skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't like being forced to do things. Facebook wanted me to add some more info, which I hate, but at least they let me click 'next' a bunch of times and then it was over with.

Quora has done a good job figuring out what I like based on links I click from other sources, why do I have to tell them more? I wouldn't be annoyed by the topic page if it came up one time, I could click "skip" and it goes away forever.

I am not sure I would actually pay $5 to skip that page, I live perfectly fine without Quora, but I'd at least respect the "be annoyed or pay" attitude.

Having said all that, maybe this doesn't annoy many people and I'm simply a grumpy old-ish man.
Actually, when I created a disposable gmail account a couple of years ago, it came with google plus already active. I deleted that part, of course, but I never signed up for it.
Indeed, though that could very well be that no one else wants to buy it as much as IBM not wanting to sell it. POWER as an architecture seems to have thoroughly lost momentum everywhere except at IBM themselves (the console market dropped it, what remains of PA Semi do ARM based designs in Apple), which is a bad sign. MIPS and SPARC were both here before.
I have a completely different story: I spent 4+ years abroad and I wanted to go back to Italy so badly that I found a remote job.

If you look through my history you'll be able to find a blog post that tells the story. I'm more than willing to tell you more if you want and maybe hook you up for an internship.
> One of the problems is that you will find many of the 'enterprise' jobs that you feel will trap you are commonplace in a lots of countries - certainly here in the UK and I'm sure in America also. There are more jobs in startups in the USA but not so many as you might be hoping (even if you could get a VISA). My point is the grass is not always greener on the other side.

Reading sites like Hacker News on a regular basis can give you the impression that everyone in the U.S. lives in a big city and works for a startup. That's definitely not the case! --- although it may be easier to seek out those sorts of jobs here than it is in the EU; I wouldn't know.
So much this.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Google's blown every shred of trust I have in it. I've used the company's services since 1998, for search, for mail, its OS, its corporate tools.

To the extent I can avoid using them now (and in the case of email where another party uses Google it's pretty much impossible), I do. And will continue to reduce my footprint.

And I can trace pretty much all of that to G+ and specific statements and actions of Eric "I'll sue you for publishing my home address" Schmidt, Sergey "Sleeping with my subordinate" Brin, and Larry "We'll fight the NSA while carrying their water" Brin. Honorable mentions to Vic "Not my real name" Gundotra and others.

Are there still good people at Google? Yes. Has the company lost its soul? Completely.
Because I suspect he's a google shill.
It's actually trivial to prevent from a programming perspective: don't automatically link accounts, and even if they are "linked" (for login purposes), don't import/export personal information from them.
glad that you liked the blog post. talking about price, india no more falls in 'cheap outsourcing' destinations. what we have learnt from our clients is: if they need quality work, they have to pay decent rates inevitably.
You're right, he used a poor example: 1 hour brain break is not necessarily unreasonable at times. However, his basic point is very true. Right now I work at a company (clara.io) that has an incredible 8 hours a day culture. Heads down, solid work for a solid 8, and then out the door as if there was a clock to punch. This is an incredible contrast to every other place I've worked at, where 10 hours was a short day, yet in reality we probably spent less time working than we do at clara.io. We'd spend time chatting about politics or local issues, take long breaks, waste time on Hacker News and the like, et cetera. It's really hard to cut that out once you're used to it.
I've read a few of her articles and they have all been lousy. Not spectacularly lousy, just as lousy as many mnay other articles.

But this article, although terribly written, does have so e really important information: Google has a bunch of products. I signup to them using different names. I have no idea how to control what name is used for what service. Ideally we'd have either a single control panel allowing is to set the name that is used for each service, or an easy to access control panel for each service.

In the UK I am legally allowed to use whatever name I like so long as I do not have the intention to defraud people. This makes Google's weird complicated system really annoying.
With the sheer volume of laws on the books, it's a foregone conclusion that they have broken as many as a prosecutor cares to find.

Although it's doubtful anyone will be imprisoned for "doing their patriotic duty."
I'm going to end up on some NSA watch list but ...

At some point these elected and unelected idiots in government are going to have to recognize that most of the american public (referring to US citizens) is coming to view him as a hero. And Obama, who was supposed to be "for the people, by the people" has done nothing to dismantle the programs put in place by previous administrations or to even curtail advances during the six years of his "kingship".

I love my country, but how can I not be disillusioned with my government?
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Should the word "unexpectedly" in the title be changed to "predictably"?
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I was thinking 'naturally'.
It's mine, I just signed up to join the discussion, but evidently new users get rate-limited to only a few comments, so I've incremented the username by 1 to indicate it's still me.
I really like this, PR's are a crucial part of my workflow and they are one of the few notifications that I actually don't mind getting.
Agreed.

