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I'm a big fan of full disclosure - I'd do that. I would advise against selling your findings, in the long run, that would only make facebook worse than it already is.

So, either full disclosure, or tell facebook and give them a few days, I'd say.
Take the snake example: imagine the dose delivered is ingested by most (if not all) the population. Now imagine that some snakes have a mutation that render this dose non-lethal, either making it completely harmless or just sub-lethal. The snakes carrying the mutation would survive.

The key part here (and in evolutionary theory) is that there is a pre-existing mutation to select for. If there isn't one, then we should see a local extinction.
Re: hunting

There are basically three methods of hunting. One is to sit quietly and wait for the animals you are interested in shooting to come by; the second is to try and sneak up on them (stalking); and the third is to go out and make noise to flush them out so you can shoot them. This last method is what's used for things like rabbits, squirrels, and birds (although for different reasons -- rabbits and birds typically need to be flushed out from their hiding spots and squirrels will just freeze in place a lot of the time when they hear something, which makes them really easy to shoot). Jefferson is probably referring to this type of hunting, which can often resemble a relaxing walk in the woods with one's dog.
With all these improvements in the various bits of AWS, I keep wondering why Cloudfront is not getting a much-requested feature: gzip compression for files that can be when the browser accepts gzip. I know I'm not the only one asking/waiting for this, and the current solutions are very convoluted.
> To what end, food on the table ?

Yes. People don't usually shoot rabbits, birds, and squirrels for self defense, you know. :-)
I would flush out some more detail on exactly what you would do with the money and how it will change the world.

A pro looking site will go a long way. Go to http://themeforest.net/ and grab a nice clean theme and set up a facebook page as well.

Once you have a well formulated plan, Hit twitter and reach out to thought leaders and well respected blogs in the industry. Pitch your idea to these leaders and ask them to support you in your progress. A few key re tweets will yield 5k+ votes in under 11 days no problem.

I did a little digging and here are some blogs/twitter pages who I would reach out to:

@cleantechies (4k followers)
http://cleantechies.com/

@OnEarthMag (3k followers)
http://www.onearth.org/

@greentechmedia (9k followers)
http://www.greentechmedia.com/

@GavinNewsom (1.3M followers)
Might be a long shot, but it's worth a try

Again, I would do anything I could to reach out and get the support from these people. There are plenty more blogs out there, google is your friend. Best of luck.
Think of them as instruments for cubicle dwellers to be left out of their cages occasionally, to maintain their illusion of freedom.
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I'm glad you clarified that - I couldn't work out why Canada would name their electrical supplier after a very water-related word! Thanks!
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Good stuff, I think tagging was long overdue. Hopfully they will release IAM (http://aws.amazon.com/iam) to the public soon as well.
Well, you're betting that government pensions will stay the same (or get better) over the next 20 or so years. That seems to me like a very bad bet to take. California is basically bankrupt from paying government worker pensions (among other reasons). What makes you think those programs will continue?

Private industry is pretty much devoid of pensions for new workers now and my best guess is that government isn't very far away from that.
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I have lived here for about 2 years now, and I will never leave. Being surrounded by like-minded and driven people helps me become a better person and keeps me motivated. Not to mention, there are meet-ups just about every night of the week. I would move here just for the hackers and founders meet-ups, I have met and learned a lot from those meet-ups.
55% of the London Underground is above ground: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground
In France some employers have a clause in the employment contract that prevents employees from leaving the company within X months of having been trained (called "dédit formation").

The definition of "training" varies quite widely, and also the actual enforcement of the clause can vary between companies. It happened once in one of my classes, the company had the trainees sign this particular clause and it made for a very interesting monday morning.
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It is absolutely littered with ads. I appreciate that Larabel wants to make a living and I'm all for that. However, the ads are intrusive and annoying. Every time I do a fresh install of a browser, Phoronix is the site that provokes me to go get AdBlock again. I don't usually mind or notice on other sites.

