skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood what they wanted to do with Unite. A browser might also be a good E-Mail client, but an OS? As long as you can't boot directly into it like Chrome OS, it doesn't make much sense IMO.
no different to raising a Series A or B. Facebook have so much cash now that they will likely never go back to the market again. They raised an extraordinary amount of money at a very large valuation.

They also have over 50% of voting control with one person so don't need to really deal with shareholders. The only single downside is employee option values and incentive packages.

Edit: to add to that, there is also a strong school of thought amongst investors that companies and CEO's who track daily, monthly, quarterly etc. stock fluctuations (ie. short term) are a lot less effective than those who ignore the short-term movements. Facebook said as much in their S1, and Zuck in his letter, that he won't be following the stock or dealing with the market, but will rather focus on building the company long-term.
College is a good place to learn how to hammer through "uninteresting" stuff.

So is your first job.
Facebook only gets the IPO money. If the shares double on opening day, it's a sign they could've made a lot more money (or given away less equity for the same amount of money).

Zuckerberg et. al. did pretty well out of this.
Since Chromium is actually using the WebKit engine, wouldn't it be Apple, and not Google?
AMZN: P/E 178.42 as of now
Windows 8 kills off “dated and cheesy” Aero
I find this article kind of sad. When they look back on their lives, will they regret sacrificing so much for work? Will they even remember or be remembered for the extra work they put in? Or would they rather have remembered traveling?
Striking juxtaposition of this statement to the "new" Talk Show, (http://muleradio.net/thetalkshow/1/) in which Gruber makes zero mention of Dan or his decision to move on, and instead chooses to start things off talking about.. baseball.
Novo superdesportivo é ousado e já está esgotado
É um dos superdesportivos mais ousados dos últimos tempos, o Marussia B2, um superdesportivo russo que vai ser produzido pela empresa finlandesa Valmet Automotive, tem toda a sua produção – 500 unidades – vendida. Um automóvel que vai levar a sua adrenalina ao máximo. Saiba mais deste superdesportivo, que já está esgotado, em http://www.autoportal.iol.pt
Congress could definately make this law, but they also delegate many policy details to the executive branch - so this is likely something that could be done by either branch right now.

Regarding the 'petitions'. The 'petitions' in question here have no legal standing at all. It is essentially a way for the current administration to let the people involved feel like their views are being heard. The end result of each of these is generally either a) a canned response about how they can't comment on the petition for whatever reason or b) a rehash of current policy.

The only real impact, if any, of the petition is if they sway the administration by demonstrating what public opinion on the matter is.
I've always been baffled by stock splits (and those calling for them) for this very reason. I suppose it makes sense for BRK.A's $120k shares, but for AAPL?
The Leap: Gesture control like Kinect, but cheaper and much higher resolution
Sorry, just re-read my comment and realised I came across as yet another of those entitled and grumpy anonymous commenters you find online. For what it’s worth, I like Aloha as integrated into the Aloha site, I just failed miserably despite much effort to integrate seamlessly into a recent project. I was aware of the jQuery UI rewrite but the branch didn’t seem to have had any commits in the previous two weeks when I looked so I assumed progress was slow. Glad to hear there’s more definitive plans.

I stand by my comment about the lack of documentation though. I appreciate that it’s often difficult to get people to contribute to docs over code, but it’s pretty imperative for a project like this that there’s at least an easy integration walkthrough and a handful of examples showing common customisations.
David Kadavy and David Weekly will be speaking at Echelon 2012
How did they try to play the banks?
Things we've done wrong with our startup
Of course, Facebook and its original investors made out well. But a stock that immediately falls below its IPO price represents a failure of the underwriters, not of the company itself.

