skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem is two-fold both with Buzz and Wave. First the implementation and the adoption.

I think Wave idea is awesome, but their implementation (and performance) has been always an issue. My communication is already fragmented over so many places I don't want another domain for another form of communication. They should have added wave into Gmail by default. Wave always had horrible performance issues (still does).

Buzz doesn't solve any communication problem that I can't use it on any other popular services. So Buzz adoption doesn't make sense to me whether its integrated to Gmail or not.

Buzz is a "me too" product. Wave was not.
My boss screamed at his phone today. I wondered if he realised he'd just set all the employees on edge and lost maybe 2+ person-hours of work for the rest of the day - traded for the momentary release of an angry outburst.

Similarly, your boss might have been technically correct, but a boss who would rather be right, make a point and potentially knock your morale, than boost your morale for free should really be rethinking his approach, IMO.
Meh, just go pick a wireless hotspot to upload it to any of the file-share sites and post links on 4chan/Fark/Reddit/etc. Or send it to Cryptome.
Gays have the right to marry an opposite sex partner. They may not prefer this, but they have the right to do it. Thus, laws prohibiting same sex marriage discriminate against people who prefer same sex relationships.

Similarly, renters have the right to get a mortgage subsidy by buying a home. They may not prefer it, but they have the right to do it. Thus, the mortgage subidy discriminates against people who prefer rentals.

Should we therefore eliminate mortgage subsidies (or any number of other laws which favor one preference over another) subsidies based on the same logic?
Please. Calling soldiers shooting children murderers doesn't mean I like the Taliban, it means I don't want our soldiers murdering children. Really, this isn't complicated.

The Taliban might have been evil, but it doesn't mean that the replacements will be any better. As near as anybody who isn't a jackass can tell, the US has inserted ourselves into a pair of century (millenia?) long sectarian conflicts. Government barely exists 100 miles from the Kabul. These warlords were fighting each other before the Taliban, somewhat subjugated by the Taliban, and will be fighting each other again after we finally leave. All we've done is inflicted horrendous collateral damage on whoever happened to get in our way while mouthing trite bullshit about democracy. In order to leave the citizens of the country in a position that will be, at best, no better than under the Taliban. And probably much worse. We've killed how many in order to install some thug and his drug / warlord brother atop the heap?

As for Wikileaks, after Bush decided to run black prisons and endorsed the torture at Abu Ghraib, I frankly stopped believing anything out government says. Obama, with his support of the Afghanistan war and Bush era spy laws, has more or less endorsed Bush' view of civil liberties and demonstrated that the US government is worth the trust of exactly nobody. I'll believe what the government says when Bush is executed for war crimes, and there are a long line of US Generals up there with him. In light of those facts, Wikileaks is a force for good. Since we've demonstrated that morality and probability of success have no impact on our decisions, perhaps Wikileaks can damage the war effort enough to get us out of Afghanistan. Frankly, the less Americans trust their government, the better.
Or more. But most software doesn't get the coverage Google Wave had. We tend not to theorize at length why obviously terrible software fails, we just say 'oh that thing? yeah it sucked' and move on. I'm just making a simple point - Wave wasn't successful because it wasn't very good.
I'm curious as to why he still has a salary from Apple. There must be some technical reason, since surely he doesn't need it.
Interesting Op-Ed, but I think it's criticism is misplaced. Wikileaks in this case is a provider, much like YouTube. Although their intended goal is to bring to light embarrassing and/or immoral actions by governments, they have no contractual obligation to the United States. Holding them accountable for information provided by 3rd parties seems a stretch at best, and if successfully prosecuted, all news media should be wary.

The op-ed's criticism should really be placed on the provider of these documents, and those that decided he could be trusted with a security clearance. He had a contractual agreement with the government, was informed of the consequences of breaking his oath, broke it, and should be prepared for the consequences.

The government knows the best way to prevent future cases like this: prosecute the leaker to the fullest extent they can. If the leaker is executed as a traitor, everyone with clearance during war-time will carefully consider breaking their oaths knowing that it will cost them their lives. Harassing and intimidating publishers will have little to no effect on future leaks, and is probably a waste of the governments time to pursue.
Let's Not Get Too Excited about Early Adopters
#savewave
Cuba maybe in 10 years, Suriname is beautiful country, but there are no programers
FYI, Iceland was some kind of anarchy between 930 and 1262. Which apparently lead to a lot of feuds.

