skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But in the second case, what's the difference between that and email?

If you have the infrastructure to handle a setup like that, you should already have an internal email server.

EDIT: After your edit, I think I've found where the disconnect is from my perspective. The problem with this method is that discovery(arguably the most important part of what Twitter provides) is still reliant on a third party's index.

From a user's perspective, Twitter provides 3 key services from one URL:

1. A unified feed for everyone you follow(This proposal also does this).

2. An easy way to post/host content(This proposal does not deal with this).

3. An easy way to discover new people to follow(This proposal also does not deal with this).

Out of those three, I would argue that the second and third are the most important. The problem isn't getting the message out to people that are already subscribed with Twitter, email, or a hosted website. The problem is discovery, and giving people an easy way to actually find the information that they're looking for.

The only way to handle discovery on this way is to have some hosted, third party method of searching through the users to find the ones you want to follow.
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I would definitely want to see replication of the result by other researchers, published in better journals

Is there any chance that this is going to happen? From my experience of reading (more social science) oriented journals it seems super rare that someone is actually interested in replicating someone else's results.
This has always been Dave's problem. He's a Big Idea Guy, but his implementations often end up being somewhat less than fully thought through. I say this as someone who has been following him for way more years than I like to think about (I wrote a bunch of Frontier code WAAAY back in the Classic MacOS days :) As always though, he's thought provoking and gets other people discussing better ways to do it, which I think he entirely approves of.
Hey no worries.

This is my kind of "hacking" so I thought I'd put it out there.
Instagram may soon move to the web
A Retail Revolution Turns 10
The difference is, email isn't (usually) public. A status message is there, for anyone to see it, like a tweet.
Absolutely terrifying, yet deep down I find it fascinating!
I'm not on a Retina display and it is blurry for me as well.
Responsive Design Bookmarklet
That's how iCade's products work.
The LGPL requires you, if you static ally link against such libraries, to release all of the rest of the build environment required to rebuild a working program from changed LGPL components; this involves releasing binary objects.
I've wanted to try zsh for a long time now, but I worry about the mental context switching I'll have to do when developing locally and then ssh'ing into another server to perform other tasks (servers, I should add, where I can't install zsh).

Is anyone in a similar situation? If you switched, was it worth it?
HN isn't remotely representative of the population at large. You're primarily getting bay area and a bit of Pacific Northwest culture here. A touch of NYC businessfolk sentiment that HN entrepreneurs envy but can't actually pull off.

If you think the folks commenting here have any idea what life outside the bubble is like, think again.
I think one of their main objectives is providing speed to ordering. Instead of providing a full menu experience, they would provide something like six items without customization.
A Day without Programming
Very interesting read, especially the image sprite part and how it improved cpu usage.

BTW:

gIsLowCPU = [gModel matches:[NSRegularExpression re:@"^(iPhone1|iPod[12])"]];

this is gonna be fun when the iPhone 10 is released!
Groupon Is Ticked That This Startup Is Poaching Its Salespeople
Not unless your company is worth around $1 billion.
There is almost complete correspondence with reality...
People debate about outdated versions of companies all the time. Why should Khan be any different?
I wonder if this refers to YC investing money to avoid being diluted by this funding round?
This is not an unusual practice. For example, Microsoft has been known for sending people home early for quite some time. In some cases they'll tell you the next guy is out of work today (which is disingenuous), in other cases they'll tell you that you're done and send you home.

Not giving candidates a set schedule of interviews beforehand prevents these awkward lies and interactions. This may be an acceptable level of honesty because rejecting someone on the spot can be very difficult, both for the interviewer and the candidate.
Totally agree. As valuable as engineering resources are, it's the little things that make people love your product.
[1] The percentage savings is in negative just for MBA 11" but also for the MBP 15"

[2] It means that there's a -8% for the MBA 11" and -1% for the MBP 15" savings if you prefer the used one. So you should choose the the refurbished over a used ones for these models if price is your ONLY parameter.
Those Free Mobile Apps May Come at a Price: The Latest BYOD Threat
How GitHub Works (video)
If he never distributed it he hasn't to release anything.
Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake
>Afghanistan right? They have a crap ton of iron and they share a land border with China.

I am going to guess that (because of the mountains in Eastern Afghanistan and Western China) the cheapest way to get iron ore or oil from Afghanistan to China (particularly since most of the demand is in the coastal parts of China) is to haul it to Karachi and put it on ships.

There's also of course a very large political risk for any investment in Afghanistan, and mining there would require major foreign investment.

(I do not disagree with your overall point that the other parts of the world will ramp up mining, but Afghanistan is probably not going to be the next Australia.)

