skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the pain. Just this week I deleted my Google+ account, or profile, or whatever it is. I never used G+ after initially signing up, so I had no use for it.

Deleting the account seems to have had no ill effects. The deletion page did warn me that "third party sign on" would stop working, and I do use the Google third party login via OAuth because some sites rely on it, but nothing broke. Is there some kind of different "login with G+"?

I also moved calendaring and reminders to Fruux [1], and I have previously moved my email and contacts to Fastmail, and my notes to Evernote. I'm still on GTalk via Adium, though -- is there a good replacement for that?

Moving away from the big provides feels good. It feels liberating, in fact. Google and Apple provide whole ecosystems of services, and they really, really want you to buy into their whole integrated system, and they design their systems to stretch their tendrils as far into your computing experience as possible.

At least with Apple that's core to their long-established philosophy -- integrated devices that just work -- but I'm a big believer in decentralization. I want to pick the best possible system that integrates with everything using open standards.

[1] https://fruux.com

[2] https://www.fastmail.fm/
Well, I was impressed to see they evacuated a large number of people this time, which hasn't always been the case. that doesn't sem like much but bear mind that the Philippines is a poor country, and second that it's essentially an archipelago made out of hundreds of small inhabited islands with fairly low average elevation (IIRC it's actually a few thousand islands, but not all of them are inhabited).

I'm not sure there's a whole lot you can do to 'damage proof' territory like this, other than simply abandoning outlying parts of it and hoping they act as a sea wall (and with a ~90m population, you also have the problem of where to put those people). Their options really are limited, especially in the face of record breaking weather events. Consider that if this storm had hit the Maldives it would almost certainly have wiped out the entire country, permanently.
where do you source the emails from? opt-in? what steps do you take to ensure your approach is inline with a company's vision and existing marketing messages? what kind of quality checks go into lead response and handling?
I would be happy to say that I work at priceminister, for instance ..
I'm offended you spelled out the E-word in its ntirety. Please dit your post to correct this grievously insensitive act.
Visual Design: Beyond User Experience
Awarding contracts to a handful of large government contractors is always a recipe for disaster, no matter what it is.
A few guesses as to factors:

1. Some prominent people are libertarians, and outspoken about it (Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Eric Raymond, etc.), so the ideas are circulating in the community.

2. This part of the economy is doing well, and as a result techies have little personal incentive to support any alternatives to free-marketeering. We generally have options and can get away with telling our employers where to stick it, if we don't like their policies, without the result being poverty. Being in an "employees' market" where we have substantial leverage insulates us from many of the less enjoyable aspects of market economics. In a few situations where this doesn't hold, e.g. the issue around health insurance for small startups in the U.S., I think you do see considerable defection from the otherwise pro-market views (health reform was popular in the Valley).
This is truly excellent. A lot of articles and 'tutorials' about this topic are little more than a melting pot of buzzwords.

The best way to explain test driven development is through examples, and I think this tutorial does it wonderfully.

I will be sharing this generously.
See my post above, its an actual app.
The only technical criticism that he wants is how to make Ubuntu better. The technical criticism that he received is that he can't try to make Ubuntu better by making KWin worse. KWin is not responsible for distros. If a distro has a distro specific patch, the distro has to maintain that patch themselves.
You can imagine cases where map-reduce is useful without any starting data. If you are analyzing combinations or permutations, you can create a massive amount of data in an intermediate step, even if the initial and final data sets are small.
Hi sandGorgon! Thanks for the encouraging words. We haven't yet seen people use the existing Scalding ETL to pull data from Twitter or Facebook. As you suggest, there are some considerations around using Hadoop to access web APIs without getting throttled/banned. Here's a couple of links which might be helpful:

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6206105/running-web-fetch...

- http://petewarden.com/2011/05/02/using-hadoop-with-external-...

I think a gatekeeper service could make sense; or alternatively you could write something which runs prior to your MapReduce job and e.g. just loads your results into HDFS/HBase, for the MapReduce to then lookup into. Akka or maybe Storm could be choices here.

