skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought google was the motivator behind http://www.thinkgos.com/

So in that sense if they want to build a consumer oriented OS, they've already been doing so for a while...
More likely, they planted the bug in the game.
This article is sort of a teaser/trailer for this one: http://www.imprint.co.uk/rama/art.pdf [V S Ramachandran & William Hirstein: The Science of Art]
The (Neuro) Science of Art
"Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:

They decided to rewrite the code from scratch."

"You may want to refactor a class to make it easier to use. That's fine, too. But throwing away the whole program is a dangerous folly..."

Joel is talking about rewrites, not refactorings. Py3k is more like a refactoring. You can still argue that it is ill considered, but it is not the same as what Joel is referring to.

(I suppose, technically, it is a forced refactoring for anyone who wants to use Py3k with their existing code. But still very different than a complete rewrite from scratch.)
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The transparent proxies have been put in place in order to allow the ISPs to
selectively censor Wikipedia pages.

Currently the pages [[Virgin Killer]] and [[Image:Virgin Killer.jpg]] are
censored for myself and users of the other UK ISPs mentioned. The technical
details vary; in my case, I get a fake 404 page.
> Bike Hero’s fake ad has chalked up 1.6 million views. The EA Tiger Woods video scored 2.5 million. Maybe honesty really is the best policy.

Or maybe one has one of the most famous celebrities in the world in it doing something really funny? I wouldn't draw any deep conclusions based on their YouTube views.

And which had a better ROI? I'll bet it was Bike Hero.
"Whole wildlife populations could be at risk, he said, because their gene pool would be reduced, making them less able to withstand disease and putting them at risk from hazards such as global warming."

I just thought it was funny that they threw the global warming thing in there. I don't see much connection between mass feminization and global warming, but it seems like scientists know if they can cram the words "global warming" in there somewhere they'll get the reporters' attention.

Reminds me of the old joke about the New York Times headline: "World to End. Women and Minorities Hardest Hit."
I think we all need another top ten list about how to survive a recession when your a startup. Anyone?
Yaw, software VC is reeling a bit... But do you honestly think that the investors that Twitter has won't throw a few million at it to keep it running given that it's growth curve is so outstanding? Dead in 6 months is a near-ridiculous prediction.
I love how often this thing gets rediscovered.

A buddy of mine ordered a bunch of seeds from Australia, but sadly none grew.
Actually, it would be more appropriate for us females to have the harem, given the info in the article.
Or - this is just a thought here - he just doesn't care?

Is he responsible for ensuring Twitter has a financial future? No.
Are you? No.

He's more interested in the social interaction aspect of the site, if he wanted to talk about revenue I'm sure he would have.
Well - I'd recommend that you use all the channels that you'd expect a prospective customer to use.

If you'd expect Google to be a main channel - then any serious (established) competitor should be represented there.
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Ditto. 256mb Slice = $20/mo = :)
The real point of this book is specifically to teach Objective-C to C++ programmers. Looking at the table of contents, doesn't seem to have much actual "Cocoa" specific content (like AppKit, etc.)

So it looks like the blog post title is misleading.

EDIT: And looking through it, I see I can work backwards and re-learn C++ stuff from the parallel ObjC code, as I know ObjC better than C++ which I haven't used seriously in a very long time.
I'd suggest working on improving the UI to make it a little more friendly. I also was very interested in the raw feed but it gets little attention (sidebar love) on your homepage.
A lot of my friends swear by ThinkOrSwim, you might want to check them out.

http://www.thinkorswim.com/
When it became clear that my first startup wasn't going to get off the ground, I sold the source to one of the contacts I had made when doing my research. My assumption is that he used it for his own products or something.

