skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to use that for other engines but Google have shifted if this is necessary. (all figures from my local Google not .com)

+groupon -"group on" = 177M pages
groupon = 124M pages

Huh?

+groupon = 81.2M pages
+groupon +chicago = 20M pages
+groupon +chicago -"group on" = 36.9M pages

But this gets altered (sometimes) to remove the "+" when additional terms are included.

It's a mess.
There is no real interaction, it just runs. The Conway rule changes the edges to random values every frame, the other two rules just set the edges to a random value at the start. I looked at other "life-like" rules but most of them seem to result in the whole screen just filling pretty quickly.

HTML5 Canvas obviously, the javascript is a bit sloppy since I pretty much just sat down and banged it out at 3am last night. I didn't minify it, so you can take a look at it pretty easily but don't expect something pretty.
A Short Note on Facebook and the Moore's Law
Is it just me, or do the Thiel Fellow projects seem to suffer from hubris? I understand that the founders are young and a little naive, but instead of lofty claims like:

"No longer will we navigate endlessly in search of reliable content"

"Ingenic is the next iteration in the expansion of connections online, enabling the connection of content into a singular consumption source. "

... some substance would be more useful. In particular (and this is something that first year PhD students learn painfully), a survey of what's out there will show that obvious solutions have been tried and re-tried and failed, and (to quote xkcd), "I think you'll find it's a little more complicated than that..."

Makes me think about the guidance they're receiving...
The second half of that was pretty much what I was getting at; I was presenting a way for people to legally demonstrate that a corporation or government entity is breaking the law. If the government changes the laws to make its spying legal (coughpatriotactcough) the only real solution is for the average user to stop being an idiot long enough to learn, use, and demand good crypto.
I thought I recognized this rant...same one that has been repeated for the last 2 months in the BTC forums. Miners don't care...I should know, I am one...and given my current power cost I may be one of the last. I will start worrying about mining profitability when Vladimir starts shutting down one of his 3 data centers...since he pays 7 times the power I do. At that point folding@home or seti gets my GPU cycles...that is if nobody figures a better way to profit from leasing these machines for other than bitcoin use (legal ways that is).
I was wondering the same thing. I've never had the inclination to even go to their website.
This is a development that fascinates me as well. Upper middle class families no longer employing a host of household help (i.e. the Mary Poppins household) seems like an effect of increased productivity and job opportunity.

It is difficult to overstate the increase in opportunity over the last hundred years for women in particular. Back then, there were so very few avenues to the middle class for even an extraordinary single woman. Today, Mary Poppins would probably go to a fine college and be able to land a job as a pharmaceutical sales representative at the very least.
The rest of the world lives inside Facebook.

For now.

To me, there's exactly one compelling thing about Facebook: It illustrated that normal humans will join and use a social network.

Beyond that, I don't see any reason why their adoption patterns will differ from those we've already seen with other humans on other "social" web properties (Hi Livejournal/Facethejury/Friendster et al!). Which is to say, the enthusiastic folks eventually get those who joined begrudgingly involved, everyone has fun for a while, then everyone gets bored and moves on.

It's not as if nerds who have SRS PRIVACY CONCERNZ and talk about things like data portability are the only people growing weary of Facebook. An approximate majority of the musicians/DJs/artists I know in real life and on the internet say they hate Facebook but maintain an account for promotional purposes. But they all seem to have really warmed up to Twitter. (Specifically, most in the music crowd seem to have adopted a combination of Twitter and Soundcloud as their primary internet residencies, filling the void where MySpace once resided.)

To assume that Facebook will remain the social network of note just because they're Facebook, or just because they got there first (sort of) seems naïve.

The network effect will be the primary driver of where we all—geeks and normies alike—end up next. Facebook doesn't really have any control over that. And we've seen that the network effect can linger even after the product has effectively failed (Hi MySpace!), so having the network now may not be a reliable indicator that they'll keep it, even in the very near term.

And that leaves the product. Which is fine, I guess. Not that bad, not that great. But when Google announces their first real crack at a genuine social network and it has features no one's even talked about yet, and it's cooked directly into their mobile platform running on about 180 Mm devices worldwide [1][2], Facebook's "awesome" reply, "We've got video chat now," falls flat. To me at least.

[1] http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1622614
[2] Android/Google+ and some of the new iOS 5 features along with Apple's Twitter partnership have me semi-convinced that we're moving towards the transparent social network, where membership has much more to do with which smartphone you buy than anything else. I predict that in a competition with Google and Apple/Twitter, Microsoft/Facebook will turn out to be also-rans. Also, poor RIM.
FB became quite awesome when they integrated Friendfeed's technology and the stream became quick and much more transparent in terms of usability.

At the same time, when Buzz came out, it was even faster and cleaner. Just not placed in the right context. There must have been some lessons and technology learned from Buzz.
Also, as discussed in another thread[1], DreamHost stores passwords in a recoverable fashion (apparently some custom-rolled symmetric crypto algorithm) and supposedly gives devs root access to production machines.

It's not their honesty that worries me, it's their security.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727396
We have http://ddg.gg/

As for duck.com, see https://duck.co/topic/duck-com-redirects-to-google
this is PATHETIC. too little, too late.

facebook is fucked.
Gmail has had group chat for a long time. G+ has it on the mobile app, and really you could join a hangout and use the text chat feature for group chat as well (even without a mic/webcam). I'm not sure why the G+ in-browser gchat doesn't support group chat, but I would guess it probably will.
MSN was (is?) pretty popular in Latin America. I had 0 "real life" friends on AIM. My few AIM buddies were people I met in games.
FYI: !hn or !yc is shorter (take your pick).
Well said.

I was about to tack on "questions on the other hand..." to my comment but was already in bed when I thought of it.
Interview with Bill James on Crime
It's a nice thought but BitCoin doesn't change the debt-leveraged practice of the banks. Sorry to rain on the parade.

The fractional reserve requirement allows the banks to lend multiples of their incoming deposits no matter what the currency. BitCoin is just another currency, like the dollars. M1/M2 in circulation is much smaller than the actual money used in the economy. BitCoin will be the same way.

The banks can very well open BitCoin accounts, allowing people to deposit actual BTC. The bank then lends the BitCoin out in multiple of deposit, like 5BTC lent out for 1BTC deposited. The BitCoin lent out are not delivered in actual BTC, just some numbers in the borrowers' accounts. Only when the borrowers withdraw that they get back BTC. Like the dollar accounts, most people don't withdraw large amount of dollars; they just write checks or wire transfer them. Same way for the BitCoin accounts. Thus the debt-leverage economy with BitCoin will arrive.

If everyone withdraws from the BitCoin accounts, there would be a run on the bank and the bank won't have enough BTC reserve to meet the demand and collapses. Banks can put daily withdraw limit like ATM and tell people to write BTC check. It's just as good as BTC.

The digital nature of BitCoin will probably allow people to withdraw more easily and thus lower the possible leverage multiplier.
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If I now do a search at google.co.uk for "jquery 1.6.2" the linked article is the first hit.

The .IT in question site is the fourth.

Things move fast on the interweb, I can't agree with anyone claiming this is Googles fault.

With the size of the database, the breadth of queries that are done against it and the myriad of possible returns - how could they reasonably police it?
DuckDuckGo for iOS
Added you to my circle, shared stuff with you,tagged you on a photo and hope it gets you an invite. seems like google is hellbent on not providing new invites :(
I love the sensationalism of the headline. Very exciting, concise and a good summary of what's to follow.

I genuinely enjoy the techniques yellow journalists use to get page hits :)

This gif from the article is great:
http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/faceboo...
I wasn't suggesting that MS told them to do that. To my knowledge, this first time that Facebook has left the Web and launched a feature only available to specific OSs by way of desktop applications.

Remember that this video chat is not a web page. It's a Microsoft (and Apple? I don't know) desktop application that integrates into their web page.

I'm suggesting that Facebook is showing their alliance to Microsoft by ignoring some other OSs and launching Microsoft-powered features. If you include video chat as an integral part of Facebook, then you can no longer call Facebook a web site.
How do you handle your project manager?
This.

I sent my wife the intro link for Google+ when they launched and she couldn't even be bothered to check it out. Why? Because everyone she knows is on facebook.

If her friends move, then she'll move. It'll probably annoy her to have to switch too.
Well, the Italian TLD is not really a red flag in these days of "cute" domain names. Which is the real page for BackPack?

http://backpackit.com/

http://backpack.it/

If the "wrong" one had the same content as the right one, would you know which one to pick?
So what is your point exactly? That the only reason people will stay on Facebook is that they already are on Facebook? By this logic they never would have gotten on Facebook in the first place, because Facebook started out empty, and everybody already was somwhere else, say MySpace, and ICQ/AIM/YIM/MSN before that.
Georgia Tech working w/ DHS to develop open source cybersecurity tools
Site looks to be back up and it looks great. Thanks!
Twitter Seeks $7 Billion Valuation
It'd be more interesting to see how it's changed in the 2 and a bit years since this was written.
Facebook Video Calling: Initial Impressions
I'm still waiting for my google plus invite.
Thanks. That wasn't clear from your earlier post (and I didn't know that this was a desktop app either).
First I've heard of your site. How is it different from Indeed?
Tesco virtual supermarket in a subway station
I've wanted to build something like my idea for years, but it's not something you can do on the cheap. I've thought about focusing on some vertical to make it cheaper, but meh.
Well, it's only one bus from work and I can be there for about 18:00, so I don't think that's great a problem. I heard there are some things going on around the Northern Quater.

Apparently I've done this already so I must have been this far before. Looking at the time, I think I could make it but I don't think there's anything worse than turning up after everyone else!

I'm 19 so I don't think I will have MUCH trouble regarding that. It depends if an over-21 or 25 bar is used. I think maybe MadLab is the place I was talking about above.

Again, much appreciation for your advice and taking the time to help me out. I can't thank you enough.
If I'm interviewing someone, I will go research them beforehand. I've been handed resumes, and gone and done a google search. If there's no blog, no sourceforge/github, no homepage, no mailing list chatter, I've had that weigh in my decision.

Previous work is listed on the resume.

I didn't suggest stalking a twitter feed, but googling for me would indicate I do have a twitter account. And a blog. And a github account. And a podcast. And that I run a local user group.

To then be asked "so, what's your involvement with the tech community?". Or "what sort of tech work do you engage in outside of office hours?". That's just lazy. There are 2 people on the planet with my name. This isn't a case of "John Smith"-itis.

I also hate the calls from recruiters (I don't often take) that start with "I found your resume...." and end with "... send me your resume". Umm... you have it. YOU FOUND IT ONLINE. THAT'S IT. Sure.... they may have found one from 8 years ago - I get it. I tell them - "it's updated on my website and in multiple formats". If they can't be bothered to go to my website to download it, we're off to a bad start and this relationship isn't going to work.
The title can be a little misleading to the lay reader, almost to comical effect. But this is actually a pretty significant finding w/r/t its implications for current theories in physics.
What do people use for writing papers collaboratively?
'Awesome'...not even close. It does not work on linux. Its prompting me to install an exe. not cool!!
:) To be fair, G+'s Hangouts is also currently a desktop app (requires the Gtalk plugin I think). I suspect Google will move away from that and go towards a full web page. We'll see. This is all so exciting.
Why would you expect a hopeful employer to wait until interview day to forward the resume out to the interview team? Sales teams put more effort into their pitches.
Why can't you email and ask them who they are?
It's also useful I think to link to Tegmark's sorta-famous Multiverse Hierarchy.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1283
I'm not convinced. I caught up with a couple of friends recently, not the geekiest crowd, but all but one have Android devices. The Android owners now live in googleverse, and none are on Facebook more often than they check their gmail. I also know a fair amount of people who check Facebook once a week or rarer. My aunt, who is just discovering that she can forward me funny pictures via email, contacts me from her Yahoo account. The rest of the world? Not quite.
If your company's success largely hinges on a TechCruch article, you have much, much larger problems.
>it doesn't integrate with Skype contacts even though it uses Skype's services (read: network)

I think that's a good thing for Facebook?
Sure, sounds like fun...

I hope people understand that the success of bitcoin speculation in no way demonstrates bitcoin's practicality as a currency. A currency doesn't benefit from being the subject of speculation - it benefits from having a stable value so you can just use it to buy and sell stuff.
I believe the proper phrase is "Computer, arch."
OK, the question I have here is about monetization. Who will get more money from this deal - Facebook or Microsoft/Skype and how? Skype has not been profitable for so many years (although they charge for phone calls and have ads), and I don't see this moving it closer to the goal.
Also, if FB allows group video-chat for free why would I pay Skype the subscription fee - I will just call from Facebook.
Well, some would say that HN submissions is a humanly-curated directory. And it is doing quite well, from what i've heard[1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2401131
Livejournal/Facethejury/Friendster

These never reached the audience Facebook has today. 750M users and growing, FB won social networking. Game over.

It's not as if nerds who have SRS PRIVACY CONCERNZ and talk about things like data portability are the only people growing weary of Facebook.

I guarantee you this is a very tiny portion. I live with someone who spends lots of time on FB ("Oh, look at this pictures from XYZ"). They don't even know there is a discussion going around privacy.

To assume that Facebook will remain the social network of note just because they're Facebook, or just because they got there first (sort of) seems naïve.

It will just as Microsoft has dominated the OS space. Another desktop OS is not going to kill MSFT, but maybe mobile will. Same for FB, it will take a different experience to get people to stop spending as much time on the site. Something like Instagram or With with a few added features/mechanisms.
Bing has a similar feature and one that might have more life given MSFT's relationship status with Facebook.
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The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake?
You may already know Microsoft has forced five Android vendors to pay royalties each time they ship a device, and is suing Motorola and Barnes & Noble in cases that claim Android steals Microsoft intellectual property.
Exactly which patents are supposedly violated by Google's Android mobile OS? Microsoft isn't revealing the details in cases settled without a lawsuit, but court documents cases against Motorola and Barnes & Noble detail more than a dozen patents Microsoft claims Android devices violate. Here's a look.
this isn't related to datum at all, is it?

also, the web version doesn't seem to support entering data?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17675

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2677600
Mobile ID Card
Thanks, this was the answer I was looking for.
Addictive FREE iPhone Sniper Game - Online Sniper League
Link: http://bit.ly/of9Vpf
This game features online multiplayer via Game Center where you can launch attacks against your opponent and they can do the same. You try to get your agents to their boss. Once there they will reveal your opponent's position and you can take them out with a well placed bullet to the head.

You can send some interesting attacks - like putting a thumbprint on their scope or inverting their controls. You can also Rick Roll them which plays an amazing song and jams their recon. There are 24 perks currently too which can be used to further mess with your opponent. You can cause a snow storm on their screen so it's hard for them to see or cause a temporary mutiny so their attacks go against themselves.

It's an addicting game that has tons of replay value due to different opponents and their perks and strategies.

I guarantee you will be hooked after playing just 5 multiplayer matches.

Check it out here: http://bit.ly/of9Vpf
The video chat feature will ensure that my Facebook chat stays closed so random people don't pop up wanting to video chat.
It doesn't matter how many people are mining, coins are generated at a fixed rate. The difficulty to mine coins is varied automatically to assure this.

