skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to make that call at the moment. I've been using Ubuntu on laptops since 5.10 (Badger) and Debian before that. 10.10 has by far the most regressions in it that I've encountered during this time.

If this were my project, I wouldn't be releasing it in this state. I know it's the 10/10 release and presumably 10/10/10 they will hit -- 42 and all that -- but they really need to get some stability into this thing. It's starting to alienate folk.

By raising bugs and doing the legwork I've helped fix quite a few, but two unresolved issues, both involving hardware that worked flawlessly until now, are making me wonder how well my time is being spent.

In addition, Shuttleworth is clearly starting down the road of monetizing Ubuntu, and if I'm going to support that then I want my show-stoppers fixed. Quid pro quo.

Because of this, moving to the Dark Side is looking more and more attractive. I wish it wasn't so.

[Edit: I also have an old Acer on 9.10 that works flawlessly, including the hardware that causes issues in 10.10. I won't be updating it.]
>It's all roses and candy corn, 'meet smart people'

Sounds like it's not a bad idea to hang out around a good school and/or have some friends there, but no need to pony up 60k+ to sit in class and learn elementary computer science.
I think you're speaking in terms of a specific market. A local florist ppc'ing does not have the luxury of affording to brand in this economy.

inherently a click affords more branding anyway as you are much better able to control the presentation of your brand on a page you have complete control over.
Ask HN: Review our iPhone multiplayer game "Presidents & Assholes"
Check it out: http://kings-and-servants.com/

It's the iphone implementation of the "asshole" card game aka "presidents & assholes", some of you might know from school or as a drinking game.

We are eager to hear what you think and I'll stay around to discuss any questions which might come up! Thanks!
Wouldn't the headline read more easily if it was, "Is China intending to push up the Yen to destroy Japan's economy?"
I have to agree with Dylan on this one. By default, the security of a system with ANY public addressability (vs. one that can't be seen except on outbound requests) is dramatically less secure than not exposing it at all.

If we can believe the old adage that "The only secure server is one encased in concrete", then the average non-NATTED device is more akin to one that is concreted than one with public addressability.
HTML Popup lightbox that works on any web page
How to Build Email List using HTML Popup Domination Stand Alone Version
User's overwhelmingly click the top result anyway. [1] If you're not in the top 3, you're close to invisible.

I'm not sure this is the scandal the author makes it out to be.

[1] http://training.seobook.com/google-ranking-value
Memory and recall are not matters of direct lookup; our brains are not key-value stores. We usually don't request a memory by timestamp, but rather, memories more often than not make themselves known to us--absent any request or intervention on our part--after being triggered by other associated sense perceptions (consider the memories invoked by the smell of leaves on an early fall day, the sound of a song you haven't heard in a decade).

Anecdotally, at least, I very rarely (if ever) recall the details of a text by attempting to actively recall some specific fact, date, historical accident, or the like, but this by no means suggests that I have no memory of something I've read because it is so often the case that details I'd completely forgotten about return at the most unexpected times, triggered by the most unexpected stimuli.
Nice tip, but this only comments out the first line of pasted text.

I do:
cat > a
[CLICK]
[CTRL+D]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/TechnicalOverview
So Jason was getting 30-50% of a conference that made ~5m to 6m with TechCrunch's branding and Jason is surprised when Arrington feels like maybe he is the one getting screwed? I think maybe TechCrunch's name has a bit better branding than Mahalo...

Arrington is running a business - a startup - and he has every right to run his own conference using his brand. (Well, I guess AOL's brand now.)
I'd like to use ActiveInbox for Gmail with Internet Explorer/Google/Outlook/Lotus Notes

What about Safari and Mail?
The dual booting part should be painless, but as stanleydrew noted you may encounter problems with hardware support in Ubuntu.
Ask HN: What is the best Twitter feed for HN?
I tried searching for past ASK HN but to no success: there are 50bajillion Twitter accounts for Hacker News syndication and none of them seem to accurately mimic the RSS feed for HN - which is incredibly annoying. Which one do you use? I feel like I'm missing out on a ton of stories I used to get through Google Reader, but I'd rather use Twitter.
I will add them as options!
No, it does steal more. Whatever your monitor size the instant suggestions should steal enough space to knock out an organic result.
once you hit return, the suggestion box disappears, and you are back to normal mode, do people not hit return?
As you searched your old comments to find ones worth bloggifying, did you find any over riding themes? Anything that cried out for elaboration? Trigger related ideas you would like to explore?

Your comment history should give you a good window into who you are and what is important to you, and thus good topics to write about.
How to drop out of college and start a venture-backed Social Network
The Adaptive Function of Masturbation in a Promiscuous African Ground Squirrel
Great link. It's specifically for HTTP Streaming, so you can get away with higher quality for videos downloaded before being watched. But even for regular old HTTP Progressive Download, these guidelines are very useful.
That's slightly outdated, as it's the beta page. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/TechnicalOverview reflects the latest state of things.
As it happens, I can't count. \t IS 8, though hopefully there's some other reason I got downvoted to -4 than that.

