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I completely agree, but one point that he briefly mentions that I think is even more interesting is the idea of a Facebook IPO.

Consider that Facebook isn't going anywhere (most likely) and will be a major company for a long time. That still doesn't change the fact that if they've already done all of the their major growing (user-wise, I'm assuming that they will continue to look for new revenue sources), their IPO could be a significant letdown for investors if there is simply no where to go but flat.

That said, I don't know any more (or less) that this guy..
This isn't something that fell out of a tree yesterday. They have been working on this for a while, more than likely since before OpenCL looked like it was going to take off. In fact they already ship a GPU compute API as part of DirectX(compute shaders). My guess is they are just pulling that out of DirectX to make a stand alone project.
Technically, (my interpretation is that) it abstracts your application from your db. The ORM acquires the data, allowing your application code to concentrate on using the data.
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I just used the search function to look for HN submissions that contained the same keywords in the title, and noticed there are previous submissions that do. Even though its a different link and different content. I wonder if that's causing the glitch?
You could use ticker names and quotes from one of the real stock exchanges to start with. This could act as base prices with some changes due to buying/selling in your engine. Till you get lots of users.
I dont post that often, and i've had other submissions go straight through only just last week.
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Don't know which one was the original but this is a very similar presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6XEQIsCoM
Irony is dead.
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It's very good. Maybe you can add comments to the quote (similar to the Diigo comment highlight). So your friends can , comment direct on that quote.
On Chrome 13 it is instead a button at the bottom of the inspector.

It looks like this: { }
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Looks very similar to Corona, allthough maybe not a full featured (yet), similar goals, both use lua.
However pricing is more attractive than Corona, and the ability to build ios apps on a PC could win over a few users.
I might look into porting my corona based game into this to see how it goes.
Sure, that's been their M.O. since the beginning. But I thought I saw inklings of understanding there that maybe they could do just as well being the best implementor of a shared standard, growing the industry for everybody in the process. Too bad they still seem to see everything as a zero-sum game.
For the lazy:
http://paulirish.com/2011/a-re-introduction-to-the-chrome-de...

(edit: around the 8:30 mark)
There is a gray scale of "entrepreneurs" and "companies" based on the means they use to gain power and influence, so this is rather natural,just as people already read Machiavel or Sun Tzu before. Law, customs, means of legitimation (media) and force are fuzzy and moving barriers.

But one should not forget that this is only one aspect, one dimension, the "power and influence" one. Companies are structures for making things together with others : people spend much time there so we should also seek other aspects within them. E.g more "horizontal" and "democratic" structures preventing mafiaesque hierarchies can also bring fullfillment to much more employees : this is especially important in companies employing well-educated and smart people like programmers at the lowest positions.
they discontinued google gears support. yesterday when I tried to access Remember the milk (as a chrome-web-app) and it showed me an error message, when I tried to install the plug-in it said that it wasn't supported.

this is one of the disadvantages of the automatic update process I guess.
While SAP is not exactly cutting edge they have been adding some features to ABAP (their proprietary language) that you would expect to find in a modern language.

For instance, in your example you could use the CALL TRANSFORMATION statement to convert your table directly to XML.

The problem is that you can still write code as you would have done in the 1970's and SAP won't complain.
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One of the features of the 4.0 release is Thrust which has recently featured on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2658224
A slowly increasing number of my friends are cutting down their use, and eventually leaving.

I know what they say about the plural of antidote, but I've personally noticed the same. I use it less, and when I do use it, I notice the people I care about on facebook are using it less too. Everything you say mirrors the response to facebook I've been seeing. Its no longer a toy, its just that thing you have and slowly working towards being a burden.

I think a post I saw about facebook email says it the best: "Facebook, you're giving me email? You're now one ugly paintjob away from being aol". Its initially funny, but the parallels you can draw between AOL and Facebook are huge and I wouldn't be surprised if facebook followed a similar trajectory.
Of course there is. The startup should have a good lawyer, which will provide you with the usual employment agreements and IP assignments, customized for your area.
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"Tier-1 ERP" means the big boys (SAP, JDE, maybe MS Dynamics AX) not a software architecture.
Ah, the wonders of the rule of law.

China is certainly making progress (as is India, not so sure about Russia) in this area. But anywhere you have to bribe ten people to get things done and your property can be confiscated on a whim you're going to find people that, once they start making real money, want to get out before those in power notice.
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Nope, I successfully posted a youtube video yesterday.

