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Remember what the Fourth Amendment protects? No? Just as well.
There are different kinds of media coverage in SV. There's the excited, this is cool buzz, and then there's the look what big player X is doing sort of coverage. This feels like the latter. People are talking about this, but I don't get the sense that anyone is pumped up about it.
Facebook has gotten increasingly harder and more convoluted to manage. Case in point: no direct way to edit the photos in an album. Used to be so easy.
So could you post here a summary of what makes the icon good? I got professionally designed icon for one of my projects, but still got bunch of quite different opinions about it from various people.
Circles? On Tau Day? YES.
The fixed point could be the product you've already built, but it could also be the team you've already assembled. If you've got a team you believe in and a product that's not gaining traction, pivot on the team and create a new product.

In my opinion, you're only starting over if you dissolve the legal entity, thus giving up the team and any funding they may have received.
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This claim is brought under the rubric of antitrust but the impetus behind it is found in the nascent movement seeking to subject search engines to principles of so-called "search neutrality."

Search neutrality is explicitly modeled on the idea of net neutrality. Just as the ISPs are told they have overriding duties to users of their networks not to discriminate, etc., so advocates of search neutrality want to impose legal duties on search engines to abide by overriding principles as follows (quoting from a brilliant dissection of search neutrality by law professor James Grimmelmann, found here: http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034...):

"1. Equality: Search engines shouldn't differentiate at all among websites.

2. Objectivity: There are correct search results and incorrect ones, so search engines should return only the correct ones.

3. Bias: Search engines should not distort the information landscape.

4. Traffic: Websites that depend on a flow of visitors shouldn't be cut off by search engines.

5. Relevance: Search engines should maximize users' satisfaction with search results.

6. Self-interest: Search engines shouldn't trade on their own account.

7. Transparency: Search engines should disclose the algorithms they use to rank web pages.

8. Manipulation: Search engines should rank sites only according to general rules, rather than promoting and demoting sites on an individual basis."

Professor Grimmelmann goes on in his piece to critique each of these professed goals of the movement and to describe the legal implications of each.

Of course, if you open this gate in naked form (i.e., by explicitly adopting laws that expressly require search engines to abide by such duties), you effectively set up all search engines to be devoured by litigants and their lawyers, who can second-guess every decision, who can seek damages based on such second-guessing, and who can ask every manner of regulator to step in to supervise how search results are generated - all pretty much the antithesis of what we are accustomed to in this area and a serious step back from freedom (in my view) in an all-important area that affects us all profoundly in the modern digital world.

All this is mostly academic today except in the case of Google, which has to face such claims couched in terms of its allegedly abusing its monopoly position in various markets. Whenever you hear the innocuous-sounding term "search neutrality," however, realize that this is the direction in which it seeks to lead us if given the full implementation sought by its advocates.
http://www.tumultco.com/hype/

Easy to use, creates CSS3 + HTML5-ey awesomeness.
Perhaps this will make facebook better. Competition can often improve product quality. For google this might, however, turn out the same way that Microsoft's grab for web applications is going. First to market is hard to break.
That's really great!

Some feedback:

- "This may take up to 5 minutes." < you might have to explain why
- "What is BitWillet?" open a new tab instead of opening inside the popup
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This is fantastic! I'm planning a trip to Australia, with so many hours trapped, it would be fantastic to know there's wi-fi on board. +1!
Wallaby isn't the same thing, is it? I just looked it up (and I don't know Flash, so correct me if I'm wrong) but from Adobe's website[1], Wallaby works on FLA files and Swiffy works on SWF files, the key difference being FLA is the working, editable animation file format and SWF is intended to be a non-editable 'production' format. Thus, Wallaby is useless if I'm looking at somebody else's website with an SWF file on it (I figure going from SWF to FLA is probably analogous to decompiling binaries to source code?).

1. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/
In fairness, Facebook did the same thing.
Absolutely true, I think destroying the "companion cube" in Portal is a much better example of what video games can do. Before you finish the level, you have to destroy the cube. You can't get through the game with the illusion that you would have done something differently than the protagonist, because you choose to destroy the cube. It's a completely different experience than you can get from a movie.
yes, that's really all you need. I've just tried on a couple of different versions of ubuntu, and it worked on them all.

If you find a version of ubuntu or debian where that doesn't work, file a bug!
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This is the money quote (at the end of the article, quoting Andy Baio): "Nobody should need a law degree to understand whether art is legal or not."
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You should check out tinychat ;)
I think giving consumers the ability to view flight information other than price and schedule will encourage airlines to provide better services and features.

