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You seem to have a problem with social networks in general ...

As for I gotta say, I'm a little offended by your audacity, because you're essentially asking me to categorize every single person I've ever had an email conversation with as a friend or a non-friend

No one is forcing you to categorize anyone, these are suggestions from your contacts you can not circle them at all if you don't want to, as for the categories they range much wider than "friend" "non friend".
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Has there been any instance of this patent protection actually coming into effect? I would have thought this would just have led to multiple trolls targetting Microseft customers to access Microsoft's deep pockets.

Since I've not heard of this happening I'm inclined to believe this is a hollow offer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Messaging_and_Presen...

XMPP is pretty much the standard instant messaging protocol these days and it is supported by google talk... im not sure about Huddle though... i assume it is also through google talk just with a special ui for selecting circles.
Not sure why anyone can justify anyone being forced to work in unsafe or unhealthy conditions for low pay. Regardless of what country they're in.

People making $1/day shouldn't be faced with it & the people making $12/hr shouldn't be faced with. Also let's not pretend that cost of living is comparable between all countries.

Now this isn't to say that people aren't faced with these conditions, but just because that's the way it is, doesn't mean that's the way it should be.
Absolutely my favorite resolution, and is what's currently setup on my HP ZR24w, as well as deliberately defocussed a couple of notches to fuzz the text up a bit.

What do you mean by "deliberate defocus?"
YMMV. I'm definitely not in a ghost town over there. People like Andrea Kuszewski do a lot to generate high-quality content, and keep the conversation going. While my Facebook is more active, sure, my G+ account is where things I care about are happening.
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Sorry, I linked to the 2009 amnesty. The 2011 amnesty program is described here:

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=234900,00.html
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Launching my bootstrapped start-up. Please cross your fingers for me.

I just launched my start-up and am a little freaked out. Everything works (so far) but I've been so focused on getting the app up and running that I'm feeling a little lost on what to focus on next and second guessing some early thinking/research.

Anyway, I could use some advice (and/or moral support).
1. Does this app have legs?
2. Do I need to tweak/change anything?
3. Where do I go from here?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Link: https://www.TheWisdomofOthers.com
Nice to see this thread keep going. So..

"I fully expect science to confirm or disprove nearly every philosophical insight there ever was"

"Any philosophical result prior to the science that falsified it can be disregarded"

These are the non-sequiturs. Science is a sub-species of philosophy, whether you're willing to acknowledge it or not. Any reasonable survey of the history of science and its foundations must acknowledge this from an historical standpoint, and any objective examination of the ideas should quickly see Science's dependence on philosophical foundations.

I don't want to be unkind, but this is precisely the kind of historical and intellectual illiteracy I'm talking about. What you're stating here is truly dogmatic and emotive, and disconnected from anything resembling a healthy contextualization or understanding of the centuries of thinkers and writings that were poured into building the very worldview you take for granted.

You and I would have to go through some long discussion and/or remedial reading to get to the point where we could progress the argument reasonably, and I suspect you'd run out of patience and just wave your hand, make another high-handed dogmatic statement about The Sovereignty of Science and move on to something that made you less uncomfortable. I hope not, but my experience with discussions like this makes me suspect so.
Thanks Geuis. Looks like native android development is the way to go..
I don't know of any (although I confess to not following this stuff that closely).

Conspiracy-theorists could probably find something interesting in the fact that in general Microsoft seems to be mostly left alone by patent trolls.
As a comparison, I'd like to know the breakdown of hours of actual work for those who go in to the office every day.
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This is genius. Great idea! We took contract work to pay for an employee at my last startup and it worked out pretty well (until they stopped paying). He would work for them ~2 days a week, and that would cover his salary for the whole week. Basically, we got a free employee 3 days a week + his input and expertise.

Although this approach is a little bit distracting, it can be much less distracting that raising capital and dealing with bad investors. I would recommend it to any early stage startup.
> I almost never use my queue for streaming.

On my Blu-Ray player, the queue is the only way to play anything.
I'm not a big book reader but I liked your idea. Anyways, the site was very fast and I liked the look and feel. Good Luck..
That's not at all what I meant by "vivid." I meant clear and intense, not necessarily a lucid dream. I only mentioned that recollection may be equivalent, because it's possible that, while not using melatonin supplements, I was technically dreaming just as much, but my sleep/wake pattern was such that I never recalled the dreams in the morning.
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You don't HAVE to categorize your friends, if you want you can just make one circle and throw everyone into it, then as/if you find need create separate circles that are subsets to match those needs.

