skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Not offering support for Adsense for example is unacceptable."

Evidence suggests otherwise. There are many many people and companies who use/rely on Adwords - either out of ignorance of the lack-of-support-dangers, or in full knowledge and accepting the risks. It is, arguably, the least-worst alternative: who _else_ are you going to use? Bidvertiser? Chikita? Skimlinks? Yeah… No…
Welcome to the eternal dilemma of geeks everywhere. When there's so much to do how do we find time to do anything else.
The answer probably is we don't.
You're just going to have to find your priority and stick with it whatever it is.
I think that's exactly the problem - they are a monopoly and can get away with anything.
It's a bit weird; I actually really like the G+ interface when used on the Nexus 7, but it just doesn't look good on the desktop. I now have 3 columns of tiny boxes, and I don't really understand why. Couldn't it just be flexible width, two boxes per row?
All of this is done at Google - there's extensive monitoring for all production systems, with alerts firing once parameters move outside of their statistical "normal" range. In practice the range tends to get set more by "How tight can we make it before we get really annoyed by these pagers?" than any rigorous statistical method, but the run-time operation carefully measures average & extreme values and determines when a spike is just a momentary anomaly vs. when it's worth paging someone.

The problem is that inevitably the next problem is exhaustion of some resource that nobody even thought of as a resource. In my time at Google, some of the resource limits I've faced have included (besides the obvious RAM/disk/CPU): binary size, size of linker inputs, average screen size of websearch users, time required for an AJAX request, byte-size of the search results page, visual space on the monitoring UI, size of a Javascript alert box, maximum length of a URL in Internet Explorer, maximum length of a request in Google's load-balancers, time until someone submits a CL touching the same config file as you, and time before a cosmic ray causes a single-bit error in memory.

File descriptors are a comparatively obvious resource, but nobody thought of them because in previous normal operation they never even came close to running out. Should someone set an alert on "wind speed running through the Columbia River Gorge" (which would've been responsible for an actual outage had there not been significant redundancy in the system, BTW)?
I struggle to find the similarities you are talking about do you care to share which bits you are referring to?
They're hoping it proves more popular for long overseas trips than the previous "kayak" option...
I find this utterly shocking, wrongly elitist and, to some extent, racist.
Hmm, the current google maps correctly shows rail trips on the map as following the actual rail line, so I'm guessing they'll get the new one doing that too by the time its really release... :]
I guess that's the negativity Larry Page was talking about yesterday, sad indeed.
> MS implemented CardDAV and CalDAV standards as Google wanted

Not in any released product, they haven't. The update is expected "later this summer"[1] and, as you certainly know, CalDAV isn't being deprecated or replaced, you just need to get whitelisted to access it. They could certainly use that to shut out Microsoft, but there's been no indication that that's been done, and we would certainly have heard a leak about it by now if they had been...

[1] http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archiv...
I've never agreed more with a comment on HN.
I think much of the reason why it's "normal" for men to greet women with hugs and men with handshakes isn't about disrespecting women. I expect it's really about not seeming gay. In my personal experience, much of male society is suspicious of physical intimacy between men, and treats it with homophobia. That, I expect, puts a social pressure on men not to hug each other, and that is how our norms have evolved. As other people point out, in a lot of other cultures men do hug other men (for example, I hug other men).

Certainly, you can't accuse Shane Snow of trying to push an agenda that supports the notion of men being cool and composed. He is super awkward and he knows it.

Also, the notion that hugging too much cheapens hugging is a bit silly. It's very easy to express genuine warmth and emotion in an embrace. It doesn't matter how many other people you've hugged, or how indifferent you were at the time. Your friends aren't going to see you hug other people and think "oh, man, he'll hug anyone, maybe that means I'm not special".
For people (like me) who didn't know what this was due to lack of a Chrome browser - here's the description:

Hacker News Colors

Makes Hacker News easier to read by adding a bit of color
next to the upvote button besides every story, where the
color is based on the number of points.
Pitch it to your boss as things which will increase your performance, which is what they are ultimately worried about.

If get a two hour lunch break where I get to go to the gym, my afternoon will be more productive and more than make up for the lost hour.
How we use BitTorrent to improve our design sharing workflow
My experiences only:

Google Adwords technical support isn't so bad now that they have a call center. They can't actually resolve anything but do write a message on your behalf to the 2nd tier support. Having used it about 4-5 times now it takes about between 3 to 7 days to solve a problem... longer if they are confused.

Before having used Google's email support for years it is all outsourced to India who just send out faq responses to your intial emails. The email support does seem to have some power to fix problems but first you have to learn how to describe your problem in as few words as possible. Never be verbose. Emails get responded to during India daylight hours.

