skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. I think an interesting feature would be to plot songs along the graph as nodes you could hover over. You could see the artists' and songs' information, maybe the word frequency in those songs. I suppose you could look for radical changes in slope to figure out where to place each node, too.
Consider that of the four major browser vendors (Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, Google) three are also major DRM vendors (Google's Widevine, Microsoft's PlayReady, and Apple's FairPlay).

What exactly do you think will prevent them from building their already-existing in-house DRM (three different systems, note!) into their own browsers?
Marketo I believe.
Again: Your point is that you are principally against killing US citizens in organisations that do violence against USA -- as long as the organisations aren't countries which you can declare war against.

One word: Weird. You say a country should never defend itself with military against violent citizens which become e.g. Somali warlords, join Pakistani tribal warfare clans or terrorist groups? (Not even the heavily armed US police can handle all threats smaller than country size.)

Anyway, my argument was that there are arguably even worse reactions to extreme terror from US and other democracies. This is probably built into the democratic system -- scare voters enough and countries will react badly. You don't have to like it.

But I think you understood that.

Edit: If you really don't understand -- you argue for a position by morality. I argue it is irrelevant, both for practical reasons and because of how democracies react to terror. Being Swedish I'm fed up with decisions based only on idealist wishful thinking, so I'm sorry if I sound irritated.
Of course I realize that, but we're not talking about abstract concepts here, we're talking about a narrow and specific set of circumstances.

Do you really think it was evil of the Feds to get a court order to inspect the communications of someone that was known to, without a shadow of a doubt, be leaking classified information? I do not.

I think Snowden was right to do what he did, I think the Feds were right to respond with a search warrant request to investigate him, and I think the judge was right to grant it.
Metcalfe aside, it's probably 10000% easier to raise ad rates than it is subscription rates. Plus, subscriptions will invert their customer model and give users power that they likely would rather not give away.
On Earth, using standard English, that is considered "control." It's not "total control," but they never claimed it was.
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This is a complicated topic, in which I think there must be some kind of balance.

There are the lazy ones from the perspective that they are too lazy to put their heads down and do the hard/boring work,
and there are the lazy ones from the perspective that they are too lazy to get out of their comfort zone, even though the work is hard/boring.
The ancestor of Docker at dotCloud ran on openvz. We moved to lxc in 2010 when it became usable.

I think of them as mostly interchangeable except for the shared hosting use case where openvz has a head start (more time for more eyeballs to audit and fix it).

Now the whole "openvz vs. lxc" distinction is pretty moot - linux has namespaces and cgroups. Everything else is a matter of choice of userland libraries and cli tools.
It's perfectly fine for you to hire older developers, particularly if you're writing reporting software for a utility grid monitoring company. A younger developer probably isn't going to want to do that job anyway. The reason we have a market economy in the first place is so that people can find the work the matches their interests and abilities best, and then get paid well for doing it to the best of their abilities.
So why did you assume he was not going to do that?
For a preview of how this approach would turn out for Mozilla, look at the H.264/WebM debacle. Mozilla refused to implement H.264 for a long time, but after Google reneged on its promise to drop support, Mozilla finally caved to keep its userbase.

I doubt they'd even try again, seeing as they've already seen this movie and know how it will end.
> Funny thing, I take "Generation Y" as the way people who doesn't really care about generational studies talk about Millenials. I can't stop thinking they heard about the "Generation X", called this way at their time because they were unknown, and extrapolated the meaning without further thinking.

Indeed. Before the term "Generation X" stuck, lazy commentators who wanted to make sweeping generational statements often referred to "Baby Busters."
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She coded an iOS app called ruHot in 2009. Lot's of dedication getting 180 sites done in 180 days. Not a whole lot of dedication to honesty though.
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We need some technology that makes our Credit Card numbers change every few days.

I am shocked that most people think it's OK these days to drop the "Oops, nasty baddies bad bad got in and there goes your details, so so sorry, come again."

If this happens to some small startup with the one PHP nerd that doesn't really know what he's doing (and is underpaid anyway) - that's fine. Or at least acceptable. You're living on the edge.

But a Fortune 100 company... COM'ON.
Exactly. It feels like they are not concentrating on their profitability yet.

When they do, I believe they will have a lot more income.
I largely agree with you and am usually the first to start automating things. However, I'll also say that sometimes doing it the boring, hard way really is the smart way to handle it. I've seen the pressure to work smarter used to spend weeks automating a system that could be performed by hand in hours. Using an hour to write a program that saves a month of work is smart. Using a month to write a program that saves a night of tedious manual labor is lazy.
> 1 - We'll lose the W3C. We'll have to either create another standards body, or go back to the 90's situation when nobody agreed on anything.

