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I hesitate to write this, but:

Google Play is cool, but social isn't about features. It's about people, and the people are on Facebook. Maybe Google+ isn't designed to supplant Facebook, and maybe it shouldn't be, but it's hard to argue that it wasn't designed at least with Facebook in mind. Like it or not, Facebook directly stores and controls a tremendously large chunk of the data in the world, and to top it off it is arguable that it is this data is most important to people personally, since they spend so much more time with it than they do with, say, Wikipedia. Regardless of whether G+ is a direct Facebook competitor or not, this chunk of information is also off-limits to Google, and the result is that Facebook as an entity poses an existential threat to the entire company, whose job is expressly to make information accessible and searchable. Search isn't going anywhere, but if the most important information is locked away by Zuckerberg and Company, then it may also not be going anywhere especially interesting.

In spite of what I just said, I will grant that you're right when you say that Google+ isn't Facebook. The comparison is almost certain to be unflattering to Google+, and it misses something essential. In particular, regardless of what TC or any other pop-tech journalism firm likes to admit, Google did get one thing profoundly right with Google+. The ability to share blog-style posts in a more freely social setting has catapulted the site to popularity among a nontrivial portion of very prominent academics, not to mention the very influential tech people who use it. Facebook was the minority when it launched to ivy league schools, but one key to their success was that they had the attention of the right people. Google may not be popular, but that doesn't mean they're wrong. Time will tell what happens from here on out, but it will be ironic if the prominent hackers who jump ship because Google is changing ended up jumping ship so that a new set of hackers could build something cool in their place.

While I ended up agreeing with a lot of the points of the original TC article, I think your conclusion ended up being more right, and it is truly unfortunate that Google+ does not get defended as it probably should.
True. Surprisingly enough, they also use the Android style connect-the-dots unlocking UI for some of them.
Which site does this happen on, in particular?
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Well that link just got mailed to everyone I know in West Seattle. Definitely more useful to my demographic than the product being discussed. :)
Thank yo so much for taking the time to post these tips. I will be sure to follow them. I won't be afraid to do experiments and hack. A lot. Thanks again very much!!!! I do look back at my old code and constantly improve it (to find out how crappy it was) and enhance it. I will also look or open sources. But please, could you recommend some specific open sources I could really use to learn? Thanks so much!!!
> See the Maximite link below, its pretty straight forward.

Not everyone has VGA monitors hanging around (they don't) and only being able to do stuff in one place (where the monitor is) is a significant handicap over a tablet or netbook/mini that can be used anywhere.

While your theory about pricing is correct, in this case the parents really do want to spend about $500 and they really do need Skype, documents and game playing as the existing many year old family laptop is in its last legs. So yes they could buy two things - a cheapo for the kid and a second family laptop replacement, but that is not an optimal route to go. (The parents already have laptops, tablets and smartphones between them.)

> I would hear more about 'moved on'

When I was young having a tty program that asked your name and printed "hello $name" was cool. Nowadays a kid is not going to impress a friend with that. Remember that positive feedback is very reinforcing. On the other hand having an Android app that asks your name in a gui and gives a gui response is so much more familiar. App Inventor has media players, camera recording etc which is so much more modern and expressive. I'd much rather see her making an app where you record yourself saying your name, and then it says "hello $name" with your recording and text to speech.

> With an open access graphics subsystem, a modest ARM core CPU, some memory, and USB plugs for "disks" and "keyboards"

That just won't work. They skipped the whole generation of computers made up of discrete bits (processors, displays, disks, keyboards etc). Instead normal to them is integrated devices (processor, display, storage, wireless network, input mechanisms) and you pickup and use wherever takes your fancy.
exports.foo = function foo() { }; is indeed where you might use this. It doesn't let you call it as foo(), though. What it does is make exports.foo.toString() include "foo". This can be useful for debugging, and possibly other things.
Trendiness may be, but do you really change your status/lifestyle/cleanliness every two weeks? It's not a need, it's a want. While on the one hand "it's just a turn of phrase", on the other hand, the smoke-and-mirrors fashion industry makes workhorses of these phrases.

it's certainly a market need and it has real use; Humans make snap decisions on appearance.

