skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why all the hostility towards the writer? Look at the title of the article: "Netbooks are still a great deal"

He's not saying he doesn't like his iPad, or that it doesn't have value for him. He's simply saying that there are situations where he prefers the netbook's form factor and OS.
That's funny. Safari on my iPad remembers my Facebook (and HN) passwords fine.
The title of this piece is a parody of the classic Pogo comic strip where the phrase was coined "We have met the enemy, and he is us" (from 1972, referring to the rapid pollution of the planet).

wiki has more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(comics)#.22We_have_met_th...
not really. that's the msg which is there to trick you that it tastes good.
Alternatives include directly speaking to other human beings coupled with intelligent charts, graphs, writing, and other representations of data.
That happened for a moment for me too in Chrome on OSX, but it switched back to normal after a few seconds. Weird.
In the U.S., many jobs that do not have set hours have clauses like this. For instance, many university jobs, especially in research, stipulate that you are not allowed to have any other jobs. The reason for this is that because a research position is self-directed, you could conceivably have another full-time job and just run away with the money.
Strange but true. I also find that I can "dont-touch" type at near full speed in landscape mode propped up on the folded case. I don't think I'd like to do it for extended periods, but for minutes at a time it is good.
Why does a salad cost more than a Big Mac?

http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/gm07autumn/health_pork.html
some in the third generation even had hair growing inside their mouths

I assume they took inbreeding in the hamster population into account. This could be the expression of a trait that already existed in the original population that was magnified by inbreeding (it's the third generation of GM soy eaters).

In fact, all the observed effects could be explained by the reduced genetic diversity in the hamster population.
Why Howard Stern Still Uses Lotus Notes
The math behind a neat calculator trick
I won't be using Spotify. Spotify is partly owned by the music industry, who acquired their shareholding not by stumping up money like the other investors, but by threatening them with lawsuits unless they were given free shares. (As an aside, wanna guess what percentage of profits the music industry make out of this will go to musicians? I suspect fuck all).

Iniquitous as that is, it's not my reason for boycotting Spotify. The reason is that the music industry want to destroy my freedom, and helping them in any way makes it easier for them to do this. They want to be judge, jury and executioner over anyone's right to have an internet connection, and they want all computing hardware to be locked down like the iPad.

Well I don't want that future. And if you don't want it too, I suggest you never buy anything from the RIAA/IFPI, and explain to all your friends why it's in their interests not to either.
Totally agree. I used spotify for 2-3 months, but after a bit it got annoying when my tor proxy would suddenly stop working, and I'd have to find a new one that had enough bandwidth and was actually reliable enough. It is totally doable, it's just annoying. That said, I would be more than happy to pay their fee.

(If anyone has a solution to this...either a good proxy, or something else. I am all ears. Also, when the eff are they coming to the US? I know they had some plans...)

I now use Grooveshark, it's good, don't get me wrong, but spotify is much better in terms of interface, but mainly they have a better catalog for the music I listen to (mostly ambient/downtempo/trip hop). If I search for a group Grooveshark will likely have 70% of the songs from each album...maybe. Whereas in Spotify, I can just view 100% of all the albums. Also, while I have not used the Spotify mobile app, I can tell you the Grooveshark mobile app kind of sucks.

Cheers
Exactly. I'm amazed at how fast I can type on this thing with just one hand. My palm barely moves at all, just the fingers doing the moving and mostly just extending through muscle memory.
Kind of risky. Especially for a startup. Better be in a clear position for everybody.
I'm in the Netherlands too. I also have a (Dutch) law degree. That does not make me an authority, yet if your product and theirs are not in the same industry or in another way in competition, I can't think of any legal grounds on which this clause can be enforced, but several of why it can't be. That said there is a real chance that pressing the issue is going to make the relationship turn sour. Remember that in your first month you can be fired without cause, without compensation. You likely also have an employment contract of limited duration (1 year?) which they don't have to prolong.

An alternative is to not give up your company and hope they fire you, and then sue for unfounded dismissal. This can be quite lucrative. I wouldn't want to wage a legal battle in a country I just arrived in, in a language I don't speak though.

If you speak Dutch there is a quite good forum that often has useful advise (in addition to consulting a lawyer, not instead of).

The union advise below is, as much as I dislike them, good - for little money they will help you out with this. A legal assistance insurance isn't going to cover this issue at this point, if you didn't have one before this whole thing started.

Also I'm really curious on what company this is, and what country you're from.
The Startup Racket
My wife has an iPad. Its completely awesome for our toddler to play games on, and for the wife to check her e-mail, surf the web a little, and see her calendar. Adding events to the calendar on the iPad is annoying, best to do it in iCal on the real computer (though iCal's UI is really weak in my opinion).

I have a 10" ASUS eeePC and its completely awesome for me to do a lot of typing on (also has great battery life), have an Ubuntu environment setup running identical versions of the services that the server runs, and for overall hacking.

