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Snap Lake Mine, De Beers' first diamond mine outside of Africa, is 220 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife. Snap Lake is Canada's first completely underground diamond mine.

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I remember a story (don't know from where) in which someone was hired to reduce the size of a code base. His compensation went up for each line of code deleted and went down (by a bigger amount) for each time he caused a crash.

It may not be true, but I like the story anyway.
Now they've improved it to be merely mediocre, but it still doesn't preload more than the next image, and you have to click through to the standard photo page to see anything else.

Again, if they're optimizing for bandwidth...

I'm guessing that the standard photo pages and photostream pages account for 99% of their usage. It also sounds like you have more of a philosophical beef with them than anything else.
I've seen these claims about dramatically extending the number of charge cycles in Li-Ion before. Never seen a product yet get to market. I don't believe this claim either. Show me an actual product and prove me wrong.
But if you want to know how to implement a protocol that uses Diffie Hellman, RSA, AES and SHA1 to protect traffic without introducing 40 errors any of which completely negate the security of the algorithms you're using, you need a very different book from Applied. That book was Practical Cryptography, and now it's Cryptography Engineering.

Very nice! Since I wanted a book which also explains the implementation details of various cryptography algorithms, I asked my coworker if he knew one (I bought Kryptographie (Amazon.de: http://bit.ly/cxxAQT), which didn't explain anything about implementations, but is a good read for other various reasons). He recommended me Applied Cryptography and I was going to order it. This was yesterday. Today I read your tweet (http://twitter.com/tqbf/status/8879609339) and was going to have a look at Practical Cryptography. And now thanks to your hint, I preordered Cryptography Engineering. Thanks for that :).
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Alan Kay's current project is to implement a full operating system from bare metal to userland GUI in 20,000 LoC, using as many meta-languages as necessary to get there in a pedagogically cogent way: http://vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm

For instance, their TCP implementation is under 200 lines, implemented as a parser-expression-grammar for the ASCII-art diagrams from the RFCs: http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software...
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You must be thinking of a different BMW. The BMW I know of uses Bosch Motronic ECUs are encrypted.
> $10k might very well buy the next facebook

Get the fuck out of here. The amount of engineering the founders put into facebook far outpaces $10k. You're living in a fantasy land.
Interesting story. Maybe one of the few times in law that skill trumps status.
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Really beautiful.

I was a bit offended by the "155 KB download", but when downloaded and extracted it is just around 50 KBytes.
Nice use of our Aristo theme! http://github.com/280north/aristo
Why not include a matching style for textboxes? Those styled inputs are going to look pretty jarring next to native textboxes and creating matching styles for them is enough work for me that I wouldn't do it.

Overall they look nice, but with the incomplete control set and the gotchas listed (doesn't automatically handle dynamic changes and no IE6 support) it has a long way to go.
Yeah great "risk" she was taking.
I just installed this on a fresh Linode with a basic Ubuntu 9.10 LAMP stack. It built ok, and the module shows up in phpinfo(), but when I try to run any of the example code, I get an error:

Fatal error: Class 'xhp_a' not found in /home/me/public_html/test.php on line 3

Here's the code I tested with:

<?php
$href = 'http://www.facebook.com';
echo <a href={$href}>Facebook</a>;

I tried running the code through the xhpize tool, and got the following output:

<?php
$href='http://www.facebook.com';
echo new xhp_a(array('href' => $href,), array('Facebook',), __FILE__, 3);

Which produces the same "class not found" error.
He's talking about it from the maintainer's perspective. He's saying that the noob questions are valuable feedback to what's confusing about the project.
nope. waiting for it too.
Adds a bit of irony to the project's name.
I kind of liked it. He makes some good points about why Facebook might not be the be-all, end-all of social networking. I found the historical comparisons to AOL informative since I never spent much time inside the garden.

Also, it seems a little disingenuous to say that Facebook is just a website. There are a lot of blog posts and a lot of valuation arguing that they are going to be a huge, profitable business for a long time to come. If you want a broader philosophical issue, think about the trend towards semi-open systems in tech today. Facebook has apps and Connect, but they keep a pretty tight hold on user's data. Apple has an app store for the iPhone, but, well, they're Apple. Speculation/rants on how all of this will turn out is interesting to me.
Sounds like big case #2.

The other recent cookie stuffing case was last April when three people, including the owner of the massive Digital Point forums, were charged with defrauding eBay as well:

http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/08/26/eBay_Sues_Alleged_C...
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And how is that different from today? Who is more powerful: the president or lobby groups?
This? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Communications_Dec...

