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Thanks for reaching out Bret. Some suggestions going in order from user focused to app/site focused:

1) Fix graph.facebook.com to respect user permissions. graph.facebook.com/userid publicly leaks real names and UIDs even when users ask to be non-publicly searchable. This is creepy and makes users nervous that they don't have control over their privacy.

2) Give users back granular control to explicitly disallow sharing of any info they wish to keep private. This includes their friends graph, likes, wall access, etc. (empowering them to have the choice will reduce the sense of lack of control).

3) Let the application/site owners describe what they intend to use the information for. Ideally hold the app to the contract as well. example: "Need access to your wall in case you explicitly tell us to publish/share something on your behalf - we will never post to your wall without your approval".

Anecdotal story:

I showed someone Quora 2 nights ago as suggested they sign up. She said "Why do they need my Facebook? No way!". When asked "why?", she said, "I don't want that site spamming my wall - who are they?".

My takeaway: If Facebook wants to be the login for the web, it needs to give people comfort that they have control over how an app/site behaves on their behalf.
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Agreed with the article. I begin to dislike this Google design and look, too busy for me, same with Reader.

Is there an alternative to Google News?
I'm pretty sure the more realistic the benchmark gets, the better CouchDB would fare. Some of the abuse I've seen it take (under NDA) you wouldn't believe. I mean seriously sick shit like many many thousands of concurrent users on a server with less oomph than my laptop (don't try this at home, as soon as we saw that we started the user on an agressive upgrade path).

Anyway I'm just ranting now so take it with a grain of salt. But Erlang was designed to be un-killable, we're just standing on the shoulders of giants.
I see two aspects of this approach to MVP: (1). it does enable you to test your market with minimal cost, so you can fail-fast (and for it to be accurate, it has to portray the business as existing); (2). it is saying something that isn't true.

> I’ve got a dialogue with my target customers, who are amazingly passionate about Reputely and really want to help.

My question is: do your target customers still want to help etc after they find out the truth? It seems to me that it would put people off - but that's just an opinion/hypothesis. What, in fact, happens?
Not to mention the large screen on the wall displaying a world map and lots of green text on black. It reminds me of a movie set. Given the very likely rapidly improving/changing technology used by the NSA, you have to wonder whether it's truly the movies basing their sets off of the real NSA, or if it's the other way around.
FlockDB isn't a data store itself. They use FlockDB on top of MySQL AFAIK.
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I'm pretty sure any app can use those hooks to function as a contact source or sink. For example, I think the Yahoo apps do this, but I've never used them.

http://ymobileblog.com/blog/2010/06/30/yahoo-brings-its-worl...
I agree. From the looks of it, they're akin to a rich benefactor commissioning a work by a promising young artist that will ultimately end up hanging in a museum, just to say in their social circles, "I funded a promising young artist that is showing at blahblah..."

I mean, they're basically giving the prospective developer all of the profits and guaranteeing them 100% of the IP. They just want to expand the culture of Indie games.
I rather not have a world where there is one most used implementation?

I think it would be better is the world would get to the point where unix (as an informal platform) with many implementations became the norm?

Some kind of low-level virtual machine layer could then be used to support binary-only distribution for commercial software?
I think the difficulty in explaining this is that you have to "inject" a value in at the start (indeed the Smalltalk equivalent is called inject:). Without injection, the function amounts to:

a1 op a2 op a3 op ... op an

where op is some binary operation. Executing op can either start from the left or right, so you have a left-fold or right-fold respectively. In Unify ATM I've defined the functions:

(fold iv ar f)
(foldr ar iv f)
(foldn ar f)
(foldrn ar f)

Where:
-r = right fold, -n = no injected value
ar = an array (Unify uses arrays not lists)
f = a function taking 2 arguments
iv = an injection value

Although it might be better to cut the functions down to 2, and make iv an optional argument:

(fold f ar vararg iv)
(foldr f ar vararg iv)

Alternately I could use 'reduce' for the injectionless, and 'inject' for the injectionful versions of the function.
Interesting, but I'm curious as to what applications this has. The article points out that to get the benefits of 4k over 1080p, you'd basically need either some very expensive equipment or a movie screen. This might make sense for a website providing feature-length movies as its primary content, but I'm not sure I understand why Google would implement this technology in YouTube - a video sharing site made up almost entirely of user-generated content.
I think a good feature for such an app is to notify me via phone app or the web or my alarm clock and let my response take effect in everywhere. I shouldn't have to dismiss a reminder or snooze it on the web and then dismiss it on my phone, etc.

