skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author assumes that people who write Wikipedia articles do their research after they've decided to write an article, instead of having things to say and then going to make articles or edits.

Also, blogs rarely come about by searching Google for things and then writing them, so most of those links aren't from Google, either.

In fact, the only time that Google is used is when we know part of something, but not enough of it to consider ourselves fluent in the subject. In other words, when we don't know enough to write an article.
Mark Zuckerberg Is The Most Followed User On Google+
I've been meaning to implement this one for some time: http://tutorialzine.com/2011/02/converting-jquery-code-plugi...

It also allows images and degrades to pure select elements if necessary.

It doesn't allow for keyboard navigation (which is nice) but are there other benefits of DropKick that I'm overlooking in my quick glance?

The reason I haven't updated my select elements to these is because there are several cases on my site that a select will appear or disappear when the user engages with other parts of the site and the above code doesn't check for the visible state of the parent element. Any chance that's in your pipeline? I think it would make it more usable for modern sites (But maybe I'm the only one who frequently hides/shows select elements?).

Other than that, I like this. Thanks for putting it out there.
They may have very little functionality, but do it at scale. e.g. even searching tweets (which doesn't seem to work that great...) is a massive undertaking (not astoundingly little) that they're obviously still working at.
Nice, though I'm assuming that Google will provide some sort of vanity URLs like fb did.
Start picking up algorithm knowledge now online. This guy is excellent and entertaining:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpRRUQFbePU&feature=relmfu

I too have had interviews with Google and had questions about big O notation. And questions about sorting during interviews with several other companies.

Not knowing fundamentals like this never helps. Many interviewers will spoon feed it to you, but you're not going to respond to questions with all your mental resources if you're spending all your energy trying to understand the context.

But its not necessary. And it costs nothing other than time to fix it. And it may even be fun.
It didn't work for me, it just redirected me to Google Turkey (http://gplus.to/kenkam --> http://www.google.com.tr/)
why doesn't the claim that there are infinitely many particle arrangements follow from there being infinite non-identical universe pairs?
Google Hot Trends, ideas and opportunities
Why would you do a social network with a focus on privacy and not use those settings? ;)
i think it's worth pointing out the new murmurhash 3 for lookup table hashing, it has gone a long way and is supposed to be _really_ fast: http://code.google.com/p/smhasher/

The author of murmurhash actually based their work on Bob Jenkin's trying to make it speedier, and developed a nice hash test suite.
This is not R. Strom's language for programming distributed systems, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=988333 , which is an interesting language and worth a look.
>phone while I'm on my motorcycle

Probably not a good idea...
Robert Scoble texted Zuck to verify, which he did.

Source: https://twitter.com/#!/Scobleizer/status/87321128783192064 (note: he meant "Google account" specifically in reference to "Google Plus account", verified elsewhere).
A native go bcrypt library
I don't believe those states are popular for forming LLC's. They are popular for incorporating (forming a corporation) in. While some don't realize it, there is a significant difference between the two types of entities.
I think these brand pages tend to ultimately destroy the simple experience of interacting with other human beings which services like Google+ are built around. To be honest I'm pretty happy that things don't seem to be going that way, something I talked about on my site in a recent article (http://frog.io/blog/google-plus).
Am I the only one tired of so many Google+ entries hitting HN's front page?
Seriously, enough is enough.
Basically replicate the carry process in the form of bit ops:

def inc(n):
x = 1
while n & 1 == 1:
n = n >> 1
x = x << 1
n = n | 1
while not x == 1:
x = x >> 1
n = n << 1
return n
Why Snack Food Is Addictive: The Grand Unified Theory of Snack Appeal
I emailed a major technology retailer about this when they sent me my password in plaintext. This is the response I got (I pointed out that she made my point for me, but I didn't get another reply)...

Dear XXXXXX

Thank you for your email dated xx/xx/2011. I apologise for the delay in my response.

The only way that people can get your password is to hack into our system or your emails. It has to be sent in plain text for you to know what your password is.

