skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buzz had a similar opening http://goo.gl/kA0pH
Such measures are meaningless because no effort is required to join for existing G users. Lets wait for Facebook or Twitter conversion rates to come out before breaking out the Crystal
Perhaps we need fewer words to make it clearer. I feel that "First" photo in the original title is a red herring. And not really something you can prove with ease. Maybe somebody else has taken just such a photo but never released it? Or has never realized it was a photo of a fish using a tool?

I suggest: "Tool-using fish photograped by diver."

Or that we find a new language to work in.
Ah, thanks for the bug report. I'll fix things like http://hackerstream.com/?item=2747279
I think you're both right. I'm sure they'd prefer to beat Facebook, but they probably consider that a stretch goal. However, forcing Facebook to open up would also be considered a victory, IMO.
I don't see why not, it's not like the site is requesting permission to do anything with your Twitter account - they just use it to count unique users as far as can tell.

Mind you, that also means there's no good reason to require a Twitter account. Sure there's the excuse of authenticating to the chat system, but this doesn't really need chat in order to work.
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Iran Parliament to Debate Death Penalty for Bloggers
I think the 'x more comments' interface is great. I've always followed certain HNers (most recently using RSS feeds from searchyc.com), but seeing their comments in context was never easy.
I should've mentioned we are coding it in javascript and node :) (in js and php right now)
If this was just happening with Google+ then your point of view would have been understandable. But, this has happened in the past with Google Search, Google Docs, Picasa and pretty much every Google product. In each of those cases masking Opera as Fx solved the problem, but Google took months to officially solve the issue, if they at all did.
It is not for hackers, it is for Chaos.
What does 'real incandescent light' look like?

Actually halogen is incandescent, too. It is white.

Fire risks are the same.
want to get the gold star? make it to where I can have a styled confirmation box when onbeforeunload gets fired and make it have cross-browser support
I love the quote from Michael Eisner: "“Nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school."

Hopefully parents can get over their obsessive drive to make kids "achieve" something every time they leave the house, and just let camp be camp.

No smartphones, no video games, just kids in the woods getting up to some trouble and fun.
yea, I've encountered this before while diffing outputs of two versions of the same thing (like a testbench to compare behavioral code vs netlist vs c simulation).

In fact, this is one of the challenges in doing relational databases on gpu hardware. With relational databases you want to make sure the result of the same query is the same across every run. Relational databases are otherwise perfect use cases for gpu type of parallelization - i.e. running large numbers of parallel, read-only lockless operations without cross dependencies (for the most part, for most relatively simple queries)
Whether Google+ is really growing like crazy or not, it appears that there is definitely a place for a new social network outside of facebook. And on that note could not help think that Apple probably missed a great opportunity with Ping.
Apple stores, assuming anyone is allowed to shop there, are "public places" under the law.

Apple's computers, arguably, are not supposed to be used to take pictures of people at the Apple store. But that's Apple's problem, not mine.
It's a joke. The are no crossbrowser frameworks because standards are non-existent, phones can't handle scrolling long lists, and are too underpowered for CSS animations. Really, there is no such thing as a mobile web app, there's only mobile webpages.
The mod-turned-hobbyist-turned-free-software RTS 0A.D. uses JavaScript for a significant part of the game code. The engine itself is in C++. Some alphas have been released: http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/

Talking about the entire game in the browser, it clearly depends on how far you're willing to compromise in the feature set. Path-finding will likely be the most painful part for a purely human-vs-human game, and opponent AI will probably add some headaches as well.
The Jains Sacred Pilgrimage : Mahudi Temple Pic & More Information
The Jain temple complex is about two kilometers of area. Here is the top gold ghantakarna photo of the main temple of God.This temple is located inside the idol of Lord Mahavir Swami ekitase eyes can see only two minutes exposure time I have felt confident. The whole temple is made ??up of marble. And here is a very large number of devotees.Here is also a widespread belief that the temple complex here is sukhadino Prasad, we can not go outside because you might take it out to become a person with something wrong.The temple is located in Ahmedabad, only 36 km apart, and only a half hour until the pahocatam. There is also a very easy and simple way to go here because no adacala could not. I go to the main cities of Gujarat Government There is also very easy to get to the buses.
That's a chassis for 2.5" disks so you'd be looking at 60x1TB disks, and that would mean 3 of those enclosures. Now rack them somewhere and add power - still much more than a couple of grand, we haven't even paid for the disks yet...
Why Google+ Can’t Replace Your Blog
I got an invite on G+ this morning and logged in. Here are my thoughts...

I found it had a very very prominent user interface of "who sees my data", and the 'circles' interface is very - IMO - obvious.

