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Python 3, in 2013, is not lacking in pragmatism. It's not new, or experimental. Someone just learning today is going to have to immediately turn around and relearn things because they started out with an old version.
Bingo. This has been a general trend across all measures; as productivity and technology have made things more efficient and profitable, corporations and their government patsies have had no interest other than lining executive and investor pockets. No lowering of prices, no increasing wages, no improvement of quality of living, no improvement of benefits, no public-good spending, etc. It has all been pure exploitative, carpetbagger type of pilfering of rigged sham markets; pump, dump, and support the fraudulent the price.

Anyone who thinks the American market is a free trade market is abjectly delusional; it's a market of dominant cartels who make mediocre efforts at appearing to provide choice and act competitive just like our inept and antiquated political parties and structure. Collusion has all but removed real choice in all of our markets.
I thought something similar, "None of the photos that would come up for me are as great looking as the ones in this demo."

To be expected, but you're right, it is going to look totally different and spammy in someone's hands.
Fast phones make sure the app works well, for one. It's like putting an app out for iPhone 5 only.
I agree this would be awesome. Google hangouts has a collaborative editor app but, getting everyone set up is a hassle. This app is much easier.
I personally have been waiting for the chance to play with Oblong's g-speak ever sense I learned about it while at Boeing. It will be fun to see what the developer community at large does with it.
Depends on the OS -- Jellybean is different from Ice Cream Sandwich is different from Gingerbread is different from...

If you want something like this on all Android phones, it's more than just making an app to put in the Google Play store -- it's understanding the ins and outs of the different nuances of each OS...
I agree with you. A private editor or the ability to have tabs will be useful. The learning part did cross my mind, but I wanted to focus on a specific use-case instead of diluting the message by pitching it as a general purpose tool.

although it doesn't seem to allow more than two people's cams at once.

More than 2 people works fine for me. Is anyone else facing this issue?
I've been lifting since High School and the best program that I've found is P90X. If you want to start, but you don't understand fitness and/or dieting, it is a great place to start.

If you get bored easily and have finished P90X, then move on to Cross Fit. You can easily substitute workout days that don't require equipment for days that do.

In HS we did a variant of Strong lifts, the core lifts are great if you want to bulk up, but if you just want to get strong and tone, I'd suggest finding something else. I don't like to do the Olympic lifts only. I know you get a lot of muscles from them but I think everyone needs other exercise too (running, pullups, swimming, biking, etc.)
Hey all, Jarrod Nettles here (hayvok - OP).

The original code base was in PHP. Very, very terrible proceduralish PHP. Since we have to continue to maintain the current system while we rewrite we can implement once and port that code (if necessary) to the new system with minimal effort.

Could I switch us to Rails? Yes, but I don't see the point. We're a PHP shop and in my professional opinion (having used both extensively) Symfony 2 is virtually on-par with something like Rails and switching at this stage of the game would be project suicide.

* If you're using Rails, and like it - stick with it.

* If you're using a good PHP framework like Symfony 2 or Zend Framework, and like it - stick with it.

You'll be just as productive and successful either way.
> My friends posting stupid memes on facebook has little bearing to my friendship to them.

Pretty sure you meant to say "My friends on facebook have little bearing to my friendship to them."

Regardless, the rest of that sentence is:

> or if you should begin using the tools FB already provides to control the content in your feed.
is anyone else getting a 404 not found when you click on "PRE-ORDER THE HTC FIRST" at http://facebook.com/home
Does everyone come up with this idea independently, or is someone suggesting it? It's a very common retort to speed-of-light communications, but someone told me about it before I thought of it.

Anyway, your idea wouldn't work. If you press on one end of the stick, it would issue a pressure wave along the length of the stick near the speed of light (depending on its material), so you haven't gained anything.
Reminds me of http://5by5.tv/superhero/8 (audio, 4 minutes)
"Phones are communication devices and we spend all day message, in today’s appcentric world, messaging is treated like another app."

Seems like I'm not the target audience. I've had some form of cell phone for 12 years now, and I always needed the cheapest possible account/prepaid thing, because I don't call/SMS enough. If they gave 1000 SMSes, I guess I had like 990 left at the end of the month.

Until now that is. Now suddenly there is a resource in the cell phone accounts I need lots of: data. Not to message and stuff, but to browse the internet. My most common form of communication on it is on forums and email replies I guess.

So phones got useful for people who don't communicate much over a phone? :)
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only got 300MB of data on my quite expensive plan, so tethering is more like an emergency option :/
While there's nothing wrong with PHP per se, it's not like Python/Django or Ruby/Rails is any less 'tried and proven' tech than PHP/Symphony. I would only through stuff like Node.js into the 'hot new stuff' category.
We disagree on which party is the aggressor, but agree on the rest. As a vim user, I don't think vim is amazing. As a NetBeans user, past Eclipse user, and past Visual Studio user, and sometimes Sublime Text user, I don't think they're amazing either. Though Sublime Text 2 is quite well done.

