skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to 100% turn off Google personalization for search?
I have problem that me (I'm in US) and my college (he is Europe) are getting different results for a search a Google query.
We use the following to turn off personalization:

- we added `&pws=0` to query

- we use browser in incognito mode.

Is there any way to turn off personalization completely including IP adress tracking?
Let's not pay them any more attention.
You are not a user, you are a developer. Consider that having to pay/become certified to develop reinforces the above point.
Good comedians speak the truth that is apparent, but is possibly not being said. Breaking social morays and speaking freely is more of the comedians' strongest weapons.
Sony Pictures Acquiring New Steve Jobs Biography For Major Feature Film
My view is a bit different: education companies don't succeed because they don't have a market. People who are motivated enough to actually engage in online education can do it for free (MIT courseware, as one example). People who aren't, won't sign up. Or if they do they won't stick with it. So the only way to make money in online education is to appeal to people who won't ever really benefit, and take their money.
The Stiforp secrets are REVEALED
Either that, or the site is running in a VirtualBox VM.
The UAV itself will have a computer running a commercial RTOS. The computer on the ground which the operator sits and and uses to interact with the UAV is almost certainly a Windows box. And as someone else said, the military's way of securing Windows machines like those has traditionally been not to hook them up to a network in the first place, instead of installing anti-virus software. That actually worked really well until portable USB devices came along. The result is that the military is only now getting up to speed on securing these types of computers; it's not that they're dumb about computers, it's that in the past they dealt with the threat operationally rather than technically.
I was hoping they would do this. Who do you think will direct it? David Fincher?
As with his recent statement on Steve Jobs's death, I suspect he's adopting an extreme position in response to a normative position he opposes. I think that's kind of how he operates.

I don't like the societal expectation that children are inherently to be welcomed either. In some ways I wish I had the nerve to respond as forthrightly as RMS, although I'm also glad I have sufficient social self-preservation instinct not to.

I really don't want to be negative about Steve Jobs at the moment, especially somewhere like HN where it's conceivable people who knew him in real life might read it, but I am getting fairly tired of the endless hagiography, and especially of semi-informed people telling me how enormous and positive his influence on my life has supposedly been. While I don't think RMS's statement was very sensible, I think perhaps I can sympathise with his motivation.
a company with no business model outside collecting patents

Every time stories like this come up, there's a line like the above. And every time, I wonder: Why is this relevant? I could say equally well that Stripe is a company with no business model outside of taking money from credit cards; it doesn't mean that they're bad people.

The fact is, companies out-source all the time; why is out-sourcing patent infringement lawsuits any worse than out-sourcing credit card processing, overdue account collections, or web design?
I use clickpass; I didn't know how to make an account otherwise. If you keep allowing me to log in from Google I'd be cool with ditching clickpass specifically.
Use http://scroogle.org/ instead
Not to mention that the whole patent system is stacked to produce settlements, because winning (to say nothing of losing) is so much more expensive. A tiny fraction of cases actually go to trial.
The Halloween Documents of yore would suggest otherwise (http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/). There were also many telling e-mails revealed in the Comes v. Iowa legislation (http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2007021720...), particularly the ones regarding evangelism.

You don't have to have a deliberate "conspiracy" (a word that often seems used to dismiss reasonable explanations of events) to have people with power using their influence to get other people with power to do things for their benefit (like file proxy lawsuits a la SCO). Their past behavior is in line with nextparadigms's comment.
It was $10 million based on $40 million valuation. Combined with the latest investment, it seems a majority percentage of equity would still belong to the founders. Well past successful at a $200 million valuation, for sure.
The article says that USB keys are used to move data on to the system from other networks. If this is true it would be better to assume that all data from that other network is bad, and require it to be serialized in a none executable format. The software then needs to validate the data against a schema. This is something websites have done for years and is very basic.

The mistake that is made here is to assume that a network can ever be secure. It is like assuming that no one will ever pee in a swimming pool.
The Gawker link posted somewhere else in the thread works too. Too bad it's gawker...sigh
Fractint is a perfect case study. It has died, not because people stopped computing fractals, but because it was under a no-commercial-distribution license, not a free-software license. That meant that commercial Linux distributors like Red Hat couldn't include it in their product, and so it gradually lost the contributors who could have kept it relevant.

Linux was originally under a similar license. It could have died in the same way, leaving only the BSD projects, which have been much less effective at attracting contributors. You could argue that maybe without competition from Linux, they would have been able to attract more contributors; but I think the truth is the opposite — with fewer free-software users, there would be fewer free-software contributors, and less free software, increasingly marginalizing free-software systems.

