skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, I wrote a similar scraper in NodeJS, which also delivers profile information: https://github.com/fhemberger/googleplus-scraper/

Are you interested in contributing?
There is not a single example of "deceptive practices" in the article, merely supposed "evidence" that those practices are likely. Whether or not that is true, without any example to point to, the article is entirely evidence-free.

We have a word for that: it is screed. That's all this article really is. One of the worst OP's I've ever read on HN.
Wow, an entire article talking about how terrible and corrupt Google is for biasing their search results, without a single example of Google biasing their search results.
"Set it and forget it!"
Why did such an ambitious project choose private registration? It makes it look unnecessarily shady. Why not set Mixed Media Labs [1] as the Registrant?

[1] https://manage.app.net/about/
Run some crazy deal where people can sell or buy textbooks for a good price - you will have to advertise on some campuses.

Find out which social networks people hang out on and advertise on those.

Advertise on and make deals with other textbook marketplace sites.

One trick I've used in the past is to sell stuff on Amazon, which my target demographic buys. It looks like Aus may not have Amazon, so use the equivalent biggest online retailer. Sell some textbooks or other books students buy on it and insert flyers in the books you mail out. You might even be able to use their advertising programme and mail out flyers with other sellers' products. It's very targeted advertising.

Hang out on college forums and help out in any way you can. Don't pimp your site, just help out. It pays back.

Write a really useful blog/content site, the focus of which is only to help your users in any way possible, preferably in a way which relates to your product. This will pay you dividends more and longer than any of the above methods. See http://kalzumeus.com and http://hubspot.com for strategy and tactics, but really here's the one line guide: What will my users find useful?

Good luck and let us know how it goes!
...which is a prank, actually. Google's first SRE bought it as a joke, and stocks it out-of-pocket. I've heard he actually loses money on it.
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This reads like a high school essay. In 1200 words the author manages to raise exactly one poorly backed point.

I've noticed lately the intensifying assault upon Google's citadel. I have some conservative acquaintances who lecture me about Google's evil ways - from how the company has attempted to destabilize the middle east to egregious violations of privacy. Not once have I heard them harp on Microsoft, or DRM, or Telcos. Frankly, I don't know where all this Google hate is coming from, but it must be an orchestrated effort by threatened industries.

We're already seeing a battle front in the mobile market, where no doubt spurious patents will be trumped up against Google. Anyone else care to chime in on developing fronts?
Having a more costly car ones own choice. You can't expect to have more luxury in the US when you're trying to compare $/gallon
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They don't. Amazon is built off the FOSS version of Xen - http://xen.org/
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There's a school of thought that blames the gold standard for the great depression. The French accumulated massive amounts of gold between 1928 and 1932 and some scholars say the global deflationary effects of Bank of France's policy during this time caused the great depression.

The gold standard also ties money supply to gold production which is a little like tying fed policy to the quarterly flip of a coin. For example, the Australian and Californian gold rushes of the 1850's caused huge short term price instability.

I'd counter the above statement with the following:

Many problems were solved with our departure from the gold standard and paper money is backed by the faith and credit of the country that prints it and it's value should, and does, fluctuate accordingly.

But arguing with an anonymous "smartest man in Europe" is a little like arguing with Santa.
Depends on what field you are in with embedded programming. I know a few people that work on embedded hardware such as microwaves, fridges and whatnot that make 100,000+ a year.
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After pointing out that "The central bankers throughout the world have lost touch with reality" and discussing the messes that have been created in large part by inept bureaucrats, The Smartest Man in Europe dismisses all of the problems brewing in China with a naive "the authorities will figure out solutions to solve them."

Anyone who truly believes that the "authorities" in China are any more capable than the "authorities" outside of China isn't very smart at all.
Even if you get it through your company sometimes, if not most of the time the employee is required to put in Y out of X amount where X is the amount of the plan.
It's an interesting OP in the sense that it shows that some big players are trying to brew up trouble for Google using antitrust mechanisms. The screed itself is not very informative (it's an attack piece by a lawyer for the other side). Now, I would like to understand who "the other side" really is, and to get an evaluation of what they hope to gain and what their chances are. It doesn't seem that the other side is competing search engines, probably more like competing advertisers.
It's a hit piece by a economic hitman but I'm glad you posted it. We live in a world where ignorance of propaganda and pr could be very dangerous to one's rights and society at large. The hit piece is almost humorous in its lack of sophistication but it's very important to know that people like this exists and what it is they do.
I think of anything DRMd more as rental. I think the term "Buy" there is quite deceptive
"git tag --contains" needs to know the generation number of old tags, which is expensive to calculate. "git describe" would be faster for the same reason.
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http://alteredqualia.com/three/examples/webgl_custom_attribu...

and

http://alteredqualia.com/three/examples/webgl_custom_attribu...
Somebody should package GNOME Shell for MeeGo. Another cool UX :-)
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I suspect that any MBA "education" programme by itself is completely worthless. You need a scientific or engineering background to put meaning to the numbers and buzzwords.
Sadly, that website says that he's on vacation and not accepting new clients.
Thanks for the background! (Seriously, not trying to be snarky.)

