skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With regard to the low uptake of Linux on netbooks, I checked prices on Dell's website about a year ago. In several cases, the same machine cost more with Linux than WinXP. In another case, the Linux netbook was only offered with 8gb of flash storage while the Windows version was available with real hard drives.

They were also hard to find. For reasons I don't understand, they don't simply offer an operating system option when you're custom-configuring the machine. You have to go looking for it.

The same issues won't affect smartbooks.
Political views aside, I agree that they'd benefit from a different name. Choose something more accessible, something like "Facebook" but not a derivative.
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I find that more and more, the domain name you have doesn't mean jack. Sure, it's nice to have a domain name that is relevant to your product, but everyone is going to be getting to you from Google anyway. If you have to choose between spending $10k on getting the "perfect" domain name, and doing SEO on another, "lesser" domain name, go the latter route and reap the rewards.
It's also just a sidebar. Not really a revolutionary idea.
Japan has less crime period. Now, before you start saying that that's because of strict gun control, know that they have less knife crime, less fraud, less divorce (though it has dbl since 1990), you get the point. There is no ban on knifes in Japan and yet there are far less crimes commited with them. Your correlation is not causation.

Japan has a completely different demographic and social makeup. Shame plays a huge part of their culture. Traditional family values were the norm until recently.

I would argue that your thinking that gun control is the cause of low crime in Japan as misguided.

"Shootings [in Japan] rose to 66 compared with a record low of 53 in 2006, the National Police Agency said in a report. The figure was up for the first time since 2001. [...] The number of those who died from shootings rose to 22 from 2 in 2006, the report said. Those wounded numbered 18.

Gun-related crime had been rare in a country with strict gun control laws, but last year's string of shootings shocked the public and prompted the government to further strengthen its firearms law." [1]

Make a wager; will stricter gun laws help? Have strict laws banning drugs helped? (Heck, how did prohibition go?)

You say that Japan has less crime overall because of gun control; I say it’s a culture / demographic thing. Maybe we are both wrong. I think it is the traditional values of Japan, and I am not alone in supposing this.

“But [Ichita Yamamoto] also fears the increase in gun violence could be a symptom of something more worrying.

‘There are few people who do this kind of thing in Japanese society,’ he says.

‘There is no culture in Japan that we shoot other people.’

What concerns him though is that perhaps Japanese society is changing.

‘Japanese traditional values have changed, the concept of family is changing, relations between people are changing,’ he says.

‘A lot of people feel lonely or isolated, so this kind of incident could be something to do with changes of this kind.’

Shootings do, as the gun-owners complain, get blanket coverage in the media.

But while newspaper columnists and pundits are good at wringing their hands about the fact that gun crime is increasing, they are not so successful when it comes to agreeing what it reveals about the state of Japanese society.

And more importantly, perhaps, they cannot agree on what to do about it.” [2]

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[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/idUST252568

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7257072.stm
It's a notebook.
That could very well be a surprising revelation.

After all, the more time you spend on facebook the less time there is for other activities, including association with others.
You are not your role
> Whether it's a good or a bad thing is debatable

Not, not really. It's a very good thing, and similar to what the web did in the first place.
Awesome. Cheers.
Wikipedia puts the total African giraffe population at 110,000-150,000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe. So there are more pictures of giraffes than actual giraffes.
Sorry - typo and it's too late to correct it.

s/giraffes/giraffe/

Singular. I only own one, although I have ridden several.
RIM to release a ‘BlackPad’ with BlackBerry OS in 2011
"Until we figure out the best way to market this 'feature' to our advertisers"
I wonder why Google won't give us features such as "Mark this as spam" or "I never want to see this again in my results".
Welcome to Google TiSP
Viao was using the case-between-the-keys style in the early 2000s.
I thought Apple was inspired by Braun products from the '60s: http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secr...
Historic day as first non-latin web addresses go live
I didn't think the new MBPs had USB3?
I applied 2 or was it 3 days ago and still haven't heard anything.
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What is the best use of Ar to date and what individuals are at the forfront of the field.
""Great artists steal" - Pablo Picasso" - Steve Jobs.

It's not the copying that he'd probably find offensive -- it's the screwing it up (hinges and what's up with the keyboard recess)
Unfortunate by some measures, but it seems to fit the basic template of overcoming scarcity through progress. What is the ideal way to get around the "want X, but can't afford to buy it from someone" problem? An amazing technological innovation that lets you magically duplicate your own copy of it, without having to buy theirs. Like, say, being able to get a copy of your neighbor's tomatoes without them losing their own tomatoes!
While I normally do not endorse identity theft, I think it's time people start to dig out everything about Mark Zuckerberg and start to spam him, steal his identity to do nasty things with, harras him and so on, he needs to feel what it means to have all your data out there because his opinion is a big slap in the face of all these victims of such criminal activity, he is starting to behave like an arrogant #%$%#$@.
Did you mean: programmingbooks.org ?

