skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few issues with the "I have very little to hide" attitude. One problem is that the information you provide may not be what you want to hide, but the information that could be inferred from it may be problematic for you.

For instance, what if some financial institution computes a credit score based on the profiles of the people you are connected with and makes you pay more for a loan because you have some friends with a bad credit rating?

What if health insurance providers sift through your data to find out about your lifestyle and adjust rates accordingly?

What if a potential employer or their HR service provider computes some kind of loyalty/reliability/risk score based on lifestyle data you provide?

What if none of that is possible based on your current facebook data but when facebook gets acquired in the future their datasets are combined with other data about you?

All of the conclusions drawn from such analyses may be completely wrong. But they are nonetheless information about you and they may have an effect on your life. Was that the kind of information you were thinking of when you said "I have very little to hide"?
I can't agree more. Look at the first comment: 20 karma points, and no real substance, hackerish or otherwise.

I'd like to see a discussion about (a) what it actually means to "like" something, (b) what demographics currently use the "like" buttons (c) are there any startup ideas to revolutionize the distribution of information etc.
yep, it was on justin.tv:

http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510
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Yes.
Edit: Maybe.
I always thought of it as equivalent to late binding. I'm not sure what it has to do with memoization.
Drew, could you share what books you found especially useful, please?

The slides mention Steve Blank, and allude to his "4 steps to the epiphany" and (maybe?) 37signals' "Getting Real".
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I think this is something which you should let your IDE handle. Most decent IDEs have code folding and quick search.

Also keep in mind that many elements in your website can have an average of 4-6 attributes. If you are using browser specific enhancements or hacks you can easily have more than 10 attributes for some of the elements. Now think about performing that dreaded horizontal scroll in your editor to find some of the attributes.

Let the IDE take care of abstracting away the actual file structure. Let your build process take care of minifying the css files.

Conventions are good in programming, but single-line css looks like a bit too extreme trade-off.
Well, memoization still allows for the natural, top-down recursive formulation, whereas dynamic programming is bottom-up.

Note: in some cases, a solution using memoization can be more efficient. See page 15 here: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms/chap6.pdf
Love it, I've been using the single line technique for about 6 months now (I used multi-line for years prior). It's definitely easier to scan.
I just retested Firefox v. Chromium on Sunspider and Chromium is still more than 2x faster. Really disappointing. Mozilla really needs to step it up on the performance if they want to keep Firefox relevant.
The way I think about it, in the simplest form, dynamic programming essentially boils down to a way of solving a problem with overlapping subproblems and an optimal substructure. Memoization is a technique that can achieve similarly efficient results, but is more of an "addendum" to traditional recursive formulations to avoid the cost of solving overlapping subproblems. The two are related, but not quite the same.
You could argue that what dynamic programming does isn't even really memoization in the sense that it's used in the Lisp/FP world.

Dynamic programming algorithms usually work from the bottom-up: you fill a table with the first stage of the algorithm, and then compute subsequent stages until you've converged on a solution. Memoization almost always works from the top-down: you start with a naive recursive algorithm, and then store function call results in a hashtable or other data structure to avoid recomputing them.

They both involve avoiding recomputation by storing intermediate results in memory. But saying that this makes them the same is sorta like saying that recursion and iteration are the same because they both use the program counter.
css-tidy does a few different formats. You could alias a couple of different sets of options to e.g. `css-compress` and `css-expand` and just pipe your buffer through them.
Isn’t this what enabling "block all third-party cookies without exception" in Chrome or disabling "accept third party cookies" in Firefox does?
would a folding mode turn a CSS dec like:

.selected {
color:white;
}

into .selected{}

or .selected { color:white; }?

Most folding modes that I've seen makes the block hidden, which is nothing like what single line CSS is.
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Ask HN: What is that "IS Lite" from Gartner?
'The Man' I'm working for is introducing what's called "IS Lite" from Gartner. I've seen some reports and studies in my time but never seen fluffier ones.

Bottom line - we'll all be outsourced (not that we're not already :) - but gigs will go to bigger fishes).

