skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IAB has tons of standards: http://www.iab.net/iab_products_and_industry_services/508676...
Most people can't use photoshop or linux. I can, but do everything in my power not to, especially for something as trivial as a social network. But, with photoshop and linux, and when a user fails, they get frustrated and ask for help or give up. With facebook, they unknowingly spew semi-private communications all over the web. You're right- it's a terrible business model for an established company, and one that should have been snuffed out years ago when they still had a chance. It's now institutional, and I fear, permanent. Thankfully, Google appears to be ready to pick up the slack.
Sound a lot like something was done at my work. Metrics, just as number of tickets closed, were given. More we do the better :-)
While I sympathize with your specific situation, I can't help but suspect that, in the general case, there's something of a selection bias when it comes to playfulness and autonomy. What I mean is, people who are dedicated to maintaining their playfulness will tend to opt out of systems that don't allow it.

Anecdotally speaking, a lot of the creative and playful people I know seem to spend their careers moving, incrementally of course, from less autonomy to more autonomy. I see these moves happen when people leave a job, accept a new job, start a business, switch majors, transfer universities, or apply to specific grad program.

My point is that it could have been something essential to Feynman's character that led him toward the amount of autonomy he's famous for having had.
avr-gcc and avr-libc are really great but I'm working with the ATTiny4 right now and I can't seem to get a working gcc toolchain for it (not to mention it only has 512 bytes of flash and 32 bytes of SRAM). I did spend a decent amount of time trying to getting avr-gcc and avr-libc working with these MCUs but I've ended up just falling back to ASM.
According to a study Ars Technica covered

"So what about the rest? Two advertising companies took overt steps to respect the Do Not Track headers sent by browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari, which we just learned is actually a step beyond NAI's baseline requirement. Another 10 companies went even further by stopping the tracking and removing the cookies altogether (and just for interest's sake, it's worth noting that Google falls into this category)."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/study-finds-...
> 2. Blocking 3rd party cookies by default. Apple defaults to blocking 3rd party cookies, Chrome does not. Both are derived the same webkit core (yes, I know there is different code now), but when Google decided to create Chrome, they went with a different default than the one that Apple had already used -- one that hasn't led to websites breaking for Apple users.

Chrome's cookie code isn't derived from other code in WebCore; it's implemented in the platform layer. And it's intended to be as compatible as possible with the majority of the web. As for the privacy implications of third-party cookies, I think Michal covered the reality of the situation extremely well: http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2010/08/cookies-v-people.html
Congrats Eric! Amazing launch strategy, looking forward to seeing how the book does in successive weeks and hope it stays on the list!
Are Neutrinos Superluminal? Judge for Yourself.
I'd like to be able to ask a question to the planet (Or at least anybody who's ready to answer it right now). So I ask:

"What's 2.2kg in lbs" (0.10cent)

Someone on their computer just google it, type the answer and receive 0.10cent.

So basically, it's IRC + Stackoverflow but in real-time and you pay to get the answer now without searching. People could wait for the metro or the bus with their phone and see the questions and could click [answer] if they know the answer (or know how to get it really fast) or [next] to get another question.

Ideally, an expert in a field could make real money in situations where he/she would lose their time. Waiting in a queue to pay? Just answer 1 10$ question. Waiting at the metro/subway? Answer a couple question.

Looking for the name of a street? Lost? Searching for ketshup in the grocery? Just ask and put your price.
Congrats Eric! Being on the bestseller list should drive awareness of your methodologies to a broader group. You've been working hard at it. Keep it up!
I live in Iran/Tehran.
Our situation in some what similar to other countries in Middle East, but worth. e.g we don't have paypal, EC2, google app engine, good Internet speeds, etc.
Interesting, i'm working on a contextual twitter analytics app which is more about visualising the context behind tweets and grouping it. How different is this to Geckoboard?
In this case your account probably was not locked, you just needed to provide additional information to log in because something seemed unusual. So if you logged in from a known-good environment (ie, a computer we know you have logged in before), it would work - you aren't locked out of your account.

