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Would it bother you if he had shifted into a management role? Or just less inspiring.
That makes no sense, the browser is sandboxed significantly more than any native app. Please stop assuming everything Facebook does is out to personally attack you or your data. It's demonstrably not the case.
Mr. Hellman, I'm sure that you've got something wonderful hidden in your manse. And I certainly don't mean to task your status update as an example. What I'm most fascinated about is the long term bias that I've discovered against the idea.

Time and time again, there are people who suggest that the idea is not the key, not the seed, not the most important part of the proposal. The proposal for time, for attention, for money,etc.

The argument goes something like this, while the idea is nominally important, it's the team, or the execution, or the networking, or the support that really counts. So if you can garner capital support, and 28K people anticipating your release, then you are on to something.

Let me diverge, if I may, to my own personal experiences. I went to graduate school in architecture at UCLA, and since at UCLA, the architecture school is amazingly situated across the greens from the film school, I was excited to learn about all the ideas that people had about the future of architecture, and the nexus between film and architecture. But when I got there, noone talked about ideas, everyone talked about other people. In both film and architecture, people talked about who they knew, and who the people that they knew knew, and soon we were playing 6 degrees, not to Kevin Bacon, but instead to Charles E. Cullen (Who? -- I know..right.) What was obvious, was that without the idea, everyone was competing like the courtiers of past for a chance to know someone who knows someone who knows the King, and needless to say, that competition to know someone was fierce. So idea-less we drifted aimlessly.

On the other hand, a good idea, a true idea can break through all the curtsies, gloved hand kissing and back patting, and can bloom into something unimaginable to most. The idea is the seed, the idea is the magic equation that can unlock the universe. (Like Harrison's imagined Tate-Kearney transformations)

Sure, the idea itself is not enough, but it is the essential beginning. Without it, there is nothing but whispers and promises. With it there is something undeniable.

So Mr. Hellman, while I am confident that you have such an idea, and I'm sure that you have it carefully protected so that you can nurture it, know that, as with any new idea, we look forward to you planting it amongst us so that we can watch it grow and share your joy.
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I guess you didn't read the article. That method is called the Watt-Balance method.
Ask HN: when will Facebook update the Graph API with the new features?
Facebook has a lot of new features:
- ticker
- changes to the home stream
- option to "share" anything; counting shares
- etc.<p>I wonder when will these features be available in the Graph API, and will they be there at all.<p>I haven't followed the f8 conference closely, but the facebook platform blog doesn't show anything interesting. Anyone having information or educated guesses?
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For a CEO, it's impressive how much in touch he is with MongoDB, its functionality and what it is capable of. You should see him talk, he really knows what he is on about.
Next time read the article before posting.
I cancelled with the same logic you used. I too tried to let them know, but there wasn't a good option in their exit survey, which was actually biased to mask my actual opinion. Instead, I posted to my blog. [1]

So far as no partial refunds, I know their agreement says that, but I saw a partial refund to my credit card within a week of canceling.

1: http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2011/09/dear-netflix/
Yes, that's what I said!
And if the screenshots are accurate, I'd say FB still has some UI work to do.
I think CoApp is going to be the answer for what you are trying to do. Chocolatey starts after compilation. If someone is already providing libcurl and openssl, these are easily offered as choco packages. Once CoApp comes out, it's highly likely that there may be some integration with it.
Also Typhoeus and RestClient.

Probably others.
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I've noticed a lot of crap e-books in Amazon lately that are comprised of Wikipedia or about.com style articles and selling for a few dollars. Some of them appear to be computer generated scrapings from PDFs, or some other unreliable method.

Make a killing publishing individual Wikipedia articles as ebooks...check.

I'm wondering:

1) Does the publisher have a right to this material, and to charge for it?

2) Is this material available elsewhere on the web?

3) Does Paul Graham or anyone else get compensated?

I would encourage anyone considering buying this sort of thing to know the answers to these questions before their purchase.
I disagree.

The failure to consider the case where the target value is equal to the pivot is one of the classic blunders of writing a quicksort (along with not considering type limits and getting involved in a land war in Asia). Almost so much so that I immediately thought that I could have made a pretty good guess at the bug if they had told me the algorithm beforehand :-)

You could look at the code and try and figure out what's wrong, or you could have a rough idea of what is likely to be wrong with an implementation of an algorithm and try to see if it's dealt with in the code. They're probably looking for the latter type of problem solving.
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The majority of comments on this post are of the form "his analysis is wrong, because it doesn't take into account factors x, y, and z". That's great --- we're having a civil discussion about the merits of his argument.