The second startup I was working on hit a wall and I ended up keeping the source code to that one in order to use for future projects.
PII circa 1991? Um, what? Does he mean 2001?
I doubt it, given how weak his argument that twitter is going to die based on perceived reasons like "its like high school" and "people just collect followers" make me wonder if this guy really knows what he's talking about or is he just going for a shock title. I just think if we're writing articles called "twitter is going to die" and giving reasons to support that based on the social interaction aspects of the site (like you stated), then better reasons should be stated. Contrary to his argument, i'm sure twitter is not like "high school" to millions of users, and people are not just "making" or "collecting" friends but rather tapping into their interests and networks to stay updated on things in real time. I've seen similar arguments made for myspace, but twitter is a fundamentally different type of social site, so the "collecting followers" argument dosn't hold up as well here.
My Founding Story of Cyworld
The Twitter timeline knows the specific message a reply is connected to.
Twitter messages have unique IDs as well as an optional "message replied to id" (in_reply_to_status_id). The latter defaults to the last message from userX if you send a message with the @userX convention.
Hostnexus.
So, I agree with you. But one of Jens' subtexts is, if they're going to clear the deck every 15 years, you might hope for something more interesting than "better Unicode support". There's a lot of stuff that would be nice to have in Python that can't be added without a 3.x-level flag day.
That's a loaded term. Technical debt also describes the design shortcuts that you take to get a product out the door, and those are much scarier than whether "range()" does the right thing or whether "print" is a function.
I see where you're coming from; this discussion just reminded me of the value Spolsky seemed to put on sweeping up ugly old code in that article.
From /. comments:

"Doh! It gets patched every second Tuesday of the month."
Vonnegut: a society without productivity variation has no Edisons.
The price if you order over the phone (and I think the price in stores as of now) is actually $5.50, which is still a lot less than what it costs through the site.
Here is a list of other charges/fees that you'll get if you order over the phone:

Handling: $5

Shipping: $4.xx for <4, $9.xx >5+

Basically if you order over the phone it costs you $15 or so, plus the inconvenience of having to wait on the phone, and verbally submit your credit card information and shipping address.

In the end, it really costs my customers $5 for the convenience of ordering online, through PayPal. Economies of scale let me process each order for less than what it would cost to order 1 at a time, so I can cover the final shipping cost on my end because of the savings.

I haven't had any complaints about price, but I did see a comment on Jackcheng.com comparing me to GM or Ford because of the price.

edit Here's the actual comment if you don't want to go hunting for it: "That's awesome that you take a $4.95 product and mark it up to $19.99. Do you work for Ford or GM or something?"

I don't think he ordered one.
I couldn't have said it better myself.

Twitter's issues surrounding its revenue model are a discussion that I didn't want to touch at this time. (It's a long enough post as is.)
Into Google Reader it goes. In the "misc" folder with the lolcats...
I rarely know what I'm talking about. Thanks for the insights. ;-)
Ehh, a couple orders per day, so around $600/month but I have to order from Muji, pack the notebooks, and run them to the post office myself. I did go ahead and get myself a VA to automate part of the process on my end. The site pays for that and I get them for personal use too (http://TimeSvr.com - they were mentioned here a few months ago).

Then again it is December and a lot of orders might be Christmas presents. I'll have to see if it holds up afterwards.
I'm not implying that the company will be out of business in 6 months. My suggestion is that given it's rate of acceleration, mass fatigue with it will start to set in amongst many and soon.

Perhaps the title should have read: We're going to have to change how we use Twitter. Then of course, that seems a little dull, doesn't it? :-)
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Typo alert: that's 38 Million, not billion.
I get that. Sorry, maybe too strong a response but I'm not sure that "preying" was exactly the right word to use there. I guess that what got my dander up.
Atari 2600 Video Game System Package
> There's a lot of stuff that would be nice to have in Python that can't be added without a 3.x-level flag day.

that I can definitely agree with.
This is reaching. Headline searching for bombastic-sounding facts.
I have no dog in the nature versus nurture fight, but isn't it amusing that the examples of "deprivation" given are things which socially appeal to the investigator?

"Get your kid to the museum or they'll end up brain damaged!"

