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If Facebook collapses, sites that do semi-private chat with comments and images among groups of friends will rejoice. So will sites that allow you to create events and invite people to them.
Yes, they should be testing software-based learning against other forms of private (self-directed) learning, as well as (face-to-face) instruction.

Remote-instructor learning through software differs markedly from the same through books in a variety of ways. ie the software can provide more compelling extrinsic motivations, but can also provide increased distractions (both if used on a computer with internet access, and through the affordance of screen-based tools).

So its good not to treat this as an either or problem (does software work as well as face-to-face) because there's a number of other considerations (is the face-to-face personal or lecture hall, is the software highly interactive with immediate feedback, etc
I think the response from the activists should be a top-level comment so I am reposting it here.

http://taketheflourback.org/open-letter-to-rothamsted/
I think it would take a lot longer than 5 years, even if node shrinking stopped dead.

You can always add more functionality to SoCs (eg better video decoding), tweak current cores (Intel gets more performance out of processor redesigns than node shrinks), and optimize your current node (power usage typically drops, and yield increases with time on the same node).

You would also get way more focus on GPGPU computing, with initiates like Intel's QuickSync. Lots of performance/watt to gain there, if there's no alternative.

Plus people making the hardware and software of phones and laptops need to sell units too, so they'll pick up some of the slack. Not every iPhone is a significant upgrade in terms of performance.

And lastly, a whole bunch of chips are being bought for reasons other than the old one is too slow; people are getting multiple computers, more gadgets, and in developing countries people are getting their first computers. Devices are becoming disposable. Laptops die and get replaced, even though even a Pentium M stacks up relatively well these days.

20+ years, though, you may have a point. I have no idea what that would look like. Though with depreciation on fabs slowing way down, even if sales were lower, the margins would look pretty damn good with today's prices. Plus each node shrink wouldn't be a potential disaster; the fab companies still around may even be more financially stable.
It is so sad that Vimeo is blocked by many Indian ISPs for silly reasons. The whole Internet feels crippled. There must have been at least a dozen videos I wanted to watch today that were recklessly censored. Thanks for the youtube link. I think we need a Redundant Array of Cloud Videos.
The point is that it's difficult to create a competitive marketplace while also providing a government guarantee that every buyer will find a seller. For example, suppose the government guarantee is "every high-school graduate with an SAT over X will be able to go to an acceptably good college without prohibitive debt." That's a reasonable goal we could adopt. Now how does the government fulfill that guarantee?

Specifically, suppose we create a marketplace of for-profit education sellers as you suggest, and that marketplace creates good-enough-cheap-enough* slots for 80% of eligible students. What happens to the remaining 20% of students? In an ordinary marketplace, that demand would go unfilled, creating an incentive for more good-enough-cheap-enough slots to be created (up to some equilibrium, not necessarily enough for everyone). But we can't let "demand" go unfilled in this case (i.e., throw smart poor kids under the bus). So does the government fulfill its guarantee by favoring unacceptable sellers, either paying extra or lowering its standards -- giving sellers who charged less an incentive to raise their prices or provide a worse service? Or does it fulfill the guarantee by re-creating public universities, abandoning the goal of a for-profit marketplace?

These aren't rhetorical questions -- we're currently using both strategies, and more. It's not an unsolvable problem, but it's not a trivial one.

(Check out the Commonwealth Health Connector to see how Massachusetts is solving the same problem in health care, combining for-profit providers with a universal guarantee. They're not doing a bad job, but it sure ain't a conventional free market.)

* And then there's the question of what's good enough and cheap enough, when it's a democratic/lobbying process setting standards -- that's pretty different from an ordinary marketplace between lots of buyers and sellers.
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I wish people would stop citing wiki on HN, especially without reading the entire page. On the exact same wiki page under history it says:

Moore slightly altered the formulation of the law over time, in retrospect bolstering the perceived accuracy of his law.[17] Most notably, in 1975, Moore altered his projection to a doubling every two years.[18][19] Despite popular misconception, he is adamant that he did not predict a doubling "every 18 months." However, David House, an Intel colleague, had factored in the increasing performance of transistors to conclude that integrated circuits would double in performance every 18 months.[note 2]
I could see there being a need to bolster the payroll for a growth strategy and needing to temporarily bankroll it with outside funds.
So, an IDE with a better plugin API?
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The bankers surely know how disastrous something like this would be. Facebook has been aggressively indifferent to this whole process, which involves a lot of complexity both in decision making and communication. "Don't make the analysts look bad" is an important rule, but one that's easy to miss unless you spend some time thinking through your communications with the market.

