skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So did a third of other random people surveyed. You would not be in the majority apparently, and after seeing a logo or web page you would hopefully be able to figure out it is not created by Facebook.
"Forcing" is a bit much. When it is rolled out to a user, there is a popup asking which tabs the user wants to enable. It's technically opt-out, but it's literally one click (no digging through menus) to say "I don't want this."
Raise or promotion implies you do it on a regular basis, and once you get that raise or promotion you're expected to do this level of work all the time.
From the end of the article:

>It’s like the old Jackie Mason joke — A man is selling jackets at cost. The customer asks “how can you sell at cost, how do you make any money?” Answer: “I sell a lot of jackets!”'
>I think the point of the GPL is to utilize the copyright system to ensure access to source code for everyone, not to simply increase freedom.

According to many, including the FSF, GNU, Stallman and myself, increasing access to the source code for everyone is increasing freedom. In fact, it's freedom number 1. "The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms_%28software%29#D...

> The slavery quip doesn't really make sense, because in that analogy the source code is the slave.

No, it's about freedom for people in both cases. The lack of source code would be analogous to the chains of slavery. Not equivalent, mind you, but analogous. A software user is less free when he or she cannot inspect or modify the software that runs on their machine.
Does anyone have any experience with Lenovo's X1 Carbon [0]?
I'm looking to get a new developer laptop in the fall with similar specs and operating system as OP, and that was one that caught my eye.

[0] http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...
That's similar to Zynga trademarking "with friends", right?
Google Glass ban signs
It would actually be interesting to test cases where a user would rather look at a loading screen than an image attempting to distract from the loading or vice versa.

Either way my main point was that well designed and tested apparent fluff that might lead to a tiny fraction of users abandoning searches before getting a price could make up for it by encouraging [other] purchases. If there's a time lag you may as well advertise in it.
Consumers running exploratory searches direct on an airline's website rather than via a comparison engine you might not be that price sensitive anyway...
1. It runs Ubuntu

2. No. Its very very different.
Real-time graph of Ubuntu Edge funding
Then why not both CSP and immutability? You can't really have serious concurrency without giving serious thought to managing state.

Erlang is really all about managing, and isolating, state. Clojure, too, has great support for CSP (with care for state) in core.async[1] and Pulsar[2].

[1] http://clojure.com/blog/2013/06/28/clojure-core-async-channe...

[2] http://puniverse.github.io/pulsar/
> "...what company they thought made a product called FACEMAIL. Only 36.2% chose Facebook, Inc"

So you're in the 36.2%. Was there another point you were trying to make? (fwiw, I'd be in the 63.8% of that poll).
My favourites are:

- Facebook Site Governance
Facebook has proposed an updated privacy policy. We encourage you to view the proposal and offer your comments at http://www.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance?v=app_4949752878 ....

- Facebook
Notice of class settlement
Facebook is sending you this notice of a proposed class action settlement that may affect your legal rights as a Facebook member who may have used the Beacon program. This summary notice is being sent to you by Court Order so that you may understand your rights and remedies before the Court considers final approval of the proposed settlement on February 26, 2010.
There are lots of great ideas here, and the design is lovely. But my guess is that many of the design concepts would disintegrate when intersected with the practical considerations of actual airline data and systems.

Totally random side note: my friend Jason Rubin (co-founder of Naughty Dog, which I worked for in the mid 90s) suggested the map-with-flight-path-arcs representation when I showed him prototypes of QPX, ITA's travel planning system, circa 2000. I like the idea visually, but in practice it gets messy (think around-the-world trips).
A simple document datastore using Redis
The project provides storage for JSON documents that uses Redis as the backend data-store. JOR also provides a MongoDB-like query language for fast retrieval.
It's complicated. :)
If I advise you yes, can I get equity for it?

I didn't think so.

Ask them to invest their money for equity.
There's a number of Linux distributions for ARM, as the Raspberry Pi project has several. Python, Ruby, Perl, NodeJS and a number of other tools are fully supported.

The multi-processing side, though, is probably not a standard CPU meaning you can't just throw Python code at it. You'll have to use CUDA or OpenCL techniques.

If you want a small ARM system, the Pi is a good place to start but the Beagle Board (http://beagleboard.org/) is a much better deal.
$50 offered to the first person who solves my encryption challenge
According to this[1] Erlang has been run on machines with similar number of cores. This[2] looks like the most interesting work done with Erlang on Parellella so far. I haven't look at Parallella for a long time, but IIRC the hardware architecture very much suites the process model in Erlang.

