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> [ third attempt ]

Does it matter that it's the third? This one is pretty compelling. All of my friends are already on it and we're all using it regularly. Whenever I go back to Facebook, it feels old and stagnant (no dynamic updates, no video chat, no noise control, terrible picture quality compared to Picasa, etc.)

> [ need to addict their users ]

Hm, well what's there is already quite enough for me -- but I'm not a heavy Facebook user. It's already been leaked that they're adding games by Florian Rohrweck.

> [ ui better ]

Uh, as an engineer I'd say this is more than just a UI refresh on Buzz or something like that. It's clear huge amounts of work on frontend and backend went into this.

> [ mobile client ]

Brad Horowitz said their iPhone app has been submitted to the approval process. The Android native app is probably one of the most polished Android apps I've ever used. The mobile web-app which has everything but the Huddle was available on day 1.
Check this site out: http://bitcoinwatch.com/

The velocity of bitcoin is 730k/24h or $11M/24h, which is pretty insanely high and suggests that if anything the current value of bitcoin is low (due to perceived risk.)

Lest you think this is all trading volume, the total trading volume on all exchanges for the last 24h is under 20k bitcoin. So that remaining 710k in transactions is coming from somewhere, and I'd bet good money that it's not ISPs or any of the other merchants listed who accept bitcoin. If I had to venture a guess I'd say drugs and money laundering.

Think about it, this is a money launderer's dream come true. A completely untraceable currency with 0 fees. You can pump in a few million in USD, trade it into bitcoin, pull it out of some random exchange, and dump it in any random part of the world you feel like. Then hide it in some Swiss bank account. There's not a thing that anyone can do to trace it.
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I'm a little confused about what you're suggesting here. Examples, perhaps?
You just skipped MVP. It's not about the product, but building knowledge on your market and then acting on it. Since you just built it you are at a greater risk of failing :) See the article at http://radoff.com/blog/2010/05/04/minimum-viable-product-ran... to get the irony in your post.

That said, it looks great, and will certainly appeal to photographers and anyone dealing with maps, art scans and the like. You just have to hope the market is actually there and reach them somehow!

I might be wrong, but I think the latest Macs aren't shipping with Java, it could be a problem.
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Slightly off topic, but could thorium be used for vehicle propulsion? as in nuclear submarines or even better: space craft? if the payload is efficient enough, it could solve the issues we have with getting rockets into space (fuel is heavy, and costly to transport).
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I wish I could give you 100 up votes, but I guess one will have to do.
Greece, for all its issues, is a much richer country than China w.r.t its population, you cannot compare those countries. For greece, devaluation would mean that imports would become much more expensive, a state almost unable to borrow any money, etc... It would be even worse than it is now. China does not need to borrow much money on foreign markets, and it is not democratic (the Chinese gvt would never tolerate the strikes in Greece, most likely would have sent the army).

Default is the only realistic option, but Germany and France refuse it for political reasons. The other reason is that a lot of Greek debt is owned by banks from those countries: selling banks bail-out in France or Germany is not that much more popular than in the US nowadays.
Ask HN: Why is depicted violence more acceptable than porn in America?
For instance, why are murderous video games more morally acceptable than videos of people procreating?

Is it Judeo-Christian ethics? The result of American foreign policy? Or is porn worse for children than Call of Duty?

And what's it like in other countries?
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This is one of the first papers gone over in Computer Systems (6.033) so it's not totally gone.
The killer advantage that he didn't mention is that Google search is used by a billion people worldwide, and is probably the start page for at least half of them. You still have to go out of you way to visit Facebook, by explicitly selecting it from your bookmarks, but seeing your Google+ notifications will be automatic and unavoidable.

Sure, some people will turn the feature off entirely or simply not have any friends to bootstrap themselves into the network, but hundreds of millions of people will be in a position where their interaction with Google+ will be automatic, and if you're already interacting with friends there, why bother going to Facebook?

Quite simply, a lot of people will be on both for a while, and use Google+ more and Facebook less over time.
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It's surprising he'd be so naive as to think this is anything other than the sort of boilerplate companies always put in their TOS.
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I upvoted you, but the point you bring up is not unique to Google +. You should of instead asked:

>Why is there so much discussion about what might be the success or failure of products/services/companies/etc? It's all noise.

