skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I like about the movie is how different the reactions and takeaways were.

For example, lots of people I went with felt he was a hapless guy that made the wrong decisions & got screwed, but wasn't really hero/protagonist. Zuckerberg clearly was the hero, for all his faults.

Other people wound up interpreting it as a hatchet piece on Zuckerberg.

Though I doubt the average movie-goer felt this way, I felt the movie had a bit of a Rashomon feel, in how different viewpoints (in the court affadavits) paint a skewed picture of reality. No one can know what really happened, we can only absorb the different narratives.
You are exactly the right amount of upset about this.
Facebook Finally Trying To Simplify Privacy Policy
Clojure: Truthy and Falsey
I'm currently working on launching 2 huge networks that profit mainly from advertising. The more interaction and innovative service offered to the user in return for them being subjected to the ad all depends on the grand scheme of the situation. If your site if providing content to read and your ads are not floating over the words or constantly popping up during the scroll, but they designated to a specific area and actually stay there, the user must understand those ads allow the content to be available.

Personally I'm blind to the ads, that's why my networks are designed to make sure you see and appreciate the ad being there because of how amazing the networks are, especially being free to the user.

The future of online advertisers lies in knowing specific interests of each internet user, creating an approval process to only allow the most creative and entertaining displays, and concentrating these ads into portals created for them to shine properly, not wasted at the top of a page that will be scrolled down almost immediately upon arrival.

The internet is to big and has to many offering to really cash in on this concept, that why the richest man in the World has yet to surface. A controlled network being used while consumers are in motion of spending money holds key to the biggest fortune man has ever seen.....coming soon, to town near you - GTV
Ya I was watching the launch on tv, then stepped outside and you could see it from the other side of Florida, I've seen a launch up in close once, to bad I was really really sick to enjoy it.
In the very first place, actually, they wrote the initial version in Lisp. The Python code was a later rewrite.
Is this technology being used anywhere commercially or with intent for commercial use? Can you also quantify how long/roughly how many thousands of hours of effort this has been in development?
Isn't it different than here where a CEO gets a golden parachute even when they drive the company into the ground? Here the CEO doesn't have to remain at the company to have the perks.
> Because a lot of people need to produce CMYK output as part of their everyday routine.

That still doesn't answer the question why do people care so much about CMYK.

The question was why would you care about CMYK if your work isn't to produce graphics for print.
Did the article give you the distinct impression this is only a GUI to ssh meant to amuse kids?

Everything mentioned in the article can be accomplished with ssh and the osascript command. The only interesting part of this software would be the rootkit used to hide it from an admin.
CloudFormation: The Big Picture
Easy is good. It's a similar level of effort in most frameworks, which is handy.

The thing is, if you turn it on right away you never get a chance to see and fix a bunch of low hanging fruit optimizations that can really help you out. You don't know about them until you start to run up against scaling issues despite all your caching. Once you're there, it's not any fun to try to go back, find and fix those original bottlenecks, so you don't have much option but to start throwing hardware at it.

If, on the other hand you hold off and handle your first few scaling episodes by making your queries and code faster, only adding caching after you're not seeing returns from that other stuff anymore, you'll be able to go a lot farther before you have to start adding hardware.
I'd love to see it, but it turns out I need it a facebook account :(
Worse than bad press is when no one's talking about it. Even if it's bad, people talking about it means people care enough to do so!

engadget once called something I did outright 'crappy' right in the title of the article. guess who was making sales? that's right, this guy :)
But how many times did he get a taxpayer funded bailout / corporate wellfare? The real value of the american CEOs isnt that the run profitable business, it's that they get other peope to pay for their fuck ups.
Average US salary in today's dollars:

1930 - $ 250,000
2010 - $ 50,000

Add to that the declining purchasing power of the dollar, the growing income disparity and the thinning out of the middle and upper-middle class, etc, etc.

Average life expectancy in the US:

1930 - 60 yrs
2010 - 78 yrs

Clearly, Mr. Buffet's statement is PR rather than fact.
The problem is that its hard to schedule both passenger trains and freight trains on the same railways, and the benefits of transporting freight by train instead of truck are both economically and environmentally more important. OTOH high speed rails with their own tracks are awesome and let us get around this dilemma.
Pretty hard when all you have is a touch screen. :-)
Are you saying that war increases technological growth? That's crappy pop-history that's largely been discredited

Citation needed.

I can certainly say that without WW II and then the Cold War, Silicon Valley would not have looked anything like it does today. Read everything in http://steveblank.com/category/secret-history-of-silicon-val... and watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo for evidence for that assertion.
Nothing poses a single point of failure unless one uses it that way.

