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* filtering options for the main stream - at the very least be able to choose circles to include/exclude

* a "muted" stream (then I'll quickly mute the 90+% of the stream I find of little interest - but can still access or unmute if I want to)

* clubs (special interest groups) - let's say there's a dozen people that love to share about passwords. They all join this "club" and agree to only share password related information. I know this can be done elsewhere (Ning, reddit, etc.) but Google+ has the potential to integrate small groups into my daily workflow.

All 3 of these specific suggestions are under the same umbrella: reduce noise while engaging in more meaningful conversation and information sharing on topics I care about.
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so use http://www.circlehack.com/ The point is that facebook has the ability but chose NOT to deploy it. There isn't some barrier to "Changing their core product" that the blog author seems to think.

with code: https://github.com/voloko/facebook-circles
Most people don't use chrome—thus, most people aren't used to it.

It's good Mozilla is moving forward at a rapid pace (particularly with the memory issues), but as long as the remainder of the software world is still in either the 90's slow release cycle or the 00's everything-is-a-beta-v0.x mindset, Firefox/Chrome will be aberrations.

I may learn to tolerate it, but that doesn't mean I'll get used to it.
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|The only difference is that google puts the UI in your face, which I like. But saying that Facebook cannot do this is absurd. It's there, you just never cared to look.

I really don't think Facebook even wants you to use this feature. I had set up my lists a long time ago, but never figured out how to actually share specifically to them until reading your comment. Facebook practically hid this feature, but included it in such a way that they could hedge and at least say they at least offer the feature.
If we're going to jump out there with wild speculations do we also have to pick the most cynical ones [1]? I mean, from what I've read, this guy does indeed sound like a douche bag but that doesn't mean his every thought and action is sexist in nature.

If nothing else, didn't she still have the phone in her hand? Or maybe she was in a difficult spot to place a good throw. I mean she couldn't get the bottle to him, maybe he didn't think he could get it to her? Did the author say that he never did it again? Rather then this horrible kind of arm-chair sleuthing it's probably just easier to ask him why.

[1] funny enough, you suggesting this makes it more apparent that you think this way. I mean, this never occurred to me.
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Yes, I'm serious. Are you? It's hard to tell from your reply.

First of all, all moral codes are artificial.
Second, no one is enforcing anything. There's no force involved here, at all.
Third, "Don't like it, leave" is precisely what happened.

Noah was a dick. The OP called him on it. What's your problem with that?
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Is this one of those "it doesn't have to make sense, it's just for publicity" things?

Why are the uni students holding a rally? What connection do they have to"Paybuyer, LLC" which funds this Adwords competitor?
"Modes" is perhaps not the right terminology, but the closest analogy to the Firefox nightlies is the Chrome Canary build.
It took me a few minutes of wandering around to see the "Find beers, brewers and places" search box. You really need to make it more prominent. White text instead of ochre yellow might be a better choice. It's quite funny considering I'm in the middle of reading "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug and just 2 minutes ago, I was reading the bit where he wrote, use "Search" for your search box labels, not other words like Find.

As others have pointed out, please list some beers already. It's too much work to expect me to start typing in beer names randomly.

Why don't you present me with your own and other early users' profiles which already have a bunch of beers listed? Ask me if I like any of them or know one I like better.

Even Myspace didn't make me feel so lonely. At least, Tom was my friend. Be my friend, Mat.

Edit: Between the logo, top two nav links, search box, top right links, main page text, Search button text, you have too many text styles going on, which is confusing the visual heirarchy.
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No, no, no. Just use Authen::Passphrase.
IIRC, the Patriot Act doesn't affect US citizens, only non-US citizens (i.e. green card holders, student visas, H1Bs, etc).
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Nope, it's a 2003 thing. Search around for both this article, and the "Weapons of Mass Stupidity" one the author was reading -- both happened around mid-to-late July 2003.

I'm guessing they opened up commenting and other social stuff on the site pretty late..
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Thoughts:

-She threw the bottle and it landed halfway. Was it an inaccurate assessment of Noah to assume she might not catch it? Looks like she proved him right in that regard, at least.

-The picture wasn't 'scantily clad' or derogatory, and was unidentifiable. There is a fair chance it wasn't even a picture of an ex.

-There was some context, albeit I believe the main point was to keep people awake. 6 hours of speakers is a lot.

-Maybe I'm thinking too much into it, but I'm fairly sure 'type faster' was analogous to 'little shit can add up'.

