skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to agree with all of this. Only thing I would comment is that I envision g+ becoming end user's social aggregator if you will. By that: End user wants to post information to his social networks so he hops into g+ and decides where to funnel this information. Perhaps in the future g+ will have facebook,twitter, linkedin etc, accounts and thus you have g+ a one stop shop for social networking which rests upon some of its own infrastructure but mainly pushes and pulls data from other sources. We already know google is good with managing and processing boat loads of data and social data is data like any other.

/my two cents

The only thing I do not understand is how Apple can lock users to iTunes for their media management, it seems analogous in more ways than not to Microsoft's IE issues a handful of years ago. (Perhaps I am missing a key point here, if so please comment.)
Remember that even with the Tesla roadster, they still pretty much only made the power train. The rest of the platform was basically licensed from Lotus.

http://www.carsconcepthub.info/images/lotus-elise%20%281%29....

Notice the similarity?
I gotta wonder how many here would rather take the internal course Apple is developing versus HBS's curriculum (ignoring degree implications)?
Example: http://f.cl.ly/items/0x3q260l0a390E1u1N1P/Screen%20Shot%2020...
Here's a another hacking example of how to get all your FB friends onto Google+, but the question I'm wondering, should FB even care? I've seen a few things here and there that FB has set up to block things like this. Thoughts?
Textmate is the saddest example of abandonware

Or a happy example of abandonware.

Abandonware means no longer sold or supported. TM is still being sold and maintained by its author.
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It's a bit worse than an assembly language, because it doesn't have JMP.
Well, the best you can say about Larry Summers' tactlessness is that it's equal opportunity. And, is that the Winklesvosses in that photo? This is the bigot in me coming out, but that picture alone is enough to make me root for the Zuck, a difficult task indeed.

Even rich assholes deserve their day in court, though. If they were defrauded or had their IP stolen, then you've got to follow the rule of law, regardless of where it might lead you or who it might offend.
I find that interesting, considering I currently study computer science at Berkeley (undergrad).

Not sure if i ever got that sense. I've had some really good female project partners and/or study mates. But I can see how some guys might feel emasculated from being helped by a girl.
Freelance software developer.
I think this fits the intended use case.
layman: the 800M$ funding & 8B$ valuation numbers affect each other. It woulnd't be raising 800M$ if not valued at 8B and it wouldn't be valued at 8B$ if the funding round wasn't 800M$
Can you explain why you think the design targets "five-year old children"? All you did was make a reductive, flippant accusation without backing it up at all.
If you don't run much I highly suggest spending two months running _before_ running in Vibram Five-Fingers. And when you do get them, run on grass or dirt. They're the only shoes I wear running and I can do a fast paced 45 minute trail run in them and feel amazing, but even 15-20 minutes on concrete can cause pain.
Actually, zfs-on-linux is doing pretty well. It's not production ready yet, of course.

As for HTTP, I agree with you entirely! There is actually a standard that lets you put a hash (SHA-1 or SHA-256 or something) on an http anchor link, and the browser will verify it when the download finishes. It hasn't really gained very wide adoption though. Personally, I think something akin to Bittorrent is a better solution, since it doesn't have to redownload the entire file when it detects an error. It's ironic that our videos often have better data integrity than the graphics driver installer that I just downloaded, or the browser that I downloaded yesterday.
$8B is still in the acquisition range.
Google was ready to pay $6B for Groupon.
The next round (if ever) will make twitter un-acquirable.
IPO, lower valuation or die.
Twitter's data set is incredibly valuable; Twitter won't make money from ads, they will make money from analyses of their data [1]. Developing infrastructure and software that can analyse the sheer quantity of data Twitter generates takes time — and money. But, when they finally crack it they will be extremely profitable. It's much easier for Twitter to do this opposed to Facebook (who I would say is also interested in doing this) because of Twitter's public by default culture (/policies).

[1] If evidence is needed: they just bought BackType; They're starting to lock down and sell their APIs rather than give it away for free as they realise the data's immense value.
Seems like a rather difficult problem, since now you need to do image recognition to figure out if there's "stuff" on the person. Without this feature, you can just pass the image directly through to the reviewer.

Good quality image recognition isn't trivial. I can see why it took a while to happen.
I somehow don't see big companies ditching Exchange for G+...
They have permission to use it. They're looking for a new one now.
Some people have knee problems. Although sometimes those knee problems are alleviated by regular stair use...
Hopefully they switch to Roman numerals soon.

