skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually kind of fell into the habit of using two browsers. One that I keep logged in to my Google account and one that I never log in with. If I want to do something "Googley" that I want tracked, like watch YouTube videos in my subscriptions or check my G+ page, I use the Google account browser (Firefox). If I'm just browsing my various forums and random links and videos and whatever I don't want associated with my Google persona, I use the non-Google account browser (Opera).

It ends up working pretty well, though I guess it is more hassle than it needs to be.
As many as it takes ;-)

A throw away comment on a throw away thread about a hopefully happy woman having a baby.

As long as no medical problems, who cares. More important things anywhere and everywhere else.
I don't need hard data. To me it's common sense. Rare is the company making $12B per annum. For example, The Coca-Cola Company made $9B in 2012. Even rarer is an established company with a single idea that suddenly takes them to that level of prosperity. I'd say so rare as to be nonexistent.

However, it's very common for already successful people to think all their ideas are good. Wouldn't you be biased towards your own greatness if you were named 2009 Nerd of the Year by GQ magazine, one of the Most Influential People in The World by TIME, etc?

When you've been told by the world that you're brilliant, it's easy to be seduced by that then go on further to make a horse's ass out of yourself.
Here's a real exotic language for you: F18 assembly. Different from x86 assembly, it is a RISC assembly language of 32 instructions, and is runs on a stack. F18s are tiny computers, so you're not only working at the bare metal, you're working with not a lot of bare metal: they have 64 byte-words of RAM, but because the instruction set is so terse, you can usually fit 6-9 functions in there (I've fit close to 30). If you can learn to use it, the next step would be to learn to use many of them together, in parallel. A $20 dollar chip contains 144 of these cores, and they're tightly networked.
Man, waiting on Steam Guard to send me an email with a confirmation code got pretty hairy during some of the recent sales. When there's 15 minutes left to say 75% on a game I really want and the confirmation email gets sent to Promotions and therefore never seen... thanks Gmail.
> The pricing of these devices could be the reason lots more poor kids get a real Internet experience, and that could be revolutionary.

I really hope they remember the lousy experience and remember to code for low-spec devices in future. I love the nice whizz-bang websites, but it's frustrating when they use weird features for no real purpose and thus slow the page load down.
Did you just compare a BitTorrent tracker to iTunes?

Anyways ignoring that, the "App Store" was built alongside iPhone and released at the same time. So I'm not sure where you're getting yo facts from.

But Netflix has done a much better job on video. And I agree that iTunes is a little weak.
I can guarantee that it's impossible for any ISP to offer an uncapped 40Mbit connection for £22.50 pm. That's a theoretical bandwidth of 13TB per month. They'd be losing bucketloads of cash if you did that - that kind of bandwidth costs _thousands_.

This is the problem AAISP have. Everyone else promises things they can't deliver, for absurd prices. Someone comes along with a moderately sustainable pricing model, and suddenly they're expensive.
Snowden merely confirmed a widely held suspicion that the feds are recording and analyzing most modern communications. The notion that terrorists didn't already assume this and use encryption online and burner cell phones is dubious to me. If anything, Snowden may have stopped some would-be terrorists by showing them just how many ways there are for them to get caught.
A variation of this that they could pick up and run with is to offer a VPN solution so you can terminate your traffic at A&A regardless of who is the better broadband provider in your area.
Is there anything special or unique about a black guy who codes?
It's a penny in a quarter (as opposed to a dime in a dozen).
I used to think the same thing, but then I ran into the problem where my large app had circular dependencies which require.js/AMD does not support. Naturally, AMD supporters blame you and your project's architecture, but it is not uncommon to have some circular dependencies in a large app.

