skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Gets All Designy With Updated Homepage, Search Results And Free Fonts
pg should add a way to coalesce news articles pertaining to the same event
The Lurking Horror is set at an analogue of MIT, where most of the Infocom people went.
too many crooks in the kitchen
That depends on your definition of "follow". You can choose to add someone to your circle without them reciprocating. In that sense, you are following them.

However, they choose which of their circles see the things they post. So you can follow whomever you want, but the people you follow may not necessarily broadcast to you if you do so.
That's very interesting and informative, thanks for sharing :)
IMO you people are already working on a project from 6 months by this time you must be having a working version of the product. You should get out and concentrate on refining the product, iterate the product leaving your ego's aside. Try to market the product. Sometime when you don't have money coming in you loose your motivation. When you start getting some money you will enjoy rest of the things. Why you switched to a new development framework does any of your customer told you to do so. If not then I think you need to learn.
When you have the time to provide feedback please send me an email (andres@thriftdb.com).
I haven't looked closely at what happens when you upload an image to Google+, but I can tell you that it's trivially easy to share photos out of Picasa, which does let you get the originals.
MIT Zork is bundled in with the iPhone/iPad Frotz interpreter, so it's probably in IFDB.
http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/bits-of-evidence-2338367 - the slides from Bits of Evidence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5UwJM2kGfo - Bits of Evidence: Code inspections

Unfortunately it's divided in chapters without any indexing so it can get a bit confusing since you most probably aren't going to be able to watch them in the order he presented them. Still worth it!
Note vim can do folds too. (Not a commonly known feature, I only learned about it recently myself.) But the effect he wants is the literal bars showing indentation levels which I think some IDEs have... vim could fake it by highlighting the bg cells.
I'm kind of against the tampering with the front page in general. All of the animated doodles, ajax autocompletes and drop down menus really drag on my older "utility" computers. It's gotten so bad that I actually use bing on an old p2 in the basement because google is too frustrating. At least what I type into bing shows on the screen instantly.
Just tried that on a new Ubuntu instance...it worked!!! Wow...
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Keeps getting better with each iteration! That said, I'd still like to see some pi fonts and printer's ornaments...
Right, I misread it. Also, I'm playing with it right now and you can put people into multiple circles.
I'm guessing you're a neophile (as most people on HN are): you tried casual games because there was some sort of novelty to them, then quit. Most people don't share this motivation; they find it hard to understand why, say, you would sell your perfectly-fine year-old phone to buy the newer one. This isn't how social games have managed to attract the userbase they currently hold.

Instead, people play casual games for the same reason they, e.g., smoke cigarettes: because their friends are doing it—so there's social proof that it's something interesting to try—but once you as an individual try it, you're hooked into a "fun loop" [http://www.eldergame.com/2011/06/world-vs-game-emergent-game...] of instant, small rewards, that invokes peer-pressure to rejoin whenever you try to leave (taking a smoke break at work with friends :: being sent an double-incentivized bale of hay.) This isn't really something that can "wear off" over time; rather, it becomes an increasingly strong bond as you begin to base parts of your life around it (smoking when you go out for a walk after dinner :: checking on your virtual pets on your break between classes.)
A little tangent here, but does anyone else find it increasingly difficult to manage multiple sessions on the Google platform?

I keep having difficulty not knowing which google account I'm logged into, having issues enabling/disabling features before I have access to a feature X and then, I find out feature X is not available with google apps hosted account; but it's available with my gmail account.

There really isn't a solution other than using chrome, incognito window and n browsers per google account. I sure it's a minority of the google user base having this issue, or I'm sure it would be dealt with. Anyone else experience this, and have a solution? I'm just short of abandoning data in all my accounts but one, and moving everything over to it (and forward emails).
Judging by the other comments, it's just me, but the fonts look worse now. They aren't smooth at all.

Why?
We've put some of the styling-related components online on http://appuicomponents.com/ but the layouting engine isn't there yet, I do feel it's valuable enough to productise eventually. The main problem is lack of polish right now. Interface Builder isn't much use once you get to that level of customisation - there's no way to set properties your subclasses introduce, let alone previewing the automatic layouting. I'd like to fix that at some point and have some ideas on how it could be done. Aside from that, I also still need to document the system, and tidy up the code implementing the layouting, as it's currently not the easiest to debug or find out why something isn't being laid out as you were expecting, even if the layout system itself isn't doing anything wrong.

Then of course there's the fact that I'm spending almost all my time on our startup, which is completely unrelated to iOS. (but it has a Cocoa-based Mac GUI, hence my recent Cocoa adventures)

Actually, if you're interested in the layout kit, go ahead and drop me a line (email on the website I mentioned, or in my HN profile) with what you're trying to do - if it does what you want, I'd be quite happy to progressively tidy it up and document it if I've got one or two users who are willing to put up with the rough edges initially, in exchange for some hand-holding.
I can never understand this sort of comment.