Google Adwords work so well that if Google Ad-bot goes crazy and nukes your campaign/adgroup etc other companies have bought your url as an ad so your customers end up in the wrong place, people can't tell the difference between the ads/organic so they often never make it down to the organic links, etc. You can loose thousands and have higher technical support while Adwords is getting around to looking into what happened this time with the ad.
Compared to the data at openstreetmap, does google map provide any exclusive information beyond street view?
Hopefully Google will get S/MIME built in.
Tel Aviv is in Europe now?
Yeah. There are so many positive possibilities yet a large group of people still choose to focus on the negative side. I hope this can change one day
You can add friends to an Acquaintances group that hides them from your feed without unfriending them. Facebook has a tool that suggests people who you probably don't want to see in your feed: https://www.facebook.com/friends/organize
VC said no? You're in good company: Bessemer Ventures' Anti-Portfolio
Building A Full-Text Index In Javascript
What should the media and government do? It is a civil issue and you have agreed to the companies terms of service, so in essence, you have given them consent to terminate your account if they see fit and then when it happens you kick and scream for the government to fix it?

The fix is if you don't agree with the terms of service, you don't use the service just like if you don't agree with a contract, you don't sign a contract.
Mitm=man in the middle
I think most of what he points out about Netscape's browser are down to a mix of frontier development (release now, fix later) and a measure of incompetence, rather than malice.

Netscape did try to use their position as temporary de-facto standard to bully there way through, tough they were not very successful at it.

* Releasing DTDs for review: the were very slow on this compared to MS. Some of that was abusing their position (as the incumbent de-facto standard they had some control, and keeping what they were doing internal for as long as they could forced competitors to either guess (resulting in conflicting behaviours some of which we still fight with today) or wait and implement late). Equally though I think some of it was just their business culture: they were not open by default, they did not want to release for comments until they considered it finished, and so forth. MS had little choice but to be open and play ball with the community: they'd have just been ignored for longer otherwise.

* "Netscape used this position to make up features we still hate like presentation-oriented markup": That is the frontier development thing. "Hey!, Look at this!, Isn't it cool!". Everyone was doing it, you just remember Netscape for it more because the legacy of some of their experiments/toys is still with us day-to-day.

* MS overtaking them on CSS support, particularly positioning, once it became a strong contender for the way to go was more to do with them struggling generally at the time. The application was being killed commercially by the free Internet Explorer which had at least got to the point of being "good enough" beyond being free, they were losing money server-side too due to competition there that they were not able to fight off, and the application itself had become somewhat complex and bug ridden (IIRC the 4.x series was chronically unstable, at least on Windows, until at least 4.0.8) so implementing anything new (and implementing it well) took more effort than they could afford to throw at it. Their alternative (layers) was implemented first and they paid the "jumped first, guessed the market wrong" price heavily: having to support their own idea for backwards compatibility and find time to implement the one that won more general acceptance.

* Most of the problems with JS cause by Netscape are from its beginnings: it was rushed to market. Most of the rest were them trying to keep ahead of the slow standards process - everyone else was doing that too.

> you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villian

Exactly. Well, almost.

Netscape were far from perfect and did (try to) abuse their position a bit, but if my memory is accurate (which it often isn't that far back, so have salt pinches at the ready) most of what they did wrong was due to bad business, process, and design decisions and being unwilling to backtrack on technical decisions that didn't work out so well (for reasons of compatibility: they too kept maintaining/reimplementing their old bugs so as to not alienate people with code relying on them) rather then concentrated deliberate malice.
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Oh, the first paragraph explains why Youtube's official app sucks so much (no offline caching etc.). Piracy and piracy prevention ruins it all (even when it are laughable prevention methods).
Really? That's your minimal solution for awkwardness?
Ice-breakers should be fun or interesting conversation starters, they shouldn't be you calling attention to how awkward you are. Just learn follow the other person's cues. If you must do it, the excessive-honesty-in-order-to-elicit-sympathy tactic can be saved as a back up plan for when you make mistakes.
>Wordpress is garbage. Just because there are a lot of production sites built or using Wordpress doesn't mean it's good.

No, it does mean it's good. You're comparing opinion (everybody has one) with actual hard real world results (tons of major sites with million hits running on Wordpress and around 15% of the web too).
Interesting, I think I'm interrested in getting one of these devices [1]. I'm wondering though if there are currently the only (preview) devices supporting Firefox OS? And if there are officially supported by Mozilla and will continue to officialy receive software updates in the near future? (I don't want to buy a device useless in 4 months).

[1] http://www.geeksphone.com/
I have a fairly good windows 7 machine. 64bit, 6gb. I opened g+ in chrome and it crashed, twice.

There are pop overs everywhere I move my mouse, making it even slower!
I have a resolution of 1024x768 so everything is squished and hard to find/read.

