skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite all of the hype about video chat and circles versus lists, to me the big announcement looks like group chat - which seems kind of stupidly obvious. Thinking about it, Google may have missed the mark by throwing video into the equation - unlike is the case with video, when people don't have to get dressed to be part of a discussion based on text. It almost looks like Google heard that Facebook was working on group features and video and assumed that they would be integrated.
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One of the reasons for FB's victory was that its design is staid, standard, but stable compared to the script injection nightmare that MySpace's customization turned into. For all of Zuckerberg's youthful personality (at least as portrayed by the media), it almost feels like Facebook has had a dry corporate juggernaut type ethos from the beginning. FB didn't so much innovate as much as it dominated by creating a cleaner, better-ordered social network. No wonder its color scheme is big blue.
They should add an rss feed for PragPub only or email delivery with a newsletter (i keep forgetting to check for the new issue and i guess i'm not alone).
I wonder why this will not have the fate of other humanly-curated directories.
Google+ bug exposing user emails
Go to a Google+ profile and click on Photos. If that person has tagged anyone else in a photo you can view source and search for "@gmail.com" and you can immediately see their e-mail address.

Probably not a good thing. Also noticing that the Google spider is picking it up as well.
If you are interested in how Spotify works and how they use Python you should check out this talk from EuroPython: Spotify and Python: love at first sight
http://ep2011.europython.eu/conference/talks/spotify-and-pyt...
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I was OK with the MS deal, but now I am seriously reconsidering paying for my Sype #. I still use facebook on occasion for purely trivial/social reasons: birthday parties, holidays, checking to see if there are any random friends who serendipitously now live in the city I'm visiting for business. But I use Skype professionally... even the off chance that these accounts would eventually be linked (i.e. "You talked to XXX on Skype, you should be FB friends!") makes me very uncomfortable.
You press the Lock button under your post then select who you want to share with even who you don't want to share with. Customize gives you access to the all the features.
Clustering with decision trees
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So how can we use a supervised algorithm to produce an unsupervised result : categories/clusters out of nothing ?
This seems highly contradictory, but nevertheless, believe me, it is possible.
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yellow journalism
D'aw, it's cute that Facebook is playing catch-up.

You can't share other information while you're chatting (watch a YouTube video together), it doesn't integrate with Skype contacts even though it uses Skype's services (read: network), and it's 1-to-1 calling (unlike Google+ Hangout), you can't turn off video and leave it only voice-only calling, you can't be selectively offline to people (you have to un-friend them).

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2011-07-06...

If you need me, I'll be using Google+ Hangouts instead.

EDIT: We're sorry. Video calling isn't available on this browser. Please try again with a different browser.

Their nifty 'use these browsers' post include my browser (Chrome[ium]). Well done!

EDIT 2: Note that video calling for Linux is not currently supported. You will need to use one of these browsers in a Mac or Windows operating system. If you’re having trouble with video calling, try upgrading or switching your browser using the links above.
You are very right about certain groups of people thinking Facebook is the Internet.
Huh? You mean the name of the Chrome extension? I think it would be kind of hard to argue that he's not allowed to use "++" as a name.

(At first I thought you meant http://google.com/profiles/++ linked to his profile; taking that away would be pretty ridiculous as well.)
I used to use it heavily, but I stopped when I moved to Chrome, since at the time it didn't have Chrome support and even now it feels hacky.

Worth noting that SU traffic may be unusually low-engagement, since I would think it's likely a user will just click Stumble again after the half a second or so you get to grab their attention. (That's an educated guess, mind you--I don't have any data to support this beyond how using SU felt to me.)
Sorry unrelated, but just realized DuckDuckGo has hash bang syntax for hackernews!

!hackernews which leads to a hnsearch.com search results!

I've been using it as my default search engine for about 2/3 weeks now and its been unnoticeable (in a good way)
Great news. Any plans on open sourcing or providing hooks/API (would love to be able to create automatic loggers to avoid manual data entry).
He's clearly being purposefully obstructive in his comments. Obviously if you're on FB already then why open Skype, why open an IM client, that's how integration works.

The parent is asking the equivalent of why you'd add maps to google when you have a perfectly good road map out in the car.
It found 9 people on this thread

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2734923

Worked great for me. Nice work man.
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Shallow api integration (like button, send button) just works pretty darn well.

You are correct, though. I, along with most people who use facebook, haven't had to do any deeper platform/api integration.
I'm not saying I would do this, I'm just kind of amazed that Google has gained so much trust that some people have stopped bothering.
> this is one area where FB has a distinct early advantage (they have more mature social graphs).

