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My god most of these comments are sickening. It sounds like a group of old men reinforcing each other how much better people were "back in their day" all the while forgetting what "back in their day" actually was. Is it jealousy that is fostering these posts?
I once tried to do it with bash scripting on ubuntu - was a pain in the ass. This one definitely looks better.
Still, the whale matching app space seems to be still wide open :-)
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Applied. Sounds like a great opportunity to meet some other hackers from around Vancouver.
free publicity for Pivotal + freebie recruiting data (getting closer look at the Diaspora guys as possible future employee fodderr)
I believe Google's networks are going to be symmetric. For the sake of discussion let's assume 1 Gbps up.
If I were to take your analogy seriously than it would right to argue that all operating systems are just OS, it makes no difference whether you use windows, OSX, Linux, BSD, solaris.

The reason yor analogy doesn't work is because condoms are single purpose, blogging software and OS are not. They can be and has been able to set them apart from one another with features, implementations, ease of use and services.
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Those numbers alone really don't mean much.

How many queries per second can they handle on those nodes, and with what latency? What kind of relevancy calculations were they able to do at query-time in their system with 1B documents per node? Were they able to support query-time aggregation of structured fields in their documents? Was the index stale or did they support continuous feeding and indexing of new documents? If the latter, how well did they meet their SLA QPS and latency when indexing new documents?

I can set up a single search node and fill it up with God know how many documents any day, but the difference between supporting 10 QPS with ~500ms latency and 3000 QPS with the 99 percentile below 40ms is really more interesting than exactly how many documents I have per node.
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Being a solo founder sucks in some ways (everything on your shoulders) but nice in others -- hyper-efficient communication and pivots, for example. I've seen both, done both, and see advantages to both.
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I dare say a handful of physicists and chemists did not have major bearing on the US economy, after their accomplishment of needlessly incinerating a bunch of japanese.
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In reality, there are good teachers and there are bad teachers (and more bad than good).

Those who are good at teaching, teach implies that somehow teachers are selected by their ability to teach, which is not true. Teachers happen to be teachers for a variety of reasons; but their talent has little to do with the fact that they continue to be teachers.

The case of bloggers is arguably a little different; certainly lack of talent or experience does not prevent people from blogging, but traffic provides at least some objective (if imperfect) measure of success.

But I would expect people who describe the road to world dominance to first document what they really know about it: if they haven't traveled it themselves, have they at least interviewed many successful people? What books have they read before writing anything?

What do they know?
> A condom is a condom is a condom.

This ignores quality, convenience, and the user experience. Not all condoms are the same, and how they are deployed by the user makes all the difference in the world.
AFAIK, investors are normally willing to invest one hundred now and get one thousand several years later.

Not quite. VC plans on 9 out of 10 deals not working out. So that remaining 1 in 10 has to make enough to pay for the rest. That means that a 10-fold return just breaks even. But it gets worse. For an investment with a 10 year horizon they need to beat alternate investments. If you peg those at 10%/year (compounding annually), then you now need a 25-fold potential return on investment for the fund to have a chance to meet its goals.
it requires Java applet

I hope there is a NaCl version :)
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Eventually, programmer pickup lines will affect robot pickup lines:

Eve: Directive?

Wall-e: [Smashes trash] ta dah!

Wall-e: Directive?

Eve: Classified.
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Perhaps we have different threat models regarding social networks. I'm concerned about one big company being able to analyze (within its own databases) the social network communication and friend-graph of a large part of the population. I'm less concerned about targeted attacks on individual semi-public messages. Some of my friends use Adobe Reader anyway.

If reading a person's social network communication and local friend graph requires approximately the same effort as breaking into an individual mail server or sniffing SMTP traffic on a network node, and the criminal effort is approximately proportional to the number of persons to supervise, that's OK for 1.0 for me.

I don't know the details of the protocol between Diaspora instances. But I hope that if some foreign Diaspora instance wants to read my messages to my friends on my own Diaspora instance, then it has to supply some proof that one of its users is a friend of mine.
[tired] How often do I have to say it ?

[Condescending explanation] Among the four freedom, free software gives you freedom 1: the right to private modifications. Meaning, as long as you do not redistribute the software, you don't have to redistribute the source code. And if you do distribute a particular version of that software, only that version of the source code must be accessible. You can still conceal a private fork.

