skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit disingenuous to talk about Scala without pointing out that the IDE tools are, from my understanding at least, fairly poor when compared with Java's tools. That doesn't mean you shouldn't use it, but if you're trying to convince your boss to use something, totally glossing over a fairly large negative is dishonest. Do the productivity gains from less verbose, clearer code? Probably, but the point is it's not just Java++; it's Java + some very important things - some very important tools, which is a totally different equation.
As someone running DP4 as their primary OS (running it full-time makes it easier for me to run into edge-case issues with apps I care about), Lion lacking stability is news to me.
Have you been having a problem with a particular language?
I've been using Sublime Text to work on code with comments in Japanese without a problem for almost 2 years now (well, the fonts were squished at first, but that bug was fixed a long time ago).
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No, Apple doesn't. What Apple has is a "download server components from the web during install to lower initial download costs" step.
There seems to be more evidence of a cohesive strategy on Microsoft's part given their investment in Facebook and purchase of Skype.

On the other hand, given the invitation only rollout of Google+ it looks more like Google was forced to do something quickly before they were ready. Being first out the gate is a tactic, not a strategy.

As for Facebook having the kinks worked out - with the better part of a billion users they've got the big one solved.
There is such a project already, called PhoneGap:
http://www.phonegap.com/
If Facebook's video chat debut is anything like their text chat debut, I think Google+ still has the edge here. Facebook chat was (and to a degree, still is) pretty flaky. I've stopped holding my breath for new Facebook features because I find them to usually be buggy, especially when they debut. Hell, all day today my Facebook has been on the fritz. There's some random mesh of newsfeed/friend list on the right that is either the ugliest thing they've ever devised or somebody screwed up.

Also, a huge benefit of g+ that I saw somebody point out was that I get my social presence on other google properties like Gmail, Gcal, Finance, etc via the new top navigator bar. So I don't think G+ is only video chat.
Hm, I could do a clean install but that was with DP1 or DP2. Are you sure there's online activation?
I'm pretty sure the content guys want there to be more competition in the channel-delivery space... even with acquisition, I think Hulu will survive as it exists, if not get better.
Those two URLs don't result in the same behaviour. After clicking the first, you have to click back three times to go back to the current page. This would surprise most users.
It's funny because the same exact thing happened to me. Notch now dominates my Stream, to the point I might just remove him from my circles.
> there is no reason for your mom to switch

That may not be such a bad thing. On top of that, unless they fix their privacy concerns, some people will always prefer Google+.
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> The problem is that Google+ is an attempt to solve Google's problem ... rather than solving an actual problem experienced by social networking service consumers

I disagree that it's not solving users' problems. Circles seems to be an intuitive way to group people that you have different conversations with. Yes, FB has lists but IMHO circles is a better approach.
In the court of public image, simply loosing the data in the first place will cost you business, now matter how secure that data may be. The trust to secure your data will be lost, regardless of whether you used bcrypt or sha or plaintext.

If you consider the loss of business to be pretty much constant in the event of a loss of control of the customer's data, what is the value of extra server(s) (plus the cost of maintenance) for one of the least valuable pieces of information a customer can give you?

As an example, look at Instapaper. How many people are more concerned that the government has access to their sha1 encrypted passwords as opposed being concerned that the government has free access to their reading history?
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I do a lot of work involving bibliographies that are used in LaTeX. The care and feeding of such things is a major PIA that this language/approach seems to be a very good fit for. At least good enough to give it a shot!
Hey guys, founder of Everyme here. As for why this is different than a contact list, imagine if your address book was kept accurate and up-to-date magically. If a friend changes their phone number, why should your address book get out of date?

Couple that with having everything about your contacts at your fingertips (posts, messages, profiles), awesome automatic grouping, syncing to everywhere, and you have a completely new address book.
I personally think Google's killer feature here isn't really a feature at all. It's the notifications on all Google properties.

As I'm using Gmail, search, documents, finance, whatever -- I get + notifications about friends, their updates, and photos. It's very distracting! But it also gets me to use the service more than I use Facebook -- and it's just started.
> As for Facebook having the kinks worked out - with the better part of a billion users they've got the big one solved.

Not sure where you're going here... Facebook and video chat aren't synonymous, so how does having millions of users mean they're going to get it right?

> Google was forced to do something quickly before they were ready

Can you explain why you think Google+ isn't ready? What's "broken"?
This is nothing. I had a director tell me he wants to port all of 300K contacts and 2M call records and other CRM records to excel. Yes, excel.

