skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is completely wrong.

People who buy ads against Facebook and Google profiles don't get to see specific info about the users they are targeting.

In this case the firm doing the targeting is also the firm that can see all the profile data.
So, Google and Facebook are basically ad targeting firms.
An invite a day...that's an interesting proposition. It would make me want to find a new friend that I could convince to join Google+ everyday :)
Wow - 200Mbps fiber for about £25 a month - that's pretty good!

http://www.lattelecom.lv/majai/internets/optiskais_internets...
Slightly off topic from the article, I'm curious when they're going to integrate their gaming platform into this, or any 3rd party development for that matter.
So I realize this opinion will be unpopular, but the tax nexus issue is huge and really is unfair. California residents are legally obligated to pay sales tax on online purchases from out of state, but of course, no one does because Amazon et al have gone out of their way to avoid having to collect it. They effectively get a free ride, tax-wise, which just forces the taxes to go higher everywhere else.

The big box stores you mention obviously have an interest in all this, but it genuinely does hurt the local mom and pop's too.

It really needs to be fixed federally, though, or you get the kind of nose-cutting behavior you see from Amazon. Losing California from their affiliate program would hurt more than the states that came before.
That $200MM figure came from MocoSpace, a "potential" buyer, not from MySpace. But I don't think MocoSpace's offer was more than an attempt to grab attention for itself, which means it was to their benefit to quote a large number.

From https://allthingsd.com/20110210/myspace-is-certainly-for-sal... , "... the look-at-me attempt to suck up some attention from the media was riveting and appalling at the same time."

If I put out a press release saying I'd like to buy Facebook for a trillion dollars -- you know, to impress a girl -- it wouldn't be fair to turn that into a claim that Facebook now thinks it's worth a trillion dollars.
Your friends would still know who invited them to the discussion.
I believe we'd be selling ourselves short if we didn't already take those three big quotes into consideration when developing applications. If you're in a startup environment and not writing one-off client applications, you're probably already well versed in this so-called "UDX" voodoo magic. The designer/developer relationship is one of give and take. Compromises must be made for the sake of completing tasks on time.

My advise is to simply wear many hats; especially to keep clowns like these "UXD" types out of your company.
Affected companies will end their affiliate programs so they don't have to pay the tax. This means that the state won't collect the tax revenue anyway. It's obvious that this is just a ploy by competitors (Walmart) of companies with successful affiliate programs (Amazon).
None of this matters. They basically just paid $0.50 per user for their data acquisition. That's a great deal!
Thing is, Amazon and pretty much every other online retailer supports the streamlined sales tax. It isn't about not collecting it; it is about the reporting requirements which are quite frankly nuts.

It isn't really about fair share in the end. These laws are pushed by big-box retailers that just want to hurt the advertising efforts of online retailers. SB234, the worst of these bills, didn't limit it to just affiliates - almost any manner of electronic presence would qualify, including Google Ads and web hosting.

Now, that said, I do want to see the tax codes revamped. You just can't do it this way because it is unconstitutional (it violated the commerce clause) and because it gains no revenue in the end (affiliates are terminated or just leave the state). This bill is supposed to close a budget gap but it will instead cost the state in lost income, payroll and property taxes from the businesses that leave.

Not to mention the lawsuits that will inevitably follow to challenge it....
Besides not understanding hate/low value towards parents' Anti-Data-Lock-in post (On-point with "Avoiding vendor lock-in for computer software": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in), I am unsatisfied and frustrated my high-five post gets downvotes. With a certain humility. It's like getting pushed over for waving your hands (or voting).

I passionately support freeing data because of my work and info I want to share freely being archived|trapped away as proprietary property/formats.

I hope a little phrase like Anti-Data-Lock-in can transcend copyright and privacy. Maybe a meme for not losing your data/yourself, by being locked out.
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How will this affect Friendster's fortunes?!?
The interesting thing in the report is that they blame Romania for introducing "noise" in their statistics, so they did not include it. In one place they actually blame the ad-hoc networks for this, probably thinking that most of the country still has the pseudo-ISPs that were usual back in 2003.
I agree with the federal point - it needs to be solved there. The mom and pop businesses that get hurt though are hurt far more by Wal-Mart et al, not Amazon.
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I wonder if there is anyway for them to balance "extensive testing, and careful releases" with "getting a quorum so that the early adopters find it useful".

There is a way, but they need to do more groundwork. Facebook started University by University. Even if it's only people at my University that can use Facebook, that's OK, because I have something in common with those people. I don't need everyone else in my life to be able to use it in order for it to be of value to me.

They need to find groups of people who have something in common.

