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There's a whole class of 'mom & pop' type websites out there that need analytics to function but:

* It's hosted in a way that precludes putting your own analytics in there (github pages, s3 etc.)

* The users lack the technical sophistication to install and manage their own analytics.

I've just finished moving my wife's site to github pages. It's awesome. The mac github client is pretty friendly, I set up the repo and jekyll and put a shortcut on her desktop to fire up a local server. She knows enough HTML to be able to update content on it. Analytics would be massively useful but it just won't be sensible for me to put them in.

I'm hoping what happens is that Google releases it's UK friendly analytics which does the following:

* Stops dropping cookies on UK based browsers

* Attempts to get consent through a different channel and then enables cookies for those users across the board
Make sure that the business aligns with your goals and needs. A little research can go a long way.

Does it provide value that people are actively seeking, or will you need to put in long hours to convince people of its value?

How do others monetize the business and did it work? Why or why not? What will you do differently? Why?

Why was it bought and closed? Have you talked to anyone involved in that decision? Have you attempted to talk to someone who has knowledge of the situation? There are most definitely factors that you are not considering because you weren't involved. Like they say, you only know what you know.

Those are just some example questions to ask yourself. Figure out what questions make sense for you and your business/idea.
My company is going to ignore the law until someone pull's us up on it. This law will severely restrict our ability to analyse how users are interacting with our product. This law will compromise our ability to further improve our product and disadvantage us against foreign competitors.

Our company doesn't track users off the site, we anonymise data so it cannot be tracked back to an individual... as far as we are concerned the law shouldn't apply to how we make use of cookies.

The fine is up to £500k. Realistically.. the fine for a small company is more likely to a few thousand. It would be better to pay a few k a month in fines than lose 90% of our user data. If we implement this we might as well stop developing our product.
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One (admittedly rare) counterexample is the late Sir Clement Freud:

"We remain together. I call her 'my first wife' to keep her on her toes."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/5165998/Sir-Clement-Freud...
Well, faster or equal, eventually in everything. Anything that pypy does slower than cpython is considered a bug as far as a I know. But I was not making a definitive academic statement or anything, just saying that it is, in general, faster. After all, it is faster in mother of all benchmarks, the fib function :) (edit: on my computer)

As for the PS; RPython is statically typed Python (perhaps some other extra restrictions apply). Not type-annotated or anything, just pure python written in a certain way. So it is a subset. As for what "Python" should have been "RPython", it was the first one. The pypy interpreter is written in RPython. But my statement was still correct because RPython is Python.
To provide a bit more detail:

"An organisation based in the UK is likely to be subject to the requirements of the Regulations even if their website is technically hosted overseas. Organisations based outside of Europe with websites designed for the European market, or providing products or services to customers in Europe, should consider that their users in the UK and Europe will clearly expect information and choices about cookies to be provided."

So, as a UK-registered business, you will be subject to this law.

My startup is registered in the UK, but all servers are outside of the UK. I am actually planning to just ignore this ruling and see what happens. If it looks like they are seriously going to go after startups that don't follow these rules, I will simply register the business in a location with less idiotic rules.
I think you are seeing this from a limited viewpoint. There's lots of people out there who don't even understand what the internet is, you'd be lucky if they know what a browsers is. The EU is proactively protecting those people, much like has been done for decades with offline data protection.
NoScript, RequestPolicy, Adblock Plus, RefControl, UAControl, Do-not-track cookie-disabled Mozilla Firefox user here.

Regulating Internet technologies to this level of pedantic granularity will ensure that spammers, scammers, crackers and fraudsters have an effective monopoly on privacy-busting technology. The incentive for software to implement correct technological solutions will be taken away if an honesty box Do-not-track approach is considered adequate. I want my browser to have a maximal number of reasons (including a multi billion dollar advertising industry) to address the technical concerns highlighted by Panopticlick[1] or privacy experts that "get it"[2]. These technical problems will be exploited by unwanted parties on the Internet. Exploitation will occur legally in other jurisdictions out of reach of EU laws.

The full text of the directive can be found at §66 on page 20 of Directive 2009/136/EC at [3].

