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What a fantastic idea! Cleverly bridges the divide between a bricks 'n' mortar store, and an entirely virtual one.

I wonder if folk are more comfortable ordering from this pseudo-virtual store than a fully online store? I would assume so.
Big words especially considering you can't search through the people who "like" the same interests as you in Facebook. What's the point of social networking if I can't actually connect with anyone who is interested in the same things as me?

Social networking is about connecting with new people, not a virtual front end for people you already know...
Very well written indeed.
Perhaps one or some of the tech press that read HN will pick this story up and give you all some more link juice? Or, perhaps some of those anonymous vigilantes will be happy to have new targets to go after.

I realize this is somewhat off-topic, but thanks for VLC and all that you all do. It's one of my favorite projects, and it's one of the first things I install on friends' machines.
The statement is a little misleading. He's not saying you can't have a function that grows faster than e^x as you certainly can, for example the the gamma function.

I think he's saying that for a process where the rate of growth depends on the current "population" such as interest in a bank or splitting bacteria then exponential growth is limit.
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Regarding Circles + Chat: If you turn on chatting on Google+ it will ask you which Circles you want to be visible to. I'm not sure if this applies to all instances of Talk, and it looks like you can only say "I am visible to these Circles" (later configurable with the little dropdown next to the chat list in G+), but otherwise it seems to match what you're looking for.
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>> 6. On that note, move +1’d sites into a users main Google+ activity stream. Again - networks are all about the Social Objects and +1 is Google’s method for sharing. Why hide it away in a separate tab?

Please do not do this. There are already options to share sites on Google. Also, everytime I +1 a site on the main search page, I don't want to have to specify which circles can see it--nor do I want everyone to see it.
I love this failure to do math. I really, really do.

$600 tablet, minus ten bucks, minus 320 in parts. Oh, that's profit of like $250 bucks.

No, that's not profit.

Deduct software.
Deduct marketing.
Deduct office space
Deduct legal.
Deduct everything that goes into making one of these things.

Products don't just magically appear from 0 employees and a pile of parts, neither do profits.
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I think the trademark would stop my hypothetical evil plans more than anything else. If I had to call it "Bill's video player that isn't evil, honest." no-one would download it.

(To say nothing of why someone who distributes malware would be at all concerned with copyright and trademark law.)
Interesting read. To me, culture is as culture does - though geographically speaking, the inertia of culture rather dictates what is acceptable in some instances and not in others. A little herd mentality perhaps. For me? Games all the way; perhaps with classical music in the background.
PPC usually does not make sense for smaller per sales pricing. The numbers make even less sense for Amazon affiliate marketing.

Perhaps lead generation instead?

Don't try to initially sell your app, instead, obtain the contact info for your potential customer, and you can sell him/her many different things, including apps, but also books and other products/services.

Also, you will be able to track these customers and know which are most likely to respond to your multiple offerings.
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I have a very early stage startup called Subjot, with a goal to create a network that matches people with the posts they care about. We are in private beta but you can use this invite code to check it out - http://sjot.it/m0bqQy

Subjot is a microblogging site where you assign subjects to your status updates. Then instead of following people and EVERYTHING they post, you subscribe to people's subjects and only see their status updates in the subjects you have subscribed to.

I'd love everyone's feedback on the product. I think G+ is only solving the problem of selectively publishing and not of selectively subscribing to updates that might be interesting to you.
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Emotionally shocking, yes, but what is really expected? Why _should_ the ads be spread "evenly throughout the day"? esp. for such a pittance? The spread has no advantage. Google is handling a deluge of data, and he wants a controlled long-term distribution of a few miniscule tidbits. Yes, expecting Google to behave an obvious way makes emotional sense; methinks it's all just happening on such a vast scale he/we don't grok that blowing $50 on ads in seconds does, in fact, make sense.
My Mom is the same way. She is on Ravelry constantly and absolutely loves it for the same reasons.
I think that was one of my first suggestions with the Send feedback button. But, you can add only certain circles right now that will be able to see you online.
I have come close to pulling the trigger on a Chromebook myself several times but could not close the deal due to no hands on opportunity before the buy and the negative reviews. I am surprised they are charting at all on Amazon. Newness factor perhaps?
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I agree. Back in 2008 when I was planning a social site for robotics, I registered and poked around on Ravelry. Even back then it was on fire.

They raised $70,000 dollars in DONATIONS from their members in order to do some growth back them. That's insane.
The coder (Casey) has a blog: http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/

also of interest, the tech behind the site: http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2010/03/24/ravelry-runs-on-201...
In all honesty, if these people really care about this, they'll have an account for their "online personality" and a personal account.

