skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course. But that's the GPs whole point, he can't be providing info, either to confirm or to deny so it is relatively moot. We can choose to believe him because he's a HN'er of long and good standing (which I am inclined to do) or not (because there is no way to prove it and he does work for the company mentioned and that is not always the best source of information for things like this).

I'm quite sure he speaks the truth in an absolute sense. Maybe 50,000 or 100,000 people have canceled, maybe even only 10,000. But that was how every other social network that preceded facebook died off, by the first relatively large group of users that said 'enough'. What goes up quickly can go down just as fast, if any social network that is perceived as 'more secure' and 'less evil' in combination with 'nice to the users' gains traction with those leaving now then this could very well follow the exact same graph that caused FB to grow so fast.

This is not a 'sure thing' by any means, though probably the effect will be limited. Once it starts feeding back on itself or if facebook has one or two more security booboos all bets are off.
I don't understand how the person who only happens to be paying the bill to the ISP can be held responsible for anyone using that IP address. If the neighbour's kids come over and hold a LAN gaming party and download a bunch of movies, who broke the law? The guy who let them use his Internet connection?
Glad to hear you like the idea.

I've talked with Mel from https://www.sliceapp.com/ before and that sounds pretty close to what you're describing. Though I think it wants to SSH in and just run the commands instead of printing them out for you.
Steam version of Max Payne 2 is a version cracked by pirate group Myth
Legally, a patent should be clear enough that a competent practitioner can reproduce the technology.

Software patents are funny things.
I don't even think that it is inconceivable that a group funded through kickstarter knocks on YCs door for guidance in return for 5% + some more dough. The chances of success have already improved because of kickstarter, so kickstarter could be a pre-pre-seed stage idea validator, to see if something has legs or not before you even apply to YC.
Very nice, apparently this is a great enough need (perceived at least) that crowdsourcing seed money worked.

I wonder if there are other sites this would work for - ones that have huge userbases, with a big enough proportion of them being very dissatisfied?
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SAP reportedly buying Sybase for $6 billion
Microsoft was ordered to stop selling Word after losing to i4i's patent suit.
I can't see how this will work, at all. No one is going to "install their own node." It's like OpenID: a huge pain in the ass. Will my girlfriend use this? No. My sister? No. The friends that I work on cars with or ride bikes with? No. My hacker buddies who are paranoid and anti-government? Possibly. Even I won't use it... and I live inside of a terminal and write code for a living. I commend the idea... but this isn't going to make even the smallest dent in Facebook.

I have no idea why people are donating money to this. Might as well flush it down your toilet.

P.S. I'm not trying to piss people off here, I'd honestly like to hear someone explain to me why this is worth even $1.
But, yes, I do also like to bitch about them :-)
You're welcome to try that argument in court; if you're truly innocent it should work. The alternative sounds like a "get out of jail free" card for copyright infringement (or any other Internet-based crime).
That's a good point, the anti-facebook hype is definitely what drives this (and facebook is helping nicely), but for other ventures it may not be so easy to get the public mobilized.

Throwing $10 or $50 on the table for a bunch of strangers out of frustration is probably quicker done than out of interest for a good but unproven idea.

If linux hadn't happened someone could go and suggest to rewrite windows in 3 months if $10,000,000 is pledged.

There must be other sources of frustration on the web.
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My bad, I was wrong on this.

I would just delete my comment, but that would leave your replies looking dumb. Instead, feel free to downvote my earlier "Nope." into oblivion.
> I wince every time I have to revert a file, as "git checkout" is friendly but "git checkout <filename>" is destructive without warning.

From my point of view, that's like saying that 'rm -rf' is destructive 'without warning.' It does what it was meant to do, you can't expect everything to warn you all the time in an effort to save you from yourself. It would get really annoying, really fast if it asked you to confirm every time you performed an operation in git.

'git checkout <filename>' == 'replace <filename> with the version of <filename> in the index' (if the index is empty, then index == HEAD)

I'm also unsure how 'svn checkout <filename>' is less destructive.

[Note: Though these 'git debates' tend to get heated because you have "frustrated people that don't understand git but are trying to use it" on one side and "people that understand git and are frustrated at the 'ignorance of newbs'" on the other side, this is not an attack.]
In this case people are voting with their dollars. Most startups won't have the benefit of a controversy generating a wave of press behind their cause.

Are there already sites that take pledges for software projects (successfully; I think there have been failed attempts)?
its amazing to see what publicity on places like HN have done to this. I pledged a few days ago before i saw the first post on here, within a few hours they went from 3k to 10k. I really do hope they turn out something good
I'm guessing they'll clue in soon enough that that is not the way to go, they've got enough brainpower to work that one out and come up with the 5K or 10K per node solution.

