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fb optimizes for dev speed. They're bound to make mistakes to keep their agility.
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I did a talk with Matt Galligan when he was in Vancouver last month. You can see the video here:
http://blip.tv/file/3340542/

I can't seem to dig up a video of Matt's talk.

Basically, Navteq and Tele Atlas own the base map data. Google, Bing, and MapQuest add intelligence on top of this data with features like Street View and driving directions. Foursquare and Gowalla add another layer of intelligence with where people and places are at right now.

Rich location data is the "what,when,why,who" is at this location.

SimpleGeo is:
1) Storage for location with metadata about what's at that location
2) A marketplace to buy and sell data about locations

So, off the top of my head. I can create a door-to-door canvassing app and ask residents if they are Democrats or Republicans. Then I could sell this data to others that would be interested in this data.
A Nuclear Google may be a very good thing
Agreed. Everyone should be nice, but sometimes you just have to wear your "Thanks, but I don't give a f$$k" hat.
$2.5k / month would buy you a lot of time with a developer doing GeoDjango work.
Awesome rebuttal by Blue Jeans. I wanted to fist pump at the end.
There is certainly a case to be made that the U.S. school system was designed to make "drones or conformists":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system

Or for a more detailed argument:

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/index.htm
so having just one input for url and search was not such a good idea, for privacy.
"Over two-thirds, amigo!"

Ah, so he didn't actually want to engage Dodd and persuade him.

"Why are we moving fucking backwards?"

Bailing ... now.
Hey thanks for your reply,
I thought about taking some RSS feed but I got over two big obstacles:

- most of the sites will provide only 10/15 rss items
- I really need specific informations about the products, like their unique Id on their side for example. Most of the time the rss feeds won't include that
- some website simply can't provide these feeds, unfortunately.

I hope to rely on xml feeds. Some vendors should be happy with the fact I proposed them to help them out about the feed I'm requesting
If your're set to do some heavy reading, does it pay to lug your laptop? Maybe if you want to do some browsing or tinkering. The iPad can do the former now. The latter will get implemented for lots of uses, for profit.
Not only that, but I've just realised... $2.5k/m only gets you 10 times as much as a free account. Sounds like such a great deal!

And then if you want THREE times as much as the start-up account, you have to pay FOUR times as much - $10k for 30 million calls.

Maybe they should have hired a mathematician instead of geographers....
The problem with Microsoft's accusation is that IE8 does the exact same thing, just not when you type in the address bar. You have to type in the search bar in IE8 for every stroke to get sent to Bing.
It's been a while since I first installed Chrome, so I don't remember exactly, but doesn't it prompt you to let you know about this? Despite some of the privacy allegations against Google in the past, I've found they've always been very clear about privacy implications with using their downloadable desktop software. The Google toolbar, for instance, warns you explicitly when you enable features (like Page Rank meter) that would result in information being sent to Google.
Aside from the speculation of Google making nuclear weapons to use against China, I think there isn't anything unreasonable about it -- that is, funding research into safe nuclear energy, and deploying it first in places with friendly regulations (then using that success as an example to argue for better regulations in the US). The top of the article is dated "March 31st", so I imagine it might be true.
There are assholes both online and offline, but I think the blog author's point is that the anonymity and inhuman-ness of the internet converts some people who aren't ass offline into online assholes.
I wonder if you can get the same effect by writing the email but clicking the "Delete" button instead
Wow. That's pretty amazing, given that Hindi is probably the fourth most widely-spoken language in the world. I would never have imagined it to be used so little online.
Does Google even maintain non-anonymized logs of search suggestion lookups the way they maintain logs for regular search results?
I saw multiple Bump interactions in highly dense technophile populations at SXSW where two people got a random contact when they bumped.
Announcing YUI 3.1.0 » Yahoo User Interface Blog (YUIBlog)
YouTube has relied on Akamai to provide the streaming infrastructure for all of its live events so far, and as far as we know it has no live streaming infrastructure of its own. Akamai costs a lot of money - we actually overflow to them when our own infrastructure gets overloaded, but we try not to do that too often as it's prohibitively expensive.
Sorry, but the point of the article is clearly not "Here's a useful way to avoid having null pointer dereferences crash your program." They start out talking about kernel vulnerabilities in general and the null pointer dereferences specifically.
"'Watch a demo on how Google Chrome collects every keystroke you make and how Internet Explorer 8 keeps your information private through two address bars and In Private browsing.'