Doesn't not having a search engine trump having a big social graph when it comes to search? Building search engines is not trivially easy. It took Microsoft 10 years to get it right.
> everyone was there

This is exactly why I turned chat off. I have no desire to be contacted by old high school classmates who happen to be bored and browsing facebook, and see me pop up.
Almost reminds me of how Microsoft promoted .NET as being a runtime capable of running code generated from multiple languages. The JVM had always had this feature but it was underutilized and somewhat obscure. After the .NET launch, it took a while of explaining that the JVM could run other languages besides Java before it became widely known in the programming community.
My point was actually that I fear any corrupt person having access to the kind of data that FB or Google have. If I am that person's target, for any reason (political dissent, competition, just cuz) I am way more screwed. It doesn't have to be a company or a government, it can be a criminal organization or just a crazy individual.

I don't think I was being disingenuous, my point is about how dangerous and powerful the data these companies have is. They probably have more ability to identify and locate an individual than any of the 3 letter agencies. My other point was that the article has a serious xenophobic agenda, something that probably increases readership but is bad for the world.
Common myth, but it's false. Paper currency's true value is that the issuer is obligated to do something in return for it. Since that's usually governments, paper currency's true value is that you can use it to pay debts to that government. Everybody in the world can stop using US Dollars for anything else, but they'll still be useful for that, because that is basically the definition of a US Dollar. Says so right on the bill.

You can set your philosophical bar of "real value" higher than that, but there's not much light of day between that and a standard so high that it's not even theoretically reachable, at which point I stop caring about your definition of "real value" since when nothing can meet the bar, it's not a useful concept anymore. (But I do mean "not much", not "zero".) In the end, all value stores are transient on a century timescale, and I don't see that changing. Even gold hasn't had anything like a constant value. But for a putative currency, BitCoin is distinctive in its total disconnection from a concrete value.
I thought what blekko was trying to do was offload the work of building a search index onto its users.
Naah, GrandCentral became Google Voice. Totally different product.
"Quick. Someone announce something this week. Anything."
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Quote from a friend who stumbles: "oh yeah. totally. i hit 100 pages and maybe read 5 of them"

It's like a youtube party, but with a little fast-forward button: http://xkcd.com/920/
Google vs. Microsoft+Facebook vs. Apple+Twitter. This is fun.
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Same report by a friend who flew with an expired driver's license (unrealized until he got to the ID check). They did pull him aside for further questioning and more thorough screening, but he was ultimately allowed to fly.
I may be mistaken, but I think that's part of the idea with G+; you post an update to a specific circle and you basically have a chat with that circle.
Or you can just use their SQL injection API.
Unfortunately, I think it flows the other way. "Normal" users will probably use it, and some techies may use it too just because their "normal" friends use it.

I think I will never use it because I almost dont use video chat (Hangout can change that) but I see my mother using it to talk with her sisters. She currently uses Skype, but using only Facebook will be much easier for her.
No: https://twitter.com/#!/duckduckgo/team/members. I'm still the only one full-time, but I think those days are dated. There is ample opportunity to get involved if anyone is interested, including plenty of stuff that can be open sourced.
If you want some really wacky stuff, try this:
The Multiverse Interpretation of Quantum
Mechanics - Leonard Susskind and Raphael Bousso

http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3796

By the way, this ain't your daddy's multiverse. This is a whole new and extended multiverse theory which says that the multiple universes used to explain tuning of constants and the multiple universes used to explain quantum decoherence are THE SAME THING!

Then, for balance read this guy who thinks they're on crack:

http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/05/bousso-susskind-hypermulti...
Most people's social graphs are too small (130 people) to be useful. Well we will use an extended social-graph, you might say, but if you are extending the social-graph, why not include the entire internet? Why would my social-graph contain better (more accurate and relevant) information about doing a thing than doathing.com?

The social-graph is a reduced set of the internet. It is probably easier to search, but how will the results be better than Google?
Show HN: Forbash.com 
This is a place where you can complain about brands/services/products.

Mostly for Indian markets but we are not limited to that.

Let us know your feedback!
http://www.forbash.com/
But they will only add their photos to one, and that one will ultimately pull ahead.
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The first paragraph was exactly what I was looking for. It's one of those things that really hits home when it's spelled out to you.

