skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Google Apps because I want to use GMail, but with my own domain. That's it.

I'm not an enterprise. I don't need more support than regular GMail users. I don't have special needs, like managing what services are allowed. I just don't want a @gmail.com address.

I see people here defending this move, but think of how services like Google+ make mandatory an email address that's managed by Google. That email address will now have to be a @gmail.com address for regular users. Now think of how you can register with any email address on Facebook or Twitter, an email address which becomes your online ID.

By using your own domain with your own email address, if the email provider interrupts the service for you, you can always change your MX records and recover all the accounts that rely on that address. That's not something you can do with a @gmail.com or a @yahoo.com or a @hotmail.com address. If Google cuts off your access for some reason (like in case they find out you're under 18 or some bullshit) or if they delete your account by accident (hey, shit happens), then at the very least your online identity is not lost.

Freeloading is not the issue for me. I am already a paying Google customer in other ways (I buy stuff from Google Play, I pay for Google Drive storage, etc...) and I would happily pay them $50 per year anyway. The bigger issue is that using any Google service requires a Google email account, with Google Apps being a mild remedy for that.

How can I encourage people to use Google's services now? Not mentioning that 2 businesses are now paying customers of Google Apps, because of my freeloading and my recommendations for it.

Also, WTF is it with Google and raising prices? Companies are usually cutting prices down, while they are raising them. This also makes it an issue of trust - usually when I subscribe to services, I expect prices to go down, not up, otherwise I cannot trust it. My trust in Google is eroding right now.

What next? Make Chrome and Android proprietary with a yearly subscription for users? Lots of pesky freeloaders out there.
This sounds weird to me. How do they infect a system that they never saw before? Did the wrote the virus on the fly? Or those drones have a common library with a bug or something.

This is like a Hollywood movie with a bad script
Your site design is cool, but the motion is interfering with readability.
Mercedes’ Next Flagship Does the Commuting for You
awesome stuff but, scrolling left to right in userflows pop-up is difficult. Given that this is a ux site, surely you can make it slightly easier to navigate

also, your feedback email id doesn't work (mail bounced back)
Great resource! It is key to design the first run experience to align with and support our goals as online services.

Had started a similar experiment on what we call the First Run user experience on Tumblr a few months back, but lost steam after a few apps:

http://thefirstrun.tumblr.com/
We were also adding commentary on the flows.
JP is defo an interesting place for many reasons, but I would say that they did not 'solve' those issues so much as they were forced on to them. Little land means you are forced to make good land use, thus preference for trains over cars. Poverty is a grave issue in Japan. Lots of elderly crime --the fastest growing crime, is being attributed by some to elderly poverty. Yes, crime in general is relatively low. No argument there.

But their clock is ticking. Low birthrate combined with a distaste for immigration along with a patriarchal society (relatively low involvement by women in the workforce) is a recipe for economic decline.

My favorite pet peeve is how excited people find it that the Japan train operators will provide you with a tardiness note if they are over a minute late. People think "wow, the punctuality". I think "wow, what a horrible atmosphere where you have to account for being a minute late to the office" (while at the same time having to while away time at the office if the boss remains behind afterhours, else be labelled as being "different".
Human Computer Interaction Using Speech Recognition in Linux
The "extend" to which the German PP wants to redistribute wealth includes a basic income guarantee (without any requirements). Everyone would get X € per month.
Fun fact: They decided that they - as a party - want this, but have no idea how to finance it.
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What's ur device ? (Android or iOS ?)
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Simple bounce effect made with CSS3 keyframe animation
No, you'd be screwed. The password is technically an inverse of your imei with a md5 encryption on top (Android).
No, simple enter your number without + and the mac address once with the two points, just like XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
I wrote a bit more in detail about this a while back: http://samgranger.com/whatsapp-is-using-imei-numbers-as-pass...

Whatsapp, if you are listening, do the following.. Add an extra column to your database table where user 'credentials' are saved. Lets call it 'password'. Or call it realpassword if you're using password for the md5'ed IMEI/MAC. Now, leave it empty for a moment..

On your next client update, force your users to fill in a password. Don't save it plaintext mmkay, drop a whole pot of salt all over it and save it in the password column. If user has a known password, check if their client sent the correct one.

You can still check IMEI or MAC address too if you want, but only as an extra 'check' to verify user is logging in from their mobile and not some fishy desktop client. Again, the latter isn't secure but is meant as a fallback.
Demo: ring roads, parallel streets, and looped local roads.
JS ecology improving
"now I have to look at the upper-left corner".

Surely this takes first-world problems to a new level.
I've had great experience with http://crossbrowsertesting.com/, it costs $29.95 per month. I can't recommend it enough. You can't start a VM from a desktop program but all it takes is a few clicks in the browser, and everything works like a charm.
Expanding on your post.

It's pretty easy actually but when authorizing GMail to add a new sender address it usually mails a verification code to that address. Which, in this case would come back into the same Gmail inbox.

So if you have a X@Y.Z forwarding to A@gmail.com, then the verification code would be sent by gmail to X@Y.Z, which in turn, due to your forward settings, would redirect all mail to A@gmail.com.

The difference is that when sending mail from your Gmail.com inbox as opposed to the Google apps inbox for X@Y.Z is that when you send a mail via gmail (even if you fake the sender), the signed-by field will contain "gmail.com". On the other hand, Google apps for domains will set the signed-by field value to "Y.Z" (which would be your domain name).

As far as I know, this is the only difference. In Gmail, you can even set the default sender-address as your custom domain address so you don't need to set it everytime you reply to/compose new emails. And, unless you think/feel that signed-by: domain.name is cool, you're not really missing anything.
I think this sort of thing repeats itself because Michael consistently blames Google for his departure, and has a tendency to show up "when summoned" (i.e, when Google is ever mentioned on Hacker News). If I worked somewhere and an ex-employee shit all over my employer at every opportunity, I'd be a little rankled as well. It's demoralizing! If he told a significant audience things that sound plausible but aren't remotely true -- an accusation leveled by several Googlers in the past -- I'd have to fight the urge not to respond.

It'd be one thing if he never spoke about Google again and people still gave him shit for it, but Michael likes to sneak in bits about his drama into comments that have nothing to do with his drama, as he has done here. I've half suspected for months that Michael is, as he even says here, just trolling Google employees into responding.

Either way, the entire thing just reflects negatively upon him. That's the sort of thing that follows you in a career, and I'd hate to have the tide of a bunch of people turned against me because I made an ass out of myself on a Google mailing list. If I were doing due diligence on hiring him, the Hacker News threads would give me serious pause.

I've read HN comments in the past wherein the point has been made that it reflects negatively on both sides, and I can't see that, particularly hearing the story from Xooglers that I know.
Funny table, but does not showing anything about the success of those businesses or the VCes. As far as this table shows, each of these companies may have been a total failure, which I am sure is not true.

There should be columns like "profits", "revenue", "median profits", "number of profitable companies". Such type of columns will show how successful are both the companies and the accelerators.

Also the "average lifespan" and "number of companies still operating" could be other interesting metrics that provide an insight on how sustainable are those companies.
I think michaelochurch did have real points. For example, look up Google+ nymwars.
WoW! Really good news.
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You can still send and receive e-mail to classic @gmail.com setting up default reply-from address to you@yourdomain.com.
Google has historically used relatively loose metrics to declare Google+ a success, as well as pushed usage of Google+ in controversial ways, and that has made people cynical.
I used to run my own one-user email system. The hosting alone cost $240 a year.

Why? I have two VPSs with the main and backup SMTP servers and with continuous replications of emails between them and I pay less than half. Not to mention they double as web servers, IRC bouncers, etc.

And no matter what I did to reduce spam, about 10 messages a day always made it through.

I probably never get the same traffic as you do, but to me the best decision I made was enabling catch-all and using different addresses for each service out there.

In my case, spammers only send to three types of addresses:

- Random (jumble of numbers and letters@mydomain): very easy to block with a couple of programming lines.

- Fake but plausible (support@, bob@): just blacklist them once.

- Leaked (from websites and such): same as above, nuke it. Only happened to me once.

All in all, I never had to set up SpamAssassin or deal with dropped emails because of untrusted sources. Blocking by destination is much cleaner.
Singularity University Keeps On Acquiring
Based off https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI

Have you played with the node.js clients?
One example does not warrant a generalization like this. I'm assuming you see a lot of Indians neglecting usability- do you mind providing me with some other examples? Counter examples include: Naveen from Foursquare, Sachin Agarwal of Posterous.
Perhaps they're making space for new ads aligned to the right. People naturally tend to look to the right, so right-aligned ads might get higher CTRs.
The enemy engages in sabotage and guerilla warfare because they know they have no chance at winning a conventional war --but the wargamers dismissed the weaknesses in some of their assumptions (such that technological superiority equates to prevalence on all fronts of the battlefield.
Van Riper showed them they had weaknesses but they preferred to sidestep them --this thought process probably explains our initial susceptibility to IEDs and other unorthodox tactics by our foes.
Whoismcafee.com hacked?
jQRangeSlider - Slider For Selecting Value Ranges, Supporting Dates & More
More models and without the beer can: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKb572Yo2aM
from: http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/12/jqrangeslider-jquery-s...

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Nicholas Gurewitch - Interactive Animated Map of Most Blogged Music (2011)
What if you are a Fortune 500 company, or a part of the government? A defense contractor? Heath insurance provider? I work for a company that does "private cloud", mostly large enterprise/government places that want the flexibility of having their data accessible anywhere, but are not willing or able (for security reasons) to have Amazon or some other provider host their data. If you already have data center infrastructure and expertise in-house, the long-run cost and benefits of buying your own hardware for high-traffic applications can often outweigh renting space and/or paying on a per-transaction basis from AWS. Public cloud is great, but it's not the right solution for everyone.
That's not true. Communication(what email is for) is a basic need. Consider how much you spend on your mobile phone every year.
Basically GMail only has the two-step authentication. The uptime is worse than that, the web interface is not that great, it is slow and interoperates poorly with IMAP/Exchange/POP3 access.
bug report:
Matrices
> plank[, 4]
[1] 7 8
This should be
> plank[, 4]
[1] 0 8 // 0 here

for plank[1, 4] <- 0

http://tryr.codeschool.com/levels/3/challenges/17
Google PR: "Google today announced that it has 135 million active users checking their Google+ streams each month."

Facebook PR: "Oct 4, 2012 - More than one billion people are active on Facebook."

These are "reports" based on PR-based spin and "rounding up." That's all. If you were a manager at one of these companies, wouldn't you sell the same schtick?
7 months and 88 screenshots: The Evolution of 2u.fm
Sure. So a good amount of the music I listen to isn't on Spotify, maybe 20% or something like that. But, I understand most of that will never make it there because the music is free. From what I understand, free music (official mixtapes, deluxe edition albums, remixes etc.) can't exactly be on Spotify because all the music is being monetized. Also, I still use my 80gb iPod classic on a daily basis.

I would definitely upgrade regardless of that 20% if a) if it was feasible for me and b) I had a slightly beefier smartphone, more so because mine has a shorter battery life than I'd like.
I met one of you guys on the Muni, going down Market, my first day in San Francisco. Can't remember what your name was. Hope you're able to patch things up and keep going, because it sounded like such a bad ass idea.
You're correct in saying that other factors define the sound of the engine, but note that his comparison is in this instance technically valid - the V10 in the Gallardo uses overhead cams, so there are no pushrods.
No, the EFF doesn't offer this service, and given the volume of vulnerabilities disclosed, it would be a huge waste of their resources.

I'm not paying a lawyer because you have broken software that I had nothing to do with making.
I am not in doubt about these statistics, but the perceived reality is far from what Google is trying to suggest. From my personal experience G+ is still a ghost town (as far as seeing activity from my friends).
China to flatten 700 mountains for new metropolis in the desert
What no slick video flipbook?
Nope, sorry. 135 million active users cannot be considered "low engagement" by any metric out there, even by Neilsen.
From what I heard on NPR earlier today, there was a big crowd near the Space Needle that all lit up at the stroke of 12 last night.

edit: and then meanwhile, there's this: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/diego-marijuana-bill-gates-bud-... — a former Microsoftie who's starting up a premium pot business. I'm not sure how he's going to make this work until late next year (since it's not legal to sell here, yet!), but more power to the guy.
More realistic episode was in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikokugai:_The_Cyber_Slayer .

Physical attack on enemy corporation was just a diversion.
The real attack was on corporation network. Main computer gone nuts and started selling and buying in most ineffective way. Corporation was destroyed after several minutes.
Former Microsoft manager explains his new pot venture
Your face reveals risk of heart attack
I use Google Apps with my personal domain. A lot of people are recommending alternatives but the main reason why I like Google Apps is that I can use it to easily sign into YouTube, Google Docs and various other services that they provide with my personal, official email address.

I use Google Apps for a small blog that I run and I gave out email addresses to all of the writers. Eventually we had 11 writers and they only allow 10 free so I upgraded that one. People can't do that now. It's either all or nothing.

Meh, their loss. May have to go with Microsoft's alternative or something.
Who are these people who only test their sites in Chrome?
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Worked for my android. Still not working for iOS.
This guy is like Tony Stark's stupid little brother.
Talk to legal representation with experience in employment law. But yes, you could very possibly get a (fractional) payout. Could be a cash "bonus" or salary for 6 months of an "advisory" position. Be prepared for real talk about non competes ceding any (theoretical) equity/patents/etc.
>Homebrew on the Wii is pretty advanced right now and you could use that to retrieve ROMs for all your titles and still play them.

Or simply fetch them from Piratebay.
> When I see ridiculous sugar coating

What are you talking about? There is no sugar coating in this announcement, they just explain loud and clear what they are doing:

> With this in mind, we’ve decided to make things very straightforward. Starting today for all new customers:

Doesn't get more sugar free than this.

Maybe you were referring to Apple a few months ago when they announced their new maps?
At $50/year, ponying up is an absolute no-brainer. ~$4/month? That's effectively free.
That doesn't make it a bad graph. In fact, putting lots of white space at the top and bottom to make 2% look small would make it a bad (misleading) graph and obfuscate any detail in the line. It's a graph representative of the data. Could have done with a better colourscheme, perhpas.
iOS

I was using \test\whatsapp.php.
Tried again here, not working. Do you know if it is possible to sniff the iphone connection and get the md5? I have generated the hash from the duplicated mac and want to check that it is identical.
Green is always the worst offender

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1437645/banding.png
It is their entrepreneurial mindset. Engineers tend to focus on a single tree (the engineering tree), but an executive looks at the big picture - products, market, competitions, finance, and so on.
Ideally Qyuki should have built tools that helps creativity and the presence of celebs to inspire, I have seen hardly anyone who gets inspired by celebrities.
Another grandiose city project like the Russian ones from the soviet era, just more Chinese.

I wonder what these guys are smoking...
What's even more fun is when monitors, especially LCD displays, are only 5 bits deep for each color :)
Echelon spy network required to reveal all info recipients in Dotcom case
Hrm. Perhaps it was a certificate issue with SSL which the guy uses on his mailserver? I'm really not up to speed with configuring much beyond msmtp.

In any case, from a decade of listening to the random things he's had to deal with, I certainly have to agree with your final comment.
Some observations from executives I've met:

1. Take risks.

2. Be willing to take on responsibilities that you don't know how to do yet. If you're competent at the task you're working on, you're wasting your time.

3. Get to know all sorts of people throughout the organization. Not just the important people, but ordinary people working on interesting things. The important people notice that you know all the folks working on interesting things and start leaning on you to point them in the right direction.

4. Be the best in the vicinity in at least one area - the best salesman in your geographic region, the best frontend engineer on your product, the best UX designer in your department. The best has options, because everyone wants to work with them; the mediocre usually have to make do with what they're assigned to. The best usually also have management turn a blind eye when they steal time away from their main projects to work on professional development, because they're still outperforming everyone else. This becomes a virtuous cycle.

5. Volunteer for tasks that are a high priority for the organization. A lot of folks shy away from high-priority work because it's stressful; you have many powerful people breathing down your neck wanting things done yesterday. But everybody remembers who actually did that groundbreaking project, and it opens up opportunity in the future.

Some things I've noticed successful executives don't do:

1. Work 24/7. An occasional late-nighter on a critical project helps cement your reputation as a clutch player. Doing it all the time cements your reputation as a schmuck with no life.

2. Talk a lot. The best executives I know spend about 90% of their time listening and 10% talking. People who keep their mouths shut and ears open when they join an organization tend to outperform those who keep their ears shut and mouths open after about a year (it takes that long for the phonies to shake out).

3. Think of themselves in terms of one particular functional group. Being an executive is its own skillset - if you think of yourself as an engineer, or a salesperson, or a lawyer, you're artificially limiting yourself. Think of yourself as a provider of solutions - heck, doesn't patio11 give the same advice for small business owners?

4. Be cynical. It's interesting that the Gervais principle is the top comment here - there's a grain of truth to that, but if you believe it too literally you're doomed to underperforming loserhood.
It also lags down scrolling.
I wish more people had a sense of humor online. A real one. As it is, sometimes I feel like all my comments have to be bland. You never know how someone will interpret something.
We don't provide server-side connection pooling today, no. It adds too many gotchas to be universally applicable and has had too few use cases to reach the top of our TODO list. We do hear from time to time from people who want it though, so it's certainly not out of the question.
Am I the only person who couldn't tell the difference in that horizontal gradient example?
ugh your right, that looks terrible
If you have really a lot of whitespace (like one of the js "gurus" from the Chrome team) then minify may help.

Most of the time GZIP + minify is not significantly smaller then GZIP, and thus minifying HTML or JS is not worth it + may prevents good debugging.
Why not? SLA generally just means they'll pro-rate a refund for the downtime, so even if they only achieve 99% over a year it won't cost them a huge amount.