[Install Microsoft Silverlight logo]"

I'm using Linux. There's something a little off about that pitch. "Come, let us show you how evil our competition is. Please install our massive runtime with which we intend to completely take over the web." Yeah, I know it's not all directly comparable, but still... off.
I would wager it's probably Sydney, but then again I don't think any Australian town is the clear winner.

Canberra had a lot of enterprise focussed software startups which didn't get much notice; but I think compared to the US equivalents, alot of Australian companies fly under the radar.

My belief is if you're starting in the Aus rather than the US it doesn't really matter which city you're in as long as it's got a reasonable feeding uni. Having worked and recruited with US and Aus staff I definitely think Australian software engineers are some of the best and typically suitably pragmatic for software startups. (Until they fully roll out the US style of generalist and masters, aka uni melbourne approach, but I guess we'll see)
All the settings are there right in the [Privacy] section for users who care.

The fact is, most users just want it to work - something the IE team would do well to pay attention to.
If you have 4 years of experience in C#, stick with C#!
It will be tough, but most of the people in academic environment don't have professional experience as developers... so you should be ahead of them with your C#.
Josh and I have made the tickets look good with iPhone, Android and Palm but haven't had a chance to test other phones. We would love to hear how other phones display our tickets. All you have to do is go here http://example.mogotix.com select the number of tickets you want and then fill out the form to receive a mobile ticket.

We promise not to drunk dial you.

Thanks for the feedback.
To me, the advantages outweigh the costs, though. If I want to search for something without Google knowing about it, I can jump to incognito mode.
The price range doesn't take in to account rates. For some developers, a two week project is $2000. For others, that's one billable day.
... for the small niche set of users who care about such privacy over usability.
Is it faster? More reliable? A way to trick people into paying for SQLite?
Can you paste some part where they actually talk about the vulnerability? I assume that the title quoted above was the original title of the post since that's what's used on HN and Reddit.
I dunno: quite a few budget cars are still marketed as status cars. When was the last time you saw a car ad that emphasized "buy me, I'm cheap" over everything else?
Not sure what the downvote is for. From the article:

"The same behavior occurs in IE8, but only in the search bar. LePage is only correct in his assertion that IE8 does not send information to anyone when the user types into the address bar."
Google Fires at Apple, Puts Flash Into Chrome Browser
Why Internet connections are fastest in South Korea . . .
Absolutely. I live in New Zealand, and would be happy to hire anyone in my country (it's not a huge place). But because "We're assuming you're in Christchurch, Canterbury.", which is about 5 hours drive from here (and a 3 hour ferry trip), and because I can't change it to just "New Zealand", the entire service is pretty much not usable.

Other than that I really like the simplicity. I don't like services like elance that make me perform the whole transaction through their website. I would prefer a simple classified-like solution like this appears to be.
Well, uh, isn't this how Apple is marketing the iPad? The thing you use when you're not out and about but don't want to deal with "the computer"?

The computing device that takes care of 80% of your day to day computing needs? (ie: Watching videos of kittens on YouTube)

And heck, even if that's the case and the "real computer" turns into an incredible niche device, do we even need the power of a gigantic desktop machine with 8 gigs of RAM and the super duper video card? I don't know about you guys, but all I need is a terminal and I can do 99.9% of the hacking I want to do (sometimes I use gitk).
Darpa Chief: Fix America's Critical Geek Shortage
Just in case you trust it, check out http://www.humanssince1982.com, who did the clock clock, which was published in design mags across the world, about two years before Art Lebedev (who would have had no way of not knowing it existed if they read any industrial design media) copied it.
BerkeleyDB doesn't have many dependencies, uses only plain files as storage, and is itself highly-portable open source (with a quasi-copyleft condition).