We already lost the W3C once for about 10 years. Remember XHTML and XHTML2? Those, and a bunch of special purpose not particularly interesting niche XML standards (P3P? XML-FO?) were pretty much all they worked on for a decade or so. It wasn't until the WHATWG was formed by some browser vendors who wanted to start working on a standard for features that users would actually want, rather than what architecture astronauts thought would be a nice design, and the W3C realized that's what people were actually interested in and so replaced XHTML2 with HTML5 based on the WHATWG spec that they actually became relevant again.

Now, I will have to give credit that there were still a few groups at the W3C doing work relevant to the actual open web, such as SVG and CSS. But given how the WHATWG took over work on the HTML standard and actually did work towards a standard that was useful and relevant to browser vendors when the W3C went off the rails the last time means that I'm not too worried if it goes off the rails again this time, you can always form another standards body if it becomes irrelevant. You just need to be sure to recognize this early on, so you don't waste too much time and effort waiting for the W3C to get its act together again.
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Yes, but it wont be OS agnostic. So it might work on all browsers on Windows but not in any one FreeBSD.
PiCloud is a layer of abstraction above the IaaS providers you've listed. That is to say that it gives you software infrastructure to design workflows and distribute them across the machines provided by an IaaS provider. In some ways it's like Heroku, and in others it's another layer beyond Heroku (App Engine-like?). You architect your work around the PiCloud tools. I think PiCloud currently runs on AWS.
Except that after tax and council tax, and energy bills and phone bill (internet and mobile), there is no way you would have that £6.6k in London. It'd be possible in another part of the UK maybe, but not trivial by any means.
Obviously things become less "foundational" as you go higher up the stack.
> We also believe the attackers removed from our systems certain information relating to 2.9 million Adobe customers, including customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and other information relating to customer orders. At this time, we do not believe the attackers removed decrypted credit or debit card numbers from our systems.

Well that's reassuring(!) If these hackers were so "sophisticated" then presumably they could have obtained Adobe's decryption keys too? If not, why not?

Guess I'll have to phone my bank tomorrow... hope they don't charge me for the new card. Oh Adobe...

Edit: It just occurs to me that people with pirated Adobe software aren't having any problems right now. The same argument could be made of any service, of course, but at least with the old way of purchasing Adobe software (vs. Creative Cloud) Adobe didn't have to store your credit card number for an extended period of time. I don't think this excuses piracy, but it's not going to do anything to discourage it.
Don't just look at your current work. Look to your superiors and/or your elders in the company; are they doing work you would like to be doing?

As a new-hire, you often don't get to do the most interesting work.
His reddit AMA was rather funny as well. He came across really well in that.
Sure, not everything is standards-compliant, nor fully interoperable. But part of the transformative effect of open Internet standards has been that anyone can implement them without permission from others (indeed, the IP policy of the W3C is pretty much engineered to make this the case).

If you want to implement a DRM binary blob with EME, you're going to have to negotiate a compliance contract of some kind with the DRM vendor, probably connected to some hook IP. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliance_and_Robustness )
So they were looking for ways to 0-day ColdFusion and Acrobat.
Is there a site that tracks all the hacked companies?

This needs a ladder of shame. If we don't shine the light on this, things just won't get better.
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Ok, fine, we'll never know the proportions. But you can get a confidential informant to say whatever you want for $100, and that can be enough for a search warrant. Then you don't call the shady CI at trial and work from the bust results instead.

No way to know how common it is, but I could see that method actually being good police work if they're putting away someone who needs to go away.
I doubt it. Twitter is fundamentally flawed in a way that I'm not sure is fixable. The fact is that the vast majority of people on Twitter get no feedback at all when they post something. This is a combination of 2 things:

1) Tweets disappear quickly from a user's timeline
2) Most people have few active followers

1 and 2 work against each other to form a negative feedback loop. The result is the vast majority of users use it passively to read celebrity tweets, nothing more.

Twitter must know this as their growth is already peaking and they're not making much money. Expect to see more drastic measures to try and turn what they already have into something profitable. They've peaked.
However this fails on "Array-like" objects like NodeLists.
When your Karma goes above 1000 or so, you stop caring about it. Say what you feel, and don't worry whether people downvote you.
Right, and it had nothing to do with the fact it was proven he was using false identity documents to conceal money from the IRS. No sir. He was imprisoned just for writing an essay.
Did you use service to find users for your service?

