skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users are unlikely to enjoy the service if their messages don't have an audience. After a year is up I bet people will tire of having to use both Twitter and App.net, and stop paying for the latter. How many App.net users have stopped using Twitter? That's an important metric to pay attention to over the next year. I predict it will be near zero, and most people aren't willing to pay in money and inconvenience for an ad-free product. Especially when they could just install a couple of extensions and get the same result with products that actually have an audience.
ummm, anyone else notice the time is wrong ... :)
Learning from Play by Play
I'm guessing people are working on it.

They are:

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/
I don't know, and I don't particularly care. I was just replying to dave_sullivan's assertion, not making some broader point about App.net.
You couldn't just remove the Pull Requests and Issues tab. You'd need to replace it with something detail the alternate contribution workflow.

Also quick ignorant question: Does the diff patch approach eliminate the need to fork a project to contribute to it? I like the idea of forking for a project I plan on contributing a bunch to, but when I just want to contribute a bug fix or some tests, I find having to fork to be completely unnecessary.
To expand on simondlr's point, Twitter will optimize the site for maximum exposure of ads, not user's status updates.

The highest paying ads will surface to the top over the highest quality status updates.
I'm glad they're going to have someone verify it. It seemed really strange to me that they rolled their own crowd funding platform for one use.

Why didn't they go with a third party like Kickstarter in the first place?
True. One advantage of a paid social network I haven't heard mentioned is the fact spam likely won't exist as it does on Twitter.
> Unfortunately, that could have only happened in an alternate universe in which humans had developed more advanced technology by the 1980s.

I agree. Too bad.

> The subsequent history of the x86 product line was determined by the requirement that object code had to be backward compatible.

Of course. My point is, this sucks. Collectively, we could have done much better much sooner, but our current organization scheme (mostly free market) compels us to do otherwise.
I can't reply directly so I will reply here
"People post to Facebook and Twitter to be heard."

I use facebook and twitter to be heard by my friends. I don't need a massive audience to get utility from the service. Brands and celebrities are the ones that want to be heard by tons of people. Twitter and Facebook are just a different type of ad platforms for them.

If my friends are on app.net, I will use it. Most people I know wouldn't pay for it though. Perhaps app.net would be good to allow power users to sponsor their friends.
> I suspect that 90+% of Twitter and Facebook users aren't willing to pay $50 to get rid of ads.

Yes. But I have no interest in talking to +90% of the people on Twitter and Facebook. The success of app.net won't depend on how many total users sign up over the services lifetime. It will depend more on how interesting the people who ultimately sign up are. A lot of it is perception, right now twitter is something of a worldwide telegraph broadcast service, you say something in 140 characters to as many people as humanly possible. You're trying to garner as many likes and followers as you can.

App.net can't compete as a broadcast service, they don't; and never will have the userbase to do so. I feel like they'll have to differentiate themselves in some other way to be successful.

If the conversations end up anything near as inane as twitter it's doomed.
> Ok, finally. Facebook claims 800 million users. Let's assume half of them are fake.

I'd assume the 800M is active (non fake) users. They probably have billions of accounts.
The issue is not that you don't agree with other people here. The issue is that you were disagreeing incorrectly.
On Twitter, you make your own community, right? Most people who have your problem would unfollow people instead of paying $50/year to have conversations with a small portion of their Twitter audience.
Colour printing reaches its ultimate resolution
Quality > Quantity.
Cling: Running C++ in an interpreter
Whats the most inspirational quote you ever heard? 
Hey guys I'm rebuilding http://inmeno.com (INspire ME NOw) and would like to ask you what quotes inspired you most.

"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?" by Steve Jobs is one of the quotes that inspired me a lot...
Rails was a horrible technology choice to to build an open decentralized messaging protocol. They were doomed from the start. NodeJS would be a better choice now.

Are there really that many developers clamoring to build new apps on yet another closed, for-profit, centralized social network with no users? I sure don't. I'm already done with Twitter and Facebook apps, the centralized model is simply not the way forward and I can't be alone with this opinion.

Techcrunch posted an editorial a while back that I agree with:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/03/the-federated-web-should-be...
Depends when you view it
My now teenager wakes up for school herself at ~6am starting from ~age 8.

Though I know that other kids might be different. But you need to find only one babysitter.

How many teenagers in your neighborhood did you ask?

Besides, there are not only teenagers, but housewives who wake up in the morning anyway.

Or how about this: you exercise while your wife and your daughter are sleeping (or your wife is getting ready to go to work. Or while your daughter is sleeping alone.

Or take your daughter on a run with you in a stroller. She may keep sleeping if it's an issue to wake up.

You may ask your older kid to babysit younger daughter while you are taking 20-minutes run with your cell phone and give another cell phone to your older kid.

