skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only question and request to the new CTO. Please accelerate Project Async and e10sm2.
Oh, good. Vic, please make sure that a) you don't miss the door and b) you take away the comment function of youtube with you.
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Yes. Pick up a Vogue. A fat magazine with virtually no content but a lot of pictures. A mixture of advertising and photo shoots. There is a whole, massive demographic out there that just loves this stuff, and isn't technical at all.

The existence of vogue shows that there is a demographic who likes to flip through nice pictures. Sometimes they dog-ear the pictures to come back later and look again. People like to leave the magazine lying around their place as a social indicator that they are interested in fashion, and they like to mark which bits of that fashion they're interested in. That's pinterest in a nutshell.

Now go to any magazine rack. There are are broad range of these niches. It's not about replicating a magazine, it's about understanding what purpose that magazine exists for. Is it interesting articles? Wanted ads? Industry information? The purpose and niche of the information is what people want. These all can be more innovatively delivered and shared than a glossy magazine dropped on a doorstep.
It's a trade-off.

Diogenes, Aristippus, and Dionysus

A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."

Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus."

The question is which you like less (or prefer more): lentils or having to flatter.
Relatedly, Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Space as culture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxnCzz5oQE

I'd agree with the both of you on the value of big space exploration projects as driving our culture.
اللجنة الأمنية بالزلفي تشدد على ظاهرة تظليل السيارات | اخبارية الزلفي
People don't seem to understand that Google+ was used internally before launch as though it were Facebook; people only shared with their friends and family. But when the product was launched to the public, it was given a limited release, biasing it to the tech crowd, and they gave the ability to give posts "public" visibility. Well these two things quickly turned Google+ into Twitter rather than Facebook.

Then they spent the next few years trying to fix the disaster they had caused. It would have been a great product if they thought through the launch. But they didn't.
I salute your appropriate username.
This makes me wonder how hard it would be to create a cooperative ISP, where the users own the network. I wonder if you could crowdfund something like that easily in, say, San Francisco.
Groove Basin – Music player server with a web-based UI inspired by Amarok
> Diagnosing mental illness is a very inexact science since multiple etiologies can create very similar symptoms.

Yes, true, and that means it is not science. Science requires evidence on which similarly equipped observers can agree, and falsifiability. Psychological diagnoses don't have either of these properties.

> It wasn't cast out because everyone was suffering from it.

It was cast out because of an epidemic of overdiagnosis (as it was put by the editor of DSM-IV), one that forced psychologists to realize they had made a mistake including it in the previous DSM. So, taking the high road, they voted it out of the present DSM.

But I ask that you notice something -- mental illnesses aren't identified by microscopes and lab assays, they move into and out of existence by way of votes. That by itself should give people pause about the scientific nature of the process.

Psychologists are reluctant to give up on a diagnosis like Asperger's, and such a reversal has only happened once before. Can you guess which behavior, now regarded as a civil right, defended by a number of federal laws, was branded a treatable mental illness until the 1970s?
And more importantly, why hasn't he gotten a properly tailored suit yet?
It's a form of the principle-agent problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem

Freakonomics identified a similar bias in real estate: realtors (earning a percentage of sales) work less hard for clients' home sales than they do their own, where the additional price received is worth more time.
Yeah I'm not sure the cost for the infrastructure but I've seen quotes of $1-$2/Mbps for Cogent in various datacenters (assuming a 1-2Gbps commit I think).

Makes sense though, I'm sure if you had to get the fiber to your location that would easily push the price up a ton.
Pity. I'd have liked to see the disclosures forced by going to trial, as well as a far more substantial penalty. Is there any indication if earlier DoJ action prevents a future investigation and penalty for this?
You can totally post to circles though, and then only people in that circle of yours would see it.

G+ is great for passions, Twitter for perceptions and FB for people. Check out Guy Kawasaki's Book, "What The Plus". It's short read and really helped me get the most out of it.
The Buzzwords Invading Your Brain
http://goo.gl/maps/rGv4F

http://goo.gl/maps/vKuFr

http://goo.gl/maps/w6ISr

http://goo.gl/maps/bPHfh

http://goo.gl/maps/NHbbn (Try the L&L and the Vietnamese place)

Take the bus around the whole island.

Watch for centipedes.
You can easily create Google+ "pages" to solve exactly this problem. They have the added bonus of not requiring "real names", so you could be using a pseudonym or something if you wanted
"Virgin plane has been hijacked on its way to Bali" in Indonesia
Same problem exists in France with the "Free" (actual business name) ISP.

It's a large ISP here, and it throttles access to youtube (and probably other content providers). It has been so for years. For some reason, there is no public awareness about that, people just say "my internet is not working well".

