skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's really slick! Any plans to license the software for use in other products? It would make a great addition to some help desk software...
To be fair, he said multiple billion in profit not revenue. Still has some ways to go.
All of your compensation is in stock and worth the stock price.

1) It looks good to investors: you've got to believe in it if your worth is in the stock, for instance most of Bill Gates net worth is in Microsoft stock and it would look bad if he sold it all,

2) You pay lower taxes: capital gains vs income, not to mention

3) it sounds good in the press and when people say it
Good thing it's not called Hackerbook then.

That's also a rather problematic conclusion to draw due to (a) sample size, (b) overgeneralization, and (c) the survey was framed as "will you buy"...so maybe they just don't play stocks, or have to pay off medical bills, or what have you.
It all boils down to whether you're starting a new project/binary. If you are, go with the new and leave all the backwards-compatible crap behind. If you aren't, then this article will speak to you. I also wouldn't want to be in your shoes.
So I had more than 110 viewers at one point, and also screenleaped into someone else who was screeleaping my screenleap: http://yfrog.com/z/oe15628524p

The product was effortlessly easy to run. Obviously there was a usage overload but otherwise, people were able to watch me Tweet and screenleap into other people's screenleaps in real time (and also watch me scroll through cat gifs). Extremely well done, bravo!
People complain when they take too big of a salary and complain when they take $1...

Can't make people happy.
Edited appropriately. Please excuse my ignorance, then. I've only recent began looking at Rust, but I've been playing with Go for some time now. Will have to spend more time with Rust (if only there were more than 24 hours in a day...)
You need to buy them on the day they IPO. You will not be able to buy it at the IPO price but at the price of the first minute of trading.

On top of that, "a couple of hundred €" is probably not enough money. The fees to buy stocks on the Nasdaq is usually in the tens of euro. You'll probably have between 10 and 50 euros of fees at the cheaper online trading platforms.

You can also call your traditional bank to buy the stocks but the fees would probably be higher.
I'm thinking of github but not sure if there is a big community of salesforce.com developers there.
Brand logos as interpreted by a 5-year-old (video)
Less tax impact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary
A small tidbit. FB paid Zuck $783,529 (3) in "other" compensation from his base 500k salary.

(3) The fine print.... The amount reported represent approximately $692,679 for costs related to personal use of aircraft chartered in connection with his comprehensive security program and on which family and friends flew during 2011.

Like a boss.
Yeah. Sleep medicine is a subfield of neurology.
That's not a list of top shareholders (despite the headline). I think they only need to report the holdings of officers, directors, and anyone with more than 5%. Sean Parker does not fall into any of those categories, so they don't report his ownership.
Tips for telling your boss about your side project
A year or two ago I had a good idea for a small startup in the same industry as my day job. I told my boss about the idea but we just haven't had the resources to execute it -- we have a ton of stuff pending on our existing projects. So, I've been working on it at home at night and on the weekends, and it's been pretty exciting so far.

I'd like my bosses support (at least some degree of it) and I want to be honest with him about the project. I don't intend to quit. Since our company does some investments in other companies, my ideal scenario would be if he gives me company resources to further develop it, in exchange for some equity.

Has anyone been in this situation before? What would be the best way to tell him about my project? What should I avoid saying?
Is there any way to download this when I don't own an iOS device?
The reason that Israeli schools and American schools differ, stem from the fact that originally, Israel needed fast results.

in 1948, Israel started getting boat loads of Jewish immigrants (a lot of them just out of the holocaust and uneducated). Additionally they were at war and trying to build a country fast. So instead of going for liberal arts and such, the college education is much more direct and to the point. So after 3-4 years, these people can go out and help the new county.

This is also seen in the fact that majors are picked in High School also, to further pinpoint what you are going to do for the society, and then get it done.
For me the interesting stats are the staggering numbers of engagement the Facebook platform has. 845 million users who've used Facebook the last 30 days, 483 million users who use it _daily_ and 2.7 billion Likes and Comments every day.

