skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's where I would reply.

Unfortunately I'm not surprised it died. It's better thought out than the original Usenet posting, but less controversial.
27-30 and 30-35 are overlapping bins.
Meltdown alert at Fukushima reactor (radiation detected 100 miles away)
Oh boy!

That means the monthly pay only is only 11 days- 19.8microseconds away.
As I said, most information in the article is plain wrong.
Starting with the 3rd compartment, over the type of nuclear material used to the safety measures of the company that owns the plant, etc.

Would you believe me, when I told you, "Disregard regular tech news, just listen to what Steve Jobs and Gruber tell you about Apple?"
> and perhaps pivot into a different product, one that people are actually willing to pay for.

Or of course pivot into a different market.

I think the hardest lesson to learn is that different people can value the same thing differently. The value of a product isn't just a product, but with respect to a user. It's not just the observed, but also the observer. You cannot evaluate it as a tuple of its qualities (particular features, price etc). You have to weigh each quality by the user's valuation it.
And different users value them differently.
It's seeming to me more and more that this summarises the entire startup problem.

As a developer, you have a clear idea of what features you want to add, how difficult they will be, how general they will be, and how cool they will be. You're not even evaluating it as a user, but as a creator. It's the difference between a novel that was interesting to write, and one that's interesting to read.

But even if you do manage to shift your perspective to being a user, you'll still only have one user's perspective. In fact, there isn't "a user", but a whole world of different situations, tasks, skills, equipment, knowledge and values - each of which counts as "a user", who will evaluate the qualities of the product different. e.g. for some users, a higher price makes it more valuable.

This is an incredibly obvious point, but it's one that I have to be constantly reminded of. Perhaps because the more deeply immersed I am in my work, the less evidence I have of other viewpoints (I can't see them, at best they're imaginary) so it's easy to not think about them. Or maybe I'm just excessively egocentric and solipsistic.

Different strokes for different folks. What might be right for you might not be right for someone else.

One solution is to imagine your ideal user (who'd love what you want to make anyway - whether they exist or not), and keep evaluating your product in terms of that person - including marketing. Users who are similar to that person will tend to fit themselves into the image. Guy Kawasaki (early Apple guy) talks about this. And that's what's happening in ThomPete's intriguing two examples.
OTR support in Empathy
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5 Reasons to Not Worry about the Nuclear Reactors in Japan
While I'm not really calmed by the original article ("my father has nuclear experience"), I'd suggest that it may be just a case of them not being really needed in the area, and moving just in case.
how about just turn on 'Gnome Do' by default?
I would go with UI improvement. I feel like linux has always been "ugly" visually.. even from its first years with red/blue dialog in console. Linux hackers just seem not to care about UI as much as designer would.

Without being harsh, when someone used with Windows or Mac look at Ubuntu, it always look a little "goofy" or "quickly done". Of course, they don't know the beauty of unix, how files are the main part and so important or how configurable everything is. The only thing they see is "A weird kind of Windows that isn't as pretty".

But then, who is your main target audience? Are you trying to make windows/mac newbies switch to Ubuntu? I say that because, if it was only for me, I'd say the best thing you could "add" to ubuntu is to remove all the extra stuff and keep in minimalist. (Warning: I use archlinux with fluxbox). I guess it all depends of your audience. But if I get it right and I'm not really your target audience, working on the UI would be the next big thing.
> Related: http://shoesrb.com/ needs some love.

I think the new home is http://hackety-hack.com/
But git will let you do a diff to see if someone made manual changes.
Hahah nice joke. Thx.
I know someone who owned a ton of different houses. Let's say they bought 20 of them for $500k each on avg and put $80k down as deposits.

Once the recession hit, the market value of these homes dropped like crazy. Instead of being worth $500k each, they were valued at $300k. This meant that the loan on the homes were more than the market value of the homes and apparently there was a clause in the bank contract that allows them to call the entire amount of the loan if the loan amount is more than the market value of the house.

That is exactly what they did, which seems crazy to me as he had really good tenants in each of the homes and they all
continued paying on time so he was actually making ALL his payments on time for all houses.

This is one way that a bank could forclose on a house even if non-payment isn't an issue. Contract details are crucial.
Indeed, I forgot that one. Then I can't explain why Ubuntu feels wrong. Its like I pressed Ctrl + Option + Cmd + 8 on OSX.
I don't hear many people gripe about these issues, but I have two complaints:

1.) There is no way to mute / lower the volume from the login screen. This means that if I'm in a setting where I don't want to make noise (e.g. in a library, in a meeting, in a class) and boot up, there's absolutely no way for me to prevent my laptop from playing the wonderful startup .wav file. I have to log in before I get any sort of volume control. (My laptop doesn't have a hardware volume dial.) Granted, at this point I have it disabled, but it'd still be nice to have.