Still though, my question remains. Is there a particular reason you prefer 4? Does it affect your workflow in any way or does it just 'look better' in the abstract? I'm curious.
Well, Stack Overflow gets about 90% of its traffic from organic search results, on the order of millions of daily page views. The traffic Google sends us did not perceptibly change when they switched to Instant. So anecdotally I can tell you that this is just demonstrably not true for one large-volume site.
Obfuscation isn't security. If exposing the existence of a device is compromising to you, then this doesn't solve the problem, it makes it less likely.

To which you might say "it makes us less likely to be compromised", which is probably your goal. So obfuscating network access probably makes sense to you. But I think it's dishonest to market this as "security". The door is still exactly as open as it would be if they were exposed. Security is fixing the problems that would be exploited
I was hoping they were going to haze a Noogler and force him into deep sub zero tundra.
Here is the link to video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsGyueVLvQ
"Should we even care?"
Also no.
The company I work for simply have ask if the client requires IE6 support, but states that they "recommend not supporting the 9 year old browser". That seems to discourage all but government clients.
dan_farmer = mullet of the century.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/McInerney-t.h... could make an interesting companion.
Now that I think about it, the whole argument is bogus. For every SERP where your result loses traffic by virtue of falling below the fold, there's probably a SERP where your result gains traffic because the competitors fall below the fold.

Sorry, this hypothesis is neither logically correct nor is it backed up by any facts. Do some real experiments next time before you start making claims of having discovered scientific truths.
While it's easy to laugh at, this does seem like legit scientific research to me. Given the importance of sexual activity in the animal kingdom, where it influences everything from social organization to evolution of the species themselves, I'd think we want to understand it as much as possible.

(Edit: My comment, and especially the "while it's easy to laugh at" intro, was prompted by the original submission title, which had a sarcastic "your tax dollars at work" comment.)
Mad money: Why the rich are angry, and why you should worry about it
I'm forever middle clicking X-Window style and clearing my clipboard

IRC is usually the place I type ls -ltr
In Boulder, CO they have a few red light cameras and huge signs before each intersection warning drivers that they are there. It still didn't stop the idiot next to me from running the light. I saw the flash from the cameras as he went through. I guess the point is that you'll always have idiots even with some sort of active deterrent.
You Slurp The Soup You Make
I'm curious as to what kind of setup was used to produce this, in terms of render farms, number of animators, etc..
This looks like it might be very similar to something that's been bouncing around in my head for quite a while - I greatly look forward to trying it out!

Any chance you'd consider working with the Mailplane[1] author to get it integrated? That's my Gmail client of choice, and Ruben has integrated other tools like Rapportive, so I'd hope that something could be worked out.

[1]: http://mailplaneapp.com/
Old Twitter is what you'd get if an engineer brought New Twitter to Steve Jobs
Google offers JPEG alternative for faster Web
This is so, so correct. I've been doing Facebook stuff for a few years now, and this rant is just the tip of the iceberg.

Other favorites:

* They accidentally flipped the switch to a new authentication mechanism overnight to a beta with no documentation. It took them over 48 hours to realize and fix this mistake.

* At one point I was asking for JSON and intermittently getting back XML instead. Apparently JSON parsers can't parse XML. Who knew?
So this is supposed to be a more convenient way to label and file emails...? Interesting idea, but I'm not sure I'd gain any productivity from an app like this.

I installed it and tested out, and it just feels messy to me. Gmail already feels cluttered enough with all of the buttons and crap everywhere, and your app just adds to that.

Also, the To Do labels are goofy (Next, Action, Some Day, Waiting On). I think you can come up with something more intuitive and user friendly.

One last thought - is GTD a commonly used term? I had never heard of it prior to visiting your site, and to do some searching to figure out what it meant.
20-dollars-day-money-online
"Anecdotally, at least, I very rarely (if ever) recall the details of a text by attempting to actively recall some specific fact, date, historical accident, or the like, but this by no means suggests that I have no memory of something I've read because it is so often the case that details I'd completely forgotten about return at the most unexpected times, triggered by the most unexpected stimuli."

Ideas from books I've read often jump into my head when it is relevant to the conversation at hand.
On the contrary. I think Facebook cares very much about developers. They do not want to give developers enough tools to create enduring products, because this would kill their walled garden, in a variety of ways.

The biggest way is they don't want to make it easy for you to get your data out of Facebook. Any robust, well-documented API would have to enable that.

In some ways this is even a good thing. A small number of compromised accounts can give access to most of the data on Facebook.
Well, we can also discuss the morality of the phone in question, which has the search engine and maps application hardwired in the firmware and can't easily be changed by the owner, it's an inferior product with inferior experience that I don't think anyone should recommend.
And yet that page had at least 7 folds.

