skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was just trolling for traffic.

Like this post.
My bet is the Zyngas will adapt and do "social" marketing by paying people to promote their games through shares.
I don't have any expertise in this area, but the first comment on that article claims that the quote they have wasn't given specifically to that paper, and the original quote is kind of dodgy:

"As a law abiding company, we comply with valid legal process, and that - as for any US based company - means the data stored outside of the U.S. may be subject to lawful access by the U.S. government. That said, we are committed to protecting user privacy when faced with law enforcement requests. We have a long track record of advocating on behalf of user privacy in the face of such requests and we scrutinize requests carefully to ensure that they adhere to both the letter and the spirit of the law before complying."

From that, it sounds like the data is subject to subpoena, but it would be nice to not have speculation three layers thick on this point and just get a straight answer.
> What's your definition of functionality? To serve a purpose well, or the range of operations supported? In my experience neither of those things has been true of the Facebook API (granted I haven't touched it in the last ~2 years).

Think back to 2006. Name one site that had sanitized SQL access to their data, rich tags, sandboxed css and javascript for constructing arbitrary HTML apps within their site. This was revolutionary stuff, regardless of the sloppiness.

> Again, I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but if you're implying that they're now so big that they've got to start taking shit seriously I think you're again being to kind. Smaller startups (including many in the YC crowd) do a better job with less money and employees, and with much smaller user bases.

What I mean is that they were growing like a weed because they kept pushing the ball forward rather than to stop and polish what they had. If they had "done right" by all the developers they may well have stagnated in growth as other companies pushed the UX of social networking forward, or they may have supported old APIs that were incompatible with the changes they made that tightened up the spam problems or increased user engagement. Citing a smaller startup is exactly in support of my point.

As to inflection point, what I mean is that the hockey stick growth is over and they are inevitably going to have to plateau, and so now is the time to get more serious about retention, and that means stability.

> At 50+ billion dollars I see a company that makes a lot of noise about innovation, but does very little that is different than what it did when it launched in 2004 (at scale, granted).

You're entitled to your opinion of course, but they invented the newsfeed! ie. the backbone of every social site for the last 5 years. Also, as I mentioned above, the Facebook platform was incredibly innovative. Their SOA and pipelining of requests is also the first of it's kind. What they do at scale with a dense social graph seems much much more challenging that what Google did coming up. Their entire culture itself is innovative, maintaining daily deploys at scale, with a fleet of engineers who are individually responsible for both front and back-end development of their features. Also remember the scale and velocity issues are what sunk Friendster and MySpace respectively.

You can piss on all that and say it's just glorified email, but in my mind that's just hater-ism fueled by who knows what personal chip on your shoulder. If not, then I'm curious to hear who you think is innovative.

> It depresses me that some of the best minds of my generation are working on how to make more people look at ads.

I don't like Facebook or social games either.
For indie developers...well, who knows. There might be a lot of finicky things with handing over you game to Google+. Becoming the new Kongregate? I sort of hope that stays outside of Google.

Moreover I feel like this goes against the whole the of Google+, the majority of my friends hardly post substantial things to begin with; I don't think this will change their behavior much.
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I like to re-watch movies for discovering small details and for all the well choreographed sequences. That’s more like re-watching a music video, you do it because the material is just plain cool to watch.

As you say, this only works for movies I like, only for movies that have sequences like that and details.
Anyone gotten access to the API yet?
This is a problem in RTS games. In many of those games you can only see enemies close to your forces. But because the games work by simulating the same thing on every client, the position data of the enemy pretty much has to be sent to each other client, thus enabling see everything hacks.

You can avoid this by not sending the data, but that complicates the simulation a lot. You can also get a big latency hit when your forces quickly uncover lots of enemies, because then suddenly a lot of data has to be sent.

I don't know how the game of this post works, but I doubt that it uses the method RTS games use because there is far less going on that the player can see. So for their case it would be simple to modify the server so that it doesn't send position updates for invisible players, thus making it impossible to cheat that way, instead of requiring detection and threats by the game company.
Looks like it might have been nice were not so x86-specific, and obsolete x86 at that.
Although it's not vandalism, something else that permeated Wikipedia is the use of the Cyrillic ya (Я) in places of R, where the stylized artwork for the article subject reverses the R (and varies it in many other ways, for sure).

The difference between the two is that this phenomenon is not wholly in the past.

One of the biggest thorns of the situation is when editors bring up an official or semi-offical website related to the subject and using Я, pointing to its existence as "proof". No, that isn't proof; whoever is managing that area of the web properties is just a jackass.
Interviews with People in Different Industries and Identifying Problems to Solve
> Your appeal to "authority" doesn't change the fact that many of us have written data structures involving multiple traversal paths, that these paths are all lists, and that they are all linked, and further that in conversation with peers we have referred to them as Linked Lists.