If FB's initial analyst communications emphasized optimism over credibility and deliverability, or FB was impatient with questions casting doubt, the analysts may have had reason to start with high estimates. The May 9 filing comes out and reveals those to be implausible, and they have to dial back to avoid looking silly or as if they're pumping the stock.

If FB management hadn't spent a lot of time thinking about the relationships between the analysts and the investors, they may have missed the point that those investors are the analysts' ultimate clients. If they didn't spend much time with the analysts, they may have neglected building relationships where they could subtly signal issues without tripping regulatory problems.

Or the analysts were idiots and screwed up the biggest assignments of their lives.

Is all this shady company / banker / investor communication good? No, but this is how it's done right now, and if you want your partners to do well you have to work within the rules of the road. It isn't clear to me that Facebook took the time to do that.
Reminds me of Gravilux

http://www.snibbe.com/store/gravilux/
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This is amazing! I can't wait to use it.
So Light Table is a rapid prototyping tool?
Same. At least you have my upvote, for what it's worth!

Light table looks to me (with all the respect due to the work of the authors) like a fad where people get all hyped up about a product. I mean there's nothing revolutionary and while looking at the video I was thinking "boy this is too confusing!". I also believe that when the project is going to have 500+ lines of code per file, the way it's done now, is going to be horrible to deal with it!

There are other stuff that bug me out: when I program I don't want rounded borders and everything. I don't want 40 different colors.

But if people are going to be it, great.
> Android 2.3 OS

sigh. ICS has been out for 6 months now. It's tragic that companies are shipping an ancient 2-year-old OS with their computers.
There is no singular "they". The equity research analyst, noting the S-1/A revenue forecast amendments by FB, downgraded the stock. The bankers, noting that the issue was 25 times oversubscribed in Asia alone, saw demand outstripping supply.

May the bankers have gotten overzealous? Yes, probably. But we're saying this with the benefit of hindsight. Remember that Morgan Stanley walked into this deal still burning from LNKD popping 90% on its IPO - after the underwriting syndicate had already raised the price by 30% on strong demand [1].

[1] http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-05-19/tech/30001969...
That demo gets about 19 fps on my machine, whereas the WebGL demo appears to be getting close to 60, so that seems to be scaling pretty similarly. Also keep in mind that the demo you linked to uses Alchemy, which is C/C++ compiled to AVM2, so for WebGL to be getting roughly equivalent performance is pretty damned impressive.
Facebook : The biggest tech IPO ever. Also possibly the most controversial tech IPO ever. It's down another 3% (On top of 10%). Irregularities popping out left right and centre. Not to mention companies being very public about discontinuing advertising with them.

Someone hates Facebook.
Hi I wrote this post. I'm open to any suggestions on how to accomplish an automatic fetch from a remote repository. Should I just check when the computer wakes from sleep or can I use a hook to make it work?
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Bret Victor's ideas apply differently to different problem domains. This was very apparent from his talk. It looks like Chris is trying to build a platform that makes applying Bret's ideas very simple and natural. Also, I assume that many of these modes will be generalized and available out of the box, so all you have to do is the pick the one that best suits your needs for any given task.
I've never bought a WP theme before - so it's not too hard to convert one for use in Rails? Just take the HTML, CSS, & JS and start putting it into the Rails structure? I'll seriously look into this option, then - thanks for the note.
This comment needs to be near the top.

People don't get how much just a TINY bit of daily exercise gives them.
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This is certainly a concern for non-tenured, non-research faculty. The plain vanilla instructor may really have something to worry about.
I don't mind if the future is specific. But its really wrong to say IDE's like Eclipse don't do one specific task well.

Eclipse really makes Java programming very easy. And I can tell you minus Eclipse programming in Java would be a very frustrating experience, given the verbosity, configuration mess and XML's all over the place. Eclipse these days is advanced enough to really blur the difference between and novice and a expert Java programmers. So by any measure I would say eclipse already does what light table aims to do. The only problem with eclipse is its too heavy, chews a lot of memory and becomes very heavy as things go on.

What we expect from light table is really what things like Emacs and Vim already are, plus what they miss. Which is modern GUI candy, easy configuration, availability of packages, stuff like refactoring, bench marking, auto complete and Intellisense easily available out of the box. Along with evolution with modern needs and demands.

So that is why what we really needed was an Emacs + all that I mentioned.

I think it will be nice if at some point requirements are frozen for Light table. Because things like this really slip into Second systems effect easily.

