skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To push the metaphor a bit too far, I think it's more about people realizing they just don't want cake that much.

As you say, it's perfectly possible to build a good community if you're willing to put some work into it. People who run community-oriented sites mostly know this by now.

But a lot of sites pick up communities accidentally. Blogs tend to have comments enabled by default. Adding a forum to a site sometimes seems like a simple idea that will make users happy. Social networking features seem like a must have for some kinds of web apps, even if they aren't the main focus. And of course, these accidental communities inevitably decay until the reek of them spreads through the whole site.

I think a lot of people are remembering that they didn't actually want to run communities in the first place. They added community features because it was the path of least resistance, and now that they've seen where it leads, they're turning them off rather than sinking a lot of effort into making them work.

I'm pretty happy with the development, personally. The communities I like are going to stick around, and as for the others, well, there are more than enough places to have flamewars already.

(Disclaimer: I turned off comments on my own blog a couple of months ago. It's made me a happier person, but I may be projecting just a bit.)
Awesome! Is there possibly a way to filter the freelances by those looking for work and those looking for freelancers?
Please let your marketing folks know that there is a silent (ok, not this time) constituency of people like me who cringe at the term "webinar". Some of us even filter such terms from appearing in our inboxes.

Please call it what it is: a seminar. When people share their slides online they don't call it a "websentation" because it would be so goofy as to be insulting. Why should a seminar be any different?
I felt the same way about the site actually. It may be it's not intended for us at this point, but the person posted that site as if it would offer some clarification. He's not trolling -- at least, I don't think he is -- it's just not a helpful website. I realize the initial comment said 'coming soon,' but linking it seemed to imply that there would be something, some shred, of useful information that would make the site relevant to the discussion.
35 Things FB's filing Says Could Kill Them
It’s a lot like programming in that way. I’ve done enough of both that it bums me out when I see programmers looking at designers and saying “what’s the big deal, it’s just drawings” and designers looking at programmers and saying “what’s the big deal, it’s just logic”.

Simple stuff tends to be hard because tiny mistakes are easy to spot.
And hope that you don't have a crash, restart or connection failure in between the two operations...
I'm the same as you with regards to the Facebook account, but I know my friends who'd go for this wouldn't blink twice.

I'll spread the link around and see what happens.
Huge P/E ratio hasn't seemed to hurt shares of Salesforce.com too much.
Ask HN:  What should an employee do in preparation of being outsourced?
What steps and measures should any responsible employee take in preparation of being outsourced
Looks like members of the exec team (COO, CTO, etc.) will each be worth 100MM post IPO

Wonder what amt of RSUs the rank-and-file are getting?

Also, it'll be interesting to see how the culture changes when a good % of the populace are millionaires
Why doesn't he just charge the kids' parents a small fee for the service he is providing?
> Its incredible how obtuse people become when discussing this issue.

You said it, cake boss.
Stupid Bash Expansion Trick
The Forbes author explained it well on page 2:

"To use an analogy I’ve drawn on before, the gap between Tiny Tower and Sim Tower might be the difference between James Cameron‘s sci-fi Avatar and the similarly themed Dances with Wolves. However, the space between Tiny Tower and Zynga’s Dream Heights would be the difference between Dances with Wolves and another film set in the 1800s about Native Americans with the exact same plot, lookalike actors and titled 'Cavorting with Bears.'"
Nice.

(I was looking at the ones in the Fast Co. photo.)

A lot of sweet bikes too!
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Certainly the world is full of things which are wrong, but should not be illegal because the "solution" would be worse than the problem it tried to solve. (coughSOPA/PIPAcough)

In this case, what Zynga is doing is copying game design. And in a perfect world...I think it should be perfectly legal to copy game design, because the alternative is software patents, and do I really need to spell out why that sucks?

But it's still ethically and morally wrong, and we should name and shame Zynga, their developers, and their enablers. How about a boycott of Amazon until they yank Zynga's hosting? (And yes, I realize their isn't the slightest hope of such a thing...)
New report suggests Skype for Windows Phone is entering private beta
Recently used this for generating a few charts for a school assignment. Great piece of software. Tried out a whole bunch of them before coming across these guys.
I'd like to upvote twice, but it wouldn't let me.

