skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lighten up. We're not living in a literal 1984-meets-The-Matrix world just yet. Your perspective seems as narrow as you criticize others' for being.

Silicon Valley may yet reshape the world, even if some of us take scenic bike rides. (That was one of the bad things, if I'm keeping your argument straight, while empathy with the natural world in general is good. The problem with bike rides is they take time that could be spent running for president.)

I understand the point that many sectors of society could use some new life breathed into them, but I think the oxygen needs to come from where it will, and it will come.
You don't actually have to meet people to form an opinion about them, you can simply use all the information at your disposal and base your judgement on that. If a lot of people reach the same conclusion that does not automatically mean that they're a mob, they could also simply be in agreement.

Zuckerberg comes across in interviews that I've watched and in the statements that he makes as the guy that got away with it. And Facebooks strategies and actions re-inforce that. It is very well possible that that is a wrong conclusion but to date I have yet to see much evidence of that.

If facebook throws its considerable weight behind an all-out effort to protect the privacy of its users at the behest of the upper management then I'll re-consider that position but until then my opinion will remain where it is today: distrust coupled with a creep factor that is right off the scale.

The German Data protection watchdog today issued a message that Facebook is in breach of European privacy laws:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/05/18/2149357/german-priv...

That alone should make you wonder about whether or not the FB upper management is playing nice with its users or not.
See masterleep's comment.

Governments will always be bad with money because they never are dealing with their own money.
Well, even if Ben is right the title should be amended with "... from Harvard or Stanford". The other problem (even bigger) with MBA is one can get it from really obscure universities.
I was raised by my father's parents, born in 1919 and 1921. They grew up in the great depression in the Midwest. As a 13 year old, in the dead of winter in Nebraska, my grandpa walked a six mile trap line with a rifle to collect food and pelts for the family.

My grandpa was also here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrills_Marauders
and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal_Campaign

He was shot twice and fragged once, and was only able to leave the front line for once of those incidents.

My grandmother had many of the same qualities, without the overtly "heroic" background. (I put that in quotes because he could not stand that word, and I agree with him.)

My grandpa was the most humble man I know. Not overly kind though. Soft spoken, but always watchful.

One thing he said more often than any other thing: "Today is a good day if you are breathing."

Only after they died in 2000 and 2003 respectively did I really start taking the true meaning of that simple statement into my being.

Fundamental and deep humility has been my guiding light ever since.

I'm an opinionated tech guy like many of the people here. But I tell my co-workers that, on any given day, the best thing that can happen to me at work is to be proven wrong.
Can't find what I'm looking for.

I saw a comment on a hn BitCoin article. The comment said that we've got 100 years of experience with [this type of monetary system], and we know how to break it, and then he listed a bunch of trading algorithms, including one (I'm pretty sure) named "sawtooth".

Tried: hn duckduckgo sawtooth bitcoin
:|
Instagram and Pinterest are looking like the peak right now. Neither of them would get that valuation next week.
Maybe it is because of that stock/bond blurring you mention. There's really no such thing as a great stock.
Its not a bug, but a feature.

I promise!

serious

I know it happens. Due the way I turned the dictionary into an array.

Its a 150,000+ long string of words. Plan to run a regex to fix it. Some day.
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This potentially has to do with regulations in the US over access to rocket technology. I knew a Canadian who worked at Lockheed ~10 years ago who had to be shuffled off a certain project due to objections from the US State Department.
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And it ends at $38.2318. Looks like that desired $40 didn't pan out.
Why I’m betting my retirement on Facebook stock today
This looks great, but the edit feature is not actually something you can't have in IRB. Both my own utility_belt gem from 2007 and another person's sketches gem from 2009 enabled the same functionality.

I think Pry is great, I wrote a little console with it recently for a simple back-end app, and the edit feature looks like your most advanced option for this kind of thing. But for the sake of accuracy, it's not actually 100% brand new functionality. A lot of people have been doing that in IRB for a long time.
Minority-shareholder lawsuits.
We used something just like that to map users' home directories, but it doesn't solve the problem of not being able to set a unique root directory for each user case. Nginx accepts just one root dir setting, and it can't be conditionally set (or overwritten in a later if-else scenario) by putting it inside a location clause. One solution is to globally set /home as the definite root for all user location cases, but this does not sit alright with me - the document root should just not sit outside the target's home.
I am grabbing the data accompanying the blog post (http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/crosswikis-data.tar.bz2/) right now. Looks to be a great resource for text mining applications for training data, labeling text by concept, etc.
A look inside Google's 2011 diversity report
I see this as nothing less than a massive misstep by Microsoft. Trying to create a primary OS based on mobile devices is a great way to give market share to the companies that already own those spaces while giving up the one that you own. Microsoft even says that "some people" still need desktop PC's, then names 'video editors, financial analysts, scientists, gamers, PC enthusiasts…'...so everyone who needs to actually do work on a PC.

