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Ask HN: Facebook having scalability issues?
has anyone else noticed that facebook pages are not rendering as quickly as of late and every once in a while when it does the formatting is off?

I have seen it several times over the past few weeks in a variety of browsers and different computers I work on both Mac's and PC's and use google chrome or firefox depending on what I am working on)

seems like they are starting to have some of the "growing pains" I would have expected long ago, with two outages in the last month and now these problems I just wonder if that is the case

obviously they are well funded and should be able to overcome this without a doubt, but what sort of affect with this have on their stellar reputation of little downtime and rockstar developers?

thoughts?
Now that’s a big genome (Large genomes are not an advantage)
There is already a Minecraft post on techstartu.ps, so I don't think it is only about tech startups.

I don't think splitting is the answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-0Az7dgRY

IMO, HN needs to have different category pages for different topics. That would fix things, I think. There is nothing wrong with the link submission process, etc.- it is just getting high traffic.
Try launchy, search beats categorisation any time.
I stopped going back to Firebug and stuck with Safari about a year ago. I still fire up Firefox on occasion to compare errors when I'm really stumped, but it's more a matter of getting another perspective than it is a shortcoming in the Web Inspector.
Except that's not something that PG says, in general. I think that in this case, he was pretty clearly saying "the talk will be online" in an idiomatic manner.

In my experience PG errs toward the side of putting too much emphasis on taking notes, honestly. (This is probably because he works better when he takes notes, and he's seen a lot of YC founders forget/ignore his advice when they don't write it down.)
* The Webkit Developer Tools (Safari, Chrome) are roughly on-par. They progress faster and have some features Firebug doesn't, but they don't have plugins and there are some nice features of Firebug they don't replicate (built-in introspection of jquery collections). They're way fucking faster than Firefox with Firebug enabled though, that's a big plus. They also implement most of the Firebug `console` API. The only tool which is not as good as Firebug's would be the DOM inspector, as it's a bit harder to edit nodes in line (though it's not actually hard).

* IE8's developer tools are a start, but they're slow, buggy and tend to crash a lot (either a soft-crash where some features suddenly stop working, or a hard crash where the inspector takes down the browser). I think they only implement `console.log`, and it only works when you have the tools open otherwise it generates an error

* Opera's Dragonfly... well I haven't tried it in a long time, though I mean to do it soon-ish: during last week's Opera "AMA" on reddit I was told good progress had been made.

These days I use Safari as my main development browser, and it's very enjoyable.

edit: addendum, there are also things simply done differently. For instance Firebug displays the ajax requests in the console, which is something I find spammy but you may like. On the other hand the Webkit dev tools not only have a dedicated console tab but you can access a JS console from any tool (by pressing [ESC] in Safari, don't know the chrome shortcut, might be the same, it will slide up a console to half-height in the manner of e.g. OSX's Visor) which is very handy, especially in the debugger.
Why stop at five??
> I find myself going back to Firebug if I have to do any serious debugging

Why? What difference do you see between the browsers debugging-wise?
Terrorism is used by many groups. In the broadest definition terrorism is the systematic use of fear especially as a means of coercion.

Therefore, the spreading of FUD by politicians definitely fits under the umbrella of terrorism. In fact if you take out the media factor the United States commits terrorism all the time with its drones flying in the middle east. Terrorism is being used to fight terrorists. When a parent threatens a child with punishment for not changing their behavior it is terrorism.

As I said, you can debate whether it is possible to have "good terrorism" or terrorism for a noble cause. Sometimes fear seems to be necessary. If criminals and citizens weren't at least slightly afraid of the police and government the world would probably be a lot more dangerous.
I found these plans for building an electric sit/stand desk, but haven't seen them live so I can't vouch for them. Looks like a fun project (for $15 of plans and $700 of materials).

http://woodwaredesigns.com/rsi/raise.html
This is why we don't build our entire business on the back of a third-party vendor.
I'm pretty sure that Virtualbox machines can be cloned, and they'll clone the latest snapshot. It's not easily exposed in the GUI though.
MySQL has been saving tiny little kittens for years.
Open Source Snort company is having a pig roast
So really the name of this article should be "Five things that Paul Graham and I don't Agree on", not as flashy a title, but probably more accurate.
You left out: some innocents may be convicted for unpopular but innocent searches, some guilty may be exonerated for being smart enough to search at the library instead of at home, some of those FBI agents may hold onto that information long after it is relevant to use in personal attacks or blackmail, etc, etc, etc.
With no doubt, the Firebug team can take credit for changing the world of Web development.

These guys aren't giving themselves enough credit. IMO, they can take credit for advancing the world of Web development. While the other development tools are (quickly) catching up, firebug is still leading the pack.
I don't like it that Firesheep is driving everyone to use HTTPS.

