skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"He believes that people should have a single identity: “You have one identity,” he emphasized three times in a single interview with David Kirkpatrick in his book, “The Facebook Effect.” “The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly.” He adds: “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”"

I think this is a pretty good example of zuck's both arrogance and privilege. He's so insistent that people have "one identity" because he's a person who CAN have one identity. When he projects who he is to everyone he takes zero risk: he's a white, male, American, who has already made all his money: the pinnacle of the upper class. Having your head in your asshole is an example of lack of integrity.
Man Uses Google Ads to Get a Job
Initially Facebook was private by default. It's only recently that it's changed to 'default public'. Lots of people are using a public thing, when it used to be private. It's the change that's the most important thing.
> The last 6 purchases I've made through eBay resulted in products delivered that were not as represented.

Wow, really? Six in a row? I've participated in hundreds of transactions through eBay (over the years) and I can only think of three that I was ever dissatisfied didn't meet the description, or that the description didn't reveal things I considered important (and bad). Two of them were transactions under $10, including shipping.

Can I ask what sort of things you were buying, and what sort of costs were involved (one, you said was $30)?
We have put a little bit better landing page here: http://www.smartupz.com/vms/
Winning teams in professional basketball usually make around 45%-50% of their shots. During an average game, a team might attempt 80-90 shots. In this case, Kobe Bryant, a career 45% shooter, was held to 33% shooting and still attempted a large proportion of the teams overall shot attempts.

However, like in reviewing individual statistics from almost all sports, missing 4 additional shot attempts than he normally would could just have been an expected statistical fluctuation.
DSA and EC both have benefits in some rare circumstances. That's the 1% of the time when you ought to consult a cryptographer.

I'm aware that my advice concerning AES does not match Schneier's advice. I don't think he takes side channel attacks seriously enough.
I guess I'm just a cynic but my take away from this was "regular users of Facebook get so good at ignoring ads that you can literally put pictures of their own children in an ad and they'll still take forever to notice"
Off-topic, but that sounds unreasonably expensive:

http://www.skyscanner.at/flights/fran/ytoa/100730/100802/air...

The cheapest offer is 750.79 Euros for the round trip (and direct flights to boot).
You'd have to know the story of ArsDigita to understand why. Here's Philip Greenspun's side of the story: http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/
I think so. It was something like 4 AM at the time, so it's possible that I didn't escape it correctly.
The mental model doesn't seem consistent to me. Within a function diagram the boxes (which seem to just be functions) have input and output nodes, but the function that you are working on contains it's arguments.

Taking a look at the first example from the tutorial, it would make more sense to remove the salesA and salesB boxes and instead have nodes on the outside of the function. Then you could have external nodes (one for salesA and one for salesB) feed into the grossProfit function. This would solve the problem of the fairly inelegant "Input Values" dialog.

Ultimately I agree with gruseom on this one, any real world program would be sufficiently complex to make this not very useful. But as a teaching tool I think it could be wonderful to take abstract concepts and turn them into concrete objects that a student could play with and inspect. It's also nice to see all the intermediate values.
Thanks, that's a good explanation.

With a few dozen more like it I could probably puzzle my way through this article, but I'm sure we've both got better things to do.
As far as I can tell, they're actually fine, but people who drink them tend to make unhealthy lifestyle choices. The majority of the really scary claims (like this video) are total bullshit about pH levels and aspartame conspiracy, but it seems like the literature is conflicted on if people who drink them do end up fatter for some reason.
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the reason facebook CTR is so low is because people go on facebook to use facebook. They aren't in a buying/browsing mood, so they tend to tune out the ads.
They don't use the word "important", they use the words "top contacts", which I think more accurately refers to "frequent contacts." So you would know ahead of time that the investor's email isn't going to be in that list.
How did this get up-voted? "But you don't know how to." Really?
> What about automatically contacting the affected users first, and attempt to rouse them to action?

You mean contacting 98% of facebook's users?!?
HTML5 Video Works on iBooks on iPad
I believe it became harder to secure funding after what Arrington published.
Or even FSB.
I wouldn't necessarily single him out, but it would be interesting to create a site where profile pages + wall messages + photo albums get created automatically based on daily news of public figures.
I think the point is that it doesn't take a lot of personal information to target an ad very specifically. But even when that happens, banner blindness trumps ad targeting. Banner blindness is very powerful indeed if a mother will ignore a photo of her own child.
Apple payed Google to transcode the videos to H.264.
The idea has potential, and it's certainly worth experimenting with while the opportunity is there. This will not be the last oil spill. If BP, DOE, and MMS were smart, they would slip these guys a few hundred thousand to a couple of million in funding to do some prototype testing in the field under realistic conditions.
A Mathematical Model for the Dynamics and Synchronization of Cows
What does "bus factors are bad" mean?

