skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first pitfalls would be an apathetic audience or disinterest, which you can't control. You're best to just show it off, hope you get a lot of feedback (positive or negative, you need feedback), and then prepare to adapt from what you've heard and what you agree with.

Worrying about a future time to worry is a waste of at least half your time, if not all.
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it is very nice! and a good idea.
> Can you give some examples of companies that have successfully "smeared" the market leader with FUD and ended up ahead?

Apple. See Mac v.s PC TV campaign.
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True, although I guess what I'm really saying is that, given the choice, you might pick "fantastic" in certain cases, at least in one or two areas in which it makes sense too.

Obviously if you have a profitable company you are, in some sense, "efficient." The point is that going "above and beyond" takes more time and money than not -- which is probably inefficient, especially at first -- and the question is: Is that tradeoff worth it?
Gabriel, there seems to be some confusion here in the thread about "breaking HTTP_REFERRER" or in some way changing the current referrer behavior, which was not how i understood your post.

can you confirm quickly that you are proposing that search engines sanitize/anonymize referrer data, and not that they somehow change the referrer behavior?
Hi Mariust,

Couple of things according to my research.

* Paypal recurring comes with only PayPalPro account. Will PayPro account work with Indian Bank Account?

* As far as I understand chargify is not a payment gateway. Correct me if I am wrong.
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General Assembly has launched
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Actually it has improved because people acclimatize. If you're prone to motion sickness in a car, but are regularly in cars, you become less prone to motion sickness. Spend a long time not in motorized transport, and you're prone again.

I discovered this the hard way. I'm prone to motion sickness, and after I'd lived in NYC for a number of years it was unpleasant for me to transition back to being in a car. But now driving doesn't bother me any more.
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I guess it depends what you mean by "break." I meant what you just said, i.e. just drop the search terms.
for i in {1..17}; do curl http://edge.org/q2011/q11_$i.html >> edge.html; done

Courtesy of sivers / qcassidy:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2126642
Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules
Also look at the original blog post:
http://blog.decoratorpattern.com/2011/01/23/real-world-mappi...
I'd guess it's because the welsh has a head start on migration of a few hundred years over the other groups on the chart.
It still is. Not nearly as big as the dot.com one (it was the first bubble, the economy was in better shape, etc) but still a bubble.

We're in a bubble-bust industry. It will be this way for some time.
Just a few lines of code, no magic needed.

Example: https://github.com/tszming/Selenium-Google-Scrapper
I find this to be strange timing. For the most part stuff just works on Linux these days. I've had more trouble trying to get old printers working on Windows machines than I have had on Linux boxes. I've also had more trouble with buggy graphics drivers on Windows in the last 3 years than I've had on Linux. (Civ 5 still doesn't display right after 4 driver updates). Linux also seems to be the only place where innovation is happening on the desktop. We get small refreshes every 6 months, whereas the last time Mac users got a significant desktop refresh was for 10.5 in 2007, and Windows users get updates even less frequently. We've had KDE4 in the meantime, and Gnome3 is coming soon.

His real complaint seems to be that OpenOffice doesn't interact well Microsoft Office. There are several different good ways of running Microsoft Office on Linux (I recommend CrossOver).
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
"Gout: (n) A disturbance of uric-acid metabolism occurring chiefly in males, characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, especially of the feet and hands, and arthritic attacks resulting from elevated levels of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urate crystals around the joints. The condition can become chronic and result in deformity."
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Fortunately (at least for me), biomedical research these days is largely an exception to this. Thanks to a Bush-era appropriations bill, anyone who takes NIH funding must ensure that their articles are published open-access on PubMedCentral within 12 months of the initial publication. It's not perfect, but it does at least solve the problem with old publications getting locked behind paywalls unreasonable to the value. We also have the PLoS series of journals, which are completely open access and Creative Commons "attribution" licensed.
The video equivalent of an html anchor tag for your video - a very interesting idea that I could see being used far beyond the technical crowd.

Considering a lot of the clips on Youtube are fairly short, I could see this being really useful for many of the longer duration videos such as the Google Tech Talks (http://research.google.com/video.html) or ConFreaks (http://confreaks.net/)

I remember seeing a presentation from BlipSnips in Boulder a few months back -- its good see so much progress being made on the product. It's definitely something I'd incorporate into my videos.

A lot of respect for the innovation that you guys are bringing to the space, plus always good to see another quality Rails app being launched.
Scraping is as you might expect: it has to go fetch the page if it hasn't yet (URLs are only fetched once). One thing I can do to help here is pre-fetch/parse pages from popular sites. I'm already doing this for Food Network and Allrecipes.com.

