skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO Google Plus can be defended only by its users. I always follow the rule - dont read reviews/reports by supporters of a product.

I know quite few users using it - but none of them is using it more than just few minutes a day and most of them use this as LinkedIn alternative rather than Facebook (something that Google+ should be from the very beginning).
You cannot just copy Facebook, add few features and expect to score a success. From the very beginning the whole idea was wrong.

Google as an innovative company should either rethink whole social concept (without taking FB as an example but building social network from the ground with help of boutique analytics and design companies for more personal touch), or focus on mobile social networking as a player owning second largest mobile market in the web.

Its same as Linux users trying to explain everyone why Linux is better than Windows. It is - but not for average Joe, and thats the reason this OS will be marginal one for personal use. Nothing changes that, no statistics will prove otherwise even with such a strong fan base.
TC was right - no reason to hate.
I think you misread that comment. She stated that her kid would not tell her that she IS bullying (not BEING bullied).
Ignoring me never worked. It would actually encourage and motivate me to keep going and upping my verbal attacks until I got a reaction from you.

I do not suggest to anyone to just simply ignore their bully.
Unfortunately. TechCrunch is one of the very few media outlets that I can say I've put in my mental spamfilter. They flipped my bozo bit years ago due to the number of times their reporting on situations I'm close to has deviated breathlessly from the on-the-ground reality of the situation.

I actually read and enjoyed their recent article on San Francisco housing... But the responsible thing for me to do next is to follow up via alternate information sources if I want to know more, because I can't trust TC to relay the facts without narrative distortion.

They are very good storytellers who allow the crafted narrative to outstrip the reality too often for my taste.
So now, brewer == alcoholic?
Thanks for mentioning that essay. I just finished reading, and it made a lot of sense. Being popular in school is like a job. Most nerds I know (myself included) simply didn't care to put in the time or effort for the grooming, fashion, and surface-level socialization necessary.
I've lost the link, but something like that actually did happen in the US recently. It surely helped that it was so flagrant and that there was video evidence, but a teacher was arrested for encouraging a bunch of kids to beat up another kid in the halls.
He has to know who to hit with a flamethrower later or maybe if he is feeling humanitarian, a .50 cal.
The Piketty Panic
People actually expect decent journalism from Techcrunch?

Huh. They've been barely keeping it above the gutter several for years.
A policy that isn't enforced isn't a policy, even if it's written. I seem to recall a relevant quote from King Gustav V of Sweden:

Never make a law you cannot enforce.

Bad policy-making by Google? Certainly. But nobody is getting suspended for using a nom de plume on Google+ now.
For all the Asians who flush - I would be very careful about trying this at home. It seems like it'll have the opposite effect of what's intended.

The alcohol breakdown chain reaction in the body (I'm not a chemist) is ethanol -> acetaldehyde -> acetic acid. The ethanol causes your to be "drunk", but the acetaldehyde has some arguably worse effects (headache, tiredness, flush). Asians typically process ethanol -> acetaldehyde way faster than others, but the acetaldehyde -> acetic acid can be really slow. If the yeast is mimicking ADH and not ALDH, you're just going to suffer even more.

Again, I'm not a chemist or a doctor, but from my preliminary internet research and anecdotal testing (though I have quite a few different data points), Famotadine (OTC), and higher levels of APO-Ranitidine (can be prescription) seems to slow the rate of ethanol -> acetaldehyde, balancing out the drunkness effect more, and giving you more time to process the acetaldehyde -> acetic acid. I typically go from maxing out at 2 drinks / 3 hour period, to about 11 drinks / 3 hour period on Ranitidine, given favorable conditions. I've had lower levels of success with Famotadine.
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How? One word: coke
More like tl;dr "Don't expect employees to go above and beyond if you have limited their opportunities to here and now"
ZBackup – a versatile deduplicating backup tool
This is great news. What a major failure though, a huge thing to bet the company on and a huge mark missed.
Internet Hug
Show HN: Adjustable Pipe Standing Desk
Every decision you make is affected by others; if not your friends & family, your colleagues, people who share a similar interest, etc... Perhaps no one has nailed it yet, but Search is Social.
Cached.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IEXZG92...
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Answering the question specifically: Yes. Same as if you were in say, construction, and you were expecting crane operators to bring their own cranes. A dentist their own drill. A chemist their own centrifuge.

