skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You guys are a bunch of pompous hacks... A careful read shows it's a regular guy's POV. What's the difference between a forum post and don't post any of my wall posts to an ordinary user???

You're missing the point. Facebook's privacy controls does not work for most people. It might work for Facebook employees or folks who are developing companies they want to sell to FB.
Does it? I couldn't get it to execute anything on my iPhone. Or delete anything I'd written for that matter.

(Not knocking it. A lot of things don't work quite right on touch-only platforms. Try Haskell doesn't work either IIRC. Just a matter of testing and debugging I'm sure.)
Lame argument. If a video rental store suddenly published a list of all the naughty videos you've ever watched, would that be OK because you opted in to their service, gave them your name etc.? It's their business, they can do whatever they want right? What if we had a private conversation and I emailed it to all your friends a month later, would you be fine with that? It's your fault for talking to me in the first place right?

Isn't it common courtesy to respect a person's privacy or at least be clear about it?
Quite so. It's sometimes easy to forget that making the world a better place can still be a very selfish act. Consider the man living in a world he hates, with all the money in the world, vs. a man living in a world he enjoys, with comparatively less individual wealth. In a very real sense the 2nd man is better off. A lot of this has become baked into the cultural DNA of the west. Cooperation pays dividends. Today's J. Average Middle-class Everyman living in the 1st world is much, much better off than very nearly every king, despot, prince, and emperor throughout history.
For fun, I dove into this recently. The only strong opinion I have is for Rails projects to ship with Cucumber as means for acceptance testing. Here are a few good Rails projects which satisfy that.

* The Rails Dev Directory: http://github.com/engineyard/rails_dev_directory/

* Spree: http://github.com/railsdog/spree

* And Gemcutter: http://github.com/qrush/gemcutter. Gemcutter also uses Gemfile.

* Fat Free CRM: http://github.com/michaeldv/fat_free_crm. It doesn't use Cucumber, but it's still good code.

If you want to get setup with Rails 3.0, check out this gist I wrote: https://gist.github.com/50be644a99ff372d5b1f
Microsoft typically only uses their patent portfolio to counter the attacks of others. It makes me wonder if Salesforce has some patents that Microsoft wants so it is trying to force Salesforce to do a cross-licensing deal.
It seems from these blurbs that the server has more logic than something most distopros have. The typical unix model is to publish an index and have each commuter determine its own updates, rather than having the server determine anything about the client.
We are interested in both recent grads and veterans, as long as you are smart, fun to be around, and passionate about Airbnb. I think a well balanced team should have people with different levels of experience.
How To Hack Nokia Firmware And Install Any Unsigned Application
I'm interested in seeing how you classified a developer in certain categories.

I just searched my Github profile (I am josegonzalez on Github, savant elsewhere) and noticed on the sidebar that it had a bunch of links to types of developers. One of them was "CakePHP Developers". How did you categorize me in this section, and will you make such methods known? I'm curious as I run CakePackages.com (http://cakepackages.com) and your algorithm is pretty accurate. Since part of that particular app is indexing CakePHP-related code AND developers, it would be nice to see how you are categorizing developer's repositories (I've been thinking of using PHP's reflection class to do categorizing for my purposes, but I want to know how to auto-find CakePHP developers themselves...)

I love the idea, and as soon as I sort out my OpenID provider (HEY ADD FOAF+SSL SUPPORT!), I'll be signing up for this service :)
Amazon S3 Introduces Reduced Redundancy Storage (2x vs 3x)
Update: Werner Vogels weighs in: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/05/amazon_s3_reduced_redundancy_storage.html
LimeWire likely doomed
Check.in - HTML5 check-ins to foursquare, Gowalla, brightkite...
I believe he was referring to those who built and those who currently maintain Wikipedia. It is likely that those individuals set out not motivated by money but for some ideology, a "dent" in the universe.

