skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You might argue that these people are fringe users but even then I doubt the ability/feasibility to accurately retain and compare data usefully and not just using IP or something to compare visits."

I'm not sure I follow you.

If a user isn't one of the "fringe" group which doesn't allow cookies, then you can store a cookie identifying the user to you, create a profile for them as if they are a regular user, and track anything you want. You can treat them like regular users, or treat them in a special way, but either way you can store any information you want.
I'm guessing that most people don't really care, or at least don't think about it enough to care.

And by most, I mean a huge majority, like 90%+.

I'm not aware of any studies though, does anyone have any study to link to?
Neato. If I were GM I'd have some pretty serious issues about the name, though. Take the name of GM's own electric car and add a prefix meaning "over"? Seems a bit questionable from a trademark point of view. You can't call your soft drink "ubercoke", can you?
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Maybe certain Pinboard uses want to store those parameters along with their URL for one reason or another? Seems a little extreme for one guy to make some arbitrary decision about the content the users themselves are choosing to store.
Nations face multiple issues at once. Almost all large countries need infrastructure, health, science, tech, manufacturing, etc. etc. to thrive economically.

India needs a little more infrastructure in its diet. That doesn't mean it stops needing the other stuff.

Anyway all this "India needs x" is not the useful way of looking at things. Think "Can x succeed in India? How?"
No, even before that. Like when the axe was invented, chopping trees became so much easier, so lots of wood choppers probably lost their "jobs". Even in the stone age this has been going on.
Since they did load testing to optimize performance, I think his argument stands. If they didn't bother to optimize I would agree with you.
Why would anyone want to save tracking code?
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Great point we will see how that pans out in the courts
But at least that number still has meaningful impact. Regardless of the total percent of emissions, that's still 10 billion less into the environment. Much bigger impact than the "lost productivity" numbers!
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I expect Linux to sneak onto the desktop in the form of Android. The Motorola Atrix, an upscale Android phone, already comes with an optional netbook attachment - you can dock the phone into the back of it and it lets you interface with the phone with a netbook's keyboard, mousepad and screen. It's not rumored to be an especially good netbook, but the time will come, probably within a few years, when something like it will be.

There will be no reason for most people to maintain a separate computer when their phone is powerful enough to do everything they need, except that its form factor is inappropriate. It will be cheaper and simpler just to dock it in a shell that gives a more appropriate form factor.

tldr; Android will disrupt the laptop/desktop market.
This story also explains something else for me:

I use the same keyboard, monitor and mouse with my Mac and my Windows machine. To make it easy to switch between them, I have a KVM switch. My keyboard is a Windows keyboard. Until now, I had wondered why my KVM switch maps the Windows key to the Mac's command key. Now I know: The Mac commmand key used to be an apple... the Microsoft logo maps to the Apple logo (historically).
Yeah you can store each sessions activity but how can you accurately compare the data between sessions?
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Software Carpentry.

http://software-carpentry.org/

Kind of the equivalent to knowing how to do minor home repairs, without calling in the professionals. There are many people who could benefit from the equivalent level of programming skill.
I completely agree, when I moved to the US from Germany about 7 years ago, a large majority of the people I got to know were still running dialup. In Germany the years prior to my move, I cannot remember a single person not having at least DSL. Then the next major shock I got was when looking at ISP and Cellphone carrier prices! at the moment I am paying 60$/mo for 12down 2up (in boston). My Brother in a small town in southern Germany gets 2 unlimited phone lines, cable TV and 50down 12up for 40euros/mo so about 60$/mo. Im not sure how this difference in price can be explained, Especially because in boston my internet goes down every few days since all the lines are run overground.
Take a look at Android.
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What I was trying to say was that, you can't justify iCloud if people were going to buy books, music, etc. from you regardless of whether you released iCloud. If those folks were going to buy from you, having iCloud would just be an expense, because for those customers, it didn't matter whether you had iCloud.
I use Gmail for two reasons:

1. I simply haven't found any other better email client

2. I do think that Google is better at keeping my stuff safe than I am

Yes, I am aware that I lose some privacy, but convenience wins over that.
It's an uphill battle. Local governments in the US sign franchise agreements with cable companies and telecom providers. Many of those agreements give the cable company exclusive geographical rights to the area in return for hooking up the entire town.

So when another ISP shows up and wants to string cable all over the poles...guess what? They're turned away. Verizon FiOS found this out when trying to get into markets where AT&T had the telephone franchise.

Call it a monopoly, call it anti-competition. But America is huge. There's no other way to get a company to invest in so much infrastructure to cover all of the land.
Get a job. Within a couple weeks you'll have some ideas.

