skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't think phones ring because we rely on our ears in times of danger. It's because hearing is one of the senses that doesn't require exclusive focus (you would not want to stare at your phone all day until it starts blinking, although in some offices they do)."

One could say the same about cars. Silent cars would require much more focus and no amount of adapting will change that.
Note the term: "on or through the Services". And you forgot the last part: "This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services."

The "highlights" is a quite readable version of the ToS: http://www.google.com/accounts/tos/highlights/utos-us-en-h.h...
GeoIP (IP-to-location database). http://status.wikimedia.org/8777/156490/GeoIP-lookup
That's actually pretty boilerplate for any website that accepts user-uploaded content, even if it's just the text of a status update. Standard common-sense applies here: if you never want someone to ever find something out about you, never tell anyone else, on the Internet or in real life.
Yeah, I was a tad hyperbolic in just referring to the disks. I would expect the costs to be around $20/GB/year when you also factor in power - bigger drives are making a difference, but the other factors always cost more than the disks themselves.

It doesn't change the fact that 60TB is tiny for a company whose every product involves storing enormous quantities of data and serving them at monstrous scale.
Does the author even have a Google+ account?
Or has he checked the "Profile and privacy" tab at least?

"Search results

Your name and any other fields you make public in your profile are searchable on the web and may appear in Google Search results."

"Public profile information

You choose what information in your profile you want to make visible to specific individuals, to circles, or to everyone"

That's the whole point of Circles... You're asked to setup these settings for every single field...

Yeah I know PR is the way they build from the ground up but I really hope this is not the way FB wants to fight back...

Put your face on "admin" "in Products", every other single post has a real name behind it...
Maybe you should report it to Google, in case they are not aware (via the feedback button).

You could also raise the issue to a community manager: https://plus.google.com/109895887909967698705
> 3k is a bit small...

And Gates explicitly asked how big each email was, on average.
NYTimes.com daily uniques down ~40% since paywall implementation
The reason it makes sense for G+ isn't because of antitrust concerns, but because it would be consistent with their "do no evil" mantra.

Regarding the second point, I have no problem with Google saying these are "beta" APIs, subject to change. Their services carry this same label. As a developer I'd much rather see their full API stack, with some marked as beta, rather than a much neutered API.

With that said, I'd like to see the same for WP too, but with Google they have set a public position of doing what is right even if it is against their corporate interests -- I want them to uphold it -- not just when it is a PR win.
>I find it hard to believe that in the millennia of recorded observations of animals, that no one observed a single instance of rock-bashing or stick-throwing.

Pliny's Natural History, which every natural philosopher and biologist in the west up until the 18th century likely read, is full of observations of interesting and apparently more than instinctual animal behavior, including the use of stones by ravens to raise water level in a jug (the observation at the root of the well-known fable by Aesop).

Against the long tradition of seeing humans as in some essential way distinct from animals (by virtue of tool use, or speech, or reason, or compassion, and so on) there is a counter-tradition (from Empiricus to Montaigne) of denying the distinction, and that tradition has collected gobs of anecdotes and observations of apparent reason, communication and tool use).
> the only information that's forced available is your name and your profile picture.

...And your gender.

(And to be pedantic, your short bio is also forced public, though you can opt to leave it blank. Similarly, any photos that you're tagged in are forced public and the only recourse is to completely hide the "Photos" tab on your profile or reject all tags of yourself on photos.)
Unless it's changed recently (I haven't followed the discussion since last year) it's using the free version of the MaxMind IP->city database (http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity).

I can't seem to find the relevant mailing list threads, but here's some evidence of ad-hoc accuracy testing last August: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting
Good list. Nothing on there that I haven't seen or heard about before, but it's good for people just starting out in Django.

For reference, the bible for finding stuff like this in the Django community is: http://djangopackages.com/
For me, it was wrong by about 50 miles.
it's a classic situation.The old conservative regime can't understand that it's time has passed.I hope they won't accept such laws and Iranian society and people won't be scared to write and speak what they want.In other case, I won't envy iranians
So because it's boilerplate to any other website that makes it acceptable and right?
He might be right. Google+ may never challenge Facebook or Twitter.

This doesn't mean Google+ will be a failure though, because unlike what he asserts, Google+ does offer one thing they don't: A tight integration with the Google services. Each of the various services used to have their own ways of sharing, now (or soon) they will have the same interface, namely Google+.