It's an act of aggression against their customers, to me, since all ISPs are marketing their offers around connection speed. And it's violating net neutrality, too. I don't get how it does not become a major PR problem for ISPs doing that.
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They should have given up trying to be the number one and building a walled garden. Rather, they should have opened up Google+.

* Allow users to post to Facebook and Twitter from their interface *

* Show posts from other services (blogs, facebook, twitter, picasa) in your public-facing stream

* Offer this kind of syndication also with open standards (a la Diaspora)

* Give users a public home page they can customize & filter (a mixture of Myspace and a microblog) where they can cultivate an online identity. I think this would be a killer feature.

* Allow users to have "derived identities". I might log in with my verified personal account, but then I can create a second pseudonymous identity that I can use to interact with certain users.

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*) That might be tricky, since Facebook & co. would try to stop it legally technically. A company like Google could try to fight for their right to do syndication legally, they could lobby for laws forcing large social networks to syndicate, or they could try to circumvent it technically. (Facebook allows users to post via a web browser. When you post something via Google+ to Facebook, make Chrome very theatrically open a new Window, navigate to Facebook, and post stuff there manually, not via API. If Facebook complains, say they are discriminating against some browsers or something.)
Do you normally use email, calendars etc via the browser? Just curious as you say you've not found slick versions elsewhere and I'm not sure what that means to you. For example, I hardly ever access these things via the browser so 'slick' for me is just fast sync between devices.
The effects of a conspiracy to prevent poaching, effectively reducing the market for labor, will have knock-on effects. It affects wage levels at other firms, both within the technical community and in the affected regions at large. Given that the anti-poaching restrictions were international in scope (one instance involved former Apple employees being considered by Google, in France), this isn't a strictly Silicon Valley affair either.

So, yes, the affected markets were very large.

I am disappoint.
I think it gets a bit more complicated than that. I know quite a few nerds who use Pinterest as nerds, using the service as a bookmark-for-later, a whishlist, and more stuff I probably don't get
So, what's wrong with using circles for option 1? You'd rather like to have the posts public, but only to people with french browser settings? IMO that's asking a bit much, it's a functionality I'd expect from a good blogger platform but not a general purpose social media platform.

Note that I often feel G+ to be off as well, but for other reasons. One issue that sprung into my eye lately: There's absolutely no notification about new messages if you don't have any G+ apps or extensions installed. The logged in google page shows me notifications, which do not include messages, but rather useless clutter I don't care about. Is this Google's way of forcing people into installing their browser extension? It seems a rather big oversight to me.
Find it strange how people feel free to give advise on things they have no clue about. ie the Swiss only recently voted for a very harsh anti-immigration law, targeting especially Europeans in fact, and more so from the eastern block (prostitution and crime coming from Russia, Bulgaria etc. in big cities), but not limited to.

And for the Dutch, please. Dutch hypocrisy and inferiority complex is at its peak. Just the political climate there is enough to put any decent human being off, with such support for the extreme right (Wilders) becoming mainstream, why would anyone want to live or work there, is beyond my understanding.
Does that man (Vic) have any noticeable achievements at all throughout his career? Why was he even chosen?
Sales 101: 4 Essential Reasons Why Customers Will Buy From Your Business
Reading her other tweets, it appears she is making an appeal to her followers to start a witch hunt.
A developer's first look at the GTFS spec
What Power8 and OpenPOWER Might Mean for HPC
That patch of blue sky on the right doesn't feel quite right and takes the realism out of it a bit.

I know, just me being fussy.
Impressive use of canvas though, it could be really nice as an appeasing background image on a site. Using the navigator geolocalisation and a weather site we could have a weather sensitive site. Have to test resource wise and see.
The engineers lose the capacity to get compensation for what was done to them. If they lose the lawsuit by bad lawyers, they wont get a penny.

The fact that there is risk upfront doesnt make any payoff reasonable. Otherwise, you wouldnt find layers keeping 99% abusive.

The biggest question for me is, with so much money ats take, why dont several lawfirms compete to each other for a lower cut? at 2 billion profits potential profit, why dont they offer a lower comission to get the client?
Interesting thought. Where I come from (The Netherlands) we pride ourselves on our 'Dutch East India Company-mentality', a spirit of trade, perseverance and guts. Aside from the slave trade-thingy, of course.
mixi.jp lets you follow RSS feeds. It wasn't enough to save mixi.
Price and cost matter a great deal here. Although the price of G+ was zero, the cost quite high - the user's time. G+ was hard to understand for most people. Google tried to give it a language of it's own that took people effort to learn - groups were "Circles", chat was "Hangout", and so on. It didn't instantly click in the way that Facebook or Twitter does for most people. Given that, the value proposition for G+ wasn't good enough - the benefit from actually using it returned less value than the cost of the time to spend learning how. That's the number one thing for free products - the cost is never zero. Everything costs something, just not necessarily money.

The image of the product was equally bad. Google rarely gave a clear picture of what G+ was actually for - it looked a lot like a social network, but Google's messaging was always "It's not a social network! We're not competing with Facebook!" They always told people what they weren't, rarely what they were. Frankly, I still don't know. That's ignoring the forced "G+ is your Google account" thing because many Google products could actually be used without G+; G+ was never your Google account.

As for critical mass, if you haven't got that when you have 500 million users, you're obviously getting something very wrong.

tl;dr G+ didn't provide enough value to users to make it worthwhile spending time with the product, ergo it was a bad product that people didn't spend time with.
So the figure leaked. Wow, that ain't sh*t.
Spectacles: Position specs alongside implementation in GitHub pull requests
> You'd rather like to have the posts public, but only to people with french browser settings?

No, what I want is to give people I don't know a mean to choose in what topics I cover they are interested in.

"French" is just a topic, here, it could have been "politics", "funny pictures" or "food".
You could even implement that with a metaphor that is used to address a similar problem in the real world.

People will say something "I'm wearing my Engineers hat now" to make it clear that they are communicating from a particular viewpoint.

Hats, and indeed Masks(where you see only the headgear and not the identity behind it), would be a great addition to Google+.
There is also a similar service: http://www.ukeeper.com
https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/459358875213238272
Moves/Facebook lied
This morning I read a news article saying Facebook had just bought Moves. Being a registered Moves user, I deleted my account because I'm not comfortable with Facebook having access to my location data.

In a mail they sent me, they assured me they had deleted my data and that my email address would also be deleted right after sending the mail.

48 minutes later I got a mail from them.
http://imgur.com/a/icHil
Lithuanian Startup Community welcomes VKontakte founder looking for freer hub
Apple, Google to pay $324 million to settle conspiracy lawsuit
Thanks. My go-to test page is http://www.teehanlax.com/story/teehan-lax - trying to screenshot that page in any program I've tried has failed.
I never said that all claims were paid or that all banks were equal. I simply said that Bitcoin is not the great solution people think it is. Its much worse than what you are describing. How many people who lost bitcoin funds were able to take their issues to courts? How many were able to turn to the police? What evidence can you take to court when every transaction is anonymous?
And it makes sense for the bank to ask your mum to file a claim first. How else will they know if she is lying and trying to defraud the bank?
And your comment about investment fraud, mortgage frauds and ponzi schemes are beyond the scope of this debate because those types of fraud are beyond the simple matter of financial savings and payments. Investments always carry a level of risk and are never guaranteed.
Stop comparing apples and oranges to make your argument seem stronger
I have to agree with you Scott, Google missed a HUGE opportunity with the legion of Google Reader users. I really miss Google Reader. I want it back, Google!

But integrating Google Reader and Google+ would have made an easy peasy way to share content and socially connect with similar Google+ users. If that happened back then, I'm sure Google+ today would have been a successful community.
Another good book is "Office Politics" by Oliver James.
No, what is shows is that it was going to be more expensive for Netflix to buy market-rate transit through another provider than to peer directly with Comcast. (Or Netflix is playing the long game here and taking an unnecessary financial hit by peering with Comcast to put them in a favorable PR position, but I think that's less likely.)

Cogent's thing is selling massively cut-rate transit. They've been involved in constant peering disputes over their method of doing so since at least 2002. This isn't new for them - Netflix is just big enough that people really took notice this time.
During the gold rush few really did find their fortune. But the ones who got really, really rich were the guys selling the tools (to dig). Who's selling the tools today?
Tech Giants Settle Antitrust Hiring Suit
The author is not an SF native and is currently living in New York according to his bio. So "made his beloved San Francisco shitty" is a bit meaningless.

The article is nearly at the point where you could claim it's drenched in an air of East Cost condescension, but since the author lived in SF before, that's probably too far.
I guess everyone is lacking that bit of information that separates them from the real comptrollers
New report with the $amount ($324M): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7645182
Windows Server 2003 on AWS Cloud has last updates from 2009, auto-update off
I was hoping it would be about patterns of games, not patterns of programming. These patterns are not specific to games.
Virgin aircraft 'hijacked' in Bali
You're right, that's something I didn't explored enough, thinking of pages like intended for brands.

I'll play a bit with this to see if it's well integrated enough, since when you click on someone name, you reach post list rather than about section (I would not have people think I don't publish anything, not realizing there are many pages).
Sounds interesting, where did you read this?
There's a article coming up at the TRUST workshop this year (co-located with PLDI) which addresses this issue:

http://tinyurl.com/kwnbl9e

(workshop: http://c-mind.org/events/trust2014/)

It describes a new dissemination model where journals are entirely dismissed (including open access), in favor of a true peer-to-peer network, open reviews, guaranteed timestamps, and free access to articles.

