skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with Gruber here, in that most people, if randomly sampled, would prefer only the sites they are explicitly visiting, track them - and not some underlying ad-network that just happened to appear on the web page.

That is - I might visit nyt.com, and have no problem have them tracking who I am, (I.E. that I have a subscription and can see more than 20 articles / month) - but I would prefer that the underlying advertisers not be able to track me from site to site just because they happen to be one of the advertisers on nyt.com (and whatever other web pages I visit - eventually they would start to build a pretty significant profile around me)

It may be the case that there are some legitimate (and useful) cases where third-party cookies are useful - but, if that's the case, I'd rather _explicitly_ allow that use, rather than have it allowed by default.

Hard to imagine very many people who would prefer the third-party tracking by default - and I vote for inconveniencing that small group of people, in order to protect the privacy of the much larger group who don't even know what a "cookie" is or how it works.
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Why is there no similar concern over the disproportionately few women roofers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc. etc?

There are - you probably don't travel in those circles so you don't see the outreach efforts (I work with a lot of union trades and they have outreach programs for those exact areas you listed).
Just took an exam in UIUC's CS473 yesterday (http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/sp12/cs473) -- the two cited references are Jeff Erikson's notes as well as the Berkeley textbook (we refer to it as "the Dasgupta book"). I personally found the Dasgupta book an easier read / good introduction before reading Erikson's notes. Both were invaluable studies and in retrospect all interview questions basically test this information, for those either not in university or wanting to learn to ace those big-O rundowns.

If I wasn't in / wasn't able to attend / dropped out of college, I'd just sit and read all of these notes and I'd probably be okay.
The claim is that they in the process of switching back, not that it's already rolled out.
Here is how we are trying to fix TV with HTML5 video support, so any video web site can get on TVs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpBZ1xdcC1Q

The folks at PandoDaily ran a nice article about us, too:

http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/23/nthcode-wants-to-bring-the-...
I remember Bayes as P(a|b) p(b) = p(a,b) = p(b|a) p(a). It's hardly the only way it's linked up in my personal mind-map, of course, but it's how I first memorized it.

I only skimmed this comment, I'm afraid.
Can anybody name a specific situation in which they've been inconvenienced by not allowing third-party cookies? I've always had them turned off, and I don't think I've ever not been able to do everything I've wanted to. I realize that this is a hassle for people like facebook/google, who want to be able to track us as we move from site-site, but I'm wondering how often it negatively impacts the individual user?
I had thought the movement to kill math ended long ago with this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfgX0fyNeLc
starts article with "creation-stealing", discusses "copying-stealing". divulges into apple vs others as usual
Kind of explains the “Good artist borrow, great artist steal.” saying but the examples given are terrible.

Smartphones did not steal wrist watches. A better example might be that Apple 'stole' the iPhone/smartphone idea from Palm or RIM.

And I wouldn't say iCloud is stolen from Dropbox. They fit two different purposes imo. iCloud doesn't do the folder sharing Dropbox does and doesn't have the file management capabilities power users need.
I tried to keep it generic, so most of the regex in the book will work in Perl, Ruby, Python, and the libraries since they all originate from Perl's ideas of PCRE. The choice of using Python was mostly because people had read my other book and probably already had Python.

Also lots of engines have the verbose form, problem is there's been too many Perl hackers writing those god awful huge regex so everyone thinks dense and succinct is the only way to write regex.
I can almost guarantee that, if asked, most users would request that their browsing not be tracked some ad company you have no knowledge of.

I think that depends on how you frame the issue. "Do you want to have your privacy invaded by evil marketing companies?" vs. "Would you help Google to know you better, so it can serve you better ads?"

For me, ads are a necessary evil because I don't want to ever pay for every content I consume on the internet. So, If third party cookies are used to serve me better ads, ads that actually interest me, then I'm all for it.

Just this past week I finally decided to move my blog from Dreamhost to a Managed WP Hosting company, and it was all because of their ads following me all over the internet. I'm thankful to Google that it showed me those ads and not something about beer or hip-hop music or macrame or whatever I don't care for.
Well if they do manage to do 5B$ revenue this year 100B would be a 20x multiplier on their revenue. Seems in line with other tech companies. But we'll have to wait until they start pushing out those quarterly reports to be sure.
If iCloud did exactly what Dropbox does, that would be a copy, no?

iCloud syncs, in principle, and makes things available on all your i-devices.

Dropbox syncs, in principle, and makes things available on your devices.
How do they currently do it outside of Pinterest? They don't.

