skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
am I missing something with that 36 months? from the ars article:

"After 18 months, Google anonymizes the unique cookie data stored in these logs."

a 2.5 year old searchengineland article also says they use a hash function using keys that are discarded every day, which means that search streams will be 24 hours long apiece:

http://searchengineland.com/anonymizing-googles-server-log-d...
I think it could be realistic. You have to think about the size of their user base and how much money they must be earning through each of the users. Their user pay rate must be fairly high too, I'm guessing 20-50% of their users pay at least some form of money, where most companies that that offer any freeium service usually is 10% or less.
Indeed, I tried to make the experience as non-intrusive as possible. One of the biggest complaints from Tweepsect was that people didn't want to OAuth to try it out. Especially if I play the angle of "use SocialGrapple for corporate intelligence" I can imagine users may be weary to give away their true credentials, which is fine.

I applied to have my @SocialGrapple account whitelisted 6+ months ago (a bit pre-emptive, but not enough), but they never got back to me and then last month they announced there will be no more whitelisting. This sucks.

Right now I just try to use the API as efficiently as possible and spread jobs out to avoid hitting the limits. In the future, I might need to distribute the load across multiple auths or request the user to sign in.

I tried to make the pricing in-line with the parts that are "expensive" to me, both in terms of limited API calls and data storage/performance. I hope this is transparent enough to the users and doesn't get in the way.

I have looked at using gnip (Twitter's official bulk data reseller) but the pricing structure is way out of my league (starting at $500/mo). Can't blame them though, since they dedicate an EC2 instance to each customer. Pretty cool scaling model.
Sure, Apple is one of the most efficient companies in the world at making money. Apple also has $14bn net income while Sony has $-500m.
Building and maintaining factories is really expensive, and a major distraction (they need to be continually updated to stay relevant). It's only worthwhile if you can guarantee you'll sell most/all of the factories' production potentials. AMD recently spun off its fabrication side for just this reason.
i disagree--two pages of content is quite sane for someone who's worked let's say over 4-5 years. if you read a resume that says:

Google, Principal Software Engineer, 2006 - Current
Python, git, gerrit, responsible for Gmail

is that really enough for you to make a decision to spend time on a phone screen?

i've scanned over tens of thousands of resumes and agree with you that making things concise is important. however just because a resume has additional information should not mean that that person's not qualified, it simply implies that it's harder for you to scan.

so simple rule for those updating your resumes, keep it concise, but don't be afraid to elaborate. a) it tells me a little bit about your communication ability and b) it gives me more information that i can optionally read if i want to know something. that also means my phone screenings are a lot more efficient because i know which questions to ask.

another piece of advice is to have a quick summary somewhere in your resume, i keep mine at the top. this is for the impatient (or over burdened). i've never dropped a set of resumes because they were too long, but to the contrary i've dropped resumes because they were too short too many times.
My feelings exactly. SF still looks like some cheap JIRA install, not a hacker-friendly user-facing site like GitHub.

I get the impression they're undermanned, underfunded and under the weight of their technical debt. You just can't do all the cool things GitHub can when you're supporting SVN (do they still do CVS too?).
Wow! I like that!! Much faster.. and not need of any plugin that crashes every now and then.

Plus you don't lose on search engines and history management can be left to the browser.
Graceful degradation / progressive enhancement anyone? (Btw, Raphaël supports IE6 too.)
The most important think about a resume is that the recruiter or manager who's offering the position has or will not put a lot of effort into reading your resume. If it doesn't fit what they are looking for, even if your amazing, they will ignore you.
if you read a resume that says:
Google, Principal Software Engineer, 2006 - Current Python, git, gerrit, responsible for Gmail
is that really enough for you to make a decision to spend time on a phone screen?

Yeah.
Well, to a certain extent. There's also a viable position that Flash is simply the improper tool for every job by the nature of its construction. The fallacy is believing that 1) the tool which should replace Flash exists or 2) existing technologies should be improperly shoehorned to replace the areas where Flash should be replaced.
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> Is the number of LCD panel manufacturers limited by some universal constant

It's limited by the ability to forecast the future as well as the costs (in money and time) to build a new panels factory and ramp up its production.

> or why Apple's competitors just don't build their own factories?

Because most of them have no core competency in manufacturing, because manufacturing is expensive to setup and evolve, because manufacturing is hard and because manufacturing does not mean you'll make money (one part of Apple's come-back strategy was to get rid of all its manufacturing capacity, a plan executed by Tim Cook)
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Btw, SVG isn't exactly JavaScript; its a part - just like ActionScript in Flash.
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??? It sounds like you've only been half-reading my posts above.

