skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hasn't Facebook lost a few million members in the US this year? Sure, you can argue that Facebook may gain a stronger foothold in other markets, but I wouldn't dismiss the thought that Facebook has a rather fad-ish nature and people may get bored of it sooner or later.
Clinton went on Arsenio Hall. He didn't need tokenism.

If you want to claim there's no undercurrent of racism in standard Republican messaging, well, I can't prove it to you. Just know that most black people disagree with you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/22/simpsons-mocks-fox-...
The problem here I suspect is that there are sensible bases for the core tenets of different political points of view, and they end up being stifled because of it.
Title was: "Graphic: Compare all the Tech I.P.O.'s Since 1980 to Facebook's"

That seems strictly superior to me. Who's the editor/bot changing every submission titles back to the article title even when it removes (sometimes vital) context?
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Back compat is only useful in a business sense in that consumers don't have to decide between new console and no games or old console and lots of games. Once the new console has lots of games, that simply becomes the only option.
That's the hazard of Section 83. You greatly minimize your tax exposure if the stock increases in value, but you take a wash if it sinks. If you didn't want to take the risk of a loss, you should not have elected into Section 83.
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Its fun to see majority of IPOs in 80s were proper Engineering companies. I was just talking to someone who is a Civil Engineer (in his 50s) and he mentioned the same. He did comment that people in his generation built proper engineering companies. I don't understand why do people think Internet startups are trivial. One way we can say Internet has been game changer - Groupon brought easier advertising mechanism for local SMBs. LinkedIn connected professionals across the world. FB has created a virtual interconnected world. Of course there are duds like Zynga whose biggest achievement so far is pasting cows on the Internet. And multitude of other companies like AirBnB who are disrupting entirely new industries. These companies are definitely gamechangers.

However, I've seen lot of my colleagues from fields like Mechancal Engineering or BioMedical Engineering jumped on SoLoMo wagon and mostly working on some awful apps. I think Internet has diverted attention from real engineering to some "shitty" startups/solutions that are in search of problem, thanks to dot com bubble in 90s.
There's a big difference between a ponzi scheme and a line of business that may not be working as well as it is hoped.
Feature wise FB may be ok, but from the user experience perspective they have failed to offer anything remotely attractive on the mobile. This is what makes apps like Path and Everyme attractive, they were designed with mobile in mind.
This is an excellent insight. One really has to consider the total available market when valuing a business. The simple and intuitive example is if there is only one dog food store in Duluth Minnesota, population circa 87,000 it might have a value of $X, but if there is only one dogfood store in New York City, population circa 8.25 million then you would have to get the store in NY a higher valuation than the one in Duluth, based simply on the number of potential customers.

That is one of the big differences between the dot.com bubble and today's valuations. In the 90's there were tons of people who only used their computers at work and didn't have one at home. That has flipped where lots have them at home and a large fraction have them in their pocket. So the valuation of a company that requires network access to be successful has to be proportionate to the network population.
The service is great and I'm interested in hearing about the new features, which is why I personally vote up the posts.

New AWS features often hit the front page as well, so I'm not too worried that there is a Parse conspiracy at play. :-)
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Where to begin - first, our apps perform at least 30x better. Facebook mobile apps sometimes lag for 30 seconds or more loading new content, ours is instantaneous. Our app was natively built for all platforms. Second, we are backwards compatible with email and text. I think FB might handle email replies as well but text is huge on mobile and is a big deal for our users. Third, we can build your groups automatically for you with Magic Circles. Fourth, we are hooked into all major social networks and are constantly scanning for interesting events occurring in your life. When we find those events, we post them to your Circles for you (if you have the setting turned on) - this takes the effort out of sharing. There's more but I encourage you to try the app and see for yourself how much better it is.
I think this IPO will signal the beginning of the latest tech bubble reaching maximum capacity. I can't imagine how a valuation as big as this, held against a revenue stream that's nowhere near as tangible, could possibly create meaningful growth for shareholders. Unless Facebook decides to find more ingenious ways to sell the data we provide.
Fair enough. But even if I accept your definition of a "use," there are millions of files you could legitimately download with BT. There are a handful of locks you could legitimately open with a lockpick.
I don't know what that means, but the accomplishments of Powell and Rice stand on their own. It is ludicrous to deem them mere tokens. In fact if Bush was a dumb as the haters say, Condi was to all intents and purposes both the first black and the first female President...
I actually posted it initially without the double quotes, but then realized I would see a lot of posts like yours so edited it very quickly to add the double quotes in.
Why was he even pitching this talk to TED, a conference about rich people, for other rich people?

