skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most successful and enduring businesses of the last 100 years has been television. A large chunk of which uses such a model. So the idea it will fail is a little misguided.
Relatedly, the same thing that gives you slipstream (lower following distances at a given speed) increases car density on the road at any speed, which increases road capacity, which decreases congestion and idling. My guess is that this effect, not the aerodynamics, is the biggest benefit.

Also note that self-driven cars can park themselves and shut off the engine to avoid congestion instead of simply sitting in a slow-moving queue at a "metering light".
It's a typo. What TC describes is our commission of the delivery fee. ;) Otherwise i would agree with you that this would make very little sense!
“It always bothers me when somebody renounces his citizenship in the greatest country on Earth just to save money, save taxes,” Hatch said in an interview. “I was really upset at Eduardo Saverin for doing that, and there are others who are doing it too.”
And, he added, “they’re going to rue the day that they did that.”

1) He talks about Eduardo like he knows him - really? Is there any way for him to know why Eduardo really did this (maybe he actually does like Signapore more than the USA).

2) He acts like he personally just got ripped off by Eduardo - I'm not sure laws are best created out of spite.

3) The arrogance that people outside the US have a terrible quality of life is incredibly disconcerting. It leads to a sort of insulated security that comes from telling ourselves we're so great and maintaing the status quo because it's easier instead of looking at other countries that are legitimately competing with us, learning from them and improving.
Facebook's IPO will be bigger because they put off their IPO as long as possible. In fact they got special dispensation from the SEC to delay the IPO even longer. So comparing FB in 2012 to Google in 2004 is not really useful.
This is why I love HackerNews. Guy asks for SEO help, frigg'n Matt Cutts answers!
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I was making a joke that probably was not as obvious as it could have been. :-)
I setup a FB CPM campaign over a year ago, at a very low CPM bid, and basically forgot about it because my ad never outbid other campaigns. Then in September of last year, it started spending the daily limit.

I initially thought that FB was fudging the black box to extract more money out of advertisers before the IPO to make itself look better on paper. But, now I'm more convinced that the market for FB advertising has dried up a bit, confirming your comment.
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Even when your suggestion is highly sophisticated, I'd rather stay non-paranoid, which itself is often just a description given by others and at that time not an actual condition or mental state. Anyway, I would certainly be interested to read about new studies related to Van Eck phreaking (or similar). Google-search revealed mostly the same old stuff that were there years ago.

I'm sure that signal processing and abilities to adjust signal-to-noise -ratio have generally developed upwards since 2006 (or something).
The world is not that simple. Bush had Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, who did Bill Clinton have? Al Sharpton?
Exactamundo, my friend, but non-ironically of course!
As consoles get faster, accurate emulation becomes harder, but high-level emulation becomes much more accurate: programs get higher level, more dependent on library functions and (much) less on exact timing; hardware gets more uniform and programmable.

The Dolphin Wii emulator isn't perfect - it has the obscure bugs mentioned in the article - but unlike SNES emulators, it doesn't have a lot of game-specific hacks.
Bubbles don't just happen overnight. It's a slow loosening of caution as people convince themselves that a boom is unstoppable. I think people are still shell shocked from the '00s. A few more large and successful IPOs could change that. We won't see the next one coming until the current boom turns into a bubble. By then we'll all be too happy with how things are going to hit the brakes before we fall off the cliff.
I have not spent much time thinking about this, but do you think, possibly, that the reason why a minor screw-up from an engineer is looked at as a huge mistake (and ultimately the engineers feel like crap day-in-day-out), is because of the industry in which Square operates?

A minor error could practically take a company alike this down.
What if I want some of my circles to be public and some to be private?
Does GM get better ROI on its TV commercials that I skip with my DVR than it could with Facebook ads that just sit there on my screen glaring at me?
> I'd guess it can be reduced by recording changes to the relevant hardware registers along with timestamps in the emulation so that the timing of your scanlines' construction becomes less of an issue.

This would be possible in most cases, but the SNES throws another problem at you: the video renderer can set flags that can affect the operation of the CPU. Range/tile over sprite flags, H/Vblank signals, etc.

In my model, I chose to forgo timestamps because they are very tricky to get right with subtle details. Instead, I render one pixel at a time, but I use a cooperative threading model. Whenever the CPU reads something from the PPU, it checks to see if the CPU is currently not caught up with the PPU. If so, it will switch and run the PPU. The PPU does the same with respect to the CPU.

Even with that, all the extra overhead of being -able- to process one pixel at a time knocks the framerate from ~240fps to ~100fps. And it fixes maybe a half-dozen minor issues in games for all that overhead.

