skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really a useful calculation to make.

Obviously Facebook is a lot more popular, and if you can't see that from reading "53 billion" vs "623 million" then...

What is interesting is some other statistics that show Tubmlr to be impressive, such as:

- 10% more "minutes spent" by US visitors than Twitter

- Tumblr generated the second most UK pageviews of any social network, after Facebook (again, obviously, a long way behind Facebook)

- With 11 million unique US viewers, Tumblr has less than Twitter (23m), Wordpress (22m), MySpace (19m), LinkedIn (17m), yet has more minutes spent on it than any of those. Blogger has 50m uniques (321% more than Tumblr) and only 700m minutes (16% more than Tumblr). All this shows that while it isn't huge in how many people use it, the audience it does have is much more engaged that other sites.
As a long-time Tumblr user I've always wondered, do they have income?

There are no ads on the site, and no premium plans or pricing (other than the paid themes, but I assume that most of that goes to the theme's author) that I can see. How can it last?
Steve Wozniak is in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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Privacy issues aside, the Open Graph is troubling to me because it centralizes innovation in web services to the Facebook network.

In the short term is makes sense for a new service like Spotify or turntable.fm to jump on the largest user base in the world, it lowers their barrier to entry. But in the long term it's really harmful to the open web and leads down a depressing path in my opinion. What happens if you DO opt-out of FB, but future services require a FB account?

I just killed the Facebook like button on my personal website (not that my site gets a lot of hits). I've signed up for a Diaspora* invite which should be sent to me by "the end of October". I'll set it up for my friends but I don't know who would actually join it, it's not like people need another social networking service. Not sure what else the solution could be though.

I wonder if it's possible that these services swing back around and actually offer a charged service without ads. Twitter for instance can offer a free rate that leaves you open to targeted advertising and data collection, but they'll leave you alone if you have a paid account. How much would I have to pay FB per month to make it worthwhile to them?
Were those not just steam-powered cars? (Quite common, once upon a time.)
Don't worry. I'm not very good at giving up.
From reading John's letter, I was thinking bet you these guys are going to interpret it as him seeking some sort of endorsement.

I don't think he should have mentioned Raspberry Pi. It takes the letter into areas that you wouldn't want to discuss.

The letter lacked few concrete examples of what should be done to bring UK back on top of the computing world. Do we bring back the TV program? What exactly do we teach? What language do we teach? What else can be done? Could you provide examples of other country improving their computer literacy successfully. Being too vague means the person who is reading the article will have to think for themselves. Ideally, you would want them to do as little work as possible.

I think the letter was too long. For the first couple paragraphs, I was thinking would he hurry up and get to it; I need to get back to programming. I think the people in the government office reaction would be worst.

You fail to state your qualifications. In an ideal world, an appeal to authority should not work, but the care in which your material is being handled is some function of the person who writes it.
Ever been here to Canal Street?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Street_%28Manhattan%29
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Many vendors there are not bothered by licensing costs.
"Many Internet businesses couldn't be profitable if small."

I'd say just the opposite: I think most internet businesses could be profitable if they were smaller.
Unfortunately for Amazon, selling other people's content is far less lucrative than selling your own high-end devices. I'd venture to say that their only way of making a sustainable/profitable business is some sort of ad-supported model.

Many people keep holding up the videogame console model as a way to beat the iPad - sell the hardware at a loss, profit from software and licencing - but it doesn't work in the era of $1/freemium megahits and ad-supported web apps. Trying to make money off of movies/music/books is even more difficult. Piracy will always be easy and the competition among middlemen (Rdio, Spotify, Google, Apple, Netflix, the content companies themselves) is even more cut-throat than the software platform business.
Is there anything else to say apart from.

