skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing new with trying to get people hooked early so they'll use your products (and hopefully pay for them) once they get out into the real world. Microsoft academic licenses are dirt cheap, for example.
I really like this idea. I think I'll give it a go. Thanks for sharing it!
Link? So I may bring the upvotes.
Well, they lead a "normal" life inside a corporate monster, but hey, they have their iPhone!
I think one part of the problem is that success is extremely non-normal with a very fat tail. To separate the effect of methodology from luck, you are going to need a lot of data.
>> it almost certainly would, and it almost certainly would be detrimental for the little girls.

I don't like this idea, that it would be better not to have an accurate picture of reality.
Oh well! My humble self standeth corrected.

Anyway, we should not forget that Beckett wrote Godot in French, so the correct form is:

"Godot! Exactement celui que j'attendais!"
This article (video) is pointing to fundamental flaws in FB's advertising offerings. I don't think that any amount of "social media marketing" expertise will compensate for the fact that a large proportion of the ad spend on those offerings may likely be wasted on what is effectively fraud. Even if you optimize for better performance, there will still be inordinate waste to fraud.

Beyond that, I think a lot of people have been jaded by the multitudes claiming that they can help businesses with social media. If you are stating that there is some fraction of 1% who do actually grasp some deep, esoteric knowledge required to succeed with Facebook campaigns (or with other channels like Google), then OK. But, I would think that to be a massive problem for Facebook, Google, etc. That is, the overwhelming majority of their customers (lacking the required knowledge) would eventually realize that the ROI just isn't there for them.

Perhaps that will yet happen with some of these channels. If so, perhaps FB will be among the first to implode, as there are many who don't find the same abysmal metrics with Google, et. al. as they do on FB. So, even from a relative perspective, it still seems that FB is deeply flawed.
Is there any way to help Rich in addition to cash?

EDIT: I live in Chicago and believe Rich does as well. Looking to help.
I attempted to donate with a credit card and was rejected; I'm not sure if it's because it was previously (and not currently) registered with PayPal or whether a donation request can't be filled by credit (my successful donation was via debit). Just something to be aware of for others trying to donate.
I think a big question to re-imagine finance is this: how do we design the bank to give the consumer more control over how their deposits are used?
But are there any realistic alternatives?
And just what makes you think that the facebook replacement won't do exactly what they're doing, or, rather, aren't currently doing exactly what facebook is doing?

Can you convince yourself that reddit isn't gamed by advertisers and companies in general? Can you convince yourself that twitter isn't as well? Can you convince yourself that G+ isn't gamed by one of the other eighteen people using it?

Couldn't help myself.
That old HN favorite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines rears its head once again!
They only share the same high-level concept. The execution and actual use-case is very different.
Please leave and don't come back. We don't need this kind of thing here.
I don't know, that's pretty generic.

"You can't honestly think a computer company had the correct platform to just become a a major player in the music industry and not suffer any technical debt or architectural issues..."

But Apple was OK.
A person buying a "premium" Lumia WP7 handset had a reasonable expectation that Microsoft would upgrade the OS when WP8 came out, but that didn't really work out either.
'I wish I had breast cancer': Pancreatic cancer charity's slogan causes outrage
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I think this is it: http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1xjwem/richard_lynch_an...
> If it goes down, I'll say "GREAT. Now's the chance for reddit and twitter and G+ and others".

You cheer on centralized corporate systems that have business models based on censorship, vote manipulations, surveillance, arbitrary policy changes, and spam.

While you cheer them on, I will be saying now's the chance for democratic distributed blockchain based replacements for the Twitters, Gmails, and Facebooks. Think Bitmessage, Namecoin, Ethereum, NXT, Bitcloud...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1vd2r1/we_want_to_r...
If this were true, why would you bother saying it.
I don't have any ads in mine. Are there screenshots of what those look like right now?
On the other hand, I find
(define d (make-hash-table))
(hash-table-put! d
key1 value1
key2 value2
key3 value3)

easier to read than
d = {}
d[key1] = value1
d[key2] = value2
d[key3] = value3

So syntax matters, but it's not obvious which syntax is best.
inoremap <C-x>c <esc>bgUWea

Type the identifier in lower case, and then <C-x>c(or whatever you feel like mapping it to).
I am really sad for this guy...

