skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon already (sort of) do this in the UK for some of their deliveries, with deliveries often coming from an arm of their business called "Amazon Logistics"

I don't think it's a pure courier company though, I think they've just paid a bunch of different couriers to deliver parcels under the Amazon brand. For example if you are out, they'll leave a card with Amazon branding over it
Quebec has low tuition, at least in part, because students are ready to fight tuition increases:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Quebec_student_protests
>What we’re hearing from multiple sources is that Google+ will no longer be considered a product, but a platform — essentially ending its competition with other social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Fantastic! The people who actually use Google+ don't use it like Facebook and it is misguided to try to think one will fight the other. (Nor do people use Facebook like Twitter. Nor do people use Facebook like they do LinkedIn or OKCupid)

The Circles feature of Google+ makes it really easy to target only small groups. I most often now see Google+ used for posts that are set to private within a family. Thanksgiving plans shared just among a family. Your friends on Facebook don't care about that, but your siblings do, and Google+ makes it much easier than Facebook to maintain a circle for that sort of thing. You just create a Circle called Family, and after you use it a couple of times, Google defaults your posts to that circle. To the world it looks like you've never posted on Google+, but meanwhile you've been sharing pictures and funny jokes with your brothers and sisters every day

And if you don't use Google+ this way, but most of your family has a Google+ account (is it possible to not have one anymore?) I'd highly recommend it for this sorta thing.
Mozilla is working on turning Firefox Mobile into a HTML5 runtime for Android:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/04/html-out-of-the-browser/

The idea is to rely on the Firefox runtime for your app, rather than the horrible buggy Webview, in order to make a more consistent experience across devices.
"just lots of rich people with less money."

My original take on the "bubble" was somewhat in line with this. However, the more I think about it, the more I am inclined to believe that this will "trickle down" in many ways. Fewer investments will lead to fewer jobs. In SV, this could lead to a cooling down (or worse) of the labor market. The established players (Google, Apple, Amazon, etc) will probably pull through alright, but the VC money will thin out. If I was a software engineer and I wanted to hedge my bets, I would probably try get a job at one of the bigger, more stable companies in the next year. If things do cool down, I imagine that programmer jobs and salaries will be the most noticeable side effect.

Of course I could be entirely wrong. It's possible that VC money makes up only a small fraction of the demand for software engineers. After all, almost every industry under the sun is shifting towards (or wants to shift towards) higher levels of automation and efficiency using computers and software.
Understanding the “Flash Crash”
California Senate Rejects Smartphone ‘Kill Switch’ Law
1. No, it doesn't. I will refine this soon to make it more clear that you can place it other places as well. I have yet to run into any place where it won't work.. (yet!)

2. The JSON is pretty standard, I just use jQuery serialize on the forms to POST on your URL. MailChimp won't work right now with our Form Builder, but you can easily embed your own MailChimp forms by selecting "Use My Form Code" on section 2) Form Content. Several users already using OptKit with MailChimp.

3. I say enterprise grade because of the amount of segmentation you can do, already. Just with timing + geolocation limiting, you can segment messages. More features coming soon to strengthen this claim as well.

4. Yup :) You will be able to test any setting with a split test.

5. You can use your own code in both sections 1 and 2, so there is a hack-y way to get some GA codes in there.

That popup experience is obviously not ideal.. And not how its working for me.. Can you tell me what browser you are on?
Google, you fucked up when you forced people to merge their youtube accounts.
Google+ could still win by exploiting a simple heuristic: Don't be Facebook. Allow for privacy, allow for handles, integrate seamlessly with platforms that have traction already (including Facebook). Remember how Instagram let you take a photo and publish it to multiple services (Twitter, Flickr etc)? It was a free, useful tool that made your life easier and made you look great. It had a feed and following on top, but it wasn't clear in the beginning it would even be a social network on its own.
Yup. WGU is the first accredited school to use the competency based approach but it is a growing trend in higher education.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University
Why even limit it to Clojure and ClojureScript? I could use this from JavaScript or PureScript as an immutable local store to replicate/merge with the backend asynchronously.
Having a stable source of energy at all time is even more important than the conversion efficiency. Case not closed.
It happens that I have studied this issue extensively, and it is psychologists who need to learn more about the topic. Had this been true, Asperger's would never have been allowed as a diagnosis -- which happens to be what psychologists reluctantly decided when they voted to remove Asperger's from the field's diagnostic manual.
Advanced Linux Power Saving
You got downvoted for getting the joke:)
> Routing each bit to customer houses is the difficult part.

But the customer is paying for that to happen. The last mile is payed for by the customer. The deal between Comcast and Netflix is designed to handle the macro level bandwidth, which is only painful when you need to cover distances.

