skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Chrome 12, under about:flags, there was an option to "Enable better omnibox history matching". If you enabled this, it fixed the behaviour to work how you want. I understand they didn't have it on from the beginning as it was a strain to do full-text search on the database of accessed sites.

As of M13 it was made on by default. If I type 'y' I get YouTube, 'yc' a Google search, and 'yco' I get Hacker News.
I can second this. I used DP4 for about a week with no problems whatsoever. I am now using DP5 as my primary, again with no issues. I was even using a seed from February that was stable. My experience with Lion has been very good so far. I'm wondering what specific hardware people are having problems with? Perhaps laptops?
Hacker Poll: Do You Want to Develop with the Google Plus API?
There is no online activation. (DP1, DP2, DP3, DP4, and DP5 inclusive)
This really interests me, I have an open summer too :D
I know a bunch of non-techie xkcd fans that don't fit the tech geek stereotype. They tend to be nerds (ie, lawyers, biotech researchers,, etc). They also tend to be young.

xkcd is surprisingly accessible to folks who are brainy (more folks than you realize).
On the other hand it is one of the fields where the use of C++ is completly warranted. It is fun and offers challenging problems.
I started programming like that and I sure liked it.
I worked on Plaxo (or as the kids call it today... 'some electronic rolodex company' :-) )

This idea sounds exactly like Plaxo.

That being said, I'll sign up and see what they are up to. I believe there is a lot of innovation that can still happen here. Just recently, a few companies trying to attack this space again.

Also, what I would really like to know is if they have something here or if this is just another YC email signup test.

We shall see.
Great new hilarious voting site
Attackers are creating Trojans that steal BitCoins
What a fantastic splash page.
Ironically, I have a Gmail account which I made exclusively for all that crap Facebook spews forth just to keep it all out of my inbox.
http://www.dataliberation.org/google/picasa-web-albums

You can use the Picasa client to retrieve your photos quite easily. :)
Navi-X tip wins first BoxeeBoxTips contest
Also known as the "Scoble virus": https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/gEpTBbWs.... To quote Googler Kelly Ellis:

Pro tip. Right now your stream is ordered by most-recent comment. We're working hard on improving this, but in the mean time, if you're tired of seeing the same post come up near the top of your stream, you can click on the little arrow and select "Mute this post." This is useful for those Scoble updates...
Facebook also does this, for example by analyzing which pictures you and a friend are both tagged in. Probably there are other signals like wall posts, likes, and profile views.

You can see the result of this by the order of friends in the search box.
jnephtali (need an invite)
DP4 was also likely tagged at least a month before its release to developers.

Their DP releases aren't current. They're older, generally more stable snapshots.

EDIT: This means that they've been improving stability long since the last DP, and have been using the bug reports and crash reports from the DPs to diagnose and fix problems as well.
You can add more than one at a time. Click on multiple people then drag the group into a circle.
Approximating Priority With RabbitMQ
You know you can turn them off right? https://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?notifications
Ask HN: How do you calculate Development time?
Seriously, we developers tend to be over optimistic about how much it will take us to develop something. I have read about a simple formula.
Total Time = Developer Estimate x 10, what do you think? What is yours?
Do you do H1Bs?
I will not do another startup as a non-technical founder unless…
I could use an invite to answer this question ;)
jnephtaliatgmail.com
Cute, but functions pointers suit me just fine.
It's clearly not official. It seems to be associated with chhahat.com
THIS! It's only been a day for me but I'm already noticing that people I don't know are own my stream. It's ok to click to a specific circle but I would love if it defaulted to people I actually know and have to seek out the following.
Buzz is/was the same. If they hadn't forced Buzz down every one's throat, it might have been successful.

Buzz + suggest who to follow!
I've polled my teenage daughter several times over recent years about this. She barely _talks_ on the phone anymore - texting is FAR and away the most common form of communication. Even (facebook) chat is not used that often. I can't imagine video chat being compelling for her and her friends.
Glad you're tackling this. I stopped adding contacts to my iPhone because keeping them up to date became too much work. Now I just search Gmail when I need a phone number or address. That's a hassle too, but at least I know the info is up to date.
Or you could use progressive JavaScript, AFAIK. Make your every link a first class citizen (with it's own view) and for supported browsers replace links' default action with content switching (without reloading) using JS requests.

