skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No worries. It's not that humor is unappreciated, rather that people tend to come to HN for relevant information and insightful commentary (by internet standards, at least). Many early adopters of reddit came here as the SNR there dropped, and while we're politely asked not to say HN is becoming reddit, it's still a worry for many. Thus, when people see flippant comments that don't really add a huge amount to the conversation that couldn't be achieved with an upvote, they tend to downvote them. There's nothing wrong with that, as that's what the down arrow is there for, but it can take some time for a newcomer to learn the ropes and figure out what kinds of comments are or are not appreciated. Whenever I see someone who's plainly confused, I try to help out.
Hey Alexey thanks! The guy from Overlap.Me actually referred me to that site after I had built this. It's funny because we're both using MTurk to get review data. It doesn't seem like the project is actively being developed on, so hopefully I'll be able to attract some of it's customer base (if it has any).

Don't Make Me Think is a great book.

I'll definitely do some before/after stuff as soon as I get some actual people using, still waiting for that first conversion :)
Rushing to judgement much? I am sorry but if the OP wants to convince me that airbnb tried to censor them and not merely make a case for a more fair account, I want to see the original communication. I don't want to see the summation of it by someone who is clearly not an independent party.

I can easily see airbnb having major disagreements over some of the blog post. I can also see them not going public with those differences despite taking the hits that may come as a result. Of course even if they did go public, there'd be a good chunk of people attacking them for violating a user's privacy. On the other hand, if the user goes public and published the original emails as I challenge her to do, we will get a much clear view into what is going on. Until them, I remain undecided and refuse to form an opinion.
well the wired article directly contradicts what they say they are doing

"These services are using practically every known method to circumvent user attempts to protect their privacy (Cookies, Flash Cookies, HTML5, CSS, Cache Cookies/Etags…)"

They may not share information about specific users, but doesn't mean they don't use it to sell information in some aggregate form.
Tiger Oil Company Memos
Point 3 is poorly thought out. Speaking carefully includes emphasising important points. Think of communication the same way Don Norman thinks about design.

15 is iffy. I'd prefer to know about a problem even if someone has no idea how to fix it, whether through lack of experience or creativity. If he's meaning to say "people who work with me must be this talented", just come out and say it.

The rest are by and large sensible and to the point. I particularly like avoiding e-mails, because it's not intuitive, but it can work well: e-mail seems like it has an importance hump and 'stupid questions' might not be raised, and simultaneously it's harder to tell how people feel about things. Might work differently for you, though.
Exactly. First, it doesn't matter if the AirBnB guys are nice or not - it wouldn't be the first time in the history of mankind that a nice guy did the wrong thing faced with a woman in distress.

The problem is that this woman sounds like everybody's friend/sister/cousin. She sounds totally believable, and her story taps into a fear that a reasonable person would have a priori with the AirBnB model ("what if I rent to a wacko?").

So there is zero point in nickel-and-diming her with whether it was 8 hours or 24 before she heard from them, whether the dude is in custody for this crime or another crime - the point is that this story is now apocryphal. There is no point arguing the facts - AirBnB must focus on the concerns that every single person out there who read that story now has.

For the record: I live in a popular holiday destination, and yet dismissed listing on AirBnB when I first became aware of them because I have a child in the house, and did indeed think "what if I rent to some wacko, risking my own safety is one thing, risking my child's is another". If AirBnB want to move beyond the so-young-they-feel-immortal single set, they have to plausibly deal with these fears.
I'm looking forward to this going to SCOTUS...
This is what Hacker News becomes when somebody talks crap about Google:

http://www.maniacworld.com/stop-picking-on-britney.html
Sure there is nothing wrong with that, but these are sneaky underhanded tactics. Users should be able to opt-out if they don't want to be tracked.
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Ideas Man: Put God Almighty on your credit card
Exactly. On http://panopticlick.eff.org/ you can see how 'unique' your browser configuration, ip address, language settings, etc are. For most people, this creates a great many bits of information that can be used to track you even without cookies or any client-side storage.
What's New in Google+
Start out by aiming high: Sheryl Sandberg Address at Barnard college
Spend some time watching Cops and you'll learn that mentioning (often arbitrary) demographics with suspect arrest is common. They likely just wrote what sfpd told them on one occasion and your blowing up into a conspiracy is your personal problem, not airbnb's.
Sorry I wasn't clear. That's the way it is, and when I was a hiring manager was when the disparity was made clear to me.
Except this can do it cross browser and when I move from hotspot to hotspot, too.
Loving these dshipper side projects.
I've seen far more projects pushed to a successful completion by assholes than "nice" people, so either assholes are statistically much more productive (making your "better" person basically irrelevant) or we have a vastly differing definition of "asshole".
The U.S. patent office currently cares nothing about patterns of matter and fields.