ADDED. Google Maps does not show any roads that cross the border from Aghanistan to China although there is a road that crosses from Pakistan to China.
But hidden options is better than removed options, surely?

You need an easy way to get as close to vanilla as possible, to make support and faultfinding not awful. But you need to provide some kind of hidden method for tweaking to keep power users happy.
Sparrow Open Sourced
Gun Toting Citizen Ends Stabbings At Grocery Store
With the way high school is graded, "straight As" in math means "did the homework" more than "was good at math". So she probably didn't particularly like or excel at math but just put some work into it.
HTTPie, an easy to use cURL replacement: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
(disclaimer: I'm the author)
>> assuming that all mobile users have iPhones...
The main point of my blog post was to show our positive experience by using something new to build something new. I'm not talking about renewing your existing backend, changing your perfect PHP implementation to Node.js, I'm talking about our story of choosing a platform for our new project and suggesting people out there to be open to trying new platforms according to their needs. I know the feeling, I did the same before. I have used PHP for projects that I had better alternatives for, just because it felt comfortable and hassle-free.

In our case we have tried several other platforms/languages and the best fit was Node.js for us. “Do the research, be a developer not just an X language developer” would probably sum up my whole point.
I feel left behind, I thought Meteor was pretty new and already a fundamentals and best practices article?
Groupthink and other organizational dysfunctions.

If you create an environment of fear or distrust, where many players are more interested in appearing to support the organization by doing what's expected, rather than actually supporting the organization by doing what's right, you'll end up with highly inappropriate decisions being made and actions being taken.

If you've never studied organizational behavior, this aspect (how group decisionmaking goes wrong) is a huge part of the field. Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma" and Olson's "Logic of Collective Action" are among the better known of these failures.
I bought an iPhone 4S from eBay.

Back here, you can exchange your iPhone with a minor excuse (3G intermittently working etc.) so the owner of the used phone exchanged it from the vendor for a brand new one at no cost. Therefore, I got a brand new iPhone 4S at the price of an iPhone4 with an Apple Care Protection plan. The only "used" part of the phone are the 19 pin connector, the earphones and the adaptor which personally doesn't quite keep me awake at nights.
or iPads...

Otherwise it is indeed an interesting concept.
Memo to higher ed: get ready for remote learning to rock your world
Does this make sense?
Hi - I would appreciate your feedback about this page: http://www.trustrecs.com/what.

Does it flow well? Does it provide a good reason for someone to use the product that I am building? Do you have any suggestions for making it better?

Thanks,
Mohammed
Am I the only one who thinks this is a good thing? I was getting tired of all the Silicon Valley "social" start-ups. Maybe new start-ups will focus on more important and more valuable products and services.
Sometimes, but very often it isn't.

If copying is equivalent to theft new business model that accommodates piracy with equal or better returns does not solve the moral problem. It solves the business problem.

If copying is equivalent to theft, the copyright owner has similar rights to property owners. Can a property owner have his stuff stolen if allowing it gives them some other financial advantage. What about the right to control how their work is sold? What about the right to stop selling? This isn't just theoretical. For example, Prince wants to exercise these rights.
The US Government Is Subsidizing America's Obesity Problem
Google: Didn't delete Street View data after all
The point is, it's not just engineering resources that are valuable!
Here's the short answer: government stay out of my life. Keep us from getting blown up, make sure we can get from one place to another and help keep my stuff from getting stolen.

I'll take care of the rest.

If people (Gay or Straight) want to have a corporate merger and agree to co-mingle assets, then they should have that right. If they want to join a church that bestows upon them the title of "married" then they should have that right, provided they meet the church's definition or requirements to achieve "marriage." If they don't agree with the church, they can start their own or just not have a church. The government should not be the arbiter of religious beliefs except in cases when religious beliefs directly compromise another's rights (i.e. honor killings.)
You've raised an interesting issue.

If you never intend to buy said item in the first place because you can't afford it or whatever, how are you hurting the business in question? As long as you are not sharing the product and consuming it solely for yourself, then nothing in the world is changing, you are just using a product.
Thanks, Colin!

Mohammed
Would it be any worse? Because "Same deal, but faster and cheaper" sounds okay to me.
I do think this is a great idea, and I actually subscribe to it (although definitely don't do it). I think the higher-order problem that you touch on is that when we have a million things to do, we tend to de-prioritise those that are outside our comfort zone, regardless of how much value they could add.
If anyone else isn't from the UK, know that Louise Mensch is a vile, ignorant person.
I accept your premise but respectfully reject your conclusion. However, my stance might have a lot to do with the way I personally use the internet.

There's a few points here that I make sure I follow:

1. Whatever activity I have online is something that I don't care about others finding out about (similar to not uploading pictures to Facebook that I wouldn't want seen). This is the front page check: anything you wouldn't want on the newspaper cover, you don't do.