Yes, examining the evidence is a judge's job. And it is the judges who issue the warrants (or not) after conducting a thorough review of the evidence provided. That's what is supposed to happen, and that's what almost always does happen, and that's due process in action.

When I referred to the likelihood of a technical error by a network administrator, that would be the person implementing the DNS changes under ICE supervision AFTER being presented with the warrant authorizing the domain seizure. The warrant which the ICE staffers got from a judge, who had first examined the evidence thoroughly.

One more time, in chronological order:

Someone in the DoJ/ICE finds a child porn website, and begins collecting evidence by making screenshots or downloading content or whatever methodology they use.

Everything known about the website is written up in an affidavit (ie a statement), and along with the evidence it is taken to the local District Court.

A judge reads the affidavit and examines the evidence - maybe as collected, maybe by going to the website directly to verify the statements made by the DoJ agent.

If the judge is satisfied that it is the real deal, then she issues a warrant authorizing the seizure.

The warrant is taken to ICANN or InterNIC or wherever it is easiest and fastest to patch the DNS, and is shown to the staff there as proof of legal authority. This is called executing the warrant.

A technician then redirects the domain name of the porn site(s) to point at an ICE server. On this occasion, mooo.com was accidentally redirected as well, which should never have happened. Exactly who screwed up and how is still a mystery.
I think your answer is an exemplar of the problems the Wikipedia community faces.

Insiders are satisfied that the process, honed over a decade, is working. At a micro level there is nothing to point to that is actually wrong; indeed you could argue the process is growing in sophistication and fairness.

Outsiders are often very dissatisfied. From their perspective, new contributions are assailed with objections from people who appear to be proudly ignorant of the subject in question, and their work is subjected to bewildering bureaucratic procedures. And this is reflected in the macro statistics for contributors, which for the English Wikipedia are all flat or even going in reverse.[1]

I think Wiki-insiders have become a bit disconnected from the experience of outsiders, especially when it comes to social norms. To an insider, squabbles about notability and even requests for deletion are normal. Insiders are so used to this, they avoid being vulnerable to the criticisms of other Wikipedians, by reflex; for instance, in footnoting everything they say. ;) Imagine for a minute that you walked into a passionate notability discussion without such habits already ingrained. How do you think it would go?

The article strongly implies that there is a Global North/Global South problem here. So your point about how the core 'homophily' group aren't necessarily from Europe or America is interesting. Perhaps the real axis is Wikipedian/Non-wikipedian.

[1] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_users#Growth_in...
It becomes dangerous when deletionists are made out of people who only know how to delete content.
The first one was, but it was really crappy, my home net connection ruined the recording (basically the stream kept resetting so the whole show sucked). We should have a recording of this one. I'll post any updates regarding this to:

@andrewvc on twitter
Maybe they made it in flash, but use javascript to run the .swf file?
This would be more a more convincing exercise if it didn't force me to make a choice between paying either the gas or electric bill when I could afford to pay both (and then forcing me to incur an even larger fee to get it turned back on), and made me pay to fix the leak in my rental apartment's sink. It would also have been nice to know that I've got a sick mom, a kid, and a pet at the beginning of the month, rather than springing them on me at seemingly random points. I found out on day 17 that I had a dog -- that's one hungry dog. I also held a yardsale with the explicit purpose of getting rid of stuff since I didn't have enough room for it all in my rental, and rather than feel good about that, it made me feel bad for only making $150 from the yard sale.

I mean, it was rough, and I had to tell my kid no a bunch of times and we aren't eating all that great (and I had to avoid playing the lottery and miss a friend's wedding). It was interesting, and reminded me of Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days" show.
All interests associated with me are entirely accurate. Well done Google, I applaud you.
thanks!

i am collecting stories about problems with altering schemas while prototyping and while in production (losing data, manual altering tables, relational dbs restrictions, many-to-many relationships and other complexities) but it seems it all went smoothly with the tools you had.
They support cvs, svn, git, hg, and bzr. Very impressive.

Overall their website navigation seems to be heaps better. I know this rewrite has been a long time coming. I know it's also been done in python, and by some quite good developers - so I'm guessing they will progress faster now (assuming they all still have jobs).
I'm happy to not bury SF just yet, just in case Oracle or someone of that ilk decide to send a few suitcases filled with money to the GitHub guys.
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Hi HN community I am a student who is just starting to explore the programming world. In our course we started off by learning basic programming principles in c++.

As we move on we are now going to explore more, using java but we are expected to learn java by our selfs. I understand the a programmer should be able to take what he has learned and apply it to other languages easily.