By putting themselves wherever Comcast asks, Netflix removed all but the last mile costs. Those costs are paid for by end users.
Watch an Incredibly Complex Lego Machine Make Electronic Tunes
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This makes me so mad. I kind of wish all of the Big Internet providers like Level3, and Sprint would team up and block all traffic in and out of Comcast. Maybe redirect all http traffic to a page listing alternative ISPs.
Thanks for posting that link. It was actually reading that article some-time last year that reminded me about the floppies I had stashed away and got me stared on trying to recover their contents.
Safe? It threw the Internet into uproar, which continues today as they force YouTube users to either use their real names or create a Google+ brand page for their YouTube username. That doesn't sound like a safe decision to me.
And $6 billion split between all the companies involved is a rounding error.

Make the fine $6 trillion and now you're talking something that will likely deter this behavior.

$100K per worker is irrelevant compared to the amount of money the companies gained by holding down salaries even 5% after compounding.

It's not like everybody's salary jumps up the lost amount after this.
Upvoted, because as much as I hate your answer, you're right.
You only need two or three major website who blackout their services to the Comcast user and redirect them to a page explaining that situation. Imagine if their subscriber can't access to Google and Facebook, and on that redirection page they target ads for alternative provider in your area. Would be nice to see how long Comcast would take to change their mind.
> It is; or, at least, there is no more important end.

Really? There is no more important end than economic equality? Your priorities must be completely alien to me.

How about:

Survival of the human race

Survival of life in general

Propagation of intelligent life
And the police have (overly) broad discretion in conducting inventory searches, which are also practically carte blanche. However, there are limits; for instance, evidence from a video tape viewed by police during one such search was thrown out.
GNU Parallel – the Adventure
I actually googled "Ronseal Code" thinking it was an established convention for writing code.

facepalm

Any good links out there for clean code best-practices?
I can't imagine any way they would try to force facebook users into oculus. And it wasn't big money for them.
UAE and Argentina sign memorandum of cooperation on nuclear energy use
It may not has to do with it today, but it will tomorrow.

As I said, generating traffic is easy. If there is no drawbacks in raising streaming bandwidth on Netflix side, they will continue to do so, 4k streaming, multiple streams per account, YouKnowWhat... all the way until all ISP subscribers will use 100% of their available bandwidth at all time.

I may pay for a XXX Mbit/s access, but I know that no ISP can sustain that XXX limit for all customers at the same time. And I certainly don't want my ISP to shape my fiber access to 10kbit/s because that's the guarantied bandwidth they can offer me.

Note that I'm in Europe, I don't have an resentful/hateful relationship with my ISP, but I can understand the US case is different because cable companies (used to) have bad business practices.
It would be faster to be mentored by (/work with) someone who knows how to architect systems. The better your mentor, the better you will be. If one thinks he is already good enough at architecting systems, obviously he will not improve very quickly. There is always someone better.
That's not an exploit, just a simple bug.
> If you really believe Github investigation was lackluster

It doesn't matter if I believe.

All I am saying is that the posters could have seen that evidence and used it as their basis.

You can't tell a company that already investigated a problem to investigate it again, it would be fruitless. Cutting ties is basically your only choice.

> favoring the assumption of wrongdoing rather then a discussion or argument against Github's reasoning/investigation.

I repeat my last point. They can't ask Github to investigate something they investigated. It cannot create different results.

The problems pointed out are systematic, it isn't like repeating the process will magically remove those problems and find a different result.
Thanks for that, it was my first time on flickr.
Well, I've had my 5 minutes worth. ++good.
IMHO Google+'s principle problem is that it's multiple efforts all under the same name umbrella. This is confusing to users and seems to have been confusing to Google.

I wouldn't put it that way.

A way to manage multiple efforts in one place could easily have been appreciated.

The problem was G+ was an effort to mold/carve the multiple accounts people had with Google into a single Facebook like thing. And it worked by pushing people through no-opt-out rather than pulling people by giving them something flexible and desirable. You had to turn your Gmail into a G+ account, you had to turn your Youtube into the same G+ etc.

It's true that rolling this stuff into one thing resulted in a complete mess. But it's important to notice it wasn't just a combining, it was a bondage-and-discipline style imposition.
Looks like you hit all the ISP talking points there. Well done. /s
That might work if Netflix had compelling content. Maybe they do, I don't know. But it is not helping Netflix that Comcast is ranked near the top for ISP market share and also owns a ton of its own content (NBC Universal).
For some reason I thought Eich had gone back to CTO. I guess after the controversy that wasn't really possible.
Thank you for at least taking the idea under consideration.