We have done a small prototype project to pull data out of Twitter & Facebook - that was only a Python/RDS pilot, but it gave us some ideas for how a proper social feed into Snowplow could work.
Stop with the analogies. We are talking about elements of law, not elements of what-ought-to-be that might be studied by analogy. Congress is without power to regulate communication, end of dispute. Congress cannot stop spammers any more than they can stop me from casting messages into bricks and mailing them to someone who is paying a package forwarding service.
Except the book isn't available on his website. His website has link to a warez site with his book on it. So whatever deal he has with Springer it doesn't seem to allow him to host the book on his site.
Thank you for this! Seriously, I try and explain to people that the reason for conglomerating every service into one is to tell tales of high G+ user-base for greater ad revenue. It's like boasting about how Android has the largest phone deployment, while the UX and satisfaction of iOS far outweighs Android's ecosystem (no bias either way). Everything is turning into a big numbers sham with no care for the intelligence and technical navigational experience of user.
iPad Air catches fire
I don't know but I have a feeling that the hippies are leaving Google, thus the quality goes down. That is why I never comment on youtube - I cannot do it anonymously, if its cat video. But the problems started on other products too.
And my sample size of people that start to dislike google services have increased recently by fair share of average Joe type users that now find them much harder to use than before
It is what I have been waiting for for years: A C# for the JVM, i.e. a very expressive language with a well thought out type system that allows using some functional idioms.
Maybe his case is an edge case.
I wrote a similar script with a word cloud visualization here: https://jacobwg.com/facebook-friends

It was fun...
>> "But people in their 20s and early 30s simply did not know. It was greatly disturbing. As a society we make a great effort to keep reminding people of the horrors of World War II, and yet we are on the verge of largely forgetting about this ancient disease."

Is this not a positive thing? I'm in my early 20's and only know one person (they are much older and I don't know them well) with polio. That's great. The fact that we are on the verge of forgetting is because it's largely irrelevant or gone in most countries. Also great.

>> "One of the major challenges we ran into while fundraising was getting young people to care. Older folks were very generous"

Was this because young people were not as aware of polio or is this a more general trend in charity donations (that older people give more)?
Facebook used to have an algorithm called EdgeRank (http://www.whatisedgerank.com/) that sorts these relationship. Pretty sure they have changed this over time, but it is a start.
I was excited at first because I thought Facebook was building a social network for researchers to speed up the scientific process/peer review. Then I visited the site. Oh well.
These are wonderful. My personal favorite is the video hub to train farmers about local agricultural practices.

I look forward to seeing the kinds of non-profit startups that will come out of YC in the years to come.
Does reading books change your mind?
That's an interesting animal, but its unusual life cycle in no way negates the fact that its metabolism is irreversible (both at the cellular and ensemble level).
Language support has nothing to do with drivers... All the hardware drivers have C or C++ interfaces.
Are there people alive in the USA who contracted polio in the 1950s? There certainly are in the UK, and post-polio syndrome is hitting them now.

I can understand folks simply not knowing someone who had polio -- it always seems to surprise people when I tell them my dad had it -- but perhaps we could increase awareness of the suffering that's going on years after the initial epidemic.
If you liked this article and want to learn more then join us at https://flask.reddit.com, a 1500+ strong Python/Flask development.

/shamelessplug
Replays contain more detailed data (I believe) like player positioning and actions. I think logging is pretty limited.
The above post makes sense with this context, but I wouldn't say it was needlessly downvoted. A post doesn't stand on its own when it throws around uncommon metaphors without explanation.

Personally, I'd prefer of posts/articles all explained their metaphors and acronyms before using them. This is Hacker News, not Enterprise IT News. For example, the article tosses out USP and CI which I don't believe are very common terms either. They should be spelled out.
Maybe not on high alert continuously, but with satellites now, they must have seen this hurricane coming for days if not weeks.
Kind of short sighted. Sometimes you give talks in order to get more talks. From experience, that's how these things work. All of my paid (not that there were too many) speaking engagements came in some way or another as a result of speaking at a nice venue for free.

Also, I personally enjoy going on stage very much.

Indeed TED events are costly, but TEDx are not, and there are hundreds of them around the world every year. No reason TED global should sponsor them.

Finally, if you're really passionate about something, an 18 minute talk is something you can give away for humanity's sake.
My parents never gave us an allowance. If we wanted to go to the movies with a friend, or if there was a book I wanted, they'd pay for it (within reasonable limits)- but no allowance.

The only cash I got was from grandparents for birthday/christmas, or doing yard work. But my main hobby was reading, so I just went to the library and never did any yard work as I didn't need the money.

As a teenager it slightly irritated me, when I saw some of my friends whose parents gave them 20 euros a week or w/e- but now as an adult I live as frugally as one can live as an engineer in the bay area (I still eat out way too much, silly social pressure) and am glad my parents did it that way.
The original title was "Steal this book", in case anyone is wondering about the strange comments below.
Introducing “Business Source”: The Future of Corporate Open Source Licensing?
Take one guess as to how how successful people become successful.

Hint: they are completely consumed by the problem and won't stop until it's solved.
Crazy that there is a whole market for optimizing Facebook's edge rank calculations (http://edgerankchecker.com).