They're two completely different things and I think it is disingenuous to directly compare an iPad to other form factors, much as you wouldn't compare your iPhone to your desktop in terms of functionality. Just because two devices have a similar screen size does not mean they are equal!
I think Fedora has led on the bleeding edge of pulseaudio. Ubuntu apparently had a borked setup in one version of Ubuntu, but the same code was running well on Fedora.

Having said that, pulseaudio really seems to bring out the cranks and probably most of the issue is that it's become something that it's okay to complain about, rather than something that people get behind and fix.

It is however clearly the future and like many things in Linux ripping out mature half-solutions to replace them with newer full solutions is going to cause regressions for some. As long as Linux is making progress on average then it's all part of the game.
A blog which sells information about making money to make money. And the information? How to sell others the same info that he just sold you.

It's the blog equivalent to a late-night infomercial scam, trying to use HN for more publicity. Fail.
> Analogies are a dime a dozen

Oh yes, absolutely. A witty analogy is often just that, a quip. I do think that many mergers motivated by the desire to dethrone the leader do wind up with an entity that is weaker than its constituent parts. IIRC, FSJ was talking about MSFT and YHOO merging to take on GOOG.

In this case I think the analogy supports the article's conclusion, which is that RIM is in no hurry to buy Palm. If I can strain the metaphor, buying Palm would be like teaming up to run a race three-legged because you're thirsty and the other runner has a water bottle. Buying QNX was like buying a water bottle.
Another data point. Of the "actually read" list I'm at 6 of 10. Of the "claim to have read", I claim 3 of 5. So an identical portion of each group.

Another opinion. If you haven't read the Go4 patterns book, you don't deserve to call yourself a real software engineer -- and it's an eminently readable book, too. And if you haven't read the "The C++ Programming Language", you should not be behind the wheel of a C++ compiler. I haven't read Knuth nor the Algorithms book, but studied the topic extensively; you really need this kind of foundation to be a full-fledged software engineer.
So a straight couple who can't have kids should be barred from using a surrogate?
Safari on the iPad remembers passwords fine. Just because the author is too blinded to figure it out doesn't make it true.
Commercial support for Apache Cassandra
I imagine you moved to where you are now because the pay was quite good. If that is the case, rather than threatening legal action (win or lose, don't see how you'd stay at the company) I would continue to do what you do. Just keep it on the down low.

However, given that your startup revolves around iPhone development, as does your current position, it's likely they're concerned that you will get burnt out on it... I'm not defending their position, just stating a possibility.
We were just asked to sign these forms also. Fortunately, they allowed me to attach my own letter where I stated that anything existing (which I listed) and any other future developments under my companies can not be subject to the policy. Too bad not all companies are like that.
This guy keeps posting on hacker news and pushing his "Pagerank 4 in two weeks" report, yet his own blog is only PR3.
Hmm, I'm Dutch (that is: from the Netherlands :)), and I strongly doubt the law here can forbid you to do side projects in your own time, as long as they don't compete. There have been some cases (mostly extreme stuff: like can police agents do drugs in their free time), but in general I'd say it would be hard to forbid here.
OTOH, IANAL. Keep us posted!
I don't agree with that.

1) How did the human brain come about - evolution. So you can get there with genetic programming. How much computer time do you need - maybe $100 billion, maybe $100 trillion, but theoretically it's doable.

2) What is the brain - conventional opinion is that it's a neural network - ie. if you spend enough money as
-assemble a million neural network engineers or
-create billions of data sets to train against simple learning algorithms
you can probably replicate it's "interface"

3) You can also view a human, or at least a human speaking through email, as a database. If you had enough people working on cyc, let's say a million rather than the 20 or so it's usually had, you could get a lot closer, or exceed, human level performance.

Imagine you a couple of professors and a handful of grad students. Would they be able to build a skyscraper within 50 years, and do so from scratch, without any prior knowledge of civil engineering, no access to construction labor, and only access to raw materials? Yet that is what AI has been about for 50 years - a handful of people attempt to build something much more complex than a skyscraper.

It probably took many trillions of dollars and millions of workers to get to the point where skyscrapers could be built, and each one individually probably costs more than all the money ever spent on AI research.
Especially when it makes you hungry 2 hours later.
Mobile Safari is pretty decent. apps are a way to handle auth better etc...
If homosexuality is a choice, then i don't understand why not more people choose it - it is fabulous.
This ? FiFoBooks.com, a marketplace of DRM-free ebooks, http://fifobooks.com/

The DRM-free part is interesting, the iTunes-style Mac/PC app apparently needed to buy, or even see prices ... not so much.

But news of how it's coming along, if there's some you can publish, would be interesting.
Did you keep track of your time invested working on the project?

