skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another potential solution I see mentioned here that isn't proposed as such or further explained why this became true in the past, is that we can have another war because "war made deficits irrelevant."
Well, that's a good answer. I feel like this is something one can't do for 99% of other google products although I haven't tried it. Is this as rare as I think it is?
Karunamon is not asking for them to find a specific phone, just make a general announcement for everyone to double-check that their phones are off, and possibly to specifically cite interference as the reasoning.
That was overly snarky. I apologize, I guess I'm just in a pissy mood today for some reason.
I find it hard doing a handshake with females, I always try not to apply too much strength and in result end up with taking their hands like they used to do with princesses - you know, I end up holding their fingers. And that makes it even more awkward :-(
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Google+ Games will not be available after June 30, 2013
I don't think that's true at all. If you're willing to believe that they will do evil things with your chat messages, I don't know why you would have trusted the "This chat is off the record" message in the first place.

I can think of many other possible explanations for the change that, while you may not agree with them, are at least reasonable.
I don't. I (and billions of others) want to remove America from the list.
I clicked the link before looking at the comments. I saw "request an invite", sighed, and hit the back arrow.

I'm tired of Google request-an-invites, and it was a reaction completely independent of the comments here (which I hadn't yet seen).

Something to think about, I guess.
Not on this topic, but maybe you know someone. From some countries (e.g. Georgia, Europe), why it is delayed to add support for selling the paid apps in the google play market?
We're already in a couple of wars. How many do we need to wage simultaneously before the deficit stops mattering?
> I'm simply pointing out that the logic of having a pilot wait on passenger behaviors before being able to continue doing his/her job is a bit silly.

If a passenger's device is causing actual interference, then what other option does the pilot have?
Awesome video. The music got me kind of perked up for the day. It almost made me forget that nobody uses Google Wallet. We've run an ecommerce store with a decent amount of throughput for about 5 years now and I think we had 1 person try and pay with Google Wallet (and she was a Google employee and friend at the time).

I'm probably off on the whole thing here, because the examples in the vid show it as sort of a way to make good with your pals and not so much for ecommerce, but being an old timer, I sort of like to leave my money transfers to people that specialize in it and not as an add-on to my email client.
What's the best app to share a video from your phone?
I need a client for Ubuntu then :(
I'd dearly love to know what about Clojure made it inappropriate for you.

My own path was GW-Basic -> C -> Common Lisp -> C# -> Python -> Clojure, with other languages learned along the way.
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Motoring is incredibly cheap in the US.

Here in the UK, petrol (gas) is over $8/US gallon. Insurance is mandatory and phenomenally expensive for young drivers - a new driver would expect to pay at least $2000 for their first year of insurance, even for a tiny and underpowered subcompact. Our driving test is quite rigorous, so most people will spend at least $1500 on learning to drive.

Only two-thirds of young Britons have a driving license and far fewer actually drive. The barriers to entry are prohibitively high and there's a growing cultural divide, between young people who see driving as an unaffordable luxury and their parents who see it as a basic necessity.
A very legitimate point and question. Needless to say, it seems Google is not trying to serve the same demographic and use-cases as say... http://www.whispersystems.org/

Though I agree it would be nice if someday we could enable temporary history and client-side encryption for everything. Perhaps this could be how DuckDuckGo grows beyond just search. I would look forward to such a future.
Seriously? I mean, it can't be that hard; if the GPU code is written in OpenCL then it could be cross-compiled to the CPU instead of the GPU and then the checkedthreads checker or the Cilk checker or some such would be almost applicable to the problem, perhaps with minor tweaks.

We can discuss it here or you can drop me a line at Yossi.Kreinin@gmail.com - it sounds like an interesting thing to hack on, and not incredibly difficult, though I may be missing something and I'm curious to find out what.
All languages have crap.

C? Buffer overflows, manual memory management, header files, severely lacking standard libraries, crap support for most modern idioms, etc etc.

C++? Tons of edge cases, template madness, unbelievable large language spec, etc etc.

Python? Python 2 - 3 dichotomy, crappy concurrency / parallelism support, , strict on whitespace, standard libs in various stages of cruft and abandonment, no proper closures, CPU bound for lots of interesting problems necessitating bilingual development with C extensions or the use of hacks such as Cython etc.

You can find a similar list for everything, from Lisp to Haskell.

Javascript "insanities" are no big deal. People have been creating large apps (including porting stuff like THE WHOLE BLOODY QT TOOLKIT to it) in it with no problems. Once you know them, you can work around them.

