skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Part of what makes social gaming "higher quality" is the number of people you can play against. You could make the argument that a Zynga game is "higher quality" because it has more people playing it (due to better distribution).
"We define a monthly active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebook through our website or a mobile device, or took an action to share content or activity with his or her Facebook friends or connections via a third-party website that is integrated with Facebook."
Not at all. You can see this theory played out on sites like Armor Games, a platform where a new game launches directly in front of a huge audience and in its first days either:

- it'll get a crap rating and 10s of thousands of plays

- it'll get a great rating and hundreds of thousands or even millions of plays

Ultimately they succeed or not based on their own merit, having a ton of traffic to throw at them just helps it happen faster.
Done. (:
Or there's a shade of grey, where patents and IP are a useful idea, but the current implementation in certain areas (e.g. IT) are broken and need reform. Most people here don't seem to be purely black or white on this one.
I was a CS major / D1 athlete and I'd have to say it's not entirely unrealistic -- while there is the dumb jock stereotype, a lot of college athletes have a pretty good work ethic due to a good training ethic. Though some end up with just a party ethic

Just before my senior year, I was able to help co-found a startup as well (which is now 4 years running), while competing at a national level

But yes, there were only 4 or 5 engineers among ~50 guys. I think it's more that a lot of the people who lean towards engineering in high school are usually not the athletic type -- though I suppose this article is more about the athletic types interested in engineering
I've been under the impression that Israel only has liberal immigration for certain demographics. Is this not the case?
Amen! There are good reasons why Google's [1] and Mozilla's [2] C++ style guides frown on C++ features like exceptions, RTTI, iostreams, and static objects.

I read an anecdote that Bill Joy has a "copy of Bjarne Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language in which he's highlighted all the sections that Java programmers don't need to concern themselves with." I wonder what a C++-compatible subset language would look like if someone just deleted code from a C++ grammar. Rather than writing style guides and lint scripts, just whittle down a C++ compiler's front-end. :)

[1] https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide....

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=en/C%2B%2B_Por...
Kodak was once the most successful company in the US but when the digital era came, their business flank and many employees lost their jobs. I agree with that innovation is not enough, adaptability is also important. Another vital thing in a company is that they should know their focus because it will serve as their guiding star along the way.

When a company has focus, they know where they are going and when changes come, they know how to innovate and to adapt.

I hope Kodak will have another chance.
Also out of curiousity, did your 200k come from facebook ads or from your facebook community (fanpage)? I would think that in the apparel business future engagement would be relevant, ie seasonal lines, sales, etc.
I think some of the confusion comes from people who haven't tried Tiny Tower and are judging purely based on the name and a few screenshots. My original reaction to hearing about TinyTower was "Great, finally a SimTower remake!" Gameplay-wise, though, they couldn't be more different. SimTower is a complex simulation game in which the design of the tower and how it runs is largely up to the player. Tiny Tower is firmly in the "social skinner box" genre, where most of the game plays itself, and random chance and waiting are core mechanics. The graphics are largely incidental to gameplay. Tiny Tower and SimTower have the same setting, but are not similar games.
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If you criminalize lobbying, won't it simply move to the backstage (like it does in every country where it is a crime)?

On a related example from the past, how well did criminalizing alcohol work?
For a perspective from CPU designers, checkout the talk given at Standford by Bob Colwell on Feb 18, 2004. It is about half way down this page titled "Things CPU Architects need to think about":

http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ay0304.html

Bob lead the Pentium Pro effort all the way through the Pentium 4. The talk is funny, fascinating, includes history (like how pointless that change was that led to the Pentium FDIV bug), how the Itanium was approved, change, bugs and many other things.

In the Q&A session at the end, one of the questioners is Dave Ditzel who headed Transmeta.
Very very very nice. I've been thinking of doing something similar for RSS feeds in general.
You guys seriously kick ass.
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just added comment count and linking to hn. for now it's just the front page of hn, which hopefully is the most interesting content of the moment.
My interpretation: Google for your intended usage; if it seems novel, good. Make sure you document so the next person who Googles for it sees you're already semantic-squatting on that name in context.

