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It actually honestly depends. If you have lived in a given city long enough that most of your friends also live in said city, FB gets bonus points. If you extrapolate into the future for Google sucking even more than it does now, Google loses points. Yelp is crap in the first place (taking bribes etc).

So if plumbers are like mechanics and you have to find one that's happy and good and trustworthy, you might actually be more likely to ask your friends than Google, especially if Google is a corporate spamwhore.
Same here. Except I use Chromium instead of Chrome.
The first version had two hands which covered and uncovered your eyes.
But if you own a carpet cleaning service in San Francisco and want to reach a lot of new customers, do you:

1) Buy some PPC ads via Google and maybe a few new customers will trickle in via searches

2) Do a groupon, possibly getting a huge influx of business BUT at a 50% discount and giving groupon half the proceeds

3) Pay for a Facebook "Flyer" targeted at San Francisco home-owners that have a dog or cat, offering them a 20% discount ...

I think when you look at it from the POV of the business doing outbound marketing, Facebook has more opportunities.

Of course, FB has to be careful not to turn the system into a huge coupon-book and alienating users by the hundreds.
Let me be one of the few people to clearly say: thank you. I used to do almost all of my development on Microsoft platforms, and the amount of interaction that Microsoft engineers are allowed, nay even expected, to have with their user community was truly amazing.

My strongest experience with regards to this was during the .NET beta, when the discussions we had on the fully-open-to-to-the-public Microsoft provided mailing list always led to changes in the next distribution, as we saw the product go from "early stage prototype" to "complete deployment".

However, I have seen this kind of attitude--allowing people to work with totally raw technologies that sometimes barely work and may even be scrapped rather than shipped--in a number of Microsoft's development units, and I'm glad that IE9 beta is considered to be one of these.
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That might be plan B. Plan A is still on the table.
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During developing it they scored numerous awards aswell:
- Indie Game Challenge Finalist 2010
- Independet Games Festival Finalist 2009
- DREAMBUILDPLAY Challenge Finalist 2008
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- Winner of german Founders Competition - Multimedia
This was the best keynote at Strange Loop in St. Louis this year. It was wild sitting in a room with that many people all laughing about the unbelievable metaprogramming he had to do on punch cards. I'm hoping 2011 Strange Loop is as good as this year.
don't make me flee the interview:-)
Between Reddit and HN frontpages, it could have been /.'d.
It's a special effect. If you look at his website (http://www.jonathanpost.com/) you'll see they do green screen in the 2nd photo there, which indicates they do special effects.

But even more so, the muscles responsible for blinking your eyes cannot move at 60hz.
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They are kicking on all cylinders. User adoption is really nice. I guess it could be more of a personal satisfaction and eventual goal.
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that's how the dot com boom happened in the turn of the century. Everybody thought the tech companies were like mining resources and silicon valley young stars were all getting rich as if they found the next petroleum site... except when it came to harvest profit, they couldn't meet the ultra high expectations... and the bubble goes "pop"

There are lots speculation that says Facebook is a bubble, I honestly think it has a lot more potentials as well, and it could potentially meet its expectations, but I don't think Mark Zuckerberg is exactly the right guy to meet the $50b or $70b expectation that investors believe.... I mean the guy is a legend and he continues to build amazing stuff for the world, but when it comes down to monetization, it's not cool, but maybe he'll find a cool way to make Facebook money.
This is great. For a prepackaged implementation that works with any language with a Sphinx API check out misc/suggest in the sphinx tarball.

http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/release/

It also lets you feed in your own dictionary from your index and works great for spelling suggestions. I haven't benchmarked it but it seems extremely fast - as sphinx is with most things.

Here's the suggest text file from the sphinx 0.9.9 source:

0) What's this. This sample shows how to implement simple keyword correction suggestions (ie. "did you mean") using Sphinx.

1) Requirements. You will need Sphinx, MySQL, and PHP CLI.

2) Quickstart. (Skip first indexer command to use bundled sample.)

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dict.txt 100000 --buildfreqs

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mysql -u root test < dict.sql

indexer --config suggest.conf --all

searchd --config suggest.conf

php suggest.php --query sphynx
Ye I think that is the difference. Most resources stocks have risk built into the price (from nationalization through to a drop in minerals demand) but Facebook hasn't done much wrong in the past 5-6 years.
I agree with #2, this is more common in SAARC region. It mostly happens because of how job interviews and selection are conducted.

