skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad you took the time to write this response. Part of the problem with this thread is that people defending Kiera Wilmot aren't just defending her, they're defending themselves. They did similar (or more extreme) things, and they know their lives would have been ruined by the kind of response demonstrated by school and government officials in her case. They know that society might lose decades of valuable contribution from a healthily curious girl, and think of what their lives would be like if their youthful indiscretions had destroyed their own careers.

People implicitly defending their own identities have a much harder time backing down or seeing the implicit defense of identity in the other side's arguments, so you have two sides escalating to ever more extreme examples until the discussion devolves into shouting and namecalling.

There were some deplorable comments that will no doubt be cited by others as examples of HN's terribleness (though you should note that you're the one who brought up anthrax). But there was also an inspiring rally around someone who looked like she could use some support. Sadly, not everyone who deserves this kind of attention gets it (like the Novato teenagers you mentioned in another comment).

In the end, your life will be perfectly fine without HN, HN will carry on without you, and eventually it'll either get better, or reach the point where everyone interested in rational discussion will leave. But if not HN, where? HN seems to have much less of a hivemind than, say, Groklaw. What other community is as consistently articulate (outside of stories about Apple ;-P), even if they're articulately vile and wrong?
There's a notorious proof of Heron's formula (computing the area of a triangle from the lengths of the three sides without trig) that proceeds by proving three things that seem to have nothing to with one another or with the goal, and then through a flourish of algebra the result falls out. There are much more straightforward ways to prove the theorem that do not abuse the reader, and modern mathematics frowns on such indirectness unless it is totally necessary. Unfortunately it was the style to write gimmicky proofs like that for a while in IIRC the 18th and 19th centuries, and sometimes they persist.
New Google Maps Looks Spectacular
Okay, I agree, Apple and Google rock and Microsoft sucks.

So how is all that related to the article idea's and the OPs point about the FUD on HN about .NET dying? Is .NET dying because Apple makes more money selling iDevices than Microsoft's Dev tools?

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?"
Two negatives don't make a positive here.
Anything of real value doesn't scale. Just look at Google Maps a lot of companies tried to make their own Map apps and failed. Why? Because google invested a ton of money into doing things that computers can't a present and require manual work this can't be replaced by any other map app without doing the same thing.

There's real value in recognizing what computers can't do and investing into doing it anyway and it can make your app irreplaceable.
I see this all the time. But I also see people who can't be bothered to vote (even in referendums), or can't be bothered to use the gym membership they've proudly bought, or are in the habit of eating junk food every day. Should we now give up on everything that has a little friction?

Just as we inside the HN bubble care about IP laws (see every thread about Apple's lawsuits), there are plenty of people who care deeply about food or other issues. And it's not a huge investment to use this app once during weekly groceries and figure out which companies are opposed to $personal_beliefs. After that a "good enough" boycott is pretty much zero effort.
Microsoft has plenty to lose here. Push this too far and they can easily alienate the media partners they need for all sorts of things (like providing content for Windows tablets and Windows Phone).
Clean. I like it. I don't like animation effects for everything, it reminds me the first days on OS X. And regarding quiting Facebook: I did it but I quickly came back again since I have like 30 services associated just with FB account and they don't provide Google+
In and ideal world this would happen. Most likely they won't even bother with the context, just see there was an arrest made and filed it under rejected.
Japanese company can print a 3D hologram of your unborn foetus
>I, for one, in all my working years have never met a Linux company that was interested in switching to .NET, but I met many that wanted it the other way around if they could only justify the upfront investment to convert the proprietary application stack.

Which regions did you work at?
This new design looks really impressive, and neatly with the new iOS app branding - Google's eye for design has definitely improved over the last few years. I love the fact they've gone full screen on the map as that sidebar was often awkward and most of the time ignored in my use of google maps. Love the little popups with more info too. My one complaint on the iOS app they have is that it's harder to access streetview, and I'm always opening the side panel by mistake, so I hope they've focussed on the core features people like as opposed to glitzy but less useful features like 3D support and tilting the maps. When Apple switched maps I realised just how much thought has gone into google maps at a subtle level - town names popping at the correct zoom level, sizing and placement of labels, and choice of colouring, are all areas where Apple could still learn quite a lot from the Google maps styling, and with this new restyle they've moved on again.

Re the invites, I suppose when you get to the scale of Google you simply have to limit uptake or the service will be swamped on the first day and everyone will go away with a terrible impression. Better that they get the kinks out first, and they must have decided that request an invite is the simplest way to limit access to the beta while showing it to people who care about seeing it.

I'm a little hesitant about one aspect of this though because it seems they've decided to include adverts on the actual maps - to my mind a better way to do this would have been for businesses which are already featured by the likes of Zagat to be able to play for a nicer entry, with more images etc. Having paid adverts on there seems a bit cheesy and a bit too close to digital billboards.

