skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Friend A 'liked' an event on Facebook that arbitrary other people in (or even out) of her friend graph could also 'like', Friend A did something dumb no matter what Facebook does.

I wouldn't be arguing if Facebook betrayed A's private details to an anonymous search. But when you declare interests to Facebook, you concede your privacy.
looks a lot like an IM client...
http://imgur.com/kMmhx.gif
I'm sceptical of that reasoning. A post can have enough merit to outweight the negative impression old age gives. I think the lack of a datestamp can often lead to confusion or mild bewilderment as the reader tries to guesstimate time context. "Current developments for project foobar include A, B, and C. On the roadmap are D, E and F." How current is that "current"?
If Turing had been heterosexual and had gone out to the cinema to pick someone up and then invited them back to his house for sex .. that too would have been seen as risky behaviour likely to lead to being snared in a honey trap, no?

Presumably the situation of his arrest wasn't the first time he had acted in this way.
The Reddit - Digg example is poor. I changed it.
Wouldn't you agree that it feels awfully "weird" to be a living, breathing human?

No - it's just normal. I think it would be weirder if it wasn't some kind of computation, if I was a unique spirit out of several tens of billions that appeared from some unknowable place and origin, or whatever else 'i' might be.

Doesn't it seem to be beyond what can be expressed by mere computer algorithms?

I have no reason to think it is - I haven't felt what it's like to be a quicksort or a face recognition algorithm for comparison, but I certainly feel like a heap of evolved feedback loops at times - when I fear the dark in a room I know, when I catch sight of living shapes where there are none, when I feel fight-or-flight at certain caller ID numbers, when I desire things that I also don't want, when I feel judgements of people based on some trivial detail.

Nonetheless, I find it hard to understand people, such as yourself, that are probably exposed to this same "weirdness" in their heads as I am and yet are so confident it is merely an illusion created by a sufficiently complicated computation.

What else could it be? There isn't anywhere else it could reasonably be that we know of. You're either suggesting something unknowable (e.g. magic) or some kind of cruel joke (i.e. like a quine is a program that prints it's own source code, we could be a consciousness that sees the world except for the blind spot around the part that allows us to see how we work - and a cover over where that would be).

I'm not confident that we are 'just' a computation, but I'm fairly confident that I am in accordance with the laws of physics (including any we don't know yet) and that places limits on what's possible with the amount of matter in my head, the energy input and output, the sensory input and output bandwidths, the timescales involved, the known behavioural results of varying localities of brain damage, etc.

Besides, what do you mean illusion? Consciousness is not 'fake'.
Being a USian I am not an expert on UK law, but I don't think the Prime Minister has the power to pardon. The Queen would have to do it (though presumably at the advice of the government).
Either Facebook is really working hard to make itself accessible to tech-no human beings, or their developers have officially run out of ideas.
You're suggesting a write implies a read too. I don't know I agree with that- just because i 'liked' something doesn't imply I get to know who else did.

The way I see it is that A's private details include her activities on the site (she's got her priv settings way high....) so presenting that information to people she's not connected with seems analogous to presenting it to anonymous users.
FWIW, I wasn't suggesting a limit on the number of startups, so much as a practical limit on the amount of speculation that they can support.

I'd imagine that one of the things that works in YC's favor is its relative scarcity: I don't have a YC-type business in my town, let alone one with YC's community or reputation. That gives you a certain amount of leverage; you can afford to offer terms that will probably work out in your favor in the long run, and you get a nice field of applicants to cherry-pick from.

But, if the YC model starts to really take off, then at some point it's probably going to change things for you, and probably not for the better. It would be really awesome for would-be startups for a while, until investors start getting soaked and stop pouring money into it -- then we get the "Dot-com-2-point-oh" bust.
Among reasonably thin people in the U.S, it's common knowledge that if you go out to eat, you will bring food home. Most of the time when I go to restaurants with family or friends, we at least end up with lunch for the next day, and sometimes another full dinner. Occasionally, if it's a really good restaurant and my dad orders way too many dishes, we end up with leftovers for the next week.
I'm glad someone is working on this but I think parallel 'map' and 'filter' (which is 'easy' for compiler writers) will be plenty for the next five years. And how sure is anyone about the future of hardware beyond that?

