skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your thirteen-year-old sister's "node" will live exactly where her email lives: on some ISP/hosting co.

Using Diaspora should be no different than "downloading the facebook page to your computer and running it on your browser", for example.
Yes, I am. Thus the fanboyism. Although, the fanboyism preceded (and caused) me being his student.
I suspect a pure Javascript Gameboy Advance emulator is not too far off :P
Interesting article; bad title. Employed by one military to fool another. Sounds like a hacker of the first order.
I like Bertrand Russell's essay on the subject, also: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
With all the hype, I actually had really low expectations.

But their plan seems really good - do as little practical themselves, produce a good protocol, go from there.

I'm look forward to their plan.
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Do you need to run your own mail server because you have an email address?

Diaspora should have a similar model. You can use a hosted node, or one your ISP provides you when you sign up, just like they provide you with an email address.
Xkcd: Exploits of a Mom
I guess letting users run nodes presents some man-in-the-middle security issues to be solved as well.
yes, but if you prefer managing others to doing yourself, you can make that choice. Of course, that's more 'selecting the right people' than 'thinking'

Still, the point is that running a business is much more about 'making sure things get done' than it is about 'doing things' - now, quite often, the only way to reach the former is through the latter, but when things are going well, your primary job is thinking of the next move.
"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it." -- Bertrand Russell
I never thought I would see p-adic numbers applied to CS. I'm glad my number theory class wasn't a complete waste.
Yeah I know it seems a bit off but it's better then not knowing what you are leaking.

BTW the latest version also shows you what is exposed when you just hit a "like" button.
I'm still kind of holding out for a Chrome OS based netbook. I have been back and forth to the Apple store playing with the iPad and although I love the UI, I also know it's meant mostly for consumption.

I really found the keyboard awkward to use and I couldn't see myself using it as a productivity tool at all.. I wouldn't want to have to type on it for any serious length of time.
You mean self-reinforcing in this case, since saying this is going to fail makes it more likely to fail. Would you like me to lie to you? I'm good at lying.

This project is going to wildly succeed because it solves a major pain point for millions of people. They will deliver technically impressive software, like most people right out of school do. It will naturally take less than three months.

It will be so easy to host your own web server that my 52 year old aunt will not even need to ask my 14 year old cousin to do it, but my 14 year old cousin will do it anyway, because this will be so cool it will be like a boy band had a slumber party where they gave away free iPods and icecream.

We will see user adoption curves more impressive than anything previously because users, having gotten a taste of viral engagement mechanisms over the last several years, are screaming "Send me more invites!!!" and companies which control viral channels are making them more open with each passing week.

The New York Times will continue championing this particular company, because they are a respected news organization in it for the long haul and not desperate to prove that they get this social media thing. Indeed, their embrace of Diaspora will be as enduring as their embrace of Second Life and Twitter.

People will flock to pay for social networking, because their biggest issue with Facebook was that it was so "#$'("# free. The open source community, which is overwhelmingly charity by 20-something hipsters and not work product at multi-billion dollar technology firms, will embrace this product more than they have Mozilla and Linux precisely because it solves no need for any corporation anywhere.
Agreed. I've been guilty of spending numerous hours going through his videos and (re)learning a great deal in the process.

Someone should translate his videos into other languages and spread the wealth of knowledge he helps create.
Google Translate says:

Chinese compatriots it?

New report, my English is not very good, will there a Chinese friend?
Thanks for the heads up on FireQuery. I've known of its existence but never really took a peek until now. It looks extremely useful for jQuery development.

Sometimes I remember what web development was like sans Firebug/Fire*. What a nightmare.
I think that's probably true of a bunch of "thinking about existence/meaning/etc." occupations. My sense is that biographies in line with those of Van Gogh, Goya, Kafka, Vonnegut, etc. are quite overrepresented among both novelists and painters, for example.
It's not Jason Fried it's Jason AFRAID.

Because sooner than later we will see plug-ins that enable distributed project management.

As these guys say, we don't need a centralized hub for social network. We also don't need one for projects (Basecamp).

It's the Campfire story again: Than he had an echo against "evil" Google. but what can he say to a few nice guys going open source?
If Mr. Fried didn't roll his campaign against google free chat client, we would have a free one instead of paying for campfire.
BUT HE WILL USE HIS ALLEGED "GREATER GOOD" VOICE TO ELIMINATE ANY COMPETITION.
有, 但是这里不是HN中文版
> Everything that Facebook has done to "decrease" the privacy level of its userbase could have been done by a third-party by collecting the login details of a few not-particularly-privacy-conscious[1] volunteers and then spidering Facebook from their viewpoints, re-building its social graph within their own servers.