I would assume the NSA releases their Linux kernel because the license compels them to. I could be wrong. Maybe it is a trap.

Most open source and free culture advocates are _self_ motivated by a drive to give their stuff away to other people. The entire talk is about self interest, completely the other side of the planet from altruism. It sounds like you actually agree with what he is saying but are entangling entangling money and self-interest in precisely the common way this talk seeks to dismiss.
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I use Xobni a lot. The two things I find it very valuable for are:

- seeing the Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter profiles of people who email me. Adding some social context to the emails that come into my inbox is really great.

- easily finding someone's phone number. Xobni automatically extracts people's phone numbers from the emails in your inbox, so I often find that if I want to get someone's number, I'll search for their name in the Xobni pane in Outlook, and the person's number will be right there.

I haven't found any performance issues at all. Outlook for me is just as fast as it is without Xobni.
I've used beamer on occasion and think its great, albeit because I use LaTeX elsewhere:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)

If you want to go the HTML5 route, I'm guessing pulling the relevant code out of the Google presentation highlighting HTML5 features would be a good exercise; source at: http://code.google.com/p/html5-slides/

For pure wiki syntax, I'd go with Pandoc which allows conversion to both S5 and PDF from a variety of markup languages:
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Malaysia's Largest bank exposed Paul Graham Transaction back in Viaweb era
A 10% return is not unbelievable.

Between 9% and 10% per year gets you to 28e6 by 2099.

I would use 6% as a nice conservative number, but I would not sell much business as a fund management sales guy saying that.
Switch On Memory: reversing age related memory loss
Adobe CS5: Non-standard cursor to mask unresponsiveness
You need to hire Jenny Ersbak. She's done three interviews with you so far and I can only say praises about her (and I'm her boss). Email me if you'd like a reference.
Is the price less for this? It doesn't say.
Drupal is in an "unsexy" language and is perceived as slow, unwieldy and more of a CMS than a framework (at least this is my impression).
Thank you for the link. I'll study it.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing gives the new pricing.
Man, I like a lot of your comments, but sometimes it seems to me that you cross the line into being a busybody.

I'd like to be more communicative about my startup too. The reason I don't is that I'm spending all my energy working on the product. These things are hard. We are finite.

Wakemate don't owe anybody anything who hasn't given them money, and if anyone who has is unhappy, I'd be shocked if Wakemate wouldn't be eager to give them their money back. Sometimes it seems like what people are really buying with their 5 bucks or 50 or whatever is the feeling that they have the right to kick up a stink.
Very funny. Nice XSS find.
You know... it's ironic in the Alanis Morissette sense. As in, it's not.
Bat fellatio causes a scandal in academia
Why Travel Makes You Smarter
http://prezi.com/ ... most interesting thing to come to presentations in a looong time. Check out their take on Pecha-Kucha:

http://prezi.com/j9anrjn-gdwj/prezi-pecha-kucha-bw/

Danger is that you'll spend all your time futzing with the style and not put in enough substance.
I find Prezi very nice - although it doesnt meet your wiki to html5 generation critieria. http://prezi.com/
The worst graph in a decade?
I can't use Photoshop because it lacks Gimp's right-click-to-do-anything menu. Less mouse movement = faster work. If Gimp just sorted the tool palette into categories, it would quickly become ten times easier for novices, but once you learn the keyboard shortcuts (or reconfigure Gimp with Photoshop shortcuts), Gimp is as easy as Photoshop.

Usability is a separate issue from deep color support, Pantone, etc. Any traditionally "religious" discussion (Gimp vs Photoshop, Vim vs Emacs, Win vs Lin, etc.) tends to be unproductive because both sides will make broad, sweeping, inaccurate, or unprovable statements, and when one side wins a point, the other side changes the subject, instead of people honestly comparing and contrasting.

...and to avoid further derailing the conversation, I'll stop here.
didn't notice that right away, nice catch :)
Well there's the bit where a court found them to be guilty of doing just that.

