skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is not that Google+ is going after the LinkedIn type of market instead of Facebook; it's that it can.

Nobody wants to mix business, family, and friends on Facebook because whether or not it's technically possible to segment your interactions there (and yes, I get that apparently if you dig three levels deep through just the right submenus you can figure out how to do it), it's not very intuitive, and the many default visibility changes that have happened on Facebook make any mechanism for segmentation feel very brittle. It's always been clear that Facebook wasn't interested in promoting that kind of interaction, that you should unfriend people if you didn't want them to hear what you had to say (or see what you've been up to on the weekends!).

With Google+, information control one is of the most hyped core features of the service, and that's much more reassuring, it tells me that they're going to take it seriously in a way that Facebook never has.
RIM’s Response to 'Open Letter'
What position are you in to declare the Bloomberg terminal 'shitty overpriced software'?
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I don't use it. I tried once and it was garbage. Hard to figure out the navigation in the app. The main downer is that it got all of this press but because it started off so poorly that no one uses it. Why would I use a social app that no one is on?

Because of a poor initial release, they missed the phase where everyone downloads the app at the same time and tries it out (whether or not they stick to using it).

Too bad, it could've been really cool. But now, I've seen people write about how they are at huge sporting events and sees no one around them using it.
Scrolling in SproutCore: Part 2
RIM responds to open letter published by BGR
They didn't "essentially revoke" invitations. They capped new "account creation" (though obv it's not literally account creation). That is a separate step from inviting someone. People with invites have invites, so when they open it back up, people with invites already in hand will be at the front of the line.
Why I work at 10gen on MongoDB (and why you probably should too)
By young think 15 not 25. The problem is not so much they are going to create a revolution today, rather the government is poisoning the well by eroding peoples trust.
> 10. Don’t rush to StackOverflow. Think!

Disagree with this one. My rule is, "If you get stuck for more than 10 minutes, post to StackOverflow." I'll post my question then continue trying to solve it myself. Sometimes someone will post a good answer right away, saving me lots of time. Other times I'll end up solving my problem on my own, but I'll still learn something valuable from a comment or answer somebody posts to my question. Here's a good example of what I'm talking about:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6327396/set-time-part-of-...
"Am I the only one that doesn't understand everyone's obsession with CSS grids"

I saw a great talk by Nicole Sullivan on CSS last week. She said that many sites lack a meaningful high-level abstraction for their visual layout, and end up with a tangled mess of float, padding & margin declarations on every element. This complexity, she said, is more clearly and concisely handled at a higher, site-wide level and suggested using a grid.

I've wasted an insane amount of time pushing one element four pixels this way and another element three pixels that way, so I'm definitely eager to try a grid on my next project.

Links to her slides (with some other great info) and her grid framework:

http://www.slideshare.net/stubbornella/our-best-practices-ar...
https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/blob/master/core/grid/...
I agree, and I disagree with their rationale. IMHO, just because every line of code is covered by a unit test doesn't imply that the product is adequately tested. Errors can occur at more systemic levels via integration of well tested components. Furthermore, developers have blind spots and hidden biases and can't fully compensate for the lack of an aggressive QA person who is trying to break your code.

On the other hand, they're clearly doing something right, so far.
I think Google+ can potentially compete with all of the current social networks. You just need a good way to segregate the streams which I think Google has managed to do.
Some background on this:

Mark Mazer, CityTime consultant accused of scamming millions, has checkered past of investigations
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-12-23/local/29441786_1_...

CityTime Crook Pleads Guilty As Defendant List Grows
http://gothamist.com/2011/02/11/citytime_crook_pleads_guilty...

Mark Mazer Indictment [scribd]
http://www.scribd.com/doc/58405089/Mazer-Mark-Et-Al-S2-Indic...
Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz marry
Unemployed is only bad if it means starvation or homelessness.

Psychological studies indicate that unemployment is bad even if you can still live comfortably. (A reliable stream of anecdotes for extreme variants of this observation comes from lottery winners.)

The thing is, HN is a very startup- and hacker-centric community. One of the properties of a hacker is that they always find something to occupy themselves with, even when they don't have a formal day job.

Most people are not like this. Once they're out of a job, they don't really know what to do with themselves. This causes them a lot of stress and unhappiness.

Over time, they will convince themselves that they are actually happy in their welfare-dependent unemployed state. We humans can so easily fool ourselves.

The truth is that for most people (but probably not for many of the HN-type) unemployment causes a lot of psychological suffering.
Maybe, but the journalist's job is to take the press release and make it better, not worse.