The work-around is to use require.js in commonjs style or to add hacks into your architecture. Not fun.
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Your portfolio/projects pages are broken
Oh no, this new wave of UK anti-porn zealotry will ban even legitimate literature like 50 Shades of Grey... Give me a break. 50 Shades of Grey is a porn novel. It's a porn novel that made the best seller list, much to the first world's embarrassment and I'll bet you anything that it's what prompted this law in the first place. There are a lot of legitimate reasons to be concerned about this new proposed law, but I won't shed a tear for 50 Shades.
If you click the + on the right and uncheck everything it goes back to the old inbox.
It’s a no-win situation for Americans who are forced to pay $10,000,000,000 annually to fund an agency to spy on us and find “terrorists” or $160,000,000,000 annually for wars if they don’t find actual terrorists.

Neither of those expenses has its desired outcomes, nor are they mutually exclusive.
Or just attach pgp files to your e-mail and use it with any e-mail client or server.
Currently reading Atlas Shrugged, this story is amusing. I'm afraid that book is more relevant that I would wish.
love how ranting like this is top comment but if this were Dropbox/Airbnb you'd get hellbanned
They should not be dealing with sensitive information, unencrypted over a non-governmental Internet connection, so your point is irrelevant.
* Wheelchair parts

* Orthotics

* Custom grips/parts for walking sticks

* The back of my remote that's been lost since 2000

* Custom holders/stands for devices (modems,phones)

* Custom project boxes

...just for a start.
Oh, this is awesome. Would you mind if I included this workaround in the post? If so, is there a link I can include to give you credit?
Why the war on drugs has been made redundant
For the TLDR crowd:

>We had no idea that we'd sell so much—we sold 100 shaobings in a day, business is only getting better and better." said the programmer. "We already earned enough for an apartment and now we're saving up more money. We hope to get married next year.

The story has a happy ending. It's nice to see people, if not doing what they love, then at least loving their newfound life. And that's the whole shaobing.
'Expensive' is relative. I'd rather have an ISP that was transparent about what I was paying for, than one which lied to me that I could get an 'unlimited connection' for £20pm.
"The thing I hate most is that LinkedIn comes across as very desperate"

Absolutely. There are also many users desperate for visibility, clogging their tech boards with low-quality posts. I became so fed up with the atmosphere there that I closed my account.

I hope that I never need a platform like that to market myself.
It is not banned in the UK.

The proposed laws are stupid, but making shit up is not useful for discussion.

We went through the same nonsense when the Sexual Offences Act 2003 was introduced, and yet we can still walk into shops and buy American Beauty and other films.
It's working fine for me; I `dig`'d my domain to make sure DNS and everything was okay, too.
Hobrogrammer, finding coders free food
Even that opens up a lot of troubling possibilities when you get computers involved. Does scrolling /b/ and having the thumbnail of a picture that turns out to be an actual rape in your cache count as "possession?" If I email a bunch of rape porn to David Cameron, is he in "possession" of it? What if he downloads the attachment before realizing what it is? Ridiculous, sure - but what if it's not him but a suspect for other crimes or a political nuisance?
If you do want to access it directly, try the following:

http://jalcine.me/projects/index.html
http://jalcine.me/projects/portfolio.html
Site has slowed down considerably now.

Anyone fancy telling the lot at gov.uk about this? It would be nice if they weren't using foreign owned (and likely foreign-located) servers to record and analyse what UK citizens do on UK government websites.
I think that a lot of startups would benefit not from disregarding thinking about how they're going to make money, but not making it their primary focus.

We had an idea a few months back for a product we wanted to exist, talked to some other people that also wanted it, built it (total cost ~$120 and lots of free time), got some people to use it, and one of the first thing several of them said is "I wish I could pay a few dollars to do X". We hadn't thought of that.

The point is, we could have said, no there's no point in doing this, the only clear monetization path for us is worth less than the cost in hosting, and killed the idea in January. However, we decided that lots of people would probably use it if it were free, so we built it, and it turns out that we would be able to make it profitable by testing it.
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I think you are missing the point. It seems that the author used 50 Shades of Grey to illustrate his "If everyone is a criminal, no one is" point. Literary merit aside, 50 Shades of Grey was a massive hit, and also pornographic, meaning that lots and lots of people read it, and lots and lots of people are now "criminals".

