skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows would have won even without this "extortion". They had played brilliantly with IBM in 1980's and realised the importance of GUI. Everything else which was "illegal" definitely helped their cause but none was enough to block the Windows juggernaut.
http://cl.ly/UA5 (Finder Preferences)
I think mathematical notation is a big part of it. It just seems optimized for writing, not reading, and especially not teaching.

Feynman talks about inventing his own notation in his autobiography. He then had to give it up, because he had to communicate with other people. Reading that made me abandon thoughts of doing the same, and realize I'm not the only one having trouble with it.
Dear Apple,

Rock on and don't listen to the touchy, freely Web 2.0 people who want you to come to their conference to make them some more money. Secrecy seems to get more talk time on major news outlets, way to save the old advertising dollars.
Anyone know if there's anything like techshop.ws available in Boston?
Finder > Preferences > Advanced > Show all filename extensions
Last time I looked, the IRC channel was somewhat more active than the list.
I doubt that the "average" person would realize that foo.com is different from www.foo.com — or that they could even be different.
Physicists Untangle The Geometry Of Rope: The Universal Rules of Rope-making
"An Introduction to R" could be a good place to start along with the other manuals:
http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html
(I think you can also access these through the help menu when interacting with R via the GUI.)

Also, to make nice looking plots, you might as well dive straight into Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 once you've gotten through the very basics: http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/
I do think he had a point on the sudden about-face as to whether HTML should specify page appearance down to the pixel: http://jwz.livejournal.com/147024.html
The closest thing would be hackerspaces willoughby & baltic, or the new one called sprout. I know some other places with tools too. DM if you are interested.
Extreme Scale Computing
Of course it wouldn't be able to filter out embedded marketing / product placement, an increasingly popular paradigm for advertisement. (But who can filter that out when it's integrated well enough?)

Neat idea.
No, it doesn't. Here's the relevant quote, indicating that the only thing they won't cover is damage you cause while attempting a swap. Swapping itself is fine.

WARNING: Apple recommends that you have an Apple-certified technician install replacement drives and memory. Consult the service and support information that came with your computer for information about how to contact Apple for service. If you attempt to install a replacement drive or memory and damage your equipment, such damage is not covered by the limited warranty on your computer.
No, he didn't. He had already done that for braintrust and re-used it. So it is a bit misleading.
Great table layouts. I was hoping for a large summarizing table at the end, however, because it was hard to directly compare two tables without a lot of scrolling.
Good move, overall. Every browser I know of automatically inserts the http:// and has for some time now. Removing the visual component of this just completes the abstraction that's already there.

The author suggests replacing the string of text with an icon, like RSS. But the RSS icon quickly went from "standard" to "indecipherable clusterfuck" in practice. http://images.google.com/images?q=rss%20icons
for the hackers reading this, have you considered a "bits & atoms" based startup? If not, why not? I write a blog on this stuff and am curious what the tipping point will be to get 25-50% of YC startups looking at businesses with physical components.
$4,500 to have some one yell "Too lazy to walk, ya fuckin homo?" - http://paulgraham.com/segway.html

Much like the segway this product just make you look dorky and lazy.
Adobe probably wouldn't chose that strategy given that they would be encouraging and supporting people breaking the EULA on software and this would hurt Adobe in their own need to keep their software unhacked.
Terrific and clear comparison. I've been wondering about where to go with private repos...thanks for answering this question and having clear recommendations.
Ask HN: Programming books that a programmer read in his life
Can you guys suggest some books that a programmer MUST read ?
That's a few insightful article. Breaking existing apps/content so you can craft a different experience for your device is something that most would dare not do. It's a chess move.
I think in the Wordperfect biography by the ex-CEO clearly shows that they had faltered in their execution. They just did not have the same vision which Microsoft had. Each of these above mentioned companies were behemoths in their own fields with Microsoft being the "david" to these "Goliaths". While I do not want to defend Microsoft's practices, to me their execution and vision just could not be matched by others.
Maybe I am missing what you're saying but the conclusion at the end summarizes everything quite nicely in context of the original purpose which is stated as "Please note that this is a fairly high level overview of DVCS hosting providers where I focused mainly on price for private repositories and allocated disk space."

Why would you need a gigantic table in this case?
So umm.. who wins if these limits are successfully put in place?
It has occurred to me that Jobs has has one or more stark reminders of his own mortality; I would hope he would have set up a good succession plan (not that those have a great history of success).

Then again, at 55 it isn't necessarily going to be needed anytime soon. E.g. the current situation that you describe might not hold by the time he retires.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wikipedia+jwz

Additionally:

"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I suppose for some idiosyncratic value of "right."

In the Point example, the API that respects encapsulation would remain the same between the 2D and 3D versions, along with any code using it. The API with un-encapsulated data would have to change at every single place in the code where a Point was passed.

