skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember the emails that AT&T sent out to people it suspected of tethering their phones without paying the exorbitant monthly fee (http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/18/atandt-tells-customers-us...)? Something tells me that this wonderful "diagnostic" information had something to do with it.

Why packet-sniff and risk legal issues when you can just look at your CarrierIQ analytics for people who opened a tethering app regularly?
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I've been thinking about this alot lately. I some ideas and would like to bounce them off of you. Email me if you're interested (bloggingarrow at gmail dot com). You can check out my blog at expertdisruption dot com if you want to get a bit of an idea, although my thinking has been evolving and I haven't been able to keep completely updated.
Why not? Statcounter would have the right information to make this finding.
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Jotform's Wishbox is doing exactly same thing. Few days back, they posted about it on HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3265421
>Come back to me when either of them improves the quality of social interactions by a multiple.

Path is up there. We'll see how it bears out over time, but the interaction is much more tightly thought out. The seem to have reduced a lot of friction with both participating and consuming social media.
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A missed bullet point: Ability for FOSS developers to port drivers to obscure platforms. Right now the Haiku OS folks are having a heck of a time trying to get hardware acceleration to work with nVidia hardware.
This discussion has gone south the more people that joined in. There's a lot of people expressing sentiments along the lines of being fearful that they're being tracked and that government agencies are spying on them personally.

Let's get something straight. The real issue here isn't that you're being personally spied on. If the government is tracking you specifically and is willing to hold the data they collect on you against you then you should play the lottery too because you're one lucky person.

If and when data is collected it is used most often to analyze groups of people, not individuals. It's very rare that an individual would be tracked and that would only happen if you were influential or a true danger to them (at least a perceived danger).

For example, let's say the government was tracking Occupy Wall Street protesters. If they were targeting individuals then they'd be targeting the very few "leaders" if there are any. Otherwise they'd just like to know about you as a group. What you think, like, listen to, and read. Even so, they're not going to come after you. They're going to use that information in a way that allows them to spin a narrative or in some other subtle way. They just aren't going to bust into your living room.

Also, in the rare case they collect data on an individual and actually try to do something to you personally, they sure as hell aren't going to bring it up in a court. You'll be black bagged or something but you're not going to go to trial with the prosecutor coming out saying "well, we surreptitiously collected this data from John's phone and home computer which proves he's a terrorist". They'd be shooting themselves in the foot! They'd much rather have you know they collect data while still retaining plausible deniability.

You can look up anything you want all day long including how to make bombs and no one will bust in your living room until the day you somehow are in a position to influence a large group of people.

So please everyone, let's take off our tinfoil hats, quit thinking we're important enough to track individually, and just generally stop sounding like conspiracy theorists. I mean, this stuff can really do damage and it isn't right but this discussion is heading in the wrong direction with that kind of rhetoric.

Edit: Seems everyone doesn't like what I've got to say yet only one person is willing to say why. There's way too much group think and karma policing going on around here.
And because you didn't post it either, I had to go to wikipedia as well: Low-Level Virtual Machine.
When asked about paid marketing. Starts around 74:30

"Holy crazy crap does retargeting work."

"If you do great inbound, the first money you should spend should be on retargeting... people that were sort of interested but left"

"...uses a company called has offers in Seattle - they've been very effective for us".

"would not recommend raw display. It will perform poorly for you."
FB is on a way different level than path and instagram. first off, path and instagram focus on mobile and FB doesn't. If FB was a tiny little startup I think they would be rockin mobile. FB is focusing on what makes them $... the website. Lame to compare a big apple and to raisins.
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Meanwhile, it took Unix forever before the PC's backspace key 'just worked'.

The terminal guts are unbelievably gnarly, and it's kinda surprising it hasn't been replaced with a simpler approach designed for virtual terminals by now.
Its interesting, I applied two months ago and at that time H1B were not welcome!
I agree with you in principle, but I also feel for the company.

As I understand it, they are logging information relevant to communication quality, and using that to improve the network. If you give people the opportunity to opt-out of providing data, many of them will, which means you have much less data to analyze in order to improve services.
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You aren't the only one, but that's a harder problem to solve as I there are a limited number of mods and people understandably want their posts read. The public high humor bar and one or two post commentary seem to work well for keeping HN only half way over the shark. I upvoted you to make up for it.
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If you think that Google's primary goal with Google+ is to build a Facebook competitor, then I understand why you are confused.
I can't say I was able to really practice this stuff.

