skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is that there's nothing stopping the site from telling the browser that it is not tracking the user and then simply tracking them anyway.
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Yup. Everybody and their dog want fancy prompts with lots and lots of info, and I never understood why. Most of the time I don't need any information on my bloody prompt. I just need it to sit there and alert me if something is unusual, maybe, but not to get into my hair otherwise.

A couple of years ago I settled on one minimalist prompt, and I've used it ever since. I've even written my own post about fancy prompts[1] … I guess everybody has to have one!

[1] http://a-dimit.blogspot.de/2010/12/perfect-prompt.html
Can't you see the trend emerging today? Entrepreneurship is "cool" and every year seems to be ever more encouraged. At the same time, the internet is leveling everything. Barriers to entry are being plowed across the board. For example look at Arduino, a lot of the things people are making with it aren't exactly amazing. But consider how many posts you've seen of people with 0 experience in electronics, doing things that previously would have been "advanced".

That trend is only going to continue. Think about scaling a new website today, I can go from idea to scalable infrastructure without ever leaving my chair or breaking the bank. Imagine how 3D printing, and other new technologies are going to enable a new generation of people to do cool things.

None of this stuff is out of the grasp of teenagers either. I would not be surprised if you start seeing more and more stories about teenagers building new things, and making a few bucks while they're at it. They've always had the creativity, and drive. But now they have the capability.

Look at youtube, i've been watching videos made by teenagers that look better then most movies made in the 1980's. SLR's, and super high quality video, plus cheap computers & applications are enabling amateurs to do near professional quality stuff.
You're conveniently forgetting the ~20 years or so when robot chefs are so expensive only world-class restaurants can afford them. Then full-time eateries and supermarkets, then cafes, and finally cheap enough to buy for your home after years of billions of dollars of investment in the technology.
iDos is great for this. Playing Ultima V on my iPad is fantastic.
BB10 does indeed have an Android Player and in my experience it works pretty well. I played with it earlier in the year and while it did not support apps that made JNI calls at that time, it worked pretty well for vanilla Android applications. I assume JNI support will be added or perhaps has already been added since it's been while since I last looked at it.

I don't see why people would complain about no backwards compatibility with BB7. BB7 is legacy OS and almost a relic of another era compared to Android, iOS and QNX in BB10. If you are going to support apps for one other OS, Android is a much better target due to the sheer amount of apps out there.
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I disagree with selling sex being morally in a grey area

You didn't specify, do you think it is a morally white area? or a morally black area?

Better yet let's move away from colors. Do you think sex trade is immoral?

I'm genuinely curious because it wasn't obvious form reading your comment - and I'm not sure I have strong feelings one way other the other and so it would seem to me to be the epitome of a "gray area"
From my internet experience it's more common to find companies who forget the internet extends beyond the US
When it comes to computers, first they come big and bulky. They're not user-friendly. They're industrial.

Yes, you'll have robots cook you a meal at home eventually. This is just the first step. I don't want that massive thing in my kitchen. When it's tiny, portable, and user friendly ... then it's fine.

> Robots in a restaurant benefit only the owner, not the customer (esp. when they burn the burgers like in the pictures).

I've had plenty of humans make me a shitty burger. The good thing about machines is that once you tune them, they'll make the same exact burger, every single time. That's a huge benefit to consumers. Now I won't have to eat someone's bad day!
Interesting, you don't think of Krispy Kreme as making robot donuts.

Curious that Macdonald's, with so much careful specification of all processes, hasn't done this, at all. e.g. fry/remove/salt fries. (though their standard coffee is mostly automated). Macdonald's is so well-placed, I can only assume it isn't actually cost-effective for them. Maybe it's worth it for Momentum, for the PR? Or, by starting from scratch, they can make radical changes? Or, it isn't happening? (it's just a "concept" so far).

Finally, Larry Niven wrote a short story about automated restaurants "Intent to Deceive" (1968).
Might as well put it on a cronjob and be done with it!
It started off as an experiment but when she created an auto-response to the email things quickly descended into ridiculousness. The fact that my wife constantly tries to 'out-geek' me is one of the many reasons I married her.

In all seriousness, (this is HN after all), the WP App can automate tons of functions into a one tap process that otherwise would have required multiple steps.
Android apps need to be repackaged in order to run on a BlackBerry device, however the process (at least for me with 4 apps) is pretty painless. My four apps took about half a day. Add in the time it took to collect images and metadata and it took all of 7 hours work to prepare and submit them.
The worst thing I'm seeing in the mobile race is the two winners (iPhone and Android) are not adopting any of the good innovative things from the "losers". For example, WebOS is all but dead, had a ton of innovative things like Cards, Just Type, inductive charging, notifications on the bottom, and as far as I can tell, none of those things are being used (or are being used in a much more muted way) but iPhone and Android.

