skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One way around this:

1) Import your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! (you can create a throwaway account for this if necessary). http://www.ymailblog.com/blog/2010/03/facebook-friends-meet-...

2) Import the contacts from Yahoo! to Gmail: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12118

It's been a while since I did this, but it worked fine then. No guarantee it still does.

Edit: I'm assuming here that it's easy to get the contacts into Google+ once you have them in GMail. If that's not the case, never mind. :-)
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But then the Ctrl+Shift+T feature to reopen closed tabs wouldn't work so well. Try it, you can reopen closed tabs as far back as you like; it's pretty awesome and has saved me more than once.

It doesn't work in Private Mode (for good reason); I wonder if browsing in private mode consumes less memory?
Surely "internet"?
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North Korea's Chinese IP addresses
VoIP Company Releases Live Call Map - Google API Mashup
Mashup of the day on ProgrammableWeb.com:

http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup/live-call-map-mash-up-onsip-data-google-maps-api-ip2location?date

You’re seeing live calls as OnSIP customers pick up the phone. When an OnSIP customer makes a call, a pin drops. When an OnSIP customer receives a call, a pin drops. This works because OnSIP is - at its core - a communications platform built on software. We created a live UDP stream of OnSIP customer call data with IP addresses of each end point (phone). We used IP2Location to get the lat/long for each IP address, and then plotted these points via the Google Map API.
A Search engine called 'Calling God'? Seriously?
At least name it something that makes some kind of sense (aside from the 'I'm going to call God to find some recipes".)

Title should read "Iran set to launch it's own Intranet* "
Intranet * haha
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Definitively. These places (I know on of them) have almost no expenses with personnel; the people interned there do all the work - including growing vegetables for food, although they obviously get other kind of food from outside - and there are no guards or anything like that.
Phone Data to Give a Picture of Traffic Disaster in L.A.
What I have tried to say with this post is that it is execution that matters - maybe this patent had a brilliant idea in it, but it was never implemented.
Assuming you verify users over the phone securely, why not just reset their passwords for them with a one-time use, temporary password? Surely that's not much harder for the end-user to deal with, and then you needn't store their password...
Secret Service Investigating Fox News Hack
Biased, self-selecting poll. Meaningless.
Argh, I missed the edit time window: "one-linear", should be, of course, "one-liner". Fisher-Yates is O(n), but the sort makes this algorithm Omega(n log n).
You're right. You don't have to solve a problem. But you do have to create something people want, or something that appeals to them. Technically, there aren't many "problems" in life besides survival. Everything else though has to appeal to something in the Maslov hierarchy
Ah, I think I see your point. You would be happier with E = 1/2k x^2 is a family of quadratic forms, indexed by the real number k, I guess. A bit nitpicky to me (as long as k != 0), but fair.
It's not just invite-only, but in fact if you have received an invite you still can't get in at the moment. It's pretty irritating to receive an email saying your invited showing a bunch of cool stuff and then have no way to see it (and 403 if you're logged into the wrong Google account).
"but right now it requires a nightly build of Firefox"
couple of questions for folks who might have some experience with this (1) with such a huge number of cores, does it have a cache-cohorent architecture ? iirc, first version didn't. (2) does it have a floating point unit ? from the diagram, it seems that this would excel at IO. i mean, i can see 4 ddr controllers, multiple pci-e lanes providing huge memory bandwidth etc.
The big thing Google+ seems to be missing compared to Facebook is the ability to be a voyeur on other people's lives. I haven't used Facebook in years but I recall that was the thing that basically everyone spent their time doing.

Google+ seems to be much more focused on privacy and access control, which is exactly the thing that's going to prevent gossipy young people caring about it.
He is a great lecturer to be sure, but other aspects of the class were not ideal. The course staff was unable to return any assignments promptly, and students were eventually allowed to late drop the class due to the complete lack of feedback on assignments. Although Demaine is brilliant and his lectures were amazing, the class as a whole was a negative experience for many students.

[source: I'm a student at MIT]
Meta: sad to see Hacker News dominated by so many pointless G+ stories. One story a day would be about right.
I don't like it, also I'm pretty sure it isn't new. Stack Overflow has something similar, but it also pushes the page down as to not cover the topmost navigation.
Financial services industry given special powers to fight patents
This poll is statistically useless. There are 2 layers of self selection involved. The user has to choose to use Google+, and then, after having chosen Google+, the user has to choose to take this poll. So, given that, its not surprising that lots of people like Google+ on this poll.
I can't believe I just got called a "mom and pop beige-box surfer"...
Facebook's stalking feature has become a lot less interesting, now that they have turned it into Twitter.
this article would disagree:

http://www.quora.com/Yishan-Wong/How-Google+-Shows-That-Goog...
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>The big thing Google+ seems to be missing compared to Facebook is the ability to be a voyeur on other people's lives.

