skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They both install and run, but they use beforeRequest and edit the page content. This works in theory, but in practice there is no guarantee that the script will be loaded into the page before the tracker assets are. The ghostery/disconnect addons succeed in blocking trackers sometimes, but not all. Ghostery handles it a bit better than Disconnect does, as it will actually tell you which trackers it was able to block and which it wasn't.

The experimental webRequest API will solve that by providing a synchronous way for scripts to deny/allow connections before any requests are made, but webRequest won't be made available to non-experimental addons for a few months at the minimum.

More info: https://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/trunk/experimental...
In the old days people wrote diaries. That way they could choose whom to share their story with, they could burn them or they could hand them to their spawns.
This is 100% the correct way to look at this.

Facebook originally just allowed you to share what you wanted to. Now it is simply ridiculous.
I'm guessing the target audience isnt particularly sophisticated, given that their "in-depth" howto on the linux kernel consists of menuconfig: http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/in-depth-howto-on-linux-kernel...
It was a blog post I can't find right now, but it's easy enough to reproduce: I deleted all the cookies from Facebook and then open a tab to a site with the Like button. A cookie for facebook.com is created called "datr" with an obvious ID and an expire date two years from now.
I'm sorry, but I feel I need to ask: am I alone in not using Facebook since graduating college? Every time I see an article, every time I watch the news, I get the impression that Facebook has somehow weaved itself into our daily lives, yet the only times I think of Facebook is when someone posts an article like this on HN (and yes I'm aware the article is sarcastic, but there are many more articles which are serious)
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Play is so important, but since it's difficult to measure the value, it gets down-played as "non-productive." While it's obvious when someone is "over-playing," it's just as important to identify when you're "under-playing"...

Some of my biggest breakthroughs on work-related projects have come to me as I've been hiking, taking in a museum with my wife, or pushing my daughter on a swingset.
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Thanks for the correction. I was too lazy to look it up :).

Being from the suburban area and not much of a "Michigan tourist", we always hear of the income tax being the "big detractor" to investment in the city. There are so many other problems in the neighborhoods that pinning the issue of investment to income tax is to convenient.

As for the Detroit Schools issue, you're also dead on. It's a big deal. The folks that I know who have relocated (whether Boston Edison or Brightmoor) of Detroit have done so because they want to help the city for charitable reasons. The biggest problem was DPS.

The enabler for all but one of the families is two-fold: Michigan is a very homeschool friendly state. And even in the good neighborhoods of Detroit, all of the families were able to buy their homes without a mortgage (5,000 square feet in the Boston Edison neighborhood for $120,000, though requiring a lot of TLC). As you put it *no sane couple will put their children in the Detroit schools". Out of six families that I know of who have relocated, five homeschool, the sixth sends his two children to Detroit Country Day School (a good private school in Southfield).
The Omega Man (New Scientist,2001)
He was a professor. With tenure. Lots of those around.
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Ah, the old "no no, just trust us" defense.

This is just a thing Chrome has to live with, it's a browser developed by a company that makes money selling user behavior to advertisers. You'd have to be stupid not to think this is a possibility.

Must be frustrating to the developers who know what it does and doesn't do though.
When I was a grad student, I put all of my code online for my papers. I did this for two reasons: basic transparency, and the hope that it would be useful to others. I actually got lucky a few times, and people did think my code was useful. It was used in other research projects, which got me citations - which are academic incentives. I have bunted on a few support requests, though.

Regarding the disincentive that publishing code means others may scoop your own work, I find that doubtful. By the time a conference paper is published, almost six months have passed since the paper submission. Most researchers are well on their way to writing another paper with that work and codebase by the time the wider community knows about it. Then there's the difficulty of making non-trivial changes to prototype-quality code implementing something new.
First, Ikea doesn't sell online. Second, can you just go to ikea.com?
Great work getting it up. How is this any different than GetSatisfaction, UserVoice, Zendesk, KissMetrics and any number of user-forum software apps currently available?
The technology wasn't at fault.

Myspace could have survived myriad cultural problems on the strength of their once unparalleled social graph if they could have kept pace with Facebook's technology. Facebook had many things right - the news feed, valid identities, speed - that would have required Myspace to essentially start from scratch to even emulate. Myspace tried, but couldn't pull it off.

