skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the use cases in the presentation that stood out to me was finding people you met at a party. Let's say your friend Chris introduced you to some girl named Stephanie, and all you really knew about her was that she went to Harvard... simply asking the graph search "Friends of Chris named Stephanie who went to Harvard" should give you a manageable list to sort through to friend them, rather than all 1 billion Facebook users.
Could you elaborate a bit more on your experiences?
Carmen Ortiz's Husband Defending Her Prosecution of Aaron Swartz
You might also want to check out someone building a computer based off a 6502, very fun to see someone going through the steps to design and build something out of older hardware.

http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=680
“Who are my friends that live in San Francisco?”

I think I should not worry about the friends if I can't remember them.
so..this means you can just take music as you please?

Music is only 6% because they can't make a living by selling it. We might actually have better music (and a dependence from the music industry) out there if independent artists could make a living (even if it was small)..almost like a startup selling software/services.
New York Times Columnist Goes Undercover, Secretly Creates Best-Selling App
Entrepreneurs are the New Labor (part 1) [09/12]
If you think buy and hold doesn't require work, then I'd say that isn't investing either. It's either gambling or praying.

The amount of work and experience to really understand a company, industry, and overall market is nothing compared to what it takes for a quick flip.

Let's be realistic, what are your odds of doubling or tripling your money by finding the right stock? Within a reasonable time frame of course.

That's the one thing I learned from stocks - there is no free lunch. The best long term hold stocks are either 1) expensive so that your return is minimal 2) unknown and take just as much work as a job 3) requires you to assume a high level of risk
Capital gains taxes are going up by 50% in CA this year. That's a big hit to future angel rounds. I wrote about it here: http://jacobexmachina.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-fiscal-cliff-...
It will be rather hard to compete with 15 million lines of Mathematica and over 25 years of research but you have to start somewhere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Alpha#Technology
Live: Facebook Announces Graph Search, A Social Search Engine
Mashable re-designed
The original provision gave preferential treatment to CA residents, which the courts ruled to be unconstitutional: a violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause.

The provisions in California law regarding the 80 percent asset and payroll requirements were found to be unconstitutional in August 2012 by the California Court of Appeal in Cutler v. Franchise Tax Board (FTB). The court's decision made California's entire QSBS statute invalid and unenforceable. As a result, all QSBS gain exclusions and deferrals previously allowed under California law became invalid. It is important to note that the court's decision in Cutler did not change the federal treatment of QSBS. (Source: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/law/Qualified_Small_Business_Stock_an...
)

So the California FTB (and the rest of the states participating in the UDITPA Multistate Tax Compact) use the original "loophole" as a means to essentially siphon off a greater portion of the tax revenue from the occurrence of interstate commerce, and to keep it in the respective state. Washington, Oregon, California all participate (Source: http://www.startuplawblog.com/2012/08/17/interstate-business...)

This would be fine all fine and dandy, but for the fact that most of the "startups" or QSBs that benefit/ed from this exception derive/d revenue from multi-state commerce, on the Internet. This has made it and makes it more difficult for those businesses trying to do their "startup" thing out of state to compete with those here who get more tax breaks to re-invest. Interestingly, most of the VC money - over HALF of all venture capital in the USA -- goes to businesses in California. This is kind of messed up. (Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-20010486-62.html)

So looking at the bright side -- this should encourage startups to start places other than CA.

[Edited to include info about UDITPA in response to dragonwriter's comment]
Deploying to Cloud Foundry from Github (with help from Twilio)
You mean it's malicious besides the content itself?
As the author of the petition; I take responsibility for hitting the submit button, halfway through an edit.

Sorry.
So you're saying stalking people on Facebook just became easier?
The Gibson opening line is great, but it's been a long time since it was common to see dull grey static on dead channels. Now, the color of a dead channel is bright electric blue. I wonder if in the future Neuromancer will need footnotes to explain the imagery, like Shakespeare editions that explain that "quick" used to mean "pregnant".
Are there 5 million people with access to that specific top secret information?

My understanding is that you only get access to some top secret information, not the keys to the castle.
Well, it was certainly interesting, but it was only about a dozen blog posts and it stopped in April 2011.
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California is now the only place in the nation where moving to NYC may lower your tax rate! (We have the top marginal income tax rate - go us!)
Another thing I can suggest is to network via sites like LinkedIn. I actually got contact with another HN-poster from Brazil! And best tip: if there's no group where you live yet, you can start one!
I'm shocked, shocked, to discover that commenters on an Internet forum know little about dating. What's next, people posting pictures of cats with captions?
Still no. One thing destroys your life (or significantly alters it), the other installs some crap on your computer. You can always format and reinstall a computer.
In theory, jQuery 2 should be a lot faster because of removed support for old browsers.
I'm not trying to equivocate.

