skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I, too, am against the push to integrate all of my services. This is the main thing that's pushed me towards Twitter and stopped me really getting into Google+. I don't use it for email, publishing mobile apps, hosting my virtual servers, etc. It's essentially disposable.

I've been online long enough to have had several identities which have served me well in certain circles, at certain times of my life. Being able to selectively dump these when necessary has been a way of online life for me.

When I decided the everything-tracking creep factor of Facebook was too much, I just deleted the account completely (well, as much as one can do). I wasn't concerned that it might take down my email, or my mobile app purchase history, or any other manner of service. It was quite painless.

Google+ and the drive to integrate everything is leading to the erosion of identity compartmentalisation.

I know I can create multiple Google accounts, one for each service and each identity. However managing all of these at once (with Google's multi account login features) has always been very cumbersome. More so than an account with each service provider. And I never trust that my activity isn't being correlated across my individual accounts.
My point was that the nexus 7 and ipad mini have been highly successful in these markets for a while now. I want to see competition but they're coming kind of late.
GFiber is the antidote to these parasitic bastards. They have the cash to push last-mile FTTH to every metro area in the country. I think they own the dark fiber backbone to do it too.

Here's hoping that G thoroughly topples every last one of them.
Any update on posting the results? I'm currently enrolled in a bootcamp type program and really curious to hear about the perceptions of people in the workforce.
I know you can trigger hardware acceleration with CSS transforms (a life saver), have not checked out how canvas handles that (i've made some small games using canvas on mobile). If HA exists for canvas on desktop (_webkit_), wouldn't it work in a iOS webview?
Have you heard of subscribe and save? It prevents all of those (given fresh) and saves amazon in shipping costs.
That would be fantastic. I imagine a fun format where you are presented with the bug, and given some appropriate, but short, length of time to try and diagnose it. (Let's say, 15 minutes to an hour.) Then, the presenter polls everyone to see if anyone figured it out, and explains the actual bug and the fix in an actual presentation.
I've never had a consistently good experience with UPS, FedEx, or USPS.

We used to have great experiences with FedEx in the '90s; their culture seemed much different then. Recent experiences have been less good: http://blog.seliger.com/2014/02/16/fallible-fedex-and-federa... and now the company feel like any other big, uninterested, bureaucratic organization.

We once had a FedEx manager go through a parade in Washington DC to get a proposal to a federal agency. One of their managers once delayed a plane (!) based on a snafu on their end. Now we have stories like the one at the link.
What Would Google Glass Look Like If It Was Designed By Prada?
The FIBIAC (homebrew mechanical computer, using punch cards)
Ms Horvath might not be going about this in the best way.

But you see, I believe this is part of the inherent problem we have in IT. We make assumptions about the behavior and motivations of someone after this happens to them AND we're putting limitations on their behavior afterward without addressing the root cause.

