skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My knee-jerk reaction, which I freely concede deserves to be downmodded to oblivion:

http://sugarsugar.com/

Reading further though, it looks like you're basically hoping for somebody to give you $100k to 'get started'. For what?

In response to the 'earning' a benefactor, the obvious way to do that is to get started doing something. Build a prototype, get customers, look for venture capital. If seed capital isn't enough to get you going, then you need to do more before you seek investment.

In the meantime, get revenue, and pay off the $50k you owe. You're right that it's going to be hard to get capital with $50k in debt hanging over your head, but I can't imagine anybody, short of family, friends, or a good swindle, that would be willing to give you $50k to pay off your last mistake so that you can get started on a new one.

No offense meant, but there are so many great ideas waiting to be executed that can at least get to prototype level with close to zero capital outlay. Find one, attack it, demolish it.
"Available" and "Easy enough to actually be worth using" are two very different things, and the former isn't worth anything without the latter (Note that g+'s most lauded feature, circles, has been in Facebook forever in the form of lists; they're just too tedious to actually be used)

Requiring someone to individually mute every single popular post is hardly a real solution to the problem aristidb describes.
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I really wonder the same thing. I saw my friends computers and they have Chrome installed. They are not tech savvy, and some of them don't know what it is. I don't know how it did install, but it did. I think it might be the install button in the Google Search home page, bundling with other apps (like Skype)...
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It will depend greatly on how Facebook actually does this "deep integration" the article mentions. If they are just going to plug into skype and let your FB info become your skype username and pw, then adoption might not take off as much due to having to open and run a separate application to do anything. On the other hand, if they make each facebook chat a virtual skype call and incorporate skype sessions onto the backend, then I could see this improving chat and make adding video capabilities fairly easy. As for it taking off, if it requires no extra work then sure, their userbase might grab it and go. If it's just a plugin for skype the application, then I'm not so sure.
I like this idea. Something tiny and trivial (sorry) really makes more sense as a freebie. But I understand not everyone is into writing free software. So a model that makes sense for you and your users is that the freebie attracts potential customers to something that really justifies a monetary consideration.
Dropbox creates a hash identity for the file and compresses it in the cloud. So stuff like a song isn't uploaded or even stored twice. I assume it's still counted towards the usage.
Assuming they can get the content. That's a big assumption to make just as the content companies are giving up on Hulu.
+1 for giving me great feedback :)
ye that was @AwesomeTogether's idea.

Capitalization is fixed, thanks :)
np, i also think it's better to say

"Follow us on Twitter to get early access"
This actually is a feature of Google+. When in a "hangout" (the video chat service) anyone can push a youtube video to the group, which can then be watched by everybody together. Chat, audio and video continue underneath, so you can discuss what's going on.
The GM installer still contains a DMG.
How many times are we going to see "Look! They changed their site design, and the new one is awful!" The archetype is grousing about the new Facebook design, but it seems like any change gets a bunch of complaints.

I know: it drives traffic, and for some reason that madlib isn't quite "oh, linkbait" yet.
Great work, good luck on your launch! :)
Is this using Socket.IO by any chance?
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CJK input don't seem to work right (although it displays fine once entered). There are special steps you have to take because of the way input works for those languages. Here is the cached version of an old article I read describing how to do it (summary: use the NSTextInput protocol).

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ORe08or...

(It's a bit harder to read because the screenshots weren't cached, but it should still be a good starting point.)
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Following up - one thing I would love to see is the ability to drill down and see where the top performing ads were showing. That would utterly rock.
I also decided not to register based on this requirement alone. It's not that I mind sharing my political view, or am perturbed that you asked. I simply do not identify with either party and was frustrated that I would be forced to classify my world view into a completely inappropriate selection. If you had listed libertarian, I would have selected that and not thought twice. Of course, there are plenty more political views beyond those 3.
Apparently they do, because they're teaching it. But I guess you don't care about that, it's more important that you inform everybody about this distinction whereby you have a definition of C++ that requires more rigorous adherence to one of the standards, because it's very important that people be informed of this. We wouldn't want beginners to write programs that use "void main" and work perfectly fine. For that would be bad. No, this tutorial should be retitled. It should be retitled to "Game Programming with a language that's not exactly C++ but is acceptable to Microsoft's C++ compiler." Because that's a correct title. It would have been a perfectly fine tutorial that would introduce students to C++ programming, but right now it's horrible.

I was so glad to learn that people here are aware that C++ says main should return int. Because I was sitting here, wondering if somebody on Hacker News knows that main should return int. And then Ives came along to say, "I do!" That resolved my question. But then as a special treat, somebody else came along to point out that the iostreams library is not part of the STL. Or is it? I sure wouldn't want to forget the distinction between The SL and The STL. For they are different things. I think.

