skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that it's already the case : some articles are nofollow on HN homepage. They usually are 3 or 4 upvote at the bottom mixed with upvoted dofollow links.
Although this has been just my experience, Rails' convention over configuration means that there is minimal configuration needed to get a new app up and running. I have found that Django needs more configuration (then again I'm a Django novice). So perhaps one spends a greater proportion of the first 10% just doing config with Django.
OK, a reality check.

First, threading problems in Apache? That is something you report on a mailing list and it gets fixed fast. It is an actively developed application (-: at least last I looked, lots of years ago :-).

Second, I am a consultant that do work for a mega corporation, which builds large systems. At least thousands or developers. I don't know (and am too lazy to Google.)

I don't know because I work in a small group of developers and seldom interact with large groups of others. Most other developers I interact with in this mega corp also work in quite small groups. Big groups often seems to consist of small groups.

When I run into bugs/limitations in an open source library and write a work around (and send in the fix), the manager of my group in Big Corp is happy with me, since I fixed a problem. (His managers probably only hears from him "I'm happy with that consultant despite his humor and personality, keep him".)

Now, all this might be different in the Windows world. But when I was there a bit, ten++ years ago, you could find competent people.

(Have I been trolled?)
Perhaps, but he's not doing those things. He's simply contributing to the community, and doing it well.
I did say:

> if you don't really need it.

In your case, you obviously do.
Right. The moment Facebook starts charging me money is the moment I stop using Facebook.
There is a different solution to the reddit one, one that discourages block voting.

Perhaps there should be voting groups, essentially a cap on the population of voters.

Each time you hit a threshold, you randomly split the voters in two and then the articles you see only get the votes of the people in your group. So one site has multiple groups on the go at one time, all to stop the overwhelming nature of popularity drowning out the minority.

It stops block voting as all you can do is influence the group you are in rather than the community as a whole. There's a good chance on a big site you're not in the same group.

On the otherhand you could end up with groups that have wildly different front pages that don't suit your tastes. Perhaps to solve that there could even be something intelligent about it in that it switches you into groups with voting tendencies like your own, improving your perceived quality of the site.

Comments are a little troublesome, do you include them in the group voting or not? In one group a comment could be negative, while popular in another.

A random thought that occurred to me, I generally hate these regular meta threads of 'HN has got bad'.

Do you know what I saw today on HN? DHH and Joel Spolsky duking it out in the comments. Two of my favourite internet personalities arguing.

That rocked. HN is still the best place to go.
It'll be a hell of a thing to wake up to.
Oh dear, DNS error on that link.
Relief for wireless airwaves, iphone users rejoice
Built a RFID collection system using RFID reader plus mico Linux computer. Ok, semi-software related since I needed to write the software to control the hardware.
My first hack, I was 11 : a tape mixer with two walkmans, a linear potentiometer and a merged audio output :)

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And that, my friends, is why its risky to build your business on top of FB Graph API.

In terms of reliability, FB is not twitter, but it certainly isn't google either...
I fricken love places you get downvoted by adding to the conversation. Anyways, Buffett went far further than BG ever did. Charlie Munger played a part in his transformation from picking up cigarette butts to being the investor he is today. BG would never have invested in BYD, for example. Still, for the original poster, a 25-year-old who is currently scared of stocks, I'd still say Rule #1 is a good place to start. Security Analysis isn't exactly light reading.
There are two ways to increase revenue. One way, like your competitor is doing, is to capture a bigger market share of people looking to use your product.

The second way, is to grow your market share. Sometimes having more companies competing with each other ends up doing just that, as it doesn't just validate your niche to you, it validates it to the consumer. You may want to find ways to partner with this company, to sell yourself as one of the better choices for this industry, etc.

Put it to you this way: I'd rather be Pepsi than Rolex.
Is Google Integrating Instant Search in Chrome 8?
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A bit of a sensationalist headline: I wouldn't consider this a startup, as no actual changes have been made yet, besides availability of time.

Though I am extremely excited to see what Marco has to offer the world now that he can devote more than 10 hours a week.
"You’re not buying your car outright or it would cost the full 100,000,000$ it took to design the model. Yet, you can still sell it to a third party, modify it, and take it apart to see how it works. I really don't see why software is any different."

If I give sell you a copy of a binary file, feel free to take it apart and learn from it. Just don't expect me to give you the source. This would be the equivalent of a car company giving you the design blueprints.

You also are paying for the parts+the labor and work it took to actually create it.

Unless you are fighting for the ability to give away copies of the software for free, what's your point? You can legally sell your license to most software as long as you uninstall it from your systems.

