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I actually want a new homepage something a bit like this. I currently use either iGoogle (as it has lots of widgets which I can quickly use - e.g. GPS phone locator) or chrome default homepage (I like the big icons showing what the page actually looks like rather than a websites logo - helps you find the site faster).

I will usually only use the homepage when I first open the browser, as after that I can click bookmarks. I want the homepage to probably have a few rss feeds and some big buttons to click on and go to a new site.

Specific to your site:
I wont ever use the video, games, photos, music tabs - and would like the choices to remove those tabs. My homepage must have no information that I do not need. I want it to be more streamlined and slick than a skinned rabbit covered in grease.
I didnt want most of the default links on the web tab - and removing them individually was a pain as it took so long
There is a bit too much space at the top of the page. the distance between the top bar and the search bar and the "tabs" bar should be decreased imo.
"Feedback" on bottom of page is misspelt :)

So currently I would choose iGoogle. But I would try it for a while if there were choices on icon sizes, rss feeds, and a few optional widgets e.g. calculators, and there are options to hide all features which I dont want to see in settings.
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"IP addresses can be considered sensitive information. As such, Gmail may hide sender IP address information from outgoing mail headers in some circumstances."

They only said they may hide it.
The funniest moment is at 23:12 when a woman in the audience asks him to let her touch his hair. :-)
If I refresh this page after creating an account it continuously doubles all of the icons on that page (first time one amazon icon, one Facebook icon, one of all the other icons, second time two of each, next time four, etc until it gets ridiculous):

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Choose the best language for the job, because coding really slows down when even the simplest things are awkward to express. Sometimes, this can be handled by writing a simple tool or file format for code generation, as opposed to using a new language. Make sure perl and python are both in your toolbox.

While it's useful to spend some time looking for existing solutions, don't be afraid to build things. Your version will often be good enough, and quicker to integrate than a 3rd party solution. Besides, you usually learn something in the process, which will only make you better at coding, and speed up your next project.
These are not my demands, these are my prayers. Presumptuous? ...possibly, I am not here to pass judgement but if the same were to happen to me then I would donate it without a blink. Also I feel that natural disasters, while the majority are localized, do not belong to the nation of their happening - they belong to all of us. We are all on Spaceship Earth and we are all humans. When I peronally give donations I do not consider it an 'imposition', so why should campaigning others to follow suit be considered as such? You can downvote me all you like but I personally think the world would be better if everyone were more generous, and I will stand by my view.
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Trying to become the starting page. This has been done since the 90s (see http://www.startpagina.nl/ etc). I don't see the need for it, and I don't see how you'll ever compete against the likes of google, yahoo etc. Not gonna work, sorry.
Ah yeah, I've seen that too. I feel smokers, and some non-smokers, are often worried/nervous about that "upwind" aspect, though. If everyone's a smoker or nonsmoker you don't get that, but if it's mixed, people can feel self-conscious about it one way or another. I think it partly works out okay for me because I don't care much about it, because due to a particular history I actually sort of like second-hand smoke, at least in modest amounts, and have a decent story to convince people of why. (More or less: Although I was born/raised in the U.S., half my family's Greek, and I spent a lot of my childhood summers there... and almost nobody I knew in the U.S. while young smoked, while almost everyone I knew in Greece smoked, so I've developed positive associations with cigarette smoke, where it seems totally natural for an outdoor, lounging-and-discussing setting, and reminds me of long dinners by the waterfront and other such pleasant things.)
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This problem strongly influences people who try to start a business. Unfortunately many of them tend to be distracted heavily due to the fact that building a new business is a tough task and they irrationally avoid it.

The more hard (or mind intensive) work you have to complete the more willpower you have to use to not to be distracted.
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Yeah, that seems reasonable to me too. It's mostly a counterargument to the "smokers are a burden on society" argument. I think if you added up the various effects, a smoker is close to neutral as a burden on the public purse, compared to a nonsmoker.
Isn't it just the obvious conflict of interest that Google make money off those sites?

