skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another data point: I obtained nearly 30 referrals this way for a total of ~$40.00 USD. Another 12 people signed up but didn't install the desktop client. I said "Free Dropbox Account. Get 2.5GB of storage space. Signup takes 60 seconds." I limited the ad to the United States and only keywords with Dropbox/drop box in them. I e-mailed everyone who registered but didn't complete installation with a "Don't forget, you have to install Dropbox to get the rest of your free space!" welcome e-mail. Sadly, I didn't include a trackable link but about 25% of the stalled out referrals went on to complete, saving me several dollars.

I think Dropbox realizes I captured some people they might have otherwise lost and that unless I max my space, they have given me nothing.
I found it myself, this gives a lot more detail: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/item/22016-exclusiv...
this link turned up on HN already this morning:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3574985
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That's a lot of hard-won knowledge about difficult problems and new techniques you'll never rediscover on your own.
Not following the spec? Using prefixes is following the spec. That’s how it’s supposed to work.
What parts of Wikipedia did they censor? Quite interested in that.
As someone currently sitting in class being lectured on a strictly theoretical view of computer science, I cannot agree enough that actually working on something tangible and interesting is the best application and way to learn.

In my free time I'm currently developing an app, and whilst the theory is extremely useful for understanding, it only comes into its own when I'm working my way through the everyday problems that projects provide. Kudos to Kaitlyn, more people should dive in at the deep end!
Well, it's boring but also it's good resume : she shows her interest and passion.

If someone send me such a resume for " engineering position ", i would probably stop watching after 10 seconds.
oh look. a post with bold assertions but no evidence. no useful content; just opinion. welcome to hn.
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Ah, well, didn't know that. This one has a much better title, though. Never meant for this to end up on HN anyway, although I'm glad it did — there's now some very good (and adequate) discussion in the comments. I love this community.
They control the physical network. As long as they have that control they will be able to do what they want. The only way to deal with these fuckers (not just Iran) is to start using collectively Ipsec or something similar. All SSL movement is just the beginning. I'm sure every big service will try to encrypt it's traffic more and more to protect itself from governments that try to criminalize their users.

Forcing countries like China, Iran and US to go into dark ages if they don't use the new all encrypted networks.

It's a shame that we are so paranoid as a species that we need to do that, but I don't see any other way.

I know this is extreme, but I don't want to see the freedom I enjoy right now taken away by these obsolete power hungry entities.
After reading this article (which was very enjoyable by the way), I am now curious to find out if I myself may be the puppet of some parasite. Is there any way to find this out easily?
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This seems to rest on the idea that 'Apple started it' so everyone else is free to act in just as unprincipled a manner without cost to their reputation.

As far as I am aware, Nokia won a settlement from Apple for the iPhone before Apple started going after the Android makers. Why is Nokia not the culprit here? Isn't it reasonable by the same argument used to defend Google, that after being attacked by one incumbent, Apple would become more aggressive about mobile IP?

It also appears that you assume all intellectual property enforcement is equally bad.
I don't know what they classify as a drone, but if it includes small aircraft of several feet long, then I could imagine they have hundreds (?) of them for the same price of a fighter jet.
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> The heart overrules the head in this matter.

I guess the parasite is working.
We're peoples divided by a common language, as they say. Thanks for clarifying.
It's a bit irrational to put this much effort into a job app

It's perfectly rational if you're being savvy about how you approach your job search. If you're playing a numbers game and sending out 200 resumes a day to jobs you're poorly qualified to work at, this is very irrational, since it will not meaningfully increase your hit rate but will severely decrease the amount of resume spam you're capable of. Don't do that.

If, on the other hand, you've done your research and know that there are three positions out there you'd be perfect for, spending two hours (or ten hours) on a sales presentation is a pretty good use of your time. The NPV of a job upgrade, particularly from unemployed or student to "first gainful employment in a meanginful role", is staggering. Heck, I'd do this just to close consulting sales if I thought it would meaningfully affect outcomes -- it's a LOT less work than often goes into getting five figure engagements on the calendar.

