skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You simplify a complex situation into "good" and "evil" and characterise those suspicious of you as tin foil hat wearers.

Way to win our trust.
Indeed was just coming to post that.

From the article:

15 - Betterworks 2011

14 - Instagram 2010

13 - Warby Parker 2010

12 - Beachmint 2010

11 - Flipboard 2010

10 - Shoedazzle 2009

9 - Vostu 2007

8 - One Kings Lane 2009

7 - ZocDoc 2007

6 - Storm8 2009

5 - Spotify 2006

4 - Rovio 2003

3 - AirBnB 2008

2 - Square 2009

1 - Drop box 2007
Angel List has the largest data set of startups, investor profiles and activity on the planet. That makes Nivi and Naval some of the most interesting players in Silicon Valley. I suspect we'll be seeing a very interesting investment thesis coming from them in the next couple of years.
I've talked with the Kauffman Foundation, and one of the reasons Kaufman funded them was to have access to that data

Chris Farmer at General Catalyst is pretty open in talking about his data driven investment approach. He is doing a big data play, mining source code repositories, LinkedIn profiles, CrunchBase, etc... He wrote up a little slice of his research here: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/25/top-10-vc-firms-investorran...

I know that SVAngel keeps pretty good stats on their investments, and relies on a good bit of data to make their investments.

A number of top tier VC firms I've talked to this past summer are actively building systems to do more data driven investment.

Brendan Baker's Anatomy of Seed study is one of the best data driven studies of early stage investment I know of. He is working with a grad student to replicate the study to see if his conclusions are reproducible. ref ( http://www.quora.com/Brendan-Baker/Anatomy-of-Seed-An-Inside... )

BlackBox.vc did the startup genome project, and are actively pursuing early stage investments based on that data. http://blackbox.vc/
when i want to log in to fb i open an incognito window. i haven't looked into this myself but the assumption is that cookies from incognito will not leak into my normal session.

it would be great if chrome allowed users to create a separate "sandboxed" browser session in each window. i'd like to maintain just one session for each service i log into, including google/gmail.

hmm, maybe that's why they haven't implemented this.
I think it's why facebook really rules. It's the most casual place to ask a girl for a cup of coffee. If you sms it's a lot closer to harassing. And you can assume that you find practically any girl on facebook that you have met.
Doesn't this 'frictionless' sharing have plenty of precedent online? Anyone can view the tunes I listen to on my Last.fm page, the pages I bookmark (visible by default) on Delicious. How are these social apps on Facebook different?

On the point of 'noise', both these examples provide ways of making sense of the streams. Last.fm charts, Delicious popular streams, and tags.
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At university I spent the vast majority of my time getting drunk, doing drugs and chasing girls. I then took the show on the road and did more or less the same thing in Japan for s few years. There was absolutely nothing introverted about those five years. I made a ton of friends, got into lots of excellent adventures and generally had a good time.

Fast forward a few years and I'm a mid to senior level developer. I'm surrounded by socially, how can I put this this, 'challenging' people. I realized however that after enough time doing this, it's rubbed off on me. I have difficulty making small-talk, making new friends and being sociable.

In my case at least, my 'introversion/extroversion' factor is variable. When I'm jobhunting or marketing or looking for my next project, I'm in 'extrovert' mode. If I'm heads-down programming then I find it much more difficult to deal with human beings.

As an aside, I have serious misgivings about MBTI, not least because I took the test once every month for three months and got different results! It appears to be 'horrorscopes for smart people', or a convoluted wizard for selecting your character class in the big RPG of life.
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I was thinking about this the other day because I realized that I had shifted from an extrovert to an introvert in less than six months, and that I have gone through periods of my life in one state or the other.

Right now I'm working intensely on a project, and I'm basically living inside my head, totally consumed with what I'm working on. But last year I took the year off and socialized, basically gearing up for what I'm working on now.

