skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know "tuh-ple" is American programming jargon (Python jargon for sure), while everywhere else it's "too-ple", including American mathematics and European everything - programming and math. Correct me if I'm wrong.
But it's fun so fun to say
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And how large is you local area? 646 MPs and ~60 million citizens gives about 100000 people per MP, and with first-past-the-post you can then easily have ~50000 people with no representation because they didn't vote for the majority.

(Yes, yes, I get your later point how the one elected is everyone's representative, but come on, in reality they're gonna follow their party line most of the time and if that's the opposite of what you think, you are shit out of luck)

Contrast that with Sweden where the constituencies and their mandates look like this:
http://www.val.se/tidigare_val/val2006/mandatstat/mandfstat_...

I live in Stockholm city which has almost 600k voters and 27 mandates instead of just one. I voted for a smaller party, and they still got two members from my area, so I am represented in our parliament by someone that is both from my area and shares my political views. And so is almost everyone else, regardless of who they voted for.

In my opinion, this system is better because you have almost the same benefits as your system with smaller constituencies, but the proportional system doesn't punish smaller parties like yours does. If a party gets 20% of the total vote, they will have about 20% of the seats in parliament as well, which is as it should be.
I think people get what you're saying, they just think it's stupid.
Direct link to an iPhone watchable video:
http://vimeo.com/channels/carsonifiedtv#10506751
Makes me think of mandatory ID tattoos. I realize that's a leap, but that is what first came to mind.
She forgot #3: Just use one of the whitelisted shorteners she mentioned further up in the article, e.g. goo.gl.
Seriously. I've found it's easier to make someone do something when you don't have your teeth clenched at first, looking to attack. If she approached that with a "Could you help me figure out..." or "I think you should probably fix..." attitude, instead of a "screw you" one, she probably would have received a similarly gracious response.
The last paragraph is interesting. How did bypassing AV become privilege escalation?

note: i have yet to read what matousec.com really says.
Extra cloaking for malicious links? Bit.ly can't exactly check the original site to see if it's OK if it's hidden behind a funky redirection layer. I think that bit.ly was reasonable to have an interstitial, although maybe they should be more open about why and how to remove it.
I see your point. I don't think she's railing against the support staffers personally, but against the company itself. "Your apology is worthless", as in "Bit.ly, your apology is worthless". Still, she could've been a bit more tactful.

Anyway, this is quite an eye-opening article. What bit.ly is doing is a great example of how not to run a business. We should be educating people about the internet, not taking advantage of their ignorance so we can lie about our competitors.
I just switched from my iphone yesterday and luckily best buy has a 30 day return policy because I'm returning incredible tomorrow. I just find myself smacking my head every 15 minutes using this thing. I think sense has a good deal to do with it, but I just can't help feeling this is like stepping back to the pre-iPhone era of smart phone design.

I'd like to give the standard android os 2.1 a try because I completely agree with the review, sense is disaster. Unfortunately, I don't think I can hold out...
glen is probably referring to the ratio of the number of successful applicants to the total number of applicants - which is about 1% ( about a decade and half ago, maybe even less now).

I don't know whether it makes any sense to compare the calibre of students coming from colleges in different countries with vastly different cultures in the absence of results from common tests.

However, these people are definitely among the best from a populous country where education has a status closer to religion and is also a ticket to earn legal income disproportionate to efforts expended.
Shouldn't lots of redundancy be a fundamental part of which ever db you are using.

As to extreme do-normalization, colour me sceptical, why not parallelise and throw more hardware at the problem?
I think Twitter officially supporting and converting URLs into a token at the time a tweet was written would do the trick fine. The 140 limit is what made them, but URLs are obviously a point of failure and frustration, hence the near constant hulabaloo over shorteners and redirects etc. It'd surprising to me that Twitter hasn't offered an official solution for URLs yet, to be honest. They saw people were using @ to reply, and supported it. They saw hash tags and retweets show up and supported them, too. But most users go to a third party to handle links.
I have no idea personally, but I say "tuh-ple" because it comes from "n-tuple" (think of how you pronounce "quintuple").
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It's too bad -- Facebook is obviously a good idea that people like, but monetizing it is going to scare away all the users. By the time it becomes the advertising haven that Facebook's investors need it to be, there will be nobody left to click the ads.

Something I liked about the "old days" of the Internet is that the cost to create a community was low enough for one person to support. Hence, it didn't need to sell itself out to corporate interests or even have ads at all.

The problem with Facebook, though, is that people use Facebook because everyone else uses Facebook.
So fan sites - labors of love - have no place in Facebook as a fan page.
Agreed, my point was google should just integrate straight lines into maps, not make a drag-able scale.
foaf+ssl = distributed social networks.

