skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are complexities and nuances in the most 'trivial' activities of life. Brick laying is brick laying, you say, but there are several sophisticated factors at play at erecting a wall. But the core principal has remained the same "stack bricks neatly, and use a plumbing bob".
Photo sharing services have been around a long time, and i will dare say that there isnt anything significantly 'valuable' about them. And by value, i mean value to society, not some arbitrary financial random-number wall-street assigns.

The space-race produced several useful byproducts, while facebook is turning programmers into sheep who dream of writing instagram plugins.

-- a space nut.
I would strongly encourage you to choose a different name. There are examples of accidental name collisions that didn't really help either company (Pinweel and Pinwheel come to mind).
Yep, use ataranto's fork, ours is hacked up and out-of-date.
When you live your life off the advertising dollars directed at your audience, it seems like an odd way of commentary.
> "some peoples fingers are just too short"

This is a classic excuse and complete BS. My hands are much smaller than average and I adapted. Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) lost the tips of 2 of his fingers in an accident and still manages to play!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Iommi
Microsoft Drops ‘Aero Glass’ User Interface in Windows 8
IOS Analytics - which is the most lightweight?
The new emberjs.com
It will be even cooler when we see companies reach 1 billion USD net-income with 12 employees.
How is this post receive hook done ideally with Node and Git?
site's dead?
Buildroid for VirtualBox released
You are assuming that they can, in fact, prove that you did it.

The RIAA has been sufficiently sloppy that they have pursued these cases in many situations where the facts were against them. In those it does not always make sense to settle.

And, even if the facts are against you, if you can prove that the RIAA screwed up in how they collected that information on you, they might not be allowed to actually present that evidence. The odds of this succeeding are low, but if even one person succeeds in that, the precedent will be good for everyone going forward. (Of course if you fail, you pay full costs.)

Admittedly it takes an unusual kind of person to prefer one of the latter two courses. But if they succeed, it could be very good for everyone else.

Disclaimer, I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, and I personally do not care much either way because I have never shared or downloaded copyrighted content in any public forum.
This is very sad. I've only met him at a few events, and through his writing (The Little Kingdom, a classic), but he has done a lot to make silicon valley what it is today.

I hope he is right about remaining healthy for a long time, or is wrong about it being "incurable".
Determining influence isn't the problem. Storing the data is.
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Kinda, I'm assuming that a portion of the IPO stock was from entities that owned the stock other than Facebook, eg. employees, early investors, etc.

If not those shareholders may also want to exit shortly after the IPO, creating a success story for the IPO should increase demand creating a better market for shareholders.

I do agree with you that in a market with rational agents and solely from the POV of Facebook, Inc. that they did the best thing, but I think in a market filled with irrational agents motivated primarily by price movements that it creates the wrong story for the next 3 to 6 months in the overall social context.

What they've created is dinner conversation about how Facebook is flopping and has provided lots of ammunition to the nay-sayers, rather than 'proving' the nay-sayers wrong.

I tend to see Facebook's business fundamentally as hype, people use it because other people use it, not because of some intrinsic thing that makes it better than any other social network. It's moat is it's userbase not it's technology.

It's like Coca-Cola, people drink Coke because other people drink coke, not because it tastes better than Pepsi. It's the fundamental reason why New Coke was a flop and Pepsi taste tests don't matter.
I just checked out the new show's site, artwork and listened to the first few minutes. Gruber is clearly a jerk here. Dan is walking his walk here and it's commendable considering the level risen to do so.
I agree. I am not at all certain how insurance contracts work, so I didn't want to speculate, but I also didn't want to leave out that possibly-relevant piece of information. Most likely, instead of offering a license in return for dropping the lawsuit, Boeing could just offer a license at the cost of what they expected to lose in the lawsuit(which is still around $50M). In that manner, the satellite would have been recoverable without any connection to the lawsuit.
How Apple can win & Samsung can save face, like Microsoft in 1998
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He certainly wasn't using this for PR, I know Dan would have preferred for the whole thing to never become a big spectacle on the front page of HN, with YouTube songs and Twitter riots.

But when something IS public, responding is often necessary and I stand by my comment that his response was a perfect example of the right way to do something difficult with class and aplomb.
For multi-page applications the problem becomes how to load and manage dependencies on the client-side. I use http://requirejs.org/ for this.
I think you're spot on. Every mall in the developed world could have easy to use 3D maps and offer/advert displays - that's a huge market right there, whether or not the desktop ends up being one.
Not trying to be a nit-pick, but wanted to mention that ZeroMQ is not a message queue in the sense that RabbitMQ (and Kestrel, Beanstalkd, SQS, etc) is. It's a socket library that you'd use to implement those technologies.

And while this is truly unimportant, my experience with bay area startup stacks is that Redis has very thoroughly supplanted Memcached for most use cases. Though most still have a memcached cluster or two.

