skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Facebook is not exiting the location game, but rather opening it up to a much broader audience.

I presume Facebook found that the people who used check-ins was a subset of the people that used tagging functionality, so they scrapped the check-in model and focused on making location accessible in a format that a) more people are comfortable with and b) is consistent with the rest of the Facebook experience.
Small tip: shrink the registration-barrier.

1. Add those social login buttons (facebook, twitter)

2. Make "e-mail address" the only input field, then mail me a password.

3. Delay asking me for a display-name until I try an operation that needs it.
GUIDs are weird, but global ids are awesome. I'm not really sure what reason I'd have to use GUIDs instead of assigning ids out of a single 64bit int key space.. What am I missing?

But seriously. Global-id-space is something I'll probably use on every new project I touch... presumably for the same reasons people use GUIDs. So nice to know that you can change data types, pack things into caches without type-ids, or log identifiers without extra metadata. Super handy.
Is it just me or is the video's audio track barely audible? I have my volume cranked to max and I can barely make out what they are saying.
Or a second Firefox profile.
Perhaps it would be more instructive to look at how countries improved (or failed to improve) their PISA score than at how good countries do it?
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Wait, without the checkin, what happens to Facebook Deals? This doesn't make a lot of sense, they must be removing it to relaunch it.
How so? I'm interested in what you have to say, as I'm currently considering rejoining facebook after leaving it a while ago. Is this something I should know about?
Mueller is a lobbyist. IE, he has a long history of being to represent various positions not of which are necessarily consistent (he has represented coalitions of closed-source companies for example).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller

I'm not sure what is behind his current slant. However, I believe he created nosoftwareparents.com when he was working for MySQL. Oracle's acquisition of MySQL might be an explanation, here.
You can still get the exact same check-in behaviour with the new system - just don't put a status message or photo, and give your location. It looks identical to how a check-in looks now.

You can also now do this from your computer (not just your smartphone), and do it just before you go to, or just after you return from your venue, not just while you're there.
Idea to paying customers in 29 days? Day 4 of 29
Has Microsoft completely ditched their plan of OTA updates? I've been grabbing the pre-releases, so have never gone through the regular update process.
Amazon US-East (Ashburn-VA), 100 miles from Mineral-VA (Earthquake). Status Ok
Same for me, unlistenable.
All that means is that Google's Stanford fiber is topologically close to where speedtest.net's SF server is hosted, which is apparently an ISP called Unwired. The fact that it didn't pick speedtest's Palo Alto server probably means that Google and Unwired share the same upstream fiber loop. Also interesting from the image is that speedtest identified the ISP as Tata Communications.
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Show HN: Realtime collaborative heatmap hack for you to click
Interesting. Though America also probably spends much more on their Foo-Americans than they spend in Foo-istan, so you'd expect a higher showing.
Find an integer not among four billion given ones - Stack Overflow
Crowdmug gives away cash to every user...for one day
Quick notes:

When there is a lot of realtime clicking it'll get laggy because the heatmap redraws with new data. Sorry about that!

If the page in the Iframe has some kind of redirect, it'll redirect the entire page so just wait 60 seconds for the page to change.

Other than that, have fun!
patents are forever... don't forget what the gov't considers the most important concept of patents; Taxe$. Patents were designed so the gov't could tax any proceeds gained by selling or licensing the patent. Why would they ever voluntarily get rid of that? They would patent their own mother if they could, or haven't they done/tried that already? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/30gene.html
The whole idea of "fostering innovation" is all BS. It's all about the $$$.
That may not be completely inaccurate, if the bottleneck is on the link leaving comcast. You get your full bandwidth for internal network stuff, but get less once you leave the internal network. So, technically, you are getting what you pay for, even if that is meaningless.

That said, I've often wondered if Qwest (my provider) prioritizes packets for speed tests.
Y Combinator’s Interstate lets you share your roadmap
> The high latency with dsl usually comes hand in hand with interleaving enabled.

Interleaving doesn't add huge amounts of latency. To the LNS with the ISP I'm on, I usually see about 11-16ms to the first hop, maybe 5ms to a game server on their network a most. Without interleaving, I see about 5-7ms less on a good day.

Now, saying that, there are different levels of interleaving that can be applied on modern DSLAMs, but we're not really talking tens of milliseconds here.

It's also worth keeping in mind that your pings won't be truly representative of latency. Plenty of ISPs de-prioritise ICMP traffic.
So, I take it you haven't seen this:

http://electroniclover.info/samsung-touch-control-rmc30d-uni...

I'm well aware that Samsung's tablets have different aspect ratios to Apple's. I made no claim _they_ were EXACTLY anything.
It’s just a larger percentage of the total pool of start-ups is coming through Y Combinator.

