skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am going to try and build this with Drive API

https://developers.google.com/drive/get_started
Yes - its a bit of a cultural difference - there's is a tendency in Europe for privacy to be a concern regarding private companies, but not as much regarding government, while in the US the opposite is true. There's apparently been some interesting work done on the subject - spent a bit of time on it in an information public policy class in grad school a few years back.
I don't recall ever hearing people receiving calls from Google salespeople who imply that a failure to buy advertising on Google may result in a reduction in PageRank, or that purchasing advertising may restore it.
A cool system would be a tool to find the location of a point relative to the sun. So I can whip out my smartphone while in the asteroid belt and have an intuitive metric system to identify any point in our solar system.
Introducing Lucidchart integration with Google Drive
Gitolite 3.0 Released
Good point. But you need to have first class functions for that. This toy language does not. And converting from "this native number equals that native number" to your encoding of "true" is going to be an interesting trick.
Amazing Things 3-D Printers Can Do Now
Are they AB testing the price? Or did the demand made them change it?
Remember the milk. The great mobile app keeps everything in sync. I use a vim text file with outline style folding for my project list and notes, GTD style. I sync that with git on github so that I have history without clutter and read access everywhere if needed.
You just described every business. People don't have perfect knowledge.

Thank you for trying to raise awareness over an admittedly important issue.

But calling this "evil" is absurd.

Go yell at people convincing college kids to sign up for credit cards or buy magazines by handing out T-shirts and movie passes.

For comparison: The phone companies know about every phone call you make. That's a wealth of information. They're exploiting people's ignorance to get it...

The credit card companies know about every purchase you make. Why would a company ever let another company know everything about all of their purchases?

ADP knows how much you pay all of your employees!!!

When your hard drive "fails," the guy from HP and Dell could be copying all of your data, not just "servicing" your computer!!!
I couldn't find a good overview of the changes, so I just linked to the changelog to make clear that it's a complete rewrite. For those who aren't familiar, "Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with fine-grained access control and many more powerful features."
The idea of a "github for designers" has yet to be perfected. This new iteration of LayerVault looks like a step in the right direction.
Google's strategy is between their leadership, their employees, and their shareholders. As a user, I think their products (the ones I use) are as good as they have ever been. I don't really have a need for this cloud-drive thing, but I also don't understand why I should be upset that they released it.
Isn't the whole point of this to synch your files to your local computer?
How Magic is That Storage Bullet?
Reading anything mainstream IT press these days would lead CFOs to dump funds on IT for Hadoop without anyone understanding whether or not it actually is a magic bullet. With so much hype and a relatively gentle learning curve to start....
Drew Houston comments on launch of Google Drive
Our Support Team works 7 days a week right now. Full time M-Th and then three hours on each day between (F,S,S).

We're going to hire more support folks so we can start rotating the Team and give them true 4-day weeks.
Ask HN: how do you deal with legal stuff when you are bootstraping?
When you are bootstraping, how do you deal with the legal stuff such as term of use statement, privacy statement, NDA, etc? Do you hire someone to draft them for you? Or is there a site with a generic format that you can use?

Thank you. :)
The basic problem in my opinion is they don't do anything special to differentiate themselves. Google Maps for example, not a big revenue point but they claimed leadership in web development trough it. Facebook has so many engineers and over they years they don't invest in anything else than their site.

They have a Login system, that's nice but there are a dozen of services out there now. There is even an own protocol for that, OAuth what everybody can use. Did they even try something else? I don't see a real strategy, or vision in their current behavior. The like button was nice to get more data, but that doesn't seem to be the Golden Cow.

The Ad's are not targeted at all, they only use the fact that i am male and single. The ad's are similar to porn sites ("Find hot woman now...."), who can also be really sure that their users are male and probably single.
I Do Choose To Run: The paradoxes of pre-professionalism
There are at least two startup opportunities for something like this. One is the creation of the credential/verified identity certification and the second is the transmission/exchange of the credential. These are two very disparate set of competencies.

Several years ago, I was working with Honesty Online, doing exactly this identity verification startup prop and where it became very evident that this is really two businesses. Now we, in another startup, sigkat.com, are very early stage in the second business - creation/exchange/transmission of any sort of credentials so that vertical apps like identity verification can focus on their domain.
I'm also seeing this. Is it not available internationally yet or are they just rolling it out slowly?
If you want to see an interesting way to parse using Javascript check out Douglas Crockfords Top Down Operator Precedence paper here:

http://javascript.crockford.com/tdop/tdop.html
I rarely watch the videos. Life is too short. If I can learn about the service/product by reading, that's fine, if not — I'll just abandon the page. If the service/product is any good, it will come back to me sooner or later via friends' recommendations.
I didn't downvote, but I'm guessing your lengthy and sarcastic analogy was the culprit. It comes off as needlessly combative. Tone can overwhelm the message.

EDIT: it only takes one or two people out of all HN users to make it look like everyone's against you, so I try not to take DVs to heart.
It's not about being upset, it's about the view that they are losing their edge in building new, interesting stuff. They are not solving user problems, they're just copycat products.

To become a long-lasting company, you have to be able to build the "next big thing".
>elite universities don't write world-changing software, educated, motivated people do.

Mosaic, which was the precursor to Netscape and IE, came from a project at NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
There is a simple rest api for that:

https://developers.google.com/drive/v1/reference/

They should have definitely not hidden it so far away.
Man with Plunger Tries to Rob Bank
How to save HN links?
How does one save links in Hacker News? I had
thought that all you had to do was upvote a
link and it was automatically saved in your
personal cache, but that isn't working for me
now.
IPad Mini Won't Cut It
Setup an Adwords campaign and get some referrals. I think I got 5 or 6 referrals from this campaign: http://puu.sh/rimE
Why is _growth_ so paramount? There comes a point where maintaining stability seems more sensible - and having a user base of 13% of the world's population sounds like such a point. Obsession with gathering new users becomes a matter of diminishing returns, but neglecting existing users can become an exponential problem (see MySpace). Keep current membership happy and engaged; long-term growth will follow. I remember some story about a goose and golden eggs...
Yes, precisely. There is no merit in weirdness for weirdness' sake, and people have limits on what they will tolerate. Ignoring that doesn't make you better or more enlightened than others. People are under no obligation to accept your weirdness out of the box, just because you think they should.
I hope publishers have begun to realize that proprietary DRM only furthers the lock-in of parties like Apple and Amazon, and makes it even harder to resist their bargaining power, because now millions of your customers have huge libraries that only are readable on $COMPANY_DEVICE, therefore they are much more likely to buy that device in the future, and you will be forced to sell through them.
Check out what the MONA has done in conjunction with Art Processors http://mona.net.au/theo/ to completely get rid of tombstones inside a museum. Harder to do here at the Met, but there are most definitely applications that aren't about spending more money.
I looked around the site, but I cannot tell if people you invite need to sign up in order to respond.

Over the years I've been invited to things using eVite (or whatever), only to be prompted to sign up before I can RSVP. It's a complete deal breaker for me. Not only do I not sign up, I usually complained bitterly to the person inviting me.
This will definitely make me buy more Tor books.

I'm one of the "voracious" readers that Charlie mentions and while I really like the Kindle DX hardware, I'm increasingly concerned at being tied into an Amazon ecosystem long term.

Baen, O'Reilly , Pragmatic Programmers and Fictionwise are some of the places I look for new books for my Kindle before Amazon these days, as they have DRM free titles.
Can't tell if you're referring to box.com or dropbox.com.
IRC is dead. Long live IRC.
They do need to be encouraged to grow out of it, though, so your point is very valid.

Just call it a "phase," that always works.
Great comment :)
Not having a Drive client for Linux (yet) doesn't mean Google as a company does not support Linux at all. For example, Chrome is supported on Linux. We don't know - Drive for Linux may come further down the line. The reality is that a relatively small fraction of consumers use Linux at home or work. If I were releasing a new product, Linux wouldn't be one of my top priorities either.
1. Write our own profiling code:
Lots of conventional wisdom doesn't stand up to running your own tests.

2. Use XML/XSL for a rendering/template engine:
After 10 years, it is the cleanest and largest part of the code base.
I wouldn't recommend this unless you have specifically received one of these coupons at your email address. I used someone else's and my account was permanently suspended. Only after some negotiation was I able to make Google reverse the "permanent" suspension (a rarity, from what I have seen).
A) Synchs to your local HD, so your applications don't know or care. (Right?)

B) Application developers can use an SDK to go directly to your Drive account, and do some extra tricks.
Just because the article shows examples of how that tech is applied to consumerism doesn't mean thats all IPS is limited to. I'm sure you can think of many applications that are not solely to make more money.
I have a CS degree, and worse than that, it's a double major in CS and applied math. I had to study things that seem really pointless for an "applied software engineer", like differential equations or numerical methods (ok, maybe the latter is not so pointless). We also studied a considerable chunk of other, more "CS-esque" stuff, like introduction to mathematical logic, computability theory, lambda calculus.
Does this stuff pay off?
Well, my actual job never required me to implement any complex algorithms, because everything has already been written in the standard libraries. It does help to have at least an approximate picture of what's really going on under the hood.

But what really helps me is that 4 years of being exposed to all this crazy theory has affected my brain in a certain way: it has altered my perception of problems.

Before going into CS I was programming by chance: slap some code together (without really understanding the problem domain) and poke it with a stick until it somehow works the you want it to. I think most kids who are just learning to program do that. However, that approach changed radically after I spent some time at the university. In that sense, CS has been really useful, at least in my case. Btw, I'm not saying those skills could not have been obtained elsewhere.

And learning theory really broadens your horizons. Things like computability theory, I have no use for them in my day job, but they're just interesting. Back at the uni, I had a blast writing a turing machine "emulator" and programming it instead of manually writing the assignment on paper :) And yes, you could study them in your spare time, but the truth is, the job eats up so much of your time, and makes you so exhausted that you barely have the resources to follow an online lecture after a long day at work. So why not spend some time learning while you still free from most of the responsibilities of adult life?
http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=edkademan

Should have a list of the stories that you've upvoted. Click Username, Saved Stories.

Has a story that I upvoted yesterday and one that I upvoted around two hours ago, so, it appears to be working for me.
perhaps he meant a foreign key, not primary key.

postgresql doesn't automatically create indexes for foreign keys.

> Is there a fundamental difference to the default pkey index versus an explicitly created index?

i don't know of any in practice.
I did the same thing. $1.67 a month (literally the price of my daily coffee) seemed very reasonable for 80GB of cloud storage with all the googly integration.
I don't know what you mean by "personal cache", but all the links you have upvoted should be in your profile under "saved stories". Click on your username in the top right to access your profile.
A late reply but I don't just want the python environment virtualised - if it's important enough that I should section off python, then there is a good chance I will want to consider the whole box as a single unit, python, firewall rules, database what ever. I tend to think the unit of abstraction should not be the python process, but the server. This is a little easier to grasp when you think of BSD jails where essentially you can choose to only run those processes that actually mTter - it's less virtualised and os than pick and mix an os.

Apologies for late reply - I guess I am straightening it out in my head more than telling anyone else.
Hey CamperBob it looks to me like you have been hell banned. All your comments are listed as dead
Why your recurrent business shouldn't have automatic recurrent billing
Show HN: Summarize webpages in seconds (inside the browser)
KeenSkim creates a highlighted summary of webpages directly in your browser, via a small bookmarklet (Firefox / Chrome / Safari). Also work for RSS feeds.

Works in 2-3 seconds but saves several minutes. It helps saving time and learning more.

Time is money... Knowledge is power... Get them both and build your empire!

*this is still an alpha version.
That's pretty nice. It would also be nice for ActiveRecord migrations to let me add comments to the database and the schema file.
Google Drive synchs to your local hard drive, and thus works with all of your apps. (Right?)

It ALSO has a Chrome interface to be clever. Picture opening a 1,000 page PDF. If the Chrome PDF Viewer knows how to fetch individual pages on demand, do searches on the server side, etc., it could be very nice for quick previews, etc.

Also, it works great for one content creator (who has the app on the desktop), and a bunch of content viewers (and commenters) who just need Chrome.
No, to respond to an invitation you don't need to signup. You get an unique link in your e-mail which opens your personal invite. We will make this more clear on the site.
Scroogled is why http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html
Agreed, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law

I think the followup emails make me think it is serious.
A worker queue for Ruby apps that uses amazing features in PostgreSQL
For whom the API tolls?
Import your jekyll posts - The Substance Blog
I'm one of those that really wants trial versions, but I wonder if this evidence suggests that trial versions would be equally pointless for conversions to paid. The primary reason I search for ad-supported versions of apps is because I always want to try something first, and then I upgrade to paid if the option exists. It sounds as if I'm in a small minority, though. Still, a trial version, which forces an upgrade to paid after a while, might be more effective for conversion than an ad-supported app that remains forever functional.
No, it's not painless, it's raising the stakes: They have to steal your actual body parts, which would literally hurt.
Yep... I think in terms of, "How many bits do I need to store one of those things." ;)
An interesting corollary to this piece would be to ask how much time and effort is Facebook putting into increasing the Average Revenue per User number? The collective mind of Facebook is smart. They have accomplished quite a bit and it would be foolish to think they didn't start planning for a plateau in growth years ago. It really depends on how they increase that ARPU (like somehow with mobile which they currently make no revenue from). I for one would not bet against them. This talk of Facebook not being cool anymore in my mind signals something different now. They are now in essence a utility (as someone else said ubiquitous) and that is a pretty incredible place to be.
git-presenter isn't design to show you the code as such. It is intended that you would use your normal text editor to walk through the code during a presentation in a user group or conference type setting. The purpose is purely to stop you needing to live code when doing code heavy presentations.

My workflow with it is usually start in the editor, explain a bit of code, switch to the termainal (or if i'm using vim i'll just execute the next command in there) then explain the next bit of code and so on and so on.

What are you expecting/wanting it to actually do. I am very open to other ways of using git-presenter and adding it into later releases.

Cheers
Colin
Pretty sure I recently read where Treehouse was moving to Portland. You going to be hiring any front-end developers in Portland?
It's an API. Inevitably, someone will implement the API so you can run a local version of it, so you can test in stealth mode.
> I've often wondered why we allow companies, particularly publicly traded ones, to sit on an ever-growing war chest rather than paying out their profits to investors as dividends.

Because we believe that a large, successful company has investment options available to it that are not available to Joe Average, and can achieve a better return on that capital for its investors than they would be able to achieve themselves if it were returned immediately as a dividend. If you disagree with that analysis, you can easily vote with your investment dollars.
How to move your blog from jekyll to substance
GDrive EULA: anything you upload to GDrive belongs to Google
Finding parallels between Harry Potter and the internet
A friend of mine works there since 2006. They don't get enough press in my opinion, but the topic is not suitable for mass media.
...so I loan you my whole Kindle. :)
> bring curriculum into the 21st century,

I don't quite understand what you mean by that. Dijkstra's algorithm is the same both in 20 and 21st centuries, ditto for red-black trees. Are you proposing universities should be teaching iOS programming and web development with ruby instead of data structures and complexity theory?
Very good points. Yeah at no point in the process did they make that explicit, and that is unfortunate.

And completely agree, someone should have the option to basically repay all the expenses associated with the 2 years and get a waiver in return. Heck, you have probably already repaid it many times over just by paying taxes and producing value in this country.

Looking back at my experience I did actually do some of the sharing. I was only 15 at the time and so I had 2 more years of high-school before heading back to US for the University (also a full ride scholarship). There were a number of times when teachers from my high-school back home invited me in for a round table discussion so I could share some of the teaching practices from American high-school. For example I told them about how frequent quizzes and tests are used to make grading more objective and it keeps tracks of students' progress. Or how group and research projects are used. At least in that one high-school some teachers chose to implement that. I encouraged my extended family members to study English (2 of my younger cousins followed in my footsteps). Also remember tutoring some classmates in English and telling them about American culture informally. I would like to think I made some contribution at least.

Yeah you made a good point about how Internet sort of made this obsolete. I agree 90%, the other 10% are reserved for the case when actually meeting someone who have been abroad and has acquired some of the culture and ideas is still different than reading it from a magazine or seeing it online.
I definitely care if it succeeds. If they're successful, then not only will they make a lot of money and make some materials much cheaper, but it will be the thing that funds the commercial space industry and makes large-scale investment in space economically viable. That's huge.
Simply and East Way to get Columns setup in Wordpress
IMO the truth varies depend on the company and country. For example, Facebook is worse than Google (which fought some of the laws listed, BTW). And China is worse than the US, thus it is not hypocrisy for the US to oppose internet censorship.
This is a very nice way of thinking! I always find myself using tools in non-conventional ways to get my work done.

Maybe re-inventing the wheel isn't bad after all, just need to re-invent it for those who weren't using it as a "wheel".

Thanks for sharing! Very good article!
Ugh, really? I use Dropbox for personal photos, as well as a shared space for some work stuff. I thought that it only counted against one of the users.
I think Facebook still has lots of opportunities even if its growth stagnates and its coolness has long since vanished. Considering their size, reach, and engagement its not unreasonable to think that Facebook could dramatically expand its ad offerings or attempt to create a new widely adopted e-currency/e-commerce solution.

Either of these is definitely within their reach, the issue they currently have is that, although they have tons of user data, they have little in the way of user intent and without that they don't have any good ways to monetize their user base. If they can get at the intent, they have a gold mine. Whether they do that by getting involved directly in the transaction or by building a more ubiquitous ad network remains to be seen.
Gotcha. Damn, I see what you mean. If that's all it takes to game the system, it's amazing that their system isn't completely overwhelmed by fake reviews...
Ha, I thought that was actually the only redeeming part of the entire post. Made me laugh a bit.
How to have great ideas
I love how whenever you say the words "4-day work week" on HN, people roll out the old "lifestyle business" stuff.
No, according to the NY Times article, "the company employs about 25 engineers and has development contracts for technologies like laser communications that it believes it will need for prospecting and mining missions."
Next Galaxy Name Confirmed As Galaxy S3
Thank you for the feedback.

The spinning background is a risk we took. We'll report back if it pans out or if it inflicted more motion sickness than conversions. :)
How to detect iPhone and iPad?
This is a good point and relates to what Stevenj said "As long as Mark Zuckerberg is CEO". I would add to that "and as long as he, and his collective team maintain the vision". Yahoo, over the years suffered from both of these missteps. Apple did to, and then the vision came back. We all know how that turned out.