With the introduction of a tax and Christianity, it has apparently lead to a captive market. This captive market unraveled the icelandic system since there is less accountability and inability to switch.
It wouldn't cost billions if it was allowed to be managed by private industry. This is the kind of BS that corporate developers are frustrated by on a daily basis -- painful, but not difficult, drudgery. The crown's position, as the Sauciers recognized, is completely unjustified. Stasis is the easy way out, and just like no one was ever fired for choosing IBM, almost no one was ever fired for leaving good enough alone.

This coming from the guy in charge of a 15,000 seat enterprise migration from MS Office --> OpenOffice.org (and who was in charge last year of a 18,000 seat migration from Exchange/Outlook to Gmail). I have tons of similar war stories... but yet some how we are still able to get shit done.
It looks like it's simply checking to see if CSS is being inlined in responses.

The page source is pretty simple, and it looks like it's doing everything on the client side. A CSS file is being included as the first link in the HEAD, and then JavaScript looks at the URL of the first link to see if it's the same as what it expects.
This looks really impressive. I'm a software guy (Lamp Stack), where would I even begin to learn how to do something like this?
"Occupation doesn't generally happen without bloodshed. Involving oneself in occupation is an investment in bloodshed. The jews who died during the Nazi regime didn't make a choice to involve themselves in bloodshed."

And the people in the documents didn't ask wikileaks to release the names to the world and potentially to their enemies. Bloodshed could be avoided, but wikileaks is willfully looking the other way.

"If I were involved in attempting to use force to extort land or resources, I would assume the risk that my identity would be exposed. This is one reason I don't involve myself in these things."

That's like saying, because you gamble at a casino, it's an accepted risk that you will lose all your money (after we just found out that the casino has been cheating at all of the games).

"That makes two of us, it seems."

There are actual names in the documents released. I'm not going to make your point for you. If you want to continue to look foolish, it's fine by me.
How was PlentyOfFish "early"? According to Wikipedia, it was founded in 2003. Similar sites had been around long before that, e.g. eHarmony (2000) and match.com (1994).
What people want to "save" is Google's backing, proselytization, and continued investment into the project. The demand was never there—because Google never gave Wave a big marketing push, the way they did with, say, Chrome (no Wave TV commercial?) Wave is a new and unadopted protocol, and as such it won't grow organically; it needs a big company to force it down people's throats. People want to "save" the unfulfilled (implicit) promise that Google was going to be that company.
You're right. Calling people who shoot children murderers doesn't make you a supporter of the Taliban.
Collateral Murderer Julian Assange has blood on his hands
google citizens united.
Surely you aren't saying that Apple doesn't know what songs and programs users buy from them or the demographics to target iAds.
Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority
SAT scores and IQ may be correlated, but the fact you can study for the SAT means that it's a weak indicator of 'natural' intelligence.

My friend scored 70 points higher than me on the math section and yet he was totally lost in calculus II and eventually dropped the class (while I consistently scored the highest on tests). His strategy was to try and memorize the answers/procedures rather than understand the principles behind them (which is the name of the game in prepping for the SAT).
It seems that the US police would like to search you at as many locations as possible. In many cases this is not legally possible. However, the German police does not seem to have that attitude, or at least not that extreme. (Remember you are talking to an 18 year old who is not a lawyer.)
I think that the old adage "One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic" is quite applicable here.
I'm downvoting you because you're a bigoted shithead. That's all.
Project criteria is listed as:

Client is a USA IRS 503(c)3 non-profit, school, or church, OR a Canadian CRA registered charity

Solves a problem or satisfies a need for the client

Client desires the project and is supportive

Uses any combination of .NET 4.0, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, or Windows Phone 7

May be a new software solution, or an upgrade to an existing software solution.
It seems that at their scale, Google doesn't bother to (is unable to?) evolve individual products, rather they pivot by launching and killing entire projects.

The same thing happened with Google's 3D world product, Lively, and the following comparison of Lively with IMVU by Eric Ries is pertinent:

"By the time they [Google] actually managed to launch something, they were building the product that we had already discovered was not the right product 100 iterations ago.

"But they launched it with such high fanfare and expectations; they were so convinced they got it right, that it was actually the mismatch between the expectations that Google--one of the most public companies in the world--put behind this product, and then its pathetic results...

"The product wasn't a bad product and it's not like nobody wanted to use it (of course they wanted to use it for stuff that embarrassed Google) but it was the mismatch that really caused them to have to pull it; it was very embarrassing for them...

