skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a chemical imbalance that can be improved with drugs."

While it's not theoretically impossible that depression is caused by a neurotransmitter imbalance, most of the evidence is against it and most researchers now reject the hypothesis. Wikipedia has a nice summary of the current consensus on the serotonin imbalance hypothesis.
It this an article that time forgot? It's about the failed Netburst Intel microarchitecture used by e.g. the Pentium 4. AMD stayed with the Pentium Pro approach and Intel returned to it; I have no idea (at least based on the article) if the features described in this article made it into later microarchitectures.
many companies that sell imported goods hold contacts to protect interst on both sides mfg and seller.

Why would you not try and protect your supply of goods
http://Plancast.com, which launched last November, does exactly this.
Completely different. The average iPad owner is worth way more to advertisers than the average blog reader.
"These people also said Apple's antenna woes go back years, through multiple versions of the iPhone and with repeated instances of design clashing with functionality. The first version had a back made of metal, which hampered the ability of wireless signals to penetrate to the antenna inside, engineers said.

Later versions, including the iPhone 3G that was launched in 2008 and the iPhone 3GS last year, also didn't hold a signal as well as other phones and experienced more dropped calls, people familiar with the matter said.

For at least two years, multiple iPhone carriers lodged complaints with the company that its phone doesn't work well in making calls and doesn't hold a wireless signal for a voice call as well as other devices, these people say."

Maybe after all these years, it wasn't the NETWORK but the PHONE!
Aah ;-)
> but is there some systematic way to show that they're in fact more successful?

Please define "successful." If "success" is wide use, then you have defined your success in the most un-profound of manners.

> It just seems to me from casual observation that the success of Lisps is disproportionately low (not to be straw-manned into zero)

I'm not going to play this game with you. You've defined nonsensical metrics and then demand we play by them. Any specific examples I give (of which you could easily get for yourself with 5 minutes and a search engine) will be dismissed as "anecdotes" as you move your goalposts.

I do not care what you think, because I do not think you're interested in considering what I have to say. Let's enjoy our mutual indifference.
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> GPL is not a virus that will force your code open without your consent.

That would only be true if Thesis was not distributed to the public. Since it is and it has GPL'd code in it, it must be GPL'd itself.
So when I want to attach something to an email, I have to go to the app for whatever kind of data it is and find the "share" button, which will be in a different place for each app, if it's even there at all. Ditto if I want to copy it to a USB stick, add it to my Dropbox, upload it to a website, etc.

The fundamental ideas behind a filesystem, packaging all data in a generic container and allowing arbitrary grouping of the containers, are extremely straightforward and intuitive, not to mention incredibly useful.

What throws people for a loop is having to share their filesystem with magic invisible gremlins that leave inscrutable files all over the place. Most filesystems come pre-loaded with mountains of this junk, which the user is made keenly aware of when they are banished to some small niche directory. But the gremlins won't even stay out of the niche; they are constantly creating folders and dumping mysterious config files there, behind the user's back.

The solution to this problem is clear and simple. A filesystem, from the user's perspective, should be empty when it comes out of the box, or at most contain a few items that the user knows exactly what they are. From then and forever, nothing should ever appear in the filesystem except what the user explicitly put there. The user is free to create, move, copy, rename or delete any file without unexpected side-effects.

It seems obvious to me that filesystems should work this way and there would be no big usability issue if they did. The problem is, we have all this old baggage attached to the filesystem, both conceptually and practically, and we are throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
or the next morning....did you complete the murder job?
Well I am good with Sticky Password. Use it, everything is automatic, I am all set.
key question: does it work with compiz, or somehow support 3D?
Sounds like iPhoto and iTunes. Doesn't really pass the porn test, though.
On the other hand I wouldn't hire anyone who wasn't inflexible about having source control, defect tracking, CI, or code reviews.

What is important to me, however, is that you demonstrate a little pragmatism about us using Mercurial over Git, Hudson over CC, Jira over Bugzilla, <insert tool we use> vs. <your favourite tool this week>.

Although it would reflect better on you if your unit test were valid given an appropriate companies module, I really don't think you should be to worried.
What makes "zavarka" so important is that it's easy to measure how concentrated you want your tea to be. It's more difficult to achieve with a teabag. Though, I must note, hardly anyone here makes zavarka anymore.
You have insulted steve jobs, you are lucky that your account wasn't deleted. Never speak of this again!
There is an interesting comment in the Discover post, where Carl Zimmer (author of popular science book on parasites) points out several studies from all around the world (Jamaica, China, Indonesia, Philippines) where they found children got smarter after de-worming:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/06/2...
The themes are not WP software. They are contributions by theme developers and it should be up to them how the license it whatever WP might say. UNLESS they copy GPL'd code into their themes.
This is the norm with all web applications. The frequency of regressions will depend on a lot of factors. One of the reasons I think this works well for web apps is that the deployment environment is exceptionally consistent and stable when compared to the world of desktop os's. It would be awful if your text editor broke while you were in the middle of using it, but that is the situation I am in right now with my email. How much trust do you give the developers?
Crude oil is a natural substance. It leaks out of the earth all over the place. This is obviously an extreme case, but I think that with time, the environment will absorb this and return to some sort of normalcy.
Note that the course's textbook, which is also called Street Fighting Mathematics, is available via Creative Commons Noncommercial Share Alike:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&...