2.) When I've booted up, the first thing I do is open all the programs I'm planning to use on different desktops. (I love multiple desktops.) The trouble for me is, the windows all open on whatever desktop I happen to be looking at at the moment. I would greatly prefer that they open on the desktop I was looking at when I started them. That would let me start at desktop 1, open Firefox/Chromium, switch to 2, open an IDE, switch to 3, open Gimp, switch back to 1 and start web surfing. Instead I have to wait for the program to finish initializing before moving to the next step to ensure that it's on the right desktop. Or I have to right-click-move-to-desktop each window after the fact.

I'm a big Ubuntu fan, I've been using it regularly since Dapper Drake. It's really come a long way! Keep up the great work.
"Java-but-less-painful" makes every bit as much sense as "gently gouging out an eye" ;-)
A tool that lets me easily change the key mappings would be great. Swapping ctrl and capslock is really handy (and Esc with ` or ~), however I've found it difficult to change in the past.
Introducing Flea - A tiny Lisp written in Ruby
I'd use Jython or Clojure (or JRuby). Or start considering an afterlife or prosthetics.
AT&T offers free calls to Japan
I don't think this will directly lead to that happening. Assuming 1.8µs/day, then it will take about 1/(365.25*1.8e-6) ≈ 1500 years for a 1 second difference to accumulate. I believe the effects of terrestrial bodies have a much larger effect.
let me guess, you're 30 years old :)
woah, thats awesome!

I wonder if it'll paint over magnetic paint
Don't waste your time commenting source code
Startup Lessons
The last one had 21-25 group hidden, only those who had showdead on could vote it...
Stimulating Startups
One thing that would increcea the overall experience for me would be the possibility to tag a post with a small set of simple tags(like Programming, Startup, Other etc) and on my memberpage be able to specify what tags are relevant to me and enabling /mytags to only show post with the appropriate tags.
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No, it doesn't have to be. The natural reaction to any nuclear threat is to over-react :)
#PrayForChildren EarthQuake Japan
I need to see the execution before answering that question. So, maybe?
Radioactivity detected 60 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
having one pixel in which to get a resize going is the biggest pain in the ass on my netbook.
100 micro-sieverts is approximately equal to the radioactive exposure you'd get from one trip between Japan and Chicago.
Another Inside Job
As an Ubuntu user since day one I don't like the way the distro is going. As some other users said before, the UI is not that great and lately I've seen ridiculous 'fixes' for bad decisions. For example: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/46...

This is seen as a feature, it's basically a top right growl style notification bubble, but they added an 100px top offset so it wouldn't interfere with other applications. Why? Because the user can not click the notifications away, they have a delay and waiting is the only way to remove those bubbles. This has to be one of the worst decisions ever. Look at growl/OSX, it works. In this case it's fine to copy a feature and not try to be different.

Another thing I absolutely don't understand is all the media/audio frameworks there have been since 4.10 (not really an Ubuntu only problem), why not stick with one that just works? IMHO, Ubuntu should experiment all they want with unity, notify-osd, placing window buttons to the left, ... but please, just provide a basic install option that just works without all the fancy new stuff (that is probably thrown out soon anyway because something else comes up).

Just make it work. Steve Jobs seems to be able to impose decisions on a large group of people, but he also seems to have thought about most things really really well. Lately Ubuntu seems to adopt everything as long as it doesn't look like something everybody else has.

Sorry if I'm ranting, but as an Ubuntu lover the last few years have been a serious disappointment.
I work on criminal cases, so have a slightly different perspective to bradleyland.

> Did you ever come across any exotic filesystems that EnCase can't read, like XFS?

I've come across something "obscure" only once or twice (in several hundred cases). The bottom line is that most computer crime isn't conducted by technically adept people, but by normal people. i.e. Windows is by far the most common system, with Mac a distant (thought growing) second :)

> Did this ever lock you out of any machines configured to use Whole Disk Encryption or out of encrypted, mounted volumes? You could have dumped the keys out of ram, etc.

There are all sorts of ways (as bradleyland explained) to get around this issue. The problem is that most material is siezed by a normal police officer - so there is simply no way you can let them do a live acquisition :D (or indeed no way they would know they had to).

But there are all manner of ways to figure out, or sometimes crack, the encryption key and away you go :)

The times I've come across WDE I've managed to get round it fairly quickly, mostly due to "user error".
It's also worth noting that while they couldn't track down the lien, they probably didn't screw up and foreclose on anyone who didn't deserve to be foreclosed upon.

At least, that's what the Fed's audit (of a sample of foreclosures, not all foreclosures in the US, obviously) said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/10/fed-reports-finds-n...