(Nobody upmodded it though, which is a shame, cuz it was totally awesome.)
"SAP is how Lucifer interacts with our world"

From: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/05/28/2143219/Allegedly-Rig...
Youtube link to Andrew Warner and James Altucher talk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_4yfn0bG50

Gave me the same message.
For some reason all this makes me grind my teeth. I'm not a Facebook apologist, and I definitely don't side with the 'FB is utter shit' camp, but it just seems like articles like this, and so much of the discussion they generate, totally sail past the point of what the rise of social networking (and the rise of these dissatisfactions) signifies.

This article: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100092236/is-th... the article the link leeches off, is more fleshed out but also has some 300 comments. Most of it is inane but somewhere in there in all the shit people are talking and all the haughty know-it-all declarations of what is and isn't worthwhile, and what will and will not occur in the future, there's something really significant encapsulated about how our society is changing, and how Facebook and the internet is linked in to that change. There's a big clue in all this discussion - but these newspaper 'experts' sure as shit aren't going to point it out for us.
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Hi,

A friend is building a web startup (pretty much a dating website) and needs someone to build the algorithm for him. Is there anyone who would be interested in this project or know someone who would?

Thanks!
> It's propaganda versus propaganda now.

That's right. Want to see the real stuff with your own eyes? Revisit the glacier you have have been at 10 years ago. If you you are not into mountaineering, use historical pictures.
Is there any way to put the topics next to the link? If I type several topics I get a list of links but can't quickly see which topic belongs to which link.
So if someone was interested .. absolutely i'd build one.. however!

first i need to add 12" modular conveyor systems .. to allow it to run through numerous plates
Install IE-tab, which will give it to you on the right-click menu. Assumes you are on Windows.
i cant beleive bitcoin isnt one of the popular topics, lol
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He said it, but I was thinking the same. Why exclusive? Up until very recently I was at a company that was going through the hiring process, and the people tasked with administering the entrance exams were positively dripping with disrespect for all applicants that came through the doors.

They joked about hazing them and returned from virtually all sessions with words like "moron", "idiot" and "numbnuts" on their lips. Prases like "how could he ever think he was good enough to work here... or anywhere?" weren't uncommon.

Regardless of any other aspects of an interviewee's performance on a series of arbitrary test questions (which we all know often don't measure what the administrators think they measuring), all interviewees deserve respect.

I'm not saying the original poster had this in mind in any way, but bad attitude in hiring is pervasive among developers.

I'll admit my reaction on reading it was probably a bit knee-jerk. When I see the hints of "we only hire the best" in my head I translate that into silly semi subtle hazing rituals that ignore the person and rely on arbitrary measures rather than examining the quality of the person themselves.

Think why PG always says 'we invest more in the people than the product'.

Anyways, no harm done. An HN community JobBoard is (IMO) a pretty good idea. I don't think the YC one is really worth looking at, but one that serves the wider community might be good.
Am I missing something? It's there in Firefox, at least on Linux - can't speak for Windows though.
You are, nonetheless, attributing to malice what could easily be attributed to incompetence.
Can you add the ability to link to the HN comment page instead of directly to the article please? I find they're often more insightful than the article itself.

Would also love the ability to specifically blacklist keywords.

Other than that awesome work, thanks.
Isn't "permission" already buried in the EULA?
Isn't the problem that no-one is currently qualified to comment on the long term potential growth or sustainability of social media? It simply hasn't been around long enough to make any comparisons with the past useful.

You're right, that there isn't much data, but the fact that user growth seems to have at least stalled (if not started to decrease) in the richest markets in which Facebook has a presence has got to be a worry.

Assuming that the yearly value of a user is roughly proportional to national GDP per capita, Facebook needs to gain 40 users in India to make up for every one it loses in the US.
It uses uglifyjs and parse-js to prettyprint the js, so its pretty much functionally equivalent to what jsbeautifier is doing. Other than specifying tab size, I don't think jsbeautifier gets you any advantages here.
Once again, the Canadian point system is a great example of how this should be approached: http://www.workpermit.com/canada/points_calculator.htm
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In case anyone han't come across CSSEdit before, you can pull in a page, live edit and it reloads the stylesheet on every keystroke. Features autocomplete and has a pretty decent inspector
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Not according to your list of submissions you didn't.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=hugh3
I agree, but it's interesting that Google is doing so much more than just search today and they're not inviting the same response. Is it because the main search service has stayed the same without suffering from feature bloat?
In the UK, yes. In the US, the word is Costumer.
That demo is AWESOME!