Linking to his blog post in this way is tantamount to implying that the commenters on this thread are "complainypants", which I find quite rude. If that wasn't his intention, then he certainly could have done a much better job communicating it.

(This is my last post on this topic.)
All of this assumes that a 30-something professional couple with two earners can actually both find (and keep) jobs within biking distance of a home they can reasonable afford.

My experience, along with my fiancee, having lived and worked in 3 different major US cities in the past 5 years, is that assumption just isn't reasonable. It's hard enough to find two good jobs in a household in the same _CITY_ right now, much less the 10-15 mile radius of biking. In areas where it might be possible, the cost of housing is so high that it eats up that savings.

Examples
1. New York: Lots of jobs in tight proximity and good public transport, but even in the "cheaper" boroughs, you're still probably paying $250K or more extra for a small family residence.
2. Los Angeles: Cheap housing. Owning less than two cars with two careers? Possible, but very, very difficult. Short commutes? Unlikely.
3. San Francisco: Expensive housing. Expensive car ownership. Jobs spread throughout the peninsula.

Not to mention what happens when you have kids to transport.

What we really need is to lift restrictions on new housing construction in dense urban areas like New York and San Francisco. The only way you can have both high job density and moderate housing prices close together is to allow enough vertical construction to reduce competition for housing to reasonable levels. Until you do that, you're inevitable going to see a large part of the population, especially younger / latecomer families, forced to live away from the job centers so they can reduce housing costs.
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I work for a large defense contractor, and that description could just as easily apply to us.

However it is neither fun nor productive. The majority of the official classifications are mismatched and/or inapplicable (but nevertheless required hoops to jump through), and getting any change approved requires heaps of paperwork. About this time last year I threatened to quit with an offer letter in hand from a startup; my company promised to match my salary to the offer. A year later, I'm only just now getting the rest of the raise and promotion, because of the skill qualifications, achievements, etc. that we had to get filed and approved.

That certainly makes me feel happy about the “gamification” of my industry.
If it wasn't with PG's explicit consent, this would be rather dishonest. If that panned out I'd be very wary about conducting an interview with Andrew..

I'm probably being overly cynical, but I'd love to see either Mr. Warner or PG clarify that separate permission was granted for this ;(
Sweating is only a problem for most of you because you're unhealthy and overweight

I don't know about that; body chemistries are very different. But more importantly, it sounds like you live in a place with reasonably cool, dry air. Some of us don't have that privilege.

It's good advice, don't get me wrong. I myself lead a largely carless life in -- of all places, rather improbably -- downtown Atlanta, and walk about a mile and a half to work each way, and pretty much walk everywhere else too.

But to think I could bike around here without getting sweaty is a practical impossibility, no matter what condition of fitness or body weight. It's extremely humid, though not quite as bad as the gulf coast. It's just not going to happen. So, I'd suggest for anyone in that set of circumstances to be pragmatic and bring a change of clothes and try to find a place where you can shower at work.
Think you'd have to look at the term "buildable"... the US doesn't try very hard to prevent urban sprawl with it zoning rules. The EU, in comparison, may restrict zoning and in particular restrict the conversion of agricultural land into housing tracts.
It's even worse going the other way because the trains aren't as frequent - or at least they weren't back then.

I used to commute from Brooklyn to Darien, CT. I'd leave home at about 6:00 am and get there just around 8:30. After about 2 months, I'd had enough...
Spotify is a parasite with a captive audience of opportunistic feeders that funnel "nutrients" back to both them and, subsequently, the host.

It's not parasitism, it's symbiosis.
What rules? There are no rules in any society that guarantee success, except possibly in a corrupt totalitarian state. They had choices to make; some made bad ones that ignored the risk they were taking. Everyone in this story has racked up a mountain of debt. Why? Because they thought that's what everyone did when they went to school. If conventional wisdom is your only guide, small wonder you are blown and tossed by the wind.

What tiny sliver of the population forced them to go massively into student and credit card debt? Who promised them that they would get "good jobs" for getting "advanced degrees?" The president? Wall Street? "Society?" Seems like there's no one to hold accountable here but themselves.
This is getting ridiculous. The idea of bonuses, rewards for completing tasks, the earning of newer impressive titles, gifts for accomplishing things coworkers couldn't. It's not the gamefication of work. It's just work.
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Many employers are able to get away with their location decisions because as the original article states, most people do not prioritize commute mode & duration when they make major life decisions such as where to work and where to live. People have slowly grown accustomed to spending an hour a day in the car, mandatory, so the bar is very low here.