2. For things that I DON'T want known, I consider using anonymity tools such as TOR (I've never needed this thus far).

3. For sensitive data, I just don't store it on the internet. If I ABSOLUTELY need to do so, I use client side encryption, such as TrueCrypt. I would recommend doing that if you store sensitive or personal data in dropbox as your example suggests.

We also currently have nothing to suggest that Google will be monitoring the pipes (at least any more than any ISP), so one can assume that Google won't know about anything more than they do now.

Once you realize that most of the data you submit online is used, read and sold by the services you provide it to and accept that fact, you can start seeing your online identity as something precious you don't goof around with. For those reasons, I can't see Google getting any more intrusive in my life than it is now by controlling the pipe: they (or other corporations) already control most of the services I wilfully submit my data to.

At this point, I stop seeing those services (Google, Facebook, etc) as free and instead treat them with caution, while understanding that I pay them in data instead of money. And honestly, I'm kind of fine with this because I use them carefully.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gives $2.5M for Washington gay marriage law
whinge

meh, other than bus factor this seems overblown to me. I use Gnome3 on Fedora and it is great. It takes advantage of Fitts law and there is just less fuck-around-ability with it. (I thought even the Alt-to-PowerOff controversy was overblown; I suspend far more often then I shut down, this is a welcome simplification) If anything I felt Gnome3 had ushered in a renaissance in Gnome. What "new" goals does Gnome have to have other than creating a great desktop?

Please don't drive more developers away with more gratuitous Hacker News "X-is-dying" bitching.
In the UK a lot of vocational providers are for-profit(Especially apprenticeships). I would of expected more vocational programs, would increase for-profit schools.

The most dominant vocational qualifications Btecs, HND's etc are all from pearson education...
Feminism has a long and storied history, to which its "intellectual depth" and "academic backbone" has, and continues to be, largely irrelevant. It is not monolithic, and represents a diversity of views unified only by the idea that women should stand up for themselves. The modern custody situation, which admittedly has become more nuanced since the 1980s, is at least partly a result of strains of feminism that embraced motherhood.

While I can agree that, at present, many of the "MRA" seem like "weirdos" tilting at windmills, there is nothing inherently wrong with having strong advocates on both sides of a discussion.
It's not the ethical cost of eating meat, it's the ethical cost of eating industrially farmed meat. Every year, tens of billions of animals suffer for their entire lives before slaughter because we want to eat lots of cheap meat.
Is the keyboard toggle working correctly? It seems to push everything up instead of sliding over it.
Yammer is so lucky that Microsoft bought them.
Facebook unveils new Recommendation Bar for websites You can try it out here
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>If new technology made rape much harder to prevent and prosecute, would we suggest women readjust their sexual expectations?

No, which is why I wrote:

>The further reality is that people are not motivated by the moral argument that consumer-facing copyright law is an intrinsic good that must be universally respected.

and discussed what happens when this collides with the impossibility of enforcement. In the case of rape, there would still be a widespread communal response to ostracize rapists, develop counter-technologies, etc., because normal people will not just sit idly by and accept the fact that they can't do anything about rapists. Somehow they just don't find the concept of lost sales as noble.

Copyright infringement is not the same as theft because theft forcibly removes a thing. Copyright protects against whole and independent copies that have no bearing on the physical item (whether a real, bound book or a string of digits stored on a disc). This is why people are charge with "copyright infringement" instead of "burglary" when they violate copyright law.

You're right that I didn't address each point independently and consistently. I didn't believe this is necessary; my post wasn't about the moral implications of copyright adherence or copyright violation or why some people believe it's theft, but about the practicalities and futility of Big Media's "fight against piracy". I think it's a legitimate mashup. The only moral argument I referenced was simply that people do not believe copyright should prevent them from downloading content, and that was only a sentence or so.
I voted your comment up, but I think it would be more effective if you deleted everything before "PHP's main advantage is..." The first part invites a language war. I don't want to see a language war here unless it includes examples of how other languages extend their syntax.
The mistake, if it turns out to be one, was not in shunning capital markets, but rather, building a business that required capital on a scale that only the capital market could provide.
Agreed. But the combined sillicon of the xbox, desktop, ps3, mediacenter and multiple laptops in my house, had a seriously high price attached, but using all that sillicon to do one task fast, isnt even an option.

We need an open standard to share spare cpu cycles within the local network. Imagine updating the performance of all your appliances at once, just by pluggin a server in your home network.

