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What don't you like about it? I find playing the new Mario game really fun, and Nintendo Land is a big hit as far as group gaming goes.

Other than the eShop problems (the DRM, the silly way to transfer games from the Wii) I really like the console.
This might be painful at the beginning but it could be a win-win situation in long term for most parties:

1. Google: can focus on customer service,
2. Google's share holders: more revenue,
3. Competitors: more competitive advantages,
4. Startups: time to disrupt,
5. Users: Email should be decentralized, why rely on a single provider is a good thing?
Ask HN: What's the best way to setup an email server on a VPS?
I have dozens of domains, that get around an email a day each, on which I currently use Google Apps.

I'd like to have a backup option in case Google does something again.

I'd prefer to use a Ubuntu distro, as I have some experience managing it, but I have NO idea on how to setup a server (I could get an answer using Google, but I want a good opinion, not install instructions, although pointers would be nice).
I wonder how much this is because Google is pulling some "hang on, didn't you guys used to be the 'don't be evil' company" shit like this: http://sfappeal.com/news/2012/12/google-adds-bizarre-require...

A community event organized by the city, with speakers from the local police department, "helpfully" hosted by Google, who then, without asking or even telling the organizers and promoters, append some self-serving bullshit attendance requirements:

"According to the RSVP page for the event, admission to the bicycle theft event is guaranteed only if community members include a link to their Google Plus Local profile with five or more reviews."

and:

'None of the San Francisco city officials who organized the event, it seems, knew about the marketing language Google inserted on the RSVP page.

"You know you try and do something good, you try and do something for the community and something like this happens," Officer Carlos Manfredi, an SFPD spokesperson told The Appeal in apparent frustration.'

The SFPD believed the workshop was open to members of the community, and everyone in the community was able to attend. "That's what the flyer said," Manfredi said."

Stay classy Google...
The IMEI is harder, but any one who can grap your phone can enter *#06# to get your IMEI. Also, it's available on the box of your device, and many apps store the IMEI to identify your device.
Doubt it, thats easily traceable if that were the case. More than likely its due to things like Google Play and Android devices outpacing iOS devices. Plus a little Facebook kickback sprinkled in due to recent privacy and advertising changes.
If Heroku can afford to support free users on it's PaaS, it surprises me that it isn't feasible for a giant like Google. I can't see this move doing anything to improve what is arguably an already unpopular service.
JavaScript for the Desktop [Vid from JS.everywhere Europe 2012]
Netflix CEO Hastings faces SEC action over Facebook post
With Steam Big Picture coming into play, and half decent PCs costing around $300 that can play most games, if I get a TV, I'll just buy a $350+ HTPC. It will work with all video formats at high bitrates, play blu-rays, work with ALL of the streaming video services in one box, search the internet quickly, play all of my personal media and play video games as good as any console. Steam is just a few steps away from being the console replacement app and shipping a branded steam box and the masses would have something that's relatively easy to use. For the kids that love minecraft and other indie games, it would be perfect.

It will also work easily as a NAS and a print server. It would replace about 3/4 different TV devices and cover all of the bases.
so will users who pay the $50/year still see ads on their inbox page?
It's also not called "let's complain about downvotes like a redditor."
These are meaningless numbers, for reasons already given in this thread, but Google+ is a good product. In fact, I remember in June 2011 how, after it launched, there was a lot of press about how great it was. That applause was well-earned, in my opinion. The engineers who built it did a very good job, and the problems that Google+ has faced have been strategic in nature.

On the other hand, Google+ needed, strategically, to get real use, and so far it hasn't been seeing much of that. Hangouts are useful, but the idea that people would use them as Google intended (as a "cool" emergent social behavior rather than something people would only do with people they know well) was hopeless without a context (such as a board game, a great tool for overcoming the initial social awkwardness that is common among interesting people) that could encourage the "hanging out". Without such a context squarely in the center, people won't use hangouts for more free-form purposes than "regular old" video chat. It's an admirable vision, though.

