skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook is fully entitled to enforce edgerank. People consume content differently on FB than say twitter. Since twitter is more of a firehouse, its OK to simply sort by date since newness has much more value in that ecosystem. This is socially acknowledged given that tweets are firstly public. In contrast Facebook presents itself as a local social network. As such, your relationships on FB carry more weight. Social pressure nudges us to 'friend' mere acquaintances and 'like' things that are mildly amusing. You're expected to acknowledge important news in your social circles. Edgerank reinforces this behavior. If something is deemed 'like'able by your 'friends' you're encouraged to also like it, both by the algorithm and social influences, thus perpetuating the cycle to your own network.

Brands don't fit into this picture. You don't 'like' a picture of coca cola from a crazy party at mcdonalds' house. Your interactions on the comments of posts by a brand are probably one way, and with predominantly strangers. The rest of your personal network is unrelated.

Thus, sponsored posts work against edge rank. There are two big examples of sponsored posts. First is say, promoting a personal story or life event (it's a boy!). Second is corporate to consumer say, Best Buy is having a huge sale on something. In the first case if a story is truly important it would have been picked up by the algorithm and social forces alike. In the second, most people don't believe corporations are people, and their social interactions with them are typically unwelcome to their personal network. There's no social pressure to like a picture of Jones soda's new flavor as opposed to Jenny's new baby.

All in all, I think mark is right for the wrong reasons. FB's business model runs counter to its primary product offering. They're still experimenting and I hope they end up with something that makes sense to a social network.
The threats are many. Getting transferred, having false civil/criminal cases foisted against themselves, death threats, violence from goons and henchmen, etc.

Recently, there was the case of Ashok Khemka who spoke out against nepotism and such. He was relieved of his responsibilities (as a Director General/Inspector General in the Revenue Registry) immediately and seconded as a Managing Director elsewhere (a fairly low level position compared to his experience and seniority). There is also a wiki page about him. An honest and upright officer. His qualifications are also excellent (PhD in CS, MBA + IAS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashok_Khemka

If such hardship can be faced by a very senior government officer, the smaller fish have absolutely no chance but to relent.
http://wiki.joyent.com/wiki/display/jpc2/SmartMachine+Node.j...
v1.4.0 "This version now runs MongoDB by default"

As for your bash script... I stopped compiling binaries ages ago, why would I want to start again when I can just use Ubuntu and the official NodeJS PPA?
Awesome stuff. I still have a desktop computer from 2001 that I haven't gotten rid off. (Too lazy!) It'd be nice if future logic boards could be melted down / dissolved in some way.

Imagine biodegradable (or easily recyclable) tablets. You could upgrade every few years without feeling the guilt of leaving an old iPad gathering dust on your bookshelf.

From the article:

[The] technology allows a staggering 90% of the original structure to be re-used.
For comparison, less than 2% of traditional PCB material can be re-used.
Interesting article on the CEO, Sanjit Biswas:

Move over, Doogie Howser; here comes Engineer Biswas
http://mytown.mercurynews.com/archives/sunnyvalesun/04.29.98...
Move over, Doogie Howser; here comes Engineer Biswas
> Is the "Quiet Car" really as intellectual as Kreider makes it out to be? Is it really full of readers and intellectualists, people that take pride in knowledge and are aloof from the mundane?

No.

> This is an interesting situation: put the people you're most likely to enjoy a good, thought-provoking, intellectual, factually-backed, philosophical conversation in a car together... where they take a vow of silence for the duration of the ride.

Perhaps the worst place imaginable to find interesting conversation is in groups of self-selected "intelligentsia". People talking to each other who are getting a sense of validation from sounding clever leads to the kind of drivel that makes Ayn Rand fans over-excitable, and other people despair of the state of humanity.

