skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly identified with the spirit of the article and know that people are willing to pay money for legal access to digital content when it's easy and has the stuff people want. I'm one of them.

Since I signed up for Rhapsody about a year ago, my downloading of music illegally has plummeted. I trade the small amount of Downloader's Guilt for $10/mo and have access to (almost) everything I want to listen to. (And from wherever I want to listen to it: my computer, my phone, my home stereo.)

Before Rhapsody, I was downloading gigabytes of albums – I hadn't bought a CD in the new millenium (save those from smaller bands I wanted to personally supported). Now the music industry has me as a customer again, and monthly. Hollywood needs a Rhapsody to survive.
Our goal is to be simpler to use, to focus on time tracking using a timer (rather than logging time after the fact), and to have an aesthetically pleasing application.

We've got some ideas up our sleeve for mobile and desktop innovation, but thought we'd build the web side first as (we hope) it's useful as a standalone product.

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I can see your point, but think of it this way: No amount of security can protect against human stupidity. If I accidentally download and run an unknown application, and it asks for root privileges and I grant them, then if anything bad happens, I really can't blame the system. The system did exactly what it was supposed to do, it required the user to confirm the operation by entering the root username and password and if I did that then I explicitly granted this process to run as root. Same goes for surfing under an administrator account on Windows. Most malware these days is not successful because of their ingenious design (although there are such examples) but because they employed a successful social engineering tactic.
I do agree that we should strive to create more secure systems, but I think that you can only go so far with that. In the end, users need to be educated not to grant root privileges to strange apps they just downloaded from the web or open weird-looking attachments they receive in their e-mail (even if the message seems to be coming from their friends).
My point is that people should have the same amount of healthy cautiosness when surfing the web or handling unknown data storage as they generally have in their day-to-day lives.
Probably it just depends how much feedback the developers have to deal with. If yours is the only feedback submitted this week it'll probably get plenty of consideration.

I imagine that feedback submitted to an organization like Google is handled more democratically, so in a sense you've cast your 'vote'.
BitTorrent doesn't require you to be in the US to use it. There's one advantage...
A year or so ago I regretfully moved _to_ GoDaddy because they were one of the only registrars I could find that supported IPv6 glue records (i.e. you run your own nameservers with IPv6 connectivity, so a lookup of example.com also returns an IPv6 address for ns1.example.com)

Many of the smaller players just go through OpenSRS which at least recently only could add IPv6 glue with manual intervention. Maybe they've (finally) fixed that by now.

I would like to get back off GoDaddy someday soon, but I've been worried that my IPv6 glue will break. Does anybody know a registrar with solid IPv6 experience?
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The compiler messages are reasonable. It's inconvenient that errors are reported per function and not per line, but if you write short functions, and you should, the messages are just fine.

You're clearly exaggerating when stating that Erlang has "extremely poor" tools without giving any serious arguments.
I've used them a few years now and have been really happy. Not feature-rich but they cover the basics and have reasonable prices with no upsell pressure.
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Color Funding literally took down the mood of Valley entrepreneurs who really work worth while :(
I'm not clear how this is better than a given startup using Printfection (or similar company) to offer print-on-demand tshirts that are fulfilled and shipped directly to the buyer. Looks like prices on Printfection would be same or even slightly cheaper than this service.

It would seem that these guys have had to print up a ton of shirts, deal with inventory, fulfillment, etc. There are companies that will do this for you the same costs.
I posted the same request. I run a Facebook page for a small special-interest community with a few hundred members. Members can meet each other, share relevant info, and there's some people with powers to moderate the inevitable borderline-commercial crap that pops up rarely. G+ doesn't have this.

Maybe Google Groups + G+ can have babies and make a superior opt-in, shared-community solution to Facebook pages.

The thing is, from Google's marketing perspective, this is also similar to LinkedIn and .. well .. it would just look way too much like "more of the same" for them to push it hard at launch. But the demand's clearly there, I think we'll see it added.
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People have to stop saying this. Google isn't so blind as to think every product's sole purpose is to drive pageviews.