It does seem like it would be a seasonal occurrence. Every election season...
I hope you don't mind, but I quoted/linked to this in my post on XHP: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/xhp_more_php_enhancemen...

I really liked what you had to say! Please let me know if you want me to remove the quotation or change the links around it. I'm jolie@readwriteweb.com.
Hi James! I hope this is ok with you - I quoted & linked to this comment in my post on XHP tonight: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/xhp_more_php_enhancemen...

If you want me to remove the quotation or change the links, just let me know. I'm jolie@readwriteweb.com.
I'm pretty sure the help vampire phenomenon is an example of the lmgtfy phenomenon and not a real problem (except in rare cases)
Specifically, Ubuntu is free, but Red Hat, Debian, Centos, and a few others are ~ $4 per month. Nice concept and good implementation (command line and GUI options), and looks like a small price to pay for not having to worry about kernel 0-days and other bugs. Had some issues with a custom kernel but hopefully that will get worked out.

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Joel Spolsky wrote about this some time ago.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html
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Wait, this is complete bullshit. "JQuery has been known to be targeted by malicious hackers as a code-injection delivery mechanism"? Really?!

Security scanning is valuable, to be sure, but:

- Not all old versions of software are vulnerable. Commercial PHP boards like vBulletin typically charge for major updates, but continue to patch older versions for security issues.

- Containing iframes or loading JQuery is not a sign of vulnerabilities. If it's anything, it's a sign that the forums being investigated have revenue. :)

- The actual results (no forums examined were listed by GSB, or contained malicious iframes) are completely counter to the conclusions ("there many vulnerable installations of vBulletin which can fall prey to malicious hackers").
Heh, now I see why they had to invent HipHop. It's an interesting idea - trade off speed for readability and security, and then write a PHP->C++ compiler to recover the speed you've lost. I wonder whether it would've been easier to use a language + templating system that gets security right in the first place, though.
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OK, I misspoke. I'll quote from someone who knows this stuff way better than me:

"As a result of the function-local symbol-table, each PHP variable uses a great amount of space. The zval itself is 16 bytes long. However, the symbol-table is a hashtable with a 36 byte bucket. Combined with memory allocation overhead, each variable occupies 68 bytes on a 32-bit platform [?], and nearly double that on a 64-bit platform. "

- me, sometime within the last two years.
Personally, I think if I were in the situation of selling software to brides I might sell exclusively to brides with a budget in excess of $25,000 and if anyone was unwilling to pay $100 I would wish her the most magical day ever using whatever alternative works for her.

This should be STUPIDLY easy to sell as a subscription service to wedding photographers, incidentally. Three words: incremental marginal revenue. After you've already landed the photography gig you can pitch the lucky lady on the video guestbook "for only $150 more"
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Whatever anyone says is a reason for them, the naysayers don't find convincing. Coincidence?

* I want a simple, small, light tablet.
Naysayers: You can't do Photoshop on it, so no one will want it.

* I want to give it to my mom so she can just browse, with no tech support.
Naysayers: No moms are going to buy it, how many people will buy it for their moms?

Rinse. Repeat.
What game does this Nash Equilibrium correspond to? How are we modeling the world such that the eqm. changes?

I don't see the "shift" as obvious at all.
Indeed - in addition to type="text", textarea and button would be nice as well.
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Andrew Warner does great stuff. The weirdness of the very long musical intro was a bit much, but overall, a wonderful interview. Just skip to the 6-minute mark or so.
Completely besides the point, but: sawdust is perfectly useful as fertilizer, so it's actually not that bad as worm food.
XHP development started very very recently and had absolutely nothing to do with HipHop.
Any idea how to make the geo-location feature on buzzes less accurate? I'd be OK with city level, but not block level.
Pallbearer? No, thank you.

(Though really I think the casket is INSIDE the screw. If it's not, that will by my new invention: "Easy corpse retrieval system" is how I'll bill it, and mostly to those singularity folks. "Be the first one out once we figure out how to cure stuff. No messing digging or accidentally crushing the casket!)
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Adorable. Almost saccharine. But @eston and I do the same thing, so I really can't complain.
From those benchmarks though it seems it would only be really effective with HipHop in a high CPU usage environment.
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Blocks push the language across some kind of line that makes it feel right to use λ-expressions everywhere. They may seem trivial but I've come to realize that such minutiae can make or break a programming language and can be pivotal in deciding how the language is used.
I'm having exactly the same problem, same system (Ubuntu Karmic Koala). Prerequisites installed, XHP module installed, it's listed in my phpinfo. For any XHTML tag I include (a, span, ...) the error message says class not included:

Fatal error: Class 'xhp_span' not found in ...