(In other words, the implementation details of Point have leaked out into the system at perhaps 100's of places. Avoiding this and decoupleing ourselves from implementation is precisely why we have encapsulation in OO.)

How this applies to color is left as an exercise to the student.
It's not exactly "configuration" but Mac OS apps usually have "Paste" and "Paste and Match Style". The latter being basically a plain text paste with the current app figuring the rest. (that's what it feels like at least)

However, I have seen a few times where it doesn't really work as expected. Not sure why.

And I also dislike rich text copy/paste. One example that comes up often for me is that I copy the link to a comment on HN and paste it to Gmail, and it just shows up as "link". Stupid.
Something like this: http://www.me-vc.com
Computer as Condom
It probably is a cheap way to get points but I (as someone who has never gotten points off it) don't mind that. There are certain items that are of such immense value that I think it's ok that they get submitted over and over again. The way I see it every point represents someone who missed it before or who had forgotten about it. Either way its delivering new value even though it's the same item.
Is there something similar for handwritten text?
The pilot doesn't want to die either, and the airline don't want to lose their expensive plane!

I'll happily jump on a plane as soon as airspace reopens knowing that.
"Take in fewer calories than you burn, put yourself in negative energy balance, lose weight"

Join a fitness/nutrition website to provide accountability (and to educate you that the presumably healthy food you're eating is actually highly caloric).
I'm not quite sure what the author is trying to say about the Laffer curve, but I'm not certain it's correct. This paragraph is very confused:

The Laffer Curve normally describes government revenues compared to marginal tax rates. It’s a curve because, given a sufficiently high tax rate, the incentive to work, report income, or live in a particular country declines. This leads to the argument that lower taxes are net beneficial: if we’re past the peak, they’ll raise government revenue, but even if we’re not, they can produce economic growth.

I think what he means to say is that the Laffer curve describes government revenue versus tax rate. That is, it is not that at a certain tax point the incentive to produce taxable revenue in that country decreases -- this happens at any increase in tax rate. Rather, the argument is that at a certain point the disincentive to create taxable income is high enough to meet the amount gathered in taxation. At any point beyond this point, the disincentive is actually higher than the tax rate, causing the government to acquire less revenue than it would at a lower tax rate (because the decrease in taxable income produced is higher than the revenue at the increased marginal tax rate). I think the author understood this (the rest of the argument seems cogent), but I just felt that paragraph was a little unclear.
Don't refrigerators and freezers have lower-than-normal condensation? Put a loaf of bread or cookies in the refrigerator and they will be dry by the end of the day.
If you believe Hiring is Obsolete (http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html), then the jobs argument is pointless. If you don't, then you can always remember the Python Paradox (http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html) the language to learn, if you want to get a good job, is a language that people don't learn merely to get a job.
For all the Gruber haters out there, here he is, arguing that Apple could never have been Microsoft (old article from 2004 but very relevant to the topic at hand): http://daringfireball.net/2004/08/parlay
Seriously?

The are buying into the "cost-per-influence" idea, which means they have abso-freakin-lutely not idea if it's working (in terms of ROI). I seriously doubt that anyone is getting $7,900 of profit per day from advertising on the deck.

There may, for all I know, be some value in just being in front of the right people's faces (which is really the premise of brand advertising), but that's not really measurable.
I'm sure that company will too but on a larger scale I think Banks win. Angel Investors compete with small business loans and generally win since small business loans require you start paying them back right away where as angel investors just take a piece of the company. So if Angel investments become prohibitive it will force wannabe entrepreneurs into the waiting arms of the banks.
Midad
...his analysis gives some hope...

Exactly what I came over here to say. I have become very cynical about how this appears to be working out.
It is particularly odd that they use Mint as an example of a (slightly at least) unwelcome environment early on for a woman in particular as they had an amazing woman as CMO (Donna Wells) until being acquired. Throughout their growth and since acquisition they have hired many women in leadership roles that require them to be social. However, the piece that stands out to me is that Ms. Vijayashanker didn't just complain about it at first (and doesn't honestly seem to be complaining a whole lot now), she proactively made a way to interact more socially to shape the work environment to meet her preferences/needs (not to mention the fact that Mint let her bring in her own intern to make her work environment more suitable). I'm not an engineer, but from my limited experience any original, core engineering team is somewhat insular and its probably a good thing if your coders are coding rather than shooting the breeze around the water cooler, although I'm sure they didn't all have their mouths sewn shut. In that example at least, it sounds like it is more of a reflection on how engineers interact with one another (as compared to say, the marketing/PR leadership) than a reflection of the startup environment in general being hostile towards women.

