skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One can legitimately be a terrorist and commit terrorism. The problem is that the popular definition of terrorism is so nebulous as to be useless.

We've charged as terrorists people who have attacked soldiers stationed in a foreign invader's military base (http://www.salon.com/2011/12/10/the_real_definition_of_terro... and http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000860.html for examples). Those are purely military targets attacked in wartime...

At the same time, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/27/breivik-not-terr...
Mike, a big part of the idea is trading within your social networks. This removes the layer of anonymity.
A long time ago, in a public school, the librarian reported me for using a "hacking program" called "FTP".
I'm one of them. I asked this same question in my team a few weeks ago: I got very similar sampling. The team is composed of 7 hackers (native code, embedded speech-related software). In other words, I tend to believe the results we're getting so far.
Does it really make sense, using an editor more than a year and still have trouble with rather basic functions?

Use an editor you can use right away and whose controlls don't contradicts with the rest of the software you use.

I don't believe in vim neither I don't belive in plain Emacs.

Just my 2 cents
True, but I wouldn't consider this terrorism. For me, the distinction between terrorism and general warfare is that terrorist acts are carried out by non-state actors (or people acting as proxies for a state). The war in Afganistan, the bombing of Japan, etc. was carried out clearly and explicitly by the United States government.

This is why I find the phrase 'terrorist government' to be absurd.
"People, mainly women at the moment, are creating mood/story boards which mostly contain pictures of products."

I keep hearing this, but I find it goes against my own experience on the site and that of other hardcore users that I know. Food, hair, nails, tattoos, quotes, amazing pictures, unique crafts/accessories (via Etsy), aspiration products, and amazing travel pictures yes. Anything being sold by a retailer seems few and far between.

If anyone knows of anything other than anectdotal evidence that users are actually actively pinning products, I'd be really interested to read more.
Huh?

Nobody is crying about loss of income. People taking GPL:d software and using it in closed products represents a loss of freedom, for the people using said products.
Actually, this kind of law does not make any sense. In the case of carrefour, since they are charging such high prices nowadays, what prevents a bunch of farmers to associate themselves and open their own mall to sell cheaper and regain market share? Nothing, absolutely nothing. They just can't be bothered.

Nothing? Never had any experience in retail business ownership, right?

For starters, because Carrefour has a HUGE cross country AND multi-national supply chain. Because of it's mass wholesale ordering it can assure killer prices and it also has money-to-burn in the bank. So, if they threaten it, it can lower it's prices for a while to compete, until it destroys them. They cannot afford do the same.

Second, Carrefour has the scale, which means it also has: thousands of other goods, exclusive deals, loss leaders, etc. Even if Carrefour couldn't compete on price (which it can, 200%), but had somewhat similar prices, it wouldn't make much sense for the buyer to spend gas plus time to go to two places just to buy some stuff cheaper in one, if he can get everything he wants in Carrefour.

Third, Carrefour with its size, get the lion's share of advertising. Which DOES matter.

Lastly, it's the bloody cost. It's another thing to open a retail outlet in a competitive environment, and totally another to open one where a few big mega-malls have saturated the market and killed everybody else. Uncertainty, and the ample opportunities for the big guy to crash you at will makes the move all too risk.

That's it, in a nutshell. Why you'd believe that the problem is that they haven't thought of it, or that they aren't "entrepreneurial" enough?

(Btw, such moves are even attempted in a lot of places with similar conditions. Very rarely they end well).
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The general consensus is not that IE was a bad thing in the long run. Perhaps nobody likes IE today, but that does not mean it's a bad thing at all. Certainly it was the impetus for Firefox being born and they introduced XmlHttpRequest. Those are important (and GOOD) things.

Also, Netscape certainly did not open source their product until they were thoroughly beaten in the market, ~1998. Before that, they were still trying to make money by selling the software. So, regardless of what you or anyone else says about why Netscape did it, we all know why they did it.
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Seems that just sharing...
I know it’s cool to make fun of Facebook, but you can’t doubt that they focus a heckuva lot on the user. Unlike Google, the advertiser is not the customer per se. Evidence of this: constant design changes to features (read: Pages) without pandering to a business’ request. Facebook’s message: adapt, or die.

Certainly not a bad company to invest in, regardless of perceived value.
What would you do if you were me?
I feel as if I'm stuck in a no-win situation in my career, and I'm wondering HN readers, what would you do if you were me?