GGP commment made an unqualified statement "action in government is slow" adding that the idea of "drastic action" was a "fantasy". I countered by noting that in the present day the government is moving very fast on at least one particular issue. We will know tomorrow whether the action is drastic. Full stop.
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"50% marginal tax rate started around $65k"

I think your friend has very poor math skills.

http://www.ey.com/CA/en/Services/Tax/Tax-Calculators-2012-Pe...

$65K gross income in BC nets nearly $52K; a ~20% average tax rate. This is before any eligible deductions.

Even if your friend was making $1,000,000 gross salary, they'd still pay less than 42% tax on average, and that's ignoring several legal tax shelters available to all Canadians.
This story is a bit misleading. If you study the successful companies using open source as a business model you will find they all raised large amounts of venture capital. That was during the window when open source as a business was a brand new idea.

That window has now all but closed and it is exceedingly difficult to find examples of successful companies that bootstrapped their way to success running an open source business.
One could argue that services like Amazon SES make email delivery a commodity (though I'm personally not convinced of that).

But that's not the market Mailchimp is in. There's a lot more to sending newsletters than an SMTP server. Amazon SES is not their competition.
Lol, I'm not angry about it. Its more of an annoyance that its accepted. At some point the woman needs to grow up and let those who she's been keep on in the friendzone know whats up. I don't give a fuck if they believe that theres some kind of risk to it. Its a crappy thing to do to people and you shouldn't do that to someone who doesn't get the clue.

Women are 10 fold better at determining who is interested in them. They are also loads better at determining who is congruent with the attitude/personality they're projecting. Women are also really good at hiding how they feel.
I am more interested in what the human sees than the compiler. And to a human, it does not look referentially transparent.
While I get the point, wikipedia works because people with weird hobbies can get away with just text if they want to.

getting data into the right shape for gnu|alpha or wolfram|alpha|community is probably not as trivial
What happened when Facebook disabled my account
you'll know it when you need it ... seriously. unless you really know what you want and what you are doing the chances of outsmarting the compiler are very very slim.

there's a rather old but good video about this very topic that i just remembered:

http://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/camp2007/cccamp07-en-...

and i think these are the corresponding slides:
http://www.fefe.de/know-your-compiler.pdf
I don't disagree with anything you say, but if you are moving from Seattle to AB you may as well pick a friendlier US state.

The reason I suggested Vancouver is because of it's proximity. It's pretty much the same place.
In California, our money goes to retired union worker's pensions, not current public services. Our most powerful lobbying group by money spent is the state teacher's union, followed by the state and municipal employee worker union. We have the highest taxes in the nation, poor public services, and massive debt.

Pro-tax types should stop carrying water for bad governance. I am one of those anti-tax people you say "has no use for logic and evidence", and I am happy to pay taxes when I feel it is going to good use. But I am not willing to pay taxes so that politicians can turn around and give it to the unions that own them at the expense of the public good.

It's funny that most of the world's entrepreneurship is in my country, where people can keep most of their money earned to fund new ventures (for now).
"Offering" a 6 month deal after threatening a 35 year sentence isn't an offer, it's intimidation.
Only if it's followed up with a petition to "return all taxpayer money wasted on egoic pranks".

There was always a way forward to achieving Aaron's goals that didn't involve sneaking around. Whether he was right or wrong, he knew on some level that what he was doing was, at the very least, inappropriate and potentially harmful. If not, then why attempt to hide his face? If not, why even do it at all?

It's a sad and unfortunate fact that Aaron didn't found Demand Progress before he decided to do what he did. It's a sad and unfortunate fact that he will never have his day in court, or the opportunity to plead for mercy by showing that he'd learned his lesson and founded Demand Progress in an effort to take a better, more rational path to achieving his goals.

And it's a sad and unfortunate fact that we are wasting time on silly petitions that single out individuals rather than investing all that time and effort into changing the laws they were using against Aaron so that this kind of abuse never happens again. Instead, a bunch of young people are going to go out and do rash and ill considered things in the defense of someone who did a rash and ill considered thing and likely end up facing a similar, if not worse fate than he did.

It's a sad and unfortunate thing that, despite all of the collective intelligence on this and many other forums, there are very few adults willing to stand up and say "don't do rash and ill considered things unless you are willing to deal with the consequences".