Can someone explain to me why is he asking for donations? Doesn't the insurances cover with these expenses in USA?
Don't worry, I've approved it and will let the other mods know.
> I suppose in france they also translate "main" and "void" in C programs?

Visual Basic was translated (keywords and all) to many european languages. Excel formulas still have translations.
I actually wondered how such an article got published as late as 1927. That would explain it. I can go find a better one tonight. More broadly, though, here's a Wikipedia page on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism

Glancing through the citations, #33 is "Tiedemann, Friedrich (1836). "On the Brain of the Negro, Compared with that of the European and the Orang-outang" (PDF). Phylosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 126."
Perl on Windows;

perl -e "$_=`mode`;/ns:\s+(\d+)/;print '='x$1"
Wow. Can't even imagine what that's like. My $20 are a drop in the bucket, but hope that bucket is getting more full.

He mentioned that he suffered a seizure and that led him to be taken into the ER. Does he mention any other previous symptoms that might have led up to it? In general, what symptoms do exist for this sort of thing?
"What if the email goes down? I know I'll send an email"
Right. And this kind of polymorphism means that your program will still retain the same correctness no matter what data structure you use. Physically editing text is the most correctness-destroying thing you can do.
And from there, you have the fallacy of this argument. This decreases the quality of your experience on Facebook. With the million other options and networks, why on earth would Facebook purposefully lower the quality of their product in order to make a few bucks with ads?
And now it works in the bourne shell!
I really, really like the Genderbread Person for this reason.
The Israeli lab where robots can balance and climb walls
My nodejs version does this. (npm -g install hr).
Except that it's easier to remember a concept if the name for it matches what it is. If I explain to my French grandpa what a search engine is, and tell him it's called a "moteur de recherche", it will all make sense and he will remember both the name and what it is.

On the other hand, if I explain to him what a search engine is, and then tell him it's literally called a "search engine", that's just unnecessary confusion.
You shouldn't have any ads... ;)

Edit: Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/QWYVFFq.png
If it can be shown that Facebook is aware of this would it put them in legal jeopardy?
WSJ: The black and gold takeover at Meebo
This is the argument I find confusing...You ask Facebook to curate your news feed and then get upset when they curate it.
For large code bases, I suspect Java parsing will not be performant enough. I love Jetbrains but I wish they'd just use clang rather than write a Java parser.
Nope, "curl |bash" is worse, because (a) if there's any network problems when downloading it might split a command in half. like "rm -rf /tmp/$PID". What happens if the bytes after the first / are dropped? and (b) at lease you have the option of reviewing it when you download the script.
I hope one at the end of his political career, by choice, might push ahead anyway. He could announce something like Yes, I did blow and hookers, five years ago. But the NSA does this pressure for silence to so many more people.
I've been asking many ppl the same question. I would recommend considering how important authorship control vs content spreading. I've heard that Medium puts the author secondary and doesn't provide robust analytics. I haven't thoroughly tested Svbtle yet (about to). Ghost seems great but I don't want to host my own and debating if the price-point is worth it. I think it's great how much design innovation is going into the content creation process.
Investor Moneyball: Uncovering Smaller Investors With Big Networks
I think there is a difference, yes. The Facebook status stream is very in-your-face. When you say something on Facebook, you're pushing it to the eyeballs of many people in your actual social circle.

If you say something on a forum where, say, you are linked to your Facebook profile, you're not pushing that comment to the eyeballs of everyone you know. My online social network is now essentially the same as my offline social network, and there's not too much that I'm okay pushing to the eyeballs of everyone I know. Not because I'm ashamed, but out of general courtesy.
Said as if the Taxi lobbies in US cities aren't trying to do the same thing...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/technology/app-maker-uber-...

