skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The great thing about Google+ is that you don't need your friends to move there to derive value from it. Rather, it seems to be designed to follow a three-phase growth process, first supplanting Twitter, and then Facebook and Foursquare.

The asymmetric connection model makes it easy to fill your stream with enough signal to be useful, much like Twitter. This allows individuals to discover and begin using the service independent of their broader social network.

Which is where circles and check-ins come in: If you and enough your friends are already visiting Google+ of your own volition, why go elsewhere to share something with them? If enough folks in the area are already paying attention to Google+, why not check in there instead of on Foursquare?

It strikes me as less of a Facebook killer than Buzz 2.0, but with vastly broader institutional support and the tools to scale from that into a Facebook replacement, once your own social graph is sufficiently on board. All it takes is time.

Edit: Oh, and sparks! Sparks are great if you want to use Google+ but can't find enough users to fill your stream, yet. It's like googlebot-curated RSS. Again, it gives users a reason to come to Google+, even if their friends haven't.
I'm on the Firefox for Android team, and we've had our share of problems with the Market too - mostly outright bugs, like apps appearing on devices they aren't compatible with. While any service has bugs, the Android Market is especially frustrating thanks to the duration of serious problems and complete lack of transparency and communication.
Techcrunch broken
http://techcrunch.com/ : seems to point to one day old news.... aol got it !
Can Web Video Views Predict Box Office Magic for Harry Potter?
I think this is going to become a bigger problem for Google in the long run. I understand why they don't want to pay people to do customer or developer support but sometimes you run into a wall with their automated support systems and there's nothing you can do.
But here's where his idea helps you combat the desire for immediate rewards without "willpower".

Let's look at the impact on what sort of respect others will give you with your three options:

1. Studying for a degree: high - hard worker, smart
2. Going out: medium - friends like you, but you're a party-person and don't really do anything respectable.
3. Video games: low - lazy bum.

I think the argument is that the part of your brain that is trying to procrastinate understands enough about society to realize that making yourself a better and more respectable person is a worthy goal and will help you work towards it. The trick is having that goal in mind. With the goal in mind, not making progress is an immediate negative reinforcement.

I used to play video games all day instead of working. Now I feel almost dirty if I do that. I know that the person I want to be is not someone who sits around and reads HN and gets no work done in a day.

Of course, there's a balance. If I'm ahead on a deadline, good luck getting me to finish it early.
Providing joy at 60fps: Responsiveness in mobile apps
Yeah, I was dubious about that statement too. I think that the author took it really hard, and got a little paranoid. They were also probably embarrassed about it, and found it hard to talk about; especially as they had signed a disclaimer.
Or in humans, the language instinct.
The "social" component of these services are worthless if your friends aren't there. Most of my friends and co-workers are on Rdio, so I plan to stick there for the foreseeable future.
Which would waste just as much time as space.
What did the email look like? Can you C/P?
Agree/Disagree -- Agree that CrunchFund ("CF") would have a great avenue to promote its investments through TC, but I think doing so is unethical. On the other hand, I think YC operating HN is completely fine. Here's why:

1) YC's primary business is being an accelerator. This business preceded HN. HN compliments YC's primary business, but doesn't undermine or corrupt it. Conversely, TC's primary business is an online tech blog/journal (and is often a launching pad for startups). CF would undermine the primary business (i.e., TC) by calling into question the legitimacy of all pieces written about CF investments.

2) HN is a online community/news aggregator -- i.e., no original pieces (other than comments). TC is a group edited blog/journal that publishes original content. This means that TC can write opinion pieces to promote its investments, while YC can only post links to third party pieces about its investments.

3) TC has a much deeper reach than HN. Although HN is wildly popular in the tech community, people outside the tech community are generally ignorant to its existence. TC on the other hand, is the place that many "normals" go to get their tech news -- so a biased piece about a CF investment would reach a much broader audience than a biased piece posted to HN.