Hopefully the full text of the article will be online as the workshop date comes close...
PiPlay
Previously I've seen unsubscribe emails that state you will have no more emails after those already 'commissioned' have been sent.
If they used a 3rd party service for sending out mass emails like that, they may provide the users in advance and have no ability to remove them last minute.
This purely speculation at a possible cause on my part though.
> ... Google missed a HUGE opportunity with the legion of Google Reader users. I really miss Google Reader. I want it back, Google!

So do I, for a number of reasons including that its nominal replacement (Feedly) sucks. But I can see this from Google's perspective -- they couldn't monetize the fact that they had such a large and loyal following. In other words, they had a top rating without a bottom line.
Can any Googler explain the difference between engineering management and project management?
Indeed. By the way, I think this has a lot to say about the "real identity policy" of google+. Do people really have a single "real" identity ?
Thanks. My apologies for over-reacting. That didn't look good as a feature.
Now the question is, how much do people receive after the lawyers take their cut and it's divided up among 64K employees?
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Singularity and problem with humanity
Could you provide a link for that story? I hadn't heard of it til now.
I apologize for the shameless plug, but we're at the early stages of solving some of the problems you mentioned at http://NowVia.com

It lets you create topic-based "channels" that people can follow. So you could have one for 3-D printing, and when you add to it, you know everyone following it is specifically interested in 3-D printing. I'd love your feedback if you decide to have a play :-)
It's simple math. Here's a case of theirs that was way under-settled:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Uninsured_Patient_Ho...

A whopping $3K-tops/year per class member:
http://www.lieffcabraser.com/Case-Center/Comdata.shtml
I'm sure the coverage would have mentioned it if such an absurdity applied. (I was just poking fun at New Jersey, where I grew up.) More background on the anachronistic restriction:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/18/new_jersey_se...
I think you're reading too much into the Miley Cyrus thing. It was just a strange anecdote that added character to the partner.
Thanks, it's interesting to hear about the different options. I've not even thought about IPv6 yet and the options I'd have using that internally. I'm never going to have enough public IPv4 addresses for the number of containers so something has to happen.
Ask HN: Good Security Scan/Assessment as a Service?
Does anyone know about a good service that will scan and penetrate your web application? Like Prince said, money don't matter tonight.
PyCharm 3.4 Early Access – what's new and build download
Please make one or more editing passes on your blog entries before posting them. Your writing is filled with grammatical errors and missing words.
I've recently learned, hunting apartments in Spain, that many realtors don't want to deal with Russians. They find them too crude, and no amount of money they are willing to throw at them, seems to make up for the feeling of revulsion.

In some places, they simply mention to them that there's a thriving gay community in the city. That seems to be enough to make them go away...

I think it's brilliant, and I also think large concentration of immigrants in one place ends up destroying that community’s reputation and invites trouble.
Oh I get it, your argument is 'dont do anything that will show how badly overbooked Comcast is'.
It's basically a "lookbook" concept, which is something you flip through for inspiration and to see what the current trends are. If you want a technical parallel, think Dribbble.

Pinterest takes this and adds a mix of dynamic wishlists and storefronts to it - with alerts of price drops, and conceivably price and currency calculation for an international audience down the line.

I generally hate the term, but Pinterest also acts as a more curated lookbook, since you can choose whom you follow to compose your own magazine-like feed.

I don't mean to give the impression that I have any idea about the profitability of Pinterest, because they are hauling a truckload of static content - on Django, to boot.
Hijacking attempt while drunk is not a hijacking attempt.
Can't agree with that, Google Reader was great but I'm very happy with what I'm getting from Feedly, I don't feel worse off
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How the mighty fall.
One feature I found kinda mind-blowing was when I began to receive e-mails, when the things I had pin received huge price reductions. Pinterest suddenly went from a static wishlist to a dynamic one.

That's a special kind of lookbook feature that makes Pinterest all the more fascinating - not just for fashion, but all things with pricing metadata.
Good to see an OSS version. How does it handle pagination? From my experience (Pocket, Readability, Readable (now Evernote Clearly), Boilerpipe) that's the big differentiator. But frankly, with the increased use of media queries, I find myself using this view less and less, and the only feature I miss is pagination.

The optimal reading environment on a responsive website is usually the tablet view. Narrow enough to make jumping lines easy, narrow enough to prevent big ads on the side columns. I'd love to see a tool that could force media queries on bigger displays and simply center the text. You'd still get a feel for what the web designer was going for, but it's much cleaner. On none responsive sites, it could use the same metrics as this tool to determine which elements are article elements and simply center them and remove the rest, while maintaining the fonts, colors... The medium is the message and all that jazz.
Apparently it was just an unruly passenger trying to enter the cockpit, which made the pilot sound the hijacking alarm. Follow @ChrisCorless for more info, he's at the airport.
Great article, but typo in title should be fixed.