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Much milder - but I always got a chuckle over the pornview program - a nice little program to view whole directories of photos under Debian.

Quite possibly not the best for the job but a name stuck in memory.
Is Google planning to monetize Plus? At the moment, unlike on Facebook, there are no ads on the site. This certainly increases user satisfaction too.
Is it possible to like Google+ page on Facebook? That would be quite an indicator to get people to move en masse to Google+.

Trouble is Google+ is invite only. So over time, Google+ will lose some momentum and I'm expecting articles of 'G+ invite fatigue' any day now.
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Obligatory Abrash quote: "In the long run, programs will be bigger and slower yet, but computers will be so fast and will have so much memory that no one will care." [1] I don't agree 100%, but he has a point. I'll say that resources are cheap enough they aren't always worth optimizing. On the other hand, it's easy to get caught on the wrong side of that. Always painful to discover that someone else's "plenty to spare" is your "just a bit short".

[1] http://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/ch39/39-01.html
Don't make the same mistake as Twitter, putting status notifications above navigation or other crucial elements. Disabling functionality due to a temporary notice is not good design.
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Is this because you have a business, or has the process gotten more complicated? I've never had much trouble with Japanese immigration, although the last couple times I didn't need to do anything myself.
Here is the thread for part 1 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326502 and the direct link http://www.whitakerblackall.com/blog/music-theory-for-beginn...
Live search was awesome to find out about breaking news before even the news wires got it. When there was a bomb scare in Times Square, I remember reading the tweets and getting some great information.
You are right. It only returns name and id. You can only get the email address of the authorized user. I still understand why Facebook would prevent scraping though. And also I see many exploits of allowing access to your friends email addresses.
I don't see why E = 1/2 k x^2 isn't a quadratic form. It's a quadratic form in a vector space of dimension 1 (here, the real numbers), which matrix is just (1/2 k).
In fact here, we're dealing with a (degenerated) conic.

What's your point? Should the author have written E(x) = ...?

Besides, tau is pointless because a tau pie isn't nearly as fun as a pi pie.
So how would you go from there to import them into Google+? Sharing them to Picasa or something? Well, I don't know if iPhone has that but I think Android does, and I'm trying to figure out how it would work on Android.
It is an extension of human memory at the sacrifice of attention span.
Saying that a codebase needs to be small is like saying an airplane needs to be light: yes, it's true, in fact it's plain-and-simple obvious, but it doesn't reveal any of the hidden secrets and planning and so forth that are basically necessary to keep a codebase small and manageable. Even high-powered polymorphic languages a la Lisp will happily hand you enough rope to drown yourself in.

If you look at code as basically a description of what a program does, like, a formal description, it's unsurprising that conciseness and clarity are not entirely unrelated and that redundancy is annoying for anyone who has to read it. What's not obvious is the most clear or concise way to describe what the program does, and this is just as true in a computer language as in say a natural language.
Link is broken.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20076699-264/firefox-pdf-r...
personally, i'd answer "half tau".

half tau r^2 is a fine equation for an area.
If you only trust 6 people to have access to your email address then customise Facebook's privacy settings to only let those people see it. You don't have to trade data security for access to friends.

Facebook can't protect you from every way your friends could mishandle the data you give them access to. If you don't want them to have access to part of your profile it's up to you to set your privacy permissions appropriately, and it's Facebook's responsibility to make that as easy as possible (which they haven't).
Nobody stays king for long. Social networking sites are only good until the next best thing. I'll bet a good dollar within 5 years Facebook will lose much of its popularity. Then Google+, ... In the meantime, Facebook will do little things like this to slow the exodus. Is anybody really that attached to Facebook?
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I just realised that the game that Steve is referring to in his blog is Wyvern. It was one of the earliest multiplayer games I played. I wouldn't mind playing it again, but it seems I can't reach the website (www.cabochon.com) right now.
I find some of them horribly obscure

+new Date() // 1259359833574

Oh come on, magic constants? How do you check if that's the right number?

function PrefixInteger(num, length) {

return (num / Math.pow(10, length)).toFixed(length).substr(2);
}

Is there no sprintf in Javascript? Or did I misunderstand what the function does?
There probably isn't a need to monetize it directly. If they can use it to improve search (their definition of improve) and increase clickthroughs on search ads it will more than pay for itself.
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Ask HN:What are the best IT skills to work/live in Tropical islands of Pacific?
I am a 10-year-experienced mainframe programmer. I want to work and live in small tropical islands of pacific ocean for the experiences of peaceful island living. What technology/progaramming languages would help my wanting ? If IT skills aren't going to help it,what else will ?
Someone else already corrected the link.

Commenting the article itself: If I click on the link that is supposed to show me a pixel perfect PDF in my FF 5 instance, I get a lot of gibberish (misaligned braces, text that overlaps) that is most certainly not part of the original PDF.

So - while I'd love to see something like this in the future, the author seems to see wildly different results than I do. For now, this _fails_ the pixel-perfect test and just about passes the readable test.
I chose Assistly to handle our customer contact, after assessing it against ZenDesk. Both are good. I went with Assistly because I found the user experience to be better (ZenDesk defaults to updating the user on every stage of their ticket's progress) and I found Assistly themselves to be responsive (answered my questions quickly and honestly, weren't afraid to admit that they don't have features and say what is / isn't under consideration for future updates).

I'm using the Assistly knowledgebase feature too, and it is well integrated. It's a bit basic so I expect to migrate as we grow. Probably to Joomla.

Do you plan on email support only, or are you looking at social media and phone too?
Invite only and centralised on techy beta users. The proof is in the pudding when my Nan, my Mum and my 10 year old nephew try ane use it and find none of their friends on it.
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At best, it's a cubic form, since the spring constant is also a variable. Similarly 1/2 a t^2 is a cubic form. pi r^2 however is a quadratic form.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, there will always be a few services that will store passwords in plain text.

Would unique email addresses for each service have helped your situation at all?

For example:

Facebook email: uniqueemail1@gmail.com (forwards to your real email)
Facebook password: password1

Hover email: uniqueemail2@gmail.com (forwards to your real email)
Hover password: password1

Bank email: uniqueemail3@gmail.com (forwards to your real email)
Bank password: password1

If any of those services get hacked (and the passwords are stored in plain text) then there's nothing connecting those accounts to each other since the email addresses are all different.

It's the system I use (along with 3 tiers of passwords not just 'password1' as used in the above example).
(I left a similar comment on the blog as well)

“Let’s just say you get a 10% bump. Well… if you then roll that out into the other 5 products, you can count on a 10% bump on each of those as well… giving you a total of 50% in total increased conversions spread out throughout your site.”

That’s incorrect. A 10% increase in conversions across all products on your site gives you a total increase of 10%, not 50%. Perhaps #8 on this list should be “incorrectly interpreting results”.
OpenSRS emails both username and password to the administrative address on file when a customer completes the "forgot your password" routine on reseller storefronts.
Maybe it's because I submitted it from my iPhone?
While things like this don't disrupt the functioning of most of the people in the government, it definitely has a fairly significant impact on the mental state of the senior leadership of many organizations.

Having your public website defaced and on the news puts you in the spotlight. It also pushes senior leadership, who generally dont understand what it means, into thinking that actual operational systems could just as easily be destroyed or messed with ("what else could they do").

Don't underestimate the importance and impact of a technical PSYOP against non-technical folks. If nothing else, I bet it provided a 1-2 hour distraction from 'work' for the senior leadership involved.
Let's not go around throwing words like 'real world' around so casually, less you wish your mind to exist in a fantasy plane of existence. And if you want to get silly about it, typing and waiting is just neuron activation, and I imagine there is plenty of firing and waiting going on when we remember.

If you wish to define human memory as only the information retrieval within our own brain, then there is no argument against your case. However, it raises other questions such as exactly where we set the distinction. Does it mean that the memory must be stored in the biological structure of the brain (meaning whatever we are born with), or just whatever is physically inside our head (maybe one day we can graft memory boosters in there).

And what if somehow we train our memories/brains and some external system to be able to cue off each other? Perhaps some sort of direct neural interface where a partial memory and trigger an external stimulus and that then triggers the full memory faster (better?). Then does the external system become an extension of human memory? It may not increase our information storage capacity, but it would improve recall.

Anyhow, it's all fun semantics and fantasy at this point. One day...
HN comments on part 1 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326502
There are a few... Ie.
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Ask HN: Watching movies online
There are a lot of websites today on which you can watch, for "free", the last top movies. It is clear for me that they are infringing in a way or another the producers copyright.

What it is not so clear is about a person that watches an almost certain pirated movie posted online. Does the watcher also commits some sorts of felony ?

