skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems pretty clear to me that the red bird is a cardinal, white a chicken, and green/boomerang bird a toucan (which is not exactly native to Finland).
Genuinely asking this...is this a joke?
Poll: Facebook usage
Watching the news or reading HN, I get the impression that FB has become an essential part of people's lives. However, no one in my immediate circle, myself included, used facebook since college. I'm wondering if I'm living in a bubble or if others are hyping the effect of facebook ...

Let me add one carveout: for those who work at startups that write facebook apps, that time is NOT counted.
Facebook is an integral part of my life, and I spend every waking moment on it
I spend at least an hour a day, but generally its controlled
I spend at least an hour a week, but there are days that I don't check
I spend at least an hour a month, but there are weeks that I don't check
I spend maybe a few hours a year, just to check in on my birthday or christmas or exceptional days
I don't have facebook, or I haven't checked in over a year ...
I figure its worth asking:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3034871
This is really great. I was thinking about buying a TouchPad for all my textbooks, but I greatly prefer the e-ink display of the Kindle. With this, I no longer have an excuse for the TouchPad.

Thanks!
Google Maps for retail stores. (Standing in a store): "Is X in stock?" "on which isle is X located?"
Patents aren't actually property, so I don't think the 5th ammendment applies. Invalidating a patent doesn't deprive the holder of anything. It just stops the law from injoining others from engaging in protected activities.
What are the (non-spoiled) contents of my refrigerator?
As they say "Don't fix what isn't broken".
Glad to hear it. Chrome is great in every other way.
That's why I left grad school. You can choose your environment.

Also, academia encourages you to think in terms of the theories/dogma/paradigms of the day, in order to relate to the literature, to get published, and to get funded - as you say (it's a market, but not based on actual need). This is very effective for incremental improvement, but makes it harder to be truly original (which is hard enough already).

Yet, within any environment, there are constraints but also some freedom. There's a choice of approach to that free time: adapting yourself to your environment, or using it for play.
Her point 2 claims she studied 100 hours a week to keep those grades, and averaged 3 to 5 hours of sleep a night. She probably hit diminishing returns well before the 100 hours, and would probably have benefited from doing other things and sleeping more. One or two nights without much sleep is OK, but doing that for an extended portion of time is unsustainable.
OP here. Sure, you can redefine pixel, that's what was done. Why do you need this measure though? 1/96th is so close to points, you might as well just use points and now you're on a universal system.

Pixels use to mean something (a pixel). Now they're used as an absolute unit of measure so that websites (nearly all of them) based on this assumption don't break. Do we really need this unit? Isn't it confusing (1/96th does not a pixel make)? If we stop using it incorrectly maybe it could mean pixel again. Wouldn't that be neat?
Thank you very much!

"content spam the holy hell out of the Internet"

How? (In what way would you go about doing that?)
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"we will start sending out new ssh credentials to the active developers who had kernel.org accounts before"

um no. You _should_ be asking developers to send you new SSH credentials. Generating users' private keys on their behalf is completely unnecessary and provides extra opportunities for attackers to snarf them.
[sigh] you sound like Sussman. Unfortunately, being interested in language theory means giving up on a languages being perfect...
I didn't realize Hong Kong had lacked an Apple Store.
Ameritrade and Interactive Brokers have real APIs (C# and Java/C++ respectively) if anyone is interested.
Results are surprising so far. The intersection of Facebook and Hacker news readers is pretty less. Probably that's why HN readers are so productive?
There's also an epub conversion floating around. It's been mentioned on HN and, IIRC, is also hosted on Github.
Of course, there's a problem with this approach. Namely, I (and probably many others) don't want to be walking around with odd facepaint on all the time.
Ask HN: How do competition patents affect something you're currently working on?
Hi,

I've been working on a small little project whenever I find extra time, and I never thought about patenting this project (I don't even know what you can patent vs not.) It seems more like an idea than anything else.

Anyway, I noticed a similar site today while browsing and it said "patent pending" I am now worried that I should stop all work together and abandon my project in fear of this company potentially suing me if I ever go public with this little app I'm creating.

This sucks in general. The idea of someone patenting an idea more than anything is just so bad for innovation and competition which we rely on.

Anyone have experience with this? How does it affect you? Should I start trying to patent my idea too?
One idly wonders if it is possible to turn the (to me) useless ticker feature off.
We just browse HN instead of Facebook. :)
On 2008 we published an article about this using our own hooking tool: http://blog.nektra.com/main/2008/10/15/the-truth-about-googl... don't know what's the state of this stuff on 2011.