The machine learning aspects aren't too bad. Most of the time is spent parsing the HTML DOM. I've done some micro-benchmarking but am very curious to see how it will handle under real load. I have a plan for moving from VPS (Linode) to AWS if necessary.
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Interesting prediction, and I kindof suspect there's a kernel of truth to it.

Of course, what you refer to is just marketing, which will result in underestimating the utility of having these degrees. The fact remains, however, that it still matters if you're well-educated, and it's still going to be causal when it comes to earning income or influencing your sphere.

All that changes is the value - elite topics will be undervalued, so it will be a great time for those who are intrinsically motivated to enter academia.
Beautifying the World’s Information
Mozilla will implement a HTTP Header for Do Not Track
The most important reason why the ACM's publishing model (and academic publishing generally) doesn't just dry up and blow away is that people on academic career tracks are judged by their publication record --- meaning publication in prestigious journals; putting the same text on a web site someplace doesn't count. So, if an academic doesn't let the ACM (or Elsevier, or someone else equally grabby) take control of their writing about their work, they effectively sacrifice a valuable career chit.

Unfortunately, less expensive alternatives are going to be hard to bootstrap: a new, no-name journal almost by definition hasn't had the chance to establish prestige by publishing papers which go on to get widely cited. And if the idea is to do the same job while sucking less money out of people, that leaves very little cash for promotion, or to compensate "big names" that might lend credibility to the project...
A macbook can run Linux.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook
I dunno. I agree with some of the other posters here. I've been using Ubuntu pretty much exclusively for 2.5 years, and it's been great. I just research the hardware I buy to ensure that everything works out of the box. There are a few glitches, but nothing that really gets in my way. I keep Windows around for the games that don't work well with Wine, but other than that, Ubuntu works great.
Your not being fair in answering the question. Your answering the specific question and ignoring the intent.

You say your not worried because other people track you as well. Do you mean if other people didn't track you, it wouldn't be okay?
wow I went to the url provided, http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ . To see what interests are associated with my cookie. Its amazingly accurate as to what my interests are. In all honesty its quite impressive.
BitTorrent and RSS sittin in a tree
Wow, the author just discovered the concept of loss leaders. Someone give him a cookie.
I found Eric Ries to be remarkably underrepresented on this list. I've assembled a list of some of his best presentations and related work on this bundle: http://bit.ly/fXzcTQ

It mostly falls on product strategy, culture, idea, and general startup advice. Mostly product strategy.
Maybe its my background (non-American by heritage) but most people that I know met their life-long partners in college. It was not a time for serial sex.

Let's face it, companionship is important in life and college has a high concentration of people who are of similar age to you, relatively unattached, and of similar backgrounds or at least passions.

Now, turning to a cynical note---many if not most people think that college is useful as a certification that one can learn, and is intelligent enough to work. A university education is required for a good job. If you already have a job, or money then to this group of people the only reason to attend college is love of learning or socialization.

I love learning, but lets not pretend that socialization is college is non-existent or even an insignificant part of the college experience.
"... was stealing usernames and passwords from common sites like Google Mail and Facebook".

Gmail always opens with SSL for me. Didn't Google make this the default after Chinagate?
First, read the article yourself. You appeared to have missed the 700 words that preceeded that sentence.

And even that sentence you quote is completely ambiguous. Is he arguing that they're equally demanding? Or that the important ways that matter the school cafeteria is more demanding than the library or vice-versa? You can't tell from that one sentence. But if you read the whole article you can tell what he actually believes. Read the quotes I have from above that are NOT ambiguous. He clearly states that the library is LESS intellectually demanding. No ambiguity, no qualifier.

Read the article in full then come back here.
Mozilla Do-Not-Track Feature Has a Fatal Flaw
I really wish they hadn't balkanized into a billion sub-sites. I need to ask a question about compiling a 32-bit library on a 64-bit system, so it'll work with XAMPP's 32-bit Apache compile. Do I go to one of the web-dev ones? One of the sysadmin sites? Is there one for compilers?
Whenever I see the paywall come up when browsing the internet, I get the sick feeling I've been redirected to some Ponzi Scheme. Charging $15 for a 10 year old paper can be thought of nothing other than ridiculous.
well, i think Gabriel's point (though he's had some trouble getting it across) is not that Google is building the profile on you, but rather that other ad networks are.

you do raise an excellent point about the email example, though. hopefully Gabriel or Matt could shed some light on that?
I'd like to suggest that training in Latin improves the precision of one's writing. However, when one reads "In the 1700’s the University of Georgia, like many of its contemporaries,required of incoming freshmen ...", you do wonder; the University of Georgia did not graduate its first class until 1804. And in general the prose could use a good tidying.

