skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I wouldn't just state that they ignored them. I find it equally probably that someone higher up in the company has dictated that this is to be the interface, or that their designers take forever to actually design anything, so a redesign was out of the question (without pushing back the release date, which could be argued to have been necessary).
Interesting. (Terrifying). Canada is now a third world country. Way to go CRTC.
That's pretty damn sweet!
I'll just add my support for the sibling comments that Spaces is really awkward in comparison to workspaces/tags/whatever on all the Linux DEs I've used, including minimalist stuff like Openbox. In OS X, Spaces is just a tacked-on deal that doesn't work well with the rest of the experience, and most people don't know it exists until they accidentally trigger it with a corner or key combo. If you value multiple desktops, you'll be much better off using a Linux DE.

I run Arch Linux on my MacBook Pro, for instance. This has made at least two Mac fanboys seriously hate me.
I'm amazed you took the leap with zero savings and a two-month old baby to support. Congrats; what is this 'financially rewarding' startup you created?
As a long time desktop *nix user, I have no idea how any one works without multiple workspaces. For me it's second nature to me to switch to another workspace to start a new kind of task.
Multiple workspaces is such a brilliantly simple concept I am surprised it took so long for it to be adopted into OS X. Sadly (for OS X users) Spaces is pretty poorly done compared to how multiple workspaces generally work in Gnome or KDE.
because it is beneficial to have these sorts of libraries written in the language you develop in... you dont need to install another language, you can interact with the native API instead of IPC etc...
Of course we 'ad it tough

We used to have whistle Hayes codes up t'phone line ourselves - after making our own modem leads out 'o back to back NULL modems.

Ones and Zeros - you were lucky. We only had zeros and we had to catch wild ones and skin em ourselves.
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I have 15 tags in my awesomewm environment right now. Awesome also has independent tags per screen unlike most other multi-desktop WMs, so when I had two screens and nine tags on each I effectively had 18 desktops, and I also didn't usually have an issue keeping track of windows.
900m Internet Explorer users vulnerable to data-stealing hack
On "Fooling Us"
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I'd like to add. If you've been taken by this guy but have felt intimidated or fearful to come forward, please email me. I have a strong suspicion that there are others, but I'm hopeful there are not. If the guy that took jiganti has scammed others, the more we know the better we are. If you don't want to go public with the information I understand, but please contact me. My email is my last name at gmail.
What are privacy best practices for startups?
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There is no law, there's just politics.

Rules only exist for those who don't make them.
Maybe:

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Worst-case would be going from far left to far right, which would take 3 presses.
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This would be terrible for publicly funded research. His proposal is to basically some of the Department of Energy into the Department of Defense. I imagine this would effectively kill off the Office of Science, and alienate thousands of highly skilled researchers and experiments, among other things.
this would have been one year old http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2164126
Well, I hope they add support to video conferencing.
Too many people waste their time blaming other people. If they created good content, they'd get traffic.
Driving tests without compiler errors
The good news is someone else did 'hack' GHC and gave it a nice new IO back-end. http://johantibell.com/files/hask17ape-sullivan.pdf
How to Optimize Websites and WordPress for Speed
I’ll admit it: I’m addicted to speed. No, not the psychostimulant; I’m talking about website speed.

I’m not alone, either. Google recently announced that they consider website speed when determining search engine rankings.
Forgive me for playing devils advocate, but how is this different from the existing responsibilities of the SBA and the SBIC? It looks more like an expansion of the existing small-business incentive programs than some sort of nefarious scheme.

In this case, a private individual (e.g., Bob Smith) would be more likely to take advantage of the possible malicious asymmetries you point out than Uncle Sam.

Not that i say that from any sort of idealism about the government: Rather, i don't think the level of organization & complicity required for these panicky worst-case scenarios is present, not across the range of civil-servants who would all have to be "in on it"

I.e., yes, a private person could go in with a take-no-prisoners approach, but the government itself is neither so ambitious nor so concentrated. I think you're getting frothed up -- can you point to widespread, existing corruption in the SBA or SBIC?
Why Small Businesses Should Embrace Business Cloud Computing
Myth 1: Non-citizens can own American companies (this is true in most developed country)

Myth 2: There are a number of British startups which moved to the US after raising American financing (YC has a number of these). Typically this involved the US incorporated company applying for visas for the founders. So not having a visa that lets you work for the startup doesn't necessarily preclude you from raising financing with the assumption you'll be able to get an appropriate visa after.