Corollary: If you have been at a job for more than a year, find another.
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Macports is a decent enough package manager. My only real gripe is the lack of binary packages.
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I'm going to be moving back to Chicago soon, and I wonder if any fellow HNers have some advice as to who's the best ISP for quality, high-speed internet in the Chicagoland region for someone that lives their life online?
If the only problems with Linux on the desktop were driver-related, this might be the case.
I saw this quite randomly on an "arts" channel on TV about a year ago and it was really good and it relates to what a lot of us in the startup world are doing. Just thought I should get that out there before people flag it or something. Thanks for reminding me of it, Alex.
You can now hide your email id or disable your public profile completely by turning those setting on in your preferences.
Yeah, maybe "reliably" was a bad choice of words, reliability has little to do with it. I agree that Linux on the desktop can be fine if you have the time to set it up for your needs. I just think that setup time is not much fun after a while and not strictly necessary when you look at how the competition does it.
If you include affiliate codes as part of tracking codes, I can definitely see some users wanting to keep that data preserved. For instance, someone may want to reward some shareware author with their amazon purchases. Social organizations like churches, clubs, etc. might encourage their members to tack on an affiliate code to keep them funded. It's hard to see the use case for keeping the utm_* tags, but not all tracking codes are meaningless to an end user.
Since you seem to have more up-to-date experience I'll ask this: what are the other fees Germans pay for telecom? Are there other taxes or fees that are payed separately?

I moved away from Germany almost 20 years ago but at the time my parents were still paying "Anmeldungsgebuehr" for their TVs/radios, the basic phone service was really cheap but local calls were metered in 8min increments.

I believe one of the big problems for the majority of Americans (myself certainly included) is the limbo created by poorly regulated local monopolies - I can choose between Qwest DSL and Comcast, neither are particularly good and both are expensive. There's not enough regulation to create a good minimum service level but there's enough regulation to prevent local players from really growing.

One thing I have to say, though, the pictures of the Sonic guys installing fiber look really scary. I could never get away with a crappy wiring job like this at work yet around town you see the worst kind of spaghetti jobs, crooked masts chewed up by woodpeckers, home-made looking junction boxes, etc.
HD videos are not smooth now with DSL. Tele-presence is not possible due to bandwidth limitation. There will be services to use up the bandwidth once it's possible.
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I wonder why they don't put the wires and fibers underground. It is much safer and less prone to strong winds and other natural hazards.
Is the cost of having underground wires that high?
"developed it for an EXTREMELY limited selection of hardware"

I'm happy in OSX, but I'd love to see any linux distro partner/associate with a particular hardware maker. Create an install & tested machine list that 'just works' on one line of hardware. Grow it from there.
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>$100 is not what it will take. It will take a vendor that's willing to build the laptop out of supported hardware instead of whatever they can source most cheaply.

I imagine it's cheaper just to support the hardware you are using for other OSs though?

Dell were shipping Linux based laptops and presumably chose this route over the "create hardware specifically for Linux" route. Why did Dell fail in this respect?
It allows cloud solutions to be indistinguishable from local solutions. Quite powerful.
I have similar experience as the author: ten years of hardcore Linux experience, during my college days I used slackware for 3 years; recompiling kernel whenever an update appeared at kernel.org was my geeky hobby during those days. But alas, as age and commitment catch up with me, I can no longer spend days to make a driver work, or recompile the kernel just to shave a few kilobytes away. I need a machine and an OS that 'just work'. Yes I know if I do some research and google around I can find the 'right machine' where distro X will work just fine. I also know by doing trick X and trick Y will resolve some issue Z. But I am no longer 20+ with a lot of time on my hands. If I got an hour of spare time, I would prefer to read some books, or just sleep, instead of reading the source code or the dmesg outputs.

I am not blaming Linux. It is free anyway and done by a lot of smart and dedicated volunteers. My mindset now is I don't mind to pay some money so that my computing needs can be met without too much effort from my end. I am using OS X, and frankly I find Windows 7 is _very_ useable and quite pleasant to play with. Linux has its place in computing, and my desktop always has a partition for the latest version of Ubuntu. But for daily use, count me out. Thank you very much.
What's the upstream speed? Hope it's symmetric. High speed clusters are possible. Imagine a cluster of Beowulf...
A few things:

1. I logged in and got taken to some other service ("Momentomail" or something.) Bit confusing.

2. I'm not too keen on the design. The logo seems a bit amateurish to me.

3. I like the concept, but I feel the "Can you type an email?" thing to be misleading. What does email have to do with this, aside from logging in?

4. There were a few broken images on the WYSIWYG editor. Might just be my machine, though.

5. When I create a page, it's published online with your site's wrapper all around it. It'd be nicer if it were just a blank HTML page -- with my content -- and maybe a footnote for KyMaLabs. Again, a bit misleading.