Still this is really interesting. Can't wait to see the video.
"Note: This is not the only similarity between myself and the man of steel."
Legs, arms, poor dress-sense?
Tornado ships with an async HTTP client as part of the core framework.
I don't think so. Lisp code is already a tree.
yeah, we're rolling it out over the next few weeks.
Not just past events, but past events you/they have DECLINED.
Do American doctors get paid too much?
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i used to see a lot of application requests from my friends, but haven't seen a single request in the last few months. what's going on? are facebook apps not doing well? or are my friends just not installing apps anymore? is this the same thing that's gonna have to the iphone?
I wonder when Posterous is going to pick up on this idea and build a fax interface into their service :)
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Except they probably work every waking hour. There's no reason (especially if you're creative/artist) that you can't get the security of a 40 hour a week job and be creative the rest of the time.
An interesting idea, but in my experience craigslist has some of the most flaky job-listers ever. I've responded to hundreds of telecommuting design jobs, and even with a really strong portfolio and website, I get little to no responses.
This is interesting, I had never heard an estimate that high:

A team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist John Hawks estimates that positive selection just in the past 5,000 years alone -dating back to the Stone Age - has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period of human evolution. Many of the new genetic adjustments are occurring around changes in the human diet brought on by the advent of agriculture, and resistance to epidemic diseases that became major killers after the growth of human civilizations.
> ... the fact that the United States spends twice as much per person as most European countries ....

Is actually explained by the fact that we pay our doctors twice as much as they do.

We have the same number of doctors per person as they do. And unless our doctors are way more efficient, that means we get sick at about the same rate.

But we spend twice as much, because we pay twice as much. Not because we get sick twice as much.

And see this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=816589 which was just posted.
"Includes an update to Adobe Flash Player plug-in version 10.0.32.18"

How about just updating Safari?
Yeah, this really fits in with the way most people live their lives.
postgres works great and keeps getting better. Oracle and Sun are both irrelevant to most startups.
As someone who has been an admin (both with and without that job title), I'll say that I was slow to change, and often still am. Why? Because every change is an opportunity for something to go wrong, and in my experience, something goes mildly wrong about half the time, and catastrophically wrong way more often than it should. This is after doing all the testing that can usually be done. Either there's no testing server for this client, or you can't replicate the exact conditions of the change because you don't have another Windows 2003 SBS handy to test interaction with, or you run into lots of issues in the test and can't easily roll back to make sure that you can do it flawlessly this time...

Unless you've got an employer or client that can afford you for an additional 20 hours for each major change, everyone involved just crosses their fingers and holds their breath. I've never been an admin in an environment where there was adequate funding, though, so maybe it's just me.

Anyway, I typically put off upgrades and new installs that affected old servers (new apache modules or whatever) as long as possible.

Edit: this is why I just code, now. It's easier to write stuff that works than to find the magic this-THEN-that incantation to make someone else's stuff work. ;)
It's not actually new wisdom.

We are just going back to what we knew 40 years ago.

Basically, between 1960 and 2009 we thought exercise will make you thinner.

Outside those times exercise was thought to increase appetite.
I know that, except most web application servers spend most of their time in I/O - socket, database, etc. Threads are not hard: wanton abuse of shared state and concurrent modification of the shared state is hard to get right; tread a threaded app like a message-passing app and you have a much simpler life.

I'm intimately familiar with the limitations of python threads - and right now I'm the maintainer of the multiprocessing module, which is the process-based "reply" to the stdlib threading module.
I think the answer might be if Facebook believed that the fax to email services will render fax machines obsolete but not fax numbers....

* right now when someone faxes my number it forwards to my email via PDF ...

- I think if you forwarded me a photo to that fax number I might get the color photo via pdf?

... If they saw this happening and added it to their site / then filed for a patent of "Faxing photos from website" - then perhaps licensing would ensue or business models would be evolve...

* I also think partnering with Efax is spammy as they spam my inbox a lot.

thats my best reasoning which leads me to feel as "WTF?" as every other commenter so far

[edit] I feel like such a dumbass for actually trying to explain their ridiculous joke / might mean I've been talking a little too much with out 'knowing'.

see:http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/yeah-ok-so-facebook-pun...
Ask HN: The right level of paradigm shifting?
I just finished off a new forum project and it has a couple of new ideas in it that at the time I implemented them / thought them up I thought were really great ideas, but now that I've seen them actually collide with the reality of a typical end user, I'm wondering if maybe they're just too hard to grasp. I would like opinions in general on this sort of thing. If something makes sense / is intuitive to you, how can you know that will translate over into the end user experience?

The site I just finished is redroom.ojam.biz

The two big ones that seem to be confusing people are the slide out menu on the left hand side that gives a full overview of the content down to the thread level and the view of the replies in topics that goes thread -> last reply -> earlier replies instead of the common paradigm of thread -> earliest reply -> later replies, as well as the way that actually works from a UI perspective, which is if a reply is a reply to a reply, it is highlighted (maybe there's a better way to indicate this?) and when it gets clicked, the other replies are hidden and just that branch is shown contextually. The idea here was that the most relevant and recent information would be shown first in context with the original post, while at the same time allowing you to drill down into the details if you're curious as to how something got to where it is without descending into a case of dozens of indented posts all clamouring for limited space.

I don't claim to be a UI / design expert, I'm mainly a coder, and this was a team effort, I'm just aiming to learn as much as I can from the experience and I'm hoping that people have tips worth sharing here.
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> how much of a loser we actually are.

And if that happens, then you go back to fixed income and live happily ever after. At least you're not left with the unknown.
I didn't know much about his life until I read "A madman dreams of Turing machines," which is a great book about Turing and Godel. Tortured souls, both of them.
It's too bad you're in Texas and hard to visit. I am much closer to your world than you suspect and yes, $3000 is a horrendous amount of money for an individual at the bottom of the film food chain to lose to an avoidable expense. I absolutely appreciate the financial pain involved for a niche product which will struggle to break even. Believe me, if I was earning enough to just shrug about such a sum I would write you a check to help.

When I compare that dollar amount to a line-item expense for digibeta tapes, the particular example I was thinking was for a sub-$50k DVD-bargain-bin film, which basically didn't (and won't) make a penny for most of the people involved...but the release of which by [Well Known Company] has been enough to get the maker into a project with a proper budget: in other words, it looks as if someone else will pick up the tab for the next one, and he'll earn a respectable paycheck at least, which is a step forward in my book.

What I'm trying to say comes down to two issues: first, would you rather bank half the proceeds from selling 5000 copies or bank 10% of the proceeds from selling 50,000? and second, will your approach help you sell more or fewer copies - that is, are you fighting a useful battle?

Let's say that between the licensing and other factors it would cost $4000 to be able to sell GET LAMP on Blu-ray. OK, that's the suck. But at $45, which is what you sell the BBS film for, that would start to be profitable after 100 extra copies. So when the question is 'Could you sell more than 100 extra copies by putting it onto a single BR disc'? If the answer is yes, which I think it might be, then there would be benefits in doing so.

As I said, I am completely with you about the (lack of) ethics of this licensing scheme and the resulting financial headache it creates as you try to please both your potential customers and your bank manger. But I feel that merely shaking your fist at it may not be the best strategy.

If this were a game, and in a maze of twisty passages, all alike you met a gnome who was offering you a magic key but demanding an excessive amount of your gold, possibly even more than you have... would you assume it was a red herring and just forget about it, or at least entertain the possibility that paying off the gnome would turn out to be worth it later?

I'd very much like to continue this conversation by email and/or telephone. I can't help with money but perhaps I can assist you with some aspect of production or post.
Although compay is now repudiating his comment, I'll bite: Even if there's nothing that was fixed in 10.6.1 that would have been important to me, the fact that we got to the first point release without such a fix is better evidence that there was no such problem in 10.6.0, something I would only know, otherwise, had I taken the chance and installed it. Therefore, in the sense that matters, it doesn't make any difference whether there was an important fix in this release, because if there was, it was fixed, and if there wasn't, it's evidence that there was no problem to fix.

Either way, it pays to wait if you're risk averse. And I am.
Thanks.
So to clarify, this is just the same as what lighttpd phrases as a 'select()-/poll()-/epoll() based web server'?

It seems that the main advantage of this is that you have one thread manging many sockets. I am a bit surprised that blocking kthreads would be so much slower relatively. What causes the slowness? Context switching? Additional stack memory usage?
It's hard to find this sort of thing statically in C code, especially if your static analysis tool is configured to treat C typecasts as necessarily correct because there's no syntax in C for expressing how dangerous a cast you intended, unlike C++. Of course, I don't know whether this code is C or C++.
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Language evolves. We can help it along! (I probably wouldn't do it in a formal document.)
Hehe, touché :)
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Hmmm - Brian Tracy is really good and, if you like his style, you might enjoy Anthony Robbins as well. Anthony Robbins isn't for "coders/entrepreneurs" specifically but the lessons/ideas are valuable to anyone IMO.
Which leads to their next cool feature that will allow you to instantly hire an artist to go to your friends' houses and draw a copy of the photo on their sidewalk, in chalk. Pure Sweetness.
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Sorry to ask this but why? Copy/paste isn't so difficult that people need a new way to do it, do they? I mean - let's say that you write/use this great jQuery library and deploy it to your site. Now, everyone who uses your site has to unlearn how to copy/paste just for your site. Seems weird to me.
Arrghh. The quintessential anova experiments by cobb were done on 8 data points.

All groups are different. Let me repeat. All groups have different means. The magnitude of the difference (difference between means) is called the effect size. If the effect is large you need a trivial amounts of data. If the effect is small you need lots.

The only thing p is telling you is whether you can reliably tell the datasets apart. It's NOT telling you how far the datasets are apart, which is what you really want to know - does this change cause a large difference.
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While coding? None.

