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Agree on widgets. Have you seen the Web Components effort?
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/i...

It's an attempt to standardize widgets at the browser level. Really cool stuff.

It's based on ShadowDOM, which is an encapsulation notion:
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/spec/shado...

There are a few polyfills for playing with web components, such as Mozilla's http://x-tags.org/ and http://html5engineers.com/projects/playing-with-web-componen...

Also some of the frameworks do have a "widget" or "component" notion. For example, see "Create Components" at http://angularjs.org.
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They didn't delete users' data, they preferred not to import it into their brand new product.

They will also allow users to download data later: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325004

As for historians, the content is still out there. Digg doesn't host content, it "hosts" links.
I'm used to being in the minority.
Reminds me of a favorite aphorism.

Data is not the plural of anecdote.

In this case the anecdote of, me and my circle are getting rid of cable, everyone must be.
I wonder who will be a candidate for buying it, depends how much Nokia will want to offload it for.
A Mouse and Keyboard Don’t Make a Hardware Company
I'm a paying user and this won't make me stop using the service, but there should be a reasonable expectation of privacy here. Obviously the database has to store this information in a retrievable way, but to expose it so carelessly on a regular basis is completely unnecessary.
Umm... the facebook post already stated that javascript analytics could only verify 20% of the traffic. They also explained that they wrote their own analytics sans javascript to verify that javascript was disabled.

How did he miss that? Self-inflicted black-eye for simplereach.com
"the people we have to convince that these laws are a bad idea will only be swayed by emotion"

While ridding yourself of the core of supporters turned off by campaigns based on more emotion than fact?
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Imagine you need to update an attribute on a collection of items....
After using Dvorak exclusively for two months I can't touch type Qwerty at all. I think you have to use Qwerty occasionally while learning Dvorak if you want to use both (I don't).
Other overlooked things; objc_getAssociatedObject and class_copyPropertyList wrapped beautifully into objective-c by Mike Ash here: https://github.com/mikeash/MAObjCRuntime
No one wants to buy advertising next to an article like that, so it's a tougher sell. Meanwhile, local alt. weeklies are often run by people who think it's cool to publish articles like that.
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If Facebook's plan B was to lock out Dalton using a TOS change, then it seems awfully stupid to have held this meeting in the first place.

I get the talent acquisition as a defensive play to keep a potential threat out of the market, but if Dalton's story is true then Facebook's execution around this entire engagement seems stupid and ham-fisted through and through.
Your making a lot of assumptions with no reasoning to back it up...
Have you found any multiple-order-of-magnitude spike of processing time for any other "hard" ones? Or, more generally, any quantization of time as a function of difficulty?
I know I don't have "multichannel TV" but would pay for HBO+Netflix.

I would too, but that's not the right question to ask. You need to ask who would pay enough. I am told adding HBO to a cable subscription is about $20, and that is an add-on, which means it doesn't even include infrastructure, advertisement, delivery, etc. So, while there are plenty of people who would pay $3 to have HBO+Netflix, how many would pay enough?
Exit interview? Never had one myself, never heard of any one having one, well, an official one at least. Im guessing its more an American thing than a British one?

Anyway, why would one want anything to do with an exit interview? Sounds like a complete mine field. I cant see a reason I'd want to attend one. Are these things forced on people?
Yes,

I don't CL ever made the argument that the problem was traffic. The whole "we're not hurting your servers" thing seems like a strawman to justify violating CL's TOS.
No, he didn't want to be acquired, and he didn't want to go to an aggressive acquisition negotiation meeting, since there would be no terms he would accept. He only went to the meeting because he thought it was a demo.

Edit: actually, we're both right, according to the alleged contents of a phone call http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325586
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Right, web components and angular js components are an improvement, but they still emphasize manual ASCII coding, which defeats one of the main advantages of GUI components.

Also the strong separation and lack of cohesion between the front and back end systems is a severe limitation.
Simply because from the point of view of the employee you'd just have to take their word for it. Why risk it? By definition an ex-employee has much less, if anything, to lose.
let me decide

I don't think you understand how modern politics work.
There's no shame in trying to change the world to look the way you want it to look, so long as it doesn't come at the expense of other individuals. If people want the world of video entertainment to move entirely online, why shouldn't they try to make that happen?
Isn't a user's browser technically an intermediary? The browser reads html from an initial request and makes automated additional requests for images, javascript and css files, etc and then renders the page using its own rendering engine. The only difference here is that the browser is making multiple requests and using a different rendering engine (the extension) to display it using a map.

