skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that I'm worried about Google doing evil things with my data, I'm worried about it increasing the complexity of the identity management I already have to do.

I don't want Google targeting ads at me while I'm at work, based on searches I did at home. I don't want to have to worry about the carefully targeted adverts displayed on random webpages I show people on my screen.

I don't want my hypothetical future child having to worry about accidentally disclosing via content targeting that they L, G, B or T before they want to.

Until it's obvious that Google are building tools that let me actually cope with these sorts of problems safely, and easily I'm happy to not have my thousands upon thousands of Google searches being centrally logged. Even if it was an occasionally useful feature.

Remember, people are not normal. The long tail is still long and there are a vast number of people out there with "specific privacy needs" that are "outside that scope" and definitely do have something to worry about.
Is there a way to export the search history?

I have close to 45k searches over 7 years, would love to keep that data and mine it myself.
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The idea is to try to schedule a date nearly every night, except the special D&D night or whatever special event. Women flake enough that you'll have nights to yourself, and you'll appreciate it!
From the parent: "trusting third party websites to honor user privacy ? seriously"

That's what I was responding to. They seem to be suggesting that the idea of trusting Google is absurd on the face of it.
Why "in this day and age", exactly?

Conditions of bail are to protect the public and prevent the actions of the accused jeopardizing the case. He is accused of running massive piracy operation remotely via the internet - naturally the conditions of bail should preclude him continuing to commit the offence.

You can't, after all, set the bail condition of "don't continue committing the crime for which you are accused".

Also, would everyone please remember this is a New Zealand court, where things tend to move a little swifter (and, dare I say it, a little saner) than the US justice system.
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> Why make everyone learn a new language
> just to write apps?

Why do you assume everyone knows Javascript and HTML?
IRL, most men are too timid to approach women the same way it's done on dating sites. Can you imagine a bunch of average guys going around in the streets and talking to random women in broad daylight with no hesitation?

When you take away Approach Anxiety, of course you're going to have a massive storm of sausage looking for action. Because, while it sounds cliché, men really are pigs (or more accurately, chimps). :-)
We are talking about the future. In the future your data might be more safe in the cloud than on your own device, just like your money is more safe in a bank than in your wallet. It's possible.
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A simpler version of this would be to use fuzzy matching on the person's history of messages. Which would rule out copy-canned messages right away, and would also prevent them from just changing a dot here or there in the message.

I'm very interested in dating sites btw, and I have quite a few ideas up on http://ideashower.posterous.com (no time to go thru and pick out the dating-related ones right now, alas).

Edit: pulled them out via Google. Here they are:

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-misc-dating-site-ideas

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-dating-site-slideshow-a...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-dating-profile-improvem...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-dating-site-that-gets-r...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-dating-site-with-gamifi...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-walk-in-my-shoes-dating...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-my-dating-profile-did-w...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-dating-site-staff-of-fe...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-smartphone-video-speed-...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-adsense-for-dating

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-photo-album-widget-for-...
If it's parked inside, generally either A) you have a plug, or B) it's artificially lit 24/7. That should be enough to compensate for leakage current.
Not sure how honest these calculations are because I couldn't repeat them and the article gives no REAL detail.

Cheapest matching configuration I could find at SoftLayer was $559 for a dual processor Xeon 5504 with 12GB RAM ("Speciality: Mass Storage"). Each 2TB drive costs an additional $60. I'm assuming the raid controllers come free if you can plug in that many drives so not adding that onto the build. Total for build with 24 drives: $1999. (Assuming a free OS, and that you don't need to upgrade the network port speed.)

24x2TB in RAID-6 gives you 45TB usable capacity (all 24 drives, madness) or 20TB usable capacity (12 drives in mirrored RAID-6 configuration, probably more sane).

45TB @ $1999/mo is ~$0.045/GB, but if more than 2 disks fail you're screwed (quite likely to happen in a 24 disk configuration!)

20TB @ $1999/mo is ~$0.1/GB, and you can stand to lose at most 4 disks (at most 2 in each of the mirrored array).

