skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what processes does the ASF use cross-project or cross-organizational which could not be replicated in a git environment?
The first version of everything is simple. Then things are piled on. New ideas are experimented with while the old ways are left for legacy's sake. Look at OSX. There are 4 ways to launch an application. The dock, launchpad, Applications, and spotlight.
Actually I don't think this is illegal. They aren't brokers, or otherwise filling orders, so they can't "front-run" per se. Also, I don't believe front-running is illegal in commodities markets, as they aren't regulated like equity markets.
Aw, thanks! :)
Yahoo really needs to enlist Shpigler the Shark this time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=650U4-9CPew
Only reason I still maintain an account is because you don't get invites to nights out if you're not on there. Incredibly annoying walled garden you can't break out of atm.
I'm sure the work ethic gained from 10 years in the USMC helped
Another long-term expat here (also 10 years, all in Berlin). You nailed every "huh?" moment I had with article.
Yeah, I have concerns about this also. At work we're crunching towards a release for the past few days. Last night I stumbled home on the train at 11pm, my brain was completely shattered. I couldn't even parse sentences from the book I carry around for the commute.

How people are able to drive themselves home safely in this condition is beyond me.
The Kindle works great with all kinds of non-drm-ed content, fyi. Mobi, epub converts easily, html, etc. I have read a ton of non-drm-ed stuff on mine.
Off-topic, but how did you get into commodities? Do you trade independently, or for a large firm?
What a shitty article, right from the beginning.

>Google Hates Facebook

Sensationalism.

>Facebook’s rapid ascension is arguably what prompted Larry Page to tell Eric Schmidt to step aside in January so that he could take the reins of Google and make it more streamlined and efficient.

No its not. Larry has always wanted to be CEO and they decided that he was ready, after 10 years of waiting.

>But, hold on for a second. What if advertisers don’t care about personalization? That’s a big what if — but what if they don’t?

They do. That's not an 'if', its a 'no'.

>There are several possible ways for Facebook to make money: (1) highly targeted ads, (2) charging publishers to have a Facebook Connect integration (which is currently free), and (3) data analytics of users’ behavior/patterns. At the moment, their over $4 billion in revenue comes from option 1. The other 2 might be great businesses as well, but let’s focus on the first.

The suggestion that Facebook would charge for connect integration is absurd. Similarly absurd as that they would charge users.
This information is sufficient to track you through unrelated visits to the mall, and paired with CCTV video, sufficient to associate you with your face. It's also a small step to associate you with your credit card purchases at various stores.
Then he didn't become a programmer. He became Django programmer.
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Your hn hypothetical statement sounds a lot like the YCombinator job postings embedded into the main news stories... deceptive but not necessarily bad.
Suggested title:

"Google no longer autocompletes The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More".

Or.

"Google no longer suggests The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More in search bar".
I graduated from the previous AngelPad class and I highly recommend the program. The experience was challenging, tough, fun, amazing, and totally transformative - my startup, and my entrepreneurial skills, were helped tremendously by our time at AngelPad.
May be I'm missing something, but this way of computing a percentage seems completely meaningless to me.
Node failure is not the failure case in question. As long as the node is up, hinted handoff can't play any part.
Great idea. We need a lot more people like you. I am assuming (and hoping) this is just a trial run for bigger and better things you have planned. There's definitely a need for this.

You're the solution to our unemployment problem. Best of luck.
I suspect Samsung would love to operate their own App store, but of course they can't because they'd lose Google's support.

Samsung runs their own Appstore. So do most carriers (and NVidia has one especially for Tegra devices).

Google doesn't care, and most developers ignore them because the Google Market is where the action is.

(In Amazon's case it is different because the Google Market isn't installed)
Yeah, this is a very poorly written article filled with bad assumptions mostly based on the current status quo.

Firstly the author is taking things too far by comparing the number of Android phones with tablets. Amazon doesn't have an Android phone. But they will most likely have the best selling Android tablet. And the argument is they may own the Android tablet market which gives them tremendous leverage.

"Google does not care about facilitating app sales because they can make 15-30x the money from search."

Here's he's taking the overall figure for all of Google's search revenue and just applying it to Android. That's not a fair comparison to app revenue. And assuming that Search Revenue > App Revenue, therefore Google does not care.

"Google clearly believes that the web will win out in the long term and native apps are a stop-gap, "

... Yeah, that's a big assumption based on a world before native apps.

