skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might, for just a brief moment, consider a less cynical, equally plausible explanation.
It's a tricky balance to get right. If you focus on quality for too long, you may mis-time your growth efforts and find yourself with a fantastic product and not enough users to keep it viable / raise more money.

A great company needs both growth and engagement.
I think blaming "MSM" is becoming an increasingly poor excuse in an age where you are free to compose your own news feed in places like Twitter - even Tumblr.

I'm sure many of the people unaware of what is going on in Ukraine didn't follow the MSM to begin with.
Apptimize (YC S13) launches wysiwyg a/b testing tool for native apps
Rap Genius Partners with Universal Music Publishing Group
Dynosoar?
4k, HDMI, and Deep Color
Similar prob with AT&T in SoCal, bad Netflix, Youtube, and actually, almost all large file transfers of any kind, including linux isos, apple dmgs & system updates, etc. Switched to an independent ISP carried over the same AT&T DSL lines and I could actually get the advertised bandwidth consistently.

I suspect the only reason DSL is accessible by third-party ISP is that it carries some regulatory access rules with it because only U-Verse can get to the higher tiers of bandwidth.

My broadband choices are lower speeds with third-party DSL 6Mbps, or higher speeds with AT&T U-Verse, or TWC both of which seem to selectively throttle competing video services like YouTube or Netflix.
It's not just a random house in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It's the house that is the official address of over 2000 (!!!) shell corporations (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/28/us-usa-shell-compa...). Shady business going on here, at the least.
Getting Past the Media Hype - Is There Really A Teen Exodus from Facebook?
but alot of business value is on the cost side. being the low cost producer. alot of internet business are about finding a low cost substitute for an existing business usually with somekind of scale to it. Google computer index of billions of pages versus hand index. amazon listing milions of products, customer reviews versus retail stores and service reps. it's not hard to find a product/service sell it for cheaper. it's hard to find a product/service product it cheaper that the customer values as much as the original.
The physical keyboard refers to claim 2, basically implying that the system for responding to suggestions (with gestures) applies whether the initial typing was done on the glass or virtual keyboard. So it's not making such a sweeping claim.

In any event, specific claims can be thrown out as appropriate.
Of course. The essence of the argument is whether or not threatening to maim and murder as necessary, to produce whatever result the protesters hold dear, is a morally sound tactic.
I'm using Twilio, PythonAnywhere, and Google Directions API to send myself texts when my commute length is longer than a specified tolerance, then sending texts with commute lengths for alternate routes if they are shorter. Currently gathering commute length data to make my commute length tolerances dependent on an average commute length for that workday plus a specified percentage above that.

Also playing around with Flask and other APIs as well as building a blog in Django.
> GCC is written poorly on purpose in order to make it difficult to work with gcc

That's a strange conspiracy theory that has been posted here several times and debunked as well. It seems particularly odd to me because when I worked at a university 15 years ago, everyone in the compiler research world would occasionally hack on gcc to add features, retarget it, add optimizations etc. ... It didn't seem prohibitively difficult.
Unsurprising if true. Out of several hundred friends, I'm down to perhaps 10 that post to Facebook on a regular basis, and they'd probably be better served by moving their activities to Twitter.
Agreed, I have neither the sound nor the time to listen and watch a video.
Certainly unrelated to the article, but I've been considering moving from the US to Germany. As I understand it, Berlin has a pretty thriving tech scene and I'm targeting it as my destination (Munich has come up, too). Anyone care to comment on how easy this might be?
For someone completely outside the Bay Area, it can be hard to judge whether this is a big deal or not. The frequency of the news reports makes it seem like all the Google Buses are being blocked / attacked each morning, and now that employees are being targeted individually at their homes. I know it's turned me off accepting jobs in the Bay Area - it isn't the only reason, but it has been part of it. It would be reassuring to know if these are just isolated incidents being magnified by the media lens.
They're using Google Trends to gauge how many people are using Facebook. Since 90% of this is people typing in "facebook" on their homepage to get to the FB login page, this might actually be a surprisingly good metric to track facebook usage.

Then again, the recent dip in searches could just mean that people are finally learning to use bookmarks, or click on Facebook directly now that most browsers show you your favorite sites when they start up.
Or, I'm a cop, or, I'm so poor I can't afford the tattoos they have.
Not wanting to watch the video, I was initially thinking this was some kind of diabetes management service based on the name.
School ditches WiFi because of alleged cancer risk
Reality Keys: Facts about the future, cryptographic proof when they come true
Yep - seriously guys, use the front page to shove in my face what it's all about.

I gave the front page a 2 sec scan and then you lost me.