That would be like me pitching a show to Fox News about how white christian males are scum and should be burned for fuel. It's the wrong message, for the wrong audience.
Anything to pick a fight, right?
Was about to say the same! It was fun. My impression is that on average, the same % of companies fall in 80s, 90s and 00. (of course during bubble there was much more companies on the market). Some to think that Yahoo made 3,500% three years later, not too shabby!
I do appreciate the bubbly themed chart.
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Thanks! Great to hear.

We understand the frustration of trying new social networks, but we hope you'll give Everyme a try. We added "Export Your Data" today, which means you can request an archive of everything you've shared on Everyme whenever you like.
You'll have to cast out that beam in your eye first. Cabrini-Green is no big deal?

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2010/10/end-of-cabrini-gre...

Your choice: grow up without a "right" to vote (not actually a right but a power, and of no direct value to you). Or grow up in Cabrini-Green.

Oh, and my party:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism

Democracy is working out pretty much as we always expected. Don't you think? You think your system of government is a success? Oh, please, I can't wait to hear this.
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"just roll it out and make everyone do what we did" is precisely the mechanism that has saddled us with innumerable busted protocols and bizarre implementation artifacts.
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Holy crap :)

Remind me to stay on your good side. I suddenly realized there may be bad consequences to 'checking in', such as punching out.
I can only skip commercials if I've recorded the show. If I want to watch live (sporting events!), I will eventually have to sit through commercials.

Facebook ads, on the other hand, I block in real time and don't even remember what they look like.
Yes, most of the pro digital music production software is available for Windows and Mac (no linux): Propellerheads Reason, the whole Native Instruments product stack, Ableton.

There are just a few obvious Mac-only exceptions such as Garage Band and Logic Pro. Sadly none of the "industry standard" DAWs support Linux.
TED claims the talk in question was "needlessly partisan".

That's almost right; just change "less" to "full".

When a problem has overwhelmingly been created by one party, then yeah, of course you're going to have to be "partisan" to address it.
Their accomplishments do stand on their own. You were using them as tokens in the above post, and I called it out. A couple of public figures don't undo an entire culture and electoral strategy.
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It was trading at $32-$34 just a month ago in SecondMarket trading, so it's up about 11% in just the past month, even with the market in general down about 10%.

Will open trading at 110 P/E ratio, Google's currently at 18.8.

GM announces they are pulling $10M from Facebook advertising because it's completely ineffective.

Their latest quarterly results prior to their IPO show that revenue is plateauing, even though their IPO prices in a 30% revenue growth year-over-year for the next 5 years.

Most inside investment banks (Goldman e.g.) are dumping more than 50% of their shares.

Other than that...great investment opportunity.
I am really confusing by following term and conditions

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Oh good! That's much better. Hopefully they've corrected it, because it honestly made me mentally file away the service as "won't use".
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I don't see why Varnish would create one thread per allocation. They are using epoll/kqueue on an accept thread to handle new incoming requests. The requests themselves are handled by worker thread pool.
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Is the original available? I'd like to look into this. Thanks!
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You're right, of course - I'm glad to be corrected.

What I really meant to say was that in 1962 there were no no-go zones anywhere in America, Crackerjack Peckerwood Creek in the deep back asshole of Alabama where no one without a mullet in a Camaro would want to go anyway excepted. (Alas, in 1962 there were no Camaros either.)

Trust me, I went to high school in Howard County, Maryland, and I would be the last person in the world to speak up for the indigenous American peckerwood. However, I also note that there's a big difference between Peckerwood, Alabama being a no-go zone (if your skin is darker than a bad white zinfandel), and half of Brooklyn being a no-go zone (for any sane person regardless of race, color or creed).
> What I find interesting is that most attention is being spent on BSNES when the subject of cycle accuracy and proper emulation of hardware comes up, like this is a new or novel discovery.

I never intended to convey that this is a new idea, sorry. I do believe my cooperative threading model is a new concept in emulation, but it's still a ridiculously old one in computer science.

> The NES scene in particular ...

