skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it doesn't work.

After typing "meow" and hitting enter. The copy paster url had this to say about me "It seems you didn't save the word. Go to lab.cubiq.org/underpants first."

The unique fingerprint is also different. "93615388f7f54cd79d2f806ac3795c182217aa9b" somehow became "f37ec3fdd05c27c13cbb7fcdef95cc004297f62d" after copy-pasting.

Other than that technical glitch for me (Linux, Chrome latest unstable version), I still think this is actually a pretty good idea. But will websites use it now that the ones we actually want to worry about are injected into every website via Tweet and Like and + and whatever buttons.

Google in particular is everywhere with their gAnalytics tracking code.

edit: now that I think about it, I may have misunderstood the point. Was it a proof of concept of providing cross-site tracking without tying to a personal identity?

If not, insecurities in cross-site whatever hardly matter when I am logged into every little tidbit that is loaded via iframe and appears on almost every website. Even porn sites have like buttons these days.
https://panopticlick.eff.org/

You'd be surprised.
> You should want to have money if you're smart. Why? Because money is a vote and the World's First Problem is that most decisions aren't being made my smart or competent people. So get out there, do great work, and see if you can make a mark.

Well put!
It's not a few hundred more if you want everything in the cloud offering.

Creative Cloud gives you many more applications than the CS Master suite - which is $2600. See http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/22/adobe-officially-unveils-cs...

If you just use The Design Standard suite it's a waste... if you use most of the Adobe products and upgrade regularly it's probably a saving.
And bitcoins are not a solution for my parents. This is an interesting idea, and bitcoin has nothing to do with it.
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Don't strive to make money for money sake alone. There doesn't appear to be any correlation between money and happiness.

But I, like most hackers, enjoy building things of value. And people are used to paying for what they value (there are exceptions of course). I use making money, especially early on, as a validator and indicator of progress.
What, because I used IPA? You can’t reliably describe a pronunciation in many other ways.
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Can you explain why its a big no-no? I'm new to Australia. Thanks.
Just made it past that. Thanks.
You mean spend the first half of your life as a man so you're paid more, and then change gender when it's time to give your money away? Brilliant!
Most interesting part to me: "Production of 100 watt bulbs has ceased in the US and Europe. Production of 60 watt bulbs has been stopped in Europe and is being phased out in the US. From 2014, incandescent bulbs of 40 watts or above will be banned in the US."

I had no idea - better stock up now so I can sell them on ebay in ten years!
As a freelance mobile designer/developer, fuck that shit.

I'd never answer a giant list of "interview questions" and certainly wouldn't complete a "Hello World" task for a short-term, low four-figure job. I can show you live apps I've already built; if that's not good enough, we don't have anything else to discuss. (Side note: "creating/delivering your app’s icon" = spec work! NOOOOPE.)

Jobs like these are the ones that drag down the mobile marketplace. Shit apps made for shit pay by developers willing to work for table scraps. Good icon development is an art. Check out the work by The Iconfactory, for example. The fact that the employer treats it like an also-ran is another gigantic red flag.

"Disqualify anyone who is not willing to jump on a Skype call." For a short-term, low-paying job? You want me to break the flow of my day and blow an hour of my time on maybe satisfying your absurd needs? I'll disqualify you, brah.

(Sorry to rant, but, I just feel like we should all have more self-respect than to take jobs like that.)
OK, so are they worried ghost towns will reduce the value of the stack exchange brand? I mean, even if they are being altruistic, I still don't understand the societal harm caused by ghost towns.
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I like OmniGraffle - just upgraded it in fact - but it's a very different kind of product from Illustrator :)
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Horrible horrible linkbait.

Here's the deep analysis from the article:
"And as more people join Google+, more will follow, and in the end maybe Kevin Rose was worth $1 billion dollars."
Congratulations !
it was a very cool game.. hope we see the next levels soon and I also hope you'd open all the game levels even to unregistered users later. :D
Both of those had keyboards you could use comfortably for long periods tho' (as did the VIC-20 and BBC Micro). Certainly they're as good as if not better than many modern keyboards!
Out of curiosity, do you know the average without the docstrings and whitespace?
i wanna use vim less now :D
I remember being fascinated by the keywords PEEK and POKE, and fiddling around with POKE statements to try to cheat at games.

Various Spectrum magazines would publish cheats based on POKEing memory with new contents.

