skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never needed one, probably since a tiling WM allows you to accomplish something similar, as you point out.

I know screen has some nifty features, but for the things I do, a tiling WM is a superset of the functionality screen would provide.
#1 tip to improve productivity is to not read productivity posts.
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"You can pull out these GDP per capita statistics and say that people in Mississippi are vastly wealthier than people in Frankfurt and Hamburg. That can’t be true. Just spend two months in Hamburg and spend two months in Tupelo, Mississippi. There’s something wrong if the statistics are telling you that the people in Tupelo are three times wealthier than the people in Germany."

I stopped reading after this thinking along the same lines as the OP. I'm still not fully awake but this doesn't seem like a good argument, although to be fair you didn't say the arguments were good.
Reminds me of an episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex...
Same experience here, but consider this:

WinZip will work forever without being licensed. Oracle makes you buy a new license for every core.

Part of it might be the cost of the software, but pirating Oracle is also much harder than pirating WinZip.
Source: http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html

"We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:

* Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.
* The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding."

This is the reason that the Plan 9 folks gave for making their UI mouse rather than keyboard based.
Is there any such chart that also shows the version of Android for each device?
How can this be? I'm just not convinced.

The main thing I use my WM for is switching applications. Any application I want to switch to is modkey+number, and I know the numbers.
Does anyone know where I can get the raw data they used to generate this? (Preferably in a format I can slice and dice programmaticly)
I agree. While interruptions in something like watching a movie in the theater might break my concentration for several minutes, I find context switching to help my productivity at work. I can get stuck on a problem without a distraction where changing my focus briefly usually helps give me a fresh perspective and allows me to solve the problem faster.
The first time I saw that LED I thought of an SF story I read where an intelligent computer had a "smile light". I was like "Cool, it's like the computer is snoring."
The Seed/Micro-VC Trend: A Boom, Not A Bubble
I was partial the the NeXT dock starting at the top right and going down, but I concede that in the merge with Mac OS that area is used for other stuff.
The Peter Principle of pundits and policy analysts is at work.
It also means that there are growing markets for high-end luxuries and very low-level services.
YResearch Time Explorer - Searching the past for predictions about the future
I'd like to see some of those solutions as well. Show a problem, talk about the change made, demonstrate the solution. Was that in the article?
Google’s phone calls via Gmail not attack on Skype; an attack on Facebook
Free will is a potentiality. To attain it, you must first see that you do not have it, and then work consistently for many years to develop it.
You can actually map the power button to Hibernate in windows. It's not not complicated either... just a click somewhere in Power Settings. Makes life a lot more pleasant.
Why Working From Home Is Both Awesome And Horrible
I really think you ought to read the full article. He addresses all of this directly.

The interesting question is where that money will come from.

That's quite the point. And to the degree that you limit income or profitability, you make it less likely that businesses will take risks.

Founding the next MS might be a little less profitable, ... we can see that Europe ... does not necessarily fit his description of a poor country

He also makes the point that this isn't binary, it's a spectrum. Making things "a little less profitable" makes innovation a little less likely.

Microsoft is quite the counter example: they pay their workers comparatively high wages.

A counter-example of what? I don't see how that relates to the argument at hand. We're discussing systemic inequality of income; the fact that one employer or another has different philosophies of compensation has little effect on the range of incomes through the USA or the world.
Morgan Stanley: Government Defaults Inevitable
My wife is the same. She doesn't seem to appreciate my comments that I close my eyes to go to sleep and so don't notice the LEDs.
My experience is that companies generally have the intention of playing fair and paying for all the licenses they need, but without any license protection enforcing it, nobody is going to keep an eye on how many people are actually using the software within the organisation.
The article refers to a paper. Is the paper then not actual data? I'm surprised to see everyone so far just say the article is wrong, without being specific. Did the article connect the dots wrong, are the 'facts' the article claim to be true misleading, do the people the article refer to not exist, or are all the sources the article linked to wrong/irrelevant? I'm not someone who's acquainted with formal scientific journalism, so it's not something I can judge well by myself. That means I can't judge whether people saying the article is wrong are a valid claim either! And that's why I think it'd have been better if the commenters were a bit more specific.

Part of article I was referring to:

>>

Would it work? The scientific evidence says yes. Perhaps the stoutest scientific argument in favour of it came from Paul Crutzen, a Dutch atmospheric scientist whose environmentalist bona fides run even deeper than Caldeira’s — he won a Nobel prize for his research on atmospheric ozone depletion.

In 2006 he wrote an essay in the journal Climatic Change lamenting the “grossly unsuccessful” efforts to emit fewer greenhouse gases and acknowledging that an injection of sulphur in the stratosphere “is the only option available to rapidly reduce temperature rises and counteract other climatic effects”.