I hope this helps.

Kind Regards

Xxxxx
KNOWHOW Customer Support
Dixons.co.uk
Show HN: iOS Theme for jQuery Mobile
Demystifying the VC term sheet: Redemption rights
Don't code? What else don't you do?
Probably not. But it's new, it's big, and it hasn't even been a week since its release. It'll die down eventually.

It's only on the front page because the community likes talking about it.
I'd imagine it would be much easier to remember "business hours in NYC are between 1200 and 2030 UTC," than remembering the time difference and applying a translation every time.
Automated content tagging of any kind contradicts to core idea of social communication. It's actually step back to AltaVista times.

What G+ needs is one simple checkbox - exclude circle/person from common Stream. That's it.

PS. And #hashtags -- miss them badly in G+.
Given his history and employment, I'd say he isn't. I suspect it's less about him dropping Dropbox than him letting everyone KNOW he dropped Dropbox.
This is armchair architect thinking. Sure, coding to the interface makes scaling easier, it also makes maintenance, testing and everything else easier: it's just a good idea. But the devil is in the details. When you have to scale like Twitter you are getting into the territory where you have to do a lot of legwork just to figure out how to scale a particular interface. Performance and consistency issues start to gnaw away at the ideal interface you carefully designed back when you were 20k users and 10 reqs/s.
Ask HN: $800/mo room in female hacker(ish) house
We're looking for a 4th housemate for a nice 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom house in Mountain View.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- ONE person
- Female (preferred)
- Non-smoker
- No pets
- Super clean
- Friendly
- OK with the lease dates (start August 1, 2011 and finish July 31, 2012)

ABOUT US
- Three women in our early 20's working for well-known tech companies (e.g., Google, Facebook)
- We recently finished undergrad at well-known universities
- One of us is a cheesy pop song writer, another is an aspiring startup entrepreneur & tech nerd, and another is an adventurous baker

ABOUT THE HOUSE
- Address: near Telford Ave, Mountain View
-- 1.5 mile/6-min drive to Google HQ
-- 3.1 mile/7-min drive to Mountain View Caltrain
-- 1.1 mile/4-min drive to Costco
-- 3.3 mile/7-min drive to Castro St.
- Lease: August 1, 2011 - July 30, 2012
- Rent: $800/mo for 1 bedroom (not including utilities, gardening fee, and possible expense of hiring common housekeeper)
- 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom house
- Big living room, open kitchen
- We can give you access to a video we recorded of the house after you email us

ABOUT OUR LIVING COMMUNITY
- Gay-friendly
- Hacker- and nerd-friendly
- Clean
- Respectful
- Not a big party place

If you or anyone you know might be interested, please email mountainviewhouse@gmail.com with info about yourself.

Thanks!
I can't actually edit the post because its been too long. Just got the link, took over 3 hours and its an almost 100MB zip file (compare that to the ~50kb of actual data that I was interested in exporting).

The actual stuff has none of the stuff that I would actually want to export (my friends email addresses and phone numbers are not included), the photos aren't the originals that I uploaded (which I would actually like since I lost some of the higher resolution copies) and absolutely nothing is in a format that would be useful for using the data in another website. That is the entire point of data liberation; this is just allowing you to store facebook so you can view it without an internet connection. That is not at all what Google's data liberation or Yahoo!s export features do; they actually give you the information you want in a format that would allow you to use it with one of their competitors.

I hope that this post didn't sound too negative, Facebook is really a quality website in general and it's probably a great place to work, but the export feature is pretty clearly intentionally set up in a way that would make it impossible to use in any meaningful way. It is only very marginally different than doing a file > save page as in your browser. It's actually the perfect example of how opposed Facebook is to what Google is pushing when it talks about data liberation.
Why is that surprising? What's wrong about following thousands of people?
Can anyone type 150WPM on a non-touch screen phone?
Ask PG: Why not to introduce #hashtags on HN?
gplus.to seems to have nothing to do with Google, other than someone set up a g+-specific url shortener.
This article doesn't really bring anything new to the table - folks have been using this setup for a long time. They could at least talk about how they're managing deployment and scaling under high loads (manual? automated?), or how they're splitting the DB requests between the master and the slave under Rails.
In case you didn't know, that link does work for some people. (Me, for instance. I ended up at your profile.)

