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I'd love to use them for VM image building, something I'm doing quite a lot of at the moment. Having an editable FS overlay on top of a pristine root image without having to futz with qcow2 and nbd would make the process a lot simpler.
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With G+, I'm seeing a change in emphasis that I like very much. In FB, when I post something, I'm not thinking about who's going to see it. In G+, I spend a little bit of time thinking about who this is for. I'm guessing this makes it more likely to engage in interesting varied types of conversations on G+ than the standard pub-like generic small talk that ends up happening on FB.
I attempted to sign in to ask a question, and got the following message:

This application will be able to:

Read Tweets from your timeline.
See who you follow, and follow new people.
Update your profile.
Post Tweets for you.
Access your direct messages until June 30th, 2011.

Who the in their right mind would sign into this ???
Just to clarify - Amazon has DROPPED its affiliates in most of those states. In CO in particular (a state I know more about than any of the others), they sent a letter to all affiliates immediately terminating their association with Amazon as soon as the law was announced. Much as they just did with California.

Simple fact is, affiliates don't meet the definition of a "nexus" in a state, as determined by the Supreme Court in the early 90's. This is just a quick money grab by a lot of bankrupt states, who are counting on Amazon to just bend over and take it. Unfortunately for them, they're actually winding up costing jobs and income tax revenue for their state, instead of increasing sales tax revenue.

New York and Washington AMZN affiliates are fine, because Amazon recognizes that it has what meets the legal definition of a "nexus" in those states, and therefore needs to collect sales tax revenue - affiliates or not.
They can't be compared to shell companies which in general are fully owned. You can probably compare them to advertising agencies.
Both great suggestions. Thanks.
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Much appreciated, a Google+ invite would be.
/yoda

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That's pretty much the end of all affiliate programs for people in CA, no?
I couldn't find a way to ask for fewer permissions. All we need is ability to post tweets since there's a checkbox to post to your followers when you ask a question or start an AMA.

We don't use any of the other permissions and won't do anything unexpected.

For what it's worth, we've run the Graffiti app on Facebook since the launch of the platform, and have never spammed anyone or their friends, or misused any data or permissions.
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(wikalps) at gmail plz.
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Thanks for the explanation. I like the circles bit. One of the reasons I dropped using Facebook was having to see updates regarding 95% of things I could care less about or simply didn't have time to look at.

On the other hand, Google having your email as well all of this info is somewhat concerning in terms of privacy.
Reading the article, clearly they're trying to prevent confusion between facebook api apps and facebook. So no. flagged for linkbait title.
Texas doesn't have income tax.
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Much appreciated
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Another problem is that they aren't allowing people below 18 (who, I am guessing, will be a rather large segment of social networking site users) to register.
Aaron - if a customer shows a shopkeeper a picture of a face that is not them, what happens if the shopkeeper is tired or hungover and can't distinguish up from down? Or, the shop just needs the money? If I was managing a shop, I wouldn't want a hungover teenager "confirming faces." What am I missing here? The only person I'd want confirming faces are customs officials and police officers - where there's a clear need to show the right ID to such a person and a clear disincentive to show the wrong one. At the same time, the checker is compelled not to mess up. As a shopkeeper using facecash, what happens if myself or my staff mess up, is there a liability? Why would I want that liability? And if there's no liability, what's negating a potential fraud? What happens if there is a dispute between a customer and a shopkeeper as to the face in question?
I don't want to rain on your parade, but that list is a pretty crappy list. As you probably figured out, it has nothing to do with the BBC-- it is actually a list that was voted on by readers of the Guardian, and it shows some serious evidence of being a user poll; besides the absolute crap you mentioned, there is a lot of things that are there only because they are on the British school curriculum (like all of that Thomas Hardy, which is mostly awful.)

There are some absolute gems on the list, don't get me wrong-- but if your goal is to read 100 good books you haven't read before, you could do a lot better. (And I say this as someone who has read 90 of the 100 titles listed.)
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Yes yes yes. I saw that a while back and figured that's the only man on the planet that could actually solve this problem intelligently :)
The first Java program I remember writing was something that generated the "Robert Morris Sequence" -- the number sequence that Robert Morris Sr. gave to Cliff Stoll, which Stoll referenced in chapter 48 of the Cuckoo's Egg:

1 11 21 1211 111221 312211
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> As an analogy, it's like taking a "basics of the web" course, and instead of the expected lessons on HTML and CSS, you learn to write a web server and a web browser.

