skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On "eligibility" requirements:

>Note: Music recordings in other formats, lossless files, or audio recordings that are not of songs and non-audio files (even if in MP3 or AAC format) are not eligible for unlimited music space and will count against your Cloud Drive storage space.

I have to wonder if this is simply a TOS issue or if Amazon is actually doing something similar to iTunes Match and creating audio fingerprints of your songs so as to de-duplicate them.
I'd hate to plod through some example that I could work through better on my own time.

At conferences I want to be exposed to new ideas that I can then go look up on my own. Just to pick an example at random, as someone who has never used Haskell, I'd much rather hear about "so, what the hell is a monad, really", rather than, say, someone sitting there showing me how to write hello world in Haskell.
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That sucks. But there are some things that are real and some things that look really like reality but are actually illusions created by our emotions. Your desperation sounds like the latter one.
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Yes he has misstated this.

When you load G+ on Android it asks whether you want your photos uploaded by default into a private album. It isn't the default by any means - the default is to ask the user what they want to do!

It works really well too. I took a few pictures with my device and not even thinking about it got on my computer to upload them, before realizing I had told my phone to upload automatically. Very easy experience to share my photos and videos this way.
Well...maybe not FB Groups, but G+ Circles are exactly like Facebook lists without the crazy granular privacy settings.
Email is the open social network that has managed to work for decades.

Will I ever be able to install and host these alternative social network apps on my server. Can I modify and re-distribute them? There are a few but they are too different (from email) and are big monolithic silos.
Response from lawyer applied for Bitcoin trademark
I wrote email saying that registering Bitcoin trademark is incorrect. See below answer and decide yourself what kind of person we deal with.

Dear Sir, I disagree with your stated position. The USA and other common law countries utilize a first to use doctrine whereas the civil law countries like France use a first to file doctrine. As far as I can tell, here in the USA the transactions which you refer to are untraceable & anonymous. Ergo, what evidence will be introduced in federal court supporting any prior use? Articles? I think not, a literary work is not use in commerce in the Nice classification. Who is going to prove that he/she utilized a bitcoin (trademark pending with USPTO) and transferred it to Mr A in interstate commerce with any degree of proof. He said/ she said/ you all said/ will not carry the day in a federal court. The very nature of the crypto transaction renders it impossible to trace and prove a completed transaction in interstate commerce. There will always be the need for some trust me in the purported proof. That will not carry the day in federal court.
You should further consider the first to file countries where prior use is irrelevant. My client is in the process of filing in numerous civil law countries such as Japan where whining about first to use is of no moment. One can sue in a US federal court for tortious acts committed overseas so long as the defendant has minimum contacts with the US. Food for thought.

Very truly yours,
Michael S. Pascazi, Esq.
Pascazi Law Offices PLLC
1065 Main Street, Ste. D
Fishkill, New York 12524 U.S.A.
Ph: +1 845.897.4219
Fax: +1 845.468.7117*
E-mail:Info@pascazilaw.com*
Web:www.pascazilaw.com
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From what I understand from the article, it seems that he has another problem (information overload from too many people trying to contact him), not so much a problem with e-mail as a medium.
I suspect that Google+ will launch an equivalent feature, I think there is some real incompatibilities with the way that Facebook is handling it and Google+'s current privacy model that they are pushing.

If you share something with a group-circle and then someone joins the group then they can see your post; you are suddenly sharing with someone that you didn't actively intend to. Right now if you share with circles and the people in those circles changes it tracks the changes, but since you are the only person who can change the circles that doesn't provide any similar issue.
Sorry, you are right about that price being for the 3GS. I missed that.

Here, plans are pretty comparable.

Galaxy S2, $5/month on $59 plan: http://www.optus.com.au/store/phone/galaxysii?sid=MobAFeat1:...

iPhone 4 16GB, $7/month on $59 plan: http://www.optus.com.au/store/iphone/plans

The Galaxy S2 plan gives you a bit more data, and you do have more flexibility with Galaxy S2 plans - you can choose to pay more for the phone and less for the plan for example. (Of course, you also have a big choice of cheaper Android phones too).
That's your gmail account ID. It hasn't changed since you registered for gmail.

I remember that the old Google profiles (before Google+ and before the Profiles relaunch) had an option to choose between a private and a public profile URL. The public version of the URL had your gmail username in it. The private one didnt, it had the your account ID in it. Apparrently they turned off the option for public profile URLs since Google+.

