skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the whole idea that the "Like-gate" is a problem. Fans of Facebook pages are not necessarily fans. They are people who have happened to click "like" on the page at some point. There are various reasons why people do so:

* perhaps they want to add their interests and likes to their profile, to show their friends what sort of music they listen to.

* perhaps they want to increase the like count of an issue they care about at a "single click worth".

* or perhaps they actually want to receive updates on the topic.

None of these automatically mean that they want to receive updates on the topic so much, that it should be among the top-10 news items of the day compared to their friends' posts. A "like" is much more effortless and not comparable to signing up for an email newsletter.

I don't see Facebook trying to make maximum money from pages with the newsfeed filtering, I see them trying to improve and spam-filter the content of the newsfeed for the benefit of the users. The "like-gate" scandal seems very similar to the SEO-community outrage every time Google changes their ranking algorithm - a community that forgets that if their pages got pushed down, someone else's probably more relevant page got pushed up.
Copyright, Open Source and APIs - Do we need an Interface Commons?
Ha! I have the same one and love it!
The Periodic Table of Elements in HTML5
Shameless plug: I wrote something really similar using Meteor, so the drawings are realtime and you're not limited to the iPhone (but works on it too). I was thinking of adding chat functionality too... Since it works on the desktop, it actually has legit uses like sending previews of works in progress with annotations. Would love to get more feedback though: http://my.sket.sh/
I dunno, how crummy the App Store has become is a perfect example of this. The App Store is one prominent way they make loads of money and build loyalty to the ecosystem, and yet it is a shitshow on IOS6...the responsiveness is as bad as I've seen on non-iOS software, but for me, the two really inexplicable failures are:

1. the use of modals to show individual apps on the iPad. So if you get to an app page and accidentally touch outside the modal, the app page disappears and you have to go back to Safari to find the link that brought you there.

2. On my brand new iPod, the Genius View has never NOt crashed. I know Genius (and most of Apple's search services) are poor to begin with, but it's a prominent button on the nav. How does it just not work on a brand new device?

3. I'm also guessing the lack of a light sensor on the new iPod was the result of a screwup in the dev cycle...I would've never guessed that its absence would be such a deficiency but when you can't see a single thing on the iPod merely because you stepped from indoors to outdoors...to the point where you have to go back inside to adjust the brightness...that's just infuriating.

I can't remember the last time I've been infuriated by an Apple device...I feel infuriated all the time with my expensive Sony camera and how its video button is right where you can accidentally bump into it when shooting a pic...which prevents you from shooting a photo. The last few Apple devices I've had (two laptops, 2 phones, 2 iPads, countless iPods) have always been satisfactory in terms of polish...not iOS6 nor the new iPod touch
Yeah, great point here. Facebook really emphasized this difference awhile back when they started allowing users to "Like" a Page, but then choose to hide it from their News Feed.

This allows me, as a Facebook user, to complete my profile and declare that I like something, even if the marketing that the associated Page is doing isn't something I want to see.

This ensures that profile information remains accurate, which is critical for ad targeting - people don't start unliking things they actually like, just to avoid annoying marketing. The interest graph remains intact even when brands make poor marketing decisions.
I like the newegg / RadioShack comparison...it seems rather apt.

I think Teavana promotes a certain lifestyle around their tea, and that's one of the reasons they are rather expensive compared to the competition. Marketing definitely plays a large part: if you are not an avid tea drinker and looking for a gift you're probably not going to know the local places to go (or the mail-order sites to visit).
Also, it could simply that both (or all) pages were poor and you need create a new one. Or simply that the hits you may have gotten were fake, useless or otherwise clickjacked to go to your website by other people advertising their websites trying to simply increase their "ad clicks" to make money.

For A/B testing, organic results work best, AdWords truly is just to get your number of hits up and maybe get ranked on search engines - but it's unlikely anything useful comes from it.
If search engines are indexing your site with any regularity and you kill all your DNS records I'd say it's not terribly surprising to have your domain removed. That combined with the new .org being an exact match for a "cyanogen" search would probably do it.
I would love to see a hack or wait for the next cycle where it rotates the wheel on a timer so I don't have to manually do it.

Unless I missed that part from the video/website?
Love the game. Thanks for sharing the details of the competition and building it. It makes a fun read.
Obligatory buzz-kill, Charles Stross on why we're unlikely to leave the solar system: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639456
It's called parallax scrolling, just as an fyi. :) (I learned the term myself not too long ago, so I get excited to use it when I can, haha.)
> Just because you enjoy a certain brand doesn't mean you actually want to know every little thing they're doing.

Twitter is more obvious semantically, but heavy Likers of brands on Facebook already understand the implication, and increasingly so will everyone else, regardless of the terminology. For me it's basically to the point where I only Like things that are owned or run by people that I actually know.
"Courses that teach those languages spend at least half their time just on learning the notation."