Not pretty for those who like certainty and formality, but very in tune with how things can work with global search.
I took it to mean one of the side effects of Web 2.0 is increased familiarity with massively parallel computation.
maybe so, but Bloomberg is the dominant player in most of the markets it operates in. Perhaps with this initiative Bloomberg is looking to embrace new markets as some of their previous cash cows continue to struggle as debt markets can't seem to put 2008 behind them. Empirasign is a market data company whose focus is transaction prices for OTC MBS transactions. We currently license our market data to Bloomberg for internal use. Our raw data is a series of email messages, and the output is basically one big table whose key index is the Blomberg Ticker--which thanks to Open Symbology (bysm.bloomber.com) is license free. One new market that comes to mind for Bloomberg is online ad rates. If I were starting a new finance start-up today, I'd focus on gathering transaction prices for online ads, organize them into some form that made sense to finance types, and publish this data to Bloomberg via their API. Now you have two take-out bids: One in the tech space, and the other in the finance arena. Anyone interested in this, message us: info@empirasign.com.
Thank you for the feedback. We wanted to get a MVP out as soon as possible so we can start getting feedback on the idea. Unfortunately, we haven't had time to add all the information about who we are and how to contact us. We will correct that in the coming weeks.
What about the great games that never get onto Armor Games? You could have made the best game in the world but if you don't know how to get it on Armor Games or similar sites you won't have a business success, in fact the crappy game that did get on Armor Games will have done better. In your example Armor Games has all the power.
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Thanks, I appreciate the clarification.

I had no idea there was a service to stream the entire market to your desktop. my mind is blown.
Very nice work with MacGap. I've been following Spine for a while, finally integrating it into my projects as of late and loving it. Always nice to see something new from ya.
©2008 Google

Forgive my ignorance, but why don't companies program the copyright year to automatically update?
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How do I report a security vulnerability to you guys?
Here you go:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196377

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3239815
Stop lying about your build.
Agreed, I loved Sim Tower as a kid, it was quite deep. I was excited when I heard about Tiny Tower via this news, only to realize that it was more Farmville than deep strategy.
Nice implementation, but Pinterest works well from a UX perspective because it's visually oriented and scanning scattered visuals works. Scanning scattered text, however, is harder than scanning a list :-(

Definitely time well spent learning JavaScript though so it will be cool to see it improve.
Just as an FYI -- That's not Photoshop. It's Illustrator.

Use Photoshop for pushing individual pixels around (ie Photos), and Illustrator for Vector art (ie - drawing on a tablet)
is it possible that google.com also includes subdomains like plus.google.com?
> With no background knowledge, a client can do a GET request on the root URL to get a list of resources with URLS. It's easy to dive right in and quickly figure out what is available.

Where is that specified for REST? I don't remember it from Fielding's paper, and I've seen plenty of self-described RESTful services that aren't even remotely discoverable.

More than that though, service discovery is a very old concept and not anything new that REST brought to the table.
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I like to shoot for heavily down-votable comments every now and then. Gives my account a bit more "flavor" ;-)
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Twenty weeks down to twenty minutes
thanks, i think it's makes browsing RSS feed type content easier on the eyes.
You do realize the entire banking system is not built with the idea of ACID/transactional databases in mind? You only really need durability guarantees to implement banking properly. Bank accounts are eventually consistent logs of immutable transaction data which are reconciled in batch.
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"wealth_created:income_earned ratio is still exceptionally high."

i say his ratio is 1:1 - some people have negative (that is, they suck wealth out of the system). Most, normal hardworking people have a ratio of 1:1
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thanks, good point. i will be adding visuals, continuing my JavaScript learning spree. any recommendations on using js to take snap shots?
Interesting, I never had those connotations myself but see it repeated a few times in this thread

When we set out to put together our media plan / SEO we researched all the varieties of keywords / etc and were surprised to see how far out ahead "webinar" is from "online meeting" / "online seminar" / "screen sharing" / etc

eg:

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=webinar,+online+meeting,+onl...
> Developers understand HTTP.

Actually, prior to REST, most developers didn't even know about PUT/DELETE/etc. which are key operators that RESTful services are supposed to exploit.

Most developers also have shockingly poor understandings of all kinds of aspects of the HTTP protocol (headers, which ones are important, semantics of the various verbs, pipelining, multipart MIME/server push/etc., they typically know at best a handful of error codes that make sense in a RESTful context...).
totally and i think it's just another good way websites can present their "snackable" content.
Your question was is distribution enough and Armor Games highlights that it's not because they have tons of traffic + transparency on the plays and ratings + new games are given an equal opportunity.

As far as succeeding without a huge platform behind you... that's kind of a different argument, it happens a lot to a limited extent, a little to a significant extent, but most of the time games just fail. Same as startups.
The alternative, Google turning a blind eye to its own domain, would be far worse.
This is just exasperating.

For all the work they're putting into creating a copyright regime, they could do build their own netflix and put everything on it, charge $10/month and fix their piracy problem like that.

Makes me wonder if they sort of enjoy being the evil villain in this whole thing.
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Why didn't Dijkstra like Lisp?
It's possible: https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas

But.. I'm not sure it's going to work out too well. You'd probably do better off using a service like http://webthumb.bluga.net/home but it gets complicated quickly (although it's been a cpl years since I looked into this so things may have come along).
don't put your guilt shit on us, I used to volunteer with youth organizations and that's how it goes. The parents are smart enough to trick this guy into watching after their children.
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Ads.

Our suppliers/vendors have exclussive right to brand management.
I'm a big fan of Derick Bailey's stuff.

He has a framework on top of Backbone called Marionette that is well documented and makes handling large apps much easier:
https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.marionette

He then builds an email client app with it:
https://github.com/derickbailey/bbclonemail

And has a ton of great articles on backbone:
http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/category/backbone/

Definitely worth following his work.
Just another pretty face: Professor investigates prosopagnosia
Spirulina Pasifica
Spirulina merupakan tumbuhan air mikroalga (Cyanobacteria) berbentuk spiral, bersel satu yang telah ada sejak 3.5 milyar tahun yang lalu dan telah dikonsumsi oleh suku Aztec kuno di Mexico sejak 5 abad yang lalu. Terdapat ± 2000 jenis Spirulina di dunia, dari berbagai penelitian diketahui bahwa spirulina dari species platensis merupakan spirulina yang aman untuk dikonsumsi dan memiliki nilai gizi yang tinggi.

Spirulina pacifica merupakan spirulina dari strain pacifica yang di produksi oleh Cyanotech di Hawaii, USA. Setiap tahunnya Cyanotech menghasilkan 350 ribu ton spirulina pacifica. Jika dibandingkan dengan spirulina yang dibudidayakan di tempat lain Spirulina pacifica yang dibudidayakan di Hawaii memiliki kandungan betakaroten yang lebih tinggi.
Because that would basically make the year meaningless.
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If they filed for an IPO today, how long will it be until their shares are actually available to an average investor?
The problem with that is people don't care about clones, they care about quality. If you love tower defense games you are going to love a heap of them that are more similar than different. If you love physics puzzle games then there's a virtual orgy of same-games out there waiting for you (eg http://physicsgames.net/ ... there's like 3 or 4 games there, done dozens of times).

All Zynga has to do is get a same-game in the charts or viral and they get new users.
Is this documentation generated from something like docco (http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/) or pycco (http://fitzgen.github.com/pycco/)?

Would love to do something similar. Is the project open source? Or could you write a blog post about your documentation setup?

Great work! Webhooks are the best.
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Does not work for me because Dropbox is blocking the image & video due to high bandwidth consumption: http://i.imgur.com/omLAq.png
Whoops, I meant to make this comment on the Twitter Bootstrap story, not this one ("Beautiful Buttons").

Is Twitter Bootstrap a website theme, or is it intended to be a framework that you can style in multiple ways?
The first two examples that come to mind of what I would deem "good" APIs are:

* GitHub: http://developer.github.com

* Stripe: https://stripe.com/docs/api

Both are easy-to-use and very well documented. The examples listed in Stripe's actually work - they're hooked up to a test account, so you can copy-paste into your terminal and start interacting with it immediately.

-- Edit --

To give you an example of a bad API: I'm currently working with a large corp's API, and it's just awful. It's horrendously slow (10+ second response times); everything hits a single URL; the HTTP status of the response is always 200; node names in the response are misspelled and trncated awkwardly; the documentation is virtually non-existant; some response nodes provide inaccurate information. The list goes on.
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A portfolio is one all-important marketing/advertising piece that is necessary for every graphic designer, web designer, home interior decorator, fashion designer, lawn and garden caretaker, and anyone else who provides a tangible service to clients.
The year is supposed to be the first year the work was created. You can do 2008-2012 if you want though (and let the end year automatically update). But since that's the assumption if you don't include the end year, there isn't any reason to do it.
I'm interested to hear why you wouldn't buy into that structure - is it a concern w/ Zuckerberg himself or an aversion to any situation where a single entity has majority voting rights?
Passion + Process » Process for the Enterprise
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awesome, i'm looking into both right now
I am an IT guy working in Sales right now. I like the challenges in sales and I am inclined towards a goal oriented assignment just like this.
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Trello, right now. Very pleased with it.
I believe the genesis of this line of quotes is Walt Disney.

http://startupquote.com/post/859040744
Ask HN: Anyone looking to pickup a python intern?
I was curious if there are any startups looking for free labour for experience?

