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The cost of running the site seems like a red herring. Reddit is proof that there's no technical reason why a community news site can't be run on a fraction of the cost of Digg.

The real lead here is that Digg is ceding that market entirely to Reddit. The new Digg looks more like a competitor to the Huffington Post. To be honest, I think there might just be a business there. Huffpo serves a particular market niche: predominately liberal female city dwellers and it strikes me that it may be profitable to deliver the same product to a different niche.
You can criticize this guy, but what he does with his money is actually moving us forward. I have a huge respect for him and his innovative ideas.
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I think it looks very clean, very nice. I also think making it a place to find interesting content to share in people's social networks, were the majority of conversations are happening, instead of making people comment in-site, was a smart move.
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You don't need higher order logic to present a nonstandard analysis approach at the same level as of rigour as a standard limits-based calculus course. Keisler wrote a great infinitesimal-based Calc book (http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html).

In terms of pedagogy I've found that there's a huge leap that students make between Math focused on computations and anything involving proofs. The reason it's difficult to make Calculus rigorous is not because you have to address a ton of cases-it's because understanding proofs is really hard. This is why students who take Algebra and then Analysis or vice versa tend to do much better in their second course-because they're already used to proofs. So I don't really think it's possible to make a first-year Calculus course more rigorous by sticking to analytic functions, because you still have to get over the proof barrier.
I see a light grey triangle on firefox 13.0.1 in both examples. Have no idea what they're talking about.
This is an excellent point, and a possible opportunity for class action lawsuit?
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To add to that, one more issue that caused me to drift away from Digg was the numerous posts/comments on sensitive topics such as religion, politics etc.
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This is exceedingly common language in the mathematical community, particularly for the generation of Scott Aaronson and the one before him.
No thanks, I've had enough of Microsoft monopolies, I'm not helping them build another. As recently as the Skydrive mess they've battered the customer. I'm even moving off of gmail because Google is getting the same way.
Could someone explain, how the low stock price is bad for Facebook? They are profitable, so they aren't going to go bankrupt. And they made a lot of money on the IPO, arguably more than they should have. Doesn't this mean the joke is on everyone but facebook (the company, not including the stock-owning employees)? Through what mechanism does it come back to bite them? Not defending them, just uneducated on this side of business.
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You let what amounts to basically childish pedantry make that big of a deal in your personal life? OK, I guess ...

I don't think a view that basically says "stop making excuses about your genetics and current station in life and work hard to achieve your goals" is naive optimism. First of all this kind of thing is not that easy to predict, how do you really know you can't do certain things, it's easy to retrodict. By all rights, the vast majority of successful people should have just given up and come to reality without even trying. Sure, if we all send our intellects back to fourth grade and make really literal interpretations like "you mean I can fly?" then it gets ridiculous, but then we would be ridiculous. :)
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It's nothing like the quantum physics sequence. Yudkowsky starts out making up numbers from nowhere and asserts things for purely philosophical reasons, whereas Aaronson actually has proofs (albeit left to the reader).
Olympians are the best in the world by definition. Anymore, it takes a combination of talent, hard work, and opportunity to compete at that level. However, almost anyone who really tries can get fit. That takes perseverence, and it is possible.
Amazon's revenues have been growing like crazy, year after year:

http://i.imgur.com/EWBOe.png

Which justifies this high P/E. Amazon is about to grab a huge section of retail by offering cheap next day shipping.

Same for Salesforce - consistent growth:

http://i.imgur.com/FaaA1.png
It's a UI issue. Where would an arbitrary directory show up on other devices? How could you tell quickly which files on your device are being shared?
Some discussion in the blog comments about that [1]:

>Using Facebook for account registration is a short-term solution that will seriously cut down on spam, while we take our time to develop more robust spam-filter technology. We know this isn’t ideal, so rest assured: we are working towards a more lasting solution. [2]

1. http://blog.digg.com/post/28441399381/welcome-to-digg-v1#com...

2. http://digg.com/faq#why-facebook
Not to commercialize the conversation, but this Nike ad (pretty creative IMO) speaks well to this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsXRj89cWa0.

The problem with this post is it says nothing about what the alternative is. I guess it's implicit: give up. I'd rather believe I can do it, work like hell and then see where I come up short. But if others would rather sit on the couch explaining why they didn't try, that's cool too.
Oh god no, facebook login no. I bet my balls they will turn on facebook comments in a couple of weeks too.

Sorry digg, me no coming back.
I deleted my account a year ago but just signed up with a new account so I could test results for contract projects.

From account deletion, to clearing out my OS X and installing Lion on a new SSD, and using a fresh email for the new signup a year later, I still have my same friends showing up.

I wasn't trying to lose track of these friends, I'm just surprised that FB was able to figure that out with what I assumed was new information.

How does that even work? Maybe my old Time Machine brought long-living cookies back for Chrome?

It was just disconcerting.
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Oh, okay. Thank you so much for pointing that out to me. I somewhat assumed as much, and I honestly wasn't intending to create anything remotely ad hominem in my critique. Since it's not so common in hardly anything I typically read, it just stuck out strangely (I am only just digging into understanding QM/QP).

Again, sincere thanks.
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I think that kind of thing is often mistaken for being "logical" when it is just pedantry and kind of a sign of not being a great problem solver. It's like when people give out problems like the Two Egg Problem and those people spend all the time going on about the properties of actual eggs rather than getting to the real mathematics. Part of the reason it is so silly is that it is like a case of a human behaving as a computer program with absolutely no AI (or robots from SciFi going "does not compute" and then blowing up).
One way it is bad for FB is it makes it harder to make acquisitions. Frequently, when you buy out another company, you offer a mix of cash and stock ... but if your stock is tanking ...
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A 50Mbps connection with Verizon costs about $75 / month. Google's 1000Mbps connection costs $70 / month. It's not even close.

(I'm strictly comparing internet speeds, not TV channel lineup).
I'm guessing it's from the mobile app.
well he's not answering anything... maybe he lost interest already - ba bam chic!
I see no link to a relevant bug report linked in the article and without one, that bug is never going to get fixed.

A bug report with a minimal testcase would take 50% the time it took to write the article itself but actually have greater impact.
Yahoo's been profitable for a long time, but their imminent death has been on the books for years. No growth, so the stock doesn't increase.

Facebook was somehow hyped as being above the middling concerns that every other public company must address. But they are not, and have lost value accordingly.
Well you have to remember that the stock price already takes all of this into account. The problem with Facebook's price is that it's based on expectations far higher than what it seems like Facebook will be able to achieve in the near future.
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This sounds like special pleading. I'm not sure by what "spidey sense" people implicitly know this.
Add to that the fact that disadvantages are just as real as the advantages and it's pretty much spot on.
I'm also facing this uphill battle. The thing that bothers me is not knowing what I'm missing in a language I'm learning -- in Donald Rumsfeld's famous words, the "unknown unknowns."
I'd have to focus to some extent on providing a leg up to people in developing countries.

Get them paying jobs which involve nothing worse than sitting at a computer screen and you're already more effective than, oh, approximately all charity and foreign aid. After you have the jobs you can even try to make them fun jobs, but un-fun jobs beat 3rd world poverty by quite a lot.
The argument that Phelps's success is paritularly reliant on his genetic build is slightly begging the question. His physical features are considered to be ideal for a top swimmer because, well, a top swimmer happens to have them.

This does not automatically rule out the possibility that a swimmer with a shorter wingspan could break Phelps' record...because that person may have adapted to that deficiency by improving on a quality that was less important to someone of Phelps' wingspan...in the way that people with a missing limb or sense become stronger in the other ones.

This is all just to say that not-trying can't be predicated on "well, I don't share the same qualities as the current record holder"
Because where are you going to put it on the other computers? So far dropbox has decided it's not worth the complication.

What you want is two clicks plus a confirmation popup and/or wizard. Moving a folder and making a shortcut is two drags and one extra click. It's not a big deal.

and it just works.
I see dark grey line between the triangles on Firefox 15 beta3 Windows XP Home 32bit

Maybe this is hardware dependent? I do not have any hardware acceleration that I am aware of - integrated i3 graphics.
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"Revolutionary" is such a subjective term. Very, very few ideas are actually novel. In fact, dreaming them up is usually easier than pulling them off, so give Apple & Google some credit. While they aren't inventing the future from scratch, they certainly deserve credit for bringing the future into the present. Multi-touch interfaces and tablets have been around for years and the ideas for them even longer (see: Star Trek), but no one has been able to figure out how to successfully pull it off and popularize it. Apple did. Automated cars have been the future since the Jetsons, and we're going to see it become a reality in the next decade, thanks to Google. We've been talking about "digital libraries" and having the world's knowledge at your fingertips for the last 100 years. Wikipedia figured that one out.

