skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, back then we didn't see it as a business. Of course there were also people who knew what they were doing, but if I remember well, my network started with three teenagers wanting to play Quake and Need for Speed. Then more and more people joined... hundreds of them.

Internet access wasn't a priority (most users wanted it for IRC, and there were very few local websites/services anyway). As long as we could share movies and play games, everything was fine.

Today things changed. I think that most users want 100 mbps internet access instead of 10 mbps internet + 1000 mbps LAN. But I'm confident that, if the ISPs fail, people could build their own networks as long as the State doesn't interfere.

The problem with US seems to be that the Government is bullying (through all kinds of regulation) small ISPs in order to protect the big guys.

---------- EDIT:
I have to admit that (in 2003 or so) it felt good when a big telco, with a budget of millions, could barely provide 128 kbps, while the small ISP which I joined was providing 512 kbps internet access + 100 mbps LAN.
Today I'm a subscriber of that big telco, because they managed to pull their stuff together and now provide a really good service (at least in my area).
But Gov regulation had noting to do with it. It was the competition: improve your service or die. Plain and simple.
"Those employees who will be let go will be notified by being defriended by the Tom account."
"They don't use wireless energy."

Please tell me more about your magical energy-free signal propagation!

In all seriousness, Shannon's entropy limit only applies to a single variable, modulated at a certain frequency. The only reason we apply this limit to radio is because we treat each radio frequency in a given zone as a single variable. In fact, you're perfectly free to use directed antennas or interferometry to establish multiple communication variables on the same frequency.

Ah, and indeed, at 1:19, Perlman mentions each cell phone on a separate spatial domain.

Since they say it's a single cell phone antenna, I'm guessing we're looking at multiple towers and interferometry between them, possibly taking advantage of the intensity dropoff with distance and timing data for spatial discrimination.
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/

They also provide a patched version of Firefox that supports management via Group Policy and a tool that lets you generate a MSI of firefox bundled with extensions.
Absolutely, the electricity -> chemical -> electricity cycle gets less power out than you put in.

The fuel cycle is still
fossil fuel -> (stuffs) -> car moves.

There are many ways to change around the (stuffs) part of the equation. The claim is that converting fossil fuel to electricity in bulk is much more efficient than converting it into mechanical work locally through exothermic chemical reactions.

We could keep trying to detail efficiencies (or non-efficiencies) in the problem but as Glieck pointed out in his Chaos book, you can compute the length of the British coastline by drawing a line around the island and get one number, or you can zoom in and include the bays and harbors and protrusions and get another number, all the way to going around each grain of sand on the beach and getting yet another number. Clearly the closer you look at the coastline length the 'longer' it gets, but that extra length is misleading.
This is what I am, and I call this a front-end developer. UX traits are needed.
Your point is excellent; it's a shame you had to spoil it with all the personal stuff.
Thanks for the interest, all good points.

Even in smaller groups though, people may be able to consciously subvert their mannerisms and still get their point across. Not saying it will be easy, but I wouldn't rule it out.

I agree with the plausible deniability point, but i think it can theoretically apply equally to small (and by small i mean at least 10 ppl) and large groups alike. There are many ideas that are not too controversial, but just touchy enough that plausible deniability would be sufficient to overcome the anxiety barrier. This would only work for comments that a user would have no problem being suspected of saying, as long as noone could categorically prove it.
Seemed more like a plug for opposition of America Invents Act than some new wireless tech to me..

Not to say they haven't made some astounding break-through, but I didn't get the impression that they revealed anything of substance. They claim to have some experimental radios working that are able to beat Shannon's law, but reveal no details around it.
Yes. Everybody knows everything about somebody else.
And privacy does not matter.
Interview with Brad Feld
People will stop caring before anyone gets a chance to use it.

This point is brought up often, but I thought it worth reiterating here. One of the biggest differences between GMail and Wave was that even though GMail ended up being released (very) slowly to the public, you could interact with other email users without them needing to get on to GMail.

Unfortunately the same is not true with their current offering of Google+. 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". Perhaps allowing them to interact with Facebook so that they can still interact with their friends from Google+ without needing everyone on it (along the lines of GMail).
Tell HN: Amazon terminates Associate program in California
Just received this email from Amazon -

"For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of California residents. Unfortunately, a potential new law that may be signed by Governor Brown compels us to terminate this program for California-based participants. It specifically imposes the collection of taxes from consumers on sales by online retailers - including but not limited to those referred by California-based marketing affiliates like you - even if those retailers have no physical presence in the state.

