skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Renaming a file on OS X requires you to single-click the file name, wait a second, and then change the file name. If you have to rename a bunch of files, that's a ton slower than Ubuntu or Windows. (If anyone is going to suggest dropping to the command line, I'd answer that's not a very OS X solution)

Select file, hit return, rename, hit return. Go to next file. Are you going to say Windows's F2 dance is faster?

> OS X uses THREE keyboard modifiers? REALLY?

No, 4. Is that supposed to be news? Windows also uses 4 keyboard modifiers, and Gnome uses at least 3.

> And they aren't even named?

Shift, control, option (alt), command.

> and the context menus rarely have what I want (like, oh, renaming a file?).

Ever considered opening the Get Info dialog? No? Thought not.

> Multiple desktops is trivial on Ubuntu. In fact, it's preinstalled that way.

So is it on OSX. I'd even say it's more trivial, as you can switch to an application living on a different desktop, it will just switch to the right desktop. Not so in Ubuntu.
With weight training, for example, not worrying about the details and just doing it might lead to serious injury. You need to do these exercises with proper form. And if you're an out of shape computer geek, you will almost certainly need to fix your posterior chain and upper back before you are ready to do deadlift, squat, bench, and shoulder press safely.
Why We Get Fat: Interview With Gary Taubes
Any suggestions on an alternative IDE?
> For some entrepreneurs, the toughest part of a pivot may be setting aside their personal convictions-and egos. "It's very hard as an entrepreneur to move away from your core idea," says Phumbhra, of Chegg. "But if your customers are telling you to, you have to learn to be flexible."

My experience has been that many founders are contrarians with a grand vision, which can make a pivot towards a mainstream/less-grandiose direction particularly hard to decide to embrace. Has anybody else noticed that a founder is often the last person at a company to embrace a pivot?
And to take the class, you still need to pay the rent, feed the kids, bus fare.

Still, why not encourage training for the unemployed? But if you don't pay 100% for it, the unemployed are in no position to take you up on it.
Both deal directly with local producers; neither has done the paperwork for full FT certification. Taza's also committed to paying above-market prices, and has an external auditor checking up on them.

FWIW, their own pages on sourcing are here:

Taza: http://www.tazachocolate.com/AboutUs/Taza_Direct_Trade_

TCHO: http://www.tcho.com/tcho-is/faq#17
The three keyboard modifier keys are awesome. Significantly improves my emacs usage experience.
Facebook for Android has close to 1 Million users, does that mean Android has sold 1 Million handsets (It has 300,000 activations everyday).
I think assuming that everyone in this world is on Facebook is a wrong assumption.
I wouldn't pay much attention to a public policy expert lecturing me on programming. I don't begrudge a guy his opinion, but let's not pretend it's an informed one just because of confirmation bias.
RubyMine seems to be the most popular these days:

http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/
Phase 2 Generator
I'm not going to complain about long unemployment benefits because in the long run its a lot less expensive than measures the government might take to artificially prevent unemployment. Governments are much better at redistributing wealth than at running economies - lets let them do what they're good at.
That map shows Siberia and Russian Far East as "Eastern Europe" wtf? is the Kamchatka Peninsula part of Europe according to the UN?

Europe is traditionally divided from Asia at the Ural Mountains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
What amazes me more is that the tool they are using isn't all that anonymous - the article references a paper describing this (here: http://www.simpleweb.org/reports/loic-report.pdf).

Surely any 'hacker' worth their salt wouldn't use their home PC for this kind of rubbish.
Did you try http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/ ?

(I'm still on TextMate and happy with it, personally :)
RadRails: http://aptana.com/products/radrails (although it's Eclipse based, so it might not be what you need).

