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Ask HN: How does Twitter know who my former therapist was?
I got an email today with suggestions of people to follow, including my former therapist. This was a little surprising because he only has 13 followers and follows 5 people. My only guess is this information came from email and browsing behavior that was collected and sold to twitter? Does anyone have a good explanation?
I highly recommend reading through Charlie's Comments. They're just as good as the article and touch on everything from building construction to Scottish Independence to creating an atmosphere in the Vales Marineris rift valley on Mars.
Thanks for the ideas and thoughts, I'll link the team to this post :)
We're on Hacker News. Couldn't you at least try to give a meaningful description of what doesn't work?
Notify me when a flight hits a certain price. Simple GUI.
I was in the grand bazaar in Istanbul with a bunch of Israelis and Russians. They specifically told me not to open my because the second then knew I was an American the price would get jacked. Truth.
I don't think there's really such a gap in general. Classicists have been using computer-assisted frequency analysis for decades now to do things such as authorship attribution, and classics is otherwise a pretty staid and conservative field. I would guess this particular researcher just wasn't familiar with computational methods.
> seemed to believe ... so wouldn't be so sure about that ;P

Sticking your tongue out and winking doesn't change the fact of what Facebook themselves tell us right on that page:

“... independent of this setting, you may still see social actions in other contexts, like in Sponsored Stories...”

Believing otherwise may be a bit of cargo culting -- the Sponsor has recently shown you and may simply not be showing you again for a while.

Colleagues and I have the setting set to "Pair my social actions with ads for No One", and have had it set since the setting was introduced. Our Likes definitely show up in "Sponsored Stories" whenever the Sponsor wants to pay to show our friends we liked them.

As Facebook tells us point blank, we are seeing social actions in Sponsored Stories.
Verizon to throttle pirates’ download speeds
5 Industry Or Hund Land For Sale or Rent in DENIZLI-PINARKENT
If you've got a moment it'd be good to know your configuration. My default answer is to recommend Chrome, but all versions of Firefox are supported (for those without WebGL support we provide a small plugin as an alternative).
The obvious vox.io promotion ruins this post for me. If it said "IM" rather than "vox.io" everywhere, I'd send it to a few "rude" friends, but now it feels like it's specific to vox.io.
Well it is LWN which has a history of crappy reporting. It's like reading an East German newspaper in the 1980s.
And even if you do like tablets, typing even relatively short messages on a tablet is seriously non-fun.

The keyboard on the new Samsung Chromebook is fantastic; basically a clone of a MacBook Air keyboard. The touchpad also works really well. (Though I do miss three finger or tap-and-a-half dragging. On the Chromebook you have to click-and-hold the touchpad to drag.)

Sure you can get a netbook and run Chrome, but I have one of those and never use it. The screen flickers, the keyboard is mediocre, and the touchpad sucks. And it's from a good company too.
Yeah, LWN is pretty bad, I wonder why does it have so much appeal?
Today I learned that people complain to Google that they don't autocomplete things that the people feel should be autocompleted, like "bisexual". They actually complain to Google about the details of its autocompletion.
Actually weeding out "weak" genes is eugenics, it is increasingly done without genocide. This appears to be a larger ethical issue today (and certainly in the 60s and 70s) than during the holocaust.
Is solar shade so much hardrer to launch than retooling all the biology to live at 45C and still dealing with the world that sucks? Launching a large slightly opaque mirror to shade select aread of Earth does not seem impossible to me.

It seems he bet everything on climate being out of control.
Ultrabook or Macbook: Which one you should buy?
My new Chromebook is so cheap that I just bring it everywhere. If I lose it, no biggie.

I love my 11-inch MacBook Air a lot more, which means, ironically, I leave it at home because I couldn't bear to have it damaged or lost. Also, I have the Air hooked up to speakers in my bedroom so it's more of a pain to just grab it and go.

Additionally my MacBook Air is typically upstairs and I keep the Chromebook downstairs, so if I just want to check my email or HN, I don't have to run up and down the stairs to find where I left the computer.
Let me guess, this is about Gnome3 and systemd (and other poetteringisms)? I think that maybe dropping Gnome3 and focusing on alternate desktops would be the way to ensure survival. Trying to keep up with Gnome3 is an uphill battle. And in smaller projects BSD developers would have proportionally larger voice.
"I'm also going to ignore space colonization, because I want to focus on this planet."

Europe changed when explorers "discovered" the new world. Saying you are only going to focus on "this planet" is like saying I am only going to focus on the "old world" when talking about earth 500 years ago.

In my mind the rest of the article is pointless because the author is using the old world way of thinking about this planet.

The fact is the exploration of space is very similar as what happened 520 years ago. What happens when the price of getting to orbit drops significantly because of reusable rockets? Already there are companies that are planning on mining astroids. Saying that this is not going to effect earth in a major way is not really looking at where earth will be in 2512.

