skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are more than welcome to come and visit our offices and see for yourself .

feel free to ping me to omer at any dot do :)
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/
There's more than the eye can see...
Same for me. I then opened facebook in a tab, reran it and it said I had visited every site except facebook.
Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'
Big miss for Twitter, but cool idea anyway.
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I can probably be considered part of that vocal minority. Could you comment on what about this thread is so depressing to you?
got it mostly right initially, I then visited facebook (which it said I hadn't been to), it then told me I visited ALL the websites (except facebook).
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6600940307313929454
They publish their audited financial statements online:

http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/

http://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla%20Foundatio...

As of December 31, 2010, they have assets of $168MM, of which $35MM is in cash and $105MM in investments. In the 12 months they spent $62MM on software development, $10MM on branding and marketing, and $12MM on 'General and administrative'.

There's more granular detail if you're interested.
that makes sense though (mostly), after you test once all the images are cached on the second run.
Same here. I'm using all of those extensions, plus a number that help increase web privacy/security, such as BetterPrivacy, Ghostery, HTTPS-Everywhere, LastPass, and OptimizeGoogle.

There's no way to replicate that level of customization in Chrome. In fact, it's much worse because of all the tracking functionality Google's included.
Completely wrong. Said I visited some I haven't heard of, whooops on Google, and not visited on most of those that I've been to recently.
http://narly.us (clickable)

Very much like the About page. Good luck : )
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Something about a transaction in 2001 that created a new corporation and "extinguished all equity interests in the predecessor companies."

I'm sure it's entirely legal and so forth. Let me tell you about the time I turned $10,000 into 17 shares of Oracle . . .
I can guarantee that you violate copyright law every day. Ever play music at work? Did you acquire the performance right/license for that? Ever fwd someone's email? Depending on content most email is copyright protected. Do you really think you haven't violated terms of service of any software/website you've used. I'd be surprised if you even have read them all.

Most those laws are enforced only against egregious offenders. Dude offering me a candy bar so I don't have to stop by corner store is not egregious.
Open-source it?
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Agreed, and add Treeview tabs to that list. That extension alone is keeping me from moving to Chrome
This fun article by Andrew Gelman and Deborah Nolan shows that it's practically impossible to create a coin that will demonstrate a bias when flipped, unless the coin is allowed to bounce: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/dice...
I'm all for services making money. It's not an insignificant amount of money to run something like Google+. I'm just saying there's a place for everything. I don't think using it as a blogging platform is sustainable in the long term IMHO.
Old but related: Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-h...

Seems like i'm 50% male 50% female :D
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From Marco's post

> Now, it’s a bloated, slow, unstable monster that’s often a pain in this web developer’s ass.

Firefox needs its own Firefox spin-off as Mozilla did back in the day.
Again, this seems to be inaccurate for a large number of people. Can we take these two attempts as evidence that is hard for malicious websites to discern our browser history?
Go to http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline and click "sign me up" at the bottom right
They are still doing external email, so maybe this just adds disciple about external vs internal communications.
None. I usually rely on the source code + javadocs. I might be biased but I find that most Java source code and documentations tend to be easier to read due to common practices employed by newer projects.

I can only give you pointers to JavaEE 6 books (overall).

Beginning GF3 is an OK introduction to JavaEE 6:
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-GlassFish-Experts-Voice-Tech...

Oracle Tutorial (formerly SUN tutorial) for JavaEE 6 is another OK one (reviews were meh, but you've got limited choice so...)
http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/

I saw Amazon has the print edition and another one to be in stock by mid 2012 (Advanced Java EE 6...)

Here's another book covering Java EE6 (intro):

http://www.amazon.com/Java-EE-GlassFish-Application-Server/d...

Seems to cover Servlet more than Apress book (first book).

You probably would need to know JPA 2.0 (ORM) as well.

And some more "best practices/real world-ish" tutorials:

http://www.amazon.com/World-Night-Hacks-Dissecting-Business/...

Good luck.

http://www.amazon.com/Pro-JPA-Mastering-Persistence-Technolo...
Play 1.x is NOT based on Java Servlets. No version of Play ever was, never will be. From the BDFL himself:

http://iam.guillaume.bort.fr/post/558830013/why-there-is-no-...
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Actually, until mid-2010, Gowalla raised more money, earlier, than foursquare did. By then, the "check-in wars" were pretty much over.

Per Crunchbase[1][2]:

In 2008, Gowalla raised $2m, foursquare raised nothing.
In 2009, Gowalla raised $8.29m, foursquare raised $1.35m.
In 2010, Gowalla raised nothing, foursquare raised $20m. But by the time this happened (June 2010), the "check-in wars" were over (e.g., see: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/07/foursquare-gowalla-stats/).