I wish it weren't true, because apart from it being the biggest thing spoiling my admiration of Google, the prevalence of such garbage sites is the biggest thing spoiling the usefulness of the web.
I was pretty impressed with how many female Googlers I saw in the audience.
The site's UI is way to boring. Even if its suppose to be simple. Also being a programmer in my own right, I was looking at the source and using tables with spacers? I mean come on, its 2010.. Also another thing I am noticing is, is every bit of your application all in one directory? I am seeing files like indexg.php, gamesg.php. I may be wrong but that might make it really hard to pick up any more developers or investors who are a little tech savvy. Just my 2 cents. Good luck though.
I think the idea is a great one, just not for this audience. Hackers use the desktop as little as possible, but my mother clutters her desktop with EVERYTHING.

Personally, I think you are on a good path. After using it briefly it felt pretty good. The biggest problem you will have is getting traction (as others have mentioned), and I do not really have any good ideas on how to solve that.
Right, and how successful are those protocols you've named? They all have relatively limited deployment and usage even though they've been around for years. OpenID is a nice idea but people don't want to remember a URL and a username and a password. People don't want to remember a "master URL" to give to each new social app they sign up for -- they want what Facebook gives; just sign up with a traditional username and password and start finding your friends immediately.

And, again, even then, if we follow the OpenID model of external providers, it's all about trusting that external provider with your data. There's still a central point with your data on it. There has to be. Unless the user is self-hosting this data, there is always a reliance on external entities. And how long could an external provider survive merely as a host for applications like Facebook, while not pulling in any revenue from Facebook's revenue channels like ads or Credits?
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One aspect to this is how a mass exodus / conversion to a new distributed platform could work.

A web-based tool could be developed that lots of geeks could install on their servers that would allow a person to export their Facebook data into this new service using the Facebook Graph API. Facebook would try to shut this down, so it would have be to have installed and operating in so many different places that they couldn't keep up. And the cool part is that as Facebook tries to shut it down, it will just build more and more media attention, driving more people to leave.

Brand it as The Facebook Exodus, or something like that, set a launch date, and then build momentum from there.
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Let me repeat brisance's question:

Any of the directors involved in the mortgage bust served any jail time?
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That's great feedback. We may eventually have that kind of customization under Settings. In fact, we've actually discussed exactly those things (and a lot more!), but we wanted to start with a core set of features and evolve from there.
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I still fail to see how it's a "tragedy" when the bank buys you a house on the strength of your promise that you'll pay them back, and you fail to live up to your end of the bargain.

My sympathy in these situations is reserved entirely for the bank.
The "hardcoded memory limit" you see is Emacs stealing three bit of a 32 bit word as type tags for its dynamic type system.

It might be time for Emacs to switch to 64 bit words internally, should give plenty of bits left for buffer addresses after taking a few bits of for type tags.

The memory overhead when editing small files would be larger, but I haven't really heard people complain about Emacs' memory footprint lately.
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Absolutely. After all, Orkut and Friendster now offer almost everything people are talking about here as the bare minimum any competitor needs.

Facebook took off (after the college-only days) for two reasons:

1. For people on Myspace, it was worth moving because it didn't look like ass, and it didn't play music at you all the time. For people on Friendster, it didn't crash all the time.

2. For older people (still their growth area) it was a place that you were told could be trusted and private: you could put baby pictures on there, you could talk to people you knew, all without worrying about all those warnings your net-savvy friends were telling you about not putting things online.

You don't beat Facebook on 1: Despite Farmville, and despite their willingness to allow sheisty third-parties to clutter your news feed, they have a clean, attractive and functional site.

You beat them on 2. The reason people aren't outraged about the privacy thing is because they don't know about it. People don't visit their own profiles much, and they certainly never do it as someone else. Even if they try to lock things down they don't realise that "friend of friend" doesn't mean people-you-know, it actually means total strangers who happen to have made contact with one of the hundreds of people you know. The rules of the game were changed, and nobody told them.

That's where the opportunity is. Create a social network that is for friends only, with very few privacy settings and all defaulting to tight-as-hell, settings that are hard to unlock, and then advertise the hell out of that.

I'm sick of hearing "you don't want stuff public don't put it on the internet". The internet is bigger than that. I put my email into Gmail, on the internet, and I trust Google not to publish it. We should be able to create a trusted space where people can share things they want to keep private, and pledge that we'll make every effort to keep them that way.

Edit: Also, two things from other comments.

* If your solution needs people to have their own servers (or to make pretend that a bit of a big co is their own server), you've failed.