You cannot have multiple SSL certs on a single IP and you have to pay a significant amount to get a cert that won't pop up an annoying page which turns away most non-technical users.

There needs to be an alternative which just does key exchange and symmetric encryption without the identification.
I play online very rarely (about 1d on IGS and KGS ranks). Lately I've started a couple games on DGS. I'd welcome a game on DGS with anyone from Hacker News.
<3 Lighthouse! http://lighthouseapp.com/ Also, Open Atrium looks pretty sweet (but bulkier) if you have your own server. http://openatrium.com/
I think it is sort of interesting that terrorism is such a loaded term that people object to its use. Terrorism doesn't have to involve killing people. It just means scaring people into doing what you want.
Actually, I think that with the possible exception of #2 (which can be debated extensively) these are not "things that Paul Graham is wrong about". They are "places where Paul Graham used hyperbole to make a point."

I disagree with PG on a number of issues, but this post completely missed the point.
This is probably the most succinct analogy on computer pricing discussion I've seen that a lot of people just don't seem to realize. Perhaps we haven't had the concept of a "luxury computer" long enough in our heads to make it seem natural in the same way we think of luxury / economy cars.
Or they froze the accounts by changing the passwords (and maybe the email addresses, to prevent password recovery).
Personally, I find notes are a distraction. Every time I try to take notes while someone is talking, I find myself more focused on writing things down than actually trying to comprehend what they're saying.
He talked a little bit about Android and iPhone in his interview for Reddit recently. If you haven't seen it yet, it is worth a read.
http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/rms-ama.html
In my experience, you really only see Integer Explorer in China.

That being said, locally modified versions of Internet Explorer are extremely common. I can't remember their names off the top of my head, but even relatively unsophisticated users frequently download alternative versions of IE, which are generally based off of older IEs. (At least last time I was living there, which was about 16 months ago, so take this with a grain of salt)

Web designers / developers aren't focused on standards in the same way they are in the US/Europe, so other browsers may not display pages as expected. The Chinese Internet is quickly catching up with the rest of the world's in terms of quality, but it still lags behind.

Also, a significant chunk of the population primarily uses computers in Web Cafes rather than at home, so they don't even have the option of installing other browsers.
There have been studies that have found the opposite. If you write things down, you are more focused on writing/reading than actually listening to the speaker. Its the repetition that actually helps you remember, so reading the published notes afterwards or listening to the recording would be best.
There are a lot of things the US do very well, it's a wonderfully entrepreneurial country and is at the forefront of research and technology. But like everywhere not all is perfect and food is not something where the US shine.

As a european who went to university in Rochester and has lived for quite some times in different countries Asia and Europe. I can say that I've never seen any countries where food habits was as bad as in Rochester... Of course, there were some good restaurants in Rochester, there were farmer markets but all of the restaurants at the university served greasy unhealthy food (I couldn't stand the food there and actually lost 10 pounds in 6 month because after 3 weeks I got tired of all the food served there and just didn't feel like eating much).

Now, Rochester might be extreme, it is after all the home of the "Garbage Plate" but really it was shocking and while all of this is anecdotal, the statistics do show that US has a very high number of obese...
But, have you factored in the decreased life expectancy associated with biking 17 miles a day on the streets of Southern California? :-) Here in the Bay Area, we have bike lanes, and drivers that actually stop for you.

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, AKA the Big Orange Book, is fantastic. The mushroom risotto recipe is to die for.
OK, add those possibilities to the ledger. Do they push us from "overall good" into "overall harm" territory?
Interesting that we seem to fall about in the middle.

Or perhaps that suggests we've only been able to observe so far in either direction.
The Virtualbox PUEL license allows commercial use as long as it's only being used by one person. And that person has to actually install it themselves.
No good for many scenarios, but we use it at work under this clause.

It is possible to purchase a license as well, although I don't think there's a public price and I dread to think what Oracle want to charge
Do not do this, I did it and keep coming back to HN every ten minutes.
The ironic thing is one of the things that would help my productivity the most is a compiler that generated ridiculously efficient code.

Consistently the hard technical problems are performance problems. Everything else pales in comparison (from a technical perspective).
So you expected the article to be devoid of opinion?
You can see their friends' flies open? That's one ninja technique that I didn't want to know about.

Point is, you don't know, so don't assume.
Yeah, how about some linux love :(

Notifo is great, though. Do you have any idea why your Twitter notification app requires write access? I'd use it if it weren't for that.
This reminds me of a Palm Zire I got free with a set of tires, way back when people actually carried PDAs around with them. I quickly discovered how much of an impractical piece of junk it was to use, and it's been collecting dust in a drawer or box somewhere ever since. I predict a similar fate for many of these underpowered resistive screen tablets.
No, there aren't. Nor the iPad size, nor any other size (not counting smartphones ;-)). The first good one is Galaxy Tab.
Is there an equivalent syscall for this?
I would have actually paid a small fee for that sort of service from a non-US based provider recently, to avoid MLB blackout restrictions on their online playoff coverage. (Except a free proxy in China was easy enough to find.)
Just put in an order for one. I'll do a review here on HN when I receive it.
Your alternative to SSL would allow MITM attacks. Thus it would be useless.
"why [so-and-so] is wrong" is a great way to get your stuff read, but is so typically devoid of content and full of misunderstanding that i've grown to hate this type of post.

the author clearly seems to misunderstand that PG's "rules" are simply ways to mentally lower the barriers to making something:

1. efficiency doesn't matter...as the author says, it matters later. so then get to work NOW

2. the returns on angel investing are bimodal...again, the simplification is used to motivate early stage startups to look for funding

3. valuations don't matter...the author's counterexample is ridiculous. PG's point is don't obsess if you're worth 14 mill or 16 mill, just get to work

4. investors who don't want to be first movers are assholes...i suppose this is the post the author wanted to write but didn't think it had enough content

5. you don't have to take notes...all PG was saying was: I'm posting this talk online. take notes if it helps you, you can think for yourself
A quote from pg:

"If you wanted to be that accurate, you could prepend 'I think' to every statement in every essay written. That's implicit, except in proofs."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1820952
As pointed out by others, the largest scales on this animation are completely wrong. The figure given for the Observable Universe, 14 billion light years, is actually only half of the distance between us and the HUDF.YD3 galaxy. The figure given for the total size of the Universe is actually the estimated size of the Observable Universe: 93 billion light years. The size of the Universe itself is not known with any certainty.

If you're wondering to yourself how anything can be further away than (age of Universe) * (speed of light), read up on comoving distance and the metric expansion of spacetime. I wrote a fairly lengthy series of comments on this six months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1317907
> By Google integrating and promoting their own information service at the top of search results it's very similar to Microsoft bundling, promoting and defaulting to their own in-house equivalents to what would otherwise be third-party apps sold by separate businesses.

Sort of, but it's as if Microsoft is still stuck on the IE3 release and grumping about Mozilla Firefox 4 being better. The Expedia quote basically says "dear God, Google might actually make a usable fare finder instead of presenting users with a useless interface designed to make it hard to find the actual low fares we promote!"
Out of curiosity, can you tell us more about your startup? The website etc. I am sorry, I lack the experience to help you with any advice regarding your current situation.
we could call someone back, if we can't modify the call. hmm? I wonder if there is a call back if the modify call fails.
Ever wonder how Google autoupdates its software?
Old GDS-backed oligopolistic portals with their deals under the table deserve this and 1000x more.

Come on Google/Ita!
Relevant discussion from yesterday with added insight: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829124

I actually began to adjust my sleep and work schedule last night based on other people's comments in that thread.

It was painful to wake up a little earlier, but nice to come in and get an hour of peace & focus before the rest of the troops show up to the office.
> but the act of writing helps you remember what was said.

I hate it when people make this assumption because for me this is not true. When I take notes I stop comprehending what is being said because the act of transcribing becomes mechanical. I also write slow so I start to lag behind what's being said. Is there any research for this because I would like to be a test subject and prove them wrong.
We are so small yet think so big. We are interesting creatures...a bit mad though.
This seems like an almost deliberate misreading of what I've said:

1. A couple quotes from the essay in which he claims I said efficiency doesn't matter (http://paulgraham.com/hundred.html):

"And yet some applications will still demand speed."

"Efficiency is important, but I don't think that's the right way to get it."

2/3. He claims I said x, then at the end concedes I actually said -x. This latter I "grudgingly conceded?"
It was arguably the single biggest theme of that talk, that the super-angels might have a winning model without getting big hits.

4. I said assholes are an instance of people who invest late, not that the two are identical. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809670)

5. I agree note-taking has benefits other than recording things. In fact I've written about the phenomenon before. I just meant that people didn't have to take notes to record what I said.
solson, That is exactly what I'm looking for. Had my fingers crossed (as always) for a lower price, though I'm sure it is well worth it. I looked around for an animation of the system and then noticed your videos which are hilarious. Thanks

http://ergotron.com/tabid/649/language/en-US/default.aspx

http://ergotron.com/tabid/553/language/en-US/default.aspx
From clicking around a bit (to be fair, I was reading the notices, not the articles), it looks like the appeal on each page is manually-inserted, and each varies slightly from the others.

Most seem to be less confrontational than the ones excerpted by BoingBoing. To wit, "A subscription is needed for your future access to The North Country Gazette. To subscribe, see the ad to the right. You are entitled to read only one article for free. If you wish to read more, a subscription is required. Please don’t be dishonest, don’t abuse the privilege"

That doesn't seem too terrible, does it?

It's also worth noting that the more litigious post seems to have been pulled by the site's owner.
It's been a while since I've used Windows 3.1 but I'm pretty sure you could arrange the icons as you pleased.
This is a really interesting idea, one that I would seriously consider subscribing to. I imagine having someone phone/Skype you would push the price up a lot though.

Possibly an email service, although that slightly removes the personal connection from it. I'm going to have to think about this...
This is really nice and lightweight. Kind of a Backbone.js => Sinatra, as SproutCore => Rails. I mean, checkout SproutCore's Todos tutorial (http://wiki.sproutcore.com/Todos%C2%A0Intro)
I don't see another compromise that wouldn't require the signature infrastructure.

MITM attacks are much less common than sniffing attacks as we can see here.
Good point. I guess I was nitpicking.
Cooks and Coders
See also: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/pgwrong
I'm pretty sure that "Five things Paul Graham is wrong about" is pretty much the absolute optimal title for an HN linkbait post. The content is hardly important.

Five point list plus argumentative assertions plus picking a fight with pg? Absolute memetically engineered brilliance. Congratulations, Mr Rondam, whoever you are.
Salesforce tactics
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Am I the only one who thinks that the first one is a terrible heuristic? In my experience, people who don't have a lot of experience tend to be the most opinionated. I may just be thinking of the wrong kind of opinionated, but as far as I can tell any programming language's biggest fans tend to be the programmers who only know one language.
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Believe me, I'd love to release the Linux stuff asap, but we can't quite yet for various reasons... I can't wait to see what kind of cool stuff you guys will come up with. As an example, I added in some logic to take a pic with my webcam and post it to Dailybooth when I get a github commit notification. This was the first one (and I swear it was not staged) http://dailybooth.com/jazzychad/6742332

The twitter app needs write access b/c it gives the option of "upgrading" your account to follow 30 people (intead of 3), and the "price" is a tweet. Other than that, we never auto-tweet on your behalf.
If everyone's flies are open, you've wandered onto the set of a gay porno.
Here is the FAQ http://www.maylonggroup.com/support_tablet.htm
i guess you could say that, but the language select is performed by dial tones only.

more accurately it's a dialtone menu system with a transcription callback to an conference call of one. the largest amount of error happens with the transcription service, both in how long it takes, and.... what it produces.

we found that the translation part is actually pretty accurate when compared to the transcription.

i am currently seeking out if there are better near real time transcription options.
The feature I'd really like to see these tools implementing is debugging support for javascript compiled languages. In particular coffeescript.
If people moved to your scheme MITM would become common and we'd be writing about FirePiggyInTheMiddle or similar. They can be automated. You need some trust infrastructure for encryption to work.
Thanks for the great example. I'm already using Backbone.js in a project, it's a beautiful piece of code (along with underscore.js). One small thing, wouldn't it be better to create a new application specific namespace instead of adding so many globals ?
Well, I have a plethora of munin graphs, about 26 new premium accounts (I need 80 to reach profitability), and my app server barely broke a sweat. (My task server, on the other hand, is only juuuust finishing fetching all of those new feed subscriptions).

Next week, after the traffic and love die down a bit, I'll write up a post-mortem with any advice I can scrounge from the effects.
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When I still used windows (a very long time ago, before 2002), I spent some time organizing programs in folders and subfolders within the start menu. I had "games", "graphics", "dev", etc, with applications subfolders. It's actually very simple to do (well it was back in win98 at least): right click anywhere in the start menu and "browse here".
I thought they landed a big contract with a client

"Raises $2.1M" would be a better title. Congratulations, anyways.
Orbitz is a publicly traded company whose largest shareholder is Blackstone. It is NOT owned by the airlines:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/ownership?Holding=Institutional+...
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You know, a cheeseburger made with quality ingredients is a pretty good meal. Carbs, protein, calcium, fibre... Just don't have it all the time. And a cheap cheeseburger might as well be a donut, nutritionally.
Ridiculous - it's a default, nothing more. You can customize it as you see fit, and always could. I find the Mac defaults confusing but that's not because they're bad, it's because I don't use one every day. Turn off all the eye candy and the basic concept hasn't evolved a lot over the last 20 years.
What's your professor worth?
Their GDSs are crap sometimes still running on mainframes. Also the airline fares scam comes from the same groups. They purposely keept alternatives out for decades. Karma.
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