests, I can't help observing that they're also administered by the College board and cost money to sit - something on the order of $75 each.
cool - thx for this.

also can use secure tmp files or rsync:

rsync --rsync-cmd='sudo rsync' -rpave ssh \
/some/dir/ \
me@remote:/some/dir/

(or, pulling backups for best security)

vault$ rsync --rsync-cmd='sudo rsync' -rpave ssh \
backup_user@dbserver:/var/ /backups/var/
tbh I think some of this has less to do with FF and more to do with OSX. (used one for almost three years.)

As far as I'm aware of there is no universal standard that every developer follows on OS X. Some choose CMD + arrow keys, others the classical shell version (ctrl a/ctrl e). Even Apples own apps are (was?) not consistent in this matter.
> In the mobile market, both of those game types get suffocated by the manipulative F2P games that milk as much money as they can out of players before they churn

No. In the mobile market, high production games have mostly failed because it's the wrong medium for them. Low budget, high quality experiences exist and are successful if you look for them (Device 6, The Room, etc). But that place is NOT the top grossing chart, any more than the best food is found in the largest restaurant chains or the best music is in the MTV top 40.
I don't think 'free' is going to beat 'supercheap' any time soon. If anything 'free' is going to suffer at the hands of 'cheap': people have come to expect IAPs from 'free' games.
The question is: if TC reporters were replaced by buzzword spewing software, would the article quality get better or worse?
I'm getting an error for an unterminated string literal - it looks like all the google analytics code isn't there.
Is it not possible that this is just market segmentation? Like, the people you are referring to would never pay for those games otherwise. With the discount mechanism in place Steam gets to take their money too. People who are more flexible regarding game prices are not going to wait months for a discount and just pay the full price.
Though it is unpopular to say it, individuals differ in their innate academic aptitude. What is hard for some will be easy for others, and no amount of preparation can completely overcome this.
I love stories like these.
I haven't gone much past calculus, what stories can I look for that will take me farther?
Yeah, to expand on what I meant,

Population growth -> Naturally leads to more people willing to criticize the SAT because percentages. Especially if there remains a similar or greater level of exposure to it, which there has.

Population growth -> Larger applicant pool, and assuming Yale or whoever is unwilling to drop the SAT as a filtering mechanism, naturally means they'll raise their various bars, including the SAT score cutoff.
I just assembled mine last night, and am currently surfing HN while burning calories. Hopefully will stop wasting time soon and get back to writing code.
Break free of the mindframe that those with secrets are keeping something wrong secret.

I'm not having that mindset. I actually see three kinds of secrets people might have:

- things they shouldn't be doing in the first place (like tax fraud),

- things that are dangerous should evil people know about them (by government mass surveilence, you installing a camera in my bathroom, etc.),

- things that are inconvenient should morons know about them (like religious/sexual orientation, etc.)

Most of the privacy-related discussions here focus on the second and third kind. I argue that we shouldn't keep only blaming particular technologies (cameras, satellites, big data), but instead we should focus on dealing with evil people and morons. Fighting technology is pointless (sans starting Third World War) and potentially hurtful (all that surveillance tech we're so afraid of can and already does wonders in areas like agriculture, medicine, public safety and social studies).

How about we make sure that social and legal structure deters people from acting on collected data in a malicious way, that makes it easier to get rid of morons in your collective social network, instead of blaming mapping technologies for breaking marriages, or Twitter for government shooting their citizens in a more efficient manner, or Facebook for that boss not hiring you because you're an atheist?
> For instance in GMail I can't use Cmd+arrow keys to jump to the beginning or end of a line

This is a bug in gmail, not a bug in Firefox. In standard browser text widgets, Firefox reads your standard OS X key bindings and treats them properly.

However, Google is unsatisfied with standard form fields, and so they reimplemented their own glitchy, poor-performance, half-broken text widget, which happens to semi-work in Webkit, but not handle shortcuts like cmd-arrows in Firefox. It’s in no way fair to blame Mozilla for that.
That would miss the point of this submission. But you can submit it again with the actual title... The discussion will certainly be different if there's any discussion at all.
I think there's a different force at play here:

When the software comes with the computer, you can turn around and complain to Dell about the software. There is someone you can call, and generally it's rolled into the phone support contract.

When the software is installed afterwards, you don't have the same ease of complaining. Dell can argue that Firefox somehow messed up your computer.