If you add other identity providers then sure, you're less vulnerable - just like if you replicate your database and set up failover. There are many ways to avoid certain SPOFs but possibility to fix doesn't make a SPOF stop being a SPOF. It's all about how you use them.

If you use FB Connect as the only way to sign into some of your accounts then FB Connect becomes a single point of failure for these accounts, period. That's what happened to Om. There might be only 30% of his accounts affected, but for these 30% accounts, FB Connect was a SPOF.

For me it's easier to use old-fashioned login/email+password signup with a password manager like 1Password than signing up with multiple online identities to every new account (who does that anyway and many websites allow you connect only one identity). Classic email+password has a failover by default in its design - if I forget my password I can reset it by email (I need both to forget password and have broken email at the same time to don't be able to login).
Dating on Facebook is creepy in general.
My apologies if I misunderstood your position. From this more recent post, it sounds like we agree on the important points. I'm certainly not trying to "argue against" things like grids and ratios, just trying not to elevate them from rules of thumb that sometimes help to some sort of objectively superior choice.
> Like the hot-air balloon, the concept of printing is clear and simple, and the technological prerequisites are minimal - you just need metallurgy, which the Romans had in abundance.

More details: the Antithykera Mechanism would seem to imply that the Romans had the metallurgy.

Interestingly, they or their predecessors also may have had the basic idea of block printing or movable type printing. The Phaistos Disc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc) from ancient Crete is a disc of fired clay onto which various symbols have been 'stamped'.

Set the symbols into a frame or carve them into a flat wooden block, and keep using clay as your printing material... Not as good as Chinese paper or Egyptian papyrus, but still better than scribes.
My experience agrees with this. It should be noted that this is largely due to cold start time.
Are you trolling? Site stability issues very rarely have anything to do with the underlying programming language, unless you're using some experimental language that no one else is using for web development (and even then, Arc seems to be working pretty well for HN).
The site is unstable doesn't mean Python is to blame. Perhaps you can elaborate why do you think so.
Hm... 100 years ago controlled heavier-than-air flight had barely been invented. Do you think it would have been accurate to think then that in 100 years, essentially permanent outposts crewed by several people in modules flying 350 kilometres above the Earth would be unrealistic? Not only because of technological impossibility, but mostly because of no need for that.
What kind of things are easy in Haskell and hard in Scala, and vice versa?
I'm a math guy too, so I appreciate the implications. Of course, those implications break as soon as your carefully proportioned columns start having margins/padding. :-)
Do you really mean that? It sounds pedantic, verging on illogical.

Why would you care about anything you don't care about?
ICU transliterator is fairly sophisticated (and configurable), actually. Take a look at the examples:

キャンパス -> kyanpasu
Αλφαβητικός Κατάλογος -> Alphabētikós Katálogos
биологическом -> biologichyeskom

From: http://userguide.icu-project.org/transforms/general

Edit: reread, OP was talking about Django transliteration, which is much simpler.
I don't understand your salary number. Do you mean that if you earned $250K in 1930, that is equivalent to $50K today? Isn't that good?
heat lamps outside the shower, or even a giant blow drier (I have seen these before, really)
Watching the video made me feel a little uncomfortable. I come away with the impression that they almost, but not quite, really understood the important lessons.

Still, it was well worth watching and I'm glad Huffman decided to go there.
I find it odd that it seems to be its own Webserver, that makes it hard to save a lot of time using standard Apache modules for common use cases which might not be addressed in their build.
Apparently, it's not a virus, it's a trojan. Vector is human: article says "Trojans like this are frequently distributed through pirated software". Same player shoot again.
Thanks for sharing the link. I am behind the initiative. Just curious to know how did you come to know about us ?
Rather than talking to the disk controller over Thunderbolt, I would use TB to insert a rootkit in the kernel that would use the standard APIs to read the disk. Similar to this: http://esec-lab.sogeti.com/dotclear/index.php?post/2010/11/2...
And now you know why income disparity has nothing to do with increases in standard of living.
Freeze-thaw cycles in LN2 also damage cells.
As overdue as it was, women and blacks being able to vote is not "6 times better".

60 years to 80 years life expectancy is not "6 times better".

26 to 7 infant mortality is not "6 times better".

8% to 30% college graduation rate is not "6 times better".

Estimated hourly wages have actually fallen drastically, when estimated apples to apples (i.e. adjusted for inflation).

Labor productivity is mostly based on advances in technology, and in any event, working harder is hardly the same as being "6 times better" off.

