skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about MobileWorks other than spending 5 minutes browsing the website. But it does not appear to be a platform to me. It is a service. The value of the service is connecting developers to armies of humans who can do manual tasks. Developers pay MobileWorks for that value. Some part of that money gets passed onto the humans who do the work.

This is a service. Not a platform. There is no virtious cycle where multiple 3rd parties derive value from each other through the platform.
I just created an email alert for rain. Being a bike commuter this might turn out be really useful.
He left all that in a parked car?

The faith people on the other side of the Atlantic put in strangers astonishes me every time. Leaving the keys to your car inside the car, leaving the front door open go against the most basic sense of responsability I've been taught, to the point that I feel uneasy the whole travel when I have to leave the car unlocked while on a ferry boat.

L'occasione fa l'uomo ladro - Opportunity makes a thief
The reason I cited those examples is that once currencies cross a certain commodity-threshold, they become much less useful as currencies.

cube13's characterization is a simplification, but I think it still captures their intended uses. Bitcoin's deflation, and the Swiss franc's high value compared to other currencies, harm their ability to act as they were intended to. Right now, I agree with Duffy's original point, which is that bitcoin is more of a commodity than a currency.
Well, there's no pay-per like option right now, so technically I'd say that this doesn't count.

As to your point re: linking to brand page on Facebook, I feel as if this goes to the point that unless and until you let businesses sell on Facebook, and somehow capitalize on that (through a commission fee, or just more ad revenue for clicks to their Facebook store,) I'm not convinced that either Facebook or these businesses are really better off in the long run.

Don't get me wrong, it pays for businesses to have some kind of a Facebook strategy, unless and until Facebook goes the way of AOL. I agree, the Like game isn't free, but I question its long-term sustainability -- do I really want Doritos' posts next to ones from friends and family?

Frankly, I'd rather just see Reddit or Google style ads that look like, and function like the content I came to see in the first place (and as an advertiser I'd pay well for them, but I find Facebook's current ad set-up to be lacking -- as someone who has spent a considerable amount of my own money on Facebook ads).
My point is that to a naive user googling to figure out what is going on, the dotfile element of svn is inscrutable.
Hackers may target cars next, McAfee says
C++ Renaissance (video)
Ah, I see they're for sale.

Well, maybe they can be a bargain.
How to Survive Wiping Your Database
The self-proclaimed "journalist" calls this piece journalism? Uh huh.
Retail Renaissance: Consumers back to the real world shopping
I read a very interesting - yet large - article about the fact that customers are actually getting to the stores, and making their purchases in person, despite the accessibility to shop online.

One of the main reasons listed in there is that the facilities of shopping online are getting to the stores with mobile phones and other technologies. Brands are committed to create experiences to every customer, rather than just shopping or picking up a product in store. Brands are creating engagement activities and value propositions to embrace customers like they never did before. That doesn't mean online store is decreasing, because it is not. That means on and offline worlds are finally getting together.

You can read it full in the Trend Watching website at http://trendwatching.com/trends/retailrenaissance/. I'm sure it's worth reading.

Does anybody here has expectations or projects linked to bringing customers to stores? What do you think about it?
Are you joking?

1. Define "porn"

2. Get every other TLD operator, including all the international ones, on board with your definition and rules (e.g. are we only banning websites on port 80, or would FTP sites also be verboten? password-protected sites? is classical art exempt?)

3. Enforce the censorship via some kind of magical system that is automated, doesn't trigger false positives, and allows for an appeal process

Yeah, that'll be a snap to put together.
Interview with Portal: No Escape creators
Design is always about the details.

Email me suhail@mixpanel.com and I'll be happy to give you a run down of 10 things that make our UI substantially different. Alternatively, feel free to play with both products and get a sense of it yourself.
I would not short gold or Apple either, the risk would be huge! So are you agreeing that bitcoins will become worth more then? So I shouldnt take a bitcoin loan out, I should take a dollar loan out and buy bitcoins with it. Or you are saying bitcoins are bad so they will go down in value ... and I should... whaaat?
CMU made some very big announcements (big to students at the school) in 2007 when their endowment broke $1 billion for the first time ever. And then 2008 happened.
Logic that suggests that roads aren't a medium for transportation because they have friction.
While I did start by thinking "am I zoomed in on this site for some reason" the large size has actually grown on me. Overall I really like pretty much every aspect of the design.

On a seperate note: for phone calling, it said US only but it seems to work for international numbers as well. (Was wanting to see if I could set up a nice wake-up call...)
> We cannot predict how the labor force will evolve. To do so is folly. The answer to this is not to announce the death of jobs, it's to create systems where new job roles which are unforeseen by us are created. To promote flexible adaptation in our businesses and governments.

