skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I was referring to you asking about so-called "CMM level" when we're talking about Google, not some second-hand suit-run IT company.
Centos 6 released
As with others, I think the author is missing some things.

With most of the SaaS 'enterprise' systems out there, you're often not replacing anything up front, but early adopters are free to try some parts of a service, demonstrate ROI, then angle for a wider rollout. This is the opposite of most traditional "enterprise" software evaluation/deployment cycles.

The ability for individuals or departments at companies to use bits and pieces of services (imagine one dept at 'bigco' using box.net, for example) is what gives these SaaS players any chance at all of getting their foot in the door, and it's a good strategy. It's far less about 'sucking' from a 'checkbox feature list' standpoint, and more about grassroots adoption.

Years ago I was on a team that developed an LMS for a distance learning institution. It checked off quite a lot of feature-list checkboxes - had far more features than most other open source packages out there at the time - but... it was a top-down system, designed solely to be used by all levels at a school org. It fit that institution just fine, but for anyone else to try to adopt it at their school, was just too difficult. We could have tried to do long sales cycles to other institutions, but didn't (for a lot of reasons). Moodle was being released around the same time, and while we had far more features that teachers wanted, Moodle was something any teacher could install and use just for their own classroom, without any external dependencies. History has shown that Moodle's really taken off - it got a lot of early adopter support from people who wanted/needed it, but didn't have the ability to affect change in their whole enterprise.
I find it hard to sympathize with the guy, he's complaining that Google make him use a self-service tool to upload his data. And that because he's helping Google they should help him more, open up their data, etc.

But in actuallity he's the one who wants to put the data into Google so his university will get more value from Google maps, it's not Google who's asking for his data.
baitsplanation: his 2009 mbp has a combined input/output jack, which is a problem in garage band. usb is considered to be an option.
You need an audio interface, not just a MIDI interface. An audio interface is essentially an outboard audio card for you Macbook. The Macbook Pro 13" is a consumer product, its not designed to be a pro audio recording device. The little soundcard in there does not have great bandwidth, and trying to monitor both input and output signals would likely pose latency issues.

You need something like the M-Audio Fast Track:
http://www.guitarcenter.com/M-Audio-Fast-Track-USB-Computer-...
I've never heard anybody argue against adult stem-cell research, but I suppose it's possible that somebody out there is making that argument. The only time I've heard people bring up adult stem cell research is to point out that all of the actual treatments derived from stem cell research to date have come from adult stem cell research, and that it is therefore more pragmatic to focus resources on adult stem cell research rather than directing any resources into embryonic stem cell research.

Also, most of the arguments I've heard against embryonic stem-cell research acknowledge that it might in fact produce life-saving or life-changing treatments, but that it is nonetheless morally and/or ethically wrong. A literary parallel is Le Guin's "Those Who Walk Away from Omelas:" enormous good comes at the price of involuntary sacrifice on the part of a single innocent. Some conclude that the trade is morally and/or ethically acceptable because of all of the good that is obtained, which cannot be obtained by any other means; others conclude that the good obtained from the sacrifice does not justify the evil of the sacrifice.
I actually like the privacy settings, people just call it a 'nightmare' because they haven't taken the time to figure it out. They're like "where's the do it all button?"...
I don't bother reporting anything to Google anymore. At one time I'd send feedback on whatever minor issues I found in their products, but I never got any response from them at all so I stopped.

I like Plus overall, as FriendFeed 2.0 if nothing else. I hope they can fix these sorts of issues quickly.
The payload is not JSONP and strikes me as a bit impractical:

Geo = { /* object literal */ }

I assume this service is meant to be consumed via <script> tag injection. Without a JSONP-style callback parameter, what are consumers to do, inject-then-poll until a "Geo" object is found in the global scope?
Damn, that's a pretty big typo. You're absolute right. Can't change it now though :(
You bringing up IE6 made me wonder whether the "legacy" MBA is going to become the next IE6.
I was able to augment Pimsleur's Japanese tapes with some reading to crack the old Level 4 of Japanese Language Proficiency Test. It was a very good starting point. Worked well for me I would say.
What Twitter + webdoc Could Be Like
> I would be very concerned if people could change the privacy settings on a post after it's been created.

Why? Certainly this should be no problem at all if the change is a monotonic increase in publicness, i.e. you're not blocking anyone who could see it before. But even if you are trying to decrease publicness, why not? Of course, you can't make someone "un-see" the post, and any feeds or readers that have already picked it up can't be forced to delete it. But, with that caveat, I don't see any problem with making a post more private than it had been, preventing any additional unwanted eyeballs from seeing it.
That's awesome. Thanks for the background.
Good start. Looks like http://w3techs.com/sites does a bit more
...And your gender.

I presume you are referring to this: https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts/SeBqgN9Z...