And, without inspiration from Stallman's ideology, even BSD would never have become free, according to Keith Bostic.

So we'd have some free software, but we wouldn't have a coherent movement that strives to ensure that everyone can use a 100%-free-software system.
pixels? Pixels are not a standard size, they vary across screens/devices. 16 pixels is anything from too tiny to read to giant.
Turning The iPhone Into A 350x Medical Microscope For Under $50
How Steve Jobs Infused Passion Into a Commodity
less free, more locked down and more tightly regulated than ever before.

What a contortion to characterize Apple's achievements with iOS this way. Compared to life before iPhones, we practically have superhero abilities at our fingertips, but yeah, Steve Jobs was mostly just taking our freedom. I can read any book or essay (including this thinly veiled anti-Apple screed) or hear just about any song ever recorded within seconds of it coming to mind, but Apple is "Big Brother". This guy is a clown.
I am a dude. Pinterest gets me in touch with both my creative, and apparently now, feminine side. I like it so much I decide I will build another site around it this weekend.
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It seems like everyone and his grandma know better than Microsoft engineers.
You dropped "well". Well Educated and Educated are not equivalent.

Educated is Univ KS BSCS I got for $600/semester

Well Educated is MIT Masters of CS which costs what $10's of thousands
BTW, the bit about out of state enforcement in California came up in an earlier discussion. IANAL, but here was a link I found interesting...

http://lawzilla.com/content/noncompete.shtml

The section under "Out-of-State Agreements and Multi-State Employer Strategies"

"Who wins often depends upon a race to the courthouse. For multi-state employers it is often a rush to the courthouse to determine if a non-compete agreement is valid. The employer's strategy is to get an order outside of California in their favor. The employee or California prospective employer's strategy is to get an order within California in their favor. In the face of dueling, and opposing orders, the first to the courthouse may win because states often must give effect to orders from other courts."

The site gives a few cases that illustrate this as well as some strategies.
Have you tried http://disconnect.me/?
Did Facebook Settle with Cyber-Squatters They Sued?
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> Last I checked, though, this was not entirely successful; they're still using gcc.

I'm not sure how far they've gotten, but they're supposed to have pcc to solve that:

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2007091519520...
as social media for my business

I wish I could say "OMG", but HN wouldn't allow me. This is exactly what I was afraid of when I found Pinterest: marketers. This is the start of a decline.
He is a radical, he thinks in absolutes.
We need these people to get something started because their motivation comes from seeing something black and white. The sad thing is just, that these people often die unhappy.
Towards a More Interactive Future
I can't think of one. Hopefully there is -- if not, it needs coining.

Your friend is wrong, though, if this extra information was "cheap" to obtain (caused no harm to the patient and was low cost).

The argument used is that extra testing causes needless treatment, in the end causing more harm than good (we'll call a treatment "costly" if it has a large opportunity cost or causes harm).

For the MD you mentioned, the test could cause people to "do worse" because either the test is harmful or the MD's use of its results is harmful. If the test is harmful, then it probably shouldn't be administered unless other evidence suggests it's necessary. If it's the MD's use fo the results that causes the harm, then it just means the MD should use the results differently.

If the problem is the MD's reasoning, then one possible source of error is in giving a much higher prior probability to the patient's having the disease, or an ignorance of what, e.g., a "bad" result actually implies.

In the case of the PSA test, it looks like the fee-for-service model is leading many doctors to ignore the relationship between a high PSA result and the probability of the patient's dying from prostate cancer, in addition to ignoring the harm that will be caused by performing a biopsy or by any further treatment.

Perhaps more malpractice lawsuits that focus on needless treatment would put a dent in this problem ...
There's a ton of GNU and GPL software that you probably unknowingly use. If you don't use any MS software, and you don't plan on using any FSF/GNU/GPL software, then you're really limiting yourself.
Great list. I found this comment more interesting than the OP, personally.

The best addition to the list that I can think of is natural language processing. Extracting information from text, especially. There's a ton of interesting pieces, and most of them are useful for one kind of large-scale internet application or another.
I care much, much more when I don't manage it cause I've relinquished control to 3rd party.

Because I need to use it. Because I need to build features such as GIS, full text search, transactions. Features who's existence and level of maturity varies wildly across DB platforms.
The "real" story on the floppy drive: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

Usually the expressions "gave the go ahead", "instructed", "supervised", "was instrumental" mean the person in question didn't do shit.
when he was still figuring things out

I would like to hear a bit more about this. Did they start with a different product or idea?
Stephen Colbert in particular is nothing short of a genius.
Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week’s iPhone 4S Event
People like voice recognition, but its uses are limited. I use voice search on my Android phone every time I get in the car to go somewhere that I need navigation to, or if I need a map. That's about it, though; having conversations with your phone makes you look rather special.
I was going to say something similar but you've done it much better, with a story to boot. So I'll just chip in with one point I had that you didn't cover directly.