Its a link on the left side under the picture.
(Having seen the script: the equations determine, based on past user votes, the probability that each of two Harvard girls will be voted "better looking" in a head-to-head match-up.)
I don't know about calling it great news...it's just not more bad news.
You guys know a group of crows is called a Murder, right?

I'd hate to work somewhere where I could only use stuffy, politically correct software names. Call me crazy, but quirky software names are half the reason I release a project.
This sucks. I feel for you. My heart goes out to you.
Go Blog: Share Memory By Communicating
Every enterprise or consulting company I've worked for has had significant issues with getting everyone to fill in their timesheets.

I'm not sure there is anything on earth that could actually make doing rote paperwork fun; but some game mechanics might actually improve the situation.

I'd rather grind timesheets than just fill them out.
There are two features I'm excited about for Gnome 3 which were not mentioned. Both exist as ideas. Ideas are fragile, delicate things. Attack people, not ideas.

The first is the "task pooper."
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/02/task-pooper-...

The general idea is that things that pop up in your face are distracting, but notifications are good. Hence, the task pooper. It's a bar of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff. You drop files and such into time slots on it, and they pop up again at the end (to either disappear into a filing system after a few seconds or be bumped back a few hours). I vaguely remember hearing something about being able to shove application notifications in it. Additionally, it can boil an egg at thirty paces.

The second is Quicksilver/Launchy/Gnome-Do type functionality integrated at the GTK 3 level.
http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2009/01/31/do-ifying-gtk-30/

This will never happen, but it would be amazing. No more hunting for arcane menu items in The GIMP; just type "enable indexed color" or whatever. Alas, a strong argument against is would be that it would just encourages sloppy ui design, so I doubt we'll see it any time soon.
> There are actually three ways to open the Activities Window:

> 3. Click the Super key (often referred to as the "Windows" key).

Well, there goes my free unused keyboard shortcut modifier.
Here's my iteration of the spreadsheet (I wanted a few more numbers)

http://bit.ly/blyVpZ
No, I like Clojure - but as a platform, it needs some time to get everything right. I think some patience is required, let the Clojure platform developers keep up their very good work.
>I would not even use Javascript, if I were you; Viaweb didn't. Most of the Javascript I see on the Web isn't necessary, and much of it breaks. And when you start to be able to browse actual web pages on your cell phone or PDA (or toaster), who knows if they'll even support it.

I read this as being advice for the then-present, not a prediction. "Javascript isn't necessary, doesn't work well, and it's not guaranteed that it will work in future."
Fedora is typically very liberal distribution when it comes to package versions and they usually try to ship the latest reasonably stable version of every package with each release. People who choose Fedora (like me) accept that or even like that. The reason Red Hat sponsors Fedora is because it acts as a test bed for future Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.

If you need a more conservative distribution, you can try RHEL or Debian, or Ubuntu which is a bit more conservative than Fedora but a lot less conservative than, say, Debian. Linux distributions are about choice, really.
"Windows? shudders", on the other hand...
Interesting... but I have to disagree. A lot of people would scream bloody-murder if their notifications were automatically marked as read. And if stars / flags are the only organizational option, any power-user will quickly feel the everything-bucket-migraine. Folders / tags are probably a better option there, and would indeed be useful for power-users. By all means, that'd be a useful addition, and can be ignored if one doesn't want to use it.

As to the auto-mark-as-read, and possibly everything, how about a plugin? I'm only familiar with Safari's API, but that has storage for settings / data - you could just migrate things to be saved into there, and mark everything automatically.
Can anyone enlighten me as to the notification he's receiving?

I'm only a light user of github, and 'git pull' and 'git log | less' have always been all the 'notification' mechanism I've needed. I've not dealt with other people wanting to edit the code without having full push access, though.
Huh. A brooding genius that does not make, but at least they didn't throw random math in there for no good reason.
well, i posted this:

http://flippa.com/auctions/100473/ThatHigh-com---PREMIERE-ma...

i dont really expect it to be taken seriously, but what the hell. its worth a shot. my reserve is ridiculously high. experiment, i guess. thanks.
I would have thought the Bay area is better for startups, and you have access to free lodging, food. Why resent having to do some odd jobs in return - is that another aspect of your arrogance?

