skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but Ubuntu's PR has always promoted the desktop (and laptop, and netbook..) They now talk about the server more than they used to, but ubuntu.com still gives the desktop a lot of emphasis.

Meanwhile:

* redhat.com's frontpage is devoid of anything but the odd "Desktop" link

* Way back in 2003, Red Hat's then-CEO said consumers should buy Windows [1]

* In 2008, Red Hat stated that "we have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future." [2]

* In 2009, their CEO said "the concept of a desktop is kind of ridiculous in this day and age." [3]

I think you could say that Red Hat's focus makes sense, or even that their view on the Linux desktop is more honest. But Canonical, at least, has aspirations for the Linux desktop, while Red Hat decided a long time ago that they're not really fussed.

Credit where credit is due is one thing, and in [2] Red Hat lays claim to the work they put into the desktop, and its suitability for certain niches. But contrasting their PR with Canonical's, can anyone be surprised the "power user" Linux desktop set don't give Red Hat much attention?

[1] http://www.silicon.com/technology/software/2003/11/04/red-ha...

[2] http://press.redhat.com/2008/04/16/whats-going-on-with-red-h...

[3] http://www.techworld.com.au/article/296873/red_hat_ceo_quest...
Constantly resubmitted - here are some of the earlier articles:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/sugru?sort=by_date

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=976007

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1019335

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079837

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1174181

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1397662

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1401106
For the eight years I've been using vim, I have never known about ci". I feel both stupid and in awe.
Cmn, I usually hate doing such type of comments but here i just have to say:

Who the F is "Mr Daniel Leary"?? I think "Mr Daniel Leary" "is irrelevant". Why? Lets compare:

37signals gave me tools that: 1) I am using myself sometimes 2) My friends and clients are using and enjoying day by day. They are willing to pay $$ for it as it get needed things done.

37s doing just fine as a company employing these business methods

I learned A LOT from 37s books, talks, blogs etc. I talked with DHH few times at Rails events and personally think that he is a very clever guy. I usually enjoy Jason's posts as well

I made a lot of money for my self and my business using tools(like Rails) and methods that 37 signals gave me. I can say that THANKS TO 37SIGNALS ABOUT 10 PEOPLE HAVE JOBS AND GETTING PAID EVERY DAY IN MY COMPANY ALONE. This wouldn't exist without them!

Now Daniel. Maybe I am missing something about his biography but who the F is he to tell me what is relevant? What kind of expert is he??

"Let me say from the outset that I have a degree in economics. I studied this at Oxford University, and have as good a grasp as anyone. " Is it that guy http://uk.linkedin.com/in/danielleary ?? If so, then I can understand why this Oxford student explaining why some established business model that i and many other businesses successfully employ "is irrelevant" sounds so stupid and funny to me.

Sorry again for getting it so personal, but i believe that most of the HN folks can see why his points are irrelevant so there is no need to explain this here.
Exactly: Or Smalltalk or Ruby for that matter, which both facilitate information hiding via private access. It's great to feel superior, isn't it?
I still read slashdot. I think the problem with it is that stories are sometimes slow to hit the front page. It's not uncommon to have day old news as the top entry on slashdot.

I'm really not sure what facebook integration has to do with anything, I doubt that slashdot users left because of that.
I've never understood why an editor can't be made that is as powerful as vim, but gets the learning curve right.

Then again, I have a sneaking suspicion that it has to do with people liking the exclusivity factor.
I agree with you - I don't get this 'not enough women in tech' thing. If something is predominantly gender specific then does it matter? I don't see anyone actively discouraging women from being involved, the plain simple fact is that most aren't interested!
You can also use Ctrl-[ to go to normal mode.

Ctrl-O takes you to normal mode for a single command and then automatically goes back to insert mode.

Frankly, I find it easier to map Caps to Escape.
Only problem is when you use other people's systems and you keep hitting caps lock when you mean to hit escape (Even if you're not in Vim)
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Apparently in USA it is, like the rest of Central and Eastern Europe:)
Anyway - in my country 10 years ago everybody was buying computers for their kids, it was sth like 1000$ then, and it was 2-3 months of earnings for average family. Software was pirated, almost by everybody. It was priced for companies, not for normal people, because everybody assumed it will be only bought by companies who need it, private people would pirate it, and they did.
Earnings are up today, but kids are used to pirating things. Still, when game is sold with reasonable price (I would say 5-10$) it isn't pirated by normal people, only jerks who won't buy anything no matter what.
I would say in my region people crossed the line between "piracy is neccesity" to "piracy is easy" in the last 10 years. Of course mind set of computerized generation (30 years and younger) is here to stay, so it will take long time before piracy will stop.
http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/are-commercial-databa...
i smoke about 1-2 cigarettes a day. Sometimes it rises to about half a pack if im in a social setting. Since im a nerd, thats rare(maybe once a week). Every time I've smoked more than a pack a day, heavy drinking was involved.

