skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the method does not work because you see significant difference.
If you think caring about usability is a troll, I pity your users.
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No prob. Don't want to forget to tell you that the idea is great.
Truth be it told... I'd pay $9.95 a month in order to KEEP my FaceBook account. I WILL NEVER RECREATE THE CONNECTIONS and tag all the photos and 'start over.' I'd pay $ no question to keep my account from eternal deletion.
This could serve as a great example of illustrating the difference between theft and copyright infringement.

Theft would be stealing somebody's Lamborghini. Copyright infringement is building your own.

The standard argument against copyright infringement is that Lamborghini lost a sale by him building his own. However, how likely is it that he would have bought a Lamborghini if he could not build one?
at least give us the formula for it.
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But would 5% of their users? I could see that.
That reminded me when a physicist once told me that in physics and life, Work = Force * Displacement.
Well you'd only do it on words that are almost certainly spam. Like Viagra or male impotence or...well, you get the picture. It works on the theory of "this word would almost never be used legitimately in a post so it's almost certainly spam"

I use this on my mail server and with 200 users I've yet to ever get a false positive.
I disagree with this. Social networks have value because of the people, not the product itself. The social networking aspect (ie, finding friends and communicating with them) has to be free.

The key is to create products that leverage this network but have their own distinct value. Then, charge for those.
That's awesome, but:

How fast does it start Word 2008?
I think what they're doing is daring, but it makes sense. Creating a business plan narrows the companies options; as long as they don't have one, they're flexible enough to bring in new users (and keep old users coming back), which could open up more possibilities.

If Zuck had monetized when Facebook was at Harvard, Facebook would have been cash-flow positive. And he would have graduated with a few thousand dollars extra in the bank, rather than dropping out and ending up with a billion-something net worth.
I've never really understood Facebook from the business side at all. I generally like the service they offer (generally, though it is really lacking interesting and helpful aspects) but I've never understood their thinking on business moves. They've got a very popular software platform, one of the most visited sites in the world and rising, and some how 700 people can't figure out how to make a buck.

I agree with most of the other people here... Zuckerberg promises a business plan in 3 years? What the hell? I can see having your product and company out there and be selling things or providing a service and not necessary have the business plan down and taking some time to find one that really does work well, but when you have 700 people, corporate offices, and a widely popular product/service, a business plan seems to me to be something you put at the front of the line. Not: "hmm, we'll get to it later, lets just enjoy the fame!"

Most of what goes on at Facebook could be ran by 70 really good people. That's not including investors/shareholders at all. That's 70 people that are just in charge, server/network managers, system engineers, accounting (do they need one?), and marketing. It appears Facebook got the idea that it needed to have its own in-house Microsoft Research or something.
That may work but could you imagine the total backlash from their user base? There would be no way for them to reestablish trust, and without that trust it becomes very improbable that you will be able to mine out new revenue streams.
I think that it's kind of mistaken to attempt to put this whole thing in terms of 'neighborhoods and restaurants'. It's just not the same as on line businesses which purvey information goods.
Have you noticed how fast,snappy and easy it is to access photos and albums on facebook? for one...
This drive is faster and lower power than a typical hard drive. Assuming that purchase price is not a factor, what does this do for building out supercomputer clusters on commodity hardware? Could this change the way companies like GOOG and AMZN build their computing utilities?

p.s. And what part of an 80GB drive that consumes way less power than the drive it replaces and is way faster than the drive it replaces is not hacker-related? Techno-fetishism is always hacker-related.
Interestingly to me, the site of my old university sci-fi club looks almost exactly the same in both modes.

Maybe that navy-and-grey color scheme was good for something after all.
A few points:
The transform we use loses color/detail and could be prettier. There are better methods that are less lossy (and more proprietary) but this kinds/sorta works. We'll probably swap out a better one eventually (supporting other colorblindness types).

The whole architecture of taking screen shots is very hacky. We were thinking of a firefox addon to automate stuff (we could also deliver the whole screen and maybe enable flash/javascript) but would love to hear other ideas.

Atleast partially inspired by a post by Chris from wufoo: http://particletree.com/features/interfaces-and-color-blindn.... Not a bad way to spend a few evenings :) and we'd love to get some HN feedback/ideas of other related things we could do.
if I was hand building a car from scratch I'd try for something a little bit more exotic. Fiero kit car Coutnachs are all over the place(not really, but its a pretty common kit).

Personally I'd go for something like an F50, because the kit cars for those usually look like ass because the dimensions are way off since the donor cars are shorter.

