skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any followers on your Twitter account that match this pattern. I have a small number of followers (about 1,100) and I've never had an account like the type I listed (avatar, bio, ~3 followers, ~2000 following) follow me.

The Twitter account I use for the website I work for which has 10,000 followers that are follows mainly through our website (we have the "follow us" button on a high trafficed page) are mainly from Twitter "lurkers" and I can't find a single one that matches the purchased followers pattern I mentioned, you're welcome to check yourself: http://twitter.com/i/#!/redstonewire/followers

On top of that I've checked with all the accounts I suspect of purchasing followers when they gained their followers: it's always within a few seconds that they've done from ~1,000 to 5,000, or 1,000 to 60,000. Here's an example of one account I was monitoring, you can see the jump from 2,000 to 4,000 took place at the same time: http://i.imgur.com/jUMNj.jpg and here's another that went from 0 to 60k: http://i.imgur.com/KwJZj.png

I don't mean these sort of accounts in isolation: 1 follower matching the pattern out of 100 is fine, but when a user has 10,000 followers and 9,900 match that pattern don't you think that's an indication of follower purchases?

Another type I didn't mention are the type that are legitimate active users that have authorised applications that are using this auth to generate follows on demand. These are interesting but not relevant because they're not created accounts just for followers, but legit accounts being used.
I do feel HR departments have too much control in hiring process's. Sadly education descrimination is one such area still fully allowed by law, despite the lesser paper educated person being more able to do the job.

Bottom line if they are letting alot of talent slip thru the nets due to this rigid policey then eventualy they will create competition.

One does wonder when you read all these stories of big companies formed by people who quite doing there degree's half way thru and then read about a big company insisting that all employee's have a degree. Just have to laugh and move on.

I was once at a interview were the HR people were assholes like that though the IT manager in a seprate interview was blown away with my skill's and demostrated abilities and offered me more than what I was asking for, I turned them down due to the experience I had in the HR interview prior to the technical interview and told them why as well. Took a lesser paid job at a company called RAND who I had also interviewed with that same day. Had HR not been so rude and downright insulting due to my age etc, then I would of taken there job offer. Retrospectivly though I did make the best choice in the end, which was comforting.
I believe it says:

MIP = Multi-prover Interactive Proof, a class of languages, is known to be equivalent to NEXP, (the class containing all languages computable in exponential time by a machine operating in a non-deterministic fashion [eg. the ones you care about]).

MIP* is like MIP except the provers (the M) are allowed to communicate with each other using quantum entanglement. This type of communication would be undetectable by the questioner (the verifier) and thus allow a group of attackers to "cheat" various cryptographic protocols. However, it is found that MIP* contains MIP. Therefore, there are proof systems (and thus protocols) resistant to quantum communication of the provers.

Thus, zero-knowledge proofs and the like still work in with quantum entanglement powered assailants.
Twitter itself really offers nothing unique in this regard. The same effects could be had with tons of other online services.

While Twitter is the current market leader (imo mostly due to constant hyping by mainstream media who apparently feel "tweet" is of analogous magnitude as "email"), it could easily be replaced by any number of extant services, let alone potential future services.
Windows RT is Windows 8 with the desktop, but without the ability to install new desktop software. The built-in desktop utilities such as Explorer, Control Panel, etc. are still there and work the same.
what language/framework is HN built on?
By way of comparison, I ran the numbers back in 2009 using a similar sampling technique:

http://blog.unto.net/sampling-twitter.html

At the time, I estimated roughly 1,200,000 active and connected users on Twitter. This author currently estimates around 80M active users (as of mid-2012), or a 80x increase over three years.

Note that both samples considered "active" to be someone who posts, which is quite a bit stricter than the (reasonable) definition of consumption that the industry has been stabilizing on.

Neither of us knew how to account for spam/fake accounts, which must represent some non-trivial part of the ecosystem (at least judging from the followers my own dormant account continues to attract: http://twitter.com/#!/dewitt/followers).

I found it interesting, though in hindsight not surprising at all, that the average length of username is also going up over the years.
It is not the rule in academia that people just make up quotes. Not any place I was ever at, anyway.
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And...if you bid on a CPC basis, you don't get charged for anything in this scenario...
How does this shit make it to the front page?

First and foremost, everyone needs caching. It's what makes computers fast. That RAM you have? Cache. The memory in your CPU? Cache. The memory in your hard drive? Cache.

