skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Facebook might be able to distinguish real friends from social gaming faux friends, but advertisers aren't given that information today. They can target "friends of friends" of people who appear to have a particular target interest (for example), but that's going to have a lot of noise because of the social noise.

2) When people lie by spending real dollars, at least their spending real money. And they are actually saying something. Maybe it's not "I'm a race car driver", but "I'm interested in race cars". The trick is understanding what it is they are saying.
Self Injury Awareness Day – SIAD
Just like other Awareness Days, support groups tend to organize awareness Events or opportunities to spread more information regarding particular actions that people could take as most people are not aware of what self injury is about or have no real understanding of why people cut themselves.
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That API is actually quite well designed, thanks. I don't really use Python anymore, but if I did I'd really consider using it. Although "bake" should really be "curry".
AdBlockPlus and Ghostery are always the two plugins I install first on my Firefox.

http://adblockplus.org/en/

http://www.ghostery.com/
You can't type with your hands full :)
Thanks very much - you're right, I certainly follow people who are unrelated to my industry, but it shouldn't affect the results Moki displays, as it's very unlikely that a celebrity will apply for a job on Moki, or recommend working for a specific company (and even if they do - that data is still probably useful to know).
24/05/2012 The 50 Greatest Imaginary Cars of All Time #40-#36
"I dislike bratty teenagers as it is and don't care: in what field exactly is a preteen an expert, and why should they be allowed to troll me as Zach Silverstein did? There are millions of websites for brats; let him and his cohort play, fling doodoo and cast snark at the other 9,999,999+"

Sounds like a clear violation of the "be nice" rule to me. I don't know enough about Quora to know what kind of tone is normal there, but I would be perfectly happy with a community that banned anyone who spoke like that.
Thank you. The countdown confused me as it was countdown to something else as the flyby, which is happening now.
I don't know why he uses the term "private certificate file." It is a private key.
The book is designed for people who are new to unit testing and Test-Driven Development. For anyone in the current software development industry, this is very few people.

Sigh. I only wish this were true :-)

I encounter a lot of people who say that they do TDD, or understand TDD, but they're often doing something very different from what Beck describes. For example the number of folk who treat TDD as a synonym for unit testing is scary.

Far to many folk see the "T" and forget about the "DD".
Typing in weightless conditions is tricky, and when you're also performing a task, talking is way, way easier. The back-and-forth is a formal protocol designed to minimise (prevent!) errors, and the rate of communication is rarely the limiting factor, and for many, speaking, even with the repetitions, is faster than typing.

Especially in micro-gravity.

With your hands full.
Yeah, humans never erect institutions that allow them to behave in irrational ways en masse.
Google Cleared Of Java Patent Infringement in Android
Machines will never describe the surface of a new world as "magnificent desolation".

Not really - some day, they'll share this trait with humans - but it will take some time. I want humans to experience this, even if briefly, before our much more capable successors take the lead from us relics.
I like having my own desk where I can keep my own keyboard and mouse and pages of notes.
Using the demo now - I love it, but it's crashed twice in 20 minutes... Guess it's early days.
I think I may need to reword the landing page as it might not be completely clear how the site works. You can't give job offers to people who haven't applied for a job. Now, if pg applies for a job that you've listed, you'll probably find that a lot of people on your team follow him on Twitter - so his application will appear at the top of your list - but it won't list people who haven't seen your job listing and chosen to apply.
I usually like to see both, as I never watch intro videos while I'm sure that others do.
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And hope your phone isn't stolen, losing access to your email? That's why I've always avoided two factor authentication -- it's scary enough losing your phone, but then you're locked out of your email as well?

(Perhaps coloring my perception is that I have a pay-as-you-go phone currently.)
I think having both can be clever.

People often on the go don't really need a permanent desk, whereas more sedentary jobs benefit from having their space.
> For example the number of folk who treat TDD as a synonym for unit testing is scary.

I think the problem is in 2 parts: in TDD term (Test-Driven Design/Development, it's just not that obvious), and in lack of unit-testing at most projects (I see) at all. Was there any statistics on that, by the way?
Does a scratched DVD result in lost data, and how do I fix a scratched DVD?
How to See Your Child’s Phone Text Messages – Software That Makes the Task
Are you wondering about how to see your child’s phone text messages without having to go through your child’s cell phone? Kids spend a great deal of time on their phones these days, and this is a major cause for concern for parents.
Elder Scrolls Online, Yay or Nay?
That still doesn't give Quora a right to go round censoring things and deleting her account without her permission. There's no excuse.

But what about the others who got banned in totalitarian rule as well?
http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b7a5cbb9e10f85e63644a73...

