skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was last year, and the recruiter was an old timer, so to speak; he wasn't new to FB. He was recruiting for the software engineering positions.

Really, are you surprised that there are federal agents on the premises, or just upset at the thought that FB users' privacy could be compromised in such a situation? To the degree that FB forum and groups ToS conforms with federal law and moreover seeks to go above and beyond the letter of the law then FB in this regard could be thought of as an extension of the federal government in such matters with regards to its own users. In this light it is no more relevant whether federal agents look at private or group communications, as opposed to bona fide FB employees. It doesn't matter. This is a private company; the first amendment doesn't apply. In any case, FB as a company isn't exactly widely respected for its position on its users' data, nor is it known to play nice with its users' privacy.

Let's not forget that of the companies whom the federal government sought to extract users' accounts' data from with regards to the Wikileaks issue 18 months ago, only Twitter publicized the compelled exposure of its users' data. Facebook happily gave the feds all the users' info they sought without telling us about it.

Although IIRC you have said that you've worked with the FB spam and fake account / phishing detection team, FB is a large enough organization at this point that the team responsible for complying with federal mandates and managing FB's relation with federal law enforcement is separate. Tao Stein and team have no bearing on this particular matter, nor should they care that real users happen to talk about and discuss real issues that federal agents think should be taken down. This is a separate matter entirely from what you've worked on.
They Became What They Beheld: Medium, Message, Youtubery
> It's possible that if ISPs had not agreed to six strikes the MPAA/RIAA would have agitated for new laws which would be even more expensive to lobby against/comply with.

I don't see where "giving in a little bit this time so they'll go away" makes for a good long-term strategy. They'll just be back for more.
No marginal risk versus doing the same to steal greenbacks. Unlike greenbacks, credit cards have (very good) dispute resolution mechanisms.
As an author I can say that either of this is unlikely to happen. Facebook invested a lot of time and effort in their homegrown solution and note that this one is incomplete.

It's absolutely not my call to say whether making hippy complete is easier than making hiphop fast. I can provide you estimates on the former, if requested, I cannot potentially provide estimates on the latter.
> I also seriously doubt that anyone has ever written a production system of any reasonable complexity and been able to use the exact same ORM code with absolutely any backend (if you have an example please correct me on this).

You're entirely right here, because databases are different. For example, (I forget the exact details), "select count(*)..." in MySQL is O(1), but it's O(log n) or O(n) in Postgres, depending on indices. That's a detail no ORM is going to save you from.

> SQL is easy to learn and very expressive.

Strongly disagree. The reason everyone keeps trying to write ORMs is because 1) SQL is a shitty language and 2) it's not the language that programmers want to use. Write a better frontend language for Postgres, and the ORMs would disappear.

I strongly suspect that would take some of the wind out of the NoSQL crowd. There are certainly NoSQL deployments that would have a hard time on traditional RDMBS, but there are a lot of other places that use Mongo just because they don't like SQL-the-language, rather than Postgres-the-DB.
Got it. You guys should read up on iCloud :)
Perhaps true, but short of redefining everything about capital markets, and human nature, I don't see how their actions are anything other than rational.

When you have vast amounts of cash, and a dominant market position, you're probably obligated to make large bets to expand into complementary markets, just by fiduciary duty and especially now because of the low cost of capital (i.e. interest rates) - the alternatives available to your investors are very low return, meaning a low bar to investing money on company expansion.

Also for every company with "delusions of grandeur" there's another company who took the safe, conservative route you seem to be suggesting, only to watch their dominant position disappear because of market or technology shifts. Which is another reason why its sound management to reinvest your profits to try and expand.
The fact that the JTAG is physicaly there in a usable form at all is shocking. I don't design hardware, but even I know this.