And as long as I'm asking questions, what about bcrypt for password hashing?
Looks a bit like PivotalTracker, which we've been extremely happy with. Might have to give this a go.
This reads like an ad. I don't think there is any real information here (at least not as the title describes it). Though I only got through #2 on the list (both pushing some sort of CMS...)

I think this is being gamed.
I believe you are correct about that being the unstated assumption, in regard to one of the comments above. My experience as a learner of multiple languages from several different language families is that Esperanto is not particularly easy, so I think the assumption is false.
There are a few children of dedicated Esperantists who have been brought up with Esperanto as one of their native languages. They don't have a lot of people to talk to, alas, whom they can't already speak to with whatever other languages they know.
If you then change the advice to,
DON’T: Put FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso and your private key on the same server
One issue with this may be that for awhile FB let you use create ads that would pull from a user's and their friends' profile pictures. This led to some pretty amusing ads for dating services with people's signifcant other being protrayed as looking for love. Not sure if FB still lets advertisers do this, but it may signifcantly contribute to ad blindess for ads like this.
i kinda found this presentation to be chock full of "i am right, you are wrong" "i know better than you" et cetera. it's as if he's trying to coerce people into using what -he- thinks is best and what -he- prefers, but not really caring for sorting out the facts or explaining the details to give people a big enough picture to make educated choices of their own. "just go with this and that, trust me it's the best". no question actual knowledge is in there, the guy knows cryptology, but this seems to be a slide for indoctrinating people into sharing his preferences in crypto, not for teaching, and i personally find it to be the completely wrong approach.
Looks like all the other Wodehouseisms from the show... shrug
If you're at zero, just try to get to 10 first. Then go for 100. Think small, get feedback, and improve. I think Paul Buchheit said that a startup's first goal is to reach 100 passionate users.
I definitely think thats part of the picture, but I feel presentation is part of it too. Google has spent a TON of time testing their ad formats to get the right measure CTR without annoyance. I don't get the feeling FB has invested as much time in their format, and that they have a lot of options on improving ad performance while still not MySpacing themselves.
From the article:
"When Apple first launched the iPhone in 2007, had there been a great, lightweight version of Flash for mobile devices, ....
It was no sure thing that this device would succeed at the time, and giving it every chance to (by including something like Flash) would have made sense.
But there was no version of Flash ready that would run on the device (presumably without massive performance/battery hits)."

There were the obvious performance problems, which caused apple not to support flash in iphone.

They sure have a "killer" product(which has worked for them this far), but html5 support by websites is increasing everyday. This is probably because not only it's natively supported and doesn't need a external plugin to run, but overall experience is much better than flash itself.

I think there is not much that adobe can do now to stop this but get along and write great tools for html5 itself.
This may help: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/04/25/LifeSaver-...
Youtube has supported flash-free streams to mobile devices for a long time - long before the iphone came out, even. (I remember seeing this back when I was starting an internship at RIM, several years back)
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Etacts builds what I want
V8 is open source, and I think they will be happy to incorporate some performance enhancement patches. =)
I haven't used FB's ad creation in depth, but I don't think it would take much personal-type information to do this. One of the biggest ways FB offers to target is by the pages/groups a user likes/is a fan of/whatever they call it now. So you could narrow down pretty well just using the information that's available on most people' public search result pages.
Stuff like this just creep me out. I do have an account on Facebook (required for viewing certain albums etc.), but each and every privacy/marketing issue with FB that pops up really deters me and pushes me one step closer to erasing the account.

As has already been noted by people in this thread, FB users really seem to just "tune out" and not notice the ads. My observation is that the people making that observation also "tune out" and don't notice the really scary privacy issue at hand :)
A few days ago I wanted a one way flight from SYD to IAD, it was $1600. For fun I decided to see how much a round trip would cost: I bought it for $1100.

It's $500 cheaper to get a round-trip ticket than to fly one way from Sydney to Washington D.C.
FakeSMS: Self-notification service by HTTP-GET
Sure, and if we all walked around naked all the time we'd rapidly grow accustomed to not being able to hide our nakedness. But I still don't wanna walk around seeing penises everywhere.

Not knowing stuff is vital to professional relationships. If I go to see a surgeon I don't want to see a compete record of all the stupid things he did while drunk at university. For that matter I don't want my children someday to see all the stupid things I did while drunk at university.
But they do deserve something other than ridicule (Reddi-cule?), they deserve ignoring.

