skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to say...they wrote to "post on excerpts", but not "post excerpts". But obviously, what would Mike gain by only posting excerpt of the excerpt? Anyone can do that without asking permission from Fortune, it's just normal blogging practice.

Now when I think about it, Fortune looks even more ridiculous in my eyes. They basically asked TC to blog about their promotional article for free. ;-)
<em>I don't see how: at least in the emails posted, Fortune never authorizes Arrington to post the full excerpt: they talk about writing a post "on the book excerpts".</em>

He DID publish a book excerpt. Based on the way they kept saying full content, they want to make it sound like he published the entire book or something.

They asked if he would publish excerpts. They sent him excerpts. He published excerpts. He followed the rules and they want to change it and cry "fire" after the fact.
Or how about, Have you experimented with WebKit?
from what I understand it's just a bunch of small apps. His business model isn't to sell a single app 1,000 times, but to sell 100 apps, 10 times each.

as far as long term, he mentioned that he is using the blog for cred building, so that when he moves to stage 2 with a "real" product, he'll be able to get more coverage/buzz, and worst case scenario he'll have his own blog audience to spam.

it's like Arrington and tablets, on it's own noone cared about it, once Arrington started pushing the idea, suddenly everyone thought it was the second coming of jesus.
I'd love to know too, but can wait till August. I know how he feels, I had something that made anywhere between 3-10k a month through 2007-2008 and there's no way I would have shared it at the time because it was too fragile and easily "copied" (for the last year I've made nothing from it because people did catch on.) It was a collection of blog posts referencing online route finders in certain ways that meant I got a lot of traffic that clicked, in high numbers, on well paying ads to get to the original site. Totally accidental, but it eventually paid for my wedding and a car in all. I'm keen not to equate my sheer good luck with the hard work Max is doing however ;-)
If it's so obvious and trivial to duplicate, why don't you have scads of competitors already? You can't be operating in a vacuum.
Summary: Apple is good at both innovation and iteration. The iteration part is undervalued in understanding their success.
I was just going to post Why?, and this sums up the meaning of that word in context pretty well.
Sales guy I know has said he wants to delete his account (and I'm pretty sure I didn't complain to him about my privacy concerns).
I am outed. It is over!
GitHub Issues, Cappuccino Style
3 months is way more than enough to manufacture thousands of masks. I think he could get millions of them done, especially if he gets help from the Vatican and the Frenchmasons. I think this could be an international plot.
Maybe they don't want to lose brand identity.

I didn't want to use it for anything terribly sophisticated; I wanted to make a lightweight web application for people to track their dietary history. WolframAlpha would make it pretty simple: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+slice+pizza,+2+cups+g...
PHP is only 15 years old ;-)
It is possible with PayPal. You can set it up so they input whatever price they want (or select from a dropdown of set prices) and then get a notification once they paid.
I think the big picture view of this is fairly different from Scoble's take:

Facebook was able to avoid the scaling problems that plagued Friendster and still plague Twitter by gracefully dropping information. Your news feed may be behind some of the time and may occasionally be incomplete. Most people don't notice or care.

Facebook initially had a fairly detailed security model and fairly cautious default settings. This became a problem because it led to significant computational overhead serving requests.

Even an extremely well funded firm like Facebook realizes that if the 97% of photos that nobody cares are public require a db lookup, that's a lot of extra cycles. Due to the nature of the social graph, the problem was increasing exponentially every day and had to be dealt with.

So Zuckerberg decided to just cut away a lot of the added load in one fell swoop by changing the default setting on a lot of stuff. The servers and accountants breathed a sigh of relief.

The fallout has been remarkably small considering how significant a change this was and how crippling it could have been.

I imagine the like button announcement was intended to distract from the security changes, but instead it sort of added to the concerns.

It will blow over. Scaling problems aside I think the main advantage Twitter has over Facebook is that it doesn't try to include much of a security model which means everyone understands the security model. Nothing is really private on Facebook anyway.
Poker is the Tech Entrepreneur’s Golf | Jon Steinberg
Ummm....no.
great - you frequently write excellent blog posts and i'm looking forward to hearing more about your products.
Facebook Is My New Boatcar
I remember another high profile case in which Japanese criminals smuggled billions of dollars worth of T-bills. If high denominations of cash are crippled enough, more organized criminals may go that route.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a62_...
There was a copy write problem with the excerpts of the excerpts. Easy.
Is it possible we are just temporarily distracted by all the amazing advancements that have developed in a very short period of time? New technology is very fun and exciting for most people. There may come a time when this always-on, constantly updated tendency has lost a bit of its luster and we will get down to business with tools that are multitudes more powerful than those our parents had.
Is the Facebook Ecosystem Falling Apart?
"I’d love to chat with you about FORTUNE’s exclusive excerpt of David Kirkpatrick’s book on Facebook"

"note that the story stems from an exclusive excerpt in FORTUNE of David Kirkpatrick’s new book The Facebook Effect."