People may still use Facebook to keep track of old acquaintances and twitter to follow celebrities, but use Google+ to share photos from Picasa and their Android phone with their family, share documents from Google Docs with their colleagues, and Hangout with their friends. Which also explain why Google+ put Circles first, the various services doesn't overlap that much.

Joshua Gans will most likely be an active user of Google+ because of one these services, namely Google Search. Google Search is being tied to Google Profiles through the rel=author tag. This will put his name and picture next to his writings. The user clicking on them will go to his profile page. If he also share links to his writings on Google+, these will be shown alongside his profile. That will be hard to resist for any blogger.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...

TL;DR: Google+ mainly makes Google better. It has overlap in functionality with both Facebook and Twitter, and make take marketshare from those, but that is not the sole success criteria.
I'm working again in enterprise startups, and one of our huge selling points is the huge difference in UX / UI.
Contacts are convenient and easy once we get used to them but they still are medical devices sitting directly on your eyeball and there are plenty of situations where things can go very wrong.

Also, you really are supposed to own a pair of glasses for the situations in which you cannot safely wear contacts which effectively makes contacts a luxury item, not really suitable for people who cannot afford the fitting and health check nor the follow up visits in a situation where something goes wrong (e.g. an eye infection).

Recently my sister saw a patient who lost partial vision because she had an infection and just put some Visine drops in (it constricts the blood vessels reducing their appearance, which exacerbated her health issue) and wore her contacts anyway for several days, ignoring the pain.

That is an extreme example but contacts are a whole 'nother can of worms compared to glasses. It isn't really as simple as having your prescription and your fit and sending you on your way. And it is really best to follow the doctor's suggestions, don't overwear, use the solution as directed, keep them out when you eye is irritated, etc.
Would this post have been written if McDonald had installed the software on hundreds of computers in public libraries instead? How about if the software was a keylogger?
If I read that correctly, if you use Google+ to share a picture of yourself with your two closest friends, they are giving them the legal right to use that picture in a world-wide advertising campaign. Or show it on a Jumbotron at the Super Bowl. Or email it to your boss. That's unlikely, though. I don't think Google in its current form will abuse that right.

However, since many current users are likely to outlive Google, a real problem will arise when Google fades away sometime in the next twenty or thirty years and is acquired, or Google+ is spun off into a company that then goes bankrupt. All content ever posted will be treated as an asset to be liquidated in the most lucrative way possible.

In other words, Google+ is just like Facebook, and you have to treat everything posted there as "eventually public." I think most people already treat Facebook as completely public because they're friends with people they don't trust, and they are hoping Google+ will be different. Apparently that hope is naive.

Nevertheless, Circles is still the best thing since sliced bread. It doesn't help with privacy much, but it lets me avoid spamming people with posts they aren't interested in. Family stuff goes to my family, geeky stuff goes to geeky people. Circles is for targeting your posts to the right people, not for privacy.
Interestingly, Google should still be counting those who click through to a NYTimes article, hit the paywall, and bounce. So the 40% drop is the result of 1) users not clicking NYTimes links anymore, or 2) fewer NYTimes links being presented to users, perhaps due to a drop in SERPs.

I'm a datapoint of only one, but #1 above certainly applies in my case. I find myself much less likely to click through, especially on my mobile device, because I'm annoyed when I find myself above the monthly free limit. After hitting the limit a couple of months, I just stop clicking thru in the first place.
We did this one literally last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2721905

Those ToS are standard for all user generated content sites. They are required for google to provide those services.

All his other points amount to "people might get confused and hurt themselves" and that's no argument. With that logic, we shouldn't have access to spoons, let alone social networking.
Yes exactly, they held my hand through the whole copy/paste process.
Go read the hundreds of posts surrounding the silly debate about the Dropbox Terms of Service clarification. Any online service that accepts user-uploaded content is basically forced to include this clause (or something similar to it) to get around legal oddities to even show you the very own content that you uploaded, not to mention your friends that you're sharing it with.

People that have no idea what they're talking about read these items in Terms of Service and scream bloody murder while the rest of the technical folks go about their business because they know the legality behind it.
I have to come out on the side of Apple on this one, but this is also a big case of serious over-reaction. While I did find the idea rather interesting, as a former employee of CompUSA in my youth, I was endlessly frustrated by pranksters (prankster, artist -- that depends on who's shoes you occupy at the time).