Here's my story: I'm in my late 40s and have been involved in information technology professionally for my entire adult life (and even did board-level repair of early personal computers when I was in high-school). For the past 20+ years I've been involved in IT audit and information security as an auditor and consultant, and as an information security manager. I'm technical enough that I'm currently a security-architect / sales-engineer for a large telecommunications vendor. I've tried two startups in the past (mobile robotics and security consulting). Neither were overly successful, but I learned a lot. I currently live in the upper midwest, am married (for 20+ years), have three children (ages 12-18), and make a decent living. Sounds great, right? I should be happy.

Here's the problem: I'm not making anything! I'm not creating! I strongly feel I'm a "Maker", a "Developer", but I may have realized this too late.

During the evening, I program for fun (mostly Ruby on Rails, these days, but Lisp, Python, C, and micro-controller assembly in the past). I'm not the greatest programmer, mostly because I can only do it a few hours each week (let's say ~10 hours per week), but I can get by. And, I really enjoy it. So, I'd like to do more programming. And, I'd like to do another startup. I have SaaS B2B application in mind. But, it seems at my age it is going to be impossible to shift from my current career to a programming career or to do another startup because the lifestyle change (read "drop-in-income, at least for a while") will be intolerable, especially for my family. Does that mean I'm done? Game over? At this point, am I doomed to sitting on the side-lines and only watching or being a cheerleader to other developers and startups? What have other professionals who have been in my situation ("golden handcuffs") done to get around this? I've had a successful career (especially for someone who didn't complete college), but with three teenagers, it's not like I have a stash of cash available to make the transition.

What would you do if you were me?
I've never really felt comfortable in vi. I first started using it in 1989 at home, used it throughout college, and then used it on-and-off during my career, but it's never really felt powerful compared to a GUI editor.

I want a scrollbar. I want a list of files in my project that I can just click on to open. I want tabs I can click. I want multiple windows that I can alt-tab to. And since I spend most of my time thinking and modifying code, I'm more often than not thinking in terms of tweaks and copy/pasting between files rather than "replace in this block of 3 words". A mouse and GUI just feels a lot more natural to me, even after 20 years of vi.
TLDR; the €59/mo EX 4S scores higher (1729) than AWS m2.4xlarge (1511).
I don't follow - you're saying this poll is biased because of HN readers? I'd argue (though it isn't my poll) that it's purpose is not to find how many people in the world use Facebook, but to find out how many HN-type people use Facebook, meaning that hosting the poll on HN gets it answered by the exact target audience.
I actually have some sympathy for companies that are working solely in an industry like cartography, that have Google come in and offer the same service for free.

Yes, on the one hand, it forces the competitors to develop better products and justify charging for them. But on the other, Google is clearly using their billions made from search advertising to dominate another unrelated industry.

It was wrong when Microsoft did it, it's still wrong when Google does it.
I have it still but never login. Deleting is pointless because they delete nothing from their DB, and also some times its nice to have thing. Like login to stupid website which only accepts social networks login or identical "tons of info" registration. Or to "connect" facebook with Steam or some other platform for whatever reason (why they want it in the first place I wonder?).
If I read it right, he's satirizing the people who think copyright should be abolished.
I have one and I love it.

I find an enormous amount of hostility on HN towards facebook, even going so far as a lot of people proudly mentioning that they will never touch it. I don't see why it gets such scorn, I think its a wonderful site.

Some notes on my usage, though:

All of my privacy options are on the lowest possible setting. I treat anything that occurs on the site as if it were public. I don't see why not, I'm not going to pretend that photos of myself or my wall postings are anywhere near interesting enough to hide. In fact I'm not sure why people who put things on facebook want privacy at all. I never worry that something I say might be picked up on by the wrong person because I'd never say anything that I wouldn't want the world to hear.

To a shy person, the usefulness of the site is astronomical.

Among others I am friends with my boss, my mother, my little cousins. Facebook lets shy people like me keep in touch with a massive amount of people where I can write them the modern equivalent of letters very quickly and easily, as well as let them broadcast their life's updates to me. I can keep in touch with all manner of people. I love writing letters, people love getting letters. Facebook is not far off.

Without facebook, I'd have no idea cousin X is having a baby, or that Y is having apartment trouble that I can help them with, or that Z got a new game we can play together, or person A is considering selling their car, and so on.

If I meet someone at an event and really hit it off (romantically or not), I can go on facebook the next day and look them up by name and add them. No exchanging phone numbers or emails or anything like that. I just search for them and find them. In college it was enormously useful for making friends and I still find it useful now that I've graduated.

I made a page for my hometown (90K population city in NH). I broadcast events going on around the city (fireworks, beer festival, city meetings). In this way I help my community learn about the goings-on of the town. It's a surprisingly popular page (more popular than the local newspaper's facebook page).

