skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know no company has ever tracked down dissidents and imprisoned them. I'm not saying that you should exactly trust Facebook, but I think it is disingenuous to imply that you have just as much to fear from a crooked company as you do from a crooked government.
Despite the flippant title, this seems like a very good idea.

I believe that positive feedback of this kind is the sort of thing that allows wonderful sites such as stackoverflow to exist.

The competition itself seems accessory, though. The real interesting bit is that Wikipedia is essentially adding its own "like" or "+1" button. I hope it keeps the term "love" button, even if it does seem out of place (at first!) for stuffy old Wikipedia.

Now that I think about it, maybe this will begin a push to have Wikipedia seen as less of a stuffy old place filled with angry pedants and more of a "community garden" of knowledge. Not that I'm advocating less editorial integrity, its just that Wikipedia really needs more measures to lessen the perceived hostility (once you get inside the place), so this seems like a little start towards that end and a big plus to me.
That's not the point. Your friend made a decision to share their private data with you using Facebook, knowing that it was Facebook that would be holding the sensitive data. You are talking about sharing that data with other organisations, which your friend has no control over. The point isn't whether or not you trust those organisations, it's whether it's abusing the privilege of having access to your friend's data to spread that data around where they don't control it any more. I think doing so is, at best, a betrayal of confidence.

(Edit: And in answer to your other question, about which organisations I personally can trust, we have fairly strict laws in my country about privacy and data protection, which limit what any of these companies may legally do and give me various rights with regard to any personally identifiable data anyone holds about me. I don't think those laws go far enough, but IMHO they're certainly better than the free-for-all you seem to want. So I can have some confidence in how my data will be handled by any company operating in our jurisdiction, which immediately makes me more likely to trust them than US-based companies like Facebook and Google whose business models fundamentally rely on undermining privacy in ways that are rarely going to be in the interests of the exposed.)
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I'll rephrase using his words. He wrote: "Namely, I have found for six times the sum of this series to be equal to the square of the perimeter of a circle whose diameter is 1."

The reason he uses π is due to his choice of diameter. Had he looked at the unit circle instead with a radius of 1, he would have written: "Namely, I have found for twenty-four times the sum of this series to be equal to the square of the perimeter of a circle whose radius is 1."

Again, the proof is the same, but he chose to use a unit diameter rather than radius. This is exactly equivalent to saying π=C/D instead of τ=C/r.
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...to paraphrase Einstein, if they were right, even one person would be enough. But true, it needs "change", because it is seeding just more trouble.

btw Slavoj Žižek argues, that capitalism cannot handle imaginary property, and actually this dichotomy is strong enough to take it down eventually down the road.
Has anyone put forward a better theory as to "Why Only One in Four Teens is Employed"?
Here's a working link to the videos:
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This is total and utter nonsense. And totally and utterly opinion.

people always learn faster when they're younger

Do they? And even if they do, so what? They don't teach about laws or the internet at school. So they're not actually learning anything about it.

I'd listen to Bruce Schneier or Linus Torvalds any day over Mark Zuckerberg. Who was it who came up with 'Javascript: The good parts'. Was it a young 20 year old programmer maybe? No. A 35 year old who was 18 when it came out? No.

Your example of Buffet is disingenuous, he chooses to stay away from it because he's not learnt about it, not that he can't.
It was an editorial, clearly marked in the Opinion section. It's little better than a blog. You'd hope they'd have some editorial oversight, but after the WSJ was purchased by Rupert Murdoch I don't really have any such illusions. Editorial integrity is not something that Murdoch aspires to or holds in high regard.
>Again, the proof is the same, but he chose to use a unit diameter rather than radius. This is exactly equivalent to saying π=C/D instead of τ=C/r.

So it does not make it more clear? This contradicts your original assertion.
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Senators should not be picked based on their technological competence, nor their competence in any particular area of policy: they should be picked on their ability to exercise sound judgement in the best interests of their constituents.

