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Would Ghostery be successful at blocking this?

http://www.ghostery.com/
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I'm pretty sure this is exactly what Ghostery and the like block.
Is this solution widely used in China?
I don't think every "shady business" necessarily "benefits us all".
Yep. It blocks the Like buttons and other stupid widgets, which is how the cookies get sent. That also has the pleasant side-effect of drastically decreasing load times.

I highly recommend it. Be aware that it does block disqus by default, I usually whitelist that one.
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"I just wanted to point out that dismissing someone because you don't know about their accomplishments (or lack of) is probably going to mean that you're going to miss out on some pretty great people."

The problem with keeping everything quiet about your accomplishments is that HR departments and company owners won't know anything about you and you may get passed up on jobs as a result.

As a result, the people that lie or don't actually have good accomplishments get better jobs because they have better self PR.

You can fight it all you want, but if someone doesn't know anything about you, they most likely won't want to hire you either. Being connected on linkedin and through old co-workers and people that know all about my accomplishments has helped me find many great jobs.
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I had the same problem. This leads to two situations:

1) The language looks java-derived, so I am probably /not/ interested. However, this would be a useful tip, and it might be useful with something I would use (jruby or clojure).

2) If it is specific to the MS stack, I have zero interest.

3) For all I know, this could apply (somehow) to the XCode ide in general, which would also be useful for me to know.

Always include information in the link that shows what sub-group of developers something pertains to.
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Which appears to be derived from Readable[1], based on how the reading view slides over the page and some comments in the extension's js files.

[1]: http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
Doesn't Google Analytics also phone home? Google's tracking is far more widespread than Facebook's if that's the case.
I know he didn't. I just get tired of seeing these statements of "this technology is obviously bad because 'I' have problems with it".

It's like people who say they'll never buy another Ford truck because they had transmission problems with one back in 1974.
You seem to be confusing a strip search with a body cavity search.

These machines are an electronic means of performing a strip search. There should be nothing controversial in that claim.
God, yes. It frustrated me so much that I ended up just copying the data into JS arrays and generating my own charts using the Google Visualization API.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25782/sourceforge.html

Pretty eye-opening. What's clear is that the 'Other' category brings so much uncertainty to the data that it renders the data virtually useless.
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>I would suggest hitting whatever you're looking at with apache bench to see how it copes with 'hello world'

After all the drama on here recently surrounding inappropriate webapp benchmarking, I don't think that's great advice.
Working with Flex and AS3 is really nice on a lot of levels. The type-safety is a cozy blanket. The tooling is also excellent, and I love having access to integrated test runners and other handy bits that IntelliJ provides me.

If you consider Flex/AS3 as a DSL for building UIs, the story starts to get more interesting.
I believe this isn't always the case. If you're using multiple browsers in OS X all built on Webkit for instance, they share the same cookie store.

Firefox and multiple firefox profiles isolate cookie storage and I also use Fluid on OS X to build site-specific browsers. The paid version offers a feature to isolate cookie storage within each app.
Maybe the name is generic enough, but I'm wondering if you're aware of Readable[1].

[1]: http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
From what I understood this could attack systems using the MBR, non UEFI systems or using an hybrid approach, which is not encrypted nor protected, thus the program can rewrite it and it fits within its boundaries. As it is run before control is passed to the OS, the OS can't do anything at all. If the attacker has physical access and can write the MBR or if there's a privilege escalation good enough to grant itself access to the MBR, you're powned. But I couldn't tell if UEFI protects its partition table in some way.
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Just disable reading and writing of third party cookies. I've been using this option in Chrome for quite some time.

Hint: Facebook is not alone in doing this.
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Really great stuff. Thank you and your team for your time and efforts on this. I learned a lot already from the ML class and can't wait to take the HCI class.
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Good to see data ming on this... it's been obvious in my work circles through 2011 so far. "Real stuff" is getting done on Mac OS, not just visual and content.
Very professional website, this service is clearly needed.