Today the sales reporting for the company runs off of excel sheets, hundreds of them and reconciliation is a mess. Once the reports are made, he wants it copied to powerpoint slides. People are particular about the color of the text boxes. This report has to be sent out weekly. No one reads a thing. This is a very very large MNC I am talking about. A company that employs over 70k people and makes money suggesting things like strategy and IT vision to other firms. It's appalling.

I got a terrible year end rating anyway and I was told I talk too much technology. I missed a raise and got a reduced bonus all for a bunch of monkeys in pants.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6193858/pushstate-and-seo

pushState's SEO issues.
My whole family is now on plus.
i say become a hobo, the pay is much better
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Yes, that is technically correct. Technically, because in practice zynga is dead without facebook: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/07/zyngas-ipo-filing...

Let me explain a bit more: no other social network has the combination of virality (some call it spam), reach and suitable audience (non-geeks, and non-teens) that facebook offers. With the current roster of games, zynga can only be successful on facebook. Sure, if facebook shuts down their channels, zynga will move to orkut, or hi5 or some chinese social network. BUT, over there zynga will make 1/10 of the revenues, basically because they are popular in non-lucrative markets. OTOH, Zynga has signed an agreement with facebook, in which, i presume facebook has agreed not to cut off the viral channels for a number of years.
Google+ has a Facebook page ....
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I like that at least Google is trying new ideas. Consumers in general are experiencing problems in social networking. At least, they are not satisfied with current social networking products. I think a lot of people are looking for something better than what exists today. Google, with its scale, engineers, and obvious commitment to the social space, is in a position to make a difference.

Competition is good.
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Is the blackout automatic? Or must it be done manually?
Didn't catch that one, nice: I mostly use the month view, so that's a real space saver.
What do your data analysts/scientists do on a normal basis? I just sent in my applications to both because it sounds like the technical experimenting I loved doing during my graduate school.
I'm "put off by paying" because when I buy a game it always looks like shit because it's all stretched out to fit a tablet. On top of that app discovery is painful.
The funniest part is that Zynga has made a solid business selling virtual goods, while Groupon has built a crap business selling the real thing.
I don't think teenage girls haven't heard of Skype, though...
harrywincup - Thanks in advance if anyone's got a spare invite :)
Right, the Gervais Principle is based on what employees know, think and expect, whereas the Iron Law of Bureaucracy is based on how employees act. Just two different ways of looking at the same fundamental principle: entitlement, while desirable, ultimately destroys groups.
Changes to our policies
How can there be SEO issues? I thought the whole point of pushState was to allow AJAX loading of content (without refresh) but not break URLS with #!.
By 'immune' I mean with an ability for recourse. That benefit is not reserved to mere mortals.
When about an hour ago, someone to whom I sent an invite clicked on the big orange button in the email, they got a page telling them, "Already invited? We've temporarily exceeded our capacity. Please try again soon."
Text event color looks actually dependent on something like the value component (as in HSV) of the calendar color. I have both a few black-text ones and white-text ones due to my previous choice of color.
Except terrorists aren't any more rational than the general public are (hey, some would argue even less so), and it's the terrorists who keep on trying to target the planes, not the subways, at least in the United States. If there were a series of successful high-casualty subway attacks you'd see insane security on the subway (and let's really hope that doesn't happen).

Besides, you just can't kill that many people on the subway. A single bomb on a 747 can kill 400 people... and with a single gun you could kill thousands. (A knife probably isn't good enough any more since folks will fight back, but with an assault rifle you can probably kill anyone who tries.)
> From now our new policy is to break every embargo.

> We will honor embargoes from trusted companies and PR firms who give us the news exclusively

Bleh.
Time Warner Cable -> Bill Pay will not allow the site to load in Chrome. Then again, infrastructure operator interests are not generally aligned with Google's (an open web and TV over IP).

On a related note, it doesn't look as if there is a good user agent switcher in the Chrome Web Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search?hl=en-US&q=use...). Does anyone know if the extension API can modify Chrome HTTP headers? Firefox has a pretty good add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-sw...

UPDATE: Upon further inspection, looks like this experimental API does the trick: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/experimental.we...
That's what's so good about Google+ right now (and why it's so interesting)... there is a lot of potential.

There are also rough edges (updating circles while trying to share something requires a page reload for me. ick).

Google is back in a big way, and it's exciting.
Why Google's "circles" are likely to fail
Parallaxing Parallax on iOS
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>> I can't just add myself to someone I like's circle, right? They have to add me?

> Right, you can add anyone you want to your circles, but you can't touch their circles at all.

