skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is this bizarro world of minor colleges, the kind that accepts anyone and hands out worthless Bachelors and Masters degrees. They all survive because these days even for the tea lady a high school certificate isn't sufficient, she has to have a college degree.

They cannot lay the bar too high, or else they would scare off their clientele, and they have to do "research", and they have to "publish", because this is what a university does, doesn't it? That is the target audience of these journals.
Would you not just end up with utilitarianism?
> Well, no, but 99.99% is good enough for me.

But perhaps not for the other passengers, which is the issue here.
I'm not convinced that's a good thing in all cases -- a centralized list of search results can be useful. For example if I search google maps for "seattle register car" I get a couple results for actual auto registration places, along with airport parking, car dealerships, etc... being able to quickly filter out the junk results without mousing all over a map seems nice.

Honestly now that I think about it I have no idea what my "usual" google maps usage is so it'll be interesting to see how much that matters!
I think they will switch to this but Eclipse will always be option.
"then religious institutions are diametrically opposed due to their "turtles all the way down" reliance on irrationality"

That's a pretty broad statement.

"no matter how deep you go eventually you have to make a leap of faith off of the rationality train."

The same is true of mathematics. Eventually you need to make certain assumptions that cannot be proved, or else you would have circular logic (among other issues).

The real mark of irrationality is an unwillingness to resolve or even acknowledge inconsistencies. Some religions have this feature, usually dressed up in a "this tests your faith" argument. Other religions demand that inconsistencies be resolved by religious authorities or by practitioners willing to devote time and effort.

In the past century, a large number of religious leaders from various religious have adjusted their doctrines and teachings in the face of scientific results. Not every religion is based on denying reality or condemning people who question core beliefs. I know an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who acknowledges that it is possible to be an observant, orthodox Jew who does not believe in God.
Most GPU drivers on Linux are largely userspace based. The kernel bit has a verifier for the command buffer generated by userland to ensure it's not making the GPU read out of memory that that process shouldn't.

On embedded there's less verification going on, but the drivers are still almost all in userland.
I've done plenty of unit tests and I've read up on QuickCheck.

QuickCheck is NO SUBSTITUTE for real unit testing. All it does is automatically let you randomize inputs since it can know the input type. Unit tests shouldn't even have randomized inputs, they should be deterministic.
That's just the first step, testing to a smaller set of users. If it works well, they will expand it to the rest of the world for sure.
"It borrows money frequently to cover its operating costs like salaries of the professors, maintenance, maintaining the dormitories, making sure the library is stocked, and keeping the sports program in tip top shape."

When you borrow for operating costs, don't complain about bad credit... Borrow money for project that will hopefully drive more money home later. Pay operating costs with you income (hum, or your capital if you're starting, but this is a ticking bomb).
Hi everyone. I've been working on this at Google for a while and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. If you don't want to ask here, feel free to email me at <my username> AT google.com. There might be a delay in responding if I get a lot of messages or if you have a particularly challenging question.
s/Send/Lose
Article says they are replacing Google Talk IM, and later, Google Voice with Hangouts.

This is a really bad move, yet again forcing Google+ down everyone's throats, when they've clearly said that they don't want to participate in it.
Some good arguments, but isn't .NET still the best platform for making truly native looking Windows desktop apps with a simple, high level language? Qt and wxWidgets are decent, but it's a lot trickier to get a native look and feel with those. There's a reason so many apps maintain separate versions for Windows and Mac rather than try to get by with a cross platform GUI toolkit.
This is based off the Free Community Edition from InteliJ so I think it will remain free like Eclipse.
Locks, Actors and STM in Pictures
The GNU Privacy Guard suite was ported using Mozilla's emscripten [1] and requires a recent browser with window.crypto.getRandomValues() support (e.g. Chrome or the Firefox released yesterday).

For more Unix tools ported to Javascript have a look a the unix-toolbox.js project [2]

[1] http://emscripten.org/
[2] http://manuels.github.io/unix-toolbox.js/
> "The developer should have done X!", well, then why doesn't Go just do it by default

It _does_ do it by default; the problem in this case appears to be (although I could be wrong) that the developer went out of his way to do the wrong thing. As I've noted elsethread, I could be wrong; possibly he was misled by something else.

But the default way Go handles dependencies is exactly the way one would expect: you code against one version of a dependency, and have to manually pull in a new one.
I was a grad student in CS there from 2003 - 2006. During faculty interviews, there was always a meet-and-greet with the grad students. During one of those, we realized that the candidate didn't know W&M is a public school. Most people outside of Virginia don't realize that, either.

If you graduated this year, then you're way too young to have been in any of the classes I TAed. That's startling for me to realize.
Would TSA allow the passengers to carry cell phones on the plane if there were any perceived risk?