If not: get a job, you will earn more in 2 weeks time...
How is being tricked into thinking something tastes good and tasting good different?
You had ATM receipts generated by a known thief.

Can you see why this might not be the solid proof of identity that you like to imagine it was?
Learn the NATO phonetic alphabet
It'd be nice if the government just stayed out of all this so that people could decide for themselves what food they wanted to support. Right now the real costs are all hidden and incentives directed in all the wrong ways. The food that is cheap isn't actually cheap it just looks that way because the price signal has been so badly distorted.

I don't want a "smarter" farm policy. I'd like no farm policy. It's clear that both parties don't actually care about this issue besides making sure that agribusiness is happy.
Just to see what all the fuss was about, I bought his ebook and was very disappointed with the contents. You can get the same advice for free elsewhere.
I'm sure they are not following him 24/7, so in theory he could keep doing it in his spare time, but that would be silly. His employer can now use this against him if they have any dispute with him.
I wanted to learn the NATO phonetic alphabet to help me spell words during support calls. I whipped up this quick app to help me learn. I figured if anyone would find it useful, the folks at HN would.
I would argue it is more moral to be atheistic than to believe in some god.
Nokia: Unified QT SDK for Symbian & Meego app development
I worked on corporate identities for big companies (I made one for a Formula 1 team few years ago) and I can tell you that people don't even imagine the amount of work behind it.

I'm sure logos on 99design come with the same type of manuals...
A simulation of angel investing
In one company here in France, an employee who was volunteer fireman during his free time was asked to stop it on the basis that an employee must be fully dedicated to the company. An accident in that activity could cause a prejudice to the company.
In these cases it's good to scribble a little note in the margin of the contract at that section "Nothing in the above section shall prevent me from working on my side project XYZ in my free time" (or similar) and get them to initial it. You can always change contracts before you sign them.
When I started my most recent consulting gig (part time) I had my attorney look at my contract and remove anything I didn't like before I signed. The company I worked for accepted these red line changes and on we went.

This is normally how contracts work. I'm not sure where you got screwed.
Hmm, all the work you would do in your 'own time' would be owned (copyright-wise) by your employer then anyway, unless you'd explicitly excluded that in your contract. This is tricky part of the (Dutch) law, where the all work you do owned by your employer if it's the same kind of work you're employed to do. More info (in Dutch): http://www.iusmentis.com/auteursrecht/nl/vvv/maker/#werkgeve...
I would think not for the audience of HN.
Nokia announced N8, the first Symbian^3 based device
Posted similar sentiments on SEOmoz, but this article really is the single best intro to the process conversion rate testing that I've seen.
You could use Thunar, it's lightweight and fast.
Just learned that a 964bytes forum is not enough to stop the racist comments in the demo.
I found that being a touch-typist helped, since the concept of vim is to have your hands on the home row using letter keys rather than arrows or mice. (I happened to learn Dvorak but I'm sure Qwerty would have a similar impact on getting the most out of vim). Plus it's a transferable and generally recommended skill for programmers.
Well, if you'd spend 4 years of undergraduate education on key related studies, then 3 to 5 years on key-finding PhD research, then all your life on the same subject, I'm sure you'd be able to get millimeter accuracy on your keys position ! That, and the help of a rich key-finding research community and literature.

That being said, anything mood/astronomy/physics related is freaking awesome, so yeah, the moon people.
Here in the UK I believe that is specifically legislated against - it certainly is with regards to being a member of the Territorial Army and I am pretty sure volunteer fire service as well.
Two words... due diligence. If it's that big a deal, you should always ask. As written, the startup sounds more like a hobby and this post more of a whine ... where's the plan of action for remedy? I urge to you re-evaluate the passion for your startup if you really believe.
Well the point is that sleep increase appetite, but who slept less actually burned more calories. If when you are craving for a snack you go for a carrot instead of pizza I'm sure results would be quite different.
I think gays should boycott jurisdictions that bar them from getting married or adopting.
Instead of reading this article that summarizes the REWORK book, I suggest actually reading the book. (I read it twice, it is quite good.)
Really sorry to hear that Matteo, i've read you comments on HN and was quite happy for you when i discovered you were going abroad.

Doesn't contracts matter any more? That is an usual non-competing clause and i guess that you don't develop apps that compete with what you build in your day job...

Quite sad, wish you the best...
From previous postings I believe the OP is Italian.
As with all winer whining, you have to take it with a large pinch of salt. On this one, he's made 3 factual errors before he even gets to his point:

> I have both an iPad and a netbook, and the netbook is strictly more useful than the iPad.
> If I go out with the iPad invariably I hit a wall. No SD card slot. No USB. The keyboard is hunt-and-peck.

not so much. SD and USB connectivity is provided by peripherals sold by apple. Are they fully open and free to use? no. but that's of course the price you pay to use an ipad. As mentioned below, plenty of people (including me) are able to use the keyboard just fine.