You may take two 10-minutes runs if you worry that kids cannot be left alone for 20-minutes.

There are so many ways to find a way/time to exercise ...
I'm not judging the platform on its first 30 days. I just don't see a path to it being useful. What's the path that you see?
If so why isn't Oracle going after IBM for "losing them billions of dollars", like when they went after Google?

It's my understanding that Sun had a number of patents specifically for using Java on mobile devices that don't apply to non-mobile devices.
I disagree. If it works, the reason non-developers will join in large numbers will have to do with the services/offerings running atop app.net. I'm in no position to guess what they'll be, but I believe they can and will be developed. And I wouldn't rule out services/bundles that include app.net membership as part of the price. There's a ton of room for innovation.

In the end, people will pay for app.net for quality and for access: ala HBO, satellite radio, etc.
I stand corrected, I didn't know they came back up.
Oops! Made the change. :P
Against Kickstarters TOS. They only allow "creative projects."
> You'd need to replace it with something detail the alternate contribution workflow.

Yes, it would be closer to an equivalent workflow if the the project owner would mention it in a README. But savvy users could send a nice patch email using only instructions in the git man pages (man git has a list of commands).

> Also quick ignorant question: Does the diff patch approach eliminate the need to fork a project to contribute to it? I like the idea of forking for a project I plan on contributing a bunch to, but when I just want to contribute a bug fix or some tests, I find having to fork to be completely unnecessary.

It does. It's quite excellent being able to do a one-off patch.
Yup, static text is one of the features we are planning for this tool. Currently we round the start and end time (which will be fixed tomorrow) so you won't get very precise results. Also, a "change settings" button will be implemented / we will load the given settings if you reopen the editor.
Guide: How To Create a Start-up Product Video for $250
Back in the 90s there was a software engineering fad (unfair term but it was faddish at the time) called the process maturity index, and JPL was one of two software development sites that qualified for the highest rank (5) which involves continuous improvement, measuring everything, and going from rigorous spec to code via mathematical proof.

This process (which Ed Jourdan neatly eviscerated when applied to business software) produces software that is as reliable as the specification and underlying hardware.
There is a FAQ on the site. It says:

> Why aren't you using Kickstarter?

> We wish we could, we <3 Kickstarter. Unfortunately, the Kickstarter Terms Of Service explicitly prohibits raising money for this kind of service.
"If my friends are on app.net, I will use it."

This is the crux of the matter. I don't see how enough of my friends will ever be on App.net for me to pay for it, especially when I already use free products that have the same functionality.
Right now we don't have that much traffic, so we wouldn't see a big difference. We will configure nginx precisely when we move to another server, though.
Both things will be implemented! Thanks for your feedback!
I'm going to take this as a pull request and adjust my pen. How would you like to be credited? (name/link/anything else)
Yup, that's another thing we are planning for the future. Thanks for your feedback!
The 2.5 MLOC of NASA code is mostly generated.

I’m not really sure what point are you trying to make…?
I can't claim that I was the first to have this thought, but I will post it to provide a possible positive counterpoint:

If these adverts are for legitimate, legal torrents, their addition to the client could greatly increase the fraction of torrent traffic that is, well, legal. This would help put an end to the "all torrent traffic is illegal" argument for throttling and blocking used by ISPs and governments.

So perhaps this is a ploy to make some advertising money, but with a subplot of ensuring torrents keep working the way they do.
HP also has their own implementation I believe
Actually, making it simple is often harder. If it where things like the STEPS project[1] would be widespread by now.

Unix didn't won because it was simpler. It won because it was easier to implement. In terms of overall simplicity, Lisp systems were probably far ahead.

[1] The punchline is "Personal computing in 1 book (20KLoC)" Compiler suite included of course. http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf
So how long until someone makes the first private tracker plugin for a social network? It would be some bona fide utility from these things, at least...
Staying as a single adult in the house is a long-term choice.
You can: marry, invite your friend to live together, invite your parents, rent our a room or two in your house and ask for occasional babysitting help from them.

You can move into somebody else's house too.
I'm sure they wouldn't have minded getting a hold of the lander capsule, either. They were not just acting compassionately.
Yeah, besides reloading the page it's also doing some very simple ranking in the background.
A smaller, more closely knit site that doesn't have to worry as much about Twitter's antagonism towards the third-party developers who helped make them succeed.

I don't know if it'll work, but I certainly hope it does.

I imagine it being pretty spam-free if it costs $50/year, as a bonus.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this, but the fact that github makes it so that I largely don't have to use git is why I use it.

Despite my best efforts, every time I try to use git I run away screaming in terror.

I've used sccs, cvs, svn, mercurial, and a few other version control systems over my development lifetime and I can just never wrap my head around git.

That may be because I spent so many years using Mercurial before git, but I just can't seem to bring myself to enjoy using it.

git makes things far more difficult than mercurial (in my opinion) and has encoded it's creators process and workflow into the tool.