The future is (mostly) already laid out, the roads just need to be paved to get everyone there. That is what Apple & Google are doing, along with some others.

Edit: Just realized we actually used to have (dumb) automated cars. They were called horses.
A huge amount. Same reason his sister spun off a career as a Facebook consultant.
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Premultiplied alpha exists to solve one problem: multiplying by the alpha channel is common to almost all of the Porter-Duff compositing operations, and computers used to be slow, so premul came about as a way of speeding up drawing operations. Instead of multiplying each time, you simply multiplied the alpha channels in advance.

Unfortunately, this causes a ton of problems when you're doing anything with transparent images outside the realm of Porter-Duff, since the process is not fully reversible. In addition, it has tainted the way that developers think about alpha channels, so that they erroneously act like there is only One True Clear Color, which is how we ended up with issues like the one described in TFA in the first place.

Premul is not the solution. Premul is the original problem.
Yep. This is what I took away from it.

Let's be honest: the predominant socioeconomic class among hackers and entrepreneurs is a set who have a relatively large set of advantages, many of which are unexamined. This comment thread is a textbook reaction to an accusation that maybe, just maybe, some people have advantages which have directly or indirectly contributed to their success, perhaps as much as any other factor.

Some people call this "loser" talk, when I'd say, aggregated across not just our own extremely narrow cross-section of society, it's pretty realistic.

As he says, the corollary to "just do it" is that if you didn't succeed, it's because you weren't trying. That may not be what anyone here is suggesting (or it may!), but it's undeniable that there's an entire political party in the US which takes this as an article of faith. If you're wealthy, it's because you earned it; if it's poor, you're not working hard enough.

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_asymmetr...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_phenomenon

I do think there is something to the idea of XX% of success is just showing up. It's just that "showing up" elides plenty of complexity and it's not often I see people acknowledge that.
Was this written by a high schooler? I mean, if some freshman said this, most of us would just chock this up to being a smart aleck, sheltered kid with too much time on their hands and thus points the most banal things "You can't swim 100m butterfly in 1ns." Is that supposed to be edifying?

Obviously, when people say "anything is possible you just have to work at it" or things like that, they assume the audience is reasonable. They aren't saying a 100 year old in a nursing home is going to be able to play in the NHL competitively by just working hard. What kind of gibberish is this?
If that's the case, then the Facebook app I can't delete from my Verizon Incredible has full access to read my Mail configurations.

Edit: (and then correlate the account I used to use for Facebook to my newer LLC FB account I use for testing)
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Good point--I was just wondering if anyone had a comment on that thought. Sounds ridiculous to me...
It is a location issue. Demand is high but in few places, and supply is fine, but exhausted in those high demand places and underutilized elsewhere.

Americans seem obsessed with rising house prices as though they are good thing. But every time house prices rise it makes people far more "sticky" and harder to move around. That doesn't benefit anyone (except a few lottery winners). As a thought experiment would be it be better if house prices were around a dollar or a million dollars? Even if salaries dropped a bit.

The solutions are apparent:

* Make location less of an issue. Have national high speed and pervasive network bandwidth. People being (virtually) in the same room helps a lot whether they are employees or family.

* That also makes training and education easier since its quality can be separated from the student's location

* Encourage demand in other places - I'm not in favour of subsidies but getting rid of impediments is a good idea

* Celebrate when housing prices go down not up as that enables mobility and rebalancing supply/demand

* Single payer national health service not tied to employers. When people move their family needs to move. Remove health from the considerations.

Immigration is good. You get to select the best and the brightest. This benefits the country and the immigrants.

If the US does not do this, then other countries will.
Huh...I have the latest Firefox 14.0.1 and about 2 days ago I had the whole browser just slow down, crash, and self destruct because of 1 tab. I restarted it, reloaded all the tabs and it crashed again as soon as that 1 tab loaded. I think it was a news aggregator too, so it's not like it was an experimental html5 site or anything. I had to quickly kill it before it loaded on next startup. Perhaps maybe it's not flash then?
Our goal is to get the crowd to behave like an automatic resource, taken as a whole, while providing a decidedly non-cog-like experience for individual workers. We want users to be able to trust the crowd, but we want people to behave, well, like people.

