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Have you considered the possibility to add more than just up/down votes, but also "agree". I notice that oftentimes people downvote valuable comments just because they disagree, but are too lazy to write a reply (but they don't upvote them when they agree). thanks.
Mine is in my profile...if you still have one to spare :)
Next thing you know it'll be asking to be uploaded onto a mining colony on some asteroid!
Agreed, and the 'gmail did this' argument fails. If gmail was only substantially useful with other gmail users, a slow launch would not have made any kind of sense.

About the only justification for a slow launch is to avoid buggering up the scaling or having the entire world discover some massive UX flaw almost immediately - so it's tough for them. I hope they hit a good balance.
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I like the overall very positive response from those who used it. I m interested in it as an apps platform, but i haven't got an invite :(
HN is full of Asians. You may not get any support for valid points
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> I don’t mind curating my circles… to an extent. I added a few members and created a new circle, but had no desire to go through my thousands of contacts and organize every one.

Anybody else finds it weird that in gmail you get a hint when you write to a person who belongs to a group you write often together, that you should add the other people from the group, but Circles can't figure it out?
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I find it funny that you use a 66-word sentence to express this sentiment. Just how common are those, I wonder?
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Question (i 'm not signed up on g+ yet): People seem to be calling circles "groups" while they seem more like the "friend lists" of facebook. Does G+ have discussion groups that anyone can join (and start a twitter revolution)?
Good point - then again, how many 66-word sentences do I usually write and is that enough to "identify" me? And see bugsy's reply, there is a looong sentence there too.
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As a complement, Chris Hecker has kept some of his notes regarding OpenGL vs. Direct3D around:

http://chrishecker.com/OpenGL

It seemed quite important at the time that he- who begat WinG, which begat DirectX, some of which is covered in Renegades of the Empire, which someone else mentioned, which is certainly worth reading- went on to agitate for OpenGL over Direct3D. Now there's kind of a scrapheap of history vibe off of the whole thing.
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Google+ has the same buzz and expectation which was associated with gmail when it was first launched (with respect to scarcity of invites). I am based in India (not sure how location matters) and I remember I had to wait a few weeks for someone to invite me to gmail.

If that is some indication, then Google+ looks to be a winner. (I remember how I moved from Yahoo! and Hotmail email to gmail after I finally got the invite).
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Right now it's invite only, but we'll do our best to respond to your request within the hour!

Unless of course there's "insane demand" ala Google+;)
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Oh yes. This is on what is probably 7 year old hardware by now. But he's quite happy in exactly the way he has always done it. (Although I have now convinced him that step 1 of a windows XP re-build is to install firefox)
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You didn't need other people to join gmail.
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yes the 'N' shape is caused by where the control points for that curve are placed. the api allows you to change that value when you make a connection; i think the yellow connection on the main demo just uses the default. but i do like the idea of the control points shifting as the distance between elements decreases. i might look into that.
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Small plug: you can see a graph of the results here: http://hackernewspoll.appspot.com/2712967

I did this small service using GAE after seeing so many people manually updating graphs, it's painful. Btw, every poll works, just change the number with the poll id from YCombinator's URL.
Just got one, thanks.
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Somebody invite me please! :)
From the little I managed to use it I thought it was unbearably slow, then I found out it was the Chinese Government's fault:
http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/06/30/google-plus-china/

So if it were fast, I'd use it!
Good point. I hope this is one of those things that will appear as the service matures, though maybe they did it to make you think more about who you are adding? Just speculation.
Definitely nice, but.

Now I'd like a version that I can hack together with everyday tools and less-then-average wood worker skills.
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I'd love to comment - Ive registered my interest but dont have an invite...if anyone felt kind, my email is in my profile ;)
(Discussion is @ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712369 )
Hm, well, your stream gives you a way to select which circles you are viewing, almost like tabs. I'm not sure I'd call it a competition with Twitter, though, more just a filter on top of streams in this case. Though, we have yet to see what can really be accomplished with streams.
This excellent adam curtis parody about sums it up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
If you got one more invite, I would really like one at anderskusk at gmail com

Thanks!
It occurred to me after posting this that Google+ is essentially stealing what was ORIGINALLY Facebook's business model (but which has been abandoned): exclusivity
Thought of that too. Good gesture.
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They were supposed to be here in 2009 but right now HP is saying 2013. They keep pushing it back so who knows.
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Don't know if it was there or it was added after design improvements. Just wanted to share it :)
Amazon promised 5000 jobs but they actually only employ 119 people in Texas:

"Deuell also said he was skeptical that Amazon could deliver on its promise of 5,000 jobs and $300 million in capital investments by the end of 2013.

