skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The borrowing route opens up cheaper ways to return the oversea cash piles. If the American divisoon of Apple get a loan from a company with branches in other countries they have cash piles then the possibilities to avoid TAX on that overseas money becomes more open than it currently stands.

Either that or it allows them to capitalise upon there cash asset in a way that does not open it up to current American TAX and allows more time until the American TAX system does some amnesty TAX deal for overseas cash Amrican companies have sitting and growing. Not just Apple, many have huge oversea cash piles and TAX laws have changed in the past to accomodate such situations and will probably happen again for a short term cash injection.
Twitter: Error Messages Should Be More Useful Than the Average Tweet
Installing a font, changing screen resolutions, or upgrading plugins doesn't suddenly make you unconnectable to the previous fingerprint.
Toyota Manufacturing Principles
Also the funny thing is you cannot be tracked by this, because whenever you install a new font, update a plugin, install a plugin etc, you change your unique data.
The key difference is in the violence. People sacrifice themselves voluntarily for the slim chance of gain and the real chance of progress, all the time. There's no reason to think that killing is a necessary or efficient method of finding progress.

Methinks you just like killing people. That's pretty psychopathic. Don't you have any friends?
How Not to be a Youtuber
Yes you can. A user agent string, plugin string, or individual font update is only part of the fingerprint.
I agree with everything that you're saying, but my concern is making these constant half-excuses and concluding it with "but yeah you do have to ask."

The beginning and end of the story is that if you're unsure, you have to ask. It may be a little awkward, it may not get her riled up/keep the momentum, but these arguments can be used against MOST responsible decision-making processes. "I don't want to stop at this yellow light because I'm so in the moment!" "I should double-check what that person ordered so I don't cook the wrong thing." Awkward-fuck-up-the-moment things are generally good ideas. In the case of sexual interaction, the stakes are far, far, far too high to make half-excuses.

I think that's also a huge misapplication of the "taking charge" fantasy which is, as you say, very common. Toeing the line between forced and forceful is something that requires trust. If you're uncertain about what you're doing, then you probably don't have the requisite trust built yet. Avoid it.

I agree with your conclusion and your arguments, but I'm very very hesitant to make any arguments or caveats that may weaken the case of caution for those kind of on the fence on the topic.
Yes, the long-term goal should be education. No, we can't bomb them with textbooks. When women are killed for trying to get an education, perhaps more drastic action than a better water pump for farming is merited.
This is kinda off topic but Timothy McVey actually had no ties to Oklahoma at all, so Oklahoma would be safe, he looked up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (the building he bombed) in the phone book. He was looking for a building with the max amount of federal offices in it. He grew up outside of Buffalo New York and lived somewhat of a transient life and he built the bomb with Terry Nochols in Kansas.
I’m 22 years old and what is this.
You think that optical drives could somewhat operate without microcontroller inside?
Citations please or you just come off as someone bitter who wants to diss on people.

Entirely unsubstantiated rumors suggest lots of things about sneak too. See how easy it is? :-)
Yet another entry. The Christmas tree in Tao Presentations is less than 30 lines of code, with a star at the top and blinking lights. Code here: http://www.taodyne.com/shop/dev/en/blog/275-a-christmas-tree....
Further action on the part of the USA will always increase the death toll, like it did in Kosovo? And staying out of things will always reduce deaths, like in Rwanda?

I don't pretend to have the answer in the case of Syria, and I'm not advocating anything one way or another. I'm just pointing out that your model of the world doesn't appear to predict the past, let alone the future.
I would give it at least a little bit of credibility just based on the fact that it's a consumer-oriented site with a wider audience than just us technical people. But I agree it's just one data point among many.

Which brings up an interesting question, since we're on a site for startup founders: what kind of traffic patterns do you guys see on your websites?
Feynman: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959)
>War certainly isn't defined as being between nations. Think of wars involving Viking tribes, or the Barbary wars.

Those are pre-nation-state examples. The tribes (or city-states, or what have you) played the role of nation states back then.

>And yes, to any given nation, people outside the nation are cheaper. Its a basic premise of human nations.

It's much more seen in nations that are used to being on the upper side with minimal impact on them, the same kind of nations that have built and justified racist theories of inferiority.

(Hating the enemy in some capacity is always present, but thinking of him as an inferior/cheaper human is not).
Thanks!

However, in my minds eye I did not choose to remember the screen ugliness - the somewhat large contrast/brightness controls. Or the keyboard chunkiness or the sizeable height of the thing.