That being said: 90% of software development in this world isn't done at tech companies and startups. So from that perspective, that stack is interesting.
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Umm, they have sold over 200 million iPhones, how is that a nitch product?
Streamline is an I/O architecture for operating systems.
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I haven't had much hope for this one since Ray Beckerman threw up his hands in despair over the lawyering on the defense side: http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/prof...
and overnight, Sequioa's firing rate of Founder-CEO's drops... yes or no?
"doth protest too much"

Funny exactly the thought that came to my mind as well.

And then again the linkbait headline is without merit: "Watch Morley Safer Lie". We don't know who was behind this (even if you want to consider it a lie). Morly has input but I'm not aware that he (and not the producers and editors) make the determination of what makes it "in the can" on a report like this.
Nobody said anything about it being scary to type "ssh-keygen -t rsa" but rather about the responsibility that comes with it.

I'd bet my right hand the more than 25% of "competent developers" that are "managing servers" will have made security mistakes while storing their ssh keys on a level with storing the password in plaintext on a .txt file on the desktop.

Thats whats scary about "crypto stuff", not that it isn't easy to use the tools, its hard to be really sure how to put them to good use when you are no expert on IT security.
I want to take this seriously, but I just can't stop laughing at the picture of the stereotypical college guy trying to impress girls. If this thing gets made, I want to hear from the first guy who gets laid with his gTar on easy mode.
I agree. I think the interesting aspect is that they built a service that serves an impressive number of users on fairly common technologies.

There isn't anything very revolutionary about their stack by itself. FB didn't buy them for their technology... they could have replicated that on their own.

If they want to be talking about infrastructure, the story of using common tools at high volume is more interesting that just what tools...
Soo... Facebook Gold? ;)
Kinect in my Operating Room? It's More Likely Than You Think
Diet Coda
MySpace was just as integrated into people's lives at the time. LiveJournal is still a behemoth and houses an innumerable amount of thriving communities. I would go so far to say that with Zuckerberg at the helm, people will continue to be wary of the future of FB and their data.

All it is going to take for someone to surpass FB is the ability to pull the user's info in from it, make it a cleaner experience they have more control over and find a better way of advertising to or otherwise monetizing from users.

Look at what hype alone did for Diaspora. People are grasping to get away from Facebook, they just need somewhere else to go.
Airspace issues have been the bane of my existence until WPF3.5sp1. D3DImage! Side note -- I also advocate Caliburn.Micro, it's great!
How about better Ruby syntax? Such as map.foo instead of map { |x| x.foo }
Not yet -- I'll work on putting those up somewhere. Until then, I can tell you this: Stuart Halloway's "Programming Clojure" (http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Clojure-Stuart-Halloway/dp...) is the best book (I've read through them all).

Stu works alongside Rich so he understands Clojure at a deep level, but he's still in tune to the beginner's mind and is able to clearly explain concepts and provide the context you need for the ideas to resonate.
Any links for those comments from Mike and Gruber? I haven't seen them.
Seems nice except for how it keeps pushing you to login to github, that would probaby get annoying after a while if working with non-github repos. Also the diffs weren't working with the java files I tried it with, it just minuses and plusses the whole file, hopefully just a bug they can fix. This is my first look at a Windows 8 UI and if this is representative of the fufure I am worried, but it does looks pretty. Overall though this is a good effort.
My goal was more to encourage users to be mindful when they use computers / the Internet, regardless of what OS they are on. But yes, to support my point I did aim some jabs at the OS that many consumers consider most safe, including the parent I quote in the post. But I in no way am trying to condemn Apple, just to say an OS can never be a full replacement for caution.

Also, with reference to your quote, the FileVault protection mentioned there in recently started storing passwords in plain-text, kind of supporting my claim even more :) http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Apple-OS-X-Lion-Update-Exp...

Thanks for the feedback.
(I like the idea of a pressure-sensitive keyboard. Could be useful for music. Probably hard to engineer in a way that would be useful and which wouldn't compromise button input. Blue-switch cherry keyboards are annoying to type on. Still, interesting idea.)

You're papering over the problems with relativism.

The keyboard is rapid to use and flexible. Although it has the possibility of physical health problems with RSI, with light pen interaction you have the certainty of pain and fatigue. Sign speakers don't need sign-to-speech - there are keyboards already. There's been multiple attempts at text to speech as well, and the result is more fiddly, less flexible and less rapid than you can get with a keyboard.

There could be an argument that keyboards are complicated and have a learning curve. But computers are the super-tool of our age. Why would you not learn use of a tool that gives you combines great power with flexibility.