Stories are often mistaken or exaggerated. "Steam on Linux Confirmed" while technically pedantically accurate is still misleading because everyone reads in to this like there was an official announcement, when really it was "confirmed" by Phoronix's anonymous source. They also may have pissed Valve off with this business and spoiled the fun for those who knew about the location of the in-development Steam Linux binaries.

It's not just Steam, it's stuff like "HUGE HUGE MAJOR REGRESSIONS IN NEW RC". That's nice and all, but it's really jumping the gun and often turns out not to be anything at all really. On top of this, he should consult LKML or an IRC channel or some place with people who know what they are doing before he runs those kinds of things.

Benchmarks are OK sometimes, but sometimes subtle factors make them rather misleading. This is usually pointed out in the message board thread associated with the story, but the story is never corrected and Larabel keeps running benchmarks that are dubious in nature. Once again, no shame in misunderstanding as long as you seek to clear it up.

Larabel has a major propensity for making conclusions with very scant and/or unreliable data.

And on top of all that, the writing is just really frustratingly bad. Things are worded in confusing ways, there are always lame quips for teasers. A headline will be something like "Gnome developers talk Shell at GUADEC" and the snippet will be "It is discussed". That is pretty annoying to me and just emphasizes the immaturity of the publication.

I think that Larabel and Phoronix in general would be great if there was a bit more structure and professionalism about it. Larabel has his strengths and his weaknesses, as we all do. If he wants to be taken seriously, he should invite a handful of contributors with a penchant for accuracy, restraint, copy-editing, and not-annoying-the-users, give them equal authority over the process, and the site would be really good.
If we're sticking with Spain, then Madrid seems also to be outdated http://www.metromadrid.es/export/sites/metro/comun/documento...
and so does Barcelona http://www.tmb.net/es_ES/barcelona/moute/planols/planoxarxam...
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Isn't that basically just what Dropbox does?
However you release the information, you should really give them advanced warning before you do so, and time to fix them. Maybe a month or a couple of weeks.
This was sad:

The number of members of LinkedIn, a professional network, with the title vice-president grew 426% faster than the membership of the site as a whole in 2005-09
What would be super awesome would be a globally complete and up-to-date and animated from inception. I dunno why that would make me so happy but it would.
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Hi Guys,

I've given my feedback but would appreciate your thoughts, his questions to me were...

· Are missed appointments my biggest market or should I be concentrating on other things?

· Do businesses know this is a good way of stopping missed appointments? Are they searching for it? If not how do I reach them?

· What type of businesses should I be marketing at?

· How should I be increasing traffic to my site?

Additionally as a bit of further information he has achieved some traction with some monthly paying clients, I think his problem is whether this can scale.
I would email Facebook and tell them you have this info and you would like to work with them and would like to be credited when they announce the fix. Most companies will give you credit, where it's due. Also, companies of their size ought to have a dedicated security email address.

Not sure what the legal status of selling this info is, without going into the morality of do that.
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From what I understand, BART is not meant to be a local subway type system. It's heavy rail for moving between different cities in the greater Bay Area. It just happens to have several stops in SF. (Thus the acronym Bay Area Rapid Transit).

MUNI is the equivalent of subway/bus in SF (though how well it handles that job is up for debate).
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Autopager,
Greasemonkey,
FoxClocks

Chrome:
Google Voice,
Google Mail
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It's in good company, there's no Prague metro there either :(
Why the down votes? I was simply pointing out what TC might have meant by "building". Everyone and their mother knows Apple doesn't outsource hardware design.
I prefer the direct load because the 1st hit is almost everytime the page I would like to read. For example I use http://WikInstant.com for college (i.e. quickly looking up diseases), WikInstant.com is perfect for that doesn't require me to use the mouse (compared to other wiki instant sites).
Oddly enough, the Vienna map seems to include the new part of the U2 line to the football stadium, which was opened shortly before the Euro 2008.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_U-Bahn#3rd_expansion_pha...
You have a revolution brewing there, brother. I'll add to that: what if people would just stop sugarcoating everything & tell what they really think.
I think by strong back-end he means a strong google adwords program with good optimization and conversion rate etc.
I hope that was nod to the putnam story, otherwise WOW, Colin must get 'em all the time.
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Interesting, I always thought London had the biggest underground network. As far as I know Glasgow is missing.

