skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So perhaps a neo-credentialist-Keynesian solution would be to have the government print up college degrees for mailing to the 6 million un-degreed unemployed?
> This place has an enormous problem with pricing and economics

I think the worst example I ever saw was someone implying that a copy of a digital photograph should (!) only cost £0.0001 as that's the cost of hard drive storage.
I don't think many people use this argument as much to whine about bad sales but more on customers who also expect amazing support on the product.

"omg I just PAID for this app!! and you can't even listen to me and add this completely ridiculous feature that nobody in the world except me would use!!11 and btw, the alignment of this grid isn't pixel perfect and you spelled the word calendarr wrong!! i want my money back!"
"Facebook is “selling my personal information” to Walmart. Facebook is selling the privilege of having Facebook send ads to me."

think you left out a word here
I'd be interested to ask Mark about the tier between "brick and mortar" and "digital." Sometimes even engineers get sick and need a doctor. Or sue each other and need lawyers. Or remodel their home and need a contractor. It's nice when these people are smart, and fortunately many are, even if they never write code. It's still ridiculously hard to get into medical school--our doctors are the kids who got straight As in university. Perhaps that's an extreme example, but there are many industries that do not have "the intelligence sucked out" in a human asset notion, though perhaps in another 10 years big data will write prescriptions.
Just earlier this week I was looking for an app that did exactly this. Installed it - works great.
I'd also be keen to see a 'double-click to reveal' feature.
Great work!
> Registered: 2001-03-12
> Last Update: 2009-07-17

So... a little of both it seems.
The download says it was zipped in 2005.
It's all utter vainglorious and masturbatory nonsense unless it's Apple's App Store "curation"
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XMPP.
Google’s Dremel Makes Big Data Look Small
Yup. I love the philosophy underlying underscore. The functions are ridiculously simple, but so powerful to use once you grok it.
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But who is keeping app.net from doing the same thing once they killed Twitter and reached a size where they can say: Thanks for all your friends, now get off of our platform.

We need open protocols and a decentralized social network where we have different implementations with focus on different use cases which are still able to communicate with one another.

A good chunk of the protocols and implementations is already there with OAuth, Activity streams, salmon, RSS and such. And there are already open sourced implementations like status.net and others alike.

The solution is already there. We only need to start using it.
The textbooks written by those teachers you speak of are often available for download on the internet.
I find myself wondering: why the heck do I even have a twitter account? I hardly ever use it anyway. A political gesture is as good a reason as any to simplify my life.

Turns out I need it for authenticating a couple of external sites. But its days are numbered..
Thanks for the info. Also, just out of curiosity, are you a U of MN student or alum?
perl rules.
The OP's chart is meaningless because of selection bias. Presumably, the college grads would be more employable because of higher intelligence, greater access to resources or better habits, which led them to college (I know there are many exceptions to this).

The real question is, what would many of those college grads have done otherwise in those 4 years, with the money they would have saved?

FWIW I learned a ton about myself in college and wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
I just had a quick look at Twitter's terms, and it seems pretty clear that tweets are not Twitter's data. The copyright remains with the poster, and Twitter has a non-exclusive licence.

So while I agree with your basic point that starting a business so completely dependent on something that could disappear overnight is probably unwise, it seems it's really only the API that is Twitter's, not the content itself. That could be a significant distinction, depending on how this all plays out.
Feature suggestion: be able to drag your mouse left and right to create a "swipe diff" line that reveals or hides the old version on the left vs the new version on the right.

Maybe that's in there, but I didn't spot it.
This has gotten comically out of control and is probably saying something about the wedding industry.
Link to the paper describing Dremel [PDF]:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
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If you feel you need to, go ahead; just try and do it properly.
For me, in chrome on win7, the on and off demos both appear to be about equally choppy. I doubt I could identify a difference in a blind test.
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why it's based on jQuery?
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Thanks! I've got a few other nice features planned as well.
Zoomed just fine on my ipad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_CRM

Social CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is use of social media services, techniques and technology to enable organisations to engage with their customers.

