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I hope they retain the open nature of google wave with this project. Even if it fails some people benefit from it still.

for example Novell as far as I am aware use a Google Wave like service still.
Sounds promising with the ability to separate family with friends. And Google Circles is better name than Google Me! Let's hope its viable alternative to FB.
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Mindwallet looks neat. Quick feedback: the +/- signs are too small and frustrate me when I want to expand/collapse. If you made that interaction easier the navigating would be a lot simpler.
It seems like their idea of social network is modelled after Path.com's model of only having very close friends' special circle. Path turned down Google's offer to buy them few months ago.
Surely 'major' is premature?

Downvotes.. interesting. What I mean is that I'm not sure what is going to make it 'major' within the near future. They tried converting the Gmail userbase once before.
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First two sentences: I don't actually know this story - certainly no more of it than anyone who has read a few web pages. But luckily, I'm pretty good at making things up.
Is there really any debate whether you have to execute an idea to make it successful? Are there really people who think you can have an idea, keep it in your head, and become rich just by thinking it? Of course you have to execute the idea, everyone knows that. Ah, but the sage advice is to execute it 'correctly.' That will be a big help to all those poor souls who thought it was better to execute their ideas incorrectly. If they'd only known...

The catch is that there is no way to predict whether your execution is 'correct' a priori. It's like saying the way to win the lottery is to pick the correct ticket. Technically true, but not particularly helpful in practice.
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Something really refreshing about this post. Congratulations on your success, and best of luck!
IMHO The original web interface sucked -- The new one is quite good (for me).
The point is: why promote Dubai as a tourist beach resort if nobody ever goes outside?
About time, though I wonder how useful this will be since there are fundamental network effects standing in way.

I actually hope this will inspire facebook to get it's act together.
Frankly I don't entirely credit the conclusions of any "authority" right now -- everyone outside the plant management loop is making educated guesses, and many of them have powerful institutional biases shaping their thinking.

And if we set aside conclusions, this is the best orientation to the problem that I've seen so far. I'm not worried about his credentials, as this is internally consistent, and externally consistent with what I know of physics. Maybe the plant lacks a third containment, or is using a different fuel, but I can adjust my understanding of the system for those facts as they come along.
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People will have to choose either to use Facebook or Circle. Well... a lot of ppl won't join the Circle because there aren't all of their friends and they will simply stick to facebook.
Is it just my opinion that this is going to be really exciting for the first few days and then simply die off like the amazing product - google wave?
Future features. The goal is to give you a good place to org your friends and get the updates you are really interested in.
Those CPI networks are actually our biggest partners. We're AB testing a couple right now. And it's a good thing there's more than one. Then, to win your business, they do nice things like give you access to their API or call you in for a meeting with the CEO.

I see you used to be at Flurry. It was your former CEO, Simon, who asked me to come in.
The beauty of 'lean' methodology is that it can be applied on a variety of different levels. There's no litmus test for 'lean-ness'—I would argue that every successful company has employed lean principles to some degree.
Although my first instinctive reaction was negative, I really do hope Google gets this right. Frankly, a lot of people are pissed with FB's privacy issues, and if Google can take a new and refreshing approach to this (complicated) problem, it would be interesting to see how things pan out.
I'm preparing for a zombie apocalype in two ways. If I'm still human, then I'll kick ass. If I'm a zombie, then I'll be a boss-fight for the survivors.
Stop reading unless it can help you immediately - got this tip from 4hour week from Tim Ferris's book.

Books are first vetted for fit by analyzing the star3 comments in Amazon. Then I write what I will do once I read this book before I read actually it.

I read the book and then do the items. Then I analyze: did this book do what I needed it do. To help me become better at predicting.

I used to read about 10 books/week for the last 15 years. Now I only read 2 per week and many weeks none because I am too busy doing ... and WOW what a difference. I wish I started doing this earlier.
Never say never. Admittedly Google's recent track-record with seemingly social products like Buzz and Wave is not terrific, something tells me they would have learnt from them and would be looking to do things differently this time (if at all the rumor is what it is).
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Sounds a lot like an idea I was considering, until I saw BrainTrust.io had already attacked it and The Fridge (YC S10) had followed up. The problem for someone like Google, as I see it, is "competitive advantage" boils down to "it's like Facebook except you can share stuff just with certain groups". Except, Facebook already has groups.
Coffeescript optional parenthesis and much shorter syntax for closures are a big help in diminishing the noise, which is crucial to make a DSL. Without these, some DSLs become so cumbersome that they are in fact unwieldy.