I'm speculating just as much as you are, but I don't think it's unreasonable to guess that a big part of Google+ is to drive usage of its other products. Once people start sharing directions, collaborating on documents, and so on G+ will be there to introduce users to one product after another. Sure, social ads may/will be important, but saying "what Google will care about is pageviews" is simplifying it immensely.
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Really? Damn. I was considering trying someone new for domain management and put this on the list.
I used to use Gandi, but has since transferred all domains to Namecheap, becoz Gandi force you to use NIC handlers to login.
Looks great! Would it be possible to provide overseas shipping for a fee in the future?
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If it sucks, can you give the name of five others that don't?
Nice linkbait, but the problem is elsewhere.

The problem is the focus on short term Shareholder Value and quarterly profits. It destroys the companies in the long term. Worse, it undermines the trust employees in their companies, because they know that they can get fired anytime for the sake of short term profits. They know that investors make big money, while they earn less and less each year (after inflation).

The Western economic system (that developed in northern Europe from the 1500s on and then went to North America, Australia, etc with the English colonization) is build on mutual trusting relationships (a high degree of Social Capital, see eg books F. Fukuyama, "Trust" or R. Putnam, "Bowling Alone"). That is what made the West economically so successful.

But to maintain our high degree of Social Capital, people need to feel that what is happening in society and in companies is mostly fair. Its doesn't really matter who is running the show. The problem with current MBAs is, that they are trained on short term Shareholder Value instead of long term stability.
There's no control just like there's nothing stopping people from recording your conversation in real life and passing it around the office. Sure, on the Internet things are easier, but it's the same concept that you can make it socially difficult to reshare certain things.

Saying "If you don't want it to get out, then don't put it on the Internet" is coloring things too black and white. What about those tech articles that you'd like to share, but don't want to annoy your non-technical friends with? What about the nonsensical updates that you're _okay_ with people seeing but _would rather avoid_ having certain people see?

Not everything that people post are naked pictures or incriminating evidence. There's just some things that are socially awkward to share, and that's where "control" comes in.
The usual problems sadly also apply to Rhapsody:

"Sorry, we are not able to offer Rhapsody Premier at this time.
We are not able to offer Rhapsody Premier in Netherlands (substitute for just about any non-US country) at this time. For the latest music and entertainment offers in your country, click Current Offers. Click Cancel to end this session.

If you believe you've received this message in error, check to make sure your country and language settings are accurate. "
Nothing to be wary about when people post their own things. If you spend time writing something and want to share it, more power to you. Votes will determine whether it's of interest to other people.
Twitter login now prompts for read-only permissions, instead of read+write. I think that was the most popular suggestion from the HN crowd. Thanks all.
We now prompt only for read access. Later on we might add back in some options to grant read+write access in order to more deeply integrate it with Twitter.
I suspect that they are re-using connections in that benchmark. SSL connection setup is CPU intensive. Once a session is set up, an SSL connection uses only slightly more CPU time than an unencrypted connection.
pretty sure that is my friend Ben Barry, http://www.designforfun.com/

been doing some very excellent design work for fb over the past few years.
Indeed.

Don't look at torrents. Go look at many of the download services rapidshare.com, megaupload.com, etc. They all have one thing in common: they charge money.

This means that there is a segment of people out there who are willing to pay, but whoes needs are for one reason or another are not met under the current system.

If you want to grow the market try to capture them.
"Getting things done by others" is the mantra of MBAs, my Harvard friend says that often. That is one of the reason they suck.
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Does she come with the tee's?

(I can't be the only one thinking that!)
There is http://changedetection.com/, but afaik it handles only one page.
Everyone from Microsoft to Oracle, and now Apple wants a share from HTC/Android
How is a "channel" different from what I'm describing as a "public group"? It seems to me to just be a different name for the same thing.

In particular they both appear together in the autocomplete for who you're going to send your new post to.
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Wind turbines on an aeroplane? What does he think they are, perpetual motion machines?
40%? My income tax last year was 11% of salary. If I go back a few years, before I bought my house and before my company had a 401k that I could divert a lot of money to, the highest I paid was 18%.

