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Is there something about this page that I'm missing? Why is this on the front page of HN?

There are plenty of other websites to post interesting internet miscellany, but as far as I can tell, this post contributes almost nothing of value to the community.

Perhaps I'm fighting a losing battle to even bother bringing this up, but this is exactly the kind of content I don't want to see on HN.
What I find more disturbing is the influx of Microsoft friendly commenters. Articles on various MS products are frequent and receive a lot of praise.

Articles that point out how MS is crippling innovation through extortion of Linux users receive relatively little attention.

Google is an extremely open company (with respect to user data and user rights as well as contributions to open source software). However, most comments about Google products and contributions seem to take the most negative view possible. Case in point, today's article on Richard Stallman's comments on Android focused on how he was critical of Android, mostly ignoring that he said "Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone..." Android is still the most open major platform out there. It's put Linux on millions of devices.
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Awesome, nice looking site too. We feature both full-time and part-time projects, so feel free to fill out a startup profile anyways if you need work after your current gig.
> I don't believe in WikiLeak's mantra that all information, regardless of context, should be transparent

That most certainly isn't their mantra.
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I keep hearing over and over that Google+ is doomed, that it is no longer being used, but each time I look at my own activity and realise I am posting more than I used to ever post before on Google+ but it is not going to everyone. I've got a circle for technical people, for college friends, for family and I can selectively post content to each one. Only rarely do I post something public and most of the time it is meant for wider consumption, or it is a link to my latest blog post.

Does Google+ have things it needs to add to become more useful? Absolutely, but I have found more engagement and user interaction on Google+ than on Facebook, mostly because I can curate the content to a specific subset of my circles thus making the content more relevant to those people, thus getting higher quality feedback from many different people.

I get higher click throughs to links on Google+ than I do on Facebook or Twitter, and I get more insightful and interesting debate on Google+ than those other two. That in my book is a win.
People vastly underestimate how important this effort is within Google. This is not something they are going to work hard on and then leave fallow like Google Health, or give up on after a few months like Buzz. They are going to grind on this with everything they've got like they are grinding on core search. The Plus team will become one of the most selective and elite teams within Google, on par with core search. Just as every Google product is designed to be search indexed, so too will every product now (and going forward) be designed to have sharing/collab built in as core. [1]

People forget that new features do attract new users. Facebook is Facebook because it didn't stop at profiles, it added News Feed, Platform, Chat, etcetera. Reports of Plus' demise are thus much exaggerated.

Anyone who has ever launched a product knows that there is a trough after that first media driven euphoria. That trough of despair shouldn't get too deep or take too long to exit, but there is no business that hasn't had one of those after a successful press driven launch.

At a minimum, even if they are only the strong #2 to FB as a consumer social network, they will own "Facebook for business" when they launch Apps integration. It is the most obvious way to instantly bootstrap a fully featured collaborative company social network within the organization that works with rather than supplants email. This is quite hard to do right without being the email provider as well, rather than a third party service like Yammer or Asana[2], but Plus does it well: email under picture for quick private messages, Plus for more public and publicly searchable posts.

[1] To its credit, Microsoft also gets this now in that all apps in Metro are search providers, dashboard providers, social providers, and more generally API providers.

[2] I feel bad for both of those companies. As excellent and well executed as they are, can't see how they can compete with Plus for Business.
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Google Voice refuses to forward to a non-US number, so that doesn't work without forwarding your Google Voice number to some other phone forwarding service, which gets messy in a hurry...
Care to link to some examples of said consensus?
Is the site supposed to work? Most links are broken.
C# lets you make very powerful UIs with very little work (thanks to WPF) which most importantly feel quite native. WPF is also the only widespread framework that I know of that lets you have pretty much any kind of control inside another control (well, other than HTML that is -- the problem with HTML is that you lose the native feeling).

That being said Mono supports System.Windows.Forms (the poor predater to WPF) so there's always that. Or they can code against the (now dying?) Silverlight which actually works on Linux ala Moonlight.

But really, the best user experience is the one that feels the most native. So on Mac that would mean building a Cocoa client, on Windows WPF, on Linux Gtk/Qt (but then again who actually pays for Linux apps?)

