skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah. First of all, those proofing times are not nearly long enough for the effect I was referring to to come into play. Secondly, each Bread sample is not at all controlled for its proof time, they are explicitly varying the volume of each bread (more volume = more proofing time, which is required in bread-making). Since the entire point of the study is that volume is correlated with GI, the results make sense.
Debts which are overwhelmingly held by the wealthy.

I mean, I don't see better options in the short term, either. It'd just be nice if we heard a little less about how infallible the markets are and how things like regulations are just "destroying value for no good reason" next time the economy's doing well.
The problem is we have too many virtual things to organize them spatially. It worked with the finder when each user have a few or few dozens of or maybe even a few hundred files they cared about. Now computers have millions of files, and I don't see how we can sensibly organize them spatially and still find things.

I would say that now the dominant way of finding things on a computer is not organization at all, but search. Type some words describing the thing you want to find. We've been trained by Google that we should always be able to find anything we want this way.
I suppose they have a record of all the commands executed.
better question: does it produce a full follow ie- if i did this bug, would billgates actually see me in his stream? OR does it just increase the follower count+i show up on his sidebar. if its the former, then wow. I know they're clearing it out now, but somebody must have been using this for a while.
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Or Python, or Lisp...

The use of .NET and C# (and Java) is often mandated by management levels, specially in large companies. For those unlucky folks, even a tiny little progress is a move in the right direction.

Even if you want a .NET-like environment, you could use JRuby, Jython or Clojure and have a far better programming experience on top of the JVM.

I really see no reason to even consider C# or .NET.
Compare and contrast this with Disconnecting Distraction: http://paulgraham.com/distraction.html .
Why do you say that tags can't represent the spatial organization of objects? Can't you lump similar things together, by putting them under the same tag?
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Infographics are here to stay. More and more we see it trough the popularity that this kind of content reaches on Blog posts, Twitter and other social media networks, driving traffic and promoting great discussions on every kind of subject. And one of the best places to find tons of new infographics, maps, charts and other forms of data visualization goodies is, without question, Flickr Groups.
It's probably the Google brand that people like more than the actual layout.
I kind of did actually
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Rebranding is not too difficult if you don't get much traffic from organic search. It's a simple redirect and a notice on the page.

It's also not too difficult when you're small but gets more costly as time goes on. If DDG succeeds, the customer base it has now will be something like .00001% of it's users.
Or, is there anybody whose career took off due to this bug? For example, a musician who got signed primarily because all of the top 50 music producers were following him on twitter.
Well, I'm not sure that's fair. In most dynamic languages, you can add type annotations and/or formal pre/post-conditions to selected pieces of code, usually for either compiler verification or optimization purposes; thus making a little piece of your code statically typed. Would you say they should just "go all the way to C#" (or ML, or whatever you prefer?) Of course not.

The C# situation with dynamic is analogous. It's for people who like working in a static language, but want a particular piece of code dynamically typed because it happens to be very convenient for the task at hand. Obviously, there are a fair number of such tasks; mostly whenever you're dealing with a piece of structured but unpredictable data that lives outside your static bubble, like XML or external unmanaged libraries.

And var isn't really worth mentioning; it's just very simplistic type inference on declarations. It's just (very good) syntax sugar and doesn't have any special semantic meaning at all.
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Apartment finding, moving, etc (practically anything) in NYC can be easy provided you've got the money to make it happen. It can be the hardest, or easiest city in the world to live in.

Yet if you've got no more than $1200/month to spend on rent- good luck with that.
Because static typing is really, really useful?
Hi there.

It's been quite a few years for me since I took color theory in college for my art degree. I think that you can automate color compliments with 2, 3, 4, or x colors by using "vectors" to compute the opposite hues... cutting the HSV model in halves for two colors, thirds for three, etc.

To get to the aesthetics, you'll have to use voting or surveys, and the reason is somewhat straightforward. Here are a few resons (not all):

The appeal of colors change over time with fashion and trends. In the US, mint green and canary yellow in the 1930s, white and cherry red in the 1940s, the list goes on for consumer goods and their colors. Think of vintage goods and their colors. Pantone produces color forecasts and tweaks their colors over time to reflect tastes.

Cultural differences. Color symbolism plays a large role - after all part of a designer's skill is selecting the right color for the specific context of an assignment. White for mourning in Asia != white for a wedding. One thought is that the region or location may be significant in the aesthetic judgment. If I remember correctly, the ArthurAnderson logo was orange because it was a color that could be used globally without negative meaning.