[1] http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:392243/FULLTEXT01

[2] http://www.parallella.org/2013/05/25/explorations-in-erlang-...
It doesn't matter whether it's a majority. A third of people is a large proportion.
Yeah, to generalize, IMHO, a big part of this is there has been a move from blue collar to white collar crimes. Having grown up in South Florida myself, certainly there is anecdotal evidence of that. South Florida leads the nation in medicare fraud reaching possibly into the billions. Mortgage fraud was another linchpin during the financial crisis. There are tons of call centers in the area full of drug addicts who peddle every sort of scam you can think of to the gullible types in flyover country : automobile warranties, gold , carbon credits, home warranties. The latest craze is tax return fraud.

Here's an old article about medicare fraud:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/23/60minutes/main5414...
"They've figured out that rather than stealing $100,000 or $200,000, they can steal $100 million. We have seen cases in the last six, eight months that involve a couple of guys that if they weren't stealing from Medicare might be stealing your car," Ogrosky explained."
Some food for thought in here. But I'm not sure it's necessarily a problem with SaaS businesses. His conclusions depend on the arbitrary numbers in the example analysis.

It seems to me that his criticism is with the pricing rather than the actual model. If you could have charged $100k up front plus 20% maintenance fees, and are only charging $5k per month, your pricing probably has issues.

You could also charge setup fees for customers who need high touch introduction / initial setup to help recoup those costs.

And the sliding pricing scale (eg Salesforce, where you pay more as you have more success with their software) can help you grow customer revenue per customer, over time.

Still, some good points to think about. I just don't think it dooms the SaaS space to crash. It just depends on the value you offer, and how you structure your pricing.
Phone and texting app ‘Viber’ hacked by Syrian Electronic
And I would not.
That's some good points, and I never thought of it in terms of restaurants that have been there longer may not be part of that statistic.

Some caveats though:
-Even large billion dollar corporations that have been in business go bankrupt
-My perspective has always been that if a profitable restaurant is selling, its because it really isn't that profitable. The usual reasons given for the sale are can't spend the hours or health, but the reality is that if a restaurant is profitable, they could just hire a manager for 40-60k who could manage all aspects of the business, while the owners collect their checks every month.
My feeling on why that doesn't happen is because the business isn't doing as well as reported.
The goal of the GPL is to protect the freedom of users of software. The freedom it restricts is not generally relevant to those just trying to use the software, only to those who want to pass on changes in ways that restrict the freedom of their users.
Nevermind, I see now that high quality online education is a bad idea.
I'm writing up a tutorial on F-algebras and compositional data types. I'd love if you read along and helped me to make it better.

https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/tel/from-zero-to-comp-data
Tess Vigeland: What the Hell are You Doing?
I think the question is whether you find yourself confused by the fact that Apple makes FaceTime while Facebook makes Facebook (and Think makes FaceCash).

At some point, and this is why the Star Trek / Star Wars example matters, consumers realize that the prefix is generic within the scope of a given market. Telecommunications and faces overlap a lot these days.
More than likely it was done to protect the users privacy while keeping the exact same user experience. The protections were made behind the scenes with additional options made available to the user, but disabled by default.

The transitions from guid had the potential to break many apps so encouraging users to disable it would have likely caused many unintended side effects in addition to cluttering the ui and annoying users with unknown options.
I had the extreme honor of seeing former Marketplace host Tess Vigeland give this speech at the World Domination Summit in Portland earlier this month. Although reading it isn't the same as hearing it spoken by her famous golden voice, I think this community will probably find it moving.
And now corporations try to steal common words from people, even the word "Face", it will be interesting to see how hackers groups will react to this.
There is absolutely a comparison here. Both allow you to build mobile applications for IOS.

A single feature like native or not native does not dictate the quality of an application.

Also, I was trying to help some guy who only makes 1100/mo.
Long, but worth reading — a great overview of shady techniques that many startups may feel are worth employing to bump their growth stats.
Input, output, store, retrieve.

Or maybe Input, store, retrieve, output, which is a little cuter.
If it's 50% of our current exposure, it's not "nothing".
A big part of the current size problem is the way that the stdlib files are bundled - the contents of each file are encoded, byte-for-byte, as a list of base-10 integers. So "hello" gets bundled as "[104, 101, 108, 108, 111]", resulting in quite a bit of overhead.

I agree that 139M is pretty ridiculous for any practical purpose! I'm going to work on lazily loading just the files that are needed, which should make a big difference.
I hope these '* can code' type organizations don't become an industry in and of themselves. I visited a website for one such group and saw they're actually competing with each other for funding and prizes.

I'm afraid it might end up creating an atmosphere where girls feel like they can't learn programming by their own initiative and have to pay to attend a workshop targeting their very specific demographic. I don't think Asian American girls need to be taught programming any different from Black girls.
I would expect a product named Facemail to be something created by Facebook either less than or as much as I would expect a product named Facetime to be something created by Facebook.

When we start making these decisions more heavily on the subjectivity of users more than objectivity (e.g. the colors would be completely different, and if they aren't then a trademark infringement could be filed at that time), then we're just giving the free market to large corporations.