The bondholders are the real victims in this mess.
Window Snapping: with options to snap inside or outside of monitors in a multiple monitor setup, ie, snap to the side of a screen of 1 monitor, or snap to the side of an entire desktop.
Was a great article until I clicked on the Libya link at the top and it took me to Justin Bieber. Just glad nobody walked into my office at that time.
using WinSCP to access your Ubuntu box via ssh from Windows should be an easier option.
How to Start a Startup [let's read it one more time]
Legendary article from Paul Graham.
Not to be a jerk swombat, but who are you? What are your credentials?

I want to read advice from people with real world success. You may very well be successful already, so state it. I'll buy into what you're saying a lot more.

P.S. This is not a personal attack. If it comes off that way, it's my fault and failing.
Ways to Compete Online Effectively
"Never trust anyone over or under or exactly thirty."
I've been using Ubuntu for the past 4 years. It just works.

Thank you
How to write a "Hello World" Safari Extension in Windows
We’re going to build a simple Safari extension that will insert a bolded, italicized, Hello World text into the web-page of the current tab after it is loaded.
This could be really interesting for people working with digital art installations (using old PCs and monitors/TVs).

A shame that its not likely to work with the wooden 'mirror' though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSbk9JDwPY
I imagine that it would.
Legendary article from Paul Graham
UK’s Best Bean Bags and brands
Pulseaudio is so horribly broken for me (Toshiba nb305 and HP dv6000 laptops)
48 hours in Munich as Backpacker
Twitter move inspires more user-centric thinking
Why do you hate them?

Competitors can be detrimental to your business, in the sense that they take customers away from you, but they can also be a source of inspiration. If your competition is doing better than you, perhaps you could look at what they do well and try to emulate them?

Simply hating them, you expend effort for no reward. Learn from your enemies, they may have a lot to teach you.
This is a bad article.

1.) He argues that the three mile island accident means that the containment vessel will hold now. Even if they were the exact same reactor design, that doesn't logically follow, but they aren't the same design which gives even less credence to this argument.

2.) He says that once the reactor is flooded with water they won't have to do any more pressure releases. Again, I don't see how that follows. As long as there is enough residual heat to boil water, there's certainly a possibility that they will have to do more pressure releases.
A Brief History of Blogging
Blogs have become an integral part of online culture. Practically everyone reads blogs now, whether they’re “official” news blogs associated with traditional news media, topic-based blogs related to one’s work or hobbies, or blogs purely for entertainment, just about anyone you ask has at least one favorite blog.
But it wasn’t always so. Blogs have a relatively short history, even when compared with the history of the Internet itself.
I created one because when people google your name it will return as the very first result. This makes it quite useful to have all of the information that you want to be found available first instead of the random posts from 5 years ago that no matter how hard you try will always float near the top of the results.
Most economical option is whiteboard decals which stick to the wall, and if you're crafty you can cut them to fit inside an oval-shaped picture frame or something like that. Removable and reusable, does not damage wall.

http://www.wallcandyarts.com/shop/category.cfm/whiteboard

All of this stuff is awesome though.
Ask HN: Keyword extraction library recommendations?
Hi - I need to do keyword extraction from substantial amounts of text (100s of dcouments, perhaps scaling to 1000s), and I know people have done this before so I'm keen to avoid re-inventing the wheel.

Any recommendations?
Haskell’s Niche: Hard Problems
He mentions Google Wave as “Jack of all trades, master of none,” and say that their application will focus on project management.
100% agree, it was very tempting at the start to _not_ charge for EventHQ but in the end I charged from day 1.

Downsides are that EHQ have grown more slowly than perhaps it might have done if we had not charged. This might also be an upside as fast growth brings its own issues, esp. if you don't have any revenue.

Upsides are that: (i) I had revenue (yay!) from day 1 and profits sometime thereafter; (ii) my customers are committed to EventHQ and have been very quick to feedback on areas where I can improve. This has sometimes been painful but has definitely helped guide/prioritise development.

Non-paying customers can provide feedback as well, but I tend to find customer's who are willing to pay are more thoughtful and willing with their feedback.
Good catch.

Here is a clickable link:

http://inboxseo.com/
I actually like the Preferences/Administration split.

For the most part, "preferences" describes stuff that is specific to my user (i.e. my personal preferences), whereas "administration" encompasses system-wide administrative tasks.

Obviously the split isn't perfect, as there are some things that fall into both categories, but in general I find that I look in the right place the first time, most of the time.
To help new users making the switch to Ubuntu you could work with OEM vendors to provide a Ubuntu + VirtualBox + Windows install. That way users can occasionally switch back to Windows, if they have to.
Hakers
Groovy++ is working on improving the performance: http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/
Work with OEM vendors to provide a kick ass Ubuntu tablet!
It's great to hear the inside story from someone that was there, and some great advice for anyone in a similar position.