For instance: nobody uses nested closure[1] techniques in java, because anonymous classes are too much of a verbose implementation of closures, not to mention that they can only close over final variables, making it even more cumbersome

[1] http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/software-engineering-an...
Oh I completely agree - the current system is horribly broken, and for the vast majority of students is really a Lord of the Flies-meets-babysitting kind of situation. I was just trying to say that pmorici's analogy, which was already stretched in trying to apply the way a lawyer/doctor gets repeat business to the way a college professor gets "new business", completely falls down when applied to primary school teachers.
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Well I liked this... but I know nothing about music. All the posts griping about "math music" -- can anyone point to something like "intro to music for math people" ?
Yes, the name "Circles" is awesome. It's agressive and appealing when seen from the perspective of "what do you offer that's better than Facebook", but also generically pleasant if you just encountered it as a product.
Then again, I think you could consider applying to YC. Even though your revenue > expenses. Don't think of YC as an incubator or a funding machine (or whatever you'd like to call it). They offer a lot more. I think it's more like a ticket to a community of entrepeneurs and investors, based in Silicon Valley.

And yes, the $150k is a nice addition, but would you pick this convertible debt over the weekly dinners, office hours, alumni help you might get and most of all connections with possible investors? I wouldn't :)

Now I think about it: the YC FAQ also mentions this money-related question.
Yes. Send them over.
How interesting. I do have a limp handshake, because I feel too strong of a handshake can be off putting. I don't tend to like people with strong handshakes, because it feels like they're too controlling.
I suspect that you read too much into my wish. I wasn't actually sayingn that we get rid of anonymous free speech -- honestly, because I know that isn't the answer, and there are times (admittely, that I cannot relate to) where people may have fear of persecution for their beliefs.

Also, I'm not looking to eliminate the trolls in the world -- forced anonymity wouldn't CURE it, but would almost certainly lessen its presence considerably. However, having seen first hand how entirely unnecessarily negative attacks can destroy a community.

You bring up an interesting point though, in that speech can be 'moderated into existence' -- which in my opinion, is even more oppressive than public identifiability. You would institute censorship to restore anonymity? I consider that the worst of the two ideas.
Didn't Eric Schmidt say something like you should not be doing things you want to hide? To follow that thought, what is wrong with Facebook's idea of everybody is a friend and my life is an open book?
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"To get to my gate?"
Excellent - I didn't think of partnering with the CPI networks, which makes a lot of sense.

Simon is terrific - given that there wasn't an obvious acquirer for Pinch Media, merging with Flurry was a great decision.
This means, when you save money, save it as early as possible. Even days matter - plenty of banks calculate interest daily, and add it to the account monthly.

When you borrow money, borrow it as late as possible, and pay it off as quickly as possible. Every day you delay, you also pay the interest on the interest for that day. (and so on and so forth, actually!)

Above all, be prepared to do the math.
Also, from what I remember from the coverage at the time and right after, the graphite caught fire and the plume of smoke helped to carry even more fallout into the air and to spread it even farther.
Being able to say that you made more from your tablet cover than your competitors did from tablets (combined?) is just ridiculous. But there it is.
European countries have regional differences also...within the same country. In some cases these differences are very big also. Think of Spain where there is still a huge division between provinces and some don't even speak the same language. Think of the UK with Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland. Big regional differences.

It's a matter of scale. Country-level differences are far more significant. I don't think you can compare the cultural differences between someone of the "deep south" and NY, to those of, for instance, Sweden and Italy.
The Smart Cover is far more damaging to the revenue potential of accessory vendors than the in-app subscription policy is to content publishers.
Yes, and I have never even worked regularly with a language that parses like that..
I'm Quite confused by this.

I can see some spammy looking sites on the same ip as a small site I set up for a friend.

Should I be worried?
I also tried several GTD systems and ended up spending almost a whole day writing my own that for me replaces a piece of note paper. Really simple, but just what I wanted. (Freely hosted at http://my-foc.us/ and that page has a link to the code at github).
Facebook groups seems to me like an after thought. On the other hand if Google builds something which has the privacy and groups built right into the core, it will make a different experience. Whatever it is, they certainly have the reach which other start-ups like The Fridge might not have.
Tegra 2 doesn't support OpenCL or CUDA, though Tegra 3 will. The PowerVR SGX543 supports OpenCL, though not, of course, CUDA.

