skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it was next to my apartment building I'd want the drones to work during the day and if it was next to my office I'd want the drones to work at night. Most homes are not right next to office buildings. I wouldn't mind if the drones were a couple blocks away though.
As best I can see, their rigorous identity verification process is Facebook.
I decided to go to Medellin for NYE, and then work from Bogota for a few weeks to get away from the Boston cold.

Guess how Colombians all stay in contact? Facebook.

No one here knows what IM is. They just know Facebook Chat and MSN.

The scale of Facebook's domination among under 30's is massive, and global. Nothing shitty about it.
Rather than creating a website to kvetch about the contents of one domain, I suggest you and your collaborators' time is better spent curating a set of resources that teach what you consider valid information that can be used by people wanting to get started in web development (it would also be far more beneficial to the web development community).

That one collaboratively edited directory of peer-reviewed resources would create a one-stop-shop for people looking for the best material on a specific topic or niche. By web developers for web developers.

Put those collection of related resources on MDC if you must (you say it's editable by anyone, so all your collaborators can participate at will, and have an aged and already authority-status starting point right on your doorstep).

One of the hardest things is to find resources for the beginner that teaches them high quality web development from scratch. Create a map for others and lead the way.

That I feel is a far more constructive approach than this angst-ridden site you've spawned. And it has a more immediate benefit of linking to existing and already indexed material on the web, and add/aggregate more authority.

A link from the zeldmans, heilmanns, sharps & blawsons and malarkey's of the web development community, and the reach they all have to a multitude of web developers can quickly give a high-quality curated resource a starting boost towards ranking the right material higher.

Since if all your collaborators are already heavily involved in creating web materials covering the subjects W3schools teaches, then there's already a set of authoritative sites existing. Those can all point to your master curation site, and consequently pass on existing google juice to those materials that exist and are fit for purpose.

Taking off W3schools from Google only promotes result number 2 up to the first place - is that really an improvement?
The total amount of attention being paid to news is not constant.

This is an interesting rhetorical trick: present a slice of the pie as the entire pie, so that when the size of that slice grows, you can claim that the pie was actually infinite to begin with! Nice.

The difference between wealth and attention (as your carefully selected example shows that you actually already know...) is that you can create wealth without taking decreasing anyone else's wealth. Three people on a desert island can become wealthier all at once. However, there are only a certain number of things anyone can "pay attention to" at once, because paying attention to something necessarily means decreasing attention to something else.

the total amount of attention would not be constant.

If you limit yourself only to the slice of total attention you have called "news", then you'd be right. But most of the time I'm paying attention to things other than news. Some of those other things include celebrities, even.

hence your confusion

I believe you misspelled "conclusion", here. :) Confusion only arises if you start from the assumption that attention paid to online games, programming, blogs, texting someone, getting a drink, or going for a drive, isn't attention at all, because it's not narrowly focused on news.
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it will rank as one of the best stock opportunities available today — akin to buying Apple stock just before the release of the iPod

Just for laughs:

AAPL in 2001: ~$25 per share

AAPL today: $350 per share

Increase in value: 1400%

Facebook market cap today: $50B

Ethan's projected facebook market cap: $700B

Current largest US public company in market cap: XOM @ $380B

So yeah, he's only projecting facebook to become twice as valuable as the most valuable US company is currently.
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This is a great idea - any plans for 3d plots?
This point of view is not very helpful. Google's topline revenue last year --- for one year --- exceeds 3/4 of the value of all currently held silver. Does it sound silly that an Internet search engine is worth more (by a huge amount) than all that silver? It's hard to argue with cash flow.

At $50bn, Facebook is valued at 1/4 of what the market currently values Google at. They currently do $2bn/yr in revenue, or ~6% of the world's silver, each year.

The silver thing is an interesting benchmark, but you can't draw conclusions from it.
I'd like to sell you some silver. Let's get on the phone soon.
I can't help but think this requires that only 'rock star' programmers be on the team. 1 bad apple would start to throw everything off, and a few could derail it.

It also requires that everyone have the same vision, or you end up with a very fragmented product, see as how you allow each developer to decide what to work on.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to work at a company that is succeeding at this... I just can't imagine how to keep it succeeding.

Seeing as how it requires the developers to act like they have a stake in the company, perhaps a better title would have been: Driven Developer-Driven Development
"Then I will publish a ``reader's digest'' edition of Volumes 1--5, condensing the most important material into a single book. "

-- After he finishes vol 4, and re-revises 1-3 again, then 5, and ... perfectionism is nice and all but, he's mortal - I hope he takes that into account.
DHS presentation on security of control systems (Industrial Security) [pdf]
How long do your mistakes bother you?
My first business was buying computers at garage sales and flea markets, fixing them, and reselling them. I've owned most of the personal computer gear in those ads, and a lot of interesting stuff not covered (like the original Lisa, the Colecovision Adam with cassette storage that was as fast as most floppy disk drives of the time, the huge TI99/4a expansion chassis with 8 slots).