The more popular a brand is, the more likely more people are to associate related names/colors/symbols to that brand. Trademark law simply does not exist for cases like this. It exists to prevent genuine outright infringement.
These people are using Facebook with the expectation it works like email. Why do you feel the two are so different? In my experience, the average computer user doesn't like fiddling with email addresses - Facebook is far more friendly (opportunity for a new email client?).

Email is not immune to these issues, either. This scenario is the equivalent to sending an email and having it end up in your friend's spam folder (although arguably Facebook should be more heavily invested in getting this right!)
Probably because Discourse is still risky, however cool it is: http://www.discourse.org/buy/
Lots of lessons in life have to be experienced, they can't be taught.
> [...] whole warez team back ends

Are you able to elaborate on this? I've always wondered how the warez scene functioned; residential Internet connections are obviously insufficient, hacked resources too risky, and warez groups turn their nose up at any form of legitimate resources (e.g. dedi/colo hosting)

This leaves corporate infrastructure. All it takes is a small IT team with a big budget, lots of hardware and network resources, and management who neither know nor care how their resources are being utilized.

It's terribly romantic.
I agree with you. However, this was an invitation from the friend's sister, who I am not friends with (even on Facebook) and who was planning the party in secret. So Facebook was her only means of contacting me.
Really fantastic hack. I love the fact you can interact with a piece of real-life hardware (and move it, too) from anywhere in the world with your phone, that adds a sort of emotional-rather-than-logical magic to it :)
You might miss out on some terrific applicants who also happen to be face-blind. (Or just blind.)
An interesting question to ask is why do unprofitable SaaS companies get bought for very large amounts of money by other enterprise companies? The answers to that question are going to be my goals when building a B2B tool (because my ultimate goal is to make myself rich, let's be honest), not profitability (why would it be, when it's so hard to do and acquirers seem to not care).
Ive been really happy with my T430, works great with linux, every function button mapped to a command in Mint. My laptop has 3rd gen i7 and 4gb ram and a 256gb ssd(upgraded myself to save money) and runs everything I need as a developer. The only issue I have is its not 16x10
Most of the apps at the time optimized for pageviews and monetized through DoubleClick, AdSense and other third-party ad networks, so there was non-trivial task of proving that "making money" was happening, followed by further non-trivial task of actually collecting such revenue from all of the jurisdictions.

>> Otherwise, what's the point of building the platform?

Facebook displays its own ads on application canvas pages. Therefore higher engagement with apps => higher pageviews => higher earnings.
Yeah, it's too bad that the Green Array technology (http://www.greenarraychips.com/) never put out a similar product for $99.
Not really. Apparently only a third of people who were polled thought that 'Facemail' would be something from Facebook, Inc. [1]

It's ridiculous to assume consumers would be so confused because of a generic prefix. It would only be an issue if someone tried to pass themselves off as facebook, but then they'd be actively trying to deceive consumers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6092837
Docker and the Future of the PaaS Layer
I would buy the "Early History of Smalltalk" book in a heartbeat. If you write software for a living and have not read that Alan Kay essay, take tomorrow and go read it. You won't regret it!

I'm surprised, though, that he missed perhaps the most obvious title along these lines: "Lambda the Ultimate"!
Yii framework website defaced
> I'm talking about non-consensual porn that has no chance of becoming legal to produce.

This can be replaced by simulations using acting and special effects. Porn is about the fantasy anyway.

> An analogy that comes to mind is the trade in animal parts from endangered species. If we legalize the trade, there is more of an incentive to kill the animals, even if the killing is outlawed.

This can also be replaced by simulations, to some extent, but not like porn can be, because it's easier to tell fake ivory from fake porn, for example.

Ultimately, there will always be violence. Some of it will even be recorded for others. But outlawing stuff will just cause more and worse illegal acts to occur.
The problem isn't exclusively Facebook. It's a problem with spam filtering and the dangers of false positives.

> Job openings should be emailed to you directly

This scenario happened to me: I emailed my resume to a company. The company later emailed me back a few months later, asking me to come in to an interview. However, that email landed in my spam folder.

I just happened to check my spam folder and not click "Delete All" as I usually do.

I owe my entire professional career to this one lucky instance. Today, I check all my spam. I don't care how good Gmail's (or whoever's) spam filter is. One wrongly filtered message can have serious impact.
People change over time more often than not.
AFAIK EVE has a TOS saying that everything that happens in the game is fictional and that ISK is not real money. Essentially all players have waived their right to complain, although it might be possible for a court to overrule that.

I think plenty of Bitcoiners were trying to have it both ways, telling the IRS and SEC that Bitcoin is not real money while cashing out their schemes on MtGox at the same time. As with any license to steal, this was too good to be true.
Never opened eyes
news debunked highlighting false media reporting
huh?