Passenger electronics are so obviously safe that screening for them would break suspension of disbelief even in the airport security theater.
I give my contact email to a resume site marketed to recruiters and it will reduce spam?

That ain't the way I'm placing my bet.
Larry Page seemed very upset [1] that Microsoft is basically leeching off their Gtalk contacts into Outlook, without returning the favor (with Skype I assume), and he said he'd prefer if things weren't like this and everyone was more open.

He didn't continue that idea, but I think he would've continued it with "...but since nobody wants to do that, then we won't do it anymore either". So they are probably responding in the same way they responded to the leeching of Gmail contacts by Facebook a few years ago, by blocking that API, or in this case replacing the XMPP protocol with a proprietary one. It's too bad it had to come to this, though.

[1] - http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4334242/larry-page-to-tech...
I'm trying to find out info on how long that will be true.

Having trouble finding a crediable source, but various news outlets are saying Nikhyl Singhal says xmpp is going away. That will screw over Trillian as well as several other clients.

Edit: Removing info that isn't accurate.
Well, it's called a "handshake" for a reason. As opposed to "handmassage" or "handtouch." The terminology itself sets the expectation that you need to hold the other person's hand firmly, and shake it.
The labor shortages are on both sides. However, the visa system in the US is horribly broken (http://www.overseas-exile.com/2013/04/whos-hiring-h1b-visa-w...). Further, with the introduction of the European Blue Card (http://www.overseas-exile.com/2011/02/european-blue-card.htm...), entry to Europe is getting easier and easier for skilled workers. Both sides have a labor shortage, but the US has traditionally had an advantage with one language and immigration law for 50 states. Now this is changing since Europe is starting to address the issue.
Google Checkout was before Wallet, to which I was referring in my comment. They later rebranded to Wallet and indeed rebranded, as I've been able to use my account as it was during Checkout. I don't even own an Android phone, but I use Google's payment option to pay virtual goods from time to time. So, I don't see big difference.
How can Google Wallet be truly successful if it is only allowed to exist on a (relatively) small subset of mobile devices?
La internaron con casi la mitad de su cuerpo quemado y detuvieron a su marido
I've known plenty of people who have opened bank accounts in the US without an SSN. I don't think it's strictly required.
For something interactive, checkout http://sqlzoo.net/
If you want to shoot your own foot sure!
So when will you be integrating with the Bitcoin network?

/obligatory
But I think this version is not the same as Android Studio community edition.
BlackBerry Messenger: On iOS, Android and social networking
I also see them as equal, but I'd say I'd prefer the one that implies no official endorsement of a closed system by an open standards committee. That Flash also happens to be the one with more adoption is a bonus point.
There are plenty of ways to convert US dollars into Bitcoin, without exchanges.

For one, an often overlooked and dead simple way: you can sell goods/services and tell your customers you accept Bitcoin.

You can buy bitcoins for cash from sellers you meet face to face: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Directories

You can mine.

Etc.
> In case there was any ambiguity about whether Google knew the 'real you' from their logging of IPs and search terms, this should remove all of it.

How? I mean, obviously, if you use this service (either as a sender or receiver) Google will know more about your real identity as part of conducting the transaction, but how does this say anything about what Google knows "from their logging of IPs and search terms"?
HSBC wasn't really prosecuted nor were the hundreds of billions of cash that they laundered seized, I think its very selective enforcement in many cases.
Money Transfer is a legal and regulatory minefield.

Telecommunication services is also a legal and regulatory minefield - one that requires less capital up-front, but just as much (if not more) bureaucratic headaches.

I'm sure they're working on it, and it's either in-progress or not worth it.

(e.g.: in the US, if you are a phone line provider, you get money for incoming calls from other providers when they call you - to the point that something like GoogleVoice could turn a profit just from those fees (unlikely, but possible - many conference call services were run like that).

In most of the world, these termination fees are not enough to provide meaningful income that makes a GoogleVoice profitable (or at the very least, not very expensive) to run.
I laughed the first time I heard the sky gondolas idea. I doubt it will ever take off. Yes, having a car is just about required in Austin, I tried the bus and it wasn't so great.

I would love to see them add more rail lines though.
I can't seem to find the registration form, how does one get started?
Which is also why "bitcoin not affected" will continue.
Certainly biased - but I've read dozens of thought-provoking articles from them.
Have you found any free vector maps that include political boundaries (countries, states, provinces, counties, cities)?
Will this ever allow for international transfers? If so, is there an ETA?
1. "Even if W3C decided to drop EME, there are enough important companies working on the spec--including Netflix, Google, and Microsoft--that a common platform will be built. The only difference is whether it happens under the W3C umbrella..."

