skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it be a lot less disruptive just to disable that privacy feature that people use very rarely rather than disabling chat, which people use all the time? Unless, of course, they're afraid that this isn't the only security hole allowing you to see your friends' chats.
While there will no doubt be a few attempts to shake up the social networking clique with new entrants, Facebook has a pretty good grip on it at the moment. The recent privacy concerns being discussed here on HN might make people consider switching to elsewhere, but will they actually do it?

The thing with moving to another social network and leaving the old one behind is that you won't find it to be too social without your existing network of friends/family moving over as well. It's a bit of a Catch-22 situation, really.

Of course, it's possible to use your existing networks to invite people to a new network, but in reality, unless people see value in the new vs the old, they will at best politely decline. In Facebook's case, you'll need people's concerns with privacy to outweigh the inconvenience of switching and building a new network.

I've been invited to about 5-10 new 'networks' from people on Facebook or LinkedIn over the last couple of years. I haven't moved partly because some of them look kind of dodgy to be honest but most because I'd simply have to start over again. That's the 'lock-in' that online social/business network tools have.

People need to be convinced that the inconvenience of switching outweighs the existing concerns.
Fonts.com Web Fonts is Live
"We are very excited to introduce Fonts.com Web Fonts – a service you can try for free as of today. We have been working hard to design a service that will allow Web designers to focus on the design of their sites and spend less time contending with work flow complications and design compromises..."

Fonts.com Web Fonts video "How To"
http://webfonts.fonts.com/en-us/videotutorial
While Safari is improving fast Chrome is at the moment definitely improving faster.
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Case of the iPad
A snarky Apple fan could respond in the same way with regard to the absence of Flash on the iPhone products.
India's E-voting Machines are Vulnerable to Fraud
Looking for energy efficient lighting?
Looking for energy efficient lighting? Look no further;regreencorp.com would be the best choice.
They don't seem so tough. They've still got the queen on their money.
Some points from the article are really good..specially innovation is more important then cost cutting...isn't that what Apple does, they innovate and create new products that creates a whole market altogether, imagine what would have happened if they would have got into only services (they would have made money still no doubt), but would they have been at the same place they are now.
Because Jobs is free to respond, whereas someone on the Safari development team would face serious consequences for doing so.
How Teens Are Using Their Mobile Phones (infographic)
Stop waiting to the end of the project to start QA (And other QA principles)
The "true histories of great startups" would make an amazing series.
Why Microsoft can Blow-Off with C#?
Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping?

I suspect so. They are tasks where goals are long-term and less quantifiable, and where the financial rewards are modest, so someone motivated by the adrenaline rush and high wages of Wall Street may well find it tough. Also, plants and small children are less easily impressed by all that swaggering braggadocio.
I'm not too impressed.

For now I'll leave it by just point out that there are only 4 top US CS schools, not 5 (in west to east order, Stanford, UCB, CMU, MIT).
Why did the US went from 3% to 2% growth?

My guess is that before it had a very low population density and a lot of fertile land. That changed when population density increased. Check the conclusions of this article. http://mises.org/daily/1568
If you look at the comments you’ll see some test results. The slowest result was 38ms / 100,000 iterations. Even if you looked at that result on a mobile device it still wouldn’t be what you’d call unperformant.

In other words, this is micro-optimisation at a pointless level.
They disabled the button on the privacy setting page, but as of a few moments ago, this url still worked:
http://www.facebook.com/[your short url]?viewas=[id]

Edit: The button from the privacy settings page is working again.

In general, though, cutting chat while trying to fix this is probably a Good Idea. Less room for bad things to happen assuming you can turn chat off more quickly than you can fix the behavior.
Link? Last I checked anyone with reasonable mechanical knowledge and a bit of metal working skill could do it. May not be "caveman easy", but easy enough to someone who can read a simple set of diagrams. This simple set actually: http://www.scribd.com/doc/3853405/AR15-Lightning-Link-Plans

Or, in a pinch, be good with a freaking paperclip.
To be fair, Ted was also involved in a public spit with the Ubuntu kernel team about a year ago regarding an ext4 bug that he tried to "not-a-bug" based on a strict reading of the standard. He ultimately lost the argument, and had to fix ext4. See:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/31...

and especially:

http://lwn.net/Articles/322823/

Whether that has anything to do with this particular sniping incident, I obviously have no knowledge. But I think it's an important piece of context.

Edit: after reading the whole bug report, it's also important to point out that the issue at hand here is a real and still-unfixed but in ext4 that has been worked around for Lucid. Ted's appeal that no one from Fedora has complained seems a little shallow given that there's a 7-line shell script at the top of the bug to exercise it.

