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kickstarter isn't about donations, it's supposed to be about microfinancing startups. They are investments.

I'm with GP, these guys wouldn't get an inch with any angel or VC's so why are the general populace giving them their money? just because it's $20 it doesn't mean you shouldn't consider it in the same way as a $20000 investment. A punt is a punt, but you don't put money on a statement, that's what lobby groups are for.
I have this, and I concur heartily. In Tamil, it's called a 'kosubat' (unofficial name - literally translates to 'mosquito bat')

Sometimes it is a lot of fun (and good exercise!) to dance around the house to Johann Strauss' The Blue Danube zapping the life outta the little pests.
Strictly that's true, but it depends what you mean by "operating system mods." Apps that replace "core functions" like the dialer, home screen, browser, etc. are widely available (in the official Market and elsewhere) for Android.
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Yeah sounds credible to me. Last year had Snow Leopard which was primarily a dev-oriented release - this year it's the iPhones/iPod/iPad.

I would speculate next year's will be all about the consumer and Mac OS X 10.7, could be wrong though.
And now everyone will know my secret shame of not being able to make up my mind.

I still don't think it's great for Kickstarter, but I don't think it's as big an issue as I initially did. I was hoping nobody had seen my comment, but they did; and I wanted to explain the reason I deleted my comment.
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The same guys who said "we are four talented programmers" in their statement? There is certain feel of grandeur oozing from them, and no deliveries yet.
The reporting complaints stuff seems like a non-sequitur. They could trivially be implemented and integrated with existing systems.
"Engineers would count for more than MBA's" - i never said that an Engineer/Founder should be the CEO.

However, in a Tech company the contribution and therefore compensation of an Engineer would be expected to be higher than that of an MBA.
The site is http://soundkey.com, and it aims to be something like flickr for sounds. So, the content it needs is audio (recorded directly on the website, or uploaded by the user) for any sound that the user feels they want to share.

It could be pronunciation of names, places, difficult words, etc, but it also can be just about any sound you think is interesting or want to share with others (since the website gives you a unique "soundkey" that you can post on facebook, twitter, etc.
.. sorry, how do you deliver networks over the cloud? Do they mean content distribution networks?
All Android devices are already capable of tethering; it's just a matter of downloading an app from the Market (there are several).
I re-read your comment and I don't see where you pick up that diaspora is a couple of google developers away from being big.

They are going to get more 'legs' is not the same as being big. The only thing that I try to convey there is that if they would get a couple of high profile people on board is that the project will gain a lot of legitimacy in the eyes of the the press and the blogs and that will give them yet another round of exposure.

I did not at all mean to imply that they would be 'big' because of that, there are far too many factors against them to even give them a fighting chance. If they play all their cards right they might be a niche player, if there is some kind of act-of-god then they might get a lot bigger. But taking on facebook at this stage is like taking on google or microsoft.
I was hoping this would be an alternative to Olark. They seem like a cool company but I have constant connection problems with them. I haven't used them long enough to figure out the issue, so it might not be their fault.

Is there any way you could have a 'help desk only' interface? I'd be scared to pop out a dialog at some unsuspecting visitor. I imagine my OCD would kick in and I'd alienate every person I had time to.
They rock and have built a great product.

This thread gives some more insight into just how awesome and open they are:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c2udg/iama_grooveshark...
When you insert in sorted order into a b-tree (as you do with timestamps), later inserts will be more likely to be all in one block, and also more likely to be near the top of the tree.

Since b-trees have the guarantee that no root-to-leaf path is more than a constant factor longer than any other, you are probably hitting the very edge of that constant, and since disk seeks are the designated hitter of the performance team, you're getting hit pretty hard.

So, effectively, even your index is growing fragmented the more you use it.

To verify the fact that you're not hitting the data file though, maybe you could strace it and watch for reads on the index and the data file.
Okay, so you have to think about repository state in order to understand rebasing.

You share some common history with your remote repository (for the sake of argument lets assume you've got a single remote repo that you and your friends push to).

When you make changes and commit them locally, what you're doing is adding new commit nodes to the history tree of your local repository.

When you push to the remote repo, the chain/branch of commit nodes from your local repository gets added on to the remote repository's history.

BUT, if, while you were working and committing, someone else adds commits to the remote repository... There is now new history in the remote repository that you do not share.

What rebasing does, is say "take all the commit nodes from my local branch (remember them), and rewind the history back to the point where my repository was in synch with the remote repository. THEN update my repository with the remote changes, and try and apply all my local commits on top of my newly synched tree."

