skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how that makes a differencee if you're paying CPC. x clicks is x clicks, regardless of when they are clicked.

If you're paying CPM, then sure, care about how spread out your adverts are.
If you're happy with Blogger, stay with Blogger. I use Posterous because I can chuck things in via email, their bookmarklet, their nice rich text editor, and the iOS app. Plus it's nice being able to paste in things like a google maps link and have the actual map itself magically appear in the page.
Totally off topic (well, it's about lunch) - but do all tech companies in the US order in lunch every day? In Australia at most companies we'd "go out" for lunch - even if it was just wandering down to the sushi takeout place to stretch the legs.

I've moved to Paris now where (in the traditional parisian style, I guess) at least a few times a week it's group meals at nearby restaurants.

Nowhere I've been do people "order in" food - unless it's a late night pizza run. What's the reason that it's so common in the US that it can support a (cool looking) service to do so?
That sounds pretty damn intuitive. Just imagining the drawing you're describing has given me some insight.
All good suggestions. As for Sparks though; i wouldn't mind if they just dropped that completely. Not sure we need another google reader and + has enough to keep you busy as is. Would get rid of some clutter too.
From their blogpost/terms of service
We may need your permission to do things you ask us to do with your stuff, for example, hosting your files, or sharing them at your direction.
I assume they mean discretion instead of direction. A bit sloppy, especially regarding all the fuzz the new terms gave.
e is like a speed limit (like c, the speed of light) saying how fast you can possibly grow using a continuous process.

Can someone explain what he means? Doesn't that assume dx/dt <= x?
Good story. And guiding another person per phone around a computer is incredibly frustrating.

But it shows why the Macintosh had in the 80s/90s no hidden context menus and only one mouse button (which is still mocked today). The difference between right and left click (which is really primary and secondary click) was really difficult to grasp.
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Making wise choices when renting a moving truck for home moving or business move.
The Startup World's Balance of Power
How does it make a difference at all? Unless what you are promoting can't take the traffic, it's irrelevant. When you're paying CPC you have no reason to care when the clicks come in, 10 clicks a day for three days isn't any worse or better than 30 clicks in five minutes.
Dell's Lesson for RIM and MS: Do It Steve Jobs' Way
Facebook didn't start with 750 million users though, or even 63 million users, and that fact had no bearing on Facebooks rise to prominence.

Userbase size is a symptom of something else. It is not causation.
How the Titanic disaster pushed Uncle Sam to "rule the air"
If we trust Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)#Market_adop... (one should never trust Wikipedia blindely), Opera has 3.3% of general browser market. I believe that is not enough to add official support for it.

Of course, Google could just let Opera users in, but since it can't guarantee 100% compliance, decision not to support Opera at all is understandable to some degree.
Disclaimer: VLC dev and VideoLAN chairman

I think the worse part of all this mess is that Google refuses to act and stop those. This was requested quite a few time and Google told us to go away because we didn't own all the trademarks in the US (even though we still have copyright).

Moreover, the safe-browsing initiative, used in Chrome 12, is a complete joke. Reporting one of those websites make the safe-browsing re-scan the website, and find absolutely no issue with it and white-label it, which is even worse...

I contacted the Safe-Browsing initiative to report the issue and they told me "that their wasn't any issue on those websites...". Right...

Of course, running any of those executables on your Windows machine makes MSE (or other antivirus) scream...

I hope that Google fighting spam initiative will improve the situation, but seeing http://vlc-download.com/ on the first page of "VLC" search makes me wondering...
Sounds like it would work like the feed-anywhere system on WordPress. I could grab the robotics feed from an interesting person at example.com/robotics/feed/ and easily forget that it's actually a competitive crochet blog.
The love for Facebook was when it was colleges only and had no photo sharing, video sharing, etc. It was limited to your classmates.
imho set operations on circels are missing. Think:public but not family or extend but not people_i_dont_like
Ask HN: How many backup copies do Facebook/Google/yahoo maintain for user data?
I am curious to know how many copies of user data are maintained by majors like facebook, google, Microsoft, Yahoo etc. Is it really practical to expect a total data loss from these Biggies ?
That's disruptive tech. Very impressive guys.

Could you talk about the most difficult technical challenge you came across? The temperature regulation (i.e. the heart of the pcr machine) seems to me like the toughest part to get right.

I had the luck of working in a couple of well funded research labs, and I wonder if some of the tall prices we see for this type of lab equipment is due to "using someone else's" money for research.

In any case, I'm sure there'll be plenty of cash strapped labs around the world who'll make some science with it.
G+ also doesn't support Camino, which uses the same rendering engine as Firefox...

