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I was also using YAGBE. From what I can tell yah they hit a critical mass and decided to add in ads. No permission changes as far as I can tell. I think I filed a ticket with Google a while ago... it seems like a serious security flaw to me.
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One thing could be sure is that he's business man, not really a product man, and hundreds of miles from a technology man. The problem of this is, he can't really manage his reports because he has no real idea of what they are doing, and what's going wrong. Jobs isn't a technology man either, but he knows what a good products is, and who are good in technology.

Microsoft needs a great CTO to compensate what's not there in Ballmer. Btw, they should fire the one who decided WP7 doesn't need native development kit. That is the most stupid idea I've ever seen. Gee, they had the best native toolchain inherited from years of work on WM!
Here's something to consider-

Kids who feel the need to be somewhere cooler will be both there and on Facebook.

Why is that outcome not more likely than Facebook will stagnate and die?
Ford just publicly made a statement approving of their results from Facebook ads:

https://twitter.com/Ford/statuses/202574566613200896
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> Is reading a book in a library stealing? Listening to a song on the radio? Watching a show over broadcast TV? What if I avoid commercials and never buy the TV show or album on disc? In utter isolation is that any different than someone torrenting an album and never buying it?

Who are you asking? Because libraries (books; music; games) have all been attacked by industry. Radio has been attacked by industry. Advert-avoidance technology has been attacked by industry.

Disney freaked out when video was introduced because they couldn't work out how to charge each person for watching the movie. They'd have one sale, but a mom and pop and two kids would be watching, and three of them wouldn't have paid.

Rational thought is going to fail when you're up against that.
Something I find amusing is that the ability the author demonstrates here, to notice that a task is repetitive and has a programmatic solution, is itself a skill that has to be learned, and one that's different than programming.

Once, when I was working on a group project in an operating systems class, we modified our kernel malloc and free routines to print the relevant address every time they were called, to do some simple leak-checking. The result was a file of a few thousand lines like "malloc 0x94583900", "free 0x34739A4", etc. One of my partners looked at the file and said some variant of "oh no - this is going to take hours to match up". Apparently it hadn't occurred to him, someone who'd been programming professionally for years and who only minutes before had been tweaking the internals of a process management function in a multithreaded x86 operating system, that there was an easier avenue available to him.
The effectiveness of an ad should be measured by its price - or conversely stated, by the revenue it generates. Search advertising generates somewhere between $50 to $100 for every thousand impressions (RPM) for US traffic. Content/ display ads on a well optimized site will generate somewhere between $1 and $3 RPM. FB ads, according to their numbers, generate around $.35 RPM.

So in the advertisers mind, search ads are literally orders of magnitude more effective than FB ads.

W/r/t FB as a business however, it's all well and good becuase, even at $.35 RPM, with billions of page views /day or month, the numbers start adding up pretty quickly. As long as they continue to crank billions of page views, justoptimizing the site to move from $.35 to, say, $.40 RPM will have a massive effect on the growth...provided they keep cranking the page views.
So does AOL.
If by fad you mean it has made its creators richer than god and is useful enough that almost a billion people have signed up for it.

I imagine half of Americans think far more foolish things.
My teenage niece and her friends are constantly on Facebook. As well as constantly texting each other (We're talking literally 4-5000 texts a month here).

College is a weird out-of-band gap in most people's social lives, and it's not really any meaningful indication of how they will live post-college.
Actually, "the exception that proves the rule" means that a recorded exception to a rule can be used as proof of the existence of an otherwise undocumented rule. It dates back to medieval legal terminology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule
I wonder what Eduardo could have done wrong. He came to the US as a wealthy man, paid for the education, invested his money into stock trading then invested his proceeds into some flimsy venture written in PHP and created thousands of jobs and billions of wealth for risky investors. Now he's heading for the exit and going to buy an exit ticket worth half a billion dollars. Instead of creating some obscure umbrella corporation in some shady overseas jurisdiction, "sell" his shares to it and do not pay a dime. And now they call him having no respect and appreciation for his foster country. I'll never manage to understand these commies.
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Even though Google's escaped_fragment protocol is a bit awkward, it's probably a good idea to still implement it. Google is probably going to use it's Ajax crawling capabilities at least for page discovery, but better to be safe and just tell Google, "here's the different ways you can access my site".

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/...
Can you give us a realistic game plan that starts with the iPhone launch & WinMo6 and ends better?