Your filesystem has a cache. Your browser has a cache. Your DNS resolver has a cache. Your web server's reverse proxy [should] have a cache. Your database [should] have a cache. Every place that you can conceivably shove in another cache, it can't hurt. Say it with me now: Cache Rules Everything Around Me.

First you should learn how web servers work, why we use them, and how to configure them. The reason your Apache instance was running slow is probably because you never tuned it. Granted, five years ago its asynchronous capabilities were probably haggard and rustic. It's gotten a lot more robust in recent years, but that's beside the article's point. Nginx is an apple, CloudFront is an orange.

Next you should learn what CDNs are for. Mainly it's to handle lots of traffic reliably and provide a global presence for your resources, as well as shielding your infrastructure from potential problems. Lower network latency is just a happy side effect.
That was almost a blast from my past. They were using a lot of the tools I used at a previous company. That company's UI code base was 3 MM SLOC or so and we used perforce and silk though we didn't use any build accelerators as I had the UI down to under 1 hour from scratch and the backend was under 3 hours if I recall and this was 8 years ago or so.

That codebase was a beast and there was code from 1979 floating around in some of the core Fortran routines. The scary part was the app ostensibly had backward compatibility to files created in the 80s though it was well designed enough to have anticipated most of cases.

I'm sort of surprised their build takes so long without accelerators but then again I'm not as without using precompiled headers I think our build was several hours longer. If they could not structure their projects to take advantage of pch files and if the source is very #include heavy I can see it. How external code references are handled is another reason interpreted languages rock and Java/.NET are superior to C and C++ build systems in my experience.
Seems to be picking up steam..

Real-time search:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/cnbc10home
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I like it. From where I sit it pokes fun at the stereotypical "living in the land of unrealistic expectations" Apple Macintosh user. Maybe that's why some of the folks are so offended at it.

Like it or not, even the Mac is a complex combination of hardware and software, and while much of this is obvious to those of us who spend 8+ hours in front of a computer, its not obvious those everyone else. While perhaps poorly executed, I think the ads do point out the difference between Apple and Everyone Else; When you buy a Mac, there is ALWAYS an expert standing by to help you solve your problems, someone who knows everything about your hardware and software, this is something the PC world does not have.
>2) Steve Jobs personally said that he was involved in 2-3 years worth of products. So you can skip that whole "Steve Jobs is gone. Apple is going to die." rhetoric.

Disagree completely.

At some point or another Jobs' forecast won't matter.

Just because they think "that far ahead" doesn't mean that those "ideas" were concrete 2-3 years later.

Apple WILL change, but we can't predict what it will do.
I wrote 'monad-inspired' structure because of lack of syntactic sugar (do notation). So it basically looks like that:

login_action = Write('PASS') >> \
Read('pass') >> \
Guard(lambda v: v['pass'] == 'mysecret') >> \
Write('WELCOME')

register(socket, login_action, on_success=func1, on_error=func2)

Of course you can develop this idea futher:

cat = Read('line') >> Write(lambda v: v['line'])
cat.append_action(cat)

register(socket, cat, on_error=handle_error_cb)
Quality of the degree - is that a issue or do they just look at ticking a box? Reason I ask is that I'm sure there are countries out there who for a small donation will give you one. Utterly useless but does afford you to say - yes I have a degree.

Still if Bill Gates applied, I guess he'd get rejected as well. Same with Zuckerman, many others as well. Guess your qualified to start a big empire yourself by not having one.
"Unit testing isn't a big part of QuickBooks for Windows — the bulk of the codebase was written before unit testing was acknowledged as a best practice."

If there was ever an application that would benefit greatly from unit testing, this is it.
Windows 8: A coming catastrophe?
Yes it is - I think this is the key factor in defining "is this a feature or a business"
> I'm not a fan of the idea of armed insurrection - I believe that it's distasteful at best, and more than likely a sign of a gigantic malignancy left unchecked. However, I can't help but point out that at least once in the past it was responsible for changes we hold dear.

Revolution is supposed to be a last resort. But -- as the article points out -- the mere fact that it's a possibility serves as a balance against an oppressive regime.
This sounds like a problem that should be addressed with machine learning and AI rather than the wack-a-mole style of matching strings.

Separate out and distinguish possible humans from possible bots using a set of known humans and known bots.

Assign a human likelihood probability to each user and pay out the click based on the probability.

for eg. this user is 90% likely human, therefor the cost of the 20 cent ad click is 18 cents.

