skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I'm aware, all Mac laptops now use magnets to keep the screen closed. Quite strong ones, really, they easily keep it from being accidentally opening.

That said, at least some of them have put the HDD in the back now, instead of near the front (don't know if it's all). It could be that the magnetic closing was part of the decision to move them.
Would you be disappointed if I shut down my blog?
I bought a netbook (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002DYIXMS/ref=ox_ya_oh_pro...) for my wife and installed OSX on it. Had to replace the wifi card, but otherwise everything was completely compatible. It's pretty fast and gets the job done. Battery life is phenomenal.

Could I use it for work? Probably not. The screen is too small, and the keyboard is uncomfortable to type on. It's great for just fooling around on the internet and playing the occasional game of nethack ;)
i've had an asus eeepc 1000HE for about 6 months now, and its great, mostly because it has been, so far, exactly what i expected. i bought it because it has a bigger screen (10-ish in), wider chicklet keyboard, and 9.5 hr battery.

i use it pretty much exclusively as a web browser, accessing web apps, and as an ssh terminal to do web dev work on my slice. no high powered apps to make it seem sluggish.
Thank you for a great post and your insight.

I don't know this, maybe you do, but isn't most health care directed software written for Windows / PC as well? Would having an iTablet limit the software options available to physicians as well?
I'm not sure a support group is exactly what is needed -- there are a bunch of those around (nextny comes to mind, and has been around for years).

However, I do agree that the startup scene is rather fragmented here in NYC. While there definitely are neighborhoods with higher concentrations of tech startups (SoHo, Chelsea, and Dumbo come to mind), there really is no 'startup district', if you will. We don't have a neighborhood like, say, South Park, where you have a ton of smaller startup companies concentrated into a fairly small area, or even a common district home to all the large tech companies, like the bay area has. We do have a financial district, fashion district, theater district, diamond district, jazz district, etc etc.

While not totally necessary, I do think having a physical center where similar types of businesses call home is really an overlooked part of the success of an industry. It creates a community and helps facilitate a natural type of networking, solely because people doing similar things run into each other every day. Plus the after-work drinks in the neighborhood bars would probably breed even more natural business deals/partnerships. I saw that happening a lot when I worked on Wall St -- you'd be tripping over other hedge fund guys at the pubs after work, just because of the nature of the neighborhood.

That said, I'd purpose somewhere like Gowanus in Brooklyn, where leases are cheap and the neighborhood is only now starting to be developed. Lots of Gowanus also has tax incentives associated with it, as it is one of the Empire Zones. Not to mention you're close to the third largest subway stop in the city, making commuting easy. Prospect Park is a short walk away as well.

The neighborhood is bound to change to a business focused area within a couple of years anyways, once the stadium for the Brooklyn Nets is built a couple blocks away at Atlantic Yards. Might as well make it a tech-centered district.
But GV isn't a VoIP service. So AT&T opening up its 3G network to VoIP traffic will have no effect on Apple's decision to accept or reject a GV app, and it can't have played any part in the original rejection.
As someone who went through Real Architecture school, I find most software architects don't deserve the title.

Architecture school is very hard, mentally and physically. The perk is the weird mystique that society gives us.
Google Voice for iPhone and Palm WebOS
I suspect data-only is coming. After all, Google merged with Gizmo5.
The keyboard situation was the same for me and it turned out to be the deal breaker.

I had the Asus 1000HE (a 10.1") with the same 92% of normal size keyboard and I just never got used to it. I have an easier time typing on my Blackberry (which is such a different experience that my normal keyboard reaching instincts don't apply)
HN link for that blog post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1078040
This is much closer to the role a real architect plays in a real architecture firm.

Sketch out the big picture, take care of the trickiest details, wrangle your underlings into doing the rest.
Related to '4. What is this going to cost me?' and '8. Will this site be here tomorrow?', I usually ask myself "how is this site supporting itself?"

