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Thanks for trying to help!
1) This is really difficult. Like I tried getting started with PHP but as soon as potential project ideas became "interesting" I needed to go at least into JavaScript or Databases/MySql. Like for a seemingly simple project that I had in mind (e.g. that took data from a form and generate a pdf file based on that) I needed at least JavaScript to make it a smooth process.
2) I seem to suck there in the "transferring the knowledge" part. One of my most recent ventures is into RapidMiner, an (open source) data mining/text mining software. While I went through each and every tutorial available I am still unable to understand basic issues like when to use certain algorithms or how to adopt the knowledge towards a concrete research idea/problem that I have in mind. But if you have any suggestions for great tutorials feel free to share. I won't stop trying :)
I love the concept but have two gripes.

1) the text "line in" for reading comes in too slow. I want the whole text up on the screen in a flash so I can concentrate on reading. I usually either find I'm faster than the "line in" animation OR the line in is too distracting to read around.

2) with respect to the tutorials, at the end of each section I should have all the new commands "unlocked" so I can `h` `j` `k` `l` until I'm 100% comfortable with what each key does.
Redesign aside, I've had nothing but trouble trying to use the website and their browser plugins since they relaunched. I am not a happy camper.
I am such a person. You completely got me!
But it's difficult to target ads at me, I adblock, because I don't want to be tracked.

And, to the DDG example, I would add Funambol¹, one of a very few Italian startups.

¹https://www.forge.funambol.org/
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If I was shopping for a freelancer and someone said something like that I would choose not to work with them. I don't mean any sort of disrespect. It's just occasionally we have to contract out for things, and when people make comments to me like that I immediately scratch them off the list. Replying sarcastically instead of politely asking clarifying questions back just scares off potential business.
Thanks everyone for the valuable feedback. All the comments here have been taken on-board and are part of the new highest priority for the backlog.
BTW to undo that "feature" in about:config set browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false

I only wish undoing the javascript disable from the urlbar was as easy.
> This may include the date and time you visit the site; the web address, or URL, you're on; technical information about the IP address, browser and the operating system you use; and, if you are logged in to Facebook, your User ID."

With the exception the the UserID for logged in users, all of this data is standard stuff that every browser sends to every server of any site on every request.

> If that's not "tracking" I don't know what is...

If basic http header stuff is "tracking" to you, then every site on the internet is tracking you.
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,777,057 tested so far

That is a bit unsettling.
HTML5 is definitely an umbrella term, and I think harping on its usage because no new elements are being used or whatever is a bit silly.

That said, CSS fonts were only recently moved to CSS3. For the longest time, they were in CSS2 (http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-CSS2-20080411/fonts.html#font-... ).

Yeah, I know, the comment boils down to `let's not be pedantic about this, but this thing over here, this let's be pedantic about'. Sorry :) I've always thought it interesting that font-face is a much older technology that took a long time to make it into non-IE browsers (granted, IE only supported the EOT font format).
I've been doing Web development for a long time. So, I'm aware of the environment. Usually the costs of supporting older browsers are grossly exaggerated. Unless you're completely new to the game, you already know how to deal with older versions of IE because at one time they were the state of the art.

But, if you* really don't enjoy what you're doing, do something else. There are always going to be browser differences and they're not all IE-related. But you're getting paid to know those differences and handle them so your customer gets a good experience.

* Again, "you" == the wider population of Web developers.
I really can't wait to see how Tim Cook brings the new iPhone to the market. There's a lot of pressure on him to perform in the same way that Steve Jobs has in the past. He has, to his advantage, been more chatty with Apple employees via corporate webmail so I'm excited to see what he says and how he brings his team around a much awaited iOS 5 and iPhone.
A consortium or whatnot of startup(or existing) companies might be an interesting way to both announce/broadcast their services/products and also create a standard privacy/user-data policy. Any ideas? Work towards common goals:

-Privacy by default, sharing only by opt-in.

-Advertising (if necessary)is done in a manner that demographics are shared with advertisers in some standard structure/tiering of individual data that is entirely up to the user to decide comfort level(e.g. complete privacy - higher SAAS prices or give up a high amount of privacy - lower priced or almost free SAAS).

-No externally hosted services(js-based offerings such as analytics, customer support, surveys, etc.) or if using a third party offering disclose who it is and only work those who also are members of the consortium.

-Disclose infrastructure and back-end(non-visible)/external processing companies that are used to operate the service.