Myth 3: Depends on your contract with your employer/company. Check it for details.
He tweeted that last Thursday, so why not judge how bad the situation is on what has happened since then, rather than what one person said about a "tomorrow" that is now four days ago?
Suster's remarks are similar to many others for starting a business in information technology, software, Web 2,0, social media, etc.

For all these remarks there is a very simple response: In the US, coast to coast, villages, towns, cities, on Main Street there are successful businesses in everything from pizza carryout, Chinese food carryout, franchised fast food, portrait photography, jewelry, fashion boutiques, dentistry, medical family practice, CPA, wines and spirits, auto parts, auto repair, auto body repair, gasoline, convenience store, plumber, electrician, plumbing supply, electrical supply, hardware, building supply, on and on. A significant fraction of these Main Street business are big truck -- little truck, that is, buy in large quantities at a low price per unit and sell in small quantities at a high price per unit.

These businesses are a huge fraction of the US economy. The fraction is so large that there is no chance that any significant fraction of the business founders could satisfy any list of personality characteristics as specific as Suster's.

Yes, nearly none of these Main Street businesses will become worth over $1 billion (McDonald's, Domino's, maybe a few more did). Still, the businesses are successful, e.g., commonly last decades and for an owner pay to support a family.

So, what about the businesses Suster is considering in Web 2.0, etc.?

Well, these businesses have some big advantages including Moore's law and the Internet and commonly can be started for much less money than even a carryout pizza shop or, really, nearly any of the Main Street businesses.

E.g., the people who mow grass in my neighborhood drive nice, new trucks, each pulling a low volume, handmade trailer carrying a high end lawn mower worth something over $10,000. Altogether they arrive to mow some grass with capital expense ruining $40,000 which now would buy one heck of a first-cut Web 2.0 server farm.

So, setting aside Suster's focus on businesses that can be started for the cost of a computer and a good Internet connection and a some amount of hacker time and soon be worth over $500 million, just why should the advantages of Moore's law and the Internet require such particular and rare personality characteristics when millions of Main Street businesses without these advantages do not?

The answer is simple: The business based on computing don't require satisfying any such list of particular and rare personality characteristics.

So what's going on? Suster is working way too hard looking for the secrets and, thus, is getting way off the track.
We don't have anything invested in the country?

You really didn't look closely at the tanks and guns on TV.
My greatest weakness is that I hate the question about my greatness weakness.
Yes. Many of the NYC.gov websites are run on a "enterprise CMS" that imposes long URLs (name of the CMS starts with an "I"... ends with a "woven").

I understand that the purpose of this submission was to poke fun at NYC gov't and their seemingly inability to adapt to current-day tech standards. In a lot of cases this is valid criticism. However, for the past few year, nyc has made some pretty cool initiatives to make data and services it support more open and available.
Someone else mentioned the nyc data feeds which is a good example. There are a bunch of twitter accounts (like @311nyc) that are actually useful. Another cool use of data is: http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/ (geo map search, great for looking up official city building info).

Even with some flaws (and many inefficiencies), we should commend NYC for not treating tech only as "necessary overhead" as most other cities do. IMO, NYC is second only to SanFran when it comes to being progressive on tech (SanFran has a policy to look OOS first for any new project which is great).

BTW, I do not work for the city but I interact with many agency IT groups via work.
This is what I've been wondering ALL DAY.
Not to mention the writers of Techcrunch, etc. read HN and frequently source stories from here.
I would say it would be extremely difficult to start a HFT program nowadays. I actually created a profitable system in 2009.. I ended up making around $500k but by 2010, I was making less and less money each month no matter what I did to try and improve the system. I finally turned it off completely about 3 months ago. I think the problem is there is simply no "dumb" volume in the market and everyone is just competing against other HFT arbitrage programs.
We are by no means out of IPv4 addresses. The next step is that all of the entities who needlessly snapped up /8 space early on and sat on it for so long will be selling it off. The list includes GE, Xerox, IBM, HP, Apple, MIT, Ford, Halliburton, Prudential Insurance, Bell-Northern, Merck, Eli Lilly, the DoD/military (who has 13), USPS, and CSC. Just half of this space is 234m IPv4 addresses.
Not bad 1983, not bad...

