skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can emerge, but they're going to have a hell of a time getting traction, as they've got the mother of all chicken-and-egg problems.
This is great. I would love to see a fully functioning old-school RPG created in HTML5 that I don't have to download/purchase CD, can just play in any browser, on my desktop/laptop/iPhone/iPad, with save games instantly available.

One day ..
So, nothing of Mono falls outside the ECMA 334 and 335 scope, right?
The LOOP macro is the thing I always miss from Common Lisp when I'm using some other language. It's a controversial feature, but amazingly powerful, flexible, and easy to use.

If you're interested in some examples, here's a chapter from Practical Common Lisp on the subject:

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/loop-for-black-belts.html
Glad to hear Zuckerberg has made good on his previously stated commitment to openness.
Great.

Just followed a user who doesn't exist.
They might leave Facebook if something comes along that's much better, and importing your data is one click away.

The biggest advantage Facebook has is that it has your data, being able to export it changes the game.
Regardless of whatever intentions fb has behind this, it honestly makes me feel warmer towards fb and their service. It now feels more like a personal data store that I can retrieve when I please.
People complain about this a lot, but the rate of link-rot of ordinary URLs is much, much greater than people believe. I run a URL shortener, and I can assure you that while all of our links still work, huge numbers of the pages they point to no longer exist.

The problem is also overstated because nearly all URL shorteners (bit.ly included) are sending HTTP 301 responses. This means that the short link is never indexed; only the original link is. So shorteners have no effect on pagerank/search results, which is where the longevity of pages is important (since anything not published in the very recent past is mostly discovered by search).
10MinutesMail is a cool app. I use it a lot. Thumbs up. :)
For the specific problem of a contiguous heap, I don't even think kernel modifications are necessary; the VM should be able to look at /proc/self/maps and find the appropriate address space.

In general I realize that y'all are looking for rationalizations for an exokernel-style design, but IMO they need to be fundamental issues and not bugs.
Data export is nice... now if only I can delete the data I don't want Facebook to have, like phone numbers of people who aren't even on Facebook.
What promise? The point was that the managers won't promise anything.
By not working you mean sites won't let you register with e-mail addresses ending in lhsdv.com? Or that they do, but there's some issue with 10MinuteMail.com itself that doesn't show you the e-mail? If it's the former, then not much I can do, other than rotating domains every few months, which I do. If it's the latter, email me with an example and I'll try to fix it. devon@digitalsanctuary.com
I don't really see the value of this except for marketing and goodwill.

Don't underestimate the power of marketing and goodwill.

More specifically: This feature may make it really hard to sell the average Facebook user on the value of a "more open" system. It will appear to solve 80% of the problem and the other 20% is hard for nonprogrammers to understand.

GEEK: "Come use our Facebook alternative! It's open, and all your data belongs to you!"

USER: "But Facebook is a platform for sending stuff to my friends. It's for things I want to share, not things I want to keep for myself."

GEEK: "But what if Facebook crashes and all your data is lost? Or what if you want to get all those photos back out of Facebook and stuff them into your new photo frame, or something?"

USER: "No problem, I'll use Facebook's download feature. In fact, I stuffed a downloaded copy into Dropbox just last week. [1]"

GEEK: "But Facebook's download feature doesn't include social graph metadata, so you can never put the links all back together again."

USER: "Wait, what did you just say? It sounded like TECH TECH TECH TECH to me."

I'm guessing that, no matter what this feature really is, it will probably accomplish my real-life use case: "My wife uploaded all her photos to Facebook and now I want them back." That's a nice win.

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[1] Note that I posited a really sophisticated Facebook user who understands the value of periodic offsite backups. Because even that user probably doesn't know what a "social graph" is.
My metabolism is similar, unless i am eating something (like pasta) that causes my blood sugar to seriously spike, I will not feel hungry, I will just kind of start to drag as the day goes on. The key is to train yourself to pick up on when you are starting to drag, and then go eat something. (I'm still working on this, it is something I have to consciously recognize).

I kind treat my diet as a dynamic programming problem.
You have a few variables to think about:

Price of food
Speed of digestion
Ease of preparation
Nutritional content

You can give different categories of food different values, and kind of estimate what things have better min/max heuristics.

Eggs are a very good morning food, for example, they're cheap, high in protein (therefore nutritionally good and digest slowly), and they're easy to prepare. Plain yogurt is similar.

You can do different things to get your ease of preparation and get price down. I can make a fairly healthy chili with lean ground beef and various veggies. It is mostly meat and fiber so it digests fairly slowly, and is high in protein. Normally it is relatively intensive to make it (takes me a couple of hours of time). However, if I make a big batch of it at the beginning of the week, I can freeze part of it (in reusable serving size containers) and eat it whenever. The preparation difficulty becomes similar to that of a tv dinner but it is cheaper/healthier. (Similar can be done with other soup/stew like concoctions).

I also keep a tin of nuts on my desk next to the computer if I need a quick pick me up.
In addition to memorizing the rules, you'll also memorize the specific IE bugs; see a page in IE all messed up, and be able to go, "Oh, I know what would cause that," and be able to fix it without spending hours tracking down the bug.

Woo!
We've been hearing that the iPhone will be on Verizon "any day now" for the past three years. I'll believe it when I see it in a Verizon store. They can't even fill the preorders for white iPhones....
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A bit. You can work around the patents you know. Still, Microsoft retains the power to sue if any implementation of anything outside the community promise violates whatever patents they have.

One could expect Sun to be ethical. One can count on Microsoft doing the exact opposite.
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Technically, sure. Economically, since most of the cost of nuclear power is the capital cost of building the plants, you want to be running them as close to 100% capacity as you can, all the time. If you can smelt some aluminum while you're at it, that really helps.
Fortunately, some ArchiveTeam members are archiving short URLs for when that time comes.

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=TinyURL

The project definitely needs more volunteers. Check out the website or join #archiveteam on EFNet if you are interested in helping save the future internet.
I bought one in 2008 because a Mac Pro with 30" ACD was my "dream machine" and I had the money. A bit like buying a stupidly overpriced dream car, I guess.

Turns out, I hardly used any of the power and now it sits unused (for the past year) and I'm more than happy with a more practical 27" iMac that actually fits in my lounge..
This is pretty spiff. Revenue just from that little 123Systems Ad or are you planning some greater service rollout?

It seems like you could ad maybe 3 Square Button ads in various places and still be unobtrusive about it..

Don't get me wrong I don't sell online advertising or anything but your site design would make it really easy to add more inventory and have them still not be distracting.
If there is literally no physical activity you enjoy and no job you enjoy then you are probably suffering from some kind of depression.
I disagree strongly with the sentiment that bullies just need love, that they're only doing it because they are hurting too. People are diverse, so I won't deny that perhaps that's sometimes true. But I think it would be more accurate to say that bullies do it because it's fun and above all because they can.

In short, bullies need to face punishments with teeth. And the bullied need to have access to a justice system they can trust to actually work. Something like this: http://www.sudval.org/05_onepersononevote.html (scroll down about halfway to "When you were young", A True Story).

Look, our justice system as adults distinguishes between aggression and self defense. But for some reason, we treat conflict between kids as if it's everybody's fault, and everything's okay once it stops. That's unjust, and is the root cause: adults that treat order and convenience as more important than justice.

When I was a kid, I remember complaining that my (three years younger) sister hit me. The first thing my mom asked? "What did you do to make her do that?" Well, of course I answered, "Nothing," but it plainly wasn't true. Who picks a fight with someone twice their size? And over the course of the discussion it came out that I had taken her toy and teased her, and you know what? My sister got a free pass. I got in trouble.

How about that old fashioned rule, "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all?" How about, if I catch you insulting or belittling someone, you have to be their servant for half an hour -- get their water, sharpen their pencils, that sort of thing?