Ahh, those were the days!
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Resizing my browser didn't go it but moving it to another screen it changed from "1ccf9e9301db4fb87b1d178d77edad5bfa598057" to "ab0e6beb449408b28473dd66a6f4501528087c0e". I don't think this method is prefect at all or should be used for anything reliable(like logins).
github pages is really the killer jekyll feature.

it is just convenient enough that it makes me put up with a lot of crap that would have made me use something else by now.
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Yes, I think this will help a lot. Maybe make the blue bars less prominent, while increasing the prominence of the 'learn more' buttons? At the moment, the learn more buttons don't 'jump out' at me when I view the page. As the blue bars are the only really colourful things on the page, they look like they should be CTAs.

The Copyhackers book has an interesting section on buttons (preview here:
http://www.copyhackers.com/web-writing-ebook-sample/). I'm not involved with Copyhackers, but I read the book this weekend and found it very interesting.
Sock money away where, in their mattress? No, in the bank, money market, investments, etc. thereby increases the available funds for others to start businesses, take out loans, provide liquidity to the market. "Take money from people", you mean engage in a mutually beneficial and agreed upon transaction where you take money and give a product or service... yea not the same as theft.
I like the part about the same font across emails, so I tried to mirror that :P

Found this http://blog.affirmix.com/2012/01/20/change-the-font-size-of-...

for Linux, default path is ~/.config/chromium/Default/User\ StyleSheets/Custom.css (Chromium)
or
~/.config/google-chrome/Default/User\ StyleSheets/Custom.css (Chrome)

I don't know css, but it seems adding color:#<color_in_hex> makes all the text have that same color.
We used Tika for extracting data from various complex Office documents and converting them to Linked Data in the Proggis project:
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/business_analytics_with_couchdb_an...

In addition to content extraction, Tika seems able to do some interesting things like figuring out the language of the document contents.
Why not render posts at publication time rather than request time?
My biggest gripe with Gmail is the lack of any ability to customize font sizes for different sections. I'm on an 11" Macbook Air and fonts can be unbearably small at times, but I see no way to increase the font-size of the emails I read. Even hitting cmd+ doesn't do the trick; the fonts get a little bigger but the whole layout goes pear shaped, of course. More granular control over font sizes would make this plugin a lot more valuable to me.
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I remember (mid-80s) when my extremely noisy 20MB SCSI hard drive cost me just under $1000.
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There's a couple of reasons why this article is interesting, but relatively naive.

It won't work because companies WANT your information, in order to extend their marketing capabilities to you.

Also, it turns Mastercard/VISA into a consumer-facing business, which is it not currently. And I'm pretty sure they're happy only dealing with merchants. There was a good article a couple of years ago on why Google Payments was having such a hard time competing against Paypal, and the reason was customer service. Paypal spent more on customer service than Google did (at the time, not sure about now) and this allowed the overall customer service to be better.

When you have regular people in the mix, it makes business much, much harder, and I'm pretty sure the credit card companies don't want to deal with that BS. So they're perfectly fine letting others deal with customers directly.

If they shifted to the system that the author described, all of the load would be on Mastercard/VISA, including things like refunds, etc, and that's not exactly a high-margin business.

So, it's a nice thought, but having a single point of service/privacy/failure likely won't happen with the status quo, unless a completely new merchant shows up willing to take on everything associated with payments.
Maybe you could play with Custom.css ? http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3878589
I can see that even in chrome "incognito mode"
It's never really, "create the next...". It's "create a fast-following, poorly-copied version of...".
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Was a bit surprised that they didn't ask for founding on kickstarter, seems like the norm these days :)
Ok that’s a scary page.
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The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that the vast majority of websites have nothing to gain from going the cloud way. Couldn't find any high traffic websites that are hosted on dedicated hardware to make a comparison though, hence the question.
That's pretty much what I had in mind: diff at language level not at text level.

Actually, ideally you would have content-aware DIFFs. So source code has one visualiser, images another, each binary format another.

