skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, a large part of the requests to remove content come from people that have become designers, and that are 'less than proud' of their first steps on the web.
Opera 10.53 on Mac OS X Tiger and the same thing happens.
Interesting, has he done research to verify his hypothesis? If he manages to prove that he'll be hero of a lot of parents whose kids are 'labeled'.
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> My sense from studying this stuff of the past several years is that we're going to spend a long time behind the eight-ball, lurching from economic crisis to economic crisis while our real living standards are slowly ratcheted down.

I don't think I'm very happy about that vision, but I suspect it is on the money.
Thomas is going to get the cheapest and quickest entrepreneurial education available. Continual customer contact, fail fast, fail cheap, iterate.
In two sentences he encapsulates most of the Customer Development philosophy:

"1. now had something out there that people could actually use (and hopefully pay for)

2...now had my mind cleared of a lot that I didn't even realize was clogging it."

Entrepreneurship is a contact sport - No guts no glory.
Aren't the vast majority of Zynga's users coming from Facebook? If you go to Farmville.com, you need to login with Facebook Connect. I would have a different opinion if Zynga could survive without the Facebook interactions. However, their games rely on the network effect that Facebook brings... so they are very dependent upon the 'walled garden' of Facebook.

Now, this isn't the same type of garden as AOL in the day. It's more open, but make no mistake, Facebook controls the user, not Zynga. Because of this, Zynga has more risk than another web-based game company would be. At the same time though, Zynga has gained incredibly from the relationship.

But, if Zynga wants to keep the users coming, it needs to maintain that Facebook relationship.
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Or you can watch a video of DHH winning a recent motor race: http://youtu.be/ef-CtcXM89g
>I'm definitely not in favor of creating needless jobs

Most jobs are already needless. Consumerism helps to keep wheels turning. As the time goes, situation is going to get worse. The question is how society is going to get restructured if 80% of its workforce can't produce anything viable anymore (i.e. produced cheaper without involving said workforce)?
This seems to happen a lot. Someone should do some A/B-style testing to figure out why. I nominate you. :-)
Thanks for sharing that. Sorry to hear about your loss, but at least you got to share some time with him, however brief.

Btw, I agree that the connections made with real, actual people are what's best about the web. From family to long-lost friends to great communities of like-minded people (HN), the web has definitely helped make my life richer and more meaningful. So thanks to all the folks out there who make that possible :)
nice - thanks for the heads up :)

now why is news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=eli_s a magic link that can't be found on the main nav?

oops... just found it in my profile page. not the best spot to put it :S
Listened to a talk given by one of the Firefox guys a while back and in their vision social networking would be aggregated into the browser. Seems like a good start for this open alternative.
More like 'The Deterioration of Privacy on Facebook'
From a link in the story:

Gulak first applied to MIT last year, but was waitlisted and decided to take a year off rather than settle for another school.

What the hell does it take to get into MIT these days? Does the robot you build in your basement have to be able to pass the SATs, too?
I did this yesterday, but ended up using the delete function instead. Wish I had taken a screen cap.

Interestingly enough, as soon as you log back in everything is back to normal. I haven't logged back in since re-deleting, but will try in about two weeks to ensure it's been deleted as promised.
amen to that, Ryan. thanks
"... searchyc.com is even better. ..."

I'll second that. searchyc is my HN search of choice. Works every time. Why are users complaining about finding things?
This is awesome, but the unicycle bit is actually just icing on the cake. It's those nifty, nifty wheels that interest me, with their complete freedom of movement along any vector. A two, three, or four-wheeled version would be just about as useful, though not as spooky.
YES!. i deleted my facebook account today... even if i only had 10% of the friends - if they were the right ones it wouldn't matter... i'd love an alternative that didn't screw with me.
So all the fuzz is about the fact that SETL has builtin support for sets? Really, I don't mean to be a troll, but is that it?
I just added a SearchYC plugin for the Firefox search box if anybody else wants to use it: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=searchyc....
"We've come to realize we don't really want most employees for the whole of their careers. We want their particular set of skills when we need them — but then things change so fast, we don't need that particular skill set any more."

But job-hoppers are still evil, right?
Keeping a vision intact often does require absolutism. It's helpful to experiment, but in the end, I think a maintainer has to stick to his guns to keep anything from devolving into crap. Guidance from users is often stunningly wrong when taken from a higher vantage point. I hate to keep running back to Jobs, but if he listened to popular opinion and let them guide what he wanted, his products would end up reverting to the mean. Instead he keeps his door "solidly locked".