On the basis of the available evidence couldn't it just as easily be

"Park your kid at home in front of a Playstation and then make sure they're picked on at school for being geeks or they'll be brain damaged!"
Very nice. Like a combination of Ayn Rand's Anthem and Orwell. Vonnegut rocks.
I love it how they tell us that this recession is unlike any other in history and then go ahead and tell us exactly how long it will last and just how bad it will be.

Personally I think we've past the inflection point of predictability. Its anybody's guess now.
I'm getting a 5DII next month.
No problem with the idea of letting peoples' brains run wild on a problem. I suspect you and I could debate for some time about your latter point; I'd worry about things ranging from bus factors to developers who become expert in some set of things later being confined to those areas of expertise to avoid stretching their knowledge portfolio to thin, whatever that means. Maybe it is worthy of it's own conversation somewhere; maybe such a conversation already happened that I could get more insight from.
Yeah, here's a counterpoint:
http://akkartik.name/blog/money-river

On balance I think Vonnegut was socialist. But he had less of an agenda, and that made him able to see more, lent nuance to his writing.
Now all he needs are IMAP and POP3 implementations and we might finally have a mail stack that mere mortals are capable of setting up without screaming profanities.
How do you like TimeSvr? (Thinking of getting a VA as well).
I'm wondering if anybody here at HN is using ZFS for a file server (and pretty much nothing else). Like many others, I'm so impressed with ZFS, but otherwise have little incentive to switch over the rest of my computing life from Linux to (Open)Solaris. However, ZFS is so cool, I have many "appliance" uses in mind, from real business-y apps, to simple home networked storage. Anybody making frankenstacks out there with Linux and ZFS?
This is the best way. They'll be interested in something that monetizes their interest, and you can evaluate both their code and approach to the problem before hiring.
There are plenty of American examples like Apple and DeWalt that disprove this premise. Choosing just one product is not a big enough sample space. I'm sure there's plenty of crap made in Japan as well.

This reduces to "people who care about quality can make exceptional products no matter what country they are in."
Songwriting. Royalties. It wears off after a while, though. I'm not John Lennon. And it's not stable income. But still. It feels great when the check arrives.
I always found Pavlov's experiment thoroughly boring. I could never understand why it was such a big deal - it just seems obvious. But this rectangle thing is really subtle and interesting.
Crunchbase.com very very helpful
Any way to open a shell directly to a directory I've selected in Finder?
Amazon’s Team of Rivals
You can still use ZFS on linux using fuse so unless you want to boot off of it, you should be able to use it for any file server needs when it becomes stable.

A better option would be using freeBSD with ZFS. FreeBSD has much better support for ZFS as they don't care about the licensing issue (though the support is still experimental). Since freeBSD is (in the marginal case) more stable and secure than linux, it would make more sense for a home server anyway.
Make sure you don't qualify as a pattern day trader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_day_trader)

Unless you are looking for education services or becoming a day trade, any discount broker will do. As with most things the more you pay the more you get, ie. thinkorswim isn't the cheapest but they focus on education
IPhone Ocarina
"And a study at Rotterdam's Erasmus University showed that boys whose mothers had been exposed to PCBs grew up wanting to play with dolls and tea sets rather than with traditionally male toys."

Stop the presses. The world is coming to an end.
Absolutely. From a game play perspective, it's really good for a few reasons. It has progressive learning down well - the first five or six skills you learn come seamlessly and are paced out appropriately. It has clearly labeled goals and progression. It's easily uderstandable and straightforward on how to interact with it. It let's you tinker around and learn in a low-risk environment. They did LOTS right.

In the end, it's just a puzzle flash game, but that being said, there's a lot more hope for flash games these days. Distribution through Kongregate and advertising through Mochi Ads can bring in great revenue. -Great- flash games are also getting ported to the console world more and more, with Alien Hominid and fl0w as great examples.
A portfolio of passive income web-properties that can be administered from anywhere ...that is the dream.
linkbait?!

"Google employees not using the secret OS are employing various versions of Unix, such as Linux or Ubuntu, and some older operating systems, like X11, he says." rolls eyes
mass fatigue with it will start to set in amongst many and soon

What, you mean like it did with email and the telephone? ;)

I think Twitter will have a lot of staying power. The magic of Twitter is that it remains very simple relative to, say, Facebook. There is a very bare-bones set of social-networking relationships: Basically, you can follow, and you can be followed. And following doesn't necessarily carry the social subtext of, say, your Facebook friend list, perhaps because it comes with far fewer consequences, ramifications, and options.

I find it interesting that my (now nearly middle-aged) generation has finally discovered Facebook en masse... and that the number one use case seems to be "keeping in touch with your classmates from high school and college". Facebook was originally designed for students, and that design permeates its DNA to the point that even people who've been out of school for twenty years revert back to Student Mode when they use it: It becomes an ongoing class reunion. But I don't think Twitter will work out quite the same. I think Twitter is more like the phone: In the hands of teens, it's a gossip tool. In the hands of corporate consultants, it's a business tool. In the hands of moms, it's a parenting tool. It's sufficiently abstract that people can find their own uses for it.

I mean, take me. I just don't understand what this fuss is about, anymore than a corporate Blackberry user understands the culture of middle-school text messaging. I don't use Twitter as a high-schoolish gossiping tool and I never have. I don't follow that many people, and I don't see a high volume of tweets. I don't tweet much myself, and I have very few followers. I don't talk to personal friends on Twitter. (Most of them are not there yet; As I said, a lot of them are only just starting to digest Facebook. They'll need another two or three years to discover Twitter.) I still don't understand what these #hashtags really do for you or where you go to see them. I'm the most boring, out-of-touch Twitter user in the world. But I still love it. So I don't think Twitter is going anywhere soon. Fads will come and fads will go, but the desire to communicate goes on.
r.e. title image, does anyone else think the chick on the left looks like she has a dick?
Though for different purposes (usually just research or shopping tools), I use these Google phrases almost every day:

"better than $thing"

"like $thing"

"same as $thing"
When a company engages in systemic risk, it discounts that risk by the amount of the system the company doesn't occupy (e.g. if Goldman does something that will create a 10% chance of a $100 billion dollar loss, spread evenly across the financial industry as a whole, and if Goldman only makes up 5% of the industry, Goldman will only take into consideration a 10% chance at a $5 billion loss. The other $95 billion isn't their problem and their shareholders could sue members of the board if the board allowed the company to take it into account).
If you can find at least one, spyfu.com can be pretty helpful in finishing out your list.
I think after the intial setup wizard things are okay.

That being said, remember to turn off data roaming (I think its off by default, but perhaps people either change it, or it the default has changed?) Smartphones can generate scary scary phone bills ;)
Calling lack of useragents an "invisibility clack" seems a bit of a stretch.
Thanks for the fuse info. (Point for you!) I didn't know about that. As for FreeBSD... I actually know OpenSolaris better than FreeBSD, so if I left Linux altogether, I'd probably just use it.
I guess I'm especially curious about people who are using standalone (Open)Solaris ZFS fileservers, and how they're accessing it from non Solaris OS's.
I speak 7 languages. Whenever I am in company with this specific linguistic group I start thinking in their culture.
Sounds Freudian, dude...
Hah, we had a party at our college dorm. We ordered 80 of these and someone brought in goat cheese, limes, lemons, grapefruit juice, sourdough bread and a few other things. The goat cheese tasted like ice cream, the limes and lemons like limeade and lemonade, the grapefruit juice tasted like one of those generic fruit punches, and the sourdough bread tasted pretty normal. The effect lasted about half an hour. I don't think the taste of beer changed at all. I highly recommend miracle berries for an awesome party.
For what it's worth, I'm trading on Zecco.