Space exploration is going to define the next 500 years of humanity and of this planet just as exploration of the new world defined the last 500 years.
The bigger problem (IMHO) is going to be certain elements and metals that aren't so easily replaced. I agree with the author that getting certain elements from space is going to be economically tricky (rather than technologically tricky) compared to how cheap it is to pull stuff out of the ground.

I'm not convinced that 'economically tricky' will mean anything in 500 years. Assuming that we have essentially unlimited free energy, and AI capable of autonomously handling things like building, manufacturing and farming (which doesn't necessarily require strong AI), the cost of everything will ultimately head towards zero, surely?
I doubt it. The article makes this sound pretty specific to producing the magnetic disks used in hard drives. I don't see any reason why this would also work for silicon processes.
flot is nice, at least for real time updates on charts. I'm building a websockets enabled realtime dashboard with flot, left it running last weekend, did not leak a bit.
I'm seeing just a blue to white vertical gradient, so I'd hazard a guess that the whole thing isn't working. (And yes, WebGL is working.)
Just played it on ff 16.0.2 no problem.
Why would Amazon buy a division that has no employees?
You're right. But you can do a `cache:http://...` in google.com's search bar, which is how I do it. And unless I'm mistaken, Chrome's built-in search bar is called OmniBar, so my wording was (incidentally) correct! ;-)
It would be nice if there was a unified driver model that the OS developers could easily add a wrapper level to accomodate there needs. If hardware companies had full open source drivers then this would be less of an issue, this is not the rosey situation we have and in many area's we have binary blobs. Binary blobs targeted at an OS and CPU.

Now with the advent of ARM, the sence to have open source drivers becomes more palatable and hopefully sainer. More options for your hardware to run upon and be sold upon is more sales. If you open source things and let the community help then they help and you get more win win. It is the area's were companies want to protect IP they have above and beyond the patent protection. There are cases if they are using others IP in there product which they pay to use that prevents them from releaseing the source and at best able to do binary blobs. If we had binary blobs that you could add your own wrapper around and accomodate a OS's needs, then you would still have more platforms than not open to you.

But this realy is mostly down to fancy networking cards, graphics cards and anything with a radio in it mostly. But there are always options and with the right purchaseing you can vote with your money. Support the ability to change your OS even if you don't plan on it today, think of the children :).
Founder = Learning To Juggle While Riding A Unicycle On A TightRope
Your therapist probably gave permission for Twitter to scan their phone's or computer's contacts and it found your email. Then it recommended them to you. My phone's notification bar had an offer from Twitter to help me find more friends this way just this morning.
Honestly, I don't understand your and the parent's comment. I really, really like LWN and appreciate what it does for the Linux and broader FOSS community. In my opinion LWN doesn't only shine when compared to some crappy "linux news pages" coughphoronixcough but also when compared to higher-quality, "traditional" media.

I'm really interested in hearing of sites that others assert a high quality to. Would you please care to elaborate which sites you prefer instead of LWN?
"It is a conundrum. If I were to hack into Microsoft and obtain the source to Windows 8, release it on github under the GPL - it seems highly unlikely that would be honored. Although if even one single person downloaded it under GPL then technically they should be able to distribute their own version under GPL."

While I think there is a lot of legal subtlety at play in the nv3d case, I think your case is a lot more clear cut. You never had the legal authority to make the Windows 8 source code GPL in the first place, so the code isn't GPL, no matter what the README you attached to it says and people continuing to distribute it would be in clear violation of copyright.

Your Windows 8 example is pretty clear cut, sort of like if I steal your car and resell it to someone else. Just because they bought the car doesn't mean they own it, it still belongs to the original owner though the person who bought it clearly has a legal case for restitution against the person who sold it to them without owning it.
The article suggests this as well. In the last paragraph, they say that a second coding using numbers could be treasured in the text.
I don't see how being 15 years old requires any empathy by default.
The author of the original article, Charles Stross, wrote a lengthy piece on space colonization a while back, explaining why he believes it's implausible, which may be why he's not examining it in more detail here:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...
Cool. In addition to being a job board, perhaps you could scrape the feeds of FOSS companies.

Mozilla- http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Xml.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa

Khan Academy- http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Xml.aspx?k=JobListing...

Canonical- https://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH03/ats/servlet/Rss?org=CANONICAL&...
Very good points, and well researched.

"It's highly unlikely a judge is going to find you have the same rights as the open source license, unless you were actually relying on all of those rights. You certainly would not be able to sublicense those rights further, except to those you had already. This is not the same as Novus's ability to "stop licensing the software to new parties", it means you would not be able to give others the rights you had gotten through estoppel."--I agree 100%. My apologies to other readers if I implied the opposite. I do still think that estoppel would protect licensees themselves insofar as they had relied on the software in, e.g., the development of their businesses.