Since you don't have much cash in reserve, you are going to need some more money and fast. Now if you have a business plan, then you should have a feel for how long before you are Ramen profitable. My guess is that it is going to be a heck of a lot longer than 6 months by which time you will be behind in your rent.

Oh and if you got kicked out of college, how come you feel entitled to using the university facilities? Seems like bad karma to me.
In GA there's a setting to allow sharing of my data with other Google products. If I check this, do they still not use that as a source for Trends?
Good point regarding automatically marking as read.

Since there is already a “Mark as Read” button, automatically doing so would not required for my ideal solution (as described in the link).

I have heard people describe notifications as “broken” for not auto-marking as read, which is why I assumed it was desirable. (That, and since Facebook does it this way, there is a very popular precedent and likely some broken expectations among new GitHub users.)

Now regarding labels/folders… this is probably overkill IMO. That’s where GitHub "issues" or various To-do managers, which do have labels, come in.
I think this is a great idea, and I wish sfgate.com would do the same thing! As timmaah says, I, too, am amazed that newspapers allow comments on their stories, as it just devolves into left vs. right for almost every story on the site!
That looks... like everything I've seen before.

Useful? An improvement? Oh heck yes, I like it like that. But this is no future, this is the present, and they're just slightly re-organizing.

Hyperbolic prose, indeed.
probably too much paranoia.
Roughly, I think the point is to solve for X:
blueprint:building :: X:code

This is exactly backwards. The answer is:
blueprint:building :: code:software

Failure to understand this is the reason why most comparisons between software and engineering are, as the author has correctly identified, nonsense.

He is unable to recognise this error due to a lack of experience with engineering, as evidenced by this statement:

If my grandfather had responded "It depends" to a question about how to produce a 1-ton spool of 2mm-thick copper strip, he'd have been fired on the spot.

To a first-order approximation "It depends" is the best answer to any engineering question, not just any software engineering question; the author's grandfather may well have agreed with this. Don't get me started on the footnote.

If the author wishes to actually learn something about engineering instead of just repeating erroneous clichés about it, I would recommend he start by reading anything by Henry Petroski.
Fair enough, but it doesn't mean your app requires hooks since the middleware can just not use CSRF if the x-requested-with header exists.
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Sounds good. But it really is 'The future of the Linux Desktop'.
But Twitter doesn't have points, badges or achievements, so using that definition, Twitter doesn't have any "social status notifications."

The thing is, nobody is claiming that those are the entirety of the category "game mechanics" (just like you're not claiming that's everything that could ever be termed a "social status notification"). They're simply a set of game mechanics that happen to be easily and commonly introduced into websites.
Spirit - An OSS iPhone(iOS3) Jailbreak
Sherman’s law of prior knowledge
So what happens is I'm not a douche with an iPhone?
and considering the massive risk to other people's property, I'm not sure that's unreasonable. Obviously, they'd need to cost it out, but I mean, they appear to take some pretty massive risks with other people's property.

I guess if the reparations from BP are fair, the right thing should happen (e.g. they should keep those domes on hand if that is cheaper than paying out the reparations every 10 years or however often this sort of thing seems to happen.)
We plan on eventually revisiting our Inbox in it's entirety. In the meantime, I'd highly suggest using stars to fix the problem.

http://share.kyleneath.com/captures/GitHub_Mail_-_Inbox_-_ky...
Statically the problem that he posed is still there, what are the variables they ignored when calculating the statistical significance of their hypothesis? I actually read the paper, and well, it was one of the worst that I have read in my entire life. In the end of the paper they wrote: "We are not arguing that global variation in intelligence is only caused by parasite stress."

So why is the point of having a research about causation when various independent causes can exist and do not test how much the hypothetical cause affects the causation relationship in general? Should I publish a paper on intelligence and ice cream consumption by population in the last 50 years to show how ridiculous the entire situation is?

Sounds like that sort of paper that someone publishes only so that his name get cited more times.
You were modded way up, but I have to disagree on a few things:

> 1) Most lisps are toys

Like SBCL, Clozure, Gambit/C, DrScheme/Racket, Franz, Lispworks? These, and others, are very solid tools.

> 3) Common Lisp was a good, practical, multi-paradigm lisp by the 80's standards

I still get work from people who want Common Lisp development. CL still has legs :-)

re: 2) I largely agree, which is why I use Ruby for a lot of work
I'm not familiar with the "issues"... I'm a very light GitHub user. So, a couple questions for you:

Issues?

Does GitHub have an API for their notification / message / what-have-you system(s)?

What do you use the to-do managers to do? How do they help? Are there any other ways the notifications are "broken"?