Any ideas on how to fix would be appreciated. Google and Bing have nothing so far and the module configuration info on the GitHub page is limited: http://wiki.github.com/facebook/xhp/
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Created by the best social media UI designers on the planet. Worked with Josh a ton, such a talented pro. If you can get on his wait list, do it
WherE do you get the consulting gigs typically? Almost all leads I get(good and bad, pay wise) come in form of a project with fixed cost attached.
One could simple write their own "echo" function which only takes an XML object parameter.

// This works
write(<span class="username">{$_POST['name']}</span>);

// Where as this wouldn't work
write($_POST['name']);

I think perhaps the use of echo in these examples is just a simplification. More than likely, in Facebook, these XML classes are outputted by another function.
Actually yeah... I have a "poke war" still on with a friend that I've lost touch with in real life. It's been almost 3 years now - people make too big a deal out of it. It's a virtual ping, you don't have to pong if you don't want.
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I imagine this as a big soft-bound book, kind of like http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Environment-Addison-Wesley....

Then, when you open it, the first non-blank page just says, centered on the page in a large, bold, type:

DON'T -- USE A LIBRARY!
How do you chart a marriage or raising a child.

Secretly.

In all seriousness, I agree that much of what makes life worth living is qualitative in nature. However, I grew up in an environment where I missed out on some good habits and the general instillment of self-discipline. Like many here on HN, I was one of the smartest kids in my class, bored to death with school, and underperformed as a result. Throughout my late teenage years, I gradually began to realize that the pieces of my life weren't going to magically fall into place and I'd need to put in the work. But unfortunately, I sucked at hard work and self-discipline. The Navy helped with some of that, college helped some more, but mostly it's just been a long, steady slog up the hill of determination, learning every day a little more about myself and how best to ensure that I keep moving forward. My belief is that by tracking and managing the quantitative things in my life, I can better manage the qualitative aspects as well.

For example, one of the leading causes of failure in marriage is finances. Learning to track and manage my spending and net worth has been very helpful to me and my wife's finances, and has the added benefit of improving the qualitative aspects of our relationship as well. The same type of parallel could be drawn with my personal productivity, with health and exercise, diet, time management, etc, etc. I'm on a life-long quest to become a better person, which I can only assume will help me in my interactions with the humans.
I wish every startup founder would read this. I know someone who feels really screwed by his investor.

I'd also recommend this video of TheFunded's Adeo Ressi (at The Next Web Conference 2008), as he outlines a number of pitfalls to be aware of, too: http://vimeo.com/1047702
Can't locate a source for this on google. I'm calling urban legend.
Google Buzz -- and you thought Facebook had privacy issues?
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A problem with learning difficult topics, and Rails apparently is one of them for a lot of people (try coming to it without a background in web development or OOP, for example), is that you don't even know what questions to ask.

Stack Overflow is amazing for when you can concisely describe the exact issue you're having in such a manner that someone else can Google it for you. It is less amazing when you lack the mental framework to identify where the gap in your understanding probably is.

I think this is the cause of a lot of the complaining about "magic" in Rails. It isn't magic when it is working, it is only magic when it breaks. Then people often find, whoops, they don't have a good enough understanding of what is happening to diagnose what probably went wrong.
The problem is that a nuanced approach to rehabilitation doesn't win as many votes as being "tough on crime".
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Found this about a week ago and am loving it. Almost all of my time is spent in Python or LaTeX, and having either ipython or bash open in a small window just a keystroke away is brilliant!
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what about being an expert of the domain in which your product/service resides?

that's the most obvious (and most useful to potential users) approach in my mind
ION is the platform (i.e. Nvidia GPU + Intel Atom) not the GPU so far as I know.
I don't agree on personal levels that what they are doing is right; I just believe it is them zealously representing the state and the victim- via the legal channels provided them. Of course you'll have bad apples, but...

Legal system isn't always all that cut and dried, you can't always go straight for the throat. Many of the big crime bosses and such were apparently brought down on tax evasion!

