skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of the reason the most popular Facebook apps appear to be games (I'd need to look at stats but aren't news media type apps more prevalent?) is because Facebook has decimated the value proposition for more sophisticated applications. We ended up abandoning a startup product built on Facebook which was far more sophisticated and interesting than games in our opinion, but it just became clear that Facebook was actively taking off the table any possible commercial benefit of building on their platform. No significant virality to be gained - even if users WANT to share your product it's virtually impossible to do so nowadays as you don't know for sure it'll ever appear in anyone's feed; their Credits payment platform is daylight robbery at 30% for little better than payment processing.

I completely agree with you. It's just not viable.

If you get little to no customer acquisition benefit from building on their platform and they take too much revenue off the table, and if they keep changing things making it hard to remain stable, and it's hard to know if they'll arbitrarily shut you down if they decide you have a lucrative business proposition, why build on it.

I wonder if they suffer an internal lack of imagination as to what people might use their platform for, and therefore don't understand that they've rendered it worthless for many use cases where they could have been a real platform AND generated additional revenues.

The final issue I see is that if you build something innovative on their platform they have every data point they need to see if it's taking off and being successful - probably before you realize it. This means they can shut you down and buil da competitor, or make you a lowball aqui-hire offer with that threat.

Their haste to move quickly has, I think, caused them to make some strategic mistakes in platform strategy which have hurt their long term position as a platform. Of course, they may not care. They may have quietly, internally, abandoned such an aim, and decided they no longer genuinely want to be a platform on which others build sophisticated applications.
not his, but I found this interesting:
http://www-cs.ccny.cuny.edu/~jzhang/papers/ACMGIS10_Extended...
The last question was about 'the hypertube' https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...
Hi, yes im tmostak at csail dot mit dot edu (does that fool the spambots these days)? Yeah email me and we can chat!
If you're in the US:

1. Document everything. Print out all communication.

2. Resign in writing, print out the email you sent.

3. File an unpaid wage claim for any salary they refuse to pay.

4. Get a new job.

They won't get anywhere trying to sue you. You, on the other hand, will have a much easier time collecting unpaid wages. Google "unpaid wage claim" for your state.

Please note: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
What state or county? Your employer is likely full of it. If they can't pay you they are going to have a difficult time paying their attorney to sue you and if there is a labor board report them ASAP. If it's me I resign in the morning but others are right that you should get some real legal advice but you say you signed nothing so I'd consider that at will employment myself :)
I think you're right on the money.

I've decoded keys that I've seen people carrying on rings on their belts (and, in many cases, the pin values are stamped right on the key). I don't carry keys where people can see them, but I'm a little bit paranoid. With the advent of this service it probably pays to be a bit more paranoid, since somebody could take a picture of your key, send $5, and get a copy w/o knowing anything about pins and tumblers.
It's just a random outage. iOS won't lose CalDav support since Apple is one of them "whitelisted developers".

Edit: resolved http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...
They should send Sal on the Mars mission. Then he can khan out videos "on the fly".
This problem is caused by developers only familiar with OO as it is presented by Object Pascal/C++/Java/C# and so on.

There are however many other ways to do OO and JavaScript just happens to use another way. The language is not alone, Self, BETA, C@, Dylan, CLOS also have different ways from mainstream OO.
I didnt realize this was something that was still up for debate. In my experience source code has been a requirement since I entered the game- especially for high impact journals.
While idea viability may be validated by traction (read: user acquisition), product viability is best validated by DAU / MAU and low churn metrics.

That being said, we closed $750K in my last startup after crossing 125K users, so perhaps traction is good enough at least for the first round.
Even better: select a photo from your library and tear it up. Bonus points for recording it as a video.
Animals in Google Drive, RIP professionalism
I'm not sure I want the ease of copying keys from a photo to be common knowledge.
Locks and keys keep honest people honest, and make people feel "secure". There's a lot of value in that. The actual security value most locks provide-- not so much. I don't think this service changes that dramatically.
Trying to buy but the website seems overwhelmed. Good to know that it ships worldwide!

Edit: Sign up for an account first at "My Account" at the top. Seems to have less problems compared to signing up at the Checkout page.

Edit2: Bought a Peak!
Why should anyone hire you?
If keys are useless, what are we using them for?

They're clearly not useless.
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The lesson of Apple is that exciting isn't a good thing. The Newton was very exciting, and it was a dud. On the flip side the iPod was just a slick MP3 player and changed the company. After that every product they made was telegraphed in advance: The iPhone was was an iPod phone, and the iPad was mocked as being a larger iPhone. Also the iPad wasn't innovative because Microsoft did it first. So those three dull products released years apart are what put the company back on the map.

