skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not self-centered, it's just built into our species. I believe in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs
Four Years of App Store: Developers Weigh In On Search, Discovery, and Curation
The reason for FB's drop seems simple. The options have been traded on secondmarket for a long time already, meaning institutional investors have already been playing the invest-in-facebook game for a long time.

The only folks left are the normal folks and I don't believe they have the money to drive the price up significantly.

In short: this is a liquidity event for Facebook ownership and nothing else.
How the New Basecamp Really Got to Be So Damn Fast
How I’ve (kind of) Beaten Insomnia
They made several other mistakes at roll out as well. I had an account with them when they launched, and I dropped them for a couple of reasons. The user interface for vendors had serious problems that were widely complained about in Google Groups, and they went unaddressed for months. Also, they allowed customers to choose a privacy option that hide their name, email, and other information from the vendor. That sounds great from a user's perspective, but when I couldn't verify that someone seeking support actually purchased my product, it made it unfeasible for me.
Just tweeted this to the author and thought I cross-post it here as well: Wonderful piece, I just had those same thoughts in the midst of all this facebook IPO frenzy... stay hungry, humble, and healthy! (Hmm, I can call it the three H's :))
Poll: Would You Buy Facebook?
The hot topic in the tech world today is Facebook's IPO, wherein big-name investors are scrambling for Facebook share's initially priced at $38 per share. These shares have already hit the market, and the price is rising quickly. We'd like to hear what you think of all this hullaballoo. Please participate in the poll below and let us know: Would you buy stock in Facebook?
We're in a bubble that's inside of another bubble that is floating with a few other bubbles.
./~ And the cities of Europe have burned before
And they may yet burn again
And if they do I hope you understand
That Washington will burn with them
Omaha will burn with them
Los Alamos will burn with them ~/.

- Billy Bragg, Help Save The Youth Of America

(if Europe is burning, everywhere is burning - where to get out to?)
$> ping us.etrade.com
PING us.etrade.com (12.153.224.21): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
36 bytes from etrade-fina.edge4.atlanta2.level3.net (4.30.52.206): Communication prohibited by filter
Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst
4 5 00 5400 115d 0 0000 31 01 9939 10.0.232.100 12.153.224.21

Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
^C
--- us.etrade.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

Now that's demand.

(etrade is an online brokerage service for independent traders, and their network is very unhappy right now.)
Apple's Review team cuts and pastes useless canned responses.What do I do?
We've submitted an iPhone app: LiveLockscreen (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/live-lockscreen-video-live/id510241197?mt=8)

The app allows you to play videos in the background together with your music. The first version of the app was approved, but since then, Apple has not allowed us to do any updates. We've had 6 rejections over the past 2 months, the last 3 with the canned response of "no audible content is played".

This is clearly not true, the app allows you to select a song from your playlist and watch a video together with it:

<p>http://youtu.be/yDdTBvXfMGs<p>

Apple's cut and paste rejection (3 rejects with same response):

"We found that your app uses a background mode but does not include functionality that requires that mode to run persistently. This behavior is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.<p>We noticed your app declares support for audio in the UIBackgroundModes key in your Info.plist, but no audible content is played when the application is in the background. While your intention may have been to provide this functionality, at the time of review, we were not able to play background audio for your app.<p>As indicated in the iOS Application Programming Guide:<p>"This key is intended for use by applications that provide audible content to the user while in the background, such as music-player or streaming-audio applications."<p>Therefore, it would be appropriate to provide audible content to the user while the app is in the background or remove the "audio" setting from the UIBackgroundModes key."
Zynga's stock drops 13% during Facebook IPO, trading halted
I remember using Mandriva (or Mandrake as it was known then) back in the day.

It was always the most attractive Linux, and in some ways the easiest to use. But god was it slow, it used to ship cutting edge KDE and run a ton of services by default, and I always used to find fixing problems much easier with debian or other distros.
If you mean that the have succeeded in issuing a stock at 100x earnings, you are absolutely right. This is not, by any measure, a failure for those who funded FB prior to the IPO. In fact, they are getting paid 100x earnings for the company they own!
Love this post! Needed to be said and resaid, as many times as we hear 'Go $1B or Kill Yourself!'
"It will be harder to convince customers you've added value if they can see exactly what you've changed."

I don't get it... is your added value simply an illusion?

If they can see what you've changed the code, they should be able to see why and how you added value.
All that would likely have happened in the US also. Most people have health insurance. The ones who don't still get medical care, it just costs them money. If they don't have the money, they can settle with the hospital on a payment plan they can afford. It's definitely not perfect, but it's not as bad as it seems at first glance. I'll see posts about people's 30,000 dollar hospital bill, but in reality they'll never end up paying that much.
My school did your initials + 4 random digits, presumably to help prevent collisions and spam. It was pretty decent, actually, because you kind of got in the habit of chanting out a username in the same pattern, "a b c, 12, 34".

