skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AGPL's a version of the GPL that considers "running a modified version as a webapp" equivalent to what counts as "distribution" with the normal GPL. The goal is that if, say, Amazon AGPL'd their EC2 infrastructure, and you created an improved version that you then put online as your own cloud provider, you'd have to release your improvements. The normal GPL wouldn't require that, because running a service off code isn't considered "distribution" of the code (the code itself never leaves your servers). People who use the AGPL, though, want semantics roughly equivalent to what the GPL got you with fat-client apps: if someone made and sold a modified version of your GPL'd offline word processor, for example, they'd have to GPL the modifications.

Not sure it makes any difference with .js code, though, because in that case the code is being distributed, so the normal GPL would already apply.
I've been a programmer for over 10 years now. Back in 2002 I switched careers and became a deputy sheriff. I did it for 3 years before realizing that I had it pretty good in the software industry. I've been back programming now for the last 5 years and have never looked back. With that said, I just finished reading the 4 hour workweek book and am seriously considering taking my family on a 6 month travel adventure.
Take a look at www.dribbble.com and find one you like. Virtually everyone there has their Twitter id linked so you could contact them.

Another alternative is browse designers on Sortfolio: www.sortfolio.com
Agree with this point. It is the most visible among my friends that are teachers. They are incredibly scared that a student might somehow see something about them that the student's parents might not be too happy about. It's enough that a friend uploads and tags an old college picture where the teacher does a keg stand and somehow that picture ends up in a students feed.

Where Twitter is public by nature, Facebook is really inconsistent and doesn't give a clear message.
Exactly. Not to mention planning events and sharing pictures (the second one being significantly less important, but still useful). Sure there are alternatives, but they are far less convenient for everyone involved.
Here's a little trick if you're going to use em:

BODY {font-size:62.5%}

That makes 1em equal 12px, so 2em is 24px, 1.5em is 18px, etc.

You'll need to do this to get consistency across all browsers. Otherwise 1.1em could be 20px for me but 18px for you.

Here's a post that goes into much more detail: http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/
It's $4/mo.

That's about half of what I pay per month for netflix. Think about the infrastructure that goes into netflix. I get DVDs at my door (as many as I want) and they maintain a server farm full of streaming content for me to enjoy.

This is all done without ads of any kind.

...I'd say I'm getting quite a bit more utility out of netflix than I am reddit.
Same here. I manage to do my job fine without anything costing more than 140 bucks - a professional Windows SSH client that support MS CryptoAPI for my day job and VMware Workstation / Fusion are about the most expensive things I've purchased. I avoid Photoshop by using Pixelmator, which I've purchased, and exporting to PSD.
yeah, really like it.
Anybody tried using Riak post-commit hooks with elasticsearch?
It's odd that there is no mention here of the difference between maximizing revenue and maximizing profit. It says "new research suggests that the true path to maximizing profits is to combine pay-what-you-wish pricing with an appeal to charity" but makes no reference to the cost of goods sold.

If you have a product that costs you $6, selling it to 1/2% of the people at $12.95 is a whole lot more profitable than selling it to 5% at an average price of $5.33 and then giving half of the proceeds to the charity!

This doesn't make the study uninteresting, but it definitely limits the applicability to many real world products that do not have astronomical markups. It also makes it very unclear why the chose to compare pay-what-you-want to a single fixed high price, without even testing revenue for lower fixed prices.
It's causing Safari 5 to hang and pop 'slow script' warnings.
I don't think people would hate an insurance company that they thought treated them fairly.

Exactly. USAA is awesome.
Anyone have any experience with Riak they could share? Riak seems like one of the less talked about DB's in the NoSQL arena, and I'm not sure if that is because it is bad or poor marketing or what.
I was referring to leveraging an existing solution (open source or otherwise) when rolling your own solution. Not re-writing from scratch

I was involved in a start up a while back where video encoding was a tiny part of what we were doing and while it was painful to get working, I don't know if we would have committed to a monthly service.

Take my comments with a grain of salt since I'm not your target customer.
Just compare Twitter and Facebook and how different the public perception and tone of media coverage of those two services are. I don't think it can be solely attributed to a dependency problem.
61% year-over-year revenue growth: simply astounding.
Interesting facts from the press release and call:

-Still having issues with meeting the demand for iPad and iPhone 4

-iPhone 4 has lower margins than 3GS

-Apple has about $50 per share in cash (20% of current share price)

-80% of Fortune 100 are either deploying or piloting the iPhone. 50% doing same with iPad.
>By default, TrueCrypt uses hardware-accelerated AES on computers that have a processor where the Intel AES-NI instructions are available. [sans key-generating instructions]

Example supported processors include (select) ones from the i5/i7 desktop and mobile Intel processors, but anything which has that instruction set should work, apparently.