If you're looking for thought-provoking and intelligent conversation, cultivate a group of friends who you like listening to, but at NO POINT advertise it as some kind of salon. If you're in a big city, there are often large groups of people who work in finance with brains the size of planets, and absolutely no intellectual outlet. I have had great success with "dinner clubs" where the stated aim is to eat good food and drink nice wine... Alternatively I have been led to thoughts of homicide by people gathering to have "clever conversations".
I apologize for the spam, but apparently I'm unable to save articles for some reason. I'd like to read this later, and I want to see if a comment will work.
Non english speakers?

People who have just arrived at the gate, and are a bit confused, and also afraid of missing the plane. Is this the last call?

Especially when you are rushing for your 4th connecting flight on a 30 hours trip.
My problem with Opera was (when I tried it once more, 2-3 years ago) is that it get really slow with many open tabs ( > 20) I frequently have 50 or more open tabs and the only browser that handles is well is Firefox.
I disagree. The reason a lot of newbies start with W3Schools is because they're the plague of Google search results. Popularity isn't everything. If it was, we'd all be promoting Nicki Minaj as the definitive source of quality music.
> All mathematicians and engineers have access to the whole world of theorems and algorithms and techniques, all of them true, or meeting their specifications.

Only crazy mathematicians would think nothing of a set of tools that contradict each other. If I recall correctly, frequentist methods often yield different (and therefore contradictory) results depending on the way you look at the data. That's crazy.

I also have read your link: the prior problem can easily be solved by just communicating the likelihood ratios. Those are pretty much indisputable, and the actual contribution of the paper. Let the others start from their own priors. We have to chose one anyway.
One of the following things is true:

* Americans speak louder than other people

* Something about the American accent means spoken American travels further and more piercingly than other languages

* People expect Americans to be louder, so there's massive selection bias at work...

Having travelled long and far, I suspect it's all three...
W3Schools was indispensable for me till I found the light in the form of MDN ;)
I hope that people who still think religions "make people better than they would otherwise be" are happy now.
So Jacques flew down to Delhi (from where?) to fight a legal case with the local police and politician to free some (talented young lady, also on HN) one?
Nifty. I'm working on an estimates tool/SaaS too -- slightly different market though. I wish you all the best.
I think Snow Leopard was OS X's last good upgrade. Lion and Mountain Lion mostly add new apps and UI doodads I don't use and introduce app compatibility problems. And I still don't forgive Apple for killing "Save As" in favor of "Duplicate" and "Export".
The w3schools link shows the example right away, with the Mozilla link I have scroll half way down the page to find it.
Interactive ambient music
Alibaba rumored to purchase 15-20% stake in Sina Weibo
Did the math on how to get cheaper ECU-hours from Amazon. Prices below are per ECU-hour, not per instance-hour; '1yr' is the one-year reserved instance price with the upfront cost amortized; 'spot' is the spot price in the US West (Oregon) region when I looked just now.

Small: 6.5 cents/ecu-hr

Small, 1yr: 4.7 cents/ecu-hr

Small, spot: 1 cent/ecu-hr

High-CPU: 3.3 cents/ecu-hr

High-CPU, 1yr: 1.9 cents/ecu-hr

High-CPU, spot: 0.56 cents/ecu-hr

If RAM matters, high-CPU (7G, or 3.5/core) > Small (1.7G) > EC2 Micro and Joyent extra-small (~0.5G). Again, don't rely too much on figures like these; look at all your needs (not just performance, everything) and try to figure out what'll work for you.
That's very interesting! I converted the prices to be in the same units and did some calculations for better comparison.