G+ isn't perfect by any stretch, but complaining about being REQUIRED to categorize people seems... strange.
Despite its questionable color palette, G+ does looks nicer than Facebook.

But my stream looks like a RSS feeds more than anything, people I know IRL stopped posting months ago, pundits I follow post largely the same thing I can get elsewhere and the comments are no more interesting or constructive than say HN or Quora.

I do want to keep using it but have no idea what's the point.
Scratch this image deep enough and you will realize top local officials in China are always under tremendous pressure to increase GDP growth to further their own position and careers and that the easiest way will be build 'anything'/'something' within their jurisdiction.

If anything, go ahead and Google for China's empty cities. Frankly, I would not want to be anywhere near that bubble when it bursts. The only point of consolation is that the Chinese still have a tight control over all aspects of their society, so they might be in a better shape to recover when their banks go bust.
>The concrete difference is that on Facebook I follow friends and coworkers, on G+ I follow Scoble, Tim O'Reilly, Alton Brown and other people who write interesting, public posts.

With Facebook's new follow feature (released this week) you can follow those people on Facebook as well.

Facebook even partially solves the Scoble problem by asking you if you want to subscribe to all, some, or only the most important posts from a person and Blake Ross has mentioned that they may be doing further things to help filter what you see on your wall (perhaps classify posts by subject?)
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Yeah -- the problem is, what if they categorize me as a friend, and then I have to make some kind of actual decision? Who would that benefit, when things are just fine the way they are right now? The only people I can see gaining from my clarification of my vague feelings about certain acquaintances would be Google and their advertisers.
The second problem is the answer your the first problem. You only have to sort as much as you need to, and sorting is exactly what will solve the problem of not wanting to see certain people. I.e. make a circle with just the people you want to actually keep in touch with. Add the people you have to be polite to to a circle called "Ignore" and ignore it. Post to the circle that's your real friends. Read posts in the circle that's your real friends. Hangout with same.
I used to be very excited when G+ launched, and try to get all my friends on board.

I want Facebook to die, and it seemed Google understood that they can't afford to anger their users with Facebook-like policies -- when they're so far behind as it is.

Then came the Real Name or We Delete Your Online Life stories. That truly angered me, and I no longer advocate Google+ to any of my friends.
I often wish just the opposite ;)

So I'm working on "porting" my architecture knowledge and experience to something relevant in the world of software development. Looks like it's leading me on a path towards UX, UI, and
interaction design :)

The main reasons for the pivot? In architecture you have huge project mortality rates, lots of overtime and stress, and low pay. There are of course wonderful things about the work in architecture and its potential & history, but it's generally extremely difficult to find an opportunity where you can get paid for doing innovative work.
> not passing the debt ceiling increase doesn't automatically equal a default

Sorry, that's what everybody in government was saying during the manufactured crisis. If you have some kind of insider information that contradicts what everyone in government was saying, then produce it. Otherwise, it sounds like you're making up facts to fit an agenda (quoting the constitution is a common symptom of this).
Don't they see that I put them in the ignore circle?

And don't they see me?

And then what if they put me in their friend circle, and then I have to be, you know, their friend?

edit: again, these aren't spammers or stalkers or people I don't like. They're just -- kind of annoying. Neither friend nor foe, I guess.
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For other similar* businesses that I'm aware of, streaming isn't more profitable on a per unit basis as compared to DVD rental/sale (but subscriptions to unlimited streaming are much more profitable, because usage tails off but people don't cancel).

* similar = streaming and disc media - it's the adult space, not mainstream video
Hackers News is boring because of this type of post. What is the purpose of your link?
Is it me or did the author equate new features to active users in the lead?
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Or creepy.
So it has the same feature set as Windows Live now ? (minus the APIs)

I've suspected for a while it would slowly turn into Live, remembering Live has a huge amount of users. It has what is technically a great feature set. But whats it worth? no one cares, its only got value on contextual levels, and I'd hazard a guess thats the future for Google+

It'll be hugely successful on paper but it will be a completely underwhelming experience when you use it... and from time to time you'll have your socks knocked off because theres something great about it.
The difference is that players were not investors, they were depositors.

