skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No interest categories are associated with your ads preferences so far."

I use AdBlockPlus, Ghostery and OptimizeGoogle in FF to reduce the amount of crap I get served, as well as to rewrite e.g. Google search results to remove their link tracking.
Google Search has bigger privacy issues. IP Addresses are anonymized after 9 months, but your search history is stored forever in anonymized form. If you have ever searched for yourself on Google, or for a unique set of information that can identify you as the origin of your searches, then you have to trust Google's security team and future lawmakers to keep your information private.

Yes, most people don't care, and I'm not any better. I don't have anything incriminating or too embarrassing in my search history, so I use Google and grit my teeth whenever privacy comes up. I tried DuckDuckGo for a week, but I eventually fell back to Google.

Sources and relevant links:

http://www.google.com/privacy/faq.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal
It seems to be machine-dependent? I remember opting out a while back at work, but my mobile phone definitely shows me a profile, albeit one that isn't totally accurate.

In any case, you guys should also checkout Bynamite. They've got this interesting mission to give users more control over what advertisers see. I'm all for that not just from a privacy standpoint, but also from a relevancy one.
Well, my point is not to say that Wall st is not guilty of many bad practices - it's just to say I don't like seeing a populist movement of blaming them for everything and calling for their heads, as if this will somehow fix current problems. The damage is done - lets look at ways to avoid this and stop it happening again.

I don't excuse Wall St, but I do think the government is as much, or more to blame. Individuals on Wall St were given a set of rules to work within, some broke them, many stayed within the law. The entire industry cannot be declared bad. It takes an entire economy to mess things up. Everyone is complicit, including the media and even some parts of the general public.

It's the aspect of finding a single scapegoat that I don't find comfortable. Because I feel that hunting down a responsible party and blaming them results in avoiding valuable life lessons. The valuable life lessons here are making sure you don't go along with the crowd, do your own critical thinking and don't for one minute believe the government has your best interests at heart.
Very nice interface! I just have to comment since I've been building for a fee weather applications in my spare time for a little while. I know what a mess it can become, especially since you rely on different sources.

I really like how you show the mean and distribution in the background.

I am surprised by the absence of precipitation accumulation, especially since that is often a valuable information for many people who look at long time weather.

Also I don't think the horizontal marker adds information since you show the value for each curve at the cursor, I feel it just clutters the interface.

The meaning of the icons is not always obvious, I am unsure how to interpret two snowflakes out of three or two raindrops out of four etc. It doesn't seem to be tied to the PoP. The intensity maybe?
Nothing.

I have 'google analytics opt-out plugin' firefox addon, as well as adblock plus.

"Cookies are disabled

Your browser's cookies seem to be disabled. Ads Preferences will not work until you enable cookies in your browser."
Banshee is a music player that uses Amazon as an in-app music store, with affiliate connections that feed the Banshee people. The Ubuntu people are making Banshee their default music player, but this whole money thing has broken everybody's brain.
pypy also supports stackless style microthreads:
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/stackless.html
but, yes, system level threads are GIL based.
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I assume Python or Perl. I recall seeing a quote from the creator along the lines of "I wanted it to be more OO than python"
WordPress redirect empty searches to root
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Landmark AI event, and you guys are worrying about buzzer speed.
*sigh
I absolutely love it, but I'm a total data geek. Just as one anecdotal thing that I got out of the app: 2 weekends ago was ridiculously nice in San Francisco. If you live in SF it was a weird 2 days of perfect weather in the midst of an otherwise fairly cold winter. If you look on the charts there it pops out immediately. There's a huge spike for Feb 5 and 6. Suddenly it jumped from low 60s/high 50s to a nice 72 degrees and then immediately right back down again after the weekend. It was really cool to see my personal experience of the weather quantified like that.

One quick suggestion: show the day of week in the tooltip where you show the date (when zoomed into showing single days at a time obviously). That would make it easier for me to relate the data to my memory of the weather.
Funny... my listed interests are in business and tech (true), and I've been identified as a male (not true). From Google: "Based on the websites you've visited, we think you're interested in topics that mostly interest men." Ouch!
For Culinary Education Site, I recently learned of Rouxbe
http://rouxbe.com/

I was rather impressed.
Is anyone using Google Bookmarks? If so, how does it compare to Delicious, Historious, and Pinboard?
It all makes sense now, thanks. Honestly, Canonical has to make money somehow, and these two choices seem much less evil than other companies' actions...
The author's argument is specious. You need design guidelines in place for any language feature. You can say the same thing about interfaces in Java - you see a call x.doFoo() and you have no idea what code gets called! Well yes, that's why you formalize your module interfaces and don't let people just randomly create interfaces between modules, etc, etc.