Then maybe a few decades down the line they'll reboot the series and go back to just "Firefox" like they did with the Star Trek films.
It should. But if you're still having trouble, I found using this will always work for me:

sudo ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 pip install
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33% of Facebook traffic comes from mobile devices - http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

Facebook has a tremendous mobile foothold.
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Odd how it mentions softblocks in the theoretical sense since they have been around for years.
One vision is marketing. One is not. You decide which is which. I'm not being sarcastic at all- I wonder if marketing is targeting the low-hanging fruit if college-age kids because they're intuitively easy to imagine being "cutting edge".

Maybe- but I will say they certainly don't have the marketplace of ideas cornered, and a LOT of incredible talent is being left on the table. It will change.
Maybe because pushups sound like a standard army excercise/punishment? Anyways, many valid points being made about stereotypes.
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I thought this was going to be like XML sit-ups.
I've had the same drive hooked up to time-machine now for the last year and a half if not longer and haven't had any issues what so ever.

It is a custom enclosure with a standard Seagate hard drive. Works wonderfully.
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Yep, we didn't write our own encoder - we evaluated and licensed a third party encoder. Article edited to make this more clear. The problem (at this point at least) is that our software licensing agreement with the third party includes confidentiality, so we can't name the software without permission. Stupid, I know. But you can probably guess, or figure out, what it is. ;)
Personally, I'd eliminate the boot drive and PXE boot.
Ooops! Sorry, I pulled the 99% from my ass to make a point and I was not really meaning 'real 99%'. Sorry. I'll edit the post. Thanks for the correction.
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(Backblaze founder speaking here) - I have always liked the CrashPlan company and they seem like a smart focused team with a solid product. And I've heard other reports that CrashPlan works well on Linux, so people should definitely check them out and give them a fair try.
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HN'ers,

Need your help with a project I'm currently working on! Building a product that needs some telephony use which could be Tropo or Twilio. The project has been built mainly in Python and Django.

Any folks out there interested in helping out with the Tropo/Twilio part of it? Can't imagine it would take more than a week or so and of course it's paid.

Drop me an email and I'd be happy to give you some details about it (vladik dot rikhter at gmail).

Thanks!
They didn't want to make a new file system for a while, when they were going after ZFS, but that has fallen through. And anyway, all he saying is that they definitely could make their own, which is true.
lol, thanks gav :)
They can (in theory) observe them using an observatory named LIGO, or Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. It's essentially lasers set up to shoot along long corridors such that any changes in the distance between the ends can be measured. Gravitational waves will change this distance, so the laser interferometer should be able to measure gravitational waves.

LIGO hasn't yet observed gravitational waves (it's currently being upgraded to "Advanced LIGO") but has set important upper limits on the strengths of gravitational waves. And importantly, it hasn't ruled them out.
Keep in mind observational studies like this have a very hard time proving causation. Nothing in here sounds too far outside what I've seen documented in randomized control trials, but it's good to be aware of this. There's a great write up on this that's fascinating http://www.nytimes.com/200​7/09/16/magazine/16epidemi​ology-...
Raising capital and valuations are just temporary measures and good faith to turn the product into a company. Having money to hire more people just exacerbates the problem. They now have higher operating costs (where this new capital goes) and now need to have the even higher revenue to create a margin that makes it all worth it in the first place. OR you just get stuck in a Groupon situation where we have big revenue off big costs (salespeople).
I wondered a few days ago about the cars: Wouldn't it make more sense to make that project open source?
WebPutty is really cool, by the way. I'm currently having a play with it and it's funny but I have some suggestions:

A firebug inspired element inspector may be a good thing. I think jumping straight to the line of CSS rather than the separate, filtered window would be a great idea. I'd really love that.

Another thing, but less important, would be auto-complete. Either that or ways to expand ZenCSS abbreviations. This would push my productivity to the moon.

Another thing I was thinking of hacking on to Firebug (when I find out how) is selector hinting. The way this would work is, when you type a selector, the available ones are given to you, much like method hints in IDEs. This would be very useful to me at least. There have been many times when I've needed to know a particular hierarchy/id name/class name and found myself having to reference elsewhere.

To host CSS would be a social/pointy-haired-boss issue but I could make necessary recommendations. In any sense, I love the work that has been done.

This is my more constructive feedback :)
Google+. Gmail. They can be integrated.
The OSX Lion download is +3 GB, so Apple customers must take care of TCP errors (or at least Apple Support would be swamped with support requests).