Really, this doesn't seem warranted here. I know the kernel team doesn't like Canonical. But I don't see what they did wrong here other than pick a different workaround than the one Ted suggested.
Inflation-adjusted wages haven’t had 2 percent growth since the 70s; they’ve stagnated or slightly decreased. Productivity keeps improving, but wages don’t keep up.

Edit:

Hmm, I did some googling, and there seem to be substantially divergent charts/numbers floating around. Some numbers have real wages going down, others have them staying approximately flat, and some more optimistic estimates have ~2% rises. I don’t have the time to do deep investigation.

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The US also has an unprecedented and unique-among-western-countries incarceration rate; people have substantially more debt (college loans, credit card debt, etc.) than they did a few decades ago, and the laws are much less friendly to debtors than they were between the 40s and the 70s; families are less stable than before, and there are more working single mothers. There are an unacceptably high (in my opinion) number of uninsured children. And so on.

In other words, we face all manner of difficult social challenges. At the same time, US society is in many ways much more tolerant than it was 30 or 40 years ago. We have many nifty technological tools that improve people’s lives, safer cars, better communications infrastructure, some great medical advances, etc. All in all, I’m optimistic about the future, but it is true that the American working class could use help from our regulatory/economic policy.
I heard an administration official state that it was a customs officer who recognized his name on the flight manifest, which led to his detention. My speculation: customs has a long history of attempting real security; the Theater of Security Assurance perhaps not so much?
That is really truncation and the result happens to be the same for positive numbers
The Wikipedia page mentions Piku Piku. Googling that reveals this example:

http://blog.start3d.com/2010/01/embedded-piku-piku.html

It seems to create morphed frames in between the two original shots.
Scalability and Cloud: What Goes Up Must Come Down
Maintenance costs are one of the highest costs of software engineering, so when the idioms are very diverse, and you are presented with a new idiom, the best choice is to minimize idioms by only using behaviors which are expectable.

If performance is an issue, then use these obfuscating idioms, but only if you are able to abstract them well and maintain performance (as you suggest), or document them completely and concisely.
Hey amix, thanks for the comments!

I certainly agree that a purpose-built solution could be better if you needed the features you mention, but that was not our use-case. This provided an elegant solution which would avoid us having to duplicate all our item metadata. Also, given our schedule it seemed clear that Redis VM would be available by the time we needed it.

It is true that Redis is not optimised specifically for full-text search. However, it is optimised for serving data structures very quickly which is exactly what we needed.
Why buffer overflow exploitation took so long to mature (part 2)
Typo in title (memristors)
Is there a market? Yes (edit: otherwise articles that we've seen recently regarding their changes wouldn't cause an uproar)

Will it completely disrupt Facebook? Not likely. At least not soon.

I've been wondering whether it might be possible to charge a small monthly fee to cover hosting expenses for such a service, with a value add being essentially flexible privacy controls, and lack of a business need to monetize in ways that hurt privacy.
Follow up on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1315942
Circa 2004, they were on Myspace. It's a website, not a marriage -- given enough reason, people will move.
What is disgusting about it? $1.72 per game is more than $0.00 per game. They are making money the easiest way possible here. Everyone can simply download the games without paying a dime, but so far more than 30000 people decided to send them money and the counter is at almost 250000 dollars.
I had a URL about Prop 8 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008)... out from facebook chat with a message that it was possibly 'offensive' about a year ago or so .. nothing new
I don't disagree with your point. I was speaking more towards the general trend. It seems like I see one of these articles every week or so.
UCB's Robert Reich: Apple isn’t the problem. Wall St big banks are the problem.
Tell HN:  The new yellow pages just got here -- and went straight to recycling
A new hard-copy yellow pages book just showed up on our doorstep -- and for the Nth straight year, went directly into the recycling bag that's already on the sidewalk awaiting this morning's weekly pick-up.

Surely there are better uses for the wood, electricity, gasoline, etc., that it took to produce and deliver the yellow pages.

Maybe there should be an opt-out list.
The Mountain Goats - "Prana Ferox" (and about 400 other songs)

Coil - "The Dreamer is Still Asleep"

Neutral Milk Hotel - "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" (the song, but also the whole album. perfection.)
On my Chrome:

Math.floor = 2224ms for 100,000,000 iterations
0| = 302ms for 100,000,000 iterations.

So in terms of performace, the difference is moot. If you want hacky non readable code that sometimes works, use 0|
Because as the article described they need to appeal to their sponsors as well. I completely agree with you that if the terrorist simply wanted to terrorize Americans the best way to do it is to attack suburban schools and small towns. However these types of attacks still require resources.

I think that the best comparison would be to American Universities: The best way to teach students is obviously to have the teachers focus on teaching. However many of the largest schools professors focus their efforts on complex new research and ideas that are difficult and expensive to pursue but that get the donors' attention, bringing the school prestige and money.