One last note, which comes from my training in a modernist driven school, is the form and the function of a design in black and while should be rock solid and work before adding color and the complexity... I think this was taught so that the novice students we were would learn the basics of typography, form, and balance before getting into colors.

As to the aesthetics: You can use the voting model like colorlovers (I hope that older votes are when tracking current color trends), use A/B testing if you are a web designer, or fall back to a company like Pantone to help you find current trends. Someone like google might be able to tie click paths to color schemes ... in other words data mine to establish what is a trend.
Well, I just tweeted "accept failure" :-)
Last time I looked at DDG, it required javascript. That's a negative in my book.
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Your right. But this will never take down Facebook. FB is more of a marketing achievement than a technical one. Who is going to put in the work to market open FB if there is no upside?

I don't think we need an open FB, I think we need a few companies specialize in smaller portions of FB. One company runs the graph, but does not do messaging, or IM, or photos... Then other companies use that companies graphs to build on. These companies should all be for profit, otherwise I don't think they will be able to out-market FB.
Do some user testing with casual computer users (not even pure novices), and watch as you ask them to complete a two step task with a file (like, say, resize and then email). They can usually figure it out, but it takes them a long time and they become frustrated.

I've also observed this! But when I've seen people struggle with this kind of task, their problem has more often been the opposite of what you're talking about. They get files - that's easy! If the hierarchies aren't too deep, they can find their files too. But now what they struggle with in my experience is figuring out what program can achieve a given task - "should I open this in Preview? Can that do resizing? Or do I need to use iPhoto? Maybe none of the programs I have will work and I need to install something (oh no!)".

I think this is a deeper and more interesting problem. It's one that everyone suffers from - I was doing some work with STL files a while back - these are descriptions of 3D objects, and I had installed a bunch of different programs for working with STL files. The problem I had was remembering which program could do which things!

The solution to this problem is not to lock things down so tightly that there is a 1-to-1 correspondence between types of objects (photos, videos, etc) and the "blessed" programs that are allowed to access the databases that those objects live in.
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Nope, they preferred the Google results:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-...
It's also immature. I'll be sad if HN becomes Reddit. The original article's headline is much better - more descriptive, more informative.
I highly doubt that. From what I'm reading on the Intarwebs, a LOT of people just couldn't resist playing with this exploit. If they truly banned everyone who did a force-follow with this hack I think they would lose a ton of people who are frankly only getting marginal value from Twitter.

I know that if I actually had to rebuild my followee list for "testing" this little hack out I would probably decide it wasn't worth the effort to start over again on Twitter.
Where are languages supposed to go, anyway?
Unfortunately, they can probably do whatever they want with this, whether people think it's fair or not.
I downvoted his post because I found his argument to be completely off-topic. "I hate Microsoft" has just about nothing to do with a post describing what is new in C#.
Event loops are even easier, and the per-connection overhead is often a single struct. And if you want to do async disk IO, you can do it in another thread. (The IO::AIO module for Perl is a great example of this technique.)
Its coincidental that Conan tweeted this message a couple days ago:

"If it ever says I’m following more than one person, I’ve been hacked. I’m a completely monogamous Twitterer—I only follow Sarah Killen."

http://twitter.com/ConanOBrien/status/13631062967
Here is another one.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/25/232212
I think one thing that really confuses people is how user data is stored in the same space as system files, and can be manipulated in the same way. It's fine for people who know what they are doing, but many people I know are lost if their files aren't on the desktop or My Documents.

The average user doesn't need to look anywhere outside their home directory, or inside their application bundles. iPhone OS is a good start, but eventually Apple will probably want to provide a way for apps to share data, perhaps a common pool for app data. Or maybe a cloud data storage api which all apps use to store and retrieve files.

The sheer amount of data we have and how to organize that is yet another problem that is likely still waiting for a brilliant solution.
Highly recommended reading in conjunction with this article: http://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Ex-Cop-Reveals-A...

E.g. note the item on page two of the Village Voice article on "points".
> It's a shame some HN users down vote people just because they disagree with their opinion

I strongly suspect you would see lots of downmods on comments like this from the vicinity of Redmond.
Even without this bug, I dont think they should still allow commands via tweet at all. It made sense when most tweets were via SMS, but not anymore...Maybe for emerging markets with heavy SMS usage, add a 2nd number to send commands to isolate the two?
As a fellow film lover, TS2 was enjoyable and I expect TS3 will be as well (in the sense that even the worst Pixar film is better than many other attempts at animated storytelling, at the very least in visual/audio quality).
This kind of supports the notion that "files" shouldn't be too closely tied to a single application. If I'm dealing with images, for example, I might want to crop them but also zip several of them into a zip file and then mail them, so at least three applications need to share the same data.