As a clojure hobbyist, Light Table might one day be amazing. But it's not yet.
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OP made that crystal clear.
Seriously, this feels like people with broadband installing AOL.
Thanks, will add that to my todo list!
I'm a four-space tab person, myself. Two spaces looks like a typo rather than an indent, to me.

At one time there was a movement afoot for some sort flexible tabbing (using actual tabs) but it seems to have died out.
Starting Strength is one of the best books on building strength, written by Mark Rippetoe and Jason Kelly. they propagate (among others exercises): squats, which is a single exercise that trains about 60% of your body.
Does anyone know what the effective bandwidth and latency would be between machines? They talk about thousands of cores a little too casually. I guess they mean unrelated independent instances of some task as opposed to actual parallelism. I am confused as to what market segment they are going for here.
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You can state that something has been taken too far without the expectation that that sentiment will change anything. Those are two separate issues.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to say that the risk/reward ratio here is quite a bit different than many of Anon's previous targets. As much as we deride North Korea's military ability, they still have the potential to inflict a great deal of harm to a large number of people. That risk hasn't really been present to this level in many of the things Anon has been involved in before as far as I know.
For perspective, the target audience often will not even know a person's email address.
I've found the same thing, if you do a repetitive workout for too long you miss a lot of the other muscles that you need to train, so switching it up for a few months or adding complexity to a workout can help boost your gains.
I will share my experience which is very anecdotal. I am not big into stocks etc. but one of the companies I highly admire is MACYS (M). Simply because I am a long time happy customer, their products/service including customer service has been excellent in my experience and they always seem to be doing smart business. Liking the company so much, I bought about 5 stocks back in 2008 (i think!!) for about $20 each. Today, stock is worth $40+. If only I bought a lot more :)

Anyway, i m not expert but it will surely help if you actually understand the company which usually means you are their customer, see how they do business, does it seem like they actually give a damn about their business and how far do they go to retain customers and keep them happy ? For me, those are plus points. The numbers like price, P/E etc. all seem like , well, just numbers to me.
"We love CrossFit. It is great job security." - my physical therapist

edit: my point being that from the PT's POV, the more intense the strength training, the more likely a serious injury will occur during training.
And thank God that Adria Richards didn't work at the company.
I guess you're right, but there's nothing about intents that assumes the homescreen would be replaceable. That the homescreen is launched via intents must have been a conscious design decision, right?
Actually, the stronglifts 5x5 workout is pretty much the same as Mark Rippetoe's program in Starting Strength (squat, deadlift, press one day, squat, bench, clean, back extension the next)

I'm about halfway through the book and I would highly recommend it.
Regardless of your thoughts on the actual Home product, this product page is incredibly well designed and thought out.
I'm really sad about the still-all-too-walled-garden:

The ideas of active information at a glance is cool, but honestly, for it to be really useful for me, I don't want just FB, and definitely not just photos. I'd be happier with some Flipboard-style article previews, and I'd like some of that information to come from Twitter, Reddit/HN, or even (gasp) Google+.

Similarly chatheads are pretty cool, but with my current set of frequent conversation-partners, it wouldn't be all that useful to me without letting google talk/babble into the mix. (though I appreciate they at least included SMS).

I am also REAL concerned about all the content visible on the lock screen: if you misplace your phone, suddenly all your friends' "friends only" posts are "friends + that guy who found/stole my friend's phone".

... and overall I'm just fundamentally torn. On the one hand the whole idea just screams "Digiphrenia". Their own advertisement supported this better than I could articulate. On the other hand, I still fundamentally am excited about the base idea of keeping people actively connected and am pretty onboard for the people-first focus.
This guy is easily impressed. I also get incessant spam from Facebook, it is one-note harrassment. The one variation I have is that it tells me about messages or likes from myself. Facebook is just sleazy and I am waiting for the inevitable backlash.
interesting contrast to the recent HN post about how poor the responders to a 'HN: Who's Hiring' post were.
Why? Honestly asking: what difference does this have on the end result? Now that you know they are using scrypt, how will that impact your actions?

