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Maybe a search suggestion might be considered just an extension of a search result, which was not considered difamation in the past: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=717476
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Yes, it would. "Time on Site" measurements do nothing to detect whether the site has been opened in the background, or whether visitors are actively engaged. General practice seems to be to measure the extent of this bias by comparing the duration of the first pageview to the duration of subsequent pageviews during multi-page visits.
Books are still better, IMO.

I can lend one to a friend. They don't need a $300 compatible reader. I can lend it to as many friends as I want. I can leave it on a park bench and share it with a complete stranger.

I own the copy. I can sell it. Burn it. Press leaves in it. I can scribble in the margins. Fold the corners. Donate it to a library.

I can have two pages open at once. I can flip to indexes, important tables, and chapters without fiddling with buttons and menus. I don't have to recharge my book or replace batteries. If I drop it or get it wet, it's probably going to be fine. I know that in 50 years I'll be able to read the thing.

I've come to be of the opinion that unless I own a physical product, I don't own anything. Digital goods are meaningless and ephemeral. They come with digital locks and stupid restrictions that I don't really care to bother with. I don't want to pay a subscription or find some hack to work-around their limitations. Books are cheap and work just fine. And I get to own them.
The GoF book is one pattern language among many. They were concerned with OO design that is used in a class of programs they had experience with -- basically GUI programs with runtime extension, and with a bias towards programs that create documents/digital media. There are many other pattern languages -- I could imagine one for web development that had your three examples and others.
Make a fake facebook profile. Fill it out as an Austrian Painter, interests include politics, coups and you hang out at the beer hall. Weekend fun includes bonfires and rabblerousing! You enjoy writing books about your struggles.

You'll seem like a fun filled, lovable person. Who could hate you?
"Libre" also sounds exactly the same as "Libra". Maybe they should call it StarOffice :)
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They will probably add the front facing camera and probably the next generation of A4 to keep up with the summer iPhone / fall iPod touch.

If they go the iPod evolution route, I expect to see a price drop to put more pressure on the low-end. I still dream of a dock / network sync that will allow people not to have to own another computer.
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As I understand it: Mastercard's customers are the banks, and not the end users who hold the cards with their logos on them. Their job is to operate a network that interconnects the banks so they can process transactions for each other.

Them offering prepaid (or even straight-up credit) cards to end users directly would be a huge shift in how and why they do business.
This was very exciting to me until I realized that you don't actually get to read books this way. It's limited to book samples. Still, it has some usefulness.
Shouldn't "time on site" implement a pause timer function if blur() ?
Why is there no work on a synonym to sub { } with parameter declarations, preferably like Perl 6?

I guess the answer will be: "At least join the 20th century, MooseX::Declare is old. Almost 2 years!"? :-)

Another thing: Changing precedence for parameter parsing (functions with prototypes) -- won't that kneecap a lot of old code?!
Here's a real brute force one I wrote a while ago that seems to handle the 90% case. It was a bear to figure out. Please fork and improve.

http://github.com/thwarted/gem2deb
This old Joel Spolsky article gives an argument to why that is:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper...

If you believe that good programmers are more likely to be offered a job than bad ones, it pretty much flows from that that bad programmers will be interviewing more. If that's so, then you are more likely to interview bad programmers. Statistically, on average, etc. Not in every case.
Great News for MA, bad news for TC readers. I hope Mike's ego prevents them from making TC go lame.

No doubt he will have a non-compete if he totally cashes out. :(
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I'm not sure if you think that this form of debate that you are engaging in is meant to attract people to your side, but as libertarian that leans towards the Austrian school of economics, I ashamed to have anyone like you on my side.
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All I'm saying is that the non-functioning state of ruby/rubygems on debian and/or ubuntu is not news. This is not something that Zed just uncovered that was previously unknown. Everybody in the Ruby community knows this, and has known it, for many years.

Thus, Zed offering a polite "bug report" rather than bitch and moan about it probably wouldn't have been all that much more effective -- seeing as how it has remained in the current non-functioning state for many years.
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Not to mention he claims the right to kill U.S. citizens with no court oversight whatsoever:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/25/al.awlaki.lawsuit/ind...
I wonder why would one want to put an effort into making people feel like they're most important person in the room? Obviously, there are a lot of interesting people around, why spend time and energy into communicating with others?
Do the bookmarks become public for others to read? I don't like letting everyone know what I read, for reasons of competitive advantage.
From the original, the darker bar is the average time spent on the site, while the lighter one is the average number of pages viewed.