I'd love to quickly be able to compare the costs of checking luggage, cancellation insurance costs, etc.
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Ask HN: Can I please have an invite to Google+?
I've been off of Facebook for years, and I would much prefer an alternative from a more benevolent company. You can reach me at jperla@princeton.edu , and let me know if I can do anything in return, I love to talk to and help other hackers.

Anybody else can request invites in this thread too, of course.
Not all 'private invites' are created equal. Facebook isolated it to a single campus at a time. This meant all your friends were on Facebook, or none of them were. See the difference?
Not really. Facebook opened it up to entire colleges at a time. So once you were able to get on, most of your friends were able to, too.
Android app is on the market. Note it eats 8MB of phone memory and can't be moved to SD.
They're hoping to do the same thing they did with Gmail: use artificial scarcity to their advantage.

It'll work if the people there get invites - that way it'll gradually expand until it opens up to everybody.
heh.. somewhat ironically, minutes prior seeing this post I noticed the "+1" next to every search result. after exploring it told me that my "+1" will be used all over the web including ads. (am assuming this is part of Google+)

I immediately searched for a way to turn it off.
it's a different tool. Mechanize concentrates on navigating pages and downloading pages, following links, handling cookies etc. BeautifulSoup and lxml parse information out of the html.

There's some overlap, but not much. I have tended to use BeautifulSoup and mechanize together. As mentioned above, BeautifulSoup is no longer being actively maintained, and I'd recommend starting with lxml in most cases. I'm still using BeautifulSoup mainly because I have most of the package memorized.
Both are ways to play flash content without flash but the approaches are quite different.

Gordon is a Flash runtime written in Javascript, allowing the browser to play SWFs.

Swiffy is a tool separate from the browser that converts SWFs into a form usable by browsers (SVG and JS).
They really didn't. Facebook had a small target audience originally. You also had to know somebody to get it. Rather than having a closed beta, they were building scarcity and exclusivity at the beginning.
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It's back up: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googleplus/

gogogo !
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I find it difficult not to respond for at least two reasons:

- The information is often factually wrong. Letting wrong information go uncorrected will lead to that information spreading and that doesn't seem like a good thing to me.

- It often doesn't seem to be the intention of people to troll and it is hard to suppress the urge to teach. It would be awesome if you could get more people to intentionally not-troll.

The first may be an instance of http://xkcd.com/386/ and the second may be a case of vanity (thinking you can change people), but just ignoring people doesn't improve things either, so shouldn't you at least try?

Unfortunately, attempting to address both these points simultaneously seems a recipe for disaster and just results in 'feeding the troll'.
Awesome, can't wait to try it! Circles sounds like just what everyone wants. I think I'd switch to any half-decent social network made by Google. I do hope they provide a way to use the Facebook data export to make switching easy.
Would the instructors for your event be male or female?
I'd love an invite also, I can help with anything programming-related in exchange. s@stevengilligan.me
Are you really concerned about 8MB? Are there even Android phones on the market today that ship with less than 8GB of space?
Anyway to use Redis in App Engine setting? Or does Google have similar service in App Engine?
I was sure that something like this already existed, but the fact that it's embedded within a social network and is a service by Google makes it a whole lot more appealing.
Yeah, H2G2 is really, really funny and pretty much impossible. Spend some time fumbling around in each room (there really are some funny responses you should see!) and then refer to a walkthrough to advance to the next room. Save often - although even saving often won't help if you don't get the screwdriver in the first room. It really is a player-hostile game.
I'm very skeptical. Claims like this never seem to be born out in actual benchmarks.

http://pacoup.com/2011/02/03/flash-vs-html5-performance/

http://www.craftymind.com/guimark3/

The advantage of flash right now is that you can be reasonably sure that if a user has it installed, they will get a minimum set of features and performance. With HTML5, your complex app may run fine, or may not run at all, depending on the users implementation.

I've no doubt the performance gap between flash and html5 will continue to narrow. However, I'm less sure that there is anything in the design of html5 that would allow for implementations that are significantly faster than flash allows for. Perhaps someone with deeper technical knowledge of the two could comment.

HTML5 does have the advantage that it's an open platform, of course. Thus you are much more likely to actually see competing implementations of the standard.
Google+ Demo
Found a signup link that works: http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/+/learnmore/forum/
>"Mr. Gundotra and Mr. Horowitz said that knowing more about individual Google users will improve all Google products, including ads, search, YouTube and maps, because Google will learn what people like and eventually be able to personalize those products."

I am obviously ignorant in my belief:

privacy != Google obtaining and storing increasingly intimate personal data
It's a fun little machine, extremely secure, but with a lot of growth still required.

