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A project I created in my free time.

I'd appreciate your feedback please.
Thanks for pointing that out. But law does sometimes conflict with how we wish things were or how things should just obviously work, and I don't pretend to know any better on the specifics (I certainly hope that there is indeed a precedent that protects abstract APIs from being copyrighted).

The guy did start the NoSoftwareParents campaign, so I don't know how much of an "Oracle shill" he could really be. Hard to really know, of course.

http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/about/manager.html
Will this extend to the greater Palo Alto area?
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Any interest in helping us to beta our new product? WebPub.com?

We hope to offer malware detection and clean up services later this year. But if its auto updated half way there. My email is Ben@WebPub.com too.
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Sprint to offer Apple's iPhone 5 alongside AT&T, Verizon
I don't mind the subversive TV advertisements - the can of coke in the bedroom, or the kid playing Xbox while their parents try to talk to them. What's really irritating is when the show comes to a complete halt for what amounts to a product demo (my wife watches Bones and the WP7 bits really bugged me).

Ubisoft has tried in-game advertisements with several of their Tom Clancy games, and its just about as bad. Yes, I'm going through a casino, turn a corner and there's 5 posters on the wall for Prince of Persia. Riiiiiight.

On the flip-side, I wonder if gun makers have any sort of deals with developers - any teenage boy can probably rattle off the names of 10 different machine guns. The same goes for car brands and Gran Turismo/Forza.
Why is the up speed so much slower than the down speed? I thought that fiber was symmetric by design. Is google throttling?
Gruber has already linked to it, and his post is rather humorous:

Odds that I would link to this: 100 percent.
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I agree completely. That was a terrible page to link to. I couldn't even be fussed.

Why would you link to your video page instead of your front page (http://www.getchorus.com/), which I assume is at least somewhat optimized for conversion/understanding?
I suspect the author accidentally included some "off the record" companies.
All three have had flaws of one sort or another discovered since 2005 (TLS has had several; OpenSSH had the Debian keygen thing and an SSHv1 vulnerabiity, and possibly others; GPG apparently had a couple of problems back in 2006).

TLS has definitely had more severe issues, but then, it's also the most widely deployed (so undiscovered flaws are more likely to be discovered). On the other hand, it's also solving the most complicated problem of the three.
Yup. http://vimeo.com/26187915
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I like the circles concept. It is not about privacy, it is that my family wants to see endless photos of my child while my friends don't. IMO is more about courtesy than privacy/politics.
I did an eye roll after I saw the title.

Mentioning that you were rejected comes off as an intention to "prove PG wrong". You should build a great app to do yourself and your customers justice, not to one-up somebody.

The pitch needs to be simpler, I gave your video a chance but you showed me how to enter fields on a sign up form. Didn't finish the video so can't comment on the product.
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That was fast. Ben Brooks' post on why daisy-chaining won't happen: http://brooksreview.net/2011/08/mac-pro-fast/
This is not accurate. He is testing a server which is 50 miles away.

I use a 3G internet connection, location: Tunisia

Server: San Francisco: (6450 miles) Latency: 264ms. Down (0.37mbps) Up (0.32mbps)

Server: Tunisia: (50 miles) Latency: 133ms. Down (0.93mbps) Up (0.39mbps)
Just curious: Are you aware that Greenplum, now a division of EMC, has had a data analytics product called Chorus since April of 2010?

http://www.greenplum.com/products/chorus
"Actual, working code" might be prohibitively context-dependent. Working code to detect credit-card fraud would be pretty dependent on your financial infrastructure. In many cases though, that would not be as big a problem, and in others it might be satisfactorily overcome. I think this is a good idea.
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How about a conference? Music festival? I was at Outside Lands in GG park a few weekends ago and (given the price of a 3-day pass was $200) there were plenty of location aware smartphones used by ~60k people.
Sure. But people make mistakes. And it behooves one to be careful with their crypto.

c.f. Zimmarman's Snake Oil essay & its comments today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2917384
I'm surprised he doesn't talk with Brazil. I mean he could agree with Brazil to get the equivalent tonnage from Brazil and just trade ownership certificates. Tell the bank of england that its Brazil's gold now, and have the Brazilians roll up some bars from the southland.

It is an amazing challenge though to get that much 'value' through.