> The iPad doesn't remember my Facebook password, so when I want to check Facebook I must reach for the netbook.
> A small thing you say -- but operating systems are collections of hundreds of small things, and new operating systems
> like the one in the iPad don't have them and old ones like XP do

Or just get 1Password, shipping with the iPad from day one, which, if perhaps haphazardly, solves his problems and syncs everywhere.

> I had pictures in my camera the other day. No way to get them up to Flickr through the iPad.
> If I had had the netbook with me, no problem. (I used my Droid instead.)

The usb/sd peripheral is designed specifically for this.

> The netbook has a real keyboard. I'm writing this blog post on it. It's taken a couple of minutes so far. I'd still be on paragraph 2
> if I had used the iPad. And I'd be entering it on one of my WordPress blogs because my customized content tools don't and
> will never run on Apple's new platform. (Unless they change their mind.)

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC533LL/A?fnode=MTc0MjU4Nj... (or, the bluetooth one, which also works). Though, i prefer to just suggest to him that he learns how to use the new keyboard, and stops trying to make it behave like the one he has on his netbook.

> There's an awful glitch in the way the clipboard works on the iPad. Try to put the cursor on a mis-spelling.
> It always selects the whole word. I've gotten in the habit of retyping the word when there's a one character spelling error.
> These little things are of course little, but they mount up.

Yes. then you press again to stop selecting and make it go to the misspelling.

I think he's trying to fit a round peg in a square hole again, and that has limited appeal outside his echo chamber. It's a shame, though, as he has an abnormally large audience who reads what he turfs out. He reminds me of the computer professor who refuses to accept obsolescence but insists that all his students learn fortran and nothing else.
What’s the human/jetthingie ratio that turns it into a jetpack? :)
"So how do you get the new version? We’ve started rolling out the update to users today, however, it will take us a number of days to get it to everyone."

You get the updated version if you (re)download Spotify from the website.
Grow your own butterflies kit
Definitely agree, the way of thinking expressed there will surely lead to other similar nonsense when other problems arise.
Why Making Money from Free Software Matters
Don't just incorporate here, move here. If you're physically building something, and need talented help north Delaware is the place to be. A lot of the major factories here had to shut down recently, so there's a lot of people looking for work. Labor should be a bit cheaper.
It would be like when Lucas explained the Force "scientifically."
In the Netherlands, your employer really has nothing to say about what you do in your free time (with the exemption of directly competing with them, which you don't). If you don't use company resources, they have nothing to say.
You are right, my main concern now is not to turn things bad, since I just moved here a couple of weeks ago and I live in an apartment I rent from them. You also guessed correctly, I have a 6 month contract.

I don't speak Dutch yet, unfortunately, and even if I'm studying it, it will not become good enough in a short time. So I can't use the forum you wrote about.

Answering your last question: I'm Italian and I'm working for a big big social network here (you will surely know it).
The workplace is quite good actually, except for this rule, that happens to be one of the most important things to me...
I can't comment on scp, but sftp is much faster then ftp. It's a completely differen't protocol then ftp (not to be confused with ftps which is ssl'd ftp). It's basically a tunneled connection via ssh and does everything you'd expect ftp to do including, file listing, resume support and extended attributes. It's got some advantages over ftp such as multiple streams in one connection, and ssh level security (sftp itself provides no security it's all over ssh).

According to wikipedia, the overhead of scp is the same due to both using ssh, but scp can transfer a little faster by not waiting for packet conformations before sending data. This means unfortunately that transfers cant be stopped and resumed because packets aren't guaranteed to arrive in order.
The Spotify music database is normally updated independently of the application.

As for the actual content, about two weeks ago I could see around 7.2 million songs as a user in Sweden. Today I can see about 7.4 million songs. Is there anything in particular that you know was removed?
Can’t we have our own inconsistencies? Believe me, physics teachers hate the common informal use of gramms as weight but that’s what our parents told us :)
"the iTunes-style Mac/PC app apparently needed to buy, or even see prices ... not so much."

watch this space.
If you want to work it out yourself first here is the trick. Set calculator to degree mode, enter a bunch of fives (5555 or 55555555), take the reciprocal, take the sin, note similarity to pi. Very fun article.
> If you haven't read the Go4 patterns book, you don't deserve to call yourself a real software engineer

What do you find in this book that (1) you are unlikely to find elsewhere, and (2) which are critically important to be a decent software engineer? The way I see it, we don't even need to know OO to be a good programmer. (By the way, is there a difference between "programmer" and "software engineer?)

Disclaimer: my current opinion about OO is that it mostly sucks. Alas, I don't know if it is because I know too little or too much of it.
The fact is that they don't want actually to do this. They stated clearly (I have written emails on this) that they are against it and if I want to do this I have to leave the company.