This is one of a few different systems we have to protect our users - in this case from having their credentials used if they are exposed through others sites, through phishing, or through some other mechanisms. You can a little about it at https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=389991097130

The social authentication is one way we help people verify their identity in these cases - you can read about it at https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130 . There are others - the easiest for most people is through sending a text message to your phone when you log in from a new device, which you can read about at https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150172618258920

If you are concerned about privacy, but not happy about having to log in from scratch each time and occasionally have to go through these steps (or not comfortable giving or not able to give a phone number for text message authentication), you might want to use a separate dedicated browser for Facebook that does have cookies enabled.
We'll tell you what to write. Don't worry your pretty little head.
This really is amazing news, Eric is leading this movement. The Lean startup is influencing every part of this 'industry' if you can call it that considering how broad startups can be.
If you want details on the tech. go read some of John Langford's publications (http://research.yahoo.com/John_Langford) and the rest of the Machine Learning group at Yahoo (http://research.yahoo.com/Machine_Learning). I sometimes joke that Myna (http://www.mynaweb.com -- ob plug for my startup!) should be renamed the John Langford Appreciation Society.
The idea is to flag it to make it visible so more people will flag it so it gets deleted sooner. Currently people flag things, it gets pushed down, no one else sees it and it never gets deleted.

Inappropriate items (spam, etc) should not simply be invisible, it should be deleted. Making flagged items more visible will make that happen, and they would only be more visible for a very short time.
When I hear about a slow loading site, especially due to many third party includes and dependencies my secondary concern from an operational perspective is what happens when those 3rd party links go down?

Does the page load up as blank? Stop loading halfway through? Very difficult for WashPost to achieve high availability when they only control a portion of the experience.
The old-school practice is the same as the modern-day practice: the landlord rented his land to tenant farmers in exchange for a share of their crop. randomdata's statement:

> In farming, sharecropping is the low risk way to grow your business. It is the landlord that takes on much of the burden if the crop fails. But with small risk comes small reward.

is just as true of sharecropping in 1911 as of sharecropping in 2011.

The difference he draws between sharecropping on a farm and sharecropping on a web site doesn't make sense, though.
Reflecting on 20 years of Nirvana's classic album
Has anyone read it? I would like some comments on the book. I am considering buying it.
Ars botched the details in summing up the study.
Read the original study here:

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6694

When a consumer visits Google's opt out page (where you obtain a doubleclick.net opt out cookie), or gets one via the NAI, the doubleclick.net tracking ID is deleted.

Google does not support the DNT header.
Play safe with AWS spot instances
In Chrome the option is to block 3rd party cookies from being set, not from being sent. Since Facebook sets its cookie while I am on their domain, I don't believe Chrome's blocking option is of any use.
We're not too far off: http://urthecast.com
Very impressed with the look and feel. I definitely see putting this up on a screen for any company that's seriously tracking their twitter following - great work.
very interesting to see how steadily machine learning algorithms creep into our news feeds (eg. facebook) and deliver us with the the links we're most likely to click. but i fear that this will lead to a serious decline in editorial quality, leaving an endless stream of cute kittens and hair styling tips. who will tell us what's really going on if some algorithm decides what's newsworthy and what's not?
MySpace had a great community. The software was slow and ugly. Now it's faster and a little less ugly, but the community is gone.
Sorry to be the one to say it, but...

http://eoddata.com/about/terms.aspx

6. AUTOMATED DOWNLOADS
5.1 Our data can be downloaded via the website, ftp, web
services and through our DataClient software. Automated
downloads from our website through scripts or utilities
(scraping) is not permitted. Any attempt to access our data
via the website in an automated manner using download
utilities will be blocked. If you would like to automate
your downloads then you must use either the FTP site or our
XML web service.
thanks man :) .. 100% true
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as someone working on sites that use the recent browser storage APIs, I very much prefer that to be the recommended setting. Much saner than cookies, and for some type of apps makes for a much better user experience as well

Notice that "allow local data to be set" and "block third party cookies" are not mutually exclusive settings in preferences...which is good, because they can be and tend to be used for very different purposes.

If you want to block all data from being stored, that's fine (and web APIs are great in that they are designed to be individually denied and let a page detect that they have been), but I definitely disagree that first party storage enabled by default (and even "recommended") is lamentable.
I am working on a shopping site - http://giniji.com. It only has laptops right now but I am looking at adding other categories too, including food.

I would love to hear more about the kinds of things you'd find useful (email in profile). I am also based in the UK.
Zuckerberg explaining Groupon to Warren Buffett (animated)
Soundcloud wants to be the YouTube of audio
Awesome. I'm working at Areatres right behind that Starbucks!
When all the 3rd party content is linked properly (i.e. <script> blocks at the bottom of page) - nothing bad happens, you would just see blanks instead of third-party content.

When it's not linked properly (as far as I know most of those 3rd party services by default advertise the "wrong" way) - not only it would display a blank or half-blank page when the 3rd party service is down, also all the page loads are noticeably slower for everyone on every page load.