EDIT: At the time, NVidia claimed that it _was_ a die size limitation.
Do you live in Vietnam? This is OT, but I'm 80% taking a job there to head up a tech company. My few visits there (three so far), I haven't had the same experience as you. So I'm sort of wondering what I'm potentially getting myself into.
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2317716
This is old news. Freeman's "heretical ideas" were expressed in 2007 in Brockman's online journal, http://www.edge.org. There was also the NY Times article published in 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html. Freeman Dyson is wrong in this instance; I, for one, wonder why a credible scientist and thinker would choose to take a scientifically unsupportable position.
This rings true with me. Although yet to hit the heights that you have, I treat my job as just that. Not a matter of life and death. Its especially true when you realize how quickly you will be replaced when you go.
What Google is to Microsoft in search, Facbook is to Google in Social. But Google has the advantage of trusted brand value(not that MS is not trusted, but with Google it's at diferent scale) so it should get more market share in social than Bing got in search.
Grateful for the explanation, but the author's bias is questionable at best. He suggests,

"If you want to stay informed, please forget the usual media outlets and consult the following websites"

and goes on to list 3 nuclear lobbying websites.

So, ignore the independent media and get all of your information from pro-nuclear lobbies?

More: https://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-w...
a lot of ppl won't join the Circle because there aren't all of their friends

I'll wager there's a significant overlap between FB and GMail users.
I remember reading something along the lines of 'Jobs saw Pixar as the next SGI' - which matches a lot of what has been said in Pixar biographies
Fair point, but remember that this convention predates modern search engines. I'm sure you remember what the Internet was like in 1995, for example, and how difficult it could be to find precisely what you were looking for. That's the world Java and its package convention was born into, and in that world it made more sense for the reason you pointed out.

That said, at least Sun was smart enough to not package core classes as com.sun.* - they reserved the java.* packaging for core language constructs, so at least that's not broken.
I think people exist in circles, but they don't necessarily talk or share in circles. If Google, or anyone, wants to mimic real social interaction, they need to find a way to enable talking to the right people for that moment and that content. Even the closest circles don't work in daily life. Rarely do I think "I'd like to go skiing with 'best friends' or 'school friends'". I'm much more likely to think of who skis, who hasn't just had a kid, who hasn't just lost her job, who has a job that allows vacation, etc. Maybe I make a circle for just that, but it seems a) difficult and b) overkill. The outreach and sharing only to that circle just isn't the hard part of the communication. Seems like all that solves is "I can't find that email thread about the ski trip in my inbox".

I'd love replies to this line of thought b/c it actually was a bit of a look in the mirror on some stuff I'm working on.
You just broke one of the features he describes in the article: no login

I have no facebook account, I don't want one and I certainly don't create one to use your version of etherpad. No offense, just think about it...
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Point is that you are comparing effects of relatively unlikely accident with effects of normal operation.
I don't understand? I don't like Apple's geographically segmented marketplace either, but in the end it's not too big a problem to get around.
Once you're done with the fear of shipping, you may move to the fear of shipping something, even minimal, that people aren't ready to pay for, or something that will grow sooo slow you will have to kill it (not speaking of blog posts though!).
not sure how it can apply to a startup, but it would be 'do not hire John Sculley to run your company'
Appleseed has used friend "Circles" to organize friends since around 2006. Good to see this idea catch on. ;)

Here's to hoping Google's social network has some solid federation features baked into it.
I suppose that my fears for this particular situation are mostly allayed. But I think that's only the tip of the iceberg.

In the face of the world's need for energy, nuclear power is the only viable option that is available today. I wonder how much this incident is going to weigh against using that option?

The power plants in operation today use technology that's quite obsolete. The design of the older plants is an historical accident. Because of the war-driven necessity of developing nuclear technology for weapons, the understanding of the technology that informed the currently-operational reactors was largely bomb-centric. But we know better today, there exists designs for reactors that are orders of magnitude safer, both in terms of operational dangers as well as its waste byproducts.

I'm afraid that sound-byte driven media and activists who aren't willing to evaluate newer ideas will cause such prejudice that newer, better technology will never see the light of day, and thus we'll see worse environmental problems (or economic problems) because our current energy problems can't be fixed otherwise.
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"it is a social collection builder. I call it insanely organized social media."