If something requires Facebook/Google plus/Twitter/whatever to login, I go somewhere else.
This is not a "private information leak." It's expected behaviour. Entering information in that field to create a new event results in Google Calendar parsing your information as best as it can, to automatically set things like the date, time, event description and of course, the participants (the apparent privacy leak here.)
There's a certain irony in the poster dismissing Java with one hand:

"In effect, to the developer it 'feels like writing Java,' which as we all know, is a terrible feeling"

While professing the benefits of something which looks rather similar to Java tag libraries.

<graph class="visitor-graph">
<axis position="left"></axis>
<axis position="bottom"></axis>
<line name="typical-week" line-data="model.series.typicalWeek"></line>
<line name="this-week" line-data="model.series.thisWeek"></line>
<line name="last-week" line-data="model.series.lastWeek"></line>
</graph>

"If you’re thinking, “that’s not HTML anymore! What are these graph, line, and axis elements?”—well, that’s the point, Angular allows us to “extend HTML” to create those elements!"

<cewolf:chart id="line" title="Page View Statistics" type="line" xaxislabel="Page" yaxislabel="Views">
<cewolf:data>
<cewolf:producer id="pageViews"/>
</cewolf:data>
</cewolf:chart>

That's from a tag library released in June, 2002.

Lest angry Java-haters accuse me of trying to extol the virtues of JSPs, taglibs et al, this is not the point of my post. I'm indicating the commonalities between two modes of development separated by more than a decade, which in the churnful world of technology might as well be separate geologic eras.

It's interesting to compare these two things (particularly when a prior effort has fallen by the wayside) to determine if you are implementing the same concept in a new guise, or if you are removing the issues that people had with prior models which led to their lack of use.
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Come on, don't be a drama queen, as a european citizen how can you be trapped? You can go work anywhere in Europe without visa.

I'm in France and we're not well renowned for our startup scene, but you can still find something interesting if you look hard enough and build your skillset, either through more boring jobs or the open source "scene".

And if tomorrow I can't find any appealing job in France I'll just move to Germany, the UK or wherever.

The only thing that's stopping you is your fears, your skills and/or your ambitions.

I wish you the best of luck but please try to get a little perspective, there are millions of people who are trapped right now in countries at war.

And without looking for war-torn countries, us people in the IT crowd have it really easy in the job market compared to... well almost anybody else these days in Europe really, possibly with the exception of traders.
Sure, RATM too, it's in my playlist. It's just hilarious hearing Jim Morrison trying to piss off a stadium full of people on a scratchy live recording from the 70's... If it's not coprophilia, necromania, incest, then it's a political statement that doesn't make it into any B-sides. You've got to wonder how much is thrill of manipulation, cowtowing and how much is authentic political motives. (Jim Morrison obviously didn't give a fuck about much.)

The Doors discography:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:bf7a74e56a23676609bc56f974df88230fd4fccb&dn=THE+DOORS+-+Discography+1965-2008+%5BMp3+320+kbps%5D+TNT+Village+&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

RATM discography:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a0c51579459be3d8c3f750ec49121c171741a74d&dn=Rage+Against+the+Machine+Discography&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337
I came here to say exactly that. It's absolutely crazy.
> hope it's not written in PHP.

It is though.
The value is probably closer to reality. Don't know what is Snapchat really, but other hip online whatever (instagram, tumblr, facebook, ...) are insanely overvalued for some weird reason.
Great to see another Sheffield-based software engineer on HN!
I agree with your second sentence, not your first. I think that the only way people, even smart people, are going to comprehend what the hell is going on is by these 'bashing' sessions.

Most people will see the headline and say, "Well, I'm ok with the service. Not a problem I can anticipate." It's only when more imaginative, knowledgeable people, who are also able prognosticate and clearly articulate the possible consequences, have this dialog that there is a chance it will catch peoples' attention.

Even then, the odds are long and grim, but the discussion is necessary. Otherwise, most people just don't get it.

Many people on this thread are saying things to the effect of "I lost all trust in Google." I honestly wonder how people could ever fully "trust" them, in the sense that they are not going to look out for their own bottom line- or, more accurately, look out for things that will increase the value of their stock. And that usually means opening up new revenue streams. And for them, that means more ways to get advertisers interested in advertising with them. And that means, of course, giving them more access to their dear users.

It's the same with any public company, but especially high-profile ones who are likely to attract 'active' investors. Since companies don't usually pay dividends on their stocks anymore, the only way the piece of paper that I paid upwards of $1200 for is to convince some idiot to give me $1300 for it. Otherwise, I want someone to be fired because they've cost me a lot of money.
Wrong.

If you happen to provide similar identifiers or contacts on multiple services, they'll join them.

That's what happened with G+ and YouTube.