-Agree that you won't pull a "Spotify" where user's data might be handed over to another company "after the fact." Announce changes like acquisitions or partnerships such that a change in access to user-data requires 30/60 days notice.

-Allow permanent deletion of accounts and information, not toggling columns in a database to hide visibility.

-Announce what details are captured regarding the user and make the entirety of that available for download in a common format.

Re-reading this I must sound paranoid but I've always considered myself moderate compared to Stallman. Am I the only one concerned with "acceptable" privacy these days?
Version 8 is the same thing as Draft 10, which is the latest draft. Yes, it's confusing.
That particular sentence does not describe "tracking", it describes "http". Those are just the data every browser sends to a server if it requests a resource hosted there. The sentence you cited is just a description of the behaviour of the protocol. Tracking only happens if the server logs these data, which it may or may not do, and the rest of the facebook privacy policy seems to say that they indeed want to do that, or at least keep the option to do so. But no matter what the server operator says it does, you cannot really check that.
I like this. I was recommended Hulu plus right away which, on account of the android market's terrible app discovery, i didnt even know existed.
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This is just my opinion, so don't take my word for it.

There is no reason to support anything earlier than iOS 4.3 for an app being released today. 4.3 works on all devices except the original iPhone, the 3G, and the equivalent iPod Touch models. It's also a free upgrade for (nearly?) everybody. The fraction of your audience still using something prior to 4.3 will be very small.

If you're not releasing very soon, it will probably be worthwhile to simply require iOS 5. New OS version uptake tends to be fast, and it seems likely that those who don't update their OS are also less likely to buy apps. iOS 5 is a pretty big deal with a lot of new features, so I think it will probably see pretty swift uptake. iOS 5 also provides a lot of nice features for a developer (like those zeroing weak references, which I believe are pretty important for ARC programming), so there's a good incentive on your end to require 5+.
Absolutely agree. There is definitely a market for anonymity based products. I'm paying each month the same amount of money that I shill out for my internet access to services that increase anonymity (cascaded VPNs, etc.).
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So... what do you need?
They're asking the questions:

* Company type
* Team size
* Hosting environment
* Other languages your company has been using ruby
* Years your team has been using ruby

and asking for a manual upload of the gem.

I don't see how this will indicate the quality or popularity of a Gem.

A more sound approach may be to spider RubyGems.org, look at the "source code" link, check out the repo, and start doing stuff like look at test coverage, amount of documentation, etc. If the gem source code is on github, you could probably get some idea of the quality based on some metric around the number of followers they have, etc.

--

Edit: I didn't realize they wanted just the Gemfile.

As for the down votes: I'm not sure how this is "FUD". I question the methodology, to which the author responds below. We're all smarter for seeing that.
Dropbox has a pretty large amount of users who are more than happy with the functionality of the application as it is. With more added features to come in later years, I think Google won't just steal the market with a Google labeled cloud drive.
Same here. Calling it just "scrolls" sounds horribly wrong and I've done a lot of gaming. I can't imagine being confused by this.

I think this is a total waste of money and wish they'd taken Mojang up on that offer to play a game for it.

Can anyone point to any comment, prior to this lawsuit nonsense, where someone actually referred to any game or the series as just "scrolls"? In all the comments over this, not one person has done that. And it's a huge internet, so someone, somewhere has probably done that. But everyone I know will say Elder Scrolls or ES or TES or Morrowind or what have you.
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If customer service is important to you, DropBox isn't a viable option either.
Yes, I thought of pretty much every single possible pricing model, and I went with the simplest one I could come up with. Figuring out the price point and payment solution was the biggest hurdle that kept me from launching while the app was in private beta, and flat pricing meant and could keep things simple.

Even though an EA division would pay as much as an indie, I think the pricing is still very fair with effectively being less then 9 EUR / month and with the fact that I don't charge people if they don't want to renew after one year, but still keep the existent data.
They're not exactly mortal enemies, other than when it comes to recruiting Seattle talent. Amazon's pricing is transparent and MS would probably plan to migrate it to their own data centers like they migrated Hotmail from Unix infrastructure, and probably lots of other products.
That's clever (though it shows how far backward you have to bend to gather that info on iOS).

Is the applet released? Can you share the name?
This is exactly what I did. I treat the MBA as just another tool. Started a business sadly it failed after a couple years, but I just moved out to SF last week and loving it. As an engineer with an MBA that can code well, does stats, and took a handful of law classes it's a seller's market.
I got the same number as anonymous below me. The biggest cause of uniqueness was the installed fonts reported by the browser. I'm on Linux and we have some weird ones....
> Your response is one of the reasons I have to force myself to stay away from Hacker News; I have too much to do but there are some great conversations on here.

