skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Search engines have zero switching costs, so mainstream PR is a key competitive advantage for Google (not engineer PR). Their massive capital investment in server farms (esp. for google suggest) is another.

20% time was a long-term strategy to lead new technologies instead of being disrupted by them. Google+ is a short-term strategy to avoid being disrupted by facebook.
Long-term self-interest is often close to "good" (so close it may be why it's good).

oblig snark: Instead of turning evil, Google be like Sun - die, and be reanimated by evil piecemeal.
>It's why there is a centuries-old hatred of inherited wealth and position in all modernized cultures.

Isn't the opposite true?

We can certainly point to famous examples of heirs/heiresses behaving badly, but that seems largely the exception rather than the rule-- by and large, the terms nouveau riche and "new money" carry a negative connotation, while "old money" is associated with taste and sophistication (though certainly also snobbery).
"Have fun. You'll be dead a long time."
Love this.
oh look another IP info site....

Did I mention http://ifconfig.me/ ?
> No other tool does, either.

Darcs does: if you "darcs revert" to erase your local unrecorded changes you can actually "darcs unrevert" and get them back later. I guess it's a little like "git stash" but not quite, as you can only have 1 saved state and many darcs operations will nuke the unrevert save (loudly and with prompts, so it won't catch you off guard).
> Eventually, they realized implementing version control or record structures at the filesystem level was unnecessary.

I wouldn't say 'unnecessary'; it's more the case that the quick and dirty Unix and DOS solutions 'won' by deign of being easy for implementers & users.

And ever since then we've been hacking-on the features that were lost because of this.

Two features we lost:

1. Generational data groups, as on MVS. The OS automatically keeping a history of changes to the 'file'

2. Addressing any file as an RDBMS table, as on OS/400. Amazingly flexible.
Any minute now, all of this inconvenient, annoying change will stop and things will go back to the way they used to be, when adults writing for newspapers headquartered in New York decided what people think!
You're likely over-thinking it - mistakes happen is all. Email pg to get unbanned.
I'd recommend "Bitfinex" https://bitfinex.com/?refcode=kwr9f922HS, as they offer both sides of the market (Long and short) as well as margin / leveraged trading and routing to BitStamp (probably the most liquid at this time). Full disclosure, I'm an active trader and market-maker there. I believe their fees are amongst the best in the industry for active traders and they are accessible via USD Wire-transfers in the SWIFT network.
Like the 26 previous times we had no choice but to leave Gmail, right?
A series of "Become a Java GC Expert" articles
Idiomatic Clojure with LightTable
Latest trend in HN comments: Why this topic reminds me of a particular entry from "that" submission on 4chan!
Hmm. This is missing my most popular repo, https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/ido-ubiquitous

Probably because for historical reasons, my repo is not the "root" on GitHub (it started out an an anonymous snippet on EmacsWiki and someone else put it in its own GitHub repo, which I later forked).
I'm no expert on the rules around here, but from what I've gathered, accounts past a certain threshold of negative karma are automatically shadowbanned. There's no conspiracy nor did you piss off the wrong mod for saying the wrong thing about sexism. Your only mistake was having your first set of comments be on a contentious subject, which increases the risk of downvotes and getting shadowbanned.
Having to maintain several legacy branches and several feature branches comes to mind. Is this possible to do with SVN? Absolutely. Is it a fucking waste of time and energy to do with SVN? Absolutely.
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This project is at least 3 years old. Interesting it has got picked up by HN folks again. For those not familiar with GitHub pages, somebody got username "resume" in order to create this page. I had to explain this because this actually looks like something GitHub launched, just like http://status.github.com/ but it is not.
Yet, the Internet was pioneered by adults.

