skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you're right that no one knows something like that. However, I think that Apple and Google (to use two specific companies) have very different approaches to gaining their profits. Apple tries to roll out higher-margin devices and get you to part with your dollars to buy it. Google, on the other hand, tries to roll out free things and get advertisers to part with their advertising dollars, serving you up as the product. That sounds a little more anti-ad than I mean it to, but I think it illustrates the "if you aren't paying, you're the product" point. There's nothing wrong with being the product if you get something awesome in return. Gmail is awesome and free.

However, once you're scanning emails for targeting an ad specific to the email, why not try to build a profile of a person? Why not try to figure out as much as you can to target them? With a mobile device, why not track their location (linked to an account) so you can tell where they are usually going? Build their voice queries into that profile? Now when they walk to a certain area and it's tuesday near lunch, maybe you know what restaurant they like and serve an ad for a competitor.

Again, some of this is hyperbole to illustrate a point and I'm not accusing Google of anything. But Google makes its money off of being able to sell ads that are relevant to you. They try to keep it to a non-creepy level, but it's their profit engine. Apple, on the other hand, makes their money off you from getting you to part with your dollars in exchange for one of their shiny toys. In fact, when you look at Apple's revenues, only 3% come from sources other than the iPhone, iPad, iTunes, iPod, and computers. Unless Apple wants to dramatically change course, the data is much more likely to be used for improvement of the system rather than targeting of individual users.

That doesn't ensure that your data will be used in any fashion by any company. But I think Apple's revenue streams show that, at least right now, they aren't heavily into any area where targeting you via these recordings would be useful for them. In fact, if anything it would jeopardize their already highly-profitable operations and that would make it a hard decision to exploit it.
Thanks for telling me, I'll change that as soon as I can. And I seem to violate the "Actions" and "Branding" requirements as well...
Innaresting. There was some blogging last year about consistency vs. availability issues, similar to what akka, riak, cloud Haskell etc are confronting. It occurs to me you need to do Bayesian inference to order packets on partition

http://www.cliffc.org/blog/2012/05/

http://www.cliffc.org/blog/2012/06/21/progress-vacation/

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very readable code, also, no generics in the few files i looke at. And, like twitter, scalaz, akka etc they write their own Futures

https://github.com/0xdata/h2o/blob/8f6d81abeea8ef3221969d8aa...
This kind of stuff is part of what we are doing. Extraction of semi-structured data, like phone numbers and adresses is something we do, along with review scores and dates and social media pages. But the bigger thing is the unstructured parts.

Imagine you want to know everything that was ever said about your product, your competitors' products, and comparisons between them.

If you are Apple that is a LOT of stuff. So what if you wanted a machine to do it?

You'd need a copy of the entire Internet. (like a search engine does)

You'd need something that could parse sentences to determine all the features talked about and if they were talked about in a good way or a bad way.

You'd need something to summarize the articles so that humans wouldn't have to flip through every 3000 word review but could still get the highlights. (like our TLDRStuff.com does)

You'd need something to check out the authors to see what their audience reach is, audience demographic, how often they talk about the topic, and how authoritative they are on the subject.

We have all those parts.

We think to build the next generation of search and research engines you have to have all those parts. Link Authority is too easily gamed but putting these parts together we don't need link authority.

Our challenge is making this fast enough to use all the factors, and figuring out how to not penalize brands for searches of their own names since so many brand home pages don't have good information, but shouldn't be number 36 in search results either.
Hmm I work in an open plan office - What if the reason we're doing so is because rent is expensive and we're a startup?
Losethos appears to be struggling with a tragic and long-term mental illness. I don't think it's good form to make fun of him.
Fuck yeah, I wasn't aware of these projects. I thought the article was exceptionally good and I'm very pleased that there are people taking the initiative to actually do the hard work in search of resolution for the problems detailed. Thank you.
The only use of the word 'consumer' in CISPA is in the context of the following recurring clause:

"Such term does not include the purpose of protecting a system or network from efforts to gain unauthorized access to such system or network that solely involve violations of consumer terms of service or consumer licensing agreements and do not otherwise constitute unauthorized access."

I get that people need a reason to grandstand, but can we grandstand about something more worth grandstanding about? Right now there is some big evil oil company trying to figure out how to get away with taking the cheapest measures possible to protect water resources in the course of fracking activities. There is some coal company pushing yet another iteration of the total bollocks that is "clean coal technology." Can we make noise about something like that instead? Because that's actually going to have repercussions and effect people, unlike the wholly imagined nefarious terms of CISPA.
Only very recently. So it's understandable that you wouldn't know.
A great time to raise these questions. What reason have we ever had to trust any of these "authorities" (let alone the deteriorating state of the field, e.g. the recent Turkish fiasco)? Without a firm answer for that question, SSL is reduced to magic thinking.
I wrote a verlet based physics engine years ago and had similar issues. Relaxing distance constraints tended to add a bit of angular momentum in to the system. Sometimes having a drag term in the integrator was enough to compensate, but this appears to be in verlet.js already.