I'm sure there's been more than one time stymying a fact finding effort has helped send a guilty man to jail. It's not all cut and dried. I gather my views are unpopular, but hey, oh well.
Is this machine-generated content? Some really bad English on the website. For example:
This Post is about a Problem, i am facing with Google Adwords. As I am unable to find a solution for it anywhere, so i decide to write a blog, and may be by discussion, we can find some solution.
You realize what you're asking for here is that the prosecutor decide who is innocent and who to fully prosecute, i.e. who is guilty. That completely, or at least partially, negates the idea that the jury of your peers should do the deciding. As soon as the lawyers start making those kinds of choices, it's not (all) in the jury's hands anymore.

Perhaps you might suggest the prosecution is in the best position to know. Perhaps you might suggest that if the prosecution is 80% certain of innocence, that clearly the defendant should be found innocent. But, according to our law, (unless I grossly misunderstand them) it is not his choice to make.
I don't know what definition of "photon" you are using but I don't think it is appropriate to describe the effects of microwave radiation, which occurs at very different wavelengths as visible light, which "photon" traditionally refers to.

EM radiation at ~microwave levels has well-known effects, it's true, such as protein denaturing and other localised internal heating. The effect of randomly, and perhaps partially, denaturing proteins over long periods of time in important parts of your body is rather ill-studied, I would have thought.
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Given IMVU's development practices I think your problem is more like "Delete all those people who click on photos of big-chested anime girls in sapphic embraces." (Edited to add: I assume they go on to convert as well. sigh)

Heads up to every person who wants to run an ad-based startup: remnant inventory is the term for the inventory -- i.e. page views -- you have to sell after you sell those spots which are actually worth money. Remnant inventory is nearly worthless. The only people who will pay money for it are either a) idiots who will shortly exit the business or b) people appealing to the lowest common denominator.

If you don't want your website to be cluttered up with Punch My Scantily Clad Diploma Now, My Lord, then you should charge money for it.
Ok, I'll bite. I challenge you to make an owl video site that makes $1 a day and post the link and revenue here. Ditto for an AVI to MP4 desktop converter. Ditto for the iPhone app site. Ditto for the annotated bible. Ditto for the file uploader script. Ditto for the Doctors theme.

I don't believe any of these will make $1 a day. I believe they'll make $0 a day. There's a world of difference between $0 a day and $1 a day.

Just because $1 a day sounds like almost nothing doesn't mean you'll get it for a site that's worth almost nothing. It's $365 a year. You won't make that with 30 owl videos and adwords.
The "no defaults" rule is super important. It gets you out of the habit of just leaving stuff as-is, and into the habit of making design decisions. That's all design really is: A series of decisions. If you're not making them, you're not designing.
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He's benchmarking based off of a 10 line PHP program and then extrapolating that this is why HPHP is needed?
Hmm, interesting. I don't go to Reddit at all, so I don't really know what's there.

The reason I find this interesting is the topological analysis behind how this works, but other similar tricks (such as a shirt) don't. It's similar in nature to the way you can remove a vest (waistcoat to the British) without removing your jacket (or coat). The vest was never really "inside" the jacket at all.

So can this technique be used to remove a pullover? In theory if your first grab is at the opposite arm's elbow then you can retract that arm, but then it's difficult to get the power and travel to get the pullover over the shoulder.

This is then related to some of my programming work where I'm trying to find paths for robotic arms through a weird topological space. It's got about 11 dimensions, and it has "holes" because there are positions the arm won't go through.

These are the things I think about when I see this kind of trick. I guess you don't. Your reply makes me realise that I need to explain more when I make this sort of submission. To that end your comment has value to me. Thank you.
Perhaps Google wants to optimize for the usual case where people don't mind sharing the list of people they are following, which is parity with Twitter and Facebook.
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Defaulting to public vs private settings is something everyone building an app (or platform) where behavioral data (who, where, when, with whom, to do what) is the potential moneymaker faces.

Interesting however that Facebook after Beacon seems to have taken opposite track, while my full Foursquare checkins show up in Google alerts for my usernames.

Think Buzz is making a mistake here in terms of earning consumer trust, but will the 'average' Google user convert to a Buzz user in the first place?

Wondering about search user conversion rates vs. search+docs/apps/gmail etc. conversion rates to Buzz, and if we'll ever see any stats.
Actually I know a few people who have that many Facebook friends who are real friends. Naturally not all thousand are in this person's current working set, but they all were at some point. It's not so unusual for very popular or clever people to have a large following of others interested in their doings.
That was both funny and witty. Come on, HN, lighten up!
It's a joke.

HPHP's 50% speed boost does not make up for a templating engine that 43 times slower.
I fail to see how is this "so much better" than, say, Smarty.