A huge install base, huge number of programmers, easy syntax, powering the internet, lispy-flexibility, and the fastest interpreters this side of the JVM are enough benefits to counter some crappy coercion rules and FP only math bizarreness.
I've been in many gun shops, never heard them referred to as automatic weapons. At least in the midwest, I've heard them referred to as either "burst" or Class III weapons.
The call stack is cheap, its your mental stack that you should be trying to optimize for. Any label over a set of operations (even a single expression) will reduce the mental load necessary to understand an operation, assuming its reasonably named. Managing a stack is what computers are good at. Lets optimize our code for how we can better comprehend it--at a consistent level of abstraction with the fewest amount of level changes as possible.
Sure, that's one use of it. But also friends with smartphones but not Google+, those I communicate with by SMS or WhatsApp primarily at the moment, the majority of my contacts. It's not even that I want rid of my SMS plan, although I can definitely see the benefit of that too.

We basically want the same thing - iMessages that works on Android, iOS and desktop, including SMS. Google are brilliant at sync and I have no doubts that'll work great (especially now with synced notifications). If they added SMS and starting a conversation by phone number (selecting from contacts obviously), it'd be the perfect messaging app in my opinion.

EDIT: Hangouts on web only work with Chrome, so that rules out a lot of devices I thought were supported. Not a big deal for me, but I guess it could break your requirements depending.
Try to find and read a copy of, "Guerrilla Selling: Unconventional Weapons and Tactics for Increasing Your Sales"
by Bill Gallagher, Orvel Ray Wilson, Jay Conrad Levinson

Also "Purple Cow" or anything by Godin
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/purple-cow-seth-godin/110004...
It could be worse, they did the same thing with Glass but then charged $1500 for the benefit of being chosen.

That said, I think it makes sense. Ask Apple how it feels to make a drastic change with maps.
Keep your day job and build the product on the side. You can use your current salary to finance some outsourcing, have a product into the market in 3-6 months.

This explains everything: startupbook.net

Also fourhourworkweek.com and lifestylebusinesspodcast.com

Freelancing is a dead end road that takes all your mental energy, avoid it at all costs
They mean both Google and your friends. :p
That was my first thought as well. Nope. Not going to go begging for a Google invite this time. I can see throttling your users to help test the product, but it's a Maps app for goodness sake. Maybe something other than "Invite" would be more palatable, like "Sign Up for Beta" for instance.
>>Why didn't they hire 2-3 (more expensive) experts instead of 10 juniors? <<
For the same reason they don't hire 2-3 architects instead of one architect and 10 workers to build a small house.
Actually hiring solely "experts" the productivity may be lower because they're used to doing only certain kinds of things.
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Yeah, like the iOS contacts API. I really like Objective C. (I better since I write it full time, lol)
It was odd indeed. And I checked to see which account I was logged in under, and it wasn't my "normal" account. So I switched to my Gmail/Google+ account and re-clicked, and then it said "you've already requested an invite." Odd.
Google's offering is significantly faster, and is marginally cheaper is it not? I've had relatively poor experiences with the quality of documentation/articles/questions for AWS, I still haven't managed to get a simple s3 setup working to allow people to upload files through their browser for example. I'm not waiting for google, we're not ready to launch yet. I am just wondering if google will have some of the extra services by the time we are ready.
By "opposite"[1] I mean the muscle-relaxed version. How does such a thing even work as a hand "shake"?

Btw I loved your original comment in both style and content, hence my riffing. One of those if-I-could-upvote-twice circumstances.

[1] When someone says "opposite" draw a reasonable hyperplane and reflect.
The advertised rate for contractors with modern skills in London is around £350 per day. That's your starting point. If you are good at negotiation, and find your jobs via your network(i.e. people vouch for your work), you can easily make double that. If you work in finance you look at 4 digits per day.

For the sake of example, let's say you make £500 per day. At 220 days per annum, that's £110 000. I know at least 10 people making more than that.
No, he doesn't do that anywhere in his message.

He is complaining about what Google does even WITHIN it's own platform (and the web).
My first year freelancing
The first person to comment sets the narrative.
I don't know why you assume that an invite system is something that's "cool" or only a viable strategy for small companies. It's a good and reasonable way to scale a new product.
Is there a YouTube API that provides the ads, or is Microsoft's only alternative to embed a YouTube web page?
Which customers are you going after? People who want to play around with "hello worlds" with PHP or people who actually build powerful stuff.

Either case, help me understand why PHP was a better choice vs. Javascript? If the question is barrier to entry. Then javascript should have the lowest. Anyone doing any web development needs to do something in HTML/Javascript/CSS.

Additionally you could have made the case for further integration with your other services like App Scripts. Aren't google team talk to each other?

I personally would have rather seen Google focus on Go and remove "experimental" out of Go so people feel some amount of security developing and investing time building Go applications on GAE. Just my $.02!
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PHP is popular because users know it is a good compromise between javaish stuffs ( type hinting in functions and methods , private,protected,public members, interfaces,and abstract classes ) and some whatever dynamic stuff out there ( dynamic , weak typing ) and some weird/functional stuffs ( pointers , closures , callbacks ).