This is because scanline-based renderers are notoriously good at working around these issues. There are lots of games that do a mid-scanline write in error, but only a few that do more than one on the same scanline. So all you have to do is make sure you render your line on the correct 'side' of the write. We actually took every game we could find with this issue, and averaged out the best possible position within a line to run the highest number of games correctly. Other emulators take that further and can make changes to that timing on a per-game basis to fix even more issues.

Air Strike Patrol's shadow is actually the only known effect where two writes occur on the same line, and there is no one point that would render the line correctly.
It seems like there are three fundamental business models for tech startups right now

Don't forget the other one:

4. Sell a product to businesses that have money to spend.
Facebook is a brand awareness platform, not a lead generation or point of sale utility.
It's excellent work. Good idea and execution - in particular, I like how you shift from an absolute scale to a logarithmic scale. I think the animation should help people who don't normally have an intuition for logarithmic scales.
As someone who writes Democratic talking points for a living, I would like to point out that the original TED talk sounded like something I would write for work.

I do wholeheartedly agree with the central thesis, but if I were to put together a (nonpolitical) TED talk on the subject I would've been a lot lighter on the rhetoric and heavier on the case studies.
I am from India (currently living in NY) and I find it really surprising that it was only 50 years ago that there was race discrimination in US

Really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit

As bad a American segregation (or South African apartheid) was, it was nothing compared to the Indian caste system, which is still practiced today.
UN Declaration of Human Rights

Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 15.
(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
"Astroturfing"?

Come on, use real words that mean something.
"If you grow faster than the GDP, you're most likely cannibalizing other businesses."

That sounds an awful lot like zero-sum thinking.
I wouldn't call this "the story behind" but rather "she said."

While I find it interesting that the author does not dispute the accuracy of the emails describing the talk as too controversial, what I find troubling is that the author insinuates that hiring a PR firm calls a person's character into question.

In 2010, the Sapling Foundation which owns TED spend more than $100,000 on PR:

http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/943/943235... [page 7].

See also "Who Owns TED?"
http://www.ted.com/pages/42
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It turns the conversation into a tribal pissing match? I don't think that's what taking an even-handed and nonconfrontational approach does.
Perhaps, and I accept that it is possible that the facts as stated in the article are wrong. However, if we accept them as true, the speaker:

1. Hired a PR firm in an attempt to threaten TED into publishing his talk.
2. When that failed, he misrepresented TED (by selectively quoting private correspondence) to the media in order to create the subsequent firestorm.

I will accept that the speaker may be passionate about his views. However, he is not interested in open discussion, at least not if you mean honest by open. The ends does not justify the means.
The app looks very good right now, but there are also no ads. Are you planning for premium features or to introduce ads at some point in the future?
When the bubbles were done as SVG elements, the animation in Firefox became _painfully_ slow. Felt like just a couple frames per second, maybe. (In contrast, the animation was fine in WebKit-based browsers).
Thanks! No plans right now, we're just working on making Everyme a comfortable place for people to share privately.
There seem to be regular posts about this for-pay service...
Ted is a circle jerk for rich people of course they don't want to hear about inequality.
You work at Google and don't see the bubble? Interesting.
Think about what your potential customers will be searching for when they are trying to address the need that your product fulfills. Then, provide real value to your potential customers on your website in the form of articles and other helpful advice. It sounds too simple, but most of the "seo tactics" that so called seo experts talk about just don't work in the long-term. They are just an attempt to game the system.
PostgreSQL: http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/14114368488/postgresql-hstor...
As an aside, this comment is a great example of why Hacker News is a great resource for startups looking for good feedback.
Looks pretty cool! Can't wait till it starts rolling out over here in chicago.

BTW @bastian, might want to talk to TechCrunch and have them fix the link to your site at the beginning of the article.
This is incorrect for Apache 2.4: In 2.4 there is async write completion.

SSL behavior is still like the worker MPM, due to design issues in mod_ssl and filter stack. This is unlikely to change until 3.0.
If you read the transcript, you get the distinct sense that what you're listening to isn't intellectual discovery based on empirical data. It reads like a speech from a political candidate. It truly is not TED worthy, and this is from someone who fully believes every word that man uttered.

TED is about sharing knowledge. Raw, unbiased, unignorable knowledge. Talks that are based entirely on anecdote and talking points have no place in the discussion.

After reading the transcript, I firmly believe they made the right choice. And it could simply be that the ambiguous nature of the study of economics prevents it from being an approached topic on TED, which is unfortunate, but I don't believe for one second they blacklist anything based on controversy alone.
Many of those other bad presentations don't get posted either, so why can't they pull that card?
At some point, though, you'll have to monetize. If that's with ads, it's going to make the usability of your app go down across the board.
Unless the lead spokesperson is a leading political figure.
301 redirects are supposed to transfer the link juice so that couldn't have been the issue.
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Why would someone search for splenda daddy?
Petri dish growth.