Anyone who found this interesting should plan a trip to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I can spend all day just wandering through the collections, and listening to the docents (who are some of the same guys who built the technology we take for granted today) telling stories. I learn something new every time I visit, and I've been a nerd involved deeply in this stuff for ~30 years.
The value of silver fluctuates. If you cornered the world's silver market, it would get a lot pricier. But right now, anyone who charged you for silver at some hypothetical Facebook-parity valuation would get their lunch eaten by everyone else who will sell you silver at its market price.

Facebook, on the other hand, is not substitutable. There exists no comparable social network (with a comparable number of active users) from which you can buy targeted ads, or game users, or whatever other product Facebook launches down the road.
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While it is an obvious question, it kind of resonated with me because of a couple of car crashes Ive had recently. Nothing major, just really really stupid ones and both my fault. Both as a result of not checking my surroundings clearly and carefully. I mean they were both different situations but still!
TL;DR:

[Getting China to adopt a patent system in harmony with Western systems will lead to A LOT of frivolousness as the system already has bad incentives / outcomes.

Also, patents should be removed for rapidly changing industries (i.e. software), but should be retained for long term plays (bio-tech, industrial processes, etc.)]

I'll completely agree that China shouldn't follow our lead, and that we should remove software patents. However, I'd go further and say that we probably would have faster moving bio-tech, etc. industries if we forced more competition by NOT GRANTING them government monopolies to commercialize a technology (i.e. patent).
If she really believes she can get 800 downloads a week with no promotion, most of your objections there kind of disappear. (The typesetters, editors and translators are the only ones that continue to matter, and those can be hired for fairly cheap — take a look at http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/ for a real ebook author's take on the matter.)
Yes. Each renter goes through a real-time driver record check before their first rental.
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I see things like what you say, that "they just need to start trying" and it makes it seem like if I said "I could just start training to be an athlete, and in a couple of years I'd probably win [whatever]". They haven't really done anything until they actually... do something.
ayup. I've looked into renting out small ARM servers rather than VPSs, and the biggest thing stopping me is that the ram is not socketed, and all the boards I can get are made for client boxes (e.g. not enough ram, and too much video hardware driving up the cost.) I mean, in the hosting industry, we expect to pay off our hardware in something like four months, and unless you are a lot better at marketing than I am, it's difficult to charge a whole lot more than $20 per gigabyte of ram per month, so the total cost for the unit (including cpu and disk) has to be around $80 for every gigabyte of ram or so. right now, the panda board looks like the best choice, and even before disk you are looking at almost $200 for something with a power supply, etc..

Also, nobody makes a reasonable power backplane (so I can power 10 or what have you of these little pandaboards off one power supply.)

If these things took DIMMs or the like, the ram problem would be solved. (Really, I'd want ecc, which isn't usually available in SODIMMs, but I bet there are enough people who don't care to sell such a service even without ECC.)

But for now, virtualizing larger servers is a better idea. If you are that concerned about others stepping on you, it's possible to dedicate a disk to a particular virtual server alone; that would solve the biggest resource contention problems that come with virtualization.
One might speculate that they're working on an Armada XP-powered version.
Good to know. A suggestion for your service, since you can access the driver records- give renters the option to refuse service to someone with X points on their licence. I know at least for me, I'd be much more comfortable knowing whoever I'm renting to has not been convicted of major moving violations.
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You are relying a great deal on paypal approving you. I hope you have a backup plan.
This was a lunch keynote at codemash.org on January 14th, 2011, although it may not have been the first time it was given.

For any HN'ers in the midwest, CodeMash is an awesome polygot conference that takes place January every year in Sandusky, Ohio. I've never been at any other conference where you meet experts in Python, Ruby, Haskel, and other languages in the same session.
I am also moving, lets connect
That has nothing to do with the core, so there's no reason why an ARM server couldn't support the same capacity.
Keep in mind that although 60% of our AIR client users are on Windows, 0% of the teams use Windows exclusively. Targeting a single OS would be a fatal decision for us.
you don't care about a dependencies of an non-existing target. you have to run it anyway. and once you run it at least once you will have the full set of its dependencies for the next time you run your build.
That is just what I would do, you gotta follow your gut!
Anecdotally, something like 30% of my friends list (not particularly tech-savvy skewed) probably share their phone numbers.

