skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I'm amazed by how unanimously friendly Hacker News (and Reddit) are to Wave.

It was the anti-suckless - overengineered, XML and web-based, anti-privacy, pampering users instead of educating them (e.g. in a corporate environment, using a VCS together with IRC is a much better way to exchange information). I would've expected at least one contrary voice somewhere :)

I say good riddance.
What he still has a family? - I say this lightly because it clearly is fiction.

Firstly, the Taliban must be very busy if all they do is go around burning little children who learn how to read. Also, this breadwinner must be quite relieved that his son was killed in a nicer way.

Seeing as the Taliban took the trouble to burn his daughter just for reading, I suppose they would consider the father to be their friend, because, well they only burned his daughter. Of course in no way would they think that he hates them to the gut and would happily go along to the guys who kill people in a nice way.

I am sorry, there is a serious point there, but do try and make it.
But you should also remember that Kink.com is in a class by itself. I don't know much about other porn sites but I know a number of people that work at Kink. My impression is that they seem to have pretty high ethical standards (...most of the time) and generally more interesting employees than the average website, let alone the average porn website. Maybe it's got something to do with being rooted in the SF BDSM community.

That said, they have boring meetings and conflicts with their bosses and disputes over performance evaluations, just like any other workplace.

As for being a career-killer, I haven't heard of anyone feeling it was an albatross around their neck after they left. But they weren't applying to christiancoalition.com or foxnews.com in the first place.
This book is delightful. Thank you for the link, do you happen to know of any more similarly wonderful resources for other topics?
Shoutout Twitter Looks to be Readying New Feature
Nice PR for the billionaires involved, but I doubt this project changed any of their plans. The article states:

"The pledge is a moral commitment to give, not a legal contract. It does not involve pooling money or supporting one cause or organization. It's up to each person who signs the pledge how to divvy up their wealth."

Also, reading the pledge letters, it becomes clear that these folks won't be giving away their fortunes today or tomorrow, it's about what happens to the remainder of the funds after they die. For all we know, they could've spent it all on hookers by then.
Feel the same about killing it too soon. But then Google is Google and probably judge success in adoption rate base on the results with Gmail and Chrome.

My guess is there is an up coming project (Google Me?) that shares some similarity with Wave but is targeting the friends&family group rather than workgroup. They probably will not outsource Wave as some of its tech will find its way to this upcoming project.
As has been said. Match / eHarmony were not free services. That was what made PlentyOfFish unique at the time.

If you go and find the founders blog you can track the entire process of the site (like BingoCreator), including his girlfriend holding a (2 month) paycheck from google adsense for $450,000
I meant potential as in "do you think no manner of teaching could ever make them more intelligent".
How so? The point was to present an example of taking short-term gains that will have an effect on long-term gains. If Google blindly pursues only short-term gains, they risk weakening their medium- and/or long-term prospects.
Because your short long term loss doesn't benefit anybody. The long term gain in google's case would be Verizon, but in your example, it's some evil corporation who just wants you to die.

That's unrealistic.
The first paragraph then says

"Smartphones may soon displace some of the estimated 1 billion credit and debit cards in American wallets."

which is a rather different and less drastic change; they're no more replacing credit cards than credit cards replaced money
Yeah I had a couple of custom domains, changed the A records and they are back up now.
I must confess that I always read mathematics like a novel skipping over the theorem proofs. I was mostly reading example and quick summary of the theorem.

IMHO, proofs as their names imply, are mostly used to prove correctness with the most rigorousness as possible.

In this perspective, I don't mind trading trust (of the manual/person/web site) for rigorousness. I can get the big picture by reading the summary and, usually, a couple of well chosen examples help me understanding it in depth.

Sadly, it is now a burden for me to read any deep mathematical books. For instance, the dragon book was really annoying to read since it was more written in a formal tone instead of a example/quick explanation.
I've seen many things described as a marriage. Like special diplomatic relations between countries, business mergers, even product announcements. And I think that people can understand this. Once again, try to describe civil partnerships to somebody. What are you going to do? Say 'It's like a marriage, just don't call it so, because I don't like it'

(In the same way, I'd even describe your reason as 'religious, just there are no gods and churches and other deities involved'. We are also used to call fanboy disputes between the text editors or operating systems as religious wars. And it's a very good description.)
I think so. You can see less educated people struggling to understand or express subtle topics. A richer language allows you to think with a richer palette of shades.
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Yay, IE9 supports rounded corners and drop shadow in CSS.

