skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but the confusion is that both the identity service and their social network are called Google+. So it is hardly surprising that people get confused when they call two supposedly distinct services by the same name. Why not just call the identity service Google Account and then all the perception problems go away. Seems like a huge PR blunder. But then I'm not actually sure how much google really care about this, I think the rage about it is amplified in our HN crowd. Most google customers probably don't notice and of the ones that do the majority likely don't care.
Hi, gopalv. I'm glad to talk to you further privately if you wish. You can go to InfiniSQL's site to send me your email, connect on LinkedIn, or whatever: http://www.infinisql.org/community/

I'm not too religious about licensing--if I can get early adopters/contributors, and so on, I'm willing to consider changing the license terms.

I'm looking for open doors.
What I found interesting was not that it was a lawyer doing their own work, but that the company was a restaurant and beer spinoff from a legal practice, that so far appears to have had very little to do with clothing. If it was a clothing company that was trying to trademark the use of bitcoin for a line of clothing, that would be one thing, but this seems far more speculative an endeavor.
I find DuckDuckGo to be a nice alternative to Google, although I have to switch to google.com for certain searches.

As for email - if I can not connect with IMAP, I am still using the plain old HTML web interface for GMail. The new one has too much clutter. But I am also searching for an alternative with good uptime.

As such, Gmail is the only thing that keeps me connected with google. Any alternatives?
They would never forego data collection. Almost all paid services still collect data.
No, most of those qualities are what it takes to make other people believe you can build something. It's an important distinction between 'people who can build amazing products' and 'people who can convince PG/YC that they should be given money because they can build amazing products', and the areas where the two do not overlap are the ones which demonstrate that SV is not a strict meritocracy based on tech skills and execution. You may be attempting to argue that it is a strict meritocracy based on 'the skill of convincing people that you are worth giving money to', and I might agree, but that is not what people generally seem to think they are arguing when they say SV is a meritocracy (although I think there is increasing recognition for this, based on slight differences in the themes of articles across HN).
I've never understood this condescension and self-righteousness towards those who complain about a service yet still use the service. It's as if complaining about a business you patronize is childish or petty.

Why does anyone think that? It's often economically rational for a customer to say "I'd like to continue using your product/service, but I have a specific complaint about it."[1] That's what all these posts about Google+ are doing.

It's not like anyone's shouting "We need to pass laws against this, right now!" Nobody is questioning Google's legal and moral right to force Google+ on us. Rather, people are saying it's a poor choice and Google's part, and it annoys customers.

[1] These issues are discussed in Exit, Voice, and Loyalty:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty

The basic idea is that an aggrieved consumer can either take their business elsewhere, which is termed "exit," or try to change the company's behavior through things like the OP's blog post, which is termed "voice." Customers sometimes choose voice as their first recourse, and if things get worse or don't improve, the customers sometimes exit.
I love being signed into Chrome. If I looked something up on my phone while I was walking into work, I can quickly open it in a tab on my desktop. If I searched for a specific coffee shop on my desktop and only remember a couple of letters in the name later, chrome on my phone auto-completes. Among many other sweet features, I think it's worth just... signing in.
Here's one thing holding me back from G+: Our gmail account is one that my wife and I share. It's our family email address. Call me old-fashioned, but the profile is neither a him nor her, and it isn't one person

The day they require G+ will be the day I transfer to Fastmail permanently.
> Even the FDA isn't arguing that 23andMe should not offer it's service, just that it shouldn't market it.

They aren't even really arguing that either; they are more arguing that if they are going to market it, then they need to provide studies supporting the accuracy and take other steps to get it approved to be marketed for the particular uses it is being marketed.

They are saying in the Warning Letter that 23andMe must stop marketing the product because 23andMe has abandoned the approval process (and apparently was not preventing 23andMe from marketing the product as long as they were working through the approval process), not because the product is inherently unmarketable.
No one should have "ownership" over the word bitcoin in trade. The Bitcoin Foundation was ostensibly created to protect bitcoin. The duty of handling Whac-A-Mole® annoyances like this is expected of them.
I'd like to know how much a setup like that could produce and at what profit.
> I'd love to see a clean slate replacement for the shell that still feels Unix-like and retains most of its existing benefits.

I've been working on one, in my spare time for about a year. I can't tell you how exciting it is. It's still a ways from being ready for actual use, but I'll have a website up in a couple of weeks to showcase the approach, and will surely post to HN when it's up.
Has anyone said... buttcoin yet?
Cool! That is very interesting, thank you for that research.

