skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point. Google needed a good competitor to Disqus far more than they needed a competitor to Facebook. Sadly, Plus is obviously a better Facebook than it is a Disqus.

But either way, it makes the Real Names Only thing more obviously false: you're making a general-purpose reusable platform and not a specific social network of your own. It's a "Social Layer", right?

In that case, forcing the users to adhere to a real-names policy instead of providing an official supported path for anonymity or pseudonymity sticks out as trying to push your users into a pattern that they might not find a natural fit for them. And by "users" I don't mean the commenters, I mean the pages to which the comments are attached - if I want to allow anonymous/pseudonymous comments attached to my channel or page or whatever I have a Plus thread associated with, why doesn't Google support this?
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The code runs client side.
I find myself doing this as well. But often it is with people that just won't shut up with their technical mambo-jambo of how great something-something is. Asking questions would just make them talk for even longer, so I shut up, nod and am on my way as quick as possible.
Potentially interesting, particularly for people doing longer-form content, which does badly on YouTube but better on download.
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It can't really go anywhere. It's not a published statement. It's supplied to the owner of the account in privacy.
I'm somehow seeing a blurry yellow line down the middle of the white area, which I think is an illusion caused by the yellow on the sides. It's quite painful to read.
Well, since I've been watching videos on Youtube I noticed something. Pre-aquisition Youtube comments were the most retarded and insensitive things one Earth. I can hardly think of another discussion forum on the Internet with such bad comments. Mostly hateful retarded immature ones.
Then Google added upvotes - suddenly there was some sort of filter and the millions (literally) of pages of filth were hidden. Sometimes the top comment was even interesting or funny.

Google becoming a waste land? Maybe. But that's only if you conveniently forget that Youtube was a radioactive sewer filled with all sort of mutated, barely functional animals and plants. I'd rather have silence than that.

Youtube needed the open comments for the sale (comments drive views), but Google doesn't need sheer numbers, it needs quality. Higher quality comments, higher quality content, much higher possibility of monetizing. Google is moving in the right direction.
My wife has had the same thing happen to her today. Her Google+, and by extension, her YouTube account through which she promotes her work (she's a musician) were suspended, apparently without any notification.

There's an appeals process, and she's linked to her website and Facebook profile and submitted a photocopy of her passport to prove her name. Does anybody here know how long this is likely to take, or the chances of it being successful?

edit: s/password/passport/
I'm not sure the author of this article understands subversion branching [1]. As long as you are not making a commit to the master trunk, you will not be interfering with other developers on your team. The author dismisses SVN branches as a "workaround", when it solves all of the "scary" SVN issues he discusses in the article.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04.html
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They're funny until you see a gazillion pages of them.
Application looks too involved for Brown. When applying to 10 schools I wouldn't do this one because it has no overlap with my other application. I can reuse my letters of recommendation, I can't reuse this application.
This article is idiotic and is clearly written by someone who doesn't understand Subversion.

You work on feature branches, then merge them into trunk. Only at the point of that merge are you sharing changes with everyone. But at any time, everyone can see your private branch, centrally.

Committing infrequently is a problem with not using branches properly. I commit to an SVN repository up to 50 times a day without forcing my code on anyone.

Merges aren't any scarier than they are in Hg/Git either despite common belief.

All VCS problems are usually external to the VCS i.e. human or process issues.

Edit: I just noticed the author is pushing a Git client. need we say any more.
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> In newer versions of SVN, you could create feature branches to circumvent this. However, it remains a workaround, not a true local commit like in a distributed VCS like Git.

While I do prefer the Git approach to version control, it is too easy to just dismiss branching as a "workaround". It is a good solution to the discussed problem.
How long have you been waiting?
The relevance of that is pretty insignificant unless you are building a framework or compiler. That's the point of abstraction.
- How much time do you have? If you have about an hour or 2, (since you want interactivity + code), I wouldn't mind bringing in an Arduino and have them control it through the web or with code. Something along this line ~> http://www.instructables.com/id/Create-an-internet-controlle... but cut short. That will be cool.
I think this is a measure of confidence and maturity.

If you are confident enough, mature enough in yourself and work in an atmosphere that's mature enough not to criticise for it, saying "nope, that's new to me, is it something I should learn/look up?" is a good thing.
I believe it's key to point out that you can always turn down jobs without offending anyone.

I've always used my "Colin The Shots LLC" for freelancing. If I want to get contracts from budding startups, I go to startup events and introduce myself. I don't need to change my company name to reflect a lower degree of professionalism.
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This is stupid. Keeping code to yourself for long periods of time is a problem. It's still a problem even if you're regularly making commits locally and just not pushing them.