Shame on boingboing for using a key-less graph.
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A monthly rate is no less normalized or comparable than an annual one, and it's more representative of the timescales the loans are actually used for. If you required hotels to report their nightly rates in terms of how much it would cost to stay there for a year, they would look about as ridiculous as a 400% APR. I don't know how hostel pricing works, but at least in the US staying in a hotel for a year is fantastically more expensive than renting a comparable furnished apartment for a year.
Perhaps a compromise would be to have the package-install-time unit tests run in "testing" and "unstable", but be turned off for "stable"?
POPFile has an IMAP module that makes something like this pretty easy to set up. You just need to connect POPFile your GMail account, set up some buckets for POPFile, and then tell it how to map those buckets to IMAP folders.

It takes a little time to train the filters, but once that's done, the accuracy is pretty good. My only problem now is coming up with a good labeling system.
I experienced the same letdown. I was super excited that I'd be able to start reading books at work (the Kindle PC App is "unapproved" software).

Still, I guess it is nice to be able to preview books right away instead of having to go through the cycle of Send Preview to Kindle, Read Preview on Kindle, Go to web browser, look up book, buy book, and send back to Kindle.
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Thanks a lot, this looks very interesting. Maybe on the overkill side, but I'm kinda hooked.
This is the average though so you can assume people read the article from the other sources to, just the majority of them didn't where it would appear the majority of those from hacker news did.
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Woah. Congrats on finding that, it's pretty old. The actual classifier I'm using has moved on a bit and I'm currently using logistic regression. Here's a good paper on that: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.126...
There are even worse APR's. Suppose you place a bet at 2:1 odds, 7 minutes before a 3 minute horse race. The racetrack is essentially borrowing money from you at at an APR of 3.6 million %!

The right way to look at loans is to break them down into APR and default risk multiplier. The total amount which needs to be paid back is DRM x exp(APR x duration). Payday loans, much like the racetrack, have reasonable APR's but high DRM's.

Dividing ln(DRM) by small numbers is as ridiculous as dividing a $1 investment by 1/1 billion % of a company and claiming that 37 signals has a $100 billion valuation. Yeah, they are using a standard formula, but in a ridiculous way. Models are pointless when you use them beyond their range of validity.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
Yes, it does, and for power users they can certainly go that way. Although, POPFile doesn't support OAuth for IMAP at this point so you have to trust your configuration with your GMail password.
I suppose next time someone has a mongrel2 bug they should write a scathing rant on how much they hate the guy instead of filing a bug at http://mongrel2.org/reportlist
It's not direct competition ... I'm using Google's docs to keep my documents online / and for collaborative editing.

I haven't tried any plugins yet for OpenOffice, but it would be awesome if there was a plugin for syncing back and forth to Google Docs.
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Really great comment, thank you.
This is what you want:

||facebook.com^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net

||facebook.net^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net

||fbcdn.com^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net

||fbcdn.net^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net

The key is to allow FB's CDN when on FB, but to disallow it and everything else when not on FB.

I'm never on FB so this takes care of it nicely.
It's not "so what," and what RubyGems does really matters for version management within an application.

If I have one application that depends on version 1.3 of a library, it can do:

gem 'library', '~>1.3' # 1.3 and higher, but not less than 1.4
require 'library/file'

The next application that requires 1.5 or later can do:

gem 'library', '~>1.5' # 1.5 and higher, but not less than 1.6
require 'library/file'

There's two things here: Debian typically won't include two versions like that; they might include library1 and library2, but not 1.3 and 1.5. Second, I only have to have the 'gem' method in one location; everywhere else I can just do "require 'library/file'". I don't have to go through my source to change "require 'library-1.3/file'" to "require 'library-1.5/file'" when I want to upgrade.

The Debian approach works...fairly well for compiled applications, but it's utter crap for dynamic languages like Ruby. The RubyGems approach is superior for Ruby, and it fills a very important need for Ruby: it works on platforms other than Debian.

Debian packagers assume that they're the only packager in the world that matters. They're not, and other vendors have done infinitely better jobs of handling packaging Ruby than Debian, mostly because other vendors actually write patches for the upstream providers instead of bitching that the system isn't compatible. (See what Apple did for RubyGems. It still required work on the RubyGems side, but it was at least usable and didn't break the fundamental behaviour of RubyGems.)

If Debian packagers want more respect from upstream developers, they need to stop treating us like we're the ones doing something wrong. If we've developed something, it's because there's something missing.
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> Personally I find the people that use this outdated term stop doing so when continually referred to as 'Outlook resources'.