When you invest money in a company, you do so with the understanding that the money becomes the company's and will be spent. In return, you get equity (typically). You don't have an "account" with the company from which you can make withdrawals.

By contrast, poker sites operate like banks, taking deposits from people with the understanding that those deposits will be held in trust. You're not buying equity in the poker site, and your money doesn't become their money. It's still your money; it's just being held in an account they manage. This is why commingling is bad--it obliterates the distinction between their money and yours.

Obviously, these poker sites are not FDIC insured like banks. But a legitimate poker site would still take all reasonable precautions (such as segregating the company's funds from depositors') to protect your money.
All the early adopters in my circle of friends tried it for about a month and quit in July. By quit I mean they still have accounts but no longer post content.

I closed my account about 2 weeks ago and in the form that asked me why, I cited the fact that I could not hide my name and keep my full privacy if I chose.

I think in retrospect (as I agree with the consensus that the jury is still out.) the nails in G+'s coffin will have been.

- Not allowing people to keep there name's private.

- 2 not opening to the public before facebook could implement their killer feature (only sharing things with the people I want to ala Circles)

- Lastly in some relation to the first point I think it was a huge mistake to make the 1 percent people (the extroverts who don't mind sharing with the whole world aka your Robert Scoble's and Tim O'Reilly) the cornerstone of the product.

You have to get a critical mass to gain the network effects needed to keep a social network interesting and those people can go along way but the long tail of people will prefer the ability to be more private
They sell targeted advertising. And to target effectively, you need personal data. I never said they sold that data, just that they need to collect it.
They don't see that you put them in the ignore circle. You can't see other people's circle names. You can only see if you're in someone else's circles or not. But if you're really paranoid about it, name the circle something benign, like "Pals."

They will only see the things you post to public or to their circle. Don't do that.

If they put you in their friends circle, then their posts will be available to you to see, but you will only see them if you go to the circle you put them in. If you never go to the ignore circle or the all circles stream, you will never see their posts.

[Edit: Your real problem appears to be that you took a mere 45 seconds to judge a service that actually takes pains to address exactly your needs. Not only did you not pay attention to the tutorials that describe how things work or explore long enough to figure out, you also didn't check any of the readily available sources of information on the subject before not only making a hasty judgment but also deciding to broadcast your hasty judgment on a public forum.]
Remember, there are those of us for whom Facebook has not only lost, but it was never in the race in the first place. Personally, I value my privacy more than any feature Facebook has to offer. Facebook has shown a history of being outright hostile towards privacy.

They will never be an option. Privacy is not only about performance, but about trust. Facebook is not trustworthy.
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Yes,

Just like RIM and Nokia were tremendously success within their markets as these markets were once defined.

The crazy or impressive or disturbing thing about the present management/investment environment is that these successful companies panic and do a 180 turn based on a whiff that their markets are going change fundamentally, often killing themselves before anyone else kills them - look at Netflix.
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> Is my perception rose-tinted because I really, really want Facebook to die?

Yes.
Yeah, I'd "consider" it. I'd probably reject it, but just to reject it would mean I "considered" it - simply forming an opinion about something, positive or negative, means you've considered it.

Kia's a perfectly good brand, in my view. I wasn't using it to be negative about Microsoft, that's your bias or defensiveness. I'm just saying that the article is citing the number of people who would "consider" buying Windows Mobile, which is a really weak indicator for how many would buy it.

What % of people would "consider" getting kicked in the nuts for $10? I'd argue nearly 100%, but how many would actually agree to it?
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Thanks cmer! Yeah, investment can be super distracting. We spent around 5 months talking to investors for our last startup back in '08, when we could have been bootstrapping on a gig.

Just curious, how did you find your last contacting job? Did you work as a team or just allocate 1 person to do it?
I once decided to cut cord to the vanity light in my car (long story why). Even though the car was off I was able to get quick a scare. Lesson, electricity in a car is not off when the key is out. I was close to winning one of those Darwin awards.
As long as you don't have to respond to email, chats, calls or other questions and don't have to talk to anyone at the office.
It is actually in the interest of the government to redistribute wealth, so that the next revolution never comes. :)

Despite what embittered historians say, the rich and powerful learnt plenty of lessons from the French Revolution. The only reason why some people remain obstinate about it is that they can't really be bothered to see beyond their lifetimes.
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But what happens when QR codes aren't around in 20 years? You need another level of indirection!
No they can't see what circle you put them in.

