skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...leaving the company in the hands of new owner Oracle (ORCL) and its very profit-minded leadership"

I would like to point out that the leadership of Sun for the past good couple of years seemed completely averse to profit.

Only that would explain such a long series of blunders.
Unfortunately I'm stuck with Drupal 6. And if you do a backtrace in any custom module there will literally be thousands of functions listed. It may have 'tons of extensibility' but at least Drupal 6 is a cluster mess. Sure it may give less experienced programmers ability to do things quickly but as a more experienced programmer I find the rigidity of it to be stifling.
One detail from the Antipatterns book:

They claim that only about 1 out of 5 programmers "get" abstraction. To the extent this is true (and it agrees with my experience in the field starting in 1977 including a dozen years in and around MIT) you can't have "democratic" design processes, for the "software architects" who do get abstraction will be voted down and you'll end up with the usual mess of spaghetti (or whatever they're calling it nowadays).

Hmmm ... another problem I ran into was understanding scaling, O(whatever) issues. At least one project I declined to join died horribly because the people in it couldn't grok that their design wouldn't scale to the level needed for basic customers, let alone big ones (in this case the lead had only done CD-ROM based applications, so his library code for the DB didn't even work when they tested 2 clients, but the bottom line was equivalent to trying to use e.g. the biggest baddest version of Oracle to implement a Google scale internet search engine).
I had a painful (in two senses) transition to Dvorak about eight years ago.

The first pain was RSI that I got through typing a lot. I decided to try Dvorak to see if it helped.

The second pain was touch typing incredibly slowly for a few weeks whilst I learned the layout. It was a great experience, typing is a lot more comfortable, and I've never looked back.

Regarding the negatives:

You need to switch back when using other peoples’ computers

Kind of. If you type on their computer for 5 minutes, just hunt-and-peck. If you type on their computer for an hour, go to the control panel and switch their layout into Dvorak!

Nearly no availability of keyboards with dvorak layout

It doesn't matter at all. If you're using Dvorak for a sensible reason then you're touch-typing. If you're touch-typing you're not looking at the keys.

Having to relearn all your hotkeys

I can understand why Vim's hjkl would cause an annoying transition, but location independent hotkeys will cause you no problem.
I bought the original netbook, ASUS eeepc 701 surf, and I hated it. The 7in screen was too small, and a keyboard at 92% normal size just wasn't working for me. However something around the 10in might be handy from time to time.

I used ubuntu netbook remix and windows xp. Found both to work moderately well performance wise.
"Apple might as well not care and happily approve the app if such terms didn't exist?"

Likely so. Note that there is a Skype app for the iPhone but it is restricted such that it will only make voice calls through wifi. It's rumored that AT&T has been opposed to VoIP traffic over its 3G data network though it has just recently finished work necessary to make such things feasible and may reverse its earlier decisions (paving the way for full-featured skype and google voice iPhone apps).
Care to justify that statement? It's not a very Hackernewsish comment as it stands.
Netbooks are the Nintendo Wiis of the laptop world.

I fell for the netbook hype and bought a Mini 9. What I wanted was a convenient way to quickly get on the web to get movie times or weather or check my email. What I got was a laptop that boots up slower than my Macbook, with a screen that is too small, a processor too slow, and a keyboard prone to typos. It's infinitely easier to just open the lid on the sleeping Macbook instead.

At this point, the Mini 9 basically only sees use as a streaming media player for the kids. It's actually usable for that.

That said, I hold out hope for Chromium OS netbooks. I played around Dell's build of Chromium OS on the Mini 9 and it shows great potential. It booted up and was ready to browse the web in about 15 seconds.