I use to call them "Powerpoint resources", but I think I'll adopt your designation.
Is this just sort of generalized bayesian spam filter? I always thought that if it could learn to label some messages as spam, it would be able to apply any other label as well.

Indeed PG alludes to bayesian text classification being an old an established field (here: http://paulgraham.com/spamfaq.html and other posts about spam filtering)
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I'm not sure that blur is fired if you switch tabs.
They bought suns business. They will probably replace engineers and continue projects they like, they will lose engineers focused in products that are cut.

I think part of suns problem was engineering that was going in for engineering sake, not business sake, and oracle is going to lose those engineers.
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Now that there are several options for reading digital books comfortably, I think the publishing industry is going to face tons of problems with piracy. A book that takes hours to consume can be downloaded in minutes. Furthermore, we're already seeing torrent files of hundreds of DRM-free best sellers, making it easy to download first, decide later.

In the short term, the best solution seems to make the official process more convenient than pirating (Amazon does this quite well). In the long term, the best solution will probably be to combine the convenience with a subscription model. Lending books becomes a non-issue if all your friends have a $10/month subscription to Amazon's entire catalogue.
Simply profiting does not mean that you're playing the game optimally.

While small organizations can't afford a research division, Oracle certainly can. You'd think a company in the business of storing data might want to keep the guy who created ZFS, especially given how lively the database world is right now with NoSQL implementations, etc.
It looks promising. Some of my initial comments.

It imported the bookmarks from Firefox just fine. But the categorization of the bookmarks is, sorry to be critical, but buggy. Examples I can say are,

1) Techmeme, Engadget, Techcrunch etc. pages not in Sci/Tech.
2) Cricinfo, ESPN, ManUtd pages not in Sports.
3) A page on Microsoft and Cleartype was placed in Entertainment!!
4) MSBuild tutorial on Health!

and so on. You need to fix this real quick I believe. As it's one of your main selling point.

1) The Search lens image can be clickable. I atleast expected it to be.Only way is to press Enter key.
2) If the search result don't return any results, don't change the categories left panel from general to search specific.

Overall I like it and may use it.

Besides, are you associated with AdventNet/Zoho? Just wanted to check as you have put a footnote for Vembu Technologies. Are they both related even? I might be mistaken.
Great programmers tend to have built up a network of people that would like to hire them or will recommend them.
Yep^2

Thanks for remembering this. Time to take a break for today.
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If you're referring to the white shadow of the text, it is indeed css.

text-shadow: 1px 1px 0px white;
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well sure it is confusing if you never used C (as most of the other language does not give access to pointers at all)

but when you see something tagged as 'C', 'pointers', 'challenge' I guess you can fairly assume it is an "advanced subject" for people already experienced in C no ?
Something like that. I've been doing this stuff since 2000: http://getpopfile.org/
Actually, I think that properly managing the company and preventing the bankruptcy would be a better third option.

I know, I know... It's easy to say it now, that hindsight is always 20-20, but come on, who outside Sun thought their market strategy was sane? Who really believed they were on the right track? And, as much as I like McNeally (he was really fun), it's as much his fault as Schwartz's that Sun had a problem with "financial reality" (as Gosling so mildly said).

It was painful to watch because we knew how cool technologies they had were, what they could accomplish while, at the same time, knowing it wouldn't last.
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I wish people would explain their downvotes more (I just bumped you from 0).

Is it too short? Or not insightful enough? Or.. do you disagree with his opinion?
Disclosure: I am a director of one of Japan's largest luxury ecommerce sites, so I feel fairly qualified to give feedback about this :)

Firstly, ecommerce + social is a really attractive combination for us. In that respect, don't give up on the problem you're trying to solve - I think there is tons of value there.

Secondly, I will echo the comments of the poster "secret" - from the merchant's point of view the risk of distraction is not one that I take lightly. I'm very unlikely to pull the trigger on implementing something like this without a lot of data to back it up. You need to work on building case studies that I can see, with statistics that show an increase in some kind of metric I can get behind - facebook activity, sales, etc. Work with some ecommerce partners or even start selling stuff yourself as an experiment, then you'll really start to understand the pain-points that you can concretely help with.

Thirdly...

I don't think the current implementation adds enough obvious value. A stream of Facebook comments is very difficult to derive ROI from. If I were to pivot, and had to keep the overall theme of ecommerce + social + facebook, I would build a set of plugins with specific use-cases that work with my store and facebook. For example:

1) a plugin that allows a user to create a "shopping list" on facebook from the products in my store. Make it fun, like a game - perhaps I set myself a budget on facebook and then my friends can vote up or down on the things in my wishlist that they think I should get.