... is not as rosy as it seems. Having recently written an NES emulator, I can tell you that they're far from completion. For just one example, all of those mapper chips are basically a big unknown. Those chips have ways of detecting scanline edges to simulate IRQs and split-screen effects. This is done by monitoring the bus for certain patterns from the cart-side. And the details of this stuff? Completely unknown. Not even Nestopia nor Nintendulator attempt to simulate this: they just have the PPU -tell- the mapper when a scanline edge is hit. I could be wrong, but I believe I'm the first to even attempt to have the mapper detect scanlines by monitoring the bus.

And we're talking chips that are dozens of times less complex in the worst case than some of the SNES coprocessors.

> It's no longer the 90s and people shouldn't even have to mention NESticle existed in an article unless they're that out of touch with trends of the last decade.

The important part of that article is that the SNES was (and largely still is) in the NESticle phase of development, which was the purpose of bsnes. Unfortunately, just as we go from NESticle (25-50MHz) to Nestopia (800MHz required); ZSNES (200MHz) to bsnes (2-3GHz) needs a huge jump. But this time, that jump is hitting the wall of where most computer users are at. While people didn't notice Nestopia because everyone has at least a 1GHz processor these days, bsnes was not so fortunate.

So the article was more about explaining what that level of overhead is required for.
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Not at all. Just demonstrating the falseness of the assertion that Republicans don't represent or respect blacks.

Once again: The world is not as simple as that.

Oh, and while I am here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats

Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the American South. In the 19th century, they were the definitive pro-slavery wing of the party, opposed to both the anti-slavery Republicans (GOP)
Cheeky side note: it'd be nice if the author could program their web server to send the correct character set so that the © symbol doesn't show up as �. It's being served with:

Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8

whereas the charset is actually in ISO-8859-1.
This is a great landing page as well. Good messaging, clean design, etc.

So if there isn't a browser plugin, how does the js get the kinect data?
Well, it's not something that I have definitely concluded, but in my opinion, the speaker has lost significant credibility. If someone is willing to lie and bully in order to voice a particular opinion, why should I not expect them to lie or bully in trying persuade me to that opinion? No, it isn't a given, but that's the way I see it.
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GM announces they are pulling $10M from Facebook advertising because it's completely ineffective.

Don't forget Ford following up and claiming their FB ads are working fine. http://www.autoblog.com/2012/05/17/ford-and-gm-in-twitterfig...
What? No. As an outsider, it is yet another example that both your parties are perfectly worthless. "Hey, Democrats, here's an argument you should use" is only partisan if there was a snowflake's chance in hell that they'd actually do something. But the Big People with their arms in the puppet on the right don't want that just as little as the ones fisting the puppet on the left.

Four years after replacing the Beast with the Smiler, and what have you learned?

"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos"
"www" might be a very special case, but there are lots of times where "this.domain.com" is completely unrelated to "that.domain.com".

Many sites, for example give users their own "name.whatever.com" subdomain. In those cases treating the sites as the same doesn't make any sense.
Having been in the beta for the past several months, I've been very impressed with the service. Super useful!
How many Linux apps run on ARM? I actually don't know, but I assume the vast majority of them.
Yeah, that information is really represented in the transition between the pages. So I just ended up clicking back and forth between 4 and 5 to get a feel for those kinds of patterns (like an animated weather map).
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I would say the opposite, actually.

"They" as a gender neutral singular pronoun is, to me, perfectly natural. I use it dozens of times a day as such without noticing.

Spivak pronouns, on the other hand, are blatantly marked, and were I to come across them in writing or speech, I'd find them very distracting.
It bothers me when other engineers I work with use common terms in ways that don't mesh with their definitions in standards documents.

Please, fellow engineers, read the standards documents, and use terms correctly. Even the ones that you think you know already.
Fantastic job. I've seen quite a few impressive interactive charts over at the nytimes in the past year or so.
I actually think the transition from 3 to 5 (directly) is more interesting than the one from 4 to 5. Well, they're both interesting, so it's cool the visualization supports both.
I'd be happy to take a look if you could send me an example of an XML file and its conversion to CSV.
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One teeny tiny nitpick:

The game is distinguished by its use of a 3D rendering technique called cel shading

As far as I can tell (both from playing the game myself and from what I read online), Borderlands does not use cel shading. Instead, it uses normal rendering techniques but uses textures which were crafted to make it appear cartoon-like. The end result may be quite similar, but its not really the same thing.

