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You're wrong about one key point - judges in policy debate are allowed to use whatever decision-making framework they want. They don't have to consider a dropped argument valid. But most do, because the point of policy debate is not to wax poetic about your beliefs in a passionate attempt to persuade others, but rather to play a highly technical game against challenging opponents.

I never liked the alternate forms of debate that attempt to re-create some golden era of slow talking persuasion because the decisions made are often arbitrary. I prefer a value-neutral environment where I can be assured a more objective basis for judgement.
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Last week I was visiting an optician to get a new pair of glasses and I was thinking if some of the measurements he made could be made with smartphones instead of expensive equipment. I'm happy to see that this is indeed possible and is already happening. It's always great to hear about such inventions that can make people's lives life better.
Google+ solves a lot of issues. It is easy, rather than confusing, to set up lists of friends, and using them is likewise easy, rather than frustrating. Video chat that's free and easy to use (as opposed to easy to use but not worth the expense in the case of Skype or incredibly expensive and inordinately difficult to use in the case of many corporate IT solutions).

It doesn't solve every need that Facebook doesn't, but it does address quite a few of them.
Great. Thanks! Suggestions for improvements are most welcomed :)
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Why is it bullshit?
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Figuring out what CommonJS really is, and that it should be completely disregarded was difficult. 'module.exports' and 'require()' are the only relevant bits as far as I can tell.
The ignorance the writer displays in the last paragraph is ridiculous. "Anti-stem cell research campaigns" are against use of embryonic stem cells. But the writer's own article indicates that adult stem cells were used here.

That said, assuming his description of the technique is reasonably accurate (which, given the above-mentioned nonsense, is by no means certain), this sounds like an interesting and useful technique.
contacts are a medical device which always require seeing a professional to get a prescription

That's part of what I'm arguing against. If you can get the information required to select the right contacts without seeing a professional, I think that's your right. If you get it wrong because, well you really should have seen a professional, that's your problem.

A lot of the regulations concerning doctor supervision for drugs and medical devices are intended to prevent companies from marketing devices that are ineffective or dangerous to consumers who don't have enough information to make a good decision. I can sympathize with that goal, but it's heavy-handed enough to keep some reasonable options for medical care out of the reach of low-income people who might otherwise be able to access them.
Agree. When I think about the reasons, it's not just portability. Netbooks weren't that successful. It has more to do with how natural it is to experience technology when it is closer to the way we humans behave - Touch, Swipe, etc.

The ease of carrying it, simplicity, etc. apart from interesting applications like "Peek for Evernote", etc. will soon make it one of the best learning tools for kids.
That seems more likely to lead people (not sure which way though). For example if a song had a dark background (because of previous choices) then people might choose a contrasting background, etc..

It would be interesting to match up after a while with a similar project using "mood words" to create a map of mood to colour which could be broken down by region, by music preferences and such.
Do you have any references to corroborate your statement that "The housing and public market bubbles, prior to them occurring, were understood effects to China's growth plans."?

I would be very interested how much discussion China's policy makers have had on this question.

I don't think it is a given at all there has been a lot of discussion around this making it to highest levels - the consequences of the US housing bubble clearly weren't expected by US leaders despite the US having many, many intelligent policy makers (some proportion of whom could certainly see the crash coming).
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Which method are they using?
Why can't they just say up front "this service only for the USA".

Pisses me right off.
What I see: The student is either a troll or a detail-oriented, quick-to-anger idiot. The student's first email is fairly polite and could result just from a lack of internet search skills. But in the student's second email, the tone completely changes--the student is deliberately attacking Stross and trying to provoke him. Starting with the student's second email, I believe that the student is not looking for a calm, thoughtful response from Stross anymore; the student just wants Stross to admit that he is in the wrong.
At the end of the day, if you want to sell to enterprises, you need to know your way around the market.

This is absolutely true, however, it's also true that you need to create amazing products. Enterprises are very conservative. There's a lot of "no one was ever fired for buying IBM" style decision making. An established product has a huge CYA advantage over entrants. To be more attractive, you need to be not just a little better, but a lot better.

I work at Endeca, and for our e-commerce search engine, increasing conversion rates is a huge selling point. Note that I'm in Engineering, so I don't have a strong handle on the day-to-day operations of the sales team, but there is a lot of communication between sales, PM and engineering, so I feel I know enough to comment.
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All good points.

