skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the tracking technology is developing from the advertising space, but also to monetize clicks for affiliate commissions. It's the same technology applied to an adjacent market.

http://www.viglink.com/

The throughput, latency, computing power and memory wasn't sufficient to do what we can do today a short 5-10 years ago. The hardware has advanced so much over the past decade that it is attainable at the consumer/non-sovereign level now. Anyone with a thousand bucks free monthly cash flow and the coding chops can get very far independently.
And then after it is widely used they could discontinue it.
I would argue that "web browser" is a misnomer. I don't expect my browser to display IRC, Usenet, etc. etc.

Besides, there's a lot of web content that requires plugins and extensions to view properly. I don't see why that can't be the case here.
The Theatergoer Test and Productivity
>Since I own the business I work at, does that automatically qualify me to be a sociopath?

No. The sociopaths are the ones who control the economic system and the bulk of the capital, who, if your company becomes worth anything, will make you an offer you can't refuse and you will no longer be an owner.

If you refuse to be bought out due to some kind of lifestyle ideology, then you're clueless and suffering from Protestant Work Ethic brain damage.

You're describing an instability. You are an instability. The laws of capitalism dictate that your situation as business owner should either set you up as a sociopath maximizing your outcome, or sell the company to a sociopath who can make more money using your company than you're able to make.

If you then could retire but choose not to, you're clueless, because you're enthusiastic about being a cog in a dehumanizing capitalist machine. Only clueless people and sociopaths feel good about that. Clueless people like it because they have no clue, and sociopaths like it because power and destruction is what turns them on.

Personally I just find that most people who willingly engage in commerce without a financial need to do so lack imagination. I do make exceptions for hacker types like pg who seem to believe they are subverting the system with their economic activity, but the line between being a subversive capitalist and being the most deluded sort of clueless person is very fuzzy.
Google Glass will make recording others openly acceptable.

Or it will result in a literally violent backlash against constant privacy invasion.

Or hopefully something in between, like the village who just ran the Google Street View car out of town when they heard it was coming (though it was disappointing to hear that Google later went back and got the footage anyway).

Mass surveillance is not OK, and is a Pandora's box situation where once the data is out there, realistically it's never getting deleted again. Privacy has evolved as a valued concept in just about every civilised society for good reasons. It's just a shame that a generation of Facebook addicts are too busy getting their hit to notice all the negative consequences to the kind of culture they're inviting.
I see a lot of users just going to every service mentioned by that blog or that blogger. Without any research. As '@nsns' says it's the searching phase.

There are services that are famous as of now, very famous. Not because those are best out there(or even better than average) but because they played good on social scene the day Google read out Reader's death sentence. Feedly, having used them, is certainly not a great service. It's a client that is everywhere. It's a good one(must be) I personally never liked it.

But at least they are handling the load better than others. NewsBlur looks like a slow clunky web app. There are few others like FeedHQ.org and 1kpl.us but none of them are still there.

Looks like Feedly is just hoarding users with a promise to be sth that at least they are not going to be - the 'holy grail' of RSS sync service - which is the void GR actually created. A clean and fast web app/server where our feeds can reside in the cloud. And all the blog posts out there are talked about just one thing - these clients; and users listened.

That is how they have these many numbers.
Like all things, it would have some good use and bad use. But technology WILL evolve, and many people would adopt. It ultimately settles at a healthy balance.

In general though, privacy has been dead on the net for a long time now. In life outside the net too, the guy opposite you could have the camera on while he holds the phone in his hand. So yes, some people would have issues with this, but generalizing that response to a majority would be exaggeration.
Yeah, but was it created by a novice programmer in 3 days?
What do you think happend to the nascent RSS feed reader marking in the past 6 or so years?

They have extinguished all the profits from the market as long as Reader existed.

Will that recommence? Perhaps, but there as a bit of the old Microsoft tactics at play here.
Ask HN: Which free RSS reader to recommend to our inexperienced users... on IE?
I run www.searchtempest.com, a niche search engine for classifieds sites like craigslist (no affiliation). One of our features is to provide an OPML file of the craigslist RSS results feeds for the user's search from all cities within a specified range.

This can be extremely convenient for people looking for a rare item and willing to travel to get it when it comes up. You can stick it into a folder in your RSS reader, and have your own personalized feed of new results matching your search. However, our user base is representative of the general population. In other words, many of them do not yet use RSS. Some are quite technically savvy, but many are not, and many use IE.

Thus far, we have been recommending Google Reader to those unfamiliar with RSS, for obvious reasons. We've written detailed step-by-step instructions[1] for importing and organizing the feeds in GR.