"Even after they launched they really didn't give it enough time to learn and iterate because they had set the wrong expectations, a classic big-company [inaudible]."

[http://venturehacks.com/articles/lean-startup -- starting at 6:35 in the audio]
Romany life
More specifically, it'd be like the Russians citing a Russian law that allowed them to go in to the US and arrest Marc A. Thiessen.
This is what I'm experiencing. As in application team, I'm supporting a reporting app whose users are CO or D. I have zero access to the production app, to the server, and to the data. Reason given was because of the data sensitivity.
But realistically, the test data comes from production data, so what is the conclusion there?

I'm having hard time to ensure if the data is correctly processed every month, since I have no access at all.

Note: the app was done by other people and was handed over to my team.
Hey, some idea I remembered (from some old paper): don't go from epoll to poll when the ATR gets too high, go to... NOTHING!

Just read() or write(), as if something told you they were ready! Your code has to be able to handle EAGAIN anyway, right? If you're at 1.0 ATR, you're saving the whole cost of poll or epoll!

I'm actually serious here, BTW. It would need some measurement to figure out the threshold at which this is okay, and if it's close enough to 0.6, I'm guessing you could go straight from epoll to nothing, and take the small (potential) performance hit between 0.6 and 0.X.

Hmm, I'm an idiot: this is basically epoll in edge-triggered mode.
They released the code, host your own (I have a friend who does):

http://github.com/ether/pad/tarball/master
You’re confusing Wave and Google Wave. Google killing Google Wave essentially kills Wave as a whole, at this point; we all think Google’s web-client sucked fucking balls, but there’s not much we could do about that. What matters is that Google killing their shitty client, along with their back-end provider, also kills the ecosystem, because it’s so young.
Hasn't http://www.restaurant.com been doing this for a long time?

So, because it's a "daily deal" so that makes it a totally fresh idea?
So if John wants to marry Jane, he can do so easily right in his home state and town, with all his friends and family in attendance, etc. But if John wants to marry James, he's gotta make an expensive and time consuming journey halfway across the fucking country? A journey that's long enough to pretty much guarantee that John and James won't have much chance of having all of their friends and family in attendance at their wedding?

And you think that's fair?
Another example of an anarchistic region: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

Kowloon Walled City was essentially lawless, not set up as an anarchy, but becoming one by chance. Controlled anarchy seems like a strange idea, but maybe that's what we need. Personally, I'm a fan of zenarchy, the belief that perfect anarchy follows general enlightenment. It's both joke and serious theory.
I've never perceived epoll as being O(1), always O(N), the big thing being the N being how many events are dispatched, rather than the number of watched fds.

I'm fine with the amount of time taken scaling linearly with the amount of work to do, I'm not cool with it scaling linearly with the number of flowers in the garden. :-)
Absolutely, it is about discrimination. Gays marriage choices are discriminated against based solely on the gender of their desired spouse. As ridiculous as it is, the law allows a gay woman to marry any man that they want.

However, the law discriminates against polygamous relationships based on the number of people involved and incestuous relationships based solely on who their relatives are.

The argument is, why is discrimination against gender bad, but discrimination against relatives is ok. If two brothers want to get married, why should that relationship be denied by the law?
Ask HN: How to fix a broken software organization?
I currently work at a sales & marketing consulting company that happens to sell desktop software as one of its offerings to clients. The software was tacked onto the company as a response to needs we identified at our clients. Unfortunately, due to the company's consulting DNA, what has eventually resulted is a pretty ugly mishmash of feature explosion, completely inconsistent builds across clients, and a complete lack of product roadmapping. All product management is done by the head developer and one of the company's managing directors, who clearly isn't built to manage a software organization. What's more, the innards of the software are so broken that the developers spend the majority of their time putting out fires rather than pushing the product forward.

Though I am not a developer, I work with this team every day and from what I've seen, there is little in the way of development methodologies, source control is shoddy, and I am completely unaware of any user that is actually happy with the software. As somebody who plays a client facing role, it's pretty discouraging having to deal with unhappy users who are only using the software because their organizations require it.

How does one fix this? There is a push to start building a new version of the software from the ground up to do away with the tangled mess of the current version, but since resources are usually tied up with putting out fires, it's difficult to do. Worse yet, I'm afraid the problem of feature explosion and client builds that bear little resemblance to each other will persist simply because management wants to allow clients to customize as much as they want in order to keep them happy.