That would make the experience much better.
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At my last job (ClearChannel), we had our own standalone datacenter in San Antonio with our own dedicated servers, as well as smaller server rooms in LA and NY. Our sites were all served by Akamai, so the dedicated servers were just origin servers.
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You should use "color:inherit !important;" in order for your tweak to be applied and adapted to the Gmail theme you're using. The CSS selector should look like : ".ii.gt.adP.adO font{}"
That's interesting. If you DVR a show do you feel obliged to sit through the commercials? This feels somewhat similar.
vi, which vim is based on, was programmed on the ADM-3A terminal, where the arrow keys are on the H, J, K, and L keys.

http://www.catonmat.net/images/why-vim-uses-hjkl/lsi-adm-3a....

http://www.catonmat.net/images/why-vim-uses-hjkl/adm-3a-hjkl...
So we're back to Movable Type circa 2002? ;)
Surely you're not equating "removed" with "ignored" right?
I really question the name of this. Underpants Project? I just don't get it. It doesn't really fit with the point you're trying to make, IMO.
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Not really.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 11.9 bits of identifying information.
I've liked PHD Comics for a long time. When I first heard that there was a live-action trailer for a movie (a long time ago), I figured it was a joke - some friends got bored and shot a video over a weekend or something. But I watched the trailer and it was really good. I honestly believed that it was too good to exist. I mean, how often does a webcomic get turned into a live action indie movie? Exactly. So I was psyched to see that they finished it and it really exists :)
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vast majority of websites have nothing to gain from going the cloud way

The main benefit that I've seen from cloud computing is scalability, not price or performance. If you are running a website with predictable load, get a box that will handle that load plus some cushion. But if you have an app that has unpredictable load, the cloud will let you run 50 boxes one hour, and 2 the next. The savings come from not running 50 boxes when you only need 2.
Thanks for the suggestions! I've updated the buttons, but I need to think of a nice way to make the blue title's less prominent. Hopefully that will improve things.

I've seen copy hackers mentioned, but am yet to read it myself. Will take a look ASAP, and see what insights I can garner. Thanks again.
Does anybody know of a browser plug-in that attempts to defeat fingerprinting?
On a related note, we are trying out a site which should help use projects like Tika - I am curious what you guys think of the site: http://www.codemaps.org/c/Apache_Tika
Wow. This is absolutely genius. You want to be more productive with vim, but this is generally due to the fact that you have little time as it is. Learning vim hasn't always been in the best interests of my current task. Then there is this game. Brilliant.
So, by copyright law, isn't this a "derived work" of all of those fonts.

(ducking)
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I will pay for it if it is reasonably priced. Beating the first two levels took me not very long at all, so, there will have to be a lot of content.
You can view source to see what they're using to generate the fingerprint: screenSize, devicePixelRatio, timezone, mimeTypes, plugins, httpAcceptHeaders, fonts. It's interesting that these are enough to generate a moderately unique fingerprint. I'm sure my fonts list is unique, so that's probably enough to ID me right there. However, not every computer I use has the same fonts installed, nor the same screen dimensions. This won't track me as I go from my desktop to mobile device.
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Wait, are you arguing that the "developer/designer hybrid unicorn" isn't a worthwhile pursuit? I think it's these people who are the ones pushing things forward by experimenting with their designs and trying to think of new ways to approach designing for the web.
It will probably need a new keyboard membrane. Thankfully there are companies making new ones and selling them on eBay. :)
"Caught with your pants down" is the best I could come up with
want to travel? that requires money
want a house? you need money
Want to have kids? more money

Almost every hobby also requires money. Money buys you freedom. I have a hunger for freedom, which requires money.

I also don't want some asshole boss making decisions for me.
".moustache", yeah…… no thanks
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When I saw the title on my feed I tought the article would be about the python simple http server.
One of the most useful commands that I've ever learned:
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Thank you for this. I have been putting off learning vim for way too long. Nano does its job fine :P

However, I can't input my email.. it has more than 30 chars. As per source:

<li><input id="email" name="email" maxlength="30" type="text" placeholder="Email Address" /></li>
try going to mobilitywod.com a lot of the "mobilizations" there are just ten minutes long but it's helped me a lot in many ways - if you only need to learn one thing, do the 10 minutes squat test - http://www.mobilitywod.com/2011/01/episode-150365-10-min-squ...
Size encoding is much better idea than just displaying a lot of numbers - it allows a reader to estimate the number of comments or the importance of the article much faster, almost on a subconscious level. Lightening and dissolution in the air of the old articles over time is a quite illustrative metaphor too. I appreciate both of them!
> It's just ugly. Even Perl and C++ look nicer.

Totally disagree. Erlang is odd, but you have to understand what you're getting with that. Variable unification, etc., if very powerful (kind of like Haskell's pattern matching but a bit more powerful).
Did I miss something? My Dropbox has had this functionality for a long time - years? Yes - just logged in and confirmed, the links section of my Dropbox account shows a link generated on 6/26/2010, and I'm sure that wasn't day 1 of this feature offering.