* If your solution includes the option of "public" comments and posts, you've failed. That's where this whole mess came from -- from Zuckerberg deciding that Twitter was hot and adding "public" to a Facebook that was built on private.
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A couple of thoughts:

* How hard it must have been for women scientists and mathematicians (the distinction was not clear until recently, both pretty much went under the name of "natural philosophy" before) and how hard-headed these women were. Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Italian mathematician in the 16th century, "composed and delivered an hour-long speech in Latin to an academic gathering on the subject of women's right to be educated". She was 9 years old! Today she is remembered only from the curve called the "witch of Agnesi" through a mistranslation.

* How many women of such high caliber, in addition to Emilie, died early, mostly at childbirth? Mary Wollstonecraft comes to mind (and, of course, Ada Byron, who died at 36). Unbelievably, Wikipedia has an entry for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_who_died_in_child...
My proposal for a distributed social networking protocol
I have a comment further down mentioning the horrendous mess that a P2P architecture would present.

It would work for techies like us, but it wouldn't work for the segment that is making Facebook so transcendently popular. MySpace was a "teen" thing, others before it, too, but Facebook is mainstream; my grandma has a profile, my parents have profiles, and such is true of many.

Also mainstream is turning off your computer when you're not using it. Almost every non-techie I know is really interested in having their computer turned off. They don't really care about waiting for it to come back up. Telling them that their profile is only accessible while their computer is on is an instant killer. And what if their internet goes out? They're down for that time too. For people with spotty or wireless connections, saying "your profile will only work when your connection works, like 30% of the time", is not going to be too encouraging.

What if a user's hard drive dies? Do you really expect people like my 86-year-old grandmother to make backups of her social network profile frequently enough for it to be meaningful? Or what if a user just gets a new computer? Are they going to understand how to transfer the profile?

Making users download and run a P2P server 24/7 slows down the computer, increases personal connection bandwidth usage commensurate with one's popularity, and creates a big opening for scammers.

I know Facebook would be much less enjoyable if I had to sit around and wait for the dial-up AOL connections of the old people I know to upload their photos. Or even home broadband connections; in the US, those are usually capped at 60-70kbps upload, which is pretty slow.

How easy would it be to create a page that looks like your network's page and say "We've updated our client! This is a special update that we can't auto-update for these smart-sounding technical reasons, so please download and install it." People would do this immediately because social networks are a major part of their web usage; for some, the only reason they use computer. And your network would be poisoned and the users' profile disabled just that easily.

I just don't see how a P2P social network would gain mainstream appeal. What are your solutions to these problems?
Was going to use them for a project. Thanks for the tip...
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Instead of the "walled garden", make every person have the ability to program a node, and then have specialized websites where they could find other people in a category and connect their notes to other peoples (by exchanging some sort of key).

This would allow for a facebook-site to establish itself, but the existance of a "personal node" that was decentralized would allow you to cut ties with a particular site if you wanted to, and it would give you the ability to move towards greener pastures if you didn't like what the existing site was doing.
Too little, too late, Facebook. I deleted my account yesterday. Good riddance, too.
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I like it. I use to have something like the web tab that I had made for myself, but this is obviously more complete. I think the delete function should be more obvious (maybe something like how the iphone deletes apps) and when I add sites, it would be nice to see a list of icons for at least the most popular options.
Evidently he's given a lot of thought to the flow and control of personal information posted by users on the internet. It would be nice if websites followed the "opt in" rather than the "opt out" route when it comes to these things. It would be even nicer if some senator made this the defacto standard...
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While there's certainly a nontrivial number of legitimate users that use CD cracks, I highly doubt they're the majority. Reports on PC game piracy rates vary greatly, but they tend to be in the range of 40-90%. Even at the low end of 40%, you'd need two-thirds of the legitimate users using cracks just to have equal numbers of legitimate and illegitimate. If the piracy rate is over 50%, then it's flat out impossible.
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Yeah, not really worth it unless you are a fan of him. The only HN related thing I heard was a bit about twitter at ~15:00+.

Note to self: If you ever asked a question at such event, step back from the microphone so your nervous laughter does not disturb.
Yes, our own designer complained about that too, but because our app is meant to be used across a wide range of users and computer configurations we opted to go with a more consistent set up, since it's the same from the user perspective. And the scripts make use of includes ;)
Deformation of the front of the car is exactly what you want. Ideally everything in front of your feet should be crushed like crazy. But what you see in the Brilliance and the F-150 is that the passenger compartment itself starts deforming, increasing the chances that you're going to wind up with a jagged piece of door metal in your skull, or crushed between the roof and the floor. Nasty.