Your spot on about the fix, though I bet you that come christmas, you could still go into a shop and see these exact models in use. That would be truely criminal, but we shall see. Though who audits/controls these things as if it was a car and a safty flaw or any consumer product then you know it would be forcebly recalled right away. Flaw in food packaging even gets recalled instantly, yet I'm not aware of any such conrols that could get this device pulled until fit for human consumption/use.

That all said I sadly feel the only way it will get changed is by active expliotation and insurance companies rasing the premiums of those poor shops using such a device.

I hope the right thing is done, but why do I have little faith in it being addressed in a timely manor, maybe historicaly alot of flaws of such types of devices are usualy patched by the manufacturer by using the denial patch, they deny its an issue and then magicly version two fix's it down the line.

Shame you can't flag a article with a revisit reminder so in 6 months time we can see how things have changed or not.
The Haskell Spin Project
Microsoft's ill-chosen magic constants
Are yahoo pipes flow based programs? Are there fundamental differences in the way the piping happens in noflo and other flow based languages?

Then we have ROS... XSLT pipelines and so on. There is something really beautiful about looking at your code as plumbing :)
I'm guessing you haven't read the claims?
Depixelizing Pixel Art may work even better for some types of images: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/
"The algorithm extracts a smooth, resolution-independent vector representation from the image, which enables magnifying the results by an arbitrary amount without image degradation."
Unified Virgin for Bootstrap
Integrates most of the theme templates.
Based on Rock Solid Bootstrap Framework.
Responsive and can be used as admin theme.
Features a commandline.
> They'll just be back for more.

Indeed. Maybe the ISPs should call the MAFIAA's bluff, because after SOPA it's not obvious they would succeed in getting new laws passed.
Roles of a modern product designer (consumer tech)
“The Science of Inbound Marketing” – Key Takeaways
I haven't tried 10. But I'm hopeful about it.
Firefox. Yes, it's a know problem and there is already a patch, but as always is taking forever to get approved.
And yes, Chrome do a better job, but still it doesn't look totally right.
Loved your story. And because it's what we do here, I'll mention my best similar war story. I created a bowling alley scoring system in, I think, 1990. It was basically an embedded system, using commodity PCs (one PC per two lanes) networked together with a master PC running another one of my programs as a check-in and control console.

I used Turbo C V2 I think it was, with my own home rolled DOS windowing library of the kind that was ubiquitous at the time. Basically it was a smell-of-an-oily-rag development for a friend of mine who had taken over a near derelict 20 lane bowling alley and was upgrading it from "manual" scoring to "computer" scoring but couldn't afford a 100K "automatic" scoring system from Brunswick or the other big player (can't remember their name).

Anyway, it was a successful and fun project, but after 8 years or so the bowling alley was gutted by fire. Years later I was travelling through a small provincial town and saw a 10 pin bowling alley. Something told me to stop the car and go in. What do you know, there was my whole system, lanes plus controller, running a small 8 lane setup. Talking to the guy (potentially a mistake, what if he wanted after sales service :- ) it transpired he'd bought the equipment in the (literal) fire sale and figured out how to hook up the network and get it all going. He'd even split it in two and got it running another system in another nearby town. I was seriously impressed that he'd managed that actually.
Indeed, the prospect of paying $40 for privacy may previously have seemed absurd, but it is now a viable (and now necessary) expense.
Apple Might Jus Cook up DIY iOS Apps
This is the link you're looking for: http://yichenw.com/post/27157842052/roles-of-a-modern-produc...
Even better — I was already a member of the paid program when Mountain Lion was announced, and this point wasn't clear from the original announcement.

Even more significant: as a registered developer, it took me less than ten minutes on developer.apple.com to obtain a Developer ID, to use it to successfully sign an executable and an installer package, and to verify the resulting signatures.

In contrast, as an MSDN Universal member, Microsoft directs me to a list of root certificates installed in current versions of Windows [1], leaving me to puzzle out which are willing and able to sign third-party code-signing certificates (as, presumably, organizations like the French Secrétariat Général de la Défense Nationale are not).

