skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Omg, this industry is retarded:

"This is a new model for organizing things on computers"

No it isn't. Hey, did you know that you can still make computers run programers without an operating system and without a hierarchical file system?

My god, we really need to add History Of Computing and History Of Technology courses to the highschool and uni curriculums. It's disgusting how this industry is full of fashion.
Incidentally, the 15% that follow you back are the ones you are least likely to engage in any meaningful manner beyond "click this link plz."
BBC has a report on this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10106166.stm
If GS has an information edge and rapes everyone else on a regular basis, maybe the prey should leave the market. It's a winner-take-all scenario, whether we like it or not.

Hardly the definition of a well-functioning market. Pretty much all economists agree that monopoly outcomes are a bad thing.

What I find unsettling about this report is the supposed consistency of GS - they came out ahead of the market every single day? Really? The phrase 'too good to be true' springs to mind.
Double D would actually be pretty good brand. Could have a large breasted woman as the mascot.
watch everyone play!

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=accept
FlexPaper Project: The Open Source Web Based Document Viewer
The same is happening to the iPhone ecosystem; at a slower pace, but it's happening. Before it was the iPhone 2G; now it's iPhone 2G, 3G, 3GS, iPad, soon the new iPhone 4G... soon there will be way too many differences in resolution, screen size, CPU and OS too.

Sales per-device is irrelevant, IMO. If I sell 100 for 10 devices, it's better than selling 90 for 3 devices. It's not like I have to add one IF() condition for each new model in my code; merely that I have to plan for slower CPUs and different screen sizes and resolutions, and when I do so, it's for a whole group of similar devices.
Thanks for the input.

We are in the process of doing a design that will show what the service is about in a little more detail. That should help things out.

You can still add the code while you are developing your project. It'll keep tracking bugs for you while in development. Thats mostly what we use it for, even if it is a localhost setup.
Well its not all that good in Mono. Lots of libraries are still be ported. So code breaks when compiled in mono. Also, C# is too integrated with microsoft's one dimensional stack.
Yes, Google is working on ARM support. I don't see people dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows on ARM, though.
I don't think they've actually wiped out your followers and people you follow. I think they just prevented us from accessing those tables because I'm still getting tweets from people I follow, I just can't see the lists.
What makes you assume that one's profit / revenue / compensation is a measure of the value one created? There's no central authority accounting for the "value" being created. The whole notion of "value" is itself highly subjective. Personally, I find it distasteful when hedge funds justify their profits by claiming that they make markets more efficient. No, no, no. No one works 100 hours per week to make markets efficient nor to add any value to society. People work in order to make money, because having money is great, and the more money one has, the better it feels. It's legalized looting. It's not what you deserve, it's what you can take for yourself. No excuses, no regrets.
Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job
ExpandoObject basically says you can add properties ad hoc. When that happens, how do I know when a property on the object exists or not? The value of static typing goes down with ad hoc properties.
Analyst: AT&T nabs iPhone contract extension with Apple
I submitted it because stories like this are common, but the underlying issues and misunderstandings aren't often aired out as they have been nicely here. Lots of people don't understand what they are and are not getting with "cloud" providers, nevermind grokking specifics like MTBF stats (and similar).
I suspect the Summize technology is better than they let on, and they can just do a search for tweets starting with "accept." I doubt there are many legit ones like that.
Actually, a lack of proper derivatives did help to create the housing bubble. Until a few years ago, it was very difficult to short the housing market. It was only fairly recently that speculators such as Paulson, Magnetar and others managed to successfully speculate in the right direction. This certainly helped to bring housing prices closer to their proper level.

In any case, since you feel the financial sector is too large, what do you believe is the proper size of the financial sector?
Those rice-centered Asian diets are also very low in fats. It's supposedly the combination of large amounts of carbohydrates and any significant amount of fat or sugar that causes the problem.
I'm not sure the guy understood the app because you can actually install the app after taking the picture.

Of course if he didn't get it it's only my fault because the description is not clear enough (I'm not a native speaker) or the UI is not easy and intuitive as it should.

Any help would be highly appreciated!
try "geva perry" for example, he has like 5 thousand connections and on google his linkedin profile is #3 from the top
Google's Android takes No 2 spot from iPhone in US
Exactly. I think (well, I hope) in the future we will see a well-done database fileystem in the desktop space which throws away the concept of files hierarchies and store all metadata in single database, (eg stuff like tags, types of data, applications used, etc). With SSDs becoming cheaper and cheaper, you could throw all the metadata on an SSD and likely have pretty good performance as well.
But no-one is suggesting that we actually get rid of the underlying files. They'll still exist, so different programs can still exchange information that way.

