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> There should be nothing malleable about that

You're taking what I said to the worse possible extreme. (Personally, I think that says something about you, but I'll digress on that point)

When I said malleable, I was saying that any standards/procedures currently in place could be changed to accommodate unforeseen consequences/fallout/whatever. In this example, a policy of "ban accounts with names that don't match m/^[a-zA-Z ]+*/" could be loosened when they ban someone that has a legitimate gripe, and realize the mistaken logic behind that policy.

You shouldn't be spending so much time railing on them for the banning of an account so much as how they respond to it. Do they apologize and change policy? Do they backpedal, blame the account-holder, and leave the policy in place?
The response this time is striking different from a case[1] just a few days ago. Is this standard Google policy or did she just not talk to pr/the lawyers?

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/it8ah/when_google_de...
Well, that is true in 200 years the universe will be 14,000,000,200 years-old ;)
One thing that I love about Google+ is that a bunch of Google employees are feeling more comfortable interacting with the outside world.

For example, it looks like Amanda Walker from Google stopped by Ladyada's blog and left a comment just before me with even better advice than I gave: http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/07/23/google-suspended-lim... . Amanda pointed to the official way to appeal, and I believe that appeal would have gone through quickly. So I think the right thing would have happened in not that much more time.
I wonder at the legal status of this digital copy of the original article.

Words seem smaller and lighter than seeds...
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It's interesting that I am being accused of "samefagging" just because I seem to be on another person's side and am making somewhat wild assertions about what might have happened. I'm not an HN user typically because I'm ignorant of most of the stuff you guys find interesting, I found this thread linked from reddit and when I saw that ThomasAlexander's building had allegedly been raided by the FBI going after Anon, I knew I had to comment. I assure you, the last thing I want is for his story about the FBI raid to be untrue, it would mean the hour or so I've spent thinking and commenting on it was totally wasted.
Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers
Idea - Use Google+ for structured blog interaction
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why not just tack "-olovich" on the end of everything, that's what we did when we were 10yrs old.
Google +1 tracks mouse movements?
I definitely appreciate your support and you make good points about Pandora, Google and companies like them. However, from what I've read, it took Google five months to rack up those rejections, and I've spent five years.

That doesn't make it impossible, but for a number of reasons, it shouldn't take that long. Aside from the given entrepreneur, it harms industry and ultimately the country when it does.
It's a nice approximation, but it's also a hack—it doesn't take 'scrolloff' into account, and once you scroll too far in one of the windows they lose synchronisation.

Edit: You can record a macro to do something similar—create a vertical split, switch to it, disable scroll-bind, go forwards one screen, enable scrollbind, then switch to the other window. This doesn't lose synchronisation but it doesn't take 'scrolloff' into account either.
It's been restored. Looks like a simple mistake to me.
https://plus.google.com/108772200278976934119/posts
In all fairness, "reducing side-effects" is a means; "ease of composing a program," "ease of understanding a program" and "ease of extending or changing a program" are ends.

They're all reasons, but it's possible that adding complexity to facilitate a means may compromise the end, aka "winning the battle but losing the war."
Breaking news events slipping into HN every now and then is one thing, commentary on news coverage of events is another. I flagged this submission for this reason. It's worth discussing, but elsewhere.
Sometimes this is a rather advanced project. Don't expect to have an easy time reading glibc, for instance.
Wow, what role are you interviewing for?!
(more related to the previous post rather than this one, but still on-topic) I wonder how well would automating the process work. Right after the student clicks "submit", show the plagiarism analysis / score (previous article has a pretty interesting screenshot with all the sources annotated / issues highlighted).

Would that be a sufficient deterrent? Would the guys copy/pasting the work cancel the submission if they saw that everyone will know they directly copied 60%+ of the content?
other than a link to a SNL video, I don't see anything on the blog other than for click karma?
1) There's no guarantee that people voting this up are 'good hackers'.

2) The same guidelines indicate that politics are off-topic.
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Given the fame and popularity of Paul Erdos within the hacker-type groups I've known- perhaps opium is actually of very great interest to hackers?
They would rather pretend to have 400 000 000 users than eliminate the crap accounts.
It seems odd for an article condemning muslim/terrorist generalizations to call out "white men".
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Keep in mind it's a huge amount of water, scattered through a mindboggingly huge volume. It's a very tenuous vacuum with more water then the surrounding vacuum, but, still, pretty good vacuum.
Breasts are of great interest to many hackers, yet that doesn't make pictures of them on topic.
Facebook sure has improved the communication for me, and my circle. If it doesn't improve your life or anyone you care about, there are people who feel it does.

