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And you just agreed with me without realizing it, because we're talking past each other. The term "web application" doesn't refer to a technology, but rather a means of access. I never asked "why does this product use HTTP/HTML/CSS", or "why is this product accessible over the network", or anything like that—those are technical questions, and have technical answers. The question I asked was "why is this a web application—meaning, why should this be accessed through a web browser?"

Web browsers imply a certain social cognitive model. Prism, and Fluid as well, as you pointed out, are programs written to shift the user's mental image of how the application works, from the social, public, status-seeking "web application" mindset, to the local, safe, tinkering-around "desktop application" one. The fact that these programs exist is a testament to the fact that how a user accesses your application matters to them.

Remember, Prism/Fluid apps are still "somebody else's problem"—that's what makes them so great, compared to regular desktop apps. So the question is, why did the developer choose the web mindset, rather than the desktop mindset, when options (Fluid, Prism) are available that nullify the disadvantages of the desktop mindset?
The second video on that page has more detail on the platform and what we might see from Cannondale in the future. I love seeing the effect that miniaturization has on traditionally analogue industries. The system demonstrated here employs an lcd display, processor chip, electro-mechanical dampener and fast response accelerometer, all talking over a usb bus. I'm sure I'm missing something but that's a hell of a lot of tech to put in a front suspension fork weighing in at 4.5lbs.
Working together does not automatically imply a lack of competition.
He didn't say you were just stupid, or that you were wasting your money. He said fair trade was evil. That means it's not so easy as saying "if you don't like it, don't buy it." Ignoring evil is not good, even if other people are doing the evil. "If you don't like murder, don't murder people" won't stop other people from committing murders. You're free to have your own opinion on whether fair trade actually is evil, but please address his point rather than ignoring it.
I can see how squeezing a whole apple into a tablet is quite impressive, but I'm not sure that keeping the doctor away is in the healthcare industry's best interests.
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I refer to the butterfly effect
This is a common practice for corporations, where you need to keep the meeting minutes as part of legal requirements of being a corp (c or s). You (as a Secretary of the corporation) can do it yourself or you can let them do it for you for free. Most people would choose latter.
Interesting read, thanks for sharing. While the context of this info is in improv acting, do you find the same status transformations applying to day-to-day life?

Has anyone used "status transformations" to their advantage in a real-world transaction? (haggling over the price of a car, for example). Personally, I don't think I could really alter my innate behaviour to achieve any sort of social advantage, but in the end this sort of information was useful for me to reflect on my interactions with others in my life.
Weird: I see a lot of complaining about - and outright accusations toward - Google on HN. Every ad-scammer's complaint about Google not directing half the internet to look at eir site (much less booting them off of AdSense) gets taken remarkably seriously and sympathetically here. Every conspiracy theory gets lot of attention.
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I have seen very little discussion of the business rationale for this, which is clear: Facebook wants all of its user-generated content to be searchable, which would VASTLY increase the amount and price of the display advertising which they sell.
Of course. Kazakhstan is not a third-world country. It's a former Soviet republic, an oiled country, and basically a Russian satellite.
I'm not saying you're incorrect, but how do you know that incidence of skin cancer has gone up, rather than more skin cancers being detected instead of going unnoticed?
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I'm starting a new age of privacy by deleting my Facebook account. Bite me Zuckerberg.
Not sure if he feels the same concerning his life, what he eats, his house, his family his movements, his board decisions, his illnesses.
And before someone else starts it, no not-hacker news discussion in my submission. Anything from the New Yorker is basically automatically on topic because of its intellectual weight.
Yes, it seems like some companies have a culture of emergency and heroism in a self-reinforcing loop.

It is terrifying to watch an imagined emergency be solved in such a way as to cause a proper emergency.
I wonder if it's possible to have some sort of controlled de-normalization. Like, the ability to create a read-only column whose values mimic that of a column in some other table. A "view column" if you will.

I would definitely opt for that as a "real-world" practice.
I'd say that greatest data structure in all languages is PHP array().

It's actually an ordered dictionary with default implicit natural number keys. Efficient enough to represent concepts such as arrays, sets, queues, stacks, trees, graphs without bothering with hashtables, linked lists, reallocations and other underlying data structures tailored for specific purpose.
I doubt he has spent as much time on his nutrition as he has blogging about the "calorie-torching treadmill" that he needs "to stay healthy".
Something without lactose...
Haha, all the fourteen year olds doing silly things unite! Indeed, I was 14 too when I was going after them. It was one of the first bots that I wrote in VB. Making the mouse move to simulate a real click automatically was tonnes of fun:)

I also wrote a NetZero ad remover. Of course, every other kid on the block was writing one too. Then there was allAdvantage. And the list goes on.
I guess with sites like tweet-poop, saying privacy is over is not completely out of the blue but still...the founding principal that got people hooked to FB in the first place was they trusted it to keep their information secure.

This statement and the latest corporate actions is a complete slap in the face to all original users.
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Difficult but not impossible. Amazingly enough, not everything affordable made in misery. LEGO kits for example are mostly made in Europe. Every once in a while you can see inexpensive toys made in Sweden, shirts made in Egypt, platic containers made in Germany, furniture made in Canada, hammers made in Russia, just look at the stickers.

The problem is in my view is not that countries are dictatorships, the problems are:
1. Outsourcing everything to one country creates unhealthy dependence of recipient economy on manufacturer. Well you may say - China depends on USA as much as USA on China - and that will be false - you forgot about a big economy - European Union/Canada. Asymmetry is obvious.
2. Nothing bad in outsourcing some amount of production to poor countries - good way to help them in fact. But if you overstretch then will destroy wellbeing of the citizens of your country, forcing them out of job, and, because poor countries has poor environmental regulations, poison environment of the producer.
Author assumes that his friend didn't realize that he is at loss with the case which is unlikely.

There are people who prefer to punish others that in their opinion misbehaved event at their own expense.

Pleasure from punishing misbehaving one is greater for these people than loss that was necessary to deliver punishment.

Money is no less virtual than pleasure from single person point of view.
I don't think people ever really expected FB to keep their information totally secure. I still remember the college days when I logged into school.facebook.com. The implicit understanding back then was that only your h.s. and college fwenz could see your shit, because the only way to get onto FB was to use your .edu email addy.

It was a Faustian bargain. In exchange for being able to see when your friends broke up, they could see your status as well. We were all hooked, because as it turns out, teenagers and college kiddies like to gossip about each other. FB made it progressively easier to stalk your friends, and each time people would complain (I think the news feed was Rubicon), but the more they put on, the more people would bite.

Fast forward to today, and now your mother, your boss, that goddamn cousin of yours, they can all see everything about you. Unless you use those privacy controls. This is a bit different from the carefree gossiping amongst kiddies thing. It just doesn't really feel like the old days anymore.
Or just get something bigger and proceed to resize or crop.
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Everyone's bitching and moaning about a quote of Eric Schmidt's that was taken out of context... when it was Zuck that we should've worried about.
Of course, that is always an option.
Presenting is such an important skill. I can't sleep, so here are some thoughts on how to become a solid public speaker if you don't get to attend TechStars or YC.

Qualifications: I usually have people tell me I'm a natural at speaking after I give a talk on something. When I was in high school, I took an argument class and later a public speaking class. During half of my presentations I'd become so flustered I'd tell the teacher I couldn't keep going and I'd sit down. I wanted to be good, but yes--I was that bad.

As with all things that we suck at, it helps to get it handled. The key to becoming great at presenting is to do a lot of it. In college I took every communications course I could find--this helped. I also joined a local Toastmasters group. This was really helpful. Toastmasters exists to help you become a better leader and communicator. This group cured me of "umms" and "ahhs" during speaking (they would drop a marble into a pan every time it happened).

In ROTC we learned the military way of giving briefings. No it has nothing to do with powerpoint (contrary to popular belief). We learned to change tonality, step away from the safe lectern, and to use a certain format for our talks. The format basically stated: tell the audience what you're going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them. I recommend reading a short book on public speaking for some theoretical information to get the same background.

In summary, you can get better at public speaking. Practice is the key. Join toastmasters for a good opportunity. Read a book and try out some of the tricks you're reading about there. When you're ready--go to meetup.com and find some groups to give a talk to. You'll be a dynamite speaker in no time.
The only reason I used facebook was because it was clean and closed. I think somebody's just jealous of Twitter.

Also notice I said was. it's getting progressively less clean and closed.
And a data point of one user is a trend?

I have seven different computers (x86_64, i686, ppc) and I don't have to install any drivers.

What does that tell us? Just as much nothing. The fact is that Linux supports more hardware (as of about 2007) than any other OS. Feel free to Google it yourself.

And when you say Linux, what distribution? I use Fedora 12 at the moment (the on-screen text is beautiful); there are over 300 active distributions.

Keep in mind that a Windows or Mac is pre-installed, with the drivers for the specific hardware. If Linux were pre-installed, why would you expect otherwise? Have you ever seen an end-user try to install a retail copy of Windows (missing drivers)? There's a reason people pay Geek Squad $150 for a Windows re-install.
CEO makes statement whose widespread acceptance would see his company's product embraced a hundredfold more while outright dispelling the most common concerns about it.

News at 11.
No one uses these because they destroy the machine, and they have too many false alarms. Especially a nail in the wood.

They need a device with zero cost for a false alarm.
I will say that I scooped this one a bit ago here on HN...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1023782
You are very fortunate to like fish so much - you can pretty much eat as much as you want (sensibly cooked) and it can only be good for you (I really don't like fish). My only superpower in food is loving beans/legumes (I could live off them - which is both cheap and nutritious). Well at least in my country there is no lack of vitamin D unless you live and work in a lead screened bunker and never have to go outside (Australia).
I ran linux on desktop for close to a decade.
Things I've learned from it are invaluable to me.

I came from windows where I learned all that user can learn about it, which was not much.

I switched to linux for anything else than gaming and Visual Studio jobs and lived (more or less) happily ever after.

When I first touched mac two years ago I was angry about the UI that was completely counterintuitive for me. When I found console things brightened up. I thought "Hey! It's linux inside, only packaged as annoying toy." I could even set up nat when I needed it. It was only a bit more complicated than in linux. I haven't found any killer apps. When it died on me recently I wasn't really shaken. I just felt bitter about the money.

Few things to outline my perspective. I'm a programmer, I don't like paying for hardware more than its worth. I don't like paying for software.
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Facebook is essentially free (except for advertising). The exposure of information is the price of admission. If these were physical assets, you might have to pay someone $3 for a padlock to feel more secure; but has anyone paid Facebook even $3 to use the site? No? And they feel entitled to gripe about all the things Facebook isn't doing for them?

We live in an age where information can be sent anywhere, instantly, with high fidelity. It is impossible to "secure" information if someone sees what you're doing, you don't notice them, and they decide to take a picture with their cell phone, send a text message, or otherwise tell the world what you're up to.

Maybe it's "easier" to blame someone like Facebook, but the reality is that no one takes personal responsibility. If you can't handle the whole world knowing what you did, then maybe you shouldn't be doing it; these days, that's about the best defense you have.
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Which has what to do with the out of context quote?

I've seen this fifty times now:

"Google says no one can have privacy!"
"No, that's not what he said. He said not to use public things if you want to remain private."
"Well then Google shouldn't retain user information!"
"OK, but what does that have to do with you making misleading comments about what he said?"
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But this has always been Zuck's position. He hasn't always focused on saying it in public, but he's always had little patience for people wanting privacy in social networks.
Scott McNealy said it in 1999. And his advice applies today as it did then: get over it.
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This is pointless

Here's the thing about Gay Marriage. It's essentially a state issue (and hence not in the purview of the Supreme Court). There are only two points on which it could be challenged at a National level and those are the Equal Protection Clause (that states all citizens must be treated equally) and the Full Faith and Credit Clause (which states all states must recognize judicial decrees made by other states)

But California (unlike many other states) legally specifies, in explicit language, that Civil Unions must be given all the rights and privileges of Marriages. Hence the state violates neither of the Constitutionally viable arguments.

So if you REALLY wanted to mount a legit challenge to Gay Marriage bans you'd do it in a state that doesn't have Civil Unions or doesn't guarantee them equal rights.
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And after you've started it, yes, this submission is off-topic. You may be surprised but there exist people who are not overwhelmed by the intellectual weight of The New Yorker.

Also, there are people who have strong views about gay marriage, not necessarily aligned with yours or The New Yorker's. Just imagine what would happen if these people started forcefully expressing and defending their views on this thread?
Anyone who expects any kind of privacy after uploading something to a site like Facebook is totally crazy.

If you are concerned about privacy, run your own servers, use encryption, and manage things yourself. The moment you transfer control to a third party you lose any reasonable expectation of privacy.

Facebook is a sharing platform. It's not meant to keep things private or quiet. Those who upload pictures or info to Facebook, HotOrNot, 4chan, or anything else and expects them to just fade away or be ignored is highly misinformed.

The internet is a public place. You only put things on the internet if you want to share them. If you have something private, you have to make lots and lots of extra precautions and can't just count on Facebook to keep it locked up safe for you forever.

Almost by definition security costs convenience and effort. There's no way around it.
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Even then, those privacy controls are flawed. http://gawker.com/5428155/the-facebook-privacy-settings-youv... has a good summary.
Also with thinner ozone layer it is not much of a surprise we see more skin cancer
> Also, if we already know life existed on Mars before, the ideological breakthrough would have been made. Finding current life on Mars would still be interesting, but only scientifically, not in the social and ideological way

I sort of agree, except that when it's "only" bacterium-level organisms, I think the social impact is still going to be minimal. If a Mars-trilobyte-equivalent fossil (or fish or velociraptor) was discovered, people/religions would freak out. But, I think the layman doesn't really consider bacteria to be life anyway (or maybe it's just that fossils of bacteria aren't too compelling).

