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Am I the only one that found this article poorly researched and misleading? It mentioned that using "cloud servers" lets you quickly fix bugs, rather than having to "rebuild" your code before you fix the bugs. How does that have anything to do with cloud services? Secondly, I'd like to know how many of the apps that Heroku hosts are actually production apps. I know I host at least 15 apps on Heroku, but all of them don't have any paid addons, they have one dyno, and none of them are actually the production server for the application.
I've worked in KO3, it's awesome!
I've actually been thinking of building a simple homepage like this for a while for my son, who is two. He has trouble with the bookmarks tab right now (although I just started teaching him to use it, so he'll probably get better quickly!) But I think a homepage with icons would be helpful for him. And I think that spinning it as child-friendly could be a good route for you.

Question: is there a way to eliminate the tabs and just have all of your content, whether it's games, videos, whatever, piled up on one page?

I realize I could answer the question myself, however, I don't really like your privacy policy. If that policy is one you just lifted from somewhere else, you may want to customize it further. I would like to see somewhere in there that you will not transfer my data to third parties.
Aside from people not understanding anything about how steam works with the dedicated servers, I've never heard any rumors at all about that.

Though, I expect the mac port will make things work better on linux (in wine)
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"that people signed up based on a particular set of terms but the company then changed those terms and switched a default opt-in to a default opt-out after the fact"

Thanks for putting this in such clear terms. I am not on FB but whenever i get asked again - this is what i am going to tell them.
Seriously, who cares? So it's not what you're looking for... move on.
Eventing, like college textbook trading, is a perennial tar pit. That's not to say you shouldn't try, but see how and why others have failed.

One of the problems I see with what you describe is the amount of management that I'd have to do in order to make it work, since I have different social circles that I need different privacy settings on and each have their own page for group discussions, and then you can choose attend/not attend, etc. For me, it'd seem like a lot of time and work I don't want to be spending organizing.
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Here's a previous post on this excellent video: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1302116
That's a great idea and I'll definitely follow your progress on it (unfortunately I'm going to be traveling / out of the country that weekend). It addresses some of the problem space I'm thinking about, and I really like the short duration nature of it.

You might want to wait for the first competition to give some time for people to learn about it. This upcoming weekend is kind of short notice, but I guess if it's a regular competition you can see how it goes.

The random idea and random co-founder thing is an interesting way to mix things up but you might encounter some resistance with that approach. The distributed online nature of it doesn't address the community aspect I'm hoping to build, but I like the idea of a regular ongoing competition.

I also like your byline, a "pickup game" is a great way to frame it.
At least the journal doesn't require a subscription.
This. We have a regular espresso machine at work and it's the place talk casually because it takes at least 3-4 minutes to make a latte or a cappuccino. And who will complain about the free coffee? It's a very good way to boost morale at a very low price. Even at 20$/lb :-)
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This is great! And it falls a few days after my exams, too :)
Not to dismiss his points out of hand, but he is a chief at Nvidia, so I'd going to take his "multi-core won't work" statement with a grain of salt. SIMD and vector processors are great for some jobs, but certainly not for everything
Death - painful or not - is far off. Most smokers that I know suffer everyday with some sort of problem with the lungs or throat and which they don't admit to non-smokers.
5 years ago I took a picture of a cup of coffee and uploaded it to Wikipedia. It's been the picture used on English Wikipedia's coffee page for quite a while.

I see it used EVERYWHERE. When using TinEye I can find hundreds of places using it, only a fraction actually giving attribution like the license requires. But, I don't really care.

However, recently I noticed a hotel was using the photo in an advertisement at SeaTac airport, clearly breaking the CC license I put it under. A friend thinks I should send them a bill. What do you guys think?
I can imagine that, for example, TGI Friday's would pay a decent amount for an ad on a meeting request to eat out at Chili's or Ruby Tuesday's.
In some ways Apple is really positioned well to facilitate really great 3d graphics performance on the Mac, due to the fact that they only have to support a relatively small number of hardware configs, especially only a few GPUs, and only one 3d graphics API (OpenGL). They just have to give a shit about games for once.
Hi frognibble,

From what I understand, Tornado already starts multiple instances by default; the exact number of which is determined by the number of cores available. Is this still not adequate?

Please let me know because I would love to update my article(s) to be as accurate and as helpful as possible.

Thanks!
Smoking gives you something to do, and the thinking part happens naturally.