It's also one of the most useful features of the whole site, if I'm out somewhere and realise I suddenly need to call someone whose number I can grab from Facebook.
At least for the third world orthopedists who get to treat the kids' knees.
Google to fight Spanish demands to remove 'libelous' links
I want to know when the BitTorrent market for eBooks becomes as well populated as the one for MP3s. I hope soon!
Disclosure: I was a HackNY fellow last summer.

I'm all for more programs like this, but I don't think VCs should be running them. HackNY.org is a similar program in NYC. The key difference is that it's a non-profit run by educators and hackers with no commercial interests. HackNY is truly paying it forward.
You are so wrong I can't even begin to argue with you about this.
I wonder if "managed" cloud hosting services like Heroku (Ruby), Azure/AppHarbor (.NET) and AppEngine (Python/Java) could deploy ARM-based data centers to save power, since their platforms are basically processor-agnostic.
Why should it matter? Both english and swedish work well in the "swedish" google search box in firefox. That's the point- the Russian algo and redirection to it is simply not there yet.
For the first problem, "1. Tidy boxes":

(1) For each color, put all the cubes of that color in their own pile. So, get 10 piles, and in each pile all the cubes have the same color.

(2) Arrange these piles in ascending order from left to right on the number of cubes in each pile. So, a color with the fewest cubes is on the left, and a color with the most cubes is on the right.

(3) If the pile on the left has 10 cubes, then pack each pile in its own box, and we are done.

(4) Else take cubes from the pile on the right and put them on the pile on the left until the pile on the left has 10 cubes.

(5) Go to step (2)

This problem and solution generalize immediately to, for positive integers m and n, n colors, n boxes, and (m)(n) cubes.

Or, if we have n factories where each factory produces cubes of just one color and have n warehouses each of which needs m cubes, and the total number of cubes produced is (m)(n), then it is possible to ship the cubes from the factories to the warehouses so that each warehouse gets cubes of at most two colors. So, there is connection with the 'transportation problem'.

That problem is a special case of least cost capacitated network flows which is a linear programming problem with some special properties. In particular if all the capacities are integers and have an initial flow with all integers, then the simplex algorithm will find a least cost solution with integer flows. So, here is a way to integer linear programming for no extra effort. The general case of integer linear programming is in NP-complete. The simple algorithm on such networks is closely related to spanning trees.
oh, let me clarify. I dont think of you or your writing; or this episode of NewsTilt to be "what-a-moron-sense". Clearly, you are a very smart guy -(and thats just based on your writing) You've clearly outlined why NewsTilt didnt work. And its not right to call someone a Moron for failing.

To expand my sentiments:

1) Dont be arrogant. <-- Your post is a good piece that reminds me not to be arrogant. ~You are a smart guy and very articulate -but your post came off as very arrogant. there were people commenting on your post and your response to their replys came off defensive.

2) People that believe in you could be wrong too. <-YC got it wrong this time with backing NewsTilt. Smart guys get it wrong too. and, thats ok. we move on and get better*

3) You dont know it all <-- Thats pretty clear! Cuz people dont know it all; and when people commented on your post, it felt/read like you were trying to convince people how smart you are. we already know you are smart

4) Apologies need to be sincere <-- I enjoyed your post because it was clearly written and gave glimpse to the thought processes and circumstances that led to the closure of NewsTilt. However, it felt like it was an apology post without the apology. I felt like the post should have words -sorry- in quotations. Just felt insincere heck- even your apology to Matt of Wordpress about wordpress was lackluster- you even footnooted that wordpress sucks at the very end (very funny btw)

5) Man up! <-- sometimes, I guys just gotta say: "Whoa, guys- I screwed up!". You placed blame everywhere from the honeymoon, to choosing the wrong platform. --You couldve just said "I screwed up" at the end of the post.

hey, but Im not here to flog you; or belabor the point. it was a good post and I read it frequently. Lastly, the ONE THING that IS important to note about why you guys failed is: You gave up* Three months is a very short amount of time. (and when I say "you" i mean NewsTilt and not You* personally) Everything else is just noise; the bottom line is: Never give up.
does it mean they concentrate on the Russian market? Hardly.
You should try our app. AIR is kind of crappy by default but we've put a lot of work into making it feel native. Lots of people love it:

http://twitter.com/#!/mtamizi/status/24547982921703424
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I don't have a Facebook account so I may not be the best person to judge, but it seems like whether "most of Facebook's users would care or understand about the granular control" might not be the best basis for making a decision. In fact, I will go ahead and say that I disagree strongly that Facebook should base privacy control decisions on what most users want.

Most users of any service or product won't fully understand every single configuration option available to them. That doesn't mean we should give up on allowing configuration. And using the interface to subtly educate and inform users about their options is a worthy goal. But that doesn't seem to be in Facebook's immediate best interests.