1) Setup took several days and a call from a Google Chrome Ninja (support team) between me and Verizon, since the first time I signed up, it went to a crashed page due to checking 'disallow third-party cookies', and I submitted twice. After that, it was seamless, with a little indicator just like wifi.

2) Camera is bleh, uploading to Picasa was okay with stuff downloaded from the Web browser, though I didn't try any SD cards.

3) Battery life was good, though I don't move around a lot with mine.

4) No prompts really, just a tiny little green up arrow. If you ever turn it off, you'll never even notice. It's so bad I sent in feedback asking for them to send more info about changes...

5) Google apps run okay. Offline still isn't here, which will be a major improvement. Docs, Music, Gmail, etc. all operate well, but seemed to suck down CPU time, even going so far as to turn on the fan (CR48 was single core though, the new ones have dual core). Offline is my number one requirement which isn't fulfilled yet now that Google Music is available.

One of the best things I found about using the Chromebook was that I had migrated most of my stuff to "The Cloud" so I could use it full time as my main computer. When I installed a new hard drive in my desktop and reinstalled Windows, all it took was loading Chrome and hitting 'sync', and I was 90% back to where I was.
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I bought the DX specifically to solve the formatting problems on the little version. It makes code listing readable too. I will let you know how it reads. Cheers.
Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/06/27/you-know-youre-in-a-bubb...
What do you mean? It's in the same place it's been in for a while. From the sidebar, Photos -> My Uploads -> Edit Album.

Sure the light box makes it harder if you go that way. Click on the Album name -> Edit Album -> Edit Photos.
Advertising your site as a "Facebook competitor" (instead of implying it) is a recipe for failure because you want people to look at your site as something completely unique rather than putting it next to Facebook immediately.
Google+ demo
craigslist is of course a great place. I've gotten many jobs there over the years. In reference to the op though, in terms of resumes I've been pleasantly surprised at how good LinkedIn has been working out in my current search.
It's more natural with an email client, though, because email is already federated, so interoperable with the existing email system. This doesn't appear to be.
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> Oops... you need a Google Profile to use this feature.
Google Profiles is not available for your organisation.

Come on, Google!
What I'd like to know is if I can use Facebook Connect to port my graph over (doubt Facebook would allow this) -- or if this means starting from scratch yet again.
"News Corp. purchased the California-based social network in July 2005 for $580 million."
Ironically, the "Keep Me Posted" page has Javascript blocked by Chrome.
Ow, and I thought those 10 seconds it sometimes takes using a credit card was bad.
(cross posted from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2706219)

I'm very excited to try this out. Context (AKA "Circles") is the biggest feature Facebook still hasn't gotten right. By mirroring the way we think about our social graph in real life, Google is making a huge step toward converging Online and Offline identity. It will be very interesting to see how Facebook responds to this... they might finally have a competitor.
> 4) This is the part about the review that confuses me. The CR-48 we had always updated silently. It would update in the background, and then when the laptop was restarted it would install. I don't think I ever saw it prompt for an update.

A forced update only occurs on the first turning on of the machine, presumably in case it's been on the shelf a few months. I vaguely recall having to do the same for my CR48.
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I have to admit that the stuff shown on Googles demo page looks really good. I really appreciate the focus on social circles as I really don't want to share everything with everyone but rather address different groups of friends.

Overall this seems to be very well thought through with some fresh ideas.
I bet those inside Google+ at this early stage can invite others in as well.
I guess it sort of could be, but I'd consider a "cloud" service something where you either a) can spool up or shut down servers dynamically from an image without any additional configuration (ala EC2 or Heroku), or b) a commodity service like Amazon S3 or MongoHQ where you pay by usage and they handle resource allocation.
Tornado doesn't have any orm, it only has a very thin wrapper around MySQLdb.
Count me as one of the folks that believes Google ought to fix search before it takes on the juggernauts of the consumer web. But that could just be the SEO in me talking.
Point taken. Its probably just dumb luck.

Like any interview, I am told about their problem and how they have proceeded into uncharted territory. And I am asked, "What would you do to improve our issue/problem?" As it appears, I have worked on a similar issue. Apart from wanting to know the specifics of how I did it, they want to know about the anticipated risks and how to mediate them, the barriers I ran into, how to resolve those, which tools I used, etc.
I think the big catch is that they want your project to be open sourced. Otherwise, it sounds great.
An angled disc-bullseye exploding into pieces? The actual depiction won't be as important as the graphical touches. Right now, your non-3D graphics are a little amateur.