That's Randall Munroe's note on gender being public in Google+, which spurned a lot of discussion online, for those who haven't come across it yet.
I am using this for nutrition visualisation:
http://eatnutrients.com/sources/sr23/11301

It is great- I think everyone would be using it if it supported IE < 9
Well, Google certainly had a big hand in OpenSocial, and I'm guessing that will be a big part of their strategy going forward, in terms of letting people plug "apps" into G+.

As for sharing data, and interop, I'd be curious to know if any Googlers are part of the Federated Social Web working group: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/

I follow their mailing list, and I can't remember seeing a lot of posts from people who identified as being with Google.. but that doesn't mean they're not there. Or maybe Google just have their own plan and are going to do an end-run around the W3C initiative(s)?
<script src="http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/"></script>
<script>geoloaded()</script>
</body></html>
Lean iPhone Gaming: Building a Product in 11 Days
Eh, I was definitely lowballing a lot with "a couple grand." You also need to factor in power and replication.
Reminds me of a completely forgotten feature of some old P2P apps like Soulseek: genre chat.
I was flabbergasted to read that the new trachea grew in two days. Is this normal, or would they have had to put some sort of growth stimulant in the bioreactor?

If I sound ignorant, it's because I am, and I'd love for someone more knowledgeable about biotech to set me straight.
Hmm. That would make sense, though not entirely desirable. But I'm seeing an email for my friend that I've never used for him, that I didn't even know he had.

What's odd now is that he's updated his profile and his droid phone doesn't show the other addresses and mine still does. So maybe it is address book based, somehow.

Edit- Pretty sure the persistence after he deleted them from his profile is the address book, but also verified the one address isn't in my book. He must have exposed it on his profile without meaning to?
Spoken Number to Decimal, in 256 bytes of C
Doing the IP lookup yourself isn't very hard. The nginx HttpGeoIPModule[1] will do a lookup on the MaxMind databases for you. I used it in my weekend hack, http://spotwoo.com. Doesn't take very long to set up, very easy to use.

[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpGeoIPModule
Google blocks co.cc from search results
I think you can add people (by mentioning them, which means everyone will be aware of it).

To remove people from the post, the only option I've found is deleting the post.
>> Facebook provides "hyper-local news," allowing people to broadcast [...] to their social circle [...]

Nope, FB allows people only to broadcast to their social network. That is what G+ "solves for consumers". The "hyper-local news" becomes targeted, really only to the social circle that's interested.

How ironic, that the author used the G+ term "social circle" to describe what FB is doing.
The point of the article, as I see it, is that you should strive for clear and correct writing, from the outset. Claiming that this goal is somehow detrimental to code quality strikes me as absurd.

Fixing syntax errors will do nothing for the logic errors. I find it more plausible that fixing syntax errors coming from sloppy writing will rather cost you time and energy that would be better spent on making the logic right.
I'm hard of hearing, and car noise significantly decreases my quality of life. Almost anywhere you go in the city, there's too much traffic noise for us to talk. Meet at a coffeeshop or something and there's too much noise inside to talk. So I too was really looking forward to electric cars, and dismayed by this. The worst was hearing about a push to make quiet cars illegal -- yes, that might be the best practical safety measure in the current state of the art, I don't know, but must we stop all innovation? Is there no other imaginable way to address the problem?

(I don't know how much quieter a street full of electric cars would actually be. Would like to find out.)
I am guessing that they knew their traffic would decrease. What we probably won't know for a while is whether the decreased ad revenue, as a result of fewer impressions, is greater than the increased subscription revenue. Assuming subscriptions have increased.
This is quite innovative, really.
Seems to be Flash.
Thanks -- yeah, at the moment it's tightly bound to node's 'fs' module, though I was planning on abstracting it so you could use 'FileData' in modern browsers. I've got the three ODB's implemented (and, I think, most of the types within) -- loose, packv1, and packv2. I've also found that the jxgcompressor seems to run faster than js-deflate -- you might check that out.

I was particularly interested in different storage methods for git repositories in-browser -- like localStorage, or (for fun) writing the git data to a canvas, extracting it as a PNG, and uploading it to a static file server which would then send it back as a "cache forever" image; you could then extract all the data back out of the PNG by writing it to a canvas and running through the image data. Also fun: writing a backend that relies on Github's raw object API [1] Or, on the server, running a SQLite backend for repo data. The possibilities are endless :)

[1]: http://develop.github.com/p/object.html
On the bright side, we still have Spotify.
That has always been the biggest question for me: how many don't? There are bounces from content, and there are bounces from commercial barriers: paywalls, subscription modals, "give us your email please" modals (really, blocking modals of all kinds), "install our android app (or continue to site)"...I doubt any site is passing out their failure rates for these business decisions.
Not sure what you mean. It's still a couple grand when you factor in power and replication. ;-)

For google it's a rounding error either way. They measure in Petabytes, not Terabytes.
> When I'm browsing from my iPhone, I just click the little "x" at the top of the screen

Thanks for that tip! I cleared all my cookies once to get around it, but what a PIA to re-login to all my authenticated sites.
Great stuff when I worked through it a few weeks ago. That bundled deal looks very tempting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-llwYjxv8Y&feature=play... says what Google+ solves in a very entertaining way.
I've only explored it a little, but this product just seems like a mashup of Muxtape and Facebook-style chat.

