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I completely agree, their biggest problem will be getting people to switch over from Facebook, although I'm sure many of us were on other social networking sites before Facebook so it can definitely happen again. If circles manages to target the regions that Facebook hasn't then they will have a huge advantage.
If you replace "especially when sorting by items in two directions" with "only when sorting by more than one item in different directions" above when talking about composite keys, then yes that's a factual statement of MySQL and something I believe Postgres supports.

The same composite index in MySQL can be used to do ASC-ASC and DESC-DESC sorts but cannot be used to perform an ASC-DESC sort.
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Source code :

http://www.wescheme.org/openEditor?publicId=screw-salon-ciga...
Side note: IE is 2.5% of visits. Chrome is 58%.
Well, so was every Gmail user on Buzz, but it didn't exactly made it a success.
Cleartype wreaks havoc on webfonts. Turning it off gives you smooth fonts, but jaggy regular text >:|

Strangely IE6 (and 7? i think) are OK even with cleartype on.

There is a css hack to get font smoothing on windows:

h1{
text-shadow: 0 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.0001); /* Transparent Shadow make some kind of webkit font smoothing kick in */
}
Parody comments on and criticizes the work that it parodies.
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Disable the shower at your house so you have to shower every morning at the gym. While you are there, fit in a few sets and a run on the elliptical. I've been doing this for at least 7 years and I've got the body to show for it. (no my shower at home isn't disabled, but it is in my mind).
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I see what you mean, I agree. It does seem a bit excessive that college is needed to prove those skills, though.

I think the problem with high school education being insufficient now is a cultural mindset that academic success before college is not important. I could be wrong on that, but I don't think what is being taught is insufficient, just what is learned.
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I wonder if Ceglia refused a settlement offer that DLA thoght he should accept? or did something else happen?
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> I mean... isn't the point of academic writing to communicate research and results already performed?

Obviously mathematicians don't leave "exercises for the reader" in research papers, but it is common in textbooks or expository writing.

> I always felt that phrase has no place in the internet age, where the concept of a "page limit" is laughable and a simple hyperlink can point me to chapters upon chapters of appendices.

The constraint is not page length, of course, but time. It is a much better use of a mathematician's time to leave easily reproducible proofs to the reader, and focus on the interesting ideas.

Anyway, doing these kinds of exercises is actually very useful in understanding new ideas.
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This is the same bad UI decision Google made with Gingerbread. Somewhere deep inside Google is a UI person who thinks that medium grey on a black background is easy to read. They got their opinion into Gingerbread making the status bar very difficult to see... not to mention making all the icons much smaller. (my girlfriend who has some vision problems downgraded back to Froyo just because she couldn't see the status bar in 2.3.x). Now the same designer has got their opinion into the main Google UI. I have good eyesight and I'm even finding the new top bar to be difficult to scan. IMO this was not a wise decision at all.
I mean directories. GMails IMAP interface maps each tag to a directory but that is not exactly the same. Esp. when your extracting algorithm doesn't know about this, you end up with a lot of duplicates.
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At the time the entire comment thread was filled with people complaining about the new look and how awful it was.

I am thoughtlessly grouping a large group of people together and making an argument against them.

My bad.
There are so many FPSes that don't match the "bad puzzle" description at all... Portal being one of the very good ones, very close to puzzle type games. Multiplayer shooters which are a good mix of competitive and puzzle (strategy-wise) games - just look at how many shooters and re-releases of the older versions are still very popular: quake 1, 3, 4, rtcw-et, tf. They don't really go for nice video effects. Actually many players happily sacrifice them for higher framerate / responsiveness (or will even tweak the display parameters to get mostly high-contrast, almost flat polygons - like quake3's filtering + overbright). And you can still find servers full of people playing them.

It seems that the shitty movies are pretty much only the single-player ones.
Apple has a coherent design. Google just threw up a div across the page.
That makes a lot more sense... I'm a little behind the times I guess with my CSS.
I use Google geocoding for redditgifts because we cover so many countries. I would love to integrate with simplegeo more but they are only US right now for this.
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I've been using Sleep Cycle for the last year or so. http://mdlabs.se/sleepcycle/

I'm not sure if purchasing a $60 wrist band is that much better than spending $0.99 on an iPhone App that just uses the phone's accelerometer.
OK, I need an explanation. Carbon-12 is stable, so how come it decays into 3 helium-4 atoms. Is the carbon-12 not really an atom but some kind of metastable thingy with too much excess energy to be stable?
I would have never posted this on HN myself because I'm not a frequent user. I really have to thank Kirill for posting this. I've already gotten emails from three CEOs :D. HN is amazing!
Tags are the most important thing for me. If this is not possible, any extracting is really not worth it for me.