Things are very broken and I'm trying to figure out what I can do to start turning things around. Any advice from HN would be greatly appreciated!
When they got the right interfaces, integration and extensions they will re-release it as another tool (It will be another tool then).
How do you 'make it easy'?
Whenever I present an idea to a friend for a site/application, the first statement out of their mouth tends to be 'Make it easy'. What does that mean to you? How do you go about breaking up a complex task into easily consumable components? Likewise, how do you strike a balance between making something easy, and treating your users like idiots.

I'm asking in the context of being able to bootstrap a startup, without the ability to hire a UX person.
At one time, the majority in the US supported discriminating against people based on the color of their skin. Do you that should have been upheld also?!?
I wonder if the team can continue working on an open source implementation in their 20% time.
I found a cofounder on The Cofounder Wishlist Spreadsheet. We decided to meet at a Starbucks in Manhattan and eventually worked on a project. I didn't have anything specific in mind when we met up, just to talk and see what he was working on. We ended up working on a project together. It never went anywhere, but we're still friends and may collaborate in the future.

In terms of events - I find that many "find a cofounder" events are lopsided with 90% "business people" either looking for free labor (i.e. "willing to you pay in equity") or a "CTO". I try to avoid these events.
Any insights into the visa requirements? I've researched this a bit and the information is sparse. I have an LLC based in the US. What does an American need to do if they want to go over there, rent office space, and hire locals. I was under the impression that I needed to invest at least $75,000 in order to be legal.
google wave is dead because of google.

google provided limited accounts and google wave requests was being sold, so the hype got created.

overcommit and underdelivery, 2009 was not 2004, gmail style launch for wave was the first nail in the coffin

though you have your account, your friends dont, you were waiting alone, it was not the realtime communications I expected. what do I do, leave google wave, this has happened with so many people whom I know.
1.5 million is still pretty low for a game of this caliber and fan base. I know this is hearsay but I can't help but think that the previously stated points on their new user-hostile policies hurt sales fairly badly this round.
Knowing is always better than not knowing.
Just wait until you become accustomed to people using the phrases "lake-effect snow" and "humidity index". As a midwesterner for the first half of my life and Chicago native for a decent chunk of that I can say with certainty that Oakland weather beats Chicago weather in just about every possible way. The only thing I actually miss is fall; there is something really pleasant about a Midwestern fall (I suspect it's even nicer in the northeast) with the leaves changing color and falling, the first few brisk days when the scent of burning leaves and fireplaces drifts through the early evening, etc.
I'm part of a research group at UMASS that has close collaborations with MGH and two cancer centers in The Netherlands (where I'm originally from). Concerning the statistical significance you are right, breast tumors are probably having an impact on more families around the world. However, we are trying to develop strategies that work for all cancers so with a bit of luck we will help other patients and families too.

The work we do is financed by multiple sources. I am not too familiar with specific charity organizations since I am not from the United States. I will ask around in the lab(s) what people believe are the best organizations to donate to in you want to help Glioblastoma Multiforme research.
Safari (iPad) too
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How do I find the meaning of these HN prefs so I will know how to set them properly?
Wow, that article had government propaganda written all over it. Now I'm really glad somebody is standing up and exposing some questionable secrets.

America should be a government for the people by the people. I'm sorry, but hiding murders of children is not for the people.
Right on. Myself, I always figured epoll was a bit slower than poll when most/all of the fds are ready all the time, from reading the code.

Now, there's an experiment to figure out what the threshold is, and frankly, it's a bit lower than I had hoped (I would have guessed 0.9, 0.8 at worst), which is exactly why having the actual data is awesome.
Huge? 17% is significant, but not huge.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qp...

People have several options: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and, IE8.

All of these are free, so I think we're almost to the point where people can be nudged off of IE6.
troll much? Nothing, in any of his writing, and certainly not that quote, give any indication of a desire to "impose a marxist system". Sounds kind of like your the ideologue here. I fail to understand how relating the experiences of those who built the country you probably think you value would be such a threat to its survival.
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Colin worked for us on Pedal Brain. The things he talks about were all used in our antenna work. It's based on the work of a rather serious antenna designer who I can't mention by name. I'll only say you use his antenna's multiple times a day.
I have never understood the power of petitions.. no matter how many people add themselves to this petition will that make a difference? Will google change its mind if a 300 odd (or even 3000 or even 30000) people add themselves to this?