skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook's user model changed completely when it introduced the news feed. Before that, users spent a lot of time "curating" their profile pages with favorite books, movies, etc., while updating status only occasionally ("dbot is ..."). Visiting someone's page was more like going over and knocking on their door. You would learn a lot about that person and what they've been up to.

Enter the news feed - which was hugely unpopular at first - and is more like walking into a public square, with ads, vendors, and people on soapboxes. Some people don't like to be so public in the way they share, and other people's interesting stuff gets lost in the crowd.

The Facebook of today isn't the one I signed up for, which is fine, but also explains why I use it less now.
Graphene: The Wonder Substance
Now all they have to do is release the API and someone will
Port it to iOS :)
We've never gotten there so it's an intriguing experiment regardless if you agree with it or not. 12 years ago I imagine most people thought it would be ludicrous that people would be walking around consumed in a mobile device - but that came to fruition just as stuff like this will.
Facebook has a feature specifically for this, so that you see every update posted by people on your "VIP" list. I only know this because they put the feature in my face, I didn't go looking for it. Come on.
From my experience in Brisbane (I think Melbourne is similar, Sydney is higher because of higher living costs).

Games Companies:
Junior - $35k - $45k (< 5 years experience)
Mid Level - $45k - 65k (3 - 8 years experience)
Senior - $65k - $85k (5+ years experience)

(skill is also a factor, which is why the experience brackets aren't equal)

At a web dev company doing Javascript / PHP / Asp work it's about $10k - $15k on top of that for each level.

Working at an enterprise doing what most would class as boring work it's probably another $10k again over working at a web dev company.

There are a few high paying ($80k+) jobs for ruby devs that I've seen around too and freelancing pays pretty well but then you have to find the work.
This should replace trackpads. As, in every laptop out there.
That's starting to eat into the $14 billion of annual government subsidies that make up most of their profits.

But that's why the self-reliant, bold, risk-taking, money-spinning geniuses of Wall Street deserve the big bucks. Er...
I've been programming Perl for going on ten years, I know a bit of Java as well, and have spent the last 4 or 5 years learning a lot about web development. I even recently learned nodejs and coffeescript to a pretty decent level and released https://emailprivacytester.com/ using it.

I just started to learn C and C++ about a week ago. I did a module of it at University many years ago, but I never kept it up afterwards and forgot nearly all of it. Anyway, I am completely loving learning it at the moment. It just feels like I have so much more control of what I'm doing, and I can't wait to build and release my first non-trivial application using it.

I want to know C well. Mostly, I just want to be able to confidently hack on the massive amount of software that has been written in C over the years.

[edit] I've always had this feeling in the back of my mind, that no matter how good I am at Perl or JavaScript or HTML or Java, I will never feel like an "expert" until I am good at C.
I think this device will sell like hotcakes, smart move by google.

It's the first android tablet that I'm considering, and at this price-point that means I'll probably buy it. I have a hunch I won't be the only one with that train of thought.
"I believe companies with the following would get the most out of Start-Up Chile"

This list is what Startup Chile should be using to vet its applicants to ensure that no startup comes away feeling the programme wasn't really right for them - it's a shame that people will go with one expectation, only for reality to be vastly different. It only harms their image in the longer term - even if the number of participants looks impressive at first.
> the model of filters he describes seems to make it impossible to distinguish red from green. In other words it seems to be describing a system that exhibits red/green color blindness.

Not at all. The filter R-G will be be positive for reds, and negative for greens. You might have been thinking of the R+G component of the R+G-B filter.

This actually explains why yellow is a a combination of green + reed, and how it is so un-intuitive. Yellow wouldn't really be the middle ground between red and green, but the absence of blue. Or something.
I went to Japan 20 yrs ago on a scholarship and the moment I set foot on the campus I was handed an ATM card with ¥100k ready to use (~$1k), auto refillable every month.

I love Japan.
2002 was way after the Minitel and it was after France Telecom financed France to meet the EU conditions to have the Euro. It was for about $7 billions in 1997[1].

And the BBC is biased, really, especially if you look at it from a non Western point of view. The thing is, you (and me) live in the Western capitalistic world, that is, we cannot assess easily the bias, because our references are including it. This is a very interesting topic but far too controversial to be discussed in the comments here.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/20/news/20iht-euro.t.html
This wouldn't work though. The government is immune(or at least heavily protected) against things like class action lawsuits for this very reason. Unless we can get past this giant political and bureaucratic hurdle we won't be able to do much except throw money into our own security. Even then, how is the best persona/corporate security schemes and policies going to withstand something developed by the brightest mathematicians and security experts money can buy?
By that argument the KLF were building value when they made a million quid with the express intention of setting it all on fire. And they possibly were, in artistic terms.