This could also be a Google trying to control the user platform during a beta/test period. It is much easier to troubleshoot issues when you limit the platform your app is running on.
I wish I had Google's problems. "We have too many people who want our service, yes we currently have sufficient infrastructure, and yes we designed it to scale form day 1, but its not completely tested yet... fortunately you guys will wait for me to be comfortable"
10 Startup Ideas That Never Work
Most of these aren't surprising, but serves as a nice reinforcement with some good examples.
All I need Google+ to do is allow me customize by default stream to only include circles I want to see there. That's ALL.
I agree, Facebook friend lists have this and it can be very useful.
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Another place where good software work is done is Broad Institute. The reasons are as follows: (a) Broad can hire the best people in bioinformatics, (b) they are a relatively large organization where focusing on the process pays off. Software ultimately is process (i.e. how you do stuff) and small labs often cannot afford to focus on the process and instead try to reach the goal (i.e. publishable results) more or less directly, regardless of the inefficiencies they may encounter.

In the past, the model of having many small labs in universities was a great idea. Today things are looking a bit different in some fields because larger labs can afford to do more automation (by hiring programmers instead graduate students).
Gaming's most fiendish anti-piracy tricks
I couldn't help but draw comparisons to what a dabbawala does in India. Is this a rarely seen business in the US?
and let me not display comments in the stream, people are morons.
This. The glaring assumption of economics is that people are rational. We are not, entirely.
Also video games. My old parents have a hard time to figure out a new tv remote. And computer stuff is overwhelming. They have no concept of a "menu" or "selections" or "radio buttons". That is a huge conceptual hurdle. But since the 80s kids grew up with Atari, Nintendo, Playstation etc and learned with button smashing to figure out complex UI (every game behaves and looks different).
Codaset in Numbers
How likely is it that these sites serve up clean binaries to Google's spider?
Very nice and well written summary of CDOs
Push use of Circles across all Google products; I want the
ability to share a Google Doc to all in my ‘Colleagues’
circle, share a Calendar Appointments to all in my
‘Friends’ circle or send a text message from my Android
handset to all in my ‘Family’ circle. Circle integration
throughout Google would be a killer feature.

This is the most important one in my opinion. Google+ has so much potential if integrated properly into the other Google products.
(This review is about the "lean methodology" in general, not the book).

I would like to echo and add to some of the criticisms here.

I've attended a few lean startup conferences and read several articles by Mr. Ries as well as Mr. Blank's book. While I believe there are some interesting ideas here and there and also generally a lot of societal value in encouraging entrepreneurs to mitigate risks early on, I think these guys are trying too hard to create a "methodology" out of thin air.

Once you get past the few interesting ideas you can borrow for your business, the whole thing just sounds like wishful thinking peppered with pseudo-science.

(The difference between pseudo-science and science is rigor and empirical evidence; many things in life "make sense", but don't stand against scrutiny or empirical validation).

For example, while it sure sounds reasonable to quantify feature/product usage and quickly respond with rapid product iterations or maybe even a "pivot", in practice you can never determine if the reason people are not using your feature/product is because its execution sucks, or because people don't care about it in general. In scientific terms, correlation isn't causation, and it's really tough to resolve the two. Get these mixed up and you might kill a potentially big product/feature because you didn't try hard enough in the execution.

More importantly, to the best of my knowledge none of the giants in the tech world followed anything close to the lean methodology. That includes the founders of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Great entrepreneurs have and probably will always be fueled by their beliefs, period. It's hard to imagine Steve Jobs being lean about iPods, iPads, etc. He's failed before, sure, but he's also pushed forward at full steam some of the most awesome and successful products I've ever seen.

Perhaps after young Mr. Ries runs an Apple or an Amazon, or after he can back his distracting jargons with empirical evidence I'll pay closer attention to the movement as a general methodology. Until then, I'm perfectly happy with simpler, more down-to-earth precedents like Greg Gianforte's "Bootstrapping your business" (incidentally, Mr. Gianforte has founded and run a billion-dollar company).
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I was one of those views. That was a cool project!
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Isn't that infuriating? The carrier is literally selling you spam: they charge you to receive that spam message. They could provide a whitelisting service, which would be technically simple to implement and would solve the problem completely. But they have incentive not to.
The problem with Facebook Video Calling Experience
How do you connect with like-minded devs online, or even better, in your area? 
I want to meet people in the developer community here locally,(coastal NC- Wilmington) but I'm also seeking some good online spots to find some good community interaction on everything from start-up entrepreneurship to programming/platform applications and ideas.

