skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting thing about disapora was that it was meant to be federated, like wave, and email. Plus is not federated at all.

Therefore they are only similar in that they have targeted people's areas of displeasure regarding facebook, and this is hardly remarkable. They were both built specifically to compete with facebook, so this whole discussion is almost tautological.
You pay experience to interns

Very dependent on the type of internship. I saw one (unpaid) internship offering to give people experience working in a convience store. They basically wanted a normal employee to work as a cashier, but didn't want to pay them.
Some friends of mine (first degree friends, this is verified) moved to Dublin and just, well, didn't leave.

At least in 2006 it was rather easy to get a tax identification number (I forget what it's called) with a signed affidavit and a witness saying you live at some address, and you can use that to get work. Now, without better documentation the government taxes you at the highest rate possible, and since you won't file you'll never get a penny back.

Also, they worked in card houses, so maybe the documentation requirements weren't as strict as a professional programming environment. Oh, and I'm sure it's all sorts of illegal. But just doing it is easier than it seems. :)
People are not products.
With unlimited resources, it's the code only executed once that becomes the performance issue. Amdahl's law shows that you can't run faster than the sequential sections.
Does it matter? Attackers will always target whatever platform is the most popular.
Mark Zuckerberg's profile on Google+
At this point, who can blame him.
Yeah, I am getting thousands of visitors... :)
AFAIK, hangout seems to be a much casual thing. If you want to find specific targets I don't think you can do that with hangout. However I don't have an invite yet so I might be wrong.
What I learned today: Take a break
Im starting a new series of short, daily posts as part of my contribution to VentureBent. Therefore, starting today I will be posting about what I learn while living and breathing the NYC tech scene.
I think part of the problem in Ireland is the government are now touting internships as a solution to our unemployment/economic problems. In some case, they might work out where there's real training and some level of compensation. It's probably good if you can take someone with _no_ experience in a field, let them still receive their social welfare perhaps with a bonus, and after a limited period they graduate on to a real job. Unfortunately, I don't think that will happen and many companies are basically looking for free labour.

What's even more galling, from my perspective, is the government is taking money out of the pensions of private citizens to pay for this "jobs initiative".
I know Amazon pays very little attention to competitors. However, their customers might have asked them to lower prices in response to Azure.
Im starting a new series of short, daily posts as part of my contribution to VentureBent. Therefore, starting today I will be posting about what I learn while living and breathing the NYC tech scene.
Agreed. Plus next time you won't have to go looking for it on Stack again because it'll be ingrained, painfully, in your brain. And you'll probably learn a whole lot of other things along the way too.

StackOverflow isn't a total no-no, just don't make it priority 1.
No, it's hard to keep someone locked up, but it is surprisingly easy to have them locked up in the first place. It takes days to resolve this.
That's a good point. It would be interesting to get a read on the latest Aurora builds. I might install it and do it later today.
Show HN: My first app, force directed mind mapping/notes for iPad
Hello HN,

I just recently got my first app on the app store.
It's called "Bubble Notes" and it's pretty straightforward: mind mapping presented with a force directed algorithm.

My aim was to create a more streamline/simplified app more suited to quickly mapping out ideas (Individual maps are referred to as "Notebooks" in the app), rather than documenting complex relationships or generating professional or "enterprise" quality mind-maps.

I had a lot of fun making it and would greatly appreciate any comments, critique, and advice.

On the app store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bubble-notes/id443144461
The Swedes just used basic Keynesian economics to fight the recession. They went into the recession with the budget in good shape, unlike the Bush approach of deficits and expensive wars. Then when the recession hit their huge welfare system kicked into high gear plus they added a stimulus of tax cuts and infrastructure projects, unlike the Obama approach of no net stimulus when you add the smallish federal stimulus minus state government cuts.

Also their central bank cranked up QE higher than our Fed, and their politicians didn't run around freaking out about "debasing the currency".

Read about it here http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/five-economic...
By the way, what's with the fugly Google+ URL's? Don't you agree they should make the URL's a lot nicer? There is no vanity URL either, which I'm sure quite a lot of people would like. Google has never seemed to get this. You should look at Google Sites url's. It's like 5 words in there before you even see your site's name. I wish they made them a bit more elegant and streamlined.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but to me in looks more like a C++ code generation than real compiler.

I would like to see real effort to have Clojure on the bare metal, but that will probably have to wait until "Clojure in Clojure" get more priority on clojure core.
It's natural Google+ to have someting similar to Diaspora, or Facebook, or any other social community service.

And at the end of the day, It doesn't matter who was the first. What matters is who will be the first that will do it right.
I wonder why mathematicians use this funny i-notation? You could write complex numbers as vectors, e.g. 2+3i <=> (2,3). Of course, it is more terse to write i instead of (0,1) and this seems to matter a lot to mathematicians.
I was pretty certain that Opera's reported score couldn't be that bad. I am definitely very suprised.