How does one get to 40%?
To 'constrain sharing' is exactly the point. Maybe you don't want your co-workers, in-laws or not so close friends to see personal photos or posts? Myself, I participate in more than one professional and social group of people. Things I share or say to one group are irrelevant, confusing or just noise to people in the other group and vice versa. So, constraining sharing sounds fine.
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The condescension was very much intended. Look, I'm not going to convince anyone of this point of view with a few hastily typed-out paragraphs on Hacker News. No-one can do that. It's something that rings true or false depending on your experience. My experience is that most uses of C++'s features beyond the rudimentary lead to software that takes forever to build, forever to run and forever to maintain, all of which are unacceptable and inexcucable. I started out in my pre-career as an enthusiastic C++ supporter who knew most of the tricks and dark corners of the language; template metaprogramming was (and still is) easy as pie for me. But every experience I've had since then has pushed me in the opposite direction, away from immature self-indulgent cleverness. Nowadays I mostly use C or a very C-like subset of C++.
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Yep, you're right. Image #3:

http://www.designforfun.com/display.php?id=108&e=1

Wow, this Analog Research Lab is really incredible, I'm going to post this as well.
Actually discovered this through comment discussion on this post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2753810
Ha, does everyone else do that too? I always feel like I'm alone.
my apologies, I did not realise that it was outdated. will be cross check before submitting next time.
Really cool how people are using hangouts to let others "drop by and say hi." Office hours, pg?
Choice of cipher as well as openssl version + features used make a difference too. See http://zombe.es/post/5183420528/accelerated-ssl for some examples.

Use "openssl speed -elapsed" to test performance on your system.
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Exactly, as opposed to DRM'ed files, the open formats aren't "defective by design".
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Harvestapp has a timer and manually doing it.

What would be a cool feature, is if you could use the gps as the timetracker.
You were at the location 10 hours, how many do you want to bill etc.

Just an idea :) Simplicity is nice, but lots of your competitors have that already. What sets you aside?
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My one criticism of NFS is that there's no way to save a credit card on file. Certainly makes those "inspiration struck, better go register the domain" purchases much more of a have-to-pull-out-the-wallet ordeal... but maybe making random domains more annoying to buy is actually a good thing.
> I just don't need to see their kid's pictures

Exactly. Also, someone, by request, added me to a circle and now I get those limited posts and I have now way to unsubscribe without unsubscribing that person entirely. They're putting the onus on the content creator to admin their circles. That's counter-productive.
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Ah, yes, I didn't consider that. You are correct in that aspect.
Please have a contact form in site, that will help non-HN users too
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I don't like the change either. It's one of the many reasons Chrome's UI is terrible. Opera actually implements it pretty well through, since when you click in the location bar the part to the left gets replaced with http://.
I agree with most of what Joe has said.

But I love IDEs with features that help me with refactoring. That doesn't seem to be a dangerous shortcut to me.

Granted, by the time you know what refactoring even means AND you know that you should do it, you most probably already know a thing or two about programming, but hey.
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No links at hand but I've seen many sparklines in financial websites articles next to GOOG or AAPL.
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Looks nice, although there's nothing compelling enough to switch from my current (Billings).

If you're looking for feedback, you should allow invoices to be emailed from within the app. This workflow would drive me mad: download pdf -> new email -> type address & subject -> attach pdf -> send.
WOW, exactly what I wanted.

I have studied some programming in uni and have done some simple programs in C and Matlab, I've done HTML in school on my own, and I have read plenty of articles about some programming ideas.

tl;dr - I know some stuff about programming but I'm not a practicing programmer.

So, your style is excellent for me, because I don't have to read yet another absolute beginner tutorial, and cheat-sheets and reference manuals are way too big to give me any immediate benefit.
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I hadn't heard of namecoin until you mentioned it. It looks interesting.

