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Broadly agree - not every "Instagram" will say yes to being acquired, and there will definitely be more "Instagrams" (mobile social/communication networks that rapidly grow and get sticky).

That being said, a meaningful portion of the premise is doubtful:

"In order to realize its hundred-billion-dollar dreams, Facebook needs to forever dominate all of the world’s social interactions"

Not really. In order to realize it's hundred-billion-dollar dreams, Facebook needs to figure out
a. how to make more commerce happen (Eg gifts)
b. how to make more ads happen (As they're working on) or
c. how to make a kind of ad that converts at a massively higher rate, (such that ceteris paribus, their ad inventory climbs in value)

Dominating all the worlds social interactions, while a nice goal, is hardly necessary, and if that was the standard Facebook was judging itself against, they're likely being set up to fail fail. For example - email in the work context is a social interaction (and a large and high value one at that). What are the chances those sorts of interactions (Where privacy/security/proprietary data are concerned) ever happen on Facebook?
Not at all, for example, search for "blob" here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4981376

There is one correct use, and three other uses talking about "binary blobs" without a negative connotation.

My opinion is that the layman term got mixed up with the database term and thus we got this mess (should I say blob?)
Absolutely seconded! I love that book so much. I frequently give copies of it as gifts in hopes that people will get half as much joy out of it as I have.

His writing style is just so infectious.
And they tend to shut down their APIs (or even whole projects) just when you start to think they're going to be reliable this time around.
A binary large object, of course.

I expected most people here to know this. I've been proven wrong.
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You can see the 289 completed ones here: http://365supers.blogspot.com/

I can't draw, so this is very cool... but dreaming up superheros seems to be like 20% drawing and 80% persona, so this doesn't seem as cool as I figured it would.
could hurt the brand if it becomes known for letting games wither on the vine just to milk a few dollars.
I live right in downtown Toronto, and frankly I'm terrified out of my mind to try cycling around!
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If you actually go into the lyrics of the song: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39 you'll see he's talking about blobs exactly as binary large objects. He never uses the phrase "binary blob".

He's just talking about of how are blobs in drivers evil for BSD, taking advantage of the evil amoeba concept.
FYI, if you had a road bike you were probably using SH-51 cleats, which only release by twisting the rear ankle laterally. There is another model, SH-56, which can be released in multiple directions, including by yanking straight up; it's primarily meant for mountain biking. If you're really concerned about unclipping, these might be better for you.

Personally, I haven't had any problems with the SH-51 pedals, including city riding (in San Francisco). Part of it is psychological -- when riding slowly, particularly while splitting lanes, it's a little bit nerve racking to be clipped in at first -- but if you compare to toe clips, you'll probably find that you actually don't step off the pedals very frequently. The other aspect is that it's not completely natural to twist your ankle when falling (since normally you'd roll your ankle doing this!), but after a couple of falls or near-falls you'll get used to it and start to do it without thinking. Every once in a blue moon I'll have to stop extremely suddenly, or start to fall (e.g. misclip in while starting uphill), and I'll now turn my ankles without consciously thinking about it. With clipless you'll find that can actually unclip faster/more easily than toe clips since you can push forwards or sideways with your foot while falling, instead of being restricted to pulling back.
Except for those cases where you want counts, only unique/only duplicate, skipping fields, doing case-insensitive duplicate detection, or only comparing a chunk of the line - all but the last two I've used and now that I've found those in the man page (GNU uniq) I can replace some silly shell hacks that I've used over the years. It's like saying that tail is pointless unless you're doing tail -f... you're missing the actual useful functionality due to presuming the tool only does what you've done with it in the past.
if you think poke is google+ you aren't using google+ correctly
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VDS6 (http://vds6.net/) has some very cheap IPv6-only plans. They use BSD Jail for virtualization.
You can get massive endorphin high from cycling hard and up hills. It's really hard to describe unless you've done it. I believe this is the same rush some runners get. Road bikers tend to go for this sort of high, mountain bikers often get in to the downhill. I am a bit weird in that I prefer uphill to down and usually ride a mountain bike.

One thing I would recommend is, once you're out of traffic or are confident of staying on the edge of the road and not being hit by passing traffic, try playing some trance or other high energy music through headphones. You don't need a special iPod or expensive headphones, just a regular smartphone in your pocket (if like me you remain unconvinced about doing the lycra thing) and in-ear headphones threaded through your shirt will do it. This isn't just a random recommendation: by adding high energy music, I find that my subconscious regulation of breathing changes and I am able to more accelerate my metabolism both more quickly and to a further point.