It's sort of an AOP problem. Do cross-cutting concerns like compression and email belong in separate apps or should they be implemented in each app?
That's a good point. In Poly, vast majority of CS undergrads that were looking for jobs did it through Monster and in-school job fairs. I don't remember seeing any startups or small companies being represented at these, they were filled with large banks and military contractors. I think there needs to be a better outreach to local schools by the start up community for new engineers to know what is available to them.
RE: unions, there are 2 issues I think.

A) (perception), unions are more concerned with benefits for their members than educating their kids. Uh... so? Who else is going to advocate for them? They have to eat too, and every small town in America trots out a bunch of reaganish bullcrap about how the school system should be able to do more with less but they all expect a raise in their private sector job if they're doing well. We drop our kids off at school for the day, drive to work on clean, safe streets, and then bitch about how the public sector employees should get by with no yearly raise, without even bothering to inform ourselves about our local budget.

B) (reality) Unions are oftentimes more concerned with the preservation of power, access and position for the top union officials than they are with either the benefits for their members or the quality of education, except for cases where the latter two feed into the first (fortunately, fairly often). This is how it actually works. Unions have their problems but it's not because the teachers are greedy -- teachers are already doing a difficult job for low pay, presumably because they care about education. Anyone who whines about unions or about teachers expecting a fair pay check is free to try it for a few years - last I checked there's a huge shortage of qualified math and science teachers.
"Old-skool"? Does Mac OS X do sub-pixel positioning yet?
I've mentioned this a couple of times, but coming from my deeply non-technical niche, I think files are dying and good riddance to them. They're a constant barrier in front of my customers getting their work done and going back to their lives. They're an abstraction which is -- mercifully -- more user friendly than disk sectors or IP addresses, but not by very much: my users may lack the ability to find saved files on the computer, to understand the difference between the filesystems on two computers, to be able to copy a file to a floppy or CD without active moving-the-mouse-for-her assistance, to differentiate between files and the applications that created them (expecting, e.g., that copying bingo cards onto their sister's computer will let them open them automatically -- hey, works for photos and letters, right?), etc, etc. We won't even get started with navigating a tree structure.

I've had a sustained decrease in the amount of time I spend supporting customers with these issues since releasing my web application, because it comports to how many of them think their files actually work: they live in the application, they always exist in the application no matter what computer you're on, they always show up on the top screen no matter what, they never get lost, and even if they get lost Patrick can find them for you if you send him an email.
@symesc: I just switched from an iPhone to a N1 for the same reason. An inferior phone for a dozen reasons- but a switch I plan to stick with, for now.
Pick some topic areas that are popular with some subset of the population. There are various groups that would welcome having certain search terms dropped from the indices and others that they favor weighted more highly, for instance.

There are any number of ways to go to cater to specific search audiences. Start up multiple parallel DDG analogs of Google's Blackle <http://www.blackle.com>; site, for instance.

For the business folks, call it PinstripeSearch or PrivateSearch or something suitable for the target audience. Graft a different presentation with conservative fonts and typography and tweak the search index ratings for the audience, and off you go.

There are any number of audiences for specific searches.

Yeah, the indexes get huge.

But then you also get to cater to and advertise to specific audiences.
But when do you actually want to do that?

There are really only, I think, two use cases:

a) media
b) source code.

Apple solve the first of these with libraries: your music library, your photo library, your film library. Any program can talk to these through the published API, so that solves this, for most people, for photo editing, music making.

The second is advanced-user stuff, and you make it hard to access and developers-only.
...even the microseconds of decision-making attention demanded by hyperlinks saps cognitive power from the reading process...

This seems like a pretty good argument for hardcore minimalism in web design.
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In Massachusetts, there's a cap of 2.5% for property tax increases without a ballot measure. This means that almost every year, local budgets are shrinking relative to inflation.

You know what the most common complaint I heard was when these issues went to ballot? "Screw those councilmen, they want to raise our taxes so they're holding these services hostage." What's the phrase about it being impossible to make people understand something that they don't want to?
(I like the bang feature: many of my searches are of the form "wiki william henry harrison". By the way, I think the search results for http://duckduckgo.com/?q=william+henry+harrison are out of order)

My ideal search-engine would be a cross between a traditional search-engine (machine) and a Q&A site (humans). If you were taking a lot of iterations to find your answer, you could simply expand the text-area to allow you to write out a human question.