Funny you mention this - when I was an undergrad, the first complex group project in my EE/CE curriculum (second year; first year was all individual) had us building a web server.
Google Release New Search Design Worldwide
Why don't you let them tweet with a simple "tweet this" button instead? Why can't you just put in a tweet this button in a notice that appears after they post?
Small companies lose out also, because in general only large-ish companies can afford the overhead of maintaining shell companies. (Not just for this particular loophole, but for lots of loopholes involving shell companies.)
Have used it, not really getting an "Aha!" moment.
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Maybe add an option for "haven't got an invite yet"

update: got one :)
For anyone that missed this amazing talk of Linus on git
Git is another incredible success of Linus. This is an old video of Linus talking about git at google
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Calling somebody a bully always makes you look like an asshole.

Even if you're right.

I did so once, I believe I was and still am right, but looking back I still believe I came across as an asshole by saying it and didn't achieve/gain anything.

Don't waste time dissing people. Evolve, pivot, code around them. It's much more productive, for you and for them.
Dissent and diversity in a company sounds great...till you realize that way leads to Yahoo/MSFT while hierarchy/command'n'control leads to Apple, Facebook, and the newly invigorated Google.

Serious dissent between companies is good, but strong dissent within means no guiding vision or purpose.
It also makes it really appealing for a lot of data-analysis use cases, which are increasingly being done on EC2, because it's a nice way to burst up to a temporary cluster. That use case often has large inbound traffic, as you pull down datasets (say, some genomics data), but then comparatively little outbound traffic.
Why?

Name me one good reason. Name me one.
Ask HN: what's the black bar on top of HN?
I just started seeing a ~3px tall black top-border on the orange HN header (on my iPhone browser)

Yeah, what's that all about? Seems a bit out of place :)
I am currently living in Seoul for short term and we are always talking about how this social segment is really missing outside of specific online community meetups.

Overall, I think this is really cool concept and on the right track. Currently, I would like to drill down first by Location/Region followed by interests and then have you show me who fits those two criteria. If there are too many matches I would refine/add more and if too few pull back on my interest selections.

Good luck on the project!
Ask HN: I have a start up idea, but I have no clue about the technical part
Dear HN,

I have been toying with an idea for an app since last Sunday. I am targeting a pretty big market, but on different platforms like:

1. Facebook app users

2. Nokia app users

3. Android app users

4. Blackberry app users

5. iPhone app users

I am based out of India and the above list is ordered by the size of the target market. (approx)

I work as a consultant on Databases and Business Intelligence. I work 9 hours * 5 days per week. My technical skills include SQL, Unix, Linux, Mainframe and a little of C and C++ (from college days). I have absolutely no idea about how to program these apps or what are the platforms/languages required.

Where should I start?

1. Should I learn the languages and start programming myself?

2. Should I pitch this to VCs? If so, since I am targetting the Indian market, which is the platform which I can use to pitch this idea? Without any technical know-how, how much effective it will be for a VC to hear the idea from me?

These questions have been itching me for the past few days and I hope HN can point me in the right direction.

(Edit: Formatted)
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Haven't got an invite
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469
Shitloads of rogue bots doing "social media monitoring".

Shitloads of rogue bots stealing content for black-hat SEO.

Shitloads of rogue bots harvesting email addresses.

Shitloads of rogue bots submitting spammy replies.
> I was unaware of the real meaning of the black bar on top of HN.

Uh, what is it? I made a similar joke.
Amazon Ends Affiliate Program in California
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I've been thinking about this space a little too & seeing your site reminded me of a tv clip I saw some time ago that compared the western and eastern approaches to social networking.

The western approach was described as bringing your real life network online (fb etc)[1] and the eastern approach was described in terms of sites that allow people to create temporary ad-hoc networks based around shared interests. The example of this given in the program was mixi.jp which is apparently huge in japan.

