skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I say that because they talk about game-based workloads... I'd assume that only a limited number of events are persisted indefinitely (and/or need to be atomic).
I know you can't impress all 175 bagillion people on facebook, but I am seriously stunned by information overload.

Their new design is practical and reflects the direction they've been hinting, so I'm not surprised.

It reminds me of Twitter, except with two additional sidebars of information.

The font size on my wall is incredibly large. I feel like I'm 85 years old.
On the other hand, computer hardware has also gotten drastically cheaper. How much did one of those Burroughs B5000 systems cost? Tens of thousands of dollars? (Hundreds?) I expect that spending that much on modern hardware and clustering it together would come quite a bit closer to what Moore's law would suggest.

Not everything can just be made parallel at the drop of a hat, of course, and the architecture itself is probably partially to blame for the difference, but there are also other major differences.
haha wow. I feel like that just nullifies my comment below (well, maybe just part of it).
I see what you mean. However, there's more than one purpose for a blog, and more than one approach to getting visitors - even from a start-up perspective.

To give you a very immediate example, my latest article on danieltenner.com is exactly as you describe - hindsight, cool, methodical (I like to think it's not overly sterile, but that's just me). Yet it gathered about 45k visitors so far (with more to come, no doubt.. even today it still got about 2000 visitors) and sent about 700 click-throughs to woobius.com through the front page on the day of publication.

I'd call it a very successful blog post in terms of promoting my business, even though it was not about my business and it was not even on my business blog (http://www.woobius.com/scribbles).

Other articles on Scribbles itself got thousands of visits and also sent hundreds of hits to Woobius.

Moreover, because those posts provide lasting value (precisely because they are not immediate), they tend to get linked by others, gain pagerank, and appear in google searches (an article I wrote about document control is getting a handful of hits from people looking for document control tools every day).

So, while I don't disagree that the "immediate" style can work very well, because it can be quite entertaining to many people and so they'll follow it. However, I don't think it's right to discard the "slow hindsight" style, because it can also work extremely well.

I think that would be my main disagreement with your article.

Btw, I agree that you should have left out the bit about political diaries.. it was more a distraction than anything else.

Keep it up, though, looking forward to more articles :-)
I think you hit on the things that struck me too.

Actually analysing it there is now less info above the fold but it feels like a hell of a lot more.

Whats with the icons on the right column? That's basic readability rules broken there (people dont "read" icons so they are a bit worthless as an exlanation of the content).

Im not totally sure I'd agree it's functional

Also just noticed the "Connect with friends" section got bumped to the bottom of the right column. Who scrolls that far? Surely that is one of the biggest ways for them to get new users (via invites) and they have basically rendered it ineffective :P
There's nothing intellectually stimulating about this post. It's standard political intrigue.
well, my old link collection for oz is a little out of date but there should be some academic mention in the http://www.cpaior.org/ conferences series.
(I used mozart-oz to create some hybrid algorithms back in the days but I didn't do it in the academic field but used it in commercial applications that I no longer are involved in)

Christian Schulte,http://web.it.kth.se/~cschulte/papers.html, wrote a book or collection of papers "Programming Constraint Services" that really what I can recall was using mozart-oz.

As you can see I only reference mozart-oz in the context of CP-AI-OR but 2000-2004 I used it more or less weekly to do all kind of "normal" programming (whatever that is;)).

This will give some more odd results
http://www.google.se/search?q=round+robin+scheduling+mozart
The good publications work very hard to firewall content production and ad sales. Having watched this process in a few "good publications", I think it can work pretty well.
Thanks swombat. I think we agree - it was simply my implication that this was "The one way". I'll be careful about that.
Ask HN: Why isn't Cramer being prosecuted? Didn't he claim to break the law on TV?
Are there any legal or financial experts out there who can shed some light on this?

I sort of expect people who admit to crimes in interviews to at least be investigated, if not prosecuted.

It seems doubly worse that he is encouraging people to copy his crime as well.
Though I understand the motivation, it's sad to see another angel closing up shop, especially now. We need all of them we can get.
My main point was not really this particular device, but parallel SSD's in general. It's changing the way we think about persistent storage for write-often data.
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Well sort of - the Burroughs instruction set was designed with specific high-level languages/constructs in mind.
I received this from Hadi Partovi, iLike founder...
This advice is great for tempering the more unsophisticated "release early, release often".

Joel makes similar points eloquently in "Good Software Takes Ten Years": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html
It's still missing a method to hide an entry that you no longer feel like having on your feed without explicitly removing that user from the feed.
Sounds like sleep.fm is obsessively monitoring their brand on Twitter.
Whoa, Twitter Mania
Well, there are a few simple fixes that wouldn't have cost much at all but would've significantly improved the security of the vault:

1 - The magnetic plate sensors should NOT be accessible while the vault is closed. There is no reason why this should have been mounted outside the vault instead of inside.

