skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, maybe I need to clarify my point further. I guess what I'm really trying to say is: So what??

I don't like bananas in cooked food. But I don't feel the need to lament about it or make up scientific reasons to why it should be abolished. I simply avoid eating it.
Yes, but have them switch to something that Facebook or another single company can't shut down at the behest of some government.

Another idea: Have such sites continually back themselves up to Amazon S3. This way, if a government does try some knucklehead move like banning Linnode, then people an just resurrect the site on another provider. (And chances are, a government besides the US won't be able to block network between that provider and S3.)
The only sad thing is when people come to the defense of corporations that would chew them up and spit them out in a second if it came to it.
I was thinking much the same. You're certainly doing the right thing by setting people's expectations that it's not ready yet ... but it'd be great to use this energy to help accelerate the process.

Have you thought about a presentation or blog post on "the promise and challenges of distributed social networks for human rights" (or something along those lines)? the timing could be very good ...
Interesting - thanks. Perhaps my experience has to do with using a single router, instead of hopping from network to network.
Many many publishers use Wordpress, especially their VIP program. Wordpress powers 10% of the web (Tony Conrad, partner at true ventures tweeted this, will post as reference).

We're working with more than WP as a CMS, but it's a huge install base.
You haven't begun to establish people want it "solved".

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

FWIW, I do not want Google to change their behavior in this area.
> The C code is simple OO code, but it's OO

Pretend "OO" doesn't exist, and OO hasn't been identified. (Say we're in the 70's, that should more or less do it). Would you say my C code is procedural? Structured?

> Besides, ALL software engineering terms of significant are ill-defined.

I agree. "OO" just seemed worst.

> I would also agree that the term OO has been […] defined as good design in some circles

Excellent point. That's one thing that pissed me off, actually. I probably should add a paragraph about that.
> I believe this is a serious issue.

I disagree with that, but respect for standing for what you believe in.
what he's doing is highlighting a key differentiator between their products, and trying to educate the market on why his implementation is more awesome.

in other words, he's taken a page out of your "how to win customers" playbook.
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Yes, 3DS and "3D" 3D games have the same problems as 3D movies. What I was saying was that what is generally meant by 3D gaming (3D games projected on a 2D plane, with no intention to create an illusion) doesn't.
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I should really really clarify: the demo shown in the video is of PadPressed, the precursor to OnSwipe. Think of padpressed as the equivalent of our "university research project". OnSwipe is a much much larger evolution from that and encompasses a lot more.
You can now also rent ACM papers via DeepDyve. The first one is free, so if you want to stick it to the man, register yourname+a@gmail.com, yourname+b@gmail.com, yourname+c@gmail.com ...
My wife is a smart person. She's a seismic geologist, she can do calculus, she has no problem thinking in her domain's language and concepts, and memorization of information has never been a problem. She's asked me to explain basic programming concepts a few times.

She can't or won't make the mental leap from basic algebra skills to variables and functions. Mentally unrolling loops or recursion, forget it. I don't even bother trying to explain data structures like stacks and heaps. How a programming language [that's mostly human readable] gets turned into machine interpretable information is black magic. She even took an intro to programming class as part of her degree, so I'm not the only teacher who's failed at the topic. It can really be frustrating at times because I have a respectable knowledge of geology and its industries and can conversationally hold my own with her and her peers, but she can't reciprocate at all with my peers.

For my sanity, I've always assumed some people just can't readily grasp the abstract symbolism and recursiveness programmatic thinking requires.
How are you so sure that the government monitors email but not Facebook? Especially since email CAN be encrypted, but Facebook cannot?

Why do you think the government ignores Facebook completely when monitoring connections? In many cases sending Facebook messages allows the government to eavesdrop even easier.

In times of revolution, encrypt your communications. Even Gmail has full SSL - if you trust Google. If not, there are others.

How can anyone know what someone's email reads when it was sent over SSL? I never mentioned "work email" either, that's probably a silly idea. But everyone has a personal account too.
From what I can say regarding CS conferences, ACM just rubberstamps and pockets the money.
At one recent conference, the organizer addressed the concerns about high fees saying something like "well, most of it went to ACM, so we may hypothetically save on that, but we understand that the bulk of participants come from academia and they need the proceedings".
Meanwhile, the "proceedings" are purely virtual, the same PDFs we submitted put online at ACM Digital Library.
Bloodsuckers.
I disagree with you.

Why should you do things you're not motivated to do?

A lot of procrastination and not making progress on tasks has to do with really not wanting to do the task, or really not seeing the value in it. If it's studying for a course, it's a course you don't care about. If it's working on a project, it's a project you don't care about. Maybe you don't care about cleaning up your room, etc.