Now is it the best possible job search tactic ever? No. Major points for creativity, and "do the job before you have the job" is one of the most effective things you can do in sales, but you'd probably do even better to get a warm intro to the hiring manager and convince them in person that you're the perfect candidate for the position. The resume is optional at that point, but if you've already met them, you're essentially guaranteed that they'll actually review it. (The likelihood of falling out of the funnel before your content is even seen is a major reason why I would suggest not just e.g. throwing one of these into someone's inbox and praying.)
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Ah I see how that works now, so it would be possible to make the assignee a one time thing too but in the end what would prevent a "inventor" from assigning the patent to a troll in the first place and some troll create their own patents so that's an issue too.

Buying companies for patents would also leave another loophole. This issue isn't simple I guess.
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FYI, Jacob Applebaum just asked[1] people to set up TOR bridges using a new protocol called obfsproxy[2].

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2: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-instructions.h...
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Realise ALL encryption handshake are blocked but Maybe this might work.

https://github.com/stealth/sshttp

You do need a server on the 'outside' though. (oh bugger, github uses https)
Sadly from what I know, that's because of the lack of nodes. But you can volunteer!

https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en
>I drove a BMW in highschool^. BMWs and Audis are not "luxury or premium class" cars

You're taking this far out of context and acting as if the current models don't matter just because they were designed one way 15+ years ago. The only "cheap" BMWs are the base model 1 and 3 series. Compare the average new 3 series to a high end model from Toyota, Dodge, Chevy, etc... They don't stand a chance in terms of aesthetics and overall "feel."
Cause most people have already written Nokia off. They are all guilty and I hope they all end up in a situation where they either agree to end this or die.
Who has the copyright on the Guy Fawkes masks?

UPDATE:
Forget it, the design belongs to Time Warner.
Which basically means you need to do encryption in a manner that doesn't look like encryption, inside of something that's unencrypted. For example over DNS, inside of HTTP, or other protocols designed for moving code like RPC.
I'm grateful for the Tunisian revolution. Internet Censorship (including ports disable) is at 0. The court justice has ordered to censor a few pages (because of some reasons) but the Global Internet provider in the country did not accept. The head of this agency is also working that the law prohibits any kind of censorship for any reasons. He was responsible for censoring content in the Ben Ali era, but he now thinks that it just doesn't make sense.

The problem is, with the people (in the court or the gov.) who don't understand how the Internet works.
Pure trolling for traffic. Reading source code is a very ineffective way to learn beyond the "micro" level.

I consider erudition, a sense of history, and curiosity to be some of the most important qualities in any professional. Someone who hasn't read classics such as Why FP Matters, the original Lisp papers, the YACC paper, Codd's papers, The UNIX Time-Sharing System etc would show a complete lack of all of those.
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mine has a label inside indicating it was made under license from the movie rights owners.
What you think of is a covert channel [1]. There is a bunch of them, bu check out iodine [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_channel
[2] http://code.kryo.se/iodine/
Really hated this video/interview. Sometimes when someone is being interviewed it feels like they are directing the interview in their favour - in this interview it feels like Musk is directing the interview because the interviewer was incapable of doing it herself, and he was having to help her out.
<C-R> to paste in insert mode?? That doesn't work for me.
> “…the proprietary CSS-like properties they have let the whole world use in iOS and Android devices, harming the Open Web.”

It seems the W3C is opposed to grassroots innovation from browser vendors without having every feature pass through their committees first. I don't buy the arguments about monopolization, and if most of your user base is on iOS or Android then it makes perfect business sense to prioritize those platforms when building out your design. Graceful degradation and progressive enhancement are widely recognised good practices, but by no means are they mandatory for the success of the 'Open Web'. The benefit Apple has brought by not bundling Flash with their iOS devices (suddenly that 'monopolization' doesn't look so bad, does it?) far outweighs any drawbacks caused by the implementation of non-standard features in WebKit.

