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Ask HN: Social Networks as Informational Hunger Companions
It is easy and comfortable to communicate on the Internet. Friends are ready to stay 24/7 online, and I can go online whenever I please. New social networks sprout everywhere like mushrooms, old ones hastily pump up their functionality. It is a norm today to have 10 accounts at various services.

Yet, the more we have, the more conspicuous is the problem spreading over the Internet of our days: it is the issue of the content which is adequate for the concrete user. As it often happens, quantitative development is inversely proportional to the qualitative one. New social networks produced in a familiar format are fun at best, but quite useless precisely due to their derivative nature.

So, an extensive use of the unsubscribe function (that allows a break in subscription to messages without breaking the connection with a friend) in Facebook is a sign of tighter content requirements. Unsubscribe is swiftly catching up with “like” in popularity. We are happy to communicate with people, but we never fully match with them. And that is normal, it is just what we have in our offline life. It is fun to discuss movies with John, or to speak to Michael about his recent crazy trip, but it is boring to discuss other things with them, and you don’t feel like offending them by unfriending (no matter how ridiculous such offence might look).

As a result, messages from persons, whose opinions I am not interested in, build up to form dense information noise. In the intense past the time we fell in love with social networks (“I’ve got many friends at any hour of the day”), this noise was fun. In the present, when we are fed up with communication, we feel the need for reliable information. Social networks seem to be ideal for getting advice. But this info noise pulls the quality of such advice down. A user having thousands friends does not enjoy any “informational” advantages.

What do you think?
Just over 400. The big change in the past few years is the arrival of "super-angels."
This Is Not Your F*cking Office, Dickheads
People tend to feel more strongly about things they dislike than things they like. When things work, they tend to drift past without being noticed. Think about the things that provoke reliable positive comment - they often are in scenarios where a negative experience is expected.

Consider Apple. Why do people love the brand and products so much and are so willing to discuss it? Perhaps because their expectation of those fields is so low and Apple surpasses it. Compare a normal retail stores with an Apple store. Compare a pre-iPhone with an iPhone. Compare a Mac with a PC. Apple have consciously taken negative customer experiences and made them positive. And as such they get extensive positive comment.
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Can you buy a legal copy of the Mac OS to run on a VM without buying any Mac hardware?
Android app is on our roadmap. This app was the first step toward amazing Prismatic clients for different screen sizes and platforms. We have a couple of big changes to the core product before we become ubiquity focused.
The basic problem with coastal markets (and a few inland ones) is that building regulation has messed up the housing market by making it impossible to build enough to meet demand, as Matt Yglesias describes in The Rent is Too Damn High and Edward Gleaser describes in The Triumph of the City.
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If you'd get something out of talking on the phone more, then you are forgoing utility that you've already paid for. However, if you place a call to a recording to a recording just to insure that you "use" all of your minutes, you get no more utility, but the phone company uses more electricity and a little more of its infrastructure is used up.

Ultimately, if everyone did this, prices would increase to cover the greater expenditure of resources and labor required to supply the growth in the service being used. There is nothing wrong with that if customers are getting something out of the greater consumption, but it is a deadweight loss on the economy if they aren't. In fact, if they gain enough pleasure out of being spiteful, that is a justifiable reason, I merely suspect that they wouldn't actually enjoy it that much.

As for monthly commit services, providers choose them over usage billing because it smooths out their capacity projection needs. If you're writing random numbers to /dev/null you probably don't get much out of it. On the other hand if you process bitcoins with unused capacity maybe you are better off, though providers may decide to drop you. Or, if you donate cpu cycles to folding@home you may (or may not) contribute more to the public good than the harm of the extra electricity consumption.
Yeah... I can't believe I spent time looking for something wrong with the HMAC used for session cookies. Also, I'm pretty sure I solved #5 the "wrong" way since it didn't actually involve the hint they gave.
I downloaded this and thought it was a little better, but not revolutionary. Then I decided to try copying a paragraph of text without looking at my keyboard. That's when I said "Wow!"

The combination of very smart prediction, speaking the words so I knew the couple of times I missed, and one-stroke delete made typing on glass, dare I say it, magical.
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I just loaded the app up. I really enjoyed the beginning animations and how the gestures were taught.
I personally feel the gestures are intuitive and easy to pick up.

Congrats on the launch!
>When every boomer actually has half, or worse, the amount of money to retire as they thought?