Flickr makes an effort to spell out to visitors the terms of your image's copyright (whatever they may be), as a photographer that's where their responsibility ends, and I'm ok with that. I do not expect Flickr to slap DRM on it on my behalf and go out of its way to prevent the inevitable.

If someone wants to throw my photos on imgur and share them without attribution, there's not a lick of anything I can do about it, Pinterest or otherwise. Flickr has done its due diligence informing users about the legalities of whatever use they have in mind, and that's fine.

Also, when I hit the Pinterest bookmarklet, I am logged into Flickr, and staring at one of its own pages. Flickr knows exactly who I am - the same logic that's locking out Pinterest could just as well check if I have permissions to share these images.
Regex aren't difficult to learn, it's just nobody teaches them as a language with a base syntax and words to use. If you just sit down and memorize the names of a few symbols, then learn what each does, then it becomes fairly clear.

It's my belief (totally unfounded) that learning a simple symbolic language like regular expressions teaches you how to handle other symbolic languages like mathematics, chemistry, and programming. That's one of the reasons I'm teaching it and trying to get other people to use it.

More importantly though, they are damn handy. As long as you don't abuse them in places where a lexer+parser is better, you can get a lot done with very little regex in very short time.
If we're going to start defining the CC license in this way, we really need one that's even more restrictive - i.e., all rights reserved, except social network sharing. The current CC non-commercial, non-derivative, attribution-required seems insufficient in comparison.
Which surely is and will continue to be the majority of sites?

HN blinkers aside - aren't most sites still going to be content sites rather than web applications?
I wouldn't call signal processing "narrow applicability." Signal processing is important for a wide range of computer science applications, for example any voice processing with regard to AI or security (think Siri!), and many programmers will at some point call FFT without really knowing what it is (happened to me twice this year already). Having read the FFT bits really helped to understand what it does. It also happens to be a really cool application of divide and conquer that was absolutely groundbreaking. So like from a practical, historical, and cleverness standpoints, it seems like a great thing to describe. I'm not sure it's important at all to remember how it works, but having some kind of idea of how it works seems valuable.

And it probably just takes a lot of space because it's complicated. Haha.
I dunno. I started programming on the web, with JavaScript. The very first thing I did was make an admittedly trivial interactive web site. Of course, I didn't set out to "learn programming", I set out to make a website.

Still, if I was able to fairly easily pick HTML/CSS/JavaScript up and do stuff I found cool in sixth grade, it has to have a pretty low barrier to entry. This is especially true because I never was a hard worker :P

That said, I think starting from SICP instead of outdated JavaScript tutorials would have been more awesome. But maybe more difficult.

And really, all that stuff: Linux, SICP, Emacs (I'm too cool for Vi :)) was easier than it was made out to be. People say Linux is difficult, but I found it about as easy to pick up as Windows and easier that OS X.

After all that rambling, I think I lost my point. All I really have to say is that, in my experience, it's easier than it seems as long as you don't let people intimidate you ("ooh, Linux is difficult" and other nonsense like that).
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nothing is because of gender. Everything is because of social organization.

Gender, unlike biological sex, is a social construct. So quite frankly what you say isn't at odds with what I am saying. This being said, there are obvious factors in how differently situated men and women are with regard to reproduction, and because reproduction is a fundamental aspect of human life, this cascades fundamentally into other areas as well. How it cascades is dependent on social organization, as you point out.

So the question I think we should be asking is how we build a society which gives more people what they really need without asking for soul-destroying tradeoffs. For my money I want to see fewer mega-corporations, and more family-run home businesses, and despite the current gender disparity, I think open source provides an opportunity here.

The goal however most certainly should not be to tell women what they should want and that if they don't want to be CEO of some hot startup because the long working hours, lack of pay security, etc do not appeal to them, that there is something wrong with them. The goal should be to create an economy where people can contribute how they want and stop obsessing about why other people make the choices that they do.
Are the prices of Flats in Goregaon inflated? 
Mumbai is one of the biggest and the best cities in the world, the financial capital of India and the hub for many multinational companies of the world.
No, but if it runs out of oil, and especially if you let it sit for a while, your engine can make a very good mimicry of a steel brick, and that's one of the more expensive pieces of your car to replace. Probably more than 4/10ths of the cost of the car, in many situations.

We haven't fixed this. Have we the technology?
Edit:

The reason for the cookies is this plugin: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhnjdplhmcnkiecamp...

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Maybe you can help me: I have the same preferences but there are some strange cookies I can't delete.