Overall, I have to say, I am a huge fan of having these thorough tests come to web standards. So that browsers can't just say "We support HTML5". I am really tired of the buzzword nature of standards recently. Hopefully, this will get all browsers to step up their game.
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Has anyone with a startup that wanted China as a potential growth opportunity ever try and address this problem? The only reasonable solution I can think of, is having family in high places lobby for you. Thoughts?
Correct. I cannot edit it anymore, though. :(
I have high hopes they do.
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Pretty sure that you are thinking of Norway. Sweden doesn't do oil in any serious way. Sweden is trying to be oil-free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Sweden_an_Oil-Free_Socie...

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Sweden) Sweden's main industries are: telecommunications equipment, wood pulp and paper products, motor vehicles, pharmaceutical products, iron and steel.

That's quite a nice spread.
Add me to the list of people violently disappointed that they cannot use Plus with their new-infrastructure Apps account.

I feel like the door staff won't let me into the exclusive new nightclub because my clothes are too smart.

(Note: this is just an analogy. I do not attend exclusive nightclubs. Nor do I own any smart clothes, come to think of it...)
He's right, My dad, who lives in Romania, has a 100mbps internet connection bundled with a 5GB 3G plan for about $13/mo.

I am paying $60 for a 50/8 pipe, and consider myself happy, compared to other US residents.
> reading about solid-state-drives in the 90s

Or before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory

The infant mortality on apparently neat technology is horrific.
> why would you ever want to do that

There are still a lot of banking applications in COBOL and other ooold languages around - I have always been wondering how much of a financially interesting niche this could be... work few hours a week and bill them royally since there are not too many people around who can do it anymore and a lot of them are bound to retire sooner or later.
I've had both open. They compliment each other.
i is commonly used as the unit vector in the x-dimension (a basically meaningless term without more context). 3-dimensional vectors are often written as:

5i + 2j + 3k.

Since you can assume that 2 is getting multiplied by the unit real vector (equal to 1), you can think of 2+3i as

2r + 3i

but why write the 'r' if we know 2*1 = 2?
It would hardly be surprising if he had joined to see if there was anything to worry about, would it?
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It's about survival.

For politics:If everything is well we wouldn't need politics to make it right. Therefore politics must assure that everything is screwed for them to prosper.

For banksters: they must assure that that everyone is indebted and even entire countries in order for them to survive.

Don't expect solutions from those that thrive on the misery of others.
agreed, totally and utterly. human readable urls are such a "tend" accepted wisdom, that i find it hard to believe it wouldn't be implemented
yeah. good point. sorry
At the risk of stating the obvious, I don't think its really him, but a nice bit of PR either way - subtle.
Sweden has practically no oil production at all, and never had any. The Scandinavian country with large oil reserves is Norway.

What you are talking about doesn't even describe Norway properly -- they have largely not spent the revenue they got from oil. Instead, it has been collected into a sovereign wealth fund. At present, the fund holds some $100 000 for every Norwegian. Future decline of oil profits will be covered by the investment income from the fund. There hasn't been any cutting of government services to fit revenues -- there hasn't been any need to.

Sweden, like the other Scandinavian countries, has held a responsible and rational budget for most of it's existence as a democratic country. So while it might be incredibly rare for governments worldwide, for some reason it seems that the Scandinavians can make the idea of a well-run welfare state work. I have yet to figure out why they can do it and most of the rest of the world seemingly can't.
The future of medicine: we're decades away from the huge advances
I see most of those as "revolutionary" applications of existing technologies/hardware. When I said hardware maybe I meant "technology"?
Well, best of luck. It's a cool project, and I think marketing is going to be the decisive battle for you guys.

FWIW, I wanted to chime in on the issue raised by others. For use in smaller groups, much of the issue of identifiable style could be obfuscated by instructing the users on using generic sentence structure, word count, rate of input, and synonyms.

Or, you could even have a list of commonly useful expressions, and typing isn't an option or is limited to filling in blanks as with MadLibs. The list of stuff that's hard to say to directly is probably not all that long.

Best of luck.
4chan doesn't threaten their political power the way an effective social network does.
PROTIP to invite your friends:

Post something in your "feed", and "target" them, entering their email address. They will receive an email telling them about your post. When clicking the link to view the post, they will be prompted to register.

This worked flawlessly for all my friends.
@2 By "playing nice" do you mean taking over? Can I export any of the information I put into Facebook into different sites? Can I use my Facebook email address with a different client?
As everything in Google+ you can choose a Circle, all your Circles, your Extended Circle, or just choose contact by contact, I think it's definitely a Skype killer :)
Aha, I missed that before. Thanks for your explanation!
At first, I was skeptical. But if you look at the people that he has in his circles, it starts to look more and more legit (Blake Ross from Mozilla, Pedram Keyani from Facebook, Sam Lessin from Drop.io, now owned by FB, etc.)

