skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done both a fresh install and an upgrade to 10.04 and both worked without a hitch. I'm impressed.

Ubuntu is a massive piece of software components that have to work properly on all kinds of random hardware. The release schedule that they've committed to (one major every six months) is really hard and I'm also impressed that they're sticking to it. Every release seems to replace large components with newer versions or even new codebases. The GUI changes with almost every release, but not so much that it's unrecognizable from the last release.

Of course there are bugs. There are always bugs. But you know what they say about software - you can have it secure, on time or of good quality, just pick two. They seem to have found a decent balance and keep pushing to deliver a modern OS. Kudos.
that was long, even for my tastes. I came away not really knowing what his point was at the end. I started skimming about 3/4 of the way down. I got the comparison to the russian revolution, and the web's effect on the NYT. But what of it?

I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic that "the treatment may have been a little light". Maybe I just slept too little last night.

Care to shine a spotlight on "the point"?
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My Safari printed the raw HTML source at first, but rendered the HTML upon reload.
Another interesting thing is exploring being pedantically standards compliant (breaking usefulness sometimes) versus bending standards (in the expense of encouraging bad practice)
> By your logic google can turn around next month and suddenly charge you for your gmail account, after all, you don't really have any say on the matter. Or they might decide to decrease the size of your mailbox to 10 MB.

Yes, they can. At least, they can impose a charge and immediately discontinue providing the service to you if you don't wish to pay that charge.

Pretending otherwise just perpetuates the entitlement culture I mentioned earlier, and results in lots of upset people who somehow thought a free service owed them something. At it happens, Google is probably a relatively safe bet for the foreseeable future, but certainly other services have just folded overnight or dramatically changed their terms, and people have lost whatever data/content they had stored there.

If you have valuable data that you want to keep safely or present reliably, host it yourself, or get a company with a transparent business model and enforceable terms to host it for you.
If it was ever convenient for the government, then it has happened.
Many underestimate the difference caused by Facebook using Real Names while Twitter uses @shortnames.
Non-Errors: they tell you it's wrong but actually it's standard English

"They" in the sentence above doesn't have a clear antecedent. Is my correction yet another example of a hyper-correction?
The crucial difference:

Google (original formatting):

BE CONSISTENT.

PEP8:

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Traditionally China has been the same way: Whenever somebody gives you a glass of water it is always warm so that the receiver knows that it has been boiled, and is safe to drink. It often takes foreigners a while to adjust.
Stop placing your trust in other people.

I considered committing Facebook suicide but decided against it for the primary reason that many casual friends I'm able to keep in touch with/share media with that would normally be quite difficult.

I have my privacy settings locked down, all 3rd party apps removed, and I never...ever say anything on Facebook that I would encrypt/sign in email.

I'm sure people had a similar upset over the postal service when it was first suggested! It has more to do with being mindful of your mouth and being aware of the options you have as an individual for privacy (GnuPG).
Value does not need to be something material. In the case of posterous the user gets a space to host their content, the posterous people get the 'eyeballs'.

So, consideration in both directions is present, the terms of service seal the conditions under which the agreement operates.
The full panchatantra story is here:
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Wish this was around when I was a kid.
I got it for my iMac. I like the fact that they'll come here and repair the machine on-site if necessary.
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Call me racist and you'd be wrong, but urban blacks LOVE twitter and it has become a serious part of their everyday social lives. Breakups, hookups, gang wars -- it's on Twitter, and it's real.
Ask HN: What does a college startup club need to do?
I run the Entrepreneurs Society at my college (Georgia Tech). We are rebooting the group and what is the best things we can do for our members next year?

Please suggest.
KDE, an ideological group? Really? I've found KDE people to be very pragmatic, not ideological. KDE's history and their choice of Qt also supports that, remember that FSF (there's an ideological group for ya) rejected KDE for some time, and creted Gnome to compete with it purely for ideological reasons. KDE in comparison was created because the founder felt the need for a good desktop environment for unixy systems.
Where's Linux Hater (linuxhaters.blogspot.com) when you need him?
I do, yes. I have used it a couple of times, it's worth it (to me) to have the simple peace of mind.
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I suspect you would have a hard time arguing that an unknown number of hypothetical page viewings by third parties represented significant consideration for the service, unless they were clearly able to monetize those viewings... which kind of brings us back to where we came in.
I left and advised everyone I know to do the same. Privacy was never an issue for me, but Facebook keeps changing the rules. I can't keep up.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline/
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-further-reduce...
I just use python / urllib
In principle a good idea (or just a logic step). It's kind of stupid that they haven't done that a long time ago already. It would have solved any performance, arch support, security or whatever problems and also the whole debate about openness. It would have changed the view on Adobe/Flash a lot for many people.