Something else that people also forget: As much as I loved Steve Jobs the company I feel in love with was run by John Sculley. This was the company that introduced a color Macintosh which was a big deal and actually useful. This was the company that invented HyperCard which got me and the industry into "multimedia". This was the company that made the CD-ROM and sound cards a standard feature of every computer they sold. Apple in the late 80s and early 90s changed my life.

By the way if you're looking at the next Newton there's a huge chance that Google is working on it with Google Glass. It's a product that is "exciting" but feels rough around the edges like Microsoft's tablet.
Oh, how delightful a slip. Run, the Internet is rotting your brain!

btilly surely meant WordPerfect, not WordPress.
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Can you tell me whether the main reason for speedup is because of using GPU, or do other factors also play in (such as new algorithms)?
As an audiologist, I would not recommend wearing earbuds all night. Ventilation is important for your ears.

Also, your ears are very adaptable: plugging your ears with earbuds will decrease the sound pressure by about 10 dB, which isn't really all that much. As a hearing loss, it would not require treatment. Your ears will adapt and you will still hear most startling sounds. In fact, your ears will have to "concentrate" more, which is known to lead to fatigue.
I feel facebook has become less "cool" and more "commodity". it is still a great place, but its best growth is over.
Surely they wouldn't do that.. they killed off Google Sync (ActiveSync/Exchange) for personal / free accounts, so all of those customers have to rely on either CalDAV or a specific calendar app on mobile, right?
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To be frank, only minor advantages in current form which are:

1) folder specific options
2) easier to read format
3) comments on options

That said, I'm just getting started with 'wiz' and am planning to add many more features and commands.

Thanks for asking though. I wasn't expecting much response when submitting to HN at this time range. :-)
take a server (basic config or medium one) from linode, prgmr or digitalocean and that should do for initial year or so.
Some image downloads will not land you in any trouble unless you are going to be pinterest in less than a year.
>>"OMG, $x is fucking $y!"

IMHO, looks like didn't.
Hemlock Grove is also excellent. But the point isn't to make money on these shows. Netflix knows that once people sign up, they're unlikely to drop their subscription. At the moment, Netflix is known as a place to get older movies and last season's TV shows. They want to change that perception with some must-watch shows that entice people to sign up. Netflix itself is more than worth $8 per month even without original content, but they need people to sign up before they can see that.
The site seems to be a bit overloaded; I got through to the entire process including verifying the Mastercard transaction but the order doesn't show up in my account's order history.

I just emailed them and now we'll wait and see. Could very well be just the mad dash of a lot of geeks trying to get these phones right now causing it to topple over some systems; I'll be patient :)
I immediately thought of the more serious/alarming crisis PR botch-jobs of late: the Toyota brake-sticking crisis and the Sony Entertainment account info hack.

I don't think silence would work in either of these cases, but perhaps 'burning' would?
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The CEO has already stated that the private key had passphrase encryption, which is strong, and only stored in their heads. You have to take their word on that, but I don't see any proof of CCs being decrypted.
error ridden.. oh the pain :(
If neither silence nor the truth are options, the third best approach is to wait until there is a larger story in the industry that you can hide behind. Perhaps that was what EA was attempting, but unfortunately no larger scandals have occurred.

Being able to ride (and manipulate) news cycles is an incredibly powerful skill.
Does not ships to India... Fuck!
I wish I could click on the cloth and have it simulate a bullet
Got myself up to the payment page, but the page complained something about "tarjeta" even though my card number was absolutely correct.

Oh well.
CAUTION:
After I had entered my payment details for my credit card (in Safari) the site forwarded to a white page and nothing happened. I checked the console, and realized that a javascript error caused it to not work properly in Safari.
I could finish the process by manually doing a
document.forms[1].submit() in the console. That placed my order, and forwarded me back to their homepage.

HOWEVER:
On the homepage, I got the "User db59706 already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections" error. I reloaded, and my order history is empty. So I'm afraid that the payment-cleared transaction from their payment processor was lost because their database is overloaded. Thus, I think I just paid for the phone but they have no track record of my order. I'll contact them now.

Word of caution to everybody reading this, their site, store, and payment processing seem to be overwhelmed.
I respectfully disagree. No matter that review is from another developer or a real user. Ignoring it is worst course of action you can suggest to anyone.

I am actually in favor of taking each and everyone of them seriously and work on them till your bandwidth can accommodate.
Useless, in the sense that they are less than adequately effective; a reasonably able locksmith can open most barrel locks in seconds. If a criminal puts it in mind to acquire the skills, opening the locks is a small part of thievery, getting around the alarm is probably more of a concern.
having issues. Returning empty post id. http://imgur.com/kRdV7gm
it's either spaces or comments.. http://www.onetimepost.com/viewPost.php?post_id=Nzg=
www.getaround.com is at least one such site. Although my friend who has her car posted said she gets only about one rental a month (in SF).
I've always thought inheritance is used to model is-a relationships. Sharing code may be a side effect, but it's certainly not the reason to use it.

