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Whereas I might now and then decide to share my location via services like Foursquare, I will NEVER share it on Facebook.

I just can't trust them. They've proven it over and over.

So I have to be extremely selective with what I share there, and outright lie in some cases.

It's a dysfunctional relationship, and it won't last.

They're in for crash.
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Much discussion about that programme here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797723

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121063

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=101255

Frankly, it's a load of crap, and shame on the BBC for having produced it. Contemplating the mathematics of infinity didn't drive them insane, they were already troubled. Hundreds of thousands of mathematicians happily deal with infinity on a daily basis.

What a crock.
Is every story on here just something someone saw on Reddit?
The problem is that this is yet another revolution which reverses the conclusions and advice of the previous one. It's not a revolution like modern physics, which qualified and re-explained classical mechanics. It's more like the French revolution. Off with the heads of the anti-fatists, salute the anti-carb flag... until the next reversal which will surely reject the conclusions of the current one.

The situation is much like with artifical intelligence in the early days - trying to boil the problem down to a few simple rules. Until we are willing to accept the huge complexity involved in the problem we do more harm than good. There is no single useful scale on which to judge foods. (See lukesandberg's comment and link below.)

In the meantime I recommend you eat like a caveman.
Pfft, the only "innovative" thing on that page is the damn figlet BETA sticker. I'm not trying to be innovative, because frankly all you guys who keep using that word must not know what the hell it means.

I haven't seen one single bit of innovation at all from anyone doing tech businesses. The name of the game is to either:

1) Take an existing successful thing and add 2 features.
2) Take two things and put "meets" between them.

I just did both #1 and #2 is all. I took craigslist and added two simple features people want, and then said it's "posterous meets craigslist". Then I slapped some cash value on it, because that's the best way to actually, you know, make some cash.

Now, never mind the fact that I wrote the email framework (http://lamsonproject.org) that can make it happen. Just doing the above two things has got people millions in seed funding for the dumbest stupid ass ideas ever. At least my idea's got a proposed way to make money built in.

Finally, yes, this is MVP. I spent $15 on it total and about 10 minutes of my time. From that I got #3 on HN for most of a day, feedback from smart people, several volunteers to help, and all from a single hand written web page I crafted with vim while laughing at how ridiculous and awesome it was.
Indeed... wonder why they went for jaggy rotated screenshots on the homepage though.
This is exactly what I needed! Open Source for the win.
where's my block of [citation needed] tags? Some of the things he claims (e.g., Eastern meditation is only about having an empty mind - that sounds like the Southern Californian branch of Zen Buddhism).
Oh, just noticed - he does cite a website, which in turn cites "Buckland's complete book of Witchcraft" and "Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experience".
Extra credit for dressing up claims with neuroanatomical terms.

But, yes, he's right in that you should set aside some time that is free from distractions and where you don't do anything but think about what you're about to do.
By whom this study was funded? The Association of American pork producers, I guess. =)
Well everyone knows this is coming, even without the code. It would be news if facebook wasn't pursuing location based features.
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I've managed to capture a few nice shots with him and his horse while he was preparing the barouche for the next ride.
Glycemic index is not all it's cracked up to be:

- meal GI can be lowered by simply consuming more protein/fat based foods, or high grain foods alongside the food.

- Studies of GI look at each food in isolation

- GI ignores the insulin index which surprisingly is not correlated that well with glycemic index, meaning there is more biologically at play than simply GI

- Lower GI is not correlated that well with healthier choices

Like everything else, it's not a silver bullet. "Eat unprocessed food that runs, swims, flies or grows" is a simpler diet plan and more likely to be good for us because that's what we evolved to eat, not how quickly does one food in isolation get metabolised compared to 100grams of dextrose.
i should have added "and their type". a type i can't seem to avoid in my professional life.

confronting their mentality (by reading what they write, by reading what others write about what they write) feels productive. more productive than cultivating a kind of detachment towards 50+ hours of every week of my life.

but maybe it isn't - i'll give this a try. thanks.
Target audience: Myself. I have some guitars and pedals to sell so I'll write it and use it to sell them. After that I'll try other people who need to sell guitar gear. Why? Because people who sell guitar gear want bigger pictures.

