skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt the single global ordering is as important as the author suggests. If nothing is in practice delayed for more than a short period, then either ordering-by-arrival or ordering-by-declared-time-with-'seen'-indicator both mostly work. It's whatever you get used to.

And I've seen all sorts of micro-failures in Twitter's provision of global ordering: gaps in my display timeline in one client but not others; tweets seeming to appear below the 'topmost' position when revisiting the stream; difficulty reloading recent history that was already local at one point.

A distributed/federated system might be a little fuzzier on some ordering behaviors... but make up for that in other dimensions.
PubSub solves the problem of immediacy.
On the theory that people's actions are more reliable indicators as to their internal state than their words, it appears that he, and many journalists, successfully execute commitment strategies in the service of maintaining their power and privilege.
The idea was to have a central database, otherwise it would be impossible to do any kind of computation/search on it. App.net might be a candidate for something like this.
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No remix could possibly save that tune, but at least now I know about BeatLab! :D
Seems awful that the author seems to really want to support a project he likes, a team he likes and something he feels is worthwhile, but won't because someone else scooped him .5 a day early. Honestly, are people really glued to their RSS feeds taking notice of which publication gets a story out first? I didn't read the other story, I dont even know what site posted it. Swallow the pride and help a company out.
your node can just wait until it’s received the latest content from every other node before displaying anything.

"Every other node" just means the nodes where the people you follow are hosted, not every node in the network. For most people, that would probably be a very small number.
Vector clocks are only a partial ordering. You'd still have old events popping into the middle of your timeline.
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For rain in the spring and summer I just get wet. We have a locker room with showers at my work and I have a waterproof bag, so I just bring a change of clothes.

For snow and cold rain there are water proof rain pants [1], base layers [2], and shoe covers [3]. If you stay dry then staying warm isn't a big problem because the exercise will warm you up. I live in Colorado, and when it's snowing I put a water proof layer over my normal cycling clothes, and it's usually warm enough.

[1] http://www.hucknroll.com/mens-rain-pants
[2] http://www.hucknroll.com/mens-base-layers
[3] http://www.hucknroll.com/booties-shoe-covers
Always crappy console ports... i'm a pc gamer and its sad me the state of gaming on PC.
Why do startups still use GoDaddy? Are they that strapped for cash?
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Which gave me the idea: what would the response be if facebook culled your friends if you haven't interacted with them (by commenting or liking their posts, or messaging them)? They wouldn't need to announce the change. You just wouldn't see those people anymore. As is, I have friends whom I never see in my feed.
Moving to Marin Co :) Can't get high-speed Internet :(
I'm moving to Marin Co. from the East Coast next week and the house is about a mile from the highway. Comcast and won't service it and Verizon says it's too far for DSL. Am I stuck with celular service or are there other options in the area?
Any conviction rate needs to be accompanied with a total potential case rate. In japan, unless there is a high probability of a successful prosecution, will chose not to prosecute so the DA doesn't have an embarrassing 'non-guilty' verdict.
The drift I see is when your finger is off the stick and the cursor keeps moving. And it goes more than a few seconds.
My hunch is that it's technically possible to go not just federated but radically distributed. However, there's more money to be made in centralization, creating defensible toll booths. And right now the sorts of developers and protocol/system architects who could make a radically distributed alternative are now fully overemployed doing other lucrative or beneficial things.

So it's a little harder technically, and lot less lucrative, to make a radically distributed alternative. And whatever the abuses of the centralized proprietors, they're still not changing those tradeoffs -- most users and even platform participants can still make-do under centralization.

A big tech bust freeing more talent to work on ideological (rather than pecuniary) projects, or enough heavy-handedness from the centralized proprietors, could change that balance.
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"I've done almost zero SEO."

"I changed the title tags to match each page's content"

That's SEO

"I submitted a site map to Google Webmaster Tools"

That's SEO

"I added the relevant meta tags."

That's SEO.

Sites like this don't tend to grow with SEO, they grow because of a community and social sharing.
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The D.A.R.E. Website is stuck in 1998, and needs your help. 
The site is pretty pathetic, and I think some speculative assistance would be much appreciated. I am not affiliated with them in any way, but they are a high-profile site and it seems like an enterprising designer/coder with time on their hands could do well redesigning it. http://www.dare.com/
IIRC that's already something Facebook does with regard to the feed (as you mentioned). Say you get a friend request from someone you went to HS with, but outside of accepting the request you never interact with them on FB. They could post every day but you'd likely never see it.

I would imagine that the strength of the intersection of their graph with yours would play a role in this as well. Can anyone who works at FB comment on this? I'd imagine this is one of the back-end engineering problems the developers there would enjoy working on.
Do you want to be a sharecropper? Or do you want to own your own business?