Yes PHP has a lot of bad parts. But its good parts are really really good.

Most hosting providers dont allow serious php development anyway , so it makes little difference. You need a vps or a PAAS to do serious PHP development , like any other solution out there.

I love python and ruby. But I really miss type hinting everytime i use one of these.
Google has Search to promote their stuff, even if it's inferior. Put theirs on top, meaning other reviews are much harder to find (people click on top links). That's how many people installed Chrome for example
This could be a huge dagger to apps like Venmo. This is so much more convenient than using Bank of America.

Also note you need to verify your identity before you hook up your bank acct.
Ask HN: Planning to teach programming in two private schools from age 6
Hi HN,

A friend, who runs two private schools and teaches English at an South East Asian country, and I were exploring ideas on how we can start integrating programming into the curriculum (and also distribute the course materials for free later on in the same country).

We're in a so-called research phase right now. We've read about the Tiger Leap Foundation and its project, ProgeTiger, from Estonia.[1] I guess we'll be reaching out to them and learn how they planned and started this whole thing.

Currently, I have roughly planned to utilize tools like:
- Kodu [2]

- Blockly [3]

- LEGO Mindstorms [4]

Meanwhile, we'd like to hear your thoughts and experiences on how we could structure the curriculum, how we could link programming with other subjects (languages, science, and even arts), etc. If you've came across any related studies, products and services, please point those out as well.

Many thanks!

[1]http://www.tiigrihype.ee/en/programming-schools-and-hobby-clubs

[2]http://www.kodugamelab.com/

[3]https://code.google.com/p/blockly/

[4]http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/default.aspx
They used to have a Java bridge as well[1]. WebObjects moved from Objective C to Java at some point in the early '00s.

[1]http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000024.php
I'm looking at GAE as a AWS alternative too, so what follows is not complete, just a few observations.

Here is the run down on the runtime services available in the Java SDK (I think that it and Python are the most complete, not everything is available for Go last I checked):
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/apis

This is a good supplement: https://developers.google.com/appengine/tools_tips

So queues and email are in, messaging might be served by Google Cloud Messaging or the recently announced Trello partnership. I don't think anything quite like CloudWatch or Route53 is available.

I think of GAE as more like Heroku + add-ons than a straight AWS competitor so I wouldn't expect them to be entirely equivalent. On the other hand more control over the runtime lets them offer things that are entirely out of scope for AWS (channels).

As far as updates, the blog shows the the SDK gets new features fairly frequently: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/
Chrome app: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hangouts/nckgahada...
Go-PyLog: Go logging - Python style
Exactly. I don't need to see it rolled out at maps.google.com for the world to start using, but I'd at least like to be able to follow a link to TRY it after seeing it in the keynote.
It's not a matter of respect; it's a matter of familiarity.
jrockway,

You said to ask you any questions, so far you only answered one single question for the last hour. Why would you say ask me anything and don't respond to the questions?
You realize that Google does not have the best reputation when it comes to talking to a real human being? Personally, I hope this is where that begins to change.
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Actually from the screenshots at The Verge it looks like it's ... IntelliJ rebranded!
Wordpress is garbage. Just because there are a lot of production sites built or using Wordpress doesn't mean it's good. Wordpress is popular because of it's community, use of PHP which allows you to host it on many providers, and a ton of themes and plugins. Wordpress is probably the worst spaghetti code I've ever seen (we'll, close).
I see a lot of people on here wondering why Google would just now add support to PHP. I don't work for Google, but I used to work at Microsoft. When Azure launched it tried to "leapfrog" the other cloud vendors by offering only Platform as a Service (PaaS). It offered superior benefits like high-reliability and geographic redundancy. Though, that was met with limited adoption. Why? Well, one of the major reasons was because it would require developers to write new apps or rewrite their existing apps from the ground up very specific to how Azure wants you to write it. This takes a lot of effort from a very specialized skillset, thus very expensive. Also, since you're writing it for the Azure platform, should you decide to switch to another provider, you'd have to rewrite your app again! What if you had a bad experience with customer support or billing? You'd basically be stuck. So Azure has since started offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) options, which has far lower switching costs. This has had much greater traction and builds an ongoing relationship with customers. The customers become more familiar with the Azure platform and support offerings. If they feel good about their IaaS experience, they will consider learning some of the premium features and leverage them when they update their existing apps.

I think adding PHP is a strategically smart move by Google to get more people using their cloud platform. Soon there will be new billing relationships signed off by thousands of businesses to host basic apps and WordPress installations. Assuming customers have positive initial experiences with Google's PHP hosting, it will become easier for Google to upsell those businesses to add premium cloud features for more advanced applications over the coming years.
Late to the thread, sorry.

Jason Seats here, I'm running the Austin program and ran the last 2 TS Cloud programs. Also co-founded slicehost and helped build Rackspace Cloud.

