skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea behind "google me" is that YOU are the only person that shows up. You've got to work to get there. Once you've gotten there though, it's a nice place to be. Without trying very hard I was about to take my blog from 30th to 2nd when you search for my name. I'd love to dominate all top ten spots with different examples of my work.
@twakefield - sure thing, happy to switch off our old provider (AuthSMTP). Your product and service has already been great. Look forward to more big things with Mail Gun.
What Will This Advance Cost Me?
Facebook Brings Lifelogging to the Masses with Timeline
Oh, that's an interesting app. I didn't find that while looking for companies that do this already.

Our solution is a bit different - namely avoiding curation by a few people. We're frustrated by how difficult it is to find things to do in a new city, and we want to get locals to help (after all, the best way to visit a city is to visit a friend who lives in that city). Think crowdsourced walking tours.
Could it be that the light was recorded moving that fast, but that it is somehow an illusion based on how the data was measured?
Spotify is alright, but I use iTunes far more and wish it could integrate.
Overflows in SafeInt
Thank you FarmVille: PC gaming will soon overtake consoles
Modified HTTP Request Header Makes SAP Login Screen Disappear
That's my thought too. This seems like a nice landing page for a profile, but it's trying to do two very different things. It's great for your top items, but the entire timeline history should be a different product.
"While Mr. Apotheker is going, his strategy, including consideration of spinning off H.P.’s personal computer business from other parts of the company, will remain in place."

ha ha ha WHAT

"OK, let's hire this enterprise software guy, then get mad when he restructures the company around enterprise software, then fire him but make his successor implement the plan the enterprise software guy put together! Can't fail!"
Can you please clarify why password lengths are limited to 20 characters when registering.... Are you storing the plain text password rather than hashing it? How are you storing passwords?
And UEFI fans can still use it as a payload to coreboot! Although I am not sure why anyone would be a fan of UEFI. An extra layer of abstraction on top of BIOS ? Wait, why ?
35mm will get a new jet though :-).
You have never heard me claim that Facebook was ethical.
I wish I still thought that was funny, instead of just painful. I can't tell you how many times I have been burned on Is or Get methods with incredible side effects, like IsValid also automatically logs the user in, creates them if they don't exist, and retrieves their birthday from the database to make sure it's valid. (edit: yes, that really happened.)
The Standing Desk Experiment, 5 Months in.
It sounded like it was more of a presentation issue. He doesn't present well. They didn't say anything about not liking his ideas. "He's just not CEO material" is what I got out of the article.
Your signup emails are being sent from an IP address listed on the Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL) - http://www.barracudacentral.org/rbl

This is a pretty widely used blacklist
Google - "Tell me more about you"
Facebook - "Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are"
Computers Could Post Images of Our Dreams Someday...
If I calculated correctly, that's only about .0025% faster than c. Practical implications?
joel: great points. "If you'd like to learn another couple of thousand send me an email and come work for me in New York; it looks like you're a pretty decent product designer and programmer." - for some reason i love that you see his talent and want it. if he were to come to NY and work for you, that would be a story to tell around a campfire...
All of the advisors I have recruited so far have not asked for anything in return they have just been happy to help. This document is great for when you really want to engage with an advisor, but think the equity ratios are not only dependent on the stage of the company, but many other factors such as team, product and prior experience. Be interesting to see how this develops and is probably something I would use to try and offer more of an incentive to some of the advisors that I want to get real value from.
While the academic definition of arbitrage requires it to be risk-free, in practice there is always risk of some form.

If you're buying gold in SF for $100 and selling it in NYC for $101, you carry the risk that the price will move while you're executing the trade.

If you're doing the yen carry trade (borrowing yen, and lending dollars), you carry the currency risk.

If you're taking 0% credit card loans and buying CDs, you carry the default risk on the CDs (mitigated, of course, by the FDIC).

That said, I agree with your general point - buying gold with a 0% loan carries so much risk that it's really just a leveraged investment, not an arb opp.
Isn't the speed at which photons travel, by definition, the speed of light?

And as for the "c" in e=mc^2, doesn't this suddenly make "c" an unknown constant? Doesn't the fact that "c" changes suddenly change the values of the other variables in that equation as well? That seems pretty fundamental to me...
I can't speak to BrainTree, but I have been with Chargify + Authorize.net for a while and I'm very pleased with Chargify in particular. I'm not super thrilled with A.net, as I'm completely vendor-locked with their card vault. Plus, their web interface is pretty crappy.

Samurai's costs and their (i think?) support for data portability are a big plus.

If I could get Samurai + Chargify and port over all my existing A.net customers, I think I probably would. Unfortunately, that's kind of academic at this point, as A.net is a black hole AFAIK.
According to the article, both AMD and Intel are on board with the UEFI.
This is like saying no American ever takes a risk because there is unemployment benefits, free healthcare clinics, and homeless shelters.