So it's cruel, but I usually secretly assume that people who keenly advocate C++ are just poseurs.

Anybody who has actually gone through the whole process of making a program in C++ and fixing enough of the bugs in it that somebody can put it in a box and sell it in the shops, is appropriately circumspect in their recommendations, because they know just how appallingly awful it can get.

So awful, that you'd give up on exceptions, DLLs, new & delete, templates, STL, auto-registering static globals, and all that kind of stuff - because it's actually EASIER to give up all those time-saving modern conveniences, than it is to pick up the pieces after they've been overused.

But nobody believes it until it's happened to them. It just sounds too implausible...
At least without the context of the book, the bit about military service seems like a post facto justification. Had Israel not developed a significant tech sector, I would not be surprised to hear compulsory military service given as a reason for that.

"Compulsory military service teaches young Israelis that they should follow orders instead of thinking for themselves. It promotes a narrow and aggressive world view that sees everything in black and white, friend or enemy, right or wrong. It takes Israelis out of the commercial world at just the time where they are their most innovative.", etc.

Compulsory military service could help the tech sector, or harm it, or not affect it. By considering only the evidence supporting the claim that military service helps, the article leaves open an unknown amount of counter-evidence.
I'm pretty sure it's got the fallback (your #1) in place, but let me know if it looks like that doesn't work for you. Your suggestion for #2 is great. I'm not positive I'll have the time to develop that, but I'll see what I can do.
So what you're admitting is that REST doesn't add any new novelties in terms of being discoverable?
Robot War, Anyone?
Can't recommend Stylus enough. Some features not found on less or scss: optional colons, semicolons and braces and referencing properties:

body
color black
a
color @color

will compile to

body{
color: black;
a{
color: black;
}
}
Hire the person, not the keywords
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We eventually want to support sharing from any device but it won't be as painless as viewing from any device.

Being able to view from the iPad or smartphone without any install is the major difference right now between Screenleap and join.me. For future direction, since the viewer is HTML/JavaScript-based, we think there may be opportunities for deeper integration with other products to make it even easier to get a screen sharing session started. We also think that it may be easier for us to provide a branded and more customized screen sharing experience.
Didn't Zynga sue some chinese game that was basically a copy of farmville? And here they are saying there is nothing wrong with copying...
Why is it surprising that Google can do it? Google has massive resources.
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Also starting to look for a designer for help with landing pages and graphics on a contract basis.

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Not sure about 2004 but I bought an ad on facebook in 2005. It was for a specific university and that was about the extent of the targeting if I remember correctly...
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Honest question: Can you give some examples of other open source projects (not ones run by massive corporations like Google, which obviously can afford to do enterprise support) that have full enterprise support?
Alpha Centauri is an untapped market.
It's been a while since I looked at 9P. Is it really that much like an RPC system?
I'll second this. Both Dave and Nick were really easy to talk to, and it's clear they're looking for kindred 'hacker' spirits.

Also, the isolation is spot on. It can be pretty depressing to be trying to, say, do SICP on internet advice, while people around you ask why you don't just take a Java/C++ class. I applied in large part to meet others truly interested in programming, and though I can't make it this time around, HS is tops on my list of things to do in 2012.
In iWoz, Steve talks about developing the Apple I and Apple II while he was still employed at HP. He, too, wanted to be entirely honest and had no intentions of quitting. Basically, he just told them straight up what he was doing. I believe he even brought prototypes in for demonstration several times.

HP had no interest in laying claim to the designs. According to Steve, every department in HP had the opportunity. They all turned it down.

It would be hard to extrapolate from this, but your employer might just not be interested at all.
Wow look at site 54, they pushed their revenue this year to a billion in December. How are they doing this?
Yes, we plan to support SSL in a future release.
First there were websites...
The dawn of the browser app.
Thanks! We're pretty much split between Austin and Pittsburgh.
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NYC - Founding Engineer / Lead Developer (Ruby) at Centzy (http://centzy.com)

Centzy is Kayak for local services - comparison shopping for everyday local services like haircuts, dry cleaners, and oil changes. It's a large, untapped market, and we are funded by great investors who share our passion: Lightbank (Groupon's original investor) and ffVC (Klout's original investor).

