skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going to site A, not providing any info, then going to site B, C and D and seeing ads to site A haunting you is one thing, capturing your name and email is a new level. If you don't use a tracking blocker, clearing cookies is not always going to work, these persistent trackers are quite sophisticated, they use local storage if possible, IP address, header information and whatever is possible to be able to identify someone, there is a huge industry behind it. But this one is taking it a little bit too far, scary.

On the other side, most startups including YC ones, use some sort of tracking for analytics to improve usability and internal flow, so advocating against all trackers and for all users installing a blocker is a double edge sword.
Yes, so in the more typical 3 gallons of gas car (33.3 mpg) that would set you back $9-$12 you pay half as much for the energy But electricity, like gas prices, varies.

A more interesting way to look at it from my perspective is that each 'mile' has an energy cost of 4.5 cents vs 9 cents. And in a 10,000 mile year that is $450 not spent.

There are still a lot of unknowns in terms to total cost of ownership, battery pack replacement, other maintenance.

edit: $450! Just made it in under the wire. Thanks.
This is great. As a newbie to coding, I really learned a lot from Codecademy and I can't wait until my little girl is old enough to start learning. She's already watching me and figuring out the concept of i/o (she's 5) and seems to be generally interested in CS. It just goes to show that sometimes exposure is all that's required to generate interest.
Skull and Bones. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones)
Just use Ghostery and share it with everyone you know. And keep using those services for free (ie: not paying with your private data).
Scientists plan test to see if the entire universe is a simulation
Oh yeah, my free beer! I'm assuming the promo is no longer? Regardless of this change, I'll still use Instacart. It's a great service with quality customer service that's only getting better.
Chrome Incognito mode (at least) allows cookies, though- it just isolates them to the incognito window and destroys them on close. I just logged into FB and it worked fine.
The article suggested that Lisp innovation was dead, not Lisp itself. Written before Clojure was a viable option (per the author's comment in this discussion), that's a pretty easy position to defend.

Whether moving Lisp to the portable JVM and adding concurrency and other features it offers counts as innovation, is a matter for reasonable discussion.
Thanks for the tool recommendation. Interesting to note how much it blocks on 42floors.com.
I am okay with companies displaying ads to me - this is what pays for the web to exist. If however things like this continue to exist then I will take up all options offered to opt out of identification and ad networks. Google and Microsoft etc should take note to shut this sort of behaviour down.
Most DMPs can do that you know. Some better DMPs like BlueKai do it anonymously, but there are companies out there that use and target PIIs. I believe RapLeaf was one such company (correct me if I am wrong)
Great writeup and comparison of both sides.

Two issues stick out to me: Time availability, and the requirement of money, to allow you to continue developing.

So, the question is prioritizing. What's more important - developing product to reach proof of concept and/or incoming revenues (which could be part of proof of concept)? Really though, is what's important keeping moving forward at the fastest pace possible, or is it long-term sustainability?

If a patent (an asset) will help you secure funding, then the point of needing to spend time raising funds is one in the same of working on a patent; Investors will know that filing doesn't guarantee its value, plus, you'll need money to defend it in the future - and meaning it has to be worthwhile defending.

And I think I already touched on the value of time the patent takes. It's deciding where it's best put to use.

P.S. You should always think about 'being acquired' - or rather, about being a sustainable long-term business. If a big company decides they like what you're doing and they can easily copy it, for whatever reason, then in 2-3 years you may have a mammoth competitor who can pump millions into advertising. Sure, this might be a "competition exists" proof point - though that's a pretty risky proposition for investors and therefore they will want to take a bigger piece of equity.
Toolbars. People install toolbars all the time.
The article author signed up for a demo account after receiving the b2b marketing email containing "a report snapshot for 42Floors.com showing names, companies, and emails of site visitors and the information seemed plausible."

