skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any Idea of the current comprehensiveness of the data they have? Do I have to remind you how they use it? Facebook is already spying it's users (for censoring and commercial purposes), and Google do semantic analysis of your e-mail (to send you ads).

So I don't think we need a totalitarian regime for people to realize they might want a personal server. It just takes a little teaching. Personally, as soon as I have a provider which let me send mail on my own, I will buy one.
The most annoying feature of GNOME Ubuntu for me, after the look&feel, is the managers.

I use a LAN; I don't want a network manager.
I use a desktop; I don't want a power manager.
I have speakers; I don't want a sound manager.

If there's a way to hide them, it's not simple. You can't just uninstall them, because they've taken over the duties of actually managing the resources as well, in addition to just showing me information I don't want.
Nice idea. The top-right icons (at least, in XP) could be (from right to left): x to close, window to maximise, line to minimise to taskbar, and a dot (in a square) to minimise to the system tray.

Applications could then act differently based on where they were minimised - e.g., icon animations to convey a message, can't steal window focus, can show little alerts/messages, etc.
I recommend reading Wells' "When the Sleeper Wakes" - the description of "future" technology is fascinating (particularly the moving walkways)
Because you can just hijack any display you want (with permission of course). I mean, I've got an extra monitor. Want to hook it up to the TV? take it down and connect to the TV. Going to visit a friend? Bring it over connect to their TV.

It's really not a netbook, so much as a portable desktop.
An interesting approach to Literate Programming. ;-]
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ROFL..

"All I can say is that you have reached your lifetime limit."
"Drafting table? / But that was in another country; / And besides, the bench is dead." (apologies to Will.S.)

Large wooden drafting tables, and tall four-legged drafting stools (with foot-rest cross-bars, topped by a square seat sloping slightly forwards), used to fill many of the classrooms in the engineering school I knew many moons ago.

Alas, it mostly got 'updated' to standard tables and plastic chairs. But those unpadded high seats still strike me as healthier than hunching in a chair.

An old furniture store might have some around - a cheap alternative to expensive desks.
"the infection can be treated with antibiotics".
I thought antibiotics didn't kill fungus ?
Funny you mention C64, there's a commodore branded thing that's similar coming out soon:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/25/commodore_64_redux/
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Give me this combined with glasses that project the screen image and I won't touch a laptop ever again.
By mistake I first read ant-iPad and was confused :)
This bit is rather silly:

"This means we can create new types of computing models, we can also create analog computers, which you don’t program, but you let them learn."

Analog computation is nothing new and has pretty much been superseded by stored program digital computers - for very good reasons.

I used to knew am engineer who had used a hydraulic analog computer to solve systems of differential equations that modeled fluid flow... :-)
I disagree; I think the author's central thrust is that Google Docs hasn't improved as quickly as people expected. It's been around in its current incarnation (post-Writely rewrite) for 3.5 years now.
Sorry i did a lot of typing errors :(
I cant wait to finish highschool and collage. then be able to apply to y combinator and fix these problems.
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In this case, it wouldn't need to be much more complicated than "not more than two per month".

Lifetime ban? Come on!
"Ultra Wide Band transmitter and external receiver for sending audio and video to a TV wirelessly, b/g/n Wi-Fi, ..., Bluetooth"
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Dude, jokes aside. You forgot the masses that cannot even afford to go to college, and depend on your "giveaways"
They already have solutions for this: Rhythmbox will be integrated into the volume widget and pidgin and tweetdeck/other twitter apps in the MeMenu. it's really far more elegant, I think.
I was planning on adding a recommendations section that includs some suggestions on this. I was thinking that your contact url could carry this "authorization" information.

For example:

http://xyz.com/c/jack -> would return my most public data

http://xyz.com/c/jack/biz -> would return my business contact info

http://xyz.com/c/jack/cr56hj7 -> would return my most private contact data

In your example (perhaps):

http://xyz.com/c/olefoo/async and
http://xyz.com/c/olefoo/sync

Or some such. It would be up to the Contact Server to provide this kind of contact "profile" functionality and you would decide who to give which URL to.
Actually, it was closer to a dozen iPads.
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Well, it's called "Webkit" but it looks like Safari. I was under the impression that Webkit is the browser AND the rendering engine. Otherwise wouldn't they call it a Safari nightly?
1. If you want answers from hacker news, run your post through a spellchecker and edit out the mistakes ;-)

2. Check out this article on teaching yourself how to program, don't wait til you do it in college. Some of the best programmers out there are self-taught.

http://lifehacker.com/5401954/programmer-101-teach-yourself-...