So apparently these URLs are there for privacy reasons. Not everyone who knows your email address should be able to find your profile.
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Actually when Google removes a site from the index, it takes away some of the traffic that belongs to the website owner.

Our startups' site was removed from the index some time ago (although we didn't use any kind of SEO - not even white hat. Our strategy was to not rely on Google for promotion).

What we discovered was that some of the browsers, namely Firefox, use Google's "I'm feeling lucky" when users type in the site name without ".com" at the end.

So - the moment Google removed us from the index, a blog article about our startup (which now took the first spot in Google when searching for our name) became the main source of indirect traffic.
That was happening, among other things, because people typed in our startups' name in the navigation (not search!) bar, and the blogpost appeared instead of our site.

Google is a monopolist, and while users have a choice whether to use Google or Bing, website owners do not. If you're not in Google, you will loose traffic. Not just search traffic.
Ever since I have watched your videos and read your blog, I've learned more about UX/UI than ever before. I don't think people realize how hard it is to find good content when getting started in the field. You hear about a lot of big name designers and UX/UI guys and try to learn from their twitter/blog but no one teaches like you do. I really appreciate your philosophy on teaching and honestly can't express how grateful I am for the content you have shared. If we meet someday I am definitely going to buy you a beer :)
It's not a bad idea, but the issue is going to be to find enough people with attractive handwriting...
Do something new...keep learning.

I got far too comfortable in my everyday life. So I joined academia and WOW! These days I'm actually working hard to keep my supervisor impressed - this hasn't happened in a while.

I'm outside my comfort zone - its a new feeling, its a welcome feeling.

And now for the answer you were looking for:

I start working as soon as I wake up. Seems to be the best time to concentrate.
I agree with you.

I totally believe Eric Ries knows what he is talking about,
I love his presentation style and he seems like a really genuine guy.

I follow him on twitter and find the sales pitch for the past several months way too much to deal with.

Also the constant self-promotion of the ignite/simulcast/whatever conference they are hosting really annoying.

May be I am missing some marketing secret Eric Ries et. al
have figured out but it doesn't seem to work on me.
> Well, the money has to come from somewhere. You say SMS
> uses infrastructure that was set up for the voice
> network. But you could just as easily have said voice
> uses infrastructure that was set up for the SMS
> network, which would make SMS a bargain and voice
> overpriced.

The primary motivation for rolling out the cell networks was to provide voice coverage, or else SMS wouldn't be a hack on to the GSM protocol and we won't have things like a 140 character limit. Also, implementing things like E911 take a lot more money than sending 140 characters of text through some control channels, even if it is a switched connection.

This is hardly a "you say tom-ay-to; I say tom-ah-to" sort of situation. Using your logic we can attribute the roll out of phone lines as a 'fixed cost' of dial-up networking, but I doubt you'll find many supporters in the idea that all those lines were laid for the expressed purpose of dial-up and that analog voice calls are just 'piggy-backing' on the dial-up lines.

> And they're not charities

Where did I claim that they are not allowed to make a profit? I was just generally curious as to what fixed costs could be attributed directly to SMS, seeing as the majority of the infrastructure was rolled out for voice or data.
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Why does smallest in terms of absolute value matter? In any event, I can define the circle via the center and r/2 or center and r/4, etc... I don't see any value in caring about the absolute value.

As for dimensionality, how are you using the word? No matter what, we need 3 numbers to define a circle in R^2. Two numbers define its position and one number defines it size. I don't see what you're getting at. If you mean that because radius is a measure of length (one dimension) and area is a measure of area (two dimensions) then I have two questions:
1) Why does that matter? Its still just a single number.
2) Even if it does matter, why is radius more fundamental than diameter.
It's not comforting that they didn't take this seriously enough to pass it by an editor before making the disclosure.

SPAM is a trademark of Hormel. A synonym for junk email is 'spam'. Whoever wrote this doesn't even recognize the difference. Hell, the author turned 'junk mail' into a proper noun! ("SPAM, aka. Junk Mail ...")

Granted, the WP has a newsroom that is probably entirely separate from whatever org runs their jobs site, but reputation is shared both ways. They're an editorial power-house and should know better.
Speaking as someone who worked closely with Eric at IMVU in those early days, his message is simple but it's not always obvious to the people who start companies.