Much better cost wise too, friends can pool for a node and take on a bunch of excess from poor countries or so. Or use locality effects to keep things near each other on the same box because of the bigger chance of them being connected.

Nothing a week long hashing out session won't solve before they start laying bricks.
Pretty funny, but seems like a perfectly valid approach. Some dude at Rockstar could either code a no-cd workaround himself to get it listed on Steam, or just reuse one that already works (and was extremely well tested by the pirate community). Imagine trying to obtain (and understand) the source code for a game binary released 7 years ago

No brainer if you ask me. He just forgot to remove the credits.
Right. This is the internet. That was a horribly tame example search - "anal prolapse" would have been far more entertaining.
I've tried deleting my connections under Music and TV multiple times now to no avail. (The bands I am only fans of bc my friends are in them, I don't actually like. I'm not into the TV shows listed anymore)

When I first went through the initial flow of you guys making all of these linked connections. It took me at least 20 minutes trying to get these TV Shows and Bands deleted.

A handful of days later, I was revisiting all of my privacy settings because I don't trust you. Low and behold there are all the TV Shows and Movies that I thought I had deleted still present on my profile.

It turns out I can't remove these connections at all.

I think a lot more people might have gotten rid of their data if they could, if they knew how, or if they knew that:
"These settings only control the information people can see on your profile. This information, such as your Pages and list of friends, is still public, so it could appear elsewhere on the site and be accessed by applications you and your friends use."

But I guess duping people with obfuscated engineering and design, coupled with bad (or no) communication with users is just the rule nowadays for you all.

The worst part is--I resisted joining Facebook for so long, didn't join until well after the Beacon fiasco, because I didn't trust the company one bit. It is sad that I was right about this and should have stuck to my guns.

Side note: While typing this I decided to pop over and re-audit my settings for pry the 4-5 time in the past couple weeks. What do you know some values were not the same as what I had made them previously. Seems like the only time I ever have problems with Facebook from an application point of view is when I am trying to delete or change settings.
Clearly the WORST news mentioned in this article is that Uwe Boll is still making movies. God help us.

http://www.cinemablend.com/features/Uwe-Boll-Money-For-Nothi...
While interesting (and different results than I expected), I would say uptime here is even more important than access times: I'd rather have all my visitors wait 0.04 sec more, than a small percentage not having the page work at all.
Another issue off course is that the files will be cached if your users have visited a site that uses the same CDN. I would guess that the Google CDN is most widespread, and a local cache hit is always faster than a CDN.
From what I have read, There are serious technical difficulties getting voice working properly over LTE. So, any near-term rollout is going to likely include CDMA for voice and LTE for data.

As for testing, now that the iPhone is on the market, it would be easy to have testers in the field with CDMA units. There would be nothing to draw attention to the devices because they would look like every other iPhone on the outside.
I've seen things like this. I would be very wary about trusting them with my precious source code, wouldn't you? However good they are, they're an additional layer in which (A) things can go wrong, and (B) you're insulated from the reality that you need to access to fix problems.

I fear that Hg-Git would be one of those things that is an absolute delight for as long as it Just Works, then abruptly transitions into an absolute horror the moment something goes wrong.
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I think that a mailing list only search engine done well and broadly would be a very useful technical resource. Much of the internet, at least for SysAdmins and Systems Programmers still happens on mailing lists.
Don't miss the article's infographic, "A Bewildering Tangle of Options" on the complexity of the privacy options panels. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/faceb...
Thanks for the feedback. I will rewrite to include that. I never even thought to differentiate on the dev/design staffing, since I always take care of that part of the process for my clients.
I sort of take issue with this statement:

“git is bad for me because it makes assumptions about how I work that don’t match how I actually work”

I think that it's the other way around. git was built with a specific type of workflow in mind. If you take git and try to insert it into your current workflow with a minimal understand of git (or its intended workflow), then isn't it really you that are making assumptions about how the tool works, rather than the tool make assumptions about how you work?

{edit}

- I make a one-line change to a single file.
- I commit my change.
- I git push, only to be told “! [rejected]	master -> master (non-fast forward)”.
(This is git’s cuddly way of telling you to do a pull first.)
- I git pull, only to be told
“CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in filename.
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then
commit the result.”