This is probably true, but that doesn't make EME a good thing. Okay, so some powerful media companies are colluding to develop a shitty content delivery platform. How does that at all entail the idea that HTML should throw support behind it? Just because it's going to happen doesn't mean you have to officially endorse it.

2. "Deprived of the ability to use browser plugins, protected content distributors are not, in general, switching to unprotected media. Instead, they're switching away from the Web entirely."

I really don't see this as a problem. The web simply doesn't need these DRM-enamored content distributors. It will do fine without them. In fact, if the web loses them, the web wins.

3. "Opposition to EME will produce" a situation where software and services are "locked away in a series of proprietary, platform-specific apps".

This is just a stupid thing to say. DRM requires a series of proprietary, platform-specific apps, regardless of how they're implemented. The proposed CDMs (content decryption modules) that EME requires are also proprietary and platform-specific. They are quite simply no better than traditional HTML plug-ins like Flash or newer delivery platforms like native mobile apps. "A rose by any other name". Except that DRM doesn't smell sweet at all.

4. "A case could be made that EME will make it easier for content distributors to experiment with--and perhaps eventually switch to--DRM-free distribution."

While it's technically true that EME might make it slightly easier for such experimentation, that's really besides the point. Ease of implementation is absolutely not what's stopping these content distributors from such experiments. Business politics is what's stopping them. If a business decides that it wants to try a DRM-free model, it will try it. The implementation details hardly affect the decision.
It's a conversation within a conversation. /s
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).

It's the same disconnect that we know from Microsoft, that couldn't see itself as the monopolist they were, because their self-image was still that of the little startup that took on the mighty IBM.

Of course it could all just be marketing, like every word out of Google these days is just marketing without substance.

Either way, Google doesn't listen to user feedback and is perfectly capable of rolling out a new product on a global scale. "Request an invite" is BS.
Physicist Gerard 't Hooft has a whole page about the apostrophe-t in his name

http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/ap.html

and provides a lengthy list of manglings and mishandlings.
DigitalOcean enables Amsterdam 512MB and 1GB Droplets
Have you given it a shot recently? I work with WebGL on a daily basis, and they are incomparably better now than they were not even 2 years ago.

(And, to be perfectly nitpicky, in Windows you'd be blaming Direct3D drivers ;) ANGLE compiles WebGL to Direct3D.)
I don't know, I think PG's quote about TechStars here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lcp0uZsY7k @ 9:00

probably tells you everything you need to know.
Essential life lessons from a ten year old scientist
I consider people who got airport named after them great leaders. JK.
I was about to post the very same. W7 x64, try to launch the program, execution seems to create a crss.exe -> conhost.exe that hangs indefinitely.
Perhaps rude and offensive. Delusional never:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/games-primates-play/2012...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/07/19/the-beauty-...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/07495978859...
I'm Zafir, I work on the Cloud Platform team. Compute Engine will be available tonight, so please check back in a few hours.
IntelliJ also just released IDEA 13 preview with all of the features. http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/IDEA+13+EAP
PHP is only popular because many hosting providers support it.

Many hosting providers only support it because it's popular.

At no point in this equation does the relative merits of the language itself factor in.
Gtalk will still be available though.

"... which users may choose to use instead of Google Talk."
I think there is a flag where you can turn it on. In the flight simulator you can crash into buildings. Also, try the grand canyon with the monster milktruck, set aside 5 hours for this.
The funny (sad?) thing is that the rest of the world is terrified of the US government abducting them or extraditing them with political pressure for trumped up charges of terrorism or copyright infringement. Those people plea for help from the international courts you seem to hate.

Examples: Julian Assange, Richard O'Dwyer, everyone in Guantanamo Bay.

Edit: forgot Marc Emery, on drug charges.
Indeed. And one of these days, I will finally move with it.
Google is "open" unless everyone else isn't, in which case, forget about it?
> But a new clone of the project since dependencies have moved yields a new product where the libraries have "moved" since a previous clone.

No, because a project's tree contains the source code of all dependencies. Why do folks keep on saying this?

Here's how it works: you create a directory foo-proj, then export GOPATH=/path/to/foo-proj:$GOPATH (or whatever you like); then you run 'go get github.com/baz/bar example.org/quux'. Go downloads the current version of the bar and quux libraries, and then creates foo-proj/src/github.com/baz/bar and foo-proj/src/example.org/quux, putting the right files in the right place; it then builds each package, putting the object files in foo-proj/pkg.

As the developer, you configure your VCS to ignore foo-proj/pkg, then you commit foo-proj. You might put your own code in foo-proj/src/fooproj, or foo-proj/src/example.com/foo or whatever.

When another developer clones your project, he gets foo-proj, which includes foo-proj/src, which contains foo-proj/github.com/bar/baz and foo-proj/example.org/quux and everything else.