Then there's the bit where as a messageboard it's long been superceded by forums and other forms of communication.

Then there's the bit where according to wikipedia over 5 terabytes a day of binaries get posted, and although I have no evidence somehow I don't think that's linux isos.

Then there's popular culture which constantly touts it as some kind of exclusive club 'the man' mustn't learn about because that way it'll stay 'safe' to use.
> From the way I look at it, they’ve done you a favor — They’ve connected you with all of your long lost friends and didn’t make you open your wallet. Isn’t that what you always wanted?

No.
Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage
Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS)
Pricing starts at 10c/GB rather than 15c/GB; hence I figured it's stored in 2 locations rather than S3's default 3 location redundancy.
Holy cow, they're good storytellers and it is packed with useful detail.
While I can see this as a valid experiment in the digital world where each additional copy doesn't cost you anything, it doesn't make much sense when each item has a cost to produce.
This isn't the '80s...

Well, I think piracy was common in the 1980s too. I was given a box full of floppy clones of Atari cartridges when I was in elementary school. Not to mention people swapping mix tapes, making wax records, ...
This article would be orders of magnitude more helpful if it had some stats on the increase in M&A's or acquisitions when compared to a similar time period last year/decade/etc. Otherwise it's not too helpful.
Is there a problem with sign-ups?

"An error occured while joining. The email you entered may have been registered already."
This should really say 'for AT&T Customers on the iPhone', since tethering on my razr worked faultlessly with my Powerbook G4.

Luckily, the very fact of having an iPhone, with a decent browser and mail, apps, Bloomberg etc., renders the laptop largely superfluous for the situations where I used to depend on tethering.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1w1/coffee_when_it_helps_when_it_hur...
Just had to get in on the hate, eh, teejae? Ah, well, I can sleep when I'm dead.
Product Management: A Case for Better Roadmaps
280 Slides is by 280 North, YC08.
Sounds like a typical case of a computer user interface, where the UI simply reflects the internal implementation of the program instead of the actual use-cases from the users' point of view.
Funny you mention video rental records... they are one of the few classes of information that has statutory privacy protection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act .

Remember kids, your privacy is only worth protecting if not having it protected would endanger the nomination of a politically influential person.
Since most people eat too much sugar (the average American eats 20 teaspoons of added sugar each day), and only about 5% of the population is vegetarian this seems common sense to me.
some people are just intensely anti-fart. actually, I'm glad they can express themselves, as infinitely holding it in could be catastrophic.
I'll assume you're being serious:

1 - Because Harvard invests in lots of things that aren't liquid and well-traded. It's hard to guess the next direction of the U.S. stock market in part because the market is very liquid and there is a lot of volume. But Harvard also invests in things like timber lands (low deal flow), private equity (low liquidity), and other things that are very hard to price. These investments aren't available to you and I unless you happen to have $50 million laying around.

2 - Because when you have $40 billion to invest, very small differences in return make a massive different in dollars. If you're investing $40,000 then the last few pennies don't matter; if you're investing $40 billion those "pennies" are scholarships for 10 more kids.

3 - Because, as the the article implies, financial planning gets a lot more complicated when you have a different time horizon than "sometime in the future." A school like Harvard has spending needs every year and can't ride out a downturn the same way that a young kid saving for retirement can. On the other side, Harvard also hopes to last forever, and can make investments that won't pay off for 50 years. Time planning gets a lot more complicated.

4 - Taxes.
The surprising science of motivation
Why Less Is More
I always wanted a bank with an API ;-)
Ah...my country stuff on HNews... Nice...
Nothing yet. Truthfully, a lot of stuff is cooking with RescueTime that I'm going to keep working on (and am genuinely excited about)... But the day to day CEO tasks are going to shift to Joe and I'm going to start thinking about my next chapter.