This is because you've created your local tree as such:

A-B-C

And the remote tree looks like:

A-B-D

When you run a 'git pull' it's a combination of two operations:

1. 'git fetch' or 'git remote update' which updates your local
copy of the remote tree. This is stored locally in the branch
<origin_name>/<branch_name> (e.g. origin/master).

2. 'git merge <branch_name> <origin_name>/<branch_name>' most
of the time this merge is a fast-forward merge which you don't
notice at all. It's when your local commit 'C' has conflict
with remote commit 'D' that you run into an issue.

In the end your tree will look like:

A-B--D--E
\_C_/

Where E is a commit with that resolves the conflict and has two parent commit IDs which point at D and C. In general, you want to just avoid this kind of stuff in the first place by either using rebase or doing the 'git pull' before you commit you changes, then push them out.

[ I'm having a hard time picturing how you would have resolved this with SVN. If you have a conflict between a local file and an update that you are pulling down with 'svn up' what happens? (I've not used SVN extensively) ]

{edit}

> Well, darn. So, OK, no problem, I already fixed the conflict, so now I’ll just git merge again to get it to make its world consistent, right? Nope: “fatal: You have not concluded your merge. (MERGE_HEAD exists)”. Well, duh! I was telling you to merge, you stupid git. You’re the branches-and-merges-are-easy version-control system around here.

You're telling git to start a new merge, not complete an in-progress merge. Think of 'git merge' as 'create a commit that merges these two things together.' When you run into a conflict 'git merge' tells you, "Sorry I couldn't automatically resolve this for you, but I got you as far as I could go. You'll have to manually resolve these conflicts and create the merge commit." At this point your working directory is in a state of 'middle of a merge.' You just have to resolve the conflicts that were pointed out to you (adding them to the index once they are resolved), and run a 'git commit' to push out the merge commit.
My right arm is longer than my left foot.

I'm really not sure how this is a logical comparison in anything other than a link-bait case.

The click-through licenses on some freemium apps I've used are also longer than than the Constitution, yet shorter than War and Peace.

I would expect most modern legal-ese documents that define restrictions and allowances related to privacy to be longer than 200 year old documents designed to grant basic freedoms and allowances to society. Especially when you consider that the US Constitution holds the distinction of being the shortest such document of any modern nation with a Constitution.
I'm making a note here, "Huge success."

EDIT: corrected the quote
You could actually just create a separate partition to run those apps in.

You can even just use a disk image http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200505051847146...

You also may need to symlink some directories.
the top trending project is a project he created to get to the top of the trending projects list.
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What stops them from applying to a VC or a seed stage investor like YC?
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You don't have a sales tax, in that the consumer is not taxed. Instead, you have an excise tax, where the business is taxed. Many businesses will show how much they inflated their prices in order to pay their excise tax, and show this as a line item on the receipt. That's their choice. That doesn't make it a sales tax.

Again, Hawaii is taxing it's own people, instead of it's tourists. In self-defense, many of those businesses pass that tax on to the tourists and itemize it on their receipts, but many don't.
At the same time Microsoft was rumbling at TomTom over patents, TomTom was rumbling at Microsoft over patents. TomTom's an old hand at suing over patents, having sued a few other GPS makers and users.

Only after about a year of negotiation over cross licensing failed to reach an agreement did both sides file suit. Yes, Microsoft got their suit filed first, by about a month or so. However, it takes several months to prepare to file a patent suit, so it's clear both sides had been working on it for a while.

As far as I've been able to find, there's no public information as to who actually was the initial aggressor between Microsoft and TomTom. But given that up to that time Microsoft had not sued anyone over software patents, and has not sued anyone since then over software patents, and that TomTom had sued people over software patents (in Eastern District of Texas, even), it seems likely that TomTom was the aggressor.
i didn't even know sybase was still around. i thought microsoft acquired some kind of sybase technology and started selling it as mssql?
There's two problems with this approach:

1. If you have other uncomitted changes, you're simply hosed. You can't continue with the merge process with local changes at all.

2. It pollutes your change list with unrelated, unconflicted changes belonging to your teammate (the whole changeset).
No experience with these, but a search through freshmeat shows packages with inventory modules that might work:
NOLA http://freshmeat.net/projects/nola
Zephyr Basecamp http://freshmeat.net/projects/zbcenterprise
NolaPro (don't know if related to NOLA) http://freshmeat.net/projects/nolapro
WebERP http://freshmeat.net/projects/weberp
OpenBravo http://openbravo.com/
I love that almost every comment here has already encapsulated all of my frustration at the content on this article.