When you combine these three factors, I think that TC having CF is unethical, but YC having HN is not.
Florian Mueller says Android is doomed. In other surprising news, my cat is taking a nap.
These security procedures have got to be having a depressing effect on domestic air travel also. I know that I now fly only if I absolutely have to.
I once got fired for giving my boss the advice to "shred" their drive (it was their last day). Someone overheard this incorrectly and thought that I said "on my last day, that I'd shred all the companies drives".

It was my word against his and company's revenues were down significantly. They put me on non-paid leave and a week later when they "investigated" the matter, they fired me, but by then I had new a job with a much better company.

It was a blessing. I learned more at this new place and earned more too. It was later acquired by Adobe (mental stagnation).

Getting fired NEVER lead to me being outcasted from the local tech community. It instead improved my life.
"…suffers from one same key issue as Rdio: the inability to manage non-catalogue music makes it incapable of being an exclusive music player."

This is simply not true. I am an exclusive Rdio user and despite the opinions of the author, their management system does not render it useless as an exclusive music player.
I strongly encourage you to give it another try. Spotify is not iTunes or Pandora, it has very different strengths. At least here in the UK, it streams insanely quickly, streaming starts immediately and the size of their catalogue is simply incredible. You might still find that you don't like it in the end but I wouldn't give up on it after five minutes, really.

Also, just to clarify a few things: it's not based on Flash. It's written in C++. It uses Ogg Vorbis. The user interface closely resembles iTunes so if you're familiar with that (many people are) Spotify shouldn't be too confusing.
I understand the argument that traffic from your current network is cheaper and therefor enables cap-less ISP services but I think it's nieve to believe these ISPs don't intend to control as much of your purchase and viewing activity as possible. Cable companies do this now with traditional cable and telephony services and it makes them a fortune. Any ISP owner worth their salt would always prefer to have an unfair advantage instead of an even playing field. Capping your competition is an unfair advantage and too good to pass up if legal.

First it's the direct media (movies, music, etc), then it could be gaming networks, VOIP services, cloud file storage and so on. It's entirely conceivable that we would be financially forced to use the lower quality services of an individual ISP instead of a higher quality alternative. Then the real competition would be ISPs fighting over physical turf while online services look to parter with those ISPs instead of focusing on innovative products.
This.
http://www.guotime.com/2011/07/how-to-have-successful-early-...

Except for people even earlier in the chain. I'm talking no investors (in any official capacity) or anything formal/markety-
Just guys and ladies that want to find people that want to flesh out their ideas through exposure to like-minded people.
I can envision forums with a geography element that is specifically oriented towards orchestrating get-togethers. Or even better, how about using Elgg to make open networks to connect people by interest?
http://www.elgg.org/about.php

That would be cool.

My internet is down outside of work, so I'm limited to my phone currently, which I'm glad to have, but loathe to use for extended typing. Thoughts?
You obviously don't understand the concept of duration. You are comparing 5-10yr debt to 20-30yr debt.

More apt comparison would be intermediate treasuries, much different picture (time frame also questionable for a pure comparison):

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=JNK&t=2y&l=on&z=...
The author, Roy Baumeister, is behind the best-known research in willpower training/depletion - see http://jonathan.graehl.org/mitigating-ego-depletion and http://jonathan.graehl.org/evidence-that-self-control-can-be...
The Facebook Autobot is going to kill this app..hell Zuckerberg will do it himself..careful guys
One was the grounds under which I would receive severance...

She was fired from a startup and received a severance? Does that ever happen these days?
There's a few conflicting things here. One is that you fire an employee then moment it becomes obvious they will have to be fired, so a firing should be quick. Another is that performance problems should be addressed - an employee should know if their current performance is not acceptable. Finally, you don't want an employee (especially programmers) to know that they will be fired, or they attack you from within.

Of course, it does seem like management was very passive-aggressive here. Not good.