In Jason's case, remember, shit did hit the fan and he couldn't pay his debt. Instead of running to his parents (or bankruptcy, for that matter) he scrounged for some consulting gigs and short-time jobs to pay it back.

Frankly, that part of the story is among the most inspiring, since in the middle of that, we started FlightCaster.
Lilith: Perl script to audit web applications
With all this inflation, not so impressive.
The Big Mud Puddle
cringely is not where I go for wisdom about nuclear saftey. and maybe a few other things as well.
Nowadays you can't buy $1 coins with credit cards at all. Those were the days...
Your hosting provider has an affiliate program, you link to them on your about page, but you're not taking advantage of their affiliate program. Check it out:

http://rimuhosting.com/affiliate/about
Shen was designed to not only run on Common Lisps like Qi, but also on Javascript (released mid-October) and Scheme. Practically all Qi programs will run in Shen, but not all Shen programs will run in Qi.
Steve Blank can be highly informative in regards to great approaches to a start-up I watch his Stanford class videos often as reminder and reference material quite often.

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2059
El primer paso para bajar de peso
Is it really this easy?
Everyone seems to comment on how great the UI looks, but it means nothing ultimately if the data is inaccurate.
The author completely missed the point about why teachers say "this is tricky". It's not about telling students to pay attention, they do that if they want. And it's certainly not about telling people it's so hard they need not bother.

It is to make it OK for students to not understand right away and not feel bad about asking questions.
Aren't "presentation issues" about the easiest thing they could have assessed in advance before they hired him? It's not like he was some anonymous behind-the-scenes VP somewhere -- he was the CEO of a major company in their space.

Of course, if you're right, this fits in nicely with the NY Times' article from this morning, which basically said that the HP board hired Apotheker without meeting him, because the board members all couldn't stand each other and didn't want hang out together long enough to vet him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/business/voting-to-hire-a-...

These people, it's amazing.
Well now. If the investors are so good at what they do then why do the vast majority of the companies they fund fail?

As in the case of Techstars which invested in ToVieFor's "Hurricane Melanie" (whose cofounder quit right after getting in) simply being impressed by someone who knows the ropes isn't all it's cracked up to be. Her presentation was said to be of "investment bank quality". Oops. Sure it was a good presentation that's about it though - by her own words.

Investors and incubators love the types that know the ropes and talk a good game and have confidence.

It would be an interesting test to hire a group of actors to play the roles of young entrepreneurs with a so so idea.

And see if the investors actually fund the idea (since they fund people not ideas.) And then say "April Fools".
This IS a great design. What isn't is the new front page with four columns; two that are actively updating content. The simplicity of the timeline looks wonderful, but man that new front page is daunting
Can this do/allow 3rd party payment aggregation? I can't tell if that's what "intelligent routing" means.
Oh I don't think we were the first :) But we perfected it.
I had a similar experience when she visited my AP econ class shortly after declaring her candidacy. She displayed a mixture of being obviously uninformed and having contempt for her audience.
The board wouldn't have hired Apotheker in the first place if they didn't approve of the direction he was going to take HP.

I would guess that his firing, is due more to the way he went about it [1] and his overpaying for Autonomy.

[1] That is: going public with the general plan too far in advance of having the details ironed out. Which arguably did real damage to the hardware division's sales and the process of trying to find a buyer for it.
That is a completely fair question.

If you use Recurly/Spreedly/Chargify/CheddarGetter, you still need a gateway and merchant account. Samurai is both.

Braintree does recurring billing, but doesn't do a great job at it. It also could turn out to be cheaper than it would at Braintree. Braintree charges $20 extra per month for the vault plus $0.01 per card PER MONTH.
https://samurai.feefighters.com/pricing
Security Manager's Journal: The bad guys are in the house. Protect Your Privates
Sound Systems For Homes
As I understand it, Einstein's work rests on there being a fundamental maximum 'speed' and it seemed to him as though the speed of photons was that limit, so 'speed of light' became synonymous with this maximum. But it doesn't necessarily have to be so.

So if there's something faster, it changes our understanding of photons but not the existence of this fundamental maximum speed.

As you note, our efforts to measure c may have been off due to measuring the wrong thing, but I don't know the ramifications of a small % change in c.

(I'm not a physicist)
Isn't the speed at which photons travel, by definition, the speed of light?

Photons speed up and slow down routinely, depending on what medium they're traveling through. c, as it is used in the equations of relativity, is currently believed to be equal to the speed of light in a vacuum. But, with my limited knowledge of GR, my understanding is that gaika is correct and that the rest of the theory can still stand if this equality is broken.
Given how much data this contradicts, measurement error is by far the most likely explanation; that's why they're releasing their data for review rather than publishing a paper.