Things like that certainly makes it suck a lot less when adjusting css styles made for webkit to work on IE as well.
You got it perfectly, so even if you weren't speaking for me you might as well have.
In college environment, you have little control over the lighting conditions and the glossy screen means you have to fiddle with the positioning to avoid the "mirror" effect. That is unless you have someone attractive sitting behind you whom you want to watch. But they will see you staring.
Is it unique to Google?
Ahhh... thats what people said about the first iPod wasn't it? Brilliant quote, I'm going to print that off and put it on my wall to remind me that there will always be people saying negative things about great products.
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"random people email secret information to some asshole overseas who posts it on his website"

Could you stop calling him an asshole? He does indeed have an ass and a hole and we know that just finely. We don't need degrading of people, only of ideas.

As for the quote, it is not a random person. The person who leaked the first video is in jail! That is an extremely high price to pay.

As for Julian, yes you have indeed not met him, nor have you met Obama, or the many people in congress who decide many things about you, or the guys at the fed, intelligence...

You don't know if this guy is actually qualified to take such decisions as what is to be leaked and not. You don't know his motivations, you don't know his value system, you really don't know anything about him.

The only thing that it perhaps seems you do know is that you are having a little chat here thus maybe not really considering what you are typing in your comments. Yet if so I may respectfully remind you, we are talking about a very serious subject, on the comments of an article which calls for the arresting of an individual who is not a citizen of the United States, in the soil of a sovereign nation and potentially without the authority of such sovereign nation. An article which states that the US apparently has authority to arrest any individual whatever who breaks some law of the United States.

And this not just an individual he has the intelligence to build a great system which I am most certain would have been of immense use had it been around the drums of Iraq war as someone would have certainly leaked something decisively damaging and perhaps saved us an entire war.

And finally, if I may quote one of the great, enemies of the republic, within or foreign.
Ask HN: Is a CS degree necessary? 
I'm a student at a good California university, but I am having trouble staying as one.

Throughout school I've had ADD pretty bad. As long as I can remember my teachers basically told me I underperformed grade wise for my intelligence. College has been no exception, and as it goes on things keep getting harder. Initially I was a computer science major, but my GPA turned out to be just barely too low so I have chosen to pursue a B.S. in mathematical sciences, which I figure is applicable in CS. I'm now in summer session to catch up and will be going into my 5th (I took some time off last year) year. I still have a serious uphill battle ahead of me before I get any degree at all. This is assuming they let me pursue the math degree.

Now, I am a good programmer. I have a great internship at a startup in the area which is really taking off (SaaS in RoR). I can best just about anyone who has actually graduated from the CS program at my school in an interview, and on the job, I just don't have the degree. I know a whole lot of good people in the industry, and I've got beaming recommendations from anyone who's ever seen me program.

I love everything about programming and it just makes sense, which is probably why I can spend some much time on it despite my concentration issues. I love to learn about new technologies, and how to solve the often intricate problems which present themselves in CS. Almost everything that I know is self taught, from about equal parts of reading and hacking around with things. I know I am good, and I want to be great, but every time I get my grades back I am discouraged.

What I am looking for is some advice. I know that a degree is an important thing to have in this day and age. Should I keep working towards a degree that I only partially want? Or should I try to go elsewhere (possibly a lesser school) to get the degree in CS? Would I be missing a lot of the fun stuff (like compilers and OSes) if I continue with the math degree? Is it possible to jump onto the computer science carrer path with the experience that I have? If so where should I begin? Should I ask the startup I'm working for if they would take me on full time? Anyone hiring?

Thanks in advance
It's certainly not a bad start but one of the biggest headaches in recruiting is ploughing through the large number of potential candidates to find the most relevant and suitable candidates to bring in to interview. For this reason alone, recruitment companies will continue to go from strength to strength.

The concept is decent but the people with the best reccomendations may not be as suitable as someone with only a handful of recommendations but ticks all the right boxes in terms of relevant experience.
Well, if you have local customers, then it might be good to just go and talk to them first and listen to what they have to say. If most of your customers are going to be remote, then you need to first think how are they going to come to your site? Your target users don't seem to be the most web-savvy people.

If you have a budget, there are a few people who make pro screencasts for companies. If you search HN you will find some recommendations.

But I would suggest just make a screencast yourself first. It will help you think through what you want to show and get the script right, which you will need anyway even if you get someone else to make it for you.