I want redundancy of reminders for safety but not for hassle factor, if that makes sense.
Yeah, I'm just probably not being imaginative enough. Even if you give someone a tiny bit of status that says they're a member, that's what they're "paying for," even if it costs nothing. And all the psychic benefits just happen to be lurking behind that.

I just can't believe this is where you go to before exhausting everything else, though. Just up and asking your customers to give you money like this has got to change your relationship, just like lending or giving money to a friend, right? I have to say I am fascinated to see how this plays out.
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I am interested in social networks and applications in that realm. My recent interest in online trading has led to my project: SocioTrade. Started in March, 2009, it's been a fun ride... I'm hoping to get some new users soon.

Why another marketing site? Well... let's just say I don't like clist because anyone can be anyone. I don't like FB Mplace... I am paranoid about privacy and user rights, hence that doesn't suit me. eBay is good, but it lacks real people behind it.

There's a lot of ideas I want to bring forth and try in a new marketplace. But since I'm the only developer, it takes time...

Anyways, let me know what you guys think. Also, there's a current promo going on, a free iPad. Check out the site!
Indeed, but most users of task killers don't kill the background processes they actually want. They set those to update every nanosecond, then kill useless things like Maps, Browser, Contacts, etc., that aren't actually draining their battery.

(Alternatively, there are some nasty apps that start at boot and won't quit, like Sipdroid. Those you have to kill with fire. But it's a special case, and not how normal users use task killers.)

The other case is the homescreen-killing issue; that is something task killers can give the illusion of fixing. But it's better to install CM, enable compcache and swap, and never deal with that BS again. I did that, and it staved off my need to spend $600 on a new phone. Task killers, in comparison, did nothing, because they don't solve any underlying hardware problems (or work around them in a clever way, like compcache).
I know it's not justified, but I just kind of assume everyone on HN has read every XKCD.
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No need to speculate, just go to Settings -> Applications -> Services. I currently have 26 running apps and 3 services (Twitter, keyboard and Google messaging). You can kill them there too.

Better yet, Settings -> About phone -> Battery use. Display and Cell radio usually dominate this list.
If deflation was just happening in housing, I might agree. But it is not.

The problem is that deflation is happening across the board. The price of food. The price of clothing. The price of furniture. All are affected. Most of those products were not part of the bubble, but all are impacted by changes in the money supply.

The real problem comes when people get used to deflation and start counting on it. In that environment people don't think, "I have 10,000 dollars, what can I invest it in?" Instead they think, "I have 10,000 dollars, imagine how much more I can buy with that next year!" And when you kill investment, all sorts of bad things happen. For instance in the short term companies stop growing, stop hiring, and you are likely to get prolonged periods of high unemployment. And in the long term you have reduced productivity.
You're being downmodded because you're wrong.

If you want T-Mobile's stuff to go away, install a ROM that doesn't have those things. Moving my stock myTouch3G to CM was the best thing I ever did; T-Mobile's image is massively out of date and sucks. Install up-to-date software, and the phone works much better.

Yeah, I know "average users" don't want to root their phone and install custom firmwares, but you aren't an average user. Use your intelligence to solve the problem instead of convincing yourself you're working around it.
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Yes being non-Canadian, that line did make me cry a little.
Shame you are downmodded, as you are 100% correct.
I don't know about you, but to me this seems like a big blow to the reputation of Cassandra. I know a bunch of people (including myself) whose primary motivation for investigating Cassandra as a large-scale data store was "Twitter is using it, therefore it's got to be fine for what we want".

In my experience this was not the case -- after quite a lot of prototyping, we moved away from Cassandra. It scales brilliantly, but its query time has a pretty solid floor that I was unable to shift to speeds approaching what I needed: it never went up, but nor did it go down.

Of course, I am a total noob at distributed systems -- perhaps it's simple to get it to go faster, but Twitter's move away suggests not. (Facebook's use-case is quite different, and in any case they still use an awful lot of MySQL too) The other systems they cite as currently using Cassandra in production are nowhere near the scale of the primary tweet store.
one interesting aspect of inflation/deflation is that neither moves through the economy uniformly. one market can be inflating even while another is deflating

Right now, things are definitely deflating if looking at the whole. The loss of hundreds of billions in perceived value definitely removed some of the "currency" people thought was part of total buying power. The currency left over is naturally more valuable and price declines are the result.
And I have searched in vain for an app that just provides a local contact store. I'll write one when I have a free moment.
The sub-reddits are very static. I see pretty much the same links over the course of a week on my landing page.