This latter approach seems to be closer to what you are trying to do. It'll be interesting to watch how far you get with this, so please keep posting to hn to keep us up to date.

[1] This description works for fb but I don't think it really applies to twitter.
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Aside: the black top border on HN is to do with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469
What's next? a 556 loveseat?
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From how much of it I have used so far it is apparent that they have been listening to complaints about Facebook and other social networking sites. It is a far better venture than Buzz ever was, but even now Buzz appears as a view able tab and I am not sure why.
Though I must say I am having more fun causing the animations on the circles to happen then anything else.
good old fdisk /fixmbr ;)
If anyone has an invite to spare...

soyangel@gmail.com

Thanks in advance!
Voted up! Thanks for the "reminder"!
It makes little sense to say that 2 + 3i
is equal to 3 + 2i

As the article correctly points out the norm is "the distance from 0". 2 + 3i is not equal to 3 + 2i, but both numbers are on the same circle.

It is generally considered in mathematics that a norm is used to describe length, size, or extent.
When you teach basic math, do you start with introducing the student to proof theory

I know that it isn't your main point, but I when Sal inevitably moved to CS, I was hoping he would start with theoretical CS first. He seems strongest on mathy topics, and I think his style of teaching could be very useful in that area.
The incremental builds are taking about 5 minutes, which is not really long enough for me to do any big work, but I usually look if there are any new issues in the queue, look at code reviews (not the ones I'm reviewing, but what others reviewed) or try to do code review for smaller chunks of code.
any more info on this? I had no idea this was the case
Easements and the monopoly they sanction are the reasons that everyone in an area can get service at all. If they had to write a private contract that would cover the absurdly high cost of laying cable, it would make a cell phone contract look like a love note. It would have to be a covenant imposed on every tenant of the building for many years. It would be just like regulation, only written by people with an immediate incentive to do it as abusively as possible.

Real-world markets lack infinite competition and perfect transparency, so they pretty routinely fail to deliver optimal solutions. Many famously wealthy people got there by exploiting strategies to make markets fail.
Alright, I can't take this anymore. I started a Tumblr blog to capture all these corporate mumbo jumbo. Have a few examples there already http://corporatebs.tumblr.com/
Why wouldn't you be able to call it size? Equal size doesn't imply equality elsewhere in mathematics or elsewhere in the world (Jimmy and Paul are the same height, so they must be the same person?).
These prices apply to inbound and outbound traffic, Amazon made their inbound traffic free.
Luckily, my AC circuits class was basically the applied version of this article, with lots of conversions between the complex and phase-amplitude descriptions.

What blew my mind at the time was the exponential notation for the unit phasor: e^(i * x). It turns out that e^(i * x) = cos(x) + i * sin(x) because that's just the way the math works out, and it's trivial to work it out yourself by looking at the Taylor series expansions of the three terms.
Waiting to try it out. Will be glad if some one can pass an invitation to thejaravi {at} gmail {dot} com
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Condolences to rtm and the rest of his family. Here is a link to one of the nicest stories about Robert Morris, written by Dennis Ritchie, his friend and former colleague:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/crypt.html
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Dan Ariely, from Predictably Irrational, has found that pain is best given in lots of small doses. People tend to remember the height of the pain, and not the time it lasted. Whether that result is transferable to emotional pain I don't know.
Yeah, I use UBCD4WIN when I need to remove these kind of infections. You simply rebuild the MBR whether it needs it or not.
Condolences to rtm and family.

It's a poignant reminder of just how young our field is that we are mourning the loss of some true early pioneers. Imagine if you were a physicist just learning of the passing of Newton? It's also a reminder to value the experience and wisdom of those who are still here with us...
With all the hype surrounding google+ it's a crying shame it's not openly available. Within a couple of days my interest will have subsided and it will be nothing but a distant memory .. which I can imagine will be the case for a lot of people.

Hopefully if it is any good, it will claw it's way back into the media spotlight, but how many people will try for a second time to sign up. IMHO the invite only plan will kill it before it gets any kind of real traction.

