skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate taking the time and effort to put this article out there, and hope that it will help us hearing folk to improve our dealings with deaf people, but I can't help but have the following thoughts:

1) can the poster not lip-read? I realize it's not 100% accurate and you only get the portion of the conversation from the person you're looking at at the moment but from the description it sounds as if the poster isn't getting ANY of the conversations.

2) Didn't take the offered speech therapy funding?!?! WTF. I wouldn't even remotely suggest that every Deaf person needs to learn to speak BUT if you are feeling so left out of conversations with hearing people, and it's effecting you so significantly emotionally not taking advantage of this just sounds crazy.

I recognize that us hearing folk can never fully understand what it's like to be deaf, but at the same time this post really makes it sound like the poster hasn't been taking any steps to counter the situation that's causing them emotional distress. Getting your employer to pay for someone to come in and translate for you is NOT the solution. Sure it may help, but unless they're going to follow you around all day it only addresses a teeny portion of the problem.

Also, regarding the avoidance of the deaf community: I can understand not identifying with Deaf culture, but getting together with other deaf people doesn't have to be about that. I live in Cambridge, MA (very white and very english speaking). On my street there's a portugese club where people get together simple to communicate in a familiar language. Down the road there's a portugese sports club where they get together to watch soccer. A couple miles away there's a Korean church. These people are primarily getting together because of language. This sounds like exactly the same problem to me. The poster has trouble dealing with oral language, feels isolated as a result, and then actively avoids getting together with people who do speek their language, thus increasing the sense of isolation.

Yes, there's much we hearing folk could do to help improve the poster's situation, but it seems as if the poster isn't doing much to improve their situation either.
The key part is not the websites but the services (ads, analytics, etc) that sites use.

For those, quoting from http://donottrack.us/implementations :

3PMobile, AdInsight, AdOcean, AdTruth, AP News Registry, Blue Cava, BlueKai, BrightTag, Chitika, Effective Measure, eXelate, Jumptap, m6d, Mochi Media, TagMan, Tealium, TruEffect, Ensighten, Twitter.

Note absence of Google with their advertiser hat on, as well as Facebook.
Is it just my impression or is there a barrage of bad publicity for Facebook all over social media today?
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FBI cautions about the Internet blackout in July 2012
Internet users across the world are feeling threatened by a black out that may happen in July 2012 because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is all set to turn off the servers previously installed by the agency. This story started off in November 2011 when hackers wrote a rogue program that could turn off the antivirus software on your system and alter the settings of DNS routing of the websites.
2012-142 is valid. 2012-012 is valid. 2012-12 is not. For nth day specify exactly three digits. No confusion with months.
I doubt the 10-20% number as well, but note that that "site-wide access" is essentially paid for out of research funds. It's called "overhead" and ranges from about half of research salary to double or more, depending on the institution. The fraction of overhead spent on journal subscription tends to be higher for smaller institutions.
Facebook shares drop at market's open trades $35.52
That looks like Tony Stark's interface, except this is in 2D.
Down to -10.50% That was... fast
Those problems don't exist if the SSD itself performs the encryption/key management, as in SandForce.
Good utility, but I had a few specific itches to scratch with SpahQL:

* Declarative syntax for selections, such that selection queries may be handed between implementations in other languages

* Imperative syntax for updates, such that updates may be idiomatic to the language in which the spahql library has been ported (linq meets this criteria)

In essence all SpahQL is, is a shorthand syntax for generating traversal and descent functions, which output a proxy object for reading to and writing from the selected nodes.
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Reading this article and giving it some thought, gives me a small "aha" moment. Many people have compared FB Ads to TV Ads. Below are two specifics, I think, that will apply to FB Ads in that context:

1. TV had that kind of control as to interrupt people and give them no choice. But despite that they have to fight against people switching channels, as soon as an Ad appears on one.

The difference in case of FB is that one can easily choose to ignore the Ads. As you and me do. (Is it to fight that ignoring of the Ads, that on several occasions it is laced with a mild sexual overtone, at least the way the picture looks?)

