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> It makes it sound like there's no data being collected from you, only from the sites.

And when you click through, that's exactly what they say they do. What they list under "See more" is an accurate summary. Of course they could be lying, but I find your claim of them intentionally obscuring their use of the data unfounded.

The option is off by default. Does everything have to be made into a privacy-invading scandal piece? I expect better from the MIT technical review.

Completely coincidental, I'm sure.

Good to know, thanks for the correction.

By that logic, we shouldn't have done anything about pop-up windows with ads either? Yet we did, and the world was a little bit better for it. Naturally advertisers, being the sneaky shits they are, didn't learn their lessons and are now repeating the same tactics with javascript/html5 overlays. When those become too annoying, we will find a way around those too, and the world will keep on running.

To me, it's simple economics. If their contents is worth it, they'll find a way to monetize it. If they can't find a way to monetize it, then the contents wasn't worth it.

From the little experience I have with HTTPSB, I'd say that it was more of a NoScript alternative. It feels to me like a webbrowser firewall. They seem to have moved into the adblocking field now though. Here's how I see it:

* Adblock (Plus): Blocking ads, No / minimal user action required

* NoScript: Blocking scripts. Lots and lots of user action required.

* Ghostery: Block privacy intrusions. Basically an application-level firewall for the browser. In a normal firewall, you'd block e.g. port 80 from IP x.x.x.x. In an appliction firewall you simply block, for instance, bittorrent traffic. Minimal user interaction required, and where it is required, it's very easy to use.

* HTTPSB: A low-level web browser firewall ("block port 80 from IP x.x.x.x) that now also does (better) adblocking. The adblocking is on par with Adblock (plus): no user action required. The browser "firewall" is basically unusable. Lots of user interaction required, and when it is required, it's basically impossible to understand.

As far as I know (anybody please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this), it's Adblock PLUS that can't be trusted. Adblock (without the plus) is a completely separate project that's much more trustworthy. Adblock PLUS basically usurped Adblock by appending a "plus", making it seem like it's somehow better than Adblock.

HTTPSB just isn't userfriendly enough for me. I run Adblock (not plus though) + Ghostery, and perhaps they use more memory and CPU, but if they do I've never noticed nor cared about it. Their userfriendliness is amazing though. HTTPSB randomly cripples sites, much like NoScript, and I really can't be bothered to deal with that anymore.

With Adblock + Ghostery I feel completely in control. If I want to enable the Disqus script on a single page for a single session, Ghostery easily lets me do that. HTTPSB makes that hard, or perhaps I'm missing something.

Case in point: When I tried to post this comment, I got a "Dead link: users don't match" error which went away when I disabled HTTPSB.

I'd like to add a rule 3: Don't impose or evangelize rules you don't fully understand.

If you got 0.3 req/s from wordpress, there was probably something wrong with your configuration or system. I run wordpress on absolutely ancient hardware via Apache SuPHP. It basically does a sudo + CGI-like exec per request. It still manages to squeeze out about 20 req/s.

Above setup was enough to withstand being at the frontpage of Hacker news. I'm guessing this website's problem is more related to Hostgator or whatever he's hosting it on. Perhaps a badly configured database backend.

Mirror / Google cached version: http://goo.gl/UAzttI

I've heard similar problems from other people. I've been buying Ikea furniture almost my entire life and I've never experienced this problem. Naturally I've had Ikea products wear and tear, but not generally faster than products from other companies in comparable price ranges.

I have to say, that's a pretty big piece of mental gymnastics to justify why this would be objectionable.

I wasn't really talking about his dietary recommendations, although those are probably harmful as well. I was talking more about his nonsense about the stuff he says about, for instance, pregnancy gingivitis. It's obvious he has absolutely no knowledge about the subject and he makes up his theories on the fly based on hunches. That alone makes me reasonably sure he's not very trustworthy. He routinely dismisses scientific findings and replaces them with his "n=1" nonsense. For someone who seemed to have at least somewhat of an influence, that's a very dangerous position to take.

> "Generally not the kind of of crowd hacker news "associates" with." - It seems you haven't been here long.

Good job on the passive aggressive attack there. Let me retort with "what are you, twelve?". Equally as convincing an argument I hope.

That could be it. His blog is also full of all kinds of harmful medical advice not backed by any kind of knowledge of the subjects much less any kind of science. Generally not the kind of of crowd hacker news "associates" with.