Source: During my first startup in southwest China I used to leave the office about 4 or 5pm and cycle up a Himalayan mountain at high speed before retiring to social drinking. Through the wonders of cycling I managed to lose a lot of weight and maintain high energy despite heavy drinking :) Also used to do whole day group or solo rides on the weekends, sometimes both days, usually with more off-road.

I've also done (usually month long) cycle tours around southwest China, France, Romania, and Taiwan.

A couple of years back, while living in the Hollywood hills of LA for a year, I got a bit in to road biking .. the mountains north of eastern LA are fantastic for weekend rides. Unfortunately I'm living in Bangkok now, no chance to cycle but a huge private pool to enjoy, and plan to hit southwest China on a regular basis to visit the squirrels in my favoured cycling environment: high altitude Himalayan pine forest. Ahh, nature and exercise are so life affirming :)
Those are some good numbers! It's key to have an open mind about learning new things to help improve your business or anything else for that matter.

I think what happens to most people following advice from others is that they are not "dumb enough" to go with it. They just look for reasons on why tactics can't work instead of really giving them a shot.
Speculation is the order of the day here. Maybe you're the one who knows the most on this subject amongst all the folks on Hacker News, and you should just go for it. No one's going to pull Noam Chomsky from the bushes.
Based on my experience with other software I suspect what will happen (if this catches on enough) is:
The early versions will work well when piped together in more or less the intended way (admitly missing the point of the UNIX philosphy).
People will start hacking together other ways of combining the pieces with each other and third party programs, and find certain combinations impossible.
Based on these use cases, the program will be modified and/or new programs will be added to aid in the compatibility that was lacking or overly difficult.
Eventually, new combinations will stop being difficult and people will marvel at how someone figured out how to integrate all the pieces so smoothly and/or marvel at how it was ever thought to be difficult.

Of course, if this project does not get the traction it needs from people willing to contribute (either to the code, with 3rd party scripts/programs, blogposts, ETC), then we will be stuck with programs that do not work well with other programs and turn into Windows. (In fairness to MS, powershell looks like a promising attempt to get a modern UNIX philosophy ecosystem going.)
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I think you are completely missing the point of snapchat. Right now they do have network effect because there is no other way to anonymously send disposable pictures. Everything op is talking about would completely ruin the value of snapchat. You have to look at it more as a product like Kik, BBM or skype, which has none of those terrible features you suggested and look at it as a alternative communication platform.
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I just compiled it on ubuntu 12.04. It wasn't too bad. Although I agree, ppa would be nice
I respect your efforts. It would be great to see a spectrum analysis of all their games in this way, if for nothing more than to show, holistically, how bad of a company Zynga is...

To be fair, I'd like to see the same for the KixEye games as well - as they are making money hand over fist (according to a good friend who works there).
It's interesting how temporary tax cuts always seem to expire, but temporary taxes never seem to.
What a great way to get me closer to the paywall threshold!
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The last time I bought a new car, I used AAA's prenegotiated purchasing service: http://www.aaa.com/AAA_Travel/NewCar/buying_car.htm (this was in california; it doesn't seem to be available everywhere). So I don't have a cool story or any tips, but it was about the least stressful purchase I've ever made and was done pretty quickly.
> People are supposed to be passive and apathetic and doing what they’re told by the responsible people who are in control.

That is the fundamental struggle -- to control the masses. Get them brainwashed, scared, addicted, distracted. One way is to carefully control the information they receive that was very easy up until the Internet showed up. Now it has become a lot harder. China just built up a firewall, here it is a bit more difficult. So it still all has to rely on sophisticated spin and propaganda models.

Take Chomsky for example, most people might not even know who he is. They wouldn't have seen (or at least anything positive about) him on TV or mass media. Chances are they read something about him on the Internet or heard from their friends. Sure there were local activist groups, underground zines, but the cost of spreading information that way was pretty high, now the cost is much lower.

As propaganda and media control was becoming more sophisticated it seemed like nothing could stop it, until the Internet exploded. For example, I haven't went searching for news to any of the popular American news outlets in years. It is funny (or scary) that I trust some silly site like reddit.com to deliver better news than CNN, Fox or other such thing.
Even if government extend this payroll tax cut, your annual raise (if such thing exist where you work) will hardly cover inflation rate (or in my case will be less then inflation rate.) So you are loosing anyway. The only way to keep up - sharp existing skills or get new ones and change jobs.
Or retain secure boot with a method for a knowledgeable user to install an additional trusted master key.
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Push your laces into your shoe and put your sock (a long one!) over your pant leg on the chain side. That'll save you at some point in the future. You got pretty lucky, falls can be quite nasty. Another safety tip: on any turn that is a bit sharper stop pedalling and keep the inner pedal highest. That way you increase ground clearance (pedal strike on ground or kerb becomes next to impossible) where you need it most. And if you're going for a tenspeed style racing bike (or 27 speed these days ;) ) or something like that please don't use toeclips until you're a very confident rider.
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> If you kick out the guys wearing manager hats, take away their manager hats, and give them to guys who used to wear worker hats, then you're left with the same number of manager hats