He's already banned for that tweet within 3 hours. Are they going to delete his account next?
Am I going to get banned for posting this?

Don't you think she's already complained to moderation nicely, to no avail, hence posting that answer?
Priyanka Chopra to Attend Karan Johar’s Birthday Bash
Impressive!

Every corner I turn I sense the effort, thought and joy things were made with.

a question though, who produced your animation video?
I am curious as we are also planning to produce an animation video for promotion for our product.
Make that thrice, seems to crash every time I drag an icon from the sidebar->home panel to the sidebar quick nav menu (edit: only when dragging to rightmost position).
I think there is a statutory requirement for an arbitration clause in UK construction contracts.
Japanese social game illustration studio business partnership with Art School
MUGENUP Co.,Ltd(Head office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President: Ryota Ichioka, http://mugenup.com/ , henceforth, MUGENUP) has created a business partnership with Toyo Institute of Art & Design(Location: Shinjuku-ku, Principal: Saburo Nakagomi) which is one of the top tier design and illustration educational institute in Japan. The aim for this partnership is to produce more creators through providing curriculum and collaboration project focusing on illustration in gaming industry.
I love Vitra.
"...am UTC" sounds awfull for those of us who don't use am/pm system. And we are the majority!
The botttom line with Facebook is that it went public far too early. It doesn't have its footing on solid ground as far as revenue growth, stability, and profitability are concerned. Its advertising model, dependent as it is on these much-maligned targeted display ads, is promising -- but has a lot of kinks to be worked out. The more I look at the Facebook IPO, the more I don't see the conventional narrative, i.e., that the company itself is a flop, or that its ad model is inherently flawed. Rather, I see a company that was forced to IPO before its time, by taking on too many private investors and too much private funding. Furthermore, I see a bunch of the people behind that private funding basically giving Facebook as shiny of a paintjob as possible in order to make its public debut. But the paint was applied hastily, and it's all flaky and spotty at the big show.

To me, this cautionary tale is every bit as much about VC funding bubbles as it is about advertising bubbles. Sure, Facebook could never have been bootstrapped to its current scale. But it could have stopped taking on such massive amounts of funding, and, instead, opted for more organic growth until it found time to perfect its ad products and business model.

When we talk about the Dotcom Bubble of the mid 90s, we talk about a frenzied funding (and IPOing) of companies with little more than userbases and unproven (or occasionally nonsensical) business models. Facebook is not that, exactly. It's more userbase than business, but that doesn't necessarily have to be the case. Unfortunately, it was funded (excessively) in Dotcom Bubble fashion, and forced to IPO in Dotcom Bubble mode: grow insanely fast, worry about profitability later.

That it happened to benefit, temporarily, from a misguided advertising bubble is material, but also somewhat incidental.
hackasaurus now is part of the Mozilla Webmaker umbrella: http://mozilla.org/webmaker
A/B testing is not necessarily a binary thing, you could use it for prioritization too. You could still display the video on the landing page (= default), with a small, tiny, barely visible button/text that directs the curious user to the page with text and illustrations.

Video and the app look fantastic though, best of luck. I almost never watch a video too, but I watched it this time and liked it a lot.
I agree. Another might be:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-War-Sun-Tzu/dp/0385292163
I like it. The interface feels a little laggy to me but that might be because I'm using phone tethering at the moment. I see it as an odd mix of Pinboard, Pinterest, and Evernote; kinda what I was looking for.
DHS: Enabling Distributed Security in Cyberspace
Interesting. It never occurred to me that typing with your hands floating around may not be as easy as on earth.

I was just watching as one crew member was calibrating a camera, probably by using a laptop(?), and he had to repeat a number 3 times till ground copied correctly. I just thought "damn, he could just copy and paste these numbers into a chat session". But then again, why aren't these numbers transmitted automatically in the first place?
Pocket (formerly Read It Later)

You need an ipad client, thats where a lot of content consumption happens, especially long form.

One feature which i really like about Pocket, is it saves a parsed copy locally on the ipad.

So i can "save"/ clip a bunch of links/articles, i want to read & then i can read them later, even when i dont have internet access (e.g. on a tarin/metro)

Very impressed with the product. All the best.
You know, another really obvious reason why it might not be a good idea:

Facebook ads are really cheap and have awful CTRs. Advertisers are used to paying very little for them.

Web ads though cost much more and are expected to perform a lot better.

What if FB launched an Adsense competitor, but no one cared because it performed so much worse?
What is the plan?