Basically, Morgan Stanley convinced a whole bunch of its most favored clients to buy a stock at $38 that was worth only $33 or whatever. Those are the people who got "ripped off", so to speak.
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Wrong.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-why-facebook...
Because stock value, after you've gone to the pay window / sold the initial amount to make your investment money back and make money for founders, doesn't really matter to the founders / investors. They know that it's not tied to any real internal metrics. Stocks are a game. Game for the economy when people who don't understand are better high-risk and don't have a clue about internet evolutions / the cycles online. Facebook took advantage of that. Smart? Sure. Abusive? Yup - though they haven't shown much care for what they do to users/consumers anyway.
Dan seems conflicted over how it went down, but I'm left feeling this statement shows he is quite angry with John and begrudges how John handled things (no last show and re-using the show name). I disagree this is a 'classy' statement (because of the criticism of his ex-co-host).

I think its trying to be a straightforward telling of Dan's perspective without him being too emotional. I think its pretty good for that. Would love for all parties to to be as open and honest as they can as it will make for compelling radio!

Disclosure: I'm a $5 a month subscriber to 5by5, a Gruber fan, and a big fan of Let's Make Mistakes (and Mike in general).
Facebook ads DO work! Use facebook advertising, then start flooding the internet with "meh, facebook ads did not work for my company" articles and, BOOM, there comes the traffic.
Facebook's earnings are via a controlled ecosystem. You can't maintain higher profits that way. You can have short-term higher profits that way - just not maintain them.
You can criticize and remain classy. I think Dan did that in this statement.
Choosing a school fiu/nyit
I have a conditional admit from FIU in a specialized course for MS/MIS and an admit in MBA/MIS from NYIT.Could anyone suggest what would be a better school and course to get into?
Morgan Stanley makes a ton of money this quarter, while telling their customers that they should stay in for the long term (5+ years). It is too bad those people are getting screwed by Wall St. But a fool and his money are soon separated, or whatever that quote is.
So if there were people in this satellite steering it, the patent wouldn't apply?

And if the satelite was remote controlled from Earth by a living pilot - would the patent apply then?
Really bad marketing practices are already illegal (like reducing the mileage of a used car...). Those highlighted don't look bad enough and basically the customer can spot all of them. Public shame is much more harmful, indeed Ryanair, for the bad overall experience it offers, is already at the bottom of my flight companies list.
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Matrix is a reference to "The Matrix" movie.

I just dropped word "Unified". It does not really add value I think.

BTW, I'm not joking about the Matrix. We are clearly on the way there and that's good.
That commencement speech was awesome, but I really wish 37s would take a break from blogging for a while. They jumped the shark like 2 years ago when they stopped saying new things.
John Gruber is free to tell his side of the story. Anyway, I agree with you that is is time to move. As a listener, I am mainly happy that more and more successful podcast networks appear in the US and elsewhere.
>to add to that, there is also a strong school of thought amongst investors that companies and CEO's who track daily, monthly, quarterly etc. stock fluctuations (ie. short term) are a lot less effective than those who ignore the short-term movements. Facebook said as much in their S1, and Zuck in his letter, that he won't be following the stock or dealing with the market, but will rather focus on building the company long-term.

Yes, this is much closer to my thinking and that's why I called you out on your argument.
That is really amazing. I'd love to try building one.
They watched as all the other tech IPO's of the time had the large pop in the first day of trading. that incease in price goes to the banks and the company "misses out" (since fair value was higher in the public market).

Google tried to minimize that pop by ditching the traditional underwriting style and roadshow and instead implementing a dutch auction for pre-IPO shares. the banks were so upset at google attempt to sideline them from the process that they ended up colluding with each other (allegedly) to fix the price.

(The process was that after the roadshow, each bank would submit a sealed bid with their price and purchase allocation. The auction system[1] worked by allocating by highest price and allocation backwards until the entire allocation was sold. Somehow most of the banks bid within a few dollars of each other and at a price that was below even the lowest price estimates).

Price ended up popping in the first day, week, month, Google missed out anyway.

Facebook co-opted a number of underwriters and was in a position to leverage itself a good deal (1.5% fees instead of 5-7%), did a large roadshow and took orders the traditional way. Because they pitched the stock so well they both got a higher price than expected and also raised and sold a lot more shares than was expected.