2 - All sensors in the vault were tied to a single circuit . Shorting just two wires was enough to take every single sensor in the room offline. That's ridiculous.

3 - You shouldn't have a simple "break circuit if alarm tripped" design at all. You have a full-blown sensor package mounted on a wall in a secure vault, is it too much to ask that the sensor respond to pings? This is a fairly minimal cost (+$100 per sensor, maybe?) that would also make it impossible to short the sensor circuit or otherwise take a sensor offline without somebody realizing.
with 250mg bonus

I think that's supposed to be a 250 megabyte bonus, not a 250 milligram bonus.
More than twitter, isn't the interface (and whole paradigm) much more along the lines of friendfeed?

Personally, I feel like it's a step back. I quite liked the old UI, and maybe this one will just take some getting used to but I can't help but feel that this one seems too noisy. There seems to be an awful lot shouting for attention. The big repeating profile pics next to every item don't help much either.

Is the 'like' option new? What does it do? Social voting to bring weight more interesting content and make it stickier?
Check out my visual programming approach to teaching binary search tree algorithms:

http://opsis.sourceforge.net/quals/project.pdf
like came a few days ago (seperately). That was a pure friendfeed clone (and feels clunky to say the least).
some of those "lost" example tweets are 'lost' as in 'lost my job' :(
I've heard of people getting "cease and desist" _letters_ (i.e., from the competitor's lawyer) for this behavior, but never an actual C&D order, which is a court order.

The general approach seems to be, unless the trademark holder specifically complains, you can place ads on their keywords, and even use their trademark in your ad, as long as you're not pretending to be them. "We're better than X", for example. And if the trademark holder does take issue with it, they're at least as likely to take it up with Google as they are to take it to court.
The wisdom of crowds and the importance of diversity.
that was the product launch, and this is the media launch then
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"How do I find see my events page?" This is the first page that I couldn't get to (without using the search at least).

Hitting the events button in the filter doesn't actually show all of your events, or especially what's going on today.

The site also feels bloated. The front page of newyorktimes.com has arguably more information, but lacks this bloated feeling.
So, thinking about the "standard" MySQL scale-out approach of master/slave coupled with memcached, what's the new best practice if you have a stack of iodrives sitting around?
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I got on the highscore list for garbage, so it seems to be working.
I can't speak to the specific claims the linked article makes, but if you watch the Daily Show interview it's pretty clear that Cramer is at best an asshat[1].

Specific to the headline, Cramer (in clips shown on the show) talks about how easy it is to spread Apple rumors leading up to MacWorld because "the people who write about Apple want that story" and "you can claim that it's credible (...) because Apple wont' comment" (to deny it).

[1] Name calling, perhaps, but it's short hand for saying "an irresponsible person who spews nonsense for the sake of viewers, which would generally be expected except that he is TELLING PEOPLE WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR MONEY, which makes it abhorrent".
It matters when the person doing it makes a living telling people what to do with their money.
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That's awesome. It would be great if you can display the webcam from the front to achieve some faux logo transparency.
or better yet, apply some of the iChat blue-screen magic to show an altered version of what the webcam displays.

All in all it seems like a lot of effort for little gain, but it's entertaining all the same.
I've always been a fan of launching early. Until now.

A few months ago, I launched my pet project to the public, with some nice publicity on websites like TechCrunch, but it was incredibly difficult to capitalize on the benefits of launching a premature product.

I thought it was successful. (it was certainly better than not doing a marketing launch at all)... but this didn't take into account the fact that it would have been significantly better if we had launched with good timing and with a better tested product.

I'll know for next time :)
To break the law, he would have to intentionally "talk down" a company, right around an important event for that company, like an IPO or an acquisition or a major product release. It is hard to prove intent. I could say "ACME sucks" because I honestly believe ACME sucks, or I could say they suck because I want to short their price. It is tricky business. Who is to say he broke the law if in fact he talked down a company? Maybe he was just giving his honest opinion and was not trying to trade in the stock himself. Intent is always a tricky thing, especially when it comes to securities fraud issues. (Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, the above are just my gut thoughts!)
Interesting side note: I noticed that while Firefox could parse the obscured paths and files on the status bar, Chrome merrily deciphered the entirely of any of the obfuscated URLs if I hovered the cursor over one.
Not sure yet. I need a couple of days to really tell. Change is hard - but sometimes change is good.
he was heavily investigated and subpoena'd by the SEC.
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94 followers for sleepfm.