It doesn't work as well to stop thinking at your desk and go think somewhere else while doing nothing.
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What makes a great software engineer?
agreed. you could use a cookie/ip or something initially to set the user account
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Yes, and this is the same sort of problem many people had with Buzz. Your contact list was private, and then -- wham! -- there it is (or parts of it) for the world to see. (And your profile à la Buzz started aggregating Google-related activity; even if aspects of it were not previously designated "private", hanging it all off of your profile sure made it more accessible.)

If you knew at the start that that would happen, it might have stopped you from giving them -- originally and mostly through Gmail -- your contacts list. (Or using other affected services.) But when you signed up, they were all about "privacy" -- particularly after their previous efforts to reassure people in the face of concerns over automated ad targeting in Gmail. (Which was its own event, but I guess people generally decided that, as long as its purely automated and doesn't affect anything more than ad presentation, they could live with it.)

Hmm... as a thought exercise, what if your Gmail content starts affecting not just ad presentation but your search results. Would you have a bit more concern, then?

What if your employer starts examining employees' "customized" search results (perhaps by hiring a third party that specialized in this) and making inferences?

I assume they can and some may well already log and analyze the ads returned on those searches. Now that ads are starting to "follow people" across searches and sessions -- at least at some sites -- what personal habits might you inadvertently be bringing with you to work, via third parties' tracking of and response to your web use?
Let's keep in mind that we're comparing a 2001 car with much more recent ones. Here's a video of the 2008 F-150, where it holds up dramatically better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LkAzt_0qIg&NR=1

Progress is awesome.
MIT's OpenCourseWare is an excellent way for him to study CS on his own while in high school.

I would recommend, at 14, getting him utterly hooked on the mindset of CS and related subjects. Godel, Escher, Bach, etc. If you can get him fascinated with the field, he'll find all the information he needs on his own better than any list of required reading you'll get.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465026567
What appears normal and acceptable while you are a smoker feels pretty abnormal and unacceptable once you are free from the habit.
Personally, I just think of the corollary: If a game or a product is good enough, they won't need $150 million in advertising.
> If more people knew about these stories, knew that they could get a big cash payout then everyone who has a photo stolen would be talking to their lawyer, which would make it a very harsh environment for big corporations to play games like this.

The thing I find most amusing about this whole affair is that the provision for the statutory damages that AFP might suffer was actually the result of big industry pushing for draconian penalties for copyright infringement by the little guy. I won't exactly be full of sympathy if a big company finds that the same rules apply in reverse...
Get a TI calculator and try making some simple games for it in TI Basic. The calculator is nice because you can program in your not-so-great history classes or whatever.

Also start messing around with Python, there is no overhead and you can get started quickly.

Paying attention to math is important, but more important is honing your problem solving skills.

(Addressed everything to the OPs cousin for readability)
Keep in mind that it's really hard to approach these types of companies. And when you do approach them, you'll have to have a large audience.
Is it a product or a feature? I don't know, but that may illustrate the heart of the problem, and the difference between Kiko and Facebook.

I think startups have been trying to do this since Web 1.0.

Maybe a freemium model? Target businesses? [Though they use Outlook.]

BTW don't let your friends see that ranking! ;)
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Not having to run software written by the creator of Qmail.

Kidding!

The first advantage I see is relying on one less externally-maintained service in your software stack. Other than that, I don't have technically sound reason for using one over the other.
I was wondering why Yalp (which I rarely visit) knew about my Facebook account.
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While I don't think I'm at all within the target market (as has been discussed elsewhere in the thread), but I had to give you kudos for the way you present it to the user. It very quickly shows you why they should use your service and what they may be able to get out of it. Good job.
They're great for a lot of things, I thought. I dunno, I do loads (haha, I just realized that's a pun) of work with stuff that uses SSE.
I think it could stand alone as a product. As far as people trying this from Web 1.0 days - I'd say that was just a timing issue.
Maybe some view Facebook as the new cesspool.

This would be a great time for a competitor to capitalize on the bad press and differentiate themselves with a more compelling alternative.

I guess the question as always is how to reach the "normals"?
The Instant Personalization stuff has potential to actually be an issue, but everything else seems like an overreaction.
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Time boxing and pomodoro technique helps
There is another difference between twitter and facebook.

The twitter opt-out was for one feature and only on that one site.

Facebook doesn't provide a way to completely opt out of this feature.

Note #4 on the list 'Finally, check Facebook’s “Help Center” frequently to see an up-to-date list of applications that need to be individually blocked to maintain your privacy'

Facebook takes the action of automatically adding you to new sites, but not telling you that they have done this. So the onus is on you to continually go back and remove these sites from your feed.

