skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's like Facebook, but you can but your friends in different buckets. So you put your family in one bucket and your friends in another bucket. Then when you post pictures of yourself being drunk, you can post it only to your friends-bucket and your family-bucket doesn't see them." - There you go.
Nobody uses Facebook lists. That's the main reason I didn't bother mentioning it.
Yes, I have, but thank you for the information.

And yes, software can fit into the dictionary description of "weapon", but the scales are completely different.

Throwing it into the same regulatory basket as firearms just seems misleading and asking for trouble.

But maybe you are right, software can be a weapon, and I'm just afraid of the implications of classifying it as such.
Bitch means female dog while males are called Sires which is far more noble sounding.
Zynga/LinkedIn/Groupon have hired a combined 10,111 people
The article says "Close to $2 of every $10". No need to editorialize it.
Sigh. Sometimes posts like these make me want to go back to academia (it's not perfect, but they generally believe in this little thing called rigor).

From TFA:

I tested nginx as a proxy, serving static files, and serving nginx-generated redirects. I tried changing all the relevant ssl parameters I could find. All setups resulted in the same SSL performance from nginx. I even tried the setup on more than one server (the other server was quad-core nginx got up to 75 requests per second).

So "all the relevant ssl parameters I could find", no details about what those involve, and the surprising result that it made no difference.

In the same situation, I might think I was doing something wrong...

And then this overarching statement:

Never let nginx listen for SSL connections itself.
Ok, so that's a killer feature for you and two other guys...
Don't loop and abort - use recursion.
I can imagine that, like child pornographers, terrorists and drug traffickers, white-collar criminals leave a lot of incriminating evidence outside their own computers.

If Ms. Fricosu is so dangerous, if her crimes are so serious and widespread, sure there is evidence beyond the encrypted volumes in her computer. There is no crime without evidence. The DoJ should find the missing evidence and then, with a strong case, offer Ms. Fricosu a deal in that she gets some slack for revealing the exact extent and methods of her misdeeds.
Windows 8 to allow 360 games to be played on PC?
From the EFF: ""Decrypting the data on the laptop can be, in and of itself, a testimonial act--revealing control over a computer and the files on it"

This suggests to me that the prosecution has failed to prove that the laptop, or the data on the laptop, is hers. In which case, as I understand it, they would be unable to make a contempt charge stick.
I find it interesting that the article begins by talking about how great it is that Google+ puts pressure on facebook and then immediately tries to paint the service as a bad thing. Intrinsic to the claim that G+ is a long-awaited challenge to the "monopolistic" facebook is the obvious fact that Google is one of the few entities with the power to challenge the facebook behemoth. So why then does the author then complain that Google is too big?
Publicity is only any use if you have a good product.

See also: cuil.com
You just have to look at what is actually being done, and not what is being said.

Yes, but what you said is:

Yes, that's the theory. But look around you. Is it working?
No. We're doing way worse than those recessions where we instead responded by cutting taxes and actually living within our means.
This theory is wrong.

This implies that the Keynesian theory of stimulus spending is wrong but you yourself admit that what is actually being done is not what is suggested by theory, it is some strange bastardized form. Actual Keynesian theory has been practiced in previous times and has succeeded relatively well. Even in this recession, the Scandinavian economic response is mostly Keynesian and they have weathered the recession very well.
In that case, I would think that the indexing stuff (i.e. hash lookups) would be way better than linear already. Cool.
Enjoyed it and Liked following snippets:
- Prizes are nice, and winning is nice, but they are fleeting pleasures. Knowledge is priceless.
- The number one rule of venture capital is invest in the team. Product ideas and business plans are great, but pretty easy to come by. A great team that enjoys working together is a genuine treasure.
- When you’re pitching on stage, Make a movie.
- Dont't be a dick.
I disagree about JSLint. I can argue that things like failing with fatal error when you don't move all your variable declaration to the top of the function is a bad idea. In the end, all lint programs are just tools to make your life easier. And you should never blindly rely on any of them.

Disclaimer: I am maintainer of JSHint, a fork of JSLint.
> Yes, the vague idea that we can win the hot chick will drive many, many long dark nights of building a company.

If this qualifies as your motivation criteria for building a company, you're most likely in it for the wrong reasons. There's a difference between taking "the enormous energy available as the sex drive and convert[ing] it into useful work" and letting your sex drive be a motivator to your success.
"Wifi vs 3g doesn't matter; nobody buys books often enough to really truly NEED 24/7 connectivity across the globe."

Totally agree, personally. Some people use the 3G for other stuff, but I only read books. Btw, purchased Google eBooks are not like PG, though, they are formatted like purchased Amazon and B&N eBooks.

