skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. People who used Reader were early adopters and influencers. Perhaps it was only 8 million users from Reader, but they would have had a multiplier effect.
"Real people" don't use RSS.
Quay.io is a great product and if you're happy with it we don't recommend moving to Gandalf.io.

Gandalf.io went live yesterday and still very much in early beta and we're still improving the functionality and experience. The reason we decided to set up Gandalf was because we think this is a huge potential market with space for at least 3-4 players. We also think docker containerisation is more than just enterprise devops preserve and want to lower the threshold for startups and individual developers to get started.

Gandalf.io has an auth layer wrapped around the standard docker registry and you can access it via SSL using the docker api (this includes the docker CLI). We're still examining ways in which we can strengthen the security of the system and are open to suggestions and insights.

Github based builds are in the upcoming release slated for next week. Sign up for the free plan and you'll be notified by email when that happens.
You clearly (somehow) haven't had Google try to convert one of your Google accounts into a G+ account before, or you've forgotten. There's a whole process involving your real name, a picture, profile, importing contacts, etc., etc.
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Maybe my history is wrong, but wasn't the social "feed" largely pioneered by ex-google employees (Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit, etc)?

IIRC, facebook was all about the "wall" before friendfeed. Google has already gotten real names and identity from Google+, but I can't help but think the key insight into social existed at google before anyone had talked about Google+. Google+'s big mistake is being too late. The product is perfectly fine.
Not quite true. A good product can be poorly marketed/integrated and therefore never used.
There may be some misconceptions here, so I'll clarify a few things just in case:

1) Net neutrality doesn't mean everyone gets the exact same speed. ISPs are free to offer a plethora of offerings each with their own price, speed and extras (if any). There are also no new guarantees to subscribers, i.e. if the wiring is crap deal with it.

2) CDNs have nothing to do with net neutrality. A typical large ISP will offer co-location services and content providers may use the service the same as any other customer. There can even be other arrangements as they see fit, but the important thing is that no one messes with the tubes.

3) Again, just in case because this is brought up a lot, ISPs can still offer filtered subscriptions. There's a market demand for filtered subscriptions and catering to that demand is fair game.

4) ISPs are still free to apply filters on traffic in the interests of maintaining their network. This is important for example when dealing with (D)DoS attacks or worm outbreaks.

Net neutrality levels the playing field for content providers, so if you get VoIP from your ISP the service may still be better than that of a given competitor by virtue of having less latency. But what the ISP cannot do is artificially inflate their advantage, as doing so would be in violation of a free market on the Internet.

EDIT: disambiguated things
'no one' is an exaggeration. If only a few people use a product, it can still be a hidden gem. I'd say the later users drop out in a sales funnel, the less the value of the product - but when there aren't sufficiently many users coming into the funnel, other reasons could apply.

I agree with OP on this though - Google simply didn't push enough features people actually want the most, and those that they pushed usually lacked polish.
Send email message to read@snipek.com , with a URL in subject line. Then you'll get a readable email of that web page. You can read it offline on mobile mail client. That's how I read long web articles these days.
If you play Ingress you know G+ is alive.
Is Vic moving to another company?
Odd. I have cookies disabled period, and only enable them for specific domains where I want to log in to something. I still get constant ads on youtube unless I use an ad blocker.
I was looking forward to G+ revamping the core functionality of Google Reader. But it didn't really do anything after it reached "Facebook wall with circles" stage.

I used to be a Google fan for many things. but that was conditional on execution. They just seem to start things and then abortively stop them short of completion, over and over again. Then revamp the appearance or something a couple of times and let it rot until it's deprecated, or they crank up the prices. I don't understand how so much money and talent can help so many visionary ideas just stall and get clubbed to death.
Lets assume Comcast honestly thinks that Netflix owes them money for the bandwidth. I know it's highly generous, but it's a fair starting point.

How does it costs Comcast less money to peer with Netflix than to get it from Cogent? Does Comcast pay Cogent too?

Of course the whole confrontation was manufactured, I don't think Netflix was ever arguing that Comcast needed to boost its entire buildout just to support their video streams, and by the way they shouldn't pay a cent. Comcast doesn't have to wait till its pipe are full before controlling traffic flows.
I used Goolge+ like an RSS reader but the new UI has too little density and I stopped going on it. Seems like Google thinks I'm a monkey with a low attention span.
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Codefront.io is around the corner
There are only two weeks left before the international front-end conference in Linz - Codefront.io. It's organized by the guys from WebBox and it's scheduled for 10th of May. You still have a chance to buy a ticket and listen interesting talks about our lovely Web.
In the real world, the quality of a product isn't the only criterion influencing adoption/market share: There's also

- price and cost (doesn't really apply here, though)