Your argument doesn't change the fact that it's misleading to refer to any arbitrary linked data structure as a "linked list". You can call a skip list a linked list if you want, but that does't make it appropriate, and it doesn't redefine the language for the more general audience. Go ask your coworkers to draw a linked list on the board and see how many draw a multiply-linked list, or a skip list, or any number of other things that could be pedantically considered "linked lists".

Even if we were to accept the argument that "linked list" is just a generic term for data structures involving linked traversal paths, that would not make the HN title appropriate. If the term "linked list" were that generic, then it would be misleading to apply it to this patent, which clearly does not cover everything that would fall unto the generic "linked list" term.

> Your appeal to "authority" requires the admission that Wikipedia actually supports the counter argument,

Are you seriously trying to criticize my "appeal to authority" by making one of your own?

Nevermind the fact that Wikipedia didn't include the term "multiply-linked" until three years after this patent was granted...

> while an Introduction to anything is hardly an appropriate authority for whether or not something is novel enough to be patented.

Are you really that oblivious? I've said a dozen times that this is not a valid patent. That's not the point.

And an intro book is quite appropriate for establishing what a term covers to the general audience. If something is specialized enough that it's not covered in an intro book, then it's specialized enough that it should not be referred to by the generic term.

> I'm glad you are responding to every single person claiming that their experience is wrong, because that provides ample opportunity to reduce your karma.

Do you really think I care if you or someone else is childish enough to downvote all my comments?
I think that's the point: Helvetica is the official font of Satan.
The original manifesto text is from January 8, 1986
Are the older editions archived? Is there a public link? Thx
If you have solid former programming experience (i.e. from certain units in the Army, or Basmach) you could easily (well, for different values of easy ;) find a full time job north of 25K NIS per month.

edit: 600$ for a good 1BR? (an apartment, not a room) When is his lease due to end? (I'm serious, if you don't mind me asking and he's not set on renewing :)
I've actually created a couple of composite circles that include the people from circles I want to pay attention to depending upon how much time/etc I have.

My biggest reason for not using G+ more (I prefer twitter) is that a single conversation / thread can take up too much room in the feed. I rarely have the time to wade through / scroll down constantly -- the composite circles tend to help a bit.
Sometimes telling a story non-chronologically can create the anticipation effect of knowing a spoiler ahead of time. The recent Battlestar Galactica did this, to the extent of possibly overdoing it.
Do your due diligence.

Don't add anyone you don't know. Or, if they 'seem' interesting, banish them to a dark circle that you visit perhaps once in a few weeks.
I think the authors go a bit too far with their suspicions (but they use appropriate language, so that’s alright). I would like to see their experiment repeated with, for example video games like Portal (where I do suspect that spoilers matter) or movies. I think their results are very intriguing, but it’s still very possible that the truth is a bit more complicated. It’s time to explore the landscape of spoilers. (Isn’t that what everyone writes at the end of their papers? “Further research, however, is necessary.“)
I think it's because "supporting HTML5" is something with nebulous meaning, and not allowing people to make canvas games in this day and age would be shooting themselves in the foot big time, so it's quite unlikely that they won't. I don't think that deserves downvotes, though. People just surly.
Re: 1) - quite the contrary

Instead there is moral hazard. The process is this:

1. Get a job at USPTO.
2. Deliberately approve tons of awful patents.
3. Leave and get a job at a patent law firm.
4. Profit!!!!

Observe that there is no ???? step.
Google says "we want to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to the web"

I don't quite understand the richness in playing Angry Birds or Farmville. Real life is not like these games and therefore, people are momentarily attracted by this alternate world. I wonder if real farmers would play farmville?
Lots of down-voting going on in this thread. Interesting.
However, jamming apparatus can be tracked down just as well. Would we be seeing anti-ECM trained triangulation teams of the police?
I always feel these books on assembly are like car user manuals. The knowledge of driving is far from that.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the free book. But there's a need for a good assembly book to learn the ropes.
Antimatter could take us into space, Star Trek future?
Craning your neck to the window to get cell signal shows you care
> However, he cautioned against being too psychic because it might make users uneasy about what else is being accessed.

This is a theme I've come up against before. I worked for a company that did e-billing. When you signed up, it would go through the list of bills it was pretty sure were yours (because the billers would submit them, and it would match them against your profile information), display those, and then a list of bills that you PROBABLY had (companies that had a monopoly in your area, bills from companies that people LIKE you had, bills most people get, etc.) and display those under a different heading.