Right now in the U.S., a software patent application can satisfy the requirements by specifying any trivial physical step. Most software patents specify only a "computing device" on which the software is used.

So which is it? Physical embodiment = not abstract.

A patent on a laser interferometer that encodes instructions is no longer a software patent; ...

I was talking about interference machines that use the wave properties of light to do computation without the use of digital logic. With these machines, abstract mathematical approaches are reduced to practice by means other than software. The software patent does not somehow magically fence off an area of abstract thought. What it fences off is a particularly convenient and valuable area of concrete machinery.
Though even there, the difference between this and "antennagate" was that Apple shipped a finished product. Google+ is decidedly in field test beta (and did not cost $200-$600).
Insider trading laws don't apply to members of congress, also they don't have to worry about conflict of interest. It's not amazing that they have better returns than most.
>They claim that simply using AdBlock is enough to defeat the tracking

I'm highly suspicious of that claim. The only site I have whitelisted is reddit, and I found the i.kissmetrics.com cookie in with the rest. That's not to say reddit isn't using them, but I'd be surprised given their very cautious approach to advertising.
It is 50% of the population. The rest may be more specific, if it sways one way. Just how I read it...
What's New in Google+
Google+ has something that its users have been asking about for some time: a centralized section to find out about new features.

Since Google has said since the first day of release of Google+ that the project is still a work in progress, a number of things will change, and possibly change quickly (like Google starting to learn that they are indeed making mistakes, such as with their naming policy).

Read more: http://www.newtechie.com/2011/07/whats-new-in-google-new-release-note.html
That's the picture I get too, but I don't see how clearing the cache doesn't, you know, clear the cache. It would seem to imply that if the Etag is still around, it's not really cleared - maybe the data is gone, but the knowledge that the data existed isn't. And it persists through privacy-mode.

Which means I/we am/are either misunderstanding something, or the people who designed privacy and cache-clearing tools had a massive blind-spot.
plus many sites use google's library api to load things like jquery! Used for good, 3rd party JS is a helpful thing.

http://code.google.com/apis/libraries/devguide.html
Internet Service Providers Need To Form A Retaliatory Censorship Alliance
Sites like Hulu and Spotify predominately use web analytics to gauge their audience in order to sell advertising, not to make their sites better. That may be a by-product, but that's not driving their analytics usage.

Additionally, cross-site tracking isn't used for feature/usage tracking. It's used for highly targeted advertising.

My point was the "shattering advantages" are really advantages for advertisers, not web designers.

This technique wasn't developed with web designers in mind, so let's be clear about that.
It's a public arrest. It's a public record.

Since when has the gender of an arrestee not been made public? Often times we make these records public as a way to protect the individual who has been taken into custody by the government.
Of course there are valid reasons for the policy, Facebook's growth is proof enough. Real names carry more weight and I doubt it's more than a handful of self-described activists who are whining about nyms.

I'm saying that she is on a crusade and she might be interpreting things from that prospective.

I use pseudonyms where they are allowed and don't go on a crusade when they aren't.

I don't work for Google if that is what you're asking.

Yes, that is the concept behind link-baiting.
Really cool of you to do that.

FYI they are also adding this link for newbies in the header http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html that actually mentions the "LOL" comment thing.
I love all the websites! Flashy and totally original. Anyways, its interesting to see lot of people were referring to Internet as "cyber space", which was prevalent during those days. Surprisingly, nobody refers to Internet as cyberspace now a days.
Icelanders hand in draft of world's first 'web' constitution
She posted 46 articles on the subject in less than a month. If you don't call that a crusade, I don't know what is.

Of course, if you're suggesting that she simply got burnt out, that's a possibility. I could understand decreasing the number of essays written on the subject, but responding to a tweet seems like something that she'd do, given her previous crusade.
Yup 23 is what I expected :)
Wonder if Anonymous and Lulz really have access to such a wide array of 0days or if NATO, FBI, etc are really extremely behind in their security systems.
Fantastic about adding the SSL. Just a note though: Without having SSL on the checkout page, i could MITM one of your users and replace that javascript on your page with my own potentially malicious javascript.

Looks like a great product and the pricing is very fair. I'll remember this if i ever have a site or project i need reviewed.
no offense taken. This is the problem with defensive patents. A company would be remiss to their shareholders if they didn't deploy it offensively when things don't go their way.
Agree, but perhaps without the "be a man" part. The offer to to do "anything we can" comes across as an offer to do what is asked, so a passive stance. "We're here to help" is not the same as "we're helping by doing this."
Looks like it's using a variant of a technique I demonstrated a while back: http://joshduck.com/blog/2010/01/29/abusing-the-cache-tracki...
This seems pretty definitive: https://plus.google.com/106912596786226524817/posts/6SBH6NxD...
More and more of my friends from Facebook are showing up with each passing day... my anecdotal experience is that G+ adoption is continuing to grow. I still think there is a lot of room for improvement in G+, (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2768229) but overall I still find it to be superior to Facebook after a month of use.
> Technology is iterative and incremental, not revolutionary.