I've more than once wanted to create a browser plugin that basically hides the voting system from the person running it. i.e. all comments are the same color, and top level ones are sorted randomly on the page - there are some hot-button issues where such a feature would be valuable.
"We’ve heard that there were tensions between Gundotra and others inside the company, especially surrounding the 'forced' integrations of Google+ into products like YouTube and Gmail. Apparently, once each of those integrations was made, they were initially being claimed as 'active user' wins until Page stepped in and made a distinction."

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/24/google-is-walking-dead/
I imagine Bing has greater marketshare/engagement when compared to Google Search than Google+ does when compared to FB.
Do a lot of people use this?
103 years ago, the UK government nationalized the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Telephone_Company. Within two years of that, the US justice department managed to extract from AT&T the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment. In this, AT&T, unlike NTC, was allowed to keep ownership of its respective telephone network in exchange for interconnecting fairly with its competitors.

There were fights at the municipal level too, but by that point, only a few medium-sized places like Hull in the UK, and Rochester, New York had phone companies that weren't owned by NTC or AT&T.

All of this seems strikingly familiar today, except that there seem to be a lot fewer politicians willing to propose any of the real profound changes like the ones that came a century ago.
That was simply the last straw. Honestly, the writing was on the wall once Google screwed up the pseudonym vs. real names response.

The response should have been to simply allow pseudonyms (i.e., Google knows who you are logging in as, and can infer your identity very easily anyway) and to do as twitter and prevent mis-use of real names where appropriate.
Google+ is to Facebook, what Bing is to Google Search.

It wasn't really going to work, much like the Bing. There were simply too late to the party as were Microsoft or Yahoo to 'modern' search engine.

I only hold Vic responsible for messing too much with the web design of Google+. Jesus, no one changes underwear so often as they would UI.

In the end, the failure of missing the social bandwagon solely relies on Eric. Because Vic was working on the mobile side (I think) when Facebook was kicking in.
Hm, I installed it on my Android and now my recipes in the web interface are gone. I have logged in from different browser to their web and got "something is not working" error.
you don't think it's unfair that a landlord can upend your life and make it complete hell just so they can get tenants who are willing to pay more?

This isn't about moving, this is about completely changing lives. How to get to work, who's in the neighborhood, what's the neighborhood flavor like... it's more than just "living in a specific area" it's about living life.

Income inequality is another issue all together. No, it's not fair that a fast food joint has the guys who flip burgers and run the cash register do all the work and get literally the least amount of money the business can legally give them. And yes, they could just go look for other jobs... if there were any. In a lot of places, there just isn't other work. For others, their particular field may have been decimated. A friend of mine was a bar certified lawyer in corporate finance. ... when he graduated in 2008.

Yeah. life isn't fair, and maybe part of it is roughing it. But another part of it is also recognizing that the system has been inadvertently rigged towards the relatively wealthy and hyper wealthy.

There's reasons why there are protests in the streets of the Bay Area, and tone deaf responses like this are one of them.
I absolutely agree with you. I even have a Nexus 4 phone, but with all of the core invasive tracking stuff turned off.

I want to control my data. Any data that gets stored at rest needs to be stored with PGP at Google's end and only I hold the key.

Until they can guarantee that and someone audits that and proved it to be true then I'll consider letting my data move off the device. Because fuck the NSA.
Server Config is a project to help web developers use sensible server settings
I have no idea when this was announced, if at all. I just came across this "Inactivity Account Manager" and thought of it as a "Dead man's switch" solution.

Under the "Add Trusted Contact" section, you can write a personal "atonement" email to whoever will receive your data. At least that's how the message to my wife is turning out :|
iGoogle, DuckDuckHack, WordPress. Widget is a nice name that hasn't been abused and gets the point across to both technical and non-technical users.

It's kind of like an addon or sometimes a labs feature. Not required by all users but available if needed.
When I said "nuke it", I was more referring to the current practice of slashing and burning build support and modifications necessary to allow the library to build on anything but the most popular handful of platforms.

The glee with which this is being done (looking at the commits) is palpable.
Dual_EC was the former, and I have no idea how you would have interpreted it as a personal attack. But this probably isn't worth a subthread.

Edit: I've said it before, I greatly appreciate the crypto knowledge you share on HN. When crypto related submissions come up, I often click comments before reading the articles just to see your take on it. I did it just this afternoon with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7642434 and was disappointed to see you had not weighed in yet.
Are you just unhappy that someone is profiting off this, or that the plaintiffs aren't making enough money?