[1] http://crunchbase.com/company/gowalla
[2] http://crunchbase.com/company/foursquare
Windows 8's new bootloader resembles an OS more than a boot menu
It's greyed out for me :(
That's because the CSS trick it uses doesn't work any more.

It would be interesting if someone updated it to use this new trick or even just as a Chrome extension.
Having a monopoly in a market is not illegal. Using your monopoly in one market to win another (by not competing fairly) is illegal. This is precisely what Microsoft was convicted for.
My family has never had ANY leaflets in our parcels, and we've been ordering off amazon for years now.
I think you'll find that the Nexus S is actually one of the phones that Apple have been suing Samsung over; it really is a case of them trying to kill anything that looks good and could compete with them.
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Why are employees getting 200 emails a day?
Nice write-up. I think it could be a pretty interesting thing for people that don't interact via status updates very often, like me. Can you set permissions on the timeline per user/group?
As does Canada's rich and bountiful public domain.
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Same here on ipad
Design variations are possible. Apple changed their design when they went from the iPad 1 to the iPad 2 (http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/ipad-2-vs-original-ipad-w...) - The design is different enough for anyone to immediately tell whether the tablet is the iPad 1 or the iPad 2. I'm sure Apple will redesign this in the future and it will be immediately obvious that it's not the iPad 2.

Just as it's possible to tell the difference between a BMW and a Toyota Corolla, it is possible to make the design different enough while working within the constraints of a tablet (flat screen, bezel etc)
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Hector Martín (marcan, @marcan42) could be the next Fabrice Bellard. He has an incredible potential.
Agreed I cant switch to Chrome because there is no exact Tab Mix Plus extension for it.

It's a more stable browser but I need Tab Mix Plus!
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I understand that people on Hacker News detest courtroom bickering and would rather talk about innovation, including design innovation; I think I fall under the same category, however:

a. Samsung's designs are really similar to Apple's designs. Yes, all cars have to have round wheels, but as Nokia has shown (N9?), it is absolutely possible to design a phone with the same level (or more) minimalism without copying the design DNA.

b. Look at an HTC phone. There's no way one can mistakenly think that it's an iPhone. Same with tablets; a Xoom (esp. Xoom2), an Iconia, or a Touchpad will never be confused with an iPad.

In fact, this STEALING (couldn't mince words here) goes much deeper. This was on the internets a few days back: http://www.reddit.com/tb/kr14a

Doesn't this seem like Samsung crossing the line?
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Looks like a great viewer, but the library function looks like it requires me to import everything I have, and then import new stuff as it comes along. That might be slightly faster long term, but short term looks like a major issue. Unless I'm missing something?
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SAP Streamwork and parts of the BI On Demand offerings are written in jruby / rails.

(I used to work at SAP on Streamwork, which was done at the former Business Objects development centre in Vancouver.)
Your position is music should be free, or if you disagree with the price you can just decide what that price should be on your own terms?
They hire people like mad and pay them well. They get some good people though, because they're Mozilla. Also, they get nice offices and keep them well :)
As much as I hate to admit it, I learned two languages on punch cards - Fortran and Cobol. I'm sure there is a Cobol implementation for Windows out there somewhere, but is there actually an open source one? It might almost be fun to do it just to see how much I remember...
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I'll join a new Hacker News with less SF startup coffee "10 things VCs say that you HAVE to listen to" articles if someone starts it.
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This trick still works:

https://grepular.com/Abusing_HTTP_Status_Codes_to_Expose_Pri...

Although, the Google test on that particular page is currently not working.
I don't see why colleges should even be allowed to ask that on applications.
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Based on Leynos's well-written post, I initially thought the exact same thing.

Then, I realised that Google runs Youtube, remembered all the recent changes in particular, my face turned green and I puked up a little inside...

If they can mess up such good service when it was handed to them on a plate, I have zero confidence in them in any new endeavours online, especially when the cost is my privacy for perpetuity.

So, thanks but I'll continue to stay well away from social networking sites.
> In fact, it's much worse because of all the tracking functionality Google's included.

[citation needed], because as far as I'm aware of there's no such "tracking functionality" anywhere in Chrome.

"In fact," claims like this without proof are pretty shitty.
Works really well as long as you don't have an armv5 processor that's unsupported because it can't automatically fix alignment mistakes.
I don't understand why usenet-like newsgroups have not caught on for internal company communication. A large part of typical internal email is sent to multiple recipients, such as everyone working on a project. A typical email client makes a total hash of this as people break off into side discussions of various parts of the various emails. Messages are either giant because people quote the entire previous thread, or they are confusing to anyone who comes in late if the entire thread is not quoted.