You really need to think about the whys of doing something, and not just assume that work is good. You can trick yourself and push yourself but you need to have a solid sense of the goal before you will really become involved.

That's the goal, isn't it? To really commit to a task.
Smart people are involved. What more do you need to know?
Wow, this is a fairly condemning portrayal of the ACM. Thankfully, I've only once or twice bounced off of their paywall, and otherwise have been happily ignorant of their existence.

[EDIT] Removed reference to article being anecdotal.
> When I query for Rockefeller Plaza and I’m sitting at the Thompson LES, a logical intent is travel to/from Rockefeller.

For you, this may be a logical intent; but it would be a bad idea to try and generalize to a whole population of users from your own anecdotal experience.
Out of the whole article I think the key point to take away is the fast reaction in face of a bad hire. Because let's face it - there is no fool proof way to hire people. So accept it and make sure you have the systems in place to reconcile a failed hired. I personally like the techniques used by companies like Facebook and Zappos to 'counsel out' people who aren't a fit for the organization. But these 'counseling out' sessions are extremely bad for the employee since its a signal to future employers that something was missed. So in the minds of the next person who interviews someone that was 'counseled out' there will always be a nagging doubt that they too missed something.
This morning we saw this article at HN's top http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134542, now this one... I don't understand who's to be believed nor what is Facebook's true position.
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I think the problem is that you didn't identify or give any additional information about the inaccuracies. Instead, you allude to first hand experience without saying what it is or how you obtained it (aside from being at Harvard at the time).

This reminds me of a New Yorker lawyer cartoon: A lawyer is facing a jury with the caption "ladies and gentlemen, I've been a lawyer for over 20 years, and either my client is innocent or I'm very much mistaken".
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Have you worked with Google and had a bad experience? The people I've worked with there have been extremely helpful and refreshingly 'good'.

It's very easy to wrongly assume that a big company that makes profit will treat everyone poorly, but that hasn't been my experience at all.
It wasn't the kind of "great movie" that critics and peers will recommend years down the line as essential viewing or thought provoking, but it was the kind of "great movie" that people would recommend to their friends for an entertaining "going to the movies with popcorn and friends" experience. The plot was thin, but the visuals and action were great entertainment, as shown by the revenue.
The Google TOS clearly states that they have the right to analyze your content in order for them to provide ads. This includes Gmail, Docs and whatever else you may use.
When it comes to search they save your search history for customized searches.

Let me put it this way: they don't target those ads so precisely by not having any information on you. On the contrary, they have lots of info. How safe and how anonymous that info is, that's up for debate.
You were voted down, but I think you're making a good point. Twitter and Facebook weren't designed to provide the degree of compartmentalization and security such activists really need.
Still as an advertising demographic "someone researching gout for whatever reason" is more valuable to target than a viewer you know nothing about -- even if half of them are researching the Henry VIII, the other half have a new condition and they need to buy something if only they knew what.
IEEE is, unfortunately, the exact same way.
Not as I understand it. I think you're conflating two issues. What you're talking about deals with the issue of looking at different elements of the scene and bringing each one to clarity as you look at it.

The second, larger issue, is the physiological contraction of muscles each eye individually must do to focus at a given distance. Try this: cover one eye and look at a held up finger with the other eye. Notice the background is blurry. Now make the background clear and you'll notice your finger is blurry.

The eye adjusts its shape to focus on different distances. This is independent of the two eyes working together and seeing different images which the brain later merges into a 3D scene.

The issue with all the current 3D technologies I know about is the image, ultimately, is always on some screen at a fixed distance. You can give each eye separate images, you can track where the eye is looking and modify what image is seen, but in the end, the eye muscles are always contorting the eye to see that plane 80' away clearly.
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After being a member as a student, I signed-up for the regular account. Couple years of using it proved that it wasn't worth it.
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"The promising thing is that companies like Groupon, Facebook, and Zynga are already making money, whereas early dot-coms were just a promise to make money."

And this statement neatly wraps up why we have a second tech bubble. Because average investors still don't understand the risks inherent in new companies they will anchor off of something familiar (revenue) instead of really diving into the business fundamentals.
I think he's talking about this: http://tpdsaa.tumblr.com/post/2731809145/submitted-by-serget...

Basically, everyone wants to make their own branded apps, but few people are actually going to bother to buy them. The publishers are the victims, not the guys at the top of the pyramid, it's the app makers who're going to profit.
You seem to be forgetting that "some hack using APIs" describes a very large amount of YC startups.
I'm thinking:

* require the broken RSpec
* create a new module called Broken::RSpec
* iterate through each member of the RSpec namespace (methods and variables), and copy it to the new module
* unload RSpec
* require the stable RSpec

I'm fairly sure that I have done all of these things separately (iterating/copying object members, unloading classes) in ruby before. I'm probably wrong though. Just thinking aloud.

