skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real names enabled facebook users to quickly realize the "real world" social network within facebook, rather than building an entirely new network.

I don't know email addresses or commonly used online aliases for even 10% of the people whose names I know. I'm fairly confident that I could find just about any of my cousins or high-school classmates on facebook in minutes. Without them having put their real name on their facebook profile, I don't believe I would be able to find them at all. Surely it's clear how that leads to facebook having a much bigger network much faster than a service that doesn't use real names. Real names are the key my brain uses to identify people.

I also think there is a psychological impact of constantly looking at pages filled with names that you recognize. If you swapped out all the names on my facebook feed with random hn usernames, I think I would feel different while I read it.

All that said, I do agree with most of what Fred Wilson is saying. I hate the impulse to "civilize" or "sterilize" the web as well, and I'm especially concerned when politicians start with that sort of talk. Real names make sense only for facebook or a facebook replacement (good luck with that), because in my mind the definition of facebook is "the thing you use to communicate online with people you know in real life."
How sure are you about the less than 1% thing?

https://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.h...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/VLC_media_pla...

And asking someone to use an un-patent-encumbered format is radicalism? Isn't that what google is doing?
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I started tinkering with an implementation of revlog on the plane back from OSCON. If I get anywhere useful I'll post the sources somewhere.
Quake actually had "dynamic lightmaps" - that is flickering lights and such by alternating between two (or more?) lightmaps for the same geometry. It also had moving level geometry: elevators and all kinds of traps.

Granted, both of these features are somewhat hacked into the static BSP level structure, but this only shows that it's "necessary" to have dynamic lighting and moving stuff to offer a good experience.
You can also play against a dumbed-down Javascript version of the bot. It only spends a few milliseconds searching for a move rather than a whole second, and its move evaluator isn't as smart -- but at least a human has a chance of beating it and the code is very simple: http://a1k0n.net/code/tron.html
Interesting. So your use of big-o was primarily for an algorithm that ran on data after it was stored and/or used in real-time when fetching data? I tend to agree. Either I tend to do very simple input/output pages or very complex modeling with relationships between data. I would imagine the latter leads to more compelling products.
One thing that's true about our brains is that even if we fail having not fully committed we will change our internal narrative to always say something like this:

"That didn't work out but there's really nothing I could have done differently. This outcome turned out great because of X, Y, and Z anyway so who cares?"
Whenever I write a loop, I keep the big-O in the back of my mind. Whenever I linearly scan a data structure for a value, I ask myself I couldn't use a hash lookup instead. When loops are nested, my alarm bells start to ring, and I estimate the size of each list I loop over, and try to think of ways to reduce the number of iterations.

So I always track my O()s, even if it doesn't boil down to a rigorous analysis.
To be exact Sun Tzu's point is that every battle is decided in advance. Because the more prepared side always wins, where "prepared" is broadest possible term and includes all five elements: Mission, Climate, Ground, Leadership and Methods. The lesson is that one should not rush into battle if circumstances are not favorable.

Thank you for clarification - this is exactly what I meant, but English is not my primary language and thus my point didn't come across the way I wanted. And I indeed meant it to come across the way you put it.
Does it make sense to talk about the U.S. economy being in a recession?
Last time I used it (I can still see it on my whiteboard) is when designing a spam filtering process. I wanted to get rid of the most spam as cost efficiently as possible. So that meant figuring out the cost of each method (Big O) and then figuring out approximately how much spam the process would catch. Thus, I could run the most expensive processes last on the spam which still hadn't been caught.
at this early stage, the facebook version doesn't have many users

Private Joe's core audience is male, 18-24. I really can't tell if adding a leaderboard/store/gifting system has helped the game. All I can do is to make sure i have those systems in place, so I can at least compete with the big guys.

in a way, it's similar to an arms race - if the other guy has it, you got to have it too.
I truly appreciate the goals of this project but I honestly don't understand why the author didn't come up with his own unique name for this; there already is a vitunes (which I have used on OpenBSD).
rephrased, the proper way to ask a favor of a public radio show is on a note attached to your listener pledge, not an online petition that has little to do with the making of good radio, a task i imagine consumes the majority of TAL's energy.
First you get the definition of "Trojan" wrong, and now you make a new, extremely naive claim. Based on your logic, for example, phishing would never work.
While I never sit down and write out a formal proof, I always think about it and always check the implementations of standard library functions that work on collections before using them.