I was curious to know why you specifically mentioned that it would be hard for her to get a job and didn't specifically mention that it would be hard for the people she named/shamed to get jobs.
I've worked around this by setting a reoccurring meeting to go home with my address in Google Calendar, my phone tells me beforehand when I need to leave in order to get home on time. I don't know if it includes traffic in its estimates but I've never been late (give or take a couple minutes).
I've played around with Phaser, and I've played around with PhoneGap. Using what you know will always get your further faster than learning native, but there _could_ be performance issues depending on the game.
Internet Explorer: The rise, fall, and rehabilitation of IE
Engineering All Hands Support
I have the same issue. Most of my g+ usage was photos that I shared with family only. I also shared the odd tech post publicly. When I do that my family get weird 'you might have missed' spammy emails, which I have been questioned about several times. I.e. why are you sending me this 'crap' stuff I'm really not interested in.
Combining the scalibility of software startups with biotechnology is a very interesting approach, indeed. Apart from the different timeframe when it comes to working with software and wetware (e.g. lab work with biomaterials), I wonder how easy it will be to get people and know-how on board. In Europe, young scientists (speak: PhD-slaves) are often bound to their research institutes when it comes to the exploitation of the IP generated by their research. They may end up with publications or patents, but usually it is the partners from industry that bring the product to the market. How does this compare to the U.S.?
I found this delightful: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
I wish there was a service that would just let me rent discs through the mail.
FIBIAC would be a great name for a computer that always gave false results. :)
I disagree, 6B is a large number. Settlements of that size are probably pretty rare. I think the tech companies caved quickly because of the round after round of bad press they were getting(which was doing a number to their "we care about our employees" propaganda). Should be interesting to see how it's distributed.
To get a more accurate response, I'd list a few use cases here. If you want better control over cache in general (expiration, purge, etc) or have strong gains (use-case specific) of using VCL or ESI its pretty hard to stay clear of using Varnish. Those are at least my caveats when choosing whether to include it or not in my stack.
jorgem has it right. If you can get your mind around how complex it really is to make the entire wheel hollow with ribs inside with the flowing spokes getting wider as they get closer to the hub area while at the same time the wall thickness is increasing this can not be produced with "injection molding" 3D Printing can make duplicate the shape but the printed wheel is too weak, takes a lot of hours each to make and costs way too much.

3Drsr Technology sets designers free to make amazingly complex hollow structural parts quickly and at reasonable cost.
I wonder - did they check his political donations?
I actually like what G has done with chrome SSO and turning Chrome into the default dashboard for their apps. I've found myself actually using G+ more and more. Rolling Picasa into + is a really good strategy as well -" Oh hey, my GS4 auto - uploaded all these cool photos from last weekend, might as well share them"

Ironically enough, I think G+ faced its own identity problem for too long and failed to get critical mass because of it. To me, the increasing convergence of chrome and android is a bigger deal than anything happening with +
I like Paul Graham's thinking on a lot of topics, but that quote of his that kicks off the article... Oof. What a pandering mess.
Tech Giants Pony Up Cash To Help Prevent Another Heartbleed
Listen to Effective Concentration Music
Me too. Very sad that they lost one of the most significant people for Mozilla and for the whole web as well over some nonsense, to think of it. I wonder if it actually would be that bad if they just ignored those, umh, haters?

And now what? I'm sure this Andreas Gal is very notable and significant person as well, but I'm not really sure I ever heard of him, and I surely heard of Eich, FWIF. Well, I hope he does well and will be good choice for the CTO chair, but all that stuff is sad somehow anyway.
I wonder if US immigration would count this as "work" for people without ability to work in US?
> Does that mean the federal government is not a party to this suit?

Back in 2010 the U.S. Department of Justice entered into a settlement of the government's claims against Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, and Pixar. The proposed agreed final judgment, which I believe was approved by the court substantially as-is, is at http://www.scribd.com/doc/38096460/Settlement-in-tech-hiring.... The settlement imposed some restrictions on the companies' hiring practices, but those restrictions included significant carve-outs, some of which I discussed at http://www.oncontracts.com/dojs-employee-solicitation-consen....
The link to Shumway is broken, FYI.
You can do the same thing with Facebook lists. Not everything you share needs to be sent to everyone. And if you're making plans for a specific event, like Thanksgiving, that's kind of what Facebook events are designed to do. It also has the benefit of collecting all the event-related posts into a single location, something just sharing to a group of people wouldn't do.

And yes, everyone might "have" a Google+ account, but if no one you care about ever checks it, then does it really matter?
In the Cosmos series, it seemed to say people came from the sea because of our eye evolution.
Google was a better company when Eric was at the helm. Now we get G+.
Very interesting. I'd love to read the case on the video tape admissibility. Do you remember the name, or have any information about it?

Edit: Can't find the case, but the rationale according to a secondary source is "The search was invalid because the viewing of the tape was unnecessary to ensure its return to the defendant and it did not further any valid objective of an inventory search."