You could say that this has a bearing on whether you continue to use the service, but if that were the case, wouldn't it be better to suggest that all services provide this information up front?
Is there a way to replace chat functionality with, say, images or documents? For instance, a document that the interviewer could show the candidate instead of having to send/email that document over.
I would guess its almost all because of the hormone myostatin. It's a negative growth regulator in muscle (perhaps other tissues as well). Myostatin is precisely why our muscles don't grow wildly out of control, and why it is so hard to grow a significant amount of muscle. Cell growth is tightly controlled by the level of myostatin and the levels of positive growth regulators. I wonder if myostatin or an analogue could have an affect as an anti-cancer compound.
Facebook has always wanted to collect as much personal information from its users as possible. This is a brilliant move to get this data the easiest way possible - they didn't even need create their own phone or even their own OS. Android users - especially teens - will eat this up and FB will instantly be able to gather all the info they want without the target demographic even thinking about the privacy implications.
I didn't get any joy from the link on that page, so here's what appears to be the list of what's in this update. Might save people 5 seconds: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2797912?wa=wsignin1.0
I do think replacing the launcher was a smart idea, but I'm just not sure if that kind of integration is useful in FB's case. Maybe I'm a minority, but I just don't route my life through FB and do not want to, at all. This only seems useful to people who exclusively use their phone for FB. Why would I want a layer of FB between me and the home screen where all my other apps live?

The UI did look pretty slick, though at times it seemed like some elements were quite tiny for touch targets.

Overall: I really loathe the term "chathead"
If you don't getted banned by HN at least once, you aren't trying hard enough
My main HN account just got banned. I was just reloading the new page too frequently to gauge the rate of new submissions (to see if it was a good time to post). The way I see it, entrepreneurship is all about experimentation and learning how to properly utilize the HN community is just another step in this game. Bummed that my high karma account doesn't work anymore, but oh well. To all others who have been banned in pursuit of success, I salute you.
Maybe not the only one, but an RDP remoting compositor was just checked into core and the Wayland devs are evangelizing moving to Wayland+RDP over X or VNC, so the rest of the community will likely follow suit.

Personal rant: Never mind that X11 does the same sorts of pixmap caching that RDP does to get its speed. Never mind that braindead toolkit developers render into offscreen local rectangles, and then transmit the entire rectangles as bitmaps into X, thus using none of this capability, which is why X is observed to be "slow" and "chatty". The conventional wisdom is that RDP is faster than X, so that's what we'll be using.

Meanwhile, Direct3D is quite a bit better than OpenGL, on a number of fronts.
I think that this is a smart move by Facebook building a layer over Android. At least at this stage anyway because, they’ve now positioned themselves in a great position because they’ve made it harder for Google to go back on the openness of Android which has allowed them to build Facebook Home in the first place. Likewise, if carriers and users devote a lot of time to the application then, Facebook have bought themselves time to eventually fork Android and create a new revenue stream like, Amazon have done with the Kindle.
You can keep on shortening the trip by another day, but it requires more energy each day you take off.

At a certain point (somewhere around 5-6 months) it makes more sense to use that energy to give yourself a bigger ship than to take another day off.

(I'm glad to see no one saying any more that the VASIMR could do it in 39 days. That was an annoying distraction.)
San Francisco - full time/onsite (no remote) Backend Server Engineer, reloc offered.

We make freemium iOS games and are located in the SoMa neighborhood.

You'll be doing development in PHP and Python (we would prefer people heavier on the Python side)

You'll be responsible for MySQL database schema design for any features you build

You'll be working with a series of production Redis deployments, and should know when data belong here vs MySQL.

You'll be given a fair amount of work freedom, and be expected to manage yourself. "With great power comes great responsibility" and all that...

You'll be using Git and Github

You'll be reviewing your fellow server engineers' code, and getting your own reviewed on a regular basis

You'll grow incredibly familiar with Amazon Web Services, if you aren't already

You'll be talking about games. A lot. And playing some too, if you like.
Great, now Facebook can serve ads straight to my phone home screen too.
Interesting, I'm not sure what my deal is, maybe it's a firewall here at work. I was able to see the live editing going on in the box but the only cam preview was mine.
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I only want this if Zuck's smiling face is at the bottom center of my phone, all the time.

Still, does Facebook having more integration into every aspect of our digital experience really improve our quality of life? I feel like we are already well into an uncanny valley of Facebook saturation.
(That's a neat idea... their news page images link to a page with a higher res version and the usage restrictions and alternate art sizes.)
Those surprised that Facebook didn't "fork" Android are missing the point: A fork of Android from FB will not probably look like a new OS, but rather a new distribution channel (Play store).

Play is the biggest leverage Google has against OEMs, and FB has to consider that Google could drop any of these apps at a moment's notice (make up a reason).

Here, FB now has a pliant OEM (HTC) and the beginnings of an OEM integration program (it was mentioned in the talk).

How hard would it be for FB to build an app store, as a contingency if nothing else?
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Could Salesforce create a "Chatter Phone" like Facebook?
I'd call the inability for Facebook to usurp control over Apple's vertically integrated platform to be a market advantage, not a liability, as long as too many users don't start clamoring for a facebook-iphone.