Edit: I'm aware gmail done well using invite only to begin with. But gmail was a leap ahead of it's competitors.
If someone still has one left, that would be swell !
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Invites are so bloody rare. Gmail was groundbreaking (and empirically offered way more space, etc) so people were going nuts for invites. This is, at best, a "bit better than Facebook". And much as people dislike it, Facebook is a pretty powerful tool, as opposed to webmail before Gmail, which majorly sucked.
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We're working on a startup with an app that functions very similarly to the Sparks feature of Google+. The app will recommend new things for you to read and watch based on your interests (which are stored long-term, but can be ordered, edited, removed). Now that Google+ has a very similar feature in Sparks, I need to think long and hard on whether to continue with the idea. (We are a small team with three developers and a couple other members.)

Do you think we should continue to work on this? Would you use something like Google Sparks as a stand-alone Website or mobile app? If we continue, what would be significant differentiating functionalities that Google can't easily copy and deploy? (I am considering showing a different style of recommended results from Google Sparks, e.g. long-term, evergreen articles versus newsflash, but of course Google can do that too.)

I am torn right now. Thanks a bunch for any ideas and opinions on this.
I would also like one, email: laksman [at) gmail
"Rarely do people without a serious mental illness attempt to take their own lives."

I wonder if she considers voluntary euthanasia to be a form of suicide, or whether these simply were not part of her study (maybe due to their success).
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damn, pram.com is already registered
Isn't the vast majority of traffic outbound?
How is it in the interest of the person concerned to be in prison rather than undergoing psychiatric care though?

We can take an extreme view of personal liberty, but in the UK at least a significantly higher percentage of those entering prison are suffering from mental health problems than in the rest of society. Prison is a suboptimal way of treating them; the level of disconnect with the normal world that it forces is unhelpful enough to healthy inmates, let alone those already in a fragile state of mind. My understanding is that the bulk of individuals with severe mental health problems are more likely to be a danger to themselves than others in any case.

Your argument seems to presuppose that authorities are inherently evil and trying to inflict harm on the individual. One could certainly make the case for that in some totalitarian regimes, but in a healthy democracy I don't believe that's a sustainable view. If you genuinely believe that, make your case and run for office.

Yes, it has to be carefully used and overseen and yes, there have to be limits on its use (UK law explicitly requires that treatment to the individual's benefit must be undertaken during their time in hospital) but in balance and in a carefully controlled and properly publicly accountable system, I'm comfortable with the detention of individuals with mental health problems for treatment.
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I find it strange that more attention hasn't been paid to the more obvious path: Multiple interpreters in one process. You can safely run a separate Python interpreter in each thread of a process. More overhead than threading, but less than multiprocessing, and takes care of both the Windows forking problem and the general unix "housekeeping" problem.
From what I can see (From demos, no invite yet, got one? :( ) Google got alot of things right that Facebook got wrong. Mostly concerning privacy and sharing. Now, like most people say, Facebook has all these settings to share stuff with the people you want to share with, but my problem is that the whole security settings thing is a MESS! If google can do that right, while providing a better android app than FB does, that's enough for me to ditch Facebook for Google+.
Anyone got a link to a source with some info that isn't aimed at someone with the technical expertise of the average pensioner? There was no information in this article.

Who are these people that read the front pages of both Hacker News and computerworld.com?

EDIT: This is more like it: http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792157/TDSS_TDL_4

EDIT2: That link was just an initial analysis of the infection vectors, here's a more full analysis of the payload and suchlike http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792180/TDL4_Top_Bot
> And eventually, it wasn't a party anymore; it was just a random collection of people. And you started thinking, "wouldn't it be nice if I had a place for just me and my friends?"

Aye, I think that is what Google is going for. They might be early to the game though: have enough people got to that stage that FB will see a large number trying Google's offering just for that reason?
I have to admit that my first thought was, "Yawn, yet another social something-something," but then I read the blog post and was pleasantly surprised. I might just sign up.

Btw., the design could use some tweaking. It looks a little like a Microsoft FrontPage template.
Yup, I live in Kentucky and have to pay the sales tax.

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In exchange for a Google+ invite to jack[@]jackwebbheller.com, I will happily send you the worst three jokes you have heard via email.
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> Has the Minix kernel shown significant performance results?

"If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside."