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I have a question for people smarter than me:

This method differs from PageRank by excluding walks along the graph that repeat edges. I always thought it was an interesting property that PageRank represents the probability of reaching a given page by following links at random. Does excluding cycles change this property? (My intuition is yes, but I'm bad at math!) If not, what would DebtRank values represent? Likelihood of some unit of debt ending up held by a particular institution?
Google does view URLs with/without slashes differently, but since Google follows 301 redirects and they represent permanent moves, you should be fine.

For more information, see http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-...
The study of cellular differentiation (and un-differentiation, as may be the case in cancer) is really taking off. I recommend the book "Epigenetic Revolution" by Nessa Carey to the laymen. It is the most accessible intro into the research that I know of.
Same here. I believe such a book would be a very valuable addition to my programming library - as in books, not software ;)
Given the reaction to any small UI update Facebook has rolled out since people began using the site has be pretty bad, maybe it's better that it takes more time to roll the changes out.
The question the piece asks in its headline is, "why is Twitter destroying itself?". It's not until the very last graf of the piece where an allusion is made to a bazaar (actually, a town, but stipulated). But you have to support the argument that Twitter is, or needs to be, a bazaar, to tie that to the headline.

I simultaneously don't think Twitter needs to be a bazaar to avoid its destruction, and don't think denying find-friends to Tumblr is particularly good evidence for/against their long-term bazaar-i-ness.
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Yes, the app is faster. Engineering backpedaled and rewrote the app to become fully native again. Speed should be a top requirement for mobile apps http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4424212
Yeah me too. It's been a great tool for me as well.
Wow, I had a very similar thought when I first read about infovegan - that it was a poor term for what he was trying to describe. I posted this comment on the "Why Infovegan" page a few months ago:

>I wish the term gave more clues as to its meaning. Dozens of diets are about intentionally restricting foods for health reasons. Veganism doesn't have a monopoly on dietary restriction. Nor does it imply avoiding processed foods or additives. In fact, several other diets have those guidelines baked right into their core philosophies (e.g. raw diets). You're probably too invested at this point, but I think "infoforager" would be more indicative of the meaning here (carrying a lot less baggage too, but perhaps that is a disadvantage for you).

http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/why-infovegan

>Once that basic idea — that in the timeline of human history and pre-history we simply haven’t had time to adapt to our new circumstances — took root in my brain it seemed natural to apply it to other domains besides food.

Indeed, it's an incredibly powerful and flexible idea (exhibit A: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html)! Unfortunately, many circles (e.g. skeptical community) will dismiss it out of hand because it smells like the naturalistic fallacy... also because skeptics tend to treat anything other than unquestioning embrace of new technologies as anti-science.
I don't own an Apple anything, unfortunately.
I've worked in/with security along these lines for a very long time. This CTF (particularly level 8) has been some of the most difficult stuff I've ever done. Thanks to Stripe for putting this together; if I wasn't already a customer, I absolutely would be now!
You believe something about people's behavior which is a testable proposition about the nature of material reality, like "If you push an apple off a table it will accelerate to the nearest cat." The scientific method exists. Have no worries, your apples and profits are both safe, because both those theories are absolutely false.
I wouldn't say so. -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4421764

If anything I think both YC and TS just reflect the wider market with some extra noise and ideally better outcomes.
This is exactly right. By offering a truly free option (not a free trial) you're planting a seed in the user's mind that they can, in some way or fashion, get your product for free. In some form, your product is free.

This will shape them psychologically to be ok with the lesser free version in most cases.

Freemium does work, but not just because it gives users an opportunity to try something out with no risk. So do free trials. Very very few companies actually do freemium right, and would stand to benefit from a free trial instead (which doesn't have the same psychological implications that a truly free plan has)
A task that they are doing with http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2
see the similarities?
I aspire to "be in the moment" as well, but being an INTJ I live in my head almost all of the time.

If Stogdill is spending his time daydreaming or thinking about other things (I do this as well) then ignoring his phone is not helping him live in the present anyways.
Thanks! We really love the implementation you've done and are glad that this small part of our platform is helping folks use their photos in new and interesting ways.
So you're suggesting some purchasers of Apple products are vapid enough (and monied enough) to buy them out of "goodwill" towards Apple? It's possible, of course an alternative is that you haven't a clue what you are talking about. I know which way I'd bet.
Signed up and released my old photos too!

http://i-am-cc.org/instagram/ramakanth_d
That's the definition of working in this context: fulfilling it's purpose as a logo.
I think the poor quality of their tech coverage, which quality is indeed a "symptom" of a problem, isn't the whole story. The total fact of their tech coverage --- that they feel the need to do it at all at any level of quality --- is more important to me, and so "symptomatic" didn't seem right. But I wrote unclearly enough that "symptomatic" is a better word in the context of my original comment.

I do own the fact that "synecdochic" is never a good word to use in clear writing. :)
nice one. You are learning from zed's LPTHW?
I'm going to share this link with you, since it appears you haven't read it before.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's also that link in the footer called "Guidelines". Read them.
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take off the tinfoil hat, there's a reason you see that kind of copywriting and styling a lot...it works, and it works very well.

So long as the product being sold is legitimate, usage of that styling and copy is more than acceptable as it's a proven way to increase sales and conversions.

Marketing != Evil
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Women can be misogynistic. Where are you getting your sense of the demographics of "most programmers," anecdata?
He does seem to have a mental block on Haskell being too "mathematical or abstract" which is something I see a lot of in imperative programmers and am not sure I fully understand.

> I would like to be able to enable even more restric­tive sub­sets of lan­guages and restrict pro­gram­mers even more because we make mis­takes con­stantly.

Which I think is perfectly in line with the rigid Haskell type system and philosophy of "making the compiler do 90% of the work". The constructs that Haskell provides are very down to earth ways of composing programs that ensure that side-effects aren't implicit and lead to more correct composition semantics.
With a 301 redirect, they are treated the same.

That said, I recommend having a canonical URL with 1 consistent format in the meta tags just in case.
Wow, my bad! Thanks for pointing that out. If you scale my numbers up that would be costing you $60,000 per month. If you are doing recommendations you are probably processing significant amounts of data as well. I guess theres no way we could know the commercial arrangements, but It surely cant be the same as your average small time developer.
I have my reservations about the paleo diet that mostly have to do with the amounts of meat that its adherents consume, but out of curiosity, how can a food group that we are undoubtedly evolved to eat, even if it's probably as part of a diet rich in other food groups, be "terrible" for us?
Apart from what afterburner said (vegetarians going vegan because of health problems), was there really a single ancestral diet? I have read that foraging was actually more efficient than hunting, so maybe it wasn't all meat after all?
Sure, and by analogy the reply would be "it isn't."
This again? Really? The main improvement in this version is that it was rewritten for iOS, it didn't need to be rewritten for Android. Whether or not you have more marketshare doesn't mean you need an update for a platform you're not on.
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This illustrates exactly why PHP projects often become such an unmaintainable mess and security hole. This looks like an example collection of PHP worst practices.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong with untestable code and unfiltered input...?
Thanks for the comment, and I used to agree with just about everything you said.

However, there's nothing at all wrong with "marketing-speak". It's based on psychology: people skim, bolding is used to emphasize importance, and money back guarantees - well, they're exactly what they mean.

For most things, I personally prefer easily digestible content over blocks and blocks of text.
I would reserve the idea of "attentional High Fructose Corn Sugar' for just some specific user-experiences, rather than the internet as a whole.

There are some interface patterns that tend to heighten the sense of importance/urgency/novelty... without any real substance. Those help create the overstimulation-crash-craving cycle like dietary sugar binges.

The interleaved Twitter/Facebook streams are one form of attentional sugar. But the HN format is, too: mixed topics, jittery time-influenced rankings, random arrival of comments/karma-deltas.
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I've been using DDG as my default browser for a while (though I sometimes revert to !g to search google), and I'm satisfied with the experience.

The main thing that would really improve my experience would be if it was faster. Google really spoiled my with the instant results and suggestions as you type.

I'm also looking forward to them switching to SPDY as I always use the encrypted version, and this should make it a bit more responsive.
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and your link to the top 10 brands only shows coke for me, but here's what i'm thinking of: golden arches, chevy bow tie, nike swoosh, apple logo, playboy bunny, wikipedia crossed W.
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Perhaps not. But when your most valuable customers are clustering around one or two platforms...
They also made a bet on HTML5 closing the gap on native app platforms over time. But the bet turned out to be wrong as the gap has actually increased.
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Is there an API which lets me aggregate my grocery shopping across groceries? If not across them, at least one of them like Whole Foods or Trader Joe's. I found API's like AisleFinder really useful. Do they also keep track of what I have bought?
I agree, but do not boil down Haskell to Monads. The most interesting abstractions are the ones you write. The only contribution Haskell has here is a flexible type system. It does not give you anything for free per se.

Rather, what I am saying is I see a trend in the Haskell community where the developers strive to find the best semantics for a problem and not just stop at the first arrived at solution because it works.

See all the conversations on pipes vs. conduit if you want an example.
It seems strange that they'd use .NET/aspx on that site.
I believe that's what the statistics say. eg, something from a Google search just now:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....
Ask HN: What is 37 Signals pre-recorded billing phone number?
When 37 Signals shows up on a bill, there's a phone number. That phone number is a pre-recorded message that explains the charges and about how to contact them. I'm thinking about setting up something similar, and I'd really like to listen to their recording!

Does anyone know the number?

The article I found out about their pre-recorded message: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1545-how-we-reduced-chargebacks-by-30-as-a-percentage-of-sales
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I completely agree with you regarding the stained and broken-in style. That's why I got it!
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> They don't derive their value from their UI nor have they ever.

I'd be interested in your supporting arguments, especially in light of this investment they just made entirely for UX reasons.
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OP is about why Millennials aren't buying cars and houses.

Whereas OP includes values (eg smartphones vs cars), thaumaturgy also says they don't have the cash.

No reasonable person can deny wage stagnation, rising unemployment, increasing costs (education, food, housing, and transportation).

yummyfajitas gets argumentative, citing some libertarian fallacies.

specialist refutes yummy.

liber8 gets pedantic, forgetting original point.
I used incorrect terminology. With the on screen keyboard I am able to drag a finger around until I hear the letter I want announced, then with another finger tap the top half of the screen to enter that letter. It is much more efficient then touch typing with either Fleksy or touch typing with the standard keyboard.
One of the most powerful "About" pages I've seen:

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I've had the same experience with their meatballs.
That sounds wrong, but I guess you have a premium on someone being "on-call" that I am not aware of. Wouldn't it be cheaper/easier to just ensure all your developers understand your infrastructure and can step in where necessary?
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Uh, so I created a stealth account on my desktop, so I could easily generate a random password. Then logged out, preparing to log back in so the browser would remember my account. But I can't find any way to log back in, only create another account. What am I missing?
"The frequency of working from home has been rising rapidly in the US"

I don't understand why they even mention the USA. Do they try to extrapolate that USA workers would react the same way Chinese workers did? I'm don't know if they would but it is reasonable to fear that the very different cultural environment could affect results. Or not, we don't know. Hence my question.
It really just depends on how much your job requires collaboration with other people, and what tools your company employs to make this possible. At my job, the first one is a lot, and the second one is next to nothing.
Referring to the number of nucleotides in BRCA1/2 as n, what happens if I develop a test that checks (1) if nucleotides 1->3n/4 of BRCA1/2 are present (2) if nucleotides n/4->n of BRCA1/2 are present (3) if the substrings in (1) and (2) are "properly overlapping". Given this information, I can perform their test without ever "creating" (i.e. isolating) their patented "gene".
I have no idea about German law. But does this not risk qualifying as extortion? Pay or we go publish your name. I do not think it matters much that there is a crime involved, it can still be extortion.
Does your TV need a "user-interface"?

Does your secretary need a touchscreen?

MS's last remaining market is business. As others bring to business the old power of UNIX, for less cost, and repackaged with now commonplace buzzwords like "opensource", "linux", and "cloud", MS is in big trouble. For most of the business world, software is an expense, not an asset. Inexpensive wins.

