skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do realize 'Google' is a corruption of 'googol', right? :)

Besides, no: you don't have to optimize for the unwashed masses. But if you're making something to compete with Facebook, the most Unwashed Masses site since MySpace, you probably should if you want to be successful.
Wikipedia is a good starting point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node_(networking)
"Apple’s buzz with the key 18- to 24-year-old demographic…" != "IT leaders and tech-savvy business professionals" (from the article)

Money speaks louder then words. This smells like link bait.
They wont take any more of my time than they already do, and to be honest, they can go fuck themselves.
LinkedIn is doing targeted Ads
I take it the parts that remain classified contain the max speed and altitude?
Ha, we're on the same page. I meant the line in a 'if EA wishes to stay in business, they will have to recoup their costs from their customers' way.
That's only because you're created a straw-man definition of design. Don't buy the hype: design is about influencing the subjective state of the audience. Sure, beauty is one kind of experience, and maybe it gets a lot of attention, but it's certainly not the only thing designers care about.

I think the main skill that designers bring to the table is empathy. Unlike traditional artists, who can safely ignore what other people think, designers have to be interested in how something feels to their audience. This is important if you're building things for people who aren't like you and don't think like you, and you want to get their attention, get them to think what they're buying is useful and usable and yes, maybe beautiful if that matters, and the people who made it are trustworthy and reliable.

Design is about communication--it's a kind of language. Who could argue that words don't matter, only function matters?
It's still a legal creation that acts as a license.
That's how I see it too, more as a sign of the times than as the project that will go and kill facebook.

Time will tell, good luck from me.
Perhaps inheritance shouldn't be the common case in the first place?
Among other reasons, I'd guess this is Apple's attempt at modernization. The GCC/libc/libstdc++ codebase has been around for ages, and has accumulated cruft. Starting from scratch isn't always a solution, but in cases like this I think it can be.

Modernizing the compiler (via clang/LLVM) is a great step forward, but modernizing the C++ libraries to take advantage of the new compiler infrastructure is a sensible step 2. If they can in fact speed up compilation speed and memory requirements (both at compile-time and run-time), as well as providing link-time and run-time optimization, it could be a big win, especially for large C++ projects (such as Mozilla, KDE, Qt, etc.).
I'm not surprised that Cassandra doesn't perform ideally with only three nodes, considering the scales it's intended for. Does anybody know how many nodes are required for its resiliency safeguards to work properly?
"I should think you could encode pitches, start times and durations in a JSON-style format without many problems."

Yeah, only music notation can get a lot more complex than these 3 factors
I don't believe that you are actually sinister here. I think it's more like you are claiming to be sinister because the process of narrowing down which specific charity to support out of the vast array of needy charities just feels evil.

Literacy is a good cause. If I was in your position, it would be hard for me to pick a specific cause like literacy over saving the most human lives per dollar.

Out of all the developing country education charities, Givewell rates Pratham highest. http://www.givewell.net/international/charities/pratham Have you considered them for the next Breadpig book project?
Yes. But it's better than nothing.
Very interesting approach. I still reel a bit from the thought of it. I presume this is your blog, so I'll try to be as courtesy as possible in my criticism. :-)

This invites all the same problems. There are management styles in play at some groups that seem to think that number of anything is a good measure. It's quantity over quality. If your next release has a "big feature", but a concise implementation, they may wonder why you only generated 20 code files instead of 200. And you're right back to square one again.

This may only apply to certain solutions, too. You mentioned python. I'm curious to see if the same could be applied to C#, or Java. Further, I've found that in some projects, we have Enums.cs, for instance, that contain all our enumeration types in that given Namespace or Pacakge (C# and Java respectively). Maybe they should get their own code file? Maybe not?

I think before you implement a system like this, you have to implement a good design structure. Otherwise, you have no solid adherence. You could easily bloat the count, or undercut it, as necessary.

Ultimately, we need a way to measure performance objectively, without meaningless numbers. I don't have a good solution, and I really don't know if I like yours or not. Hrm.

Thanks for the post, though! Will give me something to chew on while I run my scripts... :-)
thank you for correcting. I thought they were from the same 'family'. too late to delete my comment.
People died because they took a dangerous drug. They didn't die because the drug wasn't illegal.

If you want to cut down the number of people taking dangerous drugs, ban doctors from prescribing non FDA-approved drugs and ban companies from marketing them. However, I have only contempt for people who want to put their fellow citizens in jail for making their own medical decisions.
Hmm, printing paper is not exactly super-cheap per weight unit.
No, with an account. I happen to know a bit about a few, completely unrelated areas (the area I live in, foods from a certain country, digital music composition, a couple martial arts, computer sciency stuff, etc.) that I wanted to make substantial contributions to fill those portions of wikipedia out. About 2 and a half years ago, I signed up and made an account and started dutifully filling out information, adding new articles, editing some old ones. Normal stuff.

