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>but once a client (who I'm friends with) friended me it made my facebook pretty damn vanilla, and its stayed that way as I've added other professional friends.

This is a usability problem with facebook. It should be easy as pie to control the information you present to different GROUPS of people. Instead functionality is scattered across by CONTENT TYPE. Makes no sense and is completely illogical, social networking is about people, differing content-types are just small variations on the sharing theme and not the main conceptual focus.

The 100 different content types are the entity sets with privacy attributes, rather than having privacy be an attribute on a manually created (small) number of groups of people. We put people in groups (ie. professional, family, friends) in real life, I can't understand how Facebook can possibly get this so wrong.

The root of these problems is piss poor User Interface decisions. Facebook expanded without a plan. It's just like Urban Sprawl: let's add a bunch of widgets everywhere just like a suburb with zero urban planning adds strips malls.
time to start a new category.. "Help me, HN"
Don't forget about the compatibility between GPL versions [1]. For example if your project is a Linux kernel module and you license it under GPLv3+, you wont' be able to integrate it upstream because it's licensed GPLv2.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility
My experience as well. People don't suddenly become interesting just because they have an easy forum at hand. I've trimmed most of my internet use down to directed research and a carefully cultivated list of blogs. I don't feel that I'm missing much.
There's an old quote I've heard attributed to the military, but I'm sure that's not the origin.

"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast"

Practicing fundamentals slowly is the traditional advice in everything from piano to karate.
Something like StackOverflow or HN is pretty much how I was thinking it would work, although with less emphasis on the voting. Voting would still be there, as a "quality score" of the article, but it would be time-based listings so it's still more like a news site.

There would need to be a way to earn the right to be an editor, either by contributing in minor ways until your 'karma' has built up, or some other way, to stop too much "fluff" making it to the site. Although I guess the voting down of articles would still prevent that.

Maybe a simple news-themed version of HN with "order by date & article score > 10" and throw in StackOverflow style editing.
I'll agree with that! That's always been one of my favorite things about OSX. It makes it easy and obvious how to get uninstall an app (duh! just delete it), but even better it makes it easy how to backup an app. Just backup your /Applications directory and at least 90% of your apps will work fine after a restore, without having to re-install all of them!
examples of #1 - craigslist and plentyoffish
I use Devonthink Pro: http://devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/index.html , which has a handy bookmarklet so I can highlight text, click a button, and have it automatically saved to my main database, along with the URL where it came from.

I use DTP as described here: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002... .
Does it matter? Disk space and ram are both cheap and plentiful. The difference in disk space or ram taken by apps on an average OSX desktop, and average Windows desktop, and an average Linux desktop seems to be negligible.
in the video- the voice announcing the color of the piano keys should be pitched to match the notes on the keyboard. they're missing a huge music education/development opportunity.
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Estimation beats market cap when it comes to the sustainable value, which only comes from hard-earned cash, not crazy bomb-passing games you can observe in every bubble scene. I do think that FB can be traded around $50 billion and may be $500 billion (Who cares? Most of investors-speculators don't care about its paper worth on the market.) if another dot-com bubble forms. However, what would be its sustainable value? How will it generate its profit to justify its valuation? Until it's on its verified earnings statement, it's just another bomb-passing game. Who really care whether it's $5 billion, or $500 billion, if one believes he can pass his bomb to the enthusiastic guy beside him?
I'm a big fan of the BSD and Apache licenses. For being "Free," the GPL sure does put a lot of restrictions on what one may or may not do with a given piece of code.
I'm a big fan of MIT because then businesses can use the code and not open-source the results, which is important to some businesses.

Of course, the GPL exists because some people don't like that state of affairs. If you're fine with it, use MIT.
Very true. The traditional Unix way of organizing files makes sense in a command line world, and I'd expect that sed, awk, grep and friends will continue to live in directories like /usr/bin. But for GUI desktop apps, there's really no good reason each app can't live in it's own directory.
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> I've stayed away simply because of the inevitable overlap between my personal and professional lives.

You can can create simple work/family/etc lists of friends and when you post something you choose who gets it. In some ways, you do pick a recipient whenever you send an email, so it's not like you're not used to having to pick a recipient when posting something on the web. Facebook makes it pretty easy every time you post a status to choose the list of people, or a black list, or white list or even pick the people one by one that will be able to read your post, same as with emails.
I think that announcing "I'm not on Facebook" is sort of like announcing "I don't watch TV." That's nice, but I think you care more than anyone else you're telling.

