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I have the exact opposite experience. I find it horribly frustrating to have all these contacts in different services surfaced to me in weird inconsistent ways.

GTalk are for me a subset of email contacts.

I'm ecstatic that G+ sharing is being integrated with GReader, because I share a lot on GReader, but not everything I share is pertinent to all of my GReader friends.

Ideally, they'll add a "public circles" feature or something like it, that allows people to subscribe to specific subjects that I define and share to specifically, which would be public, but not pushed into everyone's main timelines.

[Edit: To expand a bit, I hope we'll be able to view those public circles in Reader, since that's the ideal interface for it, and not just in Plus.]

[Edit 2: Thinking a bit more about it, I think I'd prefer to consume all Plus content (except maybe photos, I really like the gallery layout) in the Reader UI. I simply find it to be more efficient.
This kind of pseudo-intellectual relativism is depressing. The man massacred his own people. He was insane. Don't take CNN's word for it; listen to the damned audiotapes yourself.

Critically analyzing media portrayals is good. Dismissing any conclusions reached as, "well nobody can really say" is facile and lazy. It's what people who don't have anything to add to the conversation say in an attempt to sound smart.
Indeed. Flaggity flag flag.
Well if you don't trust the collective portrayal of dozens of different media outlets and books printed from all over the world by people of different nationality, allegiences, motives, and religions, then you really can't believe anything. And so at that point what is a trial? Couldn't that all be fake too?

At some point you will have to trust something - you can't even be sure of what you see with your eyes as shown by numerous studies of false eye witness testimony.

On the cases where the evidence is slim or the news has just broken I'm very critical - this morning I didn't quite belive that he was even dead. But when you have such overwhelming evidence of horrible deeds over the last couple of decades it is pretty easy to say he was a bad man.
The core flaw seems to be that it allows remote, undetectable (via the Skype client, anyway) determination of the user's IP. And it works independently of the privacy settings. All you need to know is someone's skype ID and you can find them on the internet.

While you're right that the article is misleading, I think you're interpreting it in the wrong direction: this flaw is much worse than the ability to track torrent downloads.
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This must be sarcasm, but I don't understand what point you're trying to make.
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I would certainly prefer this.
The story and who was linking to it has nothing to do with it. Do a better job naming your links next time.
Saw awesome homes in Fremont , mountain view, new York and Virginia during my current visit, let the bill come would buy a home here.
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Every time I see anything related to Perl... well, I guess that must be how everybody else feels when they see C++.

(Sadly I only have room in my mind for one cobbled-together overcomplicated jerry-rigged masking-taped syntax-vomit shitstorm masquerading as a computer language. I just met C++ first.)
> So none of the empirical facts are under dispute. The
> question then is a purely philosophical one: is there a
> sensible notion of free will given determinism? Should
> (normative claim!) we treat people like they have free
> will, i.e. punish/reward them for their actions?

Thanks for your reply jessriedel. In my opinion the two outcomes that make sense here are to declare that free will makes no sense to apply to any entities at all, or to apply it to literally all entities in the universe. I'm not sure which is more palatable.

Regarding the normative / moral / legal issues, I don't think rejecting non-causal free will necessarily has any immediate implications. Patricia Churchland's writings on this topic very persuasive to me.
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No chance I'd give access to random apps either. I have proprietary source code and such in my Dropbox.
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I don't know if the creator is going to see these comments but lamernews.com goes to a GoDaddy parked domain page. Not sure if DNS changes just need to propagate or what.
Ask HN: Any HNers going to DUXCamp in Washington, DC this weekend?
http://duxcamp.eventbrite.com/

Seeing if perhaps folks would be interested in an HN meetup either Friday or Saturday evening (post-conference).
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Since this offhand comment seems to hit a nerve: My thinking was that there has been a slate of pro-Dropbox stories (I am a happily paying user of their service) which looked like it was carefully choreographed by a PR firm, no doubt sparked by their fundraising.

That being said, saying that they paid him was a bit over the top and I hereby retract that theory.
Google don't seem to understand the natural partitioning of social spaces that occurs in the real world.

I think they understand it just fine, hence Circles (as you say). This makes my life a lot easier: I use Reader a great deal but have not made much use of the social features as the contact management was poor. I don't want multiple contact lists, it's duplicative and inefficient to have several where one will do.
Wherever there are protesters there will be a fringe of kooks riding the wave who want nothing more than to attract attention, either by breaking shit, hurting someone, or by trying to shock with their extreme opinions.
I might be wrong but I believe some parts of the JS community resent jQuery's ubiquity (which has arguably reached the point where people think jQuery is javascript).