A car is not an evolved horse, and, while we were stuck with horses for centuries, we did invent better means of transportation.
I imagine it is named as such because they are using evercookie[1], off the shelf.

[1] http://samy.pl/evercookie/
if you watched This Week in Startup, there's an episode where Jason and Jose were pitched on the ideas worked at StartupChile. the first was from brazil. second from Italy. Third was boston. No silicon valley in sight!
In SQLite, autocommit is on, so if you weren't explicitly setting your transactions, you might have been commit after each update. Also, the standard disk cache is 2MB, so if you think your DB should have more memory than that, up it with default_cache_size.
This is actually much better. More appealing on practically every level.
There are many other techniques employed. As soon as one of the techniques works, it re-populates the others. (Cache clearing doesn't affect Flash cookies [LSO's]).
Show us your accomplishments (your code) first.. ^_^
I'm not sure these researchers understand how private-browsing functions. The session in a private-browsing window is only private from the non-private sessions and only private from future private-sessions when all private sessions -- private-browsing windows -- are destroyed.

http://imgur.com/a/LjjYf

Here I have a non-private session, where I have request i.js (a second time), invoking an If-None-Match check with my non-private ETag of i.js. Opening a private session, my request to i.js does not invoke my non-private session's ETag and subsequent If-None-Match -- i.js is fetched as if my session has no memory of the URI.

In the second shot, I had closed my private session opened in the first test, and I then opened a new private session, without closing my previous non-private session. Again, my private session requests a new i.js, with no idea of the non-private session's nor the first, now closed, private session's version.

The onus is on browsers to restrict inner-private-session storage from leaking between tabs, but it could be quite messy.
Not true; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2824760
Ask HN: Is email the best option for enterprise?
Is there an more efficient and effective means of workplace communication then email?
TechCrunch and FT are reporting on this but EJ's latest post says "2. Other than occasionally sharing the link to my blog, I have made no statements to nor have I been interviewed by the press - yet." I'm sure the FT must have a code of conduct around victims of crime (see the BBC one @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/page/gui...) to ensure they don't complicate matters but surely they could have tried to contact EJ to confirm what they were going to print was correct.
SPARQL is substantially less powerful than SQL. No delete/update/insert statements, no subselects, and limited aggregation and functions. I've used SPARQL a lot in the past year and I am constantly running into limitations.

Performance has also been very poor (we use Jena SDB). I don't know if poor performance is an implementation problem or an overall weakness.
Closed-source development tools, which are non-negotiable.
Had Airbnb really did something for EJ, you would have mentioned.
This looks cool, but I wouldn't use it yet because I have no idea what I'd be getting (this coming from someone who has used the far more expensive usertesting.com)

My first reaction seeing this is that you've basically hooked up mechanical turk and surveymonkey, and are charging a premium for it. My worry is that the people who review my site are unqualified and will give poor quality feedback.

I'd just like more clarity on the output.

edit: For example, some good information would be "Users will visit your site and write down all of their actions and the reasons they took those actions". The detailed survey concept is vague.
And disabling all those crappy social sharing buttons makes the pages so much better. From faster loading to less clutter there are a bunch of benefits. Sometimes I'm flabbergasted how crappy sites are when I sit down to a machine without a javascript blocker.
I've worked with the KM folks. Great people, genuinely kind, and they want to make a great product. I think it's disgusting to single out a startup like this, especially right as they are gaining traction with some big-name clients.

There is value in what they are doing, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. They are tracking user behavior completely anonymously.
I had minor problems since using Developer Preview 4 of it, and since I moved to GM, I haven't seen any significant.

There is something strange with NVIDIA's CUDA driver (keep asking me to update).

There was an issue with MacPorts due to Mono.Framework installed (might've been not related to Lion at all, MacPorts is now at 2.00, so who knows).

I'm aquamacs (emacs clone) user, and it works pretty good.
I would think that the MacPro isn't so much about more monitors, though it can do that, but about sheer horsepower.

Running Photoshop filters, rendering. Stuff that needs 12 cores isn't going to run so well on an iMac.
Nothing says Apple must keep the money in the form of US dollars in a bank account. If it's sitting in any kind of investment that tracks inflation, printing money won't take the money. If they choose to keep it in other currencies, printing money won't take the money.
Wow, more projects should have a page similar to this one. Upvoted because it’s good to keep in mind when thinking of sqlite and when documenting your own project.
Google lends its geek cred to Wieden+Kennedy's Portland Incubator Experiment
Sure - want to do pennstudyspaces.com?