If you're making a decision on someone over the course of fortnights on their clothing decisions, that is pretty much not a 'snap decision' by definition.

The issue I have is with the particular phrase - the linked article is talking about 'how women buy clothes', not 'how fashionistas buy clothes', and most women do not need (or even want) to buy new clothes every fortnight, let alone this idea of wear-once-and-toss-away. It's just the next impossible ideal of the fashion world.

I don't really have a problem with the product, I'm all for swap centres, I just have a problem with the language of need.
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I guess I didn't get to my point clearly. What I'm saying was "Who cares what the temperature in the data center is? We'll just put some guy in a cold suit if it is more efficient." Humans usually adapt when it is in their favor to.
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Actually, in narrative writing, as you were doing, you should use consistent tense. So you were correct to use "was," as the sun was a star back then, independent of the fact that it also is now.
We don't want to hold your data hostage. We're convinced the right strategy is to make it easy to migrate off Parse, so that people won't be concerned when moving onto Parse. For example, we recently launched one-click export, so you can get out all the data your app is storing on Parse without writing any code.

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Any chance you'll have an API for this in the future? I can see amazing potential for new business and experiences to be build on top of Exec. If nothing else, in some sense you can "automate" tasks that occur at less predictable intervals, such as "clean up my condo after my airbnb guests have left" or "need virtual assistant when workload exceeds X".

Congrats guys! I look forward to seeing this grow!
> AIDE runs on android tablets

You seriously think that AIDE is appropriate for a kid who is proficient at using computers but has never written a program in her life? How many months do you think it would take to walk her through hello world and what do you think the chances are of her getting it?

> But I don't think I would recommend Android for someone in a country in which they can't access the Market/Play/whatever-they-call-it-next-month

I apologise for being a little loose in my language. Her mom already has two Android devices (tablet and phone) and they sell very well there - usual pattern: BlackBerry was king and is being dethroned.

You can access Android Market but you can't buy anything, and a lot of content that is freely available in other countries does not show up. But your gmail will stay up to date and you do get Skype.
Respectfully they are subjective so I expect people to disagree. However:

The community is a huge part of judging a language. You'll note that I specifically said this appears to flow from the core developers out. A sentiment many in this thread appear to have shared. That to me is a danger sign. The community often is a signal regarding how the core devs of the language approach things.

As for beauty it's completely and purely subjective so what looks beautiful to one person can look ugly to another.
Ah, okay. Sounds like you could probably teach me a thing or two then!
It shouldn't be a big deal. They paid Amazon for 1 click buy.
Ask HN: Can you help me develop a business model for this problem
My college puts on a summer incubator program and in order to apply I need an idea with a valid business model. I thought about all the problems I encounter in order to think of a new product idea, and this is what I have so far.

I'm a subscriber to GQ Magazine because it makes clothes shopping a little simpler. I've found that the style of clothing they market is impeccable, but all of the clothing is extremely expensive. I've talked to other subscribers who said they try to match what they see in the magazine to clothes they shop for at places like H&M, Express, etc.

My idea relieves this hassle: provide an electronic version of GQ's clothing section for people who can't afford $800 ties. I would follow a similar format GQ has: model new styles with information on where the consumer can purchase with the price. The clothes would instead be from more affordable retailers and possibly have a more casual feel than the mostly-formal GQ theme.

My issue with this idea is the business model. Right now I would rely on advertising revenue from clothing companies and other businesses who want to reach this market. Is this too risky of a business model for a student start-up?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated and will help me get into my school's incubator.
There is a Lua-based scripting mod but I doubt it is commonly used for things like this. As another commenter mentioned the use of copy-and-paste mods is much more likely.
"... Durkin decided to shut down the Australian site and give the US market a go — So she applied to Y Combinator, and got accepted. ..."