Forgive me, but I'm having trouble understanding why his death is significant for a crowd such as Hacker news? I didn't know about him, and I don't mean to talk ill of the dead, but from a quick google it would seem he's mostly just a dietary quack? Even if he wasn't a quack, I still don't really get his relevance.

I'm Dutch and my girlfriend is Russian, and she was absolutely amazed at how often and easily we make a little smalltalk with complete strangers here in the Netherlands. It may not seem to be a popular thing to do here, but compared to Russia we're very chatty and friendly with strangers.

> It must be hard for the bullying victim but it's something that has to be done.

That's another thing. I sometimes wonder if, with all these rules and regulations and protections in place, we're not taking away some of the development that kids have to do for themselves. Standing up to a bully is extremely hard, but it's something a lot of kids eventually just have to do. I honestly think it builds character to do so.

I think the first step should be reasonable discourse with the bullies parents, not threatening them. But I also think that threatening people can be a good solution. In the past I was involved in a situation where the law just couldn't really do anything until it was probably too late. A simple quick threat later, and the problem went away. I'm not saying I'm proud of it, or that I prefer it as a solution, but we're still animals, and we respond to threats.

You can have great software without insulting half the internet and being an immature brat. A beautiful landing page is optional.

I haven't seen an explanation for it, but one reasonable guess would be momentum. If you want to get work done, you don't want to have to wade through red-tape and bureaucracy to get it done. You don't want to work on something with the risk of it being shot-down by the current maintainers. This is not a criticism of the OpenSSL team, it's just a fact of life that it's often easier to "start fresh" than to try to change an already established routine.

I also suspect that part of the reason is because OpenBSD just doesn't work well with others.

Ah yes, the kind of professionalism I've come to expect from OpenBSD. They make decent software, but boy could they use some work in the PR department.

That, or

    Harmful things            Less harmful alternatives

    <thing that is       >    <thing that is          >
    <not Plan9 / OpenBSD >    <Plan9 / OpenBSD        >

Most interesting thing which sheds some light on the list is: "At the moment a detailed rationale is not provided for most of this, so figuring out why some things are considered more or less harmful than others is left as an exercise for the reader. Here is a hint: complexity is the bane of all software, simplicity is the most important quality"

I do have to say I agree with a large part of the Harmful list, but I recognize those things are not actually harmful but just personal preference.

I personally don't care that much about most articles being printable, but if you're making any kind of material that is supposed to be studied, please, please make sure it's properly printable. Doing research / studying a topic is something that is still infinitely easier to do on paper IMHO.

Having said that, does anybody know a decent web-based app for researching stuff? What I definitively need is:

* Ability to have a collection of related articles in one place

* Simple list of bookmarks that link to a specific part of the text.

* Highlighting in different colors

* Adding comments to a page that are _easy_ to view. Preferably in a sidebar next to the page or something.

* Adding links to external sources interactively to the document

* The ability to write a summary of the article

I've searched before a few times, but I've never been able to find something that had all the above and, more importantly, properly integrated those features.

It depends. We've got pretty strict security requirements as we operate in the medical and government sector. A black box appliance or something that auto-updates outside of normal patching rounds is probably out of the question.

Will this be provided As-A-Service, or will it be a downloadable product that can be deployed in-house? This is exactly what I have been looking for for a while, but there's absolutely zero chance we're going to send any of our business information to a remote service.

Okay, so.

* misleading title. Goldman Sachs stole nothing.

* This guy steals code from Goldman Sachs.

* Covers his tracks. There is almost no reason why your password ever ends up in your bash history. If it does, you edit out only the password. Or you put a space before the command you run. At any rate, this guy should have known how to prevent his password from getting in the shell history and had no reason to delete his history.

* The guy talks to the cops

* Waves his rights to a lawyer

* Signs a confession

* Lets cops into his house without a search warrant.

* Doesn't testify at this trial.

This guy fully deserved what was coming to him. Goldman Sachs did nothing wrong here.

^ Logical fallacy fallacy http://www.fallacyfiles.org/fallfall.html

The beauty of logical fallacies is that you can use them to discredit anything you want. "Scientists are in agreement".. Appeal to authority! But that's not how logical fallacies work. You still need to provide a logically sound reasoning why the fallacy applies. Which you didn't.

VPN is not mutually exclusive with using SSH. What he's saying is that people should firewall their SSH ports to only allow access from trusted IPs, and VPN's make that easier to do.

That's a joke, right? SQLite isn't even in the same ballpark as MySQL. It has a thousand uses, but a replacement for MySQL it is not.