Like the parent, I have no idea how this information could have been obtained. It lists search terms, how could a 3rd party track clicks from SERPs to a website not running their tracking code?
Art has always been a fuzzy term. My personal interpretation, today at least, is that what you're referring to is "craft", the ability to skillfully manipulate materials to either create something attractive or a piece of art. "Art" on the other hand is the act of creating something with the intent of provoking thought through a new perspective. (I realise you could use that definition to describe a report ;) but that's the best I got...)
For users without showdead, the user darrennix (who appears to be the same Darren Nix who wrote the article) posted this comment. Why the mods or system would kill it I have no idea.

> It's a fair question and one that I asked myself. If the entire service is a fake, then it is an extremely elaborate one because the name and emails of the individuals it did indentify (which I noted was a small percentage) were real.
The key to the Apple TV puzzle
Goodbye, Uploads
None of them can be used to single out and identify individual users (except GA... which I believe can be done if you are clever with it)
>I define "art" as something I (the proverbial unskilled layman) couldn't do in a weekend.

Art is also about context. Look at prehistoric cave paintings: I have no technical skill as an artist, but I could easily recreate the paintings myself. But does that mean they're not art? Of course not. To take another example, how about the hasty sketches of a soldier in the trenches in the First World War?

I only use such a stark example to prove the point that technical skill isn't all that makes art art. If you don't know what people see in these "things" then perhaps you just need to look a little more carefully. A lot of modern art is taking the mundane, that which we are used to, and challenging our assumptions about it. Assumptions that we didn't even know we had.

I'm not commenting on this post in particular, but all too often I see this dismissive attitude towards modern art, and I think it's unfair and deserves more careful consideration.
I just started using Textastic to code the next issue of our iPad magazine and I LOVE it. Freaking awesome app, can't say enough good things about it. On an iPad 1, never crashed, always smooth, its just a blast to use.
Oops, I meant $4/employee/month for the first 10 employes (not $5)
The World’s First and Only Completely Honest Résumé of a Graphic Designer
> And, not for nothing, guess where Lauren went?

Oh, let's not resort to ad hominem arguments. The paper stands on its own.
I think if you are banking on something being simpler and "beautiful" as your key differentiator then you are not in a good place. A lot of solutions on the market are not hard to use and they are very entrenched. Sure, they don't look great but at the end of the day you need to realize this is payroll software. People don't live in these systems like they do with Apple products. Not to mention, most of the current companies will have a trained tech setup your account. You really don't have to do much. All customers want is:

a) Flexible. Can handle my current and future employee payroll needs.
b) Accurate.
c) Reliable
d) Great customer support. This includes people who are very knowledgeable with what Congress is up to, taxes, etc, and can make sure I am always in compliance.

I agree with a lot of the comments above. I am not sure with the ROI is from your system vs. PayChex or ADP.
Non paternity events in the general population in Western nations occur in around 2% of cases. The higher the SES the lower the prevalence.
The only reason this site loves LISP is because PG said it was special. What a joke. Sorry to be terse but this whole place is either insane or plain stupid when it goes on about LISP.
I'm not sure I believe it. Whether they aim to be profitable or not, I think they have to say they that publicly or they'd be immediately accused of being anti-competitive.
Probably not since none of us know who this firm is -- and thus the hostname(s) and/or IP(s) used; we'd probably need to contact the author for that info. Once we know that, the regex would be dead-simple...
This makes for perfect timing, I was just about to write some code to autopublish the distribution files for my project.

Where is a good place to put the output of a build these days? I really hate the idea of build artifacts in my repository cluttering every commit.

Push them to a downloads branch? its nice because it has versioning and can match the masters tags etc, but gh-pages has taught me I really dont like using branches as completely seperate repositories.
You might also want to look into GitHub's Sundown library. It's an awesome library and being written in pure C, you can use it natively.