On the other hand, they're measuring a particle that nobody else has measured before, so it could also not be measurement error. That's the interesting possibility.

I want to see where this goes.
I think what he's getting at is that there's this value "c" that's really important to physics appearing in equations like e=mc^2 and determining the absolute upper bound on speed, and by the way, we used to assume that photons traveled at c, rather than their actual rate of 99.9975% of c.

I don't know whether changing c by this amount would break many experimental results. Adding a rest mass to photos sounds potentially revolutionary.
That "isValid(x)" line is my favorite as well. I'm sure discovering these bizarre side-effects has taken days (weeks, months?) of all our lives.
SLF4J and java.util.logging take string messages, but commons-logging and log4j take objects, so one could add custom appenders to handle non-string messages.
Einstein based his theory on the maximum speed at which information can propogate. That's always been assumed to be the speed of light (photons). It may be possible that there is something else that can propogate information faster (e.g. neutrinos). There would still be an upper speed limit, but it wouldn't be the one we thought it was :)
Actually I thought that video at the top and what they've done with this introduction/demo page was more interesting than the feature itself.

The high-production value of video at the top reminded me of an apple advert, with beautiful photography and that emotionally charged soundtrack (though the playback quality was a bit off for me?) And then as you scroll down it highlights the different sections in quite an elegant way.

One flaw I saw is that the layout is fixed with and centered, and presumably fixed to be the same width as the actual ui, but they've got some tips in the side bar on the right, which you don't see unless your monitor is wide enough. My window was 1200+ pixels wide and the comments on the side were clipped.
Tachyons, here we come! Or maybe not.
I was trying to be brief, but that is essentially what I meant to say...perhaps I'll edit to clarify that. I think the effect is still the same, though, regardless of the motivation behind the phrase.
Facebook Introducing Timeline: The story of Your Life - Insecure Stuff
Professor - A MongoDB Profile Viewer
Killing WebOS and undoing the Palm acquisition was the best thing Apotheker did for HP.

WebOS features some impressive application design on top of a turkey of an OS. HP shouldn't have tried to ship any of that junk.
The theory is, and I"m not necessarily a believer in it, that if you take a CEO job, it's often the last job you ever take.

CEO's like sports coaches are hired to be fired. It's really rare for a CEO to leave on their own terms.

We like to think of CEO's going from one company to another, but in truth once you've been a CEO and fired you don't often get that chance again.

The large severance pay is supposed to reflect the "fact" that you probably won't get a job like this again.
Black Friday Appliances Best Deals Best Sale 2011.
It would mean that the theory of relativity is not 100% correct (in much the same way as Newtonian physics are not 100% correct). It wouldn't have any direct impact on anything (because relativity still makes correct predictions the vast majority of the time), but it would create the opportunity for new theories which can explain everything that relativity does plus this new experiment to be created. That new theory could have significant ramifications, or it could be a minor adjustment to current theory that changes nothing.
In my case I think it is after "a lot of sifting through academic language" that I get a cool idea through my thick skull. Academic language is (or should be) about being precise not obscure.
What I am trying to say, is that learning takes time. The simple, no nonsense terms resonate in your mind after you really grasp the concept. Otherwise it's just a high level overview that won't allow you to really use the concept.
Validating Our Hypothesis Using Hacker News
There was an experiment where an impulse of light came out the other end of a material faster than light could have traveled through vacuum in the same space. The eventual explanation was as follows - imagine that your outgoing bunch of photons looks like this:
:::...
The first three photons are "invisible" because there is so few of them that they are below the equipment sensitivity. The second group of six particles is more dense and so they are visible to equipment. Hence, it is deemed that the light has "entered" the material when the second group has entered, long past after the first one actually did. Having entered the material the first group has triggered release of energy from the material, and the second group was partially consumed by the material (energizing it for the next time around). The outgoing bunch looked like this:
...:::
And this time it was the first group of photons that was detected. So the apparent speed of the beam was higher than the speed of light. However that's not because the same particles traveled faster than light, but because the peak energy of the entire bunch has shifted forward during travel. If you try hard enough, the light will have "exited" the material before it has "entered".

Similar thing could be happening here.
I wouldn't place all my bets on that. Remember facebook with profile boxes? Bloat. "Click to see more boxes". Yes, some people may rush to upload their childhood pics, but what happens 3 months later? How many people will go through the hassle of scanning old pictures when they know that facebook may overhaul the profile 1 year later? I 'd rather have a dedicated site for my old photos... And, importantly how often do people read blog archives from 2 years back?
The license is so counterproductive that I, not being a license warrior, am very nearly convinced that it could destroy virtually any project:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ibqp1/meet_the_...

