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Seriously. You're suggesting the EU just abandon its citizens right to privacy and making it an "opt-out" thing?

What's next? donotrob.us to opt-out of burglaries?

Tracking without permission is an illegal violation of privacy. You do not "opt-out" of crime with the criminals.
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Facebook Scales, E*Trade Doesn't.
The market's full of morons today.

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/05/18/crazy-but-true-a-...
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This is a very serious warning sign, FB IPO didn't take off as some people expected. This is going to be a very important day to the valley.

http://www.businessinsider.com/zynga-shares-crushed-and-halt...
Here is a live-update of exactly that: http://www.cnbc.com/id/47388424?__source=msnbc|fb|&par=m...
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no. Facebook IPO so far is disappointing. 2% up on the open? Even in Germany they tried to stir a shit claiming someone is asking $70 to buy it, valuing FB at $200B.

Zynga, as you know from Sec FB filing makes over 10% of FB ads revenue. So they are co-related. They always will be, until one is de-listed (sooner or later, IMHO [1]). So obviously traders that are dissapointed with FB performance so far are selling out Zynga stock.

[1] Im only trading since 2001.

edit: sorry, FB 0.01% up.
You can't make much of an impact on the world if you're not happy with your life.

This sort of self-centered attitude (i.e. "my own happiness must come before others") is the same line of reasoning that people use to say "you can't love others before you love yourself", but it's just not true.

Happiness often comes when we consciously decide to take the focus off ourselves (and all the moaning and worrying we do about our "unhappiness") and place it squarely on the well-being and loving service of others. It's a daily choice to lose ourselves in something far greater than our ego and its want of fickle satisfaction.

Now that I've found contentment, I can start to focus on others.

I'm not going to judge your motives, but I would question if you've really found true contentment -- you're living an extremely favorable set of circumstances in life (a great wife, kids, a fantastic business) that make it easy to be happy -- and yet here you are, writing a blog post about how it's still not enough. The business has to be bigger (more barns to build!), you want more money than 99.9999% of the world to retire early, etc. You know your own heart though.

I struggle with the same thing too on a monthly basis, the constant pull towards discontentment. I often find it's when I've stopped giving thanks daily and, consciously or otherwise, allowed myself to believe that "these material things matter and they are mine to have".

With that said, I would say true contentment is really understanding Job 1:21 and the perspective that brings.
I think the point is that if you try to add those unprovable theorems to the system to try to make it complete it becomes inconsistent.

See for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_proof#Consistency_a...

Moreover, Gödel's second incompleteness theorem shows that the consistency of sufficiently strong effective theories of arithmetic can be tested in a particular way. Such a theory is consistent if and only if it does not prove a particular sentence, called the Gödel sentence of the theory, which is a formalized statement of the claim that the theory is indeed consistent.
Tablets have come a long way in those 20 years, my pessimistic friend. At the scale of tablet use, with loads of developers and very smart people in general looking at usability issues, many issues have been solved, and will be.
Pry has this functionality built-in but souped-up on a diet of crack: https://github.com/pry/pry/wiki/Editor-integration

;)
No. Having to charge $100 even for the bare-bones/no-legacy support Windows 8 ARM version is exactly why they did this instead of using WP7 and expanding it for tablets. Because then they would've had to charge only $15 for it, or maybe a little more, but that's about it. It's still a huge mistake for Microsoft to do this though, when Android is free.
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Seems like trading in ZNGA may have been suspended.
I loved your game as a teen. :)
For the kind of application that TPC-C models ACID is non-negotiable, plain and simple.

It's one thing for there to be minor blips in data integrity to happen in the server's handling Google's search results or a social network's user data. But in a system that processes financial transactions, a blip in data integrity is an accounting error. An accounting error that could potentially expose the operator of the database system to serious financial harm or legal liability.
well it wasn't me, but if it was me, I would make sure my show off project is top notch up and running before showing it up on HN.
What's really strange is that I actually profit from all of this hype (if they do well people end up wanting to buy domains which I help with and make money from) and for some reason I want to see the carnage also.

The worse years I had were after the first bubble and the best years are during this bubble but I still feel the way you are describing.
NB: appreciate the post, but HN really needs a better quoting markdown hack than monospace/code blocks (all of which displays with a horizontal scroll slider on my laptop).
But less than a half hour in, it's flat.
Most text is solid color, as far as I can see. And for colored glyphs, couldn't you upload a single "font texture" with all the glyphs you care about, and clip out the section you want to paint as a series of subimages, as opposed to rendering one large full screen image? It would still use more RAM, but the amount would be limited. And you'd only have to rasterize the splines for the font once.