That is a convenience many people are willing to pay for. Whether they would pay the 16£ is a different question
root is prime target for brute force.

not only that, but it's a violation of pci/fips/hippa/sox etc to share administrative accounts, so if you're a team of one that's one thing, but don't share root with anyone else.
Is the logo an ouroboros?
Osx support in kvm
This is mostly incorrect. Cf. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

Nearly all OS X apps use Cocoa and standard Cocoa text widgets. Ones which don’t, such as Firefox, usually try to read the standard Cocoa keybindings and respect them. Firefox actually does a relatively good job with this now (within the past 2 years or so; before that, they didn’t).

Both cmd+arrows and ctrl+a/e should work in almost every text box on OS X.

[Unfortunately, applications like browsers override cmd+arrows to switch tabs or navigate through history or something, depending on context... which is IMO a really stupid and obnoxious choice. Browsers typically use cmd+arrows for back/forward except in a text box, where the text bindings take over. I hate it, because it leads to accidentally going back when the user intends the text box movement command.]

The problem in the GP’s particular case lies with gmail’s custom form field though, which is not a regular text widget, not with Firefox.
+1 for userv
relevant: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
There's also a prohibition against fees "tied to subscribing to or purchasing a service". This seems pretty much like a service being purchased...

I accept that the law can be entirely arbitrary and based on tiny technicalities, but it seems like Dell's in the wrong here to me.
Obviously, as the author alluded to at the end, this isn't going to happen for every single game.

If you look at either the Google Play or iOS App Store you'll see that there are plenty of well-known games in both free and PSID categories.

I myself was just playing a riveting game of Kingdom Rush (a Tower Defence game) which I paid £1.29 for. Considering how much time I spent playing Tower Defence in WC3 as a teenager I'd say I got a real bargain to be able to play this for only £1.29.

I am not alone in my ability and willingness to pay. Just look at those charts. People still do and always will pay for games as long as this fact continues to be true:

All games are not created equal.
Ask HN: Whats the best and worst parts of being a web developer/designer
I'm part of a start up to make web designers/developers life easier and would love a look into the best and worst parts of the job. I'm mostly intrigued about the design and development of smaller scale websites or prototyping website but if there is anything that grinds your gears about your day to day workings I'd love to hear it.

Thanks in advance for any help at all.
How do you propose to make that happen?
He's saying you're full of shit
I'm developing the arduino package index. Basically an online repo where people can share their code/schematics with others. It is in the same spirit as the python package index. Have already integrated it into the Arduino IDE, and currently building the webapp. Should be done by next week. Currently talking with the arduino core team to see if this is something they would integrate into the ecosystem.

https://github.com/ASIMUV/Arduino

https://github.com/ASIMUV/arduino-package-index
I'm trying to understand why Stripe didn't send out an e-mail to all merchants before making this change. I, too, was blindsided.
Oh my god, I used to make these things as a kid! We had a popsicle-stick building contest and while we were waiting for the glue to dry we'd make these and throw them at the other kids' bridges. I had no idea they were actually a "thing". Thank you for posting, brings back memories.
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Great post! When wearables are fully accepted by society people wont remember why these products caused so much controversy.
Unfortunately, no. It's the key reason why this feature isn't widely adopted I think.
I would be willing to bet that they aren't running an installer on each person's machine, though. If they created multiple disk images - one with FF, one without - and are charging to use the one with FF, then it looks like they're charging for distribution.
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The future of checkout I envision will be with a smart watch.

Go to walmart, seven eleven, or any grocery store, do your shopping, the cashier activates the bill using NFC and you get it in your watch waiting for a confirmation.

The cashier gets your pic from the profile saved in the watch so she knows you're the real owner of the watch.

Extra security with a fingerprint, a 4 digit pin, or a secret swipe before sending the money from a credit card stored in the watch profile.

And that, my friends, is how smart watches will conquer our world.

I love that future and my bet is on it.
> The quality of open-source typography has massively increased in just the past few years, and it's great to see Intel making its own contribution. The number of free options we have today for well-balanced, full, multi-weight type families (not just "fonts") would have seemed impossible just four years ago.

What are some examples of the recent ones? (links are preferred, please).
I don't have much opinion about Australis. I was referring to performance regression, addon/extension compatibility. Mozilla has a lot of work to put into after enabling it in the release; I believe it's 29?
Hi,

I work at Facebook, more specifically, I've spent a considerable chunk of my time working on our Android app and the Android permissions we request. (I also worked on that same area before I joined Facebook)

These permissions were actually added several months ago, long before the WhatsApp deal was announced. There's no connection.

I want to correct some of the misrepresentations in the article.

