skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also enjoy comp.os.linux.advocacy for complete insanity. The fun part is that there's exactly 0 constructive conversation going on. It's all flames, all the time.
Yup, and it is not just supermarkets. That's also how it worked at places like Egghead and CompUSA, and I expect how it still works at places like BestBuy. The manufacturer can have their distributor simply get the product into the store, and it goes on some bottom row in the darkest part of the store, will never be featured in a sale or promoted in the store's newspaper ad, and so on.

If you want anything more than that (good position in a row that doesn't have a homeless camp in it, a featured position in the store's ad, and so on) you pay for this.

This is one of the reasons Windows 95 totally killed OS/2, even though on every technical level (including the ability to run Windows programs) OS/2 should have won. Microsoft paid for ads. Microsoft paid for end caps with Windows 95. Microsoft chipped in to help software developers who wrote for Windows 95 afford store ads and end caps.

IBM was content to just shove OS/2 into the store, let it sit on the bottom shelf in the back where even someone who went to the store with the express purpose of buying OS/2 would have a hard time finding it. That and IBM's complete disdain for developers is what killed OS/2.

The mail order computer catalog businesses also work this way. When you read the entries for a given product in catalogs from different sellers, they are often nearly identical. That's because the item entries are not written by the catalog company. They are ad copy written by the product's vendor. When a product gets a quarter, half, or full page in a catalog it isn't because the catalog company thought it was great and wants to push it. It's because they thought the big fat check from the vendor to their ad sales department was great.
Ballmer hopes for nerd empowerment at MS
Apples and oranges. No, data is not just another wire.

Using up 10x more electricity or water has very real, physical costs which are proportional to the amount consumed.

Using 10x more data has only very tiny additional costs to the bandwidth provider. A few seconds of research can easily confirm this. Asserting that the levels of bandwidth charges we're seeing right now are "fair" is hilariously wrong.
Dirty ACTA tricks — Piracy/Counterfeit Bait and Switch
It's a George Carlin pun: "Johnson sends Humphrey a broad (abroad). Details, along with some wild films, after these messages."

"Broad" is an old-fashion slang reference for woman in the US- much like "chick" became later. People who used the term "broad" non-perjoratively are well into their seventies now.
I do believe humility is a seriously underrated trait. You do the thing that needs to be done, no fanfare necessary.
I thought this was cool so I looked at it. Other than moving the backgrounds up/down left/right there's also -moz-transform and -webkit-transform. Their attention to details is impressive each time :)
Before I got a proper office, I'd have loved to have worked at my local library when I needed a break from working in the house. Only problem: the library (like most UK ones, I imagine) won't let members of the public plug in laptops for power. :o(
Nice to see an absolute scale in number of requests. It seems that the mystery device making 50% of the API calls was introduced or gained Netflix playback in October 2010 :)
My wife actually works at and for the library. Trust me when I say, you definitely don't want to work there. The amount of riff raff that hangs around that joint is just not worth it. People get trespassed, throw fits, steal DVDs, look at all manner of inappropriate material, and even straight up make scenes. The bathrooms are often vandalized with bodily excrement and the couches, as comfy as they may be, are also covered in the same if the cleaners haven't come that day. There are plenty of other coworking spaces you could join or support. Do yourself a favor, check them out.
Marcin is responsible for the (in)famous Google Pacman logo, as well as today's logo celebrating Jules Verne.

Aside, today's logo is orientation-aware if you're using Firefox/Chromium on supported hardware (i.e., a MacBook [Pro]).
It's bad enough that such software is totally useless, but it also keeps upgrading and harassing you to restart, as if it is reminding you that the app totally exists on your computer and it's useful (look, it's doing totally important stuff in the background, restart now or later?).

I reboot my Mac about 3-4 times a year

I reboot my Linux once every 2 days (when the battery runs out, I shutdown as I've had surprises with hibernation, even on OS X). But my desktop is loaded in 20 secs or so.
I find locations difficult to deal with because I don't know what constitutes a "location." Is it a sentence? A line? A group of five words? These things I can understand, and they can help me understand the work I'm reading. I know how long it takes me to read 30 pages of reference material, or 30 pages in a trade paperback. I don't know how long it takes me to read 30 locations.