However, if we are talking about people who are just shifting money around without creating anything other than unnecessary work, then they are a cost to the wider economy, they are not increasing it's value.
Clean design, thin font, almost translucent colors, lots of space in between - this is definitely a preparation to and a testbed for the future functionality powering Google Glass
Obama SEC sues LightSquared backers Philip Falcone and Harbinger for fraud
Do they say that? The horrible transcription didn't include that (I didn't feel like getting my headphones out for the video).
It's possible to attack other companies for essentially anything. That doesn't mean you'll win.
I'm considering leaving facebook for the first time, because of the Sponsored Stories thing, which is showing up with disturbing regularity, and frequently winds up as ads for things that make me angry.

Nowadays, if you "Like" something, then that something can pay for the privilege to insert whatever stories it likes into your friends' facebook feeds, under the heading "so-and-so likes such-and-such" followed by your own message. Interestingly the person whose name is being used for the advertisement has no idea what ads are going out under their name.

Two of these in particular show up in my facebook feed several times a week and raise my blood pressure every time they do. One is a particularly annoying evangelical preacher slash motivational speaker who fills up my newsfeed with god-stuff due to the fact that a vague acquaintance I've met a couple of times happens to "like" him. Another is a political thing which fills up my newsfeed with posts I find highly disagreeable under the name of another friend of mine.

What were they thinking? Facebook has designed a feature which makes me hate my friends.
Do you mean products for sleep improvement? Which would you recommend?
Hubot Script Catalog
Same, I searched for it too. Is it an app?
Check out my free iPhone app to help you see soccer picks and statistics.
Yep. You can either be a bank backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, or you can be a casino. You can't be both. Or at least that's how it would work in a world where the banks don't own Congress.
I'm sorry, but you have a terrible conception of Justice.

We should never think that prison "should" be the solution for anything. That's the reason there is 4.5 times more persons in prison per capita in US than in NZ [1].

In continental Europe we tend to consider that prison is there as a punishment for really severe things (killings, sexual abuse, severe drug trafficking etc.) OR a way to avoid reiteration. If there is no risk of reiteration and the damage was light, then fines and other non-socially disruptive punishments are better suited.

And your conception that : private citizens always end up in prison so should government representatives, is wrong. If private citizens always end up in prison, then that's a problem that should be solved... not ampliated by putting more people behind the bars. Your vision almost sounds to me like a bitter revenge : "Hiii, we pooooor citizens always go to jail, they should taste their own medicine". No, the least prison, the better.

The best example of this is your terrible transformation of an important Judicial principle. You wrote : « Better a few government employees behind bars "unfairly" than more than a few citizens behind bars "unfairly". »

Dude. Read yourself. There is no way, people behind the bars unfairly is better than anything. It's the wrost thing. Remember the Blackstone Principle : "better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer".

And finally, do not forget that police is by essence making mistakes, it's impossible not to do, because they do something called investigation. If they were only to act in full certainty, then they would almost never act. They gather data and facts about a possible crime, and they have to use force to do that, and then they send all of this to a judge who will decide if there is enough to effectively find someone guilty or not. What you are asking for, is that police only act when they're so certain of the guilt that there is almost no need anymore for a trial. The judicial system cannot work like that. You must allow police force to make mistakes... or we're going to end up with police acting like Judge Dredd.

Which by the way does not mean there is not going to be any punishment, and if they do some really grave trespassing, then they might even end up in prison. It's a question of scale.

[1] http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pri_per_cap-crime-pris...
Yes, I too had the similar problem. I was missing out on updates from my brother while being bombarded with stupid gifs. But as pointed out in another comment it's just one day I had to sit for an hour and put everyone who I don't speak on phone regularly as acquaintances. Problem solved!

It was a bit hard for me to do this though, nearly took an hour.. so here are two suggestions

1) Brute force: option to mark everyone as acquaintances in one go and then de-select the people back to friends.

2) More automated: Facebook should make a module where if a person allows the app access to the phonebook, it somehow recommends a list of people who are important to me based on my frequency of calling/speaking them offline. I know privacy conscious people would absolutely scream in horror so this is why it should be opt-in only.

P.S. 3) Oh and timeline still sucks. It is just too hard to read, there ought to be a way to going back to the simple news feed.
I like this. Clearly not everyone is agreed on the cutoff point for logic in templates so having a solution with more options can only be a good thing.
Check out LayerCake if you want to easily "cut up" a psd into it's individual images. With LayerCake you can even set it up to auto-export your images every time you save the psd.
No. The tablet will NOT play all of your friends' music. Only the accounts that are linked to the tablet.
> It's becoming a real joke

It has always been something of a joke. No one is printing out screenshots of their favorite web apps to hang on the wall.
Aren't they automatically added on every internet webpage?:)
I think that's Roboto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboto
Nearly-on-topic warning: Android automatically deletes corrupt SQLite files http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7764943
I have privacy concerns about Facebook, and resent the fact that it's such a silo, but in the main in succeeds where other technologies have failed.

It's useful for finding people - a directory. If I want to get in touch with someone - and I don't have their contact details I can probably find them on Facebook and fire them a message.

If email was just as easy, people would have probably taken to that. Which is a shame, because Email could have been that easy. Privacy used to be more of a concern, and spam drove people away from publishing their addresses in directories.

I've left (privacy and personal reasons.) I since have missed the community. It's encouraged me to pick up the phone more, which is a nice thing. You just can't have the same rich interaction with people when typing compared to talking. But you can have a greater audience. Perhaps you communicate to more people with less content over something like Facebook, compared to having richer relationships with fewer people. It might all balance out.

Ultimately time is a premium. I certainly don't think G+ is the answer - it's much of the same.
I am not certain why you bring that up; the obvious context is that one might "grow out of" GPL or some such. To provide an alternative (and equally useless) anecdote, the older I get, the more I prefer GPL licenses (to the extent that I used to be adamant about "freedoms" and such, licensing all of my code as BSD, and then I ran through series of life situations dealing with, as far as I can tell, similar issues to those I hear Stallman had, and now I license everything I do under GPL3: for similar reasons I have come to understand the role of governments, why insurance works the way it does, and in general have become less libertarian); this is a pattern I have seen in others as well: I might argue that the GPL is something you come to later, after you've seen a glimpse of the world of software without it.
Not really. Using a for loop in C requires no more understanding than using a for loop in Python. As for character strings, what you need to know in C is the "gotchas" related to running off the end, in most cases the machine would be just as happy with a Pascal-style string[1]

And for pointers, I'll leave you with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare#Quotations

[1] Tho' processors since the Z80 have instructions to help you deal with null-terminated strings...
Thanks, I hadn't seen StoneRidge before.
I agree, FB is a tool.

However, because of the nature of FB, it makes relationships less personal/authentic, as we try to show off our "best self" to others, rather than our real selves. The tool itself encourages this, so instead of adapting to it, for some people it's best to not use it.

It's like eating at a fast food restaurant. Yes, you can adapt to it and order the salads, and healthy dishes.. But noone's forcing you to go there, you can just not go to them in the first place.
> nobody is thinking about getting rich expcept the foreign entrepreneurs.

What makes you think the foreign entrepreneurs are better than the local ones? I have not seen any such pattern in Startup Chile. In fact some of the best products (and teams) are Chilean.
What I find most interesting is the potential for an app like this to help shape your habits in such a way that is directly beneficial to Google. We're seeing this more and more with tighter integrations between major google products, but I feel this goes above and beyond what we've traditionally seen from Google in terms of habit-building.

A personal example: I fly a few times a year, and I always check my flight status at the specific airline's website. I haven't really looked into other options because I've held a "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" attitude, and it is a simple enough task. But if I were to use an app like this, suddenly I have a huge added incentive to search for my flight statuses on google.

I don't mean to imply that this is a bad thing. To the contrary, I think it is a smart business decision that adds a lot of value to all of the integrated google products for the user. I just found it interesting when I was trying to decide what the "value" was to google for a product like this.
Targeted TV ads: silver bullet or privacy nightmare?
what language/locale does the "time ago in words" (http://documentup.com/jeremyruppel/walrus/#walrus-dates/time...) function return a result in ? Looks pretty hardcoded: https://github.com/jeremyruppel/walrus/blob/master/lib/walru...
Curation of social media is becoming a big problem that only occured within the last few years. Trying to solve it algorithmically with plus ones and likes and upvotes seems to work when the content is centered around a specific topic, but not something so general as your Facebook friends list or Twitter feed.

And you can't just deny people you know from being your friend on Facebook. It's rude. If you're ok with being rude, this doesn't apply to you, but the quality of my Facebook stream is not worth sacrificing my manners - not when I can get better content elsewhere without having to do so.

I haven't left Facebook, I just ignore it, because there's nothing interesting there. I don't want to clean it up when my accounts on Twitter, Quora, Hacker News, and Stack Exchange provide much more interesting content.
Believe it or not, we had PDAs back then. And before that, we had pocket TVs.
"I Was a Slumlord…" [1972]
MockSMTP: e-mail testing on Mac OS X
I am starting to see some really good use cases here, that was an awesome idea. I think there are so much you can do to increase motivation when it comes to fitness with stuff like that, audio cues, real life achievements etc.
I understand that the website that you are linking to has used caps in the title, but is it really necessary to have them here? Also, why is the 'Your' not consistently formatted?
Yes, it stops moaning and groaning about that in v20.