A quick edit - I HATE the term "passive-aggressive". All usually means (in the workplace) is "not actually doing their job until a crisis hits".
Why would it have to be the government doing this?
The hash algorithm in TLS is HMAC-hash. Some uses of MD5 like secret suffix are now insecure (which is why usage of MD5 for certificate signing ended long ago), but HMAC is not one of them.
> What I mean is that I can clearly see the logic here, but I'd love to see a discussion for instance on the continual existence of evolutionary destructive traits such as homosexuality, which by all accounts has not only been around for a great deal of human existence, but also other species.

It allows excess parents without having excess children. Assume your objective function is to pass along genetic material that is similar to your own. Depending on your resource constraints of your environment and how close your population is to its carrying capacity, it may be game-theoretically optimal to help raise your sibling's child, rather than produce your own. If your child lowers the resources available per child for all your immediate relatives, you would be better off trying to increase the survival rate of an existing closely-related child instead. Thus, a gene that occasionally produces non-breeders (especially if the chance is modulated by relevant environmental factors) will, when properly tuned, result in a larger number of successful children.

The bigger lesson is, look at the genetic distribution of the population, not necessarily the genetics of the individuals. Humans live in groups and interact with each other, so things that don't make sense for the individual can still work. As an analogy: doctors increase everyone's survival rate, so you want lots of doctors right? Well, no, then no one would make food and we would starve. But that doesn't mean doctors are bad, either. It means you want some percentage of the population to be doctors, and that percentage is neither 0% nor 100%.
I think you're confused at this point. I'm sorry, but you're comparing an independent certificate program to one of the more competitive MBA programs in the world.

As I've stated before, these incubator programs are a great primer if you've never done it before and you're seeking funding from investors. It's a very good tradeoff for ninety days. I don't have any numbers on the average age or experience level of TS/YC grads but after six years in the industry and five years of college it had no appeal to me then and it still doesn't, but for someone who's never done that before in such a focused manner, I think it's great. As a primer. I commend you on you being accepted and completing your program, but rest assured, nobody outside outside of TS/YC alum/friends is going to rank you along with Harvard MBA's. Especially not the investors. Even Eli Portnoy can tell you that.
Slightly more info by following this link:

http://allthingsd.com/20110715/itc-rules-htc-violated-two-ap...

Patents in question:

http://www.google.com/patents/about/5946647_System_and_metho...

http://www.google.com/patents?id=nCYJAAAAEBAJ&printsec=f...

Are both of these really as obscenely broad and all-encompassing as they look? WTF, USA?
> The problem with this essay is that is paints us as slaves to our genes.

1. It doesn't.
2. What's wrong with the gene-centric view of human nature?
It strikes me as a study of depth vs. breadth. FB (and RSS) offer depth, i.e. deeper, longer content, where Twitter offers breadth, i.e. more potential sources.

http://weblog.muledesign.com/2011/07/density_and_difference....

But I feel like these are not mutually exclusive, and also not optimal to be separated/siloed onto different services.

Esp. considering the fact that, for me at least, Twitter is often, or even largely, just another feed. The in-message text serves as a subject line and there's a link to a post where the real content is. This bothers me because it's just a crappier version of rss.

Seems to me that a service like Google+ can do everything twitter does, without the limitations, given the right UI and some sort of filter system.

For example, imagine Google+, with everything collapsed except a subject line. For posts without subject lines, substitute the first n characters with an ellipsis. Add a little arrow for posts that have body texts. Now you have twitter, except you can open links in-line by hitting the arrow. Simple tweets are just subject lines.

Now imagine a filter option so you can see simple tweets in one stream and linked tweets (i.e. longer posts) in another. The tweetstream is for real-time messaging and brief quips. The full post stream is for what I still use RSS for.

That's just my top-of-the-head first take on the problem.