2. By extension, of the TV Ad anology, FB Ads are for big brands. Meaning CPC is irrelevant, but big brands compete to be just visible to people, by just being there on the RHS.
(This one I have not read anywhere so far. But surely it can't be only me who has thought of it)
Jumping in here... I'm a college student and a frequent TA. I've TAed in CompSci (which I started learning as a kid), Chemistry, and Biology. Most kids don't want to be there. They see it as a continuation of high school. I even go to a pretty awesome school. But most entering freshman go because their family and their society tell them its required. If even half of those folks didn't go, it would give college classrooms and communities a more academic, productive, and positive atmosphere that encouraged hard work and learning. Instead our country has a pathological relationship with higher education. Its a place where rich and middle class folks bump their heads against academic subjects in the day time and binge drink in the night.

Certainly not everyone's like that. Certainly college is a really useful tool for many people. Its also an good tool to climb the social ladder. But the assumption that its right for everyone in a certain social class... that's whats fucked up.
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Google must answer EU antitrust concerns over search
So much bad publicity for Facebook today all over social media...
And Opera is still not open source. Which makes at least a difference for some people.
I couldn't find anywhere what the concerns really were. Anyone can point them out? I mean, more specific than travel searches and abusing monopoly power.
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This really has little to do with Facebook and has everything to do with 'big startups' vs 'small startups'.

Facebook changes how you interact with the acquaintances in your life. With or without Facebook, I'd keep in touch with my best friends. But Facebook keeps me in touch with some people I probably wouldn't otherwise know anything about. For better or worse, it really changes your relationship with those 'weak tie' friends.

LinkedIn similarly changes how you connect with former co-workers. There is no way I could have kept up with all these people as they switch from job to job if the world still operatered on an address book I update myself.

Obviously the iPhone was revolutionary.

These three are all 'big startups/big ideas/disruptive innovation', (pick your favorite moniker).

But the 1,000,000th iPhone app is not a big idea. The next Facebook game is not a big idea. Obviously there are some exceptions, but by and large these are just small fishing surfing on a big wave. Yet entrepreneurs and VCs are disproportionally investing their time and money into them.

Is it easy money? Do they have a lack of imagination?

I'm not sure but it seems like we all would like to see more money and talent going to the 'hard' stuff, whether that is material science, clean tech, biotech, AI, computer hardware, space technology, self driving cars, electric cars, etc etc.

That said, it's not a bad thing if a lot of entrepreneurs hit singles right now on this wave, and set themselves up to hit a home run later on a bigger problem.
Is it really unexpected?
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-stock-drop-2012-5
Yes, claiming. I'll be shocked if they can hit a price point below $150,000 even as a kit airplane (which then takes 2-3 years to fully assemble). Maybe they're comparing themselves to something like a Cessna Citation, so yes 10% cost but not what I would call affordable.
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But the whole idea is for them and only them to have those keys; otherwise the system is worthless.
Agreed, this is really what jumped out at me. I had no idea.
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I wonder how late in the day until NASDAQ freezes it.
Dropped another 3% in the 4 minutes since you posted.
for a moment it appeared to have a lot of support at $34 but it just blew straight through that. down 14%.
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Without wishing to be rude, have you not been paying attention? This is what facebook /does/.
Looks like NASDAQ fixed their platform glitches then.
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JPM might have lost a lot of money here, they bought at $38 to support the IPO price.

Oh well, watch those credit card and checking fees, they have to make up for this. FB is worth $40 to $50 billion and that's in a good day.
Now -12.5%... will trading cease if it drops 13% as Zygna did on Friday?
It's somewhere at -13.35% right now. I don't think that's unexpected at all given the valuation.
What to think about when you think about metrics
That slow motion `rm -rf` is a little doubtful. Sounds more like an ftp-style recursive delete.
Wonderful article, David. I know that it took a lot of inner strength and courage to write that article. You're the best.
I'm thinking he might have conflated two points: you can see the demographic breakdowns of people who click various ads, and the list of people who 'like' your page is, of course, public.
I agree, this is where people are not understanding the issue. If Facebook is to make it on advertising then it needs to be understood by all how to "do it right" or it will fail. Facebook is different than Google and this article shows what I'm willing to bet is a common result, advertisers do not see a decent return on their investment. If the people paying the money don't see the return they need, or expect, then that's a serious problem for Facebook.
I literally tried to submit this exact thing about an hour ago and it prevented me from posting a duplicate. I had to dig out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4002633 to post it. What exactly is the rule regarding duplicates?
> 'PT1H'. Which is more human readable than '3600'

Not to mention six years, four months, four days, three hours, forty five minutes and fifteen seconds, which is nothing short of 200072715 seconds (which my brain definitely wants to parse as two billions and something).
> right click anywhere to add search, and 'g searchterm' syntax

