Doesn't work for me Chrome 9.0.597.98 beta on Ubuntu :( Possibly because all HTTP traffic has to go through a proxy server, the company block all outbound traffic, and require a proxy server.
Readit Newssfphotoarts commented on WebSocket whiteboard with chat 184.106.155.145/ws.html... · Posted by u/bcardarella
sfphotoarts commented on More Companies Plan to Put R&D Overseas online.wsj.com/article/SB... · Posted by u/petethomas
"Five years from now, Mr. Wadhwa said he believes Indian workers will be developing software on par with programmers in Silicon Valley."
Russian/Estonian/[insert any country] are doing that for a while. Just not in their own country, but in Silicon Valley (50% of Silicon Valley startup has at least one founder that's not from USA). For creme de la creme products you need more than just good Indian "worker".
And those countries produce the top super-models too.
sfphotoarts commented on Show HN: what I coded during the Foursquare Hackathon agoraapp.com... · Posted by u/way66
Foursquare has a API method that exposes the people who are at the same place than you are.
Then we get their twitter nicknames and find who you have the most followings in common.
We use Rails 3, Memcache, Redis, Resque, Foursquare API (with Push) and Twitter API.
Thanks, that's essentially what I said, but I am curious what you mean by "most followings in common" (you mean people intersect?) I assumed you did some form of semantic analysis of the tweet streams to intersect based on common RT's or link topics?
I'm actually surprised there is a maxima between people intersects, or that it carries some meaning.
I wasn't really asking about the front-end, that seems like any of the boilerplate environments would have been equivalent, and just becomes a matter of most familiar, but rather the 'backend'.
Let's say you can write a UI, you have a lat/lon, you have the tweet streams from those around you, how, in a meaningful way do you find similarity? That's the core of your idea. Because Mike and Brett both follow JetBlue what does that tell you? However, if Mike and Brett both RT'd a link about the speed of limit hard limit, it's reasonable to assume they have some similarity in interest. That's the part I was interested in getting your thoughts (mainly because its something I've both thought about and worked on)
sfphotoarts commented on Show HN: what I coded during the Foursquare Hackathon agoraapp.com... · Posted by u/way66
I'd love to hear the concepts behind this, I'm guessing you first do a radial search from current location, yield list twitter handles, fetch last n dozen tweets, extract links, cluster, intersect, introduce.
I don't have a 4[] account to try it but im curious what you used. Obviously in 8 hours there's only limited technology that can be done, but if you're using python or another language with a rich set of libraries it's possible to do quite a lot during that time. Obviously 8 hours means 6 when you factor in HN time :)
Maybe. But I'm pretty sure it was upvoted because of the sensationalist title.
It has Google in the title, instant upvote for any article with Google, Quora or Stackoverflow.
sfphotoarts commented on Let them eat veggies: Obama has dinner with Steve cringely.com/2011/02/let-... · Posted by u/evo_9
It's useful to talk to an average person and a marginal person, as well as wildly successful outliers.
what's an average person? The only way politics connects with the masses is through voting.
sfphotoarts commented on Amplify: a jQuery component library for solving common web problems. amplifyjs.com/... · Posted by u/nicksergeant
Amplify is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API.
Pretty sure the author means 'simple' rather than 'simplistic.' It's an important distinction!
Simplistic means treating complex issues and problems as if they were much simpler, that's exactly what Jquery and its suit of plugins (including Amplify) does well.
I've found that in the last couple of years, I keep expecting the internet to be one way and it keeps being another.
So for instance, they say if you want people to read your work, concentrate on quality. But that's bullshit, what you need to concentrate on is popularity. On any given day, boards all over the place are full of high-ranking articles that are crap that people vote on simply because the author is popular.
Then they say that the wisdom of the crowds will help pick clear winners. But the wisdom part begins to look like mob rule and crowds can be easily gamed, as this article shows.
I could go on, but I think I'm not alone in realizing that the cool interconnected internet that I wanted and the one we're actually getting are two completely different things.
So on one hand I congratulate this author -- we critically need to get this information out and emphasize it. But on the other hand, it's just another in a long series of "So, you thought it worked this way? Boy were you wrong." kind of things.
So I'm left wondering: do we all just sit around and whine about how things aren't turning out the right way? Go out and "fight the system" Adapt? Make the most of it? What? While you can fight the system if it's the local town government putting up a stoplight, fighting the system effectively and honorably where the system is billions of people of hundreds of cultures all interacting randomly is a bit too much to fit in my head.
Apologies for the rant. Just seemed like a pattern I've noticed of late.
The internet is really many superimposed communities. Expecting the internet, or pretty much anything else to be a certain way is setting yourself up for unfulfilled expectation.
The internet is a rapidly changing place and filled with enormous diversity of people, views and interests.
sfphotoarts commented on Greplin’s (YC W10) Social Search Opens Its Doors To All techcrunch.com/2011/02/16... · Posted by u/smanek
Personally, I find GMail's inbuilt search hard to beat. Its almost perfect. But I've used Greplin for Facebook (that's the only thing that I'm using Greplin for), and I find it to be an amazing service.
Doesn't Facebook already have a search feature?
Next we'll be discussing horoscopes...