skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most likely because they got the country information from the ISO standards (or from some other source rooted in those standards), which list the country name that way.
This is really neat. A few of my relatives are high school teachers that I'm sure will love this. I'll forward it to tem.

Also, great name. I've seen others in this space with names that aren't quite as clear as yours, which is important for the demographics you're targeting – teachers and parents.
There's cared and there's has time/money.

Be fair, it's probably the latter.
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In a startup stock options are a future promise to make up for lower salary. You are gambling on the company doing well.

What they are doing is like hiring a salesman on low salary + commission and then firing them the day before the commission is paid.
> I'm really warming to Google - very impressed with the way they've re-skinned and consolidated their product set - it feels like they've crossed a bridge that Microsoft couldn't.

Google Apps users still feel second-class, but seems that at long lasts, after years of failed promises they are getting around to fixing this.
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And you are making the critical assumption that the employee or the employer in your hypothetical situation expected those four shares to remain four shares.

If I'm a small company just getting started, what do I have to attract top talent? Maybe I can't afford to pay as well as the established companies, or maybe my benefits are going to be worse (or nonexistent). But I do have stock options. If I'm a fledgling corporation, stock options can get me more talent than I could otherwise command, and if I'm a skilled engineer, I feel like I can directly affect the fortunes of this company and thus my own net worth if I am compensated heavily in stock options which, in the unlikely chance that all goes better than expected, could make me wildly rich.

Your hypothetical four-share employee certainly didn't sign on just on the strength of those four shares alone. And, quite possibly, the employer played up the possibility of those four shares becoming many more shares down the road if things go well.
He was a fine professor, and these notes captured his attitude in the lecture hall pretty well.
This is an excellent point that I forgot to mention in the article. The native APIs will always be ahead of the mobile web APIs. The MediaCapture stuff is still just a working draft whereas that functionality has been around on native since day 1.
Such an amazing platform. These guys prove that email is far from dead -- it's the lingua franca of web apps.
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it's my understanding that google+ does not need to be a breakout social media phenomenon to be successful. google already has a ton of very successful social products, the + initiative is gradually integrating those product's social features under a common interface.

picasaweb, for example, is a huge photo sharing network with tons of users. blogger is a huge social network with tons of users. youtube is a huge video sharing network with tons of users. google already has those users. that's the core of their social business. just because people aren't writing public 'wall' posts, doesn't mean g+ is dead. despite how similar it looks to facebook on the surface, the core of google's social business is very much not facebook.
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> a social network for the more technically inclined

I wouldn't be making many bets on that premise. It's a clearly defined reaction to Facebook designed and built by engineers lacking the empathy gene. Facebook defines relationships and has impact beyond what the user reads on the screen. G+ has none of that and is already being abandoned by early adopters.
Seems like another classic error is arguing from insufficient evidence. In 2006 you probably would have argued that "Facebook as a competitor to Myspace is dead." too, no?

For that matter, Myspace failed to kill facebook too. But they're still around and reasonably successful.

Why does it matter so much who kills who? If you don't like G+, don't use it. If your friends are there, join in. If you don't like their policies about privacy or whatnot, then make that case.
If you want to argue for consumer protection, that's one thing. But anyone who goes into business really needs to know better, and if they don't, you really can't protect them from themselves.

I mean, it would be another thing if Groupon was systematically defrauding smaller merchants, but I've not seen allegations to that effect.
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Not to hijack this thread, but no wonder Google+ isn't going away when they invite your work contacts and everyone else without warning you first. See this thread on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3219443
Funny enough, I already proposed the same problem and solution with a blog post and sample code for "Re-thinking the State Dropdown with Autocompletion" back in May. Same issues applied, but there was at least some feedback on reddit and optional changes.

http://skookum.com/blog/re-thinking-the-state-dropdown-with-...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/h37gb/rethinking_the...

My blog post links to jsbin sample source so feel free
to optimize it with all of your proposed fixes.

http://jsbin.com/oxifa3/18/
Offline mode is definitely something we're trying to be better with at DockYard. Backbone.js has made this much more easy. We can have the models persist to local storage or remote depending upon the state of the connection (which is easily determined with PhoneGap) Our background is working with web applications and working in offline mode is somewhat of a mind-warp right now. But a feature complete application should have it. You never want to lose data.
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Although legally they might be safer firing everyone and re-hiring them post IPO. Although I would hate to work with anyone that they got to agree with this!
Somebody forgot to water their crops... For those of you asking about pre-purchasing your stock, you can exercise options prior to full vesting, but the stock is still subject to vesting, so you can lose them through termination etc., afaik...
You should read Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's about this topic, and is basically an evolutionary dynamics horror story.

The term you're looking for is "nonsentient."
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This could be huge if voting could magically change the fact that the fundamental principles of state rule are unethical and contradictory.
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dealing with unequal access to computers and the Internet.

How is that a problem when most public libraries provide free access, and traditional early and on-time voting are still available?
While internet voting could perhaps help, I think a much simpler and more powerful change would be to switch to a Condorcet method of voting. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_voting)

Nothing would do more damage to the two-party system than for the argument "if you vote for a third party, you throw your vote away" to be demolished.
You are also right. One and the same. Those organizations intend to use the muscle of the government to entrench a specific self-serving model. Without a large and powerful government, it would not be possible for such an agenda to succeed.
Ditto. I've had emacs in my fingertips for 17 years now, but virtually never use macros. Repetitive editing stuff in my world is generally easier in perl.

Or more generally: repetitive structure in any text file (especially a program) is generally a sign of bad design, and should be factored out in whatever way is appropriate.
There market cap is still well below what their first IPO was going to be set at.
Absolutely, people should definitely support the software if they use + enjoy it. As you'll note from my parent comment, I carefully wrote:

"and give folks the option to buy it in the App Store or download the community version."

I intentionally framed this about empowering everyone to exercise the choice afforded to them under the New BSD License rather than specifically saying "just get it for free", etc.

Yes, we should definitely catch up sometime soon :)

EDIT: also just to point out:

"or find any number of the third party builds from questionable sources"

You know, if you guys offered a free, open source community edition then folks wouldn't need to obtain the build from a 'questionable source'. Just sayin' ;). You could even just provide official MD5 Checksums for the binary of the compilation of undoctored code from the current release.

That would help people know there were no 'added backdoors'/malware etc in the software obtained from a 3rd party.
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I love contextual search on tablets, and really hate it on the browser.
"Never heard of it" ... "Apture Highlights" ... "oh".

I hate those things, I often highlight as I scroll to keep my focus on where I'm reading and every time I accidentally trigger these.
I don't think Confucianism is sufficient to explain it. They don't feel a loss of control because they're beholden to their families. That's a little silly.

It's really mostly the other pillar of Chinese culture; Taoism. The two belief systems over the centuries go through cycles of being influential and Taoism in the new capitalistic China is re-emergent.

Taoism is really a lot about individualism, but it's also about going with the flow of life. It's called "following the Tao" and is very fatalistic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei
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I can't read the actual paper, so I don't know what the bacteria is eating - pretty much the only thing in any quantity in urine is urea (and urea is more valuable as fertilizer).

But I will point out that if you have sugar in your urine that is a severe health problem called Diabetes mellitus. Mellitus means sweet, specifically sweet urine which was how Diabetes was originally diagnosed.
Quite the opposite =) I have links to my comments on venturebeat in 2006 saying how MySpace is going to die and facebook is the big thing that no one in the Valley seems to know about.
I haven't seen it documented anywhere, just experienced it for myself.
"Instead, Google+ is a social layer that has always been intended to sit on top of the company’s flagship product: search."

Flash back to an anonymous Stanford office, circa 1996, where two ambitious graduate students are sitting in front of a pile of lego servers:

Larry: "Hey Sergey...you know what the world needs? A place where people can share cat photos with their friends."

Sergey: "Oh, Larry...how many times have I dreamed of such a thing!?!? But...how will we get people to join our site if nobody is already sharing cat photos?"

Larry: (thinks for a moment) "I've got it, Sergey! We'll create a search engine! Once we gain market dominance, we can use our captive audience to build our social network!"

Sergey: "Brilliant! They'll never see it coming!"

...
That's a very, very good point.

I don't even see an easy workaround, either... Hrm...
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Same for me. I find it more than a little insulting how Apple is just brushing this battery problem under the rug.

It's pretty egregious - my iPhone 4S's battery drains in less than half the time of my iPhone 4, yet they treat it as no big deal.
First - the site: I love the simplicity. The concept is clear immediately.

Second - the service itself: it's a great angle. Kids love SMS messages and this embraces the use of technology/cell phones in a positive way. It creates a more personal connection between teachers and kids without breaching privacy. We had something similar, though far more basic, when we were working on an LMS and that was a highlight we often overlooked but got the most vibrant response.

Great work so far!
Do you have any traction yet?

My friend does the same thing http://www.tophatmonocle.com/
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I'm sure you know this already, but Emacs actually contains its manual in a convenient form: C-h r opens it. There are other help commands that provide plenty of information as well.

The issue isn't a lack of information built-in--Emacs is self-documenting, after all--but that its difficult to prioritize features. The real value in blog posts like this is when they describe features the author really likes coupled with his actual use cases for it.

Ultimately, the author is just a curator in a special Emacs exhibit--he brings out the real gems (from his point of view) and gives us some background on them. I think something like that could be integrated into Emacs--but should it?--by having a "tip of the week" or something like that.
I would agree if they innovate and Facebook doesn't. One thing preventing mass adoption will always be the clumsiness of Google's UI compared to Facebook.
http://blog.womply.com/2011/10/womply-launches-effortless-of...
facebook always had crazy engagement. From the time they had 1000 users to millions of users.
In the drugs business someone who does what Zynga is trying to do now won't last long. Literally.
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I'll be happy with Google+ if it better connects all of the various apps in the Google eco-system like GMail, Apps, etc.

Right now its such a pain to invite people via email addresses in Google Docs and Calendar. I should just be able to type in peoples' names and it just works.
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Thank you!

I really appreciate you forwarding it to them. If they have any questions at all, or just need a walkthrough, they're welcome to email me: m [at] classpager.com.
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Hi Ben and fellow HNers,

The latest build of Growl 1.3.1 sources off of https://code.google.com/p/growl/ compiled on Lion 10.7.2 with Xcode 4.1 is available here:

https://www.wuala.com/hncontact/Documents/?key=x8O6uYoaytWi

Please read the comment thread from zbowling (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221686) and please, please do buy Growl 1.3.1 from the app store and support the devs! (Edited to add: I wish you guys had a Donate button for folks, like myself, who do not wish to fill Apple's coffers but would like to support Growl devs nonetheless.)
Hmm... lots of us in the email marketing world did stuff like this years ago. Almost every top-flight email marketing vendor can do this today. Perhaps I'm missing what's the truly new, but customized emails linked to when/where they are opened crossed by profile variables and up-to-second content like auction prices is old hat. Looking at the demos, it looks like they either generate an image live on the fly with whatever content you have linked in, or use GeoIP to make a map image for local relevance.

Over the years, we found that these features don't always mesh with the "mental model" folks had about email... so that sometimes, the effort to create really dynamic content like this didn't really pay off; in some cases, however, such as auctions, limited offers, and other countdown situations, it could work really well. Some folks tried to send one mail and tell people "hey, keep this mail, whenever you open it, it's new!" hoping that they would go back to it during the day or even across a few days. But it would get buried in the flood of mail. And many people assume email is static, that what they saw this morning is what will be there that afternoon. Having it change (deal of the hour stuff, for example) can really confuse some readers.

So, glad to see that what's old is new again, and I wish these guys luck. I'd love, however, for someone to point out what's really new compared to the stuff that's been done in the past. Because yes, the email game could use some spice, and if it does something really new, perhaps this could help improve the email experience.
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GroupOn pays merchants 90 days net.

The customers have long come and gone before GroupOn sends you a check.

The rest of this post is thus redundant.
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It's not only unsafe but possibly criminally negligent to operate this as is shown on that page.

Casually tossing around phrases like "criminally negligent" spoils all the fun of hacking. Seriously. You are strongly overreacting. Haven't you ever been to a laser show? All that's shown on the linked Hackaday article is a DIY laser projector projecting some cool designs. I don't recall seeing any pictures of people pointing lasers at other peoples' eyes.

Further, it looks like this was all done inside of a research lab by someone who knows what they are doing.
Yes, we have classrooms using the service.

I'd love to talk to them, if you think they'd be interested in a conversation. We're headed in a bit of a different direction (message analytics and eventually generating questions), though I agree it looks pretty similar right now.
I confess to not understanding how this is possible. Both Javascript and Flash are severely limited (if not outright blocked) in most email clients. How are they doing it? And if it's a proprietary technology, is that a good thing?
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I am really saddened to read of this purchase.

Apture breaks the web in many ways. As you note it screws up and steals/hijacks mouse behavior. It also round trips to their servers any selection you make, making it a privacy leak. They make it hard to opt-out of their javascript menace, and it clutters up a page.

"a browser extension" if it were solely a browser extension I wouldn't mind it so much. The behavior that is most borrowsome is the stuff they license to folks like the NYTimes, the Apture Hotspots.
Inductive chargers then? Surely the current crop of barrel jacks can be improved upon in some way without violating a patent. Barrel jack plugs just suck.
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Then again, if nobody maintains a current version that's compatible with the latest OSX and provides automatic updates, you can say that the product "dies off" even if the source code is still out there.
Works fine here.
Have you checked for Malware? Someone messing with your hosts file/DNS?
Native apps will have an advantage for a while still, but I think the direction we're heading with this technology is pretty obvious.

This is the same battle we had on the desk tops in the 90s.

This time I don't think it's going to take the web a decade to catch up. Hopefully.

I really think that HTML5/Javascript is going to replace most native apps on mobile. It's not going to happen tomorrow or next year... but four years? Three? It seems like that could be possible.
Give it some time. Likely Pages is dead simple to implement compared to pseudonymity. Possibly it was made by "secondary" team while the main tackles the pseudonymity.

G+ has not been live that long. Let it grow and evolve.
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And how long after launch did Facebook release their engagement metrics?

Yeah, that's what I thought.
I work from home mainly and the freedom is a big plus as well as the saved money on commutes.

If anyone else is thinking of doing this though I would recommend making sure you have a room somewhere that you can use almost exclusively for work.

I live in a small house and share with people who are unemployed and since my bedroom is not big enough to fit a desk and a computer I end up having to work in what is basically a communal area of the house and also on the path to the kitchen.

We have a sort of agreement that they will try and give me some space but having people walking to and fro behind me whenever they need to get to the kitchen or coming through 'just to quickly ask me something' is cancer to productivity since they will always interrupt you when your in 'the zone', they don't really understand that 10 seconds of disturbance probably costs me 20 minutes of work on average.

This can also put stresses on your personal relationships since it's easy to be pretty short with people when they disturb you.
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The problem with your assertion is that a lot of technically inclined people know a lot of other people and want to interact with them socially. It's Facebook's most powerful and most difficult to overcome feature: all your friends are already on it.

To me, the only truly viable way for Google to combat that is to create a truly open, federated collection of social networks that can interoperate, by releasing the underlying code to G+ the way they did with Wave, or the way email works.

It would enable Diaspora, identica, etc. to become full-fledged social networks, and all still be viable because they could talk to each other, as well as talk to G+. Don't trust Google or any other company? Host your own Plus server. Companies could host their own internal Plus platforms.

I can't imagine that Google can fight the closed platform of Facebook with another closed platform, and the open web has always been its symbiotic ally.
Not sure about CSS3, but RIM has promised WebGL on Playbook/BBX soon.

(Sure, it is not a popular platform, but just pointing it out.)
The first voice-control app shipped out in the early 80s for industrial inspection use, along with a wearable computer. I don't have the specific reference handy.
I read the headline as "The green revolution is slowing down".
Under this bizarre classification scheme, I'm pretty sure anyone who sells anything with a payment plan rather than requiring full payment up-front is also an unauthorized check-cashing company.
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When you look at the internet from the protocol level, it seems borderless, but - as we saw during the Arab Spring - at the infrastructure level it really isn't. You have to get traffic into and out of a country somehow, and for the majority of users (excepting satellite and long range wireless) that means traffic flowing through a telco/ISP. That also means physical networks with physical peering points and traffic exchange contracts, all of which fall under local laws. For many smaller countries the number of 'border checkpoints' exactly equals the number of telcos/ISPs operating there. In the case of Egypt, all it took to shutdown ~100% of traffic[1] was a phonecall to the 4 biggest ISPs. Whether that shutdown was legal in Egypt or not is a matter of local law. Until there are international conventions governing traffic exchange, the internet is not borderless.

[1] http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=EG&l...
Someone takes Mafia Wars too seriously in there...
You probably want something like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/elemhidehelpe...

Haven't used it, hopefully it will be useful when Flash is gone.
I'd be thrilled if that happened. They've made some decent first strides towards integration lately, but things are still very siloed.
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Yes, you and your sibling threads are all correct, but it's not extortion. It's immoral and will certainly hurt them in the future, but it's not extortion.

I am simply trying to explain why this is a moral issue and not a legal issue.

This is the equivalent of saying: 'your gonna have to take a pay cut or were gonna have to let you go'. It is morally repugnant and goes against everything we believe in the startup community, but it is not illegal, nor should it be.