I don't think he's saying let's go back to what it used to be; I think he's saying, let's not assume any latest fad is the future.
This isn't quantum physics, and that isn't the implication of the double-slit experiment. This is new-age pseudo science BS that uses the buzzword "quantum" to sound smart
Snapchat launch: September 2011

First mention of Snapchat in WSJ: August 2013

First negative mention of Snapchat in WSJ: October 2013

There has to be a name for this phenomenon.
Heh, awesome that it actually worked!
Kayak's co-founders never worked in the same place. One was CEO in Connecticut and the other CTO in Boston. An example of it working on a pretty big scale.
Maybe you could let git influence and hopefully improve the way you work.

For instance, when refactoring something quite complex with good test coverage, you want each commit to be the smallest atomic commit that can pass all tests. But you also want to very quickly and "carelessly" add debug logs, assertions, changes in many files. For this kind of task I have found the following workflow to be very helpful and fast:

1. edit files relentlessly running a few tests cases

2. when you feel you "got" something run full test suite

3. if 2. pass, use `git add -p` to add the smallest changeset doing the thing.

4. Use `git stash --keep-index` to remove all other changes

5. Run full test suite

6. If 5. fails `git add -p` to continue editing your commit, or `git reset` if too far off

7. If 5. pass, `git commit` and `git reset --hard`.

Edit: When using `git add -p` you can even use 'e' command to manually edit your patch.
Let's go back to the 1960s when only adults had access to computers!

Adults with really, really long beards.
Of course, you could also say...

> A lot of fast growing start ups are terrible places to work, because of the very virtue of what they are.

The size of a company has a little to do with its culture. Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft all employ over 80,000 people, but have very different cultures.

I have seen some start-ups which have awful cultures, with terrible morale problems. It is really not the size of / number of employees at a company that defines its culture, but the mindset of the people in charge.
Well, you can't deny that he contributed some ideas that PLT people make use of, but the question here is whether TGG is any good as a _scientific theory of language_ and I think the answer is no. The reason I compared him to Ptolemaic theorists is because he came up with some interesting mathematical ideas, but he doesn't care about systematically collecting data and attempting to falsify the theory. See: http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
>?refcode=kwr9f922HS

Quite tasteful good sir.
Glad they're using .io now for user pages. I remember the confusion some of these projects caused.
Also, it would nice if it OAuthed and let you add stats about private repos. 99% of my code pushes go to private repos for business reasons.
Stop with the facts! You're screwing up the discussion.
How to launch a startup without knowing a line of code?
Now I'm kicking myself for not buying into BTC last week!
I was thinking the same thing.

I assume it's a crime to talk about hypothetically committing a crime?

I also don't live in a surveillance state right now.
Xanga.
AHAHAHahaha

>I am going to [country people think is still in the stone age even though it as Western as can be, Vietnam for example] for a year and will only bring my iPad Mini and a pair of trousers
Now that is cool. Thanks for sharing.
I've been following fashion bloggers more closely as I believe they are a huge part of the success of services like Tumblr and Pinterest. I can remember when I first heard of Pinterest was because some blogs my girlfriend followed posted links to these new-fangled "photo pinboards" and a year later everyone was using it.

I'm not saying that fashion bloggers or kids for that matter are always right but perhaps there's something about the environment in college that makes services that are catered to these people much more likely to spread (the desire to fit in, to look cool with the next new thing, etc.). On the fashion front, tastemakers will be tastemakers, as much as the HN crowd may not be the target audience, fashion/style are important to a lot of folks.
> VOIP had a chance to become as ubiquitous and convenient
> as email, but the drop of xmpp fot voice and video took
> us back 10 years.

XMPP had its chance, and failed to deliver. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC is the modern standard-to-be for VOIP, and the original implementation was created by Google.
Coinbase.com is by far the easiest in my opinion (and is a YC company). Unlike MtGox.com (originally the most popular) the site is fast, stable, well designed, and can connect directly with your US bank account. They've also got a set of merchant tools and APIs.