People FREAKED OUT. They'd call and wonder HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW WHAT BILLS I HAVE!?, in no uncertain terms.

Eventually, we had to "mix them up" and put ALL the bills into one big display, including bills that we were pretty certain you DIDN'T have (like Florida utilities for a Nebraska customer), just to give the customer the feeling that we weren't THAT psychic.
The whole attitude behind this feature is gross. Regardless of whether the numbers are shown publicly, just because I install an app on my phone doesn't mean help yourself to all my contacts and feel free to publish them to the web. It doesn't matter if it is not public.

Now my contact list is susceptible if Facebook gets hacked, and further, now governments can ask for the contacts on my phone and get them from Facebook!
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> So I add him.

There's your problem. Why on Earth are you adding people that you don't know at all? I'd like to see you back up your "So most people just add them" statement with hard evidence. I for one, do not "just add" people just because they circled me. I first check to see if they are someone I care about at all.
I'm still in the dark here so I can't check, but will Games for Google+ be using the same business models as most facebook games?
Hrrm... I don't know, I feel like there are a lot of things they could have spent time on that would be more important /useful than supporting Angry Birds, etc.

Better stream content filtering / control? Shared circles? Nested circles? Better integration with GCal, Google Groups, etc? Improving Sparks? I mean, as much as I like + so far, I wouldn't say there aren't still a lot of things that I hope they're going to address. And Angry Birds was, unfortunately, not at the top of my list. :-(
Prototype was just lost during the last test flight earlier today:

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/11/new-york-to-la-in-l...
Is this URL for G+ Games already working for you. Please answer in the comments. https://plus.google.com/games/posts
Aweditorium:

http://www.aweditorium.com/

Probably the most visually appealing IPad muscic app.

Also, wearehunted.com has an IPad optimized html5 website that is worth checking out.
Canada? Easy compared to being in New Zealand! :P Sounds like an amazing event though, will certainly have to watch the live stream.
I haven't had the need to write assembly language programs in years. However, I've still found x86 assembly quite useful to know due to having to reverse engineer binaries and DLLs.

So knowing x86 still has some practical value, and with reverse engineering, just knowing a small subset of x86 will go a long way.
Indeed. One from someone "ordinarily skilled in the arts", and one from someone who is supposed to understand what that means.
Yes, the blog says "you can comfortably share your latest high score--your circles will only see the updates when they’re interested in playing games too."

Sounds like a winner to me. I won't have to keep blocking every new game that comes along.
How is it anybody else's fault if you're the one that adds spammy strangers without checking their profile, and then you're not bothered to remove them?
Oh, I wouldn't compare Haifa to Tel Aviv; that's an apples/oranges comparison. Haifa is less metropolitan to be sure, but it has a certain charm. It's hardly provincial, though. A great mixed-culture city. Haifa University and the Technion are there, as well as Google and MSFT offices.

I also wonder if there is any startup scene in Jerusalem.
I don't get it, what does providing a pdf or zipped html files have to do with installing?

Flask does this[0], and so does ReadTheDocs.

It isn't clear to me what is stopping Django from providing precompiled docs, bandwidth costs?

[0] http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/
I've seen an unblinking use of "RockMeIt" before. I'm fairly sure it was here on HN.
Lambdaj - manipulate java collections in a pseudo-functional way
> being misleading

Someone says "linked list" when he means "double linked list". How devious!

> the anti-patent crowd

World conspiracy!
The security and access restrictions are pretty basic in nosql databases. Never run them on VPS / machines with a public IP, When using a nosql database you are left to rely on network and OS level security.

Basically keep your databases running on a internal firewalled network that accept connections only from certain trusted hosts.

2) Use a recent version of os with all known security patches applied , preferably something like a *nix server.

3) Never let the end user know what database you are using.
It looks promising. Now, will it offer a way to play Go?
Be grateful! Thanks to improvements like these, Google + might be able to survive amongst the common folk long enough to make the features you desire.
I can't wait until they open up the g+ api.
A history of badasses
And this loss might cost them their program:

"This test flight was their last shot at success before the project is considered for closure."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/11/fastest-ever-pla...
does anybody know of something similar?
Getting Started with jQuery Mobile
Show HN: LazyMeter is the only to-do list you'll finish every day
LazyMeter is the first task manager built on the premise that how you feel is more important than how much you do. It is faster than pen-and-paper, and more rewarding.

By helping you focus on one day at a time, LazyMeter ensures you know what to do and – more importantly – when you’re done. A visual meter shows your progress throughout the day, and the drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to prioritize and reschedule while you work. The simple design offers subtle feedback so users are more motivated and less likely to procrastinate.