The reason I wrote myself is that my use case was more markdown highlighting than markdown parsing. I needed to preserve the markdown source untouched, which Sundown doesn't support.

https://github.com/vmg/sundown
I think some of your points are a little off the mark. A bit about my perspective: I used to be (and still am) interested in business (vaguely defined), and did lots of research and talking to people and I used to see consulting as the best option for my career after college. But now I'm an engineer at a startup.

1) They do take MIT engineering grads (see my own comment)

2) Consulting pay is actually not very good. We're talking $80k and not much bonus. Google pays more (STEM roles). Finance pays even more. STEM people don't go into consulting over finance for the money. The exception might be liberal arts majors for whom consulting does pay the most out of all their options. The reasons they go into consulting...

3) The reason people (like me in the past) want to do consulting is because it's a "career supercharger". If you get into McKinsey/Bain/Boston you have not only that pedigree on your resume and near guaranteed entrance into a top 10 business school, but you also get a very broad set of experience working with (and connecting with) CEOs/executives and working in multiple markets and with multiple business models and analytical models. You get to work in many projects and with many different teams. Consulting has a multiplicative effect on your career. 2 years in consulting has the equivalent effect on your career as, say, 4 years in a biz dev role at a Fortune 500. A lot of people who know they are interested in "business" but don't know what they specifically want to do in business also go to consulting to figure that out. Finally, for any business position you apply to, nobody ever questions whether your consulting background is relevant experience. Consulting basically keeps all business doors open. The same does not apply for, say, finance.

4)Whether consulting is value-adding is a mixed bag. Sometimes it can really help a company. Oftentimes consulting is just used politically to cover an executive's ass and is used to tell the other executives what that executive already knows.
Fantastic. That flashing, pulsating roulette wheel is wild. ;) I hope I'm (still) coding when I'm 85. Keep going!
For the lonely at the holidays
What's the effect in practice? I don't know shit about cryptanalysis.
Several people mention Ghostery[0] against trackers. It offers only partial protection. It is possible to fingerprint a browser without any custom tracking data.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/ <-- check how unique your browser is.

Instead of a script to embed, these firms could provide an API to identify users from the server side. The scripts that captures the profile would be served by the sites themselves rather than from third party services.

Toast.

A possible solution would be anonymize the browser fingerprint, at least in private mode, ie lie about the details of the system.

Google, Mozilla, Opera, can you hear me?

--

[0] http://www.ghostery.com/
College students can now major in social media
If This Diabetes Prevention Program Were A Drug, It Could Be A Blockbuster
Well, then this is F'd up. I guess I didn't read the post carefully enough. :-/
Sadly, opportunistic jerkfaces aren't limited by our privacy-hat-wearing engineer imaginations. They can devise much, much worse schemes we would dismiss in five seconds out of "ethical" concerns. (privacy=dead, remember? do anything to track people and manipulate them into giving you money. if you aren't selling anything, sell the tracking as leadgen.)
Using any branch will balloon the size of the repository. It's much better to use something like S3.
I didn't watch the video but I'm pretty tired of this catch phrases, build an iOS app in 10 minutes coming from serious businesses.

Any app that was built in 10 minutes is not worth 1 minute of my time.
No. We launched a travel magazine. Travel is a pretty hot start-up spot right now and there is a lot of money to be had. Giving people good content and travel companies a great way to reach customers is a great idea.
That's a difference of $450, not $4,500.
I use the Ghostery add-on for Firefox, but note that if you enable "GhostRank" then the add-on will send every URL you visit to Evidon. This is purportedly for "tracking the trackers", but it does give one pause.
Sure, downloading a file is effectively free; there's no marginal cost. But buying a new disk instead of deleting the file is almost free. If you stored every byte that came down the pipe on a disk forever, it would only increase the cost of your internet connection slightly.
I think we are on different pages with the word "necessary". I am using it as "needs to exist as an option", and I think you're using it as, "needs to be used by everyone".
SolarCity Lowers Share Price, Then Postpones IPO
This is the first part of what my talk at the Clojure Conj was about. Part two is about how this relates to Light Table's design :)
Huh, I never knew these existed. Did any major projects on github use this feature?
This is really strange, at the factory test drive last year I spoke with the head of engineering on the Model S and he said the battery backs for 60 and 85kWh were the same size but with different formulations.