To the person who replied below about size-- RescueTime is still pretty small-- we haven't felt a lot of pressure to grow and have really focused on keeping the service lean (related: this is one of my favorite graphs on the interwebs-- check out #7: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/83-traffic-vs-employees ).

Thanks for all the warm wishes guys. Truly feels good!
The new convention for happy co-existence with the pared-down font engines packaged in devices like the iPhone is to use two 't' characters after all, but add a slanting accent underneath the first 't' (or whatever letter it is) to indicate that it should only be 'pronounced half'.

It's like Nastaliq's (the Urdu script) jazm character: http://users.skynet.be/hugocoolens/newurdu/specials.html

I think it's a sane move.
There are already several alternatives to facebook. For example Google's orkut.com Seems to be popular in India. All the developers I work with there use it rather than fb.
Werner Vogels' blog posting on this: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/05/amazon_s3_reduce...
Sure. Do that, and you can get hired anywhere.

1, 2, 3 are by themselves exceptional-- pretty much by definition, setting a world record in anything is unusual. Having started and sold a company means you've built something worth real money. (The Ph. D. is similar, though it has a different metric.)

[Really, it'd be a lot easier to study algorithms and graph theory and ace the interview.]
ah! I added the email address in the email field on my profile. But isn't that field visible? Or maybe that field is not shown to others. Thanks tho, I've added it to the About field.

P.S: Sent you a mail too
This is stupid. People don't use Usenet because it's too hard to use and costs money, not because people don't talk about it.
Showoff (http://github.com/schacon/showoff), Markdown > HTML/PDF.
Credit-rating agencies: The other vampires
Worst named debugger of all time. I love how everyone always has to clarify with "Not windows only" :)
Cory Doctorow: Saying information wants to be free does more harm than good
I see enough razors to shave a small army, and enough food to feed a large ant farm.
Although not exactly the right answer, but it might give some of you a few ideas.
Here's a presentation that WebkitGtk's maintainer did for GCDS 2009: http://webkitgtk.org/gcds.html

And I use Beamer (Latex) myself because of the equations...
Hi boredguy8, thanks for the detailed response. It sounds like you are a "natural" in that you didn't intentionally learn the skill, it just sort of happened by necessity because you were reading a lot. Either way it seems like you are doing a lot of the things I have read other people suggest - ie stop subvocalizing to a large degree, increase the amount of text you are seeing at each fixation (both horizontally and vertically), etc.

Do you find that you have more or less comprehension when you read this way? Is this the only way you read now or do you turn back on the subvocalizing a read slower at times? Do you read using different techniques depending on the material or how well you want to understand it?

Thanks again for the thoughtful response!
Customer base is about 2,000, about 10%-20% repeat customers.
At least your country is not "the perfect failed state" :-|

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1358503

I was prepared for a morning of Lisp hacking, product development, and email blasts when I woke up to that. FFFFUUUUU!
Does that match up with the 99.999999999% vs 99.99% durability figures? I don't know what the proper math is here.

edit: they do explicitly say "Designed to sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities"
I've heard this story, but I can't find any evidence for "regularly". (I'm also not sure what form such evidence would take.)

The highest profile case I can find is of Robert Jordan, of New London, CT, who sued for discrimination because his job application was rejected for scoring too high [sic] on the IQ test. (He lost.) (http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/09/nyregion/metro-news-briefs...)

It appeals to my own personal prejudices, but it was also 10+ years ago.
Doesn't strip script tags or anything; lots of nasty stuff you could do with this. Somebody should notify them.

https://www.maybank2u.com.my/mbb/m2u/jsp/common/mbbReceipt.j...
Still in beta, but their Tweet support is probably the best I've used so far.
A preemptive strike against Google's rumored S3 competitor?
We spent about 5 months away from sourcing adult products and attempting to carry high end bath and body products. The problem was always that the manufacturers didn't want to be sold next to adult products...