I'm not concerned with morality here, just with the legal implications of watching "free" movies online.
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One man's cheap'n'nasty is another man's elegance. And $0.50 was a lot of money back in those days ;)

Anyway for computers of the era that generated TV output, it seems like it was common to start with whatever clock speed was necessary for the video output, and work back from there. Hence the odd CPU speeds of the C64, Amiga, Atari 8-bit, etc.
I'm really surprised google did not try to launch this on colleges similar to fb's roots.

A lot of college kids have serious issues with fb's privacy features. Instead of google plus building bloatware like hangouts or huddle, a decent events and pictures feature along with a launch on a few campuses could have been very interesting.

As it stands right now, it risks becoming another twitter where the only people managing to get in are nerds or marketers looking for another venue to post the crap. For fb, these two audiences were probably at the bottom of the list. I remember commenting on venturebeat around 20006 as myspace hype was peaking about this little phenomenon called fb that VB folks should checkout once they are done going gaga over myspace.
Job:need paid help extending a rails event management system
Ruby on rails web developer for an online events and contact system - maintenance and new features

This is paid, I'm not expecting anyone to give away their time, experience or talent for free.

We have an existing events and contact management system, this needs to maintained and updated.

The product is written in ruby on rails 1.92 / 3

Whoever takes this up needs to have a strong understanding of
ruby on rails
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Image file types

Should have strong analytical skills as well as us and design experience

While this is a work from home job, the role will require some travel into central London for meetings every couple of weeks.

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Can any mathematicians solve this puzzle about triangles?
Thats just because they dont want to share the information transparently. New Zealand started issuing a real balance sheet quite some time back, and it is very interesting. It is hard to do as you need to estimate long term liabilities etc.

Here is a summary position and you can find the rest on the site http://www.treasury.govt.nz/government/longterm/fiscalpositi...

All governments should do this....
Very true, though I think the point the author was making is that it's better to start big and work your way down (IIRC 37 signals said something similar when they did an overhaul of their site a few months ago).

It often works out better to do one completely different layout or style of page and A/B test between them. Then once you have a winner for that start testing all the details with a multivariate test.
Prefer this, less intrusive and nicer design!

Its a carbon copy of the Ubuntu notification system, (the regular notification which fades after timeout)

I think a system of notifications like this integrated into the chrome browser would be a real addition, as the popups now aren't all that nice to look at!
Geeks don't like them and it is a waste of time
It's new.
Developers and Google-Plus
People are still in the honeymoon phase, give it time.

Though I was thinking, if Google allows posts to also be auto posted to Facebook, but Facebook doesn't do the same same thing then people will trend towards using Google+ over the long term.
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They should give you an invite if you like the Google+ page on Facebook!
What about the same scenario, but instead of altering domain records, a CSR logs into the customer's e-mail account, or bank account, and starts wreaking havoc?
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Please read the sentence again.

I made sure to say... "a TOTAL of 50% in TOTAL increased conversions SPREAD OUT throughout your site".

I do understand what you're trying to say, though. It's simply a matter of the way you're thinking about it and depends on the context.
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Nope, check the introduction section of your wikipedia link.

It's like saying that f(x) = ax is a function of two variables. Indeed it is, but it's commonly accepted in mathematics to use it as a function of one variable (x), with a parameter a.
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Change all passwords that are non-unique.
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One downside with image buttons: they are really, really, annoying to localize. A compromise would be to have the button itself as an image and overlay the label in HTML.
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and the problem is?
> It's not that they don't get the email so much as they don't understand it.

Wouldn't hiring a writer and a designer for a day to re-design the e-mail so that it's more obvious and easy to understand be a better solution than storing passwords in plain text?
The notifications are dismissable with a click, I don't think it's a big deal once you figure that out.
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The whole point of the Manifest file is to make sure that Android Apps are not offered to incompatible devices. Need OpenGL ES 2.0? You can specify that and eliminate all the OpenGL ES 1.0 only devices. Need a high-res screen? You can specify that, and so on & on.

Apple do exactly the same thing with their Apps: You can specify which features your App needs & the iOS App Store will only offer it to the appropriate devices. Need a gyroscope? Your App can't run on a 3G iPhone.

This really isn't rocket science. If Amazon really are ignoring the Manifest file shipped with the Apps submitted to them then that is a huge failure on their part & most definitely not the fault of the dev in any way whatsoever.
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We need a shim to use HTML5 notifications by default and fallback to something like this when notifications are not supported.
This is counter-productive and just adds another good reason to turn to Google+. Despite switching costs, it's hard to like a service that coerces you to stay by preventing you from exporting your own data.
Ten million minutes is approximately nineteen years. That might indeed be a usability problem.
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I read your post as "Every time I call up MediaTemple for support, I give my password to a random homeless man."
Wow, that brings back some memories. I haven't thought about CP/M or the S-100 bus in quite some time.
You're not writing in under-the-hood, though, you are writing in C. If you want to properly understand compiler warnings and errors you need to know that arrays and pointers are separate types.

Yes, "under the hood" it might be the same, but that's true of many languages if you dig deep enough. C is just a little closer. Yes, at one level a char declaration is just a smaller minimum memory allocation than int, but C will check both those types and if you want to use C properly you'll want to understand its typing and casting rules.
> +new Date() // ...

Title: Milliseconds since epoch
I think this is just pissing users off. I want to import my contacts into Google+, but I currently have no desire to leave Facebook. After seeing this, that changes a bit.
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Uber would not be in violation of this patent. It is based upon the concept of drivers offering rides, which is not how Uber works.

Disclosure: I am not a Lawyer, I work for Uber, and I have been known to hate on software patents.
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Fyi, using Dropbox as a replacement for real image hosting (either on your own server or through a service such as S3) means that anyone at work who can't get to a Dropbox URL can't see basically anything worthwhile on your site.
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But then even if you remember the password, you'd still need to remember the right unique email id for each service.
or may be you just think that US is bigger then it is? :)
I think a more important blunder is failing to understand statistics.

"I’ve ran plenty of tests where one variation was the control, hitting 95% confidence, after just a handful of conversions ... Because you need to run your tests long enough to get accurate results! You need to get past what I call “random coin syndrome”."

Statistics don't work that way. A result is either significant (e.g. you can either draw conclusions with a 95% confidence rate), or it is not. If you reach 95% confidence after 14 conversions (10 vs 4), it either means your questions are too broad or you failed to control for external influences.
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Treatment here in Portugal is not in a mental institution.

I personally visited people recovering from heroine addiction, and it's basically a big house in a rural area in the outskirts of the city where they live, work (they grow their own vegetables, cook, clean, etc) and have therapy sessions.

More importantly, you can leave whenever you want - the place isn't closed down. You can just open the gate and walk out.
Yeah; sounds like a good process. But all too often the "try to improve performance characteristics" part is entirely skipped. It doesn't take much to run A/B tests and wonder why you are 5X over other similar apps. It was clearly never done, at least not by anybody in a position to help mitigate the issue.

I use a similar version of your processes. adding: when code complete examine the footprint and speed, and diligently explain to myself where the time/memory went. If it was wasted, do something about it immediatley.
> Welcome to the world of fragmentation. Honestly, that is the biggest difficulty with coding for Android.

This horse was beaten so many times, it is already dead.

> I really don't think you can blame Amazon for this, however.

Sure you can. Google Market handles this condition gracefully, i.e. if you can't run it, it will not show it to you. So why to hold Amazon to lower standard?
No we don't. HTML5 desktop notifications do not serve the same purpose as this.
Unless you take every spring in the Universe to have the same spring constant (nonsense), k must also be treated as a variable. The energy relation for an individual spring is a quadratic form, but the energy relation for all springs is either a cubic form or a set of quadratic forms (or a bijection from the real line to the set of unary quadratic forms, if you want to be really technical and boring).

f(x) = a * x is an example of a function of x which only becomes a function when a value is assigned to the variable 'a'. In other words, it is a type of function.

>Indeed it is, but it's commonly accepted in mathematics to use it as a function of one variable (x), with a parameter a.

In introductory calculus, sure; in those areas of mathematics where the term 'quadratic form' is actually used, things have to be defined more precisely.
> bloatware like hangouts

Woah there. Hangouts are absolutely magical.

Two of my friends just moved to another city two weeks ago. When Google launched +, we all immediately hopped on hangouts and it was awesome. 6 of my friends were hanging out together, we all got a tour of the new apartment, had a good time. Since then we've used it to collaborate on various projects.

And given that I run linux at home, this is the first video chat experience I've ever had that actually worked. Ever.

Hangouts are not bloat. They are a killer feature.
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Ah, does it really? I don't have an Android phone so I honestly wouldn't have known unless you said something.
It doesn't matter since the patent expired in 2001.
...and programmer time costs much more. So yes, normally that's a great attitude.

But still, the app has to run on real machines today. So its worth a "sweeping up" pass before release, to fix gross oversight and bugs that leak/use CPU egregiously.