If you want nice links as images for sites you frequently use, get a proper browser like Chrome. It does this by default:

http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/9/google-chrome_468.jpg

So does Safari:

http://harshitpandey.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/safari4mact...
Apple still doesn't implement ASLR in any meaningfully secure way. This alone baffles me.
I'm guessing they do this to provide location on phones without GPS, or to improve it. Apple uses this as well on the iPhone (I think) and the iPod Touch. I think they use this company: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/
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Ask HN: Which feed count is more accurate - Feedburner or Wordpress?
I am having a hard time figuring out this rss subscription thing (from the admin point of view). The numbers fluctuate so much in feedburner, when I chose one specific day. How is it that the numbers on certain larger blogs, don't fluctuate so wildly? E.g. 37signals.com/svn

Also, why does Wordpress tell me a MUCH larger number (by a factor of at lest 3, sometimes even 5 or 10) for the last 7 days, than feedburner does?
Unless we have a good couple years of advanced notice so we can gently push it in another direction, nukes are the best option. If you spread the thing wide enough, less of it will hit you. If the pieces are small enough, chances are few of them will do any damage.

It won't do much good if the thing is the size of a state, but mountain-sized rocks seem manageable this way.
also: http://graph.facebook.com/4/picture?type=large
Possibly a mistake for "antifungals".
They should have a photo with hands on that thing. This would instantly explain what's wrong with it.
Sounds like this guy wants exactly what the Mine Project is trying to deliver: http://themineproject.org/
In my office we have email virus scanners, network virus scanners, and virus scanners on all the PCs and servers. You know what they are all looking for? Windows viruses. I'm probably more advanced than most Mac users, I don't enter my password at the request of every prompt and I read the file manifest for each installer. Mac owners are know they are not impervious. Most wouldn't know what to do if their Mac was infected with a virus. But they know there are far juicier targets than OSX.

A virus hasn't been built yet to take a Mac down. What you have is a bunch of hypothetical lab scenarios of how it could be done, and 0 real world data.

Companies are paying crackers with $2000 Macbook Pros while real money is being made ($millions) writing PC viruses. OSX doesn't need to be more secure than Windows 7 (it should be the goal though). It just needs to be more secure than 90% of the PCs out there running XP.
"You risk confusing people who don't know much about your company yet."

Haven't really seen that be a problem at our startup (the same one as the OA). Whether running a couple of usability tests over skype or meeting people at the adtech conference yesterday, people seem more interested in what the company is building than what our particular role is. And if need be, we'll often describe ourselves in terms they'll understand, like "designer", "usability test moderator" or whatever the situation warrants.

It's worth pointing out that the blog post title is Why WE'RE A Titleless Startup. It works in our situation because we have a small team (less than 10) and it's completely flat - we all report to John, our CEO. It wouldn't work if there's a strong caste system-style divide between certain groups (like founders vs employees, or employees vs contractors) or super-specialized prima donnas unwilling to wear many hats.
No, the chicken and egg problem is not what is wrong with this one. I was one of those excited about open social pre-release but it's release was riddled with all kinds of problems[1]. If google had gotten it right at the start, it could have really taken off. If google can still get it right and demonstrate cleanly how one can make a secure open social based site, it still has a very good chance of taking off. It's a good idea but I am not so sure about this particular implementation and it's details. Google or somebody probably should do an OpenSocial 2.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial#Criticism
My favourite is http://joker.com/ because they are very professional and honest.
Windows XP?
I'd like to see android running on there! :)
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I like the idea of having total upvotes and total downvotes for a comment alongside the current net value. It will show what's controversial. Make things more transparent.
Insurance wouldn't cover them if they knew it wasn't safe and flew anyway.
I had a think about this on the train on the way home, and here's the formula that I've come up with.

Assuming that your employees aren't clueless (ie. know their market rate) and are free to leave (eg. not family members or H1-Bs), then you'll see significant employee churn if:

asshattery
$ < $market x -------------
cool factor

It seems to hold for most of the cases that I can think of.

Apple, for example, has a high asshattery factor (Steve Jobs) and market rate (they want awesome people) but also has a huge cool factor to balance it out somewhat (I heard they pay ~1.5x market).

Banks, Traders, Insurance companies, etc. have low cool factor, so they have to make it up with large salaries and perks and not be too toxic to work at.

In the case of Mahalo, it seems like they have a large asshattery factor (Calcanis is an overbearing idiot who will post nasty things about you on Twitter), and cool factor < 1 (spammers) and (it seems) they pay below market rates, so it's not suprising that they're seeing lots of "job hoppers".
How do you quantify the 'linkbaitiness' of a title?
Huh. I think this is the first time I've considered the possibility that there are people who actually like those notification icons. I always figured they were just the product of egotistical developers who each think their own application deserves my attention more than the others.