The problem is more centered on the idea that a document is pretty much useless without the application that can read it. So why not make this link explicit?

Case in point. A friend of mine is in a band - they've just released their first album. Whilst trying to drum up some buzz, they distributed one of the songs on the album as an .mp3. Trouble is, the guy exported the song as an AAC, but he named the file blahblah.mp3. Then, iTunes and WMP both refused to play the file because the format didn't match the file extension. This sort of error should just plain flat out not be possible. It's a song, not a file, and it should not be possible to create grief by stuffing up the name of the object as the computer sees it.
How did you and do you decide which services to provide? How do you gauge demand as you're thinking of possible products?
Well, for what it is worth, I rather like the name. Memorable, easy to spell and with the right amount of humor.
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http://duckduckgo.com/?q=test&v=
Named parameters make code more readable when used properly. For example, which is more readable?

var c = new Cube(1, 2, 3)

or:

var c = new Cube(height: 1, width: 2, depth: 3);
"Like much of his generation, Ternovskiy has an online persona far more developed than his real one."
It was pretty expensive a few days ago: $1.99 :-)
> but makes absolutely stupid assertions about other schools of thought they know nothing about (but with object-oriented programming instead of functional programming)

Tail calls need to be in object-oriented languages too.
That's true for a lot of shortcuts, hacks, and tricks. People will only tend to reveal tricks if they have no economic value to them (or if using them is so illegal that they'd prefer the fame and respect than the jail time ;-))
Allegedly fixed, twitter is working on rolling back abuses of the hack.

http://status.twitter.com/post/587210796/follow-bug-discover...
Anyone else thinking "The Wire"?
This guy sounds like the LoperOS fellow talking about Clojure, but after a margarita. http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42
Actually, C# is not a great language by any stretch of imagination - its just Java willing to evolve. There is some great stuff happening at Microsoft Research which drizzles down to the MS languages every so often though.

My problem is not the heritage and other superfluous stuff. I am not willing to deal with a horrible operating system. Dave Cutler and team just don't get it - surprisingly Ken, Dennis and Brian did.
So that's an xfs feature, but is is this really necessary on a journaling filesystem? I guess for ext3 I'd replace ext_freeze with sync.
Perhaps because I have used windows for about 20 years now and never had piles of malware. I have never reinstalled the OS. I have never paid license fees, subscription fees etc. It is almost as if he were living in an alternate reality from the one I inhabit.(Note I have been dual booting Linux for around 10 years. I like both sides of the fence.)

Two all is comments are about Windows OS not a single one about C# which is presumably the topic at hand.
I work with novice users every day. Every part of the experience is unnatural to them. Using a mouse and typing is just as frightening as any software quirk. Scroll bars, application windows, the web browser as internet, even the very concept of saving something in any form.

Teacher: "This program saves your changes automatically"

User: "But how do I know for sure?"
The State of HTML5 Local Data Storage
The install base of the iPhone still dwarfs Android, this is unit sales for one quarter. The iPhone has been out for a while longer than Android.

But if this quarter a sign of things to come, what platform do you want to be selling apps on long term?
Subjectively agree with 1. I find that each result doesn't seem separate enough, as if it was just a bunch of text and not individual results.

Subjectively and strongly disagree with 2. I love being able to just scroll down to the second page of results, it saves a few clicks and lets me scroll quickly through a bunch of results so I can quickly gauge the quality of the search terms.
I think you would care about making money more than the size of the platform. There was a time when MySpace had 2x more users than Facebook, but app developers on MySpace didn't have the same level of virility that Facebook apps had and thus it was far more lucrative to make FB apps.
No matter what twitter planned for it, it's an exploit. Users think that only they can control who follows them, but this feature gets around that.
Apple isn’t developing a Flash alternative named Gianduia
The opposition in Canada attempted something similar. They wanted to join forces and form coalition government. The only reason they failed is that the current PM ask the Governor general to prorogue the government. A truly undemocratic way to keep control. Let see if the Brits manage to pull this off.
Yes, but your own counter argument is based on a feeling, that's not much more solid than what Ricardo said to begin with, it is also unsupported, or at best anecdotal.

None of this based on objective facts or stuff that you could measure. His truth to me is as good as your truth.