Attacking a school would probably be the easiest, most effective way to terrorize Americans, however simply because ti would be relatively easy (or at least seems like it would be) there would be no political or economic rewards for going that route.
Yep, this solution is certainly quite a way off being something with the capabilities of Sphinx. In our case we didn't need any scoring of results, but this could be partly achieved by performing a Levenshtein Distance between the search term and the matched word. However, counting the number of occurrences (or other weightings) would require a bit more thought.

A larger, Redis-backed search engine would certainly be an interesting project though...
I haven't been particularly concerned with the privacy implications. I tend to operate under the assumption that stuff I post online is public.

But this latest change has another implication: it decreases the ability for expression on my profile. For example, in the Favorite Music section, I had shared a favorite lyric. Now, I'm limited to just listing bands.

While I understand the monetization reasons for "normalizing" the profiles, ultimately it makes them less interesting. I want to read a free-form description of a friends activities. A normalized bullet-list is much less attractive.

Until now, my take on Facebook has been "I'm not too excited about the way they do things, but it's where I keep up with people who aren't engaged in other platforms." If future changes decrease the utility of the platform like this one does, that argument for staying won't hold much longer.
You are thinking about it wrong. Digital copy distribution is basically free. With your $1.09 each party gets 30000 dollars. How is getting 30000 dollars for a quick sale not a success?

Don't forget that these games are already "old" in terms of the normal gaming market. They already had their heyday.
And additional mouse buttons.
"The United Arab Emirates (UAE) government issued a statement on Wednesday saying Mr Shahzad had been heading for Islamabad in Pakistan, and had been due to change planes in Dubai."
This totally makes sense: education isn't job training.

So maybe it's not for everyone, but for me it's a short time in my life where I can study Elementary Theory of Numbers alongside Cognitive Neuroscience and Computational Genetics and Life Forms without worrying about paying the bills.

Learning how to do a job isn't too hard. You learn on the job, anyway. This is true for computer scientists as much as it is for neurosurgeons (residencies).

School builds a foundation, and hopefully increases your interest in learning. It has mine.
Double Metaphone: Match words that sound the same but are spelled differently.
Five Cities Get Free Civic Apps Through Code for America
No, but there's a market for a wikipedia-style Facebook.
I can't speak to your math department's prejudices. I was just making a point that I don't think the derision is universal. And in the slinky more practical CS, CSE, and CE. Programs we had a healthy respect for the industry.

A lot of very good work has been funded by private initiatives in the last 5 years.
What people are telling the FTC about Google-AdMob
Philosophy of our product was described here http://blog.smartupz.com/2010/03/web-content-management-is-d...
You just recycled an opportunity to show off to your friends by tearing it in half with your bear hands.

...and make manly noises while looking constipated...Grrrr
What's wrong are the misconceptions they are deliberately spreading to further their agenda. I am all for multiple choices just like you; I dislike that f.e. Safari has only H.264 support in its native HTML5 video component (problem solved if you have the XiphQT plugin, which takes 2 seconds to download and copy to your ~/Library) just as much as I dislike that Firefox has only Theora support. I want both FF and Safari to support both so the user doesn't have to friggin' switch browser to enjoy this and that website's content - thankfully I can stick to Safari since XiphQT does an awesome job, and I'm damned happy to be able to see both H.264 and Theora content without having to juggle applications. And, admittedly, had I been in charge of picking just one codec for the future, the choice would be so easy, because in this debate I am all about video/audio quality for the end user, and I rrrrreally don't think the world of web video would ever have the carpet swept from under its feet by the MPEG-LA.

The notable difference here is that the H.264 camp in this debate isn't spewing bullshit all over the place.
Potato gun, lightning, and sonic magic: Google Chrome Speed Tests
I think that's partly because that was the focus of the talk. I believe that Drew (for example) had a working prototype of Dropbox before applying to YC, and he'd been thinking about it for years. Then, after funding, it was quite a while (I think 6 months+) before the initial version was released. That's a lot of work on tech.

I'd love to hear a talk on the tech journey of DropBox.
Stopping Browsers From Storing Credit Card Or Sensitive Data In Online Forms
The way people treat you is almost entirely the result of who _you_ are and how you interact with them.
I don't actually see the ads. I think most people just tend to ignore them.
It used to do more: Sony's flip-flopping PS3 history
Congrats to USV and Stack Overflow. (I also participated)
Well their message to taxpayers is "work harder for longer for less so we can go on sneering at you from our ivory tower", so they really don't belong to the real world. Yet, but they will soon...
I actually do think he's onto something when he talks about the decline of engineering relative to law, banking, and medicine.