If by "local" you mean craigslist and ebay, you gotta seriously different view of local. I plan on hawking my guitar crap by pointing my twitter followers at the page I make. That'll work for now.

Finally, I plan to have it make a page. Then I'll link to that page off my twitter. Then people who want to buy will email me. And then, I'll sell stuff with it.

I'm thinking, hey, maybe other people would like a way to make a page of pictures of crap they want to sell to point their friends at so their friends of their friends of their friends might buy it.

At least, that's the start.
"You just quoted Family Guy" - I thought you liked The Simpsons

I don't see how this relates to the rest of the examples.
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I think there's like 2 bugs I still have to fix, so yeah maybe I'll just fix them and release.
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This guy must have an incredibly large number of files if 2 XL instances running deletes for a month only cuts his S3 usage by 10%. I routinely see 700 DELETEs per second from a small EC2 instance; if performance scales linearly with CPU speed, he should be able to do 700 * 8 * 2 = 11200 DELETEs per second, or 29 billion DELETEs per month; if that's 10% of his objects, he must have 290 billion objects stored.

Except that, oops, S3 only passed 100 billion objects a couple of months ago, and at its current rate of growth is probably still under 150 billion, never mind 200 or 290 billion.

My guess is that the "FAIL" here is whatever process he's using for deleting files -- not in S3 itself.
You should think about location. I'd like to search per country or even city. Are there any standards for geotagging in email? Doubt it.
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please fix the URL, or did you intend to point at the #comments?
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When my zombie is running amok, he's usually out terrorizing the townsfolk because he feels lonely and sad. He's rarely hungry.
Reddit has every story ever so yes.
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To state what's kind of the refrain of Silicon Valley, you are not their target audience.
I would say Teambox is a twitter-like approach to project management. You can either refer your message to a specific conversation/task or just make a status update like "Working on xy". I have used Basecamp for years, and the main difference is, that Teambox is (in my opinion) better to stay on top of conversations. I've often found myself losing track of conversations in Basecamp because of new threads being opened and older threads moving to another page.
And if you're going to incur several thousands of dollars to change S3 credentials on a "vast network of machines", you've been doing node/cluster management wrong.
I had not seen this, but it looks very cool! Thanks for the link!

Curious, how did you find out about them?
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FarmVille would be "a just another one of the million stupid flash game nobody know about" without facebook.

btw, there is no market for flash-based games, but very big one of upcoming WebGL standard.
Things I wish I had known when I was younger...

The current education system is essentially a massive gift to people* who are willing to make the most of it.

You get a ton of free time which you can use on any project you like. People (in education, business and especially government) are willing to put in a huge amount of time and effort to help you if you ask. Any (business) mistakes you make, even quite serious ones, are treated with leniency and there is no stigma to failing and starting over.

For a good portion of that time trivia such as cooking and cleaning can be entirely delegated to someone else, provided you are engaged on a venture that can be described in a way that makes it meet with parental approval.

The only thing you have to do to stay in this paradise of self-determined education and exploration is to turn up to some classes (40 hours a week! that's hardly a full work load) and occasionally pole vault over a final exam. If you really are so smart you should be able to do that with ease.

Frankly I think that people who think that the current educational system let them down probably failed to hack it to their best advantage. I know I didn't take full advantage of it, but I acknowledge that it was my problem and not the fault of the system.

*At least, people with parents willing to help you work out how to pay the bills.
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and if you like to compete in something that lets less than 10% win (prize = admission).
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It could be argued that derivatives traders are simply satisfying a market requirement - what about the folks who buy these things not really understanding what it is they are getting into, even though they are investment "professionals".
I have also had problems deleting large amounts of data from S3.