In this case, I'm gonna go with "yes, this is actually him".
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Better products and relationships begin with better briefing.
That is no Windows bashing. But whining about "Windows bashing" does not help to make the product better. Its the same as Linux trolls replying every critique with "but its free". It does not help!

What is the "market penetration" of Android + iOS? How many botnets run on those devices? Exactly. Got it?
Are CS students not cynical enough? Compared to, say engineers (non-software)? Or is it just the effect of fierce and deep competition?

Or perhaps the potential for learning a lot (practical knowledge) in a short time is greater in software dev work than others?
Google+ Invites inside
I've got a few invites to give out. Either throw your email here (removed IRC channel)

Would appreciate it if you get an invite to also invite other people!

Click the grey "Share" button at the top right of the screen and type in a random message and add emails below it. Don't know if it's intentional or not but this invites people to google+.

edit:

Looks like ONLY *gmail.com accounts work. Google Apps does NOT seem to be working.

Also, people are getting my invites but getting message "temporarily exceeded capacity" so who knows if they've now disabled this.

edit 2: I've invited ~25 people in 20 minutes. New people are getting their invites but are unable to log in, so looks like it's either disabled for me now or disabled for all. If you've joined, please go through this list and invite other people!
I would suggest that Apple's historic attitude toward the Mac as a gaming platform is reflected in the effort your graphic engine provider invested in creating drivers for each OS and in the case of OSX perhaps a driver specification which may stifle flexibility - for example NVIDIA's latest Snow Leopard driver is designed so that it runs on everything from chipset to worksation graphics engine. [http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.02.25f01-driv...]
The point of a sword tended to be involved in the process, money being less of a thing in the middle ages.

Anyway, your analogy will seem more believable we start to see the children of interns forced to work for the companies that their parent work for, interns being paid with tickets only redeemable at the company store, having to ask permission to marry, only being allowed to marry other employees, not being allowed to move off the company campus, etc... lots of a way to go on the road to serfdom.
I think the problem might be that reddit is already as anonymous as someone wants it to be, so that alone isn't a feature.

Where it's a cool idea is when the anonymity is used to nullify influence of prominent users for a community that has that as a problem. You'd need a sufficiently interesting topic with that need, though.
I use CDNetworks, and at a 50TB commit I'm getting /much/ better pricing than that... I've even been quoted better pricing than that by Akamai (which people in this industry view as notoriously expensive). I might encourage you to drop the quotes around "real" and look at actually real CDNs (the kind you have to call and negotiate pricing with): they aren't as expensive as you apparently think they are.
The reason I used ref counting instead of a proper garbage collector is that, most microconstollers have couple kilobytes of ram (a ATmega328 has 2KB) every garbage collection scheme I've looked at was using a lot of ram, plus ref counting is slow but it is predictively slow, if you are taking measurements at 100 times a second it will always be 100 times a second, you won't have pauses right in the middle of the routine (or say when you are in the air making a maneuver).
While in college i chased a small design studio you have never heard of to take me as an unpaid intern.
I learnt loads just watching them run a studio and work with clients.
I do not see how they could possibly have justified paying me for the little value i gave back.
Still gratefull for the opportunity they gave me.
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Hoooo Invite me please! s@stevengilligan.me :)

Edit: it's a google app account but if it only works with gmail account try this one : steven.gilligan8@gmail.com
I can't verify that, but I'm referring to the tiered pricing structure in the US (or how the US companies want to introduce it). Given what they want to charge for the various tiers, it's opportunistic gouging.
Obligatory Google Cache link:
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In Germany I often see unpaid interns, but actually not in a bad situation. There are 2 situations in Germany when an unpaid internship will happen: One is, when the students working as interns are still going to their schools and maybe are first or second semesters. So actually they don't really create value, but they cost time, energy, working hours of coworkers, electricity, rent and so on. The company basically already pays a load to have this intern sitting there and a high chance to get no value back in return. I think in this situation it is quite fair, not to pay wages.

The second situation is, when students try to get a job, which a lot of people want to have, like at Google, Price Waterhouse Coopers and so on. In this situation the brand alone will help them out later to get better jobs or even give them a chance for a full time job in this company that others can't get. It's a little like doing a start-up. You put in a lot for the small chance to get a unnatural big payoff.

In both situations I can't disapprove of unpaid internships. I hope with sharing these experiences, other readers might get a more objective point of view. It is not all bad about unpaid internships!
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this has been done
>>A lot of the problem is users' reluctance to upgrade off of XP to Win7

Yes, that's old news and the reason Andrioid and iOS have "marketplaces" that update automatically and reliably. Windows still doesn't.

