skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm missing fur color modifiers for dogs and kittens!
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My take on the problem from 2006 :)
Mike, hope your project can pick up an idea or two
I think there is a very simple reason why this did not take off: google is not in it for the long haul on social projects (see 'orkut') so why invest in their platform?

As long as a company pulls the plug on projects that involve user investment with some regularity there is little chance that they'll be able to launch a social platform requiring significant investment from the audience they seek. You can kill only so many projects before people will become wary of trying out your next project, no matter how hard you try to force it on them. In fact, forcing it on them reeks of desperation and that is another nail in the coffin.

Technology and the real-names fiasco were for sure factors but I just don't see google 'getting' social.
Reverse Logic
It's going to be top down, so the most fundamental answer comes from the person running the company. The programmers are wicked smart at programming, but they do what the managers say, the managers are great managers but do what the division lead says, etc. There were apparently failures at multiple levels.
“Only two things are infinite: The universe and the stupidity of manking. Although I’m not that sure about the universe” – Albert Einstein.

This quote fits this situation far better.
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Facebook's Community Value is 5% of 5% or 0.25%
Facebook has too much network effect - if you don't want to share your life with your parents you need to be on a platform they aren't.

In my case I never friended my parents on FB, and keep G+ for family - which means I don't share things with the wrong group.
I ask this in seriousness -- why do we judge the possibility of the future as more valuable than the certainty of the past?

That is, why do people tend to be more sad when a kid has cancer than an old person? A child hasn't had decades to interact with and influence other people's lives. In terms of the sadness inflicted if someone were to die, an older person will have affected hundreds of lives, built things, had families, etc.

A child hasn't really impacted anyone except their parents.

I feel there's an underlying attitude that older people have had their time, and it's only right that a young person gets their chance.

But I'm not at all sure if that's true, and I wonder how much of this conversation is based on an assumption that we haven't explored verywell.
The one person at Google more wrong than Vic Gundotra still thinks that G+ failed because people didn't listen to HIM enough. How shocking. (and seriously, do you really think one person could have fixed the turd of G+ even with a billion dollar idea?)
> no need to be deceptive in marketing

The thread we are in currently suggests otherwise – the marketing here is extremely deceptive and lead to a startup scamming 10 million US$ out of a VC.
I'm fairly sure the USPTO has higher-res versions.
You can replicate the network with a reduced feature-set. Be something else entirely (e.g. Whatsapp, Instagram etc.), stay lean and grow. After that you can branch out or be bought by Facebook in fear of you branching out.

I get your point, though. If I were Google I would have started the whole Google+ thing as a publishing platform for businesses and/or regular news publishers and bloggers, using some benefits within the search to lure them in. Facebook clearly pisses them of as they try to squeeze them. That way Google could have gotten some content first.

Next push some commenting-system on top of it (as they did) but without the Feed-Posts appearing there and all the other crap.

They already had Hangouts/Voice and Picasa, why did they even need to cripple all these services. They could instead have made Google+ a lightweight identity services as they promoted it.
How to contact the authors and let them know about the comments you have?

E.g. http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.4006.pdf section 1.1 should have floor function instead of brackets IMO.
I still have a reflex to type 'rea' in the url bar when I'm looking for interesting content. And every time it makes me irked with Google+.
"To someone with no capital or prospects a hitchhiking robot is a cruel joke, and to destroy it is an act of resistance."

Give me a break, I grew up in a poorer place with worse health care and that is an act of vandalism and people who haven't been taught decent values. Don't make it some class warfare thing or inevitably.

It's not resistance. That is the talk of people trying to justify crappy behavior and trying very hard not to blame the people who did it. They did a criminal act. Destroying the robot didn't save someone, it wasn't the final resort of someone trying to feed their family, it was just an act of destruction.
I can't help myself, but since Google+ I feel like Google lost its way - forcing us by nagging to accept various unpleasant and not very well thought out ways to use their services while seeing their search quality deteriorating (feels to me like Altavista now, XX search result pages clicked through and still being unable to find relevant stuff way too often). I am really worried about their future now and hope they won't end up as SUN...
What? No. You obviously receive way more energy via sunlight reflected off the page of a book than you do via your LCD screen. That's WHY you can't read your LCD screens in direct sunlight.
> Children die in elementary schools because there isn't enough funding for a school nurse.

You mean there isn't enough funding for the number of students there. There's plenty of funding for fewer students.