Frankly, your subjective, continuous attacks on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook makes it hard to see the objective side of your argument.
A problem in my Code appears? I'm starting to Google solutions instead of trying to get a complete understanding of the problem.

The insidious thing about this is just how effective it is (if you are good at it)

Then there is this thought: I would like to do something but there are too much people out there that could it better, so why bother trying?

I have my own version of this demon. Everything I can think of to do, I know has been done before, and done better. This knowledge, combined with my need to make things that are new or better, is a terrible roadblock to me.
What Amy Winehouse Left Behind
I enjoy hearing different perspectives and I appreciate when errors or misconceptions are corrected during threads. I don't like the nastiness. The relative anonymity of the Internet is a disinhibitor: some people feel less vulnerable and more empowered here. Others feel that this is a domain where they can tilt the bully-victim playing field in their favor and get a bit of 'payback' (unfortunately, it's rarely directed at the folks who bullied the folks posting on HN).

Being able to be critical in a positive/constructive way is a difficult skill to master. Of course, this begs whether someone wants to actually critique or bully. If you're here to bully, ignore my post (or bully me). If you actually care about respecting others and having others respect you. (A colleague and former editor/moderator of an online media forum shared these with me).

1) First, ask yourself whether the comment is worthy of a response, or if you are just entering an argument. If the latter, think whether arguing with this person in this forum is really the way you want to spend your time. (Think, too, if you'd engage in this conversation in real life)
2) If you want to participate, type what you intend to say.
Study it carefully. Did you 'add value? Did contribute an intelligent remark? Did you attack someone in a personal/offensive way? Would you be offended if someone commented in this manner on your post?
3) Read, revise, re-read, and revise again until you've convinced you've expressed yourself in the clearest and least offensive manner.

If you can use humor, be assertive, and enhance the thread by sharing what you know or feel, is there really any need to reach for more (or less)?
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Use Readability: http://www.readability.com/articles/v0mms3ke
They went from a few thousand to 10 Million users in about 30 days.

Of course there are going to be little hickups like this. The problem is already fixed. How is that absurd?
Nope. "Right now, over there" is a phrase which has no meaning on astronomical scales. There is no defined order for events which don't have a causal connection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity

There exists a frame of reference in which the state that we see in that image takes place at the same time as we read about it today. There's another frame of reference where it happens billions of years ago, before the formation of the Earth; another in which it happens in our future, long after our Sun has evaporated into nothingness (Ed: There isn't actually, see below). All of these perspectives are literally, completely equally valid. They're all real.

There was a good discussion about this last time it came up here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907271
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

Winehouse was a fantastic songwriter, one of the best of the current generation. It's disappointing that so many people were more concerned about harping on her personal life rather than the music.
I suspect it's partly because of the difficulty involved in measuring the quality of a given API's design. How do you separate the success resulting from the usefulness or popularity of the technology from the design of the API?

That was the first thing I though on starting to read this. How do they know they've actually got it right? Feedback from users?
The new framework looks great! It's amazing to see how much KA has accelerated since the funding and the progress that's being made. I'll take a look to see if I can help out
In my university programming class, we submitted assignments using turnitin, the same software you saw in the screenshot. We were allowed to see how much of our programs matched other people's programs, and where it was copied from. Scores of up to 70% were not uncommon because the whole class had the same assignment and example code to work from. The only problem is if your score was near 99%, which would probably raise some eyebrows.

But since we could see what parts were considered to be plagiarized, we could easily change our program and resubmit to avoid the filter. It would only deter the students who were too lazy to change their variable names to something else.
I applaud his effort to explain how to learn PHP, especially glad to hear that the #php community is polite and helpful. On the other hand, I would not recommend reading the manual as a way to learn a language. The PHP online reference is excellent but it's a reference. Rather than just plowing through it, I'd recommend an introductory book/video/tuturioral, then start working on your idea and keep the manual open in a browser tab! :)
Google thinks Darwin is Freud
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Your responses remind me of disturbing passages from Kafka's The Trial. There is no need to discuss specifics in public, but why not let the Accused know the violation they've committed? Why is there no appeals process where the Accused can respond to specific allegations? And why not let the Accused download their data?

I'm sure your response seems reasonable to you, since you are familiar with the details, but try to understand what it looks like from the outside. Personally, once the Apple cloud is up I'm moving all my important data away of Google.
That's because it is.

Going from blog posts and mailing lists to 140 character messages was a real change in communication. Going from 140 characters to 110, because a couple of people have long twitter IDs, is just being a pain in the ass. I already compressed the point of my message to 140 characters, why isn't that good enough?
Very interesting. Does anyone know which script controls the mapping of the background bitmaps to create the panning background?
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that actually reinforces his point. If she didn't make that post, Amanda wouldn't have showed up to give her comment...neither would you.

