skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately the fix for this bug: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/767 didn't seem make it in. It is in 0.5.0pre though, and I've found it quite useful.
If they don't have a button that says "share" that you click before it posts that's a TOS violation and will likely be changed quickly if the FB compliance team is paying attention.

Fact of the matter is that install rates often don't change much when you ask for additional permissions. Most users don't care. There's often no compelling reason to build out complicated permissions flows when the standard "ask for it all up front" works just fine.
This is moving really fast...
I think the novelty factor is great.

The way I see it, this isn't necessarily a tool to generate the shortest URLs by character count ... it's more a way of demonstrating the sorts of characters that are valid in domain names, and just how short a domain name can be.

I chose ✩.ws/shaun -- and I think it looks cool!
A B+ for the beta Google+
Here's a book I recommend (cheap at $5):

http://www.amazon.com/Outfoxing-Small-Business-Owner-Relatio...
All the more reason to take all health studies with a large grain of salt and simply eat everything in moderation. It's just smart to hedge your bets and not depend on any one food- that's why we are omnivores.

Example:

Every additional serving of potatoes people added to their regular diet each day made them gain about a pound over four years... every added serving of fruits and vegetables prevented between a quarter- and a half-pound gain ... Every extra serving of nuts ... prevented more than a half-pound of weight gain. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/potato...)

If we take these findings at face-value, if you hedged your bets and ate equal parts potato, nuts, fruits, and vegetables, you'd net 0 lbs weight gain.
- I like the idea, but it's not obvious how to contact people that seem similar. I don't see any buttons to create messages -- if they do exist, they are well hidden.

- I like the concept of checking boxes/selecting attributes instead of answering a bunch of multiple choice questions.

- Finally, while this is a cool way to find similar people, it also seems like a nice way to find things you might like (e.g. "you don't play guitar, but 8 of the 10 people on the site who are most similar to you like to play guitar")
I haven't seen the evidence, but it seems to me to accuse him of code theft because the moves end up being the same seems a bit much.

Did he refuse to show his source code?

Also, claiming that he knew he was in the wrong because he denies being in the wrong is too much, too. He's more guilty because he claims to be innocent? Jeez.

Also, demanding the trophies and prize money back is fine, but if they take him to court over them, that's going too far. He might very well not have the money any more. That it took them 6 years to figure out he was cheating says it wasn't very obvious, to me. And now they claim that there is overwhelming evidence.

I dunno, something smells fishy to me. I'd certainly want more proof than 'it does the same moves'.
At $35 million I think you can make a number of arguments that this is a good purchase – user data, page traffic, ad network. I am unsure how to factor in brand value. Myspace has a huge brand awareness even if it is mostly negative.
May I ask where you sourced your neighborhood boundary KML? I could use this.
I should mention that when I tried to sign up for an account, I got an unhelpful PHP error.
That assumes the people giving the feedback are making an honest effort at a serious, constructive discussion.

There are people who are inherently negative and will complain about absolutely anything, justified or not, if there is no moderation from social pressure.

There are also people who don't have their company's best interest at heart, or who just like to stir up trouble for the sake of it.

Many of these cases come very close to the Internet definition of trolling - adopting a controversial position not because you believe it, but because you want to get a reaction out of people. You can't just assume that all criticism is valid.
Get More Done By Limiting White Space
The problem is mainly with bugs (often intentional) in the ACPI implementations of hardware vendors. While they almost always provide hacky windows drivers, they almost never provide linux patches, or even enough info for correct blacklists.
Cripes, who would admit that?
MySpace Acquired: Email From CEO Mike Jones To Employees
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MySpace sold for $35mm
Hackers now offering 'botnet-as-a-service'
I think that would be a good compromise, but I'd rather see everyone start with 1 or 2 invites, and let things expand organically for a while, then add more invites to everyone when the capacity is there.

Even giving everyone 1 invite every day would be better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93...

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BBP-TypeFormula.html
Business is About Building Relationships
That site is a piece of shit slow site, can anyone please sum up because by the time I page though all 7 pages I will shoot myself.

I'm really curious as to what the numbers are.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the baby bell split was a vertical split. In other words, it left 7 regional monopolies, rather than 7 companies covering the same regions, competing for the same customers.

That means that customers were still stuck with one choice for phone and internet access, but the choice merely varied based on where you went. The Baby Bells weren't competing with each other.
Wrong. Murdoch probably made a profit off the ads during that time. See above comments.
We use Riak at Dropcam to store H.264 video streaming from cameras running 24/7 which needs to be available for playback on the website and mobile apps. We needed a block store that could scale to handle petabytes, tolerate disk and node failures, and provide always-on write- and read-ability.

