skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google+ would have been great if Facebook didn't already exist. I tried to use it but it is pointless if no one else you know is there. I think less than five of my facebook friends tried it.

In the end I just deleted both my facebook and google plus and have never looked back. :)
Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
You're talking about two different things. "Technology" in the phrase "don't be seduced by the technology" means, the tech used to build your product. Not the technology of your product itself. Obviously you should innovate when making your product itself, but the tools used to make the product don't need to be bleeding edge for you to do that.

E.g. if you make a website, it should be a unique and engaging website. But you can make a unique and engaging website with Java. Even though it's old tech, your users will not know or care.
Especially affordability of advanced components like high power motors, quality bits and spindles, and of course batteries.
Rest is relatively easy to work around or cheap one time purchase.

Another problem is actually having skills to program the machine and devise even a basic industrial process. Then there is a game of finding right suppliers for smaller volumes...
Yeah, I was assuming it would be accomplished via a HUD. The technology is already used in other consumer products:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See-through_display

"Small scale see-though LCDs have been commercially available for some time."
Well, I did say "opt-in." I can imagine that approach working far better than an instant on "Hi, your stuff is now public" approach.

Look, they weren't going to dethrone facebook, but they didn't need to fuck up this badly. They could have gone with a more modest approach and pleased a lot of people who wanted a quick social profile in gmail in a jiffy and not a whole other service.

>Google Buzz.

Branding still matters. Google Social tells grandma whats up. Buzz, wave, etc make no sense to her.
it's really not that on-topic here since the article is about children dependence on parents, but... I hope to eventually have the wherewithal to allow my parents to move into my home, which will have to be big enough to also house my wife and children with sufficient privacy for all, so that I (and my siblings) are right there with them to take care of them into their old age.

guess you can call that "living with parents". it's such a broad definition of situations that I can't imagine that just the label alone is useful for judging much.
Why? I used the example quasi-humorously but I meant it seriously.

The iPhone has given rise to all sorts of ubiquitous technologies and applications -- so ubiquitous we don't notice them. Accelerometers weren't invented by Apple, but their pervasive use in high volume has driven the price down which has given rise to all sorts of other applications, many with the phone as bed.

Security is much better than it would be if only banks and the military cared.

Etc
It's been mentioned here already, but this is the evolution of Wunderlist. Which, apparently is being sunsetted at some point:

> That said, Wunderlist and Wunderlist Pro will eventually be retired, but not before we incorporate your valued feedback and the best elements of the Wunderlist experience into To-Do.
There won't be any new features brought to Wunderlist and Wunderlist Pro but we will continue to prioritize the security of your experience. In addition, we have built an importer to help you easily transfer your to-dos from Wunderlist or Todoist to To-Do.

I was hoping for more power features in Wunderlist for business teams, considering that we recently started using it pretty heavily. At the moment, this seems pretty focused on individual use.

https://www.wunderlist.com/blog/your-preview-of-microsoft-to...
From what I can tell, this is a web interface wrapper around a suite of Amazon tools – but nothing is forcing you to exclusively use them once you've created your project.

> It's pretty trivial to do this kind of thing with Jenkins or Gitlab CI

I think you might be trivializing what's being offered here. This is bigger than a CI server.
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Not to mention that drug testing basically amounted to the following process:

1) An MD at a psychiatric asylum finds a drug somehow (plants, the mob, who knows).
2) Aforementioned MD doses half of the asylum with the drug without their consent.
3) MD publishes paper, gets drug deal and profits.

Ah yes... for the halcyon days before IRBs.
Yep, all that money should have gone into raising intelligent children, the way natural selection intended it.
This is cool, something I've long wanted. A big missing feature is the ability to filter out food allergie/sensitivities/preferences in recipes and the grocery list, though. I was pretty disappointed, after winnowing down the list of things I have on hand, to receive lots of recipe suggestions containing foods I can't eat without making me ill.
I think it's pretty optimistic to think that the battery life issues will be solved in the next five years. It doesn't look like we're going to be getting significantly more energy dense batteries or lower energy display technologies in that timeframe. (Not in consumer products, anyway.)
> I may never have to use Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CoreOS, and all that other stuff.

True, you may never have to as long as you're okay putting 100% of your faith in the benevolence of a single company. Remember, a good portion of AWS services are completely proprietary and serve as a pretty fancy set of golden, jewel-encrusted handcuffs.

Fully open source projects like those you mentioned, on the other hand, are positioning developers who know them to treat the cloud providers of today as just another source of CPU cycles, storage, and networking. For the services I run on Kubernetes in AWS, I can lift and shift those in a day if/when the day comes that Amazon is a little less benevolent with their pricing and service levels. If we were asked to do the same with our services built expecting AWS functionality, it would takes months to years. Guaranteed.

