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I agree with most of the comments here and on the blog post; having hit many of the same issues myself.

Fortunately, I get to do something about it.

I work for Facebook (joined ~3 weeks ago).

Part of my job is to help fix the developer site, documentation, etc. (along with a host of other issues related to developer relations).

We are working on updating the site and docs as fast as we can and this thread is helpful.

If you have any issues/feedback/whatever with our platform docs or API, email me at dmp@facebook.com and we'll get them addressed as soon as we can.
TV Everywhere & Cable Co's Getting Their Sh*t Together
The more frequently you exercise, the happier you're likely to be
I'm not losing sleep over it (too busy hacking), but it's easy for We Pay to say they don't care: they've already raised 3 rounds http://www.crunchbase.com/company/wepay . The essay was edited by PG, himself. Clearly the angels have treated them well.

I think the more pertinent conversation should be around what the hell do some of these angels offer to entrepreneurs, anyways? Money is a commodity these days. Plus, real hackers require very little, if any, to get off the ground in the EC2-era. The very top guys (like PG, Sacca, Ron Conway, Chris Dixon, etc.) are obviously in it for the right reasons AND offer a lot more than money. But the majority of angels, even some of the top ones, I fear take more than they give.
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My point was not to argue about the goodness of death either -- I would have thought it was non-controversial.

It's a very good thing Einstein did die, since his most important work was done in the first third of his life, and at the end he was simply denying that quantum mechanics were real.

Besides, if death did not exist and "people had less children" (meaning probably zero), Einstein would never have been born!

Please (re-)read what Steve Jobs had to say about death:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

From:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
I don't think my sentiments are "assinine", thank you :)

The FBI has legitimate reasons to want to intercept communications, e.g., to try to prevent organized crime and domestic terrorism. While most people would probably support the FBI's interest in doing that, they would also agree that infringing on privacy is bad. So we have a complicated tradeoff, and a system of checks and balances -- and that system might potentially be greatly effected by widespread crypto.

The idea that only privacy rights have any value is just naive IMHO, and it is unsurprising that most people don't believe that.
If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, does it also mean that animals see world more like babies (and vice versa)?
What next? I suggested a system of hierarchical white lists. Since my health is too poor for me to code any more, I posted the idea on hacker news http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=920110 hoping that somebody would take it up.
[Show HN] TwitterRSSLinks v2
blog post showing new architecture http://blog.0x82.com/2010/9/26/twitterrsslinks-version-2
When did Yegge die?
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Yeah, really all we have is current Somalia, and the Spanish Civil War... there are others, just not as well known: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchist_communities
As a commenter there noted,

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works too. I think I like that even better.
I can understand the article's placement of libertarianism at the top of the political triad, but at the same time it does seem like (in online arguments at least) people with nuanced positions more often make an effort to distinguish themselves from libertarians than from liberals or conservatives.
When pilots are given a nap of just 30 minutes on long haul flights, they experience a 16 percent improvement in their reaction time. Nonnapping pilots experience a 34 per cent decrease over the course of the flight.

does that sentence make sense?
Please review my iPad App. A Notes/Browser Hybrid (w/ promo codes)
You can see the app on iTunes here:

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The concept is basically implementing a side-by-side window workflow at the app level. The functions I chose to mate were notes and web browsing but the same ideas could be applied to a lot of workflows. Think of this as a first step toward one-window productivity apps like coda on the iPad.

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Where I went to university, plagiarism would result in suspension or expelling, not just failing the class. There were always a few cases a year, and that info was always published so everyone at the university got to know when it happened. I went to an engineering university so the amount of papers to write was pretty light, but even if you managed to avoid courses with it, you couldn't avoid the news about it. It was just very strongly drilled into everyone that plagiarising is something you Do Not Do.
Good points Rich; I just wonder if it is appropriate to post an opinion about this debate from company blog.
The cold hard truth is that the rest of the UK gets the developers unwilling or unable to work for organizations that pay what the City pays.

While that may be unfortunate for other, equally worthwhile industries, it's hard for me to say that that's a bad thing for the individuals concerned.
Can a Segway be remotely controled? Could there be foul play in this case?
That's nice and all, but most games have much more invasive DRM yet they still get pirated. What stops someone from hacking the game to not display their name and to also never check in with the server?
From an ethical perspective, I still don't see the issue.