I was at a conference recently and a few women were on a panel talking about the challenges facing women in founding a startup, and continued to emphasize and call attention to inequalities, without realizing that they were perpetuating the same stereotypes they bemoaned, until one woman raised her hand and said "please just tell us about your company, what is next, how are you innovating? how did you raise VC money? we don't care about your kids" (and i gave her a silent slow clap)

When women participate with strength and confidence in their merits, the gender differences are not the emphasis of the relationship (and if anything they can potentially have an advantage over men in some industries or occupations). In my experience working with a lot of intelligent and successful women, the ones who succeed the most are able to utilize the benefits of the obviously different female perspective at times but you come to just interact as humans working towards a common goal, not as two separate species that are cautious of each other.

Lastly, men and women alike should sometimes consider that the dynamic in the workplace might not have anything to do with how you look or whether you are black white or magenta, it might (gasp) have something to do with who you are and perhaps you might just completely suck at your job and annoy the shit out of people.
Why is that? Because of the state of Michigan's economic condition? Or is MSU poor at landing grads jobs?
Great idea, sounds like fun. No one in my area, though.
Ask HN: Hundred of thousand of people stuck on the wrong continent.
Is any anybody interested in developing a solution that would help these travelers sutck on the wrong continent ?<p>For some academics, here is what I am proposing in my community:<p>http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2010/04/cs-lets-make-lemonade-out-of-lemons.html<p>Could it be extended to a larger set of people ? Your thoughts.
Introducing SproutCore Touch
The article explains a basic tenet of metabolism: balancing caloric intake with exercise is the key to weight loss. However, it does not mention much about the health benefits of exercise nor the importance of eating healthy foods, which is unfortunate because one's health is more important than simply losing weight.
I'll leave here a short note on a test I ran with mercurial v1.31, it may give someone ideas. The document was a 45 slide OpenOffice presentation (.odp, OO.org v3.1, Linux). Large font text, nearly all pages had one or more images.
Did not delete/replace pics more than a couple of times, but did reorder a bit, especially at the end.

Surprisingly, reordering did not affect much the size of the hg store, which is only 60% over doc size. That may be either because hg is being extremely smart about the content, or because OO doesn't move binary chunks around after they are inserted in the file (more likely).

On each commit, a script noted changeset number and output of 'ls -s' on the doc file and the .hg/.../_file.d store. Only started at 11, and trimmed most of the lines.

c.set file file.d
11 320 632
15 488 944
20 736 1336
25 1056 1804
26 2044 2800
29 2336 3260
30 2336 3480
31 2356 3560
35 2688 4104
38 2852 4388
39 2848 4468
40 2856 4540
41 2924 4676
My biggest pet peeve: "I don't know anything about computers."
New PCI regulations for online payments = FAIL
Also missing from the list is ProjectLocker.com. They offer several Git plans[1]. I'm using their free plan for my private projects and am very happy with them.

[1] https://projectlocker.com/scenario/startup
loved the original title, i'm trying to get off "the Street" myself
for private repos we just setup a separate git user on a cloud machine, add everyone's public keys and make backups. it's really not more hassle and then we don't have to explain to a client that their source lives somewhere other than an environment that we control.
"“In general, exercise by itself is pretty useless for weight loss,” says Eric Ravussin, a professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., and an expert on weight loss. It’s especially useless because people often end up consuming more calories when they exercise."

Study, have shown that if your energy expenditure and take-in is the same as dieting, exercise can produce the same results.

I have this hypothesis that it is psychologically easier to exercise off weight than to restrict your diet below maintenance.

Reason why:
1. Less willpower for exercise. Once you are on the treadmill it's easy to continue, while for dieting you will need to control yourself for at least 8hrs. So, comparing 15mins of control for getting started to exercise to 8hrs of control to diet, exercise significantly better.

2.Exercise release endorphins, ie you will be happier after exercising. Dieting leaves you irritable and tired.

3. Exercise builds metabolism, so you will burn at rest[not as much as they would have you believe in some books]. Dieting slow metabolism.

4. At moderately high intensity exercise can reduce appetite.

Drawbacks to exercise:
1) Takes alot of time. Walking at 4mph for 60mins only burns 340 calories for a 150pound man[or something like that]. So, in essence 3hrs of exercise by walk a day will burn 2 pounds a week[provided that you follow a maintenance diet]
>Microsoft used illegal monopolistic tactics to become ubiquitous.

No. Microsoft used sound business practice (with a generous serving of good luck and timing) to become ubiquitous. Only then did they exploit that ubiquity through illegal monopolistic practices.
An important difference is that you can still change the extension. Suppose you have a file called "foo.zip" and wish to change it to "foo.cbz"

On Windows, renaming the file makes appears to work, and the interface will indeed show "foo.cbz". But what it actually does is rename the file "foo.cbz.zip". The actual extension remains entirely hidden and untouchable as long as the global option to hide extensions is turned on.