Confession time: One time, I learned that I had once learned some C++ from a tutorial that had used "void main." I felt doomed. I had just gotten over the phase where I thought it was okay not to correct somebody when not every part of every clause of every sentence they said was correct. But then I found that I liked using void main. And then before you knew it, I started writing <stdlib.h> instead of <cstdlib>, and then I used C99 header files, and then I used variable length arrays, and I used vector::data, and I liked it. The next thing you know I found myself running two threads at the same time, wouldn't you believe it? Now I know that what I was using was not C++, but that what I used was an abomination.
Thanks, updated the copy again with your suggestion :)
changed it to that, thanks :)
For what it is worth, the "Halloween document" produced by Microsoft in 1998 claims that Microsoft was distributing a Netmeeting client on Linux. Netmeeting is "videoconferencing" software.
That's the subtly bad part about the music. The commercial is so ineffective and off-target that RIM is managing to drag down one of the legends of rock with another kind of rock: the Playbook.
"every me"? how many of you are there?
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Seeing as how they are having troubles getting other content producers to sign up (Google Books and Google Music as examples) to Google media projects, the odds of them pushing through with TV and movie organizations seems even slimmer.

I don't think Google speaks "content", especially when they are or would be negotiating with organizations that have a strong interest in capping bandwidth or double dipping fees from organizations like Google. TimeWarner (and Comcast, even though you can't vote doesn't mean you can't lobby. . privately) I'm looking at you. I think the Google books lawsuit fiasco really damaged Google's reputation with the content creation community (and the AA organizations) which in turn would negatively impact their negotiations with content providers.

Also, Google can, and probably will be seen as an all out competitor to traditional business models. They're building GoogleTV to destroy set top boxes and push people away from traditional media access and onto the net and copyrighted material still floods youtube. From a negotiating perspective, Google would have to make an extremely sweet offer to content creators to get them to think about putting content on the mashup Hulutube / YouHulu site. (I personally think YouHulu sounds better).
What we see here is a power user that doesnt represent the general google calendar users. I love the new design.
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Name and gender.

Then again, Google doesn't seem to require you to use your legal name, like Facebook does.
My first thought when I saw his post was "This looks likes a blog post".
The annoying thing about this is that I was forced to sign up to G+ using a GMail account that I don't use for anything except Picasa. I use my Google Apps account for everything else (email, chat, contacts, etc.), but G+ doesn't support GApps accounts yet...

So the end result is that G+ really has no idea how to rank my relationships with my friends.
Grandmas use facebook. Grandmas use skype.

This is an excellent pairing and will make it even harder for Google+ to get the non-HN crowd types off of FB. Great play, i'd say.
Some mixed reactions to Google+
Just double-checked with our hiring manager, and I was wrong.... U.S. citizens living in other countries who want to work remotely would not be okay due to different laws, tax complexities, etc.
Vanity URLs is one thing that needs adding. It's ironic to me, as this was IN Google Profiles, but isn't in Plus.

Also, and maybe this is an isolated case to me, but I haven't been able to import my Yahoo contacts. Every try just tells me that there was an error, and asks me to Retry.
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>Designing the biggest new product for the biggest Internet company in the world is 'kinda' a big deal

Circles is the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel.

(I speak in jest of course, and I hope you will forgive a bit of levity on the HN board on a Friday evening)
Exactly. I don't understand why so many love the idea of less contrast. On a Macbook, everything blends together and it's very hard to distinguish anything. I really can't imagine anyone over 40 liking this design. I've heard countless times from customers that "I couldn't see that" and 99% of the time it's because of low-contrast design issues.
This sounds really interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing what you've got. Had several conversations with people about contact management and address books in the past and I expect you've had similar discussions. I'm curious to know your opinions.

One of the discussions I had revolved around ownership of data and there were basically two points of view, both perfectly valid.

The first PoV was that an owner/curator sees the address book as theirs and if they add someone's details to it, those details should remain until the owner/curator decides to remove them. The second PoV was that someone should be able to 'grant access' to their contact info and if either party decides to break the connection, the contact info should disappear from both address books.

I'm firmly in the former camp since I don't like the idea of my address book becoming a volatile place (esp. since I have over 2k+ people in there). However, I can see the argument for having more control over who has my contact info.

I'm curious to know what approach you (and Everyme) has taken and what you think of the points above. Am I off the mark?
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If you're using closures in an embedded environment with no heap, you've got bigger problems than executable stacks to worry about..
I like the .99/use fee much better than the one-time per life fee mentioned in another comment. No offense, but I don't believe anything smaller than Google or Facebook will be around for a lifetime. If you're new, you've got a bit of surviving to do before I believe you'll survive.
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It's not as configurable as, say, Emacs -ie., you can't do Vim keybindings in it, but you can customize most things very easily.

Documentation currently sucks for Sublime Text 2, but it's not too hard to poke around and try stuff out on your own.

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I just checked. I read 1/2 the article including this paragraph:

>It’s generally not a good sign when a plaintiff or defendant in a lawsuit keeps changing law firms. It can suggest there’s problems with either the case or the client is particularly tough to deal with. In the course of the past year, three different law firms have signed on to Ceglia’s case, gone through the evidence—and then dropped it.