Sorry if I'm missing something, I'm not a graphics expert at all.
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Is anyone using Google Drive? What's the take?
It seems the buzz over Google Drive have disappeared. What is the take on it over Dropbox? I have yet to install the client to check what its all about.
My friends and I in high school loved the game, and we frequently played it at LAN parties on our PPC macs. Unfortunately if it crashed, it would crash on ALL the computers and bring them all down, requiring system restarts. (Ah, the joys of MacOS before OSX)
Sort of related, have you seen the UK government's attempt at making a usable government website?

http://www.gov.uk/ will eventually replace all the UK government websites. (Thank God...)
Then back down to $38 for a bit, then back up to $40 for a bit. Oddly step-like price graph, with steps on the even numbers. I guess I have no idea how trading in this kind of opening works to hazard a guess.
The purpose of university has never been to enable you to find a career, so by limiting the number of seats by industry metrics, you will only take away spots from people who want to legitimately study the material.
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But it really is mind-bending: if you, instead, add a theorem to the system (say, ZFC) which states, "ZFC is consistent", this system (ZFC+Con(ZFC)) is consistent! Even more strangely, if you instead add "ZFC is not consistent", this system (ZFC+notCon(ZFC)) is also consistent. We call these "self-hating theories."
But if you are saying $32k is not a comfortable standard of living, then that is a statement about absolute poverty.

$32k would still not be a comfortable standard whether Bill Gates had earnt $1million or $1billion.
The share price is dropping. So far very exciting 20 minutes. The stock price is fluctuating up and down.

It went to $40 its now back to where it started. Things volatile at this moment.
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By now Android supports most of the ARM chips architectures. The only case where this might not be true is when a completely new one appears, and Google chose to launch with another architecture and not support that one. But even then, the chip maker will do most of the work to support the latest version of Android.
I'm suggesting that the current law, while well intentioned, offers us in the industry little explanation of how we are supposed to comply. And thanks to the indifference of the ICO, changes nothing.

DNT puts forward a solution, that with the backing of legislators and browser vendors, has a chance of educating and empowering web user about online privacy.
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Down it goes... I thought the price would climb before going down due to dumping, this is unexpected.
Interesting. Bopgig has the facility for one user (such as yourself) to manage multiple artists on the site. There's a feature release on its way (public stats and demographics) to allow booking agencies and venues to come in and find artists and approach artists that interest them, but now that I think about it, tour creation should ideally be automated or semi-automated, probably the same way airline and truck routing is - but it'll take time to reach that point.
Memristors promise to flatten part of the memory hierarchy, merging non-volatile storage and RAM. But the interesting question to me as a systems programmer is whether they will ever merge cache with everything else too. This question is really important because if there were no cache there would no longer be any benefit to compactness and locality in memory -- data structures distributed across large areas of the address space would be just as efficient as ones that are well-localized.

To be honest this idea worries me a little. The performance advantage of small and local data structures is one of the main natural forces that encourages software to be small and simple. Software tends to grow over time, both in size and complexity, especially when more people are involved. Unchecked I fear that there would be no natural counterbalance to this tendency.

Put another way, I'm actually a bit glad that Eclipse is horribly slow, because it's an easy-to-observe symptom of the fact that it's a horribly complex stack of software. If software like Eclipse could get by with acceptable performance because it had fast access to vast swaths of memory, it would be that much harder for an upstart competitor in this space (like Light Table) to be disruptive, because Eclipise would perform well enough that competing on speed doesn't impress.

I'm probably oversimplifying a bit, but I do think it generally good for programmers when simpler software also has better performance naturally.

But even if Memristors could be as fast as SRAM, could you out enough of it close enough to the CPU that it truly flattens the memory hierarchy completely? This is where I hit the limits of my knowledge of computer architecture.
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Question:

[19] (pry) main / Pry: 1> cd ..
[20] (pry) main / Pry: 0>

Shouldn't 'cd..' take you out of the Pry scope?
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The general tone of what this person says just screams "you're doing it wrong." It lacks optimism, and the attitude is, as has been said, one of entitlement.

> "Those 14 steps assume everything goes well and roughly according to plan."

Yeah, definitely, if you plan to fail. Playing the numbers game with applications (sending off hundreds a month) is doing it wrong. He says he does research and tailors his applications to each one. With so many, they can't possibly be tailored enough. Those kinks will have been optimised out to save time.

Job hunting is a difficult and thankless task. But go about it the wrong way, with the wrong attitude, and it'll never get any better. Cutting the "woe is me" attitude and focussing more positively on what you can do to fix a shitty situation would be the first step.