This could be University's, companies, sporting associations, etc. Anything where there is a group of people who have a reason to communicate with each other and where it can reach a critical mass of usefulness relatively quickly.

Of course, it will require a little more hand holding, but it will give the product a greater chance of success.

Use Buzz and Wave as examples.

I have absolutely no interest in interacting with my friends and family using those services. None. My Mum wouldn't even know where to start with them. They require too much effort. Besides she's got Facebook and everyone else she knows does too.

However, I would have happily given Buzz and Wave a go through my companies Google Apps account with the rest of the guys at my company. We try new services as a team all the time to see if we can find something that will help us in some way. BUT, these services were not available to me through my Google Apps account. Only through my Gmail account. Which is a bit of a PITA since -- at the time -- you could not be logged into both Google Apps and Gmail at the same time. So it was a non-starter.

My point? Facebook started small with University's. Students who had something in common. Google should probably start with businesses. Work colleagues who have something in common. Roll it out to one Google Apps account at a time. Hold their hand. Gain traction -- then with a solid base, spread your wings and jump.
so, you like flat, like Facebook's one ? :

http://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-org-charts-2011-6

:)
Government regulation is the cause of slow US broadband. The laws are set up to prevent competition. If these laws were removed speeds would increase dramatically for those that desired them.
Who puts their medical history on Myspace?
Wouldn't this negatively impact power consumption (over fine-grained, Jython-style locks) by having a processor repeating tasks instead of blocking and waiting for a task? It seems like this is intended to allow Python to scale to multiple cores better, but that is most often useful in a data center environment, where wasting power seems like a bad idea.
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A few thoughts on communication...

Don't talk about "exciting plans" in one sentence, and "a series of restructuring initiatives, including a significant reduction in our workforce" in the next. Especially when you just worked your employees to the bone revamping your platform.

Also, when you are announcing your company was sold for scrap, it is tone-deaf to gush about how it has been "the most engaging and challenging time of my professional career."

Yeesh.
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Lawyer types: if one were to, say, incorporate in Delaware, and then rejoin the Amazon program from a Delaware address (presuming that's possible) -- would that be legal?
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Masklinn, If my first point was not correct, then why is there so much lobbying effort and dollars being spent on the 'net neutrality' issue?

Also, just out of curiosity, want to know why the 'No' for the two barriers and if you identified something different that would change the landscape.
It's a good idea that would take quite a bit more work on our part. We'll discuss it and see what happens! Thanks!
If they were truly interested in promoting competition, they would make it easier for new companies to offer broadband rather than forcing them to go through an incumbent.
An amendment, by definition, amends the thing it is an amendment to.

So if the 1st amendment disagrees with the original constitution, the amendment over-rules it.
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Perhaps you'd like to consider a Wyoming shell company?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2708336
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I got a notice from Amazon as well. Though they specifically said they plan to terminate if and when the law passes, so the program (at least at AMZN) isn't dead quite yet.
I'd say if your organization is large enough to differentiate between "UX Developer," "Traditional Developer," and "Designer" then yes there are going to be communication problems. It shouldn't be disparaging to either side.

Also it doesn't have to be a middle-man. 3-way communication usually works fine.
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I used the eeepc image. There's a guide describing the necessary settings: http://www.android-x86.org/documents/virtualboxhowto
Hmm an option to hide does make sense. Still need to have an easy way to navigate to your overlaps (there's a "My Overlaps" link, but it's not very prominent).

With more data it'll be also be possible to suggest overlaps to you based on what you've already joined.
Great PR to jump in a high profile case and then let everyone see you walking out on your client!
That is exactly whats being done in the countries referenced in the article.
1. Does Google have a "broadcast mode"? Because I think it's vital. The problem with Facebook is that it only had a broadcast mode and not a "circles" mode. But does Google+ have only the Circles mode and not a broadcast one as well? All social networks need a broadcast mode (AND a circles mode).

2. Does it have a real time communication tool, such as Gtalk, or maybe another chat program that works across the entire network like Facebook chat. I think IM features are important for a social network, too. If it does, how does it work? Does a different chat appear in each Circle? Or do I see all at once? I'm not sure I'd like to see all at once. It's acceptable in the beginning, but what if you have 10 groups of ~20 people each? I think I'd prefer to just go into each Circle when I want to talk to that group, rather than see them all at once, and having them all see me when I'm online.
Just for the record, this isn't my project. I just happen to like it both as a future (Tuesday) Facebook employee, but more so as a long-time enthusiastic user of the service.

