skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agreed. What annoys me the most it that they are doing browser sniffing on the server side based on the user-agent, instead of feature detection on the client side. Talk about being updated.

$ curl -i --user-agent 'Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.02' https://new.myspace.com/
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
X-Powered-By: Express
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html
Location: https://new.myspace.com/browser
X-Response-Time: 1ms
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:53:34 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

<p>Moved Temporarily. Redirecting to <a href="https://new.myspace.com/browser">https://new.myspace.com/browser</a></p>
>Well, I think most refutations to PG's essay are based on an assumption: "Focusing on growth leads to being evil". It is probably due to too many negative stories in media about cheaters. But as we all know, cheaters can not sustain their own games forever due to the cheats violate some underlying fundamentals.

The idea behind startups is that they don't have to "sustain their own games forever", just until they get bought...
Nice write up Josh. I always enjoy seeing the process of decision making.
When did these people think these messages should become private? Today? Yesterday? Last year? They were never private. Why would you expect them to become private?
With the plan mentioned, I'm able to use it for tethering.
$19/month for more than one task? That's fine for companies, but I'm not going to pay that much as an individual, who needs 3, maybe 5 tasks to track.
Those are different. Phishes strive for perfection, because they win as soon as you log in to the fake site.

These "long con" 419 scams need to rebuff intelligent/savvy people and only attract rubes.
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They've been working on this for awhile. I interviewed at Myspace about 3 years ago (mostly for the hell of it) and they were talking about the foundation for this interface. Their back end, from what I could tell, was a mess: C#, Ruby, Java, PHP, some ColdFusion still around...

These poor guys were working long hours. There were hundreds of employees, but they couldn't turn Myspace into something that 5 talented guys could make in 6 months. It was clear to me that there were a lot of politics lurking just beneath the surface.
Michael says playing with dates isn't dishonest. Bullshit. It's incredibly easy to "play" with the dates (e.g., lie) to hide the fact you're fired from every job you've ever had within the year and it takes you six months to find new employment.

Let's say that I fire someone, and I absolutely can't afford a severance package, leaving him out in the cold. Let's also say that the following are the options:

A. He changes dates to make himself more employable. (I'd probably offer a term in severance to give him the ability to do this, but let's assume I forget.) This is annoying, but doesn't really hurt me.

B. He spreads a lie about me that ruins my reputation. Perhaps he makes up a bogus sexual harassment claim and pays other disgruntled ex-employees off to corroborate it. Now I have to deal with a frivolous lawsuit he made up to clear his name, and it may hurt my reputation.

C. He can't find another job, because of the damage that the spell of unemployment does to his reputation, and after his money runs out, he butchers his entire family in a murder-suicide. My name is in the papers as that of the guy who fired him a year before it happened.

Out of these three choices, I'm going to say that A is the one I dislike the least. I'm probably not his biggest fan given that I had to fire him, but I'd prefer the arrangement that minimizes harm to him and to me.

In the real world, people do nasty shit when the stakes are high or when they're desperate. I wish it weren't that way, but it is. Maybe you want to live in a world where people with damaged careers live with the damage. I want to live in a world where people who need to escape their past (even though I hope I'm never in that category) can do so without resorting to more drastic actions.

Half this thread is people saying "Don't lie, because that makes you a liar, and nobody likes liars." and the other half is people saying "Just because I lie on my resume doesn't mean I'm a liar because this one time a company did something bad to me so that makes this unrelated occurrence totally okay."

I don't lie on my resume. Ever. I've never needed to. But I have more pity than disgust toward people who have to reinvent their histories because they have no other options.
Actually windows phone has a really good app for visual translations which also includes speech to speech. It is designed to work offline too.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/17/microsoft-updates-bing-tr...
>But the part about businesses building value is what is a little fuzzy? What is value, anyway?

Apple giving affordable Apple IIs to american homes, or Ford, making cars available.

Not "getting a million people to sign up" as a "revenue to be exploited".

In that sense, customers DON'T define value, they just define profits.

He meant value the ethical and "make society better", way.
I don't spend much online, especially when it comes to recurring fees. However, I use Pinboard enough that it's going to be hard for me to resist not paying the $25 fee they charge for archiving bookmarked pages for the second time.

Yeah I could code/hack together something myself and have been thinking of doing it [for fun], but ya know :p

So, yeah, count me in as being interested.
As Thomas and Patrick frequently say, and I wholeheartedly support, do your work in increments of weeks, not hours. Things will go much better.
And yet, 0.14% of the folks hitting our servers are using it.

If 10% of the world's Internet users are on Opera, where are they?
Absolutely. As good as the redesign is, the Myspace brand seems like a total dead duck. It almost caused a sense of panicked inner confusion in me to see such a pretty design followed by the Myspace logo.

