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Can you clarify something? This article reads as though energy can't be quantized. Am I misreading the article, or is that an open question now? (Or was it always an open question, and I never understood Planck's Constant correctly?)
Thanks for the info, it is refreshing to see FreeBSD + Perl development... :-D
Yep! I was Hanging Out on Ubuntu with 6 friends on about day 2 of G+. Facebook doesn't even support my OS, so there's absolutely 0 chance I'll use their video chat.
I'm amazed at how many people jump to conclusions--and say that a bad Google search result or search spam is always the fault of SEO. SEO is not evil, and it is not all search engine spam. Most of the time the SEO that I do has to do with more with cleaning up bad or sloppy code and web design errors.
Ask HN: Alternatives to setting up a Massachusetts LLC
I live in Massachusetts and run a small web app that brings in about $600/month.

While it's a low risk endeavor, I'd like to get liability protection to cover me in the event of some catastrophe. Setting up and operating a Massachusetts LLC costs $500/year [1], which s a lot relative to the app's income.

Setting up and operating a Delaware LLC, on the other hand, is $90 formation fee + $200/year franchise tax + $50/year for a registered agent ($250/year), which isn't much better, especially when you factor in the complexity of doing it out of state.

Have any of you been in a similar spot? Any recommendations on how to proceed?

[1] http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cor/corpweb/corllc/llcinf.htm
And that is exactly why, at least on Android phones, the out of box Plus configuration is to automatically upload all pictures that are taken on a phone.
The fact that the agent groping my genitals or looking at my x-ray doesn't know my name doesn't make me feel any better.
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It would be especially nice if an ebook series such as this could automatically be delivered to my ebook reader of choice.

I believe that Instapaper offers something like this for the Kindle; I wonder if this is doable with iBooks?
Bringing Your Friends to Bing: Search Now More Social is one of the popular stories. I'm not sure if I trust that list of "popular stories"
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Very cool analysis! Let's see if it comes true... Would love to hear the answer to the question from @kim: "Tech and knowledge industries are thriving, yet job discussion always centers on manufacturing. Why not be realistic on jobs?"
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you can't be selectively offline to people (you have to un-friend them)

It looks like you can, the same way you can be offline in regular FB chat: by choosing a Friend List that contains the friend, and making yourself offline to that list. I'm currently offline to everyone on chat, except immediate family, and my closest friends.
Currencies (and other assets) benefit from liquidity: someone willing to buy it when you want to sell and to sell when you want to buy. It can be difficult to distinguish beneficial market-making activity (which still involves turning a profit) from harmful speculation, regardless of the way it's described by the person doing it.
Most of the point of Picasa (the desktop software product, not Picasa Web Albums) is to collect and catalog your locally stored photos.

It wouldn't be a good fit for a webapp, even in an ideal everyone-has-HTML5 utopia world.
You could almost say it has a 'hardcore' edge to it. Seriously, you would always be in the shadow of Hustler magazine in terms of mindshare. Just do a quite Google search for hustle magazine (no quotes) to see where they would be starting off from a branding perspective.

Not worth having that kind of initial hinderance to overcome.
Does it mean that skype just got 750 million p2p node?
i mean tie into google+ specifically.
Though this particular instance may not apply, be careful not to fall into a similar trap as skype... Here's a screenie I took a few days ago.

http://i52.tinypic.com/xawcgk.png
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I'm curious as to what set of the features you use, because I seem to have chosen a set with the opposite experience: responsiveness is often spotty, polish is lacking, and the offering seems to be getting weaker if anything. That said, maybe the new offerings will help fix some of that, but I'm not particularly sanguine.
Got your app when you were handing out redeem codes. Good stuff. Maybe open sourcing would be a logical next step? :)
Links written from javascript are not indexed by Google, IIRC.
I'm in the UK. Maybe it hasn't launched here yet?
The word "open" at that time, when used in conjunction with Unix, meant something along the lines of "POSIX" compliant. Even earlier uses were more along the lines of "uses TCPIP and supports NFS" IIRC, though that is before my time.

Open as used above, was started by the users, not the OS vendors, in reaction to APIs that weren't portable between different versions of Unix - the vendors were trying to create lock-in and the users didn't like it. Even Microsoft NT supported POSIX (not sure how well it worked).

Definitely the open source movement came from outside NeXT... Gnu was already around and used a lot, in fact the GCC compiler, ported for Next was the supported C/ObjC/C++ compiler.
Facebook video chat doesn't support Opera 11.50. Really, Facebook?
Ask HN: I want to start programming - Should I start BASIC?
I have tried hundreds of times to learn how to code and I fail everytime. You name the language and I've probably had a go. My question is, should I dig out my Sinclair Spectrum and start with BASIC and work my way up? Where should I begin?

