skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Popularity, yes. I'd argue it largely comes from amateurish developers, though. It can be used at scale, of course[1] but surely it's popularity is as a result of the hordes of amateur developers and shoddy PHP apps, hacks, script repositories and general, unmaintainable spaghetti code?

braces for downvotes (I did try to be fairly balanced, to be fair)

[1]: the wisdom of doing this left to the reader.

Thought: ah, my sibling commenter managed to put it better than me (and less controversially).
There's the possibility that the person knew the password to log into his computer and Skype was a startup program.
I think you missed the part where he was talking about the "Good Enough" developers.
Because it's a fucking game?

In real life, if you are really successful and exploit all the inefficiencies while staying within the rules, you're still going to get punished.

A game should be immune from this. Game-breaking winnings are one thing- punishing the simple use of cleverness is another thing entirely.
> It's the disconnect between what Google is (the 800 pound gorilla that can roll out a new product like an appliance manufacturer can roll out a new toaster), and how Google sees itself (the brave disruptive startup launching something cool in private beta).

How do you know this? I find this Request a clever way to stagger the release of the update. In case there happens to be any issues then only those who volunteered for the update would be affected, hopefully resulting in slightly higher patience.
Well I might have a go at it soon in our engineering section of our company blog. Have some interesting network performance analysis info to share as well.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect Google Talk to remain indefinitely though - if you need XMPP you at least want an exit strategy if Hangouts isn't suitable. It's quite telling that the Hangouts app on Android is called "Hangouts (replaces Talk)" and takes Talk's URL in the play store.
I know this is a nit-picky thing but why does this app require 6.1 or later? Thats a funny move. 6.0 I can understand.

What functionality could they have in 6.1 that made them have to require it?
Google Cloud Platform Opens To General Availability With New Pricing
Google announced today at I/O that it made Google Cloud Platform generally available, marking a milestone for the cloud community and the real arrival of a giant to contend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its pay-as-you-go pricing.
I usually switch to another window or program as well, in the hopes that the other window/program will distract me long enough to give the slow app an opportunity to recover. If other windows/programs are slow as well, then I start killing processes.
GTalk (or GChat) integration/unification.
Probably less as they didn't talk about it.
Yet they didn't support it for years and now they are. I only found it funny because within the HN ecosystem you get the impression that it's really dying (rightfully so given the better options out there). Now another platform provider is supporting it, which will only increase its popularity according to your statements.
Not a great first experience on the iPad for me.

1. Launch app in landscape. Oh, I guess they don't support landscape orientation for signing it. That's annoying.

2. Change orientation to portrait and sign in.

3. A dialog requesting to send push notifications appears — in landscape orientation (http://cl.ly/image/2t2P0X3f2H2Z) — but I'm still holding it in portrait and the rest of the UI is in portrait as well.

4. I have to step through a bunch of screens that I just went through when I signed in on my iPhone. These are not related to local settings, but to my Google account. Why do I have to go through these again?
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Any chance you are working on convincing banks to speed up ACH transfers?
In GTalk's case any XMPP client will do so an official app is almost irrelevant in its case.
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> I wouldn't be surprised if the new Android IDE is still Eclipse.

The whole announcement is that it is based on IntelliJ.
I am talking about languages which can crosscompile with Java source-code level. So class in Scala can be extended by Java class and again extended by Scala class and so on... By my knowledge this is AspectJ, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy and probably Ceylon

This requires deep integration with Java Development Tools to make incremental compilation working. And JDT team refuses this sort of stuff for nearly a decade now (since AspectJ). There are various hacks (such as aspect hooks used by Scala IDE). Probably best solution is JDT fork made by Spring Source (VMware) :
http://blog.springsource.org/2009/07/30/a-groovier-eclipse-e...

And to add insult to injury Eclipse Foundation created their own language called Xtend. It has cross-compilation as well, but it first compiles down to Java source code and result Java code is than compiled by javac. Basically Java Preprocessor. (dont get me wrong. I really like Xtend as language, I just wish their team would put some pressure on JDT folks).
Yet another reason to separate teaching and research.
1) Yes, it is a broad statement about institutions devoted to religion.

2) Mathematics is based on logic, which doesn't need phenomenal "facts", just logical consistency. Physics, which uses mathematics needs both phenomenal facts and logical consistency, and since the more phenomenal facts can be discovered, the physical models can change. Mathematics is a tool of rationality, not a replacement for it.

3) Somewhat agreed that irrationality is an unwillingness to accept models rationally created. If the model of a system isn't created by phenomenal facts and logical consistency, then it is irrational.
PHP??? I would have thought javascript or Ruby would have made more sense.It seems like Google is just reacting to requests from 4 years ago.