This is why, in my short time at Google, I was obsessed with raising the issue of game quality, even though I was nowhere near that team (there was zero G+ activity in New York). I realized that Games had the potential to be a critical battle for the product's ability to establish itself and get users comfortable with product. With social network fatigue in an advanced state ca. 2011, the only thing that could get people in a new general-purpose social network for long enough to get comfortable with the thing was high-quality games (not Zynga shit). Google blew it on that one, resulting in a missed opportunity that can be measured in the tens to hundreds of millions, and possibly billions.

Incidentally, most of my notoriety at Google (if people still know of me, and I honestly have no clue) comes from the fact that I raised the game quality issue and drew negative attention from powerful people (contrary to Google's professed "we welcome disagreement" ethos). It was that, and the fact that, when the shit hit the fan, I did some white-hat trolling and outed unethical management (eng-misc) instead of just taking it.
> Cola is a really hard flavor to nail.

Not at all. I brew my own cola at home using the OpenCola [1] recipe -- and speaking as a person who is very picky about colas, I find it delicious, easily on par with store-bought Coke -- which you could easily produce on a large scale.

The recipe is very close to the original Coca-Cola recipe; the Coca-Cola Company now presumably uses synthetic flavours in place of the various oils, which means the homebrew version actually tastes much more fresh and natural compared to store-bought Coke.

(I will admit Homebrew Coke lacks a little bit of the "bite" of Coca-Cola, which might come from the coca leaf.)

I use a SodaStream-style home carbonator, but it's not great. Store-bought soda water is much better.

[1] http://www.colawp.com/colas/400/cola467_recipe.html
I'd really like to know exactly how much time the average user spends on G+ per month in comparison to Facebook. The only reason I ever go on it is to see what Linus has posted.
I pop into Google+ occasionally, but I usually regret it. They always blast me with some "what's hot and popular" post by someone who I don't follow, and as often as not that post is just some fanboy bitching about how much iPhones suck and every time he is forced to use one for even a few seconds he has a sudden urge to physically vomit.

At my undergrad school we had some preacher who used to hang out at a certain spot in the middle of campus and yell at passing students to tell them what sinners they are. Google+'s "what's hot and popular" often feels like the Internet's version of that spot, except it's for those whose religion is based on smartphones.

I definitely agree about the interface. Google+ has a beautiful interface for viewing these types of posts. Facebook's interface seems to be a little too optimized for viewing George Takei posts for my taste.
FTP. AIM. These are equally if not more insecure for the same reasons. Not to mention that if you're on my network a "Whatapp" account is the least of my concerns.
That is a very Buddhist perspective. The thing that is interesting to note is that the historical buddha seemed to have lived a life of excess before he figured that out. One could argue that many people have to in order to appreciate that point of view.
Security budgets again expected to rise next year
The 2$ plan does not sync with anything. The 3$ plan only sync's mobile with webmail (big woop). For "real" business email you need rackspace exchange which is 10$ a month per user, this adds up very quickly with a lot of users.
Where the plane does just about everything automatically, but there's a human inside that basically 'thinks' and the vehicle does.

"...must think russian"
"MongoDB in particular is getting a (misguided IMHO) reputation as a drop-in replacement for MySQL."

I am so confused by this. Can you elaborate? Besides the word "database", what do those systems have in common? How is it a drop-in replacement?

The only reputation common to both is regarding data integrity, and it's not a good one.
and this compares with ludicrous speed how?
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Show HN: Flickoutr Fixes Flickr Photo Sharing
For a while now I've been pissed off with Flickr's own silent failing whenever it tries to auto-share my new image uploads to Facebook and doesn't have the smarts to take into account Facebook Graph uses OAuth2 and has an expiry on their access tokens. I also don't like the fact I had only one option (share all or none).

Flickoutr fixes all this. Built with the Flickr API it warns a user when they need to renew Facebook authentication for the app, and gives them a nice and simple url to click to do so. No fumbling about the Flickr help forum or Googling. It also allows Flickr users to share by tag or set.