My Preferences:
http://cl.ly/EW0B

My current cookies:
http://cl.ly/EWuU

After I clicked on "Remove All":
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When I now restart Chrome (without visiting any sites and about:blank as start page) all cookies are back:
http://cl.ly/EWBr

Any idea what could be causing this?
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Doesn't the Facebook "Like" button rely on this, too?
"Exercise 11: This Or That" sadly still suffers from using examples which necessitate mentioning caveats I pointed out months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297996

Even considering the fact that alteration is introduced after the needed concepts of NL and EOL assertions in "Exercise 7: The Beginning And End"

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Would you prefer they had absolutely no knowledge about you, and they just randomly showed you lingerie ads? Because that's going to happen in a future where the ad networks can't track the user at all anymore. Totally random ads.
Which is why there are warnings in the manuals. Which puts it on par with changing the oil in a regular car, if less culturally-obvious. Reading a manual for something you spent $100k on seems a reasonable prerequisite, especially if you have any interest in keeping it running.
Google who is mozillas 90% income is not mentioned but ms is the examples to make them look bad..sleazy at best
It's lame to complain about being downvoted, but I'm genuinely curious why this was downvoted - it seems like it's nothing that I'd expect to be divisive, it's just blandly factual.
The feeling of movement simply isn't reported by nerves

Bzzt...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception
I think you meant "diverges" not "divulges"?
I already told you that your reason it was busted is wrong. It's not because of NL or EOL, it's because of the order of precedence of the | operator. If you're going to correct me, be right. In fact, someone also posted a solution in the comments, which you also didn't do.
yes. Also, people are so thrown by complexity, that they assume they aren't capable of taking steps toward figuring something out. a CLI really is NOT that hard. They all follow a very simple pattern:

[command] [parameters]

$ ls

just a one word command. shows you directory contents. easy. not complicated looking. Lets make it harder.

$ ls -a

an option. list contents of directory. but ALL of them. still easy.

building from the ground up is easy. For some reason, people still are scared off. Why? Why are people afraid to learn?
They don't need cookies to track you when your browser footprint is unique enough (http://panopticlick.eff.org/).
So you still need a tool like Ghostery (http://www.ghostery.com/) to disable the snippets that can track you.

But then again: when everybody is blocking Google and Facebook, how would they earn there money?
Suppose you had millions of copies of some object for sale. As the manufacture cost of the object tends to zero, the outcomes of copying tend to the outcomes of theft.
You just invalidated your own point. If iCloud was 'stolen' from Dropbox it would take what Dropbox does and vastly improve and build upon that based on your login. But you have just said above that iCloud 'sync and make things available on all your devices' and that Dropbox' syncs and makes things available on all your devices'.
Sometimes I end up picking or asking my girlfriend for random numbers just to shuffle TNG episodes, since that's how I'm used to seeing it.
It might be like the early days of YouTube or Hulu: few commercials as a loss leader to get people in the door, and then gradually ratchet them up.
>In short, Apple’s mobile version of Safari broke with common web practice, and as a result, it broke Google’s normal approach to engaging with consumers.

I’d have used “tracking” in place of “engaging with”, but that’s semantics

Actually, it does break Google's way of engaging with consumers. +1 buttons (as well as Facebook Like, Diqus comments etc) require 3rd party cookies.
One of the things to note is that before the industrial revolution, women literally ran some of the most important sectors of the economy. In medieval Iceland the cloth that they made was even legal tender. Talk about "making money" (literally)!

I actually see modernist feminism as a response specifically to the fact that the industrial revolution largely completed an economic trend that had been going on since the late Middle Ages, which was the displacement of women economically and the taking over of these industries by men. Women, deprived of their historical economic place in Western society, had to find a new economic place, and the need for this was the catalyst for women's suffrage, the women entering the factories and schools, and the like.

This lead to an extremely male-normal society, though, and it has meant that women are still suffering for that. The genders cannot be equal where one is normal and the other not. Note that Robbie Davis-Floyd documents in her (excellent) book "Birth as an American Rite of Passage" that in medical textbooks (at least in the early 90's when she was writing this one) that male figures were overrepresented among diagrams of healthy anatomy, while female figures were overrepresented among diagrams of disease.

That doesn't mean that there aren't biological differences that don't come into play. But how those differences manifest is very much tied to culture. But culture is not without limits--- it is subject to functional imperatives, both biological and social in nature.