Of course that's a bit harder since your views need to respond in a different manner to casual GETs and AJAX requests.
Hemingway, Fifty Years Later [video]
For a lot of people, not having their mom switch will be considered a feature.
Well...so I might as well do a mea-culpa and confess my shortcomings to Sir Gates and the MSFT team. I must admit, at first, the $8.5B price tag seemed astronomical and it seemed that you were throwing shareholder's equity at a problem that needs to be solved with innovation.

But now, with the prospect of doing 'deep' integration with Facebook, your bet seems very prescient. Even if it was non-intentional, i.e. if you guys had no idea that Google would release Hangout, but talk about great timing.

If Microsoft can successfully integrate Skype into Facebook and expand their userbase even 2X, that's kinda staggering given the baseline number of 130 million they would be starting from.

All of a sudden the price seems like a bargain, if they can pull off something like this.
Buzz was basically the alpha version of what Google+ appears to be. Google+ has taken all of the good qualities of Buzz (the discussion), but filled in its giant holes. Name that it didn't have it's own home page. Navigated Buzz in Gmail was a pain. I actually preferred to use it on the mobile web page.
I've been using the Preview(dense) theme and I don't have that problem at all. While the issue could be due to your eyes, it is most likely being exacerbated by viewing the site on a monitor where the contrast setting is set too low and/or the gamma is set too high. Granted, good universal web design should account for the fact that many people's monitors won't be ideally calibrated, but if you like the theme other than for that issue you might want to try adjusting your contrast and gamma settings.
Google Go strikes back with C++ bake-off
Really REMOTE. You don't even have to be in the USA.

deviantART (http://www.deviantart.com) wants developers. We're fully remote; there's no central office with a devteam located there. We expect all hires to be comfortable working in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL; we like our developers to be able to hack on any part of the site, rather than being frontend/backend specialists.

One exception to all that: there's an Infrastructure Engineer position which is located in Vancouver. It's C++/Java focused, and involves developing backend services used by the rest of the site.

We post information about our development process here sometimes: http://dt.deviantart.com/blog/

Apply here: http://deviantart.theresumator.com/apply?source=hn
Completely warranted? If you're doing very-high-end stuff, yes. For the majority of indie-esque games and the stuff you'll be capable of doing when learning to program, and learning to write sane code during your formative stages? Not so much.

C# with OpenTK (or SlimDX, or XNA) or Python with PyGame are both superior choices for that sort of thing.
I think they use this:

http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/sha-crypt.html

which the version of crypt(3) in glibc. It is almost the same as bcrypt. One difference is that it uses SHA256 or SHA512 instead of Blowfish. But that implementation has the same ability to expand the work factor like bcrypt.

So I'd say that the algorithm they're using is slow and is designed to be slow
This article is in response to last month's discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2615096
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This is just too clumsy, and this is exactly why I think go will take off.

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
add := func(x int, y int) int{
return x+y
}
max := func(x int, y int) int{
if x>y {return x}
return y
}
fmt.Printf("lambda: add:%d\n",add(2,3))
fmt.Printf("lambda: max:%d\n",max(2,3))
}

Although it'd be nice if you could have a ternary or something like

return {x} if x>y else {y}
Lytro's original camera crew.
In DP3~4 when trying to do a clean install from the recovery partition, Setup requires you to be online, you may or may not have to enter your AppleID (can't remember) and then a dialog states the purpose to be so your CPU serial number will be sent to Apple to determine if the OS may be installed.

That's the definition of online activation. /cue shitstorm
You can sync your iPhone contacts with Gmail and save new contacts you add on your phone directly to Gmail if you add the account as an Exchange account on the phone.
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2720006
How does this compare with Coderoom?
You could say Google was just smarter and they probably were but I think their main advantage here was having no established product bringing in billions. This freed executives to look at the market objectively and pick the future winners.

There's a Steve Jobs quote about what happens when the sales guy starts running the show at tech companies that's relevant here. Even if it's not the CEO, too much of a company's top brass can get wedded to yesterday's products.
Facebook has solved the big problem for social networks - lots of people use it.

The evidence that Google+ wasn't ready to be a Facebook killer is that it is invitation only. Living in a college town, I was around Facebook when it was exclusively for students. Facebook's growth from exclusive to pervasive was enabled by the fact that students move on get married and have babies - looking at pictures of her first granddaughter is what sold Facebook to mom.

On the other hand, the bloggers and programmers invited to Google+ will remain bloggers and programmers. They're already married and have kids and more importantly already update Facebook with photos for grandma and uncles.

