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I've been working with some large datasets on MySQL but I find modelling them as graphs easier to work with. So I started experimenting with Neo4j and lately, so I want to know what others use these graph databases for.
I could read the text fine. It seems like they even set it up so that the text turns black or white based on the lightness or darkness of the current background.
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This does happen, and it's probably the default. But it is possible to notice it's happening, and reverse the process: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/12/27/how-to-protect-...

This is pretty much what I did when starting up, realising I wanted as much runway as possible.

Have to say I also guffawed at $25k being "no personal savings".
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I disagree actually; I've only been using Circles for a day, but I'm busy using it mainly to 'Follow' interesting people I don't know and reads their public posts/follow their discussions.

I've only got a few friends in provate circles at the moment.

Search for site:plus.google.com "post by" to see who's out there posting interesting stuff.
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Domain registrations are always $8.99/year at NFSN. Whois privacy costs $0.01/day, but you get a 20% rebate if you prepay it. DNS costs $0.01/day for each domain not registered with them and $0.01/(3 days) for every domain registered with them. If you also host your website (A record for the main website points to NFSN) with them they reduce it to $0.01/(3 days) and $0.01/(9 days) respectively.

To sum it up: If you register your domain with NFSN, use their DNS servers but not their hosting offers you will pay $10.21/year, which is $0.82/year more than the $9.40 you will pay if you also use their hosting offers.*

* Beware of the rounding errors in my floating point math.
I think you're entirely within your right to post the abuser's email addresses / HN handles on your blog or elsewhere.
From his comments though, the only reason that they didn't launch at SXSW was bacause he didn't "like" conferences.

Honestly, it seems to me that he was either too hubristical or naïve.
Well, that's his point: if he had simply trusted the best webmail provider, he would have ended up trusting Hotmail.
I think this happened sometimes during the last 15 years. I was surprised when I came to the US and was exposed to Fox news, I was surprised that they were using the word incorrectly all the time. "The forces were decimated in a surprise attack..."

If enough people use it that way, it becomes the correct usage, of course. It is how languages (d)evolve.
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No chance. That's one thing I love about HN. Even when you do encounter the odd troll, people here rise above it and don't play into their hands.

The guy was an idiot, my boss at the time thought it was hilarious and he was only one person. He didn't mention his HN handle (most of the people who emailed me didn't) but hopefully he spots this post.
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Clearly ahead of your time, my friend. If Facebook does it, it's cool...
wtf man, this post is full of nonsense and bizarre assumptions. Circles aren't for stereotyping people! No one has groups called "Blacks", "People who are intolerant of other people's cultures" or "the Dutch" (why would a racist follow people he/she hates anyway?).

Circles are for providing context. Every time I go to facebook I see a post from someone I don't remember knowing. I look in my list and see that they are apparently a friend of mine, but from where? In Google+ this problem doesn't exist. When I add them I put them in the context that I know them by (e.g. "Close Friend", "Family", "Photography class", "WoW Friends", etc.). When I know them in multiple contexts I can put them in each one that applies (e.g. "Colleague" and "Friend" means they see everything I say to friends and everything I say to colleagues).

>It certainly isn't something we openly brag about in the real world

You haven't even used the service, have you? It's not something we brag about because no one knows what circles we have! All other users see (if we allow them to) is how many people we follow total. Basically the same info facebook shows.

>Personally I only have one circle and everyone goes in.

To each their own, but I don't even see how this is possible. You're going to put people like Robert Scoble (someone you might presumably follow but not post baby pictures to) in the same circle as your grandmother? I think if you behaved this way in real life you would end up under various restraining orders.
Some kind of freaky Instagram-Flickr Groups mashup?
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The author's main issue seems to be with the explanation that running software from the internet is risky, since he removes that in both dialogs. And yet it's unquestionably true - running code from the internet be it signed or unsigned is a pretty risky thing to do unless you know what you're doing. His main argument for why you'd want to remove it is that most people ignore your warnings anyway. However true that is, it's certainly not true for everyone.

