skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha! Remarkable because I know Seun. He's not dangerous, but he does have a thick Nigerian accent.

I can't help but wonder if his accent helped him get through security and on the plane. It's hard to catch someone in a lie when you're struggling to understand what he's saying.
My Summer at an Indian Call Center
The thing with Spotify is the 'adding albums to your collection' model isn't one they're keen to promote. The idea is really (as far as I can tell - and I've been a full-price paying user for a long while now) that you have this HUGE collection of music always available, and if you want to listen to an album - you search, then there's playlist support as well.

You can ofc save albums as a playlist on their own - and this is quite well supported, but personally, after the first 10 albums I'd saved there, I have never found it to be very useful.
How about a redirect that filters out googles bot?

Or even a Javascript one. Even Google cannot solve the halting problem.
Even more ironic, the guy who did that study was later hired by Facebook.

I honestly think Zuck either figured that a) Google was incompetent/unwilling to challenge them or b) Google be damned, Facebook will make much more money with the public-by-default, privacy-optional approach to sharing.

Perhaps the blindsiding was the promotion of Page to CEO and subsequent mobilization of Google's developer army?
MS can't/doesn't need to acquire facebook. they have a large stake in the company due to their early stage $270m investment. Facebook is too expensive at this point for MS to buy.
Skype has just handed over their business just as AOL did with their search engine.
It's not blindly believing Microsoft to be a better ecosystem. This has nothing to do with the OS. This is about the fact that they have a whole network of professionals who are more likely than a startup to audit their systems and keep it safe.
Wag.com is the new Pets.com. No, really.
This was an onion headline years ago, I'm sure.
You assume he wants it. He, and many other successful businessmen, are doing just fine without it.
Oh, marketing copy: "no need to launch new software". Of course you need to INSTALL new software to use it though.
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This still doesn't really address your concern about the government, however. And even though at some point in our future it will likely become important (assuming it isn't so already) for the individual to be able to have some sort of recourse against increasingly rapacious and legally invulnerable corporations, the idea of legally condoning the sort of attacks and breaches we've seen recently still seems a bit too wild-west for my tastes.
You know logic says they won't be able to maintain their dominance but history shows that things don't always follow logically. It's going to be super interesting what plays out next.
It really is a distracting amount of cleavage. Maybe you're just jaded from Vegas? :)
For those drawing comparisons: Facebook has 500 million users. How many does Google+ have?
My mother actually asked on Facebook last whek whether someone remembered the name of a flight search that had some cute mascot :P and yes, the 2nd reply gave her the name "hipmunk" :) so the mascot does help with remembering.

(I'll update with the actual post, but Facebook is banned at work)
It's not the anonymity that is bothersome, they're just horribly written job posts. And worse still: comments are disabled so we can't ask any further questions.
Most just don't liveblog it. The only point of the presentation is so that a few journalists can feel more privileged over those who get press release saying the same thing.
And it looks like it's going to converge as a space race towards mobile video chat.
Hangouts is group video. Huddle is group text chats, which for some reason is mobile only and has no web interface. No one uses it 'cause not everyone has an Android device.
This may be a stupid question: How do you use lists?

I made some lists with circlehack.com. But on Facebook I don't see a way to share something with a list. I am puzzled...?
How Does Dropbox's Terms of Service Compare to Those of Other Companies?
Dayta is free, forever (and now for web too)
Saving people's lives is a sustainable, indispensable industry.

Pacemaker representatives make a 3 to 5% commission on every pacemaker or implanted defibrillator they install. A busy Cardiologist can put in 10 in a day. Each pacemaker costs a minimum of $30k. I've seen pacemaker's go in people that probably didnt' need it. That doesn't mean the entire industry sucks.

For every misfunding of Color, there are 80 barely funded 2 to 3 person startups building solid, revenue producing companies in the Valley. When these startups get funded they struggle to recruit and need to retain engineers because they are head down building product.