There's an obvious market for people who want the amount of data that craigslist has, but wanted it displayed in a smarter way that allows better filtering and searching. They could make a killing licensing their data to 3rd party sites (or launching a new site with an improved interface). Instead they are giving users more and more reasons to switch to other services.
Something bad happens, and the first thing on your mind is, "We have to blame this on somebody!"

And you wonder why America is mocked as such a litigious country...
Classic Innovator's Dilemma.

By the time the numbers are right for HBO to move forward, it will be too late. They're right to make this choice for profits this year, and maybe next, and maybe even the year after that. But, if they want to be relevant in ten years, the changes need to be happening now. Otherwise, other players will come in under them and simply eat their lunch. They'll have no idea what hit them. I don't know who those players will be (Netflix seems a likely candidate, which is why some of the cable and movie companies have targeted them for retributive licensing deals or simply refuse to license), but they will come...because there's billions of dollars at stake, and there's always someone willing to work really hard on a billion dollar problem.

They're feeling pretty infallible right now, due to a slate of popular shows and a strong subscriber base. But, things change. And, with the Internet, things change faster than ever before.
CL repeatedly claimed that traffic was a major issue with scraping.
He's upset that what he thought was a demo meeting was actually their way of luring him into an acquisition meeting. And he doesn't seem to have a problem with FB having their own app store, he's going to compete with them regardless.

Actually, he phrases it better here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325566
I don't think this is aimed at users at all but at what padmapper was doing - using an intermediary to copy CL data.
Oh they should. Word-of-mouth will cost more than $200 in potential customers from Sprint because of this person and their experience.
My brother subscribes to HBO solely for Game of Thrones. And then he drops the subscription after each season is over. I wonder how common that behavior is.
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One of the best splash pages I've ever seen
well yeah but ... those comments he's abusing are dumb as fuck. he just spent a month porting thousands of lines of low-level system code to a novel architecture. which is pretty hackerly. and the doofuses commenting about it can't be bothered to scroll up a few lines to read why their deep thought has already been completely discredited? it's the failure to abuse that level of moron thinking in the first place that's led to so much of that level of moron thinking.
Create an action channel for IFTTT, and things might just start getting better...
Grocery shopping for the lazy AND impatient? Yes please.
Nope, unambiguously rude. This kind of negativity is why this community is worse than it used to be.
Typically, when someone knows they will not accept any acquisition offers, they do not waste their time by going to meetings whose sole purpose is to discuss an acquisition. FB misled him into thinking it was a demo meeting.
Your first remark cuts right to my amusement at the real tinfoil hatters. 'Cause you know, if I thought every government and every corporation was conspiring against me, I sure wouldn't let them know I knew, let alone make a public spectacle of myself.
It's hardly a "sweatshop", since performing online tasks is not really physically demanding.
Here's Google's Transparency Report for the United States:

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/government...

Looks like ~1700 videos have been taken down.
This kind of seems like a rip off of Postmates' "Get It Now", no?

http://postmates.com/getitnow/
So what do you propose instead? Direct vote on every issue?
"The only stalwarts here appear to be Backbone (other than its default routing feature, it works on IE6) and Knockout (which for now at least insists on total IE6 support)."

IE6 support is a must-have for me (corporate clients).
What will it (really) accomplish?

Is this something(s) you want?

In other words: Context.

Keep in mind that for "established" organizations, you will be interviewing with HR and not with your own management. (Even if one of them sits in, HR is driving the show.) And HR has its own agenda, goals, and reports.

Amongst other things, if there is a whiff of controversy (that might, even just on an outside chance, turn into arbitration or legal action), it may be best to simply decline the interview.

