skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Google do allow an opt-out and follows what AT consider outdated methods of data protection. Doesn't seem that AT is the same.
What's missing in these cases is context

I agree that they need context and a bunch of other stuff, which I suppose is why this is Welton's law of trite business advice!
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On a side note, why has no serious competitor to Skype appeared? Given the maturity of the tech involved (its just VOIP) and the size of the pie, i'd have thought there would be more competition for a slice.
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There are companies that say "we don't track or store your information" and then there are companies that write five page long privacy policies that link to other privacy policies and so on.
From Introduction to Databases and MySQL:

Such keys make it possible to relate the tables to one another, so we can, for example, find the customer information given a key value in the order table. A foreign key is a key used to link two tables together. Typically you take the primary key field from one table (customer) and insert it into the other table (order) where it becomes a foreign key (it remains a primary key in the original (customer) table). This type of structure is called a relational database: we have multiple tables that connect to one another via keys.

It's really jarring to see such wrongness published under the banner of "Google Code University." I've come to terms with the fact that in the minds of most web/MySQL programmers the term "relational database" means graph/network database. But I still don't expect to see it published by the denizens of a top engineering firm that hires only the best and brightest.
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Network effects, mostly. Pretty much everyone in the market has already got Skype, and it works well enough to make switching a greater pain than keeping on using it. And it's entirely unworkable to convince friends, colleagues and clients to all switch over.
The fact that the next lowest bid was $4.5b lower (assuming all these facts are true) doesn't mean they overpaid by that much.

Firstly, if that was as far as Google were willing to go, and MS didn't go higher, Skype might not have been happy selling for that low, and might not have sold to anyone.

Secondly, depending on how the bidding worked, is it not possible that Google knew what MS had offered, and thought "we would have been willing to pay 7.5, but if they've offered 8.5 we won't bother bidding again"?
> "Your online banking site is much more sophisticated."
> A bank would usually use two-factor authentication, where you've not just got a password.

Your bank is secure because they keep their network patched and do secure coding, not because they use 2 factor authentication. PSN would get hacked even if they were using 234 factor authentication.
This problem started in the 80s, if not earlier. The original MIT "hacker" definition morphed into a definition used by the medial and the public to refer to the cyber criminals of the time. And along with this evolution in the definition came people lamenting the change and railing against the media.

Flash forward three decades and hackers are still using a term to mean one thing while the media and the public are still firmly entrenched in the cyber criminal definition.

Now, which definition was in use by the media when Hacker News was born?
very interesting.
Is there a way to find the company names and addresses?
So here we are, halfway through the posts, when we realize that we're each using a different definition of "Asian"!
The article, and even the sources, seems to get the issues backwards, when arguing that the availability of the PSN vs. an online banking site makes it more vulnerable, and then goes on to talk about authentication measures.

If your password is "pwnd" on PSN, you expect no sympathy if your account is compromised, also it very likely matters quite little (also, you can very rarely read your credit card details back from a compromised account). No so for your bank account, so the bank enforces obnoxious security on you.

But this isn't what happened, this attack didn't go through the front end. PSN could have required fingerprints on every login, and they would have been no more safe for it.
> its just VOIP

Strength in brand. Most common-folk users have no idea what voip is. You can't compete with Skype by just doing a voip client - if that were true then you would see Google Talk, Facetime etc. eating into Skype market share, and not Skype growing 30% per quarter.

For many people, Skype is online communication and messaging. It has become a verb and one of the most recognizable online brands alongside Google, Facebook etc.
> even if they were using 234 factor authentication

Probably not, but mostly because nobody would be using them then, so there'd be no data to steal :)
Bear in mind that Blizzard provides more robust authentication services than most banks.
"it may be an inspiration to VOIP entrepreneurs everywhere to think big and create new services that can someday be as big or bigger than Skype. And that's a good thing."

That's a darn good thing. There have been a few comments in the various discussions here about VoIP increasingly being a commodity, and the fact that Skype has some, but not devoutly loyal, brand value. Having it valued at $8.5Bn could incent some other start-ups with great ideas to enter this space.