To implement search well is not a trivial task at all, and distracts from the much, much more important task of making the community self regulate towards quality. If all you want is a link to site:news.ycombinator.com, then a bookmark should be fine for you and others who do it frequently, and typing it in should be fine for those of us who search infrequently. No additional site complexity needed. If people ask how to search it, then they'll learn a neat and generally useful trick when someone tells them about site:xyz on Google.

Edit: And in response to "he should bring on more people if he's so time-limited", bringing on more people frequently causes more of a time drain than it solves.
Hate to look like link-spam, but my company is about to blow this out of the water. Can't give out specs yet, but let's just say: > 1PB/rack. If you're interested, put your email addy in. We won't abuse it.

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My instinct is that it's just increasing the number of attributed commits. Before Github the committer was always whichever user actually committed it, here the committer is the author.
I read HN multiple times a day and have for a while now. I do not care about search at all. This site doesn't really have any features, and I don't care - I come here for the community. Just another data point fwiw.
Um...lung cancer isn't worth advancing in your career!
This is the same model I use for computer usability. That confusing printer dialog might be navigable if you're experienced and paying attention, but it's not stupid people that end up getting it wrong, it's just busy people with more important things on their mind e.g. some important document that needs printed. That's why it needs to be dumbed down, because we're all dumb at times.
I've noticed a trend recently whereby social networking sites on the internet are becoming integrated into desktop applications, panel applets, and now you suggest integrating it into my browser?

Personally, I like keeping my online social identity sandboxed away in my browser, in a tab. If it's integrated into my browser's code, then it's harder to understand how my privacy works.

In the current situation, I just have to clear my cookies to ensure my privacy is secure.

I'm _not_ enthusiastic about a future where my browser has the functionality of specific web services built into it.
"And am I to understand you monitor the voting records on HN?"

As revealed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1278680
Well, no. SearchYC has no revenue. I maintain SearchYC and host it out of a box in my closet as a service to the community. It doesn't make any sense for me to commit to do "whatever it takes".

That being said, with a few hundred dollars worth of hardware and some software changes, SearchYC should be able to gracefully handle a couple orders of magnitude more traffic.
1. You're overthinking the nature of cheating. Flash games have been put through the wringer using memory-editing tools like Cheat Engine. The only truly secure strategy is an expensive one - record, upload, and replay the game on-server. The cheaper alternative is hand-moderated scoreboards. In any case, high scores are not central to the success of most games - they're a payoff that comes at the end of a session and many users will back out before finishing even one session. (Yes your game may differ, but you haven't presented data to back up the assertion.)

2. It's just too early to move to HTML5 for commercial games - no developer ecosystem, monetization methods are entirely DIY, limited user benefit, etc. That will all change, but I would treat a port like this as a demo project.
One of my friends said smoking was his secret weapon to networking.

Because smoking is a habit cuts across hierarchies, you can meet a broader spectrum of people than just randomly talk to people at a networking event.

Also smoking time is discreet, so your convo have a natural end without awkwardness.
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"... It’s time for the best of the tech community to find a way to let people control what and how they’d like to share. Facebook’s basic functions can be turned into protocols, and a whole set of interoperating software and services can flourish ..."

That is an interesting thought. Eben Moglin, "Freedom vs. The Cloud Log" ~ http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Interview-Eben-Moglen-... has a solution. A small web server where you control the logs and content, "do-able".
google: search term site:news.ycombinator.com, it's very good, and it could be better than anything pg et al. can throw together in a hurry :D
Its majority owned by an oligarch named Usmanov. Like most of his fellow post-Soviet oligarchs, they've been trying very hard to funnel their undeserved wealth out of Russia and into Western assets and banks.
I guess it's some consolation that this money is ending up in the hands of Silicon Valley (or Chicago, in the case of Groupon), instead of it just going to British soccer teams and yachts in the Riviera.
Great party, thanks for the invite.
Recommendation algorithms are not that tricky, anyone can get 90% of the best algorithm in a couple of weeks. (OK, maybe not anyone, but my friend at Google did it for fun to compete in Netflix competition.)

The thing recommendation engines need is data and lots of it, which Youtube has in spades and these guys have to start from scratch.
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> There are an infinite number of minor things that would be pretty good to do that would "just take a minute."

The search link is at least as relevant as the bookmarklet link and certainly more relevant than the webmynd and mixpanel links with images.

> Basically, points exacerbate the "someone is wrong on the Internet" trap.

While i am not sure about that, I suggest that voting for comments should be delayed like the temporarily hidden reply link, that may reduce some reflexive voting.
I think that there should be a push to build upon the idea of using XHTML markup to create a distributed social network.