But he got modded in to the ground and you got modded up.
The thing is that it goes both ways. The liquidity that they provide can just as quickly be pulled back as we saw during the Lehman collapse. I'm not sure it provides value.
The Humble Bundle: Game Piracy Numbers Examined
>Refusing to support older technologies helps encourage people to start using the newer technologies.

If by "newer technologies" you mean "The Apple App Store" then you have a point. If you mean HTML5, then you have been taken to the cleaners are terribly gullible.
> A nicely packaged virtual machine can work pretty well for a small group.

Well what I have specced out is to compete with Facebook and offer a privacy concious service to the masses. So something like that is infeasible for a number of reasons.
"the fact that some seasonal landscaping workers choose to stay home and collect a check from the state, rather than work outside for a full week...raises questions about whether extended unemployment benefits give the jobless an incentive to avoid work."

This reads like something out of the Onion. Are they really so surprised that extended unemployment benefits create moral hazard problems?
No, no, that's not what I'm saying at all.

You have a database in the iPhone called Photos & Videos. You store all photos and videos in there.

Then you can open any number of apps -- photoshop, Camera, Photo Viewer, Mail, etc -- and act on those files. Any changes you make will be centrally reflected in all the other apps, since there's only one copy of the file.

In the primary app for any particular database, say Photos, you can create albums and organizational structures based specifically on that type of data: Albums for photos, for example.
Follower and followee counts seem to be back. Anyone seeing lost legitimate follows?
Fortunately for Twitter it's incredible easy to track (/^accept \w+$/)
Yes, automatic upgrade is cool!
Every's followers count shows zero now, it's not a consequence of doing this
"Oh My God" by Ida Maria could be a fun one :)

I'm sure many people here are musicians or know musicians. Maybe there's enough talent to pool to write a startup theme song...
Ok, but that is a pile of assumptions.

If the iPhone user buys 3 apps for every 1 the Android user does, but in a couple years there are 10 times as many Android users, where do you sell your app?

The attach rate and the market size make all the difference, and there is no data to support the conclusion you are trying to make.

A gaming PC is a hell of a lot more expensive than a console, yet their attach rate is way way lower than a console.
That's an interesting data point to keep in mind. Because KVM is boasting better efficiency than Xen, and Xen boasts ~2% overhead. Well, that might be theory...
Same here - NYU; co-founder of two failed startups; a few jobs - now am in SF and haven't really looked back.
I believe the most important enhancement is the set of changes that went into the compiler itself to make it more usable from IDEs.

Give me a development environment for scala with working autocompletion and refactoring tools on the level of eclipse's JDT and I promise I will convert my company :)
Or find all statuses that have the pattern of "accept <valid_username>" and then removing <poster> from the <valid_username>'s followers.

That's not the hard part.

The hard part is that it seems that twitter wasn't checking accept messages to see if they were actually requests behind them or if the accepting user is actually a restricted account. So now they have to implement a mechanism that associates follow requests with follow acceptance.

Currently, the exchange is probably something like this behind the scenes:
me: @restrictedUserIWantToFollow lemme follow you
them: accept guyWhoWantsToFollowMe
Everything simply implemented as twitter messages to facilitate cell phone usage. However, the accept message just assumes that there is a valid request being made and adds them to your followers.

Assumption: the mother of all foul-ups.
Incentives matter. Nobody should be surprised when they get more of something that's been subsidized.
From the summary:

- 37signals has 40 servers, and a total of 125 OSes running.
- 3 Server admins work at 37signals.

That is insteresting. Most orgs would consider that a pretty low ratio of servers/admin.
Just went from iPhone 2G/AT&T to HTC Droid Incredible/Verizon. SO much better in every way.
the true value of this "activity," the tapes indicate, was that it offered proof that the precinct commander and his officers were doing their jobs

Apparently cops have their own value of kloc metrics.
How to Force Anyone to Follow You on Twitter - Twitter hack - Gizmodo
Just wait till an Android tablet comes out.
I think you can have your cake and eat it too. A webapp that's task centric can still offer export and import features for power users. You are right that if people stop asking then such a feature might not be provided but at least for now it seems to be more of policy decision on the company part than a hard and fast numbers game.
I wonder what would happen if some sort of national emergency took place during this transitional period. As an American, I'm used to having weird things happen for a few months after an election (recounts and such) but as soon as Inauguration Day rolls around, the next guy is officially on watch. I understand that Gordo remains PM until Labour elects a new leader and the new government is formed, but it seems tenuous at best--if there was enough of a crisis, could someone else form a government and force him to hand over power?