We oppose this bill because it is unconstitutional and counterproductive. It is supported by big-box retailers, most of which are based outside California, that seek to harm the affiliate advertising programs of their competitors. Similar legislation in other states has led to job and income losses, and little, if any, new tax revenue. We deeply regret that we must take this action.

As a result, we will terminate contracts with all California residents that are participants in the Amazon Associates Program as of the date (if any) that the California law becomes effective. We will send a follow-up notice to you confirming the termination date if the California law is enacted. In the event that the California law does not become effective before September 30, 2011, we withdraw this notice. As of the termination date, California residents will no longer receive advertising fees for sales referred to Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned on or before the termination date will be processed and paid in full in accordance with the regular payment schedule."
Apigee Delivers API PCI-DSS Compliance
My New Startup: FTP API For keeping scripts updated, backups, security etc
Looking for some feedback and so on! We built an api for FTP and then on top of that have built a tool that keeps WordPress and eventually other scripts fully up to date. And we are adding features so that people can install themes with the click of a button, customized install packages, backups, security monitoring and a lot more!

Looking for feedback etc!
Ask HN: How to correct incorrect reporting from traffic counters?
I imagine a lot of lurkers (myself included) tend to use compete, quantcast & alexa for tracking other sites. When it comes to your personal site not being reporting correctly, have you ever tried to correct any holes in their data? We're offering to send them private info on our growth at http://gorankem.com , but compete says they have their own methodology for computing (??)

I'd hate to hear that prospective investors or the like are going off of those charts when their samples are often not fully accurate.

Anybody had issues in the past? Gotten them resolved?
Yeah, the affiliate termination notifications are already rolling in today. Got a bunch already.
50 Million Myspace Profiles Now Belong to an Ad Targeting Firm
This does not seem like much of an explanation. CLECs have existed in the US for over a decade now. In Chicago many of us have about a dozen options. None of them are very competitive with EU providers when it comes to price. A few are probably comparable when it comes to speed.

I have noticed that even when there is competition most people will stick with Comcast or AT&T and bitch about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_local_exchange_carr...
I've found clear calls to action that lead users to a custom landing page on your site work. The key is to tailor everything to the FB experience, design of the landing page on your site included.
Myspace is sold and friendster relaunches? We're not in a bubble, we're in a circle!
IE10 Platform Preview 2 is Out with More HTML5 and CSS3 Goodness
There's a good reason I said "simply"

Uh...

you can easily get 10-20% above the EPA highway rating
BT Infinity (40Mbps down, 10 up) is £18 a month with a 40GB cap and £25.60 for unlimited.
How do I get "Tom" in my google+ circle?
Are you the founder? (If you are, we have 11 things in common!) This is a really neat idea, and the post does a good job explaining it. I just signed up and I'm playing around.

A brief note: the "Show me [Safe for all ages|Moderate\Unsure|Restricted] overlaps" is awkwardly phrased-- if I select Restricted, is the site gonna be all sex, all the time, or will I still get the unrestricted overlaps?

Also in that little settings pane, having to click OK after selecting from a dropdown is annoying-- I expect it to work like other dropdowns, where it stays like I left it if I click somewhere else.

I like that after searching for an overlap and not finding it, I can click "New Overlap" and it auto-populates, but does that need to be a separate text field? The transition feels a little awkward, and it needs to be very smooth to encourage people to create new overlaps.

I'm still playing with it, but I think it's a very neat concept that could get big.

EDIT: Okay, if I "Me Too" and overlap, I get to see who else did too, over on the right, but it's still one more click to open up our overlaps, a scan through the list, some typing, and another click before I can send them a message about how we both like Nutella. What if there were a message button by each person that I could use right after I "Me Too" something to talk to them about it?

Sorry if this is disorganized and long, I'm just adding as I go through the site.
The math of the Rubik’s cube
Isn't it already well past its DOA phase! I think DOA is too big a word to be used for a product which has already kept the entire tech community waiting for months - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_launch_major_...
Can you elaborate on where you heard this?

I've seen it implied that no invites are planned until after the "field test", and who knows how long that period might be.
Why Biz Stone Really Left Twitter
Amazon: Notice of Contract Termination Due to Potential New California Law
Hello,

For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of California residents. Unfortunately, a potential new law that may be signed by Governor Brown compels us to terminate this program for California-based participants. It specifically imposes the collection of taxes from consumers on sales by online retailers - including but not limited to those referred by California-based marketing affiliates like you - even if those retailers have no physical presence in the state.

