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When I first heard of this I thought "well, bugs in software are like asymptotes, you can always close the distance by half but never get there".

I read that a few of the gray haired market geniuses were blasting the exchanges for failure to correct "basic electronic errors" and had to chuckle. No one can understand even the basic functions of everything!

Now its been days and no specific mechanical/process culprit has been identified. As trades are interconnected, it seems impossible to cover something like this up. Everyone wants to point a finger and be done.

Perhaps the answer isn't a "Black Swan" but that confidence is really that low and things are really looking that bad.

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Hehe, cool little project Daniel, judging by the time between the registration and the announcement that didn't take you very long at all!

Why the email hook, and not simply a download link?
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Did you perhaps mean perl 5.8?
It continued to sell well outside US too.
Dropbox uses https for all of its communication, which makes it a non monitored form of communication. A lot of people use dropbox for sharing files and folders for organizing events. You could also share videos and documents about banned information.
If we have the same video in mind, 'the last time' the video was edited and cut in the middle, giving the impression the battery was depleted halfway through.

Here's some battery 'benchmarks' (rather, accelerated videos) when playing video with Flash:

http://vimeo.com/9705969
http://vimeo.com/9724682
For something like that, how about an app like this?

http://www.popplet.com/

For what you're talking about, typical people would rather have something like Microsoft Courier than a hierarchical directory. Popplet is Courier for multitouch.
My HTC Incredible runs flash.

Like it or not, flash is part of the web. I'm not a huge fan of flash, but it's _everywhere_, despite what Steve Jobs wants you to believe.
While I agree with you, the vast majority of users on Facebook are more concerned who won Dancing With the Stars than about any information exposed about themselves online. Sadly, those are probably the same people the click on ads. For Facebook, and companies like them, it's win-win.
Hah, what's funny is that Jeff Hobbs, the author of the article, is one of the main Tcl developers.
I am now using an exercise ball http://www.freestylemind.com/exercise-ball-office-chair . I don't have a standing-level desk but the ball reminds me to stand up every once in a while. It's not exactly what you're looking for but it could be a cheaper alternative
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>The likelihood that the first drive will fail doesn't change because the second one failed

No thats the point, hardware failures on the same machine/rack/psu/site are not independant.
A power supply spike that kills drive 0 in a RAID will probably kill the mirror drive 1 as well - that's why RAID isn't a bckup stratergy
Commercial VPN, I'm using Freedur now
US sales are definitely a direct reflection of AT&Ts iPhone exclusivity.

Last quarter was essentially the first time Verizon had really good Android phones on offer. And the market of people who choose network first has been starved for a really good consumer smartphone.

Congratulations are due to HTC and Google; the Incredible is a great phone. But I don't think anyone believes this is a market result of Android vs iPhone.
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Twitter is not a community. Twitter is a tool. A community can use Twitter, but I think describing spamming Twitter as destroying a community is disingenuous. The success of email, usenet and blogs/microblogs etc depend on their openness and easy access to all. Which also means people can and will spam them. So spam on twitter should be seen as a natural and nessecary side-effect, not the end of twitter. Berating the spammers will only increase your blood pressure - the spammers, tweeters and Twitter itself will continue as always.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/22/farmville-nexus-one/

Keep in mind this is using the Flash Lite player, though, not the full 10.1 that will be released in a week or so.
+1

...and it is my glue. So many things in my environment wouldn't happen to be able to talk to each other if it weren't for Perl.
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Yeah, you're right, unfortunately, but it's a step in the right direction.
I tried the demo and my frame-breaker broke me out...
The HTC incredible uses Flash Lite. Flash 10.1 (the one demoed here) is supposed to be much better in terms of performance and battery usage (not to mention it has many more features than FL; FL is around Flash 9 sans some features).
Most are.
Not really. Using JavaScript to add mask <div>'s is a messier solution, requiring more KB of code, especially if you want it to work on all browsers, even those that don't properly support DOM manipulation. Also the JavaScript would have to run after the other parent <div> has already been downloaded and rendered, meaning that there would be a brief time when there was no mask.

In my opinion, it is just easier and cleaner to add an extra <div> to the code than to add a bunch of extra lines of JavaScript to do the same thing.
Looks kind of awkward but not bad for a beta. I'm curious how they are going to handle the small text problem. The first demo is a good example of that. He locks input to the Flash app so presumably to zoom in and out you have to unlock input, zoom in, and relock it to continue using the app. That could get tedious.
He suggests in the foreword that you donate copies to schools - you can do so at http://craphound.com/ftw/donate/. I think that's a great idea. More info is available in the actual text as to why and how.
Visual Studio 2010 supports TDD with new Generate From Usage feature
DoGooder Firefox/Chrome Extension Aims to Raise Money for Green Initatives
At least for Flash video many sites will serve up HTML5 video instead based on your browser user-agent. So you might see Flash where an iPad or iPhone user would see HTML5 video. Try switching your browser UA to iPad for a few hours. It's interesting to see the difference.
"... lose the ability to sell private data."