Combine this with Google's push to take over our digital lives, and it leaves me with an uneasy feeling - like most of the major corporations (Facebook, Apple, MS, Amazon), they want to control every aspect of your online life that they can. Sometimes I wish software companies would just focus on getting a niche just right, and not try to take over our entire life online, but it seems that's just not the nature of large corporations, and so we have a constant negotiation with them as to just how much of our life we're willing to share.
Try to keep in mind that you're probably a lot more valuable to your employer than they are to you. If you want to work 40 hour weeks, it's as simple as ramping back down to your old 9-6, 5-day schedule.

It's entirely possible that somebody will call you into an office and tell you that you're not a team player. It's possible that they'll explain how it's crunch time and everybody's pulling together and it's unfair to the other people on the team if you don't pull too and how you're letting everybody down.

That's fine.

It's also possible that after telling you these things enough times and writing them down, they'll fire you.

That's fine too.

There are worse things in this world than being a talented developer on the job market in the Bay Area. If your company is silly enough to fire you for working the hours you agreed to work when they hired you, that's a shame. But you'll probably find yourself with a better job a week later.

More likely, though, you'll find that they deal with it. Better still, you might be able to convince a few of your co-workers to also make life a priority. Who knows, six months from now you might have an entire office full of people working sane hours. It's definitely worth a shot.
Ouch, yeah, that's pretty bad. What exactly do you have a doctorate in? Aren't there prospects in industry, rather than academia?
Google Versus Others
I'm going to say something that many won't like, but I feel very strongly about it.

--

Please stop wasting time on pretentious designer bullshit like this. Skinning is great for in-game HUDs, but making a regular repeated-use app look completely alien against native look and feel is one of the worst things one can do.

Some customizations here and there are fine and all successful apps notable for their UI do it to a degree. This is what gives an app its personality and character, but note that it's done through meticulous visual polish and attention to details. On the other hand, if you are running on a device that uses inherently skeuomorphic styling and a specific font, then going all flat, green and Proxima Nova is like walking into a cocktail party in flip-flops and a pirate hat. Sure, it will give some people a chuckle and make everyone notice, but it will also make you look like an eccentric dork. And sure as hell it will make hosts think twice about ever inviting you again.
Like Yelp… which they already do.
Which means that the programmers of tomorrow will essentially be behavioral psychologists.
Do you plan on keep this up-to-date based on new data?
Google Samsung Galaxy S4
I have two small quirks with this, aside from them, I like it.

The row spacing is too much now and the vote icon is now offsetting the title slightly. I feel that this simple idea can be executed without any other alterations to the interface.

Also, it only works for the front page and I'm a person that likes to check out the first 2 pages and the discrepancy is getting annoying.
Google  Has Been Revamped
This is just an extract from the Telefonica startup ecosystem report that can be found here: http://blog.digital.telefonica.com/?press-release=country-hi...

It's an interesting report, though unless there's actionable information in this for you (there is for me, actually), it's probably infoporn rather than anything worth reading...
Assuming you find a boyfriend, will you have time for him?

If you say, I will make time.. then it is even more important to make time for yourself first (In my opinion)

Online dating is very popular in SF, however it is not the only way to find a partner. I never felt comfortable with it, and it took me time but eventually found a person I like.

Finding a good partner is a hard, especially when you are in school anymore. It will take time.
I will say in predominantly minority schools in Florida it has always been like this. If you were a certain race, class, or acamdemic level you were treated differently. A friend of mine (white and ESL, or gifted) threw some acid in my face one time by accident and we had a class discussion on lab safety. Another friend (poor, black, and academically behind) was suspended from school for using the face washer. No class discussion on lab safety in that case.
Jewish Startup Accelerator Program
Further to this, the Economist stopped publishing Argentina's consumer price index numbers in from INDEC in Feb 2012 numbers due to government involvement::

http://www.economist.com/node/21548242
Sexism, bad. But let's keep our heads on straight here.

Just because someone treats you like shit, and you're a woman, doesn't mean it's sexism.

1. Maybe they treat her like shit because she's new, and the feminine stuff is just one reason to rag on her. If she was a tall guy, they'd probably make fun of that too.

2. Maybe they treat her like shit because, for some reason, despite all this, she hasn't actually asked them to stop -- just complained about it on the Internet

A lot of people will get angry at me for this, because sexism is a very real problem.