I've had vaguely uncomfortable feelings about the app store concept on phones from the very beginning (and I've commented on those misgivings here on several occasions over the years, to mixed response), and I think all of the concerns I aired back then are coming to be proven to be real problems. When you sell an app via these stores, you don't have a customer...you have a sale. A customer is more valuable to a software developer than a sale by a vast amount. A few thousand customers can sustain a business indefinitely.

Customers can help you make your product better, and you can help your customer get more value out of the application (which means they'll be happy to pay you more). Customers can be rewarded for recommending your application to friends or coworkers. Customers can help support your product in your forums or support tracker. Customers can end up becoming your best employees (our first employee is someone who used our Open Source stuff for years, and was one of our first buyers when we created a commercial product; he's a true believer in what we do). A sale without that direct customer relationship is just a sale.

I have hopes that this is a temporary anomaly in an evolution toward a more open web with more direct connection between developers and users, but I don't have a very high level confidence in that outcome. But, I can encourage folks to not become sharecroppers, I guess.

About 15 years ago, there was a really common sentiment among tech industry titans that curating the web would be where money was made (which led to things like push content, and "portals", which mostly failed, or evolved), and this seems to be that same idea coming back in a new form. But, the curators are simply extracting value from developers and users without substantially improving the ecosystem...in fact, they're kinda bleeding the ecosystem dry, and enforcing a "software-as-commodity" model...it's Walmart applied to software. Which is a pretty dangerous situation, I think, for independent software developers, and probably only serves the largest corporations.
This article is so strange. What could have been a great place for a piece about the service is now a whiny rant about getting beat to the punch by an embargo breach, a leak; something that we deal with so often these days that there's enough evidence of graceful ways to handle it that this post shouldn't have had to have been made.

Opposite to what others are saying, this doesn't highlight Lyft to me. It highlights that if this is what I can come to expect from TechCrunch writers, then I don't care to visit it or "launch" through them. I would be pretty livid if a blogger decided to use my launch to get on his high horse about how he was too busy at other events to notice the breach [1].

Regardless of his evening plans, the other article would have come out. Regardless of his evening plans, the other article would have said the exact same things as his did. So what does that boil down to, that being a TechCrunch writer means you've got more of a right to that information than anyone else? Does that mean TechCrunch merely cares about being the blog equivalent of FIRST! rather than truly informative?

It's okay though, you got to slap an Exclusive on that linkbait title.

[1] Question: When I wrote for a tech/gaming blog, it was mandatory that we constantly made sure we looked at what other stories people had on the docket so that we didn't overlap them and so that if we found out any new information, we would alert them to it so they could add it before it was published. If the staff at TC loved this company so much and were so stoked to write on it, how did it take 12 hours on a 24 news cycle for someone to become aware of this breach? Could understand how that might happen on a smaller site, but surely a company like TC, that apparently needs these firsts to be relevant, should keep pretty constant tabs on the industry.
The idea is that as you track and rate, your personal data will be the best thing to base these features on.

That's not in yet, but that's he plan. This is a 1.0 to get you tracking.
> Yes, but how far is this from just using standard/college/quad ruled paper in the first place?

Not far. Most of the features, it seems, do not really require the notebook. But it also seems that it wouldn't be difficult to eventually add support for any old notebook to allow for automatic alignment.

So when you say....

> Requiring special paper automatically limits the feature's utility.

...I can't help but think it allows them to get the feature out sooner before refining it.

> Once their "limited edition" notebooks sell out

they'll be offering normal edition notebooks, as well as providing better support for other notebooks.

I really don't see the features here as something they are just going to limit to a limited time physical product.
Except, unfortunately, they encourage people to keep optimizing that one issue even when it's long past being the bottleneck. Equally, what's a bottleneck in one implementation might not be in another.

Having the entire real-world case means you have to optimize for the actual case, and not just implement what was at one time the bottleneck in one implementation as quick as possible.
I find it hard to sympathize with most things Kevin Rose writes. Pardon my french but this sounds almost a little... childish? irrelevant?

He thinks it's socially awkward to unfriend some of his several thousand friends? Why did he friend them in the first place? How can he say with a straight face (I'm assuming) that apps like Path and Instagram have shown him that rebuilding his social graph every few years is a "must"? Because of fights with friends? Do adults really fight with their friends and then unfriend them on Facebook? How about just hugging it out afterwards?

These are contributions I'd expect from a mainstream celebrity, but I don't feel like this represents the hacker culture (call it whatever you want) very well.

