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Re:Tenth Grade Tech Trends on Sunday December 30, 2012 @01:19AM (#4984878)

Care to share some of those rules?

Re:Kickstarter is Not a Store on Friday September 21, 2012 @07:21AM (#4553260)

You can limit the number of slots per reward, which is essentially the same.

Re:AdBlock, NoScript & Ghostery – The Trifecta Of Evil [Opinion] on Friday September 14, 2012 @04:44AM (#4520783)

> The modern Internet MUST have Javascript. So when you use NoScript, you’re breaking the Internet.

All the Javascript, Flash, Webfonts, etc are breaking MY Internet. Why should I let everyone send executable code to my browser?

Re:Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously on Friday August 03, 2012 @03:36PM (#4335742)

> It's only the subsequent clicks that can be paywalled.

I find it annoying when that happens. Also, Google's recommendation is to allow 5 clicks a day and allow everyone with "GoogleBot" in their useragent. I wish the implementation was better.

> Is it asking to sign in? I tried in incognito mode and I could read the groups just fine.

You are right, I cleared my cookies and I stopped getting the login redirection.

Re:Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously on Friday August 03, 2012 @09:21AM (#4333851)

I just want to point out that search results like Quora or Experts-exchange, are definitely not going away. Some websites might be penalized here and there but I haven't seen any consistent efforts to stop them.

In fact, Google wants even more such results. See First Click Free: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Oh and here are 240 million login-walled pages: https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:groups.google.com/grou...

Re:Hacker Dojo auctions its members to raise funds on Friday August 03, 2012 @06:45AM (#4333444)

Some links:

DEFCON 20: Robots: You're Doing It Wrong (waiting for better quality)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUlcTbfoz3U

Defcon 19: Katy Levinson - Don't Fix It In Software

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drk3Dz3_yLE

Re:Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously on Friday August 03, 2012 @05:56AM (#4333333)

> This shit doesn't fly with Google.

Not only does this shit fly but Google are doing it on their own websites.

EDIT: I'm guessing you don't believe me. Try clicking on a Google Groups link.

This article has another example: http://www.seobook.com/googles-youtube-caught-cloaking-spam-...

Google repeatedly violates the "guidelines" they try to force on other webmasters.

Re:Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @02:34PM (#4324767)

If Valve et al have already invested in the project, Kickstarter could be more about marketing than funding.

Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @06:29AM (#4290251)

We've created a lot of problems, yes. We need more energy, more food, more clean water. We need to clean up our soils, we need to plant some new forests.

The focus on cutting CO2 emissions seems misplaced.

Re:Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @05:02AM (#4290045)

I believe there is climate change, there always is. The idea that we are the sole cause or that we have the power to stop it, seems a little absurd.

The best thing I've read on the topic:

http://rps3.com/Pages/Burt_Rutan_on_Climate_Change.htm

"Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) -Study the data and reach your own conclusions!"

Re:17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine on Friday July 20, 2012 @04:37AM (#4269986)

Which is still fuzzy sometimes.

Re:How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy ... on Thursday July 12, 2012 @05:01AM (#4233682)

Thanks for the link. I remember being endlessly entertained by Gord's stories, I'll have to revisit them one of these days.

Re:Ouya Breaks Kickstarter Records on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @04:48PM (#4231383)

Took a look at WildTangent's wiki page: "The company recently announced its upcoming Android games service launching at the end of 2011"

Re:Openworm: c.elegans worm simulation on Friday July 06, 2012 @07:16PM (#4210038)

The lobsters weren't Russian. They were uploaded in San Diego.

Re:Lookup any software license shortly summarized in plain English on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @06:35PM (#4196565)

Because in 2012 every little website ends up loading two dozen external scripts.

I only allow it when a website is unusable without it.

Re:Declaration of Internet Freedom on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @05:28AM (#4193251)

"Promote universal access to fast and affordable networks."

Affordable implies to me that they are not asking for free access.

Re:Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots on Monday July 02, 2012 @09:23AM (#4188733)

The Weavr guys have posted the backstory of the jon_ronson bot on their blog. It's an interesting read.

http://philterphactory.com/2012/04/02/jon_ronson-a-weavr-of-...

Re:Giant digital fabrication CNC on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @05:15AM (#4042042)

There's a big 3D printer that is very suitable for architectural projects. Check it out:

http://d-shape.com/

Re:Once on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @03:13PM (#3945351)

"only count votes from accounts older than 1 year"

I think pg indulged us in this experiment. IIRC the front page was pretty much the same.

Re:Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money... on Sunday May 06, 2012 @08:40PM (#3937014)

Check out http://www.seobook.com/ and http://www.seo-theory.com/

Re:Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments on Saturday May 05, 2012 @04:45PM (#3933229)

I'd rather pay with false negatives when it comes to comments.

Re:The Internet Kill Switch; With Global Wiretapping Capability? on Saturday May 05, 2012 @04:10PM (#3933132)

Google is also a registrar (I think just for .com/.net domains). I guess they don't want to deal with dozens of ccTLDs.

Re:Blueseed: Visa-free startup platform on a ship 30 minutes from Sili... on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @10:35AM (#3703333)

I would love to read more about Sealand. Any sources you would recommend? Most articles I've stumbled upon weren't very informative.

Re:Everyone's Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here's How to St... on Thursday February 23, 2012 @12:58PM (#3625929)

I'm sure you are looking at more than just URLs.

Say you have a lead form with two fields, email and zip code. You would store a variety of data points besides those two. Referring URL, IP address, useragent, etc. If you just hash everything, and I gain access to your hashed values, it would be easy to make a lookup table reversing the one-way hash, at least for some of the data points.

I haven't had a chance to read the k-anonymity or related papers, but from what I understand it's not specific to data points like age/sex/etc.

Re:Everyone's Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here's How to St... on Thursday February 23, 2012 @10:44AM (#3625315)

I don't think hashing by itself means much. Especially when working with tightly-constrained values.

How about k-anonymity?

Re:Tinytrunk - Hyperlocal Flea Market on Thursday February 23, 2012 @01:47AM (#3624063)

"right now all I want to prove is that I can help people sell their stuff"

Thanks for the inspiration. I need to do this.

Re:Google buys what’s left of defunct search startup Cuil on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @04:41AM (#3615876)

http://commoncrawl.org/

Common Crawl is a non-profit that maintains a big crawl dataset.

Re:How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did on Friday February 17, 2012 @07:38AM (#3603063)

Thanks for the link, I especially loved the Febreze story.

Re:Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think on Monday January 30, 2012 @12:46PM (#3529744)

I believe Rapidshare went to court about this.

They won and they are not required to operate a fingerprinting system.

Re:Show HN: a color game playable by color blind players too on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @05:52AM (#3504212)

Sidenote: The popular game League of Legends recently released a special mode for colour-blind players.