See the difference between Facebook fan pages and actual Facebook profiles. Of course, now the problem is that there is no elegant way (currently) to manage 2 G+ accounts...
My knowledge is probably ~ 7 years out of date here, but back in the day when I worked in AV, labelling and removing spyware was a task fraught with legal issues.

AV companies could recognize and trivially remove such a thing - but chose not to, so they didn't get sued by well-monied corporations who got very upset at their "User Metric Software Toolbar blah blah blah" being marked as malware.

I wonder if that's the case here.
The title of the article is misleading because it ignores fundamental differences between online communities and online social networks in the sense of Facebook, Myspace, etc.

While Facebook may have areas in which digital communities form, it is a constructed primarily to facilitate and track communications between people with existing real world relationships - for users it is ateleological. On the other hand, Ravelry has a sense of purpose - better knitting - which creates an overall community.

People on sites like Ravelry interact extensively and willingly with people they only know and often meet online because they are members of the same digital community. This is generally not the case with Facebook et al. where interactions are largely between people who have met face to face at some point. This means that Ravelry's social graph is constructed digitally on the site - unlike Facebook, for online communities where one went to junior high school is far more difficult to determine and there's no reason for your mom to join unless she is interested in knitting.
Why not simply adding that to the article?
"iterate and repair" is a pretty standard form of local optimum search, like in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing or simulated annealing. Why are you surprised that works for exploring the decision tree of a puzzle game?
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Am I just old or is anyone else completely uninterested in Google+ ?

Why is Google going to be any less evil than Facebook (or Twitter) ? Hasn't everyone read some of the infamous yet numerous quotes from Eric Schmidt (Google CEO, anti-privacy, unless it's his income/house data) ?

This is any antagonistic law enforcement's wet dream - all cloud data is legally accessed without warrants or notification these days - hey this person protested at an anti-war rally or the DNC/RNC conventions: let's lookup all their circles and put them on the no-fly list just to be careful. What would not have happened years ago because of the cost is now super-easy because you've spoon-fed it to them.

Or am I just old?
Indeed.com has some pretty good visualizations of such salary rates which are based on the rates that companies who are hiring publish, or that people employed through their site confirm.

Here is a page from their site that might help answer your question - http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Software-Engineer-l-Silicon-V...
are betting the entire company on it

So you're saying that if people don't like Google Plus, they are going to stop clicking AdWords, move their email to Hotmail, and start using Yahoo for search? That seems very unlikely to me.

This is just a regular product launch. It gets a lot of hype because people like their friends but hate Facebook.
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So you're saying these people use Google? Because that's what my post is referencing.
But once you make a conversion, do you have any way to subsequently contact that same user to make them aware of your other app/service/product offerings?

Also, if the app is recurring billing, the formula changes completely.
It makes a difference because it's an explicit setting. $15/day. And who knows how that scales? What if going through $500 only takes 45 min?
This is beyond brilliant. I want this.
Agreed. Part of the distastefulness of Facebook for me was the amount of auto-generated noise from these types of "features".
You can invite people by adding their email/gmail as a person to share a post with on your stream. You don't need a send invite button. I was able to invite ppl even when it was supposedly closed last week.
Until everybody can use it freely, there is no point to a social network.
You're right, to some extent it is what I'm talking about, however they state "People in these circles who also enable chat will be able to see when you're online and chat with you." and it feels like more of an all-or-nothing system (adding or removing Circles entirely from Chat).

Whereas Facebook's single-click 'on the fly' interface is superior to this - all groups always visible, one-click online and expanded, one-click offline and collapsed.
I don't like at least half of his suggestions.

But some I really don't like are 3. and 6. He does mention it should be a sensible integration, but something like importing tweets and shares/comments from Facebook would be the LAST thing I'd want to see on Google+. Google+ really doesn't need that kind of integration.It can grow on its own, and it's for the best.

On 6. +1's is not really an intent of sharing. It's 50% of that, at most. +1'ing is very different than sharing, and it has a much lower value than a share, which means that seeing dozens of +1's from friends each day on my stream would be very spammy. I think it's better that they keep them separated, and more like a bookmarking feature. And it still helps with personalization of what you like, but not necessarily something you want to spam 100 friends with. There isn't much thought put into a +1, that's why it's so much less valuable than a share. +1'ing is an impulse thing.
If you're running a service like Dropbox, you need to be paying equal time to security and legal issues. It's the nature of their business. I'm impressed by how they handled this TOS issue, but I'm also disappointed that they didn't see it coming a mile away.
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As long as it doesn't spend more than the customer wanted to spend, it's irrelevant.