And the answer to that question is quite simple. If there are people out there willing to read it, then there are people out there that are going to write it. Online journalism and blogs have made these types of articles the norm.
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That doesn't sound at all logical to me. The phone conference is scheduled for a particular time, eg 10am in Montreal. The other meeting participants do not care that it is now 10am in Mombasa, where your phone happens to be at the moment - they will not be at the meeting for another 7 hours anyway.

Your other way also allows for the same event to happen twice, at different times, which is entirely unexpected.
I'm taking Calculus 2 next semester and I was hoping this would be a good source to study from. I appreciate the fact that the information is condensed to exactly what a person needs to know to solve the problem, but the text is unreadable. This is wasted potential...
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Personally I'm looking forward to cashing in on some lucrative contracts as a graybeard C programmer in 20 years time, the same way all those COBOL survivors were able to in the late 90s ;)
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Ask HN: Why does Google+ have an age requirement and when will it end?
Google+ requires users to be of 18 years or older. Previous Google products have not had this requirement (e.g. Google Wave). Why did Google choose to do this and when do you think they will get rid of that limitation.
As a point of reference, the universe is estimated at less than 2^59 seconds old.
I watched one of the videos and seems accurate enough. The cut left out an important bit from the end of that video. Developing those kinds of thorium reactors would take the US five years with a Manhattan Project style investment. Ten or more years at a slower pace and lower price.

This is by no means cheap and easy, "it's not THAT hard" is a quote that made the cut. I imagine the effort would be comparable to making uranium reactors for power stations which took around thirty years.
It's not mean-spirited. What else is he judging on when you're just showing a landing page?

I also don't feel the need for this... This is a very micro, very niche product. Not a business idea.
> I don't consider that sexism at all.

There is no attribute that mothers have in common other than being female.

> It reminds me of the South Park episode that circled around the word "fag".

It reminds me of when I moved to South Dakota, and I learned that negotiating for a lower price was called "jewing you down". Doesn't mean the people had anti-Semitic beliefs; they just used a vicious ethnic slur in their everyday speech because they were used to it.

> and don't mean it as a negative connotation towards a homosexual.

Son, I reckon before you start using them big five-dollar words you oughtta learn what they mean.
I wonder which platform they will use for the tablet (Android, Meego.. Bada?) and for the content format (epub/mobi). I'm assuming the textbooks would be mainly in korean.
In the realm of unrealistic-now-but-maybe-cool-later, if it could access your flight reservations, it could infer where you'll be at the time and base the time zone on that.
That would not solve the problem. Greek would still not pay they money back to the French and German banks they took it from.

The EU has to get Greece on track, and this is a good moment to do it. Greece has lied (falsified financial data) to get into the euro, and their internal economic system is not sustainable. These will be tough year for Greece but at the end they will be better off.
Serious request: can someone who upvoted this article explain why?
Cardinality is not the term you want to be using.
>Why..?

maybe because if you invest when everything is definite, you take less risk and get less income?
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Ah, thanks, I didn't notice the 'mixed U/Pu' bit originally.

On the second point, not only was it 1/3 of the equivalent (and specified) 235 design, it was also 1/3 less than predicted for itself, if I'm reading it correctly.
I wonder if that was an error in the prediction, or a fault of the weapon/design.

I've forgotten most of the nuclear chemistry involved in producing Pu, but iirc it can be done with natural uranium and a neutron source. But then again, if you have those, and can produce plutonium, why not just use that? Maybe it'd be helpful as a filler if you've got some, and only limited Pu resources, or to simplify weapon design (Any idea if the MET was gun-type or implosion-type, sources being unsurprisingly hard to find)?
We're not all 100% rational robots. We work in this field. It's fun to discuss possibilities; wonder about the future.

And, to be honest, the hive mind is _generally_ right about these things. Remember Color and how everyone was so sure it was going to fail spectacularly? And remember how it did? Or how skeptical everyone was about Diaspora? Or OpenID? Or how early most people realized that Facebook was going to destroy MySpace? It's not just noise. Well, Buzz may have been noise... and so may be Google+... but it's fun to talk about it.
And a bunch of other stuff has expired:

http://feedfliks.com/streaming

I got burned by this, watching a multi-season TV series and as of 7/1, it was no longer available. This was not popular with the rest of the household.
This article is wrong.

As oil becomes scarce, consumers will necessarily turn to
an alternative before the supply runs out.

When something has become so scarce that it is necessary for everybody to turn to an alternative, you've run out of it. Yes, the world will always have oil, but it will gradually become so expensive that you can't buy it for any reasonable amount of money. We'll run out of oil in the same way that we've run out of bottles of wine from the 1600's: some will exist, but nobody can do anything with it because it's so rare and hard to get.
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It is an odd requirement. Situations like this just lead to people lying about their age.
What is supposed to happen when you take a flight at 4:10pm on 8/7/2011 and land before 4:10pm on 8/7/2011 (local time)? Do you get the alarm twice?
Not exactly. I am under 18 and have found no easy way to make my way around their age requirement. Your age is tied to your Google Account from the moment you created it and there is currently no way to ever change it.
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This is probably the best articulated post on why hash-based URLs suck: http://danwebb.net/2011/5/28/it-is-about-the-hashbangs
The response said what is stopping google from 'funding' this, not 'creating' this. Of course, they would benefit too.
but it's fun to talk about it.

The problem is that such speculation often gets disguised as serious journalism and pundit analyses when, at this point, is just gossip and opportunistic click bait.
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There's a Chrome extension for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kmonhedbcpagbphiln...
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Do you have any bits of this code open sourced?
You have to concede it's a bit funny that you're pointing to Haskell as an example of the 'worse-is-better' approach that leads to viral adoption of dirty solutions over the endless pursuit of perfection.
It's a little unnerving to see a woman who was propped up and sponsored by men and given every advantage (yes, after working hard--like many others) say there is no glass ceiling. How would she know when she got to ride in the special elevator to the top?

It's easy to say there's nothing wrong when you've never encountered the problems that most other women have.
Hopefully it comes back :(
*2038

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
> opportunistic click bait.

Bingo!
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For those who don't know, the title is reference to a famous series of articles by Jim Blinn called "A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline".

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I've been burning my way through TNG all weekend. I never really got a chance to watch it when I was a kid (the rest of the family always vetoed my desire to watch "that show with the guy with the brains outside of his head"). Now I'm watching and laughing at the first instances of the now-cliché episode types: "holodeck malfunction", "alien culture forces crewmember into single combat", "Q does arbitrary random thing", "Wesley gets his ego stroked".

They're classics. I can't wait for ToS to arrive :-)
Exactly, and even if you don't invest, it's a way to test and refine your understanding of the world.
Babylon 5 disappeared, which pissed me off (glad I've seen it when it came out, but still). Nice to watch so much Trek when I want though!
Unix time: Measured as the number of seconds since epoch (the beginning of 1970 in UTC). Unix time is not affected by time zones or daylight saving.

I don't think this is strictly correct. This implies that someone could start an atomic stopwatch at midnight on Jan 1, 1970, and it would match Unix time. It won't.

Because Unix time is non-linear and will either slew or repeat seconds when UTC has leap seconds, the hypothetical stopwatch would be ahead of Unix time by 34 seconds.

... at least this is how I understand it. Every time I try and wrap by head around the differences between UTC/TAI/UT1, my head really starts to hurt.
UTC used to be called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Sort of. This could be misleading because GMT and UTC are still two different things with different definitions. Wikipedia is a good source of info on this, but for starters:

UTC is closely related to Universal Time and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and within informal or casual contexts where sub-second precision is not required, it can be used interchangeably.

So not strictly, but practically.. ;-)
I wish Netflix was more transparent about when things are going to be removed and added on Netflix (more so the removal) especially if movies are on your Instant Queue.
alien culture forces crewmember into single combat

Sounds like you're watching season 1 lol. TNG didn't really pick up until about half way through season 2.

At any rate, TOS is on there already - everything but DS9 is (DS9 arrives in October, IIRC)
I really like Voyager over TNG honestly but TNG is still a great series.
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This just looks like someone decompiled Stuxnet.
Oh, wow, it's turned up since the last time I checked :-p Neat!
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If they don't start actually sending invites soon, a lot of the initial buzz will die and the people without invites will just stay where they are. If the person in a group who generally gets others on a service cannot get in, then it will be a problem. I don't think the gmail curve will work the same for a social network.
> Sure you can, first you measure the parts then you manufacture identical parts and assemble a car that is a copy of mine.

OK, if you're just going to be ignorant, goodbye.
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that website's background makes me think my monitor is really dirty. really annoying.
The MET test was odd, the military wanted a highly dialed in yield to test effects of nuclear weapons but somehow there was a miscommunication and they ended up using U-233 as a replacement for U-235 as an experiment. We really don't have enough information about how well U-233 might work in a nuclear weapon to make a judgment on the subject.