"once you’ve read the excerpts, please let me know if you choose not to post on one and not the other or both"

The use of the words "exclusive" and "on" seem to make it pretty clear that he was supposed to post ABOUT the excerpts. Their intent may be antiquated, but I think it was clearly communicated.
Why all Americans should have to carry ID
According to their annual report they have 272 million dollars worth of member deposits. With that security practice that is very scary.
Because the other companies in the niche are not posting blog entries like I am. It's not "obvious" but it's easy to copy.
That's the difference between education and training. Computer science is supposed to teach you the science of computing - it's not supposed to be a training course teaching you job skills. Once you graduate that's only the beginning, not the end, of learning about programming languages.
HTML5 vs Flash Argument - A Mortal Wound Quote from Google
I've met so many of these management types who come in during the middle of a crisis and just demand things be fixed. Those are the worst, and one of my coworkers termed it "pigeon management" - they fly in, shit all over the place, and then fly away. Roth sounds like he pigeon managed the situation (from this one-sided account).
The more I use my Cable internet at home the more it costs Comcast. That doesn't stop them from continuously upping the bandwidth and giving me "effectively" unlimited useage. You haven't demonstrated this is any different than the story for mobile carriers.
Clearly he's a pornographer.
I do have a problem which goes into this direction. Although I can code some simple programs, I have no clue how and where to start something bigger, like a social media platform. I don't know what part would be backend and frontend and where I should start first.
check buk-university.com perhaps?
maxim19055@yahoo.com ?
They also repeatedly refer to the excerpt(s) as "FORTUNE's exclusive". It's not an "exclusive excerpt" if TechCrunch is republishing it in its entirety, which makes it extremely unlikely that FORTUNE believed it was offering to let Arrington do so. And I find it really, really hard to believe that Arrington wouldn't have realized this before agreeing to anything.
Thank you for introducing me to "antecdote". Brilliant word!

I suppose it is half anecdote, half antidote, which must be highly useful. Or is it maybe an ante-anecdote, an amusing story in advance (a.k.a. prophecy)?

Not surprisingly, such a useful word is in widespread use, apparently. 33,200 uses to be exact, according to Google. But no clear definition, according to antecdotal evidence.
I feel like having an aptitude for programming at least will incline you to dapple before college.
They have lost, they just haven't stopped fighting yet.
Attention is the indicator that they're doing something right socially; it itself is not the victory.
Stop talking about how much money you make on your blog via hackerne.ws and you'd stop drawing attention.

Don't set off fireworks unless you want attention. You can't have it both ways.

Talking about how you can meet everybody in your company in Bangkok at a 5-star hotel like it's "no big thing, just 7% of revenue" is just asking to get nailed by the scythe of karma.
My two favorite resources for getting started with git:

1) Using Git with a central repository: http://toroid.org/ams/git-central-repo-howto

2) A succesful Git branching model: http://nvie.com/git-model
the only thing that is "needed" to succeed is a passionate and talented founder(s).

everything else is about arbitrage and increasing the odds in which you can succeed, access to mentors and respected peers are undoubtedly a huge part of that, as the valley shows.
"Normal" git development (without rebasing) naturally creates a branching history when two people make changes based off a common root. As was explained above, rebasing causes this branching history to be rewritten into a linear one. The alternative is merging, where you cause Git to record what actually happened -- which is that two changes occurred simultaneously and you explicitly brought them in sync again.

Sometimes (often) this is what you want -- it's especially useful for longer-lived branches of work, where having the history of the branch can be valuable in itself.

Also, if you share a commit with someone, you can no longer safely rebase it! The reason is that part of the definition of a commit is its set of parents -- the commits it depends on (usually 1, but can be 2 or more for a merge commit). When you rebase, you are rewriting all the parents, so you end up creating a whole stream of new commits and discarding the old ones. If you then attempt to share history with someone who has the old ones, presumably Git will become confused. (I've never actually run into this problem, but I don't use rebasing much.)
I didn't start programming until college (aside from screwing around with my TI-85 when I was bored in class), and it hasn't really set me back at all. If it's something that makes sense to you and you can think algorithmically, you'll do fine no matter when you start.

I often encounter the assumption that all "good" programmers start early in life and/or that all "good" programmers have an innate drive to build things and that's why they got into programming in the first place. (I think the two assumptions are related). And while it's true that many good programmers meet those two criteria (probably the majority), they're not universally true.