I say this tongue in cheek of course because I'm always telling everyone that I don't use Facebook. It's kind of difficult at times, but really, the people who I want to talk to will still find ways to talk to me. Better, I find that not using Facebook frees up a lot of time that I wasn't really aware that I was using.
I did the same purging of random Facebook 'acquaintances' when I graduated (2009). Then even a year later I was able to trim that 140-150 down to about 80. I also deleted all the random people I had lost touch with from high school who were no longer relevant to me, as since they were added we hadn't bothered to communicate.

I realized a lot of people on Facebook are there to collect friends like it's a status symbol. I really didn't like having college friends, coworkers, professors, high school buddies, employers, random celebrities/bands all lumped into one list together, there needs to be a way too separate these groups.
That seems full of edge cases. If your reserve isn't big enough it doesn't help and if it's too big then it's a waste. It seems much cleaner to be able to gracefully abort whatever operation you were doing. Presumably there is already error handling for fs/network errors. Usually you can hop onto those handlers with memory errors and be just fine.

Though if it's linux it'll just kill you anyway :-). (Yeah, I know you can turn the OOM killer off).
Anybody else remember the late 90s when people would send wide distribution emails about their trips and parties and such? I don't really feel facebook improved that system so much.
I wouldn't be surprised if Swipely and Blippy use them too.
"Guns. Lots of guns."

I like to have some kind of exercise. Personally, I find the gym feels like work, but running or biking outdoors doesn't.

Set a break timer for like 10 minutes. You don't have to break your train of thought, but at least stand up, stretch, and sit back down.

Have a toy side project that you put a few hours into.

And get out of town regularly, like kingofspain says. Especially if your startup is at home, the days seamlessly blend into months.

Quit work at a reasonable hour. If you're behind, you'll get a full day of work in there, believe me. There will be sprints, of course, but keep the work surgical and focused. Who are you doing a favor to if you burn out and your productivity falls below nominal levels?

Of course, these are all suggestions only. What works for one doesn't necessarily work for another.
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Huh. Like to see some numbers on that. Not arguing, just a little surprised. So you have data that shows bcopy() to be faster than the copy-on-write stuff?

As for the buffers, known problem, all the apps that used this sort of thing cycled through N buffers for exactly that reason. I think N=4 was way more than enough.
Perhaps the conclusion is that Facebook is not intended to be a networking tool, or a replacement for a real life -- it is simply a place/way to share online experiences with your real-life friends. AFAIK, it doesn't pretend to be anything else.
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Some people don't contribute to GPL projects because they want to make proprietary forks or object to the rules. Contrariwise, people like me don't contribute to BSD projects (unless paid well) because I resent subsidizing parasitic vendors. But I've never seen an estimate about how large each of these populations are. Anyone have an idea how big a hit you may take choosing one over the other?
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Thanks for all the responses, I don't want to give away too many specifics as of yet since we're still waiting to publicly launch. But I definitely appreciate the thoughtful comments everyone's given.

Our industry is in the outdoors market and we're targeting individual mom and pop vendors. Think sky diving shops or wine tasting tours.

Anyway, we're ramping up our sales and marketing efforts, we'll see how that goes =)
I tried meditation, exercise, healthy eating, and music for years without much results.

Finally I turned to alcohol.

Now I understand why studies show that those who drink live longer. It removes stress.

Stress can really block you from getting things done. Alcohol can break through that. Combine alcohol with socializing and you are doing well.

I'll advocate exercise and healthy eating as well, but by themselves neither were as effective as the booze.
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I have his original list, which I think he switched out:

1) I'm not relevant.

2) I don't want to understand the most popular site on the internet, which my publication writes about regularly.

3) Despite my position at a publication that relies on technology and social media as both a promotion tool and main subject, I want to annoy my PR contacts and writers by forcing them to use other techniques to contact me.

4) It's the hip thing to do for the ahead-of-the-ahead-of-the-curve trendsetting techies like Jason Calacanis and I want to show that I have something in common with that guy.

5) I use privacy as a crutch to shield my real reason for not using Facebook (below).

6) I want to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. And as a side effect of that, I'm choosing to no longer be relevant in my field of technology.

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I do not understand how someone in his position can do his job and recuse himself of Facebook. You don't have privacy: You're the editor of a major publication that covers technology.

Got a problem with that? Don't overshare. Make a fan page so people can worship at your altar, and turn on your privacy settings so nobody else can see your data. Use your head.