Although, if it happens now, I'm not really sure what Flash can offer over HTML5. They are both almost equal in features (with different concentrations though). Maybe Flash is still a bit more advanced in development about multimedia, so it maybe would have some improvements to implement something in Flash (if it is open) but I really cannot think of anything which would be interesting for me personally which cannot be done in a good/better way in HTML5.
No...those are different. One is just telling you to "be" consistent and the other is telling you not to be "foolish" about it. Much different in my mind.
This looks like the sort of thing I'd have mercilessly mocked when I was a kid.
"your 2,000 Buffett Bucks (ßß)"

Why would you turn a B into an ss?
Your version contains less information, since it's a result of taking a square of both sides of e^(i3.14...) = -1 (which is equivalent to the original), and taking a square is not injective. In other words, your version would be true also if e^(i3.14...) was equal to 1. So it's arguably less interesting then the original.
Nothing, that was sort of my point.

People are mad at Apple for shutting LaLa down when it was clear LaLa was not a capable of functioning as a profitable venture in the format the founders pivoted to.

Online music is glamorous; yet, not that profitable and few ways to differentiate your business.
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No, because I never visit the site directly. Instead, I read through an RSS reader.
There is a link to a petition in the comments, although few signatures. http://www.openplayer.net/
Even with the way Facebook used to be (I signed up in 2004), people could have still shared information about you. One wall post is all it takes.

For that matter, this could happen anywhere on the Internet. Someone could write a blog post about you, or tweet about you, or any number of ways to publish information about others. The web is increasingly becoming read/write, and Facebook privacy settings aren't going to change that.
Okay, yes, that one was just plucked from thin air. ZeroConf resolution is quicker than I recall it to be. Consider it retracted.
You think Google doesn't know that? You think Google just spent $100 million without investigating on patent problems and how they will deal with them?

Was Steve referring to VP8, its not opensource now, he is most likely only referring to existing open source codec.
It's because their incentives aren't aligned with yours. Of course they want to make it easy to share, and hard to wall yourself off.

I'm not sure how to properly align those incentives, but you can't really blame them.
You know I've noticed this. Every single time I am convinced to check out Twitter I found the great majority of the posts on trending topics to have profile pictures of black people next to them. It is definitely an interesting phenomenon.
Or just use tabs, so everyone can set the display to what they like (without actually rewriting the file).

/me hides before the flames start :)
That may say more about you as a kid than about the show.
We need a decentralized social graph. I should host and own my data not facebook or any other organization. Maybe browsers should innovate and solve this problem.
Hilarious.

I've been 100% up front about having advertising on that site as a means of making it profitable, the interesting bit here is that I enabled those ads specifically in order to produce some data, the 9 years between 2001 and the posting listed below it has been ad free.

See this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108677

It has been a lot of work and it will be a lot more work still before it is finished.

You're pretty quick to judge here just because of adult friend finder, ww.com has always had an adult component which we've tried very hard to eradicate, but since that seems to be impossible it is an excellent place to see how much money you can make with that kind of advertising.

Or would you rather have I tested that on reocities.com or so?

Posterous is doing fine without resorting to silly tricks, and they've done just that. It's a pity because they are one of the best sites in that segment today and they stand to lose a lot if they do stuff like this and not learn their lessons from it.
I honestly don't care. People shouldn't have private conversations or implicating pictures on Facebook, period.

If you don't do either of those two things, you'll be fine. No need to dramatically or publicly terminate your account.
I imagine because it's easier to identity as a currency symbol.
What about using a language immune to buffer overflow for the embedded controller? I know such languages can be made. (For example, one could implement a Smalltalk using formal methods, with an eye towards eliminating buffer overflows.) I'm not sure there currently exists a language suitable to implement such embedded controllers.