Obviously the people who criticise the lack of updates are not the same people who are criticising the update.

This observation can only make sense if you aggregate the public into a single person represented by the loudest complaining minority's opinion at any given time. Well, yes, then that person would be wildly inconsistent. But it doesn't actually exist.
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IE WebGL
In Google+, the list of people with whom an item is shared is visible.
Yes, I wish we had already built that feature.
It's amazing, I thought I would come here to learn things, but instead I am teaching.

Branching projects is hard in XCode? Zip up the project files and back up the revision... in I don't know, a source code repository? LOL!

None of the re-writing is required in Xcode for your app. Design the app, then make it in Xcode. If you have to make revisions to the design of your app, go back to designing it. Most of the code can be re-used, but clearly you haven't finished designing the app yet...

Interesting take on the initial experience. But instead of casting about for blame, it might be better to ask why your processes are going wrong.
Not quite the same load. Google fonts is more like Google Libraries than translate.
POP might be a start, though for a proper backup tags need to be included somehow, maybe in a custom header field.
Thing's I noticed trying out the demo:

- You can only have add a person to one "circle". If I wanted to add someone to two or more, I'm SOL. Maybe they will change this.

- A "circle" can only contain a certain number of users before it runs out of room. I haven't seen how it deal with this - does it shrink the circles as you add more? What happens if there are 500 people in one, would they be a bunch of 1 x 1 pixel dots? Or does the circle just say "You can't add any more people"?
Google+ works in the way you describe (when you comment you know who can view the post).
Couldn't the app use your username / password to connect to github the first time and then generate an SSH key pair which it would use from that point forward?

That seems like the best compromise of security and easy of use to me.
Google’s Search Results Now Highlight Content Creators
Nice improvement to the interface. I've just recently started using these fonts a bit and I really like the service. The collection is growing too so there's a good variety there. Nice job, Google.
That would be interesting. It could be also easier to search for that links later if they were all in one group.
No. One of the videos makes this clear.
Facebook Claimant’s Lawyers are Quitting
It really isn't that serious.
I don't see how this is terribly problematic for the company, or even YC. It is critical of the posting, but criticism, when done correctly, is helpful. This thread contained offers of help, as well as genuine insight from other industry professionals.

Especially considering that, to those not in the inner circles of YC, the company behind this is unknown, I don't see the upside to killing this post.

Isn't part of HN to be educational? Isn't part of YC accepting criticism and learning from it?
When there is no redirect so you can click a link, and then just hit CR on the blocked page's URL.
Example of how to use reflection in Go
Most people I've talked to trust Mark Zuckerberg and facebook over Google for their 'main' social network.

Could be that Google is viewed as a faceless, godless entity? ;)

Party On! Be excellent to each other.
I am starting a crossFit box in Aberdeen, and def can say if you want to get fit for life, and have fun, and keep things short, do CrossFit.
I guess this is one advantage iOS has, a mostly unified platform for developers. I've been part of the Wakemate beta for Android for awhile now, and it seems that Android has wildly varying bluetooth stacks depending on device manufacturer and phone model. For example, my LG Optimus V won't reliably work with Wakemate with the stock firmware, but works flawlessly with CyageonMod
Don't google make dozens of changes tiny changes a day to their search page?
Google goes social with Google+, Will Facebook flinch?
They've got an answer for that: you can add someone who doesn't have an account to a circle, and they'll get your message in email.
Even for normal low standards of science journalism, this article is awful. "...such enormous gravity that it sucks in just about anything that comes light years [sic] near it." An object passing light-years away would follow the same hyperbolic trajectory as if interacting with a 15 solar mass peanut butter sandwich.
On a related note, i've built a simple github browser for ipad that will never get approved on the AppStore due to paid accounts. If someone wants to play with it here's the link https://github.com/oscardelben/GithubBrowser
Google, Groupme and Twilio Being Sued for Spam in a Class Action Lawsuit
1) I saw this elsewhere, apparently its a demo limitation.

2) I also thought this and decided the circles probably just get really big. We will see however!
Since GitHub launched, you've been able to access your repositories via username/password (and add/remove ssh keys via the web interface). But remember — we're talking about client security.

If someone steals/owns your personal machine it's actually much easier to gain access to SSH Keys than find your username/password (since an alarming number of people use passwordless ssh keys).

Aside from that though — SSH Keys are probably the biggest barrier to people being able to use and contribute with GitHub.
Yeah, but who wants to seduce a car?
I don't think people need to switch anything, and that's the genius of it. Pretty sure everyone "will be" on Google+ want it or not.
that's really great to hear! I didn't. Just confirmed it again with searching through my (nearly completely archived) inbox and also the spam folder.
>>2) What ratio of them fall into the "married with kids" category?