For me this is not really about Facebook's stats, but revealing how incredible the next 10-20 years are going to be with internet facilitating this kind of activity on one smart platform. (and it's just the start)
Can I just trade in my exceptions for Maybe or Either? It's already possible to do both of these things, the trouble is that I have to use other people's code that uses exceptions.
This is what moderators are for.
The story was about revenue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=689712

It's hard to believe that a fb board member could make more accurate revenue predictions than random people with strong opinions commenting on HN ;)
Hyphen Class Post-Mortem
Great to read opinions about software from three years ago.
State Dept to start using Google Chrome
I think it's the lack of basic algebra mastery in high school that makes college math so frustrating.
I never managed to find how do I revert changes in a file with git

I'm not sure why anyone should think this hard to do. When you do "git status" it even tells you how to do it:

git checkout -- myFile

That will replace any changes to myFile that haven't been checked in yet with the most recent version that was checked in. If you want to go back to an older version, you can do

git checkout a2791d14adf3 myFile

where that funky number is any unique prefix of the commit identifier that "git log" shows you.

Well, that's if you haven't "staged" your changes. If you've staged the changes, you have to "reset" the staging for the file first. I admit that this staging thing is a bit confusing, so I rarely stage anything. There's no reason that you need ever "stage" anything in Git if you don't want to, so I'm not sure that that bit of extra complexity is worth worrying about.
Probably to receive stock options in compensation. Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt have also done the same. They seem to be exempt from payroll taxes in the United Sates.

[1]: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001193125060...
Horror!
Leaked Zynga Memo Justifies Copycat Strategy
Unlike a ton of sites and apps coming out these days, I can actually see how this will make money. Nice work.
One of the interesting gems in this filing is at the very end, it details stock grants for acquisitions so you can infer the running rate of talent acquisitions. So for example, "On February 28, 2011, we issued 681,357 shares of our Class A common stock as consideration to a company in connection with our purchase of certain assets from the company." You can cross reference these with news and correlate approximate acquisition cost based on the estimate value of price per share assuming, say, a valuation of $100 billion. So I'm guessing that the company I mentioned is Octazen and assuming a $100 billion valuation (~$50 per share), this comes out to about $35 million (assuming an entirely stock acquisition - note that Facebook spent, for example, $20 million aggregate in cash on acquisitions in 2010).
Facebook is heavily (heavily!) reliant on display advertising, all of which is a) challenged by the switch of its userbase to mobile, and b) going to hit critical mass eventually. No matter how smart you make display advertising, there's still a cap on how much you can foist onto users before you piss them off.

IMO, Facebook's future depends on two things:

1) Figuring out how to serve up contextually relevant ads on mobile platforms in a nonintrusive and, ideally, useful way.

2) Figuring out how to serve up contextually relevant ads outside of Facebook, to Facebook Connect-backended partner sites and apps. (Sort of like an AdSense/AdWords hybrid, but based on very intelligent user-interest and browsing data).

I'm betting on #2's being the runaway breadwinner for Facebook in the long run. The longterm strategy seems to be to reduce reliance/dependence on Facebook.com in favor of Facebook Connect.
Salt Lake City, UT. - http://www.lucidchart.com

LucidChart is an HTML5 diagramming application that proves web apps don't need to be pale imitations of their full-featured desktop counterparts. Real-time collaboration and full versioning history aren't our only advantages; users tell us they like LucidChart because it's faster, easier, and smoother than Visio and Omnigraffle.

We need great engineers who want to work in a Silicon Valley startup, but would rather live 15 minutes from the ski resorts in Utah. We have one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet supporting LucidChart's client, and are using Scala, PHP, node.js, MongoDB, and MySQL to power our servers. Experience in one or more of these areas is helpful, but we're most interested in people with inhuman problem solving skills.

We currently have 9 full-time employees, including 6 engineers. That ratio reflects the focus of our organization -- we are a software company, and we live or die on the strength of our engineering team. We think we have the strongest engineering team in Utah, and want to add at least 3-5 people this year.