Furthermore, Facebook is continuing to share your information with these sites, all you are turning off is your view of what is being shared.

It's very shady.
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Here's something interesting about the pricing structure: if you get a spot instance, and bid like $5/hr max for it, you won't get overbid for it, and your hourly cost is going to be far less than outright buying the reserve instance itself if you need it longterm.
Well lets hope more people sign-up.
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The friends list is still available to third parties through the data API's. How long until a third party provides that data as a product? Actually, Facebook itself is already offering that data to employers, IIRC.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm not talking about the publicly exposed "graph". I'm talking about what they've long provided to their third party affiliates, e.g. all the approved Facebook "application" developers/hosts.

P.S. Notice the nice information asymmetry involved in this, as well. You, as a private individual, have no access to this. But designated (and / as in paying) parties do, at the sole selection (I think I'll avoid use of the word "discretion") of Facebook.
I just tweeted about this and someone reminded me about Startup Weekend. I assumed you knew about it already, but just in case: http://startupweekend.org/. Same time frame, but for SW people have to be physically present (unlike minileap) and the ideas are group sourced by the participants.
Note: Probably not the case everywhere, but definitely was the norm where I grew up in the burbs.
I also agree, but I still think the HN community is great for getting feedback. It's true that we're not really aimed at hackers. However, a similar site to us AllMyFaves.com just hit 100M page views (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6U_mVE_...), and I doubt HN users would use them either. Thanks for the encouragement!
Great, Ill keep checking back. thanks!
Not listed: A.N.A.L.O.G. http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/
A favored source of type-in games. I recall the James Hague that runs dadgum.com submitted some games to either A.N.A.L.O.G. or Antic, and possibly articles too.
That is a fair point. I guess because I'm a laptop user, I almost entirely use my own machine for the web, rather than a work box and a home box, or access from an internet cafe etc, but there are still plenty of people out there who would benefit. I think adriand's point about it being great for young kids is really strong, too. Best of luck with it!
Remember Beacon?

The News Feed is shared with people you know, and only people you have added as Friends (or sometimes one step removed when somebody you know comments on a photo or something).

Beacon was about selling your information to advertisers and 3rd parties whom you had a very loose connection with. The example being the guy who bought his engagement ring and had it broadcast via facebook before he was even engaged.

With the news feed, you control the information which is posted (with the exception of being tagged in photos).

Now Facebook is sharing your information with 3rd parties whom you have NO connection with.

I don't use Docs, Yelp, or Pandora, but they were given access to all my information.

Remember, they were 'given' access before Facebook announced what was happening. Before we had the option to opt-out.
I had already added a link to Google site search. See the footer.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329380
if you want maintained software, consider runit:
http://smarden.org/runit/

its more or less daemontools.. updated!
"Welcome to a free exchange of information, the way it always should be."

http://woz.org/friends/
"I'm not sure how you could get traction..."

I think one way to get traction would be to expand a profile or messaging feature of an existing site that has a reputation for trustworthiness with user data, and then fork the feature after it reaches critical mass.
Yes, that is quite a difference, it's like it's a completely new design from a passenger protection point of view.
Was this site coded in 1992? Viewing the source code it sure seems like it..

Spacer images? No thanks Favetop!
Though you may not be manually ranking in Facebook, I believe they do have some algorithms on the back end which promote people you interact with more frequently in the newsfeed.

I could be wrong though. A quick search didn't point to anything.

If they don't do this, it shouldn't be too difficult to do via the social graph.
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Heh--maybe what we need is a new GeoCities. Oh, wait:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocities#Litigation
And saving them to cassettes...
We're talking about the stock market blip from this week. If you can demonstrate that this happened due to collusion between government and banks, please do.
true, i hadn't heard anything bad before...
We are looking at giving users customization options under Settings. As heavy Internet users ourselves, we're on the user's side when it comes to privacy. We never monitor user activity or transfer data to third policies. We do need to update our privacy policy.
Brisance's question wasn't relevant to what I'd said, or this thread, and that's why I didn't respond.
The demographic is vastly different now. Imagine this sorta thing goes on the 6 o'clock news which parents would interpret as a hazard to their family's privacy. Most of the current demographic will not understand Facebook's privacy settings. And the whole freakout over this is will be blown out of proportion to the point where parents are going to tell each other to "protect" their kids on Facebook or worse demand some sort of legislation that does.

One of the biggest reasons I think this might happen is because a vast majority of people still trust what they hear on the TV or radio over some website or online document that says Facebook cares about your privacy.
Testing by experimentation (random glitch spacing and random glitch duration) is inherently an instance of the halting problem. If you don't have any failures, you know all the combinations you have tested work, but you can never be sure there isn't a combination still out there that you didn't hit that would cause a failure.
The gist is that these editors are both customizable to the extent that proficient users don't see the need to go elsewhere. They're both keyboard driven, so one finds their productivity soaring as their dependency on the mouse decreases. They're text oriented, so moving around and manipulating text is much more natural and speedy than other modern editors.

In short, give either a shot. You might find it does everything and more that your current editor does. Neither be 100% comfortable to you over night, but in time you'll wonder why you worked with anything else.
I'm dealing with this right now. My exams begin on Monday, and I just started preparing. I might fail a paper ... again :(

I believe your inaction is not really procrastination. You probably have a lot of material to cover and you don't know where to begin. This is inaction due to indecision. I guess you should decide what subjects you're going to tackle first, and in what order, and then just start studying. The more you think about the amount of stuff you still have to cover, the more indecisive you become.

I'm just hypothesizing, though. Take my advice with several spoonfuls of salt ;)

Next semester, I'm going to take PG's advice and treat college like a day job [1]. You might want to try the same approach.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
We use spot instances a fair bit in this way. It has worked out pretty well so far.
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This is not new at all.

Here's a segment of an email header from 2006:

X-Facebook: from zuckmail ([128.208.54.23])
by washington.facebook.com with HTTP (ZuckMail);
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:31:27 -0800
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Something that contributes considerably to mitigation of the problem is to make changes "opt in". Users not opting in continue to get the old model. If you just can't support the old model any more, the default is removal of presentation and/or removal of the information involved.

A few people who can't be bothered to back up their own work and data, nor to respond to announcements of upcoming changes, may be pissed when items are "lost". But no one's privacy is compromised. Further, if you provide clear means of such a back up and/or instructions and advisement to maintain private copies, you can help lessen this second problem.

That's something to Google's credit, that they've officially supported and developed means for users to retrieve their data locally into documented, usable formats.
Ask HN:  Would anyone be interested in a Hacker News wiki?
I just saw this comment by pg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329415

I can understand pg's point of view on this. On the other hand though, I honestly wasn't aware of searchyc until I saw that thread. It seems to me that if pg won't make an official place to post links to things like that, there should be an unofficial place.

On the other hand, I can't really think of much else to put there other than a couple of iPhone apps and the link to searchyc. So is there enough content out there to justify a wiki?
It would be perfectly possible (and, in fact, easy) to set up an app that people could "host" which would handle all their posting, status updates, events, photo's etc (indeed it's basically just a bit of an advanced blog).

You could easily put together a standard for sharing this information between sites; so people could either run their own page (mypage.com) or go with a provider (username.socialnetworkofthefuture.com) and yet information could be permissively shared.

The problem is as follows:

- aggregating data into a stream (a large overhead if every time you post it has to be sent out to X number of sites)

- finding people/friends (no single search - which is useful)

- getting people to understand the concept

That last one could be a killer blow...
Yes, but unless the names match they don't know who is family and who are friends and who are acquaintances, and I might like to set my privacy levels different for different groups of viewers.
Does he want to study computer science or software engineering? If he wants to study computer science he should take lots of math, particularly courses that involve proofs. I recommend algebra, graph theory, and combinatorics in particular. I'd recommend Haskell or SML as programming languages since they have so much theory behind them. Haskell has a great community and is really nice to use, but SML is simpler to start with and has a concise definition.
I'll email this to a couple of people who might be interested.
Ask HN: Is there a future in XSLT?
I've been looking for a content management system and came across Symphony (http://symphony-cms.com/). After playing around with it, I like how it works — but it uses XSLT for its template system.

I don't know XSLT. I've read a lot of negative opinions on it browsing reddit and HN, so I'm not sure if it's worth learning or not just to use Symphony. I also don't see it mentioned that much on the web, and there's not too many recent books on it on Amazon. I've been using HTML 5 recently as well, and I have read about some difficulties using HTML 5 and XSLT together.

Just thought I'd get HN's opinion on what they think of XSLT and its future.
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Joe Stump gave a similar talk at EuroDjangoCon last year (the topic is officially: dealing with a fuckload of data, but a lot of the same lessons). Unfortunately I have no idea what became of the recordings.