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Completely agree. If Yahoo does manage to turn it around I wouldn't be surprised to find it disapointed people who were secretly wishing for collapse.
I'd definitely say you're right if two years and at least one course reversal hadn't gone by.
Really loved your article man.
It's 2011. I'm not a perfect typer, when I type 'chocolate pudding recpe' Google should be smart enough to figure out I meant recipe. Or even if I don't know how to spell a word ('accomodation').

Oh, apparently it's not allowed to do this because it will hurt somebody's feelings. Guess I will have to do the extra click to correct my query rather than him.
I totally agree. Too many people act like they're mutually exclusive when they really aren't.
I hope you guys go far, this is fantastic.
I vaguely remembered ICANN talking about allowing them. No idea where they are in the process. Don't really pay much attention to things like this as "unusual" domains are irrelevant unless you're being obtuse/cutesy or running a url shortening service.
Navier-Stokes is a set of non-linear differential equations, not a function. It's extremely hard to analytically solve the equation (unless you give it some extremely simplifying constraints), so the best you can do is solve it discretely and iteratively. Then you're just looking at the neighborhood of a given point in space and time to compute the next value at that point, so it could really be any topology.
If you owned a company "burgerbrain inc". Is it "well within reasonable right" for any of your employee to write "burgerbrain's guide to lock picking" without asking for your permission?

Do you think it is within your right to write "[company you work for now]'s guide to X" without asking for permission from your employer?

Just because a person is part of an organization doesn't mean he has the right to represent the organization in anyway he wants.
Maybe there should be a competition to see who can write the worst piece of code. :)
keep in mind touchstart is fired in swipes as well so binding to touchstart only could have unintended consequences. Like I said there's a lot to consider when it comes to solving the click issue on mobile.
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not only does this stuff work, there are eaven people using it so we know its safe.
i never heard of this use of phage so thank you for posting it.
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They're more likely to show you a video saying 'Trust all the cops all the time!'.
Any internet lawyers out there? What do you think?
I think the GC example is helpful, I know Azul uses it on their custom hardware and they've also said that they're very glad they decided to go with a standard operating system arrangement, no doubt because their main user program is Hotspot, a by now very gnarly monster of a C++ program.

The idea is that it's good to have something below you to pick up the pieces, and for fast/Pauseless GC it's good to give your GC code supervisor level access to stuff like the CPUs virtual memory (Pauseless maps and unmaps VM at a furious rate).

But you're otherwise correct in that to my knowledge no one has found another really good use of intermediate privilege. On Multics, after they got 8 rings in hardware, user code ran in ring 4, the email system ran in an intermediate ring but that wasn't critical and a very few people built systems with sandboxes in ring 5.

Ah, sandboxes could be another example. Wikipedia says the
Google Native Client overhead (presumably on x86_32) is 5%, although I seem to remember a higher figure. But of course you need to be running on an operating system that uses rings and Linus didn't take advantage of the 386's ring system (which turned out to be very good for portability, as noted even to x86_64).
I mostly listen to Java Posse and Stack Overflow podcast. I used to listen to Pragmatic Programmer podcast but I don't find any new one these days.
Or you do hit play but the music stops and you don't even notice.
I recently did something similar for more general elements as a jquery plugin: http://jquerypulsate.kilianvalkhof.com/ it uses the outline-offset css property, which doesn't seem that well known but seems quite useful too.
The acid3 test actually tests each step execution time, and reports it accordingly in case of failure.

I guess it can't test rendering conformance since that may require taking a shot of a part of the screen, which might just raise some security considerations if JS was allowing that.
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You being your company is a terrible thing.

It means you are never able to leave or even able to look the other way for a longer time. If you get ill or some other terrible thing happens to you the company and all the people that are in it will suffer.

You should strive to build your company in a way that it will survive you for a long long time.