The mobile phone number Google kept requesting for two-factor identification -- oh, we'll use that to show your G+ profile to people who know your phone number. Fucking no fucking way you will. My G+ identity is pseudonymous, the phone number, unfortunately, isn't (and no, I didn't provide it). But sho' nuff, Google provided _that_ particular retroactive feature.

App Store ratings -- those are under your Real Name now.

Location / store reviews? Dittos.

I've asked 'em, they won't answer. But, Google, if you want us to not think you're working hand in hand with the NSA, stop carrying their water for them.
Then we disagree. Especially if it's in the title it indicates you want to coordinate with the email you just entered.

A proper way to do it is, Title: "Email Alice", Description: "alice@example.com".
You could consider joining a hackspace wherever you go to get your sanity back from the constant boring grind of the day job.

Plus there's the usual advantage of meeting new people, talking to like minded people and possibly creating something awesome with the members of the hackspace.
You mean google apps? They give you one as part of it.
I don't really understand stuff like that.

> The Windows trust and value proposition was always compatibility,

There are other platforms, you know? If you say "compatibility", you might want to add "compatibility with other proprietary microsoft stuff".

> low-cost devices,

They could be cheaper when not being forced to pay for windows with them.

> and an open architecture (to name a few).

I don't really get it. Almost everything he talks about is proprietary closed source microsoft specific stuff. How "open" of an architecture is that?

But then I don't really understand why people would want to tie themselves completely to proprietary microsoft technology, even if it did not change so much.

Aren't there enough actual open and cross platform frameworks that people could use? Why specialize yourself to create software that does and will only ever work on windows?
As people mentioned, as an EU citizen, you can move to another European country (much easier than moving to the USA).

Since you are a student, you may want to enroll in the Erasmus Programme [1] and use it as a stepping stone.

Also, I'm curious to know where you are in Italy. Does it make sense to move to bigger cities like Milano or Roma? You'll have a better chance to meet like-minded people in a bigger city (for instance, there is a Python meetup in Milano [2]). If this makes sense, you may use this a stepping stone before moving abroad. (bigger cities are also good to meet people from other countries living in Italy, as they may help you with contacts, etc)

[1] http://www.erasmusprogramme.com
[2] http://www.meetup.com/Python-Milano/events/160502642/
On the contrary, it encourages it.

The point of this sort of statement is not persuade or clarify, but to muddy the waters and confuse the public. All he has to do is get the statement out there, and people that aren't paying close attention will conclude that it's an open question.

If he goes too far, he can always tone it down, change his mind "based on new evidence" or even apologize if it comes to that. People that criticize him will have to acknowledge his new position. But people that aren't paying close attention won't notice, and any retractions won't connected back to his original statement. That will still be out there on the net, getting quoted, linked to, retweeted etc, doing it's job of misinforming the unwary.
"Intended" isn't the same as "expected"!

As a user, I would never have guessed that Calendar would do this. It frightens me in much the same ways that Buzz did. (And Buzz did leak some data that I considered very private.)
If you're aware of the feature, it's not a privacy leak. If you aren't, it could be very damaging.

It would have been nice if the first time the Calendar parsed and sent emails on behalf of a user, it would ask if this is what they wanted. It doesn't have to bug them ever again, but that's a single instance of training that would minimize confusion.
Very poor article. Hopefully we get some better analysis from Asymco or someone else.
You're totally misunderstanding what he's saying. It's that these people are kidding themselves and effectively completely wasting their own time.

Instead of working 9-5 being productive 90% of the time, they're working 9-11, but during 9-5 they're 30% productive then make up for it by doing a heroic effort in the evening.

If they'd have just focused earlier, they'd be at the cinema with their friends.

I've been in that scenario, getting nothing done during the day then working hard at home at night. It creeps up on you, to begin with you're working all 10 or 12 hours. By the end of it, you're not.
This probably means you should stop contributing.
Introducing Trailer has really improved our workflow—since we introduced it last year, +50% pull request activity!
(our team activity graphed: http://cl.ly/image/1X1R0m2a0S1i)
So you got yourself a load balancer
But aren't they selling like gangbusters in Europe?
For pull requests, I go to https://github.com/dashboard/pulls/

For comments, I go to https://github.com/notifications

Maybe if I had hundreds of pull requests per week I would need something more elaborate, but for my current situation it's enough.

I never check my email for these.
"Short of not sharing any information at all about anyone..." Agreed! And online services, like Google and Facebook, should NOT be sharing ANY information with ANYONE without EXPLICIT permission from the person who's information it is.

I may want to share a photo of a me at a party with a sub-set of my friends, that doesn't mean that I want that photo to be available to my mother or to a potential employee 50 years from now. When G+ started they introduced 'circles' which encapsulates this concept, and I was happy.