Also, can you make the balls a little more spherical? They're the main focus of the game and the background kind of overshadows them.

Actually, why are they spheres and not discs? Discs would look better (more traditional) and add difficulty when they rotate.
The one on the front-page has been fixed now.
It's all very well saying "fumble around in each room" but most of the time you only have a half dozen moves before you die.

There are so many things that you have to do in order not to render the game unfinishable further down the line, and they're thrown in so quickly and so covertly that I cannot believe it isn't satire.

I mean, if you take it as anything apart from satire it's just unforgivably bad game design.

Adams was involved in writing it, and he was definitely into computers. He was the first person in the UK to own an apple machine. He would have almost certainly played zork/dungeon and such games, and therefore being Adams he would not have been able to resist parodying their ridiculous nature.
The game lacks the fit and polish that sells iOS games. Yeah, much easier said than done (this coming from an aspiring iOS game developer). The advice to change the icon is spot on. I'd also advise changing your screenshots (which would probably also involve changes to the game graphics): all that grayscale is very depressing, and the monospaced serif font for "Gyroscope Controlled" is very bland and ugly. You want something more fun, possibly at a jaunty angle, definitely using layer styles.

Your game screenshots scream "tech demo", which is no way to sell a game.
Simple call to retrieve the current account balance on your SMS API
The Nexmo platform exposes a REST developer API from which you can perform account management tasks.The following link contains documentation to retrieve the balance for your account on the SMS API.
The Google+ Project
How can hackers get feedback abt their work w/o competing with unrelated posts?
Would it be better if HN submissions were categorized? I'd like to see more posts relevant to getting feedback on ideas or even collaboration opportunities. I find it hard to get comments on blog entries I submit (I'm looking for feedback) and I think the issue is either relevancy or just that there are too many posts to consider upvoting.
I think Google simply sucks at anything remotely related to social networking.
No. Facebook created a collection of small social networks centered around existing real-world communities, then finally linked up all of those small social networks into a single, larger social network. This allowed them to reach saturation on a campus-by-campus basis, until they had finally progressed far enough to reach a tipping point in society at large.
too complex to use may affect usage negatively. too many features is not always good. trying to mimic real live brings the complexities of real life to the web.

check this:

"With Hangouts, the unplanned meet-up comes to the web for the first time. Let specific buddies (or entire circles) know you’re hanging out and then see who drops by for a face-to-face-to-face chat. Until teleportation arrives, it’s the next best thing."

imagine a jerk that noone loves intruding all the hangouts. but everybody too polite/dependant to unfriend
Designers who Aspire to Turn Leads into Deals
Designers either freelance or independent have primary concern of earning their bread and butter from their skills, however, they often lack in selling their services to right client. Most of the designers often have thick list of potential client lists which remain in the list mainly due to designer’s deficiency of bringing them on board by turning lead in sale. The reason of this attitude is numerous and one cannot really categorize it, hence; we can safely say that designers probably don’t have this skill by nature. It does not mean they cannot acquire it.
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Stark contrast to startup accelerators/incubators:
Everything must be triple-y open sourced.
Profiting from the idea is fine but not required (or even heavily encouraged).
No equity involved.
Emphasis on technical mentorship from Mozilla crew.

Sounds like a program that accelerates your chance of getting recruited by Mozilla to keep working on your project. None of this is a bad thing, it just depends on your particular bend in life. If I was trying to make the next jQuery or Modernizer, for example, I would be bouncing off the walls trying to get into this.
Not for you and not for me, but we apparently have prior knowledge. Do not shoot it down just because you know more about it than a random reader.
Maybe Google will be smart enough to let people through in groups that they believe to be socially linked by their online exhaust. They've got a decent sense of these things already.

Otherwise, it's really not the same thing at all.
This may take up to 5 minutes due to how the Bitcoin network is implemented. We have to wait for the correct number of confirmations to propagate through the Bitcoin network in order to be able to confirm a BTC transaction has occurred.

Wish we could do it faster, but this is as fast as it gets!
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Hadn't made the link before that, how clever :)
Indeed, I really love the use of Maps API.
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When I saw some of the cool effects using Circles/Loops whatever it's called, I was excited, thinking they had done it in CSS3. But sadly, all Flash.
The HTML5 system allows users to drag-and-drop their friends into different social circles for friends, family, classmates, co-workers and other custom groups.

That "HTML5" there is simply for buzz effect. Seriously, come on already...
Exactly.

Who in their right mind would use the social services of a company like this:

>"Google settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges of deceptive privacy practices related to Buzz and agreed to 20 years of audits."