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I'm a faviconist claiming that every site needs a favicon.

Very nice and simple idea, I've been working with some similar stuff and believe there's a bunch of work to do with what people say. Given that it's free what people say on Twitter, etc, I'd say thinkers should start finding interesting stuff there, even on the most simple 140 characters.

Also, since it's your first app: good work!
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Nice post. I agree with the sentiment, but I'm afraid that it's not really possible to "fight" with everything you read (mostly due to time constraints).
I couldn't agree more with the "explain stuff" bit. I have found deep gaps in my knowledge while explaining stuff to others (or found new angles to attack a problem, etc). It's almost as much about teaching others as it's about learning.
Nonsense. I use Google Buzz on an Iphone. It asks permission to use your location when you are writing a new buzz, shows the location info that will be attached clearly, which you can opt out of easily (click the X). Also, there is a big public/private button at the bottom of the screen. If you select 'private' you can select exactly the people who will view the buzz.
"Dumbly applying the nearest pop-psych explanation..."

If describing this tragedy as "someone going postal" isn't dumbly applying pop-psych, then I don't know what is.
Do you do this with the twitter API?
The separation between assembly language and instruction set architecture (ISA) isn't really as well defined as you present it. For example, if you attempt to execute the VMLAUNCH instruction in GAS on anything but a very specific IA-32(e) architecture subset, it will not work. In this sense it is perfectly valid to refer to an "x86 assembly language." This language is highly dependent on the presented ISA, but the line of separation is not clear.

PS: My advice for learning the IA-32(e) ISA is to read the Intel Developers manuals. http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/
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The HTTP spec includes the Basic and Digest methods of auth.
+1 for New Relic

I wouldn't consider building a production Rails app without it.
Increasing your status at work is seductive and easy, but temporary. Increasing your status in society at large requires investment of time and/or money in your local community, open source or building a community on-line.

Spending less time at work makes it possible to do all these things and it is something that I would very much like to do.

Of course, since I am working 60-70 hour work weeks, perhaps doing other stuff is just seductive to me right now.
From the article: "I would love to visit the United States."

If people like him wanted so hard to travel to my country, I'd already be rallying my government to give those people a damn grant. Time for the USA to reconsider whether the TSA's "security" pays.
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Aren't you tired of one lame Internet marketing system being pushed on you? How do you know if it really works? How about a free Internet marketing program?
Ignorant Silicon Valley judges
link: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/13/what’s-better-saving-the-world-or-building-another-facebook-app/

I always thought silicon valley is full of intelligent and open-minded people(just look at HN). But I am really SHOCKED by the IGNORANCE of the judges for Berkeley 2010 Hackathon.

One of the judges Vivek Wadhwa from TechCrunch revealed that
"One commented,If the villager has a cell-phone, why doesn’t he just call 911? This is really dumb. (Most of the judges didn’t understand that 911 services don’t exist in most places in the world, and that SMSs have become the internet of the developing world)"

Isn't this appalling? Did this judge never travel outside of US? What happened to all the other judges besides Vivek Wadhwa? They are supposed to be judging for an app for "social good" and they don't even have a tiny clue about what is going on in developing countries. Coming from a third world country, I understand how important and valuable it is for the presence of a system that enable villagers in developing countries to send SMSs to volunteers across the globe who provide emergency medical advice.

Here is the list of judges besides Vivek Wadwa:

Cadir Lee | CTO, Zynga

Scott Dale | VP of Engineering, Zynga

Trevor Blackwell | Partner, Y Combinator

Paul Twohey | Berkeley/CSUA Alum, CTO, Trumpet Technologies

Dave Fetterman | Facebook

Brian Harvey | UC Berkeley

To the judges listed above, Here is some common sense knowledge (in case you have never been to a developing country)

If a messed-up country can provide GOOD and EFFICIENT emergency medical advice and service to its tens of millions of poor citizens, chances are that they would have been recognized as a developed country already.

(I hope this post is not downvoted because the list of judges includes a YC partner)
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The cheapest bandwidth most can buy is about 2-3$ per mb/s in the US. Likely to be more expensive in europe.

