skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That several hundred million people claim is a hoax. It's part of the reason for Vic's departure: instead of actually increasing engagement of Google+, he forced top performing google properties like YouTube to integrate Plus, just so he can claim a portion of YouTube traffic as google+ traffic. It's the kind of shit only an exec from Microsoft would pull.

To date Google+ hasn't actually released a clear engagement metric such as how many people have made a post in the past 30 days.

Note: There's a reason supermarket chains produce their own, knock-off brands of soda that are cheaper and taste mostly the same as the brand-name. And it's not because nobody buys them.

You're proving me correct by arguing that Plus is equivelent to Supermarket cola. That's an epic failure for google. They launched Plus to become a competitor to Facebook the same way Pepsi competes with Coke. You're conceding that Plus is no Pepsi - and that makes it as good as dead.
If I give prospective employers my github handle they'll think I'm inactive in open source. If I point them to my webpage they can see the links to all the non-github hosted open source I do (Launchpad, self-hosted, etc).
Speed is just one of the many things that people consider when evaluating what language/stack to use for a particular job/task.
If hard facts don't exist, you can interview someone for their opinion and attribute it to them. Just putting your own opinion in the text isn't reporting, it is an opinion piece. Mixing the two just seems lazy.
Stockton would have been too obvious huh?
> he's pointing out issues with there being a winner whose site is the de facto place where code / project / people go.

That's likely true. However, it ignores whether or not those issues are outweighed by the substantial benefits to a de facto place that everyone goes, which are generally very large.
It's not that the float needs to be thin. It's that the thickness doesn't matter in terms of power generation.

The minimal requirement is that the float, well, float. Other than that, more material is simply excess cost to consider.

The EPRI study I mention is based on, IIRC, turbines installed at the gate. Maximum capture would require building a barrier dam, which has been done at a few limited sites, though it would be impractical in SF due to ship traffic requirements.
Notice that you write 0.9... with dots instead of just writing the number... because it isn't a "normal" number. Of course I agree, it approaches 1 for any number of digits. But infinitely many digits are not a number of digits.

Please, define the exact meaning of the ... you use.
Miami Teen Arrested for Hacking Computers to Change Grades
This is the key. Also, people need to remember that "better," in the case of taking over market leader position, means that the value add of the improvement must be > the benefits of using the market leader. This is a higher bar than simply newProductX > marketLeader.
The comment to which this is a reply has been deleted. To give this comment (its siblings) context, there is the text:

Yes I meant that. It makes no sense, because with
that flawed logic you can formulate the following:

1/3 = 0.3... -> 0.3... * 3 = 0.9... -> 0.9.. = 3/3 = 1

If anything, 0.9... APPROACHES 1. Something like
0.9... ~ 1 is a better notation.

Consider the expression 0.9999...

It's easy to write syntactic nonsense, so it's not obvious that this has any meaning at all. However, if you are going to give that a meaning, then the most reasonable meaning to assign is that it's the limit of the sequence:

0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999, 0.99999, ...

The limit is 1. The terms of the sequence approach 1, yes, but the limit does not approach anything because it doesn't move and it doesn't change. The limit is a value, and that value is 1.

Your comment about 0.999... approaching 1 is genuinely wrong, and very, very misleading.

It's even more wrong (whatever that means) to say that 0.9999... ~ 1. That's genuinely not a better notation. The interpretation of the meaning of the expression 0.9999... as given above does not allow that the expression 0.9999... should have any value other than 1.[0]

[0] Assuming you're working in the standard reals, which form the Archimedean totally ordered complete infinite field. If you're in non-standard analysis then that's something completely different.
This one http://app.net/?
Swipes in mobile applications
Too bad the work is the polar opposite of a programmer so it's kind of a pointless thing to say in the article that programmers rarely become CEOs. Most people don't want to become CEO's, they're programmers because they love what they do.
The "Real Names" policy is actively harmful to the most vulnerable users, the ones the policy is purportedly supposed to protect. It does not eliminate online abuse, as there are enough trolls and troublemakers who have no issue with using their real names. It removes the most immediate defenses for those at-risk for bullying, abuse, etc. I know people who refuse to use the service because of this.

They've since partially relaxed this policy, mostly because it was never intended to protect people. It was pretty clearly intended to build Google's advertising database.
I'm simply pointing out that your explanation is not the correct one, since it's not consistent with other evidence.
Not sure it's clear that most people don't think that. There has been a lot of articles on quantum effects in the human brain lately. e.g., http://goo.gl/Ff0elU
Strike One:
When G+ opened up to the world, they decided to take an "invite" approach.
While this might have been cool for the first few days, there were too few invites and this nonsense just lasted far too long. Not really the "networking" roll out.

Strike Two:
Combine the "Real Names Policy" and forcefeed G+ to youtuber's who want to comment. No body saw the obvious problem with that? Some may not want a LOL on a Cat video be one search away from their real name. Plus (!) it was rolled out badly - some people began to get locked out of Gmail over this.

Strike Three:
Why is the UI so complicated to integrate Hangouts? Who does UI design? I still get Hangout Notifications from two previous companies.
They won't get much stiff competition from Sony:

http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-agrees-to-sell-pc-business-rev...
New e-mail verify growth hack
I highly doubt anyone at Scanlan's Monthly cares.
I would like to see a more serious take on this idea. I would like to be able to read about badly managed web projects and be able to post my own, with details such as company names and people removed/obfuscated so that there is nothing personal going on.

Ideally, when in a situation where the project is being ran into the ground (we have all been there), one would be able to pull up a few 'other-peoples projects' that have failed due to the same scenarios/decisions taken. So things would not be personal conjecture, but a bit more evidence based. So, instead of saying 'we shouldn't do this because I think it is doomed to failure' you would be able to show that 'doing x' really can doom a project and has done so in many situations. You could then make the case for doing 'y' because it is quite clear that 'x' is just plain wrong or old fashioned.

It could also be useful if there was some contrasts, so, if a programmer found himself on a team where the product turned out to be jolly good then the reasons for how that happened could be described in contrast to experience found elsewhere by said programmer.

There could also be an award attached, quite a fearful award because company names and individuals would get their names in print. Similar to the awards for bad films etc, it would be a reputation that would stick around on the web for a long, long time.
Fyi, "3/3 = 1" is true as well, which you seem to be indicating is not the case. 3/3 does not approach 1; it is exactly 1. In fact, the idea of "approaches" cannot happen with just rational numbers. You need a limit in order for the word "approaches" to be correct. I think you need to read up on math terminology a little (and just math in general) if you want to try and discuss this... though there's no point discussing this because that implies there's more than one side.

In the case of .99.., that could be expressed using a limit and thus you could say it approaches 1, though it's much more accurate to say that it equals 1.
Seems this new server's getting crushed... but the times it's worked, it was a lot of fun!
I think "environment" really means the larger eco-systems that "belong" to the planet or at least to many countries. Oceans, rivers etc.
The server is currently getting overloaded, but try reloading your browser a few times before throwing in the towel. It's a lot of fun if you get in.
It was pretty much all because of this.

It took far too long to get an invitation, and you had to be 18 or older to use it. Facebook exploded first by being used by kids still in Elementary and High School. They initially cut out an absolutely major demographic, and people lost interest after a couple days.
I pity the poor IT worker who receives that at work and has to explain to management why he brought and adult magazine to work. It looks like a Dilbert comic in the waiting.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. It's an interesting point that I've made on several occasions as well. FWIW, I upvoted it.
Are you familiar with Haxe? I target the Flash platform because most people have the plugin installed and it makes distribution easy. But Haxe is capable of compiling to multiple targets, making it easy to write a single code base and from that create apps for flash, mobile, or desktop. The great thing is that I can use the Flash platform now, while it's still very common, but avoid being locked into it in the future.
Visa policy for most countries varies wildly according to country of origin.

Most countries operate a tiered approach to visa allocation and often heavily restrict applicants from certain countries if they have disagreements with them.

Is funny that while people from abroad are painted as devious manipulative devils when they are trying to enter the country, they suddenly get portrayed as shining beacons of angelic forgiveness when it comes to the subject of what would happen to all of the British working abroad if we shut our borders.
Yeah, it's pretty fantastic. I recently did a talk about how we handled our mobile release process, and getting feedback from our Meta site (and having the feedback be public rather than to just one person) was a god send.

There's some extra details in the speaker notes (in the JS console) here: http://kasrarahjerdi.com/se-goes-mobile/#/7
ITT: Desperate google employees trying to pretend G+ isn't dead.

It's dead, gone. And it's killing the youtube comments section which now looks like fabricated conversations.
I was this close signing up to prosapiagenetics.com and providing them my 23andMe data. But after seeing

# too many typos,

# a weird terms of use clause ("Licensor charges fees for use of the Software under this Agreement.", without stating how high these fees are),

# and further small nits such as a Facebook page going to nowhere and non-working links for TOU and privacy policy on the landing page,

I don't feel comfortable to provide them with personal genetics data.
Apparently the market did. Nobody uses it and it's creepy as f how they want all your real data.
Welcome to the expression problem!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
Does Google Have A Secret “Translate” Service?
For the acoustic version of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_by_Note:_The_Making_of_Ste...
This article reminds me a of a quote from Learn Python the Hard Way:

"Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting. It can be a good job, but you could make about the same money and be happier running a fast food joint. You're much better off using code as your secret weapon in another profession."

"People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines."

"Of course, all of this advice is pointless. If you liked learning to write software with this book, you should try to use it to improve your life any way you can. Go out and explore this weird, wonderful, new intellectual pursuit that barely anyone in the last 50 years has been able to explore. Might as well enjoy it while you can."

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html
>> "In the Bay Area, there are many companies where the most junior engineering tier earns more than $100k a year"

It's important not to forget cost of living in that area is abnormally high.
CanvasJS, which we're really pleased with. Very fast to develop with, very fast to render (some customers have hundreds of charts per dashboard).
I am secretly hoping this completely backfires on the cable companies and every startup and alternative news outlet that needs to get data to customers bands together to make end-to-end encrypted peer-to-peer infrastructure for delivering video.

i.e. if Comcast or Time Warner won't carry my bits at a reasonable rate, then I join a consortium of companies that band together to make sure their bits are always available quickly through peer-to-peer technology.

If all the small companies and individuals bands together to hide all their bits collectively behind encryption, there will be little that the telco companies will be able to do.

Just like nature finds a way, so does tech. The Bit torrent and p2p sharing community has little by little protected themselves against almost every attack the government and other institutions has thrown at them. The only successful attacks against p2p technologies have come in the form of legal attacks due to the illegal nature of the content. When the content is not illegal, that attack vector becomes unavailable.

If something like this happens, the only attack left is to attack the customer, which would be a total non-starter risking driving customers into the arms of competitors that are more fair.

The whole problem the net neutrality debase is that is phrased as companies on side Telco vs companies on side Tech/startup. The truth is that this should instead be presented as the companies on side A verus their customers.
Wait, what - this is not from the nineties?
I don't think they are useless, but I also do not think that the majority are particularly skilled. In many cases, it seems like teams succeed despite their managers interference. A lot of managers are more like secretaries and I think they should be compensated as such.

There are exceptions of course, but the unequal pay has nothing to do with skill as far as I'm concerned.
Your mom should never be storing 200GB of data on a hard drive. Thats Wrong(tm) because baking up properly is difficult enough when you have a team of sysadmins.

Instead, she should be using a private youtube for her videos, and Flickr for photos. The rest should fit in a dropbox account. Not only will her data have a team of professionals trying to prevent the inevitable fuck-up, and she'll enjoy 'cloud' benefits, but also she'll have a chance to curate her collection during upload, because no one has enough time in their life to look at 200GB of home movies and photos every 6 months (it's turning into a landfill)
Ask HN: How good/bad would it be for Node.js to have C# await operator?
EcmaScript 6 is adding a lot of features, what would it be like to add C# await operator to JavaScript?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh156528.aspx

Is it possible? Would it be a good idea? How would new code compare to old one?

E.g.
var json = await $.ajax({...});

It seems like an interesting idea, but maybe not a good one because it might require massive runtime changes.
Even if it's passed back to square via fees, square's still paying for it. The fact that their gross margin shrank indicates those costs increased. And we know interchange didn't account for it.
Why Foursquare Is Breaking Up With The Check-In
> To date Google+ hasn't actually released a clear engagement metric such as how many people have made a post in the past 30 days.

So when they do, you'll claim that Youtube comments don't count right?
Computer simulations of living cells? We've got a long way to go before we get to that point.

The current techniques we have to model single molecules in natural environments (solutions) isn't that great right now. Modeling a cell is several magnitudes more difficult.
To take advantage of process level parallelism you still have to have a pickle-able function, i.e. defined at the top level in a module.

In [1]: import concurrent.futures

In [2]: with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=8) as executor:
...: out_list = list(executor.map(lambda _: random.random(), range(1000000)))
...:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.6_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 266, in _feed
send(obj)
PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'function'>: attribute lookup __builtin__.function failed
This is not an apples to apples comparison. The writer is casting programmers as "commodity code producers", meaning the end goal of the code and the path to creation (e.g. what technologies to use, modules to create, etc) are already defined. That's trivially true. You could make this same argument for an artist if there were a market for people that could paint and draw things that others told them to paint using specific techniques. You could make the exact same argument for managers. If you created a perfect recipe for "motivating a team" and "evaluating a direct report's performance" and all these other nebulous ideas, and just paid for executing that recipe, you'd make management a "dead end job". If you create a recipe for someone, 99% of the work is done. The true value comes from the joining of the "what" and the "how" with the execution. Divorcing the two makes any job a commodity job because it assumes the goal and the path have already been determined. So comparing a "commodity code producer" with a full managerial position is not an equal comparison.
http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/imac

I think you are being a little premature. All iMacs have hard drives by default.
It looks like it's from france, they tend to do things a little differently.
On the contrary, maybe you should provide evidence that it's alive because for all practical purposes it's dead.