TL;DR: What are your favorite ways to find developers at home and online?
Except the non deterministic algorithm worked better. Did you read the blog post at all?
So distributing copy of VLC with lots of malware added but still conforming with the GPL is okay?
No antialiasing for firefox and ie logo is probably intentional :D
Quite unlikely, tested with different user-agent, and notably the Google Spider one, but the binaries are almost empty and download other binaries, which might not work for them...

Another explanation is that Google doesn't consider those adware and toolbar as malware... I truly don't know.
IETF mulls IPv6 for home networking
You really think people outside of the tech world are think offering something for free is creepy (they seem 100% fine with major TV networks)/know Google is harvesting info/even think of websites as being emotional? All three of those seem to be exclusively tech nerd complaints.
In person. Why resort to tooling when simple collaboration and communication suffice?
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Apple's Losing the "App Store" Trademark Battle
I like the psuedo-random subreddit idea--maybe a stochastic process that gives you a new set of subscribed subreddits, taking into account submissions you've upvoted. Have a button somewhere that'll do it, and another one to revert to your previous subreddits.

That would help people get past the "I've been here three months and reddit is boring now" phase, and on to customizing their experience with the worthier subreddits.
~2 minutes of pro-bono work:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

Put in name of the bad guys. Find the blogs who blogged about their sites.

http://webylife.com/design/top-10-brand-logo-mistakes/commen...

http://www.dragonblogger.com/entertainment-television/

etc, etc. Contact them, ask them to change the link to the spam site with a link to your site.

It's stupid gruntwork, you'll need lots of it, and it will be like playing whackamole -- but it will probably work at getting them off the front page.

The other alternative, rather than de-ranking their sites, is to rank more of your own, or parasite off of high authority sites. For example, notice Wikipedia ranks for VLC right now? You know who else would rank for VLC with a trivial amount of effort? Github (&etc -- just has to be on any domain other than yours). Is there an OSS industry mag that you guys like? Have they written a review of it? Get your community to link to that review, with whatever anchor text you're having trouble with.

OSS projects shouldn't have really serious SEO issues for branded keywords -- you practically swim in link equity -- and wouldn't if marketing were treated as a priority worth addressing.
The OSX help menu is pretty cool. A friend was yesterday puzzled because she couldn't figure out how to delete someone from her Skype contacts. I am still on 2.8, she upgraded to the stupid 5.x version. So I dont know if the UI changed or she is just blind.
"Just right click and choose delete."
"But there is no delete, only block!"

She was just ready to google a solution, as I asked for using help menu, which indeed helped her. She used it before but typed in "remove" instead of "delete" (or vice versa, in reality it was entfernen vs löschen)
"The definition of groups is... everyone inside the group knows who else is in the group"

This is a slightly narrow definition, the visibility of a group should be an attribute.

Dan Gillmor cites a good use-case:

"I'm considering a circle called "insufferable" for people I find personally annoying but whose work I feel obliged to keep track of, in any case."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/...
Yes, this is ok, as long as VLC copyright is concerned.

However:

- Claiming that you are the original Author is not OK, because of copyright laws.

- Adding restrictions on the usage of the software is not OK, because of the GPL.

- As the VLC installer is GPL, the modified installers must be GPL'd too.

- Shipping VLC commercially means shipping all the source code of all external libraries, which they usually don't. (Still GPL)

- VLC, VideoLAN, x264 and VLC media player Trademarks are registered. (depends on the countries)

- Scraping the website and the images is not ok. (copyright)

- Wrongly impersonating a person or an organisation is not ok either.
Catching the first wave of Google Plus -API
They'll need to modify the +1 widget to be aware of your circles and allow you to determine who sees them before 6 can happen.
Freud, meet Facebook
Some people ask what would Jesus do, we ask, what would Freud say about your facebook posts. Read this! It's entertaining we swear.
Sure.

Still, adwords, adsense or bing ads get ranked over the highly ranked website.
I really don't understand this perspective. Google has lots of resources. Google has lots of projects. A particular team may not have more or less resources then Grooveshark. There is no 'fallacy of logic'. You build the broadest support you can with the resources you have. I don't think their lack of support of Opera for a beta project suggests anything about their support of Opera besides they consider it a lower priority then the four browsers listed. Its not a personal affront. They just don't have unlimited people. Would you be surprised to learn they don't yet support text based browsing using lynx? I wouldn't.
Yes, really.

American cell-phone plans generally give you a fixed number of calling minutes (plus various other bonuses, such as free calling on nights and weekends), and once you go over the quota, you pay for receiving calls. I just checked out the cheapest individual plan for Verizon in my area, and they charge 45¢ per minute after your allowance is up.

I assume they set things up this way because cellphone numbers share the same number space in North America as landline numbers, so if it costs more to maintain a cellphone network, the operator cannot recover those extra costs entirely from people calling into it.
Clever idea but if you're tech-savvy enough to shop this way using your smart phone and QR codes surely you're capable of doing all of this online?
Would you live in an empty city?