-I've always considered 'bitch' to be a female specific version of 'dick'. Both being fairly synonymous with 'asshole'.

-She very much objectively f'ed up some of Frank's things. I was sitting between them and the bottle flew directly over my head. It is kind of a joke to get mad at someone's immaturity and respond in-kind, damaging a bystanders property.

Long story short- Noah is blunt. Maybe douchey. But throwing a tantrum and making a mess hardly gives you the higher ground.
No, but it looks like performance is improving on all platforms.
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Here's yet another article on HN designed to create a room full of screaming nerds.

For the record, I'm a libertarian and _very_ concerned with our increasing lack of privacy, anonymity, and the security state we are creating. Having said that,

1) Please put the year in the title

2) Note the difference between domestic intelligence and domestic criminal work. Intelligence is concerned with patterns of behavior. If you can demonstrate that citizens who read X have a 10 times greater likelihood to do something violent, it may be in the state's interest to keep track of that information. This has nothing to do with state harassment or living in a security state: your local sheriff probably does something very similar and has done so for centuries. Police are expected to gather random pieces of trivia to try to reasonably predict if bad things are happening or are going to occur. (This is why such interviews are confidential -- and also why they are politically-charged.)

3. Please be aware that you are having your chains yanked -- a story told with the intention of making you emotionally respond -- and act accordingly.

4. You can only consume so much of this before it rots your brain. Yes, things are bad -- but they are not bad because people you agree with are able to write emotionally-charged articles implying police harassment. As I've demonstrated, it's way too easy to do this. Ad infinitum. They are bad because we create centralized control systems and rules for everybody, then herd the population through as if they were so much cattle. (TSA, voice monitoring of overseas calls, etc) In some cases these rules are probably appropriate. In some (most) cases not, but by forcing officials to choose one way or another, at the national level, majorities slowly and continually tyrannize minorities, just in different topic areas. It's the system that is broken, not some poor FBI schmucks having to go out and question some random guy over his reading habits.
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Just out of curiosity, whose services are you reselling?
That doesn't work in situations where there is a power imbalance. For example, let's use our time machine and travel back to 1978. Consider the words "Nigger" and "Honky" in a presentation. Nigger was way more offensive, to the point that there really wasn't an equivalent slur you could apply to so-called white people.

It's the same thing with "bitch." There is a power imbalance such that there isn't an equivalent slur you can apply to men. "Bastard" doesn't even come close to capturing the degrading implications of "bitch" today. Maybe it did in the Middle Ages, but not today.
You can see this very easily in the task of programming. Back when programs where written on punch cards and results were returned in days, hand compilation and execution was a net win because you didn't want to compile\execute your program more than you had to.

A business example would be mail order. Think mail order by horse->truck->plane then invention of the internet.
If you really hate your ex-girlfriend and think she is a horrible evil woman, what would be the point of gratuitously parading your hatred in a technical presentation?

The easiest way for you to avoid having other women see your comment as an attack on the entire gender is to make sure that the comment is appropriate to the context.
Here's hoping there's an unlock for Desire HD, nobody has managed to root the latest version yet, which means that you can't root it without erasing all your data and downgrading...
Looks very pretty, I can't see any reference to a licence on the page or in the CSS file though, so I've no idea if I can use it on my site.
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Agreed. We have only one side of the story here, but I wonder how someone would have called in this particular situation.

"Bearded guy reading article that doesn't seem suitably right-wing!"?

The article in question doesn't really particularly strong language either.
Maybe not as hipster as a binder clip but I really like Rhodia notepads.

Also, to force you to slow down a bit and put more concious effort into your notekeeping you can use a fountain pen. We were required to use those as kids in Germany, not sure if that's still the case.
We called this service Partsie because when we think of video clips/songs, we usually remember the more interesting parts of it. Remember when someone begins a conversation with "Did you watch that clip, I liked the part where..."?
One or two of the charts show Facebook shares have been cut in half after Google+ launch. This goes to show how important the "early adopter" crowd is for any service or product, and Facebook is losing that crowd to Google+.
What software do HNers use to make good diagrams? We have one suggestion for TikZ so far, which looks nice, but I don't really want to get out the TeX hammer for every little diagram.
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Diffeent platforms use different font rendering algorithms. I'll avoid saying that one is better than the other, but it's off putting to see one rendering alongside another on the same display. Apple got into trouble with this when they ported Safari to Windows, and used OS X font rendering on that platform.
Yeah, I'm not a fan. The animations don't add anything and end up wasting your time as you wait for them to complete. The fact that most of the tree is hidden after you click on something makes browsing annoying.

jqapi, on the other hand, is awesome
You called the guy disgusting, and proceeded to obliquely tar him with the same brush as rapists and wifebeaters.

