skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd prefer a standards-based approach.

Exactly. The problem isn't that we don't have useful social networks. The problem is that we have too many of them, with varying heights of wall between their respective gardens that make interoperability and data migration absurdly difficult in many cases.

I suspect the roadblock is that these networks are tied together by the underlying concepts of identities and relationships, but for many valid reasons a lot of people would like to present different identities in different contexts or treat some relationships differently to others. Until there is some reasonably standardised approach (or set of compatible approaches) to representing these ideas, there's no robust foundation so you can build different kinds of messaging and content sharings systems on top.

That in turn leads to practical issues of authentication and trust networks, and we haven't completely solved those problems in a way that Just Works for non-technical users yet.
I think double-tap-to-zoom is a perfect example of something that should be patentable. It's a huge improvement over existing systems that often used a zoom box you would position with cursor keys. To work properly it has to take into account the major design elements on a web page and make intelligent choices based on the user's tap target. Web browsing before double-tap-to-zoom and multi-touch zoom was a nightmare. These two features reinvented web browsing on small displays. This was clearly one of the killer features of the original iPhone.
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A centralized network of discoverable real names does a better job of facilitating in-person relationships than any of the distributed, pseudonymous networks we've seen. User experience is definitely key.

You hit a really important point here: 3rd parties have held personal information since the dawn of civilization: messengers, small-town post offices, the US Mail, Ma Bell, stores that tracked purchases against your line of credit in a ledger, etc.

A computer using keywords in my emails to display relevant advertising is orders of magnitude less scary than a town gossip who runs the post office and tells my extended family and neighbors anytime I receive a letter that might indicate I'm deviating from social norms or religious morals.

The code running Amazon doesn't judge people for buying erotica; the town bookseller does. The card catalog won't out you to your friends for looking up LGBT reading material; the librarian might. The code running Google Maps doesn't care and won't tell anyone that you're driving to a woman's house and then a restaurant or bar most Saturdays; the waitress/bartender will almost certainly tell a friend/stalker/jilted lover/cop who you were with.

Big Data is far less threatening than Little Data.
> Sending a scouting network into a foreign country that largely doesn't speak your language in order to watch a broad swathe of children isn't going to be cheap.

Translators come cheap in a country where English is relatively well spoken.

> Given that the US already leads the board in total medal tally, do they really need to game the system that way?

How long do you think that's going to last? China is going to beat us in both total medal count and the number of gold medals within 2 or 3 Olympics (if not this one), and then we'll have no hope at all.

> Besides, it makes an even further mockery of the idea of 'amateur athletes' when you're essentially buying them from the other side of the world.

Hey, fight fire with fire. What do you think the Chinese are doing? It's not like these children are going to be mistreated. And I don't think giving them proper food, shelter, education, and clothing can be equated with "buying" them.

> Lure a family to an entirely different culture with promises of wealth and wellbeing, then if they aren't gloriously successful for whatever reason, throw them away like trash, back into a culture they're now not used to, particularly the kids? All so you can increment your medal tally to stem the 'yellow peril'? This is morally reprehensible.

OK, so set up some training centers in India instead. If they make it to the age of 10 or so without being weeded out, bring them to America. Anyone who comes to America and stays for at least 6 months can be guaranteed citizenship, even if they don't win. How does that sound? These are just details. My post was intended to lay out a general plan, not to invite nitpicking over the details of every word.

And the "yellow peril" you talk about (racial connotations notwithstanding) is a very real thing. China is going to dominate the world very soon. The best way we can fight back is to rely on America's basics, one of which is immigration.
With Twitter what we did when we launched originally was simply get a PCMCIA GSM card and used some windows software to post it to the website via a protected REST api. Now i guess you could use a usb gsm modem. Worked great for prototypes. Now i guess there are services, but really the usb gsm modem method works well even today.

You can't charge for SMS that way and technically you're supposed to use a short code for automated sms sending. Short codes are very expensive, so don't do that til much later.
I don't know, how about not building one's life on top of someone else's cloud ecosystem? I'll probably get downvoted for this but I am glad to see iCloud biting someone. Hopefully (unlikely) it bites more folks and then people realize that maybe they shouldn't put their life on a bunch of ephemeral, porous, closed-garden online services
10 million users is not the new 1 million
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> and members find new and easier ways to share photos with friends

They share photos and status updates. And event invites. Chatter basically.

