skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't understand why the iPad would be so popular. It always seemed to be ideal for some use cases but perhaps 70-80% of the way there for the majority.

The 11" Macbook Airs initially I thought, "Wait, you want me to pay $1000 for a netbook?" - Then I tried one and found that although it had 2Gb of RAM it didn't feel underpowered. It should've done, but it didn't. I don't normally like netbooks, particularly the keyboard and mouse but found the 11" to be fine, not unlike the wireless mac keyboard I'm typing this on now.

I use a big chunky, awesome powerhorse of a Dell XPSM1530 for my day to day work, so having a separate machine for personal use isn't an option. It is with the new Macbook Air. I guess I'm a fairly fringe use case, but it strikes a chord with me. I'm still sceptical about the 2Gb of RAM, if there was a 4Gb model I'd seriously consider it. I'm also keen to see how Lion performs on it before I consider it, especially when it's due round the corner.

If Lion runs well, there's a 4Gb RAM option later down the line and it stays the same weight and thickness I'd consider it. I never travel with a laptop on personal trips and I miss that (as I used to before I started Mandalorian). The Macbook Air would let me do that again without penalising me for travelling on work trips with it and my work laptop. For me, that's what $1000 is worth - helping me separate my work from personal life, but keep the tech on my terms.
I like the "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" maxim in the FAQ, but perhaps it needs to be rewritten or clarified. Maybe "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity or gives one a nice warm feeling on the inside (and still gets upvotes)."
I use a 2.4Ghz MB for iPhone dev. I'd love to have a smaller laptop with an SSD, but my games are very, very shader heavy. They run fine on the iPhone4, but the software gpu emulation in the simulator chugs on my machine. I don't expect that 1.6Ghz will be usable for my situation...

For everyone else, the SSD should more than compensate for the old CPU. My Win7 box at home has an Intel SSD and it is like butter.
I successfully used this technique to unfreeze a shovel that was stuck in a mound of snow.
I can't take this seriously - blaming an individual, especially a CEO, for destroying a corporate culture is ridiculous.

I think this is actually the dumbest thing I've ever seen written on Hacker News. If the CEO isn't responsible for corporate culture, then A) Who is? and B) What's the CEO responsible for?
I wonder if Robert Half finally removed me from their list of people who live in Chicago and are looking for a job in Chicago. I had to email them like 30 times telling them that I live in SF now and if they would like to find me a job in SF, that would be great, but I have no interest in a Chicago position.
Great idea and name!
Offer HN: free email migration for Gmail and Google Apps
I know many people here are on Gmail and Google Apps. We sell an online tool that makes it easy to transfer all your email between accounts. This is also very useful if you set up clients on Google Apps.

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Chrome users, enter 'about:plugins' in your address bar to disable Java.

(Users of other browsers, you can usually find what you need in preferences.)
Fiorina's (mis)adventures with HP are hardly news (she resigned in 2005). This is a purely political article before next week's election, and it is "off-topic: most stories about politics [...] unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."
If your contract with NoStarch permits, my startup (http://fifobooks.com/) could do this for you.

I.e., we could produce a native ebook (not pdf) file for the Kindle, iPad, Nook, Sony, and a bunch of other dedicated e-reader devices.
"These gears really work?" - non-circular wooden gears
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Have you grabbed the torrent they're offering?
I assume it is intended to be used to spy on your children.
Sounds like a good candidate for an Amazon public data set (http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/). Although they do peak at 1 TB.
FTA:

> A new trojan horse has cropped up that affects Mac OS X (and Windows as well).

Perhaps noteworthy in the title.
Groupon launches in Lima, Peru to 0.2% conversion rate
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Please don't mistake my comment as an argument for using email in all situations. I think that source control is widely accepted and about as frictionless as it should be. There are a variety of task-management tools and processes that can be used pretty easily within a team and also generally hit about the right level of friction. I love being able to integrate the two and further reduce needless friction. It is all the different discussions and conversations that go on around those items that are difficult because I don't want any friction in those discussions. I should be able to see what my client thinks of the new GUI, or ask an old roommate of mine to review some performance-critical code and see how he would approach it without requiring them to create a new account, get access from IT, purchase a license, or any of the other impediments usually placed on using these sorts of tools.

Basically, my thought is that if you are attempting to compete with/replace email, you need to address the friction issue for those items. Otherwise people will eventually revert to email at which point updating the repository becomes another item in the todo-list, and the reality I've experienced is that it will ALWAYS be the bottom item.

In short, I agree with all the problems you cite, I simply have not been able to experience the ideal because none of the systems I have attempted to use reduce the barriers to communication sufficiently to replace email.
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Yes. You need to change behaviour, which in a business (depending on many things) often requires an edict from the top. Not always, I know.

I have worked with clients who grasped this need.