The real value of Bio-O isn't knowing how to prove that red-black trees have O(1) amortized insert but rather understanding the tools used and the code written better.
Nonsense! Technicalities to skirt the law are very common, just not where copyright is involved. Because copyright is special. Really.
I imagine the intuitive, unconscious use of big-o is actually more beneficial as you can immediately identify problem areas without having to bust out paper for complex analysis.
Did that too.
With the new HTML5 file upload feature, there's the possibility that you don't see the upload process (although it may be not the best way to do it for bigger images).

Also, they're still working at the image plugin, so I think it will be improved.
I'm not sure that they knew it was a bad deal.

In the Apple store, if you got that many downloads and that kind of placement, the traffic from the various lists and high placement for 7 days would convert to many many paid sales over the following days.
well, I tried text wrangler which was supposed to be bbedit but free, and I definitely did not like the UI (even though I do like lots of the mac UI)

this thing looks exactly like emacs to me but with tabs and a comparatively pathetic engine under the hood
Alexander didn't burn his boats. That was Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Muslim general who conquered Spain (well, Gibraltar - which is named after him) in 711. http://books.google.com/books?id=L-6ghsWDMTAC&pg=PA85

According to Plutarch, Alexander did burn some wagons, but that was because he wanted to make his army lighter so it could move faster.
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Silly question, but aren't the patents on MP3 almost due to expire?

Isn't one of the biggest problems with the mp3 format the fact that there are multiple patents owned by multiple corporations in different markets? According to [1] some have expired but there are tons more that haven't. It is also not surprising that the East Texas District mentioned in TAL has been used to settle a lawsuit involving the use of the mp3 format[2].

[1]http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_patent_issues
For anyone wishing to repeat this anecdote without being made fun of by your friends, Alexander the Great did not burn his ships upon arriving in Persia, because, you know, there is not much of a sea between the Middle East and Persia.

It was Hernán Cortés who burnt his ships off the coast of Mexico in 1519 to eliminate any ideas of retreat.
All the code does is looking up mentions of cities defined in the dictionary. How do you know that the cities aren't mentioned in any other context? How do you know that this is a resonable number of cities and their respected abreviations?

This is just lazy, and I'm not using word lazy as a technical term.
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Isn't this the same argument that mp3.com used ?
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I used to see so many security problems with xmlrpc.php, and never used the functionality, so I put in a cron job entry that did this for all blogs I had hosted:

mv PATH/xmlrpc.php PATH/xmlrpc.php.nope
chmod 000 PATH/xmlrpc.php.nope

something like once an hour in case I upgraded and forgot to secure the site.
For what it's worth, I initially read the emails and earnings statement the way that you described, and I thought to myself What in the world are these guys objecting to?! This is an incredible deal!

So thank you for typing that up.
It's kind of intersting until you realize that all their examples are static - there is no animation anywhere and there is a very good reason for that.

Yes, they might implement some kind of a hybrid approach but then they will lose all the things they hype about.
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The only OS that I've encountered suffering from this problem is Windows. Both OSX and Linux manage to retain the same amount of perceived responsiveness to me. It's all anecdotal.
I think you somewhat missed the point. Sure it is complex to support all gpus. But that's not the point of the article. The article is about small things like being able to customize the controls and not having to login in an useless service. Those are thing possible without much effort.

If you dou a port and miss to modify the basics, you ruin your port, your reputation, and thus lose money. There is no point in doing the awful part of the port, like gpu-support, but miss the easy but necessary steps.
Web apps stick to O(N) (iterate through a list) and O(N log N) (sort, some operations on indices).

If something is O(N^2) or worse, it "doesn't scale" and you won't usually see it done in a web app. That is, there's a whole shadow universe of web apps that you've never seen because the resource demands are too high.
It's weird, I tried submitting this story about an hour ago and was taken directly to that thread instead of it going through the system, I wonder why this link made it through?
It's a font-based exploit, not PDF. The particular implementation on JailbreakMe used a PDF, but it could easily work in @font-face with CSS on any webpage (or, as we did on JailbreakMe, just hiding an <iframe> to the PDF).
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What is special about a web app in this context? When programming, shouldn't/doesn't one always estimate the complexity of algorithms or select data structures based on the anticipated usage patterns?
I think while all the failings you point are valid, the basic analysis he does is "good enough" for noticing trends. Good job!

Commenting and not actually fixing the code - now that is lazy :P
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It took Steve Jobs twenty years to prepare sufficiently.

And procrastination is by no means preparation. However delaying your startup for six years might be a smart move if you have a strategic plan on how to improve your odds.