How many times have you heard about entrepreneurs that think they have some grand vision for something that they're certain will change the world, so they go away and spend tons of VC money building something, and then it fails because no one actually wants it? It happens a LOT. Vision clouds judgment VERY often.

Eric taught me that ego gets in the way of finding out what will actually work as a viable business, and that I should question all of my assumptions (and those of the people working around me) about what's right and what's not. The metrics speak for themselves. It doesn't matter how good I think my landing page headline is -- the market will validate that through A/B testing. The trick to figuring out what will be successful is first realizing that your idea is only a hypothesis and has no merit until you validate it with customers.

Eric's and the IMVU team's willingness to let go of assumptions and try different things is the reason why IMVU today isn't a plugin that runs on top of AIM. Even though that was the original idea, it became clear really quickly that it wasn't going to work. Where many entrepreneurs would cling to an unworkable idea until the company burns through all its capital, the team decided that the idea was a failure and moved on to build something that has turned into a business that now makes more than $50mm per year.

I can totally understand the uncomfortable reaction you have, but that's kind of the point. When someone comes around and says "Hey, maybe the way that the establishment thinks things should be done is actually completely wrong," some people are excited and intrigued by the possibilities, and some have an visceral, negative response. Tim Ferriss and Dr. Atkins have both sold a ton of books exploring ideas that sound new and "out there".

I think it's unfair to classify Eric as someone who only has a reputation for "writing books and doing conferences". The "Lean Startup movement" is about keeping companies alive through the perils of infancy that usually lead to early destruction. Ask anyone who worked with Eric at IMVU and they will tell you that his passion for experimentation and validation of ideas, and his framework for building a scalable continuous deployment shop are still very much alive even after his departure. If you want to know more about the culture at IMVU, I'd be happy to comment on it.
We do code reviews after the code hits the repository. Jira's Crucible tool is awesome for that (it is basically an extension of Fisheye, which is great in its own right). I could imagine Google managing code reviews with something like Crucible just fine, though I may underestimate the consequences of the organisational consequences of sheer size.

Everyone is responsible for making sure the code that hits the repo is up to scratch. Sure this means more bugs hit the repo, but reviews are not primarily about catching bugs: they are about code quality. There's always room for improvement that only other eyes catch, even when there aren't any bugs. The goal is to be bugless without code reviews and people shouldn't start trusting upon code reviews to catch their bugs.
I like email. It is not controlled by Some Other Entity, I control my contacts, I only push when I need to, I can back it up, there is no flash munching my battery.

It allows deliberative thought and handles arbitrary file transfer (well, if your service provider isn't a stinker).

I don't get the email hate in the least.
If they come to you with a lawsuit threat, you'll still have to pay money to argue that defense in court.
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I know they can build an ALU inside minecraft, can they build a 3D printer inside minecraft yet?
This is pretty cool. Are there any other libraries out there that can parse / manipulate js source?
I hope he trademarks "douchebag".
Sun had good intentions
Doesn't every celwebrity go through this stage?
I agree completely with this answer, especially every word of the first paragraph.

I'm teaching programming to my 13 year old son, using Python. He's doing well with it.
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I like 'trying to laugh more' ... now I think of it: I used to force myself to put a big artificial grin on my face when doing sports. I was into fairly competitive / dangerous sports & just putting on a stupid grin made me perform better.
hiii actually it had done all new features but it will not compete facebook in this fashion....just think what people wants i agree for professionals....
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"the problem is with degrees"

I partly disagree. For kids, defining something using irrational numbers would probably be very confusing. Using integers is much easier.

So, why 360? Because we talk about right angles a lot and we want to have a third, a half, etc... and (I'm guessing) they wanted it to be a multiple of 10.

I think the point is to be able to teach geometry to kids without worrying about them getting confused by fractions and/or irrational numbers.
Clearly it's not this simple, but are spam honeypots a tool utilized by these big boys as an insurance policy against these attacks?

EG - seed your DB w/known email addresses, see what junk hits them all, follow the money?
When I wrote that previous comment I assumed that most binary data would probably use an encoding that is longer/shorter than 8 bit (that's what was examined here). But thinking about it, that might not be true. I don't know.
My immediate and predictable dislike for this particular lawyer is quickly giving way to anxiety about what the hacker groups are likely to do as a result, using his identity.