I know there are plenty of choices out there. This may breathe some fiscal energy into the market to help a few (some of which may not exist yet) to stand out as greater alternatives.
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Peers in a bittorrent swarm advertise which pieces of a file they have, it is very easy to see which IP addresses in a swarm have 100% of the data (and thus have downloaded the complete files).

Proving that a particular person downloaded those files is an exercise left to the reader ;)
Plenty of competitors have emerged but they all have gotten strong-arm tactics from Skype, whether we're talking about the Nimbuzz fiasco or Skype blocking fring, or Skype buying Qik, no competitor has been able to make it easy for customers to make a switch. Qik came the closest (unlikely the others, they didn't need Skype integration due to their deal with Sprint) so Skype just bought them.
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4-day working weeks. If you can't do it in 4 days, you probably can't do it in 5 days either. In other words, the expectation that you can do great work without working 80-hour weeks.

Flexibility and trust in working hours. If I want to work from 6pm to 4am, let me. (See above)
Cloud9 looks really neat, but does anyone else think $49 / month for an editor is way to expensive?

I mean, ostensibly you can accomplish the same thing using vim + screen.
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Hmmm... I would definitely be happy to pay somebody a few bucks to perform a reasonable independent valuation. I mean, seriously, whats 500K compared to 8.5 billion?
its only not happening because there is no better cross platform client. all competitors so far offer less or have more constraints, if skype is not the best offering anymore people will switch.
This is a problem, too many unqualified tech journalist working for notable newspaper, writing in ignorance about technology and tech culture. And these newspaper don't hire a tech editor to fact check, the fact being (old news) Sony ran unpatched/obsolete Apache with a notorious security flaw.
I'm curious to see what Microsoft will do with the more or less unmaintained Linux version of Skype.
I haven't met in the flesh anyone who uses it regularly, and I know a lot of iPhone 4 owners. I'm sure there are people who do. It would be interesting to get some real data. My impression is, as with every video chat service for 30 years, it has very limited use because people just don't want to video chat most of the time.
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Does it still not have cross platform video support?
This is where I must have picked up the habit of always limiting my varchars to 8,000 chars. I'm in the habit of always using text for anything larger and I couldn't remember why.
the browser plugin is platform independent, or is there a cross platform client that supports audio/video reliably?
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Their attitude can be summed up as "it's on the internet, it's ours to take". Ok, oversimplified, but that's the essence, no?

So, dear archiveteam, please remember that when I put a server on the internet, it's a voluntary and public service, and putting 'Disallow:' lines in the robots.txt means that I set some rules. It's just rude to ignore those rules, whatever you motivations are.

You have no right to access my content, just as you have no right to walk into my house. If I invite you, please behave.
A problem is that "hacker" is a good, short word. Descriptive competing phrases like "cyber criminal" are clumsy by comparison, and "cracker" is just equally good and short.

At least the French, by refusing to use English words, have found a much more interesting phrase for it: pirate informatique

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/medical_general/...
Hold on - did Ebay just score a win with this?
I hate to think what my anxiety levels would be with a legitimately stressful job.

I love hacking, but consulting is another matter.
Good point, thanks. But one of the biggest factors in favor of Skype is still its free audio conferencing capability. Google Voice does not have this, unfortunately, and I wonder why.
Plus I kind of enjoyed the round about way he explained it.
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The analogies here always end up all over the map, but the walking-into-a-house one seems pretty off. The service is set up for anonymous public access, run by an automated process designed to service requests, and faces a public thoroughfare. If we have to make IRL analogies, that sounds closer to a vending machine or other kiosk on the side of a road. In that case, you probably wouldn't have much faith in whether people will follow any instructions you tape to the machine.
There's already a discussion on this here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2530963
Really only 8 million paying users? That sounds very low... given it is the only online company other than adwords with my credit card details.
I see this as a good thing. Currently Skype is used in my workplace, and poorly at that. Mostly because the contact information isn't in sync with Outlook accounts. This could probably be alleviated with some sort of process, but no one has taken the reigns on that. So if this syncs up nicely with the Microsoft programs I'm forced to use everyday, it'll just make things that much easier.
Oh lord, does this mean fb is going to own skype data? Just no escaping the claws of Zuckerberg.
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The most valuable asset of Skype is not the technology, but the social network and user base. That however is not all that valuable since, unlike Facebook, Skype is mostly a 1:1 communications model easily moved to another network. When people want to communicate, they will use whatever is easiest. Skype has minimal and diminishing revenue potential, adds nothing to MS core products, and the social network is not all that sticky. It's a dumb buy by a dumb company. I haven't heard a positive word said about Microsoft product management by an employee in 3 years of time spent in Seattle.
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Google already has Google Talk / Google Voice, with which you can do text-messaging, SMS, one-to-one video, and cheap international calls, available on Android and iPhone. It also integrates nicely with the rest of the Google Apps for Business.