I could go on, but this is probably enough to give those who don't use it an idea of why I enjoy it so much.
tylerwl, great idea. The select box on the homepage only shows cities that have posts. Since the site doesn't have many postings I thought this would be a better experience. This way users don't end up on blank city pages. Thx!
People often think that Information Theory provides an answer, but it doesn't really enlighten us about what information is and what its nature is.

Information theory provides a definition. That definition turns out to be an extremely useful abstraction in a lot of mathematical theorems, and to some extent matches the intuitions we have about information.

If there's a problem with the definition, and it doesn't match up with your idea of what information really is, then it's easy to come up with new definitions; if they're useful, they might even take off.

But it's very hard for a field to answer questions like "what is X, and what is its nature?", because it's not clear what kind of answer would suffice, for any value of X.
why and how do you deal with "other undesirables" ?
I find linkedin connections number to be a key when talking to recruiter. they dont really care who I connect to, but rather a number of connections seems to impress them. for that reason, I would add anyone to my network. Also - one person that you may not know on LinkedIn may be linked to someone you would love to know!
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I recently had to reactivate my long-dead account so I could develop apps on the Facebook platform. Otherwise, I prefer Twitter.
I had one many years ago but deleted it when they hit the fan regarding privacy. However, after the last update by Mark Zuckerberg about the improvements in Facebook privacy and the decision by FTC to regulate privacy made me change my mind.
I feel the same way, but I'd emphasize that interoperability won't happen by accident. We users need push for it and encourage competition. It's not that Facebook should lose, but that Google+, LinkedIn, Skype/MSN, and miscellaneous startups like Diaspora should also win.
You didn't specify an operating system, but for OS X there's KeyRemap4MacBook[1]. Among a zillion other things, it has a setting for "Ubiquitous Vim Bindings" which enables vi-like bindings everywhere, except in terminals, emacs, and vi itself. And some things like password dialog boxes default to insert mode.

I'm not a vi person myself so I can't comment on how effective it is, but I do use KeyRemap4MacBook to enable certain system-wide emacs/readline-like keybindings that are missing (C-w for backward-kill-word, C-m for return) and some ergonomic tweaks (Return key mapped to Control when held down, because I don't have a right-hand Control key on my keyboard).

[1] http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/
This makes a lot of sense to me now. I have been scratching my head at some obvious and simple things Facebook left out of their otherwise fantastic mobile applications on the platforms I use. Windows Phone has a great built-in Facebook client, but when I'm viewing my status, all I can see is how many people "Like"d it. To see who it was, I have to go to their website. Likewise, I can't add new friends from it. On WebOS (IMO the best Facebook client I've used, but I've never used the iPad app), it's fantastic but there's absolutely no Facebook Chat support anywhere in the entire OS. On Android, Facebook and Facebook Chat are two different apps. Both need to be running to get the "full" experience, and I'm sure there are still things missing.

It seems every platform is missing something, and it makes sense that they would deliberately give you basic functionality to use but require you hit their website for the full experience (and full ads). In a world of "apps just launch the website", Facebook is taking the opposite approach. Apps are the gateway drug to the full version.
Reading into this more: While we surely need an easier way to swipe for a subway ride, other than buggy MetroCards, why is .24% usage considered a success? Worth the cost?
What a joke of an article. "Google paid for lobbying a stance on SOPA. Could it have been /FOR/ SOPA?". No. No they weren't.

Its a shame that techcrunch has become this much of a tabloid.
I based it simply on the data that was available (see the link in the blog post).
If you need a CDN you most likely can afford to pay for one. No?
I mean even if you're just loading your images through S3 unless you're getting some crazy number of hits it's only going to cost you a few bucks a month. I'm all for CDNs however many people think that you need it (thanks to yslow and google) for a basic website and it's just not the case. if you're not under a high traffic situation that extra hop can actually make your site slower than if you just served the files from your server.

If you're on a php/database driven site (early on) I would be willing to wager that your optimization time would be better spent following that string. If your website can only handle 25 hit/s because you're killing MySQL with SELECT* FROM ALL type commands the CDN is not going to do you much good. After you're sure your code is optimized and you feel you need it, sure have at it! there are plenty of good CDNs out there.
I have a Facebook account, that I never use. It's not that I'm against it in theory, I'm just never compelled to use it. I created the account in 2006, then closed it from late 2007 to 2009. I re-opened it because I believe Facbook presents us with great oportunities and there's so much one can do now thanks to it.

Here we are, almost 3 years later, I have this mostly inactive account, with around 100 contact, most of them being people from my old high school or college.

I think I never get myself to use it because, despite the wealth of info it presents, it doesn't give me a practical way to use the data (REST anyone?).