Also, in terms of freedom of expression how is 50 shades of grey any less significant than any of the other books he listed?
I'm not 100% sure, because he didn't even blank out the emails.
By all means. You can link to my twitter handle @StevieBuckley.

Great piece btw.
Our local police force has set up a site for 'anonymous' reports from rape victims, and it had GA tracking on every page (plus Google CDN content, another issue). I wrote them to explain why this wasn't the best idea and how Piwik was a better choice.

Crimestoppers (A UK charity) are doing this too, and I wrote them to explain the potential for privacy issues. 'You've outsourced crime victims' privacy to an ad company' was my basic message.

I told both the local police and Crimestoppers how easy Piwik was, and how I thought it was a better idea but I don't think I got my point across. There is a gap in the understanding where the site owner doesn't see the raw data (bot Google does) and so they think it's okay.

Anyhow, interesting privacy issues and it may be that I am overlooking something or being overly cautious.

I posted a related question over on Stack Exchange if anyone's interested in providing some feedback there. http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/47069
I signed up for a second Facebook account because of pressure at work to "like" our company page but I didn't want my main profile linked with where I work. I liked the page and never signed back in. I get constant emails from Facebook "Do you know these [5] people?". They're all people I know in real life and am friends with on my main profile (which is kind of creepy, my second profile has no friends), of course I'm not going to friend them again.

If Facebook is smart enough to know that my second account is from the same person as my first account, how are they not smart enough to know I'm not going to friend my friends twice?
I love how they even reference the Report as Spam in their help file when there is no option to be found. Anywhere. Talk about getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar.

Pro tip: If you're going to remove an [essential] option from your network, at least update your help files!
You can get Google analytics to show you real time info too, it just don't save it as the default view.
This is the first I've heard about books being banned. I'm extremely skeptical of this claim.
So many jobs
> Dropping the national speed limit would save hundreds or thousands of lives.

Fine I'll bite. Where is this evidence?
Which really only becomes necessary after something has happened to make you need to switch back, at which point it's too late.

The better solution is for developers to not release updates that forcibly change your already-configured settings.
Third party apps on the iPhone were originally supposed to just be web apps run in Safari. iTunes was just for the loading of music (and I think video?) and basic activation and such. The iPhone was announced in January 2007, and released in June 2007. The SDK was announced in October 2007, released in early 2008. You had to wait until users upgraded to iOS 2.0 (released summer 2008) to actually run those apps.
If you were a rape victim, how would you feel knowing that images of your rape were being distributed around the internet and used as porn? In a situation like that, there's a clear victim protection argument for making distribution of such images illegal.

Now, that's a very different situation to either someone recording a crime for evidence which should obviously be legal (and I doubt anyone would want to hang on to the images/footage after providing it to the police anyway) or to actors enacting a fictional fantasy scene, which I feel should be legal with reasonable parental controls in place to stop minors accessing it. The law should be capable of differentiating between these situations, it doesn't have to be all or nothing.
Most terrorist attacks get stopped because they actually aren't very sophisticated

Perhaps you are right, but some are stopped because of intelligence. It could be that the bad guys are getting more sophisticated, even though there are still lower-probability lone-wolf types out there.
something about programmers of a certain age and qbasic...

... i guess that thing being that it was the only way to program for free on a default m$ install at the time (i.e. well after djerkstra's indictment of GOTO but a few instants before the internet was totally ubiquitous). puts on old-man hat takes me back.

no matter how cheap raspberry pis and whatnot are, to a 10-year-old, there is no such thing as "practically free." their incomes consist mainly of bubble gum and/or weird-looking bugs, which, as intrinsically interesting as they may be, cannot be exchanged for adult-centric currency.
The streetfood business is awful in the long term. I hope he can quickly move into a brick and mortar restaurant. Depending on the municipality, streetfood vendors get nailed by all sorts of random fines, get shunted around to various "permitted areas" which may or may not have lots of foot traffic, and the worst part: the low barrier to entry. Competitors can come in super quickly, and when they do, they can lower the total revenue by just a few percent for all other vendors in an area and kill profitability.
Your original comment was "Violent crimes is worst in EU." This is clearly not true.