Note, however, that, while "tool-using fish" is clear in writing, if you say it, you might mean that the tool uses the fish.

Another effort:

Fish uses tool. Diver photographs the fish.

OR

Diver photographs fish, while fish uses tool.
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Tells me it can't play because of the region (Puerto Rico)
Same here, in UK :(.

I hate the idea of restricting media content to geographical regions.
I hope the OP is reading this - I highly doubt Google is mistrusting its teenager population, you might be reading into this more than you should. The invalid invites that got sent out - more than just the teenage crowd were offended.

Let's look at this a different way - you're 14, you're on the Internet. You start a hangout...to extended circles. Certain people join, and you get more "hanging out" than you had intended. And now questions are being asked. Did your parents consent to this? Where was the form that required parents to agree? Should there be restrictions on underage accounts? What kind of data should be public?

There's just a lot of legal issues, more than you'd expect. It requires a set of both design and engineering effort to get it just right. Google will get there. I hate to sound like a broken record but it's still in the feedback/reiteration stage (aka "field trial").
The first one is by Instra:mental - he has created some podcasts with dBridge (who used to be in a Drum&Bass group called 'Bad Company').

Unfortunately, those podcasts don't appear to be linked from the original site anymore, but here are the track listings for all of the Club Autonomic layers http://clubautonomic.wordpress.com/

But, if you go to their official soundcloud account http://soundcloud.com/club-autonomic-com , you can see at the very bottom that there are the first two layers.

Hope that helps!
Mining social networks to predict your app choices
I noticed that link, but did not try it because I was not really paying attention and assumed it was like those links on Reddit or (old) Slashdot that hide low-score comments.

I would have been more likely to try it if the link said, "Show x more comments above," since that phrasing is used on Less Wrong, or, "Show context."

(Trying it now.)
> A bunch of excuses but no really good reasons.

How do you distinguish between an 'excuse' and a 'reason'? It seems the terms are near-synonyms, only distinguishable to the extent one is an insult.
It's about the audience. If you walk into a store, you take it for granted that you'll be on CCTV that the store only films in case the cops need it. You do not grant permission for any random person to use that footage for their own ends. Well this is no different from someone sneaking in an stealing the CCTV tapes. Sorry, but the store were absolutely within their rights to have him arrested.
I think "G+" stands a chance at being a memorable name. "Are you in G+?" sounds alrite.
People who get pumped up by articles like these: Google 'integrative thinking'. Its a novel way to approach problem solving. A phenomenon uncovered by a prof from University of Toronto.

edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2748346
Yes, I'm aware of that. However, you're talking about staying up-to-date with some project whereas I was referring to getting to know about new projects in your area of interest.
I wonder why it smells like the previous PR campaign... They quote terms from the ToS, which are industry standard (you obviously need to have the right to display and store the data to run the service).

Also I fail to see what's wrong here: "Posts and other content shared by or with you [...] may be visible on your profile to those with whom that content has been shared." Of course the content will be visible by the people I shared it with.
What is it like to be in the profession you are in?
Reminds me of [synthetic] hydraulic storage; it's the same principle I suppose.

They claim high efficiency. Presumably higher than pumped hydro storage. Wonder then on the efficiencies of using different gases than raw air.
Not very accurate for me. Wrong by about 400km. (that's basically from one end of my country to the other end)
Can Google+ replace Facebook?
Quick, someone tell Donald Knuth!
Ah, thanks for the pointer to lesswrong!
it's actually a default setting on twitter for read-only access which is disappearing in the next couple of weeks.
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I wish it does.
Google+: Use your nickname to help fight spam and fake profiles
An Apple Store is private property.
It's a shame we can't get an API which gives access to which stories users have upvoted/downvoted and use that to build a better frontpage for ourselves.
Three Points:
1. Google + is for Googlers, no outsiders can Enter in Google+
2. Google + is for all Geeky people, but what about your Mother/Aunt who hardly understands computer, for them Facebook is the best!
3. Google + is best for something to share , but Facebook is best for something to express
Better: site:news.ycombinator.com $article-title
Your beliefs are your most important source of content
smells like bad PR.. FB has those problems now currently..
How about soundcloud? Works for everyone I think?
Out of curiosity, how many points would you get for a successful Gish Gallop?