I'm wondering how come Oracle hasn't kill NetBeans yet? Considering the effort they've put into Eclipse and the aholes they are this seems a logical move.
Sounds like you don't really need OS X then. Unless you're particularly attached to Safari. I'm roughly the same myself. Only with urxvt and conkeror instead of Terminal and Safari.
I've only found NetBeans useful under Windows. I've had a number of interface problems on Linux and OSX that make it unusable. (Dialogs showing up blank all the time and other problems)
I agree. Open Pandora was really interesting for me when it first came out. Now, I have a Nokia n900. Other than the game controls the n900 is mostly comparable, with the additoin of GSM support. The n900 is also very open, and prevents me form having to carry a separate phone.
After my startup failed (and all of the pivots we could think of didn't work), I tried a few other ideas with different partners. None of those worked, and I ended up doing consulting work (mostly for other startups) for a while. It paid ok, but I realized that I wasn't really doing my own thing, and I could do significantly better by working for someone else. I also kind of realized that I just wasn't ready to go out and start something else for various reasons.

A pretty interesting startup made me a pretty good offer, and after consulting for them for a month, I figured that I might as well take the stock options if I was working for someone else. Worked there for a while, and then they got acquired by a big company. Got to see an acquisition first-hand, which was definitely interesting. Now I'm working at a big company, which I never thought would happen again, but I guess that I see it in a different way.

I'm not really sure how I got from point A to point B, but it has been an interesting ride. And I think that pretty soon I'll be ready to start something else.
If you want to share those experiences, I'd appreciate the information. Maybe I can learn something vital. Hit me up at messel at gmail dot com anytime you feel like it.
Jumpstart Foundry now accepting applications for Summer 2011
You could link to the original source, which is cited in the first line of this article.

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20110127/here-comes-another-web-i...
Looks like a huge performance boost as well - the pages appear to load much more quickly. The search box expansion on focus is quite nice as well.

This of course could be a perceptual thing - the new animations add a dynamic movement to the site, which might effect how I perceive this.
> Anyone looking for a simple, (open!) osx music player that just has a playlist you can drop folders onto and nothing else, check out Cog.

I'll check this out. I have gigs of MP3s I never listen to on my Mac anymore because iTunes sucks so much.
I live in a country with no such guarantee and people have managed to live.
http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/

Eclipse also has support for Ruby, no?

Sort of sad to see this happen, but I'd prefer they keep netbeans going and streamline it to be really good at a few things, rather than being 'ok' at lots of stuff.

Ruby doesn't really fit with Oracle's offerings, although PHP doesn't either. Perhaps PHP support will be dropped in the future?
I _think_ you might be able to run a tilling wm in X but that wouldn't exactly replace the wm. I sorta hate the OS X wm which is a major impetus for me to run debian where I can actually chose what wm to use instead of having to obey the almighty menu bar.
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I use TextMate, but have been trying to make the switch to vim.
You need to get his address and have a lawyer send a very sharply worded letter that lets him know that he's in your gunsights. Don't write this letter yourself, or if you do, have a lawyer check it over before you send it. There are laws against making threats (even against someone who might be breaking the law).
I've spend time on unemployment twice, and each time I got what I think was the max payment (in MA)... The first time didn't cover half of my rent, and the second didn't cover half of my mortgage. We were able to move for employment, but we took a nice loss on the house.

Those in industries that are contracting (manufacturing, pink-collar, STEM) probably have to move to find work. If one has a working spouse or school-age kids, this might be a no-win situation.

The partiers might be living solo and/or at home.
I use scp to backup the folders I'm interested in. I use git to manage sharing data between machines. (Again, just the stuff I'm interested in.)

I don't keep 100% synchronisation between machines. I don't back everything up. I'm happy working at this level of granularity because it allows me to stay selective and not accumulate cruft due to relying on an automated backup of my entire drive. (In my case, backing everything up would result in a lot of useless noise.)

I'm not saying it's for everyone, but it works for me.
Emacs + various extensions and goodies.
"Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience."

