skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a sudden drop off on page 23 to ~280. There's certainly something fishy going on, but I'm not sure it's their own doing.
>>My comment above may be perceived as a bit trollish

As I quoted, you also posted another obvious troll comment. So the shape of your ears and body odour are quite obvious through the screen...

>>My experience may be "anecdotal" to you

I just note the lack of modern references for your "non"-anecdotal claim.

I can give references to modern practices -- it is enough with the Best Practices book (it is seven years old...)

[As mst noted, the "Modern Perl" book is a very good reference.]

(Stopped reading after that.)
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You claim to really not be aware that table is for a quite different language -- Perl 6?

That point has been made many, many times.

Edit: To the cultural question, there might be a point. I might add that I don't know Perl 6, but it seems like an insane amount of cool/fun toys (macro language like lisp with an Algol-like syntax?! If they can pull that off it is incredible.) That might say something about me and Perl people. But people I admire use both vim and Windows, so I'm not certain.
Great one. Keep up the good work.
Google+ is no different:

11.2 you agree that this license includes a right for google to make such content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such content in connection with the provision of those services.

11.3 you understand that google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your content as are necessary to conform and adapt that content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. you agree that this license shall permit google to take these actions.
Happy to answer any questions about the project and would love to get some feedback.
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If you do the math, Flickr makes about 50-70 million per year in revenue.

It's probably past break-even point, but it's not too profitable for Yahoo. If it were, then Yahoo wouldn't let it stagnate for so long (although it could be argued that Flickr has immense potential and Yahoo failed to see it).

And that's why I said users are still the product. At scale, products have to go way beyond break even point, otherwise it's a drain of resources.
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This is throwaway account.

I really don't get it! 23 days ago I wrote an essay, about startup ideas. ( http://www.vusal.me/essays/ideas/ ) .Suddenly it was in frontpage and stayed there about 3-4 hours. After that, my account, my website, and the thread was banned. First I thought it was banned because 2 of my co-workers voted it up from same office and we use same ip. But then I started to get hate-mails, why I criticized you in my essay. I understand that there many people in this community loving you, following you, some of them are moderators in hackernews. But I don't get why I was banned, at least why my site is banned? If people don't think like me, they can write their thoughts there, why banning? Isn't hacker news about being civil?! I waited 3 weeks maybe I'll be allowed to write again, but no chance.

my banned username: zeynalov
Your point could be equally made about the real name policy.

How exactly do you enforce this policy? Do you just delete all people with 'wrong' names? What about people that changed their name (marriage, legal change of name) and didn't update the site?

If you'd block Germany, I'd guess there'd be a quick replacement ready (we had FB clones in the past. They are barren and empty because FB won, but I'm pretty sure that most people would Just Move On (TM). I don't expect riots over Facebook and Farmville).
Why are you so sure they aren't going to do it? Facebook used and continues to use people's names and pictures in ads. I agree it's unlikely they'll do it Getty-style, but that's not the only way to make money off your picture.
"If you're not paying for it, you're the product being sold."
I currently do full stack web development but not for a startup. Hate it, especially being knee deep in JS every day is something I won't miss when I move on from this position. My feelings towards JS are that it is being over-used and ruining my internet experience.

tl;dr Looking into systems administration and do my programming at home on my own time and my own projects.
yeah, saw that spreadsheet and idea. minimalistic command-line fun, loved it :)

we are thinking of something similar in the future (also for events like gigs). we also want to use recommendation engine to provide info on things that might interest user, not only things that user is subscribed to. :)
>Do you really think your measly $25/year cover for their expenses with you?

That is WAY more than they need to cover expenses. Storing and serving static content is very cheap.
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Do you agree or disagree?
Maybe there were too many to reasonably buy for a small product, or maybe the names were generated 'on the fly'?
I didn't get a prompt on desktop or mobile.
This is not a pissing contest ... but calling it a fact is also silly.

Perl has integrated debugging. Perl has pluggable runops so profilers can be attached to the platform (e.g. Devel::NYTProf). Distribution == CPAN and the 'make dist' system from ExtUtils::MakeMaker, again built in.

The introspection is -different-, perhaps, but I'm not sure I'd say it's better or worse.

Nothing meaningful? You set it to break into the debugger when that exception is thrown, and then debug it. I'm honestly not sure how this is any different an experience to in java - any java application not actively being debugged will write a stack trace to its log file and either exit or move on to the next request too, no?
Ironic he's posting this one G+ and probably has a Facebook account.