(A 'Gish Gallop' is the practice, perfected by Creationist Duane Gish in his 'debates' with actual scientists, of asking so many questions the other side has no time to respond to all of them. Unanswered questions are deemed to have 'stumped' the scientist and regarded as a victory among the kinds of people who want Gish to have victories.)
It was kind of forced to gmail users though.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746481
It would take much more than parentheses to render English "devoid of all ambiguity and shade". Even then, any such stylistic changes couldn't be mandatory (that's not how languages work). You already have the choice of fully explicating a thought using multiple simple, unambiguous clauses which are clearly separated. Authors may neglect this liberty for the sake of art; just as many would like to have that unambiguity, but neglect it because it is meticulous. And now you are going to argue against making parentheses more generally acceptable-- which would in most cases be little more than a stylistic change, favoring a grammatical construct which already exists in the language.

Furthermore, look to the Lojban community for examples of poetry and literature in a truly unambiguous language (a far cry from the English suggested by saulrh).
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Another problem with G+: it's not happy that people have non-GMail email addresses. Let's say I have my friend John Smith jsmith@gmail.com in a circle. G+ keeps asking me if I want to add him still. Why? Because in my GMail, I have also emailed him at john_smith@hotmail.com. There's no way for me to tell it that these are the same person.

So I think G+ may be double-counting a significant number of users.
I spotted this clause as well

“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.”

Legally then google can do anything they like with your content, whether you made it private to a few friends only or completely public. You just have to trust them. Scary!
Well, the HN model has always been that votes are private. We can argue about whether that's a good idea (I don't think so), but it's probably not going to change.
Do you have a single Google contact with both emails, or two contacts, one for each? Just curious to see if that might make a difference.
The android app seems to expose email addresses in profiles where the web app does not. Including, according to one acquaintance, an email address that he associated with his google account purely for emergency recovery purposes.
Please, no TinyURLs that obscure the ultimate destination. URLs of any length work just fine here, with their display automatically clipped while the full URL is available for mouseover inspection. For example, here's how your original long URL displays:

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-buzz-started-off-reall...
I don't think the author understands the dynamics of the enterprise market. The companies mentioned in the article are definitely not the rule, and I don't see a trend here. I'm guessing that those companies don't have wide adoption across the largest of companies either.

First, the person with the purse is not usually the end-user. Therefore, features, capabilities lists and slide decks are generally more valuable than product design.

Second, the person with the purse is not usually the bringer of new tech. The decision-maker isn't usually the company's earlier adopter. Large companies select and condition for certain types of people to fit certain molds. That person typically has had, "pick your battles carefully" drilled into them, and they tend to avoid making unnecessary risks.

Third, companies only begin to change when they're under pressure, and at that point, their internal software systems aren't usually their primary focus. Large companies only make big changes in software when they see others succeeding at it, when it's mandated, when the ROI is obvious, when the employees are uprising over it, or finally, when they want to seem the industry vanguard.

Fourth, FUD still rules in the enterprise. It's much easier to fall back on the tried-and-true than to take a risk with uncertain results. And, if the tried-and-true comes from the 'best thinkers around' (e.g. the high-end academics and other big company employees), they're easily adopted. Try to see how hard it is to get a REST API adopted in the enterprise, and you'll understand.

Fifth, enterprise procurement can be dominated by RFP processes that generally tends to favor big lists of things other than usability and openness. Sometimes it's who is the cheapest. Other times, it is who is most secure. Or, who is the most reliable. It's rarely which product is the most well-designed.

Sixth, enterprises are _extremely_ process driven and have custom workflows for everything. The employees are very attached to those workflows. It usually takes a team of fast-talking consultants to piece together a Frankenstein monster system from available APIs to get those workflows to work. It's better to change the workflows at the beginning, but that rarely happens (then you have training issues, which is a whole other issue).

We will only see better designed enterprise software when the small companies that are using them now become big companies and have that mindset written into their corporate principles list.
This is pretty cool. However, what if I want to have a PRIVATE chat with someone?

It would be cool to send them a capability-based URL, or unique. sending someone console.fm/5thXv would take them to a specific playlist I've made while we can chat about it on the site. Etc.