My question is where to start to learn java?
Any good books, tutorials, web sites or advice?
Interesting redesign. In 2009 they did a previous redesign, which Chris Wanstrath from GitHub critiqued at RailsConf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUUvq48Gb3w (Around 17:45). It looks like they've improved since then, but I couldn't even create a project, the system gave me a 400. Also, the site seems really slow, but possibly that's because they just relaunched.

While they get a lot of flak because they have supposedly lost to GitHub, I'll admit that far more people have heard of SourceForge compared the GitHub, and I must applaud their willingness to at least attempt a major redesign.
I worked there a little over a year ago and in that time they had 3-4 'makeovers'. In the same time they had like a 90% staff turnover including the CEO and a lot of upper management.
I like it. A lot. We actually need someone like this. You should email me.
Sure, of course. But safety isn't the discussion.
Making things simpler on the net is probably a good thing. I'm worried though about what will happen when the same bad programmers who make mem-leaking and performance consuming flash ads now will jump on the JavaScript train. Flash is in a shell: no messing up the global namespace, no interfering with the rest of the website code.

It has been said before: not Flash is the devil. It's people who program but who have no clue how it's done. They have destroyed the reputation of a not-too-bad
platform.
I think it would be a dream for adobe, to be able to discharge themselves of maintaining their player on multiple architectures on browser makers.
Not bad but not cool . Not upto Flash
I was hoping this would happen!

http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/12/blogging-tools.html
Who deletes the deletionists?
I was all excited by that link but I find that it does not exist. What did you actually mean?
C and C++ are always a good languages to learn. You can code from the lowest to the highest levels, procedurally or OO. People starting out with a garbage-collected language would find it harder to understand memory management or lower level optimizations. Also, as a programmer, C and C++ will provide gainful employment for the next few decades at least. They are unlikely to really be replaced by anything else for their versatility.
So Zynga have $1B revenue/yr by your metric?
I somehow doubt they're that high... so hence the more unrealistic multiple based on other unreal valuations (ie, comps).
the italian used in the resume is seriously fun by today's standards...
So can html5 continually ping a variable (say a time point) while a video is playing, including other variables back to a third party server (if the video content was embeded via a jsonp wisget etc.) ??
Check out "TheNewBoston" on youtube, he has a decent collection of Java tutorials.
I'm not sure there are enough network effects to make it a winner take all market. Especially since systems like git make it so very easy to migrate elsewhere.
A video of how a baby develops
Cannot you see the difference between not having Facebook account for whatever reason, and bragging about not having Facebook account?
I can't believe no one noticed it.

The texture of the upper parts of the wood contraption feels unrealistic; there is almost no grain. The contraption itself is too bright compared to the ambient level of light; the white buckets are darker. There are 2 main sources of light: one on the right casting a shadow of the structure on the ground toward the left, and one light on the left that should cast a shadow on the ground toward the right... but it is missing (contrary to shadows on parts of the structure itself)!

This is obviously CGI. You would be surprised what a person with a few days of work can accomplish with off-the-shelf CGI software.

The poster's background suggests this. He writes "ImD-student" in his profile which may refer to the Interactive Media Division at the USC's School of Cinematic Arts. He also subscribed to the "indymogul" youtube channel which is an online video network and community dedicated to DIY filmmaking.
Seems like a lot of the useful content is hidden. I had hopes that they had learned from GitHub, but it still takes multiple clicks to see any code.
How is this different than the economy as a whole? Look at seniorage and Milton Friedman's take on what caused the Great Depression. As money circulates in a fractional reserve banking system it multiplies. The last guy holding the dollar is the guy who loses most. In times of exuberance that multiple is greater than 1 and in times of pessimism that number is less than 1 which is why consumer confidence is essential to the functioning of the modern economy.

Start thinking of money more as a piece of information reflecting scarcity of supply/demand, and realize that the faster information moves the faster money will cycle increasing it's rate of growth. It's called an information economy for a reason, because the commodity from which we derive most of our value is information. This is largely why it doesn't matter that China is taking "our" manufacturing base. You can point to the importance of things like iPhones being manufactured in China, but for the economy as a whole the AppStore is far more important than the manufacture of the phone. As information bandwidth increases globally so does money supply.
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The story was fascinating. What is most interesting to me is that several people here on HN are dumbfounded by how such a simple service was in such demand. That seems to be the trend these days: do something simple, that everyone needs, and you can be a success. Complicated ideas don't seem to fair well (there is a lot of resistance to it anyway). If people need to try and figure out what you're offering, you've already lost most people.

