skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users generally don't want to learn new abstractions unless they provide a massive benefit or can be mapped onto something they already understand.

With Circles, Google is touching right at heart of human social interaction: You show different sides of your personality to different groups of people. With your parents, you talk incessantly about the grandkids. With your buddies, you talk about old times and shared hobbies. With your colleagues, you talk about your industry. You occasionally mix things up a tiny bit, but you don't go overboard.

I'm convinced that 99% of the human race gets this. (The other 1% are intolerable bores.)

Now, I'm not convinced Google has nailed the UI for Circles. For example, if you want to know who can read your comments on somebody else's post, you need to click on little blue "Limited" link, and try to make out the profile photos. In real life, you would just look around the room.

So there's more work to be done. But I suspect that "social circles" are something that users already understand, and which they'll value.
Half of the farm land in Europe is unused because of over production, dude. And if they wanted to use "Greek islands for farmland" (LOLOLOL) they could just buy it. That's not a matter of sovereignty. "A company in charge of collecting taxes"? Herpderp! This is not the US with private prisons and such stupidities. You are writing a real heap of nonsense here.

Lending them more money is giving them a chance to get their stuff on track. Better checks and balances. A greater awareness of civil responsibility of each individual, etc. Basically, the stuff that made Northern Europe (and the US/Canada) economically strong. Look up "Social Capital" if you are interested in development policy.
It's because it's ironic and finding him on Google+ made his profile go viral, and blogs posting about it.
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I agree that it is a breakdown of internal processes. However, I think a single email might tend to facilitate the development more robust internal processes by simplifying the input stream and unifying triage of communications.

Of course one email could become a bottleneck if triage falls behind, but mapping information flow does become easier.
You're wrong. I use hashes so that if somehow the hashes and salts leak the attacker can't now log in as any user with no additional effort. While it's true that a hash compromise typically means you're owned, not having plaintext passwords available still makes further exploitation slightly harder. For instance, read only SQL injection that leaks hashes won't let the attacker write anything.
I didn't say that this question has a determined answer.

What I did say: People are rightfully angry because their life was screwed by something not in their control.

It's been twenty years since the Germany reunited; Whatever problems still remaining at the former East Germany, probably aren't caused by communists anymore.
Python touts its easy integration with C both ways. If that's potentially an issue/feature for you, it might be a good choice.
Everyone wants to see if he says anything about Google+, but so far he didn't post anything in public.
Zappos is killing it? I take it you mean they are very successful in this space? Any data/thoughts/whatever?

Thanks
You know this and I know this, but the way the marketplace works is that if nobody intervenes, people buy food that kills them, cribs that kill their babies, pajamas that catch on fire and stick burning plastic to their skin, and so forth.

So we draw a line somewhere and say that those products and services over there, caveat emptor. These over here, OTOH, must have a minimum standard of safety.

I am personally not convinced that domain registration should be left up to the marketplace. What if someone gets a user's password and then redirects their web addresses to a site that dispenses malware?

The victims in this case aren't even the domain registrar's customers, they're people who had absolutely no say in the question.

But any ways, I wasn't really trying to suggest we regulate it so much as suggest that laughing at Hover.com is looking in the wrong direction. There is a large social problem isomorphic to the "disable your security software if you want to see a video of dancing babies" problem. That problem is far more interesting and important than the "greedy businesspeople are greedy" problem.
No.

Facebook's explanation is that because they respect your privacy, they think you should be able to withdraw access to contact information whenever you see fit.

In order for that to work, it goes, your friends should only be able to access contact information from within FB's walled garden, and never be able to export it. (Also the reason contact scraping Apps are met with cease and desist letters.)

BTW, you can export your friends' birthdays from the events page. This data is not included in the aforementioned bundle.
Ah, so I suppose when you realize that we're all one entity, and there's no such thing as death, and our egos are temporary waves in the ocean that are able to self-reflect on the ocean, then you realize that reality is timeless. And that means there's no rush to find meaning, because all of a sudden your consciousness expanded from thinking within 70-80 years to thinking within billions of years.

So rather than thinking "what can do I do to make myself (local consciousness) happier because I'm gonna die?" you start thinking "how can I entertain the Greater Me (universal consciousness)?" Life becomes a game that gods play when they're bored, rather than a walk on the death row.
Cool stuff. I simplified it a bit :

https://gist.github.com/1063836

Should work on Firefox 3+ and Chrome 4+
Did you read the article? They had quotes from both Google and Twitter saying the contract wasn't extended
Even if you accept that this isn't wrong because it's what customers want; if it's broadly unknown (by this community) it becomes newsworthy because HN would probably not want to think of itself as at the bottom of the barrel, and will be more than willing to move away from a host that shows such a flagrant disregard for security.
The Greek economic situation is unsustainable. The US housing market is unsustainable. The Chinese housing market is unsustainable. I could make a longer list if anyone wanted.

