skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen it used for a long time. The only problem with it is the quadratic time complexity: it's equivalent to ((N0 + N1) + N2) + N3 ... so you copy the same elements over and over again as the sum builtin doesn't know to use anything but the + operator to build each element. (I vaguely recall some discussion about making it more efficient on sequences of sequences).

A more efficient version would be:
def sumseq(l):
r = []; map(r.extend,l); return r

which would also work on any type of sequence as input, even if mixed. A quick test shows the quadratic time complexity being noticeable at about 128 items, where sumseq is 10x as fast and 1751x as fast at 16384 items.
Many would probably just not care, but the global players (Amazon, eBay..) would have to comply. Potentially it can affect everyone, just like introduction of EU RoHS directive phased out much of lead-containing products worldwide.
Sure, some people will always bitch and moan about change. But look at it positively: it allows them to do more impressive things in less time. If they can make a good-looking forest in a day instead of three months, it means they can do more interesting things then hand-design trees.
I don't think the average Android owner could be described as "geeky" any more than the average iPhone user can tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica.

It's easy to find vocal examples of these extremes online but smartphones are basically replacing featurephones, very soon everyone will have one. Already the market penetration numbers are so high that I doubt the average iPhone or Android user could be distinguished much from each other, or from non-smartphone users.
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You think most people understand the concept of cookies in the browser and how to change the settings for them?

Maybe people don't care about privacy as an abstract concept, I think people do care about possible outcomes - say my partner borrows my machine and starts seeing ads for the surprise holiday I was planning.
You are not wrong. Some examples: A login for your site needs no concent. A session to store some status-message to a user ("comment posted!") is allowed just fine. But Google (analytics) must provide a warning before it is allowed to track people, because it tracks people across domains and sites.

edit: I wrote opt-in but meant to say "provide a warning"
In theory yes, but in practice not really. Consumer doesn't care, doesn't know.

On a side note, In theory if you are EU company you cannot use a CRM which hosts your data outside of the EU. For a USA CRM company only way to get around this "Safe Harbor Policy". Do you know how many SaaS CRMs apply Safe Harbor Policy? AFAIK Only 1, SalesForce.

But obviously there are thousands of Europan users of these CRM companies which violate this EU law.
Q: FUSE for Linux/OSX? And Dokan or CBFS for Windows? Or homemade?
That's a pretty common strategy for Open Source companies. For example, Magento (OpenSource PHP e-commerce solution) is free, with no support. Then there's the full-on enterprise edition at 10 000 Euros per server where you get complete support from Magento Inc, including guaranteed revenue in case Magento fails.

Pain is not built-in though, but close.
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300202.
If I read it correctly, the law addresses the cross-site cookies particularly, which I have been keeping disabled in all my browsers ever since the option was introduced (Accept cookies ... Only from sites I visit). And honestly, I don't care about "startups" that are trying to take advantage of ad cookies (edit: and Facebook tracking me via its ubiquitous thumb, and so on). Let alone that I use an ad blocker, too. Fuck that, you know.
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If you are interested in Foursquare you might enjoy this podcast in which hackers use the service to stalk people: http://www.phonelosers.org/podpress_trac/web/910/0/plaradio2...
I wonder about one thing possibly related to "wiretapping"...

Consider a person, who has really bad memory and frequently forget things. He may consider putting some sort of device on himself, which would record everything happening around. Then, if something was forgotten, this person may use his records as a sort of "external memory". Would such kind of "memory aid" be legal?

Edit: Also, if so — wouldn't (in a story linked) child's statement that she knew that the bear was a recording device legalize the situation? (Considering the bear wasn't left somewhere to record, but always remained with kid)
I think the author has missed the point on a number of levels. Two representative quotes are:

> Android is and has always been the choice for people and companies that don’t have the option of getting an iPhone.