Going with a one tech that supports it all just has a higher probability of having something that supports everything poorly, instead of something that supports one thing very well.
I have been saying since G+ was launched that w/in 9 months Google will rename it Google. It will stop existing as a separate brand.

It is too important to Google to own the social graph and keep FB at bay for them to do otherwise.
Yes. At my last job, they had 200+ servers, all Windows.

When I tried to bring up Linux as an option, they sort of winced and said "Linux... ehhh... it's hard to get Linux doing what you want."
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Definitely agree. Hate to be a buzzkill, but OP, next time can you post this to reddit instead?
Very cool, I didn't realize there was a generic version of Pex (the unit test generator for C#). Now if only I could figure out some way to unit test drivers...
Their layout gets busier and busier with each iteration. I can't claim to love all of it, although some of the changes might make reading easier -- like the thin horizontal lines between comments, or larger in-line image previews.
That is great. In my school we only had a class with Ocaml, not quite as mind blowing since it didn't have lazy evaluation, monads, type classes, or any of the other crazy distinctive things in Haskell that don't exist in ML-style languages.

Hopefully they cover the theory behind Haskell as much as the practical side of it.
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I'm pretty sure machine labor is the inevitable endgame for warehouse labor, and I think it's likely coming sooner than most other manual labor that's reasonable to automate, since it's a controlled, structured environment and there's no need to interface with humans.

For the unemployable, I think we'll need a combination of super-cheap scalable teaching methods and a more socialist system. Hopefully we'll be able to transition relatively smoothly, if that's the case.
I love this guy Steve Lambert. This is the 3rd time in my life I've coincidentally stumbled across something that he made and I'm delighted every time. I used to love his radio show. Witty dude - gotta remember to keep an eye out for that guy.
Sure - check out http://strongboxwest.com/

Highly recommend it - very affordable, and plenty of space to work with.
It was through a BBS list I discovered on AOL or CompuServe that I learned about fascinating kinds of music (via .mod files), IRC, other ideas and philosophies, and the Internet. If my dad hadn't bought a modem for working from home, I doubt I would've survived my childhood with my sanity reasonably intact (or maybe I'd just be a boring average smart guy churning through the system, instead of a hacker entrepreneur). Props to everyone who ran a local BBS back in the day.
True, I can't really demonstrate bias with one piece. I said I didn't have good cites, and I didn't. Should have left it at that.
Done.

My company name is in my profile.

Let's see what happens.
Someone has to work the cash registers.

You sure about that? I've seen a lot of supermarkets going self-checkout lately. Sure, it's not out-sourcing in the usual sense; but it is replacing workers with something cheaper (equipment which was probably manufactured in another country).

Someone has to update our nation's crumbling infrastructure.

True, but the number of workers you need depends on the construction techniques you use. If manpower is expensive, you buy prefabricated components and only do the final assembly on site.

Someone has to change the IV bags and push around the stretchers.

True, but technology and a willingness to spend more on equipment can reduce the number of people you need to do this. (e.g., "smart" IV bags which alert staff when they need to be changed, rather than having nurses walk around checking the bags.)

Someone has to teach future generations about math and science and history and puberty.

Khan Academy.

Electricians and plumbers, they're definitely going to be in demand.

True, but the more expensive they are, the greater the pressure will be to create hot water heaters which don't need to be replaced every five years.

Reports of the death of the American blue collar job are greatly exaggerated.

There are a lot of job categories which will never be eliminated entirely, sure -- but most of them can still be dramatically downsized via the application of technology and sufficient quantities of money.

Nobody is so essential to the continuation of civilization that they can set their own wages. There's always going to be a point where people will say "you know, we've got a cheaper option".
He's got more than a Google problem: Bing also gives the same first hit.
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There's a rather large difference between contractually forbidding PC OEMs from selling Windows machines bundled with BeOS and technologically blocking non-Windows OSes from executing. It's one thing to say "you can't bundle another OS with mine". It's another thing entirely to say "your hardware can never run any OS except mine".
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Facebook just rolled out this feature a few days ago. That was Google+'s major edge to me but it would have needed my whole network on it to be useful.

Now that facebook has it, it is going to be very hard to get people to use something else.
And on an iPad, nothing works.
Likewise, I apologize if I took too much from tone.. I think the bottom line is that we disagree here:

"... there are many people who just aren't that productive..."

