skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know people who have received invites, so it must still be working, even if only occasionally.
You and I know that, but the purpose of the poll isn't to be accurate--it's to advertise Google+ on social news sites like HN.
Yup, isn't that the whole idea of open source? - I do something and make it available, if you wanna use it it's your issue, not mine, I have no obligation to you. If I want to name it whatever, that's none of your business, you can use someone else's code if you don't like what it is called.
Can you please elaborate on the 65000 Euro "green card"? I have been looking for a way to move to Berlin for many years, and have never come across this.

I would be delighted if this is the way!
Is this a joke? I thought it might be serious until I read:
ICE is not focusing its efforts just on web sites that stream dodgy content but those that link to them

Please tell me this is a joke. I don't know whether to laugh or be sad.
I think these buttons are intended for debugging. Normal users don't hang around about:memory. (This area isn't exposed in the UI anywhere.)
Oh dear, why did I by a .net for my personal domain.... ><
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Be sad. Until these over reaching idiots get taken down and taken down hard, they will continue to prop up the entertainment industry even though it is the public that is both paying the freight and the penalty.
Hacking into linux
hack into linux system , or reset your root password . A simple hack
Ask HN: Would you pay $1K to have your web app prototyped?
A few days ago, someone posted a note offering to prototype someone's web application for $500.

I've got most of a PhD in computer science and am fairly fluent in Django, Rails, PHP and the like. I think this'd be interesting to offer as a service more seriously in the vein of a photoshop-to-html conversion service.

So, HN, and especially nontechnical founders with ideas, I'd like to get a sense of whether there's a market for this.

How many of you would you pay $1000 for a screenshot-to-rails prototype conversion in 3 days, installed and built with no fuss with full functionality, suitable for testing the market or to potential investors? You send in the screenshots and a complete spec of functionality, and we install it and produce it.

How many of you would pay $2000 for the same service? $2500?
No.

If one looks at useit.com homepage, what is "Alertbox" to the left supposed to mean? Are they blog posts or articles? If articles, how do they differ from "Reports" below? And in the News section to the right, both the news items and "as seen in the media" are mixed together.
FYI, if you go into Google+ and go to your account settings, you'll see a link called "Data Liberation." This link will allow you to download all of your data -- contacts, posts, pictures; everything -- and take it wherever you like. The Data Liberation Front is Google's project to make sure that you can withdraw your data from all Google sites as you please.

Disclaimer: I'm a Google intern this summer.
Original article behind a paywall.
I think it turned out that a large part of it was due to, like, 100 different small things. There was never a memory leak.
There is no confusion in the policy that the WSJ charges twice for access. We all know this and that is why we download it for free and then give it a one star rating. Compare the iPad WSJ reviews with the iPhone one.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-wall-street-journal/id364...
And how many real people are going to switch browsers from whatever they're using now to Firefox nightlies because of some fixes to stuff that isn't broken on most other browsers anyway? If the answer is not "lots", why is this on HN today?
Why is online piracy such a big business (and hence a problem to the rights holders)? Because there are no comparable legal alternatives. So instead of technology and business innovation, let's do legal innovation and sue them people regardless of where they are.
I would like to have an invite as well so I can vote.
I've personally been sticking with verbalising "Plus" and writing "G+".
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"The sad part is that even with all this, I still prefer Android"

Why is that?, not trolling, just interested
Well yes.. If you think of Google as tape libraries[1] and your brain as RAM, then the difference is many orders of magnitude. Brain memory boosters would be like having SSDs on thunderbolt (possible in computing, not in brain surgery). It is right to say words like real world, more so than words like one day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_storage#Tertiary_stora...
Show HN:  Tell in Future
Please provide your feedback for my small webapp, http://tellinfuture.com . An easy and instant way of creating time capsules. Write a message , select the time when you want your message to be visible and that's it. Share the URL you get with your friends and make them desperately waiting for the time when the message will show up.
Write messages to future you, friends or anyone at all.
A git Primer
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It takes SUM(argv) as opposed to MAX(argv) as originally stated, which was wrong.

Every argument will put itself back into the event loop (tick) N times until it actually prints the value so we need to SUM the values and not just take the MAX.
It would be useful to aggregate some of this based on a, say, 25 mile radius. I think separating Cambridge from Boston, for example, obscures some of the data here.
Don't know why, but FaceBook just looks weird (as opposed to Facebook)
Take a look here: http://cuevana.tv
Primarily for reasons of legibility, in my opinion.

Technically, any piece in duple meter could be written in any duple meter and any triple meter piece could be written in triple meter. In fact, you could even write a triple meter piece in duple meter if you are willing to notate everything as a triplet.

Also, as some of the answers below show, part of legibility is in supporting the speed or the feel of the piece.