Tools like github for mac (or the arguably superior tool, SourceTree) make git bearable for me.
Will anyone remember how to use a real camera in ten years?
So is it better to wait for a post to get a few upvotes, get to the front page, start to accumulate a discussion, and then point out that it's already been submitted and discussed?
Python in 30 Days - Day 2
I tried one of those sites - vWorker - and had a terrible time with my first and only client. Ended up closing my account.

I now just have my website and Gumtree advert and that's bringing me in work.
It's the commonly used term for the business model. Sorry if you find it offensive, but you've done a masterful job of missing the damned point.
Image now removed courtesy of another commenter.
This indicates that you think Twitter is stupid, and will make their product suck so much that people will stop using it. I don't see any evidence for that. Did the promise of ad revenue make Google destroy its search engine?
Only if it is done right.
I removed the image completely now courtesy of another commenter. Anyhow, wouldn't base64 be cheating? ;)
I do like the interface, but in Firefox it's quit unresponsive and clunky, but a lot smoother in Safari. Either way, it was still quite difficult to actually find the start and end points I wanted. Not sure if this is something YouTube's end, like not allowing access to that certain point in the video.

I agree with other(s) when I say the quality is quite terrible, but hopefully some tweaks with FFMPEG, or maybe even another route.

I do like the neatness and unobtrusive-ness of the watermark though.

I think over all, it shows a lot of promise, but need to fine tune those UI controls and make it clearer/easier to select a timeframe, and improve the quality of the GIF somewhat too :)
I like the sound much better than RainyMood.com.

Kinda weird feedback, but I actually find the images with people in them a bit stressful. When I think of enjoying some rain, it's from a cozy dry spot. Being where those people are just looks uncomfortable. :)
Radiation hardening techniques
App.net just got funded, should you join?
I recommend you just head over to head-fi.org for this discussion.
If they are including tab/window open and idling, then it's not really fair. It's kind of like presuming that a magazine is being constantly read from the moment it enters your house to the moment it leaves in the rubbish bin.
I'm not sure climate change was particularly well-known in 1970.
Is there anything similar for Ruby?
Not formal research, but an interesting read on how specious a lot of the "math in nature" observations can be:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

I personally suspect that confirmation bias plays a huge rôle in this business.
Ah, my bad. Its Wikipedia page is MTorrent though (uppercase)
Yes, unless one has an overly restrictive view of what "healthy" means, that's an unbelievable statement. I've never been to a grocery store that didn't sell lean meat, cheese, fresh vegetables, potatoes, dried beans, and so on. And I've been to some grocery stores in pretty bad neighborhoods...
But it certainly helps no one to beat a dead horse like that in a submission with zero upvotes.

It helps you by pointing you to a discussion of something you find interesting. But instead of thanking him, you try to make him stop.

I find his comments useful. I would be very upset if he stopped because of your comments.
I think the best introduction would be Scheme (to learn algorithms), assembly language (to learn machines), and then C (to unite the two). After that, I would recommend some strongly-typed language like Haskell or OCaml. And finally Python to actually get work done. :)

My friend said that UC Berkeley's undergraduate CS program followed this introduction. (In the 1990s, at least; I don't know about now.)
That's a solid and simple piece of advice.

And coincidentally I just discovered Kippt because of this and it looks interesting. Will be checking it out.
The obvious way to monetize it is to take advantage of all the incoming links from when it was a big torrent site. Just fill it full of stuff and it might rank highly for lots of keywords.
Introductory talk about monad transformers in scala (with slides)
I don't believe I've ever bought a "just released" app/game -- certainly never one I discovered through the Android Marketplace. I don't think I ever went looking for one, either. Do people really shop for apps this way?
I agree that its not explained well by a paid real time social feed. Im a backer, here is what it is about for me.

1. Platform. Its not about 1 canonical interface or usage. Its real time social information network plumbing. Build your own idea on top of it. In the beginning it will be twitter clones, eventually it will be hooked into all sorts of information generators and consumers in different contexts.

2. Its about incentives. The incentives are for app.net to build the apis to support things twitter of fb never would, due an incentive to drive innovation, not stifle it.

3. Its about users control and choice. Use the interface or apps you want. Control where your information goes and who is mining it.

4. Its about friction. There is friction to blatant abuse via a pay model and there is a lack of friction to develop frictionless sharing with things like instagram.

5. Its about ownership. Your data is yours unless you choose to give it away to others.

6. Its also about alternatives to a single model for success (winner take all ad based strategies). I think its a mistake to think that its only successful with huge network effects. The infrastructure can service uses and apps that export information to other networks as well as in network uses. Its successful if it has paying users that pay for opex and capex and generate some profit.