And that's pretty weak "support", telling someone to go fill out a customer support form. Especially since it's Google we are talking about here, where the support is pretty much worthless.

Seriously, I hope you guys have some A/I handling support that's just isn't working properly yet...because if the support is handled by actual human beings, you must have an active policy of hiring the lowest common denominator.
If NASA is right about where there is water there is life, and or hydrogen drives, then if there are billions of FTL species maybe they would (lol) gravitate to a trillion planets worth of water.

"just saying that it might be a good place to look for more interesting communication signals."
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The film was the bank to be a 3D spectacle which would have the public interest in the medium again and now they are taking advantage of fans who can not wait a second to see the third film in the franchise Of course
I too think it is great that Google is improving here, but if Ladyada ( <hipster>I knew her back when she was called l3m0n</hipster> ) wasn't a relatively well known blogger this method of "support" wouldn't have worked. Clearly something needs to be done to make the appeal process more visible for average-joe/jane users whose accounts are shutdown.
My first course: Online Popcorn.js based Django audio-course
17 years here and I am happy to make my acquaintance with Follow Mode! :)
Top Gear Season 17 Episode 5 
Top Gear Season 17 Episode 5
How Google Plus Stacks Up Against Facebook
I wonder if, when confronted about how ridiculous the requests were, the auditor will claim to have been testing how well the admins resisted social engineering?
Can anyone come up with a good comparison for this? A sphere the size of Mercury's orbit is an order too large (~ 1.4e36L according to Wolfram Alpha).

Edit: Of course Mercury's orbit isn't spherical, but we're talking ballpark here :P
Someone forgot to set their Google Analytics ID. Requirement one to inventing the future: be able to follow instructions.
Your question implies that you (or the other biz dev) can't sell and can't run a company and need to recruit somebody to help.

[Below is a bit harsh, but use the critical feedback to grow and improve. I'm honestly trying to help, not just criticize.]

What are you and the other biz dev person doing all day?!

What value do you (and the other biz dev) bring to the table?

From my perspective, you two should be busting your balls selling. One should be selling the product to customers to gain traction. The other should be selling the product to investors.

You both should be on the phone, road, plane, train or in a lobby waiting for a meeting all day, every day.

You don't need a product to sell first. That's a first-timer's excuse for not getting out there and making it happen.

It seems like you really need to step up the hustle level here.

I'm available via phone and email anytime to discuss this further. Feel free to reach out any time. Like I implied above, I want you to succeed and would like to help in any way I can.

Good luck and keep us posted on your progress.
Didn't Myrhrvold have a spectacular amount of money prior to founding IV? "Complete T-Rex skeletons in my foyer" money?

I don't like IV, but I feel like Myrhrvold probably does believe in what he's doing.
No, but a provocative and thoughtful piece about the female breast in North American culture might be of interest.
What's fraudulent about that?
Totally agree with you.

To be honest, Launchrock are just being ridiculous at this stage. They actually seem to be going backwards. I signed up for their beta over a year ago, still nothing except several "coming soon emails".
What's the e-mail address the message will be sent from? I want to be sure I receive the message; I don't want it ending up in my spam box.
Mm... Fair point. It just seems like another fundamental change to allow twitter messages to go to >5 people at a time. What would be the limit then? Ten people? A hundred?

Maybe limiting the number of people at all is a bad thing. Who knows.

But messing with their Formula That Works may be a bad thing.
There was actually a lively discussion about the engineering of bras or some such at one time that I participated in. I even volunteered "scientific" style info about my own personal history of bra sizes and most everyone was a perfect gentleman, with one tiny slip up by a guy who "generously" offered to help me carry them and then promptly removed the remark after I politely indicated it wasn't really appropriate.

I don't recall any protests about it being "off topic" either.
What is the worst commit message you have ever authored?
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You're missing the point. The most value I get from Twitter comes from interacting with other people, especially in serendipitous ways. It's not about being followed by random people at all; it's about following (and being followed by) people with whom you could have interesting conversations.
While I agree that human labor is thousands of times slower and thousands of times more expensive than an all computational solution that is not the point most of the time for automated systems.

In the case of messages and wall post on Google or Facebook, once a CAPTCHA is solved you get to send N messages before the next one is popped up. Without the CAPTCHA you could only go so fast anyway due to general rate limits so the impact on spam, for either service, is minimal.

In the case of account creation in general the limit for automated systems is more heavily dependent on diversified proxy access more than anything else. Additionally, you can only effectively manage so many accounts at one time depending on your needs and CAPTCHA do not add more than a few % time delay to the overall account creation process.
There's a big difference between "policies" and "politics". There wasn't really anything political in the article.
I'm not seeing that by default in Sublime Text 2 (2076) - is there anything I have to toggle?
Science doesn't really work that way; we don't look back at Newton and think what an idiot, nor will future people think so of us. Our measurements get more accurate over time but that doesn't mean our current measurements are wrong or ever will be; they're simply as accurate as they can be now, which is pretty damn accurate. No one in the future is going to suddenly find out the universe is 100 billion years old and we had it all wrong.
I like the idea of using Mercury's orbit as a comparison. Some more fodder:

Just over 13,583,569.4 times the volume of the Sun. [2]

[2] http://www.smartconversion.com/otherInfo/Volume_of_planets_a...
I noticed that the Ubuntu images on EC2 (search the Community AMIs for "oneiric") provide Java 7 if you want to try it out for yourself. I tried it out briefly and it worked ok for me on running Apache Zookeeper.
Well, yes and no. See Cushman's comment, above, on the relativity of simultaneity.

In relativistic situations it really doesn't matter which verb tense you use. Verb tenses are not designed for this sort of thing.
I dunno about you, but you'd have to be pretty clueless about your customers if you think automatic bans over having " " in your username is a justified reaction.

As far as judging the response...you can't do that, since the issue was made public....if the issue went through the proper channels, there'd be a very high chance of her being told that there is nothing Google can do.

There is such a thing called common sense, and in this case, it was severely lacking. What other kind of mines are hidden in the terms of service that will get your account banned over nothing? What other rules will be added later and applied to all accounts retroactively.

Will you find yourself 4 years from now getting permanently suspended from Google plus, because in your message history, you used the word "Bing" in a message to your friend today?

Any other company, you have a good chance of getting a retarded decision revoked. With Google, you have a better chance of playing a 24 hour marathon of Russian roulette, than getting an issue resolved through the support system.
In certain circumstances CAPTCHAs can be effective for preventing DoS attacks. I will concede this point.

However, I will stand by my opinion that the majority of CAPTCHA implementations, no matter how sophisticated, are generally ineffective at preventing what they were implemented to prevent.
The whole site seems to be 'borrowed' content. http://www.wesjones.com/whatsnew.htm
Sorry, my grandparent comment was about Emacs, not Sublime Text.
Does the emperor wear any clothes?
Out of curiosity, is it possible to know what system they used to style their website? Maybe they developed it, but just in case I ask.
Facebook, why can’t I quit you?
Generally I wouldn't waste my time on naysayers, but I feel like this time I should.

I am fully aware of everything that has been said here. I know it's hard work. I've heard about the hours. I know that it would be easier to start with Python.

But you know what? I just don't care. None of that concerns me. This is something that I want to do, and I'm willing to put up with all of this stuff.
Your parent's point was simple and practical, not bound up in relativity. Parent was merely observing that even though we see it (please do not launch off into a metaphysical discussion about "what is seeing"), if we were to go visit it, it could no longer be there for use to "use".
shame..no better than facebook..
That actually sounds much more obscure than something labeled "war on drugs", which is a good thing. I think genuinely "random" articles that treat some topic in depth can be fascinating and don't really harm the site. A classic example of this is the Neal Stephenson one about the guys who lay cables around the world.

The "war on drugs" type articles, IMO, come from people who are really eager to share their particular point of view. I get that feeling too: "This guy's right! How can people possibly vote for Berlusconi?!", but I think articles posted due to that motivation are generally a Bad Idea, and I think if people are honest with themselves, they're not really posting them because they find them fascinating, but because of "dammit, that's wrong" or "this is spot-on! Everyone should read this!"
Judge tosses out Winklevoss Facebook case
I have zero familiarity with Charlie's research, but I have a (passing) familiarity with battery controllers, and the malware-hiding-on-battery thing doesn't add up to me. How does the battery access host memory? It's not like these things do DMA, right?
It's generally helpful to remember that in face to face communication, a great deal is conveyed by voice tone, body language, facial expression, and context. People who have verbal habits like saying something kind of sarcastically or ironically and conveying by voice tone that they don't really mean it can sound way harsher in a written format than they would in person. Since in their head they still hear their own joking or warm tone, they may not realize or understand how negatively it comes across to others. Learning to communicate effectively via written word without all kinds of avatars, smileys and other "color" is a special challenge. In many cases, just cluing someone that it sounded really harsh without accusing them of anything can help them start figuring out how to do it better.
OTOH if you need follow-mode, aren't your functions too long?
He's done a lot of great things in software as well, but that doesn't change the fact that his stance on patents is wrong and economically destructive.