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Sparks looks cool. Sparks is the sort of thing where Google really have the experience, data, and competitive edge. Some of the other ideas seem pretty stupid, to be honest (sorry).

"Instant Upload" really depicts what I dislike most about Google's software at the moment. I already have two separate sync mechanisms on my phone from Google (contacts and apps), now they're making a third. Why can't they just make one simple sync thing?

It feels like they're just launching a smattering of separate vaguely "social" 20% projects at us, when really they should have taken the best bits and integrated them into existing applications. Huddle, for example - doesn't Google Talk already have this functionality?

Circles is where I think social is going to be heading, but being first doesn't mean being best. Facebook has been headed towards this sort of thing for a while now, and once they have this feature why would anyone use Google Circles?
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After reading an article or two on Google+ I searched out the support pages and found them much more informative so I thought I would share.
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Although I haven't used it, there is a version of Python for DOS, http://www.caddit.net/pythond/downloads.php but Lua might be a better choice.
After reading an article or two on Google+ I searched out the support pages and found them much more informative so I thought I would share.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2706918
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Awesome! I read HN every day and must have... always missed it? Though the 1st is payday so fighting my way to the bank may be the culprit.

Thanks!
I don't dispute that Mozilla has the right to determine where their support resources go. However:

a) They knew that corps deploy Firefox and have QA constraints. They could have given early warning on this shift.

b) Mozilla's response that corporate use is too small for Mozilla to care essentially fails the "be nice to the waiter" test. The arrogant tone was particularly egregious, and warns of a lack of mature stewardship over their millions of dollars of resources and careers.

I like Firefox a lot. Back when there was a choice between Netscape and Mozilla, at one point I thought hard and went with Mozilla because I thought it had better long term prospects. I chose correctly.

A company's posture and attitude matters to me. After reading a few of Mozilla's responses I was disgusted.

The only thing really keeping me on Firefox is bookmark management, particularly tags and their recently added sync function. After their attitude became unmistakable, I immediately began to look for alternatives. Delicious would have been obvious, I used to use it, but its future is clouded. I tried pinboard, but it's not integrated with the browser so I quit it.

I've really wanted to like Chrome; when and if their bookmark management comes up to par with Firefox I'll switch.

Attitude matters.
Based on the demo you can only put friends in one circle, but I hope that's going to change or just isn't properly reflected in the demo; I have plenty of people I would consider to be in multiple circles. The easiest example of which is a "co-worker" who is also a "friend".
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I don't think he knows when you remove him from a circle, I don't think he knows the name of the circle too.
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Took it up a year ago, haven't stepped in a gym since. Lost 30 pounds and am in the best shape of my life.
As usual, Google Apps users, are left behind once again. I really don't understand why Google will not once and for all unify google accounts and google apps accounts.

Supposedly they already did that, and yes I did the "merge the accounts dance", and still, no Profiles for me, and therefore, no +1 and no Google+.

Google, I'm paying for my google apps. I don't want to have another free account just to play with your new features (and I really hope this is not going Buzz way... which I also never saw in my gmail...)
If the desktop/flagship UI all flash, then they are working on an Android app as well?
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XML parsing: lxml (lxml.html is particularly wonderful).

Markdown/Textile; in the Python world people mostly use Restructured Text, not least because of its privileged position in docstrings.
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I'm sympathetic to these worries, but to play devil's advocate I wonder which kind of privacy most people actually care more about. Given the choice between having one's boss/co-workers/family/spouse learn some embarrassing secret about you, and having random strangers at a large corporation learn it, which would most people pick?
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Anyone who is looking for the "cool HTML5 future" to be ad-free is going to be bitterly disappointed. Online ads predated the ubiquity of Flash, and they'll be around long after Flash is forgotten.
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Just tried this out last week. The docs are pretty sparse, but it seems to mirror the jQuery interface fairly closely so if you're familiar with one, you'll have a fair idea of the other: http://packages.python.org/pyquery/api.html

That's the key advantage as I see it. If I'm scraping something it's often in a hurry and I just want it done. Not having to internalise a new API is a significant win in that respect.
Keeping track of carbs is pretty hard for me, depending on your weight you should eat X amount of carbs a day. These days everything you can eat has a lot of carbs. Keeping track of how many carbs you've eaten so far during the day can be tricky if you don't know how many carbs the food you eat have.
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It definitely helps to have a good athletic background, but Crossfit does an amazing job of welcoming beginners. Honestly, I can't think of any other community that does such a good job of simultaneously pushing the most advanced to their limits while still welcoming beginners.