" If you had free time and money you could probably buy software and sue to get it to work"

To get what to work?
Very nice, thanks for both.
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Impressive list, definitely. Sounds like you have yourself an interesting lady!
Ten steps backwards? How is this any different from just hosting a website with tons of mp3 files?
As an aside I notice that 'Facebook' is not a trending topic on Twitter. Seems the term must be blacklisted in some way along with all the swears and other undesirable terms.

Which seems a bit underhand by Twitter.

Edit: I notice that 'Facebook isnt working' has appeared now. I've blogged about this issue here: http://blog.dansingerman.com/post/1174729229/twitter-mostly-... (if anyone cares)
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I'm sure somebody out there told you so
If you run the dev channel version of Chrome, you can enable vertical tabs by browsing to about:labs and switching it on.
While the tweeted 'stack' only responds to pings the other work by sics in general and Adam Dunkels in particular is very interesting. I've ran their Contiki OS and uip stack on a atmega8 microcontroller that had 8 kB of Flash and 1 kB of SRAM. If you are into tiny or embedded operating systems and network stacks I highly recommend taking a look at Contiki.
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Luckily I usually mix my own with their plain $1.50 coffee.
I don't think we're uncommon. Most sites that I see plastered with Facebook embeds are publications, and I'm sure they all see results similar to ours. Facebook is RSS for the masses.
The argument between spolsky and dhh is funny but ultimately they seem to not be talking about the same thing. They are both right, but one is more right than the other.

Joel is talking about market value.

What Joel is saying is "dude, you don't understand value. Value is what people are willing to pay for. If someone - just one person - is willing to pay $100 for a millionth of a broken piece of crap, then that broken piece of crap is worth a hundred million dollars, your opinion of it notwithstanding".

He's right. Technically.

But David does not care about market value (although he tries to attack it and picturing it as not real). David is talking about intrinsic value; he's saying: "this thing has 500 million users, and that's amazing. But they don't make much money out of all those users, let alone any profit. So if we try to estimate the present value by actualizing future cash flows, we find the real price should be... well, not much".

He's also right. And I think he's fundamentally right.

During the housing bubble, some people (Peter Schiff for example, or the heroes of The Big Short) argued that the real value of housing was a multiple of rent (10-15 times rent), and that anything above that was crazy.

At the time, they were wrong -- they were very wrong; the value of a house was the market price, not the "intrinsic" price. The value of anything is always the market price.

But then suddenly there is no market. The bubble bursts and nobody's buying.

In that situation, if you're selling you don't have many options; but if you're buying how do you calculate a price at which you'd be willing to buy, and a price at which you may convince a seller to sell?

- - -

In a sellers' market (Joel's market) prices are fair because people accept them. If everyone wants a piece of Facebook at any price, just because they have to have it, then, well, the value of Facebook is infinite. It's not 33 billion dollars: it's the whole amount of dollars in the universe, plus one.

But this situation never lasts. There has to be a time when Facebook will be out of fashion, and someone will have to ask what is the intrinsic value of this thing.

The intrinsic value is hard to compute because you need to actually know how the company makes money, you need to understand its operations, its cost structure, strategy, etc. That's hard work for a public company; it's almost impossible, from the outside, for a private company.

But one thing is certain: the intrinsic value of Facebook is not infinite.

And then and there, David has a point.
Where does the rest of the world fit into this? Do other countries copy the FCC restrictions? If not, why haven't "super WiFi" devices already been built in countries that already had this spectrum open?
"It has scaled wonderfully for Evernote:"

This is the exception rather than the rule.
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Duh?

How many times have there been articles and posts about how its users are not Facebook's customers. Facebook is monetized on advertising, selling their users' personal data.
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A bit annoying that I can see the content under the semi-transparent overlay that says I need to turn on Javascript. Why do websites that don't really need JS force you to turn it on?

"JavaScript for Mobile Safari is currently turned off."
has not been a problem (yet). MVP of this feature for now, don't want to over-engineer it in the beginning.

'username and email' because you give your username to the services that integrate notifo, and the apps have a chat feature so you can send other users messages by using their username. we need the email to reach the user for things like announcements, password resets, and now notification emails.
Don't just copy what they do. You have to focus on your own development and should try to not mimic theirs. You don't know their plans and running after them will distract you from your own way. It might be just your impression that they are faster or whatever, since you know all the details in the field. Sure, you can emulate some good points at the moment, but keep focusing on an overall strategy that has no room for them, too.
Chrome actually does have a method of blocking Javascript. It might still be in the beta channel for now, but if you go to Options->Under the Hood->Content settings, there is a Javascript tab that lets you disable javascript except for whitelisted sites.
It is funny, I have looked at the code and am not a big ruby/rails person, but see obvious flaws and security holes. However, a lot of the discussion around these have been either in the "it is amateurish" bucket or the "are they expecting help from the OSS community? that is leveraging eyeballs, that may not come".