Facebook does not sell private data. It never has. In fact, if Facebook's evil plan were to someday start selling private data, encouraging users to make their accounts more open would make this plan less effective: you can't sell public data.
Cherokee (High Performance Webserver) 1.0 is out
You have to have a gold subscription to use the account online (in non-guest mode).

So you would have no friends, no gamerscore, tens of accounts and paying for gold on them constantly.

No one would do this and that you would even think of it makes me think you've never even used xbox live.
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Clever title... I thought the headline was complimenting his new novel, but it's merely referring to it by name.
Cue flash-forward to Mel Gibson hauling a datacenter-in-a-box across the desert, escorted by mohawked Aussies with guns
Pointless? If I'm navigating a website that has video or interactive content and I want to see it, and there's no alternate content, how is that pointless?
Well said sir.
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But ignorant people spend money too.
How did the researches measure peoples' happiness levels?
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Arrrrg he used only the -webkit hacks and did not put the actual CSS3 commands for other browsers.

i.e. -webkit-box-shadow:0px 0px 30px #ccc; should have box-shadow:0px 0px 30px #ccc; and so on. It just ruined the entire article..
No. It said Perl 5.12 because Perl 5.12 was released April 12 this year.

However that said, Perl cuts releases of old branches from time to time. So 5.8.9 was released a year after 5.10. See http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.0/pod/perlhist.pod for a full release history.
Whoa. Are you talking about QuickPOPFile?

I would have happily come to Japan and spoken, I've been there before and always loved the place.
Not only does gmail have a limit but you're violated the TOS. Look into http://sendgrid.com/ and check out your ip's to see if you're on any blacklists. It looks like you're using ec2, so there's a good chance that email coming from your webservers will be blocked.
1. I'd take these more as guidelines or suggestions, then. No harm in trying.

2. I totally agree that there's no standard definition to happiness, but is unhappiness not sort of universal -- i mean pretty standard. Call it unhappiness, dis-ease, or malaise, not feeling good, feeling out of sorts/low -- that kind of thing.

Some of these points certainly do help in making someone feel a lot less of these things. I find spreading good cheer - smiling and befriending new people really makes me feel much "happier", and these do not have to be strong/lasting relationships.

Showing affection to _animals_ really helps too. I have lots of stray dogs in my area, and i try to befriend them, some really respond lovingly, almost humanly.

Doing what i enjoy doing, hobbies is another suggestion.

Finally, I'd like to suggest some _meditation_. Keeping quiet, being internally silent for a while -- could be while sitting, lying, or walking in the park. Distancing myself from the constant din of thoughts and emotions and playback of the past.
Cheers!
Against iPhone OS, Android is the choice for those that have no choice
It's a Trap- Thinking that Infrastructure 2.0 is Merely About Scalability
Unfortunately I cannot off the cuff cite a source (if I find one I'll add a link to it, though). I can tell you the context in which I came across this. A couple of months ago there was a story that Adobe were "sabotaging" HTML5 - in reality it was Larry Masinter, Adobe's representative in the HTML WG, arguing that the canvas API falls outside of the charter of the working group. In one of the blogposts in defense of Adobe's position the author quoted similar objections that Apple and Microsoft have made regarding <audio> and <video> codec support when HTML5 was still in transition from WHATWG to W3C.

Apple have most certainly expressed concerns about Theora's performance and patent situation and I'm sure they still have them. However, those concerns were pertinent when HTML5 was being developed by WHATWG, because WHATWG are not limiting the scope of any work they do. That's not the case with W3C's HTML WG.
The whole article fails to mention any advantage of Perl over the languages it's compared to (wonder why). The sooner Perl falls into obscurity, the better.
Company plans to sell genetic testing kit at drugstores
The article still makes an excellent point, which is that the difference between most of the 'newer technologies' and Perl is basically marketing, not any actual superiority of language design. You can write line noise in Perl, but you can also write Python in Perl. It may not be quite as pretty as Python, but as far as use in a production environment it will be equally useful.
"Assuming they include over-the-air backup and fix the workflow issue" - hence why rsync wins.
If you use a javascript library such as Mootools, you could add a onDomReady event, wich fires as soon as the HTML is rendered - even before the <img>. Of course that means yet more Kbs, but almost all solutions have their downsides.

Regarding the original comment, I do feel the urge...clean and easy to maintain HTML is an irresistible compulsion for me :}
It is possible that the rhetoric is part of the brand.
Why should linux want to 'beat apple' ?

Linux and Apple can co-exist, no need for the one to grow at the others expense. They're both unixes anyway, under the hood the similarities are much bigger than the differences.
"All timing within the mainframe cabinet is controlled by a single phase synchronous clock network."