That people are now taking the time to create pure JS solutions is nothing but a good thing, and there's certainly no reason why people should have to depend on a third party library if they don't want to.

Finally, your latter point about filesize is a false economy, because a 5k version still requires a 30kb DOM abstraction as a dependency. And since the thing has no external dependencies, why on earth would you want to hobble it with one it doesn't even need?

All these pure JS scripts and utilities get a nice new home in my bookmarks bar, because they're a lot more valuable to me than a shoddy jQuery plugin.
Something like that. It's actually hard to know where to divide up the onus of proof when we're talking about predictions.

One thing's for sure, though. Kurzweil's "I'm right until proven otherwise" attitude ain't the way to do it.
I'm almost ashamed to admit I'd never heard of either of these before. Will definitely check them out.
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It would be nice to have a panel inside Google Reader which would display only the G+ material shared from Google Reader - although I doubt they will do it that way. Anyhow, they surely will find a way to screw things up :P
Surely I can't be the only person that wants to just read the book without having Isaacson spill all the beans before my copy comes in the mail. With each one of these excerpts he teases I lose more and more respect for the man. He's riding this thing pretty high and it's starting to be in bad taste.

This is already one of the most anticipated biographies ever. There's not really any need to seek more attention.
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If anyone is looking for a (very slightly) larger Clojure web app to poke around in, I rolled an example Noir app together a few weeks ago:

https://github.com/pmn/noir-messageboard

It doesn't do much, but it does do more than the usual "Hello World" style apps.
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These figures are interesting, but you really need to take into account cost of living to get an accurate picture of poverty. $26,000/year would barely cover my rent for a tiny one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, whereas in other places, it's enough to live somewhat comfortably.
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Obama specifically said in the 2008 debates that he would go into Pakistan without permission to get Bin Laden

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/flashback-2008-mc...
I don’t understand the connection.
How bad does it look to startups to drop out of grad school?
I started Physics grad school this Fall, but I have recently started considering dropping out, either to join an existing company or to start my own business. I am concerned about how this would look to future employers, both startups and non-startups. I know that getting an MS degree but no phD in Physics does not look great, as it shows that you quit the PhD program. But is getting an MS still better than nothing?

Also, will the companies (both startup and non-startup) take my grad school grades seriously? I'm a grad course thats considered to be one of the hardest Physics courses right now, and I just don't have the motivation to study hard for the class, and I'm concerned about getting a really bad grade (possibly FAILING).

I've been working on a programming project recently, as a way to improve my programming skills, and its actually been kind of fun. But I haven't programmed enough to say that I'm committed to making a career in programming
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Boom! goes the dynamite... Loved your response. What exactly are you testing? What are you looking for, traits wise, and which aspects of the test reveal the said traits?

I am not planning on applying, but am I just interested in learning more about your methodology. On the surface, it seems way better than those silly "how many potholes in America" or those memorizable algorithms.
Typing "controversial" terms into Baidu produces connection reset
Sort of entertaining. Try some generic searches first. Then try searches that might be controversial. Do you get "connection reset" as well?
So, the instructions are the equivalent of this: http://www.applegeeks.com/lite/index.php?aglitecomic=2006-05...

Which, to a non-artist, looks like this: http://www.applegeeks.com/lite/index.php?aglitecomic=2006-05...

Yup. super enlightening.
Steve Jobs had an extremely rare form of pancreatic cancer that has a very good 5-yr survival rate if caught and treated early. The article is likely accurate.
Yeah, I had some questions about civilization in Egypt. Is Egypt assassinating thousands of people worldwide with anti-tank missiles fired from unmanned aircraft, on a daily basis?

Because if not, then yes I'd say you compare quite well to the U.S.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/...

"Jobs sought to assure colleagues that he was not suffering from a more common -- and more deadly -- cancer of the pancreas."

Jobs: "I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was)."

If he really had an "islet cell neuroendocrine tumor" he really had the chance to live much longer than he lived, had he accepted the operation earlier. Note he also didn't have to lie in "mine was." It was diagnosed in time, but he waited with the operation the nine months.
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I'd like to see this data over a longer time period. Or compared to a similar time span around the Great Depression. Similarly, I'd like to see data on a global scale. I'd imagine the gap is continuously widening. Markets constantly shift, this may be a second re-adjustment from the dot.com bubble, just the "99 percent" are adjusting as the 1% goes the other way.
The incredible wealth disparity in this country is quite disturbing. And one look at the data confirms that reality. Half of workers barely make enough to get by. And I assure you that a very large portion of those making under the median probably get poor benefits/heathcare (if they get them at all)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=pancreatic-...

