skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I'm interpreting your phrase "the rules" correctly, but if you mean "the conditions that led Twitter to become what it became"… of course those have changed. Twitter was born in a world that didn't already have a Twitter in it.

To argue otherwise is like saying that it made no sense for my parents to have a second child, because they already had one. Aren't two kids, with similar genetics and similar environment, simply redundant?

Obviously not. You can't duplicate the original even if you try. Nor is that the point. The point is to diversify.

I think Twitter is working fine at the moment – whatever ugly shoe they're allegedly about to drop, it hasn't dropped on me yet. But it's still great to try and reinvent Twitter, just as it was great to try and reinvent Perl, even though Perl still works just fine. You end up somewhere different.
This is zero-sum thinking. App.net doesn't have to be as big as Twitter to be successful. There are many pay services to compare it to. Metafilter is one.
I had those same thoughts when bitcoin first came out (or rather hit mainstream) and put them on my Bitrific blog, which I subsequently shut down.

A new government backed currency being disconnected from paper is one thing, but being disconnected from fractional reserve banking is another and likely to be met with very violent opposition if a target can be found.

There'd a have to be a total change in government policy for a modern day digital Lincoln greenback. I don't think the Corporatocracy would allow it to happen at this point. So bitcoin is the closest we can get to it - money for the people by the people (instead of money for the corporations by the banks with the help of government.)
Early adopters and enthusiasm. It's fundementally no different to a forum or quora etc.
Not just parchment, but also Iron Gall Ink. Which will eat both your paper and your fountain pen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_gall_ink
Thank you. I didn't want to be the person to say it.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870375750457519...

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/06/dueling-donations-lo...

You can find examples here of the same individual supporting people in both parties:

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/indivs.php
A big one, I figure? People don't understand radiation. The smartmeter uses a wireless communication protocol much like WiFi, but people are still flipping out about it.

Heck, just reading the articles about the switching mode power supplies- which every digital device today has- they declare with fright that the smps can emit frequencies up to 50,000 hz! Oh no! That's nearly an order of magnitude lower frequency than AM Radio broadcasts! It must be deadly!
Well, I'm not the one with second thoughts about my payment to app.net. Still, it's a good chance to mention http://www.nothingbutnets.net/
I have an honest question for you because I'm trying to understand this mode of thinking myself: why suddenly "no fear" of the rug being pulled out from under you? How does giving Dalton your money permanently align your interests with his?

Edit: this isn't meant to accuse Dalton of nefarious plans in the least. I just don't understand the causal link.
Add filters to your facebook photos and mail photo postcards. http://airbrush.io
As somebody who learned CoffeeScript before JavaScript

I think it is probably fair to say your situation is fairly unusual.

How did that happen?
It was the difference between typing text with a keyboard and handwriting all caps, backwards in a mirror, while translating each word from English to Russian via a English-French dictionary then French-Russian dictionary in the dark by candlelight.

There's a module for that.
I think he's interested in organizing tenant farmers in the southern USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Tenant_Farmers_Union
Just wanted to share my other findings here:

http://thenewboston.org
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I'm with you 100% on every point you made, but my original point was that the thesis seems to be "the money comes from the users & developers now", and I don't think that's as dramatic of a shift as its been painted to be.
Not to mention googling them.
From the article:

So what does this mean for Yesod? A lot, actually. FP Complete will be bringing Haskell to commercial users, and Yesod will be a big part of that. FP Complete is very supportive of the entire open source Haskell community, and will be contributing directly to it. I will continue fully in my role as maintainer and lead developer for Yesod. This move to FP Complete will not be taking my focus off of the open source community at all. On the contrary, I expect greater opportunities to be able to make contributions back.
Sweet. Thanks for sharing.
More likely it'll be the small elite (who stay private) maximizing profits using the info that the vast majority made public. Those who make their "private" info public will likely on average pay higher interest & insurance rates, have smaller salaries after taking longer to find jobs, etc.
You're right it wouldn't need to grow to the size of Twitter to be successful, but I don't see how it would grow beyond the HN set (and just a subset then). I can't think a single reason anyone would pay for Twitter, when free Twitter already exists. The only pain point App.net really covers is for 3rd party devs who want to quit their day jobs to sell Twitter iPhone apps but can't any more.
Sorry for the typos. Its updated now.
"Many worlds is an interpretation. It is an untestable explanation of the evidence, there is no way to decide between many worlds and other models (besides, perhaps, convenience)."

