skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm just missing something but does anyone else here not give a flying fuck about the "real name fiasco"? What's so damn bad about using your real name? Can't be an internet tough guy when you have to use your real name? The most I think all Google should do is allow you to use a screen name for following purposes but still show your real name as well (kind of how Twitter has the screen name and name fields.)
That particular ball may have been dropped in Facebook's (policy) court, not Google's.
> Which passport would you wave around if you were stuck in Cairo?

If I had dual citizenship with Canada and the US? I would be waving around the Canadian passport and making sure that anyone searching me never found my US passport.

Being a US Citizen is a HUGE liability when you are in various unstable parts of the world where there is a huge hatred for the United States, right or not.
They changed how they punish infringing accounts and then Schmidt said that they have to have real identities in order for planned future products built on top of Google+ to work.
There is a dark side to overly positive thinking. I'd settle for mostly positive with reservations and open discussion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo
Yeah, we would put the coding exercise at the end: http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/06/our-10-step-engineering-hiri...

It was also a burden on our team to spend all this time with a candidate, so this would often be our last step.

We would next expect someone to invest in us if we did not also invest time on our end.
Look for License Raj in wikipedia.
Yes, but investors are known for making quick judgements on teams, they don't have to sit through your presentation if you lose their attention. pg has written that he sometimes makes up his mind in YC interviews within the first minute. The audience in a late night studio has nowhere to go.
For the records: I'm not sharing to push a candidate, but just sharing the (rumored for a while, and now official) news. Also, of course, curious about the reaction of the HN audience
We agree. Hence my statement:

> The comparisons aren't really that important (to me at least).
That is the million dollar question.

Our main strategy is community development around Addressory. Let's build a community of renters and tenants, by renters and tenants. Let's talk about quality of life issues, like the ones discussed in the comment above.

Continuing user engagement is a problem that we are working on. Maybe it is as simple as emailing them when a new questions appears on a property they have flagged.

To your last point, I agree -- when I am happy I do not tell anyone. But would you share if I asked you to, just to pay it forward for the next person moving in?
yeah, nice one.
What would you like to see Google build in 2012 for search?
I had to report LinkedIn as spam in gmail because no amount of unsubscribing would stop them from spamming me. I have an account already but they refuse to leave me alone about it. Their tactics for most things are just sleazy. They only see their users as ways of getting more users. I'm not a fan. Although I still have an account, so I guess I'm not that upset.

LinkedIn should thank gmail for having such a good spam filter. Without it, they probably would have lost me as a user. :)
The exact same thing happened to me. Non technical family members whom I hadn't contacted in years were now excited to join this 'linkedin' thing. That goddam company made it look like I was reaching out to people I haven't talked to in years, creating awkward situations and making two weeks of my life far more stressful than they should have.

They even had some buttons to 'retract' the emails, but all those did was kill the link in all the emails sent out, creating another wave of emails from family members 'hey, the link is dead'.

I deleted my linkedin account and have not looked back. I strongly encourage everyone to do the same.
Thanks for those links, I didn't know about colonias. You can go to some unincorporated areas around LA and find similar surprising backwardness -- like people living in unheated garages without running water.

Nothing like India, though, where you don't have to go out of your way to find really exceptional poverty and deprivation.
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I dunno, I think most of those are hot air from a relatively small number of outspoken people. Not letting me just get everyone I care about onboard in my initial flurry of enthusiasm was probably a blunder, though. Hopefully everyone will get onboard in the initial excitement of my other friends.
Wouldn't the same be true of someone who watched a lot of TV?
I wouldn't have split up Netflix
It's not just the tone of the email or the new name that bugs people - it's the complete separation of their sites, pretending that the DVD-by-mail site can't communicate with the streaming-only site, etc.

People are annoyed that their ratings/suggestions won't carry over to the new site, and that the streaming-site won't let them add a movie to their DVD-by-mail queue when they search for a title and find it's not available on streaming (or vice versa, the DVD-by-mail site won't tell them when they could be watching a title via streaming).

You have to fix that to fix the customer response.
Agreed. The bandwagoning at hacker news has always been bad, but it seems to have gotten much worse over the last year or two. Some of it may just be sampling error: the rise of Android has made Google the "bad guy" to a lot of the Apple nuts here (and likewise some of Apple's recent actions have turned off the free software and civil liberties people), so we're noticing it because it's splitting the community.
I have owned 3 Windows Mobile phones. In a pre-IOS, pre-Android era, they were okay, but today they would have to come up with something truly extraordinary for me to consider them again.
The whole point of the original email was to recognize that their pricing changes made them seem out of touch. What's so bad about a CEO apologizing to his customer base? Also, I'll always take product name critiques with a grain of salt. I remember when people were complaining about how awkward MacBook Pro sounded. Don't even get me started on "iPod". If the service is good, then people will use the name and avoid the confusion that's been happening with the soon-to-be previous Netflix configuration.
Just chiming in to say that I've had a thoroughly positive experience my own self. I always felt Hangouts was a more meaningful difference than Circles (though the broadcast model worked wonders: I circle interesting people and I'm not required to circle people back). The ability to open up your video to a couple of friends (or a hundred, as some of my friends do) is rather nice for saying hi randomly.

I'm looking forward to using G+ Hangouts on my phone.
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No. What I am saying is intelligence and experience are crucial (intelligence more then experience in my book). Also crucial is the ability to get shit done and culture fit.

I want candidates with all these things.

If someone is very very bright but not very effective, or terrible for the culture of my startup, I would not hire them.

If someone was an amazing culture fit, but not very bright, I would not hire them.

"Coming up to speed" makes sense. It is all about the context in which the person is working, what they did before etc. Productivity takes time to scale, as does trust in one another, working as a team etc.

But there are some people that you give a lot of time and attention to that just don't get a lot done.
I think that would solve the crisis of people hating the name, but it's not going to stop all the people who are angry about having to maintain 2 queues.
my favorite was the A-frame. looked the simplest, cheapest, most likely to achieve the $1k goal, and easy to put large numbers of them in a horizontal smaller land area. I only looked at about half the designs hough.
"Google had developed a number of people who spent much, if not all, of their time preventing change...The fear was risk and safety."

I think you nailed it here. But something to realize is that this is not unique to Google, this is true in any large corporation.

The issue is that as people develop careers within the corporation, they become interested in what is most politically expedient for said career. This means they become very averse to any situation where the individual might personally look bad.

This means that aggressive projects which could have a high level of reward and equivalent risk for the company get waylaid disproportionate to their overall risk/reward ratio.

I think your point about people not understanding the systems that they are working on compounds this idea, as it makes the risks of changing a system appear higher (because they do not know the system).
Even if you removed any IDs from the data and sufficiently fuzzed the location, speed, and timestamps, you are still left with a heatmap of where cars with OnStar drive most frequently.

In a city, that is probably anonymous. If you are in a rural area or drive along a route where your car makes up the majority of the data points, it still isn't.
I think calling the U.S. a socialist country is a loaded statement.

And, almost any country/state/city has licensing requirements, of one form or another.
Maybe... Amazon doesn't sell a lot of commodities and non-commodity goods are usually priced by consumer surplus, rather than cost. (eg. You're paying $5.00 for a latte because of the convenience rather than the cost of the coffee + overhead)

Also, whatever tech they are licensing could reduce costs for the consumer. (eg. it's cheaper to license tech from MSFT than to re-implement major portions of the linux kernel)

The issue is muddy enough that you can make a good case either way.
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Font rendering looks a bit off. The Buttons are somewhat hard to read.
(I'm on Ubuntu - Chrome dev. & Firefox)
Would have been better if they attributed the change to getting squeezed by Hollywood. At least people could sympathize rather than make Netflix into a villain. I suspect the change came in large part due to payment terms on all accounts as opposed to accounts consuming media.
I call bullshit. In my experience it's very rare for people to fall into almost any of those adjectives naturally... especially developers. These are people who almost universally love to write code.

Most of the observations listed here I'd be more likely to line up with a lack of investment and clear alignment of goals and priorities. The tone of the article seems to further support to me the lack of an environment that's nurturing to the team members' motivation.
This is a project that has good intentions but at best ambiguous outcomes. Low-density housing without plumbing is an ecological disaster. Besides, the idea of single-family dwellings is becoming less relevant with the current trend of urbanization.

If you really want to provide housing for the poor, you need to revisit the ideas of Le Corbusier in light of the findings of Christopher Alexander.
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This is why they say teaching is a great method for cementing your memory. It forces you to master whatever you're explaining so that you can explain to someone else in a way they can understand it.
But in the GP's case ("Which passport would you wave around if you were stuck in Cairo?") you're not really out to make friends, just survive.
Get the right kind of experience as a programmer for a few years and you can be a software architect. :p
Poll: Did you contact your representative regarding patent reform? (U.S. only)
U.S. (software) patent system is broken. Patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3017815). The system is becoming ridiculous: companies are spending billions of dollars for patent "portfolio" instead of actually spending money on their code business.<p>If you are interested in real patent reform and you are U.S. citizen, did you contact your representative regarding it?
N/A - I'm not U.S. citizen
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Be careful with using Wikipedia for law. If you follow to the original source[1], the "duty to rescue" law exists in most states as a duty to report rape and murder, not a duty to report car crashes. And the penalty in some states is as low as $100.

Second, even if the law were as you said it was, a class action would only be appropriate among people who have actually been in wrecks after the most recent change in terms and conditions --- people who have not crashed have suffered no harm from the alleged policy.

The short version is that Wikipedia is notoriously bad about law because it is largely written by non-lawyers; often it describes the law as Wiki editors _want_ it to be, rather than how it _is_.

[1] Usefully condensed here: http://volokh.com/2009/11/03/duty-to-rescuereport-statutes/
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crucial is the ability to get shit done

Ok, so what exactly does that mean? Are you concerned with velocity or correctness?
And for 10 years after renouncing.
Nissan Sunny launches targeting festival season
Nissan India has now come up with Nissan Sunny Sedan in India targeting festival season in India. The car has been offered in three variants including XV, XL and XE. All the variants are armed with sufficient security and safety features, comfort features and stunning exterior and interiors. The Nissan Sunny price in India is around Rs 7 lakh.
How do you know they give continuous position on a per car basis? They could break everything up into chunks, or simply give out statistics on average speeds and usage for every road.

Everyone here is assuming anonymize means to remove name but keep everything else intact. I see no indication that this is the case. If there is reason to believe otherwise, point me in that direction.
Very nice UX ! brilliant on the iPhone / iPad

We have developed http://939.co.il
although not with such a slick interface :-)
we also offer access numbers in more than 25 countries.and Skype access.

It's built on top of foneAPI.com which is in private beta right now. If there are any developers who would like to try it we would love to talk to you guys.
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I'm glad you got that. I cut out a part about how this approach explains why Lean is called Lean. It doesn't mean cheap, it means spend your money and time efficiently.
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Samsung 3G mobile Chat 527 launched at Rs 5930
Samsung Mobiles has launched a new 3G mobile in India today. The Samsung Chat 527 had been announced long back by the company in India and launched today at the price of Rs 5930. The mobile phone has 3G connectivity and QWERTY keypad for easy and fast messaging.
The fact that dozens of comments think 90 days is too long for a service to be invite only shows we are really in a instant gratification news bubble here. 90 days! People act like we are talking about Chinese Democracy or Duke Nukem Forever here (not to mention that for about 80 of those days getting in was merely a five minute search process for anyone who really cared).

The majority of comments here are about too long of an invite window, nymwars, and Google Apps. While I appreciate those are important issues for people, acting like they are going to kill Google+ is extremely shortsighted and uninteresting. They are about as much of a factor in Google+'s success as the quality of the concession stands at Fenway to the Red Sox's success.
The style of writing you use is different from mine. I make declarative statements about facts when talking about my point of view, and suggestions and conditional statements about yours. You use suggestions and conditional statements about your own point of view (as well as references to famous people who appear to share it), and declarative statements about mine.

I suspect that this is because I'm trying to understand, and you're trying to be well-rounded, which I think is a social attribute, not an intellectual one. I think this is evidence that a reductionist point of view is more likely to result in accurate understanding. I should point out that I only use the word reductionist because you used it; to me it sounds silly. It's like putting the suffix "ist" on the end of "logic" or "1+1=2" to suggest that there's a viable alternative and that the jury's still out.
That's great! Thanks for sharing this precious and concise information!
Valuable tips for foreign business. Keep the good job on this post series. Waiting for Part 3 ;)
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I most definitely would not call the U.S. a socialist country, by any stretch of that definition.
Maybe my standards are higher for what users should be expected to be able to read. No, that sentence isn't a good introduction for someone who is new to git's data model (and I'm sure they would be happy to accept patches to fix it). But on the whole I think git's included documentation is extraordinarily good.

But the real problem is the number of people out there who rely on sites like this one (and there are many sites like this one!) as a complete replacement for the actual software documentation. And so they fail to understand or be exposed to some of the more subtle bits. So to extend your example they get a better introduction to "git push", but they never get a good understanding of "push -f" (and thus use it as voodoo), or the "-u" argument (and thus never learn how to manage remote tracking branches).

I've got nothing against tutorials. But this site (and all the others) look like's it's trying to replace the actual documentation for aesthetic reasons (because web geeks can't handle troff output), and IMHO it's doing it badly.
I had my Gmail account way before they even introduced Apps accounts, let alone before I migrated my company mail to Google Apps.

So, let me tell you this: You made a good decision. While dealing with multiple accounts on the desktop is annoying, it's utterly terrible on mobile because their slow-as-hell multiple sign-in feature doesn't work on mobile.

Yeah. While on the desktop it's annoying but not that much of a hassle to sign out and back in, it's terrible to having to do that on a phone - especially once you enable two factor authentication.

Before they "fixed" (note the quotes) the apps accounts so they can use (not quite) all of google's services, I could at least stay signed in with both accounts. Not any more.

This ended up with me having two browsers, one for plus, reader and all other google services I had much prior to creating the apps account and one for reading mail in gmail.

Yes. I could migrate to an Android phone. Been there. Done that. Multiple times. I really tried. Over two years on and off.

While Gmail works much better, everything else is just full of paper cuts and annoys the hell out of me over time, so I'd rather stay with the iPhone.

So. If anybody from Google is seeing this, I admit it freely, rant: Please, please, please, please fix this.

At least give us multiple sing-on on your mobile apps, at best let us stay signed in with multiple accounts at once or, alternatively, give us the Android Gmail app on iOS (it's not much more than a website anyways).
Google's openness is a pretty complex issue.[0]

If you define 'open' as binary, and only true if every item in a certain list is met, then it's almost certainly true that Android is not open.

But I don't think that's a particularly illuminating way to describe the situation.

I think it's fair to say that so far, the smartphone side of Android, up to and including Gingerbread, has been open in the way that Andy Rubin described in his tweet.

The tablet side, Honeycomb, has not. You can take this as evidence that Google nefariously pulled a bait-and-switch and unconscientiously uses principles like 'open' only when it suits them financially. Or you can give them the benefit of the doubt and accept their explanation that the source code for Honeycomb wasn't ready for public consumption, and they had to make a pragmatic decision in the interest of maintaining their platform.

Besides that issue, it seems to me that RMS's gripes are largely to do not with Android but with the entire phone industry, and most of every other electronics industry. It doesn't seem like a criticism of Android or Google as such. Like he said, Android brings smartphones closer to his dream than we've ever seen. It's really up to the parts that Google has little control over now.

"My personal take on all this is that if you base your offering on a huge amount of open source that you should keep the spirit of those whose code enables you to run your business alive and respond in kind."

I agree, and it seems to me that Google has mostly fulfilled its obligations.

[0]: I wrote a whole blog post on it: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/9579550453/googles-open-hand-...
OnStar is a massive advantage for GM; I can't foresee them ever selling it.

Edited because my slippery thumbs hit submit early.
I was expecting copy like "lorem fucking ipsum" but this is even better.

I like it for the cheeky service it is, my only concern is that with Ipsum you can tell its fake copy at a glimpse. If you start using dialog it may be easy to over look it and have it make it to a live version. Still, cool service none the less.
"what an odd typography choice. Why not a monospaced typeface?!"

Because my arm was not long enough - Arial Narrow was the only clear one I could find that would fit : )
Getting the Win 8 Developer Preview running in VirtualBox
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Not asking you to write a business book or anything, but can you give an example of the sort of thing you're thinking of? (Is callinwith.us an example?) I looked at Twilio because I thought it sounded really cool, but in the end I couldn't think of many Twilio applications that 1) have a clear revenue model, and 2) aren't already features of Goldmine or similar that anyone who wants it would already have.
The document is a work in progress, please excuse poor formatting or overly wordiness, but let me know which areas need work and I'll keep chopping away at it.

Corrections, suggestions and recommendations to the spec are much appreciated.

I made the doc public/comment-able if you'd rather leave your comments there. Once ratified the spec will move to its own domain at http://ubjson.org (nothing there yet).

I am hoping I can tap some JSON-experts from the HN community to spot errors or omissions I am sure I made.

Thanks guys.
The law is that if you're a US citizen, you pay income tax, period. As I understand it, it's income no matter where it is earned. There are some loop holes, you can get out of paying it up to some amount (I think it's in the $90k range) if you claim it as living expenses or something and then the foreign banks and businesses may not report your income to the US but that doesn't oblige you not to pay it. You have to file the return to show that you own nothing and claim the deductions to make that so, and that may well be the case. If you
don't file and they can determine your income then can't it be taxed at whatever the rate is for your income? Moreover, there are penalties for not filing, such that it's in your best interest to actually file.
Hell, remember ipad? Sanitary napkin jokes, pundits predicting doom, and a stoic Jobs? But it's almost become the "xerox" of tablets. Unfortunately, the name is the least stupid aspect of Netflix's new plan.