I believe that the more important statistic is not the number of direct searches through Summize but the number of tweets mentioning sleepfm (and in that, 'iPhone' would always be in the top 10 - and, unfortunately, 'sleepfm' does not rate in the Twitter zeitgeist). Good attempt for PR but it was based on a flawed statistical foundation.

http://hashtags.org/
http://hashtags.org/search?query=sleepfm&submit=Search
Your comment is eerily similar to Yegge's complaint about Reddit.
What did you launch?
I'm talking about the interview, where he specifically said (and I paraphrase) "fomenting is against the law, but I did it anyways because the SEC is clueless."

That was just one of a couple of crimes he admitted too, and I cite this one because he specifically said "I committed a crime."

What more do you need?
As long as it is mild and transparent I don't mind it. I don't know about the oil industry, but I do know if there is a group reporting to congress on Healthcare I would prefer it to be primary care doctors and hospitalists. I definately want the right people to speak and have a stake in the industry.

Here is a Q&A with someone who has a stake which I begrudge with some commentary from some doctors, read the comments.
http://histalk2.com/2009/02/05/histalk-interviews-glen-tullm...

LadyGreen sounds like a shill.
Can someone who is good with greasemonkey please hide the very right hand column, and perhaps expand the middle one

;)

I have to get back to work, but if someone else manages to do it I will gladly tweet and update my facebook and spread the word =P
Well, I think you're probably solving a different problem with the master/slave. If you're scaling out and caching because you're CPU limited then nothing changes. If you're scaling out because your disks can't keep up with the parallel read/write traffic then I'm thinking you can drop the cache and master/slave in many cases (unless you want the hot server for HA).
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This is so utterly irrelevant. Once again, with an ominous title and tons of upvotes, I am baited into checking out what turns out to be nothing more than a pundit war. Thanks, guys!
I think you hit the nail on the head. This is a good move because TC seems to be his bread and butter.
You have it good. I have a salary freeze and a pay cut!
Every new release getting better, faster, more usable; growing market-share faster all the time...
I'm a Mac user (for now) and this scares me. I mean, statistically -- how long can such a thing be maintained? What goes up must, must come down, at some point.

P.S. Enjoy your new computing preference, David. You're in good company.
The other thing to consider is the power consumption on the X25-E RAID vs. the ioDrive. I'm not sure which is better, though I would guess the ioDrive. Someone care to look it up? ;)
Not to scope-creep but:

Have you thought about virtual Twitter follower groups (e.g. groups of people you don't actually follow but still like to overhear and/or summize search terms actings as groups)?

Also, have you considered implementing visualizations like these:
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeo...
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You also get a bonus 50GB for a small $10/mo donation. That is a 200x improvement over cobbling invitations between your friends and email aliases, and it directly funds the people who build and operate the service you enjoy.
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Here's the full clip that the Daily Show samples from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfWSRuNm6do

It's not clear whether Cramer's saying he's done these sorts of thing, or just would do, but either way, pretty rough.
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I wish there was a way to decrease font size and the use of http://www.facebook.com/images/ui/UIRoundedImage.png for the rounded corners is just superfluous.

That said, it's interesting to see everyone in the firehose. And the additional ad units aren't particularly obvious. I credit them - they're clearly trying to up engagement (a user benefit), not try to stuff advertising units on the page, which was my concern.
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You're definitely right. I'm not so familiar with Canvas at all, so I assumed that since it didn't render, it wasn't supported. My main point was about the graceful degradation.
Great interview. The page formatting was off, but the interviewer asked some interesting questions which go beyond the usual contemporary Java/Web material.
They need an API that is as open as Twitter's if they are trying to compete for realtime brain dumps.
I'm curious about that other mild jump in search volume for 'pi' around August every year. School kids?
They've allowed you to filter down to the feeds of friends on lists, and to set a filter as your default view. I like this a lot.

The big win for me is being able to do more from the first page rather than having to go to my profile to post a link.

They could compress the information a lot more, though; I agree heartily with that.
If Apple's proprietary tendencies ever catch up to it, at least we'll have something guaranteed to be free (Linux) and of continually-increasing quality. Despite Apple's flaws though, it still makes great software thus far.
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Why did Facebook do this? One word: retention.

Making it so that every time you reload Facebook you get new, fresh information should increase the frequency with which people return.

Facebook has been following (and sometimes leading) this trend for a while. Pre-newsfeed how often did you check Facebook? Pre-v2-homepage? Pre-current homepage?

They're trying to turn everyone into hardcore, super-engaged users.

Agree, disagree, thoughts?
AFAIK, there's no filter. Before they tried to surface "relevant" stories, so you could give them feedback (more from Nicole, fewer posted items, etc.)

