skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far Google+ is rather boring. Probably cause I only have 9 people on there and no one is posting anything other then their new profile picture and a test post. Other then that it's been quiet. Meanwhile on Facebook where I have many more "Friends" it's business as usually, same number of post etc.

I'm sure it'll take a long time for Google to catch up, I just don't see most people moving to Google+.
The point of a bloomberg terminal is not the software, it is the data. The monthly fee is for a one-user license of the data that they provide, and it is quite vast.
I'm referring to how if you look at the demos linked, they're using C++/Java style OO patterns in JavaScript that's apparently being written from scratch (instead of ported from existing C++/Java game code). If you're writing from scratch, you should really use JS-friendly patterns so that your code will perform better. Some of this might be due to the fact that they're porting libraries from other languages (like Box2D, for example).

Entity.position = new geo.Point(x, y) versus entity.x = x, entity.y = y; ... etc.
Sorry, I meant to imply that that's just the way things are, however, after the realization that he'd been convicted, it's likely that whether he's done anything wrong on this particular project, he's drawn the scapegoat straw.

I meant to say those things, but got lost in typing so much other nonsense and trailed off. Thanks for bringing it up.
I do control the domain. Profiles are not admin-controllable. They simply don't exist for apps accounts.
1st rule of cryptography - don't try it at home. You'll get it wrong. There are any number of standard ways to protect passwords, there's no need for them to be reaching for the bottle of Snake Oil.
Lightsquared has a license to broadcast in the 1525-1559 MHz band. Since their transmitters are on the ground, the signals are powerful.

GPS is 1559—1610 MHz. These signals are very weak, since the transmitters are in orbit.

The pissing match is that even though on paper the two ranges don't overlap, in practice the Lightsquared transmissions tend to stomp all over the lower end of the GPS range, which make various interested parties unhappy.

There's additional humor in that while it's certainly possible to get around interference like this, in practice that's dual-use technology which can be used to evade military GPS jamming.
and/or stop using a single word and use sentences (phrase)

eight characters is easy - try cracking 50
I have figured out what to do about the 404. Your link consists of the address of a Google+ post, followed by ? and some parameters which are your unique invite id. For some reason the post does not resolve, but the invite is good. So keep the invite ID, but replace the main URL with https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/posts/PhJFJqLy... which is the address of Vic Gundotra's much-quoted post about shutting down invites for the night.
My bank does the same bullshit, 8 characters alphanumeric at most.
As soon as an exchange holds your money for more than ten seconds, it's a bank.
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Isn't there some initiative by now to actually educate people on proper password security?
"Build something awesome...investors will come out of the woodwork"
Thanks for the reply. Odd that themes are available for some accounts but not others. I did find this help thread that originated in 2008(!) where others describe having the problem also: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Apps/thread?t...
Did anyone else see this coming? :)
No problem, I'm happy to share something that genuinely helped me. I love what you're doing, please keep doing it :)
Andy Hertzfeld did the Circles editor in Google+. The site-wide redesign is done by Google Creative Labs, which I think is behind the Search On advertisement series and the Parisian Love Superbowl ad. It's also had significant input and direction from the individual teams, eg. most of the Search UX team was involved in the websearch portion of the redesign.
I don't know why you're being downvoted since what you speak is the truth, but have an upvote.

Anyone who thinks the average person is going to start using Google+ instead of Facebook is delusional at best.

Just listen to those Google+ introductory videos. Who the hell talks like that? Friends being worth your time -- what? "Adding people to your life"? Are these people real?

Here's the real deal: Google+ is sterile and lacks originality -- it's just Buzz and GTalk with a new uninspired interface.

Being able to group people in circles with JS animation is only exciting to geeks. No one else gets off on contact/group management.
If anyone still feels like inviting. I would like one. My email is in my profile.
I actually have to agree with him to an extent. Most moms will sign up for pretty much any website that her kid is on (unless its some gangster rap forum or something). Similarly I think most 13-17 year olds will pretty much sign up for any website that the college kids are on. Popular social media site choice is really dominated by the decisions of 18-25 year olds.
"Hacker News" as in http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is

Not as in stealing your bank details.
> Bundling a local development server with their dev tools is a good move, though. Doing development against file:// is basically impossible at this point due to how badly modern browsers mishandle requests for non-http resources.

You can run a local development server with a single line of Python,

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

so not sure why bundling a server is needed. In fact I would worry about running a bundled server, since I am not sure I can trust them to not listen for outside connections by default or have other security issues.
Is James Waldron your real name, or the name of the person you're trying to set up?
> These guys make real banks look good

I suppose arbitrarily allowing someone to devalue an entire currency because of lax security procedures is technically better than evicting people out of their home.
I still use it all the time to convert people to gmail. In the past month alone I have converted 10+ people, mostly non-tech (ie. parents, brothers, godparents etc.)