Cells in a petri dish can exhibit a behavior where they grow quickly, consuming the sustenance where they are, and expanding outward in a rapidly growing ring, as the middle starves, until the landscape is consumed and everything starves. The XScreenSaver "GLCells" [1] is a simulation of this effect. By all the simple metrics like cell count or cell mass, everything looks great... until it's not.

A biology expert may be able to tweak this. If this phenomenon has a specific name, that would be even better, but I doubt I can google it up.

(Incidentally, I'm just offering this up as a term. I think the title is premature; it has not been proved that this is the case for Facebook. If we are going to speculate that they may in the future not be able to continue making money as they are today, they still have a lot of runway. I'm not itching to buy shares, but I wouldn't personally guarantee they won't be able to make money.)

[1]: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/
It's nationalism. Very scary.

So, the government decides to give tax breaks to the rich. Not much you and I can do about that. It's hard fighting the system, you can camp out in Wall st all you want.

So lets single out this one guy and crucify him, make him an example of what we do with expats who don't pay their due.
It's not a matter of spite--it's the fact that Eduardo's primary claim to life and wealth is due to America: coming to America saved Eduardo's life as a youth after he became the target of Brazilian kidnappers, getting an American education led to the opportunity to be Facebook's angel investor, and the American justice system is the sole reason that Eduardo has any claim to Facebook stock today.

Note: I am not opining in this comment whether Eduardo should be taxed more than he already has been or already will be, I am merely stating the prevailing justification expressed for why people think he's a freeloader.
Before you have built product (and after you have determined that you are building something like the right product), your top 3 priorities are:

1. Build product
2. Build Product
3. Build Product
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I fail to see how this is a Ponzi Scheme.

In a Ponzi Scheme, early investors are paid returns based on the investments of later investors.

So who are the "investors" receiving returns? If we're talking about ad buyers, they're not being paid anything worthwhile regardless of when they invested, early or late. If we're talking about shareholders of Facebook, early shareholders aren't receiving returns based on later shareholders.

Perhaps describing Facebook as a bubble might be more apt. But it's pretty strange that this guy spent all this effort to define what a Ponzi Scheme is only to mis-describe something as a Ponzi Scheme.
You can file in a US court even if you are not a US citizen, you know -- it's not like US people are given a carte blanche to cheat other nations.
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"But using motivation to determine whether or not something is a crime, just feels ridiculous."

But there are crimes that are determined by intent. For example, providing incorrect information is not inherently criminal, but knowingly providing incorrect information with the intent of personal gain is considered fraud, which is a crime.
We agree, completely! Traditional ads are not a good solution on mobile.
I'm actually excited about... fake meat. I think this has huge potential to reduce the amount of land and resources we need to use for agriculture. Of course, with that, will probably come an explosion in population...

Any of the genetic/medical things will (IMHO) have annoyingly slow progress. The body is an incredibly complex system (duh), one I think that will defy efforts to "reverse engineer" is (so to speak).

Put it this way: we need massive amounts of computing power just to figure out the shape of proteins, which is important to figure out what they react to and how. Extending that to figuring out the interactions and it gets even more complicated.

I also believe that nothing will replace the convenience of (largely) non-volatile fuels to the point where considerable effort will be spent to make artificial fuels viable. Giant tubs of algae making them, fuel trees (Anathem), that sort of thing.

As much as I like the idea of a space elevator, I'm not sure how viable it is. Firstly, just to create a material strong enough to withstand the forces involved is still something largely theorized about (buckeyballs notwithstanding). It will also be incredibly costly to produce. Imagine what acts of terror could do to that.

I see the future of mass long-distance travel being underground vacuum trains. It's a huge engineering effort but would solve so many problems (eg air congestion, travel times).

And as much as it depresses me I don't see a big future in space. The economics are terrible (particularly for interstellar travel). IIRC I read that getting one ton of spacecraft to the nearest star system accelerating to 10% of the speed of light would require roughly 10^18 joules of energy or roughly 1kg (being 0.1% of the total mass) of matter being converted to energy perfectly. And this assumes you've solved the reaction mass problem.
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Interesting. The largest IPO in the original dotcom boom, above everything else on the chart except Google and Facebook, is a company I don't recall ever hearing of: Corvis Corporation.