On the Mac, changing the name to "foo.cbz" will prompt a warning that you might cause the file to open in a different application, and IIRC presents the options of naming it "foo.cbz.zip" or "foo.cbz".

Neither approach is perfect, but I think what this illustrates is the difference between walling off complexity and just hiding it. We see the same difference with Chrome, as hiding http:// is just visual, but the altered way of copying URLs to the clipboard is actually blocking the user's access to that complexity.
I am naive on this issue, and I am going to assume good faith on the part of Congress for a moment. Presumably they are trying to protect someone - whom? It seems to me that angel investors were not the ones devastated by the subprime mortgage and banking crises. This appears to be a fix in search of a problem.
A great deal of work.

Some problems won't be easily changed to suit his paradigm. For instance, how does one go about redefining an equation like, sqrt(2x+1) = sqrt(x) + 1? I'd like to know what this guy does for these types of problems.

I've been teaching community college mathematics for 10 years and we simply don't have the time to do what he says. Maybe I'm bad at motivating students but my anecdotal experience is that most of the students are solely interested in getting a degree and not in learning. It's understandable that their focus is no getting a degree but focusing on learning makes it easier to get the degree. It's very hard to get this point across.

While I see many problems with the current system of teaching mathematics there simply is no cure to apathy. At some point one has to be willing to sit down and learn to solve problems like, sqrt(2x+1) = sqrt(x) + 1.
Domino Rally Business Models
# Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F
(10° to 35° C)
# Storage temperature: -13° to 113° F
(-24° to 45° C)

10C not all that cold for a refrigerator but -24C is hard to reach.
Summary:

Bruce "Tog" Tognazzi draws on his experience of working at Apple in the days of the original Macintosh to provide a better understanding of Apple's success, the iPad and what Apple must to do remain successful.

From the site:
During his 14 years at Apple Computer, he founded the Apple Human Interface Group and acted as Apple's Human Interface Evangelist.
A couple things.

First the OLPC is rugged while the iPad is decidedly not.

Second those few steps you speak of are pretty big. $250 to $499 doesn't seem like that much until you consider the yearly income in these places...

Uruguay: $4,500
Peru: $2,800
Rwanda: $1,600

In percentage of yearly salary an iPad costs as much as a small car would for an American.

I could see the possibility of an Android based tablet that was built to be rugged but I don't see Apple ever breaking into this market.
That's pretty easy really. It's usually around 35-40 F, 10C is 50F, so just leaving your door cracked will probably accomplish that.

In fact I suspect the Macbook's own heat would keep it above that while copying the files.
code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41609

is an example where there's a hard problem that materializes out of thin air as a result.
SproutCore @ JSConf: SeedJS, great features, amazing demos
a large number people seem to think that all telecommuters are slacking off and lounging around in their pyjamas instead of working.

Ideas about legitimate work tend to be so bound up with professionalism. Why do I have to be dressed to be getting something done? Can't I make breakthroughs while lying on the floor or standing outside eating an apple? I'm excited about the potential of telecommuting to undermine all these superficial symptoms of work that have become so ingrained in us over time, perhaps at the expense of genuine attention to results.
Angel investors do not typically compete with small business loans because these companies would not in a million years get money from a bank.

Angels invest exactly in those that can not get money from banks because they are too high risk.

Once a business is established and has a balance sheet with some assets on it you can start thinking about applying for a regular loan. For small businesses at the 'start-up' level it would be great if they had access to bank loans for their needs, since borrowing from a bank is much cheaper long run than from an angel (after all, the bank does not take equity, only interest).

Has anybody here ever gotten money from a bank based on a non-existent business?
Damn that's one complicated die.
Apple, on the other hand, seldom even attempted (let alone succeeded) to parlay any of their successes into further successes.

This change in character is the key to their change in fortune.
Volcano 1, Internet 0.01
I agree. I think many people make the mistake of looking at exercise as simply a means to an end: losing weight. It has so many other benefits like helping to control blood pressure, improved mood, etc. To me these are more important than simply maintaining a pleasing number on a scale.

I'm overweight according to the BMI and other measures, but I strength train and do cardio regularly. My blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, testosterone, etc. are all perfect.
MonoTouch 3.0 - Support for iPhoneOS 4.0
Bracing for the Data Center Big Bang
I'd like to add: pick technologies/libraries/frameworks which have enough active users to ask most of your questions in advance. Looking for already egsisting answers to your questions is much faster than asking questions and waiting for somebody's answer. There may be no answer at all.
From what I heard there are quite a few startups that are willing to sponspor an H-1B for the right candidate. You might want to look for those that have received some funding, but other than that just look for startups that you'd like to work for and ask them whether they're willing to sponsor an H-1B.
Hacks vs Hack-Nots
A few words about people who Hack and people who Hack-Not.