skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humble? Look at the first two sentences after the introduction: "I am indeed the main individual behind the interaction design and implementation of the circle editor. I conceived, designed and implemented a compelling prototype for it almost single-handedly". And then, the first sentence of the following paragraph "Steven Levy's excellent Wired article got the story right - I wrote the circle editor and then recently widened my focus to the overall Google Plus user experience."

In my opinion, in order for me to believe Andy is actually humble, the last sentence, "Suffice it to say that Google Plus is the creation of large, talented team that I'm proud to be a part of", should have been the first one.
How so?

No one is forced to use any of Google's products - Bing and Facebook are only a click away.

A monopoly born from having a superior product is not the same as a monopoly gained through the practises of price fixing or forcing people to install your web-browser with no way to disable it.
I was 8, you fuckface.
Hangs at connecting for me. Using 14.0.797.0 (Official Build 89638) dev on Ubuntu 11.10. And no, I didn't have the code, but cracking the MD5 in the source wasn't so hard. :D
I did it only because the static....sdf.sdf.sd.f link hung on connecting everytime. :/

EDIT: HOW COULD I BE SO DUMB?! I DIDN'T READ THE ENTIRE POST, AND HENCE DIDN'T SEE THAT I DIDN'T NEED TO CRACK THE MD5 TO GET THE CODE iohtml5! WHY GOD, WHY?!!?
The statement was squarely that it cost the public money to have WalMart in our town - they expressed it as the cost per WalMart.

For example, they could have expressed how much is Saved the public per WalMart. They didn't express it that way. Because it made a more sensationalist article the other way.
Awesome work, Dr. Barski! The site doesn't have your name anywhere, but I figured it was you from the drawing style.

Yet another piece of awesomeness from you (after Land of Lisp).
Tell HN: Why Google+ will beat both Facebook and Twitter
There are many reasons why you could think this, and they've been covered here before. But I realized that there's one fundamental reason why Google+ is better than both Facebook and Twitter. Here it is:

You joined Facebook and Twitter because you HAD to. You're joining Google+ because you WANT TO.

I think it's as simple as that. Just think of it this way: Which one would Steve Jobs join? [1]

[1] - regardless of what company he likes or dislikes, and thinks are his competitors. Just a pure product-based decision.
CSS3 Isometric text
In my country politicians will ask you for a higher participation in a business than a VC.
What's wrong with their text chat?
According to this[0] page on his website, pjhyett grew up in the Midwest. As a fellow Midwesterner, I can tell you that you do not want to be outside all day, every day during the summer carrying golf bags, because it is burning hot.

0: http://pjhyett.com/2008/07/23/i-%3C3-san-francisco.html
Same, and I think you're right about them using the Youtube age.
This is why fines and suchlike should be a function of income, rather than a set rate. I think they do this in sweden, people get speeding fines reaching into many thousands of dollars.
> One thing to note is that when you think mobile, WebKit (Chrome, Safari, Android, iPhone) is already a dominant force.

Warning: there is no webkit[0] especially not on mobile[1].

While not completely true, it's important to remember three things about webkit:

1. The core engine progresses fast, and actual browser implementations fork the core, two webkit browsers may have very different capabilities and bugs due to the precise trunk revision they were forked from

2. Webkit relies on a number of abstract interfaces which are implemented differently on each port, depending on the quality of the port and the underlying platform's capabilities two webkits on two different platforms (or toolkits) may behave very differently

3. Webkit is an HTML/CSS rendering engine, javascript engines are built separately, which means (again) two webkit browsers may have very different behaviors and capabilities as far as JS and DOM go, and provide completely different sets of APIs.

[0] http://ariya.blogspot.com/2011/06/your-webkit-port-is-specia...

[1] http://www.quirksmode.org/webkit_mobile.html
Well, it depends on you. Everyone defines start-up in his way. For example, if it was me, I'll consider it at 10.
Show HN: Please review Gamooga, a realtime communication backend for apps/games
Augmented Reality 3d Video on iPad with Kinect 
This is an awesome way to demonstrate what can be done with the Kinnect and the iPad String Augmented Reality SDK
Brief overview: Gamooga provides communication backends for realtime apps and multiplayer games. You donot require to setup any servers for communication and can offload it all to Gamooga. Just upload your server side logic code to Gamooga cluster and interface with your server side using client side APIs that Gamooga provides.