If you ask me, the most interesting question is "So how does this thing actually work?" And the answer according to engadget is "PCM is based on a special alloy that can be nudged into different physical states, or phases, by controlled bursts of electricity", or in other words "Fuck, I don't know, I didn't really understand the press release"

The press release is more informative. You put some undisclosed material between two electrodes. The material can be crystalline or amorphous, and you can tell which it is at any given time by the resistance. To change it from one to the other you simply heat it up with a voltage pulse to one threshold temperature or another. Neato!
> The datastore and all of that aren't a big deal.

Why do you say that?
Windsoc uses App Engine for our Unified Social API, and while it has many benefits, we've always had our minds on how to move off of it someday. SSL is a big issue for us, and another is the support model (which should be changing soon from what I've seen).

So what we have now is a product that runs both on App Engine and on DotCloud. Since DotCloud is awesome, too, and we know that we can talk to a specific person when something goes wrong, it's currently a front-runner for us. We're also looking at Joyent, too, as opposed to EC2.

But even if we switch large parts of our product to somewhere else, I wouldn't be surprised if we still used App Engine for some things.
I've been trying to use my invite for at least 8 hours with no success. Perhaps Google is limiting registration selectively? (e.g per country/region)
Ah ok, I see what you mean, I assumed you were just using normal Paypal before hand.
Although New York has "received a working system that will advance our management ability ... because the project was apparently tainted by fraud and kickback schemes, the City must be made whole"

...

The city is also planning to launch a request for information (RFI) process in January in search of alternative timekeeping systems.

Wow. So they eventually got a working system. Now they're throwing it away and going to purchase a new one? Meanwhile turning 83 contractors into FTE's to maintain the existing system? This seems like complete craziness for something as commoditized as timekeeping software.
200 million Tweets per day
This reads more like a cautionary tale than a sensible way for things to operate. Doesn't that mean something?
TL;DR version:

1. Take a photo

2. ...

3. Photo restored to amazing clarity!
Well put. Many of the same reasons I joined 10gen and am very happy to work with Nosh ;)
If it had been at all intended for business use it would work with Google Apps accounts from launch - it doesn't.
Technology IPOs: Betting the farm
Seems quite a good result for Android. Apple added Verizon and doubled their addressable market yet they fell short of doubling their sales, even after a dip following the announcement as people waited to buy.

I was expecting a one time drop for Android before the same trends continued, looks like they managed to keep it level.
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http://www.almstba.com/vb/t27340.html
"for which I was paid one gravis ultrasound ACE. I think I ended up better on the deal than the owner, but it was a close-run thing. ... Another time I was contracted to do a job for an oil company. It took me a month to do something that would now take me a day, and the end result was so bad that they got no return on investment of the the AUD 300 they paid me for the job."

You're undervaluing yourself.

Even if you did absolutely zero work that doesn't mean the company that "hired" you got zero value out of you.

They probably got some social benefits from having you around, making the place you worked at less lonely, and perhaps making some people at the company feel better about themselves for hiring an intern or gave them an opportunity to teach (which can help the teacher as well as the student). You probably also gave the other employees ideas and feedback, and may have tested some of the work they did (essentially acting as part of QA).

All of that is worth more than a cheap sound card or 300 AUD.
And it is beautiful!

It is albeit, a little hard to differentiate days.
Downgrade. Everything is hard to read; why is it necessary to use light grey text on a white background? The week view requires scrolling to view all hours of a day (even though it only shows just 1 extra hour). In the week and 4-day view, its very hard to see the vertical separators that separate between days. The widgets on the left are all blurred together, and navigating between different months on the sidebar is done via two very tiny light grey arrows on a white background (again.)

This is just change for the sake of change without any user experience improvement.
OP's title doesn't accurately reflect original author's title/content. Article simply says there are other non-obvious targets/purposes to Google+ besides Facebook. Facebook isn't ruled out, it would be silly to claim so.
Definitely agree with the day & space points. Need to show more of the day, and more calendar. that search bar is fracking huge
So if you eliminate the commodities that are rising against the dollar (or insert currency here) and that everyone has to buy you can assert that there is no inflation? Is core inflation defined as the things people don't buy that are not currently changing in value? Do you want to add hedonics and substitution?
IE6 has a double-margin bug on floated elements which is fixed by display: inline;

http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/doubled-margin....

CSS defines style, HTML defines the semantics. The semantics of a div or an h1 don't change if you declare them inline in your CSS. So there is nothing wrong putting inline elements (styled as block) inside block elements.

HTML5 blurs this further as you can now wrap pretty much anything with <a>.
I stand corrected. The use of the word in this context feels colloquial though.
RIM has $3 Billion in cash? I guess I'm not that surprised, but that's quite a bit of "help us get back on our feet money." With some clear direction (which they may or may not get from their current executives) they could definitely regain some of their previous market.