In other words, let's stay within the context of what is actually being argued. Plus, it's rude to open your argument with, You honestly have to ask this question? If you have something to say, you can say it without implying that @samtp is too dumb to see the obvious.
Since the house doesn't (and never will) have gas, the choice is between electric and induction. Seems that it really is a no-brainer for us. I'd never even heard of induction so I need to do some research here.
Asynchronous Iteration Patterns (in Node.js)
So you're saying that less frequent updates is better than more frequent? And when you say MS doesn't charge for "service packs", you're playing semantics. Apple doesn't charge for point updates, either. As to your final point, I don't recall ever "having to pay" for "all the service packs".

Basically, you're not making much sense.
Great link. I only recently started using the "filter" option in Adsense to get rid of the more annoying ads... frustratingly enough I am not suppose to click my own ads (Adsense - only done it once though), but how else am I going to figure out what domains to block.
"jruby -e 1", cold start, just took 4 seconds for me. I use jruby interactively almost every day (it's extremely handy in penetration testing), and I'm pretty sure jruby is noticeably slower to start than MRI.
Eliezer wasn't talking about how you sign up or pay for it (he himself is signed up with term insurance & is young and reasonably healthy); he was talking about what kinds of dead people having signed up would be most useful to. Predictable deaths are best because the stabilization teams can be there waiting.

(There are of course wrinkles to this. If you die of alzheimers or senile dementia, is there any 'you' left, recorded in the neurons?)
That is true, I have wondered for a while what the reason was.

I'll look into see if there is some easy WP plugin I can get for A/B testing two different layouts. That is a good suggestion.
I would say 920,000 page views a month is a huge number, in fact more traffic than you would get from a few big hits on social networking sites. The traffic must be coming from somewhere- so you must be doing something right.
I bought loads of NES games as a kid 15 years ago, with my hard earned pocket money, but lost them along the way (pretty sure they got binned), should I feel guilty for downloading them now?
Don't stop there...

Language and comprehension skills: Down 76%

Happiness index: Down 65%

Opinions: Up 435%
For those looking to try this out, be aware that this framework appears to be in a pre-alpha state. Don't expect to download it and expect a working demo without digging into the code and figuring some stuff out on your own.

With that said: Great work on an innovative framework. I applaud the effort so far.
Why I Deleted My AngelList Account
Facebook Writes Its Privacy Policy in a Language Humans Can Read
Taking pictures of open walls is a great idea. Thanks for the links.
His or her account was created 2 hours ago, the same time he posted the comment. I would call that a throwaway account.
My favorite quote:

"The Flat Earth Society probably views a ship’s circling of the globe as an annoying, but inconsequential, anomaly"
BOO: This is so NOT what I read HN for.
+1 for Jmeter

I've been focusing specifically in performance and scalability for the last decade. The vast majority of problems that expose themselves under load or many-request scenarios are blatantly obvious in a profiler or tracing data access patterns. I recommend you start there, better use of time.
Fireworks still suits me best for prototyping and slicing. I'd rather give my money to Pixelmator or an indie though.

Somebody could make a fortune building an OS X app that supports legacy layered PSDs and PNGs.
stackless is actively used by mmorpg EvE Online
Having paid for many games there more than once, i honestly really don't care at all.

If i count in my virtual console version i've bought the original Super Mario for the original NES, the Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance and as an add-in for the Nintendo DS. I really can't remember if there was a Gamecube installment on a special disc or not, but thats beyond the point.

I paid to play this game more often than i should ever be forced to and i'm not really concerned to play it in the browser if i want to.

Most of the games listed there are in fact abandonware so there is noone who actually suffers, except people who feel that people should abide laws no matter how useless and/or damaging they maybe.
I'm sure there are a dozen other crush notifiers out there.

And there has been for at least ten years.

Back then you entered your email address... and the email addresses of everyone you had a crush on. Of course, if any of those latter ones weren't the original crush, they would get email saying someone had a crush on them. And so on. The original "viral".

Here's one of the messages I received.

Subject:	Somebody has a crush on you

Date:	3 May 2001 16:42:01 -0000

From:	CrushMaster@redacted.com

To:	wrader@redacted.edu

Guess what... you've got a secret admirer! Want to find out who it is? Just click to
<http://www.redacted.com/index.php3?email=wrader@redacted.edu...;

Email address: wrader@redacted.edu

Invitation code: 5nmwa

Make sure you enter in this information exactly as shown above.

See you soon!

Sincerely,

/The Crush Master/
Current generation? Distributing ROMs and claiming it's fine goes back to the early days of the web. They even had disclaimers that said "This is legal if you already own the games."
Poll: How often do you use Reddit?
Regularly
On occasions
Buffett was born in 1930. The US GDP per capita was about $7,200 then, today it is about $42,000 (both values in 2005 dollars from http://www.measuringworth.com/usgdp/).