The ability to have the source code on a second monitor and have updates happen in realtime is amazing.
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maybe some bayesian learning algorithm disseminates the url you submitted and calculates a spam possibility based on the tokens (then the token 'youtube' might have a high bias for spam).
just a thought though, that I got after reading http://paulgraham.com/spam.html
Green energy does exist.

If by “green energy” you are referring to energy production that is renewable or doesn’t produce significant CO2 emissions, then it does exist.

Here are some examples from Sweden:

District heating systems in Sweden has switched from being nearly entirely fossil fuel based (oil mainly) in the early 70s (15 TWh) and following decade (35 TWh) to be nearly entirely renewable energy in 2009 (59 TWh total of which biofuel, waste, peat, heat pumps and waste heat make up more than 45 TWh). [1]

District cooling has gone from zero in the early 90s to supply 800 GWh in 2009. This includes using sea or lake water in district cooling systems, where the system in Stockholm makes up for nearly half of that production. [2]

Swedish total energy use in 2009 is about 568 TWh. [3] Sweden has increased its renewable energy use from about 34% in 1990 to 44% in 2009. [4]

Electricity production in Sweden is about 49% large hydro, 1.9% wind, 37% nuclear (adds up to about 89%), most of the rest comes from combined heat and electricity production, which uses primarily biofuel, but also some coal, oil, gas and peat.

Sweden has a policy to promote renewables and over the years this has paid off. You can do the same.

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[1] Department of Energy, Energy in Sweden 2010, Figure 30, page 87. http://webbshop.cm.se/System/TemplateView.aspx?p=Energimyndi...

[2] Department of Energy, Energy in Sweden 2010, Figure 31, page 90.

[3] Department of Energy, Energy in Sweden 2010, Figure 8, page 53.

[4] Department of Energy, Energy in Sweden 2010, Figure 11, page 58.

[5] EkonomiFakta, Electricity production in Sweden, http://www.ekonomifakta.se/sv/Fakta/Energi/Energibalans-i-Sv...

Edit: layout and one missing reference, grammar
I actually always felt that no one would buy any of my old stuff. And then I stuck them on craigslist and was surprised by how many people bought stuff. Nearly 80% of everything I had put up sold within 5 days. Even old tae kwon do gear which was 7 years old.

I wish I had done this much earlier in my life. I would have had way less stuff. I unfortunately had a "learned helplessness" syndrome about selling old stuff.

The money is of course nice but the things you learn about selling is and negotiating is really cool.

And finally the peace of mind that comes with having less stuff is probably the best part.
I like your points.

It clarifies for me that the goals of Active Record and other forms of ORM are so different that it's misleading to categorise them together. Active Record presents a simple and unambiguous interface to the way things are, [other systems that I don't have a noun for] try to abstract it away.

The way we use databases is interesting. In the early days of computing, a lot of the low hanging fruit was reached via software that wrapped databases. As a result, the database tools reached awesome power, maturity, and mindshare. As a result, they now get used for things well outside of their domain.

I suspect there are patterns that get squeezed out by this, and it's a topic I'm interested in exploring.
"Long-term"? The ones rioting in the Parisian banlieues were typically second or third generation (if they were not native). And those riots were caused by a lack of opportunity, not a bleeding dry of the state.

And I live in the UK, and could read anti-immigrant rhetoric in the papers every day. So I'd disagree with your "unpopular idea", more's the pity. For example: http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/tag/immigration/ Popular points of views, widely claimed, and yet I would not call them serious people. But I do think they deserve shame.
I think anything from 200 to 500 would work well. Anything at or over 1000 is problematic since to get that you need to be quite active on the site.
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Lots of these 'real problems' end up as bottomless money pits.
Make sure that the name of the employer is a required field. There's so many job websites these days which are dominated by agency ads.
Yep, and we still don't understand what causes ice ages.

Let's stop and think about that for a minute. We're still pretty darn ignorant of the climate. Look at a plot of temperature over the last mere million years. Climate scientists will at this point tell you they know all about the variation over the last few decades. But point to the huge swings that occur on ten-thousand-year timescales and periodically freeze the entire Earth over and they'll say "Yeah, well y'know, that could be a number of things..."

Climate science is a dodgy form of science. Too many model parameters, too few observations.
Hey thanks :) That part took a lot of hard work. I thought it was time that a web ide could match exactly what we're used to on the desktop
If they leave trash on the floor, they'll be charged $50. So they don't leave trash on the floor.

This sounds pretty rational to me.