Anywho, in regards to the larger point, I discussed the issue in another comment, here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2723675

Basically, proliferation concerns transition entirely to the honor system once someone is operating any sort of fission based reactor, even one powered by Thorium. Since it is quite easy to breed Plutonium merely by placing natural (and readily available) U-238 in a high neutron flux environment. Simply remove your Uranium samples every 90 days or so and chemically separate out the Plutonium.
I have a whole lot of related links here making the case for thorium: http://webwanderings.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/thorium-based-...
I think that would be the expectation of most non-engineers, assuming they set the new time zone before arriving and if they even considered edge cases like that. It's also how most alarms work, whether mechanical or digital.
well, us mere mortals will have to stick to international treasury ETFs like BWX or fear plays like good old GLD/VIX.

even if you could directly invest in greek bonds, you probably would not want to do this...
Probably Tom Wu's JSBN implementation...
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sure... you can run coffeescript on node on windows, see: http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2011/03/16/node-js-on-window...

And if you don't want to use vs2010, there is also gedit on windows which has support for coffeescript.

As for online, what I do is I have an online coffeescript editor (http://ace.ajax.org/), and when I save a file (with extension .coffee), compile it to js in the browser and save both the original .coffee file and .js file back to the server.
"Funding" requires focus too.
The waters are murkier here. Apart from checks, you also have

@transform_args(a=lambda x: x*x)
def foo(a):
pass

This isn't validation and can't be turned off. The idea behind the project was the function should concentrate on logic and validations should happen declaratively. If the `verifyObject` sort of call comes inside the function, it impacts the declarative goal.

The current validators throw Exception by default. They can be optionally take an `error_handler` to which they pass the errors. Bringing in inside the function will mean manually accumulating the errors from various validators.

Also, these validators are mostly for conditions which must be met. Say you are writing a sqrt function, then the pre-condition is the number shouldn't be negative and that isn't something that can be turned off.

I don't know how zope.interface works but this isn't supposed to be optional validation. It is basically about taking the manual checks from inside the function to above the function with convenient declarative syntax.
Google is in search business.

I think focusing on power is a mistake for Google (unless founders are having fun toying with power).
> mobility between EU countries is a piece of cake.

The whole "different language" thing stands in the way of this. Plus, the Okies never had to deal with Californian "nationalism" in the 1930s, while, on the other hand, if you're Polish, Romanian or Bulgarian and you've gone to Western Europe in search of a better job you're always looked at as a foreigner, a guy who "has come to steal our jobs and destroy our identity".
Ghrist is a brilliant guy. He does his presentations at conferences in exactly the same style and it is brilliant. He has a framework of notes that he scrolls through, but as he is speaking he will fill in parts of overall picture with sketches. He is one of the few speakers that can make technical topics both interesting and intuitive.
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Jeez, you guys don't see the significance of a product having 750 million active users? I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it's historical significance, especially without any precedent.
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Facebook's additional growth due to Zynga was a epilogue after it's initial takeover of the space. Facebook had three big things:

- It went live one campus at a time. Each campus went from 0% to ~100% adoption in a viral explosion as the buzz spread around. They had enough features (photo tagging) to keep college students coming back.

- The News Feed had the 1-2 punch of being both a huge technical challenge (causing competitors to lag) as well as a game-changer for the stickiness of the site and the entire premise of why people go to social networking sites. It was like nuclear fuel for the two human traits that lead to using Facebook: voyeurism and narcissism.

- Facebook from the very beginning valued technical talent. When the News Feed was released it was clear they were going to be the winners of this contest since they were probably the only ones capable at the time of building it and knew enough to build it in the first place.
Wow I was wondering where some stuff went from my "recently watched".

Thanks for that link, very helpful.
Wishing this was available on Netflix Canada. I recently got all 7 seasons of DS9 from Amazon, but so far I have to say it's not very good...getting better but the stories are just rehashes and many of the characters are quite wooden. Not sure if I'm gonna get through all 176 episodes - hoping it gets better when Worf arrives!
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The only reason she was "propped up" in the first place is because she worked her ass off. I think your comment significantly downplays the extent to which it was her own hard work and good work attitude that got her to where she is now.

No amount of "sponsorship by men" would ever get me to where she is, because I lack what she has. The qualities that make her worth "sponsoring" in the first place.
There are several reasons Netflix isn't more transparent:
1) Contract windows are of deep interest to competitors.
2) Contracts are frequently re-negotiated before they end.
Aren't these points covered if we do a SWOT analysis before we do a startup? http://www.netmba.com/strategy/swot/
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