skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...a large portion of their advertisers stop using them and that most of their products start losing popularity relatively quickly."

Facebook recently posted a 72% year-over-year gain in Q1 revenue, is stealing share of the online ad market from Google at a slow but increasing rate, and is growing mobile ad revenue by 30% year-over-year.[1]

It's not doing that just by introducing new ad space and new ad formats. It's not doing that by bleeding out existing advertisers. As much as we might not want to admit it, Facebook is becoming a pretty compelling advertising platform. This was not always the case. But the company's ad platform is maturing significantly. It's got a long ways to go, and it's not perfect by any means. But there's a lot of potential yet to be tapped, and by all accounts, the company is making progress in tapping it.

News of Facebook's supposedly declining popularity is also premature and exaggerated.

[1]http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230338000...
The startup I work at had a lucky escape - there was a potential hire for a marketing director, but she was a well known femtard, and worse had a reputation for causing trouble. So, did not hire. Sure enough, 6 months in employment with a competitor, she already brought two cases against them for nebulous gender-bias accusations, and has publically damaged the brand of the company.
Going forward, I suspect more employers will actively screen against loud-mouth femtards, less they bring more trouble then they are worth to the company.
New vs. returning doesn't actually tell you too much about retention unless the growth rate is close to zero, though? Have I got that wrong?
This is my personal favorite intersection right outside of Boston where I've witnessed at least 2 accidents comutting: https://goo.gl/maps/OKlnT
Yet, they seem to have lots of users and customers....
The Hackaday Prize: You Build Open Hardware, We Send You to Space
This is simply wrong, and you clearly don't understand Go (which, as we've amply seen, doesn't stop people from pontificating about it).
Maybe this affects only certain kinds of experiments. There is a reason why only male mice are used in experiments and why scents (peppermint) is usually used to denote context.
As an explanation for why you cant get clock speed increases of the same order of magnitude as you could previously, without changing the entire technology, it would seem correct.

6cm now means that you only need to double twice to get to less than the die width.

Also, electricity does not propagate through copper at c, but at between 40% and 90% of it, depending on the inductance and capacitance of the circuit, so you are looking at even less of an increase before you start running into some really thorny problems as not only are you running up against relativistic limitations, but different bits of your chip can be doing it at noticeably different times.
To me, the most fundamental thing to get familiar with is typography — especially pre-digital type. Here are a few leads for you:

Die Neue Grafik, Josef Muller-Brockmann, The Elements of Typographic Style, Jan Tschichold.
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Yeah, I checked those out. Pretty nice. I really want them to be a little smarter and make more assumptions about food tracking, too.
Yes, the parallax effect on the background image is glitz. I'd argue, however, that the physic's engine is not glitz, but rather makes the device easier to use, because when things work and feel as we expect it reduces the amount of mental effort we have to spend thinking about how to accomplish a task. E.g. when you can swipe a view to the side, and it 'feels' just like swiping a piece of paper to the side then you don't have to think about how to use the device, it all just makes sense. That's a smart design, minimalist in appearance, yet processor intensive.
> Surely, we'll hit some eventually, and I wonder what happens then.

Probably some radical break through using some basic physics principle some guys worked on 30 years ago and left in a library somewhere ;).
For those who think tarring and feathering the Github organization as a whole is still justified:

What would it take to change your mind?

One of the signs of an irrational belief about the world is that it's not falsifiable -- you can't conceive of a possible future observation that would cause you to change your belief.
This is a really sticky issue, however I can't help but feel that Julie is handling this quite unprofessionally. She has been posting for the last hour on twitter about how she is satisfied with the blog post, however feels that everything was wrong, and she's actually going and naming names. (other than TPW), which is completely unfair IMHO.

She says that she strongly believes that this would have not happened to a man, and the report says that they found no evidence of sexism in the workplace. This has been brought up before, but is it at all possible that some of the treatment she received was because she is difficult to work with, rather than because she is a girl? Nothing in the report points to anything having happened that was specific to what JAH talked about, could it in fact be the case that people are treating a sub-par, or difficult employee (in their own eyes) differently to others around her, and in her mind, in (what I asssume is) a predominantly male workplace, she sees this as discrimination? I don't know what to think, but unless there's any evidence either for or against, I think the only reasonable assumption that we can make is that there may have been fault on both parties sides, the extent of which is unknown.
Well, our brain has a single thread performance that is already many orders of magnitude smaller than our current CPUs. Any claim that Amdahl's law will forbid human-like inteligence must explain why that isn't a problem to us.