Why do people give him the time of day
That is only their first fine. If German law is similar to Swedish law here nothing prevents future fines if FB just chose to ignore the ruling and pay the fine.
"Wil Wheaton on… PLEASE PLEASE DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME PLEASE"

Would be a better title
Germans have historically thought they can dictate their wishes on others.
That would have possibly been true before the Facebook acquisition, but once the sale went through, I got about 20-30 new requests from people that were on FB but not Instagram, and I'm not even remotely popular. I can't say the FB to G+ conversion I saw (amongst non-techies) was as strong.

You're also not accounting for the fact that Instagram is a mobile app with a single focus. I don't want to go into my G+ app and filter by photos and hope to get the same quickly-see-what-my-friends-are-up-to experience I can with Instagram, just like I wouldn't post those kinds of photos to G+ to begin with. It's a very informal platform and I don't think G+ comes close to replicating that experience.
Agreed! The Stanford Encyclopedia is really awesome - helped so much with my undergrad philosophy degree. Somehow it manages to be topical and in-depth at the same time.
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I wasn't trying to defend these services. Instead I believe that such EULAs should be against the law, as the fine print is too subtle to be understood by a majority.
Don't feed the fucking trolls. DHH is trolling you with the title.

It is sad that you are pre-emptively pulling the anti-feminist card, but it also indicates that you do not understand what actual sexism is, or why it upsets people.
Sure, these probably aren't necessary for people whose parents taught them proper portion size and diet control. But some of us grew up with parents who still fight eating disorders. Two tools were instrumental in teaching myself how much to eat:

1. Calorie counting app. I use MyFitness daily and record everything in it. The app gives me one number -- how many calories are remaining for today -- on which I can focus and remember. Other apps are probably as good, I've never tried. This really helped me learn how to control my portions and stay honest with myself.

2. Calorie counts on menus. When looking at fast food, I'll remember how many calories are remaining for today, and I'll often change my choices. I've chosen the 300-calorie cheeseburger over the 600-calorie double cheeseburger many times, mostly because the difference was listed on the menu.

One of my goals was to change how I thought about food -- instead of being a magic elixir, it became a game: I have 2000 calories to spend today, but if I spend 600 calories on this burger, I won't be able to afford the 400 calories of beer I want to drink tonight. This is because I've already budgeted 1600 calories across my other meals. I've lost 80 lbs this way and maintained this lower weight for months.
Just between two save points. :)
The beauty is that <input type="range"> works in any browser. Some just render it as text input.
It's just a flat-out bad title to use because it explicitly and intentionally uses body issues to make a point that could be made in another way. I'm no feminist crusader, I just don't think that's a cool thing to do.
I still like the idea that my postgre server is on my local network. It could be used for backup.
Don't worry though. The communists in the UN will soon decide that Facebook needs oversight.
If he knows what DNS is, it should be trivial to change it. That someone who is technical has to read through documentation to make a basic change like that is pretty silly...
Please let's not use 'allowed to use a pseudonym' and 'wants to hide his real name' interchangeably.

If you want to/have to hide your real name, a pseudonym might help (and your suggestion is helpful). But not everyone using a pseudonym tries desperately to hide his real name.

Nothing against your post, I just want to make a case for pseudonyms while avoiding to reduce this to 'some people are in real danger of violence' cases etc.

Let people choose their names. Regardless of their motivation.
You are not a hacker and you are not gaming anything. You are just an asshole. People thinking like you are the reason we will soon need a lawyer just to cross the road.

I invite you to score yourself in the psychopathy checklist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_Psychopathy_Checklist) and let us know how it went.
yeah, I'm not sure that's a good way to feel out whether there's a market for a product or app. There are plenty of dev communities like forrst or dribbble where people can show off their ideas and try to gauge interest.
I'm not saying it's a great title but is he trolling? Rails has a popular saying: "fat models, skinny controllers". This title is a riff on that. No body issues need come into it.
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But people always have control over a company, even if that company has a monopoly. They can simply not buy the company's product or service, or use an alternate product or service. It may not be as good as the one offered by the monopoly, but no company is forcing people to pay them for their goods and services. In fact, the only entity that is forcing people to pay them for the goods and services they provide is the government.
I disagree (that it's a branding and advertising problem alone), and here's a very simple reason why.

I went into a store and saw a machine running Windows 8. I decided to give it a try despite all the bad things I had heard about it. I opened the calendar app, messed around, said "neat!" to myself, and went to close the program. Wait, there's no close button. Okay, maybe if I hover around the corners there will be a pop-out to click it. No? Okay, maybe if I hover around the edges of the screen in general there will be a pop-out. No? Okay, well I can always hit Alt-F4... that didn't work, they must have it locked down. I have no idea how to close the calendar application.