Using inheritance to share code is usually better achieved by factoring that code out to a separate object and having the objects in a inheritance relationship use it by composition.
SILENCE WILL FALL.

I must say The Silence are a rather awesome enemy for the doctor.
So it looks like it is effective in web use cases, like lossy photos (especially with alpha), logos, icons etc., but not for non-web cases like large, lossless photos that need to be compressed quickly. Seems like a good engineering tradeoff to me.
Is this a parody to get more people to buy iPhones?
New: Login with Facebook!

At least half the people will not mind the permission to post things for them. When pleaserobme.com catches wind of this, they're gonna get a lot of renewed media attention!
I was working on the social integration on a project. The hell that the backend coder and I went trying to make work the js sdk for facebook was just stupid. We ended using a python lib for facebook integration. A real shame such a big company releasing a crappy sdk.
If I understand right, the whole point of Sync is to avoid having to do this.
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Any plans for a Linux port? Seriously, I'd love to pay you, but don't do iAnything (and for much the same reasons that I don't trust Google with much of anything these days.)
Simplest answer is Tumblr. It's crack to the digital kids these days.
Ok good, it's not only me... :\ I started getting incorrect password about 5 hours ago. When I go to settings to type it in, it says "Can't login using SSL, do you want to try without SSL" to which I say no...

Hopefully it is just an outage that will get fixed.
Ask HN: When to scale out of VPS?
For a text based site(mostly), what is a good load time(universally). I have written a RoR app and its taking somewhere between 100ms to 300ms to load (it fluctuates) and I was wondering if thats good or bad. My guess is its bad.

My setup is Linode VPS ($20 one).
If anyone can come up with a number (may be a bit of guess), how many users can I support with this kind of response time until I have think about scaling it further. My guess is 30% of users will visit the site once or twice daily.

I know this question is vague, so if someone can share their stories like when they started out, what was their setup and what was the point when they had to think about scaling up. Few stories will give me some hint to get an answer.
Yeah, I dislike the websites' reliance on PR, too. Some of the stories are so obviously copy pasted from the press release. For example when Intel launches a PR with a headline like "Intel Launches Amazing New Chip", 90% of the tech sites out there are like "Intel Launches Awesome New Chip" or something along those lines, and then proceed to basically rewrite's Intel press release. No critical thinking involved. They do this with many other stories, too, especially the ones they don't understand that much. They basically become a distribution service for their press releases.
What's a 'tittle'?
It may seem shocking, but this happens throughout industries (and indeed with governments up to a point - the luxury of silence isn't always available).
i cannot imagine that a remembered passphrase would take too long to brute-force on a few multi-GPU setups. unless they did something meaningful like making it a long sentence rather than some short-but-complex-for-humans 15 char string. http://xkcd.com/936/
Sigh. My order came to $155, and the site's trying to charge me 155 EUR. That's not really good, given that 155 EUR is about $200.

EDIT: It will charge the correct price if you switch the prices on the site to EUR. Second problem: one of my cards gave an unspecified error, the other was was denied by the bank for whatever reason. :/
It’s absolutely fascinating to me that only when they lifted the lockdown did they find the surviving Tsarnaev brother. That’s when the owner of the boat Tsarnaev was hiding in came out of his house and noticed something amiss.

That's the big point here. It was only after the lockdown ended that someone found him.

During that day, I thought about if I lived in Boston what would the consequence have been to disallow the police from entering my home without a warrant. Would they have arrested me? On what charge? Would they have assumed I was hiding something and focused their entire force on me at the expense of possibly letting the real bad guy get away?
I do the same but I also visualize each number differently; different shapes, textures, sizes. That seems to help engage the monkey chatter and the wacky visualizing takes me closer to dreamland.

Plus one for F.lux, I have it on everything I use but recently I updated my phone to the standard IOS thinking it wouldn't be missed since it was the only Jailbreak tweak on my phone, but now I'm missing it so hard I'm seriously considering an Android and its equivalent app. With F.lux on my phone my light sensitivity was better in the day and sleep was better at night.
I think the simpler alternative is that it's just not a very interesting story. A game company trying to cover their asses for a bad launch of an unpopular design lied their asses off. So what? They seem to have got the server issues under control now, and people are enjoying the game, so it's no longer got the power of public anger behind it.
tittle of a the post you want to create ...
Ask HN: What's a better way to send USD to GBP than PayPal?
I have a client who will be paying for my services in USD, but I want to convert it to GBP. Paypal is going to take ~3% (!!) if I use them. Any other ideas?
Hmm, since the website is pretty much hosed, I can't see what it says, but...