Is this the example of failing well? It's a great looking error page.
"I have no real interest in this industry" just doesn't fit with the other items in your argument. It's unfair and it plays to emotions not facts. And, even without that facetious addition, you'd probably convince me.
http://redcareditor.com/

A Ruby editor, written in Ruby, that you can extend using Ruby.
Thank you very much for mentioning HST.

I assume it is here: http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com/hst_index.html as it is top of the Google search.

Information from that website puts some things in proper context, like pumping to heal tendon damage.
Learning the minute details of weight training, nutrition, and other (important!) subjects is for marginal gains on top of a base level of fitness which the majority of the population lacks.

This point cannot be stressed enough! I've been strength training for years and have seen way to many people over think what needs to be done. Friends who just start working out come to me with questions like 'what if I miss a rep on my workout' or 'should I use avocado oil instead of olive oil'? Huh? It's not that complicated. In fact it's quite simple.

Learn enough to do the basic exercises safely and then...GO DO THEM! When you can do them with a certain weight, add more weight. Repeat. As an aside, a close second to the first point is to log everything. It's hard to improve if you're not measuring.

The problem is the same one that comes up with diets. People are looking for an easier solution when there simply isn't one. The person who gets to the gym and busts their ass a few times/week will be way ahead than the guy stuck sitting on his computer researching the best way to do finger curls[1].

[1] And another pet peeve. Skinny guys doing 20 sets of curls. Please go buy a book like mentioned above and just follow a workout from it. If you're doing enough pulling like you should, curls can usually be skipped all together.
This is also the reason that the BLS statistics that claim men make more than women for comparable work is misleading. Women take a leave for a few years, downshift their careers, or purposely pick easier career paths so they can spend more time with children and family. For women who choose to continue their career at top-speed, they have a huge advantage. Since companies are looking to promote more women, they choose from the smaller pool of women who want to climb the corporate ladder.
RadRails and Redmine are going to be the closest to the Netbeans Ruby support, others have mentioned those already. Something closer to the heart of many Ruby developers is Redcar. It's a text editor installed as a Ruby gem generally meant to replicate Textmate functionality.

http://redcareditor.com/
Not surprised to see this happen.

My question is the following: When every company has rewards systems and 70% discounts on coupon sites, coupled with credit card rewards, discounted gift cards, manufacturer coupons and the new ability to get more discounts by adjusting my shopping patterns, how do I know what a product is actually worth?

Companies like Scvngr are trying to insert game mechanics into the offline world, but it feels like the retail sector is already way ahead in making us play their discount game.
Sounds like you haven't tried Ubuntu in a few years. I switched permanently a year or so ago after trying several times to make the switch over the last decade or so. It works almost completely without issue on three different systems of mine with very different hardware.
In this case, it came from issuing new government bonds, which has effects as well, but not quite the same ones. Taxes were not raised to pay for unemployment benefits; in fact, in the short-term political calculus, extending benefits led to lower taxes (the unemployment extension was part of the bipartisan compromise on extending the Bush tax cuts).

Future taxes will likely pay for it in some form, but not current ones, which is one reason it has a stimulative effect. It's also what most economists recommend in many parts of the political spectrum (countercyclic fiscal policy).
I'm not American and could be mistaken but I was under the impression that this 99 weeks plan was a temporary extension because of the recession. The idea being that while many, many fields may not be hiring now, whe. The economy is up to speed enough to start showing sizable changes in unemployment rates, those jobs will come back. But they are thinking one year may not be enough time.
Am I mistaken? Is the 99 weeks permanent? not that that would be bad - Ive known many on welfare... It's hardly a fun times free ride. And I have known many who have needed more than two years, after honestly trying many different avenues.
Komodo Edit is a nice and very configurable light-weight editor (free):
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit
A more functional IDE (paid):
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide

I have been using Komodo for a number of languages on a number of platforms.
Could you point me towards a comparison of an insane java library and the sane equivalent in a different language?
off topic pet peeve: why do people take computer screenshots with a CAMERA? That's like typing an email, printing it out and slapping postage on it.
journaling has been introduced in mongodb today, so some points in this article are, unfortunately for the author, outdated only one day after it was published.
If we're in the market for predictions, my personal prophecy is thus:

DARPA, in an effort to offset the money wasted on this research, will pivot and attempt to sell this idea (and its obvious potential pitfalls) to the writers of 24 for the next series.
There is no doubt there are "real" homeless people in Edinburgh (probably poor souls who've been thrown out of long term care) - but a lot (not all) of the younger people you see in Edinburgh are doing it because a) there are plenty tourists who will hand over some cash b) people who have traveled in from outlying towns/villages, spent all of their cash on booze and don't have enough to get home.

[NB I've helped a few people in the latter category get home, so I know it happens]
The Linux boot process, a chart
Netbeans is open source. The plugin is open source. Oracle is simply trying to cut projects where they have no direct or indirect benefit. I'm sure they would be happy if someone else maintained the plugin. Netbeans has a growing community of plugin developers. There is a community Clojure plugin, for example:

http://www.enclojure.org
I didn't but I would be interested.

FWIW, here's the FAQ on performance with durability enabled:

How's performance?

Read performance should be the same. Write performance should be very good but there is some overhead over the non-durable version as the journal files must be written. If you find a case where there is a large difference in performance between running with and without --dur, please let us know so we can tune it. Additionally, some performancing tuning enhancements in this area are already queued for v1.8.1 and beyond.
Here's the documentary that tells all: http://j.mp/fzlrBu
It does, though. Faced with two options, one employee who is passionate about computers and has been playing with Photoshop since he was a kid, and one employee who took a "two week" course and obviously is just looking for a paycheck anywhere... Who would you chose?
We've been doing mostly fake work for more than a century. When mechanized textiles first arrived, they were going to revolutionize everything; instead it just made it so that if you wore clothes that have a tiny stain or tear in them, you appear to society as some kind of leper and you have to throw them away and replace them stat.
The Finder sucks, but it is fully keyboard-navigable, and you can rename files and do other things quickly via the keyboard. Just select the file that you want to rename and hit the Return key.

Regarding "not a very OS X solution", I would just note that a "power user" is going to be on the command line all day long in Mac OS X, like any UNIX. Terminal.app is very capable, iTerm is there if you prefer, and many more technical users on the Mac will be using more powerful Finder replacements like PathFinder (that have built-in slide-out terminal panes), or using the excellent D-Term, which pops up a HUD-style one-shot command line in the context of wherever you happen to be in the GUI.
This is the killer feature of tools like emacs and vi: Your vendor cannot abandon you and the code has a well-proven capability to be ported to just about any platform.
I've found netbeans to be faster on windows, certainly. Not had any of the issues you mention on OSX - just general 'java is slow' issues (especially when compared to same version of nb on windows).

On Linux, I got tired of Eclipse-based Java apps not working properly - blank windows, as you mentioned being a primary issue.
I think making this an opt in feature is poor strategy. This should be opt out for the people who know what they are doing.
He's managed to come up with a list of job skills for which no employer is hiring.
Given that 24 has ended, I'm going to short your prediction.
I heart Posterous. Not only because they're great at what they do but because they take a stand.
>market was intended to be for security experts

Oh. Phew. Now I know that only seasoned banking/finance professionals are involved I feel completely safe! Those guys never do any crazy shit!