As you may have heard, Google Reader will be discontinued soon. So we need an alternative. I would love to recommend Newsblur, but the fact is that most of our users won't be willing to explore a paid service, and in almost all cases, the free limit of 10 sites will be exceeded. (Personally I think Newsblur is worth its price many times over, but that's irrelevant.) I would also recommend Feedly in an instant, except... IE. Tried TheOldReader, but found filtering and sorting large numbers of feeds into folders to be quite a pain. Also slow, although that may well be temporary.

So... what do we recommend? Above all, it needs to be simple. If it's a great reader in general, all the better, but the main criterion is that we can get someone from zero to viewing their craigslist results in as few simple steps as possible. And it needs to be free, and needs to work in IE.

[1] http://tinyurl.com/atrdqyt
A few android security issues
Try http://rssident.com
Ah, just realized since craigslist sites are all subdomains on the same domain, they might well fit within the free limit for newsblur. Went to confirm that and found this:

"Due to overwhelming demand, free accounts are temporarily suspended.
By going premium you get full access to NewsBlur."

Certainly understandable, but disappointing.
Like you said, it's just complete bullshit. Rapidly assembling CRUD apps to discover a market is somehow gaining technical skills?

If you want to develop technical skills, the way to do it is by reading and then trying to solve the challenging perennial problems. This generally is not profitable activity which is why it is funded by research grants.

This guy is confusing technical skills with something else, something that sounds like a hypermasculine myth about the value of self-flagellation. It is Protestant work ethic bullshit, the kind of bullshit that, when it permeates a society, makes that society utterly anti-pleasure and impossible for any sane person to enjoy.
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"Increasingly, what we do on the Internet is being combined with other data about us."

My fiance receives tampon ads during the appropriate time of the month on Facebook.
Insured deposits being raided? Bank runs anyone?
I'm actually not a graduate yet.. :) Just a bit over half way through... Thanks for posting Azat!
I'm not sure what kind of scenario you're imagining here. If 10% of all deposits and 0% of all bonds (which generally take haircuts before deposits) are sufficient to keep the bank afloat, the alternative is not 100% of all deposits and 100% of all bonds. The alternative is a larger portion of bonds and a smaller portion of deposits.
They are currently #1 in trending apps on the Chrome store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/trending?utm_sou...

And #4 in Android trending apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/movers_shakers...
Pycon US 2013 Keynote - Eben Upton
> "sometimes, a coffee can mean the world."

It's true--I can definitely still remember small but sincere acts of kindness that I've received from friends or acquaintances over the years. Seriously, the $8 it costs to buy some overpriced coffee and the value of a half hour of your time are repaid many times over by the gratitude the other person feels and the good you'll have done for their life.
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A Short Post on Blog URL Hacking
I appreciate skepticism, but come on. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference?
UPS and Fedex are in the top 100 most profitable companies in the United States, what exactly is your monopoly complaint?

You really want to turn mail delivery into what the taxi system is today?
You're morally bankrupt. Your soul is black. You are what is wrong with the world.

You sound like Josef Mengele who strapped down social undesirables and cut into their brains for the sake of his intellectual curiosity.
> So are you ditching your ISP since you get spam?

I don't get spam in my inbox more than once every couple of months.
On the other hand, my address is weird. Because of historical reasons, the address is on 14th Ave., but the house isn't actually physically located on 14th Ave. Sometimes when I get an Amazon package, UPS or FedEx can't find where I live. Sometimes they even deliver to the same house number on 13th Ave. (I've never met whoever lives there, but I believe they've hand-delivered packages to me a few times. Thanks, stranger!)

However, USPS has never failed to deliver correctly. And I think there's something to be said for their reliability in general.
More than 500,000 Google Reader users flock to Feedly in two days
Random heart attacks in people who are otherwise in ok health are not common.

http://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm
I'm in a similar position, except I'm not trying to get new users. In fact, I'm trying to maintain a very small set of users so I can test ideas on them before I try to go bigger.

Getting users is great, but getting traction, meaning users who keep coming back is a much better goal to aim for. So out of your 9 users, start looking at the percentage, although small, that are regularly using your app.

I'm up to 83 users with 0 marketing and I'm trying out new ideas, watching the analytic data and responding over and over. It's a great spot to be in. Keep it up.
If it can easily be an extension, why are the best replacements they could suggest so awful-looking?
Are you serious?

Do you have any idea how much cheaper USPS is? Domestically AND internationally. How important it is to e-commerce? Online stores. Small businesses. My online store (http://www.dayonepp.com) shameless plug.

Do you realize that without it your ass would still be driving to Best Buy to pay for an overpriced TV? You'd have to pay $20 to mail your brother his PS2 that he forgot while visiting you. Without the postal service UPS and Fedex would probably do backdoor deals to inflate the cost of shipping since they wouldn't have to compete with the USPS.