Another issue with defining shapes via distance constraints is that they sometimes have alternate solutions / stable minima. For example, you can smash the circle in to the ground and get it to crumple: http://i.imgur.com/UzxbKvJ.png

But, this is still an awesome demo. Good work subprotocol.
It's pretty clear and well-written, so I think its going to be worth reading to explain why the system is wrong for as long as our system is a list of permanently trusted CA's. There's no reason I should be trusting all those CA's to sign for anything on the internet forever.
Does everyone forget that the U.S. government brought an antitrust case against Microsoft and nearly broke them up? That experience certainly cooled them off a bit.

They've slowly aligned themselves in the background with Facebook, Yahoo, and even Apple against Google. They just inked another licensing deal with Foxconn for use of Android and Chrome OS of all things.
well, I have to give Molyneux some credit where credit is due.

This is incredibly clever and a great way to use IAP-type stuff.
I am not sure if every product benefits from reducing Cognitive Overhead. Some of the areas where it would work are novel technologies (like Shazam or Wii) or mass market products.

How many of us would use a music player that just had start and stop buttons? Why would this seem as an inconvenience? If the product is already familiar, then it would be better to improve on the already familiar interface. When it is a completely new technology, you get an opportunity to make a fresh start.

Similarly, many niche products have power users who would be unhappy if the interface is too "dumbed down". The classic case of an IDE and UNIX text editors come to mind. An IDE is quite obvious to use, but many would not find it as efficient.

Cognitive overhead is a good guideline but we need to understand our target market first.
You're not a cynic. You're just a typical rube with unforgivably bad taste in eurotrash music.
Whether or not you think it's funny, Silicon Valley is statistically the most diverse community in the USA.
I can't speak to the company or your experience, but I recall MSFT doing a bunch of outreach a couple of years ago for Windows Phone - free devices, etc. Large companies often have silos with their own focus - getting one to adopt the practices of the other may be difficult.

Maybe reengaging or conversing with one of the WP dev evangelists might make additional progress - maybe not immediately, but establishing a relationship, comtinual dialogue, and persistence can sometimes help turn a large ship.
This is insane. This is literally just incrementing and removing a counter, and 22cans has become the middlemen for this.
Oh, absolutely. It's not like I'll use it for anything other than saying, "Hey, look at RISC OS running (slowly) in a browser!", which is the end goal.
What is a "rapper"?
I couldn't find the stat which is why I didn't cite it. Thanks for finding it. It's still horrific in a way
No memberships, sponsoring his RSS feed and getting one of these endorsement posts on the blog costs you 8500 $

I am not sure if every week is really booked though and if its really for the price listed, so i would take that with a grain of salt. No doubt hes making a ton of money though.
San Francisco is in the top 10 most diverse cities in the country, but both San Jose and Oakland are more diverse than SF.
That is probably in their interest, since they do get lots of valid takedown notices. For them it would be easier to streamline the process with email.
Clarifying parent. I know this individual has not been convicted yet, and ergo is not a convinced felon. Just responding to this:

you must also protect the rights of people you do not like. Even the rights of killers ... must be protected if we want ours to be protected.
I fail to see how FPS games contribute to "creating a culture where violence is celebrated rather than abhorred". Do you have any references to research that supports that claim?

I can see that good action movies can contribute to the culture where good action movies are celebrated. But that doesn't have anything to do with celebrating violence.
Indeed, it is pretty crazy. I know someone with an Avalon ASIC who claims Satoshi is a genius. I think he's biased by the fact he has a small device that plugs into the wall and makes him more money than his day job.
After decades of trying to mke better and better videogames, always more realistic, Molyneux shows that the average human is, in fact satisfied by a Skinner box and will gladly pay for it.
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A sucker and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.
I wouldn't exactly say that this is monetizing 'trolling'
Are you joking? Silicon Valley is overwhelmingly suburban middle class white, with a substantial minority of suburban white-washed asians and indians. It's incredibly homogenous culturally.