One wrote their own call management system for sales staff that forced all calls to be logged and emails were templates (with appropriate substitutions) sent via the system. Thus sales' histories could be kept and anyone could pick up the thread. Email could only be sent by the sales' manager and his assistant.

This provided huge amounts of marketing stats. None of this would have been available from email. It was worth a fortune on future product launches.

It's really a business problem, not a technical problem. When you pitch this at board level, it always gets attention, ime.
I'm sure the LinkedIn title is more provocative, yet it seems to me that the other assertions including that "Sasqua failed to take even basic steps to protect the secrecy of the information contained in its database" played a significant role in the court's decisions. It's hard to claim confidentiality when the company itself did not treat the information in a confidential manner nor did they follow even basic security principals.
He's not saying it was too technical, he's saying it wasn't technical enough.
Agreed, at first glance I assumed it was a web-based editor like the Aviary suite of tools.

Being CSS3 based also threw me completely. Adobe has already demoed some great things with their canvas export functionality. One would also assume that the browser acceptance of this type of animation would be far greater than CSS3 transitions. It could even degrade to VML for older IE versions to achieve the more basic effects.
I would be very surprised if there is anything in there that is not in reocities yet but I will certainly do a comparison.

I'll have to run that against all the deletion requests as well for this content because chances are fairly large that lots of it has already been removed at the request of the owners.
Offer HN: I will insult you on the topic of your choice for 10 minutes
Either via phone or IM. email me at hang@bumblebeelabs with a short description of who you are and what you would like to be insulted on. Please leave any reviews in this thread on the quality of my insults.
Might have to start filtering HN if they continue to show up.
Thanks for all the comments, I am way more confused now! I guess the lesson is... go spend more time with my real accountant.
Underlying requirement: that the user running the applet is an administrator (and while this is the default modus operandi as per the installation procedure of OS X, not every OS X user continues on this path).
Because OS X emacs supports embedded graphics, for example. Full screen mode also hides the top tool bar, which iterm wouldn't give you.
1TB of internet nostalgia.
Extending Paul Irish’s comprehensive DOM-ready execution
+1 for tools and frameworks for iOS game development.
I'm the only one who knows the password + swipe pattern to unlock my phone so I'm the only one who installs apps on it, plus all apps are listed if you decide to check your installed app inventory.
It's tough to say without seeing the actual financial statements to get an idea of what needs to happen.

Usually, in the restaurant industry when management makes the mistake of taking on debt and opening up break-even/not profitable stores the way to reverse it is to basically close those locations down and cut costs (without impairing the brand) while paying down the debt.
Even when she was CEO, it was widely believed within HP that Fiorina was only there to fluff up her Republican credentials in preparation for a run at higher office. The HP/Compaq merger was at least in part motivated by her desire to be the author of a flashy, attention-grabbing merger that would vault her into the public eye.

Apparently, though, epic failure in business doesn't disqualify you from running as the candidate of managerial competence in the modern Republican party. Fiorina destroyed an icon of the American tech industry, and for what? Nothing
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Goodbye, Yahoo – it was an awesome time
I've done this, almost exactly, with a client by using Redmine rather than email. Forcing communication through the web interface, but sending notifications via email. It worked really well. And folk (all non-tech) adjusted very quickly, since they benefited from lots of shared info.

It also has a wiki and file storage, and folk started using these without them ever being mentioned. Kinda supports the idea of: give folk the tools and let them get on with it.

(I am not recommending Redmine, per se, it was just what I grabbed to quickly bring sanity to an out of control situation at the time. It's not bad, though.)
I'm not sure what they're actually risking here, besides a stern talking-to by a security guard, and maybe some sour looks from PayPal execs. Does that take brass balls, really? [Now if the block of ice mysteriously slid out onto the stage during the keynote....]

I personally have been soured on the idea of "stunt" marketing since businesses started having the "moxy" to pay someone to tattoo the company logo on their head, or to run a "shockingly" racy or edgy ad during the superbowl. Etc..

This isn't among the worst by a long shot, of course, but... well, it's a big block of ice used to make a bad pun about an actually fairly nuanced topic, and doing stunts for press does set them in a fairly dubious crowd.

Kudos to WePay if it does work out for the better, but I hope we don't see more of these.
Thanks for the book, and the discount. I've never took the time to really learn Lisp, even though I took a class on it in college. Excited to dig in to Land of Lisp!
Congratulations on getting the book out (and for the 30% off you gave me)! My only question so far is about the comic...what's the point of the 3 panels in the training facility? Is the 'hug' joke supposed to be funny?
For those that missed it, here's jacquesm's epic story of backing up geocities. http://reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html

and the discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903567

Does this torrent contain the fruits of the collaboration planed in that discussion?
Hi Dan,

First off: I gave a talk on this very topic at DjangoCon EU 2010. Video: http://djangoconeu.blip.tv/file/3685673/, slides: http://www.scribd.com/doc/32311867/Design-for-Developers.