I was in a position of thinking I'd never amount to anything, a couple of years ago. I spent 7 years in a supermarket, with only the faint tease of career prospects and progression (rapidly pulled away when I actually went for them). I thought I'd never get out, and I applied for all sorts of jobs (though not on the mass-production scale this fella has), slowly becoming bitter about them hiring other people over me.

Then I thought, "what can I do to get out of this rut?" I'd taught myself how to design and develop a website many years ago and for some bonkers reason didn't capitalise on that at the time (that's 7 years of good career progress I consciously chose not to take - no one's fault but mine). I got back into it and got a contact who gave me good work that I chose to do for free. It wasn't long before I was approached by an agency with the offer of a job. My first full-time position, at 23 years old. That was only 12 months ago.

It's been onwards and upwards ever since, even with recent redundancy.

Maybe if I'd done what this guy did, I would still be sending off 100 applications to any old job every month. The time spent doing that could easily have been spent making myself a more attractive prospect. After all, you're not being paid to 'troll' a jobsite 7 days a week, so you may as well do some unpaid work that puts you in a better position instead.
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EDIT: Yes, it's nice.

Also, the design principles are pretty good.

(https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples)

(EDIT was this before, <strike> What's wrong with it? It's a lot better than the fucking god-awful mess that is DirectGov.</strike>)
Further, Cybersource isn't mentioned anywhere. I have a very hard time believing that New Relic doesn't have any large Cybersource customers.
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if google finance' trading volume is accurate, it's pretty crazy right now: Vol / Avg. of 119.31M shares after 20 minutes (out of 421,233,615 shares)!
I'm betting it was a typo of 40.00.
+1.

We have a bunch of Ikea glass-top desks, which at first I thought would be lousy. Turns out the glass is far better on your skin than the various other finishes of wood-type desks (the ones from Ikea).

But, huge side benefit -- people are writing notes, designs, etc. all over their desks. It's very cool.
Any ideas on how they plan to solve the "fingers are big and imprecise" issue?
I have no background in CS or Math, but a lot of philosophy. In other words, I'm a highly interested layman. What's my best plan of action to understanding Godel's theory? Maybe the best approach would be an entry level book on CS?
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If he feels strongly about it, he is also perfectly at liberty to pay extra taxes voluntarily and lead by example.
This is so true. Everyone wants to say we're not trying hard enough but we
really are the guys with the awesome grades, extra-curriculars, part
time jobs, and involved in sports plus finding time to be social.

Don't confuse the sweat of your brow with hard work.

No employer has ever asked me about part time jobs, clubs or sport. Frankly I don't think any of them cared about my grades either.

These things are noisy signals, proxying for hoop jumping. What's more important is proving that you have relevant skills.

It's tough though no matter where you are and what
you're trying to break into.

This generalization is false. If you can program your way out of a soggy paper bag there are hordes of folks who will fill that bag with money.
Don't be so sure. I used to think I never compared myself with others and then I really thought about my frustrations one day and realized I was trying to keep up with or out-do my family and friends. It's far easier to be honest in our opinion of others but not so easy to be honest with ourselves. Our egos prevent us from seeing things like envy which Just prolongs the problem.
I think it's because you didn't expand on the problems you experienced sufficiently.
EBay horror stories are usually transactional based on buyer/seller conflict. (including fraud) In those cases, Paypal is just the party stuck in the middle.

On the positive side, at least there is a chance of an amicable resolution with PayPal. 10 years ago, a sketchy buyer would be sending you a fake money order.
Depends if you want the fame and kudos (and stress!) that comes with leading one of these companies. I know the feeling you're describing but have come to realize I'd much rather have, say, a $5m/year revenue doing something I love in peace than to be running some giant megacorp. Of course, still quite a way to go on that one for me.. ;-)
There's nothing wrong with it, sorry if the way I phrased that suggested as much.

I was implying it is better than the messes that are the other UK government websites.
Now the WSJ is going all Demand Media on us with this garbage content.
Better education.

Better funding for education and better life conditions for teachers. Putting science before religion. Going against memorization and teaching kids analytical thinking and social arts.

Of course academia is another place that must be revolutionized.
If fb isn't worth $100B, how can Instagram be worth $1B? We are not in a bubble.

Disclaimer: Bought some fb.
I put a $3500 PC on eBay a few years ago, and was left holding the empty bag. That sucked pretty good.

Can someone fix that part about online transactions?
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Ha yea, there's a typo there. The gist is cached by the wordpress plugin. Going to fix it at lunch.

Should look like this: [20] (pry) main: 0>
The real story for me is that, when you go public, NASDAQ brings some kind of button to your offices? Or there's a button at their offices?

