skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually really annoyed by Facebook's new linking of profile items, but not at all because of privacy issues. (I really don't care if anyone sees the things I put on Facebook).

I initially chose NOT to link any of my profile interests to their respective pages. I have no problem giving Facebook data for their open graph project; my fear was that I would soon be inundated with dozens of news feed items from all of my interests' Pages. So I unchecked all the items that had been on my profile for several years, thinking that they would still be displayed as simple text (as opposed to links).

Instead, they were all deleted! So I took some time to (partially) rebuild my list of interests as links, only to then of course witness the flood of news items posted by those pages. I have been 'hiding' them as they show up. Hiss.
In the US, at least, airport security and immigration policy are both motivated by the same fears, and a large part of airport security is enforcing immigration policy.
If you unchecked everything in the dialog, it warned you that everything would be deleted off your Profile. Did this not happen?

The majority of interests you would've been linked to would not give you News Feed items (they're "voiceless" Pages).
Well, the performance specs of new sports cars are often known before the prototypes are fully built.
They were derived from the text you put on your Profile. Users were asked because it was the right thing to do, given that the algorithm would make some mistakes, and because converting the free text to Page connections meant that these would be hideable but public.
I wonder what they look for in hiring? I guess experience is a big plus and general smarts.

I'm getting bored at my current job. I think if I could port our enterprise solution to cassandra it would help in an interview?
I was in a third-year group programming class in university. We were tasked with creating a web-accessible system for administrators and end users of an imaginary highway speed pass system.

Myself and another experienced member outlined a general strategy to the group: MySQL data store wrapped by business rules enforced by a server-side component accessed via API for a PHP-based web app. Then we began outlining major classes and objects: Models for data, an API helper object.

Everyone was on the same page, but for a certain "J. J.," whose contribution was: "No, we should only have four classes."

"Why?"

"Because we only have four kinds of users."

"But we just said we'll be using an object to wrap the API —"

"Yeah, that should be part of each user."
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"Kodiak itself is a start-up, founded late last year with $250 million under management. Hodson says the firm typically invests between $5 million and $25 million in public companies and larger private companies."
I'm not sure about that Sturgeon's contrapositive... Are you sure that there is a 10% of, say, Goregrind or telenovelas or vampire romance that is not crap?
Why not add an option to not make the pages public on that modal dialog? I can do it in the settings after all..
Noserub (decentralized social network)
This makes me happy to hear, especially that it's NOT April Fools!
Heh, I actually cut out a segment where I started describing a system I could build that would work like that, starting with Erlang. (I actually program professionally in Erlang, though not exclusively.) It got too long and parenthetical.

It's still not the same. There's just no biological equivalent to a bit of code that is dividing by zero or referencing a file that doesn't exist, or any of several other errors I've made that have brought enormous swathes of the supervision tree down because they're restarting crappy code. Erlang adds this sort of biology-style robustness at the top of the stack, biology itself works with it at the bottom of the stack. That changes everything. Programming with massive unreliable parallelism may indeed someday happen, but it's a long road between here and there.
I've cursed IE every bit as the next guy, but your hatred is astonishingly misguided. ActiveX aside, during '96 through '00, Microsoft innovated web properties more than any browser since. It wasn't until standards zealots and the DOJ were breathing down Microsofts back that MS fell into a rut.

And how are those standards working for us today? Still stuck in '99 with 4.01. HTML innovation stalled time and again. ECMAScript innovation stalled time and again. CSS innovation stalled time and again. Staggered feature support everywhere -- not just IE.

Let's face it, every "standard" at the front of web browsing has, for the better part, failed. I'm no proponent for Flash -- in particular, how some people use it, but Macromedia/Adobe got it right -- moving extraordinarily fast compared to the glacial pace at which the Microsoft, Mozilla, or the W3C have moved.
I think he brings up a point in his post which effectively nullifies his argument. Throughout the article, both explicitly and implicitly, he alludes to the fundamental nature of a strong free press in American society.

Occam's Razor; which is more likely? The American public has completely lost sight of the principle of a strong free press despite having held on to the ideal for 200 years. Or, that the American principle of a strong free press is still alive and kicking but the American ideal is not offended by this particular case.

I think, even for the most cynical among us, that the second seems more likely.