Social CRM is often used as a synonym for Social Media Monitoring, where organisations watch services like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn for relevant mentions of their product and brand and react accordingly.
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On a percentage basis, especially outsid of STEM, most of curriculum is irrelevant to employment.
Thanks, really glad to hear it :)
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I'm guessing he's referring to Apache Pig, for doing map-reduce database operations (e.g. joins) in Hadoop.
http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.7.0/piglatin_ref2.html
I assume he's referring to Apache Pig's Pig Latin language.
Must have been a limited time offer -- I got a sample sent to my Kindle, and now that I'm ready to buy it's jumped back up to US$22.79.
Twitter is just being stupid. They could easily offer a "pro" version of twitter that would give end-users verified accounts, added stats, better photos, wide open use of the API for 3rd party apps, etc.

Some calculations...
- 500 million accounts.
- 1% conversion (they could 2% or higher)
- 5 million conversions
- $50/year
Wooo hoo. $250 million. Ok, not a billion but not a bad start, all without burning developers or free users.

Charge businesses for business level accounts and analytics and you could get another $250M.

Twitter's problem isn't just a "Now" problem it's a management team that's following Facebook on their path to ad failure.
I remember reading about this hack in 2003 wondering if there was any other variations of Linux than just
"GNU/Linux". I always hated the term "GNU/Linux" and was looking for an excuse to generalize the name to just "Linux" and win a silly argument with some Stallman following, freedom loving zealots (system admins) at work.

These days Android (being almost 100% GNU free) is a decent argument against the GNU/Linux name for me (although busybox/uClibc stacks on most routers are pretty close as well).
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You joke, but that works if labor is under supplied because employees are afraid to hire non grads. (Real world example: blacks were banned from military combat roles, due to racism, until we an out of whits for cannon fodder.)

But it doesn't work if demand is too low for supply already.
I can't understand how this affects companies like twitmusic.com which just closed a round from 500 startups. Or perhaps disqus.com which has a lot of integrations with twitter in their app.

Can someone shed some light on this?
Square and payment systems in general most certainly do have network effects. For instance, I don't have a Discover card because it's not worth the hassle of checking whether each merchant accepts it.

Network effects are the lion's share of the justification behind Square's Starbucks deal.
Yes it does. If their mobile payment app becomes the de facto standard, not accepting payment from that app could become as bad as not accepting credit cards.
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The masters degree industry is already entirely propped up by unions and governments and other employes with formulaic hiring rules and pay scales.
It's a good thing, then, that a CS education also trains you in abstract thinking applied to multiple domains. Subjects like mathematics (especially more abstract branches) and CS (especially theoretical CS) are some of the best options for expanding your mind and gaining new perspectives.

Despite the name, computer science isn't actually about computers or even technology. At its core, it's the study of information--very much a dual to certain branches of math and even certain branches of philosophy. "Computer" is just the name given to essentially all the tools used to study information and computation.

Having immediate practical applications does not mean CS doesn't also have significant depth!
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Not sure why Cloudera is part of this article, seems like all the attention here should be on Google and the BigQuery team.

Here is an open source project similar to Dremel:

http://www.itworld.com/big-datahadoop/290026/new-apache-proj...
I'm not sure if I agree that this is actually a case of the innovator's dilemma, that said I wholeheartedly concur with the recommendation of the book--it's fantastic.

Also, I wonder if this strategy makes a lot more sense if viewed through the lens of them being acquired in the next few years.
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Launch.

Charge money. No, more than that.

Go read everything patio11 has written about pricing. Especially his latest about how to set your tiers.
Interesting take, although I think that there's more at play here. I agree that they could start charging for the API and add premium accounts, but all of those major changes runs a big risk of irrevocably altering their service. Whether that's for the better or worse is up for debate.

I'm very curious to see where it goes from here, but was mostly intrigued by the parallel I see to small startups. Thanks for the comment :)
Isn't it funny to think about how, if Tridge hadn't done what he did, if all of Linus' public shaming of Tridge had done the trick and the Linux kernel had stayed on Bitkeeper, that we wouldn't have had git, or Github?

Linus did a good job of coming up with a replacement tool in a hurry, but I'm also grateful to Tridge for poking a stick into the hornets' nest.
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Android is not GNU/Linux. Most desktop and server installations are. "GNU/Linux" is not another name for linux - it's the name of "GNU/Linux".