Let's say I want to spend. If I have $500 to spend, and I want to pay CPC, how is getting $500 worth of clicks in 45 minutes worse than getting $500 worth of clicks over three days?
Awesome! Are you guys going to make an open dna microarray next? ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_microarray
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Would you treat a customer this way?

During the interview Joe was "stressed," "taxed," "frustrated," and "confused." He was asked to try and fail to do things the author already knew he wouldn't be able to do. Repeatedly. The author was surprised that he would take failures personally, and described ending the interview as "cut[ting] Joe a break."

Really very generous, to cut Joe a break from the interview he volunteered for.

There is a serious lack of empathy on display in this post. Joe deserves an apology.
For me (and I'm surprised it's not on a list): filtering incoming content. In this regard G+ is really lacking (you can't hide a person, similar posts (or the same post shared by many of your contacts) are not grouped together, etc.). Circles are great for controlling who sees your posts (although, surprisingly, FB's lists are actually more powerful), something as brilliant as that but for controlling what you see and I'd be completely happy.
His claim seems reasonable. I'd bet on him ;)

I liked the article a lot. I'm an "iterate and repair" guy but am trying to use careful thought, logic and planning up front more often. I think that the value of the article is that it shows that neither approach is perfect by itself.
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This will be awesome. Can't wait to have Circles integrated to all of the Google products that I use.
e is:

the unique number such that for all real x, e^x >= x^e

the x-coordinate of the maximum of the function x^(1/x); for all real x, x^(1/x) < e^(1/e)

the root of the hyperbolic logarithm

...hyperbolic logarithm? Well, 1/x -- the reciprocal function -- is a hyperbola, and the area under that function turns out to be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_logarithm#Definitions

Unfortunately, it's kind of hard to try to make sense of e without going into at least some basic calculus (which betterexplained does, in the form of a limit, but glosses over). It is commonly stated that e was discovered by Bernoulli, but the first references are from Napier, who presented a table of natural logarithms without any reference to e the number itself. I'm not a terribly huge fan of the two most common explanations of e:

e = lim (1+1/n)^n as n grows

e defined such that d/dx e^x = e^x

The first definition has no obvious connection with most of the interesting properties of e, so while it makes plenty of sense it doesn't actually clarify anything about exponential functions or natural logarithms. The second definition asks students to simply assume one of the most interesting properties of e, without any clarification as to the derivation of such a number. Worse yet, students are usually introduced to both long before they are capable of understanding the connection between these definitions (this requiring L'Hopital's rule to properly understand) which basically tells them that "e is some magic that you can't understand".

My favorite treatment of the idea is the one I had the privilege of learning as a student (perhaps I'm biased), which ignores e at first and defines the natural logarithm as shown above, as a definite integral resulting from the function 1/x, and then the fundamental property that d/dx e^x = e^x is proven from the previous definition, which requires only a little basic calculus. In fact, the text did not even say it was a logarithm, merely "Consider the function L(x) such that L(x) = the integral of dt/t from 1 to x", and then went on to prove that this satisfies several properties of a logarithm, that e is the unique number such that L(e) = 1, and finally derives the fundamental property of the exponential function (dy/dx = y) and so forth.

I think that the fear that surrounds calculus and the use of its methods does many students a disservice by rejecting a more complete explanation in favor of one that requires slightly fewer uses of the word "integral". Of course, I'm a cantankerous prick.
Are you going to sue them if they do it anyway? I don't think the case would take you very far, esp. since law enforcement only needs to tell you to direct DB to release the records.
"Exploded on impact with the market in spectacular fashion"? Leverage the "awesome psychological powers of branding and the publishing hype cycle"?

I suggest you switch to decaf ;)
I think what the comment was referring to was that, in Google's view, the social market is becoming more and more important to the greater internet community. Not having a viable product in this space could cost Google dearly later– specifically in those areas you sarcastically mentioned.
Yes, sounds counter-intuitive, but the OSes (the platforms) are used extensively on things that are quite a bit like phones but aren't exactly phones. They're used so much so, that they change the market share picture.

They run all the same software. For 99% of programs, if they work on the phones, they'll work on the non-phone items (however sometimes less well). This goes for android as well as iOS as well as blackberry
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Pretty sure Google by default keep around 3 separate copies.

One copy on a particular server, another copy on a server in the same 'rack', and another copy either in another site or on a different rack.