In fact, you know what the real enemy of the 'Open Web' is? The use of terms like ‘de jure’. In the real Open Web, there's no room for central governance, and no tolerance of the assertion by any organization that they represent the sole font of truth.
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It depends. There's a long history of women only being seen as successful if they get married, and conversely women who choose not to get married (or have children etc.) are seen as unnatural. There are still people who think this way (to varying degrees). I personally think that's wrong. A woman should be viewed as a failure because she didn't get her MRS.

By bringing up the recent marriage of a woman, you are either promoting that idea in general, or signaling that you are the kind of person who thinks all women want to get married.
The main takeaway is that landline networks offer impressive reliability and quality of service. If you have people calling into conference calls from mobile phones you have similarly annoying problems.

However VoiP can work amazingly well, it just puts more responsibility in the callee's hands. But if you have reliable internet, with ethernet wiring to your machine, and a decent headset, VoiP can provide better-than-the-average-telephone quality.
I'm totally ignorant of how Dropbox in particular would feel, just talking about the generalization of this to online marketing. If anybody read it and thought "Hey sweet, all I need to do is bid on a product name and collect affiliate commissions!" hopefully they have one data point more now.
I suspect many managers, if they ever see this report, would only take-away: programmers don't care about money and stock options.

I know some of my past managers would (and they would use it as an excuse to justify not upgrading dev machines so often). Unsurprisingly none of them would ever read it as it isn't in the form of a management guru book.
followed by the register you want to paste. " is the default register you get when usually pasting.
This is just plain silly:
-webkit-border-radius: 1px;
-moz-border-radius: 1px;
-ms-border-radius: 1px;
-o-border-radius: 1px;
border-radius: 1px;

If one vendor has something that is useful, let the others ask that vendor to make it default, let all vendors strip the vendor tag and get it over with. if you do not want to implement the rule, ignore it but do not cry when people leave your vendor prefix alone.

I can't be bothered with ever changing browser prefixes.
(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3570353)
Dennet ("Consciousness explained") does suggest that important parts of what we call "consciousness" are cultural, rather than inborn...
Perhaps, they are currently between jobs or unemployed.
Are there any solutions for web browsing like Onlive (http://www.onlive.co.uk/) does for video gaming? It would be significantly harder for them to datamine a video stream..
That's apples and oranges. There are lots of little things you bring up "attachement to Cookie Monster" etc., there is not a history of people being oppressed based on that. There is a not a bias against people who like pad thai. However there is a history of oppression against women. There are not enough women working in tech and start ups. We can rag on st-louis-cardinal fans all day and it probably won't affect things too much. But if we only judge women based on sexual reasons then that will drive women away. It's not the same.

In this society, to be called "sexist" is pretty close to excommunication.

Hardly. There is lots of sexism in the world and this society and people are doing fine.
"Cynic" is what the idealist calls the realist.
I am mostly on the same side of this debate as you, but I don't think debate is helped by insulting people and telling them that are unable to have an opinion due to the sexual history.
Guilty of what?
I won't comment on the last point, but you can't call someone submitting an old post of mine “trolling for traffic”. That's a post on a blog which was lucky if it had 10 readers at the time of posting.
Opening this link leads me to a "bluepage" from AP, asking me to select a US state and then it leads me to a 403 forbidden page. If this happens to you, try to open one of the Google results:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&...

This one worked for me when opened through Google:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_BRAZIL_TWITTER?SIT...
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I guess wikileaks, not wikipedia
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I would have answered this question very differently 10 years ago. Since then I have seen every option I have ever own disappear through dilation, redundancy or through the company going down.

Sadly, options are generally worthless and shares are only worth something in a profitable company on the rise (and if you can actually sell them).