Now they just surface EVERY story, like Twitter or FriendFeed.
Do you actually like programming?  Or is it just a means to an end for you?
I find it bizarre that people would find implementation inherently interesting. That would be like finding penmanship or grammar inherently interesting.

I predict that in a few decades people will look back in bewilderment at today's computer science with its focus on implementation.

And btw, it's also surprising when people are upset that few women major in CS. The problem is that the field isn't interesting in its current form. Perhaps one should complain more about men who like the field as is and want to preserve the status quo!
Evidence. If he goes on trial he could plead the fifth and prosecutor will need evidence to corroborate whether he actually did what he said.
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With the new design, I have no idea what I'm missing, and that's the problem. It feels like there is tons of stuff there, but at the same time, it doesn't feel like I'm getting what I need. One person mentioned events, and that's one of the things that's missing, but there is more.

I don't think this new design entices you to venture on to your friends or groups. Where do I go if I want to send a message (not status)? What about posting a link?
Again, i'm sure there's more.

Facebook needs to understand they have great value without twitter. The feed is a great thing, but not everything.
people who obtain power can convince themselves that the very rules they create and enforce don’t apply to them.

Hehe that is so ironic coming from Arrington !!
Not that it makes much of a difference, but it looks like the price will be $0.22/GB outgoing, not $0.20/GB. I'd edit my post, but I guess it's been too long (the edit link has disappeared).
"like" actually appeared a few weeks ago.
Sweet! My first thought was actually, "This would be much more effective as a plug-in; I never use bookmarks to navigate."

I appreciate your contribution.
As a hardcore, super-engaged user (something of an experiment for me) I disagree. Well, I disagree that this move is successful anyway. We get more Twitter-style but less of what differentiated Facebook from Twitter. The stuff is still there, just hidden which I feel disengages me. Why would I post a link if less people see it?

I know they will tweak things as time goes on so I'm not too disheartened.
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There's also the 'show hidden posts' link at the bottom of the Facebook homepage, which has been a FriendFeed feature for quite some time now.
There are sins of commission and sins of omission; for instance, TC doesn't seem to have done any reporting on Mahalo's secret botnet herder admin (a major story in every other news outlet), and on the flip side hasn't corrected egregriously unfounded rumors about Last.fm.

A pox on all their houses.
That depends on whether you think bloggers are, in the long term, journalists. It's fine if you don't think they are, but then you'd better pay up your newspaper subscription.
But 12 people you refer (for a maximum +3GB you can get through referrals) would potentially increase their income by a larger margin! ;)

I'm waiting for some intermediate plans like 10GB, really, as 50 is way too much traffic to be synced to new machines often.
Strong disagree. I'm not entirely sure why people care what Dave Winer thinks, but Arrington wields a lot of influence, and everyone who plays ball with him increases TechCrunch's importance.
Are they really up for finding out why Ruby on Rails(or Django) may be better in their case? Do they have the stomach to sit through a technical presentation highlighting why newer, faster way of doing things might be better for them?? I saw this video recently and let them have a look at it. What is it? Its the presentation explaning the reasons why YellowPages.com got rewritten in Rails. Here's the link: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/straw-yellowpages
Plenty of people do find penmanship or grammar interesting! Personally I love programming. I love being able to solve problems in elegant ways and find immense satisfaction in refactoring old and smelly code.

The problem is really that the field isn't interesting in its current form. That is just your opinion. Just as I'm sure there are things you find highly interesting that I wouldn't. There are plenty of blog posts submitted every day that show a real passion and love for the subject of computer programming.

Computer programming is what drives the world we live in today. How could you not find that interesting?
Despite some cutbacks, IBM and HP still do a significant amount of basic scientific research. Look at recent patent filings and journal publications for evidence.

Large technology companies have increasingly outsourced innovative product development to small start-ups. It turns out this delivers better ROI since even though acquiring a successful start-up is expensive, there is much less risk. Cisco in particular has been consistent and open about following this strategy. They have partially funded several networking start-ups, encouraged key Cisco staff to join them, and then purchased the ones the succeeded.
Being an iPhone application partially solves the selling part of the equation. You still need to market and have a good product, but sales and delivery is done for you, at the cost of 30% revenue and somewhat unpredictable release schedules.

Interesting. A web based application doesn't need delivery, but I wonder what kind of marketing you could get by leveraging the app store to market your product, but actually deploy it on the web. In other words, put a simple app on the app store that is merely a shortcut to spawning the web browser and taking you to your page. Could be free or paid, depending on how people respond to it. You could do more frequent updates too, without having to go through the app store, since it is web based. Do any apps do this currently?