Seeing this reminds me of meeting my 'athletic' uncle after he returned home from having emigrated twenty or so years ago - he had a paunch and other alcohol related signs. Sometimes it is preferable to keep one's memories untarnished by unvarnished reality.
The way you express your point of view will never change a single person's mind.
I'm somewhat surprised to see that Chrome on my Nexus 10 shows up as unique, based primarily on user agent and screen size/color depth. Both seem to be surprisingly less common than I'd expect inasmuch as they would seem to be identical across all such devices.
Why most economists' predictions are wrong (1998)
My previous attempts were geared towards small businesses which made user invites difficult.

Recently, I have started reading more about growth hacking. It may be very useful for the current product I am working on which is an app first service directly targeting end users.
Ask HN: are there no US based iPhone case manufacturers?
I thought that with 3D printing I would be able to find a US based case manufacturer to fulfill a custom case order. All I've been able to find have been manufacturers based in China. Any advice on finding US based partners?
What you describe is an incredibly difficult and completely unsolved problem.

While I agree with the sentiment, I disagree with talking about it as if it were something you could just decide to do one day, and then it would get done.

I would love to see more effort put into making peace. But making peace isn't simply a matter of declaring that you will "make peace, not war".
Presuming, of course, that the TPM wasn't backdoored (or even just had keys held in escrow where the NSA could reach them), which would be more or less impossible to verify.
> But in the reality using macros is no more complicated than using functions.

Do I have any guarantee that the resulting macro-expanded code semantically makes sense? (e.g., a guarantee that it will typecheck)
I don't know on OS X but on iOS while Mobile Safari is quite good, it lacks one mandatory feature: a way to install extensions or at least a way to install Adblock.

I find myself using less and less my iPad (last generation with A7) for a single reason: because how much web sites are actually cluttered with pop-ups, ad banners, and modal sheets masking contents. This has a serious impact on loading times and on usability, this is maddening.

This is becoming a serious problem aggravated by the fact developers of these websites / ad networks know very well there is actually no mainstream way of bypassing this garbage on iOS and thus they abuse their situation. Apple needs to do something to restore a balance. I won't hold my breadth though, but long term as it drives more people nuts I think it will become a serious issue.
Funny how Matt Cutts was all over the Rap Genius article on HN right after it came out and he's nowhere to be found here. Must be the millions Expedia spends on Adwords, or my cynicism, one of the two.
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You need to sell the idea first, then implement. Get some traction without writing any code, write related blog posts about the vertical market, about the topics that your potential customers will be interested in, and keep engaging with them. Talk with them.
It may not be for all but as far as I'm aware most productive creative people are rigorous in their schedules. For example, I've read a number of artists and writers talking about the importance of developing the habit of creating output every day regardless of quality.
Not massively enough. If the US tried to arrest these targets and bring them to trial, the arresting forces would get killed.
Full quotes:

* The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law"--which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants--becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

* As the rate of technological change in computing slows, the number of jobs for IT specialists will decelerate, then actually turn down; ten years from now, the phrase information economy will sound silly.
Employee Character Alignment – Workplace and D&D – May Contain Blueberries
Et Tu, USB flash drives?
I don't think it's manipulative at all. He says that he wishes the pro-drone people would be know more or be more forthcoming about the realities of the drone programs, and that they should be more transparent. The point of view that of the "other" side has also been mentioned many times, by The Guardian and other newspapers.
I think complaints are not about drones per se, they are about the US drone program. It doesn't matter whether it's an UAV, a manned aricraft, or a rocket propelled chainsaw. What matters is that there's a program of systematic murder of innocent people on the other side of the globe without any formal declaration of war.
Except we're talking about a variety of filters. The filter in the op is an extreme form of filter that is perhaps useful for a locked down kiosk like environment. (Not as good as doing that properly, obviously) and so that filter is very broad, be because it wants to catch everything and allow owners to whitelist exceptions.

The ukgov porn filter will suffer from some of that, but also the Scunthorpe problem.

Having had blood test results delayed because my surname has the word COCKS In it was frustrating.
I struggled for a long time when I started working from home. I tried all kinds of things, but what ended up working best for me was treating it like I would any other job.

I get up and go to work at the same time every day. I take time off for lunch, and I quit at 6:00 PM every day (assuming I don't have any pressing deadlines).

That's not to say I don't allow myself any benefits of working from home. I'll take a long lunch with a friend every now and again, but I try not to let my routine slide over an extended period of time.

It's also important to set a precedent early on about what disturbances you're willing to tolerate, if any. I handle distractions the same way I would at an office. If it's an emergency, I deal with it. If it's not, I politely remind the offender that I'm in the middle of work and then I get back to it.