- marketing and image

- critical mass and network effects

Therefore, your conclusion is invalid.
I run a trade paper on corporate venturing and investments - www.globalcorporateventuring.com . There is a wider continuum on which CVCs stand versus financial VCs. This requires the entrepreneur to be as diligent on checking track records, strategic aims, consistency and delivery and focus as for any other potential investor. Some academics reckon CVCs buy on average 3-5% of their portfolio but some do more. It is also useful to look at how a CVC (often companies look for two to limit signalling issues) might fit with others in the syndicate and how all their aims can be resolved.
I totally agree that Facebook is shooting themselves in the foot. Already we see publishers and brands moving away from Facebook to platforms (e.g. Twitter, Instagram) where all their content will be seen.
There's a difference between not allowing ISPs access to public lands and outright prohibiting them from offering their services.

Obviously if they wanted to run wire through a house they'd have to get the owner's permission, or the local government's permission to dig up a road. The thing is, as the law currently stands they're forbidden from doing so; even if every household in they city signed a contract saying "sure, let company X run cable through our yard", company X still wouldn't be allowed to sell them internet over that cable.

Maybe a company could innovate and develop some form of fast wireless mesh network. But even if they had the technology and finances to do so, local laws stating "the only company allowed to sell fast internet here is Comcast" or equivalent prevent them from doing so.
graphics looks great. VERY nice work team. Keep it up.
There were no such comments on HN, thankfully. I didn't follow the story on reddit or twitter much myself, but I _did_ talk to a fair number of people at Mozilla during the goings on. (I work at Mozilla, if that wasn't clear.)

There were certainly mails or blog comments (I'm not sure which, and the two are equivalent anyway when comments are moderated) with such threats in response to Lars Lohn's blog post (quoted near the bottom of <http://www.twobraids.com/2014/04/back-into-light.html>).

Of course I have no way to prove that to you. An earlier version of Lars' post (before he deleted it in his fit of pique) had an explicit edit mentioning the threats, but even Google's cache now only has <http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eKzKHuO....

I'm told (more second-hand than in Lars' case, but by people I trust) that others received similar threats as well. Again, I have no way to convince you that this is true.
> And then you could get a counter-offer from your current employer. Nobody stopped this from happening, and a lot of engineers made a lot of money doing exactly this.

61. Third, each agreed that if either made an offer to such an employee of the other company, neither company would counteroffer above the initial offer. This third agreement was created with the intent and effect of eliminating "bidding wars," whereby an employee could use multiple rounds of bidding between Pixar and Lucasfilm to increase her total compensation.
Maybe. But many of us are early adopters on Google+, because many of us are early adopters of all kinds of technologies. How effective have any of us been? I've got a ton of connections on Google+, but they're mostly other software developers or enthusiasts. All my real friends who are actually on Google+ created accounts and then apparently forgot they had them and never post. Probably because I'm the only person they know who was using it, and as awesome as I am (jk), one person is not enough to get someone to use a social network.
Neither did I. But this answer (Quora) gives some interesting insights.

"Because Pinterest is not about sharing. Pinterest is about collecting"
Ref - http://www.quora.com/Pinterest/How-did-Pinterest-become-so-s...
Yes, moment.js is great. We use it at work all the time. If only Javascript had something like this built in...
The suspect <insert statement>, it is alleged.

Nobody needs this explained to them.

Similarly, I doubt anyone needs

"walking dead" =|= "dead-dead"

explained to them as a logical inequality.

But if you do...here's an example for reference.

Unless a firm has publicly announced that it is winding down, it is better to avoid labeling a fund as “walking dead.” Tagging a fund in this way has consequences. As in the case above, it can impact deal flow as companies seeking funding may think twice about approaching a firm believed to be in that category. It can hurt a firm’s prospects of being invited into syndicates and even potentially damage a firm’s existing syndicates. It can jeopardize relationships with current and prospective LPs if a forthcoming fund is even a notion among the firm’s GPs. Finally, and perhaps most troubling of all, it can even damage the prospects of portfolio companies backed by these supposed walking dead VCs.

https://jonathantower.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/time-to-rethi...

Google clearly has skin in the game here if this narrative means that they will lose engineering talent from G+. Techcrunch clearly has skin in the game here as a scoop is equal to eyeballs.

Luckily, google has PRs that make 10x what tech-crunch writers make. So surely any needed corrections will make there way through the noize.

That being said, it would be great to keep the comments clean of superflous tit-for-tat inuendo accusations when the undelying conflicts of interest are pretty apparent and not overly subtle.

Countering inuendo with facts seems plenty enough to counter-spin any un-substantiated points.

