skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"At this point, I really do feel like Google Apps account are second-class citizens in the Google world."

Whaaaaat? Getting blocked all the time and having to sign in to the domain administration stuff, find the service you're trying to use and then allow it and then wait for the change to update is AWESOME class, not second class!
things have changed though.
Can I get this in an SMD package?
Agreed in this case, it's probably a want. I wasn't suggesting this person paid $500 - the post I replied to was asking what this sort of procedure might cost, and I was replying in the general sense.

Interesting to think how many tintypes may be out there still, and what can really be done with them. Even just using the camera and strobe like he did, without the hours of touchup work, seems to do quite a lot of good. Perhaps that's a cheaper service people could offer over the 'scanner' solution.
I have received it! Thank you so much! I still have to wait though..

Already invited? We've temporarily exceeded our capacity. Please try again soon.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the idea of an internship about learning, not about producing? If your producing for the company something they are selling (or creating net value), don't you have to get paid? I mean, people here are talking about actually working on projects the company is earning money for. That's not an internship.

Am I clueless, or are other people just ignorant?
Per historical data (one link here: http://www.deptofnumbers.com/blog/2010/08/tax-revenue-as-a-f... ), the US income from taxes hovers between 15% - 20% GDP. This holds with wildly varying tax policies.
This is how most Lisp compilers work. Gambit, Stalin, Chicken they all use C as the intermediate language. Currently this works on my MacBook, beagleboard and any avr microcontroller with enough ram and flash memory. If I were to use machine code I would have to output 3 completely different instructions sets.
Thank you for the explanation!

I took the time to read the official report on Rybka Investigation and Summary of Findings for the ICGA http://www.chessvibes.com/plaatjes/rybkaevidence/RybkaInvest...

For those interested in the issue, I recommend you read the report, as well.

Some real heavies weight in on the issue including Ken Thompson. All are in agreement that early versions of Rybka show disturbing similarities to Crafty and then Fruit(this is when the big jump in rating performance was made).

Rajlich has continued to claim that his code is all original which is highly doubtful.

To me the real damning evidence was by Hyatt, which showed that the early version of Rybka has whole bunch of useless code from Crafty, which Hyatt had used:

"Summary: Pre-Rybka 1.6.1 contains much identical code to Crafty, even including large
blocks of code with obsolete code inside them, and code that performs tests that make
no sense today (code that was left in Crafty by accident, by Robert Hyatt, also shows
up in Rybka 1.6.1)."

Off course, most of the code must be gone by the later versions, but it is seriously in such a bad taste to be so disrespectful to other programmers.
Right, Circles only solves the sharing problem. Diaspora has a much larger ambition. Federation allows for communication between instances that are owned and operated by different people, but it also preserves your privacy better. Google wants all your data. However, you can install Diaspora on a home computer so absolutely no one gets your data except what you share.
Google+ is coming to late to a party
that started years ago

That maybe so, but the party was well underway when Facebook arrived.

I'm also not sure what problem Facebook (or social networks) solve, that email, your IM account and your phone with its contacts list do not.

Where I live most Internet users are also users of Yahoo's IM. I've been reading the status messages of my friends, interacted with them, getting back in touch and all that - for years before Facebook became popular. Yahoo's IM is still the most popular form of communication between my friends, although all of them are also on Facebook.

My current IM account is 11 years old, my mobile phone number 10 years old, my email account is newer since I migrated to my own domain and my name is searchable on Google -- every one of my acquaintances I ever had know how to get in touch with me and do so.

And that's Facebook's flaw; Facebook was once cool, now it is getting more popular because it is popular; but a good communication medium it ain't
I work in academia. In academia, we pay crap, especially to the people at the bottom of the totem pole.

But even we pay our summer interns.
Our Regulatory Czar: Better Than Bush Isn't Good Enough
> Your product manager has just asked for screenshots of the developer’s build. The developer is busy and can’t get them to you until tomorrow. What do you do?! As of this writing, Android has no built-in way to take screenshots

Of all the little things that hurt the Android Market, this lack of screenshot taking is probably one that Google engineers did not realize would be so big.

How do we expect bloggers and normal people to write about and share an app they like if they don't have an easy way to take screenshots like iOS' Power + Home?
Like any social network, the more (time & posts) you put in, the more you get out of it.

I don't think I'm alone when I say my aptitude for social networking is burnt out and way passed the "love" stage. It makes it hard to go into this site with a fresh mind to discover any of it's cool nooks and crannies that separate it from Facebook.

That being said I think there's still room for invention in the space. I was quite pleased and excited with turntable.fm (and now that I can use it in Canada again I am excited again). Maybe I'll end up using the "hangout" feature.

tl;dr don't really need another means to ignore my long-lost highschool friend's all-important status updates
Got my invite, they still have a limited capacity though, so I will have to wait. Thanks!
Google's Driverless Cars Are Now Legal In Nevada
But interns aren't producing anything (if they are, it's not an internship). The idea is they are learning. If they are producing things the company then uses to sell, they should get paid. But I've seen interns that literally follow around, take notes, ask questions.