Alternatively he could trade it for diamonds and then transfer those?
"On the flip-side, I wonder if gun makers have any sort of deals with developers - any teenage boy can probably rattle off the names of 10 different machine guns." haha oh wow, that's an eye-opening comment. Could be on to something
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I don't think this is the right place to suggest improvements to Google+.
Typo is for letters, I don't know the equivalent for choosing the wrong word.
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Unfortunately Google Fiber at Stanford does not allow torrenting.
It does make a difference, but there's a very good chance a lot of traffic goes to nearby servers when you live in the bay area.
your olark widget makes firefox crash (I think if you have firebug installed).
I think she's refuting the idea that GUID primary keys are a one-size-fits-all solution for database design. Jeff Atwood discussed some of the pros and cons of this approach a few years ago [1]. The force does seem a little odd, though, and the use of all-caps words and bold/underlined text throughout the article made it harder to read and understand.

The take-away, as far as I can tell, is that database design requires some analysis of what's best for one's particular data set, rather than duplicating what looks hot right now. Which is a good idea in any context if performance really matters.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/03/primary-keys-ids-ve...
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Poor governance, which is allowed to persist due to lower involvement by parents.
Since we're talking hypothetically, the lower boundary would really be the diameter of Earth.

12,756.2 km / c = 42.5501031 ms

http://www.google.com/search?q=diameter+of+earth+%2F+the+spe...
I've nicked (most of) your categories, hope you don't mind!

Oh, you used jQuery Masonry? That's very cool, I hadn't noticed before!
Wow, really? Google+ is an incredibly well designed tool, done by people actually working in psychology, sociology etc. rather than Facebook's geek centric culture of push updates now, worry about consequences later. If anything, what Facebook has been doing was to progressively push people trade off privacy for convinience and while they whine and complain about it for a while, they get used to it.

I'm not saying plus will win the social wars because Facebook has a lot of people because it built up a lot of momentum. But if it looses it won't be because people found it too nerdy / geeky or whatever. It just means Facebook had a huge advantage and they didn't let it slip.
When you say "the '80s" do you mean literally from the period between 1980 and 1989?

That has to be off by 5-10 years because in 1989 I was rocking out with 4-color CGA graphics on my 286 (with the turbo button), and maybe a 386 with a 256-color VGA was state of the art back then. Embedded cameras in consumer devices were sufficiently far off to be considered sci-fi, as was the idea of real-time video streaming.

I know you said it was a concept device, but it would have been a big stretch given where we were at that time. IIRC, 1GB drives were going to debut in a few years at $1000.
Mass surveillance tech is not a neutral tool and the activity of selling mass surveillance tech to a repressive regime is not morally neutral. Yes, Nokia is not alone but shedding light on any corporations that do irresponsible things is useful.
In this case it might be clearer to just run the switch again after ALPHA and BETA with GAMMA as the machineState, and if necessary, have logic in GAMMA for switching machineState back to ALPHA or BETA.

It also might be clearer to move GAMMA outside the switch block entirely:

int shouldGamma = 0;
switch ( machineState ) {
case ALPHA:
... alpha prep ...
shouldGamma = 1;
break;
case BETA:
... beta prep ...
shouldGamma = 1;
break;
case GAMMA:
shouldGamma = 1;
break;
}
if(shouldGamma) {
// GAMMA stuff here
}

The shouldGamma flag would be unnecessary if all possible values for machineState should still run the code in GAMMA.
Weird, within my social group foursquare has hardly been used but Facebook places is regularly. I use it but have no intention to maintain a separate social profile just for it.
No offense, but [citation needed]. After all their net neutrality lobbying this would be hard to imagine.
Your country may be big, but it's not that big.

Physical coast to coast distance is 15 light-milliseconds.
Posting a status update with a location tag is the same thing as checking in at that location. You can tag people in your status updates, and coupled with a location, you can still tag people in with you.

The functionality that foursquare (and apps utilizing foursquare's API) offer are still possible, perhaps even easier.

Facebook is still going to win this part of the "war".
I went to the homepage, and I cannot figure out what this company does. At all. I went to the Learn More page. Still don't know. Checked Case Studies, erm?

So, I "think" that they may already have data, and allow people to analyze it? Or does it harvest info? I'm not sure. Does it look at searches.

Seriously, I don't understand.
Facebook Places way better than Foursquare? How?