That info does support my original point that generational numbers probably should have been stored from the start and timestamps are the more "derivative" bit of information since it comes from the environment and not the data itself.

Thus, rlpb's concern that storing generational numbers pollutes its design of storing "only the minimum amount of information" isn't necessarily well founded, since the generational number might be more minimal and correct than the current timestamp. That was the aim of my original post: generational info is fundamental, not extraneous derived info, and probably have been stored with commits in the first place.
That argument that value of gold is 'something real' is getting tired. Value of gold is not baked by anything practical - it's usage for jewelery depends on its high value in a self referencing, half paradoxical feedback loop (see Nick Szabo on origins of money: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html ). But there is something that indeed makes gold a better standard than the printing press of the government - it is its objectivity. Printing money is just too easily manipulated, mining gold sets more objective rules and clear rules are what makes any decentralized social system work.
It was, though it was basically imperative code wrapped in sexps.

EDIT: It was for scripting AI "personalities".
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Indeed, though in my case that's purely from geographical considerations :)
I have to admit, I don't find it very "interesting" at all. I find it irritating and sophomoric.

I'm very sympathetic to Google, but I do believe that they are entering dangerous territory as they become more and more dominant. So I would like to see a serious critique of their policies and practices.

This is not it.
Why? Most likely laziness and convenience. It gives people something to rant about. Apparently HN has a hard time conducting a respectable discussion about Microsoft.
Couple other recent ones:

- For April Fools day this year, the internal corp login page rick-rolled everyone.

- Larry Page has this crusade to make meetings more efficient, so all around campus are these posters that say things like "All meetings should have a single decider" or "Meetings should not have more than 10 people". Well, soon after, a bunch of posters appeared saying motivational things like "You're building the future. Make it awesome." I couldn't tell if this was a very subtle troll or a well-intentioned but ultimately condescending attempt at motivating people, but in either case, the response is the same: troll harder. So with a couple friends, we put up posters that said things like "Read slogans", "You will do whatever this poster says", or "All meetings require a unicorn and a pony." Well, sure enough, after a couple days another round of posters went up that said things like "Red" (on a yellow poster) or similar absurdities. Then a day or so after that, another round of posters went up with "The posters will continue until morale improves."

- (I was on the same team as Scotty, but a couple years later, so we didn't overlap except socially.) When we got back from a team retreat in Pittsburgh, our work area was all cordoned off with police tape, with all the furniture turned upside down, courtesy of the people who hadn't gone.
They didn't do a great job at analyzing the feedback towards the courier project then.
The study of game theory and incentives has become a big area of study in marketing. I worked in an experimental economics lab for a few years and a lot of the software we wrote and experiments we ran focused on little incentives like this for engagement.

NOTE: I realize this has probably been going on since the dawn of time, I am not suggesting I was working on something no one else had thought of, we are just starting to see it take-shape really specifically now in online services as they play bigger and bigger roles where it was previously absent.

It looks silly and insulting, but it works (on most people).

Look at Stack Exchange, I love when I login and see a new badge alert across the top... I have no idea why, but I suddenly feel like I care about that site about 15% more than I do other equivalent resources. I feel like my contributions matter so I care to contribute there as opposed to someplace else.

Look at the concept of Achievements on XBox and Trophies on PSN... the idea works, it creates this false sense of accomplishment and while 10% of the population might not care and might ignore it, I imagine 50%-60% are effected by it in some subtle positive way (like me) and the remaining 30% are actually motivated by it to do more of whatever caused them to "win".

I think this is an unexpectedly playful way for Google to dabble in incentives inside their products. If Google News traffic goes up, I imagine we'll see badges as part of our core Google profiles within the next year or two unified across all their properties (especially Google+)

My guess is that like our identities, the "badges" on your public profile (Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.) will become something the big social networks move into; trying to keep you "building" on their network as opposed to another.