Instead the two big players are only adopting features from the other. To make matters worse, you can't easily (at all?) choose to install your own OS on a phone, so over time as the "losers" drop off we're going to be left with 2 phone plaforms that are more or less the same and haven't made any major UI changes since they became successful. And there will be no out for us who want something different.
The biggest features I use from zsh is awesome tab completion. For example, partial tab completion:

$ ls
./
../
project-foo/
project-bar/
$ cd foo <tab> ----> cd project-foo

Expand paths:

$ cd /ho/wti/Drop <tab> ----> cd /home/wting/Dropbox

Fuzzy matching:

$ cd /tpm/blh <tab> ----> cd /tmp/blah

Also expanding remote paths.
Because adblock gives the a free ride -- if adblock meant that you would have to pay before viewing sites that normally have ads, I am pretty sure most of those people would uninstall it.
Interesting article, though the author's picture is definitely swearing at me.
Steve Jobs did it to Apple Computers in 1997. Though admittedly that's a rare case.
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DNT is pretty laughably ill conceived. Vague definitions of what is able to be tracked, what constitutes a first party and third party (Is a browser vendor first party or third party?). Some of the major proponents are companies like Google and Microsoft, both with their respective gigantic ad platforms DART and Atlas. Would they be able to collect data directly from the browser and dominate the ad world? It's certain that if this were legislated that it would destroy the business model for many large companies. (Yahoo, ValueClick, AOL).

The existing legislation requires an opt-out policy from tracking. Advertisers must respect the user's choice with regards to targeted advertising. Does Microsoft turning on DNT by default represent the users choice or does it represent Microsoft's interests? What about third party identification for things like disqus? Sure we have ways to handle CORS today but what if there was a law (that only effected the USA) saying you were not allowed to "track" if you were a third party? If it's just about advancing web technologies why isn't this just a w3c proposal or RFC? What's wrong with the existing opt-out methods?

From what I see DNT is just a political tactic to gain power in the ad-world, not a way to protect the privacy of users.
> The good thing about machines is that once you tune them, they'll make the same exact burger, every single time. That's a huge benefit to consumers. Now I won't have to eat someone's bad day!

OTOH, the robots will ignore your complaints and never try to be friendly for a higher tip ...
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You don't seem emotionally mature enough to discuss this subject.

I personally view pedophilia as a mental disease, but beating the shit out of them or burning them on the steak isn't going to fix anything. If people didn't react like you do when it comes to pedophilia maybe we'd have an easier time working with them to isolate what goes wrong to create this and begin to work on a fix.
I'd love to see enough jobs automated so that when somebody asks, "But what about the people who do those jobs now?" the answer is "Everybody in the remaining jobs drop down to 20 hours a week, the unemployed take up the other 20 hours a week, and we all enjoy more leisure time." I don't see it happening, but it would be nice.

It's a little disappointing that despite immense advances in technology and production, and increased efficiency, all we're achieving is having people toil the same amount as before, but doing something else.
We have to hold their feet to the fire and make clear that righteously voting no and promising not to use the new powers isn't enough: if this law passes the US and EU countries need to leave the ITU and cut off the international calling and satellite rights cash cow with it.
This is a great idea. I was literally just thinking about how I wish there was a site for aggregating good-will coding requests & submissions.

I'm going to do my best to participate.

This is a great concept and execution. Thanks for taking the initiative to make this a reality. Well done!
Wow you can die going to high, that ruined my long run.

Gravity seems a little strange to me.
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> nothing in the info it gave back looked especially unusual.

It doesn't have to be unusual, it just has to vary slightly from machine to machine. It's the specific combination of those slight variations that's unusual.
That this is even a debate is preposterous to me. I am a buyer. I love to shop. I also love the internet. What I don't love is being FORCED to view advertising I have no desire to view. Is advertising a right? If so, I've certainly never heard of it. I personally could not care less if internet advertisers dropped dead of starvation. They have no inherent right to follow me around to check out what I am doing in my personal time just so they can MAYBE get me to buy something that will put money in their pockets and food in their mouths. I think it is time to send advertisers a message (SOPA/PIPA style). I think it is time to send congress a message that states that we DO NOT WANT forced advertising and we will not be silent until we get it. Opt-In is the only acceptable choice for a free society.

I certainly understand the ad industry wanting to make enough money to eat. I also understand the importance of advertising. It is a great way to raise capital while offering viewers a chance to see what products and services are out there. It is also a great way to financially support a site. I have made many purchases due to great advertising. But is it really their right to force ads on us while we have no right to a simple "leave me alone" button? Maybe there could be an option version of "do not track" that allows advertising based on the SITE information or adblocking that removes ALL ads. Then let the consumer choose. I would certainly accept a non-tracking option most of the time. Am I completely unique in this?

