skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you thinking from just on page's perspective? Most of the time a page is liked when a friend of the user shares a post from the page that the user finds interesting, it may be a kitten image, funny joke, a post about your favorite movie/actor, or about a good food on a restaurant etc. Number of pages he likes depends on how much he uses Facebook. If he is moderately active the number of pages he likes would certainly reach 3 digit number. Now imagine 15 posts per day from each of the pages! It is definitely annoying. Now you are saying about "Most Popular" setting, on which criteria will you define a post belongs to popular category? Recommendation engine is a hard problem. Page owners may complain that their pages are not getting any traction. So I think it is a fair option to pay a small price to Facebook to make sure that the post of the page will surely reach to its followers.
I have to imagine that the system is something like this:

1. Each partner has a queue of pending applications that have changes or have yet to be seen.

2. Each application shows a simple diff between the last time this partner saw it and now, if changes have been made.

3. Each field on the application has a space for the partner to write his or her own notes.

4. Each application has a space for the partner to write his or her own notes.

And then it's just a matter of having changes put your application back into the queue for each partner. Come the submission deadline, everyone is up to date once all of their queues are empty and then discussions about who to interview can commence, etc.
Has that actually happened to you? I doubt it, especially if you've indicated she's your mother on Facebook. People who post rarely would show up more often when they do post in any reasonable weighting scheme.

"Close" was a loaded word to use. Facebook knows how often you interact with someone's content, how often you view someone's profile, how closely connected your social network is with someone, etc. Facebook's algorithm is working for people, which I think is a valid counter to the folks who think all their posts should show up for all of their friends.
Seems to be some conflation in this thread. Are DKIM and authentication (PGP) really comparable in practice?

Here's my take: DKIM is an attempt by _third parties_ (i.e. "email providers", not the author or the recipient of the message) to control who can send email (but guess what? anyone can send email, go figure). On the other hand, authentication (PGP) is an attempt to allow senders to sign messages and receivers to verify signatures (no third parties needed).

Bob printed his PGP public key on a card and gave it to Alice when they had lunch. He then signed an email message the following week using PGP and sent it to Alice. But Bob's "email provider" decided to block Bob's message because Bob didn't pay money to someone for the use of a "domain name" and Bob's "email provider" thought his email was "spam" because he hadn't been "authorized" (by paying money for use of a domain name) to send email.
Could you explain what you mean by "statistical blip"? It seems odd to say that, I mean, wouldn't it imply that there's interference from improper measuring, or interference from variables gone unnoticed, or interference from variables that are irrelevant? I'm probably reading it wrong, but it seems such a bizarre thing to say.
>It isn't "my logic", it's the definition of a Ponzi scheme: early investors were paid out by later investors, with the bottom falling out for the later investors.

Definition [1]: A form of fraud in which belief in the
success of a nonexistent enterprise is fostered by the
payment of quick returns to the first investors from money
invested by later investors.

This is not what selling stock in an IPO is because stock is not non-existent. A share of equity is a very real asset. You are committing a No True Scotsman fallacy by trying to redefine the term to fit your needs.

>Besides, I own many stocks, and they return income to me.

Just because you own equity does not mean you are an expert. Case in point: You don't know the difference between company net income, returned earnings, and dividends.

>A company is expected to be profitable, and owning a stake in it entitles me to a share of those profits.

No it does not entitle you to a share of any net income.

All it entitles you to is vote of power. This is how corporations work. It's basic business, for christ's sake. [2]

>Well, I'm sure the SEC would disagree with you on that statement.

Why? Did Zynga falsify an annual filing or their 10-k? No? Then the SEC doesn't give a shit.

>One does not preclude the other.

Yes, it very much does, because in a ponzi scheme you give up your money to an investor for their service. In an IPO, you give up your money for shares of equity, which you sell later.

I'm not going to go in circles with you on this any longer. You've either have a case of confirmation bias or you're trolling. It's a shame because you're another example of a rational but unintelligent investor.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?oq=define%3Aponzi+scheme&s...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_(finance)
I sometimes wonder why the United States is lagging the rest of the world in rolling out a chip standard for their credit cards.

These sort of exploits are significantly more difficult in other parts of the world that have switched over - the United States use of the outdated "magnetic stripe" for security is not only putting american consumers at risk (Yes, I know, you can always challenge a charge, IF you notice it sneak onto your card, AND if you got to the effort of getting it revoked. Go talk to someone who's been the victim of identity/credit card theft to see how much FUN that is) - it's also putting all the other countries that have to continue to support legacy card systems.

At the very least, the credit card agencies in the United States could start rolling out the Card Machines to NEW businesses, in preparation for the eventual upgrade of consumers.

