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I just tried that on my iPhone 4 and it rendered the post OK. Horizontal swiping didn't seem to do anything.
Have you noticed that the social integration skipped the usual release steps and went directly to beta?

Kind of sad. Mozilla is misguided.
It would be interesting to use a $20 TP-Link 703N to create a solar wifi dead-drop.
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I saw the tinytest smart package and more documentation/examples are definitely welcome!!
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Hey guys.
I am developing a competition monitoring web application and just wanted to ask the community how do you currently stay updated with your competitors activity online and where do you find useful information about them? I am trying to join several information sources under one big roof in order to get the daily competitor activity stream and then do some statistical and semantic analysis on the data I gather. What I would like to ask is whether anyone finds this idea worth trying or has any other suggestions about the concept? Also I would really appreciate if you can give some comments about my pre-launch page that I use to collect future clients emails (http://kompetoo.com/signup/). Thank you for any information you might provide.

Regards,
Leon
I didn't edit the title, but I also don't see anywhere that this is by John Resig. See https://raw.github.com/jstat/jstat/master/AUTHORS

The authors merely use some code that he published on his blog a while back at http://ejohn.org/blog/simple-javascript-inheritance/ and that's why they cite his name in the code file.
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The Firefox sync is probably the nicest piece of technology they have.

The google account is pretty much the opposite of "secure". Grants access to all the things. And 2 factor auth doesn't exactly help when you computer is compromised.

FF Sync is separate and secure - but - I bet they'll change it for something more Google-like, as usual.
I've been dogfooding the "Gmail will double-check that your recipients all have access to any files you’re sending" feature for a month now and it's FANTASTIC. If you use Google Docs a lot, this saves so much permission pingpong.
ahhhh, my bad! thanks for pointing this out too :)
Awesome concept and execution!

Thoughts/suggestions:

• I expected there to be a rollback option, perhaps via the '-' button. (Didn't expect to have sticky varying faster-than-realtime rates instead.)

• A slider/timeline-scrubber would probably be ideal, with indicator ticks everywhere there's an upcoming tweet. Then you can either 'play' real-time, and drag-'seek' to any interesting point forward or back, and fairly easily re-sync to an approximate minute after out-of-band DVR ops. (Also, 'next'/'prev' buttons would be more natural accelerated navigation to me, rather than the steppable-FF-rate.)

• Would benefit from explicit 'permalink'/sharing-of-well-crafted-range-query support. Such permalinks could be decorated with more contextual metadata (eg: name of program).

• Does Hulu work in a frame? (Or more generally: permalink metadata mentioned above could include recommended links to legitimate playback sources.)

• You might let people layer in their own lagged tweets by assisting them in using a hashtag offset convention. For example, "#lizanddick #11-25t0h8m blah blah blah".

There were a few startups attempting to enable synchronous group TV-event watching in past years... but I suspect they all suffered from the rise of DVRs among exactly their online-immersed target audience. Leveraging Twitter and allowing a blend of synchrony or asynchrony might work better.

Good luck!
Thanks. That's the first time I've ever heard of a use-case that validates that functionality.

I still remember the rage I felt when I switched from the Amiga in 1996 to the PC and found that Windows did that; screwing up a large part of the usability of scrollbars (for me) by adding a (to me) completely incomprehensible requirement for ultra-precise mouse movement or else you get BAM! back to where you started.

Note: not trying to claim that you are in any way "wrong", of course, I'm just pointing out the opposite perspective since I found yours interesting.
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"If you win an election and then "betray" your voters, you won't be reelected."

That ain't accountability, that's a joke. If you pay me 5000$ to do a job, and I don't lift a finger, and your "punishment" is that we won't do that a second time, then I have free money and you're a fool. It doesn't hurt the party one bit either; that's the whole point of corporatism, you can swap out individuals while the "brand" rolls on, saying "whoops, bad apple" every 5 seconds, with people forgetting after 2.

"It's more about making sure the winner cannot become a despot."

Correction: it replaces a single despotic individual with a tag team of people who basically can do whatever they want - within boundaries, sure, they at least have to be somewhat slick about it, and know how to make a puppy face, too; but certainly not within boundaries defined by the actual will of the people who handed their power as souvereigns over to their representatives. Having despotic entities control you is not one iota better than despotic humans, not in the long run.

Despotism is marked by the control going only down, accountability going only up -- period. Not by angry men on podiums necessarily, and not by bloodshed. (Not that there isn't plenty bloodshed, but that's besides the point) If you seriously see a huge difference or improvement there, you've fallen for it I'm afraid.
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(2) there are in fact people that got disproved, with the most common reason being that they didn't want to provide details about what they actually want to build.