This doesn't have to wait on Facebook, somebody could build this as a third-party app and then send refund requests to Facebook on clicks that are likely bots.
Doerr also said Segway would hit $1B in sales faster than any company in history. I'd look out the window if he told me the weather.
Not sure why he's angry, didn't this same thing happen with Instapaper and Apple? If anything, it will expose the idea to countless others and if they really like it they might want to go beyond Twitter's implementation of it, unless the feature is so weak / easy to do that you shouldn't be relying on it.
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In contrast, Neil Gaiman's famous commencement speech in which he admitted lying about his resume to get work early in his career: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikAb-NYkseI
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If the core source of risk to the business is not "Can I get 1,000 buyers of X" but rather "Can I get a discounted supply of X if I buy 1,000 of it at a time", that should be investigated with a phone call prior to building an audience.
You would think so, but apparently not, since (if CrunchBase is accurate) StockTwits has raised $8.6 million in venture funding over four rounds: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/stocktwits

So either the VCs didn't ask the question, or they did ask it but didn't think too hard about the answer they got.
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I Agree, this would be a most excellent screensaver. Very impressive stuff indeed. If it run in VT220 I'd be starting a new religion on your behalf.
What's a "consumer platform" exactly?
I'm guessing the answer is something along the lines of:

"Despite being immensely popular, it is a labor of love and generates little (or no?) revenue, so unfortunately, no there isn't anyone else minding the site."
I have a personal theory that many countries want to do this and eventually legalize. I think they're following these experiments closely and developing policy along these lines.
In academia, quotes and excerpts are cited. They can be verified. Many publications do verify (at least a random selection of) the citations in an article they are publishing.
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I am going to make a codecademy course on detecting sarcasm just for you :)
Arc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
That's bait and switch. The question is whether people should study category theory to be better programmers. Not whether good programmers have intuitively mastered some category theory.
Sounds like the story of Stephen Glass, whose meteoric rise at The New Republic was halted when it surfaced that many of his articles were made up (in part or in whole). There was a movie about it starring Hayden Christensen. Pretty interesting stuff.

It's fascinating how a promising young journalist gets busted every few years for making things up. I wonder how prevalent this is.
Totally agreed. Incidentally, on evidence of working with savvier smaller companies, talking to one man shops, and hanging out with startups, I think the community feels that there is a body of "Everybody does X" practices which are actually quite rare.

Examples I'm intimately familiar with include A/b testing, using usage metrics to drive decisions, customer development, lifecycle email marketing, etc etc. Or for more dev focused stuff, unit tests, Selenium ("the best technology that I'll never use"), code reviews as a routine practice, reproducible server setup/deploys, etc.
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I don't think your comment is totally on point. I've kind of seen both sides, and I think you're understating the value of formal education. I taught myself programming as a teenager, worked at a tech startup through college (getting a degree in a non-CS engineering field), worked as a software engineer after college, then headed off to law school.

There is no substitute for the skills you'll develop early in your career hacking code at a startup. At the same time, after years of working as a programmer, I feel unbalanced. I've had a lot of success at my previous jobs, but ran into challenging problems where I wished I had a few more formal analytical techniques in my toolbox. I can "just pick up" a new programming language, but I haven't been able to "just pick up" type theory.

After three years of education in law, I've come to appreciate what formal education brings to the table: an appreciation for the big picture principles of a field that are hard to grasp when you're neck deep in code working at a startup. Any auto-didact could be a lawyer. With practice, doing similar things repeatedly, they could be a very efficient one. But even a mundane corporate bankruptcy can bring up a novel point of law, and its when you encounter something totally unfamiliar that a formal education really proves useful. I think someone who can draw on the broad principles of the field is at a huge advantage when dealing with a complex novel problem than someone who has just seen the pretty specific areas that they've hacked on.

Now, if I could choose between an auto-didact with no degree and someone with a great degree and no ability to self-teach, I'd choose the former, most of the time. But if I were doing a startup that involved designing the next TCP/IP, I'd probably pick the PhD without any programming skills to speak of.
Is Apple trying to change their brand image from "It just works" to "Using our software is stressful and requires special knowledge. Expect to work with tech support for day-to-day usage."
Actually, it's twitter is giving government the power to refuse tweets that topple government as of this year[0]. Google followed suit shortly.