According to me Light Table must be Emacs for the Modern Generation. Anything else, and it won't be impressive. A thin editor, extensible by lisp. All lisp and other Emacs editor goodies but with all the modern demands.

We already have enough of other kind of IDE's.
Careful though. A bike has as much chance of shortening your life as lengthening it depending on where you ride it.
Ah, I hadn't seen the Scott Sweet quote. Thanks.
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Are you developing Light Table using Light Table? If not, is that a future aim?
Wait: did we have such problems when number portability became the law? I don't remember that happening.
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We work on exactly that: http://www.veodin.com/keyrocket unfortunately Visual Studio is not in yet, but Excel, Outlook, Word and PowerPoint are!
I wonder why no one mentions surveillance? Facebook may not be a perfect platform for advertising, but it is an awesome Big Br0 2.0. It's a lot more efficient and effective than anything that the N5A, C1A, or any other major intelligence agency have ever concocted directly. Like it or not, Facebook is here to stay. Whether it generates revenue from advertisers or governments is another story.

I strongly feel that C1SPA will be a strong part of Facebook's financial future.
>> fair

I was going to post exactly that. People are funny. If they perceive something is biased against them, they are much less likely to adopt its' use or even encourage its' existence. In fact, I bet there is a fair bit of quiet satisfaction around here every time another "$xxxx bitcoin stolen" story gets posted simply because most of us feel as tho the ship has sailed and we missed it. FWIW, I don't really care one way or another - if this currency exists in ten years, it'll just be another opportunity I missed early on. I'm at peace with that, but I am also not going to buy a bitcoin mining rig. :P
isn't it the idea to forget about files, so I can see the models & and views I'm interested in in for a particular workflow. Regardles of where & which file they're located in?
How to calculate reputation scores?
Many web sites have an article/message/user reputation based on the up or down votes the article/message/user receives. How is a reputation score calculated given only up and down votes? (The user is not presented with a 1 to 5 scale for scoring something.)
LOVE the web example! Keep up the good work!
Last time I was flying they had removed the bins from the waiting area (because terrorists). I almost wished I left the trash on the seats or not taken care to make it easy to remove -- that is the only way they will stop doing stupid shit like that.
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I get a dialog box : "There's no WebGL context available.". :\

Using Google Chrome 19.something on Ubuntu, with open source radeon driver.
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It looks very impressive. I'd love to see some kind of game using particles like that, something like Osmos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pso6UBicLWU
Just like number portability, right?

I see this working just like Open Auth. You are on site X. You tell them you want to import your data from site Y. You authenticate yourself, and (insert a waiting period here if you like) then site X pulls your data from site Y in some conveniently packaged format, which is irrelevant to you, the user. Currently do you care how G+, FB, Twitter, etc. store your data? Then why should you care how they export it from Y to X?
Why not just buy any number of Atom or Fusion motherboards out there? Cost is in the same realm as what you're asking for and they already have those slots. Power consumption isn't much more than the ARMs, but there's actual product you can buy today.

If you don't mind waiting a bit, see Freescale iMX6:
http://boundarydevices.com/products-2/nitrogen6x-board-imx6-...
Where are all of these "incredibly cheap" handsets? ZTE? Huwei? The overwhelming bulk of Android handsets are priced similarly to the iPhone.

Not even close to true. Having a look at my favorite purveyor of phones (www.katshing.se) I see that, by far, the most expensive phone they sell is the 64GB 4s and the only phones that are close to the price of a 16GB 4s is HTC One X, the Galaxy Note and the preorder for the Galaxy SIII.

In the half-the-price-of-the-4s category you have some pretty decent phones like the HTC OneV, Experia Arc S and Samsung Galaxy S plus. Halving the price again (~$250) and you can get a Samsung Galaxy Ace, HTC Explorer or Wildfire S or Motorola Defy Mini.

The simple truth is that probably half the people I know with android phones have android phones because they where a lot cheaper than the iPhone. The fact that you can buy a great smart phone from a brand name like Samsung for $200 unlocked and off contract is incredibly enticing to a large number of people, and Android helped make that happen.
Same here.

As much as I like vim - it remains software from the stone age and it seems absurd that our main work interface (editor and shell) still consists of an emulated 1980s text-mode terminal.

LightTable looks like a major step in the right direction. I think the best indicator for success will be when the vim/emacs-diehards start porting their respective shortcuts and functionality over.

I could very well see this fundamental approach (modular/dynamically expanding interface) become the new paradigm for editors and (hopefully) terminals if the author manages to make the prototype versatile and hacker-friendly enough.