So my advice - wait until Chromium OS netbooks start popping up this fall.
I'm interested as well. But I'm a little confused about the next step. Your post leads me to believe we're all supposed to contact you? I get the feeling that's not what you really want (for attendees)
Haha yeah everyone thinks I build houses because I'm an "architect" and a "contractor".
Mobile Operators, Price Gouging, Innovation, and Txteagle -- A Critique
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think genes where not even known when Darwin created his theory. So to say his theory was incomplete because it's focus is too much on genes seems just plain wrong. I for one have always thought about evolution as a more general principle, that can also be seen in "things" without genes. For example products also evolve, even though in that case humans are the machines that do the reproduction.

And thinking about how the first cell came to be also isn't new - it's not as if those two scientists from the article are the first to think about that problem. For example I have read "At Home In The Universe" by Stuart Kauffman 13 years ago, which suggests how networks of chemical reactions could evolve (not saying that is how it happened, but it is a possibility to consider).

I guess they just had to make the article sound more dramatic, but it annoys me.

Edit: OK, reading on, it just seems more silly every page. For example, they made a simulation and found that the optimal code wouldn't be found without "horizontal transfer". But couldn't it be equally possible that the code was evolved within one kind of "organism" (which would enable horizontal transfer between organisms, because they all belong to a compatible species), which then proceeded to wipe out the other organisms? It seems likely that the organism with the best code wiped out all the others - if that didn't happen in their simulation, I suspect the simulation wasn't very good.

Also of course evolution is not specific to the particular way of transferring genes. There are viruses that insert foreign genes into an organism. There are plants that just split instead of having children, and whatnot. To suggest that biologist are somehow stuck on a narrow minded view of evolution seems to be just silly. And I feel confident saying that even though I am not a biologist myself.

Even if this "horizontal transfer" is really as important as they say, it wouldn't change a thing. It would just mean that the mass of organism is "the environment", and partial strands of DNA (that get transferred horizontally) would still be suspect to evolution. The ones more compatible with the most organisms would survive better than the ones killing half of the organisms they would be transferred to. And so on.
This is why the web wins. It would be absolutely unprecedented for a browser to start blocking certain sites, or restrict the user inside a browser.
I can't imagine that this will satisfy those of us who have become accustomed to the tight integration of GV with Android. But it is good to see Google working to provide some support for iPhone owners.
I don’t want to become a pointy-haired boss therefore I’m not going for management; I don’t want to have anything in common with suits and meetings and investors and therefore would not go for entrepreneurship

After some years of this mindset I finally realized that the proportion of excellent people to mediocre ones is roughly the same in every profession. I no longer draw the lines between "hackers" and "suits" (a kindergarden attitude, really), but between excellent people and mediocre people. It's liberating. You can go into any profession with this mindset and it will be your own personal playground.
Carriers live and die by turnaround time to keep their jets making money (or at least, not losing money as quickly...) A significant part of SWA's competitive advantage is their industry leading turnaround time.

Having every carrier have to park a standby jet (even just one), flight crew and full cabin crew at each of their airports is going to flow pretty quickly (and stoutly) to the ticket price. (There are duty limits for flight and cabin crews, and being on active-standby, such as you'd need to be in order to effectively reduce delays, counts against those limits.)

Consumers want cheap tickets. Airlines are providing that, sometimes at the hidden expense to those consumers of delays and cancellations.
Ask HN: Usefull developer tools
Hope this is not totally off topic.
From time to time I've seen some nice developer tools available as web apps on the HN front page. On several occasions I never bookmarked the pages.

These apps include, a project management system, an application mockup creator and a flow chart drawing app that takes text as input.

PS: You may post anything else that you consider useful.