Maybe the distinction is between ownership and non-ownership and also having the ability to control corporation. Have a say in the future direction and also being compensated proportionally to the total profit made. I think that's the distinction, not as much talking about middle managers per se.
You have sentimental feelings towards bikes shops and feel good about paying full price. I can understand that. But, I don't see why you should criticize leak for not having the same feelings. Lots of people work hard and make less than you do (many car dealers included). It's not the consumers job to worry about whether the other side is making enough profit. Businesses can take care of themselves. Sometimes they won't sell at a low price because they don't want to set a precedent for negotiating. But, often times, it's profit-enhancing to price discriminate a bit and charging the rich guy full price while throwing in some free accessories for the frugal guy. There is not need to guilt trip the frugal guy about it.
yeah, although I bet if you asked Facebook they would have thought a Facebook Connect driven app would have seriously challenged LinkedIn by now, but anyone who tries it fails. I think it's because people don't associate the Facebook brand with their professional identity and thus want to keep separate.
> the marginal cost of shipping a new one is some injection molded plastic and printed cardboard

...times several thousand copies if it's going to be worth firing up the presses and machines.
Not any more, but in years past that was the exact reason to go work for a large corporate.
great points. I can't put myself inside the heads of FB execs, but I always got the sense there was a notion of "we will be the largest graph and anyone who wants their product to be social, will see the value to build on top of our graph."
Ask HN: Is Quora's Semi-closed model working
I know its been a long time since they made this change. But opening Quora at work(where Facebook/Twitter is banned for obvious reasons) is plain irritating to say the least.

Is their "login to read the answers" model working out for them.
I am not really sure what do they gain from restricting users, any pointers?
My initial reaction was to upvote @eccp, based on my experience with leiningen the first time round. Long story short: went around in circles following outdated (but seemingly comprehensive) guides that twisted my mind with hopeless combinations of Ant, Maven, Leiningen, emacs, slime and swank, among others. Basically gave up after a while, but was fortunate to get some encouragement here on HN, and went back in with just leiningen and emacs. I recall that was just the right mix, and as you say, lein repl pretty much brought the ocean to me.
That's just great news.
You can curb-hop without destroying the wheels but you'll likely mess up often enough that practising that is best done on a very old bike.

Obviously hopping 'down' is no problem at all, hopping up the front wheel is easy (just pull up on the handlebars as you approach the kerb, shift weight backwards and push on the top pedal, then drop the front wheel which should have come off the ground by now on the kerb so it never sees the step and make the drop gentle). You can practice that just fine without a kerb. The rear wheel part of the gentle kerb hop is the tricky bit, I can do it with my eyes closed but describing it is a lot harder. The basic idea is to move your cog forward quickly while at the same time squeezing on the pedals inward. That way you can lift the rear end of the bike onto the kerb. If you flex your knees a bit then you can do this even onto substantial kerb heights.

Once you've mastered that hopping down is mostly the reverse to spare the wheel from impacting too hard at the end of the drop. If you're really good you can do this at speed without any noticeable bounce. I'd hate to do this with my 120kg fully loaded 3 people bike ;)
So far, for me, this is the most compelling reasoning. In theory to incur an opportunity cost you have to be constrained in some way, clearly Zynga isn't constrained in adding hardware or people (they are laying off in this case) but I can see how the customer's attention span is a constraint. If they have a fixed amount of game time then you're competing for your place in that time slot.
Add to this temporary spending programs. GWBush's last year added ~$1 trillion in "emergency" spending, growing federal spending by an astounding ~50%, and SOMEHOW four years later it's turned into entitlements and the like, part of the permanent spending baseline.

(This is the same baseline-based math which calls a reduction in the rate of spending growth some sort or another of a "devastating cut", naturally, though you'll see more ostentatious examples of this rhetoric with California's recent education-policy games than you will at the national level.)
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So? They dit it because they rather not have a Republican president. Voting is about getting the lesser of two evils.
From my experience, stock options are priced based on start date(correct me if this is not standard). While the price changes less frequently for private stocks compared to public stocks, they still change (Typically through investment events as you mentioned). Thus, if this particular startup raised a seed round in the coming months, then the value of the stock options would not rise as op mentioned - "The option % they've offered me would only rise in value" - since the pricing of the stock options would be different.
My personal favourite cycling site:

http://www.adventuresofgreg.com/HPVMain.html

My #2 is already mentioned elsewhere (Sheldon Brown).
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The overuse of open-source is really starting to annoy me. It's not an 'open source specification', it's an open specification. Facebook didn't open-source a data centre, they published a couple of white-papers. Open source actually means something relatively important, unless you are publishing your source code under a permissive license, it isn't open source.
> Concern over these tax hikes are already holding shoppers back.

