skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google does have powerful friend grouping features, and you can hide your information/posts/photos/etc from any category of friends you want. You can hide them from specific friends, and you can hide individual items in the same way. And the news feed can be filtered easily as well (although without as much fine grained control as content you produce).

Overall, I think that Facebook needs to do a better job of educating its users about these features, and make them more prominent, but I find these features are certainly quite adequate.
Chrome runs Greasemonkey-scripts, too. They are automatically converted to extensions in the background. Works very well. ( http://blog.chromium.org/2010/02/40000-more-extensions.html )

But I wouldn't call this useless. It's just another approach.
In that photo, the gallery art in question occupies less than 1/4 of the frame, and is partly obscured. The photo is composed primarily of green background, contrasted with a blonde girl in red.

I don't understand how that is a 'reproduction' photo at all.
How about reading comprehension?

I was replying to the idea that they chose a more 'robotic' design than a 'humanistic' one. And used a piece from a book in which a Googler pretty much said the same thing.
Buzz includes shared items/notes in Reader. You can always export (& import) your subscriptions: http://www.google.com/reader/subscriptions/export?hl=en .

Also, although there isn't any manifest or timeline file, each .html file for Buzz has a last modified date that corresponds to when it was created. In addition, in the file itself, it has a timestamp.

This seems more than reasonable. Sure an XML/JSON timeline might be nice, but it wouldn't be human-readable either.
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I agree, persistent data structures is the better term.
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When I'm on the highway, I tank my car up and it'll be roughly 200 miles at halfway and 300 at 1/4. Granted, I've never driven my car to vapors on the highway but it seems logical that a tank of gas will get me around 400 miles. It's a 14 gallon tank so that translates to around 30mpg highway. I don't think it's unrealistic to ask for an equivalent efficiency in an electric car.
Such special purpose companies[1] are quite common and don't necessarily indicate any "shady" practices.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_purpose_entity
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#2 is not an issue for Tesla or Toyota. There are no rare-earth materials inside Tesla's motors [1]. Toyota is also using Tesla's common-earth motors [2].

[1] http://www.autoobserver.com/2010/10/tesla-opens-rd-labs-and-...

[2] http://alttransport.com/2011/01/toyota-is-developing-electri...
> they usually get a typing speed of 200wpm or so

Impressive. The world record sustained typing speed is around 180 WPM. :)

Playing MUDs definitely helped my typing speed but so did live chatting with BBS sysops, programming and just general computer use. Most of my computer friends growing up had decent typing speed just from using DOS for everything. Practice makes perfect. I'm always impressed by kids who grew up with mobile phones from an early age and can SMS at lightning speed.
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That's an excellent question. I have no idea. =)

Next time I make a similar app, I'll look into that. Its really a great idea.

*Edit
There is! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/287543/how-to-programatic...
Why can't we call VPS as cloud! I think the "cloudy" character does not come just because we do not know how or where is it running or what the hardware is, it comes more because I can deploy an application or store a data somewhere on the earth right from my home. A better way to put it could be - VPS are first generation cloud/kind of raw version whereas EC2, GAE, Heroku et al. are the advanced cloud systems where some things could happen automatically.
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It's actually called list. Groups in FB is something different. Try creating a friend list and then you can share it with only that list.
Google Chrome dev has support for multiple account profiles. Each account has it's own windows with their own cookies/exts/apps/history.
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Why not group your friends, and restrict your posts by default to people you actually care about? The rest won't be aware they are even being filtered.
I'll add bitcoin to that list.
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This is possible via the Google Apps Email Audit API[1], which is accessibly only by paid Google Apps accounts. The API submitted export request takes usually several hours to complete and results in a series of large mbox files (1 GB chunks I think) containing the entire mailbox, including trash (if requested). However some meta information such as labels/folders is not present, but the results can easily be concatenated into a single mbox file containing the entire contents of a Google Apps email account.

[1] http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/audit/docs/1.0/audi...
Hilarious - nice job Ben! I was bemusing in the Khan Academy chat the other day that I always thought it'd be hilarious (although, useful) to have a .uncle() or .aunt() method (for getting .parent().siblings()). Quite amused that Ben put the effort into making this happen.
Because if you don't live in DE, it can be a pain if legal action ever comes up. I've read that the "home court advantage" is very real.