I'm asking because, one day, someone here will leak the wrong key. I already have enough problems with legal on opensourcing our software (we built a very cool CMS that runs on Node.js and MongoDB we'd love to share) and I may need to come up with some creative answer fast.
Many people spend all of their time in meetings, and I think it makes perfect sense to allocate their office space to meeting space. As a developer, most of those are completely non-productive environments. http://www.officesnapshots.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CS... would be good, or perhaps even http://www.officesnapshots.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CS....
Does your job search page work? I get no hits for java, lisp, or php.

Also, I always see "Showing 1 to 4 of 4 jobs" at the bottom of the page.
So you are making good money, now STFU
Whilst I agree with pretty much everything he says about Facebook and targeted ads, I'm surprised that the article makes no reference to Amazon - which is the one place that, at least for me, targeted advertising works brilliantly.

There's a few reasons why it works for me

- I'm going there to buy or at least thinkg about buying something, and when it comes to things like books, I like to browse for something interesting so being prompted to look at books that I might be interested in seems entirely appropriate

- they are entirely open about why a particular product has been recommended to you, and you are able to pretty easily fine-tune those recommendations.

- when I buy something from them, or even browse on their site, I'm not particularly shocked when they remember that next time I visit. They don't seem to be secretly collecting stuff behind the scenes, sniffing around what I did on a random 3rd party site etc.

Facebook, and Google mostly (although they are at least slightly better off on the first point than FB) fail on all three of these. They are giving me messages about things that I'm not currently planning on doing, based partly on some secret info they've gathered from god knows where.
Good times. Now it's all green shit in background.
Clinton: US wars with al-Qaida on the web
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The BBC have a similar approach at the new Media City development. On the surface it seems like a neat idea but in reality humans needs a place to call their own in some way, even if we start off as a nomadic civilisation even back then we would have has something to call ours that demarked our "space".

I think the idea is nice but people should have the ability to have some territory if that choose to
That article was kind of serious. He still writes articles in his old school style http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=onions
This was not clear to me.

@ followed by their fb &/ twitter username ?

OR their clipboard username ?
Obama orders Government Agencies to optimize for mobile web
Anonymous Online Speech: Soon To Be Banned by Albany? - New York News
That The Innovator's Dilemma is not on that list shows that it is complete and utter fluff. Delivering Happiness is probably a great book, but the rest looks like self-help-new-age gibberish. Better use the classics, as kitsune_ suggested, then.
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Not every Union is written into the law in the area. In fact, the vast majority(I'd estimate well over 80%) of Unions aren't even related to Government in the first place. Grocer's Unions, Retail Unions, Laborer Unions, Operating Engineer Unions, Metalworker, factory worker, etc etc etc. It's a fallacy that Unions don't have to compete. But I'd agree, that in the places that they don't? They're most likely overstepping and perhaps even causing issues.
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This sort of hyperbole is unhelpful.

North Korea is totalitarian. Nazi Germany was totalitarian. The Soviet Union was totalitarian. Criticising the government could get you executed, or imprisoned in a far away forced labour camp for a long time.

Quora is a website. They can, er, ban you from using their website. That might be a stupid, not very nice action for them to carry out, but it's not totalitarian.
This is a first for me: a product video that erodes all interest that the web site might had induced.
The goal of spaceflight is not merely exploration, it is also colonization, and adventure. The rest of the Universe is just a place, and humans will go there. Not because it is the only way to learn about it, but merely because we can.
For old articles, please put a date in the title. In this case, (2003).
But will the developers be able to support Forklift in the future if that's what they're going to sell it for.
Telstra resets 230,000 passwords after gaming site hacked
Hi, it does work - it's just a brand new site that only went live today, so there are only a couple of jobs in the system at the moment.
Yahoo's Axis offers visual results to search requests
A documentary film on nightmarish office spaces like the one depicted here was recently released by German director Carmen Losmann:

Work hard - Play hard (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeLY9y6VP2U

http://www.hupefilm.de/dokumentarfilm/workhard_playhard.php
I like the idea. I think it is a good initiative, but I just don't see it happening anytime soon. Some agencies just don't have the resources to make it happen, and others have too many resources so the red tape involved with projects like this are prohibitively long, thick, and virtually insurmountable.
I don't get it. What's the point of your post? You don't think there's any value in sharing how they did it? You really think they might bet copied and eventually failed because they shared their stories on HN or something?
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> You don't think there's any value in sharing how they did it?

There is great value in it. Greater still for the wrong people.

> You really think they might bet copied and eventually failed because they shared their stories on HN or something?

I don't 'think' this, I know this for a fact, I've seen it 3 times up close now. And I fully expect there to be a fourth within a week, see the current HN homepage.
The hyperbole is helpful.

First they ban accounts and sometimes delete them to make the person disappear without a trace, and secondly they prohibit you from asking why certain people got banned. This censorship prevents people from acknowledging that certain people existed.