"Amazon does not care about app sales... Kindle Fire is about selling more digital content and facilitating e-commerce"

Except apps are digital content and are a huge growth market.
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I find it amusing to read an article that talks about a potential 100bln IPO and at the same time asks how this company will make money. If that is still an open question then something is very wrong with this picture.

But some people, e.g. at Goldman, do make good returns from these hyped IPO's no matter what eventually happens to the business, so these IPO's no matter how ridiculous they may seem do make sense for those people. Their risks are sufficiently limited. The more hype the better.
You're totally right.

For some reason I was thinking the quantity downloaded could exceed the quantity uploaded in a torrent swarm, but that's just wrong. The inputs equal the outputs.

I now see that { A->B, A->C, A->D } is three separate one-to-one mappings, instead of a single one-to-many mapping, in the context of A sharing a chunk with B, C, and D.
You're not idiots, and neither are Amazon. But using a Dynamo style design safely requires overprovisioning and performance loss. W=1 speed is your bait; reality is the switch.
From first hand experience - one of the main problems toward any significant growth in e-commerce/e-interactions in India is the lack of reliable visa-mastercard framework, e-anything/e-payments do not exist. Facebook can make a bigger dent if they can find an easy way to get people to spend money online - for people who are wary of online transactions. In that sense I think Amazon would be a bigger winner in this tech war if they decide to enter the Indian market
Their graph says the data comes from distrowatch's page hit ranking from Nov 23 2011.
> JavaScript doesn't have integers. I suspect that the Dart VM will support integers with overflow. So yes, I suspect in that case they are different. [..] I also strongly suspect this will not be a significant edge case in practice [..] If you are writing code that expects integer overflow to happen a certain way, you're doing it wrong.

It's a valid position to say that relying on integer overflow in one's Dart code is "wrong". But you will need to carefully educate coders about that, since relying on overflow is common in popular languages like C and C++. This won't be easy.

Another big worry is that this could lead to very hard to diagnose bugs. Having the native VM and the compiled code have different semantics in subtle ways is risky - unintended overflows will lead to different bugs in different cases.

Also, integer overflow is not the only case where this problem arises. It also happens with say division of an integer. Will Dart compiled code in JS add proper rounding correction to all divisions of integers? Or will this be another case where the VM differs from compiled code?

Overall, it seems much simpler and safer to just correct overflows in the compiled code.

> Especially given some of the horrible characteristics of the language [JavaScript]

It's fine if you don't like something of course, but I don't think calling languages "horrible" is going to lead to a productive discussion.
They're barely distinguishable on my screen.
I'm creating something myself that whilst it is not commodity trading is based on information processing and prediction. Therefore I find this very interesting. It's also interesting in terms of what technologies were used (which has been answered in a another part of the comments). I actually think this is a good fit and its also someone sharing with the community what they have built. Good for them
Total users is a poor measure of value. Google's search is so valuable because people are using it to actively find something. Advertisers are looking to let people know about their product/service, and the most valuable time is when someone is actively looking for it.

Facebook, as currently constructed is much less valuable to advertisers, because most people aren't using it to find out information about products/services, and if they are, they're going to that brand's Facebook page.

Facebook is still mostly "potential". The hope is that they can find a way to monazite their large user-base. The Facebook platform with credits has room to grow, but how many more iterations of Farmville are there? The biggest potential I see is with Facebook commerce. If they can leverage the credits system into an easy to use payment system for things other than Facebook games, they might have a winner. None of that is guaranteed though.
Android isn't a desktop os.
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Every full time position I've had has been exempt... I've never gotten overtime.
My main takeaway is to stop using the word "simplicity."

I use it a lot and will cut back on it now because, as the author makes clear, people have pretty different notions of what simplicity means.

This is especially important on cross-functional team.

Anyone who touches product design would benefit from reading this article and being much more careful in their use of the term "simple."
There are plenty of ads, unless you're a paid account. Look at the sidebar to the right.
Hopefully it will simply result in fewer crunches. When forced to choose between pushing a deadline, or paying overtime to programmers, I imagine most employers will lean towards pushing.

I think it will have the most impact on startups where perpetual crunch is closer to the cultural norm, instead of the outlier. Any thoughts on this?
Fair point. Didn't see that line earlier and made the assumption it was adsense as the author talked about how Google serves up ads.
How I solved the universal 'Like' problem
It's trivial to associate people with CCTV ...

1. Point a camera down a narrow traffic area -- like each door to the mall.
2. Capture their cell signal at the entrance.
3. Correlate using face-tracking.
4. Prune errors by tracking exits and entrances.