Then there's whatever backups they do daily etc.
My grandfather bought a computer in 2000 to replace his ancient word processor. When I visited him, he said he'd been using it a lot with Microsoft Works. But I couldn't find any documents on the hard drive. It was only when I found a huge drawer full of used floppies and remembered what the "save" button looked like that comprehension dawned...
If I search for "AT91SAM9G20 datasheet", I doubt anyone in my immediate social graph has even seen what I'm looking for, let alone +1'd it.

That's true, but then how many competing documents are going to pop up? The social graph helps give precedence when their are many results.

The Libya example is interesting. If you want outside of your bubble there is no reason you couldn't reverse the order and try to see news that none of your friends have seen (or at least +1ed).
I think their lawyers wrote it poorly, and someone at Dropbox approved it too readily.
Outstanding idea and execution, they should have product booklets commuters can take away with them, simple magazine with smartcodes and shop at anytime.
A year ago, Google was doling out results at a rate of 34,000 searches per SECOND. In your case, that's filtering and spreading your ad across some 3.4 million searches. Not unreasonable to assume your demographic restrictions fit about 1% of those searches; the limits sound narrow, yet seem candidates for the largest group of Google power users (whom I would independently assume are dominated by 25-45yo upper-economic-half US state residents owning camera-laden iOS devices).

You're trying to take a drink from Niagara Falls and wondering why you're soaked. (Been there, done that. Memorable, but not productive.)
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I am honestly surprised that this hasn't become a bigger 'issue' given the temperature of security around the globe. Hopefully this will not become the security crisis flavor of the week and maybe, just maybe, common sense will win the day. Not hopeful though.
They misspelled "undramatic."
Giggles's just angry about losing the Nortel patents.
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> not a virtual front end for people you already know

For most people I know, it actually does exactly that.
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Instead of social circles, how about geographical locations?

1. local (city or neighborhood)

2. statewide

3. country

4. earth

It is more analogous to the parent comment.
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This reminds me of my first experience when I started to use Linux (SSH, terminal only) and Vim.
I'm interested in web frameworks, and considering learning haskell, so I'm happy to hear about yesod. But I really have to question the value of linking to a testimonials page with two testimonials, both from the same company.

Here is useful information: http://www.yesodweb.com/book
What a brilliant idea! The fact that you can see the product in full size as opposed to scale down to a phone or computer screen makes a lot of difference.
He wasn't working with a child, he was interviewing an adult who was free to leave at any time. Learning new things can be difficult. If anything Joe probably came away from this having learned something new (and is now able to receive discounts from one of his favorite restaurants). There's no reason to infantilize Joe.
And?

I don't understand this kind of criticism.

I get into my car. The accelerator doesn't have "Press here to move more quickly" written on it. The brake doesn't have "Press here to stop". The horn doesn't have "Press me if the big light outside is green but the aluminium box with wheels in front of you is stationary"

If you lower your standards to silly degrees, people will mill around that lower standard. I've seen tertiary students reach for the calculator to find out what 3 x 0.2 is, simply because they can get away with not putting in any effort. Naives that need more help should get specialised help to get them over the hump - normal users shouldn't have to deal with UX chaff just on the off chance some random person might choose one day to pick up a computer and try to learn it without asking anyone for any help.

No-one learns to drive all by themselves. Or cook. Or read. Or dress themselves. Would we really want pants to come with a permanently attached set of instructions on how to wear them, just in case someone who always wore skirts might one day try pants on a whim?

A UI should be constructed for a userbase, and the "have never used a computer before, ever, but am trying right now and will only do this on my own" demographic for search engines is miniscule. One wonders how such a person can get to the search engine in the first place - it's certainly not like Duck Duck Go is the default homepage for any browser.
History is full of deep discussions. ;)
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I think it is relevant because it's wrong. Unless it says somewhere that it's a suggestion or it probably won't work like that.

If you tell AdMob to not spend more than $15 a day and then it immediately spends triple that amount I wouldn't say that's giving you a fair shake on what they promised.
Too funny. I tried to view that url on my G2 and got a page saying my browser was not supported.
If I am using lynx, chances are high that I know some things are not going to work anyway. I don't need google to tell me this. And in many cases (not for Google+, I think they rely too much on js.), some things will work.

Plus, there is a middle ground between blacklisting lynx and blacklisting cutting-edge or almost cutting-edge browsers.
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This looks like the judge just denied the preliminary injunction. It's a good first step, but this battle is far from over.
I expect they'll get more, but that was quick!