But still huge props from the guy, it probably took him 5-6 years to finish this(unless he was doing it full time)
A bug to fix -- it does not remder images that are set as "background" through .css
I'd probably just make it premium for people with 100 friends or more. $10/month or something. Won't affect most casual users, but will affect the more hardcore users who are so addicted they'll pay
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I've put some serious thought to the question "How much is a Facebook account worth?"

Clearly, there must be a free account available because it wouldn't be worth a penny if it didn't have as many users as it did. So I re-framed the question as "What parts of Facebook are worth a premium?" as well as "What parts of Facebook would I pay for?"

Unfortunately, the list is pretty short. I used to use Facebook a lot during college, but now I use it for the occasional info or photo lookup. When I'm bored waiting/traveling/etc, I will usually whip out my iPhone and comment on a bunch of feed items and that's always worth a few laughs. But would I pay for that? I just really can't see myself needing it badly enough.

What "advanced" or "premium" features do all of you use? What would you pay for those features?
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Yeah. And Google has done the exact same thing. They're just fortunate that their business model is so much better that it can support their massively inflated head count. At least with Google it kind of makes sense in an evil way: hire every programmer who could be a serious competitor.
True, it is arbitrage and it is distasteful. But patent law was designed to encourage the small inventor, which also happens to allow patent trolls to operate; I get the impression that most patents used by trolls are bought from the holdings of failed startups.

I do hope the loophole gets closed, but I also hope it gets closed in the right way. I'm sure the big patent holders (like Microsoft and IBM) would love to eliminate trolls by adding a requirement that a patent holder must be using the patent in a successful product -- with "successful" being defined as some suitably large number of units per year. This would allow big patent holders to effectively ignore patents owned by small players, but not the other way around, which discourages competition and innovation.
Have you checked to see if you can use cookies or IPs to track spammers? You should be able to find some common trait, unless it's all generic bots and bots are easy to defeat.
Blue is good for red-green colorblindness, the most common type. I remember reading that it affects 5% of the population.
Oh. We'll fix it. Thanks.
Check this out: http://www.kiengineering.com/Inventory.html

This is his site and has bigger pics. You'll see how he used the wooden frame.
I'm encrypting the SSD at the moment so I wont get accurate results if I do it now, but I'll do it later today and report back.
A handy caveat lector: everything after the "What we say to dogs" comic is completely and entirely useless. I'm not really spoiling a cool story by saying "he was so annoyed by Jeff he didn't hear his tire disintegrating, and blames Jeff".

Still, everything up to that point was pretty funny, and makes me want to listen to the podcast. The guy just needs to learn to edit his posts to cut out all the extraneous crap (and it's really just crap, it's not "well this is only really interesting to a niche audience...").
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That's so badass! This car has always been one of my favs.
Assembling a batch of nice fresh parts is a lot easier than you think. Unless you have to assemble/rebuild the whole engine by hand, you will probably spend more time waiting for the paint to dry than you will putting it all together.
The new controller on this drive from Intel is fantastic. I look forward to seeing this technology become ubiquitous. With filesystems designed for random-access persistent drives and good controllers, well... rotational disks are going to look extremely antiquated extremely quickly.
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Ask HN: Best debugging war stories?
I just finished spending two days with the Eclipse debugger and WireShark to fix a crash that would happen every 100th Spring RPC call I made. Fix turned out to be removing a single line of code.

This got me to thinking that HN probably has a good trove of debugging war stories. What are your favorites? Bonus points if they happened to you.
SSDs in the data center are definitely coming up. CCP, the creators of Eve Online, use SSD drives for their unsharded persistent game world.

http://www.superssd.com/success/ccpgames.htm has a testimonial about their SSD experiences.
Age of consumer and technology both influence adoption rates
The post says 17 years - definitely not an easy feat.
OK, you will never recreate that friend network and re-upload and tag all those photos. You will pay $10/mo to keep your profile alive.

However, what happens when your friends decide, "screw this, I'm out"? All of a sudden, those connections that you were paying for aren't there anymore. At best, I'd say Facebook could get 50% of its users to pay for its service. Once half of those connections are gone, the service isn't worth as much to you. Likewise, as users leave, so do their photos. Again, you're in a situation where Facebook's value is being lowered for you.

That's what's so hard about pricing. Facebook is worth $10/mo to you. It isn't worth that much to others. However, it's only worth $10 to you because of the other people on it (many of whom wouldn't pay that). Which means that if Facebook starts charging money, suddenly it isn't worth $10 to you because much of the content from other users (their profiles, your connections to them, their photos) is gone.