I get it - Microsoft thinks that they want the big market, and that the big market is content consumers. But 50% of Microsoft's revenue comes from Microsoft Office - and that hasn't changed. Furthermore, Google and Apple already own the market on smart phone OSs and nothing Microsoft has done in the past has shown that they have any ability to crack into that market.

So effectively, Microsoft wants to create an OS that abandons their core revenue base while going after one that has rejected them repeatedly.

At best, it's Windows ME. At worst, it's the rise of Linux and Apple as the future of the desktop.
Do you also believe the consumer right activists trying to stop snake oil salesmen, are only doing so because they're envy of all the money the snake oil salesmen are doing?

Do you think the "right" thing for the activists to do would be to support snake oil sales, so that they, the activists could have a better shot at selling their own snake oil as well?

Not all entrepreneurs are the same. Some of us are actually not trying to sell snake oil, and wouldn't even if we had the chance.
Social media is not going to be "where the money is" when all these companies founded by 20-year-olds hit the wall because Facebook is the only one making any money off social. Eventually VCs will realize, hey maybe we should fund some of these guys with big ideas over here. Social is just a gold rush, but these things are cyclical.
I'd argue yes.

Microsoft Word is a domain specific language for formatting documents. Just because you can't create an OS with it doesn't mean you aren't telling a computer what to do using gestures and keystrokes that you had to learn first.

Every day user tasks are just very high level programming, with limited power compared to general purpose languages.
It also show dedication and not giving up quickly on your part. I think important traits to have as an employee.
According to Williams, you can't make big memristors - the effect is due to micro mechanisms. Given that, it doesn't make much sense to make "single" memristors.

See http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/fall-schedule-20112012.h... .
"unavoidable"

:-|
He's absolutely correct. Automated cars will have a much bigger effect than iPads. So much time is wasted driving.
On the one hand, this indicates that the underwriters did a good job of maximizing FB private shareholder value on the IPO.

On the other, the shape of the daily curve looks like it was supported at that level artificially.

Even if not, it doesn't look like there's a lot of market confidence for it at this level.
See Williams ee380 talk as well - http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/fall-schedule-20112012.h... .
You know what other one-time use only hacks look a lot similar to this? Bombs...
Is this sarcastic, or did you just now realize the point of the GPL?
It's important to realize that Facebook has done a tremendous job of connecting the non-digerati who previously communicated via infrequent mail or rare phone calls.

While I am very bearish on a 100 P/E, the reality of Facebook's userbase and its engagement is not something to blow off. Facebook has distinctly impressed itself on the communication modality of many many people.

Don't underestimate that.
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> That's not cronyism, that's networking

How would you define the difference?
here's the pricing chart for today [1]. What makes you think it was supported -- the flat line beginning at 334 pm?

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=FB+Interactive#symbol=fb;...;
Perhaps I'm not being clear.

In WPF/Avalon we aimed to have a generic scene graph. We were also looking to cache intermediate nodes in the scene graph and do composition of a transform on those nodes. This was to prevent the need to completely rerender a complex scene graph tree on every frame if the transformations were small enough.

The issue arises when you want to composite text onto a background and then further composite that result onto another image. If there is any transparency under the text in the intermediate cached image, cleartype/subpixel antialiasing breaks down.

So -- it is straightforward to figure out how to do a subpixel mask composition, but it is much harder when you want to take that result and composite it further.

This was a while ago so perhaps I'm misremembering though :)
I think you mean "sharktooth".

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hn+sharktooth
It may help to see a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q70tM5sDQhc

They are right on the edge of flight/no flight. The driver is pedalling flat out and it's not flying. Then it hovers for a few seconds, then it goes back to on the ground.
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Almost all good teachers start out with something approaching that level of work. It is only by going through that phase that they have the backlog and repertoire ready in advance later on. It can be a brutally hard profession.
It must be thoughtlessness. You can't honestly look at Facebook's contribution to the Arab Spring (and similar social justice causes) or the millions of people it has reconnected (long-lost family/friends) and think that SpaceX has any chance of creating comparable positive impact at any point in the near future.

I like SpaceX too. It's every geek's childhood fantasy. It's a great thing. Elon is the real Tony Stark. But the reality is that far more humans benefit from relatively mundane advances in things like cell phones and social networking than rockets.