Many Worlds is the theory that best fits the evidence of quantum experiments, keeping in mind Occam's razor. In fact, it is the only comprehensible one. Wave collapse is comparable to epicycles in that they are both attempts at harmonizing completely contradictory evidence with a preconceived common-sense assumption (single universe and geocentrism, respectively).
just for the record (very late, wow) the first laptops to ditch the latch iirc were the original iBooks, the "toilet seat" macs.
But that blot contains within it a pretty obvious potential to be viewed as a bat though, doesn't it? If it was say, a square with a smaller square inside it, then it's unlikly anyone would interpret it as a bat. I understand the purpose of a Rorschach test (dubious as it may be), and I get the point being made by the OP. But my point is that I have backed App.net because it looks enough like it has the potential to become something useful to me, in a number of ways. I don't feel that there's a bait and switch going on here or that I have been otherwise swindled in some way. And I'm pretty cynical most of the time.

Free but ad supported isn't the only way online, but one could be forgiven for thinking it is. I am happy to encourage anyone trying alternatives. I want to see what social services that don't need to cater to advertisers look like, and this is one such model. I wonder why some people appear quite threatened by such.

Time will tell if the service turns out to be a bat or not. I approach with few preconceptions, I'm happy to wait it out for a while and give the guy the benefit of the doubt. Seems to me he's doing OK so far.
Boy, a lot of people sure hate this project, don't they?
You can't have the conversation without money. Anything else is a land of wishful thinking, simply because it takes money to run the service.

I did not commit to app.net, but I am philosophically backing them. I think the meta-goal is right, even if this particular incantation is (or isn't) the right one.
Maybe get a killawatt instead? Tons of fun running around your house plugging stuff into it, but of course you can only measure the stuff you can plug into it. Also, as a renter, it's something I can actually use. Surprised nobody's mentioned it yet, they're fairly popular as the low tech version of this.
The views feature isn't enabled until you read the announcement which is forced into the view on top of the page when you view the web site, you have to specifically click Hide to remove it and acknowledge the new option.

If you turn it off, it will retroactively remove any of your views, you can turn it off here http://www.quora.com/settings
What I don't understand is all these people so fervently defending Dalton and his idea. Should we instead approach app.net with some healthy skepticism?
I actually don't hate this project, I think it's interesting or else it wouldn't have caught my attention in the first place. I just noticed a few things about it and wrote what I saw.
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/zhIiA (http://codepen.io/anon/full/zhIiA)
The two are orthogonal. App.net is not about charity. Bring that into the conversation is, IMO, trying to confuse the conversation.
> why do people think that anything they have ever done online hasn't already been tracked and recorded

Because their friends, family, and coworkers don't get to see those records, and it is difficult (important, but difficult) to care about the unseen omnisciency of Google/Facebook data junkies.
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I just tried this and it doesn't seem to escape " to &quot;.
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None of it is going to come easy. Especially if you have no programming background. I am in the same position as you right now. I know HTML and CSS but the real programming has come a little bit slower. My two cents: skip TDD off the bat. Concentrate on building small apps and following tutorials to do so. Have you checked out rails for zombies? I was actually wondering some similar things about TDD myself and asked this question earlier today:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4376527

Just keep in mind, learning Rails isn't going to be something you can do in just a couple or even a few months. To become good at it you'll have to practice day in and day out for years. But the good thing about it is, you will be able to deploy simple apps with minimal knowledge very soon which is fun!

My favorite tutorial thus far has been Michael Hartl's at http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

It's long but it's very informative and walks you through rspec if you do decide to use that. Best of luck!
That's not universally true. Unfortunately, the PCI DSS is somewhat subjective and enforced inconsistently, so it's difficult to definitively answer what's required for PCI compliance for a certain type of payments integration.

Even for merchants that use third-party hosted payment forms, it's still common to need to complete SAQ A (a short self-assessment questionnaire) and have quarterly network scans. For example, with PayPal[1]: "Our hosted solution takes a lot of the work out of meeting these standards. The only remaining requirements are a Security Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) and Quarterly Security Scans."

According to MasterCard[2]: "All merchants that store, process, or transmit cardholder data must be PCI compliant." It's subjective whether using Stripe.js could be considered transmitting cardholder data.

Visa[3] holds Acquirers responsible for ensuring their merchants are PCI compliant. Requirements vary depending on processing volume: "In addition to adhering to the PCI DSS, compliance validation is required for Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 merchants, and may be required for Level 4 merchants." Notice that for Level 4 merchants, validation only may be required, although those merchants should still be adhering to the PCI DSS.

Stripe has several PCI requirements in their terms of service[4], and their FAQ does seem to indicate[5] that merchants have some responsibility for PCI compliance. According to the TOS "It is your responsibility to comply with these standards." and according to the FAQ: "Most Qualified Security Assesors (QSAs) will want to talk through many of the implementation details before giving an opinion"

Disclosure: I work for Braintree.

Disclaimer: This response is my opinion; I'm not speaking for Braintree.

[1] https://merchant.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&...

[2] http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/whatwedo/determine_m...