Since we're throwing out referral links here apparently, this link will give you and I both $5 in BTC:

https://coinbase.com/?r=4fedfb2d6cbd3b0003000845&utm_campaig...
Alright, this website basically turns https://github.com/mojombo into http://resume.github.io/?mojombo , which is uglier than the original and doesn't even add anything new. How did this get 22 points in 50 minutes and is #1 now?
I was never a nap guy. But in testing our biosensing watch I've been amazed that naps reliably reduce my stress and in as little as ten minutes. I'm now up to over 20 naps and they've all had the same effect. I wonder actually if the cognitive benefits might be due more to reduced stress and anxiety. It's something we'll continue to investigate.
It's a nice project to implement a pipelined processor in logisim: http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~burch/logisim/
Its not about voting for a third party - which is ineffectual. It's about remembering that you have way more elections then just who the president is.
>I've been downmodded heavily elsewhere onsite for suggesting that HNers love to hate google because of hipster mentality

Because it's a stupid reason. You would get the same response if you suggested that the reason was that HNers love to hate google because they hate logos with color in them.
Publicity jolt is only meaningfully useful for companies whose per-user value growth with userbase, such as social networks. For all other products it's a flash in the pan.

You don't provide specifics, so let's just talk about a stereotypical subscription-model business. Each user generates you on average $1/mo in revenue. Each month 1% of users abandon your service and leave. Each month you bring in 100 new users through your marketing efforts. Once you reach 10,000 users, the inflow and outflow will equate, your user base will stop changing. If you lose too many users to some freak accident, say, going down to 8000 users, your natural outflow will shrink to 80/mo and you will gain 100-80 = 20 net new users that month. Similarly, if a publicity jolt brings you extra 2000 users, your outflow will increase to 100-120 = - 20 net new users, and you will keep bleeding them for a few month. The system will naturally stabilize around 10k users. Hence there is a "natural size" for most such businesses.

Now if you can increase your monthly inflow from 100 to 200 users by being mentioned on Lifehacker every single week, your "natural size" doubles to 20k. But a single mention won't do you a whole lot of good.

The story is different for social network - the more people are there, the more people are likely to join. The key difference is that the inflow is a factor of the user base size, not of your own marketing effort.
HeadsUP - a transparent smart-phone integrated windshield display
The draw to snapchat seems to be the ephemeral nature of the communications. Both Facebook and Google have taken the path that everything you ever put online should be saved forever and shared with everyone.

Snapchat is very much the opposite Pictures and conversations are with specific people, and meant to be thrown away. It seems like this leads people to be more open, more interesting and less worried about inappropriate (or drunken) messages. Screenshots can be a problem, but it's definitely not on the same level of risk as drunken Facebook posts.
my tvs gold was one of the very few things i carried over when i moved from india to the us. been using it for the last five years, and it's still going strong.
I don't want to support the biggest advertiser on the web anymore. Google has become too big for me to be comfortable with them. An open and diverse web flourishes with competition and anonymity.

Right now you can search for a video with Google search, watch it on Google YouTube, watch some Google ads preroll, all on your Google Nexus, powered by Google Android, connected to Google Fiber.

Google is AOL's wet dream.
Ask HN: What payment gateways are best for Australian SAAS?
Hey guys, looking for advice on what solutions people have used for SAAS when based in Australia.

The only solutions I know that I can compare at the moment are Paypal, Pin.net.au and direct bank API's.
Right, but since the value of the coins is calculated as $ to whole Bitcoins, whereas the actual transactions can be in numbers much smaller then whole Bitcoins, there's no reason you couldn't cycle say, $10 of BTC until you got to 0.01c in value.

Meantime, the exchanges would keep looking like there were "a lot" of transactions for BTC worth a huge amount.

It wasn't long ago someone dumped $5000 of BTC and the price dropped "worldwide".
Something is wrong with the premise of this article.

It goes on to say that most companies that mad it huge were not "initially popular" with young people. But that is a bit of a sleight of hand for two reasons: (1) many of those businesses were <invented> or revolutionized by young people or students; and (2) it ignores the role that young people played in the discovery/momentum/tipping point to their widespread adoption. In otherwords, the two most critical parts of their value realization. Lastly (3) is the category of items that were or are only relevant in the land where (1) and (2) already happend. These are essentially "derivative works" in terms of their core value. Things like LinkedIn (derives value from FB proven use case); and Gmail (widely adopted and propogated through google) etc. come readily to mind. Out of context, they would likely be worth an order of magnitude less than they are perceived today.