Finally, if you have something to show just put it up already and ask people for feedback on the real thing. I know it must be embarrassing if you don't have the most amazing solution yet, but you have to start somewhere.
Dutch (Flemish) native, English fluent, French from high school but not very fluent. Planning to learn Spanish in the near future.
Sure it's possible, but only if you use both frequently. Most of what I type is in English, so I'm fluent, but my daily life happens in Dutch.
Whether it's terrorism or leaks, neocons - like this author - appear to frequently endorse head cutting as an effective method of battling hydras.
That's arrogant and elitist of you. What's next? Bragging about how many programming languages you know? My coding-dick is longer than yours?
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Why didn't Google Wave boot up?
Another article in the Washington post makes this clearer.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/08/google_and...

Google isn't buying priority, they're negotiating for non-priority. That's a horse of a different color entirely.
Its not the downmodding I am pissed at, its the lack of decent conversational skills.
In hetero porn, tons of the models or performers or whatever are said to be involved because they were sexually abused when younger. Doing porn requires a certain numbness and if the performer doesn't have that when she starts, she will. It's just a very sad situation.

I upvoted you because your comment is interesting, but how do you justify the above statement other than "it's what some prejudiced people, including myself, think"?

Have you validated this by talking to people who work in the porn industry? Have you read some research that validated this?

I'm questioning it because it seems like a stereotypical and potentially bigoted belief and is very possibly wrong. People are different. Some people get off on having sex with their life partner. Some people get off on being surrounded by a bunch of guys jacking off. Som people get off on having sex with animals. Some people don't get off and they're ok with that. It's fairly plausible that some people get off on doing porn, and it makes sense that many of those would work in the porn industry.
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Until IE9 supports auto-updates down the wire, like Chrome, it is as bad as IE6. IE6 was a great browser when it came out. It took years to become the horrible monster we know it to be. If IE9 doesn't auto-update, all it can achieve is the same success as IE6.
I've worked at a few small startup-y type companies, and in cases where some of the developers had access to production systems, or were deeply entrenched in deployment details, those people also got paged by Pingdom whenever we were down, same as I did.

This made it incredibly convenient, because I'd wake up, grab my laptop, and log in, and then I'd IM the developer and tell him the 'what' of what was going on, and help him/her figure out the 'why'. We'd fix the problem and do another deploy, then go back to bed.
Will HTML5 leave Flash extinct? I hope so
Let's wait to hear what the details of the deal are before pulling out the pitchforks and torches.
You can do all sorts of nasty things to an exposed memcached. For example, if you know your target site is using Rails (and if you've done Rails for more than two days you can describe the big freaking footprints most sites leave), you can identify at least one controller using action caching (look for the CMS, it is an obvious choice), write arbitrary Javascript into a cached page, and then figure out how to get someone logged into an admin account to visit that page on their site. That shouldn't be too difficult ("Hey guys, you have a spelling mistake here, click this link to your own domain to see it.") You now have the admin's account.

Action caching will vault over every built-in security measure Rails has to prevent script injection.

That is probably game over for most Rails applications, and all you need is one blind cache write to make it happen, since Rails will almost certainly give you everything you need to know in the URL to the probably-cached page (controller name, action name, object ID).

Happily, this is pretty easy to defend against: follow the directions that come with your memcached config file, particularly the one which says:

# Specify which IP address to listen on... This parameter is one of the only security measures that memcached has, so make sure it's listening on a firewalled interface.
-l 127.0.0.1
*

Nonstandard ports never hurt anybody, either.
Perhaps. That we do not know.
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@brazzy yeah.. that stands out a bit. It just means that technology is chosen without understanding what it is for. There are so many choices available nowadays.. e.g. if one needs faster development/release cycle, you choose Rails, etc..

Thats the context. Thanks.
Ok, in other words google are becoming less willing to develop cutting edge technologies and are going to spend more time on making money out of their traffic (e.g. purchase of ITA and listing hotel prices).

If you make money on the internet from a sector that goole are / might be in, be very afraid.
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I worked at a company where we had a similar system set up. We had automated database snapshots of production taken every two hours, and stored locally and in our account at Rackspace's Cloud Files. Eventually, I got fed up with people asking me to update staging with a copy of the production database, so I wrote a simple Python script and stuck it in the repository. As long as you weren't running in a production environment, it would give you a fresh copy of the database in a matter of minutes.