It might be a regional thing. Or they might have fixed a bug.
Amazon Buys U.K. Online Bookseller
Time without a time zone is not meaningless. I don't need my calendar to be aware of when in the day the other side of the phone call is happening. I just want to enter "Dinner at 8pm" and have dinner stay at 8pm. This is one situation where I do not want my computer to get unnecessarily smarter than me. Just DWIM.
gandi.net and dnsimple.com
Half the HN front page, as of this writing, is Google links.
Cyber Kool Tour: FOX News Twitter Account Hacked
You are of course correct, this was a horrible idea!
> The image auto-upload is a really spiffy feature, but I feel a little creeped out about it, even if it does upload everything to a private Picasa album and I need to act to make images public.

It's pretty nice when people try to get you to remove some pictures (e.g. it's useful for some protesters), since as soon as you get a picture it's on the cloud.
This was announced by Google here: http://www.google.com/support/wave/bin/answer.py?answer=1083...
They still do this??? I was a previous MT customer and I was blown away that they asked me what my password was over the phone. Shortly after, they upgraded their support system with temporary PINs and I've never been asked again.
Gandi also have excellent free DNS hosting services. With an excellent control panel including grouping and raw BIND config.
and they're quietly collecting people's google id's.
In addition to the Neo4j REST server, you can also connect to Neo4j through Rexster (http://neo4j-user-list.438527.n3.nabble.com/Neo-Rexster-bein...), an open-source REST server optimized for recommendations and paging (binary bindings are also in the works).

Rexster is part of the TinkerPop stack (http://www.tinkerpop.com/). TinkerPop is a developer group founded by Marko Rodriguez and Peter Neubauer, and Peter is also a founder and the COO of Neo4j.

Here's the basic Rexster API (https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster/wiki/Basic-REST-API). In addition, Rexster has tight integration with Gremlin (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki), the graph query language, which also came out of the TinkerPop group.

Gremlin makes traversals easy and allows you to do stuff like calculate PageRank in 2 lines. Here's a short screencast that will give you a flavor for what you can do with Gremlin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wpTtEBK4-E_).

There is a Python persistence framework in the works called Bulbs that connects to Neo4j through Rexster, and there is also a Web toolkit called Bulbflow (http://bulbflow.com) that is based on Bulbs and Flask. Both are due to be released next week.

If you are interested in the emerging graph landscape, I encourage you to join the discussions going on in the Gremlin User group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gremlin-users) -- it's not just for Gremlin stuff (anything graph-related goes).
This reads like it's from 4/1 not 7/4.

Reading the article wastes enough of the reader's time to pay for many GB of 'waste data'.

Apply Gilderian logic: some things are so cheap it makes sense to 'waste' them to save on what's really valuable (user or programmer attention).
Maybe he's just that, a great guy speaking his mind.
I can't bring myself to honestly post "+1", but my vanity URL does the same thing sadly.
I'm not sure it follows that reading the password down the phone is a bad idea ... unless you are calling because you have forgotten it!

My bank has a separate passphrase that I have to use on the phone and I call them rarely enough that remembering it is always a challenge. Asking for my mother's maiden name can hardly be considered secret anymore, and remembering the answers to other security questions is a pain: what did I claim was my favourite movie a year ago?

If I've called them I don't really have a problem reading my password to them. If I don't trust the call center staff I can always change it afterwards.
Clickable: http://jamielottering.github.com/DropKick/
shouldn't the question be why, not why not?
I had the opportunity about two years ago. I was on the Google campus for an event for the open source CMS that work on. The HR folks were very friendly and I enjoyed the time that I spent with them. At Google I'd have had some of the brightest coworkers anywhere, and that was pretty tempting. In my time at the GooglePlex I also got to experience the ample perks of working there. I realized that these were probably the best benefits I could get if I chose to work for another company.