(Smallest Smalltalk image I know of was 45k. Squeak can be stripped down to ~ 350k, which is about half the size of Perl's runtime footprint in the 1990's.)
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On a side note, with google "open" about so much, why doesn't the google trends graph show absolute numbers rather than this arbitrary scale? I know they're trying to protect their true business model (search+advertising), but it would nice to share a little bit.
I answer every single security question with a nonsensical answer.

CSRs get really confused.
Interesting. Although how much of this debacle can we attribute to conscious thinking along the lines of "we know this is high risk - high reward stuff, but let us do it to a point till we are too big to fail"?

I am more inclined to think this is a structural phenomenon - something that occurred because the incentives available at each step along the way were structured in a manner that allowed this to snowball.
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Terrible. I recommend Virtual Stock Exchange as an alternative.
It's the logical thing for Adobe to do. Jobs is complaining about the proprietary platform, performance issues and all that. Now it time to turn it around.

Adobe will still sell all their tools, they'll still have legions of flash programmers, they'll run on every mobile device except the iPhone.

What's so important about keeping the flash engine closed source?
I think what the author is driving at is: when multiple programming languages exist in the same space, it's not a very effective use of your time to learn all of them.

If you know Python and Perl and you teach yourself Ruby, you probably won't learn very much. If you then teach yourself Lua, Javascript and PHP, you'll learn progressively less each time.

I was surprised to see this particular brand of negativity in the comments. I thought the post was trivial, not controversial.
Much of the talk I have been around has been that Facebook is adjusting societies mores as it concerns to what information you share about oneself and how one judges others. The result of this could be that Gen Y and Z will have a better integrated outlook on people.

I'm not sure if this will actually be the case, there could be a backlash against this (much like the backlash against the sexual revolution of the 60s/70s) or simply that "oversharing" will be done by a section of society while the rest continue to judge as we do today.

I have unfettered access to a rather large social graph so I should make some studies of this.

Anyone know some good reading on the subject to get me started?
i'll offer a snarky comment followed by a constructive one (so i hopefully get a net vote count of zero)

1.) at my college (a top 10 engineering school)

why the mention of 'top 10 engineering school'? is that relevant to your entrepreneurs society? if so, you should just name your school. perhaps start-up hackers or founders living near your school could offer some in-person help. if not, then there's no point in 'half-boasting'.

2.) Find somebody who you look up to in the entrepreneurial world, contact him/her, and figure out a way to get him/her to engage in a live discussion with your group. Ideally, it would be an in-person visit, but more likely, a group video chat could still be useful (e.g., 10 students could huddle around a webcam and ask questions for the 1 expert)
You could start a business plan (or elevator pitch) competition. Find sponsors to donate a few thousand as the prize money and get local entrepreneurs, angel investors and VCs to judge.

We do it at UNC (http://www.carolinachallenge.org/) and it does a few things:

- inspires and motivates students to start a business
- brings attention to the entrepreneurship club or business school
- provides funding to a new company (if the students choose to run with it)
And you get no syntax highlighting, no prettyfying of the response (adding linebreaks and stuff), etc.

Plus, my experience (as a novice Pythonista) trying to get http basic auth working with urllib was hell. It takes like 5 obscure lines, you have to know the "realm", which I didn't even know about before. That's way more complicated than just typing stuff into text boxes
I will if there is a better place to go. Or even a place that isn't better yet but could be made better by the early adopters.
Sort of, never joined so I guess I'm effectively joining you.
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Navigational search definitely has a lot to do with the graph. I don't think that's computer illiteracy, though. That's just how the normals use the internet ;) We techies are the fringe.

http://cdixon.org/2010/01/22/techies-and-normals/

I see the navigational search as an indication of mainstream adoption.
I've never gotten it and haven't needed it, but I'm the type to not buy any insurance if I can help it.
I think the 'don't put anything you want kept private on the internet' is, generally, a good argument. I will say though, that I do think Facebook encouraged a reasonable expectation that certain data would be 'private,' and that's since changed.
I WANT to, but I'm not either. I'm with steveklabnik in the sense that I dont share basically anything. it is tiring to have to always be updating my privacy settings to be kosher, but the in-laws want kid videos and this is my best medium. it's also handy for some other networking i always need to do for work.
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Strange, same on android but I wouldn't have thought to refresh.
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I wouldn't attribute that to race but rather to it working well for the needs of a small subset of a demographic (trend setters) and as they use it more, others join in.

