skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not completely unrelated, but Exfoliate for Android (not by me) is a great tool to automate deletion of your Facebook content (posts, likes, photos, etc..) that are older than x days. It's incredibly useful, but a hard find if you don't know it exists..

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.worb.andro...
HN discussion of this (non) story from a couple weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3747699

I'd love to see some actual data on this. But it just doesn't seem important enough or big enough to go out and collect it.
Thanks!

We tried both options and liked using one scale for all categories. The idea is that you are comparing influence, or something like it, so that can be visually compared across categories. You do have the downside of having very small dots for the people after only a few pages, but since there are > 100,000 people, most are going to have the minimum sized dot anyway.
I realize that I'm going to be in the minority here, but I find it disgusting that it's not just socially acceptable, but downright applauded to discriminate against 50% of the population because - through no fault of their own - they were born with male equipment.

Yes, yes, I understand the argument that it's somehow desirable to change the gender makeup of engineering (although I've yet to see programs aimed at fixing the general balance in elementary school teaching or nursing), but this does nothing to address the problem that there are INDIVIDUALS who might like to apply for a grant but are excluded because of what's inside their underwear.
Wow Thanks!
At this point facebook is just a branch of the NSA and CIA. They're laughing it up while the clueless kid Zuckerberg thinks he's creating "a social graph". How about an "open" social graph you jackass - you know, THE WEB.

Hopefully governments step in to break up this evil oonopoly that's on it's way to another microsoft, AT&T, Standard Oil. However, it might too late already, since the NSA and CIA desperately want facebook to exist.
Not pure HTML. Includes CSS and JavaScript.

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nobody pays attention to the law, but everyone must live under it.

Like reading Kafka. This guy will be crying about the dmca when they use it to remove things such as listings from his site.

Also, the company is in Canada, i was ignorant of this reach. Til
Isn't this the way petitions work? I mean, if a group brings a petition to a city council, what good is it if it's full of names? Simply saying "15,000 people support this" without enumerating those supporters doesn't seem very effective.

And that also seems to be standard verbiage for online petitions. See this one (http://civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet/):

Petitions and Surveys

For petitions and surveys you've signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information - for example, we may provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to the President and legislators, other targets, or to the press. We will not make your street address publicly available, but we may transmit it to members of Congress and to the President as part of a petition. This is a standard industry practice in such situations. In no such case will we disclose your email address or phone number without your permission. We may also make your comments, along with your first name, city, and state available to the press and public online.
Under circumstances where we determine that members may be misusing our systems for malicious purposes (for example, using the numbers we provide to make harassing phone calls), such activities may be reported to law enforcement agencies. In such cases, MoveOn may release personally identifiable information, including name and address, to those agencies.
Thanks. I'll try out Perl.
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A lot of people learned to trust their BS detector.

Mine had already been primed with XML "XSLT can map anything to anything!", and Enterprise Java was just more of the same.

It's funny that Javascript and WebGL are cleaning up in the browser, and Java applets are almost nowhere to be seen.
They aren't investing VC level money either. The same criticism applies to YC as well doesn't it?
Seriously, what’s up with old media not crediting bloggers?
I don't think the original comment is saying there's something wrong with liking camp, but there's something wrong with people liking camp because they're supposed to like camp. of course we can't look into people's hearts and see if they actually like something or they're just liking it because they're supposed to like it, but if you pay attention and see how much care people put into doing things, it becomes obvious if it's an actual willed choice or a default reaction.
This might make it harder for normal people to find, but FB keeps your data around after it's "deleted" and I'm sure law enforcement has access to it as well.
A good book that talks about this is Paco Underhill's "Why We Buy".
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I'm not 100% sure what you are asking for, but try kippt.com
In small quantities.

25% of calorie intake as fructose, like many Americans, and the liver floods your system with fat.
Anything starting with "http:// " will be turned into a hyperlink. You don't need the "<>".
Yes, I think so because branches skip full instructions and instructions may be between 1 and 3 bytes but exactly how many is unknown until the skipped instruction is decoded.
Clojure so far looks like a Lisp designed with at least some awareness of this curse. It has a strong "one obvious way to do it" flavour to me and I hope the devs will keep it this way.
Very nice.

I've been tossing somewhat similar ideas around in my head for a few years. My own name for it is "Cooking for Ns", where "N" refers to the Myers-Briggs S/N preference. Most traditional cookbooks, cooking classes, etc., strike me as detail-oriented to the point of absurdity. It is refreshing (not to mention useful) to see a "big picture" view, telling us why certain things are done, and what other things might be done in their place.

