skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad that this sample is available, there were always the rumors about another big PR firm 'Edelman' hired for this sort of thing, the subject isn't always privacy they are also beating the antitrust drum, Google spokesman in DC called it then an 'Anti-Google industry complex'.
"This video is not available", are they not live yet, or is it geo blocked? :\
Here's the help page that might provide some extra information: http://www.google.com/support/music/
Since he's too polite to, I'm just going to step in before this thread embarrasses us any further and say it's none of our business.
Go and Google App Engine [Official Go Blog]
The official blog post: http://blog.golang.org/2011/05/go-and-google-app-engine.html

And Hacker News thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2533000
It's live right now (the keynote is going). I don't know if they're geo blocking or not.
Here's a YouTube demo (I don't know if it's US-only): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrNhKcxBbZo

And here's a screenshot of the page: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12299925/About%20Music%20Beta%20by%2...
And a whois on the domain narrows it down to one :)
Help us do some customer development? About your photos?
Which is kind of funny, comparing GOOG's privacy with Facebook's privacy.
We're doing some customer development, so we'd love for you to help us out :)
You'd imagine someone would do this sooner or later. My skills are horribly rusty, but they might be worth brushing off. Lots of people did it for their ham licenses and it's certainly faster then t9, possibly qwerty-on-touchscreen. Especially with two-switch repeating ones (i.e. one button does dot dot dot dot.. one does dash dash dash... at a set speed).
Viddler Architecture - 7 Million Embeds A Day And 1500 Req/Sec Peak
The counterpoint is basically, did you see what happened with the global financial crisis and valuations?
Please note that IT career is a Bell Curve.
Very true. Reminds me of the concept of "churnalism" outlined in Nick Davies' book Flat Earth News [1].

Thanks for the link. Am now off to read that essay.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Davies#Critical_reaction_o...
Same here. This happen so often that I might consider renting a VPS in the US to use it as a proxy. I found some at $5/mo with 250GB/mo for bandwidth, I even think it's enough to share and pay only $2.5/mo...
In Europe, not working here either.
Norvig's Law
Not really, because when I go to FaceBook(a social network website) I have a totally different expectation of privacy compared to when i go to Gmail.
I would have thought Google had learned their lesson about doing limited roll-outs: that artificially limiting the network effect kills your product. What worked for GMail hasn't worked anywhere else.
You can do "language" without all of those pesky symbols as well but it makes it hella hard to tell other people 100 years down the line what you were on about.
Perl in the Google App Engine (update: false alarm)
Instead of waiting for http://code.google.com/p/perl-appengine/

just add

Google App Engine for Go
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2525221

with

Campher: Perl embedded in Go (github.com)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532809
Works for me (Poland) here: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers
Furthermore, he didn't just adapt the build scripts. The game files are not mounted from a discreet disk image, he made a hack to get them available from the DOSBox internal Z: drive (which isn't actually a disk image but the interface to internal functions).
Why you should play a sport if you are an entrepreneur
It seems like the affected countries are:

- Germany
- France
- Sweden

I'm in Germany, and frustrated because I can't watch it.
Microsoft acquires Skype for $8.5 billion
I think the author has the "grass is greener on the other side" mentality. Guess what? Those white kids who slacked off at high school, and didn't care about getting the A+? Those kids also have issues in life - instead of wondering why they overachieved, they're wondering what the heck to do with their life, and why they didn't focus on their future in school.
buggy as fuck in Opera.
Google Music page goes live, hurry up and request an invitation right now
Can't happen, at least in the US, for patent reasons.
clickable:

http://code.google.com/p/perl-appengine/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2525221

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532809
I usually relax after I did something relevant in the day, doesn't matter if it's in the first hours of work. At this point, the feeling of "mission complete" makes me loose focus and use the following hours to do non work related stuff.

On the other hand, I feel bad when I did many small things during the whole day but could not complete many of them. After the day is finished, it's hard to point what I did and the day does not seem to worth when this happens.
My favorite side-effect of releasing this is that now there's a dead simple way for people to try Go. Just unzip the SDK and point the dev appserver at your code. No manual compilation necessary. No need to build the tool chain. Yay!
From the screenshot, it looks even less useful than Amazon's player.

You have to upload all of your own music yourself, which would take forever for anyone who has a collection big enough that they can't carry on their phone or ipod. Also, there is absolutely no conceivable benefit to musicians. At least amazon allows you to easily buy albums.

There doesn't appear to be any useful additional functionality either. Social interaction, concert ticket listings, artist info, last.fm tag data, lyrics and all the other things I'd want from a google music service don't look like they're going to be available.
Anything involving government is very low pressure.