That's sort of the point... Microsoft's game plan ought not to have started with the iPhone launch.
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Education is so broken. Just. So. Broken.

They're buying iPads instead of expanding/building new schools when buildings meant to hold 1.6k people now serve well over 2,000.

That's just the start of it. Over-saturated schools make it almost impossible for students who need more attention to get it and limit opportunities for people who can take them. The result is more people slipping through the cracks and more talent snubbed.

Harrumph!
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Is it possible that this is simply a personal difference? I love Daphne's lectures. They're short enough to be to the point while still making concepts understandable. I'm currently going through the "preview" of her PGM class. I, of course, don't have access to assignments or any assessments, but I still find it quite engaging.

In fact, the thing I like least of school is the repetitive homework, so this works well...for me. And perhaps that's the most important thing here.
I don't think he did anything wrong... but, personally, as an immigrant in the United States it's tough to swallow.

I'm currently in H-1B status and work for a top tier hedge fund. I recently resigned because I decided it was time to go full on with my own company, and even though I have lived here for 2 years, paid my share of taxes, and have enough saved up to support myself for at least 1.5 to 2 years, if I don't succeed/raise money to sponsor my own H1B in the next few months (or take a new job) there's a chance I will have to go home.

Oh, and even getting a chance at getting those few months, is dependent on the USCIS approving my change in status from a specialist worker to a "tourist."

There's just so little room for error as an immigrant, but the fact that you can make lots of mistakes is one of the things that makes the US so awesome for gutsy Americans.

Immigration is a messed up thing and it's just sad to see someone throw a citizenship away that so many people would fight like crazy for. I doubt he would have gotten that first chance to make it big anywhere else.
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In other words, "Everyone can script", rather than "Everyone can program". Where by "script" I mean to write a program, but for ad hoc tasks, and on a relatively small scale.
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When I feel like I have reached a stopping point/mini milestone. Might be a single file, might be multiple files/directories.
The iPhone 3G is stuck on iOS 4.2.1. When I still had my 3G, I happily bought apps if they still ran.

We also had quite some support requests for a three digit dollar app (!) because customers never bothered to update their iPad, the OS versions were all over the place.
There could be hidden interests which benefit from facebook's success. These interests, manifested in the 12M from Accel [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=484171 ], have probably a lot to do why fb made it and myspace and friendster failed.

It very weird to watch a American society buy stock in the very company that is trying to enslave them.
Thx for commenting.

I'm using affiliate links to monetize it too, but it definitely it is not a company or something that needs to break even in x months. Actually I had a great time coding it and I learnt a lot about the technologies it uses (facebook open graph, amazon apis, twitter bootstrap...) so in terms of ROI it's already covered by far.

Being said that, of course I want it to be huge. Not as the next pinterest because it'd require lots of resources and energy but more like a bootstraped project that grows organically and we'll see.

In other words, I built something that I want to use (no other ambitions), and right now I am wondering if it could be something mainstream or not
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I think your numbers are a bit off. I live in Livermore (25 minutes West of Tracy), and it takes me at least 45 mins to drive to SF (if there's no traffic). It's nice that BART comes as far as it does, but it's a 45 minute ride to SF, and that doesn't even include the 15 mins (30-40 from Tracy) drive to get to the station.

I get your point that Tracy has available housing, but I think a 1.5+ hour commute makes it a much less appealing solution than the 50 mins you mentioned.
I think the most important part of this post is "Well, fuck that."

Update: Actually it's this part: "Well, double fuck that."
There was a book written by Douglas Rushkoff called Program or be programmed[1] wherein he asserts quite a compelling argument for why learning at least a basic understanding of programming and how a computer works actually is (or very soon will be) just as important as being able to read.

The basic crux of the issue for me is this: you can control a society via the flow of information through that society. Both reading and more recently, programming are activities intimately connected to the flow of information through modern society. Along with an understanding of programming comes a greater understanding of computers to computer networks to privacy issues and all manner of things that more people should be thinking about more conciously, regardless of whether they wish to program as a career.

While no doubt the flow of material through plumbing pipes is also quite important for societies in general, I don't think an understanding of plumbing affords quite the same insights and protections against being potentially manipulated by the powers that be as one might acquire through the pursuit of reading and programming.

1. http://programorbeprogrammed.com/
I'm an immigrant myself and I owe everything I have to USA! There is almost no other country in the world, where an immigrant can make as much impact as a native person can.