As far as temptations go, I think it depends on what your vices are. That being said, controlling your environment is the easiest way to limit your temptations.

For me, internet browsing was by far my biggest time-suck so I used an app called "Self-Control" to block access to sites I waste time on. I don't need to use it anymore, but it helped a lot in the beginning.

I also used to do crazy stuff like unplug my electronics to keep myself from watching TV or playing games. Taking the time to plug everything back in was usually enough to remind me I shouldn't be doing this right now.

Really, It just takes a bit of experimentation to get the ideal routine down. Took me over a year, but now I'm super productive.
That is a good idea. Since the product name is not yet 100% set in stone, do you think it makes sense to start a new blog just for this purpose or use the personal blog?
I particularly recommend Bunnie's Made in China series of posts. Fascinating and a real eye-opener:

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=183
This just shows that even when shielding successfully against all other known mean of tracking [1], ultimately fingerprinting still can accomplish something re. tracking. Of course if a user doesn't care about other means of tracking, it's rather useless to worry about EFF's demonstration of fingerprinting.

[1] For example, see "evercookie": http://samy.pl/evercookie/
He provided some very real, substantive counterpoints, none of which you responded to.
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Absolutely. This is where it all started.
A handwritten letter from Ladar Levison
Arguably, if you are living in Pakistan or some other "near failed" state which gets military support from the US, you are at a much higher risk.

Some B.A. in the NSA digs through your traffic and decides you are some terrorist mastermind, next thing you know a Hellfire blows up your home and family.
What? The whole discussion is about calling a perversion of capitalism anarchism. I prefer to call anarchism for what it has meant througout history - namely a branch of socialism.
This only becomes troublesome if you have a website into which you login. Any time your fingerprint changes, it can be updated provided you login to a controlled website before changing it again. This allows a fingerprint to be associated with an account or person. So facebook, gmail and this website could track the websites you visit given the fingerprint data as long as it is relatively unique.

Let's now imagine an entity that scrapes most of the internet traffic and has connections within facebook, google, etc. This company could easily figure out what pages you visit using a combination of browser fingerprint from the request header and IP. This can be tied to a person using accounts. They can even identify who within a household with the same IP visits which website.
My original response was much more involved but I curtailed it to this.

I believe I replied pretty much in the same manner as jusbin1369.

My hope is that for people that look at comments only they will actually read the article instead of reading jusbin1369's comment and skipping it because they wouldn't want to be "manipulated" or consider the article another "propaganda" piece.

I also get very wary of questioning the intelligence of HN's crowd. I would gather readers are smart enough to know when they are being manipulated or not. I don't feel I need to be told or tell anyone how to be careful.

This issue is complex. I for one am grateful that we have newspapers outside the US that are willing to do this type of reporting. We all love technology on HN and I am sure we all love drone technology (I certainly do) but personally I feel the use of technology is more important than the technology itself. I definitely think in this debate, there does seem to be room for much much more information that needs to be put out there.
> What's semantically insane about Lisp?

Unityping. Now every useful function is automatically not total!

> I find it has very clean semantics; it is strongly typed

Of course it is strongly typed! All expressions have type Univ.

> programs are commonly written in a way that preserves referential transparency

All my C++ programs are commonly written in a way that preserves referential transparency, and clearly distinguishes between objects that are meant to be mutated (non-const) from those that are not meant to (const). That still does not make C++ a pleasant language to program in.

> The limited dynamic scope may be somewhat unpleasant though, but that's its flexibility.

Spooky action at a distance. Me no like. :-(

> As for macros, they are merely functions that transform expressions. They can be somewhat unpleasant to read, but they are basically that.

Will the result typecheck?
Nice! Didn't know about that yet!
Visualizing Seattle's 911 Calls
5) Get a dog :) ... Oh and she's very good at solving technical issues. Sounds mad, but sometimes just talking about a problem to her makes it work for me (and makes me look less stupid when I have to discuss the problem with work colleagues)

Not mad at all. The advice to talk with your dog on technical projects and general problem solving goes for cats. At least you don't talk to your deceased cat (I know I do). He and his two successors are responsible for solutions to non-trivial mathematical and programming problems. The solutions have to be non-trivial and interesting, otherwise the cat will listen but choose to ignore the discussion.
cool :)

I may have found a (kinda) bug; At the last page i was trying to flip to the next page but it grabbed the previous page.

I don't like it but that's my opinion ;)
>Do you mean like in Syria where 130,000 people have died?

Yes.

How many have died in the US Civil war? I read ~215K combat deaths and ~500K civillian deaths.

Should someone had intervene, e.g Britain or France, aiding one side over the other (and pushing their own agenda)?