I'm not (yet!) an entrepreneur, but I imagine I'd have done exactly the same in your situation.

I hope you made fortunes and good luck in your future endeavours.
Have you read this: http://swombat.com/about

In particular, have you checked out these:

* https://www.woobius.com/

* http://www.granttree.co.uk/

In short, did you try looking up who he is and what he does? Or did you just ask the question.

P.S. This is not a personal attack. If it comes off that way, it's my fault and failing.
Why we launched Sharescribe unexpectedly yesterday, Google Fear & Panic
This isn't very helpful in your specific problem, but typically servers don't have graphical capabilities. So much so, that I was a little baffled when I read that you VNC'ed into one. Instead your local toolchain interacts with the remote.

If I wanted to paste something in a file remotely, I'd open it in my local editor (which can ssh into remote machines). If I needed to transfer files back and forth, I'd use an FTP client (Filezilla works cross-platform).
* Fix multihead (>2 displays)
* consistent ui
* make the window resize area bigger. 1px is NOT enough
Looks useful! I thought the screencast was a bit slow-paced though, the project's homepage is concise and informative.

http://xrefresh.binaryage.com/
I'd like a sync thing so that my system settings (e.g. vimrc) and other things are easily replicated from machine to machine.

I tried Ubuntu One but for whatever reason I couldn't get it to work.
Someone is wrong on the internet
Job website build on Wordpress, what do you think?
What do you think about this website? It's build with Wordpress.
Okay, this is too much. Forcing people to make their profiles public so that Google could do their next failing social experiment on the top of them?

Google does not delete the emails I deleted, that's how much storage they've got, why would they delete my profile? Obviously not a storage issue. I mean WTF google, seriosly. You are becoming as evil as any other bigco could be.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...

Looks like nuclear is a huge win, even counting Chernobyl. Solar and Wind are also good power sources.
1.) Reactors aren't magic. They have very well defined properties. It's pretty easy to calculate if a containment vessel will hold. This type of engineering happens every day in every building you go in and every car you ride.

2.) The containment structure is quite large, and the residual heat is relatively low. There is a lot of water there, presumably too much for the residual heat to boil. (The water normally flows only in the much smaller reactor vessel.)
I would like to see a bit more resources directed at the Kubuntu project.
And people here downvote when you complain about it...
Looks like they learned their lesson from Google Buzz privacy fiasco. Instead of making them public by default they'll delete it.
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first acquisition for intel in the Arab world
Project is located in Sydney, Australia but they do free shipping within the USA only... I guess they're having it manufactured there?
You could try homebrew, which could be described as macports done right - http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
Is there any info about how many people were injured or killed from oil and gas fires?
This argument is old and tired. Programming languages are rarely sufficiently expressive as to document the nuances, guarantees, and expectations of a particular block of code in the code itself. Type systems can help here, but they alone are not sufficient.

An often stated rebuttal to the above is that the developer can comment the "complicated bits", and save time by skipping it the rest of the time. This is a flawed argument -- you don't know if you need to write a comment for a block of code until you've spent the time fully considering what needs to be commented ... which takes just as long as writing a comment.

This holds doubly true for APIs. Any time that your future API clients spend reading your source code instead of skimming your documentation is wasted time. Additionally, deriving guarantees and invariants from the source code does not make them true -- the invariants could be changed in the future, as there's nothing in the code to document what should be, instead of what currently is.

"Comments are unnecessary" is just an excuse for lazy developers to be lazy, and thus leverage externalities to reduce their upfront workload in exchange for increasing the workload and complexity for the programmers that follow them -- which may, in fact, be themselves.
Have you actually tried this with a couple of friends? I'd expect to be able to pick out who's who fairly quickly...

I do think it's a nice idea; but I would still be very careful saying anything serious on there.
For whatever it's worth, there probably does not exist a way to say "I don't know if you are important enough to heed" without coming off like a jerk. If you want to avoid that impression, it's probably best just not to say anything.
I have not seen notifications in 11.4, but the system in 10.10 seems silly to me, probably because I'm used to growl. I keep trying to reach to the notification to interact with the application calling for my attention and it just makes it disappear :/
from what I've seen in the people around me that 'made' it without a tremendous amount of luck or access to outside capital, starting from 0 with nothing to show for themselves but the shirts on their backs and their skills

Love the way Jacques removed the outliers Mark and Bill from the discussion in the very beginning. Every advise is well reasoned and articulated with precision.

Of course, in the middle of your journey you might find your own shortcut trail to being in the first road, till then keep trying. Keep Hacking!