But I couldn't just pop back to that extroverted state from my present state of mind. It would be a process, and I would have to transition into it. This got me thinking -- what if people who see themselves as complete introverts are that way just because that's all they know?
This happens every time they declare an app as fraudulent.
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Quote from the article: You can see face-detection evading makeup below. The examples that have red squares around them were identified. But the ones that don’t have squares passed facial recognition software undetected

Based on that (and the image) one would think that detection and recognition are the same thing. Obviously they aren't - detection is trivial enough to do reliably in Javascript these days, while recognition is an area of active research.

The premise is more like facial detection is a prerequisite for facial recognition, so blocking the former will prevent the latter

This is true, but isn't what I desire. I'm happy for my face to be detected (eg, cameras use facial detection to take better photos), but I don't want the system to recognize me automatically.
They need to share how much time users are spending on G+. That's the number that matters.
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(Don't forget to activate blocking in Preferences > Under The Hood > Content Settings... > Cookies.)
Your reasoning only works if you nobody ever upvotes anything either — because if downvoting is anathema to rational discussion because it buries that article, upvoting must also be bad because it buries other articles. Your argument is essentially against voting in general. But HN is a voting-based site, so if you are really that strongly against non-conversational signals, it simply isn't a good match for you.
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I have no idea about how valid or invalid the MBTI tests are, but I think that your type can change over time. You describe yourself as somewhat of a chameleon, the tests seem to be reflecting that.
> 3) do the exercises that seem incredibly futile in the second chapter, and do them over and over and over and over all your career.

I got halfway through that paragraph thinking it was crap because it didn't apply to programming, then realised that you're absolutely right.

In programming, the thing we do every day is we write tiny algorithms to do simple things. The abstractions come and go, but the simple "I need to remove a trailing slash on this string" sort of problems are (to me) the everyday practices. Everything else falls out of those little problems - the need for abstraction, the need for tools, the need for tests, the need for libraries, etc.

Imagine I offer you two applicants. They're both fresh out of collage applying for an engineering role. The first one has never heard of MVC and has never actually used TDD. But you ask him to implement a binary search on a whiteboard and he goes to town. The other one will happily explain all the details of the visitor pattern, but when you ask him to manually reverse a string in his favorite language, he can't do it.

I don't know about you, but I'd hire the first programmer in a heartbeat. Its much easier to learn design patterns when you know how to code than the other way around. Maybe its the same with shading in art, and scales in music. But, thats definitely how it works with programming.
The initial Invite buzz created these numbers.

But how many people use it after all?
Is this signalling that Google's engineers don't have a strategy in launching products?

They could have started solving a problem for a particular niche community.

I see another failing Wave.
This is just a fun app I hacked together in response to someone's tweet complaining about getting the wrong size clothes from an online store. It made me think of all the times I'm cursing companies or products for being rubbish. So, few hours later I had this up (long live Heroku!).

Any comments or suggestions welcome!

EDIT: Sorry about all the spam on the page right now. I guess it was bound to happen on an anonymous site.
> You describe yourself as somewhat of a chameleon

Protean is how I like to describe it.
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> not least because I took the test once every month for three months and got different results!

That's interesting, I had the opposite experience. I must have taken the test 5 times over the years, and I got ENTP every time. I didn't expect it to be the case, but I was surprised by its precision.
I guess the question here is, will it be encrypted (like wuala) or not (like Dropbox)?
If google needs to monetize this by reading txt and targeting ads, my guess is the second... which would make it a no-go for many business.
Thanks for the tip! Anything equivalent for Firefox (and maybe IE and Opera too)?
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I use 2 very simple adblock plus rules that deactivate all of facebook outside of the facebook website. Simple and straightforward and works fine for me.

It might not be enough, though :D

Something like, for FireFox, IIRC:

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And for Chrome, I think it would become:

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Edit: adding the rules
Try setting showdead to on for a while. Or just hang out on "new".
Hi Benjamin,

Next month will be the Dublin Web Summit (http://www.dublinwebsummit.com/), it's going to be very interesting.