(Telecommute opportunities)
I have a full time job so this would be a nights and weekends gig for me.
For Clojure specifically, the Rainbow Parens addon for vim is fantastic. Also I've found using GNU screen to split a terminal with one half vim and the other half a REPL to be Good Enough for a lot of purposes.

I was also going to mention a few other useful Lispy things you can do with vim (like d% to delete an expression), but this page covers them pretty well: http://cybertiggyr.com/15-vim/
1) This is in the works.

2) We are currently not P2P but that is one direction that we are considering for a future complementary product. We have done some calculations and believe that it is possible to make service economically viable (even with free basic usage) but it remains to be seen if we are right.

3) Unfortunately, it is not possible to implement a sharing application purely in Flash because it does not provide the necessary calls as far as we know. Our goal is to remove the pain from viewing so an iPhone/iPad/Android version would fit in with our goals.

4) Thanks for the pointer.

Thanks for all the feedback!
The killer model would be Facebook implementing AdSense like product on websites across all the Internet ...

1) They have users logged in all the time ... they can serve targeted ads (e.g. gender based ads)
2) AdSense is monopolizing the market now
Facebook © 2012

The content of Facebook wasn't first created in 2012, so I'm not sure if you're correct. In fact, I've noticed that the majority of sites don't include a date-range. Regardless, thanks for the info.
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That's an interesting idea for certain types of applications.

It seems as though you would need to specify what groups of attributes need to be modified atomically. Say you have a user model, for example; an address comprised of multiple fields should probably be modified as a unit, but the address and email could be modified simultaneously. This might correspond to how you would logically divide your models anyway. Merges could then be allowed as long as these units are intact.

Doing this while maintaining usability seems like a tremendous challenge, however, and I'd love to hear ideas for doing this in a way that's painless for the user, especially when there are dependencies between models.
Pinterest = No Unit Tests
One of the Pinterest engineer admitted at a tech talk that they have no unit tests. Instead, they only test stuff by "clicking buttons in the browser." For a site of that size, I was a bit surprised. How common of a practice (not having tests) is it for large sites?
I wonder how long until this is ported to something other then windows. None-Officially.
I had it explained to me that they have to take a salary to be eligible to receive company perks, such as a company car, travel expenses, etc. Therefore they take a nominal salary of $1 so that they are officially on the payroll and are receiving a salary, and hence can receive all the other perks and benefits through the company.
It's the same thought of "It's execution that matters, not ideas" that rubs me the wrong way too -- a lot of VCs and successful entrepreneurs seem to promote this saying.. justifying (to themselves) of these less than ethical behaviours.
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Funny, I was just looking around for a task/diary tool. Thanks to the commenters, I looked at Trello. So far, it's fits pretty well with my needs. And it's free (at least for 1 or 2 users)..
> "Most of the insane growth (in profit as well as valuation) has already been squeezed out."

I would amend that to say: most of the easy growth has been squeezed out. But there's still a huge opportunity for Facebook to grow revenue/profit if they switch to using personal data to make well-directed ads they can push to sites using Facebook Connect and/or if they can roll out a solid first-party Facebook-phone. [1]

Those are both far trickier than "grow Facebook", so it does make sense to capture some returns now. But I think it would be short sighted to write their future prospects off entirely.

[1] They could quite possibly fork Android and do to Google in the phone market what Amazon is doing to the tablet market. And they'd be crazy not to try.
Linkbait title -> page views -> ad impressions -> money, cash, hos
You might not need ACID during the recording of each charging transaction; however, without ACID, you won't be able to correctly apply each transaction against your account balance during the reconciliation batch processing. Marking each charging record as charged and updating your account balance must be in one transaction, whether relying on the database transaction support or building your own transactional log.

So at the end of the day (yes end of the day processing), ACID is needed.
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If you stole money from me, I sued you and won the lawsuit, and then published an article about how you stole from me, that could be construed as being libelous?
100% agree. Even for interests, search is better. Google has a decade of my search history and much of my browsing history (via analytics). Even conversion history - what have I bought? FB has much less insight into my interests because there have been far fewer opportunities to learn about me.
Didn't Facebook just update their website thus having a new copy write?