PS: As a T2 diabetic, the site/product name had me half expecting to be visiting a site for managing blood glucose records.
I get great streaming from netflix, and I find youtube frequently has trouble. Maybe my ISP (Verizon FIOS) is throttling youtube and not netflix, but that would be strange.
How do infectious diseases have anything in common with social media?
So going forward Facebook endless buys companies to try and prop up its user base?

I suppose that could work to some extent, since Facebook knows how to monetize.
I feel like Verizon Fios does the same. I have 50 down and YouTube is painful most times
Unreal Engine used to be licensed that way, but they've moved to a royalty model that actually makes it pretty cheap for small studios, and free for hobbyists. The current licensing options are,

Non-commercial use: free

Commercial use for in-house applications (e.g. training simulations): $2,500 per-seat

Commercial use for end-user-oriented applications (e.g. game development): $99 plus 25% of royalties above $50,000

Full terms: http://www.unrealengine.com/udk/licensing/commercial_license...
Both spread by social contact and network effects. If you don't interact with anyone that has the flu, you won't get the flu. If you don't interact with anyone that has facebook, you won't get facebook.

I have no idea if their spread followed similar models, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Agreed, I give occasionally when I am feeling generous and regularly to certain charities. But I also demand a certain value from the charities I donate to, I chastise any charity that sends me paper mailings because they are wasting my money and not heeding my wishes.

As to the OP's posting about waiting vs donating currently. Remember there is no time like the present and perhaps it needs to be thought of like loosing weight, you can always put it off but a little of what is good for you each day is sustaining.

Plus, loosing a small percentage of your income probably won't make you any richer, but it might make someone else's life much better. A little money can save someone's life, can the same be said for what is 'waiting' in your pocket?
I doubt the individual Google engineers are the ones "assisting" the NSA -- remember the angry post[1] when one of them found out the NSA was tapping into their private fiber?

> Fuck these guys. I've spent the last ten years of my life trying to keep Google's users safe and secure from the many diverse threats Google faces.

You are making it seem like these companies had a choice in providing data to the NSA. In reality, the data were either taken without their knowledge or forcefully (i.e., serious legal repercussions if they told anyone or didn't fork it over).

[1]: https://plus.google.com/108799184931623330498/posts/SfYy8xbD...
They state that they chose to block his personal commute not merely protest at his residence. That means they chose to attempt to prevent him from leaving (since once he left he would be out of their control and may well go to work).

If you were someone that needed to go to work, and needed to drop your child somewhere on the way, and there was a large group of people outside your house with the stated intent of preventing you from doing so, you would not feel threatened? I mean sure they are peaceful while you are inside not attempting to leave, but when you try to oppose their goals by leaving, it raises the question of how dedicated they are to their goal, which I believe would make a rational person feel threatened.

If they had not made the point that the purpose of this was to restrict him from going about life then I would be much more willing to consider the view that he should not feel threatened.
The use of the vulnerability to repair the vulnerability is very cool. I've done some related work, which may be of interest when one wants to patch a bad binary on the router (instead of simply removing a bad binary as done in this article).
http://eschulte.github.io/netgear-repair/pub/netgear-repair....
They vastly underestimate the number of old folks that want to keep up with their grandchildren. This is how I and my children use it now. It is the easiest platform to put on an iPad to send the old folks updates.
My impression is that the expectation for software quality and support is the same for a $1.99 iOS app and a $99 desktop app. Given that upgrades are always free in the App Store (unless you go the Omni route), the cost different is probably even more skewed, and if your popularity continues (which is hard in the app store), your support burden will grow without additional revenue from those users.

It sounds like you're an indie dev. You probably could charge more than $1.50/minute for your time ... so if you spend even five minutes supporting a customer, you're wiped out all your revenue (not even counting development time!).
The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to Computerization pg 37
The study was not peer reviewed, and is nothing more than an interesting experiment, not deserving of the factual assertion of the headline.
I may have to cancel my monthly RSPCA donation so I can pay for my house. That'd be sad.
I guess the point I was trying to make is that sending an email, or showing that you've sent an email also doesn't prove that they have received or read it. I think in edge cases, it's probably possible to forge that you've sent an email in the past when in reality, you've sent that email this morning.

By using something like the aforementioned service, at least you can prove without a doubt that the message was sent at a specific time, putting the impetus on the receiving party.
Bill Gates Says Government Spying Isn’t Always Bad
Or they are using the mobile apps more and more.
The prediction is based on how pathogens evolve over time with no basis on how this apply to social network adoption.

A comparison with Myspace doesn't help either since Myspace decline started when FB started growing rapidly, and currently apart from G+ (which isn't growing that rapidly) there's really no competition out there.
Of course not. Instead, they blame Google, and its employees, for the police presence which they themselves necessitate.
Let's step into 2014 and remove the giant RSS icon from our homepage, shall we?
I ended up writing one app (and making significant headway on a second) using node-webkit yesterday, so many thanks for bringing it to my attention.

In general, a web app has to get pretty ridiculously bloated for javascript minification and so forth to impact launch time on a local file system. I'd call this premature optimization. (In my day job we're working on a pretty huge web app and we don't use any build process except -- just recently -- precompiling our LESS files (mainly to handle IE and mobile devices)). For us, the downside of a build-process to the debug cycle is a far bigger hit than the benefit of minification. (Perhaps we were overreacting to another project which used maven and had 2-3 minute builds...)

Of course if you're using coffeescript or clojurescript or whatever there's no avoiding some kind of build process.

It strikes me that automating and simplifying the build process is exactly the kind of thing you could wrap up in a pretty nice node-webkit application!
Or more are just using mobile apps to use facebook.
char buf[2048]; /* if you hit this limit, shoot yourself */

Sorry. I stopped reading the code at that point.
LinkedIn Offers College Choices by the Numbers
The future of jobs and Computerization
I really can't believe people are trying to justify bullying like this. The points they're trying to smear him on are outlandish like saying he's personally responsible for NSA surveillance, or because he made an app for construction blueprints he's personnally kicking people out of their homes?

Are you really defending this shit?
"And doesn't it show just how insane VC funding is, when you realize that some of the investors may actually be disappointed?"

I imagine I'd be disappointed too if this 50% return didn't cover the 55%-100% losses on other investments... VC investment seems to be a game of extremes, both up & down.
If FOSS OSes have poor to non existent support for proprietary software, there is no way they will be able to compete with proprietary OSes like OSX and Windows that fully support running FOSS applications.

The ability to develop or run proprietary software, if I so choose, is a form of freedom.
Show HN: FocalPool - Buy, Sell, Request Images & Videos
Whoa... I've seen minimalist product pages before, but I think this one takes the cake.
So... it's not apparently possible without modifying the source code. So like I said originally, what Xcode is using for static analysis is apparently Apple's choice, not yours nor mine.
I liked it at first, but it seems like too early beta,

- I cannot log in trough the extensions (on website it works fine)

- Font rendering of Chrome on windows is really crummy for custom fonts. Bug [1]. You can fix it by doing some custom font-face config [2] Screenshot [3] (Check the "C" contour)

- You are missing side padding on your input elements, and it is driving me nuts.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10953037/google-webfonts-...

[3] http://i.imgur.com/VuLQwE4.png
Ground-Zero inc : Do you stand up and rise?
12 : do you stand up and rise ? ( fuck the pop )
Giant US corporation vs giant Korean corporation in a U.S. court. Yeah, that'll be totally fair.
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If the status quo means having a place to live in what was your and your family's neighborhood (cultural and actual) for a long time, yours is not really an indictment.
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Third Party Bit Commitment
I can understand the cost/reliability tradeoff given a data storage mechanism that provides enough resiliency, but how do you provide that? Are the drives just single-drive FSes with secret sauce atop it, or commodity RAID-N with something doing resiliency atop that, or ?
I can see the correlation in adoption rate, but social media users don't get purged from networks like infectious diseases do from our bodies.

The reasons people use and/or leave social networks are completely different from the reasons diseases leave the body, which is the correlation needed for this study to make sense. It just seems like linkbait to me.
Why are we so masochistic?

We invent bad languages, they spread everywhere like plague and then we're like "hey, let's create an overlay language to hide the hideousness". It's insane.
You're not really selling yourself here. As pointed out by brianpgordon, listing a dozen of programming languages is not a good idea (know everything, master nothing).
Why don't you tell us what you'd like to do?
Your favourite programming language or one you'd really like to work with, your ideal location and a specific domain would be a good start.
How should we remember Aaron Swartz?
We’re a public radio show in Boston thinking about the legacy of the young Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who killed himself a year ago in the cause of free information. On Thursday we will talk to his Harvard Law School mentor Lawrence Lessig, who is on two-week march — the New Hampshire Rebellion, he calls it — to save a vision and a future Swartz helped to create.

We’d love to start the show with some other voices and thoughts that illuminate the life, death and legacy of Aaron Swartz. A year later, Aaron Swartz has multiple meanings: he was an Internet geek but also prolific reader, writer, culture vulture and political rebel, a law breaker and maybe even a martyr. Please help us through your comments - how should we remember him?

You can read more about the upcoming show or call into our voicemail line to have your voice on our radio show here: http://www.radioopensource.org/aaron-swartz-one-year-later/
> Meanwhile, in rural England, people desperate for internet access are bundling four DSL lines at 1.4 MBit/s downstream each.