All hires are made by unanimous decision of the current team. If you join us, you can know that everyone here wants you here.

Send resumes, github profiles, or whatever else might be relevant to jobs at lucidchart dot com.
Los Gatos, CA Netflix

Looking for Senior SREs.

Basically, we're acting like a new company to take streaming global and make it so convient that it is better than the free options.

I'm looking for people to help make sure that any time someone wants to find and play a movie, they can.

We're solving lots of really interesting problems, like how do you maintain a reliable service on hardware that is unreliable and you don't control (Amazon Web Services).

Our group also gets to help teach other groups how to build for scale.

Come join me!

You can get more info here: http://jobs.usethesource.com/item?id=166

Or here: http://www.reddit.com/comments/jyaqd/

Or here: http://www.netflix.com/Jobs?id=7563&jvi=olLGVfwr
The original videos were the first screencast series I ever finished. Being fairly new to server-side development, I often get distracted around the 4th or 5th videos in these learning series. Yours were captivating to me because I was actually building an application or learning a development process every step of the way. Sometimes tutorials wander too far off into the theory mid-way and I start to lose focus.

It started to be hard for me to keep up around the middle of chapter 6 when authentication is introduced, but with the new built-in authentication now, I imagine I'll have a better time keeping up this go around.

I can't wait for you finish!
Use what works for your situation. Evaluate each thing on its merits.
High-Powered Plasma Turns Garbage Into Gas
There's nothing magic about interoperability - its all about the architecture and the documentation. XML isn't an architecture, it's a tagged data format. I cannot understand your line of argument about how the two are related.

Similarly, to suggest that HTTP hasn't proven itself (compared to what?) or that "innovations" of the web existed decades ago (really!?) is nonsensical to me. It's the most widely deployed application protocol on Earth. It handles billions of dollars of transactions.

You claim the web is unreliable. I think that's a layer error. The issue is that networks are unreliable. That's not something one can paper over.
I spent almost as much time learning advanced C++ as I did unlearning it and going back to KISS. Even then, I still had to deal with code from people who were stuck in the advanced stage.
I was thinking the same thing. Considering they have ~42% of all users (assuming the billion internet user estimate) there is only so much growth available from relying on their current model of acquiring users and serving ads to them.

I would imagine a next logical step would be to expand its ad network beyond facebook (i.e. serve facebook ads outside of facebook itself), it would allow for a significant jump in growth potential while staying close to their core competency.
You usually don't have to think about schema. This is the exception, but there are quite a few things you CAN represent with a nested document.

You usually just make an object in whatever format your app wants, save it, and you can write query against it.
Facebook S-1 on Scribd + A Letter From Mark
If you are logged on Facebook, never go on the website but still see the like-button that are scattered all around the web, do you count as an "monthly active user" ?
The pitfalls of the Facebook IPO
Art Hack Day
I thought this link looked familiar. I glanced through this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3538134

And then found this comment from SomeOtherGuy2 some 3 hours prior:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3538581

Not that I can really complain; it's good to give these drafts some visibility, but I do wonder a bit about the timing of this post.
It's not just you. This made me laugh: "Let us think about the big ideas behind Go: It is simple, clean and has garbage collection." Enough said, really!
Thanks Andrew. This is great work!
when it goes wrong, which it does regularly.

What do you mean by "it goes wrong"? Do you mean the LESS parsing engine fails? Because I've used LESS extensively and it's never happened once. If you mean "my code was incorrect" then yes, LESS errors could be more descriptive. But it's hardly world-ending stuff.
جلسة مجلس الشعب اليوم بالفيديو 2012-2-2 ومناقشة احداث الاهلي والمصري
Join.me does have an iPad and iPhone app... but this is a lot easier.
I've described object-oriented programming[1] where each object in the system has a URL.

[1] The Smalltalk variety of OOP which is about encapsulation, message passing, and extreme late binding.
Why is iPhone video sharing so Fing hard? Join Socialcam to solve this problem
Hello,

For the first time ever there are over 100 million people in America with video cameras in their pockets 24/7. Yet, when you ask your friend or neighbor how to share a video from their smartphone, the most common response is "I don't know".

What's even worse is that the apps on everyone's phones (Facebook, Youtube, and Camera) make video sharing so painful. The camera app attaches unnamed 20mb videos to emails! Requiring downloads and proprietary video players in the post Youtube era is ridiculous.

The companies behind these apps - Google, Apple, and Youtube - hate each other and have no incentive to work together to build a mobile video product that people want.

Thats where we come in!

At Socialcam - our goal is to build the default video app for your smartphone. We've already gotten a head start (3m downloads) but we want to move even faster.

We are a team of three co-founders (2 engineers and 1 business guy) with experience (lead video engineer from Justin.tv, lead rails engineer from Justin.tv, and former CEO of Justin.tv) funding, great advisors (YC, Founders Den, etc.) and tons of drive.

If you are interested in building the next huge online video company drop us a line - founders@socialcam.com

- Michael, Ammon, Guillaume
Can any of the Stripe team comment on when you'll be launching support for UK businesses ?
Fin: A commandline personal finances manager
Who will make the best PaaS this Sunday? Tweet your guess, win a Kindle Fire...
Tweet with hashtag #SuperPaaSGiants or #SuperPaaSPats to support your team, and share your guess on the score.

Encourage your buddies to do the same, because the closest prediction wins a Kindle Fire from CloudBees.
Who Owns Facebook
Stripe has been amazing for us. We've even gotten emails from them (most recently Saikat!) about how we were accidentally hitting their API twice. They helped us find a bug. No other company I've integrated with us paid that close attention to such matters. We've changed our internal usage of Stripe many times (from doing lots of recurring work with various plans and invoice item adding) to just doing simple charges and it's worked great every time.

We're quite proud of our Stripe-powered CC form on Picplum! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/186198/Screenshots/t26p.png
The Letter from mark has to be the coolest part.

http://theairspace.net/commentary/letter-mark/

The Hacker Way has grown up and lambasted Wall St.
How is your script determine which files had been updated previously?
Alzheimer’s Spreads in the Brain Like a Virus
Zynga accounted for $445M, or 12 percent of Facebook’s revenue, in 2011
It sounds like someone should make him or her a cheatsheet with the 3 commands that he needs to know.
Clearly this post is a response to the Bad RESTful API post earlier. Every so often, a good link comes out of a comment and becomes a post on its own.
Are you saying SOAP won't tell you it doesn't understand if you send a bad message?
The key information is on page 54-55: Why the massive jump in Q4 2011 revenue over Q3? It looks like there is a seasonality factor, but their explanation only covers Q4 2010, to Q4 2011.

This is going to be a super volatile stock. If there Q1 2012 revenue is flat QoQ, this is probably a $50B company, if it is up 15%, then this is probably a $100B company.
The key information is on page 54-55: Why the massive jump in Q4 2011 revenue over Q3? It looks like there is a seasonality factor, but their explanation only covers Q4 2010, to Q4 2011.

This is going to be a super volatile stock. If the Q1 2012 revenue is flat QoQ, this is probably a $50B company, if it is up 15%, then this is probably a $100B company.
Learn jQuery in 30 Days - Free Email Video Course
Reading this document makes me think Facebook don't know what's happening inside their own company. Facebook from all behavioural indications have been focused on maximizing short-term spend per advertiser rather than the long term revenue per user. Yet that doesn't seem to be reflected at all in their filing.
I agree. I think people who know C++ and people who do not know C++ will have very different attitudes toward the evolution of C++. I sunk a lot of effort into C++ when it was the best game in town for a lot of things, so I'm excited to see one of the sharpest tools in my toolbox get a little sharper. If you must write C++ code (or C code, since it's easier to write C++ instead) then by all means you should learn C++ in all its gory mud-ballness, and you will have an extremely powerful weapon at your disposal which is much easier and safer to wield than you might imagine. On the other hand, I think anyone who doesn't already know C++ should avoid the investment of learning it if possible, and we should welcome new languages that relieve more and more people of that burden.
Taking apart a hard drive the proper way
The 'phones ont the desk behind the Embody appear to be Sennheiser HD 202.