A) there always comes a point in any project when I have that "fully baked" feeling -- a stage where I feel like I have spent enough time putting myself in the users shoes to understand how they can best accomplish their goals. Sometimes this comes quickly, and sometimes not -- it truly depends on the project. I don't go further than sketching until I've reached this phase; sketches are cheap and I don't need the high resolution which photoshop affords. Generally, I'll spend some time in photoshop after the sketching stage to work out a visual design "langauge" -- what's the colorscheme, what visual conventions am I going to use throughout the site, etc. I'll take one or two "core" parts of the site and mock them up in photoshop to figure out how the visual aspects affect the design, but I won't do every single page in photoshop -- it's a waste of time.

B: I don't know. There's general stuff about performance from Steve Souders, and overall I think resources like ALA are probably a good starting point.

C: It depends on your product, but I'd argue that good design is something that happens primarily before code gets written. The frontend of your app should inform your backend, and vice-versa -- ergo a designer co-founder is an extremely important asset, IMO. Every project with design "added later" looks like it had the design added later, not baked in from the start.

D: I'm a designer/developer combo, coming from a formal background in computer science.

I guess I started getting into graphic design and photography during high school. Learn about graphic design for print since it has a lot of history; the web is still in its adolescence and is heavily informed by this history. Don't neglect to learn a little about typography. In the end the web is mostly about reading words, so it behooves you to learn the art and science of arranging words on a page so as to maximize legibility and beauty.

The biggest obstacle to learning this stuff is a broken understanding of design. It's a discipline like any other; you might not have the aptitude to become a master but you can learn the basics and become proficient, just like you did with code. It took you a decent amount of time to become a proficient coder; don't assume that three weeks of reading will turn you into a proficient designer. Stick with it, learn the terminology so you can start to read things written for an audience of designers, and don't forget to actually do stuff yourself -- like in code, there's no substitute for sitting down and grappling with some work on your own.
Since no one else is going to say it...

Suddenly it doesn't seem like such a bad idea to remove Java from OS X. I for one can go without any applets and even minecraft on my macbook pro.
And you found yourself a happy customer. You had me at balancing weasels on a rake. (Or, well, at the discount. Hard to fight against my poor German genes.)
Agreed; maybe the point is that Hollywood seems disproportionately interested in explaining the urge to create (especially when the ambitions are grand) as sublimated need for intimacy.

This may be in part because Citizen Kane casts a long shadow on Hollywood film, e.g. over The Social Network & There Will Be Blood.

I do appreciate the rarer films where ambition seems substantially driven by a person's interest in problems, tools, and intrinsic desire to create or innovate: e.g. The Fountainhead (better than the book), Ratatouille.
Steve Jobs comes to mind as a perfect example (in the positive sense).
So a few people said that PHP will die in the next few years because of things like Ruby and Python becoming better and better, does anyone here feel the same? I argued that PHP has such a low barrier to entry and is so accessible that I don't think it'll happen -- at least not to Ruby/Python -- anyone agree/disagree?
Yeah, that should be doable.

Do many people use grids other than the 12-col 960gs? (You can email me at matt@jmockups.com if you want to continue this off-HN).
Your dog obviously doesn't know Lisp :) Lisp allows any characters in a name (although some characters need to be escaped). So for example, I have a class called "2-relation" (because I thought "binary-relation" was too long). The use of dashes in names is routine in Lisp; names beginning with digits are not so common, but are perfectly legal. And yes, though it's not the traditional style, some Lispers (including me) end the names of predicates (boolean-valued functions) with question marks.
Apple may cut out carrier middleman with custom SIM chip
ClamXav for a manual full scan every so often; probably a waste of time.

I find LittleSnitch (outbound firewall) reassuring to let me moderate which applications are allowed to connect to what.
Wait, In-n-Out has a secret menu? What have I been missing!?
Site Analysis: Does This Web Site Work?
Have you tried de-duping files to save space? I imagine there's a finite number of MIDI files and "under construction" GIFs that could just be symlinked to save a ton of space...
So you would say that the best bet is to focus on paying down debt, then trying to grow organically?
While I think the web is probably a better place with reocities than without it, slapping ads on this content feels a tad bit slimy to me. I'm curious to hear your take on the ethical and legal implications of it.
Do you have any experience with Core Data (particularly migrations)?
I really, really wish they would have productized the Courier. I kept waiting with bated breath... and then, like usual, Microsoft ultimately finished quickly and with little fanfare.
True, no one is comparing their performance characteristics, it's just that getting the Linux kernel to compile isn't a unique feat where you need to be on the same level as gcc and llvm. You "just" need ANSI C with GNU extensions. And not break on a couple dozen corner cases.
My Favorite Engineering Interview Question
> Placing scotch tape over the speakers of noisy electronic toys will save your sanity.