It works somewhat for Xbox 360/PS3, it was bound to bleed over into other arenas.

ASIDE: There was a startup about a year ago that specialized in exactly this: badges for your website. Golden Door, Red Door... something like that. I wonder if they'll see a big upswing in business as people get more interested in the idea.
>"You know what?" he said, "I was actually just thinking it could be Kawasaki disease. Makes total sense. Bravo, Facebook."

From the article I read, her doctors handling of it was tenuous, at best.

To me, the idea that doctors should be able to process god knows how many patients per day, and diagnose their illnesses properly, while still keeping up to date on recent discoveries, considering that medical knowledge is changing on a daily basis, is absolute madness, like pure crazy thinking.

Of course you're going to get crazy recommendations from your friends on facebook, but do you really think its humanly possible for any general practitioner to have a "good" grasp of even 50% of the medical knowledge known to date, AND see their patient load, AND read all the latest medical journals? It is not even close to possible.

Who has all the eyeballs? Google and Facebook, and somewhat Microsoft. Ignoring all the legal landmines, this is a niche that some startup should be focusing on, a way for parents/families who have intimate and in-depth experience with rare ilnesses can interact with each other. The SME's will gladly give their knowledge for free, but no one seems to have the balls to aggregate it.
http://www.wdyl.com/#murder

"Plan your murder events!"
"Start a murder blog!"
"Email someone about murder: I love murder!"

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For a single repository, it does have a very similar interpretation to, say, svn revnos.

You can speak of "revision #125 of a branch" in a specific repository. Which is generally exactly what you need for human-to-human communication about development.

"Can you see if that bug is in r125 of unstable?"
"I've got all changes up to r245 of prod"

I guess the confusing aspect would be if "r245 of prod" in the central server was "r100 of prod" in my local repo because I haven't cloned the full history?
Interesting. Does the user need to be logged in to G+ and a friend of the person you are requesting the feed for? Otherwise its a bit of a privacy bug!

Edit: Reading it again, it clearly states public posts only.
I hope Byron Weiss is better at picking smart men than predicting the future:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/byron-wiens-prediction-trac...
Because they care about "why" they do things. This explains everything:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4
I find it interesting not in the sense of "I thank them for sharing their wisdom with me", but in the sense of "look what's massing on the horizon".

And as for Google's policies in practices, as users of their consumer products, we're exposed to just one side of it. The money-making side of their business is advertising, and they tend to be less of a "nice guy" about that. Now, I have no idea how they compare with other advertising companies; whoever hired the "consultant" that wrote the OP is also playing hardball.
"* = Based on a sample set of 29,215 Google+ Profiles."

And http://findpeopleonplus.com has "947,996 Google+ users indexed".

Maybe we should consider the fact that Google+ has more than 10M users now ? Also, you can hide your gender so the stats might be off.
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I just finished reading the article via Instapaper on my Kindle. It's much nicer this way (sans photos).
Seems to manage Accept-language (I see French). Neat.
No, since (as someone pointed out elsewhere in this thread), a gram of sugar has less than half of the calories in a gram of fat.

If Alice and Berta both choose to consume exactly 2000 calories a day, but Alice chooses a low-fat diet while Berta chooses a low-carb one, then Berta will pay less according to that system. So it's not really a problem that sugar costs less; low-fat diet are still cheaper.
got that right! i was wowed!

here in the philippines; we have lesser than your 7k figure! haha! and that's yearly.

above there is a discussion about living expenses; then i search for the National Statistics website and found out that australia or canada seems better.
It doesn't say whether you're supposed to give gross or net income. Can make a huge difference when comparing countries or even states.
First, please don't ever do something like "* { font-size: 75%; }" ; that literally means "take whatever readable font size the user's browser wants to use and shrink it by 25%". In other words, it means I'll almost certainly hit Ctrl-+ until the font grows back to 100% and the rest of your page will scale accordingly.

Second, I can easily tell you exactly what size h1 is: 25% bigger than the rest of the text on the page. If you're just going to start by assuming the browser has a given point size by default, and fill in percentages that result in exactly the point sizes you think the user ought to see, you're not really thinking in relative sizes, and you might as well use absolute sizes.