I don't think that's the case. I think the steady-state for most people is working (hard). People who aren't productive are generally frustrated that they're not productive. I get it though, there are people who require very little from the outside world to move forward. They'll "GSD" as you put it without much outside influence. I've worked with people who score high on that metric, and I'm genuinely humbled by their ability to make forward progress even in less than optimal conditions.

That said, I think it's tempting to value them above resources that are more sensitive to their context but I'd warn against missing an opportunity. In my experience the developers your talking about will absolutely 'GSD'.. Even when all you ask them to do is 'S'.

I frankly like surrounding myself with people whose motivation falters when they don't feel connected to the problem we're solving for our users, or when we're calling too many bullshit meetings, or when they don't believe in what we're doing. Keeps us honest. Those employees are your canary in the mineshaft. I think where their interest goes, our market is likely to follow.

After all, if my team isn't excited to build it who the fuck do I expect to pay me for it?
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Slideshare and Scribd: both allow you to use the program you already know (Keynote or PowerPoint, most likely) that's also a native app with lots of powerful functionality.
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1. Cash Registers - Automation

2. Construction - There is a glut of unskilled construction labor right now, though, coming off the housing boom. Could conceivably be automated, but it's probably a lot farther off.

3. Healthcare - Hard to automate, but the things you mention seem less so than construction.

4. Teaching - Scalable teaching methods - the few best professors can teach a vast number of students relative to what used to be possible. Khan Academy and Stanford's upcoming online classes seem like early stabs at what I think will eventually become the norm.

5. Maintenance work - you're probably right, this is very case-by-case, and requires a lot of training to be able to deal with all contingencies.

Overall, I don't think the future of American blue collar labor's supply vs. demand is very bright at all, unless there's a big uptick in demand for hard-to-automate fields.

EDIT: And when I say automation, I usually mean single-purpose robots or devices that handle the busywork parts of things, like self-checkout machines. cperciva covers this pretty well in his healthcare section. General AI is obviously very hard, and good construction bots would probably need something like that if they were to be able to deal with problems and exceptions on their own.
I've spent about 20 minutes on it. Finished the Spanish questions and am now on my second run. Loving it! Great concept, even better implementation. Here are my thoughts:

1. The photos of the objects could be better, I would suggest designing them against a white background to maintain consistency and type, as some are drawn while others are photographs.

2. I have failed to locate a button to stop the "Keep Going" automatic count down. While its persistence makes me return to it even after switching tabs, some people may find that annoying. I would suggest A/B testing with no automatic countdown and with a "stop" button.

PS: The images of "El pez" and "la catarina" are broken :(
Show HN: Worml - Crazy simple transfers between Macs
This is not another cloud sharing app, in fact it doesn't use cloud services at all; files go straight from one computer to the other. When the transfer ends, the file or website automatically opens up in the other end.

It's a perfect tool for immediate sharing and collaboration.

Direct App store link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/worml/id463103644?ls=1&mt=12
I didn't read his comment as saying that it's a new phenomenon, rather that today's climate makes it true.
What type of businesses do HNers use for their apps?
I have been watching HN for a while and noticed that there are a lot of individuals who create new businesses with fairly short turnaround, and I am curious what kind of businesses you all use, specifically in regard to these quick projects.

I am a developer myself who is interested in starting a business, but I would like to be extremely careful with the legal minefield that is owning a business.

So, what kind of business do you use for your web apps? Do you operate under your own name, register an umbrella business to cover all of your applications, register a business for each app?

Thank you for your time.
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Glad you like it! The images (and text) are user-generated - either uploaded or pulled in from Flickr. We've got 6 million sets and many have better images. Some interesting ones are here:
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Hello all , I got 2 week holiday , I wanna do something thats productive over these 2 weeks. I'd like to do a project that will help me in programming skills. I prefer doing a proj rather than reading a book cuz you'll learn alot over a project than from a book . So suggest me something to work on..
Ask HN: How to get the latest version of your site after a migration?
My web host has migrated my site from one server to another one. After the migration, I am now noticing some recent website comments and emails missing from my site. In other words, the site they migrated is not the most up to date version. How do I get them to give me the most up to date version of my site? What are they supposed to do? Is there anything I can do?
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i wouldn't be surprised if the ad was displayed somehow selectively, but you can try Google.com/ncr for no-country-redirect.
I guess I'm suffering from internet burnout, but I wasn't paying attention to the differentiation between Google+ and Google's +1. If they're not related then that's a really poor naming strategy.
If they did compromise, and declared friendly actors to be off-limits, then they'd be just another politically-driven organization. It's their lack of compromise that lends them credibility.