That would mean each gigabit would cost between 2k-3k USD.
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What motherboard and chipset do you have? My brother began experiencing similar random hang-ups when he added a second hard drive to his C2D E8400 system running Vista.
Quick, someone apply this format to dating!
Note-taking software has continued to fail me by not including LaTeX support. I will not be taking notes without being able to format math. This affects Evernote and OneNote equally.
Just a side note, my friend Andy McKay did a gig in Kenya building a Django/SMS system that helped fight malnutrition.

http://djangozen.com/blog/11-days-in-kenya

http://blip.tv/file/3041374
The trite answer is to_json. The more substantial answer is to use a Javascript generator like RJS.
Depending on your distribution it may not be installed automatically with gcc. The package you need is called libmudflap0-4.4-dev in Ubuntu 9.10.
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Kennel Cough, Dog Flu, Canine Flu, Canine Influenza

Kennel Cough is disease is a disease which affects the dogs mainly in the cold countries. Kennel Cough is a disease which occurs because of the inflammation of the respiratory tract of the dog which is very difficult to control and highly contagious. Kennel Cough is caused by the number of vectors such as bacteria and virus. Canine Influenza virus causes Kennel Cough, Dog Flu, Canine Flu or Canine Influenza.
Both Rumsfeld (and the article) missed the 4th type of knowledge: "unknown knowns." That is, things you know, but you don't realize you know yet. (Either you know it subconsciously, have knowledge from another domain you don't yet realize is appropriate to the job at hand, or you learned it before, forgot it, and only need a small reminder or mental jog to regain it.)
It's early development (pre-alpha), but http://www.leemba.com/ looks promising.
While arguments can be made that Twitter, Facebook et al encourages only superficial coverage of weighty governmental concerns... hey, at least it acts like a gateway.

Seriously - what do you notice first? A line on your facebook feed, an alert from your Tweetdeck account, or a thousand-word column on the NYT or White House blogpost exhaustively covering every detail? I would hesitate to say this is in absolutes, but I do feel that the two former two forms of media are /more/ likely to drag an audience to the latter two - it'd exist outside of their range of concerns otherwise.
If Buzz had been released with invites, I think that it would have had the same problems as Wave with no one checking it.

Both of them should be separate Google apps with Gmail notifications, but no Gmail integration. Wave could still have been invite-only for scaling reasons, but both of them would still have had better reception this way.
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Whether they "get" anything is a matter of what criteria you use to judge them. They're surely profitable, and I suppose that buys them a lot of accolades for "getting" the technology they sell.

And yet, if they did the exact same thing they're doing now but weren't making a profit, I'm sure the vast majority of the people who are praising them now for "getting" the technology would excoriate them for "not getting" it.
We are a PayPal and Venrock backed startup re-defining a $100 billion market...
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That hits too close to home. All I could think while reading were all the projects I have in a prototype state that would be so good - if only...
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Startup Idea: HN for communities
Here's an idea that I came up with because of HN -

The problem I find is this: HN is the best source of news for 'new stuff' being released in javascript, nodejs, ruby, python, and other software communities. However, HN also has TONS of posts that are interesting but not what I'm looking for and quite frankly, a waste of time.

I go online and try to find the newest frameworks , plugins or libraries that could be useful to my field of study - but I end up getting 'caught' in useless interesting information like iPad commentary or machine learning beautification techniques.

So I thought: What if sites like JQuery.com had a JQuery news, rails had Rails news, etc. All the JQuery related stuff could be posted there and so if I wanted to find out the newest plugins or blog posts on JQuery tutorials, I would go there to find it. It would be great for the software community, and it would make my life easier.

Then I thought, what if all these sites aggregated back to HN?

Basically, my idea is an embeddable Reddit - communities can embed a news submission system into their sites, which aggregates back to a central site. It's primary purpose is to help existing communities get more communal by encouraging a sub-community the way HN has its own private community.

However, because its aggregated into one site, it may also increase traffic between (software) communities, enhance awareness and growth of up-and-coming projects, and can be the start of a business.

That's my idea folks - comment on it or execute on it if you would like.
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What services would you recommend for Grails virtual hosting? I'm starting a new project and I want to find a host early on in the project.

Right now it seems like eapps and eatj are the leading 2 choices. Any opinions on either of them? Are there others I should be considering?

Thanks for the help.
I've testing scout as well. Was easy to setup. Interface could use a bit of work though.
So... learn new tools? It's not hard to get the stack traces of every thread in a java vm at any point in time.

It's not hard to get java using syslog if you really want it to (I wrote a syslog client for java, but ended up deciding it wasn't right for my problem).

ldd typically doesn't make much sense in a java deployment, because people typically will publish all of the parts together in such a way that it's fairly obvious what pieces are in use.

If we're all attached to all of our tools, we can never make progress.
oh wow! my head was just blown
Yes. I use this fantastic Twitter gem by John Nunemaker: http://twitter.rubyforge.org/
Technology ain't everything
Too many babies in the UK.

Too many puppies with guns in their hands.

Anything is possible.
This is actually the direction we're heading with PE. Thanks for the independent validation on this strategy.
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I use Munin even on my local work computer.

And vnstat for realtime and aggregated network traffic. Conky for volatile realtime cpu/ram/etc.
That adds up to around $5 billion a month. I think your estimate is a bit off ;-)
I think the location feature + mobile experience is what makes buzz stand out.
Since buzz came out, everyday i am on my way to work (public transport) i check whats happening in my city.
People commenting on the indian restaurant they are eating, others asking questions regarding the city and getting answers in a few minutes or posting pictures. Forget the gmail integration, it's the mobile experience that is great (on android atleast with integration in the native google maps application). I only use gmail to check for comments on posts i made on my mobile.

It is far more interesting to see whats going on in your city and communicate with locals then what twitter offers.
"Going postal" is hardly a tactful way of describing that situation. I don't think it's pop psychology to acknowledge that a small percentage of people in extremely stressful situations lose control, and end up doing awful things. It's impossible to have sincere sympathy and respect without a healthy dose of empathy. And to have empathy, you have to be able to acknowledge truths about situations that may not be politically correct.

We don't know if this woman lost control because of mental illness, or stress in her personal life, or simply because her superiors were assholes. But if it's the latter, I'd rather hear a discussion about the ugly realities of academic life, than another cliché conversation demanding "respect and sympathy" from total strangers.
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Agree. Based on some of the comments and re-tweets from educators themselves, it is clear that they are reasonable. They just want to pinch pennies (And who doesn't?). Unfortunately, there is a minimum level for us to charge that still makes sense to even sell to them in the first place.

As a poster above mentioned earlier, just having to deal with a PO process almost automatically means you have to charge more just on that basis, as dealing with the paper back and forth process, collecting on invoices, etc., adds up to a significant portion of the acquisition costs. Unfortunately, it schools continue to insist on a purchase ordering model, they'll have to also keep paying for it in all the services/products they consume.

In fact, if you want an interesting business opportunity, it could be to build a product that helps schools/educational institutions buy shit more smartly!!! Using credit cards and expense reimbursements from staff members rather than a centralized purchase order/paper check system. Blech!
He probably means "2-3$ per megabit/sec".

So $14,000 - $21,000 per month. Still seems too much.
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One way to look at this is that the original design of HTML
1.1 and its presentation in early web browsers gave users what they really wanted. Text, one color, that goes all the way across the screen, is readable on any screen, and scrolls all the way down to the end of the document. Links. Maybe some images.

No foofaraw of sidebars and mastheads; no bother with zooming to make the content part of the page readable, no need to search the cluttered page to find the print button so you can read the whole article without clicking next 10 times.

That was a subtle part of the early appeal of the web circa 1994. The minimalism sucked you in, it made the web feel like one coherent, unified thing, unlike the constellation of corporate edifices occupying much of it today.

In Craigslist, early Google, even Hacker News, I see echos of that minimalism, filtered through all the ways that have emerged to enhance, and pollute the original vision of the web.
It's also probably zero for wappr itself.
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Is there a way to send the video stream directly to the other user, not through the server? Sort of P2P-like?
Thanks :). I'll be teaching it in the Fall.

It was actually this class that motivated the whole compiler bug-finding project. The quality of the average embedded compiler is appalling, students trip on codegen bugs all the time.

Of course as many people are pointing out in this thread, most of the time the compiler is not to blame when changing optimization options changes program behavior.
actually, onenote 2010 support formulas. And the support is quite good, on par with word.

It makes me sad, because I live on linux and notetaking apps there are mediocre. The best I could find is keepnote.

Onenote is years ahead of everything else, but I don't want the vendor lock-in and the binary files that it produces.

Evernote moved to .NET 3.5 so no wine support. Bah!
Social networking is an enormous benefit to the world.

Social networking companies, on the other hand...
The spamassassin plugin lets you control your spam settings from your webmail account.

I also have managesieve installed, and there's a plugin for it too, so with imap, inbound email gets automatically sorted into folders for me, and I can control that from RoundCube. The filtering is actually way more powerful than anything Gmail can do (last time I checked).

Those are the two "must-haves" IMO.
Not the answer you'd expect maybe: if what you want is the output, I'd suggest watching http://coder.io/ in the next few weeks.
"changeable pseudonymous identities" have their place on the internet, in chat rooms, on blogs, throw away accounts on reddit, etc. But imagine how much "spam" is accumulated by allowing something like this to occur. Our identities right now are facebook profiles and twitter accounts, connections being friends or those we follow or are followers of. What do we do with them? Post ramblings of what is happening in our daily lives, tweeting about the something that people may interesting. Millions of us using all this technology for something that amounts to nothing but keeping ourselves amused. Think of what we could actually do. I am not righteous by any means or a do gooder, but with all the connections we form, the groups, the followers, the friends, the masses that flock to whats cool, couldn't it all be geared towards helping people?
DFX?
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OK. I'll think about that -- my desire to "share and share alike" is struggling a bit with my desire to differentiate from other mail hosting services.
I think you either grossly underestimate the value of gold or overestimate the cost of a flight. (Or have a really, really weird idea about economics and when you've made a profit.) Besides, even if you think you're better off sitting on your ass, that doesn't mean everyone will, or should.