Ewwww..
The OP specifically mentioned find-in-project in the context of renaming files, and I can't see how that's related to the cmd-T command.
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Cyber Underworld: How it works
I thought that web designers who use Photoshop as their primary tool for designing web sites can also have Wireframing and Prootyping tool inside Photoshop. And can avoid using 3-party tools for wireframing. Here is also my blog post http://www.vcarrer.com/2011/09/photoshop-wireframing-kit.htm...
Reminds me of the quote The Joker had in The Dark Knight:

"If you're good at something, never do it for free."

I love programming. I do it during the day, at night, on the weekends, all the time. I do some things for money, some things for free, and some things that no one will ever see just because it's fun.

I realize that this job is actually paid, but I don't like the thought that people who require payment for programming someone else's idea are just "doing it for the money".
Welcome back. Hope to see you around more!
In other words, to use this streaming service you have to submit your real name to a company you'd rather not want to, and stay logged in* so it can spy on your every move on the web.

* Not sure about this part. You probably lose your web spotify session if you log off facebook (?), but your desktop app session would probably not be affected.
Quite an interesting achievement. Quite unfortunate too that coffee is loads more expensive than gasoline. The article mentions a lesser-successful experiment using wood pellets. What goes into the selection of the fuel materials? Could similar results be achieved with less finicky fuels such as corn or soybean?
- read Strunk & White.
That is so true. There is a record label, my major company, built around this idea. While they produce great success and enjoyable music. when you listen to it it's like there is a lack of identity. Often times it's like I could have crafted those songs if I had sampled the best part of every pop record of the last twenty years
Think grocery stores.

Much as content producers may want their own self-focused delivery stores, there isn't a chain of Nabisco Stores or such around. Some stores kinda get there, with heavy promotion of "store brands" or label-focused ones like Trader Joe's and Aldi, but while they win on price their success is tempered by lack of range. Likewise, Dreamworks and Sony and Disney etc. may want to provide direct sourcing of their material to customers, and may succeed to some degree, what most customers want is a centralized "I don't care who made it, I just want it" aggregator & distributor and not have to hunt down "awright, what studio made Shrek...good graphics, so it must be Pixar, which is owned by Disney, check Disney.com...nope, not there...Sony Animation Stuido? they did Open Season which looked similar, check Sony.com...nope, aw crap ya wanna watch my Over The Hedge DVD again?"

So the aggregator/distributor model is key. Publix, Wegmans, Piggly Wiggly, IGA, Whole Foods, etc. make deals with major product/content producers for distribution rights. Smaller ones have to pay for those rights, bigger ones are paid; the supply-and-demand model works out in its intricate complexity. Different distributors provide one benefit or another (ditto deficiencies), which when in competition with other near-identical distributors means innovating and maintaining something which garners more attention. They can exist side-by-side, what with Super Walmart carrying the greatest quantity & variety of most popular stuff cheap, Aldi giving near no variety (but pretty good what's there) stuff dirt cheap, IGA being "it's a grocery store, no more or less", Wegmans selling everything imaginable albeit higher priced, Whole Foods having high-priced premium selection, etc. Likewise, Netflix gets first-there broad-spectrum appeal, Hulu having better TV options, ABC/CBS/NBC/etc. having super-popular but limited offerings, Redbox (assuming they go streaming) featuring broad-range latest big-name short-availability content, etc.

The content producers can't develop enough following to garner customer loyalty to a single streaming source; nobody is a Dreamworks fan to the exclusion of most everything else. An aggregator/distributor can, however, will have to license Dreamworks content because customers want it (even if they don't know who made it). No aggregator can satisfy all customers; improving one feature set will degrade others; a complete slate of new big-budget titles will be limited and pricy, a long-tail library is thorough and "affordable" but lacks the biggest latest cheap, a low-price source may limit to second-tier content, a small distributor may specialize in obscure content for a premium.