(from: "hardware acceleration" chapter, link near the top of the article)
It doesn't say that apple invented magic. Maybe they just licensed it (from Xerox?)
Shameless self-promo:

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It is quite accurate, approx. 80% of the time.
There's a very small and (for now?) inactive HN group on last.fm:

http://www.last.fm/group/Hacker+News+(Ycombinator)
I've read this before and it's an excellent diatribe. However, it's as much of a knock against Java's limitations as it is against frameworks in general. Frameworks in other languages are not nearly so onerous or convoluted.
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Perhaps, but when I was a kid I used Linux and pirated Loki games, Transgaming, proprietary OSS drivers, VMware, and other bits and pieces. I'm clean now :^)
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I worked with him at an AI-focused defense contractor in Cambridge till about a year ago (when I left). He's a pretty cool guy - what did you want to know?
No suprise for me. There were already a few posts on hacker news about Facebook's and Zuckerberg's history, and this is just the creme de la creme.
Vodpod adds badges
Pretty cool badges implementation for those interested in gaming.
Creeping Credentialism and Credential Inflation
Yahoo Begins Inserting Microsoft Search
I work for an online media company with a range of websites, with online advertising being a decent chunk of our revenue.

We have a full-time Director of Sales who comes from a background of non-advertising sales (he worked for a UK hardware distributor previously), and he is by far the most talented salesman ("salesman" makes him sound like someone who goes round knocking on doors, but I can't think of a better word), and there's no way we would have ended up in a better situation if he wasn't with us.

Obviously it depends on your situation, but I'd certainly suggest that there are many scenarios in which paying a high wage for someone who's really good at what they do will bring in more than they cost.
If this were true, people would also hate Google. Certainly search is at least as necessary as a social network. However, most people love Google.
Are people seriously supposed to download a new image every N months and go through a conversion process each time to get it to run on VMWare.
Everything they do is magical and revolutionary. Until it has problems, then it's ordinary and just like everyone else.
First of all, there's no such thing as the "life, liberty and property clause" in American law.

Second, what if my standards for raising children are similar to Josef Fritzl's? Is that a fundamental right? You'd probably say no, but now the black-and-white rule is turning gray, and we're heading back toward the maddening uncertainty that our society has developed.
Do you think most users will care about this? They'll just want to know if they can still see what their friends are doing, who has posted new photos, etc.
This guy's site stinks of affiliate marketing, or something. Endless links to some "commun.it". Hmm. He does cite his sources, though.
Can anyone tell me why this matters? In the context of "hacker" "news", I mean.
Facebook claims Ceglia remained silent for more
than six years and his claim is probably too
old to pursue.

Have any independent legal experts corroborated Facebook's statement that "his claim is too old to pursue"?
I agree with you — that's dangerous ground for them. One nitpicky thing, though: all the ads I saw for Friend Finder only mentioned that the person had used it, not that they found a particular other person through it. That's a little more palatable.
And for that the stock is up 3% after hours.
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Ryanair is the classic example of a company that is supposedly "hated" yet people use en masse nonetheless because it provides a service that people want.
I just saw a job posting for a "Senior Systems Administrator"

Education & Work Experience:
• BS Computer Science or equivalent experience

So I dug up this article.
Five hours a day at $10/hr for two years could have earned him $30,000 (5x10x600, i'm sure he was bartering during weekends too)

His car only worths $15,000.
Mozilla's "Test Pilot" user testing system uses Riak. The Mozilla Metrics blog explains why they chose Riak, with comparisons to Cassandra and HBase:

http://blog.mozilla.com/data/2010/05/18/riak-and-cassandra-a...
Yeah, I hear people (usually on Twitter, often right after proudly mentioning how rarely they use Facebook) commenting negatively about Facebook's UI, but it's pretty rare that I see somebody point to a site that does the same things and does it better.
What can we really do to "help" pedophiles, though? Chemically castrate them, like we did to homosexuals (e.g. Alan Turing)? Teach them how to go through life having desires but not acting on them (which is what 99% of them already do successfully)?
Ghosts in the Machine: Coding Languages That Never Took Off
You're right. I never noticed because I always use the mouse scroll wheel for that.
My #1 biggest Bing image search gripe is middle click doesn't work in Chrome for opening in a new tab, yet right click->open in new tab does.
The thing about idea theft is all too often the person it was stolen from wouldn't have been able to make it work in the first place. And here, it seems, is a shining case in point.
If they take the children away, yes, they get a "bounty" you might say for each child removed from a family. This is from that 1974 law mentioned in the article.

Once you understand the incentive system it all starts to make sense.
That hypothesis is stated in both the article and the source material. However, even if financial considerations are a part of it, they can't explain the full extent of the discrimination though - that 4H & Future Farmers of America count against an applicant while all other extracurriculars help.
being discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1533388
Apple is creating a market around the iPhone and iPad, and therefore changing the industry of computation, which will change the way startups (NB: this place used to be called Startup News) and hackers prioritize activities for the next few years at least.

Why do you think it doesn't matter?
It's not paranoia... it's justified. The problem is - there is no clear solution. Technology is going to advance.... and it's a fact of life that there are going to, one way or the other, be cheap, high-res, always-on recording devices all over the place, public and private, for some reason or other. I'm not talking conspiracy theory or anything here..... just that the technology is only going get cheaper and cheaper, and the world more and more networked - so we need to make some decisions as a society as to how we're gong to deal with that on all kinds of fronts - personal privacy being one.
90% of people who I know who are not tech workers don't even know what twitter is. On the other hand, they use facebook daily. They also hate facebook.
That is, if his claim has any truth to it and if he doesn't settle out of court, which might be likely to happen considering what is at stake. (cf. previous Facebook lawsuits)

I'm definitely curious about how that kind of things are handled, where a previous contract appears out of nowhere, completely changing how later contracts and investments would have happened.
In that situation, you'd probably be buying concurrent-users/-seats. As many server-farm software does (haven't seen any CPU-limited ones for a while, as what's a CPU? A core? Hyperthreaded?).
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But you can buy a bike and use it to get somewhere and back, and not need to buy a second one for the return journey just because you started at a different location.
Oh, I didn't look much at the yield-based stuff -- I think it looks worse than the lambdas, since it depends on magic exceptions and can't be used to write procedures which work for any monad. If it doesn't work, I'm not surprised.
> we don't have time to chase false reports

I wonder whether they'd start chasing false reports if somebody made a list of every DCF employee, their close friends and family, and called DCF on every single one of them.
I know I’m going against the grain here, but I’ve always been suspicious of people who claim that humans are a “social animal.” Thing is, the concept is a continuum, yet most people who say it mean it in a context like ants, bees and bonobo apes, when I happen to believe that the social behavior of lions and wolves is more apt. (Humans are best off in small family clusters, with significant periods of time in their life alone or paired off.) Humans have engaged in antisocial and asocial activities (monasteries, homesteads, and hermitage) for all of recorded history, and I resent those today who seem to delight in trying to make other gregarious like themselves.
The Technocracy Boom
Sad isn't it. And good managers want that feedback, but if there is no workplace structure for it, it's hard to obtain properly because HR isn't handling the anonymity, training on how to give the right sort of feedback and so on.

Hmmm. Maybe I should set up a surveymonkey template or something for people who are interested in doing it themselves.
There are several significant problems with TrueCrypt. Somehow, they fall into different domains, so for most users only one of them really matters.

For FOSS-champions thing is that TrueCrypt developers are sneaky and don't accept contributions, so that in practice there is little outside control, and "given enough eyeballs are bugs are shallow" doesn't quite work.

For technical users, admins and frugal geeks TrueCrypt hides several unpleasant surprises, such as the encryption being undoable without a huge spare disk.

For casual users interface is cumbersome and counter-intuitive at times. It's almost as if developers have never considered usage scenarios. You have to type your passwords more often than strictly necessary, and sometimes you have to remember to do it, with risk of losing your data.
What about a peer-to-peer solution? Every participant runs a brand server; to "spend" a token, you contact any random server and tell it that you're doing so. That notice then gets spread to every other server; a server who has received the notice won't allow the same token to be spent again, and a server that isn't "caught up" to the mesh won't be allowed to be authoritative (be a source for spend announcements.) It would basically be like Bittorrent—except the pieces are created after the torrent is, inserted into the "file" (keyspace) one at a time, and the hash mutates with every spend.
I'd vote for Cook and Ive as co-CEOs.
I completely agree with you. The problem is that 90% of the general public does not.
So are you suggesting that a fundamental property of any workable currency system is the ability for the government to track and control where every unit of currency goes and how it is used?
GitHub's really nice about hosting your stuff for free if you're an open source project. I run two mirrors there with their permission: http://github.com/openstreetmap & http://github.com/mediawiki

Both are over the space limit for free accounts.
grellas' analysis from the original article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1509512
No, that's not really correct. The call itself in to the function and the return has the added cost of two extra instructions. But the trade off is that the function body itself now has an extra register to work with, so you should see an improvement in the execution speed of the function. The compiler is in fact operating at a level where this sort of thing matters, and in the real world function execution time will dominate call and return time.
Not really my point... sort of the inverse actually. If I disappear from Facebook tomorrow, people may miss me, but even those that do know how to contact me won't think to contact me in a special way for many cases.
Hmm, I'm getting a "Invalid or expired invitation code" error - did you cap the number of new accounts?
At this point in his career, the fact that PG is investing in them is by far the single most valuable thing about any of his startups, much more valuable than their respective business models. The businesses succeed because he invests, he doesn't invest because they succeed.