Since google combined all google services under single user name -without giving users a choice in the matter- they lost my support. With the exception of gmail, I've stopped using google services; and as soon as I find an alternative to gmail that meets my needs I'm dropping that. And I haven't used facebook in many years, for the same privacy control reasons.
We'll happily take patches to make it 10.8 compatible if you're stuck with that and Cocoa-savvy!
You can go to the US with a J1 visa until you finish your studies but it's hard. I would suggest finding something in London or Berlin first. There is also lots of remote work too. Personally, what I did to get out of there is creating an online identity (github, LinkedIn) and after a while you will start receiving offers. I'd also recommend applying to the hiring threads here on hn. That worked pretty well for me in the past.
I can recommend the book: "Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room"

http://amazon.com/o/asin/0307390314

which is a short, personal appreciation-cum-memoir of Tarkovsky's "Stalker"
i guess that could be true. The other day i was trying to convince someone that you cannot use a mathematical conjecture if a proof has not been found yet. I think I succeeded.
Remember when google kept personal details private too?

How long did that last, exactly?
I didn't read all the other comments here but being an MsC. student from Switzerland that graduated recently, I can try to give you some hints.
Since you started your studies 3 years ago, you most likely did not yet start your Masters degree. I would recommend you to apply at some other good university in Europe (maybe England or Switzerland) since getting a visa will be much easier. We had plenty of foreign students at the EPFL. My university also had pretty good connections with universities in the US (I did an exchange year at CMU for example).
If you want to directly go for a startup, I have read that Berlin has quite an active scene in that respect. Switzerland has basically not much to offer in terms of interesting startups (although you can get very good support from universities and even the government, as far as I know).
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about studying in Switzerland.
Why then, does a notification dialogue box pop up when you enter the information on the calendar overview page?

Evidently, someone thought it was a good idea to warn there that an invite was going to be sent. So why does no warning pop up when you're in the "Edit Event" view?

There's a discrepancy here.

See my video in the blog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqjYb6eiMWE
"Remember we do everything in reps"
Thanks. I just signed up. But my deposit isn't going through.

I'm trying to make a support request, but any idea what goes into the "requester" field on the support request?
As a fellow Italian who's recently moved to London (from Milan) and managed to escape the 9am-6pm cycle, let me summarize my last few years with these tips:

- Get into freelancing. It's gonna be hard, you won't get rich with it (at least in Italy) but it's much less stressful.

- Find some nice remote work on oDesk/Elance/whatever, possibly long term. I found a great client USA-based which I've been working with for the last 18 months, and it's still going well. Try to do some consulting work for a local company a few days per week to have a comfortable income. I was being paid 7€/h as an employee, and 27€/h as a consultant afterwards, in the exact same company)

- Make yourself necessary for the clients you're working with.

- Move. London's a great idea, it's more expensive than Italy but not so much as one would think (compared to Milan for example). You however _need_ to be fluent in English, if you don't want to work as a waiter as many Italians here do.

I hope this helps a bit. PM me if you wanna talk about it.

EDIT: grammar
https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/36604
..which is terrific hardware to be sure.

But you have to be in Al-Qaeda to be able to afford it.
What are you talking about? You have written off PHP because of a WordPress plugin issue.
>Google really needs to work harder at protecting the privacy of its users.

They would need to start protecting it first.
Bee.app looks awesome!

Definitely will give it a try, to get and idea whether I should part with those $49. Could well be the case to intense Githubbers.
It's probably even worse in banking and law that software development.
Nope. It is heavily influenced by Prolog.

And it influenced Scala, Go and many more.
You mean Bill Gates won't give me $5000 if I hit share on this post? If everyone is saying it, it has to be the truth.
-mindset of the majority
OK, I guess the requester field is for my email address? Seems weird since they already have it.
Read this guy's history (and the same usernames with lower numbers on the end (edit: ...and now he's onto 4)) for some comedy.

Google employee, or rabid google fan? I can't decide.
TED Talk: Amy Webb - How I hacked online dating
http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_webb_how_i_hacked_online_dating...
I doubt the EU (or other governing bodies) are very willing to help.

If they were to decide, everything you put on the 'net would be digitally signed with a key on your passport. (yeah, slight hyperbole - unfortunately not too much)
No checkboxes and no options that I ever saw.

I'm the kind of person that explores all menu options and such in software to make sure it doesn't run/install anything I don't want. When signing up for services online, I go through all the settings. I even occasionally go through my Gmail settings to make sure nothing has changed.

Maybe it was "designed" to give me an option, but I never had an option. Gmail isn't bug-free either. Over the years I've run into a few bugs. Occasionally the link for the inbox shows I have unread mail, but there is none. I'm able to fix it by doing a search for unread mail, and the link changes showing that I don't have any unread mail.