It's this difficulty that affects miners when more folks start mining. In effect they are taking the known portion of the pie (coins to be mined in a given time frame) and slicing it into many more pieces. This means that you have to work for a much longer time to have a nice large piece of pie with plenty of room for ice cream and whipped cream on top.
Tech Wildcatters Fall Applications Open Until July 24th
Indeed. I don't know about today, but back in 2006 MSN was as popular as AIM and Yahoo! worldwide and particularly strong in certain areas -- there are some countries where it was even a verb ("I'll MSN you"). But then MS changed the name to "Windows Live Messenger", underinvested, and prioritized search instead. Ah well.
I just came across a REAL list that looked exactly like the one in the article (yeah, that's the point but I still found it funny how uncanny it was)

http://www.ketchum.com/careers

How we stand out is through six guiding principles, which bring our vision to life and help us attract many of the best PR and communications pros in the industry:

1. Attract and Retain Distinct Talent - Recruit people of integrity who respect one another, want to grow professionally, value diverse views, work hard and have fun.

2. Preserve Our Client-centered Culture - Make sure we continue to forge enduring client partnerships by delivering fresh and actionable insights, compelling creativity and quality work.

3. Focus on Results - Deliver results that clearly show value and drive brand awareness, credibility and loyalty.

4. Go Beyond the Obvious - Seek innovative solutions -- from any source -- to address each client’s unique business challenge.

5. Create Communications That Get Heard - Dominate in media relations and differentiate through innovative media solutions -- deepen relationships by engaging influencers and stakeholders.

6. Hold Each Other Accountable - Evaluate our performance against fair and objective standards to improve our performance as individuals, teams and a total firm.
Zuckerberg's Law of Information Sharing
Facebook actually has 750 million active users, according to the press conference today. They've also updated their Statistics page to reflect that; https://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
Will the Spotify Business Model Work?
Check your gmail ip records (at bottom of page in gmail) for latest access and useragent string.

Do you have a persistent connection to a vpn or something you can check?

In the future, make sure to use something like Prey[1] and test it.

[1] http://preyproject.com/
Ask HN: What's the best to-do list manager?
I'm looking for a to-do list manager to help organise my hacking projects a little.

The ideal candidate would have the following features:

1) Multiple lists
2) Nested To-Do's
3) Cloud hosted
4) Android client

Any suggestions?
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is.
I was just all over Central and South America, and internet cafes were always full of high school kids, every single screen full of MSN chat windows.
great summary, you nailed both the content and the tone
What does America want? #AskObama Twitter insights knows
You can pass security and fly without a picture ID (You know this if you have ever forgotten to bring your ID to the airport). They just make you do a couple other things to identify yourself.
I've been looking an app like this for android. Any suggestions? I'm not sure I'd want to store all my personal data using the web app.
Rapportive already does that (and more) from Gmail
Can anyone link to an example of a Node.js server querying a database (with a client consuming that response)?
What Twitter users asked the president - Boston.com
I believe Spotify paid the labels for each and every track played. So their burn rate was something like £20million per year. They needed to convert free users to paying users.

Personally I'm incredibly happy with Spotify.
Ironically, the search has a little bug. There's no where to do a two word phrase search, so if i do 'fried chicken' or "fried chicken" I get chicken fried steak as the number one result. Seems like the refinements show that it also searched for the word individually.
This is just the market cap effect. You can't buy or sell a company for its market cap; usually the real price is much higher or lower. Likewise just because you can buy or sell 1 BTC for $15 does not mean that 6.7M BTC are really worth $103M.
Yes but they at least provide the appropriate plugin for Linux users.
Well, so now we know why Google+ launched last week.

Doesn't look like they do group videochat?

Group chat is really, really important. But it's what we've always used Facebook for; it was just structured as "comment threads".
Wow. Anytime I hear about people choosing C++ as their target, I have mingled feelings of awe and uneasiness.
MongoDB is the New MySQL
Mom or Entrepreneur - You Don't Have to Choose
Interesting take on customer development...