EDIT: This isn't a criticism of the British system at all, just a question. I wouldn't presume to judge the system since I don't know much about it, hence the asking of questions. If there's some other reason I'm being downmodded I would like someone to tell me just so I know what to fix in the future. Thanks.
It's a bit different though -- if you look at stats on Flurry for some of the popular apps, you'll see that there is less than 3% iPhone OS 2.0 users out there. That's simply because iPhone users get a free OS upgrade when they hook up to iTunes. The majority of users who are still stuck in the 2.0 land are iPod Touch users since they actually have to pay for the 3.0 upgrade. That's why the iPhone market has significantly less fragmentation.

However, I have a HTC MyTouch android phone that is still stuck in 1.6 land. I upgraded from 1.5 recently, but it was not the simplest process to do so. HTC doesn't really make it easy for phone owners to upgrade their phone OS. It's possible for me to use the CyanogenMod to upgrade my OS to 2.0, but not without lots of effort at the command line.

The current slew of 1.5/1.6 android devices out there right now will probably never be upgraded to 2.x mostly because the phone manufacturers rarely make it an easy process.
Keyword and default arguments are quite nice. The main thing thats stopping me from switching so far is the new collections library-I realize its overall a good change (once you get past implicit CanBuildFrom[Repr, B, That] everywhere), but its a non-trivial amount of work to switch things over (which I will have to do eventually anyways, of course)
> and even if they get lost Patrick can find them for you if you send him an email.

I think this nicely sums up a lot of things about your business. Your users know you by name and trust you (competently) answer their emails .. :-)
I always downvote comments on HN where someone just posts a quote from the linked article and nothing else.

I don't just vote on whether I agree or disagree, I vote on whether I want more comments like that on HN, and I don't want more people quoting the linked articles without adding anything. If I want to read the linked article, I know where to find it.
Why?

If they are providing actual value, and people care enough to follow them back - where's the bad for the world part? Unless it's just selling vi4gr4, then perhaps. But they're not actively spamming people (unless they follow them back, in which case they opted in.)

I'd actually love being marketed to this way, and I think it is a viable way of allowing the marketing you want into your life. As opposed to "hot girls are waiting for you on Zoosk"
Maybe Friedman had a good point about negative income tax
>This app-centric model works well until you find that you want different apps to operate on the same file

Wasn't this one of the big innovations of the Mac - content portability across applications?
That's why Plato wrote dialogues.
If we follow that train of thought further...

Guess which will have the majority of apps and developers?

unless it becomes way too hard to target a sizable chunk of the Android market due to hardware spec fragmentation.
Bad Code is Viral
"Facebook would be better if Facebook used files" is a bit of a strawman. [Edit: No, it isn't. Crikey, failing at English: what is the word for an argument premised on a proposition that is contrary to fact? It can't just be "wrong", that's what 3rd graders say -- needs more Latin.]

Do you know a single application that abstracts away as much data as Facebook does as files? Anything on my computer nearly that complex, like an email inbox, a photo collection, or my iTunes stuff exists as an opaque blob with a proprietary reader. (In the case of my inbox, it is an opaque blob with widespread inport/export capability into opaque blobs of different colors.)

It has a file on disk like MySQL does: OK, technically accurate, but I'm not capable of actually doing any of my usual file activities with that file.

That is aside from the "whose data are we talking about, anyhow" conundrum. Probably 80% of my presence on Facebook "belongs" to other people. Tagged in a photo taken by my mother of my brother's wedding: think quick, is that in my export or not? (For that matter, is my brother in my export? I'd kind of like to import him into my new social network. You can do that, right? Oh and Farmville.)
Yeah, but the LoperOS guy has a serious point, one that will in fact be addressed after most of the Clojure that is written in Java is reimplemented in Clojure ("Clojure in Clojure"). From there one or more people with implement "Turtle Clojure" as I like to call it, turtles all the way down to the bare metal or OS or whatever.

It's the reason one of those "match a language to a picture" items had Clojure represented by Locutus of Borg, or as Reddit commentator pillsy put it, "Clojure is a terrifying meld of a beloved character and an unreasoning alien onslaught."

Whereas I didn't see much merit to this guy's Clojure comments. E.g. yep, Clojure is uglified by the syntax for maps and vectors, but the generalization this allows, by making them first class homoiconic data structures, is potentially worth it.
I agree. Which is why those numbers aren't that interesting when comparing Android to iPhone OS, since iPod touches and iPads are a part of the platform.

That being said, it clearly says that the Android platform is growing.