Or, like you said, yep, we do have a lot.
My experience in the US is the same. 9-5 is just a saying. More typically a work day is 9-6 or 8-5 to account for a 1 hour non-paid lunch.
I know you're not supposed to feed the trolls, but I can't stop myself ... as the father of a mentally handicapped son, I'm offended by your use of the 'tard suffix. As the father of two daughters, I'm also offended by your characterization of feminism (and feminists) as radical activists. These do exist (even some that lie as your example implies) but don't impune those that believe in gender equality with such a horrendous label. If you can't resist, at least be man enough to post using a real account.
Just off the top of my head, he was allowed to resign rather than fired for cause.
Becsuse you'll only do it while you're being measured.
The video tutorial is nice but I fail to see how it's any easier to do with pop than just with CA. (I've been a Obj-C/Cocoa dev for 8 years)
SAAS Ecom: Open Source Subscription management (Stripe / .NET MVC 5)
Canceling $http Requests in AngularJS
That's the problem for the 99% humans 1% driverless scenario, the inverse is equally troubling to me.

Driving currently involves a range of aggressiveness strategies, it may have hit a certain equilibrium mix of insane and polite drivers.

If 99% of the cars dodge whatever you do, then you're messing with the metagame. Suddenly driving like a maniac, forcing all the polite computers out of your way gets you everywhere faster.

If driverless systems become common, they'll almost have to be required.
Indeed, I'd value a day off in the week more than just fewer hours per work day. In fact, personally, I'd work longer hours on the days I do work in order to compensate--that's how much I'd value a four day work week.

At least in the US, having, say, a Friday off means you can easily run to the bank or do other personal business that is much easier to do during the week than the weekend.
It's ludicrous for this to be anything other than hilarious.

Causes: kids are bored, kids are allowed to use cell phones in class (what?), they've never actually had to take anything seriously, and adults will always validate their shenanigans by acknowledging it, so: they search for drama, can get it from social media, "take it seriously" just feeding the drama, and they get their money shot of the principal and lawyers getting involved.

It's child pornography and the only sick part is the adults who are getting off to it, but apparently that doesn't matter either so I'm just sitting here hoping someone doxxes a pair of plots out of whoever this "M." chick is.
So you need to pitch the safety. Because you're selling an item that carries much, much less possibility of causing harm than the human-driven car does, and also that allows you to reclaim your time spent commuting (in a self-driving car you could easily e.g. read a book, code or talk to people).
so what is your proposed solution?

I read about suicides from internet harassment from time to time.. and although sad, we don't shut down the internet.

Top poster has it right I believe. Fight it and simply get more attention. Leave this thing alone and it will be so clogged up with nonsense it will be almost unreadable in few months...imop.
Saying it is gender based when only one person is involved is a bit of a stretch anyway isn't it?
Give Bitcoins to homeless people and see what happens
I surely see the value, but I'm also convinced by the idea that they will complicate the language, and, in practice, after a year or so writing fairly serious Golang programs (I wrote the emulator and debugger backend for Microcorruption in Golang, for instance, along with a pretty complicated web fuzzer) I haven't missed them.
Interestingly Yik Yak have geofenced middle and high schools, preventing the app from being usable in school anymore:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/13/amid-vicious-bullying-threa...
Take a look at Chromium as an example. Every tab gets it's own process. The GPU gets it's own process. Every plugin object gets its own process. Page loading is done in a separate process. Web workers run in a separate process. Chromium will happily eat up every core your CPU has to offer.
Everything that is wrong with this HN post, in one headline.
Interesting -- was this for a digital camera or something similar? It seems that many developers just use sleep/wake functionality when extremely fast bootup (or the appearance thereof) is necessary.

I've got a FLIR infrared camera that runs Windows CE, which takes a lot longer than 3-4 seconds to cold-boot. The camera initially goes to sleep when you power it off, then after a day or so it shuts down entirely to save its batteries.

One nice thing they did was to include enough intelligence in the low-level ASIC to drive the display with an unprocessed, uncalibrated live image while the user is waiting for the "real" camera application to come up. Much better than staring at a blank screen for 20-30 seconds.
A musical composition that grows in the same way as a forest ecosystem.
A suggestion: When you make such changes please write in your comment what the old and new titles were.
Indeed, this is true as well. Science isn't the right place to look for absolute certainty. But still, there are some obvious things you can do to increase confidence in a result, and one of those is to get other people to try to reproduce those results.
I was under the impression that Yik Yak had already blocked all highschools [1] after the last incident (I think it was a bomb threat?)

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-graber/yik-yak-app-maker...
I think it is impossible to prove or disprove a theory based on one data point. Much less on one data point that there are conflicting accounts about and some claims made about it was found to be without substance.

Of course, "I was mistreated at X" sounds much less powerful than "there's a gender discrimination at X", but one example of the former does not prove the latter, and refuting this example also does not prove the latter does not exist.
Yep, and/or not back-ported.
Extending the metaphor is off-topic, but Lamborghini (or Ferrari -- can't remember which) picks it's customers. In order to get on the waiting list for their small run cars, you have to have purchased one of their cars before and not done anything to piss them off.