We oppose this bill because it is unconstitutional and counterproductive. It is supported by big-box retailers, most of which are based outside California, that seek to harm the affiliate advertising programs of their competitors. Similar legislation in other states has led to job and income losses, and little, if any, new tax revenue. We deeply regret that we must take this action.

As a result, we will terminate contracts with all California residents that are participants in the Amazon Associates Program as of the date (if any) that the California law becomes effective. We will send a follow-up notice to you confirming the termination date if the California law is enacted. In the event that the California law does not become effective before September 30, 2011, we withdraw this notice. As of the termination date, California residents will no longer receive advertising fees for sales referred to Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned on or before the termination date will be processed and paid in full in accordance with the regular payment schedule.

You are receiving this email because our records indicate that you are a resident of California. If you are not currently a resident of California, or if you are relocating to another state in the near future, you can manage the details of your Associates account here. And if you relocate to another state in the near future please contact us for reinstatement into the Amazon Associates Program.

To avoid confusion, we would like to clarify that this development will only impact our ability to offer the Associates Program to California residents and will not affect their ability to purchase from Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com.

We have enjoyed working with you and other California-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program and, if this situation is rectified, would very much welcome the opportunity to re-open our Associates Program to California residents. We are also working on alternative ways to help California residents monetize their websites and we will be sure to contact you when these become available.

Regards,

The Amazon Associates Team
That's a problem of a failure to code to what is, not to what one thinks it should be.

As I've said before when this comes up--Windows is, for better or for worse, the de facto standard. Alternative operating systems (and Linux is very, very alternative, in this sort of use scenario) that don't recognize and acknowledge the de facto standard's effective supplanting of the de jure standard are Doing It Wrong.

edit: Swapped my jures and factoes. Shouldn't post while writing code...
Amazon will end affiliate program in California if new law passes
So much for the $200MM they were trying to pass it off for less than five months ago. [1]

I don't know their numbers, but doesn't it seem likely that 35 is less than 1x revenue?

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-04/news-corp-may-get-2...
Even a year ago, I'd agree with you. However, Soundcloud and others have really eaten into Myspace's indie music positioning. news corp could have merged Myspace with their other entertainment offerings. Every show of theirs would have a myspace page, and the visual editing operations become more corporate-friendly. Monetize by offering advanced analytics and moderation capabilities to make it another public presence for your entertainment property, from the independent band to The Simpsons.

Provide a host of consultants to get the most from your social media.

It could be done still, but News Corp would have provided a bigger appeal.
Quantcast you can just embed their beacon to be directly measured, the rest I think you're SOL but you can just rely on Quantcast - "We use their tracker so their measurements are accurate".
I think for skeptics of anthropogenic warming, the main problem is that proponents appear to be interested in politics as much as or more than in science. This just isn't the case for internal combustion, black holes, or even evolution.

Also, it's easy to fully agree that warming has been happening (over hundreds of years, at least), and still be skeptical that humans are driving the change, what with the Medieval Warm, the Little Ice Age, etc.
I’m not disagreeing with your assessment of the grandparent’s comment but the argument you are making isn’t much of an argument.

What does embracing “free” mean? Does it mean anything? It sounds like meaningless drivel.
Huh, no Android but Windows Phone and iPhone support. That's the first time I've seen that combo.
> Perhaps allowing them to interact with Facebook

There's no way facebook would play along with that.
It's all down to climate science being more akin to religion that science.

Science is based on building a hypothesis, building a supporting model that produces a reliable theory, then wrinse and repeat.

Climate science is based on building a hypothesis, marketing it, claiming that a theory is going to kill us all, fucking up the numbers when asked to prove it and then sticking your fingers in your ears and ridiculing your peers when a competing hypothesis appears.

There are models for the weather systems on this planet. They simply don't work. We can't predict the weather very well and never have been able to. That is the same for just about everything that climate science has come up with. Back in the 70s and 80s we were facing an ice age. Now it's back to global warming.

We just don't understand why the planet works like it does. We like to pretend we do and make a big kerfaffle about how advanced we are as a species and how we can control our fate, yet it's a thing much larger than the lifespan of the entire human race and it has no respect for us.

I don't believe in god - why would I? It's not observable. Atoms, internal combusion engines and evolution are all observable and we have models which are recreatable.
I've done hundreds of CSS layouts and never ever used a clear div.
And even if one is used it is not usually visible, so UX Designer has nothing to do with it.
Google Profiles is not available for your organization.
nuff said
It was about 2 months ago I'd say. Well, maybe it was a bad day for the service....
FontSpring uses auto-hinting [1], which is a well-known approach and it is a step forward. It still though vastly inferior to manual hinting and tends to produce artifacts of other kinds. Also there appears to be no ClearType-specific version of it at the moment.