Don't get me wrong, Google will make money off this thing even with limited adoption and the assumption that it will ever roll out of perpetual beta (or preview in this case) is not a settled matter based on Google's history.
"It's 4:24pm, get up and go out." Best call to action of life

Unfortunately for you, it has prompted me to go find some dinner and stop giving you more feedback ;-)
Really? Then why did Google buy On2's video codec patents and then give them away?
Selecting text shows invisible characters, awesome (it's the little things).
Agreed. Now Google just needs to getting around to enabling "Accounts" with Google Apps.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Apps/thread?tid...
Ha, I like your inversion of the Snowcrash quote, "condensing fact from the vapor of nuance" -- what a great tagline for a social search company.
Which really should be trivial using most modern 3-Tier frameworks. They universally have a concept of "layout" vs "template" so in a pseudocode logic, all you need to do is tap into the render method and swap out an empty layout when responding to an XHR request.
One might say, to paraphrase Douglas Adams, that it's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike lambdas.
The Developer Previews are only available to Apple IDs registered to members of the developer program.
also, this works too:

val := func(x int, y int) int{return x+y}(2,4)
They're raising $1B .. their valuation is going to be in $15B - $20B range
London and San Francisco

WebMynd has been doubling revenue every 3 months for the past year (while in private beta) and is growing the team fast:

* iOS developer

* IE developer

* Javascript developers (http://www.webmynd.com/jobs)

We're making cross-platform app development simple by building a development platform across mobile apps and browser add-ons. Backed by Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Founders Fund and great angel investors.
I read somewhere that Backbone was being dropped for Spine.

http://maccman.github.com/spine/

Anyone else know anything about this?
Or exactly like LiveJournal circa 2002.
Huddle is the group texting. you meant hangouts.
previous discussion of the Profiling Go Programs blog post

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2692705
There were a couple of issues with NVIDIA graphics drivers in DP4 which could cause kernel panics, UI glitches, etc. Fixed in the latest DP4 update. The folks over at netkas.org forums do a lot of exploring in those kexts. It seems like Lion and the 10.6.8 update share basically the same drivers at this point.
Keep your RESTful readable: www.upout.com/tor -> www.upout.com/toronto

If you want short URLs, try using the airport 3 letter tag (tor -> yyz)
I, for one, don't welcome the new look. The old overal Google look given an air of unrefined, raw 'geekness'. I liked the feeling that I was using something designed and made by scientists rather than enterpreneurs. This is, saldy, finally going and Google is becoming one of many.

Of course look is not all, the quality of service they provide is uncompared. I'm still a fan, but I really prefered the old days.
what would give you any indication that Apple would do this after failing to even make good on opening up FaceTime.
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Crazy stencil I'm calling Music Suicide. Anyone have a better name?
What I have observed is that process is created in response to break-down or mistakes that people made. The typical management response after a crisis is that "we will put process in place to prevent this from ever happens again." While processes reduce the effect of human errors and make human replaceable, it also stifles creativity and risk-taking behavior. Unchecked, the processed accumulated overtime will sap the energy of the organization and kill it.

What is needed to energize an organization is the willingness to make mistake and accept failure as part of life. There should be a "mistake-fund." Allocate 10% or 20% of downside in revenue for mistake/failure people make. It's ok to make mistake in trying and growing. This lessens the need to overreact in every crisis to create new rules and processes, and encourage risk taking.

The "mistake-fund" shouldn't be just lip-service and part of the company culture. "Have you tried something this week to use up the mistake-fund?" should be a regular theme.
The more devices targetted by a framework, the lower the common denominator...
Show HN: July side project & share june achievements
My top two relationships are two different accounts for my brother, and they have the same score. I wonder if it knows they're the same person.
Venn diagrams and sets have a good deal to do with each other...
I am such member, and yes I now realize it breaks the NDA to post this.
Hype does wear off fast. Luckily for g+ the hype is backed by substance, which isn't so quick to wear off. I think they're doing fine with the limited invite system and they have no reason to open it up faster than they can handle the load comfortably.
I feel the post misses the historical importance of the video. I watched it last week and also came up with an entire page full of notes, but my notes ended up sounding more MBA-ish.

Watch his personality. Watch the way he tells stories and interacts with people when faced with praise, hostility, and indifference.

He's completely open. In this video, he isn't CEO -- he's just an advisor. He can say what he wants, what he means, and what he feels with no corporate marketing sitting in the way.

His stump points throughout:

- We can save the world by reducing complexity
- We must make people love us through our great products
- Somebody give me a goddamn internet phone with a non-stylus keyboard
Hey, I would love to see something like this for Kansas City!
A good reason for a Linux guest on VBox, I spose.
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Nope, it isn't. Yes, Babel-17 is nowhere near to be used for UI on all platforms. Yet. These days people underestimate the power of languages, saying "it's all about libraries". Libraries are nice, but you can get better libraries with better languages.
@brudgers Google typically releases new products to the market slowly whilst announcing them, look back at services like Gmail, that was initially invite only and in beta for a number of years.

I doubt this is actually Facebook's answer to Google+ most likely something they've had on the cards for a while. They've still got plenty of time whilst G+ is in it's infancy.
Sorry, I was writing badly. I've edited above for clarity.
Whenever a new Google site comes out, everyone always asks this question. I can only assume it is asked by people who only know Java and are terrified of JS (which seems to be GWT's primary audience, despite the framework's other advantages).

If you want to know, just pop open Firebug or Chrome's Inspector and search for the string "__gwt". I don't see it in Google+.

To my knowledge GWT is not actually used that much within Google. Most of the things it solves for developers are solved in other ways within Google anyway, and if you want really low-level control GWT is not the best option.
Blackberries should:

(a) Be awesome at email (and therefore have keyboards.)

(b) Take phone calls.

(c) Integrate with your calendar.

(d) Have awesome instant messaging (BBM?).

(e) Be able to survive a 20 foot drop.

(f) Have excellent battery life.

(g) Be much cheaper than the iPhone/Android.

If you're a business, you want to be able to give everyone this type of device on their first day of work, all set up with everything. There should be no expectation of personal use and there should be every expectation that everyone in the company has and uses one.
Facebook changes stuff all the time, and thus I would have to keep tweeking the settings. Instead, it all just goes into a circular file at Google which I empty from time to time.

And that's why Google+ circles don't aren't really a game changer - it doesn't significantly reduce the friction of managing notifications except for the small segment of people who are already interested in managing those notifications.
Entrepreneurs should say no to Silicon Valley's bully.
Without ever getting into specifics, I use Google Voice integration (on my Sprint phone), and of course Gmail and Facebook, and HTC Sync linked them all and manages numbers/etc fantastically with just a few manual merges when I first got the phone.

It's really a wonderful feature.
SEEKING [REMOTE] WORK

I'm very good with Python and have 3 apps running on GAE.

Python, Tornado, Google App Engine, Javascript (jQuery, learning Backbone.js), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux and VPS (Linode), MongoDB.

Some GAE work (Python):

https://github.com/ccarpenterg/todolist/wiki

https://github.com/ccarpenterg/todolist

https://github.com/ccarpenterg/presidenciables

http://todolist-app.appspot.com/

http://www.presidenciables2013.cl/

Tornado, Google Maps API and PostGIS (PostgreSQL):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714360

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2674266

Blog: http://ccarpenterg.posterous.com/

Some experience with Graph Algorithms.
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My email is in my profile.
TC Cribs Bloopers
Not to be an ageist, but you're something like 35+?
Well, regardless of where the original JS came from it's not surprising that Google would use their JS compiler to package it.
You're talking about two different issues. If you're maintaining UDK or something, then yes, C++ is absolutely required. But people who maintain UDK aren't learning to program anymore. They know how to write solid C++ in their sleep, so they can focus on the challenges that game development throws at them.

What eropple was saying - and I completely agree - is that C++ is a difficult language to learn on, especially when writing games. I say this as someone who learned C++ mostly by working on games. The language can tend to distract you from the problems you're trying to solve, and vice versa. The time I spent hunting segfaults could have been used building a more stable codebase or getting my product to the players.
Failure is building a business that costs you $50 a month. At least you might break even.

Given the amazing apps and services out there for dollars a month or a one time cost of under $6, it does seem that you need to keep looking for the right sort of payment system for this product. I'd sign up to an amazing Twitter life management system for $5 a month, but not a tool that accomplishes one very limited purpose.
"I’ve followed 2,723 people"

This kind of thing baffles me. How can anyone meaningfully follow that number of people? Surely all you're going to get from that many is a stream of mostly trivia that you're not really interested in.