That doesn't mean any business model can succeed with funding, only that once you're funded you've got a lot more flexibility to adapt your business model to the reality of the market you engage and this flexibility makes you much more likely to be successful.
It's certainly the same market, however it's still hardly a level playing field. There's social niches, even in elementary schools, that people generally avoid drifting out of, however a nomad can drift between these niches and exploit mispricings in an individual market.

It's not so much changing market, but being a supplier who looks for clients who haven't met the other suppliers in the market. It wouldn't be arbitrage, but it would be a nice way of exploiting newbies in a market. Sort of how Bestbuy profiteers off of having a well recognized names whilst being far off from having the best prices (I bought a surge protector the other day that they were selling for $20 more than the place across the street, I was smart enough to bring the other stores flyer and got 10% off extra).
Is there any real alternative?
Yes, for a kid, this was probably an extremely valuable use of his time, and he seems to have had fun doing it. He probably learned more than he would have working a retail or service job, even if he made less money per hour.

My parents are antique dealers, and my grandmother was a junk dealer who owned a thrift store. I grew up going to flea markets and garage sales, and my first business was started when I was twelve (I bought broken Commodore 64s, Apples, and TIs, among others, at garage sales and flea markets, fixed them, and sold them for four to eight times what I paid for them). I worked at my parents store and in their booths at flea markets throughout high school. I'm a ridiculously good salesperson when it comes to interacting directly with a customer, and people are often amazed when they see me in that context because I'm an introvert in nearly every other situation.

In short, having the ability to buy/sell/trade your way up from nothing is an incredibly useful skill, and it can make it possible to weather bad luck in other aspects of life.
Your job as a software developer is to prevent viri, identity theft, spam and scams.

Journalists are looking for scandals, stories that score lots of eyeballs.
I'm the other way, I consider MATLAB to be worth buying. First piece of software I paid for, actually.
Facebook, which hasn’t claimed the alleged contract with
Ceglia is a phony, has "serious questions" about its
authenticity, Simpson said.

I don't understand this statement. If you're questioning its authenticity, aren't you implying that you think it's a phony?
I like my insurance company, as far as insurance goes, my agent is pretty cool and whatnot. In the end tho, I would still rather not pay for most of the insurance I have.
Could you add a clause in any (subsequent) contracts dealing with this possibility?

If this contract is valid, Zuckerberg would have known about it ever since 2003. If his business associates knew about it, would they have dealt with the situation proactively?

If he chose not to disclose the information, maybe he'll be seen as a danger to the future prosperity of the company?
Wonder what new products they are talking about. mac pro refresh ? apple tv ? ipad with retina display ?
No ships are being boarded. No raping, pillaging or murdering is occurring. The fact that people are calling illegal sharing "piracy" speaks volumes about the RIAA, MPAA and BSA's marketing efforts over the past few decades.
www.ltsun.com has been around longer than Aloha.
depends on what you consider to be the market(s). the north and south sides of the playground might have rather different valuations of a card. if you can realize that and safely transport your goods that distance, you've got an opportunity.
This still rings true even today with JEE development...I long for the day I can write ruby for a living.
>iTunes store rev exceeded $1 billion.

For that quarter? Wow, if they keep that up for a year, they'll essentially match revenue of physical music sales[1].

Remind me... why did the music industry think no-DRM would tank them?

[1] 2008-2009 US shipment numbers: http://www.riaa.com/keystatistics.php?content_selector=2008-...
One example I’d make is getting dongle-free or CD-free copies of software. This is especially handy for laptop users to get a cracked copy so they wouldn’t risk losing something and getting left high and dry while traveling. This is considered illegal in some jurisdictions. (The DMCA here in the States is somewhat vague, since there’s an accessibility exemption, but it’s never been tested in court for this use case, AFAIK.)
Google Security Team: Rebooting Responsible Disclosure
According to the above Bloomberg Article:
Ceglia claims his alleged contract, which refers to "The Face Book" was signed about nine months before Facebook was founded, the company said in court papers.

According to the NYT from 2007:http://nyti.ms/cC0HwJ
"An e-mail message, circulated widely by Mr. Greenspan to Harvard students on Sept. 19, 2003, describes the newest feature of houseSYSTEM, as "The Face Book" an online system for quickly locating other students. The date was four months before Mr. Zuckerberg started his own site"

My question: did these two parties independently come up with an idea for "The Face Book" for Harvard and both pitched it to Zuckerberg? Seems odd at the very least on the face of things. Greenspan, if you can comment on this -- were you affiliated with Ceglia at all?