To extract tags right now, you could search in every other directory (and assume that this are all available tags) for the same mail and get by that error-prone algorithm all tags of a message.

Maybe also missing is some meta information about the spam level and/or importance level. And meta information why Google thinks that some message is important to me (on the web interface, it sometimes shows a reason like 'because of recent conversation with this person' or so).

And maybe more. I would just like to get everything.
For this line of questioning, why not just throw me into an interview presentation? Your rationale sounds plausible--thanks for taking the time to making it salient. Time will tell what is true. I am looking forward to spotting whether any of my pointers were used in the site re-launch.
Helvetica usually looks like shit on Windows if the user happens to have it. So you might try a different order, or just rely on most Mac users having Helvetica Neue.
ACLs (Access Control Lists) are the real benefit that social networks give. It's a system where loads of people already have an account, so it's easy to share things (e.g. photos) with a limited set of people. Obviously you can ask people to sign up for an account on <site where you photos are>, but asking people to sign up for Yet Another Web Account just seems 'dirty.' You could host it somewhere with a single password, but then it's hard to revoke access, or sent certain sets of photos to certain people. You could have per-album passwords, but now people have to remember (or write down) a list of passwords and map them to the albums that they are associated with.
Great, now let me get my Reader stuff.

Edit: And put the buzz stuff in some sort of timeline. I guess this raises the question of an archival format for modern web "experiences"...
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This applies now, but that data isn't going anywhere. There's nothing to stop that policy from changing in the future.
He wants automatic detection of nesting?

Good luck with that, considering I find it hard to manually decide how to indent mixed PHP, HTML and Javascript code. I can't imagine an automatic tool having any success.
I don't know about Google+ but a lot of the internals of Wave were carried over into Google Docs.
> "Everyone has high-speed networks these days"

Oh really? Tell that to a bunch of my friends who are either forced onto dial up, or 1.5Mb internet.

Not everyone lives in a big city.
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What's the downside to using this process to generate energy here in the well?
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some great points here by Ben Horowitz
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> What about Apple?

Customer: My friends and family found out that I was sleeping around on my wife! Apple allowed this to happen!

Steve Jobs: Just change your friends and family. Not that big of a deal.

[1] http://www.tipb.com/2009/11/20/steve-jobs-tells-ipodrip-chan...
"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!"

Just curious what disqualifies the easily googlable Mario Kart and Quake HTML ports?
Going to be harsh here:

The Icon is bad, the copy is bad, and the name is bad. A factory? I have trouble associating factory with anything fun. Call is something like Ball Crusher, sounds more fun.

This is my stupid opinion, and I could be wrong, but try to make the copy more fun, leave the technical explanation to later. Most people only read the first few lines anyway. Get a simple icon, don't try to convey too much info. Just have a colorful ball on a nice background.

Oh, and thanks for putting yourself out there for criticism, is help you and us all. There are some great ideas in the thread, and the game looks like fun.
Why not?

Step 1: G+ is integrated into Google Apps for Business. Every business account is tied to a G+ account.

Step 2: Departments use it for communication. The CEO uses it for top-down communication. It's no more or no less secure than email as it is, but it gives a better way to manage what was once email groups.

Step 3: Instead of maintaining a Skype address book and an email address book, it's all bundled into one. Conference calls are simple to manage, and how far away is screen sharing and presentation features?

G+ could, if Google were inclined, become a Skype killer, and a Lotus Notes killer, and finally become an Outlook killer.

Now, I'm not saying that Google has the vision, or that Google has it in their DNA, but it is possible.
According to Wikipedia, it's actually Nitrogen-14 and Carbon-11.
I was a Linux user since 1997, but switched to OS X in 2009.
And then you spammed all the people who had been CC'd mistakenly to tell them all about your story. Go away.
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At least you probably learned something while making it so it wasn't time wasted.
I'd love to see a good comparison from someone with a good bit of WPF/Silverlight/Xaml and Cocoa experience.
I switched to OS X in 2009. At the point I had been running Linux for 12 years, and GNU and Emacs on proprietary Unix for the 5 years before that.
That's the idea man, somebody's gotta imagine it.
Very slick use of Google Maps underlying tech, it looks like. Similar to Prezi, too.
Are you looking for http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ ?
This is a really cool site, did you make it yourself? It reminds me of StumbleUpon for Google Maps.
> (open source, actually, I think, but I'm not 100% sure)

To quote from the "introduction" dialog [0]: "Hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web".