[3] http://usa.visa.com/merchants/risk_management/cisp_merchants...

[4] https://stripe.com/terms/US

[5] https://answers.stripe.com/questions/what-exactly-do-i-need-...
implemented! thanks.
I couldn't think of a non-ridiculous example, so thanks for providing one. However, your bad faith assumption that I was commenting in bad faith is a dick move.
I'm with you on the meta-goal being "right". And I didn't say to exclude money from the equation, Dalton and his team deserve to be paid for their work: once they actually solve a real pain point. Right now the pain looks a lot like fear & hope to me, two things that make people do silly, unsustainable things with their money.
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I promised myself I'd show parity with https://gist.github.com/3346253#file_t_js_parity.js at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378847, but comments eventually go non-editable.

I haven't properly updated the gist fork yet, but as follows are the semi-minified additions [of `safe` and `map` (iter)] and parity tests.

function t(a,b){
return function(c,d){
return a.replace(/#{([^}]*)}/g, function(a,e){
function safe(v){return new Option(v).innerHTML;}
function map(o, f){
var k, v = [];
for(k in o) v.push(f(k, o[k]));
return v;
}
return Function("x",safe+map+"with(x)return "+e).call(c,d||b||{})
})
}
}
function l(v){
console.log(v);
}

// Simple interpolation: {{=value}}
l(t("Hello, #{this.name}!")({name: "Mike"}));

// Scrubbed interpolation: {{%unsafe_value}}
l(t("Saved from #{safe(this.xss)}!")({xss: "<script>alert('xss')<\/script>"}));

// Name-spaced variables: {{=User.address.city}}
l(t("Hello1, #{this.user.name}!")({user: {name: "Mike"}}));

// If/else blocks: {{value}} <<markup>> {{:value}} <<alternate markup>> {{/value}}
l(t("Hello2, #{this.name || 'World'}!")({name: "Mike"}));
l(t("Hello2, #{this.name || 'World'}!")());
l(t("Hello2, #{this.u ? this.u.name : 'World'}!")({u: {name: "Mike"}}));

// If not blocks: {{!value}} <<markup>> {{/value}}
l(t("Hello3, #{!this.u ? 'World' : ''}!")({user: {name: "Mike"}}));

// Object/Array iteration: {{@object_value}} {{=_key}}:{{=_val}} {{/@object_value}}
l(t("Hello4, #{map(this.users, print_user).join(', ')}!", {
print_user: function(k, user){return user;}
})({users: ["Mike", "John", "Bill"]}));

// Maybe you have one of those new-fangled browsers w/ builtin map
l(t("Hello4, #{this.users.map(print_user).join(', ')}!", {
print_user: function(user){return user;}
})({users: ["Mike", "John", "Bill"]}));

// Let's go deeper...
l(t("Hello4, #{map(this.users, user).join(', ')}!", {
user: function(_, user){
return t("#{safe(this.name)}")(user);
}
})({users:[{name: "Mike"}, {name: "John<3"}, {name: "Bill"}]}));

// Render the same template multiple times with different data
hello = t("Hello5, and #{this.goodbye}!");
l(hello({goodbye: "goodbye"}));
l(hello({goodbye: "good night"}));
I totally agree about the Lucida Grande thing. It's weird seeing fonts like Lucida Grande and Verdana on such a nice display.
Money talks. Don't bite the hand that feeds ya. If users pay and there are no advertisers, the users are investors. If advertisers pay (or pay a heck of a lot more than the user) they're the investors.

Look at HBO, because they're not beholden to some lowest common denominator PC/right-wing/hypocrite relifreak agenda they produce awesome content. It's not a coincidence.
"Aside from the fact this is factually incorrect..."

I shall supply a snippet of the Galileo affair that corroborates my hand-wavy statement:

"One of the first suggestions of heresy that Galileo had to deal with came in 1613 from a professor of philosophy (what we would now call a professor of scientific theory), Cosimo Boscaglia, who was neither a theologian nor a priest. In conversation with Galileo's patron, Cosimo II de' Medici, Boscaglia gave the opinion that the telescopic discoveries were valid, but the motion of the Earth was obviously contrary to Scripture." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#Bible_argument

"...most people who propose paradigm-shifting theories are wrong."

Galileo's success worked against him - other paradigm-shifters were not legitimate threats to the status quo.
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My grandfather sends me those political chain emails asking if they have any validity. He's pretty skeptical and deletes the majority of these, but every now and again he wants more information. That's where I come in. Last night I responded to one where the author attacked his opponent's credibility without any cited sources, for or against. I wrote him a long response about the need for sources, as well as the need to check the source's credibility.

