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Ask HN: Does anybody wants to show me what is going on in San Francisco?
Hi guys, I am a Software-Developer from Germany. I am am a skilled Python programmer, have a lot of experience with web development and I am involved in various open source projects. This week I am in San Francisco and I know that a lot of cool software projects are based, here. So does anybody wants to show me his startup or just something cool he is working on or just want to discuss interesting stuff while having a beer? ;)
It's built on PHP.
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In winner-takes-all games, being even in the top 99th percentile is worse than useless.

To use your own example, true you might get better than half the regulars in basketball if you spent 1 hr a day at it, but you'd make exactly $0 being in the top 50th percentile of basketball players. You would be far better off if you had spent that 1 hr/day for a year on improving your coding skills further.
If it were a google TV also, and played android games via some innovative controller like ouya's, i'd buy it in a second.
I'm having a hard time trying to find something that I like about the new Digg v1. It feels "meh" to me so far. The layout of the content makes it hard for me to digest...I already hope there is a redesign when v2 is launched.
Good decision. There's nothing wrong with not releasing something you don't feel is up to par. I actually admire that. Ship it when it's ready, and not a moment sooner.

On the other hand, there is something wrong with releasing a product that turns out to be over-priced and under-featured. That worked for Google in the past where it was all Web products, the price was "free", you could just slap a "beta" label on it and iterate daily. But that doesn't work when something costs $300 dollars in a competitive marketplace with established leaders.
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Jesus,

Let it die.

Once again - what a terrible UI. I even posted to them recently: "...dont let too much UI get wrapped around the content.."

Ths is a puzzle page of content boxes, too much visual distraction; do I look at the pic, title, meta text etc. The grid doesnt align - no categories etc...

WTF.

Single long scroll between the elements?

WHO THE HELL APPROVED THIS UI

The lines between each section are too thin - the lack of contrast...

There are so many elements wrong with this.

This is a poor attempt at a quick flip of 500K on a house.

They bought this domain and had a super fast flip on the domain to be able to push this out while the word still had hype about the sale, and its an utter BS disgrace.
Lets see if there is a deeper UX to be discovered that really works well for people, but purely based on initial launch ==failure.

DIGG IS DEAD!
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> I don't see any evidence showing poor reviews.

One is linked to in the article itself. Others are hardly difficult to find.

> The only people who got it are people at IO anyway, so that's kind of a small sample.

I'd say folks at IO are likely to be fairly positive towards Google.

> I'd say they delayed it so they could add more features before a real launch, just so it lives up to Google's standards.

It wasn't up to Google's standards, but you're doubtful that it got poor reviews?
You can get back the old UI using "old gmail" userstyle (http://userstyles.org/styles/57755/the-return-of-old-gmail) and a few tweaks such as turning off chat. This only works in chrome or firefox.

One complaint I've heard, a lot .. almost everyone thinks new gmail UI is butt ugly.

But it's also very functional. My parents were long time yahoo-mail users, who switched a few months ago. They love never having to delete mail in order to tidy, terrific spam detection etc. My dad uses filters and archiving, but my mom has a huge inbox and only ever searches. This dichotomy between searching and labeling is an on-going debate in the family :)
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> just so it lives up to Google's standards.

To be honest, Google doesn't have a great track record when it comes to initial product releases. They get by with it because they release early, iterate often, and eventually develop a winner (a good strategy). But rarely are they winners out of the gate.

If your comment were about Apple, then absolutely you'd have a point about high standards.
Google squandered the Q - it was a great marketing opportunity, what with its unique form factor. They should've used it to create a first-party Google TV (with support for using Android phones and tablets to control it, particularly the Nexus 7) and released game controllers along with it, encouraging developers to create Android console games.

Then they should've made the Q the cable box for Google Fiber. That would've really made the headlines.

However, while it's easy for us to sit here and take potshots at Google, we have to remember that it's a logistical nightmare bringing together disparate divisions of a massive organization like Google and getting them to coordinate their efforts so that the company as a whole can present a united front to consumers.
I see that you've read this.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Drunkards-Walk-Randomness-Rules/dp...

It's not rare for people to attribute success only to them self and failure to market conditions.
Am I the only one who neither finds this particularly responsive or fluid?
Pardon me for my bad English, why are they call him a dullard? Isn't it synonym for the “moron”?
Isn't it ridiculously easy to spoof the "from" address anyway?