Which city, do you think, has the best one? I've only been on the underground in London, Glasgow and Munich. And to me, London seems the best, you really don't need a car there (well at least in the centre).
Yep, the Vienna map only includes the U-Bahn, not the S-Bahn, even though some of the tracks of both U-Bahn and S-Bahn were built for the "Stadtbahn". (e.g. U4, U6, S45) But then the U2 used to be a tram line, so it's difficult to draw the line.
He can use also a TripleHead2Go from Matrox:

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New games are more and more locked in ways that make selling/buying used copies impossible.
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Exactly. I was pointing out their hypocrisy.
It seems strange to disregard an entire article written by a Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience because a quick google session found a link suggesting a contrary view to a specific point.
According to Polish news

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http://www.bankier.pl/forum/temat_re-info-od-cdp-male-podsum...

Michał Kiciński (one of the owners of CD Projekt) suggests: don't panic after info we publish on gog.com
I think most people are predicting Dropbox & AirBnB to be YC's biggest successes. Neither were first year.
Odd, I can not find anything for "Vinge" in the kindle store. I wonder how well this kindle thing really works :-/ I only have the Android Kindle app though.
It's open source. We are all testers.
I'm a big fan of RabbitMQ ( http://www.rabbitmq.com ). It's an AMQP message queue and has a bunch of very nice features like:

- Persistent queues

- Clustering
- Topic based queues for an extremely flexible syndication model

- Transactional (acknowledged) queues

- Lots of adapters in different languages

- Fast, handles thousands of messages/sec

It's written in erlang so if you're already running CouchDB then you can maximise any language specific knowledge.

Replicated queues are tricky to set up with any queuing system, but if you're looking to a) not lose any messages and b) have high availability then the simplest thing is just to run 2 independent but identically configured queues in parallel which are configured to be persistent and configure the workers to pull jobs of each queue in turn. If one of them goes down you can restart it and recover the lost jobs whilst the other queue continues.

Alternatively you can write to both queues and deduplicate the messages when you pull them off. Beetle ( http://xing.github.com/beetle/ ) takes this approach and uses Redis to manage the deduplication.
Memory usage is fairly moot, and will just become more and more moot.

When you're watching a 3d projected HD video with 5.1 audio on your smartphone, what's using the memory... A few pointers? Or the actual media? And in any event, we'll likely have a few TB of memory even on phones to play with in a few years.
Kind of old, but the work on Argos is impressive, with several talented individuals behind it. It's been integrated within the NoAH project [1], which is now concluded.

[1] http://www.fp6-noah.org/
Papyrus is the font? What is so bad about it, it seems fitting for a fantasy context? Which one would be better? (I'm obviously not a designer).
Why madness? It has a clear, logical, consistent and easy to understand syntax.
If you've ever worked in banking, then anyone who's been there for a few years will be a VP. The original rationale was, as a banker you could be managing the same amount of cash as a VP in another company would have in their budget. Even that was pretty flimsy, but it's long been totally out of hand.
Why charge for your SDK? If I am going to develop for your platform you should be paying me, not the other way around.

Does anyone at MS even use Hotmail? Its absolutely a joke, I know gmail is the leader, but at least try.
Being surrounded by yes-men for too long is a professional hazard CEOs must deal with. It's clear both Larry (and to Mark) haven't been exposed to the word "no" for a very long time.
No-one wants to be a "programmer" anymore, kids all call themselves "Certified Enterprise Java Solutions Architect" or something. Architects? I call 'em "Visio resources", and I can draw fluffy clouds myself...
But how can you help people to get out of this 'learned helplessness'?
In this case, an evil system administrator could change the text of /proc/kallsyms (probably via a hacked libc and LD_PRELOAD, or just the hacked libc) and then execute arbitrary code as you, because the exploit code uses an unchecked write into a stack variable (and who compiles their exploit code with a stack protector).

I am almost tempted to do this, use the exploit to get root on my work machines, and then replace the libc... just to see if anyone else tries the exploit. (Note to the literal: not really.)