6. I think you could make the email-to-page thing more successful by perhaps doing something like Posterous does -- send an email to create a web page? You could provide a public email address, solicit HTML mail and then host them online. I'd use that.

Keep trying, I'm sure there's promise in this idea :D

EDIT: One more thing. If I were you I'd scrap the whole 'services' thing, drop the KyMaLabs brand and just focus on creating one, rock solid service. Solve a practical problem really well and provide a service that people really need to use. Don't spread yourselves too thin.
agreed on many counts. I think it's always a great experience and everyone should give it a try. well everyone who wants to be an entrepreneur at some point.
Getting any thinkpad thats been out for at least 6 months will generally work as a rule of thumb.
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Like someone said, two fans for live redundancy, little lengths of ribbon for visual failure indication.

I'd have thought a couple of fans checked once a day would provide less failures than are significant.

This doesn't seem like a reason not to propose the system, the alternate proposed solution would have similar failure modes too.
My friend, every company has a goto-market-strategy where it carves out a niche in a market place, that niche helps the company to grow and create a place for itself in the ecosystem. Japanese automobile manufacturers (Honda, Nissan, Toyota) in the 1960s were the largest supplier of mere auto engines to the USA, now if some Japanese at that time were to say we should be like Chevrolet and build great cars. they could never as a industry grown as they are today. Today Japanese cars are the top selling cars in USA.

There are product engineering divisions in these companies - where end-to-end products are created (thus engineering them) from scratch and delivered to customers, one needs to clearly communicate his/her aspirations to get engaged in those opportunities.

Who is a fresher? Fresher is a adult with 21 years experience in life. Mark Zukerberg was of the same age, when he started facebook. If you believe in yourself, please come up with an idea, make a presentation directly to the CEOs of Infy/Wipro/TCS - believe me they are very approachable people, explain why the product that you are creating has the top engineering work, will create great value for the customers and employees and makes financial sense to invest in. After all, there are products created by the employees of these same companies, that have been spun off as subsidiaries and have been very successful - Yantra OMS, OnMobile, CyberManage, Finacle, BaNCS. I am sure wise businessmen who run these companies will recognize the potential in your idea.
You can put a cookie on the user's computer that isn't removed between "browser sessions". That's how most sites "keep you logged in", even after a browser restart.

What my framework (Django) does, and I assume this is simialr to other frameworks, is this: it creates a user object (see note) in the database, then keeps the user object id in a cookie on the user's computer. This is, by Django's default, kept on the user's computer for 2 weeks before being removed (and it can be made to never be removed).

Using this, you can store any information you want about a user in their user object in the database, and always have that information available to you via the cookie.

Note: by default, Django creates an "AnonymousUser" object for each visitor, not a real user object, and it is up to the site to create an actual user object. To implement that "PhantomProfile" that Fred Wilson is talking about, I usually make Django create a new user object with a temporary username, and use this instead of AnonymousUser objects. In this way, when they do decide to "register", I just keep the same user object and give it a new username.
If you were happy with the state of the Linux desktop four years ago, which I mostly was, then good news, it's still all there if you want it. You might need to abandon or downgrade Gnome, but it's all there. (Or in my case, go through the current KDE configuration and start unchecking a lot of boxes.) But absolutely yes, the latest attempts to chase Windows down have been a disaster. For how open source fundamentally works, there has been a shocking number of Architecture Astronauts running around lately. (And I do use that term in the fully original sense [1].) The pattern of:

1. Glorious design

2. Shitty first pass, released anyhow and made a standard

3. Laboriously fixing it over the period of years until it converges on "Slightly-but-only-slightly less sucky than what it replaced"

4. Goto 1

has become the standard operating procedure of the Linux desktop world.

I am not convinced that the Gnome and KDE projects are good organizational strategies. Replacing a lumbering behemoth accountable to its many customers with lumbering behemoths accountable to essentially nobody is not an improvement, no matter how "open" the latter may be.

(Oh, and I was happy only because I'm a professional programmer and I still prefer the command line over any "semantic desktop". I freely acknowledge this is not the common case.)

[1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
Storm in a teacup.
The TCP window is calculated after some sending activity. It reflects the amount of data that can be transmitted in one shot without hurting other TCP flows at the bottleneck.

Reusing TCP windows after a while does not reflect the actual state of the network as things would have changed. In fact, there have been proposals about CWND reset[1] that adress this issue.

[2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2861.txt
Ubuntu 10.10 (I am postponing the update because I want a clean install this time) works for me on my two laptops. Printing works, hibernate and suspend work, 3D works. The secret? Pick notebooks that have some Linux support. It's also cheaper, usually. I had no problem finding an Acer netbook and a Dell Latitude in that category.