New York is far and away the most diverse place in the country, and only a few places in the world can compare (e.g. London).
Here's a link to the original paper (PDF):

http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/NewYo...
This exemplifies that making money and making a good product are two quite distinct things.
They're still doing that sort of outreach. I got a free Lumina 800 for building a Win Phone 7.5 app.
Could have mentioned link includes them all... Dat mobile loading.
No CA is permanently trusted. CA certificates expire like any other SSL certificate, and most of the CA certificates that my browser trusts will expire in about 10 years. In addition, browser vendors like Mozilla routinely make decisions to add and delete CA certificates.
The term comes from psychology, so probably a few decades back: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load

In relation to the web, a quick Google Scholar search brings up lots of papers from the 1990s: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22cognitive+overhead%22...
San Jose is the main city in Silicon Valley and is the most diverse city in the country.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/trulia/2012/11/13/finding-divers...
I'm amazed that people are still buying into his games. If you were to go by Peter's history, it's quite likely that the "life-changingly amazing" thing in the middle of the cube is a message like "Sorry Mario, but the princess is in another cube".

I personally got burned somewhere around Fable and I'm never[0] going to get one of his games again..

[0] except for maybe Godus.. maybe.
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>How many of us would use a music player that just had start and stop buttons?

Two words: iPod Shuffle. Or, if you want a slightly more complicated example, Pandora. Pandora literally started out with three buttons: "I like it", "I don't like it" and "Stop". Recently, they added a fourth, "Skip".
By the time you type "@tetramethoxypropenylbenzenes" you have only 111 characters left!
What some refer to as "crony capitalism" is more properly labeled "fascism." (Corporate intermingling with government at the expense of the plebiscite)
As evidence there's the trend toward appointing people with strong ties to the very entities which they are appointed to regulate. (Can you say "conflict of interest?)

http://www.naturalnews.com/020029_Byron_Richard_Andrew_von_E...

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/02/pharmaceutical-c...

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/case-study-in-corporatoc...

Compare these facts to the recent crackdowns on natural foods.

http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/litigation-FDA.htm

As for "tightly regulated" pharmaceuticals, have you any citations in support of this claim?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmaris/2012/10/10/fda-recall...
I think there are some strong points in the article but overall it misses a major point. Whatever interface you are designing, the underlying service you are building the interface for has to be something people really, really want.

The most cognitively recognizable interface won't get people using something if they don't care about the information coming from the other side. Conversely, if there is information that the end user needs, he will spend the time learning the interface. For example, if Shazam didn't exist and you heard a song you really liked at the bar, you might ask around, google some fragment of the lyrics you recognize, etc. to find out the same information. So if Shazam had an interface that was far less-intuitive, I have to believe it would still be very popular.

That sounds simple, but I think the article puts the weight on the interface without much regard to the fact that all interfaces are merely a means to an end.
"Or perhaps future terrorists will decide that Boston is too small and cohesive a community to attack."

Because of the shutdown? That was what I was talking about. If so, I'm not sure that I see it. At any rate, I was just making the standard "don't let the terrorists win" argument.
Yep, and the Houston area is now even more diverse than LA and NYC. Here's hoping a couple decades from now the kids of the current residents will be thought leaders in a local version of Silicon Valley.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5583878
You can buy bonds representing a perpetual 1Mh/s, which amounts to the same thing.
As someone who had paid money to remove cubelets before this was introduced id feel somewhat ripped off.

I also wonder how this game would be doing with similar marketing but without Molyneux' name to it. Imo the golden days of the guy are long gone.
What I get from the article, the author doesn't actually suggest less buttons or less control over the product - quite the opposite actually.

Also, music players are quite a bad example of something to disrupt - the iPod has pretty much shown 12 years ago what's the easiest possible interface that still does what 99% of users need. I think he's rather talking about cloud services that automate some of of your task where he proposes to actually add more steps / buttons / messages in the middle that help the user understand what's going on. To quote the article:

> Put your user in the middle of your flow. Make them press an extra button, make them provide some inputs, let them be part of the service-providing, rather than a bystander to it. If they are part of the flow, they have a better vantage point to see what’s going on. Automation is great, but it’s a layer of cognitive complexity that should be used carefully. (Bump puts the user in the middle of the flow quite physically. While there were other ways to build a scalable solution without the physical bump, it’s very effective for helping people internalize exactly what’s going on.)
I had been an active MVP before then and already knew a lot of people within. I'd say your assessment is right though, they had specific ideas on how to make WP successful and that's what they were going to stick to (largely by spending money, ie, "buying" Nokia).

Even now, despite poor sales (presumably), calling their agility glacial would be over complementing them.
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How do you mean? Fort Bend County in the Houston area is the most ethnically diverse:

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Fort...