Works better than my current company, which does first initial + middle initial + 5 letters of your last name.
Jim was a friend. I guess this is closure of a sort, but he is still missed.
The end of Chris' post a week ago hints at Python support. What makes a hissing sound other than a python?

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/05/12/we-made-it/
"have evidence to back that up" the cop out for things you don't agree with.

how the fuck did you even conclude that they have better things to care about than feelings means being assholes. do you have evidence to back up that's what he means?
You would need a little more than that now. Differentiated outcomes &c

I get the impression that in the US they don't have a national curriculum or external exams &c so the teacher has to do more long term planning on their own.
We have some ideas on how we'll facilitate that. There will definitely be ways for people to sell plugins they create and or for large companies to keep them closed source.
My thoughts exactly :) Even, $5m/y is far above my threshold.
This is what I'm guarding against. I haven't been a programmer long, but it seems inhuman to not try and be polite or have a tiny lead up to the question.
Ironically, it's the exact same thing that makes me impolite.
That's a good point I hadn't considered. As it looks at the moment, I'm glad I stuck to arm chair punditory (if that's even a word!) and didn't buy any shares...
200 lines of code is a trivial project.

No offense, but taken in the context of your previous statements that's an nice bit of circularity. ;)

But I am curious about seclorum's game ...
Maybe the author is confusing computers with consumer devices... I subscribe to the notion that the iPad is a consumer device (i.e. family of the Walkman), not a computer.
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Typing? So old-school.

In the future, text entry will be via some combination of voice input and a Dasher-like system that lets you gesture-input commonly used words and phrases lightning fast.

Kill your Boddhas. Challenge your assumptions. Or if you will not, get ready to have your mind blown when Apple does it for you.
The memory hierarchy can never completely flatten. Information takes physical space to store and the speed of light is finite. So the more information, the further things are apart, and the longer access times will take.

That being said this theoretical limit might not be the main bottleneck right now. Parallelism can also bypass this limit since not all information needs to be processed at the same location.
And the bottom says "Data was pulled [...] from all NewRelic customers with apps making external calls to payment gateways".

So yeah, it is only at the bottom and I may give someone the benefit of doubt of not spotting that - but not if they want to be a professional journalist ;)
...and coffee will kill you early, but make you live 5 years longer, and walking down the sidewalk increases your risk of sprained ankle by 20%.
It doesn't seem right. If I go to http://s.dealextreme.com/search/android+tablet and search for chinese android tables I can find competitive prices there, some at ~ USD 100, so adding the license tag will not change that much.

"In China We Trust"
So right now FB (at $110B) is market valued at about 1/2 of Google (at $201B).

Let's say FB builds or buys a search engine, a popular web browser, a smartphone platform equivalent to Android, a Gigabit fiber-to-the-home project, and an AdvFace that takes 50% of that market away from Google.

If all that were to happen, then it might make sense for FB's valuation to be comparable to Google's. G's might even shrink a little bit to help.

But G has that all functioning now, whereas FB's seems merely hypothetical. Could we not equivalently reason that FB could start a P2P auction market to rival Ebay? A distribution channel to rival Amazon?
I don't think he'll need to get to Mars to be on that list.

Lastingly transforming the economics, reusability, and safety of rocket and vehicle technology in his short lifetime will be enough.

Musk and Spacex are already on track to benefit humanity 500 years from now and beyond.
This isn't a big deal at all - it's basically just a market order. Whoever put in that order will just get filled at the best ask price - probably around $41.
In summary: "I refuse to tolerate assholes, only if it's not steve jobs or cult figure in my cult."

(not aimed at jacob, he wrote this in a different context. but this is aimed at xando who submitted it)
Too utopian in general, not just right now. The best argument in my opinion for "normal people" learning to program is not so that they can and will instruct their machines, but so that they know how it is done, whether they're the ones to do it or not. It's to instill understanding, so people will have reasonable expectations about their technology, be able to make intelligent decisions regarding it, and not relate to it as magic.

Even if HCI becomes so good that anything can be automated just by asking for it with no human effort involved, it will still be a good idea for people to know why and how it works. And frankly, things will never get that good (people can't even communicate among themselves without misunderstanding, let alone with machines), which makes it important for people to understand what kinds of things their computers can realistically do for them, what they can't, and why that is.
JP Morgan or whoever was buying hard at 40, and they did the same at 38. The behavior is very clear, and if it gets to 38 again I might gamble on it...