Joking aside, including Craigslist in the list of places from which you pull your potential users doesn't sound professional to me, especially in a list with others like LinkedIn; It makes the service sound like a web crawler that hits into lots of noise while trying to classify users.
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Their revenue growth is pretty solid, so there is clearly potential there. Doubled revenue between first half 2012 and first half 2013, 10x yearly since 2010.
That's an empirical question, and deserves an empirical treatment. I cannot do that in a comment. Luckily, this question has been thoroughly investigated for almost two centuries. If you want a serious treatment, you might look to:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/825483?seq=2
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/uclr52&d...

But if you want a more casual treatment that explains it (and all the associated issues like why bonds and stocks and debt contracts even exist), I really recommend The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson.
I'm guessing they're listing acquisitions in the previous 3 years (3 years tends to be a magic number in finance, securities, and tax lookback periods; don't ask me why, probably hysterical reasons). The atebits acquisition was >36 months ago.
Its not necessarily just dilution. If you've got a wildly popular but not-profitable startup you'd take money off the table at every funding round as well....
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Except the plugin is the responsibility of the browser, not them. This is effectively a way to shift the maintenance burden on browser and OS vendors.
For only recently opening their ad platform, that's not too surprising.
Whenever I read an article accusing my generation of selfishness, I can't wait to disprove it by posting comments all about me and my situation.
> what other companies have gone public with a negative bottom line?

I just casually checked on the Bloomberg and it seems fairly common. Just in the US and just in the past 12 months I see hundreds.
I agree with you regarding Twitter's monetization opportunity; they're barely scratching the surface of what's possible, hiring like crazy (most of the expense), etc.

What seems odd to me is that they're filing for IPO right now. Do they honestly expect public markets to buy their "but it's becoming ubiquitous" story? 2000 wasn't that long ago.
I really wanted to like this article ... but it seems to come from a place of emotion and it shows. The arguments are unsubstantiated and as a commenter below pointed out even the quote he used from Nietzsche is out of context

Its hard to read something like this ...

"It is really easy to sit at your desk when you are supposed to be working and browse hacker news, injecting in your sarcastic wit and sly comments, believing them to be of value, believing that somehow that in this false self-affirming reality that you are actually creating something of value, when indeed all you are doing is destroying and marring the work of others to your own detriment"

And not feel like this is a rant, but plenty of rants have a lot of hard truths in them, this one does not.

I take issue with this ...

"The big problem is that “kids today” don’t understand the value of hard, boring work"

This idea that you should be able to go to a job that bores you to tears, or even worse, actually hate just because it pays you money and thats just what people have to do really really upsets me. I've been a developer for 10 years now, and I can categorically tell you that your work can be challenging, your work can be tough but it should never be boring. Because I find that when I had autonomy at my job, whenever my opinion was respected by decision makers, and when I was surrounded by a team that I loved, I never had any boring moments.

And I think that goes for a lot of people too, because you see, it turns out that work is only really boring when you don't care. And if you don't care, you shouldn't be there.

PS: The part about burn out is abysmally wrong and doesn't even warrant comment.
yes, but according to this LA Times article[1], it was a "$313 million enrollment system." To me that implies that the enrollment system itself cost $313 million as opposed to the entire budget for Covered California.

But even allowing for $86 million in advertising (which is still insane considering that the entire Obama campaign spent a little less than a billion -- and that was for an entire country and that money did not all go towards advertising. So $86 million for a single state? That number itself is mind-blowingly ridiculous. Allowing that the $86 million came from the $313 million, we're still looking at over $200 million to build a software application. I'm pretty sure the TurboTax guys didn't spend that much on their first application -- and they're dealing with 50 states plus the federal government's tax laws that change every year.

I just wonder how many uninsured people in California could have been covered with that $313 million they've spent building a web application that's trying to help the uninsured. There are apparently 7 million uninsured in California (the highest number and percentage in the country) so that comes out to about $500 per person. Considering that there will not be a 100% insurance rate in California, it seems like that money spent to build a software application could have covered a pretty high percentage of those uninsured. I'm obviously simplifying, but it seems like the goal of helping the uninsured took an expensive, wrong turn somewhere. That 313 million doesn't include the ongoing salaries and expenses of actually running Covered California. The amount of money spent is staggering considering that not a single dollar of that is actually going to pay any healthcare -- it's only a service to help people find insurance.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-california-he...
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'Black market' is not the same as 'unregulated market': a black market is specifically something that has to operate in the shadows, under constant threat, maintaining their organizations by extra-legal means. So of course its products are sketchy.