Google are very analytics driven in product design, if it wasn't being used and wasn't serving a purpose, I believe they would have removed it already or freed up that real estate for something else
A friend of mine is working on something similar, and she actually pitched it at a Startup Weekend event in Baltimore. Sadly, the judges, I felt, didn't "get it", and missed the point in general.

If nothing else, you guys just completely validated her idea. Best of luck!
Not too difficult if it's composed of dictionary words. Why not automatically generate random strings to use? No pattern at all.
This cannot be good! This type of vacation can lead to politics since you’ve not technically "earned it". It reminds me of a company where there were no start/end hours for the day, but the politics around those showing up after nine and/or leaving before five was suffocating and completely unfair (eyes rolled when the less politically favored came late or left early while those favored always got away with “there are no set hours”).

People favored will get no push from management for longer or more frequent vacation while those not that good with sucking up feel pressure when asking for vacation. Then in your review they might say you took too much vacation showing lack of interest - nothing good can come out of this. Unwritten rules = politics.
I have three Google Apps accounts. The new themes are available in two of my three Google Apps accounts. I'm an admin on all three accounts, so I'm not sure why the new themes aren't available for some Google Apps users.
At both http://albumpl.us and http://jaavuu.com we use webapp plus pytenjin: http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/pytenjin-users-guide.html

In addition, we have a small home-grown framework ("glue") that holds it together, but it's probably only about 100-200 lines of code. The advantage is that we know it and can maintain/add features easily.

But then again we don't really need a low end CMS, which is what many of these other frameworks try to provide.
> and/or stop using a single word and use sentences (phrase)

True.

This isn't meant for the user, though. This is meant for the developers. No matter how hard the developers try, users will always pick bad passwords. If you use salted SHA-1, then if the database gets compromised there goes 50% of the passwords. If, on the other hand, you use bcrypt, maybe only 5% of the passwords get cracked.

Bcrypt turns a massive news event (database leaked; thousands of passwords lost!) in to something much less newsworthy (database leaked; twenty passwords lost).
In domain management, there is an option to turn on themes for e-mail users.
It also relies upon Flash.
It's not that the response damages their brand. It's that the letter damages their brand, and their response only cues more people into it. It's a lose-lose situation for them once the letter is sent out - unless they had something witty planned and responded with a semi-troll comment such as "like this? present new product"
An aspect to keep in mind if you do this is (file) portability. Since it's tied to the data structure you could inadvertently tie the data format to a specific architecture -- e.g. endianness, integer sizes, 32 vs 64 bit, etc.
No, he was just the lead for the circles features.
I would love to know more about your tech stack? Which language, framework, tool,s libs, etc are you using?
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True, but I think this has been fixed, assuming their new site is live:

"The new Mt. Gox site features SHA-512 multi-iteration, triple salted hashing and soon will have an option for users to enable a withdraw password that will be separate from their login passwords."
An Ecosystem Can Be Built Around Chromebooks and Customer Service for Companies
Excuse the question; I've been on here for a couple months now and there isn't a down arrow on the website UI at all. I've tried a few android apps and they have down arrows but I wasn't really sure if they actually worked since points are hidden from view. Is downvoting just not possible without a greasemonkey script, but its still enabled on the server or is there something I'm missing?
Looks that Google is picking up a lot of design clues from Microsoft -- this is reminiscent of Metro UI of WP7 and Windows 8...
I've performed some of those audits, and that was not my response.
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I have read this article and read the Wikipedia entry on bcrypt and I still cannot understand something. In this article it states that : "As computers get faster you can increase the work factor and the hash will get slower.". How can you make the algorithm slower over time and still be able to validate user passwords that were stored before you changed the speed? Could anyone enlighten me on this?
This kind of thing drives me crazy. Why not allow special characters? The only conceivable reason is so that your app doesn't get SQL-injected or otherwise hijacked -- which is why God invented the character escape.

Limiting the number of chars as a security measure? I'd make fun of this but it's just too easy and stupid.
flash for audio, just to be clear. I think this has to do with queueing up a bunch of small sounds and playing them at precise moments, which browsers currently suck at.

Erik Moller at opera wrote about an interesting approach to the problem since then[1], and hopefully we'll see browsers improving their audio support in general.

[1] http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/06/13/emberwind-week-1...
I'd just like to correct that last point.

Facebook doesn't sell any data about its users.
Great. It's nice to have another Node podcast. There is the 'Minute with Node' (or something like that) that is done by the core team, but I don't think it is very active.