Ideally, this would all be service-agnostic/interoperable. But maybe that would just be RSS. So maybe I'm just asking for a better UI for real-time RSS.
AAA doesn't mean no chance whatsoever and never has, it means minimal credit risk

http://www.moodys.com/sites/products/AboutMoodysRatingsAttac...
I thought Barce was a guy. Who is that woman on the page?
>“They are very likely to be infringed by code that is at the core of Android,” says IP expert Florian Mueller.

Now that's what I call a credible, expert source with no history of distorting the issues. Always good to see the balance and perspective that the business media gives to intellectual property issues in software.
I think you need to seriously reconsider your business model. If you're trying to earn revenue thru 1-time app sales, then I'm afraid you're in a losing game if you're content with building just 1 app. When it comes to to-do lists, no matter how great it is, the market is flooded with those, and a lot of them are cheap.

"Google is the guy driving this bus" <-- yes, it is, it's sorta like owning a website who's only source of visitors is SEO. It's just waiting and hoping Google doesn't mess up in anyway. When you're so reliant on 1 company for your revenue, something's wrong. You shouldn't put all your eggs in 1 basket.

Maybe it's time to branch out. Explore other money making opportunities.. Maybe, just maybe building a very very good app isn't enough to build a sustainable business. Yes, it makes you proud as a developer to build an app. But we're talking about building a business.

There won't be a lack of developers developing for Android, trust me... when the audience is so huge, it doesn't matter how much friction there is. Huge companies will pay ppl tons of money to deal with the BS. They're 10+ abstraction levels away from the bullshit. They'll just tell the developer team: DEAL with it, develop this in 1 month or you're all FIRED.
barce doesn't look like a girl on twitter

http://www.codebelay.com/blog/wp-content/themes/thesis_18/cu...

looks like a rotation image
I understood those complaints and I'm not disagreeing with them. However, I don't necessarily agree that these issues are solely responsible for his lack of profits as he seems to be implying.
seems a high when you have to jailbreak

it's not difficult to jailbreak your phone. go to jailbreakme.com, and you're done.
Their premium service is on-demand.

https://store.slacker.com/store/Subscriptions.do
From men: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
Maybe I misinterpreted the article too, because an "excess of overcaution" sounds a lot like blame shifting to me, in this case from the rating agencies onto the investors who believed the ratings. The argument implies that because investors were "overcautious", and only willing to buy AAA rated securities, the rating agencies were therefore compelled to rate things AAA they otherwise would/should not have. At any rate, it seems that rating agencies should be rating things accurately regardless of how cautious investors are.
> “We are confident the Commission will ultimately agree with the ITC staff’s finding that HTC does not violate any of Apple’s patents. Litigation that attacks open-source products limits consumer choice, hurts the economy, and discourages innovation.”

Just like you were confident you'd win those Nortel patents with those cute bids?
New Boeing 1994 Chinook crash report reignites alarming IT dilemma
False...

TARP is expect to cost the taxpayers, $25 billion. A small price to pay to avert total financial ruin.

http://cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11980&zzz=41404
You mean to say you won't pay for an ad-free version of an application for which the free version contains ads? That seems rather strange.
> Maintaining a list of the top 1,000,000 bands in the world and not letting anybody upload tracks with metadata that included those bands and song names in it would not be that difficult.

I addressed this in my other comment, but as it turns out, this aspect of the problem is incredibly difficult. Metadata can be wrong and we can't always depend on it. So we use waveform analysis. But thats difficult too due to the indexing and storage requirements and the accuracy of the algorithm performing the search. Also this list is not finite. It changes constantly and parties are always bickering over rights to content and that takes time to sort out. We actually have a team of people who handle takedown requests, and we have another team of people who put in the necessary restrictions to keep content from getting played or uploaded.
It's nothing fancy. I'd be embarrassed to say much about them on HN.
Interesting points. And I agree that the reduction in other systems of family are a result of military and economic power. But the article is proposing a theory for how the Western military and economic powers were able to outcompete the others - for how such an imbalance in military and economic power was able to develop. I agree that you can't point to everything and say "this is why," but I don't believe he has done that. He provided extensive arguments.