NOBODY can provide EVERYTHING with COMPLETE satisfaction; there will always be room for a varying portfolio of content to offer, various delivery mechanisms which will appeal more to some than others, pricing which mirrors demand, etc. Just like grocery stores, each has its limits and annoyances and features and preferences.
I was just about to sign up for Spotify (was on the things to do today list I have in front of me), and now this. Well they can forget about that.
Don't worry either, I didn't expect you to. Really, I was trying to be encouraging. Just didn't know how to make it come out that way.

Best of luck in yet another "ridiculous" quest.
I understand their position up until the point of The NEJM Feb 2010 study, where they are dismissive of it as "conjecture". Granted it's a computer simulated model but they are using valid data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the Framingham Heart Study.
NYPD out of Control
Why I am not paranoid about privacy on Facebook and Google
Ask HN: How to break GFW(China's Great FireWall )
Usually, it doesn't bother me a lot that FB, Twitter and blogspot etc. get blocked. I enrolled Stanford's AI and ML lessons today. And I find that I get blocked from YouTube to watch the lecture videos. It does make a lot trouble to me. I'm sure there are many hackers from China on HN. Would you please tell me how to break GFW? I would like to spend some money if a VPN is required.
The Inevitability of Noise
Hm. Logic, algorithms can be taught by existing teachers. The subject isn't entirely new, and especially in a primary-school context could be taught by any number of subject-teachers.

As for budget the letter was trying to address that, and got ignored - the cheap computer project. Part of the issue I think.
In a way this could be a decision to simplify the login process for the end user. Then again, if that was the case they should have supported Google, Yahoo and all other OpenId providers. Also there seems to be no reason to completely remove the native sign up, especially since they have already made the effort to create full support for it. Guess just like the recent trend in FB, they also just want to do an experiment and see how the users will take it.
Soaked in Luxury
Just not having a Facebook account is much more effective; once people notice that they have to e-mail someone, they may as well e-mail everyone. Etc. Facebook is most useful if everyone is on it.

(Yes, there are downsides to this, but let's not pretend that setting up a blog-to-Facebook converter harms Facebook. Just stick with the blog.)
I know somebody who writes these kind of response letters as part of her job in another area of the civil service. Her advice is to write back – outlining that your letter was misunderstood – but write to your MP rather than directly to Michael Gove. Apparently letters addressed to MPs are subject to a higher level of checking and are less likely to receive stock responses.
Zynga meets Google+
I chose "few hours per year" but that might be pushing it. I log into Facebook maybe once every few weeks, for about 30 seconds, just to see what's different. The main reason I don't use it is I was a very early user of Twitter so my "online social networking" is done over there. Also, I don't care about people I went to high school with.
Gives a new meaning to saying your server "crashed".
Goes to show in business, much of it depends on your salesmanship skills, and above all, luck.
Hey, calm down :P. I just grab that number out of nowhere.

Anyhow, theoretically, version 1.0 should be simple isn't it? So would it be far-stretch to ask for 85% polished UI? (might be some bugs in the UI interaction code, but the look should not be superbad. At least not an eyesore :).

But that's in theory...
Yep, you could take it a step further and check after every one character rather than every 9, that should speed things up nicely.

My already low expectations of online content from the BBC dropped further after reading this.
Mozilla Proposes Half-Hearted Extended Release Cycle for Enterprises
The job description is just as bad as the headline deception. "Eating and breathing code" and "forgetting to pay taxes" for their project isn't my idea of a good time.

Here's my response to the posting: "Give me 50% of the company based on your complete, non-NDA bound idea breakdown with promise of both salary and full bennies and I'll pretend to be just as insane a lunatic as you claim to be about taking on Google and Facebook with your likely dumb as dirt, drunken post-frat party backnapkin half-idea."
Well, giving up your luxury apartment might be a good start to keeping your startup runway long, whatever the rest of it says.
Deeply knowledgeable, passionate, and independently wealthy.
The article is pretty interesting. My favorite part is the last paragraph:

Also in 2003, Paignton Zoo carried out a practical test by putting a keyboard connected to a PC into the cage of six crested macaques. After a month the monkeys had produced five pages of the letter "S" and had broken the keyboard.
...to be honest I'm quite worried about the future possibility of semi-autonomous weaponised drones.