But you edit the U.K. edition of Wired, one of the most popular technology publications in the world. And you don't use Facebook. It's like wearing a giant sign around the office that says "I don't deserve my job."
And I'd wager that the ones that do mostly discover them via word of mouth.
The problem with regulation is that most regulation (and taxation as well) tends to create advantages for bigger corporations. Given that, it's important that if you do have any significant degree of regulation you also need a corresponding amount of regulations that check the power of big corporations. This is a perfect example of just why that's necessary.
Let's be clear - the GPL doesn't require that users contribute modifications back to your project or communicate with you in any way. It only requires people who distribute publicly the work or derived works do so under the same license terms.
Your timing is perfect. Edit: Had you said 'on to the next one' once, it would be just fine. By saying twice you actually made me sing it. Well done.
Bravo, an outstanding example of progressive enhancement onto good semantic markup.
Facebook still remains a good tool as an "internet yellow pages". I feel no need to actually use it as intended, but rather maintain a profile with my email address as a means of contact.
Well we are talking hand vs head here. I think you would probably lose your hand, but why would anyone say that you'd die?
"This too shall pass"--encouraging words when a startup doesn't work out, but not the best toast at a wedding.
You didn't indicate what language your app is written in. If you're using Java, I'd recommend steering away from the LGPL since there are some ambiguities there that nobody has ever agreed on.
What stress?

Never worry about things outside of your direct control and you won't have any stress/fear about starting up.

Also gauge success by your own measuring stick. How much progress did you make? How much are you learning along the way? It isn't only about selling your company for 100 million in 6 months.

I had a big failure of a product that I devoted over half a year to. However, I had many successes over that period of time that have helped me develop my skills and knowledge. I also met many interesting people. The best experiences were going outside of my comfort zone and trying new things - like going to a huge potential client site to discuss vapourware. Quite a learning experience.
Werd. GO BIG RED.

Tho I think Cornell Engineering is starting to get better and better. I just wish they had a CS program that was better tailored for startups instead of like quant trading and stuff.
If the universe were to be remade, perhaps physical constants would change, like gravity could be 7.1 instead of 6.67.

But mathematical constants like pi would remain the same, wouldn't it? A circle is a circle no matter what kind of universe it's in, so the ratio of the radius to the arc length would remain the same.

As I look at it, math is the universal truth of the universe, because everything is derived using the first principles.
That wasn't my point.

My point was that THIS PARTICULAR GUY shouldn't be trying it out.
I'm not on Facebook because it sucks. Anyone who wants to talk to me has 7 other vectors of communication, none of which spam me with Zynga game updates.

Has anyone who's left Facebook felt that they've actually missed anything?
Why Federal Law? Wouldn't it make sense to try it at the local level and see it's effects before pushing it to the national?
Civil disobedience is when you disobey your draft orders and go to prison instead of Vietnam. Civil disobedience is not sitting around writing linkbait articles about why you choose not to use certain popular websites.
One point that I am trying to convey here is that experiences are not being shared on Facebook, real-life friends or not.

Let's go with photos as an example, since they are a pretty integral part of Facebook. I love taking photos while on vacation. I take photos for two reasons: to reminisce at some point in the future, and to share my experiences with friends and family... even if those photos convey just a fraction of the real-life experience of the vacation. When I return from vacation, how do I share all of these photos with friends? Facebook, of course - it's easy, convenient, and everybody is already connected. As great as it seems, I somehow feel absolutely terrible after sending off so many emotion-packed photographs into the endless abyss that is Facebook. I feel empty and unsatisfied. I know that these photographs, displayed so carelessly upon lifeless white background, will never convey the experiences that I had. It's just not a natural form of expression.
You know, I find that I trim people down not so much according to how much I care about them as how interesting they are. Boring people I don't have a real connection to get deleted, but interesting people I don't have a connection to I follow.
The LHC has beam dumps, where they re-direct the beam if they need to shut it down quickly. http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach... "Each beam dump absorber consists of a 7m long segmented carbon cylinder of 700mm diameter, contained in a steel cylinder" They seem to expect that there'd be a lot of force there.