But making an easier way is hard. Really hard. Because everyone is already on Facebook. That's where the social graph is.
The fact that they released "time-line" and "ask questions" shows how few options they have at growing or expanding (or how few they've tried).

I think the greater concern for Facebook is that they have tried to expand their reach on several occasions in ways that would seem to favour them commercially, usually at the expense of people's privacy and/or making the user experience worse, but they have discovered that beyond a certain level of tolerance they will get enough pushback from their users to cancel the plans and they still have to eat the negative PR for a while. By your analogy, they want the trunk to keep growing, but the roots can't go any deeper to support it.
> the idea that as intelligent people many of us are drawn to activities and consumption that makes us look more intelligent

Relevant essay: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metaco...
I don't want to use gmail because i don't want to have a global online identity. But it depends on what you see as the primary use case (corporate? technical? casual?). Optional gmail is fine. If it's all private then maybe i'd be OK with it, but it doesn't seem like this is your long-term goal. I'm not certain how the security would work with what you are describing, i guess it requires you to be signed in to gmail constantly, but password-less option sounds good. Friction must be extremely low. Outside of gmail, make sign up just username /password.. avoid the sign-up email if you can. Think about if you really need someones email.

You will of course have to make this 100% perfect and have a lot of great ideas (but those can grow organically later) to get very far with this, IMO, but i wish you luck.
Actually it is the use of force and coercion that we have a problem with.

If you want to go and found a company as a worker owned co-op, that is your right. If you want to force me into it, that would be wrong.
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Don't forget RethinkDB, Mixpanel and Cloudera - those guys are solving some difficult, real world problems. Personally, I wouldn't classify massively distributed computation as a service boring. If anything, the scale (in numbers of users, amount of data) makes B2B of this kind even sexier than share-my-cat-at-my-location-agram.
Are they actually using all that password length, or are they just allowing people to enter long passwords and truncating them?
Hook up a phone via USB and send it AT commands.
Seems like a slight false dichotomy. Founders can work on on frivolous businesses initially, but later on, once they've acquired the acumen and resilience to be a proper CEO, they may turn their hands to grander projects. Incubators like YCombinator are training legions of entrepreneurs to be better entrepreneurs (as a side effect of finding successful exits occasionally).

Two other thoughts: shouldn't we be looking at big, wealthy companies to do the major, game-changing R&D anyway?

And secondly, maybe the world has changed in such a way as to allow big breakthroughs to be dominated by mega corporations.
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I have noticed no difference between the MagSafe 1 connector on my 4 year old Macbook Pro and the MagSafe 2 connector my week old 13" Macbook Air. Both feel equally snug.
Last time I checked, Firefox saved passwords in plain text. Has that changed?
Articles like this are exactly why I come to HN.
That would turn users into customers. This would probably have interesting ramifications, in terms of what such users would begin to demand (and expect to receive).
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I am still not sure that one needs to go all the way to India to do all of this. Couldn't the "Chinese miracle" be replicated here here in America with any demographic that has low participation ratios in the Olympics due to reasons other than interest?
Remove all labels and text from a patent drawing. Can you still figure out what the patent is about? Most software patents, their drawings being servers (so there is a "machine") connected to other devices, would be denied if we did this test.
> To work properly it has to take into account the major design elements on a web page and make intelligent choices based on the user's tap target.

And that is what should be patentable, if anything at all should be patentable. The algorithm to account for design elements and make intelligent choices.

Not "tap twice to zoom".
Agreed! Also, beyond the great tech content there's something charming about this one.
Interesting that there's no mention of generational GC in this article. Anyone with a bit more expertise care to comment on why not?
God is just. You know the egyptians killed jewish babies before passover? Moses was floated down stream. God did justice eye-for-eye on the Egyptian babies.

God says...
C:\Text\WEALTH.TXT

y was divided into three great branches;
physics, or natural philosophy; ethics, or moral philosophy; and logic.
This general division seems perfectly agreeable to the nature of things.