If yes, you can see the old pages here, which are definitely useful:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080731211843/http://www.program...

I especially liked the section "Books Every Programmer Should Read." Don't know why the site is inactive, but thankfully archive.org has most of the site.
I couldn't help to notice that the poor man has no toilet.
My favourate is a project which used a (home brewed) headset (digital compass, ultrasonic sensor, location tracking device (ubisense, high res gps, whatever) and wireless headphones) to provide audio feedback in 3d space. Some sample applications: guidance system for blind people (follow the audio "waypoints" to avoid obstacles and navigate through rooms to some destination); a virtual band playing music in 3D; basically anything location and audio based.

Course, I'm biased, since I was one of the devs (it was mine and my project partners final year uni project).

Unfortunately I can't find any details online for you to look at, but if you want more details, feel free to ask. I may be also able to dig up the pdf writeup, if needs be.

Besides that, I don't really know. I haven't really kept up to date in the field.
Surely your last point does indeed point to a "re-creation".

Its a re-creation of the detailed model Conan Doyle had either in mind or in his notes. Which as you point out is supported strongly by the fact that a coherent model can be made from the stories
Sony was using it in 2004 in this amazing notebook http://www.trustedreviews.com/laptops/review/2004/06/03/Sony...
The array.join vs. string concat tip is bogus. Might have been true some years ago, but joining an array is only marginally faster in Firefox and even slower in Chrome than concatenating strings:

http://www.phoboslab.org/crap/jsarrayconcat.html
I'm hooked. Where's the Python api?
Slaughtered or not, it's an awkward word to say "properly", and awkward words get changed.

I find Kilometer much easier to say the American way "kill-ah-meter", rather than the correct way of "kill-Oh-meter". I suspect people will pronounce these things in a way that isn't painful to the tongue, and memri-stor is that way.
I hate to defend Flash in any way, but even it were a crash, how do we know Flash caused it? Yes, I have my own problems with Flash and love to hate it but it's really not being honest.

These other possibilities that should have been apparent from the beginning have me surprised by the reaction.
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There's probably a toilet elsewhere in the building.
Good point, so not re-creating the rooms but the description of them.

Were any notes supporting a detailed model ever found?

Most authors that write long running stories or sequels keep notes of some sort to avoid contradicting themselves, given the length of the Sherlock Holmes run I would be more surprised if such notes were not used, that would be an amazing feat of memory.

I have trouble envisioning the room next door in great detail, for instance, I know there is a chest of drawers there, but I couldn't tell you if it has 5 or 6 drawers even though I've seen it a hundred times.
You missed the joke.
or he used a chamber pot I guess
Not unlikely. The stories are set from 1880 to 1900 or so, and indoor plumbing was first documented in the 1840's and remained a considerable luxury for some time.

In a building of the age of 221b Baker Street it's unlikely that it was overhauled to allow the necessary plumbing for indoor toilets.
IBM Opens Cloud Computing Laboratory In Singapore
I nominate this page for today's Most Superfluous Use of Stock Photography award.
> Most computer users just browse the net or read/write documents and spreadsheets.

Which is what the iPad was created to target.

> your free or shiny OS doesn't mean shit if I can't run my apps on it

The only application I know of where I prefer the Windows implementation to what is available for my Mac is Quickbooks. There might be other narrow verticals (CAD?) where you don't have best of breed software available for Apple's OS, but by and large in 2010 worrying about software availability for a Mac is a moot point.
The MMORPG Ryzom goes Free Software
Isn't that how patents work? You have to pay up no matter who implements it, as long as it is a patent? (copyright, on the other hand, depends on whether your implementation is a derivative work of or copies etc. their implemenation).
something like a credit or eftpos card perhaps? :)
The Age Of Facebook: Excerpts From The New Book By David Kirkpatrick
Isn't that how patents work? You have to pay up no matter who implements it, as long as it is patented? (copyright, on the other hand, depends on whether your implementation is a derivative work of or copies etc. their implemenation).
Authorities Say They Followed Times Square Bomber Only on Twitter
Such talents vary; for example I can describe every room in my house and those at work in extreme detail. Places I go to at intervals (say once a month to a friends house) I can describe pretty accurately. And places I've visited once but in the last month or so I can pull up a pretty good image of.

You find this a very common factor in many writers; particularly ye-olde ones (where keeping and searching notes was not as easy as now) whereby they would have a detailed and vivid scene in their mind - which was easier to remember.
Normally this wouldn't merit submission to HN, but in light of Amazon.com's opening of their first Asian AWS service in Singapore yesterday or so (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320105) we may be seeing a move by the powers that be of the city state to embrace this new industry.