So the rationale hangs on the definition of the "valid objectives" of an inventory search. The "objectives [of an inventory search are] preserving the property of the defendant, shielding the police against claims of lost property, and protecting the police and others from any dangerous objects.
> The lawyers also do all the work and take on all the risk.

Except for being the ones who were actually harmed in the matter.

Edit: Despite my snarky reply, I'm with toomuchtodo - I upvoted your post even if I felt annoyed by it at first, because you make a very good and valid point and it gave me food for thought.

Why was I annoyed by your post, then? Probably my Borland check.

It must have been about 20 years ago, but there was some class action suit on Borland stock. I was in the class and from the numbers they sent out, it looked like I might actually get some real money out of it, at least a thousand bucks or so.

Then my check came. $17.

I pored through the documents to see what had gone wrong, and I found it: there was a limited settlement fund, I think around $12 million, only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of millions that the original class action notification had talked about.

Out of the $12 million settlement fund, the lawyers got $7.5 million.

I'm going to quit software development and get into that business.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944360

[deleted] is tptacek's comment I'm referring to, but it's quoted in the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6420306 was a previous episode of the same debate.

tl;dr The issue was whether or not Dual EC was an NSA backdoor, and then whether or not there were any implementations. There was a time when tptacek denied both of these, saying it was too dumb to be a backdoor, and later conceding but saying it wasn't used in any software.

Interestingly, before the NSA paying RSA scandal came out, my post in the second linked thread says:

> Edit: Actually, I take that back. I have no problem believing that RSA Security are perfectly sane. Would we be completely shocked if the reason they chose a questionable default was due to coercion from the spooks? Only NSA has the keys, so it's a pretty safe backdoor.

Only 215 days ago, that sounded like tinfoil hat tier speculation.
By putting the companies out of business, and all their employees out of work?
I'm attracted to Discordianism and the Principia Discordia, and so I can relate. This book also contains humour and you will need to dive into your own sense of self and sense of reality to make anything of it. I don't know, maybe the overlap could be considered part of "a common mystic framework."

What I appreciate most is the fact that humour is at the center, especially with Discordianism. And this is what I enjoy: mysticism but without the serious undertone, and without the demand to enforce the views upon others.

And there is also "humour by proxy" when every so often you share these ideas with someone who follows "serious mysticism" and claims "you are following a satanic ideology!!!" fnord.
Ask HN: who is looking for a summer intern?
> Also...is anyone else surprised by the 1,000 - 1,200 employee numbers for Google+?

Yes. I don't believe it. Here's some random numbers (head counts in teams)

- Core 50
- Ops 20
- Web 50
- Android 50
- Other mobile platforms 50
- Integrations to other products 150
- Technical writers, support etc 30

That's still only 400 employees. How would you allocate 1,200 employees to Google+?
Are you thinking too small?
Now I'm waiting for Parsons to appear in one of Charles Stross's novels.

(Also waiting for cstross to appear in this thread.)
Rejection Therapy for Android: Now with "Consequences"
in the output you can see how lint is called:
'Arguments for subprocess.call: ['/opt/adt/sdk/tools/lint', '.', '--xml', './lint-result.xml']'

try running it from the console.
He'll be fine as long as he toes the thought police orthodoxy line.
What are your skills and experience?
Most of my friends don't show up in my TED talks, in my Netflix Instant Watch, in my Amazon Instant Watch, in my TiVo programs, in my Hulu+, in my Reddit, in my HackerNews, in my CNN, in the sports I watch, in the New York Times.

If I could magically get my friends to show up in those places, I would.

Translation: LinkedIn is not Facebook is not Google+ is not any-other-media.

LinkedIn, I use for people I know professionally.

Facebook, I use for people I know... but probably not the ones I currently know professionally.

Google+, I use very much like I used to use Google Reader and Blogger. I subscribe to interesting people, Communities, and Pages. The experience is MUCH nicer than following the same things on Facebook, in my opinion.