Heck, I don't even know how much material is in 30 locations.
Facebook Buys Old Sun Campus in Menlo Park
The rise of personal robots for gaming, communication and healthcare
Thanks for your comments! I understand you can be a bit skeptical about writing code online, we try to take every measure to keep your code secure.

Launching with Reddit seemed like a great fit. They have a large community of programmers. We created some buzz and generated a lot of feedback. The initial feedback received from them was what shaped our product into what it is today.
Well, we're not allowed to text any more so what do they expect?
Link is to a complaint thread starting early last November about the now-ended Beta.

The most recent posts appear to be me-toos along the lines of "What was wrong with the simple 2.8 Skype UI - NOTHING ! it was just too old and needed some new futures[sic]."
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I think people are getting too caught up with the dish washing element of the story. The point of the story is about taking ownership and doing whatever it takes to move the company forward.

Early on at Reddit, Alexis Ohanis did all the "bitch" work so that Steve Huffman could focus on coding.

But if we must analyze the dishwashing aspect of the story, I think there's an element of "caring for your coworkers / employees" there. If no one washed the dishes, the company wasn't going to go bankrupt, but it would make other people's lives more miserable.

As I'm working on my own startup, I can relate to that sentiment, because I not only care about growing the company, I also care about my cofounders' well being.
I, for one, like the new Skype. I think they did a great job with the redesign. Surely I'm not the only one who thinks this.
I think there is a difference between entire Apple as a company and Mac. I don't think anyone can deny mobile/music devices are what is driving Apple stock values.
The best way to get your first 1,000-10,000 users is to land a successful angel, mentor or advisors.

Someone like Sacca, Dave McClure, Naval or Kevin Rose can bring tens of thousands of users--instantly.

In fact, the way I pitch myself as an investors is:

a) product feedback
b) help raising your seed/1st round
c) bring your first 10,000 customers
This is a really interesting post but I think there's a fundamental flaw in the argument that the "investors" own the product that Chimero is making. Specifically, Rutledge says:

By selling out first before he created the product he promises, he’s now working for the investors instead of working for himself.

It's specifically stated in the Kickstarter FAQ's that investments are not allowed. No one should be under the impression that they own a portion of the product being produced. Instead, you're receiving a copy of the final product in return for your commitment.
Alright, she was an honors student - what skills did she learn?
Internet Marketing Techniques to Help Offline Sales
Any plans for python support?
It would be helpful for a hipmonk flight search to expose these fees to the user, for a more comprehensive total flight cost.
I suspect you need at least one class to be formally enrolled, and that would apparently be a minimum cost of $950: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sfs/docs/University_Tuition_And_F...
ok so now one can't even ask for an honest clarification on HN.
It's in Brazil... even our catholic campuses aren't all that catholic ;)
Well, we did have 170,000 pages indexed yesterday, but 23,000 today. Something is screwy in Google land!
I don't actually see washing the dishes as a "morale boosting" action. It's more about taking initiative. Dirty dishes is one of those public goods problems, where multiple people's dishes build up in the sink and no one washes them. The one who takes initiative and washes the whole sink as opposed to just his own is looked at as a leader, someone responsible and trustworthy, not necessarily a dishes bitch.

Being a real leader is recognizing that there is no glamour in being responsible for the lives and fates of many; that's only a perception that others project onto you. It's a humbling job.
Ture, although you can also just run showoff github and have the same thing :p
GUIdebook - Graphical User Interface Gallery
Is that mystery device that jumped requests in October the PS3? That's when the disc-free update was released that used the new HTML5 interface. It fits.
Take a gander at the new IMGUR-powered links, I think the new one should do the trick for just about any monitor size. What do you think? http://imgur.com/pCF1l?full

Thanks for the feedback! We're still not at Good/Mint-caliber infographics, but we hope to get there: http://www.good.is/infographics
Funny, I had the exact same thing happen at a startup in the 90s - we had to pick someone up from the airport, we were late, so the CEO gave a couple of 22-year-olds the keys to her car to solve the problem.