Even if it ships worldwide, as somebody mentioned, how can one tell whether it actually works with <random carrier in country X>?

There's no doubt a lot of coarse-grained commonality between different carriers in different countries, but there also seem to be many differences when you get down to the details, and a lot of incentive to add gratuitous minor incompatibilities for the purpose of locking in your customers... I'd be pretty nervous about importing a random phone.
I started working from home during the summer of 2012. I have a child, and the benefits of picking her up from school and listening in to her daily shenanigans is just priceless. I don't know if I will manage to work remotely forever, but I will enjoy it for as long as it lasts. By the way, last night we beat Super Mario on the Wii. You can't put a price on that. (:
I would tend to agree with you on this. I was expecting something with more insight.

It's been my experience that for a lot of software, the bad code stays bad code, especially if its being written by people who really don't care about the craft.

I guess we have a lot of perfectionist's on HN who might salivate over every variable or function name (I say this in jest, as I used to be guilty of this).
My choices for the "good" ones are:

The PNG book: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/book/toc.html

The GNU Make book: http://oreilly.com/openbook/make3/book/index.csp

The Subversion book: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

And I haven't read it, but I would guess "Making TeX Work" is still relevant: http://makingtexwork.sourceforge.net/mtw/
Same for me (see my other comment). I contacted them too.
Someone pitched me this idea a few months ago and I urged him to pursue it. I'm glad to see that it's being done by a super technical team who seem to know what they're doing.

Here's why I'm so excited:

1. Shloosl solves a small but acute problem that nearly everyone in the country has.

2. It's a big FU to a fragmented and unevolving couple billion dollar industry. I don't want to find a locksmith or go to Home Depot. I just want a duplicate key. And I don't care whether I pay $1.50 for it or $10 for it.

3. It's going to have some interesting implications on physical security in society. Locks are already useless to any unskilled criminal with a $100 lockpicking gun. But now, any clown with an iPhone can take a picture of a set of keys and have a working copy sent to anyone in the country within days. I certainly hope the security industry responds with something good.

I'd like to think the solution is a better kind of lock, but I don't know. Credit cards have been vulnerable in the same way for a while, but the networks or merchants essentially insure fraudulent transactions so it hasn't resulted in a real problem for people.

Either way, I'm looking forward to trying this out this weekend.
I think I just found a new people-watching side hobby. Next on HN: Burgling across Brooklyn as hipster keychains "pic-pocketed" en-masse...

I'm really looking forward to when I get the time to rig up my door so I can use my yubikey instead. Much easier than all the metal keys I have to carry around now, and much less damaging to my pockets and belt-loops.
I would not expect real-world behavior for programming language constructs. Terms like 'inheritance' and 'delegation' are so vague, that it gives only a very rough indication what it does in some programming language.

If I want to understand a programming language feature, I read the language spec, a manual, or, if all fails, the source code of the implementation.
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1. One tool can do it all-troubleshoot and clear engine, transmission, airbag, and ABS failures
2. Global OBD I & OBD II coverage (US, Asian & European)
3. Turn off engine, transmission, ABS and airbag warning lights for most USA Domestic, Asian and European vehicles
ok, but your shouldn't make it look like rocket science. it's pretty simple for me and maybe I'm lucky, but I guess the most important thing is to tell people to experiment with their sleep. i would say most of these sleep issues have a rather simple cure and you don't need sleep apps, wrist devices, zeos etc.
Even if that becomes the norm (and I doubt this would happen very fast even in the most optimistic scenarii), I seriously doubt self-driving would disappear. The practice would still continue because for some people and for some occasions, driving is a leisure as well. And I am not just talking about speed, but simply being on the road and going somewhere without precise goal. Just like one can go for a walk and wander around.

GPS-driven cars are not going to be any good for that kind of usage.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5591238
I'm not familiar with the situation in Europe/USA, but I've never had trouble using a GSM phone with any GSM SIM card from any carrier in Asia. I'm not sure about the situation for CDMA or LTE.
You created an account to post this on a thread about a competitor to Joyent? Funny.
A rule of thumb is that anything which involves calendar-sync, no matter how trivial it at first seems, will get hairy, ugly and have potential for amazing bugs you could never even imagine, the second you stop thinking about it and start writing code.

The amount of edge-cases is usually beyond belief.
Lazy and careless govt servants makes people's life misery
You have to be very careful about where you provide this service. Duplicating a "secure" (i.e. non simple) key without asking for proof of residence is against the law in some countries.
and Malaysia. double fuck.
Next step: make four of them and get nice 20" 4096x3072 desktop. Of course you'd need to plan your DE to suit the tiled nature, but I imagine that it wouldn't be that bad.
Unfortunately, if I understand correctly these phones will not work with TMobile 3G in the US which only operates in the 1700-Mhz band.

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/phone-sim-card