(Also 2/2 is a fairly common time signature better known as cut-time. Many marches, for example, use this.)
I'd appreciate an invite also. Thanks!
High level code highlights intent, hides implementation
Your browser likely has a javascript console, it's pretty useful:

+new Date()
1309882329679
+new Date()
1309882331551
+new Date()
1309882332511
The article covers it but those are different C-based Ruby VM implementations:

- 1.8 is MRI

- 1.9 is YARV

- 1.8 plus performance patches is REE
That's not the same thing at all. Taking the time to provide information that you've read the question, considered the options, and specifically want to say that you don't care about Google+ is different from not reading the item, or not considering the options, or deciding not to provide information.

I, for one, sometimes choose to share information even about topics in which I have no interest. Why? Because I think information is of value, and I will provide it to a community in which I have an interest. It's the community I care about, not the topic.
I saw that option - it's nice. I just wish I could liberate my gmail data too. Almost half a million emails, and I'd like to have a gzip of them in case something happened.
MRI = Matz's Ruby Interpreter = Ruby 1.8

YARV = Yet Another Ruby VM = Ruby 1.9

REE = Ruby Enterprise Edition = Ruby 1.8 with a modified garbage collection system to make it friendly to vforking.

These are all versions of ruby written in C.
Can I have an invite as well? I´d like to see what´s all the fuss about.
My e-mail is carlosrpnegrao at gmail.
Physics - Perhaps no "bump" in the data
They're Ruby interpreters -- Matz's Ruby Interpreter, Ruby Enterprise Edition, and Yet Another Ruby VM respectively.
I think ceyusa was referring to the elision of bytecode as an intermediate step. Interestingly though, my assertion that V8 kept around the AST was wrong: it keeps around the source, and re-parses as needed. So maybe it's JavaScript that is the new bytecode now...
Though in fairness to tau, one can always choose a pithy question whose answer is shorter either way, to wit:

What is the area of a unit circle? Pi.

How many radians are in a circle? Tau.
Role of (Blue) Light in Sleep/Alertness/Cognitive Ability
I had a similar situation but for less cash, I did't even get a lawyer involved, just threatened them with small claims court in an email, and they paid up.

Hope you get it sorted, unfortunately there will always be people like this.

Also, absolutely charge them interest on the invoice, as well as any fines you incurred by going overdrawn.

Good luck.
This is definitely what I was trying to communicate, thanks for verifying the essence for me!
Ruby virtual machines. MRI is the VM for ruby 1.8 (Matz ruby implementation and Matz is the creator of ruby), YARV is the newer incanation that was developed for ruby 1.9 these are all written in C. There plenty of other ruby VMs like rubinius or jruby etc.
Here is the copy: http://pastebin.com/9DfwQfdc
MRI - Matz' Ruby Interpreter (the default Ruby)

REE - Ruby Enterprise Edition (unofficial branch of Ruby 1.8)

YARV - Yet Another Ruby VM (the VM used in Ruby 1.8)

(Although in this case I think he means MRI = 1.8 and YARV = 1.9)
Short version: Japan is optimized for salarymen.
I'll tell you why this inspired me. Analytics. It doesnt take a mock-Unix shell to do it, but tracking which people are reading which sections of your CV that you posted online could be hugely useful information.
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Poll: How many Circles have you created in Google+
Now that you've had a few days to play with Google+, how many circles have you created?
Less than 5
10 to 20
20 to 50
More than 50
The point is that... the patch is already in the nightly builds, and thus will certainly make it into beta and release builds (even if it requires additional patches on top). So your objection to this being vaporware is simply ridiculous.
The key question is what are the users trying to accomplish with Excel? There may be ways for them to continue to use Excel and gain the benefits of a more complex reporting environment.

The base of users with knowledge of Excel is very large. Most organizations have a built in base of knowledge of Excel. Why swim upstream and go against that. Try to make Excel work in that environment.

Take a look at www.excelcube.com. It may be helpful.
Ask HN: Evaluate an offer for a startup advisor
My co-founders and I just began searching for $1.5-2M of funding. We met with someone who has many contacts and friends who are angels or VCs.

After meeting with us, he surprised us by offering to:

* Be an independent director of our startup. He'd advise on the shareholders' agreement, business relationships, and business model design and strategy. In return, he's asking for $1500/mo plus $1500 for each Board meeting. This would be payable if we raise money or reach a certain amount of revenue.

* Be a consultant for raising funds. He'd advise us on our approach and pitch, and providing introductions via his commercial and personal network. In return, he's asking for 3% of the raised funds.

My co-founders and I are new to raising funds, and thus don't know how to evaluate this offer.

Assuming that he's experienced with startups and raising capital, and has an extensive network of personal and commerical contacts, is this offer fair?
We're actively searching for donations or funding.
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"Being pretty" is a must for great usability. I am not talking about decoration which is superficial, but the real prettiness which comes from having clear layout, visual hierarchy, well thought-out typography, etc.
To borrow from Steve Jobs: design is how it works.
There is not much to "work" on useit.com, but there definitely is a room for improvement (layout, typography, focus, etc), now it is just two columns with bunch of links.
See for example http://alistapart.com/ — for me it is still has the best design
for content-oriented site. It is very pretty and at the same time all that prettiness has a function.
Does everything sexual have to be the bastion of men?

Does everything sexual at a woman's expense have to be misogynist by implication?

Does everything sexual have to be juvenile?

Is this how the international population perceives sexual interactions and situations?
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On Linux? This seems pretty easy to do, although I have not tried yet.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/backup-gmail-in-linux-with-get...
error establishing db connection
I would go for something like this, but I have difficulty quantifying what a 'prototype' could be considered as. I think what I have in mind would be more then what the average person would consider a prototype (at least technically speaking), but not exactly a full blown application either.

As to your question, there's absolutely a market for such a thing I think, however it would be difficult to put a blanket pricing scheme in place due to several reasons.
Why Apple's HW is better than everyone else
Area is defined by integrals- good point.
> I've read claims that actual lines of CP/M could be found in QDOS.

[citation needed]

Given the large differences in hardware, this seems pretty unlikely. But given they did implement the same API, I suspect that could be the source of some confusion.

> I've also read that Paterson "bought a CP/M manual and used it as the basis to write his operating system in six weeks."

Paterson owned a machine running CP/M and wrote software for it.
Maybe we as should design a little machine readable snippet that can optionally be added to the end of posts. I'd suggest json as it's easy to read/write and is popular. e.g

...post...
{type: ["intern"], languages: ["ruby", "scala"], frameworks: ["rails", "lift"], location: {city: "vancouver", region: "bc", country: "canada"}}

Simple schema, all optional keys:
{ type: ["intern"|"remote"|"h1b"|"fulltime"|"partime"],
languages: [..self explanatory..],
frameworks: [..self explanatory..],
location: <see below>
}

location could be an object as I have it above, or a simple [long, lat] pair, or a url to google maps such as (http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Vancouver,+British+Columbia&...). [long, lat] is probably the simplest and most precise but it's difficult to author/discover your own location.
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Does the export include email addresses? Facebook offers an "export" too, but you just end up with HTML pages with your friends' names and no contact info.
I am sure Cisco has helped many countries build its police state.
I was disappointed to see this line:

design patterns – at least most of the patterns in the "Gang of Four" book – make code bases get bigger.

This hasn't been my experience. In fact, learning about and applying design patterns has been a crucial part of reducing code size in previous projects by eliminating copy-paste code. For example, a previous company had a lot of code devoted to traversing a particular data structure and taking various actions at each node. There were multiple variants of this traversal code, each with different actions but also slightly different (for no reason) in the traversal code. Applying the Visitor pattern allowed me to write the traversal only once, reducing code duplication and potential future bugs. I also believe it was more readable.

This was in C++ though - I'm not sure how much of his comments are directed solely at Java.
If you want to have your packages used in a buttoned-up corporate environment, you had better use more professional names.

If you want your community to be acceptable for such an environment (ie, you want to see that awesome technology stack in the company rather than the latest blandware), you should put pressure on your community to be at least marginally acceptable.
You can also use fullfeed.net. It attempts to extract the content of the article from the URL in the feed.
Can I grab one please, thanks.
Broadcasting CSS3
Here's my current layout : Friends, Family, Acquaintances, Online friends and Work
>Why is online piracy such a big business (and hence a problem to the rights holders)? Because there are no comparable legal alternatives.

I want to agree with you, because I wish that was the case, but it isn't. The 15-25 set just doesn't care. If they can get a movie for free on bittorrent, or pay $20/mo to stream as many as they want, they'll go for bittorrent the majority of the time.
I do appreciate the technicality of the article, but I'm not sure to agree with the first point of conclusion: how does it makes MRI (and related) 'fatally flawed' though? (real question).

What makes it 1/ irreversible and 2/ bad for today's users?

EDIT: as well, I wouldn't stop using Ruby because of that; I would use JRuby or Rubinius or IronRuby (if I understand well, these ones are not affected?)
"The project sheds light on how Western tech companies sell their wares in China, the Middle East and other places where there is potential for the gear to be used for political purposes and not just safety."

Because, of course, Western governments never use this kind of gear for political purposes and not just safety.
> I don't think they have that kind of manpower.

So we give it only to financial services companies :-)
I know, I just think Gmail should have a built in interface. It'd also be nice to be able to only download emails with a certain label, in a specific period of time, etc.
Cute. The Boehm-Demers-Weiser collector has GC_reachable_here for this reason. Guile has scm_remember_upto_here since before it switched to libgc. I'm sure other systems have their things too.

That said, I like Handle, the RAII thing that V8 uses. It also allows for compacting collection. Too bad C doesn't do RAII.
There's nothing stopping you from having both.

With a decent IMAP or exchange client, you can easily browse multiple mailboxes. In fact, multiple emails is probably the best reason to use a non-browser app for email.
This is discussion is interesting. Are there any women that care to comment? It seems that, as of now, the commentary is coming from men deciding how women should feel.
The slow review process does not at all indicate that they spend more time testing, or find more bugs.

As a user, you will be affected by the slow review process when you have to wait longer for updates than someone using an Android Market bought app.
The law applies to entities with any commercial presence in the US collecting any personal information from children. It makes no distinction where the children are located or where the data is stored.

http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm
How to reinvent investigatory journalism — with data
Right there, in the very first sentence of the article we're discussing, there's a reference to the channel switcher, which was pulled at the last minute from Firefox 5 having been in the dev builds for a while.

Moreover, as I mentioned before, the software world is full of examples of this on all scales. Windows Vista lost most of its headline features before it finally shipped, after months of building up expectations by Microsoft. No project is magically immune to this possibility.

Your claim about the certainty of shipping something because a test version was integrated into a dev build is simply wrong, and that is why I use terms like "vapourware" and why I think this sort of discussion is premature for HN.

Anyway, enough of the meta.
New Relic, zoho, 37signals are in the same camp of not wasting money on sales force. Cost of their service is incremental and not requiring approval from CTO/CIO.
Most companies targeting enterprises have to invest in sales force because its big ticket and the enterprises are used to do business that way.
Twitter acquires BackType (YC S08)
Basically, this project allows you to share your slides with people. And change/add/remove them on the fly.
Only author of slideshow can move slides left and right
I use getmail to backup my Gmail (per that link), but there is still data loss. You can either use POP and lose your labels or use IMAP and lose your unread status (IMAP mode marks everything as read - someone patched getmail to offer a "leave unread" option but the maintainer refuses to accept any such patches).

Also, Google throttles your downloads - on POP this takes the form of returning just a few emails per download. It took me about three months to have a full backup at home, and I'm a paying customer (~30gb of mail on Apps Premier or whatever they're calling it today).
Great series wasn't it, much like those first 4 seasons of West Wing he wrote
Is it safe to say Facebook can probably double its userbase by going into China? Morality aside, this could be immensely profitable. More, Google has already backed out of China... so wouldn't it only make sense for Facebook to seize the opportunity to expand without Google+ competition?
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I dont think that will happen ...unless facebook's only interest is to make bucket loads of money. If China does end up buying stake in fb, fb risks loosing a lot of existing users.
You know how sometimes on HN there's a conversation that's like

A> X person is so epic and better than all of us.
B> NO, that person is just a normal person like us
B> there's nothing special about them.
B> We're all capable of being that epic.

(a recent one where X="Fabrice Bellard" comes to mind.)

The opening paragraph of this does not help person B's argument.
It'll also ship this week to around 100,000 users who are already on the Aurora channel, and in just six weeks to literally millions of users on the beta channel.

Firefox is an open source project. Part of our mission is to enable participation by the community, and that requires doing our work in the open and talking about it in public.
> Does everything sexual have to be the bastion of men?

No, but this was

> Does everything sexual at a woman's expense have to be misogynist by implication?

Yes. The clue is in the phrase "at a woman's expense". Does everything invoking female sexuality have to be misogynistic? No.

> Does everything sexual have to be juvenile?

No. But inappropriate sexuality (ie: naming a software library after sexual assault) is juvenile.
I don't think you know what you are talking about. If your authentication is implicit in the decryption of the messages, replaying that data will accomplish nothing.

For example, if I share a secret "password" with my server, I can do this in javascript using any symmetric cipher:

ToServer: "My name is oconnore"
ToClient: cipher(iv1, "(C1) Hi oconnore. Use this! iv2=rng()"++msghash, "password")
ToServer: cipher(iv2, "(C2) Thanks, give me my data please!"++msghash, "password")
ToClient: cipher(iv3, "(C3) <Some data>, and iv4=rng()"++msghash, "password")
...

If an attacker repeats any of these messages, the client/server will discard them based on the counter. Of course, for real use you would need to use public key crypto to avoid storing passwords in what is essentially plaintext, but I thought this would illustrate how replay attacks are a non issue.

Of course, as noted before, all this is irrelevant if you are sending your code over a channel vulnerable to MITM...
Thanks a lot for sharing this link! This kind of things are very interesting to me. To bad for my work...
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