The App Engine has mades some decisions that seem to be contradictory. At one end, they drastically increased their prices and sent a signal the GAE was an enterprise-focused platform.
Now, they're releasing PHP so people can host blogs on it. Really? You want to compete with $5-6/month wordpress hosting solutions.
Who is running the show there?
I got screwed on odesk. Hired a guy, sent a deposit, and then he ran off. No recourse..
I just tried it, it works for my Google Apps account. Maybe it's a rollout process?

Though the web version seems to have problems with multiple accounts signed in at once.
Exactly this. Don't litter your code with comments, use them when they make sense. For example, if you're doing something "against the grain" but have a good reason: leave a comment explaining why.
100% try 500-1000%
This only makes sense if they monitor chat conversations.
Two years ago they had an experimental version of Maps that used WebGL and was much smoother than the current one, but they removed it for some reason: https://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
I've done one Android app for a college project using Eclipse a couple years ago. I've been wanting to get back into developing for the platform. Anyone have an opinion on a novice Android developer trying out an early access preview for this IDE?
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> In the flight simulator you can crash into buildings.

Eh... not the best feature to be pointing out.
That's why I said "implying" - can you state directly what you mean? Your reply wasn't directly relevant and you're intentionally being vague and ominous, which isn't useful.

The most logical conclusion, given the information that you're providing, is that "Tor might not protect me because the authors accept US Government funding".

If so, it's important to call that out as the BS that it is. Either you are highly ignorant as to how Tor works, or you are being malicious for some other reason.

If I've missed something, please clarify.
Yes, Capita is the scary part.

I'm pretty soft about data and my government, but even I think Capita stink.
You're saying you'd like SMS integration? So if you add your friend with a dumb phone to your Hangout, they can participate via SMS?

That would be awesome. I have a few friends with dumb phones that are constantly left out of iMessage conversations. I feel bad about it, but not bad enough to inconvenience myself (or pay for an SMS plan; yes I'm a terrible person).

Edit: The federation thing is probably a pipe dream. No one has an incentive for supporting a federated protocol -- at this point it's either existing platforms going for lock-in (the iOS lock-in caused by iMessages is huge; it's the biggest reason I don't consider Android). I guess what I really want is iMessages that works on Android and over SMS, and doesn't suck at syncing between devices.
US authorities launch their first attack on bitcoin
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This is massive for Jetbrains! We don't know whether some money exchanged hands at this moment, but Jetbrains is going to get a lot of value from the primary Android development platform being based on their product.
I just spent the last few minutes trying to figure out how to use this. Why is this in fine print?

>This feature will be rolling out to Gmail users ages 18+ in the U.S. over the next few months
Good point, maybe Apple will let users embed them in web pages and wave any fees for x years. Google and Bing charge after a certain number of free API requests so Apple should offer it for free for a while. It's not like they are hurting for cash ;)
As I recall, BridgeSupport created indexes to C symbols, enumerations and functions by producing XML files [1] that corresponded to C APIs like CoreGraphics, and code you produced yourself.

You don't necessarily need BridgeSupport to call out to Objective-C.

Speaking of BridgeSupport, does anybody know where the most recent source code for that project went? It seems to have been removed from Apple's Mac OS Forge after Laurent Sansonetti left Apple. A shame.

[1] - For example, http://merbist.com/2011/02/19/bridgesupport-build/ . The chapter referenced from O'Reilly's excellent MacRuby book does a better job of explaining the whole process.
Is Microsoft reading your Skype instant messages? Perhaps not.
Unsure? Wave.
It's not that fine... it's directly under the headline..
I'm glad Apple has their own maps, the first time I did a search and two pins were dropped, one an ad, was the last time I used Google maps.
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Granted, that goes with the territory of being in the service business. My gripe is that clients expect to pay for "just the coding" rather than the entire process of discovery, consultation, and strategy + coding.
What is my problem with email?
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What do you define as "hand holding"?

Often project briefs are not very detailed but the client's expectations are very specific. So in the interest of not wasting a load of my time writing code that I'm just going to have to redo I will ask a lot of questions. Even ones that seem obvious, as sometimes my idea of a the best way to do something was not what the client had in mind.
I wish my friends were like you!
So, what do you propose as a realistic alternative?
Google Compute engine available as of now
Enjoy playing with it
> Parallelism and concurrency need different tools

Not if you're using Akka.
>Your argumentation is pathetic and typical of many Europeans. Americans are stupid. That's the beginning, middle and end of your idea about the country and your only argument in the discussion.

No. In fact it never shows up in any part of my argumentation that "Americans are stupid".

What I wrote is that Americans are just ignorant. I follow US discussions in tons of places, US media, and have been all over the US. You could not find a people more ignorant of world affairs if you try. The little they know is what they are being spoon fed by tightly controlled media, all "patriotic" and all collaborating on the official country line.