[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/

[2] http://33bits.org/

[3] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...
Google's 'All-Seeing Eye' uses first-party cookies, just like anything you'd install on your own server. Just because something uses first-party cookies doesn't mean the data's not being sent to a third-party.

If this goofy law is more than sporadically enforced, future analytics probably won't use cookies at all - they'll just combine browser fingerprinting with server-side logs that get automatically sent to a third-party for processing. Individual end-users won't have any way of knowing whether it's there or not.
No conspiracy intended! I know this started as the result of some-scaremongering-or-other on the Continent, as usual.

What I'm saying is that it's clear to everyone involved that the authorities (EU or UK or whatever) will never be able to enforce this law except for the largest targets, in the same way as they'll never go after anyone coupling their OS and browser except if it's as big as Microsoft.
Hah, ok. I got it now. That's funny.
I agree with your point but I think using Ashton Kutcher as your example was misplaced. Ashton Kutcher has been investing for a while now and he also started a Biomedical Engineering degree before dropping out^, so I think his fundamental grasp of technology would be decent.

^http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Kutcher#Early_life
> There's a whole class of 'mom & pop' type websites out there that need analytics to function

If they are not skilled enough to install their own counter, I doubt they need analytics.
I've been doing some thinking on this and I definitely secede the point that _nobody_ does valuations like this.

My problem with the article is that it makes it sound as though _most_ valuations are done like this and that is why there is a tech bubble.
I am doing a Startup for around 5 years - doing reasonably well, not very well (drawing less than market salary).

Thankfully, was unfazed by the last slow down in 2008. In 2000/2001 I was doing a job. But that burst was very loud, and the first one for the Internet. Can only hope there are not many like those.

Based on your story, I think, you also should not be too much affected by any bubble bursts. As you work in a mode of drawing 60% of your salary, and it looks like its from revenue and not VC funding. So that kind of modes, clearly suggest you are not inside the bubble.

So when a bubble burst, it will happen to directly affect the ones who are VC funded. If you run based on revenues, then it will hurt you only indirectly.

PG wrote in one essay, that be like a cockroach(which survives), and not like a beautiful flower(which gets crushed). So in this context of a bubble burst, can say that revenue based is being like a cockroach. :-)
I'm not disagreeing with you, but you might want to reword this post. The internet doesn't forget, and you never know when some old post might be used against you.
They often have a 50/60hz switch on them.
>DNT is not implemented in most browsers

That's true, but only (or at least, partly) because the sites can just ignore the header. If this became a standard HTTP hear and there was a requirement for it to be respected, browsers will quickly start supporting it.

>and it's not the default policy in any, AFAIK. It'd hardly have the same effect.

That's the whole point. It would still allow for analytics to be collected and made use of to improve web experience, while giving concerned users an easy way to opt out without being constantly hassled with "Will you allow us to track you?" question from each and every site they visit.
Looks like it's similar to using deferToThread in Twisted (where you get a builtin threadpool implementation): http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/thread...
Protecting them from what exactly?

I'm genuinely curious about this - what do you think gets done with a browser cookie that actually causes real harm to the user? Perhaps that should be regulated instead of the mechanism for it.
Someone - a very wise, very successful someone - once provided a pretty good definition of a bubble. A bubble is when the fundamentals are right, but the timing is wrong.

For example, let's consider the most recent housing bubble. The housing bubble was predicated - at least in the beginning - on the fact that populations are growing, but land mass (and livable land mass, at that) remains constant. If we work under that assumption, land is at a premimum, and therefore _in the long term_, it can only go up. However, the problem is that too much happened too soon, and it created artificially high prices.

The tech bubble of the 90s was largely similar. It was a case where any retailer could chuck a .com at the end of their name and make millions. The fundamentals, however, were largely correct. I do almost ALL my big-ticket purchases online. Amazon's online retail presence is huge and pervasive.