They ended up doing what Google tried to do but without the arrogance (I guess you could say that). the underwriters for Facebook got a raw deal, they had their fees slashed, they had to share their fees with a group of other underwriters (there is usually one main and 2-3 secondaries, this deal had morgan stanley as a lead and heaps of others). They ended up sharing $175M in fees and have underwritten billions in stock and have today seen 10% of their position wiped out.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Auction
UK's 'Silicon Milkroundabout' jobs fair this weekend -- meet 125 start-ups
I'll switch to bpython when it gets all the readline shortcuts that I use without even thinking (like alt-b, alt-f, alt-backspace, ctrl-c, etc.).
RubyMotion backed by Parse.com
"Long overdue" is an understatement, to say the least. Thanks for posting this!
First, there's two other comments that would say otherwise. Can anyone definitively say whether this is true or not? I'm curious as well.

Second, your question doesn't add to the discussion (thus a downvote). Mind your manners please.
This seems like a short-sighted outlook, as it ignores the fact that the stock price matters to employees who have been given shares as incentive, and it also matters for the company's ability to raise money via selling shares again in the future.
"Over the past six years, BGR has grown into one of the most prominent destinations in the world for mobile and tech news. We have broken some of the biggest stories in tech and offered up some of the most honest opinions."

And there was me thinking it was just a linkbait site.
Outsourcing allows Mich. utility to refocus IT
We've become lazy. Its much easier building a photo uploader in php (aka facebook) than actually build something or put man on the moon.
Scientists create sleep mask that lets people control their dreams
to clarify, he only doesn't care about the price after he has sold billions of dollars worth of stock. until Friday, he definitely cared (to the point of borrowing money to buy a house so he wouldn't have to sell an extra share).
I agree, and if it's true that John took the show's name without even giving Dan advance notice let alone asking permission, then I'm disappointed. I'm curious in general about mule's split from Dan. I loved the original "fuck you, pay me" but never got into "let's make mistakes" and was surprised that they split off 5by5 (and now appear to be poaching) but I'd like to hear the other side...
TWiLBM #78: Facebook’s IPO + the 8th mass media according to Tomi Ahonen
My team & I originally tried out a non-trivial app using KnockoutJS, AngularJS and EmberJS.

Knockout was comfortable for me, as I had a Dojo templating background where you'd often specify "dojo-attach-point"s for direct references to specific DOM nodes within your view/template. Knockout seems to be half-angular (DOM attribute bindings) and BackboneJS (Javascript views, logic).

AngularJS seems to be all DOM-specific logic, binding, etc. You're able to extend it for your custom logic, but as things got more complicated we had difficulty grepping the large markup.

EmberJS polluted the DOM too much for us, particularly when creating dynamic forms, although it seemed to be a much more opinionated BackboneJS.

Currently, we're back to using BackboneJS + RequireJS, specifically where our Views have no idea what markup is under them, and the template only defines which "attach points" are needed for events.

Really, BackboneJS, SpineJS, AngularJS, EmberJS & KnockoutJS are all extremely fine frameworks, each with their own methodologies (or lack thereof). We've found that each one is best when applied to a specific use-case, while none are ideal for the majority of cases. (Some would argue Backbone is great in every case, but that's because it's practically a blank slate. That's like saying Javascript is great in every case! :D)
Brooklyn artist takeshi miyakawa arrested for 'planting false bombs'
Facebook ads cut to 90 characters
Checked on my ads today and realized part of my text in my facebook ad was gone. This is on a live ad. so i started looking through my creatives and sure enough, all of them cut off. 90 creatives that have to be reworked for message and layout. remember when computers were meant to automate things, not reconfigure every month (FB) or year(Windows).
Update: apparently i missed the memo ;)
"limit from 135 characters to 90. This change will be enforced on new ads beginning February 29" excerpt from http://www.rimmkaufman.com/blog/facebook-character-limit-pinterest-nofollow/21022012/
Maybe I'm not the only one.
I think Zuckerberg = The Joker burning IPO cash
Hmm. They list Microsoft's XBox Live in "Forced Continuity". It's been quite some time (at least six months, maybe even more) that:

- you can disable automatic renewal from the console or the browser

- MS sends you an email upon subscription informing you that you can disable automatic renewal from the console or the browser

- MS sends you a reminder some time before automatic renewal in which they again inform you how to disable automatic renewal

The last time I had to call support to leave Gold was like three years ago.
Posts like this pain me. None of the hearing among us will ever truly understand what this is like. Posts such as this one give us a glimpse in to what it must be like, but that's all. There's no way we can understand the difficulties experienced day in and day out for the deaf.

As a stutterer, I like to think that I understand a bit of what's it's like to not be able to communicate as well as some people. There's times when I have valuable input, but I won't say it out of fear of wasting people's time. Why would I spend a few minutes trying to say a few sentences when I can sit and wait and hope someone else could say the same thing in a few seconds?

It's not nearly the same, but I think it gives me an edge in understanding this kind of thing. Posts like this really make me more aware of what everyone can do to help the deaf and other people who struggle with things like this. Take a few minutes out of your day to help someone.
The relevant quote:

> After the calculaton of the FB IPO Cross was completed, but before printing the opening trade, additional order modifications were received by the system, changing the auction order book. As designed, the system recalculated the IPO auction to factor in the new book state. Again, changes were received before the IPO cross could print the opening trade, which resulted in additional re-calculations. This condition persisted, resulting in further delay of the opening print.
Tip to make the stack traces better in javascript: name all of your anonymous functions.

For example,

request.on('data', function requestReceivedData() { ... });
Except for business method patents.
'My friend John Gruber' etc. without any restriction – I'm very happy to hear that at least Dan Benjamin still sees John Gruber as a friend.

Dan Benjamin has really class, even in a situation that can't be easy for him.
At what point should we buy?
Using CMake with Qt 5
Thanks muchly. I think it was probably the video that I saw.

EDIT: yep, it was. You should all watch it, it is most diverting.
Yep that's the whole point. Apple's value is based on a solid record, while Facebook's is extremely speculative.

They may continue to grow or they may tank. People are betting for the former, but so far with very little real knowledge of what they're doing.

Tech is usually fickle and high-risk, but Facebook is in a league of its own.
China clears Google, Motorola merger: Deal to close 'within days'
Well, what they were offering here was 10k to win and nothing for everybody else. I told them good luck with that.
Dan's a class act.
Digg also hired a bunch of useless people with the VC cash and ended up not being able to get anything done. I don't think it was Rose's bank account that lead to the downfall.
Day 2: Facebook shares plummet, losing $2b
If you're sending or storing local dates and times, it may actually be better to use the local time (as ISO 8601 does) with the (Olson tz) name of the time zone it's in, instead of the time zone offset as in ISO 8601. This is more resilient against future time zone rule changes, at least that's what this article argues: http://fanf.livejournal.com/104586.html .
Olark (S09) is hiring a DevOps lead in Ann Arbor, MI
Not wrong. Facebook and the investors that sold stock in the IPO got $38*the number of shares. Whatever happens after the IPO is essentially irrelevant to them, except their remaining shares have gone down in market price. That probably doesn't hurt much if you realize that a day earlier there was no market price, and you got a great deal on the shares you did sell. Morgan Stanley is probably also not being harmed in this transaction (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenshoe ). They do have reason to support the IPO price level. Otherwise, it will be much harder for them to find investors for the next Internet IPO, which means lower prices, which means lower underwriter fees.