So, why should someone be paid for not contributing to the bottom line?
Even if he joined, he would likely use a different name.
Or, if it's important, go to stack but make a record of what it was... Then try to do the same thing without looking a weekend down the line .. sometimes things can't wait!
hole.Google+-shaped = circle
Get Google+ Invitation.
Unfortunately, Google disabled Invitation option (for now) after the Invite-fest on Lifehacker. Apparently a user found an alternative to this, sharing posts with accountless users (with a gmail account) will receive an email with an invitation option.

WAIT, DON'T POST YOUR EMAIL JUST YET!

I'll be sending invitations (with the above method) to any user who emails (check my profile for my email address) me with his/her email. Other users who're already invited to Google+ are requested to follow the same.

Upvote this post if you received an invitation.

Edit: It will take 10-30 minutes for your account to be included in the access list, till then you'll receive this message - "Already invited - capacity overload blah blah message, try later".

Edit2: If you are unable to get an invite message in the email, apparently you haven't created your google profile. It looks like that you need a google profile to get it working. Please re-send me your email after creating your profile.

This is no con for spamming and google hasn't fixed the loophole (yet). http://i.imm.io/6YFW.png

Just so if you're confused with the time, it is GMT +5:30

Edit3: If this still doesn't work, apparently you need to wait till the next day when google re-enables the invite button. Re-send me your email then.

Edit4: I'm going to sleep, will reply to PMs when I'm back online.
Might fail, might succeed...only time will tell! It isn't a Wave 2 that no one will understand, but still have rough edges, bugs, no API (no integration with apps besides official one), nothing major that could make ppl move from Facebook, might be hard for casual user (think your father and mother) to get a Google Profile as Hotmail users...etc!
The timing for this Django deployment script couldn't have been better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2700120.

I was going to look into deployment scripts for App Engine, but Amazon makes it more compelling to use AWS.
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The Chinese government didn't block Google in general, that would cause too much chaos. They interference/degradation all Google services instead, especially https.

The experience may vary basic on where you located and which ISP is. According to some of my frineds, it's very slow when they access to https://plus.google.com directly, make it unusable for real.
Intriguing idea--can you tell us a bit more about the story behind it?
toyota4lyfe@gmail.com thanks!
Rails Hosting review: Rackspace
60% is the something like the global average.
You're right, it's a pretty damn non-ideal list. Another problem is that some of the "books" are vast. I really have to read the whole goddamn Bible plus the complete works of William Shakespeare?

But that's okay. My goal isn't to read one hundred books I'll really like, it's to complete an arbitrary set of tasks. If all of the books are enjoyable then there's no sense of achievement when I get to the end. I figure that whatever happens, I'll know a lot more when I finish than when I started. (Do you know what "Timon of Athens" is like? I sure as hell don't...)
I agree, turntable is really fun in a way that pandora is not, and the music selection is better (pandora keeps playing repeats for me and blending songs from one channel into the other channels).

I think it will be a hit.

However, I was logged in last night at 11pm CT. There was plenty to listen to, plenty of rooms to hang out in, but if you counted up the number of users in each room and summed them, it was clear that not that many people were actually online listening. I wonder if that indicates the app is not that sticky.
There is no point in having more than one account and honestly for a two men business even having google apps may not make too much sense.

I moved away from google apps myself and went back to a regular gmail account; I can still separate work and personal stuff using labels, collections and whatnot and I have access to all the new goodies as they come out.
Have you considered LLVM?
Can't be that much. Maybe $200 tops, it isn't as difficult as it is time consuming.
Can you elaborate on this? Not disputing your point, but it would be nice if someone could jump in with some real world numbers or a rule of thumb.
Interestingly, the old Google Profiles did do this, my URL was https://profiles.google.com/corin.c.cole

I would imagine it will come to plus some time in the near future.
http://openstreetmap.org would probably also be interested in sharing address data.

Have you thought about generating the coarser data (country, county, city) from the location when possible? Or would having a half-filled form be confusing for users?
Tasks that simple don't provide them any experience and we're back to paying them for work done.

Complicated tasks need guidance and take time. But they're great for experience.

It's not even that they're really hard tasks, but that there are so many little details to software develop that everyone treats like common sense, but it's not... Until you have experience.
Fantastic point.

I don't think enough people understand that Keynes doens't work if you are running a massive deficit all the time. In good times you _need_ to be solvent so that in bad times, extra gov't spending will actually have an effect.