Also if you are looking for a hacker place, you can have a look at tog (http://www.tog.ie/), I've never been there but it looks pretty good.

Let me know if you want more details :)
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Would you mind sharing that rule?
Even after deleting FB cookies, what prevents them from tracking you (with reasonably good accuracy) using your IP address. In that case, you might as well just blacklist all of facebook.com.

In my opinion, internet users must be aware that there is no easy way to be totally anonymous, whether it be Facebook, Google, etc. If you require complete anonymity, you might as well unplug your internet cable.
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In the Firefox preferences go to the Privacy tab and select Use Custom Setting for History in the History section. From there you will see the check box to accept 3rd party cookies. Keep in mind this will prevent webmasters from using things like Google Analytics. Which you may want anyway but I thought it was worth mentioning.
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I think there's a start up opportunity - "A dead simple way to take control of your privacy". Perhaps a native tool for windows, mac and linux. Just install it, set the settings and forget it.
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FWIW, this is already possible with Firefox by using the RequestPolicy addon.
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No, it's not significantly more difficult than the existing case.

You have one permissions set - my permissions on my photos. And another permissions set - my friends' visibility sets on their tagging. The display set is the interaction between these two sets, which any database developer should be trivially able to calculate.

I don't for one minute dispute that the scaling issues for calculating these interactions for 750m users are significant, but the core task definitely isn't.
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If you're a Firefox user and you'd rather whitelist known good actors, than blacklist known bad actors, as per this example. Install the RequestPolicy addon.
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I use Disconnect for chrome. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhla...
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Yeah, I visit Facebook a couple (maybe more) times a day for 1-2 minutes to check if I have any notifications and quickly scroll through the feed to see if there's anything interesting, there usually isn't.

When I'm out, I just rely on my phone vibrating when I've got a notification.

I don't see how people can spend hours everyday on it.
Personally, I've used G+ the first week.. but it's been about a month(?) that I haven't read/talk on it.
He says he hardly notices it so I doubt it is somehow affecting his productivity...
Surely the answer there is that it depends on your exact scores?

Each factor won't be a clear binary but a continuum between the two. Your answers will depend on mood, sure, but will also give a result on that continuum and with a margin for error.

You might've got ENTP consistently. I've had both INTP and ESTJ in fairly quick succession without any intention to mislead. The idea that the test is anywhere near perfect, foolproof and likely to produce absolutely consistent results for all appears unsupported by anecdotal evidence here.
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Are you sure that setting "Accept cookies" to "off" will prevent third-party sites from reading cookies as well?
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I'd guess that Google Analytics and Google Adsense exist on more websites than Facebook like buttons, and they pose the exact same threat.
He is correct, but I doubt there is much confusion. The term MVC is used mainly to illustrate the separation of concerns, which is, IMO, the number one task for any framework.

Also, as far as I recall, the MVC pattern does not require communication between the models and the views, although it certainly allows it.

Looking at it from another perspective, MVC is a huge buzzword nowadays. It's simply not worth it to be conceptually correct for such a little gain.
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what prevents them from tracking you (with reasonably good accuracy) using your IP address

Dynamic IP addresses and use of the same IP address by multiple people.

All it takes is a couple of friends, acquaintances or others accessing using your home network and it'll confuse the hell out of the stats. And that's without going into IP ranges for universities, schools, offices large and small, and your local coffee shop.

Then add in IP address pooling by ISPs, where every time a user connects (or every week, month or year) they're issued a new IP, and you end up with an unclear situation.

I won't start on how cell/mobile phone networks further confuse the situation ;)
I use it most days, but spend little time there. It's just a nice way to share a few pictures with fairly computer illiterate friends/family, and engage in a bit of schoolboy banter with my mates.