They can see only your public posts, and posts you share with them or a circle they are in.

If they add you to their friend circle or their own ignore circle looks the same to you.

You can ignore individual people too.
First off, I am really impressed with your design. Where did you derive the inspiration for it? It seems like a nice service to me, quite unique. Have you considered a white-label service for wedding/event planners? I imagine that is where your market will be, just as your anecdote indicated. The other area where this might be cool is for seminars and/or self-help type events where the crowd's wisdom and shared experiences might be leveraged to provide meaningful takeaways from the event. I'll noodle on it more and report back if I think of anything else. All in all, looks good so far, keep us updated!
I believe they've (the G+ team) already publicly stated that's coming down to 13.
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The circles are asynchronous, and you don't see which circles you're in nor do those you "circle" see where you put them either.
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Which is interesting because until then they managed without. When they needed to create a warchest they had the cash to do it and it didn't think long. It probably wasn't a bad strategy to wait until the last minute to start buying patents. Sure they might have overpaid compared to what they would have paid years ago, yet back then they needed the money to grow, now they have enough for patents.
The feature G+ is missing the most is being able to use it to post into Facebook and Twitter. I like the idea of having an alternative to Facebook, I would love to see G+ succeed, but the real problem is the time it requires to manage multiple incompatible social network presences. The thing Google could do is to make G+ a dashboard to control all your other social accounts. I hope they realize that this is one of the biggest issues for people like myself who would like to switch but are scarce on time to completely migrate their entire social network.
I think a unified queue hurts the loyalty for instant queue people. Whenever I am on instant queue and I search for a movie and see that it's not available for instant I am annoyed. You could argue that it would help convert me to DVDs- but I know that it doesn't, especially afte the recent price hike. In fact, it really just makes me think about how Netflix streaming lacks material.

If they feel the true future of their product is in streaming than I think this makes sense. They aren't trying to hold onto the low-margin DVD my mail people. They are trying to encourage more streaming customers and move forward in a drastic way.

Maybe the better way to accomplish this is to make the netflix classic website as discussed in the article include the non-streaming movies and just have people with instant queue not even see other movies.

Regardless- I don't think one queue is necessarily better.
They could make it work if they wanted to. They would have you designate a "home" address for both federal and state elections, and then let you vote in all local elections for which you are entitled (because you own land). That would be fair.

In fact, I know that as a Berkeley landowner, my in-laws are allowed to vote on the local Berkeley issues, even though they vote on the state and federal stuff at home.
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It took a moment for me to grok. It would be good to get your anecdote on the home page if possible, that really brings it home.
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If it's hanging in both browsers, could be a network issue... I've occasionally seen paths to some (but not all) websites suffer from hanging HTTP/TCP connections, perhaps due to packet sizing/fragmentation/loss issues.

Does the problem happen for you at another location? Any new local routers/switches/access-points in the local mix? Does another OS on the same network (perhaps even via a VM on OSX) show the same issue?

Notably, when testing this, I discovered that logging out of HN from anywhere logs you out from everywhere. So even using a smartphone to login/logout might be a workaround for getting your OSX login session invalidated. (Of course discarding the browser cookies should work as well for the local browser.)
Basically, there was one guy I wanted to hire but I simply couldn't afford it at the time. I found the contract through someone I knew. That new employee was the only person working on that contract. The rest of the team never touched the project. I only had to do some minor management work on it, talk to client, etc.

We didn't charge a whole lot but it was enough to cover most of his salary. We're not in California and salaries are lower here.
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I like the idea of keeping it under one brand but Netflix "Classic" reminds of me of "Classic" Coke. It's like AT&T calling home phone service "Classic" phone :)

It could be Netflix:Online and Netflix:Offline or Netflix:Instant and Netflix:Delivered etc.
I can't stand apps that appear free but require an in-app purchase to work fully. It feels really dishonest to me.

Yuck.
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