BUT I feel youtube could kill them instantly by adding an "ad free"/"no click thru" plan. Maybe they will do that as part of the Google Apps suite?
Demo has unbearably slow scrolling on my (stock) Nexus One. Feels like a rebranded jQuery UI, inheriting its bad traits (bloat)
I think it's great. Hopefully this idea will catch on with other universities; one day we might see an entire Khan Academy type site for computer science classes taught by the worlds leading experts.
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I agree. "Use the source" sounds like a clever joke about reading source code to solve problems.
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I had a few problems with the blocking when actually going to the sites in question. I believe I had to unblock Google Plus, Google Analytics and Facebook when actually visiting those sites.

However, I'm happy that most of the time it prevents the annoying features of a page from loading.
"I believe this isn't always the case. If you're using multiple browsers in OS X all built on Webkit for instance, they share the same cookie store."

If that's true then it's utterly insane. This StackOverflow question from 2008 seems to confirm what you're saying, though:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/364219/how-can-i-have-mul...

I really hope it isn't still the case...
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UEFI doesn't execute anything from the partition table. The firmware reads files from the filesystem and executes them. If it implements secure boot, it validates a signature on the binary first - failing to validate means it won't execute the binary. So there's no protection of the partition table, but the only thing you can do by attacking it is to render the machine unbootable. Attacking secure boot involves elevating your privileges within the UEFI environment.
Flex has a dependency on the Flash player, but that doesn't have to be the case. As an ASF project, that dependency can (and likely will need to be) broken.
Did you use an existing HN API (e.g. HNSearch or iHackerNews) or did you roll your own?
It would be interesting to see the implicit patent grant in v2 (remember - you can't grant all the liberties required in the license without granting use - and the right to grant it further down the chain - of any patents embodied in the code) tested in court.

Also, unless I'm very wrong, the terms "GPLv2 or later" means you can use the software under v3 if you prefer to use it that way. The only way to block the explicit patent grant (but stay will the implicit one) would be to license it under plain v2.
I thought Graphene batteries were going to be the revolution:

http://grapheneenergy.net/

This was the response from Dileep the CEO/Founder of GrapheneEnergy when I emailed with him, May 2011:

"Currently we are projecting lead-acid type energy densities with 1-2M cycles and 1-2sec charge/discharge performance for graphene base supercapacitors. Also, batteries with graphene anodes can be charged 4x faster and have 3-4x higher cycle life. We are in middle of a key commercialization milestone. As soon as we conclude it, there will be press releases."
Surprised you didn't mention that the Macbook Air superdrive is hardware locked to only Airs, Mac Minis without optical drives, etc. You can't use them with PCs or even Macs that came with internal drives. It's ridiculous.
Recruiting has become the most sought after skill among founders and one of the things companies look for as extra value a VC can bring.

Not sure there is a good way poach, aside from being a good sport and not rubbing it in. That and following through on the promises you make (looking at you Zynga).
I'd argue one of the biggest reasons that UX is lacking is that they are trying to support ALL the platforms (including blackberries, windows).

If they focused 100% on iphone / android, I'm sure they could achieve a better UX and performance.

Just look at zepto.js thats 100% focused on mobile safari vs jquery.
I highly recommend http://khanacademy.org for Probability.

http://www.khanacademy.org/#probability

I went through all the videos on that subject in preparation for AI Class and it helped me tremendously.
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I've never had that problem. That'd be a pretty big flaw in ghostery if that was the case.
I've had this happen too. About 5 years ago I started a small consulting company and I had roughly 10 clients. I eventually had to get a job because clients realized I was small and would not pay me on time (sometimes 3 months late) or at all. I also had no money for a lawyer.

Freelancing is a terrible way to make money. It's like you traded in one boss for X where X is the number of clients you have.
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Oof, those charts could be a lot better. Someone get Horace Dediu in here.
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So you can't use a modern browser but you can use a recent version of flash? Or does flash from 2001 work just fine (and no one cares about security holes)?
The fixed toolbars (as well as other performance advantages) are why I initially started using Sencha Touch instead of jQuery mobile. I'm sad to see where this 1.0 release is. I've been expecting working fixed toolbars for a long time. Sencha nailed this a long time ago, and it's a basic necessity.

The learning curve isn't THAT steep. Sencha Touch is well documented, and there are tons of example apps. There's a bit of a gap between the basic example apps and a full featured mobile app, but the documentation covers that all pretty well.