There are so many free sites, I'm reluctant to invest time using a site if I don't see how they can support themselves long enough to make my time pay off.

Am I odd, or do others have similar concerns?

As a site developer, do you consider this user concern? How (or do) you address it?
Hopefully Congress gives the FAA the authority to do auctions - would be especially cool if they used combinatorial auctions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_auction
Yes, GV itself is not a data only enabler. We must wait for Google to integrate the recently acquired Gizmo5 for that. I expect Google to roll out a seamless data only mobile service integrating GV and Gizmo5 with plans from T-mobile by the end of the year, and hopefully during the summer.
> artist / restaurant 'websites' made by new-media-douchebags.

This is hilarious.
Then change the short-cuts of your editor. Especially one like vim or emacs.

http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=507212
http://twitter.com/bradfordcross/status/8241335638

Kind of lame to ask people to come and upvote.
Off topic, but sometimes when you see a really moronic comment like that, check the user's profile. You can see he/she created the account just to post a dumb comment. Just downvote and ignore.
http://www.pennysms.com
Do kids prosecuted and convicted under these laws have to register as sex offenders? If so... that is just awful. I mean, official reprimands, even going to court over something racy is not cool, but a lifelong stigma over something mostly harmless?

Also wouldn't that reduce the meaningfulness of the sex offender registry when a large portion of the people are 'just on it cuz I got caught having sex when I was 17'.
The tone might have been better, but it's a valid argument that I have heard in conversations in person. Unlike football physics, society is a much more complex system and it's really hard to play what-if scenarios with any confidence about it.

In society usually there are many forces acting in opposing directions and the outcome depends on how strong they are, which is a quantitative difference we currently have no way of estimating.
> I would like to try things in a language in which I would implement the algo.

Err... I'm not quite parsing this. It's very easy to try things in Hecl, you can even write mobile applications on line, entirely in a browser:

http://www.heclbuilder.com
> You need to switch back when using other peoples’ computers.

I find it's exactly like speaking two languages. I have no problem just typing QWERTY on other people's keyboards, though it is slow going for the first minute if it's been a while.
Seth Godin gets interviewed by every blogger
Honestly, while I support Bolt, I'd like to see the scientists do a little more, please.

Where are the cures for cancer, AIDs, herpes, diabetes, removal of oil from tar sand, clean nuclear, nanotechnology, biotechnology?

Yes, I know, it's coming "Real Soon Now!". But I feel that we, the great unwashed masses, are permanently stuck in a predicament not unlike the porridge scene in the musical "Oliver", while certain select elements benefit enormously from our discomfort:

Oliver: "Please, sir...I want some more?"

Cook: "Moooooooooore!?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STXco3O2PHI

Not the musical but truer to Dickens:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr4WxEQHiCE&feature=PlayL...
Yes. Here's an example: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/07/sexting.busts/index.html
Though I agree that there's a lot of value in what more experienced people have to say and that people my age should seek out knowledge from you, there are a couple things that are also important to remember.

Many of us "20-year-old whizzes" don't do what you describe at all. In fact, as a Systems programmer, it's not incredibly likely that you know 'better than me' what the implications of what you're doing are at an Operating System level. I know 20-year-olds who have contributed source to Linux, Chrome, Firefox, and a number of other Open Source projects. Folks who have worked in industry for 2-4 summers in a row already. 20-year-olds who have gone to Silicon Valley and done the startup thing. (I can go on with this BS forever)

But all that 20-year-old ego stuff aside, it's also important to remember that this is a field that is routinely dominated by disruptive thoughts, ideas, and personalities. All of your experience becomes a hindrance when you start to follow your old steps to the "right solution" every time. For that reason, it's also important that you look to the "20-something whizzes" for insights and ideas that may surprise you and that you actually consider what they say.
This is just stupid; essentially they are making a judgement on child sexuality and trying to force kids into a chaste society.

As someone who struggled with intimacy and other issues in my teens (aka the kind of environment these people are trying to foster) and I can tell you now: it's incredibly damaging

This is just knee-jerk reaction to a few people's distaste at overt sexuality in minors. It's damaging to the campaign against those who really are abusing minors.
Tens of millions of payment card numbers compromised.
clueless fearmongering. Please moderate this down.
I bought an Aspire 1410 recently; it's more of an ultraportable than a netbook, though.

I have to say I love it. Just the right size, capable, and decent Ubuntu support.
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The 40% number seems to be pulled out of thin air.
But the app store has been instrumental in growing the iPhone's popularity. Why would Jobs prefer web apps? Or am I missing some sarcasm here?
I bought an Eeepc 701sd on Ebay for $170. The screen and keyboard were hell to get used to, but it's actually one of the best purchases I've made in a long time. I'm currently travelling Asia with nothing but a small backpack, and if I had brought a larger laptop, I probably would have needed to buy a bigger backpack.

I'm currently running Ubuntu Karmic, (normal, not UNR). The screen feels cramped at times (800x480), but it hasn't been a huge issue. One problem I had was dialog boxes' confirmation buttons running off the bottom of the screen, but then I found that alt+click&drag moves the window.

The 701sd comes with a 8gb ssd, and an internal SD card reader. I got a 8gb SDHC card, but 16gb is still restrictive at times, so I have to run at absolute minimum and clean stuff up regularly.

Webapps can be a bit slow, and flash is a bitch. I can watch most flash videos, but not in fullscreen. Non-flash videos work fine up to about 780p. Above that and the videos start to stutter.

Battery life was nice when I bought it (3hrs+), but now I'm down to about 1.5 hrs on a full charge. Annoying but not crippling.

The biggest issue I've had is with the charger. My Eeepc is about 6 months old, and the charger gave out yesterday. My friend's charger also gave out recently, and he bought his Eeepc about the same time as me.

In summary, I miss the big screen and full-size keyboard of my old laptop, but this Eeepc is pretty much perfect for my needs right now.

Edit: it helps that the girls think it's "cute"
I am also not sure why you would want people to comment on their feelings about your blog if they are not regular visitors. I would think that putting this poll on your website would be enough.

Getting a lot of outside influence through Hacker News might skew your data and you won't actually get an accurate representation of the people that frequent your blog.
I thought the same when I saw the tweet, but the flip side of it is that I really do like just about every one of Bradford's posts. If more HN traffic means he'll keep writing quality posts then so be it. I upvote on the quality of the article, not on his suggestion.
Vote up for people trying Colemak. I'm all for people exploring with their typing layouts and seeing what works better, even if I haven't tried it myself.
Where I am. the law on the age of consent contains a strong exemption for cases where the age difference is small. The age of consent is 15, but if a 15yo and a 14yo have sex and are fine with it, their parents can scream their lungs out, the police will immediately dismiss it. Because our lawmakers remembered the purpose of the law: To stop adults from having sex with children, not to stop teenagers from having sex with each other.

This is also something I've wondered about the US legal system, how much extra information is written into law? Where I am, in Sweden, which uses a different legal system, most laws come with instructions for how to interpret it. Does this exist in the US? Or is this built up by judges?
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Wouldn't disappoint me if you shut it down, since I've never heard of it. You asked! I guess more speech leads to better speech, and at a cursory glance your blog looks sincere.

It really wouldn't disappoint me if you also didn't also waste our time trying to drive traffic through sympathy.
Sympvertising! I know people act pretty pathetic and that gets lots of attention on here, but I think it's mainly because they are actually in need of some pathos and feedback.
Why is dvorak really better than qwerty?

It's more fun.

Everyone tries to justify it as more comfortable or faster, but really it boils down to it being fun. (I use dvorak.) Sure, you spend more time on the home row, and certain key chords are much more natural, but everything has its drawbacks. One thing no one tells you is that dvorak is brutal on your right pinky... especially if you use *nix and type things like 'ls' a lot. After a while your pinky gets stronger and you no longer notice, but everything has its advantages and drawbacks.

So really, lots stop spending all this effort justifying and evangelizing our keyboard layouts. If you enjoy a non-qwerty layout, then by all means share it with the world, but stop making it something bigger than it is.
It appears the tweet has since been deleted.
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That's a pretty nice link!

I use my emacs with most default key bindings in dvorak and haven't noticed it any better/worse than qwerty. Like I said on the article, ymmv
I have an Asus eeepc 901. It is my main development machine. It's fast enough for the stuff I'm doing on it (python web app development). I don't have any way to connect to the internet when I'm on the go, but that's actually a benefit; it forces me to just be working without distractions whenever I'm on a train trip which lasts more than 20 minutes.

I never turn it off, I goes to sleep when I close it. It's a bit slower to wake up from standby compared to my macbook, but that's ok because I intend to be working on it for atleast 30 minutes. I use emacs inside a GNU Screen, so when I get home I can just ssh into it and continue working where I left off -- but with a proper screen+keyboard.

The machine is horribly slow when using Windows XP, completely unusable. Don't get a budget machine like this unless you run linux with a light-weight window manager, etc..

The keyboard is tiny, but good enough. And I love the form factor, the macbook I used before this was too big and heavy to carry around all the time, but this netbook is coming with me on almost every trip.
Right, you know, just like current users of the popular desktop OS'es. They go, grab the latest and greatest and install it themselves, just like they usually do. And they care not a whit what 'package management is' nor what 'adding sources' means. He's saying having to care about package management is antithetical to the notion of 'ease of use'.
who is he and why should w care?
Yea good point. I tried going to typeracer and got some ~80wpm scores, but that's fairly anedoctal since I don't have any proper history of my typing speed.
I literally just released my own version last night. http://googlevoicer.com Google's older version was horrible. Their newer version is nicer, but still very slow because of all the page loading. To make it better they should cache the whole application in the browser.
On first hit I had no idea what it was. I thought some sort of digg/reddit/hackernews dealio
"Why is it in the age of the web, we still try to localize everything?"

Because I still think there is something to be said about discussing things over lunch or while having a beer. Is it necessary? Of course not. But there is still something really nice about developing an in person, human connection.
I know it is not the case but this will reflect to most that JQuery is the toolkit of choice for Django.
So I'm reading the article and kinda getting into it when.. BAM! This message pops up hiding what I was reading.

"Build your business profile by implementing one five-minute tip, every weekday. Enter your name and email address:

Name:
Email:
Just enter your name and email above and you'll get one implementable tip in your inbox every weekday. And you'll also get... wait. That's it. You only get exactly what you signed up for. Enter your name and email above now!"

No thank you spam
It's a solvable problem, and with the right targeting could actually be useful. How many people would discover Basalmiq for the first time via the placeholder image on their WIP site?
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I learned vi after switching to Dvorak - so I don't have any vi-Qwerty muscle memory. That makes for a painful 5 minutes at someone else's desk, but they pick up vim commands better if I tell them what to do.

I echo the RSI sentiments though. Dvorak is more comfortable for myself. I'm somewhat tempted to try Programmer's Dvorak for the brackets/braces/parens at some point, but I do like having my (Dvorak) TypeMatrix 2030 keyboard reflect my actual keymap.
I bought the Dell Mini-10 a year ago, and I love it.

The keyboard on the Dell is laid out slightly better than the Eeepc (IMO), and it runs Windows 7 fast enough for the majority of what I do. I went with the 6 cell battery, so start up time isn't an issue (just put it to sleep).

My only issues with it are that the screen resolution is too small to do any real coding on (but big enough in a pinch) and flash video can get a little choppy.

No other issues, and I use it constantly, either by itself, or as a secondary machine when working on my desktop.
I was skeptical about Dvorak, I read a lot about it, here and in other places, then in a day of "madness" I went ahead and bought a Typematrix 2030 USB with Dvorak layout.

It took me 2 months to go back to speed and I was not that good at typing, looking regularly at the keyboard with my Qwerty.

But now, I don't know if this comes more from the Typematrix or Dvorak, but anyway, the combination is so great, it is the first time in my entire life that I am fully touch typing, with the feeling that all the keys are naturally falling below my fingers. I will never go back.

Note, I am a solo entrepreneur working from my home office, so I do not have the problem with the switch between home and work keyboard. I started in March last year if not wrong, so my experience is a bit more than "just a test".
because information / users / capital / infrastructure are still secondary to (imo) the most important factor in a startup, the passion and drive of the founders.

while the internet has greatly improved our access to knowledge, as good as skype and whatever are, it still hasnt replaced the experience of sitting down and having a beer with other founders and people passionate and knowledgeable about the same things.
Palantir are also funded by In-Q-Tel, aren't they?
If only Apple would ban them from the UK so they could strike back by opening Google Voice up here, too.
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Apple's biggest competitors are HP, Dell, Acer, and Sony. Microsoft supplies those companies, but does not produce a PC. Apple doesn't license an OS.
Most systems have some sort of web interface these days.
The first (and biggest) problem is that when I land on the home page I have no idea what the service is supposed to do.
The site uses jargon that isn't clear. What are bites? Slices?
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The arm finally got bent I guess.
This has been brought up quite a few times in the last few years on the Django dev list as I recall. Argument was always around the fact that some commiters didn't want to commit the Django components to any specific JavaScript framework.
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What I learned from the runup to - and fallout from - the Iraq War is that accusations of treachery, if they're repeated often enough by enough authority figures through enough different channels, manage to stick regardless of their veracity. In fact, among their most devoted followers they actually become more credible after they're empirically disproved.
Here, laws are written by legislation, and interpreted by judges. As judges rule on different laws, the laws build up a case history. This is why becoming a lawyer in the US (especially if you want to be a trial lawyer) is so onerous. Not only do you need to be very familiar with the laws themselves - you have to be very familiar with how the laws have been interpreted since enactment.
It's a call to integrity. Don't make up new personas for different social situations. You should be the same "you" in every situation.
Sun had pretty great entry points on 1U servers around the $1-2k mark. The Fire X2xxx line was price-competitive and worked well with Solaris
And here's another:

http://jwz.livejournal.com/1158388.html?thread=21451764#t214...

That personal story was in response to a story about sex workers in New Orleans being added to the sex offenders register for oral sex.

http://jwz.livejournal.com/1158388.html
If I visit your site on my laptop/desktop, I should get an idea of what your service looks like/offers. I don't want to have to wait until I pull it up on my iPhone/iTouch.
Thank god they finally went for the sensible option. It would have been highly irritating if it was rejected as an unnecessary dependency (which some people were arguing).
I'm not a django dev -- what library was used before this?
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"That's a pretty nice browser ya got there. Mind if I use it to bypass your crazy policy decisions?"
Ask HN: The best blogs I'm not reading
Some time ago I completely stopped reading blogs. Sites like HN (actually, just HN) do a good job of filtering them for me, but I still feel there are some I ought to actually subscribe to.

What are the small, unknown blogs that people subscribe to that are technically interesting and don't get linked here?
Ask HN: Would you pay to bookmark? 
What would a bookmarking site need for you to part with cash?

Is there a big feature that a social bookmarking site could include that would encourage you to potentially pay a small fee to sign up?

Or, like Pinboard, is the ease of bookmarking, over any big features, the reason you may consider signing up to a bookmarking site?

thanks
From the landing page I have no idea what the site is about, so I click 'About'... and I still have no idea. From the <title> tag I can see this isn't something for which I am the target audience. Seems odd to not have that somewhere on the page.
The problem remains even after you click "about." :(

Edit to add: Oh -- the submitted link is -not- to the home page, but rather a subpage.