Thank you.
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See this old post: http://tinycomb.com/2010/01/09/breaking-apples-tablet-is-for...
It appears that a company named Motion Computing Inc (and i guess they are not the only one) already sells a tablet that targets the healthcare industry.
hah - no. slight oversight, there.

join the google group: http://groups.google.com/group/founders-anonymous
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Free Linux Training Series Features Luminaries
the 10.1 inch ones are passable, but the 11.6 inch acer is actually pretty useful (has a more reasonable resolution of 1280x800).
KDE Gears Up to a Free Cloud
The advice of knowing your material really is extremely important. Memorizing what you have to say generally comes across as forced and unnatural. I generally like to have an outline of what I want to say, perhaps with some notes to make sure I don't skip over a the major point, but other than that I make sure I know the material well enough that I can talk about it casually. This is especially important if people may ask questions in the middle of your presentation rather than just at the end (if at all).

There is the extreme where you memorize and script it out and practice it so well that it comes off as totally natural, but I have yet to take it quite to that extreme.

Practice your presentation alot, in front of at least one other person. It will make the specific presentation better and your general presentation skills will increase as well.
Heartland Becoming Heart of Electric Car Industry
Well, superior for Apple. But Apple is in a different business. Apple's biggest competitor is Microsoft, another closed-source company. So, for them to open up a little bit gave them an edge over Microsoft. They used what open source code they needed (BSD), and added what they could (WebKit). Apple only uses open source when there is an advantage. For example, they are using LLVM and OpenCL (GCD) to battle DirectX. The only way for others to support it is to make it open source. They also gained significant geek credit, which has been very good for them.

But Sun, on the other hand, had a whole other set of problems. Apple is a consumer facing company. Sun is a business facing company. Sun's biggest competitor was Linux on any-brand PC server. That's a big challenge. So, they fought open source the only way they knew how... join them. If your biggest competitor is free running on commodity boxes, you have to go to that space. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough of a difference between Solaris and Linux to matter to most people, so they went with Linux. There is some great open source stuff in Solaris (ZFS, DTrace), but ultimately, there just wasn't enough 'there' there.

And then once you've lost the OS war, all that was left was hardware. Which, while high-quality, just wasn't enough to keep _all_ of Sun afloat. Perhaps though, it would have been enough to support the hardware divisions of Sun.
The ACLU and other 501c's will tie this up in the courts forever if it ever gets past the stage of being a throw-away line for any politician.
Three-word phrases that can make your start-up a success
It's my understanding that wonder wheel is aimed more at advertisers looking for additional search terms on which to place bids.
Actually, the new IDEA 9 now has a free, open-source version, with most of what you'll want. There's still a commercial version with some more features enabled.
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_m...
NetBeans' profiler is great though. IDEA doesn't have any - I use YourKit, a 3rd-party commercial profiler.
I agree that what we need to do is pour more concrete, but that runs into all the NIMBYs who want all the other airports to have more runways, except for the one within 10 miles of their house. That one needs to be closed and a new one built 25 miles away, but if that can't happen, at least they don't want any new runways...
I got js disabled. And the effect worked fine.
Good if these things become more acknowledged and more explicitly described, but I'm a little concerned about jumping to conclusions, which would reduce credibility from future "real" China hacks.
How many spare houses, spare cars, spare anything do you keep. These aren't a couple of dinner plates. These are machines that are hugely expensive. Just having them costs money. Where do you park it? And if you need one how do you get to it. Major airlines do keep spares, but only at their major airports.
Competing with [Apple] Must Be a Genuinely Harrowing State of Affairs
Opera: State of the Mobile Web report
What I find particularly disturbing is the normal emotional and sexual relationships from my own teenage years (just so we're clear: dating people my own age when I was a teen) is now seen as a crime. If the clock was turned back and I was suddenly 16 years old in 2010, i'd be scared just to have a girlfriend. What if her parents charged me with a sex crime because they caught us making out? I feel pretty bad for kids today for having to grow up in a culture of fear, confusion and repression.
I hold my head up like that when cycling or scuba diving. It's not much of a strain.
Questions Users Ask About Your Site
Here's Thinks main website: http://www.thinkev.com/