As non facebook user that sees what other people around him do on facebook, I concur.
And how easy is it to register a company?
Do they just post this stuff up on the bulletin board?
Surely they'd want to keep this a secret?

But no, "HEY LOOK EVERYBODY WE'RE DOING SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE"
Particularly since it is just a blatant attempt to mimic FB's original exclusivity (i.e. only a small list of colleges). Like, it's not a thing. It's not full. Google is giving everyone 7 gigs of space for email now. They're not short on storage capacity!

Sorry Google, I don't have time for stupid marketing games, and I expect this to go the way of Orkut.
Then you probably shouldn't have said anything, no?
I've never tried one, is the steam worth watching? Is it a good copy? Is there advertisements in the video or just along side?

I'd be very interested in hearing about the legality of the users of these sites.

Currently using the (currently) legal www.zediva.com - $1 a movie, and I love the concept of renting a DVD player over in the states. I hope that it takes off.
Every Android application comes with file called manifest. It specifies many things, but in the context of this debate also permissions and device capabilities required. If your app requires gyro, accelerometer, high-dpi display, OpenGL ES 2.0, specific texture formats or whatever, you put it here.

And here comes Google relationship with device manufacturers. As you certainly know, Market is not a part of the open-source android release, but proprietary app, that has to be licensed, if you want to distribute it on any device. So when the manufacturer licenses the app for the specific device, it also provides Google with device capabilities. Google puts it into the market, so they can show you only those apps, that your device is capable of running.

Amazon, of course, does not have such a database, and also does not have relationship with device manufacturers. It is up to them to find a way to build similar filtering mechanism. Nobody said, that building competing market is easy and that reviewing apps is enough. Good luck trying, though.
I look at it as a chance to start over. I can keep my circles small and focused. And no Farmville!
Very poor UX design then because there's nothing which indicates this would be the case, and no general understanding that clicking things makes them vanish.
I like it too, but the [lack of] critical mass of people I want to "share" with concerns me. Facebook, like it or not, has the mindshare.

I'll use it of course; maybe people will migrate like they did from MySpace. Then again, maybe I will too to the next thing.
The World's Biggest Pac-Man game
Game info (Wyvern):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyvern_(video_game)
Because the women on Facebook become the women on your dating site.

Selling advertising to people who have profiles on existing sites would also work, but obviously you'll have a lot worse conversion rate as rather than a girl being able to just send you a message immediately after hitting your page they'd have to signup/subscribe to the dating site before doing so.

This approach is how airbnb essentially bootstrapped their business, they found people who had rooms they wanted to advertise and then re-advertised those rooms on places like craigslist, etc. so it didn't matter they didn't have both sides of the market. Craigslist, etc. became the other side of the market for them.
Disagree with the second part of the reasoning. On the forums people show motivation to report dislikes and negative reviews. So for sure you would hear about the negative user experience, especially after people invested time in the gizmo.
Demeter: It’s not just a good idea. It’s the law.
Have you considered the possibility that it's not a marketing game?
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Borrowed Sugar: "Local" is meaningful again what do u think?
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Effective Social Media Marketing Programs
I was also thinking of #3 - keep it very exclusive.. such as limiting it only to people who are serious about marriage. Make it sorta like a marriage catalog service, but less shady. Make it very very expensive. $10000/year or your money back if you don't find a mate. You get 50% of the money back if you get married though thru the site.
I thought it was Lond.. no Helsi.. I mean Amst... Oh, never mind.

There's only one thing remotely comparable to Silicon Valley in Europe and that's Ireland. It's where the laws are right for tech. companies and Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, and possibly even Twitter got together and are attracting a ton of engineers, which are creating a ton of start-ups, networking events, and even quite a bit of VC.
So many open source developers code stuff for fun and calling their projects something like "fucking simple fuzzer".

When I write something for fun I want to name it something fun and I don't care what other thinks, whether they can find it in their Google or not, the point was writing the code and if I can't give a lovely name to my own projects what's it good for? If you find it offensive for you taste don't use it. An open source repository that tries to police this kind of stuff is just ridiculous unless there is a legal issue.

Who finds "upskirt" offensive? It's childish, yeah, offensive, I don't think so. If a woman decides to not work on open source projects because she finds that a library named "upskirt", that's her problem.
That's interesting, and is why I put YMMV.

I sometimes wonder if there is some kind of random stochastic effect that's related to where on the social graph you connect initially in a city that determines this outcome.

But I really, really tried. So did my friend, who was far more outgoing than me. Neither of us were able to meet very many people in Boston, or ever to feel comfortable there.
Microsoft, Baidu to Expand Web-Search Partnership
None of the links seem to work on that first page
I don't think this is too much to ask. Anyone who uses apps on Facebook are well aware of the permissions and probably deny some apps beacause of what they ask for.