Two possible ways of solving this: make a download into e.g. 16 MB chunks and append a SHA-1 checksum for each chunk (not enterely unlike BitTorrent). Then re-download the chunks where the SHA-1 doesn't match. Another solution would be to use e.g. Red Solomon error correction.
I got to thinking the other day, after seeing some guy walking around in 35C heat, with a suit: remember that report about how much money the US spent on air conditioning in Afghanistan and Iraq? What's the figure like for keeping people in suits air conditioned during the summer?
You might be right, but there are alot of small and mid size companies that solely use google apps for everything. This isn't that big of a stretch. If people adopt it, then MS will surely come up with their own solution. Look at what they had to do to compete with Google apps.
I'm trying to figure out how these are different from the binary pulsar PSR B1913+16 (other than they're white dwarfs and the binary pulsar is two neutron stars). PSR B1913+16 is two neutron stars orbiting each other in a tight spiral, and their orbital decay corresponds with what Einstein's general relativity predicts. In fact, the discoverers of PSR B1913+16 (Hulse and Taylor) received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993 for showing that this was the case.
This is EXACTLY what I needed and wanted. I was literally about to code my own version of this today but decided to procrastinate and check hacker news, and I'm sure glad I did!

I even made a thread on reddit webdev about it yesterday:
http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/itqy1/is_there_a_fir...
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I use this free app to block a blacklist of sites that suck my time. You can set it to block for any length of time you want:

http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/
What about `sqlite3 -version`?

Can we haz 3.7 and its Write-Ahead Log?
Because they don't need to?

You know, if you could get 800M$ who cares about revenue? They are getting money while they can before the bubble burst, the early investors are getting money selling to a greater fool and the greater fool are putting money over the table betting someone else will be even bigger fool.

Facebook is profitable but "not that profitable", they need to be much much more profitable at the current valuation, that means being pure evil, and I don't know if the people will stand that.

The Facebook, Zynga, Groupon burst will be something great to see, again(it seems people just can't learn from the past, "this time is different").
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http://www.jaredandcoralee.com/CLIapps.html#Games
Yes on x86, it is not generally the case.
Yes, but it doesn't save them.

You hit refresh and those changes are gone.

I see the value of this for alot of one-person development shops or front-end devs that do a lot of client design work.

Your client calls you, "Hey, this thingy here isn't lining up right"

"click. click. publish"

"refresh the page"

"ohhh....how did you do that?" (Client amazed)
Somewhat similar functionality to http://www.stiqr.com/
Although for stiqr would work even if you don't know HTML/CSS.

Wish the stiqr guys had a bit more exposure. Awesome product.
I think it would be extremely easy to find. The only reason anyone ever buys a suit in the first place is to go on an interview for a ('real') job or attend a wedding.
Doesn't seem to feel right. They could have gone with 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc, and expectations would be better managed.
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Sell it?

I am reminded of the good ol' days of selling Linux by the pound...
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VisualAck is like grep (or ack), except faster and with UI. For Mac.
This write up in the NYTimes simply was poorly done. With a title like "Counting Calories?" -- implying counting calories doesn't work, they don't actually dispell it at all.

Where's the data like, "People who eat fruits, veggies, and whole grains actually ate more calories, yet lost weight". And "among those who ate lots of french fries and potato chips, but yet fewer calories than others, gained the most weight."

Of course I believe those who eat a lot french fries gain a lot of weight. It's a calorie dense food. As are chips.

I'm not saying the title is inaccurate, but rather the article doesn't really substantiate it.
So they are a-holes for dressing up to meet with the president of Harvard? If they were to show up in shorts and sandals would he have taken them seriously? Or should they wear jeans and button-up shirts? Little did they know it was a fashion show.

I'm not rooting for the Winklevoss twins or anything but seems to be that I'd probably dress up a bit to meet with the president of Harvard. While in college I wore a suit (albeit a cheap one) from time to time for special occasions and I was a pretty poor college student.
ok, but do they really need 800 million (or 400 million) to turn backtype and other companies and/or ideas into a working business?
I just purchased this. One feature I'm really looking for is the ability to launch multiple apps in a specific configuration. The best solution I've found so far is using Applescript. I realize I might just be overlooking already implemented features. Anyone have a recommendation?
It doesn't. It's just an implied valuation based upon simplistic math.

For example, suppose that $800M had a 1x liquidation preference plus a modest hurdle rate (say its 7%). That investor makes good money if Twitter gets sold for (1.07 x $800M) $856M - a far cry from $8B. The risk of such an investment going negative is quite low (relatively speaking), as would be the investor's cost of capital. I doubt the seed investors would look at such a sale positively.