On the other hand, I think it's freakin' awesome. I don't think the timing works, but wouldn't it be great if we turn out to be Martians? :)
Unlike the conversations in question, engineers have something to back their status - proficiency, domain expertise. It's one thing to establish the expert in the room, and totally different to see who will be able to project the hardest empty shell of self-confidence around himself.
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I think most reasonable people would question your claim that you lose any reasonable expectation of privacy just because you shared something with your friends. I view Facebook as an easier way to communicate with my friends than by cc'ing them on emails.

Do you think the expectation that email be reasonably private is unreasonable? What about physical letters? What's the difference between the above and Facebook?

As the linked article said, Facebook for long has claimed their better "reasonable" privacy controls as a strength.
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HN's s3graham says The Age of Facebook is Over.

Wishfully.
What we should always keep in mind when bosses of ad funded services speak about what users want is that these users are not their customers.

Users are just an indirect means to make advertisers happy, and that indirection is a complex thing. If Facebook can make advertisers happy by hurting users without losing them they will.

Facebook has a history of deception. Nobody should be surprised to hear the kind of disingenuous nonsense coming from Mr. Zuckerberg.
Interesting point.

And conversely maybe they emphasized privacy earlier only to discourage public indexing so that they could be the toll-keepers and charge a premium for their data.
Is it just me, or does that desk look really bad for your wrists? I can't imagine that it can be good for you to type with your wrists bent back at an angle like that.
"Just imagine what would happen if these people started forcefully expressing and defending their views on this thread?"

The best way to avoid this fate is to flag such articles into oblivion.

"Anything from the New Yorker is basically automatically on topic because of its intellectual weight."

That's the stupidest rationale for a submission I've ever read on HN. What is "on topic" for an HN submission has nothing to do with who wrote it. And no one has automatic "intellectual weight" for anything they write.

The fact that you have to make such a logic free statement indicates that you know you are trolling/ karma whoring.

I guess it is fine to occasionally test the strength of HN's immune system.
Another negative aspect of a team relying on The Hero is the "knowledge black-hole" effect. The Hero writes a lot of code, often poorly documented, and builds these fragile cathedrals in his mind. Then suddenly he leaves the company/gets sick/etc. and the undocumented, full of scary TODO/FIXME codebase stays behind. The rest of the team is afraid of touching it and the cathedral eventually crashes.
I think Smalltalk was self compiling?
There's a bit of irony in the CEO of an advertising company complaining that people overspent their means. A man who profited from promoting consumption thinks there was too much consumption.
If something's that irrelevant and annoying, then you have other options:

* just unsubscribe.

* give them feedback on the sorts of things that you would find interesting. Most small businesses would kill for that sort of feedback, and done properly (ie. not an annoying techy asshat) it can really build relationships.

* file the email away somewhere. I've had email newsletters come in handy months down the track, when they seemed irritating

* filter the people who you give your card to. If they seem like an idiot (what's a non-tech related lawyer doing at a tech meetup?), don't give them your card.

Typically you can't control what other people do - like Mr. Annoying Lawyer - so getting annoyed, or writing blog posts like this is unproductive. Changing things which are under your control is much more satisfying and less stressful.
It's interesting to notice that the page comes from a wiki about improvisational theater. Those are tips for a comedian or someone who acts on some sort of stage. I guess that's the reason they can so easily applied to everyday life.
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The elite in this case, which have been humanist intellectuals, have long advocated for prison reform, and tend to favor phasing out prison terms for non-violent offenders, so saying that they've finally come to their senses isn't accurate: they've been banging this drum since the enlightenment. We are discussing this now because States can no longer afford their prison-industrial-complexes as they are overflowing with non-violent offenders (most people in prison atm are NVOs).

It's the intellectually lazy, "Common-sense", Joe-Sixpack politics of 3-strikes laws that got us into this mess. "Lock criminals up and throw away the key, I say!" is what we've been hearing from our politicians, and the electorate has been more than willing to reward those "tough on crime" with votes and money.
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Well since it's on HN, let me ask a question:

Since this kind of panorama video is shot by 4 cam in 4 directions, and rendered inside a sphere in Flash, so users can drag to different directions from a single POV.

It's like doing panoramic inversely, is it possible, that we shot it from outside a sphere, and the user drag the video to see the changing process of a single 3D object from different aspects?
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