When refinements come along in ruby 2.0 this will be easy.

EDIT: Or use ruby_parser to suck the AST out of the very broken rspec source files themselves and instance_eval it inside Broken::RSpec. Danger is my middle name.
Not sure that worked so well for Diaspora.

Can you give some examples of companies that have successfully "smeared" the market leader with FUD and ended up ahead?
2 as far as I know : Google and DDG.
Don't worry about it. It was perfectly understandable and a very informative post.

Thanks!
I'm European, and my mothertongue is strictly derivated from Latin.
In the 70% of High School Diplomas, Latin is really important subject, because really help the students in the total understanding of every word in their mother tongue.
Also, we study latin because a lot of authors use latin for wrote their "essay", like Cicerone, Cesare, etc..
In some Classic HS Diploma, the students also study the ancient Greek.

Latin is really good for understand our roots, our opera, our story, our tongue, and is a really good exercise for keep the mind elastic.

P.S1: I'm speaking about Europe.

P.S2: I have an HS Diploma in Computer Science, so I never study latin :P
(Although I attend a little 3months courses, when I was a kid :P)
How can anyone know what someone's email reads when it was sent over SSL?

Email is sent plaintext by default. Your scheme would work if everyone just used foreign-hosted web email providers with the option for SSL selected. But all you need is for one person on the list to be not following instructions and downloading their email using unencrypted POP to their home PC in the wrong country, and your adversary can intercept your comms in plaintext.
I am at the office at around 5AM ever morning for the last 8 months. By the time meetings starting (~9:30AM), I have already hacked for nearly 4.5 hours with no single interrupt.

When I am out at 3:30PM, I pick up my son from his kindergarten and have around 4 hours together until he's going to bed.

It is true I "miss" some "important" meetings, yet, in the corporate I am working for as a consultant, there are ~12K employees (~11K are meeting requesters) and I am glad I miss those useless meetings.
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I remember the days when you only had IRS dip into your pockets. Now everybody wants to take a turn.
The last part of the title, "via cookies" still concerns me, ever since seeing the evercookie project (http://samy.pl/evercookie/). There are so many other ways for sites to track users besides normal cookies.

This is a good start on Google's behalf. Hopefully this type of pluggin will evolve to include the long list of other methods sites use to track users.
really? any more details on this? We always hear stories about people being happy about quitting their job and how they should have done it earlier.

What did you quit for?
By induction, your first line says that writing ten thousand lines of code that work individually is easy. I accept that getting them to work together is the hard part.
While I'm not fond of the numerous sub niche sites they open, StackOverflow is an excellent resource and has saved me a considerable amount of time when waiting for an answer on freenode.
I don't feel qualified to say whether this is FUD or not, but it certainly imposed some fear on me. I don't know what a Gout is and now I'm afraid to search for it.
Can we move past the billboard issue and concentrate on the meat? After all, that may have been a silly move (and silly, not mean, google is large enough to take a friendly poke in the ribs like that without pretending to be seriously hurt) but it does not detract from the point.

Google does have a tremendous amount of data on the connected part of the online population and it is a point in DDGs favor that they do not track their visitors.

Search leakage really is an issue, even if the majority of the people do not care they probably should and google could easily fix this, so is it going to or not?
Sure, I get that. But on Facebook - the status quo - ALL of the dissidents are reading unencrypted messages. So how is email worse off? Maybe it's not that much better, but I find it hard to believe it's actually LESS safe than Facebook.
1) actually, to my understanding it's a pretty common practice. i know that i at least have been served ads based on queries i just made, or pages that i just visited. i'd be very surprised if i was the only one here on HN who has had that experience.

2) that's certainly true, but i'd say that means we should be concerned about those alternate methods as well, not that we shouldn't be concerned about this one.
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I've spent time arguing with some fairly large and supposedly security-minded entities, about just this practice -- delivering login forms over HTTP. It doesn't matter that the specified destination is HTTPS. A MITM can do whatever they want to the form and its enclosing page while it's on its way to the client browser.

There's a quite successful startup, much beloved by HN, that has exactly this problem with one version of their sign on page. I won't say which one, because I don't want to make targeting too easy. I've been having a back and forth on a support ticket with them, after noticing the problem. They did say they followed up and looked into my concern. But they compared their design to Facebook et al. and said they were following "best practices".

An aside: Once you start using the term "best practices", you need to take a serious look at your design and engineering perspective. Especially in security, your thinking should always be challenging the established model. You may not find a better way, and you should be very skeptical of yourself when you think you have. But you need to be a bit... paranoid, always challenging the "established truths".