Yes, there's a trade-off that I don't get 100% managed services and I have to know a little about the workings of the platform, but I would make that same commitment to AWS the second it didn't do everything for me. In my experience, that moment usually occurs somewhere around the 10-minute mark.

Amazon is great today, but Bezos won't live forever and who knows what happens when his successor takes over. It could be great, or it could be a mass exodus of people dumping years of investment. Personally, I'd rather hedge my bets and use their low-cost VMs as my source of compute today, but leave myself plenty of dead-simple exit options and sleep a little more easily at night. That's what open source software is all about.
> Takes a negligible effort to clean

Which one? Not trolling, but I've bought (and returned) 3 different juices in the 300 - 500$ range that were a pain to clean, dry and put away. Even the ones made in Korea that are "only 5 parts" are annoying. I've had soft shreds getting stuck in the ejection tube, and the only way to clean it is (that I've found out) by using an ear bud to push it out.
How did someone even find this post in order to re-post it?

"Hey, let's go check on what's happening on google+?" or "What I'll just google google+ to see what's happening there..." said no one ever.
Can someone get into detail *what made Google+ good"?
>Its the generation that votes/puts people in power in a democratic political system. Politicians are representatives of the people i.e. generation.

In an ideal world. In practice they're in the pockets of many interests (including their own), and people only get to vote 1 in 4 years or so, and only accept a candidate "wholesale". How many promises did Obama broke to the people that elected him? How many will Trump?

>Nope. The New Deal was the opposite of dismantling: using government resources to kickstart the economy. And then the Great Society programs to enable higher standards of living for all.

The New Deal was rather the exception, after a near fatal crash, and under the pressure of a unionized America and an increased communist global influence, where the ruling classes had to show that they were for more than exploiting too. Similar things happened all over the world and established the early welfare state, but not because the 1930's generation was somehow special in voting for better people.
You're ignoring the context. I don't have any hard numbers, but many of these girls started working as prostitutes when they were children, out of force or total desperation. They get raped by the cops here, they get abused by their "boyfriends", they're frequently addicted to drugs and don't have any other options. Please come to Cambodia or Thailand and talk to some of these girls. It is usually not a pleasant existence. By all means legalize prostitution, but let's not pretend that, in SEA's current state, this is female empowerment or something.
US divorce rate is lower than it's been for 40 years.
You don't need an Office subscription. A regular Microsoft account works just as well.
I transitioned to Todoist as well. I really love its rich feature list.

Wunderlist hasn't given an exact date for when they are retiring the product but they have said it will be retired at some point. (Probably once the feature list of To-Do moves up to where Wunderlist is.)
My understanding is that this is like Heroku, except there's no additional charge, and you have full access to all of the services underneath in case you need to customize something.
I care about inclusivity, but I think you're making too much of some benign humor. Perhaps it is humor not to your tastes, but it's such a minor aberration (a couple words in a README) that I think it's unfair to judge the project based off of it. If, for example, the code outputted similarly unprofessional language into the console or something to that effect, I'd agree, but I think in this case it's really no big deal.
I think people don't realize that it's not automization in itself, it's productivity. You don't need to fully automize labor, but you can cut it in half through the productivity gains it gives to the remaining workers. This will kill jobs, without bringing forth the post-scarcity universe many seem to think automization will provide.
Use address sanitizer and leak sanitizer (-fsanitize=address). Compile with options that forbid omission of frame pointers (-fno-omit-frame-pointer) to get a nice backtrace of where the allocation occurred. Also compile with full debugging info (-g) so that leak errors contain file and line numbers. Problem solved.

EDIT: this apparently only works on x86-64 Linux. If you are targeting something else, it might be slightly harder.
Soo. Do we get money? Or smth. I use bose wireless headphones.
Bypass Microsoft's Update Block for Windows 7, 8.1 PCs Running Kaby Lake, Ryzen
They should just hire someone to explain these things. A video goes a long way.
Eh. The further AWS moves up the stack, the less dominating their products are. EC2? Awesome. S3? Great. ELB? Good. CodeCommit? Eh.

I'd be interested to hear about experiences using CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, etc. but I doubt AWS found the One True Workflow.
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I actually think there is a valid point in that idealogies have a momentum of sorts. Passive investors historically have had privileged access to isolated "pie" via a barrier-to-entry of patience. Without this barrier-to-entry, which happens when passive-investing becomes the go-to default, the pie is distributed amongst larger people so the "patience" arbitrage is reduced. Active investors have access to smaller pie as the flow is going to passive investing but if the denominator reduces faster than the numerator individuals still receive more pie despite total pie decreasing.