You should pay a lot more attention to the where the links go than where the email is from.
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I have now finished The Living Dead and am halfway through Pandora's Box. Some observations with your permission.

Adam Curtis most definitely does not make music videos around conspiracy theories. He makes intellectually challenging documentaries based on absolutely stunning archive footage and refreshingly radical observations.

He seems to apply a kind of a dialectic method. For instance in the Living Dead he combines three quite remote subjects. The first episode is how the WW2 was painted as the battle between good and evil, while some think that in a war bad things happen at both sides. The second one is about cold war brainwashing techniques both in the U.S. and in Russia. The final one is all about how Margaret Thatcher bought Winston Churchill's dream of a Greater Britain. Looks like the last one is the point he really wanted to make and the two first are just preliminaries, although extremely insightful.

He is also obsessed about the relativity of truth and the feasibility of rational planning and free will. Which are not subjects readily emptied methinks.

And I don't find his voice annoying at all. So all in all, my first impression is extremely good and I have already recommended him to a couple of friends.
Where's the attitude and negativity coming from? Far from being "heretohelp", you're being unconstructive and frankly, a dick.
This will surely differ from person to person.

My experience with all nighters is decent productivity through most of the night, extreme tiredness and the low productivity phase around 20-24 hours in (5-9 am, typically), then what I thought of as the circadian rhythm would kick in and "wake me up" again and I would be fine and almost normal productivity through the day, typically until a second tiredness crash after 30-32 hours (3 to 5 pm).

The nap-sleep around 5 to 9 am would restore some productivity during next day and ease off the second crash, but it never got me back to 100%.

When I was 19 or 20 I once stayed up 66 hours straight to see if I could (not the greatest of ideas, I know) and while I won't claim I was perfectly fine I did not hallucinate. I actually drove for an hour and a half about 60 hours in and managed alright (spectacularly bad idea I'm ashamed of nowadays, please don't do this).
A few years ago...

RSA was hacked and the attackers could then get access to US military contractor internal data.

...

LinkedIn was hacked and the attackers could then get access to DropBox internal data.

Would the military contractors claim that they weren't hacked?
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Mostly http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/technology/silicon-valley-... ?

And its bogus advertising model that leaves our closest friends babbling about their sex lives rather than their creative endeavors. That Facebook compels negative consumption: the consumption of Friends' consumption, rather than the consumption of Friend's production. For instance:

Status Update: "X made me feel bad."
Comments: "First!", "[meme response]", "like", etc.

All of that happens, of course, and ads are still soaring throughout all of that. Facebook is basing its model on the idea of someone interjecting "sound ads" throughout your socializing with people; it's advertising Tourette's.

And it's built on PHP.
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And what it shows is investment.

There should be rock solid high performance graphics drivers for every Android phone. There aren't. The chip manufacturers aren't helping because they won't let 'regular' people get access to real documentation, Google isn't helping because it won't put 4 or 5 engineers on it full time. ODMs don't do it because if Google doesn't do it why should they, they take the crappy vendor supplied driver and run with it.

So far there is no penalty to a chip vendor for having crappy video drivers. This is an area where nVidia invested in strongly to win the PC hardware space but has not done squat in for the Android space, at least it isn't visible outside nVidia.

The Nexus 7 is the first Android tablet to even kinda sorta look like the way the iPad moves. This is something that totally confounds me about Google's internal process.
I used sup for many years (and contributed some very minor patches). sup is no longer maintained and it's difficult to get running with ruby 1.9. Some good people that weren't happy with sup created notmuch (http://notmuchmail.org/) with similar goals. There is a mutt fork that uses morning called mutt-kz (https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz/wiki).

I'm not as satisfied with mutt-kz as I was with sup, but it's probably even better if you have invested a lot of time configuring mutt just so.
Working with pointers in C or C++ is a decidedly lower level construct that Lisp. Not to make any sort of value judgement between the two languages - but with a c pointer, you are accessing a very specific point in memory. If you're pointing to the first element of an array, add one to that pointer, you're now accessing the second element of that array.