"It's a generation behind the Nook Simple Touch, and integration with Google Books isn't enough to interest me given the awful or non-existent editorial oversight in most public-domain ebooks."

I'm interested in the new nook too. I saw it in the store, but didn't bother with checking it out. Next time I will. Integration with Google is also irrelevant to me, but access to Google eBooks (and all the other ePUB books with DRM via Adobe) totally matters to me, and this is why I won't buy a Kindle, yet.

When it comes to well-formatted public domain eBooks, I like Feedbooks.
I think a more accurate description would be "a type of tool created with the intent to harm". You can use your kitchen knife to stab someone, but it's not its main purpose.

Rifles and bombs don't kill people by themselves either, but are a damn good indication of intent and their simple presence facilitates dangerous situations.
I'm not sure why so many people jump to calling members of these groups "script kiddies" -- perhaps because it's in the vogue and makes one feel more important than others? It's been shown that a few of the 0days these guys are using are from their own findings. A handful of members of different groups (of Antisec fame and some not) seem to take great interest in cryptography, reverse engineering, etc. As immature as their ways may be, as misguided as their goals may seem to you, they're not certainly not script kiddies and they're certainly pretty clever if they've managed to not get caught yet.
Notice this is a guest article, it isn't by the "freakonimists", Levitt & Dubner. Levitt & Dubner had a chapter in their book which was glowing puff piece about Intellectual Ventures. IV is perhaps the biggest patent troll of all.
Ask HN: Anyone used oDesk to build their MVP?
I'm a non-technical "founder" considering using oDesk to hire a Rails dev to finish work on my MVP so I can get something out there and testing for relatively cheap. Has anybody gone this route before and if so, how was the experience? Do you have anybody you can recommend?

And for the technical people, can you offer advice on any pitfalls to be aware of when using this option?

Thanks for the help.
Shared circles -- this makes sense to me. I wouldn't be surprised if Google already had this coming down the pipe.
It is a gamble... I would probably continue to pay him for his services. Things and thoughts are different when someone is working for equity...

I'm planning to write an article soon about my experiences doing that. Your question just reminded me of that.
FYI the transaction price was estimated at greater than $10mil.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/08/google-to-buy-mobile-loyalt...

I like the product and am excited for the team, but $10mil seems a bit high to me for a pretty early product. I'm assuming that this will eventually roll into Google wallet as a competitor to Square's card case.

In any case, this is great news for the young team - looks like they'll continue their work but within the confines of Google. Looks like Dave McClure's hypothesis is getting stronger by the day with a few 500 startups companies getting snapped up recently (Backtype to Twitter and Cardmunch to Linkedin).

(disclosure- we're a fellow 500startups company - go 500!)
I'm reading over Matt's work carefully, but my initial inclination is not to merge the bulk of this into stud mainline. I'd rather keep stud simple and protocol-naive and have HAProxy do the HTTP work.
I don't know what the limits are in the nginx HTTP parser Matt's using, so this is probably moot, but code that does things like "realloc(ptr, size + newsz)" or "malloc(size + 1)" expecting things to be fine gives me the howling fantods.
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This is an interesting discussion of HTTP caching, but is not the first step in scaling a web site. Not the second or third even. The first step in scaling a site like that, with various boxes full of information expiring at varying periods of time, is PROFILING.

PROFILE before optimization. Premature optimization is a bad thing.

Most of the time is spent rendering the page. Most people come to you with an empty cache. Why is Cinema Treasures loading dozens of jQuery javascript files from a handful of different domains? Such a waste of user time. Concatenate as much as you can, and serve it off of a CDN.

See what takes a long time to render. See what pages are most popular. Save the most user-time per engineering hour you can.
The thing is, the court can compel you to open the safe. You don't have to reveal the combination but you do have to open it (or face contempt charges).

This is pretty much the same thing they are demanding from her - we don't want your password, we want access to your hard drive.
Me, I really love this "Circles" feature. How I organize my contacts is (and should be) entirely up to me.

Others can't see my groups? It can't get any better than that, and I really mean it.

But hey, of course I might be wrong.
I met Reed at StartupSchool last year, he was pretty passionate about this project -- and it was clear they were on to something. I hope Google continues the project, there's lots of potential here. Congrats to the team!
> It's just night and day.

It's mostly night and day in the opposite direction. Firefox 4+, like IE9+, uses Direct2D on Windows. That leads to canvas being much faster than Chrome (if your graphics card supports that).

On other platforms, results may differ, and it depends on your graphics card. I am guessing that you happen to have a configuration that Chrome runs better on, but most benchmarkers have found (as expected) than Firefox and IE have faster Canvas implementations than Chrome (since they tested on Windows, with cards that can utilize Direct2D).
The best part is the invoice.

Enclosed is the invoice for our audit of your security systems [...]