This is Hayek 101, and I agree with it strongly in terms of society being a 'complex system' that is difficult/impossible to do much about in a centrally controlled way.

Where I get off that train though is the idea that we should just dump the human leftovers of "creative destruction" (ok, that's not Hayek, but another Austrian, Schumpeter) into the garbage. No government support, no health care, no education, no nothing. They failed, they can go die in the streets, unless "private charities" happen to step in, but by all means let's not create a society-wide system to prop up the inevitable losers in a market-based system to minimum sustenance levels.

I much more strongly identify with Warren Buffet's way of thinking: by all means, get the government mostly out of the way and let markets do their work. But then step in and give people who didn't come out so well a helping hand to get back on their feet. That's not "central planning", that's a safety net.

> Take a look at the comments on this thread. Everybody gets out their favorite political pinata and beats on it. Is this a very productive type of article for this site?

Absolutely not, let's please flag it and ask the moderators to ban these kinds of articles, as they beget political discussions, where we go round and round and round: you can look up very similar sorts of discussions on usenet from the 1980ies if you do some poking.
Facebook thinks Google Search Results are spam
Me-too business culture? Wasn't it what was said about Japanese business culture when it started to really grow after the war?
+1 for the use of "wide penetration" in a post about .xxx domains :-)
The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation donated $20-40 million and got a building.
I've been looking again at Play given this post, and there are so many modules, examples, documentation and interesting features that is kinda hard to believe they are going to start again for 2.0.
"I am afraid to even ask this, but since when is unemployment really a problem? ... on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need. America is productive enough that it could probably shelter, feed, educate, and even provide health care for its entire population with just a fraction of us actually working."

This belies a gross misunderstanding of how national socio-economies work.

Yes, we could. One of my blogs is "A Buck A Plate" http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com featuring sufficient meals for $1/person/meal. A favorite study is "tiny homes" http://tinyhouseblog.com where nice cozy accomodations can be had for $10,000/person. Beyond that, I've figured one "could probably shelter, feed, educate and even provide health care for its entire population" for just $10/day.

Are you ready to live on $10/day? is anybody?

Long story short, it would take about $1T/yr to pay everyone in the USA a "living income" of a paltry $10/day. Note that current federal revenue is about $2T ($4.5T including state revenues), with federal spending about twice that.

Of a culture where the vast majority decide to vote themselves monies from the treasury, John Adams wrote "The idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend all their share, and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence."

Enjoying the comforts of a culture wallowing in the height of luxury, Rushkoff opines in effect that the source of that comfort be eliminated on the absurd theory that enough will be produced when there is no carrot nor stick incentiveizing people to work.

No, Mr. Rushkoff, people need not work when confiscating the hard-earned wealth of others is enough. Problem is, those who produce will not be appreciated, but reviled, and their incentive to produce taken away. Despite the symbolic official $1 salary of its CEO, Apple was driven by _profit_, and its products available only to those who in turn sought _profit_ in other endeavors. Take away the profit motive by confiscating incomes to supply the idle, and few of the idle will use the opportunity for lofty endeavors; nay, most will cultivate dissatisfaction and demand more be confiscated for their gain.

As an ancient writer opined, "if any would not work, neither should he eat."
In other words, prices of goods (in bitcoins) will (eventually) stop deflating, even though there is a fixed quantity of bitcoins, because other cryptocurrencies will be introduced.
We need to leave behind the concept of "value". Value was created by scarcity. But scarcity is decreasing and, in some cases, disappearing entirely.

If it costs me nothing to make a copy of something, then I have no incentive at all to pay money for it. It has no "value" to me. I can copy it instantly for free. And frankly, why should I pay money for it? Sure, someone had to do work to create it in the first place, but once it's created it takes on a life of its own.

And, often, the people doing the creating will do it whether I pay them or not. They do the creating because they want to. Musicians make music because they want to make music. As a programmer, many of the programs I write are ones I want to see exist. Were it not for the necessity of having money to survive, I would happily keep creating and giving away.

The necessity to make money to buy the goods and services I need to survive may be built into the current system. But as we automate more and more and produce a greater and greater surplus it's entirely possible that it could be removed from the system. It will take a change of culture, but there may come a point when we are efficient enough to produce everything we need simply by allowing people to pursue the creative endeavors that interest them and then sharing the results.

We don't have starfleet replication technology. But with digital media, 3d printers, and modern construction means we're pretty damned efficient.
I did miss it, thanks! But that wasn't so long ago, so my point still stands.
Nice post :) Unfortunately I've been mostly solitarily hacking for the past 10 years while in school and then while solo-operating my own web business. While the web is a huge part of the business now, a lot of the employees are not within the tech team, so network resources have already been exhausted.

