skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Facebook Is Killing Itself
I have to admit that I am currently losing interest in Facebook and one of the primary reason is the latest feature up-gradations.
Write hybrid CPU/GPU programs in Haskell
Well personally right now I have stopped playing Draw Something entirely since now it wont LET me play unless I give it permission to 'post to Facebook on my behalf'.

No chance, Zynga
> Ouch. It's one thing to have your idea panned, but to say "nobody gives a shit about your team"? That's harsh.

Thats the sentence that got me too. It shouldn't be personal and that was very personal. Harsh comments about the idea, the technology used, the implementation, the design or even the presentation is acceptable but to say no one gives a shit about your team is almost like being racist (in the startup world).

I say this because it seems that the judge was making a judgement on someone simply because they might not have had any rockstar engineers or might not (up to this date) done anything of note, which really doesn't mean anything, simply judging the book by its cover without even willing to read the summary at the back.
It's because business isn't a kindergarden playground.

You don't just say "no more" to your biggest customer who is prepaying billions of dollars which you can then use to invest in new technologies. The same technologies which you can use across your product lines not just smartphones.
Performance / UI fluidity issues - that hasn't been true since long time now, especially so since ICS. Only hardcore apple enthusiasts and the ignorant keep repeating that (and Windows viruses) ;)
Facebook offers Microsoft Security Essentials as a security solution
And if there was an area where most businesses can make money people would enter the market until the average business didn't make money.
You'd be surprised what consumers can mistake a product for. In many people's eyes, iPhone == smartphone. It'd be a relatively simple mistake to make if you are a elderly non-techie.
As if you cannot read through paper through other means besides opening an envelope. I imagine that it would be problematic to read all snail mail, but if they have machines to read the destination address in a serial fashion, there's always the possibility of tagging along another machine next to it or even embedded on the previous one to read the contents inside the envelopes with something not in the electromagnetic visible range.
This article has more tracking cookies embedded than any other site I've ever seen - by a factor of 2, at least. Consider yourself warned.
Seems stupid on the part of the owner, not like they are going to find a big brand that matches the domain so well again and who knows how long domains will be valuable.
Local File Editor for Chrome using NPAPI.
Code it again, Sam: Microsoft's Casablanca ties C++ to the cloud
Some crimes I would commit in a heart beat, out of principle, because laws are sometime white and it's moral obligation to disobey them.
It's interesting to see how it's progressed.

Before git-scm.com there was git.or.cz:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080102111752/http://git.or.cz/
Hyperlink Spoofing and the Modern Web
Free startup idea: Something that will sell content, like http://kout.me/, but, instead of money, you ask for a (verified) email address beforehand. A configurable amount of time later (a month if it's a book, three days if it's a video, etc), you send the "buyer" an email, asking them to donate if they enjoyed the content, and make that process as easy as possible.

I know I've wanted to donate many times for things I got for free, or for books that were handed down to me, or whatever, but there doesn't currently exist a good model for this. I like the "pay what you want" model of leanpub, but I think you would get even more revenue per thing if you made it free to read and based it on the honor system.

Anyway, it sounds like an interesting experiment.
XSS technique without parentheses
I'm using bytesized hosting here: https://bytesized-hosting.com/

My server is located in Luxembourg.
Because when you are a retail store you are only looking at the front of a device not the back. In some stores they actually have the tablets fixed to the table.

Also outside of the US (and pretty sure in the US as well) the same retail chains will sell all types of tablets including iPads.
Also, it's now much harder to find tarballs for Linux. You have to follow the "older releases" link even if you want the most recent version.
My guess is that because Draw Something actually takes effort to do versus Words with Friends is just a quick thing you can play constantly for weeks on end. I know that for me Draw Something was really fun because it was new, but now it almost takes to much effort to fire it up and play for a quick time waster.
I've seen lots of opinions about such a project. Lots go against it, as in the case of recent Chrome Terminal, while many have been asking for such a thing.

Is this good? Will you be interested if your browser becomes your editor and terminal as well?
Which are still low numbers.

My nexus one with animations disabled is sluggish. Mainly dragging maps is embarrassing.

on the other hand, the 3gs of the time is also laggy. And it's not even on ios4
Weight of the World: The Ongoing Fight Over How to Define the Kilogram
A new model for secure servers would be amazing. I wish that there was something like bittorrent for servers. No centralized server, instead clients grab data from each other. Some form of security to ensure the data is correct. Possible to find other users in this form, but no way to take the server down.

Quoting this from the other comment I made above:

I'm using bytesized hosting here: https://bytesized-hosting.com/

My server is located in Luxembourg.
For what it's worth, the "different retail chain" isn't as different as you might think. Apple only sells 15% of all iPhones in the US directly. Most of them are bought through cell providers and Best Buy.

http://allthingsd.com/20120323/best-buy-is-selling-nearly-as...
Nope. C-H concerns the simply typed lambda calculus which is not Turing-complete. Thus C-H only applies to non-recursive functional programs (or equivalent).