Looking further, the "about" page [1] provides a bit more information: "All the Google web fonts are open source. That means that you are free to to use them in any way you want, independent of whether you're working on a private or commercial project."

I'm not sure what license they're using, though . . . I can't find anything but Google's standard "terms of service" license anywhere on the site.

[0] http://www.google.com/webfonts/v2#HomePlace:home

[1] http://www.google.com/webfonts/v2#AboutPlace:about
The process produces "excited carbon nuclei", not stable normal carbon-12 atoms.
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I would guess it's more everyone making launch deadlines before the end of the quarter!
A lot of people have posted here about alternatives that retain privacy, then others lament "who would do it? ... could a start-up succeed?"

There is an alternative -- on the horizon, anyway -- that's all about privacy. You don't have to choose between privacy from your community and privacy from a faceless corporation.

The FreedomBox project -- http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org, inspired by Eben Moglen, who helped write the GPL -- aims to create a network where users own their own data. If you've used, say, Wikipedia or a site run on Linux, you know how projects based on his vision can work in time.

It's not ready here and now, but this community can help contribute to it.

One component to FreedomBox is to replace many current "cloud-based" services which gather and store personal data with peer-to-peer versions where you own your data on your FreedomBox.
The whole problem is that the word "friend" has about a hundred shades of meaning in life, work, and love. Facebook's biggest problem -- perhaps their only problem -- is that they refuse to acknowledge that fact.
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Like all the other known forms of fusion that fit on a bench (and there are several, such as the Farnsworth Fusor [1]), it doesn't produce more energy than it consumes.

The article doesn't say that directly, I'm inferring it from the fact that if it was net-energy positive, this would not be "hey, this might make more efficient propulsion", but "HEY EVERYBODY, HOLY COW, FUSION IS HERE!". I am comfortably with this inference.

I also would imagine the efficiency in question is that it has a very high specific impulse [2], and thus requires very little mass, not anything else. Satellites in the inner solar system generally don't have a power problem, they metaphorically just stick a cup out the window and grab some of the power just streaming by them nearly continuously. They have a mass problem. Converting solar power mass-efficiently to thrust is a big win.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse
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I can see how server software needs to be more conservative about making changes. I'm glad I am not using server software anymore for my personal software environment.
Dark colors use less energy. Someone please think about the environment! :)
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what's next on HN? cheap rolex watches?

Stop link baiting telling it's free when it's not.

It puts away people that were interested in the product.
If it gains any sort of traction there's probably going to be inevitable breakage due to the growing pains of adding potentially millions of users a day. It's hard to win in this situation.
Stay on it! The first few weeks are the hardest. I'm just finishing my first 90 days and it has been a life changer. I could only do 1 or 2 pullups at first - I cranked out 100 pullups (in sets of 15 to 20) last week.
> et by that error-prone algorithm all tags of a message.

Shouldn't be error-prone. All your emails should have a Message-Id: header. While not impossible, I've never heard of issues due to Message-Id collisions...

You could write something to sync your emails to a database, then when it encounters an email in a 'folder' it can just add it to the email as a tag. I don't know of anything that currently does this, but it's not like the technology (and information) isn't there.

> And meta information why Google thinks that some
> message is important to me (on the web interface,
> it sometimes shows a reason like 'because of recent
> conversation with this person' or so).

Of what use is this outside of Google, though? IIRC Google is the only one doing something like this. It's not like you could import that meta information into Outlook/Thunderbird/Mail.app.
The concept should make more sense to people as a standalone site than as a sub-section on another site. (Easier to explain, easier to link to, etc)

Should isn't very strong. I don't think the 15 seconds it takes to get used to an /r/IAMA thread is worth a whole new product.

As a standalone site we can optimize the interface for this concept, which is really a very different idea than reddit.com

That's true.

Twitter integration is really helpful. Acts as both moderation and as a way for people to spread AnyAsq to their followers when they do an AMA or ask a question.

Twitter has a text box where i can tweet anything i like. Your twitter integration makes it harder to sign up and adds almost no benefit. That's a negative, imho.

We're a YC company which will hopefully help us get people like Harj (or pg? Don't do it quite yet though please) on there and maybe help with press.

So is reddit, and reddit doesn't need any help with press, given it's 15 something million users.