In MobileWork, workers work together in small teams under real names, have a dedicated manager and persistent chat, and talk and collaborate closely on work. Even if there is an algorithmic component to the work, the outcome is much more of a virtual office than the anonymous task machine that you're describing. This worker-centered approach is also a point of departure from just about every other crowd platform out there.

To tell the truth, we've invested considerable effort into developing an environment where we'd actually be happy working ourselves. Our studies show that this approach works: far from feeling like cogs, folks really do enjoy being MobileWorkers. See, for instance, our upcoming paper in IEEE, cited below.

There's a rational reason for this strategy. Our starting premise is that happy, motivated, and fairly-paid workers working in a collaborative environment will outperform anonymous crowd agents. Helping people with a leg up is the other half of that mission.
Was it $10k net or gross?

If you are counting your inventory as "free" or written-off already, and you sell cheap, I guess it would be easy to have sales?
I live in New York, which has one of the best public transit systems in the US, and I think driverless cars are freaking amazing, even (or especially) in the context of a city with effective public transit. For one thing, they could solve the last-mile problem public transit has at its outer limits.
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I said test for, that doesn't mean their internal pattern matchers aren't good enough for figuring out most things.
Less money going into guns then... win-win?
Not really sure what you are talking about. Care to share some context?
I find it interesting that they call themselves the "Google Analytics for e-books" since, while it is true that often the out-of-the-box analytics offered by big publishers is extraordinarily basic (number of downloads, number of opens), the one I have worked with - Adobe DPS, used by Conde Nast and others - does allow you to directly bolt on Google Analytics to your publications, in addition to their own Omniture offering.
This is a certainty, I'm sure.
If you don't trust doctors, why would you trust schools? Admittedly in each case you'd hopefully see their claims as input worth considering.
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Did you use it before when you were logged into Facebook? Your phone has a unique ID that it could (theoretically) read and store at the time of login on mobile. Logging in with your new account could tie the two together?
I've read the readme and tried both demos, but I still have absolutely no idea what this does.
It extends to all clothing, and I think it should extend to the outer appearance of devices like phones as well. Johanna Blakley [1] made the astute point that in the fashion world, because it's legal to copy each other, the way the industry adapted was to make garments harder to mass-produce through intricate design and by using high grade materials.

Apple has already done this with the iPhone 4/4s - namely the antenna array composed of segments of high tensile stainless steel that can only be machined with very expensive, very limited availability hardware.

Apple already understands how to beat the copycats, they simply want to spite Samsung/Google.

Another point is that copying is good for Apple. Johanna Blakley again makes an excellent point: "One of the magical side effects of having a culture of copying is the establishment of trends." Apple needs the copycats in order to drive smartphone adoption, with Apple remaining the top tier innovator akin to high-end fashion labels.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashio...
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> It does justify the valuation it has now though.

At $40bn, I dunno. FB's revenue & profits are pretty close to Yahoo's, whose market cap is at $20bn (though much of that is in assets).

So, just guesstimating here, with no growth FB can probably justify a $15bn value. Anything on top of that is a bet that they'll find some other way to grow the company. Certainly possible.
Perhaps what the parent was getting at is that other companies seem more risk averse. Google isn't afraid to fail in public. I can't remember the last truly exciting thing I heard about from BMW or Mercedes that was being tested in the real marketplace. Rear facing cameras in the bumper? A car that parallel parks itself? A 650 BHP V12? I throw your "please" back at you.
Wind back the clock only 20-30 years and such a thing would have been astounding. You're making the mistake of considing current technology humdrum.
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I like that you can submit by tweeting"[url] tip @digg", that seems pretty slick.

Where do they get the pictures for each piece of content? Is it automatically generated from the site, or do they go through manually for stuff that reaches the front page?
Well, all of those Facebook employees have lost 41% of their value of their options portfolio since the IPO. Imagine how you would feel seeing 41% of your hard earned cash just evaporate because management priced the IPO too high or doesn't care about the stock price.

There's many more reasons, but that's a big one. No one is going to come work for a company for equity that doesn't care about their stock price.
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Yes, I thought of the same Steinbeck quote. If you're not successful, quit bellyaching because it's all your fault! Never mind that the person telling you how easy it is got a massive head start. And somehow, we still consider it a level playing field despite that head start.
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Wow. I would think the WSJ was smarter to compare stock prices to stock prices. That's retarded.