This is hooking the application so you don't have issues with sniffing SSL.
I did not mean to imply only SV would benefit, just wanted to pin down the qualifier before I quoted a prediction.
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That's a good observation. Facebook is becoming like TV in that lots of people spend a ton of time with it even though almost all of its content is trivial, while really productive people tend to spend relatively little if any time with it.
"A CSS pixel is ALWAYS the exact same thing as a screen pixel"

Not true. You should reread the article, if you care to, and perhaps check the sources. Even if what you were saying was true do you think it makes sense to define things at the native resolution of a monitor? :Faceplam:
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I was rather let down by this.

The author does a fantastic job of establishing that, through metaphorical thinking, he has hit upon some good wisdom for marketing and development of new products. Good, good. That this wisdom invalidates Lean Startup theory, MVP, etcetera. Ok, controversial, but I can dig it. He alludes to the process he went through to nurture this wisdom, and how it has been subconsciously applied by many, to great success. Getting inspirational, I love it. Then he says that he won't be sharing what he's come up with. The end. Excuse me?

Sure, given the premise, I can do my own musing on the subject and come to my own conclusions. But I don't have the same degree of experience as this author. I don't blog about "refactored perception", I don't think about these sorts of things very often (I work in a very different industry), so I would love the insight of someone who does.

I'm interested in seeing the arc of his thinking, going from the initial abstract musing with calves and cows, to a fascinating new approach to practical process. That sounds like a great arc to see, even if I won't be following it myself.

In hindsight, this just feels a bit like Article Bait or Concept Bait (as opposed to link bait). It promises a "refactored perception", and delivers a "redacted prescription".

ADDENDUM: Yes, it's a great read. I really enjoyed reading it. It'll give me some good things to think about. But the ending is a complete cop-out, only conceding the tiniest hint that he might follow up on this in the future. I agree, better to not have the last section at all. Better still, to say that he will indeed write more if people show interest. I would love to read more about this.
Don't worry dude. 1pt won't be blurry either. Try it out, you might just like it.
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This has actually already happened. Just start using resolution independent measures and never look back. I'm telling you, they work.
Your proposed explanation is a very incomplete version of what was actually going on.

It depends on what the purpose of the assets was on a company's books. In some cases marking to market makes sense and in others it doesn't.

In the case of assets used as reserves (companies are allowed to use securities as reserves for underwriting risk) marking to market means that when the underlying commodity has a bubble, the firm suddenly has significantly greater ability to take risk... then if the asset price falls the firm is suddenly way over-extended.

If a firm is responsibly underwriting its own risks, the firm's accountants will determine which assets are suitable and which are not. However in a heavily regulated, heavily subsidized financial system like the US, firms have an incentive to take the maximum risk allowed by law, with the expectation of below market rate loans or other bailout assistance if the practice turned out (in hindsight) to be too risky.

In the post financial modernization act boom, firms found ways to treat all kinds of risky assets into reserves, and regulators believed that it was nearly impossible that housing prices would fall more than a few percent. The cabal of large firms and regulators squeezed additional returns out of various schemes for a few years, while shoving significant systemic risk (all built upon the assumption that housing prices would not fall significantly) into the corners and tranches of all sorts of complex products.

I'd argue that any complex financial system will ultimately result in coordination to ignore inconvenient systemic risk.
The article states that "a source" claims she was not treated how a normal person at that level should be.
I've heard this saying but in the context of martial arts. "The first day you don't practice, you know. The second day, your coach knows. Third day, your competitors know" I wonder what about origin of this saying.
While these stories are inspirational I wonder how many complete failures are hidden behind survivor bias. I think a lean methodology would have served those companies well without so much spent effort in their initial products.

So I guess I still agree you shouldn't sit pontificating on business ideas, but you shouldn't just dive into building a complete something either. There is a rich middle ground.
Thanks for replying; you have no obligation to keep up with HN or respond quickly.

Overrule may be the wrong word for what the Fed Circuit did, but in Alappat they said that a program changes a general-purpose computer into a special-purpose machine. Apply that legal principle to the facts in Benson and you get the opposite result from what the Supreme Court said. Like the dissent in Alappat said, it was inconsistent with precedent. The special-purpose machine idea was so far out there that I don't think anybody believed they really meant it until they reiterated it in State Street.

As for rejecting State Street, I'm just looking at the Syllabus on the first page of http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-964.pdf

Abbreviated quote: The en banc court rejected its prior test...see, e.g., State Street...holding instead that this “machine-or-transformation test” is the sole test for determining patent eligibility of a “process” under
§101, the court applied the test and held that the pplication was not patent eligible.

Held: The judgment is affirmed. [end abbreviated quote]

The Syllabus makes it sound like they're actually positive on this test, at least for processes, and that the lower court made the right decision to use it as the sole test and ignore, e.g. State Street. (The Fed Circuit also mentioned Alappat specifically.)