Now, while it hasn't been their primary intension (most likely), to have the OSS community (and others curious about the code) provide fixes and feed back, they sure have gotten a lot of input and advice. I also suspect they have learned quite a lot through the feedback - positive, constructive, and inflammatory. You really can't ask much more -- aside from some direct help.

While I have no plan to run my own Diaspora node, I do look forward to seeing how the code and project evolve.
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for like buttons you should iframe them (same for anything from a third-party service)

facebook uptime has been good overall, considering they doubled in size in 12 months to 550m users
It looks like my situation when I joined my current job.

My situation:

Took up a job that I was not looking for(didn't really think I would enjoy it and that I would have to 'bear it' for 18 months, but it satisfied some of my other criteria including my wanting experience in a very large company so that I could observe the culture) (the 18 month thing is the min duration at a job before one can change jobs at this company)

Opinion:

Without alluding that I am better of than if I had gone with what I wanted (project engineering/product development - in line with my previous experience) since I will never that know for a fact, it has been a great learning experience.

The things that I learnt, that I had to do at this job were completely different from what I had done previously, and exactly for that reason it has increased the breadth of my skill set in a very good way. Now, I consider them as invaluable additions in my attempts to achieve my future goals.

Companies spend massive amounts to know what the customers want, domain experts are forced to interface with customers so that they can use the feedback in designing better products or systems.

Your new role can be a treasure trove if you use this opportunity to get inside the customers' minds and give you that added edge if you were to get back into systems design later.

About the 'job responsibility' that you mentioned, this would be my suggestion for you:

By all means, use the fact that you were given responsibilities that you didn't apply for and were not looking for as a negotiating point for better assignments, favors or whatever..

But, if you really try to limit yourself to 'job responsibilities' you will be shorting yourself, closing yourself to new learning experiences that can actually enrich your knowledge base.

Dive into it and learn all you can. That is, if you really can't change the jobs and get what you want.

Good luck.
(Make lemonade when life gives you a lemon :))
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The search engine registration feature is fantastic. I do a ton of searching all day on various sites and when I ever have to use firefox, I find myself start typing en.wiki-- hitting tab and remembering that firefox still has quite a bit of friction in the search interface.
You're not a bowler, are you?
Notably, ATT opposed this move.

Hoping this is a positive for access and speed but there is a lot of ambiguity here...

Curious what everyone thinks?
Figure out what you do better than them maybe? There must be some part of your product that's better than what they have. Can you leverage that? Finding their weak points is a good thing, but you must also know what your strengths are.
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Farmville. Or it is not available in China?
In large cities there is less than 82 MHz of white space available AFAIK. Also, white space channels are 6 MHz wide while 802.11 channels are 20 MHz.
the digg effect
Of course simply stating that "Argument [from] Authority is a logical fallacy" is it's self an argument from authority, one is trusting the author to have properly researched the fallacious nature.

Petty arguments aside...

Something being logically fallacious does not make it false, all it is saying is that the premise [that top business minds that have successfully done this sort of thing in the past] does not prove the conclusion [that they know what they are doing/ will be successful now].

Of course it doesn't prove it, no more than knowing someone is Jewish male proves that they are circumcised, it just provides a strong suggestion as to the outcome.
To add to that, the post seems very personal to me, which is the part I find most distasteful. Yet, there are many many reams of comments here that are further dissecting patio11 on a personal level. It's like people don't seem to realize that patio11 is either reading these posts or soon will and it feels very much like people are speaking good/bad of him behind his back. A lot of this discussion and commentary will be linked to his real name and his future. For better or worse.

It feels like a room full of amateur psychologists diagnosing a person in public.
The software is downloading music from vKontakte (a russian Facebook clone) and maybe does some more indexing because it can display the bitrate of the songs.
vKontakte has all the music, because they provide a music locker service to their users.
Sounds like this may be just a client server of the same concept as BeeMP3, MP3hunting, etc. Someone is posting the music to various filehosting sites and the Mulve Client downloads them.
Thanks for the kind words. Just made it a little bit more clear how to show up on the procrastinator list (on the web site). You just have to tweet @finishshit if you need to be yelled at.
Don't buy Gold it's in the middle of a huge bubble right now.
Who's next to go down? downrightnow.com?
1. Network of your friends and ex-colleagues. Meet or call them to say that you are available. They or someone on their network is likely to have some work available. This is your best bet for the first gig.