See markmail.org/message/xywxnqp3adqcem5f for some specs on how it might work :)
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What stops airbnb from re-purposing their tech? Nothing.

The technology to do this is relatively trivial compared to the task of getting businesses to use the site.
It's funny, I had the exact opposite reaction. The Sense UI feels much more polished and mature than the default Android UI which feels utilitarian and raw.

Some elements of the Sense UI I prefer:

Keyboard

FriendStream

Weather widget

Favorites widget

Exchange Calendar (!)
They could detect URLs and not count them towards the total message length.
Exactly the kind of the logic that people use to justify going into the corporate world instead of a startup. For people serious about building a successful startup the possibility of going back to a cushy corporate job if things don't work out should be the last thing on their mind.
How about putting some of the blame on Tweetdeck? Shouldn't "short enough" links be allowed to stay intact?
Okay, I'm missing something. I buy at 0.01, then sell at 40.00 during the window. My buy and sell transactions both get cancelled, so how am I out anything?

I can see the guy on the other end of the sell transaction getting screwed, but what happens to me? I can see what you mean if I bought at 0.01 to cover a short, but I'm looking at a simple position.
MPI Is Dead … and It’s About Time
Twitter in fact sort of remove that limit. There is a change called annotations around the corner
Automate all processes: assembly, releases, tests. If there is a process that has to do every day - automates this. A good example of when you need to do automation - delivery website for test and production server.

Also use modern frameworks like RoR, Grails, Django, Spring, etc
What would happen when those messages are delivered to a user's phone via SMS? There's still a nontrival amount of users having status updates/direct messages delivered to their mobile phones that probably wouldn't appreciate a message with a 50+ character URL (or the URL being stripped, effecting message integrity).
Allowing your users to determine how short is short enough would be a good thing.
No, SOC is about preventing people from recording movies; they're trying to stop piracy at the source. If you manage to download a pirated copy they won't stop you.
The rich person bunker is particularly devious. Good luck getting a refund when martial law is declared and the cloud of Gulfstream Vs descend on Saskatchewan only to discover Auschwitz style accommodations run by a bunch of high school jocks.
Heh, I also did digging and sent him a mail. Looks like a missing linker flag.
SOC really only applies to cable boxes, which are already full of DRM anyway. I don't think this decision should cause anyone to buy anything different.
I'm having a really hard time believing the scenario where a user follows a shortened link in a re-tweet, sees the bit.ly warming page, assumes that the original author is trying to spread malicious stuff (and that the re-tweeter, whom this user is following and supposedly trusts, is supporting this malicious stuff), and starts telling other people about how untrustworthy the original poster is.

In reality, they'd probably close the page, maybe make a reply tweet confused about the warning, and go on with their life.
Is "the concept of Twitter" what people are getting value from? If not, forget "the concept". (In my circles, people seem to be getting value from "an opt-in audience of likeminded people who you may extract business value from someday which does not include your girlfriend, high school buddy, mother, or Farmville." People definitely are not using Twitter primarily for short-form communication: if they were, two tweets out of every three wouldn't include a link to long-form communication.)
any in hyderabad or bangalore?
Wave is just another boring protocol. Protocols aren't hard. They're not valuable.

Yes. Agreed. Please don't invent a new one.

Building something people need is valuable, and getting people to use it is very valuable.

Yes. Agreed. Someone else already did the "boring" work (and has been bug fixing it), so why not build upon that? Grab some code right here: http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/

You know what users don't want? A Rails app thats "like Facebook but OPEN". Or basically any solution based on scraping or polling, which will never scale. An application of Facebook quality is not a quick hack, and making that app distributed is way more complicated.

People are currently using Facebook because Facebook is a good product, and took a lot of effort to get there. There were a number of competitors available to them, which did not catch on. Statistically, any new effort will also fail. So whatever you do, do yourself a favor and pick something that's pretty close to Facebook already, and work your way from there.
They could check the endpoint URL by following the HTTP headers on 301/302 redirects.
Yes, they should. But what's worse? Software that people don't even pay for being stupid in a fairly minor way, or bit.ly being anticompetitive and severely hurting its users in the process? He was focusing on the major issue.
Anyone used http://140proof.com/ ? If so, results?
They could apply URL shortening to a tweet when delivering over SMS, if necessary.
Yeah, I'm not really understanding the anger over this just yet.

What is an "output" on a TV? You mean like an HDMI passthrough?

So we're getting mad that we can't attach a second monitor to a monitor display a first-run Hollywood film?
I'm sure I saw this in the UK - maybe http://www.deskspacegenie.co.uk/ but there seem a few results. The lack of traction and options available on each site is telling.
Back in September '09 when I first saw this site, I wrote to offer my services in the Nebraska area, since I noticed that they do not offer service in the region. The response, at the time, was:

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At this time we are not expanding our area or taking on new reps. We will keep your email on file and contact you, should we decide to expand.

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I've only got it on the iPhone - so I can't play unlimited. I'm not sure how it would go.

It still has a couple of weaknesses - 2 onions will deal with any walking zombie + pole vaulters. It wont stop:
* vehicles -- use a row of spikes
* gargantuar -- cob cannons, etc.
* Miner Zombies -- These are a pain.
* pogo zombies -- I haven't got a great strategy for them.. - cob cannons, cat-tails, etc. (Or just put a pea-shooter (maybe the reverse one) to deal with these and the miners.
* Flying zombies - the blower plant or the cat-tails. The risk is that it can fall behind your onions - and then eat through all of your sunflowers.

Basically - it works awesome for almost every level.. But probably not for unlimited.
So... what's the revenue model?

It took the privacy kills for Facebook to get out of the red.

I have a great audience aggregation idea as well, but I can't seem to make it pay short of selling it off.
Alexis Ohanian has talked about what made Reddit successful many times. Steve Huffman is talking about the technical side of things. It doesn't come off as bragging to me at all.
"If you love your pets, I can't understand how you could not consider this," he says.

this man is going to be rich
Actually I remember a huge discussion a few days ago about how Twitter has a very large base of urban African-American users who do, in fact, use SMS to access it.
Linkage would be nice, So we can all marvel in the wonderful stuff being done with this.
MPI-Mapreduce
There's also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_micro-blogging_se...
She only started to get uppity after the extremely terse and unforgiving reply from bit.ly ("We don't allow that"), obviously we should all wait a while before writing emails or blog posts while angry, but we're also all human.
What about http://identi.ca and Tornado [http://www.tornadoweb.org/] (friendfeed's server that facebook released?

Oh, and Plurk [http://www.plurk.com/], if you're not just listing alternatives that can be federated/self-hosted.
It's a standard http 301 redirect, not a "funky redirection layer".

/Users/sjs % curl -i http://xrl.in/33qj
HTTP/1.1 301 Permanent Redirect
Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 00:38:19 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.donationcoder.com/CodingSnacks/index.php
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html
Not quite as simple as that, none of the three are readily available to use by just, say, visiting the site and typing in an URL. You need toolbars/extensions/clients etc. If she usually uses a client that's set to xrl.in changing to another shortening service might be a massive pain.
For a computer scientist (as opposed to developer), study maths.
yeah, I'm very surprised there isn't a twt.tr or something. Maybe they're holding out for .co...
why is this not editable? - view only was a bad call.
also

CMS != Social networking site (i.e. Joomla, drupal, Wordpress)
The problems with these types of techniques is that they don't necessarily improve security, but they do add complexity.

In current medical devices that support so-called "distance telemetry," the implanted device is bonded with a base device using "proximal telemetry." Proximal telemetry works only at distances of a few centimeters or less and tends to be limited by the sensitivity of the receivers within the implanted devices. Only after the authentication and key exchange has occurred in the proximal mode is the distance mode activated, which then affords the users several meters of freedom.

The assumption is that a person who can stay close enough to the patient for the length of time required for the devices to bond is implicitly worthy of access. This is the same assumption that has served the industry well for the past few decades, although before the distance devices, the entire session would be conducted in proximal mode.

The bigger risk, as I see it, is that an attacker could successfully impersonate an already-bonded device. In that situation, neither proximal bonding nor UV passwords would help.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CSharpMode
I agree that bit.ly aren't being cool about this, clearly they should fix it.

On the other hand, you could say that Tweetdeck is actually being stupid in a pretty major way. I have a hard time imagining this scenario occuring without the help of Tweetdeck, or other lazily written convenience shortener functions.
What a joke. People will take advantage of anything for a little cash.
Reddit in fact now runs on Cassandra - the top nosql solution for a social website
Did he not read the email?

We also take down Pages that attack an individual or group or that are set up by an unauthorised individual.

He admits several times that he is unauthorized to set up the page. The page was also handed over to the official fan organization. I see no mystery.
Something like http://www.founderinstitute.com/ seems useful to me - that plus a degree in computer science and design plus a term in Y Combinator.

(there are alternatives to Founder Institute that don't seem quite so MBA-ey, too)
A transaction tax for every trade. The money could be used to fund future bailouts of the financial firms. This idea courtesy of Mark Cuban.
I agree to avoid it with a web framework. It's just not worth the hassle in that sort of application. Where I still use it though is for reporting systems. Have your datasource output XML and then have an xsl for the web report and a xsl-fo for a printable PDF report.

At the time I wrote the reporting system it was to replace Crystal which I found to be much more of a pita and more expensive.
Article mentions:

'The only thing I can foresee that could prevent the widespread adoption of manycore mainstream systems in the next decade would be a complete failure to find and build some key parallel killer apps'

I'm no expert in this area, but aren't there a lot of graphics problems that are easily parallelized? Given that gaming is now mainstream I'd imagine the first set of killer apps to be game related.
Thanks, sorry I didn't RTFA.
This has nothing to do with TVs; most TVs don't even have outputs. SOC disables the analog outputs on cable boxes. If your TV is attached to one of those disabled ports, you won't be able to use your cable box to rent movies that aren't out on DVD yet.
Works well enough for Coral Cache http://news.ycombinator.com.nyud.net/item?id=1328844
>Considering you can't even buy a new 32-bit machine anymore, however

Netbooks.
What on earth does Tornado have to do with replacing facebook?
In summary, he violated Facebook's terms of service by creating this page, and is accusing Facebook of "stealing" the page from him now that they've finally decided to enforce those terms.

Facebook requires affirmation that the page creator is "the official representative of this person, business, band or product and have permission to create this Page." He said himself he's just a fan.

I've been as annoyed as anyone with all of the recent privacy issues at Facebook, but it doesn't seem they did anything wrong here. Except maybe write up some Terms of Service that aren't fan-friendly.
There's a whole series of video games predicated on this notion: http://fallout.bethsoft.com
Extremely preliminary look at Twitter's Annotations
Summary: "MPI is useless for all those cases except those cases where MPI is useful. It's possible that our service, about whose details our website provides astoundingly little information, might be more use in some of the cases where MPI is overkill. Quick, let's stick on a trollish headline so that everybody who currently uses MPI (I'm looking at you, hugh3) will click on this link."

Thanks, appistry link-whores! Tell ya what, rewrite my code in your non-MPI environment and we'll talk. You do have a ScaLAPACK equivalent up and running, right?
A new attack on Windows machines. In the immortal words of the Slayer, "Dawn is in danger. It must be Tuesday."
And how many are going to pay for server space when you say "this is like Facebook, but more secure", and how many are just going to stick with Facebook?
Copy machines, a dangerous hole in data security
You learn nothing of use to you

For a small percentage of startups, that might be true, but I think it is far from true for most startups. Consider the 1-year "mini-MBA" at Duke that Wadhwa mentions, which covers "marketing, finance, intellectual property and business law, and management." You would really suggest that this training offers nothing of value?

Again, there might be more efficient ways to spend your time/money, but for the vast majority of startups, that is a very useful skillset to have, particularly if it complements technical knowledge.

Maybe that knowledge isn't useful if the founder is content to handle only technical stuff, the startup remains small, and the company doesn't have any paying customers. Seems like a pretty big limitation to me though.
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I'm working on putting together the ultimate Founders Conference, focusing on how to start a startup, from finding co-founders to getting development going and avoiding the usual traps.

I prepared a one-page survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TNKFH7N that you can fill out, or leave comments here.

Thanks!
Here is the link to surveymonkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TNKFH7N
1 and 6 have sincere potential. I'm an advocate of anything that involves getting people healthy.
Always do it the right way? What way is the right way? The right way from an engineering standpoint or a business standpoint?

In my experience the right engineering way and right business way are often at odds. My boss just says I'm 'developing under protest' in these situations. :)
That's pretty far-fetched. On the subject of downplaying your accomplishments when complimented:

"This behavior, and the statements that arise from it, is a performative act of emotional violence against the self-assessment tools and skills of others, and disproportionately, against women."

I feel like I've peeked into her mind and it's a foaming vat of frustration, self-doubt and victimhood.
I think the Health ticket one is great. With current rates of obesity, people should be forced into eating healthier when they can't manage it themselves.

Here's a couple ideas of my own I've never had time to implement:

1) A solution for (web based) businesses that intelligently auto-detects and flags suspected negative activity before it happens using behavioral analysis. I've got pages and page of writing and diagrams on this. Originally developed as a concept around Paypal security but applicable across most websites.

2) A Social Network related to the pay it forward concept promoting compassion among people.

3) Google Voice has an app for Android and Blackberry, but not iPhone/iPod/iPad. Voice may be very difficult, but just making a web interface that looks and acts like a native application to send and receive SMS messages on iPod touch or iPad would be huge.

4) Configurable status boards such as Panic's( http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/) or Cultured Code's (http://culturedcode.com/status/) that mesh easily with popular project management systems like Basecamp, etc.

Enjoy