Completely absurd, considering they'd probably love to be carried by Drugstore.com (or Amazon, for that matter) that works heavily in this industry. I've even flown out to some of these places, random little towns, to meet and understand the manufacturers. They won't touch our business with a 10 foot pole...
I create and present with Keynote on iPad, works great.

Before iPad, I used http://280slides.com/ on my Thinkpad.
Prezi. I like their canvas style approach. You can really get the big picture that way. Although I kind of agree that it's easy to get lost in styling, I do think it's better that I get lost than my audience. It's a real attention-grabber, I know from experience.
"The total value of Harvard’s endowment fell nearly 30 percent in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009"
Gallery Grabbing Utility
Ah. It doesn't actually say 'bad fellatio.'
Nerdrage!
If your customers are fellow entrepreneurs, it's one way to lure them in.

If your ideology involves the encouragement of more small biz, it's a way to further your mission.

And if you do like both of those things, but don't think your customers need to know, then blog about it elsewhere. Most won't bother to search for it :)
Primus reveals 300GB NBN plans
Wait till the oil run out..
;)
Of course, Smashing always picks the best free lancers to write for them. Even then, once you get past their list articles, the provide very insightful piece of writing. Most their best stuff is in their design category. Here's a three part series on color: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/08/color-theory-for-...
I find that hard to believe.

I don't know anyone within a degree or two of separation of myself who did not do that.

Including the previous generation (I was born in the early 80s, my parents in the 50s).

You've swallowed the *AA talking points, hook, line, sinker.
Sorry, I hadn't tested that enough. Here's a revised version that works better. Tested and removed my tag from another account's photo correctly. Unfortunately the CSRF tokens are not updated in the response, so you cannot run multiple requests without retrieving new tokens (opening another page should be enough).

var loc = window.location.href.split('?')[1].split('#')[0].split('&');
var qs = {};
$jq.each(loc, function(ix, el) {
var m = el.split('='), k = m[0], v = m[1];
qs[k] = v;
});

var args = {
pid: qs.pid, // photo ID
id: qs.id, // photo owner ID
subject: Env.user, // user ID to remove
name: '', // not checked
action: 'remove',
__a: 1,
fb_dtsg: Env.fb_dtsg,
post_form_id: Env.post_form_id,
post_form_id_source: 'AsyncRequest'
};

$jq.post('/ajax/photo_tagging_ajax.php', args);

It seems to me that now it should be easy to adapt this to work on the "photos of me" page if you don't mind reloading it after each removal - $jq('a.UIPhotoGrid_PhotoLink:first'); should find the first link to a photo, and you can tokenize it instead of window.location.href on the first line.
It seems to me that the only thing wrong with "betting on the world's growth" in this way is that it's all denominated in US dollars... Maybe 20% in a gold fund like GLD to hedge against the possibility of hyperinflation?
Yandex Search Engine has beed launched
If I use this, how do I know when I need to recreate an object?
The worst graph dissection in a decade. Does he intentionally omit reading that the graph is titled "Relative consumer spending on media, by category (2008) per capita"? Does he intentionally skip reading the article while he tries to decipher what a graph says?

What a tool.
Would you mind sharing what books you've been reading ?
Good job, Russians
From Jeff Barr's blog post: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/05/new-amazon-s3-reduced-red...

"If Amazon S3 detects that an object has been lost any subsequent requests for that object will return the HTTP 405 ("Method Not Allowed") status code. Your application can then handle this error in an appropriate fashion. If the object lives elsewhere you would fetch it, put it back into S3 (using the same key), and then retry the retrieval operation. If the object was designed to be derived from other information, you would do the processing (perhaps it is an image scaling or transcoding task), put the new image back into S3 (again, using the same key), and retry the retrieval operation."
Don’t bite the shit sandwich
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Surely the worst part of this graph is it should never have been rendered as a line graph at all? Either way you put the axis, there's no progression over time and a bar graph or some other representation makes a lot more sense.
I still prefer prints