You ask: Would it be right to release such a tool which will give people the ability to encrypt data in a way authorities would not be able to decrypt, even if they have access (tap) to the providers switches.

Such ability already exists-- for example, by using PGP to encrypt their information prior to sending.

Do you really think you're doing something that any evildoer with a CS education couldn't hack together themselves?

Seriously: if you have a prototype of a security app, send it to some serious people in the security community, and ask them to take a look. Before that is done, the rest is moot.
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Would your current employer be open to you working remotely for a 6 month period due to the circumstances?
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God that was a terrible movie...

So bad that I actually watched the whole thing to see if it could possibly get any worse.
The answer is, "it depends". It depends on how the companies investments are structured. For example, if a VC on the A round has a 2x or more liquidation preference, that can change the distributions significantly. There could also be phantom stock agreements, warrants, notes of various values, etc, that can make a large difference.
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Highly unlikely. It's a Wall Street sort of thing.
Agreed on both points, really. Sports is basically the major reason why most people I know still have interest in cable. But sports leagues are getting smart about it-- and it's pretty surprising how much can be found on ESPN360 & through (still expensive) individual league subscriptions.

More subscriptions isn't necessarily more convenient but, with the right management/organization tools, could theoretically be more practical (and cheaper)...
Not irony (not even the pseudo-irony that has become the norm).

This reads like one of those "feel smart by setting up a strawman" things that, ironically (yuk yuk), "stupid" people resort to.
Especially if it's in Java, which, if I'm not mistaken, is incredibly easy to decompile.
I use dropbox and LAMP together to 'distribute' small projects.

Basically I install dropbox on a linux box, and use apache's mod_vhost_alias to automatically map incoming requests to the correct folder. Most of the time I use sqlite as DB storage so the file stays in the dropbox folder.

When I want to put changes online I just copy/paste the files. Of course this is no way of working when you have bigger sites or sites that have a lot of db changes, but when you get there you better find more suitable hosting then the one I have anyway.

I like this way because the dropbox folder is synced with my netbook and macbook as well, so my setup is quite portable!
Sorry, I accidentally downmodded you, so went through your comments and upvoted some to cancel.

(Using Epiphany browser for the first time today, and it seems to offset the upvote/downvote arrow links so that you have to click above the upvote arrow to upvote. Clicking the upvote arrow itself downvotes. Maybe this is a problem with its text zoom feature...)
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Oh, the other point that is often made is that if you grew up on a planet where everyone randomly got hit over the head with a baseball bat every few minutes

So... Vogsphere (2005 movie)?
> Recognizing the food with few errors would be horribly hard.

I wonder if it would be possible to have some sort of a hybrid system, where automatic recognition is attempted, with a fall-back to manual input where this fails. (The manual input could be to select from several automatic "guesses") If the app stored all the data from all users, this could eventually lead to a really big database, and the automatic recognition might get better and better.

EDIT: Also, automatic vegetable/fruit recognition is actually in production in some supermarkets, for weighing/pricing. (I saw this in France.)
Which they generally won't do until there's something to pay for. We are the first step.
> This makes the assumption that all apps are dumb frontends to a database.

I think the commenter is talking specifically about templating languages, not all server-side logic. In terms of MVC, I think the idea is that now you can move the entire view layer to the client, rather than doing half on the server and half in JavaScript.
How is the market these days? I have an outsider's impression that when the economy is weak, companies tend to downshift and cut contracting costs, squeezing more from their employees instead.
Reminds me of the good ol' Indiana Pi Bill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
Key graf:

What makes people capable of this kind of activism? The Stanford sociologist Doug McAdam compared the Freedom Summer dropouts with the participants who stayed, and discovered that the key difference wasn’t, as might be expected, ideological fervor. "All of the applicants--participants and withdrawals alike--emerge as highly committed, articulate supporters of the goals and values of the summer program," he concluded. What mattered more was an applicant’s degree of personal connection to the civil-rights movement. All the volunteers were required to provide a list of personal contacts--the people they wanted kept apprised of their activities--and participants were far more likely than dropouts to have close friends who were also going to Mississippi. High-risk activism, McAdam concluded, is a "strong-tie" phenomenon.
Ask HN: Why isn't Plan9 popular?
Hello, I don't have an elaborative question. I 'discovered' Plan9 yesterday. It seems like Plan9 was the successor to Unix. So why don't we see it in the mainstream?