If the average customer brings in $500 and the cost to acquire the customer is $200 then you'll be profitable as long as the provisioning* cost is less than $300.

*everything else associated with a customer
The other folder didn't exist 5 years ago.
I've seen that. I need to learn Lua. I have a friend who uses it as the scripting layer on top of all his C work, and he says its the best setup he's ever tried.
Police Have Said Some Weird Stuff About The Michael Hasting's Car Crash
Apparently site does not run on Yii, so users are as safe as they were before. Official response sent to users:

Earlier today it was discovered that the entry page on the Yii website had been defaced. The website was restored in less than an hour from discovery. The defacement was made possible by a vulnerability in the separate forum software used on the site. This vulnerability has now been fixed.

For your information, here are some details about the event:

1. The website's index.php was compromised through a vulnerability in the separate forum software (IPB, not Yii).

2. Neither the website's code nor Yii framework code was involved or part of the attack in any way. Hence, the security of the Yii framework remains as secure today as it was yesterday.

3. No framework downloads were affected, as the Yii framework source code is hosted externally.

Although we're storing passwords encrypted and are salting hashes, we recommended that you change your forum password. Please also note that if you are using the same password for other services and/or websites, you should change those as well.
You're right, sorry - replacing JavaScriptCore with v8 indeed only happened for Qt 5. However, v8 is indeed on the way out again, as mentioned: http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/04/15/evolution-of-the-qm...
BTW: I posted a ticket to add backend SPDY support to App Engine -- see Ilya's comment: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9...
No generic answer here is going to fully apply. You have had exposure to these people in the past. So, you should have a good idea of their value. If you think their involvement makes your company more valuable, then you should consider it. If you decide to move forward with it, put plenty of vesting/cliffs in their equity earning. Anyone confident in their contribution should be fine with that approach. Alternatively, you could find some financial investors to perform the same functions proposed by these people. The primary question to answer is: what is the real value people add to the company?

Update: Just wanted to mention that you don't need their help to get in an accelerator. The accelerator will also perform some of the very same functions they propose.
Watergate made barely a ripple at first, according to Woodward and Bernstein's book. It built up over time.
Wait till they trademark their blue colour like these http://www.businessinsider.com/colors-that-are-trademarked-2... ...
Riding Rails: [ANN] Rails 3.2.14 has been released
Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History
Or, if you're on OS X, you can just use Spotlight. It includes trig functions, factorials, exponents, etc, and it's only a command-space away. The only downside is that it doesn't automatically copy the result into your clipboard.

An example: http://i.imgur.com/vaN7HfS.png
Huh. I didn't realize PyPy was so much larger than CPython.

I was aware of the ridiculous size of emscripten's output. When I experimented with emscripten a couple months ago, "Hello World" in C produced about 2000 lines of JavaScript. Another ~700 line program in C ran about 150,000 to 200,000 lines, depending on various settings.
More confusing than facetime?
I've actually talked to people about facetime and they've assumed I was talking about some video feature on facebook. People do get confused by it. Facebook is so big anything that starts with Face is just assumed to be related to facebook by some people.
The "Sign in" button is a mailto link? "News" on the top navbar goes to his Twitter, but the other "News" link doesn't do anything.

If something is a link, it should be obvious. It should also be obvious what that link leads to.

Okay, it's interesting, but I don't see how it's creative. How is this a good resume?
Travis Goodspeed makes lots of hardware gadgets [1], he also gave a really cool talk about "Writing a Thumbdrive from Scratch" (for antiforensics) [2] at the 29th Chaos Communication Congress [29c3].

[1] http://goodfet.sourceforge.net/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Im0_KUEf8
Apple has legal resources equivalent to Facebook's. There's no reason to believe that the outcome would be the same.
I'm not saying that software is just an ingredient, I'm saying that software is an ingredient. I don't know what it means to be just an ingredient. Rice isn't just an ingredient, nor water - unless I'm misunderstanding you.
Here's the Furuno USA page, you can click on Find a Dealer from there.

http://bit.ly/162VzYr
People get divorced as often as not!
Desktop-Printing Electronic Circuits, Other Nanofabricated Devices
No, but I'm having a hard time envisioning a regulatory body akin to the FDA for all software. And even ingredient lists contain terms like "natural flavors" which hide some arguably important aspects of the composition.
>So apparently this is an SEC "Investor Alert," but do the legal minds here know if SEC can indict and prosecute this guy?

Here's what they did:

The SEC’s complaint charges Shavers and BTCST with offering and selling investments in violation of the anti-fraud and registration provisions of the securities laws, specifically Sections 5(a), 5(c) and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Exchange Act Rule 10b-5. The SEC is seeking a court order to freeze the assets of Shavers and BTCST in addition to other relief, including permanent injunctions, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains with prejudgment interest, and financial penalties.