Your point about sub licensing is well taken and deserves further exploration. It would appear that, estoppel or not, those who are now rereleasing the software may be on shaky legal ground. As you said, estoppel would probably not give you the right to sublicense, which is effectively what these folks are doing.

"Essential to the creation of apparent authority are words
or conduct of the principal, communicated to a third party,
that give rise to the appearance and belief
that the agent possesses authority to enter into a
transaction"--Agreed. I was under the impression this had transpired in the present case. I'm not sure about New York, but in many jurisdictions a principal's failure to act (given some other criteria) can be enough. I was thinking that would come into play here. Naturally it would depend on the exact facts, of which I am uncertain.

I would also raise the question of jurisdiction. Novus may be in New York, but what of licensees in other states? They could potentially make the argument that their states' laws apply, because part of the "transaction," i.e. the downloading and licensing of the software, occurred there. Would this argument succeed? I dunno.
Maybe, maybe not: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/15/E53.full
I would hope the learn the diffrence between pro-market and pro-buissness. Or rather I hope that anybody learns it.
متجر getjar للتطبيقات المجانية للاندرويد
Wow, not often accomplishments from people you actually know and have had as teachers end up on the frontpage of HN. I was at the same talk by Kevin Knight as Schaefer and I can vouch for that it was a mighty interesting one! I actually changed my curriculum a bit (to include cryptography) as a result of his talk.
It's more than that. Designers tend to use Macs. OS X's Quartz font engine renders text more heavily (and wider) than Windows' or Linux's does, and Chrome on Windows in particular suffers because it uses GDI for font rendering rather than DirectWrite like IE and Firefox do.

Chrome on Windows also happens to be the single largest web browser demographic, making it particularly hilarious that designers on their Macs end up designing these websites with utterly illegible fonts.

Arial and Helvetica may not be cool, but they're readable.

Here's Chrome 25 on Windows: http://cl.ly/image/000u2i2C0S3Q

And here's Chrome 24 on OS X: http://cl.ly/image/0t132S3b3k0d/o
Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition
Oh a 15 year old, how cute. So, what about that module? Why is it special enough to be posted to HN?

The age is not relevant. Imagine someone of 36 made this module and included his age. If he had gotten into programming at 35 and this was some kick-ass thing, then yeah that would be kinda neat. Now you could have been programming for five years or so, which gives you a big advantage.

If you had been twelve or so, then I'd say it rocks. But fifteen is a fine age to develop something.

I don't mean to discourage you at all, just let the product speak and not your age.
Funnily enough, while it is comes off as a very reasonable request linguistically, it is one of the most offensive takedown requests I've ever seen, given the backstory of this library.
Android 4.2: December month missing in calendar
That's hardly the same thing.

>a few .json files
>one .vimrc
It can also be a good idea to go to a shop without buying anything, but just to see how low the price will go before the vendor stops going down. That gives you a rough idea of the typical markup in that neighborhood. I've known street vendors in thailand to give 90% off.

But the thing is that these people need the high margin sales to make a living. They'll sell at the lowest price that they're still making money, but if all of their sales are like that they're not making a living. That's why you shouldn't haggle all the way down if you like the vendor.
It's commonly known, especially on HN, that self education works much better than any school. I too surpass pretty much everyone at school because I started programming much earlier.
You've got one hell of a future.
The actual relationship is more two-way, as plant roots exist in symbiosis with mycorrhizae, providing sugar in exchange for minerals and other micronutrients.
Maybe we'll figure we can replace all elements with some configuration of carbon atoms.
I wonder how much those patent examiners in particular will use http://patents.stackexchange.com/
This is cool and it works well.

However the graphics are giving me a headache. I played for 10 minutes and I quickly couldn't find my mouse's cursor, nor distinguish between enemies and the background, enemies and the rewards, and enemies from myself. Too many colors.
We'll always be able to find something which is still expensive. And everything has scaling limits. For example our "essentially unlimited" energy source might give us enough to power a 21st-century lifestyle essentially free, but might still be prohibitively expensive when you try to use it for intergalactic travel, or for running computer simulations of googols of universes.
It's implausible that these characters just happen to
appear with a language-like frequency distribution and
are all meaningless spaces

Really? If I were to try to pick random letters I suspect I would end up mirroring the frequency that they appeared in English.
Actually, even with opensource you may never know it happened. Does not matter where it comes from:

- They have to find it out first.

- Then they've to be willing to disclose the incident

- Even if, you still trust the source of the packages, the developers, etc. There's a zillion bugs that look like "just an error" which can also be "just a backdoor".