I guess I can't really claim to be the true originator of that term then. But it still makes a good story...
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Great! How far does the book go in terms of advanced approaches? Up to the current state of research?
A few points:

2) I've also switched to DDG, but I still find that google gives me somewhat better results for things related to programming are academics. Apart from that, I like DDG a lot.

3) That's the big, big problem for me. I could stop using virtually any other product labelled google without problem (ok, youtube excluded), but gmail keeps me there. Not so much that gmail itself is so great (it is good, for sure), but the act of switching emails, updating contacts left and right, is just a pain.

4) it seems to me that most providers for hangout/video type of things are equally obnoxious with the way they handle your data..

Going back to the email stuff, I guess I'm also waiting for a decent alternative to pop up, as I'm not inclined to switch 10 times in the next 6 months..
You kidding... right?
For Those of Us That Can't Lead the Simple Life
I've written a complete C++98 compiler, front to back.
ASCII fluid dynamics -- International Obfuscated C Code Contest 2012
Now it seems to work for me as well. Thanks for the update!
>They silently activated his account in the background. That doesn't really seem annoying to me.

So essentially signing you up for things without consent is OK? It's never OK, irrespective of motive.
Dear mainstream media: Please stop using the word 'drone' to describe remote-controlled planes and quadrotors.

That is all.
Yes and no - the idea of insulating existed 100 years ago, but the materials weren't the greatest (attics full of horsehair, etc.). And the cheapness of fossil fuels made it seem mostly unnecessary. Moving from a drafty 1921 home to a passive house that was built this year, the difference for me was striking. Some of the improvements can be retrofitted onto older homes (PV, blown-in insulation, attic insulation), others, not so much (windows and doors are more painful to replace, e.g.).
I really like the pricing of Google Apps. Flexible and not very costly. I wish they had kept free email with single user Google apps accounts (a requirement for appengine custom domains) though. Even something with a 10 mb inbox would have worked.

Google has played the long waiting game and has given users some excellent services for free(which has benefitted Google too). Now that the services are mature, they have to make sure that these services are self sufficient.
So I was editing OpenStreetMap the other day, because I wanted to fill in the shops in my neighbourhood.

They have a feature where you can see all the editors that are near you. There were dozens of them, and they were all men.

Why? What could possibly be preventing women from editing OpenStreetMap? Why are men at the vanguard of this project? This project is good for society, and I saw no women.

I was actually surprised, after the Wikipedia-is-dominated-by-men articles from a few months ago. I expected that women would purposely be seeking out opportunities to contribute in other areas.

In a few years when OpenStreetMap is larger, feminists will complain that there aren't enough women editors, and that men are preventing them. But men aren't preventing them.

When there's nothing preventing your group from doing something, and your group is under-represented, it is your group's fault.
Maybe I'm completely out of touch but what is a "CEO page"?
So just because white men predominate in a field that automatically makes the field less meritocratic? If you live in a society where white men have more access to the tools that will allow them to forge their merit, when those white males encounter a meritocracy they will naturally rise to the top. You can argue that the society where these men come from is not meritocratic, but you can not argue that the field they enter is not meritocratic just because they are over represented.
Why can't I specify a remote dictionary of my own ? AKA: no i18n support, thank you.
Why is the data mixed in with the code in the first place?
They can ingest the content of every copyrighted book without prior agreement, but TV schedule licensing scares them?
I get the impression that you perceive building a "framework" as a self-aggrandising exercise created for the sole purpose of standardising software development into creating run-of-the-mill products. Such view would be too hard on the not-so-trivial amount of effort that goes into creating a framework that can be applied to a broad range of use-cases, far beyond what it was originally conceived for.

In fact, the truth is that it is too easy in programming to skip the painstaking effort of reading and adapting to someone else's codebase. It is simply convenient to throw everything away and start from scratch embracing the (in)famous "Not Invented Here" syndrome.
Fair enough. But I'd suggest that it's much easier to get to $20 million as a non-white-Male than it would be in most other fields with similar educations. I don't see too many non-white Males at the top of law firms, in our country's cabinet, or atop large investment banks.

But this is speculation. What would be interesting to see is hard data based on an entry point (People graduating with CS degrees applying for VC funding versus people with law degrees applying for an associate spot) and watching how the funnels change over time. This type of data has to exist somewhere. It won't prove causality, but it will at least tell part of the story better than personal experience and anecdotes.
Maybe this takes a second glance to understand, I agree.

There are a few dozen ways to present and graph data, that humans can quickly lock onto. The circular arrangement may or may not be the penultimate method to visualize health data, but it does afford a few good byproducts like seeing outliers quickly, identifying potential patterns (if you're looking across people), etc.