I'll remember that tip too, much appreciated. It never crossed my mind and, looking at it, I'd be pretty selfish if I didn't.
I completely agree with the tone of your post. A spam site outranking the official site of a popular tech download is a big deal. Yes, as a web designer, you should know better, but if they can outrank jquery, they can outrank anything. Including sites meant for non-technical users. How's a non-technical user supposed to know he is making a dangerous download, if there is a nice green lock on his screen and the name of the program is familiar? How do we explain this to them?
Thanks! I'll take a look at it later on (hopefully today).
> It seems a shame that all the effort that people put into making padlocks is being wasted, what good does that really do?

Sure, but if you could make it so a byproduct of the padlock manufacturing process was ice cream, wouldn't that be worth doing?
A few months ago, someone already compiled these essays in a mobi and epub format. The essays are available on github:
https://github.com/davidyang/Paul-Graham-s-Essays-Epub

Don't know if pg is fine with this or not, but it's nice to read them on your Kindle.
Wait a second: what does Twitter even have to do with video conferencing?
And yet in a category where the natural results have become useless, the AdWords above and to the right can still be valuable. Ability-to-pay is a useful filter, and Google often looks more closely at the content and people behind those paid-advertiser landing pages.

As long as people aren't leaving en masse for another search engine, there is a margin at which Google makes more money when the AdWords remain useful, but the natural results are not.

Of course, Google still has to keep the natural results about as good as the external competition. But those other search engines have to fight the same SEO trickery that Google does. Competitors don't have the same ad revenues to finance the fight. Competitors don't have the same ad inventory to serve as a backup reservoir of market-filtered results. And competitors don't have the benefit of many-years of user-habit to try Google first. So, Google's scale advantage keeps growing, even if natural-search quality is middling.
All Cydia Store purchases go through SaurikIT's centralized payment processing server. When the user attempts installing a store package, the repo that hosts it queries the central licensing server to see if the device is authorized before returning the package. Some packages make additional calls after the package has been installed on the device to download a license.

It is this final step that was failing intermittently on my servers due to the insane load (~300x usual sales on this package, ~125x traffic load overall). Please give it a try now, I have verified that it is up.
[IHNBITG+] My understanding Circles aren't reciprocal, so I don't really see how circles could map onto group chat.
See IRS publication 926 (http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p926.pdf)

"You have a household employee if you hired someone to do household work and that worker is your employee. The worker is your employee if you can control not only what work is done, but how it is done. If the worker is your employee, it does not matter whether the work is full time or part time or that you hired the worker through an agency or from a list provided by an agency or association. It also does not matter whether you pay the worker on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the job."

"Household work is work done in or around your home. Some examples of workers who do household work are: ... Yard workers ... "

"If only the worker can control how the work is done, the worker is not your employee but is self-employed. A self-employed worker usually provides his or her own tools and offers services to the general public in an independent business."

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If you hire Jack from Jack's Gardening Service, and he comes with a trailer full of equipment and deicdes to use a riding mower the the bulk of your lawn and a weed eater around the edges, and sometimes sends his employee Jill instead, then he isn't your employee.

If you hire your neighbors son John when he's home from college for the summer, offer him to use your push mower and never mind the places too small for it to get to, and when John is out of town and offers for his dead-beat friend Jacob to mow your lawn that week and you decline, then John is your employee.

In my examples, there is certainly a grey area between John and Jack, but my point stands: the guy who mows your lawn can easily be your employee. Its best to err on the side of employee, because the law is very unforgiving if the IRS decides someone is your employee but you have been treating them as a non-employee.
That is a killer integration feature. I wonder how this works...
Typical parent.
asynchronous --> asymmetric
I feel like Spotify has been "coming soon" for the last 3-4 years. Lets go all ready! :)
And therein lies one of the biggest issues with Facebook. They offer a lot of features that are hidden away, deliberately released without much fanfare, and are difficult to find.
No doubt it's very nice that it's integrated. But GMail has had 1 on 1 video chat for years(s?) now.

I think Facebook built up expectations way too high by claiming what they were launching was awesome. Everyone was expecting them to come out blazing with a launch that would put the Google+ challenge to rest.
Last couple times I've gone through an interview process, I've been more than a little peeved because they didn't do any research on me beyond reading my resume. I'm the webspace - we're talking about a web-oriented job - Google me for goodness' sake!

Asking surface level questions that could be Googled in 2 seconds borders on insulting. They certainly will judge me by how much I know about their company, and how enthusiastic I am about the company. That needs to run both ways.