"I don't see how in the world they can provide 5,000 jobs at distribution centers. Those operate very efficiently, with computers and mechanized things," Deuell said. "I don't want to doubt their word and their intentions; I just don't see how they bring 5,000 jobs to the state."

Texas and Amazon have been at odds over the collection of online sales taxes since last September, when Comptroller Susan Combs sent Amazon the $269 million bill, covering sales taxes it failed to collect from 2005 to 2009.

Amazon responded by saying it would close the Irving facility, eliminating 119 jobs. Amazon also said it was scrapping other plans to expand in Texas, accusing the state of having "an unfavorable regulatory climate.""
I want an invite as well: christian dot phang @ gmail dot com. Thanks a lot!
It'd be much more useful if they'd integrated it with Apps accounts prior to launch.

Apps customers still can't create Profiles, never got to use Buzz etc etc, despite being promised Profiles 'in a few weeks' back in March.
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Ah, sorry I misquoted him. He said that given 10kg of inputs, you can get 1kg of cow meat, or you can get 9kg of locust meat. My bad.
Circles is probably its main weapon against Facebook (other than being a great product by itself and being made by Google, for people who don't want to use Facebook).

But so far it doesn't look like Circles is going to be used that much by DEFAULT. This means even if Google+ is successful, it will become almost as messy as Facebook. But I worry this might actually affect its potential success, because as I said, it's one of the main reasons you would switch from Facebook.

Google needs to make it so you WANT to use Circles 80-90% of the time. It shouldn't even take you any thinking. It should be a snap decision, almost automatic. You should want to intentionally make your share public, but the default action of a user should ALMOST ALWAYS be to use the Circles.

Right now that doesn't seem to be the case. The default action of users seems to be to make things public. I don't think this is a user issue, because users don't really decide anything about it. They just do it. So it's a Circles design issue. They should just do it by using Circles, not by broadcasting to everyone.

Google, I strongly believe this is VITAL for Google+'s success not only in the mid-term (i.e. beating Facebook), but long term as well (not becoming messy like Facebook, even after it kills it). The Circles idea was the RIGHT IDEA. Now just make sure people actually use it as intended and as promised. Otherwise it's just a useless bullet point in Google+'s feature list.

Get it right, Google, before the service becomes public!
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What's the deal with category theory on HN? Seriously, how is it interesting or relevant without introducing it along with concepts from fields in which it is of main use (e.g. (homological) algebra and algebraic toplogy)? I don't think I'd be able to appreciate, or even understand CT without having a thorough understanding of concepts it tries to generalize -- hell, I do have trouble to consider it useful even with it. Since I do not believe that HN us full of mathematicians (even though there are a few) researching algebraic topology or homological algebra, I wonder who reads and posts such things here.
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Isn't that simplifying things a bit? Loops are hidden everywhere, just concatenating a string is actually a loop even if there's no visible for/where, but the best optimization for that isn't speeding up the loop, it's removing the call completely.
Facebook lists are pretty much useless. Yes, you can hide all your status updates from a selected bunch of people, but if you want to show them a single one you've got to make a bunch of additional clicks and then type in the lists' name (if you can recall it). It seems as if the feature was on purpose crippled so no one would bother to use it. Simplifying the whole process should be quite easy - and that's what Google did (I guess).
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"Then Google+ isn't for you. If you don't have a problem, why go looking for a solution?"

Not to mention that this reply is snarky and condescending.

The issue here is, what are the main differentiators of Google+ from Facebook and from Twitter?