Nobody I know uses it, those youtube comments look like fabricated conversations, the level of spying by google is just downright creepy.

G+ will never fly, it's a dead product like Glass.
bitbet seems like an example of why one would want Truthcoin in the first place: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339544.0;all
Here is a photo from a WINDEV seminar: http://www.windev.com/img/windev/hd/windev.jpg (faces blurred to protect the innocent)
In the off chance you're not trolling, I'll bite.

> with that flawed logic you can formulate the following: [...]

What you have written there is just the original statement in different words. You can't say "X can't be true, because then X would be true which doesn't make sense". You haven't said anything which conflicts with the original statement.

In fact it is true that "0.999..." is exactly equal to 1, which is also exactly equal to 3/3. Those are three different representations of the exact same number, just like how 1/3 is exactly equal to "0.333...". There is no "approaching" involved.
It's certain that many people will fall in the water. Taking that into account it is sensible to teach children how to swim. It is a simple skill that saves lives
> In fact, the idea of "approaches" cannot happen with just rational numbers.

Yes, it can. The sequence 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ... is entirely composed of rational numbers, and its limit is also a rational number.

The issue with rational numbers is that there are sequences which are composed entirely of rational numbers but do not have limits that are rational numbers. An example is 1.4, 1.41, 1.414, ..., i.e., successive truncations of the decimal expansion of sqrt(2). The limit of the sequence is sqrt(2) itself, which is irrational. So in that particular case, the concept of "taking the limit of a sequence" can't be applied within the rational numbers. But that doesn't mean it can't be applied at all; you just need to restrict to sequences that have rational limits.
As Intrade reminded everyone, counterparty risk is very real, and wouldn't it be nice to have a non-centralized trustless prediction market?
> Your mom should never be storing 200GB of data on a hard drive. Thats Wrong(tm) because baking up properly is difficult enough when you have a team of sysadmins.

It is much thanks to me that she does not up it on the cloud. I don't trust cloud services, so that's what I suggest to her -- I'm happy to sysadmin her devices whenever she needs me to though.

I hope in the future there are truly Easy-to-use-for-moms storage devices, along with the software to go with them, that gives them all the benefits cloud may have.
Holy shit, I just had a flashback to Incite magazine and PCXL.
> Well, there goes the gaming industry.

I think you mean the micro-transaction social gaming industry.

If you re-read what you quoted (emphasis mine):

"By the way, if significant portions of your userbase are capable of becoming addicted to your product, consider that it may not be fully ethical to produce it."
What is so silly is that they already had existing experience of the "invitation only" feature destroying a launch: Wave; I had a ton of friends at the time who were really excited about Wave, but they could almost never use it because there was at least one person they might want to involve in the discussion who didn't yet have access. It just seems like such a beginner-level misunderstanding of the value of networked products: even video games, which are classically purchased per user, have been moving in a direction where "if you own this game and your friends don't they will still be able to play it with you". I wish I understood the reason Google keeps doing this: it isn't like I really imagine that Google (of all companies) absolutely needs these invitation buffers to help them scale the system out (maybe for Wave, but not for G+), to the point where they have existential risk that the whole project will fail. (Am I simply misremembering how the G+ invite process worked, due to the way Wave worked? Were you guarantee access if you could get invited by a friend?)
This is what most programmers-turned-managers keep telling me. The pay is a bit better but they miss programming.
> games are no longer moddable

I don't think that is true - success of Skyrim (or other TES series) stand in direct contrast. FPS are indeed non-moddable nowdays but FPS have been done to death and only the franchises (like Modern Warfare, CoD, Crysis) are making enough money.
> Except that analysis only holds when you assume participants are honest

Really? Where does it assume honesty on the part of all participants? If we could assume that, Truthcoin would just be a majority-vote...

> What stops me from making a massively stupid bet, and then rigging the market to diverge from reality?

How do you do that, given that everyone has massive incentives to vote against your rigging?
Jim Gray was famous for predicting that the end point of computers were "smoking hairy golfballs". His reasoning was that spheres give you the shortest path length, there will be thousands of wires (hence the hair), and it will be difficult to dump the heat (smoking). I loved his image of a computer that looked like a a box of golf balls :-).
It's not racism.

1. (Sociology) the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others

If I know another high school is equal or better to my alma mater, but prefer my son go to my old stomping ground, is that wrong?

If I prefer my son date someone from our geographical region, with similar cultural upbringing, is that wrong?