As noted by andyjdavis in the HN item linked above, it's potentially a very good fit.

Here's IBM's more detailed press release: http://www.ibm.com/news/th/en/2010/05/04/m796788v34229n07.ht...
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It’s something that cannot be done. So we users
must find our own bugs; our computers are losers!

This doesn't prove that users are capable of finding bugs that computers aren't (theoretically) capable of finding. The sets might be the same.
Yeah, I thought that line was odd. I'm under the impression that people who put linux on netbooks just blow out windows and install Linux over it? Thats what I do anyway.

My first thought was the same as yours, "Well uptake wouldn't be slow if vendors actually offered it!"
> For the iPhone, the competition is now fierce: Android, BlackBerry, Palm, Windows mobile and Nokia! Nokia is already a major player, they won't let Apple take the market easily and cheaply

Have you seen how much market share Palm, Microsoft and Nokia have lost to RIM and Apple over the last three years?!
Good to know. I've been reflexively doing that for many years now, and wasn't aware that JS implementations had finally optimized around it.
How inconsistent design will save iTunes
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Roger Ehrenberg: An open-source approach toward bond analytics
'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live
How I Monetized My Passion
>There have been times in the past where I have attempted to pay for shows and this restriction prevented me.

Exactly, I've got no problems paying for content.

In my case, I pay for music off iTunes, I prefer to watch movies in the cinema when they come out, but I regularly download television episodes off Bitorrent.

It's not that I don't want to pay for TV shows (I have pay tv etc), I simply just cannot get my hands on them in any kind of reasonable time frame... often 6+ months after they air elsewhere, sometimes up to a year.

When we live in a world where I chat to people on the other side of the world as often and easily as I do my next door neighbour and I'm unable to keep up with conversations about shows due to licensing deals, of course I'm going to attempt to download them off p2p networks.

Rights holders can bitch all they want, but in reality, they can't expect people to pay for something they're not offering for sale.
Spotify to launch in Netherlands on May 18
>Aside from the frequency and positioning idiosyncrazies [sic] of the standard Roman alphabet typewriters we all use (which could be solved by training with the Dvorak system)

33 years later, we're still in exactly the same situation.

Note: I really hope the author spelled "idiosyncrazies" that way on purpose.
It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that ARM is competing against the faster atom processors, which can run windows and a lot more applications? I would have thought that consumers would see an Atom netbook, compare it to ARM, realise the minimal cost difference and then settle on the Atom based one.

It sounds like they are simply fishing for excuses honestly. Flash may make ARM netbook's more appealing, but if this was the sole reason that they were delayed, the companies interested in creating smartbooks would have simply released the products now, and introduced a flash update later.

I think it probably has more to do with lack of demand. Whilst the ARM processors are good mobile phone CPU's, for laptops/netbooks, it is simply a trade-off of compatibility for slightly lower cost, and it would have to be a significant reduction in cost for salespeople to recommend a foreign processor.

That's just my opinion though. Personally, I used to sell laptops, and I would much rather push Atom netbooks than ARM netbooks.
If we accept the profile of pirates as typically low-income, then it seems extremely unlikely that pirates would likely spend more than average.
I don't think justifying piracy is the issue. Rather, the (or one of the) issue is the justification of DRM. DRM costs money and makes the lives of honest buyers miserable.
AFAIK, it's not the game which is free but the codebase for the game platform which has become OSS.
Lolcats, last time I checked.
the adamo is unibody.. if you want good looks and ruggedness though go with a thinkpad hands down.
Get artistic and draw a picture of your giraffe!
Scribd Will Abandon Flash
The H.264 problem looks just like the first stages of the LZW patent fiasco all over again. People think it's OK and it gets widely adopted. But at some point lawyers will start sending letters. Given history on the subject, the questions are "when" and "who", not "if."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Uni...
same applies on counting human photos on social site altogether (flickr, facebook, tweetpic, etc.) would be far more than 6,819,100,000 (population of the world - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population)
"Flash is crap" because it's a cpu hog, browse the web with ads on an older PC and Flash dominates the machine.
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Here are my criticisms, would you please let me know which ones are inaccurate? If you don't want to explain fully why each one is inaccurate, you can just give me the numbers, and I'll do my own further research.

1. New features are rolled out without advance notice and without prior explanation of their privacy implications.

2. The privacy policy changes without advance notice, often towards ensuring less privacy.

3. Features that expose more personal information are frequently enabled by default (opt-out rather than opt-in).

4. With instant personalization, social plugins, and the 'likes' feature, FB has switched to making no distinction between 'public if you look for it' and 'publicly broadcast'.

5. These features also indicate that FB has started tracking users browsing habits across the web. It's not enough to know everything about a person's social life, FB wants to know as much as it can about their private life, too.