The counter to this is that its difficult to explain to grandma in omaha until the new apps and usage models get built. If its just a paid twitter, it will fail in its ambitions. If it leads to safe private frictionless sharing in ways that couldnt realistically be contemplated before, its a success. The alpha proof of concept that is in place now is twitterish, no denying, but people are already working on things that just arent possible with facebook and twitter today.
I want to learn more about this, but (ironically), when I go to the "I don't get it" section and click on link " Will and Abe come to the rescue, with their Guide to Pyjs"... it comes up 404. And clicking on the FAQ link doesn't help someone get it either... I guess I still don't get it?
Also, the Web. One of the main reasons Xanadu's in development hell is how it tries to handle broken links. On the Web, the browsers just throw up a 404 error. This is unacceptable for Ted Nelson.
It's 100,000 dpi, not 10k.
I'm sorry but lumping in Harry Potter along with "popular trash" such as Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey is shamefully dismissive.

Harry Potter is a wonderful series that brought the magic of reading and exploring imaginative worlds to countless children around the world.

Hardly "trash" as you characterized it.
It's ok for apps to be orphaned - when a healthy developer ecosystem is in place then a replacement will be coded to meet any substantial demand.

And the effort could not be avoided - you can only trade present effort for future effort, that is more work put upfront into CPU design vs more work later on to convince developers to recompile the apps. The problem with the former is that you make all the effort and still don't get the flexibility, whereas in the latter case the extra flexibility can can in handy in more ways that one, and some of which we cannot foresee today.

Code for flexibility, I say.
So, what are it's limitations, if any?
It's had a big upswing the last few days. Don't know what caused it, but maybe Dalton's blog posts fanned the fire.
The reason I think App.net is going to grow is NOT because it doesn't have ads or that the "users are not the product", etc. It's because the community it hosts will be so tightly grouped around a similar, passionate interest: tech startups. Requiring payment, being called "App.net" (they'll be tempted to change this), and being distributed via word of mouth amongst the segregated tech startup community, will prevent so many different types of people from using it. This is all a great thing and I bet there will be opportunities for other "Twitter for ________" ventures. Charging for a service like this that caters to a much smaller market makes it sustainable.

Congrats to Dalton and all involved. This is one of the most interesting and courageous internet projects in recent time.
This is, I think, a legitimate reason to use github (although I personally think you'd be much better off really forcing yourself to use and grok git).

But it would be better for the rest of us if, despite not using git, github made it look exactly like you were using git. But that's not quite the case - quite a bit of git's functionality is missing (cherry-pick), and other bits are replaced with non-compatible pieces (PRs vs am+send-mail, which provide the exact same functionality, but can't talk to each other). As things are, collaborating with you on a project would require me to use github's interface.

Or in reverse, if you wanted to collaborate with me on a project, you'd have to use raw git. If github supported foreign clones and PRs (via send-email and friends), it would seem much less "trapping".
Why I'm supporting App.Net
> Cardio really should be a minimum of an hour per day, at least 5 days a week if weight control is the goal.

This is mistaken, and recommending this myth (at least five hours a week) is part of why so few people can stick to a fitness regimen.

HIIT, and in particular, Tabata intervals, have been proven to alter your body's metabolic processes within 6 weeks, with just 10 minutes 3 or 4 times a week. Once the metabolism shifts, the person begins to burn fat "at rest" far more than the long exercise type of athlete.

The goal isn't to lose calories during the exercise itself, but to shift how your body stores and uses energy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_trainin...

"HIIT is somewhat counterintuitive in this regard, but has nonetheless been shown to burn fat more effectively."

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmc...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Metabolism:_Clinic...
Could I have your email mate?
That letter was written in 1970.

The possibility of human-caused climate change did not start come to the awareness of the general public until 1988, and did not become a political issue until this millennium.

He therefore cannot legitimately be criticized for his inability to predict where science would go in future decades. However he can legitimately be praised for being prescient about the role of satellites in researching a number of environmental problems, including global warming.
That's not revenue. It's a donation. That's a pretty big difference. I know the counterargument will be that people are paying to use the service. That's like saying people who fund a project on Kickstarter are paying for the product. They aren't. They're paying for the development, which is one-time in nature and a donation.
A lot of cultures have a saying that goes something like this: "The innocent do not think of evil". There's variations, I've seen "The innocent walk without care", and others.

I have a hard time not thinking that either FBI members think that "Doomsday Devices" (a.k.a. "Pearl Harbor" devices) exist for FBI data, or that FBI members are incompetent when it comes to computers.

Of course, these two ideas aren't mutually exclusive.
I think a more useful statistic would be time spent per active Facebook user.
"As a vehicle for proselytizing."

...which produces more social assistance.
Odd. It has US features but doesn't seem to let me select degrees F and mph. I don't think of weather in C and m/s.