Destroying a robot isn't an act of resistance because the robot wasn't oppressing them nor was it responsible for their situation in life.

edit: as always feel free to engage in discussion instead of drive-by downvoting
Actually, I agree the Super Hornet is an example, maybe the best, of what I propose. The results show it delivered on my promise as well. It's no surprise that they ran into problems. Matter of fact, the problem is a common one in system evolution: assumptions built into use of components in version 1 no longer apply in version 2 but it wasn't taken into account. IIRC, this was the same reason for the failed conversion that destroyed the Ariane 5 rocket. The receiving component assumed and was coded for a smaller number, resulting in an overflow.

This is why I'm a fan of keeping unambiguous, mathematical specifications (eg Z) side-by-side with readable, English description side-by-side with design. The specs should embed assumptions, maybe more visibly than other things. We've seen this in software with both Eiffel/Ada's Design-by-Contract and static analysis tools with similar pre- and post-conditions. You could say typing also helps. The person using a component should be able to readily tell what its requirements were and do a manual/automatic sanity check.

Personally, I'd be surprised if your CAD tools for aerospace don't have requirements or integration checking features built into them. F/18 started around the time that such tools would've both been feasible and had computers that could run them fast. Do they seriously not have ways of catching at least obvious problems with component reuse?
No, either

* the two type bars would lock together, requiring you to stop and pick the traffic jam apart, or

* you wouldn't use enough force on each keystroke, leaving the type bars waving around ineffectively without touching the ribbon, paper, and roller.
Do you really think that someone making minimum wage is able to save 25x their income? Do you think those same people are buying "iPhone 10+++" and "fancy vacations"? That sounds insane.

Doing some basic math assuming $8/hr minimum wage at 40hr/wk with no vacation: $16,640/yr

Your assumption then is that someone can live off of $665 a year?

It's hard to even survive on minimum wage let alone save anything.
If Facebook's really just a messenger then it's in trouble. You use a messenger to chat with people you actively want to talk with, and that type of messenger service booms then disappears after a few years as most people move on. (AOL, ICQ, MSN, AIM, Skype, etc)
In what way? i find it sad that Mars One > family for some "nerds". Family is the real mission and the real heros are those who achieve that status. Family also has a greater social benefit. The OP talks about Mars One as the mission that has great social benefit. That's really sad.
Sorry, ran out of bits. At least I didn't go signed.
I believe Black people were not really represented. Yellow can be interpreted as white or Asian but possible not African/black skin colour. For example at the "Princess" emoji it appears to be a blonde girl. So I want my princess emoji to look more like my girlfriend maybe. This is prevalent all over the world, here in South Africa for example If you look for example at childrens books and toys there is also a lack of representation of black skin colour.
I disagree about the old laser printers. I had printcap files that would take dvi2ps postscript just fine. This was CUPS just catting ps output of ghostscript at the printer without setting control codes no matter how it was configured.
Another big problem is, that we ignore the fact that we age. I do not think that care for the elderly should be an area of medicine. When your body breaks apart at 80 years old, that does not make you unhealthy, you are just old. You should not get the needed social interaction from doctors, who try to fix something that is perfectly natural to fall apart.

'Naturally' or 'natural' is a poor argument to make about not caring for the elderly.

If the elderly is not able to walk, eat, or think, then they're sick or disabled. It doesn't matter if you are 80 or 20 years old.
Ask HN: Why paywalls and not curation
So Yanis Varoufakis has written an Op-Ed piece for the Financial Times (http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/08/01/something-is-rotten-in-the-eurozone-kingdom-my-op-ed-in-the-financial-times/) which is admittedly unclear and needs some background knowledge to understand. I do prattle on about Yanis too much, but this is not quite the point - the point was I went to the FT site to check out the article (which had been cross posted on his own site) and ... Could not read it because paywall.

But it is on his site, and available to all. So all the FT has done is put a curated list of articles, some written by in house staff, behind a paywall.

Why not make this a reality and publish an RSS feed and be done with it?

Am I already years behind the curve on this one, or is it reasonable for me to want to have access to the FT's editors picks, say subscribe to the "official list" and maybe follow some of the more interesting sub editors?

Why paywall ?
Because if you're working in the US, you don't get any of the benefits the article refers to. Without guaranteed health insurance, I don't consider life to be good in America or anywhere else. When you're one small injury (or pregnancy) from being bankrupt and out on the streets, that's hardly the good life. Not to mention the rest of the overworked, under-vacationed life that's generally required by jobs here even if you manage to score a decent one. If you think it's about the money, I'm not sure you've even read the article or any of the comments about it.
I think the post you're replying to was mostly just trying to propose a possible narrative to explain this incident. We have no reason to believe this particular narrative is true, but trying to understand the motives for other people's actions is a healthy exercise, I think, and I'd be interested in hearing some of your possible explanations.
To me, that's the biggest sin of G+, it made the search experience worse.
The guy was really really lucky, especially in Paris. I lost my wallet twice , but fortunately since I used to live in a small city (less than 100 000 inhabitants) I got it back.