This is very reassuring: Google's obviously not trying to go the sketchy route of "how much data can we send out to everyone unannounced", at least not at the start. I left Facebook for that reason, and don't plan to ever go back.

Although, I found it a little confusing about following. "I added so and so to my following... I hope they didn't get an invite!!!!" Because that would be awkward - I just want to see what some of the influential techies are doing and perhaps to talk with them, not to "be friends" ala the Facebook/Livejournal approach.
Version control over e-mail would hit that 7MB/day limit easily, when dealing with image formats. Makes sense.
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Google+: And You Thought Facebook Is A Privacy Nightmare
Google+'s goal is to index user data for advertisers, the same as the goal of every other Google product, from the search engine to Gmail.
Design by Contract and Unit Testing (2003)
... and run Valgrind (or equivalent) occasionally.

We're using the parallel simulation technique in Widelands. Only using integer arithmetic, compiling with -Wall and running Valgrind occasionally has kept us very safe. The only recent cases of desync I can remember is when either (a) somebody added a new feature and messed up the network protocol (which is usually very obvious because the desync happens just after the new feature is invoked) and (b) somebody new to the code uses a std::set<Foo*> to iterate over a collection of objects. Basing simulation decisions on pointer values is a bad idea.
He lost me when he said "to understand that, you need to understand the academics".

There is a pretty sizable disconnect between what's going on in academic computer science today and what professional software engineers are looking for. Go explicitly sets out to solve practical problems, not provide an implementation of this year's trendiest compiler porn.
What you overheard in the park today is hardly evidence of some kind of trend. Google+ isn't even open to signups yet and is on an invite-only basis, used mostly by celebrity bloggers and other tech personalities who think every new social networking site is the greatest thing ever. Even the name "Google+" and the use of "+1" is too techie and mathematical for a lot of people.
And same as facebook. Right?
Project not a priority right now.
That's BS, I use outlook 2010 and IMO Searching is still painfully slow. I suspect I probably have less than 50MB of excluding attachments so it should be nearly instant even if it's a non indexed full text search.
The author seems to be suffering from a classic case of confusing personal anecdotes and preferences with actual insight and analysis.

He seems to have joined G+ with some sort of expectation that he'd find a full-baked, revolutionary new site that would change his perception of social networking. It's evident from his article, indeed his very first sentence, that he doesn't think Facebook has any shortcomings that need to be overcome.

If you're starting from the position that "Facebook works just fine, I don't need a better way to share things online," then yes, Google Plus is not solving a problem for you.

There are a lot of people who just want to use the Internet to share family pictures and funny jokes they've heard, and don't care about or understand things like owning their data, controlling their privacy, or ensuring that different sites and protocols are interoperable and predictable.

They won't rush to join G+, because they are fine where they are inside the walled garden of Facebook, just like they were find inside AOL's walled garden in the 1990s. Eventually, Google+ will be for them, but not right now.

I'd call that "early days," not "coming up short."
Small bug: If you put the lightness slider to the maximum and then drag around the inner parts of the circle, the selected colour will flicker to black
Cool!

Kind of reminds me of Moody (http://www.crayonroom.com/moody.php). It'd be pretty awesome to link the two projects as to get a decent crowd-sourced default 'mood' for your personal playlist.
Tells me it can't play because of the region (Norway) and also the text in the player is nearly unreadable with some sort of color distortion.
This article seems to basically be a giant troll... if you can't see what problems Google+ claims to solve for a consumer, you aren't looking very hard. As far as I can see, there's two giant issues that G+ addresses and one that's arguably more important, but also more invisible.

1) It's not Facebook. Don't discount how much some people loathe FB as a company, and (in my opinion) rightfully so! They've made a business out of tricking users into accidentally over-sharing, they've engaged in some pretty stunning acts of censorship, and keep changing the UI in drastic steps that shock their existing userbase. (I have some sympathy with this last one, but it is a widespread complaint, nonetheless.)

2) In G+, privacy controls are manifest and obvious. There's little functionality in this realm that FB doesn't also offer, but it's not actively hidden from users on G+, but rather promoted to a primary feature of the UI.

The other thing that I think G+ does right is to get away from the "one-size-fits-all" model, under which every contact is a "friend". When you hear people saying "they're my Facebook friend, but not a real friend," it's clear that FB has flubbed it. G+, like Twitter and other such social media networks, allows for asymmetric contacts, which really lets the user control how they want to use the site.

Anyway, that's just my 2¢.
Am I the only one thinking that this article is just a pile of bullshit?

+ launched 12 days ago, isn't it a bit too early to talk about its defects?
You have a good point here - why not just learn to understand and articulate arguments by doing something productive for the world rather than competing against one another in pointless weekend tournaments?