It also seems to be a longer, more in depth format - which is great.
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Congrats on the launch guys! I love the new name, the product looks great and the writeup on techcrunch provided really good coverage.
Will there be future support for intelligence on image ads on the Content Network?
I believe that the work factor is encoded with the hash, so bcrypt can identify which work factor to use.
How do we know you won't get AcquHired and shut down the service down like AdGrok?

Yes, I'm being snarky but all these talent acquisitions erode my trust that startups are in this for the long haul. Why give you my time or data if you won't be here in 9 months?
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Yes, absolutely! Image ads are one of our top priorities and coming very soon.
I tried a bunch of my competitors but for each one, it said "No Active Ads Found." Although I know they have ads running on Google. For example, try Yellowbrix.com.

If this actually works for the competitors I want to track, this is an awesome product!
You don't get a downvote arrow until your karma hits a certain level.
It drives sales for AdWords.
You are actually kind of forced to think about it. If you want to 'follow' someone you can only do so by adding him to one or more of your circles. Of course, you can throw all people in the "Friends" circle, but I think given this visible choice not many will do that.
http://www.szot.eu/

tl;dr
Big bangs are fueled by annihilation. Matter-antimatter asymmetry is local. Most of the matter always existed as blackholes. Existence, space and time didn't start at Big Bang. Observable universe is extremely small part of whole space.

Awaiting to have a crackpot index assigned. ;-)
Excellent idea. I've seen this elsewhere (Zynga apparently uses it, among others).
You are misreading. It's 0.8% of the US population and 4.9% of hourly (i.e., nonsalaried) workers.
Don't worry, the US DOJ Antitrust Division will soon be to your rescue.
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The author left Apple in 2008 while the FCP X project just started, I don't think he is the best person to know 'Why Apple built FCP X'.
Yeah. It's a good way to come up with a concrete idea, and it has the benefit of, y'know, actually helping people. (And helping people sometimes has the benefit of turning into paying work in the future.)
Nostrademons is correct (obviously, as a Google employee). Apparently there was an entire design team that worked on the UX/UI redesign.
That's the confusing part. How much do you actually take..?
with cuda and the cloud it's quicker to try all possible passwords (starting with aaaaaaa...) than to search a rainbow table of dictionary words so ":Hy6&z@z" is now no more secure than "password"
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As an Asian male who grew up in a culture with deep-rooted sexism elements, I found this article very sad. Every time when someone hint that women is in any way inferior, I think about my mother, with her 5th grade level education and a determination to raise us kids well. Both mom and dad work a day job, but when both of them come home, mothers are the ones who take care of dinner, children etc. I grew up with a promise to myself that I will break that cycle of sexism with my own family.

Just thinking about it, what do you think Hackers community can do to make it more warm and welcoming for female hackers? I remember reading an LA Times article recently about how startup culture is inherently male--what can we do to make it more equal in our own community?
> If you're making minimum wage, there's not much consumption to be lowered. Rent, transport, and food will eat it all up (and then some).

Rent, transportation, and food are consumption. If they're eating up everything and then some, find a way to lower them. Move in with your parents if you have to, or share a place with friends. Learn to love rice, beans, and potatoes. Walk or take the bus. There are lots of options.

(This isn't abstract theory; I'm presently living on not much more than minimum wage, and I have a wife and kid.)
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The reason Mt Gox needs to obsess over password database is because they don't seem experienced enough to secure the rest of their site. When it comes down to it, they are still a "PHP+mysql" site like all the others on the Internet.

Would you store your funds at the Bank of Wordpress?
I have to agree with the article. The writeups from the founders of ZeroMQ always make it seem like a magic bullet, but a few years back when I got down to implementing a distributed 0mq C++ application, it was a hoary mess and we had to implement basic thread pool functionality to keep track of all of our resources. It turns out that we would have been better off using an off-the-shelf messaging solution that kept track of the resources, even with the 'overhead' that an independent broker like RabbitMQ brings. At least the product would have been finished (AFAIK it was scraped and raw binary socket write/reads were used instead).

So the point about Erlang bringing "Fast process creation/destruction" to the table is especially important: if you want to bootstrap an application which needs low-latency, low-overhead distributed message passing, you are better off using Erlang or something else.
I'm going out on a limb and guessing that kenjackson (grandparent post) was kidding about his new startup.
If you actually have this ungodly power and wish to use it benevolently, please shoot me an invite. I'm dying to use G+. Thanks in advance!
As an Asian male who grew up in a culture with deep-rooted sexism elements, I found this article very sad. Every time when someone hint that women is in any way inferior, I think about my mother, with her 5th grade level education and a determination to raise us kids well.