Awesome. I would love to work on a system this simple.
let them know where I'll be

Where are you going after Facebook? I'm interested in this because there is a nice opening niche to attract all the Facebook emigrants. Do you have a specific place in mind that you will join, or are you open to join a new social network startup built by HN members for example?
Bet you didn't know there was a [relatively] new COBOL-2002, either.

(If I were snarky, I would note that the next COBOL spec after that -- yes, there is one -- might well be released before perl 6.)
Echoing joe_bleau, a scanned PDF of the whole manual can be found at http://bitsavers.org/pdf/cray/2240004C-1977-Cray1.pdf
This looks nice, but could someone remind me, why is CSS better than JavaScript for this kind of functionality?
Well since it uses Webkit I guess just Chrome and Safari. It looks like Firefox is behind on animations, although they've implemented transforms now.
Self-funded? Are you looking for funding?
Why not just write Python in Python instead ;)?
For some odd reason, the Nexus One browser is a lot more optimized for canvas use. It blows away the iPad and the iPhone in terms of performance.
How to automatically label mail in GMail with POPFile
I do agree with the usability concerns. The less animation the better, imho. If you remove the animation component that almost all "lightbox-like" implementations use, it's quite a handy feature tho.

But then again, I guess the point of the article was about showcasing what one could achieve with CSS alone.
I set up a temporary standing desk at home for my work at night and on the weekends. I didn't really have a problem typing for five hours at a time or more. However, after about three weeks, I was getting aches in my ankles and calves. I took down the standing desk soon after that. I felt like it was sucking up my energy. I think standing about 20% of the time would be ideal.
I currently code for my day job in a proprietary extension to a proprietary dialect of BASIC from the mid-80's. This language is legitimately broken, and has significant disadvantages at every turn. It has no real functions, no block-level scoping, lists are stored as delimited strings, there are no hashes, and nothing even resembling objects.

Perl has all of these things. If you're coding in Perl and you write bad code, it's your fault. If Perl has a fault, it's that it's easy to write code that you think is done, when you have more work to do if you want to develop a full-scale application. However, you can write incomplete but good-enough code in any language. (And I will always use Perl to write once-off scripts. It's perfect for that task.)
"because it's holding the entire internet together?"

Could someone explain what this means in some detail? I hear this all the time but I could never make any sense out of it. Sure once upon a time perl was the best way to get cgi scripts running and do some web programming. Other than this piece of history, any specific examples of the "holding the internet together" property perl is supposed to have? What part of critical internet infrastructure depends on perl?

I am no networking expert but it seems to me that a lot of the infrastructure (apache, tcp/ip stacks etc) is written in C. How (specifically) does perl hold the internet together any more than any other scripting language? Or is this jusr something perl aficionados tell each other ?
I'm looking at it using firefox and the highlight seems to work for me.
Aptimize says it's software can increase loading times by 200%-400%
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I think I saw the guy behind this on Mixery awhile back. Curious what the HN crowd thinks of this product...
That will break on the demo - which is a trick to show your site "overlayed" by Patapage, and cannot work on all sites. But that does not mean that Patapage will not work on your site.
By private I mean when I upload a picture and set the privacy to "only Bob" It makes me think that Bob is the only person who has access to this picture.
Last year a hurt my lower back and was forced to stand up as much as possible to help the healing process for 6 months (sitting down puts 6x more pressure on your lower back than standing according to my chiropractor).

I created a workstation that allowed my screen to be at eye height and keyboard/mouse to be at the right height for my elbows to be at right-angles. That was by far the most comfortable position to stand and type/mouse from. Later on I found having the mouse higher actually helped too with arm ache.

As for how long I could stand for, the first week was not a problem. I was doing 8am-1pm followed by 30 minutes sitting down, and then 1:30pm-6pm without a break other than a walk to the toilet occasionally.

From week two my legs really started to ache from the kneee down, I found myself leaning on the desk to take away the pressure. Investigating why this was happening I found it is to do with keeping your legs stationary as the muscles can cramp or just go stiff. The solution is to keep moving so a cheap manual treadmill should do the trick. The alternative of taking frequent breaks doesn't work as it breaks concentration.

If you have to do this for a couple of weeks then you should be able to cope, if you want to make a "change for life" then come up with some way to keep moving while working.

For those who do sit down all day and don't have back problems a word of caution. Sitting all day makes your lower back very stiff, but you won't notice this until you try to do something and hurt yourself. It may be a lifting task that an unstiff back could cope with. Taking time to exercise and stretch can save you such a disaster, I am healing well now, but still get twinges and have to be carefull.
NY Time's Android app makes a mockery of iPad version
Just so I'm not missing something, are there browsers which would support the Webkit CSS but not support DOM manipulation? Or are you concerned with people running NoScript style plugins?