Still, it took me less than a split second to decide. As a founder and a location-independent entrepreneur the loss of freedom and self-determination were unthinkable. With my current setup, I can jump a flight to anywhere I want, for as long as I want without having to ask permission from anyone. Likewise, my income and share of the profits I produce are determined by me alone. I wouldn't trade that for anything.

I'm actually tremendously thankful for the opportunity that I had at Google because, as potentially the world's best place to be an employee, they helped crystalize for me the realization that I am in exactly the right place.
Google IDs are not private information.
There's an Australian economist called "Steve Keen", who uses mathematics (stuff like dynamic PDEs, not the crap econometricians use) to model this kind of stuff.

It is probably worth noting that he's been predicting the Australian Property Bubble to pop any time for quite a while.

He already had to walk to Mt. Kosciuszko (highest mountain in Australia, like 2000m or so) because he had lost a bet on a housing prices to another economist, but all his predictions still point out that house price bubble pops any day (I'm subscribed to his blog and I admire the way he uses mathematics btw).
"More importantly Syria is known to have stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons, especially mustard and nerve gas."
Therefore, we would conclude that having biological and chemical weapons is a viable defence strategy against US/NATO invasion or subversion.

Who knows: if Iraq actually did have some WMD, perhaps Hussein could still rune.
You're claiming you prefer a game distribution system with DRM to a game with no DRM applied. Do you see the flawed comparison here? First you compare the distribution system to the game itself. Then you don't take into account what a game could be distributed like...

So lets give this a try: To buy a specific game on steam, I have to 1) get steam 2) find the game I knew I wanted to buy 3) pay for it 4) download it. When I bought World of Goo, I did exactly the same steps, apart from the first one - but I got more out of it - I got a link for the binaries AND I can use them anywhere I want or keep them around in whatever way I want.

Why would you prefer to get less in more steps? Of course, many companies seem to try to make this process as painful as possible. That's not an argument for DRM though, but against stupid ways of distribution.
The link works for me too.
I'd suggest putting yourself in a different context for a while. Go live a foreign country for a year. Get a summer job on a construction site. Do a bike tour across a continent. Spend a winter as a ski-bum. Spend a summer fighting forest fires or planting trees. Join a soccer team. Take up skydiving. Dive deep into the local club scene. The idea is to put yourself in an unfamiliar and preferably uncomfortable situation for long enough that you learn to deal with them. In the process you'll learn a lot about yourself.
Hopeful startup founder seeks your advice, where do I find a co-founder?
I could really use some advice. I made a huge mistake, I thought I could start a startup without some kind of advisor, network of people I could turn to for help; or even a co-founder.

It certainly isn't too late. There isn't even a product out, but I simply have to much to do at once, with too little help or support.

Point blank, I need a co-founder or two.

There really isn't anyone in my life right now who would be in this with me, for the long run. Friends, family, and colleagues are totally behind me and think I can come up with a viable business.

I think I would be far more successful if I just had a co-founder. So my question is, where and how do I find one?
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whoa! I think this may be the first request for a pony on HN.
My wife and I just discussed this solution, less than a minute before seeing this, with walk signals in the winter while wearing gloves. We found a problem: what if you get stuck? A cold, runny nose is almost as bad as a tongue (yet another solution).
Where does the abject slaying of Distribute IT fit into this heady idealism?
The fact that he claims to be into politics and then goes on to say that the arrest of Julian Assange was absurd speak volumes to me.

Assange was arrested due to rape charges and then refused to show up for preliminary hearings. But maybe Sabu's stuck in a filterbubble.
"Defend freedom" Are you serious? America does not attack Libya to defend freedom; is bussines: is for stability. The lack of it is extremly harmful for all the american corporations in the middle east (Those about oil... and other few natural resources)
Having a single e-mail address as a contact point is a great start, but you need more to solve the problem of fragmented communication, since customers inevitably end up having conversations directly with individuals in the company (and often prefer to, since they then know they're dealing with a real person).