Gamooga makes development of any kind of realtime app easy by removing all the server complexity. Possible usecases: multiplayer games, collaboration softwares, online meetings, virtual whiteboard solutions, e-tutoring etc.
Great fun. Do you generate any of your javascript from clojure, or write it directly?
They should try to make something syntactically compatible with C++ lambdas. It's annoying that the two languages are more and more incompatible for cosmetic reasons.
It's horribly unreliable in comparison to Gtalk.
Ubuntu Software Center includes non-open source software.
Inspiringly so.
> Firecookie http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firecookie/

Built into the Webkit Developer Tools

> Firequery http://firequery.binaryage.com/

jQuery objects visualisation (in console and inspector) are in the Developer Tools, rest is not (though the injection is a bookmarklet/browser extension away)

> Firepicker http://thedarkone.github.com/firepicker/

Missing indeed, Opera's Dragonfly has a color picker but the webkit devtools don't.

> Jsonview http://jsonview.com/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chklaanhfefbnpoihc...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ddngkjbldiejbheifc...

https://github.com/rfletcher/safari-json-formatter

> Colorzilla http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hmdcmlfkchdmnmnmhe... ?
Thank you, that is an excellent reply, covering all of the main points raised in the link.

My impression is that SHA512 with 5000 rounds is competitive with bcrypt (per Schneier in February, at least). But ... this is not the default on Debian, DES is, which I understand is not remotely competitive with bcrypt.

I checked my server, and it uses the default DES... time to harden the passwords.

Refs

1. SHA512 vs. Blowfish and Bcrypt - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1561174/sha512-vs-blowfis...

2. Schneier on SHA-512 variants http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/02/nist_defines_n...
Google thinks this is real funny until Samsung android phones are banned from the us
See also http://detexify.posterous.com/update-on-detexify for update information. Seems that it might also get a new name: Sketch-A-Char.
If everything fails with G.+, they still can buy Twitter.
Compudesk -- Computer Integrated into a Desk
Sorry, I am missing your point.
In the absence of wrinkling, what is stopping me from being able to grab and manipulate objects?

I can do that without wrinkling, even in water.
It may look the same, but it doesn't work the same at all. The way circles work is asynchronous, not synchronous like Facebook. There are also several other reasons in the article why it doesn't work the same.
How Tribes, Social and Analytics helped Zynga [9min video]
It's actually got very good support for projects — take a look at the Project menu.

Once you have an editor window open, just drag stuff into the sidebar. Then save the project to make it persistent.
So then Facebook's value is more in being an address book rather than a social network. Google out-social'ed Facebook with Google+ with Circles and Hangouts, and everything else.
Apparently, the comparator does not lower-case normalize hostnames (one of the URLs has OpenWall.com, the other openwall.com).
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Age 8: Started a friendship bracelet company, but never could make a quality product, sales ultimately plummeted

Age 12: Started a lawn-mowing business that paid approximately $2/hour

Age 15: Started http://www.AUsedCar.com that enabled me to quit my job 13 years later at age 28 (startups can take time! keep trying!)
What it was like at a 1998 dot com company
The ribbon.
Groups doesn't work the same way. Facebook Groups works more like Google Groups. You have to actively get people to accept being in that group, which is much harder to do, and that's why so few people use Groups.

With Google+ Circles, you put them in those Circles, and share what you want with them, and most people are using them like that.
Looks like crb's account has been hellbanned, dating back to this comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2470300) which seems to have attracted a lot of downvotes.

CRB - worth emailing pg or other administrators requesting re-instatement (sorry I don't have an actual address or details for that, perhaps someone else can point you in the right direction).
> Word - separation of content and layout is an absolute bugger to manage.

This is the result of the WYSIWYG generation. "Ancient" systems like TeX (and even WordPerfect) did much better with this and got better looking output on balance, but with our newfangled "OOhh! Pretty!" systems, everyone thinks they're a designer. So, we get systems like Word.
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Very cool. I love the showmanship in the demo :)
I think the reason why android doesn't have a large paid app base is due to the lack of a well designed purchasing ecosystem. People have been using(read: spending money with) iTunes for nearly a decade. They know it and they trust it. The fact developers can be sure people will have a smooth process buying their apps encourages the best developers to use iOS as their preliminary platform. Until android has a trusted payment system that allows easy payments, developers will not spend the time to create apps for it.
Facebook Places is Growing & Improving: Now with Reviews, My Favorites, etc
Google Docs Drawing tool

Very simple and quick to throw up some ideas
It's the stable version that matters, not preview one, since preview versions don't get pushed to users, and it's only a very tiny amount of people using them. Microsoft thinks in 1 year cycles, Google and now Mozilla, too, think in 6-8 weeks cycles of releasing stable browsers with new features. IE will give new features only once per year to most users.
GroovyMag July 2011 is available
Fixing What Facebook Is Missing
Missing the first week of first year is a bad idea. 80% of college is meeting new friends. Initiation week (frosh?) is pretty awesome experience you will never get again. Money alone isn't everything.
Also, does it mean serving UCS2 encoded JavaScript files to client presenting a Mozilla user agent would speed things up?
Removing the DVD player and adding a Sim Card slot are very good (but not new) ideas and I found Apple's choice not to move in this direction beyond baffling. Other than those two, the article is stunningly useless.