There are other reasons to love programming besides just the end result; I myself was drawn to it because I'm fascinated by the intellectual challenge of taming and organizing complexity, and of the way program construction can be seen as a series of rapidly-evaluated scientific hypotheses (i.e. "I think I can do X this way" and a short while later, relative to pretty much any other discipline. you have confirmation or rejection of that hypothesis).

I did, however, leave school with a bit of a complex precisely because I don't fit the traditional grew-up-tinkering-with-computers mold for software engineers. I thought that all those other people must be better than me, or be lightyears ahead of my skillset, or that because I came to the profession differently I must be somehow inferior or have a lower ceiling on my abilities. It took me a couple of years of programming professionally to realize that wasn't the case and to be confident in my abilities.

Anyone with the right set of cognitive skills can do fine in a college CS program regardless of their background, and anyone who has the skills to make it through a college CS program and who enjoys what they're doing will do fine as a professional programmer if they're willing to keep learning, regardless of their prior background. (And I don't mean to imply a CS program is by any means the only way to go, merely that someone with no prior background who goes through such a program will likely be fine.)
this was covered on The Onion already last week:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/7-million-people-direct-des...
I think the point he's making is that it's silly to make judgements on the long-term viability of the iPad platform based on problems with the first generation device. The iPad doesn't have to sell in huge numbers in the first couple of years. Eventually the platform will develop and mature, and perhaps in five years time or so, it might be powerful enough to replace a traditional computer for most people.
I think Diaspora may have this one covered:

http://www.joindiaspora.com/project.html

"Distributed Encrypted Backups"
I also like this page for evaluating where you might stack up against other candidates.

http://www.indiangeek.net/wp-content/uploads/Programmer%20co...
This is awesome, in part because the GitHub issues tracker -- while okay -- can be pretty frustrating when used at volume. If someone adds label/tag support to this client, I'll never look back.

Would Atlas be required to make that change, or can it be done from a plain-ol' text editor?
I have several German coworkers. They have (and have to carry) the national ID cards described here - they look to have been the idea behind the passport card now available from the US. There doesn't seem to be anything required for Canadians or US-ians, but I think a lot of people don't carry all their ID's all the time (unless a border-crossing is intended).

It strikes me as a reasonable argument that things should apply to all equally. Cynically, start with government officials, and then extend it to the general population once things are debugged.
> I will probably never send him an email because I don't want anyone else (much less the whole world) reading it.

I am sure he can differentiate between a personal e-mail and one sent because of your work.
Some new stuff here.

Paraphrase: "Society only encourages white, upper middle class geeks to become entrepreneurs." --John Doerr
Indeed, it's called supply and demand.

The one thing we know for sure is that there isn't a shortage of engineers, else we'd see rising real wages (real == after inflation).
Of 30 articles on the front page, only two are Apple related. Is it really that difficult not to click on an article you're not interested in?
I thought most of the Hulu stuff was VP6 and only one or two versions were H.264. Has that changed?
Ask HN: Features you'd like to see in Gmail?
Hi all,

I'm working on a mail client project related to Gmail and I'd love your input.

The question I'm asking is this:

Is there any feature you'd like to see in Gmail that is currently lacking or absent all together? The question probably applies to email clients in general as well.

Thanks
> these emails are going to be exhibits in court

And by showing how poor they case would be, hopefully avoiding expensive hostilities.
Ah. My bad. (-:
The Importance of Teams in Software Engineering
No, this is just the beginning!
Those were ugly in comparison.

And also ruined what could have been a very nice tablet platform.
You might not need mentors but I'll bet good ones help.

There's a lot to learn in so many domains and good mentoring can speed up that learning substantially.
My first thought on reading the title was that they don't want the content accessible from the iPad so that they could charge for an app.

The other reasons discussed make sense (merits aside), but I still wonder.
Slick text overlays for your Twitter profile picture
Reprints are contractual matters. Draw one up.

Email is wonderful because people don't understand that an agreement in writing doesn't have to mean ink on paper.
Based on what Max has written, I think it'd be obvious why he doesn't want to say what he does - it would potentially ruin his business.

Max has made it very clear that what he's doing isn't particularly complicated, difficult or innovative. It seems clear to me that that the value he creates is in identifying and targeting specific underexploited niches. I imagine that he has spent a lot of time and money on identifying these niches. If my assumption is correct, it'd be commercial suicide to give away almost all of the value in his business to a baying mob of smart, fast entrepreneurs.

We like openness in this community, often for very good reasons, but I think we do tend to fetishise it. I think we often forget that secrecy is the norm in business and our penchant for publishing sensitive business data is seen as very odd by the majority of businesspeople. There are often compelling business reasons to keep certain things private and I think it's unfair to infer guilt from silence.
Implementing these suggestions would limit the use of the information and thus limit the spread. Zuckerberg doesn't want people to make the choice on whether to share their data because he knows that most will decline, which limits the amount of data that can be shared with the world (and advertisers/3rd party apps).