4 hours of man power: $40.00
Network auditing: $35.00
Web-app auditing: $35.00
Network infiltration*: $0.00
Password and SQL dumping**: $200.00
Decryption of data***: $0.00
Media and press****: $0.00

Total bill: $310.00
God forbid anyone reduce a fraction!
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That's gonna solve the unemployment problem right there!
Don't call it the next tech bubble - yet
Exactly. I don't want the people I was forced to add out of workplace social norms to know they're in a "Work - Others" group that gets to hardly see anything I do.

These are MY social circles, why should they have to be relevant to anyone other than me.
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Interesting. Good point.
If it weren't for the ol'govt'boys network and for all the nepotism and favoritism, there would be a large opportunity for small startups to undercut these large, wasteful, stupid and taxpayer moneysucking behemoths.

That concern is exactly why the U.S. Small Business Administration exists. The federal government actively works to award ~23% of prime federal contracts to small businesses each year. Moreover, that quota contains specific goals for awarding contracts to Women-Owned Small Businesses (WOSB), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned (SDVO) small businesses, other "small disadvantaged businesses," and businesses in "Historically Underutilized Business Zones" (HUBZones).

If you actually try to "undercut these large, wasteful, stupid and taxpayer moneysucking behemoths," you'll have federal policy at your back.

Furthermore, "[f]or all procurement actions expected to exceed the $150,000 simplified acquisition threshold, prime contractors are required to make a "best effort' attempt to make use of small disadvantaged businesses, SDVOs, and WOSBs as subcontractors if the opportunity exists under the contract. For procurement actions expected to exceed $650,000 ($1.5 million for construction), the winning contractor is required to provide the agency contracting officer with a written plan that establishes a small business subcontracting goal. The plan details how the winning contractor will make use of small business in each subcontract category and provide for timely payments." [0]

[0]: http://www.sba.gov/content/about-government-contracting
Circles seems like the Google+ equivalent of labels in Gmail or tags in Reader. You can easily tag a thread or user with one or more descriptive labels. I don't find that a lot of work. Facebook, in comparison (last time I checked), makes you go to the group to add/remove people. Major pain to manage groups in FB.
This is of course not limited to Google. Consider the case of someone who returned a television on the recommendation of the Amazon help desk, but that triggered their customer-has-returned-too-many-items --- which then disabled his access to his ebooks purchased through Amazon books.[1] And if that person was an entrepreneur using S3/EC2 for his idea for a new company, he could lose access to his Amazon virtual machines, too.

[1] http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44350
Because the ToS are infantilizing, designed to water-down human interactions for maximum advertiser-friendliness?
Making circles is way more intuitive than Facebook groups or Twitter lists, so yes, I could see my parents being able to make a Google+ circle.
I understand the criticism and while G+ may be able to benefit from something like public circles, I think the post misses the core concept that circles are my cataloging of the people I know. Nobody else has shares or even understands the weight of edges on my social graph. It looks like google's goal is to give user's ownership over their circles rather than making them a shared resource, it gives the user ultimate control over who sees what they post.

A shared group relies on the assumption that all the members' social connections create the same graph such that that group X is good for their collective Xing purposes. Other than tight-nit cliques that doesn't work well. Even then, once one person wants a "group X minus Y" or another wants "group X plus Z" the utility of the group is severely diminished.

Shared control also has downsides, for example I don't need people who have access to my drunk pictures able to add people to the drunk picture viewer's list. While there are ways of sharing the pictures out-of-band that is a risk and different than the self-censoring that could follow an unwelcome addition to a circle.
My Mom has already made circles and found the drag and drop feature to be dead easy. She loves it.
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Did an Ask HN on this a few months ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1897331). Knew the responses would be pretty biased, but it was still encouraging. Glad I heeded you all.
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There is a circle jerk joke in here somewhere I know it.
Shutdown in Minnesota: A sign of things to come?
With a growing poor population via the influx of immigrants getting out of our financial crisis will be an even slower process. This population is the 2nd largest and the fastest growing. They currently have minimal buying power. Case in point go to your local state park and witness America's future. The face of America in 30 to 50 years and the language we speak will be remarkably different.

Im sure this will be downvoted as it's totally NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT. But for me Im all about assimilation vs a massive population changing American culture. We are a melting pot and that's great but one who speaks English.

