skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your frustration because you want it to mean one thing and the 'idiots' that use the term to describe digg are spoiling that but with terms that are new and in flux you don't get to nail down the definition for ever.

If a large enough number of people use a word in a certain way that becomes its meaning. So whether you agree with it or not, by de-facto use sites like 'digg' are now social bookmarking sites, like it or not.

Words tend to drift like that and the newer a word is the bigger the chance that it will exhibit some of that drift.

I agree that a firefox extension that replaces the internal bookmarking system of firefox with HN would be 'weird', but not as weird as you might think at first glance.

You'd have to live with the fact that your bookmark for a cake recipe would stand a good chance of being axed and some more details like that but as it is, with 'showdead' on I can retrieve all the stuff I ever posted, even the deleted articles.

Add tagging to articles and you'd pretty much be there.

So it's closer than you might think!
My head hurts. Explanation, please?
What about:

"I worked hard to deprecate that code that I worked hard to create so I could deprecate some other code that I also worked hard on,"

Why would you want to work to be features that are superseded and should be avoided?
"How to Get a Job" would have been an acceptable title.
I also would have accepted "Cloudera Shows Hiring Practices That (Probably) Don't Suck".

I'm encouraged to see that at least some companies have sane hiring practices, and Cloudera is effectively communicating "hey, HN reader, it maybe won't suck if you work here". Well played :)
Totally ineffective. May you enjoy your vim days.
Perhaps the material taught/tested in high school just isn't correlated as highly with success in the workplace as a good early-childhood education is.
Tall people are not responsible for the things that are placed on high shelves just because they can reach them, but it is nice of them to help shorter people manipulate those things.
Then for the few legitimate remaining articles, I'll postulate that reddit users go to comment after only reading the headline and never follow the link of the article. Maybe HN readers are more diligent and do read/visit the articles more often.
There is an entire movement to teach babies sign language. One of my friends did it for her kids. The idea is not, however, using sign language to fluency (though, let's be honest, you're not trying to teach your child any language to fluency in their first few years of life).
I can't recommend the Allen Carr strongly enough. It simply changed my mindset on smoking and quitting in such a fundamental way that I couldn't help feeling great about stubbing out my last smoke and actively looked forward to some withdrawal pangs.

You don't use any nicotine replacement (gum, e-cigs, patches...) and it's not stressful like the willpower method (I tried a plethora of different ways to quit in the past) and the process is quite quick. I procrastinated on reading the book (looking back I was afraid) but eventually decided to bite the bullet and book myself in for a 5hour group clinic session.

The session took place in December 2008. I walked in at 9am afraid, skeptical and wondering whether I was really in the right frame of mind to quit. I extinguished my last cigarette at 2pm that day and have felt great about it since. I know I sound like an evangelist but this is one product I'll shout about. Colour me a fanboy.

Ping me if you would like more details.
Publicly observing?
Dunno about explanation, but experiment shows it to work at least with two preprocessors - Microsoft's and GCC:

First make a file a.c that has in it:

#define true false

#define false true

int A = true;

int B = false;

then from the command line, do (with the Microsoft compiler):
D:\>cl -E a.c

int A = true;

int B = false;

Now with gcc (I'm using cygwin's gcc):
D:\>sh -c "gcc -E a.c"

int A = true;

int B = false;

I've stripped the other stuff.
Been off cigarettes for a few years now, and never want to start up again, specially with the super high prices we pay in Australia now, a pack of 20's are almost $15 AUD.

I quit by using patches for 3-4 days to get over the worst of the withdrawals, then went turkey, it's rough, but you just have to suck it up, try to exercise a lot, tell all your friends your quiting so they will hassle you if you fall off the wagon, think of the money your saving and try to stay positive, the first week is brutal.
"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" :)
Isn't the point of open source that people can fork and do what they like with it? Canonical has made a major impact on Linux as being the gateway drug for so many of us. I can honestly say I would not be using linux if not for ubuntu.

Linux needs marketers, otherwise we just have cool software that no-one uses.
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Not really, it is not wikileaks job to care about either side of the war. Just because the western powers favor one side, doesn't require wikileaks to do the same.
Only the convenience factor, which could be a good reason, but I wouldn't call it killer. 3G is still easier to find than free wifi.

That said, I'm using the original Kindle 2 (uses Sprint's network) in Norway, so effectively I have no wireless option at all, and I've survived just fine.

Damn. I may have just talked myself out of the 3G version.
I guess the solution would be not to have your URLs end in .aspx. It's trivial to do that, you know. Just like it is in any other platform.

Up above, you're looking at a list of complaints that haven't been valid since 2005, and to be honest weren't an issue for anybody back then who knew what they were doing.
Hi,
New to FP as well, and I like your list of interests =)

Have you ever considered Clojure with Incanter?
http://data-sorcery.org/
> If you like PC games but you usually pirate them, I want you to start actually paying for one game a year. Just one. Please

Isn't that practically equivalent to saying "donate $50 to your favorite game company each year"? It's money they weren't planning to give out, and they'll receive the same product either way—so it's a donation.
Red Hat abandoned the desktop community/didn't take it seriously and then are surprised that someone who does gets all the mindshare and community goodwill?

It seems to me to be a miscalculation to say that the desktop hobby market has no money in it. All those younger school and university students which Ubuntu fosters will eventually be in positions where they get to choose what distribution is installed on their servers at work and it will be Ubuntu or Debian, and when GNU/Linux is rolled out on corporate or educational desktops these people are going to choose Ubuntu most likely.

I'd say either take the desktop seriously or re-evaluate your spending on it. Don't do a half-hearted job and expect people to love you. I understand this is probably the engineers getting frustrated at decisions which have been taken by the managers at RH.
It varies by company and era, but companies also pull a lot of citations that aren't really to the research content of the paper so much as to the mere fact that the paper exists, documenting that X was used by Company Y. (Academics also get a bunch of those kinds of throwaway citations, but I think it's considerably higher for citations to industry papers.) It's often useful if you're working in a theoretical area especially to be able to throw in a few cites of the "hey people really use this!" variety--- "similar ideas are used in deployed systems by Microsoft [1] and Google [2]" type things.

For example, if you were to look through the absolutely colossal number of citations that Google's MapReduce paper has gotten, the vast majority are supporting statements like "parallelism is important" or "these kinds of techniques are used in practice" or "a common current approach is". Not that it doesn't have a bunch of citations actually about the paper as well, but I'd suspect that it has more of these "free" kinds of citations than most papers do.
Investments are typically done in capital goods, say a machine shop buying a new lathe or a real estate company deciding to put up a new building.

This is just cost/benefit, investment does not really enter in to it.
OK, thanks, I didn't know.
By definition, the scheme name is part of the URL. A form not accepting properly formed URL is broken. If they add the http:// prefix without informing the user, shame on them.
I always say in any text editor flame war (usually one with little kids claiming that they're more productive in their fancy-pants new mousey editor that widgets and icons and zoomy things and little colorful spinny wheels while it thinks about deep texty problems):

Editing text is a solved problem. vim or emacs, pick one and get back to work.
I thought Bingo Card Creator was B2B?

Edit: The product is sold mostly to teachers to save them time and help them do their job better, so that would make it B2B I would have thought.
The point is (and it's actually written in bold at the middle of the article) that Red Hat invests a lot more in the desktop than Canonical, while Canonical reaps all the benefits. Your argument that Red Hat is not treating the desktop seriously seems a bit shallow when comparing the amount invested by each company in desktop development.
Most of the lack of space and time to show these would be solved by offering them for free via On Demand; or on YouTube and hulu, both of which have advertising platforms that would consider this remnant ad inventory.
Can you please provide a definition for social bookmarking that includes the uses you are but is also not overlapping with other things? (Otherwise, you wouldn't need the term as distinct from other definitions, obviously.)

The confusion stems from when Kevin Rose started calling Digg social bookmarking to help raise VC, and was adopted by people who are only understanding superficially (the front pages look kinda similar, so clearly they're the same thing!) Kevin then stopped using the term.

I think you either understand this superficially as well. There are many things that I could use to serve some obscure purpose without that being the primary purpose.

Or perhaps you are just trolling.
instead of a counter-point, you're making a completely different point. the point here is prediction. networks want to be able to predict which shows will do well so they can draw advertising dollars. to do this they hire people whom they think will be able to make this prediction. It is unlikely, however, that these people can do better than a prediction market.
I did my PhD in Multiperspective imaging (if that can be considered a field :) and I remember some guys from Stanford did some work specifically on these kind of street views. Here's a link to an overview at least http://graphics.stanford.edu/~ggaurav/research.html

I think that guy in particular might have ended up at Google, it must be a bit painful to see Microsoft release a demo of this stuff.
Huxley, of course, wasn't all doom and gloom. His last, wonderful, novel 'Island' describes a very sensible, somewhat libertarian utopia, the antidote to BNW.

His utopia is based on a very open education and a love and understanding for the natural world. It reminds me of Iain Bank's 'Culture', sans the technology.

It's relatively overlooked as a work. My guess is the same factors that make doom and gloom sell newspapers make BNW the more popular novel.

I'd recommend it as a read to anyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(novel)
I've never understood this. I have to take my (other) hand off to hit esc and get out of insert mode anyway. Additionally the fact that vim (as opposed to vi) gets rid of the diagonal movements negates a lot of the benefit for me. I also switch into "nethack" mode when I try to use hjkl and that's never good for productivity.
Or joe or pico
Related article with much discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1505365
I think the term 'social bookmarking' has expanded from its initial, narrow definition of 'a service where you can bookmark stuff and share those bookmarks with others and potentially tag them' to the point where the general public will interpret it as to be wide enough to include sites like /., digg, reddit and HN, whereas before that time it was limited to sites like furl, diigoo and deliciou.us. Witness the title of this article. For me the key element is that the majority of the discussions use a link as the topic starter.

I understand that initially the definition was a more narrow one, but since this seems to be the way people use it nowadays I'll just go with the flow, I have no vested interest in seeing the definition being used in one way or another.

To me a 'forum' is a site where people will come to discuss a subject, occasionally using links to illustrate the point.

I think that it is not very friendly to try to label someone that is having a fairly long conversation with you a troll just because you apparently disagree with them.
To be honest, it depresses me how much politics are involved in starcraft 2 by now. Hugging ATI/AMD for anti aliasing at one side, snuggling with facebook on the other side, having fun with RealID in the dark... while Zergs are boring and everyone starts playing terran. (Probably I am a bit unfair here, but to be honest, I don't care too much right now :) )
I switched to vim, because I wanted a command from visual studio. That command was "of" that allowed to open any file of the project with incremental completion. I know that many consider VS to be a crappy editor, but if you know many shortcuts, command console and macros it's actually nice.

But it's an IDE and I needed something for javascript files and html files that was in the range. So I switched for this only reason. I switched the exact same way you did, using the mouse at first, I spent time in the help for every issue I had, I learned motions, macros, etc...

Interestingly I've never found something as neat as the "of" command of VS, but I loved all the rest.
The costs of those sites is relatively small compared to the overall monetary costs of being in a relationship like eating out, social events, travel, presents, marriage etc. So maybe that's why people don't mind paying.
I used to believe that for a long time, but recently I have been far more productive in an ide than in Emacs.

I won't run the same test with vim, because I don't think it will be much different, and the insert/command mode would drive me nuts.
About 10 years ago I had to go to SF for a week at short notice and left the booking of the hotel to our office manager - big mistake.

It was on Geary, and a bit of a dive. First thing that surprised me was when I got into the taxi at the airport and the driver asked "Do you really want to go there?".

Next sign that things were not too good was when the chap at reception said - "Do not walk along Geary to get to Union square, walk two blocks up the hill, along and back down to Union square.

Of course, late one night I decided to walk directly back, after all how can it be (feeling reasonably safe going out in Glasgow - which is practically a war zone late at night). I only did this once - getting a taxi back after that!

Turns out the hotel I was staying in is right in the orange zone there.
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Your 3 examples are great, but they often end up being huge amounts of consulting -- you need to integrate with the quirks of how the specific practice works, and whatever hardware and existing systems they have already. A lot of this is related to insurance as well.

I think huge conglomerates like Kaiser, which provide insurance and care through a single network, could go a long way to improving healthcare IT. At some point, they become big enough to actually become a device manufacturer, software developer, etc., or at least to allow a single product to take over their entire practice. It would almost make sense to have an IT-focused medical hedge fund which develops a great IT system, then goes around and buys practices in strategic markets to convert to the IT system; sort of like the medical borg.

Mobile interfaces to existing EMRs would be interesting -- either within a hospital, or for consults outside. Being able to quickly check and see where someone is in the process would be great. The problem is this either requires huge amounts of customization to work with existing workflow, or adjusting workflow. Radiology with PACS is really the only case where workflow has been totally changed by IT, and that was mainly to allow perhaps the laziest specialists of all to work from home or the beach.
Red Hat concentrated on the enterprise. They certainly haven't abandoned it - they bought Qumranet as much for their desktop virtualization solution as the KVM technology.

These numbers show that Red Hat did the right thing too - they're a highly profitable company, and they're bringing massive value to the community. I really don't understand why you seem so aggrieved at a company which contributes so much.
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I think it would be difficult morally for a doctor to do that. "Do no harm", and all.

The most soulless way for an unethical MD to make money is probably to work with insurance companies to deny coverage, or work with lawyers to either award or defend cases, in cases where the medical science and financial interest don't align.
There are two tricks to fix the escape problem.

First, you can use ctrl+[ to get out of insert, which means moving your hands less.

Even better (but requires customization), you can remap "jk" to get out of insert mode. Since "jk" is a combination that never comes up in actual writing, it works great. And it means you don't have to move your hands at all from home row.
In reply to the title, I have one thing that should convince certain people to learn vim.

Besides cat, pipes and grep, vim is the only useful editor (i.e. works in the command line over ssh) you can count on always being on every *nix machine. There are a very few it is not included in, but these do not have any other editors either.
Computers Exist In the Third World

Every so often, I get an e-mail in broken English from some kid in Russia or southeast Asia or India

Is Russia really classed as third-world?
This kind of humble post is the best protection against piracy, jerks never pay for games anyway. Post like this remind you that if you want to continue to play you have to give a little of your money. Of course, it's easier to do when you are a small player that when you are EA but I would like EA to remind people as nicely as this is why you pay games : so that there will be another one sometimes... instead of putting insane DRM that get cracked anyway and annoy real customers.
I didn't get really into vim until I got the mug: http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/mugs/7bbe/

I remember when I first learned HTML (without CSS). It was simple to get the basics down, I memorized a few basic tags and attributes, and over time I learned more and more tags/attributes until I had a respectable catalog memorized that I could use when needed. It's similar with vim, but I find even after years of using it I can still learn new, neat features about (or packages for) it. (P.S., thanks to the article author for the ciX command.)
Not to mention the higher rates, thanks to virtually zero regulation of the telcos here in the US.
I learned several years ago that Redhat is probably the single biggest entity I have to thank for Linux, besides Linus himself. Start using RHEL, and as you begin to deal with bugs and such, you notice just how much is going on, and just how much goes upstream.

This has not changed, and generally speaking I hope it won't change; I don't spend much time browsing raw code, but they seem to produce the highest quality results.
Not until now, thanks for the tip! :-)
"If you doubt, for a nanosecond, that Canonical is a marketing organization masquerading as an engineering organization, then you’re either an unapologetic Ubuntu fanboy or you’re not paying attention."

1. Poisoning the well is an ugly debating trick.
2. He's somehow implying that marketing FOSS is not a useful contribution.

As for the numbers:

1. "$SUBJECT is the percentage of contribution to the GNOME codebase." ... actually, no, it's the percentage of commits. I'm not refuting the value of that metric, but misrepresenting what's measured is again a debating trick.
2. Red Hat has about 10 times the number of employees that Canonical has. Taking economies of scale into account, is the 16:1 ratio so bad?

Finally, given how well Red Hat's doing, should they really get into a fuss over any supposed free-rider phenomena?
It's more your weak use of logic and lack of supporting points makes me think you are trying to make me annoyed rather than prove your point.

I do not think that "it has links to start discussions" make it a social bookmarking site. I think it is bookmarking + public that make it a social bookmarking site.

HN is a forum and a social news site. Delicious is social bookmarking and maybe a weak social news site, but not a forum.

Slashdot, also mentioned in the article, is DEFINITELY not a social bookmarking site. Surely you agree with this?

Incidentally, I picked a random forum, and looked at a few items. They all seemed to be started around links: http://www.r8talk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=fa7531fdc42e...
They are highly profitable? Thank god. I don't know enough about them as a company, but it is really good to know they aren't teetering on the brink of destruction. They are currently in my list of companies I really want to stick around.
RedHat is a billion dollar company, Canonical doesn't make a profit yet.
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It's a shame that all tutorials apparently tells you to use ESC to get out of insert mode. The real way to do it is Ctrl-c, which keeps you on the home row. It works even better if you map Caps Lock to Ctrl.
I just saw it as a witty title, rather than an unfortunate one.
> He's somehow implying that marketing FOSS is not a useful contribution.

Whether or not it's useful, the FOSS community does have some holy ground that shall not be trod upon. The extent of that holy ground varies, but one of the basic tenants of open source is Credit Where Credit Is Due. Generally speaking, the community is very flexible, but don't be surprised if this is where the gloves come off.
To help the parent and or vim newbies avoid a google, and to show why this "customization" isn't scary or hard, all you need to do:

:imap jk <Esc>

(Literally type the angle brackets.) And if you want this as a standard default, make a .vimrc file in your home folder and stick the above without the colon in there.
OpenSSH is a bit odd, too. It was pretty much started by OpenBSD people, which makes the team more focused on OpenBSD; and the -portable version doesn't just make it compile on Linux/Solaris/..., but also adds PAM support and other stuff. Most teams are more heterogenous, and most programs don't need to integrate that much with the OS.
Both tools are as good as the amount of effort you put into learning them.
In English, maybe. In Danish there are plenty of jk's in actual writing. Ctrl+[ is terribly inaccessible on a bunch of international keyboards. Ctrl-C is the good one, really.
It's interesting that they give out stock vs. cash as an employee referral bonus. I've never seen companies do that before, I'm not sure why.

It's usually either a meaningless amount of cash ($250? Really? For a $100k/yr engineer? At that point just give a non-cash gift), or a substantial amounts of cash (approximately 25-50% of a contingency recruiter's fee).
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