skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like on a normal day, my Facebook news feed is filled with more positive posts than negative ones. I don't see people whine that often.

This shouldn't be surprising - don't people want to put their best foot forward on facebook? Sure, whining is fun some of the time (yay validation! everyone like and comment and agree with me!!) but a lot of the time you want to not sound whiny.

I would also hesitate jumping to conclusions based on the experiences of a seemingly antisocial 16 year old (not quite her words, but she seemed to imply it) and a 13 year old who started using Facebook when she was ELEVEN?

I would not be surprised if kids in that age range whine more than kids in mine (18-24)
This [1] made the news in Ireland today, when a city farm in Dublin called "Airfield" was labeled as an airport. It was thought that pilots in trouble might attempt to land there, but I can't see why checking maps on their iPhones would be part of emergency procedure.

[1] http://searchengineland.com/irish-politician-calls-apples-ne...
I'm interested in this as well, specially being able to see the Tampa 2 defense in action.
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I think this idea that every product Steve Jobs released was 100% quality is largely wrong – people just choose to only remember the hits. Apple has always released early - largely polished, but rough around the edges. Remember the early days of OSX? tons of loose ends. The first iPhone? definitely had stability issues, missing huge core features e.g. MMS. AppleTV? Ping? XCode 4?
Seeking is a great example of something that you would think you'd want in a crypto API that has pitfalls when you implement it in a real cryptosystem. And it looks to me like this proposal wants to support seeking, and doesn't account for those pitfalls.

And I think you're right: I think the interface proposed here is idiosyncratic enough that it will be difficult to make it interoperable, but that idiosyncrasy doesn't buy any additional security.
I think the pledges should be adjusted. I understand that he's trying to raise for funding for this project but for $50 you should at least get a copy of the ebook.
I'm going to go against what most people are saying and disagree that this is a good thing. Too often companies like this are only after the money. For some reason their company STRONGLY reminded me of Zynga, which in my opinion is not a good thing.
Facebook has 955MM "monthly active uniques". That's not number of accounts (which is surely over 1B), that is number of active users over a 30 day period.

So all these fake accounts - people are using them (active). Ads are being displayed, activity is happening, Facebook is making money on every single one of 955MM accounts.

So what makes them phony?
Right, it's not the fact that you can name things poorly in any language, it's that non-descriptive, overly verbose word-jumble vomit is built and presented seriously and without irony as common practice.
Facebook isn't dying but I think it is easier to leave than it once was. The pull of Facebook is weaker with the proliferation and growth of more niche social networks - or networks such as Twitter where users can carve their own niches - and other methods of discovery of content (the article mentions Reddit and StumbleUpon).

The common complaint that Facebook is full of advertising, apps and ranty, passive aggressive status updates is justified. It is possible that people will grow tired of having their friendships and other social interactions mediated through Facebook without major changes in usage habits (maybe something more intimate and limited like Path) and the way that Facebook goes about making money.

While I agree that Facebook makes it easier to keep in touch with friends - possibly due to the critical mass rather than anything inherent in the service, - I do not think this is necessarily a good thing. It is often passive (stalking) rather than active. I deleted my Facebook account last weekend and I already feel as if I have an obligation to actively pursue friendships if I want them to continue.
Yes WP7 was an entire platform that was underdevelopped. Maps is just one (crucial) feature that was dropped out. They never owned Google maps and it's in contention who or why it was discontinued. But since Google hasn't prepped a version (with ads or otherwise) looks as if they want to hobble Apple by not including it.

If it's a dealbreaker for you than it's a dealbreaker. I think more people who would never buy an iPhone will say it's a dealbreaker than actual people who would actually consider buying one.
These look like excellent courses. Particularly the M102 course for DBAs. Thanks.
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That presumably won't be a good option in the short term. It often takes several months for a good untethered jailbreak to be released, and they're usually one iOS minor release behind (since Apple always tries to plug the jailbreak holes).
You're not forced to upgrade to iOS6 nor is Apple blocking Google Maps on the browser.
What I would like is an API to better track players for my Fantasy League. Or a chat feature in the Mobile App to trash talk on Sundays.
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My Facebook account is pretty much in zombie mode now. I'll give it a quick scan every couple days to see if my friends posted anything of interest but I don't post anything.

Mostly it's there so my parents don't start wondering if they need to "get on that twitter thing" and to see what I've been up to.
It's not that tiresome. Jobs would have clearly done things differently. He would have either 1) paid retail prices for Google Maps API access until Apple could build a shippable product, or 2) Gone on stage and painted Google as a big evil bully who was stealing good Maps from iPhone users -- the media headlines would read "Google Reneges on Loyal Apple customers" or something like that. Notably, the second option is not available to Tim Cook.
tl;dr - Person who mentored these guys didn't realize they were going to compete, takes legal action, Kickstarter complies.

Since Kickstarter is walking into the same land mines that eBay did, albeit with a slightly different flavor, it will be interesting to see how this plays out. The Vinted Goods folks can show pretty clear economic harm from the action, the mentor clearly thinks there is some sort of trademark, trade dress, and/or copyright violation. The story reads like a DMCA takedown although Vinted didn't provide details or a copy of the DMCA filing that they must have received (they mention a counter claim).