My point is that this article seems to imply that Greece will be the first to go. Maybe but maybe not. If doubt shifts to US, say, the euro might look at great investment by contrast for a while.
Most of the "I hate Haml" arguments can easily be solved by use of filters (e.g. :markdown, :textile, :javascript, :plain, :erb, etc) and/or proper use of helpers or cells (I prefer cells).

The things I most often see people doing wrong are trying to format body text with Haml and putting excessive logic in your Haml templates (which is something to look out for anyway, even if you use erb, slim, or whatever).
I agree with everything above. I've always cared about the clothing I wore but used to loathe clothes shopping. Mostly because I didn't know what I was doing. Then I dated a girl in the modelling industry and she changed my whole perspective and taught me about clothes.

Now I love shopping for clothes and can't fathom how it could be done better online, but I'm positive that the in-store tech could be leaps and bounds better.

To add to the above:

- Fit of the garment is probably one of the most important things. You simply cannot tell how it will fit on your body without trying it on. You need to see it and put it on.

- Quality of construction. This includes the feel of the fabric, the way the pieces are sewn together, what shapes were chosen for each piece, and even things like if the patterns line up at the seams. You have to see these things in person to decide.

Having said that, most men probably aren't as picky about their clothes as I am (Most women I know are more so) and there may be a market for online shopping for those men who aren't. But I can see a place for helping me pick clothing in store or on my trip.

It takes forever to find stuff that I might like or that might fit. Why not help me with that? An app for my phone that tells me when some local shops get a shipment of Tiger of Sweden suits in my size or recommends a local shop that has suits that are cut similar to Tiger's would be awesome. I also used to travel a lot, just tell me where those shops are when I'm in a new city and BAM! I'm there. It's hard enough to find the right clothes in my city, it's really difficult to find clothes in a new city that work for my style. I want an app like that. Wait, maybe I don't, it might cause me to spend more money on clothes and my bank account wouldn't appreciate that.
He probably meant smooth cook-top as someone else already pointed out.
That's one of the reasons I left my first and last employer. Tons of compnontent wiring written in xml, tons of configuration directives, but the end only the defaults were used anyway. Impossible to do updates because everything could break.
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Hashing passwords is the last resort of security.
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It isn't wrong in exactly the same way that selling cigarettes isn't wrong. I'm not saying it isn't noteworthy, just that like the tobacco problem, we shouldn't fall victim to thinking that Hover.com's choices are the only problem.
"Very quickly, our customer service team was inundated by requests from people that weren’t receiving the email, found the process confusing, and a myriad of other related requests. "

What I read - Because we aren't smart enough to create an automated password recovery that works, you should now trust that we are smart enough in network security to safeguard your passwords.

Also, these guys mention that they were receiving multiple requests. But how many requests came per user? If you got a million users and they each forget their passwords once a year and have to spend 5-10 minutes resetting it, I don't think its a usability problem at all, even if I get 1 million mails a year complaining about it. Its a bad decision for company handling domains and credit cards. And even if these guys really are good enough to secure their end of systems, whats the guarantee that my inbox is not compromised?
I never had any use for this Twitter/real-time feature of Google. Perhaps that was the general conclusion so they just dropped it?
Arrogant idiots! Nothing more can be said.
I think these are great ideas! Thanks for commenting.
I don't think it matters that the median broadcast quality is getting better. 320x240 @ 15 fps was deemed high enough quality for the kind of reference/archive work that media monitors are doing. It's big enough that you can see what's going on and small enough to discourage watching these copies for entertainment. That number doesn't really need to change unless our eyes are collectively getting worse.
Before I upgraded to a router with more memory, I found that a couple of moderately popular torrents would fill up the router's NAT table, and thus memory. Existing outgoing connections continued to work, but any new connections were DOA.
Slugr.js: Bundle Node.js apps into a single executable file
scottkrager: do you have any experience with postmark? any thoughts on how they compare? thanks!
Then I'd probably buy online more often. Certainly the available choices would be better.