No tips, no explore, No trending, No badges (worthless, but fun), and less specials than Foursquare.
Report: Sprint to get seat at grown-up table when iPhone 5 hits
Ah, good catch - I didn't even think to check whether or not I was on the home page or intended landing page. The actual homepage is definitely better than the video page.
Finno-Ugric language may give Finland's schools the edge
I didn't explain myself well. My goal wasn't to suggest that the Israeli army teaches soldiers to blindly follow orders - by all accounts the opposite is true. Rather, I was addressing the grandparent post's derisive comment about teaching soldiers to salute, respect authority, and generally behave in a disciplined manner.
not with a molton core, unless I misunderstood you...
Ordinarily, you'd want insurance on such a shipment. Even if you sent the navy, getting insurance for the transport between the bank vault and the armed ships could be an issue.
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An excellently explained description of the nature of black holes
I don't know the history of developerWorks, but there are articles on the web site detailing Linux kernel internals that I've found useful, so I hope it doesn't go away.
Another article (http://finnish-and-pisa.blogspot.com/, submitted - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2918684) suggests Finish-Ugric languages give Finnish and Estonian schools an edge in PISA results (and education in general).

The writing is regular, and vocabulary very simple - think "tear sacs" instead of whatever Latin / Greek / German / French derived term you use in English.

I like their right-wing teaching system, which seems to follow the stuff that's got some empirical backing (DI, mastery learning, no retention, etc), but there are other factors.
God damn. The site really is fast. Well done.
Not prior art? http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevericketts/5500614942/
Y Combinator’s Interstate lets you share your roadmap with the world
But that is exactly what is counterproductive about it. Because it forces you to make assumptions about the people you interact with. Have you asked all of your friends wether or not they might find your family photos interesting or not? Do you think there is no value in being exposed to things that is beyond your comfort zone? I might be a 25 year old party animal that doesn't care shit about family life. But seeing the odd family photo or two in my feed now and then might perhaps be good for me? And I might even enjoy it, even if I don't want to readily admit it to my self. There is also the dimension of making the social realm more "democratic". In the sense that it is a good thing if people are not intentionally excluded from social contexts. It helps create a more tolerant society and more robust and flexible social networks if the interaction in the networks are less clustered (something a hacker, with knowledge about how the internet works should be able to appreciate).

The somewhat technical explanation is that what Google is doing is implementing something very similar to "Social role theory" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_Theory), which emphasizes social roles as the defining characteristic used to understand social interaction. While Facebook rather is implementing something more akin to "Symbolic interaction theory" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_interaction).
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Build them using a syntax builder framework, but it is possible to pass raw SQL strings in in exceptional circumstances. Obviously, the developer needs to be totally aware of the risks of this. Not ideal, but needed to solve a couple of problems.
I remember at some point, Counter-Strike changed the name of most of the weapons, making them more generic/fictional. Apparently they were worried about trademark issues?
I wonder how much of this is due to Facebook deciding that location check-ins aren't that big a deal. Most of my friends still don't "get" what is the big deal with this.
> Who said anything about helping them?

I was responding to the person who wrote "The logical counter-response would be to encourage the sort of unrest present in the "Jasmine Revolution".

If the suggested encouragment doesn't help, what's the point?

Note that some of our "help" has consisted of "we'll help if you accomplish {goal}" promises that we've broken.

What kind of "encouragment" and "stirring up" are you proposing that doesn't include help?
Is "...is broken" the new "...considered harmful"?
Your ISP likely looks at your traffic. What makes you think Google will not?
Better because it allows you to simply share your location with your friends without all the rubbish foursquare adds. I know the places I want to go and I am not interested in earning a 'badge' to go there. I just want to let my friends know where I am!
I'd be interested in such a service that ran on a server of my choosing, without having to share my passwords with Greplin. I'd pay $15/mo for that.
Agreed! I too would like to know what you use to do this, and what type of encryption you're able to use.
More for less effort. Got it.
There's a pretty big difference between the two. Broken means it doesn't work the way it's intended to work.
Because quite frankly they aren't a big deal right now. Yes, of course it has a huge potential benefit, but it's not there. So why should they care about it.
You're at zero right now because my finger slipped. Sorry about that.
At the interview stage (I'm not involved in the app, but I know Dave).
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Speaking of serious comments:

It used to be possible to have a submission related to Apple on Hacker News wherein the top comment was something other than shitting on John Gruber.
Fiber optic cables may not be able to penetrate the molten core of the Earth, but there is no law of physics that prevents information from traveling through the core of the Earth. Compare this to the speed of light, which is an absolute upper bound on how quickly information can propagate. There is simply no way, in this Universe, to do better than the straight-line distance through the center of the Earth.
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Are you sure you're not thinking of Apple's Knowledge Navigator concept?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bjve67p33E

This video is allegedly from 1987.