The only problems I'm seeing is that Google has problems in getting past the US borders with Google Voice, and Google Talk lacks multi-user video-conferencing (which Skype has, but it isn't free of charge). Available clients also suck badly.

If Microsoft fucks up (which I'm pretty sure they will), Google wins more than Apple.

Also, for Skype to "succeed" on WP7, assuming this means excluding everyone else (as that would actually mean something), doesn't WP7 have to succeed first?
What will be interesting now is the question of if Microsoft will work with Facebook on Skype, or use it as a platform to compete with Facebook.

I recall reading a few articles on Facebook exploring a partnership with Skype - it certainly would be in Microsoft's best interests to harness Facebook's social graph through Skype. If Facebook decides to roll out its own Skype competitor, that would cause some serious dent to Microsoft's pocket.
Bababababababa... WHO CARES? Why not brand it Android Full and just add a couple of features?

Wtf do I want to spend time learning another operating system for, when I know it is just another skin on linux? I like android; I use it all day on my mini-computer galaxy s.
It doesn't just have to check the length of that one field - it needs to check that the whole row wouldn't pass the per-row length limit even if the field itself doesn't.

[N]VARCHAR(MAX) columns can lead to greater page tearing and other performance issues over time if their value is changed between a size that would fit in-row and a size that won't too - so as well as the hit on INSERT/UPDATE performance there may be a (less significant) hit on read performance over time too, on top of the slight hit from simply needing to check where the data is and go find another page if it isn't in-row.

For the most part [N]VARCHAR(MAX) should be used as a more efficient (and far more convenient) replacement for [N]TEXT.

It should only be used as a replacement for [N]VARCHAR(<something>) when the data in the column may need to break the ~4000 characters mark (for NVARCHAR, the limit is ~8000 characters in the case of VARCHAR) or when the total bytes for a row will.
> it could help strengthen the corporate MS position

People are going to continue to buy Word, Windows, and Exchange because they have a commodity video product "integrated"? I don't think so.
I have to wonder if this article is incorrect - what part of the problem can't be solved using services already offered by the cell phone? Is a new chip really required and, if so, what will it do to costs, and what unwanted services might be included on this mandatory chip?
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This question has been visited before, quite awhile ago. I was just wondering what people are using nowadays. For your personal computer and also for your work systems.
Please stop trying to make the web into print.

What is wrong with having some print-like layout abilities? It certainly makes documents more cross-platform as I no longer need to give a blog and PDF version of the same article. I love the idea that I could just call up my local printer and say, "print off 3000 of http://myblog.com/article/1 on glossy." To me, it seems that they are lobbying their interests but doing so in an open forum, asking for input and at the same time playing nice. They're putting PDF and Flash on the line in proposing this, let's remember. Isn't this what everyone wants from Adobe? Am I missing something? Furthermore, print is recognizable by all, young or old. It's not like I believe Adobe isn't tactical, but maybe they are trying to shift their interests in the right direction.
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And from what I understand, audio programming typically involves fairly heavy mathematics (also on the list).
"they won't sponsor without a speaking slot"
8.8M that made a transaction in that quarter, which if you project forward with the current numbers would equate to 5.8% of active users making a payment

not bad in terms of a freemium conversion rate and I think some of it can be explained with:

* credits now have a longer expiry date, so you can bulk purchase and hoard credit

* US and Canada calling became free

* negative network effect of more people using skype = less people that you require the dialout feature to reach
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Yes - me too - especially when everybody in the finance & insurance world calls us all 'IT' regardless of occupation.
Quotes from the Hagakure are hands down amongst the most mis-interpreted quotes, very often because they are being presented completely out of context and of course due to the very different cultural background and times they were written in.