Sure some of the Android permissions are a little obtuse, but users are definitely aware of those permissions that are important.
Side note: Firefox extensions aren't native code, they're written in JS.

EDIT: I do however agree that chrome is more well designed. Firefox has been through a lot of iterations through the years.
The article seems confused.

If it connects to the rest of the Internet, it's still the same Internet.

If it doesn't connect to the rest of the Internet, it's a new internet, but the whole 'Facebook is blocked' thing is a moot point.

I disagree with the term 'intranet' because that is generally used inside companies, not nations. It's connecting networks of computers together, not just individual machines.
Personal tax rates are higher, at the same time you get better (and cheaper) healthcare.

Corporate tax rates are indeed higher in Germany. At the same time, there are lots of funding opportunities for startups from communal, national and EU business development programs, that can be seen as sort of a tax break.

Hiring is probably harder, since programmers are generally less interested in startups and prefer safe corporate jobs (outside of Berlin). Wages are significantly lower in Berlin than in West German cities. Firing is much harder than in the U.S.
Hacking a magnetic sixth sense Part 1 (an experiment you can do at home)
Does this help: f_a (x) = a * x? Is this a function of x in your opinion?
I am going to start off by saying I haven't read the article. With that said, didn't Google deny Facebook from scraping contacts off of gmail a year (or two) ago? I forget the exact method they implemented, but I know it stunted Facebook's ability to scrape the emails for a good while.

How is this any different?
When you are in your circle editor, all of your Gmail contacts are visible. Additionally, there is a "import from Yahoo!" button directly in the circle editor.
I think imitating the UI controls isn't really a huge problem. It's the inconsistent behavior, and performance that's an issue. For instance, the tab bar controls disappear when you scroll down a page in JQuery Mobile, as I remember. This is drastically different than how it is in native.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727463
I believe automating any part of the sign up process with Yahoo! is against the TOS.
Everybody knows that 73.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot, but I'm not sure that people know 97% of the rest don't measure anything useful.
NASA's next Mars rover: Curiosity
Like I say, G+ isn't an actual thing, like a box or a bucket. It can't "fill up" while there is evidence of massive spare capacity in the Google infrastructure. Pure gimmick.
Instead of remembering information, we store pointers to that information. We just need to remember the search terms or keywords that will allow us to quickly recall the desired information.

But, having knowledge organized this way leads to this: http://xkcd.com/903/
Entrepreneurial Walk of Fame to be Created in Kendall Square
Money Making Ideas
Google adwords to make money online fast ! No doubt you can make money online. There are various ways to make money online. But if you are looking for instant money then google adwords is the best option for you.

when you have a product or service and you want to sell it online all you need is web traffic. Search engines are primary source of information. Almost 80% people look for product or services through search engines.

Geting listed in search engines is not easy. And getting high ranking is even more difficult. Google search engine is worlds leading search engine. Getiing high ranking on google search engine is very difficult and very time consuming. When you get listed on first page of any searh engine you get lot of visiotors and more visitors means more sales.

There are two methods of getting high ranking or getting visitors from search engine. First free that is organic search and other is paid. Google offers both methods that is organic and other is paid. Though getting high ranking through organic search is very difficult as there is huge competition. Google has very unique program called ADWORDS.

Google adwords is paid service but the advantage of the service is that you get targetted visitors vary fast. Yes , this the fastest way to visitors for your product or service.

Many people who don't have their own product or service and promote other peoples products as an affiliate use google adwords to get fast results.

How do you use google adword system to make money online fast? This is very simple system if use correctly. First you have to select the product that you want to promote. Build a website or simple landing page that describe your product. Write a small advertisement about your product that you are promoting. Tell google that how much you want to pay for every visotor that come thrugh your ad. Yes you can control your expenses. It upto you how much you want to spend on particular visitor or click.

When you write a small advertisement on in google adwords system, according to your advertisement, keywords, and the bid for per click google displays your advertisement on its search engine. Google also displays your ad on its partner sites. When people see your advertisement and if they are looking for the product or service that you are promoting, chances that people might click on your advertisement and visit your webpage or website.When They visit your website and if they convince about the product they might purchase it and you get money.

The secret of making big money using google adwords is to search right keywords at low price. Writing good advertisement is also important as it increases your click through rates. So when you get high click through rate google charge you less than your competitors.

Google adwords is easy way to get more visotors for your website and buyers for your products. All you need is to find right keywords that converts into sales. Also it can be very expensive if done wrong.

for more money making ideas
anyone have an idea on how to get rid of `console.log` in ticksort.coffee?
Instead they are taking QNX (a solid OS) but having to write tons of compatibility layers, developer tools, and bribing devs to stay.
TLDR:

- The area of a unit circle is Pi.