Why would that be? Well, there is the "distressing" issue of Gawker Media purchasing (known) stolen goods. There is also the general distaste that most Americans have for tabloid (yellow) journalism. Gawker Media is not very well respected by the American public. Combine this with the general attitude of Gizmodo (Look what we got! Na na na naa!) and the disgusting way that Gizmodo ousted the engineer involved in losing the prototype and we start to see a clearer picture of why getting the police involved doesn't offend too many people's free press sensibilities.

Consider, just for a moment, that Gruber had gotten pictures of an Apple product (legally) and posted those pictures on his blog. Do you think police would be breaking into his home?
I love "Remember the Milk". Wonderful android app and even better web app
I use Foxit on my Windows partition (and love it) but it isn't quite as fast as highlighting a PDF and hitting spacebar in OS X to bring up Quick Look.
No, Page connections are public. I don't think you can change that under Privacy settings -- you can not display them on your Profile if you so choose. The dialog took the conservative option of warning you that things were becoming public, rather than adding a potentially confusing "hide Pages" option on the dialog.
Sergei, you make some great points here. Thanks for posting.

The OP asked what Clustrix does that RAC does not. Leaving aside the interesting architecture for a second, do you believe that your database can scale to a higher aggregate write per second load than Oracle RAC? than Exadata? At a lower cost?
Precisely. Another example are Dynamo-like clustered database systems. They are designed to have redundant servers so that if one crashes the system as a whole isn't affected.

There are also examples of both (Erlang and Dynamo) combined: Riak and Cloudant. These systems run multiple Erlang processes on multiple redundant nodes. Processes or nodes can die without ill effects, and often the system knows how to heal itself.
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I remember before the Foleo was announced a lot of people speculated that number 7 was going to be it.
That's all well and good, but the author is neglecting to mention the fact that there was a stolen item involved here, which is the entire point.
That number won't be important because it varies widely from startup to startup. It depends on the type of product, how long it will take to conceptualize and develop, and also the people behind it.
It could be as little as 2 months to as long as 2 years.
I'm trying to understand the lesson behind this result.

I don't think it's the obvious, well-understood fact that biological systems have massive, redundant parallelism, whereas our software systems do not.

I believe it in fact says something very specific and fairly non-intuitive: that biological systems have many slightly different copies of key routines, whereas our software systems as they are designed today do not.

"That’s why E. coli cannot afford generic components and has preserved an organization with highly specialized modules, said Gerstein, adding that over billions of years of evolution, such an organization has proven robust, protecting the organism from random damaging mutations."

For example, imagine instead of having one 'sort' function, you had different sort functions dispersed throughout every area of your code that performs sorting, and each one was very slightly optimized (through design or some unspecified evolutionary process) for the particular characteristics of the data being sorted at that program location.

Thus, 'sort' is no longer a single point of failure. If one of your sort routines has an exploitable buffer overflow, then it's probably the only one that does, which limits the potential damage to the system as a whole -- especially if you've designed your entire system this way.

Could it be better in some cases to copy and slightly modify a software component, than to simply reuse it?
It seems to me that it's using Quicktime's midi engine. The focus is not on sound synthesis at all, it's on composition. When you download the composition it's sent to you as a midi file. With that you can easily assign better sounds than the ones provided by Quicktime.

Mind you the Terms of Use are brutal and you're basically not supposed to do anything with that midi file anyways. Pretty much any creative use of it could be considered derivative works.
In the last three years I've bought two pairs of headphones. Sennheiser PC 350 as a headset and Sennheiser HD 650 for regular use. I wouldn't go for budget headphones if you can avoid it. If you use them as much as I do getting a high quality product constructed from solid materials is worth every penny. If you compare the cost of a good pair of headphones to that of speakers on a similar level they are a bargain anyway.

On the cheap end the Koss PortaPro is a classic. Literally, as they have been around since 1984. If you're looking for in-ear phones Shure is getting pretty good reviews. If you're like me and don't want to spend over $1,000 on something really spectacular your best bet is comparing some reviews of products like the Sennheiser HD 650, the Beyerdynamic DT 880 and similarly priced models from AKG and Grado.

I'm no audiophile, so for me a large part of the decision was how the products looked and if they seemed comfortable. The construction and materials mattered to me as well. I'm clumsy and drop them on the floor a few times a day. My headphones have survived the ill treatment I've given them for several years now, so I must admit I'm pretty happy with them.