Here's one thing which did happen, though: while describing a particular failure, I said "<name> and <name> dropped the ball on this one". One of the guys on my team really objected to that. He didn't like hearing it from me.

I thought for a second and said, "hey, wait, you don't react like that when <guy in area> says the same thing". He just got really quiet and never really addressed the issue. I tried again: "How is it that the same words coming out of my mouth are bad when they were just fine coming out of the mouth of some man? What year is this again?"

I find that's what tends to happen: they get quiet and mentally set some bit on me that means "evil bitch".
I do know my tools, actually (having helped create them) - before creating the structs, I did consider this approach, and consciously decided against it for roughly the reasons described.

I'm talking about a distinct problem from programmers not knowing their tools - programmers who do know and understand their tools quite well, but decide, for whatever horrible reason, that those tools are "quite good enough", and insist on going from scratch. Sometimes justified, and usually not - and it can lead to a great deal of harm in the way of unmaintainable bloat.
edit: LLVM once stood for "Low level virtual machine", but that is no longer the meaning. The early name comes from Chris Lattner's research paper describing an "ideal machine language", an intermediate language for compilers which is a little like an Assembly -type language for a virtual machine with infinite registers.

The first sentence on the front page of llvm.org pretty much sums it up: "The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies."

It may not be the clearest LLVM description out there, but that's pretty much what it is. If the description had more detail, it would not fit in one sentence.

The hard thing about describing LLVM is that it's a huge complicated project in a domain that's outside even many professional programmers' domain.

I tend to say that LLVM is (to me) a "compiler infrastructure", because I use it to build compiler back ends. However, LLVM is so much more than that, as the project includes loosely coupled tools ranging from complete compilers (clang) to debuggers (lldb) to byte code and binary format introspection utilities (llvm's binutils counterparts). So a "compiler infrastructure" or any other dumbed down explanation wouldn't do it justice. That's why the first sentence on the front page is actually pretty good.
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This is a fantastic presentation, it brought me from a "I want to shoot myself" mood to "oh yeah there's hope!"
The problem with "Low-Level Virtual Machine" is that it gives a very wrong view of what LLVM actually is (because a "virtual machine" is associated with JVM and similar tools). That full name is not even used a whole lot any more, people refer to LLVM as LLVM which means the umbrella project under which a lot of subprojects exist.
This doesn't seem like a conspiracy - I recognize a few names that have been in opposition to PIPA from the beginning, and Wyden especially has been great about standing up against these kinds of shenanigans in the past. To be honest, far from being something that I'd accept as better than PIPA, I think it's a fairly well thought out law, and I don't think it's just anchoring talking.

That said, I don't think it'll fix the problem, and we'll be at this again in a couple years, since the main problem still isn't fixed - that piracy is still oftentimes the most convenient or only option if you want to watch something specific. The content industry really needs to give up their thinking that they can segment the market at will, and just allow the creation of a single market/repository to watch anything for a reasonable price. When that happens, I think piracy will largely become a fringe activity of little economic consequence.
Sort of. But you have to keep X11 running on another vt. Stopping and restarting X many times in a session is a different story. At least for me.

And even in the case I keep X11 running on another vt, I've found that when using no wm, or a simple one like evilwm, switching back and forth from console (on one vt) to X11 (on another vt) many times does not work well. Eventually it fails.

This is on {Net,Free,Open}BSD.

I don't think that Plan9 has vt's as such. It's more like what the article envisions, with graphics capabilities seemingly woven into the terminal. But you're pretty much stuck in an X11 type environment. Plan9 experts correct me if I'm wrong.

I've always found this "context switch" from console to graphics is like a one-way street. You're not really expected to keep shutting down the graphics and going back to the console. At least I've never found anyone who does that.
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Not sure how I can make it clearer but I will try.