http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach... also has some comparisons regarding beam energy and aircraft carriers, cars, etc.
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/PhysFAQ/Relativity/GR/pi.html
"Writes to the service have been disabled, we will be bringing everything back online ASAP"?
1) Perhaps yes.
2) Mathemtical contstans are purely abstact - pi only exists in a perfectly euclidian plane. It's an abstraction that works for us in a scertain scale because it matches close enough. In real life, there aren't circles.. they're just close enough. So no - a universe could have completely different maths required to describe it.
3) Math is purely abstract and detached from the universe. It operates on theoretical models that try to model reality. Math has it's own universal truths, but reality does not. The universe came before math - math is a tool invented by man to analyze the universe.
I would like to see actual games on the device to actually judge how good this chip is in relation to the PS3.
The local level is a good place to start; however, I believe the problem is more rampant. Google, Apple, and Pixar are mostly California companies. Google and Apple do have offices here in Texas where I work, and their policies were in affect here too. So the problem crosses state boundaries, which would need a Federal fix.
In olden times, people would get their vacation photos made into slides, invite their friends over, and bore everyone to death with a slideshow that didn't convey the experiences they had. Facebook is way better.
I don't know about that. pg has a whole section in "What You Can't Say" that boils down to this: if you have any interesting or controversial opinions at all, don't go around saying them or else your life will be consumed by controversies completely tangential to what you want your life to be about.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
This is argument is so silly. Stipulate that everything you say is true. The possible outcomes are: the guy goes hugely into debt, or the guy can't open a merchant account on his own. You know what's worse than not being able to open a merchant account? Personal bankruptcy.
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i must be in the complete minority here, but that is one of the nicest designs and layouts i've ever seen

looks great on chromium full screen

has the designer done any other work? any other samples?
Talk about not hacker news; this article is from 2009 and the server is from 2005.
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Fascinating! That's an off-the-shelf SLA (sealed lead acid) battery like many UPS/alarm systems use, which need replacement at least every 3 years (or much sooner if they are deeply discharged).

But I would happily pay $2, even $5 more for that feature on a motherboard.
(Actually it was strncpy's wacky behavior I was thinking of. I don't think I've ever used strndup().)
That's a common sentiment. Indeed, I hear people liken "I'm not on Facebook" to "I don't watch TV" more often than I hear people say "I'm not on Facebook."
>I believe the AI strategy you describe is known as "simulated annealing".

Not necessarily. You could get much the same effect (the program learning by playing itself over and over) with many Reinforcement Learning algorithms (like TD learning, say).

There are major differences between Value Function (loosely, perceived_state -> perceived_long_term_reward map) based RL algorithms and algorithms that work only in the policy (loosely, the perceived-state -> chosen_action map) space like Simulated Annealing (or Genetic Algorithms). Barto and Sutton (somewhat loosely) use the term "evolutionary algorithms" to distinguish Value Function based algorithms from those that only manipulate policy
Why don't we drop a pig into the LHC. If nothing happens, problem solved. If something happens, dinner solved.
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Not really an accurate statement. They are basing this entirely off of the theoretical triangle throughput and not comparing pixel shading power, memory bandwidth, cpu perf (those SPUs on the PS3 actually do get used), etc...
Strict smoking bans make a big difference for smokers, but not such a big deal for second-hand smoke. (I find it offensive if someone lights up a cigarette or cigar next to me without asking, and in some cases like at a sushi bar, I will cause this behavior to end, but casual infrequent exposure doesn't deliver that much incremental pollution to the lungs.)

I agree Asia is way more affected by this than most of the US; I'm actually looking forward to being in SF or Seattle for air/water quality and not in Asia where I am now. $100 would do more good for more people in the highest-pollution cities, but if someone is donating to charity, it is up to him if he values places he lives/people he is near/places he visits over the rest of the world.
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Has anybody used Spree in production?
I think the branded web store might overshadow a lot of the work that other suppliers are doing. They have a competitive advantage. If someone is browsing the site they will most likely buy directly from them.
Federal law is needed for something that crosses state boundaries. This kind of collusion between big players is likely to cross state boundaries.

Let's put it the other way: why do you think what works on a smaller scale (local companies) will necessarily tell us how it will work on a national scale (large national companies)?
Ironically mortgage bonds were invented to solve the opposite problem: mortgages getting paid off (when moving or refinancing). People tend to do those things when interest rates go down. Investors didn't want to buy a bond that paid low rates of return when interest rates were high (as most bonds do) and then might get repaid in full with no penalty when the rates lowered.

The answer, of course, was to roll a bunch of mortgages together into a special purpose vehicle (SPV) then sell bonds to fund it, then divide those bonds into tranches such that the lower tiers got repaid in full when the refinancings started. Kind of hard to believe now that investors used to be worried about people paying their mortgages off too soon.
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