...not that we need another zerohedge link, but this makes it obvious

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/facebook-ardennes-spot-syndica...
Is "Brogrammer" Culture Really So Bad?
I wonder how much of this is due to the fact that Google and Authorize.net are both US only and PayPal is international. Amazon Checkout is also US only.

I'd love to add another payment processor (Stripe, please!) without going through the pain of getting a merchant account, but I'm screwed because I live about 50 km too far north.

I'm rooting for Stripe, but I think whoever supports international companies first is going to have a good, locked-in by the pain of switching, advantage.
This is a good companion piece to another recent HN post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991122

I've found two axioms to hold true:

1) Don't compare your life to anyone's. Just don't. Comparing any two lives is fundamentally apples to oranges, because each life is its own thing.

2) Once you've got the bottom tier of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs covered well enough where you can feel assured that it'll stay covered, money doesn't buy much happiness.
IIRC, In "The Emperors New Mind" Penrose mentions that Godel employed Cantor's "Method of Diagonalization" to show that within a system such as the natural numbers there can be true statements(uncountably infinite) not on the list of provable statements(countably infinite).
The title was simply meant to get your attention. If you read the whole article the advice given could be applied to anyone working at or running a tech company who is frustrated with their life.

You might be surprised to know that many people in third world countries are frustrated with their lives too. For example there are multiple Asian countries with higher suicide rates than the US and Canada.

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

If anything this kind of venting and sharing is a healthy coping mechanism.
Please tell me their spaceship doesn't run on windows.
REST + RDF, finally a practical solution?
Agreed, the article is egregiously misleading, the data only samples that from one provider, with no explanation of how many companies and of what size and type of merchants that provider handles.

EDIT: Somehow my comment got linked to this one, instead of the parent. For the above comment, I'd add: Cybersource owns Authorize.net, and tends to use them as the gateway (my experience as an ex cybersource customer was that they had us use Authorize.net as the gateway, and CS was the merchant bank).
On a related note, I think that Microsoft and OEMs would have a hard time overcoming consumers' perception of the iPad as 'sexy' or 'luxurious'. Apple's had the head-start to build this sort of brand recognition for the iPad and IMHO, I fear that any attempts by OEMs to budge it will appear 'cheap' (quality-wise) or imitative.

Take the laptop market for example. Some attempts have been made at a sleek design that rivals the Macbook (HP Envy, Dell Adamo etc) but those products haven't really taken off.

As for the software and OS? I really like the Metro interface - I guess we'll have to wait and see how it turns out with regard to the app library and user experience.
I'm not terribly familiar with them, but is there something wrong with escrow services, or did you just not use one?

I think most people opt not to because it drives up the price of what they're selling "unnecessarily", and I think that's fine for smaller transactions, but any time you're talking 4 figures, I think it makes sense to use one.
That is why I only read The Onion.
School forces students to reveal Facebook activity, unlock smartphones
In the UK many teachers share activities (lesson planning is different here because of the frameworks we teach in). There are sharing sites like

http://www.skillsworkshop.org/

http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resources/

and many teachers have their own Web sites.

I quite like the non-monetised sharing model, but I imagine HNers would be more interested in a commercial opportunity
Getting people to open up is a skill. It's also much easier to do with peers.

Honestly, it's enough of a skill that I can't give you "quick pointers"-but check out the book The Charisma Myth, and pay special attention to Focus Charisma. That's the skill that you need to get people to open up about all their problems & concerns.
I'd always been curious about what needs to happen for a late application to be accepted. Thanks for the transparency!
Its price seems to have been corrected to $7.80 which is down 5% on the day but not as bad as before. I wonder if someone just keyed in an order wrong?
I'll add my voice to the chorus of folks gushing about how awesome this is, but here's a list of reason on just WHY this is so awesome.

Straight off the top, this is only the third launch of the Falcon 9. This rocket alone represents a dramatic disruption of the entire orbital launch industry, offering to make launch of both humans and cargo cheaper than it's ever been by an incredibly wide margin. If this rocket proves to be a reliable workhorse and proves that the existing cost structure is workable then it will both dramatically lower the cost of access to space and drive billions of dollars of revenue to SpaceX.

Second, this represents a significant advance in being able to deliver supplies to ISS, largely replacing a vehicle that is vastly more expensive than the Dragon Cargo. And finally putting American spaceflight back in the game of ISS resupply post-Shuttle.

Third, the Dragon Cargo shares an enormous amount of heritage with the manned Dragon capsule in development. As they prove out elements of the vehicle design in unmanned ISS resupply missions they are effectively proving out the manned version as well. The manned Dragon capsule will represent a huge leap for the US space program, catapulting us back into having the capability to send crew into orbit and to the ISS.