They started in 1997 as "Nova Technologies", changed to "Corvis" in 1998, did an IPO in 2000, and promptly took a nosedive. In 2004 they became "Broadwing Corporation" (which I also don't recall ever hearing of), and in 2007 they were acquired by Level 3 Communications. It's amazing how little remains of them on the web. Except for some terse stock info, from which I got the above, all I can find are a couple of articles from 2000 talking about how everyone loves them.
Now that we have powerful electronics simulation I'd be interested to see the results of genetic algorithms designing various analogue computers.
This might work unless facebook decides to change the privacy settings so the pictures are suddenly not private anymore.

No thanks!

I consider everything I send to a server with facebook in its name to be public. Maybe not now, but in the near future. Just like twitter.
> However, he is not interested in open discussion, at least not if you mean honest by open.

How do you conclude that? The only possible dishonesty I've seen is about how the talk was handled, not the content of the talk. He seems all for open discussion of the content of the talk.
It looks like they scale it based on area, not radius... just by eyeballing it. Polynomial (not exponential) growth btw.
I have a question: Why are these considered different sites by your algos? If we were talking ".com" vs ".net", OK, I get it. But this is about "www.domain.com" vs "domain.com" and their http and https variants. I'm sure there's something I don't understand.

Would "http:www.apple.com", "https:www.apple.com", "http:apple.com" and "https:apple.com" be treated by Google as four completely different and separate sites also to be ranked in isolation of each other? Why?
Admittedly, the one reference he made to parties at the beginning was unnecessary (somehow, I hadn't even heard it). But he isn't calling out any party; he is calling out a particular policy, and the way of thinking that pre-dates it, that he feels is counter-productive. There is no way to criticize the ideas he does without being "political".

To put the shoe on the other foot: let's say someone had data which demonstrated that welfare and affirmative action are bad for the people they purport to help (just an example, I'm not making a case for or against either). How could one make that argument in a neutral, non-partisan way, when those issues have been politicized to death for decades?

You couldn't. You'd have to either state your case bluntly and take the heat, or shut up and go away. Though the talk could definitely have been better (more data, please), I'm glad the speaker chose the former, and I think he made the best attempt possible at being neutral.
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How about just "facebook" as the word that describes this affair? After all, that's how we ended up with "Ponzi" scheme.
I feel like Page 5 doesn't really represent the information it's trying to convey, which is how well these companies did 3 years later.
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His talk would have been better had it referenced the numerous studies showing that more unequal countries have worse results across the board. However, 3 minutes is an extremely short period of time - no one else speaking at TED is laboring under the requirement to fully document everything they are saying in a 3 minute speech.
It's not set in stone. One of the reasons investors see growth in Facebook.
Yes, since the primary problem is trying to simulate dozens of unique processes that all run in parallel with a single CPU thread, modern processors are woefully inadequate for the task. Emulation is possible by way of sheer brute force, with processors being thousands of times faster than the original systems.

Multi-core seems promising, but unfortunately even 4-8 threads aren't going to cut it here. Each emulated chip can have several logic units (eg a four-stage pipeline, an ALU, a DMA unit, etc.) And even then, CPUs aren't meant for this level of synchronization. You can only lock and unlock a mutex between two threads at about 100,000 times a second. And even if that were faster, what's going to be more a burden? Requiring a 3GHz single core CPU, or a 1GHz octa core CPU?

FPGAs are great for writing emulators (although I wouldn't say as easy), but the problem with this is even worse than the octa core CPU. Until more people have the hardware than a 3GHz single core CPU, it will continue to be a worse solution for the number of people your software can reach.
Not among companies we've funded. Most of the money comes from VCs, even in what used to be called angel rounds. VCs' funds are just so much larger. A single VC fund is hundreds of millions. It would take a lot of angels to invest that much.
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We don't offer public circles, since we're focusing on nailing private sharing. We want people to feel comfortable, so having a public option adds complexity.
Facebook Raises $16 Billion in Biggest Technology IPO on Record - Bloomberg
In 1962 there were no no-go zones anywhere in America

So long as that group kept to their zone. If they go into that zone, then things might happen. Of course the police would take an interest in that group being in that zone, they must be up to no good!
I'm not sure if i'm social networked out or not. I'm desperately ready to leave facebook because of the privacy dangers it poses (I got burned by that once pretty bad). I also thought G+ would be a good alternative.

I might try something like this, as it's a novel method of social networking -- JUST on your phone (where facebook has failed to come up with anything worth using).

I'd say it has potential, but I'm also a little reluctant to try any new social networks. All in all though, i'd say it looks promising.

edit: aw i just tried DLing it and it's only iOS 5. That's a shame. Any plans to expand it to older generation OSes?
Facebook Raises $16 Billion in Biggest Technology IPO on Record