skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I end up doing. It works, but with most apps having tabs on the top of the window (Chrome in particular), I end up fighting the hidden taskbar when switching tabs or moving windows. Plus, I like to have a clock visible on the screen somewhere.

These are such a minor complaints that they seem stupid, but on a netbook it's a huge annoyance, especially when Windows has solved it perfectly fine since Windows 98 or so. I guess my point is that if you're going to copy the Windows 95/98/XP interface, don't change the things that are obvious wins.

I've been using Linux since 1997, and I'm tired of working around obvious flaws in the interface. I used to spend hours customizing my window manager so that everything was ridiculously efficient (and making Fvwm and Enlightenment themes); now I just want a sane default.

When the first thing that happens when I move the top task bar to the right side is that there is no longer room for the notification area and half of the icons get cut off, and no way to fix this, it reeks of amateurism that should have been expunged years ago.
Entrepreneurs have to be optimistic and positive or else they wouldn't even try. HN is a place for entrepreneurs, voilà.
6 Cool Link Building Tips for E-Commerce Site
Oh, and the mac mini 'soapbar', a 3x2x1" computer as powerful as any pc desktop, for just $199.

Total world domination.
Ask HN: Is there really anything such as 'intelligence'?
Or is it a unified term that we like to use for a concept with lot more factors at work than we care to acknowledge? say like the way we use the word "God" to explain anything that we can't explain, don't know yet or not ready to examine further in depth?

Could it be actually the curiosity gene that researchers should look for instead of intelligence gene? or is it the impatience gene?

Without curiosity, what would be the chance of one accumulating enough knowledge that one can connect as a complex idea to 'show intelligence'?

Or is it the obseessive observation gene? without that tendency to look at things longer and deeper than the average looker, would one be able to observe things beyond the superficial that most people seem satisfied with?

It is said that intelligent people get easily bored, could it be the other way round? Could it be that bored people can tend to keep digging deeper or keep digging around more, keep discovering more knowledge/information that way, which they can connect later? And the more connections they make or hold in their brains and present them to the world, the more intelligent they are percieved?

Or is it an adventurouse gene? the readiness to break traditions and look at things in a way different than what is considered the 'norm'? the readiness to connect thigns in a way different than the norm and see how the result looks?

Any thoughts?

(Edit: in a way can't adventurousness be called being curious? the curiousity to see what happens when one tries something that they have never tried, whether in terms of beliefs, trains of thoughts, ideas, food, places, actions or whatever?)
In a thriving economy this would be the norm - if your boss disrespects you, you change bosses.
As a front-end engineer who used to work on Bloglines and helped create the Bloglines Beta, I say good luck! Your UI is very much like the Bloglines Beta and I realize this probably took a lot of work. Your challenges will probably be maintaining read state, security issues with trusting content in feeds, and keeping crawlers running so you don't miss items, searching content, handling archives, and more!

And of course, there's no money in this and the use of feeds are declining (so integrate Twitter and Facebook API).

Anyways, very nice. :)
You know, there was a similar proliferation of languages in the 1970s. COBOL survived, and who uses PL/I and MUMPS now?
Cricket Challenge Free Online Game
I can tell you made some very conscious choices about how to position the premium version of this tool, but from my perspective I think you've erred too far on the side of caution. I would recommend 3 changes that would keep the spirit of "not in your face" premium pushing, and yet increase the take-rate on paid customers.

* Be up-front (on the landing page) about what you get for free and simply allude to the fact that a power-user option is available

* The dashboard needs to know if I'm using this enough to warrant a premium account. On a dashboard note: once I've clicked a feed, I need an easy path back to the dashboard.

* I need to be able to broadcast somehow that I'm using this. If I "like" a story, why can't I have a goo.gl shortened url to the story wrapped by NewsBlur post to my twitter/facebook??

Great work overall!!
>You should make follow-up visits afterward to monitor QC.

And working conditions, please. People everywhere deserve to be reasonably paid and have safe working conditions.
Maybe it's more of an easily measured performance indicator than something he cares about.
I agree that finding buyers will be the big thing here.

I suspect a large, untapped market for this sort of thing for local newspapers as the buyers. Make sure there's good local search.

Photos of a fire in the town, or some store's opening, or any other impromptu news-worthy event will be captured via cameraphone before reporters hit the scene and these photos will be of good worth to the local papers.
It doesn't seem like they make that mistake at all:

It will be the first version of the OS not to ship with the Gnome shell as the default UI. Gnome will continue to be the underlying framework, as Unity is based on it, but the interface layer will look nothing like Gnome.
Real teams are formed by the members themselves opposed to self obsessed game playing business masters who think they "manage" the best out of people.
FWIW, I use clang over gcc (unless there is a major overriding reason to use gcc) just for the fabulous error messages.

http://clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html gives some good examples, and my experience has been that the examples given on that page are pretty spot on.
Do you think the Oracle shareholders really care much one way or the other about the OpenOffice name?