Fourth, given the costs of Falcon/Dragon flights they should be enormously disruptive to manned spaceflight, representing a vastly cheaper way to put humans in orbit even than the Russian Soyuz. That will likely translate into far more people beingable to go into orbit and the development of a sustained orbital tourism industry on an impressive scale which will fuel further innovation and drive down cost of access to space even more.

Finally, all of this is being done by a private company working toward its own ends rather than a company on a strict government contract. This represents a new paradigm for launch vehicles and for manned spaceflight, potentially transforming the nature of the entire endeavor into something that is self-sustaining regardless of government enthusiasm for spaceflight.

In short, this represents nothing less than fundamentally rebooting the entire space program going all the way back to Sputnik, and it could quite readily represent the opening up of spaceflight for commercial applications, space science and exploration, and for manned exploration and colonization to a degree that will make the scifi dreamers of our past look like forecasters.
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OK, I'll start the argument: Is a computer system analogous to a community, an individual, both or neither?
It seems as humans we jump on any chance to beat ourselves up for not doing, being, or having something.

Oh, I don't have a $1B company, I've got to beat myself up about it.
Oh, I'm older than So and So 20 year old who sold his company for $15M.
Oh, I'm too young to have the right experience to really tap into this niche.
Oh, I spent too much on college and now have all this debt and need to get a real job instead of starting my business.
Oh, I didn't go to college and everyone else my age has great connections from it.

Just stop playing A you lose, B you lose.
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As far as the customization aspect I think that is two different markets. A person like me doesn't necessarily want to customize all the way down to which kernel the device is running. I like how stupid simple it is, open up app store, buy app, use app, get off.

Which neither scenario is wrong its just two different markets and both companies know that, IMO.
That essay is garbage in my opinion...it doesn't take into account things like lesson plans and grading papers - both Of which are typically done on the teachers personal time...

It helps to read a report all the way to paragraph 2 before determining it is garbage.

"Because of the way in which the data are collected, it is possible to identify and quantify the work that teachers do at home, at a workplace, and at other locations and to examine the data by
day of the week and time of day"

It's possible you work more than average, in which case there are others who who work less than average. Or perhaps you just overestimate the work you put in (same as most people do).

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2011/06/art3full.pdf
Take a look at http://www.retailmenot.com/ for coupons. There's no browser plugin that I'm aware of, but I've used a number of their coupons successfully.
Roman times were unique. Writing was widespread and the continent-wide infrastructure was without precedent. At the peak of Pax Romana, one could travel generally without protection from southern England to Syria, speaking Latin or perhaps Greek the entire way.

Much of Western civilization has its roots in ancient Rome, (and in turn Rome from Greece) so also I think there's more interest in the period than other places/times.
Won't Cloudflare help by caching static stuff and providing the CDN?
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Another book that has several chapters related to GEB is David Deutsch's "The Beginning of Infinity." It's a very accessible read, and for me, eye-opening in more than one way.
I did (learn something), but not knowing what "Py" was, there were no other context clues in the headline. HN is friendly to researchers too, so the setting is appropriate for the other interpretation of the acronym (and makes the football analogy mildly condescending).
Basically, we're never getting rid of the need for caches. You can't put enough of it close enough to the CPU because the muxes needed to select the data you need have too many FO4s[1] of fanning, and because you're limited by the speed of light, and the arrays you need are too big to get all of them close enough to the processor.

Another problem is write endurance. RRAM is expected to have be able to take many orders of magnitude more writes before failing than Flash, but its still limited. The fact that you have layers of SRAM cache between it and the processor buffering against repeated writes to the same location is why I'd still be comfortable using it as main memory. Otherwise you could get an infinite loop that could actually damage the memory.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FO4
Thanks for posting this. I kind of needed it. Recent projects are getting pretty tough, to the point of looking for a supplementary job, and the job search itself isn't any easier.

I'm not in any kind of "bad spot" mentally, but it is reassuring to know that I'm not the only one who feels somewhat unaccomplished in light of the incessant tech news chaos.
I'm sure. It's just that the urge to CYA for a unique $100 billion object has got to be huge.
Ubuntu doesn’t necessarily helps open source evolution.
I don't think he's arguing that more people in other fields should not learn to program, rather that the primary goal of general computer use is to make easier/enhance the lives of its users. This goal is of course ultimately derived from the hard work of the programming community, of which should always be accepting of more participants. We just have to keep in mind that computers should always serve their primary goal, and those that choose to work with computers on a deeper level (programming) should always keep that goal in mind, you don't create a program for the general user that requires them to know programing in order to use it