It's not even costing you anything other than throwing away junk mail. Recycle it. But don't wish death on something so important.
Command line tool to combine JIRA and git workflow
Unfortunately this is really bad advice from an SEO perspective. You want to have a short but SEO friendly url structure if you want users to find your content online via search engines.

Also, twitter automatically uses a url shortener, so the length of the url does not matter.
not to mention that it only takes a small (almost minimal) proportion of withdrawls to do significant damage to the health of the banking system.
I hate posting something like this without a link, but I read an article quite some time ago (supposedly) written by one of the core developers of Wave. To massively oversimplify the article, he blamed it on having way, way too many developers working on it at once... lots of inefficiencies crept in as portions were duplicated, it ended up much more bloated than it should have been, etc.

IIRC, he also acknowledged many other contributing factors, like the slow release of the features presented in the original videos (some of which never were released), people simply not knowing what to do with it, etc.

Something else I remember was that he suggested the code should/could have been a tiny fraction of the size and dramatically more efficient for what it did.

I'm not saying I agree with the article at all, it's just what I read. For all I know it could have been a hoax.

This appears to shed similar light on it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101201

Personally, I loved Wave and was hoping to run my own server when they released what code they did release. Unfortunately, what has come of it is still lacking key features I'd want before doing so. (I'm not a Java developer, so would not be able to contribute)
I guess the guy must be Greek since I think this only applies to the Greek side.
Probably also generating a massive dose of x-rays.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/science/28xray.html?_r=0

I wonder if there has ever been a cancer cluster found at such plants?
just like they did with the iP[ao]d. I remember that too.
Free and Slow Google translate API
As they push their own walled garden to compete with the decentralized model that nurtured them into their power.
The meteor-based app seems to be speedier ... maybe because of the way it's handling server-client data relationship better?
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What would be alternatives that come to your mind vs meteor?
Not at all. Opera has a built-in RSS reader and it's very useful.
Oh, eli, you never disappoint.

This guy has Protestant work ethic brain damage. He enjoys the aesthetic of self-flagellation, the pain and suffering.

He's sado-masochistic and loves pain, both his own pain and the pain of others.

People who talk like this are the worst people in the world because they always end up taking out their bloodlust on others. They advocate for low wages, for harsher punishments, for more terror at every opportunity. It is the most blatant expression of thanatos and the fact that people like this hold significant positions of power pretty much sums up why the majority of the world's population has their head held underwater by a tiny, brutal elite.

The elites are sadists. They morally justify their sadism with their own masochism--"I love to suffer, so you should too!"

Horrific.
So I think this is an example of RapGenius trying to break away from the 'lyrics' website image and moving in to the 'annotate everything' domain, but I just don't get what's going on here.

This happened before with the whole Heroku(?) thing -- I literally cannot figure out:

- Who is talking in the first person?

- Is it PG? Is it Harj? If Harj is the one who annotated it, does that mean he's not the one who wrote it?

- Are we supposed to be familiar with this email?

- Was it a mistake that it was sent as boilerplate, and not fleshed out?

There is literally -zero- context to go off of here, and I don't think RapGenius' site currently has the interface necessary to provide the context to begin with. I really wish I could better understand what's going on here.
It's not 'plain and simple', it's a complex situation involving complicated relationships between different parties and knock-on effects. If you want actual 'plain and simple' banking, keep your money under your mattress.
If you want to get picky and allow inability to see the future, you can have all the muskets you want.
"borrowing to pay back in a 'reasonable fashion' later" is exactly how all this started in the first place.
Doesn't work for me, it doesn't do anything even when I share the location. The search is unresponsive. I use Nightly 22.0a1, Windows 7 x64.
The android app leaves a bit to be desired here as well. Not as customizable as the web view.
I'm sorry, what? RSS is a money sink in what way? RSS is about as maintenance free as it gets.
A Plaintext Recovery Attack on Broadcast RC4
> the provision strips the rights of federal courts to halt the sale and planting of genetically engineered crops during the legal appeals process.

Guilty until proven innocent?

> This dangerous new House provision, which we're calling the Monsanto Protection Act,

Ooh, editorializing.

> would strip judges of their constitutional mandate to protect consumer rights and the environment, while opening up the floodgates for the planting of new untested genetically engineered crops, endangering farmers, consumers and the environment.

I'm pretty sure the point of judges is to uphold the law, not to do what they think is protecting consumer rights or the environment.

> Once again, Monsanto and the biotech industry are working behind closed doors to undermine your basic rights.