Now you have a pretty good idea of which face has which phone, for that visit and all future visits to anywhere the mall sells their tracking database to.
How about twitters new advertising that places promoted tweets directly into the feed? I had to double take a few times before I realized they weren't regular tweets from those I follow.
Heh, yes, it was very much a learning experience. My first experience with Unix-like systems was one of the early Ubuntu releases, Warty Warhog was the codename, spent days trying to figure out how to get my WiFi working.

Or my first Gentoo install, which was my first time compiling a kernel. That was a grueling process. Had to go through it twice since I'd messed up something the first time through and then, of course, I had to spend a couple of days compiling a desktop environment afterwards. I always have a blast trying out a new system, though. :)
Have you tried 500px.com?
Ask HN: How to make TechCrunch talk about my startup?
Hello,
I am going to launch a new startup within 2 weeks, and I need to know how to let guys at TechCrunch talk about it in their articles?

And can I list my startup there with a description about it?

I see that Tech Chrunch and other IT talks are supporting Ycombinator startups all the time, so I am seeking the same marketing support.

Do they get money? How much? and how to reach them?

Thanks so much in advance.
And you can also edit the patch manually.
So both stores ship on Samsung's devices?

Then I'd guess Samsung would probably be interested in not shipping the Google Market.

I wonder what would happen if Samsung paid for an exclusive on a big name title - e.g. a future Angry Birds
I do understand the points being made. I'm saying those points are not really the points that matter. Positioning Amazon's moves as having deep ramifications on developers misses the real implications of Amazon's moves.

Everything you've outlined are concerns for developers, not for Google or Amazon. And as painful as it may be for small, independent developers...we're not what really matters in these ecosystems. Regardless of who owns the app store, we're going to stay irrelevant.

The real dollars are in commerce, search, and the gateway to these is going to be mobile. That's the real implication -- not a few hundred thousand developers getting yanked around and having to go through 4 app store approvals processes instead of 2.
Actually, this is true, you need to disconnect the battery. Which, of course, is impossible on many smartphones.
Sure similar to the lawsuits and trials of Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, Muxtape and all the others that were sued out of existence.
The author's a tool and isn't interested in the community. Consequently, the community isn't interested in putting up with him.
If you still decide to go through with it, feel free to send me an email if you run into any difficulties and I'll try to help out.
Maybe I misread the bill, but isn't the bill saying no overtime payment for anyone getting 27.63/hr? That used to be $41.00/hr for California in 2001 (probably was $47/hr last year).
Without those ads the amazing search technology wouldn't exist.
Quoting a self-help talking head here:

"It's not important to get things right/perfect. It's important to get things going"

Congratulations and realize that the nth step in learning is realizing that you can always learn more.
It's also a small step to associate you with your credit card purchases at various stores

You do realize that they (the credit card companies) already do this (and have for years), right?
I can't believe we are calling this stuff patio did as dark side and someone else brought up "ruining the internet". And bringing up "morals". Go spend some time on "dark side" seo forums. Some of that shit is what's ruining parts of the internet.

The guy made an ad that blends into reality. Who cares? There's a fat label that says it's sponsored. Is Apple evil because I watch House on television? Oh, did you notice they like to use Apple computers on that show. Glowy Apple logos everywhere. Did you see what they did there? Watch the credits. Sponsored by Apple.

Or go to CNN.com. Go to From our shows. See a show not like the rest? It's called "Advertisement" in small grey print.

This stuff isn't evil. He simply took advantage of something he could take advantage of and played by the rules. The site needs it's advertisers, and the people to keep this valuable resource of a site going for free needs it's advertisers. If the teacher's site doesn't like his product or how he represents it they can not approve the BuySellAd.

If people don't want to buy the damn Bingo software after they click the ad for it, they won't.
I walked into an Apple store a few weeks ago. I'd estimate that about 80% of the people who were trying out a machine were on their Facebook page. That's not hype. (It's actually a bit frightening.)
Given that I have met many people who enjoy discussing Super Bowl Ads, it's not a hypothetical. Many people enjoy some subset of ads. Many also love the movie trailers that play before movies.