The WRITE_CALENDAR permission: As many app developers will know, this permission is needed by any application that wants to create a calendar feed in the unified Android calendar storage, and create/modify events in it. In particular, the Facebook app would like to give you the option to import your Facebook events so that you can see them side-by-side with your other calendars like Google Calendar, corporate Exchange accounts and so on. We don't need to be able to send event invites or updates to attendees by email, but we can't divide the pre-set Android permission into any smaller pieces.

We use the READ_SMS permission to automatically read SMS codes from people who have turned on 2-factor authentication (called Login Approvals) for their accounts, or for phone confirmation messages when you add a phone number to your Facebook account. Unfortunately, the Android permissions system doesn't allow us to specify that we would like to be able to read only SMS messages from a specific number—the one we use to send these codes.

In general, we would love to be able to ask only for the permissions we need for the specific features we expect people to use. However, Android doesn't allow permission requests on demand; we have to request all permissions that cover each feature at install time, and people must choose to accept or deny all of them at once.

If you have specific questions about other permissions that our app requires, don't hesitate to ask, and I'll do my best to explain how they're used. We also have an official Help Center page that covers a lot of this material at https://www.facebook.com/help/210676372433246.
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Yep. Theater projectors have roughly $1k in specialized decoding chips to make that work.

Software encode/decode of JP2k is the hard part. That's why there's little adoption of J2k outside of hardware solutions.
It can be as fast as a subaru http://giffare.com/gifs/32799-rc-subaru-wrx-races-a-stick-bo...
Yes, if you're using Tor. My point is: Bitcoin doesn't hide anything; Tor does, whether you're using it for paying hitmen with bitcoins or sexting with XMPP. It's the Tor part alone that does it all.
> When BDD first came out, it was based on the premise that, yes, we're really just doing the same thing as TDD, but we're using better words. We use "spec" instead of "test," for example.

BDD is a higher level framework (focussed on acceptance test rather than unit test) and addresses relationships in a broader scope (customer to dev team) than TDD tends to. Its not just a rephrasing, its a further development.

BDD also focussed on how tests should be expressed based on the combination idea of being executable specs and the idea that that analysts/customers should be involved in, at least, reviewing them.

So, some of the things in the article here might be related to the thinking at the roots of BDD (heck, it even uses the word "behavior driven design"), but its making points about TDD that are outside of what BDD is focussed on.
> Notably absent from the list is the one thing I, and I suspect many others reading this, actually care about: making Firefox a better browser, i.e., fixing bugs, improving performance, and adding support for useful new features. Do that, and any concerns about how much/little it's being used will take care of themselves.

Stop the FUD already will you? (Check my comment history, I'm mostly nice)

Mozilla has been iterating tirelessly on speed and lower memory consumption etc etc.

I can't remember when the last major ui redesign was.

So for everyone who hasn't tried FF in a while: give it a try!
Or they could enforce this feature.

Generally writing a book about a language, you should not be occupied with what a FUTURE version of a language noone has announced MIGHT be.
The more vociferously a language-feature is debated on Hacker News, the less it matters.
It should be noted that the article was posted by TechCrunch's enterprise writer, Alex Williams, who's a less-frequent author. (not to be confused with other TC writer-with-a-similar-name Alex Wilhelm)

Other articles by Williams have a similar style of prose, although with fewer buzzwords:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/02/neo4j-a-graph-database-for-...

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/01/a-billionaire-jewelry-king-...
> And if not, how is this different than a Ticketmaster-esque because-we-can fee?

For one thing you aren't blocked from downloading and using Firefox if you don't purchase the installation option through Dell.
It would certainly be interesting to understand if it's a functional long tail.

For me personally, I often end up picking up games on sale or in Humble Sales (which have Steam keys) because my two gaming PCs are ancient by modern standards, so I'm generally buying games which are a few years old to run on them.

The former point may well factor into Valve's thinking; they have very good information on people's hardware, after all.
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Obviously, this isn't going to happen for every single game.

If you look at either the Google Play or iOS App Store you'll see that there are plenty of well-known games in both free and PSID categories.

I myself was playing a riveting game of Kingdom Rush (a Tower Defence game) which I paid £1.29 for. Considering how much time I spent playing Tower Defence in WC3 as a teenager I'd say I got a real bargain to be able to play this for only £1.29.

I am not alone in my ability and in fact desire to pay. Just look at those charts. People still do and always will pay for games as long as this fact continues to be true:

All games are not created equal.
Shameless plug - the company I work for is (sort of) doing this for tons of public data sources. http://enigma.io
It is! Idea was to signify our desire to consume traditional publishing with a new publishing model. Publishing eating publishing.
Negotiating is like a muscle. You're gonna want to work on it before the moments that really matter. Easiest way might be to start going to flea markets, because those azn grandmas are killers that make Shark Tank look like the kiddie pool.

That'll help the soft skills, but in a hiring situation, the other part is getting to what the other side really wants and what their concerns are. A hiring manager's first thoughts are: "how much babysitting is this person going to take?" and "will s/he mess up team mojo?" Don't be that person, be the net go-giver that makes 'em shine... Less talk, more walk.
A Kalman filter assumes that measurement noise follows a Gaussian distribution, and it continuously updates its estimate of the covariance based on previous observations. Therefore, if you gave it a bunch of very similar observations (like differing by 0.1) for a long time, the covariance would get very narrow. Once the activity spikes appeared, they would not have much influence on the state estimate because the probability distribution would imply they were extremely unlikely events. This would look very similar to a low-pass filter.

Although the Kalman filter retains some aggregate data about past states in its iterated covariance estimate, it is still primarily a recurrence relation where the future state depends on the immediate present, much like a discretized low-pass filter. This is part of why I'm intrigued by the parent article's use of a Kalman filter for this application.
It hasn't been ruled a suicide, according to WSJ:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/27/american-ceo-of-singa...

> “I was informed by the Singapore police about her death,” Abrams told The Wall Street Journal Thursday. “The cause of death is still under investigation.”
It's not the idea that's bad, it's the prose.

It's the danger from leaning too closely on the press release—a good journo's job is to make sense of stuff, not add to the cruft. The headline is as clear as mud; it needs a good editor.
Glancing through this, I think you have a point. Even tech reporting needs a little creativity in writing to make it palatable...
What if you could request a semver range for the checkout js file? That way vendors could opt in to fixes, enhancements or major changes and be confident in the level of volatility in UX for their customers.
Hi Patrick, is there any timeline for international payout support? I am currently working on a marketplace project and I'm looking for options other than PayPal.
I thought it was a model of simplicity and clarity myself.
Replace "JSON" in their diagram[0] with a variable and you can describe every webapp ever.

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/07/espresso-logic-raises-1-6m-...
That, plus with Steam's DRM, they could steal my collection any time they decide they don't like me for some reason, or something causes them to go under.

I'll never pay full price for a game until I can be assured that 50 years from now my grandkids can piece together a PC emulator and start playing my old game collection.
Some brief notes, to give a clue about details and scope:

http://markdownshare.com/view/7cfb7f05-938b-4402-bb63-33217d...

If that post still exists the job is still up for grabs.
This is exactly the correct thing to do. Spend 60 seconds a day updating both your boss and your CEO of your activities for that day. It is entirely possible they have unrealistic expectations of you, and it may be that your peers are getting more done than you are, but either way the only constructive way to have this discussion is around work assigned, work delivered, and work quality. Your notes will help make that possible.
Why "Top" Candidates Can Ruin Your Company
I remember meeting Michael Hartl in the airport prior to RailsConf a couple years ago. Great guy & I recall he mentioned this idea. Nice to see it launch–best of luck!
I would suggest Venmo by Braintree.
Hilarious new webseries that satirizes Reality TV "Night of Reality"
You can kind of achieve this in the U.S., at least in my school district, through AP classes or taking equivalent classes at the local junior college to satisfy high school credits. The structure of the school day was still exactly the same, but it allowed you to knock out two years of undergrad in high school.
Just shipped out my project to the app store yesterday.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hakka-news-ycombinator-hacke...

I want to add more features like search and do a little more polishing. Couldn't even submit this to showHN because I got banned while fixing the html scraper inside libHN.
The ball is in God's court. I made His temple.

God says...
place guilty Hasta thank_you_very_much beam_me_up It's_nice_being_God
I_give_up eh
I'm not sure where was actually first; I think at this point they exist in a lot of cities. I noticed them in Copenhagen some months ago, e.g. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fisketorvet+Shopping+Cente...
People just love sabotaging their own web sites: http://www.imgur.com/rWEXEeR.png
I don't think "social" is the selling point. If I just look at "all buildings", only very few of them seem to be about actual work. It's more about having fun in exclusive locations with loving animals.
Rails is slow enough to begin with.
Psychology studies are (in my general opinion) notoriously poor science to the point that the vast majority of them are worthless fluff useful only for sensational headlines.