We are a team of two (one hacker, one business guy with a CS degree) and we are looking for another hacker. As our first hire, we would consider you a late co-founder and expect as much. You'll get serious product ownership with real equity and a salary. You'll be the third leg of the tripod.

We're looking for someone who has built and scaled products on the Ruby / Rails stack in the past. You've probably worked at a startup if not started one. You are smart and relentlessly resourceful. You'll spend most of your time crafting code in Ruby and Javascript, so you should love it. We think hackers should drive product, so you should be comfortable doing this. You've probably at least dabbled in MongoDB and Node.js.

We have great shared startup space in the Lower East Side with tons of great food and bar options nearby. In addition to equity and salary, you'll get your choice of equipment and we'll cover 100% of your health benefits, and lunches and dinners while you're working. And of course the fridge will always be stocked with soda and great micro brews.
Or possibly a 3-pane display (if desired).. Pick the Year/month, then the city, then see all the people in that city. Or similarly, Year/month, then the company (sorted), then the post.
a lot of the early employees already left long ago.

Dustin_Moskovitz at Asana
Chris Hughes at Jumo
Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever at Quora
You're absolutely right, copying creative ideas is not illegal, and making it illegal wouldn't solve anything. Unfortunately, the reality is that as long as it is possible to make make money by operating unethically (read: forever), businesses will do it.

Call me naive, but I would at least like to believe that these types of practices cannot sustain a business forver, and eventually a player who does things the right way will win out.
That is definitely a route we want to consider. If you know someone in the space, we would love an introduction.
I wonder how many employees are going to ditch the company after it goes public. They might have stuck around just for the IPO so they can hit big, take the money, leave, and start their own companies.
Loving it! I was just going through our webhook-initiated payment resque job last night to rewrite some of the legacy webhook stuff we had in place (and handle failed charges, which we never did until I recently filtered orders by status and saw a handful)

One tiny nitpick is that this field is too small IMO: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/186198/Screenshots/p5uf.png

Also nitpicky, I would like to have the test charge.failed webhook include a fake description param.
Awesome, thanks! Unfortunately, am on the stock Android browser, and it won't let me scroll down past the length of the left hand nav menu. Not sure why, but can look at your css when I'm back on my desktop if you like.
(1) The "composite resource" which initializes the application is bound specifically to the application. This codesign greatly simplifies the implementation of an application that uses async comm (Javascript, GWT, Silverlight, etc.) because you'll never get communications choreography right unless you stick to the "one user action -> one request -> update UI" paradigm.

(2) Cacheing is part of the problem as much as it is part of the solution in making reliable apps. Anyone who's actually written AJAX apps knows that you frequently need to use tricks to disable cacehing to get things working right.

(3) As for security, this isn't just state transitions in the Turing sense but could involve numberic ranges and other kinds of variables. Generally code that compares composite objects is the kind of code that hides errors, particularly given the fact that for most languages there is something funky about the equals operator. (This is certainly true about C++, Java and PHP)
If you are going to use an URL shortening service, please go with one that is universally recognised by most tech people, such as bit.ly. I've never heard of tweak.tk and I've never seen it come across my Twitter feed.
It must be nice for companies to Google and Facebook to always have one company to top them all in the category of unrepentant corporate spawns of Satan.
> This "respect of the will" of the copyright owner, is like GPL etc works. If you want GPL respected, you also want copyright respected, even if the owner is not using a permissive license.

This is true to a point. I do not respect copyright as much as you think I should, because I do not believe it should have been extended past its initial 14-year term. As it stands now, copyrights are effectively infinite; this is a complete perversion of the original intention.
I'm in apparel too, and I agree: FB ads are junk. I spent a ton of money and got 1 conversion.
Loved it.

Incredible to watch.
Offered a rich perspective into your design process.
Demonstrated to me unique use cases of Photoshop.
Documented change in vision and approach.
Showed me how to do simple things I never thought to try.