Not being hostile, just want to clarify.
Perhaps I should start selling POPFile + GMail as a service? I wonder how much people would pay for me to have POPFile magically label their gmail messages for them. Especially since GMail allows OAuth access via IMAP.
Sample size of one, but I just showed this to my wife and she thought it was very cool. Neat idea, best of luck with it.
Cherokee should get more attention. Its gui config might put some hardcore users off at first, but it works well and Cherokee offers a lot of functionality in a nicely constructed package. In addition, it appears to run every bit as fast as nginx in my completely informal testing. Worth a look.
Or write Perl in Perl. Some languages allow code not only "as pretty as Python", but even prettier.
If someone knows of a place where I can get good worldwide weather data-sets, this would be a very interesting project for me to try.. I don't think it would be hard (given good quality sets) to match the US zip-code data to other places. It sounds like a very fun logic problem.
Well, I was thinking of spending more time with Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer, and going back to email and text messaging but if you've got something planned I'd love to hear about it.
Except, that Jeff (who used to work for me at Scriptics) is a pragmatic kind of guy and is likely to not allow his allegiance to Tcl prevent him from seeing what else is going on out there.
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What if the manual-save stopped working and didn't tell you?

You made a change - that's it. You don't save your paper after drawing on it with a pencil, do you? Death of filesystem, rise of tags, automatic saving and versioning go all hand-in-hand.
I think that they use the social graph linking you with your friend's accounts, and the information they get when your friends give FB access to their GMail account. Makes sense, right?
Realistically? I'd be surprised if they even lost 1% of users (4+ million).
There are some mask effects you're missing. Firefox ignores -webkit-* CSS.
>I agree with Hixie that putting it in the spec is pointless if Apple and Microsoft are going to go against the spec.

I disagree.

The spec should enable the web to be used unencumbered by patented software/codecs.

Ogg Theora or any other free+open container and codec (VP8?) would enable people to use FOSS software to create video and put that video on the web without being beholden to the H264 patent holders group ("MPEG LA").

Microsoft or Apple Computers or whoever would then be required to implement a viewer in their browser in order to comply with the spec. If they don't then they don't get to label themselves "standards compliant" without committing fraud and can't badge themselves with W3C compliance without trademark/copyright infringements.

If Opera, Firefox, Konqueror, etc., implement the full spec this applies pressure to obstinate commercial megoliths to also move to implement it.

What we have here is akin to knowing that the GIF patent situation (Unisys trying to get money from nearly everyone on the internet) is around the corner, already having PNG but not requiring that browsers implement PNG.

I think the situation is far worse than the GIF situation though, eg http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Vid... . Now http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/know-your-rights-h-264-pa... Engadget did a review of the situation in which the MPEG-LA say that they're not really going to hold their license terms (which mean that you can't shoot film on _any_ camera and use it commercially without purchasing a license) against people and basically they're really nice and we shouldn't be afraid of them. Which I agree, we have nothing to fear until the spec is widely implemented and the open license on H264 gets pulled out from under everyone in 2015 and MPEG-LA attempt to pull a Unisys.
This may get downvoted, but:

I personally know you to be a trustworthy guy, but people outside of Hacker News probably won't (and you aren't even associated with this project on the site, regardless). So to the average passerby this website looks mad-sketchy, like it is a thinly disguised attempt at stealing personal information.

So I'd work on the design a bit, to avoid that perception.

That said, I'm about to boot to Windows for the first time in ages and try this out. :)
I like my braces ;}.

Also, Perl 5 is feature-stable, and probably always will be. Python is in this 2.x-3.x limbo right now where it's difficult to find libraries that are going to work as-is for much longer. If you write a Perl application well, maintenance will as easy as reasonably possible, which I think is the only real measure of a good language. Most of the 'ease of use' problems disappear once you know what you're doing, and the language learning curve is a relatively small part of a programmer's life-cycle.
And even when it was available, the bandwidth was small enough that you were a little limited in what you could transfer, and how quickly it could get there.

I remember circa 1989 when my school (RPI) got onto NYSERNET, at what I believe was a 56kbps link. How much correspondence can be shoved through a pipe that size?

Around that same timeframe, outside of academia, us hobbyists that wanted more widespread communication were relying on things like FidoNet[1]. That would package up a BBS's messages and ship them out on a nightly basis -- to a limited number of nodes (I think), so it could take quite a while for messages to propagate to the entire network.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
8 - 10 hr days are no problem. I built up to that over a few weeks.

Other possibly relevant factors: Switched to dvorak about 10 years ago. I'm in athletic shape and maintain a healthfull diet.

I usually have a dead tree format book going, and take occasional breaks during the day to read, cook, exercise, take a walk, etc.

Footwear makes a big difference. Minimal slippers were best. Anything with arch support makes my feet hurt after a few hours.