I've been programming for the past 12 years, and I have no idea how to close this application. What has my life become?
(I didn't realize there was a fall run!)
As for modular arithmetic did you check out the free book by Victor Shoup (it's mentioned on the course site) ?
http://shoup.net/ntb/

As for professor interaction, it is a byproduct of the MOOC formula : don't expect too much from the professor, he is already teaching to thousands of students ! You'll have to manage your way through the discussion forums (who unfortunately have a lot of noise). During all the courses I took, I always managed to find answers like that.
I really liked the tone of this post.

It presented an argument, offered alternative viewpoints, and articulated why the author thinks his approach is better than alternatives (without overly attacking them). Code samples were provided with real-life examples.

Whether or not I side with Concerns or DCI or something else, I got value out of reading this post and my understanding of Concerns improved.

This is a welcome relief to what was becoming a tense and drama-filled debate (Rails OOP design). Nice work, dhh.
The comment you replied to was certainly not a reference to Nazi Germany at all. Germans understand that a privacy-related reference to german history is usually a reference to the former state of East Germany which was famous for massive surveillance.
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I do find it funny, but also, it's [perl 6] documentation. But I agree with your point that personal preference varies.

Just an anecdote: a startup I work with built a product on Rails 2. It has been successful beyond anyone's wildest dreams. But they have a huge mess on their hands now, and it was caused by -success- :)
I can't find the reason in the article, but I'd like to propose that it's because making new things is hard and people are optimists?

An interesting comparison would be to know how many projects in general are shipped late. Otherwise it will be another case of "1/4 of all crimes in London are committed by foreigners!" where 24% of Londoners are foreigners.
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Not to mention that one of the Tenants of Rails is to have "fat" models and "thin" controllers. Lighten up...Yes, pun intended.
This is a follow-up from Pierre's 2011 numbers post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3157739
> in most online FPS if the server suddenly slows down all the players start experiencing lag and everyone looks like they are "teleporting"

Why would server lag effect FPS? I can only see how it would effect the reported positions of the other players because you aren't getting updates to changes in their movement. Server lag should never effect your FPS.
I thought Kickstarter was past the start-up phase.

Oh - you mean - please buy some of my expensive chocks.

Misleading post or what?
This would be insanely helpful for those of us who are cutting/bulking and want to keep track of exact amounts. Even better would be listing macro-nutrients along with the calorie count.
I'm pretty sure that it's your fault as a reader to assume that the models being metaphorically referred to are human females. That's only one of many possibilities, but unfortunately, you not only leapt to that conclusion, but decided that women's body issues needs a white knight on HN.
It sounded in your original comment like you objected to all kinds of regulation of internet companies.

I personally have no strong opinion either way about if there should be a law banning real name policies. Such a law seems a bit silly, but I also see a bit of the point of having it.
You're shifting the issue. We're not debating which large service is requiring real names (btw, G+ has the same requirement), we're debating whether or not Facebook is a monopoly. By your logic, I could make the argument for any service being a monopoly by being specific about the type of service they are supposedly monopolizing. For instance, Twitter has a monopoly on microblogging services that use birds in their marketing.
> c) NOT to behave like this wont be reverted pronto.

Like Facebook has been stifled by users' opinions before.
Sure, but I am not quite sure how they are structuring this from a legal perspective. Wouldn't be surprised if this were in fact some pseudo-independently operating branches for both tax reasons as well as the protection of their US assets.
The language in the TOS says "you can control who can view certain of your Content and activities on the Service". Note that key qualifier: on the Service. It does not say that you can control who can view your Content by other means; so if they sold your photos to someone else who made them viewable through some other means, you can't control that. At least, that's the way I read it; IANAL.
Actually, no. If you give someone a delicious homemade chutney and that inspires them, they could gift you the following year with a marmalade or cherry confit or something else.

Your reply suggests that you may be giving homemade gifts and getting retail-purchased gifts in return.

I actually agree with what you're doing but doubt that many recipients truly appreciate your gifts, which are likely pretty neat.
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So suppose Facebook dissolves that daughter company. What then?
Great, Sometimes i just wish Wordpress would officially support Postgre.
Then they'll just shuffle wording to ensure the changes are however-many-pages they need to be so that no-one reads those either.