What makes Turntable.fm chat interesting is that everyone is listening to and talking about the same song.. you don't get that here. It seems like people are just grouped by genres, but everyone can be clicking on and playing different songs.
This is not rocket science.* I did a Pascal to C translator back in the 80s. It was something like a two week project back then, with another month or so when we decided to make it a commercial product. Most of the effort was not the translation but implementing a string package that duplicated the Pascal semantics without the brain-dead Pascal typing, where string[10] was a different and incompatible type from string[11]. (Actually, we got around that in the original code by writing a Pascal to Pascal interface written in C.)

His conclusion that things stay the same is totally wrong. Pascal is a very primitive language, and it is usually straight forward to translate from a primitive language to a richer one. And C was richer. Programming in C was like breathing fresh air. My productivity doubled. There are more doublings with modern languages like Python and JavaScript.

* I posted a comment yesterday mentioning some work I had done on Project Apollo. That WAS rocket science. ;-)
"If you're starting from the position that "Facebook works just fine, I don't need a better way to share things online," then yes, Google Plus is not solving a problem for you."

Yes, exactly. And for the vast majority of Facebook users, that's where they're starting. And that's the guy's point. And he's absolutely right. Google has an uphill climb with this one, because they're competing against two established players who already do a great job of what they do.

"There are a lot of people who just want to use the Internet to share family pictures and funny jokes they've heard, and don't care about or understand things like owning their data, controlling their privacy, or ensuring that different sites and protocols are interoperable and predictable.

The only people I hear complaining about Facebook and Twitter on privacy grounds are the same people who complained that iPods were over-priced, that Macs aren't open enough, that VHS was inferior to Beta, and that MP3 was going to fall to Ogg Vorbis any day now. Could they be right? Sure. Do I think that's likely? Not based on past experience. Realists know that "good enough" carries the day -- especially when "good enough" is actually pretty darned good.

Maybe Google+ will be a vastly better experience in a few years, but right now it's clunky and awkward, and the payoff for using it is low. Literally everyone I care about is on Facebook, and if they make their groups feature slightly more prominent and easy to use, they'll have matched Google+ feature for feature. That's the point of the essay: to make a compelling alternative to a strong competitor's product, you have to do a lot more than add a few basic features.
Keep in mind that most ad funded sites on the internet have excess unique/impression inventory, even 40% excess at times. So there are three numbers to consider here:

1) Increased subscription revenue

2) Sold inventory they've lost

3) Effect on pricing of remaining inventory

Oddly enough, a site like the NYT might be able to make more money off ads with less impressions (#3 up there). There are two reasons for this, the first is their brand value. People want their ads on NYT, scarcer supply means they'll have to pay more to do that, and some of them will.

The second is a change in demographics. I would guess that the lost traffic is disproportionately less valuable demographics. I, for instance, am not a great demographic for advertisers. My dad is, though, and NYT is still getting his impressions.

As an example of what this might mean, imagine that anyone who made less than, say, $150k/year stopped visiting Reddit. They'd lose a huge amount of traffic, but the value of the remaining traffic would make their sellable demographics outstanding.
He said public place, not public property. A private property can be a public place in the legal world.
Wow. I totally forgot about SoulSeek but I remember a time when it was the best p2p app.
Google won't count that as two users unless John as two Google accounts with Google+ profiles. You can verify non Gmail address with Google and they should show up as the same contact.
http://www.commonjs.org/specs/
I wonder if you could convert TeX. (Background: http://www.monperrus.net/martin/compiling+Knuths+tex+with+GN... )
If you use Homebrew, you can install blast (brew install blast). However, it takes forever to compile :)
You're not really representative of the majority of NYT readers. A minuscule number of them even understand what private browsing mode does, and even fewer realize how it interacts with the NYT paywall.

The paywall is price discrimination. A certain number of users are willing to pay for the NYT site, it's a way to let them do so.
A second is a long time
While authored a long time ago, this is a great article for the early game developer. Hopefully Glenn will continue writing awesome intro/theory, and giving talks.
been there, done that: http://ip.beached.org ;)
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Are they making more or less money?

http://seekingalpha.com/article/264920-the-new-york-times-ce...
Crowd Seats bring daily deals to professional sports
It's off by ~10 miles, but since there are several million people between me and where it thinks I am, that's not particularly disturbing.
We definitely are. =^]
Maybe, but it's worth noting that I wasn't signed in, and don't have a G+ account, yet.
They're still alive!
Brilliant!