Maybe im one of the lucky ones, I'm not as addicted to smoking as i am to caffeine, I can go for days or weeks and not bother to buy a pack(unless i know that there will be heavy drinking tonight), but if i miss one daily cup, well i believe most HN-ers know whats it like to have your whole sleeping schedule messed up for days.

Smoking i actually enjoy, i enjoy good coffee too, but im more worried about the withdraw, i was never worried about nicotine withdraw, so i don't conciser it a real addiction, not like coffee at least. Im not in a rush to quit, but i am careful, i don't want a second habit to turn into a hard addiction.

Or maybe it has and im just rationalizing my addiction. A tip if you really want to quit: don't rationalize, there is no rational reason to smoke, i smoke because i enjoy it, and the joy is just a chemical reaction in my brain. Don't rationalize, there is no rational reason. Just quit and be done with it. Don't think too much. Best way to kill an addiction is to starve it.
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vi yes, but vim is not always installed.
To address those points:

1. That's trivial to change though and I think I would argue that the default mapping has more to do with how to map to class names (e.g. /Member to MemberController) than folders.

2. You don't have to use ASPX if you don't want to - there are a variety of difference view engines - I happen to prefer StringTemplate.

3. .Net MVC projects, don't need to be complicated, most of the complexity you see in these projects is down to the developers

4. 5. and 6. are true - but things like Datasets cen be easily avoided if you don't like them (which I don't)

7. .Net MVC has got some fantastic extension points, I never use any of the wizards or complex editing tools in VS that hide the underlying file contents. This is perfectly feasible if you want to do it.

8. That isn't really a comment on the technology stack - just because a lot of people use it doesn't mean it is bad.

9. Writing code to run in SharePoint is the devils work.
Higher rate my foot. Cell phones in Switzerland and Germany are crazy expensive. It costs people like 0.20 cents to call someone with a phone, and I pay like 0.25 cents or something. When I used to have a phone in Germany, I used to spend upwards of 90 euros a month calling like I was used to in the states, where I basically have as much calling as I need for $50 (including tax and all that sneaky bullshit). Cell phones in europe are a little cheaper if you don't talk much, but if you really want to use it as a primary phone, they are insane expensive. Thats why everybody texts like crazy here, but even texts are expensive.
"You know when one of your clients thinks that they know better than you about marketing matters? They don't appreciate the bigger picture, they don't understand as much as you do, or even that there is more to understand? They're suffering from known biases that are obvious to you, being outside the situation? If they'd only listen to you and take your advice they'd be so much better off, but they're too closed-minded to see that? They need to just trust someone who knows what they're talking about - you - and let it go.

Well, that's exactly what you're doing with your CMS. You are that client, you're doing exactly the same thing. Listen to someone who knows what they're talking about, me, and let it go."

Disguise the second part - get them really involved in joining in with the first part, get them to recount examples, etc... leave them nowhere to run when the second part hits 'em.
In all respect, then perhaps the FOSS community should change perspective. Ubuntu has been one of the best PR-moves that Linux ever had. If the goal is to get people to use the software, then they contributed a great deal to the project.
Take a look at Window Flow:

http://mostadvantageous.com/optimal-layout/

or may be Mercury Mover:

http://www.heliumfoot.com/mercurymover/
I had an A5 piece of cardboard on my bookshelf in full view and every Monday I'd put another mark on it with a felt tip in groups of 5 like |||| + \

The idea was to have four rows of 13 notches for the 52 weeks of the year.

After about 6-7months I didn't need it anymore, but I still keep it to this day as a memento. It really helped to look up at it every time I had a craving and think 'look how far you have come'

It will be four years in October since I stopped smoking. I smoked for half of my life from 13-26
And still... That's not the point. The point is that Canonical is targeting the desktop market, but their contributions seldom get upstreamed. OTOH Red Hat makes most of the contributions and they're not even focusing on that market.
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His last chapter really has the point.

Back in the days when I played new games (maybe late-80's to mid-90's), I pirated most of the games. Of course. I didn't have the money to buy them and everyone was doing it so piracy was the distribution channel. I don't feel guilty about it because if couldn't have bought all those games anyway. Instead, I feel even cherished because it was piracy that let me get much enjoyment out of the various titles which in turn made my nerdful youth much richer and tolerable. The game programmers had their starving families but I was in no position whatsoever to really make any real difference there.

But the thing is that I always bought some games.