Could this be the new SEO?
The Disruptors: Glenn Greenwald on Snowden and spilling government secrets
This is an article in a newspaper. What did you expect him to talk about?? It's something he's passionate about and the only reason he is in the newspaper is to publicise it. If you want to see other things he's interested in check out his blog[1] (The Gates Notes). He does posts on books he's reading (not all related to disease) and reviews them among other things.

[1]http://www.thegatesnotes.com
Development and Deployment at Facebook [pdf]
Are you the same guy as ramkahen on reddit?

_ has only one meaning => "unspecified"

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/uk015/kotlin_m2...
Bugger. That bastard has 10 years' head start on me; simply not fair.

OTOH, looks like not very much was actually formalized.
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CUT TO: A glider, motionless on the ground, trying to go somewhere.

Stepping back to a less sarcastic point, your metaphor is useful. I don't really understand why Medium is called Medium, but it doesn't really matter, because I have a degree of trust in where it came from.
We Open Sourced The Courseware Project
We built an online learning service and now we are open sourcing it.
Out of curiosity, why would you prefer having multiple repos over a few top-level directories in one repo?
Daily Dose Of Randomness (30 pics)
Keep a separate Gmail/Google/G+ account for your phone and your desktop. If you want to get to your desktop email from your phone, Firefox for Android is less leaky than Chrome.
> You might want to refrain from commenting on a topic you don't seem to know much about.

the underscore is not an operator.that's why you are listing random stuffs that are not related. It express an intent, see my previous message.

You might want to stop patronizing people you dont know. Or your head is too big for that.
There's a baseline level of competency I'm willing to work with. I've had to fight for basic things (like version control) over and over again, and I'm fed up to the point of not wanting to fight those wars again every time I join another company.

The lack of testing culture, for example, was what first drove me away from PHP (to Ruby). Every PHP role interview, I'd gingerly have to ask if they knew what Automated Testing was ("Yes? Great. Have you done any yet? ... No? You don't want to? Oh."), whereas at every interview for a Ruby role I've basically gotten a "Of course we're testing. What else would you be doing?" response.

Once you get past talking about things up to the baseline, you can start the real interview.
In my own mind, the implications for policy are minor and would be good ideas in the absence of racial considerations anyway. It means being slower to see disparate impact of anti-crime measures as evidence of racism. It means encouraging pro-social behavior and discouraging violent culture. The introduction of federal welfare destroyed the black family - only one in five American black children live with both parents. Why not link welfare benefits to public service, or replace it with government jobs repairing parks and schools? Use financial incentives to encourage two-parent families. Give a 20% pay raise for people on the public dole who are married and live with their spouse.

Today, strong encouragement of pro-social culture would be called "racist". But it would be better for all involved.
Not what I hoped, but at least you don't need to log in.
Don't "lock" the submit button.

Why? Because you are then using UI
features I have no way to know about
in advance. Simple HTML I can know
about in advance but not what can
be done with JavaScript, AJAX, etc.

So, don't implement new, unique UI
features.
All we wanted from G+ was "Facebook, but not Facebook". That's it. That's all. They managed even to fuck that up.
It's important to realize that the EFF is not a research institution--it is an advocacy institution. In other words, the EFF doesn't start off with an unbiased view of an issue and then decide what is in the public interest. Instead, it takes predictable positions on a number of issues, and those positions will never change no matter what the facts may turn out to be. After all, it was founded to push an agenda which was pre-defined in advance of its founding 25 years ago.

Therefore, you should never read EFF materials with blind credulity as many of the commentators on this post do. They put out propaganda like all advocacy groups do, and it's up to neutral third parties to filter it. To be fair, they're not as bad as other groups (NRA, anyone?) but if you read their output directly, it's up to you to pick out the disingenuous parts, if you can find them, and/or also read opposing views to get the full view. Otherwise, it's like a jury deciding a trial in which only one side presents their case. That's a shame, because I often agree with the EFF, yet I have to do a lot of work to unbend their reality distortion field.
Java libraries can ruin your threading too. Java doesn't magically make everything you write threadsafe.
Just tested on my Nexus 7: the scale appears when the map is zooming, and then it fades away after a couple of seconds.
I don't think that a documented, reproducible very high blood sugar spike is nitpicking. I personally think it is reason for concern.

But you are absolutely correct, a sandwich is more than that. The author acknowledges this as well. It would be a fun thing to measure your blood glucose against (as I intend to). From an armchair perspective, the other ingredients in the sandwich may slow down the glucose dump into your bloodstream, but it will likely still dump the same amount, because the bread is still present. Along with the fat storage mechanism that glucose > insulin turns on, the extra ingredients may be more likely to be stored as fat.