On a side note, Google Chrome/Chromium's at version 20 already?
I think the big question is if Google is actually serious in advertising and selling the device to customers.

Google does not often run aggressive advertising campaigns, and so far they are not selling the device anywhere but in the US.
That's because the software is by Google. Samsung has great hardware but they need to fire their software teams.
Looks cool; has high resolution but what about accuracy? I didn't actually see him touch anything in particular, just wave around and create lots of swoops. Can you select an individual item from one of those swarms?

Also, exhausting. Waving your arms all day, just to scroll. Still its coarse motor control instead of fine motor, which is less tedious.
What makes this even more problematic is that a lot of your FB info is public. Such as your first name, your list of friends, your hometown. So spammers can personalize those spam emails very very well than normal spam. Imagine a email subject that says "Hi <NAME>, <FRIEND'S NAME> referred me to you!"
Wellcome Trust strengthens its open access policy
i think you'll find they acquired all of those, having said that....these are descriptive and cant be copywrited without the inclusion of the name Google eg i can call my startup Cognatin Play and have no fear with losing this case.
i think you'll find they acquired all of those, having said that....these are descriptive and cant be copywrited without the inclusion of the name Google eg i can call my startup Cognation Play and have no fear with losing this case.
And when painting, you often don't want to use black, because it's too dark, but clearly it would be painful, and probably impossible, to try to obtain a rich, almost-black-red by mixing CYM paints. (But it's easy to get by mixing red and a dark navy blue.)
I think the post author is right in the sense that Startup Chile is not for everybody, but I also think she was expecting everything to be provided to her as part of the program. I believe there are some good criticisms, like the one about office security (although, you should really get your own office, that's what the money is for), but most of it seems like unmatched expectations (she was expecting the same experience she and other members of her team had at american startup accelerators, and like she says, Startup Chile is not an accelerator/incubation program).

She also talks about not having access to mentors, and I know that is not completely accurate. Startup Chile has a mentorship system (godfather/godsons) in which experienced entrepreneurs help the teams participating in the program.

I was there for Demo Day too, there were two rooms with presentations. And even though they had some pretty bad technical issues at the room I was in, the whole thing there was in English (I can't say anything about the other room).

I hope that in spite of her disappointments, she had a good experience and that Startup Chile keeps improving in the future.
(Hate to be that guy but) Could something like this ever be possible for PHP?
> (Germany) seems to be doing much to force the Greeks into performing hideous acts of financial restraint, after the Greek economy imploded like Microsoft Vista. The more insensitive might therefore wonder whether German companies might have been more logical targets.

I thought Germany is bailing Greece out?
Hopefully this will lead other browser makers to integrate Native Client as well which would lead to a world free of browser-plugins!
Maybe you misapprehend the bool issue? It isn't that bool doesn't match a register; its that the value is stored in memory in a subset of the storage unit i.e. 1 bit out of the byte. That's not true of any other scalar.
Visual Studio 2012: Find cloned [redundant] code
Regarding party mode, every photo that I take is not worth sharing. I'll often snap 2-3 trying to get one that looks halfway decent. I don't want to automatically share the poor quality ones along the way.
I don't have Amazon Prime.
Former T-Mobile CEO to head Vodafone in Europe
I had the same experience. But the subtitles really were something extra, would definitely recommend for a laugh.
"templates need logic, or they quickly become unmanageably bloated and un-DRY"

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but you can do some fancy stuff with handlebars.js. You can 'foreach' through a json collection right in the template, 'if' 'else' statements and a whole whack of other cool little logic statements. So far I've not found anything I can't do in handlebars that I could do generating the page server side. Maybe I'm missing some more advanced cases or misunderstanding the term 'logic-less'?
Out of interest, who was the lawyer?

Much of the time lawyers are there to present a worst case scenario to push you into using their services. I wouldn't place much store in what they say (speaking as a lawyer myself).

In terms of the entrepreneur discouraged from starting a business, I'd be interested to hear about what the business ideas were.
1. I thought I read that Flame was well targeted and had command and control systems to make sure it hadn't "violated the computers and networks of <i>countless</i> numbers of people and companies". I could be wrong but Flame isn't the latest botnet zombie creator spitting out $largeNumber of infections a second, it's more subtle than that.

2. The Pottery Barn Rule may be A Good Thing(tm), maybe not. But it's pretty clear that (for better or worse, I don't want to debate the politics) the US government has no intention of following The Pottery Barn Rule when it comes to foreign policy decisions regarding the Iraq and Afghan conflicts. It's a rather weak premise to base your argument for a new rule on a past rule that's ineffective because the power in question ignores it.
I'd bet it was not meant to. My guess is that it is aimed at the rest of "us".