That is a grossly oversimplified version of what can happen (I have no idea what the terms of the real investment are - I'm just making up a for-instance). But the larger point is that you are correct, when you are dealing with preferred stock and other complicated securities, the implied valuation is a bit of a joke. You have to look at the value of all of the various tranches of securities, each of which is impacted by the others.
I was not in a position to need to do this, but I've read here and there that with the beta/release candidate/whatever, at least, it was pretty easy to extract the image file from its app packaging and burn that to a disk or slap it onto a bootable USB drive.
Until they got to 4.39 and people would have the opposite complaint.
> Anything that Google launches anywhere automatically gets a huge amount of traffic

...if it's actually Google-branded. Perhaps Google means to do its future experiments more like Searchmash, where the project just happened to be run by Google, but had no mention of Google anywhere on it.
>We do something called buddy pushups (something I picked up when I was a wrestler). Here’s how buddy pushups work. Everyone gets in a plank position and stays in it even when they’re not doing pushups. The leader (could be anyone on the team) does 1 pushup by themselves, then holds a plank while everyone else does 1 pushup. ... We support each other and high five at the end. While it’s exercise for the individual, it’s a team effort.

You high five at the end, eh? Let me guess... you're North Americans. Pretty ridiculous. If you want to do push ups, do push ups... it doesn't have to be some ridiculous cult-like group thing.
Why is it that eating is more meaningfully related to work than doing pushups?
I think the MBA glossy display is plastic and the MBP glossy display is glass.
I think you answered your own question. Without revenue, outside capital is needed for growth. And it's tough to tell if the valuation is dumb without seeing the terms of the deal.
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I would say tricky, but if they could get away with this, it's a big win. A legal way to get money out of the games would be significantly more attractive for gamers than what they do now in black markets. We know it happens...
He wasn't saying they were a-holes for wearing suits. He was just pointing out the correlation.
Because it's an interesting discussion of how a large site deals with a difficult problem.
Are you trying to argue that regulations are completely ineffective? If so, please argue against the proposition that regulations decrease (not eliminate) unwanted behavior. That would be more useful for your reader.
"but the returns for different investors will vary significantly, according to a person familiar with the company", we don't know who succeeded or not.
From a good-for-mankind perspective, probably. From Google's perspective I really don't think so. If they can perfect that technology they will have a great opportunity to be the only company in the world able to license the ability to automate the transportation of people and goods using existing vehicles and roadways. It would be a gold mine.
Personally, the only thing that motivates me when the work is uninteresting is knowing that someone is expecting it. That's why I'm much less prone to procrastination on work I do for people than at college assignments.
Blocking sites never helps, I can entertain myself staring at a blank wall.

I do minimize external distractions (IM, SMS, etc), but that's because they annoy me even when I'm interested in the work. I don't know how people can stand all those notifications popping up.
I don't think wearing suit pants and a shirt in the summer as any worse than jeans an a polo. I mean suit pants can let a fair amount of air circulate through.
Product-specific labs, like Google Maps Labs or Gmail Labs, are still staying. This announcement is only about Google Labs.
We're considering a PXE boot solution (among other solutions) just to keep all 200 pods (and growing!) updated to the latest Debian. But we also use the boot drive for a few other things like error logging and such. But the idea of eliminating the boot drive entirely is not a bad idea, we could drop the logs in a folder at the top of the data drives. We already (selectively) mirror various excerpts of the logs to other machines in case the whole pod disappears from the network so we have some history and understanding of what was going on when it went missing.
Because childrens' toys are highly functional. You've got building blocks with letters on them. They do exactly 1 thing, and they do that 1 thing very, very, very well.

Or maybe you have a board with some buttons on it. The one with a picture of a cow makes a cow noise. The pig makes a pig noise, etc.

Turns out this is also really good design practice. For a long time, when the web was new, having lots of "neat stuff" meant that you knew how to make neat stuff, which meant that you were "professional".

As this "neat stuff" became more accessible, it started having the opposite affect.

The transition you've seen happen in web is the same one that you saw happen in print. Things start off "fancy", but as "fancy" becomes easily attainable, it starts to look cheap.

You may be interested in this article: http://lesswrong.com/lw/154/why_real_men_wear_pink/

"Why Real Men Wear Pink"
Didn't already have their day in court and settled? Are they entitled to revisit the whole saga every time Facebook's valuation is raised?
Also: there's no actual evidence of asshole-ness besides their costume and cultural affects (rowing?). While even in the best plausible telling of the Facebook story, Mark clearly pays the part of massive asshole.

We usually hate the visibly "asshole" type because they got to where they are through privilege, connections, and looks. All of which the Winklevosses have in spades. But they have apparently started multiple businesses and produced things of actual value; they're putting their privilege to good use instead of jumping into consultancy or investment banking. So it's a bit of a presumption to call them "rich assholes." They are definitely rich, and may be assholes, but we've got no evidence of the latter. It's not like Facebook made a bunch of money and then they jumped on it for a shakedown; from the moment it started, they've been upset for a perceived breach of legality (questionable) and a definite breach of ethics.
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