It might occasionally be amusing to see this stuff at a distance, but in the end it makes non-technical people distrust technical people out of a blind fear that all programmers are the types of people to do bad things.

Let's see how long this guy's website stays intact.
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@jcarden .. i am unable to access the spreadsheet as it is blocked from my location .. will try to get out somewhere and add myself ..

please include my id 'raghav305@gmail.com' just in case..
Google may succeed, because facebook fails to innovate. Facebook has been focusing too much on the broader web but the website itself has been watered down to a newsfeed that is getting more and more bloated by the day.
Let's hope he stops writing too, soon.
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To do you need to understand. To do you need to know. This is where insightful teachers like Eric Ries and Steve Blank add value.

I understand your point, but it's also inefficient to put the pedal to the medal and spin your tires endlessly without having any strategy behind your activity.

The whole point of lean startup is to achieve order of magnitude gains of efficiency by focusing on finding out what customers want sooner rather than later.

For those that aren't 'doing'- that's their problem. Eric's work is for doers.
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I'm an advocate for code review at the current place...

We already use fogbugz, and I'm pushing for us to switch to hg from svn so that we can use kiln too. Code review is one of the main features that I'm using as a lever. I fear that status quo / apathy may prevail though, since there is a contingent that wants to use git and if it's not unanimous, we stay where we are. Sigh.

Btw, our current process is a skype channel that we use to post links to commits (we use trac at the moment). It actually works pretty well.
This game is pretty cool. Thanks for the recommendations!
Narcissus
https://github.com/mozilla/narcissus/

It's been used as part of the Narrative JavaScript project to parse the JavaScript-like njs language and compile it back to JavaScript.
http://www.neilmix.com/narrativejs/doc/
That's a good point, although in fairness I actually have walked my dog with my iPad, I was reading the Economist. However to the point, it requires a 'different' holding. It certainly isn't something you put in a pocket but if you tend to carry a bag around it's light enough to throw in there, around the house generally the tablet is 'near by' but my phone is always on my person.

It will be an interesting evolution.
Seriously, I can't find the invite function in UI. Where is it? Do I just add people to a circle?
To be fair - they are. Who provides Google the most money? The unwashed masses seeing adverts and clicking on them. Not people paying for an email service :-)

Obviously this is a simplification - it's the adword customers they care about. Until Google Apps customers are contributing billion+ they probably don't really care that much.
Is there anywhere we can update our shipping details? I've moved since purchasing and registering for the book.
His sentence makes perfect sense. You just need to level up and put some points into reading comprehension. Go talk to the dudes with the giant yellow exclamation marks over their heads. That will help.

Additionally - meditate on the following koan: if a vendor builds a platform, and nobody builds a device for it, will it still be hyped by the tech-press?
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These days, all organizations give a lot of importance to the use of software applications, as they have become the requirement of a winning business venture. In reality, software applications are like fuel for any kind of business processes.
Their products were "bad" (overpriced and mostly technically inferior.)

I'm not even sure their intentions were very good except in the very early days. Hard to imagine Google charging $900 for a $90 memory stick like Sun did.
Most of my friends are now using app phones. So we communicate with apps rather than SMS.

Most of the time when I get a SMS it's when someone is trying to sell me something I don't want.
This reminds me of me and calculus. I used to read the book and then get super frustrated on assignment questions. I read the book, so was I not able to solve the problems?

It was because I didn't do examples thoroughly. Soon I realized that doing examples was actually more important than reading the book.

By the sounds of it, you are in the same boat!

Start by figuring out how to compile/run a hello world program. Then figure out what all the code means. Do that a couple of times with a couple of different (and small!) examples before you can expect yourself to come with the code.

Practice, practice, practice!
@wladimir - yeah I get that but it gets a bit tiring when every medium is the "next email" and now he's "quiting email" and then he'll "return to email" ... blah blah
+1 for celWEBrity
The very nature of the crypto transaction renders it
impossible to trace and prove a completed transaction in
interstate commerce.

Not only is he a douchebag, he doesn't understand the technology he's dealing with. Verifying and publicly proving the completion of a transaction is the entire point of asymmetric crypto. I almost feel sorry for what happens to him when the security nuts find out about this.
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So if I added a Gmail adress in my circle already and the person is not on G+ yet, shouldn't Google send invites to those people first? The people who are in circles but not on G+, that is.