As I said, tiny nitpick :)

Other than that, interesting read and the HN comments from last time it was posted are a great read too.
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So, you're saying; Saverin owes us. Is that correct?
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Hello,

I made a chrome extension that shows a github repository's commits, issues and status updates against the repo's contributors in one view.

My team uses github issues and we have daily standups, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to get a cohesive view of the progress each developer was making and the problems he was running into. I tried to bring these 3 things together (commits, standup updates, github issues) to give that view.

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If you're confident that Facebook is going to tank off the hop (and brave) you could short some other tech stocks (GRPN, LNKD) in the hopes that the negative sentiment spills over.
It wasn't me. I didn't realize that HN had the ability to swap 'em out on you.
Awesome chart. NYTimes always does such a great job with charts and graphical data representation. Many would do well to learn from NYT, instead of chartjunk with clipart and few data points.
Well not all of them play in the US.

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They should be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zis6s8nMhCw&feature=relat...
This was an issue on Reddit and elsewhere. Ticket prices to a TED talk are at least $6k apparently http://www.ted.com/conversations/1950/ted_s_6000_price_tag_l...

One ticket went for $33k http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2008/01/a...
I think it's different this time. People are aware that a bubble is an eventuality, so this time the game is knowing when to jump ship.
I think you might be referring to the Bacterial Growth Curve ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_growth
Byuu himself! :D

It's great to see you on here. I've read a lot of the writeups on your site and they're very, very fascinating stuff. BSNES/Accuracy has become my favorite emulator as well, when I can spare the clock cycles.

So thanks for being awesome, and doubly thanks for your attention to detail when nobody else seems to think its important.
We like that you like the design. A small package is installed which sits in the background.
If a web app is using the JS library/SDK, then it will work in any modern browser.
I guess other types will come in future packs.
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I can't really take anyone seriously who says a "Web developer" is today's equivalent of "Visual Basic programmer". The problem with visual basic came when people start drag dropping things together, which isn't even what rails is about.

I would also bet heavily that the number of programmming jobs needing low levels of CS knowledge but high levels of complexity management are growing at a great, great rate compared to jobs requiring high levels of CS knowledge.

Marginalized? I think not. That 20 people with a mere 8 weeks programming experience, people who will be relatively useless at programming for another year or so, are in such great demand says everything.
Nope. As @arscan says, in this as in most bubble charts, the value determines the circle's area, not the radius. Otherwise it certainly would be misleading.
"Less bad" != "Good"
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How much is a ticket to their youtube channel?
"BUT everyone's on Facebook!!"

...what could possibly go wrong??
Especially when the person lecturing them about inequality uses blatant, easily-debunked lies to do it. ("When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest...")
That model is still hanging on because old people still watch television. Meanwhile, young folks are downloading shows or recording them with a PVR so they can skip commercials. The best shows on television are on premium cable, subscription based, with no commercials. Netflix, Hulu, Youtube are great alternatives.

How are radio and newspaper ads doing? Just because the television advertising model hasn't crumbled yet doesn't mean it's invincible.
Great read, very educational. Definitely took a lot from it and now going to revamp the form on our landing page. Thanks for the share!
Yup, it's just one metric, and "after 3 years" is pretty arbitrary.

Still interesting if you keep this in mind.

But I'd argue the most relevant time (for comparison of how well these companies built stable long-term value) is now, and it would be interesting to see numbers for % growth from IPO to now, or better yet, that measured per year (CAGR).
We've asked them to change it, so hopefully it'll get edited soon! Thanks for pointing it out.
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Even without a license, this is still a copyright violation for distributing something he doesn't have rights to.
Hm. Delicious had ~ 7m registered when I left. Maybe not so different in size.
I am wondering what your actual goal is. I am wondering if explaining that would get more replies. I would love to hear more on the topic. I am trying to figure out how to get more traffic to my sites. I assume that is the same thing but maybe there are a variety of tactics beyond "SEO"?
Plus their mobile platform straight up sucks. It takes ages for mine to load (on iphone 3gs) on wifi or 3g. Even then, some of its capabilities are hobbled. I was trying to do something the other day (i dont remember what), but was very frustrated at not being able to do it.