Even in assembly you can define a function _do_foo that actually does "bar."

You need to know how to architect code with meta-programming in mind, no doubt. But this isn't any harder than architecting code with any other language feature in mind. Just as you need to clearly specify the semantics of your interfaces, you need to clearly specify the semantics of DSLs.

Managed properly, DSL's can have a tremendous positive impact on the code-base.

I've been mucking around in compilers lately, and one thing that never ceases to amaze me is SBCL. The compiler is about 55K LOC + 15K LOC for each native back-end. That's about the same size as the C1 compiler in Hotspot, but does a whole lot more (ie: includes the front-end of the compiler, while C1 gets low-level bytecode as input, has to deal with type inferencing and lambda lifting and all sorts of other things to bring a high-level dynamic language down to machine code, etc, etc). And it does that with algorithms about 15 years older (it doesn't have the benefit of SSA form which would massively simplify many of the optimizations SBCL performs).

Macros are a huge part of how SBCL does it. There are 123 macro definitions in the compiler, and they do a tremendous job in cutting code by making DSLs for things like specifying code generators, etc. As for readability - because it's well designed and well-commented, it's surprisingly maintainable and readable for a code-base that's 25 years old and has been maintained by so many different people over the years.
I imagine Mark Zuckerberg has now become a real celebrity. Not just a member of the Tech elite.
according to http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/ads/ the "interest categories" are based on the sites you actually visit that have doubleclick ads, not from search terms (though there's an obvious correlation between the two, I suppose).
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Let R be the copy of the repository on your local machine that is syncing with Dropbox. You could do:

git clone R R2

and work in R2 when you are doing a bunch of rapid switching between branches, and then delete R2 when you are doing with that and back to working on one branch. If you changed anything on the branches, you could push from R2 to R before deleting R2.
I don't think that is quite accurate. Walmart is all about optimizing the the process of going from supplier to customer (reducing inventory help, optimizing shipping routes, etc). Apple is about controlling access to the suppliers.
I can think of some pretty ironic goal/charities:

Lose 10 pounds or donate 10$ to heart disease research.
how so? honest question.
The URL redirects through a doubleclick domain. That's why it's broken for you.
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Thanks!

We're working on precipitation accumulation - there are some data fidelity problems that we're trying to solve, then we'll get that in.

The horizontal marker is intended for comparing across the series - i.e. does this peak extend further up than this other peak over there. There's a lot of action going on around the mouse cursor, we'll see if we can pare that down without losing the key information.

Icons: 1 out of 2 snowflakes etc is the expected intensity of the precipitation (i.e. light snow, heavy snow, etc). The probability is reported just next to the intensity in the icon series if you're at a zoom level where the labels fit.

We don't have a legend for the icons yet, need to add that.
What does one do if there is an entrenched competitor? Theoretically there is room for more than one right? I haven't heard of stickk.com. It'd be interesting to see what OP does with this.
One of the companies I applied at recently required candidates to write a CRUD app from scratch. It was just 1 page, and really simple, but had to be done within 48 hours of receiving it. (Which obviously gives lots of time to still have a life and a job.)

They also had a puzzle that you didn't have to code for, but had to tell HOW you could code for it.

I think it took more time than you should ask of an applicant (they sure can't apply very many places!) but it definitely weeds out the unqualified. (And possibly the qualified that won't jump through hoops to work for average wages.)
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I try to adhere to that motto. I really do.

Sadly I had to learn that it very often conflicts with "making a living".
essays... port-scanned by forum trolls

This is a truly priceless mental image.
I admit I perhaps haven't looked into this as much as I perhaps should have before making that claim.

My understanding is that the rubyspec project (http://rubyspec.org/), is an effort to retrospectively document all the stuff the language does.

Compare ruby: http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?Changes+in+Ruby+1.9, to python: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html

I appreciate this isn't a great example, as python 2.7 isn't a different implementation (ruby 1.8 -> 1.9 is though), but this has been my experience of the way things are documented language-wise.
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You see only an application for Businesses? I am really interested in seeing what it could end up doing for the average household.
Thanks - that's exactly the type of observations we're hoping to enable!

Tooltip: Added & deployed, hit reload to get the new app.
RyanMcGreal hit the nail on the head with his comment. I made a comment in a different thread about Apples subscription along the lines of how the Internet tends to route round things, which I think may apply here too.

Bear in mind the history of PGP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_in...) as a prime example of this. When Egypt had it's Internet cut off, the Egyptians routed around it. They became the change they wanted to see and Mubarak had to step down.