EDIT: To that company, if you happen to read this. I posted this after emailing you. And before the coffee fully kicked in. It wasn't my intention to create so blatant a cross reference for you to follow between me here and me in email. (I.e. not some twisted version of karma; just trying to make the point.)
But how is it relevant to corporate policies if the people are nice? Google is a corporation that's making money by selling ads and those ads are targeted based on user's data.

No matter how good the Google employes, the incentives are perverse and will twist Google's decision in favor of eroding customer privacy even more. See Schmidt's "privacy is dead" quote. Privacy is not dead yet, but the likes of Facebook and Google are trying really hard to kill it because there's more money for them if they do.
You don't get hundreds of millions of people interested in anything unless you design it to appeal to a broad audience.

If it was 2D it would have likely sold the same number of tickets, just at a lower per-ticket price. Consider that it's DVD and Blu-Ray sales are commensurate with its box-office gross, with no 3D on offer.
>600 million years of evolution did not prepare humans for traveling at 60 mph (much less controlling two tons of steel and insuring the safety of their children, while doing so),

This is irrelevant. It didn't provide any limitation on them doing so either, whereas in the 3D case, it did.

> nor did it prepare humans for sitting in front of a bright light pecking at keyboards for hours and hours on end.

Hence obesity, bone problems, cardiac problems et al. Are you seriously putting this argument forward? Every doctor in the country warns AGAINST "sitting in front of a bright light pecking at keyboards for hours and hours on end" for health reasons.
I'm not convinced about this point. The examples given (Zappos and Netflix) are, from what I know, extremely efficient companies, and likely were so from day one (in my experience, obsessive focus on efficiency doesn't magically arise one day... it's either there from the start or it's never there). My full response: http://swombat.com/2011/1/24/provide-fantastic-service
Avatar is a counter-example, yes. But I would argue that in this case the main story was technology itself -- in a non-scalable way: the uniqueness of a technology leap.

Incorporating 3D in every single movie just because Avatar was a huge hit would have been like shooting only sinking ships after Titanic.
This is an impressive list of articles, and includes some of the best articles I have read on these topics. However, seeing so many of these articles in one place made me think two seditious thoughts: (1) Larry and Sergey didn't need a single one of these articles to start Google, and (2) if everyone else reads and acts according to these articles, you should probably do the opposite. Just as generals fight the last war, advice articles seems determined to duplicate the last success. If you want the next out-of-left-field success, you need to be where no one else is even thinking to look.

EDIT: Yes, I realize I've just added another advice article to the pile.
And they all should be judged on their own merit.
You DO understand that a constraint can differ from another contraint, right?
If they start allowing the sale of non-digital goods on Facebook, they had better drop the 30% cut. That'll never fly with retailers, no matter how much exposure their Page gets them. Current payment processors take about $0.10 per transaction.
The nationalistic Welsh will tell you they are the real british people, but displaced and pushed westwards (into what is now Wales) by the Romans, Normans, Anglo Saxons etc. So a name might be mostly Welsh now, but the people with that name might have lived in that area for a very long time,
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That's impressive. Thanks for the ref.
A first step in the right direction
Ok. Now how do I turn off the data mining?
He's certainly part of the conservative right. He's no Michelle Malkin, but he's considered the NYTimes right-wing opinion columnist.

His point is actually slightly different than what you are saying, and this subtlety is important. Because while Brooks is on the right, is one of their more astute thinkers. Brooks is actually saying that formal education is easy. Not intellectually challenging, and largely a playground. Lets take some quotes:

"I believe she’s coddling her children. She’s protecting them from the most intellectually demanding activities because she doesn’t understand what’s cognitively difficult and what isn’t."

"these and other social tests impose cognitive demands that blow away any intense tutoring session or a class at Yale. "

"Chua would do better to see the classroom as a cognitive break from the truly arduous tests of childhood"

He's not simply saying that there exist other skills that aren't taught in the classroom and that these ar also important and difficult. He's saying something much stronger. He's saying the things that people like Chua value (math, science, arts, literacy, etc...) are the easy things -- the things not to be valued. They're the things you do when your child needs a break or to be coddled. These are the things of intellectual lightweights.

The hard cognitive work is the stuff you see at the corner store in Smalltown USA. These people don't have college degrees, PhDs, Fields Medals, but they can do the actual intellectual demanding activities, not the stuff "you coddle your children" with.
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It's actually industry standard for the publishing platform to take ~30% as the article says. XBLA, Steam, and PSN all do this as well.

It may seem like a lot, but those users wouldn't be available to you without the platform supporting you.