skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, Google has made moves to indicate that Google+ is not a finished product, or even a 1.0 release. Their recent overhaul shows that. Their lack of public APIs shows that.

Secondly, Google has made it pretty clear that Google+ does not stand on its own. The "plus" is in the name after "Google". It's Google, plus. Google+ is just a frontend, an entry point. It's the Yahoo landing site for all of Google's services. Youtube, Google Search, Picasa, they are the "plus" in Google+.

Google+ is not and never will be (and never wanted to be) a Facebook. Google wants it to be a grouping of their services in a way that's easy to consume and share. I'll admit I didn't read the entire article, I skimmed it because there are about a billion points being made in the fashion of a one-man argument.

The entire article could have been just this one sentence:

And yes, Google+ is indeed a layer that goes throughout Google properties.

It is illogical for the author to be irritated by reality. Taking Google+ by itself and comparing it to Facebook is equally illogical.
Food insecurity != starvation. Food insecurity doesn't even attempt to measure starvation. Scroll to page 3:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/usda_r...

Food insecurity merely measures the subjective feelings of humans. If an obese person fails to consume his normal 4500 cals/day because he ran out of cash, this is counted as food insecurity.
Tracking everything, Placeme is the smartphone assistant of the future
Probably not a bad idea on balance. They're not going to capture market share in any case, so this may be the only way they can recover some revenue.
I'm confused by the contrast you're drawing. Aren't you going to be using innerHTML if the server sends back HTML? That's how I always remember seeing it done.
So, why is ElasticSearch awesome, apart from being a searchable document/JSON store? That's pretty obviously awesome :P
For the comedy impaired, riding the 'bull' in this case is a double entendre.
Are you sure that is what OP is talking about?

U of Calgary still has a software engineering program within engineering, which I think is the situation OP is talking about.

With that said I'm in the computer science program and it is still very computer sciencey so I think we've avoided the duplication.
Zynga spent $1.37 million keeping Mark Pincus safe last year
So it is repugnant for people to put forward views counter to yours and through a process of voting for that opinion to rise to the top of a list. I'd try another website.

Plus, if you think that running a business is all about what "you" want, and employees are solely there to help "you" succeed, you may find "yourself" with a recruitment problem.
Let's see what happens to DuckDuckGo now, since it's dependent on Bing.
I don't know about that. Individual actors may have long memories, but financial markets as a whole often have the collective memory of a goldfish. During the height of the bubble, there are always people who are proclaiming, "No, this time its different," and "We learned our lesson from last time." And they're right! The actors in the market did learn their lesson from last time. It's just that they make entirely new mistakes that lead to the same end result.
"...As sobering as the Second Economy scenario is I believe the trend is reversible..."

Ugh. Here I was thinking that the writer had at least a partial understanding of reality and then we get to that nonsense.

I'm not going get into this creative destruction, why-are-there-no-more-buggy-whip-manufacturers argument. It's been done to death, and if you don't understand it after hearing it a dozen times, there's not much I can do to help you with it.

But what interests me is the terms of the political discussion. Not politics -- that's mostly picking a team -- but the language that is being used to discuss employment and job creation.

Frankly I don't think politicians and economists have a clue to what they are doing when it comes to the technological and digital revolution. Not only are there less jobs, they are scattered all over the world. It's increasingly impossible to make some kind of political change, say putting in a highway, and have it directly bring in jobs of a certain industry. Jobs just aren't centralized like they used to be. There are a lot of industrial and technology parks across the U.S. that are going to remain mostly empty.

We see SV and the other startup hubs and think that all the action is there, but I remain convinced that those guys are just the tip of the iceberg. For every Instagram there are ten thousand tiny companies with a thousandth of their users. They don't appear on TV, they don't join the chamber of commerce, many of them don't even incorporate. They are invisible.

I don't see how we can have a discussion about jobs and such when all the terms and models we use don't match up to what's really happening. Watching the language of the debate evolve over the next decade or two should be very interesting.
It's difficult to compare Terms of Service with typical contracts. In the first place, nothing is being signed, and anyways judges are fully aware that no one reads the TOS. I can imagine a reasonable judge ruling that no one would have read the full TOS, and so the "Basically" column is more binding.

As always, IANAL.
Yes, you could have predicted this yesterday.

In fact, this behavior has been documented explicitly for a year and a half: http://web.archive.org/web/20100808122711/http://www.php.net...