The problem that underlies the problem the author was having is that S3 is quite slow and you can't do batch deletes. On top of that, they limit the number of API requests you can make per second. In some case it has been faster to download an object and re-upload it again than do a copy.
I'm really happy that Hermann and Pauline Einstein didn't feel this way.
think of HN as an arsegarbage filter (to quote stephen fry) .. it works well most of the time
I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to think the guy is mis-applying the principal of non-attachment (or whatever it is) in the second two instances.
Learning on your own is not necessarily significantly different than studying, especially in the modern day of omni-available media (e.g. wikipedia).

Many years ago when I was in high school (before the web) I discovered that reading things like national geographic and scientific american on my own time was a perfectly adequate and often superior replacement to a full year long course in biology (which I didn't take and yet still managed to be at the very top of my class in AP biology). And I didn't start to outstrip my home grown knowledge of particle physics until I started taking 400 level Chemistry courses in college.
So did you actually implement that A-B transfer idea? Cause I very seldom seen it work out for people (but, granted, it was a different country)
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What are you using to parallelize your DELETEs? 700 / sec seems pretty nice
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Why do I get a downvote me on this? I'm european, and for me a billion = a million of millions, not a thousand of millions.
Who reads reddit?
Farmville piggybacked on FaceBook to get popular. I think such a move will hurt both, because

* not every Farmville on FaceBook user will follow Zynga

* a lot of Farmville players only visit FaceBook for the game

On the other hand: a commission of 30% seems pretty steep.
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I remember reading in a book "exposing" management consulting business practices that one major firm of consultants (known as "The Butchers") always recommended the same thing to companies: sack 25% of your workforce, regardless of the real problems the company had, the answer was always the same (of course, as they were being paid to come up with this answer they pretended to do a lot of detailed analysis to justify this conclusion).

This actually worked - for most companies (especially ones addicated to management consultants) you can sack 25% of the workforce and see immediate gains in profitability - which the consultants can then use as references to get more victims/clients. Of course, in the long term this does a lot of damage to companies but as long as the short term figures look good nobody really cares.

The book is:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rip-off-Scandalous-Management-Consul...
I believe he did recognize that distinction, actually, when he said that traders are not investors, and vice versa.
I think you missed a current application that needs a stack of bandwidth — network boot or install of operating systems. MacBook Air's already do a wireless network install from another machine and ChromeOS will be delivered solely via the internet. You can dismiss the prospect in the same way you've dismissed cloud storage but given trends in physical media for music and video, I don't think a decade will pass before doing an OS upgrade or install that requires physical media will be considered a curiosity.
I simply meant somewhere with lower academic standards/expectations (maybe I use Podunk wrongly). I don't know about the US system, so no $$$ issues were in mind.
Totally agree. That was an awful, awful program. As was the similarly awful thing that "Infinity and Beyond" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qszch). The truth is that since Cantor we know that infinity is something we can work with in an algebraic pattern and there's really no need for all these BS BBC programs trying to make it look like something totally weird.
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I was a gifted child and was also an extremely lazy student. I'm not sure if these two things are commonly related but I feel like the reason I flunked out of college the first few times was I was undisciplined and didn't understand the necessity of hard work and "jumping through hoops" that is often required in life. After venturing out into the world and working full time for a few years I gained a greater appreciation for the value of a college degree. Of course I no longer really believe the value of a degree is in what you learn, but rather is just a bullshit externality imposed by society on the market. So I'm returning to school to get my degree, but I'm doing so as cheaply as possible at state schools. I'm not sure I've necessarily learned anything besides how to shut up and do what I'm told, but of course that might be the point: college might be designed to filter out unsuitable workers. If that's the case however it's a great tragedy because that sort of system was designed for an economy that no longer exists: America is becoming a more volatile and entrepreneurial place, and we need more resilient and entrepreneurial graduates rather than cogs for the 20th century industrial complex.
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You might have a nocebo effect on some.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
Silicon Valley needs to get out of its bubble, then. This sort of talk is spreading in places you wouldn't expect. I've seen it in totally non-technical communities all over the internet.
Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating and Gary Taubes book on Calories both have two different arguments for how the current dietary advice became mainstream (and why it's wrong)
Wow. What a bold initiative. In an age of of Flash websites and very slick designs, Zed Shaw comes up with a website that is more minimal than minimal. Something that could have been a home project almost 15 years ago.