Regardless of the learning curve, it's worth the effort for javascript mobile development. Sencha Touch 1.0 was miles ahead of this release, and 2.0 is even further ahead.
This is true. I've found that I find it vastly enjoyable working with startups. Even if it is a couple of guys with an idea, they take time to talk about the background and they are in the selling mode. I feel more energetic and worthwhile working with people who value my effort. People in big companies do not value you as most of them do not value themselves. I worked for a big company. I know how I felt then. Now I have a new found respect for people doing things on their own. Be it freelancers/entrepreneurs or craftsmen of any kind. It is easy to miss it if you are allowed only to press "a" on the keyboard and you optimize your life and efforts around that. Sometimes you get promoted and get to press "b". They may not pay you for it and term it a lateral promotion. Nevertheless, getting out into the real world and getting jobs is an experience that has made me simultaneously humbler and wiser.

Overall, I agree with the author as well. I have said no to several jobs because I did not feel that I share the client's vision. Especially, when you choose to be in an underserved segment, you can name your price and your terms.
Ubuntu and Launchpad PPA? Github? This article is pretty much pointless and the visualizations are horrible.
Should I use a QR code?
I built a mobile webapp recently and found jquery mobile lacking, although it follow a lot of the same idioms I was used to, the ui was just too jerky, I found hand rolling the same code reasonably easy to do to get a much smoother ui, alought I am still running against issues that I am not entire sure are solvable
Conditions maybe?

They're what lies beyond exceptions: exceptions will unwind the stack looking for a handler (`catch` or the likes), and when found will execute that handler in its (the handler's) context (scope).

Conditions walk the stack instead of unwinding it, and execute the handler in their own context. This gives the handler the possibility of logging an error and bailing out, of course, but also of fixing the local data and resuming running the code[0], as if nothing had happened. A condition system essentially allows callees to reach into callers and ask them what to do, without having to lose any state or data.

This also gives more power to tools: without any specific instrumentation, a Smalltalk environment or a Common Lisp IDE can drop you at the error site (where the condition was signaled) without needing more than registering a condition handler when starting your code (if conditions are already handled by a condition handler in your stack, this default behavior won't happen until your handlers let the condition propagate further).

[0] Actual flexibility depends on the runtime, I'm not completely up to snuff with everything, I know in Common Lisp there's a concept of "restart": the one who signaled the condition or any of its callers can provide "restarts", which are essentially possible choices for resuming work. A log-parsing API could provide restarts to skip a corrupted or unreadable entry, to display a user prompt to ask him to "manually" parse the value or to provide the API with a value to use instead (could be a default, a placeholder, or a value obtained by calling the older log-parser you're trying to replace) (note: it's an inclusive or, the API provides all three and the developer using the API picks the one he wants depending on the situation). Or a dict's `get` method could signal on an invalid key and provide a restart making it return a default value of some sort.
To anyone that thinks this means it is ready for production: think again.

All release candidates have been buggy and slow. It MIGHT work on an iPhone 4S or the latest quad core Android phone but anything other than that it feels slow.
The part that scares me is that we, as web designers/developers/owners, are complicit in this. We are the ones who are putting social buttons on every page. We love this functionality, but they aren't giving it to us for free. We are trading them our user's information and browsing habits.

I'm not worried about the ethics of Facebook. I don't think a site like Facebook should be prevented from doing this openly. I'm worried about whether I can ethically include all these social plugins knowing that they will, in my opinion, invade my users' privacy.
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And yet people keep falling for the rhetoric.
I wouldn't call the ai-class.org platform broken. It's just not done yet.

The AI class is like a beta test and there are plenty of bugs and problems. The content is still good, but the programming problems and automated grader that would be necessary for students to really absorb the advanced material doesn't seem to be on their radar. The result is a certain superficiality.

The ML class is much more developed. In the first few weeks the contrast of the finished, professional seeming ML class with the rough and hacky AI class was extreme but AI is catching up.

I'm looking forward to improvements in both platforms and new material in the spring. Other competitors like Kahnacademy are exciting, too.

I'd like to see more study groups around the world building this into a movement with broadening impact. Neither class had direct support for forming study groups. If you have to go on Reddit to get together with people, you're excluding 50-90% of the people who would use a simple no-friction geo-aware meetup-style tool if it were on the site's front page and main menu. Since study groups have a minimum size threshold to remain viable, that eliminates a magnified portion of potential participants.