If you're going to buy something over $100 you should read reviews to find out what works best for the sort of things you want to listen to. Different headphones are better for different kinds of sound. The ones I use don't have the best reviews for classical music, for example. Classical music sounds pretty great on them to my untrained ear, but if that is your favorite kind of music there are better options out there.

Obviously, your input system matters as well. A really high-end product is a waste of money if you're going to listen to MP3's. The hardware is really important as well, so models that cost more than a few hundred dollars are probably going to cost you much more than that if you want to get an audio system that does justice to them.
Not on evolutionary time scales :-)
Interesting.

I'd be curious if perhaps other industries/services are better in Canada... for example, restaurant service, accounting services, etc.

There could simply be an aspect of the supply of qualified labor -- if Canada has 5% greater supply of qualified workers for a given position, then some of them will have to work in a job that is beneath them, in which they will overperform.

Canada generally has a slightly higher unemployment rate than the US, so arguably this results in some degree of labor under-utilization and overperformance... this may be the case with Canadian teachers and could be enough to explain the superiority.

I think your point about the varying attributes of private schools is quite insightful. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing, considering how much rote memorization of facts I was put through in the name of "education".

I still don't know what I would do to educate a child. I think home schooling would be very difficult to do well, and I do idealize some of the best (public and private) school environments...
What this article doesn't really clarify is that the author kept picking "Ask me later" in the dialog for the suggestions. It doesn't really make sense for Facebook to just keep letting you "snooze" that transition [keeping all data in two formats, maintaining two Profile formats, more headaches] -- which is why, the fifth time or so you see the dialog, it wants you to make a decision.

[I work for Facebook. My opinions are my own.]
Yes, some people say stupid things, good point.

As someone who has spent some time as a web developer, I will be glad if/when IE disappears for good.

There are amazing browsers out there right now, but are most people looking?

Have we reached saturation point for people with enough technical skills to change their browser, or even know what a browser is?
> However, that doesn't make it right for them to fuck you. That's ethics.

The folks who lost were planning to keep their profits. They thought that they knew better than the other side of the deal. (And yes, there's always another side.)

You can't con an honest man.
Just claim to be an intuitionist. Depending on your profs sense of humour, it's a valid answer.
I think as Gruber pointed out previously the material point here is a criminal action may have been committed rather than just a breach of a civil contract.

Leaking information about product launches is one thing stolen goods is another. If Gizmodo's actions are ok, does it open the door for protection of the press when an employee of a company decides to sell them stolen materials?
How have those standards worked out for us today?

Now I can develop for Firefox, and know it is going to work in Safari, Opera, Chrome, etc... I know it is going to work on most mobile devices, TVs, and iPads.

We can do amazing things like Google Mail, which is still faster and better than Outlook. All these without having to worry about ActiveX crashing the browser.

I am not sure what you are looking at, maybe you are only interested in Flash games and vector animation.
If embedded MIDI isn't working, use

javascript:window.location = document.getElementById('toneframe').contentWindow.document.getElementsByTagName('embed')[0].src

To download the MIDI file directly.
But you're not giving him a choice.. Why, after putting it off "too many," times, does it not give the choice to NOT link and not be asked anymore?
PDFCreator? Ghostscript? What's wrong with corporations? (I guess that's why startups can be so successful)
Mobile Safari counts as Safari, and the Android browser counts as Chrome. Not sure about Palm. Opera is used on a lot of mobile devices as well, especially those not quite smartphones.
Well, the author's the former chair of Stanford's CS department and author of a standard computer architecture textbook, so whatever the reason, his lack of knowledge about computer architecture seems not likely to be the reason...

On the other hand, he's currently a VP at NVIDIA, so isn't entirely unbiased, either, when it comes to spinning the current trajectory of CPUs/GPUs.
Ask HN: Is there an opportunity for a private Facebook-like social network?
Facebook is only going to open up its site even more in the foreseeable future, and I've thinking lately that there may be a need for (I know, I know) yet another social network, one that's primary focus is on privacy. No gimmicks, no silly apps and games. Just sharing with friends and family the way it's supposed to be. No butchering our high-res pics to circa-1995 JPG quality. Default is private. Nothing gets exposed to your network unless you explicitly ask for it to be. Friend lists are also hidden by default.

What do you guys think? Surely the majority of people will be happy keeping their Facebook account. But few will prefer to take their online presence to a more setting. And once you make the switch, if your close friends and family members really care about keeping in touch with you, they'll understand and make an effort by opening an account to check out the reason why you've left Facebook.

Ideas/thoughts greatly appreciated.
Bosses sometimes gravitate toward women in India because they think “women are less corruptible, more straightforward and above board most of the time,”

I wish this was true of Indian politics as well. That problem seems completely intractable.
Right, he didn't benefit at all from running his business in California for years. Why should he give back his fair share when he has the resources to dodge it?
IB is typically deployed in a Fat Tree network: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_tree

It's been used in high-performance compute clusters with thousands of individual nodes.
I wasn't warned. I scanned the dialogue page to see if there was any information, but couldn't find anything. I definitely could have missed a text block if it were either at the very top or bottom of the page and of normal font-size. But I certainly didn't see anything like, 'WARNING! By not linking to these items they will be removed from your profile. Are you sure you want to continue?', which is something I usually experience before things are deleted.

I understand fully that most of my profile items aren't actually associated with pages, or may be pages that don't post. But even taking that into consideration, there were still likely a few dozen (popular shows and bands, for example that I am positive have a presence on Facebook) that likely would be posting to my feed. I estimate I only added back 1/4 of the interests I had before, and about 10 of those posted on my feed today. It's fine because I can just hide them and actually obtain the settings I want, but it was a bit of a process.
I disagree. Opera was also the browser than could fit on a 1.44mb floppy, it was always had the smallest footprint of browsers, as well as memory. The problem was the in the wild west of the web, a lot of pages didn't work quite right on Opera. So you always had to have IE or Netscape handy.
You run a social gaming company, so it's obvious why you feel that way. For most regular people they can be very annoying. Anything that makes games on Facebook less of an annoyance is probably a good thing in the long run, for Facebook anyway.
True. And, I don't really have any employees, nor would I, I hope, work in a field where keeping people on old browsers makes business sense. But there may be such fields, and in those fields I don't see a likely cause of a big investment in technology updates until the old tech is truly untenable.
You'd have a hard time getting people to use it, because I've found that the majority of people dislike change. Adults particularly that have become accustomed to Facebook are not going to use a beta quality social network that doesn't work like Facebook did. Because of that difficulty to bootstrap the community, people will have less of a reason to use it. For me, I care more about being able to communicate with friends and family much more than I do the privacy of the things I'm uploading.
In most cases, unless a patent applies, if you don't get your information from the licensor (i.e. you create a "clean room" implementation) the official licensor of a format has no say in how you distribute your product. But, with the number of software patents granted accelerating, this approach appears to be less and less viable.
> Warren Buffet has said he doesn't understand CDOs.

Buffet has also said that he doesn't understand tech companies or computers.

Buffet is always playing angles. When you can't spot the angle, he's probably playing you.
Where is the downrate button? Sigh.
I love the idea.

Decentralized social networks, that's great! This will ultimately happen anyway, when some open protocols have established amongst the biggest social networks.
Their website has no call to action or availability information...only a hidden "Contact Us" link. What if I want to buy one (I don't, but what if)?
Thanks just did it. Very simple. Also will be hosting the JavaScript locally, editing the twitter account to link my twitter account instead of Arc90, but will keep the logo and link back to Arc90.
i have no idea what the hell that means, and quite frankly, therein lies facebook's problem.
I read it and you are right. Good call and thanks!
> It's a long complex causal chain, with snow-balling effects and the like, that very few people had an appreciation for because the instruments involved were very complex and there were too many layers involved.

You write that like it's unusual. It's not - it's how life works.

> This lead to a very non-linear system where it was impossible to have visibility over the whole thing.

Of course it's impossible. Complete visibility is the exception, not the rule.

If you want safe and visibility, buy T-bills.

If you want more return, you have to play against someone who thinks that you're incorrect and is willing to pay if they're wrong.
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Malone makes a good point though: do you think Apple would sue the San Jose Mercury News (or ABC, or Time, or...)?

They are suing Gawker because Gawker is weak, and the rest of the media won't defend a blogger.
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I also like the Mint app and my tracks.
wish they could somehow colour code things, maybe a toggle to colour code private/public stuff
It's $80,000 for a 3-node machine running the software, and what, you're looking for a Guaranteed Paypal merchant button or something?