It's useless for any meaningful debate, and the constant copy-paste status updates from some people, which basically amount to scare-mongering/grief-porn chain-letters, annoy the hell out of me.
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INFP here. I do my best programming when I'm learning something new, or tackling a problem when I'm certain I'm heading towards the best solution.

As soon as I feel like what I'm being asked to do isn't the right way to do things, I get extremely demotivated and distracted. This means that in my case I have more chance of hitting a deadline if I'm following the "idealistic" path even if it is considerably more complicated than the straightforward path.

Unfortunately, this is hard in the real world, so I'm having to train myself to be more disciplined at work.
Or, indeed, using your combination of locale, useragent, etc. These are often unique. You can test yours here: http://panopticlick.eff.org/
The thing is that I want my marketing guy to be able to set up the email rules and to write the emails without my intervention.
> The entire process was so flaky and frustrating that I haven't bothered sending them two XSS holes that I have also found in the past year.

You realise you're hurting innocent users much more than Facebook itself by not reporting them, right?
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To block tracking I subscribed to EasyPrivacy ().

() http://easylist.adblockplus.org/
> Surely the answer there is that it depends on your exact scores?

Absolutely. I just wanted to provide an anecdotal counterexample, given that my experience was opposite to the one of the original commenter.
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I use this software when we perform a CT scan looking at the coronary arteries. Under perfect conditions it can correctly idenitfy the coronary arteries, and subtract away the rib cage, heart, and lungs.

It sounds like you already understand what it does. It helps me read a study quicker by automatically processing the data, a step I used to do by hand. Many times the processing fails due to an artifact while scanning ( patient moves, ectopic heart beat, poor contrast injection timing, variation in anatomy), and I need to process it manually.

When it works well it is very helpful, but to be clear, it does not interpret the studies. I think many people replying in this thread don't understand the enormous complexity to accurate radiology reporting.
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IIRC, they phrased the trolley question something like "WOULD you push one person off a bridge if it saved five others", not "SHOULD you...", thus selecting not for people who think utilitarianism is correct, but for people who are callous enough to kill. You can prefer the results of utilitarianism without actually being able to stomach killing someone yourself.

(Now, you can argue that it's actually more callous to let the five people die, but I don't think it's the super-empathetic people who will find it easiest to push people off bridges.)
Here are the definitions as I know them:

MVC - MVC is separated, Models can notify Views.

Model1 - mixing all code in one place, often seen in first PHP apps

Model2 - separation between Model and View, I think Struts started it. Rails made it prettier.

Yes, the gain from correcting the confusion may be small. However, the topic of JavaScript MVC is going to be huge soon, good to know the differences.
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The flip side is that, of course, it can be meaningful - not scientifically, but emotionally - to talk about probabilities after the fact. If a meteorite falls and smashes a car next to you, the first thing to your mind wouldn't be that it's not that special because the probability of its happening is 1.

My issue is that the author doesn't really give a good reason for stopping at the probability that two human beings will reproduce and reproduce until they eventually create you.

Some interesting further probabilities to factor in:

- Chance that two human beings evolved from single-celled organisms

- Chance that life came into existence on Earth

- Chance that Earth formed at all

- Chance that the laws of the universe among all the possible universes were conducive to the creation of Earth

I should hope by this point I've made a reasonable claim that the probability of my own existence is 0.
I find your attitude to be very "artificialist". Advanced AI programs may ponder the question. :)
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Reed Hastings articulated it pretty well recently - "Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly."

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I guess EasyPrivacy one of the in built filter in ad-block plus already does that. Correct me if i am wrong.
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For me a better comparison is emails. Social content should be produced and consumed with the tool of your choice, like emails. cf http://www.douban.com/note/174513094/
You can look at alternative articles such as: http://blog.ouseful.info/2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-...
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I thought that, but with EasyPrivacy, I still have the facebook comments on TC, but not with that rule.

Maybe I did something wrong...
This is exactly my behavior.
If i need a little distraction i go to Reddit or Google+.