Linode
Cost per day: $0.65
Time per image: 15.2
Images per day: 5684.2105263158
Cost per image: $0.0001143519
Images per dollar : 8744.9392712551

Storm-on-demand
Cost per day: $1.2
Time per image: 13.05
Images per day: 6620.6896551724
Cost per image: $0.00018125
Images per dollar : 5517.2413793104

EC2-micro
Cost per day: $0.84
Time per image: 168
Images per day: 514.2857142857
Cost per image: 0.0016333333
Images per dollar : 612.2448979592

EC2-small
Cost per day: 2.16
Time per image: 63
Images per day: 1371.4285714286
Cost per image: 0.001575
Images per dollar : 634.9206349206

EC2-medium
Cost per day: $4.464
Time per image: 12.13
Images per day: 7122.8359439407
Cost per image: 0.0006267167
Images per dollar : 1595.6173709545
Like if that ever changed anything. History, while(1) continue;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
The story is false https://twitter.com/SreenivasanJain/status/27039450506319462...
I .. I'm just ashamed of what's happening over here these days. Free speech appears to be an absolute illusion. It's all well and good until you say something even remotely related or critical of a popular personality. Then, it's jungle law.
Well, I would use another — more suited — tool than a text editor for that kind of task. A word processor, for example.
Fine, make it so they have to be renewed every year, but can be renewed ad infinitum.

But that's not the actual debate about copyright that is taking place in society. In other words, the problem you're talking about is not the actual issue.
Really ? The guy tweeting seems legit but even timesofindia has this story: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/21-year-old-girl-ar...

Also the vandalism of the clinic definitely happened.
Its been several years since FB changed the default sort order from 'Recent' to 'Top'. They made the change gently, first letting angry users change the default back to 'Recent'. In typical FB fashion the setting would randomly switch back to 'Top' if you weren't vigilant, and then after a while after angry users got tired of fighting it and others forgot how it used to be they took the setting away.

My point being that this has been in the works for a long time and is part of their long term strategy. They will continue to tweak their algorithm causing the occasional outrage, backing off, then coming back even more forcefully.

Remember, Zuck has stated that his mission is to train people how to share their info publicly. Expect that "training" to continue, including for advertisers.
The "you can stay away from X" argument never really works. If something exists, it will sneak up on you one way or another, especially if it's the cool new thing. How long do you think until an app or OS feature you need isn't available on the old desktop?
No, not even close. I never left the Netherlands. We hired a lawyer in Delhi by remote control so to speak to meet with her upon arrival and to guide her during the court case(s) that were sprung upon her on the following Monday. The whole thing went down in 72 hours from start to finish, there was very little time to react especially because we didn't quite know what to make of the initial reports.

Once we were sure that she had indeed been taken we worked on making sure that there would be as strong a response as we could muster.
I look forward to the day when workplace noise is treated like second-hand smoke.
I hope this "Bal Thackeray" is happy now too: he caused two girls to be arrested. I hope he is happy too wherever he is now. What nice way to go out with the bang!
I agree with much of your posting, but...

> When I see people with their sleek Macbook Airs on their laps, then I look at their screens, and I see stacks and stacks of scattered windows of all shapes and sizing clustered over the desktop

> All of this stuff was fine when computers were big slow things that sat on desks, running a handful of low-res apps at a time, driven by a mouse and keyboard

I think this is exactly the wrong way around. This behaviour was never fine on a desktop with a mouse — but it is the best we have to cut through multi-app tasks on an 11"/13" laptop. With Exposé and an Apple trackpad, I have never felt overwhelmed even on my 1024x768 iBook, no matter how many windows I had open (and boy was Exposé fluid in 2005!).

Every attempt at using a "cleaner" screen layout on a laptop screen has failed spectacularly for me. How is Windows 8 any different from any other tiled window manager here? I see all my windows at once, but in exchange they are smaller (too small).
The situation changes when a lot of your friends are from the startup ecosystem.

Suddenly that new product launch is as important as a new baby. And that new feature is something you're expected to like etc. etc.

