skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's new products, including this new "Plus" thing, all remind me of the 'Star Wars' prequels: lame expensive gimmicks the audience will see right through. Instead of showing off some fresh energetic talent, Google brings in the guy that designed the Macintosh 30 years ago. Your powers are weak, old man.

I'll put it in perspective: original Google = Yoda. "Google+" = Yoda... now with a friggin' lightsaber!

Attention Google: You need a magician, not developers.
I just #interfacefailed there. I think I asked the same question like 7 times before I realized what was going on. #fml
A product's launch (which this is, effectively) seems like a poor time to be coy about who you want to actually have access to said product.
I think he means this the other way around - you should be able to assign a single person to multiple circles.
Orkut afaik was a 10% project, and named after its author.
Another:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2707016
(techcrunch.com)
I wouldn't completely rule out us ever doing something in NY,
if we *had* to open another YC branch it would almost certainly be in NY.

Wow, as someone who lives in Boston, this makes me realize how much NYC is eclipsing us. We're #3 (hopefully :-).
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I might delay learning anything about Google+ until I have some evidence that Google is not going to kill it in a few months :)
I dislike Facebook like anybody, but this will not take off any more than Buzz or Wave I'm afraid. This will be that side thing that people may or may not notice when they search. This isn't the site people will flock to when they wake up to see what their friends have been doing.
That's why I said social is not like email. I'm more comparing the Google+ rollout to Wave, since some of the features seem to be similar to Wave.
Same story, different sources:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2700560

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2669335
LulzSec's Instant Fame is Bad for Hacker Culture
Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward
So now, how many ways can this be done? No, it's not five. And no, it's not six either.

An infinite number of ways this can be done.
It is excellent indeed, for games where the developer/publisher isn't willing to publish DRM-free.

I generally go for GoG first, Steam second, then stop. I've quit bothering with physical copies a long time ago.
Which will directly affect me more, my wife learning about my adulterous affair, or Eric Schmidt learning about my affair?
While not by Infocom, Photopia is probably the best Interactive Fiction I every played.

You can download it at http://www.wurb.com/if/game/255 (http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/photopia.... probably being the best choice). It's possible to play it online at http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.php?game=332&mode=htm..., but it's not as much fun as with the real version.

To open the .z5 file you need something like Zoom [1] for Mac, or Frotz [2] for Windows.

[1] http://www.logicalshift.demon.co.uk/mac/zoom.html
[2] http://frotz.sourceforge.net/
I prefer a random stranger to know that I was out drinking last night vs my boss.
One has more immediate implications to my income the other, much less likely.
I'm not seeing where you did that. Which AMA or question or username is it?
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Its probably between Boston and Austin,Tx for #3

Dont know which one it would be though
Clickable link: http://www.myheatmap.com
Apparently we accidentally launched AnyAsq!
I'm playing around with the trial. Some thoughts:

1) Extremely slick interface. Facebook beat MySpace in part because it was relatively clean; Google+ wins here by a mile. That reason alone makes me root for it.

2) It's Google's umpteenth foray into the social arena, so naturally most people are comparing it to Facebook. But its use cases strike me as being more comparable to Twitter than FB.

3) People can be categorized into contexts and multiple contexts. This is the killer feature. I find myself wanting to just eliminate the "Friends" circle wholesale and just have a different circle for each cluster in my social network.

4) I might be misunderstanding how sharing/the feed works. But, if someone is in any circle and you are viewing that circle's stream, I think you see whatever they share. I'd like something finer-grained than that. I have one friend who I both bike with and play board games with. If we get into a conversation about a ride on a weekend, doesn't the model inherently mean what I see in the board game stream gets polluted with the bike conversation?
What if it was created by Microsoft?
What about Apple?
Ahh, thanks, didn't now that. Good thing there's no charge for awesomeness.
I am guessing anyasq is a YC company that just launched? Rationale: Harjeet doing an interview at a relatively unknown company/project.

Also, how does anyasq beat reddit ama?
Biz Stone Steps Back From Twitter To Relaunch Obvious
Hasn't mainstream notoriety always been one of the reasons young kids get into cracking?

Twitter may amplify this a little, but its not exactly a paradigm shift.
Thanks for posting this! It gave me a healthy traffic bump.
I'm really looking forward to trying this out, and here's why:

With Facebook, I felt as if I was on this huge football field with all of my 'friends.' I could lean in to whisper with a friend here and there, or even put on some face paint and huddle together with like-faced friends to form a group. But everyone could still see me, and I could see them – I just had to peer down the field. I can't really say things to my group that I'd normally say in private because with all these people on the field with me, someone would certainly overhear us!