When they report on Rumsfeld et al ordering torture, it is more easily dismissed as partisan propaganda than when they also report on misdeeds by the Left.

Wikileaks' philosophy is that power structures tend towards corruption unless their dealings are made public. This is inherently apolitical, inasmuch as it does not target or support any political group. Read Assange's 2006 essay on conspiracy as a basis of government and its asymmetric susceptibility to leaks for an in-depth view of the philosophy that informs Wikileaks:

http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf
I definitely think it's a matter of someone's personal ritual.

I've been working from home for the past four years, and I have definitely slipped into a habit of being lazy with my clothes/appearance.

I sit around the apartment in a pair of track pants 90% of the time (which makes me look like either a washed-up, out of shape footballer, or possibly a mobster), only putting on real clothes if I have to do something later that night (and even then I don't get dressed like a real grownup until just before I have to leave).

I also haven't gotten a haircut in about 8 months. I don't particularly like long hair, I just haven't gotten around to it (in spite of the fact that the ridiculous mane I have grown makes me look like one of the Thundercats).

In fact an observer might look as the way I live and conclude that I've been in a horrible bout of depression for the past four years (doesn't put on clothes, doesn't shave or deal with their hair, is a shut-in), but I can attest that I'm quite pleased by this situation.
Interesting assertion. Are those other distribution vectors as profitable and trustworthy as the Mac and iOS App Stores?

From my own experience as an app developer, selling the same app on the Mac App Store and through my own FastSpring based store, the Mac App Store is fantastically more profitable. We have a free trial which offers a seamless in-app purchase through our FastSpring store, and we also offer bulk purchases and enterprise discounts through that store, yet the vast majority of our sales are through the Mac App Store. From my numbers, only one day have we seen more copies sold through our own store, and the revenue that day was still less than the Mac App Store's.

From my own experience as an app purchaser, the App Stores rock. I can quickly download and install any and all purchased apps on any and all of my devices. I don't have to worry about serial numbers or registration files. I don't have to worry about nefarious acts that might compromise my download. Hell, I don't even have to worry about installing. The app just appears on my system, ready to go with a single click.

So, from both sides of the field, Apple's App Stores offer a fantastic experience. Are there downsides? Sure. As a developer, I need to worry about bugs like the OP hit and I need to deal with Apple's approval process. But that said, I have to worry about bugs in my own store and purchase validation code (bugs happen there, trust me!), and the approval process leads to the huge upside I and everyone else experience as consumers. And if that process makes consumers more willing to purchase my product, I'm willing to pay that price.

You can call the ecosystem "closed" and you may feel Apple doesn't "care about their developers" but, from my point of view, Apple's provided us with a fantastic platform, some of the best dev tools out there, and the single best software storefront that exists today. Personally, I'm feeling quite cared for and don't see any other platform or storefront offering the same experience. Not by a mile.
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Larry Page has vision and conviction. Exactly what Google has lacked in many ways for a long time.
so, let's prove it.
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Hate it. I was always annoyed when I had to switch from Top News to Most Recent, and now I don't have a choice. The addition of random visual embellishments like blue corners and 3d borders takes away from readability and scan-ability.

Also I can't imagine why I would want a side feed of people commenting on people who I'm not even friend's with photos. This violates peoples expectations of Facebook.

So good job guys, you broke your core product. This is just what you need to defeat Twitter and Google Plus.

Edit: I just noticed they stapled the real time feed to the buddy list, halving it. So now I can see even less of the buddy list (the one they broke last month) at once.
Twilio, though, is happy to forward overseas.
This is my experience with it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3020785
Services work for startups? Services is a distraction to startups. Also, if I wanted to go that route, I could get my own services work or use an agency. Am I missing something here, guys?
Too bad they still don't want Google Apps users. As they could be more likely to be Google fans, continuing (also in invite phase) to exclude them does not seem like a good idea.
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I read this as no-one uses Windows (desktop) as a server OS. This is true.