I ask because I may be interested in making a Safari plugin (which I gather is pretty trivially similar to making a Chrome plugin) to handle a few of the basics. And I'm a UI/UX nut, so how others handle workflow things like this fascinate me.
> the pre-iPhone days when cell phones had tiny black and white screes

Uh.
I read that article three times to be sure, and there isn't a damn thing in it I haven't seen at least twice (and for most things, more) in the open source world since about 2005. Including "activity-centric" interface. (Not counting shrinking the desktop so you can put the menu up without covering anything, but "meh".)

Personally my opinion is that until something fundamental changes in the IO devices or the intelligence level of the thing reading the IO devices, we've long since grabbed the low-hanging fruit and quite a bit of the not-so-low-hanging fruit. And most of the changes I see proposed for IO changes are steps back, not forward. (Like a "true 3D desktop", which is a recipe for getting the user lost in new and exciting ways, not wonderful new interface empowerment.) We've grunted what we can grunt in our point & grunt interfaces, we need either real words or more real language.

(Since people may not know this: When I say "point & grunt", it is not intended as a derogatory term per se. What it is intended to illustrate is that the rate at which we can communicate information with a computer is very limited. Point at your computer screen and pretend your finger is the mouse cursor. You can point at anything you want on the screen. Now, you have 1, 2, 3, or at any rate a small number of mouse buttons. That is, you have a grunt, and a different grunt, and on those sophisticated verbose UNIX systems, a third type of grunt, the point being that your mouse click doesn't carry all that much information. Information in the information-theoretic sense; at full blast, I'm lucky to get 10 bits a second into my computer. Try communicating with your coworkers that way all day, and you'll grow to appreciate the limitations. Computers get a lot of out it since we've had decades to learn how to cleverly prompt the user's grunts in such a way to get the most information out of it, but there's just so much we can pull, no matter how clever we are with our menus and UIs, from pointing & grunting.)
I think I may have seen that. Still - aren't they focusing more on real world "events" (conferences, demo days, etc.) than on more "trivial" things like product releases?
Hardly. People will mostly forget that statement, if they even heard it in the first place.
robotsari> thanks very much for taking the time to reply; I was looking for lecture material because of the text at the bottom portion of the "Download Course Materials" page:

"This package contains the same content as the online version, but does not contain audio/video files. These must be downloaded separately from iTunes U or YouTube."

I'm sure that you can see this is misleading. Thanks, though, for your input and for putting the material as such on OCW!
I have an ongoing issue with magazines for 'entrepreneurs' because of the overuse of the word. I'm sure the magazine will be very well done, but will top-10 lists of twitter clients really be catering to entrepreneurs, or will it be catering to the mass market of average people that like the few hours of enjoyment they get from buying this magazine and imagining themselves as a successful entrepreneur.

A magazine for entrepreneurs is like a club for anarchists.
the trick of the credit card/ one identity per user trick is that you must not only charge; that's just a way to make bans meaningful... you must also ban users who are not contributing.

The hard part is crafting a policy such that there is a clear way of dealing with earnest cranks (or people willing to be seen as earnest cranks.)

But even if you don't solve that problem, you can get rid of the obvious trolls by implementing some 'one identity per human' plus banning. Heck, if you raise the price of identities enough, you could make bans meaningful without limiting each person to only one identity (though, I suspect, in that case you have to charge more than a buck.)
Realising the Dream of Open Source Hardware
Very true. Awareness over the issues that it causes is a good start. And it seems like others are becoming aware. I bet it's mostly the younger generations.
I'm lucky enough to live in Seattle, where we have lots of great small roasters. My very favorite place (no affiliation besides fanboyism) is Espresso Vivace. http://www.espressovivace.com/ You can order freshly roasted whole beans from them online.

It's not cheap, but life is too short to drink the cheap stuff.
This is something I have been looking for for a while, in the local tech community we are trying to organise all the upcoming tech events, and we have been looking for a calendar application that would support the ability to share and filter events between lots of people, being able to see who else is going to the events would be a massive plus. Currently using google calendar but it is a massive pain.

(worth mentioning at this point that its probably not something we would want to pay for)

* http://techmeetup.co.uk/
If you actually dig into the de facto structure of the government, rather than the de jure, I bet you'd find that the conservatives never actually controlled the purse strings. Remember, there's more to controlling the purse strings that first-order apparent raw voting power. What would it have cost the conservatives to shut off the money flow? If the liberals made it more than the benefits, then regardless of the de jure structure of governmental power, the conservatives never had de facto power to cut the funding off.

He who pays the piper calls the tune. If you think you've found a place where there's an exception, you haven't correctly identified the payer.
I'd be interested to see some proof that this is why this is happening.

The best reasons I've read for why Apple is so hard on jailbreaking is (a) carrier agreements not liking unlocks and (b) pirating of apps. I find these reasons a bit more compelling, although like I said I'd like to see more information about it.