Goldman buys them all up at a bargain rate and rents them to those of us who can afford to not live in the global megaslum?
The most recent Freakonomics on Marketplace segment focused on this study:

http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/08/23/there%E2%80%99s-cake-...
[anecdotal] Last year I would allocate 4 hours a day for commuting to Chicago via train. I now commute 2-4 hours via car to work. I thoroughly enjoyed my commute to Chicago for quite/reading time and predictability. I hate my commute to work now. I will be moving closer soon.
"Myriad's argument is that when it isolates the genes by removing them from the body, this process changes their chemical structure, and the company's test looks for this distinct chemical form"

Edit: INAL but appears "just" be a method patent, with claims directed to comparing or analyz-ing gene sequences.

We need an anlaysis of full opinion / more info; not sure the reporting is all that great.
Great post! WP certainly isn't just a cms anymore
Initially thought this would have dove into debugging using Dtrace node.js probes, but oh well useful nonetheless.
Good stuff. Can't wait for the android version. One more thing, I just spent 15 minutes figuring out how to change a co-worker's profile pic in the new app. I fear that simple use cases are becoming complicated.
My first reply never said it wasn't primarily about the team.
Definitely worth watching. It's more like a tech talk than a keynote. Extremely good insight in there.
That's a valid point, but I didn't know there were any tech hubs or otherwise interesting places with jobs that had house prices like that. That is lower than small Midwestern cities with lousier economies. Why is housing so affordable in Texas? Lack of stupid regulations? Loads of land?
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That's not really a programming/development concept.
Cool to hear about some implementation details. Curious if they will open source any of this stuff. My gut says no, but hope springs eternal...
Also, space. If you have kids, space will become more important.

As soon as you even think about having kids, absolutely everything about how the suburbs are designed suddenly makes sense.

I still prefer an urban setting though.
You can mark an app to auto-update on the google play store for Android. It's opt-in by the consumer
This putting-up-signs thing has happened in a way, and we know how this turns out. In some rural areas there are places where the fire brigade is not paid for through local taxes, homeowners have to contract individually with the fire services to come.

When a homeowner has a fire put but failed to pay the firemen the fire brigade does come out, makes sure that the inhabitants are safe, and then lets the house burn down and makes sure that is does not spread to the neighbors, who have paid for fire service.

Next thing that happens, everyone hates on the fire brigade because they did not put out the fire. People need to be prevented from shooting themselves in the feet.
Show HN: My Sticker Calendar App is on iTunes
It's just a whimsical little portfolio piece. I just missed putting stickers on a calendar like I did when I was a kid. The calendar is my own and it contains some clever code. (Note how the "leftover" days on the previous and next month behave.) There's also a O(1) double-ended queue behind the UIScrollView so that there's the illusion of infinite scrolling with only 5 objects.
Dan, the sidebar makes this page unusable on mobile (Android).
Why you still don't have a technical co-founder
Facebook may put announcement (or that sort) in their app to let people know that they should upgrade.
"If you aren't completely satisfied with this book I'll return your money, no questions asked" works for me.

No need to guarantee success, just guarantee quality information that you believe when applied correctly will lead to success.
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It really isn't a patent for a "gene". You don't have to pay them a licensing fee if you have that gene mutation. But, if you want to find out if you have the gene, then you have to pay for their test.
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See, this is not a field I'm really involved in, so I can't comment on the particulars. Case in point: what you describe is the isolation of a preexisting gene, rather than the creation of a new one, which is different from what I was thinking of.

But if the copyright is on the isolated gene, then I think the logic would follow that the copyright wouldn't apply to instances of the gene that haven't been isolated. Ie, plucking a leaf wouldn't allow you copyright leaves, but would allow you to copyright plucked leaves. (Which is stupid, but for different reasons.)
Last time I had two job offers, I chose a nice 12-mile bike commute over telecommuting. About 90% of the time, I'm happy with that decision. (The other 10% of days involve bad weather or rude drivers.)

Of course, if I were telecommuting I could just go take a bike ride at lunchtime on nice days, and not have to deal with darkness or bad weather or packing work clothes or rush hour traffic. Though I worry that I wouldn't.
Chips with small feature sizes and paints with nanoparticles in them are not really what was originally meant by "nanotechnology". We still do not have the capability to design and build arbitrary machinery using individual molecules as building materials. In the meantime, the word "nanotechnology" got appropriated to refer to anything that involved small feature sizes and needed funding grants, so Drexler started calling it "molecular manufacturing"...
I know. It's just that there are certain "security professionals" who portray this as something very very sinister without actually explaining what are the vulnerabilities.
I'm having trouble seeing that. When the company I worked for moved 15 miles closer to home, my commute dropped from about an hour to less than 10 minutes. It had very little impact on my QOL.