Spot on. This describes exactly my experience of my Pascal-based course back in 1986 - and it was way more than half. I didn't come across SICP until 10 years later, and it was a revelation, I didn't realise how much more productive an introductory course could be.
In my experience (coming from former communist country, now living in US) it's a bit amplified by the fact that these competitions are significantly more popular in those countries than they are for example in US or Western Europe. It just means more in practical terms like getting a good job. I happen to work for the ACM ICPC and if you look at participation (number of contestants) from Western Europe it's much less than countries like China, India or Russia. From what I heard, scoring in such a competition in these countries is really prestigious. Not that it doesn't matter in US or Western Europe, but it's not that important.
That's true. I made the assumption it was the same person based on:

The person owning the CyanogenMod.com domain was caught impersonating Steve to make referral deals with community sites. When confronted and asked to hand over control of the domain amicably, he decided he wanted 10K USD for it, which we won’t (and can’t) pay.

but, that could be a mistake if "owning" meant he simply took control of it at some point over the years.
Being for the Benefit of Future Developer
Mixed feelings about this, but ultimately I'm angrier at the government than any of these companies.

I used sidecar a couple of times in SF and the experience was pretty mixed. It definitely feels sketchy when someone swings by in a Corolla, and it does very much feel like "ride sharing" in the truest sense of the word, with the unmistakable feel of a taxi also. Bizarre.

I much prefer Uber, but the pricing speaks for itself.

I'm not going to complain about the specifics of the enforcement action - no matter which way you slice it SideCar and Lyft most certainly were diving through loopholes. They are meant as a taxi service, no matter how hard they avert their eyes and insist the opposite.

But, and this is a huge but. The taxi experience in San Francisco is horrific - easily the worst out of any city I've ever lived in, and by a wide margin to boot. MUNI is also a perennial joke of a transit system. In a city as dense as San Francisco, dear government, with no functioning taxicab service and no functioning public transit system, how do you expect people to get around?

Uber, Lyft, and SideCar are born from the supremely fucked-upery of SF's transportation situation. Liability, driver training, and all of that are all legitimate questions, but IMO are separate from the question of whether or not these services should exist in the first place.
I would like to see him compete longer. His volatility is still somewhat high and he may sink below Petr yet.
I know the WibiData guys, and they're a truly amazing team that knows HBase in and out. Their open source Avro extensions are great; looking forward to playing with Kiji!
Hold control on your MBP and scroll up. It zooms in.

command and '+' zooms text.

Scrolling down generally scrolls to the end of a page. Scrolling down here scrolls to the end of the galaxy.

Hold out your hand and make the "unpinch" gesture, which enlarges photos in iOS and Android. Which direction do your scrolling fingers move?
I was (and still) using iOS 6.0.1 when I started seeing the surge in data usage
I don't understand why people buy teas from these places (teavana, teopia,etc), there all over priced, sub par tasting teas, The best teas are found in small outlet stores (chinese, indian, thai, etc); it's like going to East Side Mario for a taste of italy.
I need some basic examples smething in the order of "tips on implementing algorithms"
>If you are running Windows 8 you actually have two different Internet Explorer 10 versions installed. [...] And then there is the "metro ui" version which also has an integrated flash player, but this IE version will only display flash content if your website is listed on a Microsoft Flash white list.

[...]

Now if a user opens your website using the "metro ui" Internet Explorer and this meta tag is present IE will ask the user to switch to desktop mode. //

Seriously!?

So if I post a flash video on my blog I'll have to have the blog registered with MS or the user will get an instruction that they're required to switch to an alternate IE10 version to view the page??

This can't be true, surely?
He goes on to write,

"Perhaps in time the applications-first approach will spark a revolution as profound as the one that followed SICP, but it hasn't happened yet."

Put the way he's written described it, "a curriculum organized around applications", I don't think it will. You have it right: too many trees, not enough forest.

Does anyone who has taken the new MIT curriculum have any comments?
I'm not particularly bothered by this case (or more affiliate links), but when I see them in a blog post saying "This article / service is awesome, buy it", and there's an affiliate link involved, I do generally think "Yeah and how much are you making for saying that?"

But then I've done the same affiliate link stuff on occassion myself, especially when there's a perk link extra free space - it's easy to do, and as you say, not any harm as long as the intention isn't to mislead.
A sponsored post can stick around for a while. But in any case, if a user doesn't come they don't charge. It's exceedingly unlikely that 100% of your followers will see a post, but you don't pay for that.
Regarding F# I was not sure if I should have mentioned it.

Still do not much about it or how its implementation generates code, as the MSIL supports much more than just OO constructs.
I saw similar behavior when I was working on the backend for an IOS app.