>"We can't release now! Feature X isn't even ready yet!": If the feature is core aspect of a product then by no means you should launch today. But if it is not a core or important feature then why did you even bother with its design and implementation.

These are by no means easy questions. And there are no easy answers. Thats why it is always wise to be realistic about ones goals and prepare. Doing your first startup might also just be a preparation and if it fails you should not back off - but realize that you failed since you were insufficiently prepared.

Dietrich Mateschitz was 40 years old when he founded Red Bull - and his life was (unknowingly) one big preparation for the Big One.
We always intended the site to be a solid place for dev/designer hybrids, as well as outright devs/designers. It used to be our sweet spot as far as user type was concerned, and I think it's something we could still potentially do well.

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Gah, sounds like Paypal is acting up (again).
God bless the FSF, but seriously, the patent situation is getting far too onerous to be combatted by playing shell games with media formats. Regardless of what you're doing, if you so much as have a WordPress site you can probably be sued by dozens of companies on a whim. If everyone switches to Ogg tomorrow, and assuming that no one brings a patent suit against it (a big if) then what will using an unencumbered file format do for the future of software development? Absofuckinglutely nothing.
Yeah, we're working on cleaning all that up. Sorry about that.
Exactly, when you say "bleeding money" I think "Groupon." Such a disappointment.
My downvote was in response to what I perceived as an unrealistic (and hysterical) assessment of risks on your part.

Airbnb now claims to be the size of, say, Albuquerque: one of the cities where I grew up, with somewhere around half a million people. In Albuquerque, there are 200 reports of vandalism, 100 stolen cars, 100 burglaries, 50 aggravated assaults, 10 kidnappings, 10 forcible rapes, two acts of arson, and one homicide, according to http://www.cabq.gov/onlinesvcs/crimestats/.

Every week.

EVERY WEEK. A murder every week. Fifty aggravated assaults every week. 200 reports of vandalism every week.

From this we can draw three conclusions:

1. You're probably right that there are other incidents. Probably some vandalism and assaults, maybe even some homicides.

2. Airbnb is a lot smaller than it appears to be. Maybe it's more like a 10 000 person town than like a million-person city. Maybe that's because their average user only use their service for a week every year as either a guest or a host.

3. Even so, Airbnb is a hell of a lot safer than Albuquerque, or actually any city in the US. An Airbnb user is a more likely to get kidnapped or murdered just at random than by someone they met through Airbnb. And that's probably still true even if you just consider the time they're actively using Airbnb.
(sorry for replying so late - I just remembered this comment)

I wholeheartedly agree that we should increase driving standards, and better traffic engineering is the first step. I was just commenting on the fact that most people I talk to don't want to learn how to make their morning commute safer and more efficient.
FSF is not demanding anything crazy here, and they'd be remiss to not bring this up.

Revolution begins at home, but it is sad that for most of us it ends there too. TAL is in a unique position to actually do something about this, and you'd think they would when you consider the tone of their program.

Ira Glass has the ears of more people than RMS or Brett Smith...
>Amazon gets to set the price of your app to whatever they want, without any input from you, or even the chance to reject their price ... Amazon re-writes your description, and in ours they even made up things ... you can’t remove apps from their store

That doesn't seem great.
Android devices support Vorbis. While I will agree that it may be hard to use, I think you're underestimating its reach.

And in any case, I don't see why this makes patent reformists lose credibility. They didn't stay stop offering mp3s, they said offer free formats. You're putting words in their mouths.
I think the analogy has some merit when relating it to startups. For example you could say at some point a founder must quit their safe day job in order to focus on their startup. They are removing the option of retreat and sharpening their focus by quitting their job.
I'd probably start with free wordpress.com hosting and take it from there.

As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong) Heroku is only for Ruby on Rails apps, where as Wordpress is PHP.
Phishing depends on user gullibility that is why everyone is vulnerable to phishing. Here you can't even reach the gullible user because there is the extra step of enabling side-loading, anyone who is going to victimized by this 'Trojan' has to do so knowingly and voluntarily.
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thanks to Amazon’s secret back-door deals, we made $0 on that day.

These secret back-door deals that were so secret that they were written in bold in the email, so secret that they noticed this and wrote back to amazon, and so secret that amazon then confirmed them.

They were offered a crappy deal, realized this and double-checked it, but decided to go for it anyway. When it turned out that the deal really was pretty crappy, they then act surprised and self-righteous and blog about it.
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Alexander the Great won Persia, but only after 10 years of dire struggle. His was unable to reproduce this success in India.

