skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. People learned (grudgingly) to use spam filters with their email because they had an existing service which had achieved large-scale network effect in a spam-free environment. A new service which develops a spam problem before it achieves critical mass is much more likely to be abandoned.

There must be some reason we haven't seen successful new decentralized service protocols on the Internet since the early '90s. I don't know of a more obvious one.

You can see the issues with StatusNet and spam:

https://www.google.com/search?q=statusnet+spam

2. The problem is that contact names propagate outward from the master state where a push will update them. For instance, they get written down on business cards. They also get cached, imprudently but inevitably, in forms that are still digital but don't update properly.

Imagine a protocol that you could use to update your email address this way, and you'll see the problem. In theory, you could design a special SMTP message that would cause all clients to update their address books. In reality this would scale quite poorly and be quite unreliable, leading people to avoid it, leading it to be even more unreliable, etc. Of course, your chances are much better with a bright, shiny new protocol... but still.
Would you also happen to be a fast reader? I can't seem to break the 120 barrier, and I'm wondering if the habit of mentally "saying" the words as I read them is a significant reason why I can't improve.
I believe his point is that you can generally carry whatever protocol you want over port 443 (and often port 80).

Given how many other things are broken by networks that foolishly only open port 80 and 443, and their (in my experience) relative rarity, I'd suggest that it's not worth bothering with, except possibly as a fall-back to measure the actual number of people trying to use your service behind such a network.
It's true it's harder to find correlations, but this particular correlation is not likely to be meaningful.

As far as reading the distribution, two separate histograms are definitely more readable and understandable in order to understand the distribution. Adding the complexity of a scatter plot because it also shows a correlation that people are not actually interested in makes things less understandable.
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Money quote:

I am *not* here dreaming of (or worrying about) a world in
which computers have displaced the printed word, and us too.
I could find no one at this conference who would predict
the demise of the newspaper. No one.

Really? Sounds like a movie exec in the early 50's.
I agree that we're not typist in the sense that basketball players are not dribblers.
It looks like a to-do list for writers. To show what makes it different, you really need to show how it makes it easier to visualize a complex story.

You chose the example of Robin Hood and his buddies stealing from the rich and running off into Sherwood forest, with the wicked sheriff in hot pursuit. From a writer's standpoint, this isn't a story, this is an episode - something happens, then something else happens. It's no more dramatic than a weather report. Dramatic tension arises from the differing outcomes that result from characters' choices - for example, Robin's friend is captured, so now Robin has to decide between fleeing or risking capture. A whole story involves a sequence of branching events, with various inputs and outputs such as characters, places, items and so on. I wish your video had taken the time to show a complex story made up of multiple episodes; as it is, I am not sure what makes it different from a stack of index cards.

You might want to look At Adobe Story, which is more geared towards film scripts but has a fairly slick interface for managing these 'fictional assets'. Final Draft is the market leader in that area, and while it's ugly and unintuitive in many ways, it does have a lot of valuable functionality because every noun or verb mentioned in a film script is eventually going to end up as as a line item in a very detailed budget and schedule.

Imagination is free for novelists, but the cost of organizing and structuring a complex story is in the editing and rewrite time, so try to show how your product can help authors manage complexity rather than how easy it is to get something into it.
A great entrepreneurial hack and interesting mix of hustling,marketing and tech.

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Much higher than 88%; past year AOL has seen over 150% increase in its stock price.

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
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I've yet to go read the op page -- but:

* for messaging why would you not use xmpp and/or smtp?

As for using http -- I'd say http makes good sense for getting, sending and receiving documents -- like text and images. It makes it fairly easy to implement a REST-like architecture.

As for things that have been tried before, we have ping backs -- that IMNHO never really worked. And there's Diaspora that have yet to come up with a stable protocol -- and have an implementation that is pretty badly broken.

It's also a good illustration of going the "full http" route: publishing becomes easy; interaction (server to server) becomes hard if you want to have any kind of security in place.
> the scatterplot is fundamentally no different

Actually it is fundamentally different as the histograms show aggregate data and scatterplots show individual data points.
Our stack uses a ton of Erlang. If you have many simultaneous connections, it's one of the few languages that doesn't lose potency as it scales.

Http://2600hz.com check it out if you have some time :).
That Engadget piece is the least objective review I've read.

The problem with general tech sites like Engadget is that they can't call a turd a turd because it will alienate half their readership and bring on accusations of being an Apple shill. A least The Verge had the guts to rate this turkey 5/10, although their review was still way too kind.