Anyone in that boat or seen one? What's that 'IS Lite' in logical terms?
Same here...there are so mamy of them they are shrinking down all the time. Makes me feel a bit sorry for bloggers, watching their retweet and like and digg scores all the time.
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How about using a hybrid method? Use single lines for selectors that have at most 2-3 attributes and use multiline for >3 attributes.
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even if it were nothing more than c++ with modern syntax/grammar, that would excite me.
I'm also curious ;)
I don't think I could ever move away from Debian... but Arch is indeed nice.
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Great article. It seems that simply using Gmail over SSL would mitigate the email-related issues here, no?
opting to email rather than hand in a resignation is not going to undermine anyone's decision to leave.
His main complaint was finding selectors ... so, if we're going by the article that shouldn't work fine.

But really, if you plan your CSS instead of applying edge-case band-aid over edge-case band-aid, this becomes a complete non-issue.
What's the value of hacking my Mint.com account? Learning where I bank so that you can send me phishing emails?

(Downmodded? Last time I checked, there's no "transfer all my money to an offshore bank account" button, nor are the passwords to the linked sites available. So while annoying that some dude on the Internet can see that you have lunch at McDonalds every day, it's not going to cost you any money.)
Any chance for a non-login download of this? I do not use Flash and thus have no chance of reading the slides.
I agree with all but one point concerning evolution in the article, which is its dismissal of the evolution of the population. The example in extremis is the ant colony: a mutation in a drone may give no advantage to that individual drone, and possibly even a mild disadvantage, but if it creates a sufficiently better adapted (non-reproducing!) worker, then that mutation is more likely to propagate than the absence of the mutation because of its advantage to the population as a whole. I extrapolate that, though it may not be the primary mechanism of adaptation, it nonetheless is a possible mechanism in any social species, from coral to human.
What about astroturfing by product vendors?
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I don't see a point to this. Textmate can collapse all of the blocks, so you get the same effect, without losing the readability if you want it. Also, who visually searches a css file? I just use CTRL-S in Textmate or Emacs.
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What do you suppose this actually means:

In fourth calendar quarter 2009, Apple changed its accounting to accommodate a new rule that lets the company realize most iPhone revenue in the given quarter. Before, Apple had to defer that revenue and recognize it over 24 months.

Is this enron-esque calculating future profits that haven't been realized yet? Like say apple receives a cut of 3G subscription plans using the iPhone from AT&T (or a licensing fee of some kind) and counts all 24 months of a 2 year contract before receiving the money?

EDIT:Italicized text.
In the real world you have stereo hearing and the ability to dart your eyes. This video has a similar feeling to a bad dream where Bad Stuff is happening but you can't move quickly enough.
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I was going to make a facetious comment about this earlier, but instead I did actually email my twin and we went halves on a kit.
Have used single-line since 199x when we saved bytes by writing compressed css, and switched to expanded several years ago just because it is easier to read and modern debuggers/editors use that style. Don't see any reason to revive 'oldskool' practices which are worse in readability.
Ask HN: Lisp development for Android?
Does anyone have some experience with using Lisp for software development on Android? I guess Clojure is always an option, but what are the alternatives?
I love sass, a different approach.
And if revenues were the most important number, that would matter somewhat.

To this day I still don't understand why it seems profit is about the last thing people look at. Maybe that explains a lot actually.
What if the VC replied "Yes"?
The numbers fluctuate for larger blogs too, but they become less noticeable. For example if you have 10 readers, feedburner may show anything between 5-20. At the same time, if you have 100 readers it will show something between 90-110.

Anyways don't fret over these numbers. For the most part, they don't mean anything.
It is not a feat of imagination to scale an iPhone up to the size of an iPad, but it is extremely unimaginative to not realize that it makes a world of difference in how and for what it can be used. I'm not saying Apple is enormously imaginative, I'm saying its critics often are unimaginative; they are unable to imagine the applications.

The same way a swimming pool is just a big bathtub, it makes all the difference in the world. You can't do the same things in a bathtub as you can in a swimming pool, or a lake, or an ocean. Scale changes everything.
I am a name.com user too and they have not caused me any problems yet. FWIW once I transfered some of my expiring domains to them and I got 1 year extension for free.
If it was me I would have tried to highlight how dropbox is (will be) different from the cloud storage service the VC is using.
I am. I'm done. Tried suicidemachine.org but that service seems to be spotty. Did not work twice and now apparently I don't have slots.