My only guess is that they've done a RISK/REWARD assessment, and decided that the cost of upgrading all of these systems is more expensive than what they are losing to fraud.
Now Facebook has lots of brand awareness and decides it could live without any individual blog's widgets. What an unpredictable turn of events!
Anonymous will lauch wikileaks like project called TYLER
Google Analytics is generally the only JS I put in the head. If some code is absolutely required for the page to work though then it may make sense to put it ahead of the content.
"In a statement published on The Hacker News"

I was a bit confused for a second, until I saw the link went to thehackernews.com
This reminds me of something I've noticed lately.

I spend every Saturday afternoon, and most Sunday afternoons, taking 2-3 hour naps. They are great for decompressing and relaxing. I actually enjoy them a lot more than the normal sleeps I get at night. There's something very satisfying about waking up and finding out that it's still the same day!

On a related note, most of my friends who complain about being "stressed out" never spend their weekends actually relaxing. Instead, they rush from one activity/event to another, drive from location to location. Then when the weekend is over they say in dismay, "I can't believe it's Monday already." My guess is that if they spent their weekend being laid back, the weekend would feel a lot longer and they would be re-energized before the next week starts.
Starbucks in Canada is already using what I assume is a square based app. I'm not sure how this has any effect on accepting Interac, since the Starbucks app doesn't work in that fashion at all. It's closer to pay-pal than a pos tool.
plotting x*x1 works but I am not sure why. very interesting graph resulted.
I believe this also includes the bitmap marking GC changes which will make the GC copy-on-write friendly. This is pretty important for a lot of folks running Ruby web servers.

See, for example:

http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/3/23/why-you-should-be-excite...
Lots of juicy pictures here:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/02/atm-skimmers-part-ii/

I guess you can learn from these pictures how they work.
AdventurersLab, part 1: 5 lessons on team building by Spike Morelli
For something like an association or a team organization, a Facebook group would make a lot more sense. That lets you make sure your messages get to everyone.
Not working in Chrome Version 22.0.1229.94/OSX either, and Chrome says it is up to date...
Intel's Z68 SRT has existed some time with windows-only drivers, but it's not clear how Apple's fusion drive compares in functionality, portability or performance with an equivalently specced SRT-drive (ie, a 128GB SSD used as the cache drive in a windows box).

A detailed review + teardown will able to answer these questions.
You can actually use git natively for PHP Fog. The CLI tool is just an option to make things easier for some users.
Alternatively, if you're young and single just live with a bunch of roommates — group cooking/cleaning/etc is really cheap.
I would like to see this with the faded background being black, or alternatively the entire continent of North America, as opposed to an outline of the US today. Sort of gives it away and distracts from viewing and appreciating the expansion.
I'm not a porter so I'm just trying to understand here, but I would suspect that having POSIX, albeit quirky, would automatically make it easier to port than Windows which has no POSIX. Like porting a web app to IE6 is easier than porting it to a Node CLI app. Does that analogy not work?
French shoppers trial biometric payments
Texas wanted to be admitted to the union as a slave state. But the Missouri Compromise established the 36°30' parallel as the northern limit of slavery for new states. So Texas gave up its claim and the territory became "No Man's Land".
Anything like this in SF/Bay? I feel like there should be...
The best microscope images of 2012
Just wanted to say thanks for mentioning my book! I'm so happy that people are still getting value from it.
I don't have any good links, but in the US a grand jury does not deal with precrime.

Juries are selected for a particular case. Grand juries are selected for a particular time period. During that time period potential cases will be brought before the grand jury who will then decide whether or not the case will go to trial (and if it does, a separate jury is selected for that case).

I may be off on some details, but that is my understanding of how grand juries work.
Can someone explain what exactly "US Government" in the #1 spot for Obama means? Seems odd that government money could be used to support a candidate incumbent or not.
Is 13 years later enough time to complain about Microsoft being unable to implement new language standards?
Wow, I was not aware the French tested nuclear weapons in Africa.
freetype-freeworld from RPM Fusion will give you Ubuntu like fonts, which I find better than Infinality.

I think it's ridiculous how Fedora ships with such ugly fonts out of the box. It's horrid.
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And before this starts playing into recent popular narratives, 4 years ago the bankers were Obama's top donors. It's also important to remember that these are donations from employees of these firms and not the firms themselves.
I thought I'd share some good links that came up in the reddit discussion:

Color theme generator for Xresources and more: https://gist.github.com/3946121

Reference to similar features in scipy: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/cluster.vq.html

Old-school computer graphics w/kmeans: http://pragprog.com/magazines/2011-12/revisiting-graphics-ha...

