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A "brand-name" company that can't even afford to pay you minimum wage is not worthy of that brand.
dont need an invitation now.
On one hand, there are always going to be people who don't get on Google+, and Sparks is very basic so there's always room for someone to do it better.

On the other hand, I'm not sure it would be possible to make any money on it, other than getting acquired. I don't know that people would pay money for something like Sparks.
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Pay them enough and they'll uninstall it themself ;)
The core problem, from an outsiders' perspective, appears to be jurisdictional fragmentation. Amazon, not unreasonably, want to be able to regard the USA as a single market, yet this gives them 50 different sets of legislation and 50 tax codes under which to operate.

However politically unpopular this idea might be (it's certainly not popular in Britain with the EU, which itself started as a common market and legislation / regulation area) the most business friendly idea seems to be centralisation. Remove competency for this sort of issue from the individual states, create common legal frameworks, allow a one-size-fits-all management model rather than having to individually cater for the requirements of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North and South Dakota, Delaware and Montana. Seven jurisdictions, seven legal codes, seven sets of tax law. Yet only one has enough population that it would even qualify for the top ten cities by population and even combined they would only be twenty-second in population ranking. They're not major markets and a legal framework designed like this is unduly expensive.
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Plex and Boxee are both very much in our plans!
It started to get overloaded and throw errors right before they shut down email invites again last night, so I think they're likely trying to scale up as quickly as they can.
already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712607
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>> You never, ever invent your own encryption algorithm.

That is a good advice for the average enterprise/startup programer. But these guys are:

1. Rockstar programers, probably a lot smarter then you or me (don't waste their time writing comments, but have created probably the most cost-efficient cloud platform in the world).

2. Afraid that NSA can come after them. And I'm pretty sure that NSA can crack the popular implementations of AES.
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A number of moonbats agreed with this relative to Revita Slim. That isn't always sweetness and light. This halted me in my tracks. This is the time to buy Revita Slim again and again.
This argument assumes there are no societal benefits from having local infrastructure though, which I wouldn't agree with. Amazon may be more directly resource efficient, but I don't think that argument taken to its logical conclusion would build a community in which I'd want to live.
Ask HN: How do you manage multiple Google accounts, in light of Google+?
For the purposes of this discussion, I have two Google accounts (both apps accounts) - one personal (firstname@firstnamelastname.com) and one for work. I've thought before about how to manage these, and with the launch of Google+, that's probably even more important now. The work account is for my company, which consists of myself and my partner, so I don't have any concerns about control over data, liability, etc. However, it's certainly feasible that I won't be doing the same thing for a living in 5 years, so longevity of that identity could be an issue.

It makes some sense to me to use my personal Google account as my main identity online for Google products, but one issue with that is that if I do want to connect with people (e.g. through Google+) who I interact with professionally, it'd make more sense to do that with my work identity.

What do other people with this situation do? I'd really rather avoid having two separate Google+ accounts - that just seems cumbersome.
It's dedicated to guys who already know Cappuccino. The title of the news is maybe quite irrelevant.
on top of my head: libgmp (not a crypto library but used by some), libgcrypt, openssl (requires a dynamic engine to do this), libssh2, libmcrypt ...

IMHO the user of an encryption library (the developer of a crypto application) should at least be able to ensure that every bit of heap that was touched by the library is zeroed after it was freed.
Because of the slow initial rollout? Even Orkut did that...
It isn't exactly "inside" Google+, but the Gmail and Web tabs are always right up there at the top.
Brand name companies like Enron, WorldCom, Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns...
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What the story of we shall watch in the Pretty Little Liars Season 2 Episode 4? ... Blind Dates, so the title Pretty Little Liars S02E04. This episode is likely to tell a relationship without a clear bond or a blind date... one night love from one of the main character drama series Pretty Little Liars, Spencer Hastings, Hanna Marin, Emily Fields, or Aria Montgomery. We see again the video about the Little Liars S02E03 Aria ... Aria is probably the characters in Little Liars Season 2 Episode 4 who underwent blind dates.
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Did Google+ Hangout just kill Skype video?
It's not a problem for IT students. I could choose from many offers in my city. At our forums we laugh from low paid offers and I haven't seen unpaid one. I ended up going to different country and earn 1,1k euro with no real experience at all and I extended it during crisis (it was few years ago) so I guess I was useful.