I think we still have discussions about alternative user interfaces that hark back to the way humans interact with each other because most of the population are not yet expert keyboard users. This will change. Once the developed world is flush with expert keyboard users, user interfaces will go back to putting greater emphasis on them.
LeapMotion (without keyboard & mouse)
Has anyone tried this out? The example you can download is on an Ubuntu system, though an older one.

From the website:

Streamline is born out of research into high-performance network processing. Our goal is to facilitate network processing at multi-gigabit rates on cheap PC hardware. The approach we take is to (1) construct pipelines on demand for each application, at runtime, from an extensible set of filters and to (2) automatically optimize these paths to minimize transport overhead (copying, context switching and cache pollution) while exploiting all available hardware (such as peripheral cards or asymmetric cores). Streamline tasks are similar to Unix pipelines; both are an example of stream computing.
Twitter's ad product is called "Promoted tweets", and they are arguably far less precisely targeted than when tweeting to the followers of a specific account.
The benefits of open book finances is that everyone is aware of how well/bad the company is doing.

Not the usual cloak and dagger hush hush style, where no-one is aware they may actually be close to bankruptcy or that the actual money earner is product B not the glorified Product "Novergoingtowork".

Or that hardware cost was 1% of expenditure while salaries was 70% of which pointless meetings accounted for 30%...

Good idea. Open and honesty prevails. Now who dares opening their books publicly? To their customers and competitors...
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I'm going to have to disagree. It is cynical at best to assume that this situation is being used as PR. Beyond disappointment that the show will not continue as it was, Dan has not exposed his personal feelings on the matter or any private details that should otherwise remain private. There is nothing about switching hosts in a public podcast/show/presentation/etc. that can be considered truly private and deserving of no attention whatsoever. As a listener I found the switch jarring, confusing and leaving lots of questions. Do listeners deserve the intimate details? Of course not, but no one is offering those. All Dan offered was an answer to the question listener's had of "What happened to Dan?", 1/2 of "The Talk Show". It wasn't just JG's show and to offer nothing to the listeners to explain a shift like this leaves lots of questions. The issue became public when JG published the first podcast on Mule with no mention of what Dan's continued involvement might be. Dan had nothing to do with making that issue public, he's merely provided a polite and respectful explanation so everyone can go about their business and not worry about it anymore.

As listeners we are not "entitled" to be treated with respect, but it sure goes a long way in keeping us as listeners and keeping listeners in the loop of major shifts in the show is what I would call respectful. The show on Mule is a different show now, JG is trying to own it and do his own thing with it and there is nothing to criticize there, but it does show a lack of respect for the existing listeners to not at least hint at the changes and give the other host a chance to sign off for the listeners and close the loop. It's not right or wrong, it's simply a choice, just like the choice we make to listen or to leave comments etc.

I am grateful to Dan for filling in the blanks so listeners are no longer distracted by it. I think it's critical to note that he did a masterful job in phrasing it so as not to generate any animosity on the part of the listeners (or between himself and JG) and that's probably the most important aspect of what makes what he did "respectable" versus something to criticize and/or dismiss as a PR stunt.
Problem is, not everyone who wants to program is willing to go through these steps. Even being a security engineer myself, I balked at some of the steps. I know why they're required, and I understand the steps behind them, but man all I want to do is put this little script somewhere where I don't have to worry about it getting lost.

I don't want to have to do it all command-line, I don't want to have to copy and paste from their blog, I don't want to have to do it by hand. I'm not a competent developer (and I reject your assertion that you need to be a competent developer to use version control), I'm not setting up a server, I'm not deploying to Heroku. I want this script backed up and I want it version controlled. No reason why it should be hard.

No reason why it should be hard, because the whole goal of technology is to make life easier. I'm scared by the thought of a lot of stuff inside my computer and OS, but luckily there wasn't someone with your mindset and now anyone can easily get a computer from bare metal to running Angry Birds in Chrome. I'm not a developer although I write scripts sometimes, and the barrier to entry should not be set higher than absolutely necessary. If that means GUI, then so be it.
If you think you dumbed that down for your friend's mom, you didn't. What you needed to explain is that "...your email is not attached to your computer -- you can have the same email on MANY computers..." and then tie in the fact that spam can happen on any computer because of that. Tell her it's JUST LIKE getting junk mail in a PO box with a forwarding address. The junk gets forwarded too.
Lovely feedback, thank you.
Amazon poised to pocket California sales-tax money
Refer to the UNIX Programming Environment:

UNIX does not stop the user from doing stupid things,
as that would also prevent them from doing clever things.

Apply s/stupid/bad and s/clever/good and you have my view on this issue.

Also, as others have pointed out, the most egregious cases are already considered
fraud, and therefore illegal. I see no reason to make further laws.
The Type Of Arrogance That Cost JP Morgan $7 Billion
It's just an experiment, these aren't mutually exclusive. I will be trying promoted tweets further down the line.
I believe you are under estimating the 'early reward' effect. For those who don't know it, the theory behind early reward is that you create a teaching system which rewards early and often and gradually ramps and you can get more people taught. The thought is that lowering the threshold to success gets you more participants. Its used a lot in game play to draw you in.