We were able to track it down to a retry mechanism for streaming content when the server was responding too slowly. Maybe you are running into something similar.
No - I'm a subscriber to two streaming music services that usually have everything I'm looking for, and when they don't my next source is Youtube. If I find something I like and want to add to my collection, I buy it - usually after I've been listening to it for a while. I buy a lot of music, but it's after I've figured out that I like it and want to have it with me - the music is reward enough.
Ever since I started using Apple gear, I've found apple's software quality is way below hardware. iTunes on Windows was always a disappointment.
Hmm, so this explained my 3G data overage last month. I have 6GB/month of data, and usually I'd be using around only 700MB. But last month my iPhone 4S (running iOS 6.0) consumed nearly 8GB in total, resulted in quite some overage fee.

Should I ask Apple for a refund for this? :|
It's a lame situation, for sure, over what appears to be a strictly greedy or personal matter. And hindsight is alwasy 20/20. Fortunately, a good name was available and (hopefully) only an inconvience in time and effort is the major consequence (well, and all those now non-resolving links).
I AM THE HIGH BIDDDERRR!! Oh wait nevermind... : (
NoAgendaShow.com has been discussing this since iOS 6 launched. Don't upgrade.
CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete
you could try Guile (GNU's scheme) from command line. http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
I'm seeing this line in my log as well, this person downloaded about 750MB and they don't seem to be on iOS 6.0.

Reqs User Agent
5,378 Mozilla/5.​0 (Macintosh​; Intel Mac OS X 10_​8_​2) AppleWebKi​t/536.​26.​14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.​0.​1 Safari/536​.​26.​14
Consistency. If you like something from one place enough to be happy to have it again why spend your time trying to find something better when it's not guaranteed there is better? I always order burgers from McDonalds, sure there might be a better independent place but I don't have the desire to spend 6 months finding it and I know if I'm 200 miles from home I can get exactly the same thing I like with ease.
Sometimes I wish it was rocket science, since rocket science is at least a science. Corporate CRUD application usually have so complex and contradicting and vague requirements that sometimes software developer has to be very at mind-reading just to figure out what he has to do. And that works until the next change request when it all starts again.
That doesn't seem practical. How would they know if it's the same client? Just watching for multiple requests from the same IP will result in a lot false positives (e.g. most college students will be SOL). And what would they do if they could detect it but the client didn't realize it already had the file? Just drop the request?
How the ITU could put the Internet behind closed doors.
Beautiful. Someone needs to make a turn-based strategy game out of this visualization.
Nope, as you can see, they originally changed it to "Transition to CyanogenMod.org", while the HTML title of the URL is "PSA: Transition to CyanogenMod.org". Then after complaints that that change went too far, they added the "Cyanogenmod.com hijacked" part. Now the title is better than either the original title of the submission or the HTML title of the original article.

I don't think it's a bot; it's just that the policy is that if the title is misleading or sensationalist, to prefer the original title of the article over anything else. So that's what the admins go with the vast majority of the time if anyone complains. In this case, the hijacking really is relevant, so they added that part back in again.
A thousand bucks to buy and install is kinda steep for minor comfort. If the company / apartment complex already does it, then its something cool, but otherwise its coming out of your paycheck and that money can buy other cool things that you might care about more.
Agreed. My first reaction was thank the stars someone is addressing this fiasco. There are certainly good places for this kind of engagement but honestly I really think it's getting out of control.
My advice to _anyone_ in our field is to read this book. Even if you yourself are not manager, and never have managed any team, it will at least make it easier to spot some common pitfalls and be aware of the consequences before it's too late.
Zero-day exploits and the cybercrime black market
Hey, are you calling my MacBook low-end? :p
I see desktop workspaces as virtual auxiliary displays. I prefer a dual-display setup, and it's changed the way I use a computer. When I am on my laptop I feel extremely constrained by having only one display, so I make extensive use of OSX's virtual desktops. I never had the urge to use these extra desktops before changing my workstation to dual monitors, so for me at least that's the causality. Mountain Lion also makes it very easy to full-screen applications, and switching between them via a trackpad swipe is very convenient.
Squatting is the anatomically correct position for a bowel movement; it straightens out the kink in the colon and makes the whole process more efficient. It's also supposed to be better for bowel health -- leads to less straining and fewer hemorrhoids and such.

To that end, there are several companies out there that sell stepstools designed to allow squatting with western toilets. The first one I saw was the Lilipad, made in New Zealand, and more recently a company called Squatty Potty has started making them in the US.
I wouldn't call it very strange. No one would judge you for having a cup of tea in the afternoon, and they might even want to join in and have a cup with you. Its just not something that most people would think to do.
The implication is about the type of humans at Bing, y'know, the Microsoft type?
I am reminded

I never liked anything on facebook (via a 'like' button) but I do have several likes.

Before the facebook feed , before even the facebook wall, the personal information field of your profile was a text blob. Over time facebook parsed this information and matched it to pages, giving me likes.