As an aside, the official copy of this list is posted on TechNet as an unlocked wiki page I'm permitted to edit!?!

[1] http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2...
Firefox uses a faster(worse) scaling algorithm than Chrome. Besides, it consumes extra bandwidth for 97% of users.
You can start your own website today much easier than it was to publish a pamphlet in the 18th century. Moreover, becoming completely dependent on a few companies, and then even more dependent on the government to regulate those companies is no way to protect our freedoms.

We should absolutely pressure and shame companies who make those questionable decisions and unnecessarily restrict their customers but more importantly we need to stick to open networks where news and information flow independently through different providers. Where no single entity or even a group of powerful entities can censor anything. We need Facebook, Google+, Twitter, we need independent "appstores" (a definite advantage of Android platform), we need niche sites like HN, we need independent blogs hosted by geeks in their bedrooms, and even Tor. Homogeneity is recipe for a catastrophic failure.
I find it amusing how the CC execs admit they couldn't reproduce the attack, and he seems somewhat proud of that fact. Maybe my interpretation is just colored with my impression of execs of large companies. -.-
Why aren't you offering an incentive to early backers? I can't see any reason to donate now, or within the 30 days, rather than wait and see how things develop.
Yeah, but out demographic is one that prone to sarcasm, criticism, sarcasm, etc, myself included. :)
Firebase is hiring a Developer Evangelist
Firebase is hiring a Developer Evangelist to lead our outreach and marketing.

As our first Developer Evangelist, you'll create our outreach plans from scratch and you'll lead the team going forward. You'll have a lot of freedom and a lot of responsibility. Success in this role means creating a passionate, well informed tribe.

Day-to-day responsibilities may include:
- Attending events (Meetups / Hackathons / Conferences)
- Helping our customers build their products
- Building Firebase apps
- Planning our marketing campaigns
- Managing our documentation, examples, and tutorials

As the head liason between Firebase and our customers, you'll need to be a strong programmer so that you can help build their products. JavaScript is required, though a breadth of experience is preferred. You'll need to have enthusiasm and willingness to work hard at strange hours. (Hackathons are often during nights and weekends) You'll need to communicate extremely well since you'll frequently be the face of our company. You'll need to be based in the Bay Area with us.

We can offer you the chance to be an early member of a fast-growing team; we're smart, friendly and get things done. We can offer you a good salary, equity and lots of responsibility.

We're building a platform that will change the way cloud software is written. Come and help us create the future.

Please email imtheone@firebase.com with some info about yourself, your LinkedIn, and links to projects that you've worked on.
There's actually precedent for this in other industries. Some rental leases include clauses that say they can throw you out if you're found guilty of libel and slander against the real estate company. Of course, they've got to prove that first - but same deal.
Coincidentally, I've been working on my knife skills lately. In the past, I often served dinner late because I took so long to chop the vegetables. (I'm vegetarian.) Now that I'm focusing on proper knife technique to chop quickly, I find that I can get dinner served faster — but also I have more flexibility to respond and experiment in the kitchen, because I can, for example, put the skillet on the stove before I start chopping the onion I'm going to sauté. And I'm less likely to burn things, because chopping takes less of my time and attention.

Of course, knowing how to cut isn't the same as knowing how to cook. Vegetables chopped slowly taste the same as vegetables chopped fast. But if you already know a thing or two about food, you can cook a little bit better if your cutting technique is better.
What's the correlation between guys with longer hair and professionalism?
Fibonacci game, C/Clojure/go/python/nodejs/JAVA
Referly Homepage Simplification Retrospective
> Proggit (programming.reddit.com) is (IMHO) just awful.

So I went over there, and the first article is about protocol-less links, and the first comment notes that they have performance issues in css for IE7 & 8. The second article is a link to dadgum and the first comment is about optimizing network communication.