How about a justice system that treats allegations of teasing and insulting as serious matters, and investigates to get to the bottom of things? How about a system that is concerned about kids' antisocial behavior, not because it is currently bothering the adults, but because of the effects it has on both victim and aggressor?

How about a system that punished physical violence harshly if it was aggressive, and leniently or not at all if it's defensive? How about a system that says, "If you hit back with the aim of making the other kid stop, and you stop as soon as he does, we'll hold you blameless?" You know, the same deal adults get. (By popular judgement, anyway, if not always in court.)

How about a system that responded to kids' experiments in evil with love and affection and attention, encouraging them to delve deeper and teaching them that behaving cruelly toward others is a great way to get all the stuff they want?

Never mind on that last one.
He should educate himself on older books. It seems that ISBNs have been out only since the 70s, which means that most truly valuable books won't have them.

He is right that it will be rare if he actually sees a valuable old book, but since he is already going through so many books chances are he will see some from time to time. So he might as well learn something, so that he recognizes a truly valuable book when he sees it.
His intention was to give advice to aspiring musical artists. Someone who cares about the music they make, rather than just the money they can get for it, might not have the same interests as KISS and might find those interests hindered by suing all their fans.
Actually, that does carry legal weight. It's called the doctrine of unclean hands; those who wish equitable relief must themselves act equitably. Acting hypocritically in this case may fall under that doctrine.
This is what I was thinking. FB has reached the marketshare where it's fairly safe for them to relax the control they hold, because even if a variety of open rivals appear, using the data that FB releases, FB will still be the centre of the action.

Alternatively, there may be a parallel to IBM giving away the PC specs, inadvertently pushing the monopoly down to the OS and weakening their market position (though creating a tech boon for everyone that made the market so much bigger).
The US government has a horrendous nuclear regulatory regime. If anything, they're anti-subsidizing.
I love SSDs so much. Silent. Fast.
I'm curious how the frid.ge folks feel about this one. Seems very close to what they are doing.
Here's a link to a Forbes article about it. You're right: my memory was distorted. The outage was only 22 hours. (I'm sure it felt like three days to the Ebay admins at the time.)

Fun fact: the "Steve Abatangle" quoted in the article is yours truly, and the author of the piece is Dan Lyons, now AKA Fake Steve Jobs.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0726/6402238a.html
Microsoft's Tablet PCs: How Bad Will They Be?
Beware the lure of the businessman-politician
Kudos. This fixes my biggest criticism of Facebook. I'm going to be a lot more comfortable using it now. The moving target privacy policies are a bit of an issue still, but I'm willing to give them a half pass on that as the price of innovation.
I consider the HTML5 bible to be Mark Pilgrim's work-in-progress Dive Into HTML5 book, which is available online.

The part of the book that specifically covers this is:

http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html#what-works

It's a great book with frequent updates and it covers everything, including local storage.
IMHO frid.ge was always a bit questionable, I personally built a comparable product and quickly realized that there is a huge amount of momentum around getting people into a system that is pretty much devoid of people you know.

Groups (and Events) are two features that Facebook has left somewhat sidelined over other feed oriented features. If they can get the mojo right on Groups then whole classes of me-too features (like frid.ge) are somewhat suspect. The interesting question is can you have a group that's coworkers who aren't your Friends, thus digging into Yammer is a serious way.
Lots of good suggestions here.

Specifically for breakfast, there are a lot of ways of getting an awesome breakfast without spending a lot of time. Spend one evening making eggs in muffin tins (http://www.suite101.com/content/mini-vegetable-frittatas-a27...), freeze them, then in the morning, pull out two and microwave. Getting a good breakfast + exercise (outside, in the sun) should help a lot with energy levels.
If I ever happen to create groups(i am not sure yet) , I would prefer frid.ge
Microsoft to Android phone makers: Pay up or get sued
Are you choosing to ignore iPhone/iPad/OSX or is there something I'm missing?
You should make it open. (or approve my request to join :)
I don't understand how you can do the equivalent of TRIM without filesystem support.