Because Europeans have an increased risk* of having the prion disease BSE they aren't ever allowed to donate. The reasons for this are a similar prion disease in New Guinea has been shown to have a very long asymptomatic period measured in decades. And since there is no screening for prions and no one is sure how long prion diseases remain asymptomatic all Europeans are not allowed to give blood/marrow/organs.

* How much so is of course debatable.
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As we can read in http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html by Chris Lattner:

> The name "LLVM" was once an acronym, but is now just a brand for the umbrella project.
You mean this? (2009)

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/04/review-tweetie/
I didn't have any female coworkers. I was at Google for four and a half years and none of my three teams had any "diversity" beyond myself. Team #1 was a production service SRE team, while #2 and #3 were development/SWE roles.

I had to go up and out to talk to people on other teams. We wound up forming a little group of women in operations (think pager duty) and talked about these things. We all noticed a bunch of similar problems but I can't say I ever got any solutions out of it.
What a great speaker Rand is. Definitely makes me interested in the service. Loved the examples of real marketing such as urbnspoon, dropbox, seomoz, and simply hired.

Also, he gave 2 months of his svc away for free for the talk: http://www.seomoz.org/partners/hackers - Found this in the hackers and founders site.
1) No wasting effort on oversight until somebody complain.

2) 10000 wiretaps are likely to generate some leaks and complaints, and dealing with these complaints costs effort and money. So smarter agencies would avoid pointless wiretaps or would shred wiretaps soon after it's clear that they don't produce anything useful.

Dumber agencies would be dissolved.

3) I personally don't suffer much from limited right to travel. Especially now, when Internet communications are so efficient.

But I know that for many businesses and political organizations travel is important. Limited travel makes such organizations less efficient.

That said, limited travel is also not the top issue unlike freedom of speech and freedom from false arrests.

4) Now, to the core of your lapse in judgement:

It's a serious mistake to assume that percent of false positives does not depend on amount of surveillance.

With zero surveillance, percent of false positive arrests is indistinguishable from percent of innocent citizens in the society (that is ~99%).

Massive and effective surveillance allows to move that percent of false positives down to almost zero.

The constant here is the number of arrests (e.g. 100), and not percent of false positives as you claim. So if percent of false positives declines, then number of false arrests declines too.

Regarding your suggestion to use privacy as a tool to cripple government - that does not make much sense, because if you want to cripple government, just don't give it money and it will weaken to the level of your desire.

However the consequence here is that crippled government cannot properly deliver what it was designed to deliver (e.g. law enforcement).

5) Searching for "why is privacy important" shows that major concerns about privacy are not really related to government.
Rand is a great entrepreneur and one of the world's foremost authorities on inbound marketing.

If you're a startup founder, you should watch this video. It's great content, well delivered.
Hopefully an equally (it not more) stupid follow up by the city council would be shot down when coming to a vote. Perhaps McDonald's is banking that lightning won't strike twice?
True. What if they selected a member of their staff to be the actual officeholder?
On the debugger point that begins the article:

I feel oppositely. I feel more like I too often use a debugger when I should be setting up a robust logging system. Debuggers are often "a temporary solution to permanent problem"...

Contrary to the author's comments, it makes perfect sense for every system to have its own logging system.

1) It isn't at all hard to create so it doesn't cost you.
2) Every system is a little different in the levels of logging that are use as well as the details that it wants to include or exclude.

I'm using Qt currently and their qDebug() statement just sucks for my purposes - there's arbitrary limit on the number of debug outputs allowed. Why? Why? ...
The point about deferring to a man when you both start talking at the same time struck a chord. As the CEO of an early-stage startup with two male partners, I'm slowly breaking myself of that habit when we're talking to a mentor.

It's painful to keep talking over my partner. Frankly, I label myself a pushy bitch when I do it. But the fact that I need to earn this title keeps me doing it.
I'm amazed everytime one of these is posted. Can't think of much else that's still available from that time.
they definitely don't want to GPL the Windows version

Why not? Do the drivers provide them with a competitive advantage over anybody else? In the case of a GPU, I imagine they might. In the case of a wireless card, modem or something of that sort it seems pretty unlikely.
Or.... you can go (and later support) Cyanogenmod

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Motorola_Droid_X:_Full_Upda...
Yes,

I suppose we would be expected to cheer a headline like "bi-partisan alternative to waterboarding emerges" as well...
Outright accusing people of sexism absolutely will make them shut off to you. So will accusing them of puppy-kicking and any number of other things where they don't want to think of themselves as That Kind Of Person (even if they really do act that way sometimes) — but sexism is particularly volatile because there's an implicit threat of a lawsuit on top of the moral judgment. It's one of those things where, if somebody accuses you, it's probably in your interest to avoid contact with them.