Now i get updates from films in my feed because 7 years ago I added them to a text field called 'movies/tv'

Doesn't bother me because I hardly use facebook anymore. But it is interesting to think how it has changed.
The .com site did completely disappear, and for a relatively high profile site like that, it's probably indexed pretty often.

There's also the possibility that the developers had access to the "Google Webmaster Tools" for cyanogenmod.com, even though they didn't own the domain, and so just told Google that the site had moved.
I've always used and liked http://adagio.com for tea - they have a really simple and easy-to-use site.
It's slightly contradictory, because it says the original person "gave" them the domain. I at first took that to mean in all senses. But it does seem likely that if there were two different unnamed people associated with the website they would have made that distinction clear.

(The confusion could have been avoided by assigning a nym to anyone who they didn't want to name explicitly.)
As pointed out above, 6.0.1 fixes this, so upgrading shouldn't be an issue.
$35k is not a trivial sum for recent college grads. That can pay rent for two years. Really the hardest part is paying your living expenses.
I love the way they made the stars - from close a sun actually looks like a pile of hot, glowing, boiling gas, and not like cold orange sphere you can see pretty much everywhere else.
This is where Apple's closed nature is very annoying. Assuming the article is correct, it was bug introduced in 6.0, and fixed in 6.0.1. So Apple knew about it, investigated it and published a fix.

Yet they didn't tell anyone about it. Or the crippling effect this bug could have on their data allowances. Why not? Are they really that terrified of admitting to making a mistake?
Demolition Hotspots and Smarter Data
Interesting, what's the long term goal?
I think at this point they're just trying to get him to talk anything they can add as evidence on the impending lawsuit about fraud.
Your words are true, but not necessarily in my case. I think I've got the culture as I have the natural talent (and ability to draw), studied under and worked with some very talented designers over the years. I've pulled off some successful designs as well.

The issue is that my passion to code is greater than my passion to design. Even if I do start at the sketch step, I all but salivate at the chance to get cracking on the CSS.

I don't suck because I can't sketch, I suck because I don't sketch. :P Whenever I do sketch my designs come out better.
I think the article does provide some compelling arguments to support this, though. To quote:

--

Sony’s strategy never comes together as a cohesive whole because their engineers are constantly in competition with each other to become famous for creating the next big proprietary format or gadget. There are so many proprietary formats or unnecessary electronics coming out of Sony that it makes Sony’s overall strategy and identity very confusing. The engineers all want to be the guy who creates something as big as the Walkman or PlayStation, they are all competing for that recognition inside of the company. However their ideas are created based on the love for technology, not long-term profitability.

On April 2012, Hiroko Tabuchi wrote an article to the New York Times saying, “Sony remains dominated by proud, territorial engineers who often shun cooperation. For many of them, cost-cutting is the enemy of creativity — a legacy of Sony’s co-founders, Mr. Morita and Masaru Ibuka, who tried to foster a culture of independence. But the founders had more success than recent executives in exerting control over division managers.”

--

This is certainly plausible, even if it's unfair to blame an engineering focus for Sony's failures. How else can you explain the fact that they STILL insist on using insane proprietary standards like ATRAC and even new Sony devices like the Vita use custom storage instead of standard (far less expensive) storage formats like SD cards? The fact that the PS3's absurd design got greenlit and made it all the way to ship is further evidence that engineers are given freedom to make myopic technology-focused choices.
Healing healthy meal - Special beet salad
Show HN: HoRNDIS - an Android USB tethering driver for Mac OS X
Maybe you're supposed to write an algorithm that predicts what the next captcha will be and use that. ;)
The major thing holding back higher education from massive disruption is the monopoly on credentialing due to the accreditation process. When students can sit in their living rooms and learn from the best professors in the world and receive college credit for a fraction of the cost, that changes everything.

Brick-and-mortar institutions will likely fight this and fight it hard because it threatens their existing models. After all, the most "profitable" classes at universities are general ed courses where hundreds of students are jammed into lecture halls. They're also the classes most ripe for disruption because the user experience is often poor (as Clayton Christensen once said about large lecture classes "Anything past the fifth row is already 'distance education'.").
Bidding bonuses getting you discount vouchers seems like a novel idea to boost the price along. Nice way to to link people's interests in the product to the auction price.

Found it slightly annoying that I couldn't view other auctions without just picking numbers in the address bar though. (Or signing up I presume).
Ron Paul's farewell address to Congress
What exactly about the quote do you consider deceptive "in the context of it being a headline on HN"?
On the one hand, you're completely right.

On the other, who better to say "You just don't understand the power of the platform" than someone who sees the numbers on over 10,000 Facebook pages with more than 1Billion Facebook fans?

If Cuban said "I don't understand the platform" that's one thing, but saying "This platform doesn't work" is claiming it's not an education problem, it's a platform power problem