For example:

Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall there was this one: "Matters of great concern should be treated lightly." Master lttei commented, "Matters of small concern should be treated seriously." Among one's affairs there should not be more than two or three matters of what one could call great concern. If these are deliberated upon during ordinary times, they can be understood. Thinking about things previously and then handling them lightly when the time comes is what this is all about.

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It's interesting that in that list, "software engineer" has a very good "hiring outlook rank" (5 of 200) whereas "computer programmer" has a relatively poor one (168 of 200).
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A major PR firm is actually starting a campaign against Google. Might want to buy futures in tin foil :) http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2011-05-06-google_n.htm
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Yes, sorry. I guess the filter didn't catch it because I linked to the print URL. Do I delete this as submitter or will someone from HN do that?
I would like to add a few more pointers to that list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Nhat_Hanh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness-based_stress_reduct...
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I know that there are semantic differences between "Software Engineer" and "Computer Programmer", but they seem really insignificant to me. I'm curious how they differentiate the two. How does HN differentiate them?

I've always just thought of "Software Engineer" as someone who takes their profession more seriously, but it is more of a self-applied label than anything else.
Contrary to popular belief, the English language has no official single governing body.

Nor did I claim that it did; linguistics is a descriptive science, not a prescriptive one. It describes the way people use the language. I've never seen English with umlauts, outside of a few heavy metal bands [1]. The link you provided would seem to agree with me, showing the non-accented spelling outnumbering this one by some 500:1.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Metal_umlaut
Maybe MS can clean up Skypes habit of puching big holes in your network security - it's one reason why it's banned here..
Only problem is Sococo is designed for closed groups, and it has no video -- it's hardly a Skype competitor in functionality. Besides for group chat and conference calls and Campfire does it better for less money and without having to download anything -- it's elegantly Rails and works from anywhere on any device. I'm sure Microsoft will find a way to break Skype like it breaks everything else!
I have accounts on Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger since their early days but my use of both of these services has diminished over last couple of years. I have observed the same attitude among my friends and family, all of them still have those accounts but they are active users of other services. I hope skype doesn't end up like Hotmail, windows live messenger.
He doesn't seem to be aware that there's a difference between storage engines when he says that "mysql" stores varchars in-row, when that's really MyISAM. MyISAM is now considered obsolete and you shouldn't be using it anyway. Innodb treats large varchars exactly like text/blob columns.
some googling came up with these links:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27516/whats-the-differenc...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer
Looks good. I'm glad to see folks/companies getting together themselves to do this stuff (especially since Drink Tank went dormant).
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Unless you're a customer of theirs why would you expect an answer to that?
If they don't mention their methodologies than it's safe to say there isn't much science going on here, just an exercise in getting traffic and links.
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How many people REALLY use video chat though? I mean more than once a year. Even among techies and businesspeople, video chat rarely seems to have an advantage over regular voice chat.
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Don't think so, as Microsoft makes great Bing apps for iOS and Android.
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MSN had one killer feature for me over ICQ. Server-side friend lists. When my PC was replaced - my MSN list was there. My ICQ had to be re-added.
My CR-48 dev build is coming together nicely. Many of the rough edges have been buffed out(File Manager/SD Cards, SSH issues).

Its been my main driver here since I've received it and the only things that don't work are CPU intensive things like Flash/JS or HD video. But the SD stuff looks just fine and runs well. SSH doesn't handle dropped connections gracefully and the SSH is(was?) 8bit colors and I wish it was higher.

Regardless of those issues I love the simplicity of it and the utility(battery life is outstanding) and the quickness of it(open the lid and go). With a simple ssh terminal I can do all of my coding.
How does one count users? I previously used a Skype account, but now I share a Skype phone with my girlfriend and her account. I'd guess there are plenty of families with one Skype account.