Some points betray a thorough lack of information about the MacBook product, for example the 15-inch Hi-Res Antiglare Widescreen Display (funny, mine already has this feature. It must be from the future)

The other points of the article range from "meh" to "worst idea ever": Removing the Ethernet port, the chip reader, and placing a retractable iPhone connector on it (just to rant about the advantages of having "no moving parts" a few lines further down). Yuck.
If Apple were to remove the Ethernet port, I would go back to Windows. Seriously. I work in a Printing company. We move huge files all day long. I need 1000Base-T. Wifi doesn't come remotely close. It's ideal speed is still too slow, and it can't switch, so it has major collision issues as you add clients.

And a non-clicking mousepad? Synaptic has been trying to get people to "tap to click" for at least a decade, and it is still the first thing that most people disable on their Windows laptop. Sorry, but no way.

Give me USB 3.0, and stop being Thunderbolt snobs.
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From http://news.ycombinator.com/apply :

> Sorry, we're no longer considering applications for summer 2011.

> Check back later to apply for winter 2012.
What is a "full GUI editor"?

Vim and Emacs both have (optional) GUIs, but I've never used Sublime... am I missing something?
They should've gathered the whole OHA alliance around and get them to make a pool. Just getting Apple alone in the bid would've meant a very high chance they lost the bid, because Apple could've outbid them if they really wanted the patents. But of course it got even worse, with all the others joining up with Apple to take them.

They really didn't expect this to happen? I'm a bit disappointed in Google for not thinking this through, if they really wanted to get them to protect the whole Android ecosystem.

EDIT: I also think Microsoft is focusing too much on making money on patents, rather than from their own product. Are they going to buy as many patents as possible that later they can use to act as a leech on Android ecosystem? That's a pretty perverse business model, and it doesn't make them look any better than Righthaven.
Argh. Same crap as with all the population predictions. Everybody always assumes the graph is exponential. It is not. It always levels off. The real trick is predicting where/when that will happen.
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Not just any short-term investments: I think they have to be with investment banks, or invested in certain highly liquid, highly rated vehicles such as money market accounts, treasury bills, or short-term AAA-rated government debt.
Happy Birthday BitTorrent!!!
Use of technology in courtrooms
Most distro do include non-open source software, even Debian. And Ubuntu now has a 'For Purchase' tab in the Software Center, with a couple of programs already.
Agreed. I'd rather wait another term than missing the first few weeks.
pi is also less than $4.5billion. It's the multiplier that matters.
There's problems with all three of your statements:

1. IE on XP isn't getting any better, it's stuck at IE8. I'm sure people in Redmond are as desperate for people to upgrade from XP as we all were for people to upgrade from IE6, but as we've experienced, wishing and hoping aren't enough. Last I heard XP was 60% of Firefox base, and if you assume they are older machines, it makes sense that they also have an incentive to use the fastest browsers to wring the most out of their machines. If all they do is browse then it makes much better financial sense, and the alternative browser probably clears up a bunch of security problems too.

2. IE isn't the default browser in Europe, which is a market that's bigger that the U.S. New users get prompted to choose from a short list, which includes Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera. In many other countries IE isn't as dominant due to language or cultural issues. In the UK and US which are traditionally strong for IE, Safari on Mac is also strong which makes up for weaker showings by Firefox and Chrome and that's a growing and influential market that Microsoft has conceded entirely. Only China and South Korea are really IE strongholds and South Korea now has something like 15% Android thanks to an explosion of mobile browsing and being the home country of Samsung and LG (mobile being another growing and influential market that Microsoft seems totally out of the running for).

3. If people really are that lazy then a) it prevents them upgrading XP, b) it prevents them switching back to IE if previously switched to (the auto-updating) Chrome and Firefox, and similarly switching from Android and iPhone in mobile..
Age 16: began doing contract work for friends of family

Age 19: registered a company for custom software development, part-time

Age 24: got University diploma, quit my full-time job and went full-time in my company

Age 26: incorporated same business. http://ParadiVision.com/

Age 34: started a second venture in parallel with another guy. Didn't work out.

Age 39: co-founded third startup with 2 co-founders. Wife is in charge of first company. Now full-time on http://buyosphere.com/

My startup life: I made way more money doing consulting between age 24 and 30 but I'm now having way more fun building a consumer-facing company
> most anarchists think that "anarcho-capitalism" is an oxymoron at best, and cryptofeudalism at worst

Just because most anarchists dislike anarcho-capitalism, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist as an ideology. Look at the Wikipedia article.