The meta lesson is that anecdotes are not wisdom. Smaller armies sometimes defeat bigger armies, but they mostly don't. Over enough trials, there will be some stories of success in the face of failure, some interesting enough to become legends. You should make decisions against the aggregate data, not selectively interesting data points.

Alexander is an epic exception, hence "the Great". Even though he succeeded, that doesn't mean it was wise of him to risk death and possible subsequent collapse of his civilization.
"But also don't delude yourself into thinking that tweeting and facebooking are revolutionary acts. They're about as revolutionary as watching CNN. "

I totally disagree. Spreading knowledge is always better than simply receiving it. Actually doing something is better yet, but let's face it: Most of us can't do more than stand in traffic and get noticed. Getting other people to notice is the point, and spreading the message on the internet does that just as well.

I can't count the number of things in the past year that I've told my parents about (avid news watchers) and they had never heard a peep of it.
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It will be happening soon! Start of September I'll be able to ship to the US.
I have written about the reasons here: http://blog.gevent.org/2011/04/28/libev-and-libevent/
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This one was HTTPS, therefore technically a different link.
Much similar to the difference between masturbation and sex.

(I actually mean this - I am not just being rude!)
Because the infrastructure is free. That's like asking why botnets connect over the Internet. (Though clearly to a different degree.)
Ayn Rand has a good definition and observes that consciousness, along with existence, is an axiomatic concept that is implicit in any claim of knowledge and is the foundation of reason. I agree.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/consciousness.html
Well first the story about Alexander the Great is incomplete. When Alexander the Great faced the Persians they had the most formidable Navy in the world. So when his men wanted to retreat to get reinforcements Alexander the Great realized they wouldn't make it by sea. THAT is why he ordered the boats be burned. Because his men were so afraid he thought they'd use the boats to make a run for it even without his permission.

That is also why I think the author's logic falls short here. It may be brave to say "victory or death" but it is also kind of stupid. Especially if there's a chance you could be defeated but escape to fight another day.

Conflict is about strategy whether it be in business or war. Winning means using every resource you have available to you in the most efficient way possible. So I don't see the logic in destroying resources as motivational tools.
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There is a difference between adoption and if it is mainstream or not. People knowing what twitter is but not giving a shit about it enough to have an account doesn't prevent it from being mainstream. I'd say Ford is pretty mainstream, but only a patchwork of people drive Ford.
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Can I just reply here? Here goes. I think you missed the entire point of the article. We agreed to be featured, we stand by that decision. What we take issue with is the public perception that Amazon pays their (publicly stated) 20% of the asking price for developers to be featured. They don't. Simple as that. Everything else is a beef, yes, but not our primary beef. Also we left it a month, we got featured June 27th, it's now August. Virtually no change in sales on Amazon.
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The author of the code must like German. He used "Matz" as a parameter, a German name, and klass = class in German.
o ok. I was just wondering if most ppl use an already built blog type like wordpress or build their own page and host it on their personal server like dreamhost, amazon aws, etc
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

The FSF has the time and people to advocate many things, including this, while still focusing on other goals.
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This link is to the https version, the other (and presumably your attempt too) was to the http version.
Can I suggest that instead of posting it as an Ask HN, you might get a better reception writing up a blog post which includes the story as well as your thoughts on why this is interesting news? I've noticed that things like this seem to do better as linkposts rather than Asks.
Collision need not be at the same resolution as the rendering which should help. But animation is probably limited by how much of the scean changes. If it's a small percentage of the enviornment removing the old objects and adding the new ones should be reasonably fast. Or if it's a small number of objects you could always keep them in a seperate tree and translate a ray in the main scean with one for the moving object.
By make more of an impact, you mean make far less of an impact by making sure nobody can listen to their show. Good idea.
> I can't count the number of things in the past year that I've told my parents about (avid news watchers) and they had never heard a peep of it.

And what were the results?
It seems like small developers could get around this by releasing some kind of trial edition on the free-app-a-day promotion.
I suspect it only works for items in the cache, and anything old enough and not recently referenced might only be on disk and not get checked.
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Yes, ray tracing is basically the technique that Hollywood use today.
Really, I do. "Oversee" can be used in a sentence as a verb without the connotation. But when I see "oversee.net" -- the noun -- I think "overseer", and "overseer" is not a word that I can hear without thinking "slavery".
> users can protect themselves by installing antivirus software

McAfee Premium plus. Coming soon to your Microwave.

This really saddens me. No matter how much user education has already been done, people still get tricked into installing this crap.
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