Good work though. I like the look and feel quite a bit.
Yeah it's quite ridiculous. But I bet if they got it the way they wanted we would have separate countries on the internet as well eh? :/
Would love to get a take on this idea from someone who has color synesthesia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Sound_.E2.86.92_col...)
Same here. Safari 5.05, OS X 10.6.8. (Tested in Firefox 5; same problem.)
Ahem, if Hacker News will allow it, I present for your consideration...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_i1xk07o4g
To be fair, going from a less syntactically rich syntax to an almost complete superset of it isn't too hard. Yet, to draw from that the conclusion that javascript, or any other modern language of that family is pretty much the same seems like too much of a stretch to me. I just don't buy the argument that "oh, pretty much no one uses the new syntax" invalidates it.

One usually doesn't go around designing features around what an idiot would use. And to ignore a feature on that exact point, I think, completely misses how much modern compilers can do for you. I'd very much like to see converting something that uses yield[0] to generate collections in C#, or handling variable capture and anonymous functions to, say, C, by just twiddling around with the syntax.

[0] : I have working lazy evaluated collections in C++, complete with state machine generating code. It is not, by any stretch of the imagination, pretty to implement. However, being able to say - naturals()->Map([](int x) { return 2 * x; })->Take(N); - can be pretty satisfying.
Well, it can’t be the JavaScript location API, because there’s no JavaScript on that page, and anyway my browser would ask me if the page wanted to use my location. The only other method I know of that relies on information the site could get just by my visiting the page is looking the IP address up in a database of IP addresses and locations.
Why social media has become a soap opera
Interesting. It would be neat if you could find a way to display prior users' submission with more than just hue and saturation and include luminosity or brightness too.
While that is true, wouldn't embryonic stem cell fundamental research be capable of advancing adult stem cell technologies?
No I can confirm that it's not taking contacts into account. I think it's because it's non-trivial to come up with a UI for picking the email to send the invite to.
You still need an invite and then walk through the sign up process, even if you already have a Google account. Buzz was just dropped on all Gmail users out of nowhere.
Gonna guess Geo IP lookup.
I think it'd be pretty rad to use this API to visualize connections and tweet's and thing's that can be represented in a timeline. So much amazing client side stuff that we can do now. Coupling this with http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ might be fun :)
You're very right and I tend to do the same things as you described. I guess the only effective solution is to trust the knowledge one learns from authorities and stay vigilant to spot when things stop making sense or start breaking down. It is then, when it's possible to find who in this ladder of authorities was wrong, and know how to correct the error.
Effectively there is an invisible google circle and everyone is in it!

For me this contradicts my understanding of the basic principle of G+ cirlces. I.e that I can post stuff to a few individuals knowing that only they will see it. If Google can, say, use my photos or posts for their purposes without my permissions then its really not that much better than Facebook.

Shame. I've been using G+ over the last couple of days and I like it.
Agreed, the author misses some very important points. Regardless of adoption, quite often the buyer is not the user, and the user is very rarely the early adopter.

There is nothing wrong with serving all audiences, and creating software that doesn't suck (in fact, you should), but with poor sales teams, presentations and RFP's you will struggle for adoption in enterprise, period.

Hacker Centric cultures are huge and are very important imo, but it remains key to understand the increased weight on a strong Business Development team in enterprise.

Dealing with enterprise is not easy. Generally speaking, whatever software you are selling is displacing something else (even if that displacement is administrative assistants). Thus there is a high degree of complexity, process changes etc. that change how the game must be played vs. B2C
Privacy nightmare? Really?

First of all, Terms of Services are usually always quite broad. Beside, this is just the regular Google ToS. I wouldn't be surprised if they'll get a separate one later.

The point about available in search results is fine enough, but the only information that's forced available is your name, your profile picture and your gender. If you're commenting on other people posts (either on Facebook or G+) your name and profile picture will be seen by other people.

Finally: "[G+] provide limited tools to impact the display of your page." Ehm, have they actually tried the service? Every time you attempt to share anything you're asked for which circles to include. By default it's empty (not public like on Facebook) and you'll have to make a choice.

"Posted information is shared with the last defined set of people who you shared some information with." Yes, but your privacy settings is still shown right there. Facebook is worse: they hide it away under a security lock icon which is always locked (even if the post will be public) giving a false sense of security.

"Once posted, this setting cannot be changed anymore." Uhm, I would be very concerned if people could change the privacy settings on a post after it's been created.

And let's not forget that everyone working on G+ has been very concerned about privacy issues. E.g. previously a public post was created when you changed your profile picture. Some people was harassed on these posts so now they've changed it to default to "Your circles" (although you can always delete if you want).

EDIT: Your gender is publicly visible too. Thanks callahad.
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