What seemed intriguing to me was that for the last 8 years with all the linux/unix around, I never came across any references in - books/blogs/articles.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
I work at an international Chinese company and what surprised me first was that almost all of our Chinese engineers take nap after lunch (even the ones who come for temporary business trip) I have an impression that taking naps is heavily practiced in Chinese corporate culture...
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Yes, those would be the meta-meta-contrarians.
I like this post; it echos my own thoughts. Well, vocalizes them in a very smart and public manner. Anyway, while making dinner last night, I realized that I care more about why hot dog and hot dog bun packages are differently sized than I do about most of the drama behind AngelGate.

Not to say I don't care about the core problem at hand (the possibility of collusion). But, I don't care about the noise surrounding it. Plus, I don't know enough about the law to say whether it was actually collusion or not (assuming most of the pieces needed were public).

But, I do know that I bought 10 hot dogs and 8 buns at the supermarket on Saturday. And that code I need to write won't write itself.
The editor should have taken a nap.
So when you like something, it doesn't actually appear in friends' newsfeeds? Elaborations please.
Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
I have been to a number of sites that I want to try out but give up when they force me to log in with 'connect with ' facebook. I know most people have it, but some don't. I don't.

You should really have your own authentication in my opinion, but if you insist on not, at least give me a few options.
What comes to mind is Occam Razor.

Thinking that Sarah is stupid is not the simplest explanation.

Couple of reasons:

1) Sarah got into university

2) Sarah finished university

3) Sarah pass approximately 32 course at university

4) Sarah maintained a high enough average to be select to work in the corporation she is in now.

5) Sarah was chosen as the expert in her field

There is only two things that point to Sarah being stupid:

1) Copying others' work and thinking that a simple change of font is sufficient enough to mask it.

2) What your mother said.

As you would have noted, evidence for Sarah being smart can't simply be explained away. It would require a few professors and classmate helping her out. It would require someone botching the interview and the selection of an expert. This isn't the simplest explanation.

If we assume Sarah is smart, why did she make such a glaring mistake and why does your mom said what she said? A possible reason why Sarah did what she did was because she didn't want to do it again. I assume the effort that Sarah placed into copying and the conversation with Michelle was not more than 30mins.

People who do a good job are normally rewarded with more of the same work. So, instead of 30mins of work, Sarah might have ended up putting 300hours of work into something that will most certainly not yield a high payoff for her. So, in this case it might be best if she pretended that she is stupid, which would basically fast track her career by months if she was to working on stuff with high payoff instead.

But, you could tell Sarah's boss about her incompetence. No you wouldn't; the easiest thing is to ask for another expert. Even if you did, she can simply say she was going to write legal a letter that it might be in the best interest of the company to purchase the copyrights of these paper, instead of having a highly qualified person wasting time and money on something that might essentially be fruitless.

Sometimes it might not be in your best interest to appearing competent all the time. Appearing competent all the time is akin to a greedy algorithm which might not be the optimal solution to achieving your end goal.

In terms of the author's mom, maybe she is right but it doesn't apply here.

In summary, the simplest explanation is that Sarah is smart, but for whatever reason she chose to appear incompetent in this scenario; I have outline such a scenario above. If Sarah is stupid it would require, more than likely, over a dozen people willfully assisting Sarah's incompetence, but if she is smart it just requires her to play dumb for 30mins.

This is not to prove comprehensively that Sarah is smart but really to show that other simpler explanations exist. If I was Michelle, a lot of alarms will be going off in my mind, and I would not simply dismiss it as she is stupid.
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WAAAAAAAAYYYYYY too longwinded. This isn't a marketing message aimed at customers, it's a bit of clever design aimed at the likes of us. It's still massively inconvenient, in that I have to understand their ridiculously complicated scheme in order to understand what I can do with my game. As a rule, people who get angry about DRM aren't the kind of people you'd want as customers even if they did pay for software, and the average user is likely to be more put off by a complex permissive scheme than a simple restrictive scheme. Customers generally don't mind big, bold-face caveats, it's the small print that worries them.

All this is rather beside the point - according to the numbers in that post, they're selling 20 copies a month. If you're writing good, attractive games but making so little money, you have much bigger priorities than your DRM scheme. Spend an hour implementing an off-the-shelf watermarking system to give yourself basic legal recourse against wholesale piracy, then get on with the job of selling.

