skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously eBay thought that the traffic is compliant. They didn't know that this was just cookie stuffing and that the sales they were paying to him for would happen anyway. When his affiliate sales declined, affiliate manager would of course be worried and try to re-engage the affiliate. But how stupid eBay affiliate managers could be if they didn't notice that actual sales volume was the same whether with his traffic or without. Well, maybe not completely stupid after all, if they finally had some grey matter to realise something fishy (and so simple) was going on..
I would treat this like a desert wine. You're not going to drink the whole bottle, but a small glass at the end of dinner is nice. You could do the same on an e-commerce site - work through the checkout process normally, and then make "Confirm purchase" button more fun to click.
My stock options are reportedly worth $230 but I'd hate to think how much I would have to pay to get the money into the UK, probably not worth it.
I don't think this description is accurate. It makes no sense for an invisible iframe to display the entire ebay homepage to the user - people would notice 100's of server connections and an extra 1MB download for a page view. More likely they found the one Javascript file on ebay that creates the cookie, and ONLY loads that Javascript.
Usually there is some leeway between being a yes man and being painted negative. Sometimes it is not even about the message but how you deliver it. Vitriolic criticism and a valuable suggestion of improvement may differ only in wording.

In an ideal world it wouldn't matter but people do have egos and sometimes it is worth to sweeten the message. Some people call it "soft skills", others call it "spray painting the turd" and my advice to the latter is not to use this wording during meetings :)
Thanks, I have updated my comment!
Email, everyday, and twice on Sunday. If you just give me an email address, I can put it in my contacts and contact you from the same place I contact everybody else: my email client. And I have a record of the outgoing message, and threading in the client to keep your response and my message associated, etc. I can also use CC, BCC, etc. with email, which I can't quickly and conveniently do with your form. But I don't want to be forced to copy & paste stuff.

So yeah, I come down strongly in favor of an email address.
Would someone provide an example on how this tool could be used to test a REST API? I think I'm missing something here. I'm not seeing how a fake response endpoint lets me test my REST API (shouldn't my test code invoke the API and validate that the real response was correct?)
Restricting account sharing or jacking up prices would be a bad move of tremendous proportions, especially considering the number of competitors Netflix has and the rate at which Netflix is dropping distribution contracts.

I'm not particularly attached to Netflix itself and would be pretty easily driven away to Amazon Instant Video or Hulu Plus if Netflix stopped letting me share my account or kicked up the price.

I'd say they have to know it's a bad move, but then again, Qwikster happened.
I love it that way. They are not supposed to break normal behavior by changing how tab works normally in a browser. I use Tab and Shift+Tab all time.
Me and several of my friends blew up a menagerie of large objects for the sheer joy of seeing an explosion, and the challenge of making an even bigger explosion the next time. Now we're all engineers, grad students, teachers, etc... I guess we're lucky we were in high school before the country went insane with fear.
Oh boy. Can't wait to see things from the results like "Android users are more psycopathic" or "Ruby developers are less psycopathic than Java developers".
You could trigger cookie setting with the img tag. <img src=http://affiliate-link-to-ebay.com>; would set the cookie on most browsers.

I don't know if that works anymore because my "affiliate" time is well long over but I guess this loophole has been fixed long since.

IIRC iframe was a little problematic with some websites as they had frame break out scripts [1] - so you had to be creative.

The golden wild west times ... I somehow miss them. Money was lying on the information super highway - you just had to pick it up ;)

[1] something like http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/framebreak.shtml
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"but then you would add hardware that could help Memcached zip information across a data center network."

Useless description....
The article you linked to only has two cases for this specific prosecutor. I have little doubt that there are racist cops and racist prosecutors in this country, but for this specific prosecutor I am not seeing good evidence of a racist motivation.

On the other hand, I see quite a bit of prejudice in your comment -- you seem fixated on the fact that the prosecutor is white and works in suburban Florida.
> It's interesting how internet companies are taking authority over many things away from official entities that nominally should have that authority.

What authority is google taking up here? A text change on a localized website? Nothing about the I/P conflict is changed here. Unless Google's gotten a seat on the UN Security Council since I last read the news.
Sensible, perhaps, but I may not have figured that out if it weren't pointed out to me.
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I agree. The interests of an individual may not always 100% align with the overall interests of the company. That's true at eBay as it's true at almost every company out there.

I am more interested, for example, at making the clients I talk to on a day to day basis happy with my work than I am on the exact profit margin my company makes every time I bill an hour of my time to that account. I see my job as making my clients happy, not making my company's stockholders richer. Hopefully one leads to the other.
OK, it bothers me when people say "Steam on Linux".

It's really "Steam on Ubuntu". Some other distros are supported with 32-bit only packages, but if you're running a 64-bit OS you need .deb package support.

I haven't installed 32-bit support on any Linux system I've provisioned this decade. Even corporate IT at my job, who are normally borderline incompetent at providing a workable environment, have native 64-bit packages for everything I use.

So when Steam (and Skype, and so on) gets released "for Linux", I just sigh and shake my head.

I'm a Linux user. And I can't run your program. Don't tell me it's "for" me.
I can see using these, but only sparingly. I don't think I'd use that preview eyeball. It's kind of creepy... :)
Depending on how many users this app has, A/B testing may not be possible. After working for a larger company that had lots of traffic, I started to take it for granted that I could run an experiment for a day and get an answer. When bootstrapping a new product, you just have to throw stuff at the wall based on intuition (and customer development) and hope something clicks so you can get that stream of traffic to A/B test with.
I agree. I am annoyed by the two menu bars, and also +You thing. Further i used Google Scholar regularly, but now I cannot find it even in the drop down menu. I cannot customize those menu bars, according to my use case. Also, there used to be an option to search videos, instead it has now been replaced with a Youtube option. It is amazing, Google used to be so custom friendly, atleast I perceived them to be...and with advent of G+..........
Chrome marks inc.com as a malware distributor
Anyone else has problem visiting inc.com? Looks like Chrome is marketing it as a malware distributor.
Perhaps this is the wrong question, there are "how much money did you make on your options" and there is "How much money would you have made if you had sold them when they were worth the most?"

You see I had some Sun stock left over from working there (about 8,000 shares) which at $60 a share in 1999 was $480,000, but after a reverse 3:1 split and selling them at $6 each in the Oracle merger they only netted me about $16,000. I "could" have sold them when they were $480,000 but I didn't. Not as severe a challenge as some folks in the dot com implosion but its something I think about from time to time.

If you ask what was the most money your options were worth on paper you get another (often higher) number. So if you were a Zynga employee on the day they went public you had some big value that they were worth but you couldn't sell until much later, and much later they were worth much less.

I owned 30,000 shares (common, not preferred) in a startup that I advised which when it was acquired only met the liquidation preference for the preferred (common stock ended up being worthless). At the last round of funding it was 'valued' at about $150,000 though. :-)

The bottom line is you can drive yourself crazy with possibilities if you aren't careful.
"Growth of your business" is a particularly nebulous term in this (your?) equation, can you clarify how it applies in this context?

Is it possible you're identifying a follow-on effect where funding would allow a company to buy both headcount and time with which to get the new people up to speed? Making a late project later is only an observation, and speaks nothing to how hard or soft (invented) deadlines might be within a particular company.
This is exactly what I have been telling people. She knew exactly what she was doing.
"Collective Intelligence" is a recent favorite and I notice that a bunch stuff from No Starch Press (The TCP/IP Guide / Think Like a Programmer), which I've become a fan of recently, is on sale.
I think you are on the right track. Positivity and Negativity are useful tools for discovering the truth. Favoring either very strongly has significant downsides.

The problem with Negativity is it can obsess over problems while not doing the harder work of actually coming up with a plausible solution. If a project is truly screwed, then maybe "tell the stakeholders that we need 9 more months instead of 3 (instead of pretending we only need 3 more months for the next 2 months)" might qualify as a positive solution. Or "3 months is obviously wrong. It might take 6. It might take 12. Let's invest 2 days in figuring out where we are immediately."
First question: No, because I'm a very inquisitive person and often bring up conversations that involve a heavy amount of curious observations.

Second: Of course not, but I tend to find people who are inquisitive about the world like to talk about it.