I think the goal of enabling visitors (and expectation of visitors) to utilize strategic navigational features and view key information within the top portion of the page is valid.

And yet, convention dictates web site navigation to be concentrated within specific page areas (top, bottom, sides) and most visitors can anticipate certain features and functionality to reside within one of those areas as best (popular) practices are copied and commoditized.

Search results are not the same as the loud flashy bleeps and blips on the latest MTV website. There's an expectation that a user will navigate through the page, on to multiple pages if the first page is either full of useless ads and/or SEO pollution or unsuitable expectations.

I personally believe 'the fold' of a web page is a bunch of crap. But that's just me
I'm more of a season fb dev, since I only play with the API from time to time, yet I've managed to suffer with their docs every time I try to do something.

Recently I've found another problem - public user data being visible to users, such as birthday, hometown and current location is not available through te Graph API as well as REST old one. Of course they're documented as available http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user and accessible by visitors, but not by API. I've found this case in lots of posts on the forums and bugtrack, f.ex. http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=8376 marks this bug as fixed, yet there's a new one http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12090 with the same case.

While I need it mostly for side projects, I pity the ones whose FB app is core for their business, f.ex. this comment:

Do we have a fix for this solution?
In spite of so many people facing the problem why is this issue not addressed
till now?

Can someone answer these questions? Our application is totally based on the way
Facebook gives the location info and most of the time we get the location info
as NULL.
I'm sure a lot of it has to do with their enterprise customers. I'm sure 90% of them have never even heard of QNX let alone decided on some arbitrary policy they can begin to prepare to have meetings where they pretend to decide what kinds of ramifications it'll have on their IT infrastructure.
I can't relate. Snippets of books I read years ago often pop into my head at various times. On the other hand, I'm often stumped to remember where I put down my notebook five minutes ago.
The Memphis ecosystem works especially well in that there is a really low cost of living and quite a good amount of talent in the area.

Companies that transitioned through, like Stream, did a really good job of bootstrapping many an IT career in Memphis. That FedEx, Hilton, International Paper and AutoZone all have major IT centers there helps as well, though it does lead to there being lot of very UN-talented IT people on the whole.

The trick, as always, is sorting out the good from the bad. Where I think you'll have problems is in raising Venture Capital (if you need it), finding dotcom-centric marketing agencies, SEO development, and that sort of thing. Of course, that only matters if you're looking local anyway.
Blog seems to be taken off for the release. Will be back tomorrow.
Right, taken on a vacation to Half Moon Island by the VP of Engineering for Maps. Not all of Antarctica, yet.
> or YC-related startups

I don't think a startup would enjoy special access to FB technology just by being related to YC
Broadcom on Linux?! I was under the impression that their drivers aren't too good or open source friendly.
> "I wish I could have been more of an ally," said Georges Richa.

My eyes took one space out of that sentence!!
Wait, you think your company can be bought out by another company and NOT have a meet-n-greet?

I would think it seriously odd if everyone tried to ignore the change and the new overlords didn't introduce themselves.
I've long since admired Mailplane and it would be great to do something with Ruben - I didn't realize that he was open to collaboration. Will get in touch.

And if you have any thoughts about what you like, don't like, or would love to see and want to discuss it more deeply, I'd love to go into it :) Just say hi at andym@activeinboxhq.com (or the community forum: www.getsatisfaction.com/activeinbox)... or here at HN of course!
Funny, we thought about doing a "mood mashup" (for a redesign of a site that features a lot of poetry) based on the weather at the requester's location. My input was "what if rain doesn't depress you and instead makes you happy"?
In what way are you a victim? You ran a red light. Have you any clue what kind of accident that creates. I'm sure you were a tenth of a second late, so didn't endanger anyone, right?

Well, I have been first-hand crossing an intersection with someone ignoring the red light. It's not fun :-(
Interesting. In any case, it's not being auto-detected (which shouldn't be hard, given it's pretty unique in the world) and translated via their API:

http://bikechatter.com/main/foruser/304/izainsausti
I'm not sure which solution is the better one, but consider the fact that on Android you can make tools like TaintDroid to spot the bad apps. Can you do the same on an iPhone?
Reddit Alien in CSS
"I totally believe that you are a different person for having read that book," Wolf replied.

"It is in some way working on you even though you aren’t thinking about it."

"It’s there," Wolf said. "You are the sum of it all."

Although I intuitively believe these statements are true, they seem vague and unconvincing as an explanation for the phenomenon. Wolf is essentially saying: "It's all in there, trust me." It may not have been the intent of the article writer to get into the specifics of the neuroscience involved, but I was hoping for a little more of an explanation than this.
Some of us don't like facebook either.
My oldest boy (he is ten) just finished reading his first novel, which for him was quite an accomplishment. What my wife and I noticed after he finished the book was his writing skills improved significantly.
But I already have a watch. It's in my pocket and it also makes and receives telephone calls.
The poor documentation is an inconvenience, but the real problem is how often the functionality of the API changes (ie: breaks) without anyone at Facebook noticing (or perhaps just not caring).

I remember constant problems with authentication and sharing APIs. How do you not have tests for those?

Facebook is still way too cowboy.
Is This The Future Of Computers?
@newsyc20 (20 can be 50, 100 as well) - which shows items that have at least 20 points.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1528652
States and cities are looking for anyway to increase revenue right now. Expect to see more shortening of yellow times and increased law enforcement where fines can be levied.
The Myth of the Lazy Professor
Adding to Arrington's likes and dislikes- and having read that "timeline", I felt that it missed out on a lot of things:

a)when Arrington got out of bed today, what was the startup he was thinking about? Was he thinking of the same startup,or a different startup in the loo?
b)What did he eat for breakfast today?
c)What does he intend to have for lunch?

Everyone on HN MUST know these things!
I mean EVERYONE.
I can't say I agree with Mr. Einstein on this one.
Well, the Apple ][ was initially priced at $1,298.00, which is $4,676.06 in inflation adjusted terms. That would be a bit steep for a game console.
Apparently the smiley was left of the HN Title.

Considering Michael Arrington put a Dilbert cartoon in the post, I assume this is meant as humor.
I would be very surprised if all the > 3GS IOS devices couldn't handle Main 3.1 (or even High 3.1). You might be gated by iTunes from putting the bitstream on the device, but the decode hardware is almost certainly capable.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I used to work on video at Apple. No inside knowledge was used to make this post.
There is an easy analogy with food or exercise. The experience of eating a single meal or exercising a single day is forgotten, even while permanent changes to the body slowly accumulate.

Some people in this thread cite books they vividly remember from childhood. I suspect this is a result of the huge impact on a younger brain. In contrast a mature avid reader might have read 1000 books and an additional one is just not going to re-wire things as much even if the experience of reading it is richly rewarding.
"This Email Will Self Destruct"
Maybe a device like this would be better paired with a tablet or some larger device. I could see a device like this plus a tablet be suitable for work hours. I don't think it would be useful enough for casual usage, however.
I can recite a quite detailed synopsis of most of the movies I have watched, at least the ones I liked.
You can set this to X-style, Middle-button-pastes:

Double-click "putty.exe" icon to get "PuTTY Configurtion".
Click the saved session to highlight.
Click "Load".
Click "Window"->"Selection" category item.

Honestly, I can't think why that "compromise" thing even exists.
I have taken to just smiling and waving when that happens * . It may not help, but it sure makes me feel better.

* -it happens about once a month, even though I only drive about 2 hours a week
It looks cool, but I almost expect a short video these days showing me exactly what it does.
GTD is Getting Things Done, a really popular productivity method ("the art of stress free productivity"). It's our niche to start out with, while we are still small (I'm the only full time person involved, although revenue is getting to a point where we can consider expanding).

As we refine features, and expand what it can do, I think we will become very useful to a much wider audience. (And thank you for the comment on cluttering - I will work through that with Pete, the designer - I absolutely agree nobody wants more clutter in Gmail!). Which is the time we will move away from highlighting GTD for new users.

Our goal with ActiveInbox is to deliver peace of mind (the guarantee that everything is prioritized and will be taken care of, and contacts will be impressed with your performance), and increase your flow to get through your email quickly & effortlessly.
That's called progress.
Won't the on-line Porn Industry have to adopt this for large scale adoption to take place?

I'd think that the size decrease alone would sell the Porn Industry.
Finally wait is over: Sintel open source movie released.
Not true at all. My Lenovo T400S runs Ubuntu Lucid Lynx flawlessly.
A wee bit simplistic for my taste.
A very very good idea. I've been holding off slightly because - well, partly stage nerves ;) - but because it's hard to get it professional. You are right though, I will put _something_ together... it will be the easiest way to showcase what it can actually do.
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/405

We’ll provide product, technical and design resources to support new Y Combinator companies interested in working with us to build deeply social products, whether a website or an application on Facebook.com. These companies will have priority access to our technologies and programs such as Facebook Credits, Instant Personalization and upcoming beta features.
What really needs to happen is the various RIRs need to expedite this process by making v6 extremely cheap or free, and making v4 prohibitively expensive. They will cop flack for it, but this is the bitter pill that needs swallowing.
I understand that it's open-source and a lot of the work is volunteer, but man - they ship with known bugs that as a Windows OS dev I'm pretty shocked. Like, if this was some chipset from 1995 that'd be okay, but this is the chipset in like > 70% of today's laptops afaik.