Formally known as XFN?
What you describe is exactly the opposite of how HTML evolved up to this point. Usually precisely what has happened has been that browsers implemented things that the others didn't support, got some traction, were widely copied, and then, finally, standardized.
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Noticed this, too.

The way I keep up with it is using google reader to star (mark) stories over the day and reading them when i get the chance.

I'm not sure sub HNs are the answer just now since I'd need to subscribe to pretty much all of them to not miss good content.
I thought this was a hoax video until I googled U3-X. Interesting how they started off with a unicycle application. Wonder what load it can bear.
And they probably wouldn't have been able to pull it off at this scale had they not first started a site you dreaded.
So how many civilizations have _not_ had seven-day weeks?
In a sense, HN is itself a bookmark site once logged in. That is, by looking at the "saved stories" link from my profile, I see what I've upvoted. Hence an incentive to upvote not just good items, but items I want to look at multiple times. (No such "saved comments" index exists, though?)
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It doesn't matter what's right or wrong, or what we want! 5% of users know or care about privacy. And social networking services are all about the network effect. So, good luck competing. Facebook won.
At first glance it seems nontrivial. As with most problems like this that can be decomposed into algorithms and datastructures, technology provides a solution. OpenID, OAuth, and Open Social were all developed to solve similar problems.

My guess is that there will be half a dozen competing protocols within a year.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830736

'nough said. I've been asked 'from on high' to stop this thread and others like it so I will.
They changed it. The new header is:

X-Facebook: from zuckmail ([MTI3LjAuMC4x])

(127.0.0.1)

So I guess, nothing else to see here. Move along.
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Ask HN: How are you hosting email at your domain name?
This could be your personal professional email (i.e. you@yourpersonalsite.com) or your company's email (i.e. you@yourcompany.com). I am only interested in web-based or self-hosted Linux solutions (so that rules out Microsoft Exchange).

I've considered hosting with Google Apps. I've seen a number of notable hackers go that route. But I'm not sure I want to give up that much privacy and control. I've searched for some self-hosting Linux solutions (free or paid), and I wasn't impressed with the results I found.

Thanks in advance.
What I'd like is distributed p2p linking. No personal data on a server that isn't yours. Any of your data hosted on a third party site if you choose so, is encrypted to within an inch of its life: they can't do ANYTHING with it except forward it to whoever you designate.

Venn diagrams for your social graph. Or trees. Preferably both. If Yelp/Microsoft/whoever wants my data, they become a member of my social graph, not some all-seeing entity that hovers above me recording every comment I make. Data that goes to them is encrypted as well of course.

Make it distributed, because no company hosting user data will be able to resist the temptation to use it to make money. Or build it on top of Dropbox, and have Dropbox serve as the backup for your online social life, encrypted, of course. 2GB will eventually fill up, and hopefully people will be happy to pay for extra storage, especially if you make it easy.
Consider yourself funded if it should come to that.
No doubt both. Managers at those kind of jobs tend to be dead-ended mid 20's, and need to push around teenagers to feel important since anyone their age can see the truth. They also tend to prey on teenage girls... not a pretty sight.
"There's no mechanism in the current system to stop an error from crushing a stock," said Dan Mathisson, head of electronic trading at Credit Suisse.

Yes there is -- the underlying value of the security. If an algorithm bug pushes a stock to 1 cent a share, someone will probably buy it. And if the share has any value, someone will probably offer 2 cents. And so on. (If nobody buys it, maybe it never really had any value.)

Someone will lose money, but they should have tested their software more carefully.

What nobody seems to mention is that the market recovered just fine after the accidental sell-off. Sure, it was a down day, but it was going to be anyway.
It's all mental -- these guys can run on water
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Exim for SMTP, Courier for POP3 and/or IMAP, and SquirrelMail or RoundCube for the web front-end - all available for Linux. It's good enough for cPanel, so it's good enough for me.

Edit: Incidentally, it should be noted that all email is "web-based" these days...
I paid $5. Why did I pay? Because I approve of their marketing style. Why didn't I pay more, am I a cheapskate bastard? No; I probably won't ever play a one of those games.

Point: There are so many things going on here, it's hard to draw clear conclusions from the numbers we're getting.
I wonder how Scribd pulled this off wrt HR. I mean, they must have had a sizable investment in Flash engineering. Did those people leave? Did they just start doing HTML stuff instead?