Will have to do it manually.. But I am going to do it.
Yeah, I was going to use Dropbox, and made an account just because of Android. But since I can't use it, and I'm in the market for something like this, I will just use some competing service instead.

How does a beta fill up anyway? Do the bits on the server get too weak to read after 500 people download them?
You are mixing dynamic programming with dynamic typing.
If so that is a brilliant idea but it should absolutely be more prevalent of their homepage.

I specifically didn't use their service because I think that going out to tell people "you should use this service, it is great and free" and then profit from it wrong (I don't have a problem with money but I want to keep my money and friends separate).
Recursion with a tail call and iteration are the same, though. The difference between tail recursion and iteration is whether or not the target of a jump happens to be the start of a function or not.
I wonder if they will reach a tipping point where it will be cheaper for them to have their own distributed hosting setup. I think Ubuntu One is doing it right now (I haven't used it yet) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_One
This discussion is over. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1289705

(The TC article does not add anything much. The fact that Jason is a TC50 partner is interesting though)
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I don't think Powell's public silence to date indicates anything other than the fact that Apple hasn't authorized him to discuss it in public. (Most large companies wouldn't under the circumstances, it's not an Apple thing.)

If the phone was in fact stolen from him, he has no reason to comment in public right now--his job is safe and his name'll be cleared by the investigation.
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The thing is most people would still recommend it even if there was no incentive (I know I would), it is indeed "great and free". Come to think of it, I didn't take advantage of the referral system yet and I have recommended it two at least a dozen people I know.

Also I think its a very silly reason not to use Dropbox.
Sass 3 will support a desugared syntax: http://nex-3.com/posts/96-scss-sass-is-a-css-extension
Will "like" data be just as available, or does Facebook get to own that data?
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I'm sure there's more to the story, but you gain nothing by being an arsehole to someone who's put their time and effort into one of your businesses. Even if someone's a grade A walking disaster area, there's more to lose than gain by being shitty with them.

Still, your business, your rules.
Any programming language that can't be cut-n-pasted from fifty different websites to make my SQL-injection-rich AJAX social awesome NoSQL site just isn't worth knowing. Theorem proving -- you ain't gonna need it!

What's next, you're going to tell me you write unit tests? Hahahahah.
Absolutely. And, I can't think of any email service that sends passwords in clear text. I'm not convinced it is this easy to compromise someone's email account.
Eh, the amount of ways anyone could hack anything is so much staggeringly larger than the amount of times people actually end up getting hacked.

Pointing out one specific flaw in one specific service is about as useful & damaging as pondering new theoretical ways terrorists could strike the US.
In the context of this article Income == Profit. The gap there is "narrowed" to $1B. Still a very large number no matter how you slice it.
Vim's folding shows the first line, so it works fine there.
I wonder why they have to have a closed beta? I doesn't seem to put as much strain on their servers as the iPhone app (it has less features).

Anybody want to tell me why?
I use it pretty heavily. It's one of the main ways I share links with friends.
If you found this blog post a bit abrupt, you might want to look at Mark Pilgrim's take on HTML5's semantic elements.

http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html
Of course it's joke, but when I tried to think of situation that would be analogical in importance and where astronaut/engineer would be so much worse fit than liberal arts, I couldn't.

That probably just tells my imagination is limited.

But not everybody has to be able to save the world when it comes to that. Singers and writers are useful, and they wouldn't fit in to asteroid scenario, neither.
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Since you dumped google, I'm curious if you've tried/have an opinion on DuckDuckGo?
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Hi,
I’m Michael Trofimov, the author of this preprint.Thank you for your interest, you are welcome to ask your questions. More info about me you can find, for example, in Intel site: http://software.intel.com/sites/blackbelt/hall_of_fame.php
(see Top Community Masterminds section). Is it self-promotion? ;-)

Yes, I am not native English speaker, so I would be very thankful if somebody will mark unclear statements in the paper and will suggest his/her version. Very important: this is preprint only! It is not final result, the investigation is under the progress. During discussion in other web-sites and via emails: one minor bug in the proof and one bug in program had been found. The program bug was fixed, also some time later I will upload the second version of the paper to arXiv.