Also, people often establish companies in tax-free states thinking that they'll avoid taxation. But nexus will bite you. By living in a state, or doing work in a state beyond sales, you establish nexus and are responsible for state income tax.
The same reason visual writing hasn't caught on. Our brains are wired for textual language. It's generally hard to express highly abstract ideas with just pictures.
That's essentially what Google+ does. Twitter isn't designed for posting to different audiences, and Facebook won't let me show certain posts of my wall to certain people but not others.
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At some point, I hope people realize that the tax code is for the rich.
Google recently forced users to make their Profiles public, and announced that it was going to delete private Profiles. If Google+ requires a Profile, then count me out.
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Flask is a simple web.py-like framework that is under active development, and I would argue it's one of the cleanest Python Web frameworks (if not the cleanest) out there.

My current project requires real-time stuff so I started to develop it using Tornado and then decided to switch to the Quora model -- use a traditional Web framework for most things, and connect back to Tornado for the real-time stuff.

Quora uses Pylons, but Pylons reached its end-of-life with 1.0, and it's now Pyramid, which is really repoze.bfd and shares no code with Pylons 1.0.

So I swapped out Pylons for Flask and use Sockeit.IO (http://socket.io/) to connect back to Torando for real-time connections.

In addition to just being really-well designed, Flask has an amazing debugger that makes me more productive, and it's easier to write unittests for Flask because you can write them in a traditional way and don't have to contend with Tornado's IOLoop.

When I switched to this model, the development process sped up considerably.

For real-time stuff, you could forgo Tornado all together and instead use gevent to deploy your Flask app (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/deploying/others/#gevent), like some have done with Django and Pyramid (http://blog.abourget.net/2011/3/17/new-and-hot-part-4-pyrami...), but I haven't tried this yet.
I didn't see a way to do that, but if there is one I'll implement it soon.
Cool. Now if we only had a Silverlight -> HTML5+js converter we could quell the Windows 8 uproar.
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I always thought it was "the featured article" if you were being polite.
What makes you think that's a realistic expectation?
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...and there are plenty of shared offices and pseudo-offices in the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco. Unexpected != shady.

I started a Wyoming "close corporation" (unique to WY and awesome for small businesses) last spring, and used FreeRegisteredAgent.com aka Incorp.com as my registered agent. They do the first year free, $99/yr after that. They weren't the fastest responders, but when I dissolved the company a year later they did get back to me, and it didn't prove to be a scam.

I don't have my numbers handy, but in the end I calculated that it would cost something like $1,000 per year to even begin to legitimize a presence in Wyoming. You'd need a mail forwarding service in the state, of which there are few. You'd also almost certainly want a state driver's license, and some of the mail forwarding and registered agent companies will let you use their address for that!

Incidentally, I went with Wyoming because NV and DE have both started charging rather steep annual licensing fees.

(the reason for all this, by the way, is because my plan was to live abroad and do some coding on the side, which puts me in a strange tax situation, and costs had to be extremely low.)
The slow release of Gmail accounts was an example of a great hype-building process. OTOH the product was groundbreaking (they offered a huge amount of storage compared to competitors), and it isn't 2004 anymore.
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Nobody wants to be portrayed as elitist so I'm not so sure about this. Given 2 people who both have done impressive projects I would bet the one with the Stanford degree would be more likely to get in. It might even be a sub-conscious decision.
I don't think those guys applied to YC, having been founders/early at Twitter and Facebook. Plus, they probably wanted to raise more than $20k or whatever.
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Why Delaware over the state you are in? (Assuming you aren't actually in Delaware).
There are, however, plenty of rare earth minerals around. China is only supplying nearly all of them because they are mined nowhere else. A mine in California will, for example, reopen soon. It’s simple supply and demand, really.

I’m not terribly worried about getting rare earth minerals. I’m worried about the environmental impact. Looking into alternatives (which seems very possible) certainly looks like a good idea.
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This has several flaws.

For it's not consistent. I filtered for Serif and got sans serif in the mix.

