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They moved in months ago and have been working out of that office for a while. They actually have the three adjacent offices across the street from the Creamery. The one that's visible to the street is where they eat lunch and hold events. If you walk north along the block you can see two more doors with projectors displaying pictures that people have posted to Color.
Ask HN: How can I get my kickstarter onto the front page?
It's called Gis.to and it has reached its goal, but I'm really trying to give it a final push with 5 days left.
The fear is that you're out of touch with producing actual work. Most formerly-technical managers tend to very quickly lose their skills and many don't manage to reattain them.

You could try simply changing the job title on your resume. Titles are mostly arbitrary anyway. Change "CTO" to "Software Developer Team Lead" or "Technical Team Lead" or whatever.

That's not going to help if you don't actually have the ability to do the job, but at least it should prevent you from getting judged prematurely.
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That was my original thought but when I looked back at the past 2 years of my life I found that I was always working on the same machine.

Do you find yourself needing to be productive on other machines than your own?

I would think that the increase in productivity if you optimized shortcuts could be so great that it would outweigh the reduced productivity on other machines so infrequently.
Wow. the equation for computing of the hand scaling velocity is a gem. It computes, when translated, how much the distance between the fingers changed per the time interval... or... yes, hand scaling velocity!

I hesitate to call this an "advanced technology". It's a kind of calculation we'd have done during what amounts to college years in the US.

I stopped reading there.
I was just shocked that no language anywhere had thought of it yet. I can't even remember the last time I did a search that came up empty.
You can add links to webpages directly to a homescreen in Android. They look like a native app except for the address bar. Not as slick as iOS, but it's "OK".
Wasn't the 'newsfeed' a rip-off of Twitter as well?
The most important thing about Google+ is that it integrates from the start platforms that have arisen since the first generation of social media. So Google+ is Facebook-like and Twittery and bloggy in one package.

But I think this means that G+ might not ultimately be the winner here. The things it really has going for it is combining models developed by others. The big winner will come at the very end, when all the small stuff has been created, and it will be service that combines all the features to become the one network.
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I know half the Internet is going senationalist over this, but please go and actually watch the debate before the knee-jerking spoils this discussion as well.

The tone of the debate was actually quite reasonable, and many MPs, including the PM, were vocal about the benefits of social media during this whole sorry affair.

Sadly, a lot of people are reading things into it that weren't actually said and then turning them into senationalist headlines on sites like this where the liberal crowd upvote them without bothering to check any facts.
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Uh, typically when society "values" an industry more, they show their appreciation of this value through a higher salary.
There are a lot of parallels with this and the 2008 housing bubble. The recruiters are just trying to get as many students to enroll as possible, they don't care whether or not the students can actually afford the loans. They are just a bunch of scumbags that prey on people that are trying to get an education. As those jerks are making money hand over fist, tuition at state run universities is going up like crazy, even as they are having to cut tons of programs.

I hope the US government cleans them out.
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> Think back to 2006. Name one site...

Salesforce.com was founded in 1999. They've had some of what you quoted for some time. Also note that the Facebook API features you mentioned (FQL & FBML) are now deprecated. I imagine in large part because they were difficult to pull off reliably.

> ... they kept pushing the ball forward rather than to stop and polish what they had...

An API is a contract with your third-party developers. They could have slapped the "beta" label on it (à la Google) and then pointed at that, but they didn't. They put this stuff out there so as to establish a platform for others to build on. It's hard to argue that the foundation for said platform was solid. In school my teachers never gave me better grades when I insisted that my last paper sucked because I was working so hard on making the next one awesome.

> ... but they invented the newsfeed!

So gut check yourself. Is that worth 50+ billion dollars? Novel information displays warm my heart, but this isn't giving anyone a new way to peer into the human body or discover never before seen patterns.

> Their SOA and pipelining of requests is also the first of it's kind.

Have you seen a single thing about Google's infrastructure... ever?

> What they do at scale with a dense social graph seems much much more challenging that what Google did coming up.

Now I think you're trolling. You think it's more challenging to throw together a stream of updates based on a graph that's handed to you versus having to correlate millions (shortly after, billions) of semi-structured documents to answer loosely worded questions?

Mark? Is that you?
I agree with this.

I seem to have developed a kind of bimodal distribution of contacts in Google plus that represent the extremes of Twitter and Facebook: a bunch of people I know really well (family), and a bunch of people I don't know at all (Vic Gundotra, etc). The problem is both groups are getting equal billing in the stream. Which means that right now anything my family members post is so far down in the stream I barely see it.