Jobs had a rare form of the cancer, known as neuroendocrine cancer, which grows more slowly and is easier to treat, explains Leonard Saltz, acting chief of the gastrointestinal oncology service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Survival for many years or even decades with endocrine cancer is not surprising." For that type, the sort that Jobs had, "survival is measured in years, as opposed to pancreatic cancer, which is measured in months."
I prefer not to have a play-by-play handbook. If I know what's coming, I like to make my own plays. Just like no two games are the same, I prefer to have the rules so I can use my own head.

Analysis is nice but not necessary.
If one is not able to reach his peak potential, then his own problem and not an IQ measurement deficiency. I'll read the IQ value that you're able to reach, not the value that you might reach potentially if you make an effort.

Being able to reach your peak IQ potential consistently is part of the daily hygiene of eating well, sleeping well, exercising well. And it's also a question of making the effort. If I can't measure it, it means you don't reach it. Or at least not often enough.

On the other hand, I agree that it might be overstated. But having worked with people that don't have the best minds, you start to believe IQ is not just crap.
United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes and dues. Foreign gold or silver coins are not legal tender for debts.
—31 U.S.C. § 5103

It seems unlikely that a prohibition on the use of cash in any transduction is likely to survive judicial examination.
Wow, that is cool. A sentient testing grid to take over the world, built of custom Legos made from balsa wood. I want one. Never mind selling to Fortune 500 companies, you should offer these as kits on the Maker Shed Store for individual mobile developers to buy; they would probably sell based on the fun factor alone.
How much oil is in off the East Coast passive margin? 20 bboe (which is twice the best estimates of MMS)? That would make it on par with the North Slope in Alaska, an elephant field. That's 3 years or less of US consumption, or about 7 months of global consumption. BFD.

And that comment about the Deepwater Horizon not being able to drill closer to the shore... that's eyepopping. The shallow-water GoM in the Mississippi Delta has been drilled for decades.

I don't want to use an inappropriate tone for HN, but you should really take stock of how you've been misinformed so badly and seek to educate yourself.
All of Rich's talks are great: http://www.infoq.com/author/Rich-Hickey
Forgive me for what might be huge ignorance and stupidity on my part but does this mean that I'm now required to have a G+ account to use Reader?
Most other articles had the specs intertwined into an article, and I just wanted to share the specs compared that go beyond iPhone 4S'.
Asking if a hidden insight can exist is a peculiar phrasing, but anyway, one example I can think of is some study that demonstrated people using their real names were 50% more likely to remain active users two years after registration. Or "abuse", however defined, was reduced by 40%. Whatever. The point is that if Google keeps such knowledge secret, other networks that allow anonymous users will be at a competitive disadvantage.

I have no idea what such effects may be, I only allow for the possibility they exist.
Agreed. I am not a great artist but I am a good one, and I basically got that way by learning how to draw so I could make art for games.
TrueCrypt works. The client program needs polish (and I wish it could resize on the fly), but it once it mounts an encrypted volume, that's that. Even Dropbox's incremental sync works with TrueCrypt.
More on this topic:

http://www.selfsufficiencystandard.org/

It's bad out there. Most people live lives of quiet desperation.
No, SPDY replaces HTTP but keeps many of the same high-level semantics. The messages are not HTTP; for example, the headers are a binary format and compressed which isn't possible with HTTP.
Thanks to all for the clarification.
I found the previous sentence more interesting.

"Another aspect of Jobs' character revealed was his disdain for conspicuous consumption."

I definitely see some incongruency there!
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Here in Ontario, minimum wage is $10/hour. Assuming you work 9 hours a day, 6 days a week:

10 * 9 * 6 * 52 = $28,080 / year

No, I don't think 54 hours / week is too much to ask. I'm sure most people making over the 26k probably work more than that. Yes, I know this is Canada, but it's just an example.
I have watched the Libyan and Tunisian revolutions. I can confirm that the Tunisian one was led by a particular part of the population (mainly the poor and forgotten). In the Libyan revolution, I saw all kind of people from different background, social and economical levels. Libyans are friendly, and generally quite generous and kind. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised that a good part of the rebel army is made of regular citizens.
All these systems are doing it wrong. I don't want online backups, I want an infinite, encrypted, online filesystem. I should be able to mount it and treat it like any other hard disk. The local disk should just be used as a huge cache. I can't find a service that does this. Why the hell not?
Related; Copenhagen Suborbitals - homegrown opensource _manned_ rocket: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/ - Peter Madsen (one of the two guys building this thing) also built a submarine..