A proof is a program, but a program is not always a proof (as proofs must terminate).
Dheerthan, Search Humanised. A Peer Link Tagging and Searching Website
I'm pretty sure my reaction to this is due to being outside YC & SV, but ...

We raised $1.5 million in 10 days and pretty much the whole time we didn’t feel very good.

Ten days? Didn't feel very good? That's fundraising? Wow. What can I even say to that? Congrats guys.
Just create a regular account with email instead of fb
I'm baffled that the author doesn't consider the acquisition as a cause for the decline.
Groupon Loses Half of Value Since IPO on Accounting Woes
Certainly those rates should entitle one to an actionable SLA...am I clueless? I'm not trying to rag on unions at all (though what union would neteng be a part of?), but for insane money you should get insane service.
if you want to try outsourcing, try HiretheWorld

no spam. great customer service and better escrow system then other sites
I don't think modern quantum theory holds that the universe is non-deterministic. I think it's still somewhat of an open question.

However, I also don't think a deterministic universe would be sufficient to allow you to predict it, because getting the state of the universe is still impossible following the uncertainty principle.
Exactly why I deleted it as well. I accidentally granted it permission, then found the setting to change the permissions back, and then I could no longer access the app under that account. Game over.
Photography idea | Beautiful Photography Pictures | Top
Comodo Dragon 18.3.0.0 on Downloads App
Holy cow, I didn't even know that we had Haskell -> CUDA compilation working. Very awesome stuff!
The Next iPhone Is Coming Soon--And It's Skinnier Than Don Draper's Tie
Yeah, I miss domo-kun.
Toma.hk Embeds Music from Spotify, SoundCloud, Last.fm, More
That's really cool.

I also like how the blog post is available as a literate Haskell file. I think that's a great way to make an introduction more useful, and I wish more languages would take an approach like that for different articles.
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His point is that going public increases liquidity on static wealth. The act of going public doesn't make more wealth, even if it lets people convert stock notes to dollar notes.
Bulova watches gold
The six follies of science
Actually, that's a fascinating point. I wonder if Github has considered coughing up the the $185k to apply for the .git TLD.
Personally it is the opposite for me. Words with Friends takes a lot of mental effort to figure things out, versus drawing a quick sketch without having to worry about losing balloons, etc.

I'm still playing Draw Something, but got bored of Words with Friends.
Heads up: the graph is misleading as it does not start that Y axis at 0.

(Nor does it go back very far.)
Proof that Open Source can have beautiful websites.
Free security testing from Stanford security lab
Hi Y-Combinator folks,

I wanted to let you know about a security study that we at the Stanford security lab (seclab.stanford.edu) are running, in conjunction with some of our alumni at Google security, to see if any of your startup would be interested. In a nutshell, we are offering to scan any web application with a suite of leading commercial black-box web-application vulnerability detectors (whose license costs would total $50k annually), give the developers the output reports, and help them interpret these reports if they wish. In exchange, we ask you to participate in a 1-2 hour study/interview about their engineering practices w.r.t. security.

Basically, we've gotten licenses to use 4 of the leading commercial black box web application vulnerability scanners: Acunetix WVS, IBM AppScan, HP WebInspect, and Qualys Qualysguard, because of our previous research paper on the topic: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5504795&tag=1
We would like to understand something about the Web application engineering process with regards to security, so we reached out to Stanford affiliated startups to see whether they would like a free, fairly comprehensive security evaluation in exchange for answering some questions about their security training and whether they include any security considerations in their development process. We've gotten about responses from about 20 such groups at Stanford, but we'd like an even broader sample, which is why we are reaching out to you.

What it will "cost" the participants:
* 1-2 hours of time for an interview/survey. We will ask questions about their security background/education and their application engineering process w.r.t. security
* permission for us to send up to about 2GB/day of network traffic at their applications, for a period of up to 3 days
* small misc. requests, such as creating an account for the scanner in their application<p>What you will get:
* A security assessment by state-of-the-art commercial scanners
* Vulnerability reports from all of the scanners we run on their site
* Our help in interpreting the reports, should you want it<p>Also, our study is aimed at gather aggregate statistics and data, so we promise not to disclose/publish any vulnerability data associated a named site without the site developer's permission.<p>If you or the your startup have any questions, feel free to email us at jbau at stanford and frankw2 at stanford.<p>We would love your participation.

Regards,
Jason Bau
Ph.D. candidate, Stanford Seclab
I don't get it. What if this is my home page? What if I intend to run the campaign "forever?"

If k is an estimate of how much traffic I will ever see, it seems like I'm going to be calculating the Phi-inverse of approximately 0.