With Google+ the structure is different. Rather than a field, it's more like a big building with many rooms. Each room can be decorated and tailored to a specific group of friends who hang out there. Best part is once I'm in the room, I can close the door and be myself! I can go up two levels, change hats, and walk into a different room.

tl;dr Google+ lets me fully engage my various social sides, whereas Facebook never really let you as you were always in the eye of the public.

Edit: One thing I did notice that I wish they would change is that it seems as if a friend can only be placed into one circle. Often times there's a lot of overlap among my social circles and friends may be part of at least two different groups.
I'd be happer if they'd just stick to search and ads and drop all the social networking bullshit.
I'm not seeing it show up either - strange. I wonder if there's an approval system before the questions are public.
>I don't see how the web is getting worse at sharing text.

I already gave some reasons, and here is one more: if the web had stayed a means of sharing text and images, it would not be one of the most popular ways for attackers to get control of a desktop computer.
Ask HN: Paid social media traffic. Fiverr
I'm building a consumer facing product which is awesome. A buddy of mine suggested using Fiverr to generate some immediate (albeit paid) social proof/traffic. Anyone had any experience with Fiverr or any other similar paid social media traffic.
Tell HN: How to get blocked by HN
Step 1: Open up lots (20+) of tabs to comments pages.
Step 2: Close browser (with setting to reopen tabs)
Step 3: Open browser

Not complaining, if anything it will help me actually read some of these :) Just saying if you ever see an error from HN that has a bunch of "NO_CONTENT" pages, you might have opened a few too many tabs...

Edit: To get unblocked, change your IP.
I am not willing to grant anyask the ability to modify my twitter profile and post as me so I'll just ask here.

1) Age-wise, what ratio of accepted YC applicants are over 35? 40?

2) What ratio of them fall into the "married with kids" category?

My impression of YC is that you strongly (exclusively?) prefer under 30 people who are unattached or, at least, are married with no other obligations.

Can you dispel that impression or is it close to the truth?

(I hope this doesn't come across as trolling or as an accusation. If you think it is, I welcome suggestion on how to word it better)
Yes, but there's more that you can say. In particular, there is more than one infinite family. How many are there? And do all solutions belong to an infinite family? Or are there isolates/sporadics?

Can you characterise the solutions? How many pieces do they contain? Some solutions have two pieces. Some have four. Are there other possibilities?
Inside Google+: how the search giant plans to go social
One rock of Google+ please my good sir.
A friend can be in multiple circles.
> I don't quite follow: when you say an "external location" do you mean in file(s) in the file system but not in the file system's internal structure itself?

That's exactly what I mean. My version of index_server stored the index in a directory called "index" in the root of every volume it indexed. I'm not sure what the new one does.

Note that moving the index out of BFS was merely an idea that was bounced around the ML.
Ruby inject and the Mandelbrot set
> 3. There is an absolutely huge disparity in income.

There was under communism as well - do you really think that the leaders were poor? (You could have argued that only those in govt were rich before. Then I'd have asked how many of the current rich are not "connected".)

> their land had gained (not due to economic reasons, but because he had invested so heavily in it) and started to complain.

(1) "their land" hadn't gained any value - it wasn't their land after they sold it.
(2) investing IS an economic reason for something to go up in value.

> The government did absolutely nothing.

That happened under communism as well.

Is he connected? Are they politically disfavored?

> Just because not everyone can be a leader, doesn't mean it's a communism.

One of the essential properties of communism is that only the politically reliable are eligible for public office.

It's not the only essential property, but it is one of them.

> Do you know what happens when anyone can be a leader and run for office?

Yes, I do - random people run for office. Sometimes they win. That can't happen in a communist society.
Not sure if you would consider it an app, but I run the weekly Hacker Newsletter project (http://www.hackernewsletter.com). About to hit the one year mark with almost 3000 subscribers. I don't use the API (yet), but I do use HNSearch to list a couple classics each issue.
Wonder how you get spam from Android markets - here's how they do it
Usually they set up a wordpress install for the blog and out-of-the-box the home button links to the blog itself. Changing it usually takes a little bit of tinkering and folks just never get around to it.

Annoys me too.
I feel like this could be a real selling point. Different relationships call for different social etiquette, but Facebook only has "friendship" with some really shoddy support for grouping friends. It's not even about being deceptive or ashamed of yourself, any more than you're deceiving your boss by not smoking in the office and speaking more respectfully than you would to your drinking buddies.
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Designing GitHub for Mac
Do you really think that continuity is an obvious concept?

Are you aware, for example, that there are functions that are continuous at all irrational points and discontinuous at all rational points?
Didn't know anyone remembered YQL! We take a very different approach, you create the queries on our site then call them from your site and pass parameters like a stored proc. We store your credentials so that you don't have to expose them in client side code.