Another aspect of the same problem is a need for filtering on hash tags. Eg: I tried following Romain Guy because I'm interested in Android. But 9/10 posts he makes are about photography. I want to follow him but only see things he posts about Android. EDIT: thinking about it, there might be some useful cross pollination between this problem and sparks - it would almost solve my problem if I could just say "only show me things Romain Guy posts that are relevant to my sparks".
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>voters perpetually responsive to political advertising

Maybe not anytime soon, but perpetually?
Ask HN: Google+ Layers (In addition to circles)
It has recently been announced that G+ has added games to its platform. Games, invariably, that one would play solo or with people from your various circles.

While I am sure this is a natural progression of adding a feature to G+, I, personally, will likely never use it. I just don't play online games - and I don't spend too much time on G+ yet (I have never had a facebook account - though I now have a G+ account and use it to upload pics -- I don't follow anyone's streams, so, please take the following thought with that in mind).

I am far more interested in a suite of productivity tools being added to G+ than I am games. I call this functionality "Layers"

With Layers (L+) one would be able to create an ad-hoc group from one's circles who would have a shared Layer of information on which they collaborate and work together.

These Layers would allow for a virtual team to have a shared space, each Layer having a context, which would effectually be a Project. Tools available to the team on the same Layer would be Google Docs features, Storage, A Mail Viewport (the mail pane on this layer would be auto-tagged to the layer's context and would be the only mail you see in this tab, even though it is using your regular gmail account), Calendar Viewport (same as Mail - but you would still see other calendar items on the schedule, jsut say, in Black and White as opposed to the color - making it easy to discern evens related to that layer), A project feed - grouping all posts based on that context (think yammer), Shared Layer Contact list, etc..

The idea is, I am not really interested in playing games - but I am interested in having a powerful tool for organizing people from my circles around specific things I want to accomplish.

L+ modules and addons would allow for a project page, github connections, project domain + email address --> helpdesk/issue tracking capabilities.

The ------ = the silo'd features available that I listed out.. The Layers would just be a view applied to each feature.

L2 ------- : Project specific view for Project 2

L1 ------- : Project specific view for Project 1

G+ ------- : Typical G+ experience

Allowing Layers will greatly increase the opportunity that G+ can change the online experience as opposed to being "simply a better facebook"

There is a great deal more in my thinking on this - but I thought I would throw the base idea out there for some feedback.

What say you, HN, do you feel this would be a good direction for G+ to go - rather than simply enabling the more distractionary aspects of a social network i.e. games.

Layers could be used to more formally organize political campaings, non-profit efforts, volunteers, virtual teams in startups, activism, etc...
It wasn't a comparison of problems, it was a comparison of solutions to serious problems.

Nurturing vs authoritarian.
I mean, I'd like to think you were going to provide me some great service.. but then that means I could register a domain name and put up a slick looking homepage and start collecting passwords :)

Just a side note, but do you use some other collection API such as Yodlee or are you maintaining your own data scrapers for all the airline sites?
They seem like different issues. I don't think the Libyan protestors were looting, burning, attacking & robbing bystanders... In other words, in Libya they had protestors, in the UK they have rioters and mobs. I could have the wrong impression; I live in neither Libya nor the UK.

There were also accusations that Libya shut off the internet to mask actions of their armed forces against the protestors. Once again, seems like a different beast.
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I'm pretty sure you've already been made online! It's scary what they can find online.
For me, luckily, I started using dvorak not that long after I started using vim. (I'd been using vim on and off for a while, but not seriously).

This meant that all the muscle memory that comes with being a vim user was learnt using the dvorak key bindings. The downside is that I'm hopeless with vim on anybody elses computer.
I know of many many monitoring services that include ssl cert certificate monitoring. why would I use your service instead of one of the services I've used over the last few years?

That is the question I had when I hit your site that I didn't get answered quickly... and then I became a bounce.
I'm glad you are responding to every single person claiming that their experience is wrong, because that provides ample opportunity to reduce your karma.

Meta: Since your account is relatively new: I was ready to upvote your comment to try to bring it out of the gray text region (i.e. <=0), until I got to this paragraph. It's okay to think these things, but actually typing them out is considered bad form here. While we're on the subject, the rest of the comment does come across as a bit inflammatory.

Hope this helps.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862780

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I have a big (four feet long) scrolling LED ticker that I got at an industrial surplus place for maybe $75. It's controlled over a serial port and it can display two lines of text. Currently I use it as basically a decoration in my apartment - it shows some news headlines and some stock quotes. I hadn't thought about using it as a to-do list display but that might just work - although on the other hand because it can only display two lines, the necessary constant refresh or animation might get distracting.