Doesn't it bother any of you that she abandoned her entire Australian userbase?
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We think PFFile is a lot easier to use from mobile devices, with the iOS and Android SDKs. A lot of people are actually just using PFFile because they find it simpler than using S3. That said, you can use S3 and Parse in the same application, so they work together fine if you'd rather implement things that way.
with that api you can only make demos.
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This looks pretty useful today, and I assume will continue to evolve and add more functionality in time. I have very little clue about frontend apps, so I will use something like this to offload a lot of the tool selection process so I can focus on the app itself. I imagine a lot of developers (especially those not on hn) are the same way.
"as evidenced by the 11,000 people who downloaded Flutter in the first 11 days it was available, and the 400,000 gestures the app logged from those users ... "

Anyone have it installed? It would be cool to get a review of how tolerant the gesture recognition is.

edit: from watching the whole embedded video it's an interesting kind of "gesture" they look for based on the signature of your hand rather than the movement. Really interesting.

Also: Can you opt out of having data generated from a webcam pointed at you at all times uploaded to some dudes server?

Now that we're swinging back to local/native apps are we (the people who make the apps) really going to give up the data we get from the web model? Or are we going to normalize spyware completely to keep our dashboards full of metrics?

Boy, if people got pissed over the pickpocketing of contact details by an app they installed on their phone imagine how fun the rhetoric will be when someone starts "data mining to increase user engagement and product penetration" with webcam data.
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True. But the interesting part is how those above 21 will shop there for the disposable clothing. A 30 year old can get a dress, in their size, for around $25 (further supporting 99dresses' business model).
Most people seem to be unhappy with their current job situation due to culture/fit. Having a higher salary or a different position is one solution but definitely not the underlying issue. Regardless, this is one the most elegant solutions I have seen to securely pair recruiters with applicants.
Search isn't going anywhere, but if the most important information is locked away by Zuckerberg and Company, then it may also not be going anywhere especially interesting.

As Google+ grows, it could put pressure on Facebook to open up.
That system sounds nice in theory, but it doesn't work. Even places where virtual currency doesn't buy anything tangible, such as MMORPGs, develop black markets rather quickly.
As a curiosity, the bult-in logging module from Python provides the same features (file name, line number): http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html#logging.LogRecor...
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Could you turn off the CSS for changing the highlight color? I know it is all the rage these days, but it is an accessibility issue for me (and probably others as well). I use highlighting to make it easier for me to read text (it helps by eyes track better). When you change the color (especially to something garish) it substantially reduces the usability of the site for me. Yes it is just one Firebug edit away, but really I shouldn't have to do it.

Operating systems allow people to set custom highlight colors for a reason. I don't see why website authors think they know better than their users.
Wondered why it was Silverlight, then realised the site is owned by Microsoft.
It's unfair to compare Skein (designed by a 8 people team, most of which more active in the field than Bruce), to CubeHash, solely designed by Dan.
HN: Name a problem, any problem, you'd like to see someone solve
What's a problem that bothers you intensely? Any problem, as big or as specific as you'd like.

Who knows, maybe one of these ideas will turn into a YC company!

A continuation of a question I asked HN 3 years ago -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442571
I enjoyed the footnotes, too. "This is not an endorsement of pair programming."
my understanding from undergrad and talking with people is that there is a heavy split between academic ML/AI and industrial ML/AI. One uses a lot of raw brainpower, the other uses a lot of base cunning to reduce problems that look like they require intelligence into large instances of boring math problems which were mostly solved by the 1970s.

That's a surprise to me. Can anyone here expand on that? What are the books to learn about "industrial ML/AI"?
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Sure, black markets are to be expected with any marketplace. Regardless, implementing virtual currency like this is arguably a more effective means to accomplishing their goals (growth/engagement/satisfaction) than not having virtual currency. But I could be wrong.. I guess we'll see.
What about this:

> The number of videos has gone up 9 orders of magnitude and the number of developers has only gone up two orders of magnitude.

2 orders of magnitude means at the very least, going from 9 to 100 developers, which is a huge increase, but it could mean way more. I wonder how big the team really is, and what the changing team dynamics are like on that scale at that pace.
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Expand that to "Sites which don't work unless your browser window is maximised". It's astonishing how many web devs think that just because "nobody" has 1024x768 screens, they can assume that nobody has 1024x768 browser windows.