Only the 40kWh was supposed to have a smaller battery pack, in fact if you upgraded the 40kWh pack you'd need to change the suspension.
Just looked through Zendesk's network calls -- looks like it's probably Demandbase. http://www.demandbase.com/landing-page/demandbase-real-time-...

Surprisingly, AdBlockPlus doesn't seem to block it.

Edit: actually it's LeadLander.com as pointed out by NiekvdMaas here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4891764
DIY Arduino-Powered Bike Lights, Turn Signals, and Odometer
I would like to build an App in 10 minutes. Great catch. Still watched it and read it. Enjoyed.
Sales reps with nice season tickets for Local Sports Team, probably.
Running corners too wide into oncoming traffic or trees is a concern, but not more than with cars, etc. If you're driving too fast, you're driving too fast. I don't see that it's more of a concern with this vehicle.

I assumed the same as you that cornering is still a problem since they didn't show it in the video. I think this project still needs a lot of work. The same project was on HN a couple of months ago and it was really no different except for the slightly more polished exterior. Basically they showed that gyros can keep a 2 wheel vehicle upright, but we haven't seen the thing in motion at all. This is why I think 2013 is way too optimistic for a release.

The price does seem a bit high, but it should come down over time.
Hah, sorry, I didn't know what Relooper did, so I posted a comment describing where to find out about it for other people.
>I define "art" as something I (the proverbial unskilled layman) couldn't do in a weekend.

This doesn't seem a very robust definition. Do you think things like aircraft carriers and landfills are art?
You're not, and it's why I largely avoid (at all costs) turnkey solutions that certain websites employ for parts of their site. For instance, the sites that use something like zoho.com or disqus.com for blog comments; even though they're overt about their usage (as opposed to hidden tracking code), I'd rather not be heard at all then to willingly yield my personal information.
When I worked at The Washington Post we were among the first group of companies to integrate the then new Social Graph. I immediately deleted my Facebook account.

I was appalled when I saw that we could identify, not only visitor's names, but their friends, access public photos, and all of their profile information. All of this without any action on the user's part and before there were any privacy controls.

This is just the next logical step-federating data collection across multiple sites, not just FB.

I'm obviously in the minority since FB has grown tremendously in the past 2 years but I've not looked back. I dread the forthcoming lack of privacy and anonymity our world is heading toward.
An entire major dedicated to this seems pretty superfluous to me. Perhaps a certification, college course, or small specialization option at most (e.g. for journalism or business majors); but an entire major? I feel the students enrolling in this are terribly misled; caught up in the hype :/
Looks like a really cool app but currently the problem I'm trying to solve is the inverse: what do I do with clumps of contacts (new people I meet) I am trying to sort and manage day to day?

Example of one potential (but unvetted) solution: http://www.contactme.com/

I was wondering if anyone has personal experience with a particular app or platform that works well for them.
Yeah, it was probably 300. 17 was a long time ago.

Some googling seems to indicate the V.21 modem could run at 200 or 300. But I have no idea.
For what it's worth, specific to what I've seen in Seattle, the vast majority of the higher density apartment buildings being constructed in Seattle today are replacing single family homes, parking lots, and quite often single floor commercial development with mixed-use.

I hear this "there's too much construction, they're building luxury apartments for AMZN/MSFT workers and pushing out the artists and baristas" argument all the time on Capitol Hill, but I've sat down and looked at the many dozens of buildings that have been build in the last couple years and the ones currently under construction, and only once was a cheap building torn down for construction of a luxury building. The specific location is the NW corner of E Pine and Bellevue, and the former building was abandoned after a fire.