In terms of the debate: Eventually you'll need to have policies in place around ownership of work produced, and while there's nothing preventing an employee from copying files to a personal device, having everything they work on stored on hardware owned by the company makes it significantly easier for the company to enforce those policies.

If you supply standardised equipment (a particular model, operating system, etc) it will also help for the setup of any new employee, and any interoperability that may be required. Everyone will get the same; troubleshooting requires a focused spectrum of knowledge and experience rather than knowing how to troubleshoot Windows, Mac, Bootcamp, Ubuntu, CentOS, on desktops or laptops.
That's one of the big reasons for Going OSS.
I'm not a TDD adherent in any way, but depending on the language you can get some interesting results with automated tests and concurrency. Erlang has a number of applications which automatically reorder the scheduling of the various processes running in order to (hopefully) ensure the code doesn't die when run concurrently. This is much easier to do in certain languages (ruby obviously not being one of them).

Then again, traditional livelocks, deadlocks and improper use of memory barriers aren't really the problems that you would face at the level of abstraction that Erlang provides.
> The value G+ adds... makes those other services usable.

For you. The aggregate value Google+ provides is negligable compared to their other services, such as search, maps, email, YouTube, Chrome or Android.
Your repeating yourself and I am being down-voted? No sh*t there are different types of drones. I simply meant they leave a bad taste in my mouth because how they are mostly being used now but did acknowledge drones may be a better bet then balloons.

Oh, the Hindenburg is a bad analogy as it's purpose wasn't to target people from the sky to kill, it was an accident. Now, if Google is going to be using Hydrogen instead of Helium in their balloons like the Hindenburg then you would have a point.
Well, it depends. You shouldn't include subdomains if you have some that do not support HTTPS. That would be an instant self-inflicted denial of service attack.

However, for best security, you must include subdomains. Because the cookie specification is very lax, any subdomain can inject cookies into your otherwise protected (with TLS and HSTS) site. This injection, which will be seen as unexpected by developers, might be used as an attack vector. Note that, even if you don't have any subdomains, a MITM -- who controls the wire and thus the DNS -- can always make up arbitrary names and then inject from them. There are other smaller attack vectors that can be abused unless the entire domain name (e.g., example.com) is under HSTS.
How To Get Involved with Open Source
It's definitely not Java only, but it's also not really a replacement for MSDeploy. Instead, Go would run MSDeploy as the last step in a deployment pipeline. Check out http://bit.ly/RSAz3U for an MS based pipeline (though sadly for your question not MSDeploy)
Strangely I find the opposite - Themes like 'you only get one' imply a certain gameplay mechanic that I think leads to some real interesting games. You only get one..life? Second? What thing in games do we take for granted that we get multiple of? Themes like 'minimalism' are too broad for my liking - what does minimal even mean? Is it minimal because you only used 20 of the keys on the keyboard? Is it minimal because you didn't use every single feature in the Unreal Engine? I could submit any platformer ever made and say "it's minimal because it's limited to a 2D plane". It's so broad it quickly becomes meaningless.
I'm a scientist. I'm at conference this second, in fact. Plenty of people are wearing suits.