If the former, then you probably need to re-think what would happen if the system was set up a different way (i.e. something other than a order-unity fraction of the total amount). The defendants in a case like this are always going to willing to pay a significant fraction (e.g. 20%) of the potential settlement in lawyer fees in order to fight the suit. If the plaintiffs can't spend a similar amount, they will be at a serious disadvantage in court. These fees are merely a symptom of the (alleged) problem that court outcomes depend so much on lawyer fees. If you want to fix the problem, you need to change the court process; attempts to limit class-action fees will just aid the large corporations.

If the latter, then you just want the court to pay out more money to the plaintiffs. But remember: having the plaintiff lawyer fees directly proportional to the settlement is an excellent motivation for the lawyers to win the biggest settlement they can for their class-action clients.
I think the real question is... why haven't they already done this? Are they worried about pushback at the political level? Certainly their users would agree.
This may be the most astute analogy about this I've ever seen. I'm going to steal it to explain this to people. Thank you for posting it.
Visualizing Dataset of 2200 faculty in 50 top Computer Science Programs
> It's also disappointing that they're focused on the benefits for law enforcement and carriers rather than handset makers and end users.

That's just politics. The cell carriers know they need to get regulatory approval from government agencies before they begin to sell the technology to the public. That regulatory approval is more likely if they can show a governmental advantage, like pinning down the location of a drug dealer or a terrorist chatting on his cell phone.

The real advantage for the carriers, by the way, is they can make a planned tower switch for a moving phone more accurately if they have both position and velocity information. It's hard to get a velocity vector if you can't resolve a position to better than 3/4 mile, what you get with signal strength measurements and no time-of-flight. (The Doppler effect could provide velocity as well, but without a very good direction of motion.)
sjs383 is referring to google not allowing/enabling accounts on "Google apps for your domain" domains (vanity or business google accounts, essentially) to get on plus.
No, it wasn't that. That one was a bit silly (admittedly, so is this thread, and the one it references). I'll find it and edit this post.

Edit: linked upthread in my other comment.
Crowdsourcing? What do you estimate as total legal expenditures if a top-notch legal firm were hired just for their hourly rates? Divide that by 60k.
The sad thing I think about with articles like this is that even though they discount the amount of people who really like and use G+ ( we exist I swear ) that unless _enough_ people like it runs the risk of being cancelled.
Is he being arrogant or funny? serious question.
Is he involved with Mozilla at all any more?
I was referring to their new touch screen windows version.

I wasn't trying to imply that they were never in the market, just that they haven't released anything to compete with the nexus 7 or ipad mini.
Using static:: versus self:: in object oriented PHP
CSS hexagon, please
FWIW: when it says " According to a source at Google, there’s a new building on campus, so many of those people are getting moved physically, as well — not necessarily due to Gundotra’s departure."

Given how many employees are on the mountain view campus, the attempt to portray office space reorgs in a place known to have serious office space constraints, as related to leadership changes, is silly.

1. There is always a new or being renovated building on campus
It's just the way it is.

2.
I would actually assume this is entirely not related to his departure. Teams at Google outgrow their space all the time, and people get moved around to accomodate expected growth plus real estate renovations of buildings, etc.
The federal government is not a party to this suit, at least not based on the complaint that I saw.
o rly? ;)
It possibly already is. At least, there are plenty of code that have been lost and people are looking for it. Possibly not quite fulfilling the career part yet, but maybe that'll come in time.

For a start: this guy is looking for Cray1 software and documentation. http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/
I absolutely love the slideshow introduction leading to a login. It's like a feature funnel I suppose versus a sales funnel, pre-selling me to take the time to create credentials. Kudos +1
That's only because you don't read creditnews.com.

When a major exec leaves in my industry, everyone is talking about it on Monday, and lawsuits often ensue if they end up at a competitor.
I'd like to see the next Gmail.

Gmail to me now is only 10% to 20% better than what using my ISP for mail with Thunderbird used to be before Gmail's invention. (As opposed to when it first came out and it was "Oh wow!" better than any competitor.)
The clever thing about Comcast's intentional congestion extortion loophole is that the customer never sees it, so it doesn't look like that image.
It's interesting that no one has made a comparison with Microsoft's identity system (what used to be Passport, became Live and is now "your Microsoft account").

Passport started out well, then tanked, and the Microsoft account today just works across all Microsoft sites - from outlook.com to Windows Phone, Visual Studio, Skype and Windows 8 to Bing. Once the Passport mess settled nothing was really heard about identity at Microsoft again, and yet the little releases keep coming(ADFS 3, e.g.).

To me, if Eric Schmidt, Vic, Google+ et al had a failing, it was that of not learning from others' mistakes (and consequent successes). Frankly, given that Kim Cameron works for Microsoft I'm amazed that anyone could use the word identity and not start by looking at how Microsoft does it.