That said, I'm all in favor of Latin in the schools.
The boundaries in the map are borough boundaries.

I found it interesting that a couple of zoom levels down, you can see a big cluster of Irish names on the Brent side of the Kilburn High Road, and another in W7.
The big bottleneck for mass Linux adoption is that most of the mavens (tech nerds and early adopters) are Mac users. And since Mac is BSD-based, a lot of the draw of Linux (customizations, scripts, programming, etc.) is gone.

I find almost no reason to switch from a Mac to Linux. It's actually a lot easier to use Mac to develop for work (Rails) because I know every Mac has the same standard configurations and I do not need to make a configuration script to give to all the new kids.
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15991/how-many-users...

This says that last August they had around 86K users, so by now they should have around 100K. The huge visitor to user ratio is a sign of their success, I think. (I'm assuming SO represents most of their traffic)

Edit: Wikipedia page says: "As of September 2010, Stack Overflow has about 243,000 registered users"
Profiles based on the web pages you visit is different from the search terms used to find those web sites. People are more honest with their search engine than they are with their family.

I do not place as high a value on privacy as others. I hope that doesn't bite me in the butt someday.
Starting tomorrow, it will be the Fantastic Three.
It's nice to see someone in the software industry finally realizing how the current trend of "release when you're embarrassed how bad it is" is destroying people's faith in the software industry. Soon any good will accumulated over the years (if there even was any) will be spent, and the broader population will equate "software" with "crap" unless proven otherwise.

Software companies of all sizes are relying on their ability to trick people into buying complete crap at least once to sell products. It will work once for every potential customer.

Even George W. knows what happens next..."Fool me once, shame on...shame... shame on you... the point is you can't get fooled again"
It's funny how Apple charges 30% for in-app purchases, and that instantly becomes 'industry standard' in the minds of lazy TechCrunch writers. The cut taken by most virtual currency providers on Facebook is about a third of that.

The 30% figure can only stand up in an environment without competition. Luckily for Facebook (and Apple), they can create an environment without competition by fiat.
Strange definition of ahead.
The Six Habits of a Talent Magnet - Harvard Business Review
At a 30% cut, I find that hard to believe.
Print out the articles you want to read. I don't know anyone who reads ACM proceedings and journals cover to cover, and it wastes a lot of resources.
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People want it solved.

See the outrage over other privacy issues in the past regarding Google, Facebook, and countless other services. Specifically, see the outrage over the Google Buzz fiasco as an example.

Privacy issues are a concern. People aren't interested in the specifics, but they make the assumption that their information is kept private.

> There are already solutions for the people who want them (stop sending referer, adblock, etc).

There were solutions for Google Buzz at the time. Just because they exist doesn't mean they are implemented in a way that people can use them easily. The problem isn't the tools, it's the ability to use those tools by default.

Let me make this clear: people assume their information is secure by default. So, the reason you don't see a bigger uproar over this is because of assumptions people make.
Cloud printing on the go
Google Cloud Print for Mobile Docs
useful != "Must Read"
Games on smartphones snare a new breed of player
The only part that's theoretical is the extent we're being tracked online but there's plenty to suggest it's "as much as possible".

- Google's targets ads based on your browsing history - that could include Search, Analytics, AdSense, DoubleClick, and a whole ton of other data they have and collect. [1]

Rapleaf tracks so much that it's actually "a challenge" not to identify people. [2]

QuantCast settled for $2.4 million for making sure their precious tracking cookies were recreated if you delete them. [3]

Facebook just tried to give apps your fricking phone number and address. [4]

Google and their referral leaking is not really "the bad guy" in all of this - there's no bad guy, just a bunch of companies consuming and analyzing as much data as they can get their hands on.

It's not evil, but is it necessary?

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/making-ads-more-inter...

[2] http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/2010/07/20/anonymouse/

[3] http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/zombie-cookie-settlem...

[4] http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/18/5868697-face...
In what way are they ahead that had anything to do with that campaign? The iPod, iPhone, and iPad are all markets that they are ahead in but those all have nothing to do with the Mac vs PC campaign. They still are not "ahead" in the general computer marketplace.
Grrrr... I can relate. Here's my ACM story:

I presented at CUFP '10 a while back, which is associated with the ACM. Even though I was a speaker, they charged me full ticket price to get into the conference.

When I balked at paying to speak, the representative replied:

"Well, it's either buy a ticket or wait outside until right before your presentation, and then leave the room immediately after it."

To cap it all off, the video of my presentation is now behind the members-only paywall. (http://bit.ly/fGjAaJ)
Considering iOS devices, revenue and growth in various markets, they are ahead.