A lot of the posts here are generally of the form "you can't speak ill of the newly dead". (Why? Because that's what regular people do, that's why). But adhering to social norms takes away from freedom. Indifference to what society prescribes is consistent with RMS's beliefs.

Call him what you want, but the man is consistent.

I'm guessing a lot of the angry responders here will have similar "I'm glad he's gone" feelings on RMS's death. Would not publishing those feelings give you the moral high ground over those who do?
the reason that's important is because the company has no products, there is nothing it can be infringing on and so there is no mutually assured destruction to reign in the madness.
Building a Startup in London – The Top10 Interview
I believe LuaJIT can compile Lua bytecode as well as source code. The latest LuaJIT works on ARM (without requiring an FPU), x86, and x64.
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What Arrested Development and Successful products have in common?
As startup people working on new products, do you know how close your product is to jumping the shark? Love to hear what HN thinks about it.
I'm not particularly interested in Stallman and most of his ideas and comments. I like open source but I don't think they've completely figured out the philosophy yet and of what roles it has—this is another story, but, ..

How do people on HN generally feel with the idea that we allow ourselves to be offended/annoyed OR we should act rather than react. There will forever be people who say things like this that some group of people do not like but is it not their choice to either have a knee-jerk reaction or to craft an intelligent reply or ignore the person?

Basically, I don't like to allow myself to become annoyed or offended even though I've been in more than enough situations, even recently, to allow that.
Tell HN: Get off the computer and have a meaningful fast
To those that are unaware, It's Yom Kipur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur

I know I have a lot to think about.
How can I watch this clip in Canada? :(
To me, design is the next frontier in technology, and Steve and Apple led the way. We are human beings afterall, and our appreciation of the artful and well-designed is intrinsic. Why can't great engineering have both and satisfy our needs and our eye, and ultimately our soul? The Golden Gate Bridge is an excellent example of what Steve was talking about - it's not a veneer, it's beauty goes to the bone. Same goes for the user end of a website.
for that matter. The experience should be functional and beautiful.
The parent website has links to all three books: Learn Python the Hard Way, Learn Ruby the Hard Way, and Learn C the Hard Way.

http://learncodethehardway.org/
Presuming there will never be a market for a very fast, very small computer is making a lot of assumptions about, for example, space travel.
Stallman aside, can one bring up those sensitive issues without needing to be inflammatory? They could, perhaps, use carefully crafted questions to get them thinking or other positive argumentative/teaching methods.

Being inflammatory seems to be the poor man's approach to getting others thinking.
I would argue that being well educated is not about the name of the institution, but the breadth and depth of knowledge. A master's degree in CS from a top school does not make you well educated without the insight of how to apply it. That insight comes from more broad study in humanities and the arts.
مشاهدة مباراة مصر والنيجر بث مباشر اون لاين
Hey chugger, I think you need to re-read the HN Welcome[1] page. Calling someone "a pig", "a low life pig and a coward" and other ad hominem insults is not what we do on HN. These types of comments you've been leaving all over this story don't add to it, and reflect poorly on yourself mainly. Don't sound like just another angry Jobs fan. If you have something worthwhile to say, say it in a civilized manner that teaches us something or adds to the conversation.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Google is not the first one who funded IV and gets sued. Xilinx had the same experience. http://gametimeip.com/2011/09/07/xilinx-lawsuit-reveals-more...
a friend of mine has an education startup that's doing quite well, considering she spends maybe a few hours a month it.

they offer dance lessons, after school at elementary schools, or during the day at preschools. depending on the school, they charge the parents of the children, or they charge the school directly. the money they earn is more than enough to higher dance instructors to teach for them and to pay their overhead.

i'm talking to her about hiring programmers to come in once a week and teach the kids algorithmic thinking - i can imagine a ton of parents who'd be willing to pay $10 a week to help their kids learn to program. if you teach a one hour class five days a week, and each class has 30 kids, that's $1,500 a week.

most of the thinking in this space - especially on getting more people into programming - is way too focused on people in high school and early college. at that point, their impression of programming is mostly set. if you want to really change the world, you've got to start with they're still excited about learning and too young to worry about being cool.
Steve did see it as a priority: Project Builder/Interface Builder were "prosumer", when launched. NeXT put a lot of effort into the developer tools, and not just for developers: the "Why the World Needs A New Computer" brochure had a whole spread devoted to Interface Builder, explaining how an end user could get most of the way towards creating their app, (with a mention of handing off to an engineer for the tricky parts, admittedly).