Compare with the $0.11/GB Amazon S3 is charging you to store data in the TB range (excluding data transfer costs, which are free for incoming data, which ought to be the bulk of data) and I'm not really sure I follow their argument given that maintaining this backup system is going to be a PITA and the risks don't seem worth it.
Probably somewhere in New Zealand where he can get in a plane/car/jet...
Germany. It has an extradition law but not for it's own citizens. Thus Kim would face jurisdiction in Germany, but under their law. And in contrast to the US, it would far less worse. Maybe two years in jail, or even just a fine.
Actually I think it is a direct result of the asymmetric biological "worth" of men and women. Women have much higher reproductive value, men are next to worthless and exchangeable (biologically). The good old "a man can father hundreds of kids, but a woman can only have kids every 9 months".

Therefore women are "the price" and men have to compete to get them (and by compete I mean "scramble and write hundreds of messages"). Women don't really have to compete to get pregnant.
Fair enough. I do get your point - people seem to go mad about privacy in general. It does sometimes feel (to me) like people aren't as bothered about it with Google as they are with Apple, Amazon or Facebook, but maybe that's just me.

No need to apologise, wasn't trying to call you out or anything, just felt like this was one of the few posts I've read that doesn't whine too much about it.
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I didn't have that problem. Google did ask for my password again, which made sense, but I didn't end up on their home page.

I didn't specify HTTPS, but I use the HTTPS-Everywhere Firefox extension so the result should be the same. Even so, maybe there is some slight difference which altered the behaviour for me.
Actually, a weaker currency leads to a stronger economy through more exports and greater tourist income. It only hurts if you owe foreign currenty, and are unwilling to default on those debts. See Argentina after going off the dollar peg, and Iceland after its banks collapsed.
My ideas on dating sites:

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-misc-dating-site-ideas

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-dating-site-slideshow-a...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-dating-profile-improvem...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-dating-site-that-gets-r...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-dating-site-with-gamifi...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-walk-in-my-shoes-dating...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-my-dating-profile-did-w...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-dating-site-staff-of-fe...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-smartphone-video-speed-...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-adsense-for-dating

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-photo-album-widget-for-...

(I just pulled this out of Google, so it's not sorted by awesomeness or anything).
Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't my Android Honeycomb tablet have half these features? Quick access to common settings check, system-wide accounts, check, decent keyboard check (just install your favourite keyboard app to replace the default). Admittedly, the task-switching is awful on it though.
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I'm fairly certain this is untrue.
Looking at the signup form, all I can see is name, email, password, birthdate and gender.
They may ask for it later, but that almost certainly is optional.
A ring notifier would be kind of pointless, unless the call could be routed to an app within OS X in order to be answered.
Yes, I've bricked my old Macbook by doing that (for several months).

I bought a new laptop, so closed down my old Macbook, and stuck it away.

A few months later, I found I wanted to grab file from the old macbook, and noticed it wouldn't run from battery. It'll work fine plugged in, but the battery is registered as full discharged, and the Apple page says "Buy a new battery".
The male/female ratio on major dating sites is much closer to 50/50 than the message ratio would have you believe.

Where do you get that information? I believe that directly contradicts the old (pre-Match.com takeover) OKCupid blog, which, to my knowledge, is the only vaguely unbiased source of dating site statistics.
youtube.com doesn't have any obvious method of removing of past watched videos and is even more nefarious than Google will probably ever be (before March 1st, 2012 at least) about tracking visitors.

Additionally, YouTube has become pretty much just a branch of the RIAA and MPAA and their local equivalents, and I'd rather burn down my house than allow them access to my data.

That's why I've been blocking YouTube from setting cookies on my computer, and that's why other people should do too.
Interesting. I just implemented a workflow thing for LiberWriter. It's a little unclear how the Amazon system might integrate with, say, an open ended comment system. Definitely something I'll be keeping an eye on though.
Look for the areas of your business which are complementary with theirs. For example, maybe you are able to monetize traffic at a higher CPM than they are - if they were able to drive traffic from their existing properties to your site, what would be the improvement in their total profitability? Maybe your service could increase engagement with their existing properties and drive more total page views. Etc etc. In theory the acquiring firm should be willing to pay for some of the value that would be created as a by product of integrating your site into their business.
Surely this is just another form of marketing, which people pour a lot of money in to, for good, well known reasons. So, I guess one would want some data on how well paying for users actually works, compared to $1000 worth of decent targeted advertising, or whatever.
Seems to end session for a viewer when I reach to second monitor in multiple monitors setup.
Edit: Disconnects without leaving monitor, too.