But yeah, the subway or the train in Paris is absolutely not safe in general, avoid it if you can, rent a car or a bike, you'll enjoy the city way more if you are a tourist that way.

The Roma criminality certainly has to do with poverty, but I'm sorry they also have a specific culture and raised into a specific environment that favor criminal behavior. It's a disservice to dismiss it as "xenophobia" or something else when these people are heavily despised everywhere they go in Europe, and for obvious reasons. It feels like they don't even care about themselves and they have no self-love. There is more than 400 Roma slums around Paris, and when I say slum , I'm talking about the real deal, people leaving in "cardboard houses" in the middle of garbage. I don't think it's normal.
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Hey guys! I´m the cartographer that designed this map, here are a few other examples of our work if anyone´s interested: http://www.borgarmynd.com

A friend let me know about the post and I just wanted to say thanks for posting and feedback, much appreciated :) I got a few of my architect and graphic designer friends to work on this map with me while we were still in school, 7 years ago, and the website with the zoom feature is done by Brian Suda http://www.suda.co.uk A total of 5 people (4 architects & 1 graphic designer) took part in making the map and 3 more of our graphic designer friends helped in one way or another on layout, web design etc.

The map is actually a collage of 186 a3 watercolor sheets that took 2 years (2300 hrs)to 3d model, draw and paint. The watercolor sheets were all based on 3d models we made first of each house, using city planning groundplans and sections, so the accuracy (even though it might look all cute and cuddly) is very high (Every tree, flagpole etc. is based on actual objects) We update the map every year, draw in new buildings, paint in new colors of houses etc.

For those interested, the map is an axonometric projection of my home town Reykjavík, Iceland. We used this kind of projection in order to maintain scale within the map.

ps: I´m on the map, good luck finding me!
If this has happened before I don't see why they're not trying to take steps to avoid this in the future. I imagine their codebase ought to be inspected, if that was the root of both hacks. Otherwise, they should consider updating their systems more frequently. Maybe they should reach out to their community, it's a sizable site that could probably receive help to strengthen security. Ah well.
> At the same time, a lot of people never gave G+ a chance, because they felt Google already had too much power. It felt like giving Google the "missing link". At least, that is my experience.

That is how I felt. Once Google started doing things like trying to force people to link their YouTube and Gmail accounts I got off the bandwagon (I now not only don't login to YouTube I block YouTube from setting cookies altogether).
Here is an example that I found on their Twitter:
http://dpaste.com/0YA53VR
I believe Google+ failed simply because it was Google. Had it had any kind of a human, friendly, or small startup, perhaps people might have given it a try.

People don't want Google integrated with their YouTube account, coupled with their Facebook pages, coupled with their email, coupled with their contacts, and on-and on it goes with Google. No respect for separation of the information.

I darned sure didn't like it when Google took over my YouTube experience. Now I have pray that I don't accidentally access a sexy YouTube video with the computer logged into my wife's account. Now, all of my previous viewing will be highlighter all over her YouTube page the next time she logs in.

These guys are really stupid in trying to unify every internet experience we have all into one nosy mother-in-law. It's the essence of evil they promised not to become a part of.
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Funny, I've had this bookmarked for two years since I visited Iceland in 2013...still look at it from time to time. What an incredible experience, I fell in love with everything except the food. I think Anthony Bourdain said the only place in the world where he's absolutely hated the food was Reykjavik...I can't say the man is wrong. But everything else is wonderful.
With a search engine the cost of switching is pretty small. I don't care if anyone else switches search engine when I do. Learning a new one is easy. Adding features and continuously making a slightly better product will make it a winner in the long run.

With social networks you just can't do that. The cost of switching is enormous for the individual user, and no new users will join the smaller network. It's s natural monopoly.

The only chance you have is to offer something else, such as a professional network (LinkedIn) or a similar thing to completely set it apart from all existing networks.

When I created my G+ account I expected to find features for adding/importing/inviting my FB contacts. Nothing. Google must have been too scared of legal fallout to just mass import users' networks.

The way G+ worked at launch, FB could have a year of downtime without risk of losing many users to other networks.
It´s a shame you missed our map danellis, pm me your address and I´ll gladly send you a hard copy if you want.
> Google ripped out its elaborate internal video conferencing system and forced employees to use the Google+ Hangouts video chat feature in Plus, which one employee described as "janky."