Yes, I'm learning that it's just as important to question what delusions I may be operating under when suspecting my client of same.
$9700 * 900 kids is over $8 million.

Salaries are $1 million (for 500 people? most must be part time volunteers or getting paid minimum wage for those 2 months).

Food costs are $500k

Maintenance of $700k.

Even rounding those up, that's $3mil. There's $5mil per year left for the capital investment stuff they need to do. I'm assuming they're paying off earlier purchases. Certainly there's a lot of marketing they need to do well in advance of the next summer, but it really seems like a pretty good profit for 2 months of service.
That's trivial to set up yourself with Maxmind's GeoLite Database.

http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity
Can someone explain what's important here for a very basic Linode user?
I'd like to suggest avoiding manual additions of technology for as long as possible. Focus on adding more ways to match specific technologies. After all, a site could always advertise more technologies in server headers or meta generator tags.
Looks like an awesome book (along with the others recommended on this site). Unusual for scientificly minded cookbooks to be affordable - the only other ones I know of are way out of my price range:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Fat-Duck-Cookbook/dp/0747583692
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cookin... (I notice the author of this book, Nathan Myhrvold's also mentioned in cooking for geeks)
What's the point of using CentOS these days? Scientific Linux is basically compiled from the same sources and doesn't lag months behind RHEL. Did I miss something?
Broken Chat UI on Facebook and Google talk
Emails and similar communications should always be short and to the point. In face-to-face communication it's usually advisable to exchange some social niceties or feign the appropriate level of respect unless you know the person well already.
I disagree. Take for instance a city like Amsterdam (or any other Dutch city for that matter). People ride bikes there. Lots of bikes. Fast bikes. When you go there for the first time, you better make sure you walk on the right side of the side walk, or else you're actually in danger of getting run over - you're just not used to them, and the bike lanes often are on the side walks.

But you do get used to that - you simply start looking out more carefully.

I see no reason why it should be different with cars, especially since you would probably hear even a silent car more easily than a bike.
totally, and in the future depending on response we might turn on the concurrent play like turntable, just getting started, thanks for the feedback
YC disagrees.
I'd buy "tech people are poor predictors for social", but negative predictors?
That's some very good press. It should give them a nice boost for the rest of the year.
There's definitely something wrong with your setup. Windows XP will require an extra download, for example.
There are an infinite number of such pairs of numbers. 87, 25 may be one of them; perhaps 83, 22 is another, and 88, 28 is another, all describing the same distribution. But of all of those pairs of numbers, there is exactly one pair that sums to 100. If you want to compare the inequality of two distributions of wealth (or whatever), that pair of numbers is a reasonable candidate metric: an 80, 20 distribution is more equal than a 90, 10 distribution, and more unequal than a 70, 30 distribution.

The Gini coefficient is another scalar that can be used to rank distributions by inequality.
As much as I hate traffic noise, I don't want to have people driving around in completely silent cars. Electric scooters are very popular in New Delhi (see http://www.heroelectric.in/; I even own one of those), and they barely make a sound. More than once I've been startled by a scooter approaching from behind. Moreover, it's impossible to account for them when I'm on a bicycle.
It affected my reading habits, just not on my laptop. When the paywall was first released, I suspected it wouldn't change anything for me, but I found myself hitting the limit quite a bit on my phone.
Preview Gmail's new look
I think that would be worth pointing out, because it's such a huge deviation from the quasi-Zipfian behavior you'd expect.
I found using the is:read modifier in my searches is a great way of weeding out the crap, since I usually don't even bother to open that stuff. YMMV!
If that were the problem, the limit would be substantially less than 2G because of the address space needed for the DLLs, the stack, other allocated memory, and so on; and, of course, the space consumed by address space fragmentation.
That's terrible. First it was the News of The World, and now the Oxford comma? What's next? We are doomed!
An updated version of Python amongst other updated packages. Will probably make installing certain software not so much of a pain in the rear.
As a person who signed up to buy the Nissan leaf early, and a current owner, I was also pretty upset about this, at least until I got the car.

The noise that is makes is barely audible from within the car. It is a very faint whistling / turbine sort of noise, and I have to turn it on and off to get my passengers to hear it, even with the windows open.

Additionally, there is a switch to turn it off if one hates it. However, after driving this car daily for a few months, I wish it were louder. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten stuck behind a pedestrian or biker who is proceeding directly down the middle of a street or parking lot, and has no idea I am behind them. I creep along at 5 miles an hour, and I can either honk at them (very rude), or just wait for them to notice me. They usually figure it out after 30 seconds or so, and many times they jump and do a double take when they realize I "snuck up" behind them. A little more artificial noise would eliminate this problem.