There were at least 14 founders from our batch (W2010) that were married or engaged and about 6 of those had kids. I think there were about 65 total founders.
He has a pretty novel way of monetizing this

Q: I'm a web developer, what I'm paying for, if I want to use IEWebGL ?
A: You pay to hide UNREGISTERED VERSION banner for your domain, that otherwise will be shown to end user. Or you can think - you pay to widen your project's audience to virtually all IE users. Also you can use all updates for free during the paid period.

It looks really good though, webgl is definitely starting to become a viable target platform, despite all the hysteria
IBM SmartCamp NYC - Startups to Compete for Analytics Market Opportunity
I get the feeling everyone was expecting their effort to be rather, dare I say it... rubbish. But, it looks nice and I think a lot of people are pleasantly surprised by that.

Buzz was a blatant twitter clone, and I disabled it as quickly as I enabled it - whereas I'm actually finding myself excited to try this.
I'd add https://ixquick.com to the list.

Also, using a search engine directly is not the same thing as using it through one of these intermediaries (especially while logged in).
I'd recommend the Plone CMS as a starting point into learning Python. You get a full-featured CMS that you can use from day one for lots of common use cases. With Plone, you have an application that you can take apart to see examples of mature Python development processes. You can also learn just the aspects that are useful to you at a given point in time. Plone has a community that is very friendly, mature, and open to newbies. This makes it a lot easier to get your bearings and get help when you need it. It's also welcome community if you're looking to make your first contributions to Open Source.

Personally, Plone was my first experience in programming with Python. In 2003 I was working as an environmental consultant and started experimenting with Zope and Plone to build knowledge management apps for my clients. In 2004, I made the jump to being a Plone developer full-time and have never looked back. I've found it to be an outstanding platform and have landed clients including US federal agencies, EU government ministries, Fortune 500 companies, and major universities.

Since learning Plone, I've worked with a number of other Python frameworks including Twisted, Pyramid, and Django as well as a couple of Rails projects. Much of what I've learned via Plone gave me a good foundation for working with these other tools. Somehow, I always keep coming back to Plone. It's a great platform for secure, large-scale content-intensive sites and the market for skilled developers is very favorable relative to other frameworks.
I think HN likes Google... (screenshot)
Interesting. A couple of points:

> The concept should make more sense to people as a standalone site than as a sub-section on another site. (Easier to explain, easier to link to, etc)

> As a standalone site we can optimize the interface for this concept, which is really a very different idea than reddit.com.

reddit already has the capability of allowing the moderators do a different domain with a different interface -- the mods just have to decide to do it, so be careful here.

Otherwise, you make some interesting points. I'm curious though, what is your advantage over Quora, which is also a clone of Iama, designed to be a standalone Q&A site?
A fond farewell to San Francisco Startup Life
Yea, I know about that guideline but I don't think it applies to the original post. It wasn't complaining about moderation, and it wasn't asking anything about Y Combinator, such as how to apply, etc. It was a genuine critique of what appears to be an advertisement.

My post is certainly in violation of that guideline more than the original critique... :/
The demo has a number in the middle of the circle, I'm guessing the faces are just subset of the users in that circle.
"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial is a better default! Show the good one to those of us that have it (all Mac OS X and iOS users).
Installs as a plugin, whereas JebGL http://code.google.com/p/jebgl/ is a java applet. JebGL has to use software rendering without OpenGL so perf probably aint so hot in IE... whereas it appears the IEWebGL guys have the perf situation under control

> Our perfomance tests shows high FPS rates even in HD resolutions.

Also it looks like their plugin adds Typed Arrays to IE8's JScript engine. handy.
It's a large percentage, but probably less than half (at least in our batch). Also most weren't fresh grads. It seemed like the median age was 25 or so. Most had had jobs post-college.

So, basically a mid-20s candidate from a non-prominent school is closer to the median than a fresh Ivy League grad.

I was 29 and my co-founder 34 when we went through; we both went to good, but non-elite universities and I didn't ever feel out of place.

Note that Paul and Robert were 31 and 30 [1][2] respectively when they founded Viaweb and Paul has written on how elite universities are a bad predictor of success [3], so it's unlikely that what's being seen is causation rather than correlation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programme...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html
Looks great, but why would someone suggest installing this rather than Chrome Frame?
Then the client would only work easily with Github. That would be very sad for those of us who deploy Git repos on other servers than Github.

As it is, I'm pretty sure this is using standard HTTPS auth with Git, which is not that hard to support.
I commented on it before you wrote this!
"hot liquid" and "liquid so hot that it will burn my skin" are not necessarily the same thing. Unless you think that people should feel afraid of a hot bath or a hottub (or even going to a hot spring).