I understand that there is this guy called Steve Jobs whose name is synonymous with the company that he created, but he is the exception and you are very likely going to be just another confirmation of the rule.
This is a much more interesting article than the title suggests. I'd rather see the title reference decision fatigue.
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I can't help but agree, especially with regard to g+.
The issue of parole isn't particular interesting. But decision fatigue is intriguing. I think a more interesting pitch for this would be just 'Decision fatigue'.
Very nice, I see myself using this before friday :)
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Why is the issue of parole not particularly interesting to you?
I think the point of the post was that there are about 2800 people on Bing who are playing political games while the remaining 200 work on a search engine.
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Yeah the size differences alone would make them worlds apart.
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I would go further and say do it more than every so often, do it every day.
This is really excellent. I like the concept a lot. Here are some of the things I really like:

- This uses a proportional font. Most web-based editors I've seen so far used monospace, which, frankly, makes them bad for writing prose. The font is really nice, too. Also, importantly, proper line spacing!
- The F11 feature is clever.
- The word count on the bottom is unobtrusive and elegant.

My use case is writing long (30.000 words+) documents with few formulae. Right now I use Vim, which is nice feature-wise, of course, but not perfect for prose. I write using "markdown" markup, for headings, italics and so forth. I use pandoc to turn it into LaTeX and xelatex to turn that into a PDF. It works beautifully, even for academic texts.

What I love about Vim are its key-bindings. It would be fantastic to add this to wabasabi. I don't whink I'll use another editor which doesn't have this feature. I'm sure I am in a tiny minority in this respect.

You could also add pandoc integration in the future. It's a great piece of software. It also has a few extensions to markdown, including footnotes and bibliographic references. It's extensible as well.

I just wrote this comment using wabisabi, and I like the experience a lot. Are you going to turn this into a commercial project? If you need help, send me a mail (in my profile).
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I use it sparingly but then I have never posted on Twitter (aside from three sarcastic posts aimed at a friend) and never posted to Facebook; so for me it is a hit. I think Leo Laporte got it right a few weeks ago when he said it was more popular for technical people and photographers than the general population. That being said, I do think that Google will cancel it like the did with Wave.
I've been using this for my staging environment. Works well! Has support for the essential django tools (PIL, South, collectstatic), etc.
Frugality can be great just for the change in mindset. It make you realize that you're in control.
Well, I think it's fair to mention that more than a few of us are appalled by how ... conservative the systems development community is. E.g. people persist in building systems that are less advanced than e.g. Multics and ITS (notice some of the comments on BeOS and IO). E.g. the biggest action here other than hypervisors (which are a pretty old concept, it's been a long time since an IBM OS could run on bare metal) and perhaps smartphones (an area I'm just not familiar with) is Linux, which ... foundationally in't very advanced. The base concepts are straight from the early '60s (pre-Multics).

This was true for languages as well; at least at the beginning of the last decade I noted that nothing seriously popular was based on concepts that had been developed any earlier than the '60s or maybe early '70s depending on how your scored OOP (Simula vs. say Smalltalk). Don't know if this applied to Ruby, though, or really even Python, languages with I don't know. Fortunately that Dark Age didn't last long (I suspect because the dot.com crash forced companies to "work smarter, not harder" because of resource constraints).

As for the 286, using it as anything more than fast 8086 was so painful, so crippled and so slow few bothered (OS/2 is the famous and famously not successful exception). Remember the hack with the keyboard controller to get back to real mode? If you didn't need to do that (mostly a device driver issue), it still was extremely expensive to switch segments in protected mode which were still limited to 64KB.
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As I've commented before: G+ is to be judged differently.

Public post counts are not reliable measures, besides it's way too early to tell, ask again when it's visible to all users and integrated into all of Google's products and have the basic features of search and even "vanity" urls, not to mention removing the invite bottleneck.

It's Google's social play, something it must have, a list of people you know and interact with over Google products. It's a work in progress and will still unfold for some time.

And for the record if any other startup got the numbers they have it would be dubbed a huge success, it's just that people like to speculate about and judge everything Google as it gets them clicks.
Just reading this makes me nervous.
I see various migrations lacking - f.ex. Polish to Brazil, and Vietnamese to Poland. why is that?
Very well written analysis.
This is excellent. Thank you for posting this.
Or are you building a simple, well-designed product that has some excited customers ready to pay you money for said product? Do people always forget how viable this avenue is?
I'd like to just point out that the fact you realize there's a problem is good first step.
Sadly, this is the only way to have your submission not drop off the 'new' page. The rate of submissions to HN is so high, that within the hour new submissions disappear from the first page. This is why people use PSUNs.

