skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gmail + trick can be defeated, though. If you own a domain, you can use arbitrary addresses and it becomes more reliable.

I use Google Apps (possibly not a good idea but soo convenient :/) with a catchall. I didn't catch any offender so far...

However (off topic), spammers are spoofing addresses as if they were coming from my domain. I receive two to three dozens automatic replies from mail servers (this address does not exist...).

I've properly set up DKIM and SPF records, making it obvious that these mails are spoofed, but I'm afraid my domain will end up on grey/black lists... Anyone out here familiar with this kind of issue?
More likely to be the battery pack. You can trade kWh for manufacturability and materials cost.
Hi there, took a look at the site, here's some feedback:

I liked the overall look, it's a fairly clean design. The #1 issue I have is that the boxes around each deal are scaling in size with the number of lines of text in the item description. This throws off the next element below so that nothing lines up. It might be an OCD issue on my part but I think it is distracting.

Next big thing I noticed is that your first row of deals is rather stale. The first couple I clicked on were both 2 weeks old. They were both in your highlighted section of the first row. That gives me the impression there isn't a reason to come back any soon. Maybe I just need to refresh a few times....

You should always check out your competition so....

For comparison, slickdeals.net has daily deals and pictures for each of their items, local deals on the sidebar, and a huge variety of items. I think your site needs a better 'hook' than just a 'visual UI for deal discovery'.

Your site seems to be a bit more focused on the social aspect of shopping.(sharing deals with friends) That brings up the old chicken-and-egg problem of socially based websites. You need users for a compelling product but you can't get those users without a compelling product.

I suggest you follow the founders of reddit and fake it.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/reddit-founders-made...
Seriously? It's hard to find an example? I'd suggest buying a copy of Thief :)

Yes, the ideas behind component systems are that old. (The earliest reference that I recall off-hand is Scott Bilas presentation from GDC 2002: http://scottbilas.com/files/2002/gdc_san_jose/game_objects_s...)

There's plenty of explanation on the Internet.
I have not dealt with this situation so I can only offer my own opinion.

What's important is for you to figure out what you would like to do. As the founder of the company, you're the one who sets the direction of the company. As the sole founder, the company is you.

My recommendation is to try and take some time off, if possible, to figure out what it is you would like to do. Don't think of the company. Only yourself. If you discover what you want to do, then go and do it. If you don't, no worries. You can always get a job, and continue to think about what you would like to do on the side.

As for the company, you can choose to do with it as you please. You could turn it into a side business to keep it going. Hire someone full-time to help with the work. Or you could try and sell the company to someone. Or just shut it down. Later, when you discover something you really want to do and are ready to do it again, you could always start up another company.

Hope this helps a little.
Largest known domain purchase of 2012? Investing.com for $2.75M
No, that's the wrong solution. The traffic still tells them that there is still interest to monetize, they just may need to stoop to new lows to get to it.

Loudly tell them that their spying is unacceptable, then actually follow up on that statement. Ghostery is awesome, but that's a proactive measure. We're talking about appropriate reactions.
Good point! This letter was written after I've done much of that. Unfortunately, nothing has been done yet. But that's definitely the attitude that one should take (unfortunately, it's just deteriorated over time).

The reason I sent this email (and others) to Tom is because it seems like he's lost interest in the project - which is totally fine! As it's an insanely popular project, however, (one which the public has not forgotten about, certainly), I have an intense desire to push it forward and see it become all that it can be!
Honest question: What is the use case for these with the trend toward virtualization on more powerful hardware? The machines are really neat, but what in what fields are they used?
The debs on the Elasticsearch site are links to Github downloads: http://www.elasticsearch.org/download/2012/12/07/0.20.1.html links to https://github.com/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/ela.... If you don't have a reflex to check the destination of a link to a binary you might not notice it that much, but I see a decent number of projects hosting their release builds on github. It's certainly common for APKs as was pointed out above, but I've seen it for Adium plugins, debs & rpms, even full apps - if memory serves the precompiled SSHuttle gui for OS X was hosted on github as well as the code.
Same as always: have something they need. I've worked for a top-three consulting firm (only because they bought the consulting firm I worked for at the time).

Surprise: their expertise is Excel and PowerPoint (mostly PowerPoint). These are not the ideal tools for all projects. Much better to just buy what you need when you need it (and mark it up 400%).
It does indeed use version information, not just the browser's but also of every installed plugin including Flash. So a single rev is going to give a new fingerprint. Plus, far fewer people are checking it as when it first launched, making those who do check it from time to time even more unique.