I'm not really sure why this is called "open source", though.
You might be able to see it if you turn on WebGL Maps on maps.google.com.
I'll have to disagree with you here. VNC is already faster for me than X11 and has the considerable advantage of letting me interact with my desktop, not with just a single client.

For the case of network-delivered applications, we have webapps - the unholy misappropriation of HTML and JavaScript glued together to kind-of sort-of work like an actual application. It's the worst kind of remote application, except all the others.

Don't get me wrong - I don't see the point of wayland at all, but I have also never benefited from X's remote windowing capabilities.
Julian - just listened to your question from SXSW last year. I was part of another discussion on indoor maps this year: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP100110

One of my fellow panelists from Google discussed ways for developers to use Google's existing map tools to create their own indoor map content. This uses the Google Maps slippy map API, but doesn't require the developer to submit indoor map data to Google: http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions/map-your-busin...

I would also like to see indoor map data, especially for public spaces, be more freely (libre) available. There are a few contributors at OpenStreetMap working on indoor maps, but privacy/data structure/data acquisition pose significant challenges. I'm sure they'd be interested in your help!
I work in this field (physics journals) as a developer. When this paper came out the authors stressed deeply that the result could be invalid. They said that it needs further exploration. The press blew it out of proportion, and the scientific community was understandably skeptical. It was further explored and found to be an erroneous result, but I am deeply saddened that these scientists have received such a backlash that they were forced to resign.

What would have happened if the perihelion precession of Mercury's orbit was ignored as an erroneous result? We would have lost key evidence for general relativity. What if Becquerel put his photographic plate and uranium rock in a drawer, saw anomalous results, and did not report on them on fear that perhaps somehow the plates were exposed in some other manner?

The point is that barring gross negligence or fraud, scientists should be encouraged to share results that perhaps are inexplicable or against current thinking. These are they types of results that have opened new fields of science in the past.
The original article has a reference to your blog at the top (at least it did when I checked).
I find this type of statistical trick (to handle people lying) to be extraordinarily cool, despite (or because of) how trivial it is.

An especially elegant version: I remember reading an article (probably posted on here) where to figure out how many people were engaged in some illegal activity (opiate production in Afghanistan?), they asked each person to answer the question only after flipping a coin, and if they coin said heads, they were to always say yes. Thus, saying "yes" was no longer incriminating, and all the researchers had to do to get the value they wanted was subtract 50 and double.
I for one think it's a great analogy (having been in a camp I can definitely say that I didn't enjoy it and I was rejected based on that).

I silently deleted my facebook account about two years ago because I didn't like losing my time looking at stupid stuff. I found out that falling into the Facebook time vortex was too much of an inconvenience and the only way around that was to delete Facebook. Now when I say that I don't have a Facebook people ask me what's wrong with me, if I have things to hide and plain and simple tell me that I'm some kind of social pariah...

What bugs me the most is that people are judging me before even hearing my concerns about time wasting, privacy. Facebook has become a token of having a social life.

I am not saying you all should delete your Facebook, that's a matter of personal choice but people should think about what they add to the "standards" of life. In my books Facebook should really not be in the standards.
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Meh... it isn't about how "startups shouldn't just be for the young," because they're not. No actual intelligent, reasonable person with any life experience at all actually believes bullshit like:

Startups are for the young and hungry. You’re thirty? You’re too old. If you haven’t made your first million by 25, you’ve missed your chance. If you’re not working 130 hours a week, you’ll never create the next Google.

Seriously, it's a fun stereotype and it leads to cool movies like The Social Network but - back here in the real world - there are plenty of startups founded by 30+ folks. And, in the real world, it's results that matter in the end, so if you can compete, you can compete. It doesn't matter if you're 19, 29, 39, 49, or whatever.

Then again, I'm a 38 year old startup founder, so what do I know?
Facebook is a "heinous violation of your freedom and imposition on your private space". Would you care to elaborate?

Which of your freedom(s) is being violated?
What of your private space is being imposed upon?
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What?

Can't the NSA use an open graph just as easily as a closed one? And with Facebook, you only have to worry about the government abusing the graph. With an open graph, anyone could abuse it. (Including: advertisers, angry ex-s, people that were upset that they lost a flamewar with you, etc.)
Take a guess:

https://www.google.com/webhp?q=stallman%20google
If your friends judge you for dropping Facebook, it's probably time for new friends. Just sayin'
True, science is driven off of mistakes. However, it's driven off of novel mistakes.

In my own research, I've had experimental results that violated the second law of thermodynamics, showed nuclear fusion at room temperature, and indicated that the strength of the strong force was could be controlled by shaking it. If I published a paper every time I had results that disagreed with known science, I'd have more papers than Feynman.

Of course, the first one turned out to be a bad power supply and the second one a busted motor. There's no science being done there since these are exactly the results one would expect from experiments with those pieces of equipment. As for the third one, I don't know yet, but I already have a couple of good leads on where the problem might be. If I can't find anything, I'll publish the results, but there's a lot of things I need to test before that happens.

As a matter of personal opinion, the vote of no-confidence was probably overkill and the resignation not necessary. Science does need to publish the mistakes so that other scientists can learn from it. Heck, I learned some bits from LIGO's problems with RF a few years back. I think most of the frustration is just coming from the fact that no one's learned anything new from this mistake.
The ability to ssh to another system, launch a GUI app, and have it display on the system you're SSHing from

When was the last time you've actually done that?
Here's my version of a DCPU-16 emulator: https://github.com/bitbckt/DCPU
"...functional user lock-in, and the strength of the social ties between people"

I read this to mean that everyone uses it because it's rude to be the first to leave a party. I always kind of felt that way on social networks, in the same way as even if you don't want to talk to someone, they're a friend-of-a-friend and you're going to have to explain it to them at some point if you block them.

There's like this whole category of people -- I'd say about 95% of the people I've ever met -- who I don't want to talk to, and will avoid hanging out with if possible, but who I don't totally loathe or anything, and I don't want to intentionally hurt their feelings. There's about 2.5% I really hate and want to confront, and 2.5% who I want to hang out with.

The reason I don't have a FB account is not because of what they do in terms of selling data, as gross as that is; it's actually because of what FB and all other social networking is. It's the 95% of people I don't have time for, the 2.5% I loathe, and the 2.5% I can always talk to in some other way. I mean, I also don't have a cell phone, and I also don't come to my door when people knock on it, even if I know they can hear my music playing. My friends have my private phone number and my skype account, and they can call me anytime. Everyone else can kindly or not-so-kindly f* off, and Facebook is nothing if not the ultimate, total collection of "everone else".
Imagine a large chain of shop sets aside an employee to upload the floor plans for each of their stores. The company would probably find it beneficial if they could download/make available the result of using the tool, so that if they wished they could also make the floor plan available to other map providers.
This tool from the site is great in helping you choose what webGL features to use: http://webglstats.com/canuse.html
The market cap of Google alone exceeds the combined market cap of RIAA.
I love Kafka, but I also find much of it hysterically funny.

I think you might be right on the parallel here, we'll see over time if it plays out into an irony filled bureaucratic tragedy for them.

[edit] I think of the DMCA as being something of an area weapon, and startups usually have a much smaller surface area than everybody else.
Does it really matter? As much as I agree with rms on the matter, I don't want him to become the High Judge of what's good and what's evil.
Im going to be "that guy" but this story was already on HN's frontpage yesterday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804508).

Additionally, as per HN's guideline, I would suggest linking to the original piece of information being http://www.etsy.com/hacker-grants and not the TC one.

I tend to do this mistake myself (link to TC posts instead of the original one) but have realized that the HN community prefers to see the original source (from the HN guidelines: Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.).
True, but would there be any less crazy poured on if that weren't the case? The rest of the world currently gets American Crazy as opposed to what? Their own "Objective Rationality"?
You're being purposefully obtuse at this point.

Maybe:

"Perhaps someone who has such narrow and specialized communication needs that they need to browse the web via email isn't in the best position to be dictating what communication methods the world at large should use".

Boiled down futher:

"What's good (and bad) for one person with specific needs isn't the same for everyone else".
Right or wrong, my first reaction was also "heyyy, that's sexist"...

Next is Etsy going to pay guys $5,000 to take knitting classes?
"but there's something wrong with people liking camp because they're supposed to like camp"

Huh? Don't understand what you are talking about... A quick study of human history and psychology will show that this is a bedrock of human behavior. For good and ill, it is what I would regard a well-accepted facet of human nature. We wouldn't be the species we are without the pressures of 'social norms'
For examples, the most recent ones I've seen are linkedin's kafka (scala), and bradford cross's recent post regarding clojure at prismatic (and other posts I've seen regarding both).

For why, I'd assume that they found the abstractions were getting in their way. java.util.concurrent is sort of the minimum abstraction (IMO) between nicer constructs and OS-level threads.
The site design looks very similar to Heroku.
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Dude! Stop being "that guy"!

Sorry, didn't realize this. Gotta catch up on my HN rss.
Walking out may feel good, as righteous indignation so often does, but it doesn’t help your situation. You give up any chance you had of getting the job. Lying is easily disproven, and. worst of all, requires you to lie.
The best answer is to calmly and respectfully say “I believe it’s best for business to keep business and personal life separate. That’s why I keep my private life private.” You may not get the job, but at least you’ll have been turned down while keeping a strong sense of ethics about you… which is more than you can say for companies that would ask to snoop in your private life.

I guess this is the best course of action for most people. But us in the tech industry are in the perfect, and perfectly privileged, position to nip this right in the bud by walking out and explaining our rationale, if only because we can easily get another interview at a company which won't engage in this idiocy.

No reason to allow it to become widespread in the first place.
This experiment was done in Israel - I wonder what would other countries would look like. Israelis seem to be more aggressive and creative in getting what they want than, say, Southern Californians.
I was running in the JVM Clojure repl (and not timing JVM startup time). But this is just a single microbenchmark of the author's choosing so we are right to be suspicious of it!

Does anyone know of a collection of Clojure benchmarks that stress various aspects of the runtime? (garbage collection, immutable update, polymorphism, etc.)
Adding to this:

What has been posted on the Internet; can not be unposted. Be very careful what you say anywhere with that in mind.
Just posting a number of laws does not explain how they are onerous or hard to follow. Let's see...

Minimum wage stuff, no hostile work environment, no unsafe work environment, FMLA doesn't even apply unless you have more than 50 workers, etc.

I know most of this stuff by heart just from being in the workforce, let alone an employer (who I'd assume worked for someone else at some point in their career).
Who is going to do this in brainfuck?
Completely agreed, he completely lacks class. Even better, let's attack his ideas on basis that I don't like his beard, or that he looks a little chubby.

He's not living in "the past", his living in his convictions. And that in itself is to be admired.
Whatever this article says I'm pretty sure it proves whatever it is I already think.
I agree heartily. In the late '90s AOL had millions of users. At the end of many movie trailers there was an AOL keyword instead of a web site URL.

I knew many people who had AOL, but I also knew many people who did not. But it always struck me as absurd that film studios would bet their entire online effort on AOL's walled-garden instead of taking slightly more time to develop a web site as well.

(As an aside, unrelated to my point, the "Space Jam" web site is still live, where are all those AOL keyword pages?)

There is something similar happening today. No one would go back to the days of AOL, yet people find it perfectly reasonable to rely on Facebook to be the sole online presence for businesses and organizations.

This isn't a story about a local coffee shop having a poll to find out which roast is the most popular and doing it using tools that Facebook conveniently provides. This is Intel (based on the linked thread) developing a Facebook "app", with all the energy, money and time that entails in order to hold a contest of sorts.

Would it really have been that much more difficult to do it themselves on the open Internet? They could have still used Facebook to promote it even.

This is AOL all over again in the worst-possible way. I don't hate Facebook, and I didn't hate AOL. I just don't understand the logic behind companies and organizations that lock themselves into a walled-garden when they have other, better, options.
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Just to be clear, I'm just the submitter, this isn't my blog.

Also when I looked at the article originally it did _not_ have that link in the first sentence. Google Cache won't load for me but here's a screenshot of the preview from Google: http://cl.ly/1h2w0I413X063l3e0Z2k
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Come on. You didn't have much choice going to camp because your parents forced you but the only thing forcing you to use Facebook is peer pressure. If you give in to it, it's because you see more pros than cons.

Not feeling sorry for you.

As for the age old myth that people are migrating away from Facebook, dream on. Facebook is scheduled to have a billion users in the next few months, it's going to be around for a very, very long time.
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Unfortunately, the paper (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et...) doesn't say whether the lower mean for the people in the low time pressure group is because they lied less frequently, or because they lied with lower numbers.

I wish they'd included graphs of the actual distributions of reported numbers. That would have been more useful than just the mean, standard deviation, and chi-square results.