The advice really doesn't seem to fit the real world. Suppose you had a place with a dangerous undertow and a sign to warn people about it. If five people died one year after choosing to ignore the sign few people would agree that a sensible course of action would be to remove it.
The official Java tutorial is also worth taking a look at. It's free, updated and more concise compared to most books.
Yep, If that growth rate continues, they should have 100 billion users in the end of 2012. Oh, wait ...
To be fair, there is a very good reason for the "wait three seconds before you click install" thing in firefox:

http://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/01/race-conditions-in-secu...
From my experience with their platform, they are really proud of it. The full slogan is "Move fast, break things, oh shit it broke, fix it, start breaking again". Is there a therapist for websites?
Not really. SSL solely exists to authenticate domain names. Having 15USD and a domain name does not make you trustworthy.

Likewise, code signing is an anti-tamper and publisher identification mechanism rather than anything which gives the end-user a reason to trust any signed executable. Again, having 15USD does not make you trustworthy.
Because I am still on COBRA from my last employer, and because of pre-existing conditions, I am currently paying $7200 a year for my health insurance coverage. For me, it actually saves me money because of the constant medical care I need (I'm a kidney transplant recipient and just my medication and regular labs and doctor visits are expensive enough when I am healthy).

So this is not shocking at all to me. Actually, I am glad that I will be able to pay this one day. If I don't convert my current contract job to full-time employment with employer provided insurance by November, I will be out of luck. It will become literally life or death for me if I get sick.
They have, but it hasn't worked particularly well: http://imgur.com/PSvIm
I think one of the main reasons why Google+ is doing so well is that they have taken time to produce a really well designed user interface. Facebook's UI is really poor in comparison. As a user, interaction should come natural and with Google+ it does. This is highlighted by positive interaction from 'non-techy' users. It is actually a pleasure to use. I could happily create and delete circles all day long :)
Sounds like a way for sparks to run. Also, I suspect the 3000+ +'s is the authors popularity (minecraft) as opposed to the popularity of the comment.
Come 2012... "Google responsible for sharp increase in population"...
As was noted in the article, protocols and multimethods seem to be somewhat undervalued by the community. Maybe its because so many new users come from Java, Ruby and Python, where you only have standard OO(whatever that means). It would seem prudent to me to address this issue, and popularize them more, with more tutorials or blog posts.

I don't use clojure much these days, but in Common Lisp I use generic functions(the original inspiration for protocols and multimethods) all the time, and find them the second most important feature of CL after macros.
When things break, get fixed and then break again, its just a childish mistake, not "freedom".
Being able to control your connections is a good thing, and eventually becomes very important. But enabling a "don't make me think" approach by default would lower the barrier to entry. 99% of non-geeks hate to consciously categorize stuff in general, and people in particular.

That being said, this could be easily fixed: add a special "all my contacts" circle which contains everyone I've ever added: people can be in the all-my-contacts circle without being into any other normal circles, but as soon as they're in a normal circle they also go into all-my-contacts. Then I can opt into circle categorization when it becomes necessary, rather than before I've decided whether G+ is nerdier and more cumbersome to use than FB.
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I consider myself as tech-savvy, and although I have a G+ account, I hardly use it, and none of my friends used it as well.

I don't really know what to do with that G+ account. To share my news? I can do it better with facebook, with far more likes than the total number of my friends in G+.
I'm curious, what browser/OS are you using? Your screenshots look different from my view of the site, specifically, the text is either displaced or enlarged in your screenshots, making it look weird.
No longer works with my Dell Streak. Since it changed to Mighty Text I can receive txts in Chrome, but when I sent to phone from the browser, it just gets stuck on "Computer >> Your Phone" - the phone doesn't sent it any more.
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Oh wow, very interesting. I had definitely always thought that it was because Mozilla wanted the user to read the dialog. That's quite an innovative method to trick the user into installing the bad code.
This is about branding, not URLs. The author was not merely suggesting plus.com as an alternate URL, but that Google+ be branded separately from Google (not that I agree with this).

For example, how many non-techies know that YouTube is owned by Google? It's separate branding, not just separate URLs.
Hotmail, despite improvements, is still terrible.

There are three (or 4) areas of action links on the page, to ensure that I never remember where the print button or Reply all button is.

It regularly junks emails from lists I'm subscribed to, apparently hitting "not junk" is not enough to mark it safe for next time?