But note that a constantly changing fingerprint doesn't make it useless for tracking - if a site can keep any kind of cookie to persist between browser updates, it could add the updated signature. Then when you purge cookies and persistent storage, a site can re-add the cookie to keep on identifying you if your signature hasn't changed.

You'd have to purge all persistant storage at the same time as an update to avoid this, and even then (or if you never had persistent data to begin with) your IP or even geographical location will likely be enough to identify you again.
I am actually pretty sad about this. Installers (deb, exe, etc) and libraries can sometimes be hard to build and require a difficult to setup environment. Its easy to sit there from a throne built on blog apps and twitter clones and say "they should make it better" but sometimes complex systems with large teams are difficult. Having them as your dependancies is made a little easier when you can just grab an installer that has been built with the proper version of -blank-esoteric-dependancy-or-build-tool-
Bah. Verizon stopped installing FIOS and Google wired Kansas City. I don't care how fast your service is if you don't offer it where I live.
example = source code

I didn't mean an example of a game built with it - there are lots of those. :) As you say, it's an old methodology, with Scott being the first one to really spread it around (as far as I could find), so there's a decent amount of proof it's a viable strategy. But aside from specific questions on SO and such, I couldn't find a lot of talk about it in a general, but practical sense. i.e. here's what you do to implement it, here's what a game looks like in it.
A good workaround for panopticlick would be to append a random string to the useragent for example, effectively making your fingerprint unique all the time.
Not really, depending on where you are. I live in the pacific northwest, there's some long lonely stretches of road required to go see some of the awesome sights out here. Plus for me flares, jumper cables, and patches all store in the spare tire area anyways.
No, the article says right there it uses search results (presumably by scraping). ECS used to be WSDL - real easy to drive from eg. PHP back in the day. I wouldn't want to be the poor sod parsing the retail website HTML (although perhaps the last redesign improved it).
I went to the University of Michigan for my computer science degree. Google recruits pretty heavily there (Larry Page's alma mater after all). I had lots of friends that went to Michigan State for their degrees. The Google recruiter showed them a list of jobs they could apply for. When one of them asked about other jobs that were on their website, the recruiter said they didn't usually consider people from Michigan State for those jobs.

Now, I'm not saying Google doesn't hire anyone from MSU, I know several engineers at Google from there, but it can be a pretty huge disadvantage to go there.

After college, I worked with a bunch of people that went to Michigan State, and we went to a Michigan career fair to recruit for our company. They were shocked by the number of big software companies recruiting at Michigan vs. MSU. Microsoft and Google might be big enough to recruit anywhere, but places like Apple, Amazon, Hulu, Expedia, and dozens of others never made it to MSU.
It should be noted that they are leaving the existing uploaded files available.
I use Quickbooks Online's Payroll Service. I like it quite a bit, albeit my company is tiny with uncomplicated payroll. They offer great support, too.
http://www.improvely.com, http://www.w3counter.com, http://www.dialshield.com and a couple others are mine alone. I support around 90,000 users across all the sites. This is what I do for a living.
That salary figure is misleading since only base is reported. Moreover, total compensation for the type of careers pursued by Stanford MBAs increases rapidly, especially in finance. VPs (achieved in your late 20s to mid 30s) at Lehman brothers were making 600k on average.
Yes, but it takes more than removing most of the identifying information.

First, the precise browser version and OS can probably always be identified by checking for supported features, bugs etc. even if the extreme measure would be taken to remove the user agent string.

Add the screen resolution, IP, timing and request patterns (+) and we are all screwed.

(+) e.g. rule out users that are using other sites at the same time. Note that it would be possible to determine if a page is in the currently focused and visible browser tab and forward that information to the tracker.
It can't find Shawshank Redemption :(
> I don't know about this. How am I locked in?

I think the article is referring to much bigger implementations - I'm just finishing up a 3,000+ employee implementation with all kinds of crazy things going on that cost my client an arm and a leg. To put it into perspective, the implementation took ~ 3mos to go-live for employees across almost all 50 states and another 2mos to fix the issues that cropped up during the first few payrolls. It's unlikely they'd be willing to switch anytime soon regardless of how unhappy they are up to this point.
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Nah.

+-------+ +----------------+ +------------+
|Browser|<==A==>| Visited server |<==B==>| ID service |
+-------+ +----------------+ +------------+

The client data acquisition is done through A (AJAX), then that info is sent through B (API call) to get the identity. The browser doesn't interact directly with the ID service.