Angel List has helped over 500 companies get funded in the last year. Angel pad launched 24 companies, IO Ventures launced 14, 500 Startups launched 24 in the last few months.

I'd argue that more and more people are doing startups, and that the market for early capital is more efficient than it's ever been.

Great batch of companies. Kudos.
What Google Means by 'Evil'
I wouldn't be too harsh. The guy/girl probably just has a lot of pride and love for their country which is understandable. I also doubt that he's lived in the US or a 1st world country beyond say 1 month, if not at all.
I think he was referring specifically to the painful nature of multiple accounts on the iPhone.

In the browser, we've had great luck with Google's multi-accounts feature:

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=...
I bet you'd recognize his website if you saw it though
Also, on the video there is no need to spend over a minute showing someone how to register on the site. Jump straight to the product which looks really interesting.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/08/why-im-n...

Except for the massive issues surrounding name use and the triviality in which it can be used to grief other people and not just on Google+ but their entire google account.
Internal network will get you that speed... random parts of the internet is always a crapshoot. comcast may route you halfway around the country until you get to that other close by server, who knows.
Try downloading http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test and see what you get, or a few other speedtests randomly in different parts of the country.
When a company goes bankrupt, aren't employees the last in-line when the debts get settled?

Employees should be aware of this, but more important, a good CEO should take he precautions to make his employees aware of these situations.

There was a start-up I know of that every weekly meeting would lay out the numbers for ALL the employees. How much was in the bank, how much was expected to be coming in, and how much was expected to go out.

The employees new 2 weeks out when the company was unable to pay its bills. The employees were told that unless something changed with x amount of time, their wouldn't be enough money for payroll at week 'y'.

Knowing what was expected to be coming in over the following 'z' months, a few employees (mostly upper management I believe) offered to be owed payroll until the company could pay.

The company made it through that rough patch and was acquired a few years later.

The point is, that VC's aren't responsible for payroll, the business is. Employees should be aware of the environment in which they are working, and the CEO should make sure his employees are taken care of to the best of their ability.
A Portal fan movie good enough to be in theaters
As the post I linked on an earlier submission about Finnish schools (http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2010/12/pisa_scores_sho...) shows, European descended students in the United States did better than Estonians, and every other European country except Finland. And Koreans and Asian-Americans did better than Finland. So the language issue is mostly to totally irrelevant.
Why Google cares about that one in a billion chance
The obvious question now is, if Google can do this, why aren’t network operators banging down the company’s door to get involved and roll this out everywhere. Yes, there’s big investment involved, but these companies are kidding themselves if they think waiting and dealing with a lack of bandwidth in the future is going to work for them. Whoever jumps first and starts investing in these fiber-to-the-home initiatives is going to be rewarded with a lot of new customers in years to come.

They don't need Google to do it. FTTH/G-PON solutions are available to any ISP in the country and have been for several years. They haven't done it yet (besides Verizon FIOS who provisions at much lower speeds) because the demand really isn't there yet. Most customers do not pay more for faster speeds even when they are available. You've got a lot more customers who downgrade to slower speeds to save money than customers who pay more for faster speeds. More competition would certainly help but until you can convince normal people they actually need faster Internet connections it's not much of a competitive advantage. (as long as you can match or slightly exceed your competitors)

Once you hit about 20Mbit/5Mbit faster speeds are almost completely unnoticeable by most people who are just doing some normal browsing, IP video, e-mail, FaceBook, etc. That's what most people are using their Internet connections for these days. We really need a killer app that pushes the limits of most Internet connections and you'll see more companies betting on (expensive) upgrades to deliver those speeds. I don't see much on the horizon. You can already do pretty decent 1080P video at 10-20Mbit/sec. What type of apps are going to push the demand?
Wait, how are DoubleRecall captchas actually captchas? They appear to be trivially easy to OCR.
Firing someone after a month in a place like Argentina can open you up for lawsuits.

In stark contrast to the US, where pretty much everything else can open you up for lawsuits.
"Phasing out" sounds like the incorrect term. If places are part of status updates it sounds like "making integral in the product."
Vidyards pricing list is pretty shady/lame.

They compare themselves along side Vimeo Pro and Youtube, under their pricing they list "free" (Vimeo being $199, Youtube also free) and then under a bunch of options for Vidyard that are ONLY available if you pay >cost of Vimeo pro they add a tick, which would imply that they're available for free. It's misleading, it implies it's cheaper to use Vidyard (which it isn't)
I forgot to mention driving. Traffic lights and signs are not enforced, and no one seems to follow them. You'll need to learn to be a better driver and parker than a New Yorker, which is difficult.
My pings are really similar to my latency measured with different sources.

My isp (Qwest) uses interleaving and it adds quite a bit to my first hop (it usually is about 60ms) and from what I've seen those people actually living in a more populated area the interleaving latency added is about the same (>30ms first hop and usually closer to 60). So of course it depends on the ISP and qwest is notoriously bad for this but is my only option, and occurs with plenty of other ISPs with interleaving.
> I've nicked (most of) your categories, hope you don't mind!

