skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far, most of the people that I know that actively use Facebook don't even know that Google+ exists. Most of them are women. This is by no means a scientific sample and they are typically not early adopters but until I see them joining Google+, I won't be convinced the Google finally gets social.
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Please, a few cherry-picked quotes from the site of a journalist with no medical qualifications whatsoever who has made a career out of crusading against psychology in general. I have a couple of links to sites that will prove how smoking is in no way or form related to lung cancer, or how God will punish all us sinners who don't support executing gays, would you like to read them too?
It's difficult/impossible to get a merchant account without a previous trading history and money to show off. The financial spend isn't too bad, but from what I can tell you need to have some sizeable accounts before you can get one. Basically they're aimed at the larger business end of things, which makes small projects that need online transactions a non-starter.

(I tried and failed to set up a merchant account and instead had to settle for PayPal as the only other option)
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There's also discussion on Google+ at https://plus.google.com/117421021456205115327/posts/BPKvVJm7...
Anyone know if it supports lazy syncing? i.e. if I have a big beefy server with a couple hundred gigs of media, and I would like to be able to access individual files occasionally from my small laptop, am I forced to sync everything over because the folder is shared?
I disagree with the article.

It claims that we should "start by being honest", and the whole article argues that there should be no other alternative JVM language except Scala?

Well, for some people Scala means just too much incidental complexity for too little power gains, and are trying to find different balance on complexity/power scale by inventing different languages. I can't see what's wrong with that.
Yes. Though really this "prediction" comes along at least once a month, every month, since the mid 90s when the desktop PC rose to prominence. Prior to that the "prediction" was that the desktop PC either wouldn't exist, or would never take off.

The only thing that makes the claim different this time is it's IBM saying it, not some journalist hack. See here:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/081011-ibm-pc.html?pag...
I guess I'm just old school, but my solution to this problem has been a 250 GB external drive + CVS for all my files. I've been doing it for years and it works great. Every time I leave a machine, it's just 'cvs commit -m "Leaving home/work/library/Starbucks"'. Once you get past the perverse feeling of checking your music library into CVS, it works fine.
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This happened with a report my research group put out. The work was paid for by the U.S. government, and posted free on our web site.

Some publisher downloaded it, slapped on an ugly cover, and started selling it on Amazon.

We talked about whether to do anything about it, but in the end decided not to. At this point, the details are a little hazy, but it was some combination of "meh", "we did the research on the public behalf, so as long as the information is available, we're happy", and "our legal advisor says it would cost more to pursue than this rinky-dink report can justify".

PDF of the work in question:
http://securebuildings.lbl.gov/images/BldgAdvice.pdf
As far as I know there isn’t a single example of an incubated company going public.

My understanding is that incubators are relatively new. It is not really reasonable to say the lack of IPOs indicate if incubators are successful or not...I believe the first yc class was like 6 years ago. LinkedIn, for example, took 9 years before it IPO'd.
This is a good argument saying the desktop is still alive, but it is a bad argument saying that it isn't dying.

Most of the points that the author illustrates the importance of desktops with will matter less and less in the next 5 years as storage and CPU power become cheaper. But most importantly, as hardware innovations make tablets convenient to use for typing (1) and easy to use with large displays (2), the desktop will become a niche power-user market.

(1) http://wingstand.com/
(2) http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/breakthrough-device-of-ces-201...
Yes, I like nature sounding noises like beach or wind.

http://simplynoise.com/ has decent brown noise.
I'll address just one part of this.

It may seem a bit counter-intuitive, but stimulant therapy actually reduces problems with substance abuse for those diagnosed with ADHD. This is because people with ADHD are already at great risk for developing comorbid substance use disorder.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/111/1/179.full...;

Any time you expose a person to stimulants there is a risk that they can develop mania, addiction, etc. However people with ADHD are already doomed in this regard, and avoiding treatment for this reason is foolish.

Also, I should disclose my bias, I'm diagnosed ADHD-pi, and a stimulant non-responder.
In the context of America, black is an ethnicity as well as a race. Maybe we should have two different words to distinguish the two, but we don't, and that's the way the word is used. A racial-ethnic group is a group up people who share characteristics of lineage, culture, dialect, mores, norms, etc. Obviously, all talk of ethnic characteristics will be unfortunately general. Not every Italian likes espresso, not every American-urban-black person likes fried chicken, etc.

I think it is a very well supported statement to say that the "american-black-ethnic-group" that moved north into Detroit had levels of crime that the prior residents of Detroit found quite disturbing. And a major proportion of this crime was directed at white people in a racially charged manner. That is not to say that violence is an indelible attribute of all black ethnic groups, at all times, and all places. But high rates of violence was a property of this particular ethnic group, at this time, at this place. The movement of this ethnic group into the city, and the interactions of this ethnic group with other ethnic groups in the city, is important for understanding what happened. The Detroit story is partly a story of an ethnic-sectarian conflict, just as in Kosovo, Israel, post-bellum Atlanta, or innumerable other times and places in history.

What are the practical reasons is it important to recognize and talk about the ethnic nature of the conflict? I can think of a couple:

a) The current conventional wisdom (that I learned in college) was that white flight was due to an irrational and bigoted revulsion of black people. Thus the solution to preventing future white is to re-educate white people to make them not racist. The actual story, I think, is that white flight was a result of ethnic violence. White people feared black people moving into their neighborhood, because they had the quite rational and well-supported belief that this would dramatically increase the probability of black-on-white ethnic violence. The solution, then, is to take the same techniques of law enforcement and re-education that were used with tremendous success to reduce white-on-black ethnic violence and white-on-black racism, and use those techniques to reduce black-on-white racism and black-on-white violence.

b) If you are governing a city or a country that's experiencing a large influx of ethnic migration, and that ethnic group has cultural patterns that are causing problems, you need to work on strengthening your institutions to handle that influx. And if the influx is too much and too sudden, and your rate of building institutions too slow, you might want to think about ways to limit the influx, so you can properly assimilate the migrants, before the migration overwhelms your institutions entirely and you lose the city.
I can almost guarantee that number is positive and % Repeat is something they closely monitor and consider in their internal equationss. As any direct response/lead gen marketer knows, customer retention rates/repeat buyer % is a crucial element in the formula. I suspect they have a very clear idea of what this rate is right now, and as their business grows, this number only gets more accurate. Right now, operating costs aside, they only need to get their lifetime value per customer above $5.75 in North America, which isn't entirely unfathomable.
Well, I'm not making a moral argument. I did imply that it was "a slightly shady business practice". Clearly, Google is using money from its search business to fund OS development, and to undercut competitors. I do have a bit of a problem with that.

But I don't think it's as problematic as using patents to go after your competition. Like I said, offering something for free makes it harder to compete with you, but not impossible. Lots of companies compete with free alternatives. Twitter clearly isn't the only example. Desktop operating systems, word processors, text editors, pick whichever example you prefer.

Owning the right patents, on the other hand, can make it impossible for others to compete with you (e.g. what's happening to HTC right now).
Wow, and they sell this guide for $149! I think "bubble" is misused here. For example, one talks about the "housing bubble" in China (currently a big problem there). What this means (in layman's terms, which is how I understand complicated economic stuff like this) is that the value of something has gone way up than normal due to some factor, which may or may not be artificial manipulation (since price of something is dynamically determined, the meaning of "higher than normal" is a bit complex).

Now, in the case of incubators, they report that there's a 3x increase 2 years. This may be healthy development filling a need or it may that there are a lot unnecessary incubators. You can't tell at this stage, since the optimum number of incubators determined by market conditions is hard to tell.

The more you think about the harder it seems to judge the success of incubators, but in the end it comes down to money earned: how much it invested - values of current holdings is one simple way of doing it, I think (although this doesn't take into account other criteria, such as attracting companies to a region, which may important for some incubators).
It's really not that crazy. I know lots of photographers who went to Africa for a week and took 10k+ photos. I can take 500+ in about 30 minutes with an animated model if I'm doing more of "do your thing and I'll try to catch some good shots" versus "a carefully planned out set of poses".
Normals are afraid of menu items, especially "Tools", "Options" and "Preferences".

And they click "Yes" or "Ok" on any dialog without reading ;)
It will do you some good, and may be perfectly fine. I have three thoughts that might help you determine how valuable it is for you:

As an Electrical Engineering student, I find that I also enjoy coding. Developing a program is similar in many ways to developing an embedded system. My experience in the design process helps greatly in both areas, and I feel that I'm just as productive, if not more productive, than my CS counterparts. In fact, I'm currently writing C++ desktop apps in an internship. These apps interface with external hardware, where my EE skills come into play. My education has helped me to do this job, and I'm at least as good at it as someone who had no skill with hardware. If your academic branch is related to design, math, science, or the market you wish to enter, then it's a perfectly fine discipline for you to be in.

If you don't have familiarity with a CS department at your school, you should be aware that computer science in its pure sense is very different from working in a programming industry. You don't necessarily have to touch a keyboard at all to do computer science; it's basically a discipline of mathematics. However, some schools have a CS department which is designed to prepare you for industry, which can't really be called computer science. A traditional CS degree isn't the ideal preparation for entry to industry.

Now, if you were a student in an academic branch completely unrelated to the industry you want to enter, it might be hard to find sufficient value to justify the degree. You'd have to approach it from a "learning how to learn" or "wholistic education" standpoint.
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Lenovo makes desktop versions of the Thinkpad keyboard, sounds like you might like one of those:
http://www.amazon.com/ThinkPad-USB-Keyboard-with-TrackPoint/...
ActiveX was a threat to the open web not because it used native code but because it depended on the Windows API, which was enormous and deeply coupled to the architecture of Windows. For this reason, implementing ActiveX on other platforms was not even an option.

It's the same story with every technology Microsoft tried to embrace, extend, and extinguish. It was Windows and its API that gave them the power, not any programming language or compile target.

In light of that, NaCl is not at all the same beast as ActiveX. It doesn't matter that nobody else is implementing it now, as long as they can implement it, should it one day become strategically important.

If Google has a secret weapon equivalent to the Windows API, it's their suite of cloud services. When you catch them using their browser to lever people onto Gmail and G+, that's when it's time to cry foul.
Neat to see confirmation that the current scoring algorithm is multi-pronged and percentile based. Apparently my score (/dpritchett) is almost entirely propped up by HN karma.
Yeah, though I think $.99 is kind of steep for this feature, it is probably worth some money to me to get the cross device sync feature that having it be on the kindle platform provides. I can read from my phone, my kindle, my browser and it saves my place. I think that's honestly worth more like... $.25 or $.10 to me instead of $.99 but it's definitely worth something.

Of course, if they provided it for free, I'd be happy, too :)
If you're willing to throw out a "pharma grade street drug" then wouldn't you be willing to throw out any pharma-grade drugs that are used directly on the street such as codeine, morphine, Valium, Vicodin, and any other broad spectrum pain reliever.
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"Are you familiar with street meth? Ritlain/Adderall are pharma grade long duration forms of that."

No they're not, you apparently don't have a clue about the pharmacological aspects of Ritalin.

To all intelligent readers: please ignore the trolls in this thread, there is a small but vocal group of opponents who build careers out of applying to parents' feelings of fear of medications and the guild of having their children on it. Then when parents are confronted with ADHD they go looking for information and the first things they find on the internet are these nutcases - it's like searching for information on the objective potential issues with eating meat and ending up on a PETA site.
I'm curious; why CVS instead of something nicer like git (or mercurial, which has good windows support)?
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> The only way to do it is to force her to change her password. That meant using LastPass to generate a 12 character password of upper and lower case letters, numerals and non-alpha-numeric characters. It had to be complex enough so she would not remember it.

How long until she finds out that you can just reset the password as long as she has email access?
I received an image from a co-worker recently which demonstrated the redundancy powers of QR codes: http://i.min.us/ij9Yjs.png

(Try scanning it)
Since there's built in error correction, it's easier to just manipulate the pixels to look like what you want and eat into the error correction. Most uses of QR codes don't need 30% ECC, you could generate it with 30% and consume 15% of it, thus injecting your design and still retaining error correction.
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I think one of the biggest issues people are facing with MonoDevelop is stability (we get a lot of feedback from users that they get a lot of crashes).

There's definitely a lot of work/polish that needs to go into MonoDevelop and it's something Xamarin knows about and is working hard to fix.
Wait till they start discussing quick release mechanisms for tripod heads. You haven't seen anything yet.
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It is unlimited, as they do not place a limit on it.
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We use Eventbrite for all our Entrepreneurs Unpluggd events, and while they're not multi-day conferences, I still think Eventbrite is the best platform for any size event to use for ticket sales, registration, waiting list, and all that jazz.

Never once had an issue with them on any level.

And no, I don't work for them or get paid by them in any way. They just have a kick ass product. :)

EDIT: The reason I'm even saying this is the author mentions in his post that he switched from PayPal to Eventbrite.
The original text I referred to is this book by Christopher Alexander: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language

I believe the text you linked uses the Alexander's principles and applies them to office arrangement. Interesting.
I think you're right that duplicate detection is not a commonly-desired feature among photography enthusiasts. They generally upload a small set of carefully-chosen and edited photos, so duplicates will be uncommon.

For people with large collections of their memories, I think it's more common. That's why Snapjoy launched with duplicate detection as part of their MVP. My site (OurDoings) got compliments from a new user on several features, but duplicate detection was apparently the only feature that was capslock-worthy:

duplicate detection. EXCELLENT! Not encountered elsewhere and what a difference it makes, it means that people can dump their stuff even though they havent quite optimised/tagged/cleaned up their local stuff. It detected both duplicates in the file sets I sent (it happens with multiple computers, synchronisation, and multiple aborted organisation efforts) and when i sent files already uploaded. Removes a lot of work :)
Oops, you're right. Somehow skimmed over that on my phone. Apologies. Still I think the actual blog title is a little bit less sensationalist than the submission.
Why not make it available for $0.99 and then donate the proceeds to charity?
One day, I will love AeroFS. But that day is not yet today: AeroFS does not preserve file modification times across clients, which kills it for me.

On the bright side, I finally got around to setting up Unison + cron to keep files in sync between my MacBook Air and my MacBook Pro, and it's working quite well. I'd highly recommend it to anyone facing a similar challenge.
I remember an art teacher who demonstrated me that we actually don't like symmetry in faces - he shown us a picture of a woman face composed of one half, and its mirror image. This face was completely symmetric (vertically), but didn't feel quite "right".
This highlights the problem in my mind. We're not dealing with very well-grounded science here, we're dealing with statistical improvements from a shotgun approach to medication for a set of somewhat subjective symptoms. Most people who take the drugs are going to get decent results for a while. Some people will get great result for a long time. Unfortunately this leaves everyone else.
No, see here: http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/qrstandard-e.html (Denso-Wave created the QR code)
I don't think such things will go away. HAM radio and radio operators are still plentiful, even though they are technically unnecessary for 99.9% of the population.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Even if Dell were to shutter their doors tomorrow, there would still be plenty of hobbyists and those willing to supply them.
I agree. Locking is used because the code needs to make sure nothing else modifies that data while it's reading it. If you don't lock, and the data is modified, the program could crash.

Adding version history to it doesn't change this fact.

Example:

You're iterating over bank records, marking them paid. Another thread adds one to the beginning of the list. Thread 1 finishes marking them paid, then moves them all to the 'paid' section... Including the non-paid one.
I'd say that Google doesn't really get user experience in this case. Things like making it clearer what +1 does. Does it show up somewhere? (yes) Does it affect search (sorta, but not really) Does it feed into my Google+ account? (no)

Maybe even the name "+1", which is a given for regular forum participants, but may be hard to get for others.
One thing to note about ADHD research: The bar for getting diagnosed with ADHD in a clinical trial is much higher than getting diagnosed with it by your family doctor. All of the symptoms involve a great deal of leeway and personal interpretation, and in a clinical trial, they are really, really strict about that stuff. A doctor, who has a financial incentive to prescribe ADHD medication is much more likely to bend the diagnosis towards positive.

There is no shortage of writings by smart people arguing ADHD is over diagnosed. I am also of the opinion that it is. But I also think ADHD is a real disorder. I have no doubt that the findings of this study apply to people who really have ADHD. I also have very little doubt that this study doesn't apply to the vast majority of kids who have been diagnosed with it.
This is what bugs me about state machines (like https://github.com/pluginaweek/state_machine).

Adding a history or audit always seems like a giant hack.
Stability no question, including plugins.
Some interesting comments about Chrome NaCl in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2875906
+1 has been around for like 5 minutes and already I see it on almost all of the sites that I visit daily. I'd say that's a good start.

It's too early to say if it has failed or succeeded, though. I do wish people would be a bit more patient... But looking at the stock market, people obviously are short-termists.
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git annex might be of interest to some:

http://git-annex.branchable.com/

http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2011.html#Handling_my_music_c...
One thing I always thought that Flickr lacked was an integrated, easy way to buy photos. I don't want to contact the photographer and wait for a reply, when I need a photo for a slide, I want to be able to buy it instantly.

At this point Flickr seems like a site that just survives by inertia, nothing new seems to be done, they have pretty much accepted defeat, I guess.
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There are a lot of good comments on that page, too.

Also, the policy page now lists examples of violations. http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/answer.py?answer=1228271
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Talking generally, most mental disorders when not extreme are genetic advantages in the right situations. Bipolar and creativity, asperger's and certain forms of engineering, even milder forms of ADHD with right people skills can be pretty useful for the some types of entrepreneurship.

I am quite sure there are many more forms of mental illness that have not been documented. Heck, even I have had few very strange quirks since childhood, which I have never found documented anywhere.
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