It's much easier to make it the default and let a few people complain. The problem is, there's a limit that will eventually be reached where a lot of people complain and here we are.
We use this approach with our two-year-old. He has never had baby talk, we use the proper words for everything, and he gets multiple reading sessions per day - which he enjoys.

Health professoinals have told us that he speaks with the proficiency of a 3-4 year old, and he is noticeably more advanced than his peers. To me this is plain common sense and doesn't need a scientific paper.
Why is neilc's post getting downvoted ? - it seems a perfectly valid contribution to the discussion.
It's a bit more subtle than that. Oracle's product range is vast, and there's lots of overlap between products, and sometimes they'll have 3 different products that do the same thing! Why is this? Because Oracle builds stuff then figures out a way to sell it. That's in part why the salesforce is so hypercompetitive - they have to be just to not get drowned (it's also why Oracle has so many consulting types). It's not as free as Google perhaps - but if you can find your niche, it's not a bad company to be an engineer at.
I'd bet that F O R T U N E wasn't legally in a position to offer the excerpts for republishing.
I'm sure. We went through quite a number of sales-droids; it was rare that someone lasted more than a quarter or two. Like clockwork, toward the end of each quarter, they'd come up with more and more pointless plans to meet their quota. It was sad, really.
You are right, he is wrong. All abstractions and metaphors are leaky.

Was there something else?
This is what doesn't add up. If you want to make money, why would you post anything and risk killing the golden goose? If you want to share your wisdom or experience, why do so in a vague, watered down fashion? Why not just wait, and publish when you can back up your posts with hard facts?
Nearly all of government services are paid for by tax receipts of all kinds.

If half the country is getting paid from the tax receipts of the other half, what other definition can you use?
Tyler Durden: The things you own end up owning you.

Information can be a thing too. Sometimes information liberates us, and in other circumstances it weighs on us.

Obama is right.
"Merge, on the other hand, will attempt to create a merge commit. A merge commit is one that has two parents. In this case, the parents are the tip of the remote master and the tip of the local master."

Now what I understand from that is that "merge" (that is pull without rebase) should not be worse in any way!

In both scenarios git doesn't have less information to begin with, it doesn't start with any false assumption, it's just that without --rebase the resulting local repo is supposed to contain a bit more information.

Then why in the world is "pull --rebase" again "easy" to make the result and why is plain "pull" something that's "hard" to do for a beginner?

Now I think it must be some side effect of one or another that makes the whole story relevant?
One of the primary virtues of b-trees is that they make efficient use of disk. Even if the full data structure is too large to fit in memory, because of the large branching factor you can usually fit all the interior nodes in memory. So, in a lookup, only the final access of the leaf node requires a disk access. Of course, traversal may require additional seeks and reads.
How do you trust a name like zuckerberg? It's like a cross between sucker and iceberg, esp if you say it while drunk.
This would be beautiful. I have an ASUS EEE 901, and Chrome runs far better on it than Firefox ever could. It takes up less screen space, launches faster, and runs faster. For running a full-featured web browser with constrained resources, Chrome can't be beat.
So I'm wondering - should they keep this a summer project or just take a leave of absence from school and give this project their full attention?

100k is some serious seed money.
When I started my blog, the explanation was in one of my first posts, but let me explain again - on the one hand I am doing something that makes me quick cash. On the other hand, I am building an audience with my blog. Then I use the quick cash to build more substantial products and use the audience I built with my blog to market my new products.

That was my plan, and I'm currently executing it.
That used to be my favorite example of how Microsoft was scared of the web and how that directly hurt their customers. I'd lost track years ago and I can't believe this still isn't fixed.

For reference, it was 2003 when this feature was added to Mozilla.
The new idea that caught my eye here: Facebook could hire a firm to audit their privacy processes. They wouldn't have to give up any flexibility in their privacy policy updating practices, the review could just be of their processes, and it would provide some reassurance.

This is also the sort of thing where if one leader did it (Google, Twitter, etc.), it could basically force the others to follow.
You'd be surprised how often this gets brought up internally (I'm a Microsoft employee), but unfortunately I can't say much more other than I've heard Ballmer directly speak about reasons for and against it.

It's on everyone's mind from the top down.
Unfortunately there are two inescapable ugly facts here:

Unrestricted immigration and a wealthy welfare state are incompatible (at least for the foreseeable future where so much of the world's population isn't wealthy).

It takes more than boarder controls to restrain illegal immigration---well, the sorts of border controls that'll work for a country like the US (we aren't going to Berlin Wall our borders for many obvious reasons).
For Sale: Thousands of Hacked Twitter Accounts