I like the design - very scandinavian
cool, I jailbroke and have a gvoice app which is buggy but works 90% of the time
I doubt a magnet that small would cause any problems. I'm not sure about the new MacBooks Pros, but the old ones had an embedded magnet that I think was used to detect the screen closing.
Exactly. This is why it's better to link to the original material instead of some sensationalist headline.

http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-voice-for...
This kind of speculation is unnecessary. There's been plenty written on this subject, including statements from Google, Apple and AT&T. The fact of the matter is that Apple thinks GV will confuse iPhone owners because it replaces the phone's native dialing functionality, among other things. It's similar to the reasons Apple gave for rejecting Google Latitude (i.e. replacing native functionality), although that rejection was a lot more bogus.
I got an Acer Aspire One for $270. I upgraded the RAM and got a 9 cell battery. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate, and I haven't looked back. It's a little slow opening apps, and the sleep/suspend is a little wonky. But, I now have a laptop that lasts an entire day of traveling from San Francisco to Barcelona without being plugged in.
Different Payments Methods for Different Transactions
That the marginal cost of copying media is zero is a pretty mundane observation. The author goes beyond this to hypothesize that demand moves according to some abstract "fair price" (that happens to suit the author's semi-Marxist definition of fairness), and that piracy only occurs when the market price is set above this value. This second point is the only novel bit of the author's post, and it's just not very good.
How about "Could not compute"
What about Colemak, see this letter frequency diagram

http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?pid=596#p596
Also, vncrobot (www.vncrobot.com).
I agree with everything you said about the cost. However, large airlines do keep hot spares at a few locations. Low turnaround time is great, but sometimes something major breaks and you need to be able to pick up the slack. There are even companies who provide "generic" airplanes for this purpose.

PS: The incentives are somewhat skewed. Customers who have already paid for a flight still need to get where they are going so they accept delays.
The developers, who failed to glue the mandated technology together, probably will be blamed ;-)
Not really. What lt describes basically creates a shortcut on the springboard, but Mobile Safari accepts specific meta definition that announces the current page as stand-alone so that when launched from the springboard, it is not really launching Safari but just a site-specific browser, without the status bar at the top, nor the toolbar at the bottom.

Unfortunately, it has to be written in the page rather than you deciding what you want to do when adding it to the springboard. It's the case with all Google products except Google Talk strangely and I find that's too bad…
Metagames and Containers
frankly I think the whole east coast vs west coast thing in startups is stupid. You can do your startup from anywhere in the world....as long as you have a decent internet connection.

You want support? Come to HN and ask for advice. You want to do some collaboration with someone? Email/skype them. You want to listen to speakers/discussions about startups? Hit up mixergy.

Why is it in the age of the web, we still try to localize everything?

The only thing that really matters "localization" wise...is capital. Because in SV you have a ton of people investing in startups. While in NYC, the same people are investing in the stock market.

That's the only difference....being able to raise a ton of money quickly, simply by being local to the people who actually want to invest in tech startups.
It's not the same because Flash is available for free and on all platforms. Not the case with h.264.
http://clientsfromhell.tumblr.com/post/253757614/i-sent-out-...
Impressive. I wonder what their change-detection system is.

And, after leaving the Google feed running for a bit, it found 3 new articles in the past day, on /newest. Definitely fail-worthy.
As I wrote above, this really just add a shortcut to the page. When you click it, it opens a new tab in Mobile Safari.
I love my netbook for surfing the web. It's a low-fuss way to have some mobile computing power on the go or on the couch.

I run Firefox and have it setup to launch in full screen mode so the screen real estate actually feels fairly decent for what it is.

I tend to use it for watching itunes movies or netflix before bed as well. The only complaint I have is that the wifi is slow when you aren't plugged in to an AC outlet.
Followup Questions for “Strategic SEO for Startups”
No scripting. Here's a direct link to the effect page:

http://www.romancortes.com/ficheros/css-coke.html

Looks like it's just slicing up a wraparound texture vertically -- no scaling, just subsampling. The can and highlight are just composited on top. Slick and clever.

