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   by what 16y ago

   Google lets you do that. You can opt out of advertising cookies [1] and Google Analytics [2]. [1] http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html [2] http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
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   Which data? These companies track your movement across the internet with cookies. It used to be that a visit to dictionary.com would set over 40 different tracking cookies. I guess with your browsing history and some fancy statistics they c
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   At least they gave it running shoes, though it seems to have lost one somewhere.
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   You could show several faces and ask "how many are male/female?"
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   http://www.weebly.com/features.html
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   PG mentioned it today actually: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647322
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   Everything still stands. It's too much effort for normal people to host their own node and you won't be able to find anyone else on it. They have to solve discovery before it will even come close to useful.
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   How can Facebook's "500 million user" base be the impediment to people adopting Diaspora? Because you're going to stay where your friends are, unless it's really easy to switch. It's not going to be easy to switch to Diaspora
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   Except they don't really have it working. http://pivotallabs.com/talks/107-diaspora (the first 30 min is stories about how they met and what they did in school, you can skip that)
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    I think he means 37% false positives. This guess is based on the archive section, where he lists hits and misses. http://digginthefuture.com/archive
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    Look at the binary representation of acc. 11 00 00 01 00 10 01 00 00 01 10 00 01 00 00 When you take each group of 2 bits (starting with the least significant group) and take the bitwise AND with 3, you'll get 0, 1, 2 or 3 (obvi
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    And the Motorola RAZR sold 50 million devices in the first 18 months and over 110 million units within 4 years.
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    by what 16y ago

    Snapping up domains names to sit on them and resell them at a SIGNIFICANTLY higher price when someone finally wants them is commonly referred to as squatting. It doesn't matter what the official definition is. People will use words as they
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    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1588553 I think.
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    for those in Canada: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-ste...
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    How does this make sense? The contract says Ceglia was going to pay $1,000 for one project and another $1,000 for The Face Book. Why is the check for $3,000?
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    The location services are pretty creepy actually. I gave a site access and it knew my exact address. I will not be giving another site access, until I can specify that it should only provide my city.
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    I would guess automatic updates are on and they require a reboot?
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    They're not both. FB is not exclusive when everyone and their grandma can sign up.
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    There are some draft specs on the activitystrea.ms site. FB seems to implement them in Open Graph. http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/ http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/ http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Using_Activity...
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    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525445
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    What if it's only in response to people asking for book suggestions? Like this one: http://twitter.com/GEOFFUSELESS/status/21014481706
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    http://www36.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Will+you+be+my+valent...
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    I think the bigger problem is how do you find friends on it? Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand how you will be able to search the network for people you know.
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    Related, the best day/time to submit an article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175223 It's from a while ago, so things may have changed.
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    Would it have been more acceptable if he had said "women who complain about sexism in technology are just having a hard time getting laid or keeping a man "?
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    Is someone going to email pg? HN is all tables.
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    Would you be willing to pay to remove the ads from a website? Pay for each show you watch without ads? Pay more for an ad free newspaper? If not, you shouldn't be complaining about ads (even though they are pretty obnoxious). The ads suppor
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    but most importantly, its related to Hacker News because over 30 people have said it is (upvotes) This article clearly gratifies people's intellectual curiosity. Just look at the great discussion it has generated. Plus, I wonder ho
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    by what 16y ago

    Or just choose the seat at the emergency exit, they have more leg room so that people can easily get through when the plane crashes.