I do actually think Reddit has a slight edge in presentation for subreddits, compared to Google+ Communities. But on the plus side (ha), Google+ communities tend to not have as many trolls in them, perhaps because they're not anonymous. Perhaps because the trolls just haven't arrived yet.

I happen to also use Google+ as a massive backup of all of my photos.
> Google+ could still win by exploiting a simple heuristic: Don't be Facebook. Allow for privacy, allow for handles

I suppose the question is that they'd win, and whether or not it's worth as much to them to allow for privacy and handles.
IP Champion, Rocker Says We’re all Copyright Holders
Comcast charges me, the customer, for Internet access. This means access to any network that's present in a meet-me room. That's how the Internet works - each participant pays their share for getting to the exchange. Comcast knew this when they got into the ISP business.
Then, suddenly, they are complaining that the customers that already bought their service, want to use the service they paid for. The only reason they can get away with this is that they have an effective monopoly.
Rent seeking monopoly middle men will squeeze both ends of the connection until the monopoly is busted.
I never understood why they went for the Facebook killer when they could've easily built a LinkedIn killer instead.

LinkedIn is AWFUL. It's a giant spam factory with shit features, but I actually like a lot of their employees other projects....

Anyway, Google should have users upload their resume to Google +, and then have it be indexable and searchable through the Google front-end search. It's a natural extension of the "share with Circles" concept.
Amusingly for hard-to-reach locations both UPS and FedEx rely on an even better organization (US Post Office) to do their last mile delivery - as with the limited margins for USPS (federally legislated), it's cost effective for private delivery companies to simply farm it out.

Only the USPS has a charter/requirement to actually deliver to every address.
Another french customer here, offers "to your door" are a lot more limited in products than the drive services (those tend to be much more like what is on offer in the supermarket if you go in person)
Unfortunately, no. It appears he basically decided to retire early.
He's still the buck-stops-here person for the module owner system in the Mozilla Project. He's not involved with the Mozilla Corporation as far as I can tell.
Although it's nowhere close to 75%, probably more like 33%, I agree with the spirit of what you're saying.

Let's say the total settlement is for, say, $3 billion. The lawyers get $1 billion. That is a _lot_ of money for the work performed. More importantly it's money that the alleged victims are not getting.

You could argue that the victims wouldn't get anything except for the great public good performed by these valiant legal heroes.
Heh, I stand corrected. I still don't like the word, though.
No one in the US goes to prison except low level drug offenders.

Everyone else is too big to jail.
See also the Twitter hashtag #icanhazpdf
And I am going to go out on a limb...

Everything you said is in early stages or very limited markets. Sure Google has bought a lot of things and rushes to do press releases but what can be bought in the store right now? GFiber in a few cities? That's all.

Search is just the cash engine for the truly transformative tech.

Got any numbers on ho much Google spent on "transformative tech"? It looks peanuts to me, everything they spend real money and resources on seems to be linked to getting users click those ads.
I have no idea why the linked article doesn't mention DBS as a treatment for severe depression:

http://www.healthline.com/health/depression/deep-brain-stimu...

Surely an oversight -- there are at least as many people with severe depression as with hand tremors and Parkinsonism.
Academic Integrity and it’s Effects on Motivation
I agree with what you say. Still find it amusing that after the real name fiasco Google is left having to regain users' trust, whereas Microsoft did nothing to gain anyone's trust and yet people log into their operating system using a Microsoft account!
For what I know, nope. He has resigned from any position. I don't know if Mozilla tried to offer him another job or his previous role of CTO, but in a situation like that one he ended in, I think he just decided to sever all the ties.
This is just absurd.

I honestly do not understand why the plaintiffs would settle this case. There are multiple emails that proposing the conspiracy, executing the conspiracy, expanding the conspiracy, and warnings to the ringleaders of the conspiracy (i.e. Jobs, Schmidt, Whittman, Lucas, etc.) being told explicitly what they were doing was illegal, and then actively taking actions to cover it up. (Specifically I refer to Eric Schmidt's email in which he said regarding the Apple-Google agreement, "I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later".)