> personally, i believe that capitalism is inherently statist

Maybe its name it's unfortunate. Some people call it free-market anarchism, but that includes other kinds like mutualism, agorism, etc.

> a state is simply an entity with a large amount of land capital.

Land and capital are not the same thing. You can have any of them independently of the other. Are you aware of geolibertarianism?

Also you're blending together capitalism (and its crony state) as a system with capitalism as a free market ideology. And I hope you don't confuse free market with taxing the poor and subsidizing the rich as crony governments do.

Last but not least, please read about panarchism. All flavors of anarchism can coexist with each other, because they aren't really that different.
So based on the comments here and the votes, "startup" now means any attempt to make money ever?
I'm not sure what to count as my first business:

At about age eight I did the lemonade stand thing, but quickly noticed that most people driving by my stand didn't purchase. So I took my lemonade operation mobile, in a red flyer wagon. By visiting a couple local parks I was able to sell easily 5x as much lemonade as I could staying in one place. It was a fun homeschooling project, as my parents gave me "investment money" and I had to keep track of my expenses and income and pay them back.

After that the next thing I would count as a startup would be Amazon Affiliate Script, when I was 19. It was basically a wrapper script for Amazon Affiliate which displayed products automatically based on page keywords and the visitors geographical location. It served nearly 10 million ads, and made about $500 dollars total, before Amazon adopted a similar feature and rendered my idea not very useful.

Currently, at age 21, I run BookFlavor (http://bookflavor.com), a book search engine that generally makes $75-$100 a month. It's a cool side project that I show off and which gets me 2-3 job offers a month.

However, I don't have much time for other projects or even my own projects these days as I am working full time for StoryDesk (http://storydesk.com), a startup creating a web authoring tool that helps sales teams create their own iPad apps using simple drag and drop, WYSIWYG editing without writing a line of code.
Wow, getting hellbanned for making a joke about Portal. That's... not right. (The comment itself did deserve getting downvoted though.)
Why not build a list on something like Github ? So it would be easy to fork, edit the file online, and submit a pull request (a bit tricky well, but can be setup really quickly, isn'it ?).
Thanks, I enjoyed creating it -- hope someone finds it useful!
That would mean going to Github and getting either an email for each person or their profile address. It's a good idea but we're looking for a single-click solution.
No the real lesson is don't do stories sourced by Apple fan sites. This was a great example of a story that wasn't worth covering to begin with, and Apple zealots will tear into you for not showing proper deference to the Apple gods.

The one thing the tech industry could do without are so many pointless Apple stories.
Also, don't forget that in most cases the JS code is probably loaded from the browser's cache anyway.
I like it how the blue text selection also appears isometric!
So sue me: are lawyers really the key to computer security?
There aren't if used correctly. The SO questioner has a misunderstanding of how the history API and the hashbang scheme are supposed to work.
Some Apple Store employees unhappy with work Conditions
The World Is An Internet Startup Now
And yet, everyone complained when Google automatically built your graph in Buzz...
Do you mean it is not going to come soon?
They should provide graph API if they want to make it as a platform.
This is probably doubiely true because tv networks have much more limited air time, something that doesn't apply to hulu in he same way (and with almost certainly not apply to hulu running on google's equipment)
Why I'm Rooting For Google+
I've adopted the following branching model: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

Works like a charm for us.

It doesn't mean we don't update production as often as possible but we sure sometime need to push hot fixes to production quickly while working in parallel on new features. I would say branching is a necessary evil.
The Awesomest Tumblr theme on my blog
Much discussion from when it was submitted two years ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644796

Actually this is slightly different, but not that much. You might think otherwise.
Works in Firefox 3.6 which is nice too.
You still have the option of not using Google's services, and they even offer a clean way to purge your entire profile.
To see if I understand bcrypt correctly, would this pseudo code achieve a similar adaptable computational cost?

function(uniqueSalt128Bit, password, rounds) {
var hash = SHA1(uniqueSalt128Bit + password);
var length = Math.pow(2, rounds);
while (length--) hash = SHA1(hash);
return hash;
}
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Install the "Add-on Compatibility Reporter" extension, and you can install extensions that have not been upgraded yet. Zindus works for me this way. (I haven't tried Virtual Identity.)

EDIT: For Zindus, the version you add is for the older Thunderbird, but if you check for updates after installing it, it will upgrade the extension to the latest version, which is compatible with Thunderbird 5. I'm not sure why it does not simply add the latest version by default.
For git, code branching is really really easy (even without some tool/model like gitflow).

To me, it's like reading "Onions, not required even for complex multi-course meals". Why would you avoid that!
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