>You are the one who should learn more about Iran or Russia. You are the one naive like a child who thinks everybody's nice, while they are playing you.

Actually, it's us that have direct contact and centuries (actually millennia in some cases) of political experience dealing with Russia and Iran, including at the very direct level, and for which world news and world history are as important as our country's news and history. It's also us that we travel frequently outside our own country (something most of Americans do not do. Heck, only 30% even have passports) and that we speak at least 2 languages (e.g english is my second -- and I have more). Heck, Americans do not even watch foreign movies, much less read foreign books (with the exception of a few classics, that again are only read by a tiny minority).

And you, who, in a house in rural Idaho, some trailer in Georgia or some loft in NY etc, by which I mean, half a world away from both Russia and Iran and in a totally provincial environment, form bizarro ideas on them and their intentions, based on what the absolutely crap your media coverage tells you, mostly based (often copied verbatim) on US government targeting.

>It was the same with Hitler (who some of you still claim was a great leader). It was the same with Stalin (who many of you still love in Europe).

Which is beside the point anyway. The point being the accurate assessment of foreign countries role, intents and power in the global scene.

People who "still claim Hitler was a great leader", did not do it because they miscalculated some world player's strength. They do it because they agree ideologically with him, whoever perverse that might be. That said, those are an irrelevant minority in Europe, on par with those who support things like the KKK in the US (oh, and there are Hitler supporters in the US too).

To continue this off-track theme, lots of people in the US approved of Bush and his policies, they voted Nixon into office, they approved slavery, racism and segregation, approved McCarthyism, approved Truman dropping nuclear bombs on civilians, etc etc. Oh, and this Hitler guy? He had much support in the US too, before the US entered into WWII. Here's a quick insight: https://www.google.com/search?q=hilter+support+in+the+US&...
My last full-time experience with Eclipse was a year and a half ago, and it was worse than it has ever been. Plugins and package management are a nightmare, and that's a quagmire that you can't simply rewrite your way out of. Terrible plugin quality control has created an entire ecosystem of bad Eclipse UI/UX.

As to OSGI -- that has been the core of Eclipse for nearly a decade, and IMO also a big part of the problem. The promise of OSGI was to allow Eclipse to be treated as a radically-open MDI framework that you could write just any old software on -- not just IDEs, but gaming frameworks, spreadsheet editors, on and on. The reality is that the standards for Eclipse's OSGI "drop-in" architecture have not stabilized into a robust ecosystem, rather it has lead to wildly varying user experiences, odd menu/pane/window configurations that have little consistency from one plugin to the next and poor quality software across the board. I'd be very reluctant point to Eclipse as an example of OSGI's fulfilled promise.

Also -- not sure if you read the OP, but the new Android IDE is going to be IntelliJ, not Eclipse.
It's Nokia Maps.
Due to the low central bank's rates there has been a divulge of money

I don't mean to nit-pick, but did you mean "deluge"?
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It was the single most requested feature on the bug tracker by quite a bit.

It's not something I want, but apparently there are quite a few people who do.
yup, bank of america took a lot of heat for doing that, mainly catering to immigrants that come into the US and want a bank account but don't always have an SSN...
What steps did you take to assess their skills?
My question is: when you send emails like "it has come to our attention... fraudulent activity..." [1] [2] and confiscate $30,000+ earnings by shutting down long-standing AdSense accounts, will you do the same to the entire Gmail accounts, or just to the money transferring functionality?

One would have to be a fool to use this, knowing Google's arrogant heavy-handed history of dealing with AdSense publishers (and an absolute lack of any meaningful customer care): this is why Google Wallet has never taken off as an alternative to PayPal in the first place.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3803568

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4585043
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This reminds me of the awkward greeting between 50 cent and Erin Andrews.
In that situation should 50 cent have greeted her with a hug and kiss or was that inappropriate?
Was Erin Andrews right to act the way she did because she was working?
The headline here is a little misleading: Google Cloud Platform is an overall umbrella including a number of different technologies, most of which were already generally available (its Google's parallel to Amazon Web Services.)

What is now available-to-everyone is Google Compute Engine, the IaaS offering (Google Cloud Platform's equivalent to AWS's EC2.)
Ask HN: Is Spotify's "Post to Facebook" switch intentionally misleading?
PHP is popular because it's incredibly easy to get started for someone used to doing things with HTML. An HTML page can be renamed to .php, and that is a valid PHP page. For someone trying to go from HTML/CSS to the server side, PHP presents the path of least resistance.

When using PHP, a lot of the basic data structure transforms are implemented in the core language. You can integrate simple server side functionality into a static HTML page in just a few minutes, and it will work on 99%+ of hosting providers, and requires no fees and no tools.