>Until after the WWII, the US really didn't involve itself in much of the world's conflicts. Our tradition is to pretty much leave the world to fix its own problems. We joined WWI during the last year of the war and WW2 was already 3 years in before we officially joined.

Actually, in historical terms, joining WWII was an already made decision, not something the US was "dragged on". The Pearl Harbor was just a pretext, and they worked quite hard on provoking that kind of aggression from the Japanese. They US (not the people, the policy makers and large interests) saw the decline of the old colonial powers, and reached for the opportunity to get a large slice of the post-colonial pie.

Plus, it had a long colonial/invasion history of its own, from Philipines to Mexico and beyond by that time.
Northern California counties revive an old idea for a breakaway state
Clearly Krugman has underestimated the impact the fax machine has had on the economy.
What great timing. BTW, thanks to all of you who backed my crowdtilt to bring BlackGirlsCode to Brooklyn!
https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/no-sleep-till-brooklyn-f...
Launch is only part of the equation. You add/remove features and find where your new users are and find a way to get in front of them. Its a process not a one off launch event. I used to think too much on the launch but my experience says its about the consistent marketing effort.

I launched my subscription tshirt service (https://www.startupthreads.com/monthly) on Hacker news and got a little press but it grew after finding companies each month and finding ways to reach new customers. After iterating a bunch you find out what works, as you'll never have the perfect launch strategy to start.
I may pick a name that is simple and start from there. We thought about it for a long time, discuss it a lot, etc.. then one day we decided that we are going to find the name, and searched for it relentlessly for the next hour and we find quite okay name for our startup at the time. Just pick a simple name. And buy the domain, create your blog at there.

<yourawesomestartupname>.com/blog

Place all the social buttons, create twitter account, put an RSS feed, create an email list in mailchimp ( create a popup for email subscribers ) etc..
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Wow din't know Garage Band had a music kit for my Ipad. Where can I buy one? /s

I believe OP intended to emphasize discussion on the hardware and not the software when posting this.
The stats are dramatically different for an enterprise focused website. As a counterexample, we show for our site:

IE (all versions) is 52% of visits in the last month.
IE 8.0 is 25% of IE traffic

For the same month in 2012, IE traffic was 62% of all visits, so we are showing drops as well, but not to the extent we can ignore the needs of our IE customers.

In short, know your customer.

I don't like IE, but we like our customers a lot more than I dislike IE.
Are this unique visits or aggregate hits?

beating Windows? How about showing us the real GA stats for Chrome OS? I help run a very popular health site and ChromeOS comes in below Windows Phone.

>Windoze

Okay, my bad for reading this 'article'.
How often do people on TFT displays change their screen resolution? I don't have either Java or Flash installed and I'm still unique.
Not sure what you're trying to say here, but looks to me that you're confusing currencies with assets/investments.
Wow, that is high.

I work in the edtech space myself, and supposedly the IE 8 stats are around ~10% for us, which is high enough to not ignore (unfortunately).
I am a man.

These initiatives will simply not work. Imagine "Men Nurse."

Many women SIMPLY do not code for the same reason many men do not code. Most of us were not exposed to the science as kids, hence step 1 is to make Programming mandatory. Note I say programming and not C.S.. I am an amateur programmer and I can say wit confidence that this is as fundamental as basic arithmetic. Full stop.

I frankly wish they shut down "Girls Who Code" entirely and all the likes. Instead we can put our efforts into teaching everyone to code: "We Code." Because once someone does something as simple as print (2+2)-(3-2) or print $first_name + $last_name or (my favorite) <html><h1>The Website of Me</h1><p>My name is Joanna. This is my first web page.<img src='..'></p></html>, once they do this, there is simply no going back for them.
My theory so far is that the initial spike during launch is what gives the product the momentum. That is why I asked my question specifically around the launch.

Here is what I have tried so far after the launch with one of my products that has been sold for the code-base.

- Pre-launch page to collect emails (collected about 400, when emailed only about a dozen people signed up)

- Tried Google adwords with only 0.0005% conversion rate (which ended up being prohibitively expensive for my budget).

- Posted on HN :)

- Emailed about a dozen sites that could potentially have an article about my product.

- Contracted a 3rd party company to make cold calls.

- Sent out printed flyers to potential customers.

- Personally visited some potential customers and pitched the idea.

- PR web sites where I published a couple of press releases.

Above activities resulted in about a dozen free tier users. Are there any other avenues that you used to bring more traffic to your product after the launch?
They actually use the their sniffing capabilities to capture error reports sent by windows... Then use that info to target the machine. What an advantage.