Back in the day when I was doing webdev, there was a pretty serious schism between webdevs and flash devs, and never the twain met. Maybe this is less true now.
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http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-this-is-how-the-carrier...

and

http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6779&...

and

http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=15976&...
Does Kutcher have enough of a track record to compare him to the cover of Sports Illustrated at this point?
I compulsively bookmark anything interesting I read on the net these days. Nothing is as annoying as wanting to refer to something I've read before and only able to find it again after a huge googling effort.
Untrue. (See above).
If Adobe was smart they would snap up 280North or a similar company now—and offer it as part of their new html5/RIA initiative asap.
Just wanted to throw in, if you object to the browser method of collecting OS permeation- while it is true not all machines have browsers or browse (like servers), there are practically no modern computers that game but don't have browsers.
Who said iPhone OS, Android and Windows Mobile don't play well together?
Re: web-based

Yeah, I guess I meant 3rd-party-hosted.
here you go:

http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=my+crazy+boss

http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=FBI

http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=CIA
I'd like to be told, perhaps beside my name, how long I have until I can comment again.

I have had well-crafted comments rejected for posting too fast, BUT I am not told how long I have to wait before posting.
From that post, you can't conclude that pg "monitors the voting records" as a general practice, only that he's willing to look at them when someone specifically complains about the ranking algorithm. Read the parent comment to that one -- the guy complained about what type of stories were on the front page; pg made the point that the complainer wasn't doing his part to get other stories up there.
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The difference between sending a message via facebook and via smtp, is that in this case facebook is appending your ip address on purpose. I mean, if I wanted to do the same with my web apps, I'd have to specifically tell my email framework to include the ip of the user.
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Let me put it another way: what is the basis for the vast majority of humankind's belief in a deity of some sort? If the idea has no basis in reality, then can someone demonstrate the reason for this belief with the same degree of intellectual rigor that is demanded from Christians for their beliefs? Dismissing it as mere superstition is inadequate. An evolutionary hypothesis would be quite hard to prove.
This reminds me a Stephen King story: The Ten O'Clock People.
Good article. Reinforces some of the suggestions given on Facebook And Twitter Will Always Be Crappy Businesses http://bit.ly/cMiQLa
Would be nice to have a small menu in a corner or a custom right click context menu which has "Jump To/Previous/Next" type options.

Also a option for it to full the whole screen area would be awesome.
I think you meant discrete, which was confusing, because smoking time is also discreet.
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I find the auto-rotate awkward as well, and mostly keep the orientation locked. The "peaceful" description nails it perfectly.

BTW, this reminds me again why having the same interface as iphone/ipod touch is a good thing. Anyone who has used those devices would likely not be too surprised.
why do you single out XHTML? a markup language is not relevant to the problem.

besides, XHTML never caught on. otoh, HTML5 is doing great.
go with Google Apps: easy to install , Free and featured :)
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Ask HN: What is up with Google?
It seems Google has been selecting me recently as a guinea pig for a new design:

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1460/googlewb.png

(I know imageshack is a poor image host, but I'd rather not use personal accounts to link this image)

Anyone familiar with a way I can opt out, back to the old scheme?
It definitely early for a big leap if you have solid Flash skills and existing content. If you don't have massive investment in existing tech, then new development should definitely be done in HTML 5.

However, Canvas is years behind Flash in terms of ease of development. At the moment using Canvas is a completely manual process. You have to manually manage every single element, there are no events, no layers, no objects - you roll all of this yourself. That said, looks like longer-term Adobe will be targeting Canvas.

I am currently building a game using SVG via the RaphaelJS library. Overcomes a lot of the problems with canvas (I get events and a real-life DOM), and my use-case is not performance intensive so seems to be working fine so far.

Cheating is a problem in all games, Flash is arguably a little harder to cheat, but it is still not particularly difficult. The best thing to do is setup server-side controls for cheating - there are a range of different options that can be pursued her.
It's funny seeing this article a day or two after seeing an article about Diaspora.
gmail reveals the sender's IP address only when sending mail via (authenticated) SMTP. The IP address is hidden when sending mail via the web interface.
http://www.well-typed.com/who_we_are = very intimidating. I'd love to be paid to write Haskell but I've been programming in it less than a year.
It's a bit facile to compare something that works and has a few flaws, but is used by a great deal of people, with something that still isn't out of beta and isn't really used by anyone.
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pair.com has worked very well for me, for ten years or so. It's freebsd shared hosting, but if you're willing to consider gapps this is reasonable too. Includes two or three web interfaces, as well as imap.
yeah! google has changed the design. ewveryone hates this change. :(

btw, here is the trick to get back the original layout: http://goo.gl/qzlL
using google apps too.