I'd argue with you about big pictures and slick graphics not being what the average person wants: I think there's been a big move towards having a sense of hipness to your online identity, e.g. instagram, tumblr, even twitter for a period, etc, and it seems like this might be an accessible route towards that for the average, unhip, user. Facebook has been uncool for quite a while now, basically. And G+ doesn't even deserve a mention in terms of hipness.
Tried it, junked it. It breaks the linkness of the "comments" links such that I can't Ctrl-click them to open the comment thread in a new window. I guess someone might like seeing a many-page-long comment list appear in the middle of the top-level article list, but I certainly don't. Beyond that it's nice. I do like the in-page "reply" popups.
Another good one was getting a scammer to hand write the entire first book of the Harry Potter series.
Is Craigslist search down? Any filter does not show results 
Looks like craigslist search is down. Any filter does not show results though page numbers are shown
FB, no doubt. Users (of any site) are morons.
The biggest hit to your esteem should be that there is space for a fourth browser icon there, they probably added Opera and then removed it when they realized it wasn't a modern browser after all.
I think this actually has something to do with why we pay so much for this kind of service in Canada. Our population is so thinly spread (other than a few major cities, who do have these cheap alternatives) that I bet if they even tried to cover second tier cities, they'd lose money. European countries have the advantage of being really small.
I'm assuming it will have exactly the same experience on mobile.

Right?
I get emails from the FBI pretending to be scammers.
Maybe it's okay to visually look like windows 8, but functionally it's looking like a complete disaster.
Looks nice. I'd add an 'x' to the upper right to hide it. I looked for it there and it took me a bit longer to find the 'original' link.
I am reminded of the time, back deep in the past of MySQL, that someone complained about MySQL not providing locks. The development replies amounted to "But it is FAST!" The reply was "But the results are often wrong" and the developers again "But it is FAST!"

Acceptable software, particularly in the class of databases, is obligated to tell you that it didn't complete your request. This is not an option.
For most things I don't want a middle ground, though. I want spotify which beautifully plays all the albums I want, when and where I want them, and does it well. I want to look at my instagram stream in bed when I get up in the morning, use twitter at work, etc. I have no interest in mixing them.

I mean - my musician friends love bandcamp and soundcloud - why would they go back to MySpace when other sites are doing the job perfectly and the audience is there?

I just think that selling a middle ground is a lot harder than selling something brilliant.
>And I don't see why performance is suddenly used as a deal breaker for a language primarily used for scripting and other non-CPU-bound purposes.

People want to use Python for lots of CPU bound processes. A big Python niche is numeric and scientific computing.

You say that it is "primarily used for scripting and other non-CPU-bound purposes", but this is also a consequence of it being slow. If it was faster it would open MORE uses. LUA and C# got the games action. Go gets attention on the networking apps end, etc...
My site shows Opera at 4%, above Safari at 3.6%.
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Woz would have gender-changing surgery if it would get him another 5 minutes in the public eye.
Wow! If these guys manage to rebrand and capture the entertainment segment, that will be huge. They need to focus on being fun and forget everything facebook or LinkedIn and this will allow them to innovate. Also they should hit the under 24yr old market hard as this is where a lot of market share lies for new innovative products and they will have less bias against the MySpace brand name. If they succeed students will be covering it as a case study in business schools.
Upload images and videos in iOS 6 with Safari
Reminds me of the P-p-p-powerbook prank!

http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/
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A few things to note about the old Facebook:

- Wall posts didn’t have comments in those days (nor did they have a “like” button. Can you believe it?) Conversations were all about the “wall-to-wall”.

- Chat didn’t exist, and messaging was used much less frequently. So wall posts were used for things that would be private messages now.

- Most importantly, our attitude to public wall posts was very different.

It’s the last point that’s most important. It’s hard to remember, but the current massive controversies around social media privacy were barely on the radar a few years ago. The subsequent change in attitudes is partly due to Facebook making their platform more “open”, and partially due to raising concerns amongst users.

For example, you didn’t have to worry about your posts being read by the general public – that wasn’t even an option back in 2008. You did, of course, have to worry about your mum reading about your drunken misadventures. But even that felt like much less of an issue than it does now. People hadn’t yet learned to self-censor.

The best analogy I can think of: old Facebook was like having some friends around at your own house. Though you probably wouldn’t prance about naked or insult people to their face, you’d feel comfortable dressing down or trading off-colour jokes. New Facebook is more like a social gathering in a public place – still friendly and informal, but you have to be much more careful to present a respectable image and avoid saying anything offensive.