Both mom and dad work a day job, but when both of them come home, mothers are the ones who take care of dinner, children etc. I grew up with a promise to myself that I will break that cycle of sexism with my own family (I'll be a 1 year old husband in August :P)

Just thinking about it, what do you think Hackers community can do to make it more warm and welcoming for female hackers? I remember reading an LA Times article recently about how startup culture is inherently male--what can we do to make it more equal in our own community?
They'll win your sister by being there every time she logs into check her gmail and browse anything Google. They already have content and are building a network around the content versus building a network and hoping users create content.
Actually, I do, but I do it by redirecting mail to my DNS to my gmail account. If I change provider, I don't need to tell everyone my new email address.
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> These guys make real banks look good - no small feat!

How, exactly? I don't remember many instances of banks having security issues that dropped the value of the US dollar to 1/1750th of its value, even briefly.
Very excited to see this used here and know that it will be replaced by even more plugin-less awesome- WebRTC.

I wonder if that's just a Google-internal thing or if Google+ will embrace other social networks wanting to integrate.
Facebook is a "PHP+mysql" site.
Thanks for your answer. At first I though it didn't make sense because the hash should be one-way and bcrypt should not decrypt the hash or mess around with it other than comparing it with what the user entered but I have searched a bit more and found this post on stackoverflow that explains in detail : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4443476/optimal-bcrypt-wo...

Your answer was right, it stores the work factor, the salt and the hash so that at any given time you can change the work factor and it will adjust in the database!
We're self-hosting on Ubuntu with most of our codebase in Python. On the web stack we're using Apache/Python/Pyramid, and for our indexers and data persistence we're using an array of technologies.

It's a really interesting big data problem to work on, and if anyone's interested in learning more, we're currently hiring :).
If you're making minimum wage, chances are you're already riding the bus, eating rice, beans, and potatoes. Chances are also pretty good that your parents and friends are in a similar financial situation.

How many minimum wage earners have a MS degree like you?
Google Mobile again changing the face
Google's mobile site was recently updated to make navigation easier and more enjoyable through your Android phones.
The thing is that Facebook is likely implementing literally everything that is on Google+ right now. If they launch every feature they have before Google+ goes public then the only advantages that Google can possibly maintain is integration with their other products.
Hubspot is doing this. I found it to be very refreshing while working at Hubspot. It was a very wonderful way to work. "Come in when you want, leave when you want as long as you get your work done" Your schedule is agreed with the small team you're in and when you're tired, take as much rest as you want.

I think the touching thing about it, was that the CEO's Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, were worried that people would forget to take their vacations.

By the way, Hubspot isn't a small company. They're above 200 people now--and it's working great for them.

I think when I have the opportunity to run an organization, I'll go with the no vacation policy as well.
If lensing (through one or more lenses) resulted in a significantly longer path for the light, would it not make sense for an object to seem older than it is (i.e. have greater redshift)?
Assuming 5 words selected from a dictionary of 234979, there are 716382975036689591261090899 possibilities. If you have 1000 computers each cracking 10 billion attempts per second, you're looking at about 1135817 years. I'm going to call that difficult.
When talking about DIY crypto, the question should be turned around - what's the benefit of this over just using bcrypt?
I wouldn't store my money on facebook either.
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I worked for a company that allowed their 'white collar' workers unlimited vacations. It wasn't uncommon for people to take six to eight week vacations, but they almost always were working vacations with cell phone and laptop in tow.

It worked well for everyone, I think.
The easy way is to support the previous work factors and increase it next time the user logs in (since you'll have the password in plaintext in memory). Either way, bcrypt with a paltry work factor of 7 or 8 is orders of magnitude slower than md5 and sha. Jack that up to 12 or 13 and you're pretty much good to go for years, the only problem is the near 1-second processing time on semi-current hardware.
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People keep posting this here. But I think http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html should probably be considered the best way to do this today. Google is even using it in ChromeOS.
Ah thanks; that makes sense. I haven't felt any particular desire to downvote anything on HN anyway, I was just curious.
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Perhaps it's because I'm used to using the darker "Shiny" theme, which I've had on for many years, but the colors of the Preview theme are way too bright for my taste. I think they should come up with a more subdued version of it that doesn't feel quite so loud. Functionally, though, it's great.
Yes! That's one of my concern. We're so used to written rules and set limits. Vacation days are usually defined and typically 'earned'.

If there is a defined number and person A doesn't like that person B has 5 more days, person A can't blame person B and has to talk to the Boss.

However, if there is no defined number and person A takes 5 more days then maybe person B, D, E might take issue. It's unwritten and undefined, why did person A take more days..?
The first one's free, kid.