You're taking something that works and breaking it.
I have been using Sleep Cycle too. Most the most part, yes, it does wake me up less cranky. You still need to allow for enough sleep though. If I only get ~6 hours of sleep. It wakes me up at an appropriate time - I feel better - but I am still tired - and thus crankier than usual.
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Facebook launched at schools not called Harvard the Summer preceding my freshman year of college. It went live at my school a few weeks into that first semester. I enjoyed it immensely and observed it carefully, but sometime in 2007 it really began to wear on me. Later, (~2 or 3 years ago) I more or less withdrew from using it altogether.

Circles addresses something like 70% of my gripes with Facebook. Of course, we still haven't seen Google successfully build a social network, so nothing's really been addressed until everyone joins the party (or doesn't). Google+ looks interesting though.

Too bad my primary Google account is my Apps account for my primary domain, and since Apps accounts don't have associated Profiles anymore, I don't get to play. Then again, I'm still dealing with the fallout of the transition to "The New" Google Apps, having already used my domain email as a Google account to sign up for really exotic things like Google Reader, so perhaps I don't need yet another new plaything at the moment.

I will add that I think the Huddle and Hangout components may offer—in the case of the former—good competition both on Android and in general to iOS Messaging/BBM (the only hang-up that has me short of sold on iOS messaging is people don't yet think of their Apple IDs as communication accounts/channels, their Gmail accounts on the other hand...), and—in the case of the latter—someone not only to compete with Foursquare, but perhaps to answer the question from normal folks: Why "check in" anywhere to begin with? (Because you've arrived at the "anywhere" you just "Huddled" over meeting at, your phones already know it, and if you acknowledge their requests to "Hangout" together, even more of your friends may show up. Or something. That last part's a little hazier for me. What if you want to broadcast to the world that you're enjoying your new favorite tea spot, but you don't want to say which 5 people you're with and risk persons 6 and 7 whom were specifically not invited showing up? In any event it seems to me a more human workflow than "Go places, check in, get points/kittens/whatevr."
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Hurray for talking about specific power but not specific impulse or specific energy.
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It's the other way around, unless it's still the 90s.

Can't go any deeper, so here goes:

LCDs are clear by default with a big light behind them. You can see this on any Apple laptop, the glowing logo is just the backlight (watch it fade as you lower brightness or try shining a flashlight through it). White (clear) is the default state, so it takes power to make a color. Think of an LCD watch, all of the text is black because LCDs can't create light (those are LEDs).

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fic...

Of course, it's a minuscule difference, since I'm guessing that the giant light probably uses most of the power, not the actual LCD.

This is the opposite of CRTs (hence the "90s" comment), which do actually create brightness per-pixel.
Import to hotmail or windows live and then import into Google+ done.
The bit about the NDA is a little ridiculous.

Apple wouldn't be able to politely ask people not to blog about their stuff.
I find the black top bar to be too stark a contrast against the mostly white results page. It makes it seem as though something extremely important is up there.

How is this supposed to be an improvement? I feel like they changed it just for the sake of change without any actual focus on usability.
Thanks! Would love to talk once this rush dies down a bit.
http://iq12.com/blog/as3-benchmark/

Is this what you wanted to post? This shows that the browsers' JS engines have been outrunning ActionScript for years now...
I'm thinking 'well' is referring to 'gravity well' (i.e. 'here on Earth').
This hits a nail on the head. Facebook knew the primary target for it's initial growth. Who is Google+ targeting first for early adoption?

Google does so many things for many different people. Opening it up to the world outright is technically dangerous, but Facebook had a very natural progression for rolling out because they had identified and located their market. Google isn't so lucky. + is designed at the Facebook user base, but isnt considering the history or the trajectory of Facebook users.

I'd imagine the only reason google cares about social at all is because it is a significant source of revenue in an industry they want to own (advertising).

All that said I'm going to set up an account when it's my turn.
Other than FTC and DOJ oversight, you mean.
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I wonder how long they've been working on it.

Given the many people who left Google for Facebook, I wonder if Facebook had inside information about this.
A more detailed write-up can be found here if you don't have access to the article itself (not my blog, found via ResearchBlogging.org):

http://persquaremile.com/2011/06/28/this-is-your-brain-in-th...
I've run AdSense on hundreds of websites and I get click rates between 0.5% and 10%.

Not 0.05% that's insanely low.

Mind you, a lot of those sites (the high end, anyway) are optimized strongly for clicks. The ads show up in the middle of content (as an "interlude") or prominently above the fold.