Thank God because that was a trainwreck and I found my neck hurting after reading from all the head shaking I was doing...
Once files are added to git it is almost impossible to destroy them irrecoverably. So my impression of git is the opposite I perform any command without fear to lose anything. If the command doesn't do what I need I just rollback to the last known good state.
I'd honestly like to hear someone explain to me why this is worth even $1.

It's worth at least $5 or even $10 dollars to me. That's effectively, "I'll buy you guys a pizza." (Or, here in NYC, a couple or three slices of pizza. But it's good pizza, damn it.) I'm not especially worried about whether or not this project conquers the world, or beats Facebook (which I could care less about one way or the other). The motivation here is just some interesting people with a lot of passion doing something they care about. Giving them a little money is like buying a beer for someone in a bar you just met who is telling a great story. It's not really goal oriented, just sociable. (And that's the difference between this and flushing money down the toilet.)

The larger result relies on the magic of lots and lots of individually small donations. A small amount of money like this doesn't hurt me at all, but a whole big lot of donations like this add up to $50,000 in a hurry apparently.
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The number of watchers on the first repository.
Of course they don't. There's still profit, even if you buy a big NetApp array, is the point.
Poll: Did you pledge on the diaspora project?
I'm wondering how large a portion of the diaspora project is funded by HN'ers, did you pledge and if so how much?
$1-$4
$5-$9
$10-$49
$50-$99
$100-$499
$500-$999
$1000 and up
I suspect the valuable advice might well be buried in the noise, and take more time to sort out than you would get if you were just dealing with a couple of big investors.

That, and bigger investors have more at stake, so it is in their own interest to see you do things right quickly.
Wait, I don't understand. Was that a response to his entire comment, or just the "it'll be a pain in the ass to run a node" part? Because I don't see anything a weeklong hashing-out session is going to do about the fact that his bike friends are never going to use this.
Probably just a Martian face. I suspect you could find equally plausible logos in many binaries by trying enough combinations of screen width & formatting and doing some kind of image recognition on the ascii art.
I'd be more interested in the new effective tax rate in California or other "high tax" states.
Interesting, but ... why?
Check out the breakdown:

325 in the $5 to $10 range

274 $10 - $25

104 $50 - $100

76 $100 to $350

8 $350 to $1000

3 $1000 to $2000

1 $2000 and up

That's certainly a lot of people buying them a pizza, but there is also a significant number of people buying them 10 DVDs or a four course meal for two, and even a few are buying them a months rent.
I hope I wont have to regret running a Tor relay for the past ~year and bridging for China.

i was subpoenaed and deposed for a civil lawsuit that resulted from a forum post made through my tor exit node. i explained what tor was, that i had no idea who posted it, what was posted, or how to find out who they were. case closed.
I have made a version of that myself just before posting here, but I made n be width, not the height. Still an interesting solution.
Check out Kotaku's comparison:

http://kotaku.com/5537223/is-that-a-cracked-version-of-max-p...
Watch out for the flying door-knobs. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272779 )

Seems that the peasants who have binaries should use rsync manually, instead of expecting tools to do the job.
that is actually a success of sorts, encryption that goes unnoticed by users in a great model. it is up to application providers to make it a standard.

surely there is a great market share for ubiquitous encryption.
The same thing happened when Half Life 2 was released on Steam for Windows all those years ago.
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Part of the problem leading to the flat curve is that while California's rate is technically progressive, it ramps up very fast and is flat past that: all the brackets are below $45k.
Can you explain to me (to my email if you want, it's in my profile) exactly where you're finding these connections you've removed, how you removed them (and with your userid)? If you do so, I can try to look into it.

I don't know what you're talking about in your side note -- if you haven't seen big dialogs popup or messages on the front page, your settings shouldn't change magically. I know we don't always do a great job of communicating exactly what has changed, but we certainly don't change things behind your back, and certainly not maliciously.
If it is implemented properly I'm guessing in the end it will come down to a few nodes parked in your neighbourhood, an https connection to a website and a management layer that is as transparent as possible under the hood.

So it would look like facebook but no central company stores the data.

That's how I would try to put it together. That way the local neighbourhood nerds can bask in the glory of being a 'node' (give them a sticker to put on their front door or something, 'diaspora lives here'), and the bike(r) dudes are not going to have to learn anything they didn't already know how to do on fb.

Put the domain and any centralized resources in a foundation to make sure it can't be hijacked by someone that suddenly decides to go 'evil'.

edit: hello dear downvoter, please elaborate on your vote.
Not exactly the same thing but this is worth to check out: http://bitnami.org/
I was wondering the same question. I assume places like HN and maybe digg are the main source of publicity
What would you tell your younger self?