Likewise, when I decided to move 20 minutes farther away, my QOL actually improved, since I liked the area I lived in much more and there was more stuff to do after work.
There is a whole lot about a specific deployment that generally isn't known during development (that isn't contracted for the specific task) that is highly relevant to both liability and threats. If I build a tic-tac-toe app, someone uses it to land 747s, and terrorists turn it into a fireball using an obscure timing attack, that's not my fault. Liability should rest with whoever deployed the system, and if they're not comfortable with that they can pay to have the developers or publishers (or insurance companies) adopt more of it. The real problem is that EULAs are impenetrable walls of legalese, half of which is unenforceable in any given jurisdiction, and so go unread, and so there's no pressure on companies to do anything but waive everything they can get away with waiving.
This would be extremely useful if I wanted to hear all about the lives of my friends who work for Google, and only said people.
Cryptography in web applications: a false sense of security?
I could make an Android app on Linux or Windows or OSX. I could make a Windows program on Linux or Mac, and I could make a Linux program on Windows or Mac. I don't know if you could make a Mac program on Windows or Linux, but it might be possible. Point being, you can use the computer you already have.

My criticism of having to buy a Mac and use XCode to make an iOS app is in response to the criticism of having to use Windows and Visual Studio to make a Windows RT app. It's the same process. The only difference between Windows RT and iOS is that Microsoft lets you install Windows RT apps on a desktop/laptop as well as a tablet. Microsoft is far from pioneering this requirement by several years and half-a-million apps. Yet people are pushing this like it's a brand new Microsoft innovation.
> the China Study shows overwhelming evidence that animal-based foods are terrible for you

I analyze data for several research departments of a large hospital and I would quite literally not trust 99% of the studies you read about. Even if we ignore all of the issues of statistics misuse, most studies in nutrition and similar areas have flawed designs to begin with. You can't just ignore what incredibly complex systems humans are and just study effects of a substance/action/whatever on the human body as an isolated thing, and that's precisely what most studies do. Frankly it's hard for me to think of a feasible alternative, would probably make a great HN thread ;)
Religious Sites Have More Trojans Than Porn Sites
I wonder if they are done or are they going to still work on making it faster. Responsiveness when viewing your own profile is still atrocious on an iPhone 4.
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback! We've put a lot of work into the gestures, and during user testing most users seemed to find them intuitive. But if you have suggestions or other ideas about them we'd love to hear them.

For pull to refresh specifically, you're right that it's not really necessary -- the best way to use Prismatic is to just keep reading and scrolling down. But it's something that many users seem to look for (both on the web and on mobile), and so we decided to put it in to support this style of browsing for people who want it.
> And my fuzzy calculus aside, the first printing for most books will also be the last one.

This is not the norm in publishing, at least, the desirable kind. For most publishers who promote and market books, profits don't start until the first printing has sold out and subsequent printings begin, with (a) all book preparation activities already complete, and (b) a public who don't need to be persuaded of a book's value. It is at this point that an author begins to be looked on as more than a one-trick pony.

Imagine a pre-publication advertisement: "A truly epic myth! Floods, plagues, the anguish of being unimaginably stupid! Certain to be a best-seller if the author ever gets done writing it! Pre-order the Bible now -- get in before the rush!"

:)

> If only there were a way to accurately gauge demand before doing a printing...

In modern publishing, there's no need -- books are printed, one copy at a time, when they are ordered. For example, my book only gets printed after someone buys a copy. This change (electronic on-demand publishing) essentially wipes out the traditional publishing model.
Surely, indeed I made your second point in my comment. Some posters are beautiful, most are not. My complaint about the OP is that it doesn't acknowledge the existence of posters, which are in exactly the format presented.
I wonder what this means for whole-genome sequencing. If we sequence the entire genome of a patient, and we discover this mutation, would we have to pay Myriad? Or, are we not allowed to look in that gene-region? Or just not allowed to tell the patient? What about the next gene?

I know that this is really just a patent on a specific genetic test, but what about the next gene, and the next one...

This will only get messier before it (hopefully) gets better.
By paleo standards writing = agriculture. Internet's more like HFCS.
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7 out of 10 results on https://www.google.com/search?q=anylist are for the app itself, including the top 5 results. Maybe you searched for “Any List” instead of “AnyList”?
for me it looks like chrome
No love for Android users? :(
With SOPA gone, setting Internet advocacy’s next stop
I don't want to be an ass, but this seems like a lot of vague contradictory rambling. Maybe I missed some big ideas in the parts I skimmed?
Well in this particular case no. The offer structure was some cash (this all went to the investors), some restricted stock in the acquiring company for the people wanted, and regular interviews (no guarantee of a hire) with everyone else. So the founder who wasn't part of the 'deal' was offered the interview but not the restricted stock + job.

