skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true. If you visit any website with a "Like" button, FB will track you even if you don't click it. If you use Spotify, FB will get a record of your music even if you don't visit the site.
Note: In Python 2.6+, you can just `import json` instead of needing to install and import simplejson.
Not Such a Stretch to Reach for the Stars
Facebook's HTML5 Resource Center
And I guess if you use chrome(ium), you're already using an encrypted channel with SPDY anyway.
For someone that is currently using SendGrid, what are the key points to make me move over?
I guess. But it doesn't feel innovative. I'd much rather be seeing an article about a small startup I've never heard of doing something neat with HTML, rather than an article about a large established company, whose business model is based on the web, embracing the technology it's built on.
That's the most compelling argument I've seen yet for the (lack of) feasibility. Thanks for the info.
Also, if you already have AdBlock Plus for firefox installed, try this: http://lifehacker.com/5542041/block-sites-from-using-your-fa...

Prevents non-facebook domains from knowing when you are logged into facebook.
I am currently using the Windows Phone 7 (Mango) and this is built into the phone and it works awesome. If they can do it for other phones it will be useful.
Wow, that's cool. It even works for non-Bounded argument types, as in fn [0] = 0:

Warning: Pattern match(es) are non-exhaustive
In an equation for `fn':
Patterns not matched:
[]
#x : _ with #x `notElem` [0#]
0# : (_ : _)
That's on our radar, thank you for the suggestion.
Failed to meet analyst expectations, which have never been right.

Met Apple's own guidance, though. The stock is also now back up to ~$420
When it comes to energy, I am vary pro wind power and feel solar/fusion are both going to be viable in my lifetime. However, EROI is a measure of the amount of energy it costs to develop an energy source which is both a simple measurement and poorly understood by a lot of people.

So, while I dislike coal for a number of reasons, I do feel the need to bring it up when people get all doom and gloom over Oil.
Google AdWords: Keyword Tool
"ctags -R --extra=+f ." will add the file names to the index. It should fix the issue.
Drew's case shows how hard it is to generalize. We're generally reluctant to fund single founders. And yet the most successful startup we've funded had a single founder at the time he applied:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27532820/app.html

We strongly encouraged Drew to get a cofounder, and he found Arash before the summer 2007 cycle began. Arash turned out to be the perfect cofounder. So Dropbox is pretty much the best case scenario for a single founder applying to YC. And the variation in startup outcomes is so great that even though we have such a large data set, the best single founder outcome is so far better than any of the multiple founder outcomes.

This is why one of our rules is that we'll break any of our rules.
Good software is worth paying for
A sequel to this article, where Norvig explains how to make a really minimal (but ridiculously clear and elegant) Lisp interpreter in 90 lines of Python:

http://norvig.com/lispy.html
BeautifulSoup is poorly maintained — you have to be very specific with which version you're using.

Note: Lxml has a number of repair modes that allows it to parse virtually anything. Cpu cycles and memory go up quite a bit when they're activated, but it's still better than BeautifulSoup.
Goethean Science: Bringing chaos to order by looking phenomena right in the "I"
VA loan with a Bankruptcy?
I'm not sure if you're serious, I really hope you're not. Don't ever directly take advice from a random discussion. Many people have no clue and many people have an agenda. Don't take advice from "gurus" like Jim Cramer the pumper.

Learn and understand how investing works so you can take advice with a grain of salt and research the recommendations yourself. You also have to have a strategy that works for you and fits your needs, risk tolerance, and bankroll.
They can create a bounce page, but they have no control over what referrer actually gets sent. The browser, not the website, sends the referrer.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/HTTP_referrer

In HTML5 you can apparently request that a referrer not be sent, but that's a request, not a command.
Gross margin was down 1.5% over last quarter. Anyone want to guess what lower margin products they sold more of?

I'd guess Macbook Airs, but there are certainly other contenders.
In my experience I have to reference the local path to a python file when using manage.py

`python manage.py runserver`
becomes
`python ./manage.py runserver`

But your mileage may vary.
I use it all the time in network and graphic programming, but I name the variables to state the fact. It's like a poor man's struct; sometimes you are doing say, some kind of packet analysis and you have some really convoluted spec to work off of. You could either formalize it in a bunch of headers and try to synthesize the structure of it or you can use tricks like this in order to parse it nicely.

In graphics programming, or more specifically, file format programming, sometimes I have to parse through, or generate a colortable and then go through a bunch of serialized data and transform that into a buffer where I have something like coordinate[x][y]{[z]}.{rgb/cmyk/yuv/hsv/rgba/bgr...} and I have a bunch of unions and structs; having char * data[3] as my payload and then being able to offset around into it is fantastically convenient, especially when trying to apply kernels or do transformations over the entire space.

The code is far more readable at the lower level manipulation with this kind of stuff.