Further, government subsidization of sprawl and predatory suburban towns tend to push buyers towards new construction in exurban areas along interstates. Employers that do attempt to locate close to employees end up chasing the single-family households out to the outskirts, right into a dead end where then everyone must drive. Employers should locate in sustainable, dense, transit-friendly neighborhoods, ultimately giving their employees a choice.
I understand your point that "Democracy" is roughly equivalent to universal sufferage, but the point is that a public unaware of the laws and interpretations thereof created by our government cannot make informed decisions about their leadership.
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Am i the only one that finds it shady that this guy refuses to say what his company does and only weedles when asked directly? "We have 28k people in line! We'll tell you what we do later!" I can understand trying to create buzz with mystery, but come on sounds like the ads on craigslist asking for a programmer to work on the next big thing thats a total secret or some one will steal it!
Congrats Andrey!
Forgive me if I've missed this, but does this library have support for multipart/form-data POSTing? That's a capability in the python library that's sorely missing - especially in 2.X.
A couple of years ago I was working at a company that had a pretty large sales center. Just for kicks I created a fantasy sales center app. You got to pick people from marketing who were generating leads, salespeople, and sales managers. You could only play each person 3 days out of a week. I was pretty surprised to see the positive impact it had on the company. Everyone was interested in sales. Discussions on how to increase sales numbers increased, and projects shifted from what might help the company to what would increase sales. Sometimes the sales team members would get upset about getting benched but hey make the sale and I'll put you back in. :)
I'm sure he asked PG for permission.

Hyperink, the publisher, is a YC company, which may have been part of PG's incentive for doing it.
Thought this ohloh graph might be interesting: http://www.ohloh.net/p/mongodb/analyses/latest

~30% of the commits on mongodb are Dwight.
Your idea is great. So great even, that there is already a precedence for this sort of thing.

Mint.com, indinero, less accounting, all of them use backend bank services like Yodlee to sync with bank accounts and statements, auto-categorize expenses, and generate visual reports and integrated tracking tools to make accounting and bookkeeping simple.

The question isn't "is my idea good?" it really is "do I have enough of a unique angle to compete with others in that space?"
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It's false that "no one wants to spend the money to improve it", as proven by the voting for recent ballot initiatives to fund high-speed rail and BART expansions in California, to cite just one example.

A LOT of people would MUCH rather have large amounts of public dollars spent to improve transit than to, for instance, fund wars, bail out bankers, etc.
Fair point. I can't wait for the youtube videos showcasing both amazing and horrific Siri interpretations. We're probably 6 months from an SNL skit.
I don't think that's delusional - the same approach has certainly worked for me - when it's been necessary. Sometimes you just have to go into crunch mode and make shit happen.
Not at all. You can enjoy what you feel when other people do what they call love without having to believe you know incontrovertibly what their personal experience of the world is.
"The capacity to act as a 'psychopath' may very well be a necessary evolution of our culture, and in fact may become a desired genetic trait in future years."

How so?

Recent genetic evidence suggests that, among the various traits that distinguish modern humans from the hominids we outcompeted (such as Neanderthals), one of them is improved empathic capability. We are better able to read and respond to social cues than our less-adapted cousins were. Our ability to work cooperatively was a major competitive advantage, and quite possibly the most critical competitive advantage.

It may be true that psychopathic traits enable certain individuals to game the system, as it were, and succeed wildly in modern society. The stereotype of the Psychopath CEO is grounded in some reality, after all. But if everyone behaved psychopathically, then society would possibly cease to function as we know it -- probably for the worse.
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Interesting, I recently watched a show that showed that psychopaths are just as able to predict consequences, just like everyone else, but they just don't care if it negatively affects other people. Not because they're actively bad but because they have no empathic impulse.

Also it showed that they demonstrate no emotional response to words such as 'rape'. If you could monitor everyone's brain who just read that word in an MRI, you would be able to see mental activity that is associated with negative emotions. Everyone except psychopaths.
Yes, insofar as the law is brought before the court. But everyone--private citizens and governments alike--are constantly "interpreting" the law, in that they're operating on certain assumptions about what the law means. For example, when you file your taxes, you are, as strange as it sounds, interpreting the tax code.

In this case, there is more than one possible way to interpret the PATRIOT Act. The government has to decide what it thinks the law means, and use that interpretation to guide its actions.
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To be applicable, you'd have to be as dumb as the average rider.
"We are neither the cartoon evil serial killers, nor the 'its your boss' CEO's always chasing profit at the expense of everyone else. While we are both of those things, it is a sad caricature of itself."