Edit: Apparently someone disagrees, and thinks Apple is losing to Microsoft. I'd love to have a company lose to a rival in the same way Apple has.
I might have missed this, but how was the javascript injected in the first place? Did they have a URL param being displayed (unescaped) on the page?
Can you list points on why it's FUD?
The 15$ per paper is expensive but the membership gives you access to all papers and is relatively inexpensive. If you need to access research material frequently, you are probably better off having a membership and an ieee membership as well. You employer may pay it for you or you may get tax deductions for these fees as well.
Ask HN: How to hire a graphics contractor?
I want to hire my first contractor for graphics design to design a UI for me and was wondering how you do it. Is it pretty much look at their portfolio, pay them, and hope for the best?

What if their work is sub-par?
What if I don't like what they innovate?
Do you usually have a mock-up with the layout before you ask them to do it?

I'd be grateful if anyone with experience in hiring graphics designers for contract work could chip in on things like what the procedure is, and what I should be prepared with before I confront the designer!
In the 15thC a Welshman took the throne of England (Henry VII) and brought a lot of fellow countrymen into court with him, so they needn't have been poorer immigrants
Good point, but keep in mind they have 500M+ users. Almost everyone willing to buy into virtual currency is already on Facebook
Google makes most of its revenue on advertising. Google's ability to target ads is a huge plus to its advertisers. Google still offers a way for users to opt out of this if they choose.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is 'Don't be Evil' in my books.
While I agree with you in that CUPS is solid, and his printer issues are elsewhere--Guess what's used for mac printing?--the "no innovation elsewhere" is a bit misleading. The interface on a Mac is settling down because it really doesn't need any tweaking. Most of the extra stuff now is just churn (the hideous widget placement on the App Store for one). Instead, the work is going into simplifying workflows: the twitterization of everything.

Time-Machine for one-click backups, AirTunes for OTA plug-and-play. Hell, even the TZ selector now integrates skyhook so it's generally correct, NAT withstanding.

That type of ideology carries over to dealing with Word files. Is it really necessary to dick around with CrossOver or WINE's bottling, when the end goal he stated is not to? Some is infinitely more than none to a pedant.
The man who can explain everything
To be perfectly clear: I am not worried because tracking is a part of life on the Web. This isn't going to change. This isn't specific to Google. I do not care about it and I'm not worried about it.
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Let's make one clear: Everything you see today which is called 3D, is NOT 3D! This is just Stereo, or call it also fake-3D!

A real 3D "thing" is currently to expensive and not practical for a mass market.
Me too. I've installed Linux about every year for the past 6-7 years, trying Suse, Debian, and others. The last few years were Ubuntu, but I just could never make linux my full time machine.

Then I put a clean install of 9.10 on my new machine last Thanksgiving, and never went back.

I feel that Ubuntu is simply the best operating system out there right now. I use OS X for iPhone development, and Ubuntu makes it feel a bit clunky and very rigid. I also have Windows 7 for gaming, and I'd rather spend days trying to get games to run well under wine instead (and those that don't, get rarely played).
Its all a publicity stunt, Permanent death in comic books is some what of a joke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dead_comic_book_charact...
Also why the entire login page needs to be served via SSL.
What image would you choose for that point? I'm happy to switch it -- I actually already switched it once at the request of someone else.
> In what way are they ahead that had anything to do with that campaign?

Because the campaign was more than just Mac v.s. PC. It was also the Apple ecosystem.

> The iPod, iPhone, and iPad are all markets that they are ahead in but those all have nothing to do with the Mac vs PC campaign.

This statement is not true. The campaigns did impact the perception of the Apple brand. To assume the campaign had nothing to do with the success of these devices is wishful thinking.

> They still are not "ahead" in the general computer marketplace.

In terms of pure numbers, no. But in numerous other ways to measure success they are.

Just look at the growth of Apple after a campaign where it attack the PC. Discounting this isn't smart.
This beautifully illustrates Thomas Schelling's racial segregation model, for which he coined the term "Tipping Point" 30 years before Malcolm Gladwell popularized it:

Schelling, T. (1969). Models of segregation. The American Economic Review, 59(2), 488-493

(Schelling won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2005)
Hardly surprising, given that my 1 1/2 year old daughter can pick up my wife's iPhone, unlock it, swipe over to the second page, touch the folder with the baby apps in it, and run the flash card app she loves.
To be fair, I think the current trend (which I agree with, btw) is "you should be embarrassed by your v1 release". This isn't the same as "release when you're embarrassed how bad it is". I hope the difference in both these statements is obvious.

You can release a high quality product of love and still be embarrassed by it's lack of features/functionality a few releases down the line - I see nothing wrong with it. Releasing a product that is 'crap' is something totally different though.