EDIT: do you mean security experts or securities experts?
Real life Jack Bauer?
It was Fedora and, yeah, it's been 2 years. I don't think I'll own a laptop made by anyone other than Apple for some time. Desktops, I'll probably use Linux.
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I think a key takeaway from this whole story is that Zuckerberg, like Jobs with Apple, is basically Facebook in the eyes of the outside world, and so attacks on the company are going to be attacks on him personally. It's no secret that he has positioned himself as this magical founder-figure, he'll just need to take that into consideration now that Goldman is allowing the (very rich) masses to invest in his company.
who cares? I use emacs+rinari
Just noticed my current phone (the cheapest Android available, but also a diamond in the rough that has practically gone viral in the UK on the strength of word of mouth) also equals the iPhone 4 overall due to high "value for money"

http://www.reevoo.com/p/orange-san-francisco
use mvim + NERDtree
Gimme your email, with this kind of blue-sky financial thinking we should start a hedge fund.
>The simple truth is that any (non-crackpot) regimented training program will significantly improve a geek's fitness.

Taking a daily walk outside is a good start. By doing so you shift your attention into a different environment and into moving the body. This somehow recharges the mental batteries, which in turn improves one's physical health.

One tweak can significantly increase the benefit at little extra cost. During the walk, take one short sprint (long enough to lose your breath slightly; it'll probably take less than a minute).

I can't explain why this helps but it does seem to help me. Something to do with keeping aerobic capacity in trim?
jacquesm already listed most of the usual suspects, but I also recommend MonteCarlo (http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/).
I mean "don't need training" in the sense that it's hard to argue that the reason there's no work for undergrads as a whole is that they aren't trained well enough. As individuals, these folks can probably stand out from the crowd of undergrads by going and getting their master's, but as a group it's not like this economy will suddenly have 1 million more jobs just because 1 million people went and got their master's degree.

As far as self teaching goes, well - that's a whole argument in itself. I'll just say that I don't believe that the haves in this country are all autodidacts, and the have nots aren't.
If I got an extra $100 or so on my paycheck, it would have very little economic utility. It would just be added to my pile of savings.

But if you take that $100 from me and give it to an unemployed person, they are going to spend 100% of that, guaranteed.

Moreover, I'm not following you on the "less the sizable bureaucratic overhead" comment. You make it seem as if the gov't takes $100 from me, burns $10 in the White House Furnace, and gives $90 to the unemployed person.

On the contrary, every dollar of "bureaucratic overhead" is income for somebody -- a government contractor, supplier or employee. I've never understood why people act like the money the government spends just vanishes from the economy. Yes, a small, small fraction of it goes overseas. But it's so small it cannot be described as "sizable."
All crypto systems fail when faced with human operators!

There was one story of an Afrika corp operator who sent HIT - LER as the 2 'secret' triplets every day for the entire North Africa campaign. Then disastrously he was captured!

It's an interesting question as to whether at least the best (4-wheel naval) system could be cracked without operator error or deliberate plain text seeding.

The only flaw of the enigma is that a letter cannot be encrypted to itself - I have heard different accounts of if this was enough to always make it crackable.
I didn't downvote (I haven't even been to the page since before you posted that comment until just now), but maybe I can help you understand why I disagree with what you said:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/when-open-source...

tl;dr: The term "open source" was coined by the people who founded the OSI, and they provided a definition for it. The term many people in the open source community use for software whose source is available (but not open source) is "source-available software".
I got my SSN number while I was a foreign student in Chicago. My first 3 digits correspond to Illinois.
Ugh, I had a feeling this was coming.
Free business model tool for startups: Phase 2 Generator (blog post)
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Thanks for the link. Browsing "Even Faster Web Sites" he cited 14 rules from the first book ("High Performance Web Sites") in the preface. Rule 1: Make Fewer HTTP Requests. I guess this is what I had in mind. I have a request get the data, but how I allow user to render it different ways. So the local rendering is done in JS.

I'm still building, but it look like I better give this a second look.

I'm also in the education space, so where there are crappy machines there are also likely crappy networks.
what if we include a test for (non)randomness which says that any sequence of digits that can be mapped to the sequence of digits produced by an algorithm (the algorithm for computing digits of Pi) is predictable and thus non random?
Swedish ISP anonymizes all users to avoid legal logging mandate