The US is not able to implement Keynesian policies b/c we borrow and spend constantly.
I'm definitely in that 23% - I don't know if I even wait 3 seconds, if it's not a site I'm familiar with. Usually if I click a link, and some content doesn't appear within 1 second, I click something else.

More, when I'm frustrated and things load slowly, I curse and gripe. Considering I share a suite with others and I'm usually on Ventrilo or Skype, someone usually hears me. I've actually heard people I've complained to say "that site is really slow" in conversation when the site came up, even though I doubt they've actually been to it.

I know it's a little irrational, but it's habit.
Without a minimum wage, the number of consumers for any good beyond basic food, clothing and shelter products would be drastically cut.

Unlikely. Very few employees in the US make exactly the minimum wage, which is why it's true that minor increases have close to no effect.

There are massive lobbying efforts by big business every time the minimum wage issue comes up for debate

True, for example WalMart lobbies in favor of minimum wage increases. Out of concern for low-income workers, or to raise business costs for their competitors? Hmm...
Wouldn't you do the same thing?
Yeah, I said that it especially helps if the language utilises a different paradigm. It is the important thing, actually.
Nokia to shift 800 staff to Accenture
I never thought about doing email marketing, since it sounds a lot like "unsolicited email" that I hate to receive. When is it interesting to use, and beneficial to both sides?
A nation-wide sales tax would be hazardous because it requires Congress to be involved in the restructuring. These are the same people responsible for the Internal Revenue Code and even after 90 years of experience, the Code fails to meet any normal standards for a simple, efficient, and effective tax on income.
Gotcha - makes sense. Could be fun to go into anonymous mode, or something of the sort. If you want to drive true identities just make each overlap a public declaration (you have to tweet to add) or something like that. Always tricky where to place your barrier to participation ;)
There's a pretty big difference between "joined" and "switched". This title is ridiculous.
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Lovely thought, but not true.

The internet are changing rapidly, a breaking news may spread to the world in minutes. The government seeing the power shift. They want's everything in control, they are watching you. They want to make sure they can censor/delete/block/FUD when things out of there control.

They can not control Google, so they degradation it.
They probably turned it off for privacy. If you found an old Google profile URL, then you also knew the email address at Gmail, which would render Gmail useless for people who value their privacy.

Ideally, they need to offer the option to have a URL that is different from the Gmail address.
The Swedes are just ahead of the curve.

They crashed in the 90's:

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

Then they reformed and recovered.
I went like this CPP -> Java -> Haskell -> Python -> Ruby -> Coffeescript and elisp somewhere inbetween.

I learned a lot about languages but there are many of my friends who know just PHP or Java and who are much more productive day to day than me.

My advice to someone would be to pick one language an learn it really well so you can do pretty much anything in it. Do Code Katas, make stuff all the time. When you're bored, dick around with other languages like Haskell or some of the Lisps(try to do SICP exercises).

But be productive in at least one language.

Check out some of Corey Haines's videos on practice to understand better what I mean.
There's a great book that came out recently, Intern Nation, it's the first exposé on this issue that I'm aware of. It is fantastic, totally engaging, covers all of the many aspects of the internship problem and its genesis.
Google+ is likely built with GWT, which requires more effort than say Rails to get nice URLs. My guess is that nice URLs are in the pipeline, but they weren't an initial priority.
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I'd love one: zkanfer@gmail.com
He looks worried on his profile picture.
Catch a Predator' Host Caught Cheating: PERVERTED-JUSTICE
In FF4, the "launch fast" part of your title is almost completely hidden. What happened, only had 6 days to make it? ;-)
Google+ Circles: Groups, Filters, and Stream Bubbles
Why stream bubbles using Google+ Circles would be cool.
LivingSocial moving ahead with $1 billion IPO
I tried it out last night with a couple of friends. It certainly works fine, quality is good and all. And it was easy enough (aside from installing the plugin for the first time).

The Youtube sharing is an interesting idea, though it very quickly degenerated to rickrolls and nyancats.

Though it's called "hangout" that shows potential for other uses as well - if they could integrate something like shared desktop viewing it would definitely be killer.

I don't really have enough experience with skype video chat to say if this is as good or better, but it does seem promising.
One way or another he's on Google+ scoping it out and sizing up the competition; hypothesizing the social war that is about to come.
Startups Without Financial Projections are Doomed
I got the invitation but can't accept it becoz of the age limit. And there is no way i can change the birthdate on gmail. Google should fix it.
But in terms of code it's very easy to change the system so that it lets users pick their URL - the question is more whether Google will decide to do it, and the fact that they used vanity URLs in the old profiles suggests they may well.
Onkyo latest to pay Microsoft royalties over android tablets
Could you send a invite at alexandrurusuro@gmail.com ?
martingordon@gmail.com, Thanks!
Thanks! Sounds great mdorvill@gmail.com
I've started questioning their importance. For some apps it's really difficult to get them done and the impact is not that great because people are mostly traversing link trees nowadays and most times simply use google to get somewhere... Twitter shortens even nice urls, so why bother?
Ask HN: When do down arrows appear on comments?
I was under the impression it was 200 points, but I see now it isn't. Any ideas?
In case its a case of not 'getting' bitmap editing... You might consider a vector editor - like Illustrator or Inkscape. Works more like a programmer's mind; where you need to tweak elements and can always go back. Photoshop doesn't always give you that flexibility.

