skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you make a commitment to another person, you may get rough patches but eventually if you work through them then your relationship will mostly only get stronger.

Of course, this doesn't count when it comes to abusive relationships.

Compensate for what exactly?

Looking after children, presumably.
This post and comments here made me leave work early to go home and hug my kids extra tight this evening.
Sidenote: The B word is irrelevant here as you can't bankrupt your way out of student debt. You're stuck with it forever.

But otherwise I find your arguments compelling, and an accurate model of how my humanities friends were thinking when they applied/got into law schools.
How much you ask for depends on your expectations. Generally, they should be realistic. Often, they are not. Google Chefs are the exception.

Here's my crude Fuck You Money calculator:

http://fumoney.kludgecode.com/default.aspx
You made me think, "If only there were a host where you could install the software with one click, and it would automatically update itself..." Follow that thread far enough and the line between a blogging service and a hosting service begins to blur.

The real objective, I think, isn't to get everyone hosting their own stuff, but to popularize technologies that both allow data portability (you can move to another service), and are easy to use.

But WordPress has kind of already done this. They have step-by-step directions[1] for moving from a WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted install.

People who prefer Tumblr (an example of a blog host without an export function) to WordPress do so for reasons that seem orthogonal to data portability:

1. simpler, even easier to use,

2. aesthetics (sleeker design),

3. social networking features built in,

4. reach (because of #3, it's a lot easier to accumulate readers and engagement).

In theory, a service with an open-source codebase, or support for a standard export format, could provide all this. In practice, one hasn't.

Edit: icebraining pointed out downthread that you can mostly export a Tumblr blog by adding '/rss' to the URL of each page, a process that is easily automated.

[1] http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wor...
HUGE improvement on this app. At first glance theres nothing different, maybe the news feed loads a little faster. You really see it, though, when you click on an item or picture in the newsfeed. The expansion is instant. Clicking on a picture gives you an instant larger view and the ability to like/comment, same with a post (including comment history). That means in the same/less time it took the HTML5 app to just load the news feed preview, the native app can do the same AND cache all of the expanded content for each post. I'm impressed.
For starters, the Chinese government has artificially tied the Yuan to the US Dollar in a way that the exchange rate favors the rest of the world out-sourcing their manufacturing to China (i.e. cheap labor).
With the native bitmap stuff, they are not writing any native code. They are referring to using this flag:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Bitm...

When creating bitmaps. It seems to act as a hint to the BitmapFactory to allocate the bitmap in a different memory space to where it would create a stock standard java object. There seems to be some pros and cons to this approach - namely the memory allocated to the bitmap could be disposed at any time, meaning the bitmap would have to be reloaded from disk, or wherever it came from.

I will try out the flag in my own app, and see what impact it has.
I'm moving to Seattle in January and was already planning to sign up with CondoInternet. Seeing as my to-be neighborhood is one of those they say this will be offered in, I'm now wondering when this will be rolled out. Awesome news though.

Edit: "Gigabit Squared will be aggressively building, with eyes towards beginning services in the Fall of 2013."
I don't have a great citation to hand, but one of the key offerings of Autonomy is software which does exactly that - combs through discovery documents, reducing the number of lawyers needed.

http://www.autonomy.com/content/Customers/verticals/legal/in...
Remee & The Lucid Dream Of Crowd Funding
Would having an estimated salary next to the lifestyle cost bars for comparison have helped?
As far as I'm concerned, there's already two formats: RSS and ATOM. One can "export" a Tumblr blog by simply appending /rss to the URLs.
I feel like they don't know what pivoting means. The first pivot doesn't sound like a pivot; they built a new business with the same venture money. The second pivot isn't a pivot either. I think reasonable people would call that "growth and expansion."

Pivoting is supposed to mean that you changed strategic direction based on validated learning. Twitter and Instagram started as pivots. This sounds nothing like that.
Do you mean on possibly future deploy to ftp implementation? There's a pretty long story behind that one too - ftp is brutal to work with.
Hurrah! I was getting worried about something Google fiber esque taking painfully long to make it here.
I think in America they passed a law that student loans are not relived once you declare yourself bankrupt though.
From memory Bush passed it because so many students were doing it due to crazy debt
This is an excellent writeup. I think it misses an important trend in the Web's population: fewer nerds. It used to be a lot of work to get a PC with a broadband connection. Now every cell phone has cheap broadband and a suite of apps built in. The Web today is mostly populated by users who are not enthralled with the technological underpinnings that make it possible. And that is natural. The the lamentable effect is that now there is a market for accessible communication and media. And this is overwhelming the traditions of sharing and valuing anonymity on the Web.