Then they should move out of rural England. BT, etc, aren't stupid. If people in rural England could pay enough to offset the cost of running cable or fiber out to rural England, then BT would build that infrastructure. But that's clearly not the case.
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You forgot to say GNU/Linux instead of just Linux.
I have made a solution for a client sometime ago that, among other features, allowed him to connect to a vnc server from his browser without any plugin, just with HTML5\JS. If there was a lot of interest, that could be modified to provide some similar features as logmein
In their defense, it's a fantastic video.

But yes, at LEAST show the tagline prominently on the page, and preferably have an elevator pitch right there too. You have 2 seconds to tell people what you do and why they should care. Don't waste it with "Here's a video, we're in beta, invite only, have a good day!"
GCC's position [is] rather obvious: They want to support free tools

I don't have a strong position either, but unless you work for the FSF in their PR department, software developers should really be stating the FSF's position accurately, which is:

The Free Software Foundation only want to promote free^H^H^H^HFree Software Foundation-licensed tools, primarily tools that use its GPL license.

To the FSF, "free" is just a shorthand way of saying "Free Software Foundation-licensed". It doesn't mean "free" as normally understood. Just because the FSF wants to conflate the two to obscure what's going on doesn't mean the rest of the world should go along with the ruse.

(And it is clearly non-standard, which is easily demonstrated by how often FSF people have to explain what "free" means. As they say in politics, if you're explaining, you're losing. If there was no difference from the standard usage, no explanation would be needed. Therefore, the FSF usage is non-standard. QED)

FWIW I doubt anyone has a problem with the FSF's actual mission, since people are free (normal usage) to do what they want (and even encouraged to do so). It's the rhetorical duplicity of their PR that we shouldn't be supporting. Let the FSF's mission stand on it's own merits, rather than by trying to gain credibility/respectability by association with something else (in this case, our pre-existing affinity for freedom).
Are you by chance familiar with the axiom that, given an audience without any other information about the parties or principles involved in a given argument, the side which presents its claims in a calm, level-headed fashion is more likely to be taken seriously than the side that's red-faced and flinging spittle?

I can't imagine what's brought that so strongly to mind just now, but I figured I'd mention it all the same. Make of it what you like.
Interesting corollary: if you've got two smaller social networks, both trying to grow, of equal sizes, the one with a denser group bond (more edges between nodes) has a better shot at it than the sparser one.

Which is to say: start with a tight group and you'll tend to grow -- the benefits to members of participating (and costs of defecting) are higher. With a widely distributed network, not so much.

Facebook exploited this with its initial seeding: Harvard / Ivys / selective colleges / all edus / general public.

If I recall, a strong reason for Orkut's failure to launch was that it never really developed a tight inside bonded group outside of Brazil and Latin America.

Much as epidemics spread in densely populated areas.

Gives a new meaning to "viral media" and "social disease".
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I'm a netadm for my network (a /16) and "Results for [my] location are not currently available". Any idea how I can alleviate this? I'm curious how we're doing.
Am I the only one who hates the old Start Menu?

I didn't hate it, but in Windows 7 I found a better alternative that almost made it redundant.

I have found myself pinning the 20-or-so programs I most often use to the new-style Taskbar instead. I also use Jump Lists and various related tricks all the time. I frequently run many applications at once, I open lots of command prompts and Explorer windows, and with 4 megapixels of real estate on my primary monitor alone, I want these functions one click away a lot more than I need a few extra pixels across the bottom of my screen.

Given that easier-to-use alternative, about the only things that still make me open the Start menu on Windows 7 are searching for programs I don't use regularly and accessing control panels.

My biggest pet peeves in the Windows 7 UI are also dominated by how quickly I can get things loaded so I can start doing something useful:

1. You can't pin starting directories for command prompts the same way you can for Explorer windows.

2. Opening a command prompt from an Explorer window isn't on the context menu by default.

3. You can't pin a Control Panel icon that pops up a menu for accessing the various panels.

4. Running things as Administrator is still clunky, particularly command prompts.

5. I often want to start some combination of applications I use frequently, position their windows in the same way, and then give a specific program the focus ready to start work. This ought to be a trivial use of any operating system's scripting facilities, but it is difficult-to-impossible to set this up for access with a single click from the Taskbar without writing real code using system APIs to do it.

If Microsoft fixed these frustrations and otherwise left Windows 7 exactly as it was, I would buy Windows 9 at full price for every PC I use in a heartbeat. There are several other things they could do that would make me pay much, much more: grown-up command line tools, a robust and standardised framework for installing/updating/uninstalling applications, a more transparent and robust model for controlling access to system resources -- basically addressing the major weaknesses that Windows has relative to Linux or OS X today for power users.

In contrast, I can't imagine any development of the direction they've been going with Windows 8 that would motivate me to run it, and we actively seek vendors who will provide Windows 7 instead for our new computers at present.