I believe we MAY now be in an "information bubble." This isn't the .com bubble of yore. Rather it is a battle for your information. Facebook's got a nice chunk of it, as does Google. Instagram had a nice chunk of your photos. Essentially, information is at a premium right now. To what end? I suppose that remains the deciding factor on whether or not we are ACTUALLY in a bubble. If the information can be monetized then perhaps what we are seeing is simply the markets catching up to the tech trends. Eventually it will slow down - but that's entirely different from a "pop."

The alternative to the above is that people start to realize that the information isn't wholly reliable, and can not be converted (easily - for now) into revenue. In that case I'd expect there to be a correction at some point. But I think the fundamentals are sound. Information is the currency of the future - especially as we become more and more connected.
It would be interesting to see how governments around the world react to this. They haven't taken WikiLeaks to kind and in some ways we know their decision. However, it would be great if some governments accept such a framework.
This really is crazy, most analytic applications track users anonymously anyway so there isn't really much privacy concern.

It's basically the same as keeping track of the number of customers a physical store gets in a day, or maybe the time customers spends in the store. This type of analytics is essential to offline and online businesses.

As a citizen of the UK I'm extremely disappointed.
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It's a real pity most (all?) services like this require the user to tell the service what their interests are.

This kind of relationship, where the user trades information about him- or herself for service is sadly all too common on today's internet, and amounts to voluntary participation in a vast spyware network, where you are ever more effectively watched and tracked no matter what you do.

Technologically, it should be quite feasible to do all the RSS feed gathering and filtering for this sort of service on the client's machine, using software installed locally on the user's machine rather than on the service's servers.

Another possibility is to do the processing on the service's servers, but to try to build in some sort of privacy and anonymity guarantees in to the service itself. This is inherently more problematic, since it would really require some sort of verification of those guarantees by a neutral, trusted third-party before it could be completely trusted. But it would still be a big step forward over what we have now.

Good luck with your business, but I'm not going to use it until and unless I can feel secure that I'm not giving you any information about myself, my tastes or my preferences by using it.
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Japan does whatever the U.S. tells them to. Or else.

In general, considering the 8 U.S. military bases in Tokyo (not Japan, just Tokyo), and in particular, the 31000 sq metre military base in the centre of the city, in Roppongi (prime real estate worth at least $60 m, with a few military helicopters landing/taking off from there every day, and a lot more towards the weekend), IMHO, Japan is an occupied territory not too different from Afghanistan or Iraq. IMHO, the role of Japan in the scheme of things as designed by the US is to hold US debt, giving legitimacy to the piece of paper printed by the Treasury. The entire Toyota drama was about Japan trying to assert it's independence and not follow orders.
>> Daniel Tammet learned Icelandic in one week.

Your point? Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. And some people have eidetic memory. There is little relevance unless we find a method to recreate these traits in "normal" people, there is by no means any evidence that every human has latent super powers.

As a normal person having nevertheless high language aptitude, I reached C1 or very close to C1 in about 6-7 months. I say close to C1 despite reaching C1 level in a test, because I don't think it's fair to claim you have every capability for C1 as described by CEFR just because you passed a 4-hour test, in certain ways you just cheat by learning for the test. Anyway, even that was with a very generous amount of immersion, about a minimum of 8 hours a day including long hours of grammar practice. Still, despite praises from native speakers, at that time I wouldn't assert that I was fluent in speech or writing. Now to claim you can be "fluent" in 5 months just by studying 30-60 minutes a day is a bit outrageous.

I can't tell you how much our brain can really "absorb" and "retain" in one day, but there are very real limits in language acquisition after a certain age. I won't say it's impossible, but to realize your claims, we definitely need a magic pill or surgical operation / cybernetics.
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I sure do: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18144725601/my-dr...

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No, you cannot. Just read the law. ANY kind of cookie requires PRIOR permissions.
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I'm experiencing something similar.

Many universities have some kind of "teaching assistantship" or "teaching fellowship", that is, they pay students who've already taken the class (or a similar class) to teach and hold office hours for other students.

This was my first semester doing it, and I learned quite a lot on a subject I thought I already knew very well. The thing is, when you have to teach something to someone during a section (or recitation, or whatever you call it) or during office hours, you must be prepared to answer unexpected questions, or explain the difference between two concepts that are very close. Best of all, you must come up with different examples and mental representations of your subject, hoping that one of the approaches will resonate with some students.