If this is just a hobby then fair enough, I have no right to argue, but if this is supposed to be a business then I really despair.
As far as I'm concerned, reason #1 to ban cell phones on airplanes,

Who wants to listen to the person beside you talk through the flight on a cell phone. Your life can be on pause while you fly through the air.
Obviously I don't know your personal situation, but in general I wouldn't assume that introversion = lack of social skills. If you are able to have quality relationships with the people you DO spend time with, then it's just a matter of being selective. If you find yourself completely unable to connect with the people you really like, then you may want to work on it. If it's just a matter of not feeling interested in spending time with tons of people, no big deal.
Not enough at this site to be worth reading.

Filler. Link-bait.

If this topic is interesting, here's the original source for the article over at Pew, and which has a little more detail:

http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/when_technology_ma...

And here's what that whole Techflash article was hung on:

"...Microsoft, on the other hand, once the feared technology behemoth, fell far behind—attracting just a fifth of the coverage of Apple and less than half that of Twitter..."
Maybe a web-based compliment to Dayta for iPhone? It may be a possibility (though don't bet on it).
Well, my beliefs are pretty meta-contrarian, and I think it stems from a desire to be different. So those old-rich may look at the new rich, feel disgusted that they may possibly be put in the same "bucket" as them, and try to find some way to distinguish themselves from them.

That's how I went from Democrat to Libertarian. And then Libertarian to libertarian. And then libertarian to ?.

If I were going to be less self-effacing, I could also say that any time my beliefs are held by a large number of people, I start to question them, because it's not possible for a large number of people to both agree and be perfectly correct...
A big problem is that the largest source of frustration with javascript is DOM incompatibility rather than JS itself. At least the unified language allows projects like jQuery to partially clean up the mess for everyone. If you had multiple languages, imagine the mess.
I disagree people want to do this on a computer screen. Pulling out an iphone is far less friction than remembering to enter this information next time you're on a computer.
I think their point is "we've left it loose because we trust you".

They say their demos will automatically become the full version if they can't find a Puppygames server on first run. You don't _need_ to hack the game, if you're so inclined to get it for free they've made it easy for you.

They're encouraging a culture of trust between you and them, in the hope you'll thank them for it and actually pay for the game. Not a bad tactic considering some of the piracy figures indie devs have cited. At the end of the day they realise it's more beneficial to keep their paying customers onside rather than slightly inconveniencing those who are going to pirate it anyway.
Ever since I read "Brain Rules" by John Medina (which advocates taking an afternoon nap) about a year ago I've been wanting to 'implement' it, but I have failed to do so yet. 3PM is just not a convenient time for a nap at all.

Is there anyone that does take naps in the afternoon?
So they recommend taking your own time and taking a nap to give your employer more productivity?

I'm all for being productive on company time, but I don't sacrifice my own time for it. And I certainly don't go so far as to hide things I do from the company, like leaving the premises to go take a nap.
I disagree, I just yesterday showed someone than although they has switched from Coke to apple juice, the apple juice actually had more sugar. People don't all read labels.
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Could be a magnetometer too -- they are very touchy. Although you'd think it would be far away from the passengers.
That's only loosely true. See: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIIC6aOntogeny....
Napping is the crucial key for me while handling tough programming problems. Before taking a nap, I try to understand the boundaries and the parameters of the problem and try to visualize the solution I want to arrive. Then I take a nap (20 - 30 mins). When I wake up 90% of the time I have the solution in my head.

I think any startup which encourages its employees to take a nap is at great advantage.
I almost always eat 100% of what I cook and put on my plate. After reading this article it struck me that some people, or even a majority of people, might not does the same. Do you throw away a significant amount of your food?

Of course I live alone and most of the time I cook what I bought in more than one meal... But what I put in my plate always goes in my stomach. How could it be otherwise? But if not, why bother with a picture of what have been left in the plate!
Wow you really missed the boat. You should have checked out Foobar FU which had Rails 3 functionality back in 1995. The one-language thing was already played out by 2004.
I'm confused how this was submitted because I submitted the exact same article five days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1714358

Regardless, I think space would be the biggest issue. I don't think most companies could afford to have sleeping pods like Google.
DBMail is the only mail server I know that uses a MySQL backend to store messages:

http://www.dbmail.org/

It does run on OSX. You'd then need to install a webmail client which can talk to DBMail via IMAP. Most of them work this way. My personal favourite is called Roundcube:

http://roundcube.net/

It's written in PHP. Of course, you'd need to install a web server too.