There are also tutorials on-line on doing buttons and such for inkscape/illustrator.
Live feed of the BTC Economy
This live feed pulls from sources across the web to show everything you can buy in the BTC Economy
Ribbons and tags in web design
Trends can be born so silently and subtly that we seldom notice them.And when you survey hundreds of websites, you often see patterns that you would otherwise miss. One such pattern is the frequent use of tags and ribbons.These small flourishes have become increasingly popular. This article addresses the two elements because they are used together so frequently.
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I would definitely be interested in something like this. Most apps sync with either some proprietary cloud or at best Dropbox. Universal as Dropbox is, I just don't trust it.

An even better solution would be to sync all my devices over ssh. In that sense, I already have a private "cloud".
I don't actually know that much about Bosslab, but it's in Sprout, a hackerspace/science collective/"that weird garage behind the dentist's office" in Somerville, MA, USA. This being Thursday, tonight is project night, so if you're in the area and interested in this kind of hackery, stop by.

I don't know if there will be any BOSS stuff going on tonight, but there's usually someone working on something interesting.

http://thesprouts.org
I think I have heard it was 500 some time ago. I have checked at the FAQ and it says "There are no down arrows on submissions. They only appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold." so it's not clearly stated.
A layman's analysis: What’s up with this Wave Disk engine?
Well.... the EU is sort of, kind of, like that. The treaty of Maastricht, EU regulations superseding national regulations, it's all supposed bring rich north western European style government to the poorer more chaotic south and east parts of Europe.

<sarcasm>And it's working out great!</sarcasm>
In my honest opinion, you won't find any such useful information. I've seen horribly design sites convert extremely well and visually appealing sites convert extremely well. Design principles can be broken down into so many broad tangents beyond visual looks that it gets ridiculous. While there are some books that touch on various stuff, in my honest opinion, the best way to learn UX is to really just try various stuff until you understand the basic underlying principles that meet your specific site needs.
Can any Swedes confirm/deny this summary of the pension plan:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2000/06/pension-ref...

"Partial privatization. Workers can invest 2.5 percentage points of the 18.5 percent of their income that they must set aside for retirement. Soon workers will be able to choose the pension fund into which the funds will go."

Any talk of even partial privatization in the US gets the old folks quite worked up. Political scare tactics and such. Plus a healthy (and not unwarranted) distrust of Wall Street that would love to get it's filthy paws on _even more_ retirement money.
He probably wants to explore the competition...
I didn't have games in mind, really. I am not developing one.

I would suggest Apple could do a better job of keeping up to date with more recent OpenGL specifications. In fact, I am suggesting it.
PyLadies Meetups Expanding to Seattle, Sydney and Wellington
These aren't comparable. One is an investment in the person that pays off over time, the other isn't.

Yes, an employee takes just as long to get up to speed as an intern, but hopefully that investment is paid off by years of work afterwards.

For a two or three month internship, you might spend half their time in getting them up to speed. And for that, you get the same amount of work (best case), then they are gone.

Yes, internships can be a great way of recruiting, probably the reason most companies do them at all, but saying that the upramp is comparable to normal FTEs is ignoring the fact that they aren't long term.
What would be the benefit? It would be just something else to deal with and cause attention in the press.
elijah.charles@gmail.com thanks!
This thing is really slow. Plus, I got this JS error, don't ask me how: http://imgur.com/bdDvZ
You need to set up profile switching.
Don't forget that you have to deal with existing messages, which may be longer than 140, and may be truncated in your new views/layouts, making history unpredictable.

Don't forget that you're going to want to add attribution to the SMS, so you really have less than 140 characters.

Oh, and don't forget that you are going to drastically decrease the value of a percentage of your reviews, which would have previously been long, detailed, and useful.

The complexity of any modern day advanced system makes even these tiny changes balloon. The worst part isn't even the expanded work, it's the inability to predict how long all the ripples will take to fix.

The subtle bugs that got introduced by a "tiny cosmetic change" are more easily fixed in a web environment, but become pretty devastating when you have a slower release cycle, or someone gating your releases (like Apple).
Sweden's main industries are: telecommunications equipment, wood pulp and paper products, motor vehicles, pharmaceutical products, iron and steel.

And ABBA. (I'm only half joking the royalties on their music equal quite a few Volvos.)