I probably did a few hundred edits and contributed 30 or so new articles. As far as I know, not one of those things survived the first month.

I haven't even bothered after that experience. Citing the submission guidelines led to nothing.

The cabal of super-user types there that seem to want to fix wikipedia on the current status quo (unless they themselves edit something) made wikipedia at the time unbearable as a new contributer. It wasn't like there were even requests for changes or new edits (things that wouldn't have been a problem since I was new and learning the ropes) -- just deletions. Sometimes within minutes.

It wasn't even that somebody had come along and cleaned up my submissions, or provided some editing work, just....gone.

After that wonderful experience I decided to spend those few hundred hours someplace else.
There's some comfort in knowing that a non-profit agency is looking into the safety of a drug before it goes out to the public for consumption.

What's so awesome about non-profits? They have their very own perverse incentive structures. Proposed replacement or supplement: Any company wishing to sell Drug X to the public must be insured against patient lawsuits. Insurance companies are quite capable of hiring people to assess risk and wouldn't have the same biased weighting of risk and benefit.

Why not make getting these non-approved drugs conditional on getting X% of the questions on a MCT correct, where said test is a quiz on the effects, side-effects, toxicity etc. of the desired drug? If I was implementing this I'd mandate that the source material for said test be publicly available at a centralised registry, that you need to get 100% of the answers right that the questions be randomly drawn from a test bank and that the test cost say half a day's median wage. Have authorisation lapse after three months so you need to take the test again.

Informed consent has just been assured, and people can now make their own decisions but they need to really want the drug.
Nope. I don't usually check the name until after I up (or down) vote, and I do that in an attempt to better understand the community more.

It never ceases to surprise me how often I up-vote a great comment and then discover it was pg or patio11, but those guys have also received the occasional down-vote when I felt they'd been unhelpful or off topic.
I bought the pack for $50, from them $25 for donations. I'm happy to see it open sourced. Great job! And great service to the community!
Golang or go moku? (I would find either interesting).
That would be very impressive if it was a real world installation. That it's an entirely artificial benchmark makes it almost entirely meaningless.

They should be bragging about the most impressive real world MongoDB setups, even if the numbers are smaller.
Does Facebook "like" Dunbar?
I think the US should fund the NiH to do drug studies for potentially good, but uneconomic (usually because no patent is possible, but also if they isn't a high demand) drugs.

Give it say 40 million a year, and they should do as many studies as they have money for. I think that's enough for about 4-10 per year.
I can't find it now, but discreet logic had discreet* and all of their products branded exactly like this during the '90s before they were bought by autodesk
Umm... wow. The NSA must abive by HIPAA, and you must abide by HIPAA, therefore you have NSA-level encryption?

I don't know what to say.
You may want to look into the Lilypond syntax for textual score notation. - http://lilypond.org/
I respect your underlying point, but I can't accept your examples as tasteless. Apache was named such in homage to the Apache nations (at least according to the Apache Foundation):

"The name 'Apache' was chosen from respect for the various Native American nations collectively referred to as Apache, well-known for their superior skills in warfare strategy and their inexhaustible endurance. It also makes a cute pun on "a patchy web server" -- a server made from a series of patches -- but this was not its origin. The group of developers who released this new software soon started to call themselves the "Apache Group"." (from the Apache Foundation website).

GIMP, while maybe a little less tasteful, at least is simply an acronym for GNU image manipulation program.

Neither of those examples resonate with the same connotations as "diaspora" (edit) to me. I can respect that the examples you listed might strike others in that way, however.
As the father of a [teething] toddler [with a chest cold] and someone who has to travel with increasing frequency, I completely understand how Jeff felt last night. I'm not sure how he drew a connection between the awesomeness of family and the beautiful proton dance at the office, but if the point was to reemphasize the importance of perspective, it was a good read.

This (posted on HN a few weeks ago), is quite a bit more coherent, though: http://patterico.com/2006/12/03/putting-things-in-perspectiv...
I would value the overall 'y combinator' experience and expertise as a higher benefit than just the money in the program.

Even if I had an idea which I could self fund, I would still consider applying to Y Combinator, as the experience and networking you would receive would definitely benefit a project greatly.

The only thing that gets on my wick a bit about Kick-starter is that the funders essentially get nothing (other than see the product get created). I.E. This product could go on to be valued at millions and you're initial $1000 contribution to the seed funding would be unrewarded.
Vishy Anand retains World Chess Championship title
Yeah, that wasn't helpful. I understand what nodes are in physical networking terminology. But how do they apply to this social network?
I don't see the ability to communicate verbally on any of them. I've seen this before.
"I have several Apple products, MBP, iPhone, and Airport Base Station and I have never touted that they are superior or better than other offerings out there."

So you're the one!
Hopefully? Worry about that problem when you get there. I bet you would be surprised about how far you could go with the free plan.
Dependency searching using scala, jersey, gxp, mongodb
I own a uPrint and run it all the time. In the same day we can print a new version, test it out on the bike, make some changes with a Dremel, measure the changes, redesign in Solidworks and repeat. Once you add time into the cost savings equation it's really a no brainer. We are looking at a much larger one that has almost a cubic meter envelope. BTW the reliability of the Stratasys printers is unbelievable.
Is there a link to the unminimized source for this? Looks awesome!
..intubate coral snake bite victims on ventilators for weeks until the effects of the toxin wear off--potentially costing hundreds of thousands of dollars per bite..

Granted, the antivenom situation is ridiculous, but the quote above exposes yet another, much larger ridiculous issue: why is it OK to charge "hundreds of thousands of dollars" for a few weeks of hospital stay?

Is it because lung vent. machines are $1 billions apiece, or what? How do they come up with those ridiculous bills? Are they really riding 1000% profit margins there or what's going on?
Groupon is a form of advertising.

You could advertise in print, on Yelp or elsewhere and pay money out without knowing whether a customer will actually use your business. Even with PPC you rarely have the ability to track to the sale for businesses like this (restaurants, salons, action sports, entertainment etc).

With Groupon, you don't pay a cent. Instead, you just price your goods/services at break even and get hundreds of new customers in the door. If even a small percentage become repeat business, that still seems like a pretty good idea.

Underpricing a free (for consumers) service, on the other hand, seems like a terrible idea for a business.
I've been getting this criticism from several people already. You're basically saying that counting code files is still a very problematic measure of project progress. I agree. It's a terrible measure of project progress.

What I'm saying is, it's slightly less terrible than counting code lines, and it preserves the advantages of counting code lines.
Any data to support this? I've always been skeptical this mattered much. Google does a good job guiding people past spelling mistakes for popular services.
I realize that you still can't get it when you are conscious. I'm just saying that 'personal choice' isn't the only weighing factor here. If you come into the emergency room and you are unconscious, who says that you are with someone (wife,friend,etc) or that there is enough time to try and get in touch with your doctor?

I personally think that the FDA approval process is bogus too. I'm just trying to expand the discussion a bit.
Common Lisp lacks a standard modern way to network I/O

http://common-lisp.net/project/usocket/
Ny nephew is ranked at 2200 ELO points, which makes me automatically love chess. Myself, I'm not so good (-:
HTTP access control
I think the main skill that designers bring to the table is empathy.

How do business results show the benefits of empathy?
And require a signed waiver and prescription from a doctor? Presumably (most) doctors are smart enough not to prescribe cyanide as a cure for insomnia.
For 99 Years, Oxford English Dictionary Got It Wrong
If I write a blog post saying I like X non-approved drug, do I get arrested? What if I was paid to do it?

Prohibiting advertising strays dangerously close to the 1st Amendment.
A truly eco-conscious wildlife project, unitting conservation, c
Bandhavgarh is spread at vindhya hills in Madhya Pradesh. Bandhavgarh consists of a core area of 105 sq km and a buffer area of approximately 400 sq km of topography varies between steep ridges, undulating, forest and open meadows. Bandhavgarh is known for the Royal Bengal Tigers The density of the Tiger population at Bandhavgarh is the highest known in India...
Yes, and what's more, if you have the ability to learn really fast and yet haven't accumulated much knowledge yet, one might wonder if you aren't lazy and wasting your potential.
It wasn't that the resiliency safeguards didn't work, so much as reddit was simply underprovisioned.

I have no idea what TFA meant by "at only three nodes we weren't able to take advantage of most of Cassandra's safeguards for ending up in this situation," except in the sense that adding an extra 20k ops/s on a 30 node cluster will be 10% of capacity instead of 100%. (Just picking reasonable ballpark numbers, I don't know what reddit's are.)
Thanks for the thoughtful comment, but it kind of reminds me about the joke about the physicist estimating the volume of a cow.

"First, we assume the cow is a sphere.."
Choices to energise your business
I think the name is kinda cuil.
There's a lot of things this project could do without replacing Facebook that I'd still consider successful. Four people thinking hard about making social networking better than Facebook for a summer could help "the eventual Facebook replacement" be better than it otherwise would be, even if this project itself doesn't turn into that replacement.
I do, and I was enough of a nerd to appreciate the inference when they first launched, too :)

It's true that the value of membership in something like Facebook depends heavily on the network effect (allowing you to easily find all your friends there), and without a large community a project like Diaspora is unlikely to acquire sufficient utility to be more than a curiosity. But I really don't think the name will be a major barrier, either to ease of communication or due to semantic association. I stopped worrying about this after we got past questions like 'shouldn't it be W-W-W period com?' and 'what about people who are afraid of spiders?' etc.
Even so, the advertising aspect seems relatively minor to the whole picture. Hospitals are the ones who need to worry most about FDA and non-FDA. Would a hospital be able to acquire the funding it needs if it ever allowed the prescription of any non-FDA approved drugs? What would insurance companies think? It opens up too many liabilities to try any experimental drugs--that is, drugs not approved by a mandating organization--for any large organizations to consider doing it. Then we're back where we started--we need something like the FDA, though definitely in a more efficient form.
Yes, going closer to Python-style in this regard would have been nice.
How could you classify my comment as a rant? I realize that 'tone' doesn't really translate well through text and you might read my comment as an attack (which it wasn't), but how can a couple of sentences be a 'rant?' I would think that a rant would have to be at least a few sentences or more (or some sort of absolute character/word limit in the case of large run-on sentences).

If you felt it was made in anger or hate, I would think it would classify as a retort or something similar.
I did even more. I installed Fluff Busting Purity

http://www.fbpurity.com/

so that I don't even have to see the first notification. I also remove friends from my feed if that's all that ever posts from their profiles, and I unfriend them entirely (this is rare) if they have nothing better to do with their time than play Facebook games.
Drugs companies were prohibited from advertising on television until not so long ago. There's even a special law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescription_Drug_Marketing_Act...
Making inferences about a 35 year old company based on a four month chart... not even enough to measure seasonality.

And the site is techrepublic.com.com? Huh?
I thought the idea of rabbits excellent. It's something new, especially because of the darker mood the game has, and give some passable excuses for the jumps and throws not break the suspension of disbelief.

I think it fitted quite right.
This was at a talk on the state of mongodb's sharding features which are still a work in progress. The demo was a preview of what's to come rather than simple bragging.
Local link that correctly identifies the university Hughes works for - http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/qut-physics-professor-s...

One of my life dreams is to add a word to the OED. I would definitely be happy with adjusting an existing definition as well !
Possibly, but Google Docs doesn't write in HTML anymore. Advanced positioning and stuff like tab stops don't translate easily into CSS, so even if they _did_ open source the editor, the final HTML will look different than what it did in the editor.

Example: create a document with two lines of tab-stopped text with varying lengths, and then export to HTML.
Tablets are Here to Stay, Thanks to The iPad
If you have been paying attention, you would have noticed that the tech and mobile industries underwent a serious change in the past few months. One of the biggest tech failures of the past years were tablets. All of the big manufacturers had a tablet in their portfolio at one point or another, and they all shared one thing in common, failure to take off.
If I remember correctly, PayPal Website Payments Pro does require your SSN. There may be a credit check somewhere in the fine print.
60 Inspiring Footer Designs
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2010/05/10/americas-effic...

"So… in terms of the real economy, this was an $83 transaction, equivalent to what you might spend on dinner for two. But instead of being paid with a credit card swipe, there were apparently multiple clerks involved at the doctor’s office and the insurer. Negotiations happened behind the scenes. A paper invoice was printed and put into an envelope by hand. A check was mailed through the U.S. mail"
And, don't forget that simple and ugly is not arrived at by not designing. It is designed to convert, designed to elicit a certain visceral response. The definition of design is not "beautiful."

For some situations maybe you want to say "this is really expensive" and in others you want to say "this is really useful." In either case you are designing.
I'm sorry to rain on that parade, but that last paragraph is really glued on there. I don't disagree with the sentiment, but that exposition went straight in to a brick wall.
Nope, no data. But I'd rather own "super.com" than "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.com"! :)

I think your argument may be increasingly good as more browsers merge their search field with their URL field like Chrome does. On that note, it'd be interesting to see numbers on how often people enter URL-like strings into their browser's search field and then click the first link that comes back.
The norm? Really? Motorized desks are pretty rare here in the US.
I look back at the work I did in college and think "Christ on a bike, I was shit." I suspect I'll say the same thing about now in 10 years.

That's actually my main complaint about Facebook right now. It's been slapped together by college-level programmers, who are just about the least talented level you can bother considering as employable. If anything, I wouldn't be surprised if their stance on privacy weren't an ideological one but a technical one, i.e., they couldn't figure out how to make their bodged together system keep from leaking information like a sieve, so they called it a feature rather than a bug.
8 Websites you need to stop building
I agree that the evidence presented in the article is poor, however I think the general consensus would be that Apple have lost a lot of geek points.
Nice writing, but the second page is behind a paywall.
Benefits 99% of humanity, as opposed to any other disease which benefits only that one.
Both are right.

The force that makes water want to go from one end to the other of the siphon is gravity. However what pushes the water up the siphon is atmospheric pressure. And if the middle of the siphon is too high for atmospheric pressure to push water up to the middle, then the siphon won't work no matter what height differential exists between the two ends.

So both gravity and air pressure are involved.
Facebook Executive Answers Reader Questions