Right or wrong, I tend to view one's HR file as akin to talking to the cops. 'Anything [in it] can and will be used against you.'
The only thing that I didn't like about Zapier, in the trial that I did, was that I got a TON of emails from Wade Foster. I realize that you want to be connected to your customers, but an email every few days was a bit overkill. June 22, 24, 28, July 1 and 4. Too much spammy email.
Comparison of Advertising KPIs for FB, AdWords, Twitter, LinkedIn
Sounds like cargo cult and a bad build script.
Apple wants Samsung punished for leaking rejected evidence to press
It doesn't look like individual developers can sign up yet, I am getting this error "You need to register as a company account, or have a registration code, to continue. Learn more"
Squarespace 6 - A web app for building websites
It's (AIUI) meant as a replacement for pastebin etc. - you host something on this mesh, and then you only have to spread a short hash key around. It also lets you do the wikileaks thing of publishing a bunch of encrypted data which you could later release the key to.
The U.S. has somehow historically been really bad at producing this kind of paranoia over computer-related stuff through strange assignments of responsibility. The fact that '80s hax0r kids were raided by the United States Secret Service, rather than by some normal-sounding police agency, added a whole layer of mythos to that historical episode.
Illinois employers can no longer force Facebook password disclosure
Does this have anything to do with competing with Stripe as a payment system? The article seems to focus on the mobile aspect, so I'd assume not, but engadget focuses on consumer improvements.
I don't see what the US has to do with this at all. I'd be extremely surprised if the US was the only country in the entire world that wasn't a near-perfect meritocracy. I'm not all that well-acquainted with a ton of foreign cultures, but I feel I can still say with some confidence that luck being a major factor of success is damn-near a universal law.
Mega-meh. I find this "open" letter to be as totally self-serving as "Open" Graph will ever be. You got a meeting with a lot of FB poo-bahs. Whatever you thought it was going to be about, if you were unprepared for the crushing embrace of the Big Face, it's on you. Of course they want to intimidate you into an "aqui-hire." It's called hardball.

Their "platform" is what it is. A highly flawed way to instantly reach astounding numbers of people for potentially deep or shallow exchanges of questionable value. Many your age have made millions for a half-year's work on this "joke" platform, as you call it. This is known, and blaming their tanking stock price for their behavior seems like a cheap shot at execs you don't even name.

I would advise you to get ready in case Apple calls. Unlike FB, they won't apologize after they gutpunch you.
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Yes I had time to check that one of the hardest ones listed on Wikipedia takes ~570ms on my machine, so that's nearly 100X slower. I haven't had time yet to do any real comprehensive benchmarking or quantization a la Norvig. Hopefully soon.
Well for techies it seems it should be Durham-Raleigh, because most of the jobs are there. I don't consider RTP to be a real place it is really just Durham.
Fine. Those people will instead support the EFF. There is a "market" for this advocacy media and producing material supporting a viewpoint but in different formats appealing to difference audiences is called market segmentation.

Just because people are turned off by this advertising, doesn't mean they will be turned off from supporting this cause. They'll still support it, but via other means, such as the EFF.
Oh well, good to know the idea was put into practice at least.
NodePing's new monitoring API includes voice notifications
And how is it related to join.app.net? I'm very confused that these two different things have the same name.
This rings very true to my own experience. I've watched repeatedly as struggling, low-income families purchase huge TVs. I find it comical to walk into a trailer home to see a brand new Bravia barely able to fit on the disheveled TV stand.
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I'm glad that Nokia have decided to do this. I understand that it might be financially motivated, but given that they've made a bet on the Windows platform, it's a nicer move than just mothballing the whole thing and eventually shutting it down.
I used to be on the side of wanting HBO to give an a-la carte. Heck, i don't want regular cable TV, i want to watch only HBO shows. But i remember talking to a person more experienced in the area explain the system.

HBO gets quite a cut from cable companies to have their channels on their lineup. cable providers subsidize HBO so more people can get their cable. If HBO cut all that money an a la carte option would probably cost more, maybe $25. At that point would people who have been asking for this option pay for it? One option is to have some online distributor like netflix or hulu cut that cost but i guess HBO hasn't found that option appealing.

All i'm trying to say is I think HBO is making the most amount of money right now without angering their cable partners. And from the looks of this article they are growing quite a bit. I think once the cable cutting market becomes bigger and more appealing, i don't see why HBO can't switch lanes. Their product will still sell because their content is good (which is why HBO is doing so well in the first place).
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I thought I recognized this and after some digging, I found a similar side project someone else posted a few months back: http://routinetap.com/tour

Still, I love these types of tools.
It was an ambush that was designed to give FB an advantage in negotiating with him. It was hardball tactics, carried out in bad faith. Why should Dalton feel neutral about being on the receiving end of that?
The users of Facebook are people, and as far as I know, Facebook does not change or compromise the conversations among people. I've never seen a status, comment, photo, friend request, etc. changed by Facebook.

Businesses who build on the Facebook platform are not users. They are attempting to extract value from the users--just like Facebook itself is. It is not surprising that they sometimes find themselves competing with Facebook.

The sort of open "infrastructure" Dalton advocates for would be great for platform businesses...of course they would love to have all the advantages of a platform (aggregated audience, aggregated data, well-defined API, etc.), without the downsides (changes to the API, competition from the platform owner).

But it doesn't really matter that much to users. I can easily take my personal social graph with me...I know who my friends and family are, and I can find them again on whatever new service seems better than Facebook. After all, Facebook did it to MySpace--and without access to MySpace's social graph.
Profitable? Really? With ads from a Reddit type userbase? Or am I missing something?
FB,ZNGA new lows (20.84,2.75)
Getting bored of Hackernews being used as an internet slander machine. I think the age old rule of 'Not your personal army' needs to be enacted here =(
This sounds like a maintenance programmers worst nightmare. Although I'm coming from a Java background so naturally I have accrued an unhealthy amount of bias.

Anybody from the more dynamic languages have any war stories about debugging/maintaining this sort of thing?
That is incorrect. session.Close() doesn't return an error. Still, there are cases where Close() methods return an error, so let's pretend it does.

You're in the mess you describe above because you insist on making the wrong choice up front, which is to use defer for something which is non-trivial. If your error handling is so important, why would you bury it in an anonymous function? That's a bad decision in any language. Write it out explicitly. People will notice and give it due care because if it weren't special, you'd use defer.

Look at sql.go in the standard library: http://golang.org/src/pkg/database/sql/sql.go?s=5813:5840#L2.... You can see that the error handling in such as putConn() and Close() do not use defer because it's the wrong choice. Conversely, if you grep the codebase for defer, there are plenty of places where it is useful.
> As I understood at the time, the purpose of the meeting was for me to present/demonstrate a new iOS app & service I have been building on the Facebook Platform. Previously, I had been reassured by Facebook dev-relations employees that the service I was building was an interesting/ valuable use of Open Graph & Facebook Platform.

What evidence does the author have to support this? Is there communication from such VPs saying "We would like you to come in to meet us to measure the value of your service"?

> I was hoping the outcome of this meeting would be executive-level support for my impending product launch.

Again, who set the authors expectations here? And what exactly does "executive-level" support mean? Would they feature the app, simply because it was valuable for them?

Note - Expecation setting is one of the hardest things to do in business. And can also be used for negotiation tactics.

I'm sorry, but all I read from this is just (another) example of how a company with different corporate interests (read-> shareholder value) no longer puts time into something that doesn't drive bottom line. Is it a great example of what an IPO does to a company's interest? Absolutely. But I don't necessarily feel bad for the author nor do I feel like any unjust has been done. He's proved his point, seems extremely smart and will move on to the next cool and interesting project.
The 'National Homeland Security Agency' was conceived by the Hart-Rudman Commission, the results of which were released in January of 2001.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Commission_on_National_Secur...

Shortly thereafter G.W.Bush started pushing for the National Guard to become "more involved in homeland security."

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yctFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y...

Several months later 9/11 happened.
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Ask HN: Does Dark Knight Rises represents Plato's allegory of cave?
In Batman begins it was "The Trolley Problem" in Dark Knight it was "Prisoner's dilemma" and do you think in the third and last installment Nolan has represented Plato's allegory of cave ?
Another Sudoku solver in k, which is only 72 bytes, and a translation into q which is slightly longer for those interested.

http://thesweeheng.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/more-sudoku-solv...
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Most of it boils down to trust.

The main problems of these systems are that if you can get $3/hr of economic value from a single turk, it's hard to trust that you are getting accurate results without checking by repetition. This means that you could end up repeating the task 2, 3 times or more to get accuracy.

Scammers and bad workers are a big issue on any platform like this. I'm not sure how easily this can be solved - the workers only incentive to not cheat the system is the possibility of the requester rejecting their work and them not getting paid as well damaging their rating.

Whilst this seems like a good-enough way, there are enough lazy / bad requesters who don't bother rejecting work which skews ratings of workers. Also, ratings on mturk are lifetime ratings, rather than last n days, which isn't that indicative of recent worker quality.
Joshing implies a pre-existing relationship. Walking up to a stranger on the street and shoving him is not horseplay.
need to provide description of what tasks you need to get completed by the freelancer.
In the article, the author tries and fails to come up with some other reasons to explain this action.

So, if the takedown was not done with the intent of silencing someone, why was it issued?
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I'm not sure why there's so much significance attached to `render()` considering that it's a no-op in Backbone, and you've got an entire class to work with.

Trying to figure out how to cram everything into one function while still getting desired behaviour doesn't seem like the best way to go.

That being said, there are probably better ways to do it that don't involve Backbone, too.
Interview at VideoSchmooze with Eric Kessler on HBO GO's business model.

http://videonuze.com/article/video-interview-hbo-co-presiden...
> infrastructure, advertisement, delivery

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you but I have a Roku which I watch Netflix and HBO GO on. It cost $50 and connects via HDMI and Wi-Fi.

I think you may be overestimating the overhead costs for HBO deployment.
Aw.. it's a love letter!