skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the informal style of a small company didn't scale.

I've heard various #s between 50 and 160 batted around as optimal sizes of organizations, after which you need more structure. The challenge is that interpersonal relationships grow n^2 with organization size. This is in part why the Mythical Man Month tells us to not add bodies.

A high level summary of some the research is here -> http://jstrande.typepad.com/blog/2004/07/optimum_organiz.htm...

Intuitively this makes a lot of sense. At some point you have to say, "You do your part, and I'll own mine, here's the deal we're setting up to get each of our parts done, but we each have some autonomy in how to do it."
How long until you don't get proper search results unless you log in to Google+.
State of PubSubHubbub (subscriber's edition)
Rising Costs: Is Uber’s Market-Demand Pricing Ethical?
My friends and I use Glympse. (Android and iOS)

edit: I've just noticed that Glympse has been recommended a few times in this thread already. I predict downloads for Glympse will sky-rocket over the coming days / weeks.
Stop It With Your Stupid Questions
We clearly need a new relationship between the people and their governments when this is illegal. How does this raid help a single person and where is the harm to anyone?

Can we not have this baked into the law that the basis for any police action should be:

1) harm prevention

2) helping individuals who are being harmed.

The law is so complex and pointless at this point that we often forget why it's even there.
Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. How Did We Get Here?
A year is much too long. I wanted to learn to swing dance, coming from a starting point of absolute incompetence. I took lessons once a week for about 20 weeks, and practiced 3 nights a week. Halfway through I was very comfortable, and could have continued without the lessons. By the end I was very good. It's not that hard. And if I knew it was that easy...
The Quiet Coup: No, Not Egypt. Here.
the feature still exists( it's been rolled into plus now.
To be honest, that's one of the worst implementations I've seen of that effect. Personally, I'm a fan of it when it's well done. Here's one example:

https://www.airbnb.com/annual/
I meant mapM_ in an IO action actually executed. On the other hand, getting a list of IO actions, even in the IO monad, doesn't amount to much.
Maybe, but what they were doing is harmless in every sense of the word, and law is about repairing harm.
From whom? To me, Secunia seems to be acting much more mature and in good faith here.
There's this study of the carousel on Notre Dame's home page

http://weedygarden.net/2013/01/carousel-stats/

Seems head honchos of marketing depts love these things because it satisfies inner politics of putting important stuff on the home page.
Stealth ageism. There's a local printing company near where I live famous for being the only large employer in the area demanding high school transcripts LOL. Legal or not, its a signal of old people need not apply.

I'm old enough, and grade inflation has been going on long enough, that my "pretty good" HS GPA at the time makes me look like I merely showed up for attendance compared to the recent grads. Now if they wanted a percentile instead of a GPA, then I'd have an excellent chance. But they very intentionally want a younger workforce by whatever borderline legal method necessary, so they ask for GPA...
The subtitles are transcription of art made by other people. As a contrast, you shouldn't borrow books from a library and read them aloud and record it and start distributing your "self made" audio books on your website.
Same thing with lifting, I dropped over 100 lb and got crazy strong in just under a year. 315lb squat, 450 deadlift, 225 bench and I shed all the fat.

Anything you dedicate around a year on, you'll get good at.
why should secunia feel so insulted ?

why shouldn't secunia work with him about the exploit ?
Inactivity is riskier than age
I won't see the movie for the same reason I won't see a Tom Cruise (scientology cultist) movie anymore, I don't want to contribute anything to their voice. I know I won't silence them, that's not my point or even my wish. There are so many things to do in a day, I don't feel like I need to contribute to anyone's ability to spout or deceive, even in a miniscule way.
Correction: bore tunnels through earthquake territory.

I took one look at this ET3 picture and I thought "C'mon, Musk is smarter than this."
I'll be the one to come out and say I don't mind carousels, as long as it's not overdone (don't give me 50 different animations on the same page, thanks).
don't get why you get downvoted, I agree with your overall sentiment. i couldn't care less about another social network, all I want to use is individual services. really don't want to be tracked across.

already feel creeped out when i need to login to youtube to watch a stupid video behind an age block. now you want to link this info to everything else I am doing on the web? no thanks, no need to present me suggestions based on stupid stuff.
You've not answered why his views mean that I cannot enjoy his work. If I'm served a sandwich by a racist, does this mean that I shouldn't eat it? I just don't see why I should care what every person who creates a product or body of work should think.
You might try Glympse. I think it supports the use case you're meeting right now with Latitude, but I don't have direct experience in pulling the info, though my friends sure love sending me there information.