So my argument is that Facebook has room to experiment in areas where tastes may differ (i.e. culture) as long as they have great technology and an adaptable design. If the timeline/ticker turns out to be completely overwhelming and they see usage drop, Zuckerberg could practically issue an apology, flip a switch and basically turn Facebook back to yesterday's Facebook by Monday. As their experiences with failure (Beacon) and success (the news feed!) have shown, there's way more upside than downside.
This is nothing new. You've been able to do set difference on your historical friend data as an FB API developer since the beginning.
Many retailers aren't on the site. Target and Amazon are the first I added, but I felt it was good enough to release and get some feedback.
It's 2023 and Telford's days are numbered
The source to Chrome is definitely open and you can compile an effectively identical version yourself (minus the branding). There are some closed source plugins (eg. PDF and Flash) that are shipped as dynamic libraries. However, you could disable them (via about:plugins) or simply delete the corresponding binaries from a Chrome distribution and everything remaining would be open source.
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Ash Maurya's Running Lean did not get as much attention, but it is also a great book[1]. Many of his experiences are also easily found on his amazing blog[2].

[1] http://www.runningleanhq.com/

[2] http://www.ashmaurya.com/
A direct link to a petition does not require or imply that the reader has taken some action because they endorse the subject matter. It's perfectly reasonable to click on a petition, read it, and refuse to sign it. I don't see a problem.
Thanks!

Whoops! I guess I didn't really do my homework in researching it.

Honestly, I saw it as a combination of Show HN, but also a forum. It allows devs to get their work out there but also a platform to start discussions.

Plus, for now it is free and ad-free! If it comes to a point where I have to put ads just to keep the site running, it'll be done in such a way that they will not be obtrusive.
Yes, the fact that I have to physically go to a doctor is absurd. I want real-time feedback of how bad (or good) the meal is that I'm eating right now, as I'm eating it. I want to get warnings and reminders of the vitamins and minerals that I'm low on. Even hydration. Everyone says that if you're thirsty, you're already dehydrated. Getting in the habit of staying hydrated is hard work. Little help here?

I suspect that most of this stuff will have to wait for nanobots. Any way we can do this sooner?
Sharks' Virus Killer Could Cure Humans
Instead of writing out a long response, I'll just point out that to compare building websites with diagnosing life-threatening illness many times a day is pretty ridiculous.

Of course you don't need to have gone to MIT, etc to build a website. The room for error is just many many orders of magnitude different between that and radiology. There's a reason you don't generally hire self taught code monkeys to build software with real-time or life-ensuring requirements.
Hmm, how exactly does the number of images affect predictive algorithms? If anything, more data is better. No offense, but as a radiologist you're not exactly familiar with the state of the art in A.I. image processing. I'd say that both of us are unqualified to state the degree of effectiveness of computational geometry and computer vision in radiology.
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Think Young: A Compilation Of Quotes About Health & Life
If the kids had choices, they would not choose hospitals where shifts are 40 hours long and only sleep of 6 hours out of those 40 every thing else being equal. They don't, because of the power that the hospitals have over residents in granting their licence and the cultural ubiquity in practice.

Similarly, there are very limited spaces to enter medical school and it's extremely difficult to enter. How many new orthodontists are trained in a year? Under a 100? In a country of 300 million people? On top of that, medical school is very expensive. On top of that, you have to go to university for 3-4 years before you can even enter med school.

Imagine if engineering degrees were like that, because they could of been. Similarly with accounting or finance. Maybe they're not because the math heavy nature is enough of a barrier, even the simple math of accounting. American medical schools (and doctor associations) could choose to structure their curriculums to be similar to an engineering degree, admit high school students and make the education be 5-6 years long, teach in the summer, whatever. I'm fairly sure the UK does that, and I'm not sure if they haze their residents too with 40 hour shifts. They can also release the spigot, hire more teachers and teach more students to increase the supply of doctors. The increased supply of doctors will lead in a decrease of overall doctor wages and decrease health care costs. That along with an FDA drug approval process that doesn't cost 200 million and more clearly defined and easy to avoid malpractice rules (as in it's not easy to commit malpractice by mistake) would lead to huge systemic decreases in US health care costs alone.

Don't tell me it's about wanting the best, because treating people with sleep deprived residents is negligent. That is no where near the best care for any sort of patient. The best will just walk away once they know that they can make more money doing less work in i-banking, tech, petroleum, engineering, or business in far nicer environments, and they do by droves.
That's not great marketing! They just exploited those with short-term memory :)
You can generalise even further: when going into a business partnership, weight up the risks that the other party will become competitors in the future. That seems to be what is happening between Apple and Samsung at the moment.
Does anybody know if the parallel tests will be ported to test-unit 2.x? Or if it is actually using minitest to do so: Is there a way to get minitest to output junit compatible xml? (ci_reporter doesn't support minitest)
My code does not depend on mysql. If could reliably migrate the data from mysql to postgresql, i'd switch in a heart beat.
Yeah, but the old (unofficial) Yahoo API is just a URL that gives a CSV file you could open in Excel (or OpenOffice, whatever)
it might also be a crime in the US (though it shouldn't be)
sigh I wish I could get excited about MRI releases. It's one of the most disappointing parts of using Ruby for my daily grind. The sluggish pace of innovation is sometimes demoralizing. Until 1.9.2, released a year after 1.9.1, and 4 years after 1.9.0, the 1.9 branch was too unstable for production use. Why were 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 GA releases again? The GC also still sucks, so the performance improvements from 1.9 are mostly nullified in real world applications.