[edit] Remember browser toolbars? Now that Facebook is doing this, I expect this is just the beginning.
Myself and some friends built a very similar tool during the LAUNCH hackathon. It's a shared code editor with some github integration for saving your work, and webrtc handling the video chat. Check it out, we'd love some feedback. https://seshcode.com
That begs the question: how does my private key securely get shared between my mac, iPhone, and iPad so that all of my devices can securely read messages delivered to me.
Correct. See the second part of my post.
Depends on what sort of permissions FB asks for on install.

My suspicion is that they'll want everything they can get their hands on (location at a minimum). Eventually, they're going to want to replace your phonebook, etc.

The sad thing is, people will just let them.
Facebook is betting that people don't want to interact with apps but rather with their friends, which is a bet they have to make because, well they're Facebook. This also sounds very good and "human" but I don't know how true to reality it is.

Apps are a way to gauge and guide intent. So if I want to send an email, I open an email app. If I want to check my schedule, I open the calendar app. These are established and agreed upon concepts and apps are just representations of those concepts. With Home, Facebook is saying that every time you turn on your phone "you probably want to see what your friends are up to." This assumes that we're all super social and are genuinely interested in people in our Facebook-lives. I think many people use Facebook out of a sense of obligation to be part of that scene (kind of like LinkedIn). But there probably are a lot of people who instinctively hit that Facebook app as soon as they turn on their phone and for them this will be great. I don't think it will drive more usage from that first group, though (and I think that should be Facebook's primary goal).
I'm teach Python professionally. People come to learn Python so that they can go back and use it at their work place. And almost all Python installations in productions are in Python 2. I'm sure it is going to change soon once Linux distributions make Python 3 their default version.

P.S. I'm the author of Python Primer on pythonmonk.com
Flipboard is certainly welcome to develop that. I'm not sure why Facebook would do it.
Can you list some things that weren't controlled for that you think would lead to both increased one rep max and longer life expectancy?

As Edward Tufte says, "Correlation is not causation but it sure is a hint." That increased strength improves life expectancy should be the null hypothesis. At least at the one end, extreme frailty is a common eye test for poor health. Since this isn't a scientific journal here, but a discussion, I think most of us would agree that stronger people often have more resources to ward off disease, cope with temporary reductions in nutrient bioavailability longer, can defend themselves from threats more easily, and can avoid more dangerous falls by maintaining their center of balance. And that's not a comprehensive list.

Personally, I'm satisfied that increased strength reduces all cause mortality and I believe the link is strong enough to be actionable now. I'm an evangelist for it among my older friends and relatives. One way strength reduces deaths is by preventing common injuries, e.g., falling and breaking a hip. A recent study showed that a simple graded test of sitting on the ground to standing could differentiate mortality risk sharply. While we can't measure how much strength and how many years it adds, not least because that's just a vague question, the link here was almost an order of magnitude from the lowest grade to the highest grade for one repetition of standing from the ground.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57559095/sitting-and-sta...

http://cpr.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/12/10/204748731247...
Private keys, not public; the messages are decryptable by anyone who's been added to the keybag, you've probably seen the pop up notifying you that another device (private keys burnt onto the chipset) is joining the keybag. Once you hit OK Apple pings you with encrypted communications from the other devices (them being the pipe and presumably not in the trust chain, this explains why sometimes it's a little iffy showing cross device messages.)

The protocol hasn't been completely reverse engineered but enough to know it's likely decentralized like this, just MITM it (quite a bit is documented on the wiki I linked), Apple is the CA and the piping but it appears to be rather strong and decentralized in terms of chain-of-trust. Apple has put itself, probably without coincidence, in a position where they may not even be able to execute a court order to spy on a user.

The Apple security white-papers detail their hardware level certificates, I've dealt with this a lot as a Apple MDM developer.
At $99, that's a great offer. I wonder if you can install ICS instead of FB Home.
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It might also be because of the pounding that the server is taking currently, though it seems to be holding up fine. :) If you get a chance, please try some time later and let me know if it works then. Thanks.
A large part of sharing because people want to live vicariously through other people. And sharers know this, and so they help out. That is exactly what it was like for my Europe trip last year - it was a big enough deal to me personally that I wanted to record it as one of the highlights of my life, and I had friends and family that I knew were excited about the trip. So I shared with lots of detail, and they loved it.

I think the sentiment in the article is more one of the side effects when the system gets out of whack magnitude-wise in one direction or another. Perhaps you're (not the poster; anyone) sharing habitually with no intent behind it, or perhaps you're resentful of your friends, or perhaps you haven't challenged yourself recently to go out and do something new or formative.

But when used to share an actual highlight, with people that care about you and are apt to be happy about your highlights, it's a transaction that benefits both sides.