How long do you think the group chat feature would take?
It's a very interesting/strategic acquisition, but I doubt that anything good can come out of it for the user. I find it unlikely that this media company will try to improve the MySpace experience, instead they will likely focus on monetizing and ad-targeting.
Sort of. As I understand it this law would require amazon to start collecting sales tax. It does not mean amazon would be paying more themselves. Only that customers final bill would now include the local sales tax.
Some important background on this.

At issue here is sales tax. By state law, the tax is owed by the citizens to the state no matter where they make the purchase. To make enforcement easier, the tax is supposed to be collected by businesses. In theory the tax is owed regardless, but as a practical matter when businesses do not collect the tax, customers don't volunteer the information and the state loses revenue.

This annoys states to no end. However courts have long ruled that a company that is not in a state cannot be forced to be regulated by that state, even if it does businesses with residents from that state. They can't do that because that is interstate commerce, which the Constitution says is regulated by Congress, not the states. But if the company has a presence in that state, then it can be forced to obey state regulations, even if the actual commercial act crosses state boundaries.

This is all old hat, and was settled back in the 1800s with catalog companies.

The new twist here, that several states (now including California) have pursued, is declaring that the existence of an affiliate program with state residents is a business presence in that state. Because it is a presence, they can make Amazon collect taxes.

Amazon's position is that affiliates are not Amazon employees, and are not a presence of Amazon in that state. And therefore those laws are unconstitutional. However Amazon has chosen to not contest these laws in court. Instead Amazon has chosen to cut off all affiliates in any state that tries this tactic. It thereby guarantees that it no longer has a presence in that state, and it doesn't go about trying to collect taxes from people in that state.

The net result is that Amazon loses some business, the state continues to not get taxes, and some residents lose a source of income.
At the user level, STM + imperative(/uncontrolled effects) is basically a known failure. A lot of effort has been spent on it, with people with similar levels of control over their VM (like the C# attempt)

Agreed. The only project that I know of that's even close to a "working" implementation of STM is Haskell and that's because Haskell doesn't have uncontrolled stateful code.
No, it's completely right. If you're selling yourself to get free stuff, you should expect no privacy. I'm a 'fan' of privacy so to speak, but that's a basic fact which I don't see as something that can or perhaps even should be changed.

That there's usually a middleman is something of a random detail. You don't look through millions of profiles and pick this ad for this person. You group people by common characteristics and then match ads to those. That a different advertising firm is going to suddenly do something so much scarier sounds more like science fiction than fact.
With Plan 9's rfork() (and linux's less nice clone()), you can create new processes that share the memory of the old process, which addresses those two answers. Though, I'm not sure if this reinforces OP's point or just indicates that the distinction between threads and processes can be fuzzy.
Thank you, as much I tried to resist believing it...the grass certainly is greener on the other side.
Lithuania here - 25 pounds/month gives me unrestricted 100 Mbps, next month they're tripling all speeds for no additional costs. The one-step-cheaper option is 90% of the cost for only 10% of the speed, so I opted for this one instead.
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Gmail also allows you to send email to people who aren't Gmail users. I don't see how it's necessarily worse when Google+ does it. It doesn't sound like it's talking about Farmville here — more like what Apple does with iMessage, where it sends an iMessage to other users of Apple's service and a text to others.

(I'm not on Google+, so I don't speak from experience. That's just how it sounds to me.)
The incumbent is split into separate organisations, which are effectively not allowed to communicate behind closed doors. BT Openreach provides access to the local loop, whereas BT Retail sells broadband to consumers. The setup is designed so that other ISPs have exactly the same interface to BT Openreach as BT Retail.

BT offered this arrangement to avoid being broken up - look up the "General Conditions of Entitlement" for more detail.
Turf, an antecedent.

http://www.smedresmania.com/turf/
It's so good it's hilarious.
First you would have to stop the users leaving.
Then you'd have to get people to sign up.

What made myspace and other social sites is: "hey that's cool and new and trendy, lets join in". Once that traction is over, it's over for good as there is nothing new or trendy or cool about it anymore. It get's played out.

My personal opinion ... social sites are now worn out. Facebook will remain as-is with no new growth (after a while more), Google+/Circle will not have the effect that everyone is claiming it will, MySpace will be gutted for whatever the buyer can use (email lists, patents, talent, etc).

35 million is not a steal, it's probably the fare price at a fare valuation.
Not at all. They are doing this because they don't want to get into an unnecessary legal fight which could go either way.
This site looks pretty cool. I'd like to see some more cities listed.
So, did you make any powertop suggestions permanent, or are you fiddling with it every time, depending on the situation?
All fair points, but let's get out of the clouds of idealism and look at the actual effects of the law.

This law will move start-ups out of California without raising a single penny in new revenue. It may actually decrease the tax base by moving income out of the state!

So, yes, if you want CA to 'make a stand' to prove a point, fine -- but it makes no pragmatic sense for anyone.
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Way to go BrainTree! We use them at http://cam.ly, and the straightforwardness of their terms, and customer service has always been in a different league, compared to other merchant account providers.

Not to mention, a sane, documented API, and features / terms that actually make sense.
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One thing I don't understand when I sign up:

Should I use a pseudonym or my real name?

In general, I prefer to use my real name. However, if personal sentiments of mine will be shared publicly, then I prefer pseudonymity.
"If you've got the control necessary to automatically STM things, you might as well just equally-automatically copy the Jython-style locking."

So far thinking about how to really do that automatically failed. Do you feel like providing an idea?
It's per-month, not per-day - GMail only stores 30 days' worth of email in the Spam folder.

As to how - cron job on my server querying GMail via IMAP. Source below. Manually copy and paste the resulting text file to a GDoc spreadsheet; use the Time Series widget to generate the chart.

require 'net/imap'
require 'date'
imap = Net::IMAP.new('imap.gmail.com',993,true)
imap.login('yourlogin','yourpwd')
msgs = imap.status("[Gmail]/Spam",["MESSAGES"])["MESSAGES"]
puts Date.today.to_s + "\t" + msgs.to_s
I'm sure lots of people shared details of illness, pregnancy, drug abuse and other personal info that would fall under the rubric of medical data.
Agreed, very bad choice of words.

Even if the original message did not have all this nonsense, it was likely edited by PR flacks for a "positive" spin. That's one industry (PR) ready for some refreshing new approaches...
If you have something to say but fear that your writing style will "out" you, feel free to ask me to rewrite your message:

http://raganwald.posterous.com/freedom-of-speech
And here I was thinking this was a post about the MySpace deal.
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Didn't Google+ set up a feature so that you can add someone who doesn't have Google+ and it will send them your posts, etc. using email? Precisely for this reason?
This doesn't quite apply to PyPy (which doesn't have refcounting), but the point stands. In case of PyPy this is GC flags and moving GC.
I wonder how many people know that "Myspace Tom" was raided by the FBI when he was a kid: http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/30/myspace-cofounder-tom-ander...
No need to read the article, the title says it all. The article, however, contains a plug for the author's startup.
That's one reason I set up this cron in the first place - I wanted to see if "my spam" was the same as "everyone else's spam".

I wish I'd had your foresight and set this up earlier, but now I'm glad I didn't let that prevent me from doing it anyway; it's always fun to play scientist. :)
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Who uses email? Not anybody under 21.
To be perfectly candid, I am not sure if I have an issue with Google+, with my friends who think I want to throw a custard pie at them, or with the author who both praises and lambastes products that send you unsolicited email. Perhaops I should have simply said, "Hmmm, that's odd..."
"She has no grasp on the effect..."

"...the guy who put it forth has no clue about how the internet works..."

"...has literally no clue how this works and doesn't care a whit about the effect it will have..."

Really? Is e-commerce so weak that it can't compete on a level playing field with physical retail? Even if you think it is that weak, is it really so outlandish for people to think it can that it's worth a page of venom-filled invective? Yeah, Amazon's cutting off its nose to spite its face here, but doesn't that mean you should be mad at Amazon, not the state government?
I have to agree. I had UX as its own specific job role for a little while and it was absolutely miserable. Not satisfying in the least. It might have been different at another organization but overall, you're just an appendage that's not doing a lot to impact the final product.

Much more gratifying for me, as someone with both taste and technical background, is my current role where I just do everything. Prototype, build, design and ship apps and the whole loop closes inside my own head. But I have very specific experience for this – I don't know how often this is really practical.

Either way, I'd probably hate having a "UX guy" hovering around putting his dick into everything I'm working on. I suspect the only time "UX guy" can really, truly work as its own role is when you're CEO or some other autonomous leadership figure.
I hate facebook's photo-sharing. There are only two things it does reasonably OK-- resize large photos and caching the photos you're likely to view next. The new interface overlay with the black background is really annoying, I don't know anyone who likes it and quite a few who hate it passionately.
I think the difference is that NewsCorp made a billion plus in ad revenue from their deal with Google.
It's a continuous stream. We break it into chunks similar to what Luwak does, though.
Or do the obscenely complex logic for each of the tens of thousands of jurisdictions each year required to calculate sales tax.
Nice! How you deal with the risk involved with letting willet users' customers run up a tab? Or am I not understanding this correctly...