But those guys who could say "FU" in 1992, why should they care? MS has had a GREAT run.
Exactly - most of the effort was making a game that hid that simple mechanic so that it took some (admittedly interesting) math to figure out where the dependence was.
They are by many accounts significantly (as in, not just pro-forma) profitable.
Seriously? FB is one of the worst slow moving companies in mobile. Google mobile apps were always better.
Not sure how adding some input filtering and tests would make this an unmaintainable mess..?

The code is actually pretty tight and is optimized for empowering a developer rather than inflating the bumpers of your bowling lane.
The article doesn't work if he's a long-time Tumblr user, because find-friends is something you typically do when you first join.
I like what I've seen from DDG so far. I don't expect it to be Google, but it seems like the search engine keeps getting better with each iteration.

With the launch of DuckDuckHack it will be interesting to see what people build for the platform. Plus, I'm just excited to see a talented team take on search.
I'm just a little fearful due to the should. :(
That's interesting. I just moved back to Safari because ever since Lion, Chrome has been totally unusable for me.

The Flash/Shockwave that they bundle in consistently pegged my CPU after a few minutes of use. The whole desktop would get laggy and sluggish, to the point that I could barely operate the Finder enough to do a Force Quit. After a year of trying all kinds of things to fix/mitigate it, I just gave up and went back to Safari. Weird, since I rarely hear complaints from others about Chrome, but for me it was unusable. Even tried a fresh OS install to no effect.
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I don't think that is going to happen at all.
> But what I see happening in the Haskell space for example (and even further in languages such as Agda) are attempts to distill things down to their elements. To find the true semantics behind a problem. ... I really do believe software is a scientific (and mathematical) exercise. The problem is most of industry does not treat it as such, and hence we end up in the mess we are in.

These statements suggest a view of science and math I find particularly insidious -- please correct me if that's not your view.

It's the view that software engineering should really be computational physics. All we need to do is figure out the laws, set up the equations for a specific problem, pick the best algorithms for the job, and hit Enter.

It's not unlike how the ultimate watchmaker created the universe. And best of all, there's no "monkey programming" (how I hate that term) in computational physics.

Truly romantic, and hey, I think I've just persuaded myself it's not so insidious after all!
An interesting alternative would be to enhance the current 'Save to Home Page' feature beyond specifying a manifest of resources and a home page icon. If this was fattened up to allow developers to make something that looked even more like an app but was running Safari (not a UIWebkitView inside a native app), you might have something interesting.

Pure conjecture on my part.
Not as powerful if you have seen that same scene performed by a scammer before :(

Thinking of it, it would be just as amazing (and ironic) if the woman's story was a scam too. Something about fate/karma or nature balancing itself.
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Thanks! We really appreciate the feedback. It's been a year and eight months since that day on the bus, and we've finally got the platform up!
You're right, if we manage our own db, then we need everybody to understand how to troubleshoot across both software and hardware issues, rather than just file a ticket and follow instructions/suggestions.

Let's say we have 5 engineers and that kind of training costs us 1 hour per eng/per week. That's 20 hours a month, which is easily more than $1k/month and the cost grows as the team expands. This is before you account for the losses of having your own engineers on call for issues and setting up early warning systems specific to the database etc.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge [...]" - Charles Darwin

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although I have not used app engine much, it seems like you would have a lot less flexibility if you use it rather than EC2/Rackspace.

Also, Im not sure I believe statements like "its nice not to have to worry about scaling", although if it is working for KA at hundreds of requests per second, maybe it is an accurate statement
I think this has a lot of potential, you just need a good catalyst to accelerate this beginning process would be a retweet by a person with lots of followers... an indie musician that I know got retweeted by howard stern (5+ million followers) and his song (that was really good) went viral. The idea of the website is really good as well, people just need to discover your website. I would look for any musician, actor that has 500k+ followers and try to get a retweet from him and then move to bigger fishes...
There's potential for a huge industry built around "regrowing attention spans" and "info diets" and so forth. It will be partly a continuation of the efficiency/simplicity lifehacking practices of the last decade, except to a whole new level.
Just in case people get confused (because there were multiple antitrust actions against Microsoft), the antitrust charges you mentioned were from 1991 (when Microsoft was investigated by both the FTC and DoJ), see:

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Why not just allow you to take a picture with the front facing camera? Simpler, will work with a modern iPhone, photographic evidence of the person who has your phone.
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