I think if anything, the more profit-minded amongst them would simply be happy to cut loose a project that is probably not bringing in any direct revenues.

The argument for keeping it might be to develop it as "Project Stick It To Microsoft", and attempt to undercut the office revenues. Even that, though, doesn't really gain anything for Oracle in the short term.
Personally the amount of times I need to use a menu and thus need to go up to the top menu bar are slim to none. Mostly when hunting for some option in Preview.

Ultimately I am a command line user overall, so keyboard shortcuts and commands are my bread and butter. I can't remember the last time I really needed the menu bar for something, so even on my dual monitor (laptop, and external screen) MacBook Pro I really don't care where the menu bar is located.
> This computer loads faster than the MBP because you've spent the past 6 months loading it with programs, guy.

Is this some sort of specific SSD fragmentation issue you're referring to? There are SSD issues of that type but I'd be surprised to see them in six months unless you're absolutely caning the drive.

General fragmentation wouldn't cause that sort of problem inside six months though. I've spent four years loading my MacBook with stuff (and uninstalling stuff, reinstalling stuff and so on) with no significant performance degradation. In that time I've never reinstalled the OS, never defragged or done any sort of significant maintenance other than keeping it patched and it's still basically as fast as it was on day one.

My Windows machine on the other hand...
Beep the pc speaker any number of ways
Well, checking when your directories and files change should be a job for some inotify based tool, not periodically launched ls, sadly, inotify based version of common unix utilities are still very optional and hackish, not found in the base distro.
'iDOS' – A Full Featured iPhone DOS Emulator That Somehow Got Approved
Do pageviews really matter on a community site?
I'd say that it's more about quality than quantity, and the overall quality of comments/members on HN is not as diluted as it is on digg or even reddit. That's mostly why I've stopped spending time on digg and reddit.
> Optical media is growing more irrelevant every day for most of us.

The vast majority of people have neither the inclination nor the technical wherewithal to rip DVDs to disk.

Until every DVD that Netflix stocks has a "Play" button next to it, DVDs are going to continue to be very relevant. And even then Netflix is very US-centric, only very recently expanding into Canada, not to mention the rest of the world.
That's a good point. I'm not sure if this will fly, but as I understand it, getting a model release is the photographers responsibility. I will simply require them to "agree" to a statement that declares they have the permission of all people in the photo.
I can't seem to replicate it, but one time I was able to get to the home screen by double clicking the home button, switching to a different app, and then pressing home a single time to return to the home screen.
Why are high dimensional spheres spikey?
I know that they aren't even close in terms of source code compatibility but if you're looking for a functional language on the CLR, give F# a try.
This isn't really a question of secrecy -- you can be on any part of the political spectrum and still agree that troop movements and strategy should never be made public.

This is more about disinformation -- if any entities (al-Qaeda, NATO, North Korea, the US) intentionally release false reports, they deserve to be called on it.

For all the talk of asymmetrical warfare on the part of al-Qaeda and its ilk, and how the allies toil under the strain of the Geneva Conventions, ultimately the rules of war are arbitrary, elusive, and ambiguous.

I take very seriously the idea that Wikileaks could harm people as a result of the information they release, but it's a bit rich when the Pentagon raises this objection. Between Wikileaks and the US military, it's pretty clear who the asymmetry favors.
I've considered doing a VPN startup before; however, it seems that the market is pretty small and margins are low. Your customer base is basically: number of people who are concerned about privacy AND frequently use insecure WiFi AND don't already have an existing VPN to use.
That dashboard idea is priority #1 (next to finishing up the iphone app). But I want it to be a really swell dashboard. Graphs, relevant data, not just the server puking aggregation on you.

I'm hesitant to go overboard on branding and pushing premium. Notice the logos nowhere to be found when you use the site. It's like a desktop app for the web.

And I'm also hesitant to wrap content in URLs like that. I don't know, shouldn't the URL go directly to the original writer?
while 1; do ls; sleep 5; done
Yes. It is an asset that Sun paid cash money for, and Oracle paid cash money for in turn. So of course they care.

My personal opinion is that eventually we'll see OO Calc getting the same integration with Oracle that Excel has with MSAS/SQL Server, and possibly OO Writer will form the core of a report writing engine.
So I've read a couple of comments the Air would be a good secondary computer. So how do you guys hook it up to lets say your iMac at home?
This will be a preference within the next couple weeks. Lots of other priorities, but this one is definitely high up there.
> In theory, but not practice. Hobbes particularly, makes the point that without government, property rights are largely unenforcible. The strong will out.

Umm, the strong will out even with govt. In fact, govt will enforce the will of the strong.