I recently heard of the Graph API, so now I'm curious and excited again :)
I'm finding it useful already, thank you.
"for his users"

As is evident from his other postings, "his users" aren't "users", they are other Windows programmers inside of Microsoft, who generally ought to either know better, or be able to figure it out themselves since they have all the tools to do so. That latter one in particular seems to cause him some frustration.

If he doesn't write with the kid gloves on, it's because "users" in the sense you meant are probably not involved and it's nobody in here but us chickens.
The consensus when this was asked yesterday was "no", and my answer hasn't changed.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3529968
But vi has been ported to just about anything, so why wouldn't you use it?
That's ridiculous. How can they be punished for something you think they might do?
Even if you don't use facebook, you should probably have an account to see the mechanics of it. It's mind boggling how a product is able to attract 800 million people, with 50% of the users logging in on any given day. There's something to learn here.
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She changed jobs in April 2010, arguably with more responsabilities : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/molly-graham/6/658/a50
> All of this, except the 20 minutes part. I'd hate
> to have to spend that much time with one of these
> "enlightened" editors.

Did you have this same resistance to learning when you learned the languages you are presumably programming in?

"I'd hate to have to spend 20 minutes with Ruby, just let me describe my program in 'real' language please."
It is very nice to have a tab for each of your files.

Until you have twenty files open and you can't find the right one (will happen sooner than you think, at least on largeish projects).
Not really a bad ending. The feds have no case against him, MIT and JSTOR aren't going to sue him, and JSTOR decided that releasing their archive was a good idea. Hopefully the FBI will drop their case.
What would make me switch? If I could still access all the Facebook info without using Facebook. That would make me switch.
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I just switched from ViM to emacs (mostly for SLIME) after about 6 years of ViM usage, it wasn't a big deal at all, both are great.
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I have a LinkedIn account and all I ever do on it is accept incoming connection requests. Other than that, I never ever use it for anything. Except maybe once a year to see if guy X who left the company found a new job yet.

Many connection requests are recruiters over here, too. I ignore those.
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They did that. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/27/google_maps_api_no_l...
"It looks like this will finally be released by the middle of February." -- http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0Njk
Of course, that set contains itself: scroll to L and there's a self-reference.
I'm only on Facebook to stay in touch with friends and family who I don't get to see on a regular basis. I'm not in any way committed to the platform.
I see, thanks. Might be worth stating it explicitly ("we won't modify the content unless you allow us to").
I got tired of constantly closing holes in the sharing. Seemed with every site update, stuff that used to be hidden appropriately was now public. They make it harder than it really should be.
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Me too. Only way I would be a member is on a dedicated Virtualbox guest. *.facebook.com is not allowed to store cookies in my Firefox.
Agreed, I was using XFS aggressively on ~20 servers with wildly varying IO loads 4-5 years ago and it was rock solid.
Those types of modifications you mentioned happen only if you OPT-IN by manually enabling the Viglink app. It's entirely up to the site owner though.
If you use networks and want to understand why access sometimes feels slow, you need to understand about bufferbloat.

The longer video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D-cJNtKwuw
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I wish someone would compile a list of links to these sorts of pages...
That number for AWS is based on running the benchmark in May 2010 [1].

[1] http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/05/what-is-ecu-cpu-benchma...
Very impressive! The only issue I've run into is it having trouble discerning lower-case and upper-case letters. Training with my own writing style should be able to correct this however.

Is there a plan to offer this as a non-web-browser service? I would love to be able to write math out on paper, or a resistive screen tablet, and then import it into a LaTeX document.

I am faster writing equations by hand than typing LaTeX (and definitely faster compared to using a WYSIWYG equation program).

Edit: By the way, this is the perfect example of a problem I've always wished a start-up would come along and solve for me.
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I'm on the hatin' side actually. Locked down privacy to the max, only to find it all re-opened again when FB changed their privacy options. That happened 3 times.

Those shenanigans finally stopped, but then I'd be browsing the web and find comments like 'Your friend x likes this page.' It's creepy that to see that on a site I've never visited before when I have my FB locked down completely. I understand the technology, but the instinctive reaction is still 'How the hell do you know who my friends are, random website?'

I haven't noticed that lately (desensitized to it?), but I just noticed on a friend's public-facing FB page (I logged out to verify that it was totally public) that it said she was in Country Y, city Z on date D, with ME. There was my full name and my location in the world posted to the world, despite locking down EVERY SINGLE privacy setting available and allowing NO third party applications, etc. Even my friends cannot see or post to my 'wall.' This is all very disturbing, so yes, I'm still hatin', despite recognizing the cool benefits of a single centralized place to stay in touch.
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Related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537513.