The great phenomena of nature, the revolutions of the heavenly bodies,
eclipses, comets; thunder and lightning, and other extraordinary
meteors; the generation, the life, growth, and dissolution of plants and
animals; are objects which, as they necessarily excite the wonder, so
they naturally call forth the curiosi
The reference counting metaphor leaves out a critical aspect of reference-counting: cyclical structures and how to collect them. Books never write their names in other books so this doesn't appear in his discussion, though it's one of the more important complications for implementations.
Decent idea there with the password storage secret email account... Anyone else agree?
Form a special branch of military service for athletes, form a special federal police squad for the best marksmen, issue special exemptions at the discretion of the president, or train overseas. All those methods have been used.
How about this as a fundamentally equivalent question: Why don't more web startups run poetry competitions?

Much like Open Sourcing your code, running a poetry competition is unlikely to add enough business value to offset the resources it will take to accomplish.

Sure, there are guys on your team who really like poetry and would go out of their way to help organize the contest. And the poetry fans that happen to be your users would think more of you for doing it.

But at the end of the day, it's just not a good business decision, so you don't do it.
> You do this dozens of times when putting out a new product, and it's not in any way a big deal.

The sum of these design decisions make the product, they are the most important aspect the project.
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For what it's worth Apple isn't claiming any exclusive rights over devices based merely on their screen size alone.
From the OED:

"speak for yourself: expressing a desire to dissociate oneself from what another has just said or the assumptions behind it."
What kind of payment/shopping cart system do you use to allow people to sell products on your site?
I think this article's headline is a little misplaced. The massive backing given to Ouya on Kickstarter in such a short time period is testament to the sheer volume of people who want indie gaming hardware. Gamers aren't going to throw around terms like 'saturated market' and 'product differentiation' when a $99 game console comes out.
Good point... I didn't know this was about getting drunk at conferences. Objection withdrawn.
> In this case, they lost circa 400x the lifetime median income of a US worker.

Why is that relevant?

> It's hard to imagine the upside that would have justified that kind of risk.

Actually, it's easy to imagine such an upside. Consider 800x the lifetime median income of a US worker.

Solyndra lost far more of the US taxpayer's money. Are you really suggesting that Solyndra shouldn't have been considered because the amount of money was too large?

How about CA's high speed rail project? Are you really saying that it's a bad idea just because of the amount of money involved?

I'm not claiming that Solyndra or high-speed rail are good investments, I'm just them to demonstrate that the $500M at risk isn't a show stopper. You must consider the return.

There are lots of bets that are that large or larger. For example, every time a company sells for >$400M ....
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This is an exciting idea, and I can't wait to see what turns up on it.

As for feedback, please give me the option to load as many items on a page as I want.
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You could, but there are two factors to consider:

1. India has a much larger population. You have a higher chance of getting someone with the right phenotype for the sport if you have a much larger group of people to pick from.

2. There's more incentive for the children to stay in the sport if they're given something significant in return - there are tons of children in India who would do anything for what we take for granted (food, shelter, clothing, education, American citizenship, etc.).
For something like facebook?

No. You make a mobile friendly website and that is that.
Edison, Ford and the Wright brothers were crackpots, I guess.

There is a difference between something that may lead from here to there and something that is definitely never going to lead anywhere.

An example of the former:
You write some software that re-orients an array of solar panels to make the most of weather conditions in real time. It's not going to crack the "energy production and storage" enigma, but it's a step in the right direction. Next, you may want to study how panel geometry influences energy collection.

An example of the latter:
You set up a Web site that allows teenagers to compare their gadgets.
Does team imply that they must be direct reports and not have a single layer of managers? With a single layer, each manager (including Forstall) would have just 34 people to manage directly. That's somewhat the same as a teacher handling a big high school class.
This is very great thing. I think this will help to fix all problems which show up in Facebook daily. Good job Facebook.
Kenyans and Ethiopians tend to get even lower levels of protein in their diets and their Olympic athletes are pretty damned quick. As running sub 3 minute kilometers back to back for a whole marathon.

Their macro-nutrient is generally about 10%-15% fat, 10% protein and 75%-80% carbs, and mostly from plant sources.

http://www.active.com/running/Articles/Eating_practices_of_t...
Sort of, but it's more than just a degree and/or verification of skills. As you suggest, there are a lot of ways to test whether someone has some of the skills needed to succeed. If you're looking to hire a java programmer, you could either build or find a short test that would reasonably determine how skilled someone is in java.