I have wondered why there isn't a mute option for all electronic toys. I would imagine that either a toggle under the battery holder or a standard wireless "mute all toys device" would be a feature parents would seek out if it was offered.
I said realistically. From what I've seen this "lost my password" is in the US a non issue, and in the UK it warrants a few months of jail time (treated as a misdemeanor depending on the severity of the charges). In any case, it's almost impossible to prove intent in cases like this. It can't be treated as obstruction of justice because the drives were not encrypted after the fact. And intent can't be proven, so at max you get a misdemeanor charge, fines and a year in jail (using us law as a basis for time served).
I prefer free form function names when when parenthesis aren't required after the function name. Hyphens in function names are great too.

(member? 'a some_list)
member?('a', some_list) <-- ugly
member? :a, some_list

(check-user-credentials session user)
(is-user-authorized? page user)
How difficult is it to jailbreak an iPhone, install a trojan, and then make it superficially at least unjailbroken?

At the least steps 1 & 2 ought to be pretty easy.
IPhone/iPad app developer caught scraping Newseum's site
some basic profile information like name, photo, recent closings (home addresses) - certifications/qualifications - social network integration which i will add for twitter/facebook/etc - thats all i have for now.
Would you mind taking a look at http://github.com/nfriedly/Javascript-Flash-Cookies/blob/mas... and letting me know if anything could be improved. For one thing, I think I have more try/catch statements than I need, but I'm not really sure what can throw errors.

(This is a flash cookies library. My company doesn't use it to invade people's privacy, but I know it could be used for that. If you don't want to contribute to something like that, I'd understand.)

Either way, thanks for the offer!
The script was very subtle and managed to portray a multitude of motivations and justifications for more than one character. From what I could tell, it never said impressing a girl was the motivation for creating Facebook, and it portrayed Zuckerberg as someone who cared more about building stuff than he cared about relationships or money. Certainly it did make the (separate) implication that his handling of people/relationships/partnerships may be a source of regret as he matures as a person beyond 'I'm CEO, bitch.'
The funny thing is that you're both right and wrong. You're wrong in that the CEO is the person most responsible for corporate culture, everything else flows from there.

But in this particular case, the HP way was 'on the way out' for a while before she ever joined the company, the Agilent spin-off was already in the works before she took over as CEO.

I'm sure that she carries her portion on the blame for what came next though, but spinning off Agilent was definitely not a smart move because it was to a large extent the strongest hold-out of 'the hp way'.
Except doesn't IE9 suck at rendering CSS3 with any semblance of style? Correct me if I'm wrong but another article was on here not too long ago bemoaning the fact that web developers will yet again have to craft custom applications for Microsoft browsers. However, I wish them the best. I'm not going to turn a blind eye to something which could benefit everyone in the future just because it might not benefit them now.
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It's difficult to say without figuring out what their big problem is.

If they have always been struggling to break even then there is either an issue with volume/pricing (depending on the structure between fixed and variable costs).

If they were doing well and then took out a loan + executed the expansion strategy, which caused costs to rise (esp. due to the fixed costs of new locations + increased interest expense) then maybe that is where they need to focus their attention.
Matt

I would be interested in integrating their MLS data into the profile pages. What do you think?
My question here:

http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/3096/how-to-choose-a-su...
I've been working on this one webapp for quite some time, also. I'd love some help with drag & drop between two datagrids where any changes push a specific ID as an array to the database.

It's one of those things where you have been stuck for 3 days and are willing to pay someone move on.
Wasn't Carly Fiorina the one who destroyed HP's R&D division and consequently relegated a large chunk of the HP product line (HPUX, systems and storage) to obsolescence in the space of a few years?
The ads are actually a boost for a HN'er.

And let's suppose for a second that they were not (as they have not been in the past), reocities has cost a fairly large amount of money to date (instead of made money, as you suggest), not a single person that has asked me to remove the content has ever commented on the presence of the ads, and neither has anybody that has found their stuff again because I backed it up.

On the contrary, the reactions have been almost 100% positive with a very few exceptions.
Some. They can be… complicated. Simple migrations, like adding an attribute to an entity is pretty simple, but if you're making large changes to a model they can get hairy.
Thank you ! That's a great point. I'll try to change that. Don't hesitate to give me more feedback, if you have time, of course.
Maybe not evil but definitely closed. Watch out for that.
Space is not the problem, I've got plenty of that. The bigger problem is that the underlying filesystem is having some problems dealing with the total number of files.

Total disk space usage on the array that holds reocities is about 10.5 T (that includes a master copy though) and runs to 233 million files.