Earlier versions have said the comparison converts the numbers to integers though, which may be incorrect, and misleading if it was. Did PHP not convert float-like strings to floats in, eg, 2009? http://web.archive.org/web/20091024233139/http://www.php.net...
updated hn: about

is it confusing to anyone else which of those are public when looking at the edit form?
UnQL-node: a SQL-like command line for CouchDB
Can you solve this with NoScript applied only on server side code? Or is there some clever way to bypass that too?
Bing Search API No Longer Free
have you looked into pd? http://puredata.info/
> "Hi, this is the Yahoo! email support team...

At this point a large number of users will reply to the email expecting to reach the Yahoo! email support team, who of course can help with every individual bounced email. They will be disappointed when this doesn't work out.
Rewrite of http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230381540457733...
There are ACLs for handling security concerns, but it's fairly early in their conception so they aren't really documented yet.

Also, there is a rest API and I believe they're working on clients for other platforms so that nodejs isn't the only player in town.
Try right clicking GitHub's logo 
Not sure if this is something new but I really think this feature is very thoughtful. Great UX. I hope every site will do the same thing.
This says that EC2 runs on Amazon, not the other way around.
There is one email "client" that does display a pretty failure message. It's Exchange. Email administrators hate it because when a user forwards the failure message so that a problem might be fixed, the message turns out to be useless.
New government report on IP doesn't say what Big Content thinks it says
Fantastic job. This looks phenomenal, James! I can't wait to find an awesome project to put this to good use. Cheers!
I couldn't find any (easily accessible) info about what it actually uses to communicate. Is it long-polling, websockets, something else?

What kind of browser compliance is there?
My baseline tools and resources for front-end development:

- Page speed
https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

- Valid HTML
http://validator.w3.org/
http://html5.validator.nu/

- Usability
http://www.userfocus.co.uk/resources/guidelines.html
http://www.useit.com/

- Accessibility
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/

- On-page SEO
http://www.seomoz.org/
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...

- Design for the web
http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/webdesign.htm

- Cross-browser compatibility
http://browsershots.org/

- Mobile ready
http://www.w3.org/TR/mobileOK-basic10-tests/
http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/
Modify Headers add-on

- Progressive enhancement
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/understandingprogressivee...

- Metadata
http://schema.org/

- Conversion Optimization
http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/ http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer
Except, of course, that legal documents are not nearly as precise as programming languages. And most legal documents have a lot of dead code--nobody really knows or cares if that code path is followed anymore. You don't want to be the guy removing sections from a legal document.
The quote:

Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stones reports:

Ostensibly, the law makes it easier for startup companies (particularly tech companies, whose lobbyists were a driving force behind passage of this law) attract capital by, among other things, exempting them from independent accounting requirements for up to five years after they first begin selling shares in the stock market.

Is just wrong. You still need audited financials to be a public company (current, plus 2 years prior to IPO instead of 3). I believe what changed is some of the Sarbox rules related to rotating auditors, etc.
See
http://www.orrick.com/fileupload/4624.htm
for one leading law firm's analysis of the JOBS act.

(I am not affiliated with the firm)

There is certainly room to relax some of the regulations put on small public co's by Sarbox. That's part of the reason companies are listing on foreign exchanges, and let's be honest, you dont' see "fraud running amuck" on the London Stock Exchange do you?

I like 37 Signals approach to building products and many of their business philosophies but they seem to have a need to relentlessly attack any other way of creating a company or doing business. Not quite sure why.
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Yeah I'm not referring to mocking external services, which is both smart and useful. I'm referring to the practice of endotesting whereby you mock your own objects and interfaces as a means to test interactions between them.
Nothing, I guess... except perhaps scalability.
I have no idea why, but it's just so damned satisfying

I'm an embedded developer and a few years ago I introduced another (web/desktop) developer to simple microcontrollers. His reaction was the same. It's basic programming, but there is something really visceral about making a cylon LED chaser or wiggling a motor back and forth.

That connection to the physical world outside the computer is what's kept me in embedded systems for 20 years.
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How we count "visits"
They aren't worthless, they let you gaze upon the sexy silhouetted figures of hot women all day long.
This seems like an odd move. It's not like bing has any traction with developers at all. Wouldn't charging them make it even harder to gain traction? I am not familiar with thei API, what does it have over google that would make me pay for it?
You make many good points. However, you failed to stick to the dominant narrative on HN, so expect some more downvotes. Google+ is a massive failure. Groupon is a ponzi scheme. Zynga is evil.
What's a good task/project management web service?
I'm trying to find a good web based project management web service, not sure which one to go with, there seem to be lots, thought I would see if anyone has had good experiences with any.

Need something simple, not like Rally.
For us business guys (and the term is broad, there can be also quite technical/numerical business guys...) is really a struggle convincing anybody that we can code. Yes, we have small tiny demos laying in there (<shameless plug>http://andemo.ep.io </shameless plug>), or we hack some scripts for fun, but we are not professionals! And it takes ages to become one alone.

Point is, it would be cool to have more chances. Even unpaid gigs or below decency pay could help. But nothing of this around. Especially because it should be remote. Hope somebody fixes this, if there is really a shortage of programmers I mean.
> You have no duty to work at my company. If you don't wish to help me succeed (for any reason, at all), you are free to work elsewhere.

Your job in building a company is to hire the best, most mission aligned people you can and help THEM succeed. You seem to think of employees as nothing but bricks in the road to your own personal success. This attitude ensures I have no interest in ever working with you and it has nothing to do with the topic of this post.
SnipURL doesn't seem to make that claim. They even load https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif which has a tracking cookie.
Low-latency seems kinda descriptive if I have understood the 'real-time web' concept correctly.
So Google's argument is that because G+ is pervasively integrated, you can use it without being on plus.google.com. While this is technically correct[1]... they're still being evasive. Not everyone using G+-enabled Google products is using the G+ bonus features.

Rather than dancing around the single "user" number, Google could give more direct usage stats by breaking it down by feature. 20MM on plus.google.com, another 30MM sharing content onto G+, another 10MM clicking on G+ results in the normal Google SERPs, and so forth. It's still not a complete picture, but it's a hell of a lot better than "enabled G+ once, and is currently active on YouTube" that they're reporting now.

I am inclined to agree with the conspiracy theory that if these secondary stats were any good, we would be hearing about them.

[1] The best kind of correct!
I agree there will always be bubbles - it's human nature in the form of greed. The height and crash are determined by how much liquidity and credit are available. So for that reason this time around there may be less heights and therefore less "crash" because there are a lot less people that can borrow on their home equity line or margin account to speculate on IPO's, etc.
Maybe you should take your opinions about not using client-side code back to 1998
Who cares!? You'll be dead!
Why Microsoft and Facebook support CISPA but not SOPA
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Why, it does indeed say, a link or two down from there, that strings will be coerced to float: http://web.archive.org/web/20091024234517/http://www.php.net...

The point, however, is that you shouldn't pepper your language with operations which have consequences as hard to foresee as this with no good reason, and I really don't think that saving yourself some type conversions here and there would do.
i believe that DDG accesses the Bing indices through the Yahoo BOSS API, and yahoo already pays microsoft.
Definitely going to follow this. I get a pretty steady stream of business guys who come to me wanting to be, in the words of one, 'less useless' on their projects. I try to provide them with some ways to get started and help them set some reasonable goals. Being able to see the real-time trials and successes of someone doing precisely this would provide another meaningful data point with which to improve that advice. And linking them to this might help keep their perseverance up as they go down their own path.

While I recognize that there are probably ways to improve the business-side utility of a 'business guy' (or gal) who feels 'useless' at times, that's not something I am as qualified to help them fix. Furthermore, I'm always heartened by someone who is interested in learning programming, as opposed to not caring that they don't know what an API is or what MVC means, or even pertains to.
We just launched a redesign today that features a new presentation of our TOS (http://hover.com/tos). We take a lot of pride in making all aspects of our service as useful as we can and didn't want our legalese to be the exception to that. We abandoned the "Explain This" approach that 500px took on the basis that we wanted the agreement itself to be friendly, not the explanation of it. (Well, we want the explanation friendly too, but we thought it would be much easier to explain if the agreement itself was approachable.)

Its a work in progress, and I think we're a lot closer to where I want to be. We focused extensively on making it understandable, useful and usable and I'd love to get feedback on how well we hit the mark (or missed it as the case may be...). There's still some complexity in there that our lawyers insist on and I figure we can keep whittling away at it until we get what we really want.

/r
> Something has changed in the last couple of years

I don't think there has been nearly as much change as Rebecca suspects. It sounds like her skills have improved significantly, and that she's projecting this onto developers at large, but I doubt there has been much of a change in general.
New York also has a little more than double the females.
That's why I list my online business on Yahoo! Portal...
Author of Rolling Stone piece is focussing on the JOBS act as an enabler for stock fraud. They don't seem to be clear on its alternate function of enabling Quickstarter-type ventures where what's being sold isn't stock in a company that is trying to bypass accounting norms for an IPO, but a one-off product development (like the movie "Iron Sky", or any number of items on Quickstarter). It's a totally different business model.

(Random example: let's say I, as an author, announce that I'm going to write and sell a book if I can get enough pre-purchases; let's set the gate at 10,000 readers willing to pony up $10 each in order to receive an ebook when I've written it, a year down the line. Right now, as I understand it, if I was in the US I'd be expected to undergo the same accounting procedures as a corporation prepping for an IPO because of the number of people involved -- which would make it a non-starter: the accountant's bill alone would exceed the total revenue, especially as writing a book is a one-off project. The JOBS Act is supposed to relax that requirement for the sort of venture I'm describing. But Taibbi doesn't seem to get this at all.)
I don't think we're in a bubble. How can the author compare the IPO of Facebook, a company with a billion users and billion dollar in revenue, to those IPOs of the late 90s of companies with no revenue and no viable plan to have any in the foreseeable future? In fact most IPOs since LinkedIn started the trend are of mature companies. That's not what happened in the bubble days.

It's true that more companies are being created and seed valuations are going up. But the selection process still occurs at the series A stage and crappy companies usually still can't pass that hurdle.

As for the JOBS act: if I'm not mistaken investment is capped at (the lowest of) $10K or 10% of the annual salary. I believe you even have to go through a course before you can invest though the JOBS act. Conversely, in the stock market you can invest as much as you want, without any training, and lose everything overnight.

The fact is that economy fluctuates. Whenever there's an upswing people scream bubble. It's a result of the traumatic effect of previous bubbles. But the irony is that real bubbles sneak on you. Hardly anyone sees them coming. So keep screaming bubble, it makes me feel safe.
I'd like to see a term that emphasizes that what web developers consider real time is "so fast it looks instant to humans," rather than guaranteed low latency that another system can rely on (or whatever you consider the true definition of "real time" to be).

So maybe something like "blink speed." (Then we'd have blink speed apps on retina displays.)
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that delightful bit of UX was Kyle Neath's idea and execution.
We just launched the full website this morning. Would love any feedback and impressions!
No surprise there. I wonder if all the faux search engines will have to start either crawling/indexing, or transition to Knowledge Engines ( I'm looking at you DDG ). Curious to see if this sparks people to start more search companies.
I'm not terribly plugged in to the front-end developer community, so don't take this as authoritative, but my preferred (and more reliable) method of handling server input is generally to append new elements to existing, 'container' elements already present on the DOM.

In context, I might have a 'tweets' div on the page that is empty on page load, but which will be populated by appending new div or li elements to.
Keep in mind that "software tech companies" is a superset of startups.
Projects like this scare me considering the issues PasteBin has in regards to sensitive data being shared illegally; and that was without encryption. I'm foreseeing legal hiccups and requirements for policing the content.
If that is the case then that is fine (in my book), Googling to find info on a subject is a very relevant skill, even though it is frowned upon in interviews for some reason. In my perception, it does come off as if they are looking to hire people that have that kind of trivia in their head.
I haven't really planned on dying but now that I think about it, it would probably be wise to do some kind of automation that sends my Lastpass password to 1-2 relatives if I fail to check in every 6 months or so. This would give them access to most of my online identities.
I'm guessing you had a very controlling parent and have the terrible urge to do the same.

He's already changed. He's already been donated $120k for a college fund. Someone said he's already been given equipment, too.

I'm just reacting to the simple thing that he did specify he wants.

The suggestion to give him breadboards or whatever is inane if nobody's around to help him learn. I find your need to overlay your morals (running a small business is not as good as hardware hacking or whatever) incredibly controlling.
Google doesn't have a search API (it was long ago deprecated https://developers.google.com/web-search/). So the API itself is the advantage over Google in this case.
ah, but is it actually "by" david guetta, or is he just more business savvy than most pop producers?
I find it kind of disarming to overload not-typically-overloaded events like this though. I wonder if it'd be possible to let the right-click menu appear as normal, but background a div that pops up and give you the option of downloading the nicer logo files?
Another rule of people skills is that if you're going to call out someone on their bad behavior, do it in private rather than on the Internet.

...shit, I just did it too.

Irony aside, it's better to keep Internet discussion limited to general principles. If you have specific complaints about people, email them.
A somewhat related story dealing with MaxInt in Javascript.

One of the worst bugs I've encountered years ago involved the conversion of Javascript int from string to number. Javascript's long integer has only 53 bits, while most other languages have 64-bit long int. When the backend language generated Javascript snippets (JSON) containing integers greater than 53 bits, the horror started at the frontend. Javascript happily truncated the int to 53 bits upon conversion from string to int. It was not a happy tale since those long integers were account numbers. The wrong accounts ended up getting updated, randomly at first appearance.
Yes, the software eng program is still around. There is quite a bit of overlap with comp sci though - unless you're taking an honours degree there will be a number of software eng students in most of your classes (networking, operating systems, etc.)

I think the fate of computer eng was to have it split between computer science and EE. I'll have to ask coworkers at lunch.

Have we met? I'm Andrew Helwer. The guy that runs Problem Solving Club.