A PSUN is a Personal Sockpuppet Upvoting Network, which is a bunch of Amazon EC instances masquerading as human HN users, programmed to immediately upvote submissions and/or comments made by the owner of the PSUN. They're getting more clever at it too, by posting vapid marketing one-liners to bump the comment count.
Some PSUNs are really elaborate with precisely emulating a human traffic pattern, reading comments, up/downvoting here and there (triggered by textual analysis of comments), and therefore impossible to distinguish from a real human user, even with social graph analysis.

Like Windows can't do with a Anti-Virus program, HNers who don't want to see every submission they make slide into oblivion, are required to deploy a PSUN.
That's a really nice and simple idea. You could turn it into a game, where people vote by bumping their favourite books against others.
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Yeah I imagine Y Combinator is a lot more important.
Search engine internals are really not my point here (I build Lucene-based search engines for a living).

My point is about user experience and user expectations.

I expect a search engine to find documents that contain the words I'm searching for, not other words it thinks are equivalent, or some other document that has a better "ranking". Ranking is sorting the pages that actually contain words in the query, not in abstracto. Ranking is about relevance, not popularity; popularity is but one piece of information when calculating relevance.

> The missing terms are falling out of the front page due to low rank

In the example I gave, a word is replaced by another word, not just ignored; one can tell because the replaced word is highlighted in the search results, as if it was the one I was looking for.

> Focus group doesn't decide how algorithmic search works

Focus groups can help decide if a feature is or isn't worth it. Some user feedback is useful; relying too much on user feedback and losing sight of the original mission of the company is dangerous. (Remember "Organize the world's information" and all that?)

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It's likely there are solid and sane reasons why Google is doing this (and of course they're free to do as they want -- since we don't pay for their services who are we to complain); what I don't get is why these "features" cannot be turned off (as can Instant).
Bradley Horowitz talks about Apps users in depth here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5sRC67s9fg#t=23m20s

Basically they want to make sure they get it right before deploying to paying users.
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Anyone tried Zimt? https://github.com/zimt/zimt - looks similar to cocoapods, looks more mature.
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I bailed at question #5: "How many open source packages that you build your product on are currently out of date?"

It's just too vague and it implies that I'm lazy/behind. Let's say I'm using jQuery 1.x, for example, because when I was building/testing last, that was the most stable version. Today jQuery has probably 20 more "updates" since I rolled mine into production - the version number has incremented 20 times - but it doesn't mean I'm "out of date", does it? I don't believe that I have to update my use everytime jQuery goes from 1.34 to 1.35 to 1.36 all the way to 1.99.

So "out of date" is a bit problematic for me in that I don't feel the need to test/use every incremental update.
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Chrome Stable gets 100/100 too, and has been for quite some time. However, the final page didn't look exactly like the reference rendering. Now it does.
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That's curious, I'd have thought that the Reign of Terror would be a good example in support of what lionhearted is saying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
We were joking about using the Euro sign (€) as a shortcut for a JavaScript library we built (in a European Union -funded research project), but where disappointed to notice that $ was the only currency symbol special-cased to be accepted.
Forgive me, but I'm not familiar with general purpose CPU's that 'usually' have a specialized hardware decoder on board for video decoding.

Which CPUs specifically do you mean?

Dear downvoters, thank you very much for showing that HN is a place where simply asking a question is already reason to get downvoted.
It is often a big drawback. There's extra paperwork, and H1B visas are limited in amount every year, so you may not get one, and there's a specific date every year you can get them.

(As far as I remember, anyways. Just saying it's not trivial.)
Logged in to take a look, put some people in circles, only people that are regularly using it are people I read on Twitter anyway.

Seems like it's having trouble "jumping the chasm" from techies and early adopters to the masses, who are largely confused by the whole thing and don't see a need to jump from nice, comfortable Facebook where all their friends are.

Facebook hit it dead on (or got lucky) by being exclusively for college students first - get the college girls, you get the college boys, then their younger siblings want to be on as it's "cool" and their parents want to be on to stay in touch/keep an eye on the kids, then once the parents are on they help the grandparents get on.