If you're doing something so mindless that you can follow an entirely different thread of plot or conversation while doing your best work, something's gone very wrong. At best, your talents are wasted on whatever you're working on.
Yet people with a scarcity mindset spend a lot more time nitpicking their expenses and taxes than they invest in boosting their income. Not a good trade off... not by a long shot.

Bullshit. Acquiring more money by requiring less is infinitely easier than convincing people to pay you more, be it an employer or a customer. There's a ceiling to this, as everyone needs a roof over their heads, food to eat, and something interesting to do in their spare time, but this statement is bogus.
If they don't want things published, they shouldn't be publishing them on Facebook. Nobody should be using Facebook as their personal calendar.

Maybe, maybe not. With most people there's a definite disconnect between their expectation of privacy and their actual privacy, which makes even this overdramatized essay well worth a read.

Also, if a detail of how Facebook handles event queries is enough to "keep you up at night", how the hell do you handle nuclear proliferation in the CIS states?

This is not a point I would even attempt to rebut. :)
Yeah, I should have explained the context of that remark better. Thanks for fishing me out of downvote land :)
This isn't working for me. Why do I never get the cool facebook features :-(
Freelancing is still trading time for money. Just a diverse set of sources of that money, but its still not scalable.
I'm not going to install it. I'm going to wait until the next MBP refresh, then buy that and manually copy my files. At that point I will rebuild all my unix stuff from scratch and put it in ~.

Right now I'm running a byzantine mess of a 10.3 upgraded to 10.4 upgrade to 10.5 and then transferred through 2 machines via Time Machine.
Sure you can. Set status permission to "Everyone". Facebook introduced the feature here:

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=98499677130
I read this as Oracle pretending to want to keep the Sun hardware business so as to drive up the price for the only prospective buyer, HP.
i am welcoming any and all comments and questions; if it is not understood then ask me about my project. understanding comes from knowledge. tell me what any of you think.
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I would DEFINITELY go for the half of the 5000 over the 10% of the 50,000, if it cut out distributors and middlemen overselling and mismarketing the film to the wrong people. I've never had a return. Never. And I've not been defrauded for a sale or had a chargeback. Not once. It's been good.

And it's Massachusetts, not Texas. :) Good try.
There is a legal fiction that a government is not merely the vector-sum of actions made by its functionaries, but that it has a corporate identity that decides and acts and persists over time. This is fiction, of course, but it's a useful fiction--a model, if you prefer--and it has some connection with the way humans as social animals identify with their tribes.

So the United Kingdom (represented by its Home Office and judiciary in the 1950s), as a thing with a corporate identity, did wrong to Alan Turing, and it is appropriate for the United Kingom (represented by its Prime Minister) to apologize for its misdeeds.
I think the discriminating factor here is 'consent', which was implied in the example of Turing and notably absent in cases involving children.

The 'teenage boy' (which implies anybody between the age of 10 and 19 inclusive) was in fact 19, Turing himself was if I get it all right 42 at the time.
Well, I actually think the guy probably saw a lot of events he wasn't invited to, and/or some other things that made him realize that it was a violation of trust to see those things. I don't think the average hacker would get all choked-up about the principle of the matter quite so easily unless there was something meaty uncovered in his own life or circle of friends.
> My understanding of the slides is that we don't need better language runtimes to exploit parallelism for us while we continue to write the same kind of code as before;

Yes, I agree he was saying that, but that doesn't mean we can't change the implementations of what we use now to actually make it easier to do accomplish this.

> another thing - the transformation from cons to conc is nontrivial in the Lisp context because Lisp's code=data is so tied to cons. It might be an interesting to think about what programs would look like if you applied code=data rigorously in a conc model. Would a language whose expressions are represented as concs look or feel significantly different than a cons-based one?

But, you could still implement car and cdr in terms on conc, so this is not really an issue. It might not be the most efficient thing, but that's sort of the benefit of macros. Expand at compile time, and avoid the overhead. So, in summary, write macros in terms of an emulated cons cell, and use conc optimized primitives elsewhere.
The article was and still is mostly right:

http://www.economist.com/opinion/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_i...

U shaped recovery still seems more likely.
> According to Reinhardt, doctors' take-home pay (that is, income minus expenses) amounts to only about 1 percent of overall health care spending, or about $26 billion.

This doesn't make any sense whatsoever. So where is all that money going?

> That's a drop in the ocean compared with overhead for insurance companies, billing expenses for doctors' offices, and advertising for drug companies.

There is absolutely no way those things add up to 99% of medical expenses.

In every field most of the money goes to pay people. So who is making the money? Is Reinhardt excluding specialists perhaps?