Not only that, but also you cannot learn the names of the circles they put you in.
I too like it very much, except for the one thing they did not redesign: the event input balloon, which already looked out of place before, but now feels even more dated.
At the top right of each post is a tiny arrow in a circle. It's a menu -- choose 'Mute this post' and it will no longer float to the top.
Well, the word "hangout" doesn't really jump out as meaning "video chat" to me.
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The phone he mentioned previously using had an on screen keyboard so I inferred from his emphasis that the phone have an actual keyboard that he meant a physical one.
The other side of the coin that no one has pointed out yet:

The innovation represented by these patents just made $4.5 billion. That's the definition of rewarding innovation.

"Instead of spending billions on new R&D"

If it was legal for every KIRF to come in and use every other companies innovations there would be much less incentive to invest in R&D to begin with.
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How about "circle us" on Google+?

Edit: I did see mentioned on G+ that they would eventually build in support for organisations, so presumably you would add them to one of your circles if you wanted to receive updates.
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Half the population is below the median.

I get annoyed when anyone talks about how stupid everyone else is, but how awesome they are. You're probably not that awesome, and everyone else probably isn't that stupid.
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WoW and gmail and other 2-factor authentication use the simpler method, 2-factor authentication using a shared secret that isn't passed over the wire (the seed for a PRNG). However, this method is still vulnerable if a hacker gains access to the seeds on the host computer. This is what happened to RSA recently and it's a very bad thing when it happens.

What I was talking about was something different. Public/private key encryption where only the public key is stored on the server.

Here's an example scenario: the server generates a random pass-phrase then encrypts it using the public key. The end-user then uses their smartphone where the private key is stored to decrypt the message and return the original pass-phrase back to the server, proving they have the private key. There are similar ways of achieving a similar result that are less cumbersome and awkward. The advantage is that if the public key is leaked it's not a big deal, it can't be used to gain access to the system.
Facebook also has groups, which seem to do the job for most users.
Random thought: Apple could now play the kingmaker in video chat.

They could connect FaceTime with either Facebook/Microsoft/Skype or Google+ to give either a lot more penetration in the non-tech US market.

More likely, they will just ignore both and just keep doing their own thing.
Don't VCs publish lists of the companies in their portfolio?

The first part is sensible, the second part sounds a bit paranoid. I've never heard of a VC funding a company that competes with another one in their portfolio, just to sabotage it.
"It’s incredibly stupid for Apple to get into a position where for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose. That’s really dumb."

Its amazing how on the money that quote is.
How is this different from HTC sync? Right now I have my Facebook contacts linked to contacts in my phone, and it pulls in information from their Facebook accounts?
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The ability to mass-add to circles would be nice, it's annoying as hell to add people one at a time. Also, something similar to Facebook Pages. I'd like to see a HN page made.
Maybe it's just me but I've reviewed a couple of hundred and saw nothing I'd want to use in preference to the ones people always use.

In any case, even if it's true that they're hidden away so people find them whose fault is that?

The whole reason MS changed the UI to include the ribbon was that every time they asked people about new features they should include they were given ideas for things Office already did so the idea was to make things easier to find. Maybe it's time they did something for templates.
I agree that it makes sense - then again so do group security policies under Windows. And managing Circles will appeal to pretty much the same set of people who would find an afternoon of setting security policies appealing.

Circles are just not something which is going to cause a quarter of a billion people to switch away from Facebook - particularly given Google+ is invitation only. And even if that many people switched, Google+ would be half the current size of Facebook.
>>'Google Calendar has some design decisions that I disagree with, mostly on the basis of some colors being different.'

Pretty sure non of us would be reading it if he'd titled the article like that.
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It's a really good moment for Google to completely open up Plus. Hype wears off fast.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Google set up federation, considering that Google Talk started out without federation and they were trying to get Wave to have federation.
Mark Zuckerberg's Google+ Profile?
I love it! It would help if I can edit the fonts when describing the event/place, to make it more reader friendly.
I already submitted feedback about this one, but I'd love to be able to use Buzz as a blogging platform from my Google+ profile.

I'm not quite sure how high priority that should be, however. Maybe some sort of re-launch or re-purposing of Buzz would be in order after some time.
Interesting.

I'm using DP4 to make sure my app (getcloak.com) is compatible -- I've found DP4 to be quite buggy: Kernel panics not evidently tied to third party drivers, crashes in Safari, plenty of UI glitches etc. Oh, and Ableton Live doesn't work, not that this is necessarily Apple's fault.

This is on a late-2010 MacBook Pro. My impression talking to friends is that this is not an uncommon experience, though clearly not everyone has these issues.

That said, I used to work at Microsoft. Next to the (years of) beta builds of Vista I had to suffer through, Lion is practically paradise. ;-)
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