2. Meet people at networking events.

3. Ask from your earlier middlemen if you can use "non-real" gigs as a reference on your website. "Together with Company X, I helped to build Y for company Z."

4. Be ready to do your first gig way below your price. And do it well. It's really valuable to have one gig under the belt.

5. Pick a niche. If you build just websites, there are several established small web development companies in your area. But if you build websites for lawyers, or build iPhone-versions of an existing websites, you have a better change to become a name that is recommended when people are looking for a right person for the job.

6. Do something small but visible as a spare-time project. It doesn't need to be on your niche, but something that other techies in your area appreciate.

The client has to have a trust that you are the right guy for the job. To get people calling you instead you calling them, you have to build that trust over the time. But you can shortcut it somewhat when people that already know you recommend you to someone.
I kinda had a hunch he would be doing this. As it stands right now, Instapaper has a greater chance of making more money than Tumblr, simply because they are selling iOS apps already and the datamining potential is greater (with Tumblr, how do you analyze different blog posts and so on?), such as finding out which blogs are most popular.
during one of the twitter hacks the blacklist application was accessed and facebook was on the list (as was google and a bunch of other brand names)
Fine here - South Africa.
Has Google jumped the innovation shark?
You have a few options:

You can contact them, offer to take them to lunch if they're local-ish, and see if there's any potential or willingness to collaborate. Maybe you each prefer to handle different aspects of the market.

Or, you can decide to not lose focus, and you can concentrate on the clients and customers and market that you have. Continue to do what you're good at doing, and keep slowly improving your product or service. So, maybe you won't be the biggest player in your market ... and maybe that's OK.

Or, you can learn to really enjoy competition. (I love it.) You can use this as a great opportunity to get free advice on areas you can improve, because all you have to do is keep an eye on what your competitor does. But, don't become defined by them. Try to figure out how to be better than them. That doesn't necessarily mean being cheaper, or shinier, or faster. That just means figuring out what your customers want, and then doing the best job of providing that that you can imagine. You have to be able to have fun competing with the other company. Being genuinely friendly with them (and helpful to them!) while trying to think up ways of putting them out of business, that sort of thing.

"Rules for Revolutionaries" is a great book that touches, in part, on handling competition. It's a quick read and fully worth it, if you have the time or inclination.
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A monorail.

500 Feet long, held two passengers, guts were a rewired electric wheelchair.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/espressobuzz/5008514139/in/set-...
Like I mentioned on Twitter, its really all the little things (like how annoying vertical bars to someone listening to it) that have been helpful. Looking forward to your articles.
I lie - just got an error on refresh.
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When Facebook Goes Down
Well, then just remove the lights and go back to cars responding to cars.
is this condoned by PG?
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Well somebody has screwed it up on their end. Only the www record is not resolving, a lot of the others are, for eg:

http://developers.facebook.com/

$ nslookup facebook.com ns1.facebook.com
Server:	ns1.facebook.com
Address:	204.74.66.132#53

Name:	facebook.com
Address: 69.63.189.11
Name:	facebook.com
Address: 69.63.181.12
Name:	facebook.com
Address: 69.63.189.16

$ nslookup www.facebook.com ns1.facebook.com
Server:	ns1.facebook.com
Address:	204.74.66.132#53

Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find www.facebook.com: No answer

(YMMV based on local cache etc.)
You're the first to mention this, it's the first thing I though. I emailed Patrick with a few SEO questions a few months back, he logged into my analytics for a looks see, and sent me two quite detailed email replies (for free) with really good ideas, but said he wouldn't be able to help me any further as he had a consulting job he was working on. I think he quoted me an hourly rate for consulting, which was not high by any means, but would provide a very nice lifestyle if he was doing it full time.

So from what I know, I think this interpretation of him living a life of hardship is likely off the mark. As for this blog post, ya, its a little weird, but I think the author wrote it with his heart in the right place, I think perhaps he just isn't fully aware of patio11's real situation and it seemed unjust to him. Yes, it is probably inappropriate it many ways, but in my estimation far from the "creepiest blog post I've ever read" (as some have said).

By the way, I also met Patrick at a HN meetup in Tokyo, super nice down to earth guy. I doubt this post will cause him nearly the anguish it seems to be causing others here.
On Linux. I don't believe all Unix OSes have that requirement.