This might shock you, but 2-3 years this was the only kind of conversation we ever had on HN with any regularity. It was pretty cool back then.

Anyways, I appreciate the kind words and the discussion as well - drop a line if I can ever lend a hand with anything.
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Hi, I'm planning to visit Silicon Valley soon as I'd like to check out the startup scene. Are there guides/recruiters or fellow hackers that are available to meet for a few hours to discuss the latest happenings, places to live, culture, etc..?
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> all of this data is standard stuff that every browser

> sends to every server of any site on every request.

Come on lbrandy, let's be honest. Are you telling me and to the HN audience that you don't use the data "that every browser sends to every server", analyze it, try to get unique users out of it, try to gather interest, browsing behavior, a lot of other stuff and sell it to advertisers?
Because that would contradict what you state in your privacy policy.

>> If that's not "tracking" I don't know what is...

> I believe the word I'd use is "http".

http is the protocol you gather the data with. Once you got it, you gather your stats from it. And thus track users with it. And you state so explicitly in your privacy policy. And there is IMHO nothing wrong with it. I adblock it anyway.
I can relay some of the things Prof. Ng said in the first meeting of the CS229A class:

229A is definitely meant to be much less mathematically rigorous - he said that he expects some people who don't feel like they're necessarily up to 229 to take 229A first to gain more familiarity with the material. From the people that actually showed up to the lecture, it was mostly CS people - although it's hard to say what the online enrollment is like. It is definitely meant to be useful to anyone who wants to be able to get machine learning algorithms to work, not necessarily understand their finer points.
Yeah, between plugins and fonts, most browsers show up as "unique" in that tool which are merely unusual. I'm using a Firefox alpha build, and it says that alone is enough to identify me, even though obviously it isn't.
But extensions are still version dependent.

I was just about to update my installation, but it told me that my Roboform extension isn't compatible with v7.

If they allow the application to update when it wants, they're going to quickly render me unable to use Firefox, since I won't be able to log into secure web sites.
It is completely non-toxic to humans

From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Effects_on_human_health:

DDT is classified as "moderately toxic" by the United States National Toxicology Program (NTP)[46] and "moderately hazardous" by the World Health Organization (WHO)

The evidence on Wiki is mixed. Maybe it makes sense to use it for malaria, but there are also other solutions that might have better cost/benefit.
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First off, they are asking for your Gemfile, not your .gem. There is a big difference here. There is no source code in a Gemfile. Secondly, they clearly state why this is an indication of popularity-- they are getting real world usage statistics, not download counts. They ask for company info because if a company the size of 80 people uses a gem, it's going to effectively be more popular than a company of size 1. 79 more people are using it.

Please stop spreading the FUD.
"Personally, I'm totally happy supporting the latest version of each of the five browsers."

Yeah, so would we all. That's not really an argument.
FYI if you just set up a POP client you don't need to run a backup process for your gmail.
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"In fact if you are [an algorithm expert], you are not likely to take big risks. You are more than happy with the addiction towards that monthly salary."

Please elaborate on the evidence for a correlation between knowledge of algorithms and risk taking?

Seriously....
There's a more specific description about how information from social plug-ins are handled:

https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=186325668085084

In particular, information from social plug-ins are specifically not used to target ads to users.
Is it a niche though? Like the old Tolstoy quote "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" - are happy consumers alike in the same way, but are the disconnected all unhappy in their own way?

There are plenty of techniques and products for the disconnected, but few of them ever gain wide traction - possibly because if a problem gets large enough, the market changes to reflect mainstream needs (eg. Facebook pulling Beacon when outrage became widespread).
I've just been looking at youtube clips of this and there doesn't seem to be any recommendations for me when I go back to the home page. Anyone else notice this?
If they press, explain why.

No, as a business person you just walk away. They're clearly not a prospect (ie, in the market to buy your services) because they've indicated a budget that is degrees of magnitude to yours.

One of the wonderful traits of being a geek is the desire to explain and the desire to engage in debate. Digg/Reddit/HN are built on it. An important trait of a successful business person is to zero in on potential customers and cut losses quickly on leads that are going no-where.

Your time is money - which is also why many successful startup folks drift out of HN and other communities once they become successful entrepreneurs.

The same traits can also impact on client work once you get into the project. If you're a geek + business person, these are important skills to learn.
Since it seems to be based on Google Documents, I think Dropbox will do just fine. There are few pages on the internet that I dislike more than the Google Documents start page. I actually feel annoyed every time I look at that auto generated shit list of files that is Google documents. It breaks every user interface convention for displaying a list of files. Navigating files is something I already know how to do, but Google is special and has figured out how to make it a chore.
>* The 'http:// URL prefix is now hidden by default

I hate that:( I hate that they removed the rss button too:(
This myth is so widely repeated I have to call it out. The people you meet doing an MBA either a) leave and go into corporate middle management or b) go start their own businesses. The chance that the middle managers end up in a position where they can directly or indirectly help your startup is extremely low; the idea that you could be fully occupied as an entrepreneur just exploiting those contacts for 12-24 months is laughably naive. As for your MBAers who become fellow entrepeneurs - well they have their heads down working on a startup which is probably in a totally different sector to you - they're incredibly busy building their own businesses and contacts in a totally different sector, and even less able to help. Overall, best case scenario is that an entrepreneur starts a B2B business and a handful of his classmates end up as potential clients/introducers to potential clients - but even with five of these contacts, at $100k for an MBA that works out at $20k per lead, hardly the best return on investment. There are plenty of reasons to do an MBA, but networking to establish a startup isn't one.
There are multiple reasons why we chose the approach we did:

1.) It was easy to implement, we're just parsing using Ripper

2.) It gets us 90% of the way there. There are some last-mile stats that would be interesting. But implementing those take a lot of effort. This is something we threw together over the weekend.

3.) We're interested to see if there are trends in gem usage amongst company types/sizes/years of experience.

4.) Asking people to give access to their git repos is asking quite a bit. We try to maintain anonymity (although we are geocoding IPs on the backend). TBH, if someone asked me for access to my company's private repo I would say 'no'

Thanks for the feedback. :)
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Google Storage for Mail/Photos/Docs/etc has been charging $5/20Gb for months already. This isn't a special GDrive thing. At this point, GDrive would be a UI cleanup for the existing content sync services they already have, not a new service.
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Your entire message is a strawman; there is nothing in this thread which supports your claims.
Very well put and I certainly agree.
This thought process can also lead to far more realistic goal planning for all walks of life (you give a great example about weight lifting). Learning just to learn is admirable in and of itself but perhaps not as realistic than learning for a specific need that can be enumerated.
Get the Pthreads O'Reilly book. It's the best introduction to various ideas and primitives that you will need to think about parallel programs.

Also I would recommend OpenCL over CUDA if you're worried about being locked-in. It's got some of the lowest-common-denominator funk to it, but it's a lot more portable.
I don't want to install FF7 to test this, but how can a user switch from a http to https version of a site? Can a user still type the URL prefix to override what is hidden?
There are much more intuitive ways to play a downward market

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No need to reconstruct anything, just save the image with a higher JPEG compression and all the intricate patterns will be well blurred. I really doubt FB is spending any time whatsoever on validating these patterns.
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I have had to grind out many tutorials over the years; helped my immediate focus since there were obvious steps to take towards a goal I wanted to acheive.
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You are absolutely right. Every test results like this don't focus on other 10% that survived the test. Same is true for cockroaches, rats too. Animals with high breeding rate can be controlled but not eradicated that easily.
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> Are you telling me and to the HN audience that you don't use the data "that every browser sends to every server", analyze it, try to get unique users out of it, try to gather interest, browsing behavior, a lot of other stuff and sell it to advertisers?

That's pretty much the definition of "cookieless tracking", isn't it? Feel free to read my original post.

This is spelled out quite clearly here: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=186325668085084
When asking for the time I want to be picked up, was it really necessary to enquire down to the second? :P

I'm guessing this is a pre-set "time object" in wufoo, it just made me chuckle. Hopefully humor isn't lost on HN for once
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Though be nice or do them a favour and I'm sure you'll be remembered as a nice person, worker or company in the future.
I don't remember a time I couldn't put linux on an apple. Maybe I'm wrong or forgetting something.
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Didn't see any. Hoping there was at least a recording of a live stream or something?
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dont forget parallel is much larger than cuda, gpu's just happen to be largely parallelizable chips. If your really basic, play around with java and get a feeling for threads and synchronous, maybe write a map/reduce program or 2 and run it on aws.
As said in the other thread, you can change it back by going to about:confing and changing browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false.