skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I'm not talking about cold-emailing -- I'm talking about personal relationships. They just aren't defined by having the same seed funder.

When I walk down the street in SOMA or the Mission, I too am likely to run into a developer that I know. And I'm not even a very social person. But I've been around the Valley & SF for almost six years now.

Maybe YC gets you off the ground faster, maybe you get that in year one. Still, I hope you are also reaching out to make connections with non-YCers.
I have many encrypted files that I do not know the password to. The passwords are in an encrypted keychain that I do know the password to. If I delete the keychain, there is no way that I will be able to decrypt those files.

What would happen if the courts ordered me to decrypt a file where I no longer have access to the password?
The reminders will come, sooner or later. As (I believe) Steve Yegge put it: I've got a limited number of 5-year projects in me. As I've got less of those, it becomes more important to choose which one you pick.

When you're twenty, it feels like you can tackle everything. As you grow older, you realize that you can't even begin to learn enough to know all the things you'd like to tackle :)
I don't believe this is quite correct. The EFF article clarifies this in an update:

> [UPDATE 2/22/2012]: Note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. It also does not change the fact that any information gathered and stored by Google could be sought by law enforcement.

> With Web History enabled, Google will keep these records indefinitely; with it disabled, they will be partially anonymized after 18 months, and certain kinds of uses, including sending you customized search results, will be prevented. If you want to do more to reduce the records Google keeps, the advice in EFF's Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy white paper remains relevant.

I found this link in google's privacy FAQ, but there may be a better one out there:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/preview/faq/#...

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/preview/faq/#...

Of course, they unhelpfully don't enumerate all the uses of that log data, but it seems pretty clear that it isn't for personalization and (as far as I can tell) it isn't even changed at all by the new privacy policy anyway.

edit: it also appears that they log by a cookie ID that isn't tied to the account. You could probably still reconstruct account information for many users (and even after anonymization a lot is revealable (see the AOL search logs debacle)), but, again, this is quite different than logging data associated with an account and using it to target advertising.

> We strike a reasonable balance between the competing pressures we face, such as the privacy of our users, the security of our systems and the need for innovation. We believe anonymizing IP addresses after 9 months and cookies in our search engine logs after 18 months strikes the right balance.
And no one was claiming that.
You're right, it's mostly just a few people. There are duplicate entries in the input file I didn't account for.
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Or with NoScript running in Firefox. Is requiring Javascript to read a directly-linked blog post a new blogspot thing? Hard to figure why it's necessary to just read some text.

Agreed on the assessment as ridiculous.
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> Which is to say, the astrology people seem to be pretty decent folks about it, not SCO-type bipedal hagfish in 3-piece suits, or Rightshaven-style copyright sharks with a business model based on IP lawsuits.
> If I knew anyone who were into astrology-type things, I think I might order them something from Astrolabe, as a small reward for the good behavior in dropping the suit.

Regardless of stepping down, it was an obviously frivolous suit in the first place. Backing down from BS threats isn't something that should be commended, not ever making them in the first place should be. Who would ever think that time zones are copyrightable and have the cojones to sue over it? An absurd and a waste of everyone's time.

Update: I just read the complaint and their attorney uses her Gmail address for official business. What a joke. Go figure that an astrology company has a fly by night attorney filing obviously BS lawsuits.
As an athlete, you usually end up teaching younger athletes. (Well, at least most of the ones I know do). It is an interesting experience, since your view shifts.

The most interesting part? As you're less and less invested in actually being brilliant in what you do, you gain a deeper understanding of the underlying principles. (I used to be a professional dancer. Many things that were hard to grok when I did them on a day-to-day basis are now entirely obvious. And I can easily demonstrate them, or spot the mistakes. I just can't do them hundreds of times, day-in, day-out :)
Coincidentally, I'm building a github recommendation service as a SNA research project. You may be aware, but for those who are not, GitHub actually had a NetFlix-style recommendation contest in 2009.

https://github.com/blog/466-the-2009-github-contest
It took a while. cant put a number cause a lot of it was done in spurts between other projects. altogether the project took about four months, but that included refactoring a lot of old code to play nice with mirrored writes and developing some framework level components. and waiting for hardware. and waiting for innodb conversion. and building setting up proper monitoring and alerting. future projects like that will take fraction of the time. Migration and verification itself took about 2 weeks. Yes, passes got proportionally quicker. first took almost a week, last few hours. we did not crank the speed to the max though as we wanted to keep the load low and we had time.

thanks for the link, will check it out
Nice writeup! Glad someone's taking the casual talk about Pinterest and writing something interesting about it.
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This post is quite misinformed, IMO. Yes, many apps ask for the permission to post to your wall. You can say no. You can also go into your Facebook settings and remove that specific permission from the app, and then the app can no longer post as you, but the login functionality would still work (assuming they were halfway competent in their coding.) I often will remove the wall posting permission right after I grant the permission.

And as to the proposed solution, Facebook doesn't need to do anything. Those developing the apps don't NEED to ask for the permission to post to your wall. The developers (and business rules) determine what permissions to request, and we frequently build apps where all we ask for is basic information or basic + pictures, for example. There is absolutely no reason that the developers MUST ask for permission to post to your wall except that they are going to do it, probably without asking you first (which is EXACTLY what you granted them permission to do!)

So the answer to the problem is, don't login with apps that require you to grant permission to post as you. Or, immediately deactivate that access if you must use that app. Or do as others have mentioned, and just set that app to only be visible to you. You get the "benefit" of the posts, and it doesn't go out to anyone else.

The real problem is, most people just don't care. Facebook gets 80% CTR on permission dialogs, and almost 50% of people prefer social login to creating an account or using a guest account. Facebook has a great incentive to make sharing as frictionless as possible, so we are only going to see more ways to share things easier. I'm not saying that sharing is bad or evil, just that people should be making that choice consciously, not just blindly clicking it.
The new icon looks great on Windows but horrible on Mac. I think different icon files are being used..
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Is part of the challenge dealing with the server timeouts?

In all seriousness, thanks for this!
Like people now who just believe blindly now about the way they feel they should live their life by the norms?

It goes both ways.
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Interesting that they would make such a sweeping change to just add this "Character picker" functionality. Reading that description on the Apple site, I never thought it would mean anything for the non-accented characters. So - KINDA ninja, right? :-)
I've read the bits about implementation based on continuations in various other comments.

Given that:

- the ranking of HN stories likely is in constant flux ...

- and that some users might want a consistent view of stories across multiple pages ...

- and that having .../page1-, .../page2-, .../page3-style URLs might result in some user seeing the same story presented twice in their browsing, once on page1 and then again on page2 as its rank changes ... or worse, missing a story that got promoted to page1 from page2 during a session

... do the continuations as implemented on HN present a static view of the ranked stories with a non-changing ordering (as long as links don't expire)? To do this with straight URL's one would need to present different URL links at different times to different users to get different page-2 contents reflecting what was on page2 at the time they started their HN visit. If so, that would be a feature.
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I'm not aware that simply going out-of-proc solves any synchronization issues :)

You still contend with those. It might be by simply letting the OS serializing the requests, but going oop is always overhead you pay in addition to synchronization.
I completely agree, but I wouldn't mind it nearly so much if the "expired link" page at the very least had a link to the home page.
(This would certainly work if you can read my history: I don't consider the level "complete" until I get it down to a short bash one-liner that prints out the password. ;P)
That's the doubleclick cookie personalization, which they aren't allowed to tie to your account based on the doubleclick acquisition agreement (which is why "on the web" and "on search and gmail" are separate and why if you go in an incognito window or block doubleclick cookies it will say it has nothing on you).

http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/
Microsoft Research was founded in 1991, 16 years after Microsoft itself was founded in 1975 (1, 2). Y Combinator was founded in 2005, 30 years after Microsoft. So I'd be surprised if with a 30 year head start Microsoft didn't have more long-term R&D investment, for pretty much any definition one chooses.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
Thanks, just looking at that link now I'll get on it. We did have a licensing issue before with a video blogger who asked my permission to use one of our songs as his theme. Youtube were fairly sticky about it, that's why I was surprised something like this slipped through.

I did contact the uploader nothing back from them yet.

I'm a massive advocate of CC and I'm old school in that I believe the number one consideration for an artist is to be heard (as opposed to being paid) but being open and with so many platforms holding your work it's hard to keep track of things.

I wonder is there a way to use a Shazam like system to index audio usages on the web? Then scale could come into play and perhaps help to get cc artists paid on a fair and rational basis.
They might even use googlemaps.com instead of maps.google.com
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Reddit does not use a similar mechanism. Here's an example of one of their next page links: http://www.reddit.com/?count=100&after=t3_q1sxk

The count is the number of stories to skip, the after is the id of the last story on the previous page.
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This reminds me of another industry under the same pressure credit card industry via new disruptive payment systems.
As always, it's a matter of thinking about that up-front.

At what point is this a project that can be considered self-sustaining? (i.e. pays for its own development). Can you reach that point with a single box?

And if you can, do you have some leeway for growth after that point so you can actually develop a more scalable solution?

For some projects, that results in being OK with a single proc/single box approach. For other projects, you realize that unless you acquire ${LARGE_USER_COUNT} users quickly, you might as well give up on it - so you have to build in some scalability.

There's also expected growth rate - if for whatever reason you think your project might easily grow from single box to "needs more than one" in a short amount of time, you better plan for that.

It's that whole "horses for courses" thing ;)
Just FYI, I found this:

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Sure. You just need to have something that you want to create, and the time to devote a few hours here and there to making it.

If you want to change to a career of programming, pick up one of the currently popular languages like Java or C# and build a small project that you can show to prospective employers as proof that you've still got talent.
yes, of course, i totally agree with you, therein lies the problem. mentorships aren't explicit - they are, as you say, friendships. the rub is that there is a set of people i have access to where i can begin building relationships - and this set of people tends to be the 25-40yo hacker crowd. over the course of months or years of developing relationships, i can gain access to their mentors - the 40-60yo crowd, but i am wondering if some out-of-the-box thinking can put me in a position to develop relationships with these people on a more direct manner.

as an example: i want to build relationships with the 25-40 crowd, so i get real active in the community, give killer lightning talks, etc: giving lightning talks is a "hack" to gain access to people that i want to build relationships with, to make them interested in building a relationship with me. i'm wondering what channels i might leverage to do similar things to make other classes of people interested in building a relationship with me.

i say "i want" a lot in this post, but as you point out its a "we want", these relationships are clearly mutual.
Links to clear your youtube history:

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Also: "But in what might have been a sly message from Amazon, there was a button to click to tell the publisher you would like to read the book on Kindle."

That button is on every title that's not available on Kindle, for whatever reason, and has been for ages. As you say, pretty poor reporting.
I really wish the US would implement similar taxes. I know it'll hurt in the short term but it'll be great in the long term and would benefit the economy overall and help wean our huge car industry off of oil.
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Thanks for the compliment :)

The original problem was simply "I want to hook up a photo and my paypal account easily, so I can share the link with friends and sell my (physical) stuff".

As you've touched on, I really don't want to get into payment processing myself (messy), even though it would be a simple path to revenue generation. I also don't want to charge people outright for using the service. I think this is way more casual than regular e-commerce, I'm not going to take a % transactional fee and/or a monthly fee just so a girl can sell a pair of shoes she doesn't wear.

I figure that with enough mass there will be other opportunities to generate revenue by upselling services to help people extract more value. For example more visibility - if there's something you need to sell urgently, pay $1 and it appears on the top for a given locality / tag.

I'm not really concentrating on building mass yet though. It's still very much in the MVP stage - right now all I want to prove is that I can help people sell their stuff. Need to get that right first.
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How long is the waiting list? I signed up Feb 2nd. Other than that nice work.
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Show HN: An anti-social graph Facebook App for declaring enemies.
So this is something I've been working on for roughly 1.5 months. It's got it's flaws but maybe someone will find it interesting.

I'll save you from having to install the app to learn more about it.
You can read about it here: http://www.deanterry.com/post/18034665418/enemygraph
or visit the app here:
http://apps.facebook.com/enemygraph
I can think of three okay reasons:

1. They are planning to get rid of it. Google has way too many non-removable elements as is, even using so called compact mode. Right now they have two or three bars that could be smashed together with a few modifications. This is doubly true if they get rid of a giant useless logo that stalks you throughout your pages.

2. People were clicking it by accident. As a heavy net user, I don't feel this, but perhaps older or tablet users (but then why not fix it for them) were clicking it and pulling themselves out of Gmail. I could see this being extremely frustrating for a user trying to click the mail or search button.

3. They wanted to shift the functionality to the black bar. This is sort of a combination of the above two. The Google logo is pretty ambiguous. When I click it do I want to reload the page? Do I want to go to the Google homepage? Do I want iGoogle (why did they ruin Reader temporarily but not fix the mess that is iGoogle)? Do I want to search with the bar next to the logo? This is compounded by the fact that it has a context based search bar next to it. I know what that bar does but the context search UI is pretty ambiguous for a first time user.
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You can kill me, but I find it somewhat ironic that the functionality championed in the Arc Challenge is directly responsible for the most annoying bug on Hacker News. :)
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My last company was crazy about unit tests, automated testing and continuous integration. While I was there I did learn quite a few things (thanks to couple of very talented individuals). They even paid pretty well and the work environment was nice.
However, I left after a year and would never go back. Unit tests don't make a great place to work. Our projects were always late, everything was over engineered and it was turned into a pretty frustrating work environment.
There is a minor error in the paper: the table on the first page should be labelled "Maximum number of miners for averages of 200 Watts and 0.1203 USD/kWh" (not 0.20 USD/kWh).
A small feedback.

If I was a seller, I would be extremely uncomfortable with Tinytrunk showing my full-name in all of the items that I am trying to sell. I can foresee some privacy issues with this problem. For example, People can easily find information about me via google or some deep search engine.

Instead, you can perhaps go with the Yelp route -- show the the user's first name and initial of his or her last name, e.g. Bill G. instead of Bill Gates.
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Doesn't work as expected when (a) the attribute to be mocked is not part of the module originally (the attribute persists in the symbol table after the mock is destroyed) and (b) if one of the attributes to be mocked is named 'orig'.
Summary of io9's summary of http://thecreatorsproject.com/blog/chiptune-renditions-of-al...

I love the way these junk blogs mutually link to each other before the actual sources they collectively summarize.
Well, as materialistic as it sounds:

1) Who are the people you'd _like_ to meet? (There's a lot of us old fogeys out there ;)
2) What would you like from them?
3) What are they interested in?
4) What can you offer?

Take a look at those 4 questions, and you should be able to identify people that you _should_ contact. I realize that's not the question, directly, but unless you prep for success, it's hard to be successful.

So next, how do you meet those people? At this point, you're down to individuals, not a nebulous class. So, volunteer with their charity. Attend classes organized by their employers. If at all possible, do something that gets you into physical proximity. (Uh, please in a non-creepy way. Just saying ;)

But even if you're not in physical proximity - then you ask. Ideally, you get an intro from somebody they know. That opens way more doors than anything else. If you don't know anybody who knows them - cold call. Write a nice e-mail explaining that you know they probably are very busy, but you're really interested in XYZ, and you'd love to pick their brain over coffee, if they have time.

And then wait and see what happens.

In recap: Don't meet "classes of people". Find interesting people and meet the person.
Would it be so bad if Pinterest were feminine? Why? It seems perfectly reasonable that women would have a big social network that appeals distinctly to them.
Amazon follows a long line of huge-volume retailers into "not afraid to be the asshole" territory.

Unless it's the case that it actually costs Amazon money to offer books at the prices that IPG wants, this is a pure power/spite/warning play. And I very much doubt that it costs them money.
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You just convinced me to remove the 'social discovery' option (the developer option that posts whether or not a user is using your application to the timeline) from my Facebook Application.
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* COBOL-inspired syntax that is neither human or machine parseable (easily).

* Strange nested query rules

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* Humans don't have the brain capacity to reason about these joins, forcing the logic onto the query planner.

* Humans don't have the brain capacity to reason about the query planner reasoning about the joins.

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