This is still the worst fallout for me. Whenever I need to do a video call with someone it involves lots of hair pulling trying to get everyone to press weird "say hi" buttons on profiles before it will ever even manage to show messages between each other, let alone video conference. Half the time it doesn't and we all just use Skype which is reliable. Google Talk was actually good, Google Hangouts is just broken and killed it for an inferior product.
Not just federal credits but state run "renewable energy" credits (RECs In industry parlance). The biggest subsidy for solar is net metering.

Solar is still not really cost effective without massive subsidy. But those subsidies exist for a reason and taking advantage of them is not weakness.
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Didn't Google learn from Buzz that the world didn't want another social network of the kind that already existed? I guess not.

Google's just amazing at building technology no one wants/needs. Wave, Buzz, G+, are all great examples of that. If only they could hire someone like me (and many others with common sense in this area, I'm far from special in this regard) who would have told them even before release the G+ would have been a failure. And Buzz and Wave and probably a whole bunch of other great technology that ended up being useless.
I am reading / listening to Pixar Founder Ed Catmull's "Creativity Inc" which is utterly brilliant and based around this topic too - and his take is that so much of these rules are platitudes. The four mentioned in this article are close but still feel like platitudes. I would check out Catmull's book if this post interested you.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0812993012/

If at all interested please check out http://Blog.paul-Brian.com - I am posting ideas as I listen but will try to carve something real - it is well worth your time and money getting the book / audible version. Highly recommended

Honestly I Would try and make intelligent comments on the post - but the book is far better and needs a lot of foundation laying before we get onto a sensible discussion.
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If you have nothing to hide then you should not fear authorities secretly using your phone, right?
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I'm Irish, so I'm entirely aware of that. I was specifically referring to those who had.
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except the "tourism industry" hardly helped us at all funding or promoting this map, just a group of friends that love making beautiful maps ;)
We'll loop detect to end the mutual admiration society, but thanks from you makes my day :) I just tweeted a pointer to "Doing Terrible Things" and suggested people read all of the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe". I want "Falsehoods as a Service" - outsourced paranoia.

And yes, distributed discussions that preserve free speech and allow eliminating crap is definitely moon-shot hard.
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If you are actually trying to understand this phenomena, I suggest checking out the silicon valley lug webpage. it's at http://www.svlug.org - http://svlug.org now has a 'hey stupid' note that redirects after a few seconds. This page was put up after a lot of moaning from some of the older lug members who thought that the normal user expectation that www.something.com and something.com would go to the same place was, well, stupid, and a sign of the sort of person we don't really want or need to communicate with.

Of course, this is the opposite of the bit people in this thread were complaining about. http://www.svlug.org has always been live, it's http://svlug.org that was dark until the youngsters complained.
To some of you who are testing with your browser: Observing load times in your browser is fine for just fun but latency is irrelevant when evaluating the speed we're talking about here. A loading time benchmark of server-side code should naturally be calculated server-side, a server-side measurement of how long it took to execute the backend code. Nobody can accurately benchmark D over the net using their browser. If D is also being used to code the web server, then a browser should be used to benchmark the code but not across the net unless you can somehow subtract your latency. If not, it should be done locally or over a LAN where latency is extremely consistent but probably locally. I always benchmark my sites in this way.

As for D being quite fast, the consensus is that yes, it is. From what I gather, you'd be hard-pressed to beat or match it using any other language not counting perhaps assembly. It also seems to have a relatively low memory footprint comparable to that of C and C++.

IMO, more people need to be using D. It seems to outperform every other language in every speed benchmark I've seen, is packed with modern features, and doesn't have a steep learning curve. I'm not someone who has a bias toward D either. I've only recently become interested in it and I come from a background of C, C++, and C# (As well as many scripting languages).

Try D, I am.
The cartographer of the map here.......
Very good point, I´ll look into a good solution for that, thanks for the feedback, every design can only get better with well grounded criticism.
Actually I think G+'s timing was just fine. Sure, earlier would have been better, but in 2011 a lot of people were very ready for an alternative to Facebook.

Google did an excellent job of targeting influencers and creating a wonderful experience for a few million people in the first several weeks of the "closed" beta. While most of the advantages were indeed small, there was one very big carrot: the possibility of improving your SEO via G+. [Of course a lot of people don't care about this, but they influencers they were talking about disproportionately do.] Facebook got caught somewhat flat-footed; Zuck threw everybody into lockdown mode for a few months, and when they surfaced, the general reaction "this is the best you can do?"

So while I agree that the technical issues weren't a major reason (Hangouts might have been janky but Facebook didn't have anything remotely comparable), I really do think it was the social stuff that killed them.

- the nymwars turned off a lot of their most enthusiastic early supporters, and turned the overall energy negative at a crucial time

- the failure to create a developer ecosystem (due to the lack of a write API) left them unable to leverage their deep pockets for a longer-term war of attrition against Facebook