Happy to answer any questions here. Will also hit some of the existing questions in thread.
And now we know why Guido left to join Dropbox ;-)
Google's 2 step authentication is completely useless to some of us because they don't have actual per application passwords. For example if you use an IMAP client to read gmail, then you can get an "application specific" password for it. But Google then allow that password to be used for anything. Essentially you've used 2 step authentication in order to setup 1 step authentication.
I don't see it :). ColdFusion is both hated and relatively unpopular, PHP has popularity going for it.
Yes. Furthermore, if the people responsible for these rules really believe there is a need for them then surely they are being derelict in not requiring RF monitoring devices in the cabin.
How does this differentiate from Ubuntu's MAAS? Does it require clusters of nodes to be used or can it be used by a standalone server?
So far it's syncing the messages sent and received via Adium. They show up in google+, although they're not automatically marked as read (though I've not yet received the google+ update). Images and hangout invites are not synced. I have yet to attempt a group chat.

UPDATE: Photos will show in the messenger, or send you a link to a google+ page if you're on gchat.
Ah, the main drawback I see about WebPay:

"Note: You cannot add funds to your Amazon Payments account by using a credit card."
> the onion URL given isn't using ssl either

doesn't need that hacky ssl stuff, it's end-to-end encrypted within the tor network. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/11727/does-tor-h...

they could print the onion url in their newspaper even, if you don't trust your connection to the announcement. But yeah at sone point there is always some trust involved.
As the anarchists and idealists on HN will soon learn, the decentralized nature of Bitcoin won't make a difference if anyone transmitting it is in violation of federal law.
Have to agree. It is surprisingly ugly.

What happened to the consistent design we have seen with Google Now, Gmail etc ?
The difference between a software launch and appliance product launch is that not everyone immediately goes and buys that new product. It slowly penetrates the market and feedback from the first buyers gives the manufacturer a chance to make minor modifications and deal with any issues. If Google flipped the switch and enabled the new maps with a flaw that went unnoticed until consumer use, they could potentially bring the whole service down.

Also, your negativity makes you sound very disgruntled.
You're right, it isn't.

This post[1] from JetBrains helped clear the situation up for me.

[1]: http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/05/15/intellij-idea-is-t...
Props for saying this.
PHP has just mixed and matched a ton of different features from other languages without having consistency. For example, many of the core functions have different naming conventions and many of it's OOP features are after thoughts.
Google Glass gets the first news app for the ‘connected generation’
It seems legitimate that they'd want to stagger the release of this. I think it's better for everybody that they do it in a way that those who want it, will use it and are interested get it first. Have you seen what the average user thinks when Facebook redesign things?
At no point in this equation does the relative merits of the language itself factor in.

... except for "easy to deploy", which is a merit.
The redesigned Google Plus
Why do you think that Gmail is not a core product for Google just because it's not the primary revenue generator? Gmail is a very important user identifier, is probably quite critical for personalized ads, has high usage numbers, and most likely* is revenue positive via ads within Gmail. Quite unlike all the shut down projects, won't you say?

*I have no idea, I'm just guessing.
Because no engineer out there use php to develop anything ? right ? those folks at dailymotion , (the only youtube real competitor that yahoo wanted to purchase ), they are such insane engineers using php... i bet you are better than them hey , what did you build that is famous and used by millions of people around the world ?
They might have just targeted the 6.1 sdk and decided not to deal with the 6.0 issues. For new things it is actually a good idea as 6.1 is quite a bit better than 6.0 in things like core data.
But we are hackers; it's our intrinsic pedantry and relentless drive to improve that got us where we are today! Of course you're right that this leads to nitpicking and one-upmanship in comment threads.

On the bright side, looking to the quality comments here is a great way to learn constructive criticism (as well as learn about a variety of other topics too).
All the questions are pretty much the same - given Google's track record of avoiding human interaction and examples of being arbitrary, why should we trust them this time?
Not a lot of details why Boise State is "Most Wasted Resources".

Also, Raptor Biology refers to the bird, not the dinosaur.

(Current BSU student.)
"don't take money unless you need it" is not an unusual bit of advice inside of TechStars either. One of the top companies in the last TS Cloud class is bootstrapped and on fire - http://drifty.com

They could have raised tons of money but don't need to. Most mentors steered them toward growing their business financing free.

Another way to look at seed stage investors is not that they are sprinkling their money everywhere hoping something works but instead that the limiting resource is they don't have enough time to pursue all their ideas and want to back people who are working on things that align.
Elon Musk Pulls off an Impressive Trifecta
I honestly don't know where they state it, but it's free. It's been a known gift among the dealsites circle for a long time now. Here is an example: http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/finance/1024148/

And I know because I use it every month to pay rent with my credit card. For FREE!