And one [rule] says limousines may not accept a request for a
ride that is made less than 30 minutes in advance, which
would impede Uber’s primary business model of connecting
luxury car drivers with passengers immediately
Thanks a lot, is there a sticky option in reddit instead of upvotes ?
Depends on what the end goal of the education system is: to make you a driver/chauffeur or to make you someone who is going to design the car of the future.

How to stage and sequence the exposure to the details is indeed important. I am not advocating exposure to the details right away, but the option has to be available at a reasonable price (be it in money, or in time).

There is also the "teach a person to fish" thing, rather than handing him/her a fish. Although many are in the business of handing out fishes, stale ones too.
Microsoft build source code review sites
Happy to donate.

The button was a little hard to see for me on the site (particularly on mobile).

The URL that the button sent me to (I forget whether Paypal makes this useless or not, but I'm hoping it works):

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=Q...
The fact that you've got a language selection at all implies that it's an international site. If it's a store or some such it would be a very unusual American website that shipped abroad but not to Canada.

(I'm not sure what "meant to be consumed primarily in the US" even means; I don't have national borders in mind when writing. For most sites it makes very little difference which country a visitor happens to be from.)
I had $6.14 on my bank account, and sent $5. ANYTHING helps.
House of Cards Against Humanity
huh? I do not understand what you are saying, care to explain?
"Paying for "legitimate" facebook exposure will expose you to the click farms as well, and that will be the absolute majority of your gained likes."

Does that matter? I mean, obviously if you're trying to work out whether it's worth paying for Facebook ads, it's worth being aware that a large number of Likes isn't necessarily a sign of a successful ad, but you don't know the "value" of a Like in advance anyway. If you discover that every 1,000 Likes you get 10 more sales (or whatever), then you can work out whether it's worth spending money for an ad that will likely bring in 1,000 Likes, whether 990 of those likes are "genuine" Likes that don't turn into sales, or 990 of the Likes are click farm Likes.

I mean, I've never advertised on Facebook, I don't know anything about it, but I would have thought you need to measure the actual effectiveness of your ads; whether click farm fake Likes are contributing to this overall effectiveness or not doesn't seem relevant to the end result.
Its refreshing to see someone suggesting systems engineering as the solution to managing complex software projects. I have felt, and occasionally advocated, this for years. I'm actually surprised how little systems engineering methodology has penetrated the tech industry. Have CMMI and similar initiatives soured commercial enterprise on the idea?

Systems engineering is especially important when software is part of a larger multidiscipline project. All discussions here seem to focus on pure software projects.
This has nothing to do with Microsoft.

Due to anti-trust law, Microsoft can't have any influence over decisions Nokia makes before the acquisition[1]. Even if Microsoft hated the idea of Nokia building and Android phone (likely) it could do nothing about it. And, even more importantly, Nokia could NOT change its plans even if Microsoft wanted them to.

[1] http://hal2020.com/2013/10/16/how-much-influence-is-microsof...
Hmm, Facebook seems to randomly refollow people on my behalf when I try this. Perhaps it's latency or something?
Huh? Typing tutors should encourage speed, not rhythm. I should be rewarded for speed and accuracy.
Quote from Reddit: "I feel like he is probably one of the least qualified people to answer this question. When was the last time Bill Gates made less than $100,000 per year?"

Bill Gate's Response: "I never went for a big salary but your basic point is correct."

Indeed, this probably isn't the best question to ask Bill Gates.
> I have two questions to respond to this - how did people do all of these things before the facebook platform? What is stopping you from doing these same things?