Harvard offers much more. They already spent thousands of man hours combing through tens of thousands of applications from very smart kids all over the country. Even if everyone they accepted graduated (i.e. regardless of who gets a degree), they've already performed a talent search you could never hope to replicate.
An Apple fanboy looses a couple of photos and the whole Internet cries.

There are people out there who don't hand over the keys to their lives to a single corporation, and know how to manage their passwords and onsite/offsite backups. Please people, this isn't a crisis. Last months Apple hipsters found out what viruses are and know they are starting to pay attention to passwords. Catching up slowly eh?
Not if you use a master password.
Thanks. So, it's assets less debt. This is a huge flaw in the study. Even if everyone in the country had exactly the same income and savings rate, you'd still expect a triangle distribution of wealth because of differences in age (graded by years of saving followed by years of retirement on the downward slope). In reality, you have a huge number of people living with a high quality of life with almost no savings (house fully mortgaged, some small equity in their car maybe). Any measurement that counts these people the same as homeless is deeply flawed.

And then we're going to compare that bogus metric with what random people think it might ought to be after a few moments of thought. How many of the respondents do you think asked for a paper and calculator before giving their answer? This whole article is terrible rhetorical slight of hand.
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And my grandparents would be quite happy to see the internet going down.

But that doesn't mean that billions of people don't rely on it.
Did you read the article you just linked to? Penson's customers have their money in accounts completely segregated from Knight's electronic trading division.

"It isn't like we found out that Knight was stealing money," Sommers [a CFTC commissioner] said.

The CFTC is just watching carefully to make sure it stays that way.
That looks like a suprisingly terse entry from the oed. I do not think io have eveer seen such a short entry from the oed. How much did you edit and leave out?

How many people put "can" in front of the idiom?
Sherlock Holmes would not be wearing a deerstalker. That's a hat for traveling and for doing things in rural areas. Holmes' profession requires blending in, and wearing a rural hat in a non-rural environment would stand out.
There are two kinds of inventions.

(1) Providing a solution to a known problem.

(2) Figuring out that something is a problem and providing a solution.

I'd argue that (2) is more valuable than (1) as there are likely to be other solutions in the case of (1) so the payoff is relatively small.

Figuring out that a problem exists and solving it is far more valuable.

Yes, I know that most of us work on (1), but surely our self-interest is irrlevant.
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read this in 2005, it gave me chills, I dare not read it again.
Alright, so ignoring your (poorly executed) trolling, this actually is an important issue. Whether or not you approve, a lot of people use products that leave them vulnerable to situations like the one described in the other post. What's your objection to posts describing safer operating procedures?
Anyone that has implemented something like that knows implementation and execution is the really hard part.
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There have been numerous PDF exploits in the past (including jail breaking iOS) - sounds like it needs its scope limiting.
Probably was hacked through email, then iCloud password recovered through it.

I wish there were a special high security password recovery email mailbox, separate from routine communications mailbox, in apps. Would be really hard to get adopted, and t that point, you might as well push for something better than passwords.
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That they are being delivered in the context of one person's utter incompetence.
Yes, exactly, but it is still risk. They certainly haven't lost their money yet. If everything works out right, they shouldn't have to. But the financial world is much too complicated to say that there is minimal risk for any party, even if everything is in Treasury bonds.
Firefox is perfectly capable of encrypting the passwords you save -- you simply have to set a master password for your keyring.
>Given TED’s disproportionate influence on a certain level of the global debate, it follows that the public at large also becomes more approving of technological solutions to problems that are not technological but political. Problems of climate change become problems of making production more efficient or finding ways to colonize other planets—not of reaching political agreement on how to limit production or consume in a more sustainable fashion. Problems of health care become problems of inadequate self-monitoring and data-sharing. Problems of ensuring one’s privacy—which might otherwise get solved by pushing for new laws—become problems of inadequate tools for defending one’s anonymity online or selling access to one’s own data.

Likewise, when a publication focused on politics analyzes problems, the solutions are always political, never technological. If you follow the author's logic, most of the issues presented in TED talks could be solved with laws.

I'm quite cynical about the somewhat simplistic solutions offered by some TED speakers, but I don't see laws and political debate solving most of the problems TED discusses.
You can probably find times new roman typeballs out there for IBM selectrics.
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There's also an intuited sense that when so very many people (1 in 4 children now!) are underfed

Citation very desperately needed, particularly given that gluttony rather than hunger seems to be the predominant problem of the poor.