Consider this: marriage, as an institution which centers around procreation and childraising, is more universally recognized in ritual practices than funerals are. There are social imperatives at work even when biological ones are not (certainly there is no biological imperative to get married).

The social imperative there is in fact quite obvious when you start looking at differences between paternity and maternity considerations. Women are mothers if they have given birth. Men are fathers typically if they are recognized by society or the law as such, and this is only loosely tied to biology (even in the US today--- consider that 52% of never-married mothers never apply for child support, often out of a desire not to have further contact with the putative biological father, but in other cultures a child born out of wife-swapping or wife-loaning is always the child of the woman's husband). So a social imperative of managing paternity considerations and providing stable economic units for childraising often are decisive here.
Happy to see someone else mention steelseries. The headphones I love are the 5H V2 though. They sound great to me, but more important for long sessions is that they are fantastically comfortable. Not only do they fit completely over my ears but the foam is marvelously soft and supple, unlike anything I've seen on other headphones.
...but not so accepting of other non-conformists.

What other sorts of non-conformists find that they are not accepted by the tech world?

In my experience, the tech world is extremely tolerant of wacky political beliefs (anarchist/communist, for example), low status hobbies, all sorts of foreign cultures, gays and other sexual minorities, to name all the groups I can think of.

Also, there are a few studies suggesting women avoid computing because women dislike nonconformists and individualistic culture. This would certainly explain why the corporate world has more women programmers than the startup world.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100106021904/http://scicom.ucsc...

http://web.archive.org/web/20091007234852/http://opensource....

Also, you realize your points 2) (women work hard, not smart) and 4) (women don't work hard) are contradictory, right?
I believe this is the worst Vim Tips compilation I have ever seen. Utterly complicated commands with no real life examples. Also doesn't explain the difference between commands, motion commands and selectors. Which are crucial to the starter Vim user.

If you are an experienced Vim user, this might be a handy cheat sheet. If you're new to Vim, go look somewhere else.
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If someone did, say, agree to an out of court settlement for something, then one party didn't perform as agreed I imagine it could easily end up in court again.

Here wasn't it the same contract that mandated the arbitration that was not fulfilled by AT&T?
Is there a Trigger.io kitchen sink?
I would like to test the UI responsiveness.
Social organization is subject to functional requirements based sometimes but not always on biology.

There is a tendency to see our current social organization as dictated entirely by biology but that can't be right since, say, ancient Sparta or medieval Iceland were very different in important ways.

So we can still work to create a society that works better for us.
There is no "citation needed" meme. There is two metrics (or many, one from the .gov and the others from private analysts) and everybody repeats that one is wrong without explaining why. I have no interest in defending the .ar goverment, but this article is not really good. They should say something like "this another metric or method should be used, these are the correct parameters, because of a, b, and c. The ones used by the Argentinian gov are wrong because of d, e, and f". Also remember that the index is not an absolute number, it is relative to certain parameters. Saying that "15%" is low or high just like that is absurd, its like saying that a distance of "10" is too large without referring to a scale. OTOH, the argument usually exposed is also wrong, it reads like: "The people buying every day in the local store knows that inflation is higher." Thats a fallacy, the only thing I can know from going to the store is the price from that store. An index cant be used for predictions directly.
I would like to repeat that I have no sympathy with .gov.ar, I think they do many things wrong. Sadly, those things are not the ones pointed by the media. I am interested in changing the status quo but, imho, the only democratic, honest way to do it is using rationality as a tool for making our best possible decisions.
I must disagree with the command-line part. I don't think that the command line is fundamentally more powerful than any other interface.

Why is the command line powerful? Because it offers a large number of utilities that are highly configurable and that can be linked easily.

But you could have just the same expressiveness if the interface was eg. a circuit diagram, where you connect configurable commands with lines.

You know why the command line uses text input? Because it is the simplest to implement. The only people who need to know how to use the command line are people who need to use software where it doesn't pay off to make a more intuitive interface.
So who represents AT&T at the hearing?

Anyone the company designates as long as they're not a lawyer?

I think AT&T should be able to send a lawyer in such a case as long as he is wearing a clown suit including the red rubber nose.
One question: How were those demonstrations programmed? I have a feeling they were developed by "manipulating abstract symbols."

Math doesn't need a new interface, any more than a POSIX compliant shell does. Math is a beautiful and expressive language. Its strength is in communicating difficult, abstract concepts in a language that is manipulable. This manipulation is of the utmost importance in understanding the relationships between different concepts and even in developing new ones. Removing the single strongest aspect --the "abstract symbols"-- of mathematics is to neuter it.