Riak fits the bill very well, though we did need to make a few mods to workaround certain problems. But it's Erlang/OTP, fairly small code-wise, and easy to modify.
like you acknowledged, i'm not sure how much weight i'd put in brand awareness when many view myspace as a laughingstock these days. plus, all that traffic is ramping downward at a crazy high rate: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/myspace.com/
I'm curious why their request an invite form goes to a form hosted on google spreadsheets. Isn't that kind of thing the core of their business in a sense?
We want input. I know the executives want feedback. Our company has a good history change through complaints and feedback. The founders were skeptical of version control, a programmer said we need it. They adopted CVS even though the founders thought it was pointless. We moved to SVN a couple years later when another new programmer said CVS was crap. One frontend/designer told the founders the brand and company name was crap. He created a new brand and name. Now he is in charge of the marketing department. We now have a UX department because one designer wanted to try it.

We have changed lots of things about our process and tools because the managers listen to what we, the developers, designers, QA, etc, say and ask for.

As we grow (doubling this year), our biggest challenge is maintaining the communication. Management wants, and I believe they are sincere, to have a way for anyone to complain or point out what we are doing wrong in an open and safe way. Part of that means being able to post anonymously. We once had a great discussion questioning why we are growing and why we focus on the market we do. These are big topics, unlike washing dishes and choice of coffee.

The problem is not people complaining or questioning what we are doing. The problem is someone anonymously saying "x sucks" then not having a discussion. Yes, X does suck, but if the person posting this isn't willing to give examples of why it sucks or suggest how to fix it, I consider it a harmful use of the anonymous post.
"Oh, you're a technical manager. Go get the programmers to talk to the artists again."
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Sony: Kutaragi, the "father of the PlayStation," will retire immediately
> News Corp. bought Myspace for $580 in 2005,

Nice proof reading there.

On a more serious note, to lose $0.5bn in value pretty much shows how far Myspace has fallen.
I just signed up. Here's my five minute impression: This is awesome. It's very simple and easy to use, and the list of personality traits/hobbies is well-populated. Plus it's just fun.

Once you collect enough data, I would enjoy seeing visualizations of correlations in the "overlaps", as you call them. For example, is there a strong correlation between liking Kurt Vonnegut and being an atheist? One of my favorite things about OkCupid is the OkTrends blog which reveals interesting things about their data. But, I have to wait until new posts are made on their blog to enjoy that. It would be cool if you built a tool that allows people to play with your data in realtime, generating pretty visuals, and then from those reports have links to people's profiles.

Maybe I'm in a minority who would enjoy playing with an analysis tool like that, but if that tool existed then I could use it to discover exactly how small of a minority group I'm in! :-)

Anyway, good luck with this site. I hope it catches on.
Plus the ads which popup on top of one another.
The game hit 600 players this afternoon and the dev teams says they are planning to build new feature so users can see the real time soldier count as the check ins fly and the battles go down!

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/29/fourcraft-turns-your-chec...
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As a designer, inventor, developer and entrepreneur who spends much of his time trying to improve user experience, I have to say I only noticed this "UX" label being used about a year ago. A few years ago there was HUI engineer, HI designer, interface designer, and cognitive scientist, all different names for the same job just like a job where you develop software might be called software engineer, developer, programmer, programmer analyst, architect, designer, etc. Now we have the term UX. I wonder what other labels there are floating about in the field of interface design.

Until today reading this post I thought UX is just the hip new word for HUI. Now I find that HUI has been split into two different specialties.

More and more people being added to each part of the task is not a good thing because the interface needs to be consistent and coherent, not broken into pieces each designed by a different group with a different philosophy. Oh sure there can be some document saying what the philosophy is supposed to be; but mission statements are not designs.

The greatest interfaces I have seen there was exactly one person in charge of deciding how everything works and that was guided by his personal philosophy of design.
I've been using Balsamiq for a while now and I love it. Sure it runs on Air and isn't free, but it's one of the best purchases we've made as a bootstrapped startup. Also, the group that runs Balsamiq is awesome and the CEO -Peldi?- writes a great blog.
Bug report: This service generates case insensitive URLs.
Interesting to hear that NewsCorp made that money back with the Google deal. I had no idea how much that was worth.
If they can get that traffic to level out, thats still a ton of uniques.
The issue I've seen for large businesses is that there is a lot of enterprise software that isn't supported on Win 7 yet.
From page 9 of TFA:

> Ubuntu 11.04 actually performed much better than anticipated. Prior to the tests commencing, the expectation was that Ubuntu 11.04 would lose handedly across all systems to Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1. That was far from the case.