For explaining stuff I still prefer to connect to viewers machine.
"I don't foresee it happening in the near future."

You, sir, have a shit imagination

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html
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You're off by a carbon atom. The taxis here run on LPG not LNG. In other words - propane rather than methane. Australia still produces more LNG than pretty much anywhere, but it's all shipped off to China, Korea and Japan.
You guys know where New Zealand is, right?

You're going to need something to fly you over about 2000km of water - which gets you to Australia, which is the last place you want to be if you're fighting extradition to the US.

http://maps.google.co.nz/?ll=-43.197167,-177.539062&spn=...
My concern is that someone out there is accumulating a huge amount of very personal information about me. It happens to be a corporation that has a legal obligation not to me but to its shareholders and that obligation is to maximise profit. It also has a legal obligation to the US government and the US courts, a government I have no right to elect and a legal system I cannot afford.

And here's my point: I simply cannot know or control what profit maximising ideas they may come up with in the future or what kinds of ideas politicians may deem necessary in order to win an election.

Some say that it will always be more profitable for Google to "respect my privacy". The problem is that the meaning of "respect my privacy" is a matter of fast changing attitudes. It's not my personal privacy they need to be concerned about, it's what the vast majority of their users will passively accept.

Their privacy policy says they can do anything with my data to create new services and improve existing ones. That means they can do anything. Full stop.

The reason why I'm more concerned about their new privacy policy than about the old one is that lots of small piles of information are less dangerous than one big pile of information, exactly for the reason they are creating it: The value of accumulated information is more than the sum of its parts.

The conclusions that can be drawn from that combined dataset are a lot more reliable and robust. Right now, much of the data that is out there about us is basically garbage and everyone knows it. No one can know if it means anything that I supposedly visited this or that site. But if they can also analyse what I searched for, what my emails are about, what blogs I read, which people I communicate with, etc, they can learn something about my intentions, not just about my actions and they can throw out the garbage.

I don't want all my intentions to be known or to be knowable to anyone on earth because I cannot know or control the intentions of those wanting to know my intentions. It's a onesided shift of power away from me and I can never take it back.

Once the data has become so much more reliable and the conclusions so much more robust, the desire to use that information for all kinds of new purposes will grow accordingly. The pressure on Google to use that knowledge to increase profit will grow. The incentive for criminals to steal the data will grow. The pressure on governments to proactively spy on everyone to prevent this or that type of crime will grow.

This is not me saying "Google has turned evil". It's just a recognition of an inevitable social and economic dynamic ensuing from the possibilities that well intregrated, high quality, sets of personal data provide.

I know more than the vast majority of people about data analysis and hence I will not delegate what "respecting my privacy" means to that majority of passive Google (or Faceboook, ...) users.
I think it's fair to posit that cheap cloud storage space will meet/outpace smartphone storage space, to the point where simply imaging the entire phone to the cloud is easy enough. Even if you lose your phone, you authenticate a new one and you're ready to go in the time it takes to download the image.
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Facebook was the best dating site ever invented, until they killed the ability to search on sex and relationship status within arbitrary networks.