6. FB asks to inspect user's email address books while suing a company that uses the same basic technique to manage FB profiles on the user's behalf. This is staggeringly hypocritical.

7. That same Friend Finder feature does not explain what gets pulled from your email account, and it does not adequately explain that those email addresses are stored and may be used not only to help that user connect with people who already have FB accounts. It does not explain that FB treats the information it pulls from email accounts as a shadow social graph.

8. There is no easy way to export user data.

9. The privacy settings are lengthy and confusing, and there's no simple way to restrict everything in one go. To ensure your privacy, you literally have to wade through page after page, and you have to do so on a relatively frequent basis as new features can undo your work (see #1,2,3).
Given that the bill enshrines the "too big to fail" concept and those who fit that definition (as the government will define it), perhaps it's not so surprising.

Given that it potentially extends to dentists (http://volokh.com/2010/05/04/could-senator-dodds-consumer-pr..., be sure to look at the update at the end), the total chilling effect on the smaller parts of the economy might be substantial.

Dodd's looking out for big companies like the dominant insurance industry in his Connecticut.
Jesus, it seems like everything in a startup is like dating.

Finding a co-founder is like dating.
Finding an investor is like dating.
Being an entrepreneur is like dating.

Now, Freemium Models?

I'm kinda sick of the dating analogy personally.
Any live examples yet?
Since The Sheep Market http://www.thesheepmarket.com/ paid people on Mechanical Turk 2c each for their sheep drawings I guess this means he's got nearly $16,000 of free labour so far.
There quite possibly wasn't.

The stories start in 1887, interior flush toilets were something of a luxury at the time, having only been popularized two years prior (by a guy called Twyford).

Houses that already existed did not have room for a 'privy' unless they were extensively remodeled (a toilet needs a lot of plumbing).

If there was a toilet it was most likely on the ground floor, near the front of the house (to economize on the runs of big diameter pipes).
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Room-Temperature Microlasers
Ask HN: I'm looking for Accounts / Order Processing / Stock control software
It's time for distributed trust.
There may be a legal reason for this, doesn't Apple hold patents on the canvas tag? It's likely to be royalty free in HTML5 though.
My experience is in the the UK, but when I worked in academia (from '89 to '95) I was paid roughly the same amount as my friends in the private sector.

Looking at academic salaries these days they don't look too bad when you compare working conditions, perks (access sports centers etc.), long holidays and the rather generous final salary pension scheme.

Yeah, I can imagine PhD students have a hard time everywhere - but I really don't have much sympathy for salaried staff in academia (or most of the UK public sector) complaining about wages and conditions.
I believe that MetricMike was trying to point out that your anecdotes are still just anecdotes and don't weigh nearly the same as an official study/report. Remember, the plural of anecdote isn't "data", it's not even "anecdata"...
Nightmare on Main Street: If Silicon Valley ran the country
While I can completely understand some of the criticism leveled at Facebook, I don't understand the hysteria that is going along with it.

Everyone seems to be screaming loudly at Facebook right now but lets put things in perspective.

You should never put anything on the internet that you don't want others to see. You shouldn't talk about things online that you dont want others to hear and you shouldnt complain when a free website you are using has bugs in it.

All the people that are complaining have a choice here.
Nobody is forcing them to take part in this. They are doing it voluntarily.

Stop using Facebook if it is becoming a problem for you.
Google releases Chrome speed test video, but it was faked
Apart from the fact that I believe this is a horrible, horrible idea (MS Office used to this to me with the menu items, worst idea ever) I believe there are more pressing matters to attend to when it comes to iTunes.
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ClamCase Turns iPad into Laptop
Doing this with a .338 Lapua Magnum instead of the previous record(s) with .50 BMG is particularly impressive. Perfect conditions, great need and some luck all came together (not too much luck to make two consecutive hits).
Following the beaten path (UI design)
As far as I can tell Apple doesn't really care how people use iTunes to play and organize their media; it's, at best, secondary functionality at this point. I'm sure there are developers at Apple working on this aspect of iTunes but I think the primary focus for iTunes from here on in will be as a gateway into the iTunes store and device syncing.

Which is a shame, really, because there aren't a whole lot of alternatives out there for OS X.
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It's an interesting idea, but this could optimize the wrong thing. You already rely on function x heavily, so why should this function be featured more prominently? You obviously have no trouble finding it. Only because someone doesn't click on a button for some time doesn't mean he won't in the future.

Why not suggest a playlist with songs you listen to the most instead of making the searchbox bigger? Why not suggest songs to listen to next instead of hiding the genius bar?
"biggest change" to the net "since it was invented 40 years ago"? Methinks not. Although on the more fundamental DNS level I can imagine they have a point.
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I thought it was buying stolen property that brought the police.
Developer Frustration with Android Market