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I would call Gates a borderline sociopath. You really should watch his deposition tapes, where he shamelessly says he has no recollection of e-mails he sent.

Larry may or may not be one, but saying Gates is "the sane one" is a symptom of wrong Kool-Aid intoxication.
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"Opera" (the logo is just "O")

Thew new version that came out a few days ago is so delicious I could just eat it. It has the largest client area out of any browser: I put my thumb against the screen and it covered the whole toolbar and menu are Opera. Firefox and Chromium use two-thumb widths.
I could never grasp the logic of paying employees to watch a couple days of informercials?

It's like when company B names an employee E of company A a "most valuable professional". If employee E is "most valuable" to B, there is something very wrong with whatever E does in A.
And here's the reality on the consumer end of things today, straight from the horse's mouth (my husband):

Before: 16 years of avg. $13/month for a 4/5-pack of Gillette cartridges (they are $16 a pack today), along with razorburn and inflamed follicles due to their cartridges' design of pulling the hairs up and cutting them off below the level of the skin.

Today: a single $60 investment for a Merkur safety razor, and $9/YEAR for 20 blades (40 razor edges, each lasting longer than any of Gillette's cartridges), with almost no razorburn, and not a single inflamed follicle since "the switch".
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I saw something sort of similar a few weeks ago from jdub of gnome fame. http://www.hellodenby.com/blog/
Peteris: Any particular reason you pushed the book reviews to GitHub, instead of posting them to your blog?
People with scalability problems that need to use memcached don't usually worry about RAM costs, or for that matter host on a VPS.
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How long until the word founder means something else? That's at least the one I trust most.

"Founder of the Stationary Cupboard"

I quite liked being a dev and then a senior for years. I felt it meant something that everyone understood the difference between a junior dev, a dev and a senior dev. I also felt that I understood what I needed to know, have experience of and be skilled in to progress through the dev levels. And it was nothing to do with job titles, and everything to do with learning and applying that learning.

I liked that I could take something like the programmer competency matrix ( http://www.indiangeek.net/wp-content/uploads/Programmer%20co... ) and know where I fit into the grand scheme of things and why I didn't yet deserve a job title beyond my experience and knowledge at that time.

IMHO, a slim hierarchy of clearly titled and well understood job titles can be a very good motivator and guide to someone wanting to master their profession. Inflated titles hardly motivate people to improve themselves.
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I completely agree with your point, but it's important to realize the emotional connection people form with thier job.

Would you give this advice to an animator at Pixar?
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You chose an interesting example. The movie can be played and processed quickly exactly because it has an explicit and probably hardware mapped in some places memory layout. It's processed with as few indirect operations as possible.

And this was exactly the complaint in the parent post - this is not possible to do with Java. If you have a list of Integers, you have a list of Integers. (please correct me if I'm mistaken here: ) so every integer needs an explicit pointer in the list itself + the overhead of boxing. It's not the pointer to the list that matters - it's the fact, that your list takes ~4 times as much memory (pointer, lock, tag, value) - or maybe more - I don't remember the object implementation details for JVM.

For scenarios where you operate on big tables of data, it matters, because it kills cache performance and uses up many times the amount of memory that you'd normally use.
Tell HN: HackerNews finding its way into the german mass media
The German newspaper "Die Zeit" recently cited HN and namely patio11 in an article about Diaspora: http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2010-09/facebook-diaspora-sicherheit (sorry, it is in German)

The relevant parts, translated freely:

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One could overtake other accounts, friend people or delete photos, whithout the original owner being asked for permission, the comments of the technics-forum HackerNews said.

Patrick McKenzie, owner of a japanese software-enterprise, judged more drastically: "Right now there is nothing that an intruder could not to with another persons account." McKenzie even supposes that it is possible to take over the server the program is running on, due to a glitch in the software.

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Scrollbar should be there, what web browser are you using? The y-overflow is hidden on html, but not on body for page-centering reasons but this has not affected browsers I have tested thus far. Maybe you’re on kHTML?
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Fixed, thanks for the keen-eye.