Made me feel at the end that with enough work, vision, and the creativity to evolve, I too can create something beautiful.
Start an outsourcing company. Hire and train your own workers to do your job, and then get your employer to hire your company as your replacement. It sounds crazy, but I successfully did it in 2009, and they still have us on the payroll.
Sourcemap: where things come from
How about Facebook? I was among those applauding "The Hacker Way" earlier today, and their manifesto of making money in order to build a better service [http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2012/02/hacker-way.html], but Zynga makes up 12% of Facebook's revenue!
Link please? I wasn't aware Iceland has passed anything that might put it in the position of a data haven, but then I don't follow Icelandic :-)
The people will still use the Desktop like before. The problem is, for messaging and status updates is mobile totally sufficient.

They talk much about Pictures, but most of the people i know don't post any. The big success of Facebook is the E-Mail IM replacement for young people, but it is very difficult to advertise on that. Who made ever money on IM and Mail? ICQ and AIM had impressive numbers, but were never a big success financially.
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Anyone else attending Launch 2012 in SF March 7-8?
We'll be showcasing Venturocket in the demo pit, hope to see you there!
When is the summer session? That would be a great time for me as it would be less likely to conflict with other gigs.
Doesnt seem to work on my Lion with the latest Java installed
Stuck Like Glue: Zynga Accounts for 12 Percent of Facebook Revenue in 2011
Its like the Stripe for screensharing , I love it.

As for monetization, I think a good strategy might be something like the first 3 are free, and then you pay $5 for 30 screenshares afterwards. Atleast for me, I'd be willing to pay that and it seems like a straightforward/fair way to price it.

Good luck!
To piggyback on this they can take a page out of Amazon's playbook and do one click purchase with facebook credits.

Serving up ads on other websites is where the magic happens.
I can't speak for Reuters, but I have worked with two generations of Bloomberg data. One was a trading backfeed over TCP/IP that was pretty complicated to implement. For example, whenever my side crashed or exited, I had to call the NY contact to restart his server end. That was a pretty tricky, but once up it was quite steady. And it was attached to a very critical trading system.

The second was a very rich set of all manner of indicative data--a superset of what you would imagine is behind the Terminal itself. This seemed to me to be a very cleanly specified and implemented system. And it was quite feature rich.

I am not clear on what relationship this has with their current offering.
And you'll never have to worry about the missing semi-colon error from the article!

+1 for Stylus.
I can't find the specific article I was looking for, maybe it's more urban legend than fact, but supposedly chess players burn just as many calories per hour as athletes. In the top results on google you'll find comparisons of chess players to football players, and chess grand masters to olympic swimmer Michael Phelps. Somewhere in here is material for an infomercial sure... play our specially designed MMORPG and the calories will magically melt away!
Facebook’s S-1 And The Largest Shareholders: Zuck Owns 28 Percent
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Cybersquatting 3.0
You should resize your images and display the thumbnails throughout the site. Not sure what your stack is, but I use imagemagick bindings for nodejs to do just that (npm install imagemagick). Obviously imagemagick may be accessed through most programming languages.
And I'm not sure that people who are currently not using computers at all (in emerging markets) will ever use PCs. If you've never used a PC a smartphone might seem like all you'll ever need.
$100b a bargain, I'm not so sure. I'd be more inclined to describe it as a fair valuation.

This is the real reason Google is getting desperate about Google+, they are worried about FB launching its own hyper targeted ad network. Google has context and tons of advertisers, FB has context and deep demographics and quite a lot of advertisers.
Seems completely reasonable to me.

A bird in the hand is still worth two in the bush, even if you're pretty sure you can get the two (or four) in the bush later.

Having been involved in a few startups where my equity was eventually valued at nothing, I'd certainly jump at the chance to sell some percentage of a future company I was involved with for real cash money even if I was pretty certain the stock might be worth more later.
People in your social network may not post pictures, but for all the Facebook users I know, pictures is very critical part of their experience. [I personally don't use Facebook.] Facebook has actually solved the problem of sharing pictures with your loved ones for non technical people, IMHO.
Something I wish the actual thread had, that would be great in this is sorting by posted date (aka latest posted, etc...)