Plus, the "all" frontpage is now a cesspool of the internet (IMO).

Plus, twitter has a pretty good (and addictive) information flow nowadays.
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Since you don't have comments enabled on your blog -- I have to ask; why do you think these purchases were "unauthorized"?

There was another article about this on HN. Do you not know what an in-app purchase is and how it works?
Umm... Just a thought. Why not use those tiny uC for that. You can get pwm to dim LED (and that too randomly). The only problem is that every motor I can think of, which would enable it to fly would make it to heavy (or I have all the principle of mechanics wrong).
Taylor still believed in the importance of individual character and skills. Taylor used the term "first-class man" to refer to the kind of person you could train to do high-quality work in scientific management. But he was careful to say that someone else (ie a manager armed with scientific methods) should determine what the optimal amount of work such a man should do.

Today, Taylor is mostly remembered for the tactics he emphasized: time and motion studies, the separation of planning from working, etc. But that overlooks his lasting contribution, which is that the systems that are used to do work could be studied and scientifically improved.

His 1911 "Principles of Scientific Management" is actually a very short read, is in the public domain, and is quite fun. You can get it for free for your Kindle here: http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Scientific-Management-ebook...
Not in Canada though, or at least not in the big cities. If it weren't for immigration our population would be in decline (especially once the baby boomers start dying off).
Core inflation is kind of a lie anyway, they basically extract any commodity that they claim has a volatile price and only track ones that don't. What about food and energy prices?
How the fsck is this Adam Croot's fault? Twitter can't clamp down on all accounts that used reserved words from every programming language. It's the third party services that are in the wrong by requesting stuff they know is not required.
I grew up in Central America in the 70's - 80's. If you only read the news, back then, you would have read about right wing assassination squads, communist guerrillas fighting US supported dictatorships and a revolving door of military juntas and coups d'etats.

But fact of the matter was that it was lovely. Sure, you had to be careful, but there were more murders in DC, Detroit, Chicago or NYC on a weekend than there was in an entire week of "guerrilla warfare" in Central America. I spent a great deal of time on amazing beaches. I rode a sea turtle, and got peed on by a howler monkey.

Murders, crime, internet kill-switches, tea partiers, debt doom and gloom all make for great headlines. "It's good TV" as they say in the media business.

But, really, how much does California's debt crisis affect you from day to day? How often do you see police brutality on a regular basis?

I've actually worked as an ER nurse in the ghetto of Chicago for 9 years, and I've seen cops beat the shit out of people. The police that I've worked with on the Bay Area peninsula are some of the nicest, most professional police I've seen in year. Granted, I haven't spent much time in Berkley or Oakland.

I'd suggest fasting reddit for a few months. Either that, or limit yourself to a select group of programming subreddits for a while. Really, things are just getting going again in the Bay Area. Tons of cool startups are crying out for engineering talent, and there's going to be a lot of great exits once larger corporations feel like it's okay to start spending the $1.6 Trillion in cash reserves they have on hand.
It's not Twitter's problem. It's the apps making erroneous requests who are in the wrong.
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If the list at http://canadaimmigrationblog.com/skilled-worker-occupational... is correct:

New:

0811 Primary Production Managers (Except Agriculture)
1122 Professional Occupations in Business Services to Management
1233 Insurance Adjusters and Claims Examiners
2121 Biologists and Related Scientists
2151 Architects
3113 Dentists
3131 Pharmacists
3222 Dental Hygienists & Dental Therapists
4151 Psychologists
4152 Social Workers
7216 Contractors and Supervisors, Mechanic Trades
7241 Electricians (Except Industrial & Power System)
7265 Welders & Related Machine Operators
7372 Drillers & Blasters – Surface Mining, Quarrying & Construction
8222 Supervisors, Oil and Gas Drilling and Service

Old:

0111 Financial Managers
0213 Computer and Information Systems Managers
0311 Managers in Health Care
0632 Accommodation Service Managers
0711 Construction Managers
1111 Financial Auditors and Accountants
2113 Geologists, Geochemists and Geophysicists
2143 Mining Engineers
2144 Geological Engineers
2145 Petroleum Engineers
3141 Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists
3143 Occupational Therapists
3151 Head Nurses and Supervisors
4121 University Professors
4131 College and Other Vocational Instructors
7213 Contractors and Supervisors, Pipefitting Trades
7217 Contractors and Supervisors, Heavy Construction Equipment Crews
7241 Electricians (Except Industrial and Power System)
7252 Steamfitters, Pipe fitters and Sprinkler System Installers
7265 Welders and Related Machine Operators
7372 Drillers and Blasters – Surface Mining, Quarrying and Construction
8221 Supervisors, Mining and Quarrying
8222 Supervisors, Oil and Gas Drilling and Service
9212 Supervisors, Petroleum, Gas and Chemical Processing and Utilities