Based o krug, I think fewer, longer revews will be more useful. Happy to guinea-pig, though.
I and most people I know call it "sequelite". That works for me...
That metaphor really only holds up if your "compiler" does nothing but remove comments (and introduce errors at a low rate).
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I wish I had checked that over I just saw that my phone mangled perl twice
Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome
Where'd you see passwords? I tried grepping but got a lot of false positives.

Also, I found 06b1 Contractor's response to labor questioned...doc particularly interesting. It shines a lot of light on the qualifications requirements, and how contractors do or do not live up to them. Definitely worth a read.
full paper (PDF): http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/6803
hazza for adblock, as much as i like to see the legislature and courts support privacy this is fundamentally a technological problem.
Any idea what the power output of these things is? I didn't see any information in the article. If they can compete with li-ion in Watts/current/whatever, consider me sold.
I'm using AirBnb in Berlin right now, and...
As an aside, to follow Linus' pronunciation, it is Lee-nucks, from the Finnish way of pronouncing "Linus." Americans are used to a different pronunciation of the same name and thus generally adopted a different way of saying "Linux."

Language is fascinating!
You moved to my home city, Mumbai? :)

It's an awesome city though not always cheap. More likely you're somewhere else in India hopefully!
I'm using Pipedrive (http://pipedrive.com)
If a user requests not to be tracked they should not be tracked. Even when the information is harmless, as I am sure it most likely is in this case, it sets a bad example and will make it worse for the industry.
I see that it's using Cairo Graphics (do strings on the executable), but there is no LICENSE file anywhere.

I'm also interrested in using commercial-wise, but not sure whether I can (it's using GPL or MPL 1.1 - and I'm not much familiar with MPL).
I couldn't find the time someone sent a tweet. That is pretty important to me.

The home screen is a very good idea. I only with that my picture wasn't among the other icons. It doesn't seem to fit, but it's a good idea anyway.
I think you're agreeing with catch23; that 'it' is referring to 'incognito' not 'KISSmetrics technique'. Incognito mode does defeat the ETag tracking (at least across distinct sessions).
Converting 3D models for building in minecraft
I doubt it's more that a handful of self-described activists who are whining about nyms.

I'm not using Google+ because of their policy and I don't describe myself as an "activist".
You're using "Isolated DNA" to mean cDNA (a point that I think needs clarifying; you can isolate DNA from cells through other methods). Your metaphor doesn't seem particularly solid to me; it would be more accurate to say that DNA is source code, proteins (and hence enzymes) are object code, and mRNA is code that has been pulled out from disk (the genome), had its comments (introns, as you point out) removed, but is not yet compiled. The computing metaphor obviously breaks down; the best way to characterize cDNA I can think of is as code that's been intercepted on its way to the compiler and placed back into storage - for it to be reverse-engineered object code, it would need to be derived from proteins, which it is not.
This sounds like a classic conspiracy theory. How exactly could Google defend itself, even if it wanted to?

Citizen: The government is dissecting aliens!

Government: Uh, no we're not.

Citizen: Further proof that you are!

This sounds a lot like that.
I used to have an international insurance with bupa.com. They are very good and not that expensive but I believe you need to have an address outside the US
Draconian password schemes lead to really insecure user behavior. For example, an iTunes account requires upper-case, lower-case, and a number; but it doesn't tell you that until you try "insecure" passwords. So I bet a lot of users, feeling really frustrated, just use their name (capitalized), and birthday, rather than the semi-secure password the they wanted to use (or in my case, a fairly strong pass-phrase with no numbers).
If someone asks me a question, I give them an answer based on my understanding, and it turns out not to be so, I am not lying. At the time, I thought it was to be so.

No, whether you like to hear it or not (which you clearly are a person who does not want to hear it) you lied.[1] There is no other noun/verb in the English language to describe the act of telling a false statement.

Naturally, telling a false statement with intention to deceive is morally unethical, whereas just being the bringer of false statements is not. I think that's where you and everyone else gets hung up on the word "lie" because you firmly attach the notion of intent to the word. That is not the case with every lie, and if I need to reference the dictionary to show that you are wrong then so be it. It is just often the case that a lie said with intent to deceive, but it by no means is the rule.

If people would work as hard to remove the negative connotation around the word rather than trying to do mental gymnastics to get out of being labelled with it we would all be more honest and better off. We all lie sometime, after all, but what we can always avoid is intention of deceit. Doing some mental gymnastics to try and avoid being labelled a liar actually, in itself, makes you deceitful.

[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lie
I would LOVE to work for someone like this. This is how I communicate, and it is how I like to be communicated to.

Side note: I've spent a bit of time looking at personality profiles (Meyers-Briggs (sp?)), you will see this as the favored communication style for many introverts (I'm an INTP). Others would see this as very stand arrogant. Personally, I always hate talking with HR because of all the bullshit thrown around and refusing to get to the point.