It's interesting, because in the midst of an article about how much poorer we are than our parents, he does discuss extremely high salaries in these fields. I think the problem is that the "Best and Brightest" young Americans are now chiefly interested in entering fields where they get a lot of money but probably don't create much wealth.

I read a while back that many economists believe that while a good legal system is critical to a modern economy and state, the marginal value of an additional lawyer in the US is actually negative - that is, additional regulation, litigation, and so forth is actually wealth destroying. Banking, as defined as moving money from where it is to where it is needed is a valuable economic activity, but a lot of banking lately seems to have been a wealth destroying activity that is lucrative for its practitioners as well.

Medicine seems more defensible, but my father (a prof of medicine) told me recently that he was disturbed by a report on how much of a person's lifetime medical expenses are accrued in the last few years/months of life.

By the way, sorry about the lack of cites. But I'm guessing that these generalities really aren't all that controversial.

A friend of mine (a lawyer) makes a lot of money by creating corporations that exist purely to purchase expensive equipment (such as airplanes) and then lease them back to the actual "owner", mainly because this creates a favorable tax write-off. Have the methods used by the "elites" to gain personal wealth always so unaligned with the general creation of wealth?

One really wonderful thing about the US is that there isn't all that much class resentment. People generally talk about "making" or "earning" money, and we admire people who do it, largely because we believe that they create wealth for everyone as they create it for themselves. I think this is very true of high tech entrepreneurship and other activities... but it does seem (especially from the massive expansion of the banking sector) that many of our current wealthy elite seem to be adding about as much to the general economy as feudal lords.

They'll try to cast this in terms of "disliking people who make money", but I really don't. It doesn't bother me at all that the google guys have billions. I may envy them, but I don't resent them. However, I resent AIG and GS, because I'm utterly unconvinced that they are contributing a damn thing, and that they are probably damaging wealth creation.
I have been looking into this area myself recently and this is great. My dataset is in the 300 - 500 item range and needing to include a full search engine seemed like overkill especially when I am already using redis.

I will probably go with sphinx for it's other capabilities but this sounds better than the other redis search implementations that are out there.
In Germany you can pick up the yellow pages in public places (post offices), they aren’t delivered to you. So they can presumably print less because not nearly everyone is picking one up. Considering the yearly heaps of dead wood I still have the feeling that a lot of those books won’t fare much better than your copy.
How to find a great software product name
Flexible just means confusing, usually.
Except that ball chairs aren't always the best choice :). They can still force your spine into a C shape rather than the natural S shape. The best type of office chair is none at all, better for you all around :).
Obama's plea for civility is exactly right
Just use a rubber band and bump fire it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkF2wish5I8
You don't just need a market. You need a business model. Facebook scale is not cheap. Facebook is innovating like crazy to figure out a business model that can pay for that scale.

Received wisdom was that privacy was sacred. Received from early adopter tech geeks, that is.

As Facebook matures, hundreds of millions of not-so-early adopters are revealing a different perspective: give them one stop social sharing that works for everyone they want to interact with, and they don't care.

This offers Facebook new business opportunities to monetize at scale, and they're taking them. Although they're not a public company, they clearly do want to be profitable, with no qualms about "all your base are belong to us" in pursuit of that motive.

You can't just build a Facebook circa 2006 clone. You have to build a Facebook circa 2006 clone that can pay for itself.
Zynga worth $4 Billion? Valuation might drop with Facebook Credits
How does one find a job doing that? Forget programming, I want to make potato guns to promote what the rest of y'all have done!
FCC Chairman may back down on Net Neutrality, file a public comment
The author is Eliezer Yudkowsky [http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction], who has also written other interesting fiction like the one about baby-eating aliens (Three Worlds Collide).
Please study some history before you make claims like that. Have you seen any witches burned recently? Have 100K Japanese people on the west coast been put into camps recently?
I think you and I have different definitions of real difficulty. It's expensive, time consuming and you have to go through a background check. Yes, its possible, but definitely difficult.
You are correct. The sixth thing in this article is inaccurate.
I can't tell whether this article wants me to sympathize with JustMed, talking as it does about the "bitter irony" of their contractor/employee's standing to sue them for failing to honor employment obligations. These people brought on an engineer, who was apparently solely responsible for developing the core IP of the company, paying him for years only in stock. When they eventually deigned to pay him, they didn't withhold taxes.

The word for someone who performs a core company role in exchange for nothing but equity is "cofounder".

The word for someone who is paid to do work but who is responsible for all their own taxes is "contractor".

It freaks me out that the Appeals court decided that these factors weren't "dispositive" of the engineer's relationship with the company, because (pp) "that's how startups work". The hell it is. If you want people to work for you, you get an employment contract together. If they're employees, you pay them, and you do W2 withholding.