Maybe your description isn't empowered enough? "insanely cloud enabled agile social media experience" should appeal to just about everybody.
Google does not seem to own circles.com. I wonder if they are planning on using google.com/circles or maybe another alternative domain.
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Doesn't really work. I have 5 domains pointing to one ip and this failed on all of them.
To try to steer the discussion to more constructive tracks, I wrote some guidelines on making cross-project collaboration work:

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/on_cross-project_collaboration/

This is based on working several years on getting both GNOME and KDE to adopt some common ideas and libraries.
> It reminds me of how the iPhone beat the Nokia with a better product (instead of a worse one, which is usually how disruptions start)

Unless you're measuring battery life ;)
Schmidt is stepping down as a CEO in a month or so.
And they have these filters right there, handy and ready to use just in case they started pumping in sea water?
The Description says:

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Not sure how this translates to 100K/month but would be interested to find out.
FWIW, you'd probably want to sterilize the thread as well. That's the part that's staying in the wound, and it's a bit easier to sterilize a thread with bleach than with fire.
Am I right in thinking that your figure is for inland hydroelectric power plants, not Tidal power generators?
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Nobody has seen the UI of Google Circles yet, so maybe creating a circle is as easy as drawing a loop around a group of icons, kinda like how Bumptop, another company Google recently purchased, let you group desktop icons with gestures.
that's a rough and very large social circle (for me at least). I'd still expect circles or whatever "next-gen" social network to make setting up groups of friends and information control a very easy and pervasive process, enough to make me pry myself away from using email for group communication.
Pretty critical thing here is to make maintaining those separate circles trouble-free. Google might have the necessary machine-learning capability to automatically put people into the right circles. If you have to start from scratch and do it all manually this won't work
I have great experience, lots of energy, a bit of that "vision thing"

Yeah, just a bit of vision thing :)
Thanks for the feed back I have a CSS nightmare and am looking for design help. It is clearly not my strong suite.
So, for the sake of potential future features that you think people might want, but haven't yet implemented, and don't really know for sure, you make it harder for people to use it now. For the sake of making it "future proof" you put hurdles in place to prevent people from using it now.

People using it now gives you a working group of testers for new features. Don't make it harder for them.
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Well, the OP says there are such facilities. (The contaminated water can be kept in the containment till the facilities have recovered from the earthquake if they are currently down.)
I like the name, and the concept 'hook'. Here is to hoping that Google nails the UX and if its really really good. utilize google.com / gmail / android tastefully to get to critical mass.

I am not sure if i want Google to be successful in social though, too much power in a single company...
It is mire than that. But you have to read past the first bullet and that is a problem. I'm still tring to figure out what it is myself and I use it constantly.
This is so much better than those YC-rejects bragging about raising a fund as if that's a prerequisite for success. A positive cash flow is something to brag about for sure. Congratulations!
I used Etherpad two days ago to edit fasta file and I could not agree more on this one.
Well I could be horribly wrong, of course. I prolifically said back in 2007 that Android would never take off ;). I just think the odds are against Google at the moment unfortunately.
Mathew Might video "Yacc is Dead" at Stanford from Feb 2011. http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/permlinks/Might.html. Slides are also available.
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I wonder what the likelihood of an export feature is.

I'm not a big user of Google services (but more now with Android), but seems like there are some cool possibilities with Google Voice and gmail...provided they get the privacy protection part right.
If you had to pick a single company to succeed in social, would you not pick Google?
Google Launching Secret New Social Network Called "Circles"
It looks like he's using Tapjoy
http://imgur.com/7hT1J
A "dot.com" company called eCircles[1,2] took exactly this approach between 1998-2001. They were later sold to Classmates[3].

1- http://www.pcworld.com/article/9704/join_hands_in_ecircles.h...

2- http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-55246946.html

3- http://books.google.com/books?id=OCRdSXSKZ-AC&pg=PA131&#...
Your comments need to add value, noibl. The clarification helps.

FWIW, word on the ground says that Brin is personally involved with Google's new Social efforts. So 'major' is right - at least internally, Google's throwing the big guns at this one.
The linked page is part of the Google Social Search feature. It was launched in 2009. Information on the feature is available here: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer...
i feel like this wont spawn an equivalent to facebooks "like" button, or twitters "retweet" or "follow me". when i say that im referring to those buttons on third party sites. but then again it might be in googles interest to do so.
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"Most" is pretty inaccurate. And I don't consider people who can't pronounce "Schwartz" to be German, do you?

I mean, I don't speak a word of Gaelic or Shawnee.
C'mon! There are far better things than getting acquired! Like positive cash flow and happy customers. (Making a general statement here, if you can't tell)
Its not a bad start..the problem I see UI wise its no very clear how it ties into the information stream produced..ie FB has a news or wall stream..right now GC and your GP stream are separate entities and that might not be the way to go with the UI..

they might be better off combining the GP and GC interfaces together in some significant way...