The high-level hGraph with ~18 metrics (we're pretty sure this isn't The Set) is the galactic view, just to give you an instant sense of your health. Once you dive into the data, the level of fidelity increases. Think of the Eames 10x10 flick of seeing the universe and then zooming in to get to the atomic levels that reveal trends, history, etc.

Directionality is how you construct the model (and then interpret it). You can eat too much. You can live in a hazardous environment (with too little X and too much Y). You're right that demographics will have a severe impact on metrics. That bias should be represented in the viz/algorithm.

hGraph needs some TLC from clinicians, policy-makers, and we the patients in order to get it to the next level.

Check out the screenshots of the health detail displays. If you have questions, fire away.

-Juhan, juhan@mit.edu, hGraph co-author
Yet San Francisco is filled with older homes...

No, the real reason is the delta between a tiny but valuable home and junk in 30 years is not that high because construction is cheap due to climate and the time value of money eat's what little value might be there. For most people they get most of there value from simply living in the house.

PS: US, also spends a lot of our GDP on housing construction we just value the land vs home differently because of cultural reasons and construction materials. Despite the demonstration from the rust belt that it's mostly the land that's valuable not cheap homes. aka location location location
The short answer is that we've made a (philosophical) decision to stay right in our highly technical niche and not gussy up our site, or product, with all of the things you might expect to see.

This resonates very well with the people that find us and will eventually use us, but the people that make decisions and pay us are not impressed with what they see.

So if we're not going to put up the PDF whitepapers and the product tour videos that they want to see ... how do we bridge that gap ?

That's where the CEO page comes in.
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A Japanese here. I think this article fell into the same trap that many other similar articles fell into. Namely, in trying to make the article interesting, it attributes more to the culture and psyche, ignoring more mandane logical reasons.

One of the primary reasons houses depreciate in value so rapidly in Japan is simply because that is the accounting rules. If you look at http://www1.m-net.ne.jp/k-web/genkasyokyaku/genka-tatemono.h... (and I hope Google Translate translates it well), you see that the typical wooden houses (the kinds you see in California, where I live) depreciate competely in just 20 years in the eyes of tax agency. This has real effect on mortgage.

The rules around the market are different, too. For example, in California most houses are sold and bought as-is. In Japan, the seller is on the hook for up to an year for problems that weren't discovered at the point of sale.

These differences depress the existing house market, and that is made up by the new house market, which in turn translates into a lot more new houses.

I find this report from Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism highly educational. It comes with lots of numbers: http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/001002572.pdf more
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But what percentage of applicants were neither white or male? Without knowing that your statement is essentially propaganda dressed up as statistics.
Estimates of this sort depend crucially on the rate at which other labs ship ASICs. A good guess is that the hashing power of the network will double monthly until whatever machines people have right now are barely worth running, but there's not a lot of certainty.
Beastie Boys, 'Girls' Viral Video in Copyright Infringement Fight
M4N14C, you've been hellbanned.
I'm not sure if you are making an intentional reference to this or not, but it does make an interesting counter-point to the assertion that mathematics is a meritocracy: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556

"This is a special collection of problems that were given to select applicants during oral entrance exams to the math department of Moscow State University. These problems were designed to prevent Jews and other undesirables from getting a passing grade. Among problems that were used by the department to blackball unwanted candidate students, these problems are distinguished by having a simple solution that is difficult to find. Using problems with a simple solution protected the administration from extra complaints and appeals. This collection therefore has mathematical as well as historical value."

(Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3096793 and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4759642)
A page to provide to your CEO (as a technical person) that will get them past overly technical/marketing speak. Basically a "I'm recommending this software, an here is an easy breakdown on why we should use it," page.
Weird guy seems to be possessed by the twerking spirit on the D train in newyork
Yeah, that is why we need a Health Freedom Constitutional Amendment.
It makes me sad that all this computation can't simultaneously be used to fold proteins, or some other "externally productive" calculation.
Obviously successful startups are lucky. I think the idea of releasing quickly/efficiently is to test the market to see if a larger, more complex product is desired (IOW can you get lucky?). In the example provided, a beta release of one level of Ryzom could have saved years of dev time if it was not well received.
Just as a quick reality check: Google has about 300m MAUs [0] and for their last quarter made 14.8b in revenue [1], which with quick-and-dirty math leads to about $14.6/user/month

[0] http://marketingland.com/google-hits-300-million-active-mont...

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGOOG&fstype=ii&ei=...
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Ok makes sense in special cases indeed, however a really unsafe default...
We used to do stuff like this. It worked okay.