Both of these features are available in both Firefox and Chrome by default. I don't know about tab stacking (since I have no interest in the feature), but it's probably possible in Firefox with an extension, but not in Chrome.
Down 20% from its peak on Friday. Oopsie!
We officially support IE7 and IE8 in Aloha. I say officially, because, although it does seem to work, it doesn't work very well (at all). IE does some weird stuff with the DOM, especially inside a contenteditable (certain combinations of DOM elements completely mess up the structure if it's inside a contenteditable, but not if it's outside).
I'm aware of overhead/indirects. They're not the only source of university funding, especially at public universities where you have tuition, course fees, a tax base, endowments, and a lot of other things, too. But, I'm not sure what you mean by saying it's half to double of research salary. I do know that overheads are typically at least 50% (and that's a very low bound for most institutions) of grant money received per grant.

Naturally smaller institutions are going to spend a larger piece of their pie on something if its price doesn't scale very much compared to a larger institution.
Already a lot of negativity here...

To me this looks amazing and although LEAP seem to be pushing for you to get rid of your mouse/keyboard, personally I think this is probably best as an addition to it. Imagine if you had one of these built into the keyboard.

You're typing an email need to add a location switch over to google maps, hands off keyboard as you manipulate it around to get a decent resolution, 'tap' the address bar to copy it, swipe left to switch back to the email program, tap again to paste and boom carry on typing.

You wouldn't need to be using it all the time for it to be extremely useful.

We keyboard jockeys sometimes forget how much faster something like this would make the less shortcut-key knowledgeable users!
No. 4 is something which I've solved in Backbone.js with about 50 lines of (commented) code. It's a pretty simple setup inspired by Rails and it has solved this problem in all use cases I've had. I've put it in a Gist here: https://gist.github.com/2762417
So you software doesn't support timezones? Good luck with that.
Even as an emacs die-hard (very), I have not found yet a reason to move from the bundled editor for Mac that comes with R
I can't see why there is so much negativity as to end use applications. I can see lots of potential for this - slideshow presentations, laptops (goodbye annoying trackpad), as well as a stylus-and-tablet replacement for designers, etc. etc.

I think the key however the key will be in the recognition of subtler gestures. If you can show me a man using two hands to type, then moving them not far from the keyboard to activate simple gestures for navigating a document, I'd be really sold that this is for everybody.
Great! How much Li_3_N do we have?
EU offers Google last chance in antitrust case
x32 ABI, which got merged in newly released Linux 3.4, defines time_t to be 64-bit. I am starting to feel hopeful that we will be better prepared.
-13,37% nice!
"Supports", "works" and "is usable" are three totally different things. I doubt that E&C is truly usable since even much simpler things -- for example, data breakpoints when debugging native+managed code -- is unsupported in VS2010. (Needed exactly that today.) E&C is disabled also for C# as soon as you turn on native-code debugging.
A deorbit and an insurance payout is a known path with a fixed time period, and with well understood risks and payoffs. Litigating the patent would be precisely the reverse, with the added bonus of the possibility of punitive damages if the judge is in a bad mood.
You'll shoot yourself soon enough when you will need to handle timezones and become sick of inventing your own ∆epoch+TZ format :-)
Standard python mode has also region evaluation and definition evaluation, which mostly account for that. Maybe I'm missing something here? What do you want from inferior-lisp that you don't have in python?
It does seem he did some research, how much is unknown. I'm curious, at what level of education must one have to successfully advertise on Facebook? Because if it's a serious learning curve then that's a problem for Facebook to solve if it wants more advertising dollars.
No. I am a FB bull yet I took a bet on Friday that the S&P would outperform FB over next 12 months.
Fascinating! Would it not be possible to surgically implant an acidity meter in an animal brain? real hard on a mouse, but perhaps a rat?
Edit & continue is available with the V8 engine as well, so add JavaScript to the list of languages being unrighteously ignored.
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Google IPO'd with very similar financials, at a $23 billion valuation.