Maybe not enough people just ever noticed, and they're improving awareness?
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This fingerprinting can be defeated by NoScript. Or by turning off JavaScript. A sensible idea would be to make an extension that purges the unique elements from the set they're tracking (i.e. fonts, plugins, mimeTypes, screen size and pixel ratio, etc.) and provide a white-list for sites you want to have that information.
The jQuery Plugin Project
Really today? Yesterday I was searching for article like this.
Systematically preventing consideration of all ads is quite different than the natural risk that a given ad could be ignored.
This is the worst tutorial I've seen in a long time.
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Maybe this is why so much software these days looks like it was written by unsupervised youngsters.

I just wasted a day trying to get ListView's to work in Android only to find out that, well, they don't work, so you need to use something else. Then it took me a couple of hours to essentially duplicate the ListView functionality, except a working version.

The thing is developing a GUI framework isn't rocket science, its been done before and there are plenty of examples of reasonably well designed frameworks out there, Swing and Qt to name a couple.

Software is complex so it takes a while (years at least, probably decades) for a human brain to gain real perspective on what's important and what isn't in software development. A culture like the one we're living in that throws away those brains dooms itself to decline.
100x better approach to software?
1st step create tracking software.

2nd step

3rd step profit
This is a great plugin and pretty easy to use - but be warned: many plugins will not work when W3T's minifying is turned on. W3T does what it can to minimize the conflicts and a few plugins are built with a W3T "compatibility" mode...but many just simply break.

That said, W3T is really great for caching and CDN setup...takes like ten minutes to get going.
Would you believe a kickstarter about procrastination to actually deliver? ;)
Can anyone explain what use-case this technique enables that is not served by cookie tracking?

Or is the point that disabling cookies is not sufficient to avoid being tracked? Everyone has cookies enabled (or many sites don't work), so if that's all it is, nbd..
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Same here, but then even when I tried a shorter name, it gave me an SMTP error. :(
I think the font question was answered by http://panopticlick.eff.org/
And I understand this, it doesn't make it any less distasteful...
Gee, you sound as if you'd been reading the NY Times piece on Walmart de Mexico...
Not true - it's trivial for businesses the size of BCC with e.g. Stripe or Paypal Website Payments Pro. A merchant processor may have told you differently, but they, ahem, are not exactly the most trustworthy companies one works with.
That seems to be a very small niche. Ex:
- shopping sites that have a significantly higher demand during holiday season
- tax filing type websites that see a huge demand during a certain day/week of the year
no stackexchange to quickly solve a problem. that's why a lot of managers suck - cause they are on their own.

Well said. Someone once told me the real reason being a CEO is a such a tough job: "The work is easy, and you have people who can answer any question you might have, but everyone is lying to you."

the army being the biggest of them, followed by the boy scouts. think about that and what it means for modern organizations.

The military is different. People will die for their country, and will subordinate in ways that they would in no other context because of this impulse. No one is actually willing to subordinate his own interests for the sake of Initech's bottom line. The "eager foot soldier" act that office politicians play when they're young and at the bottom is paper-thin.
I know this isn't Slashdot, but I have karma to burn and can't resist:

Step 1: Collect underpants

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit!!!
I'd like to see a comparison with Apache UIMA.
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Hi, co-founder/CEO of Fitocracy chiming in here.

I'm incredibly curious about how the HN community views devices like the Fitbit and similar products commonly associated with the so-called Quantified Self movement. Not counting the folks who simply want to track their behaviors for data geekery's sake, I assume that many people who use these devices do so for the purposes of weight loss, improved health and fitness, better body composition, etc.

Assuming that that's the case, I wonder how effective these devices really are for the average person?
It has long been a feature that you have to activate by clicking (appropriately enough, I guess) a link on an obscure Dropbox support page: https://www.dropbox.com/enable_shmodel
This is an important thing to realize.

For most teams, the differences in backgrounds and experience provide different perspectives that are key to a good design or decision.

More importantly, any meaningful system/product is large and complex enough one person can't know everything or have considered all of the implications.
If I recall, they had this feature and then eliminated it. I remember trying to use it a several months ago and couldn't.
> This won't track me as I go from my desktop to mobile device.

May not even track from one browser to the next. Camino and Safari generates different fingerprints on my machine.