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The important customers are always the ones who pay the bills, in this case that'd be the advertisers, not the users.

I think that is the fundamental point about Facebook's business model. The Facebook view is that the customers of Facebook are

a) advertisers,

b) third-party application developers,

and

c) whoever else has corporate-size bankrolls to fund Facebook.

Regular users are mere eyeballs to count to draw in the actual customers to Facebook. It has been an interesting free ride to be on Facebook, and I DO spend a lot of time there recently since I figured out how to use posted links to stimulate interesting conversations among my varied circles of friends who have never met one another. But I don't see how Facebook can be profitable in the genuine, investor-satisfying meaning of "profitable" without becoming very annoying to most users. Good luck to anyone who can succeed in providing Facebook-level service and making an honest day's wage, but so far the model is still not making sense.
I did exactly the same thing. Why, with just a few dozen hours of hard work, I could probably slice 10% off my $150 a month server bill! And it would make pretty graphs and take cool algorithms and be so much cooler than A/B testing button colors even if that would be about 20 times more effective per unit of effort.

My job as a business owner is to ruthlessly soulcrush the engineer in me some days.
Well, I think I'm starting to understand your take on the subject. Thank you for putting in the effort to explain it (where I agree or not).

It seems like the issue is whether the case of D not being a subset of T is "interesting" or not.

I think Manin has a point in sense that if we know that D is not a subset of T, then we are in a rather pathological case.

But I can see your point in the sense that if it's impossible to prove within an axiomatic system that the system itself is inconsistent, then one has to keep a situation like D not being a subset of T in mind.

It's very roughly speaking, the computational versus the syntactic view of logic...
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The one person who definitely should be hired from Stackoverflow Careers is the one who teaches Jeff how to make back-ups and check that back-ups have been made properly.
I suspect that reducing our emissions is actually not just cheap but cost negative. You invest in energy saving infrastructure, like insulation, solar hot water, public transport, more efficient appliances, lights, cars etc.

Increase the usage of renewable resources, like solar, hydro and wind.

And do R&D.

Just wait for the next down turn and instead of cutting interest rates have the plans ready to do the investment. We probably have 4 to 10 years to do some good planning.
By design, i guess it's just not encouraged. Frankly I just don't want to say no to people. And facebook is designed so that it's easy to find people you know, even remotely. I need a passive system that fits my needs.

Plus there are other ways I keep in touch with my closer circle of friends: instant messaging.

The other benefit with that is that when I say something, it isn't pushed to everyone else. Even if I delete friends, conversations will still be open.
By the way our business model is Saas.
Dude, there's no formal version "the liar's paradox". Back to base camp...
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I often find the most interesting cmments are posted by the author of the original post. Could HN highlight the author's comments with some type of symbol (green asterisk?)
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> I imagine he focuses on the actual movement of malaria because he is a medical entomologist and didn't want to make claims he was uncertain of

Which didn't stop him from making claims that his nomination to the IPCC would have been blocked by other countries and insinuating that some conspiracy caused his nomination to be mysteriously lost. Honestly, I was a lot more sympathetic to his arguments until I got to that part of the article.
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Interesting idea. I could imagine whole environments of development stacks being defined: e.g. a Rails 2.3.5 production stack, or a Django stack, or a Clojure webdev/ data mining stack, and all according to exact version numbers.

I could see that for Big Ticket projects such as Rails/ Clojure/ Django etc. people would maintain an up-to-date 'semver' database.

The only thing is that the name 'semantic' is not really a winner (it sets people on edge). Maybe something else will survive in the end, unless people are comfortable enough with the pragmatic value of the idea and will look past the name.
func main()
{

is read as:

func main();
{

due to the new semicolon-inserting lexer rules. If you use the gofmt style, you won't notice this breaking change.
Definitely agreed. It's progress for sure and you can't hand out $1,000 laptops. My point is more about people being complacent with "Good enough" and it being okay to give the 3rd world something that was fine 10 years ago. They're less behind, but we're still complacent with leaving them behind. It's like giving a homeless man a piece of bread. Why not try to give them a full meal? I'd love to see a concerted effort from a bunch of smart people to make a device that actually got the 3rd world on a level that they can do some of the important things we can with a computer TODAY. I know this sounds crazy and maybe irrational, but that's usually how disruptive things get started.
I bet it was in the last place they looked.
This is admittedly a tough one for me, because it brings it down to a choice between two things I'm not comfortable with:

- Corporate invasion of personal privacy

- Limiting a person's ability to choose to do things which I (or the government) think they shouldn't

My first swing at it was that I thought, "Ok, when the legal system much choose one side to protect, perhaps it should default to the weaker side; the side which is least likely to be under duress". But that's just sweet sounding bullshit that was a fancy way of saying, "As long as the weaker party actually wants what I would."