Given that semi-automated astroturfing is a popular pastime for corporations, having the government astroturfing offers relatively little by way of difference except in certain circumstances where resources become an issue for corporations (e.g. identification). Much of what's proposed already exists elsewhere in the blackhat market anyway.

So how do you fight it? If you care enough about it, any way you can. Disinformation is as old as the hills. Exposing it is one way, discrediting the source is another, counterdisinformation yet another still. Not participating in places where known or suspected personas exist is probably best. For the truly organised group of today (and for the casual group of tomorrow) there's darknets and offline means of communication.
I really see this! Just basically an interactive Computer for the average Mom who needs to know something. Home automation is the future.
Any language that is only pure is about as useful as write-only memory.

Haskell was historically pure and had side effects added as a way to interact with the world. The language enforces (discounting unsafePerformIO) the separation of pure and impure code. That is sufficient to label any practical language pure.
Reddit's solution to that is to create your own subreddit and effectively become elitist about what's allowed. Hence a lot of comments as to Reddit demographic issues is met with "remove default subreddits".

Quora is similar but catered to a smaller audience I assume. Both places have moderators but I don't know if either can control the answers (On reddit, only moderators can).
Bieber vs COD
I think its also a little narrow to think its just narrow AI. There is definitely potential for Watson for the avg consumer.
Credentialism, elite employment, and career aspirations
Couple this with tools like Jekyll or nanoc (with JavaScript-powered comments, perhaps) and you can easily roll out powerful static sites that are dynamic locally. I can see this getting a lot of use because it makes it so easy to rig up new sites right from the shell. It was already pretty easy but the ability to create a new "site" by merely creating a bucket on S3 reduces the friction even more.

(Perhaps too easy, even.. Rig up a domain registration API, content generator, and an S3 uploader and you could have a script pumping out auto-generated "content" sites all day without any hassles right from your terminal window.)
I struggled parsing that too. I think he intended the negation of "It must only put out correct formal proofs", but adding a "not" in there doesn't quite have that effect.
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Exactly!

Sometimes I just want to create some static pages, but I was forced to use either CMS or things like wordpress.

Now I guess there is a solution which is also super reliable.

AWS is just amazing.
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I notice the article fails to mention the basic disadvantage of this design. A sailing ship needs wind, a powered ship needs fuel... this needs both!
I'd rather discuss first already proven preventive measures than theoretical cures.
I'm an architect by day (like real buildings), and sketchup is used really heavily in my field, cuz it just works. The problem with more advanced software is that with large teams, you'll get different people working in different ways and if 1 person doesn't conform to the standards, it screws up the organization of the entire project. You can't really screw anything up in sketchup since it's so simple. Also, Import and export between other programs works really well also, which is key. Components/blocks and whatever associations are often preserved.
Well didn't you look at Samsung? They did ship and what was the result..
It's probably just a generic one if HN is referrer ;)

Computers & Electronics - Software - Business & Productivity Software

Computers & Electronics - Software - Open Source

Computers & Electronics - Software - Operating Systems - Mac OS

News

Online Communities - File Sharing & Hosting

Online Communities - Photo & Video Sharing - Photo & Image Sharing

Demographics - Gender - Male
Matt's company is going to benefit because news.yahoo.com mentioned his company's name.
Some research shows that the majority of OS core developers are FT paid employees, not volunteers:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1248869

In addition, there's research showing that OS culture is both explicitly and implicitly unfriendly to women:
http://www.ncwit.org/cultureos
Three mediocre plugins bundled into one?
Sorry but this left me underwhelmed.

There are much more powerful plugins for each of these problem spaces.
OK, I'm stumped.
They probably will. Which was probably the point :P
Is there any HTML5 solution to generate pretty charts like these in the article?
A better title might be "Some of what Google admits to know about you".

There's really no way to verify the sum of what they know is you like ponies, especially when they have so much data to draw conclusions from.
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There's a lot of cool stuff going on here in the RTP area... I really have a feeling that you're going to see some kickass startups emerging from this area over the next little while. We may be somewhat unknown at the moment, but a startup culture is slowly starting to take shape. I foresee good things for RTP area startup founders in the future.
College Recommendation Engine

I know the guys over at http://www.Zinch.com are sort of addressing this problem. Its more of a social approach to finding a University.
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Thanks, your friends sound like they would be good potential candidates. I look forwards to hearing what feedback they have.
Apparently someone who's interested in "Superhero Films" has been using my Google account.
Hasn't caught on because it isn't simple.
I hardly think dealing with registrars is an activity people relish.
Startup Idea?
I'm not sure not if software development questions should be solved with a reference to "Ruby's culture". Wouldn't "what works best" be a better criteria?

I've done more Ruby than Python altogether. It's true that I am no longer doing Ruby - mostly because it is too slow for anything beyond a fairly simple web platform (I would welcome an improvement in Ruby performance).

I would argue that the time spent on the tests could instead be spent on an actual spec.
I'm glad you found the idea useful. I guess if not liking my apps name is the worst criticism I get I'm doing ok. I'm not unwilling to change the name though, so I'll take a look at possible alternatives and see what I can come up with.

Thanks for the feedback!
Nope. 4 MONTHS.

Look at the price of gas. Last time it was this high, it was february of 2008. In 4 months, gas shot up to its peak, and we all know what happened right after that.

Second dip is coming. Lots of layoffs, even in tech industry.
That was my first thought when I saw the 3D printer article the other day. Between that printer and SketchUp, there isn't much the average Joe can't print.
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This clip is false.
Makes sense. The exposition Banshee will get by being the official media player on Ubuntu is huge.

Banshee is Mono-based, right?
Jack Abraham (Milo.com) on being an entrepreneur and why to drop out of school
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I can't figure it out. And I'm sure this is not how he's doing it, but could you potentially use water mixed with very fine metal particles and then use a bunch of small electromagnets turned on and off quickly to pull the water/metal mixture along the path?
I don't know of a library, but I have seen some sites that offer software to do it.

I'd try http://mouseflow.com/. I haven't used it yet, but it looks cool.

I used http://www.crazyegg.com/ on a project a couple of years ago and it got the job done; though it may not be what you're looking for.
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Automated proof tools are already causing a headache for mathematicians. The four color theorem was proved by breaking the problem down into 1,936 cases, and then proved each of the individually. This story has a happy ending: the result is now fairly well accepted and there have been numerous steps in simplifying the proof.

However, other automated proofs have not been so lucky: Hale's proof of the Kepler Conjecture was 300 pages of mathematics and 40,000 lines of supporting computer code, and the referees of the paper tried four years to understand it (they even set up a seminar series for all of the prerequisite material to understand the proof) before letting the authors know that they were unable to verify the correctness of the proof because they "ran out of energy to devote to the problem." (The Annals of Mathematics henceforth edited their rules to disallow submission of computer programs.) The Flyspeck project is to, well, ask a program to verify the correctness of the proof. Ah, the times we live in.
May I say "awesome" and "finally"? That's awesome. Finally.
Google thinks I have a split personality:

In Firefox: Humor, Venture Capital, Computers & Electronics, Handhelds & Mobile Devices, Internet Software, Operating Systems - Mac OS, Currencies & Foreign Exchange, Smart Phones, Technology News, Dictionaries & Encyclopedias.

In Chrome: Movie Reference, Music & Audio, Rock Music, Online Video.

As my main browser I use Firefox, without Flash plug-in. When I need to view video, I open Chrome, which has Flash built-in. That explains why the information from the two Google cookies differ so much.
This is nuts. It's nice to see the internet being increasingly commoditized -- hell, Amazon has commoditized people.
No, mathematicians will be the last ones to still have jobs once all others have been replaced.
I'm using Mouseflow for one of my sites at the moment, and I've also used CrazyEgg in the past. They're both great services, but I'm looking for some custom javascript to integrate into my own app.
Pumping out content sites is easy enough. Terminal window would actually be a barrier to entry there :)
Do they also give you the server logs? e.g. access.log
From what I can figure, it's the usual perspective trickery (flat water track, vertical tower, perspective makes it look like they line up), and then there's a nozzle pouring out water from the tower top.

Note that the water doesn't appear to flow in front of the wooden knob at the ledge it's supposedly falling off.

EDIT: Looking again at the HD version it seems I'm mistaken. ars' comment appears to have it correct, though.
If you'd said you worked on a 1MM LOC C++, Scala, or Perl project where you didn't have to establish strict coding standards to avoid the code base descending into madness, I'd be pretty shocked.

If you've worked on a 1MM SLOC project in any language where you didn't have to establish coding standards, you were exceptionally fortunate to have such a disciplined, single-minded team.

Python as a language does not lend itself to the same syntatic abuses...

Syntactic abuses are the least of my maintainability worries--if they're truly a factor in your development environment, you need to have a friendly discussion with the antisocial sociopaths who write deliberately obfuscated code.

Python's good at enforcing a particular indentation style. That's never been interesting to me with regard to coding standards.
I use a grey on black scheme for editor windows, no discomfort either.
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