After viewing the F-150 video I was tempted to say that standards must be different for trucks -- they're built differently and have a helluva lot more momentum to dissipate coming from the back. But then I looked at crash tests for the Chevy Silverado and Nissan Titan, and it looks like that F-150 is just a piece of junk because those other two hold up a lot better.
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Good catch--- it appears in a paragraph discussing why the court should consider the case at all, so is mostly a jurisdictional comment. Courts are by default reluctant to issue declaratory judgments, because the U.S. legal system requires an "actual case or controversy" to consider a case. So AFP is arguing that, by setting up an "antagonistic assertion of rights", Morel has initiated an actual controversy over the matter that the court should consider, i.e. it's not just AFP asking for a declaratory judgment on a purely hypothetical issue. Of course, Morel's countersuit dispenses any doubts on that point.
It's about time. I haven't cracked a phone book in 7 years, but I've thrown out about 10. They are not small books. (Kansas City)
I've explained a few obvious problems with a decentralized, P2P architecture here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1330382
I don't know why the first person downmodded you, but I did it too.

What kind of information is too less for you here: http://status.heroku.com/incident/44
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Would you like to have an exact scenario what happened? Most users, esp. the kind of users who want to use this service, don't give a shit.

Your accusation of hiding problems is rather hard and untrue.
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When you say a more consistent setup, I hope you are not referring to the fact tables are used, because changing the theme for a certain user is MUCH easier to do in css. Okay since you mentioned includes, your obviously a lower end developer. Have you ever heard of OOP or MVC? But I guess if it works, why question it.
We don't track individual user activity. We're huge believers in privacy. Profiles and content are also private by default.
Just submitted my blog post on this subject exactly--would love to hear your thoughts.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1330381
Tell HN: Take My Idea - A Social Calendar
I was just now reading through the comments in the ask HN thread about a Facebook alternative and read a reply saying that there lacks a service that really nails event scheduling, which reminded me of an idea I've had for years now that I've yet to see implemented properly. I won't have time to do much of anything in grad school for the next 4 years, so hopefully one of you will find this interesting enough to implement, because I'd definitely use it.

The goal is to make the ultimate personal and social calendar. Events are suggested and committed to my calendar manually, via my groups/social circles, and suggestions from friends. The user joins a variety of groups, anywhere from his economics class group to the Justin Bieber fan club, and is also member of social circles that him and his friends have created - "school friends", "research team", etc. Each group/circle has their own page for group discussions, etc. Any time an authorized group member or friend in a social circle posts an event, it pops up on in the appropriate slot on my calendar. I can then choose to attend/maybe/not attend, comment, and share the event with others, all directly from my calendar. For every event that has occurred, an event page is created for photos/etc and only viewable by group/circle members. Now, I think this would be pretty huge if implemented correctly. The way I see it, the user logs in to their big calendar decorated in flashing notifications of new events occurring or being suggested. He/she also fills in personal events - "study in library"- and can organize his/her social life around that. Sharing events would be big too, I think.

What problem does it solve? Well, one thing I've always hated about Facebook is that it puts all my friends/acquaintances/etc on the same level, and that's not how it works. I want to rank my friends, be part of different social circles, because that's how I operate. With one group of friends I may act totally different than with another. And so a big part of this idea is giving users the freedom to create their own social circles, and define who they are by the circles they join and groups they're members of, and giving them the ability to plan their lives around that. I feel that more closely resembles how we act in real life. We attend a party with one circle, and go to the company dinner with the next, and there's little to no overlap most of the time; and a lot of the times we keep those two circles separate with a wall of privacy, for many obvious and various reasons. With this idea, you get that privacy, that control to choose which circles you're a part of, how to communicate with them, and how to plan your life around them.

I know this is something Google Calendar might be trying to accomplish, or what Kiko might have been intended for, but I just don't feel it's been done right. Socializr somewhat aims at doing that, but that site is crap - I've tried it. Biggest competitor is Facebook, clearly. Not sure how you'd position this properly to beat them out; I haven't thought that far ahead.