How do you know the _unique_ goals the CEO is trying to achieve in their strategy matches what's shown on your CEO page? What if your last bullet point is the only one they care about? Showing every CEO the exact same message isn't personalized, and doesn't resonate.

What works better is empowering the "recommender" to sell your company themselves, instead of just having them point their CEO to a page on your website. You can work with this person to determine what the most compelling cases are for _their_ business, and tailor the CEO message to that.

It's much more effective for building a relationship without much additional work, and it raises conversions because it's more genuine.
I think the Beastie Boys are dead to rights here. There's no way using the entire song for a commercial enterprise can be considered a parody.
wouldn't that have been cool. If bitcoin mining could have been done in a way that had practical significance yet also resulted in coins?
So is there any problem to which ASIC miners can be repurposed?
I'm on 100MB line and it's been extremely slow. Several of the images from the /images/ directory are taking 6-7 seconds to load.

http://i.imgur.com/wEmmMfc.png
...which is why "logging into YOUR BROWSER" is the most retarded abomination ever conceived in the history of internet privacy.
In the past ten years, Japan has had 21 earthquakes of magnitude 6.5 or greater. In the past 100 years, Romania has had 5.
> In a true free market, you wouldn't have a liability shield and would face severe consequences for putting out dangerous products.

Liability for defective (whether through malice, negligence, or in some cases on a strict liability basis) products is government intervention in the marketplace, and is specifically designed to address one of the ways that reality does not align with the presuppositions under which an unregulated "free market" is ideal, to wit, that people generally do not, in fact, act with perfect knowledge of the outcomes of economic decisions when they engage in them.

It is no different than many other government interventions in the marketplace in its basis.

> And also, the FDA is not some magic fairy dust that will shield you from bad products. Mountain Dew still has BVO in it, for example.

That does not mean that its approval procedures (and procedures for reviewing products already on the market) do not have utility in providing clearer information on products within its regulatory domain and helping consumers avoid bad products.
There is an altcoin called "primeCoin" that addresses that. The minining is dedicated to finding ~~new prime numbers~~ mew prime number chains.

(I don't know why this is useful, as I am not a mathematician.)
Think about how much computing power is currently being used to "shoot people" whether it be virtual... or not.
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Sure, windows and doors are more difficult to replace, but it's all quite doable, which is striking considering the century that passed in the meantime. It's a testament to how slowly housing technology evolves.
Luck by definition is based on chance, something one cannot fully control. A startup of course involves luck, simplify because no company can control all the factors involved in becoming a success. So yes, I completely agree that successful startups are lucky. However, it's not "just" lucky as your title suggests. Just like playing lottery or gambling, there are ways you can maximize your chances of winning. Buy more lottery tickets as your blog post says, is one way to maximize the chance. In the startup world, obtaining the right skills, choosing the right features to implement, making the right connections and a million and one others are all the things you can do to maximize your chances of building a successful startup. I think your post illustrates the right idea that there is luck and chance involved at building a successful startup. But isn't that the case for everything in life? In the end, the rule of thumb is, "do whatever you can, and the rest is luck".
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This has very little to do with logging in with Chromium. Picasa was the first service to integrate with G+, they then allowed high resolution picture hosting and the like. This also has nothing to do with "maximizing profits" (at least not directly) it has more to do with phasing out Picasa web albums for G+ photos.

And if I remember correctly the new terms prompt does specifically mention G+ integration, and it has a 'dont accept' option.
Flossing religiously. I used to be Bleeding Gums Murphy, but no more. A dental hygienist showed me the proper way to floss and now I will get up at 4am if I somehow forgot to floss before bedtime, go into the bathroom, and floss. I've only missed once in 7+ years. Bad gums are associated with heart disease, tooth loss, and other nasty effects. No thanks.

Quitting, after 30+ years, saying, "God bless you" (or really, "Gahblessyou") automatically after someone sneezes. If you stop and think about how dumb this is, it feels really good to break this ridiculous cultural habit. I've been "clean" from this for 2+ years now.
>That's a little much.

This is a great question raised by Capitalism, and the extreme lengths the United States has taken it to.

How do you define how much profit is enough?

If you're suggesting Google can still make "enough", shouldn't McDonald's pay their workers a few bucks more and still make billions? Shouldn't banks lower fees and still make trillions?

In our current world, the only amount of profit that is enough is "more", and that will be attained at all costs (i.e. employees living below the poverty line, banks destroying the global economy and in Google's case, we lose our privacy)
You do realize that was for special pastes, right? Cells + functions, drawings etc
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