For this opportunity we should give back as much as we can.
When facebook bought Instagram, this is what one disappointed 12 yo girl thought.

http://twitpic.com/97ub0z

"facebook is stupid and for old people. It will change instagram"

Edit: By the way, most of teens use facebook heavily
If you read the linked pages you can see that the the Edubuntu project is targeting to ship Edubuntu on the Zatab. The retail price for these is $349 presently. An iPad 2 can be bought for $399.

While I understand the reasons why free software is important, I think that in this case an iPad 2 provides far more than $50 extra value over a generic tablet.

The comparison in the title doesn't make any sense either. Bugs in one product : Sales of another product is meaningless.
I'm really interested in watching this space, in Australia there's a few Netflix competitors (QFlicks I think, which I have on my PS3), and there's literally very little of interest in their library.

On the other hand, the Apple TV is $110 now, and the library is quite large, and the quality is great!

We don't have Netflix in Australia so it's pretty much a one man show in terms of viable alternatives.
@taze There is a way. It's called noscript. Does a terrific job of staying on top of issues like this.

Also because of this example I went one step further and used AdBlock to block any iframe with a facebook url.

@general
The facebook button (at least in firefox) doesn't change to the hand icon when hovering over the link. So, fail. I wouldn't click a link where the cursor didn't change. Mostly, because when it doesn't change I immediately become suspicious.
No, I just built something I wanted to use but I'm not sure at all if the market is worth the try
Please don't use "No" as a sentence. "No, everybody should..." is less jarring.
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that is why Orkut and Google+ have changed the world and have movies about them. There were social media sites before Facebook and so far they have found an effective formula, this could easily change.
I'll bet that >100 other innocents who were treated far worse by the system were killed by prison during the time Texas took to execute this guy. And, this would continue even if the US abandoned the death penalty.

If you're looking to save innocents from being killed by prison, death row is the wrong place to look. No matter how inadequate you feel the process is for death penalty cases, it's significantly worse for folks who get other sentences. Since prison kills people (and not just with "live without parole)....

No, they don't "get a [meaningful] chance to prove their innocence. They just die, killed by prison just as much as someone intentionally executed.
Everything is a fad.
Speaking as a kid (19 y/o), we like rejecting things that are uncool. Nobody my age uses Google Plus, for example. Facebook's coolness has been steadily declining and I've been seeing people I know ditch it one at a time since I quit about 4 months ago.

Also, I think we don't like dividing our attention/loyalty.

It's seriously fucked up, though. Now that I'm free of the Facebook mental disease, it's disgusting to watch my friends in college mindlessly scrolling through the News Feed and not reacting to anything. Down, back up, back down... Facebook will be easy to replace with something new soon, I think that will be a really opportunistic window in about a year or so.
I've just made a change so that there is a bit of random angular momentum and position when you drop a disk, this should make things more interesting (and a bit harder).
So, the news here is that's "CSS only". Well, I hope no one will ask for pointer-events removal because of this. The feature is very useful exactly because it doesn't require JS (example: transparent tooltips). And for hijackers it makes almost no difference - to include "Like" kind of button they need a script anyway.
Yep. When you see "calorie" on US food labels, that's actually a big-C Calorie, or food calorie, which is equal to a kilocalorie from regular physics.

If it were regular physics calories, the energy content of food would be nowhere near enough to sustain us. A typical human body at rest will consume around 8 megajoules per day, or about 2 million calories. But that's only about 2 thousand big-C food Calories.

Forgetting or ignoring this difference results in amusing things like the beer and ice cream diet: http://training.fitness.com/weight-loss/beer-ice-cream-diet-...
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The problem is that there really isn't a good analogy for this. Its not the menu, or the counter. Its more like going up the the counter, reading the menu, placing the order, going into the restaurant, there being a restaurant in the first place, etc. It regresses away from you as fast as you can analogize until you end up at machine code clicked in with binary switches and some nitwit telling you he "owns" the op-codes.

Some ideas in computing are just hard to put into real world analogies. This is one of those ideas. Trying to apply some sort of IP law to it is just a plain bad idea. People who code know this instinctively, people who don't are just going to have to trust the people who do, or switch the damn things off altogether.
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I haven't tried Netflix, but I love that I can now see all the films in my queue that are available on iTunes.
I don't want my friends advice on buying things. I want expert opinions from places like Cnet and ConsumerReviews.

