skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading they have an AdSense competitor in the works, but that initial tests showed it wasn't a good enough competitor yet to be released.

I don't know if it would be $10B though, even AdSense isn't quite there for Google yet. Assuming they could lure a big chunk of AdSense publishers away, I suppose it could be several billion though.

Maybe they'll release it just before IPO to show their true promise. Name predictions... FB AdConnect?
How much would you actually pay for twitter? $2/mo.?

Twitter is trying to make way more money per month from you via advertising.
Yes, yes it does. http://www.fastcompany.com/1737324/sticky-not-smarmy-how-to-...
The big problem with Groupon, even compared to social networks, is that there's no network effect to help entrench their position.

Consumers might use a Groupon coupon today, a LivingSocial one tomorrow, and a Facebook one next week. There's no significant motivation for consumer loyalty.
Fanboy or hater; who's better?
EaselJS is much easier to write it. http://easeljs.com/

And with real classes, and real methods. O canvas seems like the graphics class alone: http://easeljs.com/docs/Graphics.html
She'll like it until she realizes it actually sucks. Which is why consumer electronics manufacturers can still turn a profit in last place. But eventually she'll see everyone else doing cool things she can't do, and she'll switch. Or convince herself she didn't want to do those things.
20s or 30s P/E ?
Law firm called MoFo.
Kids are making friends in the Arab world - via Call of Duty
Who Knew Tricked-Out Batmobile Was Really a Ford?
News , issues , trends , reports
I hate to be a nerd, but I thought Arabic was a Semitic language. This has always confused me about the term.
Cool, real numbers. :) I think monetizing by any means half of all users is very optimistic though. I have several accounts, long dormant, created as jokes. If that's typical (perhaps not), you'd have to divide by at least five or ten to get a real eyeball count.
Im sorry but this article does nothing for me. In fact here's my 2 rupees:

> Quantify your accomplishments: For eg instead of "Used java to build a scalable trading platform" try "Build trading system used by YY people in ZZ countries that managed $XXX billion" . I'm sure it can be improved but the idea is QUANTIFY.

> After every bullet point you write ask "SO WHAT?". You used some cool technology to build something gee-whiz? ...SO WHAT? Why should your potential employer care. Explain how the skills matter to them.

>Resumes are eventually going to go away/get marginalized. Build a solid linkedin profile. You don't need 500 connections but try and get as many recommendations as you can. Put up a professional picture, link to a blog or a portfolio that showcases the work you've done.

>Attend meetups, network. In NYC the demand for good software talent is ridiculously high! Just show up for events and if you have even half decent coding skills people will be inviting you for interviews (so resume's matter even less).
Loop Constructs in Scratch - Better Than in Mainstream Languages? (ACM)
Python's own regression tests. They are in its source distro.
I believe the above puzzle has only one valid solution.
The Shy Scientist: Why most best-selling pop-sci is written by non-tech authors
Have you sent a free copy to Dooce? She's a good start for publicity.
Preston here, come see our wonderful bus station http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/allovertheplace/place/preston_bus_... !
It's anti-the-semitics-we-like-ism.
I can see the moral hazard side of things; but Linus does have a point.

There has to be great benefit from changing the implementation of memcpy for it to be worth it. And broken flash is an obvious negative. And across the said thread, there is argument that the new implementation might not be the best as well. So, with two negatives and no obvious positives why do it at all?
Battle system is very simple and not the focus of the game. You need to make it a true obstacle, but the real fun for the kids is completing the quest, opening the treasures, finding all the monsters, etc.

The battles are essentially: Roll to see who goes first, then each side takes turns beating up the other with a six sided die to determine damage.
Consider how much data you're putting on it. No phone is going to be fast when you ask it to pull down 5gb of email as some of my users do. The iPhone isn't that magical.
These are all good points, and the author of this post is really just recapping everything that's been written about "writing for the web", but it's worth pointing out that resume readers are casual/scanning readers; the article is correct, if boring.
Geeze you are right. Any coincidence that I'm currently building a makerbot as well? hmm....
they have it on the right side of the documentation page which leads to

http://www.erlang.org/erldoc?q=mensia&x=0&y=0

I still prefer erldocs, as the author I am bias though :)
This is one of the poorer articles I've read on HN.

The author writes like a Star Wars screenwriter - lots of meatless platitudes and tautologies jumbled together in the hopes that some meaning worth more than the sum of its parts may spontaneously emerge from the soup.

And its references to porn could just as well have been to Facebook, Youtube, or any other highly scalable site. The porn angle is clearly just to drive hits and upvotes, but otherwise useless. C'mon guys, HN is for thinking with your real head, don't get let yourselves get taken so easily by charlatans selling sex.
The constraint-finding is for generating puzzles that are easy, hence the comment about puzzle manners.
> Not only can I not find files when Finder doesn't use folders (...)

Huh? Do you mean things like iPhoto that bundle photos?
This is a little off topic but is anyone else mildly annoyed when they see article titles that claim to know you're doing something "wrong"?
That takes time. What do you do in the meantime?
Algorithmic Movie Editing in Lisp
Can we get a reference on how a page detailing an Israeli request for the removal of a Facebook page is antisemitic?

You might agree with that request. Feel free to tell us why.

But by calling post itself antisemitic, are you not saying that letting people know what the Israeli government is doing is, in itself, antisemitic??

Seems rather problematic...
zyphlar, for some strange reason your comment is dead.

Here is your text: “She'll like it until she realizes it actually sucks. Which is why consumer electronics manufacturers can still turn a profit in last place. But eventually she'll see everyone else doing cool things she can't do, and she'll switch. Or convince herself she didn't want to do those things.”

The HTC Mozart was recommended to her from a friend – I’m really not all that sure that the differences between WP7 and Android matter to all that many people.
Does this mean that Go will finally support shared libraries as a compilation target?
Only way you compete with Wall Street is you increase the utility of expected payoffs, not just the wage. People who are going to WS have different risk profiles than entrepreneurs. You can have low participation in entrepreneurship as long as participating ones are competitive and innovative. It is better use of talent and time if those who would have failed anyways (because they don't have the guts, etc) go and make themselves useful elsewhere.
Protecting ourselves to death. This article's about consent requirements, which for the unconscious can delay treatment hours and worsen prognosis. And also that ethics panel makes trials difficult to organize, so new medicines are delayed.

The article doesn't mention it (since it is about the UK) but it the US the FDA takes unapproved drugs from the sick. For example in the 80's when aids victims brought dextran sulfate back from Japan, the FDA seized it at the border. This didn't stop until 88 when the drug was proven to work (at least up to FDA standards, costing millions of dollars and years after other countries had done).

Everybody wants to ensure medicine is ethically tested and safe, but that means some will die waiting. Mary Ruwart (a doctor and also a leading candidate for the libertarian party's presidential nominee in 2008) has written on this subject: http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap6.html.
A 30-minute long TV show is actually only about 21.5 minutes long. The rest is advertising. People will tolerate it if the rest of the content is relevant and engaging.

If the ads are well targeted then they make people even more accepting of them.
Hijacked? It asked me and I said yes.
Oddly enough, it's something that Livejournal does:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=74
Don't be coy please, anti semitism is a real issue. The first and second intifadas involved bus bombings and other constant acts of terror so yes, I believe this page calls for violence. Also, I imagine you would agree that a country should be expected not to be lax about a page which calls for rallying and support toward its complete annihilation and governmental upheaval. Political leaning aside, facebook and israel have every right, and arguably responsibility, to protect the lives of hundreds of Israelis (Arab and jewish alike) by taking down a page which calls for a third round of day to day terror attacks and bus bombs.
Electricity, support, lawyers, and (with cheap 1u intel servers and ec2) servers are costs which scale with demand. You don't have to spend money on those if you don't have money coming in the door. One airplane is really expensive. If you're an airline you're forced to make bets on future demand which you might lose, and the likelihood that you'll lose is higher when the market for your services is volatile (as in times of high growth).
Apple has a superior update model? Sure in theory, but I'm not aware of many significant updates to an iDevice that would be comparable to the Android update history. It seems like each phone gets one significant upgade before being phased out 18 months later, same with Android except with Android you have the flexibility of complete customization (and the customization is what causes update delays.)
Silicon Valley is abuzz with bubble and recovery stories — too soon?
There's lots of Silicon Valley recovery stories in the press. Is it a bubble?
How would you structure a program to solve such a puzzle without having it generate and test potential solutions along the way?
It would be interesting to see how much load HipHop alleviated. I assumed it helped, but how much?
Passing on random financial instruments (which AIG Was a counterparty to quite a few of) is not the same thing as commenting on a social networking site or choosing to not invest in something tech related.

Saying something is overvalued is buffet speak for saying "not cheap enough to be troubled" which is when he traditionally invests in things.

He buys lots of family businesses upon death events, and some heavy industry suffering capital issues. Generally speaking, this precludes young firms from crossing his radar even. "Suffering capital issues" is similarly something you will rarely see in todays tech environment.

Because a person is good at something doesn't mean he does everything perfectly. There are lots of great investments out there Buffet is not going to go anywhere near, that are conservative even. He definitely has a profile far more constrained than "proven business model"

He's a good businessmen, no doubt about it, but because he dislikes something does not mean it's not a good bet, it just means it doesn't clearly fit into his "Nothing a little money can't fix" investment profile.
Read "Why She Buys" by Bridget Brennan. It is probably one of the most enlightening marketing/consumer psych. books I have ever read. I seriously cannot recommend it highly enough. Also, it's not just about the female consumer--there's discussion about the male consumer psychology to put things into context.

http://www.amazon.com/Why-She-Buys-Strategy-Consumers/dp/030...
Eastman Kodak wins latest patent battle with Apple and BlackBerry maker RIM
Great Talk

Acid test: can I go out and personally retrieve 30 customers @ $49.95/month?

Hm...Do adwords campaigns count? I would love to hear more about this.
Yes! That and people not following the Hacker News guidelines on taking gratuitous numbers out of titles. The title of this article is Link Bait 101.
ICANN asks the US to cut it loose
Where this article purports that digg's fall was reddit's gain is subjective, article quality has fallen drastically even within subreddits. I no longer read /r/programming or /r/linux as it's full of ignorance that seems to be magnified (more upvotes) by ignorant users. This seems like a great platform to study the change in behavior of an increasing social population as we also see this in the real world with elections and such.
How to write an API first and build your app with it (Epiphany PHP framework)
the quant finance that takes the best and the brightest (as opposed to the bankers and sales traders), uses informational and computational advantage to make money.

How are internet startups any different?

Also, even the bankers and sales traders are providing a service that apparently people want. If you can judge them as not creating societal value, why can't I say that the Nth photo sharing website is not creating value?
Nor does Windows Phone, there are already 2 different "other" browsers. The headlines about them restricting it were due a testing error for one app (check the last comment here: http://mobilitydigest.com/microsoft-blocks-alternative-web-b... )

But I guess that wouldn't be juicy enough of a headline.
Originally Leeds, now Edinburgh.
intifida is not terror the real terrorist is the state of israel which killed 10s of thousands of palestinians and took their land.

If Israel was doing the right thing it should not worry for a facebook page that calls on a revolution against it.

Palestinians are uprising against occupation, discrimination stealing their land and their right to live freely. All legitimate causes.

On that page there is no call for violence, and even if there was, ISraeli officials call for violence against palestinians all the time in the name of self defense, so thus their pages should be deleted. But i am against deleting any page, free speech should be reserved and people choose
LiveJournal is a good example. They were forced to go invitation-only for a long time because they couldn't handle the traffic. By the time they had the technical issues under control attention had shifted elsewhere.
awesome! love the site!
I didn't attempt to raise money in England, instead I just moved my startup from Sheffield to San Francisco. It was 6 months of work, but way easier than trying to get funded in the North.
It's pretty clear Social Networking sites are overvalued. Facebook has a valuation of around 65 billion $ on revenues of around 2 billion $. Microsoft has less than 4 times the valuation of Facebook and more than 30 times the revenue.

I think he is stating the bleeding obvious!
The fact that it's 2011 and only just now is MacRuby moving to git is a good reminder that getting stuff done doesn't require all the new shiny tools, and other bleeding edge accouterments.

Edit: my point was that sometimes keeping your focus on your problem, not your tools, yields the most gains.
It's not just the search, it's the search with the economic model. The network effect and the volume that gives Google a castle. I can take a crawler, indexer and server and have a competitor up tomorrow. But I don't have cheap bandwidth (Google has datacenters in most countries, giving them a cost advantage, local traffic only), a scalable infra, and the advertising network.
Nor does getting stuff done require Ruby, or a Mac. It's just that sometimes it's nice to get things done in a nice way.
The problem is the claim that this page suggests no acts of violence toward the Israeli people. In fact, I'd imagine the israeli government would be quite alright with what it believed to be a peaceful palestinian rally. I don't believe they would speak up to the CEO of facebook over something they believe to be benign. This post has nothing to do with technology, and in essence encourages the encouragement of the encouragement of violence, which should not be mistaken as something purely informative. This does not follow the HN guidelines, please do not post politically charged links again.
The human factor is the most difficult integration task. Therefore, the respective leadership needs to be equip to handle the task. The due diligence should have given you the data you needed to plan it out and then you just needed to execute. What's the problem? Obviously, people are not so easy and not so predictable. So then why is it not so high on the priority list of things to address in the process?

As technologists (and those in the technology vortex), somehow it's assumed that smart people will just deal with it, do the right thing, or whatever? Whatever it is, the fact is... processes, tools, yadda yadda vortex... in the final analysis, management (both sides) failed. Now, that's not being judgmental, that is a fact, sorry. This happens all too often.
Sheffield, represent!
Professor Brandenburg is a great and the tricks MP3 uses for compressions are very clever. I’m a student at TU Ilmenau and attended one of his lectures. He has recently been working on audio holograms (wave field synthesis).

I think the article tries to paint a just a bit too dramatic picture. When I heard Brandenburg retell the story he didn’t sound disappointed about the outcome at all. MP3 dominates today exactly because Fraunhofer’s original business model didn’t work out.
Ornithopter Drone Actually Looks Like A Bird
The problem is the claim that this page suggests no acts of violence toward the Israeli people. In fact, I'd imagine the israeli government would be quite alright with what it believed to be a peaceful palestinian rally. I don't believe they would speak up to the CEO of facebook over something they believe to be benign. This post has nothing to do with technology, and in essence encourages the encouragement of the encouragement of violence, which should not be mistaken as something purely informative. This does not follow HN guidelines, Arabgeek, as is encourages political discussion rather than technology discussion. Please do not post politically charged links again.
Your codebase is a user interface
I don't think that Twitter having any sort of paid service model would correct any of the beef that the author has got with them. I use Twitter on a pretty frequent basis just like the author claims, but have very few of the same arguements. The "Who to follow" section for me is always fairly accurate, suggesting individuals who are posting useful and cool information similar to what I already read. I've had very few UI problems with either the web client or the iPhone app. Kinda just sounds like the author either didn't really use it enough to find it useful, or just griping about simple problems that all social network sites will eventually face.
That is something I don't like about Linus. He's so aggressive when he speaks; it's insulting. Explaining to the guy the good attitude to have toward backward compatibility and "not my problem" thing, is totally great. However, doing it in a so harsh tone is just plainly aggressive and useless. In fact, I'd argue that it is even less than useless as if someone talked to be like that, I'd be even less reticent to try to help. Add to this the fact that Linus, being well known and respected, simply demolished him. It's like if I kicked my little 12 years old cousin' ass in front of everyone to make him understand that we he did wasn't right. Good job Linus. I feel like posting on this forum now.
People generally won't use your site unless it helps them in some way. It makes their life easier, it helps them move information around, or they enjoy it. It's debatable whether the specifics represent a net good for humanity (cough Zynga cough) but there's at least a decent chance that you're helping folks out.

Some financial organizations provide important liquidity. They offer you a loan when you need one. But many exist only to shuffle around money in a clever way, so that some percentage of that money goes into their coffers. And it seems like the smarter the employees, the less likely they are to actually be providing any real services to people. After all, smart employees are the ones who can make truly spectacular exploits of the game... exploits that are lucrative but pointless.

And I don't know anything about the details, but I can't help but wonder... when you write a brilliant algorithm that scrapes money out of the markets... or you set up a clever instrument that lets you capitalize on structural regularities in the market... whose hide does that money come out of? I honestly have no idea, but my instinct is that it's coming from people who are already disenfranchised.
Helvetica and New York subways
I'll give a slightly political insight on this issue, from within Israel.

The past few weeks have seen an ongoing effort in Israel to report said page to Facebook. There are two questions to be asked here.

First, is this a call for violence? There is no clear cut answer. "Intifada", in Arabic, means "uprising". Sure, the past two Intifadas (1987-1993 and 2000-2005) had a violent angle to them. But it seems the Palestinians, at this stage, have established that violence and terror do not help their cause. They understand very well that they can win (and are winning) Israel in the international diplomacy arena. So, violence is probably not the intent, but I find it hard to imagine a peaceful uprising, that does not expand to violent acts.

Second, why the uproar in Israel? This seems to me like a classic oppressive maneuver by the Israeli crowd. The status-quo in the peace talks with Palestinians is largely to be blamed on current and previous Israeli governments. Further expansion of settlements in the West Bank, with total disregard to previous understandings with the international community does not help. Sure, the Palestinians have their share of the blame, but it is clear the Israeli government is doing nothing to help the situation.

The better part of the Israelis seem to think it's perfectly possible to maintain this status-quo, all the while oppressing the Palestinians aspirations towards an independent state. This will not happen. As long as the occupation continues, and peace talks are stalled, the Third Intifada, Facebook'd or not, is inevitable.
And how does utilizing more storage affect the processing or memory capacity of an iPhone or Android phone?
The moral of the story: it's not the gross revenue that makes you rich.
>Try to keep your paragraphs to a maximum of 3-5 sentences long

I kind of recoiled in horror at this one. Whenever I'm working on my own resume or helping someone else with theirs, I go by one simple rule: your goal is to get the person reading to the END without going pffft. That's it. If you can get them to the bottom of the page without losing them, you'll be one huge step closer to an interview - if, along the way, you've proven that you're at least minimally competent, you've done everything a resume is meant to do.

One thing I did that caused a notable increase in responses was to put a dotted line down the right side, with horizontal lines at each break (school, work, volunteer) leading out from it. People were more likely to get to the end if they were following a little dotted path. And if someone reads your whole resume, that's a pretty good start.
Capitalization troubled. Family businesses who have an owner die, railroad needing capital to expand, financial services company needing more marketing cash, etc.

You are right, he rarely replaces people. But when a business owner dies, and heirs need cash, guess who's there looking at the business to buy it?

Also, it's not like a simple 3 line answer completely encapsulates his entire investment strategy. I'm just pointing out a typical thread that runs through many of his investments.