It makes no sense to compare debate to radically different activities (like programming or starting a startup). I'm not arguing that debate was the best thing that anyone can do, rather that it's a worthwhile and not totally bullshit activity. I understand if you don't want to do it (different strokes for different folks) but I gained a lot from it and I think it deserves a certain amount of respect. I would never disparage a tennis player for having wasted his time just because I find it tedious running back and forth. I would respect him and want to learn about tennis from him.
Google Buzz also had "tens of millions" of people: http://tinyurl.com/64fhwdq
Is the Secret Service's complaint in this case available? Otherwise: seems like a lot of speculation on something that's not yet known.
Optometrists (I have a few in my family) generally are more concerned with eye health. This device isn't any more of a threat than the eye care chain stores (ValueVision, LensCrafters, etc) and the cheap-glasses websites are. Many people still prefer to get a full exam at a private practice and many businesses still provide the insurance benefits to make it worthwhile.

Also there is a lot more that goes into getting proper glasses than going through a refraction (which I'm guessing is what this does) and measuring pupillary distance (which I don't think this device can do). And contacts are a medical device which always require seeing a professional to get a prescription.

I don't think this would be much of a threat, and is probably too basic to be useful in a developed country.

EDIT: This link shoes what the NETRA can do:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~pamplona/NETRA/research.html
Whatever Google is doing, it is doing Open.ly, so no comments.

If they integrate all Google products with Google+ tightly, it will cover entire web for most of the internet power users aka Geeks.
Definitely too early to talk about a lack of network effect. Facebook didn't start life preprogrammed with users; it was Myspace that had all the users and content!
The author forgot to do one very important step, send out invites to people in your closest circles that aren't on G+ yet.
They'll see that you've placed them in a Circle, but it's no different than following them on Twitter.

If someone is an influential techie on G+, they get lots of people following them, and they won't even take a moment to consider whether it's someone trying to be "friends."

That's one of the fundamental differences with G+. It's not like FB, forcing you into an all-or-nothing approach to sharing.
And I'm glad they did. Judging from Apple's business model, it would have been yet another closed off, keep your data social network. I've been dying for an open network like Google+, and I think things played out quite well.
As this article (http://tinyurl.com/64fhwdq) pointed out:

[T]wo days after Buzz went live, Google posted a blog entry bragging that "tens of millions" of people had checked it out, and created more than 9 million posts and comments.

At some point, interest died.

So far Google+ is filled with Googlers, reporters, and tech enthusiasts. They're posting a lot, enjoying the Hangouts feature, and driving traffic to tech news sites.

But it's still way too early to know whether Google+ will get any traction with mainstream users -- the 750 million people who are on Facebook today.
Random hypothesis: Risk.

In 1999 dot coms were making everyone rich and would continue to do so forever. Everyone was getting funded, going public, growing. It didn't appear working at a tech startup was a risky endeavor likely to leave you unemployed in a month.

Today, startups are viewed as very risky. They might go bankrupt, your stock options might be worthless, you might end up with several years of your life gone with little to show for it.

What group of people is going to have the risk profile best suited for that environment - young, single men sounds like a reasonable answer.
I think you and a lot of other people got too caught up in the cognitively-well-trodden ground about how a language doesn't support anonymous functions and TCO very well, but missed some of the other less common arguments that I think are at least as important. The complaint about the compiler and runtime having too much magic access is very valid. I've come to see this as a major design flaw in any language, especially given how easy it is (relatively speaking) to give programs access to the magic interfaces instead of locking them away. Python is the best example of this, there is now almost no statement in the language that there isn't an official way to extend with some double-underscore protocol or other. It always causes problems when the language has some magical layer of access that automatically does something for you, because it eventually turns out to be the wrong automatic thing. It's only a matter of time.

And there isn't anything about that complaint that is the slightest bit "academic". If anything, the academics are far more into the idea that they can come up with the One Correct Behavior and write it straight into the underlying specification of the language than the practical languages are. (One of my personal criticisms with Haskell right now is that while this is slowly being fixed, it's being fixed in a haphazard, one-off for each syntax element manner, instead of seeing the underlying problem and addressing it in a unified manner, and I think that this is because, like I said, academics don't really think this way.) In my book, it's simply a mistake.

I think it's a grave mistake to collapse this criticism of Go to "It's not academic enough"; my sense of the problem is actually that it's more on the practical side. There are some clear practical wins that really ought to be well known by anybody doing PL design that seem to have been passed up. Hopefully these are corrected, but it dampens my enthusiasm somewhat that they were missed in the first place. YMWV.
It's even more natural than that. On the first day I simply organized my contacts and started sharing. Some of them are now on G+ and some are not, but all of them get notified when I share something with them. And they can see it in their inbox whether they signed up or not.