What method do you want to use to determine the font-size of h1? Presumably you have some idea in mind for how it should contrast with regular text. Try to answer that question without actually knowing the exact point size of the rest of the page text. If you can, then use that relative size in your CSS. If you can't, then perhaps browsers need more capable CSS so you can express what you want. :)
"Depth" would (at least for me) evoke the shortest path to a commit. The generation number is the longest path.
I think this is somewhere that highly adapted mini-frameworks could take hold.. something like Padrino for Sinatra, yet slightly more publishing friendly.
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forbes.com, isn't that the site that sold dofollow-links via a well known paidlink-network for years?
The "something real" is its objectivity not its practicality.
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Have to agree with other posters - Best article I've read on Stuxnet - good job.
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I found a fun game to play whenever reading superlatives from financial news sources: append ", in finance" to every one you see. Thus, "the Smartest Man in Europe" becomes "the Smartest Man in Europe, in finance." Things start to make more sense that way.
I agree with your conclusion. Just a nitpick:

I wouldn't trust the strong version of the accelerating change hypothesis. Actually augment our intelligence, or at least our speed of thought probably require major breakthroughs in neuroscience and relevant fields in engineering, which may occur as not-so-predictable quantum leaps.

Plus, there the safety problem: if we ever enhance someone's intelligence, we may want to make sure that (i) it doesn't make him mad, and (ii) the guy doesn't plan to take over the world. The proper sanity checks may require yet other breakthroughs.

In the end, Friendly AI may be easier.
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Maybe not capable, but surely more focused? As far as I know there are no elections that change the top leadership every few years. This way they have a larger interest in planning beyond their political term and the private industry has less influence through campaign contributions.

But I might be wrong, I'm way out of my comfort zone here.
Well, the collapsing credit money couldn't be offset by more printed paper money; so that's what made the Depression cut so deep. But the credit money was only able to collapse because it had gotten so high in the first place.

Whether your money is a bank account, commercial bonds, government bonds, or gold; it doesn't pay to have fluctuations in total volume. Keeping the base (i.e. gold or dollars) fixed won't stop the banks (and governments) from borrowing and loaning more every year, until a crisis shows them that they have gone too far.
6k/year 5yrs experience... please add a 0-10k category? haha
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You invest your money... in money? Well, guess it's a smart move these days =)
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According to some, the dollar is still on a gold standard but a floating one -- backed by oil flows. As soon as oil does not trade for dollars -- poof.
I chose less than 60K because my coding is a side business. I run a successful IT business as the main course.
This is part of iCloud isn't it? Anything you purchase is synced to your devices, so you can purchase in the store on your desktop/laptop and it is synced to your phone/iPad/iPod.
It's worth noting that when you're doing multiple significance tests, the threshold for significance goes up dramatically. Naively, if you're doing 20 tests, you should expect one to be statistically significant, even if the null hypothesis is true.

That 3 were statistically significant from a sample of 25 is, itself, not statistically significant and any attempt to explain them defaults back to just-so stories.

An interesting test to run would be to see whether the same outliers held when new movies are added to the page which shift the position of the existing movies.
By that qualification, the Autobahn has a speed limit too: the limit of how fast land vehicles can move.

The analogy of the blog holds. Infinity only happens in calculus, so why bother poo-pooing a helpful metaphor?

Like a good vision statement in a business plan that calls for a direction without bothering with a specific magnitude, "There is no speed limit" calls the reader to question limitations as a matter of directing their imagination to the problem of expectation as opposed the conventional expectation.

Dream onward...
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I liked the original idea of PMOG (now http://thenethernet.com/) which seems similar: you would get points for exploring various sites of the internet and level up your character by doing so. What interested me was maybe some kind of feedback loop for correcting my self image. Perhaps I think I like to read lots of highly intellectual stuff, but my character would turn out to hang out on celebrity gossip sites a lot. Presumably then I could try to take counter action by reading more intellectual stuff, correcting my self image/alter ego.

In the end I never played, first because of privacy concerns, then because it didn't work with my browser.

I suppose those news badges are kind of the same thing, just not presented in an equally appealing way. So instead of making me think "yay, they made reading news even more fun", I think "they are trying to exploit a weakness of my stone age brain to make me do even more work for them for free". Yuk.
Somehow I find WebID (http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID) more appealing. There are already countries that give their citizens SSL client certs.
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So now when your email address gets hacked, ALL your usernames and passwords to every website are also hacked!

At least with normal un/pw you need to request a password reset from the website.

I don't think we should be tying logins to email.
The fastest connection between desktop and social networks, web searches?
That's been possible on Android Market since the website was launched in February:

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/02/introducing-android...
Cracking good timing too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_oil_bourse
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Hmm everyone's all riled up about a product they know nothing about. And I thought logic was central to a computer science degree. Guess I was wrong.
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