All the best,
-- Michael.
From tons of support requests and bug reports coming in for the same bugs and issues they already know about from other users, but have to spend administrative time classifying as duplicates.
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No offense, but what's the point then of regurgitating William Zinsser badly? He said it better than you ever could.

If you really think brevity is important, read:

"On Writing Well"
Google sets and Greek mythological figures . For my personal list of 7 computers that's fine.
C'mon guys, this has been wrung dry - the startup scene has heard all about this, and I'm not sure if Calacanis' credibility can sink much lower with that demographic, even before this incident.

I don't see what we'd benefit from getting it out there to the wider world.
Ask HN:  How does Facebook prevent websites from clicking the "like" button?
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What no one seems to talk about is how many billion dollar companies tie into the microsoft stack, I can't think of any on the apple side of things.
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I like naming systems after ex-coworkers, and especially ex-managers.
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may he would have asked 'is it easily usable by your grand mother?'...answer would be a definite NO
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http://twitter.com/evanculver/status/12440647847

There's no way I'm doing more work tonight. I'm done. Have to quit kidding myself.

11:12 AM Apr 19th

A day before he sent the resignation email.
Or some navigator (map) like there is in Netbeans.

And also question why you have 1000+ lines of CSS.

news.ycombinator uses only 31 selectors. And it looks.. well maybe not great , but very readable and very useable (I like it a lot).

And I think it's better to have more classes defined in your DOM-object than doing the same stuff multiple times.
I mean, most of the time widths, margins and paddings are reusable. So why not create classes for them.
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looks well done at a technical level.

my first reaction though was to the name. it sounds like someones resume page. what's the thinking behind it?
You may want to see the Gattaca movie ;)
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If there is one thing I've learned from hanging out on the internet, it is to hold my tongue when I've only heard one side of a contentious story. I will hold it here as well.
Wow. I wish our excrement drove the development of life like this. All we make is bacteria, instead of rebooting the food chain.
I'd use radioactive elements for Windows servers.

Also, hydrogen - firewall/GW, oxygen - mail server, carbon - public web server, iron - source repository.
I think open graph is going to be a bitter poison pill for Facebook, and once they see what users actually do with it they will have no choice but to cripple it. Though I'm glad to finally see Brad Fitzpatrick's open graph idea from years ago on Livejournal come to fruition.

Tucked away in the announcements was a policy change to allow 3rd parties to now store Facebook user data for more than 24 hours. Facebook now wants every web site to embed their widgets, so to do that, they have to make their data freely available. Facebook might be a far better walled garden than AOL ever was, a truly wondrous Hanging Gardens of Babylon; but open graph turns them inside out.

Now what's to stop the rest of the web from just looting all of Facebook's data?

Some will argue that this is a similar pattern to being indexed by Google—trying to lock down content backfires, because if you give it away, the traffic Google brings you more than makes up for whatever you lost. So too for Facebook—they get more traffic back by giving away data compared to forcing everyone to facebook.com.

Everybody knows Facebook will become the next Myspace(Friendster, yadda, yadda), even if nobody knows quite how it's going to happen. (Kind of like how everybody knew the housing market was in a bubble, yet kept playing it up.) Blowing open the gates on data sharing is going to hurt Facebook more in the long term, because it opens up new opportunities to leverage user data across the whole web ecosystem in ways which Facebook cannot control. It's inevitable that someone is going to build a popular service on top of Facebook's user data; structued in such a way that Facebook itself couldn't clone it internally without compromising their other products and partners. While this itself is great for users and the whole web, it's not going to be so great for Facebook.
pg's automatic defense of Calacanis makes him look bad in my eyes.
"We don't know so let's shut up" is a defense of no one.
Phil Kaplan is the guy most associated with Blippy (and with the biggest reputation of the 3 people at Blippy from before Blippy). I'd consider his statement more meaningful than the CEO's. The other two blippy guys are mid-2000s graduates with 1-2 smaller projects to their names.

Phil is non-CEO due to historical accident (I think he was CEO of adbrite still when blippy was launched and maybe it would have looked bad?).
The tech press isn’t either
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"I don't have friends."

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I use random names from Firefly - there is actually a goodly number of you think about it for a bit.