"As I saw recently, the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago" :D

HN Community, reaching out to you!!
It is 21.00000000 million-- or 2.1 quadrillion of the smallest-possible-unit.
@spolsky: I guess you've really taken the locksmith lesson to heart then :-)
Would it be cool if the tool could detect/suggest/visualize such emerging funnels based on aggregation of all clickpaths?
Half of World's PCs Have Pirated Software
What I like about this is the potential to become a platform for little useful scripts (recipes). I know there are a hundred ways I could send twitter favorited links to instapaper, but this made it dirt simple and easy enough that my parents could do it. Any single recipe may not be that amazing, but the combination of a bunch of little useful ones could be.
Mayber they "were not hit as bad" in absolute dollars but their endowment was over $1 billion in early 2008. 20% seems like a pretty darn big hit to me.
It's a bit pricey ($99/yr), but ACM membership gets you a print subscription to Communications of the ACM, which is pretty good. It's somewhat on the research side of programming, but since its 2008 relaunch it's a lot more practically focused (no more journal-length articles; new guidelines of 10-page articles with no more than 10 citations, that must cover a topic of general interest with minimal specialist prerequisite knowledge).

https://campus.acm.org/public/qj/brandingqj/cacm.cfm
It's worth noting that not only is the list keys operation expensive, but since it uses Bloom filters, it's not guaranteed to returns all keys.

My sources at Basho tell me that this is fixed in 1.0, but until that's officially released, basically don't try to list keys.
Quote from incomediary.com (the above link):
"Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, but CASH is king". :)
This is slick visually. Seems to be very similar to Paygr at first glance, but also enables 'want X' requests.

I'm not terribly thrilled with the idea of yet another virtual currency though. Why the reliance on SMS? I'd actually prefer email.
The temptation to put a useful, non-porn site on a subdomain of .xxx is quite large. Just to make the point that .xxx is useless and for the large number of clicks that it will no doubt bring.

Elementary programming course on 'thesecretcode.xxx'. Legions of porn seeking people converted to programmers, if slashdot is any indication that should be a perfect match.
While I suppose it's nice to see it codified in bullet points, this shouldn't actually be surprising.

The fact that Google develops Android in private and only pushes the changes to a public repo after it's finished is well-known. There are open-source purists (of which I am not) who shake their fists over this behavior, but it's been an observable trend since Android first launched.

And as a corollary to that, we've also known explicitly that each release of Android is given to one OEM first to launch a halo device, and then opened up to other OEM's only afterwards.

So...people predisposed to dislike Google's stance on Android are already well-acquainted with this information, and people predisposed to support Google's stance have already accepted this behavior.
Interesting, just the other day I was wondering if facebook does this right now.
I think the key is that the Economy is less driven by actual entrepreneurs (founders and tycoons), but by management.
The End of Multicore Scaling
I agree with just about everything but your last sentence.
It's weird to me that you WOULDN"T feel secure doing that. I grew up in a rural community where you left your car keys in the car and the door unlocked. It wasn't uncommon to see $100,000+ pieces of farm equipment sitting out in the field with the keys still in them.

To me it seems odd that you would tolerate having to lock everything up.
Study shows that vehicle-to-vehicle navigation systems really do work
VersaPay's flow: Efficient Product Management and Development Process.
Co-dependency syndrome in a nutshell.
Carnegie Mellon opens competitions aimed at building slick robots
Even at 1 Billion users, that's only $10 Million -- less than 1% of what they made in the last 6 mos.
Got it unblocked (NoScript, Firefox 6.02, Debian Squeeze) and had to follow the 'back to coffee and power' link to see the map.

Nice idea, and deep not just an interface.

I'd like to be able to get the URL of individual 'missions' so that I can send them to people (I'm old, I use e-mail). E.g. cheapgirldraws and her postcards.
Atari joystick goes all retro on your iPad
South Korean antitrust agency raided Google offices
There is a huge difference between taxing cap gains at 15% vs 50%. IMO, treat it as any other income source if I am going to work and pay ~40+% of my income in taxes why on earth should I pay MORE so people making 100 times what I do get a discount.

However, I also pay a higher percentage though many other regressive taxes. Consider, I own a reasonably nice car and pay taxes on it, but if I make ten times as much I don't suddenly buy a car that costs ten times as much.
That's probably because this story went viral.

On their homepage http://preyproject.com/ they have a "What people are saying" section in which they display recent tweets that mention prey. Nearly all of them are about this story.
Contrary to what the article states Carol Bartz engaged in plenty of surgery, unfortunately most of it was of the amputation variety.
I imagine it doesn't distinguish between @reply's and normal messages. I'm making this assumption because it assigned me a Shuush level of 5 even though nearly all of my tweets are @reply's, but other people who tweet "regular" tweets far more often than me were assigned 3's and 4's. I wouldn't be surprised if all it's really doing is taking the two data points of number of tweets and signup date and using that to compute an average tweets-per-day metric.
Thats a problem i have as well, filefault 2 is great, but the end user/thief wont be able to report his location via a prey app.
There is got to be a workaround....
Our economies, culture, the whole of our civilization is based on the assumption of population growth. Because, quite simply, that's how it's always been.