> During the holiday shopping season, between Oct. 30 to Dec. 24, shoppers spent just 0.7% more than they did last year, according to a MasterCard Advistors SpendingPulse report released last week.

Has anyone stopped to consider that maybe we should stop wasting so much money during the holiday season? I thought that Christmas was supposed to be about spending time with loved ones, not about blowing thousands of dollars on unnecessary gifts. All the consumerization of the holiday season does now is funnel more money to Chinese factories. Only a fraction of the revenue goes to retail workers in America.

Ideally, that extra payroll tax money would be used for constructive purposes, such as rebuilding badly worn-out infrastructure, which could also put countless unskilled laborers in America back to work. But we all know it'll most likely be wasted on killing more Arabs or on corporate welfare, thanks to constant lobbying and large campaign donations from big business and the military-industrial complex.
Wasn't the 2% tax cut on the side the employer pays? That means if you paycheck goes down because of it, your employer is pretty much a jerk.
Wait, so if your universe is ["Coke", "Pepsi", "Sprite"], then this library will tell you which one the user spoke?

Just being clear, it wouldn't take you from a bucket of raw sound samples to a string like "I'd like a Coke, please" ?
I hate clips with a passion in city traffic. Split seconds matter and the time you need to unclip could easily be the difference between ending up in hospital or not having a scratch. For open road use they're fine but in traffic I see no upside, you're on and off all the time anyway due to traffic lights, pedestrians, people opening their doors and so on.
The only way I see it happening is if the content providers decide to do a preemptive move and base their own STBs on top of some Intel platform. But it will not be an Intel STB nor will it be marketed as such.
> I don't even trust democracy in politics all that much

Alright, but what do you trust then?

A dictatorship is much better as long as the dictator happens to share the values and vision as you personally.
I thought the state of the art for large storage arrays like this was still install-and-abandon, where once the units entered into production they were never touched because physical maintenance had a tendency to cause more failures than it fixed. Dead drives get left in place until the whole thing is either too obsolete or has too many failures to justify its floorspace, then the whole thing gets decomissioned at once.

On a system like that, what would be the point of a fancy hot-swap rack? Do modern large storage arrays do constant maintenance of failed or failing drives? Or does Facebook use hotswapping for something else?
I bet we've only seen a small fraction of all the cases. As long as they can keep doing it without "too many" people knowing, they're fine.
Still, it'd be a good idea to tunnel it through an outbound SSH connection (which is generally the preferred method of starting up the X client app in the first place).
Nope, it was only on the employee side of the tax.
>Alright, but what do you trust then?

Federalized constitutional republics seem to work well. True meritocracy in governance would interest me.
It's actually the thin end of the wedge for cutting social security entirely, in my opinion. Once people are comfortable with the concept of 'adjusting' social security for 'emergencies', it becomes more palatable to overhaul it entirely.
After 3 years of having startup ideas, I finally committed and built a product (with a couple of great friends) that's ready to launch! I'm not sure when we can truly call ourselves a startup (when we exit private beta? When we incorporate? When we get funding?), but I made huge steps towards that this year and it feels awesome!
> But, I don't see why you should criticize leak for not having the same feelings.

I'm fine with his haggling. My time and the way I'm perceived by the store owners of the places where I shop is worth more to me than I could ever gain by haggling over the price of a bike. Leak and I are in that sense not in the same position. I also think that if I want to keep that store in business by the time some warranty issue rolls around that I probably will have to let them earn some money. (the dutch word for that particular feeling is 'gunnen', this doesn't happen often but I haven't a clue what the proper English translation is).

He gets to do it his way and I do it in mine. Any guilt complexes are on account of their respective owners.
I have the same frustration with the Scala koans (having had my expectations set by the Ruby koans).
It's the spending stupid. Even with tax rates going up and the cuts going into effect, we still spend more than we take in. Cut defense 100% and tax the rich at 100%, we still are not at a balanced budget. The federal government does not have an income problem, it has a spending problem.
I don't work in HR so I'm not familiar with how companies deal with this, but I would be surprised if it doesn't hit your paycheck somehow -- directly deducting it from your current pay may be less likely than factoring the added cost into funds available for annual raises.
hi aya72,

it's a private by default, if you don't share the resource (photo, album, think) to friend, friends or close friends, they will NOT know it is there.

yes, you could host social network in your own server

message is encrypted.

There's api to connect to this social network from another application. But it's not public yet.