Would you cheer in an empty stadium?

Then, why does it make sense to visit a website alone?

Imagine if each website's visitor suddenly became aware of each other and were able to converse about what they were discovering in real time.

SideSpeech is a sidebar that accompanies you into a new realm of communication. As you browse the web it creates a social network wherever you go, discreetly connecting you with others who are on the website at the same time.

Meet exciting new people and experience the web as it was meant to be.

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Google vs. Facebook by the numbers
WikiViz 2011: Visualizing the impact of Wikipedia
When I used to work at LimeWire, Google would do the same thing to us. Not only did they sell adwords to the malware sites, they refused to allow us to buy adwords.
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Odds are it's output from GWT, the same Java framework Google writes most of their apps in.
Did you notice the people happily saying that you could see the produce?

People don't trust some things without being able to see them, and food is one of them. Being able to recognise that a particular item is the one you like makes them happier.

Once they've used it a couple of times they'll be re-ordering without bothering with the scanning, but to bring in first-time buyers, this is very smart.
A little feedback..

When I want to buy a textbook, I find the book I need and click the buy book button.

Inside the modal window, you have a spot where the user has to type the title. I'm assuming that is supposed to be the title of the book?

If so, why don't you populate it for the user, since you already know the title which were listed next to the buy textbook buttons.
Yes. I know people who joined FB simply because that's where all of the events were being organised.
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But the banner-picture on the homepage says "western room-mate finder".
In my experience it's quite difficult to offer any web assistance for free online, I guess people are too wary of unsolicited help.
You must not be moving to Southeast Florida. SFL has been described as a lot of things, cheap is not a word I've ever heard.

Most angel investors live here Jan-Apr/May and go back to NY or the Med for the summer. Otherwise, if you have a list of angel investors, there is a startup community in SFL that would be extremely eager to talk with them. Most of the startups down here struggle for funding, or go to NY/SF to get funding. Even angel.co lists a handful of investors in Florida, and most are in other areas watching Florida.

As for #2, I would like to congratulate the webmaster that wrote that. Clear demographics? what does that mean for a business? Are you using racial profiling to pick your customer base? Delineated geographic areas? We have county and city boundaries, but I don't believe that is unique to Florida. State-wide suburbia? I can drive five minutes to the west and it is swamp for roughly two hours until I reach the other side of the state. While Florida is a large state, the population has decided that living in swamps/marshes isn't nearly as nice as living on the edges of the state near the ocean. Once you get to Central Florida you're in a different environment, but, it might as well be a different country. SFL is certainly a unique ecosystem.

incubatemiami.com is a local equivalent to YC, but, while they have the mentor track figured out, once you get out of mentorship, it is a struggle to find funding. SFL doesn't even have any positions dedicated to helping startups. UM Launchpad in Miami is a good start and there are some other college affiliated programs, but, for a startup community, SFL is quite difficult.

If you're moving and didn't have something lined up, and you're looking for startup activity, I don't really think SFL would be my choice.

But, once you get here, take a look at some of those URLs and get involved. There are a lot of smart people in SFL that are anxious to talk with other people - your connections with Angel funding will make you very popular.
Apple lose suit to block Amazon app store: Hope for Samsung?
Not sure why you think it's discretion.

I assume they're talking about you "directing" them to share a certain file with other users of Dropbox.
Games or opera, whats your high culture?
My mom doesn't get Facebook or Twitter, but she keeps telling me to go to Ravelry to see the pictures she posts of a new scarf. If knitting is your thing, the site is horrible addictive.
Somewhat related to point 7: Integrate Circles with Google Chat, and allow users to set different visibility per Circle.

As buggy as Facebook Chat is, this feature exponentially increases the value proposition for me. (You can leave certain Friend Lists offline, while having others online.)

It's 2011 and even companies like Skype still haven't implemented this, despite it being requested repeatedly by users.

You can't honestly expect users to have the same 'Available', 'Busy', or 'Invisible' status for a chat list that could contain hundreds of people ranging from friends and family to classmates, business contacts, acquaintances, etc.

When working on a project, I need to appear 'Available' to everybody else involved, while leaving other contact groups offline so as not to be contacted about trivial matters that don't require an immediate response.

Other people I've discussed this with have said things like not wishing to be 'Available' to work colleagues outside of work hours.

The list is endless, and any company that takes Instant Messaging seriously needs this. IM isn't going anywhere.
Google antitrust probe could bring out enemies
Coverage: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388080,00.asp?kc=PCRSS...
Mozilla Firefox Gets Major Memory Improvements
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