Third: I suppose if there was a negative tone associated with it, I probably wouldn't, but I don't see how that has anythign to do with what I said

Note: If you don't care to have a conversation, then you're being overly sensitive and spouting off emotionally. I'd rather not have a conversation with someone who can't have a real conversation about real issues. Sometimes that takes looking at a situation objectively and asking uncomfortable questions.
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Hmm... I am not willing to research if counterfeiting materials are indeed more easily available than I believed. :)
A lot of manufacturers sell cars with ceramic because it's less annoying to the driver. Performance brake pads are going to be metal (or a combination of alloy and something else) because they bite harder and pull heat away from the rotor.
Can someone please explain why one's favorite programming language would have any bearing on whether they're a psychopath?
At the byte level it does, which is presumably what the OP was talking about when saying that replacing characters with digits (uniformly) does not affect entropy.
A rational reader could not come to any conclusion from the link you provided, because the two cases considered there are so different, and even if they were similar the sample size is way too small.
Notice I didn't say there aren't any inquisitive women. Simply that I don't see them in the quantities that I see curiosity and inquisitiveness in men.

I'm not blaming women for this. I'm just asking why this seems so commonplace in regular observances?
That's irrelevant to the point in the parent that I was responding to - that every app uses tab to format text. Most apps don't. There are a limited section of apps that use tab for text formatting. I'm pretty sure most web browsers never have, although I welcome examples of web browsers that do.

If people want to write real email they can use a real client, not a web interface.
how would you watch the new season of Arrested Development?
Because blog views.
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I loved the footnotes to the first statement.

> Complete the scientifically validated test below to see how psychopathic you are relative to others who have taken the test.

The validation given is the Wikipedia page on Psychopathy. Best laugh all day.
By popular demand, a low-level solution: http://blog.frama-c.com/index.php?post/2013/05/03/nearbyintf...
"Porno" sounds so much worse.
> Tab moves focus to the next input element on almost all web forms,

In almost all software, not just web forms. It's only text editors that don't use this.
May I ask what is the aim of fill in an email address when one wants to leave a comment. For example, in this page: http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/6959/contact-form-or-m..., at the bottom, you can post as a guest, but the email address is necessary.
I'm not sure what your link has anything to do with what I was asking. I'm talking about pure curiosity expressed. Where are your stats for that?
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The discussion can be found here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/159595270791268/permalink/44...

with the guy in charge. (You need to join the group to see the discussion)
The awkward relationship of tech bloggers and (500)startups
Software doesn't (yet) offer the same aesthetic and emotional experiences of fine dining. But aesthetics and emotions are important to the software experience. I think that's the author's rather modest argument, that those experiences are parts of the puzzle in addition to price point, value-add, etc.
"I am bewildered at the hostility, and going away to try to understand it. I feel a bit like I've been kicked."

IF there's any hostility, it's directed at people and acts that are seen as inconsistent: You point to the rule that says "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something ... If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com. " after you made a post telling them that the site is having issues.

"More, I figured that most of the other times something goes wrong at least someone posts to HN asking, and no one had done so."

That's not an excuse for you to do something which, as you pointed out, violates a rule.

"I was half hoping to head off the usual flood of posts that something was wrong and let there be just the one place,"

Incidentally there is one place that did head off the usual flood of posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5650171 Are you complaining that it wasn't your post that was the one place?
yeah, i kinda thought that same thing. these would be good to use for certain projects and in certain situations, but i don't think i would replace static icons with animated, ever.
While the felony charges are clearly overkill, I think it is counterproductive to defend a moment of very bad judgment by calling it science.
Actually, I don't see that as a necessary goal either since what is considered reasonable or rational in a society/system boils down to numbers - including what I tend to call useful or objective truths (even science is iterative). Since I also think everyone deserves an equal opportunity ("has the right") to choose what makes sense for his or her self, I don't feel a need/want to control anyone but myself (to make sure he or she chooses according to my morality, or current scientific theory) unless I absolutely have to interact with him or her. I only want to also be treated equally in any and all social interactions (such as having the right to own anything anyone else, government or non-government, may), and to otherwise be left alone wherever possible, since I am only trying to speak for myself.
> Now it would be nice if people would demonstrate that they have a brain.

Thanks for contributing to the bigotry that all gun owners are pernicious idiots. How is this any better than any other form of prejudgement or "othering" based on any other political stance? Answer: it's not.