I have been friends with a couple people with clear sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies, and this is absolutely true. Most have been trained to seek social inclusion like the rest of us. They just suck at it. The lack of empathy is a strength while running a con or worse, but a serious handicap when trying to build long-term social relationships. It's downright pathetic to watch them attempt their social cons on people who are intelligent and self-aware. If you know your own weaknesses you know when someone is trying to attack them. When it's malicious the psychopath gets the boot fast. When it's a harmless attempt to fit in, it just puts the psychopath in the awkwardly manipulative category. The lack of empathy means they often don't know why they've been ostracized.

FWIW, I have the opposite problem; a little too much empathy and guilt, but it gives me the same talent of seeing the weakness in people. Which is why I'm friends with them. They use my empathy for friendship, and I let them because it's absolutely fascinating watching them work.
I don't understand why there is no feature parity between the different platforms? I rely on the "lists" feature (both the AI generated and my own generated ones) for filtering the wall.

The iPhone app implements it in a spotty fashion (half the time custom lists show, and half the time they don't), but the iPad app doesn't have support for them?

I get the desire for agility and keeping a startup vibe internally, even as the company gets very large, but some quality control would be excellent.

To be clear: I think FB is showing a huge turnaround in this aspect with the new oGraph verbs and timeline, but this app just... doesn't smell test well.
Hah, went to reread that page and the first thing it mentions now is just such a project: http://designfestival.com/cicada/
You accuse me of trollish behavior, yet resort to personal slights, asking how old I am? Irony. Did I ever question your age or intent? I am fully aware of Microsoft's behavior, but that still doesn't address the fundamental issue that language evolution within spec committees is painfully slow and the competing interests waterdown proposals. It happened to C++ and to Java too. It happens in our government as well, we often don't get what's best or right, only what you've got the votes for.

The issue is whether or not any large changes can be pushed through in a timely manner, if the need arises. I've seen, over several threads, you seem to simultaneously stress the idea that Javascript performance is good enough (vs native), a Dart VM performing better than JS is a problem, and that whatever performance problems there are, they'll be resolved by better JS VMs. Not only are those hard to reconcile, but it requires a great leap of faith to believe that they will, because we've heard it all before. We've heard the same arguments about Smalltalk performance, about Self performance, and of course, the JVM, that the performance differentials will be tackled.

As for the language ecosystem on the server, yes, it's wonderful, but happened in spite of the JVM, not because of any evolution in it. The fact remains, Java changes were often evaluated towards remaining binary compatible with existing bytecode (e.g. erasure vs reification) and that caused the vote down of language proposals. (the same problem did not occur in C#/CLR)

My question is, when can I write a mobile web app using Javascript, that performs as delightful, in startup time, in runtime performance, in lack of janky-ness, for a mobile device, that doesn't burn battery or memory? Are you promising that evolved JS is going to fix this issue?
I use Handbrake for Linux with the "High Profile" and the quality bumped a little because with the default quality I could still see artifacts on my TV. Actually I use a little script that I wrote that wraps Handbrake--it collects metadata from the net and also makes ripping TV shows pleasant.
This is why we need the ability to fund biking infrastructure around the country ourselves...governments are too risk averse and short-term-focused to build this infrastructure by the time it's needed. CivicSponsor.org allows the people to fund it directly, circumventing the entire government process with more control and transparency.
But who wants that? Aside from strategic reasons, why would it be better than Linux/KVM?
Absolutely - I'm familiar with the companies out there. However, those companies typically only focus on a few banks to do an automated reports. Also, from bank statements and credit card statements you can't get granular information like amount paid for multiple items from one store or even the tax you paid.

Our solution would take your receipts and invoice, extract that granular data and feed it back into a system for the business owners.
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You're probably right, and I certainly hope so. I respect Andrew. He generally does decent interviews, and I think he's likely a good guy over all.

I do think he tends to push the boundries of what's socially acceptable somewhat, which is why I'm questioning. I'm sure I just have a somewhat cynical perspective, forgive me.

I'd still love to see it stated on-the-record, as it were, however.
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It would mean you can't take anything he says in a presentation too seriously because he doesn't touch the actual code. Then he would have to designate the CTO or somebody in some sort of leadership-but-still-touching-the-code role to actually talk about what's available/functional.

It inspires confidence when the CEO knows EXACTLY how the product works.
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When/if you end up in a court room. The police/FBI decide who to bring to the court.
I live 1.4 miles from home, and walking to and from work is one of the best choices I ever made for my physical and mental well-being. If you don't walk to work and can, I highly recommend trying it.