This close to the metal mindset is what makes C/C++ valuable for learning how code compiles to assembly, and understanding _how_ your program is executed.
Whilst a attention grabbing headline article I'd be more interested in a better breakdown and also a more uptodate one given "according to a report by the Credit Suisse Research Institute, created in 2008 to analyze trends expected to affect global markets.". So thats 2008, four years ago. Things have moved on, but why is this only now making the news?

Diversity is always good and the size of boards, statisticaly for them to not have one single women would be indicative of a narror mindset and also one that is less able to adapt - period. So in that this is hardly supprising in any way.

Not a greatly written article and I say that as they quote a 2008 report and then go on about companies who were not even a factor in 2008, which to me seems somewhat attention news based. Still simple fact that say a board of 12 people has no women and fails to adapt as well as a board that has some is perhaps obvious to me and many others. Now the question I'd ask is if you had a all women board would they perform as well and if that was the case, then I'd say the battle of the sex's is over and women won at board level. Sadly there isn't enough data to even touch upon that question, one day. Still I'd like to see boards made up of people who can do the job, nomatter there sex, preferences, colour or whatever. But I also understand the bias's and hurdles many face and in that I'm all for boards having women on them, I just hope it is done for the right reasons and not a case of we saw some old report and now need a token women to make our shares look good approach.

One last thought, those who are on boards, clearly are exceptional people as they have had to stand out above the many forms of descrimination that legacy has to offer. So is it becasue there women or just exceptional good at what they do and in that measuring things and putting a sex label on it is in many ways the kind of mentality that has limited many women getting to were they deserve.
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Google now has five boxes hooked up in living rooms of Google fans. They amplified the problem they should be solving. Seriously, a Logitech Google TV, a Nexus Q and 3 boxes for Google fiber.

Edit: They also managed a pointless keyboard with the boxes.
A 2d (versus 1d) layout is great for items that are meant to be browsed without order. It isn't an RSS feed or your inbox where you're supposed to diligently consume each piece before moving onto the next one in chronological order.

It's leisure information, not work.
> I know FB has to make a profit somehow

Facebook IS making a profit. A very nice profit in fact.

Facebook can easily be a profitable company with a $5B market cap. That'd still make it bigger than 99% of the start ups out there.

The problem is Facebook is trying to be the $100B company that they sold investors at IPO. They are not a $100B company. Not even close.
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I'm quoting a friend of mine who is a stock broker at wells fargo, "One of the main problems with facebook isn't just that it's not the most amazing company, I mean, it does alright. The problem with its IPO is that people aren't trading it like a normal company. In other words, yes, the stock price is falling, but it's got more to do with the 'cool' and 'fear' factor than any economic strength facebook has."

Maybe you agree or don't, but there is a lot of truth there.
"a flaw in dropbox's password policy / authentication system to access the information"

What flaw? It sounds like a Dropbox employee was simply reusing a password stolen on another site.
Funny that one of the first things I thought about when I heard that 600 million Indians were without power was ... what about all the outsourcers?
It makes Google look amateurish to announce a product with big fanfare and to cancel it later admitting that it does not do much... executive powerplays at work I guess...
It is terribly slow here in India. I agree, Gmail UI is pathetic. But it win solely because of its speed, almost anywhere.
It began with PHP - I'm not sure if it was ever rewritten. However, by "the end" they were scaling with cassandra, but mostly they were throwing more hardware and people at it. Note that this is from a hazy memory.
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I don't understand all the hate either. 900 million active Facebook users... it's safe to say that most people in the world love it. An average of 7 hours per month spent on the site - that's massive.
Where do you see anything about the Dropbox employee's email account being compromised?
So since you launched last week I'm guessing the testimonials are bunk?
"A stolen password was also used to access an employee Dropbox account containing a project document with user email addresses."

I see two ways to read this.

a) An employee happened to have a personal Dropbox account, and it was that personal account that was hacked, in exactly the same manner as the other accounts referenced. The employee probably used a different password on Dropbox's internal systems, and as a result there was no internal breach.

b) An employee account for an internal Dropbox system was hacked, and this internal account allowed the attacker to access the project file. In this scenario, even though Dropbox made no specific comments to this effect, we can assume that the attacker may have obtained access to Dropbox's internal networks, so who knows what they could have made off with.

It makes a huge amount of difference to me which of those two readings actually took place. In scenario (a), this all boils down to users (including one particular employee) using the same password on too many sites. In scenario (b), Dropbox could be hiding a much larger breach.
And the non sequitur goes to...
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"11 more to go" - I don't think so. Let us ignore the para-Olympics!