I am a consultant, and I have a financial client where everything is an emergency and a government client where nothing is an emergency.
Seemed to do nothing but the opposite when they rolled out gmail.
I'm really no expert on this matter either, but i've been following Robert T Kiyosaki on this matter, and have been doing my own reading, and from what i understand should we hit another depression like economic scenario, precious metals will indeed have plenty of intrinsic value.

The author of the article gives the example of his father losing money on the coins bought. I suspect (with respect) that his father's timing was off, but the strategy was probably correct.

There are many conspiracy theories that also float around, some believable, some not so, but if there is some truth to them, then the reason for abandoning the gold standard has more to do with control of the masses as opposed to counter-inflationary reasons.

As i said. This is just my understanding, and im certainly no expert on this matter by any means. Im stocking up on a little bit of silver anyhow. If anyone wants to see the YouTube video by Kiyosaki that got me inspired, let me know, i'll post it here.
3Crowd launches "build your own CDN"
Android Movies (US only)
I've been enjoying using Go as a C replacement when I need more performance than Python, but don't actually need to use C. It's been fine for that purpose. I would note that they do keep changing the syntax on a fairly regular basis, the libraries are still young, and I do find the language oddly unexpressive in places compared to even C++ with boost. (E.g., no ternary operator, no list comprehensions, using the same word for all loop variants, and so on.) That said, if you're using it as a C replacement, rather than a Python replacement, I think those are fine trade-offs.
I would love to see a brail version so that I can make my content sites more accessible.
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
At my past couple of companies, we've tracked any births to the core eng team in the build system: you can go to the top of the build tree and type "make babies" to see who was born and when.
Yeah, I'm in Sweden. Not working. :(
Not a great example because I think at least 50% of people would do what your friends did. Like others mentioned, it depends which law he broke but chances are it brought up to question this person's sense of responsibility, integrity and whether this is someone that could be trusted. These are foundations for any business relationship (let alone the distractions that come with someone who has problems with the law).

Perhaps the only saving grace for this person is if they were responsible for a notorious but awesome hack job that only few people (read: no script kiddies) could do.
Not really, Orrick has a startup legal package where they give you a bunch of legal guidance, advice and documents as well as get you incorporated etc.

Typically, its $10,000 or more in legal help. They dont require you to pay them unless you raise at least $500K in funding -- if you crash and burn before hand and your startup falls apart - they do not ask for any payment.

This happened with me in the past - and I would further recommend their services to anyone.
Thanks and I did.
In fact, just remove words. Keep removing words:

This is great advice for all resumes because of the TL;DR problem. Professional resume builders, recruiters, and HR people have all told me the same thing - every single word should be there for a reason. Remember that the person reading your resume is likely reading 10s or 100s of them. If they see a wall of text they will just move on.

You also hit on another point, be specific. For example, I would like to see your shortened version of ArcObjects in a quick points at the top of the resume and then very specific support in following descriptions.

To the OP, so what if you used ArcObjects daily for 3 years, explain exactly what you did with that tech. If you can, use specific numbers (users and dollars tend to jump out).
Renting movies at $3.99 from Android Market? No, thanks
Google just announced that they will have movies for rental at the Android store, (new ones for $3.99) once you start viewing you have 24 hours to watch it (maximum of thirty days to keep the rental).

They have some really new movies ("King's Speech, Inception*, etc) that Netflix does not have available for streaming yet, but they only have 5000 titles. Also, same movies can be watched free with an Amazon Prime membership.
Just worry about dealing with it tomorrow.
Sorry about that. I wanted to test the concept as if the service exists right now.
Real-time Hacker News Radio Program now Live on VoKnow for Web & Mobile.
I'm watching now here: http://live.twit.tv/
Google AppEngine now supports Go language
Looks like they're finally putting the Simplify Media technology to use. That was my favorite app on iPhone and I used it at work constantly too.
Since the title doesn't say, this is:

PayPal API's Up and Running.

by Michael Balderas
You can also paste in "ex" mode.

ESC

Q --> to go to "ex" mode

i --> to start inserting

paste text here

. --> line containing a single period to exit "ex" insert mode

:vi --> to return to "vi" mode

...golfer, moi?
I had to read the README on github to figure this out; not discoverable enough. A cue could be displayed on hover at least.

The WPM slider should be at the bottom of the page beside the text box.

Nice hack!
In writing for beginners the author should just say something truthy like: "A relational database is a database where all data is stored in values of an algebraic data type called a 'relation'. SQL uses the word 'table' instead of 'relation', but the two words mean roughly the same thing."

What you've written here is worse, for the simple reason it is now semantically wrong instead of just syntactically wrong in the use of the word relational.

As an example, all relational databases that the average reader can be expected to have heard of use bags(multisets) instead of sets, so they in fact don't store data in relations.