Technological competence is a prerequisite for exercising sound judgment in the best interests of this particular constituent. Further, why can't we elect separate representatives for separate tasks? Technology policy seems to take a back seat to big copyright since the vast majority of people don't realize how widespread the effects of bad tech policy can be. Having separate representatives for each category of law would allow, for example, the tech representative to be fully focused on technology issues.
> Well, you either serialise/deserialise your data structure
> to make it memory relative

Yes, aka "fix up all the pointers".

> or you could use mmap()

That doesn't help: the objects in the DOM are already allocated on the heap. You just want to hold on to them and then drop those references at some point. Writing a pointer to a heap object to disk, even via mmaped memory areas, isn't going to really work well.

And you can't just drop the objects from the heap because they may have references from elsewhere to them.
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I've a vague recollection of using some limited subset of regular expressions in maybe about year 1999-2000? However, I have a very bad memory and could be confusing with some specialist tech databases I used to access.

Before I adopted Google I used Teoma, AllTheWeb, Magellan/Excite and probably some others so it was possibly one of them? Anyone recall such a thing?

Edit: Looks like http://www.searchlores.org/main.htm#exalead (Exalead, private beta) is doing regular expression search.
I second the question on how you define the "best" book.
I agree and I would say this barrier is more inconvenient than unreasonable. And we should not encourage rule-breaking for convenience.
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The big difference is that social networks are often the most interesting in the beginning. Novelty makes them a lot more fun.

And you can't relive that new social network experience on DVD.
You could build an index that maps character pairs and triples to documents. Then, if the regex contains two or more consecutive characters without a ? that makes the characters optional, you can use such an index to limit the search space. For some queries, this would make things feasible. For example, it should make the search for xqrur.qqq(aargh)+. feasible. Problem of course, is that users will not make such searches.

I even guess that, if someone actually built an engine that handled all regular expressions and found out a way to handle DDOS attacks, people would complain that they want more (no, you cannot parse HTML with regular expressions)
Hardly. It's acknowledging that both choices are definitions.

One provides clarity and is related directly to the unit circle, the other is related to the circle with radius 1/2. Which is more intuitive?
Why is polycarbonate not allowed for ordinary cars? It seems like it would accomplish the same goal as automotive safety glass, namely preventing injuries from sharp shards of glass in a collision.
They provide zero evidence for their contention that wage increases "worsen the effect", and their phrasing implies that everything would be peachy keen if not for a minimum wage increase which caused this unemployment.

Meanwhile, if you look at the graph, you see a straight line downward which flattens in 'ok' economies, and plunges during recession. Was flat through 2007, when the minimum wage increase was enacted. No mention of the fact that this phenomenon of jobless recoveries has applied to most jobs at most payscales over the time period they're highlighting. No mention of the fact that the minimum wage was higher in real terms for most of the 20th century, and teen employment was higher then (not that the one is likely to cause the other).

I'll admit that they did include the graph. Reading the article does not make the author sound more honest or truth-seeking, though. Check out some of the applause lines.
I am really excited about their ad platform, but I question the high valuation.

Is twitter profitable yet?
If you search TechCrunch for "facebook google contacts", you will see some of their old stories on this.
Instead of defining things in terms of age, would you be opposed to describing a generational divide? I've argued before in other settings that selecting most of our leaders from two generations back gives too much inertia to the status quo. The current representatives are fighting the reality in which the current generation exists.
Google is getting less and less usable for search for me because of something akin to what you describe.

For example I was searching for Groupon info in a particular market and google returns me results that mention "group" but doesn't tell me that it's doing so. Really, really annoying to find barely any of the returned results contain or relate to the word that you're searching.

I tried quoting groupon but this doesn't work you have to negate the search thusly: 'groupon -"group on"'. Why don't they give you the option to remove their guessed results (like "did you mean") or simply limit related/thematic results to those using the ~ modifier. Grrr.
Psychological benefits to the Google model vs. the all-in-one model of Facebook?
I might use five or six Google products in a day and never really feel like I'm using "Google" at all. From the browser that I use, to my phone, to my email and YouTube (and now Google+)... I never technically leave the Google garden, but I'm never really consciously aware of this idea either.

