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markupon HN: share your unneeded Google Wave invites

As far as I know people won't be able to invite others, so there is no invite to share. You'll only be able to recommend (8) friends, and they will have priority on the others.

BTW: I am in the developer preview but I haven't received the invite for the real thing. I asked to the others in the sandbox but it doesn't look like there's any invite being received so far.

markupon Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

The duplicate detection should be improved, I have posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830030 and it ended up being a duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=828992 (the only difference is my entry pointed to the www cname)

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Follow up by the NYT available at: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/google-plans-tools-...

PS: can anyone please edit the URL and remove the '#' at the end? It's caused by the FriendFeed bookmarklet and may lead to duplicate entries.

markupon GAE XMPP app tutorial (GAE added XMPP support today)

Also see: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/09/app-engine-sdk-1...

markupon The Value of Information (how can News be Monetized?)

There is some kind of "second part" to this article, published today: http://informationarchitects.jp/pronto/

markupon Call for a Better Web

I can't really imagine a better peer review other than hacker news to be honest. However I wish I'd got a more replies when I tried to get skilled people to read this (expecially from the english mothertongue), but that didn't happen.

markupon Call for a Better Web

You say the internet is broken because authentication is a pain? You say there should be just one social network?

I didn't say the Internet is broken because authentication is a pain. I said the Web has been created to deal (and access) hypertexts. Nowadays the WWW is used for much more. People use it to shop, keep contacts with friends living far away, some use it to share their "lives" and the current state of art is far from being functional to the scope. To my personal point of view, it is broken by design when it comes to these scopes. And far from me trying to say there should be just a social network.

The gateway I idealize is not a giant bucket (or a silo) you'd fill with your stuff, that's exactly what I want to avoid. The "gateway" would just be a place you use to authenticate and authorize apps to access subsets of your data. Some of it (anagraphical data for the most part) would be stored on the gateway, and other stuff would be in much more appropiate places. Flickr, Twitter, Blogger, Facebook, et cetera. The model I idealize would be a common layer to build thing on, nothing more and nothing less.

markupon Call for a Better Web

No need to apology, I did read that premise the way you explained it right now -- might have been naive now that I think about it. ;-)

markupon Call for a Better Web

Yeah, that's more or less what I'd like it to work, but I think using phones or other devices that may get offline would be unworkable (at least in the present). You could, however, act as your own gateway just like you can do with OpenID right now

markupon Call for a Better Web

Sorry about that

markupon Call for a Better Web

Normal people don't care about a lot of stuff, but this doesn't stop research and development. The world would be a really boring place if we had to think solutions targeted at the "average Joe". I do care about this and if someone offered me a solution for these issues I'd buy it right away.

In regards to 2., you are right but today the same risk is multiplied on dozens of websites that I know basically nothing about. I don't know how they store and backup my stuff and I don't know how they deal it.

As per 4. OpenID and OAuth DO work (I use them a lot), what I tried to say is that they do not solve the underlying issue.

markupon Call for a Better Web

Thank you for your suggestions, they do make sense. The only thing is that this is not a proposal, it's simply an article (but still, you are right)

markupon MSNBC.com acquires EveryBlock

Also at http://www.holovaty.com/writing/everyblock-acquisition/ with some more personal details from Adrian

markupon Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Real World Django

URL?

markupon By comparing social graphs, researchers can identify users from anonymous data.

I posted your paper yesterday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=534399), no one seemed to bother... I am guessing bbc is sexier or something.

I really enjoyed it

markupon Ask PG: Unique visitors by country

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

markupon Someone was asking for pics of pizza vending machine a couple of weeks ago. Here's two.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23819997@N03/3297250362/

markupon Ask HN: What to do after selling startup?

If the amount of money were adeguate, I'd probably try and help other startup founders.

markupon Ask HN: Do you know this business angel?

Yup, pretty much the info I managed to find on my own. The thing is interesting (being in the EU and all), and I e-mailed him to get some more detail (waiting for a reply) -- I posted it to share and because I wanted to see if anyone in the field knew him more or less directly

Thanks for your reply!

markupon Donate your intellectual property in case of death

May I suggest you to change "IP" in the title to "Intellectual Property"? It is a nice initiative, but the title is a bit cryptic and may get ignored

markupon Ask HN: What Visa for a UK team to come to YC?

I'm obviously unfamiliar with US job dynamics, but a YC applicant team, if funded, would not arrive in the US "looking for a job"... they would have it (YC helps with paperwors for incorporating after all, doesn't it?)

I'm a EU resident as well, and I'm tyring to apply for this round.

markupon Dino Dai Zovi on Mac OS X Eploitation [pdf]

I wonder why most of the real "hacking material" links I came across here on HN tend to be ignored -- earlier today (or late night if you are in the US) there was a post about a severe vulnerability discovered in Intel CPU and got no more than 6 points or so.

Has anyone else noticed it?

markupon Proof-of-concept exploit: Intel CPU cache poisoning

Bug has been reported by Intel's own employees and by researches since 2006, it seems.

Paper here: http://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/misc09/smm_cache_fun... Code here: http://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/misc09/o68-2.tgz

markupon Super last minute advice for startups applying for Y Combinator

This useful article comes from Garry Tan, cofounder @ Posterous.

markupon New Vaginal Gel Prevents AIDS Virus Transmission

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV#Origin

markupon Google Takes a Stand for Location Privacy, Along with Loopt

Excerpt: "Like Loopt, Google’s Latitude doesn’t (currently) keep a historic log of its users’ locations; both companies overwrite the old data each time you report a new location. We think that’s the right move privacy-wise, and hope that between Loopt and Latitude, the we-don’t-keep-historic-logs policy will become the industry standard in the friend-finding space."

They also ask: "what would Google’s legal position be when a law enforcement agency tried to make it start logging a Latitude users’ location as part of an investigation?"

I found the piece interesting.

markupon Marissa Mayer on the design behind Google

At about 15:40 she talks about the issue that was discussed a few (couple?) weeks ago regarding the test about the number of search results, subsequent increased page load time that made people unhappy.

Fascinating talk and video. Thank you very much for sharing it.

markupon Ask HN: What's your homepage?

Yup I actually love it. It's clean, simple and fast. But somehow I just tend to use the browser's builtin search thingie. I've never been a "homepage" kind of person, I guess :-)

markupon Ask HN: What's your homepage?

My homepage is set to http://keyboardr.com/, but I rarely hit the button to go there; my browser starts with a blank page

markupon Amazon Exposes 1 Terabyte of Public Data (meet AWS Public Data Sets)

AWS link: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/