Note that it's really not "3D" in a meaningful sense. It's doing pixel-aligned warping only, and is hard-coded to a cylinder (any "lathe" shape would also work). This is the same trick that the Amiga used for the bouncing ball in 1985.
>"I'd hypothesize that the amount of piracy a title gets is directly proportional to its popularity."

I'd hypothesize that its popularity is directly related to its production values and budget, with a few exceptions. That is, the more popular media is the kind of creation that needs to be incentivized, because its expensive.

I've seen people who aren't even particularly tech savvy pirate Hollywood movies and major label music. It seems to me that pirates are killing the very content makers whose products they most enjoy.

I don't have any statistics or evidence beyond the unanimity of my personal experience and observation. Could you give me statistics that show people pirate low-budget content more than the reverse?
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Colemak. The Colemak keyboard layout is easier to learn and potentially faster than Dvorak (http://colemak.com/).

It is easier to learn because it changes many fewer keys, especially the less frequent ones which are harder to learn because you rarely use them. I found I could never remember where z and v were on Dvorak. Also, many hotkeys stay in place (ctrl+c, ctrl+v, etc).

I learned Colemak (from 0 to 70wpm, now like 90) in 10 days (I had learned and switched back from Dvorak before, though, so I was used to learning new keyboards).

It is potentially faster since it was designed after modern computers were invented and depends more on "finger rolls" to type common substrings quickly. With Dvorak, I often used the same finger to type adjacent letters. I also used my pinky a lot. That was painful. Finally, Colemak keeps punctuation in the same sane place, so it's better for programmers.

Colemak is the 3rd most popular layout. I use it and find it available or trivial to install on all modern OSs. I can easily use other people's computers by either switching the keyboard layout, or just by glancing down which causes my mind to switch to qwerty mode.
10gen announces NoSQL Live event March 11 in Boston
Sadly, Matlab (my main tool) is damn slow on my asus eee pc 901. I thought of buying another netbook but came to conclusion that none of netbooks currently available at the market has resources to run matlab smoothly enough.
Test run?
It looks very similar to what Directed Edge folks have done: http://directededge.com/
Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)
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No, Apple seems to think it's bad for Apple. If you read the companies' statements to the FCC it's clear that AT&T was not involved and that it was purely Apple's decision to reject the GV app.
I used Dvorak for about 7 years but I am now back to QWERTY. I learned to type with 10 fingers back in 1994 or so when in school. The reason I am back to Qwerty are:

Many programs choose their shortcuts based on QWERTY. Espcially editors like vim or emacs.

I don't type particularly faster on Dvorak.

I can't really feel a difference between the two schemes which makes one a killer over the other. In other words: Both schemes are about equally decent.
I always wondered when I saw 'Tweet This' button on popular blogs for sharing bookmarks and links. However there was no easy way to go back and search/manage the bookmarks tweeted by you. We have developed an application www.birdpie.com which stores all of the URLs (Web Links) you have entered on Twitter as bookmarks, so you can refer to them at a later date. The application takes care of minified urls to avoid duplication and pulls information from the url to auto-tag and assign a proper title. Some features are pending (like search bookmarks with keywords, etc) but they will be pushed soon.

I'd love to have feedback on its features, appearance or improvements.

Thanks!
I got a Lenovo S10, and after replacing the stock Linux with Ubuntu, it worked. But it wasn't a nice computing experience, they hadn't even bothered to make the trackpad work sensibly.

Eventually I gave up and got a discounted previous generation MacBook Air. Same weight, but a usable computer running the same OS as my desktop. Much better!
What you really need to know about mathematics of A/B split testing
Apple's Tablet: The Ultimate Red Herring
Still not a data-only enabler -- greets the user with a "what is the number of this phone" dialog on first use. Guess I shouldn't expect 100% free outgoing from Google; they probably don't stand to make money on that.