There's a critical mass issue. Even if you say something like, "well, they could charge for premium stuff like the ability to say who gets to see your profile" which is free now. In that case, lots of users won't post content as freely and the service looses some amount of its value.

So, Facebook really doesn't have the opportunity to charge people because once it does, the value goes down as the more marginal users are no longer there.
To me the coolest part would be the ramp and the new door in the basement. Ordinary Ken slips down to the basement of his ordinary suburban house and, like the bat cave, a Lambo comes roaring up out of the secret lair! Sweet.
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As impressive as Facebook is, I truly think it is ridiculous that they have ~800 employees. How many does Craigslist have? Wikipedia? Granted, FB needs a few more to manage ad sales/delivery, but... 800?
I find this blog post poorly written. Too informal to be informative, to me. Points made are overly general rather than insightful. Sounds like the author has interesting things to say (and relevant experience), but the presentation ruins it for me. E.g.:

"I guess I don't suck at design. I just suck in certain areas."

"It's impossible to be great at everything. You just can't do it all on your own."
Didn't know that. Interesting!!
I only expose my children to PG content.
Out of curiosity, if it disappeared tomorrow, how much would you pay to get it back?

("Sorry guys, we can't afford it anymore! We need people to chip in $1 each a month or we have to shut down. These friends of yours have already agreed to stick around: XXX, YYY, ZZZZ")
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The rest is also fairly bland and potentially false. All in all, not a great article.
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It's radical because almost nobody would want to pay with so many free networks around, and most of the people are foreigners and couldn't afford to anyway.
Seems cool. It does get a bit repetitive after a while though. I also see a blank screen when I click on "Fans" and "Front Office"

How does having a higher level affect anything? I can train players and get more equipment but in the very end all I have to show is my level and standings?

Some thoughts:

- If you create your team from your friends, let them contribute to their "player" somehow

- Potentially have some type of tournament/playoffs

- Potentially have actual games that can be used to upgrade skills. Pay a certain amount of your money to play a game that can increase your QB passing either 1 or 2 points depending how you do. That will add some more interaction. Or you can have the user just opt for the safe approach and get the minimum or average.
The hard part is molding the social behavior into something that adds a lot of value to the users and eventually to Facebook shareholders. How hard is that?

I remember a thread here in HN asking how much time would you need to build a site like Hacker News. Lots of people said something like "a week, top". pg said something like "one year".
I didn't know that. I had assumed that it was true. Maybe it's a matter of specifying exactly what constitutes the "context." Perhaps something like, "people who cheat at board games usually cheat at board games but don't necessarily cheat on their taxes."

I don't know too much about this, but a quick check of the psychological wiki http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_err... implies something different:

It says that person A tends to attribute person B's behaviors to a fundamental disposition rather than the context of the situation. That different from saying person B chooses a behavior and will do so in most similar circumstances. For example, a person who believes it's ok to lie to obtain a business advantage will do so repeatedly.
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Seems as if something is missing... why couldn't he find a "scientific position" after 2006?
Let me rephrase what I said. It's created a huge network, yes. I don't see any reason for me to use it. I think that limiting the messages is silly and arbitrary, and I've never understood what people see in it.
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Paper net worth.
From his own numbers his conversion rate is coming in at 1.6%. Quick Google search suggests that 1.7% is average for referral programs, so his ad wasn't exactly a failure. The failure happens when we take into account Amazon's referral fee. It simply doesn't make sense to spend extra money on something that's intended to be used in no-cost situations, like alongside blog posts.

Numbers:
http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/09/22/top-10-online-retailers...
I usually assign responsibility to whoever has control.
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Either force install Hpricot 0.6 (your usual stuff will still use the newer one, rfeedparser will use 0.6) or go mangle with rfeedparser to remove the lock to that version (of course, that removes any guarantee of it working 100%).

BTW, today is an awesome day to write a new feed parser. Here's why:

http://www.rubyinside.com/nokogiri-ruby-html-parser-and-xml-...
I would imagine the blazing random reads and writes of this drive would drastically help database performance (and possibly allow operations too expensive in time or number of IOs to become more feasible). Remember you can always push the limit of what's possible technically because hardware becomes cheaper, faster and more reliable over time.
i cant see how not being an active contributor to the field of spam filtering make your site vulnerable to spammers. Not be vigilant against spammers yes, but you don't need to be in the industry to combat this problem. the dumb readership comment speaks for itself, lets get off the high horse bro.
The problem with what the article suggests is that the penalty for not paying is the destruction of the usefulness of the service, that's unacceptable.

People log in to facebook precisely because people do 10 status updates a day, and post an ungodly number of notes, and join a ridiculous number of groups. If you restrict these, even if some people are willing to pay, the network is no longer compelling, and usage will drop, and you send yourself into a death spiral.

Clearly facebook's monetization does not lie in charging for an account, that is IMHO one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard.

Oh, and the author is completely off his rocker if he thinks you can get 5% of people to subscribe to a pay-facebook. Think 1%, max.
Why are they worth learning if they aren't worth following?
I think this is kind of a shame. The guy has insane amounts of motivation, insane skills, and even funding for his project, yet he makes a copy of something else.

Seems all he was lacking was a great original idea.
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I bet most of them wouldn't. For one, what is Facebook going to do about the ones who already have 200 friends but don't pay? Force them to un-friend 100?

For another, what percentage of people actually have that many? It seems high to me because I'm one of them, but probably there are, in their user numbers, masses of people who have a handful or none at all.

I know I personally would just find the best free social net. I only use Facebook for playing a couple games anyway.
That's an interesting exercise, but in reality I wouldn't expect enough of my friends to pay to stay on. There would be a mass drop in the number of users, significantly devaluing my membership. So if that were to happen, I wouldn't pay anything. However, if they said "We're now at even cash flow, but have amassed a lot of debt! We don't intend to take this towards profitability, but please help us stay afloat." I might donate 10 or 15 bucks. Not that I expect that to happen either :-)
Foreigners don't have money? I missed your point there.
If you can get access to the hashed password, that's a major breach in of itself.

It's almost comparable in my mind to saying, if you get physical access to the machine you can do exploits X, Y, and Z. Well, yeah, if you can get that far, you've pretty much won.
I would. I like that Facebook works perfectly without messing things up. I'd pay to keep a site like that afloat.
Maybe 500. 100 is pretty easily attained, especially for younger users in college or high school. I'd guess 90% of my friends have 100 friends and I'm 27.
I don't know much about the effects of color blindness. Does white always look like pink to those folks? Looking at Google.com via ColorBlindMe
Nintendo cannot distribute games as well as Yahoo? That's just crazy talk.

Why would Wii customers prefer an in-browser flash game over a non-browser game? How many Wii owners even bought the browser?

They'd be infinitely better off just selling all games through the Nintendo Store, which they do now. Maybe allowing people to develop for Flash there would be a great idea. But making them go through the browser and offering part of the profits to Yahoo is not.

I don't know what Caja is, but Flickr just doesn't have the revenue to be a big deal for Yahoo. It was a sound acquisition, but it's still a small % of their overall profits. Even if you doubled it without increasing costs at all, it's a long way from mattering.

I'm still missing how they have any synergy at all with IBM. IBM doesn't even sell PCs anymore. You want them to integrate Yahoo on voting machines and ATMs or something?
I'd say 200 friends, with people paying a dollar for each hundred after that. Cheap, and it still would make Scoble rant. (Perhaps I'm a bit biased in my motives.)
Providing public goods by profit seeking entrepreneurs:
http://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/PrivateProvision.pdf
Unless you were holding irreplaceable information ransom, or causing them some ongoing embarrassment, the answer is zero. I've tried this experiment...
The kind represented by stock certificates, as opposed to the kind represented by green pieces of...
There is such a thing as personal variance, you know. The fundamental attribution error kicks in when you're trying to judge by single events. If you observe someone for a year, it's a lot more reasonable to expect them to be much the same next year. I would agree with the statement "people are oddly consistent", it's just that it's not so easy to judge from single events, and when we do judge we're likely to miss consistent background causes or consistent reactions, and think in terms of consistent personal attributes.

I'm always pleasantly surprised when I meet someone who actually improves over time in any visible way. I don't go around expecting it.
I'm not sure that this is a great example, because it muddies the difference between trademarks, copyrights, and patents (i.e. there may be issues with all three here, and maybe the biggest issue is on the trademark side).
One path to becoming a genius is to be as smart as an adult at age 14, then grow around as much between 14 and 24 as most people do.
My favorite part is how the kids are put in some kind of caged away from the robot for their own protection (or the robot's)...
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ah..makes sense that its not an F50 then...they were around from 95-97, so they weren't around when he started. F40s were around since 87, but I bet the behind the scenes prep work for the Countach took him a couple of years too so they were probably not around as well.
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Many people (including Eric Schmidt in a submission that was posted earlier this week, although I've certainly heard it before) argue that the Internet follows more of a Zipf's Law distribution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipfs_law) than a "long tail". In other words, the bulk of the traffic and therefore the revenue is in the head. As a corollary, the Internet doesn't get rid of celebrities, it creates bigger celebrities.