Crutzen’s embrace of geoengineering was considered such a heresy within the climate science community that some of his peers tried to stop the publication of his essay. How could the man reverently known as “Dr Ozone” possibly endorse such a scheme? Wouldn’t the environmental damage outweigh the benefits?

Actually, no. Crutzen concluded that damage to the ozone would be minimal. The sulphur dioxide would eventually settle out in the polar regions but in such relatively small amounts that significant harm was unlikely.
This does seem like a great book. I haven't read it, but I did enjoy the google tech talk, "From Nand to Tetris in 12 steps":

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7654043762021156507#

However, the poster already has an undergraduate degree in CS. I imagine he knows much of this material already. There is story that Kazhdan (a mathematician) would, pointing to a book, tell his graduate students: "You should know everything in this book ... but don't read it!" I haven't figured out how to do this in mathematics (yet), but here is what I would do in CS: buy a $200 Xilinx FGPA kit (or write a hardware simulator), design a CPU, build a compiler and design an operating system for it. When you get stuck or need help look up references, read tutorials, talk to mentors, go online, whatever, etc. You're going to encounter all the same challenges if you read a book like this or take a class, but this way you'll own the problems that come up, and your solutions, rather than having them spoon-fed to you by a teacher or book.
The sad thing is, Freakonomics and their NYTimes blog were pretty interesting, and for "popular science", reasonably solid. Everything since Superfreakonomics (inclusive) has been a huge let-down.
I'd be interested to see the converse as well - the countries that let the most other countries' citizens in without passports.
Party Like it's 1998 (And the problem with Skype's IPO offering)
Original comment was something like:

"Obligatory 'Have you tried tmux?!?!'"

I deleted it because I thought HN might think I was trolling or something.
Periodic Table of the Perl6 Operators
You can't please everyone
People distributing decoders in volume still need to license the technology. The good news is it is cheap, something like $0.25 and most users have already paid if you use the code in OS X or Windows. I see Ubuntu has a mechanism to license it for OEM built machines, though I don't see a way for an individual to buy a license.

I don't think a one time $0.25 is a significant burden to someone that paid 1000 times that for the machine and 100 times that each month for network access. The burden is the transaction cost. The client has to decide to pay and then go through the hassle of paying.

Someone (with a tolerance for doing business) should set up shop selling 10 licenses to a linux H.264 decoder for $5. Use what you need, gift the rest to friends.
One advantage (for me at least) is that this way the corners have been left empty and I can use them as hot spots for some other functionality (such as Expose').

Not sure if that's the reason (more probably just fashion sense) but I like it.
So many people criticize MBA's out of complete ignorance. They are full of s.it. They only expose their theorizations about it and propagate their naives misconceptions over and over.... They don't even have one !!!

Remember 'Good Will hunting' when Robin Williams comes back to Matt Damon, telling him he summarizes people out of what he read in books? It's the same s.it !!!

Matthew Stewart shrinks MBA's to his narrow understanding of it. He is definitely not one to take advise from. Really not. Talk to those who have an MBA.

Barry-cotter: Thanks for posting those links.
Sure, honey, of course I can pick the kids up at 3:00. Sure, I can run by Meijer on the way. Sure, I can take our son lunch because he forgot it. Sure, I ... wait a minute. It's Thursday? Didn't I have something due yesterday?
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Switzerland has 156 countries (rank 10)

The full list is at http://www.henleyglobal.com/citizenship/visa-restrictions/
Tracking the signal of emerging technologies
Oh, most definitely. I think most of my requirements could be extended to just about any founder. I still spend probably 10% of my time making simple text changes in our CMS.
Lack of skilled workers threatens recovery: Manpower
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Netsukuku: P2P Internet Connectivity
Licensing 'dongles' are pretty common for more expensive business software, HASP is a common licensing dongle for example, http://www.aladdin.com/
I'm employed at a university in the US and have what we consider a "cushy" job: i.e. good benefits and a short work week. Just for comparison, here's what my employer offers.

vacation = 2 weeks

personal time = 6 days (sick time is considered personal time)

holidays = 7

We have also time off that I don't know how to categorize. It's specific to universities.

university shutdown between Christmas and New Year's = 7 days

Memorial Day until Labor Day we leave at 1pm on Friday, assuming no critical work needs to be completed.

University tuition ranges and often includes housing, which is necessary in less urban areas. $1000/class would be on the low end.

Day care for our 4.5 year old is about $250/week.

My work week is 40 hours but we're strongly encouraged to take a 1 hour lunch. However, with the exception of one other person in my social circle, everyone else works 45+ hours weekly.

EDIT: Applied line breaks again.
Yeah, you're free to set your own hours, but you only get 24 of them a day, so there's a limit to the flexibility in putting those 16 hours somewhere.