"A future for drones: Automated killing"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/a-f...
Ugh. I signed up two weeks ago and have been recommending them to friends. Now this. Why on earth does this make sense for Spotify?
Social networking using dream analysis
bunch of boring old dudes...nextttt
Hear hear. Unfortunately I /just/ paid for Spotify premium yesterday evening. While I have a grandfathered non-Facebook account, I've had no end of problems with their mobile client, and I think I'll be switching back to Rdio (which has a vastly superior [existent] web and mobile cilent, IMO.)

I wonder if this move is related to the problem I'm having using my login on the desktop client (error code 410, stuck in offline mode. Mobile app on the same wifi networks works fine.)
Can Arrington recreate TechCrunch? Because that’s what he’s planning on doing
Why Apple Needs a Real Social Network
a better bet:
http://vimeo.com/27688359
http://electricsheep.org
https://picasaweb.google.com/103341545636445568670/Presskit
The problem of correlation vs causality.
> Me? I've got that illness. I'm not a engineer, I'm an entrepreneur.

There are plenty of business opportunities that require little if any code to be written that could be addressed by anyone who has the entrepreneur bug. It's hard work, rarely generating sexy IPO-level returns or media exposure, dealing with cutthroat competitors, regulators, clients and employees and an apathetic market. But like I said, it's hard work.

Why someone would still believe today that they can magically make a business succeed in a space where they ignore even the most fundamental concepts is beyond me. More often than not these projects tend to be very simplistic and rely not on the technology but on the social dynamic of the concept (see: Kickstarter) and if the hiring non-technical founder is unable to hire from within their social circle then it's quite possible that either any developer they know would pass on this or they don't actually know any developers.

And why is this person choosing development languages/stacks, or did they cross post to every language job site?
I think it's the opposite. It was already a paid site, so of course they have your billing info. This is the first indication they're coveting my data (at least w/o facebook connect turned on there are no recommendations to speak of on spotify)
I fall into the group of those who hate Facebook but must have an account because some muppets in my social group only organise events via Facebook. A only pop on if I get a relevant email notification.

Its a bit sad how dependent some people are on Facebook. I mean seriously.. if it is important it will come up in conversation. As 95% of stuff posted on Facebook never comes up in conversation I can only assume 95% is just noise.
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>"no one in my immediate circle, myself included, used facebook since college."

That sounds like a pretty homogeneous circle given that it would almost exclusively be made up primarily consists of 20 somethings who joined when Facebook was another animal altogether than it is today.

To put it in perspective, I have a Facebook account in part for loose contact with people I have known since the 70's and as a means of seeing pictures of my nephews and nieces and 2nd cousins.

I use Facebook with the many of same reservations with which I use Google - although given its nature, it is easy to isolate its use to a dedicated virtual machine and therefore avoid a significant degree of its tracking and datamining.
Couple things here, and I say this with the utmost respect. Your anecdote is not "data", and even if it were, you've failed to prove any sort of causality of "too little salt". Salt is but one of many possible electrolytes, and and "heat related conditions" are not necessarily solved with salt; chances are dehydration clear and simple could also be the cause of the effects you're seeing.
Semantic startup Evri launches iPad news reader
I disabled offline access and pushing content to my wall permissions for Spotify on Facebook (under Account Settings, Apps). Mainly because of complaints I was spamming walls... Still works with the most basic permissions, but sleazy it adds them by default.
> Boy oh boy did you choose the wrong venue for anti-immigrant rhetoric.

He said "illegal immigrant", not "immigrant". That is not "anti-immigrant rhetoric".
Krugman: Euro Zone Death Trip
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Every time you visit a web page that displays the Like button Facebook logs that data in your account. It doesn’t put anything on your wall but it knows where you’ve been.