> With similar workloads, for the most part the power consumption is comparable between Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7 Pro SP1. The only major differences came during Flash-based HD video playback being more efficient under Windows, power consumption while OpenGL gaming, and in select other areas. Ubuntu / Linux actually has the potential to become more power efficient than Microsoft Windows 7 based upon the close findings from today. Once Active-State Power Management (ASPM) is properly fixed up for Linux, there is still a Linux 2.6.35 kernel power regression, a scheduler power regression, and more. Just yesterday on my Twitter feed, the Phoronix Test Suite and I made a discovery of a possible 8% power savings from an entirely different vector. More to come.
Thanks. (There was a bug in the last version, it's corrected now.)
There's been times I'd give my right kidney to have a good UX developer. -sigh- Well, maybe not quite that much.

At a previous company, I tried over and over to get them to hire a 'front-end developer', when what I really wanted was a UX Developer. I don't think knowing the term would have made any difference in convincing them, though.
Simple name recognition is enough to get a lot of people to trust your site. People are a lot more willing to "log in with facebook" on frindster.com than they are on "Hi5.com".
I also think the flat v. hierarchy is pointless. In my experience, people are to some extent naturally hierarchical in their social structures. If you don't agree - think about an argument on some implementation detail that has dragged on for hours, days, maybe weeks. People are begging "Will somebody just call it already?" There is an efficiency in having somebody who knows when and how to call it. That is a form of hierarchy. Look at an open source project - the ultimate decentralization case - and yet 99% of the time there are one or more alpha geeks. That is a form of hierarchy. The fact that it arises spontaneously and is consensual does not make it less so.

The problem with hierarchy generally is not in the concept - it is in the implementation, and its poor scalability.

[Disclaimer: I herd geeks for a living. I get to call it. That does not mean I think I am better than my coders, nor that I know more than them, nor that I should be paid more. I like to think I am an asset to them].
Sorry, the link was just to corroborate the fact that cattle produce a lot of methane. For the GWP of Methane: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=methane+100+year+gwp
A Day With Google+: Did They Finally Get it Right?
It is like social networks have both the power to grow fast and die fast.

Yahoo, even after its search engine sucked compared to Google, still held on for a really long time.

But social networks seem to die really really quickly.
So many important tips, ranging from team and financing, to product.
Complimentary Unicode snowman:
http://➹.ws/☃
Samsung submits legal injunction to stop sale of Apple products
It sounds like you have a very unhealthy attitude toward interpersonal relationships. I'd suggest you dwell on the issue some more and embrace any changes that may be happening.

When I was in high school, I started paying more attention to others around that time to the detriment of some of my own interests. It's not the end of the world so long as you never forget who you are.
I apologize if you read that as a diss of Yahoo! — although compare the investment of Yahoo! in Flickr to say the investment of Apple into the iPod (which grew into the iPhone then the iPad). Or thing about the rate that Facebook has evolved in terms of adding feature sets over the last few years.
The Google-Myspace deal had minimum traffic requirements, thus it isn't clear that they made the $900M from Google:

http://mashable.com/2010/12/16/myspace-google-search-deal/
Google Goes + with Social Networking, iPhone App Coming
Except the process of raising money, which is where the valuation question comes up, is usually happening during the moments you don't have any profitability.
It's a great work division if you just want to get a paycheck. You get to do mockups, wireframes, user interviews, write-ups and research. You make 6 figures without having to have studied anything rigorous like engineering or design. You don't have to do any tedious programming or really anything that resembles work.
In re bloat - if our unit testing took 15 years and millions of dollars and could even end up involving the Supreme Court, I think any of us would tend towards bloat just to be on the safe side.

Code and the law kind of do the same thing (which is why we use the same word for it) but the platforms are vastly different.
We recently added agree/disagree buttons which works much like voting. There have been talks about more sophisticated things like thresholds and sorting, but it is happening slowly.
Since "many of MySpace’s roughly 400 employees were dismissed on Wednesday", this wasn't a talent acquisition.
You said in FAW that you would have sold Viaweb for peanuts if you had the opportunity. Luckily the low offers fell through.

Why not add a new fund to YC for the purpose of partially cashing out founders, as an alternative to them selling early? This seems to be a missing component from the "what would have helped us at Viaweb" strategy.
Don't forget to write a post about it!
Anyone looking for a localized version of risk should definitely checkout Own This World: http://ownthisworld.com/

It works around the globe and it's quite fun. It actually changed how I travel about the city... pretty awesome. The devs are very active with it too (Edit: and they just hit 10k users.)
Awesome story. I like the idea of a city or neighborhood LAN with an internet gateway.