Facebook is connecting humanity together in a way that's never been possible before. Improving the lives of billions of people in a meaningful way is an undeniably Big Fucking Deal.
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This is actually pretty cool. Now I just need this to come up (modulo the large headshot of PG) every time I get distracted from building/shipping product.
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I
self
me
my
mine

Trying to use "this" results in:
"Syntax error: Insufficient property assertion"

Also be advised that the "?" modifier for regular expression quantifiers isn't implemented.
Yes, that and the rally at almost exactly that level a little before 12pm
Reminds me of the squid robots from the third Matrix movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0pV8AaXr7E

I wonder how well a robot with these appendages would do at asteroid mining? Also, it is now possible to make a robotic Cthuhlu.
I've got some eggs at Linkedin.
It was unquestionably held up by underwriters ... unlikely to continue into next week.
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I really don't get why FB is valued that much. If you look at their revenues, net income, quarter-to-quarter growth, the stock should be at $5.50.

Seriously, look at GOOG, compare it to FB. You must be insane to buy FB.
It will be even better if Google can provide search queries associated with the Wikipedia entities.
Mandrake (7.2) was my first love. I was in my early teens, and had just gotten the I Love You virus, and so I went to K-Mart to find this Linux thing I had read online to fix it. Who knew, K-Mart actually had a little corner room full of software, and there was a Linux which could run on my 90Mhz, 160MB, 2.1GB computer.

I'm glad to see it is open to the community, although I can't help but wonder what this will do to Mageia.
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So, what happened to the 5by5 edition?
They got a lot of capital to play with. What they do with it will determine if they can build a business that is worthy of such a high valuation.

They are currently priced as if they were bound to run a highly profitable business. Now, reality must catch up with the dream and promises.
It was supported: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-why-facebook...

A possible reason why it reached 38 in the first place: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-facebooks-ipo-pop-fizzled...
More evidence of artificial support, a tweet and screen capture from Paul Kedrosky:

http://lockerz.com/s/209964861

It's easy to overlook the graphic; it's the thin black bar with faint text. It shows:

Bid (size): 38.00 (x9999900) Ask (size): 38.01 (x146300)

...and the tweet referencing it was about 20mins before the close. The earlier tweet was:

@pkedrosky: Watching certain underwriters try to keep certain IPOs above their issue price reminds me of playing Missile Commander, at scale.

Still, this isn't necessarily a negative for Facebook. They optimized their take, and Zuckerberg won't be needing the market's approval or capital again for a while.
Trades In Zynga Frozen After Steep Decline On Facebook Open
"The stock closed Friday at $38.23 — just 23 cents above its IPO price"

Just wanted to point out that FB did NOT close at $38.02, though I think that would've been hilarious.
Well the price did come very close to $38 several times (twice before 12:00 and then during the flat part at 3:34 that you mentioned) but the price never crossed below $38. This does show a lot of resistance/support at $38
So Mule now has The Talk Show and its new iOS app is really a reskinned 5by5 app that never was released (check inside the app bundle and you'll see the class prefix is FBF and the 5by5 logo is even in there—presumably unused).

Nerd drama.

edit: here's a screengrab of the Mule Radio app bundle if you're curious: http://cl.ly/1E240C0C272c2R3L2N19
You can probably blame me for this, to some degree. We were really trying to build for the future with WPF and as such wanted to be truly resolution independent. As such, we (I) locked a px to a 1/96th of an inch. The end result is that things animated smoothly but that you got blurry lines and poor edge interaction under lots of circumstances. Text exacerbates this.

One of the things that I had been working on when I left Microsoft was to come up with a comprehensive 'pixel snapping' system that would start to address these issues. I was looking at taking ideas form the autohinting systems used in the font rasterizers. At the time that WPF shipped, it appeared that no one had picked up that work. I haven't tracked it since then so perhaps things have been improved.
How innovative and non-obvious are Oracle's patents used in the Google case?
I believe he's talking about the current crop of startups and research that's getting funded right now.
Lots more bizarre deaths of computer scientists. Could this be related?

http://www.whale.to/b/sdi.html
Google's pageviews have more value (because they know exactly what people are looking for), Google IPOed at a valuation of 20% of what Facebook wanted in valuation, and Google is already entrenched into the market that the author is suggesting Facebook is going to have such an easy time moving into.

My money is on Google.
(EDIT:
Earlier this title read "barely above it's IPO price". It definitely used this word, "barely". My comment is now moot. I'm leaving it due to the replies.)

what is with this title? It sounds like it's saying sullenly, "a year later, Facebook is barely above its IPO price".

OF COURSE IT'S TRADING AROUND ITS IPO PRICE, GIVEN THAT IT'S JUST IPO'D. I mean, of ALL the times a company could be trading at its IPO price, don't you think the IPO date is the least notable? Yeesh.