We also offer a bunch of other features to liberate you from needing a server, like session handling (with encrypted cookies), email templates, facebook connect.
No, but the amount of royalties you pay is somewhat dependent on it.
> Also, how does anyasq beat reddit ama?

* Better moderation. Seems like there are no unverified AMAs on anyasq. Trolling is a major problem on /r/iama.

* By leveraging the YC network to get AMAs with people who would never do a Reddit AMA.

These two things are relatively straightforward and simple, but I think it's a winning combination. The popularity of the AMA concept certainly has been validated by /r/iama. Backed by a company, I think it has a lot of potential to form the basis of a small successful media company. For example, I have a binder saved of useful advice mined from /r/iama. The value of this advice is great and would normally be unavailable to me. If someone put out a curated book, I'd buy it in a second.
www.topmudsites.com is a pretty good place to find a MUD to play. I personally recommend Achaea, but I've heard good things about Aardwolf.
Thanks for adding it and I'll make sure to share this page next issue!
Honestly, I'd be open to trying this JUST for the circles. Too many times I've had to restrain myself from posting certain things because of the wide range of "friends" I have on facebook.
For a great tutorial on how indexed attributes make organizing large amounts of information easy and render photo organizers, book collection managers, DVD collection managers etc. obsolete, read http://haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/workshop-filetypes+att...

If you're running BeOS/Haiku, you already know about People and Mail. I also recommend you check out Caya and HaikuTwitter.
In Google Reader, comments on items are visible to everyone that can see the item.

Edit: this is meant merely to inform, not judge how it is or should be.
Good luck. When my grandma joins I'll take a look. She's on Facebook. ;)
> imagine a jerk that noone loves intruding all the hangouts. but everybody too polite/dependant to unfriend

When you enter your hangout, you specify what circle(s) see the announcement. So just make a "Everyone but Jerk" circle and post to that. He'll think you're never in your hangout.
But he is a long time part of the overall face of Mozilla, and by the reaction over the last few days people do listen to him as such.

I appreciate your response.
Just FYI, your 0 and 1 links are swapped. ;)
I was referring to "This thing needs to be free and massively available like Gmail."
Speaking of treasure troves, I hope someone outside YC is archiving HN, so that should something happen HN can be restored without depending on YC to be able/willing to restore it.

Of course, I trust YC to have their own backups as well.
I am quite impressed, but one thing that is severely broken is the number of duplicate names in the list. Basically if a person has two email addresses, then they show up twice. This would not be a big deal, but the email addresses are hidden, and it is impossible to tell which is an old/work email address rather than a personal one. I hope this is fixed soon.
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=327710

I'd recommend reading the Django source. I use the framework every day and it seems well put together :-)
> First to market is hard to break.

Tell that to friendster. Er, myspace.
I'd have to guess, but maybe 4% and 1% respectively.

What percentage are married and/or have kids I couldn't even guess, because we don't ask and it's not the sort of thing that comes up unless it's related to what they're working on.

All we care about is whether the startup seems likely to succeed. Think how stupid we'd have to be to miss out on a great startup because they failed to meet some arbitrary constraint.
Just added it. I'm actually trying to compile a list of all apps, not just the ones that use the API.
Gmail can be successful regardless of whether or not your friends use it.

A social network is only as successful as the number of friends using it.

Facebook did well on this by opening up things campus by campus ensuring that all your friends in your university were all allowed to use it at the same time.
I agree. Especially Apple will try to compete heavily on HTML5 standards, since Flash is out of question for iPad, and iPhone. Since their devices only support Safari, HTML5 can certainly be optimized for it. Same thing for the rest of the world... kinda make it more complicated than Flash platform.
There was an example not so long ago of a paper published in, I think, biology, where the author had invented a wonderful new technique for more accurate estimates of the area under a curve.

It was Simpson's rule.

CORRECTION:

It was worse than that. It was the trapezoidal rule:

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract

The author named it after themselves:

... The Tai model allows flexibility
in experimental conditions ...

and got 75 citations ...

http://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-researche...

Unbelievable.
Google is drowning in crap. What frustrates me is that they have the data through Analytics to figure out what sites people actually find useful, and yet refuse to use that data out of fear of alienating advertisers. I think the company should be less focused on opening up new ways for spammers to game them (+1) and more focused on figuring out ways to efficiently regress SERP position on site traffic in order to come to a better understanding of which results people actually use.

That said, I'm really sorry to hear you lost your job. I'm in the education industry and imagine margins have to be paper thin for a teaching directory even done right. So maybe it is a good thing to move on and find other opportunities. Leaving on good terms is important, and it's classy of you to still promote the company in your blog.
There's no question that people care more about what their immediate acquaintances know about them. That doesn't mean it's a great path for society, though.

Unfortunately the fashionable thing to do these days is to assume that everything will work out for the best on its own.
I really miss BeOS. I remember being blown away by how fast it could rip mp3s, and with how many simultaneous audio or video tracks it could handle. That old machine with it's p3 processor felt as fast and perhaps even faster than my core-i7, tri channel ram, tripple sli, raid 0 ssd workstation running *nix or windows.
I d say the difference is between manipulation and marketing. You can still rank high, but now you just need a really good product that organically earns place in high-trafficked channels. Now, I you want to do SEO, you need a much better understanding of marketing and probably a Loy more money. Thoughts?
The Bible says God's voice is a whisper. If you know aboutr speech recognition, you have to use context to work-out what was said. I'm not sure of the origin of "mysticism" but seeing through mist is also a good analogy.

I like to say understanding God is like ink blots or cloud shapes.

I don't usually use random letters -- I prefer words -- but random letters show there is noise and it is obvious you use fuzzy logic.

Interpreting God must be done in context of whatever conversation you are having. You might only get one word, perhaps a syllible of a proper noun in the Bible that jumps-out as a response. The responses vary in how miraculous and how meaningful they are. Some are very miraculous, some very meaningful, some duds. There is a correlation between quality of offering and quality of response -- justice.

God says...
t z e r a v n q z b p l p z u z p m m j c b r u e z z
f d j q y w n p o t e z j v p q b c r o w o r h w e z
q e h o u a o u k b p x n p k p k i v g g v s s t w r
z t q n e e i v r k f c a j u f p g n a r l f n r r x
b d l g v x d e f d p w d a k p z j o e d k r n h x v
q m v x j p o w s a t y k e x e e u z v q v d j w n d

Jesus commonly uses the phrase, "for those who have ears to hear," though when He uses it, I don't find a correlation with a secret He just said.

This will further enlighten you.

http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/1corinthians/1corinthians2.ht...
A couple more:

Miter limit will behave differently, as it will revert to bevel instead of cutting off the joint. (65 occurrences)

Adjusting the font kerning within dynamic text is not supported. (7 occurrences)
Don't you just hide friends with consistently boring messages? I do, and people I know do. It's a big stick, compared to some more subtle faceting, but it mostly works fine, while putting some pressure on the reader to accept a certain amount of tedium in those people I still want to listen to. There's also event spam, but that one category you can filter out separately (i.e., "ignore events from person X").
You can meet the rest of us that what to sign up by the Bike Racks.

BIKE GEEEEKS!!!! Mount up.
>Still, it bothers me when it says "logged in" in the google bar at the top because google watches my searches.

well G watches your searches anyway, even tunes the search results to your search history, as its cookie dependend, not log in dependend. see http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=...
just in case somebody is searching for it on youtu.be, it is scooby1961.

i discovered scooby through a friend of mine a long time ago and his tips really helped getting me started with weight lifting. i have lost all my back problems since then. just remember, as long as an exercise feels good, it is unlikely to hurt you. i had to learn this the hard way, i pushed too hard on an exercise, ignored the pain and was left with a typewriters cramp, not so great if you are in front of a computer typing all day long. so start small and build your way up.
Google Takeout: Download your data from Picasa, Contacts, Buzz and Profiles
There are certainly many people who avoid or hate facebook.

All Google needs is a beachhead, right? For Facebook it was Harvard and then Ivy League schools. Perhaps for Google their beachhead is the Anti-Facebook people.

Once it grows a bit, people start writing apps that abstract FB and G+. Think: iPhone app with a Newsfeed feature that just seamlessly merges your FB and G+ feed.

The existence of apps like that will make it trivial for people to have a G+ profile in addition to -- even if never instead of -- their Facebook account. And then it's up to Google to grow more and more mindshare.

Maybe it'll always be an also-ran. A Facebook lil brother. But I wouldn't just write it off. We've seen this story before.
Can the iPad Unlock Autism’s Mysteries?
Green Chile,  Navy SEALs, and my ever changing life philosophy
Not to mention that Skype has a lot of business users. I don't see them migrating to a social network.
Sensationalist journalism sucks regardless of arena. In the mean time this is nothing new. Breathless media coverage of hacker exploits has been a media mainstay since the days of RTM and (later) Mitnick, and is just another manifestation of "if it bleeds, it leads".

I do think the author makes some fine points about root causes of this kind of behavior and the joys of rehabbing one's worldview with honest coding. I'm working with a skiddie right now patiently trying to bait him over from the dark side with honest code assignments. Unfortunately it looks like he just might get caught in the dragnets Anon & Lulzsec have provoked. Time will tell.
All fitness advice boils down to "just do it, then do it again" but intensity makes it a whole different game. I enjoyed the article but I'd love to see more on how competitive athletes "up the ante" in intensity.