Even if the job requires technical knowledge, most interviews will be carried by HR personal who lacks any technical knowledge of the said field. So having a CS degree is enough as far as merit is concerned. Only thing left is to nail the non-technical interview. Not to mention the corruption involved in this process.

But I'm generalizing here, there obviously are companies who does this right.
We are currently evaluating whether or not to allow writes to the file system... The thing is that while you could use it for temporary storage, we may transfer your application to another server or run it on multiple, so you can't really rely on it. So for indexing I would just recommend that you try out http://websolr.com/
Dancho is not a "script kid".

I met him in September in a meeting for international law enforcement. He was lecturing.
let's all acknowledge this controversy for what it is: an apple vs. google popularity contest. and with that said: suck it apple. suck it long, and suck it hard.

sent from my iPhone.
If only they had some way to raise hundreds of millions in cash to hire more engineers...
I agree with the demand.
Personally, however, I do think that most companies should seriously consider cloud hosting rather than running a private cloud...
You do 1 because it's cheap and because it generates results.

If I search for "carpet cleaning in san francisco" on google I see 3 ads. I suspect that those ads are responsible for a fair amount of business to those companies, explaining why they pay google for the advertising.

The difference between ads on google and ads on a social network is that ads that are relevant to your search are actually often desired and far more likely to be used. If I'm searching for a carpet cleaner in san francisco then ads of such kind are useful to me. In contrast, ads embedded in social networking sites are distractions from the activities people engage on there. If some carpet cleaning company pushes an ad on me because they've discovered I live in the area and/or have pets I will more likely than not think "ugh, who are these assholes?" or perhaps "maybe I should install ad block". When I actually need a carpet cleaner I'm not likely to think "hey, I should use that company that keeps annoying the crap out of me on facebook", instead I'm likely to go to google, search, compare some reviews, and pick a company that seems decent and inexpensive.
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What do you mean by that? A closure like

function foo() {
var x = 0;
return function () { return x++; }
}

and the equivalent in Python/Ruby/any language with closures hides x even better than a private member in Java would.
Yeah, sorry, I knew it was Bulgaria...just read an unrelated headline about the Belgian government and typed that instead.

I agree, it is worth looking into until there is real evidence either way. Hopefully he will come forward. Someone on twitter did say they heard from him on Dec 15th and he was fine.

My experience with these "independent security professionals" who are heavy on certification alphabet soup/government acronyms, and lacking in real credible work history, is that they are mostly playing "fake it until you make it". This especially applies to bloggers and those who heavily use terms like "cyber warfare" and "cyber terrorism". InfoSec is full of insecure charlatans who are broke or homeless and always making up outrageous nonsense.
It was down for a short while (don't launch software on a US long weekend ;), but is back now.
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Cool, I appreciate the rating! Icon design is so tough, which sucks because of how important it is to catching attention. This game doesn't have a main character or anything obvious to base the icon on, so that made it more difficult.

I personally wondered if we should try to do a 3d-ish icon to try to mirror the look of the gameplay, but that ended up being cluttered in such a small space.

I appreciate the feedback, though. I hadn't heard many opinions about the icon.
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32-bit Windows 7 runs 16-bit programs just fine.
I've found that, for the most part, encapsulation is a solution in search of a problem. Once you stop taking for granted that it's a Good Thing because everyone knows that it is, you notice that the collisions that are supposed to be such a problem for the most part aren't, and when they do pop up it's not hard to find workarounds. What's far more common, at least in encapsulation-driven environments, is to be thwarted because you can't get at something you need. (Of course, "encapsulation" means a lot of different things. I'm not talking about, say, separation of concerns in design. I'm talking about the whole public/private/protected way of locking things away from external use.)
I wonder how many saw academicearth.com as a viable substitute. It's great for the random "looks interesting" courses, but a diploma, accredited or not, is at least a tangible demonstration of completion.
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Ha! I've been wondering for years if they would do a third edition. You've given me hope.
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I would pay money, right now, to be able to get a version of HN that would somehow solve the IOS interaction issues on the iPad/iPhone. It's always an incredibly painful dance to pinch open the screen so I can figure out how to click on the four elements - "Comments" vs "Article" and "Upvote" vs "Downvote" - I'm not sure how it can be fixed, but boy would life be better if it could.