I.e. I use neither facebook nor twitter nor google+, but half of the internet is loaded a few hundred milliseconds slower because every page is crammed with their fairly useless buttons.

Why useless? First, that functionality should be part of the browser, not of the webpage. I should have a share button in my browser, for every page I see, and also it would prevent those services from tracking me.

Is there an firefox/chrome extension that:

- Provides Like, Tweet, +1, Digg and all the buttons in the toolbar (only ones I need)

- Prevents browser from accessing button embeds therefore disabling tracking?

I would install it in a heartbeat.
Indeed, but people already signed the petition. I understand most probably nobody who signed it understood your intentions, but, still, it's now a signed document.

BTW, congratulations on the idea.
"Why more Valley companies don't open Michigan offices baffles me."

I suspect it's because people don't realize that from a tech company's point of view, Detroit isn't the center of the world anymore. It may be notionally the "Greater Metropolitan Detroit" area, but that's just tradition now, not a reflection of reality. In reality, the "suburbs", many of which would be cities themselves if they were isolated (not large, world-class cities, but still definitely "cities" as opposed to "villages"; think Palo Alto vs. San Francisco) are where the action is, as well as Ann Arbor. You don't locate in Detroit; at most, a few of your employees may live somewhere that is theoretically called "Detroit", but that's all the dealing with the city you'll have. (And if you provide them a stable job, they'll probably move to be closer to it and further from Detroit.)

Detroit is a sinking non-entity now, but the area itself is carrying on.
I did this in 2005 and I've been in the area since. When I moved, I rushed my apartment search and got something suboptimal - fine space, just a poor location.

A lot of places are shown by brokers who want a month or so worth of rent from the tenant - this is a ripoff, but it's common. If you can afford this or if you can get your startup to cover this, you've got more options than if you're just looking at no-fee listings.

Assuming you're a reasonably-competent developer, you don't have to worry about being out of work should it not work out at your startup - lots of companies are recruiting aggressively. So that, at least, you don't have to immediately worry about. (Future economic conditions may vary.)

Just make sure you're paid enough to live how you want to live in NYC, and that NYC itself is for you, and you'll be fine.
Regardless, I feel that any company buying Yahoo is wasting their money, unless Yahoo is willing to sell Flickr by itself.
Yury Lifshits (then a research scientist at Yahoo! Research) did a talk at Estonian Summer School on Computer Science called "Intro to Content Optimization" [1], where he explained one of the approaches. It makes an interesting read.

[1] -- http://yury.name/esscass/
IIRC, it has components of Google Toolbar built in. If you accessed those pages with a browser with the Google Toolbar you'd have experienced the same.
The main dev on the WebRequest API sits right behind me, and is making steady progress. It's the first synchronous extension API that interacts with the network stack, and it's a nontrivial effort to get it running. I can assure you, however, that making life hard for privacy extensions is the exact opposite of what we're being paid to do.

Look at the progress on privacy-related APIs over the last year: WebRequest is coming along nicely, WebNavigation and ContentSettings are feature complete and in the final stages of polish, and Proxy went out to stable in Chrome 13. Privacy and Clear just landed in experimental, and we're iterating on them rapidly.

(Details on the state of each are available at http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/trunk/experimental....)
PG is right about there being no strong line between software and hardware. What's wrong is assuming that means we need patents at all.

Like all government granted monopoly they're harmful to society. Engineers are instructed to avoid looking at patents. What was supposed to be a cookbook of methods for society is really a minefield you must traverse blindfolded lest you risk having three times as many legs blown off.
I'm hoping you're offering that as an FYI, rather than as a justification... because it's not a very good justification
Also note that those $6000 houses (and even less) will have property tax of several thousand per year. Detroit is still valuing houses at the rates of 10+ years ago

I'm curious about this statement. From what I recall of state law, the houses State Equalized Value would fall to 50% of the purchase price of the home assuming it is not a foreclosure. In the case of foreclosure, fighting a over-valued home (an experience I only have outside of the city) is pretty easy. In addition, in Michigan, a homeowner's SEV increase is capped per year until the property changes hands (known in these parts as Proposal "A", the third rail of Michigan politics). I'm not calling you out or anything. If you could explain that in greater detail or have a reference, I'd be interested to understand since I know some great, honest, giving people who also happen to be lawyers who would love to use their skills to help the city.

It's cool that Detroit is improving.