That being said, when Guitar Hero came out for the Wii I got a copy, realized that they had captured some of the 'feel' you get when you are playing for real (my nominal instrument is trombone but not a lot of call for that :-) and found it fun. So I took the open source bluetooth driver for the Wiimote and created an app that basically let you play a song and pace it with the 'strumming'. Its great for kidding around but not as satisfying as having to work the frets etc.

So here we have a guitar that can do a bit of both, play 'fake' where only the correct notes play, or play 'real' where all notes play. Cool idea.

The price though. Ouch. Lets look at that for a minute.
After they build their first batch, guitars will be $450 each. And they need an iPhone to work at all. So a used iPhone is maybe $100 so you are looking at $550 all up. A student guitar is $60 and lessons are like $100/month so call it 5 months of lessons.

I'm guessing that if you don't even know if you like to play the guitar its going to be too much of a 'risk' to invest in it. That will greatly limit the market. If they are successful I hope they come out with a dedicated built in compute unit.
Because the idea that "the only reason to lend money is to make more money off of interest" is a modern innovation and very much out of line with how people have thought historically.

It's interesting to think about how much contemporary civilization has convinced us that certain things are universal absolutes when in fact they are fairly odd cultural tics in the broad view of history.

Seriously, if that question interests you, check out the book I mentioned. Debt has always existed, but it has meant a very different thing to the 95% of people who have ever been born than the concept you or I grew up with.
If they withhold some of your wages, they don't withhold all of them. You can still pay rent and buy food.
More or less a similar approach to Tir's: http://brubeck.io/
That line of argument is much more effective for young companies. FB has plenty of cash to say buy duck duck go, but they are still focused on social and making less than 1$/user/month.
Along those lines, I listened to The Talk Show a few times, and it often sounded to me like Dan really had to work to pull material out of Gruber. I would've expected Gruber to just stop podcasting before taking the show elsewhere.
PKI has nothing to do with SSH keys. Github's use of SSH does not use certificates, and github has no certification infrastructure.
I'm well up for more people learning to play an instrument. I am a musician myself (though less proficient with a guitar than with my drum kit), and inspiring others to learn is a good thing.

That being said, you also want to encourage people to play and write your own music. If all this does is teach you how to play your favourite songs (by other artists), that is all you'll learn.

I notice it has a 'free-play' mode, where it turns into what looks like a Kaoss pad. This is also good, but I'd hope it'd have some sort of learning mode where you're taught chords, and basic chord progressions, and barre chords.

I'd see more value in that than the Guitar Hero, 'mash out epic rock and roll guitar solos' style of game it shows at the start.

Edit: I suppose the form of this will make parents a lot happier than they would be if they bought their kid a Strat and a 300W guitar amp.
To be fair the employee number is as of last December, and they've grown quite a bit since then.
The important thing you missed then and are still missing now is that none of that stuff you mention happens in the Windows world.

We set up VPNs to our servers and access them via network paths or directly using Remote Desktop. One can go one's entire career without ever typing ssh-keygen into a terminal window. It's certainly not a step involved in setting up a client to talk to version control.

You don't have to believe me on this. You can read the article we're talking about here and see this same sentiment expressed by the GitHub team themselves.

Thanks to that team, folks in our side of the dev world now have an easy path into Git and GitHub, and can go about our merry way building things without ever having to parse what it was that you did in your second paragraph.
Have you looked at Twitter Bootstrap's Responsive scaffolding?

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html#respons...
The second anybody can play it it looses it's score factor.

Playing the guitar is "valuable" because not everyone can do it.
You can if they already have the CD. That's just plain fair use.
The Fretlight guitar already does this: http://www.fretlight.com/

Last time I checked, Fretlight didn't have an open API that anyone can use, but reverse engineering the protocol and providing open tools would cost way less than $100K.
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Wow, looks very nice. I didn't see anything about this on the page, but is it still geared towards PHP/static/etc sites with normal non-rewritten URLs? It didn't seem to work very nicely with fancy rewritten URLs when I tried it last (for example, the preview feature doesn't work).
Investors/media/most people are not leaders. Facebook and the social space is interesting right now because it is already a proven business model, so everyone is trying to take their last piece of the pie before it becomes an established industry.

Nobody has really showed the promise of making millions flying to space yet. When they do, money and media attention will start to flow in that direction and everyone will start fighting for their share of that market pie.

Nobody cares about the idea, just how much money it is going to make them. Right now, it is unknown if you will ever make money going to space. It wasn't that long ago that some brave people were making social networking websites that nobody cared about or wanted to invest in.