So the momentum of the idealogy has shifted from people trying to beat the market to people throwing up their hands and following heuristics. The larger the momentum of the heuristic the more robust it is. (Which is bad, in an antifragile vs robust sort of way)

To use a real world example, you could say that the overall restaurant industry is vibrant only because individuals naively underestimate the difficulty in starting one. The naive trying is what produces a competitive landscape that discovers 'quality'.

Similarly, the naive trying to get VC capital (despite the majority of ideas not having the scale/growth potential needed to fit the VC model) creates a vibrant technology and new-lifestyle scene.

So during a momentum re-stabilization phase, it's possible that the truck topples over the railing instead of back onto the road. Also, the overall reduction in number of individual of thinkers also increases the impact of bad-faith agents in positions of unfair leverage.
This BR domination started years after Orkut was launched (more or less in line with availability of FB to the general public). It was always a 20% Google project, so not sure why you refer to it as an "acquisition".
I doubt the physical changes caused by electrodes on your brain are imagined.
If you use a good "IDE" setup, it'll tell you what extensions you should enable for some code to compile. Intero (on Emacs) allows you to hit C-c C-r to insert the relevant incantation at the top of the file.

About what extensions people consider kosher, Stephen Diehl's "What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell" has a great list that sorts them into "common", "uhh", and "you obviously know what you're doing".
So, do we get money or something? That would be nice. I use Bose Wireless headphones.
> The electorate are all grown-ups that had access to the same information that I do

I am not sure I have ever heard such trust in the electorate. Isn't an uninformed electorate a huge problem in most western democracies?
> there must be a better way than cold-call e-mails to network contacts and blind surveys...

If you have any interpersonal savvy and good relating skills, try Old School networking. Get out of your bubble, go meet people.

Two events coming up in Boston are likely target rich opportunities;

MITCIO > http://www.mitcio.com/

CIO Summit Boston > http://www.ciobostonsummit.com/
The Google Photos app spin-off is one of the best things ever to come out of Google (IMHO).
>I'd assume that if you were to not be disturbed for 8 hours for work, someone else would be there to take care of the children, so ummmm, lock the door?

And where is this "someone else" supposed to come from? You have enough money to hire a full-time nanny? For many professionals, both parents work (and the mother taking significant time off to raise kids is a career-killer).
> UX is more than graphics

I'd say they are orthogonal. Craigslist's graphics are bad/nonexistent but I like its UX a lot.
It is still a premium, just not to the users that these apps typically target.

I, for one, like being able to install Linux on a 4GiB thumb drive. If your app doesn't work with command line parameters without a GUI and can't be installed in spare space on a 4GiB drive then your app probably doesn't target me at all.

Note that there are a TON of apps that do fit well within those requirements.
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Wave felt like too much of a hyperactive firehose to ever become anything like Slack.
Relevant discussion here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1245262 and here: https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/119.
That is an answer to a question I didn't ask. As I explained in the other reply, you'd need to simultaneously prove:

* That "bruh" is sexually "excluding language"

* That an actual reasonable person feels "excluded" from using this update monitoring tool based on humor in its readme.

So far, you have done none of those things. Your links argue that sexually exclusionary language 1. exists and 2. is a problem. Nothing more.
I'll never understand why developers almost always underprice themselves.
Are there any differences between Cloud Deployment Manager which GCP offer? https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/
Plenty of add-ons seem to do what you want. Here's a few I found with a quick search:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-butto...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profileswitch...
G+ communities were great for quite a while. In many ways reminiscent of HN (quality/serious reactions) but more topical, until it started to be used as just another social advertising outlet with cross-posts.
I'm not at all convinced about making the general user choose between 32- and 64-bit versions at installation, given that even techies disagree on the relative merits [1]. (Sometimes with themselves [2].)

If the system only supports one or the other, the installer should be able to work that out. If it supports both, the installer should at least give some hints as to what the tradeoffs are.

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2015/12/29/revisiting...

[2] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2016/01/04/64-bit-vis...
I don't understand what you mean. The article was posted 20h ago by a guy who has over 50,000[0] followers, in to a collection that has almost 100,000[1] followers. Of course a lot of people saw it.

[0] https://plus.google.com/+GideonRosenblatt
[1] https://plus.google.com/collection/UgYzY
Those future prospects have looked different for a while, though obviously prophecy is infamously not a strength for us time-bound creatures. Change is inevitable, and especially so in the accelerated, automated world of IT. There's going to be a long tail of people unwilling to make changes (and that tail may never reach zero), but Ops as it used to exist is going to have to change, just as it did when VM usage supplanted bare metal, or when we realized that mainframes couldn't offer the performance necessary for today's scale.