Once you eliminate all that, there is really not much left in the article. The premise and idea may still have value, but whatever value that is must be found using different examples and explanartions, IMHO.
I feel compelled to point out that comparing share price alone is terribly, horribly wrong.

To illustrate, the phrase "BTC is the price of an Apple share" could, by some people, be taken to mean "BitCoin is worth more than Apple". In reality, the BitCoin market cap right now is $6 billion, and Apple's is $472 billion.

Comparing shares (and, by extension, the value of BTC) on price alone is worse than useless. Unfortunately many people insist on doing it, especially (at least it seems to me) in the US (which I guess makes sense, since the Dow Jones is weighted not on market cap, but share price, an equally nonsensical way of doing things).
It seems you are assuming there are direct observations. Musk is talking about generating hypothetical observations from a model (the cost of the battery is bounded from below by the cost of the battery materials). This sort of bounding does not always work outside physics, because the uncertainties are so ill behaving.
I don't understand. In your game, my expected value is very bad (negative). So I wouldn't play it.
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I am usually a hater but I think this project is pretty neat and useful.

Traditional resume asks people to list their skill and describe the project in a couple sentences. Instead of pretty chart there is a dead simple language percentage count. Instead of rewriting a README it extracts the description from the repo. It's quite useful as a quick resume.

Github's detail page is not useful. It serves merely as an activity dashboard, not a resume for people looking for talent. This goes to the other resume project a month ago a designer showed off his HTML5 skill. That kind of resume burns my eyes and is not useful for recruiter - nobody wants to click/arrow through 20 animates to get your email address. Same thing here in Github.
"End to end" security doesn't exist so long as you're using webmail.

You want end to end security, use GPG. Otherwise accept that your email just isn't that interesting in the first place (or that you expect rule of law to prevent it's disclosure).
Why I prefer Git over Mercurial
i used to run Owncloud (php), which was ok for CalDAV and CardDAV, but the web interface was terribly slow. Now I run calendarserver for CalDAV/CardDAV (Python), which is fast for CardDAV (few data) and slow for CalDAV (a lot of data). I am also running Bittorrent Sync (binary blob, fast), and Time Machine backups (fast).

My conclusion: The Raspi is slow for serving with dynamic languages. Compiled stuff is fine.
COS 511: Foundations of Machine Learning [pdf]
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I use Gmail through Thunderbird on the desktop and K-9 Mail on my phone.

I don't touch the web client at all except to set filtering rules.
I think this makes perfect sense, crowdfunding has many downsides but I do think that you should be payed before you build your product. By that I just mean, find potential clients in similar industries and ask what they want built to simplify their jobs and if they would pay for such a service to eliminate some pain in their line of work. It's a form of idea extraction that takes a short amount of time and actually gives your idea some validation as well as clients once you launch your idea.
> Any shrinkwrapped DVD that has passed through an Amazon fulfillment warehouse is actually of entirely unknown provenance; it could have been purchased at a stall in Shanghai for all you know.

Not to disagree, but as someone who lives in Shanghai and occasionally buys pirated DVDs, the quality (for a western show) is generally at least as high as you'd expect of official merchandise. I got all of Futurama on many fewer discs than the official stuff uses, at no visible hit to quality.

I find it unlikely that a user, as opposed to a media company running stings, would ever complain.
They wanted an OS that's good at wasting RAM.
Most ads are designed to resonate on an emotional level, rather than being purely informative.

It's the sophistication of their design in order to pierce our emotional 'firewall' that makes them 'evil'; they're basically exploits against the human mind.
(Submitter but not the author.)