The data acquisition scripts would be served directly by the web sites.
Are you looking for something different than a CRM? Typically people will scan the business cards they get from a tradeshow with something like Worldcard and import the CSV into whatever CRM their organization uses.
I'll second this. I find Incognito windows really useful when I want to hop on my wife's laptop and check FB/email/the handful of other things we both have accounts on.
Then I would imagine the official site would have a downloadable binary already compiled. Github isn't really a place for getting compiled binaries, it's for collaboration and source control. I've never gone to a repository with the intent of being able to download compiled anything, chances are if you're apt enough getting to the repository you'd already know to expect this.

The author or vendor should be supplying a compiled binary for download in my opinion somewhere else like their website or even via Bittorrent.
I would kickstart it coming to my city. I think a lot of people would.
Check out Wayne McGregor's Random Dance. http://ias.umn.edu/2009/09/10/mcgregor-wayne/
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Yes, though how much you make depends heavily on the level at which you flame out. Investment banking generally is much more lucrative than consulting (and within investment banking you have to distinguish banking from trading, with the latter having higher headroom). Starting salary is similar, but progression is much steeper. Analysts make about $110k with bonus the first year. After 10-12 years total (remember, there is huge attrition at every step) you make MD (managing director). MD compensation at a top bank can vary wildly, especially in trading where it's based on performance. For a front-office position (people in HR/IT/etc often hold the title but don't make the money) I think $500k-$5m is a reasonable range, though very often the highest paid person is not a partner or the CEO, but some MD trader who brought in $1 billion or something.

Most people never make MD. Some people leave voluntarily to go to hedge funds or private equity funds. Compensation at these funds vary by size, but is broadly similar to banking at larger firms, less at middle market firms, and possibly more at mega firms. Most people don't end up in HF/PE. They go to a top business school (almost guaranteed admissions) then enter upper corporate management. These folks don't make banking money, but 100k starting out after MBA is probably the minimum outside of non-profits, and you'd be surprised how many "assistant controller" types make $300k+. CFO's can make a few million a year at a large company

Consulting pays a lot less, though I know less about it. Average partner compensation at McKinsey is rumored to be $500k to a couple of million. Most, of course, don't make partner. They end up in MBA programs, and either take a second bite at the apple, try to lateral to finance, or compete for the aforementioned management positions. All else being equal, financial experience is really valuable, though (the M&A department at a place like Google is very well compensated).

Wow that got long, haha. This was my pitch to my brother when I told him to go into banking.

Re: east versus west. Consultants can work anywhere, and indeed spend their lives traveling. For banking, you want to start in NY, but good funds exist in every major city for after. Corporate jobs are everywhere. Again, you'd be surprised how many assistant controller types make in Dallas or Atlanta.
I have FIOS and it's by far the best option in my area, but only really fast in comparison to the crappy 5.3 Mbps average connection speed in the US vs say 17.5 Mbps in South Korea.
Why IP tracking is a bad idea
I knew that but I didn't think I needed to say that, but it can't hurt. :)

It still leaves some prominent open source projects, including ElasticSearch, with extra work that they need to do for their next release.
This is way, way, way worse.

If I'm understanding it correctly, the vendor is offering the following service: place a JS snippet on your website. When a user visits your site, data will be pushed to the vendor's server about the user and what they do on your site (probably keyed on IP and as many other things as they can use to fingerprint). In return for you sharing this data with the vendor, the vendor will give you all of the data on this same user that was contributed by their other clients.

Here is an extreme (yet possible) scenario. You go to a medical forum that uses this software and create an account using your personal email address and real name, both of which you select NOT to be displayed to the public. You then post a message asking about a specific type of back pain you're having. A few hours/days later, you're browsing for a gift for someone, and visit the website of a salon that also uses this software. They can identify that your browser visited medicalforum.com, see the email address and real name you created an account with (since they were passed your form submission directly, without regard to what privacy settings you used for the forum), and see the topic you posted on back pain. So just to be helpful, they email you an advertisement: "Hi {your real name}, we see that you're having some back pain - bring this email in to {salon} for 15% off a massage!"

EDIT: To add, how do you know that you can trust the vendor not to display seriously private data? What if an online store uses this JS, and the vendor has your credit card info, possibly not-so-securely stored? Your information becoming public would be as simple as Asshole Q. Pirate making a fake site with some link-bait, and creating an account with the vendor.
Pipedrive. By a country mile. Lightweight CRM + contact management. And they have a sweet iOS app.
In case you're curious about this 85 year old:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucFB9tk8zQc
Even if we did, that would be good for the grid. Many power-generation technologies have high start-up and shut-down costs, and are most economical when they can be run 24/7. If we can get the variability of power demand lower, we can generate more power with economical means, and use less of the more-expensive and polluting methods.
I recognize these screenshots - it's definitely Leadlander.
I'm not sure if they do what he claims they do, but they can identify by your IP which company you belong to (assuming you're connecting from the office). There are a lot of companies doing that right now actually.
Can't seem to edit my comment. Anyone know why?

