skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Do you care about your digital footprint? Why/why not?
It strikes me that a lot of us have niche interests. If you browse Hacker News, a couple other small technology sites, and then mix in a hobby or two, you've got a pretty recognizable digital footprint that people can follow around.

That's before even getting into Facebook, Twitter, and Google following you around the internet.

I've never thought this over very much - I think I don't particularly care, but has anyone thought through all the implications and made any behavior changes because of it?
Any chance to move this up before 9:00AM EST (possibly doing it at 12:00AM UTC?)? A dupe got a number of postings + votes this morning.

Also, what about a second thread, say on the 15th, for "Who's Looking For Work" ?
This is a really good point, and it's statements like "Switzerland is heavily armed but relatively safe so..." that destroy credibility. Mind you there are plenty of misleading stats for the counter argument as well.

Please let me know if you ever find a truly unbiased study on gun laws and their impact on crime. Seems like everyone's got an agenda, which is unfortunate because it's really a pretty interesting topic.
Why not incorporate in Europe? Ireland, like Google? Software patent problem solved.
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Nothing will happen
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Yet another outage message that says nothing. Is it really that hard to write a few more sentences, maybe quote the Comcast reason for shutting it down? Were they running the server on a residential line or something? Using too much upstream bandwidth? This is a search engine for a technical community, we can handle it.
I think the coolest thing would be to change the operating system clock and to integrate it with the system calendar.

edit: actually ment usefull instead of cool.
I used to live in Exeter and thought the same about the police. Then I moved to Florida.

I miss Exeter police.
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This is, however, kind of counterintuitive for most people. Principle-of-least-surprise suggests you could do something about this; split the dashboard, say, into projects you participate in (indicated by having committed) and projects you've been invited to. You don't need the separate approval step there, so the workflow's the same, but it'd feel much more obvious.

Also; with the "professionals" thing - I totally get what you mean, and it's abundantly clear you guys are doing things for the right reasons, but the tone kind of jarred with me a little bit there. Nothing drastic, but I'm a person first, a professional second...
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yeah, Exeter's a great town despite focusing on the deficiencies of the police (more a comment on the police in general), and is a way nicer place to live than Plymouth.

As I say in another comment I think Plymouth has more issues because of poverty resulting from the vast reduction in docks employment. Poverty begets crime and anti-social behaviour, same old story really.
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No, I won't admit that. His writing just makes me sad.
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But then he points out the problem in the decentralized approach?
The author also "risks" constructing strawmen and then proceeds happily to do so. I was wary at first, but once the speculation started flying the article lost credibility IMO. It's a neat trick but I was less than impressed.

What will happen to bitcoin with the hashing algorithm it uses becomes obsolete? Who knows. It may not be the only game in town at that point anyway.
Dear fellow developers, forget that type="reset" exists.
Search volume on the site name seems like an odd metric.
What if your competitor came up with the same algorithm (or very similar) and performs as well both in time and space complexity... and all of this on their own, without actually taking a peek at your code. In that case would you go after them and sue them?
I think moderators need to be empowered to move submissions around to each others' reddits -- a nice side effect would be that eventually, instead of marking off-topic links as spam, they could kick them out to an /r/limbo where other moderators could adopt them.
That chart is missing whatever is going to replace Reddit.
Stupid title, of course bitcoin is decentralized, but it brings up some interesting ideas - what happens when a currency becomes obsolete?
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"Who knows"? Deciding what may happen in the future is why people write papers. If there's a particular thing wrong with the paper then why not answer that?
My main fear with something like bitcoin is this: imagine a virus or worm that infects machines and then transfers all bitcoin found on that machine to an anonymous address. There is absolutely no recourse. Hell, it could be a bitcoin "client" that continues to display the correct amounts to the user without them realizing they're being fleeced.
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I don't like pay-per-use trials (or billing strategies) because it disincentivizes people from using your product. I want people to pay for my service, and then I want them to use it as much as possible.
There's an argument that LinkedIn didn't float enough -- look at how Yandex performed, and they floated enough shares to soak the demand
An idea I will throw out there: I always wondered why anyone should be able to hold onto an idea (patent it) if they don't use it. I can't help but wonder if the best way to fix the patent system isn't to overhaul it -- which would be nearly impossible to do due to entrenched interests -- but instead invalidate all patents if they aren't used within a certain time period by the rights holder. In other words, use it or lose it.
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In a different thread jmaygarden said:

I got "dong markup" in my RSS reader from pull requests to zedshaw/mongrel2 today. So, the trolling was very much in public view.

So, there are ways to publicly troll someone on GitHub, even if not in this precise way.
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Wouldn't suing someone count as 'using it'?
I've been trolled by people in lots of different "communities." PHP, Postgres, Java, Perl and Lua just to name a few. IMHO if a software community doesn't have jerks and trolls, it's because nobody is using the software. Ruby has its share but I don't find it any worse than the others.
Your patent probably wouldn't be issued and even if it was, the MPAA would outspend you getting it revoked.
So wrong. GNU grep may be fast, but it's also the most bloated grep with the most lines of code. I think that's the opposite of what you're trying to prove.
(you are right about English but I think it is a ok compromise when the English is not a big drawback in comparison to be able to have access to great talent from countries with lower cost of living).