The more competition the better, and having another player in the mobile space can only improve things for the consumer (and the enterprise).
It definitely has to do with Larry Page.
I've used App Engine for web projects and backend server for Android apps. My web TV site http://www.topchan.tv, and the webpage snapshotting site http://www.previouslook.com are in App Engine.
How complicated must that piece of software have been for it to cost that much? For that kind of money it better be at least as complex as any OS out there.
It's not yet showing as a feature in my analytics, but I look forward to testing it out.
A good web experience?!
It only takes a summer to do this? Suddenly I don't feel so depressed about the NPR article on the sad fact that we won't get the chance to read almost everything:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464764
I don't understand why they think they need to respond at all. And then they are not even responding to all the points. They just repeat their mantra that they knew what they are doing at it will all be good soon.
I get the feeling the entire first paragraph is a bit of an attack on the author of the original letter, rather than addressing the problems.
I just had a quick look at the website. On some level it sounds tempting. On another level, paying forty-three thousand dollars a year to sit around reading Homer doesn't sound like that great a use of money and time.
But that increases the risk that you share information by mistake (either yours or google+) with the wrong group.

That is why people (should) have different email for private and business use. That is why I have facebook and linkedin accounts. It is very unlikely that I will upload my party pics to linkedin ;)
Wow. That was underwhelming.
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Man, I just bet VCs would LOVE to say that "THAT WAS MY IDEA!"... minus the execution
Why you shouldn't launch with just a viral signup page
I'm not really a Django user, but I was interested in the Vim section of the post. I work with Rails and my personal approach to setting framework-specific commands, mappings, etc. is by using the proj plugin: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2719. It's fairly simple, it just sources a project-specific vimfile when you tell it to. I keep a ton of settings in "~/.vim/projects/rails.vim" and I place a "runtime projects/rails.vim" in the project file. This kind of a workflow might give you more freedom in customizing your vim for Django projects, but it really depends on whether you can get used to that. Just a suggestion :).
seriously. they were better off remaining silent. all they've done with this rash response is sound even more like they have no idea what they're doing.
LinkedIn's value is not in any way corporate groups. It's a glorified directory of CVs with walls. Google is not building that or competing with that.
I've only just started using it (this week) as an excuse to get my feet wet with Go. It seems easy enough to get started, things are well documented so far though I've admittedly only touched about half the packages.
"Who was the United States' United States?"

Great Britain.
Ask PG: What's the black bar on the top of the screen?
Title says it all. Woke up this morning with a black bar on the top of my pretty, green (#56b530) bar at the top. What gives?
The point is that, like other Google products, it could be ported to Google Apps
Really? I thought they made it very clear that they were taking a jab at the author, or presumed author, since it's not at all clear that the letter is from a real "high level" RIM employee.
On online privacy and avoiding overregulation
Certainly, that's understandable. People will still be stupid, but at that point, it's a people problem rather than a tech problem .It may just be that I grok it, but I don't forsee any problem at all separating the kinds of content I post.
I think it would be interesting if you could share your google docs through Google+.

Imagine working on a book (or a school project): create a circle around that, then share your latest work with the circle. Anytime someone wants to annotate or change something, they all have access to the same file and comments/hangouts/etc. can be made around it.

Sci-fi and fantasy authors do this frequently albeit through email, and online book clubs.
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The only positive way to respond to a letter like that is to go out and do it. A press release reiterating the same old lines isn't going to solve anything; addressing concerns internally and releasing real products should be their response.
This response is meaningless. Any public company will say the same jargon to reassure their shareholders but I will put money down that internally RIM executives are dwelling on the letter and taking action.
Do you do anything? Like, anything at all besides learn C++? Do you know anyone else who does things? Think about what parts of those things are suboptimal and create something to make it better.

For example, where I work, we get a lot of user-submitted content, but we can't use all of it. So we need to filter. The lady who is primarily responsible for this simply doesn't have the time to vet the massive number of images she runs across to make sure they meet some basic criteria for size and quality, so I wrote a program that mostly automates it.
A 50/50 split means your non-technical contribution is worth the same as building the entire product, top to bottom, front to back. Having an idea for a certain software feature takes only a tiny fraction of the time it takes to implement that feature. So if you're just the "idea guy" or even the "vision guy," you're going to be putting in way, way less work than the technical guy.

So, what more can you do for the company? Although building the product is a huge endeavor, there are many smaller, administrative tasks involved in running a business. M of these are dreadfully boring compared to building the product, but if you want to justify your 50%, you probably need to take them all on yourself. Here are some of those things:

- Accounting and taxes, whether you do it yourself or hire an accountant.