Now in the case of software executed remotely, or software as a service, Eben Moglen himself reckons there is a conflict of rights: because the client is effectively using the code, it should have access to the source code. And because the server do not actually distribute the software, it should have the right not to release anything.

You can't satisfy both rights at the same time. The GPL satisfies one (it is 100% compatible with privacy rights), and the AGPL satisfies the other (and makes itself incompatible with some privacy rights in the process). That's a pity, because before the rise of software as a service, the GPL was the ultimate freedom respecting licence. Now you have to choose between two compromises.

PS: Don't say "property" about software, if you can help it. It is a inaccurate analogy from the physical goods, which fail to convey the truth about knowledge. (Of course, software is pure knowledge.)
Ah, completely missed that point about the Reply All kind of function
No Oracle RAC shares the same storage between two or more nodes.

What they had here would appear to be database A running on storage A which is replicated at the storage level to storage B where database B waits in an idle state. Because the replication system is "blind" - it only sees its own filesystem containing bytes, not Oracle data structures - it can't tell a good Oracle block from a bad one and copies it.

I do this sort of setup for a living and you would be amazed at how many "architects" there are around who have completely drunk the storage vendor kool-aid and don't really understand how anything works (not even storage...).
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Am I the only one who was struck by the unqualified use, in a general-audience publication, of 'hacker' to mean 'programmer' rather than 'one who breaks into other people's computers over a network'?
How far do you follow up with a prospect before annoying said prospect?
Those of us who do B2B email marketing would probably have encountered the situation where a lead is super-excited (e.g. "cool idea," "great concept and nice implementation") the first few contacts but grow cold over time (e.g. "we've been busy in the office, we will notify you when we get to it," "it's on our roadmap, we will get to it soon"). My question is how far do you continue to follow-up? What is your modus operandi, your repeatable process flow, if any?
No, no, no. The standby is not open for queries in that scenario. How can it be? It's playing no role in this setup, all the work is being done on the storage, it's not even aware of it until you try to activate it and it takes ownership of the controlfile.
Yep, that one's good, subject to the caveat that the 2000 is really 1800 in Europe (more holidays) and 1500 in France (lots of holidays AND a less hours per week).

Related and very useful: Consulting rates should start at annual income / 1000.
And to go farther with that point, multiple vaccines like MMR are standard across the population, so they are better tested and better understood than multiple spaced-out single vaccines.

Here's a review of Dr. Bob's schedule from the journal Pediatrics:

http://www.immunize.org/concerns/offit_moser2009.pdf
pt 2. So I noticed. from Singapore. :P
Like what I read so far, can't wait for it to launch international. Promising work.
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You can build onto GPL for free without reciprocating. That's called freedom 1: the right to private modifications.
Because the vendors try to tie the phones to their app stores. If you buy a Sony Ericcson Android phone, you will only be able to use the SE app store. And so on.

So I will have to publish my app to a lot of app stores. If it can be done automatically, maybe it is acceptable. But I think it won't be like that. The vendors have different philosophies, too. For example I think Sony Ericcson wants their app store to be more like the Apple app store with harder admission criteria.
It sounds sensible, but turns out to be faulty for several reasons. See the parallel thread above.
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It's not completely lacking. I can just move a file to a different place on my computer's desktop, just as easily as I could move a real file on a normal desk to leave myself a message.

The interesting thing is that it doesn't even have to be relevant to what it's supposed to remind me of. In fact, the more unique (and thereby, less relevant) the change is, the better the odds are that I'll remember what I want to.

The primary downside is that it makes you more sensitive to people moving your stuff around. They generally have no clue that they could be disrupting something.
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i will have a look onto that
can't there be more than one instant wikipedia? yours loads the article directly, whilst mine loads related articles when typing, with a snippet of what they are about.

mine is faster in case you just want to know what something is and not everything about that. and mine also shows related results that may be of interest, or not.
If I were you, I would stick them in my resume. They are your projects. You put time and effort into them and made something happen. Even though they may seem spam-ish, they did bring revenue and since you made them when you were 17, I for one, would understand that 'experimental' phase of web development. I guess I would also look a bit different at the situation if you made those websites when you were 25 or something.