There was also some discussion on using different color spaces than RGB to get better results, lab*, HSL, YUV, etc. And recommending using something like Numpy to make this shit hum.
Framing it as a mere anti-spam weakness rather than anti-phishing is kinda disingenuous.
Funny, in the rest of the world, this would be normal -> parties get funding from the government, no funding from private entities allowed.
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People employed by the US government.
For those who are interested here is the link to the source of this image: http://www.rootstrikers.org/who_are_you_really_voting_for
Regions are 100% independent of one another, both physically and also control plane wise. Also code pushes to regions for new features don't ever happen on the same day.
For scaling postgres, have a look at PL/Proxy. You can basically partition tables across servers without knowledge of the fact that the other servers are even there. However, it doesn't easily cover you for fault tolerance and recovery.
Cool, I did something like this for an e-commerce store so that I could programmatically sort new products into color bins. Scipy handled the kmeans stuff for me though.

One problem I ran into but never solved was ignoring the background color. For example in the second picture it might be more interesting to bring out the oranges of the tail-lights and the light-blues of the street lights, rather than just the dark blues of the roads. You could ignore the largest cluster, but that's not always necessarily the background color. Have you thought about this at all?
Why do 3/5 in Romney list appear in Obama's list on what is supposedly the source for this data? http://maplight.org/us-congress/legislator/635-barack-obama
This game rules.

It's fun, it's easy to play and it's got the kind of interface that feels very simple but actually has insane attention to detail.

Edit: You don't have to use only contiguous letters, if you've played a lot of Scramble that may take some getting used to.
You can read about it here: http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/pubfund.shtml
EMV has been trivially broken[1], and it unpopularly pushes the risk of fraud onto the customer. Customers in the US don't want that (especially since EMV is broken!). On top of that, there are a hell of a lot more merchants that would all need to purchase entirely new credit card terminals, which is a much larger undertaking in this country than it would be elsewhere.

[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/banking/nopin/oakl...
In the blown up view of a map, the tooltip goes underneath the year if the two meet.

Chrome Version 22.0.1229.94 OSX

http://i.imgur.com/nk0F9.png
The list is badly labeled. What it should be labeled is "employers of people who donate money to the candidates".

I'm flagging the submission, because although this kind of information is interesting, this is a very crappy presentation of it. For an example of a better presentation: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/index.php
Because they did nothing wrong.

I am an anarchist (a market anarchist, specifically). It is my professed ideology. I don't break laws (well, maybe occasional acts of non-violent civil disobedience in protest of specific unjust laws), I pay my taxes, and I behave according to pretty high ethical standards.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are files on me with the Austin Police Department, and DHS (via the Fusion Center here in Austin), because an organization I've been a part of has been infiltrated multiple times by undercover APD officers (and APD has, thankfully, been slapped around by judges for doing so, and for the way the officers behaved in the process). But, I'm not pleased about it, and I consider it a violation of basic civil liberties provided by the constitution...since I've never been arrested and never been charged with a crime. I am, by all reasonable standards, an upstanding citizen. Only if you believe holding a belief can be a crime, could you believe that I deserve to be spied on.

I'm sure you hold some beliefs that others, including others in positions of power, consider wrong. Wanting to change (or dismantle peacefully) the government is not a crime.

In short, it aint nobody's business what my ideology is. And, if you believe someone should be put in prison, in solitary, for holding an unpopular ideology...well, that's just not very American. Worse, it's not humanitarian.
I believe the money in question comes from the organizations' employees, owners, and PACs not from the organizations directly.
It will also fail to compile with the latest C++ compilers from IBM, HP and Oracle. I don't see anyone complaining about them.

Or their lack of C99 and C11 support for that matter.
Ask HN: Hacker vs Hacker, pick a flavor.
As you may know, in addition to Y Combinator, there is also The Hacker News (thehackernews.com). Just out of curiosity, what Hacker News site do you read more or less?

I am not related nor do I work for any of those two companies
Tom Lowe, Creator of 'TimeScapes', Responds to the Piracy of His DRM-Free Film
Privacy? What?
Windows has a POSIX implementation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
Why would it be a problem if we've read different versions? If the new version would be better, better for it to have been read by 1 partner than 0.
You don't have to consent to be given immunity.
Top five seems a little short sighted, I would rather see "Funders over X dollars". It would provide more insight into the candidates corporate (or otherwise) sponsors.
I myself did not think of this, but a thoughtful commenter on my site suggested that the cluster furthest from the center might be a good indicator of the background color, and the cluster nearest the center the foreground.
Hey D,

Sorry we handled that poorly. At the time Firehost was having some significant issues with their firewall policies. We do constantly walk that line between enforcing security at the edge and annoying customers that may run into WAF blocks. It's a delicate balance.

The problems you had have since been resolved and pagely is running under a new firewall (and new blades) which are much more reliable.