Doesn't TRIM necessarily rely on knowing which blocks contain live data and which contain deleted data? I.e., something the hardware can't know?
Rock out with Ruby
The Facebook Drama "The Social Network" Won't Show You
Being a curious one, I had a look round your site as listed in your profile. You say have a Nexus One, yet your personal site, Watch.Steve, releases the tutorials in "iPhone + Apple TV" format and the filenames have iphone in there.

Just an observation ;-) Prompted mainly by the strange pointless dig at the Nexus One which had no relevance to the conversation or OP.
You’ve got it backwards.

The biggest advantage Facebook has is that 500 million people have an account. Facebook would be utterly useless if nobody was using it. Network effects make Facebook hard to beat, not your data. They need your data only to make money but they get your data because you and your mom and everyone else have an account.
I never say "No".

Really? I expect to hear No (clarification: I am a project manager/ geek herder). That's fine. I don't need my developers to be wasting time working out convincing arguments and workarounds to requests - I trust that they want to be helpful and if they are saying no, there's a good reason. Hell, assuming I am on top of stuff, I can figure out what the reason is - and in the rare occasion when I can't, I just ask.

I am here so that my developers don't have to worry about this shit.

Yeah, if your PM is not shielding you, you can try that approach above - at least it makes you not look obstructive. However, people burn out doing that after a while, especially when they have to explain this stuff to people who don't want to understand them. In which case a simple "How does this compare with my current top priority X?" is generally sufficient.
Fwiw, I find this more interesting for the general point than for the discussion of whether any particular businessman-politician is good or bad. But I think they're right that the popular sentiment that government should be run "more like business" can't be implemented by just drafting some ex-CEOs into government (or at least, that hasn't worked so far).
Meditation has been shown in several clinical studies to increase attention span.

Also, there are a number of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies with proven results.
Kiss was a Rock n' Roll band with all that entails. Business was one part of it, Music another. Sex a third.

Their live performances are what made them, and it is no coincidence that Alive was their breakthrough album. It was a strategy later followed by Peter Frampton and Cheap Trick.

Edit: They weren't the hottest band in the land when Alive was recorded. But a year later they were.
I would hope not. It's been one of the biggest complaints about facebook. If you're starting a social network I would hope you'd be prepared for competition from facebook.
There's also Whitey Board that you can stick on and off the wall.

http://www.whiteyboard.com/
I will say though that historically the WSJ (This writer in Particular) has been spot-on when reporting Apple rumors.

iPad: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870340570457501...

No iPhone 4 Recall: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870468260457536...

Job's Liver Transplant: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124546193182433491.html

And a TechCrunch article mentioning it: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/15/iphone-4-recall/

It appears that Yukari Iwatani Kane has a connection to Job's inner circle...
The fact that the white iPhone has not shipped is mutually exclusive from carrier availability rumors. With that said - although WSJ has been historically accurate on occasions, I've got a heavy filter on for things like this until it comes from Steve Jobs himself.
Without the cardboard case the $874.99 PC (no OS included) costs $340 in parts from Newegg.
That's one hell of a markup.
Cool, are you in Colorado? We should ride sometime.

Each there own on 'fuel' - that doesn't work for me and truthfully I just don't have the urge for that kind of food much these days, esp. if I'm about to go hiking, boarding, hockey, etc.
I just replaced the 5400rpm drive in my Macbook Pro with an OCZ Vertex2 SSD. The performance improvements for many things are dramatic. I did some very unscientific before-and-after measurements..