Most Crossfit affiliates have an on-ramp program that will get you, no matter where you're starting, to the point where you can participate in full workouts.
This is only a limitation in the demo. In the actual product, you can place friends in multiple cirlces.
FTA == From The Article. ;)
To be clear, it was one Mozilla employee (a product manager, not an executive) whose blog comments were quoted by the tech press and misinterpreted as speaking for Mozilla as a whole. Not everyone here at Mozilla is as blunt as Asa, and not everyone agrees with him. For example, see this thoughtful and detailed response by Mozilla VP Mike Shaver:

http://shaver.off.net/diary/2011/06/28/enterprise/
Sweet! So all the obnoxious animation and banner ads can be converted into "HTML5" that runs 3x slower and sucks up 80% of a dual core processor per ad...and NONE of the actual coding, deep interactivity or UI enhancements implied in the ECMA4/AS3 platform are included. Is this the shape of things to come? Let me off this stupid ride, google. I vote DuckDuckGo, pageranks based on qualified user responses regardless of crawlable content, interactivity with client-side languages and structures that can't necessarily be crawled by a bot script, and an end to a monolithic, archaic system of ranking up corporate garbage.

BLOW ME, Google. Apple. HTML5 lovers. If anyone needs proof Flex/Flash won't be dead for a long time, here it is =)
Currently those inside + at the moment cannot invite others. It will probably change soon, but I think the initial rollouts are still going on, so for the time being I cannot invite others.
on a side note, the mobile app is live in android market. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.app...
MySpace wasn't prepared for Facebook, and ignored it until about 2009 when it was too late. People saw their friends on Facebook, so they stopped using MySpace (hence the network effect I mentioned earlier). Facebook /will/ fight for its social dominance, but (generally speaking) there is a site out there that they don't know about and won't be prepared for (aka "the next Facebook")
I actually setup a forum for SaaS developers with a section specifically for that purpose. You can check out the section here: http://saasaholics.com/forum-pitch-your-saas
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Group video chat seems really cool. Now I just need to convince enough friends to use this too...
Same here. I hate them for that.
I hate to be that guy, but hasn't Kayak had this feature for a really long time?

Hipmunk is great and all, but I fail to see how a travel site adding an icon is relevant to the HN frontpage.
An interesting idea. Are you aware of the similarity in name to the existing "What the Font" tool which is used to identify fonts from a bitmap sample?

http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
I disagree. You go to a hang out when you feel about socializing.

You never get bored in a group chat, and the youtube integration just makes it much better. Just look at turntable.fm

I miss this kind of chatting from facebook so much. (ok there is something like this with groups. I read somewhere that is the second popular on the site, right after photo sharing.)
fwiw, my take on it: http://benwerd.com/2011/06/double-plus-google-finally-a-mass...

Google Takeout is a late addition to the mix, but it makes it that little bit more awesome.
I think a more apt title is that content farms are dead.
Calling all non-competitive games "puzzle games" is too reductionist. For a long time now - as far back as the SNES and perhaps even NES era - games have been about more than just the raw gameplay at their core. They are often just as much about having an interactive experience.
I dispute your characterization of air-to-ground telephony as "not really like cell towers". Aircel (the guys behind Gogo Inflight) themselves characterize it as such on their own website[0]. I was, however, unaware of the satellite tech.

[0]http://www.gogoinflight.com/gogo/cms/work.do
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Is it just me, or Google+ looks a lot like something a company that's lost its touch would do, à la Microsoft?
> Thanks. This is really helpful. I'm using PayPal because some clients and services only pay with it. I'm spending the money on online services and to buy stuff. Does this make me exposed to risk?

Clients here are the only thing that could expose you to risk: if any of them attempts a fraud on you via PP, that will register, and can lead to account disabling, as described above.

> Another thing, I'm using my real information. Just a fake address. I heard from a user that he did that and then when he got caught, the disabled his account and transferred his balance to his bank account. Can this be true? And what are the legal issues that can happen?