It's not HN, but awful is an overstatement.
Apple gives out free developer id certificates. There's no reason Microsoft couldn't do the same.
What on earth? Why do people assume their freedom of speech can impede on a company's own rules and regulations. Apple very specifically states that they only accept some applications. The things they find to be in bad taste, they won't allow. Get over it.

On top of that, trying to draw parallels between Angry Syrians and Mark Fiore's application seems completely absurd. Political satire and stereotyping an entire populous are fairly distinct things. One can be funny, the other tends to just be racist.
Ahh that's right, thanks davebees. I realized that there's no way to edit link on HN...
Binge Viewing: TV's Lost Weekends
This space will get interesting, but its going to take a while. The issue is that indoor maps are non-actionable. Further, there is a lot of infrastructure and coordination required to get indoor location.

There are a lost of people working on this (I am one - we have a patent for determining indoor location on the client side, meaning from the mobile device, rather than server side) - but there are a lot of other layers needed to make this a service that has more than one dimension.

First you need the map, with the ability to display the map on your device. Obviously this has been solved.

Then you need to locate yourself on the map. There are a range of ways to do this and some really interesting solutions. Such as the magnetic anomaly fingerprinting, WIFI triangulation ala Cisco MSE and RSSI triangulation on the client with a corelation to the X/Y given you know the location of the WAPs.

The above solves "show me where I am on the indoor map" - but this is a very one dimensional utility. If this is the solution, then there is no way in hell you can monetize this well. Its a feature, not a product.

So you need to be able to take action based on that location. This is where the problem gets harder as you need to start integrating with 3rd party services to be able to take actions based on proximity...

This is the secret sauce. So i wont reveal who the traitor is, or when we'll attack. But when we do, he'll know! He'll know that it IS I BARON VLADIMIR HARKONNEN WHO ENCOMPASSES HIS DOOM!

er... sorry - but I am very excited about what we have coming out soon!
Try double clicking on either the preview or the list of documents. That will get you into the edit mode right away without having to click on the edit button
I have an android 3. Never updated it, never customized anything.

This phone is so terribly broken and nonfundtional at times you wouldn't believe me.

I decided against focusing on android mobile dev (although I'm a gnu/linux gguy because the experience is so friggin terrible, and Google is just letting the carriers molest the users at this point.
A proposal for simplified definitions of "object" and "object oriented" (2012)
So developer tools for social media feeds - isnt this what Singly already does? http://singly.com/
Indeed. According to Google, something like 39% of viewers on my blog are running Windows and 9% are running IE. There are more Mac and Linux users together than there are Windows users....

Somehow I don't think this translates to the general market.
Does the browser count?

The iPad browser is a trainwreck in this regard. Not only doesn't it support LastPass or 1Password. It also utterly fails to remember passwords that were painfully entered manually.

For most sites it simply doesn't recognize the login at all. On some sites it works intermittently, often forgetting the password for no reason or the auto-fill not working reliably.

And don't get me started on HTTP-Auth. You can save those sites (by making a bookmark) but you get a phishing warning every single time you access it.

I have pretty much abandoned the iPad for browsing for this reason. The only time I fire it up is to lookup a movie on rotten tomatoes.

I'm still bitter this device was pitched to me as "the internet in your hands". It's not up to the task. Not even close.
That's a private matter that should be determined by your contract. Can't tell if joking..
I have been playing with this for a few weeks now and I've had some really great conversations with people I don't know, using the vocabulary of people who are not me. Surreal and addictive.
That's probably because the news.ycombinator.com certificate is rooted an Entrust certificate thumbprinted "‎50 30 06 ...", trusted by Windows [1] but not Windows Phone [2].

Yet another reason Apple's "one and only one way to do it" approach to code signing certificates may not be such a bad idea after all.

[1] http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2...