Also people discussing the Spark programs never mention one basic fact - in many countries starting a company is a bureaucratic nightmare and it's not free of charge either. You also need to pay an accountant too, as bookkeeping can get complicated even if you don't have any revenues, depending on the local legislation.

The Spark programs are basically incompatible with most startups, considering how most startups are started - an individual or a bunch of people starting something and experimenting on the side.

> Microsoft is basically giving away thousands of dollars of software to any startup that wants it

Price does not necessarily correlate with provided value, but rather with the scarcity of a resource in the context of supply/demand and the scarcity of many Microsoft licenses is rather artificial.

I use "thousands of dollars of software" every day for free, without having to be approved, without bureaucracy and without a 3-years ticking time bomb.
My Linode also shows 4 L5520, but that's probably 2 cores with 4 threads as the L5520 [1] has 4 cores and 8 threads in total.

http://ark.intel.com/products/40201/Intel-Xeon-Processor-L55...
That's not front running. Predicting that someone else will buy X (but not being entirely sure of it) is not front running. Actual front running is illegal (the broker sees the order for X coming in and then buys X before the order is executed).
You can't create a crisis simply by refusing to raise taxes (which were already near the highest in the nation). There was obviously massive spending going on without the revenue to pay for it. How about blaming the spenders?
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Another potential option is using a Linode 512 with "extra" RAM (see the Extras tab in the Linode Manager).

Additionally, I've always found the Linode support folks to be fairly accommodating, so maybe it's worth asking if they can still provision 768s.
No I don't. I also don't move my lips while reading.
Except that all usage of licenses from DreamSpark must be non-commercial, without ifs and buts. Students are also a minority.
Here is the discussion for The Best:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470
It's considerably more than $270 if you're using your own hardware. Consider bandwidth and energy costs.

I do wish the article gave more attention to VPS providers like AWS or Rackspace, but I don't see how anything in the article could discourage someone from administering their own server (that is, of the set of people who aren't already put off by scary command lines). 90% of the article is relevant to someone with a VPS.

FWIW, my current costs for a single dev server at Rackspace (initially Slicehost) are about $12-$20/month ($240 max for a year), which probably costs less than the electricity my current computer is using.
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https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/19 is what you're thinking of, so yes. It's unfortunate though. With the Public folder, you can right click on any file and get a "Copy link to file" button. With the new sharing stuff, it opens up a page in the web browser where you click a button to copy a link to the file, and that link takes you to the file inside a dropbox page instead of a nice direct link. It's pretty horrific.
Not to mention that debt interest is taking up twice as much of the general fund as a decade ago.

"California's current debt burden is 7.8 percent of the state's general fund budget of $88.5 billion for the current fiscal year that ends in June 2012. That 7.8 percent is more than double the 3.4 percent of fiscal 2003-04."

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/debt-320389-interest-stat...
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There is an alternative, one can create a IPv6 only service, as tunnels with static IP are commonly free.

Of course there is the downside that no one except those very few people that has ipv6 will be able to use that service, but it is free and it can be a very useful way to access a computer behind nat.
What housing report? Is this another one that heralds increasing prices as GOOD? Yeah, let's bring back the bubble that everyone was talking about. Oh yeah, and we all knew a CORRECTION was due, and yet when it happened it was a "crisis." Bullshit.

Also, fuck California for ripping off small businesses and essentially calling them stupid for incorporating in California. If you start a business in California and LOSE MONEY, the state will still charge you $800 a year in "tax."

California is a huge rip-off, fraud, and disgrace. The proposition "system" shifts the burden of legislating to the citizens, many of which don't have the judgment to say NO. And thus the state is saddled with unfundable bullshit year after year.

There's nothing good going on in California. The entire state needs an enema.
It's not the case. This is much more serious.
'why GNU grep is fast' from the FreeBSD mailing list: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Augu...
Few seem to want to hear it, but the housing 'recovery' is based strictly on a Fed that provides perpetual QE to hold down interest rates forever. Not to mention they've removed trillions in junk mortgages from the market, leaving them one of the world's largest land owners. That has also made it easier for the banks to go back to bad real estate policies, since those toxic mortgages have been effectively bailed off their balance sheets. It is currently the Fed's stated intention to create another housing bubble (in their terms they want to inflate asset values, har har), and they're working very hard at it. A large portion of California's supposed improvement is based on rising property values, making home owners feel better off again.