Edit: I changed the link to an expanded video from the early 90s(?) which contains the original video + some other mockup usage examples for OpenDoc
Couldn't agree more! English bizantine writing system is a major drag. Sadly a spelling reform doesn't seem possible at the moment.
I find it particularly awesome that these guys continued to build their product even after they were rejected. Gratz to them. It's by no mean a "prove PG wrong" but a "We've been rejected, so what? Here's my app, check it out!"
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hey Shiven,
This is Jayant, a Quartzy founder. We know 100% where you are coming from. We are scientists ourselves and know the pain exactly as you are describing it. Send me an email and I would love to chat with you and tell you about our vision for Quartzy!

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I agree with everything you've said. But I live in the EU, so the health care issue is covered by the taxes I pay; regardless of where I pay them.

I hail from the UK, but I've lived and worked across the EU. In fact, even if I weren't paying taxes, my health care, and that of my dependants and anyone else, would be covered.

So, on this side of the pond, this elephant is absent.

That said, USians' resistance to universal health care mystifies me only a little less than their returning Bush Jnr for a second term.

How can any civilized nation justify the rejection of universal health care?
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Indeed. I have a Soekris router with a gigabit card, but the best it can do is around 400Mbps. Packet filtering and NAT require some computation, and 1Gbps is a lot of data.

Then again, I can actually use Bittorrent without having to reboot the router :)
Good point. We edited the title to something less likely to be construed as proving PG wrong.
The Internet? Bah!
People want to measure the bottlenecks they can control. Speedtest shows what speed your first few hops get. In most cases, "The Internet" is much faster than their DSL line. In this case, that's not true, but there's not much that can be done by the end user.
Oh great. Here come the IP lawyers.
I'm not a fan of people pulling the "age" card. There are plenty of old men that have done tons of damage throughout history. It's fine to be mistrustful of small companies (I had that trouble with Mint initially) but there's no need to jab them about age. I wish I'd done something this kick-ass before I was 20.
Couldn't get it to crash with Firefox/Firebug. What OS are you using?
You could transmit magnetic waves at about the speed of light.
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No one have answer to this. If they have recently raised alot of money, they may have some change in plans which might make it 'big'.

Join if you like work, salary and scope.
The macro difference in philosophy between Facebook and Google+ is that Google+ encourages social silos and obscurity (typical characteristics of geek/hacker culture, inherited from American liberalism and Californian utopism), while Facebook on the other hand encourages emphasis on context and sharing (in the two way interactive sense, not the one way broadcasting sense that for example Twitter promotes).
I'm not certain I'll participate in the gift exchanges anymore, and it has nothing to do with Reddit buying the site. I've participated twice, and both times I got great gifts from the person who drew my name. However, my experience sending out gifts has been less than stellar. Both times, I did a lot of research and spent a lot of money. The first time, the person never even confirmed that they had received the gift (tracking info confirmed delivery) and the second time, it was just confirmed as received, with no commentary made, no thank you, nothing. When the person you are buying a gift for can't even take two minutes to say thanks, it kind of kills any desire to continue participating.
No, I think I remember this video, though it would have been very late 80s, and I remember it as being from Apple. Of course it was just a video done with special effects, no part of the device was real. It was a big flat computer built into a desktop, and the person interacted with it for a while using fingers and voice commands before receiving a video call from somebody.

Those things seemed a long way off at the time, but certainly not unimaginably far off. It was probably pretty damn close to actual present-day technology, but of course we've learned since then that things that may seem spiffy such as voice-controlled computers and video chat aren't nearly as useful as we thought they might be before we had them.
I don't even know who John Gruber is.
But it's completely irrelevant to this discussion. Context matters. And the fact that there are or not supermarkets that accept a certain currency is irrelevant to its usefulness as a reserve.
thanks for putting us on your list! We think we are on to something ;)
Even if you had unionization rates, American unions probably work different than Finnish unions.
Thank you for taking my criticism as constructive. I don't mind the downvotes as its great to see feedback being handled positively!

All the best to you and fwiw as someone else mentioned, I specifically clicked on this post because i was in "i need a distraction" mode. So I did give your video a shot, but it's hard to listen to 5 minutes of talk.

Just from my perspective I'd like the core of the message to hit me in the face in the first 30 seconds. Then you can drill down into the specifics as time goes on. If you research how newspaper articles are written they use the same concept. They give you the core of the story in the first paragraph. Then as you read more the details and nuances of the article are better articulated.

HTH
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> 12,756.2 km / c = 42.5501031 ms

It's worth pointing out that we're looking at more like 0.65c, through optical fibre. This would also be ignoring routing infrastructure/processing time and network prioritisation.
I have a friend who lives at Stanford, where his mother is a professor. After he torrented some legitimate software (but used a Pirate Bay tracker), he was contacted by Stanford authorities. That was the first warning he received, he did not try to appeal the decision or break it again.
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