> A better solution might be to automatically save incoming email to the company CRM and also append outgoing messages to the appropriate contact. That way, no-one has to remember to add records. The next step would be to expose that information directly in the email client so employees don't have to go hunting for info (if they can even be bothered).

We've been working on http://noosbox.com/ to solve exactly this problem. It integrates directly into GMail (on Google Apps) or outlook to allow you to save conversations against a specific contact.
I've been using Finagle over the last couple of weeks to build a small little side-project. It's been almost a religious experience for me. This is how network programming should be done.
My first 13 questions about Google+
Hover customer here. Please don't do this again.
The Java IP Story
I believe those who actively use hashtags on Twitter know what they are for -- it's amazingly useful feature that helps find exactly what you're interested in in seconds. Not only because of search itself, but because of collectively produced and commonly agreed hashtag names. As HN becomes more and more populated and signal/noise ratio goes down, hashtags would help HN readers not to lose important posts and replies. Exactly the same way as it works with Twitter now.
I can't update my site (shared hosting) from 3.1.4 to 2.3 because it requires PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0. Hope the Wordpress team keeps releasing updates for the 3.1.x branch.
Gandi is super awesome ! One quick thing though: since last year they have a US subsidiary (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandi), which might or might not make them more susceptible to US law.
FTA: "When Picard and el Kaliouby were calibrating their prototype, they were surprised to find that the average person only managed to interpret, correctly, 54 per cent of Baron-Cohen's expressions on real, non-acted faces. This suggested to them that most people - not just those with autism - could use some help sensing the mood of people they are talking to. "People are just not that good at it," says Picard. The software, by contrast, correctly identifies 64 per cent of the expressions."

I kind of wonder how they did this testing. Much of the information we get about a person's mood is from what context there is (far more than comes from what's on their faces). There are people who cry out of joy, but if I saw a picture of one of these people, I'm sure it would look like sadness to me.

Further, I don't like the sound of a future where people stop talking to other people because a light starts blinking.

However, for the purposes of autism research and development, this is good. Better than good - this is excellent. I really hope there will be more research in this area, for the purpose of helping those who can't communicate well. (I suppose that contradicts what I said above. Perhaps there is a particular scale on which to rank necessity of aid in communication?)
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I hope all my down-voters understood the venue I referred to was New Scientist, not HN.
This is a case of Japanese industry sadly living up to its stereotypes regarding secrecy and regard for 'face' over lives.
Turning staff into startups | TechStartHub
It's been like that all week. Say what you want about g+, being that consistently on HN is remarkable.
the concept is very good.
You can just search ... no # in front of Google still leaves you with "Google".
He made a small donation to Diaspora, he didn't "invest" in it.
Very true. But most of us aren't making Twitter. :-)
It's definitely not just you. As a customer, I get quite annoyed when a screenshot tries to explain how the game works, as it becomes confusing which parts of the graphic are the game itself and which are not.
I agree. I roll my eyes every time I see an add telling me to "Like Colgate toothpaste on Facebook!", as if that were something that anyone would want to do.
Following people implies at least a very basic interest in what they have to say. You can't follow more than a few hundred people and still keep track of what they're saying (and that's with a low average post count). If you're following thousands you're either a bot or just racking up numbers in which case the follow relationship is totally meaningless.
Only at the mecca of social-awkwardness (MIT) could something like this be developed.

Kidding aside, MIT never ceases to amaze. Boston's most valuable resource by a mile, IMHO.
I'm sure my neighbor, who's blind, would appreciate piezo buttons. I had to help her deduce why her screen reader would "die" on her Dell laptop periodically. It turns out that it has capacitive buttons for Mute/Volume, and the only feedback from them is an LED. She would occasionally brush her fingers over the buttons and end up inadvertently muting the laptop.