skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The only reason I've heard to not prevent search leakage is that marketers use Referrer info to do better search engine optimization (SEO). But the information doesn't have to disappear, just the current mechanism of transferring the information in a personally identifiable way."

I struggle to see how this could work in a way that's a fraction as useful to webmasters as the current system. Sites that sell things like to tie keywords to conversions. They can learn, for example, that keyword X drives sales, but keyword Y doesn't, and assign resources accordingly. Online businesses become more efficient, and searchers get more of what they want. I think it's largely a good thing all round.

My respect goes to DuckDuckGo for coming up with a clever way to differentiate themselves from their competition. However, if the problem is that sites are inadvertently sharing keywords with third-party ad networks, then point the finger at those ad networks, not at Google. Blaming Google makes about as much sense as blaming Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and the web in general for sending referrers in the first place.
There doesn't seem to be a tax.stackexchange.com yet.
When you're writing a game engine, your main concern is performance. Not using the built-in javascript sqrt() and rolling out your own would be woefully inefficient.

That question would have made more sense for an engine in C, building your own fixed-point sqrt() for example.
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A good manager can help this by instituting fair meeting hours. The most common track I've seen is to say that meetings can occur between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm. That way the early risers aren't held hostage by somebody not showing up until noon and then wanting to schedule meetings until 6:00. (Or the late risers aren't tormented by somebody who wants meetings at 7:30 every morning.)
Why would anyone engage in a theoretical discussion about whether 3D cinema would be good to watch? It already exists. You can go buy a ticket and see for yourself. You can do this literally right now.

> The 3D image is dark [...] and small.

I just saw a 3D movie last week and didn't notice that.

> [...] horizontal movement will strobe much sooner in 3D than it does in 2D.

I just saw a 3D movie last week and it was good. I was able to determine this despite having no idea what strobing is.

> So 3D films require us to focus at one distance and converge at another.

I just saw a 3D movie last week and had no issues with convergence.

> 3D films remind the audience that they are in a certain "perspective" relationship to the image.

I just saw a 3D movie last week and was very immersed.

Next up, we have a scientist with a theory about what the far side of the moon looks like. Apollo whatnow?
> TAKRIZ asks his members, friends, followers and readers to stop relying
on Facebook and to disperse and follow TAKRIZ Twitter account
twitter.com/takriz and check http://degage.tv publishing the latest
videos.

Everyone is doing it wrong. Wikileaks, now these guys...

Facebook and Twitter are companies. They have no obligation to help you out, and if you cause them any inconvenience they'll drop you. The Internet and the Web are open and free platforms. Dissidents should buy their own domain names, host themselves in different countries and stop trusting a single company to help you in a REVOLUTION. Something so important as a revolution should not depend so tightly on a single US company with a 20-something hip nerd as CEO.

Edit: okay, they get some credit for the degage.tv site. That's pretty awesome. But don't be surprised if the twitter account disappears.
A long time takriz follower here. Welcome to HN.
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Fictional dialogue between Ebert and myself:

Ebert: "Stop watching that 3D movie, it's straining your eyes!"
Me: "But... no it isn't and it's awesome"
Ebert: "It isn't immersive!
Me: "I'm feeling perfectly immersed, thank you"
Ebert: "But there are all these valid but theoretical reasons why you shouldn't enjoy it!"
Me: "Would you please just shut up and let me watch the movie? The aliens are about to have all the sex. In 3D!"
Ebert: "Hrumph!"

You can see how I let myself get the last word there, not counting Ebert's old-grumpy-man-throat-clearing. So clearly I had all the winning arguments.

My point is this: All the theoretical reasoning about planes and strains are moot as far as I know. Because in the end... 3D is awesome. I love it, and I wont let any experts in the world convince me otherwise. Even Feynman wouldn't be able to... well ok, maybe Feynman. But none other!
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Ask HN: Review my startup - YumTab, universal recipe box, Delicious replacement
YumTab started as a weekend project to help my girlfriend and I manage recipes we found online and cooked. Many weekends and week nights later, YumTab is close to where I want it to be.

http://yumtab.com/

It's a universal recipe box that saves recipe bookmarks along with things like ingredients, which get extracted from the page automatically. It also has a basic planner, shopping list, and sharing features.

Existing solutions were inadequate. There are a few "universal recipe box" / recipe bookmarking sites out there, but they all suffer from one or more of: restricted site support, need to copy & paste ingredients manually, or cumbersome, ad-riddled interface.

I tried to focus on making YumTab a useful complement to recipe sites for actual cooks, rather than just another source of food porn (not that there's anything wrong with that -- there's just plenty of good solutions already).