They definitely saw creating a magical user experience for developers as a priority. Good thing, too, as at one point WebObjects -- which had a GUI editor to create bindings for HTML in 1996! -- was all that was keeping them afloat.

(The NeXT dev environment is one of the things TBL credits for making him able to start the WWW, incidentally)

Apple, too, had its fair share of UX-work-for-Devs. MPW Worksheets were one of the first attempts in many years to think of a shell as more than just a line printer in a window. Dylan had a clever and elegant UI (when it wasn't crashing). Of course there was Hypercard, as you mentioned.

Unfortunately, it's really hard for such things to get traction with developers, I suspect more than a little because of a "I just need vi" mentality, which reminds me of the hoary "why would I want a toy mouse and pretty pictures when I have MS-DOS like a real man?" nonsense from the WiMP Wars. Some devs do seem convinced that there's no better way of programming a computer than for them to churn out text (apart from maybe getting your IDE to churn out text for you) and so traction is hard to get for "magical" experiences.

As for developing for non-developers, that remains a really difficult problem, because the challenge is not really in expressing your _solution_ to a problem so much as it is in being able to state the problem clearly. Tools can only help so much with that, mostly in giving expressive power to people who didn't realise they were suited to programming.

Even given all that, Apple continues to pour work into Automator, an under-appreciated app which is really bringing the power of basic scripting to people.
The Eastern District of Texas has no business ruling on Silicon Valley tech cases.

Frankly, I got enough of Texans raiding and looting the California economy during the Enron debacle. We don't need any more of that.
Apple's first president was named Michael Scott.
No, it was the Pinterest you see today but I think they only had a core user group and were figuring out how to make it grow from there.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/evaluate/eval...

spoilers: Microsoft has a significant enterprise support organization, which the military is probably already dealing with, and Windows scales farther down than you'd think.
And, unlike other service businesses, a patent troll company generally provides no meaningful service to its clients -- its only product is typically "we won't sue you".
BULLSHIT, this is covering ass for future liability.
That may apply to end-user education. That is rarely the individual buying the education.

You're selling to the parents, to the school district, who have different motivations than the user.
You might also find the Artistic License interesting -

http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0

It's an interesting balance between freedom and giving back - may be more suited to what you want or may not.
I suppose the virus is one of the 18 keyloggers that the virus encyclopedia of Kaspersky has...

http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/find?objs=virus&words=keylogg...
I do not know Mark nor have I ever read his books, but this has been an interesting phenom he pulled and it is attention getting - I came to this story through slashdot. I think it is small-minded to imagine that things are different when people all over the world have been consuming Mark's works and have relied on that material as a resource day in and day out. Pretty bizarre. Wake up to the new world that Mark blogged about... HTML is the medium for publishing in our age and maybe one of the unintended consequences of that model is celebrity. There is nothing anyone can do to remove their internet likeness from the internet which seems silly that Mark of all people would attempt it without the world reacting - isn't that referred to as naive. It would have been easier to let all the resources rot to obscurity and no attention would have been drawn to his disappearance.

Did it occur to you that disappearing in such a manner might be similar to death and cause a similar reaction in people? Maybe their is a grievance cycle going on with people with such a sudden departure from their lives. One day the site is up, the next is a 410 with no explanation. For those where Mark's works were a reality, the sudden disappearance may be experienced like death as there is no explanation as to what was important to you is no longer and never will be. Are you a psychologist or sociologist that understands what is happening? Aren't you curious as to how it became that so many people depended on Mark's reality that do not know Mark personally? Who are you to react to those that are impacted psychologically to his disappearance? Do you claim to understand these things and how profound the internet affects us? I think you presume much about things you do not know about.

Good day to you.
While I agree with the spirit of the post, some of it's is a bit inaccurate.

FogCreek did used to run a job board (it was actually created by a FogCreek intern). When Stack Overflow's launched it's job board FogCreek's job board was merged with it in order to give Stack Overflow's board some traction (Joel Spolsky is a co-founder of both companies).
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Rather than -i alone, I always use -i.bak (or whatever you prefer instead of '.bak'). That way, you get (1) in-place editing and (2) a backup. The files you work on are backed up to "file.bak", so that if you make some simple regex mistake with huge negative consequences, you have a ready fix. (And if you do things perfectly, it's easy to run "rm *bak" after you confirm that.)
I watched Jon Stewart's response to 9/11 on the night that it aired.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2001/sept...

There's always something touching about seeing funny people be completely raw and out of character. Or rather, for the first time, you see their real character.