The problem I face is remembering what I read in tutorials/books and/or putting what I've learned into practice!
On the order of 200 000. Mark Zuckerberg has 44871 followers on Google+, so there are clearly at least 44871 users, but probably not more than a few times that.

Yesterday, though, he had 35000 followers. That growth rate clearly can't continue; at that rate, + would overtake FB in another month or two, and the entire world population 5 days later.
The onus should be on the hiring company to tell about themselves because they're the ones who want something. If I'm looking for a job, I can either look at the 99% of job listings (both startup and more mainstream) that will tell me exactly what I'll be working on and who I'll be working with or I can ask someone who's already been vague for clarification to decide whether I even want to apply. The incentive just isn't there for the job-seeker.

What you're suggesting is that it's perfectly reasonable for someone to post a help-wanted ad in the classifieds saying "I need help! Call me to find out what with!" and to expect people to call you instead of the ads all around yours.
Interesting to compare this analysis with the one posted from Twitsprout by michaelrlitt. Seems boston.com widely underestimates the Twitter-verse's focus on marijuana...
I think Nevada is supposed to be pretty good. The problem, however, is that you live and do business in Massachusetts, so you would need to have something there in any event - as I understand things, at least.
You just get extra screening by the TSA, Don't really have to show ID if you don't have it
Definitely gonna try this as I browse the web. Should turn up interesting results/people. Nice work!
I don't think photos are the main attraction anymore. I know lots of people that only add a couple of photos a year to Facebook but still visit the site every day.
...but did anyone from the TSA gently cup his balls?
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It looks to me like GOOG FB and Apple are trying to get to video calls and own them before the phone companies wake up and realize how valuable their own social graph is. So far the carrier's have had a gold mine and wasted the opportunity.
There is some detail in https://www.facebook.com/notes/philip-su/building-video-call... about how the interface between Skype and Facebook works and about the browser plug-in behaviour.
When you stream something online, it's no different than downloading- it's just an instant version of it. I'm not sure into the details why mostly downloading makes it into lawsuits (maybe because it's easier to make a case), but from what I've read, it's still illegal if it's a copyrighted movie.

Those sites that lets you stream free movies are legal, at least in the United States. I built one of those sites myself so I know a little about them. As long as ALL your content are links posted to 3rd party sites, you're basically just an index. You don't expect people to sue Google for indexing bittorrent sites do you? Needless to say, you will still face legal complications- Sites that stream tv have been served before and shut down although the verdict usually results in a not guilty. If you check out the footer of those streaming sites, you'll notice almost all of them states explicitly "We do not host any content on blah blah.com. Please serve your DCMA copyright notices directly to the 3rd party websites that host them..."

Even the 3rd party sites that HOST the content is arguably hard to convict. The terms and agreements state that the responsibility lies with the actual user. The user agrees prior to signing up and every time they're making use of the website that they are not uploading copyrighted content.
Motl thinks everybody is on crack.
quote from one commenter: "It sucks! Ask me to download an EXE , while I am in GNU/linux. It is shitty M$ stuff."
I frequently run into this and wish I could buy a diff of the editions for a reduced price.
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This guy really knows his stuff
It looks like it's coming:

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/plusdevelopers/
JonnieCache, that couldn't be farther than the truth. Google has recently been downgrading sites that have too much AdSense on them. The AdSense team has been at odds with the Google organic algo team for a while now.
One of the best ways to learn programming is to start a project and just follow through with it. Start with something small; I began making my own Pong clones in Java. Also, Stack Overflow should be your best friend.

If you want some solid beginner reference materials, I'd suggest Learning Python the Hard Way (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/). I'm a strong proponent of teaching introductory programming with Python. Others are just a Google query away.

It'll be a long and arduous (and ultimately rewarding) journey. Best of luck!
I think one reason why the search product didn't gain traction was because it interfered horribly with the original goal of Foxmarks -- a service to sync bookmarks.

Speaking as a former user of Fox/XMarks, I saw the product go from a simple bookmark sync, to a bloated extension that tried to do more than what I had downloaded it for.

I do think that the data could have been useful, but it would have been a better idea to create a completely different product than to bundle additional features onto an existing one.
is this what passes for product announcements these days?
Sony lets slip PSN Pass gate for online gameplay
The hardware doesn't have to pay for itself, just the discount if you want to resell it. So maybe 20-30% of the initial cost.
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I remember reading that exporting certain facebook content violates facebook's terms of use. Just a heads up to check the terms of facebook if you were to create an app for export.
Exactly. Why do people trust their search engine, google, so much? And what would be the point of typing jquery.com into google?