With a newsgroup, you've got a nice threaded discussion. If some people start discussing something you aren't interested in, it is easy to skip those messages. If someone comes in late, they can see the past messages.

If I were setting up the internal communications for a company, I'd consider newsgroups, with a newsgroup per project and a newsgroup per department, as the main non-private method for project and department discussion. IM would be used for short things that you want a quick response on. Email would be used for one on one things that are not appropriate for the newsgroups and too long or not urgent enough for IM. Probably have a wiki or something like that for evolving documentation.
One of the OP comments is on how conservative Canadian companies can be. Ten years ago I worked for a major financial services firm in Toronto and was involved with the launching of their web services, which at the time was already five years late. They had a "five-year plan" for internet development, all of which then was years behind the then leading competition in the country and could have been done in three months, with no overtime, with the current staff in place and not neglecting our normal roles.

Despite the entire team supporting an accelerated timeframe of three months, the SVP decided our customers weren't "ready" for the changes. Within six weeks almost the entire team had left, including myself. That company is still going and they ended up doing that plan in a little over two years. They have had several new web designs in the last decade, but all seem rather dated, broken and basic.
it's doomed since Google withdrew its support [1] to Mozilla foundation, and decided to focus on its own browser instead. Firefox was Google's skunk works project in its competition against IE until 2008.

1. http://techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/google-makes-up-88-percent-...
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Developer here, and I prefer firefox over chrome.
Also to use google services that don't support it (or can't, e.g. Smtp with gmail), you can have google generate a new "throwaway" password which it will display for you one time.

It was pretty straightforward and actual kind of fun to make the switch.
I notified Pizza Pizza many times over the years. The few times they bothered replying they were nice about it and provided me with coupons. But they never really fixed the problems.
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There's another trick you can use, for detecting if somebody is logged in to certain sites. See:

https://grepular.com/Abusing_HTTP_Status_Codes_to_Expose_Pri...

Although, the Google test on that page is currently broken. The Facebook and Twitter ones aren't.
It's easier to just practice flipping coins. If you start on the same side, you can train yourself to flip the same height/force/rotations each time. This allows you to know what side it usually lands on.
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No one has to answer.
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It's not doomed but it's not doing to well. The last versions have not been different enough to warrant new version numbers and Firefox 8, while being decidedly quicker for some tasks, has been incredibly slow for my mundane tasks.

I'm a hardcore Firefox guy, I've been using it and Mozilla since M6 but I changed to Chrome yesterday and, while it's not flexible and customizable as Firefox, it's Good Enough.

I hope it gets better - perhaps focusing on the browser instead of higher version numbers and striving to look like IE or Chrome. Until then, I'm a Chrome guy.
I see your point but the title was really just a lead into what I feel is the best Chess app for the iPad. I've only just started on my new app review site and writing isn't my strong point either. I'm sure I'll improve with time but thanks for the feedback.
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That piece came as part of an acquisition - CubeTree
I would advise an asian college applicant to an elite school to strongly consider not checking the "asian" box. It is absolutely true that they're in competition against the other asian applicants. It's also absolutely true that the asian applicants have extremely common profiles in terms of activities, test scores, grades, and points of view.

When I was an admissions office for a short time, my advice to asian applicants looking to be noticed was to go to clown school, perform as a semi-professional magician, or even excel at sports.

Violin, cello, piano, essays about translating for your immigrant parents, computers, math, science...all that stuff blends together after awhile and makes it hard for an admissions office to remember you when sitting around the table voting on applicants.
Opera made $50M last year in search revenue from Google, Bing, Yandex, Amazon, and a few others. They did that with about 53M users -- 2-3% usage share according to StatCounter and Net Applications http://grab.by/blcC

(screenshot from this Opera report PDF http://media.opera.com/media/finance/2011/3Q11_presentation.... )
Thanks for the explanation. I think your distinction makes sense. Facebook mimics my physical social circle very well--people I know in real life like classmates, friends, coworkers. I don't accept friend requests by people who I don't already know.

Thankfully my friends and I share many common interests, but that's a very limited audience. So I run my own blog where I post things that my friends might not be interested in, but someone will hopefully be interested in.
I worked at a rather large company that did this and the newsgroups turned into total chaos. Posting to the newsgroup didn't have the same social stigma attached as sending a mass email or hitting "reply to all." This led to people posting rants, the latest chain messages, and some pretty off color things. Of course, management went ape over this and decided to just scrap the entire system instead of fixing the cultural problems.
I really dislike the Timeline UI. I've had it on my profile for a few weeks now and find it impossible to parse and unenjoyable to read.
Prada Phone vs iPhone: They have different buttons. They have different bevel. They use different materials. They have completely different UI. They have completely different feature-sets (expansion/connections/cameras/tech stacks). And no copying was possible because they were announced 30 days apart.

Samsung tablets vs iPad: Same buttons. Same bevel. Same material. Mirrored UI. A clear an blatant copy to confuse consumers.
Seeing that it is optional to report your ethnicity, I'm kind of surprised that anyone (other than those who get an advantage) would do so. The admissions system is already arbitrary as hell.
After browsing the source, I am amazed at how wonderfully simple it is. Clojure really made writing this simple.
As the stylish Mr. Noël Coward (a friend of Mr. Connery) once said: "Women should be struck regularly. Like gongs."
Is turning on and off wifi really that big of a pain point?
Great to hear I had that right, Thanks, aaron.

FYI: The AdRoll folks are indeed great. We've interviewed a handful of their customers as well as customers from many other retargeting platforms and have heard great things.

We see retargeting as a huge space with plenty of room for several players.
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For developing I do as well, I think it may be a comfort thing for myself mainly. As far as I'm aware all the tools I use are available on most if not all other browsers.

The opinion of people calling it a joke isn't my opinion its what I keep encountering now, and opinions aren't truth, but a exaggerated emotions. So taking that onboard theres a feeling out there amongst a lot of people (although exaggerated) that FF has seen its peak.

I see the over the last few minutes my other post has been in the negatives and positives, so I guess its quite contentious probably for that reason. Opinions aren't fact but give an impression of what may be true.

As its not a bundled browser for the big OS's, anyone asking what other browser to use is only going to go off recommendation. Most people probably aren't even aware theres multiple browsers or simply do not care.

So another thing against FF will be the chrome ads on TV are probably a huge boon for its usage here. At a very least it will start conversation, and often lead to a recommendation.
Google isn't giving money to Mozilla just because they're nice and they like Firefox. Google often makes money when someone uses Firefox's search box to do a Google search: the search results page may have ads and if the searcher clicks on one of those ads, Google makes money, which they share with the referrer. The referrer in this case is Firefox but Google has a similar arrangement with tons of other referrers (through their "AdSense for Search" program).

I suspect Google's deal with Mozilla hasn't been renewed simply because renewal time hasn't arrived yet.
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Everything you type into the address bar is sent to Google's servers as a search query.
I guessed so.
google was the major financial source for it, and it's going away.
IE for Bing, Chrome for Google, Firefox for?
> "Not to really generalize, but a lot of Asians, they have perfect SATs, perfect GPAs, ... so it's hard to let them all in"

Why is asking for ethnicity even legal?
If your last name is Asian then would omitting your ethnicity gain you anything? I would doubt it.
In fact yes. At least for stuff I do I consider it necessary to test almost all eventualities when it comes to online/offline behavior. This makes me have to switch between airplane and online a lot of times, and it is simply a matter of time. So I built this to avoid having to toggle on/off airplane mode all the time.
That's silly.

There are many ways Samsung could make the galaxy tablet more differentiated from the ipad, but it's far easier to tell the samsung apart from either of the ipads than they from each other. The ipad2 is definitely more refined than the original, but clearly a redesign of that magnitude would not be anywhere close enough to satisfy Apple.
That article explains that Google renewed its contract with Mozilla in 2008 for three years. The current discussion relates to the future of that contract. There is no evidence that Google has permanently withdrawn support for Firefox.
I don't understand why they require ethnic proportions to stay close to population averages.

They don't reject high-performance black athletes for lower performing, asian athletes. I've never once heard anyone complain that their university's football team had a disproportionate number of non-asian people.

Serious double standard there.
Somehow I think with a throwaway account that's probably not likely.
Absolutely.

You can just look at all the various revs and options that OAuth has and know that they are casting around for a correct answer.

I've implemented two oauth 1.x handshakes and both were full of one-off complications and incomprehensible error states.

I'll take a look at OAuth 2 when it becomes more prevalent, but until then no why in hell I'm moving away from a simple "generate an API key" approach.
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The onosecond :

http://www.unwords.com/unword/onosecond.html
This seems like treating a symptom and not the problem.
I’ll admit that I know nothing about the college admissions procedures as far as the selection process, but it seems to me that applicants should only be known by an arbitrary ID number. That is, admissions committees simply shouldn’t have access to this sort of (possibly discriminatory) information. Name, ethnicity, etc.

Why not just hide it from them? I suppose there are certain parts of an application which could give away information that’s meant to be hidden—being president of the Asian-American Student Club would pretty well give away the applicant’s ethnicity.
I just use the iOS simulator and switch on and off my Mac's wifi.