Autonomous Battery Charging
A special circuit in the RB5X enables it to recognize when its battery charge is low and to begin using special software that helps it find its charger. The RB5X uses its photodiode system to locate its battery charger, moves against the charger nest, recharges itself, and then automatically resumes its activities.
The source says that it uses HTML5 sound, but falls back to flash if it doesn't work.
Cabin fever is definitely the major downside of working from home. And it comes up so suddenly. For 2 days you're fine and productive, loving the relative quiet. Then suddenly it's 5 days in, you stink, are starving and you're talking to yourself a lot.
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I posted a link that I am hiring a few weeks ago, and not only did I get a lot of hits, but I also got a lot of great resumes; some of the best resumes I have ever seen.
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Your analogy is flawed. There is a limit on how much electricity you can use at once. It's the maximum that the copper to your house can safely carry. The same is true for the internet, the only difference being that the maximum bandwidth that can be gotten out of the internet infrastructure is relatively lower than the maximum amount of electricity that can be gotten out of the grid.
Yep. I sometimes wonder what my life would have been like if I'd been born in California.
so .. am i right in saying that it's a SFW + a more PC version of 4chan with a few elements similar to say, buzzfeed.com ?
Catering to the non-computer crowd; this is a fantastic idea. We spend so much time hooked up to computers and aiming for that younger and business crowds that it's easy to forget there is a large, large demographic who have just as many (maybe more) problems as we need solved and just as much money to pay for it from their kids or retirement funds.

How do you market to these folks? For me the first thing that comes to mind is infomercials but I don't really want to get into them. (Cue mental images of Sham-wow). Older folks like to read print newspapers, too. Can anyone suggest some good ways to tap this market?
I've honestly never understood this mindset, and this isn't the first time I've seen it. I'm willing to learn if someone is willing to explain it to me.

The information is there, but please don't share it visibly. Make people look for it!

It makes shockingly little sense.
The idea is great but the quality of the posts lacks until now. I just hope, you can improve that over time. It really must get more from guessing and ideas to concrete models supported with diagrams, further readings and maybe code where appropriate.
I love HN, but I think you may be over-estimating its importance.
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I've never actually used this before, but I've always envisioned arranging them in a cube, one on each face.
he is hoping to build his reputation to land his next opportunity.
Nothing cynical about it. I'd say you are 100% correct.

All classic stock hype relies on the greater fool theory. People who are 'in' now know there are probably 1,000,000 fools lining up waiting. Apart from disaster their investment is locked in and waiting for maturity.
Have a look at Avogato for an example of a site with sophisticated WoT reputation management.
Park Circa is like AirBnB, but for parking spots.
Is nobody else afraid that instead of IPv6 we're now going to get more and more layers of NAT?

Sure, for us geeks that's totally unthinkable... no servers, no P2P?!? But most users, who are content with just web & email, will probably never notice the difference.

ISPs will surely find it easier to turn NAT on than to switch to IPv6, and the backlash might be close to nonexistent.
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Although I agree that having free SSL certificates is nice, I question whether it's actually a viable way to certify the authenticity of a site. Seriously, if you make it free, spammers will overrun it. Why should we trust free SSL certs? I think having a cost provides a certain barrier to entry that is good overall.
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Until the companies that are providing and delivering the content grow spines and tell the big ISPs to shove it, the big ISPs will get their way. Combine that with consumers taking action and canceling their internet service and maybe the poor multi-billion dollar per QUARTER companies will listen.
Wynn is one of the nicest guys around and is very passionate about OSS. He's the polar opposite of entitled or preachy - he writes, codes, interviews, and speaks regularly. Perhaps his linkbait parody missed....
I opened this in a tab and came back to it later and my first thought was, "What is JMTH 5?"
Where's street view? ;)
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Quick! Everyone downvote comments from jacquesm and let's see if we can get his karma back below 50,000.

In all honesty, like many others here I completely understand and wish you the best.

The other day I saw the "lists" on HN and wondered what those karma leaders get done in addition to gaining karma on HN.
It's disappointing, but unsurprising, that legitimate warnings got auto-dead'd.

I know that I wound up on a shitlist simply for not supporting some of the voting mafias on this increasingly noisy site. That said, we can't reasonably expect a fix. It's not in pg's interest to improve the place so long as it's generating leads for YC, and while many of us might have nostalgia for smaller times, increased traffic means pg's fishing out of a bigger pie these days.
I like the Nourot Studio, have visited it, and own some of their glass. Nonetheless, this is not HN content; it is an advertisement/solicitation.
Yes, I have a pro-freedom-of-speech politics. I like it when companies take my side on this and I don't like it when they don't. That seems simple and consistent. What do you stand for?
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If I want to trial Oracle or Clustrix, well, I'm going to have to start a contact with a sales organization and then they need to pre-qualify me, and then they need to qualify me and then I'll spend a few hours on the phone talking to people (which might take a few weeks in wall-clock time.)