Liability for defective products and false advertising is all the 'regulation' most markets need, especially now with the explosion of network- and software-aided consumer choice. Such liability, not specific to product type, is what most advocates of deregulation want. Not 'black' markets, just free and open markets – where competition, sticky reputations, and normal legal remedies against dishonesty can work as usual.
Some credit card companies let you generate expiring CC numbers for specific purchases, but that's a lot of work, and wouldn't work for recurring purchases (like Adobe Creative Cloud)
Few cases make it to trial, especially in the federal system. He's been charged with at least two capital eligible charges. They'll offer to plead down to life in prision (or 100+ years same difference) and he'll take it. We'll never see the government's full case.
Sometimes people conflate passion with interest, and they miss out on the notion of agenda.

Basically, if you are passionate about something you can set goals based on that, and the hard and boring work that is part of getting to the goal is overcome by the passion of getting to the goal. As an interesting example, look at people who play storyline video games to the end, versus ones that stop before finishing. People who are invested (a form of passion) in how the game ends, slog through the boring parts to get there. People who aren't invested get turned off by the boring part and stop. The same thing is true with movies and books. If you care about how they are going to turn out, you sit through the 'slow' parts, if you don't care, you don't.

I found the call to action at the end "Sign up for info on my super secret project that will turn you from Lazy Bum to Execution Machine!" really jarring as well. If you conflate passion and lazyness and rationalization then how can you make something effective?

When people tell me they can't stick to a project they just wander off into other things. I try to figure out if there are things where that doesn't occur. You know, the kind of person who says "I've got ADHD that is why I just played this video game for 4 hours straight." And you ask the obvious question, "Were you giving it your full attention?"

I don't doubt for a moment that folks will rationalize their drop in productivity as burn out sometimes, but it is dangerous to go from there to saying something like "burn out is a myth." One does not imply the other.
The guys of Binarynights (ForkLift) are working on an alternative called Locko: http://www.binarynights.com/blog/

It's available as an early beta and pretty promising. Competition is always good and Apple will pushing AgileBits further when they release Mavericks with the iCloud Keychain.
That's usually a placeholder number. They're going to raise what they can and it will probably end up much higher than $1b in stock.
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I don't think i want to work that hard.. i lived and worked in the U.S for a short time and i tasted what is to work very hard.

I discoverd that i prefer to work a little less hard doing things at my own speed, even if i don't develop my "full potential".
I was wondering why I wasn't getting a video option on skype for days... grumble
That is why the JavaScript tools I wrote to go with the article can give you percentiles on where you would be after different numbers of trials. That's explicitly so that people can develop intuition about how much they need to underbet to stay within their comfort levels.
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Maybe, but then what is the reason they think this is a good time for an IPO? It seems kind of desperate to my admittedly untrained eye, but it could also be brilliant.
It's interested that they chose NYSE of NASDARK(DAQ).

Facebook IPO trauma?
That's the thing. The info is out there. Hell, especially around new year, there are a lot of articles that sounds like "10 things to learn before 2013", "talks to help you be a better programmer in 2013", etc.

It's not very hard to google "what should I learn to be a web developer?" or to simply take a look at the name of the courses on code academy.

As for your other point, I completely agree. One should not feel down because they were only to complete half of a side project in a month. Hell, that's more than what I manage to fit in my schedule!
Twitter can have value to people that post nothing. (This is the case for a number of my friends on Twitter.) And what you're describing has existed since Twitter was created as Twttr.
I think that some banks let you generate temporary credit card numbers to make online transactions which you can disable at any time.
Salesforce is worth $30 billion and has no earnings. Amazon is worth $143 billion and has no earnings. Facebook, with a ~$120 market cap, is valued at more than 200 times earnings. Tesla's market cap is roughly a third of Ford's.

As long as the Fed is easing, fundamentals don't matter. The mispricing in equities is particularly pronounced in prominent technology companies, but there is clear excess throughout the market.

The name of the game is momentum. This game will end, and badly, but questioning the market and fighting the Fed has not been the path to profit so keep in mind that, right now, Twitter's bottom line is practically irrelevant.
Interesting, thanks for the data point.
This goes back nearly a decade, but Salesforce showed three straight years of losses before they went public.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108524/0001193125030...
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