No, sure, go ahead!

> Oh, you used jQuery Masonry?

I absolutely love this plugin. I'm using it in a larger project right now. It's amazing how flexible a site can become with respect to different screen sizes!
"Finland has free college education."

Wow -- that alone could cause a number of the effects we're talking about. Anyone who wants to go to college can, versus in the US, there are a number of children who know (or pessimistically assume) that college is just not in the cards for them.

Not saying we should adopt that single tenet. Just that it has surprisingly strong ripples throughout the whole system that should not be underestimated.
+1 for Saasy.com. I recommend for a bootstrapped startup.
P2P live video.
Phil Zimmermann talks about some patents on public key cryptography. I am just wondering, did Clifford Cocks prior art invalidate that patent posthumously?
That sounds like the campus network, which should be separate from Google Fiber.

It'a also disappointing to me to see our bastions of intellectual freedom embracing such policies.
Marketing message help, people are asking what the site is, any suggestions?
[Ask HN] Security of a bank? What does this mean
So my friend is starting up a virtual currency site of some sort and he was told by a person that to to prove security to organizations he needs to have security "like a bank". He was confused and asked me what I thought that meant.

Well, I told him I had no idea what made banks special. I mean obviously a pair of firewalls, maybe some traffic analyzing device.

Can anyone talk about advanced infrastructure situations like banks, etc and what things to think about?
Something like http://bccks.jp perhaps?
That's already a real thing and it doesn't require any higher bandwidth than even conventional cable/dsl provides.
Yes, but then they unfortunately submit it to the USPTO
Fallen out of love with LinkedIn?
http://dontfeartheinternet.com - these are videos on the basics of HTML and CSS.

Good luck!
You know what they say... 3rd times a charm.
In a post-apocalyptic world, will dollars, yen, or euro still be valuable? Your assertion is absurd because you're expecting gold-backed money to do more than fiat money does.
Darn, I wanted Proxino or Bushido to be a new AppJet. At least Stypi is bringing Etherpad back.
A long road: J2EE web app request, from web server to database call
Agreed, I had a cleanup several months back myself. I must say that it's annoying how long it takes to get off the list, and surprising how quickly they add you. I cleaned up the site, but there was still a backdoor in a plugin file (necessary to the site, but written with heavy obfuscation by paranoid developers) that I missed and the site was compromised again. Soon as it finally started reporting clean it was on the list again.
As stock markets drop, 4 reasons to be cautiously optimistic about startups
PHP 5.3.8 released, with fixed crypt() issue
Top students get diminished returns for their abilities. Everything is based on your age, so students who learn faster just have it easier, but they can't advance any further than the slowest student in the class. As the teacher tells us, a lot of effort goes to helping the kids with more problems learning, keeping the lows as high as possible. Due to the "everyone needs to have equal education" setting, nothing is done to keep the brilliant brilliant.

This isn't a real _problem_ though, just something that could be better and I personally found annoying.
I'm not familiar with the type of global IDs you're referring to, I'm afraid. A GUID is essentially assigning an ID out of a 128-bit integer keyspace, with the idea that collisions will be highly improbable if used correctly. Any database I've ever designed has been on a very small scale (weekend project kind of stuff), and the real scalable databases I've used were designed by people way smarter than me. Some of them used GUIDs and some didn't, and I have no idea what informed those choices.
Amsterdam also has a city-wide open fiber network: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-amsterda...
Interstate are an awesome team with a well designed product and Picplum is a cool idea although in my opinion it could be even simpler. Like how Google+ is able to take photos off my Android phone for me to review, I realise some of this may not be viable but as long as they find innovative ways to simplify the process further they'll do great.

Not sure about "Google Wave done right", only read their description though so can't comment.
The speed isn't there but that latency is to die for!
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I've got a friend that have had to deal with Tata Communications in a UK datacenter and he said they were the absolute worst company to deal with.

Comcast has a link with Tata Communications that it apparently runs at a 100% capacity day in day out ... there was a story about it not too long ago.
The Last Hope For webOS: Asus
I don't understand where you're getting the $23mm/quarter number. The last quarterly numbers I saw for Apple were just under 10 million iPads sold; using the $200/tablet and $15 profit numbers I gave before, that'd be $150mm profit on $2Bn revenue. Those aren't "blow your socks off" numbers, but they're not "disaster" numbers either (whereas what actually happened with the TouchPad was a disaster.) Numbers like that are at least viable for a major strategic initiative for a company like HP, provided there's sufficient motivation for such an initiative.