[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg521150(v=VS.92).as...
Apple outsources manufacture, so presumably you are claiming that Apple's suppliers, rather than Apple, are the greenest manufacturers in the world.
Kevin Rose says goodbye and thanks on Digg
So where does it get the energy? Suppose you get a rope made out of this meta material and tie one end to a nail in a wall, and tie a weight to the other end. The material should contract and lift the weight up. Thus, by lifting the weight, the magic material would be doing work, and expending energy. But where does it get the energy from?

Seems very dubious to me. To quote Homer Simpson "In this house we follow the laws of thermodynamics!"
Echoing http://www.brainpickings.org/
Item 1 says in part:

>> A project is not open-ended. Starting a business, for example, does not qualify as a project.

He's starting a business.
The best incentive we currently have is the username claiming process. If/when project succeeds unclaimed usernames will be available to backers in the order that people backed.

What other incentives would you suggest? Happy to take suggestions. Today is the "announcement" phase, we are going to be collaborating w/interested folks and fleshing things out considerably more over the next month.

(p.s. I have been awake for far too many hours, so I am not sure I can effectively keep replying to everyone at the moment)
The problem is that most of the projects that people list are not worth a damn, so at this point, my strategy is to ignore unless you specifically draw attention to a project and prove that it's something that required some amount of initiative/originality.

Senior design project for a nonprofit, assuming it's something you had ownership over, definitely sounds like it's worth listing, but projects like this, unfortunately, are in the minority.
Nielsen's site may not be a thing of beauty, but 1) it works, 2) it's usable, and 3) it is unchanged in style from when it first appeared.

How many sites can make the same claim: that they created a design and it has worked for 17 years of Web evolution?

It's a tour de force of Neilsen's key message: usability is design, and it works.
might be old school, but 1984 and Animal Farm by Orwell
agree. there will be no pay wall. Members can post their content publicly or privately and non-members can view public content
It's only available in the Maps app on Android. There's no support for other mobile platforms or even the Google Maps website.

Until that changes, most companies won't bother to send their floor maps to Google.
> Wolfram has never come across as egotistical to me.

That's interesting because the man himself believes he comes across as egotistical:

"That’s somewhat egotistical because I can say, ‘this would not have happened without me.’"
holy drama queens batman... so what? it said big boobs?!
Windows, obviously.
I agree the browser is not all bad if you take into account the original target market. But I stand by my surprise that even after the writing has been on the wall for so long, times clearly changing even in the enterprise market, MS still hasn't made it a priority to improve the day-to-day experience for today's user.

Maybe I'm just expecting too much.
While I have fun writing in Jerf's voice, I'm not sure why anybody else would want to...
Allocate only 2 hours a day on side projects. Stop immediately once you hit the 2-hour mark.

i run a startup and make games part time.
duly noted, we have been tweaking the copy and are re-editing the video right now.

thank you for communicating in a constructive way :)
Outside of the US frame of reference, Obama is very much a conservative, and Democrat policies would happily work in right-wing parties. Obama is definitely not a moderate when viewed in a global sense.
Android Hits 51.8% Market Share In the U.S.
"Projects, projects, projects. As in all categories, Kickstarter is for projects that can be completed, not things that require maintenance to exist. This means no e-commerce sites, web businesses, or social networking sites. (Yes, this means Kickstarter wouldn’t be allowed on Kickstarter. Funny, but true.)"
Kickstarter's limited rewards serve this purpose: discounted first year subscriptions, tote bags, stickers - the usual. It's a common strategy because initial momentum is so crucial for crowdfunding efforts.

Good luck, and get some sleep!
I had a quick look at the patents and there wording which the claims are based upon.

Your right I didnt read there claims but when somebody says 3 and there working out is 1+1 then I'll look at the working out and not there conclusion. In this case its the patents.
from http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines

"projects, projects, projects. As in all categories, Kickstarter is for projects that can be completed, not things that require maintenance to exist. This means no e-commerce sites, web businesses, or social networking sites. (Yes, this means Kickstarter wouldn’t be allowed on Kickstarter. Funny, but true.)"