It does get more confusing once you get past page 1, and I see where Kennedy says what you say about the non-exclusivity of the machine or transformation test.

However, I do see a lot of endorsement of paying attention to Benson, Flook, and Diehr. Combine that with the explicit non-endorsement of State Street and I think it's clear what the Patent Office should pay attention to. Software patents today if evaluated according to the precedent in Flook would generally be rejected.
Ask HN: Looking for ad network that shows ads based on user's Facebook info
I have a web app that requires a Facebook login. Where can I find an advertising network that provides customized ads (that may pay more) based on user's profile information/interests. Basically, I want to be able to show users more customized advertisements that may convert better, therefore paying more. Thanks in advance HN!
True, but to adapt the old Wall Street saying, the courts can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Sh#t, she left money on the table (Pricing your product=
Do what I say, not what I do. j/k. That's a tumblr theme, I didn't write it and I take no responsibility for it.
Poll: What is your gender and are you technical?
Just curious. Technical in this case being defined as a hardware hacker, programmer, and all types of designers.
Female & Non-Technical
Female & Technical
Male & Non-Technical
Male & Technical
I check it every day, but don't spend an hour doing so...where does that put me?
facebook sucks
I liked the article because if you wait a magical idea then you will get stuck. I think that is better a mediocre idea well executed than a awesome idea inside your head.
And.. they're girls. A smile and you'd give and pardon her anything. (I'm not saying that in a sexist way or to act like they've got it easy, I hope. It's just.. you know when they look at you, ask you to fix whatever bugs they have with that smile? A nerd(boy) could smile as much as he wants, he'd better google and RTFM before asking to fix that bug.)
I cannot actually determine an answer. On one hand I might have spent an hour or two a week fudging around on it in the past but since Google+ I've found it has left a sour taste in my mouth and do not really go on that much - even if I don't really go on Google+ that much either. Especially since they've upgraded to a popup nightmare of garbage.
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You would think so, but that's not true. Design in points (1/72) and ship in points. I'm telling you, you're stuff is rendering at 1/96th, not native res. Try it out for yourself. Make two divs, specify one as 96px and the other as 72pt. See, same size, same size. Now think, if that were an image... Not native res, but yet it still looks right... Interesting.
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Points aren't relative, their absolute. em is great but another subject entirely.
I am confused, but not about this.
Sometime try listing Tweets by geo proximity when you're downtown. The MySpace culture is alive, well, and on Twitter in numbers that far outweigh the "HN-types".

Twitter seems no worse for it, and a failure to cater to elitists wasn't MySpace's problem either. MySpace, AOL, Yahoo, HP -- their problems are cultural, but not their users' culture, their managements'.
In my alternative life I would have done the same.

I, too, wouldn't have minded getting a head start.

But keep in mind there's less than a year's time between being a senior in highschool and UCB CS61A, (the former) MIT 6.001, Stanford CS107, etc.
I think the flawed assumption you're making here is that because the word is new to you the motivation behind the author using it is to impress. It's entirely possible that this is a word well known and in standard usage within the original target audience (which is not us)
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If I remember correctly,they sort of had that earlier, then it was removed to make apps powerful and sign ups easier!
That was a really good comparison.

I never signed up for facebook. But today I'm pretty much the black sheep.

Email, telephone, webpages, those existed long before Facebook. It feels like millions of people think that they are enlighten about internet communications when then become regular Facebook users.
I don't like to base my social interaction on a private closed network/service. I prefer distributed and open technologies.
Since G+ started, on the one hand it threw a harsh light on the people I've friended on FB, but on the other it put me more in the habit of checking on updates from people, so I've actually probably spent more time on FB.

But now that FB would post every site I visit to my friends, I've logged off and may just not log back on. I'm not sure I want my sister knowing my porn site visit habits, or my Tea Partier high school friends knowing just how liberal I've turned out.

There's a reason I don't just move into everybody's house when I get to know them. Zuckerberg may or may not understand that; it's difficult to say - but it's safe to say he understands where to get the next dollar. I don't think Facebook's really the place I want to be any more.
I had the same reaction. I can't help but suspect that something meta is going on, "slow marketing" and all...
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That reminds me of an interesting article I read that may explain this: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm

It basically argues that historical "male expendability" has geared men towards a predisposition for higher risk endeavors.
> now that FB would post every site I visit to my friends

Pretty sure it does not do that.
the likelihood is far higher, however, that in just 20 years time all the history you've entered into facebook will be gone. Not sure facebook see themselves as a public service, and I'm very sure they're not inclined to spend huge amounts of money archiving terabytes of dead people's data indefinitely
I did something similar for Project Gutenberg texts: a set of scripts to download them in bulk, do some textual reformatting and file renaming on them, all geared toward making them better looking and more accessible for my ebook reader (which is not a Kindle, but the texts might me more palatable on a Kindle too...). Without this preprocessing the Gutenberg texts were almost unreadable on the ebook reader.