Also, lab coats in lab make sense. You don't to spill acids or solvents on an expensive suit. You also want to be mobileoso you can reach into hard to access machines and spaces. A suit is not practical for mobility.
The TechCrunch of today is a lot different than the TechCrunch of years ago, due to the editorial shakeups.
Hyperloop ?
The Tech Bubble: Perspectives of a Confused Entrepreneur
I'm not sure whom you imagine to constitute "they", but I've found from my own experience that assigning the responsibility for a problem, to some nebulous "they", tends to result in considerable underappreciation of the complexities involved.
Although I don't have experience of boarding schools, I suspect private schools may be better as parents tend to be very sensitive to whether they are getting value for money - so if you're child is unhappy and/or under-performing parents want to ask why. Also private schools can be very quick to get rid of kids who cause trouble.

Our son goes to a boys only private school and I have to say its been a great success - but we did select the school by doing a review of all the people we knew who went to private school (not difficult in Edinburgh) and picking the one that seemed to produce the "nicest" most well-rounded people.
Her Twitter implies she didn't want it here because she didn't anticipate a good conversation (i.e. she expected abusive comments on HN). So a mirror is probably the last thing she wants.
> ElasticSearch is serving as a primary data store, there is no backing in a database because ES is just that good.

And you've been running this application in production how long?
No, I didn't misread it. I am pointing out that if kids expect to be blamed for things by default, then they will learn not to disclose them.

It is the adults who have the power to create an an environment of trust. Not the kids.

Consider that it is possible to be both bullied and a bully at the same time, and that while bullying is a terrible behavior that cannot be condoned, a bully may not want to be a bully and may need help to stop other than simply being blamed.
...never once done business with...

...Verizon, SBC, CenturyLink, Qwest, FairPoint, Frontier, etc.? Eh, seems unlikely. Or perhaps the extent of your telecom purchasing is cell service from an MVNO? Guess where the majority of your payments are going... Apparently it is difficult for some people outside telecom to separate what's going on from the marketing of what's going on. Don't feel bad: back in the late 1990s I believed the hype too.
Well, it's quite clear why. If the supreme leader says "this should be this instead" and nobody remembers, things are going to be bad for those that were supposed to make the changes.
"Elon Musk will make an important SpaceX announcement today."

Looks like it's about SpaceX, probably another attempt?
Thanks! We changed it.

HN strongly prefers original sources. The original url [1] was just a summary of this one, with a video.

Edit: The traffic seems to have killed the server within seconds of the URL change, so I'll change it back for now. If davidhunt.ie comes back, would someone please let us know?

Edit 2: Trying again. Edit 3: Down again. Probably best to give up.

1. http://www.raspberrypi.org/piphone-home-made-raspberry-pi-sm...
"nothing more than repeatable artifacts of whatever I was trying to do to verify the code I was writing was working" I really like this way of looking at things, and think I might adopt it myself. It's kind of a nice way of saying "test the interface", but more like "test the interface of the code exercised by the primary consumer of the interface".
I don't have a link to give you, but recently they have received good funding.
I have one notebook on Evernote called Knowledge Base, but the problem maintain it. I mean, everytime I have a problem first I go directly to Stackoverflow and almost always there the first result gime the answer, so I don't put it on notebook.

But this notebook became useful to store not common errors that I couldn't fine solution on web. Normally it is related to some new tech or very specific scenario.
I'm really confused as to what the author did to upset this group of people. I find it hard to believe that so many people who go so far out of their way for such an extended period of time for absolutely no reason other than to harass someone for laughs.

Edit: What's with the downvotes? Are we not allowed to ask questions here anymore? Or is it inappropriate to not believe everything you hear at face value? It isn't even that because the author doesn't explain it at all.
SQL CE is no longer under active development.

Most Microsoft tools that need an embedded engine use ESE(Jet Blue), which is bundled with Windows.

For third-party desktop developers, the replacement is SQL Express LocalDB. For WinRT developers, Microsoft has paid the SQLite developers to port it over, so that it passes Store validation.