I should track how much time I spend over a month, heck, sometimes over a day, I spend doing that pinch open, pinch open, click dance.
I don't have a computer science background and I recently read TAOCP and Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et al for an interview with google. I failed the interview but got through the books finding them very interesting.

Reading TAOCP was a worthwhile experience but I feel the Introduction to Algorithms is of more practical use because it covers a lot more ground (at less depth) and is a much easier read.

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Third-Thomas-C...
If email were owned by a single company, would it be worth $70 billion in valuation? I think it would be worth much more than that, and that's why facebook is so valuable.

Facebook is undervalued at $70 Billion.
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It does have its issues and is probably not something that you should recommend universally. However, most Moms don't even know when a new version of Android has released unless you tell them, so it's probably not really an issue for them.

The process differs from device to device. Most of the time it will include pretty advanced stuff from the Mom's perspective, things like commandline usage and installation of bootloaders.

That said, it's not very hard for your average Linux user. Just follow the tutorials.
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That's a pretty cool hack. I must mention, though, that the Amazon branded Kindle case also has the property of not covering the front of the kindle (for a lot more dough).
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you're absolutely right, and you present quite a compelling argument against object oriented programming itself. we're still paying the price for a prank a bunch of consultants played in the early 90s.
The man page is correct about quite a few things, but it's also a bit sarcastic:

The best way to sanitize a storage medium is to subject it to tempera-
tures exceeding 1500K. As a cheap alternative, you might use wipe at
your own risk. Be aware that it is very difficult to assess whether
running wipe on a given file will actually wipe it -- it depends on an
awful lot of factors, such as : the type of file system the file
resides on (in particular, whether the file system is a journaling one
or not), the type of storage medium used, and the least significant bit
of the phase of the moon.

But no matter what, wipe is a really great program.
University of Phoenix was part of a trend that took advantage of the rigid nature of traditional academia and actually customized educational programs around working adults schedule. The problem is they charged outrageous rates for their service.

(The most telling fact in the article is that University of Phoenix still increased their revenue even with this drop)

But with accredited online universities like Western Governors University gaining traction and traditional schools realizing they need adult students University of Phoenix (and others) have lost their unique advantage. Which means a dramatic drop in students.
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Saw this the other day and it seems applicable:

Proverbs 13:8 "A person’s riches may ransom their life, but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes."

I was thinking about it in relation to the US legal system, but it applies to politics as well. If some local politician tries to screw you over, the appropriate response is to throw money at the court of local opinion and whoever will run against them and destroy them at the next election.

After all, if they abuse politics as a means of enriching themselves, they are unworthy to hold office.

Kick up a stink, force a by-election, start taking out ads against them in the papers etc.

Accuse them of corrupting the youth of Athens (worked for Socrates opponents).
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Thanks. Tested your application and posting my suggestions here :

1. On accepting your friend request, it it displaying an error - "user doesn't exist".
2. The header of upload file box with a + sign creates confusion that it is the button to upload file. I guess the + sign should be removed and height of header should be small.
3. The timestamp in the messages are too small to read.
4. The messages aren't sorted according to time.
5. Design needs much improvement. Right now it is just barebones kinda design. Proper colour scheme and typography will do wonders to the sight appeal.
6. The image when uploaded appears blurred and resized.
7. Use only one button for upload(like gmail attachments)
I wouldn't really say that 'most non-tech people' do that, though many may. Of course it's a popular site. There's a still a lot of room to go before being a very popular website and 'ruling the world'. I'd consider maybe an entity that was a combination of Google, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Comcast, AT&T, the US, EU and Chinese Government to qualify, but for a very popular website to be referred to in those terms, I'd like to hear some more details about what they'll actually be doing with all that attention.
You'd probably prefer the talk linked to by guns, then. It's an expanded and deeper version of the latter half of this talk.
Funny, I was just having a conversation today with a friend who works for the company selling http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive-erase-hard-drive.php and remarking that it may keep your data safe from identity thieves, it wouldn't protect you from the FBI.
And do you think that the people who shout for self-rule because of the biases of the primate brain are taking into account the death toll or looking at moving averages of standard of living for the common man?
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What do you want to hear about it and why ?
> At least FB is a little more fun to hype than Gold.