It's one thing if one doesn't want a collaborative project, but that goes against (at least the stated) goals listed on the license page.
HP's dangerously dysfunctional board is the real problem
Color Reborn:Fused with Facebook
Washington Post Social Reader: Editors’ note
Who's giving them any ill will? Where is this Red Hat hate?

I used to work for Novell/SUSE and even we didn't hate Red Hat. So I can't imagine who, in the Linux community, is hating Red Hat.
Excellent question. Doesn't seem like "must faster", but if the speed of light isn't the limit, what is the limit?

All this reminds me of the beginning of Mostly Harmless: "One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed it. You can't. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there."

I doubt the experiment will be repeated, but it sure would be awesome if it broke Einstein.
You're right! And there would be intervals when Facebook had no data about you, so it would say "you went into hiding."

As a long-time user, I enjoyed Zuck's history of and return to the profile as a point of creative focus. In the early days, it was the only space to "perform identitively" (in danah boyd's phrasing), so we all sweated over what interests and favorite music to list. Much of that got lost in the switch to the News Feed.

That said, I think many of us will be disturbed to rediscover how much data Facebook has on us--pictures of long-forgotten parties, etc.
> Practical implications?

Print out 90% of physics articles from the century.
Get big trash can.
Put printout in trash can.

Of course i'm exaggerating, but if the story is true, this is going to be big.

Speed of light is the main block for things like time travel and a hard limit on communication speed.

It doesn't matter that it is only 0.0025%, what matters is that it can be done(if it is confirmed). As a(very poor) analogy, the first CPUs were probably about 0.0025% the speed of the modern ones, yet look where we are today, in no small part thanks to them. The point is, if true, this may well open a whole new realm in physics, and who knows what we will find there.
I am just a dumb developer, so I am probably not quite getting the subtle management logic at play here, but what's with random incompetents being appointed CEOs and paid millions of dollars to make things worse or at least not much better? (Bartz at yahoo, Apotheker at HP)It seems like a systemic inefficiency to me. (btw this is a genuine question, not snark. I'd appreciate anyone versed in how boards etc work enlightening me)

On that note aren't the legions of VPs that infest such companies supposed to be a "bench" for selecting a CEO from in an emergency? If you have half a hundred (or more!) VPs and none of them can step up and be CEO in troubled times, why pay them millions of dollars?

Also, why exactly Meg Whitman? Just because she happened to be available and doesn't have another job? (Isn't that telling about her desirability as a CEO?) How long before they look far yet another saviour on a white horse?
Open Graph Beta
Color Starts Over with Facebook
Valorizing the optimal case is not a safe strategy.
I read this article and was really impressed. With all of the negativity surrounding their funding and first product, its great to see the team rebound with something fresh. The concept of a "Visit" and being able to stream video to your friends (and friends of friends) in an easy way is great. Facebook integration is a good move.
I'm not smart enough to explain it properly, but basically if information can be transmitted faster than the speed of light, it makes time travel possible. Read "Black Holes and Time Warps" By Kip S. Thorne for a 624 page explanation of why.

More likely, it's experimental error.

.0025% is meaningless compared to the scale of the earth, but over hundreds of light years it's huge.
Chargify is partially to "blame" here, too. They push the vault stuff off to the gateway, which leads to your vendor lock-in. Recurly, on the other hand, works fine with Authorize.net and has no such lock-in. I'm in the position of supporting both right now as I migrate away from Chargify.
It wasn't light, it was a stream of neutrinos.
Disqus Ranks, Pseudonymity and ALearningaDay.me
For people familiar with a spreadsheet, I think the Excel analogy better helps people understand the purpose of pointer dereferencing, because it's something you do all the time when building a mildly complex spreadsheet.
A pointer is a particular kind of reference (a value type that enables indirection), and C++ references are another (not very different) kind. A reference in C++ amounts to an immutable pointer.

I think you're beginning to walk that line where people start getting confused -- "I thought you said they were the same thing. Now you're saying they amount to some modified version of what you said?"

Also, I didn't swap analogies: I traded analogy for metaphor. (A reference in a computer program is a conceptual reference in the real world.)

I'm no grammar buff, but that seems to be walking a fine line. From my most recent CS SAT test:

reference::computer as conceptual reference::real world

In any case, many would argue that metaphor is equally dangerous. Djikstra has ranted on this very topic, saying it creates dangerous visualizations.

My point is that there is way to teach the concept relying on neither analogy nor metaphor, but a more basic concept of how data is stored. I think you'll find different students will react favorably to different techniques.
hackergeek.6.28318@gmail.com

I've integrated PayPal in the past too :)
How wide are Facebook's designers' screens? My laptop is 1280 pixels wide and I can't see the full width of this page.

Please cap your designs at 1000 pixels.