[0] Twitter to selectively 'censor' tweets by country. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16753729
When Apple announced their plans to open retail stores, there was a general reaction something like "what a huge mistake." The most recent experiences in branded computer retail had been the Gateway stores, and we all know how they turned out.

This was before Steve Jobs was (apparently) universally acknowledged as an infallible business leader. Think about what we might know about Tim Cook 7 years from now.

I think the ads are fine, but I can see how others might not like them. Either way I think it's a pretty big stretch to extrapolate these into a general decline for the company.
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Pedantry: he used 'i.e.' wrong. I.e. is used when specifying, not giving an example. He should have used 'e.g.'.
Do any of the following awesome programmers know and purposefully use category theory:

- Linus Torvalds

- Joshua Bloch

- Fabrice Bellard

- John Carmack

- Alan Kay

- Peter Norvig

- Paul Graham

- Rich Hickey

If not, then I think there are many different things that would make you a better programmer, before learning category theory is worthwhile to learn.

Let's also ask the reverse question: name an awesome programmer, preferably with an open source example of his code, that knows and uses category theory.
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One of the things that I've noticed in this discussion is that there's been little mention of what your company does (I do, I believe I'm citing some of your work in my M.Sc. thesis). While, in general, I suspect that self-taught developers can do a lot of great work, I also suspect that the kind of development that you're doing at Joyent would very strongly benefit from formal CS training.
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Until they're crushed by an impact, or the material somehow erodes by solar wind, they'll probably be there for a long time.

Many huts in the Antarctic from the earliest days of exploration are still standing despite being considerably older and those conditions are far harsher than on the moon.
Ah, I see what I was missing: there are four components in the key (r,g,b,a), and each one corresponds to how filled-in each quadrant of the character is. But since each component is 0..16, and the hash table lookup is 256x256, shouldn't packColor be defined as (color.r + 16.0 * color.g + 256.0 * color.b + 4096.0 * color.a)?
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Yes, you can +1 a link without sharing it, similar to clicking 'like' for Facebook. Your +1s are minimally visible or only visible to you, just like a Facebook 'like' is minimally visible in a timeline.

Sharing on Google+ creates a more prominent but soft broadcast/recommendation/endorsement to the public or to your friends (via circles).

Out of curiosity, I tried two scenarios:

+1 button on a website/link = I shared with a circle and it counted as a +1 automatically. This is NOT what Google is doing when you share a search result, so you are not +1'ing that shared-from-the-search-results url.

Sharing a link directly through the Google+ UI at plus.google.com = NOT automatically +1'd. This is what Google is doing with the 'share' link in search results. Sharing a search result does not +1 it while it does broadcast it to the circles you choose.
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AWS is the chaos monkey.

Their outages are becoming more and more random.
Exactly. The G+ count would have been more useful than a G+ button useful only to psychics.
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> They could show the product in use.

This line was part of a classic critique of Microsoft's packaging design.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k#t=1m19s
They don't show the products. It's almost like a satire of a Linux fanboy:

"I want to back up my hard drive every day."

"It's simple - one command and it's in your crontab!"

"Wow. And ... I'm looking for a file I was working on. I can't remember the name, all I know is it's got a phone number somewhere near the top."

"OK, what format was the phone number in? I can grep that in no time!"

"Wait, it's on my home competer! I'll never be able to access it"

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I seem to be greatly misunderstanding the issue here, and thus I apologize in advance if this seems like a massive, and possibly dismissive oversimplification but the complaint here is that there are overeager users who are clicking on ads, not knowing what they're clicking, and because of this the author/campaign manager is owed a refund?

Unless Facebook, using the logs they've requested can conclusively prove that these are bot profiles aimed at disrupting the Ad Platform (which is something I would assume Facebook would already be keenly aware of and taking excruciating steps to stamp out, as Ads play a big role in their bottom line), why exactly does the author feel he's entitled to a refund just because people click the ad who might not be interested in the product?

Again, unless Facebook can show these were malicious bots or that their targeting algorithm has malfunctioned and displayed ads to profiles that do not meet the demographic criteria setup by the campaign manager and thus, ads are being displayed to users they shouldn't be and resulting in erroneous clicks, what's gone wrong?
But why would you go through all that to click on ads? If I click on an ad for "Some Record Company" how does that make me money?
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Sort of explained already, but "bad" bots would never go look for that file. And a good bot probably already identifies itself the the request, so no need to look through robots.txt.
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