The best I can come up with, and this is oh-so-typically-German, is to say, "Ok, Apple still can't invade their privacy. But I'm fine with ratcheting up the legal repercussions of violating the trust of the employer."

In other words, I'd be fine if more things were promoted up from the level of contract violations and moved closer to the penalties for industrial espionage in an effort to provide a stronger legal deterrent for information leakage, and also to bring in a third-party arbiter (the courts) to decide when, as in any legal proceeding, additional search and seizure is warranted by just cause. (See, I knew I could work in the Fourth Amendment somehow.)

As noted, that is a typically German jurisprudential notion, and I did have to think it through some. (The question really for me is: did I end up here because I think this way? Or do I think this way because I ended up here? :-) )
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Interesting. Out of curiosity, do you (the user) notice a difference in the UI or call quality when it makes the call over data/voip vs as a regular wireless call?

(on the blackberry google voice app it only supports regular calls, which are all done with forwarding, callbacks, etc.)
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There's an old Irish saying.

You have only two things to worry about: either you're healthy or you're sick. If you're healthy, you have nothing to worry about. If you're sick, you have only two things to worry about: either you're going to get better or you're going to die. If you get better, you have nothing to worry about. If you die, you have only two things to worry about: either you're going to heaven or you're going to hell. If you go to heaven, you have nothing to worry about. If you got to hell, you'll be so busy greeting old friends you won't have time to worry.

Bonus points for expressing this saying in the most concise pseudocode.
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argh. how does one delete comments? i refreshed by accident :(
for a PC switching power converters, such as in this article?

sooo...where are you buying these mystical 2200uF ceramic caps? :)
I'm a big fan of this essay. I wrote a blog post about how After the Deadline (a proofreading software service) relates to the rules George Orwell talks about.

http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2009/12/16/george-orwell-an...
Well, I don't believe companies are more important than people, and I do think companies should be able to monitor their own computers, and yet somehow I continue to exist.
> do Children really browse CP sites?

I registered this one-off account to respond to this point: yes, they do. Or rather, I did, so there exists at least one :)

When I was 11, even 18-year-olds tended to look ridiculously alien, anatomically, and were not something I would really consider myself aroused by. Instead, I tried to find porn of girls closer to my age, preferably ones I could fantasize were classmates or somesuch. I was much too introverted to strike up a conversation in a chat room; I just browsed websites until some random server somewhere transmitted the bits I wanted to see.

Totally agree that it won't impact abuse, though—the Australians seem to have never heard of Tor.
Although they shouldn't be emailing you your username and password, there are plenty of 2-way encryption schemes out there. (AES128, blowfish,...)...so it might not be sitting in the db in plaintext.
How did they fix a hardware failure in 4 hours?

Telekinesis? Teleportation?

Is there something I'm not understanding?
> But the costs of prevention are 100% real and enormous.

We don't know everything about climate. But we also don't know the return on investment for R&D in generation and consumption of power.

Are you so sure that buying hybrid cars instead of F100's, insulating some buildings, and converting some power station
to combined cycle would be an enormous cost?

> AGW is not currently acute[2]. I choose to believe that in a hypothetical (and vanishingly unlikely) case where it becomes acute, humans would weather it.

Perhaps. Perhaps I would weather it, and so would you. Some future two year old in Bangladesh maybe not. On the other hand lots of them don't weather their first 5 years of life anyway, so we don't value those humans much. Why start now?

> Your opinion on AGW policy comes down to something entire aside from the science, namely, your moral view of, and problem-solving assumptions about, humankind as a whole.

Totally true, although we generally argue as though we care about human lives.
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This is brilliant. I am pretty sure I read it before, but I do not mind rereading it.

It would be interesting to think about present political discourse and try to find the words that were created solely to avoid saying the truth.

One thing that surprised me is that some of the words he criticised as unnecessary foreign words, seemed completely and utterly English to me. For example, I did not know these words were foreign: "expedite, ameliorate, predict, extraneous, deracinated, clandestine." I guess Orwell really lost that battle.
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A possible answer to the question: "Why wasn't Apple founded in Germany?"
Epicureanism and Stoicism are a lot more similar than most people think.