Might be true; I'm sceptical though -there were large number of reported cases, in which no money was refunded after disabling the account.

Legal-wise, while they could start a lawsuit, so far there has been no precedence of PP doing so -it simply doesn't make any cost/benefit sense. The most likely outcome is disabling your account, with no money back, and no recourse.

Hope this helps.
"open and failed" at this point can provide a powerful proof-of-concept, whereas "closed and successful" doesn't necessary teach us anything new.
The cross browser web already exists. It's called AS3. The only reason it gets a lot of bad press is that no one wants to snuggle up to Adobe. Meanwhile everybody flails around pretending that HTML5+JS will solve the problem, when that was already a dinosaur five years ago, and as you said will never be supported uniformly across browsers.

Edit: Here come the fanbois to downrate me. Consider your own karma. Downrating me does not change the facts on the ground. You cannot build a 3d racing game in HTML5+JS in the browser. Can you??? If you can, seriously, respond instead of hitting that little down arrow, and I would love to see what combination of technologies you employ!
I'd have to see these Circles in action, but if they're what I think they are (e.g. you'd make a "Work" circle, a "Family" circle, a "Casual Acquaintance" circle, etc.), then Diaspora has that concept: They call them "aspects". I must admit, "circle" seems like a better term than "aspect", though.
Gmail used to be infinitely better than everything else on the market. So closing it it off made it only more scarce and sought after than it already was. Now if plus is even finitely better than everything else, so that artificial scarcity will make it seem more valuable, is debatable. It's a rather risky bet Google has already lost once with Wave.
Yes, I try to get every 1-2 step removed likely variation (if it is two words, get the concatenated and dash variants, get the various gTLDs (at least .com/.net), easy misspellings, etc.

An annoying thing for me is that right now for my company I have ~everything except first-last.com, which is taken by another company in the general field (but unused). firstlast.com is the primary form, but since it is two words, the dash variant is pretty important.
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... And then I tried Takeout. Exporting my Buzz account as a giant series of tiny HTML files? Really?
for all who have also suffered through "in the plex" jump directly to page 5 http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-so... for some actual new information
I think Amiga and BeOS were both over-fitted to their times, so they were #1 for a short time but ultimately didn't/wouldn't scale to different/faster hardware. BeOS also had the advantage of having zero cruft because it was so new, but that situation can't be maintained.
"Circles? Actually I think that many people like the idea of their posts are being read by as many people as possible and not just the ones with similar interests."

I totally disagree with that. Facebook sorely lacks such a feature, and the lack of it has led to "spammy" messages from so called "friends" you barely even know, or care about in your list.

Google+ seems to solve a lot of issues with Facebook. And I think even non-techies can be relatively easy convinced to use it once they see how it works. Basically, Google+ looks like a huge leap over Facebook because of all those neat products tied together. People will switch from anything as long as there is a big leap in benefits, and I think Google+ offers that.
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Circles would make great sense if we can push some circles into other circles. Close friends into friends and friends into general connections.
I think the analogy falls apart because with both books and movies, you just watch or read them. Since games are interactive, watching a cutscene without any of the prior interaction is, I think, substantially different from reading a passage in a book without having read prior passages.
I believe their primary incentive is to easily convert flash ads for their advertising partners to HTML5 so they can be displayed on mobile as well.
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Um... I'm on a 27 inch monitor so I disagree with your suggestion.

Mobile devices are handled using the viewport meta tag.
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Are they going to support open protocols for DiSo?
Salmon, OAuth, Activity Streams, FOAF and such?
They support XMPP with Google Talk and gave Jabber a big push by doing so.

-jsl
Flask is awesome and can be easily supercharged by pairing it with Paste Deploy: http://pythonpaste.org/deploy

This way you get Flask simplicity and elegance, but also you get Rails-like separation of configuration test/development/production environments.

Another misconception people seem to have is that Flask means Jinja2. Fortunately that's not the case, swapping Jinja with Mako is also extremely easy.