Sometimes I bought one game per year, or maybe it was three per year some other year, depending on how much money I happened to get for my birthday. Further, it wasn't so much because I wanted to altruistically feed the programmer's family but that I saw value in owning an original copy of a really good game, with the box and the manuals, and I recognized the value of the programmers' work: the entertainment that came with a really good game.

If I had been the rich kid down the block I could have bought 10 or 30 games a year. But I wasn't and I was conscientiously happy to pay for what I could and pirate the rest.

This brings me to the software market as I want to see it.

The market is a pool of games and software, unfortunately priced so that only some people can buy them. And some people who might buy some, can't legally copy and try it out before deciding to buy or not. Therefore, I see value in considering games and software, in the end, more like common goods to which everyone has some rights. Not perhaps as important rights as to roads and water, but as something that costs zero to copy software begs for common copyrights.

And if it is so, the only way to pay for such thing is the pay-what-you-can model. You can't force people to buy your stuff anyway. I believe that the market, together with piracy, already exhibits this property quite strongly.
I really like wikileaks in principle, but I'll bet dollars to donuts that 6 months from now the Obama administration will give a report naming some random Afghan, exposed in the wikileaks files, who was killed by the Taliban in reprisal.

That will be the beginning of the end of wikileaks.
I was quite the opposite. I got the old sturdy Emacs 19 manual (printed by HP Press) and put that well-bound beast on my desk. I started doing everything with emacs; calendar, IRC, calculations, spreadsheet, notes, debugging, running Perl, running connecting to a remote box, etc.

I am one of those rare people that can't use MS Notepad; I routinely get weird dialogs popup in applications because I use emacs key-chords from muscle memory.
I think part of the reason that vim and emacs are so powerful but also so hard to learn is that they were created before we had nice homogenous operating environments with a standard 108 key keyboard and Graphical User Interfaces.

They both come from a day when all UI's were text based and so it's not surprising that they offer more powerful editing models than newer alternatives, considering they've both had 30 odd years of refinement.

It's also understandable that people find them more difficult to use. The major advantage that a GUI has over a text interface is that it's more discoverable and given that most people these days have grown up around GUI's, we thus find text based UI's intimidating.

Either way, as developers, most of our day to day tasks revolve around editing text, so I'd say that using a tool that's aimed at giving us maximum textual love is a good thing.
Another news organization would have withheld their names, so your "blame the leaker" argument doesn't seem very convincing.
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IMHO, typing "^- " or "^\* " (regexp) should really translate into a <LI>, inside an <UL>. The formatting system of HN is minimal which works well but lists are something so basic it's difficult to live without.
For one thing, Ibis Reader is a web app that allows reading of ePubs. Imagine now being able to also read ePub on the Kindle.
Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you.
One of my favorite discussion threads of all time, on any forum, was "Teach me and you. Give a gem" on the Civfanatics forum. It wound up being 15 pages of insights on how to play Civilization IV well, and was really a wonderful, enjoyable, community building experience.

Here was the first post:

"Share a "one-liner" simple strategy that can help beginners, seasoned players and maybe even be a gem that one of the pros can learn from.

Feel free to explain your tip, but avoid complex, in-depth strategy."

So, care to share a gem about technology, entrepreneurship, or general Hacker News type topics?
Am I mistaken in classifying 37s as B2B, then?
To be honest it makes some sense in their case. Just look at the amount of blog posts that compare how fast databases are by running an insert of 1M rows, then a couple of selects and declaring a "winner" based on that... I'm sure Oracle wouldn't like any "tests" like that published.
Media sites sued for "zombie cookies"
"I very rarely actually want to scroll right along a street"

I do that all the time for country roads to plan cycle routes - the current Google interface leaves a lot to be desired.
Mine: Occasionally buy a can of compressed air and a soft cloth to clean up your computer. The few dollars will keep your expensive kit running in better condition and lasting longer.
Anybody care to explain how you actually make money from an email newsletter? This article, and all the ones linked from it (and the ones linked from them) just tells you how much people sold their lists for. Never is it mentioned why these lists are valuable.

I'm on a couple of the lists mentioned. They don't charge me anything. They don't try to sell me anything. How is this possibly valuable to anybody in terms of dollars?
Zynga Forms Zynga Japan, Confirms $150 Million Investment from Softbank
Slashdot is a top 1,000 website, it has only grown in audience over the years, I fail to see how it is 'struggling to remain relevant' in this sense.

Sure it has its problems, the audience has changed significantly over time, they've added stuff (idle??) that literally drove out a good portion of the old guard but it's a little premature to describe them as struggling in terms of remaining relevant.

HN contains plenty of refugees from /. so I'm sure that to many people here this will be a recognisable subject but for every person that left 10 more joined up in the meantime.

Relevance is hard to measure anyway, a few anecdotes and the woopra stats are not going to convince me that the 100's of thousands of visitors per day that slashdot attracts are no longer a force to be reckoned with.