But no one will accuse androidpolice.com of shilling for Apple, so they're free to write an honest review, and not sugarcoat real and unacceptable flaws.

This device is priced like an iPad, but it is clearly and thoroughly outclassed by Apple's hardware and Apple's software. So what then are Samsung's strengths, exactly? Beside their ability to dupe people into overpaying for inferior "me too" products, I mean.
That's from a chat support employee, not a web developer. They aren't hired for their stunning technical knowledge.
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Wow, this is yet another (dumb) bold move by Twitter. I'm very curious to see how this unfolds. I could see this triggering a lot of negative exposure to Twitter in the coming days/weeks, if this is how they are going to start silently cutting major developers off.
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I do not understand what it do (or how to use it). You maybe should add a title introduction
I find histograms very useful on amazon. Particularly the bimodal ones, which typically indicate controversial material.
true, but their recommendations do come from above somewhere. this is the second conversation I've had with them where I was told Chrome and Firefox are lackluster. Who knew IE was the way of the future?
Introduction subpage (different URL) already at top of front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4418904

(Thanks for preferring to submit the canonical URL.)
I don't get why you think NoSQL solutions are exempt from refactoring and maintaining data quality. I've happily done that with non-SQL stores.

No matter what development approach you use, you will eventually have to deal with change. No interesting application hits v 1.0 and sticks there. The only question is whether you embrace change, which is the Agile approach, or whether you resist it. If you resist it, you change in big lurches when circumstances force it. Having tried both, I favor the former regardless of what storage mechanism I'm using.
It was worse. I started in the late 1960s. Information was not easy to obtain as it is now. The computers were not particularly limited (or so it seemed at the time), but there really wasn't any decent internet until the late 1980s. Things were quite slow in comparison to the way they are now, particularly at the human-machine interface. Frightening amounts of paper were used for punched cards and printouts. While the old days were fun, I don't at all miss any of it.

Now, I can cheaply obtain any computing capability I might want for pennies an hour. I can obtain just about any information I need with a few keystrokes. I can easily benefit from the massive, readily accessible work of others.

I can no longer function effectively without using contemporary amenities, nor would I so want.
I think that regardless of how much influence your friendships and relationship had on the process, your analysis was thorough and very interesting, so I personally got value out of reading it. Thanks!
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Pick your adversaries wisely
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4337291

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3402363

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3398769

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4359198

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3410744
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Yeah, it makes the bold generic claim to answer "why [all] rating systems don't work", makes the bizarre claim that histograms that show the distribution are "worse" than a scalar mean, and then presents as a solution "We've solved the generic problem by doing two things: adding a 'rewatchable' rating, and plotted it against general quality rating as a scatter plot." Rewatchable is irrelevant to things that aren't movies. The scatter plot is only relevant if the correlation between the two is important, but the given graphs don't support that the correlation has meaningful information beyond that people who like a movie are more likely to want to rewatch it, which is a correlation that is likely consistent across all movies in their dataset and conveys little information about any particular movie.
This is getting to be ridiculous (if the story is true). This use case of finding friends wasn't part of the Forbidden Twitter Quadrant, the one containing clients and apps like Favstar. In fact, they encouraged this kind of use at their developer event I attended last year, and of course they would, it strengthens the value of their network. I have been planning this kind of integration myself, but it's beginning to feel like Twitter wants to become a completely isolated silo.

I can only hope a mistake was made here as it sounds so absurd.
They have C, not a hipster language. :)
Level 2 is just giving me timeouts. Joined IRC channel to report bug, and somebody gave away the answer for level 2. Bummer, I had been enjoying myself.
The article stated that paternity leave at Google is up to 7 weeks.
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Unfortunately your attitude is the reason why most startups fail to get off the ground.

If you are going to start a company with someone you shouldn't even take a step unless you feel like this person could be your brother or sister. That means you have to be honest with each other about your weaknesses and strengths and accept them for what they are.

You should also have partnership agreements that allow you to buy the other one out if they are not pulling their weight.

From what you have written you are going to discount anyone that is non-technical but worse, you will constantly focus on what other team members are delivering to earn a seat at your table. It only takes on person on the team like that to ruin the whole thing.
Wow, thanks for all the info! I will definitely put that new-found knowledge to use. Do you have any thoughts or examples on managing complexity?
The point of those 2 minutes is not to explain the product. It's to get you to want to talk to the company presenting. Deals don't get closed based on the substance of a 2 minute presentation, but meetings can and do get scheduled based on one. The booth idea is not a bad one but it doesn't allow the companies to blast their message to everyone at once.
Why are people paying so much attention to Samsung tablets? They're shit, multitasking aside.