What this article points out is how the news media is very hungry for new stories, and their need to publish as soon as possible. This means unverified information passes through the journalistic filter. This also points out, like the emails above, that people will generally fall for confirmation bias in many cases. Even HN has bouts of the echo chamber. It's really hard to counter, even when you are actively guarding against it.

Manual critical thinking and checking sources all the time is very mentally draining. I would bet that most to all of us have some form of automatic first-pass mental filter that immediately questions "facts" contained in email chain letters, or the latest fad technology if it has too many buzzwords, or Facebook posts. That is a shortcut we've developed so we don't have to manually think about every bit of information that comes across our desks. It goes immediately to the mental round file.

Unfortunately, there are people out there that do not have this filter. Maybe they haven't mentally trained to look for these kinds of problems. Maybe they were referred to the story by a trusted source, like a good friend or a prominent publication. Maybe the information fell precisely into their particular confirmation bias that it bypassed their skepticism. Political advertising thrives on this problem. Unscrupulous con men thrive off this problem.

But it happens to us all the time. I fall for it all the time, even though I try to find the "real" facts and am generally skeptical of most things. Thus it doesn't surprise me that people fell for the screw hoax, because Apple is traditionally very secretive and has a history of locking out DIYers. That screw fit Apple's MO to a T, and thus likely slipped through many of the internet bullshit filters and went viral. It happens. It will happen again.

The best we can do is try our best to root out false information, and accept that we will be fooled from time to time.
Couldn't update my original post, but I was in a rush earlier and couldn't make the proper complete-parity examples: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379417
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> Privacy is basically a historical accident belonging to the few hundred years in the west where transportation tech got ahead of information technology.

I don't think privacy should be dictated by whatever is possible with technology, it should be explicitly decided by people. Whichever way they decide.
I made some tweaks: http://jsbin.com/ewufof/366/edit
Because the user is the customer. With Twitter, the advertiser is the customer, and the user is the product. This leads to seemingly-capricious changes like the recent backlash against third-party developers. But when the user is the customer, then the business's goals are aligned with the user's.
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Hey, this looks fun! If only I had time to actually work on the movie I wanted to make :-)
Supporting both parties is just support for the status quo, really, it doesn't really require opposing anything. Supporting individual candidates from both parties is even less suspicious.
I'm curious about why people jump on angular without even checking out knockoutjs. Knockout provides similar functionality with slightly less code. The demo/doc site is incredible.

I think it is also interesting that since backbone all the hot front end frameworks are of the model binding variety. Honestly when you do stuff like angular or knockout backbone just feels clunky.

I know that there are model binding plugins for backbone, but you still end up writing a bunch more code.
Perl's source pre-processing filters are something I still miss.
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Why? [citation needed]
Don't (didn't?) companies pay for yammer?

I could imagine companies wanting silo'd instances for company use (if app.net started offering it at some point). Status.Net offers something like this I believe too.
OK, I caught methylated-B12, but what's L5MTHF?
Not necessarily talking about you.
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I think there is definitely something to be said for the view that App.net is this elusive concept that people are wildly dreaming about. Look through at the 100 submissions about App.net per day, there are so many different speculations, even contradictory ones, but not a lot of information coming out.

There's a group that thinks App.net is not the point, they think App.net is somehow the social network backbone or "social-network-as-a-service" or something. But that doesn't make a lot of sense to me because App.net is charging. So if you start you're little niche social network "MechanicWorld," which seems like back-to-the-future but ok, are the users paying MechanicWorld or App.net (how would they know App.net exists?). Is MechanicWorld going to offer free signup, provide an advertising based business model, and simply subsidize the free user accounts? If that's the case, what's the point of App.net again?

Some people think it is a twitter but for people that visit HN/TechCrunch ... don't those people use Twitter? That's a pretty strange market, but this one is a bit of a strawman, I've only heard it a bit and I don't think Dalton has intention of this.

I think it is still very vague what it is and how it will work. I think most concrete, least nebulous, it could be is "Twitter that You Pay For - Period." It has been covered to death, but I don't think you can rival Twitter with that.

Do you really see CNN blasting it all over the place, restaurants putting "Follow us on App.net, ($50/yr)," etc? That's the weight, unfortunately Twitter has. Twitter has people believing they are responsible for the Arab Spring (yeah right) -- I don't know how App.net is going to get this kind of press.

And the other thing, App.net, really? That's the name? When I first heard about it, I thought "Oh, ok they seem to have some completely unrelated business already and are just using this 'App.net' thing temporarily" but I don't see anything implying that is going to change; I'm going to assume someone is working on this, because that's no name for what they're trying to do (whatever it is exactly).

Nevertheless, it is nice to see something besides "We are revolutionizing the way users share photos or communicate" "... but we don't know how we're going to make money -- advertising?"
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Airbnb Tech Talk: App.net's Dalton Caldwell on App.net & How they did it