Okay, I'll cut the crap. This is paranoid, fear-mongering drivel. Give me facts, not opinions and emotion. This does not belong on HN.
Is this the world's smallest book?
How To Hire An Assassin On The Secret Internet For Criminals
In the old days of Unions, people willing to work for no money would get beat up, because fools like that ruin life for everyone else.

The types of people willing to destroy their health and have no family, no significant others, no interests outside of work should be thrown in jail because all they do is drive down the quality of life of everyone else.

The more that these kinds of myths spread, the worse our lives will be. As software people, it's essential that we counteract this romanticization of economic exploitation, or we will be dragged down with all the clueless fools who buy it into.
I've been wanting such a feature for many years. SB2 is turning out into next big editor. I wonder when will they put command line navigation like ViM and Emacs into it.
Forked already and experimenting currently. It is amazing how you get so much more in python community.
Typewriter Dismantlement
Well, let's give it a try. A better question is, who did the Postal Workers Union pay to get this tripe published?
"What it is is a miracle of high technology and human touch. It's what binds us together as a country."
Really?
Leaving the content of the article completely aside, I've never understood the "Don't let your X write a check that your Y can't cash" meme. (Other common example: "Your mouth is writing checks that your body can't cash", which I think means you've been challenging people but you don't have the matching physical prowess to win such a challenge.)

If the product is trying to cash the check, then the hype wrote it out to the product. It's not clear to me why it did that. If the check bounces, it's because the hype doesn't have any money in its account. But assuming that money is figurative for some kind of value (e.g. ability to live up to the hype), it's the product who should have the empty bank account, not the hype. Why is the product solvant in this story - isn't the point that it isn't? And the transaction is entirely between the hype and the product, and thus doesn't really concern anyone else, which seems to defeat the point. I feel like the story should be that hype wrote a check on behalf of the product that the consumer can't cash. Or something.

But maybe I'm missing something, like what the check and money are meant to represent. Can someone explain it to me?
Bad analogy. The only reason it is acceptable to shoot a trespasser invading your home is the issue of safety. There aren't that many people who would back up a landlord shooting their delinquent tenants with a shotgun either. As with copyright infringement, the landlord would need to turn to the courts.
From 2007: Will MySpace Ever Lose its Monopoly?
No need to scare-quote the nicknames here.
i'm wondering if we can first explictly state the objective by which this is being judged, mistakes or successes assigned
This tax works because it was a surprise. What do you think would have happened if, say, they gave 48 hours notice?
It's possible as the editor portion is CodeMirror and an Emacs mode with loosely correct keybindings is available.

Will look into this and Vim setups soon.
Lawyer to review patent submission?
Hi HN,

I'm looking for a lawyer to review a patent submission. Does anyone have any experience with O'desk/elance style lawyer marketplaces or Startup friendly attornies?

Thanks team. Keep hustling.
Not too hard. Just go to a country that is known to not depend on your country (say, if you're from the States, choose China). Go there, open a bank account, mission accomplished.
It's called the class war. The ownership class has class consciousness, but the laboring class does not. The ownership class knows when to wink and nudge and how to run a subtle cartel, because they have class consciousness. But the laboring classes don't know how to do this; instead they fight against each other in a race to the bottom.

The market has always been broken. The "free market" is pretty much the biggest myth since Jesus.
Nice for experimentation. Not so nice for production.
>>It's like breaking up with someone by just never returning their calls.

Can't say it's so in this case, but trust me it's the best way to be in some cases :-)
What is the goal and how effective is the technique in realizing the goal. Bret's work is nice because he so clearly articulates the goal.
Cool to hear it almost works on Safari and an iPad. I haven't tried on that kind of setup.

Could you let me know what isn't right, may be able to fix.
> UPS and Fedex are in the top 100 most profitable companies in the United States, what exactly is your monopoly complaint?

UPS and FedEx legally cannot deliver letters, only packages.

> You really want to turn mail delivery into what the taxi system is today?

The taxi system today, like mail delivery, consists of a regulated monopoly that prevents competition and limits quantity (through the sale of taxi medallions); prospective competition has numerous restrictions placed on it (no spontaneous curbside pickup in the case of taxis, no letter delivery in the case of mail).
X-rays are only produced by the unrolling of tape in a vacuum. So presumably no risk here.
> token pedantic comment

oh you
The glasses are already getting banned...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2013/03/10/the-ban-...

I drink gallons of Google-Koolaid, but even I can see(pun intended?) that Google glasses is going to have some social issues. Even I will be a bit uneasy talking to someone wearing them.
Upgrade your Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind client to 0.8.1 by May 15
It comes with code completion for JavaScript, just hit CTRL+space. Will look at completion for CSS and HTML soon.