If you really can't find anything it's better to make nice portfolio projects for yourself at home or work on some opensource project. It's similar experience but feels much better than working as slave for some awful company that can't even afford small wage.
Yeah, but unlike Google Wave, you don't really have to explain it to people. "It's like Facebook without all the Farmville crap" seems to suffice for even the least techie of people (as long as they are already on Facebook).
I'll second.
I really like the basic feel of the product. Just a couple of points:

a) I don't want it to send me an email every time I bookmark a video. I see no way changing the email preferences?

b) I archived one of the videos & now it is no where to be seen. Am I looking in the wrong place?
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An invite would be fantastic: bharathaldo gmail com

Many thanks.
As a student who worked during most of his studies: a low-paying job gives you as much experience and is definitely preferable.

With most of my bosses, I had the following deal: "I have no experience, so every task lasts as long as I think I need. You pay a low wage, so if you hit one of the points where I am actually experienced: you make a good cut. If you assign me to tasks where I have to learn everything: you make a bad cut."
It worked great, if you know the line where you shouldn't force those terms.

Its a business and working for free is harmful to everyone who wants to make a living from it.
Since the data migration thing happened to Google apps accounts, I've been struggling to manage my Google accounts (well before Google+ came along).

I like to keep my personal and work emails separate. But I'm beginning to think the best way forward might be to just use one email for everything. One of my big fears though is that if the Google ban hammer falls on any of my Google accounts (adsense, adwords), it might literally jeopardise my life.
Your ignoring the use of collage students as interns. At many schools it's possible to get collage credit for internships. Also many companies use interns as a recruiting tool they might not get any net value from interns but they get to evaluate recruits for longer periods of time, which is not worth paying 7.25$ an hour for ~3 months. Anyway, legally you are required to pay interns that create net value for your company.
Any system that can't be understood is a failure.
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It does, we currently have an iTunes podcast approach but a native app is coming.
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet, but the "Send feedback" widget in the lower right is amazing. It seems to be inspired by Safari's Web Clips, and I hope it won't be long before someone better at Javascript than me reverse engineers it (otherwise I guess I will have to).
If someone tells me I wont be paid..but still i want to take up that work ? why blame

But if someone fresh grad is duped into believing doing unpaid work will get him something else then its bad.
Have they purposefully gone and blocked google plus, or do they simply block *.google.com and have an exception list?
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No, the very concept of circles is about content being exclusive. The point is that you know who you are sharing it with, of course, but the result is that all content posted is inherently more exclusive than elsewhere. Even the very creation of circles feels like adding someone to a club.
Sounds like at least a day's work, and this guy seems like a top-notch pro. How much could he charge for a job like this? $500-$1000? more?
Yeah, that's an odd gripe. Check out code igniter for example. One ofthe popular php frameworks...filenames in comments.

I guess I can understand why people criticize Khan but it seems so wrong. Just pretend that khan is for the other 7 billion people!
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My experience is that a number of larger companies is paying rather well for internships of people 1 or 2 years from graduation. I had a great half a year in southern france on the cost of one of them (small flat, benefits and a final performance bonus included).

They see it as gambling money: if they find a good guy, they will try to hold on him. Otherwise, even a 1k wage doesn't really cost them much.

Also: Good interns usually are not available for hire after their studies, so its money well invested.
a) Fair. We'll sort that!
c) You're not, we need to enable that too. Originally it was delete, but we're going with a more Instapaper-y vibe. You might want to go back...
I didn't realize that the unpaid internship situation is as bad in Ireland as it is here in the U.S. My startup helps college students find entry level jobs and internships, so I'm constantly aware of what the latest trends are.

One trend that really scares me is that there are some "career experts" whom I interact with regularly who offer their own unpaid virtual internships (I've seen lots of other internships like this, but the fact that career experts who are supposed to help interns are offering these really blows my mind). These are people who don't have the ability to offer many of the benefits that do come with an unpaid internship such as making connections, learning what it's like to work in a real office, having a recognizable name on your resume, etc.

Another trend that scares me is that we're seeing more and more internships auctioned off in charity auctions. Rich parents actually pay for their kids to get some experience.

Unfortunately, interns aren't going to be the ones to stop this trend. Unpaid interns do benefit from their internships. They mostly accept it as something that they have to do, and they know that if they refuse to take an unpaid internship, there are thousands of other students who will snap up the opportunity.

Change is either going to have to come from employers or the government. I strongly believe that offering paid internships is more favorable to employers because they get better quality interns who are more motivated, and the employer has a stronger incentive to use the intern's time well.

Here in the U.S. there are already laws against unpaid internships. I wrote an article on it here: http://www.onedayoneinternship.com/blog/are-unpaid-internshi...