In general: people who don't take the time to read or consider their Terms of Service are not going to take the time to read or consider the changes.
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Viewer.visible(current_account.posts, to: current_user)

That's essentially a function inside a module/namespace. You aren't making a separate class/object for it.
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What's your take on batteries? I've heard a lot about hobby RC LiPo batteries turning into flaming fireballs due to both improper charging or over-draining.
I got the same thing because I was signed into gmail. After I logged out I could read the post w/out having to accept g+.
Yes, he is trolling HN with the title, because you can get sadly predictable conversations like this one.

The title is specifically intended to be a double entendre (and kind of a clever one). If you really want to disassemble this whole thing, it's the clever use of "diet" that makes the pun.
I don't think there's any sexism at all, because it applies to both males and females. Have you ever seen a male model that is chubby? All the male models I've seen have 6-packs and are incredibly fit, just like their female counterparts.
Axiom 5: It is possible to monetize free services in numerous ways without violating the privacy of your users, reneging on a TOS they signed earlier, and generally destroying their trust or expectations of fairness.
Were you logged into a google account? I was logged in and got the above screen. I was not trying to reply--kind of hard to when you can't even read the post.
Instead of discouraging people from showing their care/regard for you (which, with a generous helping of social obligation, is what gift-giving is about), why not try to find ways to help gift givers give useful/desirable gifts?

Children have wishlists (adults too nowadays -- e.g. Amazon), people 'register' for weddings, etc.
Right, but you're missing the point. If Facebook had prominently allowed pseudonyms in the first place it likely wouldn't have become as popular as it is today. It's the White Pages of the 21st century, and as I stated above, the White Pages would have been practically worthless had it allowed people to use pseudonyms.
> [...] because the German regulations would be stopping two consenting parties from interacting with each other [...]

That might be a moral problem for libertarians. But there are lots of (not only German) laws along these lines.
Guess I'll have to continue not using Instagram. All joking aside, this was the worst possible time for them to do this, considering Twitter and Flickr both attacking their space more and more now.
Sigh. The OK Cupid "Let's look at the data" posts were so great that it's depressing to see other companies try to get attention by half-assing their way through a little research and coming up with a surprising conclusion.

Protip: When the conclusions of your amateur study contradict a peer-reviewed study done by professionals, your first thought should not be: gosh, those eggheads were wrong! Instead it's time to re-check your study design.
Personal call, I suppose, but if I take a picture of a friend of mine and then that photos hows up in a weight-loss ad on the subway, I am probably going to lose a friend.
But sadly, beginners these days learn "jQuery" before they learn JavaScript.
Note on all of the TOS' they state they can change it at any time in the future for any reason, and you agree to this before you click 'I Accept'.
Add a favicon, eh?
What "we need" is oversight by another federal government agency that can issue us smart cards that are mandated by grocery stores and will help us in deciding what we can buy and how much.

I hear Michael Bloomberg has already invested in a startup.
Sadly, there's only one way to test these machines right. And that's in the field, as they're being used, without any knowledge that they're being tested.

I'm sure that's not what they're planning to do.
This part:

> Why are so many crowdfunded projects blowing their deadlines?

>Over and over in our interviews, the same pattern emerged. A team of ambitious but inexperienced creators launched a project that they expected would attract a few hundred backers. It took off, raising vastly more money than they anticipated -- and obliterating the original production plans and timeline
I find it interesting that Light Table's delay is largely blamed on YC. It seems kind of strange to me that after having raised a large amount of funds from one source, you'd risk pissing off those investors in order to secure a smaller amount of funds from a second source.
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But Facebook doesn't enforce their real name policy. And I don't think they need to. Most people willingly give their real names if you make that the only option for signing up for the service.

If you block Germany it's tantamount to censorship. Perhaps people in Germany are less concerned about censorship than we are here in the States, but I'd have to imagine it would roughly at least some feathers.
Wait, your position is that it's impossible to make web apps function identically across different platforms?
Even further back, look at what Gracenote did with CDDB, crowdsourcing the data as a community project, up until they decided to lock it up.
You just need encrypted storage with local keys. These are already available.
Can you link to some of this debate? I have always been curious about this drama I hear of.

I've never been particularly involved in any programming communities and I am having a hard time imagining what it is like.
Instagram-export service Instaport is returning 500 errors:

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500 Internal Server Error

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Totaly agree, the time for home micro's as such is due a revival and now we have the processing power etc to make it worthwhile in comparision to consumer units we have today.

You never know, how long before Lego starts adding more intricate parts beyond motors.

It will be this that will give us true programmers who have control over there enviroment again unlike today with API's that are out of your control and changed at a whim sometimes and thats upon your local desktop PC.

ALso with the move of windows and secureboot then the time is right for more user packaged Raspberry Pi type micro's of yesteryear.