That doesn't mean that perks industry wide are corrupt. An exception does not a rule make.
I've always thought Facebook was a mediocre looking product at best.
one lesson from this, have as much emotional attachment to your code as you do your product = NONE
I love the idea of Duck Duck Go, and would really like to use it, if only it had a different name... Maybe DDG is a solution!
So is this like FoundersCard?
You can call 'em what you want, but I imagine running the second most popular site in the world must feel pretty good.
yeah didn't work for me either, but i agree, it did seem to look like it was going to work. i was excited for a second.
Harras Matt Cutts here (http://www.mattcutts.com/) (in a nice way, obviously).

He is the head of search quality at Google.
Facebook Announces Private Communication Channels
Ingenic: a platform for human curation (Thiel Fellow project)
Since you insist on these terms, please provide the exact number of hours you put in each day, excluding breaks.
Those who don't innovate, fall behind. Who was it that said companies kill themselves, and it's not the competitors that do it?
:-) I guess all the voters are at lunch and the submitters are hard at work.
Facebook Launches Skype-Powered Video Calling
Stake ain't large. ~1.5%ish
In my experience, working as part of a team requires different social skills than marketing oneself and networking; I'm decent at the former and hopeless at the latter. Employers who only consider social butterflies will be potentially missing out on lots of talented candidates.
Also, I went with the setup, and not only did facebook not support linux, it doesn't detect I'm on a linux system and started to download a .EXE file!

Feeling some pressure from google + ?
New York, NY

Front End Engineer & Back End Engineer @ Shelby.tv

We're a TechStars NYC graduate looking for some badass engineers who meet a few basic requirements:
You work with (and watch tons of) online video,
Process updates in real time from a growing list of firehoses (twitter, facebook…),
Use the best technology for the job (Rails, Mongo, Node, Redis, Beanstalk…),
Develop and contribute open source,
Love the modern web (HTML5, CSS 3, JS, modern browsers),
Stay the fuck away from IE < 9 and Flash,
Love every screen (monitor, tablet, phone, tv, headrest, IMAX),
and most importantly, focus on building an exceptional team that builds something people want

If you're interested, shoot Dan an email at dan+jointheteam@shelby.tv
There are such things as lawsuits against investors for breach of fiduciary duty to their shareholders. I suspect there might be a couple of those that come out of the Skype case.
Microsoft Skype just partnered with Facebook .... and Twitter will use Apple FaceTime ...
Except that Hangout is a lot more social than the Facebook/Skype integration. Google+ has out-social'ed Facebook.
Same problem here. 4.3.3(8J2) os build, 04.10.01 modem firmware, MC608LL model
That's not even worth wasting time at answering. Look Google doing a great job of rebranding it's services. Google already had video chat for a while now. If you have gmail you have video chat. I don't get why facebook is just getting around to doing it. And google didn't need skype to do it.
We sent out a batch yesterday and do it about once a month. If you asked before a month ago then they should have arrived already! If not, they may have gotten returned (we get returns). You could send the address again.
Damn! My start-up idea was to sell glasses that allowed you to view the holographic structure of the world.
What does this mean for all of the group chat companies that have launched recently?
same thing. i thought that was complete fail on their end. a .exe? come on.
We have the http://ddg.gg/ short domain.
Facebook just works pretty darn well, though. The application is almost always responsive, it's extremely polished, and it's always getting a bit stronger in what it offers.

If that's underachieving, sign me up.
"I also don't want to be in sales" -- have you too narrowly defined sales? From reading your description, it seems quite a natural area for you to be, in the capacity of a Sales Consultant / Sales Engineer / etc... You can be the technical leg of a sales team and do very well.

There are a lot of companies out there that would exercise your talents in a role like this. I would go the enterprise software route. Often, your duties will be varied - from doing presentations to groups of various sizes, to networking at trade shows, to doing some programming to proof out a concept for a prospect.