Young people are prone to making bad choices, we should neither encourage them, nor seek to punish them disproportionately.
No, I wanted to do this on the weekend, instead I looked through three people's friends list and didn't end up finding them. It took a while, with this it wouldn't take a while.
This was much bigger than just HN. Twitter lit up like a Christmas tree on this issue last night.
Unfortunately, you are teaching them violence as an antidote to violence. I have not found that more violence makes for a safer, more peaceful atmosphere. However, I will note that I think it is extremely likely that your remarks are not really giving adequate context for your personal choices and that your attempts to defend your choice are likely to only reinforce a particular framing. I have zero desire to go down that road with you.
I guess i don't get why I should care.

I either have to unfriend people to get it to give me stuff i care about (since it appears to have no way to explain i don't give a shit what my grandma thinks about sushi in palo alto), or it's giving me answers that don't seem better.

I understand they needed to improve their site/internal search, and this looks great for that. But it just doesn't seem like that big a deal to me.
What am i missing?
Aaron Swartz's lawyer: MIT refused to sign off on plea bargain with no jail time
Simple also don't offer any interest (nor a savings account) which grates a bit. Using Simple loses you money. It's not a "hidden fee", but it's a cost that isn't that clear.

EDIT: There's also no outgoing ACH transfers yet, which I really would like.
The extent to which Chomsky has remained relevant in both political and scientific arenas never ceases to amaze me.
The really sad part of malware that is tied to freeware or shareware is that the whole thing is a self-inflicted downward spiral. The software authors will tell you they need that malware money because nobody pays for shareware anymore. You know why I stopped downloading and buying shareware years ago? Malware.

And the really unfortunate thing is that a few big bad apples can and did ruin it for everyone else. I don't have time to figure out who is going to install shit on my system vs who isn't, so I just assume everything is bad and avoid it all, with the exception of a handful of known-good products (like VLC) from known-good sources (the author's own websites).

The end result is an ecosystem in which new useful tools (even ones that aren't malware peddlers) now have a near-impossible time creating a critical mass of users, so any money to be made in that market can only come from these terrible spammy practices, which is just sad.
Thats cool that you're sending out messages! Rock on. I find it horrendously amusing when seeing divorced women with kids on OKC. Typically they have a strong statement about "YOU BEST BE A MAN AND BE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF MY KID!" Thats a huge red flag.
I think that's just a matter of preference on the author's part of which character you are supposed to identify with. Often you are reading the stories from the point of view of Watson who also has to attempt to keep up with Holmes as much as the reader does. You are supposed to relate to Watson and keeping some aspects of the mystery hidden is reflected in this. That way the author can make sure the reader has the opportunity to "figure it out" when they feel is best for the dynamic of the story.

Jack McDevitt speaks of this concept with his Alex Benedict series of books. The first book is from the perspective of the title character but he changes this to the sidekick for the rest of the series. His reasoning for this, from what I recall, is that it wasn't right for the story to be told from the character's perspective but still have to hide certain things from the reader so that certain ideas don't come to mind before they are ready to be presented. The idea is that if the reader figures out the mystery halfway through the story then the rest of the story to be told is ruined.
Participation in democracy is not limited by literacy.
I'd say by far the main input in terms of "curation" would come from fellow academics, the peer reviewers. Only the very largest and most prestigious journals (Nature etc.) have full-time paid editors.
Yes he wrote the algorithm used in Spambayes.
The FTB doesn't write the law, the legislature wrote the law. And it was a California court, not a federal court, that ruled the statute unconstitutional (the "California Court of Appeal" isn't a federal court, its the first-level appellate court in the California state court system.)
You want me to explain, publicly, right now why you've been banned from Facebook Chris?

If anybody else would like to know why Chris Leydon was banned from Facebook, do show interest in this comment - because I know why, as do a lot of other people.
No state income tax, much cheaper housing costs than the national average, and cheap gas make it a pretty good place to live and work. Plus, because of all that, you can pay your employees much less (than California) and still provide them an equally-good standard of living.

And Tex-Mex! I don't see how people in other parts of the country could live without Tex-Mex food.
"There are actually steps that happen before the firing of an official, most notably an investigation."

Actually, if she's a political appointee, she can be fired at any time.

My recollection is the head prosecutors of each office are considered political appointees, but the assistant prosecutors are not. This has come up before.
I could be completely wrong in this recollection, however :)
From PG's article:

"Microsoft isn't so benevolent now. Now when one thinks of what Microsoft does to users, all the verbs that come to mind begin with F."

This is why it's easy to cast YC's funding of a crapware company as a deliberate choice.
New Facebook Graph Search gives users power to slice and dice info from friends
"People who live in Palo Alto who like Sushi who aren't my Grandma"

It's the future
Tom Dolan is an executive at IBM, and husband of US Federal Attorney Carmen Ortiz.

Copying the tweets here in case he deletes them:

Tom Dolan ‏@tomjdolan
@mkapor Truly incredible that in their own son's obit they blame others for his death and make no mention of the 6-month offer.