I buy a particular model of athletic shoe in part because so far (third pair) the manufacturer hasn't messed with the model, so the sizing hasn't changed. But I still go to the store to try them on.

I will try on five or more pairs of shoes in a store, and sometimes still won't buy a pair. Free shipping both ways doesn't fix that for me.
Well, not "no one" but I do see your point somewhat. When it's out, it's out and you can't make it private again but you can contain the exposure as much as possible to keep the information in a minimum number of unauthorized hands.
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Mechanics of marketing a mobile app
What are the hows....
It takes forever to find stuff that I might like or that might fit. Why not help me with that?

Thanks.

Any particular reason you have so much trouble?

I'm curious about all this because I was talking to a friend and realized that my lack of concern about such things is due to the fact that I know a lot about this stuff. I routinely go eyeball stuff, take it to the checkout and bring it home without trying it on. Only if my size has changed substantially do I bother to try things on. Once I have figured out my correct size again, I go back to grabbing stuff off the rack, paying and going home. So wondering why other people find this so hard, since I can't really relate to that.

Thanks.
Personally, I found it very useful for following stories as they were developing, or to see if other people were having issues with a service when I was. Having this integrated into my normal Google searches was convenient, but I guess using Twitter's search directly isn't terrible.
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I wonder if the reason Twitter never sees any significant evolution in product is because they've weighed themselves down with too much iron cladding on their services or if they've had more time to iron clad their services because they never evolve the product.

Neither may be related but for a large company with very little product they seem to produce astoundingly little.
Why not? They have plenty of different areas they are in that would allow for most people to find a niche I think.

If it wasn't for the stuff I'm doing right now, which I find extremely fun, I would apply.

My only concern would be the issue of being in a huge company where it might be hard to make an significant impact. But all the people I know who are at Google currently seem to work on very cool stuff.
Good idea on the samples - I think that samples would help win me over, but only if these two conditions were true:

- I absolutely love the garment in question.
- I cannot purchase it (or a reasonable substitute) in person.

The first condition is necessary because if I don't love the garment, there is a low chance that I'll give the samples the attention they deserve. So, the chances of a conversion would be very low. The second one is important because if I love a garment enough to buy after a long wait, I'm going to be aching to own it.
I wouldn't, primarily because I don't care to relocate. Family reasons keep me in Dallas.
Not sure if this is true, but I heard that Google takes ownership of any IT projects that you work on your spare time. If this is true, then I certainly wouldn't want to work for them.

Is this true?
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With symmetric encryption, probably (assuming the data wasn't gleaned with a purely SQL injection attack). With public key/private key encryption you could probably do it more securely by not letting the private key anywhere near the main app/web servers.

Of course, the more separation you have between the public and private keys, the less convenient it is to actually do anything useful with the plaintext.
He also invested in Diaspora, I think he wants to avoid the mistakes a lot of companies make when they are in the lead, and just sit on his laurels.
Change the other places you used the old one.
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Sometime it seems like blunders like these are the only way that the general population can learn about bcc, or corporations learn about email campaign services.
First World problems
I never walk around wearing headphones. I simply don't understand people who think that every waking moment of their life needs a soundtrack.
I agree with you. The cost in lives and treasure of mounting a military campaign against some of these dictatorships would be very high. And practically speaking, it's not necessarily worth it for America (as cold as that sounds).

On the other hand, some dictatorships are 'friendly' to America, and would never be considered for an invasion anyway.

But my point was more the mindset of the author, who appears to believe that America's goal really is to spread democracy around the world.

And in the case of Syria, American silence is deafening. Assad reportedly tortures even the children, and there is not a peep of protest from America, let alone a threat of military intervention.
How do you protect yourself from hactivist groups?
I'm dubious that Haskell is better for writing distributed concurrent systems, but I don't know much about haskell.

Rather than bashing erlang like this, I'd have gotten a lot more out of an article that described how Haskell approached the problem, possibly with contrasts to erlang.

But when you start off with at best nonsense "erlang's parallelism is not parallelism" you're going to lose people who do know something about erlang.

Here's the deal with erlang: The syntax throws some people off. If you will spend a couple hours learning the language (maybe a couple days) you'll start to appreciate the syntax and it will no longer be a problem.

Erlang is not as fast as bare metal languages like, say, C, but Erlang is fantastic for making programs in parallel and executing them on multiple cores or nodes or clusters of nodes with multiple cores.

I guess I should take the occurrence of these kinds of articles as a sign that Erlang is getting wider acceptance. That's great!