Sorry for the off-topic. I do like the dynamic, perhaps even implicit, graph idea though.
I don't use these services, so I'm probably wrong, but don't lists and circles solve this problem? While "friending" may be binary, you can adjust the connection to the other person/profile by moving them from e.g. "close friends" to "acquaintances" and therefore give them less or more access to your profile.
tl:dr: ignorant people are hurting themselves
Exactly. I intend the ratings to be your personal standard. Later I'll have ways for you to use your own data, and optionally, shared data.
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small sample size (1)
Wrong, my entire team had the same model. My sample size is currently 10. Still not huge, but significant enough. Each and every one of us had the EXACT same issues.
Granted, with the right set of sensors and base app they could make it easy to create lots of apps. I suppose all this is available today (RFID tags, motion sensors and so on), but putting them together requires some thinking. If the invention part can be moved into software, lots of apps could follow.
+1 for "*Full disclosure: I own a metric shit ton of Facebook stock, so it pains me to write this."
This is great. It seems people have blinders on and are only outraged to see stealing and copying when it happens in China. It fits a stereotype. But when Zynga copies a game or somebody is downloading a torrent - not so much outrage, unless you're the MPAA or RIAA.
Only a fool would buy $25+ notebook. I'd rather play lottery.
Correction: they hurt us all.
But HOW do you track all that data? Today, with a smartphone, it seems easier, but even then I’d like something akin to a master spreadsheet that I can store it all in.

Seth: what format are you tracking all that data in?

Of course, now that I type that, I’m worried the answer is “pen and paper.”
Yeah, it'll do that because it's used to your finger being on the stick and thinks that's the neutral position. It's supposed to stop and recalibrate itself eventually, especially when it reaches the edge of the screen. I've never had that take more than a dozen seconds on my Thinkpads (X31, T60) but of course YMMV, yours might be actually buggy.
I live in Marin. It seems very strange Comcast won't service it. Are you living on the docs?

Check out: http://sonic.net/
I thought Facebook was mostly just for those people who you don't interact with a bunch. People who are my friends who I see often... well, I see them. I don't need to poke them on Facebook. Where I find FB interesting/somewhat useful is in that set of people who I otherwise would not be able to track much.

Somewhat distant relatives, friends who no longer live close by, even one of my elementary school teachers... that kind of thing.
In this scenario instead of releasing a novel, it would be more like allowing a manuscript to be read with an attached NDA.

If an individual owns their own data, they can make a service click the 'I agree' button, and set their own standards on security, data handling, sharing with third parties, and so on.

Yes, they may be able to copy parts of your data and share it with third parties, but you would have grounds to hold them accountable.
Actually, the Stanford ETL podcast with Tom Conrad (Pets.com, Pandora) was very insightful [1]. Just because a particular company failed does not mean they don't have good domain knowledge. In fact, I think I'd rather listen/read about failed companies and what they learned instead of successful ones.

[1] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2371
Did you know that the game is still under active development? Have you tried the 1.13 mod? For added goodness, try the HAM mod on top as well. It's like a whole new game :)

http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/board/ubbthreads.php/forum_su...

Also, I could use some collaboration partners on this. Send me an email if it tickles your fancy.
My coworkers had the same issues.
All my responses on using Ubuntu on a Lenovo were summed up nicely on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3964530 (Ubuntu visits Google.)

For my developers getting new machines, I tell them to split the HD into 3 partitions: Windows, Ubuntu and Mint - give each a one-week shot and then stick with what feels best.
neat idea, but this kills it for me:

>How accurate are the sketches?

In general, sketches with Inkling will be accurate to within approximately +/- 0.1 inches (+/- 2.5 mm) in the main drawing area of an A4 page, and within (approximately +/- 0.2 inches (+/- 5.0 mm) at the edges of the page.

2.5mm is quite a large fuzz factor. Enough to make me think this could be great for very-rough sketching / outlining of a design, but not enough for replacing scanning / doing (essentially) OCR.
Fair enough - they might have other reasons.
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If you haven't yet, you may want to try opening the case and cleaning the fan with compressed air. I fixed the infamous "Fan Error" on my 3yo x61s this way.
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> Unfortunately SaaS doesn't work for us

> I recommend you to use Zendesk

Come on
Yep. Natural lava doesn't bubble like that, it flows like molasses (and, of course, melts or burns anything that gets in the way).
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What framework would you recommend for Google App Engine (in Python), besides the default webapp?

If it has a module for integration with Facebook Connect it would be a plus.

Pre-built admin like Django's would be great also (I know I can use Django on GAE, but I believe the pre-built Admin area does not work with GAE).
Thanks so much for the resources. I knew of a few, but the rest helped a lot!
I think the issue Kevin has isn't their access to his profile, but his exposure to their content. When you're in high school you care about what your high school friends have to say, but 5 years later you don't care about what most of them have to say any more, but manually removing them is inconvenient and not caring what they say is not directly tied to being "friends" or not.