Personally, I hate when applications like rhythmbox crowd the notification area. There is no event involving rhythmbox that I will ever want to be notified of. "I'm still playing that song. Still playing. Still playing. OK, now it's over." Gee, thanks. I figure if an application has nothing new to tell me, it should stay over in the taskbar with all the other ones.

But indeed, a notification icon can do things that a taskbar entry can't. Notably, the context menu in the taskbar is defined by the taskbar, not the application, so things that take one step with a notification icon take two or more via the taskbar.

So now I think the problem isn't the notification area, it's the taskbar. Maybe if the taskbar worked better, developers wouldn't pollute the notification area so much.
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Jules Verne did it before that, in the Floating Island if I remember correctly. Which is a parody of 19 century USA, by the way.
Winklevoss, Winklevoss, and Narendra? :)
I guess clunky hard-disks with all their moving parts will be around for some time to come. Just because they have already been around for so long and survived several other up-and-coming technologies.
Brilliant. Such a shame he had to go.
your right thx.what i was actually doing was, thinking and righting on the spot.
Why? The thing to the right is not meant to be the display.
I can't really wrap my mind around the idea that adding more menus, probably multiple hierarchies of menus, is a better solution here. I wish they had included a mock-up because I can't really visualize how this would work. Are people going to dig into menus to find stuff? It seems like both Windows & OSX are moving towards less menu digging -- not more.
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That's not the screen on the right.
Why? Having a touchpad to the right doesn't seem like something that's bad for your neck. You are supposed to hook it up with a monitor.

Go, read the text in the article.
The actual note doesn't matter at all. Just the ratio. We do have a reference note, but this is only for convenience. (Indeed, the reference note in Europe progressively changed, from 415Hz to 440Hz).

I'm not sure the ratio of two notes played one after the other really counts by itself. However in many instruments, two consecutive notes will tend to overlap (piano, for instance). Also, many instruments (especially those with strings, like claviers and violins), resonate better when the note you play has a "good" ratio with the natural notes of the instruments, even if you don't play them! Some instruments were even designed around this principle. So you have to maintain a good ratio with respect to these "base" note at all times.

In practice, the ratio of two notes played one after another is indeed important.

I'm not sure I understand your last question. Actually, you can change the tune of a piano. So, the optimization you speak of is possible even on a modern piano. Just re-tune it.

A final note about why "simple ratios" sound better: When you make a string resonate, it doesn't do only one note. It does its base frequency (say f), and many others (every multiple of f). So, in a piano, when you play a G at 100Hz, it also plays at 200Hz (a G), 300Hz (a D), 400Hz (a G) etc. Note that there exist actual keys whose main frequencies are 200Hz, 300Hz, 400Hz and so on. They will resonate, which will make the sound richer, louder.

The problem with equal temperament is that the only ratio which is really respected is the octave (2 to 1). In such a case, the D I mentioned above won't be quite at 300Hz, and won't resonate well. So equal temperament became practical only when instruments became loud enough to make up for the loss in resonance.
I believe you pay per "branded decoder" in software, and you pay more for a "branded decoder" intended to be included in an operating system.

You would hope that the extra fees would cover the downstream, but the "branded" language makes it sound like you'd have to be explicit that you're calling out to Quicktime or whatever.

Obviously with hardware, as with OS decoders, you're expecting it to be called by others but again the "branded" language may confuse matters.

Plus, you're almost certainly only covered for "personal and non-commercial" decoding in any of these cases.
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Well, I think everybody knows google business model, facebook is a little dubious.
OK, I'm gonna change the subject and complain that this thing is not suitable for left handers. Yep, that'll do it.
Is there an extremely lightweight screen to go with this? I'd love to have a very lightweight computer that I can carry around. I would then Remote Desktop onto the beast running at home.
Is Google the new Rome?
That's also what the better comments at the Reg mention:
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/04/22/google_st...

I submitted this because it's one of those details that may be misinterpreted if one doesn't know what's up ... (while herds of elephants march through other holes, such as the photocopiers' HDs of a couple of days ago ...)
As for the time travelling thing, I re-read this article once a year:
http://patterico.com/2006/12/03/putting-things-in-perspectiv...

It explains a way of putting things into perspective that really had an impact on me.
The second point seems to be akin to the velocity of money, or Money supply * Velocity. In there way the kings may have been trying to encourage people to circulate the money to create economic activity, to what end I'm not sure. It's possible elites understood even then that prosperity was key to placating the population and preventing social upheaval.
Ask HN: When is a company no longer a startup?
I'm just not sure when most people would officially drop the startup tag.