And thanks to some good old fashioned feature creep, for Flickr Group admins it supports sharing to Facebook groups & pages too.
Introducing the Predictive Interface
I have no problem paying for a Google Apps account where I actually use Google apps, but at the moment you have to have a Google Apps account to link a domain to an Appengine app. Some of our apps have two or three domains showing the same app, and because you need to have an account for each email address that Appengine sends email from, we have three or four accounts (support, noreply, accounts per domain.

So this move is going to add $600 per year to our costs - all for virtual accounts that don't actually use Google Apps at all.

Hopefully this was unintended, and Google will continue to provide free accounts for domains linked to Appengine apps - or provide another mechanism for linking and authorising sending addresses.
For a while now I've been pissed off with Flickr's own silent failing whenever it tries to auto-share my new image uploads to Facebook and doesn't have the smarts to take into account Facebook Graph uses OAuth2 and has an expiry on their access tokens. I also don't like the fact I had only one option (share all or none).

Flickoutr fixes all this, or at least attempts to. Built with the Flickr API it warns a user when they need to renew Facebook authentication for the app, and gives them a nice and simple url to click to do so. No fumbling about the Flickr help forum or Googling. It also allows Flickr users to share by tag or set.

And thanks to some good old fashioned feature creep, for Flickr Group admins it supports sharing to Facebook groups & pages too.
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I've solo founded, founded w/ a partner but split when we raised external money (and losing 6 figures of my own cash in the process), and founded solo again. This week, I'm signing on to start up something new with 2 co-founders. Here's what I've observed:

- Having co-founders raises your odds of success AND the scale of your outcome (to replicate this, a solo founder would need to raise money quickly and hire up... staying solo too long limits your potential outcome)

- I believe having complementary co-founders will allow me to specialize and kick ass at what I'm best at (being solo meant doing a look of things sort of ok at, but not great)

- I haven't worked with these co-founders before, however, I think it's extraordinarily unlikely to expect to find 1-2 other people who you know really well AND are available AND skilled AND interested in the same space AND complementary. When you see an opportunity, you have to play the cards you have. In lieu of all of the above, the best approach is to work together and "run some cheap experiments" with nobody jumping in until you've decided if you can work together and there's some positive results.

- As a single founder, I felt like my skills were stagnating-- I hacked kludgy solutions to all manner of problems (tech and non-tech) because I wasn't learning from others' experience. Overall I felt extraordinarily out of touch, HN notwithstanding.

Bottom line, for me, the learning, specialization, and upside of having co-founders outweigh the control, ownership, and conflict avoidance of being a single founder.
What good is it to not let people know how much you make, how much is in your bank account or not wear a rolex in a ghetto? Tax evasion is not the only reason why you want your finances private.
There's similar patterns in north central Siberia (loaded with primary resources) and a couple of other places. There's a weird bloom affect on these spots that's not evident in populated parts of the map. You can even see the bloom effect on the north coast of Alaska, where I'd be extremely surprised that there's light of that level.

My guess is that they didn't quite finish the job off right and got lazy when manipulating these areas.
Thanks for sharing. This ought to come in handy.

I for one had no clue about such an offering.
Better pay those $300 and have your people and you 100% focus on your product, creating it, marketing it and selling it. Than dealing with spam rules or downtime servers.

That is why heroku exists right? Otherwise only linode or ec2 could make business. Now if you have free time (you shouldn't) then, it is a whole different story. I agree with you.
Fizz-Gizz looks great, but those dinky 16g cartridges can't hold many soda-bottle-equivalents of CO2? You get a single cartridge with the Fizz-Gizz, won't you have to refill it constantly?

For comparison, my home carbonator (AGA, not SodaStream, but same principle) has a huge 425g cartridge that yields about 60 liters of carbonated water.

