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Care to share some of those rules?

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

bobdson AdBlock, NoScript & Ghostery – The Trifecta Of Evil [Opinion]

> 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?

bobdson Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

> 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.

bobdson Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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...

bobdson Hacker Dojo auctions its members to raise funds

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

bobdson Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

> 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.

bobdson Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game

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

bobdson Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt

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.

bobdson Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt

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!"

bobdson 17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine

Which is still fuzzy sometimes.

bobdson How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail

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

bobdson Ouya Breaks Kickstarter Records

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

bobdson Openworm: c.elegans worm simulation

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

bobdson Lookup any software license shortly summarized in plain English

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

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

bobdson Declaration of Internet Freedom

"Promote universal access to fast and affordable networks."

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

bobdson Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots

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-...

bobdson Giant digital fabrication CNC

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

http://d-shape.com/

bobdson Once

"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.

bobdson Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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

bobdson Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments

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

bobdson The Internet Kill Switch; With Global Wiretapping Capability?

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

bobdson Blueseed: Visa-free startup platform on a ship 30 minutes from Silicon Valley

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

bobdson Everyone's Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here's How to Stop Them

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.

bobdson Everyone's Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here's How to Stop Them

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

How about k-anonymity?

bobdson Tinytrunk - Hyperlocal Flea Market

"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.

bobdson Google buys what’s left of defunct search startup Cuil

http://commoncrawl.org/

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

bobdson How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

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

bobdson Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think

I believe Rapidshare went to court about this.

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

bobdson Show HN: a color game playable by color blind players too

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