Then you have Fedora. It has always been the "experimental" branch. Much like Debian Sid, you don't expect it to work 100% of the time. I am surprised someone experienced with Linux falls in this trap.

I hope he enjoys the life without really knowing what the machine is doing, the life without a decent shell, without a decent development environment and managing software like it was in the dark ages. I wonder how long it will take until we see a rant about how useless Windows is and why he's moving to BSD or OSX.
Check out Zarafa, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarafa_(software)

(I have no experience with it myself)
Yes.

Imagine the cost of getting autorization for and digging a long hole through mile upon mile of in-city streets, and then repairing said hole - all while taking care of all the disruptions you cause to traffic and more. Unless you can find and use existing pipes in the right places with spare capacity (you're not going to, don't worry).
Shouldn't Open Source Desktops be a hotbed of innovation? A carnival of new ideas, metaphors, experimental interaction designs?

But if you look historically at most major open source projects, they aren't innovative. IMHO, most open source projects seem to stem from a desire to have a free (in both senses of the word) version of xyz proprietary/closed source software.

So we end up with lots and lots and lots of copies/equivalents to closed source software, only with a few esoteric additions for whatever itch the author needed to scratch and half the feature set gone.

Sometimes, the OSS version gets better over time, and even supplants the closed source version. But just as often, once the author scratched that itch, development stalls and very little innovation happens. Or alternately, we'll see dozens of entirely different reinventions of the wheel, where somebody didn't like the particular way the OSS version worked, and then just rewrote the whole thing again. I mean really, how many half baked personal finance software tools do we need?

In all of this, what doesn't tend to happen is novel innovation in desktop software. Open source games are rehashes of closed source favorites (I mean really, can anybody point me to a completely novel OSS game)? Desktop software tends to be free (as in beer) copies of expensive proprietary software (GIS tools, image editors, 3d modelers, laboratory tools) or non-user friendly academic research projects released into the wild. Taking gaming as an example, almost all of the innovation is happening in the closed source, indie gaming scene.

Basically, you can kit yourself out with less polished version of hundreds of thousands of dollars of proprietary software for free (that you can play with the code a bit), but that's about it.

OSS is sadly trapped in a cycle of non-innovation and has been for years.
Compared to putting them on poles, the cost of running new fiber underground (in an area without conduits already in place) is astronomical.
The time delay is also orders of magnitude larger in getting the fiber down, as you need many, many permits to dig up streets, etc.
More details in yesterdays submission, with much discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2640972
Ive wondered the same thing many of times, especially in times when water/sewer pipes get replaced and the street is already ripped open. We have often joked we should make a website with pictures of the wiremess here vs pictures of the wiremess in some of indias slums
How does a mechanical dryer handle wrinkle-free mode, where the dryer runs for one minute every ten to avoid letting wrinkles settle? Or handle a mode where the heat is on high for 15 minutes to evaporate water, and then switches to low or no breath to avoid bleaching the fabric.

Analog does not scale with complexity nearly as well as digital.
If you don't mind me asking... If someone were already a good programmer, what is the baseline financial/statistical knowledge?
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We pay for content one way or another. At this point money would be the least painful of alternatives, if only it were an alternative.
My friend, every company has a goto-market-strategy where it carves out a niche in a market place, that niche helps the company to grow and create a place for itself in the ecosystem. Japanese automobile manufacturers (Honda, Nissan, Toyota) in the 1960s were the largest supplier of mere auto engines to the USA, now if some Japanese at that time were to say we should be like Chevrolet and build great cars. they could never as a industry grown as they are today. Today Japanese cars are the top selling cars in USA.

There are product engineering divisions in these companies - where end-to-end products are created from scratch and delivered to customers, one needs to clearly communicate his/her aspirations to find those opportunities.

Who is a fresher? Fresher is a adult with 21 years experience in life. Mark Zukerberg was of the same age, when he started facebook. If you believe in yourself, please come up with an idea, make a presentation directly to the CEOs of Infy/Wipro/TCS - believe me they are very approachable people, explain why the product that you are creating has the top engineering work, will create great value for the customers and employees and makes financial sense to invest in. After all, there are products created by the employees of these same companies, that have been spun off as subsidiaries and have been very successful - Yantra OMS, OnMobile, CyberManage, Finacle, BaNCS. I am sure wise businessmen who run these companies will recognize the potential in your idea.
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Yes, its very much a matter of Intel not having its drivers for Sandy Bridge ready when the chip was released rather than Intel drivers being bad in general. I got a new Nehalem laptop right after they came out and the drivers barely worked at all for a couple of months. Then there was a new kernel and everything worked beautifully with no problems up until the present day. Is it bad that Intel's Linux drivers are months behind the release of new hardware? Certainly! But for older stuff they work great.