Get the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity already. It's got a 1080p screen, is the 3rd iteration of a technically good (if not commercially successful) tablet line, has essentially stock Android, will receive quick software updates to new Android versions, and costs $500.
How does using atom make things public? Just use client certs over https -- and it's as private and secure as anything over http(s) ever is?

Alice gets her updates from Bob via something like:

https://bob.example.com/private/alice/<type>.rss

You'd of course need to synchronize access passwords/keys/tokens somehow -- but that could be part of "friending" someone?

Integrate with something like cacert.org so you don't have to manage certs (as part of this project). A friend request includes the requesters cert (could be self signed, or via a trusted authority, like cacert), encrypted with the public cert of whomever the request is sent to.

When a friendship is accepted on the other end, store the cert, and use that for authentication. Add your own authorization rules (Alice is a close friend).

It might be a benefit to set it up as follows: everyone has a personal cert. They generate and sign a proxy cert for their tent server. The public "top" cert is used for user management and federation -- numerous such "downstream" certs could be generated, along with revocation certs.
What are the ethics of Online Manipulation?
There's become quite the discussion on this post on my site about the ethics of online manipulation.

Social proof can be so easily gamed, yet if the content is good, and nobody is actually hurt in the process, does it really matter?

Would really love to get your thoughts on this :-)
it's not just that you have to recompile for ARM; that would be too easy.

Third-party apps on Win8 ARM are Metro-only (or whatever Microsoft is calling Metro now). So okay, port to Metro, you think! Well, you can't use the Win32 API at all in Metro apps. It's simply not available. Instead, you have to use the Win32 replacement, WinRT, which is a somewhat-crippled version of Win32 (want to load a dynamic library at runtime? too bad! static libraries or bust!) which is very different from Win32 in terms of API design.

I can't see Win8 being a serious contender in the tablet space anytime soon. I get the impression that Metro and ARM are being used as an excuse to push WinRT because various groups at Microsoft don't like Win32, but the sudden total lack of applications or backwards compatibility is going to hurt them a lot.
There was no bullying from intuit, it was a self-directed change.

(disclosure - I work at FreshBooks)
Twitter is being a bit of a dick.
Especially at spots when there's a labial sound in the speech. Another phrase that comes to mind is, "gottle o' geer".
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You think typing skills are as essential to being a productive, and by productive I mean creating wealth and value, not lines of code, a productive developer as dribbling is to being a good basketball player?
I bound some keys to this and works pretty well

nnoremap <Leader>y "+yy
nnoremap <Leader>d "+dd
noremap <Leader>p "+p
noremap <Leader>P "+P
vnoremap <Leader>y "+y
vnoremap <Leader>d "+d
Interesting article but a little misleading at the start. That first example (billing management software) touts 900 paid users @ $65 per month after moving away from the freemium model, but how many of those 900 users would have never become users at all if the software was not initially free? It's much easier to start charging a customer once they are locked in and familiar with the software. Maybe a "first year is on us then it's paid" model is a good compromise between freemium and paid software, with the option to upgrade sooner if you want support and/or some advanced features.
Anyone suggest a similar tactic for people outside US, given that Google Voice and mTurk are (mostly?) limited to US?
You'll know, because the person helping you at the store is friendly, and actually helpful.
This is a very neat idea; but, I do have one issue with it. When I'm programming, I don't start with the import statements (except for maybe some common ones that I have to deal with). I usually start with the most important part of the API and then spiral outward. I noticed this issue in the Java sample I tried. It began with the drudgery of import blah.blah.SomethingSpecific 10 times. I wasn't able to get into the meat of the code, and by the time I did, I was bored to tears. Imports usually come organically, if I'm having to deal with them at all (IDE's usually take care of them).

I think a great place for this to go would be if the code bounced around a bit more. Perhaps, start with what seems like the most commonly used function and write that function header and whole function; then, start writing all of the different subordinate methods you called in this primary method, and so on until the whole class is created. The way it's written write now, in particular for Java, isn't a way that I code and I imagine it's not the way that many people code.

Just my two cents. Otherwise, it's an interesting system so far.
Direct link to source: http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/08/22/tumblr-becomes-next...