Along Broadway E, several blocks of commercial real estate have been replaced with equivalent commercial square footage plus 5-6 stories of apartments on top. No units lost, only gained. In Denny Triangle, Amazon is ripping out a car dealership and some parking lots to build three blocks out with 500ft tall office towers, and apartment and condo towers are popping up in the area surrounding that already.

The story is similar in Lower Queen Anne and South Lake Union. Generally, no units are being lost to new construction, and neighborhoods are getting more dense and more walkable, all of which benefits people who don't want to depend on cars.

One of the most exciting housing developments in the city right now is the Apodment craze. These small dormitory-style apartments are built in very walkable areas of the city, and priced so that students, artists, and baristas can afford to live in them. They're generally built without any parking at all, which helps keep costs down. They exploit a loophole in the building code to allow this high density, and the typical NIMBY characters are quite upset. Funny, the same people who complain about luxury apartments putting bland software developers in their neighborhood abhor the thought of housing that the artists can actually afford being built.
Just learn how to use calibre!

http://calibre-ebook.com/

I also wonder if amazon is worth it just to access their kindle infrastructure.
What makes for a great entrepreneur?
This news seems to be just breaking.
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22171556/solarcity-de...
Well Darren saw the tracker, and he reads HN, so perhaps.
I fail to see any problems with hotlinking to random images hosted at a site that you don't control from a webpage that you're probably going to demo to your boss or client.
That's really too bad. We've been pulling elasticsearch's .deb files from the downloads page on their github repository. Not everything is conveniently installed from source.
Shouldn't the metric of interest is $ per installed watt converted? You have to factor back in the installation costs of the PV system (which can be very dependent on area) into the cost of the PV cells.
The size isnt a particular worry, this is a JavaScript library that should be producing small files.

s3 is another service to manage which is annoying, but it probably is the best option.

It is a shame, I do appreciate Github needs to focus on what is important, but this change stopped it from being a one stop shop for quite a few OS projects.
My point is languages are chosen at organizations based on practical reasons like libraries, employee skill set, and potential employee skill set--not language features.
Good for them on cutting bloat and focusing on what's important to them.

Bad for me as now I have to find another service to store my project binaries and (likely) add to my monthly bills.
SockJS for Go
Ghostery does, though.
Incidentally, of all the startups we've funded, Instacart is one of the ones we ourselves use most. Jessica can't stop talking about how great it is. You learn how useful grocery delivery when you have small children like we do, and Instacart is by far the best option for this.

Instacart is one of those rare products that's surprisingly great. I.e. you don't realize how good such a thing could be till you try it. A lot of the best startups have this quality. I wish we could figure out a way to identify them when they apply to YC, but at the moment I admit we can't.
Nothing really prevents you from checking in your downloads in to a github web project though and hosting via that though (but probably not the fastest solution).

This is kind of a relic feature back when people compared github to SourceForge. Github is collaborative source code hosting (open or private projects alike) and not really open source project hosting.
QuikIO, a popular iPad app, now comes to iPhone for free.
Octopus vs. shark - Who do you think wins? [video]
Just checked, looks like Ghostery blocks Demandbase.
Sentiment Analysis for Humans
I had to give Dick Smith (A NZ retailer) my phone number before I bought an external the other day.

"Do I _have_ to give you my number before I buy this?"

"yes, but it's for return purposes only"

Of course I received 'promotional' txts the next week. I was hesitant to give it to them for just this reason, and because I acknowledged I had a phone number I felt obligated to give it to him. Dick Smith is a member of a larger chain it's no stretch of the imagination to hook up CCTV cameras to an OpenCV instance and send txts to customers when they walk in.

No matter the law, morals people hold, or customer wants large companies are always motivated by profit margins. The Consumer Guarantees Act, the Privacy Act, the Bill of Rights Act all become murky when you're dealing with new technology, and law will find it hard to keep up.