It's all fantasy land economically. Mortgage rates at 3.4% is obscene based on any historical norm. When those rates revert to an average (or worse) as they must, the housing market will tank. The opposite reaction that the Fed's extreme intervention will invite, is going to cause massive destruction just like the last housing bubble they brewed. They learned nothing from their past mistakes.
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So, this poll didn't tell me a simple question: do more people select text while reading or not?
Yeah, it is the same as me. I select paragraph so I can focus on reading it exclusively (among other things).I also didn't thought others did it.

Other than allowing people to select text on your webpage, I don't see any immediate HCI implications.
It isn't the debt by itself that is the problem, it is the debt plus the unfunded liabilities. The pension liability alone is estimated at an additional $500 billion. Plus there is the debt and financial problems of the various cities and counties.
Fair enough, but <The reason its illegal> is because it adds no value. So the logic works the other way round. Broker/Dealer front running just has better (perfect) priors. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. etc.
> Evernote made it hard to share the URL to the image itself, rather than a webpage showing the image on it. This may help their revenue, but unnecessarily hampers the recipients' ability to use the images I share with them.

http://d.pr/i/P0hg
>$79 is an absurdly cheap price for that kind of hardware and connectivity

Well I dunno... Europe has some really cheap (and reliable) server hosters, for instance:

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4

49€ purchases you:

- i7-2600 Quadcore
- 16 GB RAM
- 2 x 3 TB SATA (Software-RAID 1)
- 100 Mbit

I think the US/Canadian prices are simply inflated.
This seems like a really simple way to get implicated into some nasty shit.
The term is "plug-in", not "plugin".
It seems promising, but it also seems like an inactive project, according to the commit dates on the GitHub page linked in the other comment.

Also, there is a sizable amount of dependencies for this library, all due to the use of flot. Since most of the code doesn't use any of the dependencies, I wonder if they would consider releasing any future versions as two parts, jstat.js (containing the number crunching methods) and jstat-flot.js (containing the plotting wrapper methods).
As a professional developer and amateur sysadmin, I have to say Ubuntu is a great choice, and I will never use CentOS again. The main reason being how updated packages are in Ubuntu, and outdated in CentOS. I don't know about the other options.
This is very impressive and cool. However I really don't think that parsing source code and manipulating is a very maintainable way to do this (and this as someone who writes Clojure for a living).

You could do exactly the same using very simple Knockout. It wouldn't be as funky, but it would be something you'd be happy to use in production.
Any idea if this exists for Firefox? I've been looking for it for a while. It's the major feature I miss from Chrome. I've had enough of Ctrl-C, Ctrl-T, Ctrl-V.
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Not necessarily. The screenshot indicates the bytes pointed by the IP, so it would still be possible to find them a binary you just built, and debug it from there.
What would be the use cases for this, other than education?
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Ah yes, the "Systèmes d'exploitation".
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For those using homebrew:

brew install https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes/master/grep.rb
It isn't really intended for production use. Personally, I plan to use it to tweak values in games I write, because having to alt+tab, find, edit, alt+tab, refresh, restore state for every tiny tweak to the position of a UI element sucks.

This is a development tool :)
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It doesn't work in Firefox 19.
I plan to use it to tweak values during game development, so I don't have to edit/reload every time I tweak a number a tiny bit.
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Agreed. When Arq finishes its backup, I'll do a verification.

I appreciate you being "that guy" :)
Vurtualization is not for production. Why to have this useless layer, which messes up your CPU caches even more, interfere with you IO and complicates memory model? What for?

Virtualization was build for server providers to make easy money, not for server owners to gain performance advantages.

Vistualization is not for production. Production servers need less code, not more.

It is the same kind of mistake as JVM - we need less code, integrated with OS, not more "isolated" crapware which needs networking, AIO and really quick access to the code from shared libraries.

And, of course, a setup without middle-ware (python-wsgi, etc) and several storage back-ends (redis, postgres) is meaningless.

Update:

Well, production is not about having a big server which is almost always 100% idle, and can be partitioned (with KVM, not a third-party product) to make a few semi-independent virtual servers 99% idle. This is virtual, imaginary advantage.

On the other side, your network card and your storage system cannot be partitioned efficiently, despite all they say in commercials. And that VM migration is also nonsense. You are running, say, a MySQL instance. Can you migrate it without a shutdown and then taking a snapshot of an FS? No. So, what migration you're talking about? It is all about your data, not about having a copy of a disk-image.

