skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried using Compassion Pit? Made by the same guy who made Awesomeness Reminders, mentioned by another commenter. Basically the same concept, just web-only. Could be a cheaper start for gathering a user base and gauging long-term interest.
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I wasn't suggesting that anyone has 'single, flat, unified persona'; the concept of persona itself is rooted in a notion of social roles and masks. But the idea of the 'authentic self' being compromised by blurring social contexts is what I take issue with—first, for the concept of an 'authentic self', and second, because the behavior that this encourages is probably more consistent with what we'd term our 'authentic selves' than the more experimental personae of internet anonymity.

I think it's still too early to tell whether facebook is doing anything wrong, but I think they're definitely doing something different and interesting. Not without precedent—cross-site identity systems are nothing new, oauth and disqus, et al—but definitely to a degree and with a scope that hasn't been attempted before.
My thoughts on "diet" vs. "exercise": they're two pieces of the same puzzle, and I prefer to manage the "exercise" side of the equation more proactively. Reason is because eating in (esp. in America) today is HARD. There's a lot of crap out there, portion sizes are whack, fat, sodium and empty carbs are everywhere. And you must eat multiple times every day, so that means you make many DECISIONS about eating every single day (hundreds?). Fighting against the grain (pun intended) of what food is readily available and easily accessible is an uphill battle, filled with guilty, uncertain, and constrained decision making.

Don't get me wrong, I still try to eat healthy (and I'm lucky to live in San Francisco where there are more healthful options). But, the nice thing about exercise is that you only have to make ONE DECISION every day. And that is to do it. Once it's done, it's done. And it's not too hard to find a fitness activity you really enjoy doing, plus the endorphin rush you get from a good workout is amazing. When you build exercise into your lifestyle as a healthy habit, it's not even a decision anymore, it's automatic.

I'd much rather live a healthy lifestyle with a daily (or almost daily) fitness routine than to painstakingly count calories or awkwardly ask the waiter to 'hold the bun, please, and remove the excess butters, sugars, fats, and salts..' every time I go out to eat. That just makes it awkward for you and everybody else.
What stops them from making more facebook accounts?
The points above are all ideas. We’re certainly open to suggestions on what you think.
Great idea. But what if no one loves you?

To address this, you might be able to automatically generate moral support. You just need to add a 'link to Facebook' feature along with a little machine learning + speech->text->speech algorithms so that the most 'appropriate' message can be generated given the current time and the user's Facebook status.

With enough data to bootstrap the system, we'll probably end up not even needing other people IRL.
Don't people talk differently depending on the company they are in? I think most people will have different levels of trust in their acquaintances, at the extreme what I might say to my significant other will be different to what I talk about with a work colleague.

The problem with social media is that it is typically a megaphone to everyone.
If you're a Depeche Mode fan, YourOwnPersonalJes.us seems to be available.
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Mint.com needs to integrate w/ Foursquare check-ins
Mint.com @mint needs to integrate w/ @foursquare check-ins. It should be obvious why this needs to happen and how beneficial it would be to both products.
Solid example, I frequently find myself saying something to the effect of:

var this_autobot = this;
async_function = function(){
this_autobot.fire();
}
That first example could do with some monadic sugar - similar to how F# does Async.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2010/02/15/async-and-p...
Or even better, I'll ask a guidance counselor for Linux advice. She'll know the answer. Thanks!
Minimum account age, minimum number of friends, need to have your account vetted the first time you post, need to be friends with certain people or within two degrees of certain people, etc.

Essentially it's extremely difficult to create a new Facebook persona and have it look at all authentic. Not impossible, but at least 250x more difficult than creating a new GMail account.
I set up a jsperf to do some benchmarking:

http://jsperf.com/noisy

If you can help out by running the tests, it'll be great to compare browsers.

This isn't exactly the perfect tool for the job, but it's close enough.
Buying individual blocks from Lego has always been crazy expensive.
Tip: make sure you hit space two times before writing your code so it renders correctly:

var not_formatted;

var formatted;
Sure, it's all gradients, but at 700 "friends" we are getting into an average of "half a day per friend-year" territory. Those don't sound as meaningful relationships to me.
Thanks, I'd installed it, but had forgot the ignorant peace it brought to me.
This comment would be better if you dialed down the invective a few notches. As it is I think your passion gets in the way of seeing reality as it actually is:

home ownership remains an unattainable pipe dream for most people

This is objectively untrue for any sensible definition of "most": 67.4% of inhabited housing units in the US are inhabited by the owner.

Is home ownership going down? No, by any sensible measurement, it is increasing, across all races and most income groups. For folks who are often the have-nots in the US economy, home ownership increased rapidly (did people think "sub prime mortgages" existed solely to inflate bank revenue numbers? The flip side of that coin is giving loans to people who would historically have been classified as too risky for a mortgage gives houses to people who historically would have been too risky to qualify for a mortgage.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_Sta...

An addition underappreciated side-effect of financial engineering in the last twenty years is that, even post-bubble, down payments have gone from "your life savings" (which, at 20%, they really were) to "optional for many people and often and achievable in 3~5 years of dedicated work" (norms are in flux now, but there are a lot of banks which will take 5% as sufficient skin in the game for a prospective owner with decent credit).

I have no significant disagreement with you regarding the value add by Realtors and the 6% commission structure, although that is not inviolate, particularly in the current climate. (5% of something beats 6% of nothing every day of the week.)
So, the general mantra for defense contractors is that fresh college grads are hired to do work for very very cheap rates, and are given workloads that are near impossible to sustain. The churn rate on that sort of position is very high, but the ones that last more than three or so years who are able to negotiate a decent rate will definitely end up with 6-figure salaries.

To put it in perspective, I'm 33, and most of the peers of mine I speak of are loosely similar in age. That said, I had a friend of mine who was hired to the company I was working for at $40k (recent college grad, absolutely zero tech skills, but otherwise hard-charging, motivated and eager to learn) and within a year of my advice, his salary had been chipped up to $85k a year.

A part of it is obviously being able to market yourself personally, and a big part is actually being able to deliver -- a lot of defense / federal work is actually structured such that you can't succeed, so working against that is non-trivial -- but yeah, generally speaking, the money will come.

Long story short, with three years of experience and references (and a good reputation) working in contracting, you should be asking for at least $90k. The real trick in defense contracting though is that you become more marketable the wider your knowledge set, which is counter to almost everywhere else wherein your pay is derived from the depth of your knowledge.
It's not that TechCrunch comments were great, it's just the way that Facebook seems to produce really stilted and artificial interaction:

a) Half the comments in my news feed are dull trivia. ("I just ate a ham sandwich").

b) The other half are thinly veiled bragging ("I just ate a ham sandwich in Paris")

c) Weirdly, even friends who are funny in real life tend to be afflicted by the same condition.

Now, it could just be my selection of friends but I think it's actually people self censoring.

Finally, the idea of my posting on an internet site following me around until the end of time is revolting. I don't say anything particularly out there on HN, but if they switched to Facebook comments, I'd leave.

Edit: Looks like you've responded to my previous iteration of this post. Sorry to reword it all on you :)
I do the following a lot (setTimeout as a relevant example):

setTimeout(
(function(scope){
return function(){scope.fire();};
})(this), 500
);

The short explanation is you return a function from an immediately-executing anonymous function that takes the current scope as a parameter.
... and write a demo page :)
What stops them from making fake Facebook accounts now?
so... time to start maintaining multiple facebook accounts?
On Twitter from Matt Cutts (head of Webspam at Google) to Seigler (author of article): @parislemon I understand the appeal of switching to FB comments. But just be aware that you're throwing out a few Matts with the trolls. :)
I usually use `that`. I've seen examples use `self`, but that could potentially conflict with `window.self` in the browser.

var that = this;
return function(){
that.fire();
}
At some point, device makers are going to realize a stylus is quite useful. Unfortunately, I think Apple wants to go out of its way to prove that you don't need one, it may take a few years to see them as an option.
If you're doing this sort of manipulation, it's not like you can't afford the extra cycles.
This talk is the most interesting material I've seen in years. I first saw it some time ago and it has stayed on my mind. I believe Steele is entirely on the right track.
Much better, thanks. I should probably have mentioned that I was using my laptop, and hence, the widescreen monitor.

If it were me, I'd still move the contact info higher up on the page. Perhaps if that were floated left (or right) and sat next to the rocket, or even if it hovered over it; Really though, I'm just picking nits.
Facebook is making you act like the authentic you all the time. If you are unwilling to stick to your principles because of what your friends will think, are they really your principles?

I am authentic in front of my friends, but I certainly act differently if I am also in front of everybody else.

The other really important thing people forget is that not only are you in front of either the whole internet or (merely) every acquaintance you ever had, but you are there permanently. Imagine chatting to your friends - now consider that you know the conversation is recorded and going to be stored where it could be held against you at any time. Would that alter your words? It certainly would affect mine. The non-recorded conversation is the authentic me, the recorded conversation is the careful, on-the-record me. That is why for me this sort of online conversation is never going to replace the real thing.
Multithreaded Bash
> For the US and Israel to be banging the drums of war over Iran's supposed violation of the NNPT while at the same time committing illegal acts of industrial sabbotage is huge irony.

To me that doesn't seem ironic at all, and in fact morally (if not necessarily legally) consistent. They're trying to prevent nuclear militarization in Iran, and in this case doing so in a non-violent manner, specifically avoiding further "banging the drums of war."
Same thought here. I find it very bizarre that images are used in such a way. Here's one example of the image:

http://www.networkadvertising.org/verify/cookie_optout.gif
http://www.networkadvertising.org/verify/cookie_exists.gif
Just IMHO, and stated in extreme terms: I think the test is entirely based on the need of the market and not at all on the app.

That is, if you app does something that customers need to do, that they can't do, they will be delighted to have it no matter how crappy it is (provided it can actually do what they need). Christensen calls this "targeting non-consumption".

Bonus: if you improve it quickly, you get much more kudos than if it was that good in the first place.

However, this does not apply if your customers already have an alternative to do the job - especially if it is better than what you offer. And that's what it boils down to: you only need to be better than what they have now.

If they cobbled together their own ad hoc solution, you only have to be better than that. If they have nothing, you're OK as long as you are not "worse than useless".

> there are a good amount out there that our current benefit/feature-set would be very beneficial for.

Target those people. The others aren't your customers - yet. But they'll keep on eye on you, if you keep getting better... which is expected in technology. As long as you don't pretend to be something you're not, I don't think it can harm you. Bonus: people pay much less attention to your launch than you could possibly believe. (e.g. How many launches have you noticed?) I would also suggest that incremental word of mouth is how you really build success, not by launch. That is, don't "hit the mainstream", but just expand your circle, step by step. YMMV

One way to do this targeting is to have a roadmap, or the promise. This clearly states to customers what you can't do, so they won't get fooled (and they'll trust you more for being straight). And yet it also captures their mindshare, because they'll keep you in mind for when you can. Some of them might even aggressively demand, like J. Jonah Jameson, "We need feature X now - when will you have it?!" That's a good thing.

As I said, just IMHO.
Markets do not presume perfect information. They're a hack around the lack of it, because perfect information would make a price discovery / resource allocation mechanism unnecessary: you'd just use your godlike powers and pick the best investment at the optional price every single time. One of their handier properties is that they quickly aggregate valuable-but-imperfect information from an incredibly broad group of people to discover prices. They're certainly not perfect, but they often work.
Stretching is best done after a strength workout to dissipate blood pooling and lactic acid build up in the muscles. Doing so will reduce muscle soreness and facilitate the muscle recovery process.

Of course, stretching in and of itself can (and should) be done as an excellent standalone workout!
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Note: I run Postmark (http://postmarkapp.com) where we handle delivery and bounce processing for a huge volume of email.

It depends on how the emails are being sent. The typical approach is to set a "Return-Path:" header in your outbound messages. The email that this is set to will get NDRs from receiving mail servers. You can then collect these NDRs in a mailbox or Maildir in Postfix and process them as needed. The benefit of this is having a single place where all of the messages are stored, even when sending from many FROM addresses.

I'd recommend a commercial tool to do this unless you already have tens of thousands of NDRs to learn against. You'll find that every mail server and ISP has something slightly different and it's very difficult to process each message accurately all the time. One example of a commercial NDR processing tool is Boogie Tools:

http://www.boogietools.com/

To take this a bit further, if you are using a Return-Path header, just make sure you also setup the proper SPF and DKIM records in DNS for better deliverability. You may also want to read up on VERP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_envelope_return_path
At least we're on the same page about TechCrunch comments. :)

Edit: Snipped what I wrote in response to your previous iteration. No problemo.

>Now, it could just be my selection of friends but I think it's actually people self censoring.

I think that's what it is. Everyone has a reason for censoring themselves on FB. I think it's the mix of people we have on there. People in the tech community, real life friends, family, etc. Either you can or cannot get past it -- many people stick to censoring what they write. I gave up on it to an extent. I'll troll my brothers or post a YouTube video but I don't post angry statuses about someone or get all crazy on there.

>Finally, the idea of my posting on an internet site following me around until the end of time is revolting. I don't say anything particularly out there on HN, but if they switched to Facebook comments, I'd leave.

There is a similar comment on this thread that expresses this. It's understandable. I have things on the Web going back to when I was 16. I can't wait until those archives are dug up. I do enough things now that I attach my real identity to that I just had to start thinking about what I really want to say before I say it. There isn't any trolling, though I can still be brash and opinionated at times. My answer to it all was to clean up how I act. If in the future I was really dumb about something I said then at least I was sincere when I said it.
I have used this method many times before also, added it as an alternative implementation on the site.
Lots of great comments so far, I really like the idea. Good luck building interest!
nodejs has listeners and events.
problem is that he doesnt know the language, therefore the whole article is worthless.
There are quite a few groups in Chicago. The talent and money is starting to come with the booming growth of Groupon. You have lightbank but they focus on social media, there is also excelerate which is a yc type incubator also in Chicago. I think they do bi-yearly funding classes.
It doesn't matter if you get it[], what matters is the people with the power to change the law hasn't.

[] unless you have the power to change the law or do something to actually substantially help, rather than just complaining because there's one entry on HN today that didn't meet your liking.
Youtube's recent policy change replacing Youtube accounts with Google accounts makes me wonder if this is in anticipation of larger social initiative Google Me.
This isn't the first page to offer a way to opt out of all of those cookie. It's also not the first site to crash halfway through the process (in this case, it thinks I've already opted out even after clearing cache and cookies).

It's a given that the ad companies will provide flaky opting out mechanisms. They are likely responding to spikes in opt-out attempts by falling over on purpose whenever a site like this hits HN. Who is going to step up and write a version of this service with error handling?
Thank you for the information, 'tis appreciated.
Absolutely, I just wonder if, for most people, that just means re-discovering Unix IPC.
It is not 100% related but I have a premium whiteboard application on Chrome Web Store for $3.99. The volume is relatively small in comparison to folks at Apple App Store, I assume it's because many people barely know about Chrome Web Store yet. My sales figures: http://ohboard.com/blog/10-sales-in-2-weeks/

Though, I suggest you adding your web app to Chrome Web Store since it will not take you more than few hours and it will bring you users straight.
unbounce.com?
Thanks for this, you've nailed the problem.

I'm looking for a language that can do everything that Node.js does but also solves this control flow problem, but is also fast and has support for OpenCL and beefy math libraries.

I don't find Erlang to be performant in this regard, so I'm looking at Scala but I'm constantly getting pissed.at.java.packages.and.conventions. I think it also suffers from the same problems as Node.js and doesn't support the async/control-flow magic that Haskell supposedly has.

Perhaps I should consider Haskell after all. It's that or C++.
Agree that you must find what works best for you in terms of preferences, enjoyment, and practicality.

It's also important to keep in mind timing and the training cycle (break down, recover, supercompensation) as the author points out. If you really want to "optimize" your training, or at least take steps in that direction, doing the same thing over long periods of time will result in a longtime plateau. I think the way most people manage their fitness - do the same lifts at the gym or the same 45 minute routine on the treadmill, for years in a row - results in many people treading in plateau zones and generally underwhelmed by their fitness despite putting in the time.
Here is a simple Android implementation: http://www.androidsnippets.com/prompt-engaged-users-to-rate-...
More than anything, the fact that node makes you dwell on this AT ALL is a bad sign. It's like wondering if your indentation is causing bugs.
Is "for noobs" really necessary?
"were the ones who either had a different real account where they let loose"

Not that I would recommend this in the PR 2.0 age, BTW.
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A more secure /tmp without repartitioning
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Embrace, extend, extinguish? :)
Sorry, I rewrote what I said in response to the OP's rewrite, but to anyone interested the context was:

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>The strange thing is that it even afflicts friends who are really funny in person.

That's something I used to struggle with when I was forming my friends list in the beginning. It was a mix between bloggers and other people in the tech community and my IRL friends. For awhile there I was really boring. Then I realized the people being boring were the ones who either had a different real account where they let loose or they really just want to keep the show up. Most normal people aren't all business on Facebook.
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You're right, my typo. I can't remember the exact verbatim text that my economics textbook cited, but one of the underlying assumptions of "market forces" economics is that information isn't unduly restricted; it's more or less accessible to any parties that want it. In this example, the MLS is blatant restriction of information, and it definitely creates information asymmetry.
The worst part about using Facebook is the fact that it is Facebook. Almost like a butterfly effect, you never know what you post using some extended form of fb goes back to your timeline. True there is a checkbox that gets rid of your comment from being posted to your profile, but the comment that I posted on some random website which in no way is Facebook's business to be archiving, will be in their databases forever.

Probably had it been some company that had shown high moral grounds for user privacy, I would have been OK, but with the brilliant track record they have shown for user privacy I would be highly wary.

Something about this does not feel right.
I've used $this before
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