> iOS is, in fact, being used as a platform by Apple and independent developers, while Android is fulfilling the role that the simpler phone OSs used to

Speaking for myself (anecdotes != data, etc.) I bought my first Android phone because it was the most advanced phone at the time with a physical keyboard, and had great integration with Gmail. My organisation has a fairly even split between iPhone and Android, and there are a lot of non-geeks with Android phones. So such a general, sweeping statement dismissing Android as "for people who can't have iPhones" is incorrect and mildly amusing.

I agree with the author's point that most non-geeks do not care about the OS a phone is running, but the second quote above makes me think he/she has their iBlinkers on. Android phones range from cheap and cheerful to feature-packed shiny-fests. There are some Android devices that are less advanced than the iPhone, and some that are more advanced.

This, in my opinion, is Android's key strength - the wide variety of handsets means Android is engaging in asymmetric warfare with iPhone.

I hate the divisive nature of articles like this - it smacks of "my toy is better than your toy", although I suppose my response is little better than "no, my toy is better than your toy, but let's agree to disagree".
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I find it quite surprising how little users pinboard actually got overall. But on the other hand - most of them are premium customers.

Maciej I'm curious is this endeavour profitable for you? I understand the point of an itch that needs to be scratched and all. But still I'm curious - I find the service excellent (I'm a devout customer) but for all the resource intensiveness that your service requires to offer caching and search and the time sunk into implementation and maintaining, well I find the fee kinda low (on a over thumb estimate that is).

Are there any other ways you are monetizing this? Since all those bookmarks are true "human powered search engine"?
You may be interested in Weinberg's (founder of DuckDuckgo) blog-entry on privacy-aware logging. http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/how-to-not-log-p...
Your first idea is exactly what Autodesk's Mudbox does. I can't speak for the games industry but it's a reasonably successful product in the VFX industry. See http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=13565063... for more details.

The second idea is also already being done by software like Terragen from Planetside Software: http://www.planetside.co.uk/ I don't know how widely used this is; I have the impression lots of game companies build similar tools in-house, tailored to their particular games.
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Would this actually save electricity? Wouldn't the power used by the Kinect and the host computer/server outweigh the electricity used by keeping a few unnecessary lamps on?
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I'll try that. Thanks!
If 42 people say yes, 260 say no and 50 say maybe, how would you interpret it?

Should this software be built?
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As a web-publisher, I find the general distaste of (advertising) tracking cookies a little hard to swallow. At the end of the day, tracking cookies exist because they allow the sites you visit (and probably don't pay for directly) to earn more money (on average) across all their visitors.

Advertising is the life-blood of publishers on the Internet. Without advertising (and by extension, tracking) many of the sites you enjoy every day would cease to exist.

At least using cookies you CAN opt out (via browsing settings and plugins). All that will happen is that the tracking networks will switch to browser fingerprinting making tracking harder to control and more opaque.
Reddit is more Windows centric than Slashdot.
It will be interesting if this actually works out worse for privacy; say the site decides instead to remember you (for ad purposes) by ip address instead of by cookie, so everyone from that ip address ends up in the same profile target.

e.g. i visit a website to buy a birthday present for my wife, but later everywhere she browses she suddenly sees adverts for the shop or product that i bought.
> and you can't scale it in realtime.

What do you mean by this?

You can't resize the images? Sure you can.

You can't add more virtual servers quickly? Of course you can. I'm told by a mainframe-operator acquaintance that Linux on z/VM can spin up hundreds of instances per minute.

You can't get the mainframe to run faster? Tosh. IBM generally oversupply you with CPU capacity; if you need more you can ring up and they will reconfigure them remotely to add CPU power.

Other advantages: a zSeries mainframe is extremely reliable, IBM's service is expensive but extremely thorough and unlike other virtual server environments it enforces partitioning at a hardware level, and much more completely. No more mysterious performance variation due to bursty neighbours.
Google Analytics does not track user behaviour across domains and sites, unless those domains and sites are specifically linked.

Google Analytics uses a 1st-party cookie set by the website that runs it.

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConcep...
Oh, i forgot: You can add the --watch switch and get your scripts compiled on save.
They will use a combination of user-agent, IP address and other browser profile information. This is surprising good at uniquely identifying most computers.