I'd recommend reading up on the topic of persuading people if you feel shaky. "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is a pretty good classic starter. How you approach this kind of stuff can make all the difference in the world. (And I'm not saying that they weren't unfairly discriminating against you. But there are good ways and less-good ways to address that situation, and picking a fight should usually be a last resort IMO.)
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It's not just the menu. Is the whole thinking behind the use of it. Here's a nice interview of the founder telling how they wanted everything on one screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iDjrW8NqJI
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Programmers not understanding their tools is a long
studied problem with no good solution.

As is the problem of programmers not trusting their tools. I think they're both still worth writing about every now and then. In fact, that might be the closest thing to a solution we have. Hopefully every time you bring it up, a few more people get it.
>It's not that women are too timid, it's that they are making the optimal short-term choice. [...] I would also suggest that if enough women ignored the stigma associated with being labeled a bitch, they would move the line is drawn a bit. That's not always possible but again, being aware of it helps.

I wonder what kind of critical mass would be necessary to shift the norms, even in relatively liberal places, such that when a man and a woman both start talking, it's even odds which one will continue talking? '

I think it's also possible, at least in many groups, to have people look at the gestalt of your behavior. If you're friendly and helpful in one-on-ones, but in meetings tend to speak up more, then you're ought to be likely to be labeled a bitch (or whatever the male equivalent is) than if you're pushy and domineering all the time.
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I don't mind that kind of a problem.

Any language that lacks a diversity of opinions about its strengths and weaknesses doesn't sound very interesting to me. I suspect it lacks expressive power.

I once started a job which involved a little bit of Perl. The other Perl programmers on the team were a little freaked out by my unfamiliar Perl syntax. I didn't tell them that everything they objected to was from the O'Reilly book "Perl Best Practices". :-)
It could be that women have a better sense of fairness than most men. They might compare themselves with the "truly outstanding" employees (both men and women), and decide for themselves what is fair. Men probably have a more skewed view of what they can do; and still fight for money which doesn't match their skills.

Having said that, I might have to justify whether my argument subtly implies that there are fewer women who are in the "truly outstanding" category. Fewer of them spent their youth in basements staring at terminals, compared to the countless male nerds. There are exceptions of course, but there is still a statistical anomaly.

I hope this doesn't come out as sexist. I am not comparing intellect, just choices.

Edit: Replaced "genius" with "truly outstanding".
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Example: We're running retargeting for an SaaS startup that gets a lot of airtime on HN, and they're snagging new users at less than $2/head. Once these folks get on board, they spend on average $40/year on the service. Our little team had a "f___ yeah" moment after the 4th day or so when we saw how well it was working. We're now hustling to hire folks to meet the demand coming from word of mouth.

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They probably should have it in their FAQ, though, if they don't.
Actually, I am still using the green N. Is there something new I should try?
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Yep, as simple as possible, no simpler. (NoSQL is another example)

I think a central source, like a database, needs to cater for every possible use in general (which the relational model does); but if you're doing something very specific, it's crazy wasteful to do it with full generality.

I am curious if someone can work out how to make a simple API that is also fully general (I think it has to be equivalent to the relational model - but it's early days yet).
I'm confused. Was this an objection to your terminology, or just to hearing you criticize someone? Either one is totally preposterous, but I'm sitting here trying to imagine how someone could find the phrase 'dropped the ball' as offensive. Was it perceived as innuendo or something? Really now?
Right. That's a good summary.

My broader question was: As more time shifts toward mobile, will the dominant social network be something created first for mobile, or will it be Facebook?

So far, FB mobile feels like a pretty unimaginative port of their website, and not the sort of thing that was imagined first for mobile.

Will that be enough, will Facebook change things up, or will it be disrupted by something mobile-first?
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