Same with MySpace, which targeted bands - another cool demographic. Adults don't have time to be screwing around with social networks for the most part, but make them think their KIDS ARE IN DANGER and they'll log right on - then stick around and start finding it useful. If anything, the cable news hysteria over social networks might help rather than hinder adoption amongst older/non-technical people.

Google+, well, who wants to hang out with nerds? :)
Is there a specific feature that makes you say that? Or is it the age?
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Yep, decision fatigue also helps explain late night infomercials.
Erick's rebuttal post was pathetic. I'm not sure why editorial independence matters when the voice of TC is that of a teenage girl's diary.
There's an ordering issue for Faroe Islands departures. I think it might be doubling single-digit quantities - everything below Panama (10 departures) is a duplicated number. I'm on Firefox 6.0.2, Linux AMD64.
There is actually a huge amount of money in that space - think Oracle, SAP and many others.
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"It" being the package repository.
Kind of. I've seen plenty of code with Portuguese words as variable and function names, but they tend to drop the non-ASCII parts like accents (`´^) and cedillas (¸).

There's also ports of some languages (I think I've seen Pascal and PHP) with the actual keywords translated to other languages.
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One of the biases at work is described here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/58y/the_bias_you_didnt_expect/

Simply put, the judge is being harsher as the time since his last meal grows longer.
I'd love it if there was more space below the title image. :P Otherwise, it looks okay. 2 small things that came to mind is the hover effect on the book images and the possibility of having a small blurb in the hover box for each book?
The march of lithographic manufacturing looks fascinating, considering we are already so close to atomic scale:

Van der Waals radius of the atom of silicon is 0.21 nm. So next year our transistors will be 100 atoms wide?
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I'm thinking about spending 6 months learning another programming language. I'm good at PHP, and nothing against it, but I think it'll limit me if I want to do a startup, in terms of hiring smart people.

So:

What language (Ruby, Python, ...) should I learn?

Requirements: it should be well webby (ie. have libraries for all the usual web stuff you want to do), and be exciting/easy to hire smart people for.
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The entire Web is a test page for this one, and I have come across numerous stories similar to my own. If you have the problem on your machine, you can't miss it: basically any time you see a capital T there will be an obvious kerning problem.

I haven't seen anything close to this, especially on Windows XP. Do you have a test page, a screenshot, anything?

can't even download the past few releases any more

OK, I can't assume good faith any more. You're outright lying now. https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases

At current rates, I expect them to last about as long as RIM, so I devote my limited spare time to helping other projects instead.

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ruby/python shd be relatively easy, I recommend immersing in Java ecosystem, including scala, JRuby, groovy, clojure.
"But Facebook didn't [get] their users and especially their sixty billion dollar valuation by being boring."

Oh, but they did.
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Interesting that they mention the Dell website for decision making. 4 times this year I've decided to purchase a new computer and spent hours trying to figure out what to buy from the Dell website. I have yet to upgrade.
But when it does become the universal method, reliability starts to matter.
Whether it's a friend or an impersonal algorithm making the recommendation, you're still watching the same trailer before deciding to purchase a film. On the other hand, no amount of precise algorithmic matching of tastes and sizes can substitute for feeling the softness of the fabric and being reassured by your reflection that your bum doesn't look big in it before you buy. The costs involved are quite different too...
If you mean on the end-user's machine: $ pod repo update
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> Everybody and their dog is on Facebook

You are forgeting a fifth of humanity (China).
I run into this all the time, and I figure it's an extremely common thing. For instance, I'm frequently looking to buy nightstands. I need tall ones, for tall beds. Searching tall nightstands doesn't even guarantee me results that are tall - plus that odd, highly-appearing link about Swedish women. Most results are just for nightstands, not tall ones. Now add the word italy to the query. Plus it, even. You still won't get more than 20% of results that relate to nightstands from Italy.
They haven't even finished writing Google+ for "normal" users yet, there's no way they could offer support for it.
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As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, the period of a revolution itself is extremely messy and it could go either way. But I think that it is impossible to argue that France was eventually worse off because of the revolution.
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted. I agree completely, and have had the same thoughts many times myself. Especially about longing for a Pro type of service where we could get back to actual, effective search.
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At which step does the restaurant, dance club, or sports stadium become profitable? I guarantee it's not step 1 or probably even step 2.
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