For example, I thought I didn't need Twitter anymore, because believe it or not, I though Digg already solved the problem of connecting with people and sharing links with them. It turned out the Twitter has a different kind of value proposition from Digg. And look, Twitter is bigger than Digg or Reddit!
Stackless python has a GIL as well. What we need is lockless python :-)
No kidding it doesn't take a genius to figure this stuff out, also statistically at a 95% confidence interval, of every 20 studies you read 1 is pure chance.

That would only be true if all studies were published. (And only applies to studies that are testing a specific hypothesis, rather than scouring huge data sets[1] for correlations.)

1. http://xkcd.com/882/
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Would also love to get an invite! gmail address is benukem

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I take it like a fresh start.

This is why I switched from Y!Messenger to Gmail Chat. There was a good opportunity to get rid of annoying people in my list, and to handpick the ones that I really wanna chat with

I will try to do the same by switching from Facebook to Google+. It seems easy enough that my folks will be able to use it. So for one thing, I will be very active within my Family circle, given the fact that I live abroad and I share lots of photos and do a lot of video chatting with my family. Second, I have the chance to better organize my friends and acquaintances and to share relevant stuff with them.
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This was my experience during my brief foray into graphics programming at uni. I remember failing a lot, thinking "this can't be me, somebody else somewhere is doing it wrong" and abandoning it in lieu of something more productive.
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I used to think that it matters, but you can create circles with people who don't have plus (as long as you have their email) so I don't think it will hamper adoption.
Well, here's a list proposed by Det Norske Bokklubben (who happens to be a competitor of mine, but I have to give credit where credit is due):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100_Best_Books_of_All_Time

You'll notice that it's much less heavily biased toward 20th Century English-language literature.

If you want to stick to things originally written in English, the Modern Library list is a pretty good one:

http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/

I mean "The Board's List", of course--comparing "The Board's List" to the "The Reader's List" is enough to make one cry.
I think his point is when someone says "X sucks" but has a hidden agenda. Or just is destructive.
Ummm, IPC pretty much has to be in the kernel, by definition...
Wow, 1909 was a long time ago, in literature!
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Whoa, it's the evil app store!

Could this be used to take the botnet down? Pay them to install something and sneak in an antidote?
They used the same invite-only strategy with Wave, didn't they? That was a ghost town when I finally got in...
Category theory is much beloved of functional programming researchers, at least in my computer science department, mostly as a way of analysing and conceptualising type theory.

For example, one of my friends is working on showing equivalences between I/O in Haskell (purely functional) and Lucid (demand-driven dataflow). Category theory shows a neat relationship between the models and a way to move between them.
Here's a nice intro to "Big Data": http://www.forbes.com/2010/11/02/startup-facebook-twitter-te...
That's right. By making the feature opt-in (choose who should see this), instead of opt-out (choose who should not see this), Google has made a better version of Lists.
That phrase and many others like it, are said when technologists give up and decide to stop moving along with the times.
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Oh come on. The reason Amazon doesn't want to collect sales tax is because it would make it more expensive to buy stuff on Amazon. They're well aware that few/no people actually pay their sales tax for internet purchases.

I'm not arguing on the rights/wrongs of this discussion, but this is what it really comes down to.
Like many here, I have many book reviews myself that link to amazon. I link to amazon because that's what's most convenient for most people. I do not use an affiliate link because it's a conflict of interest. In the past magazines would have honest product reviews that sometimes were negative. Nowadays nearly every magazine only has glowing reviews and no negative ones. Editors tell writers that bad reviews will result in lost advertising revenue since publishers/manufacturers threaten to stop advertising in magazines with bad reviews of their products. Contrary to this I have many reviews that rip apart products and point out their numerous defects. I also have reviews that praise good products. Perhaps some people who read my reviews notice this and find the integrity refreshing or bizarrely archaic. In any case I certainly don't need the pitiful income from affiliate links, it makes more sense for me to just use a plain link.
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Heh. I thought it was a jab at Google's UI redesign with a black bar at the top.

(Or is that in memory of Robert Morris too?)
I don't know how much code Sal has written, but, depending on the project/coding standards, I've seen a lot of code with filename comments at the top. It's not really an indicator of experience or skill.
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Right, and it's a simplification that doesn't even seem particularly useful. There's a reason why we abstract things and look at them at a higher level.
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Similar is a mite ambiguous, but I guess you mean somewhat similar communities rather than Reddit-like interface.

Three I really care about: Advogato, Lambda the Ultimate and the new Tex Stack Exchange.

Stack Overflow isn't a community anymore, but I still go there a few times a week and see what's happened on the tags I care about. I've got a Linked In account: the forums there are weird; the German-centric Xing is better, but not hugely - the advantage of these is that they are easy to keep up with. I checkout Slashdot every month or so, and am not really sure why I bother.

I subscribe to a few mailing lists, but I spend much less time with them than I did six or seven years ago. They feel more a like an obligation that a community, to be honest. I'm a bit bothered about that, since mailing lists are much easier to archive than anything else: internet communities are becoming more transitory in so many ways.
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If you're a startup building another social network, I think the question to ask yourself is: what's our business model?

Unless you are well connected in the valley, have insane traction already, have boatloads of cash, don't like or need money or are doing it for charity, it's not a startup, it's just a hobby.

I think the smart thing to do now is ride the social networking wave and build something on top of it.

Think Zynga, not Facebook.
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Sometimes when I'm on my iPhone there are videos that I want to really see, but can't because they're not playable on it for different reasons. I then forget about them. So maybe something like this for mobile phones would be cool.
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> The University of Chicago’s Bruce Meyer and Harvard’s Lawrence Katz found that for every week that unemployment benefits are extended, the average duration of unemployment goes up by 0.16 to 0.20 weeks. According to a paper coauthored by Alan Krueger, President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, the unemployed more than triple the time they spend job-hunting, from 20 minutes per week to 70 minutes per week, in the weeks right before benefits expire.

Should read passed the title next time.
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How about instead of having people post emails, someone (who can invite) give us an email where we can ask him in private ?

Strange that googlers haven't properly discovered HN yet.. would of been nice to spread some invites to the HN crowd.
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Does Hacker News have a black bar at the top because of Google+?

(The same thing happened to my Google today: the top bar turned black.)
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We need to spend that time talking about the startup.

Huh. Given how much people keep talking about how the team matters more than the startup idea, this surprises me.

Or is it that talking about the startup is the fastest way to learn about the people?
What code isn't running in some sort of "loop"? As I have discovered when, e.g., writing test build code, that function which "only runs once" actually gets run several times per day, or several times per coder per day, or (when you are debugging or testing new code) several dozen times per hour.

Because every function is potentially callable from within someone else's loop, there is no such thing as a function that isn't part of a loop. There are merely frequent loops and less- frequent loops; it's a question of degree. Unless it's a function that really does never get run, in which case, yes, nobody cares if your dead code is slow.
You can actually email that link to bookmark@getdenso.com (from Mobile Safari) and it will bookmark that video.
How much is an iOS user worth to Apple? About $150. Every year.
You know, maybe the average HNer will not get 1ct of benefit from reading 1paper on category theory; but maybe they can get .1ct from reading .1paper. The functor pattern is pretty cool. It's easy to use in most languages (Java and C++ included), it's pretty powerful, maybe it gets people thinking a certain way. Maybe someone will read the first bit of this paper and think, "Huh, I heard monads are from category theory too. Don't know what those are, but the first 20 pages of this weren't too bad". Don't complain about people posting useless things; clearly someone voted for it.

Math isn't ever "useful". Math only generates more math. Math is measured in ideas inspired.
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My condolences to the man and those he was close to. I hope he died comfortably and untroubled.
I think the anonymous identified group chat idea is really great, but I think that the concept around the experience should be more temporary, to accent the anonymous nature - ie although maybe at any point during the chat you can save out the contents, perhaps it should be more of a chat than a forum and perhaps the discussions should be more throwaway (like removed after 7 days of nonactivity). In my not expertly opinion at the moment the way it comes across for me is a forum/newsletter look but that's not the strength of the system.

Great idea though and I think this would work great as a enterprise tool to help honest discussion where company politics can get in the way sometimes.
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