There is an adress field you know.
Better article summarising whats happened:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/05/editors-...
So legalization of marijuana is our nation's biggest concern right now? I'm not sure what to think about that.
That's one of the ones that got picked, towards the beginning. We'll have a post-mortem up of everything soon.
I'm just wondering how long it will be before the moral panic. Social networking video opens up new horizons for copyright/trademark violations, "public broadcasts" and all manner of Chatroulette-like tomfoolery.
co.cc clearly advertises bulk purchases of 1000 domains from their front page. if you can't tell from this that it's a 'bad neighborhood', maybe you should be hiring somebody else to handle your web stuff for you.
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One of many things I admire MIT for is their hacker culture. I wish we have one at CMU- but the culture there is completely different. It's a damn shame.
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https://www.facebook.com/notes/philip-su/building-video-call...

"Although I was the only full-time engineer on the video calling project, I had help from Paul Shen, Rahul Iyer, and Vijaye Raji."
rememberthemilk.com has all of them except for #2. But it does have tags which might help you organize them instead of nesting.
Wow complain much? The thing just launched a couple hours ago. I think it just makes sense to integrate video calling with facebook--because today facebook is most people's worldwide, online contact book so to speak.

The idea is similar to the way google added voice calling to gchat.
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Here in the US, the the linked article is now first...and jQuery.com doesn't show up until the second page.
Agreed... I only clicked this link because I assumed there had to be something more interesting in the article than what the title said. I was wrong.
This is true. And he's a birther, and a heavy climate change skeptic. His writing about physics is refreshing though.
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I think cheap text messaging helped to kill AIM more than Facebook.
Skype has been profitable, I think.
I came here to comment on that very thing, the number one question according to Twitsprout asks about the legalization of marijuana to increase tax revenue, the wordcloud has

"Cannabis"
"Cannibis jobs"
"Marijuana"
"Legalizing"

Yet Boston.com doesn't even find it worthy to deem "Marijuana" an accurate score. I'm not really sure what to think of that other than the highly controversial idea that when it comes to things like this ("this" being an outdated perspective on drug laws), journalists would much rather play it safe than accurately convey what has been actually represented in a public forum.
The marijuana topic is legit. We have ample data that shows overwhelming interest in the subject. It's not just about the drugs, it's also about the laws enforcing them. People don't necessarily want to get high, they just don't want to pay to have one of the highest per-capita imprisonment rates in the world.
I believe that the Holographic Universe theory states that the quantization should be larger than the Plank Constant since the Plank Constant represents the quantization at the edge of the Universe. Everything inside the universe is a projection of the information on the edge and therefore is blurrier and has a higher quantization limit.
Yeah, I wasn't being entirely serious, guess that doesn't come across. It doesn't take much thought to realise that there are lots of glaring problems with my reasoning there :)
Great!

Now what's the next PostgreSQL?
Totally agree here. Remember the Milk is awesome.
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He's using Reference Class Forecasting[1]. Without digging deep into Google+'s unique features, he's betting that it will do roughly what other web services in the class "Facebook competitor" and "Google-owned foray into social networking" have done in the past.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_class_forecasting
I'm hoping (maybe against hope…) that Twitter isn't representative of the whole country.
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The contents of this article are (almost) a bunch of quotes from a bunch of different authors.
My first ever guest post and marketing attempt. Contains some hidden self-promotion, can you find it?
> it has unrestricted access to your phone, it is not merely flipping a 'install whatever apps I like' switch

Yeah, that's a fair point, I suppose. You need some basically familiarity with the internals of the system in order to know that there is no such benign switch.
For me it's not about smoking pot, it's about not putting people in jail for it. A decent chunk of our budget mess at the state and local levels is in law enforcement. We spend huge amounts of money enforcing bad laws. I'd like to make that stop, but it has to stop at the federal level first.
I really hope you're right! Will be interesting in hearing the analysis on whether Obama focused on what people wanted to hear vs. his agenda.

Was also pretty cool to checkout Obama's Twitsprout stats, seems his team is trying to drop the # of people they follow.
If you want to train your logic skills as well as basic programming concepts, I would go with c++.
You said in your first paragraph what took me this much to say http://copymix.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/on-music-industry-an...
Could you elaborate on this please, how did google force samsung to release a phone with gps?
Think of all the lives its ruined by making felons (destroying future careers) out of nonviolent people. Think about the complete destruction of our civil liberties/due process/militarization of police/etc. The War on Drugs is one of the most destructive and wasteful endeavors ever attempted by the US government. It funds gang activity, makes police encounters more dangerous, all in all it affects US citizens more than the most other federal activities.
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Not sure if this is just me, but the site loads partway and then sits forever* and never loads any further. Anyone else have this problem?