If you'd like to reword your comment to "UK violent crime is worst in an ad-hoc collection of countries I've decided on" I'll withdraw my comment.
And that is a-okay with me.

I say that because the term 'wealth redistribution' when it's used usually carries with it a loaded connotation, which I'm not sure if you meant to communicate across or not.

It's vitally important that we maintain and fund 'wealth redistribution' programs so that a lot of folks are at least able to carry on from day to day.
>You might as well attempt to predict the weather for the next decade.

I can do that, with just as much accuracy as the author is striving for. It will be hot in the summer, and it will be cold in the winter. There will be storms in between. Some people may experience snow, while others will get rain instead, depending on your location.
Dinosaurs: cold- or warm-blooded?
Tor attempts to work around traffic analysis by using fixed-length records, and being a bridge helps hide your traffic with other people's. But nothing's perfect.

"Secure" in this context means "not readable by anyone but the recipient". Of course, if you have the recipient in custody, this is the easiest method to decrypt the messages: http://xkcd.com/538/

(OTR-style cryptography is nice, but sucks for store-and-forward communication; for a comporably difficult message to decrypt more than once, use one-time pads - but don't complain to be about distributing the pad dictionary, that's totally out of scope here ;)
If you already have a server or vm somewhere you can get the same with:

$ sudo echo "GatewayPorts clientspecified" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
$ sudo service ssh restart

then from your local computer do:

$ ssh -R 0.0.0.0:3000:127.0.0.1:3000 user@your-server

After connecting http://your-server:3000 will be tunneled to your local box.
IIRC YouTube has presented me with 3 completely different iterations of that dialog, all trying to bamboozle me in to G+ing it up.

The latest one was in fact blatantly wrong because the two answer choices began with "Yes, do ..." and "No, do ...", which didn't make sense because the question was posed in the opposite way.
I was thinking about how we learn and thought why don't we start robots at the beginning (essentially babies), and give them a basic set of programming rules to search for food, "sleep", and other things, this article seems interesting, a little further along then where I was thinking (3 year old) but I would think it would be a lot of learning.
The ISP usually has a remote login to the devices, where they are able to capture any LAN traffic they feel like, for instance.
Thanks for that; I remember that it used to display only data older than 24h, but didn't know they changed that.
Phase 1. Set up a surveillance state & keep a record of everything that your victims/subjects do.

Phase 2. Pass legislation that people cannot meaningfully object to, yet is worded so vaguely and in such woolly terms that it tars a significant section of the population with the same brush.

Phase 3. Profit!

.... Finally, a 3-step plan to profit that does not involve underpants!
Your hobbies are awesome, and I'm being sincere. I was merely addressing this statement made in response to the claim that sports is a common bonding activity:

> Huh? You mean like these people behaving like apes in these modern-days arenas, yelling at 20 people running on the grass and hitting drums while drinking beer?

The implication was that the only bonding obtained through sports was through spectating obnoxiously, while many people enjoy playing sports together.
This is probably completely naïve of me, but I would think that if he just came out and honestly said, "I couldn't be the guy to pull the plug once I saw how effective the programs are," then that would be a brilliant way to start the national conversation. Not only about spying, but Gitmo- which he has been very slow about closing.
This debate strongly reminds me of the "Zensursula" debate we had in Germany some time ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen#Blocking_...

The result was one of the biggest protests in Germany and a huge anti-censorship petition (signed by about 130,000 people). The law passed legislation nevertheless, but remained in a strange state between legislative and executive, because nobody dared to enforce this crappy law anymore. Some months later, the law was repealed - mostly unnoticed by press:

http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number9.7/germany-internet-bloc...
This has been one of the hardest moves to make. I love how you captured how difficult and scary it can be to make a move like this.