Edit: June launch attempt http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K...
http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/contentgfx/Rocket-2011_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_suborbitals
Because the Economist's point is that so much of the potential tax revenue is getting excluded due to loopholes that eliminating those loopholes without reducing the marginal tax rate at the same time would amount to an enormous wallop. Maybe "the rich" can bear it, maybe not, but the point is effecting change of that sort would make them pay more, and that regardless of what actual tax rate we want to target, it would be better to start from a position where the actual tax paid by any individual is straightforward to calculate.

Only at that point does it become reasonable to figure out at exactly what number to set the tax rates, because until then you don't really know how much tax you're going to get from the person, since they may or may not have avenues of escape.
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When you create a postcard, do you have the option NOT to be featured on the home page? Because right now, the Magdaleins are showing off their baby to all site visitors, when perhaps they meant that postcard to only go to family and friends.
> It would be more like 1 billionth or trillionth speed.

That's a possibility.

Now what algorithm do you propose to use?
It's probably the first time since, by the second time, he would've already been very rich and, by then, money would've changed him, if it was going to at all.
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The biggest thing employers look for is: Can you get shit done? Do you finish what you start? Do you have the staying power to see a project through? Do you care enough to make sure your shit is high quality, rather than barely passable?

Quitting school just because it's hard, and not caring about succeeding in your ventures does not send a positive signal to potential employers (especially start-ups, which are made up of people who endure incredible stress and hardship and do all sorts of things they don't like to in order to succeed because that's what it takes).
Yes, I hope Amazon stops torturing engineers, but they did master the art of APIs.
So click "next" 4 times. It was annoying, but not a big deal...
Why do so many JS mini-libraries expect an ID or a CSS selector? Why not accept an element too, which lets you augment anything? Seriously, you're just crippling your library, and adding complexity by not accepting elements.
None of this is frustrating and it shouldn't come to a shock to anyone. Google stated that they were going to deeply integrate Google+ into all its products. This is them just following through.
> Something can only be priced because it has value already.

You're missing the point. Ideas are invaluable. Assigning them a price detracts that value.

> I think it's a great development to allow ideas to be monetized.

The idea that everything needs to be monetize-able to be worth investing in/spending time on is, for lack of better words, a disease.

> What I find illogical is this idea that we should move forward to a world where we run a knowledge-based economy but that that knowledge shouldn't have any monetary value.

How is this illogical? Knowledge had no monetary value to being with, because it's worth more than any amount of money.

Also, we're not going to run a "knowledge-based economy". We're going to move to a knowledge-based society that most likely will depend on a service-based economy in which everyone can profit off each other's innovations, allowing for incremental development that will speed up progress by magnitudes.

> Are we going to barter ideas between one another to make ends meet? I'd love to hear how . . .

But that's exactly what we're doing right now (licensing etc), and which you rightly point out is illogical to the point of utter absurdness.
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How to monetize an Android game so addictive, people won't click on the ads?
I have a highly addictive Android word puzzle game. I have two problems. (1) Getting people to notice it. My app is buried under > 1000 others.

Problem (2): The app connects to google's appengine for realtime scoring/etc of each round. This costs, so I need to monetise the app. I am currently using banner ads, but the app is so addictive, people won't click on the ads, so my Click-through-rate is too low to get any well paying advertising. Currently I am getting an eCPM of $0.04 with Admob @ 15k impressions/day over 100 users (they play a LOT!). Can anyone share any similar experiences on solving these problems ?
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Why? Did jobs show off his Ferrari, did he wear $10,000 bespoke suits? Did he buy anything at all that demonstrates status and wealth?

Jobs was NOT a conspicuous consumer. At all. All of his purchases were justified based on utility - albeit as someone who appreciates art, he considered beauty to be a utility. Psychologists like Maslow would agree with that.

Beauty leads to good feelings as surely as food and shelter do. He bought stuff for himself, not to show off.
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I don't think his decision to refuse surgery was a 'stupid decision', he was just being human. Steve's success in tech should not make him in the eyes of people be super human. Even in tech, successful people make lot of mistakes; history just records successes.
i hate that all google products are now getting such a heavy header. The original GMail used to have lots of space for emails, where you could read through all your subject lines, now its 300px of search box, one top bar (which comes after a loading screen) and just 10 messages.