skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a mix of anonymity and clear identity would work best. Let people have 2 profiles, one anonymous and one not, with behaviors clearly owned by the profile used. They can use the anonymous profile when they feel it might be helpful.

But give people the ability to eventual discover who someone is if they have consistently bad behavior over time and when many more people share that opinion than oppose it.
Well, based on this article, anything is allowed. It's just a matter of can you monetize it, knowing that Twitter is focusing on its own client as a core product. An SXSW app doesn't seem too monetizable to begin with, but no reason why you can't make it.

Having said that, I am confused as to what happens if you do make a new competing client. Is this really just friendly advice to developers to not compete against Twitter, or will Twitter block your API access?
Really? They paid off the Tweetie guy nicely, and now they've driven a bunch of new users to Echofon with the iOS Twitter app interface changes.
>Why would you develop a new Twitter client anyhow?

Have you by any chance used the newest version of the client recently? There's this bar at the top ... :P
You're partly right, but I think a game like WoW would exist even if there weren't a market to exploit (although probably not on the same scale with today's technology). Look back to the 80s and 90s when these types of games existed for cheap or free.

Many of the "psychological manipulations" present in WoW were present in the genre long before someone at Blizzard (or Sony or whoever else) decided those game play mechanics can make a boatload of cash. The tone of your post suggests that games are designed from the bottom up as a psychological manipulation tool. This is most certainly not the case; they are designed to be fun (although I could buy the argument that this stuff is being done consciously with WoW now, and would not be surprised if evidence were presented). For the most part these "manipulative" qualities in games were discovered/researched after gaming became popular, they did not insert these manipulations into games to make them popular. Most of this psychology stuff is pretty new to popular game design.

So far I haven't even addressed the original point of my statement, the artistic merits. WoW is a huge 3d environment created from scratch by a team of talented (and I'm sure very well paid) artists. There are many people who are excited about the lore of WoW the same way others get excited about LotR. To say:

"The achievement of WoW is to inflate the importance mouse clicks to an insane level by a more complex mechanism.

That is all."

Especially with the "that is all" added to the end, this statement dismisses the creative work that went in to WoW to create one of the largest 3d interactive worlds ever made.

Anyway, both services offer value to the user but I'm just sayin' give credit where credits due.
Neat, but kinda overkill to send it on every request. If you're doing Rails (as the article is), try out pig ( https://github.com/bendyworks/pig ) and go to /revision on your site.

does not work with heroku since they strip the .git folder... we should probably add that to the readme
I'm not sure I follow. Isn't that a problem with any market where there's already a dominant player? You're saying that rather than coming up with a better solution, people should be thinking about better ways to get people to sign up?

Why would I use this Facebook thing when MySpace works fine?
Why would I use Reddit when Digg works fine?
Why would I use OkCupid when Match.com works fine?
Why would I use an iPhone when my Blackberry works fine?
I use Air Video and StreamToMe for almost all my media, but 16GB can start to feel a bit cramped if you install more than a few of the larger games.

I'd still buy the $499 model myself, but I can understand why someone would think 16GB is not quite enough.
I wonder how do insurance companies survive such natural disasters?
He doesn't seem to be claiming that Git is more revolutionary than Mercurial/Bazaar/&c. as a VCS.

I think it's fair to say that Git makes it easier to build some system other than a VCS from it, since all of the low-level commands for directly manipulating the repository are exposed in the shell. Contrast that with Mercurial, which doesn't even have a Python API.

(For the record, I have actually built such a system on top of hg, and I'm pretty familiar with git.)
Interesting - this is the first I've heard about the Goiânia accident: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
Yeah, I remember even Livejournal had friends filters. The reason Facebook won't do this is probably a specific business decision.
I'm not sure I understand the value of this.

> The IDE must be accessed via a standard browser and
> should be installable (ie. your own startup should be
> able put it on a dedicated server).

SSH is available on every reasonable development machine, I can SSH to some server and access Emacs, either via X forwarding or over the terminal, or I could use Tramp mode.

The other points could be done with a client-side application which talks to some server. Why put the whole experience in a browser?

edit: grammatical error
If you're interested in this kind of stuff, Ken Pomeroy (kenpom.com) runs a fantastic basketball analytics site. He's a big proponent of what are called "tempo-free stats", which aim to filter out issues of playing speed from scoring (a team that plays quickly will score a lot of points, nearly independently of whether or not they are winning). Tempo-free stats instead count possessions; one interesting statistic is that the average team this year in college basketball produced 1.01 points per possession - such a tidy figure to emerge from the chaos.

In terms of predictions, one of the most interesting teams this year is Kansas (http://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Kansas). They've only lost twice but have a large number of narrow home wins. Depending on how your algorithm treats those wins they either look like a team that will struggle to reach the sweet 16 or like a potential national champion.
What is the possibility that the guy driving the car at the beginning outraced the tsunami?
Yea that seems like a pretty powerful concept in particular. I wonder, though, if people'd really care about the ability to edit something offline when they could just go with some wiki that has private restrictions on it.

I do, however, really like the idea of downloading a complete wiki, knowing that I can resync at a later date if content in my version becomes irrelevant.
I'm referring to his idea that a perfect legislature could be formed if there was a way to make the representatives forget who they were while they were debating and voting. Then they'd have no choice but to vote for the common interest and not their own.
Seattle is another area I would worry about as far as preparedness for a Major earthquake. Most of the new skyrises are probably safe, but the Alaskan Way Viaduct would most certainly collapse (it was nearly destroyed due to a moderate eathquake 10 years ago, but due to local politics no suitable replacement/repair has been made), as would most of the waterfront, whose foundations have been eaten away by something I've heard called 'gribbles.' Additionally I would worry about many of the much older buildings downtown, which have also been damaged before by moderate earthquakes.
Makes sense. Those flash upgrades are, what, 80% profit? Manufacturing lots of the 32GB models early on would probably be a good decision.
Google's not even launching after all the buzz.
Nukes are only "safe" when built to spec like the functioning,socialist government of Japan is capable of. And then very "intelligent" blog articles try to rationalize a cancer causing, radiation inducing thing. Nuke plants that are old, not kept up to date, etc are very very dangerous. As economies ebb and flow, the demand for energy always is present, but the resources to keep a plant up to spec are not. Sustainable resources like hydro, wind, solar, geothermal and tidal are far less worrysome, on a different level of dangerous, and do not require disaster contingency plans after contingency plans. Keep It Simple Stupid, nukes are not simple and they are not stupid, let us usher in an era of idiot proof nuke free earth that allows for energy independence from the empire of the nuclear grid. To the solarnet! To the hydronet! To the geonet! To the windnet! To the tidalnet!
You know, the other day I was lamenting the sorry state that is caching on the web. I decided a pretty good protocol would be similar to this: make a standard http header that includes a SHA of the content for that url. That way if the content changes the SHA changes, and you get really good cache-ability without the worries of content timeout etc[1]. Further, cache control pragmas/headers/etc don't accidentally get misconfigured in a bad way. Caches just send a header request upstream and if the header hasn't changed, just blast the content on the presumably faster/cheaper local link.

[1] They could still exist for hints or what not, but I presume reasonably advanced caches will be able to heuristically figure out how long the content lasts and do things like start sending results while waiting on the header to return... with some sort of reset if it turns out to be a bad cached result.
I found that user retention only went up marginally when the rewards were added. The main advantages are that is provides a good hook and a near-term business model.

And to answer your question: Yes, very much so. And growing.
I have a 32gb ipad, and bought it out of choice.

None of them are big enough to store all my stuff, but 32 seemed like a nice middle ground that'd work reasonably well for a year or two, until I upgrade again.
Exception-Handling Antipatterns
New update out: Now you can select controls (left/right click, or touch). Try running it twice, once with right-click, and again with left-click.

Also for dynamic pages, run the script after the content changes and click the "x", and the new content should be pick-uppable.
Right, I'm not trying to make a claim either way about what the superior thing is; I'm just saying that your average person would rather get the service for free at the cost of their own privacy, which is one plausible explanation for the difference.
"Randomly selected"...did they really have an equal chance of landing any of the 300 million users on Facebook? How did they find a complete list of users to select from randomly? (For example, I can bet they excluded anyone who didn't speak English.)

To survey 1% of Facebook users these days, you need to contact 3 million people. A sample of 200 could easily be completely inaccurate, and I can say with absolute certainty that it does not justify a headline like "41% of Facebook Users". They can't even know it's 0.01%.

They should at least publish some other aggregate info. For example...once "randomly" selecting 200 people, did they find that half of them lived in the same country, or 3/4, or 90%? Did these people have anything else in common besides a tendency to share personal information? Couldn't the experiment be easily repeated 2 or 3 times to see if the distribution holds? (That wouldn't help much given the sample size, but it would show a lot more than they have now.)
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What can be done by cosplay costumes is completely different with common fashion accessories. You will never see a well-known celebrity wearing a cosplay costume for a luxurious occasion. Hardly will you find a starlet advertise for an animation costume. Then, what cosplay costumes bring to you is a chance to live your life to be more interesting.
Not sure if the 70% new buyers figure is correct as the table also lists they asked that question last year... How could anyone have had an iPad at the iPad 1 launch? The question above has N/A for last year, perhaps the two sets of results got reversed...
weren't we always?
To be honest, in a family of four or larger, that's not entirely impossible to achieve as family members' individual usages add up.
I would love to see those guys pivot, and release a multi-identity facebook killer.

Not that they need to (I think they are bootstrapped), but it would be cool.
"Non-overlapping"? 25.822 * 10^-6 of Facebook users (1 in ~43,000) use canv.as[1]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=17624556239...
I submitted a blog post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318747 about my theory of why apple is allowing the iPad to remain sold out today, despite knowing that people would still want one.
You may take a loss selling the whole kit for that much. Keep in mind that the $20 figure assumes the reader has almost all of this stuff lying around already.
One other issue that comes up is "garbage time". When a game isn't close (say in the last quarter of a blow-out), the stats are basically meaningless. Does Pomeroy have good ideas about how to deal with that?
I (morbidly) wonder if it would be possible to set off a tsunami with just the explosion, without necessarily the ground movement. It would seem to me that a lot of the earthquake's energy release would go into shaking the ground.

Anyway, the story of that bomb is interesting too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
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Ditto on the java-applet comments - I was shocked. Haha.

In all seriousness, though, people have mentioned this before but I don't think anyone's really tackled any underpinning reason why an IDE should be in "the cloud" (::cringe:: yea, I went there).

If I think about it in terms of features such a setup could provide - cohesiveness btwn. client & serverside testing, development statistics in real-time, and highly integrated documentation & comm. - then perhaps it's kind of sexy.
Seamless/buil-in pair-programming would seal the deal. It would be pretty awesome if it looked like Code Bubbles though...haha (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k)
There is a world of difference between Apple changing their minds on a switch and Jobs saying that they've done extensive user testing on touchscreens on regular computers and that it turned out to be worthless.
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Are you describing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag or something different?
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People often complain about the verbosity of objective-c, but if you have a method that takes several parameters, how is

foo (a, b, c, d) memorable? You have to remember the order of parameters, and the function name rarely makes this obvious, so unless you use this func all the time, you end up reading the docs.

fooWithBarAndBlatAndFazAndFooz(a,b,c,d) makes the parameter ordering obvious, but is to me less readable than:

fooWithbar: a blat: b faz: c fooz: d

Which is just about as concise as you can get. Of course it would be "nice" if objective-c allowed for parameter order to not be meaningful, but that would require dictionaries of parameters, instead of what really happens, translation to a function with a fixed parameter list, which is pretty efficient.

Message passing syntax looking initially complex is a lazy reason to dump an entire system when the alternative has much worse integration and support.
That's exactly what currently means. It's not written in stone.
Although, why you'd want to subject yourself to the app store approval process when you don't have to is beyond me

Maybe because this way you can use frameworks like Phonegap and Titanium Appcelerator to enable access to things accelerometer, compass and other native features.
Thanks, learned something new. Apparently Japan got early power plants from Germany (50Hz) and the US (60Hz) and never unified their systems. They have converters at the intersection but they must not be very big.
Two examples as to why people say it's hard to control access to your content of the top of my heard are

a) by default applications that your friends install can access your content.
b) Facebook has several times changed their privacy defaults without informing the users, causing reams of older content to be visable to "friends of friends" as opposed to just friends.

Unless you check the privacy and application settings approximately every three months then it's easy to get burned when a site upgrade gets rolled out and the "recommended" settings are applied to your account.
I picked up a 16GB model yesterday, but I would've sprung for the 32 if they'd run out of the 16GB models. It was probably sufficiently important to me to have a black version that I would have picked up the 32GB black iPad before a 16GB white one.
Another Explosion at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
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Anecdotally, I've noticed a huge spike in app sales since Friday. So far it's a larger spike for me than Christmas even was.
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Mark Zuckerberg's opinions should make most conspiracy theorist think Big Brother is closer then we think.
Not at all. This sounds more like friendly advice to developers making it clear that they plan to compete in this area. Because theirs have the benefit of being the official apps, you may have a harder time gaining traction.

The writing was on the wall with the Tweetie acquisition and newtwitter, but now there's a blinking neon sign there.
I wonder if its "second cheapest syndrome"?

https://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18811

Lots of people don't want to be seen as cheapskates, so the seller intentionally prices the second cheapest item with a very generous margin.
I wonder if "running out" of the cheapest sku pushes people up to more expensive models? Might make fiscal sense for Apple to release them in batches.
Wow, I know nothing about nuclear plants and the fail safe's they have built in, but that looks like a scarily powerful explosion.
You could, perhaps, trigger an underwater quake by bombing a fault zone with a large enough nuke (or sequence them as to compound the shock)
Flagging this and I (publicly) invite everyone to do the same.

Anonymously bashing someone with your only real argument being that he is arrogant is ridiculous.

You have zero credibility and for all we know you are bitter for not getting selected for SeedNYC.

And please quit spamming this board with random messages from another website.

Finally, point of order - 20k for 5% is better financially than YC.
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Oh boy, basketball. The only thing less interesting than Gruber's baseball related posts, other than Golf on TV.

I just can't get into watching sports - I love playing them (soccer and ultimate frisbee on the weekends) but watching them seems pointless for some reason. My wife watches more sports than I do, and she watches figure skating and track & field, which comes on like 4 times a year...

Anyone else feel this way?
headline is a little sensationalist, but I would hardly call them idiots. Just some people don't place a priority on personal information. Are the real idiots the ones providing the information, or the company that allows peoples personal information to viewed publicly.
Sell short catastrophe reinsurance bonds?
Simple, useful skills.
Explaining the value of this is hard and I guess it boils down to the convenience of accessing everything via an URL. Of course everything you have in a browser may be done by applications talking to some server.

I'm basically hoping that an open-source cloud-based IDE will bring more to the table that just ssh x forwarding. What I've learned from a continuous integration server is that automation is important, but the test/build results are mostly separated from your IDE project -- integrating the two seems valuable.

Also, workspace configuration is a pain just as it is migrating to another machine. I'd rather just work as close to the (versioned) source code tree as possible.

It seems to me that having an offline IDE is odd when we are always connected, everything we produce goes back online (commit, emails) and we produce it usually by inspecting online resources (bugtracker, emails, google).
NHK is saying it's another blast like Fukushima Daiichi #1 on Saturday/Sunday - Hydrogen collecting in the reactor building because of the fuel cladding burning and then being vented with the steam to reduce pressure.. according to the authorities so far, the reactor containment was undamaged and workers in the area are to remain indoors.
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Why can't the hydrogen and oxygen be safely vented out and burned as soon as they are produced?
AT&T is a tier 1 ISP; they don't pay for traffic from outside of their network.

The 'user pays for bandwidth' pricing is fundamentally more efficient, and is a good model to move to long term, provided there are sufficient controls to prevent price gauging in areas where ISP(s) act as a monopoly or duopoly (20c per GB in the US excluding the pricing for last-mile fixed costs seems like price gauging to me - but it depends on the technologies; it is probably a lot more expensive to get extra bandwidth to a cabinet than to an exchange), and the companies don't misrepresent what is on offer to consumers.

However, all information flows should be treated equally; companies shouldn't be able to abuse their market power as network services providers to make their own information services cheaper than those of everyone else. It seems that the best solution would be for regulators to ensure that AT&T and other ISPs charge for bandwidth used by their own applications in the same way as they do for their competitors.
A screen too far
He might be referring to the private sharing to people without @gmail.com addresses, which is indeed quite difficult.
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I agree. I'd prefer transparent pricing to whatever we have now...
Detailed Analysis About US West Coast Quake/Tsunami Possibilities (audio)
Timeline from BBC Live Page: (Reverse Chronological Order)

0328: Seven people are missing and three people have been injured by the explosion at the Fukushima 1 nuclear plant, the AFP news agency reports, quoting an official from Tepco, the company which operates the plant.

0247: Mr Edano said major radiation leaks were unlikely from Reactor 3.

0243: Japanese government spokesman Yukio Edano has just spoken on TV. Says that water injection at Reactor 3 seems to be continuing, and the containment vessel is still safe.

0242: Reactor 3 withstood the explosion(s), its operator says - Japanese news agency Jiji.

0240: The governor of Tokyo orders radioactivity levels in the city to be measured - Kyodo.

0239: The 600 people still living within 20km of the plant where the explosion(s) occurred are ordered to get inside buildings - Kyodo.

0236: The wall of a building collapsed as a result of the blast(s) at Reactor 3 - Japanese TV.

0232: Update on the explosion(s) at Reactor 3: "We believe it was a hydrogen explosion. It is not immediately known if it affected the reactor" - nuclear safety agency spokesman Ryo Miyake.
> Failure to comply means you sit in a jail cell until you cough up the password.

So, keyfiles on easily-destroyable thumbdrives, then? If they say the only copy of the key (that they're aware of) was destroyed, that's basically equivalent to saying they wiped the disk; you can't really hold them expecting them to magically recreate it, right?
apologies, got to typing just a bit too fast.
I'm curious if Twitter would allow a third party smartphone client that displayed 3rd party ads in a format that looked like the dickbar.
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Considering an iPhone5 on two carriers this year too, yeah no doubt they are Sheening right now.
Just because they don't pay a rate to their peers doesn't mean that it's equally expensive to serve traffic on-net and off-net.