I'll respond to this as soon as I complete the experiment!
If I didn't use facebook in London then I would simply miss every social invitation that I am given. Many people only use it because of this and would drop it otherwise.
Match stats atm, though we can get much everything. We can go far beyond the combat log, reproducing an entire minimap, along with things like hero position trails, map control, etc etc. Here's a screenshot of a minimap recreation we produced for the recent Fragbite Masters tournament: http://i.imgur.com/kuOvUZX.jpg. We have more complex tools such as XP and Gold source breakdowns over time (i.e. jungle creeps, lane creeps, kills, assists etc), along with other fun stuff still in the pipeline.
twitter accounts are the best near-universal logins. fast to setup, complete anonymity and easy 2 click comment signin.
One of the issues with the LM was getting rid of heat from the electronics. The Aft Equipment Bay was mounted external to the LM[1], and had to use active cooling (some sort of sublimation system according to [2]).

[1] http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/LM04_Lunar_Module_ppLV1-17.pdf

[2] http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1972001...
This and TFA hit to the heart of the problem with Google+: Google has willfully refused to acknowledge or understand that singular humans have multiple personas, and that we do not and cannot allow those to mix. Your professional face is not the same as your close-family personal face is not the same as your secret webcomic artist handle is not ... you get the idea.

There are so many mundane variations on that theme, and then there are very serious ones: those seeking support for addiction, as survivors of abuse, or other situations that have social stigma or personal risk attached to them. Some needs are simply private in that way a vulnerable person needs secure anonymity lest the public light itself become a chilling effect, of which health concerns are a common example.

The architecture of Google+ is such that it is inherently inhuman in its disregard for privacy and for applying different "pen names" to the various situations of life.
Very well written. I had never paid attention to this story before. The last half of the article was just a huge punch to the gut.
The root problem is not that Facebook is trying to maximize it's sustainability, or that this guy wants something for nothing, it's simply that for years, Facebook effectively set very clear expectations in the minds of users, and then stopped meeting them.

This, of course, is common with consumer web startups, where the prevailing wisdom is "grow Grow GROW!! ...and worry about monetization later". That's great only if you're gunning for a flip or acquihiring. Good to signal monetization intent, and how that might affect the experience, early. (Best to actually try monetizing early.)
I meant it's not a major factor in assessing damage rates relative to other vehicle models, because the clearance is very similar, model-to-model.
I got freaked out by Facebook because I signed up there using a work email.

I think Facebook's recommendation system was using the data from other users' address books. As in I'd get a list of various people that I'd done business with in the past as suggested friends on Facebook. Those people had my address in their address book and I can only assume they'd uploaded their contacts to Facebook. Facebook retains that data. Here I am a new user. Wow how does it know I know such and such? I can only assume that it also works the other way: I join and I pop up in their account.

Google got into a mess with Buzz and the address book leaks, and email address leaks.

So there's a fine line here between privacy and helpfulness.
i think there is a bit of a terminology issue.

to give brudgers as much credit as possible, space is a pretty good heat sink, in that it can absorb all of the heat you can ever produce, without changing temperature. (and since heat transfer is proportional to temperature difference, your transfer rate will never drop because of it.)

but it is terrible for heat transfer.

the metal widgets we stick onto our CPUs aren't really heat sinks, they're for reducing the thermal resistance between the CPU body and the atmosphere, which is the "final" destination for the heat.
> We have a lot more disposable income than teenagers do.

Most marketing research would disagree with you, not strictly on available disposable income, we (24-35 year olds) are not nearly as valuable as teens.

Teens are

- More susceptible to viral/video/visual/interactive marketing

- More Impulsive

- More trendy (their friends have it, they must)

- Are one of the best ways to separate a discerning parent from their money

- Less Discerning.

- More Naive

- Have a longer lifetime value

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_marketing
It's no trouble to me to reinforce someone's mistaken feeling of superiority to someone else. The problem is for the someone else. So the threshold you propose is insufficient.

And I nowhere compared the two cases you mention. (That was an extreme case of putting words into one's mouth even for HN.) You're acting as if I said for ∀x-P(x) when in fact it's pretty clear I said -∀xP(x).

I'm done with this conversation, incidentally. I find that threads in which I have to say "no, what I said was" to this extent are always irrecoverable.
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Didn't Seymour Cray say that HPC was mostly about plumbing - to the manage the heat

mm maybe I ought to dust off those old steam tables eh.