For example, visit http://campfirenow.com/, make your browser window skinner, scroll to the bottom/top right, and observe how the page craps itself.

Or how about http://jobs.37signals.com/. Make the browser window thinner, scroll to the righ- oh right you can't because they disabled horizontal scrolling.

I don't mean to pick on 37signals. They're not alone. Web people: make your browser window smaller and, you know, make sure your site still functions.
Unfortunately I have the same attitude. With the expansion of the universe apparently speeding up, it's like a race we can't win. Unless wormholes DO exist...that would be great. Or maybe we'll discover some mass relay type thing ;) If you haven't played Mass Effect, I'm sorry.
I think there's an interpretation of his comment that says he actually has given it significant thought.
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Why is it so hard to choose health insurance? And then, once you're in the system, why is it so hard to keep up with all the paperwork, etc. I grew up in Canada and after living in the States for 10 years, it's been so frustrating to navigate the health care system, and I'm a healthy person. I can't imagine how people who are sick have time and energy to put towards getting better when they are consumed with just "getting through" the system.
Because of the implicit semicolon insertion in JavaScript, it is better to place the curly brace next to the condition IMHO.

After all, I agree the most important thing is to be consistent.
No, the notion is that you, as the owner of a file hosting site, cannot reasonably tell whether a given copy of $something was uploaded with permission or not (nevermind that you aren't required to do so anyways)

And go pull quotes all you like, that doesn't change the fact that deduping means you pull links, not files. Full stop. It's not your job as a site owner to police copyright for big media. And if it was, it would be a full time job and then some.
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>Is monkey-patching still considered cool in the Ruby community?

It can be useful in your particular project to overcome library incompatibilities, but it probably shouldn't be used in library/framework code.
Ask HN: Python 3 or Python 2.7?
I've been meaning to learn Python for a long time now. I have no experience in programming (except for a few lessons of LPTHW). But in a month, I'm going to have a lot of free time on my hand and I've decided it's time to get off my bum and finally learn it.

But my question is, should I learn Python 3 and be future-proof or learn Python 2.7 and figure out the differences later on?

I'm on Debian Sid (Crunchbang to be specific) right now, but it isn't much of a problem to install Python 3.
I agree - Google "fixed" search and webmail. I also think arguing that a company shouldn't do something because they haven't done it before is a little superficial.
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1) Not every person wants the same kind of fit(snug,slim,skinny,relaxed,classic,natural, etc) or drape.

Those are irrelevant details. The basic form of input is "person A gives rating R to item B". This is precisely the formulation behind successful solutions to the netflix problem.
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Mind you, I do have an idea for this. If anyone is interest (even you Ben), hit me up on email.
I'm not saying doing a software related startup in China is necessarily a bad idea - but China does censor certain websites and that stifles creativity to some degree. China is also known for other strengths so if you're there, you may as well take advantage to your unique opportunities and play to those strengths.
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i dont like the way how kayak & expedia work. Simply putting up certain hotels list and providing information on them/enabling booking etc... it has failed to provide information what user wants exactly than rather give info about what he/she might like.
I started hacking on this idea a while ago but lost interest, and didn't really think I could execute being a male with no sense for what women want online or fashion. However, my idea was a bit different, and I hope 99dresses can read this and ponder it.

Basically, my killer feature was piggy backing on Facebook. Women love to upload photos, the photos are usually of them looking good in their dresses, the social network is already there to provide viral growth. So basically all a user would have to do is select from photos they've already uploaded, and describe the dress. Then their friends could see who has what dress available and see what it looked like actually being worn on a dress model they personally know.

My model really only worked with immediate friends, and was based on borrowing. Monetization I imagined would come from advertising shoes, accessories, and other dresses etc. But who knows, maybe women are willing to buy dresses from their friends?
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I'm constantly brainstorming ideas, and rapidly prototyping them, but without being able to find the early adopters to begin the feedback loop, the ideas die. What's the best way to find early adopters for my ideas? I'm based in Australia, so meetup groups tend to be very lean around specific interests/technology, but geolocation shouldn't be relevant to internet startups.
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