So he threw it to the wall... I wonder if it'll stick. We'll see. I'm guessing it will.
I agree. He makes some very good points, but weakens his argument by talking out of his ass about subjects (i.e., "Eastern Meditation") he clearly knows nothing about.

I can't speak about the whole of "Eastern Meditation", if there is such a thing-- but I happen to be taking a graduate course right now on Buddhist Meditation, and I can tell you that the breadth and variety of meditation techniques within the Buddhist tradition is staggering, and that a large number of them don't involve "meditating on nothing."
$1500 would buy a really nice server or two on a colo rack.
Actually, I'm 90% certain that this is almost a "joke". I can smell the irony off of this post.

The idea actually seems good, but the billing $1 for a picture seems very out of character for Zed.

Personally, I like the idea.
This reflects my own personal experience. Despite participating in the occasional extra-curricular gifted student program and a voracious appetite for knowledge I did relatively poorly in school up through middle school. I was horrible at completing homework or projects regularly. Had one or another of various factors (such as my parents, my personality, my group of friends, etc.) been different there's a very significant and non-zero chance that I would have dropped out of school before completing high-school (and a very real chance of becoming a juvenile delinquent as well).

Instead, at some point during my freshman year in high school while I was contemplating why I had fallen onto the average track for english and science (and hating the boredom of it) I said to myself "fuck this" and decided to do something about it, working the system as hard as I could to my advantage and putting in a significant amount of personal effort. Ultimately I graduated as one of the top students in my high school (after completing 7 AP courses) and I went on to achieve a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics only 2 years later.

However, not every student is lucky enough to have the parents, school system, etc. that I had. And not every student has the personality or the moment of epiphany to turn things around. A lot of gifted students find themselves at odds with a school system that increasingly turns its backs not just on gifted students but on teaching itself. I don't find it shocking in the least that so many gifted students are ill served by the modern school system and find themselves at odds with it.
If you ask someone knowledgeable a specific question, they can frame the answer (and question) in the right context, customized for you and your question, and make you see the big picture. Also, you can follow up with more questions until you understand. It's easy to read something and completely miss the point (unless it is very well presented) because there is no interaction.
Heroes or idiots?
My grudge with this line of thinking is it encourages one to stay a failure while considering themselves an unrecognized genius.
Non-blocking I/O and 32 simultaneous connections. It could probably go faster -- I haven't made any serious attempt to optimize this since it isn't a performance-limiting operation for me.
Aye. That is what I do these days. But my long term retention rate for math formulae is nearly zero.

I just came home from a math exam. During the exam, I could recall almost every formula I had crammed last night. By tonight, I'll forget nearly half of them. In two weeks, I'll only remember 10% of the stuff I learned, and that too merely because some of those formulae were strikingly obvious or wonderfully symmetrical.

I guess I just have a terrible memory.
I love it - it's about damned time that the open source community started giving a real shit about UI.
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200k installs generate all that revenue in Ads. The average active installs is around 40%, though.

We started using Admob, but now we are much happier in Mobclix.
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It's possible that humans go into "low maintenance mode" as they get old. Old people sleep less, which may age them more, but also lets them get more stuff done.

Even if you can stop aging, it won't stop cancer.
We have this running in our organisation on our own server and it works great!

We had some issues with SMTP configuration, but for the rest the installation was very easy, thanks to Phusion Passenger.
Wow. I imagine I could have ended up very much in the same situation as you had things gone somewhat differently.

I would highly recommend earning a GED, by the way. Also, I think you might be capable of being more than merely "reasonably" successful if you put in the effort.