For the record, I find the name a little silly myself (despite being, as you put it, a Stallman-following freedom-loving zealot). But the fact that linux can be used without GNU is not an argument against naming systems where it is used with GNU, GNU/Linux.
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Interesting. I don't think it's so much making the site ugly as keeping it simple, though.
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I wish they'd make a serious attempt to do this in python, it'd be do fun to hack up all my programs without having to know C, C++, and every other programming language under the sun. Then again maybe I'm just lazy
Cool idea, I would definitely use it, but it seems that when using Spaces Shade will only cover a single space at a time.
> I'd say this was mostly true 20 years ago, sort of true 10
> years ago, and utterly false today.

Remarkably, I've yet to meet one of these effortlessly self-educated men of the Internet age. Checking out a couple of Calculus videos on KA doesn't make you an engineer. In fact, despite current advances (Udacity, Coursera, what have you), I'd argue that the kind of person who manages to self-educate to a sufficient degree today would have managed just as well 20 years ago.

Libraries and textbooks did exist back then, you know. Your comment comes significantly too early.
SICP!

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

Or, a prettier version that was on HN some time ago:
https://github.com/ieure/sicp
Ahh, like a cross-fade slider? It's not in there, but I've heard this a couple times now. Thanks for the feedback!
Polishing a turd decreases the value of both the polish and the turd.
And develop calculus, no less :)
Doctors are protected by a powerful union which slows change, but even medicine has a lot of non-MDs doing more and more (PA, NP, various types of tech, etc.).

Lawyers are a good example -- protected by a (not as powerful) union, but more and more of the "digital" parts of law are becoming free (useful legal advice, services like legal zoom, etc.), or global markets (e discovery, etc.)
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'There is no such thing as "done" in software development.'

Exactly! That's what makes it so different from physical world projects. You can keep adding/changing things forever.
> Charge businesses for business level accounts and analytics and you could get another $250M.

https://business.twitter.com/en/advertise/analytics/
Very. It's just how my mind puts things together, not something I can try to do or not do. I tend to see programs in blocks and patterns interacting rather than sequences of logical operations, probably why I tend to prefer the object-oriented paradigm over others. I get bogged down when I can't visualize the interactions. It isn't just programming, either -- working with derivative products in finance I formed very detailed visual mental models of how they operated.
I'm sorry, but can we please stop with the 'grok' thing?
What is this "packaged" software you speak of?
OP: Maybe you should change the links [on]/[off] to [demo on]/ [demo off].
I think it is completely non-silly. Debian was very simply and to the letter of the law in violation of the terms under which a piece of software can be called Firefox, and at any time Mozilla Corporation is entitled to bring civil action, as far as I can tell. My understanding is that at the time they were backpatching security fixes to derivative versions of Firefox -- specifically, older versions for which upstream had dropped support. What if one of those introduced an annoying crash or security problem? Is it fair that Mozilla Corporation's Good Name on the hook for it, if it does not wish to be?

If Mozilla Corporation (or would it be Foundation?) felt that they wanted to enable this kind of derivative distribution of their software, they could have very simply offered provisions like the Linux Trademark Institute: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/legal/trademark. Clearly, Debian still has many references -- and modifications -- to Linux.

Problem solved. But, as far as I can tell, this was not to be.

I am not a Debian developer nor someone who was actively following that conversation, but when I heard about the decision I have not heard a single convincing (or even any) argument that it was an incorrect one, but again, I'm not familiar with the matter in great detail. Proprietary software companies can be awfully persnickety about...well, everything regarding their license and trademark, and I don't see why lack of adherence to a contract is acceptable just because there is Free Software (but not free trademark) involved.

The silliest part is the name chosen.
I've found this as well. Just blindly writing test cases doesn't work so well unless you've already understood the higher level operation of what you're trying to build, and obviously does tend to slow down development.
They disallow interleaving tweets with custom actions/content, and display styles that deviate from the default.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

or

Parkinson's Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

There is always some probability that software estimation is wrong no matter how well planned out. The greater the size/scope, amount of people and the bigger the timeline is the more chance it will be late.

Like Valve Time proves (https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time), sometimes product trumps time you put in and making games is hard. Sliding deadlines are the most successful because they take into account reality of changing scope/product during development. Or short task sprints/windows like week long or month long product delivery stretches with complete task freedom in between.