So I'm pleased and still hope that this could be a mass-movement that leverages technology to change the way education is done around the world. Competing platforms is a better bet than one great platform for perfecting hard to build but needed features like labs, programming assignments, study group support, office hours and teachers' assistants, and homework help and hints.

The future, at least in our industry, is bright.
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Definitely something we've considered - they tried doing something similar awhile back, but ended up removing the service pretty quickly.

It just doesn't fit Google's typical monetization through advertisements.
I thought people generally assumed that 80% of programmers are incompetent because 80% of programmers can't perform a simple task like e.g. Fizz Buzz without an enormous amount of time and assistance.
I'm still confused why they're calling this 'JQuery Mobile' when it's really JQuery UI Mobile, conceptually speaking.

All I want is a library that gives me JQuery-like functionality with optimized mobile performance, decent compatibility with the Android browser's nasty quirks, a reduced footprint (easily doable without needing to support IE and legacy browsers), and a few wrapper functions around mobile-specific functionality like touch events. Is that too much to ask?
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Home ownership rate in the u.s. is 65%[1]. Considering the relative large homes people live in today, it seems a pretty decent number. Of course there's probably a large class of poor people who haven't got an option to buy decent housing(especially in a safe area) and that's a problem.

Car ownership and cellphone ownership are mostly marketing driven. almost anybody can own some car and phone.

[1]http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/07/real_estate/home_ownership/i...
i've just started today my first experiments with phonegap and web frameworks like jquerymobile and sencha and im not so optimistic about huge performance improvement: it's basically just running the webpages of your app from the smartphone memory instead of loading it from the website.
NB of course it all depends on the way you develop the app (background updates etc..) but i've quickly tried a long listview in sencha touch vs a native one and the first one was at worst not shown correctly in the smartphone browser (opera) and at best not as responsive as the native one.

disclaimer: these was just preliminary tests and im not a real coder :)
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Rent has gone up significantly in the past year or two. Especially in the city (SF). If you're trying to keep expenses down, find as cheap as possible (while livable) studio or room up with roommates. Otherwise rent can be quite expensive if you never lived in this area. The best way you can see how much rent costs for the conditions of the places is to just browse through craigslist for a feel (it'll be better than any numbers I throw out here).

San Francisco: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/

Peninsula which includes Silicon Valley: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/apa/

Best places to live are San Francisco or Palo Alto. If you can't afford either, live in nearby cities. Mountain View is a great alternative to Palo Alto that is more affordable.

Having said that, if you're willing to commute via public transit or by car, it matters less. Just be aware rush hour can be brutal between SF and the Valley.

There are a TON of events both in the valley and in SF. For language specific events/meetups, most of the better ones are in the city i.e. python meetup, php meetup, etc... For hacker mixers and various other speaking events, those are more in the valley. There are usually some sort of event happening at Microsoft and Google as well that you can look out for including GTUG at Google.

The best way I find events outside of people sending me links or what not is to join meetup groups via meetup.com, join the StartupDigest email list, join Plancast and follow people/friends, and browse Eventbrite.

Once you're here, you'll be plugged into more private events and stuff as well, that aren't found in the above.

Hope that helps.
Underwhelmed by the demo app. Can anyone explain why this is good/useful?
Sorry guys, mostly .net peeps reading my blog. I cleared it up a bit in the post.
why is "the enterprise" so special that they need a custom toolset that nobody else needs? software is software.
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For some reason, my browser didn't trust the https certificate for this site. Rather than continuing anyway, I simply removed the 's' in the 'https' portion of the url, and it resolved. Not sure why the https version was linked in any case.
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Helmet visors, too... there are some products out there for them, but these demo vids have some really impressive performance and look like it would work a lot better in fine mist.
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Google Analytics seems somehow less harmful than AdSense. Almost every big website has some kind of analytics running. I assume that GA data isn't sold to advertisers, but I'm not sure.
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Sorry, I was vague. You should use the zlib library when it doesn't matter what the container format happens to be. If you need zip, you can still do it by simply using an outside process to do it. That will be much faster, easier, and more efficient than using something like this.
Glad to hear - reach out anytime if you have questions!