In other words, it takes about 7g of CO2 to saturate a liter of water (probably more as these countertop machines aren't very effective at saturating the water), meaning 16g should give you barely in excess of 2 liters of carbonated water. That's more or less how much I consume in a day.
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This adds very little in the way of thoughtful, substantial conversation. Can you elaborate on exactly why you're disappointed? If it's for the same reason as the submission, do you have anything to expound on?
Mark Your Territory
Check into Foursquare by peeing in a location using the "Mark Your Territory" app.
Check into Foursquare by peeing in a location using the "Mark Your Territory" app.
Don't think I would like to have a startup with a friend... It could end up losing our friendship. It can't be good to mix business and friends.
> The expensive part would be if you were making your own motherboards and chips in the USA

Apple already sources the A5, A5X, & A6 chips from a Samsung factory in Austin, Texas.
I pay $4 per month for Exchange Online. I paid that even when Google Apps was free because it is vastly superior. When MS finally got their act together I couldn't wait to move my MX records off of Google's inferior service. Now that it's more expensive than the superior service, good luck Google.
I used them and although I do not agree with the things they have done as a company, it is extremely difficult to move all my domains, since I have been using them for years.

So, don't judge. I don't agree with them but at the same time I can't justify spending the amount of time and money it would take to move 40+ domains.
I have the premium account for 8 people. If we were 100, I may setup an in house exchange or similar. I may have 3 more guys maintaining the email, web and the rest of Internet related hard/soft.

For 8 I prefer $50 per year. Three more guys over 8 is ridiculous.
Create a start-up with:

3 way email sync (mobile/web/desktop) like exchange server (or other enterprise stuff)

A slick feature rich UI

Custom domains via MX

Solid spam filtering

There is nothing out there that does this for under 10$/month per user and I think there is a solid market for a better price point.
Google is now more expensive than Exchange Online which is superior in almost every way.
bitcoin cents? could you PM them me?
>>Bitcoins could replace gold.

umm. no. central banks hold gold as a reserve asset. all other reserve assets are liabilities of foreign govt's. eg: USG.
Central banks aren't about to replace the only unencumbered physical asset they have with a digital algorithm.

>> I see bitcoins as the storage of value, but not method of payment

I think you have it the wrong way around. Bitcoin could be a medium of exchange but not a store of value. It's too small isn't liquid enough to be credible as a SOV. If it got big enough to do so then govt would crush it.
From the post:

> Please note this change has no impact on our existing customers, including those using the free version.
Эволюция Борна / The Bourne Legacy - (2012) - BDRip / HDRip
100% uptime SLA? Really?
Not to hijack this thread, but I've asked a question [1] about how to setup an email server on a VPS, if anyone could help me(us?) out.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4885281
Start migrating your circles to a gmail account :)
Google isn't discontinuing its free service to existing users, they're just no longer offering a free level for new sign ups.
My opinion, backed by about ten years of experience, is that there is no good way. There are plenty of instructions about how to set up an ISP mail server for 1,000+ users with MySQL out the wazoo, but I found no good howtos for a handful of users. I could never get spam filtering to work right no matter what I tried. I am now using fastmail.
Is Maven too complicated for you or something?

Those are just the latest version of the various libs.
G+ has 135 million "stream active" users. Those are people who really meant to go to plus.google.com, not click something in Gmail.
Commenting a little late, but I just got around to reading this. One question, if anyone is still reading:

How is looking at distance between derivation trees any more useful than just looking at distance between whatever ASTs the coffeescript parser makes? In other words, why involve operational semantics if you can just talk about the trees produced by a BNF grammar for your language?
I think most people would consider that cheating... You're hardly running your own email server, and still using Google.

I actually miss running my own email domain, the privacy of it, not the actual administration. I stopped when I had gotten so crazy with aliases and disposable addresses that the spam overwhelmed me. Wasn't worth the time to 'do it right,' and I gave up my privacy for the simplicity of GMail.