Personally I find the woopra stats more than a little bit suspect because /. shows up as a 0, I find it hard if not impossible to believe that sites much smaller than /. in audience size result in an overall infinitely larger number of visitors.

A '0' in a result like this is suspect. Maybe they forgot to include .org domains ;) ? Probably the result says more about woopra and the sites they analyse or their methods than it does about slashdot.
It's really amazing how decisively Microsoft is beating Google in world-mapping, despite being second or third to market. Here's some data points:

1. Microsoft's take on Google's idea of hybrid map rendering (labels overlayed on satellite/aerial images) has yielded the most beautiful hybrid I've ever seen on an online map.

2. Sometime ago a commenter of my blog needed to go from Moscow to Shanghai, and Microsoft's map was the only one that produced a usable route. (For this you need to road networks of all the countries along the way, and not choke on huge routes.)

3. Photosynth, 'nuff said. And the followup "finding paths through the world's photos" by the same research group. And that mind-blowing demo (given by the same person, Blaise Aguiera y Arcas) where they incorporated a live camera feed into panoramic views. Look them all up, you won't be disappointed.

4. Bird's eye view and the streets overlaid on top of that.

5. 3D cities in Bing Maps are created professionally, unlike the cities in Google Earth, and it shows.

6. Bing's street-side view has exceptional 3D cues of movement.

And now this. I love watching all this stuff slowly come together.
The problem with that semi-assertion is that the goal is differs greatly amongst OSS developers, from "I did something useful for me and am sharing it in case it's useful to anyone else," to "I'm going to take over the world by getting OSS into everyone's hands." ... and everywhere in between. Canonical clearly tends toward the latter end of the spectrum, where I imagine a company like Red Hat is somewhere in the middle.
Open-source is irrelevant here. It's (1) "I own this copy of music/software and can do anything I wish with it" vs (2) "I licensed this copy of music/software from you on the terms we have agreed on, and I will adhere to these terms".

Both music and software are usually licensed (2), but people often disrespect music license thinking they are entitled to more rights for some reason.
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Most companies I've been at/seen have at least $5k referral bonuses. At one company I knew of one employee who had gotten $25k in one year: definitely nothing to balk at.
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It seems that the criticisms keep switching between ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC interchangeably. If you are primarily speaking about MVC, I think there is definitely some misinformation here.

1. The key term here is "defaults". This behavior is completely configurable.

2. This doesn't apply to MVC, since it is all handler based. Plus, you can extend it at pretty much any point in the pipeline: http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2007/11/20/aspnet-mvc-pipeli...

4. I think this is an older point of view that is rapidly changing with MVC. Outputting custom formats is astonishingly simple, it's a matter of using built-in ActionResults, or inheriting it when creating your own, e.g., YamlResult. When they make the framework more extensible like they have here, I think developers certainly take advantage of that.

I keep seeing a lot of criticism of the default behavior, when all of this behavior is trivially overridden.
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I never used it, but perhaps it's a nice way to learn vim: http://cream.sourceforge.net/
In spite of their ambition to be seen as a 'news organisation' I don't agree with that.

Wikileaks is just a dumb pipe that vets information for basic correctness and then throws it before the wolves.

They shouldn't change the data in any way because that would mean a measure of editorial control and hence responsibility, also, once you start censoring some of the data you are on a slippery slope.

What they did with their collateral damage video was utterly stupid, it has reduced their status tremendously in my opinion. Their latest play to become the CNN of leaked data is a further move away from what they stood for. They're now actively turning themselves in to an anti-war propaganda machine. Maybe we need one, I don't know but wikileaks was an invaluable resource the way it was, it has become strongly tainted.
It is not free-riding. Canonical cares a lot more about user-experience and the little things. It classical capitalism: everybody does what he thinks is best for her and the end everbody profits.
>smudges

Just use a shirt to wipe it down. Works for me.
Counterpoint: People pay for music. People pay for games. What people won't pay for is something that is a shallow copy of what is available for free elsewhere.
Check your auto-lock in General settings.
Definitely the best.
As a student, I had time to learn vim the slow, hard, purist way, and I struggled for weeks simply practicing, drilling, and tutorial-ing.

Then I picked up these cheat-sheet tutorials and WOW! Just code as usual, but in vi with the first easy cheat-sheet lying in front of you; almost no productivity hit, and you seamlessly build up the cheat-sheet 'till you know all the commands!

The only way to learn vim, I think.
Opera serves 11500 pages per second from their data center
I wonder if this move has more to do with killing off Solaris than with Oracle directly trying to screw PostgreSQL.
FTC Leaning Toward Do-Not-Track List for Online Ads
Whiteboards are always a good investment.