And when you say 'Well I use OTS solutions for graphics' and I say "I do too, when I can. But when I can't, it's nice to be able to express what I need to do effeciently"
Thankfully lxml has a slower-but-more-forgiving mode that you can use when interacting with poorly formatted HTML, which takes advantage of BeautifulSoup http://lxml.de/elementsoup.html
If your estimates are always 20% under what you achieve every quarter then you are either deliberately underestimating or your CFO is an idiot.

If you are deliberately underestimating to be conservative - so if there is an earthquake in Japan you can still make the expectation, or you do it to produce a headline, it's equally bad for your shareholders.

Otherwise why not produce figures saying we might sell nothing next quarter -if an asteroid wipes out all life on earth.

Of course it's still a nice position to be in compared to a company lies about making a profit next quarter hoping for a miracle!
"You chose to use the Facebook service, you chose to provide this information to them, and you chose to agree to their terms of service."

Likewise, Facebook chose to operate under the laws of the various lands in which it operates.
The genetics of happiness
Right, because Facebook would never change their privacy policies on a whim without giving users warning ahead of time. At least they probably won't. Anymore. Well, only if they really need to.
No, if they don't abide by the laws, their purposes are not completely legal. Just like you cannot completely voluntarily sell yourself into slavery under US law, there are certain inalienable rights that cannot be given up under european law, and control over your personal data is one of them. That is the point of it.
The price seems to be dropping. $422.24 at close today and $393.74 after hours (@3pm pacific 10/18/2011)...

http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL
Codeigniter library for jquery validation
A Tribute to Steve Jobs in Pictures
But people have been expecting an iPhone 5 all summer so they may have put off buying an iPhone 4 even before the official 4s launch.
made me think of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3031118
Sorry, but seeing a privacy policy and about page is not a valid way to judge if an app is malicious or not.
If the point is raising money, a workshop on the design of Quora or something only Charlie can teach would probably make much more folks willing to pay.
What Kind of Revert are You?
It is possible that someone at your HQ could be using a system to scrape HN.

I scraped HN awhile back (Sorry, pg!) and I suspect what happened is I got banned for ~48 hours from accessing the site. I was also getting a 324 error.
Thank you! http://db.tt/FGTLvDPk
The title link sends you to the comment page for the thread. Either we've encountered a bug, a prank, or this person is obscurely trying to recommend the hacker news comments as a Personal Knowledge manager. Trees of text are nice, but I prefer Acyclic Directed Graphs http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html
I didn't realize that it converted all ampersands in the URL -- what a ridiculous oversight. What bugs me is that the browser doesn't support @font-face fonts. I don't understand the design process that led to implementing node.js as a service on a mobile device before adding in fundamental CSS support...
Selective Color Photography in "Red"
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It's very easy. All countries (except Somalia) regulate their markets. For example in the US if there are more than 500 investors in your company you are required to disclose certain information (I read about that regarding Facebook: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/facebook-and-the-500-...)

In the EU companies are required to disclose data about individuals to those individuals.

In both cases what happened was that policymakers tried to work against a (potential) market failure they (fore)saw.
You don't compare numbers against the previous quarter, you compare numbers against the same quarter, the previous year.

Apple's gross margin this quarter was 40.3 percent, compared to 36.9 percent in the year-ago quarter
You guys should consider a Heroku add-on with a small free plan (if you aren't already). SendGrid has one (200/day free) and they would be the first place I'd go if I needed a mail API because I have used them seamlessly for small projects (~10 emails/day) already.
Because it feels like irresponsible reporting.

Fine for the Wall Street Journal, I guess, since those readers know what it means.

I guess I should be happy if this is comparable to the "Apple is doomed!" stories that used to be in vogue.
Google Search replaces + operator with quotation marks
Apple isn't selling at a premium though. It has a pe of < 12 when you take out the cash. I agree that things go down when expectations aren't met, the thing is the expectations don't make any sense at all.

Apple is the only company in the world that could grow 54%, have a pe of 12, and still go down.
Is the "Download a copy of your Facebook data." link under Account Settings not the data you want? It looked complete to me.
Some thoughts- Instead of teachers and school plans, have you thought about having a parent/student plan? Every time to sign up to receive messages, you get X free and then you have to pay to receive the rest. This way you are pushing the burden to purchase on the parents's shoulders and this will also ensure that there is a parent 'by-in' for ClassParrot. Did you survey parents and students about this?

Also, if 1 credit = 1 message, then why not just call it a 'message' to keep things simple. So you get 500 free 'messages' and you pay for 500+ 'messages'.