I would love to leave GMail and take my privacy back, but I haven't found an acceptable alternative yet.
The important part of Google Apps is the GMail interface, not the SMTP service. SMTP hosting is easy to come by; most hosting services include it with their web hosting packages.
Bitcoin is slow - the accepted "confirmation" for a payment is 6 confirmations - best case (a tx just before a block is formed and it's included in the block) it'll take an hour. Worst case it's a couple of hours.

If you're sane and keep backups then your wallet is safe..
Your HD crashes and you don't have backup.. bye bye funds.

Bitcoin in many ways is equiv to cash - just electronic - it's an anon as cash is, as mutable as cash and prone to loss if you don't take care of it.

I like it - as a concept it has some nice attributes.
Zynga seeks gambling licence from Nevada
If you already signed up, you continue to get free service. There's no warning necessary because there are no changes for existing customers.
You're going to need a hosting provider to host your website anyway; mail service is probably included. How is that awful?
Youtube Cleans Up - Holo Style
Ruby on Rails, Why should I learn this?
Well, at least we'll know where to send the tickets.
Privacy is privacy - you don't know how important it is until you don't have it.

The main payment processors operate a mafia of sorts - it's a closed shop - tx fees are fixed and determined by them. One aspect of bitcoin is that is allows the person sending a payment & the person processing that payment (the mining pools) to negotiate the price.
The theory being that transactions with a better tx fee will be included in blocks quicker than those that don't.

By freeing up these aspects of the systems we use to send & receive payment - you allow other forces to come into play.
I still have at least one domain with Godaddy. I can't afford to move it. Other domains happened to get moved earlier this year, kind of by happenstance, not due to me taking a stand on the issue (though my impression is the individual who handled the move feels somewhat strongly on the issue). I have trouble getting my ire up over it, even with the elephant incident and whatever else I have heard. I imagine you wouldn't appreciate my reasons for that. And I am not really a hacker, just someone with a few websites. So perhaps you don't really care what I do.

Which is to say I kind of dislike Godaddy, and I expect to eventually move away from them, but, for a number of reasons, it isn't worth it to me to make a big stand on the issue or judge others for using them.
2011-07-20: Announces Google Labs will be shutdown
2012-07-03: iGoogle will be "retired" on 2012-11-01
2012-12-06: Google Apps no longer free

I'm not liking the direction they're going as I use all of the above frequently (including signing up new domains for GApps regularly). It always comes down to money at the end of the day.
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It's a little slippery IRL - blocks in bitcoin are mined and the mined blocks are representations of value - at least within the blockchain itself. You could argue that the blockchain itself does represent value. The value of the mined blocks now is 25btc since the reward was halved.

Blocks can't be made outside the process of mining and any btc you hold come from a block that's been mined.

How that's represented in fiat is another problem :)
The source code for the script for infected drones is at Github, it should be easy to identify a hacked drone -

function () { up(Math.random() * 2 - 1) },
function () { left(Math.random() * 2 - 1) },
function () { turn(Math.random() * 2 - 1) },

A scary thought would be U.S military drones ever getting infected by terrorists, and the source code goes -

function firePredatorMissile(coordinates)
{
...
}

firePredatorMissile(computedLargestCivilianCluster.coordinates)

And if you combine this with the fact that it can hack nearby drones and control them as well..
Are there any big real world examples of this?
Although this wasn't a proper war game, it tangentially reminds me of Colonel Van Riper's pesky 'enemies' defeating the hometeam via peskiness and outsmarting the technological advantage of the home team. In one scenario, the Van Riper's team 'sunk' a flotilla but the warroomers 'refloated' them, just because.[1]

"For instance—and here is where he displayed prescience—Van Riper used motorcycle messengers to transmit orders to Red troops, thereby eluding Blue's super-sophisticated eavesdropping technology. He maneuvered Red forces constantly. At one point in the game, when Blue's fleet entered the Persian Gulf, he sank some of the ships with suicide-bombers in speed boats. (At that point, the managers stopped the game, "refloated" the Blue fleet, and resumed play.)"

[1]http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...