The value placed on FB was absurd to the extreme.
Sure, pretty straightforward, thanks for the code. So, in the end, no strong points and no collections.
Really? Do we need this on HN? If you want to watch the FB price bounce around go do it on Google Finance or wherever.
The cessna citation is a business jet. I don't know what price point they are trying for, but they are aiming for more mass market. The design has no moving parts in the wings and they say the design is amenable for mass production.
Valid HTML5 markup? It's certainly not semantic. <b> should be <strong>, <i> should be <em>
I don't necessarily blame facebook for this but it is true and hurting that today's innovation is all about so called 'social media'. Although it has its good implications, I feel its doing more bad than good to the society. Like the article, I don't blame VCs either. I just wish to see cars flying around before I die... and for that to happen, focus needs to be made on real world problems and not on what your friend's friend bbq picnic turned out.
call me when it's around $10 with P/E at a reasonable level.
trading doesn't cease just because a stock drops. they ceased on Zynga because the bots got out of hand and caused a flash crash. these safety measures have been in place since the big flash crash of a few years ago. FB looks more like an orderly sell off
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Looks like FB priced it perfectly - they made the maximum money they could out of it.

Was it not obvious in advance that FB was being priced such that the shares would be either flat, or decrease? The original investors have made themselves a fortune - and frankly anyone who invested heavily in a corporation at a P/E of 100:1 didn't think about it well enough.
Unix timestamps are amount of time since the epoch in GMT, so there is no need to store the timezone.
that's 10% in five minutes, but it doesn't count moves while the market is closed.
It's passed -13% and still trading. Does the breaker only apply to stocks that are below some threshold value? Of is FB getting an exemption?
Why not send that at the start of the school year instead of the end? Maybe along with a challenge to learn your class material in half the semester. Or assign it as an optional reading assignment worth a small bonus % if they submit a brief plan on how they would apply the advice in that article in your own class.

Is the tone of your email what you really intend? To me it reads like "I'm probably wasting my valuable time casting pearls before you swine. But just in case even ONE of you is worthy, here is some good advice from Derek Sivers". I find it dismissive, bordering on contempt.
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Exactly, case in point:

My local sandwich deli has now decided to go all "social media". They have a big sign on the counter saying "please like us on facebook" and when you buy a sandwich the staff ask you if you are on facebook.

Something about the whole approach just feels wrong in a way I can't quite put my finger on. It just feels like them asking me to do what is basically a meaningless mechanical chore.

I've been wracking my brains to think of how I would try and exploit social networking if I was running that business but so far I have come up empty.
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Full disclosure: I work on Chrome. Accepting that, I think it's pretty clear that Iron is scamware. It's just an outdated Chromium build with some hardcoded preferences and support for a text file of blocked URLs (something far better implemented by extensions). The creator makes money from ads on the homepage, default search provider, and install page. You can read a bit more background here:

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht...

Coincidentally, I recently poked at Iron to determine if it includes the security and stability fixes we merge for stable releases. So, I tried to get the source code to make the analysis easier. It turns out there's no repository, and I had to wait eight hours pulling 1GB of archives from Rapidshare. When I finally opened it I found a tarball from Chrome 6, which is almost two years old (even though Iron is obviously using Chrome 18). So, I don't think the creator is very concerned about keeping up pretenses (like being an open source project) anymore.
I'm also not convinced this is unethical. I think the Appsfire example could be unethical, IF it tried to trick users into thinking they were leaving a review in the App Store, when in fact that were not.

However, after reading the blog post, I installed the Appsfire app to see how it worked. In the interface, the link that brings up the feedback page is labeled Send Us Feedback. I think that's clear enough that it's sending feedback to the developer.

In some cases, negative feedback can be resolved if the developer knows about it. The important thing to the user is that their voice is heard.

So I don't think Appsfire is tricking people. Subsequently asking people who like the app to review it doesn't seem unethical to me. For example, I often get e-mails from people telling me they love my app, and I suggest to them they leave a review in the App Store. I don't think that's unethical.
just got me ipython (a ~few minutes back), and bpython (like a ~minute back), and this feels damn awesome! I mean bpython!
Have you considered doing your own start up? From reading your story, I saw several opportunities. In particular

I don’t know if it’s whether they never saw my note, whether they rejected my resume silently, or whether they attempted calling my phone number (which doesn’t take calls).

stood out to me. It wasn't clear to me what happens when someone called the phone, but seemed like it rejected calls. Why not have an answering machine like service, where people can leave a message and it gets transcribed?
It's a catchy headline, but it would have been better titled "Why VC herding is killing Silicon Valley". Though even then he doesn't make a strong case for Silicon Valley being killed off by this behavior.