To emphasize your value prop and highlight the safety, landing page message could again say 'secure' instead of 'hassle free'. My rule is that repetition is good.
not that i thought it would get apple'esque hype, but surprised that the buzz on this has been pretty quite today.
Desertification often results from destroying native trees and grasses so you can find plenty of older instances. EX: The US Dust Bowl in the 1930's all the way back to Egypt the Late Lower Paleolithic due to pigs.
There are a few comments here questioning why it's really important to actually delete data. This is a serious issue for a few different reasons. If I believe that I've deleted something, then there should be no way for anyone to retrieve the information -- I no longer have to worry about security breaches at Facebook (internally or externally), Government warrants, or Facebook accidentally reinstating the information.

As for the idea that Facebook is to big to effectively delete information, that's unacceptable. If you're that big and you can't figure out a way of routinely deleting data then you need to find a way of collecting more data or making your data easier to delete, or not giving the user the 'delete' option. There are a number of alternate verbs which describe the process they are going through, none of which are as clear or commonly understood as 'delete', but which are more accurate. 'Hide' and 'make data invisible' come to mind.

I don't have as much of a problem with the saving of messages which others will also read, but on deleting a Facebook account, this could be handled more gracefully if the user wishes. This is a more difficult problem to solve, which would require Facebook itself to store messages with under the covers public key cryptography which sounds like the type of thing they wouldn't do.
You have to look beyond the law to what its purpose is - to prevent companies from exploiting your personal information, and to force them to tell you what data they hold. Facebook are exploiting your browser history, without telling you. And are refusing to even own up to it.

I don't believe that 99% of Facebook users would tick a box that said 'Please record every webpage I visit and store it for your own future use. I do not want access to, nor the right to remove, this data.' Voluntary or not, there's a right to at least see the data that anyone holds on you. Note that you don't have the right to remove data.

This is EXACTLY why data protection laws are there. At the time they were enacted it was largely credit reference agencies, public bodies and direct marketing businesses which were in the spotlight. Had they been written today they would be aimed firmly at Facebook, Google and Apple.
The problem is that I can no longer distinguish between mail that I have read and mail that I simply don't care about. The solution I presented requires no explicit interaction and gives me this granularity. Sure, I can manually apply a label in Gmail, but that's explicit once more (and requires far too many clicks for such a simple operation).
Analyst expectations missed. http://www.cnbc.com/id/44908357 Seems likely due to iPhone 4S shipping later than their normal cycle? That'd also be why guidance for the next quarter is so high I imagine?
Your sentiment is shared by so many people who deem this sort of thing "injustice". I think the problem is thinking that the stocks have an innate value, they don't, the value is completely determined by the market.

Compare and contrast with the following (too common, alas) scenario:

1) Student tells parents that he'll get a B on a course.

2) Parents just know that s/he can do better, so they expect A.

3) Student actually gets B+.

4) Student gets grounded, etc.

This would be different, since the grade that the student can "optimally" get from a course is determined outside of parents (simplistically speaking), so they are unjustified in having inflated estimations. That is, in this case, there's an actual quantity (the grade) that (i) is independent of the estimators and (ii) has a "true" value. Both of these assumptions fail for the stock example.

Another fallacy is, when reading news like "Markets slump, billions lost" to think that actually billions of dollars were lost. Money is lost when you drop it out of your pocket or when an asset is destroyed, e.g. by fire. In this case what is lost is the expectation of making money.

I'm just an engineer, this is my simplistic understanding of the matters.
The "excessive processing of data" claim, if valid, would seem to make any social networking service a non-starter:

"Facebook is hosting enormous amounts of personal data and it is processing all data for its own purposes.
It seems Facebook is a prime example of illegal 'excessive processing'."
Lack of services to send emails? Seriously?

Mailchimp

SilverPop

CampaignMonitor

SendGrid

YMLP

MadMimi

JangoMail

TinyLetter (free)
Those "completely legal purposes" are only "completely legal" in the US. In the US, the owners of the computer own the data about yourself [1]. In Europe, the data protection acts go the opposite: you own the data about yourself. Furthermore, in Europe, data collection about people has to fall under certain legally sanctioned reasons [2].

Notes:
1 - this can cause surprises when companies go bankrupt and the bankruptcy courts allow the sale of the data (about you) to proceed without your knowledge or consent. It is very rare for you to be notified (such as in the current Borders bankruptcy), or the privacy policies of the dearly departed company to be honored by the courts.
2 - Just because you are willing to give the data to me does not necessarily make it legal.
facebook-is-building-shadow-profiles-of-non-users

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/18/1429223/facebook-is-b...
"So many people applied for their own CDs that Facebook had to send out an email indicating it was unable to comply with the requirement that it provide the information within a 40 day period."

Has Facebook considered using benefits of modern technology and delivering the requested info electronically by, for example, setting up a web site where users could access/browse/download the requested info and may be even let some other users, like their friends, to access the info as well?