* = For a certain value of "forever"
But you have to hand it to Facebook for hearing about Google+ Hangouts on Monday and implementing video chat on Wednesday.
Well I sort of get 'writers block'. For example I set out learning PHP a few months ago and created a meme site which would store image locations in MySQL, pull them out in ascending order and have arrow buttons to flick between the images. A random button for an image at random, an upload script, a login script, and a crappy admin area. Doing all tha took me weeks of trail and error and a lot of copying other people's code then all of a sudden I hit a brick wall and couldn't progress. For a month or two I get a rush of enthusiasm and motivation, I start off great and start thinking logically in my everyday life and I start thinking about how something is coded; I even start thinking algorithms for everyday life. But then I just stop dead and can't progress; anything better than command line input/output apps just eludes me!
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As an organizer of a Meetup group, I can say that your 2nd point is on the money.

I had one event where there were just as many sponsor reps as attendees- that felt horrible. I had another where we exceeded seating capacity, ran out of beer and pizza but everyone (including myself) came away thrilled.
Post-mortem sounds grim. Let's call it "post-town-hall-analysis" :)
I have to agree with the recent posts. I actually went to school and received a specialist in Software Engineering first. Afterwards I decided it would be good to also get a web development degree on top of it to have all bases covered.

Truth is, I could have got more knowledge for the web dev by speeding 10 hours a week for a year on w3c tutorials, where as finding solid consistence tutorials on the engineering aspect is a lot harder.

Though it will be more work and a bit more of a challenge, the payoff will be 100x in the end.
Hello all

I work at Google as a Webmaster Trends Analyst to help webmasters with issues like this one.

Looking into this, the first thing I noticed is that the blog.jquery.com seems to be blocking Googlebot from fetching its pages, but the site responds normally for web browsers: it returns an HTTP 500 error headers for requests using a Googlebot user agent. You can see this yourself using a public tool like Web Sniffer to fetch the page spoofed as Googlebot ( http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http://blog.jquery.com/2011/06/3... ) or using Firefox with the User Agent Switcher and Live HTTP Headers addons.

Unfortunately this is a very common problem we see. Most of the time it's a mis-configured firewall that blocks Googlebot, and sometimes it's a server-side code issue, perhaps the content management system.

Separately from that, I also notice that the blog.jquery.it URL is redirecting to the blog.jquery.com, suggesting they are fixing it on their end too.

If an jquery.com admins want more help, please post on our forums ( http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en ).

Cheers,

Pierre
The Town Hall just ended, and the entire topic of drug law reform was conspicuous only by its complete absence :( This will be part of the upcoming post-mortem for sure.
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I don't have the time this afternoon to find hard stats on this, but if you were to plot active userbase over total internet users worldwide for, lets say, AIM & Livejournal c.2004, Friendster c.2006, MySpace c.2008, and Facebook and Twitter currently, I suspect Facebook would appear much less the unstoppable force/immovable object you're making it out to be.

I'm acquainted with hundreds of people like your roommate, and I'm aware that normal people don't give a shit about our geeky critiques of Facebook. What I was trying to communicate is that they likely won't bail on Facebook for those reasons, but they might because there are too many annoying people on Fb, or they don't want to get Faceskyped by their mom, or something that's more interesting or lower friction comes along, or other people move for a variety of reasons and they just follow.

FB won social networking. Game over.

I hate to put it this way, but what are you doing on HN? Seriously. I thought we'd all read The Innovator's Dillema. Nobody wins anything for long, the game's never over. That's sort of the point of capitalism.
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Yes, it's dead now.
Because often times you don't remember the domain exactly & then you've got the same problem. Anyone remember whitehouse.com or countless other examples of this? The fact that Google is probably 99%+ effective at getting you where you want to go heavily disincentivizes relying on your brain which may not have as high a success rate as Google. Plus all the browsers have gone in this direction since search terms are more usable than domain names.
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It seems he only mentioned 'drugs' once, in the context of 'war on drugs' - nothing about pot legalization
I highly recommend using the Google-hosted versions of JQuery rather than downloading them and hosting them on your own. You get the benefits of faster downloads through Google's CDN and since many websites use these, they're pre-cached in browsers:
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