A HN with either good comments or no comments sounds much better than a HN with good comments or trollish smug mocking comments. Especially since there is so much more room for poor comments than good comments, I think there's a tendency for sites to get flooded with cheap shot replies.

"One word: Salads", 4 upvotes. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346264. Come on!

"Word": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346662

It's annoying.

I do it and I shouldn't be allowed to get away with it either. Cheap shot one word answer: 4 upvotes, long detailed answer: 0 votes or replies. Sigh.
> It seems that a lot of startups say they value life/work separation.

Of course they say so. Deloitte says so too, and Wachtell, and Cravath, and every other high pressure professional outfit. Doesn't make it true.

> There has also been research to suggest that working that much is anti-productive.

Yeah but most of those are in different circumstances. It all depends on where the motivation comes from. If you take a wage slave and whip him into working 80 hours, while paying for 40, and not dangling any form of carrot in front of him/her (making partner), of course productivity will go down. If you've got a product you believe in, a vision to make it come true, an innate drive to succeed no matter what, and no personal life, you can work 80 or 100 hours a week for months on end and get the work of 5 or 10 people done in that time.
A band-aid for the comments conundrum: Developing a Tilder filter
Apples (unofficial) response to Adobe
Great article. I like Neo4J but I have never used it for a customer project - just for personal experiments.

In general, NoSQL vs. relational is an interesting tradeoff between the ability to horizontally scale at reasonable cost vs. immediate consistency.
Similarly, a friend was moving from Amsterdam to NYC, and needed a one-way flight. The direct flight was pretty expensive, but a flight out of Berlin was many-hundreds of euro less... with a connection in Amsterdam (of course).

As you would expect, the airline wouldn't let him just board in Amsterdam. So he packed his things and took a €75 train to Berlin early in the morning, and had his family wish him farewell later that evening back in Amsterdam, during his connection.

It was a pain in the ass, but it saved him a ton of money, at great expense to the airline.
Digital Economy Act: Some unfinished business
Maxims for Revolutionists. Shaw, Bernard.
Is it just me or is this a real piece of crap? He talks about how it was his idea and how he was maligned by Harvard admins, yada yada, which is typical talk. However, what the heck is the thing about Zuck being a "sociopath"? Now I don't know him, and he does look and (from what I read) act weird sometimes but who cares? Most founders and successful CEO's are in that same boat, otherwise they wouldn't be that successful. Examples range from Oracle's Ellison to RoR's DHH, and of course Jobs.

The FB privacy thing has turned into a true media frenzy. Look, FB is not going to go away anytime soon, users just have invested too much time into it. So, forget about the whole "four brave kids take on FB with open platform". How to make FB behave nicely without any viable competition is the question here.
Waves, Timing and Becoming Real
In one of the videos the guy mentioned that back in the 90's there was a reason that A LOT of hay needed to be sent to Montana or some other state in the northern midwest. He used that as an argument for why they could get enough hay. Does anyone know anything about that? I have been unsuccessful in my search on google.
This seems like a little bit of FUD. This isn't any different from hooking up a device to the brakes that receives a mobile signal and stops them from working mechanically.
Car Hackers Can Kill Brakes, Engine And More...
" Application development for mobile devices is a developing market. There's room for something new. A new programming language, a new framework, new things I can't even imagine involving location, clouds, whatever."

Except if they can't get it on the iPhone they may as well be Loki Games. They need to be on the dominant player to gain traction, and it doesn't look like the dominant player is willing to let them gain any traction.
Network video recorder, powered by Linux, ultra stable and loaded with features
Standing up? Lying down? Apparently they're using some kind of nonspherical cow approximation.
Why facebook is here to stay
The chesshere lies through a smile you can't immediately refuse.
The Genius of QVC
Ohhh, occasion to post my favorite first line of a book the second time in so many days! Neal Stephenson, first line of chapter 1 of Cryptonomicon:

"Let's set the existence-of-god issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed, and their genetic legacy was erased from the universe forever, but a few found some way to survive and to propagate. After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage, Godfrey Waterhouse IV was born, in Murdo, South Dakota, to Blanche, the wife of a Congregational preacher named Bunyan Waterhouse. Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo--which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead."
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Unlocking Android from Manning is excellent. Once you gain more knowledge you cam move on to Pro Android 2 from APress.
"the security researchers say that by connecting to a standard diagnostic computer port included in late-model cars"

If the objective is just to kill brakes/turn off the engine, there are easier techniques.