We have never before experienced a reduction in the human population for any extended period of time.

I wouldn't count the US out yet, it can easily augment its population with immigration. So can all the other developed countries.

Anyway, regardless, making a currency with a fixed supply doesn't work under any scenario. With a constant or increasing population, you want to increase the money supply. With a decreasing population, you want to decrease it.
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Its the bloom shader if I get what you mean
davidw, I know you, of all people, disdain political articles. So I'm going to follow-up.

I think we all take these models too far -- including fans of Hayek. I wasn't saying that everybody should subscribe to some school of thought. All I was saying is that when politicians use the terms "jobs" and "education", they mean certain things. For "job" they mostly a 9-5 job paying taxes, perhaps with some kind of benefit package, usually with some larger-corporation. When they say "education" they mean some sort of accredited institution that produces degreed folks. Not always, but a lot of the time. We've created these complex, well-funded, intricate, and powerful systems around the "normal" usage of these concepts. With lots of vested interests. Not bad people, or any of that. Just big systems to understand what these words mean and control how we relate to them.

The problem is that a huge swath of people are finding places to create value that don't involve working 9-5 at the mill any more. And an even greater number of folks are getting educated in ways that didn't even exist ten years ago.

Yes, if you a want a social welfare net by all means advocate for one. All I'm saying is that when some guy gets on TV and says we need to spend more money on education in order to produce jobs for the 21st century? Those terms are so far out of whack with what's actually happening as to make the solution worse than the initial problem. Unless your mental model has some small degree of fidelity with reality, your conversations and solutions will never work.

So I think it's entirely possible to separate creating a model of how things actually work -- which may have parts from Hayek or anybody else -- and applying that model to political discussions to get what we'd all like in a society. I had no intention of taking the discussion towards Hayek and letting the sick and poor die in the streets. I'm just pleading with authors like this to at least pick up some ideas from some other folks and take a look to see if the models -- words and relationships -- you are using actually reflect what's happening. Model creation is different from model application. It has to be.
Whats financial planning?
Regardless of where your domain is registered, you can indeed get an SSL cert from Namecheap. I bought a Comodo PositiveSSL for $9/y and couldn't be happier. When I ran into some issues installing it on a Mac mini server, their CS was responsive and friendly.
Exactly. You pass reading comprehension.

For bonus points, read the actual book. Informed discussions are always more interesting.
Google Offers Beta in Five More Cities: Austin, Boston, D.C., Denver and Seattle
This is one of those "why didn't I think of that?" ideas that will probably become huge. Nicely done!
And look at Japan now. They're currently in 2 decade-long recessions and they're in even worse shape than us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_(Japan)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10...
I don't know, most websites have a font size that is far too small for comfortable reading. I found your choice of size refreshing!
It's so interesting to me how you can get these large companies that stay around even though they don't innovate. I mean, I don't explicitly use yahoo services for nearly anything. I occasionally look at flickr photos these days (other people's not mine). I occasionally go to a yahoo group I joined 4-5 years ago. Once a year I do a march madness bracket there. But that's it. There's nothing compelling there for me. (I use yahoo messenger along with 3 or 4 other backends via adium, but it's not my preferred backend... I use it because I know people who prefer it.)

What's amazing is that while clearly Yahoo isn't innovating, and clearly they're having trouble, there's still (apparently) enough people that go there on a regular basis that they are generating _some_ kind of revenue. That to me is amazing: when a company gets big enough it can become a sort of "perpetual motion" machine that keeps chugging in revenue even when it's not "successful" by any normal sense of the word.
Most people don't seem to realize that when your currency inflates, there are people who get the new money. Inflation=wealth redistribution
New Firefox download manager appears in UX build
"For those with excess money, inflation does encourage investment." If they have their savings in a bank account, it's invested anyways via lending so inflation doesn't change the amount invested. What it can change is how wealth is invested, e.g. high inflation causes people to abandon the currency as a store of wealth - you get people buying and "hoarding", say, appliances they don't need as a store of wealth whose nominal ROI is higher than bank interest on savings accounts.
Alexa.com has LinkdIn @ 13, Amazon @ 15, and ebay @ 21 globally.
Yup, Microsoft acquired Connectix, and Hyper-V evolved out of VirtualPC. In fact, a few of the connectix guys still work on Hyper-V.
git-clone --depth 1
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