One of the neat things is it also sends velocity, and an ETA. So when I get a Glympse message from somebody, it usually says something like "Derrick is headed NE on Rte. 3 at 55 MPH", or something to that effect.

http://glympse.com/what_is_glympse
Here's what I don't follow... Did he lose a spaceship worth $9000, or did he actually pay $9000 for it?
I think for some years, companies didn't realize how high the cost of running on EC2/S3 actually is compared to, say, a dedicated rack colocated somewhere...

But this ignores the cost of paying someone to setup/maintain that rack, cost to fix the server when something goes wrong, etc.

Setup/maintenance of physical infrastructure has a cost too.
In the corporate world, a demo isn't a demo until someone does something with a grid. For landing pages, is a demo not a demo until someone steps through a carousel?
You are naive if you think that national security is the reason for all this surveillance. It's a pretext, a convenient excuse for the masses. The real reason is establishing a global surveillance network, monitoring digital communications both in the US and abroad and establishing/continuing international supremacy.

Since you can't explain it in those exact terms to the masses without causing an outrage, you have to tell them it's for their own safety and to protect them from brown skinned tunic-wearing AK47-waving freedom-hating lunatics.
Not for long at the rate Google services are dropping: https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3001634?p=maps_android...
According to the FAQ, the location history will not be retired, which is really the only functionality of latitude that I use/have seen others use.
Because they have realised that it will be worthless if it can't get any marketshare.
Acquisition Marketplace Exitround Announces First Exit W/ 200 Buyers Signed Up
At least in the web world (which is the only one I have a whole lot of experience working in), there seems to be an interesting progression that developers go through if/when they leave the corporate world and try things on their own. Recognizing that fixed price development is very often a nasty trap is where many developers and organizations start to actually wonder about how their business model could change.

1. Fixed bid projects. Attempting to offer custom development as a package deal seems like a great way to undercut the competition; in reality it's anything but, and (among other things, including those mentioned in the article) reduces the perceived value of your work, which hurts in the long run.

2. Hourly consulting. Better, and works well for quite a while, allowing you more flexibility in your engagements and with your rate. This might even be a good long-term strategy for individuals; however, it requires very good planning and workload management, which are more difficult than many people think. It also does limit your earning potential, but this is much more of a factor if you expand into a consultancy, in which case your expenses will drop your margin.

3. Product/subscription service development. Often the subject of HN discussion (and rightly so), the prospect of recurring revenue is obviously a powerful one. However, even more than when selling development services, this requires a solid understanding of your target audience(s) and the ability to market to them effectively, in addition to understanding end-user customer support.

Where do we go from there? I personally have no clue; I've been slowly climbing this ladder myself.
It never occurred to me to even try using Maps offline.
Google 'down,' let's do an experiment
A lot of people are unable to get to Google services right now. Including me. I'm curious to see if there's some commonality.

What is your

ISP:

Location:

Try to stick to this format so people who like to do data processing can easily make use of this thread.
Http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/07/orson-scott-card-boycott/
I always wanted this to actually function correctly. It worked great on my Android phone but syncing locations with my wife on her iPhone was problematic at best. It never worked. G+ between the two is also "iffy".

One side of me admires Google for all that they do for "free" but I sometimes wish they would put the phone users in the customer role and maybe these products would evolve.

Am I the only one that would like to see a shared platform with documents, messaging, and location?

I would GLADLY pay a monthly fee to sync up our family between Android,iPhone, and web. Things like, grocery lists, to-do lists, events, photos, reference documents, and the ability to see where we are so we can plan the day w/out having to ask "Where are you?" or me sending a text every day, "OMW home". They're all there now, with things like Google Docs, Evernote, Dropbox, etc, but with kids and a non-tech minded wife, the pieces don't fall into place easy.
Google.com is down
I can't seem to reach it at all
I hope this will give rise to some replacement services; Latitude was actually pretty useful. I'm still wondering why they didn't implement "asking" for locations via push? That would save a lot of battery compared to updating in intervals and would be a lot more accurate.
Percona's MySQL Online Configuration Wizard
Your symbol comes out as a Unicode replacement character for me. What was it supposed to be?
Why is Jeri still whining that her job at Valve didn't work out? As best I can tell she was treated fairly but she was just not a good fit in this rather unique company. Maybe this was news in February when she was fired but now it is either a childish grudge or a cynical PR move or both.

Listen to the Grey Area podcast if you think this is wrong.
The subtitle site that replaces this one will just link to torrents and be hosted in China. Movie lawyers can't do anything about it.
Thank you, the prices look comparable. Does anyone have experience with them? How are they?
What would you do in VLC place? Ignore Secunia? Use the public megaphone and try to out-yell Secunia using twitter/media/blogs? Driver over to their HQ?

I total agree that invoking the legal system is a large step that shouldn't be invoked in vain, but I don't see many other options VLC team had here other than just ignoring Secunia.
>The team is aiming to develop clients for Android and iOS

Is there BitMessage for those? The main site is telling me there is not. Google search returns some forum threads, most of them not relevant.
As others have mentioned scattered through the comments, of course you shouldn't use a carousel like this one. It's easy to make a feature so poorly that it doesn't work. Show me the best carousel you can find, in the most appropriate situation, and then explain why there was still a better option. That would be convincing.

It is funny, though.
What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub
Ah, of course I should have mentioned that Autoliv are not by any means alone in the market. :) Thanks.
I did the same thing when I passed the Morse code exams for ham radio license years ago. 20 minutes of CW practice in the morning and evening, every day for several months. When I sat for the exams, the test was ridiculously easy.
According to the description in youtube:

Shady Business - Mr. Nagasaki
PrototypeRaptor - Drive Hard
Flo Rida - I Cry
Cached link, because I couldn't get it to load: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HIzQu_b...
ISP: Comcast

Location: Atlanta, GA
I think that was what really did it for me.

These issues have been festering since the turn of the 20th century, maybe before. It's a result of one edge case piled on top of another.

To try to draw it all into some simple narrative that happened in the last 12 years? It's simplistic to the point of being preposterous.
Yesterday's submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6013989.
And I did not say that it wasn't. Nor did I say if the law is just or not, but simply clarifying that transcribing/translating movie dialog is breaking copyright law.
I think that you are significantly wrong. Subtitles are a derivative work of that which they are created from and should be covered by that copyright. The creator of the derivative would have a copyright on that derivative but that does not permit them to distribute it without the original work's copyright holder's permission (and the original work's copyright holder would need the derivative's copyright holder's permission to distribute that.

It may be however that there is a fair use argument that could be made in many jurisdictions (based on the intended use being by a licensee of the original work, the accessibility benefits and the (presumably) noncommercial nature of the operation).

I would strongly oppose police enforcement rather than civil action and even that would strike me as a bad commercial practice by the movie companies. It would be better to either ignore the practice or even endorse it in some way as there is no significant profit to be won by fighting and plenty of goodwill to lose.
Web 2.1 Technology Demonstrator
Snowden: I never gave any information to Chinese or Russian governments
ISP: Comcast

Location: Winder, Georgia
What makes me disagree with this point is the same sentiment behind the phrase "the universe believes in encryption." As far as anyone on earth knows, prime factorization takes exponential time on a deterministic machine. Without one or two major advances in human knowledge, there can't be any "arms race".

More to the point, encryption isn't a "weapon" in this situation, it's the goal. If people are able to use encryption that can be trusted, the people have means to the basic right of privacy when they wish for it.
Akka already had typed actors, but most of the times they are useless.

The problem with actors is that they can change their interface at runtime. Very useful if you want to model state machines for example (see context.become or the FSM helpers) and it's one reason why actors are awesome.

Actors can also get their messages from multiple sources. The messages that you (the user of an actor) can send to an actor can be very different from the messages that an actor receives from other actors that it communicates with.

The example given for Tcp-IO should drive this point across: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.2.0-RC1/scala/io-tcp.html
Commercial value is not valuable unless it's used to make a scientiic discovery.
My Male-Centric View of the World
I've done a couple of taster classes at clubs, but haven't done any proper lessons yet. I do like the sensuality of it though.
Well, apparently it is:

auto: {
enabled: true,
interval: 3000
// HA HA! I HATE MY USERS!!! Especially the ones that aren't speed readers.
}
If you read the HIG, Apple wants devs to use the splash page to show a picture of the app's UI elements--just with not text. All of Apple's apps do this--if you open up the address book, for example, it'll show you a picture of an empty UITableView and such. And once the app loads peoples' names will appear in it.

They specifically recommend against using your logo as a splash page, but most people do it anyway.
You are trolling right? There is no evidence to support the claims made about TDD (that it helps in any way). The claim that it helps has been falsified, by people doing TDD and non-TDD and there being no difference. These things are in no way contradictory, and I am no longer able to suspend disbelief and pretend you are actually trying to make a good-faith attempt at a real conversation here.
Any time you have more than a handful of primates in a room, you're going to have politics and hierarchy.

Valve does appear to try very hard to avoid enshrining hierarchy. No org charts. What people work on can be very fluid.

Doesn't mean it's nirvana.
Thank you @hydralist
How exactly is it obnoxious to have a unified interface to manage and organise your friends?

It seems to me that having to manage some on G+ and then some in Latitude would be more annoying and more obnoxious.
My guess is enterprises were scared of going the SaaS route; partly as this model is still relatively new, but mainly because companies like to keep their data in house (or at least need the option to easily get hold of a regular backup / with some way to quickly restore it should the vendor go under).
So it's hosted on AWS, which you admit rules out performance.
It's shared, and has heavy arbitrary limits on resource usage, so that rules out convenience.
but it's not a major development

What do you consider a major development? Sure they hired the team behind the original but they still developed the game and put it out with company resources.
This post sounds like an excuse for poor performance in favour of convenience.