So you don't give up much to get the claimed benefits of this combination -- only the ability to use public-domain SQLite in proprietary distributed software.
The only reason my parents don't use an iPhone as a replacement for their computer is the screen size. The only reason. For a reasonably large subset of "people" a 'real' computer is an unnecessarily complicated device.
A list of April Fools' Day RFCs
No, .png to .pdf is not difficult.

I believe dpapathanasiou's suggestion is not to blindly convert a pdf into html file with one giant image file of the pdf.

Instead, he wants to create an html document that maintains the same content and layout from the pdf.
The claims in the announcement email I received were performance-related:

- SQL Performance

-- 10s of thousands of INSERTS/UPDATES/DELETES per-second

-- 100s of thousands of SELECTs per-second

-- Approximately as fast as SQLite for reads (within 10%)

-- About 3X faster than SQLite for updates/writes

-- Has fine grained locking which leads to better read/write concurrency

-- 6-8x more transactions/second compared to SQLite when using multiple threads
Bad comparison. The point is that you interact with berkleyDB via an SQLite interface. It's just an interface layer in this case.
Anonymized in what way?
Human Genome Mapping’s Payoff Disappoints Scientists
Microsoft fires poorly-aimed privacy missile at Google Chrome
The first two paragraphs clearly talk about it in the context of a security vulnerability. They don't explain how to exploit the vulnerability, but one versed in systems programming should either realize what it is, or be able to easily find it through Google or the pages they referenced in those paragraphs.

If you Google "linux kernel null pointer exploit" you will find many examples.
D'Oh! Got myself mixed up there a bit.
Many, many options were proposed. Look in the Bugzilla entry (#147777) for it. There were over 241 comments in that bug report alone, not counting dupes. Many of those comments were proposing alternatives.
Yes, you can. At least it works for me.
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German iPad pre-orders 3.5 times higher than thought
This occurs even in incognito mode though.
I'm not sure whether this'll really work...Often when you need such a system it is when each of the participants is a little short on the money. These people may not want to use a system that is going to cost them money on each transaction.

People who don't really care about the money are probably also not going to care much about how it evens out between the group, as long as it's sort of equal.
Most (well-behaved) apps that need this (Keynote, Powerpoint, VLC, Quicktime, DVD Player) will tell the system not to go to sleep when they're doing something relevant.

Caffeine is for when you're doing something like watching Hulu, but even then you can enable hot corners in the system preferences to handle this for you.

VLC (at least in the past) has been kind of a dick about it; it tells the system not to go to sleep or blank the screen whenever it's running, whether it's playing a video or not. Dunno if they've fixed this yet.
It's not a very good April Fools joke if it makes complete sense.
A good way to feel better is to think: Wait a sec, what kind of people are these girls? Most likely they are spoiled princesses with a massive sense of entitlement. They, perhaps are not worth much as people. Why is being rejected by them supposed to feel bad?
which city are you in?
Slick design, but out of curiosity, why wouldn't developers just use http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ ?
They have a better one on their blog:

"SimpleGeo is a ready-to-use location infrastructure that makes it dead simple to make your app location aware."

http://blog.simplegeo.com/
Hang in there, buddy. Probably you were just rejected by a bunch of high-maintenance princesses. Look for a decent woman, you probably deserve one.
You definitely can. I write awful horrible insensitive scathing emails to people, and then delete them in the morning without sending them. I get the catharsis, and I don't lose any friends (actual or potential) in the process - everyone wins!
I simply don't understand why anyone would send an unprovoked, nasty email to someone else. People on the internet have been pissing me off for nearly two decades now, and I don't recall ever doing this.