It looks like that's because its using GitHub's timeline API, which -- in addition to GitHub's general repository API -- only retrieves repositories which are actually rooted at the given user. Sort of a shame; I feel like most people's most interesting/important open source activity is on repositories which they don't own.
It's all subjective, frontend stuff. But it's ugly. Really ugly. The font, the color scheme, default all effing ugly.

A bug I encounter is when I click on an unread email, and if I then refresh the page the email is still mark unread, unless I read that email and hover to another email. Th
What does all this say about Larry Page?

He gave a speech recently where he actually pondered why people wouldn't want to have their health care data public, so it could be shared to advance medical research.

From that I could tell that he's completely out of touch with ordinary people. He simply has no idea that people might be scared of losing their job or being discriminated against because of an illness.

Reminds me of his former girlfriend/date Marissa Mayer, who built a nursery next to her office while telling Yahoo employees they should no longer work from home.
Your idiotic mobile theme renders this as a gigantic, unscrollable "0%"
Yeah, I forgot HN commenters want things with proof even when it's glaring obvious what's happening.
And breaks scrolling.
I completely disagree with the first example - rainbow map vs. custom color map for height data on a geographic map. The custom color map is designed to show a step at 0, which highlights the coastline. Depending on what you want show, this is very misleading! Besides the water, there is nothing special about the coastline. The rainbow map, on the other hand, shows how shallow the slope of the coast is, and how sensitive the coastline is to changes of the ocean level.
I also don't share the author's concern that rainbow color maps can introduce "bands" in continuous data. Maybe it's because I had to read so many of them over time, but in all except one of the examples, the rainbow color maps gave me at least as much information as the alternative encodings.
And screws with scrolling in desktop browsers too.

Seriously, why do people do this? Instant close tab...
Valid point and agreed but I just wanted to highlight the ridiculous rise in BTC price and been happily cashing in on trades
Everything you ever send to Snapchat is likely saved forever.
If I pay $80 or whatever for a DVD box set and I suspect it's counterfeit you'd better believe I'm going to complain about it. I paid for a real item.
1. is addressed by svn,git,etc and 2. is addressed by SQLite,BerkeleyDB,etc. The advantage of the user-space solution is that they are portable across OS boundaries, version management is independent of OS, and more diversity. How is it an advantage to put this stuff into the OS?

("in the OS" probably always means "in the kernel" in this context, not "in system user-space libraries")
At this point virtually everybody I know in the tech space is buying at least one coin to "hedge" against bitcoin achieving "gold 2.0" status.

What are the chances that as this message echoes out to virtually any urban-dwelling or internet connected human on the planet we may all, as a human race, wind up accidentally embracing a unified digital currency while in pursuit of what amounts to a lottery ticket?
OK, look: the other people who responded about orher systems Google had that had other login systems (hours before you) were both constructive (showing specific examples) and general not jerks about it... They also kept this thread about SSO on topic--jmillikin specifically states "unified login/account system"--nor did they then decide to respond this negative without any real argument. The whole point of this Ask HN was that a bunch of us dislike G+, but the goal was to discuss the reasons why G+ was being pushed internally at Google, and some people from Google were nice enough to actually respond, so let's do away with the random "service geared at destroying anonymity and privacy" rhetoric for a minute.

So: I'm sorry. I did mess this one up. I don't think, however, that my mistake was actually important from the perspective of the article. I've been using some of the services people are saying had third party login support now for many many years, and unlike YouTube I do not remember ever seeing any kind of disconnection between account models used on each. Maybe they were just integrated faster, or maybe its because I had a YouTube account that was ancient and had options that others long since did not.

But either way: it doesn't seem like SSO is an argument for Google+. Google already had single sign on, and to the extent to which it ever had separate login systems that it maintained for its acquisitions they were all rapidly merged. Maybe even in the case of YouTube (which I still feel was different, give that as recently as a year ago I remember still having the ability to manipulate my underlying YouTube account).

Forcing the account to use G+ does make it get forced to use the underlying picture and name from the other account. I can see that as being vaguely interesting. But that goes beyond a "unified login/account system".