Saying that something 'could have been done by someone else' does not prove the 'right-ness' or 'wrong-ness' of it.
More like:
Any Chinese "friends"?

New guy here, my English is not very good, anybody here speak Chinese?
Looks nice but SocNodes doesn't solve the problem of limiting information to friends.

It's a nice simple idea though, and perhaps it could be one layer of a solution.
Wow, can't believe I missed out on this. Can I still give them my 5 dollars? ;)
The author misses a trick (or I missed a mention of it). Filtering out by the client used by the third party helps a lot. You can immediately filter out tweets coming automatically or semi-automatically from systems like Gowalla, Foursquare, blip.fm, Sharefeed, last.fm, auto news posting services, or even just through the Twitter API. Anyone else who posts crap in a manual, deliberate way should just be unfollowed.
A very good introduction! I actually haven't looked much at CouchDB, how is it scalability wise? I first had a look at Cassandra, didn't completely like what I saw so I've been looking more into MongoDB.
A Diaspora project management plug-in is a Basecamp killer, and J. Fried (=J. Afraid) knows it.
What is Facebook? A central hub. What is Basecamp? a central hub.

He did succeed to kill google chat client to make us pay for Campfire. But it was easy PR against "evil" Google. This time it will not work.
All I meant by that was that Facebook isn't actually doing anything now; they're just demonstrating the effects of something they did long ago, when they first asked people to pick out their friends and store that list as part of their profiles. At that moment, everything became public, because a social network was formed.

And you skipped over the point I made above—whether or not Facebook did anything wrong (let's say it did, so we can stop arguing), that is immaterial as long as social networks exist on the Internet, because they all do exactly the same thing, just not as visibly or as quickly. If you don't like what Facebook is doing, you need to face up to the fact that you just don't like putting your social network online, and accept that nothing—not a Diaspora, or a private mailing list, or anything else—will ever plug the hole that has been made in "privacy" by the advent of digital information.
Marc Andreessen: A Panorama of Venture Capital and Beyond
What do you think about Marc's point that there are products that become companies, and there are companies that come up with a product, esp. the HP example? Can you start a viable company today just focusing on a field without any product in mind?
Ask HN: Karma meter
Is there a way to turn off my karma meter? This might sound silly, but it makes me hesitate about commenting sometimes because it feels like i'm going to be graded. I can still be voted up, down, or sideways, I just don't want to keep track of it.
That really seems like a stretch, whatever you think about Diaspora, every point he made is absolutely right. They have no code, they have 000's of people watching them and they have 4000+ people who believe they should have a say in the development process.
If someone asked me up front which I would prefer to work with, 200k in money and 4000+ who all have a 'right' to be involved and their hand on a different piece of the elephant, or neither of the above....The answer would be easy.
That equation would be hugely different if I had released something already and those 4000+ people had their expectations driven by that....
I was actually referring to the IDE that one has to use to write ActionScript code for Flash. Not a very intuitive IDE compared to Eclipse, Aptana Studio, VisualStudio, etc.
Ask HN: Diaspora Seeds, Proliferation and Cost
There appear to be two main options for Diaspora: hosting your own seed or renting a server.

Obviously not everyone will be able to host their own seed, for a variety of reasons. That means to truly penetrate the "social sphere" enough to reach a tipping point of mass adoption many people with have rent a server. Like with any other use of a server, there are operating costs that must be taken into account.

My question(s) is(are): Among those who choose to rent a seed (or lack the resources to host their own) will there be a willingness to pay for the use of this seed?

If there is a flat rental cost, will that ultimately deter so many people that a tipping point can't be reached?

Is there a privacy-centric mode of generating income that will effectively have these seeds pay for themselves?

There seems to be a fine balancing act between whether the added privacy and benefits of decentralization will outweigh the costs of renting a seed to the point of which a mass-adoption can still take place. But where is that middle ground?

What are your thoughts?
Haha, that's kind of funny because I was just thinking how MMO-like/addictive this karma meter thing is. And yes, it's kind of stressful too.
but rather that I don't think any static FAQ, no matter how comprehensive, can replace the need for student–teacher interaction.

Good thing you pointed it out. I failed to explain myself better how I wanted the FAQ to work. It shouldn't be static, but rather the quality of the FAQ will get better as students/educators suggests ways to improve/amend existing questions and will be updated accordingly (think moderated wiki). Any single question doesn't need to have one answer, but can have different take on the same question from different people. It can be in the form of videos or Texts. As for the educational resources itself (which will be different from the FAQ) will be made by educators in their respective fields.

Thats the way I was thinking about it, but not the way it came out. Regardless, I agree with you that in-person education experience is unique that can-not be replaces by other means (as far as experience is concerned), but the quality can definitely be improved, when the education resources is fine-tuned for the experience of learning as opposed to the experience of an education institute and everything that comes with it.