>>I'm not sure what you're talking about in terms of "MS-Versions" of HTML and JS

Then you haven't been a Web developer in the past 15 years, I guess.
Sweden also seems to offer free college tuition, even for advanced degrees. Coincidence? Maybe...

It's too bad you apparently can go to jail there if you have sex with someone, they regret it, and then a politician wants to make that a crime afterwards.
Romania: 100mbps fiber + 5GB 3G bundle, about $13/mo

http://www.rcs-rds.ro/internet-digi-net/fiberlink/pachete
Thank you very much for the invite!
Some interesting data points in there... Japan, government dept is 200% GDP? Never knew that...

Belgium 100.7%? France 94.1%? That's not much better than Ireland (102.4%) and Portugal (103.1%)!

Obviously some countries are much better at managing their debts than others (or at least their public image). Can we learn anything?
FWIW, my understanding is that the British government figure is significantly and artificially inflated by having had to bail out Northern Rock in the banking crisis - it ended up meaning that the balance sheets of any NR depositors technically counted against the national debt, but that's hardly what most actually mean when they're investigating the national debt.
I've explored similar concepts. In particular I've found it rather powerful to be able to export/import code refs with:

use YAML::Syck;
$YAML::Syck::UseCode = 1;

Watch out though, when you take executable code from a user.
Just a note: I don't know if this works with non-gmail accounts!
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The death of the hobby shop?
Would love an invite! rodriguezcommaj@gmail.com
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"Learn a new programming language"

I would rephrase this to learn a new programming paradigm. There are fundamental differences between static typing and dynamic typing, object orientation and functional, manual memory management and garbage collection. There are also "pure" single-paradigm languages and multi-paradigm languages. If you learn the same type of language multiple times, you're really just learning new syntax and probably a couple of extra idiosyncrasies, so it's important that you pick languages with fundamental differences.

Compare going through this learning path:

Perl -> PHP -> JavaScript -> Python -> Ruby -> Node.js

To going through this:

Java -> C -> Scheme -> JavaScript -> Erlang

For example.
Note that I'm not claiming that some competent people could fix HURD right now if the political environment were better. It's more that the politics moved the project into the least tenable position. I don't know if there's a complete history somewhere, but just some things I managed to piece together from Wikipedia articles:

Berkeley wouldn't cooperate with development on the 4.4BSD-Lite modified kernel, so in 1987 HURD decided to go with the Mach microkernel. But then they waited 3 years for licensing issues to clear up before investing any real effort into it. CMU stopped work on Mach in 1994, so HURD switched to Utah Mach. Utah stopped working on it in 1996. GNU kept working on that one under the name GNU Mach. And then (from Wikipedia): "In 2002, Roland McGrath branched the OSKit-Mach branch from GNU Mach 1.2, intending to replace all the device drivers and some of the hardware support with code from OSKit. After the release of GNU Mach 1.3, this branch was intended to become the GNU Mach 2.0 main line; however, as of 2006, OSKit-Mach is not being developed.

As of 2007, development continues on the GNU Mach 1.x branch, and is working towards a 1.4 release."

In 2004, an effort was started to move to a more "modern" microkernel. L4 was the first and it died almost immediately. Work started toward the Coyotos microkernel, but between 2007 and 2009, focus shifted to Viengoos. But then "As of 2011, development on Viengoos is paused due to Walfield lacking time to work on it. In the meantime, others have continued working on the Mach variant of Hurd."
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That view of (democratically elected) governmnets is scary.
how about an invite please?
How can I search for things in my stream?!?
Thanks! jess.grokcode@gmail.com
I agree. I saw the Google+ circles and immediately thought of that preso. Makes me very excited to try Google+, too bad I can't get in!
Thanks!
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This is exactly what I was thinking, since I saw that presentation last year. It could be that the Diaspora guys were inspired by the Google research, and not the other way around. It just took Google longer to push it out to a product.
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Thanks a lot
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I'll jump on this train. Email in profile! Thanks in advance to anyone who has an invite left
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Thanks.
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mysuuu@gmail.com many thanks!
Neat, but those drawings scare me.
Significant discussion already:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712628
An Invite would be awesome, thanks! theronhorgan@gmail.com
Flash used to last much longer. But flash these days is used in MP3 players etc. I would imagine the average number of writes is something like .... 1. Because when my boys fill up a gadget, they buy a bigger gadget. Like most folks.

Even an SSD drive used as a system volume gets written maybe 1 time. SUre some blocks get thrashed, but wear-leveling means they write different blocks. So an mtbf of a dozen would probably serve.
Depends on how they got to your site.

If the link is from HN or Slashdot, then yeah, I'd -easily- believe that 23% will not only leave after 3 seconds but go post about it where they found the link.