Now some mentioned the fact that certain bloggers where going live way too early. Well, my guess is that they can do it because they don't receive real feedback. And no, a comment is not the same as a student telling you that you don't know what you're talking about. You don't want to become a TA to early, lest you make a fool of yourself, and trust me if students can burn you, they will (although most of them are really nice people, they tend to loose patience when confronted with incompetence, as most of us do).

But the process of writing down some kind of explanation in a clear way is still a good thing. Often, when I'm programming and come up with a neat way of doing something, I write a blog post about it, but I usually don't publish it for the same reason many of you mentioned. Publishing a post would require thinking more about the subject, trying different approaches, testing the code for edge cases, etc, etc.. all things I don't have time to do. But it doesn't matter, writing is enough to wrap my mind around the subject.
Same here. I have found myself using Rackspace Cloud for my newer projects because I get more disk for my $11 and their Ubuntu provisioning is very low effort on my part. KVM offers a bit more control than I need.

I still have a soft spot for my first prgmr box though.
Well, yes, but presumably you would ask your users to set those. For example, if you use Gmail, presumably you will agree to let Gmail set your login cookie. Then Google can do web analytics keyed off that; the law doesn't actually ban doing analytics.
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If a government reacts to this, then you know the project was a success.
I worry about things like this. I'm all for freedom of information and all that, but if that information is all that's keeping one country from launching nuclear weapons at another. That information should be kept very very private indeed,
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I believe it.

The part that's a bit misleading is the 30 minutes a day he mentions. Those 30 minutes require a LOT of preparation. Also he's a musician, so has "the ear" for it.
Sorry to be skeptical, but I can't help but think:
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This is slightly off topic but simply stated I just love IBM these days. There aren't many corporations that dedicate as much focus on research and yet, for a large corp. they also keep their nose surprisingly clean (these days). While we watch the swirling tech scandals ebb and flow they just quietly sit off to the side and keep changing the world.
100 words per day is definitely possible with very clever techniques and hard work, so is a vocabulary of about 20,000 words in 5 months, but to be fluent (C1) in using them is another story. It is certainly unrealistic unless we're talking 8+ hours a day immersion.
§66 on page 20 of Directive 2009/136/EC at [1] seems to explicitly allow the use of Do-not-track header as an opt-in mechanism:

Where it is technically possible and effective,
in accordance with the relevant provisions of
Directive 95/46/EC, the user’s consent to
processing may be expressed by using the
appropriate settings of a browser or other
application.

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...
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To add weight to your skepticism the article states, "Eventually (in another 10 years or so), li-ion batteries could be replaced with li-air batteries." !0 years is a long time-frame.
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I know, it's inspired.
Every year since the original dot com bubble, there have been posts asking and speculating we're in a bubble. Yet the clocks keep ticking.
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Without having had a closer look at it, how 'complex' you think the content and navigation could get? I.e. having a lot of relatively small 'articles' with lots of metadata plus the ability to browse, filter, sort, etc by metadata.
It would be nice for a niche community-run data-collection site where instead of using a relatively heavy web app to enable 'crowd editing' one could just have the json data in a git repo and use the fork-edit-pull work flow.
Shouldn't it then be a comment on that thread? I see plenty of comments in serious threads pointing out that topic was already discussed in referenced threads.
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I understand your concerns, but whoever decides what information will be kept secret is biased in some way and keeping information secret may actually pose a bigger threat than publishing it.
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You have to read the three reasons posted above and then the explanation. The service as implemented on the backend looks good but on the front end they need some help of the professional kind.

Also, including the Aviary viewer in the demo takes away from the product.
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You're right in that lessons are best learnt from personal mistakes.

I think there's value in being "told how it works" however, because:

1). It's a great sanity check for an existing undertaking, 'specially one that's heading for the rocks.

2). It's a good resource to use when trying to make a case to a project or program manager about a project, new business unit, etc.

As with anything in life, any particular position has an opposing position that's as justifiable.