Every single day we had someone come in and try the old "echo y|format c:", create various silly GWBASIC:

10 PRINT "Something Really Profane"
20 GOTO 10

or at worst, insert virus infected floppy disks (yes, that was how long ago I worked there), or otherwise make the demo machines, both Mac and PC, non-functional.

We had a guy create a DOS TSR app that made the internal speakers spit out beeps at random intervals, random lengths and random pitches, all precisely timed. We thought it had to be an employee, since someone would have otherwise noticed a customer methodically visiting each machine.

I knew it was an employee, because I was the one who did it. No member of the Secret Service came knocking on my door. Thanks to the lack of video cameras at the time, I didn't even get reprimanded (my direct boss knew I did it, but thought it was art, or at least, rather funny, and it was done on a Wednesday in the summer, so it was minimally disruptive ... it also didn't involve taking pictures of folks without their knowledge ... legal or otherwise, that just has an ick factor to it).

EDIT: Didn't like that last sentence, needed more dots.
Play with and extend a scripting language.

This might be a little old school, but for example the Tcl source is considered to be very clean C.
You can download the source, implement your own command via shared library in C, or simply check out how commands like [open] or [expr] work by digging through the source.
I believe the same applys to Perl and maybe Python.
I guess this is a good article for the naive social network user, but honestly people need to shift their expectations of social networking privacy. Technically it's very challenging to make fine-grained visibility match up with user expectations. Coupling this with the fact that social networks make more money from public data means that social network privacy is going to be a dangerously shifting landscape during the growth phase until norms are established.

Facebook has always had the best privacy controls of any social network, but they get repeatedly burned in the press on pushing the privacy envelope. The criticisms are fair, but how could expect a business that makes its money from this data to behave any differently?

We would all be better off if we just treated all social networks like Twitter by default instead of having some misplaced faith that businesses are going to protect our privacy when it is only marginally (at best) in their interest to do so.
I believe "on or through the Services" refers to how the user posts the content: "any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services."

This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

Does this sentence limit Google's rights, or just its obligations? It seems like its purpose is to clarify when Google may revoke some terms of the license.
Same issue, but on Chrome for Mac, version 12.0.742.112.
UPDATE: False alarm, at least in the case below. It turns out that the mobile views (web or native) merge in information from your Google address book, but the normal web interface does not. Weird.

Oh. Wow. It's not just the android app, the mobile web interface does this too.

And it's not just email addresses, but the full "About" section of the profile as far as I can tell.

Take my friend Alice, for instance. In the Web UI, I only see that she's a student and identifies as female. On the mobile site, I see her email address, her Google Talk address, the fact that she's online, her mobile phone number, and her home address.
Integrative thinking - Have your cake and eat it too
Nice to see this addressed explicitly. I think it applies also to some other circles I've been in contact with, such as science and music.

For instance, in music there's this obsession about having "perfect pitch". I've seen a lot of people getting very stupid about it.
From my limited experience on this site, I know that I have hesitated/procrastinated from doing a "Show HN" thread about a grant that I recently received. It just doesn't have the sex appeal that VC has.
The Problem With 13″ MacBook Pros
Uniques are down, but I'm wondering how much subscriptions have gone up (if at all)?

I'm also wondering how many of those 'dropped' uniques are scrapers, quick bounces, etc?
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2. Consumer products experience (obviously mobile phone clip-ons would be most ideal)
3. Have successfully taken a prototype to market (especially in developing world)
4. Can manage a diverse technical team (ie software dev/UI design, industrial design, optics engineering, etc) w/ strong product strategy/vision<p>Position will be based in either the Bay Area or Boston areas.<p>David
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You could send it to the address you've sent/received from most recently. Or prioritize on gmails, since those are already Google accounts
Ask HN: Learning other (non-programming) languages?
We've all talked about ways to learn programming languages... But how about foreign languages? Has anyone had luck with software programs or CDs of any kind?
The `git.js` project I mention in the post seems to be heading that direction. It's only a few months old so it's missing some important features, but it looks to be on the right track and works with any repo.
>The ignorance the writer displays in the last paragraph is ridiculous. "Anti-stem cell research campaigns" are against use of embryonic stem cells. But the writer's own article indicates that adult stem cells were used here.

Some opponents have argued that stem-cell research is useless as well as, in the case of embryonic stem-cell research, ethically questionable. I take it the author's point is that now we can prove the general case: stem-cell research can lead to cures, and so disprove one of the (tactical) arguments of opponents. Rush Limbaugh at one point said embryonic stem-cell research in particular is useless, so he won't be bothered by this news.
orly? I've been enjoying 10 hour+ vids and more on YouTube for awhile now:

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yo...

http://m.youtube.com/?rdm=4n549yphi#/watch?desktop_uri=http%...