I describe it at http://www.michielovertoom.com/python/gutenberg-ebook-scrapi... and the source is on Github, too.
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Node has memory limit of about 140K connections.
I was able to accept and actually do something usable with 1M on EC2 and 3M on physical server (Erlang and Ubuntu/CentOS)
Are you sure? Do you use RescueTime? It is pretty interesting to see where my time actually goes.
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Not many can, but some fortunate enough to actually need this stuff.
I'm in the "don't have" bucket. at first it was just because I never felt the need, but lately (last 6 months or so) it's become more of a resolve
It's better to act than not act, because action brings knowledge: imagine shooting a target in the dark, and can only hear how close you were: Ready. Fire. Aim. (and repeat). It's also literally what you do to find and then correct for a mis-calibrated sight.

It's the notion that seeing reality helps a lot. Once you know what is there, you can have ideas that can help. Whereas ideas that are not based on reality are very unlikely to work.

minor e.g. I find that my problem solving works best once I've started trying something. With each thing I try, I notice more: similarities, patterns, gaps that could be filled, things that could be connected; and I have ideas about how other things at hand could be used to do that. These are often obvious in hindsight; but I didn't think of them at all beforehand.

Of course, one might not succeed anyway - the pop. stat. is 9/10 businesses fail. But not discovering reality has even worse odds.
A strategy for protestors is to change up or swap facial alterations. Even without facial recognition software, that makes it harder for cops to track people in a crowd over time.
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I found a fun way to use facebook. I change my birthday once a month to the upcoming calendar month and then wait for the same "friends" to wish me another generic "happy birthday".

So I know I use facebook precisely once per month.
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So all those cheesy sci-fi versions of the future, with crazy face paint, and asymmetrical haircuts and such was really just a brilliant prediction?
So Mike Tyson, the boxer, with his crazy facial tattoo, was just way ahead of facial recognition technology.
> With Stuxnet as a "blueprint" downloadable from the Internet, he says, "any dumb hacker" can now figure out how to build and sell cyberweapons to any hacktivist or terrorist who wants "to put the lights out" in a US city or "release a toxic gas cloud."

Is this really the case? I'm nothing close to a security specialist, so maybe I'm talking out of my ass. Still, everything I read on the subject said that Stuxnet was especially impressive in that it exploited not one but several previously-unknown OS-level exploits, on top of the embedded systems attacks it used. With these zero-days now discovered and hopefully patched, how much more value does Stuxnet offer?

(Neither of these questions are rhetorical — hopeful that one of our resident experts can fill me in.)
I'm still baffled as to how people have decided it does that.

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That's what I understand from the press I'm seeing: if the site has a Like button on it, I no longer have to actually click that to "share" it with my friends - it's just automatically posted to my timeline.

Either way, Facebook is a soul-deadening waste of time except for a couple of people I don't see any other way. I should probably just write a tool to ensure I'm always logged out when not using it. And delete its cookie, I suppose.

Update: Ah, apparently this is just an app that has this behavior, not basic Facebook functionality - that's what I get for just scanning Winer's article and not checking the article he was talking about.

My point about the soul-deadening waste of time stands, though.
There's no particular reason why the Internet would eliminate traditional middleman roles. Middlemen match trades, curate and absorb risk. The Internet only changes matching, eliminating a good chunk of the discovery but leaving the cajoling of either end alone.

Right now, the major areas open seem to be cajoling and curation. That sounds about like what the profiled firm does: they open communication with local restaurants and then present the options to customers.
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And a consequence of that is my "Facebook stress" everytime I allow an app to publish on my wall. I don't want them to, and I am forced to accept because otherwise I could not get access to the app.
I have to check my Fb profile that nothing gets posted everytime this happens.
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I voted how I use it for personal use. I probably spend at least 60 hours a week on Facebook in the Ads platform.

I've got a rather stupid-large number of people sharing with me on Google+, but only one person actually shares anything. I've checked it once in the last week and still see nothing outside his stuff (and I'd rather just read his blog).

I'm not saying G+ is a failure, just that for me, it isn't compelling. I still enjoy FB and staying connected with my family through it...and it make me a metric-ass-ton of money :)
There is selection bias and timing.

This story posts on a Saturday night. Also pro-facebookers aren't likely to care so much about yet another usage poll. The ultimate poll is Facebook's site stats.