My wife just says I was looking for an ego-stroke. Well... why wouldn't I? I've worked hard for years both on building up my skills, but also trying to build up a reputation. To gloss over that and not do any research beforehand on someone you're planning on giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to over multiple years is just lazy.

These were people that called me, not the other way around.

The job/labor/work market is broken, and I don't know if there's a way to 'fix' it in the short term. It will evolve in to something more workable, but I don't see that happening too quickly.
It is interesting advice. I think the usefulness of job sourcing based off of your personal network may have it's limitations however. Especially for those career stage or geographically challenged individuals.

Personally I tend to only passively job-hunt by keeping my CV and skillset up to date. I don't think this approach has done too poorly for me, although possibly i'd be more excited to head into work for google or facebook every day.

Letting other people do the work of identifying the positions that need or benefit from your specific set of skills has its benefits and I tend to get a steady stream of contacts from the corporations I find worth while/interesting.

Now if I was dead set on gaining entry into a high quality, high-stakes start-up, I could definietly see the benefits of leveraging my network to find the best possible matches.
The title goes a bit too far. The new experiment doesn't rule out the Holographic Principle, it rules out Craig Hogan's model, which was inspired by the Principle.
I think dreamhost is the company that had its users ftp accounts compromised a few years back.

I wouldn't rely on that company to be honest.
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Gotta side with Tichy on this one. That sounds exactly like self-indulgent nonsense. Talk around the question, sound cute, but don't answer anything or even inform how you plan to proceed.
unbelievably vested in the current status quo

Maybe because the current system, "based on debt as a lever for growth" did actually give much higher growth than the old currency which, like bitcoins, was based on a commodity and manipulated by those who owned it.
You can set up a friends list, and turn on chat only for that friends list, if you like. Set up the friends list at https://www.facebook.com/friends/edit/ and then click the little settings icon at the bottom right (in the new chat design) and choose "Limit availability...".

With the old chat design, choose chat at the bottom right, then the "Friend lists" menu item in the chat window, and add the friends list you want to affect chat availability, and then turn availability on/off to particular lists.

Useful for parents and work colleagues who don't use other IM or who you don't want to give your personal IM accounts to.
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Spotify Accepting Signups for US Launch
Ask HN: How to select a non-CS student for a job?
Which parameters (like github/stack overflow/HN profiles in CS streams) can be given to employers from non-CS streams to make a quick & wise judgement of candidates. Is there any one working in this domain solving the problem of recruiting college students from non CS background stream?
Where does 3D entertainment end and the rest of 3D innovation begin?
I was looking for things more along the lines of the theory behind constructing an automated trader
> Why hasn't MSFT hired this entire team yet? They want the .Net platform to be pushed as far out as possible and Mono is a great way to do that.

No, Microsoft wants to make money off of its main products - Windows, Office, Server, etc. .NET is only a means to that goal.

Microsoft has an even better way to push .NET to other platforms - port .NET, the official runtime, to other platforms. This would be easy, and would actually ensure similar behavior on all platforms (unlike the current situation). However, this would eat into revenue from Microsoft's server OS and stack. So it will not happen.

Of course there are other factors here, and Microsoft did compromise by striking a patent deal with Novell, officially sanctioning Mono. But the other elements in that deal (Linux, office software, etc.) were very important too; it isn't clear if Microsoft would have made that deal just for .NET alone.

Bottom line, Microsoft has basically nothing to gain, and something to lose, for helping Mono. Mono is already where Microsoft wants - allow some level of .NET outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, but with various performance and other limitations that make it a good idea for people invested in .NET code to purchase Microsoft's other software to run it on. Mono has been weakened, but not killed, by the layoff from Novell, which has worked in Microsoft's favor.

Microsoft is not stupid. If it were in its interest, it would have hired this team a long time ago. That it has not is evidence that it is not in its interest.
Yes but people who are bored and browsing Facebook and don't follow technology minute by minute, outnumber people like us by a huge margin. Facebook launching these three (not so new) features just means that its making video calling more accessible to other people, which means its probably going to work for them.

(Personally, I still feel surprised whenever I see anyone even using Facebook chat.)
The presentation seemed a little lackluster. It's like FB + Skype were planning a big surprise and then Google dropped a bigger one with G+ last week and FB/Skype were left standing, shouting "us too!" but with a smaller product + feature set.
It's silly. They need to feel useful. This reminds me of some previous employers who always breathed down my neck to lay off our current developers and find newer faster developers.

Sometimes you should go for what you have, especially if its highly competent, is vouched for by a valued employee and meets your requirements.