This makes a lot of sense, especially when local online businesses want to serve their local community (like a local Groupon or live streaming of the neighborhood's Little League game from multiple cameras).
As I said in response to another post, the 2006 Google-Myspace deal had minimum traffic requirements, thus it isn't clear that they made the $900M from Google:

http://mashable.com/2010/12/16/myspace-google-search-deal/

I've be interested in knowing whether the targets were met and how much Google paid Myspace in the end.
Yes, how many?

Pretty fair question to answer before making the claim that it's "not entirely true" -- how true or not true depends on the number.
This is a good talk, though I enjoyed watching him talk about Friendfeed knowing now that it has been bought by Facebook. At around 17 minutes:

"Everyone says 'We`re building something different' and whatever, but then they go and flip for 20 million dollars or something, and your like, well then you weren't really doing something different, were you?"

"So, but we really are doing things differently."
I'm not sure what that speed hit is supposed to be for.

If it's about time taken on the synchronization operations themselves, I haven't found the benchmarks but I seem to recall STM being reasonably competitive (maybe 10%-50% slowdown) with locking implementations of fairly simple things like MVar or Chan.

That's certainly much larger than the hit for running under GHC's threaded runtime. The original version described in "Haskell on a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor" shows a performance hit usually under 10% for sequential code. I expect it's only gotten better with tuning since then.
(Of course, purity helps a lot. Re-evaluating a pure thunk produces the same result, so two threads entering the same code just costs performance rather than correctness, and it's usually enough to use simple reads and writes to narrow the window).
This is one of the most fascinating articles I've ever read on HN. Thanks for sharing.
It is also the least expensive way to build out infrastructure (US cable).
That's a damn steal. There's still significantly more than $35 million worth of value left in MySpace.

With a new strategy and good execution someone could turn the site into something really big again. The press would eat it up too, because everyone loves a come-back story.

Instead some shitty ad company is probably going to turn it into a link farm.
For a clear disclosure, you work for FeeFighters and as such your comments regarding our customers (I work for Braintree) may not be completely impartial.

Edit: thanks for the edit.
$35mm? Ouch.

>News Corporation bought MySpace for $580m (£373m) in 2008. The asset was briefly valued at $12bn when News Corp attempted to merge it with Yahoo in 2007.

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/myspace/8404510/MySpac...
You're a wizard Harry...
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Bebo - from $850m to $10m. MySpace- from $580m to $35m. Who's next?
Can you imagine what that merger would have looked like?
Congrats to BT- though my site doesn't use them, their mentality of trying to cut out fine print for CC processing is a good step in the right direction.
If you actually use the short url you are presented with a interstitial page for 10 seconds and prompted to sign up. Sorry, but that's kind of lame when compared to bit.ly and the like. (My example: http://➡.ws/shopobot)
All the citizens of Ireland voted to privatize the people owned telco and all its infrastructure?
Maybe they're doing it wrong, then? Google adds features that fundamentally alter my web-experience all the time, but nobody minds because they either

-package it as a completely separate product with its own url (gmail.com, maps.google.com, etc.) before gradually integrating it into search results and other products.
-make them optional (i.e. Google Instant, Gmail Labs)
-do a test run on a small subset of users (which Facebook does only to test before they scale, seemingly never to determine if the change will piss off users)

In short, maybe continually tweaking core features like Messages, the Timeline, Photos, etc. isn't the only way or even the most effective way they can leverage their almighty graph.
If they don't give people invites soon Google+ will be DOA. People will stop caring before anyone gets a chance to use it.
Norvig vs. Chomsky and the Fight for the Future of AI
Mobsters have accountants, drug dealers make loans, and I'll bet even hitmen have todo lists.

Illegal operations function using the same business machinery that legal businesses do, so we shouldn't be surprised to see them adopting current trends such as the SaaS model.

Don't get me wrong... it's very interesting, and before reading this article I was unaware of it. It's just not surprising.
Thoughts on how this can be made efficient at all? For example, Clojure has refs to limit the number of things which need to be tracked by STM, as well as fast persistent immutable data structures to avoid the overhead of copying data.
I'm in there -- Google Employees are playing a good ground game answering people's questions and such and from what I've heard, invitations are imminent.
We'll definitely see Facebook decline but not because of any clumsy product Google offers. Facebook's decline will come from any of a number of new and as-yet-unimagined products that are focused on helping users make new social connections rather than rigidly codifying existing ones. A place for you to chat with your weed buddies, another for your gaming pals, another for your family. Something more analogous to how we socialize in reality. Google's trying this with circles but their social blindspot doesn't leave me confident they'll get anywhere. Everything they do feels contrived in this space.

Facebook has lots of a staying power, and a much better product leadership than MySpace. So that buys Facebook plenty of time. But in the end, they're too successful to risk doing anything interesting anymore.