[1] http://www.fontspring.com/fontface - first table, 3rd row down
One thing they don't talk about if you're buying customers: the delay between paying for customers and getting paid by them can run you out of business even if your LTV exceeds your Customer Acquisition Costs. (Conversely, if you can get paid by your customers before you have to pay for them, you're golden.) Note that I mean actual cash in hand, not transactions - you have to include the inevitable delays from whatever payment system you're using. I wrote a bit about this a while back on my blog: http://www.karlo.org/2009/04/maximizing-your-online-business...
Are they doing this for tax reasons?
In one paragraph, the author lauds the fact that Google+ will send email to people who aren't on it, effectively spam for your friends: G+'s email notification handling is particularly elegant. It gives you the choice—on by default—to let your friends who aren't on yet know there's something going on.

In another paragraph, the author lauds how Google+ doesn't clutter your mail inbox: Don't mess with the Gmail inbox. When Buzz invaded my Gmail inbox with a flood of social-networky conversations, my first instinct was "Turn it off!"

I guess the message is that if you sign up, Google+ won't annoy you, but it will give you the tools to annoy your friends so their product can be "viral."
Wall street and linkedin
A prominent CT Hedge fund is going to publish a survey of 3000 diverse linkedin users interviewed about usage that will greatly damage the premise of the ipo.IOW,no one actually uses it and it more resembles a chain letter than a growing business. Are any hackers in possession of logs from linkedin that prove the same?
Thanks for the response. I'll mostly skip the first three paragraphs of use of anonymity that is good, but I will say it is a bit weird that version control advocacy required anonymity. If there is fear of reprisal from something that most normal developers reasonably advocate for, then there is a culture of fear present, which is nearly always based on past experiences of punishment. Something to look into and perhaps fix there.

The last paragraph is where you give an example of bad use of anonymity. You state a situation where someone says X sucks, and it is known that X does suck. This you say is harmful use. But it is not harmful. The person says X sucks, and X does suck. Since you know that X sucks, you yourself and others must know why it sucks. Saying it is not only wrong but harmful to state what is obvious and known at your firm is yet another indication that you have a corporate environment of fear and reprisals. Obviously someone doing "harm" should be gotten rid of, therefore, accepting your assertion it is harm, the person should be eliminated. Not considered though is that the person is obviously NOT doing harm and that stating so is unfounded propaganda to squash an unpopular statement of truth.
Nothing to do with Google but funny about Russians
If this works out as you expect, I'll definitely be looking forward to it. Your problem identification is spot on, even if we have different thoughts on the solution!
LivingSocial Is Talking To Bankers About Going Public At A $15 Billion Valuation
IIRC the developers do .NET for their day jobs, and Canada (where they're from) doesn't have the same Android penetration as the USA. But I agree, bizarre choice.
Did you mean "de facto" when you wrote "de jure", and vice versa? Windows is the de facto standard, and ACPI is the de jure standard; you wrote the opposite.
No the problem is that ACPI is a poor piece of design to abstract what is effectively a stinking great turd of an architecture.

You just simply don't get these problems on non-x86 systems. (I speak from experience with MIPS, ARM and SPARC btw).
No, I've been mulling this over for a few months, yesterday we just decided to build a site and launch. I did see your post though, how are you getting on?
We were expecting this and were already preparing to relocate out of California. Since our team is largely virtual, switching to Washington as our primary place of business is very easy -- just a few documents and a new address. California in no way benefits from this -- in fact I think they just did Seattle and other tech communities a big favor.
Aren't they like 6 months old? That's a pretty incredible path to public.
Local food or less meat is a false dichotomy, for one. What is really important is an understanding that personal consumption choices are no substitute for political change and that political change does not necessarily, and often does not, follow personal change.

Derrick Jensen has written extensively on this issue, and has a fantastic and short essay, "Forget Shorter Showers" [1]. It could easily have been called "Forget Local Food or Less Meat".

[1] http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801...
Thank you for articulating my point better than me.
That's a very interesting post. The problem is that in such extreme cases as North Korea, if the government is setting up this discussion list or has any access to it there is no possibility that the conversation was really anonymous. If the government doesn't have access, then mere silent participation without informing would be considered treason. Even if there was anonymous speech going on, Jung merely needs to approach each participant one by one and have them identify which statements were theirs. By a process of elimination, you find who the dissidents are, even if they refuse to talk.