The only way you can prevent this, and other kinds of organized and large scale fraud is through confiscation of revenue on a massive scale. To make the companies hurt and to directly effect the officers of the companies. Otherwise, these settlements are simply noise, and a chalked up as a cost of doing business.

Here's some numbers to keep in mind, when the settlement is announced.
Google $16.86 BILLION in revenue Q4-2013
Apple $37.5 BILLION ($7B profit) Q4-2013
eBay $4.5 BILLION Q4-2013

Unless the settlement is in the tens-of-billions of dollars, it's nothing. (Bonus points, if they settle, "while admitting no guilt.")
> The Cryptol specification language was designed by Galois for the NSA's Trusted Systems Research Group as a public standard for specifying cryptographic algorithms.

> In addition, much of the work on Cryptol has been funded by, and lots of design input was provided by the team at the NSA's Trusted Systems Research Group, including Brad Martin, Frank Taylor and Sean Weaver.

https://github.com/GaloisInc/cryptol
Night Science sounds a lot like Cave Johnson in the Portal franchise.

"Just a heads up, we're gonna have a super conductor turned up full blast and pointed at you for the duration of this next test. I'll be honest, we're throwing science at the walls here to see what sticks. No idea what it'll do."

http://www.cavejohnsonhere.com/
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Very interesting to me as I live right next to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maotianshan_Shales which are one of the major sites held to support the alternate, ocean theory.

The philosophy of the researcher is admirable, too: In my old age, I am so disappointed that people close their minds and jump on whatever splashy, simplistic bandwagon is in vogue. Perhaps the tech community can learn something from such thinking!
I think the real problem is unlimited internet connections.

If ISP customers paid per-GB and/or per-Mbps, then the ISP shouldn't care if it's Netflix or Hulu or YouTube being consumed.

The issue is that today, it's difficult to get a good feel for how much bandwidth is being used at any given moment. Unlike a water faucet, our devices don't really have a knob we can adjust the speed with.
What about users who have no alternative to Comcast?
We do all hands support at Aarki for our rich media product. We have the support tab located inside the dashboard of our product.

It's really helped out product team discover pain points of customers and find usability issues.

With only one person on support, that person tends to filter information to the team. This is a great working strategy.
So they killed Google Reader (and RSS with it) for nothing?
It would surpise me if Sony and/or Microsoft would not be working on a competitor device, as an add-on for PS4/XBox.
would love to see this as a bookmarklet (that hits the user's npm) for demo purposes
Thanks! This may be the impetus I've been waiting for to make the switch.
The emails seem like fairly good evidence for criminal misconduct, but I am not a court nor a lawyer.
That crap bothers me, autism is hip, especially Aspergers. If this continues, soon 50% of the children will have it. Then 10 years later, they'll come up with a new syndrome.

Not to say that autism doesn't exist, just saying that, IMO, far too many 'normal' kids are being labeled as autistic.
In a lot of cases it will do nothing but frustrate users. Why? Because where I live, the only really decent internet is Comcast. If I wanted to change providers, I would go from 16 MB/s internet down to approximately 1 MB/s (advertised speed...so like 1/10th of that in reality).
I've recently had a few of my Prime deliveries come via "Amazon Logistics" and it's lacking compared to DPD who used to do most of them.

Amazon Logistics has no depots (that I can see - they don't tell you who the courier is), no real time tracking, no delivery windows... If this is their attempt at doing it on their own it's a terrible start.
On the mobile version, zooming out (a couple of time, to some magic level) will suddenly make traffic appear (on the route and everywhere else), even while following the directions. I have not tried this on the desktop version.
Maybe we will all get lucky and he will do a startup -- it isn't like the web technology world is mature yet. His political donations and personal beliefs probably wouldn't be an issue in a small, purely commercial organization.
The engineers -- the ones down in the trenches -- practically revolted over it.

The decision was purely from On High, i.e. managerial. It came down from the highest levels.