For pedantic hackers like us, sure, it's garbage, but for the average person that just wants to get things done, it is pure gold.

Also, WordPress, while the biggest POS in almost every possible way, has a vast community of users, designers, plugin makers, and a marketplace for various extensions and themes.

Google just opened up a huge chunk of the web app / CMS market.
Looks like you're right. I found this by searching Google+ (of all places):

> in case you're wondering how to enable Hangouts for your Google Apps account, found this: "Admins can enable the new Hangouts experience in the Talk settings of the Admin console. We are still rolling this out so look for it soon."
Usually? Hmm. The proposed law in Louisiana did not include such.
I'm curious: Have people had a look at code they wrote ten years ago? Are they glad it was uncommented, or would they have preferred comments, or were the comments lousy?

When you're taking on someone else's project do comments help, or do they make things more confusing?
"Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."
Any idea when this will be available for other countries? Canada? Europe?

thanks!
That's a very good strategy - testing new features by controlled rollout so that their potential revenue impact can be fully analyzed. Every company that lives on profit should adopt that strategy.

Thanks for point it out.
Go get fetches a go1.0 tag or similar automatically with the version of the language, if it exists. This would break for obvious reasons if it also wanted to fetch a specific tagged version of a package repo, thus I considered the two features related and exclusive.

I also like the simplicity of go get and don't feel this is big deal, but having used other packaging systems suspect that go will start versioning packages eventually as it makes life a lot easier if you are building on code from elsewhere and want to share code. The present setup works fine, with the caveat that if you don't fork all dependencies, other users might see different build results for the same code.
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Thank you for posting this, I thought I was the only one and was going crazy. It is definitely not working for me on Windows 7 64.
This and all those other places offering a Google Oauth option prevents me from logging in to multiple accounts on my main browser (Chrome). Although if you do a Google Oauth, it will let you select which email you want to use. I hardly use anything else apart from my personal Apps account, and hence it makes sense to have only a single login on your main browser.
All nice advices, except they don't work in Fortune 500 corporate environments where the tooling allowed in "your" computer is project dependent.
For once, the Swedish politics is more interesting! Well, at least if you enjoy sick humor.

The Swedish (ex-)communists became feminists and anti-racists (they argue for something called "structural racism" that native Swedes are guilty of to immigrants -- never with references to non-extremist sources).

In short, just the normal marxism, but another group than "workers" to create conflicts around.

This wouldn't be more than a detail, but the left wing extremists has a big, big representation in the journalist profession since the early 70s. You find lots of left wing academics saying weird stuff in the media, without being identified as e.g. extremist ex-mental patients (Hübinette) or anarchists which wrote admiringly about Ghadaffi (Gardell), etc.
Because Paypal is known as a bastion of neutral dispute resolution rolls eyes
When will we be able to send Bitcoin using this feature?

When will we be able to store Bitcoin in Google Wallet?
JetBrains Company Blog gives details on Android Studio:
http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/05/15/intellij-idea-is-t...
Ask HN: How do I get into consulting coming from a finance background?
I am currently an auditor at a Big 4 firm in low-income country. I am not completely satisfied by the amount of income I retain while working for sometimes 60+ hours per week, and I want to pursue my dream and build a business.

I think that starting to do consulting, saving money and invest it into my own (web product) business is the path to go.

My non-finance skills are: web development (beginner to moderate, knowledge of PHP and PHP frameworks, MySQL, Rails) and Excel (naturally). I have no portfolio currently (besides some basic bootstrap- and wordpress-based sites I've created a while ago).

Is there hope for me? How do I get clients while there are clearly a lot of developers having a substantial portfolio and better skills?
The federal IPEDS database collects mandatory reports from just about all colleges and universities in the United States, including many financial details. It's possible to queries on the federal database directly, but I'm grateful to the Education Trust for its user-friendly College Results website,

http://www.collegeresults.org/

which allows looking up a lot of details about colleges, including displaying information about colleges comparable to some college of interest.

http://www.collegeresults.org/search1b.aspx?institutionid=23...

(The link shown above compares the College of William and Mary in Virginia to colleges deemed similar to that college by characteristics chosen by the College Results editors. You can then use the various tabs, e.g., "Finance and Faculty" or "Admissions" to look up details about the colleges, sorting by each column as you wish.)

Colleges range from amply supplied with funds to struggling and in danger of going broke at any moment. It's a good idea to check out a college's finances before actually enrolling.
It's the reason we still have the Google Black Bar when they highly publicized a new navigation last year. It hurt traffic to their other properties.
FINALLY. Got site back up. It's anyone's guess how long it stays there, though.
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