But not everything is fucking sexism.
The Nix Project
A Link Bait Idea I Give To You For Free
Agreed, I also think its just overzealous fans acting on their own. By the way, Microsoft's response is stuck on the 2nd page despite getting a ton of upvotes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715889
It doesn't look like the videos are up yet.
Aha! Finally had an email, over 10 hours after he first sent the message. It took an hour after I created a new Hangout with him for the message to even get to him.
Some parts of app engine are very much designed to be really scalable and geographically redundant. Take sharded counters, for example [1], if you want to count something that happens more than 5 times a second.

If you want a proof of concept and you're not concerned about getting the scalability, why not run on a single server?

[1] https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/sharding_co...
I've recently given up Facebook due to realising it was almost a complete waste of my time, and I have the same feeling towards Google+.

With Facebook it was becoming that I'd log on each day and see a bunch of irrelevant content from people I hadn't spoken to for years (and in some cases, met only once or twice). Occasionally I'd end up having a meaningful conversation but the signal-to-noise ratio was just ridiculously high. And then there was the advertising and lack of concern for privacy etc. I could go on.

It may be just me, but sitting down together for lunch or (if the person lives elsewhere) chatting on phone or Skype seem much more pleasant and fruitful modes of social interaction. And of course HN for reading interesting discussions about topics of interest :)
There's plenty of discussion despite Google sabotaging it with every other update. :-/
I didn't sign any data protection & privacy law agreement.

That is not how laws work. You consent is not required.

(Fun fact: There is some people who think that consent is required (and can be withdrawn) for laws to apply to them. It's called "freemen-on-the-land". It's like homeopathy but for laws. It's quite funny)
I think all of these areas are making great progress.

> An escape from configuration hell

debconf. chef, puppet. git. augeas. gsettings. In the Windows world, the registry.

There's tons of work being done in this area. You may say that more can be done, or that it isn't good enough, but I think you're wrong to claim that nobody is working on it.

> Understanding interactions in a large, production system

How about the Google Prediction API? Send the data in, and look for changes when you have a problem that you're trying to fix, such as in your example.

> Pushing the envelope on new computing platforms

This is incredibly vague. I find it difficult to understand your definition of "new computing platforms". Based on my interpretation of what you mean, I think a modern smartphone might qualify: a new form factor, more ubiquitous than before, novel UX (capacitive touchscreen), and an array of interesting sensors (accelerometers, compasses, GPS).

I think your post highlights the lamentation of AI researchers: we don't have a good, static measure of success. Once we've achieved something, our definition changes to exclude it.
Hilarious, change names and this could be a story from soviet union 50 years ago.
Canonical seems to distance itself from anything that looks like GPL and similar licences, it would not surprise me if in a few years they want to change Ubuntu into a propritary OS.
Thank you for your feedback. We are very happy of it.
About your questions:
Options to add new templates and snippets is on the way.
Adding more complicated logic (axure-like) at the moment is beyond our purpose.

In any case we are very open to any new idea.
If you are interested, you can follow developments at https://trello.com/board/pingendo-development-board/506057b0...

Thank you!
Finding a motive from Google is difficult. Windows Phone only has 2-point-something-per-cent global market share [1], so I doubt Google sees Windows Phone as a threat to Android. That leaves "war with Microsoft", as you put it.

They must've known that this will get press attention, and companies like this weigh the impact of such attention very carefully before making a move. I'd love to understand the real motive behind this.

[1] I'm unsure of the numbers!
After 10 more fan-created gigs, Detour is opening up
>Buttons are still buttons, text entry boxes behave as before, radio buttons still let you choose one option, sliders slide, etc etc.

They might be, if I can figure out which flat rectangle out of the dozens presented to me is a button or a dropdown or whatever. Say what you will about minimalism and removing unnecessary ornaments, but it is NOT cool to remove visual cues for interaction.

At least the buttons here have shadows underneath that give some sense of depth. But at this rate, we'll be throwing decades worth of UX design out with the bathwater if designers blindly follow <graphic-design-trend-of-the-year>.
Thank you for filling these bugs! We already fixed them in our development version that will be release in the next few days.
What a move... now if this only worked on movie companies.

Host a bunch of infringing works, and when the takedown notice come, say that you are "more than happy" to pay license fee. The only thing one need is to get the same access and license deal that netflix got. Anything else would be unfair.
Could you expand on your advice about the Google Prediction API? It seems like you're saying it can be used as a fault detector.
Sunk costs are sunk, yes, but at the moment they provide cheaper energy than during most of their previous lifetime. Or put another way, the earlier you shut down a plant, the more you pay per kilowatt-hour generated.
I think a better question is why are you so resistant to making a sacrifice to Zeus, god of lightning, on the off chance it __might__ be helpful? There's a lot more evidence for Zeus than there is for iPods bringing down airplanes. (Lightning bolts are real, but there has never been a documented incident of the latter thing.)
Cicadas? Its whats for dinner.
I am a C# guy who recently picked up Python, and haven't looked back :). Nice thing about Python is that it plays well with Windows.
"But you are posting this link here, on a picture-free text-only website, because that's where we go for discussion. (Or to Reddit or Metafilter.)"