TL;DR:

if your commit tree looks like this (where 'H' are commits which you share with the remote repository. 'L' are local commits and 'R' are new commits to the remote repo, which you don't have):

H-H-H-H-H-L-L-L-L

Your friend pushes his changes so the remote repository now looks like

H-H-H-H-H-R-R-R-R

Rebasing does this:

1) H-H-H-H-H [snip] L-L-L-L

2) H-H-H-H-H << R-R-R-R

3) H-H-H-H-H-R-R-R-R << L-L-L-L

If there are conflicts, Git steps through each of your commits and lets you fix the problems and merge. If there are no conflicts, it just seamlessly merges.
I'm all excited about this too, but does anybody even know these kids? Is anybody out there vouching for so much as their ability to program? 10k is a nice thing to risk at them, but 100k is pushing it in my opinion. 100k towards "a decentralized social network" sounds good, but 100k towards one particular decentralized social network sounds like trouble. At least it'll be open source so somebody else can take it and fix it if they screw up.

On the other hand, perhaps this money is useful for the market signal in itself, that this sort of thing is in demand.
OneSocialWeb is ahead, but their solution is geek-oriented, complex, and ugly. Any solution that's not mom-oriented, simple, and pretty just won't catch on.
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as a former government employee, I can almost guarantee this is true if the measurement is in money spent.
Why the random dig on product managers? Most [fill in the blank]s don't pivot either.

I think it really comes down to the organization's culture and the executive leadership. PMs will often be asked to create a roadmap, and then that roadmap gets approved, and then features get executed against that. If that is the structure then it is hard for anyone to pivot.
Shouldn't matter, this query shouldn't hit the data file. Clustering would just make fragmentation worse. I'd like to see the OP verify that it's only hitting the index file though (see my other post).
Curated streams will be popularity streams any day of the week
I'll say one thing - nobody gave a shit about me till the very first time I posted revenue figures a few months ago. Then I went from 40 twitter followers to 300 in a couple of days or so.
Facebook will be the king of the social web for a long time to come. That is maybe not very comforting but I really don't see how it could be otherwise.

They're about to become the #1 website. They have issues, mostly PR problems at this stage, but for every person that has left FB in the last couple of months a much larger number has signed up.
Ouch, so many side-effects. My scheme instincts are wincing.
Kids learn not just the language, but the dialect(s) that they're exposed to. At that age, being talked to is the only way they have of acquiring language, so they're going acquire exactly what they're exposed to. The idea of dialects is absolutely critical, but a lot of people aren't aware of them[1]. A kid isn't going to learn proper English unless they're raised hearing and talking it, no amount of grammar instruction is going to make proper English anything more than another foreign language unless they're actually speaking it for themselves.

This is not to say that "proper" English is any better than dialects of English. I'm a descriptivist, not a prescriptivist. That said, a) "proper" English is a pretty significant signalling mechanism so it's socially advantageous to speak it fluently b) if language influences thought patterns, "baby talk" is a pretty crippled language and you shouldn't cripple your kid's expressive or reasoning abilities. Even if they grow out of it, replacing their language facilities is lost development time.

[1] Going sociopolitical for a second: This is more of a problem for people who are members of the group "in power," for various definitions of the term, but being a middle-class white guy in America qualifies. If you're "in power" and your own dialect is the default, then you don't have to switch dialects depending on the social situation, which makes you less sensitive to the presence of dialects as well as their role in social interactions.
Computer traders blamed for Wall Street crash
Changing the channel on your cable box? There's an app for that.
Two words: libel laws.
+ Needing a sample document. That was key. We hit the nail on the head in focusing on end-user experience--which is what you saw when signing the first document. But users wouldn't know unless they actually signed something--so this suggestion was on the mark. At the same time asking a user to sign felt like heavy engagement AND was a little hard for a throw-away test of our funnel and feedback here aided our final decision for the successful test. In fact--our current signup is eerily similar to the well-pointed HN comments.

+ Google Docs integration. Easy to do. Perfect fit. It's tough when looking at all the great SaaS services to partner and integrate with. This and Freshbooks were both great in terms of technical and market fit.

+ Request for API (we had one, but it wasn't open). Now a big contributor to volume.

+ Ignorance even in the tech community. This sounds bad to say--but we knew from the outset that the law was changed in 1999 to support online signatures (and in EU/globally in 2000). We assumed a portion of the market would know this--and we were surprised how few did (thanks doubting HN commenters :-). Even in tech--where we regularly agree to our jobs, gigs, Apple purchases and even financial services--all online.