Also word to the wise don't focus on trying to get your app to go viral, it really doesn't tend to work like that. Also success in general - real success - is almost by definition a slow process.
It depends on how much you watch but for most, these two optons can't even be compared cost wise. Unless you watch less than 2 movies per month, the Netflix is way more cost effective as compared to iTunes at least here in the US.
Agreed - I am also fully anti TV. I just got cable again last week as I moved and my wife really wanted it. I have not had cable TV service for 9 years.

Previously I taught her how to watch everything she wanted online.

As someone who has been on a computer daily since 3rd grade (I am 37 years old) - websites are simply the new channels we debate over liking (no pun intended).
This reminds me of one of my favorite articles that I always forward to people who want to become better, maybe even quite good...but are just starting out

http://www.unlikelysalsero.com/2007/08/magic-of-time-last-on...
Fuck'em. It was a dick move given all the opportunities he got in this country. I prefer rich people more like this:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-kin...
They have a problem deciding on a idea. I share the same problem.

I just focus on bulding it to a MVP and putting it out. If it sticks, it was a good idea. If not, I move on to the other.

People, stop worrying about the idea and get working.

Here, let me help you with getting ideas.

Write the first three words that come to mind.

Example: Fruit, baby, car.

Now, think about each one.

I'd say fruit: Apple, car: app.

An app to use in the car? For the car? Baby

Hmm.

I got a couple of ideas already.

An app to unlock your car (through an afyermarket alarm) if your baby is locked inside with the keys.

An app that allows you to watch your kids through the in car navigation.

An app that plays a given set of songs for babies depending on the mood of the baby. Crying? hit the crying button. Sleepy? hit the sleepy button. etc.

And so on.

That's just stuff I came up while writing this post.

Use the technique, it works.
Comments on the data visualization/interface:

1. Differentiate netflix/itunes by color or marker.

2. Find a better way to show density. Messing with the opacity would help, as would contrasting colors. Nothing fancy like 3D, just a way to convey the density of points.

3. K nearest neighbours is counter intuitive at first. A better layout/ui could have been that when you hover over a point, it shows up to the right as one big poster, without any neighbours.

You have good data that is trapped in that scatter plot.
> As well as constantly texting each other (We're talking literally 4-5000 texts a month here).

Using the number of text messages sent/received per month often vastly distorts the picture. When you've got an unlimited texting plan, many of the texts you send are just "yes", "no", "lol", or ":)".
I believe services like this have been around for a while so be sure to check those out.

I do like the idea though.
I'd like to see netflix's library compared with films on imdb above a certain rating and number of reviewers. I'm pretty sure you'd see similar numbers like %1.5. Would also be interesting to filter this by dates. I'm sure there aren't many new movies on Netflix of high quality. Kind of a shame.
There's a reason we specifically don't let the relatives of victims make choices here. This "you would never accept this policy if it were your child" argument is really irritating. No, I wouldn't, and that has no bearing whatsoever on the merits of the policy.

I agree that it would probably be fairly tough to institute in a democratic country. But I think it could be doable in a reasonably (but realistically!) rational country. The long-term effect should be a vast reduction in the quantity of kidnappings, since you render them ineffectual.

Such policies are already implemented sporadically. Look at various navies' responses to Somali pirates and their hostage-taking, or the way the US negotiates (or, rather, doesn't) with the occasional terrorist who kidnaps a US citizen and threatens to behead them.
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If your life savings is invested in one undervalued company then sure, that's pretty risky. If you happen to have a portfolio spread amongst many undervalued companies, then I'd love to be in your shoes no matter what people quote at me.
The patent in question, as mentioned in the linked story, is patent 5,946,647: http://www.google.com/patents?id=aFEWAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...

It patents a way to process addresses and phone numbers on webpages and produce actions or links from them.
If we're going by likely ad revenues, I'd tend to agree, but a big unknown is the value of all that data, and their willingness to exploit it. Even if companies won't pay much more than they currently are to run display ads on Facebook, I would bet there are people who would pay a lot to get their hands on various pieces of that raw data.
"Calorie" in the context of nutrition has a different meaning than "calorie" in the context of physics. Three orders of magnitude different, to be precise. It's entirely plausible that he had no idea of the special nutritional definition, since you'd never encounter that outside of nutrition, and things like food labels almost always fail to make the difference clear.