In a public forum setting - for semi-private discussions among like-minded peers I prefer G+, certain Facebook groups, and most of all the (probably idolated) memory of Google Reader's social features.
Google plus is the Nokia Lumia of social networks. Solid, great looking and not better enough than the incumbent to gain a significant market share.
Why does being Jewish make such a program necessary? I don't see how the two (being Jewish and having a startup) are connected. Seems a tad discriminatory... next we'll have a new buzzword: Jewpreneurs.
Not really, no. Most people post a couple of times and get few reactions beyond one-liners, if that. Over time, fewer and fewer people who aren't Google employees (1) bother posting anymore. Picture posts get by far the most +1s and shares. Completely incomparable to the text-based discussion networks.

(1) As well as anyone promoting a business, I should add. I've seen a couple of writers and lots of professional photographers using G+ for self-promotion. That seems to work quite well for them, especially the photographers given how image-heavy G+ is.
"Be the first or be better."

Still, Google has pioneered a lot of concepts, some failed, some we take for granted now, while others are invisible to most people as they are too technical.

For instance: search was not new but better because PageRank was new.
Obsidian Color scheme for Idea12 and Android Studio EAP
Best 2013 Summer Movies, Top Summer Movies for Kids 2013
2013 summer movies roundup, incl. the upcoming summer movies for kids, review of best 2013 kids’ summer movies (e.g.: superhero, sci-fi, animated films), as well as the list of 2013 highest grossing movies so far.
Back when I was at university I met lots of people working towards CS or engineering degrees either solely or primarily because that's where the jobs where. They had no real passion or interest in the field beyond that. Some of them had even made a conscious choice to not study what they where really passionate about because the they knew the job market was bad in those fields.

Also most people I know who majored in so called un-marketable fields did so knowing full well what the job market looked like and did take that into account. They just came to the conclusion that studying what they wanted to study, rather than what was economically expedient, was more important to them. A few of them have even, through hard work and dedication, beaten the odds and managed to end up in a well paid dream job in their chosen field.
Internet giants, you’re no longer startups, get some customer service
Firstly, the social norms in my circles are not to hug/kiss.

Secondly, isn’t one of the main points of the feminist movement to abolish ‘rape culture’ where it is the social norm to pressure people into intercourse against their will? So even if hugging/kissing was a social norm, that hardly says anything about its acceptability.

Thirdly, I don’t see much of a qualitative (rather than quantitative, in some sense) difference between hugging/kissing and sex – both are forms of intimate physical contact with a strong emotional component, as opposed to handshakes, which usually lack these emotions and require much less contact.

Fourthly, I don’t really mind being perceived as anti-social by those stubborn enough to force their superfluous, unhelpful and intruding habits onto others. Interesting people usually don’t do that.
Both phones are out of stock in the online shop.
mitmproxy = Malcolm in the Middle Proxy?
Nokia's maps, judging from what here.com shows, seem to be essentially useless outside the U.S./Europe.

Japan/Korea/etc are essentially not covered at all ... they don't even seem to have any roads except for the most major highways—Tokyo on here.com literally has like five roads!—and what very little data they do have is often wrong.

Even Apple does vastly better... oO;
PostgreSQL 9.3 beta: Federated databases and more
I think the intention is not to have a regular startup, but a startup that has a special connection to jewish values..
Expert systems for monitoring and management
of large server farms and networks? Been there.
Done that. Got the T-shirt. Wrote papers.
Gave one at an AAAI IAAI conference at Stanford.
Shipped two commercial products.

First problem: Need some 'experts'. So, only
know about problems the experts do. Their
knowledge is supposed to be mostly just empirical,
from their 'expert experience'. Even if they
have 'deep knowledge', that is, how the systems
work internally (e.g., the engine connects to the
torque converter connects to the transmission
connects to the rear differential connects to
the rear wheels), the specific problems they
know about are usually just the ones they have
encountered. So, essentially can only address
problems seen before and are well understood.

But for the problems of the OP, they were seen
for the first time. Bummer. Actually, with
irony, if the problems have been seen before and
are well understood, then why the heck have they
not already been solved?

Second, with expert systems, we're working just
intuitively from just experience. So,
we have little idea if what we are doing is the
best possible in any reasonable sense or even
at all good. In particular, in monitoring, the
main, first operational problem on the 'bridge'
or in the 'NOC' (network operations center)
is the false alarm rate too high with no good
way to lower it (except just to ignore some
alarms, but we should be able to do much better).

Net, for a serious attack on system monitoring
and management, I can't recommend taking
expert systems very seriously.