*Is it profit? What level? Ramen? 1M? 10M?
*Is it the length of existence?
*Is it the number of employees?
*Is it X funding rounds?
*Is it X customers?
*Something else?
*Is is some combination of the above?

I just have no idea when I should drop the "startup" from my explanation of what I do. Let me know what milestone you have to reach to drop the "startup" description from your company. For me it is all about profitability. But I'm not sure what number I'm going to use.
This is astounding! To think that circuit component as fundamental as resistors/capacitors/inductors has been hidden from us till now..

And the applications are equally mind-boggling. If he's right about what is potentially possible using memristors then we're in for an amazing ride this decade. I for one hope we can soon say our farewells to HDD's, DRAM and SSD's.
A quick look at the Wikipedia article and the BC CDC website seem to indicate that intravenous antifungals are effective, although removal of infected portions of lung tissue is sometimes required.

Digging through the CDC website now; looks like the first cases appeared around 1999, and that it's a fairly rare disease. So, as always if you've got a cough that's stuck around for awhile, see a doctor.

Fungi are nasty things when they get in the human body, because just like human cells, fungi are eukaryotes, and so a lot of the tricks that work against bacteria don't come into play.
The formatting is a bigger problem, but let's concentrate on the message and not on the format it arrives in.

All or most of these have their reasons. Fax machines are big and ugly because they're yesterdays gear, there is not a lot of money invested in making fax machines 'cutting edge' because email attachements have taken the wind out of the fax market. Faster, no paper required, cheaper.

Dating sites for those under 18 are not to be found because nobody wants to be sued in to oblivion by the parents of the minors. So, if you 'want a girl' go out to where the girls are and try your luck.

The reason why you can't find price comparison sites for stuff that costs < 3 'credits' (dollars, euros, whatever) (most articles in your supermarket cart) is because nobody thought it was worth doing, maybe that's a gap in the market waiting to be filled. But most people that can afford a working internet connection are no longer going to 5 different stores to do their shopping, they'll go to one that is convenient (nearby) and where they get the feeling they're - on average, not per item - not being ripped off. That the occasional item is cheaper next door is not their concern, nor would they invest the time in to researching their shopping list.

When you live off pocket money that's different, but someone will have to enter all that information.

For the links problem, try the 'bookmarks' section of your browser, it really works. If that's not what you are looking for then try any one of the 10's of sites that allow you to manage your bookmark collection online.
(diigo for instance).

As for formatting your posts on HN, two times enter (a blank line) will give you a paragraph break.
It will be interested if anyone ever does a dump of all the data availible
This is why, despite being too young to actually have experienced them, I miss the days when people who actually had the good of the network in mind hashed out ideas over RFCs before rolling something out. I imagine they would come up with something with some parameters vaguely in that space (though maybe not including tor).
Asimov and his works had a huge influence on me growing up, and very likely sparked my interest in mathematics. Glad to see some of his lesser-known short stories making their way to HN.
In fact, the modern necktie - the staple of the business suit - has developed from a clothing item worn by Croatian mercenaries in Thirty-years' war. :)
If I'm not misunderstanding, in the full 45-minute keynote, he mentions endurance a bunch of times. Apparently, on the newer memristor devices they came up with, the lifetimes of the devices are on a "geological" timescale, and could "theoretically" last forever. Of course, theory != practice. But there was quite a bit of time spent talking about this issue.

Edit: Also, I would highly recommend those with the time to watch the 45-minute keynote, and not just the condensed explanation. It really is worth it.
The future of web browsing?
Concept blog post about how browsing could be more user-friendly in the future.
I think your conclusion (only do the minimum planning you absolutely can't live without) is too extreme in the other direction (compare Huston with Portland or Vancouver).

I don't know what the ideal level of urban planing and regulation is, but I think it's probably somewhere in the middle of the road.
Figure you're going to be doing 1:150 free signups and 1:2000 paid signups. And that's if you do well. Beta testing is testing all your features with customers being aware that you are not yet 'officially open', so they'll be more forgiving when stuff does not work, but on average it should work most of the time and it is fine to charge for a beta period, you could:

- charge the full rate, and give credits when you mess up

- charge a reduced rate during the beta period, but
advertise clearly the rates will go up once the beta is over

- charge a reduced rate and keep on charging that reduced
rate after the beta is over for those that signed up
during the beta period

The latter has one really nice advantage, retention will be insanely high for those customers because they really don't want to fall back in to the high bracket if they would let their payments lapse.
Reminds me of Little Bobby Tables: http://xkcd.com/327/
Just use the Swedish pronunciation.
Appending /picture?type=large to your graph page works, too. Uh, oh...