You can tailor your job search such that you do more of one vs the other. For example, if you don't like programming (at all), then look more on the hardware side or sys admin type of products. If you want more hands-on in the tech, and are fond of SQL or something like that, look to the big db companies. If you want more programming, look at ERP/CRM/????

Just my two cents. Best!
If Google+ can manage the same speed as Chrome, the future seems as bright for Facebook as it does for IE.
When I was in high school, almost everyone used AIM. Then Facebook Chat came out and practically crushed it. Why? It wasn't better (it was far, far, worse, actually — you couldn't chat with somebody without one of you complaining about it), but everyone was there. It became the defacto way to reach people. It was successful for the same reason Facebook was successful.
Zuckerberg is also a kid, he's like a rookie who hit a home run on his first at-bat. It would not be surprising to me if he was blindsided out of a combination of youthful arrogance and inexperience.
It should also be noted that Facebook chat works within Windows Live Messenger 2011 and you receive Facebook notifications (or birthday updates) from within Hotmail. So Microsoft has been working with Facebook for some time now.
>"It doesn't matter that Hangout is better."

From a technical implementation perspective maybe Hangout is better. However, from a social networking perspective 3/4 of a billion Skype users is clearly better. And from a marketing perspective, giving Skype users worldwide a reason to choose Facebook over competing products is brilliant.
iPhone users spend 14.7 hours a month playing games
I enjoyed the Jar install too..
Yup, I'm Indian :) I wasn't in the team photo because I work from a different office.
Sure, every subscription music service has search. It's essential, but navigating their entire library and navigating just stuff I like is not the same. Some times I just want to browse my favorite artists. I can't do this effectively on Spotify. The user experience here is bad. I don't think I'm the only person who wants to "favorite" albums.
Play framework and async I/O
HackerFollow has an SQL injection problem. When it asked me for a login phrase, I typed in "I'm a skier" and got a nice MySQL error, probably because of the ' character.
its only a matter of time before google lets developers tie in.
"Computer, end simulation!"

Just to be sure...
Let's Be Frank: How technologists can learn from architect Frank Gehry
Basic Metaprogramming with Ruby and Rake
> Perhaps the airlines have requested it as a way of circumventing ticket sharing, exchanges, etc.? Have they enlisted the government as the enforcer of their price discrimination model?

I think you nailed it. Obviously not all of the TSA's actions can be explained this way, but the insistence on ID that matches the boarding pass is so beneficial to the airlines that it's hard to ignore the possibility of 'regulatory capture'.
> in my experience, the TSA only really looks at your boarding pass

I flew out of Boston Logan on Sunday. The TSA (?) guy just before X-Ray machine and free groping took my passport and boarding pass, shining a little black light Maglite at my first name on the boarding pass and passport, put a check mark next to my first name on the boarding pass, and then proceeded to do the same for my last name. Black light was also shined on the flight number and a couple of other things, and each was check marked. He then turned to the next blank page in my passport and had a good look at that with his black light.

Probably took less than 30 seconds, but he was very thorough in making sure my ID matched my boarding pass and neither had been tampered with.
How your memories can be twisted under social pressure
I personally do find the anonymity bothersome.

If an organization expects me to send a detailed resume to them without knowing the first thing about them, that starts the entire relationship off in a profoundly asymmetrical way.
High Scalability - 11 Common Web Use Cases Solved in Redis
They do... Chrome Web Apps, extensions, android apps. I can see the Web Apps/Games incorporating nicely with Google+.
To be honest, when I read the original idea behind the bitcoin, I was thrilled. I thought This Is It (TM).

The monetary system, as it exists today is based on debt as a lever for growth. Banks can get a deposit of 1$ and God/King/Char/President/Whatever gave them the right to lend 5$ with it, and hold the 5th person under obligation of debt, to pay back that one dollar which the bank that gave it to him DIDN'T HAVE in the first place. You have to give back that 1 dollar or you will lose what you bought with it.
Proponents of this practice call it "value" of potential, they argue that banks can do this because if they lend 5$ for every 1$ they have, people who borrow these 5$ will really work their asses off and pay 5$ back, which means that banks valuate the "potential" of the market to create 5$ out of 1$. Then come investors, speculating the value of this "potential", buying the debt and selling it again for 12$ this time etc.