The weed price thing is just briliant, and if a person doesn't see the beauty in that, then it's their problem, not yours. In the end, you also have to decide what type of people you want to work with.

If they don't share your vision for a project you've done (or if they think that's childish etc.) then maybe they're not worth your time. You're not going to see eye to eye on this issue, then there will be a lot of other issues in the long run that will cause dissagrements between you two.
Memorize powers of 2 up to 9

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512

and

2^10 = 1K, 2^20 = 1M, 2^30 = 1G etc.

then split anything else

ex. 2^23 = 2^20 * 2^3 = 8M
ex. 2^37 = 2^30 * 2^7 = 128G

Edit: Also useful in reverse

ex. 400K: 256K < 400K < 512K <=> 2^18 < 400K < 2^19

At least memorize 2^4 = 16 (hex) and 2^8 = 256 (byte), then do doubling or halving as necessary.
People whining about it is probably a good indication that it's worth doing. If Microsoft fails to do things that are good for all of its users and most of its developers because somebody might bitch about it, the company is as good as dead.
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Ah yes, I remember Logic.ly :) It was the inspiration for my object oriented design class project. I had to implement a logic gate simulator in .NET last semester and I stumbled upon it while doing research on the Internet. Very well made, kudos to whoever made it!
The elevator fallacy follows. If you put a lot of sensors in a city you find many weird things, as there is not a prior hypothesis about what you are testing what you see as weird is not so much. In order to say that "people use the left elevator more than the right one" you should start a new experiment for testing it not using your data for making the hypothesis.
I called the power company and asked for a "construction box." This is a very common request, rarely turned down, for a "temporary" power hookup for construction purposes.

The "temporary" box was located near the road, about 1/4 mile from my cabin, so I simply ran a very long extension cord through the woods. This arrangement lasted for years.
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Hm, I wonder whether the way to take on Google would-be to remove that setting. Build an engine and offer the phone companies a part of the advertising revenues if they hard-code that engine on their phones.

Problems there would be a) to beat Microsoft and Google at that game, and b) it would turn search into a low-margin commodity. Both make it hare to turn a profit.
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Sorry to say this, but "A tale of two cultures" is a very glorious title for something like reddit and digg. Humanistic and scientific cultures, the profound debate about how we marry them and how to control complexity and compartmentalization of science and research is not comparable to the other two "cultures". What term should you use for describing those "cultures" in a precise and respectful form?
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Why? It is called crowd-sourcing and there are even several "bestsellers for dummies" about how to use crowds to make money.

Nothing to see here.
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I would assume that only a particular recording of it could be, and since you recorded this it would make you the owner.

No - he recorded a broadcast as seen on a screen, i.e. made a vastly degraded copy of a specific live video stream.
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An industrial accident at a major Japanese company close to here, if I remember my history correctly. Someone stood somewhere they shouldn't have and a robot crushed them.
Two:

* Golden ratio is also miles to ks. Which means you can use Fibonacci to convert miles to ks.

* Divide by square route of two for compound doubling time.
I think a hacker Questionnaire should be more appropriate here. But this is not new, for example there is "my road to Lisp" that explains the motivation and context when learning Lisp.

HN is like an evolving Questionnaire filled with the technology news that shape the future of technology and start-ups.
True, but it's no worse than traditional journalism based on press releases or people you meet.
Thought this too, until I moved in with two professional (that is, paid) bloggers in NYC. Apparently, there's quite an ecosystem of tumblr "publishers" who care deeply about their tumblr follower numbers, etc.
And if I can just marry .01% of the women I meet, then I can potentially have 300K wives if I just travel enough!

Made-up percentage numbers aren't an accurate means of prediction. Doubly so since the "customers" that Groupon brings in are looking for freebies.
hiring a bunch of interns (with near zero experience) to implement your product - that is how a nearly 90% of projects are started, due to pure economical reason. ^_^
They do have good design taste, but their technical side is missing quite a bit. Just earlier today, I couldn't figure out how to submit an image by URL (since they automatically resized my original): kept getting some kind of "invalid file" error (I'm not uploading a file!). Scheduled-publication was also broken the 1 time I tried it. Very frustrating.
When I read the Black Swan by Taleb the crucial point was to realize how weak we are when we rely on financial experts. Be careful, bad regulations can be opening the door for new creative thinking. For example in Spain the new accounting system gives more freedom to imagination when giving value to assets.
The reporter seems confused.