Sometimes I wish the work on alternative implementations would be devoted to effort on MRI, but I understand this is a much more complex issue than it appears on the surface. It seems like all of the developers interested in real change in MRI that have the skills to make that change have hopped on to more interesting alternative implementations or left Ruby altogether.

While I've put JRuby in production for some smaller, non-Rails codebases that used JVM libraries, I've tried to run some non-trivial Rails applications on JRuby and it's just too slow for development work. Load time on code seems to be an order of magnitude slower, which is real time that adds up over a day worth of work to be something significant, so I'm back to REE. Rubinius is cool and they've come an amazingly long way, but personally I think the project suffers from what I'm going to call "sufficiently smart compiler" syndrome. After 5 years of work, they're still not even close to JRuby or MRI performance on real-world applications.

I've spent hours and hours understanding the technical and human reasons why all of these problems exist, but unfortunately the reality of shipping things trumps.

I guess that's why I've got this Clojure book in front of me.
Facebook account locked after "unlocking" Timeline?
There was a link that floated around, still is (I wont repost it, easy to find but in case this is valid I don't want anyone else to get their account locked) on how to "unlock" the Facebook Timeline early, by creating a fake developer account. I did this yesterday.

Today, I logged in and suddenly I notice I have to relog in, I login and my account is locked (just had to answer security questions). Did this happen to anyone else?
The Destructive Nature of Power without Status
Reviewers don't get to see the code and most don't have the time or inclination to reimplement based on what is described in the paper to check whether it tells the whole story or not. Yes, this is different from a theorem which should come with a rigorous proof. This is a great talk on the subject:

http://www.amath.washington.edu/~rjl/talks/LeVeque_CSE2011.p...
Yes. Looks good. headed over to @pluggio and started using it.

look into going beyond basic black!
I assume it's completely in memory?
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Thanks for the fantastic summary. I got a chuckle from one thing: besides the nearest RV park being 43 miles away (I believe I know exactly the one you're referring to), it's also about 12 miles of country road driving, and it's no picnic in rush hour.

I hadn't thought at all about back taxes. That's an interesting point and one that I think could be overcome, but I'm not a lawyer.

why have none of the people selling these properties gone to the trouble to get the rates fixed and adjusted for past taxes

I believe I can take a stab at this. The SEV is not able to be corrected until after the home is purchased and the state assessment is done. When I bought my first home, my father referred to it as the "surprise envelope" (as in, "You may already have won the Publisher's Clearing House!"). The back taxes situation is something you can research and can insure against (though, I'm willing to bet it's far more costly in the city limits). But I think you summed it up the best. Who would want to go through this trouble? You did the research and drew the conclusion that it wasn't worth it. Once you have to bring a lawyer in, unless they're doing so for charitable reasons (and I know a few that do just this), it's not worth the money. Even free, it's not worth the time fighting the assessment/treasury.

Detroit has its charms but nothing to make up for the brokenness of the city

Yes. And I'm sad to say that I completely agree with you.

EDIT: The RV park is 43 miles away was a quote from the original and I forgot to add emphasis to that point so it seemed like I was quoting much more than I was.
It depends on where you are trying to get to and where on the island you live. If you live near the ferry you can be in Manhattan within 30/40 minutes. If you live on the south shore of the island like me, it generally takes from an hour and a half to two hours. When I lived more towards the center of the island, my commute was door to door an hour and a half. The bus is like the tour buses, with reclining seats and overhead reading lights so it's really not that bad plus it's more time I generally spend reading a book or even doing work on my netbook.

The south shore is nicer in terms of houses and area, while the north shore is more convenient - but definitely a different type of neighborhood.
Pretty cool.