- The Tau Manifesto is full of selective bias. They pinpoint formulas that contain 2π while ignoring other formulas that do not.
+ it's a waste of time, and clicks.
I will never understand why some people have such a need to control the language of others. When that need starts being given serious consideration organization - regardless of the "think of the X" logic being thrown around - it's a really bad sign.
This point was raised before; the Facebook export tool does not export your social graph!
Pocket Ranger APP is now on Facebook
Which again is a 'carbon copy' of Growl, and etc.
This implementation claims to take SUM(argv) ticks, whereas the original sleepsort took MAX(argv) seconds.

Is this an error, or is something done fundamentally different?
I don't give a damn. Yes, there are some useful tweets but 99% of them are trivial noise. Google probably didn't invested a lot of time in filtering the noise. So getting rid of it was the best decision.
The next generation of computing: spintronics
Setting up an UG (sort of like a private partnership) has become relatively easy (couple days) and cheap (couple hundred bucks), while a GmbH (LLC) or an AG (corporation) is still a lot more complex and costly (min. 25K EUR capital brought in for a GmbH).
Google+ Circles cloned by Facebook engineers -- Circlehack
If it's still on their servers, to comply with the act they'd need to provide access to your information within 40 calendar days for a charge no greater than £10.
I'll second that. Considering I work at an online development agency and only have 4GB of ram in my work machine, I'd say the author is a bit out of touch. This is most definitely an issue for me.
Based on my G+ usage it's not a gimmick at all. They seem to still have scaling issues (and bugs). Friends changing their profile pic can take hours before it stops bouncing back and forth between the new one and old one.

The point is, they are still bug hunting and fixing (still can't edit your birthday for example) and it doesn't make sense to let the whole world in until they have solved the most obvious ones.
Hey, thanks! I like this, it looks nice, and it actually got a license that let me use it instead of '© Copyright Red Team Design' :-)
Vice President Joe Biden Joins Twitter
I think the main trigger for big corporations to set up their European subsidies in Ireland were the significant tax breaks offered.

Now that Ireland is getting bailed out with EU money, it'll be interesting to see if they can maintain the low tax rates.
Particularly great ideas will face a lot of criticism
Thankfully, Yahoo! now lets you create an account via Facebook Connect, which makes the whole exporting contacts ordeal super easy.
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2687372
Looks awesome. I still wish I had a Google+ invite!
Large tech company organizational charts
I do agree that right now it feels like a Twitter just based on the type of users on it. It certainly is far from replacing facebook in terms of connecting with my non-techie friends who also have non-techie friends.
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Yeah, and if I went through the codebase for my current project and added a bunch of line breaks, I'd double the code "size" according to the LOC metric without changing anything about the complexity at all.

Macros kinda terrify me because they mean I can't glance at a random 5-line fragment and know exactly what's happening. I'm not convinced that they add to clarity, even while doing a lot for conciseness. To be fair, I've never used them on a project that was bigger than "tiny", so maybe I'm just casting aspersions on something I don't understand.

After macros, then what? Is the slightly redundant Foo foo = foos.next() in Java really hurting clarity that bad? I mean, yeah, the type should be inferred there but is that the reason big projects get unmanageable? Or is it higher-level architectural bloat?

EDIT: Wow. Any downvoters want to explain why this comment is so offensive to them? Perhaps they could contribute their own thoughts about complexity and code bloat?
I like it and prefer it to FaceBook
I don't like it and don't prefer it to FaceBook
I like it but don't prefer it to FaceBook
I don't like it but prefer it to FaceBook
Thank you for pointing this out. I was too eager to see it in action and - after skimming the article and obviously missing that clause - proceeded to hit the nice blue "read the JavaScript paper with pdf.js online, too" in the paragraph before the quote that contains the statement about nightlies.

My bad, mea culpa.

I won't run a nightly on my main machine to give it a try, but awesome if it made the leap to pixel perfect between FF 5 and current builds.
Is Android Linux? Adobe seems to think so...
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I am curious among those of our HN audience that are in that part of the world how are the internet conditions affecting your start-up ambitions?

My Biases: While at Purdue I did have the chance to interact with Iranians that had immigrated to the USA but that was more than a decade ago and a lot has changed since than..and even than they had fled after the Iraq-Iran war...
Apple Web Site Targeted in Database Hack
Poll: Google+: Like it/prefer it to FaceBook
Hourly Hacker News Snapshot
usually because it's been tied to some incentive.... discount...access to more information/contests..whatever. They're lured in.

A 'like' has become a form of currency in some strange way
I agree. It's a good effort. No doubt. But I personally feel that it makes a simple markup language like rocket science.

I prefer HAML over this once as in HAML I only need to type single (%) character to mark tags where is in this language I need to use two characters (->).
PrefixInteger produces wrong result in some cases.

PrefixInteger(1000,2) would return .00

Easy to fix but I don't know if a while appending zeros in front of a string would not be faster.
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