Looking forward to the release of View!
i'm in ie and can't see flash...
My advice would be to dive in. If you've learned a solid base of C++ and have built some apps then I'd look for an open source Java app that does something along the lines of what you've done in C++. Given the many references online you should be able to walk through the source code and figure out how they got to the same result. I know this is a sort of "reverse engineering" approach to development but it really forces you to look at what they're doing instead of the usual tutorials in programming books that bear little relevance to real world applications. This is a great technique to use in conjunction with more traditional learning methods (books/tutorials/websites.) Hope this helps!
It even pulls up Flash in Safari5 (w/ clicktoflash plugin).
You can download the HP webOS SDK without registering for a developer account. The downloads are linked directly off the tools page. The account is needed to post to the forums, sign up for "Early Access", or to upload apps to the catalog.
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This is just more proof that if God actually exists he probably hates us.
That's the point - it can do whatever you can do, all technical prerequisites are available (threads, background-requests, runtime-dynamic code etc).
Once the proper tools are available providing diverse standard functions, it will spread and be easier for non-developers.
This is my own resume... it is similar to the format you mention. I worked this up trying to maintain a single page resume. I have had good luck with getting interviews.

http://spoon16.github.com/
Are you down with the LBS?
You don't need an account to download the SDK anymore, just for uploading apps or participating on the developer forums.
I'm going through an especially busy period right now and really need to focus. Meaning, I shouldn't waste any time going to check XKCD, HN, Gmail, blogs, my hockey pool, or anything else that could distract me during work hours.

What do you guys do to ensure you stay focused? Any software recommendations out there that work better than the standard every-30-minutes-pop-up-reminder stuff? Let me know!!! :)
All so cynical. Take it at face-value, pay the guy to set up huge versions, and cancel fusion research.
Oh, ok, but why did you include "Nantes"? It's unlikely Nantes was already there and it just happened that a designer found it?

I don't see why there couldn't be a different list for signup and for search; or the ability to add cities during signup...
I don't want to weigh in on the flash/javascript debate, but couldn't you repeatedly change the src on a hidden image with get variables in the url?
Why would a manager at Nissan allow this to be built? They now have to maintain two parallel versions of their complex site. What is the non-ideological payoff?
Am I the only one where it says to Opt In instead of Opt out by default? It don't have any categories for me even after Opting in. I'm signed into my account. Adbllock Plus working great?
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Is it really fraud though?

I mean, fraud seems to me to occur only when you sell something to somebody, but then I am not a lawyer.
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I hear you. I feel like they could've avoided some of those situations and still conveyed the situations poorer people might find themselves in regardless of which choices they made in life.
Yes, please share your secrets!
It will be worse. This stuff can't be contained with simple tools like Flashblock. Unless you want to block all Javascript by default, which will probably break 99% websites in the near future.
Good advice on the stocks, but for those not in the know, mises.org presents a sort of ultra-libertarian point of view, and pretty much only that. In other words, they're not likely to ever present ideas differing much from their own.

While they may or may not have some good ideas, it's not really mainstream economics, and there are some discussions covering that on the net that are worth reading prior to reading their material.
So I don't have to use the abomination that is iTunes.
Seems a shame one of their homepage 'featured' projects (ScummVM) has just moved to github.

http://www.scummvm.org/news/20110212/
http://github.com/scummvm/scummvm
"Ho modi di ponti leggerissimi e forti ed atti a portare facilissimamente".

Today: "So costruire ponti leggerissimi e forti che si possono trasportare facilmente".

And so forth.

Completely understandable but funny.
Venturebeat claims Zynga'a 2010 revenues were $850m (http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/17/zynga-funding-10-billion). Just shy if a billion but given growth quite conceivable that they did more than $250m in last quarter ($1B annualised)

Interesting to compare and contrast market cap versus EA and Activison.
Ok, so you brought it when you couldn't add programs to it at all?
In case it was unclear, this is a serious question. I'm wondering why a business would build a complex HTML5 site if they're going to have to build a flash version anyway.
All rubinius really needs is a non-overlapping set of bugs with MRI and JRuby. That would give it a niche to springboard from. I've been hammering all three with a project which is heavily threaded, and heavily socketed. These are both classic problem areas for MRI, and I've been cranking out JRuby bug reports as well. If rubinius got it right, then we'd be using it instead, but it's not quite there yet.
Platforms Adobe decides are important vs modern or whatever subset of non-MS browsers are capable of handling what you want to do...

I've had a bad day dealing with HTML email newsletters so I'm probably a bit more pessimistic about it than usual, but all sides of working on the web are a serious pain in the arse!
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