LazyMeter is the only to-do list you’ll finish every day. In addition to allowing you to check off a task, it also gives you a pause button, which pushes a task to tomorrow. The goal is to process your day, either checking off or pausing your tasks. When today’s list is empty, your work is done, and you’re free to enjoy the rest of the day without worrying that you’ve forgotten something.

Like pen and paper, all you need to add a task is a title. Tell LazyMeter when you want to think about something again, and it will ensure you remember. A task can have multiple reminders, so you can check it off when today’s work is done, and continue it later.
Yes: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos
Would love to know what you guys think about this:

Do you find it useful? What industries would you like to see interviews for?

What changes would you like to the format?
Samsung's Bada outsells Windows Phone in Q2
Startup Bootcamp is always a great event. Thanks to the guys who put it on, and I highly encourage you to go to Startup Bootcamp if you're on the East Coast and can't make it out to Stanford.
Suggestion for more accurate headline: "Unmanned USA military aircraft could travel from NYC to LA in 12 minutes"

Normally I don't care, but I guess I'm just grumpy today.
I put together a detailed follow-up on the KISSmetrics/Hulu respawning mechanisms outlining exactly how they work (although this is probably pretty basic for most the audience here).

Details here: http://ashkansoltani.org/docs/respawn_redux.html

Feel free to send comments/suggestions.

Also nikcub - very enlightening about the Last-Modified header! It reinforces my point that the solution to all this might not be technical but require policy guidance as to best practices, etc.
I find it moderately amusing that people are perfectly fine with saying "he's trolling, he's trolling, he's trolling" to the vast majority someone says, but then when that someone says "I am trolling", they jump to the "Oh, but HERE he's telling the truth!"

Yeah, I know, it's a lot easier to believe someone when they're agreeing with you.
Yes, and - for one - really hope the eventual API builds on stuff they've already pushed in the past, and doesn't go in a whole new direction. I very much want to see OpenSocial, OAuth, GData / AtomPub, and existing open standards used for whatever they cook up. And given how much Google have put into these various standards in the past, it's what I expect... I just can't shake this sneaky fear that they're going to hit us with a big swerve and roll out a lot of new, incompatible stuff.
It was an example. I do not add them anymore. But I get constant notices of random spammers adding me. And these notices show up on every Google page, including normal searches. There is no way Google can tell Mr. X is a friend of a friend or a random social spammer.

Even if you do the right thing, you get those notices. And even if only some of your friends fall for it, it spreads. And I don't blame them, it's a hassle to check.

Edit: and of course, I am not publicly listed! But they can bypass that by adding friends who have their list of contacts public (a default!)
Volatile Markets Could Dry Up Funds For Start-Ups
I'm not really friends with my hair cutter but i do hate when they leave and next guy just has to learn all over again how to avoid making me look like a soldier.
I take it you mean Ads? I'm not sure 'Facebook Credits' got much traction
True, and I should have mentioned that point. I certainly do acknowledge that my tastes and needs aren't representative of the rest of the world. :-)
Dow finishes strong, up 423 points
Everybody on HN must have this apps:

1. Idea Sketch - Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart.
2. Evernote.
3. iMockups for iPad gives designers and developers with the ability to quickly draft wireframes for their websites and apps.
4. KoderApp - a good, rich featured code editor for iPad.
5. iSSH to control your servers.
That's fair as far as the App Store is concerned, but really states nothing about iOS (and really is a criticism of Windows). Any Linux distro has its own 'app store' which is just as trustworthy. And afaik macs offer a similar thing; it is just windows that is behind.

My main issues with this article are how hand-wavvy his comparison to PCs are. His evidence is enough to say that both home 3D and the iPad are awesome. It is not enough to provide any basis of comparison to a PC ecosystem.
> What would be the point anyway in knowing my friend had a high score in a game I wouldn't play? It's only spam.

Most of us hate this kind of stuff. I know I do. It's super annoying. Furthermore, as a game developer, it would kill me a little bit to "sell out" like that.

However, this is why Zynga is worth a bazillion dollars. They understand the power of "virals". Have you ever talked to a Zynga employee? "Virals virals virals". They are one of the few companies who really understand the power of converting social pressure into profit.
On my BlackBerry, inadvertently swiping the trackpad while typing a vowel results in an accented version of the vowel. There might a similar mechanism at work in Samsung devices.
I guess you should ask moconnor for that: apparently paypal payments didn't work for him.
The quality of the speakers last year was mixed, but none of the speakers were a waste of time. Some of the talks I found least interesting (i.e. GitHub) others said were the best of StartupSchool.