So what happens if you decide to make a Kickstarter Movie about a couple of anthropomorphized robots who end up on a dessert planet only to discover one of the inhabitants is destined to overthrow a totalitarian dictator? Hollywood loves to throw those lawsuits around.
OK, good move on 10gen's part. It would be great to see course outlines as well.
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Americans spend 7 hours per month on Facebook, on average. It's not dying any more than "TV" is dying.
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It feels like there's got to be more to this story than is actually included in this post with regards to the mentor suddenly opposing the startup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines

No.
> we are shown a table showing the PISA score of a lot of countries and we see the US in a very bad position

The whole premise is broken. While USA's PISA scores may be far from impressing, that is mostly because the American educational system is fighting a different battle than its counterparts in other countries. When you put them on the same battlefield (by correcting for demographics, immigration), it has nothing to be ashamed of: http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...
"HN users probably aren't much into football"

Why do you think this? Are we too busy cleaning our pocket protectors and playing Dungeons and Dragons?
Any interest I might have had in their problem was lost when I could not read their complaint. The lines are too wide for the screen on my mobile device, and they are blocking resizing so I can not shrink it to fit.
Oh good! Something like this is what I asked for/about a 1.5 months ago. Although, I missed the crowdsourcing angle. Also glad to see that the Patent Office does want to be more productive =)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339035
Yahoo is using Nokia's API and Bing is in the process of doing the same thing.
OSX Snow Leopard: Fail. Junk display in Safari & Chrome, Hex boxen on Firefox. Actually works in the latest version of Camino, although the story seems to have come out not quite right: Santa, Rocket, People, Fish, Pizza, Building, Movie camera, Earmuffs, Watermelon, Bike, Chicken, (Hide-and-seek) Seeker.

A "If you don't see the emoji, then download these fonts" right up-front would have been immensely helpful.
As a counter point - Try to avoid caching until all other options are exhausted. They tend to complicate matters and pave over the real problems, when they could some times have been solved more elegantly.
I will not create an account unless I see a curriculum or course description on this web site. I don't know what will be the difficulty level of the course etc. I don't get why they can't write one or two descriptive paragraphs.
Minimizing the number of trusted components that are under the control of Javascript is part of the point of the interface, but as Cody and I have pointed out (and obviously you as well), there's enough left to JS that the interface doesn't really solve that problem.

One thing I would probably do as Archduke, after ordering a 70% tax on cupcakes, is have the bindings only work on HTTPS connections.
None of this is true.

Google doesn't own their own POI database they license it from others and to date Apple hasn't approached these companies. So it isn't about the POI database.

It's more about the fact that Google was withholding data for Turn by Turn and 3D.
This isn't a verbose naming convention. The name is actually quite succinct in describing what this encompasses.

And that's precisely the issue.
I agree with your thoughts about having an archive to look back through in many years to come.

I'm in college right now and I can imagine in a few years looking back the messaging history (i.e. private conversations) will seem funny.

I dunno. I think there is something to be said about the whole archival nature of it. And Facebook knows this - it's sort of the entire reason behind Timeline.
Fantastic! Wish there was a brief explanation of the course format though - is it streaming? Email delivery? Can we watch at our own pace?
It's interesting that the title is actually ambiguous.

The "battle we don't want to win" could be read as a race to the bottom, as the writer means it, but it can also be read as "America doesn't really want to win" or "America doesn't really believe in education". I was sort of expecting the latter meanings when I went into the article.
That makes sense. Consumer protection law (Trade Practices Act) in Australia was designed for consumers to use - but it turned out it was always competitors who used them.
It seems a little hasty to proclaim the death of Facebook based on a sample size of two kids. In fact, when I worked in marketing, I used to dread statements from leadership (or whomever) that began with "My kid was doing X, so we should get into X," or "I heard about Y on the radio, so I wonder...," etc. Dangerously flawed assumptions can come from this line of reasoning.

Anecdotal samples can be useful to form hypotheses, however, and in this case, I don't think the hypothesis is out of the question. My own anecdotes, be they personal, from friends, or from co-workers, seem to be indicating a very subtle paradigm shift in social networking. It's not so much that users are abandoning Facebook, or abandoning social, but that users are segmenting themselves by use case (or worldview, as the wonderful Amy Hoy would probably describe it).

The world seems to be dividing into People Who Use Facebook Every 5 Seconds, and People Who Use Facebook About Once a Week, with perhaps some other segments of significance within that spectrum. But "seems" is the operative word here. I'd need to look at actual usage data to make any real assumptions here, and my guess is that Facebook isn't going to share data that contradicts its own growth projections.
No need to create javadoc, takes people 4 years to read it anyway :D
Sequoia Capital tried this back at the tail end of the dot-com boom. All the independent films they invested in bombed and the film ended up loosing money.
Not sure why people downvote this, it describes the real value that facebook has for most of its users (I think): it makes it easy to stay in contact with their friends, check what happens to distant family members on the other side of the continent or put online photos from the last holiday trip, etc. etc. and also have of all of that archived in one place for years.

The problem with that is that most of the time not that much happens in people's lifes so it's hard to keep users online for very long (read: generate money). Thus FB gradually converts itself into a poor man's version of twitter.
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I agree:

> He laid claims to a number of our designs such as our website utilizing a top navigation bar, our photo of the designer operating a sewing machine, etc.

> In short, the claims are as outlandish as we perceived

If the claims are so ridiculous why haven't they posted the claim? Why are we supposed to trust what they have to say?

Also this line reads very curiously:

> the mentor gave them words of blessing for future success.

it's as if they're trying to say "he said it was okay to take the work we did there and use it in the future"? I don't get that sentence.

Something about the way this is written feels weird.
Are we supposed to already know what "All-22 tape" is?
It's not Coursera, but for $25 a year, USA Football has a metric asston of material: http://usafootball.com/coach
> And if each iPhone user reports one problem, the entire POI problem will be solved.

When each iPhone user reports one problem, and staff at Apple take a look at them all, determine whether each report is correct, and act on it, the entire POI problem will be solved.