Criticising Quora on Quora will get you banned without prior warning, and in some instances have your account deleted without a trace.

And when you're banned or disappeared, nobody is allowed ask why that happened, as those questions get censored.

Think of it like this when you criticise Quora.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Voroshilo...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/The_Commi...
And then being censored when you ask why the person force disappeared.
> Schema changes are exclusively an application-layer change in MongoDB.

Which is not by itself an advantage. You still need to write the code which does the schema change if you for example rename a field.

> Also don't forget that MongoDB can have arrays and sets as a "column" type. Which if you tried to replicate in RDBMS would mean a multi-table migration.

So can PostgreSQL. The sets are not as general as in MongoDB though since they can only store strings.
Probably just by networking - no books.
There is also another psychological factor here. By publishing your results, you are saying "I have cornered this market". So maybe people will think that "ok, that has been done, I'll have to try something else".
+10 to Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl.

On a business side I personally like, "Postively Outrageous Service" & "The Heart of Change"
He wasn't actually predicting failure for Facebook. The last thing he wrote was "It's still valuable but it will take some time to figure out exactly how much it's worth". Don't be so quick to lash out at people because they're not sitting in front of you or because you didn't read the comment.
The problem here is that when you want to use a photo, you either take it yourself, or you take one made by someone else and ask him what are his conditions.

When you take a photo and put it one your web site, this doesn't mean that anyone can grab it and use it.

The problem here is that people think that they can do what they want on the web and if you just send them a mail they will do nothing. DMCA is globally a bad thing but but its at this time the only way to make people respect copyright. It should go away but for a better law.

You can transpose this to software easily. If you put some of your code on your blog, you expect people to respect the law and so your copyright. If your code is under GPL for example, you don't want other peoples to take it and include it in their commercial product without respecting the GPL.

Look at all the work done by GPL violation and how its hard to make people correct their behavior when your are a now know organization. This men is alone trying to protect its right and the only thing that he can do which is effective is to fill a DMCA.

And remember that the copyright law is what make GPL possible...
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>>Simplest type system in the world: everything is a string!

This is an extremely important, yet most unrealized statement in the history of computers. Data is actually Text, and it strange so many people are unaware of Data/Text/String processing utilities and tools.

In my opinion everyone must learn how to use Unix text processing utilities along with Perl.

Often I see so many programmers, write small buggy sub set implementations of a few features of tools like awk, sed all the time. Especially if you are coming from a ecosystem like Java, its a habit to keep writing code for everything. Re inventing and writing code for things like what you can do in a line of sed or awk.

I've seen these problems more in XML heavy, and in general projects that don't involve a database. If only you would know how to represent your data in a more field based format like tsv, csv or even other record based files which can handled with some separator. You can save yourself writing several hundreds to thousand lines of code, by just using unix text processing utilities.

Of course if you know Perl you can move mountains like you move feathers.

Lastly, I would say those who don't understand Unix(and its ecosystem) are condemned to re implement it badly.
Weston on Android: desktop-shell
Perl secret operators and constants (Venus, Kite, Eskimo greeting, etc.)
I like RequestPolicy because it blacklists all external domains by default and it's easy to whitelist them as needed.

https://www.requestpolicy.com/
"We tried time-limited trial. This is why we changed to feature-limited instead"
It sounds decent, but how about some examples?
Out of interest, are there any concrete examples of where this has happened, or that anyone has personally experienced? I'm thinking about the full lot: writing/publishing a success, seeing people clone/steal/implement, and then a resulting loss of money?

I think that this point should be emphasized:

At some point you will be able to afford being open but right now, on the eve of your first success it is NOT the right time.

Reading a bit too quickly, I lost the meaning of the blog post and thought one should never share details ;)
I have long wondered about the syntax of exceptions - if it was:

void function()
{
try:
function_body...
catch(Exception e):
finally:
}

By leaving the function body in the same indentation as it would be without exception handling, this might help to make the code a little more readable than:

void function()
{
try
{
function_body...
}
catch(Exception e)
{
}
finally
{
}
}
Providing a variety of nice spaces that aren't "desk with computer" so people can meet each other, discuss things, find a quiet corner to think - Great!

Using it as an excuse to save on 'seats', trying to get everyone to hotdesk (meaning staff feeling undervalued and resentful, storage problems, not knowing where people will be found, many other time issues, and probably heaps more money on laptops, support staff, etc.) - Bad idea!
I was watching 'The Aviator' just the other day and I realized that at some point someone will make a movie called 'the Astronaut' or something like it about Elon Musk.

If SpaceX goes public I'll buy stock. To me it will mean investing in humanity and in our collective future.
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I don't quite get what this is supposed to be. A tmux? Multiple monitors? Faked displays?