An example from Epicurus:

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches
but take away from his desires.

And one from Epictetus, a stoic:

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's
desires, but by the removal of desire.

There are differences, of course, but epicurianism is a lot less, well, epicurean than many believe.
I don't agree with this linguist. All he does is torture the meaning of the rules and torture logic in order to squeeze out some kind of inconsistency from Orwell's essay.
I don't think Strong AI is hardly required for sophisticated filtering based on content. Face recognition is already pretty good, it's not a stretch to go to boob recognition and so forth. As clistctrl mentioned the obstacle is computing power, and connection speeds.
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I remember seeing a photo of an iPhone developer in front of a huge banner with a screenshot of his app inside of an Apple building on their campus, and it was labeled something like "Secret photo of me in front of banner with our app!" or something of that nature, so it's a possibility that they have restrictions on cameras.
Oh, this is nice. I've felt that other "command line utility" libraries for Ruby have been way more complicated than they needed to be. I'm converting some of my simple Ruby scripts and utilities to this to give it a try.
If you know that a cap is suspect, and the article mentions what are probably helpful sources like badcaps.net, then you can accelerate the aging process by running the board in question at 10-20% overvoltage in a temp chamber heated to 100C or whatever your design's edge case is. MBTF values assume nominal voltage and temp, so increasing this has the effect of decreasing the mean time. This is not 100% guaranteed, since you are tweaking parameters of a statistical formula, but you nevertheless stand a good chance of weeding out a particular brand/model cap if you test multiple units and compare the results to those from a control group. A past job did exactly this to qualify part substitutions, and this sort of testing is effectively a requirement for temp-sensitive parts like caps. We were able to successfully weed out bad caps with this testing.
Ok as, (I would say dude but TAs have names)
No 'about us' page. I was confused for a moment when the 'contact us' page started with 'to view our company's website, click here'. I thought I was on the company website.

Having multiple languages seems a bit odd if large swaths of content aren't translated. "Cette page est disponible seulement en anglais" being followed by an entire page of English text doesn't help credibility.

Your logo seems like it'd fail pretty hard for individuals with red-weak color blindness.

The 'deniable video operation' flowchart is more complex than what I want, for understanding how it works.

If the thing is supposed to be deniable, I might prefer a plain black plastic, or aluminum enclosure to a giant DV logo'd one.

The targeting seems very broad... and some of it seems a bit misinformed. As an example, there are substantial SEC rules when it comes to communications and the records thereof, but you have two trading-related examples in commercial.

I'd like a clear example of how it is that:

a) if my wife asks me for my password, she will get the pictures of her and I... not of the woman I met on ashleymadison. (purely hypothetical, honey.)

b) if a government asks me for my password, they will get something plausible, but not everything...

I guess it's just not clear to me what it's really good at, except that it's a camera, and a hard drive, and it uses ogg vorbis and chunks to... do something.

edit: It also conflates what appear to be the two major features (encryption, and data hiding), and it's not obvious to me what quality the resulting video will be, nor what I'd have to do if I wanted to use it in broadcast.

Also, I felt like I had to read a lot of the website to know what the product really did. I might've got the gist faster if the front page said something like: Deniable Video. * Records, Encrypts and Hides Your Video. I really didn't know what "personal video security that's loyal to you" meant.
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Well the damage was already done.

Why wake some developer to check if the code actually looks similar to the competitor. who then would get back to you, then you contact some other people to decide what to do and then you contact the Infrastructure guy to take the site offline.

The outcome: the site would have been taken out a few hours earlier.

I don't think this situation warranted such measures, the PR nightmare had already begun. This way they were able to analyze the situation, contact the guilty vendor and do a preliminary investigation before deciding to take the site offline instead of doint it as a kneejerk reaction.
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With us-east-1.linux.m1.small prices averaging around $0.03/hour, it might make sense to just set up an instance to continuously run on spot prices instead of paying the regular $0.085/hour. It won't ever be more than $0.085/hour (otherwise users would simply switch to the standard price) and it will probably be a lot less.

Unless, of course, the spot price instances are somehow different due to their transient nature, but I don't see anything to that effect on the site. Is there some reason why this would not work?
OK, I understand that opinion here leans towards the skeptic crowd, and I used the word 'fucking' in my comment so maybe that's why I was downvoted so harshly.

But why upvote this comment so much? It doesn't make any sense.