I hardly think I can be accused of not RTFA. The new lawyer bit should have been flagged somewhere in the top half.
I didn't know you could make that folder public just like any other. See my response above.
Narrative threads ensure a low signal/noise ratio and stifle natural discussion tangents.
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I had all e-mail notifications turned off from when I first logged into facebook. When they added the new groups I started getting e-mails again. I have to go into settings about once a month to turn off the e-mails in some different part of facebook.
What about grandpas?

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/So_simple,_your_mother_co...
You don't really need an app for that.

I transfered all our domains away from GD and it's actually pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

The settings (mostly just nameservers) transfered automatically.
Yeah I saw that and downloaded it but no invite.

It looks good and has some interesting features such as 'nearby view' similar to Facebook Places, the instant upload looks convenient and dangerous, is Huddle just Google Wave mobile light?

At least it looks like they are aware the mobile aspect is important.
don't overestimate it either. I know people who make tons of spam thin pages ranking for searches like "Nikon D40 camera Amazon coupon". All they have is a link to the Amazon page, and they make lots of money thru it. That's a sale Amazon would have irregardless
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I think it would make more sense to say that they have a different potential company with a better price tag to spur a more 'competitive deal' even if none exists.

A similar tactic of introducing competition when none exists is used by real estate agents most if not all the time I hear. "Oh, there's an interested buyer that's willing to pay $2000 more than your offer for this property." It's a scam that preys on what the buyer wants. Hint: Bluff back "My offer has dropped $5000. No? I'll look at other houses then."
It'd be awesome if Google+ also tried to suggest ways of organizing your friends into circles (similar to how Gmail suggests people to add to emails).

In general, I think the Circles dataset will be really interesting, as I don't think anybody else has this kind of labeled groups data. (Have people actually been separating their friends into different Circles?)
Parents being on Google+ is a non-problem. Facebook's "friend bucket" is what makes your parents being on your social network a problem.
"...though the C++ program was slightly shorter and easier to write because the C++ code uses automatic deletes and allocation instead of a cache"

C++ still won.
why - what's wrong with citizens...
> there is no reason for your mom to switch

What about family-wide hangouts? Seems like a pretty killer feature for families spread across different cities.

Also, what is the deal with 'mom' always being the example. What about dad? Everyone seems to have really low opinions of their mothers...
Would be nice to have something at least semi-automatic.
You can import contacts from a yahoo account for example. So if one collected HN users in some public yahoo account it would be easy to add a lot of people in one go.. not fully sure how that should/could be done though. Maybe someone else has another idea.
Yeah, I don't think even Facebook has the ability to create something like this in a weekend.
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I have a question which could seem very amateurish but: how do I buy Zinga when it's out ? Is there a way to actually place orders before the opening?
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Aaah, that would explain it. Apologies!
You think the relations between Apple and Google are still strong enough to allow that? Since Schmidt left Apple's board and Android has been growing, I think the two companies would be unwilling to make deals on something as potentially important as video calling.
I remember that episode. Memory's fuzzy, but I think Merlyn wasn't employed by Intel at that time; I think even his consultant gig had just lapsed. I think someone at Intel just got a bee up his bonnet and decided to raise a stink; and things snowballed after that.

In my case, I was a student with unbounded curiosity at a Univ; and the sysadmins were very tolerant then.
But Facebook doesn't expose this anyway. Google has at least shown signs that it has or will use this data (I'm thinking of the 'Did you mean Dave' or 'Did you forget Dave' feature in Gmail). Thats where the really cool stuff can happen. Especially if they let you auto-add people to Circles.
[this is my interpretation and not necessarily the company's official stance]

Nothing wrong with citizens. We are not expressing a preference for non-citizens, but we are not avoiding them either.
I don't know what to make of this exchange, but I found it fascinating. (Starts at 12:15)

Audience member: "I think it's important that Apple be perceived as different, 'cuz if Apple says we're just like everybody else, but better that doesn't really say very much ..."

Jobs: "I don't think it's good that Apple is perceived as being different, I think it's important that Apple is perceived as being much better. If being different is essential to doing that I think we have to do that ... I don't care about being different. Wouldn't you agree?"

Audience member: "I agree, but I think Apple needs to articulate those difference better."

Later(?) in 1997, Apple launched the Think Different campaign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmG9jzCHtSQ

"So we have to be really clear in what we want them to know about us. ... The Apple brand has seriously suffered from neglect. The way to do that is to not speak about speed ... it's not to talk about why we're better than Windows."

I can't reconcile Jobs in these two videos. I'd like to think it shows a remarkable flexibility in opinion.
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And strategic partnerships, too, with Facebook rolling out a Skype-based product next week ;)
with oauth access you can push the tweet yourself. Of course, tell them what they will be posting, but you can control the message.