With the market leader making $200/unit and you making $15/unit, they could put you out of business if they're at a comparable price point. But if the competition's $600 iPad cuts its price to $550 or even $500, it's not going to pull a lot of customers away from your $200 hPad; you're serving very different segments of the market. Similarly, a 10% price cut by Maserati wouldn't threaten Cooper Mini sales.

I'm not saying HP necessarily made the wrong move here. I'm just saying, I don't think you have to be a "big dummy" to think there's room for a low cost, low margin tablet that makes some profit from software.
It depends what your goals are.

If you're blogging for traffic/links ala Mint.com, you can outsource it. Mint outsourced their early blogging to a finance blogger they found.

If you're blogging for B2B customers, or to become a thought leader, outsourcing can be tougher. It still can be done, but it's tough. Many ecommerce/web marketing companies with successful blogs have outsourced most of the content creation, or use multi-author blogs.
And here is where I get to remind everyone that LCARS is IP and Copyrighted:

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/cbs-legal-thr...
They are just "captcha like". I believe the idea is to to make ads bidirectional. Instead of just clicking a banner ad, a user would enter, say, a coupon code for example.
Tell me exactly what this does, please?
INoobs: How Popular is Wordpress?
WordPress has certainly rocketed in popularity in the last few years. I am constantly being told how great it is and a large percentage of clients seeking to move their businesses onto the web or who want to launch a web based business or blog ask about the benefits of WordPress.
LOL! Its funny to read a post of you saying: "I am from New York...".

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This is pretty insightful in my opinion. The two key things are "people aren't buying potential, they are buying tools" and "the value comes from the applications." At $100 the HP Touchpad is a great value relative to its tools (actually I suspect the 'right' price for this tablet is about $150 but that is neither here nor there).

This example helps make the claim that there is a market for the things that smart phones do, in a larger form factor. The challenge is being able to do those things cost effectively.

Browse the web.

Watch a video, either 'YouTube' type or subscription type.

Read content formatted for the device (books, magazines, newspapers)

Buy content and applications from the device.

Listen to music / podcasts / lectures.

Entertaining diversions (games).

Say what you want about the iPad but the history of the iPod touch really gave it an edge here. It literally was an iPod Touch made bigger.

Google was caught flat footed (sorry but 2.x Android sucked horribly on tablets) and rather than sitting down and saying "Hmm, ok we misjudged this one, lets sit down and do this right" they started 'releasing early and often' (the Linux strategy they inherited). It iterates to a successful solution but it is so painful to watch.

HP on the other hand had a completely different problem, they actually bought a decent OS, with a solid design for tablet style interaction, but their DNA is shipping PCs and Laptops so they struggled to move it forward, they couldn't figure out why people would want it, and had no idea how to price it.

These are the scars that are both the most painful, and the most valuable later on.
Stanford gives out automated warnings if you have a lot of torrent-y network activity (I got a few back in the day after downloading some linux distros), but as I recall they are only to notify students that if they are pirating music/movies/etc, they will be held accountable if someone from the RIAA or some other group contacts Stanford about it. If you're downloading legitimate software you shouldn't have anything to worry about (except for some occasional automated spam)
Is web security a hopeless pursuit?
Two examples that make me think about this from time to time.

First, a number of sites that require registration email you with confirmation of your registration. They include your user id and password in plain text within the email. Few things are as irritating as this (at least to me). One has to think about how and if they store that email and who within the company has access to it in plain text.

Second: Google Chrome still has no security to prevent access to all of your passwords in plain text! OK, they added a "Show" button. Fantastic.

Those in tech are probably very aware of this. However, "civilians" using this browser at home or at the office might not be aware of the fact that they are opening their lives up for anyone with access to their computer.

These are just two of the many examples one might be able to come-up with.

I am starting to think that I want to see a day when every device has a fingerprint scanner and passwords are history in some form and at some level. Probably not the best solution. Not sure that one exists.
How are you ensuring global-uniqueness in your global id space when you have multiple systems that may not even be in contact with each other a lot of the time?
What about software that relies on proprietary hardware etc.?
FWIW, an episode of the TV series Logan's Run once showed a young woman using a color paint program on a flat tablet that was wirelessly transmitting to a wall-mounted screen. Today we'd say that was a Wacom tablet with a Bluetooth connection to an anybrand HDTV.

And let's not forget the word "art" in "prior art."
> You'd be surprised at the number of women (yes, even here in CA) who feel that their best bet for social mobility is marrying a guy who brings in money.

It's unclear how that has any relevance to your claim that women are treated like chattel.

Marrying a guy who brings in money is a really good way to move up the social scale, so it's unclear why you assume "surprise". Why are we supposed to be surprised that women know that?

> [UPDATE: interesting - getting downvoted]

I suspect that's because your message is a mix of irrelevant true statements and false statements.

You've claimed that women are treated like chattel but haven't provided any evidence, or even examples, of said treatment.
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