Make the price adjuster control move in increments of at least $10 (maybe $100).
I know that visualwebsiteoptimizer.com is run from India.
I was about to click back, thinking I really don't have any need fo a free online text based multiplayer truck simulator, when I noticed this small bit of text in the corner that vaguely described what you do. Once I'd read that, there was no way for me to _really_ find out what you do without signing up, which I didn't do, because I didn't know what you do. You can imagine my dilemma.
Assuming this is to make some actual money, and not just a proof of concept -- sites like this live or die on the strength of their SEO. People need to find it when they're searching Google for storage products.

You need an individual product page with its own URL for every item, and you need a strategy for getting inbound links, including to those deep product pages. You need content on those pages - reviews and ratings (scrape Amazon, maybe, or product catalogues).

In other words, to make some cash out of this (and the five gajillion other sites you could set up in other niche verticals), you have to content spam the holy hell out of the Internet. Not something friendly to the HN crowd, but that's what works.

Once you've done that, and you have some traffic, you can sell CPC traffic to online stores in exchange for favorable placement. And once you've done that, you're probably making enough money to start measuring the expected value of a user for each inbound search term and buying more, paid traffic - especially when your SEO doesn't have you in position #1.

And then you'll have a comparison shopping site, which can print money - until Google updates its search engine and pulls the rug out from under you. Print the money, but put it in your pocket.

Immediate steps for expanding your product selection / hopefully making more cash - most of the major comparison shopping sites today have affiliate product feeds.
The trouble with privacy comments like this blog post is always the same: no matter what the current situation is or how good the intentions of the person making the comment may be, unless they are an executive with the authority to legally bind the company in question to a privacy policy that has real repercussions if subsequently violated, in the end anyone can still be screwed over on the whim of whoever has the data.

In this case, that "whoever has the data" has been publicly dismissive of fundamental privacy concerns up to and including CEO level, and has a business model built around extracting as much value as possible from that private data without regard for the privacy concerns of any individual.
How To Do What You Want: Akrasia and Self-Binding
Understanding Virtual Memory
No, this is not just furniture. It is everything in Storage & Organization categories from Target and Amazon. I'm not sure whether the art supply box fits that category, but I'd hope so. I do not have the dimensions for all products as they are not always formatted identically on product pages, and my parser is fairly dumb at the moment.

As people may notice, there are some issues with the dimensions search. For instance: how do you differentiate between width/height/depth when there is no real "front" of the product. The dimensions depend on the orientation the user expects, not necessarily what is stored in the DB.

These are both issues I hope to fix, but at the moment I still think it performs fairly well. (and will improve)
Can you file a bug at http://new.crbug.com/ please? That doesn't sound like the behavior I'd expect.
In Ruby?
I guess I need to make that more clear. Maybe I shouldn't have the random app so prominent on the home screen, and make the "For Developers" and "For Users" be what is drawn to the users eye first.

EDIT: I reworked the home page, and added a little "Sign-Up" form to make it easier to get started. Hopefully that makes it a little more clear.
When we applied for the beta round, the stated goals were having 10% of the companies raise a significant round of further funding or reach 100,000 USD annual revenues. As I understand it, the program blew past this criteria.
Even though sarcastic and well-played this is just more hype. It should not be encouraged.
I don't think so, just from quickly glancing at the source. The Ruby GC (at least in MRI) doesn't deal well with even moderately sized heaps (>500MB), so I imagine they are fairly dependent on the OS disk cache for keeping things in memory.
My criticism applies to users of the feature as well as developers of the feature. You wrote:

"As soon as I read an article, my first action is to either send the link to specific people who are interested, or post it on my wall if I think everyone is interested."

In such cases, you are deliberately being selective in your sharing. I think this is as it should be.

Everyone is overloaded with information now, and one of the best ways to deal with that is to be good filters for our connections. This implies being selective in what you send, rather than broadcasting a high volume, low signal-to-noise ratio because doing so is "frictionless".

The more people act as good filters/routers of information, the better signal-to-noise ratio we'll all get.
I can assure that there are already an awful lot of PhDs in machine learning and computer vision working on the problem of automatically analyzing medical images, and there's been lots of progress over the last few years. There's a really long way to go, however- it's one of those areas where the problem is a lot harder than it seems.

Working in the field has convinced me that radiologists earn every penny, and that there are good reasons for the lengthy residencies and stringent board exams.
That's not true; there is a very, very specific alert shown before Facebook accesses any phone numbers. I'm not making this up, it's just how it works. Facebook does not get anything "whether you like it or not". They get the information if you specifically allow it, and only if you try to enable the Sync feature.

Hell, here's a screenshot if you don't believe me: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/6-blog-pics/iphone-facebook-syn...
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I think the utility here is severely limited by it's being public.

Wouldn't DM work just as simply? Granted you'd have to follow every single signup but that can be automated.