1) They used other services (e.g. Evite) which had the same effect
2) Nobody uses those other services anymore (okay, I got one evite from the one friend who refused to use facebook...and then somebody created the event page on facebook and all the party planning promptly got hijacked and moved there)

So your choices are to use Facebook and get invited to parties, or be like that guy from ten years ago who refused to get an email address and was butthurt that nobody would pick up the phone to personally invite him to the party.
Python 3.3.4 released
Yeah i did the Facebook 300 Diet #FB300D 2 years ago and it was amazing. Basically, I unfriended all but 300 people and my feed got much better. I even created a word document that details who you should unfriend.
>Proprietary software doesn't give you the freedom to read and modify the source code. The software license forbids learning about it.

This is true. However, it is still possible to be taught to code on a Windows machine in Visual Studio, or in Java for Android, etc. Your point of view has merit but it also has a limited context. The tools do matter and some of those tools are closed-source.

>There's a lot more to CS than learning to be a code monkey.

And yet, sooner or later everyone has to eat.
Side note - is that really what people are paying for lattes now?
> OK the real reason is they suck at learning English so they need to translate everything ;-)

Not really, Swedes are #1 in the world at English as a second language and aren't afraid to flaunt it, but we also translate most technical terms. It's just way easier to use in a conversation.
arguably reddit has also "decayed" quite a bit

The quality of the conversation has gotten worse and worse, things are targeted towards the lowest common denominator.

You need to go to specific subreddits or really dig around in the shit to find the gems.

The flip side is that it generates a ton of content. To the signal to noise is horrible, but in aggregate there is more interesting stuff going on then on slashdot or wherever
Even counting by percentage of /48 blocks allocated, it's still approximately 0%. There are roughly 40 thousand /48 blocks per person in the world.
I love Arq 3 and have recommended it to several friends and family, but I ran into a problem and it wasn't fixed and I've had to stop using it.

I re-installed Mac OS X Mavericks and then used Time Machine to bring my user folder over again. I adopted the Glacier backup, and while it has worked with some folders, it appears to want to sync my entire Library/Mail folder again. This isn't ideal as it's 15GB+ and since the data has been uploaded once before, I don't want to upload it again. I don't know if you can "skip" a folder during sync, or set it to only upload files new/changed past a date.

All support said was "I'm sorry I don't have a better answer". I'm stuck now with a Glacier full of old data and software that doesn't work. Any suggestions?
It's Okay to Use Frameworks
But pdf are available :)
"PayPal does not currently support Donation Payments from buyers in JP. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."

Sigh Someday the govt & banks will catch up with the 21st century.

If someone can put a little extra in the bin on my behalf, I'll look for a chance to pay it forward. Thanks
>Companies spend millions in SuperBowl ads, and nobody can click on that,

not that i dream about clicking it, i'm just surprised that they still hasn't implemented it yet as current TVs are really computers sold/packaged as TVs.
This is a really unfortunate domain to click through to from work. Is there a Google cache or somesuch?
That term really put me off in the article. Just about everyone uses technology to some degree, and I've never heard of someone separate people into "technologist" and "not technologist". It seemed very us vs. them.
If you want to conform to ANSI, just use two dashes (--) or ASCII, the box drawing character, the source of the unicode variant. This is important because it remains the primary font in the core of any EGA and VGA-compatible graphics card (basically all graphics cards).
Microsoft's new CEO is cloud's point-man
It's interesting this is still making the rounds. Back in 2010 I remember seeing articles talking about how their ad services was a total Ponzi scheme. Nice to know not much has changed. At the time I was thinking about investing some pretty large amounts of money into advertising on FB. In hindsight, I'm really glad I didn't.

http://www.jperla.com/blog/post/facebook-is-a-ponzi-scheme
Ah, so that's where we've moved the goal post.