In addressing your frustration my comment of 'we're on the same team' was to demonstrate that we were all working towards a solution for you. As professionals dealing with other professionals we aim to acknowledge and address the problem while steering the conversation to a positive outcome. If our customer views us as an adversary it makes the process more challenging for all involved. By re-framing the conversation as we are all in this together, all working towards a solution, we feel it is more likely the positive solution will be found and implemented sooner. My comment was a gentle reminder to that effect: acknowledging the issue, and we are working with you, and with our partners to remedy it.

Thank you for your past business, and we hope one day to earn it again.
- joshua strebel, founder pagely.
you don't need to use visual studio's c++ compiler to create native windows binaries
No one says you can't study it even now (except perhaps your calendar)... One classic starting point is "The Design of Everyday Things"[1].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
I can't comment on the specifics but he said it was something default in the comments table and modules I think. For a big project like wordpress, I would try to understand why a certain decision was made. Try to understand the consequences of that decision vis-a-vis how I would want/expect it to work.
I wasn't offended by ben's shirt - I thought he had the best presentation of the day, and content outweighs slogans.

The issue with role models is a great point though. But how to fix? If there are no female YC alumni with great stories about working all nighters, how to get someone on stage without risking positive selection?
SAP HANA might be an option. Expensive but nicely implemented.
Probably not. The PIN never leaves a (unmodified) terminal unencrypted.

However (as mentioned previously) it would be pretty straightforward to obtain an identical terminal, insert a logging circuit inside of it (connected directly to the keypad and card reader), and replace the one at the register with the hacked one.

Then all that's necessary is to recover the modified terminal at a later date and download the logged numbers.
Just a thought: If it's a photograph, you could use the areas of highest contrast to identify and outline the shape of the subject - assuming the photograph was focused. This then becomes the working area for your color selection.

Either that, or be sure that the background is consistent every time you take the picture for sorting into the color bins. It may be cheaper than trying to create a catch-all solution.
AceJohnny2: thank you. Figuring out how to build standardized aquaponics systems that are self-stabilizing (e.g. by using inexpensive sensors and Raspberry-like computers to monitor and regulate all elements), and finding cost-effective ways to deal with the regulatory issues you mention, are the kinds of challenges that ambitious entrepreneurs must overcome to be successful.

The question I would ask at this early stage is really about the odds of finding product-market fit: if a startup can figure out how to make a standard, modular, legal, self-stabilizing aquaponics unit that is easy to install and maintain, is there a sizeable market for it? I suspect the answer is yes.
I've noticed this too. It's a vicious hit-and-run attack on a thread's discussion that presumes only the empirical viewpoint is worth considering. It often trainwrecks the thread into intellectual pissing contests, rather than discussing subjects with fellow human beings.

Removing karma entirely might help. Too many people treat it as a vanity metric, and game it.
Cross platform compatibility is detrimental to Microsoft. Their core businesses is an Operating System, so vendor lock in is an important strategic goal. Visual Studio has always compiled differently, so portability must be done diligently so companies will see it as an expense. This way more exclusive software gets made and helps the Microsoft ecosystem.

This pattern can be seen mirrored across many of Microsoft's products; Internet Explorer, Office, XBox etc.
It'd be interesting to include the various military bases that America has around the place. Germany, Korea, Japan, Australia.
Looks like lambdas are supported since 4.4, that's what I get on 4.3.2:

main.cpp:7:30: current parser token ')'
main.cpp:5:1: parsing function body 'main'
main.cpp:5:1: in compound statement ('{}')
clang: error: unable to execute command: Segmentation fault: 11

Too bad we are now locked for next year or so. (and of course 4.4 doesn't support OSX 10.6, so no C++11 for us anyway...)
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It's not like there aren't plenty of smart people in Colorado.

http://www.colorado.edu/news/series/cu-boulder-nobel-laureat... (add David Wineland to that list).
Serious bait-and-switch in the title.

He want control of his fans, his like-ees. Not his (Facebook) "friends". Most of us know that is not a bug but a feature.

Now the problem that Facebook makes it to share one's email address with one's own real Facebook friends is annoying and something to complain about. But trying to leverage that to complain about not being able to push your feed is problematic. This is exactly what use Facebook for. An experience where you aren't bombarded with everyone's BS.
It's an intersection of (people interested in tech) & (people interested in entrepreneurship), both are male dominant though one could argue for a close to equal balance in the latter if you consider any side business entrepreneurship - many women silently start lifestyle businesses and never get recognition for doing so the way rockstar CEOs do.

Thinking about it YC's focus on hacker-founders adds another % into the mix too, the percentage of women programmers - I think it's simply math, multiply through and you get the absurd weighting seen at SUS.