I'll keep giving it a go, but I do wish they would add a 'lightweight' version, like the html only gmail for us people without top of the line machines that can run crazy amounts of javascript.
Configuration, performance, package management, reliability/robustness, security, monitoring, virtualization, and distributed computing. Those are the big problems and missing pieces that people doing systems level engineering are facing today. And, no coincidence, these are the things where you see the most repeated instances of tools that address these issues.

Consider package management. You have an OS level package manager, you have OS level application management (on android, for example), you have node package management, you have ruby gems, you have perl and python packages, you have wordpress themes and plugins, etc. Obviously it doesn't make sense to have a single global package manager, but what about standards for package management? Competing package management infrastructures which serve as foundations for all these lower level systems? A mechanism for aggregating information and control for all of the package management sub-systems?

As the article points out a lot of systems folks and OS folks are still retreading the same paths. They want to pave those paths, then build moving walkways, and so forth. That's all fine and good, but there's a lot of wilderness out there, and a lot of people are out in that wilderness hacking away with machetes and pickaxes building settlements, but for some reason most OS folks don't even imagine that roads can go there too.
Have D-Wave demonstrated any actual quantum behaviour yet? I had them down as a scam prior to the google involvement; now I'm not sure what to think.
>Lets be upfront here about the topic being discussed, is it "Where is .NET headed?" or is it "Does MS make less money than its competitors and therefore sucks?"

It's not about sucking or not. It's about if it's as a big player as it used to be, or if the wind got sucked out of it's wings, and now is on decline mode.

Nobody said anything about "sucking" or that it will die financially tomorrow. It might still be around 2 centuries later.
Love it! ;) Best Game ever!
The amount of columns displayed depends on the width of the window, with generous margins to the sides (you could fit an extra column without margins).
Where did I say that ad-free YouTube was pushing this too far? I think both Microsoft and Google have plenty of ways to sort that out.

The download button, on the other hand, is a completely different kettle of fish. If people start using Microsoft's Windows Phone YouTube app to download and distribute YouTube video I think that will have tons of impact, way beyond the existing, lower-profile downloaders, no matter how tiny WP's adoption is.
At Google I/O, everybody uses Mac notebooks (even Google)
Yeah, I hug loads of my male friends too, and, like you, it's all about following their cues (and providing your own). Interestingly, my Dad isn't comfortable with hugging men at all, so I don't force him into it. What I find works really well with him is the handshake + shoulder pat + hold. It's basically half a hug, but he's okay with it. Maybe the author of the blog post should try that.
The Successful and the Passionate: An Interview with Therese Hansen
It seems to me that people who are passionate and successful in one area of their life are often just as passionate in other areas.

Therese Hansen is a Startup Weekend Mentor, also the co-founder of Monzoom, and the woman behind xiive.com. Today we talk to Therese Hansen about living small and travelling.
I have a feeling Firefox OS is going to be big. from what I've seen of YouTube demos the OS is quite responsive on modest hardware (gs2 and nexus s).

I've had no luck this week trying to build the OS for a gs2. I'm hopeful that I'll have more success compiling for a nexus s.
Just like short sellers, we need these naysayers to keep us grounded. :) Yes, I choose to see the positive possibilities and the opportunities that show up thanks to our beloved naysayers.
Can Google release a Metro version of Chrome? One that non-developers can use on Windows RT and/or Windows Phone?
Tradeoff of convenience/friction vs. security if they require it on every financial transaction, though. ACH and credit are pretty reversible.
The Meridiani Journal (of space exploration)
I don't get it, wouldn't an html email with a form element do the same thing?
If Google didn't send a C&D, I'd say there's a good chance that another company would. Don't forget that pesky download button.
Wagner in Venice - Android App
Quick question: Do people think the rising cost of living in a place like London will have a negative effect on start ups?

Currently it doesn't look like it from that report but I'm currently on an intern's wage and have struggled to live here, I can only imagine how hard it is to potentially work for a small wage maybe even just equity whilst being a bit older than I am and potentially more responsibilities.
It is going to be free since it is based on IntelliJ Community Edition.

This time around try use Kotlin(http://kotlin.jetbrains.org/) instead of Java. It offers 100% compatibility with Java and it works nicely with IntelliJ.

I wrote this fully fledge news app using Kotlin/Java
https://github.com/dodyg/AndroidRivers
I am slightly concerned that you considered this "Pornography".
Review: CrunchBang – Linux 11 "Waldorf"
The Berlin pin looks more like Bremen.
N.B. I have heard the cost of living in other European cities is a lot lower which is why I thought they would be in a similar shape to London before reading that article.
I think the more important point jacques_chester was making is that even in the case where computer systems are 100% deterministic it doesn't matter because they are so complex they become chaotic systems. And then hypothetical determinism won't save you because there are too many variables in play simultaneously, and even the slightest variation in any one of them could change the behavior completely.
Enough to be in the Eurovision (it's a more complex question than you might imagine).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93European_Union_r...
Microsoft's anti-Google campaign gets a boost, from Google
Congrats on using bitorrent for syncing files. You need at least RAID1 setup to don't lose information. Never use only one hdd.
While i'm all for everything this represents technologically, why isn't this considered cheating?
Here's an article about that, "Bring back the 40-hour work week": http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_...
Apparently Asia doesn't want it anymore.
Aye, I guess the margins are there to accommodate the menu and the hangouts column?
I use this:

https://github.com/wuzhe/social-hotness
https://raw.github.com/wuzhe/social-hotness/master/screensho...
As far as the ruby/python/perl package problem goes, I think we're heading towards a standard with virtualenv-style tools and potted environments. The simplest possible standard there is a <foo>/bin/activate script to set the right environment variables; you can build pretty much anything else you want on top of that.
> The, ahem, anatomic detail they go into

I'm curious what exactly you mean here? It's a naked body, it's not posed in a "Pornographic" way, and by definition a naked drawing is a drawing of anatomy, and even then it's not as though anything has been gone into in detail. I'm not sure why the artist would have to deliberately remove elements to 'satisfy' the whims of insanely prude readers?

Besides, without the anatomical details, there probably wouldn't be the visual clues to identify the characters as 'Naked', which is necessary for the point in question.
Earlier discussions:

C&D takedown to Microsoft by Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715168

Microsoft's response(Lying at #40 on second page because of heavy flagging by Google fans in spite of it having more votes than many stories on front page):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715889
While I understand the point the author is trying to make - the larger companies have the resources to provide quality service - I disagree with the notion that poor customer service is excusable for startups.

In fact, the article doesn't even compare startups and "Internet giants", but I suppose the heading of "Paypal doesn't have good customer service" (no surprises there) would be less interesting.
If they allowed a title-only layout, it would be closer to google reader, and you could skim hundreds of posts very quickly.
Some html elements (like forms, form elements, ...) won't work in emails/get stripped by (web-)mail clients. The same goes for JavaScript and a lot of CSS features.

Probably would be a security nightmare.
I was hoping this was going to be something where the files themselves were distributed so that they didn't take up space on everyone's machines, a la MogileFS[1], but alas.

This is always a point of pain for us: in our studios we work from a central file server, so our shiny iMacs with their 1TB drives all have about 90% capacity on them — but we don't have any easy way to pool all that extra capacity and use it even as overflow for our central fileserver.

The search continues...

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/mogilefs/
You answer your own question. The amount of useful life they have left that goes unused is an opportunity cost. The earlier they are shut-down the larger that cost (which necessarily must be taken up in providing power through some other means).
No it's not. I have a Lumia 920 and none of my data is synced to SkyDrive.
F# on FreeBSD
Seth Godin's Summer Internship
They are allowed by the poker sites. This is a simple version of PokerTracker/Hold'em Manager. Theres a bunch of others. This is the only one that runs in the browser! (that I know of). I actually want to target the people who don't use trackers and even the playing field a bit.
In our friend circle, even with newer friends, we all hug… men, women, everybody hugs each other. It's nice.

When in doubt, I say "Hey… do we hug?" with a smile before saying hello or goodbye. It works.
My fave comment from previous dicussions:

cooldeal 8 hours ago | link

From Google's About page:
"Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Last time when Google was intentionally blocking Google maps and then deprecated ActiveSync on Windows Phone someone suggested Google should updated it to the following:(which seems quite true given how much of the world's crowdsourced video content is on YouTube):

"Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, except on Windows Phone".
Network Marketing Opportunity Promoting
Spot on.. I changed the country name from Argentina to India in the price stats URL.

Alas! It's 404.
4 Great Indie Games: Pay what you want – in Bitcoins
So many possibilities? There is nothing here that couldn't be achieved by having the user click on a link.

And he's right, it does make phishing easier.
IMHO btSync is a great ideia but the use of random ports makes hard to use in some setups.
Online isn't the same as "available". A green dot in GChat means actively saying "you can interrupt me". A red dot means "this better be important". Currently about 2/3 of my GChat list is "away".

There's a whole world of etiquette here that they're throwing away.
We'll see how "good" it is. I'm very skeptical about a Javascript-heavy OS being as good as an Android one on the same hardware. If all things are equal, it shouldn't be. However, I suppose Firefox OS will be more "feature-free" in the beginning, and those HTML5 apps will be a lot simpler than the typical native app, and these two things might compensate for the slower speed of Javascript. We'll see.
Boat steering systems
The boat steering systems are the components that allow to a boat to go in the correct direction based on the driver directions. The components of the steering system can be personalised, bought online or in specialised shops and easily replaced.