Incidentally, the submitter and I also have a VERY different definition of 'barely.' $0.23 in a day means $230 per 1000 days. At that rate, investing at $38 sounds like a steal to me! A better title might be "Facebook stock up already!"
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We're bit fans of the TokBox API, so this is something we built over a few weekends.

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I left teaching physics after five years for a much higher salary in the tech sector. I work average 9.5 hours a day now. It is so much less draining than teaching. Working very hard here is incomparably preferable from a quality of life perspective, even with summer break taken into consideration.
I read earlier that the underwriters were forced to buy large amounts to keep the price above the IPO. It could have been much lower!
This is just blatantly wrong. Yes automated cars will be a huge deal, but discounting the iPad is just prejudice pretending to be insight. The mobile OS experience and the tablet PC are very much the next phase of evolution of the computer. Right now the iPad is trailblazing the way as a very high markup luxury good but even so it's proving to be enormously disruptive. When the second shoe drops on the tablet PC revolution the entire industry and indeed the entire world will be shaken up. In a few decades the market for computing devices and software will be vastly larger than it is today. People in Sudan will have dirt cheap solar powered tablet PCs. The degree of disruption on the horizon due to these devices cannot be overstated.

Edit: how are tablet PCs disruptive? In several ways:

First, they have fewer components than any other form-factor complete computer and are cheaper to produce. Cheaper computers means more people that can buy computers which exponentially increases the number of people who buy computers when you consider the developing world. This is a feedback loop, technologically it's likely to be possible to make a profit on tablet pcs in the near future in a price range of tens of dollars per device.

Second, they are more user friendly for average users and their form factor offers advantages for normal users (portability, etc.) This makes them desirable as replacements for laptops and desktops for many people, as witnessed by the massive number of tablet pcs that have already been bought.

Third, they are excellent gaming platforms and will almost certainly compete on equal if not superior footing with other handheld gaming devices (which have sold hundreds of millions of devices already, not including software sales) and even traditional consoles and pcs. That industry is already larger than the film industry and growing rapidly, the growing market share of tablet gaming is nothing to scoff at.

Fourth, tablets don't require the same level of infrastructure as other computers. They have long battery life and low power usage, they don't necessarily need a hardline internet connection or a constant source of electricity. Someone in 2030 living in a 3rd world country could pay 1/100th their annual income for a tablet pc which has an e-ink display and can recharge via solar power. They could use it as an ebook reader most of the time and use it for other purposes such as communication and whatnot when they visit a city or someplace with free wifi or they could communicate point to point with folks with similar devices (using them as phones or relays, for example). That technology will change what it means to live in the 3rd world.

Fifth, the way that apps work on tablets is a natural match for line of business apps and corporate IT deployment and management. Future generations of tablets will make huge inroads in office computing, which is a huge business.

Yes, today they are sometimes toys, but there is a lot of money in toys, and such devices are far less toys than the original PCs were.
FB: $38.00, May 18th 4:19 ET

http://i.imgur.com/QP12D.png
I'm pretty sure that the GP just made a joke that at least didn't work for you.

The GP is likely referring to this sentiment: "I started to realize that Sublime Text seemed to be everything many of us had hoped for in Textmate 2, but in software that was available today in a polished, fully functional version, not a just a rather buggy alpha preview."

-- http://casperfabricius.com/site/2012/01/24/my-first-week-wit...
What's going to be interesting is how long they can hold this support.

Banks can't take on too much risk on their books.. especially in the post Dodd-Franks world.
It's the same reason you never want an even number of supreme court justices. In the courts, it would lead to deadlock. In the server room, it will lead to bloodshed.
Well, we now have Facebook established precedent of letting physical actions trigger Open Graph events. That's kinda cool!
This one is required reading for almost every 101-level PR course.

http://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Sludge-Good-For-You/dp/156751060...
Is there any word on what the game's development costs were? I was under the impression that it sold reasonably well, if not spectacularly so.
This is the greenshoe option at work:

When the price is determined, the shares are ready to publicly trade. The underwriter has to ensure that these shares do not trade below the offering price.

If the underwriter finds there is a possibility of the shares trading below the offering price, they can exercise the greenshoe option.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/optioninvestor/08/green...
Damn.

I listen to the talk show (and a lot of other podcasts) while I work. <gossipy>It seemed like there was some tension from John's perspective on the last episode</gossipy> Then it was strange that there wasnt an ep last week. Now we know why.
So how does this ripple out?

My (amateur) thought is that it means the end of billion dollar valuations for companies with no revenue whatsoever.

Which will have the effect of pushing all valuations down.

Which is maybe not a bad thing, overall.

Will it mean less actual funds raised? Or similar amounts, just at notably lower valuations (and thus for a greater percentage of shares)?