Really, if you're not okay with your job description evolving substantially every 5-10 years, then a career IT is going to be a source of a lot of stress for you.
Forget weird animes; your coworkers might rib you about it a little, but that's not a career-ending revelation.

What if you're a recovering or current addict, and your support group is on a subreddit? What if you're advising people considering opiates to not follow your path, based on your own life experiences? That's not likely something you want to sign your name to.

What about domestic abuse victims who want to support each other? Victims of sexual abuse as children? Parents of children who have been abused?

What if you're into something that's would really set people off, even if it's something consensual? Consider what's happening over in Drupal-land - regardless of your opinion of Goreans, BDSM practitioners, etc., what if you're just into something that your local community or coworkers find anathema?
The industry has been hammering nails into the DSLR's coffin for a while now, but to me this looks like the last fastener of all.
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The fact that Orkut was implemented in .net might have made it too embarrassing for Google to maintain.
They are starting from the other side:

> The company sells produce packs for $5 to $8 but limits sales to owners of Juicero hardware. The products were only available in three states until Tuesday, when the company expanded to 17.
>This is a community

No, it's not. It's just users that take free advantage of whatever that person is offering gratis.

And perhaps some more that he'd like to work with him on this -- the rest that don't like his language can take a hike.
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Yeah I probably could be little more clear on that ..
Basically I think that it shows that companies like Microsoft do stuff that makes us less secure and violate our privacy and they are have no problem with lying to use to get the information they think they need.
We are going to consider a false postulate: coding errors are insignificant
Does going on-prem get you any security benefits?
The storage.sync API allows add-ons to
save user preferences to Firefox Sync,
where it can be shared and synchronized
between devices.

Now all Chrome Extensions automatically work on Firefox.
With cloud services being as cheap and available as they are, what's to stop a federated social network from really taking off? Is there a chicken and egg problem here? Why can't a decentralized social network displace Facebook the same way Facebook displaced MySpace? Is it simply a question of marketing? Or is it the lack of profits in creating such a network? Does technologies inherently go from "open" to "closed" with no chance of ever turning back?
Facebook isn't helpful in following the stupid life updates either.

Every now and then I try to use Facebook to check out what people are doing because I'm interested in their life updates but I don't really have a clue. I see some random posts from some friends, but not all nor necessarily the important posts. There are friends whose postings I haven't seen for ages, and when I go look back on his/her wall Facebook gives me a curated view with most posts hidden by default so I can't skim through the most recent twenty-or-so posts and make up my mind myself.

And don't get me started on posting to Facebook myself. If I want to say something it's an equally mystic selection of friends who might see it, or "see" it if they downloaded the post but never browsed that far. I think that the post saturation is close to 10%, at most: that many of my friends might actually see my posts.

I grant that Facebook is trying to solve a hard problem. I have a Facebook list that contains all my friends and looking at that list of chronological posts exhausts me before I exhaust the list. So there needs to be a filter, however, the algorithm to filter posts should be known to users. I would probably settle for "Most liked posts from recent days from each your friend", or something similar. Something that is finite and defined. The current views are none of that.
But Gmail accounts already had profile sections. This was (theoretically) a way to tie together the other Googly stuff (mail, calendar, photos, text/voice/video chat, videos, etc) for easier sharing a-la Facebook.

I've always preferred both the full G+ website and the mobile app to Facebook and they were doing many of the things Facebook added shortly afterward. Granular privacy/sharing controls were much easier than anything FB had or has added since.

That said, as others have mentioned, with closed networks, you can't reproduce what Gmail did to Hotmail/Yahoo/etc 10-12 years ago. You can't just switch to a client/service because you like it better because, unlike email, it requires everyone you communicate with to also make the same switch. As long as this is the case, the only important "feature" is the existing userbase.
Google search got a lot worse for me after that. I relied on the + operator quite a bit.
Yikes! Not insulted at all. I tend to be direct/open...but please don't infer tone. Totally cool. I was simply inviting criticism (all good...get better everyday, right?). Cheers....
That's interesting considering so many professionals use the Mark III. I recall seeing an article that the NYTimes staff all used Mark II's at one point.
It lacks super telephoto lenses, advanced lenses (such as tilt shift), and more flash options to make it a "true" professional camera.

I also agree on reliability. I broke an A7 II after 5 months of mild usage. I don't think the sensor stabilization system is ready for pro usage
I think there's intentional irony in the use of those brogrammer terms which is going over the heads of those offended here-- further reinforcing the "square" diagnosis.

It's humor. Lighthearted humor, and it's pretty hilarious to see everyone here get completely puffed up and bent out of shape about it, entirely because It Doesn't Conform To The Language Convention You're Supposed To Use Here.