And the original point here stands well enough alone. Don;t disrefard the TC qualification about the office relocation. That is a fair point and stands by itself--no drama needed.
Isn't that a major functionality regression? I mean, didn't we stop saying "This website best viewed in IE4 with screen resolution set to 800x600" a decade ago?
Doesn't Google Now sort of offer that functionality (I take the train so it doesn't tell me that but it always tells me the distance to home/some event/work)
If you get used to this way, using email to read web articles, you can use it to navigate web pages in mailbox. For example, send anything to hn@snipek.com to get hack news, and click & send mail to read each articles.
Silicon Valley today is like 1849 all over again. A gold rush. Everybody and their cousin flock to San Francisco expecting to find gold and strike it rich. They don't realize that it takes an insane amount of hard work and an ever insaner amount of sheer luck to make it. Sure, some of them succeed. But most of them don't, and several leave SF far worse off than when they arrived.

I thoroughly enjoyed this read. It's a nice counterbalance to all the success stories. Not that I mind reading success stories, but sometimes we forget that not everybody makes it big. Mandatory reading for anyone raising money!
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I wasn't trying to imply that you're personally not familiar with the governance structure. I can see how what I said could be read that way, and I apologize for that. It was meant as more of a general statement...

In any case I've seen one technical issue escalated to Brendan so far since he resigned, after mailing list wrangling back and forth for a while got nowhere. He made a call on it (a compromise of sorts, as it happens), and people abided by that call from what I can tell.

He clearly has a lot less impact on decisionmaking now than he did before, which is what you see in his comments. I can totally understand why he feels the way he does. But I think he's underselling the importance he still has.
Android stuff really starts to shine when you hit the "deep" system modifications, and makes me glad I'm not iOS.

Things we get in android that iOS users :

- Pushbullet

- Cover

- Fullfeatured chat heads in Facebook messanger(overlaid on any app)

- This
You nailed it there - some internal hubris led to them assuming the tech crowd were no longer the driver of their business, and so they ignored us.

Now I don't have any reason to have Google Account, and so I don't have one†. Of the users I introduced to Gmail, some have since moved back to live.com (e.g. family) because they saw me complaining so much, even though they had no real reason to move.

I no longer recommend Android since after 2 attempts, watching both my phones with otherwise perfectly functional hardware have their software go unsupported and crumble into the ground as every new update got pushed. And so my mom still has a Blackberry (yep!)

† Not strictly true, I still have an apps account to forward my mail, but only because I haven't migrated the last remaining user off the domain.
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The alternative I am suggesting is to work for any of the million other companies out there, or work for yourself. Sure, IBM is an option, but there are plenty of others also.

It's not even about the amount of money lost/denied. It's about the principle of the thing - hence my comment about self-respect. Why would you work for one of the companies that engaged in this behavior when you have so many other options?
It's not that. Some people at Gogole said let's tell people we are changing. The same thing that makes Windows 8 and lots of great products go wrong.

We just hate change. Change leads to frustation, to fight-or-flight reactions. That's why people seat at the same spot every day.
Yes and no. In dating, it's usually not a great idea to tell the person you want to date that you have dates planned with other people as well.
Google, please adopt RSS/Atom feeds (again) in your services.
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Just curious, what have you migrated to from Google apps? I don't use much of apps except for mail, calendar, contacts and docs. I could live without online docs, but couldn't find slick email, calendar and contacts available seamlessly on any computer and phone I use anywhere else.
Prevailing wisdom is that plant life emerged on land after the Cambrian explosion, around 542 million years ago (mya). Land plants emerged about 475 mya.

That would be "after the Cambrian explosion". Consistent with the wording you're confused over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_evolutionary_histor...
You can make one easily enough. There is a location trigger and you can scale the distance. It may not be as precise as you'd like and the smallest zone was still pretty large.
For personal mail I've moved back to a combination of live.com for one account, and mutt for the rest – shockingly, because live.com is quite usable nowadays.

Remaining stuff is all data, so its just on my laptop. Of my last three employers, two were big Microsoft Outlook houses, so that's how corp calendar sharing has worked.

For RSS I am running Selfoss. It's passable, but it's no Reader. After obsessing over sundry services like YouTube I finally just decided to delete the account - playlists and all, since services like that are basically huge wastes of time anyway.

Right now I'm carrying a phone that doesn't even support e-mail, never mind web, and honestly have no intention of changing the situation unless forced by an employer. It's great, the battery lasts about 2 weeks. The only real aspect of this that hurt initially was the lack of a good GPS, but since I don't own a car and live in a big city, turns out it was just another excuse to pointlessly glue my head to a screen
Why not RSS/Atom? I can use that for every other feed I follow.

I've looked for push tools and haven't found them.

Links on this stuff you're referring to?