Sorry it might take me a little while to get there, it's looking like I better grab a golf cart.
To extend the point made by @GuiA, many technical terms make reference or analagy to non-technical nouns. Imagine if all technical terms were based in a natural language you don't understand. French would be appropriate in this case, but if you speak French then imagine all the words in were in Chinese, or Esperanto, or Klingon. It would be much harder to remember them.
Never heard of it. Pretty nice. I'd just change the 'and' in sexual orientations since people desire and feeling can target different types.

rapid picture link ps: http://i.imgur.com/t7Lfh4p.jpg
*tips fedora

Wonderful argument good sir!!!
Where am I asking Facebook to curate (in this case, read: cull) from posts that I've indicated that I want to see?

I'm asking to see posts from something I've explicitly stated an interest in; I'm not asking them to pick and choose a subset that I get to see beyond that.
Exactly. Lots of things "work" for small projects. Try to scale some of those strategies, however, and things break down.
Exactly, event planning/tracking is the only reason I stay on.
I consider the MIT license to be freer than the GPL. Nonetheless, you can fork it and slap the GPL license on it if that lets you sleep at night.
> and we'll never really know until we die

I think the atheist would say you won't know then, either.
Why did fashion come up in this article at all? There is no reason to believe that a woman who wears heels and makeup can program any less well than a woman who doesn't. Or that girls that read fashion magazines aren't interested in computers. Fashion and dress are irrelevant.
I don't agree. Would you find it easier to remember "pasta" by thinking that it's a "salty mass of food"?

Or is an automobile a "self propelled moving machine"?

Are you going to start calling the Mississippi "big river"?

Words have an origin in other languages, certainly. But it serves no purpose to translate that origin as is. Instead you accept the sound of the word and use it.

And presumably hipster is "person who wears clothing low on the hips".

Just because it's technology doesn't except it from the normal rules of words. All new words start from a meaning. But the meaning is interesting historically, it's not used for everyday speech.

If you want to make the word French you don't translate it literally - it's not actually a motor. Call it a "research-majigy" or something like that.
>Your donation and prayer of any flavor is much appreciated!

Straight from his thanks page at the very top.
I thought I read a comment here that thought that there was a cultural difference as well. The author mentioned that a couple of distant friends in some countries who would Like every one of his posts, no matter what it was about.

Regardless, the need to drive up page fans is probably over, as the value of a fan/Like was always questionable. Target your actual customer base and pay for clicks that matter. Facebook seems to still be a great place for performance-based display advertising.
yep. not asking softball question wont gather you the karma. hence why i laugh hard every time people suggest those (this?) sites are even a slight replacement for editorialized news sources.
How we track data using Mixpanel and Google Analytics
What's the device that he describes as "funny-looking headgear that makes me look like an Irish Rabbi"? From http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/2014/01/end-game.html
In some cases it makes sense. Date, number and measurements vary a lot between English speaking countries. Now, you'd probably just geolocate but still- locale is more than language. An American Flag can give you an en-US locale, a UK flag, en-GB, etc since English is a pretty good guess for the language they want.
Procedural Content Generation In Games
Wikipedia: Internal Error (Too many connections)
Emoji licensing: :cry:
Does anyone know how to contact Mr. Lynch or someone associated with him? I attempted to comment but don't want the extra accounts created, and would happily create and host Stripe (or whatever other payment gateway) donation forms might help people that can't or won't go through PayPal (assuming, of course, someone on the other end creates the appropriate accounts and provided they're legitimately associated with him).

I can be reached at: reportemp@gmail.com
And their almost-GPL database code is covered by multiple patents, so don't read it (or even use it? I'm not sure what's safest there) if you ever plan on doing database development yourself. Remember: willful infringement = treble damages.
I was pretty surprised at how easy PayPal has made it. I know that people prefer other services and the reasons they do, but at least PP has been moving forward in their ease of integration. Noticed it on Bandcamp recently as well. Just type amount, enter email and password then confirm and done (assuming you've got PP setup already).
And I thought flappy bird was hard itself. This is pretty cool.
I have great for doing sociology experiments on Omegle ... You'd be amazed at what I've learned about people's motivations and expectations just by gaming them slightly. Oh ... There have been a couple of awkward instances when I've tried to go there in person too!
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