Also check the many long 4, 6, 10 hour vids in related vids
Who Owns Facebook? The Definitive Who's Who Guide to Facebook Wealth
I love articles like this. Excerpt:

Skin and cartilage substitutes are available through regenerative medicine techniques, and laboratory-grown tracheas, blood vessels and other tissues have been implanted in patients. Because of the promise of regenerative medicine, the U.S. military has funded an $85 million effort to develop regenerative medicine treatments for wounded warriors. Advancements made through this project will also benefit the civilian population.
New social war analysis: Facebook, Google+ and Twitter
Cool stuff! You might like http://huesound.org/ from Music Hack Day in SF this year.
>>beats Java, and has a hugely better memory usage<<

Do you understand that's the default JVM memory allocation?

>>But these benchmarks are highly suspect...<<

But "highly suspect" is just name calling.

>>C does not have a standard threading library, which is why there is no benchmark.<<

No it is isn't, here's a C program that uses pthread for multi-core

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=mand...
Cool. But what are the terms of use around this one?
Sorry, posted wrong chassis. Look for the SC847, that's 45x 3,5" in 4U.
With 32x 2T S-ATA you're looking at roughly $5000 (incl. disks).

And Google likely gets them quite a bit cheaper than that.
Yeah. The speakers referred to academia as an example, where researchers hold their work very closely and release it only to discover that (for example) someone else had done something more general.

On another note, I thought it was encouraging to hear some smart folks acknowledge that the white-hot embarrassment was typical after a mistake, and that the issue is usually exaggerated in our own minds.
Has the NYTimes.com paywall really influenced someone who read the website previously? When I'm browsing from chrome, I justly click Cmd+Shift+N prior to going there (launches incognito mode in chrome with a fresh set of cookies.)

When I'm browsing from my iPhone, I just click the little "x" at the top of the screen to stop the javascript from loading after the content has been downloaded - basically stops my iPhone from loading the paywall code, but loads all the content.

I always thought the paywall was really just to prevent the print subscribers from canceling their print subscription and switching over to web only - it convinces them they are getting value with their subscription. The Paywall itself was left deliberately leaky for people who only connected to it via the web.

But, based on the stats, it looks like there may be a large audience of casual subscribes that have been deterred from visiting the website - I'm sure that must be troubling for the NYT.
Might want to collaborate with these guys: http://www.weekendhacker.net/
>>then pretending you are being honest<<

... that's just ad hominem.
Have you even used Google+? Because I don't think you would be saying that otherwise. Just because Google+ is currently used mostly by techies, doesn't mean it has a difficult interface or anything like that. In fact it's MUCH more intuitive than Facebook.

After about 30-60 minutes of using it once, just about anyone should be able to know how to use it. I know people who kept asking me how to use Facebook days after setting them up.

Yes, Facebook is common and everyone has it, but that does not mean its interface is easier to use than Google+. Quite the opposite. It has a mediocre interface at best, and it's slow compared to Google+.

The reason it's used by techies mostly right now, is because most of the initial users that got invites were techies, and they invited mostly other techie guys. It has nothing to do with the interface or the product itself.
It's a variation on the genius myth in general. See Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" for details. We need narrative because of how our species evolved. Narrative needs conflict between a protagonist and antagonist.
Google+ is the one of a big amount Google's projects rather than Facebook, which is strictly oriented company. I think Facebook has and will have more brains and skills in social networking than Google+
Usually smaller or companies entering a new market influence a VAR or enterprise vendor who have a gap in their portfolio.

If you're a services company, it's essential -- you basically subcontract through the "mother" vendor's contract.

Cisco is doing this with their blade servers. They partner with EMC and NetApp, especially at entrenched IBM/HP customers where vertically integrated vendors like EMC are at a disadvantage.
I'm assuming this is rhetorical but I'm not getting the message. I see how it's a "sellers market" in this situation, but a heavily functioning source of recurring leads for a one time purchase should pay for itself in time- I can't see why a legitimate valuation wouldn't work in this scenario as well. Some of these "lead-gen" sites are probably individuals who would be happy to sell their site for 10 to 12 months revenue upfront.
what about pattern matching? that is imo one of the saddest omissions from go - it's not a "huge" feature like continuations, but i find it makes a language significantly more pleasant to work with.
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