I dont view myself as a racist(im sure this sounds otherwise) ... but if you go to one of your local US state parks you just might get the slap in the face I did(i live in PA). Again this new culture currently has no buying power just sucking off our systems and it will be years before they have buying power as a population to help our economy.
First of all thanks for sharing this, i completely agree with you, Node is where all the fun is happening right now in the JS world but there are more areas where it could span specially in Gaming, since JS is growing in popularity i think in the following days we will keep seeing more places where we can use our JS skills, i just hope that Nintendo picks up where they left with their browser, but i wont blame them if they limit what you can do with it.
In another topic i think that you picked a great way to empathize by working on a console, ill be paying attention to your releases. Excellent work
Interesting, I came just to say that as someone who was defending the possibility that there may be a real company in there a few months ago, I'm now willing to admit this is definitely a credit on the "bubble" side of the argument.
I got more than 1MB/s (not Mbps) for downloads.
No VCs have called to ask me my opinion, but I'm very ok with color.com imploding. IIRC, Paul Graham suggested that startups be described as questions. Color's question was, "Can we make ____, give it away for free, have it become really popular, and gather profile information we can monetize?"

So they now know that _____ is not really popular, and although they raised a tonne of money to do it, closing its doors quickly and moving on to other things is not a disaster.

Pivoting would be neat, but maybe they ought to just give the remaining money back to their investors and move along to the next idea.
OMG. With that much knowledge and creativity clearly you must be a terrorist. Or someone who grew up way back when the official US government policy was that kids should learn hands-on Science and Math.

In any case, you do something like that today you will frighten the living daylights out of enough technically-illiterate-but-powerful people that you will not get out of jail for a long long time, regardless of whether or not there is any reasonable justification for it.
The fraction reduction seems inflationary.
"If you hamstring your government, you aren't allowed to complain that it is ineffective."

Then what in your theory would be an explanation for an ineffective government of practically unlimited power?
But... that would take work! And he only works four hours a week. </tonguecheek>
For anyone wanting to try this out themselves, Jon Kabat-Zinn is one well-respected long-time researcher into this effect, and I recommend his materials. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kabat-Zinn>;

NOTE: I don't know the man and have no stake in his success.
False math. Each person takes N actions. Only the sum total across M people is NxM.

Yes, it would be easier if you could share circles, but it's by no means hard work.
I'm quite new to C programming. What's wrong with doing those things?
Nested circles would be nice, too. I'd like to be able to have an "everyone" circle, put "acquaintances" in it, and put "work" in "acquaintances".
@Isb You have a good point about profiling and asset management but you are talking about performance on the client side (browser) not scaling as in increasing the throughput. There are a lot of improvements which can be made to improve the page rendering speed but that won't help if you see a traffic peak.
I can't speak for the rest, but "Why don't they just make Google+ a self-policed community?" is because companies operate, and users live, in sovereign nations and are subject to the laws of those nations. Setting up a parallel legal framework is a non-starter.
Wow, no joke. Really cool to see Cal Poly grads doing big stuff, especially from the Android Dev classes. Missed that one by a quarter :)
(even John Gruber linked to this, so it must be important ;)

This new high-end model will be called iPad Pro,
not iPad 2 Plus. Why? Well, first Apple isn’t
Samsung. The com­pany doesn’t add pre­fixes and
suf­fixes except for ‘i’ and ‘Pro’.

is everyone who covers AAPL required to check his brain at the door?

nano? classic? shuffle? touch? air? mini? x? ...?
Compared to making or using a Facebook group or even the entire concept of Twitter, nevermind lists, the circles interface is incredibly easy, and even though my mom can barely figure out her Gmail, she could do this in a second.

Besides, it's about managing your outgoing content, not about managing what other people do. G+ doesn't let you post on someone's "wall" like Facebook has. You share content into the streams of whichever groups of people you choose.
You're right, the Google drag-and-drop thing works pretty well and is quite innovative. That's certainly a direct way for them to mitigate the circle-creation problem. Arguably that's actually a critical piece of making Google+ work even though Circles is an n^2 operation.
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Reg. community, the list cannot be complete without the SO tag -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java
Thought #6 was neat and I was bored so I created http://www.namestofaces.com
There's a simple fix to this, isn't there? Add a user option to define a default group to place new contacts into.

I think a part of the perceived "high work" is treating what G+ would like you to think of as "your friends" as "random people I want to follow" a la Twitter.
I haven't used any of them, but you could try arbitrary betting sites. Someone has to be willing to take the bet, which would be an entertaining way of putting one's money where one's forum-mouth is. Betable.com seems like the best fit for non-sports actual-money bets.

Longbets.org would let you make an idealistic point. (They don't let you keep your winnings; they have to go to a charity.)

Smarkets.com plays with real money, but seems targeted towards sports and current events.
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Don't forget S and Classic.
Numbers can't grow indefinitely; they wrap (usually at the size of the register).
I'd start from here, HN, (or usethesource.com) first...
I'm blushing :)

Yes, I actually got to the last paragraph and realized that I could then dive into Google Fiber and Chrome OS... but I had to wrap it up!

There's definitely more to say about Google and/or Facebook taking of the web, though, that's for sure.