But even worse. You can't specify very precisely. For instance if I need a slab serif how do I filter that?
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I've always thought the Volt sounded way over-engineered. Why bother with a fancy hybrid engine rather than concentrating on making a lightweight, affordable all-electric car? The simple approach is always going to win. Zenncars.com was taking this approach but I'm not sure of their progress.
If they can't detect when you're not in REM sleep and wake you up at that point, what's the point of the device?
i wonder if he wishes he had been turfed out of Twitter so he had more time to invent Square?
I am wondering if this is more a move to unify design elements from Andriod with the Google web presence...A way to bridge the gap between the mobile UI (andriod) experience, and the google-web-at-large UI experience. I imagine as part of branding and customer imprinting.

Even if that is not the base reason, it is interesting to consider.
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What if it's for a single person LLC? I'm interested in payroll hacks for that too.
"We needed a code name that captured the fact that either there was
a great opportunity to sail to new horizons and new things, or that
we were going to drown by this wave," Gundotra said last August.

Or their approach boiled down to four bullet points which started with M, R, L and C, so someone decided to call it "Emerald Sea".

I mean, they even mention that the painting thing was a retcon in the article. But Vic's in front of Steven Levy, Google's official mythologizer, so he goes for it.

I'm guessing the four points behind the "MRLC" initials were mobile, recommendations, live and circles (or, equivalently, context). That does neatly categorize Google+ to date.
no, i didn't delete it. The original is available at:

https://raw.github.com/gist/1051210/fd7008d908c2929f8476ad57...

The post was deleted because someone made a judgement call. It's a subjective thing. Was it too rantish? Was it not constructive enough? Were the comments any different/better/worse? I'm generally fine with people not agreeing, even if it means you end up on the wrong side of a rule that doesn't seem fair. I'll take some control over none any day of the week. C'est la vie.
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That's cool, but the BodyMedia is in actual contact with your body. The determinations it makes about calories burned factor in body temperature and galvanic response. AFAIK, the FitBit is a wireless pedometer.

True, you do have to spend ~$7/mo for the subscription, unless you hack it with Python (there is a module for interfacing with it over USB.)
30mpg highway is really good and does not reflect the average experience of a consumer.

That said, I think you're (sadly) right, but not for the reason you're stating. Because electric cars can't be recharged in five minutes, consumers will suddenly think they have to go even further on a charge. They will completely ignore the fact that they commute 15 miles each way, every day, and the fact that they already have that minivan they use for long trips anyway.

That said, your argument doesn't really apply to this car. "The EPA official all-electric range is 35 miles (56 km), and the total range is 379 miles (610 km)." (Wikipedia) That qualifies as, "closer to 400 miles per charge."
If you're worried about range, then there's a old-fashioned gas tank in there to extend the range.
Drive more efficient cars? With bigger tanks? The small sedans I usually drive pretty much always have ranges of above 800km (500 miles), and my range record on a single tank was with a turbo-diesel 405[0], with careful driving and a 70L tank (huge for a mid-range sedan, I recognize this, most mid-ranges are around 50L these days) was above 1400km (870 miles).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_405
I'd like to see the reviewers electricity bill.
For the main usage of the car that EVs are supposed to replace - commuting - the comfortable range can be far less than a tank of gas. Maybe a quarter.

For long-haul trips, it is of course a much bigger issue - in part because putting charge stations in the sticks (vs charging at home for regular commute) is so much tougher.
Armin explains the request object here (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/reqcontext/) and here (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/quickstart/#id4), and the concept of "context locals" in detail here (http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/local/).
You can't share with lists alone. Facebook sharing options are friends, friends and networks, Friends and their friends and so on. Or you have to add each friend individually. It's just weird how lists are pretty much useless in facebook.
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The PS mockup is really beautiful. That's a game I would buy on sight for 99 cents, and get for $1.99 if there were significant good reviews to back up the visuals. The look of the bullseyes in particular are fantastic.
There's as much 'there' in, say, the 'never let go' of "Titanic" as there is in FFVII. You being obstinate does not an argument make.
That's exactly the concept behind the Nissan Leaf, which they discussed in the article.

For me, the Leaf isn't the answer. I drive from Houston to Austin regularly. It's a 200 or so mile drive. The Leaf gets 70 miles to a charge. What good does that do me? I would barely make it out of Houston before having to recharge for hours.