The login page has a session that can expire - if I haven't logged in within five minutes of opening the login page, I get thrown backwards again for session expiration. Sometimes I consider not bothering attempting to re-log in.

Perhaps I've just been spoilt by Gmail.
Most programmers I know just use the regular German keyboard layout.

Not being a glutton for punishment, I soon switched to a US keyboard layout, either on a real US keyboard (Macbook or Unicomp) or a German one (old Thinkpad, Model M). The latter gets a bit iffy with a few keys due to the different "enter" key size, but you get used to it.

I used to switch to a German layout for typing German text (umlauts etc.), but lately I've just been using the alternate text entry systems. If only they were the same on Macs and Linux systems (Compose vs. tertiary)…
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AFAIK, the build time is unlikely to change any time soon, since it's a complex process doing whole-program analysis on an interpreter, and translating it to a lower level binary.

It does however build much, much faster on PyPy.
Interesting. I'll file a bug. Thanks for the info.
This is, how people read: http://www.douglastwitchell.com/scrambled_words.asp
The thing is that it is also the main source of the "official" antisec statement. I prefer to read their direct humorous prose, it is less likely to leave important informations out.
I should have added "to the end-user" using happy/sad iconography.

Nothing in the world can make you trustworthy, I don't want to get into that discussion, which is also why I put it in scare quotes.
Unfortunately nothing in the health INSURANCE reform prevents said companies from increasing your rates to the point where you cannot afford it any more so you voluntarily drop their coverage.

So pretend all you want that it actually means you are secure and guaranteed coverage, you aren't if you cannot afford it.
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I can fix the security dialogs to help dumb users even more. I see a solution where the operating system runs an MD5 Sum against the executable code, then updates the user satisfaction results to a common website that other operating systems can query.

When you download a program, you will get one of three results, a big green bar, indicating lots of users who used this code were happy, a red bar, indicating lots of users who used this code was unhappy, or a grey bar, where nobody has ever used this code.

Red = Do not run this unless you want pain.
Grey = It's new because it's probably new malware.
Green = It's probably good, (though it could be a virus masquerading as a useful app)

You could get around this system by spoofing positive results, but it makes the job of the virus writer harder, because they have to work hard to "make it look legitimate".
It could be. This is the consequences of ignoring 20 years of warnings by security experts. #antisec is actually the best thing that could happen to the US govt. They are malevolent just enough to get media coverage but not enough to make serious damages. They will force reorganization and maybe the firing of some incompetent people.
Near the end, the article touches on the fact that orientation matters for the phone part, but not the software - part of me wonders if even that is necessary.

Would it be too hard to install two microphones and two earpiece speakers in the thing? I imagine they'd also have to have some kind of weird aerial switching as well, though, as traditionally those are always at the one end; I seem to remember it was to pass regulations.
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A gesture can probably be used to replace the functionality of quickly snapping back to the home screen, taking a screen shot of resetting the phone, but I still kind of like the idea that it's an explicit operation, rather than hoping the phone interprets my gestures correctly(especially when it might be experiencing a problem.)

That said, I'm not opposed to the idea, extra screen real estate wouldn't be a bad thing. The author correctly brings up phone orientation when removing from your pocket/holder. Will I have to look for the ear speaker now?
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Well most other rules don't go into effect until years from now so I hope you can find a solution. They may not be able to deny you coverage but there's also nothing stopping them from saying "sure we'll cover you, it will be $14k a year".

I just don't understand why during this insurance shuffle they didn't at least make it free annual checkups for everyone regardless of policy or not. It would save the nation a fortune in the end instead of emergency rooms.
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I like the idea of being able to use the phone in either orientation, but it just seems like it'd be jamming in redundant hardware into precious space with no extra benefit.
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Life is like that; minority ruins it all. Better to focus on the great feedback. Still, I'm surprised that HN users acted like that.. maybe there's something we don't know. But anyhow, I feel sorry for you as it was a great initiative. Good luck in your next startup :)
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What worries me about this precedent that your computer can be immediately taken from you and interrogated against your will, the computer will not be given any rights.

The computer needs the right to plead the 5th. One day far in the future, computers will be part of who we are. Basic Human rights was designed to protect humans, not the computers. When the computers integrate with us, I hope we can take back all the rights the courts have stolen. Pleading the 5th will be futile, as all the courts have to do is download your computer module and then scan the logs of what you did, where you did it, and what you were thinking when you did it.