I think Zuck was right when he said that people would adapt to a world with less privacy and more “transparency” – people adapted, and became more polite, bland and inoffensive as a result. “I never would have posted something like that on my wall”, they say, and really mean it.

http://i.saac.me/post/your-facebook-messages-werent-leaked-o...
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For those wondering it's this: http://419eater.com/html/john_boko.htm
They are in the Downloads section now.

https://github.com/adobe/Source-Code-Pro/downloads
Check out "HN Toolbar" something I just released today that is a sort of alternative:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567387
RMS definitely was right to insist on "GNU/Linux" for GNU systems, though: we have proof now that some people who can tell a kernel from an OS can't express themselves clearly when they do need to communicate that distinction.
My nephew got stung in a Paypal + eBay scam a few years ago. Long story short, they lured him in with a few bonafide transactions, then took big by "selling" a fake antique on eBay but making it look like he was the seller.
In my experience, Opera gets significant usage in non-English-speaking countries. I read at one point (several years ago, so grain of salt) that 25% of Russian users were using Opera.

That said, our own traffic shows 0.80% Opera users, which puts it just above RockMelt. It's silly to actively filter them out as MySpace is doing here, but would be equally as silly (for us at least) to devote any resources to dealing with any Opera-specific issues, until the usage stats justify it.
Or you could just use the features you want to use and try to fail gracefully when you can't. (Old IE could be a special case, as it is solid chunk of FUBAR.)
Speciation in real time
When you were 12 years old, did you go out of your way to tell your parents/brother that you had a myspace?
Why shouldn't you be able to walk down a dark alley in NYC at night? It's not your fault if something happens. With that attitude, we are just tolerating crime and accepting it. If more people walk around at night, the crimes will gain more exposure, be more aggressively stopped, and things will get safer.
As a geek, believe me, the feeling is mutual.
That was a great read, but the end is a tad scary! "Finally, and most disturbingly, [the victim] Jeff was not heard from again." http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/index04.html
The company I work for (Josephmark) was hired by MySpace to redesign the site and create something radically different. The interface you see was created by a few talented designers, the video you say was staged is definitely not staged. What you are seeing is what the new MySpace will look like when it's ready to launch. Yes, the site is focusing music - the new MySpace is going to be a social music platform because it has always and still is MySpace's biggest strength (they have access to more music and videos than anyone else), when you have more music than Spotify it would be crazy to try and target a different niche. it has been mentioned by MySpace themselves in interviews about the new site it's a music product. MySpace are not trying to compete with Facebook, if anything their new competitors are now Spotify, Last.fm and Rdio. The very fact you can login with your Facebook is proof of this enough.

The new MySpace is very much a music product. It has a fresh, crisp interface and it's smooth, sexy & fast. It's the fastest and best performing MySpace by far. What you see is the impressive work of the MySpace development team who have done an amazing job at taking ambitious designs and turning them into something captivating and interactive.

Don't judge the site people until you try it. From a developer perspective, I think most people here on HN will appreciate how technologically advanced and smooth the new MySpace is which has been built from the ground up when it's launched. As you can see it's more than a mere re-skinning of the old MySpace code base.
Haha yes, it would have been a whole lot more interesting under a new banner!

I think your average person and your average hipster are very different people... I suppose we'll have to see what crowd they're going after? I can pretty much guarantee this would just confuse my folks, and I have a lot of friends who religiously use Facebook, but they do so because it's not like this.
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I see that you know that I am an honest man of business and would kindly like to offer my services in transferring the aforementioned funds on your behalf for a mere ten percent. I have attached my passport and other details for your convenience and look forward to your response.

Yours,

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I second airbnb.

Advantages over craigslist and the like for subletting:
You can sort by availability dates. A lot of craigslist postings start three months from now, I saw people trying to sublet for next spring already.

The pricing is in the same units. It sucks to read a post and realize the price is for some weird unit of time like 10 days or something.
I no longer trust, nor like Adobe. And I don't think I ever will again. I genuinely want to see them fail in everything they do and I care not one jot for the men and women who work there or their families. I root for Pixelmator, I salute Apple's stance on flash and even wanted Silverlight to give Adobe a run for it's money.

There is a point to this rant. I have used Adobe products my entire working life. I loved Adobe and the products they made. But now...? I am what happens when you treat your users like shit, and everyone else like idiots.

Fortunatly for me, my inflated opinion and militant outlook is made more tenable when they keep releasing turds like this.
I've worked as a Software consultant for a small company known for quality work and I can confirm your numbers. I've been billed for up to 230$/h, however this is Switzerland - on US price levels it should add up with your calculation pretty well.
Isn't that the complement (in the maths/logic sense) of their target audience for the redesign? Surely they're trying to attract new users or those who've drifted/moved/run away from MySpace.
My parents used to joke that it took three owners to create a new ski resort, the first to do all the permitting paperwork and go bankrupt, the second to acquire that completed paperwork for free and then to go bankrupt removing trees and rocks and installing lifts, then the third to get the paperwork and the equipment for free and to start marketing it.

I really really really want Tesla to succeed. But I cannot convince myself to buy a Model-S, it is just past my pain threshold. And for that I am sad.
You and I, and probably everybody on HN, know what we want though, in terms of the services we use. We're a niche, and actual musicians and artists etc are a niche userbase too, and they wont stop using whatever the hot thing is in their area (soundcloud, let's say). So without sounding too flippant, if Myspace can make the average person think that all the cool people are there, that's where the average person will go, especially if it's as accessible (in terms of the breadth of things it offers) and hip as the preview suggests.
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Sorry, I just don't see it. Lets call it what it is: a nice, incremental upgrade to catch the iPhone up (in term's of hardware).
Sure, you could do that if you had unlimited developer time and people using old browsers are an important market. but that isn't always reality, you've got to choose where to focus your efforts.
MySpace was an exclusive club for "99-year old girls" to fawn over their favorite bands, or for older boys boys to post pictures of "hot babes" to impress others in their age group.

I'm not sure it ever matured from there.
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Its not really the same though. The two differences I can think of offhand are that 1) you have to manually pass error up the call stack until you want to handle it, while exceptions are automatically propagated, meaning that you don't have to remember to do this until the point where you actually want to handle the error and 2) exceptions usually contain a stack trace to where they were raised while this method won't (without additional work anyway), so contextual information is lost.
The difference is that Java's memory model was designed from the ground up to work with multiple threads. Python's semantics are that only 1 thread is running at any point in time. Keeping that illusion while running multiple threads in parallel is what causes the huge overhead. The alternative is to do away with CPython semantics, but that would break a ton of existing code.
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There's plenty of small remote towns in Sweden
Exactly. This describes what's happening right here in the U.S.

See, for example these articles:

Revisiting the Explosive Growth of Federal Crimes

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/06/revisiting-...

The Expanding Federal Police Power

http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb105-17.html

And the U.S. has a much higher percentage of its population in prison than China does:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23pri...
You're totally right, but i think just the fact that you've said "this will confuse my folks" (it'd confuse mine too) shows that change has to come at some stage in terms of the dominant social network. Maybe Myspace wont be it but, Facebook just isn't cool anymore.
I've usually used pymongo [1] for my API docs, and I don't believe I've ever seen this limitation listed there. I also rummaged around the admin area of the mongodb site and don't recall seeing the limitation there.

I'm really glad I haven't deployed mongo now in a production 32-bit system.

Response to EDIT2: Where can data loss be acceptable?
If you are having a relatively speedy message system where messages are removed/outdated on rx. I'm sure there are other specialty needs.

[1] http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/
But on the large scale that will never happen. Maybe in corporate networks but I doubt that this will become widespread.

Maybe not ubiquitous, but multiple governments already use fake certificates to spy on secure connections, and it is incredibly common in corporate environments.
The Web 2.0 craze is leading us back to the "Best viewed with" insanity of the 90's.

And is only going to get worse, with WebGL is not just "Sorry your browser is not supported, please download a different one.", but "Your video card drivers are not supported, buy new hardware and/or install a different Operating System"
And what service do I use to find out when this service doesn't run?
When I visit your site, a blurb of text flashes for a minute then turns into your headline/call-to-action. Also, "Continuous Integration for Web Apps" jumps to "Continuous Integration (3 extra spaces) for Web Apps" after half a second. I'm on your side but there are very obvious deficiencies in your client-side app.

I'm on Chrome 21.0.1180.89 on OSX Lion BTW.
Ouch. I've been dabbling at a project that does the exact same thing and your implementation is so perfect that I may give up and sign up :-)
Shadow is now Adobe Edge Inspect
Even better - it's a federated XMPP server, allowing you to communicate with users of other federated XMPP services like jabber.org.
See, I want to agree with you, but I'm not sure.

I think that the future really is in wireles communications. What's the point of laying down fiber if in 10 years we can get wireless at the same speed?

Of course I'm assming that telco will actually compete in tthat domain... but considering how easy it is to switch serfices, I think it can only get more disruptive.
I thought so as well first time, but it seems they do, see 'subset' section here: http://www.edgefonts.com/#url-specification

Also: http://jsfiddle.net/6zUQu/1/

It seems that only the example on their site includes 'default' character set. Note that, though, sadly not all fonts have different than latin-1, or partial latin-1-ext.
I am trying to reconcile the ideas of "Mongo is on the right track" with burning a user by losing data.