Your rhetoric is over-the-top, and discredits you.

(Note: I'll readily concede that the presenter is ... not the sort of person with whom I'd like to associate. Perhaps all the way to not doing business with him.)
But the OP made it very clear that her act was not "throwing a bottle of hot sauce at the speaker in the middle of his or her presentation."
My first impression:

If you're trying to distinguish yourself by being simpler, clearer, and less aggressive than the competition, then I'd say you can stand to take it a bit further with the design of your site.

Go full-on minimalist with your homepage, sort of like the Google homepage.

I'm thinking the only things that need to be on the page are:

* A small logo identifying the site

* $10

* .com, .net, .org

* an input field for the desired domain name
Right, but the same thing will happen to vocational schools. It's not like a vocational school is like a proper CS degree but with different courses, equally hard. So the vocational school needs to cater to an audience that, let me say this in the nicest way possible, is not very much interested in fine intellectual nuances.

Now it depends on how one defines 'inferior', but vocational training is inherently 'easier' than an academic approach; vocational training is about telling people how to solve certain problems, showing the the steps to take to tackle a specific situation. The Wikipedia article on 'vocational training' says more or less that, although I just learned that it's called 'procedural knowledge' there, which is a nice euphemism.

To me, this is the antithesis of the problem-solving nature of programming. I guess one can call widget-plumbing 'programming', but I wouldn't (and don't) hire people who install and maybe, with much effort and pain, customize Wordpress plugins and call themselves 'programmers'. Nothing wrong with Wordpress, but we shouldn't strive for a situation where that is the pinnacle of a programmer's expertise.
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I like it. Thanks for sharing.
This is great feedback, thanks for going through it. I will be adding more content to guide a new user, and will be updating the UI to make it more intuitive.
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Even though the documentation[1] says you need at least 4GB of RAM to build 64-bit PyPy, I've never successfully building PyPy on a 4GB machine. It took about 20 minutes to successfully build on a machine with 8GB RAM, though.

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> Is this one of those "it doesn't have to make sense, it's just for publicity" things?

Pretty much.

> Why are the uni students holding a rally? What connection do they have to"Paybuyer, LLC" which funds this Adwords competitor?

It's not a rally; they're holding up giant signs to face traffic. I think it was four people to a sign. (It didn't occur to me to take a picture until I was already far away.)

This is just a PR stunt from a new Waterloo-based advertising startup. They're simply piggy-backing on the whole RIM vs Android thing with weirdly-phrased anti-Android propaganda.
"it gets cognitively tiring to sort people appropriately into one-and-only-one circle."

That's not how it works. You can put people into as many circles as you like.
I love the quotation. I guess having a website means you make nonsensical statements and then be quoted on some smear campaign's website?

"This campaign may be the dumbest thing ever posted to the Internet" -- Jonathan Rockway, jrock.us.

Credible!

(Also, while Google ads may have funded the beginning of Android, it has enough corporate sponsorship now that it could easily outlive Google. Samsung or HTC could easily take over Google's role if some shiny new Web 2.0 startup kills it. But I'm not holding my breath. All I can say is man... people on the Internet are dumb...)
Right now I am with VIPYourLife. Their cheapest plan is 14.97/month. I can forward the calls from there but since I don't use anything else I hope I can get away cheaper than this.
I'll quote something from CSS lint I've quoted here before and probably will have to quote again; "CSS Lint simply checks to see if you've used float more than 10 times, and if so, displays a warning. Using this many floats usually means you need some sort of abstraction to achieve the layout.".

Really, honestly, what does this even mean?
Why didn't you care about that feature until now?
b) Yes, i meant that there likely is an effect different from fear of loss of life, but an effect nonetheless. You can call it subconscious.

c) Unless you are very intelligent with enough life experience (not plenty -- just enough), and have a carefully thought-out plan, wholly focusing on a single task is rarely beneficial (and could have been detrimental in the prehistoric times to other important tasks such looking out for predators/danger and finding mates). If you have a great idea for a startup -- go focus on it -- but just to put it in a perspective, great ideas/plans are so rare and hard to come by (as demonstrated by 95% of the population not being entrepreneurs) that 95% of the time your brain is probably justified in critiquing your commitment to anything. At this stage in my life (I'm 28) I feel secure and confident in myself to wholly immerse myself into the tech business, but before that I went through a long period of low motivation which was most likely due to not feeling confident enough about any particular career decision.
If she is an awful person, just say so. The fact that you connect her awfulness with her gender is the problem. Consider the fact that I am an asshole. I can describe this in many ways without needing to describe my so-called color. But the moment someone calls me a Nigger... That's wrong.