This stuff is important, and needs a creative solution that stops the criminals while not making everyone a criminal.
Is there a web page for such things?
Yes, network solutions is also terrible. I still have a domain with them, and it takes five clicks just to get to the DNS management interface. Every step in the way they try to make as unclear as possible by flashing banners and shiny buttons in your face to get you to buy more of their services.
I am sure many marketers would agree with this post, however, Google is trying to reinvent themselves. They are essentially destroying their old brand to create a newer, more social, brand.

There are many lessons to be learned here from Google, regardless if it succeeds or fails. I will continue to eat my popcorn and watch as everything unfolds.
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Although I'm currently self-employed (and therefore neither trying to recruit or be recruited) I have dealt with recruiters before, both as a client and as a candidate.

I don't think recruiters are hated by their clients; they offer a service: an expensive service that they usually don't do very well, but they're willing to work hard, they can be called at any time, filter as many hundreds or thousands of CVs as needed, so it's not all bad.

The hate, I think, comes from the candidates. The reason is because recruiters treat candidates as meat, and it shows. It's not just a problem of domain expertise, it's a problem of human compassion.

I read a study a while ago that showed that people don't sue incompetent doctors more than others, even when faced with complications; they sue doctors who they think don't care about them.

Recruiters don't need PhDs, they need to be perceived as caring (and the most straight way to acheive that is to actually care).
That was my first thought too... "if they are looking to appeal to people who want to fix stuff... they are doing it right".

Otherwise I'd say that's a minor fail by the designer of that page.
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Thanks for mentioning that. I fixed my mistake.
Joking aside, there are serious economic issues: the Google device needs some Big Advantage over the Kindle in order to win market share, and compatibility with a phone no one owns is not it.
Situation is even worse in Europa. We have no Hulu or anything comparable. If the movie industry doesn't learn that Europe is only ~10ms away from the States when you're in the net it will have even more trouble in that market. I'm chatting with friends in America, I'm occasionally working for companies in the US (from my home in Germany) and I'm certainly visiting imdb.com and similar websites to inform myself about movies. So why do I have to wait half a year until a (often badly synchronized) version of a series arrives here on legal channels? Most like even first on pay-TV (not that I even would have a TV anymore these days...I want to watch movies when I have time and not when some station thinks I should take the time). All while streaming-services are found in less than 5 minutes (who is still using risky torrent services anyway?)

Give me a no-hassle-fair-price download service and I'll be fine paying for good movies. But right now I have not yet found a legal way of watching movies on my computer except waiting for the DVD's - and even those I don't really watch in a legal way as I'm using DeCSS to watch them on Linux.
How does "pretty tiny" compare to "surprisingly small"?
Like I stated on your blog post in comments..you live up the word recruiter..a nice change..when I do get to London(currently in the Midwest USA) will attempt to find you ad offer you a pint..
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You know, I've clicked on those warning messages for the better part of 10 years now, and never once noticed that some of them were red and some were orange.

It's exactly the same dialog, with exactly the same fields. The only difference is an icon that you'd never realize was different unless you had two dialogs open side by side. If a guy who writes software for a living can't tell them apart, I don't think the average user stands a chance.

If they actually want to fix this, they need completely different looks for the two popups. Or better still, simply skip the warning altogether for signed apps. If you downloaded it off the internet with the intention of running it, you're going to want to run it. Popping a dialog in your face isn't going to change that fact.
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Thing is that I am not your ideal target market for this, but if I had to sign up to evaluate every potential webapp, I would get far too much email.
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I think that Google is right for narrowing down the number of brands and rallying their services around G+. Especially if they manage to continue this organic feel that G+ and currently integrated services have.

I am super excited about having all their productivity apps integrated into a single big jigsaw puzzle. It will show that Bill Gates was right in 90's when he panicked about browser replacing the Windows.

The whole breadth of Google's services is astonishing and FB (7up) will be hard pressed to compete.

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A great improvement!
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The reason why is unimportant. The end result is the same: terrible performance on Firefox, good performance on Chrome. It's not up to the end user to know or care why.