I think the solution he's looking for is something that analyses your interactions with a specific friend and the common interests and hides / reduces exposure to their content over time. Although I was under the impression Facebook already did something similar to this.
But you really only get one chance to launch to the world, and it’s a shame that it all got ruined by one careless little post.

Yeah, that's not the moral of this story at all. I think it's time for some of these "journalists" to do some serious soul-searching and introspection.

Hint: If it's actually news, you don't decline covering it just because you get scooped. Evidence: Did only the first media outlet to cover the invasion of Iraq, report on the invasion of Iraq? Substitute a nearly infinite number of other news stories for "the invasion of Iraq" for more evidence.

This is just a bunch of amateurs playing at being journalists and somehow commingling a pissing contest and a "my dick is bigger than yours" thing with what is, nominally, their job.
Management and information distortion
Sounds to me like the tech reporting industry is in serious need of disruption.
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Maybe it's a German thing; it reminded me of "Goodbye Lenin!" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301357/
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On one hand, its nice to have a one-of-a-kind site. But, I'm going to disagree that using a standard theme is a bad thing.

When I use a GUI one of the things I hate is when an app doesn't follow the look and feel of the system. This "skinz" disease ever trending upward.

So, I also tend to think every web site looking similar (and great) is a blessing. A lot of time can be saved trying to find your way around, and you'll know what to expect. The focus therefore falls to the content which was an original goal of the web.

There might not be as many design jobs open for secondary players, but it's happening all over these days, see the teachers vs. khan academy trend.
Some people in my office still have their T60's. Lenovo used to make some great products. I just had a really bad experience with them. My entire team got screwed with these T410s's and their support (despite having paid extra for better support) has been bad. They replaced my bosses screen 3 times. 2 months later, the LCD goes again.
You do realize that obsessive/addictive personalities and depression go hand in hand right?
> This implies that this is the way things are, now, or will be in the very near future, for the majority.

And? It's a reasonable prediction based on current trends, and see below for more evidence.

> And there's no proof that "in modern publishing, books are printed, one copy at a time."

What? That's true -- it is how "modern publishing" is distinguished from old-style publishing. This is not to say that the majority of books are published that way, but then I never made that claim.

In modern publishing, books are "printed" one copy at a time, when they are ordered. How is that remotely controversial? It covers on-demand publishing as well as e-books:

http://www.3dissue.com/ebook-market-share/

Quote: "Whilst the market has seen significant growth since 2008, the last 12 months in particular has shown a substantial rise. Between January 2011 to January 2012, sales in adult eBooks grew by 49.4%, while sales in children and young adult eBooks grew by 475.1%, according to the AAP. The good news for digital publishers is this trend is expected to continue."
External monitors are still annoying in my experience, and the only problem I had with sleep was the VirtualBox kernel module causing issues (though you can, if you're willing to edit config files, unload it upon suspend, avoiding any issues). Apart from that, I've not had much in the way of issues with my T410 over the past two years.
The implication of this article is that being covered by Techcrunch is somehow vital to the launch of a startup. It isn't; that's the bullshit Techcrunch wants everyone to believe.

I too like Zimride, but I'm flagging this article because it's linkbait.
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skip right to the purdy pictures: https://raw.github.com/ivolo/animals/master/public/assets/an... [400kb text file download]

which apparently are all borrowed from here: http://www.heartnsoul.com/ascii_art/ascii_animals_indx.htm
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3 of 5 here.
Answer: Twitter & asymmetric friending/following model.
No, stickers could serve that function. Google "registration marks"
That's what I thought. Though the TrackPoint on my T410 has worn out after a couple of years and is almost unusable now. Ought to get a replacement for it…
I can definitely see his point about new social networks - probably the biggest win Google+ has given me was the ability to start my social network fresh, with only interesting people (also, mainly nerds, so I now post geeky stuff to Google+ and stuff my family/non-technical friends would care about to Facebook).
Not that it's impossible, but it would be significantly more difficult to make the digital signal processing algorithms to detect custom symbols, especially hand drawn custom symbols.
Some worries are justified, why doesn't a startup want to come with a solution to the actual vaccine that has lots of side effects because of all the adjuvants like mercury?

Is sad that facebook and instagram are the examples that most want to follow instead of making startups that have goals that can really help society.
Honestly, I thought that was the whole point of circles in Google Plus. You make a "Siberia" circle, and the friends you don't want to have anything to do with, you put in that circle, and you crank down the visibility on their posts and don't share stuff with them. The effect is the same, but without them finding out that you unfriended them.
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