"Othering" based on a political stance is slow poison to a democratic government. What Ben Franklin said about hanging together is just as true today. If you have ever complained about a media outlet like Fox News engaging in this behavior, then guess what: you just did it yourself.
Excellent mindframe hack.
The standard way that web forms have worked forever is that tab moves focus to the next element.
Or the other way around

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as technically the editor notes are bracketed.
Considering the amount of nonsense I got up to in 11th grade chemistry lab including but not limited to lighting various metals on fire to see what colour they burned and handling hydrochloric acid, a little aluminum foil and toilet bowl cleaner should have been met with a slap on the wrist and possibly a talk from someone in the science department about what mixing chemicals you're not familiar with can do.

It was definitely not a smart choice to do it at school, and she was definitely aware of the fact that what she was going to do was going to go bang. Allowing for that, though - kids are curious, and with the advent of the Internet, if a kid's curiosity is piqued enough by something they saw on YouTube, I expect they're gonna try it, whether it's a Drano bomb or Mentos in Diet Coke.

Were I the teacher I'd have provided a controlled demonstration of why not to do things and some resources for experimenting safely. Expelling the poor girl just discourages her from experimenting with anything ever again.
First link of that footnote was just to describe the scale, via the Wikipedia article.

Second link (on the word 'validated') was to this article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10497804
What is the association with this site toptal.com? Has anyone here ever worked with them before?
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Most hobby mills are 3 axis meaning you can't make undercuts, so you can make a pyramid, but not an upside down pyramid.
I won't deny that this is based on anecdotal evidence. But I'm not making any claims. I'm simply observing the world as I've seen it, like any scientist would notice a curious pattern and wonder.

I'm frankly amazed how doing so seems to engender a high level of animosity from the community. Ironic.
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Nothing open source in this article which was the biggest drawback of me reading this.
I don't think companies should take a stance on political issues, which is what Google is doing here.

Would actually prefer companies have totally no influence on politics at all, but as we all know, that would be an utopia.
I wonder though if a 16-year old high school student who descends from the Middle East, Muslim would get the same public support. Uhm...
Can your please add "oz" and "cup" to your translate todo list? :-)
> You can't just say "No". You need to say "No, these are the reasons why, and here are my solutions". It's too easy sitting back and pooh-poohing every idea, and there are a lot of people that love doing that. Coming up with solutions is the right way to approach it, because people really don't like hearing "No".

Because people don't like hearing "No", its even better to not only come up with solutions, but then also to present them in the context of "Yes, we should do what you are suggesting, with these refinements" rather than "No, instead of doing what you are suggesting, we should use this alternative".

The substance is the same, of course, but it provides acknowledgement and validation to the person making the proposal rather than dismissal and rejection. This can make a very big difference in how people respond.
A bit of a side note, but how does WebRTC integrate with Twilio Client? Twilio Client was modified to use WebRTC as an alternative to the original Twilio Client, which integrated with Flash to connect calls.
Introduction here (http://www.twilio.com/blog/2012/11/webrtc-for-twilio-client-...)

And how does your product differ from Twilio Client?
That would assume that all spammers use botnets or can easily obtain specialized hardware (which are mutually exclusive).

It's still a deterrent and makes it non trivial to be a spammer. Also even on botnets each node is large numbers of emails, so it increases the odds that the owner of the infected computer would notice all the work being done.

Makers of specialized 'spam' hardware could potentially be targeted by law enforcement easier then dispirit spammers (especially if the hashing algorithm could be designed to be specific to email systems).

I can see some arguments as to why it's not 100% effective, but I don't think it needs to be 100% effective to add additional value. That's why I'm amazed it's still not being done. Just like I'm amazed that we still don't have easy to use email encryption, yet demand it for the web (email traffic is far easier to eavesdrop on, and often far more sensitive).
Agree. The reality is that the people managing the affiliate programs aren't that knowledgeable. Any encouragement was just blind rah rah boostering, with no comprehension of how they were driving commissions.

If anything, this just shows how clueless big companies are about online marketing "techniques".
Wholly disagree, proximity of like-minded individuals is the essence of the bay area and why it's so unique.

"Our startup, Kip Solutions, is a social media consulting firm for social causes."

With all due respect, if you were pitching your social media consulting services to startups, it's very likely you were put on the same list as recruiters.
I was once a big Gmail fan and have had a Gmail account since 2005. However, in recent years I think they screwed with the user interface too much, turning something which was once very simple and elegant into a confusing mess. There's always the temptation to add more and more features. Now I just use Gmail as a glorified spam filter and forward mail to my own local server.
Or the blog post citing it as proof that you really must be crazy to use PHP...
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