Also when you factor in that its an event held in the UK that finish's on the 12, I'd say there would be 12 more.

But its not important, its the taking part. Still in #NBCfail land they will be wondering who this new search engine called google is.
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I'm confused. Why would you get one of these instead of an Android TV?

My Android TV running ICS was only 135 $NZ and I got a wireless keyboard for 70 $NZ. Now my kids play Angry Birds Space and Justin Bieber videos on TV!
Reddit, Netflix, and Facebook all use Cassandra. I think Techcrunch may have A) misunderstood or B) been referring to archaic PHP code.

EDIT: Actually, it looks like TC has a history of believing Cassandra = Bad for digg.com: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/07/digg-struggles-vp-engineeri...
Yea, the biggest problem is whether FCC had the authority to impose these rules or does it have to go through Congress? And yea it is pretty much separate.
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Speaking as an ex-GPU driver guy, you're off by an order of magnitude about the number of engineers it takes to make a solid graphics driver. For a good GPU driver that makes smart choices about display, power management, OGLES, etc, you're looking at 30-40 people, not 4 to 5. Multiply that by every chipset for Android available (NVIDIA Tegra, ARM Mali, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Imagination PowerVR, Samsung Exynos assuming they build their own GPU eventually), and it's prohibitive to do that all within one company. It's also harder for Android than iOS because of the architectural diversity within the Android GPU market. Optimizing for a TBDR like PowerVR is different than optimizing for a standard renderer with a Z-buffer. iOS can make a bunch of assumptions that Android can't due to dependence on a single vendor.
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What's confusing? This is an article about them not releasing it for precisely that reason.
This has to be one of the most calculated trolls ever. Bravo 'the dark tipper' bravo.
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Have NBC (aka NoBloodyClue) made a official statement saying they retracted?

Also given this story: http://www.wetpaint.com/network/articles/justin-bieber-posts...

Then I'd have to ask - by what standards twitter operate on as his account is still active.

maybe if the internet went into uproar about it then sanity would prevail upon that one as well.

But glad to see Mr Adams restored for a crime he did not commit.
I am having trouble finding where in my post I said anything about using a service to saturation. Not that the cable TV analogy holds up.

If you are using an iOS device to download a 100MB game app over WiFi via AT&T DSL --that you pay for-- while, at the same time paying for a cellular data plan, AT&T is making making more money on you because their cellular data bandwidth is not being utilized by they still charge you.

I would venture to say that most iOS devices spend the bulk of their time within WiFi zones (AT&T or not). This means that a portion of what AT&T charges for cellular data is never actually used and that is pure profit for them.

As I said in my post: I don't know what the right solution is, but the current setup is starting to smell pretty bad.

If the above example doesn't do it for you, think about this. Twenty people working at a company. The company pays (maybe through AT&T) for Internet access and provides WiFi to all employees. Every single one of them has a personal iPhone. Every single one of them pays for a cellular data plan. And, while at work, every single one of them is using the WiFi access point for the bulk of the data traffic on their devices. AT&T is making a nice profit on data bandwidth they never have to deliver over the cellular network.

Later on, those same people go home and are likely to transfer data over their own (paid) DSL connection rather than use cellular data. Again, double charging by the telcos, if you will.

Once you do the math past a single iPhone the effect starts to become obvious very quickly.

Maybe what I am saying is that if I am paying AT&T for cellular data as well as DSL I should receive a credit on my cellular data plan for the data moved over DSL as opposed to the cell network. Again, I don't know the first thing about their business equation, so I'll be the first one to admit that this proposal could be beyond ridiculous for a hundred and one reasons.
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same for me...i'm using ff on linux, flash runs in a process called plugin-container. you can even kill it, which just kills the flash content in browser pages.
Not only cause and correlation but what's the cause?

Do companies with women on their board perform better, or do companies that perform better take women into their boards.

Do companies that have the mindset to take on less dept, have the mindset to encourage women to take board positions, or do companies with women in board positions get a mindset to take on less dept.

Do companies that perform better take on less dept or do companies that take on less dept perform better.

The article is inconclusive for me.

(I personally think women in director positions are a good thing because an all-men board obviously can't consist of the best people available)
Could you link to the TV? I'm curious.
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