If a CEO won't step up in that way to get the ball moving forward in a company, why should they expect their salaried employees to?
That sounds like a good plan. I hope Google is reading this :)
Sorry about that. IMGUR saves the day. http://imgur.com/pCF1l?full
This is completely and utterly asinine. Not only does this inappropriate use cause a hostile environment for people that legitimately want to use the library, but it lowers the number of available workstations for legitimate use. Just imagine your grandmother or little sister going down to the library to do some research and being uncomfortable in this environment. Think they are going to go back? No, of course they won't. But they will continue to pay tax to fund it. I don't understand how anybody could be 'OK' with this gross misuse of public funds.
Financing Your Startup without Bootstrapping, Incubation, or VC
Not so much so. Many cellular towers still use copper T1/DS3 uplinks but even if they are fed by fiber you're still paying for a committed level of bandwidth from a provider. Your circuit may have a 1Gbit/sec capacity but it can be provisioned at any speed. If the cellular provider was previously paying for 100Mbit/sec of bandwidth and now they need 300Mbit/sec that's an expense of scale.
This is rather along the lines of the idea of servant leadership that I've heard of, or some may call it "stepping up to the plate"

Just like startups have the myth of the sole person having the million dollar idea in the basement, leadership has the myth of all glamour and charisma.

In my first job, I had a boss named Lex. We were out doing a field test in Germany at an airfield. Of course, most of us were pretty busy doing this or that. Lex was overseeing things, but when he had nothing to do, he looked around for something to do, and was often seen with a broom cleaning up after us in the hanger.

The idea is that shit needed to get done, and if the rest of us were busy getting shit done, he would do support work to make sure the rest of us would be able to do our jobs, even if that support work wasn't glamourous.

In the end, I know he has the group's goals in mind as his intentions indicated through his actions of doing support work--anything to get things done--rather than for his own personal gain or ego. With that in mind, I'm more willing to follow with him at the helm.
I'm going to shoot you an email right now.
Yes, we'd like to add this in the future. We have had a number of requests for it.
I agree. For such a capital-intensive business, the airline industry is extremely competitive. Airlines operate on the slimmest of margins, which is why they have to be clever about how to extract value from their customers (commercials on takeoff, credit card offers in-flight, baggage fees).
There are so many articles like this that miss the root cause: a lack of competition. Why is there a lack of competition? Government granted monopolies and regulation.

We shouldn't have to trust companies to do what's in the best interest customers. We should be able to trust the market to bankrupt these companies.
Mint used a combination of paid search and SEO/blogging strategy to get their first couple thousand users.

Dave McClure and Noah Kagan worked on that for over a year while Aaron Patzer & Co. worked on the product.

Dave talks about that in this video (Skip to 30:40): http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262665259
Why does everyone assume that bloatware profits get passed down to the consumers? And how much money vendors get for this anyway? It might very well be a matter of several dollars per PC.
Did you read the article?

"One day, I walked by the kitchen and noticed it was a huge mess. So I washed the dishes."
I wouldn't, I would offer services or products to the companies doing the hosting. As for an advantage - there are none within a technological scope that haven't been used and without incurring large R&D costs, maybe seamless failover using conntrack would be new.
The idea is that you would have bits in the hardware dedicated to type checking and garbage collection. The example being, that in the assembly language/machine code, you may have a single arithmetic '+' operation.

Determining which hardware path to use to add two numbers would be done in the hardware itself. Check the type bits of the numbers and feed it into my ALU. Compare this to an x86 lisp, or compiled C, where 'type' of a 'number' is determined by the assembly code instruction that is used on it.

This isn't just a performance improvement, it is also an improvement in the safety of the dynamic language.

There are a lot of different things that you could do for garbage collection. You could have in-hardware reference counting, or 'dirty' and 'clean' (or color) bits, for a mark and sweep collector, or 'generational' bits for an ephemeral garbage collector.

The idea is that any time you take something out of software, and put it into specialized hardware, you should get a performance improvement.

This doesn't mean that the lisp on a chip would be faster than C on a comparable x86 chip, it means that the things that make lisp (and other functional languages) safer and easier to use would be supported in hardware-- therefore not slowing things down as noticeably.
You mean like this?