If you'd like to see actual examples of people being fundamentally irrational, go watch one of Dan Ariely's presentations on the poor choices humans make over at TED.
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Google never tried to change its core product the way Facebook has. Facebook started as a private network of close friends and they've changed it to an open network of friends, family, and the world. As much as they've changed about the product, they cannot change users' perceptions, which have remained the same throughout. They've basically caused their users to suffer from cognitive dissonance about what Facebook is vs. what they expect it to be.
Well after the American Revolution was finished, we stopped. There was the whiskey rebellion but it was a small affair. ie after the revolution we actually got something better and stable. only one civil war in +200 yeas not a bad record.
Is it just me, or does this article read like a jr high school student wrote it? How many incomplete sentences and how much broken grammar can you put in a baseless article, and from Forbes?
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I'd definitely use this...
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I wish there was a name for this law. It runs something like this:

If there is a reasonable proxy measure for a desirable behaviour, and you reward the reasonable proxy measure, it ceases to be a reasonable proxy measure.
I like playing around with different noun substitutions. You 'Facestalk' girls you like. Posting something stupid/douchey gives me 'Faceshame'. Talking bullshit with someone on chat is 'Facebanter'... stupid Facebook jokes are 'Facejokes'.

yeah... it goes on. Have you heard of 'fraping'? It's facebook raping, when you leave your laptop open and a friend posts an embarassing status update. Usually something about loving poop or cocks, you know.
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I find rioting over a game a pretty sad demonstration of human behavior. I hope nobody wonders why we don't have world peace...
It's there but [dead]. You have to change your preferences to show dead links.
I don't think 'rational' is the right word. Responding to incentives, in this case a monetary disincentive, is rationality. The tenants are either lazy, care little about the appearance, don't put much thought to the issue, don't know they're doing something wrong, or don't care because there is no disincentive to anonymous trash-leaving (especially because other tenants are doing it).

So maybe a better title would be "don't expect people to think just the same as you."
so the arbitrary definition "have be born in this country" is used instead

That hardly seems arbitrary -- it's what the word means. If you were born outside the country then you have immigrated, therefore you are an immigrant.
Personally I am keen to get the hell out of Germany with its 50% tax PLUS 13% compulsory health insurance. Social safety net is one thing, but it is ridiculous here, even rich families get government money for having kids. Foreigners get unemployment benefit. Utter insanity and no one wants it to change. America, please let me in!

And don't get me started on trying to start a business. Europe is purging its entrepreneurs like some sort of viral infection.
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That sounds like an excellent problem to have.
How about some kind of "This is an agency!" button in case one somehow manages to get onto the system?
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whatever happens to facebook, it has done its ONE TRUE PURPOSE: making its founders filthy rich.
As a general rule for me it's once a company goes public.

At that point the company is subject to practically anonymous shareholders through many levels of abstraction. Voting is then done based purely on financials and often short term gains, which really puts a company at odds with their customers. So I have no customer loyalty to a company that's publicly traded.

Many private companies can still maintain my loyalty though based purely on their actions if the owner(s) / investors aren't completely disconnected from their customers. That's more of a case by case. The smaller they are, the more likely they care about their customers (there are always exceptions though).
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Every American living today has immigrant ancestors, forget the "almost". The Americas were devoid of human life a mere twenty thousand years ago.

Or as I like to say, all Americans are African-Americans.
Im not sure the French come here for the same reasons as Russians.
I RSVP'ed to a demonstration against Norway's new data retention law, to take place in my town's major square. Several thousand people had RSVP'ed "yes". I was actually quite psyched at the tought of our own "Tahrir Square" moment. Ultimately, perhaps a total of 100 people showed up. The law passed.
what? i've seen no performance difference between CUDA and OpenCL (targeting NVidia hardware). they are so low level and so similar that it's hard to see how there can be differences. what are you referring to?
Ask HN: Validate my app idea?
Hello HNers,

I have a small website idea that I'd like to make just for fun (not to become rich or anything) but I think it could still perform well and be popular-ish.

The problem I'm trying to tackle is this : I find it boring to train. I need motivation to keep training and what better motivation is there than statistics? Statistics rock for motivation! Having your training data and graphs and everything is pretty cool.

How am I going to tackle this problem? I am thinking of a cross between a Wii Fit and a Kinect. It would be a web app (for people training at home with free weights for example) or maybe a mobile app (for gyms and on the road). The point is : it would keep your stats with as little intervention needed, using maybe voice recognition or a webcam to count how many lifts you do for a certain exercice for example. Let's say you lift dumbells and you count them out loud while doing it, the app would pick up your voice counting your reps and would automatically save your data when you finish your training.

Any idea/thoughts on this? Thanks!