- Dealing with lawyers. It doesn't stop with the operating agreement.

- Getting money, one way or another. Even though you're not paying your programmer, you'll have plenty of expenses.

- Paperwork: bills to pay, forms to fill out, forever and ever until your business ends.

- Choosing and applying for insurance providers, credit card processors, bank accounts, lines of credit, etc..

- Managing ad campaings.

- Blogging and promoting your blog.

- Hustling the tech press.

So now, as the business guy, you're thinking, "I can do all that!" And you certainly can. But that's not enough. You have to be _good_ at all those things to justify your split with an above-average coder. And I know from experience that these tasks do require talent and skills to do well.

For example, hiring lawyers and accountants may seem like a no-brainer. They're the experts; you just have to pay them so you can lean on their expertise, right? I'm afraid it's not so easy. Unless you hire true superstars--whom you probably can't afford--they're not just going to "take care of it for you." Getting the most out of hired experts like lawyers and accountants is a skill in itself, and you can easily mess it up. If you're skeptical, just read about all the startups that got into trouble despite (or because of) the advice they received from experts.

And that's just one example. The same applies to all the business tasks I listed above. So sure, you can do them, but you also need to have some unique talents for those things if you want to earn the same amount as the guy who's building the entire product.
This Framework is mix of my Malo CSS Framework(2008) http://code.google.com/p/malo/ & https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/blob/master/core/grid/... naming system is used.

I'm to blame about display:inline in Malo that is actually wrong it should be *display:inline or even better _display:inline to resolve the double margin problem in IE6.
I agree that Circles seems like a great idea. I've always hated that in Facebook, everyone is either my friend or not. It's awkward to have to decide if someone is a friend. You either end up with lots of non-friend friends, or you have to start explicitly telling people "no, we are merely acquaintances. Let's be perfectly clear: I am not your friend."

That's awkward, and in real life, you don't have to do it. So you shouldn't have to do it online.

It's much better if I can group people into whatever circles make sense to me, and they can do the same to me. Nobody should get to see how I group people. It's my mental model of the world, not theirs.
> gray text is hard to read and the black bar

That's a conscious design choice.

In the visual hierarchy on the page, the links at the top are secondary to the main content. So it's better to have them faded out so your eyes aren't drawn to them.
Well.. I disagree, but I wouldn't have downvoted you because it's a fair point.

It's a bad idea for developers to QA their own code for a number of reasons. 1) Developers have cognitive blinders, like everyone else. They might not test for something that they is unlikely 2) Some errors can be impractical to catch outside of top level integration testing (getting into unexpected states in state machines or race conditions) 3) There is a conflict of interest between deadlines and meeting requirements.

I have seen companies reach 100+ developers using this approach, conclude it's unsustainable, and be forced to make exceptional efforts to build a QA team. I believe reason 3 is the biggest risk.
$3B in cash = RIM will acquire its way back into the game...or into a new game.
It's also very unlikely that you can prevent anyone from seeing your party pics on Facebook, given FB's disregard for privacy.
As far as I know, there's some holy war against <table>s going on, so people rather write tons of obscure CSS code, which becomes instantly impossible to understand the moment you write it and probably renders 10 times as slow in any browser, than to just use tables.
Why Google+ might succeed
This is fairly common; a decent, working solution already exists, but (the) government wants to do its own instead of adopting the existing system, and the bills begin piling up.
Google Needs to Sell Something
No, it isn't fair to the retailer that ships to 50 states, since they unlike the local only retailer now have to file and keep up with tax laws for 50 states, not even considering all of the counties and stuff like that.
Because the people who run publicly traded companies have their compensation heavily tied to the short term share price of their organizations. Every mobile industry analyst is most definitely reading BGR.
It didn't sound like that to me. Could you elaborate on how it is rash?
Freemium Now Dominating Top Grossing iPhone Apps: 8 of top 10
Gotta love how there's no author of the blog post. Just signed "Research In Motion". And "Filed in: News."

And they didn't like how the author of that letter was anonymous? Seems to be company policy. No faces.
Selling 'em as in "trying to persuade other people of their worth" rather than selling 'em as in "getting money for 'em". Still, I concede the ambiguity.
Completely agree that it's a much needed feature. We've worked around that by setting up an nginx server in AWS which has proxies to the https://*.appspot.com name. So it's still SSL all the way, but we just didn't want appspot.com as the URL we gave out.
Arizona cops hacked again: Antisec not in it for the Lulz
Not like it couldn't.
Just like Apple, they have a v1 product that's really good at what it does.

v2 will do even more.