- Well--it's not a traffic generator as Reddit can be. It's actually USEFUL and actionable comments from peers. It's like our own tech-maker-4chan. :-P

OK--so most of the comments were great and we did implement most of them. I'm trying to find ones we ignored or regretted implementing--ahh--right we did the multi-signing-public documents that were requested. These were for petitions and similar mulit-signer and publicly available documents. This was a great idea and we implemented it and we had zero usage of it.
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Template metaprogramming: A slow descent towards utter maddness
Since the users can record the sound on your site I think this is a good candidate for using mechanical turk. You can review the work users submit and accept (thus paying them) or reject (deny them pay). Obviously if you deny a lot of people, you will have a reputation of not paying people, but I think if you give people very clear guidelines and review what people submit it will work.

You can also add filters like only allow people with approval ratings of greater than 90% to try and ensure you get good workers.
Not all history is sacrosanct.

REMOTE history is absolutely sacrosanct (A remote being any repository that someone is going to pull from), but you can do whatever you like with your local repository, so long as you only push from it.
This is about demand. As happy as certain open source projects are making people, people are willing to pay for the hope of seeing an alternative to Facebook.
My bad. Can't edit it now though.
I spend 6 months of my year living in N. Ireland while I continue to work for my US based company. The UK hasn't expressed any concern about this so far or asked me to file tax documents. If I was working for a UK company though that would be another matter.
Ah. I'm completely shooting in the dark, since I use Steam on Windows.

Can a normal *nix user also examine in-memory bytecode for other processes? (actual query; I have no idea)
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At their age? Not a whole lot. But then again, Zuckerberg was about that age when he built the first version of facebook.

It's not rocketscience. The problem is, there is facebook now.

And that sets the bar pretty high. Going up against the proverbial 800 pound gorilla makes for a great story but it will probably end in some squashed egos. The book rights will be worth something though :)

Just like duck-duck-go isn't going to overtake google tomorrow though, they might find a niche they can exploit.

Facebook exiles most likely.
Apple has one or more pending patents for it's (rather trivial) live streaming protocol and so far only agrees to RAND terms, see https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1142/ I have not seen a confirmation from Apple that it will offer royalty-free licenses if the protocol becomes a IETF standard. That should imho be a requirement for HTML5 adoption.

Also it may be better to adopt another streaming protocol for HTML5 because the Apple's protocol is not suitable for low latency streaming.
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All FB has to do to take the wind out of diaspora's sails is to announce they got the message and that they'll default all privacy settings to 'opt-in' from now on and apologize.

I would still give them the finger, I don't trust Mark to keep it that way.
I have been studying from Richard Stevens' "Unix Network Programming". Came across it while I was in college. Hope to read his other books also soon. Any pointers to what kind of companies I should concentrate on (eg. device makers, gaming companies)?? Thanks again.
PR agencies just can’t make the launch of a USB stick sexy. In my limited experience with PR agencies I have sadly seen that they seem to have huge problems telling that the client. They will write a press release when the client tells them to, no matter how unimportant the thing the client wants to announce is.

I think this article is quite apt, small companies and startups don’t really need a PR firm. A long and intensive relationship between client and PR agency is the foundation for good PR work by the agency and such relationships just won’t happen when you are a startup. Journalists don’t bite, be nice to them, make it easy for them and write good stuff for them. That’s all.
Diaspora about to hit $100,000 in donations
Strikes me as not too far off the inequality between "good products" and "successful products" in general. Books, movies, commodities, software -- why should fund-raising be any different?

It's a shame, but I'm pretty numb to the phenomenon at this point.
I am currently working in India.
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I can't help but wonder how much of the money raised for these guys is going to be spent on the rewards promised.
The Diaspora Project and Kickstarter: The Power of (Micro)Funding a Good Idea
I think that once the NYT article falls out of view, it'll slow down considerably.
There has been studies after studies on this but I think we all want our jobs rather be outsourced at 1/20th of the wage than have <1% of qualified degree(s) holders come to US and work here, pay taxes, contribute to Social Sec. and Medicare etc.

I wish we all could see how media (Lou Dobbs etc.) are just trying to sensationalize H1B for their own gains and nothing else.
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I'll second that. Congrats guys, great to hear this stuff. Inspires all the "dreamers" here including myself ;-)
Ofcourse we can look into that; the interface that is, not your OCD ;-).
My experience is in the C programming language. Apart from this I have some knowledge of Python also. I would rate myself beginner level in C++.
I did not specifically want Steam (never seen it before, and not sure how I feel about it from the brief experience I've had with it), but I do appreciate a wider choice of games. Maybe the titles that get ported for Steam Play will become available outside of Steam, and become less invasive. Right now there is nothing on this channel that I'd like to buy and can't get in some other manner.
By your logic, a person winning the lottery should cap at 100K and say no thanks, I rather not piss of my friends family and colleges.

Most likely the public interest in this project will die out within 1-3 months. Hopefully they will not ruin their future lives endlessly trying to reproduce this incredibly lucky strike.