In this particular case the acquiring company's stock was publicly traded so the restricted stock was essentially a payout once the core team demonstrated they could bring their ability to deliver in house. The restricted stock 'unlocked' (which is to say it transferred over to founders) in two tranches one at 18 months and one at 36 months.

When I looked at it I felt it was a better deal than the key players would have gotten if they had approached the company individually, and the way in which the restricted stock unlocked was structured so that as long as folks stayed for a year and remained in good standing (which is to say their new management was happy with their performance) the first half of the stock was guaranteed even if they left before 18 months.

Probably more detail than was necessary but the bottom line was that the acquiring company made it worthwhile for the key employees to come over as a team (and parts of the deal were structured such that if they didn't come over as a team the deal was off).
I am surprised that the estimate for Mac is so high. I would have never expected that. It could be the topics that he is posting. Either way interesting read.
Verizon's Wireless Network Rated Best Cellular Provider by JD Power
The difficulty with getting freemium right is in having a free product that's sufficiently useful to have people take the time to use it and a paid version that is worth paying for.

Convincing someone to switch from paying $0 and $1 is hard, much harder than $1 to $10. If there's not enough value in the paid version, why switch? Finding that killer feature that will cause people to pay without chasing off the free users is hard.
Both, plus c) it's not perceived as being as cool as living in a trendier place and d) it's under-marketed relative to the bigger cities. Note also that Raleigh/Durham has a smallish tech hub and housing is cheap there too. Oh, and also e) the perception that nothing is interesting unless it happens in NYC or SF (or other mega-city).

If you're willing to live outside a tech hub (which has other advantages), you'll find that in most places in the US programmers make high salaries relative to the cost of living, but the focus tends to be on the few places that this is not true. Outside the top markets, $70k + bonus is more than enough to be comfortably middle class (and own a home and car if desired).
Reddit's Alexis Ohanian Plans Bus Tour To Make Internet Freedom A Campaign Issue
Your browser (unless configured otherwise) will still send the User-Agent string with the request headers, regardless of script settings.
That's a really interesting point. So maybe we're likely to comment on something positive that far exceeds the normal experience, but not say anything where "good" is already expected. I'd never thought of it like that.
You're not the first to say that, but I don't know why. The site's fine on my Android phone and tablet. The markup/CSS is so simple it's hard to imagine any browser having trouble with it.

I've already spent enough time abusing the display model Android tablets at my local big box stores to test Improvely without buying a bunch of devices. I think if I go back again to try to live-fix my blog theme, they might kick me out. ;)
That's an interesting point. I wonder how many people of are regular "socialites" are truly addicted, versus just think that's what you're supposed to do these days. Much like HSN, gambling, etc...I bet the percentage of the former is pretty high.
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It's more complicated than you make it out to be.

Facebook has to work consistently on so many different platforms (not just iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone; also, the billion+ feature phones out there) and continuous deployment is the process at the heart of Facebook (the motto: move fast, break things).

Facebook is always adding new features and improvements. By using Web technologies, they can share code and make these changes on the server side, not to ease developers' efficiency but to guarantee interoperability and a consistent user experience.
A moment on Wikipedia gave me this:

Professors Frank B Hu and Walter Willett of the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, wrote in a letter to the editor in 2000, in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, that the China-Cornell-Oxford Project did not find a clear association between animal-product consumption and heart disease or major cancers, although in 2010, in an article, "Healthy eating guide," Willet encouraged people to choose plant-based proteins over animal sources.[30] Willett is the principal investigator of the "Nurses' Health Study II" (established 1989). Campbell is highly critical of the first Nurses' Health Study (established 1976), calling it one of the chief sources of public misinformation about nutrition.[8]

In a written debate with Campbell in 2008, Dr. Loren Cordain, a professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University, argued that "the fundamental logic underlying Colin's hypothesis (that low protein diets improve human health) is untenable and inconsistent with the evolution of our own species," and that "a large body of experimental evidence now demonstrates a higher intake of lean animal protein reduces the risk for gout, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, insulin resistance, and osteoporosis while not impairing kidney function." Campbell responded by questioning the implications of the evidence Cordain noted, and argued that "diet-disease associations observed in contemporary times are far more meaningful than what might have occurred during evolutionary times—at least since the last 2.5 million years or so."[31] Cordain's rebuttal countered that contemporary hypothesis regarding "what modern day humans should and shouldn’t eat must be consistent with the system and the ancient environmental selective pressures that engineered our current genes," and that "there is no credible fossil, archeological, anthropological, anatomical, ethnographic or biochemical evidence to show that members of our genus (Homo) routinely consumed low protein diets. In fact, without the inclusion of energetically dense animal food into the hominin diet, starting at least 2.5 million years ago, our large energetically active brains would not have evolved."