If Clustrix offered cloud-based deployment of their database, they could have a small free tier for people to play around with. Add a console applicaiton for accessing the API. Make it really developer friendly.

Imagine if you could just type:

$ sudo gem install clustrix
$ clustrix create my-test-app
Created cloud.clustrix.com/my-test-app
username: my-test-app
password: xd634shx

If they had that, I'd be trying it out in a flash. Then what if they had a per-usage pricing system like AWS? Something where you pay per gigabyte. Something that allows you to test stuff out for a few dollars a mount, and then when you're ready, scale it right up to a few thousand or more.
What makes you say a GUI is required for code folding? A screenshot of vim: https://blog.stefanpopp.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/vim7.p...
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Someone should invest a 150k in each of these kids ventures
+1

Nothing better than sincerity. Best wishes.
I'd wager that Terminal.app requires a lot less maintenance work than Spaces.
As IPv4 disappears, transition poses hazards
don't dismiss it out of hand - I worked for about 20 months at a big financial corp and got a good laugh most days checking myself out in the corporate uniform . . .

it's not so bad, but it is funny if you come from a place where flip-flops and the shirt you painted the house in last weekend is normal M-F attire. It definitely took me awhile to get used to sitting in my cube in nice shoes.
Note to self: never, ever hire Sean Neiuwoudt.

After all... only a fool would hire somebody with your attitude. How could you be trusted, knowing that you care so little about what people receive in return for their money?

How could you be trusted, knowing that you'll simply blame the victim after you con them and fail to provide value. Truly... only a complete and utter moron would ever hire you.
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It's not clear that NAT is cheaper than IPv6; huge NAT boxes are pretty expensive.
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That's crazy. I actually set my virtual desktops up exactly as he described in VirtuaWin, back in the day.

The advantage he doesn't talk about directly is that if you're using a virtual window manager that doesn't have a notion of physical space (ie, it just has jump-to-desktop hotkeys, there's no "go up/down/left/right" hotkey), you can still configure it in a pseudo-physical layout using this trick by mapping each space to an arrow key.

Obviously it doesn't map very well to n>4 spaces, but you could always have a Zelda-style "shadow world" with a different modifier key + up/down/left/right to get 8.
Poll: What CRM do you use at your startup?
I am getting to the point that I need to be managing sales prospects and relationships with more people than I can remember on my own. So I am thinking about investing time into loading things into a CRM. The questions is, which one?
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Definetley, inaccurate headline. The problem is, this is a historic moment, it's just extremely difficult to explain why.
This is more lime the beginning of the end. It's going to be long and drawn out.
Ask HN: What life or death systems rely on Windows?
We recently had a debate about the use of Windows for truly life and death applications. There are stories of Worms infecting Windows computers running nuclear power plants, but it's hard to tell whether these are employee/generic systems, or truly mission critical appliances.

Does anyone have any anecdotes about the use of Windows to run truly life or death systems - like air traffic control, medical tools, military systems, elevator and traffic control, and so on?
Didn't take it as harsh. I appreciate when people make me think about what I'm working on, so thanks. ;)
5 completely dorky gadgets that we’d still probably buy
I agree. This article is mostly a reminder of the main points of basic SEO and marketing - content is king, word-of-mouth, and using social networks.
A reminder is useful once in a while.
I use BetterTouchTools http://www.boastr.de/ which is free and I just setup three finger swipe to change spaces in that direction and three finger tap to see all spaces. I love it and hate using another computer without it now.
Biologists wipe out a mouse's spatial working memory
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I saw your info session at MIT today. I am a senior in EECS at MIT doing a 5 year S.B./M.Eng. program. I like machine learning/vision and robotics and would love to get my hands dirty writing software that controls real physical systems. I've published research at the intersection of cognitive science and decision theory and just won first place at MIT's autonomous robotics competition. I've done various other projects that you can read about at http://snikolov.weebly.com. Shoot me an email at snikolov@mit.edu if you think there is a match (especially in the avionics software group).
My favorite: "Whats yours?"
You might want to add FatFreeCrm to your list - it's not as feature rich as some, but also doesn't suffer some of the same bloat. It's written in Rails and easy to modify.