Anyway somebody asked me how to do it, but delete their comment. Paste this into your console, they already have jQuery loaded.

jQuery('.blog-post input').change(function() { console.log("Score: " + jQuery('.blog-post input:checked').length + "/50"); });
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They have links for specifying image categories and even specific images.
But Github has been moving more and more to be the site for a project, that's what Github Pages is explicitly for. It was nice to have everything under one place, with one account system. Not unrecoverable, but to me this was a regrettable decision for them to make.
Their FAQ says otherwise: https://www.ghostery.com/faq#q16

“When a user opts-in to GhostRank, Ghostery sends the following information each time a tracker is encountered:

the tracker identified by Ghostery
the blocking state of the tracker
domains identified as serving trackers
the time it takes for the tracker to load
the tracker’s position on the page
the browser in which Ghostery has been installed
Ghostery version information”

Nothing about the URL you visit. Do you have reason to believe they're lying?
Maybe we are a computer simulation but maybe we are the computer!
In other words, the situation hasn't changed since the 90s. http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/idog.html (By the way, is anyone using http://samy.pl/evercookie/ in practice?)
Hi. I'm on HN. I'm running the latest google chrome.

I'm not going to go back and open up the developer tools to see which part of the buggy javascript UI crashed. I will say again though that the UI was throwing 'unhandled exceptions'. Do I really need to defend myself here? When is it ever a good idea for a user of a piece of software; especially ERP software which by it's very nature will interact with non-technical users constantly, to ever see an unhandled exception. Come on.

Just for fun. I went back to their website: demo1.openerp.com. It takes 2 seconds to crash their websites by interacting with it. Just click on their navigation links on the top of the page quickly.

Here is a link: http://imgur.com/fp8oW

This is an easily reproducible problem. Come on.
I noticed ghostery blocked 11 tracking cookies when I went to read this.
They'd just remove the random string...

The browser UA is only one component of the fingerprint, and probably not the most important one.
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Man everytime I scroll on that page it adds a new entry to my history. To go back I have to hit it a bunch of times. Annoying.
Infix notation is compact. That makes it better for parsing by humans with limited short term memory.
I admire the stick-to-it-ness of the people who have multiple predictions on the list.

Hal Lindsey, Pat Robertson, Ronald Weinland, Hon-Ming Chen, et al.. Shine on you crazy diamonds!
Sentiment mining is a hot topic, with many possible uses, but coders can usually do something decent without any crazy magic.

The problems start when any grammar processing happens - because algorithms are then dependant of the language

(What about this service? I didn't find many details about it.)

Meanwhile, if you stay at the dictionary level, you can get decent results - that's what things such as the General Inquirer let you do - and you won't need for an API to do basic stemming of words and summing up the sentiment values from a database - see http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~inquirer/

I've played with it - that's more or less a 1 day project if you use the existing database.

Bonus points if you add simple things - such as replacing the stemming algorithm by a Levenshtein distance or a phonex-style algorithm (typos, etc), or use inverse term frequency to mitigate the influence of "very sentimental" words that are falling into common use, i.e. whose current sentimental ponderation differs from the general inquirer ponderation.

I once played with sentiment analysis of mailing lists, to automatically get red flags when sh*t happens :-)
Thanks for the detailed feedback.

Yeah, the gaming category is a little bit stale because I've been manually seeding the deals. I figured people on HN would appreciate the category more and that's the only reason I put it there. My goal is to combat that with through automation initially. I recently built out the ability to consume feeds from retailers. I think most of the actual deals are going to come from the merchants themselves and I want to automate that process.

I'm also building out a pretty cool UI that aggregates the merchants and allows you to filter and follow them. The goal is to build a UI that will allow users to follow their favorite merchants or categories and get a personalized visual deal feed as soon as they login.

Like you mentioned, building critical mass will be difficult but I'm hoping that when I have an audience a natural community effort will emerge to identify the best deals and bury the stale or bad ones. The Popular deals link has a simple algorithm that does this already http://www.dealsauce.com/pin/popular I'll probably apply it to all categories instead of using a recency sort.
high school computer science education could be one
Sounds like Moneyball to me. If true, these firms are just taking the "No no every gets fired for using IBM" route and overspending, which isn't actually bad for the companies if they've got the money for it, as graduates from these schools with "really awesome" extracurriculars should be pretty decent filters.