Where can I see Anscombe's paper online? (It was published in 1963; it's not linked in the blog post, just cited.)
This points to a sign up website, nothing else. Flagging.
I don't understand why people don't name these sort of guys. I mean, it's not slander or anything, if it was actually said, you're in the clear to name the person who said it, no?
Is there any way for me to see examples of the kinds of stuff it does? I wanted a peek at how this was different from other sites of the same kind and there isn't any information readily available. And then I thought I had to signup to look inside, which I figured I'd do to give feedback - and then it's not available yet?

How will this be different from using Stack Overflow or TopCoder? Is this meant to be a general purpose site of the same kind? How does it work?

What is this?
This is rather off-topic, but this is a problem I'm having now with the product I'm currently developing (http://www.instahero.com). I believe it's a good idea and that there's a need for it, but feedback hasn't been great.

At any rate, this post gives me hope that I'm not wasting my time, so I'll try hard to get the MVP out and see what customers think.
Hi,

Would you like to be part of our study? All of the scanning tools we offer for free are certified for PCI compliance.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3931039
The ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI frameworks use Git (hosted on Codeplex.) Link: http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/
Very nice and clean, but, and I know I'll get boo'ed down for this, it's always a bit tiresome to see gender norms reinforced in slogans like, "--not-your-daddys-version-control."
The negative meaning should not be accepted or acknowledged. When something is incorrect it's incorrect, no matter how many people believe it.
Ditto. I started tinkering with computers and other electronics when I was maybe 10 years old and I feel that it has given me an immunity to getting sucked in hard to the latest crazes out there.

I also try to only go on Facebook and other internet dens maybe once per week just to check for messages and see if anything interesting is going on. I can't stand the idea of being tied to the internet by the hip. I'd rather spend my "down" time doing things of a more analog nature to balance out the 60 hours per week that I'm either at work or working on personal tech stuff.

That said, HN is a little harder to stay away from.... :o)
Protecting customers from misrepresentation – unknowingly being sold something that does not match the logo stamped on it: fine; protecting a megacorp from its competitors selling something with similar design, but a different brand name: customers lose.
Excellent Demo! I like it!
Smartphones Battle: Samsug Galaxy S3 vs. iPhone 4S vs. HTC One X vs. Lumnia 900
> The rule allowed time to do what some behavioral psychologists call “surfing the urge.” When an urge takes hold, bringing attention to the sensations of stress and riding them like a wave–neither pushing them away, nor acting on them–helps us cope until the feelings subside.

I haven't heard of this before, but it seems potentially really useful.
My wife's Nexus One doesn't seem to lag with default animation settings - running CM7. Both 3GS and N1 are arguably old devices in mobile times!
Could you please put this up on Leanpub (http://www.leanpub.com)? It will take care of the compiling for you, and I'd like to pay a bit for it.

Also, leanpub is awesome (I'm not affiliated with them, but I'm a very happy user).
Not necessarily of Shipper but I'm sick of these "long conversation" ways of explaining things that don't need to be simplified. This is an almost boringly simple problem (I'm not trying to be condescending, but this is freshman CS stuff), we don't need to be eased into the complex situation at hand.
Stop thinking about it and do it, sounds like a great idea :)
Penrose's idea about the relationship between Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics was used by Neal Stephenson in his SciFi tome, Anathem. Very interesting concept, mediocre book.
Silicon Valley needs to end its snobbery about computer science degrees
Unnecessary, agreed. FWIW, they appear to rotate randomly on page load.
Well here: http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/225826214141508-draw-so...

5M users is still 33% of 15M (their peak) no matter how you plot it.

It is a fad mini game without too much depth and little repeat value. Trend is not surprising. I'd say it is expected.
Talking radical life extension at Humanity+ 2012 in Melbourne
Thanks! :-)

Originally, I wanted to extract a summary from each article, but then I ran out of time. I might do this in the future.
Well, it's a funny thing, right? You want to be professional, and sometimes people do things they regret. Everyone makes mistakes.

On the other hand, how else do people know who these people are? There's no way for us to know if this is a mistake or a common occurrence.
Glancee is Joining Facebook
That hardly needs a "heads-up" (where else would one's head be?), as the graph is clearly labeled, so is in no way misleading. The fact that it doesn't go back very far only goes to emphasize how rapid the decline is.
Thanks, but how are those graphs better? They aren’t anchored at zero either and don’t show more than 30 days without some sort of premium account.

> It is a fad mini game without too much depth and little repeat value. Trend is not surprising. I'd say it is expected.

Most likely. I sure got tired of drawing the same, sponsored words.
You honestly believe that there's a reasonable chance 30% of their players quit because Zynga bought the company? Most people don't even know who Zynga or OMGPOP are, they just know about specific games.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll definitely make it clearer.

To answer your question, Stack Overflow is for getting information, and this is for proving you have knowledge or skills.