With Facebook, everything they have to offer exists entirely on one site. This seems inherently boring and subconsciously unpleasant (one of the many reasons I never enjoyed using Google's iGoogle crap). I feel stagnant if I linger on facebook too long. And while I'm technically not doing significantly different things with Google products, the visual changes that go along with using a different site/product certainly seem to help remedy that stagnant feeling.

This seems like one of the least talked about benefits of Google+. However, given Google's recent announcement to retire the Blogger/Picasa brands and unify their products, they might not be aware of this phenomenon.

This might bother me more than some considering that I grew up using my parent's all-in-one AOL service and it driving me crazy.
There does seem to be a big cultural difference between Google and Microsoft in that Microsoft was always focused on winning while Google's is focused on innovating. It seems baked into their corporate DNA. I know many Google+ engineers that will bristle if you suggest that it's just a Facebook clone. It's a necessary evil that it looks a lot like Facebook now, because there's a certain baseline set of functionality that users need in a social network and you can't just ignore it to be different. I'd be very disappointed, and I think many other Googlers would too, if Google+ was only just as good as the incumbent.

Of course, a lot will depends on what comes down from the top - the reason IE is lame is because it was destaffed after Microsoft won the browser wars. From what I know about Larry Page's personality, though, this doesn't seem like something he's likely to do.
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Currently using a netbook with Ubuntu 11.04 on it. Absolutely hating that I updated, because Unity is just barely able to run on it. I'm in the middle of a few projects, otherwise I'd take the time to either try out Unity 2D or go for something like Arch or Fedora.

But, I've already decided to pick-up a Macbook Air as soon as the product line is refreshed. I _want_ to like Linux on the "desktop" and continue using it, but after using a Mac at work for development for the past several months the difference is really night and day. The applications just aren't even close to being where I'd need them to be, and I want to branch out beyond Android apps to iOS as well in my free time.

In short: as long you're not using Windows you're fine. Unless you're a game developer targeting Windows and/or Xbox. Then you really have no choice.
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> EDIT: Downvotes are not how you disagree on HN. Well thought out replies are.

Well thought out posts get well thought out replies.

For one, we're talking about foreigners here and you're saying they aren't deprived of due process - they merely need to come to American courts to get the laws changed. Hello!?

Second, you're missing the whole "your TLD is one of ours so you're in our jurisdiction no matter where you are" angle to this. The USA is attempting, yet again, to make its laws global.

Third, even if this was just domain name seizure as you seem to think, the government didn't warn or even inform people, let alone charge them with something. They aren't even officially admitting to it such that you can appeal. Even for Americans there is no due process.

Fourth, your "just like our drug laws" attitude betrays an incredible lack of perspective. Your drug laws are only slightly better than Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. Your forfeiture laws are not only fundamentally unjust but also rife with corruption.

Then you capped it off with "That's how America Works."

If you happened into a tech article on a subject you didn't know anything and added your opinion you'd be downvoted for getting in the way. Why should this be any different?
I'm pretty sure Ruby is bigger than Perl and sh put together now, at least in mindshare.
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> Facebook blocking one method for one company to import your data is not security; it's just corporate warfare.

Oh, I realise that. And I realise that some companies are necessarily going to get access to some basic contact information like e-mail addresses anyway if they are also in the e-mail business, because we all use mail services for e-mail to work. The fact that Google are in both the e-mail service business and the data mining business is an unfortunate coincidence in this respect, as far as I'm concerned.

I guess I just don't think it's healthy that in 2011, with all the data mining and all the poor security and genuinely harmful consequences of leaks going on, we still rely on things like unencrypted communication and centralised service providers who have direct access to personal data. We can do better now, and we would collectively be significantly safer and probably significantly happier as well if we did. Swapping Facebook spying on your entire life for Google does not seem like a particularly constructive move in that context.
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1. This is a good discussion to have. Those who are dismissive show, in my opinion, a lack of intellectual curiosity. Elegance for the sake of elegance is a worthwhile goal.