For these reasons, running mac, checking modified files, etc is ALWAYS good practice (that you seem to follow, don't get me wrong - but that's pretty rare)
A Simple LinkedIn Hack
Part of the reason Linux has such a huge number of devs is because the community is welcoming and forgiving of noobs.

OpenBSD was my first unix, and as much as I tried to contribute, I didn't last through their toxic developer community long enough to be a useful contributor.

This high bar is required to keep the system as secure as they want, but the trade off means scaring off devs, which is the real core of the bsd/Linux divide.
That's a very difficult question of fact, and one which I think could easily be a central if this went to trial.
"Free energy" is a misnomer. There is the cost of fuel and the cost of what produces the energy (capital, maintenance, land, labour, etc costs).

The attraction of fusion is "free energy" in that hydrogen is plentiful (even deuterium is plentiful, tritium less so). Helium is not unlimited at least here on Earth and we're busy pissing away our supply on party balloons thanks to a US government decision to sell its strategic reserve in the 90s.

But a fusion plant is expensive. It costs money for the raw materials and the labour to build and maintain it such that the energy it produces--if it ever becomes economically viable, which is far from certain--will not be "free".

Computing power might be cheap but it's not free. An AI/robot won't be "free" in the same sense either. They'll cost money to build. Those resources will cost money.

Also, not all energy is the same. Plants that power the electrical grid are one thing. The energy required to hurtle a large metal object into space is something else. Fusion might work quite well for infrastructure but will it be made to work where we currently use kerosene and oxygen? That vehicle too costs money.
Yeah, it probably wouldn't be honored unless the company did something to indicate they sanctioned your actions. Your second scenario, in which the company leaves it up for a year, may go a little ways towards creating apparent authority. However, if you had no prior connection to Microsoft, the court would probably say a reasonable person would not believe you had the authority. Even if you were a Microsoft employee, because it's Windows 8 in particular, the bar would be pretty high for showing that a reasonable person would actually trust the authenticity of this open source license.
You might have to enable a setting in chrome://flags in normal Chrome.
The spammers are linking the content to blogspot blogs so that they can: 1. hide the referrer from their affiliate program (to prevent getting banned for spamming) 2. to utilize the temp increase in search engine rankings 3. save money on domains for one-off usage

Actually, in most cases, these reasons have little to do with it. For the most part, the pages are created on public sites because the links are spammed on social networks, and those networks quickly block postings with the same links over and over again. So, if you can create hundreds of different URLs with the same landing page, you can have hundreds of times the spam posts go through and not be blocked. Most of these guys don't bother with private domains because social networks will quickly issue a blanket block to all posts containing links to untrusted domains that have been reported to them for spam, but they will never issue a blanket block for a site like Github or Facebook. So the links last longer.

As to the specifics:

1) 1. hide the referrer from their affiliate program (to prevent getting banned for spamming). There are much easier and reliable ways to not only hide, but entirely change, the referer. See http://www.contentgeneration.org/cpa-redirector-2/

2)to utilize the temp increase in search engine rankings
These sites aren't meant for that. Whether they link from the landing page straight to the affiliate link, or they go to a lander that is used to change the referer, they don't care about the search rankings of the links.
I only follow them after I got owned in '97 on the end of a dialup for running an open telnet server (on FreeBSD) with a crappy root password :)
dueling dragons: http://new.weavesilk.com/?d7h7
That isn't actually true. Cleats or no, the power comes from the down stroke not the up stroke: see http://roadcyclinguk.com/riding/bike-fitting-the-myth-of-the... . While there are good reasons to use cleats (mostly so your feet won't come off the pedals), I haven't seen any evidence of significant efficiency gains. Furthermore there are plenty of ordinary shoes with sufficiently stiff soles to cycle in.
I agree with you. Inventing a new business model is difficult and can take a lot of time. While keeping a website like twitter up takes a lot of money, so they do not have the luxury to keep working on this new business model.

I guess to succeed in this business you need to have your business model figured out from the start, else you may end up making similar decisions as twitter did under pressure to make money quickly.
Harsh -- Compass extension
This is my first Compass extension, and I would love some feedback. Thanks!
OpenBSD isn't for desktop, it is a small networked server. (And what modern X environments you're talking about without nvidia/radeon drivers and accelerated OpenGL?)

I have built a firewall from an old slow 1U Sun Netra "server" with OpenBSD/spark64 and it is still in production after almost 7 years? Why? Because punks cannot hack it with Linux/x86 exploits.) Because it has enough resources to be a gateway (firewall, openvpn, secondary dns, etc.)

Well, nowadays you anyone could buy a $50 box with linux flashed inside to do some fire-walling and some routing, and the art of making BSD-based gateways and servers almost disappeared.

Nevertheless OpenBSD is a multi-platform network server, secure and stable, in the first place. Modern X11 is irrelevant.

btw, they finally implemented kernel pthreads in the last release, so, our postgres...))