You're afraid to push changes because other people might see how bad your code is? Either write better code or grow a thicker skin, or both.

The fact that many people embrace this secretive, private way of using version control scares me, and it's this sort of nonsense that causes a lot of old-school programmers to be skeptical of systems like git.
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Also, if you're working on small parts and ensuring that no tests fail/writing adequate tests, it's not so bad. Our 30-member team isn't hampered by it while we await changes next year.
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The problem with merging identities is that people don't want them to be merged.

I want a firewall that separates identities. The identity that I use to connect with my mom and in-laws should be separate from the one I use to post on tech forums. The identity where I share baby pics with my wife's friends should be separate from the identity where I comment on deathmetal videos. If Google requires them to be the same - I'd rather delete some of those identities and stay anonymous/logged-out, not merge them.
PG posted about it recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466 He basically said it's an acceptable loss compared to policing linkbait.
What do you people generally use for news nowadays? I've always liked this concept in principal, I guess I want this thing but better sourced/pruned perhaps.
One of YouTube's huge benefits is that it's an archive. Videos published in 2008 which get 10 views a year are still available. If a video had to be popular enough for someone to still be seeding it 5 years later, a huge amount of valuable content would just drop off the web.
That's kind of a terrible side effect, isn't it?

Yes.

And it's a well-known property of the policy.
Yep, using the same care in choosing an extension cord as you would for work equipment and space heaters would be advisable with electric cars. Do not buy the cheapy cord.
A suggestion off the top of my head would be writing a script that pauses Dropbox syncing before running a compiler. (From a quick Google search, there seem to be a couple of scripts already written that do this.)
I had a discussion with some coworkers while I was an intern (not all that many years ago) about IPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange). I had to admit I didn't know the protocol. There was an immediate and severe negative reaction from everyone in the room, upset that I didn't know IPX, upset that I never learned it, upset that I apparently hadn't been paying attention in class the day that was taught. Problem is, it never was taught, and of all the protocols I did take the time to learn, I learned the ones I was likely to run into most often in life. IPX isn't commonly used, and it certainly wasn't taught at my school.

That's the reason it's hard for some people to admit they don't know: because no matter what, there's this fear that everyone expects you should know it already. No matter how obscure. It's really easy to brush it off the first time something new comes up, or the second or third time. By then, it's embarrassing to admit you have no idea what they're talking about.
No problem! You definitely have a bit of a double edged sword on your hands. Personally, I love the idea that you could help a complete stranger who thinks they are just yelling into the void, at the same time, it would probably be a more useful service if the queries were sent to it directly and tagged by expertise, blah blah blah.

So, do you integrate both behaviors? Cut your baby in half? Whatever you choose to do, I'll be interested in the result. Good luck!
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Which Dart has. (lack of wrapper classes, wrapper functions, lots of brackets)
Agreed. Subversion branching is a direct solution for both problems he mentioned in the article.
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I think http://www.lazytweet.com/ is a similar idea that has been around for a while but never got especially popular, maybe there is something you can learn from it.
Unless I misunderstand what you mean by 'term rewriting', fexpr based lisps are similar - everything is a rewrite on the program tree, but 'normal' functions evaluate their arguments before doing things with them, and compile time macros (not reader macros) are effectively a first pass over that tree where any symbol not already bound to a macro is treated as the identity function.

The kernel language and associated $vau calculus go into this more, and I've experimented with it somewhat myself having ported Manuel's wat-js to perl.
i'm sure that's extremely rare though. maybe like 1 person per year may have no idea what coding is and get admitted to a program for CS.
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Some background, based on quick research, not personal knowledge, so please correct if anything's wrong:

This class of antibiotics, ADEP, was discovered as a naturally produced substance isolated from the bacteria Streptomyces hawaiiensis in 1985 (Streptomyces has been a fertile source of naturally occurring antibiotics). After some promising results, there was work on synthetically synthesizing it and producing "optimized" synthetic variants. ADEP4 is one of those, and was reported in a paper published in 2005. There's a short 1-page summary of that work in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 4: 957. See page 19 of this PDF, article "Peptide power": http://journals2005.pasteur.ac.ir/NR/4%2812%29.pdf

There's a lot of work trying to understand its mechanism, e.g. here's one open-access paper that also has some background: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2955292/

Here's the paper discussed in the linked article, unfortunately paywalled, but with an abstract available that's actually a good summary: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
Funny, in some of these Letters to the Editor, readers talk (and complain) about how the NYTimes takes "high moral ground" in decrying "torture".

"The Finding: U.S. Engaged in Torture"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/opinion/the-finding-us-eng...

which refers to the Front Page story on April 16th that had headline:

"U.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes,"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world/us-practiced-torture...

Keller, the executive editor during some of the Bush years, spoke as to why and when "torture" was and wasn't used.

http://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/the-t-words/

This is more informed then your shouts of "mouthpiece" and I hope it helps:

"The word was freely deployed in editorials and Op-Ed opinions, but in the news pages we described the techniques as “brutal” – upgraded from “harsh.” When the word “torture” appeared, it was qualified by attribution (“according to…” or “widely denounced as…”). Hoyt, as the reader’s ombudsman, heard complaints from “some who think ‘brutal’ is just a timid euphemism for torture” and from readers on the other side “who think ‘brutal’ is too loaded.” The editors (I was one at the time) argued that what constituted torture was still a matter of debate, that this issue was not just linguistic but legal and had not yet been resolved by a court, and that the word was commonly applied to such a range of practices as to be imprecise. We contended that the best approach was to describe the techniques as fully as possible and let readers draw their own conclusions."

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See also:

"The Guantánamo Stain" (2013)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/opinion/the-guantanamo-sta...

"It became the embodiment of his dangerous expansion of executive power and the lawless detentions, secret prisons and torture that went along with them. It is now also a reminder of Mr. Obama’s failure to close the prison as he promised when he took office, and of the malicious interference by Congress in any effort to justly try and punish the Guantánamo inmates."

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"Sweeping Torture Under the Rug"

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/sweeping-tort...

"Meanwhile, in Washington, officials still won’t acknowledge Mr. Masri’s kidnapping and torture, which was just one example of President George W. Bush’s “extraordinary rendition program.”"

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"Detainee Was Tortured, a Bush Official Confirms"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/us/14gitmo.html

"A senior Pentagon official in the Bush administration said that interrogators had tortured a Guantánamo detainee."

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"'Moderate physical pressure' : The painful lesson Israel learned about torture"

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/01/opinion/01iht-edfelner_ed3...

"As the Abu Ghraib torture scandal keeps unfolding, ..."
Brilliant! MTurk was an interesting idea, but required too much effort by the customer to know and use. Building such a service into an application is a great idea, connecting user with human agent with no more effort than just another menu choice.
Indeed. This is one of the few things that could make the residential situation around here even worse. Provided we don't see another bust before then, it'll be interesting to see how bad it gets before even our municipality is forced to consider changes to policies like rent control. 2x NYC? 2x Manhattan? At what point do companies start looking for space elsewhere?
The point isn't entirely about rights: corporations have users and they don't like to piss them off.

Obviously, Google can afford to piss off a few people without dying out, but good copywriting is probably worth it, in terms of avoiding bad press (and generally creating nice UX).

Beyond that, if it's true that Google has no obligations to users, it's equally true that users have no obligations to Google. So they can go ahead and be as irrationally angry about any Google decision as they want. That's how the market works--it does not care whether your anger is rational or not.
> password

I suppose you mean passport?
I had the misfortune of starting work on a travel startup a week before 9-11. Oh well.
I went looking for something that existed when I first set out, and I didn't come across this - thanks for the pointer.
In the UK in some areas such as finance and business there are many people who apply to be an Army officer, and go all the way through selection, but never intend to join up. They do it just so that they can put on their CV (resume) that they've passed Army officer selection.
Although our team uses git for code we actually use SVN as part of some of the applications we have built - end users (who are not developers) can upload report designs which are Excel spreadsheets using TortoiseSVN and the development reporting application instance picks the latest version from the SVN server - works a treat and users get versioning, diffs and an easy upload process.
I think you can use voodoo in two ways: "Impossibly arcane but near-magical technology" or "total crap."
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Looks like rackspace is launching new servers. The page doesnot yet give the complete pricing details.
So, basically, you're thinking that the Internet as a whole can preserve old, obscure stuff. 90% of the demand is about what's new, and that's exactly what torrents are good at distributing.
Using "Guilty until proven otherwise" implies a rights-based discussion, or else it wouldn't be used.

I agree that it's really bad press though (especially given how this has been a consistent issue ever since G+ appeared).
Oh. They're selling emoticons for $10M per month. Excuse me while my brain implodes.

Thank you for clearing that up though. I had no idea that such things existed.
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Google has a link to "helpouts" on it's homepage that's showing a 500 error

https://helpouts.google.com/home?utm_source=google_com&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=20131112
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I would go even one farther: There is, in principle, no way to find out. At any level description, it's still always possible to ask whether there is an even deeper level of description, whether there are yet more undiscovered entities, etc. How would you ever know when you've reached 'the end'?

While our scientific models are clearly in some sense about The World, they are still just models, and as dependent on the properties of our own minds as they are on the World. Some sort of direct-knowledge of The World is a nebulous concept.

I think many people have made this point, but it is perhaps most associated with the philosophy Immanuel Kant, who made the distinction between noumena, or 'the-world-in-itself', and phenomena, 'the-world-for-us'.
When are you going to fix the security of Skype Microsoft? Ok, we get it. You had to go off P2P encryption. Fine. But there are other ways to provide end to end encryption to users, even with central servers. So what are you waiting for? Your image isn't looking good here:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...
What does Google do at its Chicago office? I can never quite figure that city out.
I graduated quite some time ago. Getting letters of recommendation from professors would be impossible for me. I doubt I'd have one professor that knew me when I graduated let alone now years later. And yet, fulfilling these requirements would be very easy for me. I think it's very nice to have multiple routes in. Even if very few candidates avail themselves of this latter route, they might be interesting candidates worth strong consideration.
For those interested in a career in development, a PhD is rarely helpful. For the PhD candidate, it can even be counterproductive, as any gains in initial salary will be more than offset by the lost salary during the 5-6 years of the PhD.

Only for a career in research is a PhD important.
Ah, that explains why the groupings are so good. That's cool, I hadn't thought about topic models outside of NLP before.
The really big news. Excel. On. The. iPad.
We use SHA1_Pass. It does not store password data. It generates passwords as needed. The info required to generate the passwords is stored on our internal wiki. The secret sentence is only in our heads and never stored or written down anywhere and when an employee leaves, we change the secret sentence. Here is an example map.

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Ah!
I was just thinking of this last week.
Women suffer from imposter syndrome[0] more than men and seem somewhat less confident about their abilities in a variety of metrics (e.g. they contribute to wikipedia articles related to their area of expertise less than equally qualified men. They feel less confident speaking at conferences. The ADA initiative has a good piece on this [1] )

---note: this is not anything to do with actual capabilities!---

Regardless of what causes this difference (cultural, social, biological, monkey-based evo psych, whatever) I would bet it is a factor here. So I posit that men may cover up their lack of knowledge, but it may also be a confidence issue - perhaps the men actually feel like they know already, and the women are less sure of their own knowledge.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

[1] http://adainitiative.org/2013/08/is-impostor-syndrome-keepin...
What is the source on supervisors proposing a moratorium on the Ellis act? That seems uncharacteristic and unlikely.
def hype_switch from_lang, to_lang
'Why I switched from #{from_lang} to #{to_lang}."
end
Good post. It's a developer-specific flavor of Imposter Syndrome that I've struggled with too. Must learn all the frameworks! Now! And my designer side wants to master ever style I see on Dribbble until Photoshop stands up and starts clapping.

A book that helped me overcome it is called Mindset, written by the psychology researcher Carol Dweck. I can't recommend it highly enough. Apparently the problem gets worse as you gain skills, not better, if you don't consciously take steps to counter it.

I was just chatting with a friend this weekend that I also recommended the book to because he identified Imposter Syndrone as his major obstacle in life, even though he's highly accomplished and his blog is constantly on HN. Talking to him made me realize that it not only affects more people than I realize but that it probably also affects generalists more than specialists, since being T-shaped means by definition that you can only pick a few areas to go deep.
they simply do not realize that their behavior counts as "being a jerk".

There may also be enough people who consider perfectly non-jerk behavior (by some subjective standard X) to be jerky (by subjective standard Y).
Uhm, what?

To me, perfect licences are: BSD, MIT, Apache2, WTFPL

I like copy middle far far better than copy right or copy left.

My entire comment was about how bad the MS free commercial license was and how I wished it was a real FOSS license. There was a tangent in there about hating the copy-virus of the GPL, but that was an aside.
live by the hype , die by the hype. That and the fact that the ruby/rails community is full of egocentric hipsters that like to take a shot at each other,other languages, and say "f*ck" too often...

The problem is now these hipsters are moving to nodejs so that community has exactly the same problem too.

Go community,while little, is more like python's, mature,respectful(most of the time),that's important on the long run,to build a community around positive and cosntructive thinking.

NodeJS will burn itself like rails if it goes on that way.