I don't think of it as a 'social network' I have to 'invite' people to. I think of it as amplifying my sharing.
It not indigestible, you just have to train your ears to hear it and think fast. After two years you start to have less and less problems with it.
Multiplayer save/load is not prevented by technical issues as much as it is by development time constraints and the ideal that such a situation is unnecessary. A scenario editor is not that far removed from dumping the current game state.

Robustness is no incentive either, since people will put up with a lot of bugs from games.
This certainly doesn't appear to be google's current policy.
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Very nice! Random suggestion, how about you turn the background color of the page to the avg color/most popular color people picked for the song when displaying the results.
sad song = blue seems to be a strong trend too.
Yep.

As it happens all to often, many people write only because they have a keyboard.

But that's not even surprising, if you consider that they probably are the same people that, in real life, talk only because they happen to have a mouth.
That's what I figured. It's like Dreamwidth in that respect; separating out "people who read you" from "people you read".
A standard incandescent bulb operates at about 260 degrees F. A halogen bulb can reach temperatures of up to 970 degrees F.

If a flammable material comes in contact with a halogen lamp, you're facing a much higher fire risk.

There's a reason some companies and college campuses have banned halogens for safety purposes: http://reslife.tamu.edu/safety/halogen.asp
I found this interesting because, in the HN bubble, we mostly talk about monetizing solutions for the problems of privileged folk. For example, Paul Graham's "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund".

Bill Gates argues that solving the problems of the less-privileged doesn't have to be purely philanthropic -- there's actually profit to be had if you know how to find the right market.

This was written in 2008. Have there been notable examples of creative capitalism since then?
Microsoft only follows this rule for (NT) Windows, because it was judged to have a monopoly market share. Windows Phone 7.0 and 7.5 have lots of capability accessible only to built-in apps such as Bing, for example. I guess the analogy might make sense for Google search but not the nascent Google+.

(Restricting APIs isn't necessarily just about lock-in. It's a lot easier to change an API when it affects a few teams in the same company than when it affects untold numbers of external developers. Keeping it internal for a while gives them a chance to validate, and maybe iterate on, its design. Hence some internal APIs of WP7.0 were exposed in 7.5, etc.)
The millions of people that have joined Google+ and the throngs of people that have buzzed about it would beg to differ with the author who is obviously is trolling.

Also, he conveniently omitted from the article the fact that he's a visiting researcher at Microsoft. Possible conflict of interests?
Halogen also has a higher color temperature than conventional incandescents: http://www.sylvania.com/ConsumerProducts/AutomotiveLighting/...

"White" is not a very precise description of the light emitted by any type of bulb.
My point is that you have two distinct variables or percentages. It's unfortunate that it gets called the "80/20 Rule" because people see that and think, Oh, the two numbers have to add to 100.

It's not a rule. It's the idea that things are not always as balanced/equal/proportioned as one might hope or expect.

For example, there's the claim that, in the USA, 25 percent of households own 87 percent of all U.S. wealth. It's an example of the Pareto Principle in the form of 87/25. 100 only plays a role insofar as nether value can exceed it (since the numbers refer to percentages).
> How Little Things Change

... in Algol-derived languages that don't have special features to take advantage of hardware-specific functionality, such as vector processing or pervasive multicore.
The premise of the article is wrong -- "Creating amazing products, not amazing RFP responses"

Innovation and "amazing" are concepts completely alien to enterprises, particularly government. Corporate people have certain motivations, government people have other motivations. Maybe they need to comply with "strategic sourcing" procedures. Or funnel all procurement through a procurement group incentivized to get large % discounts from "list" or "state contract" or "GSA" pricing. Or maybe they need to run all of the business through some BS minority/woman/veteran owned company to hit some quota.

RFP responses matter, maybe more than the product.

At the end of the day, if you want to sell to enterprises, you need to know your way around the market.
Varargs for the X86_64 is most definitely baked into the compiler, and impossible to do library only.
> if all you're doing is basic event handling and you know how the DOM works for other things, it really isn't much trouble to include this and a couple other small functions in a one-off, and is far preferable to including a hefty all-purpose DOM abstraction library like jQuery or MooTools.

Why is that far preferable?

So you can throw out all that extra code as soon as your events have to actually do something, and you decide you do need jQuery? :)

To be honest, I do the same thing. It starts off as a small project one-off, and I think nah I don't have to include jQuery for something small if I just code these tiny DOM helper functions.

And there hasn't been a single time, when after an hour or so of coding, I didn't wish I had started out using jQuery right away :)

But sometimes then it's already too far, easier to just kludge along and finish the task than include jQuery and rewrite all the code so far to use it.

So how's this preferable again?