Regarding scalable content generation, I haven't found keywords for articles that would convert my visitors into clients well enough yet.
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As Zed mentions in the article, he contributed to the project, which is why it showed up in your RSS feed.
I believe the evidence shows that it doesn't work. It's hard to beat the super-cheapness of an Amazon micro instance - I have two, and if you get a reserved instance it works out to around $9 a month.
Well, isn't that happening to some currencies around the world with the current system anyways?
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation ( http://www.eff.org/issues/patents ) is working at it. They're starting off with getting the most ridiculous patents reexamined by the patent office in their Patent Busting project http://w2.eff.org/patent/ . They've succeeded in having a number of patents reexamined and some narrowed or invalidated.

They also lobby for patent reform. They're exactly the credible group you're looking for, in my opinion. Here's part of their statement on the patent page:

There are many ways to promote better patent quality and a vibrant
knowledge commons. One approach is to advocate for good legislation in
Congress and proper interpretation of that legislation by the courts.
Another is to promote enforcement efforts, such as the reexamination of
bogus patents. EFF employs both approaches to protect the public
interest while supporting innovation.
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I disagree - I did plenty of the 16-hour days of picking things up and putting them down before moving onto the white collar developer world, and I'll tell you -- there are plenty of days where this work is a lot harder.

Harder on the body? On my back? No. More stressful? Harder on my mind, my life, and relationships? YES. Not every day, but we all know about those days.

What constitutes "hard work" is different for everyone. I think the linked blog entry is mixing "hard work" with "lots of work", which is simply not the same.
I don't get the Thinkstock ad. Why are some of the squares blank?
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Loved my sidekick 1, but it had an unfortunate build problem -the spinny light-up button kept breaking off from the circuit board and I had to solder it back together a few times but it still gave up the ghost too soon. And it also happened on the replacement I bought after the first died. Hmf.

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It's commercial email 100%. Probably a fake sender name (illegal), against gmail ToS, against CL ToS and no unsubscribe link and no one even subscribed in the first place. 100% against CAN-SPAM.
Saying "the only part" of the law airbnb broke and then listing 1,2,3 violations is laughable.

Also I quite enjoy the irony that an account name of throwaway is defending the practice of using throwaway gmail accounts to spam people. Warms the cockles.
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That situation is an unfortunate side effect. The point of patents is that the inventor requires an incentive (a limited term monopoly in case of patents) to make their methods publicly known. The protection is against the copiers, but since an independent developer is indistinguishable from a copier, they get excluded from using the idea as well.

I always thought that this is precisely why the patentable ideas are non-trivial.
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This post doesn't make sense to me. Why wouldn't the following be a solution:

1. Create a bitcoin client that includes a better cryptographic algorithm.

2. When this new client is asked to vote on the validity of bitcoins created with the old algorithm it votes "no", but allows it to be grandfathered in, as long as the new client is still in the minority.

3. Once the old clients are obsoleted, you can then no longer create bitcoins with the old hash method, but even the very last bitcoin created with the old method is considered 100% valid by all clients.

Sorry, I'm not bitcoin or cryptographic expert, so I might be using the wrong language here, but I hope my basic point is clear: Accepting a bitcoin block as valid is not the same as voting as to whether a bitcoin block should be deemed valid... or am I missing something?
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This argument can be made against patents in general. If people want to argue that all patents are bad, that's fine, but most people draw a tenuous distinction between software patents and other kinds of patents. I agree with DrJokepu -- the real problem (assuming that you're not opposed to all patents) is that patents are being given for ideas that are moderately to extremely obvious.
What is the search you are conducting?
I am told that the cryptosystem can be swapped out and replaced.
Sometimes luck is simply a function of being in the game. The more games you play, the more opportunities for "luck" that emerge.

A good example is in the 4 Hour Workweek when a college class was given a seemingly hard challenge and it seemed so hard that nobody even attempted it. The prize was like a trip around the world or something.

The next year he told about how anyone who even attempted it the year before would have won by default. Then all the students tried and they had incredible results.

Another example would be building apps and putting them out there. You never know if one is going to be a hit, but if you keep making them, eventually you get "lucky".
But they are presumably not bitching about each other on the Interwebs?
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They're supposed to be stickers. So you peel 4 of them off to make a QR code based on the labels. When you scan it, it shows you a picture combining the 4 words you picked.

I don't think that'd work in real life.

Edit: Yeah, ok, it probably would, they're 4 separate QR codes, not 4 parts combining into one. It was hard to see on the original image.
I thought the same thing when I saw the title! I loved Borland's Sidekick -- especially having an ASCII table and cheat sheets handy when I was coding.
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