There's actually an excellent and fair standard for determining when an unpaid internship should be allowed; however, I've never heard of an employer's being prosecuted under the Fair Labor Standards Act for having unpaid interns. And if the law were to start to be enforced, I'm not sure the outcome would benefit students in the short-term. There would be a lot fewer opportunities as many employers would get rid of their internship programs. This would result in even more competition for what paid opportunities were left.

I really hate unpaid internships, but I still haven't figured out what it's going to take to make them a thing of the past. They've become an essential part of the transition from education to employment, and messing around with that in a time when really talented grads are struggling to land jobs probably isn't a good idea. We may have to wait until the economy really heats up again.
I don't know how those people with super high friend counts manage to eke any utility out of FB

I don't have a super high friend count on FB, but I've set up privacy levels on the friend groups I have created. I'll usually accept a friend request from anyone I know, and then add that person to a friend group, with appropriate privacy levels. A person with a large friend count could do the same thing.

I'm surprised that more people don't use this functionality on FB, but then again categorizing is fun for me (and a lot of other geeks, I presume).
Liking it quite a bit so far: http://bitoftech.mkronline.com/2011/06/30/google-plus-first-...

I'm using it more than I've ever used Facebook. That's a good sign.

Circles don't have the tedium of a Facebook group. I can add a few people and go straight to talking and sharing with no need to bug them to join a group or tinker with a profile. It's functionally similar to Facebook groups, but switching contexts is easier.
I've never been. It's pretty much my dream to go there after a successful startup.
Ask HN: What's this new black bar at the top of the page?
Making fun of the new Google design?
Don't be concerned because Google is competing. Be concerned because everyone I've talked to agrees that Sparks sucks, and is by far the weakest part of Google+.
You need to also assume that filtering the web increases 'social stability'. For many young people in China the amount of government interference with the web is literally their number one complaint.
Isn't that essentially what OpenSocial does?

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

Somehow I don't see facebook implementing that though.
Indeed, this is exactly my case: 10-100's GB of data distilled down to 1GB output at most, including extra diagnostics which are not always needed.

One possible advantage for Amazon could be, at least in my use case, that I may be inclined to spin up instances for less-CPU-intensive tasks. Also, being able to rely on the widely available remote access from EC2 is convenient.

I suppose if it gets me spending more time on their CPU cycles, they've picked up business. Interested to see where this policy leads.
Google Wave poll two years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=635354
There are no three dimensional numbers because it's impossible to construct such a system that behaves like 'numbers'. The real, complex, quaternion and octonion numbers are the only 'normed division algebras'. This basically means they are the only spaces with a notion of length in which mutliplication is invertible (division). These properties are needed for anything that we want to call 'numbers'. The fact that there are only 4 such spaces is quite a profound result and leads to a lot of other important results. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurwitz%27s_theorem_%28normed_d... for more information.
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Is it just me or is this also easier/faster to read for the rest of us?
Google+ "inspired" by diaspora?
thomas.mccolgan at g[oogle]mail dot com

Highly appreciated!
It would be good to have some clarity on the licence for the data.

I also think crowdsourcing might be a good way to fill in gaps but I'd hope to see people reaching out to councils, large organisations or other sources of data to kick start this effort.
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I don't understand why in the middle of the article the author presents his political views and then links to them, unless this is a SEO bait using Google+ (Google Plus) as a keyword to drive page hits.
I agree with you to a certain point but depends on the song though. I'm always looking for a way to

The only things that bother me about Turntable is the avatar approach is childish and the beep every time someone posts a comment screws up the flow of the song.
Great! Just out of curiosity:

a) Why is every video added to a download queue by default, instead of keeping it on-demand?

b) Any legal consequences of allowing users to download copyrighted videos illegally uploaded on youtube & other video sites? Think music videos, tv series.
> The code in the MBR uses an unsophisticated encryption algorithm, but even small modifications to the algorithm are sufficient to evade signature-based detection by most antivirus products.

from http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792157/TDSS_TDL_4

So it is mainly there to fool anti-virus programs that look for a particular fingerpring, and not necessarily to pass secret info back and forth.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469

There's also a search function at the bottom ;)
The article says "best _performing_ language". Quite different from "best language"
Someone died. It's a mark of respect. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469

Several people have assumed it was Google-related. Perhaps if the bar was labelled people wouldn't.
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The article (or better: the paper which the article is referencing) says that C++ is the "best-performing" programming language. That's a whole different thing (or everyone would still be coding in assembler).
I whipped a little ruby script to download the kindle versions.