1. Craigslist is NOT a pornographer, so talking about the voluntary (and not for lack of users) removal of their adult section doesn't make sense.

2. I think we all understand that at any time some websites will be shrinking, if we're going to talk about pornographers as a whole let's see some statistics about pornographers as a whole.

3. I would be very interested to know which sites are growing and which are shrinking. My guess is that themed sites are loving all the piracy, because some percentage of customers will want to see more of the same. Random porn scrapyards are probably getting it the worst, because that's exactly what's being offered for free.

-wfg
I guess they have a lot of free machines now that Bing does their search results.
Yes, though I find that answering this questionnaire can be an interesting personal tool, it doesn't mean that reading answers from random people can be interesting. Actually even Proust's answers are rather bland, which contrasts starkly with the deep psychology in his books.
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Have you seen first versions of FB?

My guess is that it was a much bigger piece of crap. A PHP crap. And guess who wrote it? Harvard undergrads. ^_^
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I thought about (and setup a prototype) starting an ebay competitor a few years ago now.

The main thing it was going to do differently, was instead of having a fixed ending time for an auction, it would be conducted like a regular auction - in real time, via AJAX, and the auction ends once no one else bids.

Seemed like that realtime element, along with no 'sniping', fairer bidding, a cool UI etc would be a good reason for people to switch.

But the network effect is massive. To be successful as an ebay competitor, I think you'd need a pretty large marketing budget, or several people working on promotion full time.

It's ripe for the picking though. And massive profits.
When I was talking about forgetting breakfast, I was talking about the same day (e.g. being able to recant a story from 30 years ago with surprising accuracy, but forgetting what you had for breakfast this morning).
I am really impressed. Clean and simple to use. I can't believe that this is a weekend project.

I am currently studying your code. Thanks for making it available.
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If you're keeping ALL of your user profile data in ACID-compliant databases you're probably doing it wrong.

Large modern websites store tons of information about a user which may not in any way be necessary to even keep for anything other than data mining, or perhaps preferences, click/hit tracking, etc. I can't see how such data is important in any way in regards to finances or trades, so why it couldn't be done on a much-less-resource-intense database solution I don't understand.

Moreover, the cascading effect of a database failure is made much worse by putting all your eggies in one basket and depending on this one cluster of databases to keep the whole ship afloat. In a good design scenario, much of the site should still keep operating even if the backend databases are timing out from load. For example, your cache layer (if not expired) should continue serving cached content/logins/etc. This may not be as useful for clients that sign in randomly or throughout the day, but for people who use the site frequently or stay logged in throughout the day their sessions should stay active in this scenario.

The content in the user profile which doesn't require ACID compliance could also be using caching and nosql/mysql/etc which would keep the apps working even longer in the event of an outage of a particular piece of technology. Because this technology doesn't require some of the more complicated requirements of Oracle RAC it may also be easier to recover/restore old data, again assuming this doesn't have a particular need for ACID.
Leave Linux distribution torrents on seed, to help out other users. If you set the bandwidth speeds correctly, you could use 50% of your bandwidth while still having a fast connection left over.
Yandex has its own index and shows good results in English (but no photo/video search). Exalead has its own index too but it lacks a good junk filter à la PageRank.
I have a feeling that Google is more worried about a new search paradigm — like social search for instance — than its current competitors in the "index+rank search model".

Hunch + Quora + Facebook questions could well be the biggest threat to Google's quasi-monopoly.
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This is awesome. I've been looking for something similar. Quickly add a bit more functionality (photo resize, link it to twitter, add comments, etc...) before other sites copy your idea.
I think the industry is ripe for change.

Consider the price for a 2 hour video. It used to be the typical price can be $20 - $40, even more for higher-end material and this was a quite a several years ago. That's kind of steep.

People would rent videos, though, sometimes half a dozen at a time. They didn't watch all 12 hours; they just fast-forwarded to the parts they wanted to see.

So, it seems the price people are willing to pay is much, much lower and the industry will have to adapt to it, I guess.
Commercial use does not invalidate a defense of fair use, it's only one part of a multi-part test.

Don't equate fair use with classroom use. There are enough uptight librarians who do that already.