Great article.
In the summer after my first/second year of comp sci I took co-op positions, compensation was ~15/hr. Seemed to be about the lowest that companies offered. I only took something that low in order to stay in my home town and save money that way.

Edit: Wanted to add that I'm in Canada and all co-op's through uni or otherwise that I have seen are paid, may be different elsewhere.
my main problems with LinkedIn are:

- LinkedIn is not designed for self employed, startup owners or freelancers. They provide no way to opt out of job advertisements, like "Foobar posted a job you might be interested in:", or "Jobs You May Be Interested In", "Get hired faster with Job Seeker Premium" and many more.

- LinkedIn traps people to give it their IMAP password, so they download the mail contacts and SPAM everyone. And by SPAM I mean, they put this mail contact into the From: header, so it looks first like a real mail from your contact. ( Both are in illegal in Germany, so I wonder that nobody send them (LinkedIn Germany GmbH, Maximillian str. 35a, 80539 München), a cease and desist. And when we talk about a cease and desist, they do not show their German postal and contact address to their German customers, as Impressum/Imprint.

- Nothing happens, if you flag a group posting as inappropriate. But lol a group posting goes away completely, if you flag it as job.
Not entirely disagreeing, but an Occams Razor approach would imply the profit motive is more at work.

Which results in more election campaign funds for a politician, funding a new constituency of child fondlers at airports, or administrative fooling with speed limits?

One interesting analysis of speed limits is do people drive to live or live to drive? If, conservatively, one billion person hours per year are wasted sitting in a drivers seat, and increasing speed limits 10% caused a reduction in wasted human potential of 10% aka 100 million person hours per year, and an average remaining lifetime of a typical driver is far less than a million hours, then if less than a couple hundred extra people die per year due to the higher speed, total loss of human potential would be lower at higher speed, despite the somewhat higher death rate, which is somewhat counter intuitive.

"conditioned to be afraid by reflex"

Cowardly. No sense tiptoeing around it. America is a nation of cowards. Very heavily armed, dangerous, and violent, but none the less fundamentally a nation of cowards. A strong man with a gun is an asset to everyone around him; including himself. A shivering coward with a gun is a danger to everyone around him including himself. We (as in the whole world) are not in a good situation.

I never fail to be impressed at how brave the .uk people were during WWII and during the IRA troubles, at least contrasted with the Americans. Despite the supposed special relationship between the .uk and .us. Maybe the .uk men could send us whatever makes them so comparatively brave, tea or soccer or monarchy or whatever it is.
The courts. See the link.

In practice, this definition has rarely [1] been a problem. There are more serious concerns.

For example, a real problem with possession-based laws (as opposed to distribution-based laws) is how comparatively easy it is to frame innocent people [2]. Law enforcement likes possession-based laws, because they are an order of magnitude easier to prove and prosecute.

[1] Which is not to say "never".

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11397515
I love the idea of batching, I think I always assumed I was multitasking, but I think I may have been doing more batching, for example, I would start a compile, or run, and then jump to another piece of the puzzle and work through that, once I felt completed enough on that, I'd kick that off to run (or compile), and come back to #1, or if not done move onto #3, and on and on.
I've found that with GA the previous 24 hrs or so stats are not really accurate, especially with bigger traffic sites.
Commonwealth countries won't change either, the leaders now enjoy the faux celebrity being around royals gives them, plus it would take forever to change existing laws of Crown vs defendent, as the arguing and agendas would be infinite if they were to start changing laws, land status (crown land) ect.

Aboriginal treaties will also have to be renegotiated as the Crown wouldn't exist and thats never going to happen
Another interesting read about Direct3D and OpenGL: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/88055/51669
I took the default profile picture and uploaded it.
Food for thought: The Bible contains depictions of rape. Maybe this law isn't so bad after all...