I thought that bitcoin was a chance to fight back the economy of debt. Every coin is 1BTC, no bank would be able to get it and magically transform it to 5BTCs any more. Potential would once again be expressed as ability to produce more or better of your products made for the same cost and EXCHANGE them for more or better products made by someone else, REAL things as assets against REAL things as liabilities exchanged through a non manipulatable medium.

Then, I woke up :) Bitcoin adopters and proponents are so unbelievably vested in the current status quo that they managed to create a caricature of the same, old monetary system replicated in the bitcoin world: exchanges that don't exchange bitcoins but integers, speculators, market crashes... like Wall Street No.2... and naturally "It is not profitable any more, sell"...
Apache Avro for data interoperability in the big data world
So why not adapt the Twitter model to this? You can choose who to include in your Bogon-net, and maybe set different confidence requirements; e.g., "Show me only results that at least 50% of my Bogon-busters have rated, and only show me results that have a 75% approval rating."

The problems I already see are a) having to compute all those scores, and b) I'm unlikely to rate more than a handful of sites a day - I think Google tried that with their browser toolbar, too.
Perhaps a better idea is to notify the user that two sites have nearly identical content, and let the users decide.
I don't think it will work out this way. I have done a lot of consulting, and whether you build something that convinces you that the process is automatable, you are not factoring in what happens when a customer gets a prototype.

1. Oh, that is not at all what we talked about
2. Ah. I see that you have implemented exactly what I asked for, and seeing this most excellent implementation, I realize that I really need something else.
3. Good implementation. Can you just add the DWIM button? Buttons don't take long to add, do they? That will just about take care of it.

The value in the iterative approach is that it gets the buyer or user of the software to articulate anticipated needs, and to see what is possible.

Expecting someone to plop $1000 down and follow some constraints that seem arbitrary in the process will likely result in the opposite of success.

So do you personally have a theory about how it came to be that the system is an iterative design in a client-consultant model is what is used?

My theory is that it came to be because it is that it works.
Doesn't PageRank work by counting links?

This is a very naive view of Googles algorithms. While link count plays a significant role in ranking, there are many more factors (including various secret sauces) that determine where a given link will end up in the SERPs.

Still, it really seems odd that Google shows a fake as the top result here. I just ran the search myself and while jquery.COM ranks first for a generic 'jquery' search, the release blog post doesn't appear at all when searching for 'jquery 1.6.2 released'. The closest you get is a link just to 'blog.jquery.com' with the title "jQuery:". It makes me wonder if something went wrong with the blog release that affected the way the "Google Juice" flowed down to that post, and this fake site managed to capitalize on it.
Facebook's quality seems to be directly linked to their need to acquire users. When they started out they were excellent — I remember being very impressed that a social network could be this nice. Now that everyone uses them, they have no hunger for quality.
Because "This extension extracts the Google+ profiles of the people whose names appear on the page you visit."
You have to manually import the tracks in both the client on your home computer and in the client on your phone. Spotify doesn't provide any upload / cloud functionality.
Don't Forget to Spell Check
"Facebook just works pretty darn well"
i guess you have never interacted with their platform/api?
Facebook didn't have to be very good when their main competitors were MySpace and Friendster, two poster children for incompetence who blew early leads in quick succession while at times appearing to be run by circus clowns. Fortunately for Facebook success is relative: for a site whose primary purpose is to manage your social network it's been sorely lacking in any credible tools to manage social networks. Facebook is basically Geocities with comments and photo-sharing. Now Zuck and Co are going to actually have to put some thought into it.
Not even as much as a
"Sorry your operating system isn't supported at this stage!" watch this space type message, just an in your face EXE download!