I imagine the nerd population has grown, and accelerated over time. It is just that the non-nerds are getting on-line much faster.
You only reinforced your reputation with that post. You made it clear that you think that people's response to Apple not fixing iOS's "most glaring weakness" will be to jailbreak, and not to leave iOS for greener pastures. Tell me again, what's the difference between Gruber's biased rhetoric and your own?
How about an IP lawfirm offering insurance against patent trolls? Your company pays an annual fee. Once you get a shakedown notice, the law firm responds, letting the patent troll know that you have $0 marginal cost to making a stand. If the law firm had enough clients, their incentive would be to go to court to invalidate bad patents so they don't have to keep responding to the same shakedown notices.
That seems to only provide the newest 20 posts.

If RSS went all the way back to the beginning, then you'd be right, it would get you 99% of the way there.
>Why so many upvotes for a comment about upvotes?

i assume you're just joking here, but it's a trend i've noticed on reddit: any comment or submission that has anything to do with voting, whether actual reddit votes or elections or anything else, gets more votes than something that doesn't reference voting. It reminds people to vote.
And we only had 28.8k links to the Web!
You can read all about it here:
http://www.searchlores.org/indexo.htm
it is just getting better and better to live here in Seattle. Legalization of weed, same-sex marriage, and now high-speed internet
Hi Tom, Ryan from Pear here. AdRoll did not have the Facebook Exchange option when it was available, and we saw Perfect Audience had it first. Also, I do have the same conversion goals set up in AdRoll as I do in PA. (/checkout_thankyou.asp), and they are not firing properly, even though in Analytics I do see some conversions.

I'm happy to devise a better experiment with you and run our next customer on both platforms with the exact same criteria. Email me if you're interested ryan at pearanalytics dot com.
Yes, and they should drop the pipe to bash/sh at the end of the curl command. Download it, read it, then manually run it, don't just pipe it all together.
I think this is an example of seeing the past through rose-coloured glasses.

Yes there was Flickr but you could discover photos. Thing is, Flickr is still there and you can still use it. What's clear from this is that Flickr didn't (and doesn't) cover what is the use case for most people: sharing photos with a limited group of friends and family.

Technorati? Honestly, I think this is an example of living inside a very small bubble. I'd honestly never heard of Technorati until long after it had waned.

I don't agree that the monetization of the Web has degraded the value (to the user) of links on sites other than links on sites aren't the primary discovery mechanism like they used to be, which is actually a good thing (IMHO).

> In the early part of this century, if you made a service that let users create or share content, the expectation was that they could easily download a full-fidelity copy of their data, or import that data into other competitive services, with no restrictions

This is only true to a limited extent IMHO. The primary services for creating information 10+ years ago were email providers. Because Web-based mail was a latecomer, services like Yahoo Mail and Hotmail grew up in an era where many people used Outlook, Thunderbird and other desktop email clients so they had to support POP3 (and later IMAP) and you could use those services to export your mail.

But that isn't the same as designing your services for interoperability. That was an unintended consequence.

As the idea of "your mail, everywhere (you have an Internet connection)" became dominant, so did Webmail. POP3/IMAP became less important.

Again, I consider this a net positive change.

> In the early days of the social web, there was a broad expectation that regular people might own their own identities by having their own websites

This I disagree with. Having your own domain and Website 10+ years ago was pretty unusual. Administering your own site is not easy, particularly as malware became more prevalent. This has declined because no one wants to run their own Website (or email server for that matter) because it's a crazy amount of effort for very little real gain.

The only real problem I see with the present state of the Web is that Facebook wants to own all your data. It wants to be your identity. It wants to be your Internet. That's bad. It's bad for the Web and bad for consumers. But honestly, I don't see it coming to pass. Facebook is just as susceptible to disruption as so many behemoths that have come (and gone) before it.

10+ years ago Microsoft dominated your computing environment. Many couldn't envision a future that would break free of this grasp. In a few short years Microsoft has diminished their control of your computing experience in ways few could've predicted. I'll just leave this as an example of the danger of extrapolation:

http://xkcd.com/605/
nah, nyc is packed with cars everyday. most (plurality if not majority of) traffic seems to be biz delivery and taxi, not commuters. commuting a car into nyc sucks, and most would take taxi if they could afford it over trains.
Given the actual average cost for bandwidth is less than a dime per gigabyte, working out to less than $50 per month per household, I'd say it's extremely profitable. [1]

The only reason no one is pursuing it is because the incumbent providers have lobbied tirelessly to create the notion that no one can afford to deploy new fiber, which is clearly false.

If we were to convince regulators to push hard on telcos and recover the rural broadband tax, we'd have probably nearly half a trillion dollars to pay for it. [2]

[1] http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2011/04/07/what-does-a-gigaby...