Perhaps more usefully, projectors and reasonably big TVs are cheap these days and getting cheaper.
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This is a really cool idea. I can't wait for more people to start using it :)
My Galaxy has this "feature". For some reason it's recently started to occasionally call or text a different person to the one I selected. Hilarity ensues. I call it the "iPhone Shuffle".
Absolutley no interest in being connected with a random via voice. I cant stand to talk on the phone to anyone as it is...

I am sure there is a wide swath of youth though who would think this is fun/funny... I just cannot say that they would have anything in common with myself.

You know what would be an interesting pivot on this though;

ServiceRoulette:

You need a service - and you have the system connect you randomly with that service over the phone. Afterwards - you rate your experience and the connected service gets a weighting.

This could be used for reservations, support, plumbers, whatever - where the people need a service and there are lots of options to choose from.

You seed the service with info from sites like Yelp weighting the connection based on proximity to the caller and the positive reviews on Yelp.

They basically put their service order in on a page and receive a call from the provider.

They could set a "ill pay X for Y service" sort of thing as well...

Anyway, jsut being randomly connected to a creep for voice chat just seems like a waste of energy...
Different serious problems require different serious solutions. The comparison to Norway isn't useful.
The problem is not for profit colleges, the problem is guaranteed government loans to anyone who goes to college. This is exactly what happened with the housing bubble. You have a government entity (in the housing case it was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) that's giving out money without any checks and balances.

So as a result you get a few amoral businesses who buy up colleges that have regional accreditation and balloon their enrollment with online programs in order to collect the free money being handed out by the government. This shit only works as long as you have a blank cheque issued by the government to anyone who goes to a regionally accredited college.

The solution is not to clamp down on the only bit of free enterprise that still exists in higher education. The solution is to let the market price the risk/value of college degrees.
Yes, he seems to think Apple's got some magic system in there, not realizing that it's just a basic calculation that anyone else solving that problem would have come up with.

I bet if you put 10 decent programmers in a room, more than half come up with the same thing. That's true of SO many software patents.
Blind people would likely appreciate it. Why don't you forward this to some schools for the blind?
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This reminds me of the bad old days when Google Maps didn't have an API yet and people manually de-minified the source and hacked their way into the hidden API. The original mashups that were created as a result of this hacking resulted in the Google Maps API as it stands now. I've heard from Googlers that before the proliferation of these mashups there were no plans at Google to introduce a public Maps API.
I've seen many different reports comparing advantages (and disadvantages of dvorak vs qwerty, and (mostly) debunking the "dvorak is faster" myth.

Personally though any supposed speed advantages/disadvantages aside, dvorak is simply more comfortable to type with and doesn't leave me with sore arms/hands at the end of the day.

And, just as importantly . . . after 15 years of using qwerty, I was a pretty mediocre touch typist. After about 6 months of using dvorak (where no keyboard ever had the right key caps) my touch typing is out of necessity, pretty much perfect =)
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> You have a government entity (in the housing case it was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) that's giving out money without any checks and balances.

Except there is checks and balances, otherwise they'd be unable to sue.
Wow. Looks great. Definitely going to give this a spin.
Thanks! :)
I assume you mean first non-repeated character. Anyways heres a possible performance improvement for a very long string:

Assume the string is stored as a linked-list (so removing characters from the middle of the string is cheap). Then remove duplicates from the string during the initial traversal (keep track of unique characters that were removed as duplicates in a hashtable). After this single traversal the character in the head node of the remaining linked-list will be the first non-repeated character in the original string.

Note the string must be stored in the linked-list initially... if we're responsible for moving the string from a theoretical array w/ billions of elements then we have to traverse the string twice just like the original algorithm and nothing is gained.

Please clarify the "usually in the middle" part of your question. In this case do we always have to return the first non-repeated character? Or can we just be close?
The design is wonderful. Let me suggest one simple change that would make this more compelling for me..

Make the to-do list items in the list (graphic to the right) atomic and immediately actionable, following GTD priciples. Why? As a GTD/Vitamin-R/Pomodoro/Wunderkinder addict, the graphic communicates to me a to-do list set up for failure. Instead, I'd like to see something more like:

1. Send proposal for website redesign to Company X
2. Project Y: Devise a clearer method for moderators to invite members to private chat
3. Project Z: Contact 10 choreography bloggers to see if they're interested in cross-promotion

A to-do list like this would communicate to me that this service is developed by people who've studied GTD principles carefully and have something new to offer here. Take a look at the Vitamin R help docs - it reads more like a self-help book than a software manual, which I really appreciated. It won my trust by showing me that this guy had done the research, and really devised a productivity strategy that works.