Used to being a second class citizen but most sites of recent years have a recognizer at the very least!
I wonder if Google is going to let an independent author keep the ++ name. That's some serious vanity name real estate.
Just because you've won a judgement or because you have received licensing payments does not ensure your negotiation position is invulnerable, whether this is due to the patent portfolio (and your own potential for infringements of that portfolio) or the particular domain knowledge or awareness of prior art that might be available to your opponent.

This particular business situation is fairly common, and can lead to so-called patent cross-licensing. A form of corporate truce. And there may well be consideration paid (and in either direction), but that's all subject to negotiation.
Game theory helps you decide, given a game with certain rules and a scoring metric, how to maximize your score. Political philosophy helps you choose the rules of the game.
They're forming tagteams? I wonder if any other partnerships will emerge.

I also said Microsoft Skype to distinguish it from FB- didn't know that FB and MS have been collaborating. But on second thought, it really is going to be Microsoft Skype from here on out. Or rather, 2012 Microsoft Skype Home Edition 7 with .NET Windows Live integration.
I meant group video chat. Thanks for catching that. I've updated my comment.
Facebook is showing the signs of its alliance to Microsoft in more ways than one here.
In my opinion, Mono is simply a distraction for the open source community. It takes people away from Java or Scala, for example, and has them running in the weeds with Mono.

Microsoft did a great job with C# and they've certainly moved much faster than the Java community. However, the Mono project won't get much enterprise support without a bigger company behind it, and I don't see how it's going to catch the JVM in performance without that support.

In short, if you're not writing Windows GUI apps, you might as well use Java, or give Scala as shot.
Most here are not old enough to remember this.

One way tickets cost as much as round trip tickets. So people would buy a round trip ticket then sell the return ticket. This was standard practice And they never used to ask for picture ID when you flew.

The requirement for picture ID was instituted on the behalf of airlines seeking to end the practice. It wasn't about security. It was about money.

Incidentally there is no actual law requiring picture ID. Well, the FAA says that it exists, but won't tell anyone what it is. (I wish I was making this up.) This was the subject of a lawsuit that was lost in the 9th circuit and not heard by the Supreme Court. See http://www.papersplease.org/gilmore/index.html for more.
Get a real domain, have your old domain do 301 redirects to the new.
Cool update, Gabriel. Are you still working solo on DDG?
Tipfy: a small but powerful framework made specifically for Google App Engine
Ask HN/PG: Any interest in a Kindle (mobi) compilation of PG's essays?
I'm going on a long vacation without a laptop and probably no internet connection.

For quite some time I've wanted to consume every single PG essay, so I wrote a script to compile them all into one clean Kindle (mobi) e-book with a table of contents, chapters, navigation, etc.

Would anyone be interested in this?

More importantly, PG: are you ok with me giving this out? I know you like to have analytics on each of the essays, so I would understand if you're opposed to the idea.
What's Facebook spam? I haven't seen a Farmville update in something like a year.
I see one way (using Skype, although apparently that started some time ago). What are the other ways?
Every job that I have found has always been through warm relationships that I have had with my peers.

My first job (sweatshop consultant doing mostly COBOL) was acquired through the college placement office. My next job (a year later) was through a recruiter who found the first employer a reliable field for harvest. That second job worked out pretty well, I was there for seven years. The technology was not very interesting but it was as very good fit for me as I was getting marriage and family life underway.

After that, everything has been by referral or word of mouth from friends/colleagues. None of those have been duds.
GrandCentral was the voicemail service they purchased and has nothing to do with video chat.
crashed for me =(
Thanks for the reply. I can agree on the cmd-t thing. I'm not tied to TM but I do like the details it implements and it's usually not slow for me (granted, I can see the problem for some cases). I have been watching Vico pretty closely though and it's top of the candidates for me right now.

Sublime 2 looks nice but I couldn't get passed all the quirky settings I had to go through (in different places too) to get anything close to what I wanted. I'm still looking for more good reasons to invest the time to set it up is all.
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