Ultimately, Hybrids like the Volt are the best answer for the moment. They provide a practical, non-scary transition into eco friendly vehicles. Eventually, cars like the Prius and Volt will be commonplace, paving the way for more radical solutions.
> 30mpg highway is really good

Depends on the car you drive. 30mpg is really good for a gaz-guzzler, but mid-range sedans can easily be driven into the 40s.
FB can add those in a matter of few months

I wouldn't assume that it's so easy for Facebook to make fundamental changes to their friend system. It's woven into every other part of the site. The whole visibility thing would probably be a nightmare to implement.
What are these but misguided coddles, patronizing crutches, interactively horseless carriages?

Nailed it. Great article. Apple's hardware is as beautiful as ever but their software UI seems to have gone right of the rails. I wish Google's wasn't aping that dumb page curl effect in their own books app.
It’s a good idea to say that but many people will then immediately go to the next extreme: electric cars cannot possibly be useful at all unless all our energy production is already carbon neutral†. The right way to approach this is to offer a detailed explanation, not to only say that electric cars burn coal. It’s a true statement, but it leads to misconceptions.

I will say what I always say at this point: electric cars are about enabling large scale infrastructure change. A gas powered car will burn gas now and in twenty years. An electric car burns (mostly) coal now but it doesn’t have to in twenty years. That’s what electric cars are all about.

Now, an electric car you buy now likely won’t survive until a large portion of our energy comes from carbon neutral sources. We don’t even know whether we will be able to pull that off at all. Why then buy electric cars? Why sell them? Why subsidize them? The reason for this is that changing every gas powered car to an electric car takes time and requires a lot of infrastructure and testing. We really shouldn’t start building electric cars only in forty years, we should start right now.

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† Whether we should work towards being carbon neutral, whether that’s possible at all and makes sense is certainly controversial. For the purpose of this article I just assumed that we should.

There are other possible benefits of switching to electric cars. For one it makes us less dependent on oil. Oil is not unlimited (so is coal but it is at least less limited), being dependent only on energy and not one specific energy source makes it easier to react to changing energy source prices.
It would be more accurate to say that you won't accept an electric car until it can travel between 300 and 400 miles on a charge. That is a fair statement.

However its unclear yet that "widespread acceptance" requires that. The Volt and the Leaf are out there, so its really going from theoretical to empirical. After they they have been in full production for a year, if they (and the other electric vehicles) are not gaining market share commensurate with the vehicle replacement rate, then you can say "See they just don't have widespread acceptance."
Sweet! Believe it or not I've been actually looking for something like this for Chrome over the past couple of days so this is great.
They have a different legal system (a court of chancery) that businesses prefer when resolving disputes. See "Delaware Court of Chancery" on Wikipedia.
Okasaki called them that because he was implementing data structures in pure functional languages, so in that context it was reasonable. But in imperative languages, you're right, calling them "purely functional" is meaningless.
I sympathise with you, but it's the only place a developer has to really get a potential buyer's attention beyond the icon, so the real estate is too valuable to give up! I think there needs to be a couple "raw" screenshots, but many successful devs recommend using that space to it's fullest potential.

There's a really good article out there about this that I can't track down at the moment, but here are a couple more that also drive the point home:

http://blog.jeybee.com/post/3518620621/taking-the-advantage-...

http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mobile-design-tutorials...
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If you crashed your 2002 BMW M3 ($43k new) and it was then useless to you, like an electric car with kaput batteries, you could be back in business for $15k (current used price of that M3).
Euro perspective: My car's a 12 year old rusting hulk but it does 550 miles to a tank of diesel. I think more modern cars will get 750 or more. I don't think many people regularly drive more than about 400 miles without an overnight break though.
well like i said earlier the first thing that came to my mind was websites like groupon and living social. Also, I think websites like Zappos or Newegg that are well known in certain circles but perhaps not as ubiquitously as they would like could really benefit from your services. For example, I know that in the Newark, NJ airport there are zappos ads in every security bin. I'm sure they would love to see a heatmap of how traffic from that area has changed since they implemented that ad. The heatmaps provide a simple and easy to understand visual aid that can really help explain whether changes have come about.
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How would you build traffic to a site like craiglists if it didn't exist before?
What's the formula to develop traffic to a site that is valuable due to its user-generated content when you don't have the user base for it. Seems very much like a catch-22 situation. Any thoughts?
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yea I just found it. I think he makes a lot of really good posts that are both interesting and entertaining.