But yes, it kind of defeats the purpose of OnLive as a closed product. On the other hand, local ISP can start selling not just bandwidth, but also cpu cycles with low latency. (they could hook up the servers straight in your neighbourhood)

The problem with OnLive is that its not a standard, and its focus is not width enough. They get to choose what kind of computation i want to do.
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Why can't you use LGPL with static linking? The LGPL license specifically mentions both:

"Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules...."
Is it possible to do other APIs and even full game source with this engine?
by the way, I think if Gnome had "done nothing" by continuing to incrementally develop Gnome2 instead of doing something entirely new with Gnome3 the same argument would be trooped out: "Look, Gnome isn't innovating, it doesn't have vision, it's just a Windows clone, blah blah blah"
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> It just makes people who can't afford college very angry, since the college degree is already so immensely dogmatized as a requirement for 'good' jobs.

I see. I was directing my comments more at the 'Thiel Fellowship' mindset, people who are in the position to attend college but are encouraged to drop out to pursue some shitty social startup instead.

As for the point you're making, one thing I think is really cool is the proliferation of paid and free online courses -- I'm taking some online music courses right now and was surprised at how effective they can be. Of course, that requires computer access, which itself is a socioeconomic divider, but hopefully over time that will be overcome as well.
That was definitely part of it, but we've changed our strategy a bit in an attempt to compensate. At first we were looking for people who had a lot of HPC-specific Linux experience. This, however, is a relatively small field because the cost-to-entry barriers are enormous if you're looking to do it at any great scale. That definitely restricts the set of potential candidates to a small subset of the set of "Linux people" (people from gov't labs, research universities, very large corporations, etc.)

Since we're willing to pay relocation expenses and buy people out of non-competes, we were doing a nation-wide search, but as a generalization, university and gov't employees are usually there because they like the relaxed environment and are willing to sacrifice some pay for it. (I have worked at both, so that generalization is drawn from only my experiences and those of my friends.)

So after getting few bites there, we rewrote the job description to just be very good with Linux in general, hoping to get a really smart person with skills that complement ours and then being able to train them in the HPC-specific stuff. That increased the number of applicants, but also dramatically decreased the quality-applicant to applicant ratio.

You're definitely right that I could be misjudging the ability of some of the applicants, but a great majority can't pass the Linux equivalent of FizzBuzz, even though they list 10+ years of experience.
zsh can mostly be thought of as a collection of enhancements to bash, so I find that rather than changing my thought process, I just try to use a zsh feature, realize it's not working, and do it the crummy bash way instead. If a feature exists in bash, the zsh syntax is usually identical.

Also just for the record zsh is installed by default on many OSes, including OSX, so you might be surprised to learn that some of your servers already have it.
Pretty much. Hard disk space is still cheaper than RAM, so I think it's a good tradeoff. Plus those dependencies can be used for lots of other things.
That was not his point. He just didn't know shuffling only happens when you activate shuffle mode, so he was getting exactly the same order (not just a "good" distribution of artists and albums).
Dedicated or Multipurpose? Chasing your own perfection.
Facebook, Google, eBay and Amazon join US lobby group
How is having all second party modules be global automatically a convenience? That sounds like the worst possible way second party modules could work.

Throwing away a package manager as great and as tried and tested as NPM, which could easily be used seems so counter-intuitive.
Google's core business is advertising

Google's core business is doing cool stuff with technology. While they often need to resort to advertising to monetize many of their cool products (see: search. What else could they do? The bar had already been set and a for-pay search vendor would be DOA), it does you no good to try to frame everything in the advertising picture.

Amazon's core business is selling books. It would be sophistry to argue that AWS is really a mechanism to try to get you to buy books.
My Reflections on the Semantic Tech and Business Conference, SF 2012
Yes, the rule is source must follow binary.

You can even sell the binary for money, distribute the source with it and simply ask your client to not-redistribute the source to someone else and it's fully legal.
I switched cold turkey from bash to zsh a few months ago, and going back to bash on servers hasn't been a problem. In my experience, if you've used bash for a long time you don't forget it.

Minor tip - you can use the same .aliases file for both shells, I just source it in .bashrc and .zshrc on my dev machine. So if I ever need to switch to bash for some reason, my most used aliases are still available.

If you switch, don't forget oh-my-zsh [1].

1. https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
RockSalt: A Secure Way To Run Native Apps in A Browser
Software Engineering should the same really. Apprenticeship.
A lot of people think LGPL means "library", but that's wrong.

If you use an LGPL component, the end user must be able to replace the LGPL component. With a dynamically linked library, no problem. In sparrow's case, they apparently used used static linking. Since end users still have the right to replace that LGPL component, sparrow needs to supply their intermediate (.o) files so end users can re-link with a modified LGPL component.
Re the "hard to write" thing, PubSubHubbub's developers sometimes referred to it as "PuSH" for short. Which is easier.