I am serious about this and I want this to happen, I am currently working on proposals and fine-tuning my ideas/plans of action to get some funds going to start working on something rudimentary and get feedback on it. Keep your eyes open for me :).
The species has built a lot of computers that didn't work, spaceships that blew up, and skyscrapers that have fallen down.
I'd say develop it yourself.

It only took about a day in rails.

- make a migration to add "referrer_id" to users table

- put a before filter in application_controller to watch for a special param used in affiliate codes, if it exists store in session

- when new users sign up set their referrer_id out of the session if it exists

- whenever the "action" is taken by the user that triggers a referral commission, put this is pending transactions

- use a monthly cron job and paypal gem to send affiliate commission each month

That was the gist anyway.
HTML: Still not all it's cracked up to be
Ever heard of Microsoft Office?

This page has a link to Andrew Shulman's testimony;
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20070208195343...

"The source code for Windows XP and Microsoft Office provide additional bases for opinion #21 in my June 2, 2006 technical expert report (“Microsoft Office uses (and copies) undocumented DirectUI APIs”)."

Andrew Schulman, btw Author of "Unauthorized Windows 95" - IE, foremost expert on Windows Internals outside of Microsoft...
I think it's not.
It's not the "product". On the Campfire issue he fought against Google's fully baked and ready product. Since he can't stick "evil" to these guys, he took another PR strategy TO SPOIL FURTHER MONEY IN.

As a "central hub" owner he has a strong interest here.

Diaspora barrier will be for non geeks, to install and configure the "nodes". But since many of his customers are geeks, they will have no trouble to switch.
Nice domain.

Critique:

1. By default share publicly, rather than privately, and build a community.

2. Start small and focussed by segmenting your market clearly. e.g. Howl is like Delicious but for Extreme Sports Fans.

3. The home page gives me very little to action on. It is said that there are 100 viewers for every 1 content creator. Without some focussed examples of what kind of community it is, it is difficult to tell whether the site will be relevant to me or not. For example, HackerNews is a link blog, but imagine your reaction if the front page is a bunch of unimaginative links.
What a Facebook killer needs most, is users. Diaspora has none, as it doesn't yet exist.

There already are other social networks that have plenty of users, but not enough to be a Facebook killer: Orkut (remember that? Apparently still big in Brazil, currently 100 million active users worldwide according to Wikipedia) and NetLog (big in Europe at 65 million users).

No matter how much traction Diaspora gets, I think it cannot possibly beat those.
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Is Mark Zuckerberg the Howard Roark of the web?
No, it is the pressure that would kill a human before decompression ever became a factor. Below ~2000ft, even hydrogen/helium/oxygen breathing gas mixes become so dense and viscous that human lungs aren't strong enough to breathe properly.

http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/product.jsp?sid=&isbn=9...
More likely it was intentionally fabricated with without regard to facts. Reread the article which describes wikipedia has having already internally collapsed into war: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/05/14/exclusive-shake-wi...

Especially considering that FOX News called wikipedia's corporate donors and told them they were funding the distribution of child porn, I'd put the odds at 75% that this was a deliberate media hit by someone with a vested interest in wikipedia's demise.
Newspaper economics: online and offline
I love OCW so much I built http://www.ocwsearch.com/ . MIT features.
good question. i wonder if hn is the smartest place on the internet.
I disagree here. Facebook did a few things incrementally better than its prior contemporaries. Remember when Friendster and MySpace had more users than Facebook? Facebook won social networking because it essentially fixed a few problems that plagued its competitors. MySpace was/is a mess. And Friendster was too self-serious (forcing you to post a personal photo instead of an avatar) and restrictive. And both MySpace and Friendster got privacy wrong from the get go. One of Facebook's earliest appeals was the privacy it allowed users.
"If you’re outraged by accidental breaches, you’d better sit down"
Ben Adida on the recent privacy breach disclosures:

"If you’re shocked, outraged, writing lengthy TechCrunch posts about these developments, you probably don’t understand computer security very well, and you’d better sit down with a stiff drink, because these issues are the tip of the iceberg."
Ben Adida on the recent privacy breach disclosures:

"If you’re shocked, outraged, writing lengthy TechCrunch posts about these developments, you probably don’t understand computer security very well, and you’d better sit down with a stiff drink, because these issues are the tip of the iceberg."
It is amazing how different everyone looks from one another. It can be pretty tough to pick where someone is from these days. Everyone's dress seems so distinctive.
I totally agree and was just contemplating the same topic. Spooky.