As for the argument that viewers will not opt-in to advertising, I simply laugh. I use "do not track" and ad blocking implementations extensively. However, I turn it off (my version of opting in to advertising) for family birthdays, anniversaries, and especially holidays. How else will I find the best deals? However, the rest of the time, I have absolutely no desire to see any Web page containing 50% (conservative for some sites) advertising. Unless I am completely unique in this world, I cannot imagine that I am the only individual who does this.

Again, why is a consumers right to be tracked or advertised versus a company's right to track me and advertise to me even a debate?
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This space tends to be not tech saavy or sexy, but has a lot of dollars. Were you mostly collecting the leads and then selling them off to national buyers like QuinStreet etc? That seems to me like the only way to go from $0 to $1mm in a year. I have a lot more questions like how you deal with leads quality, if you were driving the traffic yourself (PPC, SEO, media buys, etc).
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Or else a sophisticated plug for 'Call of Duty'?
The code for the site itself is also open source: https://github.com/andrew/24pullrequests/
Cookies aren't really necessary, you can track people server side based on their browser make up, and they won't know they're being tracked.

In theory, maybe. In practice, no that's not true. The big web advertising companies all subscribe to the Internet Advertising Board's code of standards which prohibits anything like panopticon-style user tracking.
Thanks for this Ross. Its always an interesting choice (and its good to have a choice!) I recall when my CEO got an offer to buy the company in the late 90's and turned it down because he was fixated on going public. Even later it wasn't clear if that was the 'right' financial choice or not, but as a VC funded company it really drove a wedge between him and the board. That was a really high price to pay.

You didn't mention the size of your team at the time of the sale, was it just you? You and a co-founder? How did they feel one way or the other about the choices?
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From the article: debilitating addiction to cannabis

Medically, this makes no sense.
> auto-response to the email

Sounds more like your respective phones are married :)
I'm going to plug a small CLI program I maintain -- autojump: https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump/#name

It tracks which directories used most often so you can simply use `j <dir>` to jump to that directory rather than type / tab-complete the full path name. It also does some fuzzy matching for mistyped names. For example:

~ $ j au
~/code/autojump $ j donw
~/Download $ j scra
/scratch/03158/wting $
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add scheduling and you can start automating your marriage. Win all around.
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Bought the book on your recommendation. Thanks.
If something like this were to pass i can't see the EU or the US going along with it. Even more so i can't see large tech companies like Google and Facebook going along with this. While I no hard figures i could see something like this devastating there income, maybe even to an extent to where it would be cheaper for them to just block access to these regions. Maybe i am over exaggerating the matter idk, but there is no way they would willingly go along with this as it proposed.
Might I humbly suggest that you READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE.
Really, you can't imagine anything? You can't imagine a good thing someone might want to do over a network that is (well, is meant to be anyway) completely anonymous? Seriously, right now with Arab Spring going on, Syria shutting off the internet, China having the biggest firewall, other countries fiddling around with censorship, people going to jail for tweets or clicking "like" on facebook and you can't think of a valid reason one might want to be able to hide their online activities from prying eyes?
I think the current answer fails to mention two important things:

1. GitHub.

2. Linus himself wrote it (the kernel previously used BitKeeper but that never got any real traction AFAIK).

Having said that, I think this phrase totally nails it:

"If it's good enough for the Linux kernel, it's good enough for you" is a very convincing argument.
Plays some stupid He-Man cartoon music video.
Last I checked, this prevents distribution in an App store (correct me if I'm wrong) but there is nothing preventing you from using it on say OS X
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I'd be interested to know what MUD it is. :)
If the built-in disk has low enough latency, your memory needs go way down as giant predictive disk caches become unnecessary and swapping is less of a performance killer.

Moving to SSD let me put a VM on my 8GB laptop that stole half the RAM without destroying my ability to run a couple of visual studios, office and a pile of chrome tabs. Under 4GB and spinning disk that was unworkable.

RAM needs might be stagnating for a few years as high-performance flash becomes commonplace and applications don't have to be as aggressive about keeping everything in memory.
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Facebook gave preferential treatment to Zynga too, so that can't be the reason Google+ Games did not succeed. Perhaps it is more relevant that Google+ is not widely used and those who do use it are less likely to be into things like Farmville (demographics).
Or, from another perspective, "Linux uses it, so we should too!"
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“… the faculty would consist of professionals the students would work with as well as traditional professors ... by de-emphasizing or eliminating lecture-based courses, having their students more engaged in research and co-ops in the broader world …”

The problem lies in the teaching materials and the teachers. In most cases, faculties don’t have real world working experience, so they just provide their students with examples from text books. And text books are written by faculties who mostly don’t have real world experience. Also, the race in producing research artifacts is extremely distracting for the faculty members. Universities need to distinguish between teaching faculty and research faculty.