Consider how eminent domain works in the US. One of the seminal cases in the US involved GM wanting to build a plant where a bunch of poor people lived. The local govt took the land under eminent domain and basically gave it to GM. (It's the "poletown" case if you're looking for cites.)

Yes, you get to vote, but as they say, democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting over what to have for dinner.
I definitely need to tart things up a bit, the homepage is currently a merge of what will be the final site (focused equally on buyers/sellers) and my test page to gather email addresses.

I might see if I can fit this in - perhaps where the current text blocks are at the moment.
But shipping long distances by container via sea or rail is not that bad for the enviroment, it is the last bit of travel by truck that really is the killer. I'm not sure there is a huge difference.

I personally think that make the mold is the most important part, so if anything that is the part I would not want to give up control on.
Maybe there are more .NET jobs because there aren't too many .NET devs to fill them? Just a thought.
I'm not usually one to correct grammar, but discrete and discreet mean very different things.
Well, sure, the government has a right to classified information in some way, shape or form.

But do me a favor and watch the evening news for the rest of the week. After that week of news watching, would you conclude we're spending multiple billions of dollars per week prosecuting 2 wars with hundreds of casualties per week at the hands of American munitions?

No, but you can find a guy scrawling deranged conspiracy theories on a chalk board about how the President was born in Kenya. Great. I'm all about the loyal opposition, but come on, really?

Wikileaks is just a symptom - our media sucks. They should be on this stuff themselves.
Yea it is time to rewatch babylon 5 .

Java is not a great language but scalability, cross platform and corporate support made it what it is today, if the company behind Java leaves it alone, in time less and less people will choose it in long term mission critical deployments, then it will die.

Or maybe another language will rise after the death of java which can be better in the long term.

I am both happy and sad that java is dying.
One scenario that immediately comes to mind is frequent flyers. I note this since I just took a series of flights a few days ago. Say you want to be productive during your six hour red-eye flight. That involves several repetitions of "we are now preparing to descend and land, please turn off all electronic devices at this time." If you're a business user who goes through this on a regular basis, a long boot time could indeed get annoying in a hurry.
To be fair Windows isn't that much better. My reason for moving to OS X was the continual drip drip drip of reinstallation, update, tweak. It all works on day one but keeping it working and performant is work.

Better now that it was a couple of years back (I still use Windows at work) but still some way to go.
For all this talk of SSDs, it's worth pointing out that you can pick up the 2.5" 500GB Seagate Momentus XT hybrid SSD/platter drive for $130 on Amazon. Best upgrade I made to my Thinkpad, and one that is not available for the Air...
Presentations in Factor
When resizing a gnome-terminal window, refresh/rewrap text. This is how Terminal.app under Mac OS X works, and I'd love to see this feature on Linux.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336238
Http://www.driverplus.nl/
Closer to watch -

while 1; do datetime; ls; sleep 2; done
Ask HN: Advertising based upon defined domain/url
This a bit of a weird question so please let me know if you need more information.

For a side project I am working on I need to ability to generate advertising on a specific page based on a specified domain. I have looked a bit and haven't found anything that really fits this so I'm hoping someone here has a service like this or can push me in the correct direction. I'm not super interested in finding my own advertiser/rolling my own solution currently (not to say it wont happen in the future), looking for more of an out of the box solution.

Clarification: The advertising on this page will be generated based upon the referral URL. So in other words instead of the advertising content being contextual to the page it is delivered on.. it is contextual to a domain/URL.

TYIA
Until Facebook, Twitter and other sites plug the privacy hole, it's best not to use a public WiFi connection to access your personal accounts.

Was it ever a good idea to access personal accounts over a public WiFi connection? I rarely connect to a router I don't own...instead, I either tether using my phone (I've been doing this on Sprint since 2000) or use my MiFi.
I wanted to make it easy for people to share the photos straight from their mobile device. I know a lot of phones don't have built in upload facilities (e.g. the iphone) so I wanted to make sure there was a mechanism to these people to get the photos to us. I had considered MMS but decided email would be the best solution in this day and age.

I definitely will allow browser based uploads at some point in the future.
My girlfriend works at a Home Depot, and I recall her telling me a story about one of the stores in her area accepted "returned" tires, despite the store not actually selling tires. They are hanging on the wall in the store as a decoration now.
That sounds about right.

And yes, I agree, Unity should still run smoothly :x

I think Unity for the desktop is in beta though so hopefully they get things worked out in time for the 11.04 release.
That's my post, and I'll clarify a bit.

I worked with numbers of people who all fawned over PHP5, some going so far as to (ignorantly) say "PHP4 didn't support classes". Of course it did - the class keyword was there, and I'd done a lot of OO work in PHP4 for many years.

Yes, there's more class functionality in PHP5, but it's not on parity with some other languages. AND THAT'S OK.