So, short of DDG becoming also a Q&A site....yeah, dunno :P.
Yes, but this is a techcrunch article, so it automatically gets upvotes and promoted to the front page!
I only added top people on my niche!
Most compilers are already doing rvalue optimization of some sort, so the fact that he didn't find any speed benefit from using rvalues explicitly doesn't surprise me.
I am a pythonista who is learning Clojure and Erlang and I really didn't like F# that much.

That and the threat of relying on any patent Microsoft may use against me in the future scares me away from anything that comes from Redmond.
Thank you for the explanation.

The title says "Get Ready for C# 4.0".

That's a pretty all-inclusive title, it apparently also addresses me. But I won't be 'getting ready for C# 4.0' and I think that I'm within my rights to say so and to explain why.

Maybe you don't like my reasons. Maybe you think I 'hate' microsoft (I don't, actually I think some of their products are pretty good, notably excel and visual studio, but I can't stand 'word', 'outlook' and 'clippy'). But I think they as a corporation still have to show they understand that they've done some things wrong in the past and until they change their ways (and deal better with the virus plague on their machines), and convince me that they mean it I will not be switching back, even though that probably would save me a bunch of headaches when communicating with customers that still think attachments in proprietary formats are a valid means of communication (it is to them all their buddies are using microsoft, I'm the odd one out).

I remember IBM handing out little flashlights on a trade show a few years ago, they were labelled 'we've seen the light'. It took them being beaten within another 3 years of their lives to finally 'get it', if not IBM could have easily gone the way of SUN and SGI. Microsoft still hasn't reached that phase.

I wish microsoft and all those that support them the very best, meanwhile I'll be playing over here with other, almost equally shiny toys.
Funny, the top result is the above HN post
This guy needs to learn something about visual design & usability.

Collhorrrz...
In 2010, it feels more like willful ignorance.

It seems that willful ignorance is increasing. I would also posit that willful ignorance is often based on flat-out ignorance. Scientific fact won't change just because you are more fervent.
Were you drawing outside the lines again?

(horrible ayn rand joke)
Jason Calacanis dream come true :P
Perhaps it's tabbar-mode but for some reason I find Aquamacs to be crazy-slow when compared to the vanilla Emacs.app. I realise there's a lot of extras that are included in Aquamacs but the difference is just insane. It's a shame though because I love the default setup (after I've turned off all of their modifier key changes).
John Gruber is a retard. He eats every chocolate dropping Apple squeezes out.
here is the official twitter status blog: http://status.twitter.com/
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Named parameters will be particular useful when calling methods which take bools (rather than a intention revealing enum).
Wow, Conan's Twitter account is not only a test, he's got a user story (that just turned red):

In order to provoke curiosity and amusement

As a celebrity comedy writer and television host

I want to only be shown as following one otherwise-unknown person in Michigan
> This app-centric model works well until you find that you want different apps to operate on the same file - which will eventually happen on devices that people spend a lot of time in

This is solvable with standards. If all photos are in a standard place, in a standard way, with a standard db schema, then any app can access it. The standards can be supplemented with app-specific stuff, but as long as they all adhere to a base level of standards, then we are ok.

Obviously there is some data that is more free-form that others, which would require apps that are more open.
Link doesn't work - does a server hammering lead to a 404? I didn't know it could...
I have written a script to follow 1000 users on my niche every day. I find that around 15% of users follow me back. In the next couple of days, I remove the rest 85%. I have been doing this for a few months now and I have a few thousand followers on a few twitter accounts.
I have set up websites for each of those niches and get decent amount of traffic though twitter.
Been banned the first few times, but I have found my ways around it (mostly).
Ah yes, there's that one too. I'm sure if you'd spend a day or so you could come up with a fair sized list.
When the IPhone was selling more than Android, Apple defenders were saying that you should choose a platform that has a bigger market (i.e. IPhone).

Now that Android is outselling the IPhone, you should now choose based how many users actually buy digital content.
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My experience over the last few weeks spent using a new Nexus One as a former iPhone certainly supports this. Frankly, I'm stunned at the difference in quality and breadth of applications available in the App Store vs Android Market- compared to the App Store, the Market is like Softpedia or Tucows...
It's a open-source project, and they rely on volunteers to test betas and release candidates in order to have a stable final release. If you plan on using 2.8 when it comes out "for real" it is the decent thing to at least try the release candidates and make sure any bugs you run have been reported.
I think it's faster than looking by the name, but you really should stop using the word "share". The 1-star review guy is a great example.

Sure, for anyone that understand the basics of computer programs it's obvious that you can't copy an app from your friend just by snapping a picture of the icon, but I don't think it's a good idea to rely on this assumption.