Why? Just ceremony, like a ribbon-cutting?
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Yet paypal is not regulated like a bank.
Google made such a horrible, horrible mistake by not promoting Google Checkout as fast as they could ever since it launched. It would've been a huge advantage for them and for the Android ecosystem if most Android users had a Google Checkout account right now. For years I didn't hear anything about further developments or adoptions of Google Checkout.

I think this is still the #1 reason why fewer people buy apps on Android compared to iOS, where everyone had an iTunes account thanks to the iPod. Google, too, had the opportunity to lay the groundwork for a payment system for Android years before, and they didn't take advantage of it. Now, they and their Android developers suffer for it.

I've noticed that with Android 4.0 it asks everyone in the beginning to set-up a Google Wallet/Checkout account. This should help things a bit, but only when everyone has an ICS or later phone, which will take a while. But even with this, there's not much reason for people to sign-up to Google Wallet right now. So Google still needs to make Google Wallet a popular payment method if they want to benefit from all the synergies they would get with it.

Also, I don't even know - but does it allow you to take money out of the account now, or is it still only about putting money in it and then buying stuff?
I don't understand why any internet entrepreneur would wish for the Facebook IPO to fail, secretly or not.
carriers base their pre-orders off customer requests, they have been in the handset retailing/reselling business for long enough to understand customer demand and how many they will need on release day.

I know plenty of people hoping to pick one up on release date, quite a few of those are leaving apple too.
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Keep in mind everyone that they're trading at IPO price, making them worth over $100bn.

If that's a failure then I hope one day to fail that badly.
I'm not sure it's a new obsession -- I've worked in those environments eons ago.

We have a combination of open environment + offices now, with several people sharing offices. Privacy quite often leads to productivity, but I've found it ebbs and flows with people over time. Sometimes a few folks need to be out in the atrium or in the common area, it just really depends. No judgment from us, if they want to crawl in the vent and work, get to climbing!

We always try to make sure we can accommodate most everyone's wishes for workspaces.
Having the same issue, past 15 minutes.
There is definitely a hereditary component to it. And yes, the shoe might have fit for me as well.

My suspicion is that over time we're adjusting to having fewer kids and more attention/kid, and so are noticing and diagnosing problems that in previous generations went unnoticed.
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No, this is incorrect. The site creator has earned between 40% and 15% of that 7 million as a fee. One particular teacher has earned $700k by selling her lesson plans through the site.
Point of order - Robin Hood was against excessive state taxation - the Sherriff of Nottingham, King John etc. Not against rich people per se.
Also, The Onion has put the headline comma to spectacular use.

"Clinton Feels Nation's Pain, Breasts"
So... that percentage next to the stock price represents the change in value since it opened? Mine currently says +0.99 (2.61%) but the stock opened at $42 and the current price is $39. I would think the number should be a negative value/percentage.
Give it 6 minutes.
Yes sorry for it.

- late edit:
But I had to put my pov to describe why I believe this is a social engineering move.
Yeah, just got it back.
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What exactly does that mean if you don't mind me asking?
Hah, sorry. Forgot to read my own writing!
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This article fails to support it's own thesis. I'm highly skeptical that facebook has anything to do with this.

I would attribute it more to a standard cycle than anything else. Where I live, it used to be cheaper to get a house in the burbs...now it's cheaper to live downtown (factoring in transportation, food, etc). I also reject the assertion that suburbia is something from which we need to be saved - it certainly can be, but so can urban environments.
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> Did I hit a nerve of some zealous Nginx user when mentioning the fact that Nginx isn't a silver bullet? :) I'm sure you can downvote this comment, too! Knock yourself out!

I don't believe the comments had anything to do with being a zealot, but instead a curiosity: being HN, it is useful to know why a user made a technical decision.

If you could elaborate on the problem, you're much less likely to get downvoted.
I don't quite understand the argument - if there's no problem with increased size, why should we worry about size? People from the 1960s would be shocked to hear how large our software is today already, but since we have the capacity to run it successfully, I'm glad that we've freed up programmers to work with more productivity.

As far as complexity: there will always be costs to complexity in terms of agility and reliability. And using less compact data structures often leads to less complex code, anyway.
I know I'm not adding real value to the conversation by saying this, but I've still got to say it for the record:

This is amazing! Really impressive how much progress this startup is making in just a few short years.
No you just gave a handwave "Nginx is not all that" without supporting the assertion. You would get the same response posting "Nginx is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you should ditch httpd."
Man, I've missed that attitude. My childhood was in the 80s, when the dream was still only in its early phases of being strangled by the monstrosity that the whole NASA system has become. We could use a bit of optimism about the future.

May history show this as the beginning of the second space age.