Windows Phone still uses SQL CE, but the only interface to it is LINQ-to-SQL. So Microsoft could conceivably swap out the backend at any time.
French paradox
I certainly agree that most people who pick NoSQL solutions "for scalability" never add a third server to their cluster.
The "mysterious announcement" was just scheduling a press conference. It's scheduled for two hours from now; discussing before then is pretty pointless.
Every enigmatic thing Elon does or says is going to be excessively hyped at this point. I hope he doesn't blow the goodwill he has because of that...
Health Through Harmony – Bodies in Balance
>Does Lebron James balk if President Obama gives him a tip on his jumper?

Yes. As he should.
It's this: http://wm.sim.com/producten.aspx?id=1029
Falcon 9 First Stage recovery?
Resigning like a boss
Perhaps relevant: the Silicon Valley drama reminds me of the TV show "Peyton Place" that was on when I was a teenager.

I try to limit my time reading the news (and then a sample of international news) and TV, but this drama fills in the need to waste a little time on melodrama.
> And porn degrades women right?

Yes.

> On a lighter note, its really funny how you think "women must find it" offensive, but not for a single second you even thought that same statement is really really sexist.

I am aware, I spent 10 minutes before posting trying to find a way to phrase it without sounding like that. Either I removed it entirely and sounded without empathy, or I left it in and sounded patronising. What would be an improved way to say it? I'm listening and I would like to learn.
It seems no major distro builds their OpenSSL with the Salsa20+Poly1305 patches yet.
It's a little scary how many people on his Facebook page seem to be defending this shit because "she cheated on him."
"Does Lebron James balk if President Obama gives him a tip on his jumper?" - No he just rolls his eyes... But Dennis Rodman better not try that in North Korea if he wants to come home in one piece.
Aside from the bright yellow "AD" lozenge right next to those, you mean. And the separation between them and the rest of the results..
> If the comments don't suck, why are people complaining about them?

This is the internet. People complain about everything, all the time. And youtube comments were the butt of jokes well before Google+ integration.
Yes! And boy, it's not something you want to just enable without some thought.

I enabled it on a site that works without Host: inspection. HTTP gets you site A, and HTTPS gets you site B. (Different hostnames). This is obviously an odd arrangement, but it was working well for our little niche requirement.

I enabled HSTS in nginx while I was scrambling to do the heartbleed patch. I enabled all sorts of new age HTTPS options: HSTS, cert stapling, heavier ciphersuites, et cetera.

Of course, the HSTS started forcing all my HTTP users on site A over to site B, and I looked quite the fool. (Which is fair, because what I did was foolish and I deserved a little ridicule)

It's a neat option and maybe even the base case allows for it, but think about it before you flip it on!
RE not using OAuth: I did that because users had a lot of trouble using the oauth login, so I basically just pass the users credentials to the oauth page. If you prefer oauth just press "Forgot Password" in the login popup and press the go back link, it will bring you to the standard Instagram login and will work the same.
They list Galaxy S3, which is about the same size as, similar horsepower to, and IIRC older than the Nexus 4, yet N4 is not listed.
Entering the name carries a risk, which varies from person to person: the risk that Google might decide your name is not "real enough".

It also publicises your name, which may be a big risk for some people.
Project site - http://www.go.cd/
An attempt to improve the quality of technical search results by using the power of the "crowd". Looks like this is an "add on" to Google so there is no loss of "raw" search data - just hopefully, seeing the better (curated) results highlighted.

I wish them luck and will give it a try.
If Google Plus is now just going to be shorthand for social features and data integration, then it seems to me that "Google Plus" s basically dead. Because you don't need a product name and a product team for social features and data integration. Those are just things that anyone includes when building products these days.

On any other web platform this set of functionality is just called having an account. For example Amazon has had social features (reviews and forums) and data integration for years, but they did not call it Amazon Plus. It's just part of the service.

Likewise, I expect Google to just start talking about Google Accounts eventually. It's already sort of tortured to force Google Plus nomenclature into everything, like managing brand YouTube channels for instance.

And, behind all of this, I think companies are realizing that social graph data is not as valuable as they once thought it was, because it's constructed self-consciously. We all make decisions about friend requests carefully now. It's become so fraught with stress that people are now flocking to anonymous social tools.