But while their at it, they should get as MUCH as they possibly can and totally and shamelessly go for it, hacking, hiring other people to work with them, getting drunk in parties at the other side of the globe, whatever...

Giving that money back saying they are afraid to disappoint some anonymous crowd would be totally nuts.
I am happy they are getting this much money, but what is more interesting is to find out who is behind these guys. Who had the connection to the NYtimes, why did the story get picked up. They went from 0 to 3,000 followers in 1 day on twitter.
http://twitter.com/joindiaspora
I have done some analysis kickstarter fundraisers, and why some fundraisers go viral and others don't.
here is a quick example, same subject but only one was able to raise money http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?term=obama
Hm, on that point I'm not sure.

In any case, Steam isn't running with any elevated privileges on my own system (I already had access enabled for assistive devices, which Steam only seems to need to actually launch its games), so I have no complaint on a security standpoint.

My only complaint with Steam so far is that it hardcodes the directory it stores the games. I want to put them elsewhere.
I don't think it's a shame at all. You should take pride that you're trying to construct well-reasoned arguments, and in the course of that, sometimes you change your mind. Only cranks and trolls never have that experience.
I don't see why they can't continue to do what they're doing and track big notes. If anything, reducing the size of the note would make it blend in with notes used for legitimate purposes.

Tracking 500 euro notes and finding criminal activity is a means of solving problems. Inconveniencing criminals isn't.
I can't speak to CA, but in NV much of what the teachers union has done within the school district simply can't be talked about due to confidentiality clauses and other employee protection laws/regulations not to mention those about protecting the identity and privacy of minors. I can tell you that if it weren't for the legal protection offered by the union many good teachers would be out of jobs, and many others would never have become teachers as these services are often not affordable on an individual basis.
Yeah what a dumb fk
I think you mean js/revisions-js.php. I'm pretty sure what dvortr() is supposed to do there... it is pretty suspicious-looking, though!
Deactivate automated syncing in the devices preference pane of iTunes.
being critical of future kickstarter projects would be good, but being critical of kickstarter in general could be bad
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You wouldn’t want to exchange a suitcase full of cocaine for a suitcase full of gold and then discover, long after the purchaser had flown away, that the coins were 90% pure gold instead of 99.99%.

As long as you trust the ECB to keep inflation down, it probably makes more sense to stick with eurobills. It’s a lot easier to inspect a modern bank note than assay an allegedly gold coin.
Their current funding success will generate another round of publicity, that's already happening. Everybody loves to hate facebook so you can just about cue the next round of blog posts and press coverage.

edit: it looks like that was on the money:

http://news.google.com/news/search?q=diaspora+facebook
Thanks for the tip! Just re-downloaded and played through again. Not a big change, but well worth it. :)
The cloud provides the network for you. Admittedly the network has been slow to move itself into the "aaS" crowd since we haven't quite figured out yet how to provide a Newtork as a Service. But for the purposes of a layman's description of cloud computing, the cloud takes care of the networking for you.
Success is an outlier outcome achieved by people who are initially indistinguishable from the insane.
Hmmm...let's think outside the schema for a moment.

OP is benchmarking two instances of COUNTs against a relational database, each looking for the total number of rows in a 3 day period, right?

I'm going to make a guess that this is historical data and that "time" is stamped and never changes again...

Why not just pre-answer the question by incrementing a field (based on date) in another table every time you add a record. Then instead of COUNTing millions of records in seconds, you can read 3 records in micro-seconds.

I know what you're thinking: this will "slow down" your transaction processing time. That's true, but only by microseconds. I'd rather wait a few microseconds several times per day than 61 seconds when I really needed to know something.

Just because a DBMS has lots of capabilities (SQL, indexing, triggers, stored procedures) doesn't necessarily mean that's the best way to deploy something. Sometimes a little thinking and some extra functionality in your app can leapfrog mountains.

[Aside: I have implemented this exact solution many times, often reducing historical reporting run times by 95% or more. No one ever noticed any latency at transaction update time.]
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Well IANAL, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't apply to them. It's not like the Air Force is allowed to pirate software.
You would get few applicants for teaching positions with no pay to start. Teachers have to have degrees and teaching certificates which can be very expensive and given the current state of education many teachers enter the profession with student loans to pay off. An additional problem is that it's becoming increasingly difficult to gain employment as a teacher due to funding cuts and fewer teachers retiring among other factors. A result of this is that it looks like having a masters degree will end up being a requirement for teachers to keep their jobs, or to enter the profession. Being that teachers pay is not comparable to other professions with similar education requirements I don't see how this could possibly help.
This was just on the channel 4 national TV news in U.K.
A patent over a metadata/playlist file and various bit rate chunks of a file?

Well, they don't disclose what the patent is, but bleh, its just stupid to patent crap like that :(