When the supply is that low and the demand that high, the costs move beyond monetary.
This feels unnecessary. Everyone gets it: you can't actually redesign a website with a few random mock-ups and visual updates. That so often is not the point of an unsolicited redesign.

Most of these people are young designers looking to practice, have fun or create something tangible to demonstrate some of their skills. Its clear that changing a button or making a visual change doesn't equate to UX expertise. However, for a lot of designers this material gets them attention and gives potential employers common context to evaluate them and maybe they are a UI designer who wants to display their visual skills. There are a lot of reasons to take it too seriously but I encourage young designers to do it. A redesign can help me evaluate certain skills in a junior candidate and they are fun to look at. Redesigning stuff is fun, who cares if you want enjoy yourself.

So, I'm not sure who this for. Convincing a designer not to do a redesign of a website and post it on their blog? What's the harm? These redesigns don't actually change the industry understanding or perception enough to matter. We need to calm down and just enjoy these redesigns for what they are.
Same here. I don't really have enough money to be comfortable, and $200k would improve the quality of my life and allow me to do fun and interesting things for quite some time.
No judgement on GH but isn't a cash bribe to cover up harassment exactly that - covering up a crime? California doesn't have state laws against harassment?
And now some down votes... like I say... silly.

Oh, don't get me wrong... I don't care. I just can't help noticing this wonky behavior.
Nobody is questioning TPW's behaviour, the question mark is over whether she was being discriminated against by the other engineers and founders. It's evident from the resignation, and this report that TPW was behaving inappropriately towards multiple employees, not just one female, which seems to imply that this wasn't a case of her being discriminated (in this instance, however we have no proof either way for the rest of the accusations)
What benefit did you feel a site like that brought to the world? I'm not trying to be catty with that question, I'm honestly curious; a big part of websites nowadays is "We're trying to solve problem X in Situation Y by providing solution Z", and it's hard to see how that sentence gets filled out with JuicyCampus analogues unless it's "We're trying to solve the difficulty of being an asshole while remaining anonymous by providing a platform to do so". Was there some larger cause to CollegeABC, or was it simply "If we don't do it, somebody else will, so we might as well fill the void"?

It's interesting to note that the effective way to get people to stop using the site was to just make it unpleasant for them; that's a clever way to hit them where it hurts, I think.
No, they don't. Google is quite clear that its prices for Google Shopping Express are the same as in store: https://support.google.com/shoppingexpress/answer/3423377?hl...
> I'm not terribly proud of my ownership of that site, though I did try to run it with something of a conscience: never called for gossip, voluntarily removed 30,000+ posts, etc.

I think these facts are commendable, and I'm glad you at least made attempts to prevent outright hostility (I'm assuming you removed particularly incendiary messages).

Ultimately it isn't the technology of sites in this space that I'm really curious about, it's more the motivations and intentions of those that create apps in this space. It's easy to paint such creators as vile and or devious individuals looking to exploit the worst of people to make a buck. In reality, I don't want it to be that simple...at least not everytime. So, I guess I'm most curious as to your motivations and expectations for CollegeACB when compared with the actual outcomes.

You mention usurping JuicyCampus, which had its fair share of negative criticism. Was your goal to replace/compete with JuicyCampus or was this an unfortunate side effect?

What drove you to sell the site? Was your intent to turn a buck or did the content and the way the site was/is used eventually turn you off on being associated with it?

Hindsight is 20/20, and you mention not being proud of owning CollegeACB. How did you feel about it at the time, when the site was enormously popular?
http://techliberation.com/2009/08/12/cyber-libertarianism-th...

source: TFA
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My overall point is that it matters which UTM you pick at the beginning.
Rust is great but it's still frontier territory right now. The documentation for the standard library is very sparse and stuff like HTTP is still in very early stages. I would only adopt it for production work if you're willing to be very actively involved in the nascent Rust community, follow the mailing lists, fix bugs yourself, etc.

On the other hand, if that's the kind of thing that excites you, Rust is a really great option right now.
"It's not doing that just by introducing new ad space"

Maybe, but just a bit over a year ago they used to have two ads on the right hand side of their desktop version. Now they have seven ads in the same space.
They also used to have one mobile ad in their news feed. Now they are sideways scrollable (I think there are five in total).
The fanpages' organic posts are reaching fewer and fewer people in an attempt to make the owners pay for as many promoted posts as possible.

A point I noticed in their last earnings report reminded me of the reasoning in the OP's post: one of the signals of decelerating growth is the loss of popularity of early products. Their desktop ad business accounts for less than half of their revenue nowadays, despite the fact that there is a lot more ad space available there.
No! Do not agree! There's a different simple maxim that would have worked here just fine: assume the worst. If you're going to heavily promote something other than "assume the worst", the onus should be on you to make sure you're right!
There is a great video about these sorts of effects called Lullaby For A Mouse: http://vimeo.com/33803995

The basic gist is that most research done on mice (and other animals) is complete crap:

- Almost all laboratory mice are morbidly obese and get little to no exercise.