I can tell you that my relationships embodied on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Twitter, etc do NOT accurately reflect the real-life state of my social relationships. And I bet the same is true for you.
And what you do if in one scenario you need lazy and in another scenario you need eager fetching? Create two separate mappings and tho separate class hierarchies to hold them? Ignore the problem and pray noone will notice it? What you do if you already closed DB transaction, and you need to access lazy collection?

In my experience, this lazy/eager is the main reason I don't like rich ORM mappings. I usually don't map collections and don't map foreign keys. If I need to fetch something, I just do it. If I need to return a result of a complex query, I just define datatype for it. In general, my ORM just converts recordset to object, and that's it it, besides simple record level CRUD operations. One record operations like findByPK or deletByPK or updateByPK are fine, but for anything else I prefer writing SQL, instead of suffering with some ORM specific SQL replacement or, $deity forbid, some api. SQL is as good DSL as you can get for RDBMS access, and is fairly portable between different programming langagues and ORMs, so no reason not to use it.
But many
Have you looked at octopus deploy? (octopusdeploy.com/) We've switched over all of our server deployments to it and it's great.
I don't think it's even related to screen size. They are all quite recent high-end smartphones. Phones that could still be useful to a lot of people.

This is just dumb marketing at its worst.
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One day, pal. I believe it will become possibile too. There are various upsides and downsides to humans achieving self engineering, I realised a terrible one recently - people would truly have nothing that belongs to themselves.
ummm ... stupid question, but why are we drinking alcoholic the first place if not for the usual effects?

because alcohol _tastes_ good????

sort of like, how to smoke weed all night without getting high

um why??
Google has an effective monopoly on search, so you can't just ignore them.
I'm happy that AWS is bringing Docker into the ecosystem, but note that this currently allows for a maximum of one container per instance, which is a rather inefficient use of Docker and doesn't add a lot of value.

Docker shines more when you can have a number of containers side-by-side, isolated from each other. If there's only one thing to "isolate", you don't get as much benefit.
I think so. [trigger warning -- abusive words, etc]

I think that if it wasn't for the violence and bullying I would have had much in common with my tormentors.

I had an opportunity once to talk, briefly in private, with the kid who was ultimately responsible for sending me to the hospital. He was one of the few black kids at our school of mostly white upper-middle class kids. He was also a foster kid and lived in a home with a violent foster father. I don't even remember if he apologized or not. I just remember being struck by how much we did have in common: I spent my teenage years living with my single, mobility-challenged mother and had escaped a very abusive household. We never spoke again and if I ever saw him around he just went back to his old behavior: spitting at me, cursing, calling me a faggot; so we just learned to avoid one another after that.
Do people actually try to block sites from linking to them?

That's as bad as the AP trying to charge people for links years ago.[1] It's just fundamentally against the nature of the internet: you don't get to control who links to you.

That being said, I have sympathy for experience and could absolutely see why she might be disturbed by the (potential) HN response. Probably the best solution in such cases is to not post the article, or to protect it with a password.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-...
Much like Teasenews is porn-themed journalism and Game of Thrones is a porn-themed entertainment. Bodies naked to various degrees are pretty much omnipresent today. Not necessarily a good thing, but it's not like you can step away from that horrible website and not walk into something comparable within five minutes.
I second this. Just moved from Bluehost during their last downtime.
My mother always assumed the adults were right in any situation I was ever in as a kid. I believe that has had an affect on me and on my relationship with my mother. My wife tells stories about how her mother came to her defense in important moments in her life. Besides creating amusing stories to tell later in life I think it had a role in strengthening their relationship. I always get a bit sad and jealous when I hear those stories.
Mine complained they don't have a version with male hotties, too. FML.
How not to do freelancing
Wow, this is nicely done, very neat. Great job!

Just out of curiosity, is this a native app? I really like the animations of the modal windows, I wonder how you made them so awesome!