Per capita GDP is frequently used to measure standard of living, in addition to per capita income, ref http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/steckel.standard.living.u... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_living_in_the_Unite...
It would make perfect sense for Sophos to develop software like this. As long as they don't get caught.
Are these Airports really the cheapest/best way to get music playing? seems like a lot of wasted technology in them if I'm just connecting them to ethernet.
That WWII reference is especially ignorant. The vast majority of the West spent the entire 1930's trying to choose peace over war. They tried so hard to choose peace over war that when a handful of dictators chose otherwise, they stayed out of their way until the very last minute. It's very ignorant for someone today to accuse people of the pre-WWII era of not trying hard enough to avoid a war, when all of those people saw firsthand the horrors of WWI and for that very reason, tolerated military aggression against other countries as long as possible. In retrospect, the consensus seems to be that the Allies spent too much time avoiding the war, not too little[1].

And even if you include the people of Germany, Italy, Russia, and Japan into the mix, you're making a fallacy about how people actually behave. It would have taken prescience people didn't have, back in the 1920's, to prevent the rise of the dictators of the 1930's. That's how history works.

[1] The only dissenting viewpoint to this that I give any credence is the idea that appeasement was necessary as a delaying tactic so the allies could build up their militaries to match the Germans.
When nobody buys it.
Hacker Writes Easy-to-use Mac Trojan
It never ceases to amaze me how virus/malware/phishing authors blow holes in their efforts by failing to correctly reproduce simple sentences.

"Finder Requires You Administrator Password"

Really? You couldn't do a 30 second web search to find the correct phrase? On a different note, Vista/Win7's way of darkening the entire desktop when asking for an admin password, which is difficult if not impossible to emulate, is a very clever technique.
FuturesJS: A JS lib which (when used as directed) simplifies asynch programming
That's good for productivity.
It's very relevant to getting enough attention to come on the front page and grab more votes.
This seems to be a classic example of correlation vs. causation.

Airlines have been having a rough time in recent years. Against a background of people bashing them on environmental grounds and promoting alternative modes of transport, often hypocritically, they have seen major costs such as fuel going way up, their market suffering because a lot of air travel is a luxury that people aren't so willing to pay for in a depressed economy, and in many cases significant staffing problems due partly to the same economic conditions.

We can't say whether Japan Air failed because of its CEO's apparently folksy style of management. For all we know, it would have gone to the wall two years earlier if he'd been claiming millions and not so aware of what was really happening from his customers' and staff's points of view.
How To See Who Views Your Facebook Profile?
You can always run it behind Apache.
Or if you want to run several heterogeneous web apps, you can run Zotonic on different port and reroute to it from port 80.
If you want to quibble about his use of the "6 times" figure, go ahead.

The fact remains that we live much better today than in 1930, when Buffett was born (during the Great Depression).
Yawn. Another proof of concept trojan for OS X.

The time to start getting nervous about these things is when there actually is a way to put trojans on your Mac through remote exploits.
I'd disagree that science is about "pushing deeper into the implementation". It turns out that Newtonian gravity doesn't adhere to the interface that Newton proposed (and Newton knew that it didn't; Mercury!). As a result, Einstein developed a mew interface, which supplanted Newton's interface. Neither of them speaks to, or even claims to speak to[1], something like implementation. To be sure, we do refine out conceptions of that interface, and I'd agree with you that that's a very valuable project.

Your example about a programmer peeking into the hash table is germane, because the hash table's "implementation" is, itself, composed of interfaces. Following your argument, how could a programmer be expected to excel if he didn't understand those interfaces? And it's turtles all the way down until you hit Feynman diagrams.

That's doesn't seem to be how people actually work. At some point, a layer of abstraction is leak-proof enough to satisfy curiosity and allow meaningful work to be built upon it. Where that point is will vary from person to person. Much as some people are content to work with a vague notion of Newtonian gravity, some Christians are content to live with a fairly abstract and vague understanding of theology. There's nothing wrong with that. We call people who wrestle with abstractions surrounding the natural world scientists, and we call people who wrestle with abstractions surrounding God and faith theologians.

[1] Well, Newton explicitly disclaims this. I haven't read Einstein recently enough to remember whether he disclaims it explicitly, but I think he certainly is no Aristotelian.
10 PS3 And Xbox 360 Games That Lived Up To The Crazy Hype They Received
>> Second, even if you don't like vector graphics, there are great Free Software projects like Gimp and Krita that deserve our attention and our support.

I'm not sure that I follow here. Why do they deserve our support? (Not to say that they don't deserve support, but thats a rather imposing claim without support)
Airline unions usually negotiate the payout contract to between 95% to 98% of the expected airline's profits (what is the airline going to do? shut down?).

When the airline does not make the expected revenue, by numbers, they end up having to borrow money and pay out a sum that ends up being over 100%.

Collective bargaining rules.

Hence the ever bankrupt airline industry.

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines