skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple patents everything it possibly can so they won't get sued. Very few patents are actually used and this one sounds ridiculous. It's much ado about nothing.
It's amazing that this isn't toxic. I'd be interested to know more about the chemistry behind it, but presumably they won't be sharing any details.
what they always do. overreact.
"Have at least 200 karma or have been an HN member for more than 2 years" this is too restrictive.
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This is borne out by my experience. A slowly increasing number of my friends are cutting down their use, and eventually leaving. This might just be due to my cohort of friends getting older, but the article claims it is a general trend.

What is definitely true, is that nobody I know feels anything positive about facebook, at all. It is seen simply as a sinister, addictive[1] necessary evil. This is the case regardless of technical expertise. They continue to use it purely because of inertia and lock in. Yet they are not interested in twitter either.

Much like smoking, many people get into it as teenagers because everyone's doing it, now in their 20s they've realised that it sucks but they can't stop.

There is definitely a market for a social network thats simpler, but still full-featured like facebook, but above all one that's less "evil." One that's vocally dedicated to your privacy, and whose every move doesn't seem so machiavellianly calculated to keep you coming back, to the point where you begin to feel like you're living in a dystopian future world.

I realise that's just a long way of saying "less profitable" or even "not profitable," but there we are.

[1] The main slang term for facebook amongst it's younger users in the UK is "facecrack." It has been called that for years.
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That's how the MongoDB guys interpret it[1]:

To say this another way: if you modify the core database source code, the goal is that you have to contribute those modifications back to the community.

Note however that it is NOT required that applications using mongo be published.

[1] http://blog.mongodb.org/post/103832439/the-agpl
It's still a form of regulation, highly or otherwise.
It depends on how you use SASS. Used correctly, with @extend rather than @include for big swatches of styles that reoccur in multiple places, it will be DRY and light.

Your designer colleague probably didn't have a sufficient understanding of the difference between @extend and @include. It's not hard though, a few tests using the different methods and analyzing the results should be enough to understand when to use each.

It is utterly impossible to generate worse CSS with SASS than by just writing CSS directly, as SASS does not deprive you of any CSS feature. SASS provides you with a bigger and more capable toolbox, but won't stop you from using the wrong tool in any given situation.
Google Chrome 13 changelog:

* Fixed an issue with the version number. It showed 11 where it should be 12.

:-)
Is there a reason to pay for a trademark search instead of using the USPTO website's free trademark search? Or do you only pay for that after you've already done the US search yourself?
Conclusion doesn't follow from the evidence.
Obviously to benefit the early adopters. /sarcasm
So, what problems do facebook/social networks solve?

* sharing photos

* keeping in touch with friends and families and getting the latest updates from them

* events

* games

* sharing links and stuff

and all these things from one place!

is there any other site/technology that provides all these benefits in one place?
To the extent that HN karma means anything, a 10 day-old account with 1 point just isn't a very strong signal.

Hey, I have exactly 0 StackOverflow karma (and no account, but that's easily fixed). I'm hardly surprised that they don't roll out the red carpet for me.
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Same with Fx4 on OS X. Chrome 12 skips ligatures entirely (so difficult reads difcult), while Safari 5 just renders a big boxed nothing in lieu of the document.
There seem to be some trouble with curly braces around the emails in the header.
Isn't "Recurly for Dummies" just...Recurly?
One simplification: try to parse e-mail addresses from the about: box, authenticate via e-mail. Obviously, ask for permission before sending e-mail - some people have employer-(provided/monitored) e-mail.
Agreed, currently there no real competitor to facebook, if people are closing their accounts its because they want to remove themselves from social networking all together (my one friend did this) rather than move to a different service.

Facebook is so ubiquitous now, it's like email. It will take one hell of a competitor to kill it.
I'm not the biggest fan of facebook, but this guy is completely unqualified to comment on the intricacies of long-term growth and sustainability in social media... just look at his profile: http://blogs.forbes.com/people/timworstall/

He has nothing to do with the technology industry.

Also, he doesn't back up his rhetoric with data... this is an opinion piece and a flaky one at that.
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This is the first question I'm asking on HN - so here it goes...

I'm a B.E CS student going into 3rd year of my 4 year course. I've alway had this problem where I understood everything I need to understand to succeed in my course but find it difficult to remember the study material I read for the exams.

I know there are many top students surfing HN everyday. It would be a much welcomed help if they could help me find my way.

It would be great if you could tell about your notetaking/note-making techniques - how you read and how you formulate the knowledge which you need to remember. Any tips/tricks would be welcomed.

I've read Cal Newport's excellent blog 'Study Hacks' but I want more and see if there are other better means and ways so that I can invest myself fully in those.

Waiting for someone to guide me in the right way :))

P.S - I've been trying Supermemo's technique for remembering things, but it seems like rehashing everything from the book and since my books are quite large - it takes too much time...
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I am trying to build a small stock exchange simulation game (web based). This will be used to train some young students in India on how exactly the whole trading mechanism works.

I was wondering is there are any open-source CMS type system already available in in domain. But more than that I would appreciate if someone can point to me any books/blogs about the stock market simulation experiments.
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Precisely. And patent trolls were in the news just last week, so you'd think someone might be able to put two and two together and realize that Apple is going to patent every crazy idea that they can afford the fees for, just to bolster the portfolio.

But, as the other commenters are saying, intelligence is too much to expect from a tabloid.
That depends. I browse it 3-4 times a day and it's a great source of inspiration, links to news I've missed on Twitter and some new programming snippets. It's filled with CSS3 / HTML5 snippets lately so from a front-end POV it's a great place to learn / expand your knowledge.
You could try to go backwards - check out a list of expiring domains and see if any match your market ;)

http://www.namejet.com/
Would you be opposed to considering the idea that the "social network" fad is nearing its end? We devs tend to see social as though it were a silver bullet for our apps; "Make it social, people love being social!"

Maybe people are just rediscovering hanging out in person. I know that I, personally, get no value out of Facebook, whereas I get a ton out of hanging out with people.

One other thing that may be contributing is that on Facebook, activity is required. Facebook has no equivalent of sitting back, relaxing, and silently watching a movie with people.
I'm ok with apple controlling the app and UI side of the iphone experience. But that's as far as their control should go. This technology is just silly. I don't care where I am, I'll always expect to be able to snap a picture or a quick vid of me and my peeps - if I ever find my camera disabled just because I'm at a live concert venue, that device is going in the bin.

And from a commercial viewpoint...

The companies are often left frustrated when videos of shows appear online via websites such as YouTube which let users watch them for free.

... this is complete hogwash. The "piracy is damaging my bottom line" only makes sense when they're selling the stuff themselves, which come on, they rarely do. When was the last time any of us went to a live concert which was later made into a dvd?

Anyway, I seriously doubt this technology ever sees the light of day. Apple already has plenty of leverage over record labels as it is, methinks.
The biggest problem with job boards is... recruiters. The idea here is that members in good-standing of the HN community are unlikely to be recruiters and thus can be trusted to freely post jobs to the board. If it was open to anyone then it would be flooded with crap immediately.
Expensive laywers.
Or to sue others. From what I've seen so far about half of the time they used them to defend themselves, and the other half to sue others - maybe a bit more than half to sue others.
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he's describing a meritocratic system. The gatekeeper is still the US government. The acceptance criteria is still merit in one shape or the other. It's all just easier.
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Until you finally realize rewrites don't work and learn to refactor :)
This was a rather pointless article. Yes, every company will reach a point where growth slows. Yes, every company will have users who quit. Yes, valuations are high right now. Yes, many companies will get replaced by better ones that come along. And yes, it is implied that Facebook is a company.

How does any of this lead to "the end of facebook"?? The author even states "Facebook is still growing very fast in terms of page views and number of users."

Major linkbait.
Why wouldn't people just give up on social networks? I think a lot of people initially sign up because a lot of their real-life friends do, use it for a while, and then get bored. To me, sites like facebook just become a hassle after a while. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels the same way.
Wow, the media is really biting on that RUMOR, eh? Jeez.
Consider http://remembersaurus.com/askhn.html.
This certainly explains the explosion of manufacturing in China.
Just because there is a lot of chatter doesn't mean that there aren't also scientists working on it at the same time.
Can I just say that you've raised a genuine and valid question, and it's nice to have seen the answer, but your phrasing of the question makes it sound as if you're being really quite snarky about it. Is that the way you feel? Or have I read you wrongly?

Thx.
I agree there is no alternative, but I think Facebook can go as quickly as it came. My experience is from using Orkut in Brazil. In 2005 Orkut was as hot as Facebook is now in the US, everyone was there. Nowadays everybody is moving to Facebook. I suspect the same thing will happen again 5 years from now.
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Yes, because while I can see it's fad-ish, it also serves a need. My friends use the event invites to schedule their parties and it's really easy, since everyone already has a facebook account.

If I tried to get them to switch to another party planning service, I know the answer will be 'It's too hard to get everyone to make an account there. We've already got accounts here.'
I find it hard to believe just because C# and F# are the only first-class languages on Windows. Iron Ruby is pretty good now, but that took years to get it close to Ruby MRI. The same can be said for other languages. Newer run-times like node.js are very hard to get set up in Windows (even if you use cygwin). Pretty much any new trendy language goes to Linux first (unless Microsoft is the creator).

As long a Windows has market share it will have programmers, and most of those programmers are going to use .NET.
No. The sky is not falling. There's more to .NET programming than just desktop apps.

1. Those HTML5 + JS apps will talk to web services, which will likely be written in .NET talking to SQL Server.

2. Traditional apps still work in Win8
Eyeroll-worthy headlines like these are good for one thing, at least: I know not to even bother clicking through to read the article.
I'm an abrupt person and things come out bluntly sometimes.

I haven't made up my mind if it's a good or bad idea, I'm just trying to figure out the reasoning behind it.
Soo... Instead of employers or recruiters posting jobs, employees (specifically hackers) would post the jobs on behalf of their companies?
I haven't looked into it, but I wonder when/if/how the library of congress and/or Smithsonian should have some part of this archive as well. I know one of the two did some things with twitter.
Except that the Fear part of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt is the staple of the other side.
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Yes, but they're usually not the ones making a fuss in the media about it, and they're not the ones who will ultimately make or not make political decisions.
StackOverflow careers is current invite-only, with the caveat that if you have a nice GitHub account the company themselves will invite you. (I think there was another type of account that could get you access, but I didn't pay enough attention.)

Perhaps a way around the restriction would be to adopt a similar system. People with 200 karma or 2 years would be automatically accepted, but others would need an invite from an existing member.
Wow. Non toxic. Cleans off with water. Doesn't linger in the environment. Easy to ship in powdered form. Sounds like a miracle substance!
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Yes and no - personally I closed my Facebook account while becoming much more active on Twitter. No, it wasn't a direct replacement for me, and my reasons for using both services were very different, but the fact that I don't find Facebook useful doesn't mean I don't find any type of "social networking" useful.
Yes, but also employers. There are plenty of employers here (e.g. me) who are looking to hire people.
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Except your gut is wrong. Recycling is not really clean. For some things maybe but not for everything (it uses far too much water).

Well, recycling might use too much energy to be clean (depending on how we get the energy), but using too much water doesn't seem a useful complaint, since cleaning and reusing water is just a matter of more energy.
Microsoft showed off a new option for creating UIs and now everyone is running around saying the whole .NET eco-system is going down the can.

If you believe that you are a freaking idiot!
I have seen the RSVP scale slide from yes means yes to yes means maybe, maybe means no and no means hell no. Your group of friends may be different, but mine tends to either use email or do invites in person. From this point of view FB is useless to me.
I'm surprised PayPal doesn't already do this. (My account is years old, so I don't know their current practices for creating new accounts).

Twitter and Facebook both do.
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Javascript de-obfuscation FTW :-).
Of course you can't tell with certainty but you can guess at averages. Would you rather work with a programmer who has a track record of launching excellent products or a random guy picked off the street?

Encouraging immigration of skilled individuals is not a moral policy, it's an economic one.
People on HN are way too keen to downvoting. Down votes should be used to filter out bad/thoughtless comments, not viewpoints that don't necessarily agree with yours. I've seen a lot of valuable input grayed out on this site.
"web services, which will likely be written in .NET talking to SQL Server" - cough, why?
Yeah, I agree too.
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I think it's good to have a combination. But to find a good name you need some aesthetic appreciation.
Long term citizens of Malmo and certain Paris arrondissements disagree, I think.

Just because you haven't read about the issue in a major US paper doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

"Few serious people" make blanket claims of "few serious people claiming" without realizing they are engaging in a tactic meant to shame someone over expressing an unpopular idea.
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I would have thought so, once the code has been called a few times the JIT will kick in. There will be a small overhead for actually making the C to Lua call, which you can't get rid of, unlike the other way round where you can call C from Lua with the FFI with no overhead.

If you want to see what the overhead is, the Lua module for Nginx is comparable if you compile with LuaJIT, should be fairly easy to benchmark just adding a small bit of code. Actually I tend to use this combination instead of Varnish where I actually want to mess with stuff, like do authentication while processing requests etc.
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My conclusion has been that the models are not accurate enough to say with any sort of certainty, since the 90's. It's pretty easy to decide when you look at how they're supposed to work from a physical perspective.
Facebook needs to take a lesson from what has happened to Microsoft. Microsoft is making its best products ever but the reputation of Windows is so soured that it doesn't matter. People associate Windows with viruses and crashes. Now people use Windows because they have to, not because they want to.

Facebook is in danger of suffering the same thing. Like you, I have a lot of non-technical friends who feel uneasy about Facebook; they just don't trust it. They feel the games are scammy. They find that they can access their pictures when logged out. They use it any ways. But increasingly, they don't like it.
Sorry, I should have clarified in stating fluid width layouts. I'm a much bigger fan of pages that specify the width as a percentage. Or that at least use max-width/min-width so I can expand the pages as needed. Every grid system I've encountered fixes the width at 960px or 980px. I've found floats are the best, but by no means, only way to achieve a fluid layout with a variable width.
The filtering works surprisingly well. Thank you for building this!
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But STAY AWAY from any Dune follow-up novels written by Herbert's son, including the "final" one of the series. Just terrible, it breaks your heart.
Labor cost inputs to agriculture are low and have been falling for decades.

How do Germany and other high-wage countries manage harvesting?

They invest in automation instead of pushing for what is close to indentured servitude, as American agribusiness does.
Google Calendar failing to send email alerts?
I've missed a few appointments now because of that. Is this happening to anyone else?

I wonder if it's related to the # of mins prior to the event, which sometimes I'll set to 1-2 mins.
You can already do this in Chrome without doing anything (in Google fashion, though, the UI isn't very intuitive).

Check Paul Irish's Chrome Dev Tools talk from JSConf 2011 for that and other tips.
About the same day as Apache Traffic Server, another http proxy, hit version 3.0 as well http://trafficserver.apache.org/

Has anyone used ATS, any recommendations over Varnish?
I normally compare the odds of unseating Facebook as the same as unseating Google for search. It might happen at some point, but it will be exceptionally difficult. I think FB is so much more ingrained than any other social network has been before, say MySpace or Orkut. I really hope we do see some competition in the future.
For some reason the global warming crowd doesn't talk about the fact that the primary greenhouse gas is water vapor. CO2 only makes up something like 10%, and the human caused part only about 4% of that, which is 0.4% overall.
I could be mistaken, but I think the idea is you only have one h1 per page. If you use an h1 in different contexts on different pages, the rules for those pages should probably be in different stylesheets as well, obviating the need to qualify them.
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The exact same sentence applies to Scheme. Example: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/bind
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Hispanic TFR 2.5-2.8. Roughly, the average number of children per woman over lifespan.

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Median Hispanic household income: $37912.

For your median Hispanic household, during school age years with 3 kids we're talking about $24,900 per year in taxpayer expenditures, which is about 65% of their household income. This is likely significantly more than is paid in taxes by the household and is one line item; we have not yet included medical bills or the array of other costs borne by society.

Business owners are currently fobbing off the costs of unskilled immigration (illegal and otherwise) on the rest of society; your cheap produce is not cheap.
I can imagine how this would be extremely beneficial in terms of ease-of-use. I hope someone creates a lua module for Varnish using VMOD, which I don't think should be very hard. Maybe I should give it a shot, actually.
First "app" on HN in 2 months that I actually _need_ (as defined by myself). Very useful, thank you.
Of course there are alternatives. Twitter is an alternative (not saying its a killer though). An alternative doesn't (and really shouldn't) have to contain all of the same features or work in the same way. It's just something that you use instead of. The Windows killer turned out to be "The Internet". Although it's a different beast, it moved Windows to the background. The Facebook killer might very well be a protocol for sharing things on the net. Or simply more sites adding their own social features. Or something no one has thought of yet.
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