The proof is through solving community-made problems, and discussion.

This is an accurate score that indicates whether someone is qualified with a skill or not, and we imagine people showing their Aptt scores on resumes, rather than needing a college degree.

The page we made was just to basically see if this is something people are interested in.
Facebook Buys Location-Based Discovery App Glancee
I don't think I would describe most of these protocols as "dead simple". Consider the multitude of attacks that existed/continue to exist against some of these protocols after decades of use. TCP reliable transmission and flow control are pretty tricky. The connection state diagram alone in RFC793 is non-trivial.
It's one of the ugliest phone's I've ever seen. Terrible engineering. Sure, the guts are great, but aesthetically it looks awful. Also can't believe that Apple has a patent on a damn square. Unbelievable.
This is convoluted at best, the internet is not the telephone.

The more they push, there more technology that uses encryption/vps/offshore/offworld/alternative routes/etc will become easier for the average user and not just the command line jockey.

So what will the FBI do when sites start registering in other countries, use hosting in other countries, use alternative non U.S. DNS, open source, and encryption?

ps. This is already happening on the small scale , and the losers are the job market.

As a Canadian I no longer register .com names nor do I host in the U.S., and I did so for 10 years.
Windows 8 dropping the ability to play DVDs
Cheap Air Jordan 4 Doernbecher Superman Shoes for Sale
Marissa Mayer nominated to join Wal-Mart's board
I actually thought the blog post was the opposite of how you read it.

They're basically saying "it doesn't matter that we got funding - our users don't care" (which they don't) but they also know this will raise their profile in terms of finding talented engineers.

The message being "we're hiring and investors believe in us - you should too".

I thought it was refreshing.
It’s not deceitful, but it’s still not worth much as a graph.

1. We think in terms of fractions. What fraction of users have left? It can be calculated from the numbers, but you don’t need a graph for that. If you started the axis at 0, it wouldn’t need calculated — it could be seen.

2. Not showing longer history makes it impossible to answer questions like, “how does the current rate of loss of users compare to the rate of growth a month earlier?”

Your attempted point about “emphasizing how rapid the decline is” is, to be blunt, the stupidest thing I read today. How does showing less data, less clearly, help anyone? Clearly, showing more history would give an accurate picture of “how rapid” the decline is or isn’t — again, see point #2 above.

Last point. As a thought exercise, consider a graph that goes up rapidly, then reaches an inflection point after which it slowly, steadily goes down — by no more than a total 1% over its run. It would look mostly flat after the inflection point, as part of the whole, complete graph. But zoom in, so the axes only contain points in that slow, mild down slope, and it looks like a dramatic slide from “a lot” to “nothing at all,” right? Not very helpful.
There are a few places in the US where going up to someone on the street and saying "not your mother's version control" will get you stabbed.

Both my mother and my father have worked in the software industry (though before version control was the norm). I don't find either version offensive and I don't see any problem with a silly quip implying my father uses a version control system unlike the one being described.

EDIT: It occurred to me that my story goes even deeper.

The syntactic template "Not your father's X" is a reference to a well known ad campaign by General Motors. "Not your father's Oldsmobile" the slogan went. It was clearly an attempt to remove the strong association with an older generation that the brand had among younger buyers. It couldn't have helped that the nickname for the brand was "Olds", but that association was also somewhat based in fact: the car was indisputably a favorite among old people. Once at a family reunion I noticed that most of my aunts and uncles drove Oldsmobiles, with a few Buicks thrown in for good measure.

Note that another effect of this campaign also worked to discourage the perception of Oldsmobiles as appropriate for specifically male buyers. Clearly they wanted all the buyers they could get. So "Not your father's X" seems constructed to actively remove gender stereotyping, not reinforce it.

Apparently the ad campaign didn't work well enough, as GM stopped producing new cars under the Oldsmobile brand a few years ago.

Indeed my father did have an Oldsmobile for a few years, during which he had a software startup. However, he had inherited it from my grandmother when she died. When the AC broke in a way that was not economical to repair my dad went back to driving Toyotas and he gave me the Olds. So that actually was my father's Oldsmobile (but I associated it more with my grandmother).

That reminds me, I've been meaning to ask Dad what kind of source code control system he's using these days...
The tag lines are one of the few things I dislike about this site. Show me the technology, not memes
> Galaxy Nexus seemed like an iteration of Galaxy S2

Really? To me the Galaxy Nexus has one of the most distinctive designs on the market - it's pure black, unmarked front with subtle curves on every surface are quite unusual.
It's totally common to see the defendant and his lawyer sealed out of their own case.
I wonder if anybody has a server on their network named 'git' with which the single label DNS name 'git' as a TLD would conflict?
Oh, thank you. I think it was the grammar error which threw me: The first stable version was the JDK 1.0.2. which is called Java 1