It's still a fucking silo.
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Can't retire on principles.
Government competition is not fair, because governments don't play by the same rules as businesses. They can make money by fiat through taxes. They can and usually do lose money on services they provide. Businesses simply can't compete with the power of taxation. It should come as no surprise that there are no book rental companies when there are libraries.
What % of internet users use RSS ?
Our early adoption tendencies pair with a tolerance to nerd out over multiple competing systems. Studies have in the past suggested the average smartphone user only uses a few (5, 6?) apps that they've downloaded with any sort of regularity, the idea being they just don't have the time, patience or desire to check in on 6 different social location-aware deal apps.

Facebook is, generally, a better experience for a person that wants to keep up with their friends, because posting, discovering others' posts, organizing groups, having get-togethers in real life are quicker, simpler, easier for the general user.

So they'll ignore Google+ because they don't need that second social network if Google+ comes in second.

Which, for that persona, it really does.
I don't like G+. And I don't trust Google.

I wanted to like G+. I tried really hard. And I used to like and trust Google. The G+ experience ruined both.

In terms of negative brand equity, this has been a disaster for the company.
any books on this? I think we fellow geeks need to learn these kind of stuff asap.
It's good to have an opinion. Also I like short, focussed blog posts. But the assumption made is too simple to gain anything, neither for Google nor for the HN community. For instance, integrating product A into product B is a lot of work, additionally to maintaining each of the products separately. And to me it seems as if Google simply didn't want to maintain the software behind Reader anymore. This also means integrating it (more costs than just keeping it as it is) is not a valid option. Then it might not even have a positive influence, because there are likely many people who used G+ but not Reader (like me) and many users who used Reader and not G+. For those people the integration of a completely new tool is not different from adding X new features. And we all know that adding X new features does not improve any product, right?
Today was the last day of Nokia as we knew it
Location Services is the missing option from iOS7 Control Center
"predictive dialing" can be scripted now. I've seen integrations where they screen for "active" flags on twitter and facebook handles and generating calls based on that. It might be that when you unlock your phone facebook shows you as online...

Round robin outbound calling has been around for years and they dial from different numbers to try to get the best chance of getting you to answer.
It's funny you say that - I've been wondering lately whether the current culture in Silicon Valley is a result of heritage (whether genetic or cultural) from those who moved to the area during the gold rush.
That's pretty cool, was not aware google cars had lidar attached and that the data was open source. if you wanted to take this to the next level there should be some clever algorithms out there for interpolating the 3d models using the point cloud data, which you could use to increase the resolution.
They did this before with the nytimes and it didn't end the way Tesla would've liked. The writer had a number of problems, and Elon Musk accused him of being dishonest to create a story.

Here's the original article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/automobiles/after-a-chargi...

And here's some coverage of the controversy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/automobiles/after-a-chargi...
You're absolutely right that "trickle down" occurs. Basic logic suggests that if lots of businesses have lots of funding, and that funding dries up, there will inevitably be job losses because they have to be funded from somewhere.

However, I wouldn't worry too much because technology is clearly the future and the need for technology professionals will continue to grow. These stupidly high valuations are for, I hope, decent businesses. By that virtue, they will get the funding they need - just not the scale that we have seen. Hence, I used "just lots of rich people will less money" because the people set to lose out are the huge investment vehicles who seem to be huddled around the Valley at present. The highly skilled engineers needn't worry because the likes of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Andreessen aren't going anywhere, and the average Joe Bloggs needn't worry because their pensions aren't at risk. The people who should worry are those who watched the Facebook float and said, "Shit, I need some of that action!"

As always, it's the stupid that lose out. Fortunately, the stupid ones aren't providing our mortgages or issuing our credit cards this time. (Namely, Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of America, et al.)

But, hey - I'm just a 24 year old CS grad come IT consultant, what do I know?
> The key dynamic is that you need more buyers today than you had yesterday.

Surely that's only true if you're trying to use BTC as an investment to make capital gains in USD with? If your BTC stays within the BTC community and is traded directly for goods/services without conversion to USD then there's no such requirement.

Now, as it stands the vast majority of transactions are actually basing BTC's value on USD. I think this is a misstep, but perhaps a necessary one.

What I'm saying is: you're right as long as people see BTC as a vehicle for USD gains. But the grand idea is to replace USD entirely. When we start seeing people routinely selling things for fixed BTC amounts, regardless of the 'exchange rate', then bitcoin will have succeeded.

At present it's largely just a proxy for USD, as Warren Buffet has noted. But this is just the first stage.
I think this is the crux of why G+ failed. When I first started using it, circles seemed like a killer feature. I divided all my contacts into work, friends, family, by location, etc. So I could share programming stuff with tech friends, but local stuff with local friends.

But, instead, I find I just share everything I care to share public. I think what people share is part of how they present themselves, and if I'm always in the context of being myself, with my real name and the same picture, then I'm going to share the same set of stuff.