skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

Facebook has progressively and consistently been trying to "slip under the radar" with privacy time and time again. This is not a one time thing, it's a habit and a consistent assault on users. They've never suggested they've ever "gotten" privacy and their flawed assumption that just because i'm on a social network means I want to share everything with everyone is pretty asinine.

I've spent a long time messing with privacy settings and groups and i've never really gotten the results that I wanted. Social networks badly need to start getting the clue that people don't want to give up control over their information. All Facebook needed to do was look at the stories of people who got fired or never hired based on what was on their Facebook to learn this lesson, but they've proven they don't want to do it.

Facebook has gone way off the rails and continues to go off the rails. One wonders whether anyone there is possessed of clue.
Pretty ambiguous.

> <section>

> section is a thematic grouping of content, typically preceded by header…

> <header>

> The header of a section…

So do headers go before or inside sections? Or both?

The article also fails to mention that <header> is completely different from the way most of us use the #header ID in documents — <header> can be used over and over in HTML5 so the meaning is different than a lot of people would assume.

I know the example makes it less ambiguous, but come on.
That's as good an excuse as any to post the Periodic Table on the wall.
Finally, a use for Google Sets:
http://labs.google.com/sets
Don't get too comfortable with your ageist sentiments. Time will get you too.
I added the following rule to Adblock plus:

* facebook.com/plugins*

The iframes disappear seamlessly.
Interstates.
I wouldn't be worried about the grocery store having access to that data. I would be scared of who they might allow to access it. Ever wonder how collections agencies find out what your address is when you move?
Well I am getting a bit nostalgic about the use of ":=" for assignment (reminds of Pascal of course), but otherwise, I am not sure what the point is.

Maybe you can start by telling us what this language has that others don't?
Don’t Talk about Users
Blippy doesn't look bad at all from what I perceive from the homepage. They can do better by removing the TIME's quote -"Made me want to spend more". Any idea which just makes you sit and think about what more can we do is a great idea. I think Blippy is one of them, kinda gets you excited. I think girls would just love this service.
The thread title is a non sequitur. The point of the article is that many microfinance banks are charging usurious interest and that, by doing that, are not making the poor richer, just the bankers.
I signed once, I checked the settings and had a quick glance but didn't add people. After that I canceled my account and whit recent developments I think I will never again make a FB account.

If something like XMPP was made for social networking it would be awesome and if data portability was added it would be even better.

<will probably never happen>

Lots of independent social networks that are compatible with each other so that you only have to be a member of one but can still interact with everyone you wish to and can easily switch to another network.

<will probably never happen>

This open source project might be (or not) a good start.

http://elgg.org/
Previous comments are correct in that interaction design/ design is a very deep field. There are some general ideas (Fitts's Law is a very basic one), however I would like to point out that really the user dictates good design.

Do A/B testing, as well as physical user tests. Two types of user tests I find most helpful are the following:

1) Let the user use your website/product but don't necessarily give advice unless he/she is really struggling. Afterwards you can interview them and ask questions such as trouble spots and/or anything confusing.

2) Have a user "think aloud". This is one of my favorite because it allows you to more easily see what is going on in a users head (although its a far from perfect technique). The general idea is to have the user say aloud everything that pops into their head. Anything from "How do I find that link?" to "I liked that feature".

While I don't suggest you do backflips for your users I am also of the opinion that good design can't be done totally behind a desk. You have to get out there and talk to your users!
or you can just adblock the iframe url with a filter:

|http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?*
I received email from someone at MoneyBookers. Apparently they can do a Bank Transfer to a US or Canadian bank for a flat fee of 1.80 Euro (about $2.40).

Just in case anyone else wants to accept online payments from locations where PayPal is not available.

-- dxjones
It's just thinly concealed envy. Older generations have always looked down on the young.
Facebook Insights: Not Scary and Not Effective (Yet)
I would definitely be more interested in allowing companies to track my browsing and shopping habits if I was being paid.
Keep in mind that this is from Oct 2009.
I'd go win might not. Last time I checked elgg does not scale well and the code is really REALLY awful as in not optimized and not conducive to customization. It is kind of a toy IMO
On the cynical side, the system cannot be fixed, so it is better to avoid the 'club card thing' so as not to give ammunition to those who would wield it against you.
I get that there isn't a serious argument here, but how do you reconcile when the guy using 'megadeth' moves to a different cubicle?
Not deleted account, nor planning to. Just clicking logout button does it. Now, I just login once every 2 days to interact, also saves time.
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My boss is the sysadmin for my school's CS department; there is an IT department that every other department uses, but they're slow and useless.

For the longest time, their servers were named after ships, such as Bismark, Arizona, Enterprise, etc, while all of our servers were named after things that sink ships, such as Broadside, Salvo, Crash, Leak, etc.
Javascript tribute to The Beatles
Ok, so younger people use Facebook differently from how older people use it (or, from your point of view, think they use it). Could you explain some of the ways in which these usage patterns differ? What about Facebook do you understand that is hard for people over 30 to get, and that makes talk of "quitting" Facebook naive?

Is there a sharp division at 30 between people who get it and don't get it, or is there a gray area between, say, 20 and 30, where people sort-of get it? Why do you suppose that is? Why 30?

Also, please be nice.
Ask HN: How to find side project friendly companies?
The title says most of it, how do you find interesting companies which are cool with side-projects (open source or otherwise)?
Personally I've used it for so long that it's just become second nature. Can't even imagine anything else.

Still way excited about HTML5. I'd like to imagine how HTML6 will be like...
I've always had (what I would guess are) odd schemes. My first naming scheme was based around beat poets (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs), but currently, my scheme is 'cool Jacks that I like', which includes Bristow, McCoy, Kerouac, Kevorkian, Kirby, etc.

BSG callsigns sound awesome, and somebody else mentioned colors, but I think scaling that gets confusing, especially if you're color blind, as I am.
Thinkertoys illustrated
note: all tests run on windows. should include a test on mac os x.
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@dhouston - Can you give us more insight as to why a) the affiliate program didn't work and b) the referral program worked / what you mean by "2 sided referral program"?

im assuming affiliate is where payment is in the form of $ and to non-users who promoted dropbox and referral is payment of more storage on dropbox (ie- 250 mb per referral more) to actual users. Do you think a mix of the two would have worked well ie- payment of actual $ instead of the 250mb, BUT to actual users.
outdated benchmark.
Opera javascript is substantially faster now
if he joins a competitor, he should be removed asap. it's bad for morale and company ip.

who cares about jason cala... whatever the fuck his name is.
I wonder if this means anyone can use MapReduce (even outside of Apache code). ON the other hand I see no mention of 'derivative works' in this section of the license.

So, yeah, I'm curious if this patent license is transitive such that people creating new works based on the Apache code can always use the patent license.

Apache Software License 2.0

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

3. Grant of Patent License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was submitted. If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
really interesting presentation !! Still, one question, even thought there are millions of users, does the majority of the profit is made from ads? And also, it must cost a lot to give a couple of gig freely to each new users..? How do you exactly make profit?

Thanks
I serve on W3C's HTML5 Working Group. This certainly would help search engines along the road. I wouldn't think this would hurt SEO in any way, may actually end up helping. I am not too involved with SEO stuff, but I can help with other stuff you might be interested in with focus to HTML5.
Nope. I've been a member since 2004, when they opened it up to my school just before my freshman year. I just keep in mind that Facebook isn't private and I can't rely on anything I put on it to be private. But even under the stipulation that everything I put on Facebook is public, it's useful to me.
Doctor Who characters for my home systems here; my black MacBook is called Tardis, because it's bigger on the inside, and the Dell server was obviously styled by Davos, so it's called Dalek.

Naming schemes help keep the fun in managing computers.
For more serious music making, try TouchOSC:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchosc/id288120394?mt=8

Beautiful user-configurable musical interfaces.
Yeah. A lot has changed since then. Opera 10.5 has a new JavaScript engine said to be as fast as V8, plus other performance improvements.
Disney chose to name their computers like some planets; while the NASA chose to name their computers like some Disney characters :p
Link is dead. It says it will be back in a few minutes but hasn't been back for more than an hour. Anyone have a mirror?
google cache
I used to name my computers after Cathedrals but there weren't enough that sounded neat. So I switched to names of English cities.
Google cache:
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:h1M0xdV67_EJ:pastebin.co...
me. i've even used similar tools.
I was curious about the 2 side referral too, I think what it means is both the referrer and new user get 250 MB's of additional storage.
What was different about the version left to your imagination?
Single Line CSS
yes, that is what it means
'comaprison' is a funny word. I think you meant to type 'comparison' in the title though.
Greatest insight I got out of this: offering money as a referral commission might not be the most effective.

Here he offered additional storage which is (a) cheaper for dropbox to provide probably and (2) closer to what users actually want.

I'm anxious to try this out on UniversityTutor.com now. I have a referral program to try and get tutors to refer other tutors, and they get $3/month if their referred tutor upgrades. But not many tutors upgrade. I think I'll try out giving them free job requests for each referral instead, since the free tutor account is limited based on how many job requests they can get. Great insight on dropbox's part here...
Some more context: I had been programming for most of year, and I had two university courses under my belt. (OO in Java and Data Structures in C++) I was feeling pretty good with basic Python and had a couple modules in the standard library down. Reading an introductory book aimed at experienced programmers seemed (and still seems) perfectly reasonable, especially when I could not (at the time) find alternate examples of code covered in a couple chapters.
My computers and devices are named after popular females of the 1920s:

- myrtle

- mindy

- mabel

- ilene

- irma

- iris

- patsy

- floy

- agnes

- nellie

Nellie, of course, is my beautiful NeXT cube.
Many software engineers make the mistake of treating UI design like configuration - the more configurations options, the better. Do not fall into this trap. The mark of good design is not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to remove. Turn every configuration option into a sensible default value.

Some designers think good UI design is about polish. This is where Smashing Mag, PSD Tuts, CSS galleries, etc. come in. But often, that's putting lipstick on a pig. I bring this up because you mentioned drop shadows, rounded corners, gradients, etc.

I like to recommend Don't Make Me Think! and Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox articles (useit.com). Research things like the golden ratio, grid layouts, principal of least astonishment, etc. Those will really help understand the low level considerations that go into good UI design.

One thing I've learned to appreciate is that at a low level, good design isn't very brand or time specific. It's timeless. At a high level, it's very specific to the brand and current trends. The HN high level design (color, brushes, gradients, somewhat typography) wouldn't work for most companies, but the low level design would work. Too many people get caught up on the high level details (the "web 2.0" look), and fail to see much deeper and more important low level design flaws.
You can be buying the kit as a gift, and the person ending up using the kit can specify whatever name when "claiming" the kit on their website. There are no requirements for this name to be authentic and valid.
I feel sad that I found this submission by doing a find for "lisp" on each Hacker News page.
Möbius Music Box
IIRC it was confirmed that the engineer was at a bar because he had updated Facebook (via the phone) mentioning the delicious German beer he was drinking (hence the German airline offering him tickets to Germany).
Death of 'Caveman' ends an era in Idaho
Real URL: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_ac...
Yes, I really am. The only use I will miss if being able to contact a targeted group of people when I make my own ads. Which is a sick reason to not want to leave.

But I feel as though my rights as a user of their service have been violated not just this time, but many more (the frequent privacy policy changes, Beacon, now Connect etc etc.)

It's bullshit.

(Plus keeping in touch with people is easier on Facebook, I suppose. And it's a sort of asynchronous chat toy as well, which is fun.)
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decent IDEs like Aptana will make browsing stylesheets much easier. like methods in an object, it lists all definitions and allows for alphabetizing and clicking to jump to that specific definition.

...not that there isn't a use for organizing a certain way (like this article describes) in the first place.
Bonus points for when someone asks which computer you are using and you say, "I'm on Pussy."

I worked at a place that gave female names to all the computers. It was a little awkward.
"ooc is a modern, self-hosting, object-oriented, functional-ish, high-level, low-level sexy programming language, starring closures, interfaces, enums, garbage collection.."

Um, why put the word "modern" together with all the other ideas from the 50's, 60's and 70's?

It's like to claim something is modern because it's made of plastic, isn't it?
"Your opinion on Facebook is about as insightful as an 80-yr-old's opinion about the internet."

What about a 66-yr-old's? I wonder if Vint Cerf would have an insightful opinion. Or Bob Kahn - he's over 70.

Maybe Marc Andreessen could beg a real Facebook user to explain these things to him before he sits in the Facebook board meetings. He's almost 40, after all - his opinion might be worthless.
Simple solution: Make it MUCH easier to legally immigrate or work temporarily here.

Hire more INS workers, reduce backlogs, etc. but punish SEVERELY anyone who circumvents the improved process.

No excuses.
Dropbox are charging more for additional space that competitors that also have to have the physical disk space. So I'd image that margin for premium accounts would be higher, they can justify this due to the easy of use and simplicity of their product.
In the 90s, fruits. Coconut, kiwi, orange. Had a Cisco named passion. When you'd ping it from the Solaris box (pineapple) it would say "passion is alive".

Around 2000 with Grub I did bugs. Ant, roach, mosquito, brainbug (from starship troopers).

2005 or so a buddy got started using Roman names for servers. Dido, Leptis, Aeneas, Ulysses, Spartacus.

My home computers are super heros/villains. Superman, ironman, greenlantern, jeangrey, magneto, thing, hulk.
I like to indent my CSS to resemble the structure of the DOM it's styling: http://addepar.com/style/style.css
now that this whole thing has blown over, i'd love to hear from someone at blippy regarding how this affected their subscriber count. i have a feeling it went up today despite the negative press.
Simple solution: Complainbook.com. The web is viewed through a frame that that adds Dislike buttons to every piece of content. It aggregates what people are disliking and recommends things to the user that they will be sure to hate. It will instantly gain a high market share amongst content degregators, and Facebook will see everyone disliking their Like buttons with the Dislike button and be less evil.

It would also include location based features where users upload geotags of places they've never been, nor would want to go to.
josh@moneypenny:~$ echo "I actually do the exact same thing."
Smoke 3 packs a day. You'll be hacking in no time.
I wish Alan had at least hinted at his partitioning of the ways “humans make and do things”.

I can only think of it in terms of my undergrad curriculum (where I apparently “didn’t learn much that is good”). There’s math, which gives us many formal ways of thinking about things. That intersects with CS because most computers have trouble with the natural ambiguity of our minds. Then there’s the “Philosophy of Mathematics” or “CogSci”, which asks “what are we capable of thinking?”, or more precisely “what kind of thinking can machines do for us?”, and the practical side of that coin, which is what most of undergrad CS focuses on: hardware architecture, operating systems, networking, compiler theory, type theory, virtual machines, etc.

The latter-most is the bricklaying, I get that. I suppose the compiler and language design might be architecture, and the epistemological questions might be “modeling”? But then how is epistemology split up into three sub-divisions of its own? Does this even make sense?
For my own devices, I just name them anything related to space exploration. I make it memorable and appropriate. Launchpad was where I did all my creative work. Pocket Rocket was a Mac Mini. My iPod was Cassini (comparatively small / weak spacecraft); when I lost it, I posthumously renamed it Atlantis (after the Shuttle).

Originally I named devices after computer science visionaries — the computer I built, I named Kilby, after Jack Kilby.
Those accounts don't come with trusted real world connections. I'd imagine playing it right people buying these accounts would get really high conversion rates on offers they try and push through them, given that people are likely to trust friends with accounts that have been used properly before and aren't just accounts with 5000 random friends that don't actually know the person (there seems to be a market for those as well).
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I once used programming languages for a small lab. They were identical machines and the weird thing was 'java' was the slowest and 'arc' always needed to be rebooted.
Not as many threads/dilemmas. A bet between two people, that one of them will stay secluded in a house with provisions/materials/etc. provided by written request.

The confined person showed stages of mental/social evolution: lackadaisical behavior, then alcohol abuse/raging/abject misery, then (my favorite) a sobering up and re-awakened thirst for knowledge.

When the confined is finally spoken to, he almost dismisses his first human contact in years as intrusive/annoying.

This says quite a bit about me, doesn't it? :)
If I thought your side project could interfere with your work, I wouldn't hire you. I've done that before, it did, and it was a problem.
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I'm doing it exactly this way as long as I can remember for compactness.
I'd have to disagree entirely. I like good aesthetics, but they should be the last thing to learn. There's no point in putting CSS animations on something if it doesn't help the users do what they want, or worse, hinder their progress.

Start with UI/UX, particularly Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think". It's a short book, once you finish it I am confident you will agree with me. UI/UX not only affects the polish of the website, but you may find yourself changing your conception of how your website should be built on a fundamental level.
Why the name "dynamic programming"?
this is cool, thanks for sharing
Wordpress.com's new "Surprise Me" option
Here's Matt's post about it: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/surprise-me/?blogsub...
I wouldn't say that society has been declining for thousands of years, but there have definitely been long periods of consistent decline in things like toughness, respect for elders, and so on. Hesiod's time would have been one of them, because Greece was then in transition between the tough, impoverished warrior culture of Homeric times and the comparatively easy, luxurious city life of Plato's time.

Among English speaking peoples, toughness has on average (i.e. not including people who hit restart by moving to frontier areas) probably declined monotonically since around 1000 AD.
It is the interface. You can turn your head easily, but with this thing you have to click and drag around. Maybe needs WASD-like kb UI...
f@@k, s@@t, c@@t, crap, fart, bollocks, ar@e, etc all work great for computer names for me.
I just went back into my profile and deleted all of my personal/bio info, and made sure my settings were as tight as I could make them.

Two older acquaintances were still able to find me, so success.

I should also point out that I use it mostly to keep up on family reunions, and classmates, etc. and frequent the site maybe twice a month?

And I have always considered it public, so I have posted accordingly. And chided my "friends" to do the same.
Three types of distributed system designers