My beef was/is mostly with the term "object oriented". PHP as a language is not oriented about objects. Your apps can be, to a large extent, but the language is not oriented about objects the same way that Groovy or Ruby or Python is. And it shows.

So.. embrace the function-based nature of PHP's core which allows you to build OO or procedural based on your needs. Just quit saying "PHP is Object Oriented" just because it's "Object Capable".
The other 9% are self-employed.
Creepy things Eric Schmidt has said
I'm currently reading a book that goes into detail about the psychology of writing great selling headlines and will improve it when I understand things a bit better.

I had thought about using the phrase "profit" but was concerned it sounded a bit too business-oriented for the target market which is teens and those in their early twenties.
I use 'watch' to continuously run my suite of unit tests. I write a new test, it starts failing while looping under 'watch', then I write code to make it pass.
I am on a bit of an anti-Apple binge over the last week on HN, but I will point out that Safari Reader, like most Apple "innovations", occurred somewhere else first, in the Readability extension for Firefox and Chrome released almost a year before SR that thousands of people were using, which was being recommended non-stop on Reddit and HN. Can we please not let another mythology grow up around Safari Reader as with all the other technology which Apple appropriates.[1]

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1812967
Great idea! I thought I had it figured out last night but the blank screen I got when submitting kept bothering me. This morning I double checked the requirements and saw if I got a blank screen I had not done it right.

I went back and got it figured out - I think the barrier to entry for this is just right.
You don't have to join, that's the point. They know your name, age, likes, dislikes, demographics and more. Opting out stops you from being targeted by their partners. I'm actually trying to get an API key right now just to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
You should go for more conciseness. Your comment reads like a rambling rant to me. It's very hard to get your point, which seems to be "I prefer Ubuntu". :)

That said, you're right about the X200. It's an excellent machine. I had one for a while before this MBP, and after Mac OS X jumps the shark, I plan on heading back to Lenovo in the unlikely event their quality still matches the X200. I definitely prefer that hardware over the MBP.

The only thing stopping me is my current preference for Mac OS X, and I'm too busy to be screwing around with hackintoshing a Thinkpad. Great, great machines, though.
I met him maybe ten years ago, and the one thing I would say to your colleague is that he has zero tolerance for BS. If you're pitching him, you have every reason to be nervous.
A bully/psychopathic/sociopathic boss can kill a passion for excellence in any job in a matter of a few work days.

It's a huge task to completely take control of what things motivate you even when you are being punished for good behavior, and rewarded for bad behavior. There are managers who actually damage the team and prevent work from occurring. Sometimes they know full well what they are doing, destroying the entire team as a vendetta for another reason. Psychopaths and sociopaths are all around us, some of them are high achievers. Career damaging blackmail, and passive aggression are likely to hit hard with these people.
> what exactly do you believe?

This is something that I'm still actively exploring. I only have an understanding from a high level on all of this; the details are quite fuzzy to me.

To give you some background, I'm coming from what's basically the a hardcore right-libertarian place. However, eventually, I've come around to realizing that the world is a bit more complex than "remove the rules and everything will work out." I was only thinking about some of the rules, I had just assumed that capitalism was the way things _had_ to be. The more that I compared my beliefs about capitalism to my former beliefs about religion, the more I came to understand that I believed in those things simply because they were stated to me as fact for a long period of time.

Anyway, what I believe: I don't really believe in a police force, to be totally honest. I've said before that "I'm a middle class white kid from the suburbs, so if I don't like the police, I can only imagine what it must be like for others." I try to avoid as much contact with police as possible, because they only cause more problems. I think that social constructs hold society together much more than the threat of punishment. People respond much better to positive reinforcement than negative. Authority will always be abused.

In general, I believe the world would be a better place if we tried working together rather than fighting. If people actually knew their neighbors and built communities. If more people gave rather than took. I also think that we've been conditioned to be adversarial, and that it can be unlearned, albeit with hard work.

I agree a lot with raganwald: http://raganwald.posterous.com/hello-my-name-is-reginald-and...

I also recognize that we're not living in such a place, and so I try to live in a way that's closest to my ideals, knowing that I'll never get there. My house is run collectively, I try to support organizations that do good, I attempt to help others as much as possible. I think that entrepreneurship is a great path for doing a lot of good for society.

> As soon as you have conflict, you need a way to resolve it fairly.

I think that you underestimate how different an anarchic society would be, and overestimate how scarce goods really are. But in any case, don't think that anarchy means no conflict resolution, as the saying goes, "anarchy means no rulers, not no rules." Anarchists believe in direct democracy, generally speaking. A lot of these kinds of details are the ones that haven't been worked out yet, or would differ from one community to the next.
I dunno! What's up with looking for portability and power at a decent price?!

Seriously, I value portability. A lot. I don't like being chained to a desk any more than necessary.

I don't edit photos, but there are other people like me who want a powerful machine on the go. See this HN thread for about 100 examples:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1824563