The homepage design has gone through many iterations. Comments about that would be appreciated.

I'm more coder than hustler at this point, so promotion & monetization suggestions welcome. I've considered requiring one-time payments, a la pinboard.in (maybe with a free limit of 100 recipes or so) but I'm not sure how well that would work. I'd like to avoid plastering the site with ads.

FYI, it uses PHP on the frontend and Clojure on the backend.

Thank you!
The code injected to steal passwords in Tunisia
I was in the same boat as you about 6 months ago with no programming experience whatsoever (21 yrs old and a semester away from graduating college). I had trouble learning RoR, but stuck with it and launched the mvp of my first web app last week. I wrote a brief summary of my experience learning rails and building the app already (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112146) so I won't repost for the sake of redundancy, but there's the link. Feel free to shoot me an email if you need any tips with Ruby on Rails from a new programmer prospective.
You say anyone would be doomed to fail if they came to Japan to start a business, but why would that be?
I would be more concerned about the long term effects of the social coding portrayed in Tangled (e.g. verbal interactions, body image and gender stereotypes) than theoretical physiological effects.
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Perhaps access to the NYT or other American news sources (or even HN?) is difficult in Tunisia, but what exactly gave a dissident political group the idea of hosting a "group" page on Facebook? Did it seem like a good idea because IPs get logged? Because everything is sent and hosted unencrypted and in the open? Because group membership is easily accessible with a subpoena, along with a list of your friends and family, and the locations they last logged in from?

In this case, I'd say it's probably in their own interest that Facebook is "silencing" them...
Care to share what you're working on?
Put yourself in the shoes of an activist in Tunisia or elsewhere. You want to reach friends, acquaintances, and neighbors. You want a feed that people can follow from an account they check every single day. You want people to be able to find the latest information from their mobile phones. You have no money to spend and if you try to start an open source project or a company you'll probably be arrested.

To me, Facebook (etc.) looks like a pretty good option in that situation.

What alternatives would you suggest?
(I'm in all-day training today, so I can't participate on this thread much. Also, this is all my personal opinion.)

While Gabe's most recent post was a well-worded statement of his position, my guess is that Google's response was based on the billboard, which says "Google tracks you. We don't." On the website the billboard points to, Google employees are portrayed wearing ski masks and trying to spy on you. That does strike me as trying to a encourage a bit of fear?

This is a browser issue that's not specific to Google or even to search engines, but Google is the only company mentioned on donttrack.us until you get to the "more tools" section at the very bottom. Meanwhile, Google is the first (and only) large search engine to offer https to the best of my knowledge. It's a one-character addition to http://www.google.com for anyone that feels strongly about this topic.
Why should I have to install an app to figure out subway times?
MoMA website has the list of typefaces (scroll down) as well as pictures: http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2011/01/24/digital-fo...
They had the guts to say "this isn't working, we're going to throw it away and start over". That was crucial.
Good cinema shouldn't be reduced to merely storytelling. The aesthetics are an enormous part of it, and there is plenty of content in form itself. In fact the story itself can be largely irrelevant in a great film -- see Bela Tarr, for one -- although some amount of it is usually necessary as a base.

Nor is acting talent particularly necessary either, if handled right. Some of my favorite directors restrain their actors, even great ones, from acting at all (e.g. any Bresson, or Pasolini's Teorema) or they use non-actors to great effect (e.g. Fellini, and Pasolini again with things like Decameron).

You do have a point about flashy technology though.
The article argues that "sys.stderr.write("Hello world")" is not meaningfully different from "fprintf(stderr, "Hello world");" - sure, they are recognizably different, but the difference is only "skin-deep" (and the term "OO" confuses more than it clarifies - do you mean "good", "with proper encapsulation", "written in typical Java style"?)
why do you think you have the knowledge to judge what's in their best interest? the protestors in Tunisia forced the dictator to flee the country and have gotten the government to life its Internet censorship, at least temporarily. they know what they're doing.
It's been around for a long time, and was accompanied by a message from the guy who registered it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039
I believe rNTPs are available because they are used in transcription.
Honestly, more people agree on the term OO than functional. And the term functional has evolved much more over time than OO has. I just didn't find anything in the argument extremely compelling.