As a very simple example, a state machine is a very helpful design tool if used properly. But, I noticed almost none of the new hires knows that a state machine is best used in modeling the physical world, people keep using this concept in very inefficient ways (here is a concise version of what I teach http://www.drdacademy.com/?id=13).
That's not my point at all.

I'm saying if someone can't do intellectual work, get them to do something that uses other skills. But let's make that something useful, rather than something we could automate away.
so why don't you just buy from b&n?
>This is the real challenge RIM faces -- in an ecosystem-based market

It is no longer a smartphone market. It is, as you said, and ecosystem market. Incidentally, a phone's ecosystem goes beyond even the entire platform of the OS, and includes multiple OSes. Apple has reaped incredible benefits not just because iOS has a vibrant app store and it ends there, but because iOS has a powerful desktop OSX ecosystem that people want to link up with and get a value add from. The halo effect.

This is why I think RIM is essentially doomed. If they deliver an absolutely stunning operating system nested in a peerless hardware chassis that just nails it perfectly...they will have provided an answer to the wrong problem. I just have not heard RIM even whisper compellingly about how it is going to deliver that vibrant ecosystem that is absolutely not an option, in the face of challenges like BYOD, the lack of any developer interest, the historic lack of developer interest, the lack of an app store (yes I know), the lack of consumer media content to sell, etc. Do consumers even want another mobile OS even a little bit?. Devs absolutely will not show up until consumers by it in droves, and how is RIM going to deliver the chicken and the egg at the same time?

I believe they dropped the ball years ago, and now they are just paying the protracted price and it's probably too late. An incredible OS on incredible hardware isn't what they need to deliver, -just an absurdly small piece of it.
Fantastic idea.

Now someone gift suhosin code for php 5.4 https://github.com/stefanesser/suhosin/

I am starting to fear one-person projects no matter how great.
I loved Vib Ribbon and I'm very glad to see it there too, it was groundbreaking at the time but never really gained any popularity and has long since been forgotten.
Whatever it does, it's using SockJS to do it :)
I thought this was going to be a snarky response at first - "I'm a programmer so I can't do art; as an artist can you do programming?!" - but I was wrong.

I'd love for there to be a Bob Ross style course on game programming, his soothing voice combined with his rose-tinted vision of everything would be awesome. Happy little clouds
That's pretty impressive. if they work well this is really a huge win. I wish windows phone 8 could do that.
Neat writeup, now please please please search and replace "MAC" with "Mac" so it doesn't look like it's all about Ethernet hardware addressing or cosmetics? ;)
Great article. I’m the same way, don’t have the discipline to sit through something like LPTHW. For beginners I’ll suggest hosting on Heroku. They have great guides on their support site and you won’t have to think about all that process management. They’re still free if your project only needs one worker (low traffic, no task queues or such).
More importantly, what about mentally challenged people? Already today, there are many people now who cannot function on their own, the jobs for which they were qualified have dried up. How many people can we support on disability as job requirements keep rising?
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But then a lot of websites wouldn't work properly because they are pushing IE specific CSS (or whatever) on you.

I haven't installed any weird versions of plugins, I assumed they would be tied to whatever chrome version I have.

And Ubuntu isn't rare enough for me to be the only person using it (especially on EFF).

Going to have to experiment with this a bit.
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I agree - that would be an awesome follow up post to garner more insights into getting the start-up from day 1 to selling it :)
It's not the people on this board who need to worry. What responsibility does society have for those (let's say.. IQ 75) who are incapable of this?
i believe mike was fighting for any excuse of his action.

knowing stefan (a small bit) i can only agree that he is one of the most charming, smart and helpful people in the london scene. that offense is super-far out of character for him
I think that will happen to the extent that people want it to. It's happening now, in fact, with things like semi-retirement and freelancing and professional (but not rich) bloggers/web comic authors and so forth on the rise. You can live a very frugal lifestyle and have a lot of free time if you want.

Most people seem to be choosing to spend productivity gains on "more stuff" rather than "more time". And that is certainly their prerogative. :) I mean, with so many people working so productively for so many hours, there is a lot of cool stuff available nowadays.
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You can suggests projects for people to work on here: http://24pullrequests.com/projects

We'll then be sending out regular emails with new suggested projects for people to work on.
No one ever got fired for going with Linus ;-)