Life is too short to argue over notation. I for one will show my "lack of intellectual curiosity" and go back to learning mathematics (with short breaks to argue with people on HN :P).
I'm not surprised that they aren't rebranding YouTube (it's pretty much the most recognizable website title in the world, way more than Blogger IMO), though I continue to be surprised that they haven't integrated it more by including the horizontal google-bar at the top and doing something about merging YouTube and regular google accounts.
if they even remotely try it

They've been acting as though they had jurisdiction for a while; there have been tons of .com domains seized for non-US sites. This is just a confirmation of their position.
Possibly related is that we as a society seem to be treating teenagers more as old children and less as young adults in recent years. Such treatment may lead teens to see themselves in the same way and be less likely to want to seek employment without external pressure to do so and may lead parents to seek to limit that sort of pressure.
I really wish I could see an upvote count on this. I agree with the parent, but I think this is an interesting perspective--one worth thinking about. I'm really curious whether other people agree.
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If they do, I'll be pissed at them, not at the technology they use to share my secrets.
I'm surprised they didn't just rename it Google Blogger. Are those 2 letters really going to destroy what they are trying to achieve with this?
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>One provides clarity

How so? Neither is more intuitive. The unit circle is itself a definition you have grabbed. The notion of defining a circle by its radius comes to us from Euclid:

>"Let the following be postulated":

>1. "To draw a straight line from any point to any point."

>2. "To produce [extend] a finite straight line continuously in a straight line."

>3. "To describe a circle with any centre and distance [radius]."

>4. "That all right angles are equal to one another."

>5. The parallel postulate: "That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines make the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which are the angles less than the two right angles."

In fact, pi/2 itself is sitting right there in the fourth axiom, and pi is in the fifth. 2pi is nowhere to be found.
I assume (but assumptions have bitten me before) nobody likes boring resumes. Can anybody provide some feedback with respect to the tone of this resume? Does it say "good-humoured employee who can still enjoy himself while playing by the rules", or is it more "this guy doesn't take his job hunt seriously"?
It's really nice to see Google with a clear direction, operate with determination, going "all in", consolidate it's different offerings into something that will, I'm guessing, be greater than the sum of the parts.
Sad to see the name Blogger go, it's just so much more unique than Google Blogs. They're both pretty generic sounding names, but Blogger has a history behind the name. Google Blogs is like...Facebook Blogs, Yahoo Blogs and (Insert Generic Blog or Blog Host Name Here).

I've noticed Google+ imported my Blogger images though, it'll be interesting to see how they incorporate Google Blogs from Blogger into Plus. I'll still be sad to see Blogger go though.
I find this interesting because I was just reading about these incidents from the early 20th century in the US:

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

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

Both of these articles are about union struggles where the government intervened on behalf of corporations. These incidents have caused me to question how we treat various types of organisations [i.e. C-corps vs. 501(c)(3)] as they relate to society.
When I hear Blogger, I think spam.
I recommend https://www.icinga.org/ over nagios, it's simply a fork with quite a few updates so greplin-nagios-utils should work on it as well.
See https://github.com/gcv/appengine-magic to help get Clojure working on App Engine. It's quite nice and the docs are pretty complete.
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"Running a regex across that amount of data would be a lot more than 10x slower"

Would it really? I'd like to see some hard data on that.

"what incentive would Google have to run long-running regex processing tasks, without showing you any ads or gathering any useful info in the process?"

What incentive does Google have for allowing regexes to be used in searches of source code, which it already does?

It's useful, and it gets Google goodwill from its users. Plus, many of its own employees probably benefit from it.

The number of users of Google's regex code search feature is probably no greater than the number of people who'd use regexes in general search, perhaps even smaller.

As far as ads go, I'd bet the vast majority of people who use Google's code search engine run ad blockers and don't see any ads anyway. I very much doubt that Google gets much if any profit from running it. And yet they do it.
In addition to overall technical concepts, its nice if the business person understand the product development and software release process, and have some development exposure. Code breaks, build fails, software fails - all these things happen in the development and could be fixed. Lots of business people just do not count these factors and that's many fail, not because of the software, but because partners could not work together.
I think Thyrd (http://thyrd.org/) fits the bill. You might want to look at the screencast for a good intro: http://thyrd.org/thyrd/screencast.php?v=01.