* Cold boot (Power button to login screen): 79s HDD, 76s SSD (didn't improve much, surprisingly)

* Login (Login -> Desktop menu bars loaded): 16s HDD, 6s SSD

* Firefox start: 11s HDD, 3s SSD

* OpenOffice start: 11s HDD, 3s SSD

* Metasploit msfconsole start (i.e. loading lots of ruby code): 22s HDD, 12s real

A lot of other things are noticeably faster. Searching for things in Spotlight is almost instantaneous. Previously, there could be a few seconds delay between typing a filename and seeing it appear in the results. Running find over large directories is noticeably faster as well. Time Machine backups are way faster, since it takes much less time to determine what has changed since the last backup.

I was a little hesitant to get an SSD knowing that OSX doesn't have TRIM. We'll see how it goes. I'm hoping Apple adds support soon. If not, I might be doing a secure erase and re-install periodically.
It is open, but I still need to approve :(
frisco, very well put! "Wind makes a small fire expire but makes a large one bigger", as you state, I guess FB now feels they're pretty much invincible in their user stickiness, so they don't feel threatened. In fact, as people build other services off this data, they'll have even more visibility (if that's possible).
Intel X25-M SSD (G3 25nm) Specs Revealed
An rss feed would be cool.
I had this idea in 2003 and have the Internet archive Wayback machine link to prove it:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030706235741/http://gadgeteer.o...

I did this as a defensive publication for just such a case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_publication
One of the reasons demand is light at night is that we run our central heating systems on gas -- mostly imported from Norway or parts east, these days. Per kWh, gas heating is a lot cheaper for the consumer. But if we had a serious base load nuclear infrastructure, we could provide much cheaper off-peak electricity for domestic heating, which would smooth out the demand curve significantly.
I would recommend you to exercise everyday, as important as diet to get energy, just choose what you like to do and do it everyday.

Start very very gradually, first day just get out of the office, second day one minute, trird two.... Take 30 days for making it a routine. You will feel stronger and happier.
Motorola Sues Apple For Patent Infringement
Agreed, but the name is Crockford. His site, which has a bunch of interesting JavaScript links on it: http://crockford.com
This could actually be a really interesting experiment. I have to still approve though it's open :( :( and the amount of requests is insane. It's like a video game clicking the accept button in real time.
Don't you USUALLY read editorial type news on the site you know, instead of SEARCHING for it?

Do you seriously think that "research and shopping" doesn't constitute overwhelming majority of searches?

Do you seriously assume that searching for editorial content is what majority of users do instead of "research and shopping"?

The only thing I'm guarding is MY OWN CONTENT. I wrote it. I own it. I don't want Google to display it in readable form in bigger and bigger chunks every year. I'd opt out of "short snippets" they show now if it was possible - leave the titles - that'd be ENOUGH to reference my content.

Google was built on shoulders of people who produce the content. Now Big G. acts like they own this content and are free to do whatever they please with it to satisfy visitors on THEIR site and earn money from THEIR ads, using MY content.

I do understand it's better experience for visitors, but why would I want to produce the content anymore if Google steals my profit by showing the content directly to users? I want people who benefit from my content to be on MY site, not on Google site.
Verizon and Apple blew it on this one IMO. While the iPhone has been wildly successful by pretty much any metric, there is a not-small market segment that hasn't picked up an iPhone solely because it is encumbered with AT&T. (I am one member of that group.)

AT&T gave up its exclusivity deal with Apple for the iPhone back in the spring of this year. Verizon and other insiders had to have known well in advance that they were going to. They should have been ready for a release in July, at the latest.

Instead, Android has made great strides. I'm not a gadget guy when it comes to my phone; I just want it to work and be easy to use and not frustrate me. So, I've played with the various releases of Android and have continued to hold out for an iPhone ... until 2.2. 2.2 is good enough for me, and best of all, Android appears to be gaining ground on the iPhone, and it isn't being crushed by Apple's thumb.

It's tough to tell for sure, but if I'm not alone in all this, then when the iPhone finally does come out for Verizon, it could fall flat on its face. It just took too damned long and frustrated everyone that has been patient enough to wait for it for years.