[2] http://www.newnetworks.com/BroadbandScandalIntro.htm
What Octocat? Do you mean the Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft logos? http://cl.ly/image/1R2h2B3Z2m3x/poop.jpg
In 2002 Microsoft was still a dangerous (and the US DOJ found illegal) monopoly. THAT is why we feared Hail Storm.
Searching for that led me to this website about a variety of serious bugs.

http://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/bugse.html
Are you the VP of Engineering ZeroCater is looking for?
Keep in mind that you're usually expected to enter the OTP generated by the RSA token into the same web browser that sees your password. It just makes it so the attacker has to exploit the stolen credentials right away, instead of storing them for later use.

I think there's some value in that though.
Web Components Are Resources That Should Have URLs
Scheduled to be in by the end of 2014, so don't cancel your internet service just yet. :)

I'm very curious how the "wifi neighborhoods" will be implemented. The neighborhood somehow gets a gigabit wireless connection (which the city's press release erroneously refers to as "wireless fiber"), and clients connect via 802.11n, but what exactly is my 802.11n client connecting to and where is it?

edit: hmmm, from their technical FAQ: "Services will be available to 100,000 residents within 24 months (by year-end 2014)."
We don't disagree. I was arguing the point advanced by some that hotel tenants represent a safety risk . Alright then, help me with this. In the context of Hotels. Say a 4*+ hotel. What are the zoning folks occupying themselves with ?
Presumably their second pivot involved buying an e-mail list from someone, or reactivating deactivated accounts. I started receiving newsletters from them (Ashton Kutcher's favourite gifts? Well, if I wasn't already going to unsubscribe...) on the 11th, and again yesterday- the last e-mail I received from them before then was in September '11.

Unsubscribed again- hopefully this time it's permanent. It appears I am not alone, either:

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%40fab+spam&src=ty...
Hmmm, I wonder if "downvotely.com" is available ...
For the changelog, see: http://backbonejs.org/#changelog

This is an "almost-1.0" preview release -- so if you've got a Backbone app, I'd appreciate it if you'd take the time to upgrade, and report issues and concerns.

Some of the more significant updates are:

* `listenTo` and `stopListening` for easier event unbinding.

* HTTP PATCH support, for partial updates.

* collection.update(models) for "smart" add/remove/merge in one method.

* Events.once, a-la jQuery. Also jQuery-style event map syntax.

* Lots of performance tuning for triggering millions of events per second
(should you find the need) in modern browsers.
I don't think cold and generic is necessarily a bad thing for github at the current stage of their evolution. They've already got about as good a reputation as they can possibly have among developers, and any logged in user never sees the homepage.

They don't need to market to developers anymore. Developers are going to be requesting approval from their bosses or purchasing managers to use github, and what the homepage needs to do is reassure the purchasers that github is a serious business.
> Some of the best, most creative and versatile programmers I have known could not write code without a set of reference books next to them. Why? Because they don't have encyclopedic knowledge of the various languages they might use

You don't have to know everything about a language to solve problems in that language; if you need a set of reference books next to you for the languages you use every day, you don't know those languages very well.

And a good interviewer will help you with discussion, if you have a reasonable approach to the problem: "I think there's a function to do foo, but I'd have to check the documentation to find the details." "It's called foomod.foo_doer; it takes a baz and a bar." "Ah, thanks. scribble scribble". (Or, alternatively, "I'm assuming a function foo_doer to do foo, which I think exists in the standard library, but if not I could write it easily enough.")
Student loans don't discharge in bankruptcy. Also, the odds are not decent of landing a "sweet job that lets you pay [loans] off much more easily and have plenty of money to spare." Take a look at the bimodal distribution for starting lawyer salaries.[1] In 2011, less than 6% of graduates got jobs at large law firms paying $160k.[2] I don't know current attrition rate stats, but generally most of the entry-level class at a large firm is gone within 5-7 years.[3]

It sounds like the people you know may have gotten lucky pursuing a high-risk gamble, whether they knew it or not.

[1] http://insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2012/10/five-stag...

[2] http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwhiteboard/2012/07/a-p...

[3] http://www.law.com/jsp/llf/PubArticleLLF.jsp?id=119494824709...
They did notice that the design aspect of their previous site was a differentiating factor and extrapolated on that, but I agree it wasn't a pivot.
This is an "almost-1.0" preview release -- so if you've got a Backbone app, I'd appreciate it if you'd take the time to upgrade, and report issues and concerns.

Some of the more significant updates are:

* `listenTo` and `stopListening` for easier event unbinding.

* HTTP PATCH support, for partial updates.

* collection.update(models) for "smart" add/remove/merge in one method.

* Events.once, a-la jQuery. Also jQuery-style event map syntax.

* Lots of performance tuning for triggering millions of events per second
(should you find the need) in modern browsers.
http://jsperf.com/events-vs-events2/3
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I'd say blaming programmers is a bit wrong, blame the business; most businesses don't pay programmers to write good code, they pay for fast code that generally works. They don't want to pay too much because how hard can it be to put database data onto the screen. Most programming simply doesn't require math beyond elementary arithmetic. You think most programmers have time for formal proofs?
A lot of it comes down to the way NASA is organized. Generally it's big budget missions with a single spacecraft as the culmination of the mission. Rather than ongoing development programs. Also, NASA has this tendency to want to skip technology generations even though the end result tends to take longer to deliver and cost more than it would have if they would have just explored the intermediate technology space to start with (see: JWST and VentureStar). While we're talking about JWST, that's another big part of the way things are at NASA these days, that program has eaten most of the unmanned NASA budget and put a significant crimp on space science missions. It'll probably be worth it, but the cost is pretty extreme at this point. Also on the topic of JWST, I remember back when they were planning to have a flight demonstrator (Nexus) in the form of a Hubble class Earth-orbiting telescope using some of the NGST/JWST technology. Such a mission probably would have brought the risk of the JWST program more under control but for whatever reason they ended up cancelling it.

TPF is another example of planning farther ahead than is fully justified. As the program advanced the design became less and less fixed rather than more and more refined. This is an indication that they were designing something that was beyond their expertise and needed more intermediate research to figure out, but with the budget crunch and the lack of vision nobody could come up with good enough ideas to do so. NASA set their sights on deep nulling interferometry and it sounded like a really cool technology that might be capable of doing what they needed, but more and more it seems like that may not have been the best technology choice, and it led to a far too expensive system to fund.

If instead of JWST and SIM and TPF NASA had instead hitched it's wagon to a more incremental development approach, of launching Hubble or Kepler class telescopes in the $1 billion budget range every 2 or 3 years or so and using that program as a test bed for new technologies and new scientific investigations I think we'd be in a much better state right now and probably a lot closer toward having the capability to directly image exoplanets routinely. But who knows if that would have been the case.

On the plus side, the impending drop in the costs of orbital launch due to SpaceX et al will probably force NASA into a model such as that, so maybe we'll see if it generates better results.
A ninety day pivot exercise followed by that kind of success and growth is extremely motivating. Glad to see this on the homepage!
As far as I can see this article is rather misguided. The author seems totally unaware of the existence or purpose of these files:

config/environments
├── config/environments/development.rb
├── config/environments/production.rb
└── config/environments/test.rb

Put all this stuff in there.

edit: I see the source of this misunderstanding. The author states:

> Rails applications should be “turnkey”; that is, deployed anywhere without modifying code

This is an ideological statement with no basis in reality. If you have to jump through all these hoops in order to trick your app into running as expected without modifying code - you're probably Doing Things Wrong™.

A better approach might be to make a private fork of the project you wish to deploy, modify the code as needed, deploy from that, and periodically merge from upstream.
They don't seem to honor unsubscribe requests as the mails keep coming.
We didn't have swarms of zombie windows PCs to be DDOS'd by back then, either. That was a plus.

AJAX is awesome, but I hate that every site uses it 'just because' and my browser in now hosting applications with persistent network connections instead of displaying a document.
It's interesting how much of the funding infrastructure for this was originally created for relatively inconsequential, share-pictures-of-cats businesses.
This article is so specious. I am actually shocked that something this bad would come out of a company that purports to understand internet marketing and analytics.

First, its comparing two completely different types of retargeting. It compares one campaign where Facebook retargeting makes up 3/4 of the impressions to one that is just general retargeting on the ad exchanges. These perform completely differently.

Second, the timeframes are different. This makes a big difference especially if they have been running the same ads over a long period of time as ads (especially retargeted ads) tend to get ignored after a while so the falloff in performance can be quite rapid.

Third, comparing post-click conversion across retargeting partners doesn't really make much sense. You're targeting the audience to begin with, you should probably care mostly what percentage of your audience they are reaching and what the CPM is more than the CPA. Unless these guys are doing fancy stuff (e.g. more aggressively retargeting people who have clicked but then did not convert) it actually does not make any sense that CPA would be any different at scale.

Fourth, if you're running two different retargeting platforms on the same audience its possible that you're bidding up your own retargeting cost as the two platforms are bidding against each other. e.g. this shows a CTR of around 0.13% which is actually pretty good for FB retargeting, but they're paying ~$1 CPC which is really bad for FB retargeting.
I kind of doubt the econ department of UChicago needs this kind of advertisement. It's probably the most famous in the world. They have the record for econ Nobel prizes as a university. If I had to take a guess, they are probably overwhelmed by applications rather than lacking some.

Anyway, if it is, it's a cool one. :-)
Awesome news. Comcast's monopoly on broadband in certain neighborhoods has produced nothing but sub-par internet access. This should greatly improve things.