I suspect what happened in this case is that the developer was building his code as another library, rather than as a project, and pulling it into his GOROOT, letting Go grab his dependencies but not putting them into version control.

It's also possible that he was doing the right thing, but didn't realise that git wasn't tracking submodules without his involvement.
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I'd love to hear your thoughts on the idea I posted at my blog - http://goo.gl/6SZKT

It's basically an engine that lets users create purchase queries for example (in less than 60 secs) and delivers the product within few days.
How about the trillions they stole from ordinary citizens?
Other than number 3, this seems to match hangouts, assuming it works as they say (in a way iMessage doesn't seem to for you). The killer missing feature for me is SMS though, a vast majority of people cannot use Hangouts for the vast majority of their conversations because of the Google+ requirement.
That depends, if you are in an environment the person on the receiving end doesn't take offence and will happily give insults back then it doesn't really matter.

The difficulty is when you put people not used to that environment into it, the real issue is a conflict in expectations rather than the exact language used.
> Please, no. Not everyone wants to hug you, not everyone wants to kiss you, not everyone wants to have sex with you. Default to no physical contact unless it is very clear that both parties are happy with that contact. Acting with confidence is simply pressuring the other party into agreeing.

You're okay with handshakes? That's physical contact.

It's not about what you or some other introvert wants to do. It's a question of social norms. You either conform, or you'll be considered to be antisocial.

You should really try to understand the difference between a hug/cheek-kiss and sex. Where in this thread has anyone suggested that sex between strangers meeting for the first time, business associates, coworkers or even friends is a social norm?
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
I know there's google people floating around HN, does anyone know what the priorities are like as far as adding more services is concerned? I've been planning on launching on AWS, but I'd prefer google. But there's still tons of services google doesn't offer (or I can't find reference to at least). It is basically just alternatives to EC2, S3 and the database thing right now right? Are there plans for replacements for SQS, SNS, SES, route53, cloudwatch, etc?
When was this launched? I have never heard of it, and it looks pretty solid.
GCE does not impose any vendor lock-in. It's just VMs on demand, so it would be easy to migrate to Amazon EC2, Rackspace, etc at any point.
Let's suppose I tell you to pay the bartender for a beer and that I'll settle it with you afterwards; and you're taking my word for it - am I not still "losing" the beer money? Have I created the beer money out of thin air?

Is there any difference if I later settle this by giving you cash, write a check, pay with paypal or give you a gold piece? The debt is real, if I gave a binding certificate "I'll owe $100 to you" then I just lost $100.

Bank A isn't simply "telling Bank B to adjust their books", Bank A is telling "please adjust your books to give $X to Y, and for that I'll pay you that amount via method Z", where Z typically is either a clearing house (someone who aggregates the payments and settles the net differences of all the bazillion payments) or a mutual correspondent account. Until they settle, they have a valid, legally binding debt to Bank B.

Trucks full of cash may be involved in settlement, but usually are not since they are very inconvenient and expensive - but if Bank A holds their reserves at a central bank and thus has the right to request it to ship 123 truckloads of cash; then it may transfer part of these reserves to Bank B, so that Bank B will get one of them and Bank A will only be able to request 122 truckloads of cash. Of course, the truckloads of cash are used only as much as needed (say, to fill up ATM's) - but they are real, you can close up your bank, settle all debts, and take all remaining assets out in cash.
I'd definitely have to agree with the caveats having used App Script a fair bit w/ various Google Spreadsheets.

The documentation is thin and you'll find lots of long-standing issues only through digging through various support/group threads, the debugging is obtuse and unsuitable for triggered actions - there's no logging.

The killer though is that the performance/rate limiting is crap - as your document gets bigger, your functions will fail and time-out semi-randomly, even if you're not making a significant # of API calls. Presumably this is because of the way that GDocs are XML streams internally - but even doing single getsheets in calls (no cell iterating) seems to cause problems.

I couldn't find good caching/global storage mechanisms in the past - but hadn't seen ScriptDB before, so maybe that can help (storing in scratch sheets doesn't help since you need to use the API calls to get that stuff)

Anyway just some of my experiences for those who are interested in working w/ App Script for Google Spreadsheets. It's been years since I touched any Excel Macros, but they worked a lot better than my experience w/ App Script.
Beware of people who make "Wow" conclusions on very little data.
Or even share on Google+

… on second thought, I'm sure even Google knows they'd be preaching to the choir there.
You'll find out when you get an e-mail to one of the accounts.
Eww. I'll pass, thanks.
Let's say I use this to pay for something I've purchased online, and I later realize the seller is a scammer and want to issue a chargeback. Will that be possible? What are your plans for this situation?

If something goes wrong with my account, can my account be locked and my balance frozen? Will it be possible to contact a real human who knows what they're doing to get that fixed?