I wonder if they tried to negotiate behind the scenes, to get Tumblr to pay $$$ for that access, and couldn't come to an agreement. Or if this is part of a negotiating strategy. Charging for third-party access seems logical given that they referred to their follow graph's "great value" when they shut off Instagram. Simply shutting off access at any price, on the other hand, doesn't make sense.
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I have said it before and I will say it again... for some reason, twitter is taking themselves way too seriously with all of these recent developments. Anyone who competes indirectly is clearly not wanted. What a shame.
Looks like they're just using the same favicon from https://www.dailycred.com/?redirect=false where that quote fits in truthfully
It may be true that we spend most of our time thinking or communicating, but doing anything creative is all about the flow. Slow typing interrupts thinking and it takes time for our brain to re-construct the "blueprint" after this interruption. For a programmer, typing is a more frequent activity than say, drinking coffee. I don't think anyone can work productively if we need to sip some coffee every 10 seconds.

I need to improve my typing speed and reduce the interruption as much as possible.
Correction, the Infinity's screen is 1920x1200.

Stick to ASUS for Android tablets, great hardware at good prices. The $500 model is the 32GB version. Also, to reiterate the quick updates, ASUS updated the TF300 model to JellyBean this week (1 month turnaround from 4.1 code release)
>Every oppressive regime or bureaucracy works by gathering biographical/demographical information about people. Ask senator McCarthy or J.E. Hoover.

McCarthy's information was patently false, and J.E. Hoover went far, far beyond biographical data. There is a difference between your address and the conversations that take place inside it.

>imagine drug laws being able to be enforced 100% and with perfect tracking of individuals.

This has nothing to do with ID. I can only assume you're talking about mandatory drug testing, which is driven primarily by the social-conservative leadership of businesses rather than government (except when the GOP wins mandatory drug testing in order to receive welfare). The contents of one's bloodstream are and should continue to be private. Whether this information is in distributed or centralized storage isn't relevant; it should never be collected in the first place.

>It's about people that are agents of change, from MLK to union leaders, to gay rights activists, and what have you. Heck, even John Lennon, a mere singer, had a huge FBI file. Those are used to track their moves and in many cases entrap them.

The FBI would have surveilled prominent civil rights activists whether or not they carried ID cards. Dr. King's demographic information was on the front pages of newspapers. COINETELPRO et al violated civil liberties by listening to private conversations and making death threats. Reading the paper and knowing King's name and face wasn't a violation of privacy; bugging his hotel rooms was.

Also, take a look at his FBI file sometime, if you haven't already. Included are dozens of letters from citizens to the desk of J. Edgar Hoover, thanking and congratulating the Bureau for pursuing what they considered a dangerous and evil man. Good old red-blooded "law and order" American conservatism was responsible for surveillance of activists; their drivers licenses had little to do with it.

>--rather, we're discussing about them keeping track of what YOU HAVE done with that money, which is something else altogether. My bank has no reason to know I bought a XXL-Vibrator 3000 or that I like to read Firefly fan finction.

This particular "tracking" was brought on entirely by the free market. Credit cards are held by willing consumers and accepted by willing merchants. Bitcoin presents a fascinating opportunity to escape this disadvantage of credit cards.

That doesn't change the fact that I want the power to securely prove my identity.

Nobody is talking about requiring biometric identification at the bookstore, and I'd be just as opposed to that as you. India is giving its citizens the ability to prove their identities to the government should they choose to seek government assistance. Unless the Indian government should hand out money to whoever asks for it, as many times as they ask for it?
You may be surprised to hear that there's lots of stuff happening with open source here at Microsoft. ASP.NET MVC, the Azure SDKs, and F# are all open source. Check out this blog for more: http://blogs.technet.com/b/port25/.
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I don't think they care. Twitter has reached such mainstream exposure even if every person in the tech world leaves them they have enough clout to remain relevant because large news organisations use it as does the general population.

What pisses me off is that twitter did have the opportunity to be an agent for change such as in the Arab spring. Im sure they could have made up revenue by charging for their API rather then cutting it off. Maybe not as much through controlling the entire ecosystem but at least they would have had a higher purpose then turning a huge profit (perhaps they could have just enough to keep the lights on?).

App.net can never become this change agent as they will be too expensive for most in developing countries to use.
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Eating more than you should is infinitely worse than wasting food. How much food can one person waste in their lifetime? How much healthcare can they consume?

America is in the middle of a diabetes epidemic. Diabetes-related vascular disease is now the number one cause of lower-limb amputation. At current trends, the US will have the highest rate of lower-limb amputation in the world within two decades. That's the issue we should be shocked about.
They should replace the Flash uploader with something that works. It took me quite a while to work out what is going on as Flash isn't supported on most of my systems, and is blocked on the rest.

filepicker.io would seem to be a good replacement.
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