There is no fun in hyping gold. That's simple because gold is not a hype
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Look under the picture of the hot girl. http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/12/taboos_are_the_ways_c...

>... my husband said the same thing
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Thank you. Nothing annoys me more than people who blame everything on lack of willpower and motivation.
That transformer is a standard fixture for halogen lights, which are the little circular items with the spring clips.
It's like a highly condensed version of Switch (http://heathbrothers.com/switch/, highly recommended)
Either that or some form of steganography is the pics were sent as digital and not paper forms.
Have you tried http://ihackernews.com? I use it on my Droid and it works extremely well.
I'd (almost) hoped to see a way to edit the iPhone's bookmark file from my desktop machine.

If you use MobileMe, you can sync bookmarks from your Mac to your iPhone.
There was a really interesting Frontline Documentary - College Inc - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/view/ that covered the University of Phoneix in depth.
I do agree with most people saying the valuation based upon their current business model is idiotic, which is why I think the investors thinking bigger. Maybe someday soon we will log into our banks with our facebook account. Someday we will be able to make a request to the DMV using our facebook account. Think about buying a laptop, and when you boot it up, it isn't windows asking you to create credentials but facebook asking you to login.

If those investors aren't betting on game-changing stuff happening than I have no clue how the hell they are justifying this move to themselves.
This post impressed me a lot. Steve have improved one famous algorithm for a special but very common case by combining it with one of the coolest datastructures out there. And (applying a pinch of poetic freedom here) yielded results that surpass those of the academics and giants of the field in versatility and power. All with a very terse piece of code that fits within a blog post. Very inspiring!
Yes indeedy. On an issue central to the future of energy policy, I feel I can expect a bit more.
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It depends entirely on the type of software you are creating. Encapsulation in system code (libraries, APIs, frameworks, etc.) is probably a good thing. We've seen the nightmare that comes when people exploit the full range of behavior of systems without regard to whether it's part of the official spec or the public API. You create a compatibility nightmare that forces you to do crazy things like release bug-compatible updates for the foreseeable future, and to make excessively sharp breaks between API generations.
Ultimately consequentialism requires you to adopt some set of moral axioms that define what ends are good. If you adopt zero such axioms, then you're back at nihilism. Once you have your minimal set of axioms, you then reason about consequences of the action to try to figure out its likely effects on net utility.

Most consequentialists adopt a "golden rule" sort of axiom about minimising suffering. An alternate formulation is about maximising agents' preferences. Generally people's intuitions about morality are broadly similar, so the challenge is to handle the corner cases most efficiently. But the basic moral relativism problems don't occur for consequentialists.

It's difficult to arrive at a plausible set of moral axioms that are going to lead you to positions such as "homosexuality is unethical", "might is right", or "slavery is ethically neutral". Very few consequentialists arrive at these positions, as far as I'm aware. Some consequentialists do end up back at what are essentially deontoligical positions, however, by re-deriving them consequentially. They argue that it's ineffective to try to reason ethically on a case-by-case basis. I think this is an empirical question about what is practical for most humans.
An alternative could be to overwrite the disk with null bytes.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M

Wonder if it is going to be slower than wipe.
I'm a Posterous user - I personally enjoy the features and layout. I don't necessarily use it for the community aspect, so I can't really compare it to Tumblr in that respect. I have no use for the email function, so I'm glad they incorporated many other aspects that would appeal to me personally.

I was also surprised at how quickly I got a response via a customer service request. Nice.

Congrats to Garry Tan - I always equated him to Posterous since I saw him on This Week in Startups. Hope to hear more about his newest endeavors.
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Paraphrased: try something new. If it doesn't work, no biggie.

Sound advice.
You know, if you take a highly intelligent, well educated woman from the upper middle class and marry her with a highly educated, intelligent man from the upper middle class of the most developed country in the world, it would take a bit of effort for the children to be failures. As in, they actually have to go out of their way to fail at life.

I'd much prefer seeing the two systems applied to two disadvantaged children, and see what works better.
Rightfully so, you can get a better education with google search.
Did he explain more specifically why he thinks it would "protect you from the FBI"?
looks like it is fixed now