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I am. Post when where, and I'll be there.
exactly

ITT: mac4lifer loves mac

/not exactly breaking news
I would agree with working at library. But I haven't been able to overcome one notable issue:

Hours:
Saturday 10AM - 5PM
Sunday 12PM - 4PM

Saturday is a possibility but Sunday is a joke.
No, that's the correct behavior. list only incidentally returns a single character in ASCII strings -- it's not required to. You shouldn't be using list on raw unicode strings.

u'\U00010000'.encode('utf-8')

should produce the same result on every Python version.
Ingy used to have a blog post about all the different hassles he had with different people coping badly with the ö (passport, driving licence, Amazon account etc). He's killed his blog at least twice since then though, so I don't think it's currently available and I can't find it in archive.org

I don't know about the US, but I made a series of Freedom of Information requests in the UK to find the answer to exactly this issue there, and was somewhat surprised to find that (in Northern Ireland at least) supposedly any Unicode character is valid: http://nothing.tmtm.com/2008/11/irene-and-irene-and-%D0%B0%D...

Whether that extends to the snowman character and the like is still an open question...
Great site, though things are running a little sluggish for me. The homepage took a good ~30 second to load for me.
What Java got right
Hello, I'm the author of this blog post, and we shared a case study of our business at a recent LeanCoffeeTO meetup. I'd like to share our alternative business model with the HN community.

The partnership model is based on a healthy relationship between an established offline company, and a hungry software company.

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Some are competing on quality (Panasonic Toughbook is an example.)

Some even try to compete on product design (HP Envy?), but they fail to match up to the attention to detail that Apple is known for. My guess is that they have outsourced most of the process to their suppliers, which means that they have less of an influence on the design details. Apple spends a huge amount to keep an in-house design team that not only does the superficial design, but also the layout of components, figuring out which materials to use and how to use them, etc. From the film Objectified: http://vimeo.com/7827217

For instance, all PC laptops have a big external power supply with long cables with some kind of velcro strip on order to tidy the cables It's been like this for 20 years. Apple probably uses the same internal components in their power supplies, but they've designed one with a nice magnetic connector, a detachable power cable and nice "hooks" for winding the cable. They've had this design for at least 10 years. This is probably not a deciding factor when people buy a laptop, but it's a nice design detail that Apple decided to spend the money on developing, whereas other laptop manufacturers never thought about it. Or, more likely, a lot of designers have thought about it and has have had their ideas axed by the business CEOs.
You must have stopped reading.
I was looking through the public projects and think a language filter would be great. Currently it just shows pages and pages of projects that I'd have to navigate.

I think it could be a nice and different way to learn new code instead of using github or other sources to look through code.
We're using Drupal, and from what I understand the password is md5 encrypted before it is saved into the database. However it sends you a one time email of the password before encryption. This is so that you have a local copy of your password.
"In my opinion, the easiest way to command respect is to not think about commanding respect. If there's a problem, just solve it, and your peers and subordinates will respect you an order of magnitude more than if you just tried to motivate them with some "problem-solving" Power Point slides."

It depends on the size of the organization you're in. Sad and irrational as it may seem, people are basically just monkeys, and we react most strongly to shiny, noisy things (which is part of the reason our society seems to tolerate 'social media experts' and celebrate certain bloggers...but I digress.) If there's too much background noise, it's hard to earn respect if you're quiet and industrious. Take a close look at any big company (including "engineering driven" companies), and you'll find that the upper echelons of the organization are dominated by people who ruthlessly self-promote. Don't misunderstand: at the good companies, those folks also "do the dishes" -- they're just very strategic about the timing and promotion of their dish-washing initiatives.

The problem with being the Guy Who Quietly Gets Things Done is that if you do your job too well, you don't get noticed. If you don't get noticed, you don't get rewarded, even if you're doing a kick-ass job. It's usually easier to get noticed for being quiet and reliable in a small group of people, but once you've got more than a few monkeys in the cage, it gets very noisy and it's hard to stand out, even amongst your small group of peers.