The "person presenting the argument" are the scientists that have published hundreds of peer reviewed papers on global warming science. Apparently they're not doing a good enough job of convincing some people, but they're not trying to get people to blindly agree with them, their doing science! What more are they supposed to do to prove it?
This is called Unix shared library version numbering convention.

* http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html
* http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/poli...
* http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries...
* http://home.bolink.org/ebooks/unix3/mac/ch05_04.htm

If you can make it popular in Ruby world you can call it whatever you please :-) You should be able to find 10 (and probably 20) year old rants about how technology X does not do version numbering right, and should use Unix shared library standard.
It is crazy to think how advanced these bases were by 1960s' standards and even crazier to think we didn't blow each other up! It's also kinda sad that so many of the silos fell into disrepair or were actively deconstructed. Hopefully I'll get a chance to visit one before they are all gone, if only to relive a small part of GoldenEye.
The major problem with facebook is that they really don't care much about their users. I know enough friends that work there to know that they believe users will just "deal" and eventually get used to the new way of doing things.
The rough idea is that countries that hobble companies' ability to compete will have more trouble generating competitive companies. Obviously this can be taken to extremes (allowing companies to buy children as slaves, for example), but if you err too much on the side of protecting the laborer then you can run into other kinds of consequences.
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The big question I have is how they disable the top URL location bar... didn't catch anything in first skimming of the code. Anyone else have better luck?
>Perhaps I would weather it, and so would you. Some future two year old in Bangladesh maybe not. On the other hand lots of them don't weather their first 5 years of life anyway, so we don't value those humans much. Why start now?

The question becomes are those future two year olds in Bangladesh better served by a future in which the planet diverts massive resources into green tech or in to other social and technological advances? Resources to make these advances are, in fact, limited, and choices must be made.

The correct choices are not at all clear, and not at all simple.
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Setting a price that's more than what your product is worth in the marketplace.

You can always spot real 'greed' because it's always self-defeating in the end.
Apparently so: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/about/sat/FA...
Cool place. I visited it around 2000.

The actual silo is sealed in with glass because it's contaminated with rocket fuel. You can look into the silo from various levels but you can't enter. Apparently one drop of the fuel they used will penetrate your flesh and start destroying bone. They have photos of the Air Force guys in their "Rocket Fuel Handler's Outfit".

Normally I'm a big fan of Matt Blaze. But it kind of pisses me off that he implies that the museum needs to be justified on some liberal-arts, big picture basis:

It's worth asking whether displaying this terrible artifact of our 40 years
on the edge of oblivion for all to see really makes good sense.

I hate this crap. First of all, we are still just as much "on the edge of oblivion". Russia and now China have plenty of nukes pointed at us. We just don't talk about it as much.

Second, I don't consider it a "terrible artifact". It's an awesome engineering project. And it helped preserve the freedoms we have today.

Third, and most importantly, I don't give a fuck if there's some point or purpose to the place, or if it makes anyone contemplate anything. I'm an engineer and a hacker; as a teenager I dreamed of getting into one of these silos; I appreciate the effort that went into building this amazing thing, and I'm very grateful to the people who have preserved it.

To me, each airman who served here, and each volunteer who helps with the museum is worth 1000 of Barbara Kingsolver and her kind.
As people do this, the spot price will rise until you can't reliably use the strategy.
This is the best command line utility library for ruby that i've used: http://visionmedia.github.com/commander/
I put mootools and jquery through jslint.com and jslint found so many things it didn't like that I wonder if the cristicism is indeed valid. Will you now publicly lambast Douglas Crockford for daring to indirectly criticise these so-called frameworks?
I'd say they'd lose a ton of users. People are fickle and have become accustomed to free, they'll switch to whomever offers free service.
What about my underpants?

I could hide a usb key in there with vital information. Since I'm bringing my own personal underpants can they search it to?
That's what I would figure, but it also makes no sense why it would exceed the on-demand price for the same instance, except perhaps in moments of sudden demand. Maybe Amazon will intentionally make it difficult to move an instance from on-demand to spot and back to discourage this?
For the in-line version, is it possible to get the baseline on an equation to align with the baseline of the surrounding text? In your current demo page they are a bit off.
And if I'm not a criminal, I shouldn't be treated as such.

It's a tad selfish, if you don't mind me saying, of you to automatically assume it's OK to give away my rights in addition to yours.
Well, if had said "nonvolatile" it would have been boring.
We're probably both thinking of "prone to explode" vs. "prone to evaporate".
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