Language gets polluted over time. Trying to force a technically correct but obsolete meaning is not helpful to anyone.
Fair enough -- there's no real need to know whether your friends were being unreasonable, or you were, only that it was enough to cause a huge rift.
You know, one of the reason that notations differ is because that's useful. The symbol \times might mean cross product or direct product of groups, or cartesian product. Why? Because these operations are conceptually similar --- they all involve making a multiplicatively larger thing from smaller things. Using the same symbol for different things might be polymorphism, not conflict.
My argument would be that GMail didn't need network effects since it was just email and you could easily use GMail while your friends still used whatever they used to use. Contrast to Wave where limited invites kept your friends from using it which kept you from using it.
Unfortunately, this use of the word relation, while I agree correct, has fallen out of favour, I think because it is confusingly similar to relationship, and because table is used everywhere instead (except academia.)

I'm not sure I understand what you mean about pointers though. I'd agree that if you have literal memory pointers, then you have an object database or a graph/network database. But entries in a relation based on values of candidate keys of another relation (that is, foreign keys) fit exactly within the relational algebra (natural join).

I don't see how information hiding in OO is analogous to not calling a database relational.
gmail was a product that was superior to anything any one had used before. If they were rolling out gmail today (assuming current gmail exists and is owned by another company) it would not work.
The Class That Built Apps, and Fortunes
About Music Beta by Google
Sure. Speak French without learning French. Or maybe learn French by reading a picture book. I sympathize with the author because there is a great deal of room for improvement in the language of math, which may let us model the world on a computer much more easily.

One example: Using Robinson infinitesimals allows you very easily to write code for forward mode exact differentiation (not symbolic, not approximate). But justifying these simplifications is hard. The question is how much math can be simplified by analogous means without wrecking the foundations.

Another example: Many really useful systems have to deal with uncertainty. I have yet to see a system that allows programmers to easily build such models. I have seen some nice ideas probability monads, Bayesian networks, etc. But how many non-specialists are prepared to use such tools? Happy to have HNers prove me wrong on this one.
Ask HN: what is Chrome Native Client good for?
This is a bit of a protest since I got all excited about doing some WebGL goodness with native client, but then realised that whilst 3D is the very first thing on the features list, it isn't actually supported any time soon:

"Run native code modules that render 2D and 3D graphics"
http://code.google.com/chrome/nativeclient/

Later on they even say "This capability enables demanding applications such as console-quality games" ... oh they rub salt in the wound!

So maybe you can all dive in and find things that are computationally too heavy for JS but are not 3D and not serverside?
What Ever Happened to Start-up Nation?
These are some good advices, and they're not limited to VC. In the academic domain researchers and professors also have a lots of email to deal with, maybe not as much but we also have to consider that reading email is even less their job than a VC (and they have enough freakin administrative tasks that take on their working time). As a matter of fact, I've always had quicker (and often better) responses when I wrote email that more or less follow the rules described in the linked post, for instance when looking for an internship, or requesting a specific paper.
This learning by copying are what made JavaScript, PHP, and Perl so popular.
Mobile computing brings out the organized, profit-driven cybercriminal
Note: music.google.cn is available in China for years now.
The "about" page is also slightly more interesting: http://music.google.com/about/
Reminds me of an old Steampunk Workshop build that taps out RSS feeds on an actual telegraph. http://steampunkworkshop.com/telegraph.shtml
Is College Necessary?: An Argument from the Inside Out
My general feeling is that Go is kind of like a lighter Java. Go is compiled, but also optimized for fast compile times, and it should be faster than python. However, from wikipedia: "Of features found in C++ or Java, Go does not include type inheritance, generic programming, assertions, method overloading, or pointer arithmetic."

Ken Thompson is a co-creator, and the language came from Google. I think Google is just showing that they stand behind their language, and it does seem to hit a sweet spot for a lot of web apps. Although, I don't know too many web apps that need better performance than python.
He doesn't know what it's like to be a tiger cub because he says straight forwardly that he's never been one. His opinions are based on research and observation and I say there's more to the story because his research is incomplete and he needs to pay a visit to West Coast Asian Americans. We're quite different that the people he's been talking to.
Thanks! Working.
Why Microsoft Is Buying Skype For $8.5 Billion
Phrases like "Don't worry" and "Trust us" would cause me to walk away immediately.
Well, Gmail was also, you know, useful. Limited availability and invites worked because you were using this useful thing no one else had, and telling them about it made them want it, and then you held the keys to let them in. It lended itself to that kind of natural organic yet viral growth.
In other news, Google fanboy is caught pointing fingers on people disliking Google.
Can you explain very briefly what it does? The only part I can read is "Music streaming/download services are not available in your region"

Is it the same product they're rolling out in the US?
Math is not at all the manipulation of symbols though. That is one of many tools that is useful in doing math, but it is not the only one. The famous proof that there are an infinite number of prime numbers is normally expressed in plain English (or your language of choice) without a symbol in sight, for one example.