The people on the wrong end of the deal are those that bought Facebook shares pre-IPO or in the hours after the IPO. The people on the right end are all early Facebook investors selling shares and the underwriters.
This is unfortunate. Yes the company maximized their IPO take. But at the end of the day the ones who got screwed were the retail investors who bought into the media hype. This will hurt tech IPOs in general.
Should facebook be considered an upstart when it's been around for 8 years?
Absolutely, it is the job of Congress. However, the president has some influence with members of Congress, especially those from his own party.
Amazon, of course. They were widely laughed at too. I remember the favorite joke of the people who used to ridicule them: "we lose money on every transaction and make it up in volume".
I've signed it, but I have a general question: has there been any petition on the WH site which has resulted in significant change (like a new law being submitted to Congress by the WH, or a new directive being issued) ?
The difference between Google and FB IPOs:

I remember having a discussion with another programmer friend of mine, after the Google had had their IPO. At the time the friend was working in the networking software area, and had not much clue on the Internet side.

The topic was Google vs. Microsoft. I was telling him that Google is going to beat MS. His response was but Google is just search!

Anyway, the reason I mention this is that for GOOG IPO, some very smart Alexes of the world were not cued into to the buzz. Apart from Internet enthusiasts and professionals.

Now move forward Facebook IPO. The other day, my young, just-out-of-teens, female cousin was announcing on FB, that she has pre-ordered some buy.

To cut the story short the fools were already in !

PS: Not to disrespect my cousin. Using the 'fools' word in the context of those famous sayings regarding fools entering the market, just at the time of the bubble
I think that the IPO crashing (as it appears to be doing) might have an effect on this. If the VCs see that even Facebook, the biggest of the social media sites, can't make money, they might shy away from sites like it and to more product oriented start ups.
You are correct, which is I am not signing up to be on the Obama spam list.
Hm. But for an employee with stock (they have a six month lock in selling) there is really no difference in
1) FB making IPO at $30 and rises to §33 second day or
2) FB rakes in $38 and falls to $33 on second day.
As much as I would love toying with this, it really all about implementation.

There are a lot of issues to consider - what if I mean to swipe one thing but the system recognizes another? how is that handled? Does it calculate the position of my head and the perspective I'm seeing?

I agree with the above comment that this would ideally be an addition to our growing arsenal of HIDs, including keyboard, mouse, touch mouse, joystick, wacom tablets, and others are not intended to replace one or the other, most of them are complementary to other HIDs.
Don't look for a UX guy, be a UX guy
In my opinion the big question as always is, who decides what is "legal" and what is "illegal". People might have very different opinions about how capable others are of understanding what they click on or not. And as long as you don't install some design police which decides what is ethical and not, the most likely result is, that the TOS are just going to get amended with further warnings and disclaimers.
Do you believe all investors (including Joe 401k) should be forced to make bad bets for political purposes, or only some? If so, which ones?
It would be awesome to collect some concrete examples of complete beginners coming in with revolutionary ideas - both in business and coding.
That's where the embedded Ruby or AngularJS comes in... :)
Because it doesn't take too much time to add the support of different countries.

I am in the U.S. right, so probably the main users will be us-based.
There are various other exceptions too. For example, I believe that Chrome will play H.264 and MP3 and AAC, while Chromium will not.
This is very cool technology. The company was formerly "Ocuspec". One break-through is using very inexpensive hardware (<$5 at RadioShack) to get that sub-mm resolution. At the other end of the spectrum, they can cover a football field (and more in the future). What they are showing now is just the beginning. Kudos to rolling out with an SDK. I can inly imagine what sorts of applications developers will dream up.
NASDAQ's rule is a 10% drop within 5 minutes, which FB hasn't hit.
For the lazy: Is there any short summary or one liner about what dark patterns are?
To be precise, 2012-12 is valid and refers to a month. There is indeed no ambiguity.
Thanks for sharing. Some commonly spoken about issues. Good you have acknowledged these earlier rather than later. Liked the 7000 pivots comment.
Attaching a timezone to a time is an information in itself. By coercing time data to UTC you are losing this bit of information.

A user may want to have some information shown as 8AM PST at the same time he wants another one shown as 8AM CET.