We were (slowly) working towards a system where the entire app (gems and all) was self-contained, and we had a list of all the system packages that needed installation; once we reached that point, setting up a new server would have been a five-minute job - a git pull, a package update/install, and a database pull. Sadly, we never did get around to finishing it (actual work took priority), but it would have been nice to have.
Funny. I wouldn't want to be in Novell's shoes now after having invested in building a product on top of Wave: http://www.novell.com/products/pulse/
Well, why really should they upgrade? I mean, ie6 does its job of taking you to the internet which is basically what any browser is supposed to do. So it works finely, so I think they are right to leave it alone. Ie9 is coming up apparently, in no more that 3 years ie8 would be considered rubbish too, so they would have to upgrade again.

What for?
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Slide started out as a global recommendation push engine for shopping items. They pivoted to a widget company when it took off.
A very small niche worry about things like this.

Did everyone suddenly stop using facebook because a few vocal people worried about privacy a month or so back? nope. Most people just don't care one bit.

I'm really excited about all the fun things we'll be able to do and have.

I wonder how long it'll be before we're all wearing augmented reality visors/goggles bluetoothed to your smartphone with useful advertising/help/wiki etc. You could be walking down the street and an advert shows above a cafe saying "half off coffee today". It could show you customer ratings etc.

You could walk up to your friend, the goggles/smartphone would recognize their face as being your friend, analyze their emotions, show you their details next to their face and so on.

Having the future we want means we have to allow people access to some information, like 'where we are', where we've been, messages, demographics etc. Either you get cool stuff, or you get privacy - up to you.
According to Wikipedia[1], about 10% of all gift cards are never redeemed. I am convinced that this factors into the Groupon suppliers calculations too.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giftcard#Redemption_rate
"The public debt is $8.63 Trillion and this pledge could reduce that significantly, boosting the dollar and reducing the debt increase rate a corresponding amount."

Wouldn't it be funny, if at the end every nation/bank has the same debt to each other?
And why think flash should be on any platform?. You don't have to please every user, and every platform. Flash has its power features and html5 is handy, but far from getting there.
Social network composes of three parts: social graph, reach applications, and games. Slide provides social media applications and the expertise to make them. The part about FB profile data is not true, and based on ToS, they wouldn't be able to use it.
No. Don't keep XP alive, it's insecure and dangerous.
Totally unrelated, but I'm wondering how much Fred paid for AVC.com...
I'm sorry, but it is a low standard. I'd say that almost anyone in Europe with a little education is bilingual. Don't hold the rest of the world to your own low standards.
"On a side note, the locomotives reminded me of the visual imagery that crossed my mind while reading Atlas Shrugged."

Exactly what I thought when I saw them. These images are great and would do great as a coffee table book to flip through while reading Atlas Shrugged.
Do you think Google's advocacy of net neutrality wasn't a PR stunt? It was, and this is too. Consider:

Best for Google: Net neutrality

Second best for Google: non-neutral deals with as many ISPs as possible.

Google's selection of a premium wireless provider suggests that it's ready to make bold moves (and spend serious cash) to clinch a good position in a non net-neutral world. This is scary both for competitors and consumers who may have initially been on the fence about net neutrality.
Current system for SSL certs has failed hard, in principle and empirically
No more Android for me or google. Hello Bing and stuff.
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Billionaires give back
French, German, Dutch, English. My fluency varies from year-to-year depending on which language I use most in daily life. I remember the first time I came back 'home' and found out that I had trouble adapting to speaking my mother tongue. So bi-/tri-/x- lingualism (is that a word?) is not a fixed, but varying property on one's cv.
If they were naive enough to buy into "Don't do evil" in the first place I'm sure they will buy whatever hand waving Google uses to excuse themselves. How many people quite over China?
Outsourcing to India draws Western Lawyers
This proves, imo, that it wasn't a failure of product, but of marketing.

The fact that you personally found it useful doesn't, in itself, prove that it was a failure of marketing although, presumably, it proves you found it useful.

I know I didn't just look at it and close the window, completely not understanding what it was about. I understand what it is about, I just think it's bad. It has a dreadful UI and massive overlaying of concepts and features without much coherence. Just as an example, one superficial but reasonably accurate sign of clunky, ill-thought-out design is the presence of made-up terminology - wave has this in spades, what with the waves and the wavelets and the blips. These are fundamental usability problems - they can't be fixed by marketing.
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