The better question is, why can't you have both?
You are correct; I should have said non-idiomatic rather than non-native.

But idiomatic writers do feel like natives!
You're already dependent on tools - your eyes and language processing parts of your brain - to use text formats. With a binary protocol you'd be equally dependent on tools. They're just not embedded in your skull.

Seeing as we use binary protocols every day of our lives, and the tools to work with them have existed for years, and nobody has any problem with using them, let's let this argument rest.
Don't forget end users. They hate carousels just as much as developers do, and maybe even more.
Have a look at the 99 responses on HN for Iorad, a tutorial builder from India I think. I'm sure they will help. (tip: no plugin required) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4202941
Fan-Created Subtitle Site Raided By Swedish Police
Google+ is essentially the 'account page' of Google products now. You don't have to use the social stuff if you don't want to, but if you want to use anything that does connect you to other people, that's where you go.

What sort of alternative are you proposing / can you give a more specific example?
Depending on how the code is structured, it might not matter much either way in terms of legibility (assuming the sight of something like

if($foo){
?>
<b> <?php echo $bar; ?></b>
<?php
}

doesn't set your teeth on edge to begin with), but I do think the former is easier to type and maintain which in PHP to me counts for a lot.

Then again I never use the short tags so i'm adding at least those three characters of overhead per variable anyway. Also, having the views inline couples them to whatever logic they happen to be in, so the templates are less portable. A lot of templating engines will meet you halfway and compile down to classes so they don't reinterpret the templates each time. YMMV I guess.
thanks, I hit Ctrl+F Seth but did not find anything in the top or recent submissions
If someone pushed the issue, it may very well be. It's probably similar to search itself... it established itself on the web before copyright became an issue, for most people it's just "part of the web" and they don't think about it, but my personal opinion is that if we had somehow made it this far without an Internet search engine, and someone tried to start one today, it would be nearly instantly destroyed in massive, numerous copyright lawsuits. Translation functionality has also been around for a while, and may be similarly sort-of "grandfathered".
This person must have gone to a much different high school than I did if the biggest problem was hires being vetoed by old-timers and trouble reaching consensus. "Like high school" to me implies that the place is full of idiots who hassle you because you're actually productive, and you can't really leave.

This seems like a nitpick, but it makes it hard for me to take the rest of the article seriously....
How does Glympse make money?
YouSendIt becomes Hightail and hightails it away from online storage
That's already the case. My personalised search results pages are often way better than the generic ones. I added the Hacker News circle and a lot of you link a lot of very interesting and valuable articles.
I think a lot of freelancers (myself included) go through the following process:

1 - Start out with fixed price estimates based on time (I think this will take 10 hours, so I estimate £1000)

2 - Develop good relationships with clients and start just charging hourly for work done (This took 12 hours, so here's a bill for £1200)

3 - Take patio11 (et al)'s advice and start charging based on value (this 10 hour job will increase your profits by £100,000 so I'll charge you £10,000)

In short, hourly IS better than fixed price time based estimates, but fixed price value based estimates are even better.
It didn't even work for me. Scrolling, clicking... nothing causes anything to change. The scrollbar in Chrome is missing.
Actually, I have several TBs of redis capacity online and run millions of queries a second against it. I was speaking to a simple use case.

A bit of googling will answer most of your redis scaling questions.
OSX MIB & MMB added to Revise IT’s latest update
It doesn't seem they're removing any features, just merging the product with G+, so it should remain pretty much the same.
Comcast

Atlanta, GA
Nice. Doesnt let you use "Object" name though, errors out
A libc (GNU or others) is not a good place for features. What do you mean?
nginx is fast and lightweight. Apache is a bloated mess in comparison. That's about it.
Agreed. Why are we paying any attention to this if there are no details? Musk will eventually tell us what it is, or he won't. Either way, speculation is pointless and dumb.
Nothing new, a few years ago the same happened in Poland (http://napisy.org/). After investigation, the case was closed, no one been charged. Disgust remained.
A feature now available only in the NSA plan. :(
JavaScript must die [2009]
This is more a case of "Should I use carousels poorly?" No!

They have there place, but when overused it's a poor use just like the the "Web 2.0 drop shadow on everything icons" and the blink tag before it. People see a element and decide that everything needs that element.

Carousel do work well for displaying a large/unknown number of images. Text and autotimers are almost always a bad idea IMO.
>{"errors":[{"error_message":"429-TooManyRequests"}]}

That clip is popular.