http://www.sennheiser.com/sennheiser/home_en.nsf/root/privat...
No we won't freeze, close, or withdraw money from people's accounts. Once it's open, it's open. Once the money is cleared, it doesn't go back. This is an ironclad promise we can make to users because of the unique way we process payments. Right now the model for peer-to-peer transactions is that after one party gets paid the other waits for his merchandise or services to be delivered (eWork projects). We solved this problem by creating a system that will give equal distribution of control to both parties during the entire process, disincentivising fraud on both sides. The system is specifically designed for people who outsource projects, freelance workers, and cross border peer-to-peer e-commerce. It would simulate the benefits of a face-to-face interaction by solving the problems created by the distance and time usually involved in these types of exchanges.
Last I heard the Go compiler was generating code 6x or more slower than comparable C++ code. Is that not still true?
"It appears they would still be profitable without Zynga."

That assumes many of those Zynga users would still be on, or use Facebook as often, if it wasn't for Zynga or other games on the platform. The significant amounts of time spent on Facebook is due in large part to games and photos. That length of time on the platform helps to drive display ad revenue.
Facebook: A Look At Insider Ownership
If only they would come to Europe (or any European alternative would rise and stand up against Paypal).

They're an amazing and promising startup and I do hope they succeed soon in expanding across the ocean.
OK, I like this article because I've been using my CR48 solely since I received it.

Firstly, it is not a dual core machine; the production Samsung/Acers are, the CR48 is single core, hyperthreaded.

I went a similar path with Ubuntu; although I just created a new stateful partition and access the ChromeOS Kernel. This allows me to dual boot when needed. After 8 months, I can tell you, it is not needed. I code and it is just not possible in ChromeOS with the current webapps available.

I have considered switching to full Ubuntu because ChromeOS chose to use a 32bit kernel for whatever reason(compatibility?). However, the processor can't support more than 2GB ram, even with a 64bit OS so I'm open to opinions.

I haven't used the 3G card yet, so I can't speak on it. I am considering swapping it out for a Broadcom HD Decoder so I can watch 720p and hopefully 1080p videos without choppiness.

Did you notice a performance increase when you swapped to a larger HD?

As for battery life, ChromeOS is a little better, but with Ubuntu, I routinely get 7 - 8.5 hours. There are some Ubuntu tweaks for SSD drives that I've done as well. Out of the box Ubuntu is setup for platter drives.

Overall the CR48 has some quirks but is an awesome machine, and I love the design of it more than the production models. I was able to buy an extra one of Craigslist for $150 as a backup. The closest competitor I think is the Macbook air 13" which costs 9x more(!)
I only watched about 3 minutes, but I'm already floored by the amount of work and attention to detail that goes into concepts that eventually get scrapped. I respect the amount of... character? humility? experience? that it takes to spend hours on something, and still be able to look at it with a critical eye and be willing to give it up in favor of something better.
Power play: How Zuckerberg wrested control of Facebook from his shareholders
This is a great idea and very well implemented. I too would like to see an API of sorts. Maybe a white-label screen sharing service. Good luck!
#2 doesn't require them to do anything special, Facebook ads are driven off user demographics and not page context.
Migration from S3 to Rackspace Cloud Files (python script)
I couldn't find a tool to do the migration, so threw this quick script together to get the job done.
Any useful language is a freaking enormous ball of mud. Bjarne said: there are only two kinds of languages - the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
I'll explain further: I used it extensively for about 3 months on a project and ended up binning it and going back to plain CSS.

I experienced utterly unhelpful parse errors resulting in head scratching for literally hours. Small behavioral changes between versions resulting in broken CSS. Zero error checking in the code whatsoever. Completely 100% incompatible with some browser hacks.

Each of those, plus the non-portable learning curve eats time and therefore cash resulting in a net loss versus plain CSS.