https://gist.github.com/1056111

The URLs are really, really, nice. You can substitute "kindle.noimages" for any other format you'd like.
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actually that's exactly what i was thinking about when i saw the name. denso spark plugs!
Wave was glitchy and slow, and no-one could figure out exactly what they were supposed to do with it. Google+ has a clear purpose, is fast, and doesn't seem glitchy. I was having a blast chatting with people from a forum I use on Wave, but the conversation crash at 300+ killed it for everyone.

edit: I put it this way in a Google+ conversation: "Wave was a good name. Sometimes it was up, sometimes it was down. And you had to rebuild any time the wave got too big."
That's what all the dictators say. "We need to maintain stability, so keep doing what we tell you. Don't you dare even question us - for the sake of our society, of course."
Is it just me, or does this article read like a sales brochure for TDL-4?
"like" is just a marketing label for the button/link. The actual function of it is to increase the visibility of the story. A lot of people have figured this out and use the facility for what it does rather than how it is labeled. I see this on FB a lot, too.
I've had friends who wanted to get into journalism and publishing and the only way they could do it was by working for free for several months. Not even 'internships', just free work. Eventually, there were vacancies and they were the obvious hires.

I'm not suggesting this was fair but it was a pretty clear case of supply outstripping demand, which meant that employers could afford to let the system develop this way.
It appears I said both "simply" and "easily." Your witticism was correct; I'll take my next freeway trip at 75mph by way of apology.
6th Ask HN about the black bar :)
So that's how some videos on youtube have millions of hits before anyone has heard of them...
Crockford did an OReilly video series that's pretty good at filling in gaps as well.
Thats a good point about license; I've added it to the site now. I'd guess creative commons is the best fit, but open to all non-spammy uses.

Other sources would be good, I'll be dropping a message to the people at http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ at lunch.
When Germany entered an economic slump after the Euro-introduction in 2002, companies loathed hiring on permanent positions. As a result, people who came out of college were hired on internships. An entire generation of young students were taken advantage of in this way, dubbed "Generation Praktikum" by the media (literally "generation internship"). It's sad to see the same happening in Ireland / the US now.
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Two years ago, I had no idea what problem Google Wave was trying to solve. I'm still a little hazy.

Google+ is solving the problem of Facebook not discriminating between your drinking buddies, and your boss. That's a pretty big problem - people get fired or sued over it. The more friends you have on Facebook, the less you want to use it, as you are the victim of overshare (yay, so many food pictures) and can get yourself in trouble too easily. It doesn't scale. I bet Google+ does.

OK, Facebook might just clone Google+'s features. Yay for them. Then it's a platform war. I bet the app developers, after being bitten by Facebook's previous decisions, are going to back Google.
Why is anybody on Earth still using Windows?
C/C++ has always been somewhat elusive for me; during study and work so far, I did almost everything BUT C/C++. So, how to get started on modern C++? Can anyone recommend books, websites, best practices or other resources?

I know the Java guys are very fond of their eclipse/netbeans/IDEA and ant/maven; what do C++ projects nowadays look like and what are the typical tools used to code and build? Are there any library collections or tools one should definitely check out? Are there any "industry standards"?

And while we are at it: what about COBOL? Any chance of learning that without having a 40 ton mainframe and the necessary nuclear power plant to run it at home?
As others have noted, we don't have 3D numbers because there is a theorem saying that they don't exist (at least with norm). Interestingly, Hamilton's discovery of the quaternions was the result of a long and fruitless search for a three-dimensional analog to the complex numbers.
It looks better than MediaMall's PlayLater. Very nice. Not sure if I'm seeing this correctly, but "And watch when you want, offline!". OFFLINE!? On any device? How?
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previously discussed here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2615096
Some changes are smaller than others ;-) but it takes familiarity with the system and wisdom to know the difference.
Apple has just built a big new data center. Just saying...
The site crashes my ipad2 browser.
I didn't realize it had hit mainstream media, I guess swedish media is behind as usual (or I'm reading the wrong sort of mainstream media)
Once you've bookmarked a video, you'll see a link to add your personalized podcast to iTunes.

So you can sync with your iPad / iPhone, etc...
If you watch it on youtube.com ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpQcPzeBLaU ) it's available in 720p. Very watchable.
I think they've blocked Google in general... there's no reason to give exception since it's a conflict in corporation management. You know... China.
There isn't a business case for getting new technologies in mass production so quickly.

Businesses price to maximise profits, which isn't necessarily anything to do with production cost. It's more profitable to sell at a high price to early adopters first, and then gradually bring the price down.
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