I remember reading about a $200 handheld EMP weapon that achieve this (can't find the link right now).
This is Why I Hate Wall Street People
At $191,000, it's only a few cents cheaper than the normal iPad!
Is this for real? Is this a real thing?
Ask HN: Do you ever randomly seem to be logged into HN as a different user?
every once in a while, randomly, it looks like I am logged in under the account for "jrockway".
I agree, it'd be nice to know how much easier it is (if at all) to mount an tie in a computer to their car. They do make a good point:

"But as they look at all of the wireless and Internet-enabled systems the auto industry is dreaming up for tomorrow's cars, they see some serious areas for concern."
Perhaps we are using the phrase killer product in different ways. When I use it, I don't mean that it's popular, I mean that it's so desirable to its customers that they subordinate all other considerations to it.

For example, Visicalc was a killer product: People bought computers to run Visicalc, rather than buying a spreadsheet to run on their computers. PageMaker was a killer product: People bought Macs to run PageMaker rather than choosing a desktop publishing program to run on their Macs.

For all its ubiquity, Flash is not a killer product outside of the video delivery realm: People obviously do not choose a phone to run their Flash games, and developers seem fine learning an entirely new language (Objective C) and framework (Cocoa) to build iPhone applications.

Flash is a killer product in exactly the same sense that J2EE is a killer product.
we always called it seagull management too. Especially when the manager makes an appearance, eats all the "snacks" around the office and then shits all over everything before taking off.
I understand this space and can speak to it at a high level.

The current for-profit system exists ONLY because of the broken federal student loan system. The goal of 95% of these schools is to extract the federal student loan money from the student as efficiently as possible with a nominal focus on quality of education.

To prove it, spend a half hour reading online education feeder sites that provide reviews (do a few google searches). They fall into three buckets - 80% complain about the aggressive recruiting tactics, poor education and poor customer service. 15% are sock-puppets paid by the universities to write reviews. 5% are satisfied students.

But here's the rub - and I wake up daily baffled by this phenomenon, but the students read the reviews and still attend the schools.

There are by my estimation four reasons for this:

First, you're dealing with, ironically, uneducated, low-income people who don't understand what they're getting into - they have been lead to believe that a college degree is worth something, and they'll take 30-40K of UNFORGIVABLE debt (because it's a federal loan) to make minimum wage.

Second, you're in an environment (higher education) where the very idea of certifying and grading the quality of education would have been unthinkable in decades past and the regulatory environment hasn't caught up with the business realities.

Third, the ease of access to government money won't dry up until major changes are made at the federal level and there's little likelihood that politicians would set themselves up as being against education for lower-income students. Lobbying has ramped up to protect the stream of 20-30 billion dollars of money flowing into the industry.

Fourth, aggressive recruiting tactics driven by the money at stake are keeping the doors full and forcing students into school without knowing what they're getting into.
A marketplace of DRM-free ebooks
I did this with a few people at work. It seems as if the ad is not served at all if the target population isn't over some threshold. I was not able to target 2-3 people, but was able to target 30.
Interesting story (and I admire the ingenuity), but isn't this an example of the Fallacy of Composition? It only works because no one else is doing it.
They told me to write web applications using open and free standards, and I listened.

Some other people called them up and begged to be chained to the oars of a proprietary slave galley, and they told them that if they wanted to be slaves they had to be Apple's slaves and not Adobe's slaves.

Many of these people are happy and well-fed, so I have no quarrel with their choice. But I point out that it's their choice and Apple have offered each and every one of us the right to write free applications for iPhone and iPad.
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I'm confused. Did Greenspan create HouseSystem or theFacebook? In the article he say,
"In late 2003 I created an on-line, opt-in web site referred to as "the facebook" exclusively for Harvard students..."
I'm not a fan of learning from technical books, but that's just my style. I like figuring out exactly what I need to do and Googling it one piece at a time, side-by-side with having the docs as reference.

You could start by reading the dev guide from the top: http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.ht....

You should read the Activity lifecycle some ten times at least: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity..... To avoid countless headaches at the beginning, clamp your app to only portrait or only landscape mode if it makes sense.

Also read over the Intents doc a number of times as they are another crucial part of the system: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/intents/intents-fi....

The Android SDK contains various samples that will get your going quickly.

Having a G1 to test with is a good idea. They are painfully slow, so if you get the G1 right, everybody else will be happy. Quick stat: devices by platform: http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve....

Designing the interface layout is pretty painless. The framework is well thought out.