Same thing.
I have long had a distrust for Google so I can understand the anti-Google sentiment. If we want a competitive battleground in the market, every player needs to be balanced. I was one of the earliest Android adopters but now I see that I must move on to one of the other underdogs (i.e. Nokia or HP).
I am arguing with the sort of vision of fusion power that's presented in popular articles, like the NYT one that started this thread. "Clean power that powers the Sun" - yup, he said that. A senior scientist who knows the numbers. See below in the thread how relevant this is. "Relies only on seawater as fuel" - check. "Offers no chance of a catastrophic accident" - oh come on, even a coal powerplant offers that.

Articles like this are a strawman, and Stewart C. Prager, director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, knows better and should be ashamed of himself. To take up just the matter of catastrophic accidents: it is said correctly that a fission powerplant can never explode like a fission bomb - the atoms of fuel are in the wrong arrangement for that. But any continuous system for producing fusion power is theoretically capable of "running away" - it is a self-reinforcing process, after all - and producing an actual nuclear explosion. They will design it to make this spectacularly unlikely? OK, sure they will, but let's not talk about this being danger-free.

Or the "fuel from seawater" thing. Seawater contains 3.3 ppb of uranium, and it would be commercially feasible to extract it if the prices were higher. It's actually easier to do this than to design fusion reactors. And you can use more advanced fission cycles, especially the thorium ones, to extend the energy you get out of fission fuels.

EDIT: let me clarify the actual quote from Dr. Prager that I am complaining about:

Harnessing nuclear fusion, the energy that powers the sun and the stars, has been a goal of physicists worldwide since the 1950s. It is essentially inexhaustible and it can be created using hydrogen isotopes — chemical cousins of hydrogen, like deuterium — that can readily be extracted from seawater.

This is so incredibly misleading in many ways, without containing an actual false statement. This kind of manipulation of popular opinion makes me angry. Does anyone want to defend this, even as a popularization?
I do understand your reasoning and logic behind your belief. If you were to ask someone now: "What application do you use to video chat with?" the answer is most likely going to sway heavy to Skype. If you ask that question in 3 to 9 months time and that answer has not changed, then Skype will be just fine.

Personally, I don't like the idea of video chatting through Facebook. I use skype exclusively to video chat because its what I am accustomed too, it's the application I trust. Trust being the keyword there because I do not trust Facebook.
I thought Twilio is for web sites that want to integrate voice services. Can I use it only for forwarding a number?
I wonder if Barnes and Noble is getting ready to follow suit. It would be great to see Google Books on a Nook ... (of course it would be great to see the Kindle app as well (without rooting the device)).
I'd like to see them try that with me. All of my phones data traffic bounces through my Linode box thanks to a rooted HTC Desire Z running OpenVPN on CyanogenMod 7.
The problem with vocational schools is that, from listening to people that've attended vocational schools, the modern vocational school industry feels more like those courses you took in your hometown community college the summer of your sophomore year in university.

Then again, I'm a university senior that's a bit disillusioned by the upper education system. I pine for a respectable education that isn't full of $1,400 menial courses like History and Government. I'm also a self-taught programmer that scavengers for free time to pursue my programming projects and education, struggling mostly with a free time deficit caused by said university courses.
We can only stay up to date with 150 ties, and roughly at best...it is true, and it is interesting to think about who the closest people to us are.

Mixing social groups really doesn't work. It is kind of strange.

I want to give this a more detailed look a bit later, but it's quite interesting now. I wonder if it says anything about people who have thousands of friends, and why they do...
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I want to see search within Google+ Their search bar at the top should work exactly like Twitter's search. You should be able to look for both people and content shared within Google+.
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"[Australia] also has a nation of immigrants."

Well, yes, but they aren't getting smuggled in via Arizona. They are carefully selected by the Australian government.
"Cock sauce" with friends, "rooster sauce" at work. Giving a talk at an industry conference is definitely a "rooster sauce" situation.
Completely agree on "nodeo" (first thing I thought the logo spelt out), plus the spacing between the letters could probably be decreased a bit more as well.
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