Also, working at home means you live at work.
Piracy for video games generally reports one lost sale per one thousand pirates. Games seem fungible, in that they all solve the 'boredom' problem. I'd imagine the more unique the problem you are solving, the more worthwhile piracy prevention is.

On the other hand, worrying about piracy sometimes seems like fitting a square peg into a round hole, or tweaking a garlic and ham dessert recipe. Find a way to benefit both sides of the transaction instead.
I hope to god you don't have an MBA with that grammar and spelling. I mean, I know it's not a lit program, but come on here.
I will repost my comment here to you in the hope you will better understand my culture.

first this isnt about google
the german public has seen theire private information being
collected and send through algorithms in attempts to harvest
behavioural data leeding to many scandals over the last years.
It is now start to begin to develop a consciousness about the change
that the informational age will truly have impact to the relations on
human interaction in the 21st century and it is thus they want to have a debate about to determine the pro´s and con´s and to be able to setup institutionalized rules for government and corporations alike to
determine a balance and
safeguard human dignity.

then this is about google
streetview represented the german public with theyre first real chance to express theyre desire for thorough intellectual investigation regarding the future treatment and development of theyre right to privacy -
originating from the german constitution -
originating from the equality and quality of dignity –
Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar
The Right of every german citizen to determine pictures of her- or himself public or not is a strong safeguard of the real enforcement of oneselfs privacy. In this case google streetview just happens to have ignited a spark that allowed many who could not express theyre desire nor give rational of theyre feelings a flank to project exactly those desires. Special Interest Groups represented e.g.
through Springer/Bild, AdvertisePrint, politians… used this “opportunity” to exaggerate themselves. Google may not take this easy! The acceptance of humans expressing theyre will to not take part in something many others do is on the very essence of
democratic societies – the protection of minorities
Google may be best adviced to not take the streetview issue as utterly important
but just if they realise that there are societies that will not allow theyre freedom and dignity
to be washed out by the slow streams of magnitudial change –
but want them to grow with it.
Candidates Are Still Holding Out...  (and not accepting job offers)
Here is the comment by Tog, I believe: http://www.asktog.com/readerMail/2000-07ReaderMail.html#Anch....

I just tested this in Firefox on Windows, and it does support going in a triangle across other menu items at the same level as the one with a submenu. The delay permitted is a bit short though, which might be what they've tweaked better on the Mac. No Apple machine here, so I can't comment more directly.
Good one ;)
People throughout the political spectrum conflate legal and illegal immigrants for their own agendas. But they are two entirely disparate groups.

I think if there was a way of limiting social benefits until you had proved you planned to contribute

That should apply to "locals" as well!
So what about this NEO keyboard layout. Did anyone tried it? While I understand where from performance can come when you are typing email, I am not so sure about keyboard shortcuts. Anyone?
So you think we'e self-centered pricks by nature? Tell me more!
I think the quality is the same . It's mainly the problems of the destination infrastructure, I usually never blame Skype or LocalPhone. But I found that for LocalPhone on weekends , sometimes the lines are busy (Montreal,Canada) so I have to wait couple of hours to be able to call - but it's very rare.
Switzerland is fairly obnoxious towards immigrants tho' (e.g. it is pretty much impossible to naturalize as Swiss). It should be rights be difficult for Swiss to travel anywhere. I expect their private banking industry is what opens the doors...
"Uncaught Error: Page does not have permission to access location information using Google Gears"
Err, how to get a coupon? (besides joining node KO which is closed now)
I'm working on a site for that. It's Curious Reef: http://curiousreef.com

It's pretty geared towards programming now, with the OCW Intro to Comp Sci class being the most popular, followed by SICP. I would be interested to hear if that's the kind of website you're looking for.
To be honest I found the Apple community one of the most demanding around. After a new OS arrives, you can hear people complain of the smallest minutia.

For example I remember a post by a famous developer that complained when Apple introduced the 3D dock... because the prospective of the dock was not the same as those the HGI asked for the icons... and so it looked wrong.

In the same period, people also complained that the 3D dock didn't work well when the dock was put on the left/right of the screen... eventually Apple moved back to the old version for those cases.

There's been complains about font changes, about inconsistent looks, about too much colour or too little colour, and the list goes on.
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So, what is your immigration status? I'm pretty sure I couldn't stay in the US, pursuing the kind of business you have, without obtaining a green card by some other means first.
Leadership tips, it's not about the leader
Only one of those measures is even remotely related to the factors I asked for data on (working hours, health care or luxuries), namely the WHO rankings of health care. Unfortunately, the WHO rankings of health care are not actually rankings of health care. They rank a weighted average of health (25%), health inequality (25%), responsiveness (12.5%), responsiveness inequality (12.5%), and financial inequality (25%).

Go read the actual report: http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf

Only 37.5% of the ranking is even peripherally related to health care, namely health outcomes (measured by DALE, Disability Adjusted Life Expectancy) and responsiveness (how satisfied patients are). The US is #1 in responsiveness and #24 in DALE (4.5 years behind Japan at #1 and 0.5 years behind Germany at #22).

It's unclear how significant the gap in DALE is, since lifestyle and genetics strongly affect DALE. Fun fact: life expectancy for Japanese Americans is higher than for Japanese (84.5 in the US [1], 82.6 in Japan). Within the US, life expectancy varies from 44 (Lakota Men) to 86 (Chinese American Women), a gap of 42 years.

To actually rank health care, one would need to measure medical outcomes for specific medical diagnoses, adjusted for patient quality. E.g., it would need to answer questions like "given a group of non-overweight white males aged 45-55 with prostate cancer, how many survive at least 5 years?".

[1] http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2...
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Interestingly, I don't feel faster with the keyboard. I do, however, feel more comfortable when I stick to one mode (keyboard-only or mouse-only). It's switching that feels awkward. I also don't use Xmonad out of pure Geekiness (though I started that way). I use it because I find it more comfortable. I work at the same time with OSX, and while moving windows with the mouse is probably just as fast, it annoys me.

Now the reason why the keyboard is slower than the mouse may be sub-optimal short-cuts. For example, when editing, one very often needs to change lines, or otherwise navigate the text. A sensible short-cut to support that could be alt + jkli (assuming a Qwerty layout). Then you don't have to leave the home row at all. But if you have to use the actual arrows, it's slower, and that may make the mouse the better choice.
I think the caveat is primarily muscle memory. If an action is in muscle memory it's almost always faster. I don't think about how to switch desktops or save a file so the keyboard is faster. However fancy cursor movement(like skip ahead one word) is pretty much useless for me since I have to think about what I'm doing.
I'm just saying you have to be able to hold down a job well enough that food is not the primary cost driver for your living expenses. You don't have to be at a HN-level of intelligence/industriousness to do that either, but you do have to be reasonably intelligent.

If you can't hold down a decent job, odds are you aren't going to be much use in the kitchen.
Mmm. No. It takes longer to learn a language than an API, in general. I don't think I'm wrong about that?
Dell ups offer for 3PAR to $1.6B, tops HP
I just registered Phasebook, bring in the lawyers!
Denmark is a member of Schengen, but we also have deals with Sweden and Norway that doesn't even require passports to get there, and I don't imagine I would need a passport to go visit Iceland either.
No it's not. It would be if they were replacing them with their own ads, but they're adding tremendous value to Gmail.
For clarification; is it correct to say that you recognize no difference between a description and an explanation?
Having seen my mom and sis manage my niece, I completely agree, toddler management can lead to good boss management skills :)
Object-Oriented Web Content Framework
Have you noticed something? They removed the torrent, but they refuse to do so under legal pressure from huge corporate empires.

I think that this is an elegant proof that being genuinely nice to people works. Pirate bay is a site run by an organization for a political reason, but we tend to forget that it's made up of people too.
...especially if you have kids, and double-especially if they are involved in after-school activities. Sports are particularly bad because coaches don't seem to know how to read a watch.
The original reddit comment by the author here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d4z7q/when_you_... is actually rather interesting. If you delve deeper into the comments he actually gives someone a full license copy to someone that had trouble with the cracked version.
In fact, part of their success ironically is because of the generic nature of their name.
The Paradox of Senior Management
--I use dashes a lot when I write--

ive been experimenting with a writing style that used hyphen as the only punctuation - http://makebelieve1.wordpress.com/about/ - but i realized that wordpress.com converts hyphens with spaces on either side into en-dashes and two hyphens into em-dashes
Why your startup will fail
Life expectancy is low because of the vast amount of people that eat
crappy food in the US.

And what makes people eat crappy food in the US?

Could it be that crappy food is sold starting from the school's cafeteria?
Could it be that people don't have enough time to cook or eat at better restaurants?

This to me just means that in those other countries, the government is
re-distributing wealth

It could also mean any number of things ... like a middle-class that is better represented, or that the distribution of wealth is more efficient.

I would rather have the chance of making it big (or fail) than have the
government take most of it away with huge taxes and strict rules that
make it really difficult to have a successful business.
....
Would you rather be happier or have less freedoms?

Oh, the freedom argument :)

I'm not saying one is better than the other, but it seems to me that you've got no idea of how Consumerism works.

When you're sunken in debt, how much freedom do you have left?
ORM is not always Model. ORM is tool to build Model. If queries become to SQLish, add another layer on top of ORM with methods to retrieve data which encapsulate all SQLish methods and provide nice and consistent interface.
Its great that Britons can travel the world hassle free - must be the remnants of the empire. However, what really matters to people is the opportunity to work and live in a foreign country. I am a Briton living in the US and the difficulty it takes to come to the US is astounding. I had a relatively easy ride but for some the road is long.