But like clockwork, someone does it to me every few months.
This is an interesting post, but I have a few points. First, there are certain kinds of error conditions where it's better to crash (producing a core dump) and restart rather than "swallow" the condition (even if it's logged). Java attempted to differentiate in this realm by introducing checked exceptions (where you could explicitly say this is an error condition where you can and should recover from, this is an error condition that you might not be able to recover from), but it hasn't had the intended effect (exceptions are simply seen as boiler plate and are wrapped in a try { } catch (Exception e) { logger.error(e); } block; checked exceptions are seen as a mistake).

Null pointers are typically be exactly such errors: e.g., you failed to allocate memory and malloc returned NULL, you didn't do proper validation on input or you assumed a key exists in a hash table when it doesn't. Either assumption that pointer is not NULL is an invariant (in which case it's better to crash and leave a core dump), or it's not (in which case the application should do a check for a null pointer).

It's also not advised to do complex processing inside signal handlers: the idea is to perform a single atomic operation in a signal handler (e.g., change an integer from 0 to 1), and let the application examine that operation's side effects. For example, there could be a "should_quit" integer which when 1 would mean the event loop should terminate and the signal handler would just set that integer to 1.
"Live video is just something that we've always wanted to do, we've never had the resources to do it correctly, but now with Google, we hope to actually do it this year." - Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube in 2008.

I think they are relying on Akamai till their own setup is ready to go. I think the argument that Youtube don't/can't have live streaming infrastructure is quite silly.
Google Chrome Extensions Localizer
Hi, I'm the CTO and cofounder of SimpleGeo. Many of your points about sparse documentation, website, etc. are fair. We're about 3 hours old so give us a little time to fill everything in. Lots of work to do here, which is why we hired Andrew Mager to be a developer advocate.

1. You can think of us as S3 for location data. Before S3 scaling file storage was a messy, complex, and costly proposition. After S3 it was as simple as posting files to an endpoint. We do this for geometric/location data. We store and index your data and allow you to easily do geospatial queries against your location data.

2. We give away 1m calls a month, which is the same that Twitter gives away for free, and more than Google Maps does. The pricing plans are based on what it'd cost to manage your own infrastructure. We'll be adding lots more features, options, data, etc. in the coming weeks/months.

3. To the people saying they can just install GeoDjango and PostGIS, I have a few questions. How much time are you spending building and maintaining your own location API? How much does it cost to rent/buy that hardware? Is your location infrastructure multi-homed in three data centers? Does your location infrastructure come with premium content like global weather data and 16m+ business listings? Can it keep up with the real-time geohose from Twitter? Does it do URL callbacks and S3 backups automatically? We handle all of that for you.

4. The location marketplace will allow developers to tap into billions of points of interest and previously unattainable features for low monthly costs. For instance, Metacarta and Quova solutions are very much enterprise solutions that cost real money, but they'll be available on demand for small per-drink/per-month costs. We've indexed over half a terabyte of location data (when you're talking about point data that's a lot) that's instantly available to developers.

5. We have robust SDKs for the iPhone, including an augmented reality view. The AR view allows you to show a sophisticated AR view of your data, in our API, in about ~10 lines of code.

You all are absolutely right that we need to do better at messaging and whatnot. We're working on that. All I ask is you give us a chance and don't dismiss what we're doing as "just GeoDjango."
No, it's fear of success. "If I do well, they will expect more of me, and I don't want to deal with taht, however if i fail or only do OK, they will leave me alone". It is fundamentally a fear of others expectations.
Here Come the Spam Jets
those pictures are creepy and I really dont like the slideshow format (used often in forbes), it takes so much longer to read.
What strange article. I find it reasonable that Google might want to experiment with small nuclear reactors. Then the author goes off into imagination land suggesting that Google might colonize and become and independent nuclear armed nation which would need Mutually Assured Destruction against China. Seriously strange.
I wouldn't be the least bit upset. Fuck 'em.
So you think most people found the post interesting because of the thing that they're actually going to talk about next time rather than the actual content?