Unchanged:

0631 Restaurant and Food Service Managers
3111 Specialist Physicians
3112 General Practitioners and Family Physicians
3142 Physiotherapists
3152 Registered Nurses
3215 Medical Radiation Technologists
3233 Licensed Practical Nurses
6241 Chefs
6242 Cooks
7215 Contractors and Supervisors, Carpentry Trades
7242 Industrial Electricians
7251 Plumbers
7312 Heavy-Duty Equipment Mechanics
7371 Crane Operators

Note that this is the list of people who can apply for a work permit without a job lined up. Does anyone know if there are any restrictions for people with job offers? (Proof that no eligible Canadian can be found, etc.)

(EDIT: because I didn't read the formatting guidlines)
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I was wondering, what are the best books which have been eye-opening or incredibly interesting about philosophy that you all have read?

Two examples of books:
Common Sense (I'm reading it for school)
&
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (I've been wanting to read this)
I wrote a lengthy post about this earlier but it seems like i have closed the browser before posting :-/

Long story short, this one is exceptionally well done and the author seems like an actual Schemer, which is a major plus.

The interpreter doesn't have a prompt, so it looks stuck ;-)

I would use it if I was stuck in a Ruby shop; this is industrial strength stuff.
It's bizarre in the sense that it's a rare problem. I can approach any of a million US sites, give them some money, and put an ad on their site. I can head over to http://buysellads.com/ and do that right now.

Being subjected to foreign laws can't be a huge concern, surely. Contracts for advertising (and, heck, almost any online service) specify the legal jurisdiction that applies to the transaction. If I live in Kazakhstan, buy some ads on a US site, there's not much I can do if I agreed to a US-based contract whether Reddit breaks Kazakhstani law or not.
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I think that this a big step in the right direction. While I don't agree that DRM should exist in most cases, making sure that consumers who bypass DRM for legitimate reasons goes against the general way of thinking that the consumer is a thief (in a good way).

Plus, if there is a clear punishment for preventing consumers from using works under the fair use acts, there might be a good reason for companies to think twice about making their files ultra-super-mega-DRM'd.
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With a domain name like that, you won't be getting a lot of fans from stutterers like myself.
What do you consider the best available information on google's history?
programming is not a skilled profession? wtf?

i guess i'm just bashing these keys with my elbows randomly out of some primordial animal instinct, hoping the Python interpreter will consider it valid code.
That site looks a bit dodgy to me, but the same list can indeed be found on the official Citizenship and Immigration Canada website:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who-ins...
left-fold and right-fold are not the only two. If you're dealing with commutative and associative operators, you can group them up in a binary (or n-ary) hierarchy for parallel execution as well ... and is there a name for that?

map is obviously parallelized in a purely functional language. My opinion is that fold, otoh, is better limited to use with commutative and associative operators for clarity and transparent parallelization. That way, you don't have to think about whether you need to use a left or a right fold, or indeed a parellel fold.

Other "iterations" can be expressed using explicit recursion using an accumulator ... again, for clarity.
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I don't think they're avoiding Cassandra as their tweet store because it's not capable of performing well. It's probably more cause it would be a really long process migrating every tweet into Cassandra. I'm sure if they could, they would go back to the first day Twitter launched, and use Cassandra as the tweets store.

As for query time, maybe your problem was I/O throughput? I've read Cassandra can be really slow if you have poor I/O throughput. This happens a lot in the cloud, where I/O is usually shared.
You should also ask them about their "Flattr for comments" model. I can't remember where I heard about it, it might not even be implemented yet. Anyways, the idea is to give the site hosting the user generated content (comments etc.) part of the revenue. When you've upvoted a comment you could get the option to Flattr it, if you have added Flattr to you profile etc.
I would think that this would be a fairly application-specific system, and thus jQuery or other popular frameworks wouldn't be able to provide a method in a fairly abstract way.

I might be wrong though...
I don't know if it counts as a serious philosophy book, but I really enjoyed Godel, Escher, Bach. Math, computers, consciousness, etc.

I'm currently reading Reasons and Persons. Thought experiments and discussion about how personal identity works under, eg, transporter copies.