But shouldn't it be called bitname?
This does seem interesting, but there is no tour available and no way to play around with it without signing up.
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G+'s manageable exposure model may threaten the whole online dating arena when opt-in interest groups (Facebook 'page' replacements, possibly co-branded with Google Groups) with geolocation support and event functionality (possibly co-branded with Google Calendar) happen. Discuss.
Good catch. In the Visualizing Data book, Fry notes that he's using the lower-salaried team as the tiebreaker, and I took that as fact and didn't check the data (sigh; rookie mistake). I'll point that out in the article when I update it.
That's exactly why wrote it, I wanted people to get an immediate feel for the language and enough of the syntax to begin writing simple programs right away. I'm glad you like it!
I think this is a lot less of a problem than the author suggests. Domain names are increasingly unimportant. I get to G+ by hitting the link at the top whenever I'm on a google page (usually). I only ever typed "plus.google.com" when I was itching for an invite.

This is Google's big play for social. Its success or failure won't depend on branding. It will depend on network effects, and they've already captured the early adopters. Now we'll just have to see if that translates to the "norms" using it. I can all but guarantee the url will have little to do with that.
I've never paid more than $8 per domain registration OR RENEWAL at Godaddy. There is always a usable coupon at retailmenot.

I'd really like to switch, but one of these alternatives are going to need to really compete on price.
Did @Koodoz do your logo as per this dribbble shot? http://dribbble.com/shots/148611-Paydirt-4

He's a pretty cool guy.
Have bigger screenshots (more than 1) of your app, instead of selling me the macbook and iphone :-D
Good point. Thanks for noting that. I'll add that in.
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I recommend you try playing with Protovis. Pretty nice for use cases like this.
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APL extensions for OpenCOBOL sounds like a grand idea.

Just built the newly GPL'ed version of JSoftware's J announced by Eric Iverson. I'll give it a try.

Ok, first cut. Don't know enough APL (J) yet to get output to prove it's working, but it inits and evaluates 1 + 1 without any error codes.

*> ***************************************************************
*> Author: Brian Tiffin
*> Date: 20110711
*> Purpose: Attempt calling a J sentence. APL in COBOL.
*> Tectonics: cobc -x callj.cob -lj
*> ***************************************************************
identification division.
program-id. callj.

data division.
working-storage section.
77 jptr usage pointer.
77 result usage binary-long.

*> ***************************************************************
procedure division.
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display jptr end-display

call "JDo"
using by value jptr
by content z"a =. 1 + 1"
returning result
end-call
display result end-display

goback.
end program callj.

$ cobc -x callj.cob -lj
0x00007f06912bf010
+0000000000

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Feedback noted!

We've made the signup process as easy as possible (name, email and password only, no email confirmation) but it's definitely more of a barrier to entry than we'd like. We're keen to make a product video soon, and maybe pre-populate new accounts with some sample data too.
I think this comparison is slightly exaggerated, as people experience social networks in a completely different way.

Going into using Google+, I expected it to have the look and feel of other Google products that I use and enjoy. I was not disappointed.

A beverage company does not have to worry about UX. All it has to do is make the product look like something you want to consume.
Great idea :) We'll get onto it
That "someone" is doing far more harm than he realize. His refusal to use any syndication system but twitter is akin to a refusal to use any text messaging system but Facebook. (There is RSS on the one hand, and SMTP/XMPP on the other.)

People like this are powerful contributors to the network effect favourable to proprietary services like Twitter and Facebook. I know that true freedom is not easy (Postfix configuration through SSH is not for my mom). But one can at least use proprietary providers of open protocols.
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Awesome idea. It would be like a reddit, where only top +1ed articles/shares would pop to your stream. A selective algo
Sure, but you're both prominent writers at RWW - I'm not criticising you guys personally, or even RWW.. it's perfectly fine for authors, or even a publication, to change its stance - just the apparent randomness and diametrical opposition of points coming from the same publication a mere three months apart...

As a person in the firing line, it feels pretty crazy to have the same site praise you as "the next twitter" one day and shoot you down with all they've got three months later.