When Mayor Archer was in charge, the city underwent some pretty serious improvement, especially in overall "image". This is important. Mayoral candidates tend to run on the platform of pitting the folks who live in the city against the folks who've left the city (a technique honed and mastered by Mayor Young that resulted in near life-time tenure as mayor). It was the first time that I've ever noticed a trend of suburban folks actually wanting to explore some of the rare and interesting restaurants in Detroit. Under Mayor Kilpatrick, the city declined dramatically (this was not all his fault, it happened to coincide with a general economic decline, but he certainly didn't help the city's image). Under the new mayor, the image of the city of Detroit has improved. Again, an important thing.

However, the scene on the ground is not yet improved, and I'd subjectively assert that it's not as good as it was during the worst days under Archer. The poorest neighborhoods are getting much worse. I have a friend who moved her whole family to the Brightmoor area to help prostitutes and drug addicts. That area has gotten significantly worse and more dangerous in the last two years as have most of the poorest areas of Detroit.

It's terribly sad, and I can't say that I'm, personally, doing anything to make it better.

EDIT: Fix a cut/paste sentence error.
Reminds me of the games Achron and Braid.
What did you visit after hitting those pages? There is also "referer"...
Yon't run this risk when building for Windows or OS X.
I turned off Chrome's prediction service once I found myself relying upon it—it was becoming difficult for me to perform searches on DuckDuckGo without it! Google was making my mind dishearteningly lethargic.

For decades, affluent humans have gone out of their way to work physically harder than they need to (weight lifting, running, standing rather than sitting, etc.). Our technology is rapidly approaching a level that'll force people not to use it in order to stay mentally fit!

This is really cool technology, but I really don't want to rely on Google's engineers to tell me which words to write next.
nope... no outbound links
We have this in The Netherlands, it's called the "basic city records", but is for government services, churches and some other basics.

Oh, and the mail company has a service to forward your mail, and change your addresses for various companies when you move. Part of the deal...
As far as examples for 2/3, Google is a common source. Lots of their papers report on experiments conducted with: 1) massive-scale proprietary data; and 2) using proprietary infrastructure. They do sometimes share data, but often don't, and in cases where they don't, there is not always equivalent publicly available data (especially of anywhere near the same size). And I would suspect that sharing the code is right out for a lot of cases; if they're writing a paper on improving an aspect of Google Translate (which they do fairly regularly), they aren't going to send the entire source code to GT to a committee.
I'm usually in the camp of "those who can, do; those who can't, read business books" but this book is worth stopping everything you're doing and fully internalizing.

I think the lean movement (directly and indirectly) will increase value creation in silicon valley by 10-20%, and this is the holy book of it.
Ok... i'm miffed, as Facebook has embarrassed me twice this week!

First when I created a new list called "Hotties I still want to X." I thought only I would know what friends were going to be added to this list. Unfortunately, that isn't the case, as Facebook sent a notification to each person on that list. That was very embarrassing, thanks a lot Facebook!

Second is when I downloaded Spotify. The ease of use of installing and starting to enjoy music was great. So much so that when I chose to play my first track I forgot Facebook was notifying my friends what song I was listening to(one i want to keep private due to ex-girlfriends)!

Thanks again Facebook! You have embarrassed me twice in one week! ERRGGGghhhhh!!!!
Their pre-sale was so well marketed that I managed to order 3 different copies without realizing it (all from different channels or at different times, i.e. my error).
Pretty sure the impact isn't just limited to silicon valley. If anything, I think the relative impact of other areas will be far greater elsewhere.
Inside Facebook’s Bid to Reinvent Music, News and Everything
In other words, you want to be the Terminator.

Join the club.
I think it would take tremendous political capital to do this. Every favored tax treatment would be a hill to die on and there's a risk that the opposition woukd win on a platform of adding some back in, destroying precedent against changes immediately.

So you'd not only have to win the battles, you'd need enough manpower to occupy the territory once the dust cleared. That occupation will last for a couple election cycles at least; in the US it would be best done by an incoming president popular enough to have a good shot at re-election after.
Chrome does not arbitrarily send URLs to Google. We go out of our way to avoid doing that, actually.

Look at the implementation of SafeBrowsing, for instance, which does some clever work with hashes to ensure that Google never knows exactly what URL you visited that triggered the warning. It would have been _much_ simpler to just send the URLs, I assure you.
Plink is a multiplayer music experience with a super intuitive user interface.
Does this do anything for rails startup time?
It's a fairly selfish view to distort a feature designed for abuse into a feature for your personal preference. Thought processes like that lead to the collapse of great communities.

If you want to influence HN, you should submit and upvote stories you prefer like the site was designed for.