But your point is irrelevant, because we need those minerals anyhow. Remember the people who point out that we don't have enough platinum on Earth to make enough fuel cells for cars (and other things), or enough rare earths for other worthy green technologies? The value of those minerals is going up over time as we deplete our supply, the costs of spaceflight will go down. The question is when those curves cross, not if. There are some things that we can do a lot better with those resources that just "sitting on Earth" is not going to be a economically viable alternative to.
Paying the price for a free web
I think it is possible to "fight" everything you read, you'd end up reading much less, but would likely know (as in understand) more. The challenge lies in sourcing the material you'd like to digest - so you should revisit your goals every time you start to uncover some new understanding.

I know that I've been on an information skimming trip, and although I feel that I have enlarged my impression of the world considerably, my actual knowledge of the world has only grown marginally - along the lines of confirming intuitions, and occasionally challenging preconceptions I've had.
-4 for this?!! what a bunch of pussies.
A pity you have to bring it back here to be able to get any use out of it.

Well, if people are living in space, I'd wager that the transport costs could be drastically reduced.
Some types of European firms. You don't see as much innovative software coming out of that part of the world as the U.S.
I don't think the author was applying an explanation either dumbly or trying to reduce its significance. I think it is part of our human nature to try and contain a tragedy by labeling or attributing some cause to it. I'm not a therapist, but I sincerely believe this human trait persists in many people as a coping mechanism. That's why it makes sense (even as an academic myself) in some weird, comforting way.
Yes, but that's making use of runtime magic (the Class class) which isn't used outside metaprogramming.
How many commercial fisherman died on the job last year? How many coal miners? Truck drivers? Electricians?

How many electricians don't know the basics of not electrocuting themselves? His point is that space is a new frontier, and we don't yet have standard safety protocols in place. The only way to develop them will be through trial and error, which will inevitably involve the loss of human life.
What Dr. Bishop did was unjustified, no matter what other facts we may find (excepting force initiated by the victims); justice requires her death. (Because this penalty is irrevocable, and all possible legal systems are fallible, the closest we can get to this ideal is life imprisonment.)

Having said that, look at how the system worked. These guys were stringing her along for six years (or so?), while maintaining the illusion that her activities (against university initiatives and attitudes) would have no impact on her career. Obviously her against-the-grain attitudes had a great deal to do with the way they treated her.

What's the best way to prevent a similar tragedy from occurring? The only way is to take the pressure off by eliminating tenure completely. That way, there's no insane buildup of emotion on either side. In a properly functioning organization, people that don't work out (for whatever reason, including personality conflicts) should be informed of the situation as early as is possible, which takes what, about a year?

Existing faculty could be offered buyouts (which, of course, would have to be lucrative enough to be accepted), and you're at a nice clean slate.
Your prayers have been answered - http://wappr.com/, surprisingly it was posted on HN just before you asked this question - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1123173
Evernote is even worse on Mac. I've been using Journler (http://journler.com/) because it's too much of a hassle to keep my stuff in OneNote on a separate partition, or run VMware.

I wish there was a OSX port for OneNote, which I think is the most usable not taking software I've ever tried.
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I detest anyone who would try to sap my spare computing resources without first informing me.

So adopt the maxim: People who steal my computing resources aren't entitled to correct results. :)
The article's an aggregation of ridiculous statistics designed to justify instinctive conservative feelings that the poor are siphoning away their wealth.

"Average poor american has bigger living arrangements than the average Paris resident" -- really? The average subsistence farmer has bigger living arrangements than the average Manhattan banker, as well.

The US is a very capitalistic country (in a good way) and we have very little in the way of social welfare (in a sometimes inefficient way) -- being poor here isn't easy, even if it's not an automatic death sentence.
Exactly - for columbine, it was the video games and music, which is much more of a non-sequitur than working in the high pressure environments of academia and biotech startups. This did read like more of a human interest story though.
For someone who studied Scripture in its original language, you've still managed to hit my pet peeve of pluralizing the title of the scroll of Disclosure.
Because what Craigslist's users really want is a completely broken spam flagging system, a mass of data that's impossible to categorize, and a lazy search system that doesn't have any useful boolean search option, and a monopoly that owns all of the search listings for certain regions but has failed to innovate in 13 years.
So it's not friction-free. Nothing's perfect, but it's still a much more open process, and much more hacker-friendly. IETF produces simpler standards, and the specs are a lot more understandable than the abominations written by the W3C. There's a reason for that.