Android also has a similar dialog when downloading/installing new applications that provides "all-or-nothing" control just like this Facebook dialog. I think it's bad there as well.
> I can't help but think this requires that only 'rock star' programmers be on the team.

"Rock star" developer can mean a lot of things.

What's required here (aside from everything listed in the prerequisite section of the slides) is that developers have a sense of ownership of the product. That's it.

You can foster this by literally giving them percentage shares of ownership. Some developers naturally feel this way about everything they ship. Some developers will never feel this way unless they own a majority interest in the software.
I've created hundreds of packages for OpenBSD and you just seem pretty gullible about the whole process.

You can't just write about the packaging process and hope people come forward to volunteer to do the actual work. There's a large amount of thankless sweat equity when you provide packages. People whine when things are broken and rarely send praise when it just works as it should.

If you really want to change the world, start with creating a Ruby apt repository for Debian/Ubuntu/whatever you use that people can actually deploy in production.
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> Europeans have invented PHP, Linux, Python, C++, Ruby on Rails...

Sure, but Rasmus Lerdorf, Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum, Bjarne Stroustrup and David Heinemeier Hansson all now live in the US which IMHO says a lot.
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I dunno about 'rock star' (although I'm a pretty amazing drummmer…) but yes, the talk centers around hiring the most driven people possible. I don't think any of us act like we have a stake in the company — we do.

I'd highly suggest reading Drive by Daniel Pink. The entire book is about how people are motivated. It would definitely answer almost all the points listed.
You're right. But. As robotics becomes practical for building, we will not just replace human with robots. We will change how we build to make it easier to build with robots.

For instance, I was noticing that while you might not want to use magnets for everything in your building, you could use them as a guide during that intermediate period where the robot can't just put things together, but they can be mostly correct. Magnets could be used to do things like guide pieces of wood together with a sheath containing powerful magnets, then the wood can screwed together, then the sheaths recovered and used again on some other bits of wood.

Everything about building a house may change; for instance, a few years ago there were some news stories about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fhryxVAsa4&eurl%20= only scaled up to human residence sizes, which is obviously not that tricky. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NSX/is_7_49/ai_n6149... Cheap robot labor changes what the cheapest houses are.

The biggest challenge may very well be keeping codes up to date. I suspect that the crossover may very well be swift when it happens; robots are improving very rapidly and when they cross the line where they are a more cost-effective way to build a house, they aren't going to sort of edge up to it and pull alongside it, they're going to blow right past it and keep going.

Times are tough now but the next several decades still stand to be very interesting times, in all senses of the phrase.

(Oh, and personally I don't think flying robots have much future in construction. The economics are nonsense, excepting cargo helicopters, which are regularly used for some purposes today. I'm more speaking in general.)
I think despite all the article's flaws, that point you mention is very valid- google is a very American product, with the good-enough-for-us-means-good-enough-for-the-rest-of-the world.
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flash is able to go fullscreen as well as request control of user input.
1) I'm of the school that measuring trivial knowledge is not a good way to identify good programmers - merely knowledgeable ones. The two can be correlated, but it's certainly not surefire. Lots of java programmers have passed the certifications, which are similar to this list of questions, but are not "good".

2) Good hiring effort for programmers should, imho, focus on hiring great programmers in any language. They need to be willing to learn Perl, but unlike, say, C++, Perl isn't the sort of thing that should take more than a month or two at the absolute most to be proficient at if you're a good programmer.
I'm wondering if equity markets are near some kind of top. The things that make me thing that are facebook private placement, talk about a facebook IPO, Li Ka-shing doing an IPO of his Chinese property development company.

They all seem to be cashing out.
The news are also being intensively covered in Turkey and Russia.
It is just United States media that does not cover the events for some reason.
May be moves toward democracy are not interesting for the States if there is no oil involved.
Their Pre-authorised payment and parallel payment fit our model perfectly. Our CTO knows them pretty well. We think it is the best option for our initial stage. Once we scale, we will look for more payment options.
You raise a very interesting point. Just because a lot of American companies draw a large amount of income from abroad does not make them respect the market or adjust the product to that market. IN fact, US imperialist policy (and that is simply what it is, don't take me for a rebel commie, but a country that has been at offensive war for most of it's history cannot be named anything but an imperialist) has insured that other countries are force fed American products, right after we liberize them, as in liberate for immediate colonisation.
On point 2, one of the best Python programmers I've ever known was a great Java programmer until the day he was hired by a Python shop...and then he became an amazing Python programmer. Great programmers are not tied to a particular language, though they do tend to prefer better languages (one of the reasons the great Java programmer took a job at the Python shop was so he could work in a better language).