2) a plugin that facilitates a "buy me this" feature. A user picks a product on my store and can send it to their boyfriend / girlfriend / mum / dad on facebook (maybe with a nicely formatted letter-style message) asking them to buy it for me. Maybe the purchase is incentivised somehow, with a discount if you get someone to buy it for you.

Make a set of these types of plugins, then I think you have a business. Give the most viral one away for free, and charge shop owners a monthly fee to use the whole set.

Boom.
"For me, you are not worth the time or money."

That's what I read when I see statements like this. Why? Well, as an employer, I'd think you were inexperienced and undisciplined. That said, starting your own business will certainly teach you discipline and give you experience, but it will also show a potential employer that you don't need them and that you're likely to leave.

Going to college teaches you how to interact with others and deal with their idiosyncrasies (and maybe discover some of your own). You get socially acclimated, and have the chance to meet some crazy intelligent people. Can you do that on your own? Sure, but the density at college is much higher, thus the probability of a meaningful encounter is also much higher. See dating, as well.
There aren't many ideologies that accept pay-day loans as anything other than evil frankly, so it's not one particular ideology that disapproves of pay-day loans, it's all of them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury and note that a pay-day loan is exactly the kind of loan that is usurious — anyone who takes one hasn't got the money they need to make it to the end of the month, i.e. their outgoings are more than their incomings. They will never be able to pay such a debt off.

This is not a business I would have thought Google wants to get into, not because of the evil nature of it, but simply because making money from it legally is logically impossible.
There are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot with imbricated ternary tables that I don't even understand why you use them as an argument. It screams "don't do this!".
Same here. The Mac OS X version of the Kindle software is atrocious and this was perhaps, if only for a second, a shred of hope.
Since btrfs is an Oracle funded project, I'm real interested to see what happens to both of these filesystems going forward.
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Node is still going through a lot of changes,and their Zeromq lib is still alpha quality.
I never understood why I couldn't find an OO fork that trimmed all the fat, took a "Google approach", and tried to be really good at basic word processing. This includes elements like an uncluttered UI, responsiveness of pagination, collaborative editing, better fonts and design templates, maybe even web storage integration. Think college students and their needs, as a way of feeding into the next generation. Instead, we always have something that feels like poor man's Word.

IMO, this is one area where startup developers could have helped the desktop software movement by developing something that served the basic needs of a large crop of word processing users everywhere. Leave Word for the people that need mail merge or whatever.
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The cost of those drinks to a bar is ridiculously low for one. Secondly, have you ever consistently gotten more than a few free drinks, even when you are "friends" with the waiter/waitress/bartender? The good ones are fantastic at enticing people in by irregularly giving out a free drink here and there. It instills goodwill, hardly costs a cent, and makes loyal as hell patrons.
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I was disappointed for a second reason: I thought about Web for the Kindle, rather than Kindle for the Web. I really like reading books and research paper pdfs on the Kindle, but delivery of non-Amazon content is a bit of a hassle.

Not very much, but still emailing to the Kindle is some extra effort. It would be great if there was some selection of web content, e.g. Hacker News frontpage articles, or my RSS feeds that would be converted to the native Kindle format and then delivered like a newspaper daily or twice daily. Not being able to follow links would be annoying, but still the idea is nice. Maybe I have to hack something like that together and try it...
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Based on what James Gosling has said, as a Sun Fellow Jeff Bonwick would have experienced a significant compensation cut and loss of autonomy (near total of the latter for Gosling). Which most people will interpret as a lack of respect.

As many others have wondered in this set of comments and others, just what is Oracle's cunning plan to make their purchase of Sun worth the investment???
I'd rather, for their own sake and for the good of society that they couldn't get credit at all. It's too easy and tempting and it doesn't help for more than a few days.
I love this. The implementation would be so much nicer if they would extend it to full books, but it still works perfectly for previews. The scrub bar, the previous/next arrows, and all the other stuff make it very similar to other common web elements. Very nice.
ZFS, however, is not in that category, and everything I've heard says that it needs more work and a lot more polish.
Thanks for the feedback. I've definitely thought about the ability to add whole sites to the notes pane as a different take on tabs. This is a great idea but I'll need to work thought the implementation and figure out what the limits of webkit are. There are a lot of other things I want to add but this was an initial release to get a read on how people use the app and what kind of income stream I can expect.

Syncing is also a big deal. I'd love to use the simple note API as a back end if they ever open that up to me.
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That's because they can't read... out of 20 submissions on front page there are always at least 10 posts of pictures without text.