I don't have adblock installed, because I want things that I spend time reading online to make some money, and because I've learned about a number of great services when I've taken the time to look at the banner ads on technical sites.
Obviously my biggest mistake was not having a decent shareholders / founders agreement when we incorporated. :(

Any suggestions of templates I should use in future?
I think he is entitled to put some form of stars if he has actually done the research and got those results. Your right though that having them appear to be as part of the website is dishonest.
Do you have links to any tutorial, intros or such for the list that you enumerated above? I am very much in appreciation of your (and everyone else's) feedback - learning of a number of new options and approaches that are worth further research.
moral of the story: if you're going to give money to a company that uses DRM, make sure the DRM is pwnable, and make pwning your own purchases a habit.
My 2 second fix would be to weigh the profile concerning required/non-required sections being filled out. This may be a tell as to spammers.
One problem which plagues jazz is the barrier to entry. A-lot of people would appreciate it more if they sort of had an 'a-ha' moment when they experienced jazz. So - if you lay it on too thick or make it too 'jazzy' , that wont work. What I am driving at is an approach to marketing the app/web app/website as a tool for a more "serious/aspiring to be serious" musician ....similar to how reddit has an appearance of being interesting but is still crammed with lolcats.

Avoid the cats , feature the jazz semi prominently and then try to market it to a more mature fanbase while keeping it cool/hip. Then have elements of building blocks to jazz which can be in the form of short videos by musicians who explain jazz and its relatability to any other kind of music.

Don't go all Coltrane upfront, but start with Jamie Cullum and try to meander over to Miles Davis.
Snarky comments making me think people just got annoyed by the title and didn't read the post.

A lot of good advice for people who would like to program rather than be programmed but aren't in a place to take a cs degree.
I think you're wrong about many arguments for command send to other core.

You can send a word, ie, "big command" composed from four MISC command. One of MISC commands in "big command" can retrieve data from other core.

So most of the time you will wait to send a command or to receive some data.
do_stuff() if $current_day ~~ @discount_weekdays;
I highly recommend the O'Reilly School of Technology courses on Python if you are looking to learn Python. They are self-paced, reasonably priced, and provide some great tips on best practices. And the ability to have someone actual give you feedback and test you I find helps me keep moving forward learning to program.
This article is just false comparisons and strawman arguments.

Why is Facebook's IPO anything like GroupOn's? Completely different business models.

G+'s existence is used as an excuse to compare Google with Facebook, but G+ wasn't even a thought when Google IPO'd. Again, completely different business models.

The author then makes up the particular case of an "Ivy League Northeast pet lovers" demographic and says that things like Tide, Mission Impossible, car companies don't want to market to them. This is not how targeted advertisement would ever work.

* You market Tide to demographics that are in charge of the buying decision for laundry detergent in the household (this knowledge has been around for literally decades: soap operas) - how about people who talk about doing laundry in their status messages? Or how about people who list their children on their facebook profile and don't list an employer?

* You market Mission Impossible to people who say they like Mission Impossible (and similar movies/series) in their "Stuff I like" section or by using their "likes" from sources like IMDb, etc. Maybe they also check in to movie theaters regularly - especially if they often check in with a certain group of friends. Show those friends the same ad.

* You market cars to people who seem to have the income to afford a car (using job descriptions, maybe seeing how often and where they eat out using checkin information to get some sort of estimate on disposable income) and maybe you even filter that to people who complain about their car. On top of that you could even filter by the last time the user got a vehicle - this is now an event you can add to your timeline.
Then I misunderstood. I thought your earlier answer was sarcasm. A real libertarian could never accept a tax on wealth. All taxes are bad, but the only ones that are acceptable are taxes on economic activity. Taxing wealth is, in the randian sense, punishing success.
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Still, I'd love to hear if you found it convenient, useable, or simply a waste of time.

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Amazon will do very well on digital goods sales. But apps are actually a small chunk of dollars in the grand scheme of things -- especially on tablets.

Amazon is going to recoup their costs through additional commerce on Amazon.com. That's what people use tablets for and it's a massive market that Amazon actually has leverage in. It's a very calculated move to build a tablet first and not a phone. The real target is driving more sales on Amazon.com
Thanks, and I agree. All I know is that I know practically nothing.
Not after their recent redesign, hate it!
And there's not much stopping others creating their own versions of The Deck, especially around niche areas. I'm surprised more people haven't done this, or even created some sort of simple and reliable engine that allowed people to do it easily.
Fontbundlr- 5 fonts. 5 dollars. It's that simple.
Do you have any reason to doubt the veracity of his internal polling which he mentions getting 4.8 out of 5 for? Calling a 5 star rating "faked" is a bit strong.
I think this shows just how much can be achieved if you work hard and give something your absolute focus.

Call him a programmer or not, it seems he has learnt enough to program professionally and by most definitions, that makes him a programmer.
I don't understand the legislation's effects. Would this eliminate paid overtime? Unpaid overtime? How would this affect salarymen?
Anyone know where to find this 57,000 page PDF?