How does that fit? They usually still advertise these things through a "corporate" page ...
Indian scientist Ashoke Sen bags world's biggest prize in physics
I had the same experience with Safari but it worked fine with Chrome.
the text is the same, they could just be reposting it from mumbaimirror without a lot fact checking
Taking Funding for your Startup is not Evil
I don't see religious people disapproving of this and therefore conclude they aren't good. We could probably get a refund on them.
This is not recycling, its reusing, as per the name. If a component is damaged you still have to recycle it... But seems ok for hobbyists that want to change things fast, and prototypes
Enh; I have the best, Bose QC-15s, and they don't do much.
Same goes for Stella Artois, owned by Anheuser-Busch
Shouldn't have
They say a single noise bothers people more in the country than the same noise does in the city. Perhaps the same is true on the train. It seems like stress I don't need.
When you generalize like that you're being narrow minded as the people you're criticizing. Instead, like Feynman, you should take what's best from religion to improve yourself, and ignore the rest. History shows the average human being is stupid, so don't be average.
The phenomenon of having products in a lineup which are never meant to sell is well known to marketers.

The exact name for it escapes me just now.

Basically, the logic goes:

1. Find a feature that is easily differentiable and cheap to create.

2. Differentiate on that feature for a relatively small markup. It'll be almost pure profit.

In software this is easy as a few named constants in your source code or some entries in a database table.

So for example, last time I looked The Economist had three subscription types:

Paper, Digital, Paper & Digital.

They priced the Paper and the Paper & Digital plans identically. Why?

Because the contrast between P/P&D made P&D more attractive. It increases sales of the P&D plan and, overall, improves the total profit on the deal.

There are many other businesses where "sacrificial lambs" are created to sell the outlying plans. As usual I refer folks to The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing for details.
Find cheap gas, hassle free.
The best thing I've bought in the last few years has been a pair of etymotic earbuds with "custom fit" earbuds:
http://www.etymotic.com/customfit/index.html

~$200 total, $100 for the basic earbuds and another $100 to get the earbuds "custom fit."

When they're off, they offer almost as good noise suppression as earplugs. When they are on, I can listen to music with great fidelity. I mostly listen to classical and rock.

Most importantly, they are extremely comfortable. I bought them when I was flying cross-country every week, and I wanted to have something that wouldn't hurt my ears after a few hours.
BritRuby cancelled due to a lack of racial and gender diversity
"Copyright" is just another way of saying "Government enforced Monopoly over the distribution and copying of a particular intangible expression of an idea." We aren't talking about physical items - we're talking about expressions of idea's. I'm not a fan of monopolies, and I'm even less of a fan of government enforced ones, unless there is some overwhelming public good, such as utility's access to powerlines, coordinated use of the radio frequency, etc...

In general, I'd like the government to stay out of managing my interaction with content creators, but, I will accept them granting a temporary monopoly to IP creators, so as to incent them to both (a) create, and (b) share their creations with me. That is the idea, of course, behind the Patent and Copyright.

I certainly don't believe that just because (to use one of a million possible examples), Apple happens to have "patented" the page-turning-process in a particular way, that they forevermore have the rights to page-turning in that form.

In the same way, I don't believe that someone who has written a story, forevermore has control over how that story may be used. Some reasonably temporary government enforced monopoly on the rights to copy/distribute is reasonable, but the US government has gone beyond what I think is reasonable. It's certainly gone beyond what was required to incentivize content creators to create and share their works with the public. And they've absolutely failed to manage the issues around orphaned works, which absolutely nobody benefits from being unable to copy/distribute.

What has, instead happened, is that the legislation that has become the law of the land (and, to some degree, infected other countries' laws as well) - has been written by lobbyists from Hollywood, and, with little public debate or benefit, been rammed down the public's throat.
It seems she was just detained and then released.
I'm gonna put a license agreement on each word you write, so that you pay its respectful owner's descendents. Sum up the copyright laws for anything someone else created (which is, basically, everything)
One thing I have noticed, about myself and others, is that people are more oblivious to noise and how much they generate when they are in a group. It seems that a group doing most things makes many think its just fine.
That's quite possible, the copy paste is quite obvious though I don't know for sure which way it went. I don't know who this tweet is from or his credibility so I'll just leave it up in the air for now.

It's still alarming that they were vandalized over a facebook post and the police is looking into possible criminal liability.