We've really been entrapped inside ancient TTY-emulations and inadequate GUI-widget sets for way too long.
Apart from Ruby, which?
This looks very interesting. I like the interface, but I worry that the interface will make people blind to the long tail.
These were examples of extensions to make a point and not at all what we'll be focusing on. What we're making sure of is that the platform for such things exists and enables all of the things that old UI's and such don't allow.

I think the parallel to emacs is a good one and while I certainly won't say at this point that we'll be the "modern emacs", it's our hope we can come close.
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Larry Page looks old.

I love listening to him talk, though. He's like the Superman to Sergey's Batman.
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I used particles pretty heavily in my (inneficient) WebGL game Up and Above: http://littlesquareblock.com/upandabove

It's not nearly as efficient as this demo, but it's at least a game. There are at least a dozen areas I could fix up to prevent the GC from going nuts if I was so inclined, but it works fine for most people.
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But what about Facebook makes them positioned to do this? They're Contact list? That's openly available to devs.

If I'm paying a friend, why not use PayPal, or Bump, or just cash?
"Yahoo just reprints articles from the big news sources"

?? It is an article by Henry Blodget. Love him or hate him his opinion about this certainly means something (regardless of his past).
discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/sj...
I agree -the interface is super clean.
Chrome 18, nVidia GTX260M, on Windows with official binaries.

Same error.
`git tag -s` is all that's needed. The primary problem in your horror story is that you GPG signed a commit with a tag when you shouldn't have. When you tag with GPG, you are saying you do trust the history. You didn't review the commits you were signing with the tag and that's were you made your mistake.

Linus himself is against GPG signing commits.

http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/GPG-signing-for-git-commit-t...

Ultimately a human being has to be responsible for reviewing code. Once it's reviewed, you can tag and sign it. No GPG signature is going to make up for not reviewing your code.
Somebody doesn't understand the purpose of an IPO...

Worst article yet about Facebook, ad hominems aside.
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Well then maybe (actually, not "maybe", but "certainly") the title should be "a detailed exploration of git object signing", and not link bait like "a git horror story". But of course the first title, while much more accurate and informative, would not draw nearly as many website hits, so the author deliberately set out to mislead people with the title, in order to get more hits/reads. This sort of misrepresentation of content is what makes the web much harder to explore and the continuous stream of content much harder to keep on top of for the information consumer, and therefore should be called out and chastised.

But then again, I'm just an old grumpy man who is much faster to criticize and be negative than he should be, so who am I to cast judgement? Do I ameliorate or exacerbate the situation with posts like my previous one or this one? I don't know, maybe I'm part of the problem in that way. Either way, I much preferred (so are my motivations selfish? Is that good or bad? I think good, but how do I know?) the old HN when submissions like this one would be labeled for what they were.
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You mean Rails.
(This thread would be easier to follow if you'd mention 'edited' somewhere.)
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It's more complicated than that, though. You can't just download ICS and drop it on the board. There are drivers to port and middleware integration to do. Someone has to do that. Google did it for OMAP4 (the Galaxy Nexus), but that's it. This isn't an OMAP4 board, and $50 a unit doesn't pay for a lot of software integration work.

This is where the ARM ecosystem tends to fall down. The PC World is built on compatibility. No one can ship a board if it doesn't run Windows (or even DOS, frankly). Graphics cards have VESA and VGA fallback modes so that you can bootstrap a driver installation. And as a result the Linux community can leverage this to provide pretty great support for new hardware, even if it starts out as a fallback or partial implementation for a few versions. None of that exists in the SoC world.

So if VIA or NVIDIA or Samsung or Qualcomm want ICS to run on their chips, they need to do the work. So far they have not. Nor have their customers been willing or able to.
Oh, wow.
I was not aware of that. Thanks!
off topic, but dont feel bad, vimeo and youtube are both blocked at DHS.
I've started on something similar for GitHub... See https://airport-r7.appspot.com/madrobby/zepto
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Well, how else would you do it?
I think part of his point was that expecting everyone to have a thick skin is a small step away from requiring everyone to have that thick skin, and to not reacting appropriately to people who direct flames against those supposedly thick skins. “Thick skin” is often used but poorly defined when talking about online communities, and I think the end of the article does a good job of deconstructing the notion by explaining more precisely what is a good standard for reacting to abuse.

Another point to make is that this is a stronger expectation than simply: don't be an asshole, and that acceptance criteria that don't match the emotional reality of most people (for example, if “thick skin” means you're not allowed to feel bad after being treated harshly) will ghettoise a community.
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Yes, it's an opinion article about a real news story from Reuters. It's not Yahoo making up the news.
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