Math, fundamentally, is about abstract concepts, not symbols.
it's all about you you you and not about the potential employer.

This is great advice. Every piece of software I've written for my current employers carries some dollar value either in cost savings, revenue growth, or employee productivity gains. While some are not always easy to quantify, I do my best to come up with numbers and make sure they are on my resume.
The look and feel somehow looks inconsistent with other google products
I used to think the same thing. I'm glad I woke up.

It has nothing to do with the money, and everything to do with who you're working with. You can have bad client/coworkers/boss at $12/hour and fantastic clients/coworkers/boss at $150. For all the people reading this that are in a stressful position. You can find a less stressful job AND make more money.

Let me repeat that. You can find a less stressful job AND make more money.

So if you hate your job, start looking for new work now. You'll wonder why it took you so long.
Low pressure and also you have to sacrifice a goat just to actually GET anything to do. Went stir crazy.
http://music.google.com/about to request an invitation, U.S. users only at the current time. The Google Music app ("Music") is available on the Android Market for all U.S. users, will work with music already on the phone even if you don't have an invite to the cloud service yet.
Here's my entry:

http://threadit.kaizenrails.com/discussions/691

I'm experimenting with redesigning thread layout to focus on context and making it easier to follow and comprehend a complicated thread.

It's not as ambitious as other ideas out there, but I feel this is a improvement over what we have currently.
The loan clause is tucked away under FAQs instead of next to the 20k amount on homepage. How convenient... pickup that bat timmy.. hit him square on his head... :)
Anyone know how it works?

EDIT: It appears to only work on the Motorola Xoom or in Google Chrome. Is this what everyone else is seeing?
Motivating the child within and being real with it
vs the full roll out that was Google Buzz? Limited roll outs are common for Betas. Had Buzz been a limited roll out they would have recognized its faults much earlier and there would have been less privacy issues.
Requires Flash; no Linux manager available.
Pretty easy nowadays. The traditional way is the GmbH, which required you to have a capital of 25k Euros. Now as we're in the EU, you could register your company everywhere and lots of countries provided you with easier access to limited liability. As an answer to this, there's a beginner's version, the "UG", where the lower limit of starting capital is 1 Euro and unless you have more than three founders, there are form letters that make the legalities very easy.
basically it allows you seach and listen to almost any music for free, with one click.
How to Land a Job at an Awesome Startup
"Unknown or expired link."
Can somebody please explain why this happens? I'm pretty sure there is solid reason behind it, but it just evades me. Why expire?
Microsoft perhaps overpaid for Skype, which is reminiscent of something that happened in the past.

Google wanted to acquire a 2.5%-5% stake in Facebook at a $10 billion valuation in 2006 or 2007 (forgot), but Microsoft came in for a 1.6% stake at a $15 billion valuation. It seems like Microsoft is always competing with Google to acquire a company (or a share of it), and as a result it ends up paying significantly above what Google offers.

In the end, the Facebook investment worked out for them but I'm not sure if it was the best decision at the time.

Perhaps Microsoft can do something with Skype.
I've wondered what impact Zynga has on artificially boosting Facebook's active user count.

Zynga's games provide an incentive to operate multiple accounts, and counts about 200m active users, so if only 5% of those users were each running multiple accounts (say 5 extra), that's around 50m dupe accounts. (I figure thats an over-estimation though)

Not to mention the other reasons people create dupe Facebook accounts
I personally think this is a good thing. I think Google does a great job of getting utility out of their UX, and while this doesn't really do more than the utility of streaming music for the realm of competitors that it is venturing up against I think the more "non-google" it looks, the better. (Disclaimer: I have not used the android music marketplace, which I think might be closest to this area of design for Google of stuff they already had live).
This is yet another investor that doesn't understand the historical role of gold as a store of wealth, trying to explain why he hasn't participated in the last 10 years of price appreciation (or currency depreciation).

The simple fact of the matter is that global currencies are being printed at an alarming rate, and that money printing has a direct and powerful effect on the price of gold. When you ask "are we in a gold bubble?" you should be asking what the fundamental reasons are that gold has increased in value so much over the last 10 years. If gold has increased in value because our currency is worth less, then what leads you to believe that it will suddenly lose value? Is our currency suddenly going to increase in value significantly? Does the government or federal reserve have any plan to stop printing money? Would the government want to take money out of circulation when the economic recovery is shaky at best?

The price of gold reacts very strongly to money printing. For this reason, every investor should have some gold in their portfolio. Even if you only have 5, 10, or 20%, because gold reacts so strongly to inflationary pressures, it can carry your portfolio in times of inflation or financial crisis.
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