Source? I've never heard that before. My understanding of the above is that Facebook will store, on their servers, all of the pages I visit that display a Like button.

Edit: The previously linked to article in the essay supports the claim: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20006532-38.html I was unaware that Facebook was able to retain information even if users didn't actually press the Like button.
There's also the Larry David school of thought, where a successful guy with an ugly wife = man of integrity as they didn't "trade up" for the hot trophy blonde as soon as they became successful.

(All this is silly speculation anyway, anyone got any stats/studies to cite?)
As much as I want to agree with that, no, it wasn't as easy.

If I wanted to share a picture with 12 people, I had to send 12 emails, or CC 12 people, or BCC them because they didn't want their emails shared with people they didn't know.

Not everyone understood IM, and not everyone was on at the same time.

The bigger question would be why more people didn't latch on to friendster or myspace before facebook. It's as much a social trend as much as a technical one. As computers got cheaper and more people got net connections (or faster ones), there was more of a need/demand for sharing info. Facebook hit at the right time to capitalize on network effects amongst 'regular' folk.
Scheme vs. Commmon Lisp
I would guess this was a requirement to get the partnership with Facebook done. "Either require a FB login or we'll go with someone else" would be a hard condition to say no to if you were Spotify considering how powerful FB is in the US market.
UGH. I'm having the same problem (stuck in offline mode), only it is with my android app...
I agree. Luckily, I already have a Spotify account, because I refuse to use Facebook.
The Controversial History of Xvid
I really like this! I just wish it didn't go behind the table when I clicked a new element.
U.S. Share Of Time Spent Online
No, actually that's not nearly unique. On 3G networks, for example, there's often hundreds using the same IP and probably the same user agent. There was someone who claimed a small 3G ISP in Germany used the same IP for all of their ISPs.

Besides, being able to track and actively assign IDs - including for people who don't have accounts - is very different. For a bad car analogy, when one walks in a city we pass by plenty of cars that could hit us if they turned abruptly. But if the car is actually driving on the sidewalk in our direction, most people would be slightly more worried.
Tech resume layout:

Name (larger and/or bolder than the rest, but not so large that it looks pompous)
Contact info, typically including email+cell(optionally+website/IM/linked in or whatever, but don't list more than one email/cell/networking site- the top is valuable space)

Summary:
Summary of what you are in the context of what you want (number of years on each primary technology, etc.), but not stating what you want. This is your 10 second sell area. Few sentences only. If you have certifications, may list them here. Can bullet point it if you want, but don't go nuts.

Experience:
(Repeat the following for each position back as far as you want to go)
Position title - Date range
(try to do as month/year to month/year or month/year to current- if you just list the year, they will assume you were laid off/fired during that year- don't show gaps- if you were doing anything during a gap period relevant to work that wouldn't hurt, list it)

(optional project title/interim position title here)

roughly 3-10 bullet points (using a bullet, never a dash which looks like a minus, even though it uses less ink and you might think a dash looks cleaner)

If you worked on multiple projects, make a judgement as to whether to list them like that or lump it all together in single set of bullets.

If you've been working for several years or more, list later jobs with fewer bullets, and keep the long version of your resume on file just to be able to pull from later as needed.

List professional associations and training/certifications as applicable (under two separate headings).

May want to list hobbies, etc. if you feel it sells you better as either a real person (getting to know you, getting to know all about you...) or whatever is relevant to the job.

Education- where you graduated, the year, the degree(s) with minor if applicable or want to share, your GPA if you were cum laude or summa.

Open source projects you've worked on- just a URL to the page that contains all or most of your projects or recent ones. If it is minor work, or if you don't want to be excluded from employers that might be afraid you would give away intellectual property, then use your best judgement as to whether to list anything.

You may want to end with a LinkedIn, etc. URL as a closer.

Try to keep it between 1-3 pages (2-3 is good, but if you haven't done much or can summarize on one page, good for you).