- They're all starved of social contact.

- The variations in the daily schedule of the researchers mess with their circadian systems.

- The results vary enormously based on how the researchers treat the animals. The title comes from the fact that one of the researchers started singing to his mice in order to get better results.
Missing the point. Meritocracy is not something to aspire to. In practice it masks and reinforces power structures, increasing inequality:

> The main finding is consistent across the three studies: when an organization is explicitly presented as meritocratic, individuals in managerial positions favor a male employee over an equally qualified female employee by awarding him a larger monetary reward.

From: http://asq.sagepub.com/content/55/4/543.short

Which was recognized by Chris Wanstrath when they removed it:

> @defunkt: We thought ‘meritocracy’ was a neat way to think of open source but now see the problems with it. Words matter. We’re getting a new rug.

https://twitter.com/defunkt/status/426104782894284800
Mobile money – ready for lift-off?
The difference is not really bounded in a meaningful way. The bound is large enough that the complexity can go to zero in some language.
It isn't much better for simple animations like this but I find it much easier for complex, gesture-based, dynamic animations that can change at any time based on user input.
If you're trying to falsify claims of sexism rather than addressing the fact that an employee feels distressed, then you're asking the wrong questions.
A New Kind of Spy
"and the mechanism is likely keyed off of testosterone in general rather than mouse smells in particular, which seems reasonable."

Yes, this is what Figure 1c and 1d of the paper demonstrate. (To be precise, not testosterone, but adrostenone, androstadienone, and 3M2H).

"My head isn't going to explode if this is established by further experiment. But it's suspicious to me."

Supplementary Fig. 1 and Supplementary Fig. 3 describe replications performed in two other laboratories, one at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and the other at another laboratory at McGill.

Look, I'm all for scientific skepticism, and it's true that there's a lot of low-powered stuff out there. However, papers are best evaluated on what they actually say (which, incidentally, is why open-access/archiving is important), rather than on a filtered impression of what a press release says. If you'd like a copy of the paper, let me know, I'd be happy to send you a pdf.
I haven't done a tut for that yet but the source is here: https://github.com/jerols/PopTut
The answer to poor regulation isn't no regulation.

I'm much more interested in government counterbalancing corporations instead of one of them grossly overpowering the other.
"Real" function currying in javaScript
Net Neutrality can still be had: Municipal fiber networks.
Even more, you can confront the person doing you wrong. My daughter recently confronted a girl who was spreading rumors about her and that was that.

It takes no courage at all to act out online. It used to be that if you wanted to spread lies, steal money, run a confidence game, you had to at least have the courage to face your victim. Anonymity can be used for noble purposes but the vast majority of the time it isn't. Whatever noble purpose might be available to someone using Secret or Yik Yak, it's going to get lost in the noise.
i'd also have to imagine the control group is going to perform worse because of the demoralizing nature of being in that group. and the experiment will be self-fulfilling.
Possible, sure. Anything is possible. But you're acting like Formspring bullying was the one discrete event that pushed these kids to suicide. These people were clearly subject to offline bullying as well (by the same people), it just so happens that the formspring variety leaves a paper trail.
It's strange to hear a person referring to a monolithic "Left". Makes me think of a bunch of aging red diaper babies, with beards and long braids, singing dreary protest songs over a bland vegan potluck ...

Not that there's anything wrong with that - just sounds very 1930s-1960s. What is "The Left (tm)" now? Occupy? The Green Party? Unions? University student groups?
"metastatic prototype"
What does a quote frequently used to paint Hillary Clinton as paranoid have to do with either the Left or this article? It's notable that you use it in a sentence accusing others of setting up straw men.
Thanks for taking the time to post. That spoiler hack is fun.

Does the situation change for Yik Yak when high schoolers use it? I saw somewhere that they geo-fence and are supposed to exclude people from posting at high schools, but that's apparently not working. It also seems relatively easy to get around.
Conversely it would be pretty easy to say "well this is the official repo" and ensure no one asks any further questions in a flurry of feux-outrage.
Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions [pdf]
Clearly you've never been bullied before. A bully doesn't get bored after a day, it's a continuing pattern of behavior. I had a kid in high school who would say degrading things to me on a daily basis, for months, until I finally realized that I had to get in his face if I wanted it to stop.
Getting into an incubator after you’ve been rejected
First Solar Eclipse of 2014 Occurs April 29
I don't think that's actually true. The way it use asynchronous callbacks allows for lots of parallelism. For example creating a new image will cause it to download the image off the network and decompress it in parallel to executing Javascript, and then when done it fires the 'onload' handler. That's much more parallel-by-design than something like C++.