Masuo women may have sex with less partners, but has it been confirmed that they have less sex?
Well, what do you market? Instead of saying anything about "online", just say that you market X and that the online channel is your exclusive focus.

A lot of people make money online as "internet marketers" by engaging in some shady operations (or at least what society consider shady). Perhaps some of these people think that is what you're up to. So instead of saying "online business" just go ahead and elaborate on what it is specifically that you do. They're probably curious anyways. And if they're not, well then, they shouldn't be asking an entrepreneur what he does :-)

I've never known an entrepreneur who has this problem - the elevator pitch is pretty important and most entrepreneurs have it down and if they don't it's because they talk TOO much about what they're doing. People might not understand really technical stuff, but it doesn't sounds like you're doing any heavily technical stuff.
My understanding is that if, as the article says, Kootol has received a Notice of Allowance, this patent has been examined and will be published unless Kootol abandons it (by not paying the publication fee). Additionally, the priority date on the patent is July 22, 2005. The priority date is documented by referencing patent 878/MUM/2005[1] filed in India on that date. I believe any prior art would have to predate the priority date, not the date of filing.

This does not mean that Kootol is not a patent troll or that this is a legitimate invention. I don't know what the claims in 878/MUM/2005 are, and its title reads completely insane in American English ("connecting brains to equally like brains?"). Kootol has filed for several other, similar patents[2] that cite 878/MUM/2005. I wonder if 878/MUM/2005 really backs all of these different claims, or if it is simply a vague-enough tool for them to be using to make new claims that can be applied retroactively?

[1] http://india.bigpatents.org/apps/RvhMPZb

[2] http://ip.com/patapp/US20100030734
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The film is based on three stories can be found in Milne s books. Two stories of Winnie the Pooh in which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one and Piglet meets a Heffalump where The second story is found in the house at Pooh Corner What rabbit has a busy day
Python for C++ and Java programmers
Where does the app get the google+ invites from?
The classic example of improving survivability of close relatives is found in meerkats.

Upon sighting a bird of prey, a meerkat will stand bolt-upright and send out a warning call to other meerkats. The meerkat that does this has a demonstrably higher risk of being eaten, but in doing so improves the odds of survival for its close family.
If they had filed a provisional application a year before (2009), and the patent is granted, the effective time goes back to the provisional filing date. I suppose that is what the gp was alluding to.
I'm not even sure what they could do to fix it. Maybe design some sort of tunnel that has a system of baffles? The lines seem too big to secure in most airports.
Storing passwords in an app
If it makes you feel any better, the ease with which something like this could be pulled off, and the fact that no one has tried it, combine to make me believe that the terror threat is vastly overblown to begin with.
Looking at the line graph, the % of total securities issues rated AAA, it's apparent that between 1991 and 1994 the proportion jumps up from ~20% to ~50% and then floats in a bracket between 50 and 60% for most of the next 2 decades. This obviously happened ahead of the dot com boom, and while I think you make many valid points, none of them address this startling change in the distribution of ratings.

Unfortunately the chart only goes back to 1990, and I don't have time to dig up historical figures. Perhaps more financial instruments used to enjoy a AAA rating until the Savings & Loan scandal of the late 80s, and the sudden upward jump in ratings represents the purging of bad assets from the financial system following the recession of the early 90s. But really, I don't know. Without disputing your observations above, I think we could learn a lot from looking at the largest discontinuity here rather than focusing on the absolute volume figures from recent years, notwithstanding the significant increase in securitization following the repeal of Glass-Steagall.
There are times when it is appropriate to select C/C++ for the job, that is when enhancing a project written in C++.
Of course, how could I forget about Khan academy. Good point, thanks!