And statemens like, "For instance, by Alan Kay's definition, Erlang, a functional concurent language, is more OO than C++." w/o any evidence, I find suspect.
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I don't claim to know anything about their interests, but I'm fairly certain that hosting political dissent of any sort on Facebook is not in anyone's interest (well, except the authorities and the people you're um...dissenting against). Why do I feel that way? Because dissent, by definition, pisses some people off. If you are the authorities or the majority, it wouldn't really be dissent. If you're not, then you're essentially putting your Facebook members at risk, whether the information is gained by diplomatic pressure, subpoenas, or with the little keylogging Javascript monkey that the Tunisian government most recently tried.
If you can't notice the 3d, what's the point. If you can notice it, it distracts from what is going on. It's a no-win situation.

Of course it's a win-win situation for the studios selling people 3d.
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> Put yourself in the shoes of an activist in Tunisia or elsewhere. You want to reach friends, acquaintances, and neighbors.

Certainly, but you don't necessarily want to have that contact list easily available to anyone armed with a Javascript keylogger or a nightstick.
I heartfully agree.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll definitely be thinking about the best way to draw in new visitors and give them a clear understanding of what the site's about.
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I know that Javascript can pick up referrers, since Google Analytics gets referrers and uses Javascript and nothing else.

Can't advertising networks insert code to pick up referrers in the same way?
Couldn't the ads access it via JavaScript?

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_doc_referrer.asp

Edit: AdSense at least does:

var ua=document

"&ref=",P(ua.referrer.substring(0,512))
Not that it's particularly important for the point you're making, but your C code has quite a number of bugs. structs don't copy implicitly in C and even if they were the move function wouldn't move the original Point. Sorry for nitpicking... ;-)
While it is true that the requests that load the ads don't include the referrer, any Javascript loaded directly into the page can access the referrer (window.location.orgin). A lot of ad networks work this way, meaning they do have access to those search terms.
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The only case of non-abuse I know of is Herzog's upcoming cave docu.
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You aren't "topmind" in disguise, are you? Just kidding.

You make some good points and I take it you don't have an issue with a particular language, just the overuse of the term "OO". I think the argument would be more effective if it didn't use overly simplified C and C++ samples. Instead, focus on what makes a software design "OO" and what doesn't. The language is largely irrelevant.

Also, I think the term "syntactic sugar" is problematic - I didn't like it the first time I heard it and still don't. Isn't everything syntactic sugar? Also, these days if you're trying to be vaguely insulting it might be better to say "syntactic high fructose corn syrup".
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My non-profit organization sends writers into schools to teach writing/poetry workshops to middle and high school students (we shy away from "dead white guys" and New Critical Theory and toward practicality and accessibility).

We made the decision, very early, to not charge schools for these visits unless they offered to pay us. Even though Nebraska is doing much better than most states, economy-wise, most school districts are still facing a huge funding shortfall, and can't afford our rates.

Simultaneously, we decided that we need to pay our poets, as it's not reasonable to force someone to choose between teaching a sweet poetry workshop and being able to pay rent (for those artists of ours who are in school or who channel their excess funds to their own creative projects).

It's been a real struggle finding ways to expand our programming while still having enough money to pay everyone, and it's meant that I've done a few workshops pro bono (as has my executive director). Thankfully, my board of directors is on board with this philosophy, and is moving very proactively toward helping to close our current budget gap. Meanwhile, students who attend money-strapped schools still get to hear and see and write poetry that does not suck. My only regret is that we have more interested schools than we have the people or capacity to serve them all, which is the best regret to have.

TL;DR: My non-profit, in a similar philosophical vein to this article, tries as hard as it can to not charge for services, knowing full well that many of our clients can't afford them. This doesn't translate to business, but further reinforces the point that sometimes it's worth a bit of inefficiency.
Javascript exposes document.referrer, so ad networks can and do still grab your search query.
> That xulrunner/FF/thunderbird/etc. are built from the same tree

xulrunner and Firefox are (since Firefox is a strict superset of xulrunner). Thunderbird pulls in the core code and has a separate tree for the mail-specific stuff.

The line of code count is what it is, but what makes that "bloated"? Have you compared that to any other reasonably full-featured web browser (e.g. not links)? Have you compared the dependencies to any other web browser? I think you're just severely underestimating how much stuff a web browser is expected to do nowadays...

Most of the build options are dead, in fact (as in, if you try to use them, they won't build). There's ongoing work to remove them from the configure script so as not to confuse people.
Well, UDDI was an architecture astronaut's fantasy back then... and it still is today. This might be a theoretically better way to deliver the service, but it needs too many bits and pieces to fall into place (particularly bits that require the concurrent agreement of thousands of businesses and governmental organisations with conflicting aims) in order to become a reality...
Yea, that was the exact same effect Avatar had on me. I'm really glad I saw it 3D and now feel no desire to see another movie in 3D for at least a couple years (when hopefully some new neat tech has come along which I'll feel compelled to check out).
Email.

> You want to reach friends, acquaintances, and neighbors. You want a feed that people can follow from an account they check every single day. You want people to be able to find the latest information from their mobile phones.

Email fits the bill here, 100%. Free, safe (SSL), distributed (choose any provider you like), anyone who has Facebook on their mobile device has email.

Form big mailing lists, and send email around. Is there any particular reason that you think Facebook is better suited to this task than email?
Computing progresses despite the ACM.

Kent Pitman has a similar stance:

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PFAQ/acm.html
> I don't claim to know anything about their interests, but I'm fairly certain that hosting political dissent of any sort on Facebook is not in anyone's interest

a) the second half of this sentence contradicts the first: you're claiming you know something about their interests

b) you're wrong. Facebook is an extremely effective tool for activists in general, even in repressive regimes. in the Tunisian protests, it's been used to share vidoes, update people on news from Al Jazeera and other outlets that aren't controlled by the government, get word out about protests, and see the final status message of Mohamed Bouazizi -- the guy who killed himself in Sibi Bouzid and touched off the revolution.

tens of thousands of people are putting their lives on the line by going out in the streets where police are firing live ammunition -- over 60 have died in the protests. by those standards posting something on their Facebook profiles isn't risky at all.
> True, but he didn't want to buy 20 companies. Do you think it's reasonable for a man to ask 20 women to marry him, based on the premise of "19 of them will probably say no"?

Oh, come on. Do you think its reasonable to try to buy a car at 20 different dealers, even if you only want one of them?
3-D TV? How about holographic TV? (via kinect)
Programing IS hard.

You define the problem, but how do you solve it?
Especially if you already have some code you have to work with.
Why not? It's a matter of taste.
I imagine putting up an anti-Google billboard in SF had something to do with it.
I agree. The OP of the article on apple did a good job of figuring this out. I have the same issues, and same drivers (though I'm not on a Pro) so I'm going through this and will test out tonight. The wireless has been so flakey in this system I've considered buying a new PCI wireless adapter (if possible in this laptop) or just ditching the macbook and buying something better.

I almost feel like Apple isn't addressing the issue because its the older laptops that have the issue and they'd rather we buy the new awesome so they can stop dealing with our old hardware. But thats probably paranoia and more a statement of what I think about Apple management these days.
Wasn't Wikileaks ... uhm ... hosting their own domain in a different country? It didn't help much. I think with these things it's much more important to be able to reach many people. And then start worrying about what is the government going to do against the thousands and thousands of IPs (and people) who access your content.
And just like money, it can't buy happiness but it does buy options.
You may have a point here, but ain't it a shame how we have to backtrack and defend against perspectives that are wholly reasonable, because they are the proverbial "camel's nose in the tent" for some backwards claptrap?

I say we agree that yes, a Nobel Prize winner might not be destined to become a world-class CEO or whatever. The place to hold the line is in the value of their contribution.

Perhaps we can spin this potential trap back towards reality. Really, when someone becomes a flawless violinist, or programmer, or chemist, what they have made is a tremendous sacrifice. Being best in the world at those things means letting other parts of your mind lie fallow.

I think I might have been more fun to have dinner with when I was in punk bands and reading more books. By dedicating myself to tech I'm probably making a bigger difference in the world, but at some cost to my well-roundedness.

We should laud the winners of intellectual pursuits for the sacrifice they have made for the rest of us.
You've got a much nicer design now, and the live editor is rather nifty. However, I really can't see many people using it, especially not at $9. It doesn't take much HTML skill at all to make a single page like that, and then there's tons of CMS based solutions like that such as WooThemes' new free Placeholder theme and the dozens of similar free "Coming Soon" themes and plugins for WordPress sites.
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Hm, my kids are the same as me: they get up late as well. And if the oldest wakes me up early I just tell her to go back to bed or her chamber since I want to sleep some more.
That's not the point - it may be the easiest for the users, but it's not the easiest for the entire system. The system is primarily made up of the hosts of the data, which would be these private companies who would rather not deal with any potential ramifications for helping out a political movement that is, by its nature, revolutionary. It's the right idea for the activists to use these mediums, but it should not be expected to work long-term.
I've been a night owl since, more-or-less, middle school. Lately I've been imitating my roommate & sleeping outside some days, and I've found that makes it a lot easier to wake up earlier.

It is, of course, much easier to do in California.
How can I get all of these on a single page so I can print and read later? There's a lot of good ideas and good writing here.
Get your transport company to submit their dataset to Google Transit. Not all transport companies want to do that, they believe it's proprietary data.