Bonuses are better for people with houses, cars & children. But again only if they are paid as promised. So often I have met targets and seen no bonus: bonuses are on the whim (and often performance) of others.
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If you want to see how men can be sexually idolised, look at the gay community. That's men looking at men. Look at the people at gay pride parades, soft core porn or adverts aimed at the gay community (e.g. for gay bars). (Or go to amazon, look at the DVD covers for gay films)

Do you see sharply dressed men with a fine hair cut? No, you see abs, you see topless men, you see bulges in tight briefs, you see wet speedos. This is how you could sexually exploit men's appearance.

Would that be appropriate at a conference?
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Way more sophisticated than that. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3575269
I'm guessing it's this case he's referring to: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/07/brit_isps_censor_wik...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/dec/08/intern...
The article Virgin Killer was blocked for four days because of "child pornography".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Sexual_content
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Nope wikipedia. Over 'Child porn' images
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This is why good old analogue amateur or personal radio should still be a powerful force for people who are rebelling against their governments and corporate overlords.

The Internet is easy to kill, as are digital cell-based radio networks. Proper amateur radio is not.

Jamming is not that effective over a large area before anyone suggests that.
If you're in the US, then any phone you have has 911 service no matter whether you're subscribed to a plan or not. You can pop the SIM card out entirely and still call 911.
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Really? I see plenty of differences in the popular Samsung phone models. And there is only so much a designer can do with a slim touch phone to make it significantly different.
That is actually how the iOS Flash players like iSwifter and Photon works. It's just a video stream (seen from weird MPEG-compression artifacts) to a Linux VM running Firefox.
In the UK I gather any mobile - even without a sim, even locked - can make emergency calls. I may be wrong but I think it's a European law?
Typically Deep packet inspection. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX46Qv_b7F4 covers techniques different governments are using and the countermeasures deployed by tor
The latter leads to the former.

Everyone starts out young and enthusiastic and thinking that they can build something cool that will make everyone rich. Young, clever guys do what they think is the hard work: designing and building a cool product. They think that they are sharing their talent with some lucky money guys and everyone will benefit. Sadly, they learn that they were giving their talent to the money guys and the money guys got rich.

I've been bitten four times now. I've never seen a penny from an option. Every time I've wanted to buy some, the rules have changed and I have to wait another year and then realise that my options have been diluted again without my say-so.

So at first I assumed that my options would make me rich. Now I assume that my options are just an unobtainable carrot dangled in front of me.
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John Robb has been on a drone trip lately:

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02...

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02...

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02...

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As long as you describe all your male presenters by how they look -- then it's not sexist at all.

It depends on how you describe them. Straight men have odd ways of thinking they are describing appearances of men in the same way as women, when in fact they are sexualing the women and then complimenting how sharp a dresser the man is. They give straight male compliments to men, rather than sexualising them.

as I said elsewhere, If you want to see how men can be sexually idolised, look at the gay community. That's men looking at men. Look at the people at gay pride parades, soft core porn or adverts aimed at the gay community (e.g. for gay bars). (Or go to amazon, look at the DVD covers for gay films)

Do you see sharply dressed men with a fine hair cut? No, you see abs, you see topless men, you see bulges in tight briefs, you see wet speedos. This is how you could sexually exploit men's appearance.

If you just act like the cast of Mad Men ("Nice tits Peggy, nice shoes pete"), you have double standards.
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Isn't that annoying in insert mode?
I think the grandparent's post was important to this discussion because it makes the "inappropriate sex-related comments" issue thing slightly more relatable for those of us who have not had to deal with sexual harassment professionally.
Funny coincidence: I started doing this just this morning (it's 1pm now in Germany) after receiving a 100€ Coupon from Google. Right now I already have twelve referrals, which makes 6GB of extra space for me.
If you can't believe that governments are using deep packet inspection and block access to popular sites have a look at the 28C3 talk How governments have tried to block Tor
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX46Qv_b7F4 it covers different governments and how they tried to block access to the TOR network
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It's disingenious to call it "excluding". The author cited the point of contention directly and linked to the rest, explicitly for the purpose of picking up on the context. I believe that is fairly standard practice.
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