But please, cheer your language, don't bash the competition.
Google would have though.
No - it's simply too big. I enjoy having a voice.
The worst offenders are android phones like my nexus one with capacitive buttons right beneath the software keyboard. Overshoot the space bar just a tiny bit? Hello home screen, goodbye app. Some apps handle this and you can just press back -- others lose all of what you just typed.
Oops. Typo, that should read: "...obviously well worth it."
How do you elevator pitch a social idea?
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Even though it seems like it would be pretty cool, I said no for a couple of reasons:

1) I'm not sure I could hack it there. While I consider myself to be a good coder (and people tell me so), I don't consider myself to be a top-notch guru ninja coder. I also don't have a CS degree, and I tend to get a little lost when people start getting into CS theory.

2) I have a (probably irrational) aversion to working at really big companies, I think probably due to my time dealing with insane bureaucracy in the Navy. If there was something at a relatively autonomous smaller group though, I would probably be down with that.
The article did not talk about a click but only about the display. They are only trying to access the displayed click count number directly via PHP.
This exactly describes my very brief experience working with Java professionally. Back in university it was no big deal - the differences between C++ and Java weren't that big. In a production environment, though; ... XML, XML, XML!

All the XML-wrapper tools for Java are supposedly the reason why there is so much XML config stuff going on - but the result is that you end up writing soo much code in XML instead of the actual language that you're supposed to be using.

It's like somebody looked quickly at the MVC pattern, got it all wrong, and now Java has very tight coupling between XML and Java code for any production environment that hopes to leverage existing tools.
Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter and a bunch of other tiny startups against Google. I for one want plus, Android and Google search to come up on top.
I am pretty sad that this contract is not renewed. I found Google realtime search ironically provided a much better search interface for tweets than the one twitter did.
There's certainly more than a peep of protest from America about Syria. Whether or not the current presidential administration cares is an entirely different matter, but the country is not the president.
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He sounds like a politician...
What's with all the 0-friend Google employees?
It's only a good sign if the government is not a big employer (directly or indirectly though subsidies, trade barriers, etc). I don't know enough about the German economy to know if that's the case here.
He's also on Twitter
Why do you feel that your world will be a better place with one company controlling and eavesdropping on every aspect of your communication and search for information?

(Yes, my question indicates a very slight amount of bias!)
Very weird coincidence...
Joel's answer on this. Am pretty sure I can't do better: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/19422/if-im-working-...
Any particular reason you have so much trouble?

I live in a small North American city (750,000 pop), a jacket size of 36 (Maybe a 38 in some places now), a waist size of 30/32, and prefer European constructed clothing (See Tiger of Sweden's website) which is damn near impossible to find unless you go to the larger more fashion-forward cities: Montreal, Toronto, New York, San Fran, LA, etc. And since I'm not a local I first have to find the places that have the right kind of clothes and then I have to decide what I like.

I have three sisters, they have far more options for clothing than I do. I believe it's much more difficult for men to shop for clothing because we have fewer options and if we want good stuff we have to pay a lot more for it. In my experience there is good cheaper clothing for women. Not so for men.

I have shopped with many women and while dating my ex spent a some time around women in the fashion industry. If you're purchasing clothes off the rack without trying them on I'd wager you're an outlier and not the norm.
I don't think people are complaining that games should be free of charge. People are complaining that all of a sudden, the copyright law itself is not enough.

DRM is broken by design because (a) there is no DRM system that hasn't been cracked yet and (b) it punishes honest customers.

Not only that, but many DRM systems require online servers to be active. You don't own the copy you purchased anymore and as soon as that verification server gets shut-down, then your local copy won't work anymore; unless you knowingly break the DMCA to workaround the DRM restrictions (which is always illegal, even if you own the copyright of said content / being the freaking author).

For me, it is far more convenient to just start downloading a torrent from the dozens of trackers I have access to, than pay up for DRMed content and get punished.

That I pay for the apps or other content I use, that's just because the authors deserve getting rewarded and usually it's not their fault that the distribution medium is using DRM; but when it is, that feels like a dick-move to me and I feel no remorse turning to piracy or not using the product at all.
Have you not seen how much improper grammar and spelling is on this site? Who cares? Don't be such a jerk.
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Hoping this is not taken as offensive, but do you do that with all clothes or with shoes in particular? If it is only shoes, do you have some foot issue. (My oldest son has one foot slightly larger than the other and this makes shoe shopping a challenge for him. He sticks to sandals in part for that reason.)

Thanks for the feedback.