By the way, to my knowledge, nobody has tried peer-curated online dating. i.e. an interested friend does the awful work of searching and matching, forwards minimal details for approval from both parties, and coordinates the meeting. In other words, online dating which more closely approximates traditional social methods.
I'm thinking about this too. But Firefox is so much slower and so unwieldy and annoying.
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Bingo. A good friend of mine told me women are flaky and need to be oversubscribed at least a 10:1 contention ratio. I always dismissed it as player/pick up artist posturing, but I'm beginning to see that he has a point.
Unfortunately people aren't very inclined to ride velomobiles on the same roads as Hummers and Escalades.
The bandwidth over time visualization is what makes this most valuable to me vs. normal wireshark. It made debugging the differences between two different "internet speed test" sites a lot easier (higher latency = slow-start takes longer = lower bandwidth on a new connection):

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That being said, I wish it had a demo dataset to work with. I'm kind of regretting uploading packet dumps (even restricted to one remote IP / port) given that they contain my mac address / my router's mac address. I don't think I'll use this for much in the future just because pcaps usually contain private data. I guess that's why they charge for the on-site software / device.
Most of those I found at fiverr are recorded at home and not in a good studio setup. For simple voice overs for selling those $1 ebook etc, fiverr is good option. But for a bigger business, its better to look else where.
Not no more.
I'm not talking about tomorrow but rather distant future. The banks evolved somehow. Now it is really hard to "become" a bank. There are very strict regulations in place. If a bank goes bankrupt the personal savings are still guaranteed to be paid off. So this is just a matter of making some regulations and establishing proper hierarchy.

And about security as in privacy. I don't know what future holds. Perhaps you'd be implanted a token that you can use for accessing the data which can't be faked or copied. Who knows. I just wouldn't rule out the possibility of a "cloud world" completely.
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It sounds good in concept, but I'm concerned that somebody searching for child pornography or similar could be associated with myself. I have the same fear of running a TOR exit node.
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I use google apps for domains and I get the following message: "Web History is not available for MY_DOMAIN. Learn more about Google products you can use with MY_EMAIL."

Is Google collecting this data and not giving me the option to turn it off, or are they not collecting the data?
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I sooooo agree.

Although I rarely, if ever click on the logo in gmail, I do believe in the "logo should be a link to the root" convention. Surely that's just UI design 101, right?

The twitter one you mentioned in the article drives me super crazy as well.
I needed to build a audio corpus to train acoustic models on. It actually worked pretty good. I was able to build up about 100 hours worth. It was unbelievably tedious because I had to verify the audio even after I used amazon turk a second time to do a first verification pass.

The other thing is that I don't necessarily want perfect quality audio. I wanted whatever microphone audio normal people have so it probably worked out better that I used amazon turk.
I think of addition and I don't see that changing any time soon.
I'm actually in the middle of designing a Workflow-as-a-service for my current employer (based on jBPM 5).

However, this isn't Workflow-with-a-capital-W. It's not even a state machine. SWF is actually a distributed-processing task queue with persistent state and execution history. Which is pretty cool.
Really cool as a proof of concept on what can be done with just HTML5.

Of course it's not a complete replacement for the native app. Not everything can be done using HTML, such as the pull to create a new task. For that you probably would have to find another way if this was build from the ground up without prior knowledge of the native app.
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Women compete too, but for the top men aka the alphas. The richest, most handsome, most famous, most combat-fit, most connected, etc. Or often in today's world: the most caddish.

And what is alpha is always relative to something else, which means that rising female incomes, for instance, will raise the bar for competition.

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http://heartiste.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/female-hypergamy-g...

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My biggest gripe is that they completely removed the link to "Scholar" from the search menu options, making my omnibar so less useful, and there's no option to reenable it.
it would be users from a list of self-described 'early adopters', the type of people who love the internet and startups and are eager to try something new.
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You could have a token that would work exactly as credit card. Only one token would be authorized. You cannot copy it so if you lose it, you know you lost it can be "disabled". You would then need a new one with the same key however. That key could be stored in real bank's deposit box. Hardware of the token would only allow to store the key and not read it. I mean, that's a possibility for the paranoid ones who are not happy with cell phone auth for example.

I know there's no infrastructure in place (yet) but we're talking about some kind of future, not about today. It's certainly possible though. Even secured.
Has anyone else been confused by the fact that in gmail when you are viewing an email there are two buttons with arrows pointing up and to the left.
One takes you back to the inbox and the other replies to the email. One is curvy the other has a right angle. One is on the left and one is on the right. Neither have labels.
Can I go back to the old design now please.
If you're savvy enough to make full disk encryption work

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