It would be interesting to see twitter networks broken down by demographic and an analysis of what each group uses it for. Some people use it to convey social information ("I'm in the checkout line at Walmart"), others as a stunted form of IRC ("Oh no, you did not just say that!") and most of the people I follow use it as a substitute for email where the primary purpose is to send links around.

If anyone feels compelled to do the research, I'd love to read your findings.
Yep. I think this is what's happening. I wrote a bit about the topic on my blog a while back: http://blog.steveklabnik.com/the-burning-question-of-reputat...

If you find any other people discussing this, I'd be interested in reading, too.

Edit: It's kind of funny reading old things you've written. At the time, I felt like I might have said "asshole" one too many times when writing this post, and now I _definitely_ feel that way. Oh well, I apologize for the moderately excessive profanity.
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1: I want ACLs meet Web. I want to publish personal stuff to close friends & family, professional stuff to colleagues, and random miscellany to the world, all via the same tool. I want to be able to customize the layout of my content depending on the audience.

2: I want this without my friends and family having to learn about OpenID or having to sign up for a new account somewhere. (I don't know how to do this, I am just saying what I want. Posterous got this part right.)

3: I want to know that the investment I'm making in generating content will last. This means I need to trust that the host of my content is not going to disappear, or get bought and change its behavior radically. Alternatively, it means that I am given the ability to migrate my content to a well-behaved, API-implementing host elsewhere (including, possibly, on my own server).

Nothing I know of addresses this set of wants elegantly. Maybe because monetizing the social graph requires as much transparency from the participants as possible, at least according to current thinking. But I feel that eventually, what 'sharing on the web' means will inevitably evolve to accommodate this set of wants.

If Facebook decided to be less evil they could do ACLs-meet-web pretty easily, since they already have such a huge installed user base. In fact, they may have already done this a long time ago for all I know; back when I canceled my account, they did not have this capability.
This is really hilarious, and I think it qualifies as system hacking.
You'd probably like OpenLike: http://openlike.org/

or OpenSocial: http://www.opensocial.org/

Not that OpenSocial took off or anything. And I'm not that confident in OpenLike, either.
I never went in - i still don't understand the point of FB or others of their ilk.

If i really want to keep in touch with far-flung family, friends - i pick up the phone or drop an email. If they are important to me i will make the effort.
I also don't find the need to advertise on a daily/hourly basis what i am doing or tell people about the cool car/bike/tv/ipod etc. i bought. May be its just not for people like me.
"I don't feel that Facebook told anyone that their data would be private. Maybe I'm just naïve, or a little bit of an exhibitionist."

This was actually how Facebook got popular in the first place. The whole point was that it was more private than the other social networks out there. As the site grew, one of its big selling points was its privacy control panel, which gave you granular control over how your content was shared.

Perhaps the perception has changed in the last year or two, but I think a lot of people signed up under the impression that Facebook is a safe/private site.
That's true.

But I'm not necessarily talking about walling myself off; it should be _just as simple_ to remove an application as to add it.

Anyways, you're right, but still; if they're going to continue pursuing their own incentives and not their users, I predict they'll (eventually) lose their users.
Ah... I'd really like someone on the other end to say: "You can change your balance yourself, just use my login - the staff password is sexy_stud."
"if Goldman comes out looking bad"

Hate to break it to you, but Goldman already looks pretty bad. What people are looking for now is what kind of official version of 'bad' is going to come out of this and if there are going to be any significant repercussions.
I think Buffett was asked about paper trading once... he compared it to 'reading about sex' -- not even close to the real thing.
Facebook is highly efficient for communicating with a large number of "fringe" acquaintances.

Things you suggest - picking up the phone, dropping an email - require 1-on-1 contact. I am limited in the amount of time I can devote to 1-on-1 contact.

But I can post on Facebook and people that know me but aren't necessarily people I want to devote a lot of 1-on-1 time to - more distant relatives, old friends, etc. - can see what I want to share. And I can skim my feed and see what they want to share.

The level of time and contact is proportional to the relationship. They're not my inner circle, they're outer circle. Facebook is the single best improvement to my "outer circle" relationships ever invented. For low effort, I get to have some contact instead of no contact.

For some people, Facebook is all about the time wasting activities, but that's not the core of the experience unless you make it so.