I believe that it's been widely read because of the novelty of avoiding crashes when dereferencing null pointers; in fact, for anyone who could have jumped to the conclusions about how the exploit would work, they could have reduced it to one line: "You can map address 0x0 with mmap and then segfaults on deferencing null don't happen." All of the rest of the article is only useful to people who don't know systems programming.

At any rate, I'm not sure that our fundamental disagreement is that wide; clearly the article is laying down a building block for a later piece on the security exploit and it was written to serve that purpose. This seems to be your point. My point is the actual content can stand alone and, in fact does, and is not about security.
Yeah I agree with there being no clear winner. I don't know of any area in Australia that has a sufficiently large cluster of startups to create a thriving startup culture.

That's why I'm curious about niko1 coming to Brisbane to start a startup. What's here that isn't elsewhere?
It depends if you consider a false sense of security better than no security.
Of course it sends information back to google, that's how autocomplete works!

The real question is, do they still store urls typed if you disable 'Collect usage statistics' ? I would hope not, but this article doesn't address that.
On Lisp ebook, in one single html file
>> "In which case I'd ask why you are bothering talking to us."

Mainly boredom, apathy, reluctance to do any work, etc

Seriously though, the same applies to the positive - If someone posts a comment saying how awesome I am and how much they admire me, I'd just laugh and move on. I wouldn't suddenly be euphorically happy. It's just online banter - they could be deranged, they could be being sarcastic, they could be trying to get something, etc.

Anything said online/in emails etc shouldn't be taken that seriously.

I'd say 1 real life person saying something (positive or negative) is probably equivalent to about 100 online people saying the same.
Woah. A 3rd party does your entire value add and yet your hack up your own?
> Hiding the error does not mean that the error did not occur or that it is not a problem.. It was about to occur and there is still a fundamental problem in your logic leading up to the would-have-been segfault that was swept under the rug.

It's an error only if you didn't want to dereference address 0. If you know it's safe and useful to do so on the system for which you're developing, why shouldn't you be able to do it?

As the KSplice article shows, on Linux (under specific setup which is not the default), you can actually have something mapped there. I'd be hard pressed to invent a convincable scenario in which you would want to do it, but that doesn't mean there is none.
Only one file in a convenient format, for your reading pleasure.

Just in time for the iPad!

* If a kind soul can host the ebook for everybody to see before they download it that would be great
http://your.gridspy.co.nz/powertech dulled substantially.

Also, you don't support the CSS3 styling of the header text.

The fonts look super aliased.

Finally, you don't snap the rendered HTML to the nearest page, leading to a page containing only the footer.
I just wanted to point out (with humor!) that you are grumpy about English folk not understanding the rest of the UK, and yet you yourself (as a Scot) have no idea how Wales and N.I are organised!
Incorrect. Incognito mode does not use the search provider's autocomplete results.
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This is a possible coping strategy, but a shitty excuse for being rude. Not everyone is an attention-whore.
Could this even be a free text field? Some may prefer to put hourly, per project, or even equity stakes in their terms. Yes, it makes your data a little more difficult to filter, but the flexibility would be nice.
There's nothing to stop someone bankrupting themselves to get out of the debt.

And if there was it would likely fall foul of anti-slavery laws and international treaties on the same.
I can easily see a use for this. I'm doing a pro bono project for a small non profit, and part of the project requires generating simple PDF reports. They don't have any money so we need to keep it low cost.

One of the ways of doing this is to host it on a simple shared server (it's not a heavily used app).

Downside of this is that it's unlikely we'll be able to use any of the PDF tools I've used in the past (since they need to be installed). This should work fine for our purposes.

Thanks, I was wondering how I'd get around this.

To all those who were dissing this because they couldn't immediately see a use for it, try to have a more open mind.