skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After 'wave' being killed off I figure I'll give any google service that is launched 6 months before I try it out, that may save me some time invested into google 'duds'.

Of course, that is a self fulfilling prophesy, by not trying it out I make it more likely that the service gets killed and if enough people think like me then that's how it will go.

I wonder if google factored that effect in when they killed off wave.
Misleading headline. Google+ traffic down 27% in the last two weeks [among Alexa toolbar users].
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This real names/ban hammer thing is having a chilling effect.
What might make sense would be a combination. Have some barrier to entrance to limit the people to choose from, but then select randomly from the remaining candidates. For example, to be considered for an elected position, you first have to receive %x of the vote, or maybe only select from the top 3. This way you help to ensure that the person being elected is representing some of the population, but hopefully eliminating some of the games.
I wish I had thought it through when I saw he was live-streaming a coding session. I ignored it, and wish I hadn't.

Later, someone posted the first 3 hours of it on Youtube, and I watched that... It was awesome and inspiring. I wish I had the other 37 hours to watch the rest. (I will admit, I'd probably skim parts of it.)

Watching a master work has always been a great way to learn a trade, and programming is no different. I used to work with a guy who was similarly amazing, and I learned a ton from him in the 3 months he was with the company.
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The figures are very insufficient to draw any conclusion. How was the trafic before the first of august ? Also, a decrease from 3% to 2% during summer has many possible explanations.
This happens all too often. A firm would rush to a term sheet knowing that they haven't done all the work required and knowing that there is a chance they will pull out of the deal, only so that they can kill off the interest from the competition.

I think it is very likely that they hadn't done any real DD (on you, or the market) until after you signed, and during that DD found that the business/market was not as hot as they thought it would be.

I have been through a similar process twice. The first VC gave us a term sheet 3 days after the first meeting, only for them to drag through the DD.

and all VC's say that they have an interest in the market you are in. The only way to substantiate it is to see if they have made investments in similar industries. ie. has this firm previously invested in an enterprise SaaS company related to marketing or aimed at marketing departments? If this firm or partner had only invested in server software, or consumer, etc. then it should have been warning.

You should also look at how many deals that partner has done and what their decision making process is. There is no mention of this in the post, but it could be that he took the deal to his partners and they decided to turn it down. There is no mention of the other partners at the firm nor how they make decisions.

The solution is to go through DD with 4-5 firms at the same time before signing anything or before finalizing terms. Tell them straight up that you want to do DD with all these firms between date x and date y, and that by date z you want final committals, from where you can go over terms with those who are still interested.

Things were done in the wrong order in this case, and you said you didn't want to shop the deal -- the VC took advantage of that.
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For those not familiar with his work, Benjamin is an excellent designer and certainly a purveyor of future web tech (a visit to deaxon.com will offer a great example). However, I feel like this post has come a bit too soon. Yes, as it stands native apps are more powerful than mobile web apps built on HTML5, CSS3, JS, etc., though, I think we're only at the onset of this technology. While there does seem to be a fair amount of hype behind mobile web apps these days, seasoned developers know when switching to an HTML/JS only app is suitable. That being said, we can't ask everything of a spec that hasn't even been recommended yet, or languages that have only been around for a couple of years (in some cases months). These things take time. It's good people are hyped because that can only mean a positive future with more rapid innovation. If we're still in the same spot as we are now in a year, feel free to start the onslaught.
In cases where the two are different, perhaps. But optimizing for humans is actually a core part of SEO.

Step 1. Find what people are searching for.

Step 2. Provide content that meets their search criteria.

Result: You have optimized for humans.

Obviously there are other ways of optimizing for humans. Some of those ways might even bring greater returns. But you don't necessarily have to choose between SEO and those other ways. The optimum strategy is usually to pursue both when possible.
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I'm not sure how telling any of this is, usage and traffic are going to rise and fall after the initial launch I'm sure it was expected mainly because the market for social networks is already saturated. Keeping and eye on traffic in this initial stage is as useless as watching stock prices go up and down everyday.

The service will have at least another launch as it gets out of beta and offers an API and so forth and traffic will probably rise then.

As for having a mostly techie userbase it's just where it's market penetration starts, and techies are the most likely to adopt a new invite only app. I'm sure other demographics will take notice when everyone has the +Name on the navigation bar and the app's features are integrated with most of Google's services.
I don't use FB either. I had a higher opinion of Google, as many other people also hoped G+ would be a social network made right. But enforcing stupid policies right from the start against early adopters is ridiculous, no matter what the policy in question actually is. This early in the game they simply can not afford alienating enthusiastic early users, but they're doing exactly that. If this is the shape of the things to yet come, it is no wonder that users are deciding no to bother any more.
I think this is it as well. They probably felt the market for SEO SaaS is relatively small and wouldn't get to $100m+ within the next 5-7 years.
Very cool your company allow you have side projects!
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is ESC really the only way to get back out of insertion mode? that feels like CTS waiting to happen
It's you who's being circular, sir.
If you watch long enough you will see what appears to be a green V. This is actually two green lasers mounted in parallel, 10cm apart. This gives the pilots "depth perception".
> you know that bit about firms ridiculously underinvesting on SEO

Thinking about it, it sounds vaguely like the "Market for Lemons" (information asymmetry) problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

In that there are some people doing good things there, some people selling snake oil, and a lot of doubts in between, it would certainly cause firms to invest less due to doubts that they'd be getting anything worthwhile.

Perhaps. It's just off the top of my head.
It's a bit of a stretch. Their website (http://www.seomoz.org/about) lists a co-founder's traditional marketing company, founded in 1981, as an SEOmoz precursor. But Rand Fishkin, who largely drove the SEO direction that's become successful, didn't join until 1999, and SEOmoz itself was founded in 2004. So it'd make more sense imo to say it's been in business for around 10 years, though one of the co-founders had previously had 20 years' experience running a different (non-SEO) marketing company.
This is very cool. Looking at and being near volcanic activity with temperatures near 300°C. There are narrators coming in occasionally to provide additional information and explanation.

Here are some links to provide some background and interaction:

Twitter feed for updates:
http://twitter.com/#!/VISIONS11ops

Visions '11 cruise that you are watching the mission of:
http://www.ooi.washington.edu/visions11

Approximate location:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.55586,-129.587516&hl=en...

More information about the submersible:
http://www.ropos.com/
Doesn't that require that you agree on what "North" and "South" mean with regards magnetic fields?
Why is it false or elitist to assume that someone working full time on a subject is "smarter" than everyone else on that particular subject?

I am pretty sure 99% of the lawyers in US would do a better job than me defending anyone in a trial.
Every car mechanic in the world would do a better job than me fixing some mechanical problem in my car.
Does this mean that I am dumb? No, it just means I devote my time to other areas of expertise.

I really cannot see why this shouldn't apply for politicians as well.
#2 - even if you don't store binaries, just very long posts, it's a problem.

#4 - whether it's a misconception or not, the majority of tutorials and even the default utilities make that assumption. Working around that is not something as widely documented as the defaults.

Also, forum software is a big arena. Not being able to get accurate count() values back hurt(s) postgresql. It's hurting people who now rely on MySQL's innodb as well, but you always have the option of MyISAM for certain tables that you want accurate count()s on for pagination. I've heard for years that "it's so easy to do this in PostgreSQL, just write some triggers and stored procedures... " yet... if it's "so easy", why not just bundle that in as default functionality (or perhaps even just a script that would create triggers for you) in postgresql?

I don't ever recall hearing about the "embedded linkable and serverless variant" of MySQL, and have been doing PHP since 1996. Perhaps it was a licensing issue? MySQL seemed to take off largely due to a rise in PHP, but sqlite seems to have taken off more because of embeddability and the public domain aspect of it first, well, before I ever saw PHP adoption of sqlite.
From the title, I thought this was going to be a negative article.

Instead, it says something which should be obvious: Self-help gurus are successful because they address current issues that people are having.

... That sounds so amazingly obvious that you are now wondering why it had to be said, I'm sure. I know I am.

But after thinking for a bit, I've decided that maybe the guru doesn't fit the times... Maybe the guru would have been successful at any time, if they lived then? They have an eye for the world, how to fix it efficiently, and how to tell people how to.

Ferriss' books have been on my to-read list for a while... I guess I should get around to it.
Like I said, when the guy renamed Pluto, I knew we shouldn't expect much.
A Tale Of Two Companies And The Entire Telecoms Industry
I have jj mapped to exit from insert mode and save the file. This trick was found in a long SO thread, plus I never had the need to type something with a double j ;)
Not at all. HTML5 mobile apps are not becoming more reliable than they were before they were "Linuxified".
This looks great, thanks for submitting! I've recently been working on a little C project and wondering how to test it. I'd been running little ad-hoc tests in the main() of each of my .c's, but that was getting unwieldy.

Be sure not to skip the link[1] at the top of the github page! It shows how to use the library. I clicked the "Read More" but not the link, and then was confused as to how to use this.

[1] http://jc.ngo.org.uk/trac-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/LibTap
I think people underestimate the learning aspect. As a blogger, you don't have all the answers, but you'll find out about many of them thanks to the conversation that will ensue. It helps you learn and grow. I always find this aspect of blogging to be freeing and enticing.
You must not know many accountants, electrical engineers, or mechanical engineers. People I know in those fields complain (well, fret is maybe a better word) about their careers and "changing the world" all the time. Especially women.
I've never understood how Alexa stats are considered relevant. No-one I know - from the savviest sysadmin who only browses in lynx to the most malware-infested bloated-PC user - has ever used Alexa toolbar. I once installed it a long time ago on some random machine just to look at it and uninstalled it again. How is their traffic 'representative'?
It could also mean that they read them differently. Say they took two years more than normal for high school. On the one hand, that can trigger thoughts about laziness or lack of intelligence. On the other, it can trigger thoughts about perseverence (many others would have given up), or about how the recruiter 'lost' two years in high school, too, because his father died in a house fire.

Fighting one's prejudices is really hard.
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Well, he said one of his first and most important tasks was to decrease the amount of bureaucracy HP's salesmen had to fight to get their job done; as I recall they were only able to devote about 30% of their time to actual sales. I can certainly recall a number of anecdotes from the Carly years about an unresponsive and unrealistic sales organization that along with Sun's near total dysfunction in sales between what could be charged on a credit card and mainframe level deals made Dell the default server vendor.

People wanted to buy higher quality kit, but Dell was the only company that was willing to to give them the time of day. (Hmmm, I'll bet this put a lot of money into Supermicro and perhaps Tyan's pockets, since building your own could be an attractive proposition.)
Extract French, Spanish Text from BMP & TIFF Images, New API Support
We are proud to announce the new release of Aspose.OCR for .NET 1.1.0. This release supports French and Spanish text and allows you to extract French or Spanish text from BMP and TIFF images. This release also supports Calibri, Tahoma, Verdana and Courier New fonts. You can extract 32pt +/- 20% sizes of the mentioned font families from BMP and TIFF images. The accuracy of the extracted text is above 90% and is 100% in some cases. This release also includes new API to set image rotation configuration which helps in extracting rotated text from the images. A few bugs have also been fixed in this release.
As for having a mostly techie userbase it's just where it's market penetration starts, and techies are the most likely to adopt a new invite only app.

And that's also where it's market penetration ends. Non-techies don't want to deal with invite stuff, so they don't join Google+. Now the only people on Google+ are techies, and that's where it's going to stay until Google kills it off in a few months like they've done will most of their other recent projects like this.

Give me one good reason why non-techies would ever join a social networking site filled with techies when they already have Facebook that fulfills all their needs?
Kind of early and inevitable to have a slow down. The real push hasn't begun yet. But if I were Google, I would make it soon. Copy Facebook and go after the college crowd, especially with back to school going on. Most importantly, get the Gagas and Biebers of the world on there and engaging. Sadly, that is what is drives social networks. Still way too early to call it dead or anything, but I would like less testing and more action.

Also if you think the name thing has anything to do with mass adoption, you are stuck in the tech bubble.
There are over 13,000 full-time lobbyists for the 535 representatives in Washington, and their only job is, when legislation goes the way of the public and not the way of their sponsors, to use their financial muscle to bribe a different outcome.
Despite decades of the public electing officials who say they'll fight it, it has only grown worse. You don't seem to have valid alternatives other than to be deeply shocked at the notion of changing it.

So I don't need to explain myself to you. I don't need to go into details. I don't need to get your permission. None of us do. You had decades; your turn is up.

The future will see open government and direct democracy via the internet as the obvious, logical next step of politics. The internet has transformed nearly every industry -- and now it's simply time to consider transforming politics.
And those students, radicals and "juveniles" who are launching it, won't care what you think. You had your chance. You fucked up. Now it's our turn, whether you like it or not.
It is a little worse here, I would say that 80% of the items from my feed are from google employees. When I change to filter only my friends the feed is almost depressing, always around 3 posts/day with around 100 people in my circles.
The one non-negligible issue I had with the tips was the "vesting over time" approach recommended in the article. I prefer to setup vesting to milestones, such as "x contracted clients", or "delivered first MVP (minimum valuable product, as defined by a list of mutually-accepted user stories)", etc. IOW, I prefer vesting to some sort of deliverable, not just time.
There is still an exclusion for Apps users. The intersection of Apps users and most prolific contributors on existing social networks should not be underestimated.
Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley goes over a couple of these questions and scenarios.
Thanks for the kind words ;)

I said it in my post and I repeat it here: I truly love and believe in web technologies! I'm just saying they're still far behind native frameworks and that it's very hard (if not impossible) to reach the smoothness of native apps today, especially on mobile.

It's definitely possible to reach something "good enough" pretty quickly (made http://dribbble.deaxon.com in a few hours, check it on your iPhone) but I want people to be pragmatic and stop saying you can build the exact same apps with both technologies, because that's simply not true today.

That's it! ;)
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Does anyone know why the decision was made to make hjkl the vi navigation buttons? I've always felt like jkl; would be faster since your fingers are already there
Except getting Lady Gaga onto Google+ won't do much good since nobody would be able to find her. Most of her fans wouldn't think to search for Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.
Of course, you're right, I fixed that. And many people asked for a text_object section. I'll certainly add it.
I'm not native speaker, sorry for the offense by making a typo :/
> 2) There was an effective row size limit of 8K over the whole row which worked against people who wrote forum software and were (ugh) storing binaries in the database.

Could you not just use the dedicated TEXT or BLOB type for that kind of stuff, and store them out-of-row? (yes, would probably have been even slower)
Yeah, I saw that in the FAQ. I tweeted a question to them about the camera. Their reply: "the camera is a Zeus plus built by insite pacific..a high end hd fantastic camera but not 3D". Here's the camera product sheet: http://www.insitetritech.com/Camera_Summary.pdf
I'm interested in that as well. In addition to the reflection issue, I believe another issue was that every program brought in the whole core library. So even a simple Hello World app would get to a few megs. It also made start-up of the apps relatively slow. This was quite a while ago though and I do seem to recall that Android support was on the radar, so maybe these issues have been fixed now?
It will stop being invite only eventually, and I don't think Google is going to kill the project it's along term play that they are investing a lot in, and as integrates with all of Google's other services it'll become more valuable and get exposed to the millions using those services.
In the Security Now podcast [1], Gibson asserted that every position in these 25x25 grids has so much entropy that even a hell of a lot of passwords wouldn't give away the whole grid.

Now, I personally couldn't pull this off, but I'd actually love to see the Math done here.

[1] Video: http://twit.tv/show/security-now/315 Transcript: http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-315.htm
Exactly—use text objects.

:h text-objects

To be consistent with dw you can use caw which will delete until the next word, not just the current word.
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At five times the price, no. But if Google put muscle behind it, they might get some economies of scale going.
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Under what circumstances is count() inaccurate in Postgres?
How do you explain it without any common experience?

Well, that introduces a further problem - if you have no common experience... how do you communicate with them at all?
I use that da" very often, but for some strange reason it stuck in my brain as abbreviation from 'delete around "', which is inaccurate. Thanks for making me realize this.
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I have the even faster jk mapped to ESC. And if you want to type jk in your text you just have to

- type j
- wait 1 second
- type k.
Everyone uses vim in their own way, you should learn how to use vim for the style that suits how you work. Only learn what you need to learn, you can't learn everything. No one knows all of vim; if you say that you do, you are a liar.
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Anybody explain 'edition mode' 'insertion mode' ? New terms?
Writing on its own will bring your thoughts to the surface where you can really think about them. Doing it on a blog lets others help you think about them.

Blogging is crowdsourcing introspection.
> Facebook started with college students. G+ started with Google employees. Fatal mistake from the start.

I don't see why starting a tool from inside use is fatal. Wasn't it the case for gmail? For me gmail is still the best webmail around.

I see many people burying Google plus these days, I'd say wait and see. I know many people who don't have facebooks but have gmails, they would enjoy a bit of social networking from their mails but won't bother opening another tab.

And there is the hidden killer feature: instant uploading of your phone's pics. If done well, I will never again have to sync my SD card, that's really neat.