It only really falls down when there are a large number of totally identical machines in the same IP range, where the machines are locked down so plugins (etc..) cannot be installed. E.g. a large office or university lab.
You mean the patent grant for libvpx
Spot on, I think; I would add that as well as being a subject matter expert, you will also need to be intimately familiar with the hardware architectures of the Xbox 360 and PS3, since 'optimized' solutions for these platforms will need to be one of your selling points.
Linux on zSeries doesn't run on z/OS at all. It runs on z/VM, a hypervisor that can either run purely as software, or hook into the PR/SM partitioning hardware built in the processors.
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Likewise. I can remember using WinSock at UTAS. I've got a mate that works opposite Peter's office in Bellerive and upon spying the office it almost felt like some sort of pilgrimage!
May be more true than one might think: http://www.simulation-argument.com/
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A solution does exist: providers of mturk-like services could disallow such work items and enforce that (inci-meta-dentally they could use mturk itself to crowd-source spam identification on the cheap).

There is additional work for the service provider but it would seem to me that it does align with their self-interest at some level. I don't think Amazon really wants mturk to be associated with providing a spam work force.

I believe one of the things that CrowdFlower explicitly calls out as an advantage over mturk is quality control (although for this particular solution to work all crowd-sourcing providers would have to do it - in this particular case it takes only one bad provider to enable bad behavior.

As to your hopefully hypothetical question: a risk you're running is that Google will pull out your app from the store. I haven't heard a case with Google but I'm pretty sure apps were pulled from Apple's App Store for manipulating ratings, so the downside could be big (your hard work could amount to nothing).
The smaller z10s were being sold for less than a $100k. Bear in mind that they have a lot of inbuilt redundancy.
After reading more into it, it seems that they are targeting co-working type spaces, not individuals in their hackathon efforts. Yes there are synchronous live online hackathons but the niche difference here is definitely individual hackers.

(not necessarily contradicting you beardicus as I'm sure you were well aware of this, just first time I read it I was like: ohh, already done)
Money quote:

> We all know that Mechanical Turk challenges the whole “Junk-in, Junk-out” dilemma and makes it more like “Always junk-out, regardless of the input process”

Couldn't be more true IMO, mturk is basically useless except for this "meta" kind of research and is a good example of a community that needed active management and positive incentives going to absolute shit in the absence of both.
I can top that mine went up to 17 and then jumped to 200 for no obvious reason(some sort of memory bug where memory in a different part of the program overlapped with the loop variable).
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I would estimate that the contributors to the Vintage Sewing Pattern wiki Wikia are >95% female, and many of them are older, too.

http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

When it first started, the pages were bare-bones and the UI was not "pretty" in any way, so I don't think it was UI driven; I think it was content-driven. Now there are >35,000 pattern images, with plentiful metadata, including category tagging, and links to reviews and vendors.
There is no link, want to post it here?
I had several flip outs because of these captcha things. As it says in article, some of them are simply impossible to read. I'm definitely not putting any of those on my website, there are plenty of other solutions out there.
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Mainframes predate the concept of multiple programs running at the same time. Truly. z/OS can handle running multiple programs at the same time, but it's optimised for batch operations.

If you want a multiprocessing OS, you can just use Linux on z/VM.
indeed there was a service called pleaserobme to criticize those "check-in" services...
Thanks for posting the link - upvoted. However, I'm interpreting it a little differently. Consent is not just required for tracking across sites according to point 50 of that document. Their example of something that would require consent is storage of language preferences. That has nothing to do with cross site tracking.
You can execute loop in your head just by reading it line by line. Token by token. With other solutions you need to know other things to determine what goes inside and believe it is actually what you want it to be. Loops ar flat, explicit and versatile. I think that is the reason behind their popularity.
Maybe it could be this:

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
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This is a fallacy. A site's business model is it's own responsibility.
The links from the newsletters also prompts for an email address, which is quite annoying.
Have you tried http://tarpipe.com ? It offers such an API and a visual programming environment where you can interconnect different web services.
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It can be interpreted the way you want it to be, for example:

bad) 86% said the would not pay for it

good) 14% said they would pay, just by reading the idea on a few bullet points

the comments were most useful and it resulted in a developer advocate for one of the biggest companies out there, to throw 100USD on paypal to develop a specific feature
You know what'd be awesome? (Just throwing it out here). If the lights smoothly ramp up and down instead of winking on and off. It'd be way more Star Trek and much more impressive looking to the uninitiated. (Although, if you're already using X10 or similar modules to control the lights, ridiculously easy to actually add.)
Interesting. Who threw the $100?
An explanation would come in useful.
>For example if this is an multiplayer game you would have to synchronize the tree generation to look exactly the same for each player, and have the same collision box, or collision model (usually low-poly bounding convex or set of). This means you would have to communicate synchronize this with the clients.

They just have to use identical seed values for their random number generators.

Look at dwarf fortress: a few worldgen parameters and a single number are all you need to generate a fantasy world with complete with procedurally generated geography, population with traceable lineage, governments and other entities, and history, including artifacts and artwork that portray said history.
Be that as it may, most of the sites I (at least) enjoy every day use the free content for advertising model. Very few of the sites would be able to make the transition to another business model that did not rely on advertising.
His whole control computer uses around 5 watts. I think a Kinect might take 2 more. It doesn't take much lamp off time to break even and start seeing savings.

But that's not why geeks do such things. If you're going to take over the world, the lights simply must automatically come on when entering your lair, accompanied by a cold, female, disembodied voice intoning "Welcome, Doctor".

You are planning on doing the voice eventually as well, right Nitro?
The bit in question: "For example, pursuant to the last sentence of this Article a data subject may not
benefit from information and the right to oppose the processing of his/her data if a cookie collects his
language preferences or his location (e.g. Belgium, China) as this kind of cookies could be presented as
having as objective the facilitation of the transmission of a communication"

I think this regards storing the users locale information in a cookie .. you wouldn't need to store this in a cookie if you can store it on your server which links the locale information via a session cookie.
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I'm guessing the bit about sadism was added by the headline writer, since a lot of what the author describes is textbook Crossfit. Besides, isn't it more strictly speaking masochistic?

That said I'm currently taking a break from it due to a jumper's knee that won't go away.
I used to rack up a bit of a phone bill secretly playing One Must Fall multiplayer via some BBS. I wonder if i can find it and load it up on Dosbox...
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The linked document looks to me like a recommendation to alter the tabled amendment - and as things currently stand then language preferences and the like will not be exempt. Hence clause 51 stating "to prevent this we propose the following amendment to the article ..."

But I've only skimmed through it and it's making my head hurt.
So how does the police distinguish between a harmless session cookie and an evil tracking cookie?
looks like there's a need for a mturk preferred worker aggregation service.
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That's the issue - what's the definition of "track"?

I've not seen a decent discussion of this anywhere - the BBC site says "shopping baskets are exempt" but what about session cookies? What about font-size preferences or logins?

I've asked my MP (in the UK) to look into it...
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well, if you are geek enough to think its cool you know what it is and what it does.
There are already lawsuits in Germany against websites using AdSense or Google Analytics. Also the Wordpress plugin Akismet (distributed spam filter) is apparently a no go in the future.

Just some examples - so yes, I think this could definitely hurt EU startups, or at least smaller projects that rely on adsense.
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Oh, rubbish. HOW has JS being "Javafied" by marketeers? If it WAS more Java like it probably would support classes directly and explicitly as Java does.
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I told that one IRL, and people wanted to look up this "HN" thing.

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I don't think that kind of difference matters in the eyes of those who created the directive. I believe if you store a cookie that is later used to recover locale information stored on your server, that would not exempt you from the consent and refusal provisions. But I could be wrong.

[Edit] In any event, I agree with you that the article blows this issue completely out of proportion.
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While this is true, alot of cookies are used without any login/signup process, so you need to provide these pop-ups alot more often.