Software estimation is hard because there are so many factors and it is a constant ship vs quality balance.
If the client is native, you can do that scrapping client side. Say your app has 10000 users. Assuming they can detect this (not likely) what are they gonna do? Block 10000 IPs?
I dunno, I think this sentence in the 2nd paragraph is quite clear:

Such games can be described by
a Markov process defined by the four probabilities that char-
acterize each of the two player’s strategies [9] (because this is
an infinitely repeated game, the probability to engage in the
first move–which is unconditional–does not play a role here).
Each Markov process has a stationary state given by the left
eigenvector of the Markov matrix, which in this case describes
the equilibrium of the process.

...

If we assume that two opponents play a sufficiently large
number of games, their payoff approaches the payoff of the
Markov stationary state [1,9]. We can use this mean expected
payoff as the payoff to be used in the payoff matrix E that
will determine the ESS.

TLDR: keep varying your strategy until you win in the long term, using your mean expected payoff as a payoff matrix in each subsequent state.
To me, it seems like that just strengthens the argument for using the term GNU/Linux. When GNU was the only userland in town there wasn't much point, but now the extra descriptive power of it is useful.
Principles of Distributed Computing (lecture collection)
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You're right. That is exactly what most philosophy is considered today. Sad but true.

While I highly admire Feynman in innumerable ways I don't agree with an opinion of his just because it came from him. This is essentially the same as an argument from authority on your part.
Hey OP, I love the simplicity, giving it a try. I added your app to http://retinamacapps.com -- nice work!
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I think Lue Links was doing this for several years. I'm glad to finally have a library for it.
By repaint times, do you mean re-layout times? ie. time required for CSS/HTML/JS to determine where to paint to?

The demo is not any smoother on my 27" Apple display driven by a late 2010 model MacBook air. However, even low res hardware accelerated video renders choppy at large window sizes (although perf gets better when VLC or QuickTime is true fullscreen; presumably the compositor is off)

Faster JavaScript is unlikely to be effective at enhancing buffer flip times, which (for me) dominate repaint times.
I apologize, I didn't realize it's offensive to you/others. Seemed like a perfectly cromulent word.
App.net is not centralized? Pretty sure it is. That said, Dalton has stated he intends to be more open than twitter/FB.
I was going to ask that exact question.

I think the answer is no, they can't stop you. And perhaps I'm being naïve, but it doesn't seem like it would be too terribly tedious if you used a scraping library, at least not for replacing basic API functions (i.e. getting a user's recent tweets).

Obviously this would be limited to public tweets (no private tweets, no tweeting on the user's behalf, and no DMs).
There is a big difference between implementing them for fun and implementing them for a production system. Regardless, even if they are simple to implement they are more than what C90 has so, by definition, more complex implementation.
that seems like a fairly meaningless semantic point. twitter controls the access to the data, therefore it is their data. all the copyright means is that tweet authors are free to take the content of their tweets and put it somewhere else.
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Susan Sontag would have lots to agree with Rand about Communism and Julia Kristeva sounds interesting.
From wikipedia : "She believes that it is harmful to posit collective identity above individual identity." Sounds like she would agree with Rand there too.
Because re-inventing the wheel is soooo 20th century.
>Twitter on the other hand offers good UX

Every time I go to twitter in a browser I want to punch whoever designed it in the face. It is by far and away the most annoying site I encounter on a daily basis, which is impressive given that all I want it to do is display plaintext.
This is a lecture collection created by Roger Wattenhofer of ETH Zurich and Microsoft Research.

It is a teaching of a lot of the theory shared via PODC ( http://www.podc.org/ ) in recent years.

As lectures notes it's aimed at being taught in 2 hour blocks, but if you've found yourself out of touch with distributed computing then as Roger says in his email asking for help from other members of PODC:

"I sometimes call the course the “Pearls of Distributed Computing”, as I believe that teaching the nicest algorithms and techniques is better than teaching a complete picture of the most important results."
Charge individuals for personal analytics and... ???

http://www.twittertakemymoney.com/
The blog post is actually annoyingly ambiguous - do they want to limit all the stuff in the "consumer engagement" quadrant, or just the "traditional clients," while encouraging other sorts of "consumer engagement" (they mention, and don't make clear if they're in favor of or against, Favstar and Storify).
i think RMS just picked the wrong name - GNU is difficult to pronounce. Linux is easy - it rolls off the tongue.

If RMS picked something a bit catchier, it'd have taken more mindshare.
I'm in the USA that wishes it was in the USA, so it could get access to cheaper everything.

(Which is another way of saying I'm in Australia).
He's also a genuinely nice guy. A triple threat, if you will. ;)