On that note, it would be helpful to have a clearer message of how this is different than other to-do lists. I'm not quite sure yet...

Anywho, definitely glad to see another attempt at better productivity, and good luck to you! I look forward to learning more about LazyMeter. (:
As Daniel_Newby said: "the patent office checks if the patent is substantially similar to previous patents".

They do a check, and a thorough one, just not in the same places you do. Remember that they are not programmers.

> Law is the code we live by. You don't fix code this broken. You rewrite it.

Oh please. A simple solution would be requiring them to hire an expert in each field to double check patents. This would cost too much which is why they don't. But it's a simple solution.

PS. In the real world no one rewrites broken code once it gets used a lot. You fix the broken parts. The only time you rewrite code is before many people use it, or in the new product (which is basically the same thing).
But the fear is that given that power, the government will be able to make subjective calls on situations they deem important enough to intervene. There is definitely a line between justified Libyan protests and the violent riots here, but where does that line fall? Do you trust the government to make that call today and (once it's law) forever into the future?

It's a tough question, I know I don't know the answer.
Funny. Hell no im not trying it.

fyi, there is an Omegle iphone app.
for me it wasn't developers specifically, it was just vocal users. i've not seen much from mozdevs at all contemporaneously with the discussions.
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> liberal crowd

I think when it comes to free-speech, as opposed to things like taxation or healthcare, there's not really a clear "liberal" contingent, just the amorphous civil-liberties contingent. Includes many libertarians, liberals, and anyone else who opposes the state exercising anything even remotely approaching censorship, in any circumstance, whether it's against "nazis" or "rioters" or "terrorists" or whomever else the emergency of the day is.
British Prime Minister Does a 180 on Internet Censorship
For some sets one could average against.
You're comparing very different situations: in Norway, once the killer was arrested the risk of further damage was low. In the UK, there might be further riots.

If you are dealing with a crisis, I think you should do things more or less in this order, and I don't think we'll be ready to start on #4 for another day or two in the UK:

1) Don't make it any worse.

2) Prevent further damage from happening.

3) Clean up the existing damage.

4) Investigate ways to prevent a repeat occurrence, and implement if a good solution is found.
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You can sit for 10+ hours and still walk around a bit. It's a longer day, mind you, but it works. I'm constantly pacing on the phone for instance.
The market was too... saturated
Ask HN: Who is behind padmapper?
I loved this site when I was searching for an apartment. I'm curious to know who is behind it
Not if that someone over 40 is starting or planning to start a startup soon.
It has to be appealing to people here otherwise you're SOL.
If you choose one of eight small modifications to apply at a randomly-selected character, you get perhaps 6 bits of entropy from the choice of character and 3 bits from the choice of modification. That's better, but adding an extra common word to the end of the sentence would be better still.
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"When you started working in IT"? They STILL heat up rooms.
Perhaps I did poor research, but I didn't see many services that specialize in SSL monitoring.

I did find a couple that were part of larger, more complex systems.

To answer your question, my service is dead simple to use, offers built-in niceties like SMS alerts and comes at a reasonable price.
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This is like free user testing info for building APIs. Companies should take note, especially ones building APIs right now (like me)
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You seem to believe that you are saying something different from the comment you are replying to, but actually you seem to simply not understand it.
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>.<

How is this an improvement? I now have to remember a song lyric, and some set of random manipulations of that song lyric. I've used that trick for passwords before, and it was a hassle. But that doesn't even matter— unless you're choosing the manipulations randomly (which is a contradiction in terms) you're falling right back into the exact damn trap the comic was about!

You've added ! at the end, replaced s with z, capitalized some words, and replaced vowels with numbers. These are already standard manipulations in a dictionary attack. And it's causing you to ignore the fact that you've chosen what is probably among the top 10 song lyrics used. "p4ssw0rd!" is "password" as far as a dictionary attacker is concerned. Calling this trivial to brute force is demeaning to the word "trivial". Your attacker wouldn't even laugh at you, because there'd be dozens of other hashes in the file just like yours.

It's been said over and over in these comments: the appearance of randomness is not randomness. Humans are horrible at making things random, as you've just demonstrated. Stop trying to make it look weird, and actually do the math.
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