In more precise terms, 'boiling' is a subset of 'hot.'
Dispatches From The Edge: Attribute Bindings For SproutCore 2.0
That's what I was thinking. If my options are "A company that openly ignores its users' privacy" and "A company whose core competency is data mining", I'm likely to continue with option C: Don't use either.

Being entirely fair, Google is better about the whole privacy thing. This is undeniable: barring government requests and rogue sysadmins, only algorithms look at my data. It's plausible that an algorithm will remain impartial. Google just also has a lot more information about me already. I'm hesitant to hand over any more.
Forbes has very hit or miss content.
Mobile Health Apps That Share
There are many stakeholders from various backgrounds that all need to be considered before trying to push through one specific and narrow interest group.

Yes, each type of "stakeholder" could be reserved a certain type of domain suffix based on their intended purpose of use. These guidelines should of actually been set in place at the onset so we wouldn't have all of the domain squatters we have today. Also, I'd much prefer to discuss potential solutions with you, but I see you've disregarded the notion completely.
People like you for who you are, not for what you're trying to be. This departure from minimalism is pretty un-Googly. I thought their philosophy was ‘functionality over usability over design’ and latency being the "prized family jewel".

I hope the new guy on top didn't start thinking "Let's be more like Steve's company". :)
You can even do a form of map reduce.
The "Keep me posted" link on their home page returns a 404:

https://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/+/learnmore/notifyme.html

A bit strange to see a rookie mistake like that from Google, given the fanfare over this thing.

I have a bad feeling this is going to be like Wave - those people who do get invites have nobody to talk to so by the time everyone else gets invited the interest has peaked.

I really hope not, though. Facebook seriously need competition.
Or even better, use the user stylesheet. This is CSS job after all :)

Chrome: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=2393

FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/
I agree, I find it a major eyesore.
It reduces the dimensions of the picture, however it keeps a good quality.

Album management is great and it pulls/pushes your pictures from Picasa.

The album UI is also great.

I just found that the navigation bar of gmail is now extended so I can see notifications and comment on them without going to Google+

It's a FB killer :o

Things are going to get interesting in that space. If the people that I relate with get into Google+ I wouldn't need to check my FB. And they can get more people in by pluging it to Google Apps users.
The Difference Between Urban and Rural Brains
The top bar made me think I was back on my Wordpress blog...
Me too. The other day I was looking across the room at a box with a dark-colored top flap and I felt deeply claustrophobic and acutely oppressed. I shed a single tear in mere contemplation.
Well, that's encouraging, but I think part of the problem is that I didn't know that. And I think part of why I didn't know that is because "Circles" isn't actually a metaphor that helps me understand how it works.

Places, OTOH, is, and I think the metaphor is flexible enough to add other interesting functionality, too.

Edit: Also, can you elaborate on how that works? Is there a list of names attached to each shared item?
I don't get it. How do you make money? Why spend all this time and effort without reward?
I tried it and you can have people in several circles. Perhaps your interface is giving you some problems.
http://kreitz.co/1H092e0h3z3y1v190v3T
That seems reasonable, but how do you do anything useful with the faces if you can only see a subset? This is why I am a sorted lists man :)
> lighter colors that exist in the sky (blues, greys) tend to work better at the top of interfaces

Yep. The old blue on white background strip was easy to look at. The new color never looked good on Blogspot. Sometimes a single bad design choice can tip the balance between making something pleasant to use, or not.

An example: I upgraded my version of Open Office a month ago, for the first time in 3 years. There was one single change they made with the margin color in the word processor so when the left cursor is sitting at the left margin, I can't see it very easily. Because I move around documents a lot, and let the cursor sit while rereading, this is quite irritating. After a month, I've started pasting OO document text into Wordpad for editing, and repasting them into Open Office when complete. I sometimes wonder if a spy for Microsoft was behind that margin color change.

Another example: I only started using Open Office because Wordpad was similarly crippled by Microsoft a few years ago (starting with XP service pack 2, I think). Whenever you save a document, the page view changes so the cursor's at the top, also irritating after no problems with versions up to then. But I'm using it again because it seems a little less irritating than that Open Office change, which I can't find any way to fix in the menus. I suspect in that case Microsoft deliberately crippled it to force users to fork out for MS Office.

So perhaps this change will tip the balance for some users who want a new search engine. Perhaps a spy for Baidu was behind the change, or someone who's "family back home" has been influenced by Baidu.
I don't think it's fair to say they never take design risks considering the redesign of their homepage a while back where they made everything but the search interface invisible unless you moved the mouse.
Mobile Summer Series Kickoff Event in SF
According to Chris Chabot (Developer Advocate at Google), "We're only just starting down the road of the Google+ project, but we love our Google Apps users so please stay tuned"

[from comments on http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/google-plus/]
> "It's too bad that the ladder analysis department closes at noon".

Out of curiosity, what game is this?
Yeah, well, who are we to turn down great coverage?