skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
build.sh is broken on my machine (os x, with coreutils installed through homebrew), requires this fix:

diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index 854aeb6..4e1c80f 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@

include_file() {
f=`echo -n $2 | sed 's/\//\\\\\//g'`
- tmp=`mktemp`
+ tmp=`mktemp helloXXXXXX`
cat "$2" | gzip | base64 > "$tmp"
cat "$1" | sed "/#INCLUDE:$f#/ {
r $tmp
- d }"
+ d
+ }"
rm "$tmp"
}
Ahh yes, classic argument technique: reply to nonsense with nonsense[1]! Fantastic move. Oh wait.. there is one thing tho, which I presume you're OK with: it's a total logical fallacy.

The nonsense here is the perfectly reasonable part of overhead, like that it covers electricity for the microscope, legal, hr, accounting and so on offices that need to be done for any organization, buildings to house the stuff, people to keep the lab clean, and so on. The 40ish% overhead you describe is pretty darn low, considering the overhead percentages in a lot of companies that take contracts are 2-4x over materials and skilled labor time.
That's it. Google's policies are more aggressively invasive than Facebook. They were a company I had some sympathy for. No longer.
It's not the behavior I expect, and I would not have tagged anyone in any of my photos had I realized that tagging was sharing.
I meant directly in the aftermath. Secondary attacks on groups of onlookers to the first attack are calamitous. Think a car bomb or rifle attack on first responders/EMTs. And of course now we know he had designs on additional attacks.
There is No Bubble, There is Entrepreneur Envy
Some splash page design thoughts: https://img.skitch.com/20110724-qejdafa6fjpwg3gx86q1xmxdgh.p...
For people with Noscript: http://mobile.twitter.com/spectralhole/status/69513328166313...
Thank you. I don't understand how the diversity between averages can be smaller and what I had understood not be true.

http://i.imgur.com/1k6Ct.jpg

I'm not arguing any position, just trying to understand without being very familiar with genetics or statistics. Maybe I've read the studies the way you presented it but my simple mind interpreted it that way. I'm guessing there is a huge flaw in what I drew but I don't see it, I can't picture in my mind what you meant.
I wonder what Google intends on doing with people who simply use a fake name for their Google account/Google+ persona. Will they also get banned/have etheir Google+ accounts disabled? What about people from foreign countries? For example, if someone uses a name that basically means John Doe in a not-so-well-known language, will that also be considered misuse of the G+ service (use of a fake persona) or will it remain ignored because checking whether that is indeed an actual person's name or not would take too much resources on Google's end?
Ruby hackery. How to modify Proc
This is why deregulation is important. I think a perfect government has a slightly liberal congress, with an extremely conservative judicial branch. I'd rather be judged using the original meaning of the constitution rather than some activist judge's interpretation of "the spirit of the constitution that applies today".
NB:
When I said it was written by joey I did not mean to imply anything negative about you or your code.

All I meant was that it was yet another great piece of software written by joey:

* etckeeper (/etc under git)

* git-annex (dark git magic that i am only starting to fully appreciate)

* moreutils (growing collection of the Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago, when Unix was young)

* tons of trivial debian infrastructure like debian-installer, tasksel, debhelper:)

http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/
Exactly the reasoning behind never speaking to police as detailed in these 2 videos a while back:

http://boingboing.net/2008/07/28/law-prof-and-cop-agr.html

The risk of self-incrimination is incredibly high since no person can even be aware of all of the laws that exist and may be violated.
The problem is the automatic "merge" of Picasa Web with Google+.

If I mark an album as private in Picasa Web, I wouldn't expect anything to be shared. Especially if I would have been doing this for years.

This violates the principle of least astonishment, at the very least.
There are more countries in the world.
I read it when I opened my G+ account, and it sounded to me pretty much like Buzz all over again. Hope that gets fixed soon.

Only because some guy you barely know made his way into one of your holiday photos, it doesn't mean you want to share your complete vacations with him. Probably not even that one picture, why should you be forced to?
Not even just regional papers, lower level stuff.

It is very very very important to remember in this, that language which sound dignified and mature to us today, is in many cases just vulgar "crap talk" of a previous era. The reason it sounds so fancy and polished to us is because it is old more than because it is good in many cases.
Ease of use: to make syntax changes this radical in Common Lips you'd have to write your own reader which parses the new syntax. That's a pain so most people stick with what you can do with macros (and, sometimes, simple extensions to the reader).
Is this Hacker News? I suppose it might be tied to our theme by the story of the inventor.

I think it's a shame that the US federal government has ballooned the way it has, and I believe it's a slap in the face of the Constitution. Discarding the concept of mens rea while maintaining more than 250,000 pages of regulation is malicious, and anyone supporting this movement is not someone who should be in political power.
No, the policy of at least Facebook is you use the real, legal names as determined by the state. If you are locked out of your Facebook account, they ask you to send a copy of a government issued ID to prove who you are.

The idea that you are "curating" might be something they'd like you to think.
I don't know, this might be good way to explain your idea to a non-investor but for VC's I've read the opposite: http://www.businessinsider.com/entrepreneurs-dont-tell-an-in...

I think instead you can better form your pitch like this: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/03/madlibs-pitch-adeo-ressi-fo...
Wow, thanks for taking the time out!

Couple of Questions:
- Why do you suggest taking the copyright out?

- I thought hyperlinks should follow typical convention, people are used to clicking them.
I like what Google is doing, but I don't like how it does it. I live in Tunisia, where almost all of my friends and family members uses Facebook. It's important to recognize the right person, because sometimes some friend add you and it's not really your friend. There is also e-militia that browse pages and comment to create false political ideas. These are two problems that needs to be solved.

It's good that Google is making effort on this, but disabling one user account is WRONG. It only happens with Facebook when you spam. Why not create an algorithm and mentor how it works? It's necessary to get this feature now, especially that it's not accurate.

And also, if you are making this feature, make sure you have a stellar support. G+ has just started and blog posts like this will KILL it.
Go CMU!
I might vote for an Internet Party candidate, depending on their positions on multiple issues... but I would not blindly endorse somebody from such a party, based solely on their stance on 'net and tech issues. And that's even assuming I agree with their position on the 'net and tech stuff, which wouldn't be a given.
Making Your Photographs as Cartoons.
I haven't tried Hyde, but I did switch to Blogofile (http://blogofile.com), another Python blog compiler, after trying Jekyll for a while.
People complain about activist judges but I think a bigger problem is activist prosecuters who look to stretch the law to include targets that were not intended by the law. The biggest example of this that I can think of is the anti-hacking laws that are being made to charge people of simply using a web browser.
I think it does make some intuitive sense (even if there is confusing messaging on this). If i tag someone in a picture, then clearly they should be able to see that picture (i mean they were there when it was taken so there should be no problem with that). Extending this to the album level makes some sense because presumably everything in an album is related to a particular event (so that person who was tagged would have been there for all of that).

That being said there probably just needs to be better messaging on this so that users understand what exactly it means to tag someone.
I understand now about the hyperlinks. Just checked google.com and it has the same behavior. Blue links and underline on hover. :-)

Feedback noted.
Cost of a false negative here: nothing.

Cost of a false positive: I suppose Google could lose its hard-won reputation for conscientious individualized customer service.
What if the person doesn't want you to find them?
I've had a decent experience so far with Crashplan (www.crashplan.com). They have good options for security (to ensure your data is encrypted prior to sending it off).

The client UI could use some work, but it gives you a lot of control about what, where, how and when stuff is being backed up.
"We had ONE bubble in my lifetime and it was a ‘credit bubble’."

In other words, he has redefined bubble to mean what he wants so that all the other bubbles aren't really bubbles and he can make a link-bait headline.
Thanks to the State of California, virtually every private university president and trustee is now a criminal, too.

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/The-California-Law-That...
I agree that effective identity is about who you can become on the Internet. But there really isn't any middle ground between imposing the name on one's birth certificate and letting people create whatever identity they want - after all, every pseudonym has to begin as anonymous pseudonym and gain connections.
Next up: make vaccines that allow Mormon parents to render their children permanently unable to metabolize caffeine! Let Baptist parents permanently disable alcohol for their children! Let vegan parents artificially induce lactose intolerance in their kids! Hell, you could even let the socially conservative chemically neuter their children!

Edit: I guess most people think that crippling their children, quite possibly before they are mature enough to give consent, is fine and dandy.
Wow, do I disagree. Tagging and visibility are two entirely separate things.
Look at http://tamejs.org library and this threads for CoffeScript implementation:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2776938
https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/350
Clearly not.

1) It would make sense if you see the world only as one big group (i.e. without any "circles"), like Facebook does. But having different levels an types of relationships is G+'s strong point. This totally contradicts this point.

2) In Picasa, the setting was "private" and it was private. Now, that suddenly changes and there is no way back. Many people have relied on the former policy and know have a big "surprise, you are screwed" flashing on their screen. Not good.

And there are more reasons, but these two are already more than sufficient.
I've been victim of sane. Although, I hadn't earned much, but the fact that Google banned me without my mistake, still bother me. I was just getting few clicks a day and some retard user used some script which made automated clicks on my ads 10,000 times. I noticed this and immediately reported the activity to Adsense, and what do I know... they ban me.. for being freaking honest. And just like this guy, none of my screamings and rantings were heard.
Ask HN: how did you decide upon a web application framework?
I'm at a crossroads right now where I need to decide upon what web framework my project is going to be using for likely the rest of its existence.

Most of my professional experience relied on WinServer/IIS/.NET/ASP/WCF/SOAP/Silverlight technologies, but it was all software I didn't have to pay a dime for, as the licensing was taken care of by the powers that be. Now that I have to pay out of pocket for everything, I realize that I would much rather rely entirely on open source solutions. Also it's obviously quite good for me to get out of the MS ecosystem and explore other possibilities (mind was totally blown by NoSQL for example when I tried it for the first time!)

There are quite a few popular options out there, and the team originally started with Java (as a few developers were more or less green and that felt like the simplest route) but after a while I realized I didn't very much enjoy using that language, maven, Spring and a lot of the other technologies we were using.

I started playing around with Rails and I immediately loved the opinionated architecture, the expectation of using git, the ease (and rapidity of development) and the availability of great supporting services such as Heroku. I think I'd very much enjoy working with it long term, but I'm concerned it might be a bit rough for our less seasoned developers who might be scared by MVC and the Ruby syntax.

What are the options out there that are a solid alternative to RoR (I've read the wikipedia article, I swear :)) that have been getting as much support in the past years? I want to make sure that I don't take the choice of technology too lightly and that I think this step through from all the angles! What have you chosen for your project, and why? Why did you feel the alternatives weren't as good of a fit?

Thanks!
Your argument kind of lost me at the point where you said "the awk is necessary to". You make a well-reasoned point, but really, isn't it a slippery slope? Lots and lots of Unix tools can be further broken down into smaller extant Unix tools.
So they still don't need this app...
"Philosophy, as it's taught in universities is not practical." There is plenty of practical philosophy. A healthy dose of theory of computation, or possibly business ethics, would have immediate utility for a lot of people here.

"Rather than aim for the abstract ideas such as Descartes" We study the ideas from people such as Descartes to analyze their methods. Btw, he had many early-scientific writings.

"we should aim to teach things that relieve suffering in our daily lives, such as emotional mastery, and mental discipline" no, maybe, yes.

... etc

"There are a lot of people with psychological problems in this world." Now you're just getting batshit.
Well I didn't intend to write an essay proving something's that's fairly obvious. I think Google's intentions look harmless on the surface, but there may be some sinister consequences if they continue down this road. And at the very least, they have a bad PR problem on their hands because I can't be the only one left with a bad taste in my mouth about this corporation.

Google's strategy is to entice you to give up all concept of personal privacy. Yeah, nobody's forcing you to sign up for their services. But since Google gives away it's well engineered products for free, they are purposely making it difficult or impossible to build competing services that are capable of making money. They don't need to even compete in the marketplace based on price because they've adopted a "burn down the forest" strategy that's subsidized by their advertising revenue. Want to develop an online calendar/document editor/spreadsheet system? Better find a way to make it free to compete with Google.

If you want evidence of Google's vision, let's go step by step through Wikipedia's definition of "Orwellian":

Invasion of personal privacy, either directly physically or indirectly by surveillance.

If you use Gmail, Android, Google Search (all free products), Google will track and process your actions. I don't need to prove anything here, this is their business model.

State control of its citizens' daily life, as in a "Big Brother" society.

If you were to use every Google service including Android, ChromeOS etc, they would be able to curate every piece of information you consume. This is what the Google Filter Bubble concept pointed out very clearly.

Official encouragement of policies contributing to the socio-economic disintegration of the family.

(not applicable)

The adoration of state leaders and their Party.

There was no end of media coverage about Larry Page taking over for Eric Schmidt. And even here on HN there are an awful lot of apologetic Google-fanatics and employees.

The encouragement of "doublethink", whereby the population must learn to embrace inconsistent concepts without dissent, e.g. giving up liberty for freedom. Similar terms used, are "doublespeak", and "newspeak"

I quite often hear people say "My data is safe with Google", and very clearly this turning out to be wrong.

The revision of history in the favour of the State's interpretation of it.

Google's censorship cooperation with China was fairly despicable. And they only started changing after they were publicly humiliated by PBS.

A (generally) dystopian future.

This is somewhat subjective. But I can't think of a better example of dystopia than if Google were to become an even more omnipresent part of the internet than search/advertising.

The use of euphemism to describe an agency, program or other concept, especially when the name denotes the opposite of what is actually occurring. E.g. a department that wages war is called the "Ministry of Peace" or "Ministry of Defence".

"Don't be evil".
I read that PGP did that in the 90's.
Hello Archit,
Fellow Indian Geek here. I must say good job on the site, you have managed to make something that is usable. Here is some of my suggestions:

1) I think you need to get a fancy logo. current one is too plain according to me.

2) You are asking customers some sensitive & yet I do not see "Privacy Policy" which is what stopped me from entering PAN No right at first step1. If its already there, highlight it

3) A Strong TOS would indemnify from liability. so, You should add a TOS & make customers agree to it.

4) Any Particular reason Pricing is hidden from Homepage?

5) In welcome email that you send. add few details like name, userid etc. It makes it more original & less fake.

6) I understand you want a "Lean UI" but I think more naked than Lean. so spice it up a bit - add some fancy transitions, better typography(Try webfonts) etc.

7) For entering Date,javascript validation message says: "Please enter date of birth in format: 25/10/1984". isn't giving specific format DD/MM/YYY more accurate. Further, Any reason you are not using Date Picker?

8) Make Login Button more prominent. so user won't try to register again. Your current homepage encourages to everybody to click on that big orange button which is not something you want your existing users should be doing.

9) Taxes aren't something that most people understand. so even after such Intutive UI, people will have questions. so highlight your support methods available(Phone, email etc).

10) Last & most important: Don't just be a pretty interface to official Website. You never know when incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in becomes irctc.co.in. That's too risky business model. Try to add more value to service.

Hope it helps
My impression is that the "second vulnerability" Charlie is talking about is the remote->kernel transit needed to allow you to talk to the battery in the first place.
And? Why would that stop them from getting this information and matching it? Are you saying because this information isn't available all over the world they wouldn't collect it it in the U.S.? The U.S. is the biggest consumer market in the world.

What do you think they could achieve (monetarily) having a personal history attached to a social account? I can tell you the first thing I'd do is determine your influence. I could take your addresses/family addresses and reasonably determine what kind of spending power you have based upon cross referencing your address with tax information. On top of that I don't have to necessarily know about you in another country. I can simply define the influence of an individual here and you may end up in their circle of influence. Imagine a person that's been voted as highly influential in said system and they communicate with you on a regular basis. From that I could infer that you are also potentially influential.

Other countries have similar systems. The information may not be as freely available but it's there. It just needs to be harvested.

For example, one of the biggest sources of relative information is obituaries. Something that is freely printed all over the place.
The simple answer is: The internet, and society, does not owe you the right to identify and find anyone you've ever met. People are entitled to their anonymity and privacy.

Just because someone went to school with me, or was buddies with me in school doesn't mean they get to know what I'm up to now or where I am, or even how to get ahold of me.....
New Privacy Guidelines allow for FBI abuse
American Museum of Natural History, first museum with its own doctorate program
Allowing someone that was tagged in a photo to see the photo is fine with me. Letting them see the entire album doesn't make a bit of sense because there's not really a good way to automatically determine if the rest of the pictures in the album are relevant to that person.

While you might make an album based on events I tend to make albums based on dates. During periods where I don't take a lot of pictures I might have all of the pictures in an album for a specific month. If I then tag a friend in a picture from a baseball game we went to he now has access to all of the pictures in that album which might include pictures from a private family outing or event. Could my organizational habits be changed? Sure, but I shouldn't have to.

The much bigger problem I have with this is that the people tagged in your albums not only get the ability to see the entire album, but to re-share the album. I am extremely meticulous in whom I share anything with. I disable re-sharing on 99% of my posts that are to family and friends. I disable re-sharing on ALL of my shared photos. By using the tagging feature my desire to limit sharing is completely ignored. So while I might want to tag someone in a picture for my own benefit, especially if it was at an event where maybe I didn't know everyone very well, I won't use it if the albums are shared without my consent.

edit: I just noticed that referencing someone with the +name or +email address notation in photo comments has the same effect of sharing the photo + album + re-share

http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=129927...
Sounds like I won't be signing up for Google+ any time soon. I don't do anything on the Internet under my real name (and that includes Hacker News).
Boutiques.com: Fashion site by Google
Well, if you think that, you also are going to be taking issue with rimantas' point as well, so it is kind of a wash. The goal of my response was to show that /if/ you agreed with rimantas (and you don't), then you actually had to support nicknames in addition to real names.
Well, I know people who IRL insist on being called by made-up names, mostly goths, you know, something like Darkraven Bloodmisery. Whatever they called themselves in Livejournal. Very few of them follow through tho' and fill in a deed poll form! For me that's the acid test: whatever it says on your passport is your real name. And government IT - the least efficient kind! - has managed to solve this. Why can't the mighty Google?
Alan Kay "50th Anniversary of Objects?" on ways to think about things
A great and important lecture about "ways to think about things", with just a little about Programming and Scaling and STEPS (see www.vpri.org ) at the end.
For me this talk sums up why and how we at our startup Morphle are thinking about the design and implementation of our parallel manycore SiliconSqueak processor for virtual machines like Squeak. Email me at info at squeakvpn dot com for a non-realleayer version of the talk, our startup or information about SiliconSqueak beyond http://siliconsqueak.org.