Finally, Flask can run on top of any WSGI server, not just a built-in one: at http://mailgun.net we have Flask services running on Tornado and on Paster servers - the thing is rock solid.
I'd say that the link "builder" is dead. "Earning" links however, could be a different story. If content gets a lot of tweets, fb shares etc and non-manipulative links (not just 100 links with the same anchor text), then Google should still reward the site that earns those links. That was the direction that I was trying to go after the 24th. That said, it was more difficult to do that for a directory site, which is what TeachStreet was.
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looks like it could use a little work in firefox 5 before it's at uh, flash level quality: (screenshot)
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The mobile app I saw a couple of months ago was pretty slick. I hope they've made good progress on that too.
Couldnt agree more with you. Perhaps this is the thing for us non facebook users to use amongst ourselves :)
I feel that both forms are missing the mark for my taste. Essentially, they represent two of the classic failures in crafting a good ("pencil and paper") role-playing game: This game is all fighting and This game is all puzzles. The really fun games are the ones that have a cool environment (like text adventures) and let you make interesting choices.

I know there have been some efforts to do that sort of thing with a text-adventure-y environment (Storytron?) but don't know of anyone who has really gotten it right yet.
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I don't understand, are you being sarcastic and implying Google and Facebook are really bad places to work?
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Yes, the point of copying yourself is the "not dying".

Yes, and my point is that I don't really care about "not dying". I care about living a long time. Getting hit by a bus (or killed by a roadside bomb) doesn't bother me. Growing old and living for three decades in constant pain and discomfort does.
As a math major, my view is probably biased, but I feel like one of the reasons mathematics is so widely used and applied in other fields such as physics, CS, and even biology these days is that they express or model, to a high degree of accuracy, patterns that recur in all these fields. The mathematical notation is the most general and abstract form of expressing these patterns. My feeling is that to not learn the language of math dooms one to reinvent the wheel because they don't realize that the problem she is working on has been solved before in a more general case by some one else. In those cases where the problem hasn't been solved before, the solution leads to new areas or notation which can show up in unexpected ways in different branches of science.

Without this common language, we would have a specialized language for every field, allowing little "cross-pollination". As an example, in evolutionary biology, take the NK model of epistatic interactions which models gene interactions. It just so happens that this model is extremely similar to a thing in statistical physics called a spin-glass. Without mathematics the biologist would have to sit and work out all the details of these epistatic interactions before getting to actually do biology. So in short, mathematics saves you time by expressing common patterns or ideas.
Most of the time, it takes stops and starts, failure, heartache, and most importantly years of work and some luck to make an overnight success.

Your Ask HN not making it to the front page? Probably just bad luck (there are lots of good stories that don't make it to the front page). Game blogs not writing about it? Probably just bad luck that they heard about other games at the same time that they wanted to write about more.

I think there's a common feeling that there's just that one magic bullet that's going to make you a success (that TechCrunch article, or that Touch Arcade article, or if you can JUST get into YC or get that first investor). I think all that stuff definitely helps, but from what I've seen the best way to do it is to get a good amount of sleep, hustle your ass off 5-6 days a week, and have a partner in crime (even if it's just a drinking buddy who works on their own, separate projects).

I think you just have to pick up and start on the next project. The App Store is extremely competitive, but if you just keep making better and better games every time, something will stick. Just be sure to do some client work or keep your day job in the meantime to stay financially solvent. :)
That can happen. Or users may not even have it installed. But contrast with the case of a user with a browser that doesn't support some features of HTML5. How do you detect which features work for them, and which don't? How can the user fix the problem?

The only way to fix it is to install a new browser, or perhaps a new version of the current browser. Installing a plugin is often easier. Rather than deal with this, developers currently just develop for and test on a few main browsers. Anyone not on these are left with no other options but to switch browsers.

Suffice to say, HTML5 doesn't really improve the situation all that much. It simply trades the closed model that Adobe uses with Flash for an open model that has been used for HTML. In either case, the only way to be really compatible is to use older well established features.

Open platforms are good, and thus HTML5 is a good development. But it's not the silver bullet that many make it out to be.
For me, it's the kind of frustration that makes me go, "Eh, I feel like I've looked at that before and it annoyed me, though I don't remember why. Probably not worth my time."
Smartgit is an awesome client for mac and I love the diffs view. Git is complicated so does a simple client help or hurt? I think that's up for debate and different users are going to have different requirements but for me I feel Smartgit is simplistic, useful, and functional where as I think of the Github client as more of an RSS type application where I check the latest stuff that has been committed.
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So glad you made it official! :-)