What gets me is even some of Twitter's own employees don't know how to use the service in a 100% useful manner. And you would be surprised who....Tweets like: "He said that?" or "Can't wait to see it" without references are GARBAGE. I also don't care that you are currently eating or thinking, in general, without learning SOMETHING in the process. They don't teach that at the company? In this age of videos, location-based tagging and pics, we have the power to do so much more than just talk.

Finally, I think this is an author controlled issue. We have the power to dictate what we write/ tweet and should respect our audience for listening/ following us. Unless we don't understand the tool, then it's a training problem.

I, @super74, try to direct message any personal or conversational tweets to only those who know what I'm talking about. My public messages tend to lean towards disseminating information, sharing creative ideas and offering my opinion on public topics.

Although I'm not perfect and may err from time to time, I have occasionally looked back and have been somewhat pleased with the bulk of my tweets.
Great name ... but I can't see why I would use howl.com if I already use facebook, twitter or tumblr.

First, you need to work on what makes you distinct. Focus on the differentiation. If sharing links is going to be your core competitive difference, make is easy to use, make it mobile friendly. What would be interesting if is you could link duplicated urls that multiple users post into a single unique entry and tie all the comments together, or automatically dive down to the original source if the submitted link is on reddit or digg.

Secondly, build your monetization engine into place early. I don't see how you'd make money, but I trust you have a plan. Build that into the mechanism before you get sidetracked by features.

I'm a failed entrepreneur from the first .com bubble and I just got my MBA ... I wish I knew then what I know now ...

Good luck! I hope all the best for you guys!
Location-based Booyah's MyTown Raises $20m, expects 6m users by end of summer
There's no reason code using this technique needs to be buggy. You've got a list of things to test for right there.
It seems incredible to me that someone would consider funding a profit-making venture to be an act of philanthropy.
The Unix machine have been packaged in such a way that the user don't know it or care what it is running on. Everyone knows how to buy something.

That seems rather different here where users are asked to do things that in them selves are not obvious. The users don't know how to download a node and the idea that someone you trust is going to run the node for you just isn't a very convincing idea IMHO.
Its sounds odd but I sometimes find it a little upsetting looking at old photos for what might be an unusual reason. I want to warn the people in them about stuff. For example when I got to the photo taken in Cambodia all I could think was "the poor bastards alive then had no idea the nightmare that was waiting for them and their children" meaning what happened under Khmer Rouge.

The annoying one way nature of time bothers me. lol. think I might be going crazy.
I agree with more-or-less with Jason Fried. It's easier to succeed when expectations are low and you exceed expectations. I guess the more money you raise, the more the expectations are, and hence it's difficult to exceed them.

Then again, it's not Diaspora guys' fault that the press seem to have taken to them as saviours of the world.

On a related note, @jacobian has predicted Diaspora to be the new Chandler :) http://twitter.com/jacobian/status/14120142558
I hope we're really close to a Responsibility tipping point in regards to online security, by which I mean a general acceptance by internet users that they, not the site they visit, must take primary responsibility for their online security.

This doesn't remove any responsibility from my bank, paypal, Facebook etc. But until the average person hears about a potential breach of their privacy and thinks "What can I do differently to prevent this happening again?" then breaches are going to be fodder for sensational journalism and outraged users... neither of which helps solve the problem.

I will make a division between some core security - like my credit card details on Amazon - and peripheral security - like my photos on Facebook. This latter type will tip over first, and I hope it's soon.
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I guess "successful" has nothing to do with "honesty".
I don't think that one state having a conservative bias instead of a liberal bias in it's public schools is going to cause the downfall of anyone's education. The changes mentioned in the article aren't even that extreme, particularly when compared to the socialist propaganda that was present in the high schools and college I attended.
Agreed.
They can get more. The whole idea of this nasty post is to say 170K is enough. They should reach a decent first seed round cap
Time Warner Cable tries to put brakes on massive piracy case
What's on their minds is that they live in a country that has strayed from the principles that they know to be right and true, and that the odds are against them, but they must band together and fight for the salvation of their children and country.

Psychologically, this is an extremely powerful way of thinking. There are no gray areas, no moral ambiguities, no questions for which there aren't clear answers. Everything is sharp and crystal clear to them, which is why nobody will ever, ever be able to change their minds about all this.

And those badly educated batch of people? Like you said, they are our future politicians, lawmakers, officers, engineers, and even scientists. They aren't going to pay any price; we will.
Heh.

The greatest trick the republicans ever pulled was convincing people that everything has a liberal bias.
Mark Pilgrim's was interesting.
I also liked Richard Stallman's and Jason Rohrer.

They were nice departures from the standard '15" macbook pro connected to a 30" inch cinema display'

I know that The Setup aims to interview interesting people and not interesting setups, but these three were the ones I can remember that were different.
How an Indian Entrepreneur Learned to Love Paying Bribes
This is right on the money.