They even sent me a shirt when I asked for one on twitter :D
I have found ZFS to be very good for my uses. I do intend to put together a system that will have lots of disks and then use Gigabit Ethernet to serve up iSCSI (CentOS etc. support it out of the box), which you can set up with a few ZFS commands. (Have not done this yet however)
Bug Trackers I Have Known
I'm not trying to discourage startup founders, but in the face of much contradictory evidence and the general audience here, this seems like a case of confirmation bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
... but is actually just inferring, and frequently gets it wrong.
I'm still in the 3 day trial. I was impressed yesterday when they actually called me about a reminder I scheduled. I expected just an email. I can't really compare it to other VAs with hourly rates and a single point of contact, but for the price I think it's great. That, plus the site is beautiful and practical.
I really enjoyed it. I also think this would be a lot of fun if offered through the arcade section of the 360 or the like. Would sound great trough the surround sound.
After 10 years, those with a Philosophy degree out-earn those with degrees in IT, Business etc.
Because we find your project interesting?
How do they know the mouse didn't just associate the square with the lack of reward?
This article reads like sales pitch for "Net Applications" product. All of the articles content comes from an interview with "Vince Vizzacarro, Net Applications' executive vice president of marketing."
The Science & Engineering Education Myth
I think the idea of "impossible ideals" is very important tool. For example, when you decide you'll crack down and never have another bug again, on the one hand you're obviously doomed to fail, perfection is unobtainable, but on the other it can direct you towards the bug free end of the spectrum. The idea of reaching for ever more "rectangular" shapes seems to fit that mind set, as you approach the "most rectangular" shape.
The server is taking a nap
Thanks for the heads up. I'm not going to be trading that frequently. I just want to make sure that the brokerage I use doesn't charge excessive fees because I will be trading with such a low amount of money for a relatively short term.

I'll mostly be buying cheap blue chips and companies that are basically hard hit by the current crisis but bound to make a comeback within 1-2 years. Which companies exactly I'm not sure yet.
i agree the author is probably an idiot (or, to be fair probably just not technical and lost it in translation from their tech consult), but i guess the thing that made me submit it to HN were the thoughts it triggered about a potential google OS. it's not impossible at this point, and there are some really cool things they could do with it.

imagine if the kernel had a low level "job manager," which could split up processes and dynamically run parts on their infrastructure; effectively a "map" operation. then, all parts of the process would be merged when results are returned from google and the components executed locally are completed; effectively a "reduce" operation. assuming a constant connection to google's infrastructure isn't insane for, say, fixed desktops (business users, anyone?). file storage could be run remotely, on GFS, which is highly available and highly redundant (and massive for cheap). you could run "big data" problems on individual employees' machines, since everything is partially "run in the cloud" as needed. and, if the data store is GFS, there would be basically no latency to the compute nodes.

there are just so many cool things google is set up to do for a future OS, and this article made me think.
Thanks for the site, it looks great and it would definitely be my top choice but unfortunately they require a minimum deposit of $3500 and I can't afford that much right now (college student, no income).
After thinking about it, it would be really convenient to get flu shots and some vaccinations at a local store.
Out of those philosophy majors that get jobs... Clearly there is another variable influencing the results here, probably a higher tendency for philosophy majors to get graduate degrees.
The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three
I just followed your suggestion and found a competitor I didn't know about before, that hasn't launched yet. Thanks for the tip!
Youtube’s Desperation
Ask HN: Are these scam sites?
Two days in a row either my cellphone or my land-line woke me up in the early morning. The caller was a robo-dialer (1st time picked it up, no one was on other end, other time didnt bother 2 answer).

I Googled # naturally (as Im sure 1,000 to millions of others doing same) and first link I saw was wtfcalls.com(started in Sept 08 has really good growth per Alexa).

Anyone think this site and others like it are the ones doing the robo-dialing and in turn igniting their traffic and Google Adsense revenue?

Im on the DoNotCall list and since they woke me up before what I set to do so..I did some digging.

What u think?