Also, the news reports talk specifically of what sections of law the girls were booked under. Doesn't sound so fake because of that.
My trick is to use http://rainymood.com - the background noise of a storm is surprisingly peaceful.
Have you introduced her to brown noise? I typically use it for blocking out background sounds when I'm tired of listening to music, but it might work well for tinnitus too.
simple : MDN is crap, not SEO friendly and not synthetic.

For instance , i want a fast sum up of regexps with Javascript : the W3School shows a short table with the main keywords , that's all i need. It's like a cheat sheet.

MDN is verbose ,badly written , accurate maybe, but i dont want 50 exemples on Proxies or Generators , i dont care about them.

Now i agree , the name is confusing , there are errors , but until folks at Mozilla learn to write a usefull resource , i'm not going to read their wiki.

2 other good refs : the blackberry javascript ref is great, and the MS javascript ref is good too. Mozilla JS ref is just dreadfull.

There is good reason why W3School is popular, because it written for humans.
BritRuby announcement: http://2013.britruby.com/
That's funny, the sentence at the end, before the pictogram, has the following censored expletive in invisible text: #@$%&!
Times of India is a shitty news organization, they're just like Techcrunch, but for the whole nation.
>What makes you think that you should ever be able to take for free, something that someone else created?

Copyright infringement isn't theft.
Well, nobody said that about all religions (e.g not for "virgin sacrificing daemon worship" -- though it does sound fun), and for all people practicing them. Christianity didn't make Torquemada any good, but it worked quite well for St. Aquinas.

With that said, the story doesn't have much to do with religion. The guy who funeral they said shouldn't matter was a political leader, not a priest.

The guys that sued/prosecuted the girls did mention "hurting religious sentiments", but that was merely because that was the only semi-plausible accusation under law (since it was a funeral).

In actuality it was a political chase -- people thought they insulted their dear party leader.

(Oh, and it's not like the police arrested them for what they did. The police detained them temporarily just because they had to: that's the law when such an accusation is made, even for someone who didn't do anything).
Have there been meetups elsewhere? I know the tech startup scene in Calgary isn't so hot, but I've seen the city name-dropped quite a few times on here.
This is an unfair generalization. Also please note that religion does not equal faith.
If we were talking about an ordinary creation, like a physical object, then I'd agree with you.

Creative works follow different rules though. The most successful ones become part of our shared culture and they permanently infect our brains. They become part of our jokes and our metaphors. You can't opt-out.

The most extreme example is Happy Birthday. Because of copyright, you can't legally take a recording of your child's special day and share it with others. It's a ridiculous situation, especially for such a basic song.

It's fine for the author to reap the rewards of their creation, but there needs to be some limit. 50 or so years is not asking too much.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that it was the girl who got booked under "Section 295 (a) of the IPC (for hurting religious sentiments)" - hate speech laws?
Disruptions: A $1 Billion Start-Up Might Not Be So Fun
If it wasn't a sequential serial number, but rather a long random string then that would make a lot more sense. If your serial had been cashed in fraudulently then you would only find out when you tried to cash in the legitimate bond. There is still provides a massive incentive to steal numbers either from the bonds or the issuing company.

I'm somewhat sceptical of the security features. Obviously some would exist, but the huge value of the bonds makes forging them attractive. It mentions the bonds being held for many years (possibly decades) so the security features would have to last that long. In the UK they regularly change the bank notes withdrawing old ones from circulation and they are no longer accepted except at the Bank of England. The US doesn't seem to do this.
> I think the fundamental problem with noisy people is (...) that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying: are you saying that noisy people don't think (or are stupid)?

I'm a "quiet one" too, but I think noisy people are the opposite of "thinkless"; they appear to be afraid of their own mind and what it could tell them about the insignificance of the world in general and their life in particular (anyone's life).

What they want is distraction; they use noise as a lid over an even more tumultuous and noisy torrent of depressing thoughts.
There is high possibility of this being true, but still news is only as good as its source.