It is OK to partition development, or 100% idle machines - like almost all those Linode instances, which have a couple of page request in a day - this is what it was made for, same as old plain Apache virtual-hosting. But as long as one needs performance and low latency, all the middle-men must go away.
I was responding to this: "Changing the language doesn't bring anything." and this: "You cannot reduce risk, you can only replace it with another", not to the Wikipedia entry. The Wikipedia entry is very reasonable, and does not make the same outrageous claims.
First, a 6x difference of GDP points out that they're in the same range of size. Further, it has about a third of the population of California, making its people about half as wealthy. Ballpark confirmed.

Now on to debt: Greece owes some money. It's a nation. California owes some money; it's a state. And, the US owes money. If California were to serve in full its debt, and arrange that it no longer had to incur debt to pay its employees, or raise greater taxes to do so, I would say it became solvent--however, if the day after the United States Treasury defaulted on its multi-trillion dollar debt, California would find itself in trouble all the same. So, really, California also owes a share of the US government debt.

Is the similarity enough for California to emulate Greece should the latter emerge triumphant from this shitstorm? I don't know. But it's enough for a metaphor about the current problem.
How is this the top comment? I'm sure some of your points may be salient, but practical experience says virtualization works just fine for production. Same with the JVM.
This may also be because the default grep, i.e. BSD grep actually pays attention to what you have set in your environment variable LANG. Default on OS X is en_US.UTF-8.

If the author were to set LANG to c. He would find that BSD grep suddenly speeds up tremendously.
Wouldn't this be a tad easy to "troll"? All you would need to do is hit that USB port with a rock and it would be completely unusable, all effort into cementing it into the wall wasted.
Yeah that seems perfectly safe.
Aren't all public security transactions valueless outside of the investor?

-- No.

Equity markets have massive economic externalities. This is true dimensionalized by mean (valuation) of price levels and variance (of price changes). There is a strong public policy rationale that markets be fundamentally fair, information efficient, and also <accurate> in their moves (ie, such that vol is ~correlated to changes fundamentals, not 'animal spirits', etc). A market with prices subject to random error variables that distort variance (even if mean neutral) is fundamentally <worse> than one without such pricing characteristics, for example.
just tried on snow leopard, not quite 10x but nearly 2x faster, certainly. (admittedly, by firefox checkout is mercurial, and hg locate seems to pass something invalid to xargs half way through, but I guess the first chunk of files are the same.)

Someone commented on the article that this might be caused by missing off the -F flag; I tried this, and -F makes both versions slightly faster again.
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I use an instance of S3itch (https://github.com/roidrage/s3itch) together with the old Skitch client.
Obviously this means, Linux is 10x faster then Mac, ha!

Seriously though, it's really amazing what performance they squeezed of that tool. Always amazing to grep through gigabytes of files in a few seconds.
How would the finances for travels like this work? I'd love to travel after college and take a year off at a time between jobs etc, but just wondering how financially feasible this is. Do you work while travelling? And if so what type of work?
Anecdotally, I find myself now to be lost more often than prior to. Before GPS/Mapping on smartphones became common place, I would acquaint myself very well with where I was going, whereas now I'm much more care free about it--but on the off chance my destination has no signal, or the phone's battery dies on me, I'm much more screwed.
Once I wanted to send a zip file of malicious php files. Google (correctly) identified them as harmful. It wouldn't allow me to send them even though I tried to pack them into zip, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files. In the end I wrote a script that rot13 encoded the files and was able to send the files.

Does google drive impose similar restrictions?
Very cool. Just wanted to mention that we've had the same capability in the Khan Academy CS environment for a few months now:

http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/gear/1178931559

Read John Resig's blog post for more details: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4382076
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They do to a large degree yes. The Google maps add-on SDK for instance isn't available on devices that haven't been blessed by google (and received an official Vending.apk).
This article would make a really nice screencast that would be much more useful to newbie sysadmins.
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We have an entire 2 million GBP VMware estate which I inherited

I agree entirely with this comment. Between lun size limits, license management (which is hell), the general additional work and the fact that the benefits are suspect, I agree.

Processes and multiprogramming were invented to virtualise batch machines. That's as far as it needs to go.

I'm not impressed with the industry trend.
Kind of depends on the use case doesn't it? If you buy new carpet for a house that you are going to own for another five years, sure, step in an oil puddle and walk all over it. But if you have replaced the carpet to sell the house then it might make sense to tread lightly.
I find Nokia-powered maps quite impressive, at least in Germany. Don't know about the quality in the US or Asia.