:)
I didn't say "don't actually" in the general sense with which you used "consume". I said - very specifically - that copying doesn't consume resources in the way people consume physical resources (e.g. ham sandwiches).

Only by removing the context (idiotic, given that the context was immediately available to any reader) could you establish an equivalence between my criticism of you and my own position.

Anyone with an honest interest in these debates knows that tangible goods and intangible goods are fundamentally different. More importantly, the desire to confuse this distinction is one of the favorite tactics of people on either side of the debate who wish to justify obviously self-serving behavior.

Just to reiterate, I never said that copying was meaningless. Indeed, any honest assessment would conclude that it is far from meaningless. But that doesn't mean that, in listening to files (copied with our without authorization from the copyright holder) that I am "consuming" anything in the material sense. And I maintain that you will never come to any clarity about the optimal way to handle intangible goods if you can't grasp the most characteristic properties of intangibility.

For what it's worth, I fully appreciate the economic effect of dilution. In a situation where a legal monopoly is enforceable, and some baseline measure of demand can be identified, then yes, unauthorized copying diminishes the value that could otherwise be realized by the copyright holder. At the same time, it's impossible to avoid the conclusion that this projected value exists ONLY in situations where a legalized monopoly exists. It cannot exist in situations where the impossibility of two parties maintaining full possession of the same physical object (like our sandwich) forces some sort of negotiation and trade. Indeed, copyright is an attempt to make the intangible function as though it were tangible. In that sense, it is a deliberate fiction.

Historically, this valuable fiction could be maintained when the intangible good was wedded to a tangible wrapper. But once the physical component of media became something that folks on the buy side already owned our controlled outright (i.e. disk space, bandwidth, and electricity), the fiction became unsustainable.

I'll be the first to agree that we need a new system. Unlike you, I don't think we can define it by continuing to use language and concepts that are utterly obsolete. And more importantly, I think folks having these conversations need to maintain a degree of personal integrity when having them.

Deflecting criticism through false equivalence fails that test.
Half a day of development costs at least a few hundred dollars in the US, so I don't see why a business can't make money by saving you that time.

And some argue that there are other ways to compete than on features and price:

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Build_Less.php
thanks, also didnt know about this one - was using 'abine' which is similar. I like the ghost icon though :-)
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Valuable Components of the Flourishing Affiliated Promotional Web-site
This should be out soon (w/in a few days, hopefully).
My favorite HN posting of the year so far.

There's no good reason for the label "lambda"!
Security firm finds hacker forums offer n00b hackers training, lulz
thanks. no-way i was going to allow some random site access to facebook ... video/insertion is pretty well done indeed! :-)
@clarky07 exactly. Apple's PE is unbeleivably low. if you put Apple on the same PE multiple it traded on in 2006, Apple's market cap would be $1 Trillion.

Why Apple might just be the first $1 trillion company
http://blogs.reuters.com/columns/2011/08/09/why-apple-might-...
One might wish to eat one's cake and have it too. Not all wishes are reasonable.
Bitcoin value falls below cost of production
"What is it about this completely voluntary relationship that is so inherently evil?"

I'm not going to argue it's inherently evil but,

You are right that the service is completely voluntary. However, the opportunity cost associated with not having a Facebook account has been rising by virtue of the network effect and 3rd party services requiring a Facebook account to access functionality.

The fear is: as (if) Facebook becomes more and more a part of society, the cost of not having a Facebook account becomes high enough to make it practically compulsory to have a Facebook account. And if at this point Facebook acts as it does now, well then it's time to start worrying.

Picking up a hoe and tilling a field is completely voluntary, so why did slaves choose to do so? Because not doing so was too costly.
iPads and Pods are always huge in holiday quarter plus the 4S rollout.
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I think that is a good argument. Isn't the main premise of your argument that parents should spend more time with their kids talking.

Like it seems as if TV is being specially berated when it could really be anything that takes time away from interacting with your child that is bad.
The use of Printed Labels
Spying on people is still evil if it is a government institution or a private one.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks

People don't choose to be tracked on other websites by facebook. People don't even read the terms service. Most people just want to read what their friends write, and look at pictures of cats.
Why is Siri important?
Wow. I'm both impressed and a little scared by this answer! I had this romantic yet slightly naieve idea that there were a couple of people working crazy hours reading all applications...

Now I'm pondering my mind on what criteria you're running the naive Bayesian classifier since most of the questions in the application form are text, so hard to compare I guess.
I think the love heart under perfectly free might be sending the wrong message to parents. The number one issue I think of when I think of teachers texting students is inappropriate student teacher relationships.
It's funny how fanboys like John Gruber can't see past the similarities with the iPod Nano and notice this product is much more than that. Every single company takes something that already exists and makes it better. Apple and Moto are no different.
Web 2.0 Summit 2011: Chris Poole, "High Order Bit" - YouTube