But I've no doubt Silicon Valley is fairly diverse, although there were a bunch of articles in the last couple of years pointing out how little diversity there is in the management layers of Silicon Valley companies.
Counterpoint, from an information security researcher who actually lived through the lockdown:

> I know we in infosec are paid to be paranoid but thinking that this was a "dry run” for some sort of coup is a little over the top even for us.

http://abad1dea.tumblr.com/post/48488539386/thoughts-on-the-...
San Jose (the largest city in Silicon Valley) has no demographic group comprising more than 35% of the entire population.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/trulia/2012/11/13/finding-divers...
> total ripoff and also insecure

I pay less for SSL certificates per year than I do for the domains I use them on. You can get a free certificate from StartSSL if you're just playing, or an $8 certificate from Comodo if you're more serious. Some registrars (cough Gandi cough) even include a free SSL certificate with every domain.

So the "total ripoff" thing has been all but solved by market competition (unless you prefer to splurge on a $800 certificate that doesn't do anything a $8 certificate can't do). It's really just the "insecure" part that needs to be addressed.
Are those the amputations performed at the hospital? Or does that include the amputations caused by the bombs?
Nope.

Statistically...

it's Houston.
"players have so far paid to remove nearly 14 million cubelets, while adding an extra 4.7 million."

Wow I almost spit out my tea when reading that while wrongly assuming each block was $0.99

Then I followed the link in page and discovered that the $6.99 point is for 100,000 units.

So figure ~200 of those sold or about $1000 after App Store fees.

I can now sleep tonight.
It's only a matter of time before you do get one. If you get a frivolous DMCA claim, will you make good on the bit where you say "Please note that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorney’s fees) if you materially misrepresent that material is infringing your copyright(s)"?
Yeah, I agree. The SC2 community is on average far more civil than those in shooters and even (PvP) MMOs.
This study puts a few cities ahead of Houston.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/09/07/which-u-s-cities-a...

(I don't really care what city wins, but it was absurd to read that the Silicon Valley area was not diverse...)
I took Brian Kernighan's class when I studied at Princeton. As part of the class I developed www.itrans.info which set me on my way to being an independent app developer. I'm enormously grateful for his class, his involvement with students at Princeton, and just how genuine he really is as a person on campus.
Oh please, this woman clearly doesnt live here. The media played it up. Officials simply asked us and businesses to stay home and stay closed. We, the citizens of Boston, complied because we felt that it would be the best for the greater good. No tanks were at my door telling me to stay inside. No one was arrested for walking down the block.

Take off the tinfoil hat once and a while...
I'm also appalled that a gaming site would confuse "trolling" and "griefing".
Thanks but I don't feel any "loss". It's just a website. Even if it had been a smashing success, by now it would either have evolved into something else or died a natural death.

It was a loss of time for me, maybe, but I was well compensated. The real losers were all the community members who built it into something.
"...players have so far paid to remove nearly 14 million cubelets, while adding an extra 4.7 million"

Adding 500,000 cubelets costs $10.99, which implies that people have paid ~$103 to add cubelets over the course of 166 days, or around 62 cents per day. Gross revenue from all cubelet sales in either direction is ~$405 or ~$2.43/day. He may have monetized trolling, but it doesn't seem very profitable.
Title doesn't really make sense. This is just a lottery, with a bit of a PvP angle. Spending more increases odds of winning.
With all the Superfund sites in SA, I don't know...
I do! Although not totally sure if Professor Kernighan intended for them to leave the classroom. Occasionally he'll throw an email from a former associate into the lecture slides (e.g., James Gosling), but I've noticed that he's removed them from the public-facing slides on the site, which makes me think I should be somewhat cautious. Maybe eventually, with his permission, I'll write some up and post them on HN.
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Trust authority only works if users are willing to actually make trust decisions. Since they are not, whatever trust authorities chrome, firefox, and IE ship with will end up being a default single point of failure, target for compromise, and point of corruption.

Pinning certificates or using something like Namecoin to maintain a key to human identifier mapping seems like a better idea.
That's quite rich, considering that a pretty high up guy at a16z told me that they were parochial when it came to investing, preferring to focus on SV companies. Maybe they should put their money where their mouth is.
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> Whatever interface you are designing, the underlying service you are building the interface for has to be something people really, really want.

How do you target that? I'm not entirely sure you can. Is there a set of steps you can follow, a design process, that will get you to something people really, really want?
I'll allow a truce. :) I was hanging out with Rice sociologist Dr. Michael Emerson this morning so the topic is near and dear to my heart! FWIW they're all very close right now, and the biggest surprise is that Houston is so diverse--it has undergone the most rapid transformation of any large city in America in the last 3 decades, which means it's on track for rapidly outpacing the others in ethnic diversity (there were few Hispanics and Asians here when I was born, and now there are huge numbers).
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