Tom Dolan ‏@tomjdolan
@dangillmor Ah, not really. That article says he was offered a 6-month deal. 6 months is not 35 years or a lifetime.

Tom Dolan ‏@tomjdolan
@thinkprogress Completely false. Aaron Swartz was offered a plea deal of 6 months. 6 months is not 35 years.
Why??

What's special about their spouse giving them money, vs. being supported by any random person?
It doesn't sound reasonable though, it sounds moronic. A constitution should be the basis of all law (can someone let Obama's administration know about this?) and therefore should be extremely difficult and rely on vast, widespread consent to change. You're entirely right that until this gets fixed, CA will always be screwy.
Stop spreading FUD. You will never give up 75%, it was intended as a marginal rate AND it was even dismissed by the constitutional council.
Forgot to mention - it costs $50 to form an LLC in Michigan and takes about a week (I've heard horror stories about forming an LLC in CA). $100 additional for same-day service. And you don't have to publicly disclose the LLC's members, only the registered agent, which can be an attorney or any other resident of the state.

Forming a Michigan corporation is $60 and has a few more public disclosure requirements.
Seems to be quite minor issue, all of my services are currently fully working. (No errors), maybe bit slow. But that's life.

From status page:
Elevated error rates and increased latency for some applications – Python, Python: Dynamic Get, Python: Dynamic Get: Latency, Python: Dynamic Get: Error Rate, Java, Java: Dynamic Get, Java: Dynamic Get: Latency, Java: Dynamic Get: Error Rate Jan 15 2013, 07:50 AM - Jan 15 2013, 08:10 AM
Though I'd like to see Oritz fired, and think she's deserving of it, the effort to get her fired is blinding us to a bigger problem and a proper solution. The system was broken long before Oritz and Swartz, but it wasn't until it affected someone we like that we noticed. But we're in a bubble, and the vast majority of Americans do not care who Aaron Swartz is, will not be affected by this tragedy like we were, and in general think that prosecutors need all the tools they can get to put "bad" people in prison.

The American people love tough-on-crime policies, and it's not possible to publicly shame a public official, or get her fired, for doing something that most of the public supports. If we want to make change, we need to move the needle on the public's perception of crime. That's a hard problem, and it's not as easy as signing a petition, but it's a problem we'll never be able to solve if we're blinded by trying to exact vengeance on a prosecutor.

Edited to add: if Oritz were likely to be fired, then I agree it would be a great starting point for a larger movement. But my point is that changing public opinion of tough-on-crime policies is a prerequisite for getting Oritz fired. A prosecutor is not going to be fired for engaging in normal conduct that is loved by the public, even if the outcome in this case was tragic.
This doesn't appear to be live yet. How are you trying out these searches?
ITYM "People who live in Palo Alto who like Sushi who aren't my Grandma or my one friend bob who has horrible taste or oh crap that one guy fred who i accidentally friended or ..."

I don't know anyone who has a very clean social graph that they can formulate sane preference queries about.
Yep, here too.
Problem is, no one believes you.
William Zinsser's "On Writing Well," a million times over.

Also, Joseph William's "Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace." http://www.amazon.com/Style-Lessons-Clarity-Grace-10th/dp/02...
I'm watching the demo.
Well for one, it seems like a great way to browse Facebook content using natural language, rather that mouse clicks and page surfing. I like the idea of saying "give me pictures that I like taken in my hometown with my brother", rather than clicking through a bunch of filters.

I for one welcome any new natural language interface that can replace and improve on click interactions.
Thanks - that's helpful to know.
Except when it does snow, and the entire city shuts down because they don't know how to deal with the snow (same thing happens in Seattle and Portland)
It is (or was) live for me. I can take a screenshot for you guys.
Some people in this world are just plain ridiculous. Who runs the country like this?

I really want to know who really thinks so stupidly while making/amending laws.
"Which of my friends are interested in arbitrarily liking pages to get freebies?"

With corporations now fishing for 'likes', I'm not sure 'likes' will tell us as much about interests as FB thinks they will.
Just out of curiosity what's the big deal? I received an invite was reluctant to signup because there is an "inactivity fee". As far as I can tell it's just an online bank?
Here's a superficial explaination:

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

The punishment can only last 21 years. If someone is kept in preventive detention the only puropose is to protect other citizens. The best comparision would be forced treatment of the criminally insane. Once they're deemed fit to return to society, they are free to go.
My spin on it is more so positive. At least they still care about product and tackling very difficult questions. This is not some advertising backend optimization or yet another smartphone integration. The fact that most of the speculators missed this entirely is even better news. Facebook is still engineering and technology driven, and this is the hope that keeps all of this still very interesting with much to look forward to.