skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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In other news water is wet...
They mean privacy with respect with other users. Newspeak. I hope this way of interpreting the word doesn't catch on.
I'm a little concerned with the added complexity of decoupling the datastore into two different systems that are relied on for application logic. What are good strategies to maintain consistency between the two, in the event of a failure?
In the first example, what if the SQL transaction succeeds but the redis one fails? Would you rollback the SQL transaction?
Did anybody notice that you can workaround needing an invite by clicking "Take the Tour" and then "Join the Project" on their demo website?

http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/demo/
Braintree (http://www.braintreepayments.com/) they're awesome.
Yeah, he now added that he does, for some other project further along (it's he, by the way, PPK is only one guy)
A better discussion: http://www.quora.com/What-exercise-regimens-are-best-for-ext...
Totally agree. Steve Kamb is the man.
"Are you taking advantage of living in the era of infinite computing power? Have you set aside fixations with low-level performance? Have you put your own productivity ahead of vague concerns with optimization?"

Many people do, and here I am, with a crappy Android phone I wish I hadn't got. A phone that can hang up for a minute or two when you want to access your text messages. Posting a Facebook update takes 10 minutes. Everything is unreliable and can crash for random reasons.

My old, very low-level SE K800i had a much better user experience.

Maybe computing power is infinite, if your application lives alone on your computer.
The sample size is so small that drawing any conclusions from this data seems suspect.

Percentage comparisons (hired/applied):
6% JoS fans
4.3% of Columbia job fair
2% Princeton job fair
1.7% of web search
and 0% of everything else
I wish it'd get buried, though. I spend half my career explaining the difference between 'true' pagerank and 'toolbar' pagerank.
I got an opposite reaction... Seems like whenever I opened that page, the only thing I could was drag things around, Google Maps style. And I really wasn't sure what to do next, took me a while to find the "Take the tour" button.

From the tour itself, a lot of things take more than the whole screen, so scrolling is required. Could be that I'm looking at it on a 13' Macbook though.

And as far as features itself, I honestly couldn't get excited about any of them. "Hang out - quickest thing until teleportation is invented"? If I want to talk to friends I actually hang out with, I will call/text - for everyone else, there's Facebook/Email. Sparks - so the only purpose of this is for them to send me relevant ads? How nice. Even Facebook is not that blatant.

The only feature I'm kind of excited about is 'Huddle'. It's very difficult to pull of correctly and even MORE difficult (almost impossible) to get all your friends to use it. If they can do that correctly, I'll start using this ASAP.

Overall - can't say I was too excited by this demo, but I'll give it a try once it goes live.
I would check out Dwolla (www.dwolla.com) as an alternative to Paypal. Only 25 cents per transaction.
Double-plus Google: finally, a mass market enterprise social network
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I think the whole thing is more about finding new stuff. New people, new interests. So you don't have to convince your non-techie friends.

Everybody reading you posts is like nobody, or at least nobody new. You have to get it to them somehow and here it won't happen just because you have a cool profile picture.

Your searches? It won't show up in your feed, it will only count in your interest. Deeply hidden, like it is already. Google seems to be good at this.

They are targeted so right on the spot, where the whole social discovery-networking can get better, that I think it could fly without everybody exporting and etc..

Maybe it could get everybody laid, as it won't be starving on your current friends of friends network. :)
I would say it's missing a purpose, rather than a story.

Otherwise I agree. I can't speak for other gamers, but my time gets more scarce as I grow older. And games without purpose were the first to go.
Screen Driven Development
Personally, I've got about half a dozen interests that I only want to share with people who find it relevant or interesting, like your example about tech/coding stuff. I don't share that either but I would if I could better control who it goes out to. This feature sounds great to me.
Does anyone else have trouble with the font on that page?
Exactly. This is the same mistake they made with Wave, and it turned out horribly.

I actually enjoyed the idea/concept of Wave, but I never had any reason to login and actually use it since I only had one other person I knew with an account. The same will happen to Google+.
I was just looking at this the other day. It reminded me of this:

"What readability-per-line does mean, to the user encountering the language for the first time, is that source code will look unthreatening. So readability-per-line could be a good marketing decision, even if it is a bad design decision...The math paper is hard to read because the ideas are hard."
It is just a demo limitation (I'm using the product right now).
I know plenty about PageRank, honest. The problem is that Toolbar PageRank has almost zero resemblance to true PageRank. Google isn't using toolbar PR to determine crawling, crawl budget or anything else. And even Google's team says the toolbar data is a bad metric. They only keep it because they know a lot of SEOs would start crying if they got rid of it.
There is no facebook import option yet.
The only way to get away with this is to provide massive value for those users when nobody else is around. If a social network only becomes valuable when many others are present, then yes, it will most likely fail.
I like the idea of Google Takeout allowing you to download all of your data easily from:

Picasa Web albums and photos
Your Google profile
Google Buzz
Google Contacts
Stream

That alone would make me switch to circles.
The ascent of Chrome and the decline of Internet explorer
I'm officially tired of seeing the near-troll posts from scripting.com
I've been using the BodyMedia FIT (http://www.bodymedia.com/) to get detailed stats about my fitness level -- calories burned, level of physical activity, sleep quality and duration. As a data geek, it's made all the difference in my motivation to stay fit: I feel a level of control and certainty about my fitness decisions, now that they are informed by data.
First start by telling them they don't have to switch. There's no reason one can't use both. Facebook would never have gotten past Myspace if users had to switch.
Ask HN: What is it that you forget about most when it comes to your health?
Still I am curious, what circles would I get based on all the data google has ever collected from me.
I use Flickr, but none of my friends who aren't photographers do... so when I update my stream nobody sees it (unless I use a Flickr-Facebook bridge app, which is clunky and doesn't plug in nicely).

There's a lot to be said for having your content pushed to your network in a way that's easy to use.

In fact, Buzz's integration of "external feeds" is much better done than FB. I'd hope this applies to Google+ also.
SEO specialists are dead
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google data liberation has just launched Google Takeout a way to export all your google data
Think of how many customers would call and email them if they did a blast email. 1 million maybe? It would be a self inflicted ddos.
Infocom was just the tip of the interactive fiction iceberg.

There's still a vibrant interactive fiction gaming scene. It has thrived despite Infocom's demise.

Many interactive fiction games continue to be developed, played, entered in competitions, and reviewed.

Here are some links to get you started:

http://www.wurb.com/if/genre

http://www.ifreviews.org

http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive.html

http://ifdb.tads.org/search?browse&list&sortby=new
Destined to eclipse even Google Wave, I'm sure.
lzm,

You're absolutely right! The bcrypted hash effectively become a plaintext password. This is obviously a problem. However, it also creates an interesting opportunity...

SecureR could be designed so that every so often it rehashes a user's plaintext password and creates a new bcrypt hash. This could happen every month, every week, every N successful user log-ins, etc. Now, users hate having to frequently change their passwords (and rightly so). However, with this system, each user could keep the same plaintext password, and the system could transparently generate a new bcrypt hash for it periodically. By cycling through bcrypt hashes, attackers would have a narrower window in which to steal a password table and use the stolen hashes. Maybe a 2nd-level hash could be used (as discussed in my reply to Robin_Message), so that the 1st-level hashes aren't completely exposed, and attackers need to not only steal a database but also crack it (all within a short time frame).

Unfortunately, after this adjustment, bcrypt wouldn't be invoked only on account-creation or password-resets. The bcrypt bill would be higher than in my original proposal. However, at least bcrypt wouldn't be invoked every single time a user logs in.

Maybe the cost of bcrypt can't be fully shifted from the log-in system to the account-creation and password-reset systems. Maybe it needs to be paid somewhere in between both areas, where you get as much secure encryption for passwords and denial-of-service protection as possible. (Both goals seem to be in conflict with each other.)

Ah, tradeoffs!
I think you have to be able to convince someone why you will be successful. Most people want to see traction and idea validation before they join something (especially if there is no cash up front). Is there a way you can demonstrate that without the product?
A variation of this question (Why Naming Your Company Sucks) was posted recently; here is my answer from that thread:

I love naming companies. Of course, I've done it a bunch of times, so it's a familiar process. For someone who is suddenly out of their comfort zone, I can understand the frustration. A few tips:

1. Before thinking of names, get meta. What's the company about, what would a "good" name connote, what are the ideas the name should express? Write down a narrative of all the awesome things the name should convey. If you're diligent in following this recommendation, all kinds of new ideas will emerge.

2. Say any potential names aloud. Do they roll off the tongue, or are they awkward tongue twisters?

3. Do your domain lookups via the command line, not some web site. It's been suggested that domain lookup sites snatch your queries and register them. True? I don't know; but you can't go wrong using Whois in your shell of choice.
Hacker News Who's Hiring Post. It comes out the first of every month. Look for it Friday.

All of the jobs are not in California, but many of them are.
What Will Happen to Buzz Now that Google has Launched a New Social Network?
What kind of price range of house are you looking at?
stuff I did on flash 8... or just when drawing methods was released:
SWF 6 (or later) clip actions are not supported. (2 occurrences)

The ActionScript method MovieClip.createEmptyMovieClip() is not supported. (1 occurrences)
for me, definitely my diet. eating a combination of food that amounts to 3k calories plus the right amount of protein, carbs, veggies, what have you, is definitely hard for me, especially when I'm out an' about a lot.
Google pushes like-story through out the Internet
It appears that you can interact with non-Google+-enabled accounts to a limited extent; they receive your posts as emails.
Agreed that Mr. Winer likes to whine, but he's spot on with this one.
Yes. RAM pretty much decides over how many instances you can sell per rack-unit. Disks can be virtualized, CPU can be spread thinly - but a slice of RAM needs to be committed, no matter what.
In cars maybe, but in flight? At 4.5km above the towers? Not a chance.

There are two main techs for on-board WiFi:

* Air-to-ground radiotelephony (what AirFone[0] used to use), which works like cell phones except for the sky, and with not cell towers and on a different frequency band. So not really like cell towers. This is the technology of Aircell's Gogo (which seems to be Hipmunk's partner on there) and LiveTV's. Advantage is that it's pretty cheap (~100k/plane of equipment), but it will only work over land (as it's based on ground antennas)

* Satellites, this is Row44's technology (via HughesNet), the tech is far more expensive to setup in planes but more flexible and works across oceans. As far as I know, Row44 is only being implemented by SouthWest and Norwegian Air Shuttle. Alaska Airlines tried it (and the trial was successful), but decided to go Aircell GoGo for cost reasons.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirFone
Nokia C5 5MP
This article essentially says "practice any sport, whenever and wherever, just keep at it". While that's not wrong, it's not very useful.

For me personally, scooby1962's videos on Youtube were really helpful. Great advice on building muscle without doing crazy stuff, not requiring a gym and almost no equipment.
Same thought too, but I think there must be a good reason for that. Maybe achieving same interactivity with html5 is just too much work yet.
This is great! What about also indicating if the plane has power plugins? Or is this becoming the standard these days?

If my laptop/iPad dies, knowing the internet is available goes from awesome to super painful.
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PHPStorm does something very similar to this, and it jars me everytime I try to use Netbeans and this is missing.
Hexagonal architecture and dependency inversion
Google+ on HackerNews
I'm wondering how many items will be submitted about Google+ here on HN. There will be dozens of articles written about it, and many, perhaps most, will be submitted here.

As an experiment, would people find it useful to collect the links and discussions in a single place?

How about here?

(Added in edit: my suspicion is that this will get very few up votes and will therefore pretty much slide straight off the "newest" page. We'll see.)
I'm also wondering if your friends will be aware of what group(s) you've put them into. Like, will Fred be able to see that he's in my "Work" group, but be jealous because he can see that Peggy is in both "Work" and "Drinking Buddies"?
or tinychat
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How I Reverse Engineered Klout Score to an ~ R2 = 0.94
"Google, you cannot launch a social network while explicitly disallowing social networking".

It worked for Facebook.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2706206 (nytimes.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2706214 (mashable.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2706219 (techcrunch.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2706229 (gigaom.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2706308 (wired.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2706369 (demo: google.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2706405 (google.com)
I see this a lot as well. I dont understand it either!
I think you're already in. That just asks me to sign up for the waiting list.
The feature exists but it's inadequate for properly filtering content.
The great G.H. Hardy felt similar:

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

as did Bertrand Russell (one of my favorite quotes):

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

I suspect many mathematicians view themselves, at least to some extent, as creative types similar to poets.
Relatively recently the IF community has experienced a bit of a renaissance because of the release of Inform 7, which allows you to program games in the most natural sounding English I've ever seen in a programming language. Here's a sample:

---

"Cave Entrance"

The Cobble Crawl is a room. "You are crawling over cobbles in a low
passage. There is a dim light at the east end of the passage."

A wicker cage is here. "There is a small wicker cage discarded
nearby."

The Debris Room is west of the Crawl. "You are in a debris room
filled with stuff washed in from the surface. A low wide passage
with cobbles becomes plugged with mud and debris here, but an
awkward canyon leads upward and west. A note on the wall says,
'Magic word XYZZY'."

The black rod is here. "A three foot black rod with a rusty star
on one end lies nearby."

Above the Debris Room is the Sloping E/W Canyon. West of the Canyon
is the Orange River Chamber.

---

As you can see, it reads just like regular English, and it's very easy to understand what's going on here.

Here's a more complete example:

http://inform7.com/learn/man/ex74.html#e74

And here are some full, playable games (with source):

http://www.hpiweb.com/newmedia/

http://inform7.com/learn/complete-examples/

A couple of quick tutorials:

http://www.brasslantern.org/writers/howto/i7tutorial.html

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_to_Interactive_...

The full manual:

http://inform7.com/learn/manuals/

Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform#Inform_7
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That is a problem. What is the use of the photo sharing, Hangout is there is no one else to share it with.

If Google did not want to launch it to everyone at once, they should have probably gone geographically!
>"I personally think Skype Video can easily be brought to its knees by Google Plus’ Hangout."

That's not much of a reason.
Have been waiting for the day when I can share information that is relevant to the portion of my friends that know or actually care what Im talking about... How has facebook not integrated this before (other than going into privacy settings each and every time)?
It is different. Buzz was forced on to anyone who logged into Gmail.
"""
Oops... you need a Google profile to use this feature.
Google Profiles is not available for your organization.
"""

Grr. Google /really/ need to fix their authentication scheme.
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My vitamins. I know my diet is awful due to low budget and time, but I try to counter that by taking daily multi-vitamins. Unfortunately, I get into streaks where I just forget them.
I'd add Coworkers, Drinking Buddies, Biking buddies, Dev buddies, ... this really has potential. I don't want to share holiday photos of my girlfriend in a bikini with developers I've never met but that are in my gmail contacts. Similarly I don't want to share geeky code stuff with people I met through my girlfriend. That example only involves two out of the dozen "circles" in my life.
I'll second the recommendation for Scooby. He's a little strange, perhaps, but his methods are effective and he's got a high signal/noise ratio.

http://www.scoobysworkshop.com/
I tell practically everyone I know to try Crossfit. There are two basic difficulties with any exercise regimen, and Crossfit nails both:

1. Figuring out what to do.
2. Actually doing it, consistently, over the long haul.

Crossfit will teach you how to do the old-school, badass basics of fitness--stuff that will get you in great shape and is actually fun to do. No gimmicks, no miracles, just stuff that will kick your ass.

Doing Crossfit also makes you a member of an incredibly friendly, supportive community. This makes it so much easier to stick with it--every class, you'll see people in your community, friends, going hard and making progress. You support them and they support you. You'll work out with beginners, who you can help, and with badasses, who can help you.

A well-run Crossfit gym is a magical place.
That's exactly what I was getting at. And I think most people are in similar situations. But Google+ and Circles will only work right if all your friends use it. Otherwise it'll be just another network to update with specific content.
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Do entrepreneurs somehow have different bodies from other humans? Fail to see what makes this article especially relevant to entrepreneurs.
Thanks, guess it was a false alarm.
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slightly off topic but I love the Hipmunk date control. You can type in your date in any format and it'll parse it. No need to make tons of click to navigate through a calendar control.
Annual cost of air conditioning in Iraq and Afghan wars larger than NASA budget
You should check out Responsive layout.
Nowadays with both desktop and mobile devices consuming websites, there's a need to code for different environments and display resolutions. Read more there:
http://maki.bo.lt/responsive-layout
Facebook's method was different. Though, they launched to limited users at once and expanded, but it was launched to a linked group/college at once. So, they already had people they knew on Facebook.
Nothing on iOS
Friends list on facebook are painful things to use, edit and apply to various posts. Each action tends to be multi screen bonanza and are never ever on by default, and things can still slip through. If facebook would clean up their groups functionality (which I doubt since it goes against their goals) then it would be a better competitor to google +
> Hopefully you can drop friends into more than one circle.

I noticed this too in the demo, I have to believe you'll be able to.
Had Google called it friend something, at least I won't have bothered. The only reason I am looking at it is because of brand Google. Granted that Google would have called it something else and I would have still used it, but that would be only because it's Google. Majority of people I know don't have Google brand fatigue - they love brand Google.
EXACTLY! http://oonwoye.com/2011/03/07/googles-social-problem-the-bra...
Google+ support page: Info straight from the horse's mouth
Hopefully you don't have to wait that much until it becomes automatic based on your iterests ("sparks").
https://stripe.com/ makes accepting CC extremely easy, and works as a merchant account as well. However it's in private beta. Some founders hang around HN, perhaps you can get an invite.
It's also possible to do this using YQL.
Ok, I finally managed to buy it and it's FUN! Really fun. You've got a really fundamental and addictive game here. If you are really the only one in the app store doing it then you should be able to clean up. You just have to pollish the look and let shoppers know what it is.
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I think the support pages are the best place to get info and I did not see it posted yet so:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2706918
If you like Lovecraftian horror then Anchorhead is highly recommended. A really well made game and the writing captures the mood perfectly.
works or fails, the UI definitely looks good.
WWhy not pandoc?
I don't think it has to be either/or. I took about a month off to write my iOS app. While it never made me rich, it still provides a nice income stream that continues today. Now I have my regular job revenue and app sales revenue.
Crossfit seems to be for people who are already pretty strong athletes. Is it really something you can just jump on board with if you're fairly out of shape?

I've spent the last few months following the "Starting Strength" plan (http://startingstrength.com/) with the idea of getting in good enough shape to do crossfit.