skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As Typhoon pointed out, for those devices Apple apparently have made the (reasonable IMHO) assumption that most people will be ready to upgrade to a new model by the time the battery would need to be changed, and so could use a sleeker one-piece design rather than one with an ugly battery door. For those that don't want to upgrade, it's possible to change the battery, just not convenient.
It's not that bad: http://getsatisfaction.com/ycombinator

Seems pretty upfront to me. It used to be worse but 37signals called them out publicly a while ago and there was a whole big thing.

Now they are essentially competing honestly with the customer support of other companies. This is aggressive but I'm not sure I could call it unfair.
Considering how massively pre-alpha the software undoubtedly is, I'm not about to leap to conclusions.
He was genius
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Hates capitalists? This city was built on gold and the resulting necessary banking infrastructure. It's the financial center of the west coast!
The one thing I learned from this - there is a new ruby tag in HTML5 (not related to the lang): Ruby (also spelt rubi) characters are small, annotative glosses that can be placed above or to the right of a Chinese character when writing logographic languages such as Chinese or Japanese to show the pronunciation. Ruby annotations, are usually used as a pronunciation guide for relatively obscure characters.
Oh come on, if it's interesting, and somewhat relates, I don't see how it's not acceptable for this to be on HN.
Apparently enough people found it interesting enough to upvote. Vote up the articles you find interesting.
Did you file a bug report?

http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/bugs/
10 Reasons You Need to Quit Your Job
There can be good reasons why an IT organization has not installed development tools.

MacPorts is the deep end of the (support) pool for somebody that can't (also) install Xcode.

MacPorts is a good way for a non-admin or inexperienced user to get themselves seriously tangled with PATH, or with unexpected tool skews and the odd-ball errors. (And this is ignoring how much replication arises within what's installed by Apple and with what's also installed by MacPorts, bypassing what's installed by Apple.)

But if you really want to try a C compiler download for Mac OS X (or other boxes) that doesn't involve downloading and installing Xcode, have a look here:

http://llvm.org/releases/download.html
It could be a scam, in theory. But this is also roughly how you'd expect a legitimate company to behave. They have a system that uses some cheap heuristics to guess whether or not you're a scam--and they do that for free. To actually investigate gray areas, they need human intervention, and that comes at a cost.

This is how, e.g., the legal system works. If you're accused of a crime, you can cheaply plead out or expensively defend yourself. It's also how customer service works: they can deal with ~95% of the problems people encounter by reading off a script, and they have to escalate the last 5%, sometimes at a cost.
Anarchy for the UK. Ish.
Not that pleasurable to read on a netbook.
Or an oil refinery, people in the area close to the La Teja oil refinery here in Uruguay have significantly increased cases of mercury poisoning and child underdevelopment.

And here in Uruguay, the current way to supplement the already exhausted hydroelectric power is burning oil - I'm advocating a nuclear power plant to get us out of our current energy crisis (and I would have it in my backyard if needed)
What about applications like Firefox 4 that don't require full-blown menu bars? What about applications that want to try out alternative user interfaces (ribbon etc)? What about multi-monitor setups? What about high-resolution (1080p or higher) monitor setups? What about high-res multi-monitor setups, where you might have to move the mouse over 4000 pixels to get to the menu you're looking for?
Withdrawing from Hacker News
I would really like to know why is this posted here.
However, there is ever-present threat to the interests abroad of American individuals and companies.
Interestingly, a large chunk of the traffic comes from SF and the Bay Area. That leads me to believe that Quora is to a large extent a Bay Area echo-chamber.
If you don't take care of stuff, it won't take care of you. I do work with people who must torture their stuff - every cable is kinked or bent in some way, or fraying at the end. Some of this might be faulty cables - I've had a Dr. Bott ADC to DVI cable just fall apart after 3 insertions - but on the whole I tend to think it's how people treat their stuff.

On an Apple square supply for the lead to the computer rather than pulling it at an angle straight to the winding clips, you put a small loop in the wire right where it exits the block, then wrap it around. No stress on where it exits the block - I've had the same one in my bag for 4 years now. I've seen people who just yank that sucker in one direction as hard as they can then wrap it around, and yes, that will cause the wire to break there...

Also, it's worth buying an extra power supply as backup. Apple has kept compatibility with most things - the original 85W supply used from the first MacBook Pro will still work with the newest unit today.
Ask HN: How to network effectively at conferences?
I'm going to a conference next week with the intention of generating possible leads for freelance work and meeting potential co-founders.

Has anyone any advice on how to best go about this? I'm looking for good networking tips.
Oh the irony... I get a popover for SecurityWeek's "Free Subscription!" email briefing.
You're right.

The mobile web/iphone didn't really exist in 2006 when this was written.
Every manufacturer of consumer electronics is like that. The explanation is simple and not evil: Moore's law. It just makes no sense to sell products with last year's technology. That doesn't mean that the old products become automatically obsolete.

My 2007 MBP still works. My 2004 iPod mini still works. My parents' 2008 Compaq laptop still works.
Saying "Hello" to people works well.
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The issue at Fukushima isn't criticality, though. All the reactors were safely shut down seconds after the earthquake hit, and no new fission has occurred since then.

The problem is that even a shut-down reactor core generates significant heat due to the decay of fission by-products, and that's what caused the problems.

That said, there are other reactor designs which are more inherently safe.
I'm thinking of the rent control, the seemingly extreme (compared to anywhere else I've experienced) adversity toward any kind of building or redevelopment, the ongoing Twitter dustup, and so forth.
Very nice! Runs perfect in Chrome Canary (Chrome 12).

Incredible work - thanks for the source

EDIT: For anyone interested, Hakim created a RSS feed for his site about 5 minutes ago: http://hakim.se/rss.xml
Yea, you're right. There's no place for humor in the startup culture. </sarcasm>
That's not exactly helpful. I wouldn't have expected that kind of sarcasm on Hacker News. There is an art and science to networking effectively and the point of my question was to tap into the collective knowledge of this forum for help.
Sounds to me like you are discriminating against people who prefer to express themselves in non-standard ways. Bet you wouldn't have had any trouble with this submission if it was a blog post expressing the same sentiment.
Yes, they made it very easy to work with touch and small screen devices but I don't see where it limits a full-desktop-experience. Example?
One thing that threw me off in Unity was the lack of a hierarchical menu for launching applications. Is there someway to create a button that shows the hierarchical menu? btw this isnt a criticism of unity, just me trying to pick the brains of a power unity user.
I really don't know much about this stuff. Why is that orb not round at all? Is the earth really like that? When you look at earth from space, it looks nothing like that.

Edit: I understand mountains and things make it not round, but the perspective of the image makes it look like it's be from space as well. So I guess that's what I'm trying to compare it too
Can anyone using the beta tell me whether:

* I can still do focus-follows-mouse if I hack around with the settings?

* If it has a 'workspace manager' thing that lets you have multiple workspaces?

Without those, no way, no how. Other stuff I can probably get used to.
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Use CCSM to config; or use the command "about:config" in alt-f2 dialog.

Missing drag-and-drop between windows? What are you talking about?
I'm addicted to HN. One little gripe ... can you have the links from the news list open into new tabs or windows? Makes it easy to return to the HN menu. Thanks!!!
At least on alpha3, selecting the classic desktop results in broken themes. Gnome suddenly reverts to looking completely unskinned and like it did 10 years ago.
If anyone wants to follow my writings I intend to post them here:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ColinsBlog.html?HN

There's nothing there yet, and I won't be posting every day.
The International Declaration of Human Rights establishes secrecy of correspondence as a basic human right (article 12). It is echoed in the constitutions of many countries.

Shallow packet analysis is akin to reading the address of a letter in physical mail. It does not violate the secrecy of the message. When you sign up for an ISP or create a GMail account, you allow the company to inspect your correspondence and they assure you they will keep it secret under the terms of the law. The agreement is binding. You can sue if your communication is arbitrarily violated.

The content of packages might be subject to customs and taxation. Goods are not correspondence (from the p.o.v. of those laws).

Of course, laws are written taking good faith as a premise...
and Linux and the BSDs technically aren't.
Commentary on Microsoft's stand that Tablets are a passing fad
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Multiple workspaces - yes it does have multiple workspaces and devilspie continues to work in Natty.
Dont know about focus follows mouse.
"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

Ronald Reagan
Whether or not I'm a gay hermaphrodite, I was responding to a post about advice to young people, and saying what I wish I knew as a young person was relevant.

In my case, this would have been to ignore pretentious fuckwads who say how difficult life is. It's easy. The hard part (for me, not necessarily you) is impressing women, and it's also the single largest thing affecting long term happiness. Perhaps there are some young people (not all) who would benefit from hearing this, because you don't hear it very much.
One thing I wish for is that they would show the Unity panel if I move the mouse past the left edge of the screen.
What sentiment? It's a joke at Microsoft's expense. There is no "point" being made other than someone expressing their dislike of Microsoft in a snarky webcomic.
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If you don't like it, you can always ask your money back ;-)

Now, seriously, one can run Natty with standard Gnome for as long as it takes for Unity to get refined to one's taste. This is a non-issue. And, weren't that enough, like you pointed out, the next release is six months away.
> France also has a shrinking population, where the US is still growing - last I looked.

Remark: France has a growing population, and one of the highest birth rate in Europe.
There are millions of places I can go on the internet for poorly written jokes. I don't need HN to start supplying me with lolcats.
"Interface was dumbed down.."

That is a good thing. I use my computer to use websites, write code, watch videos; Those things should be more visible not the OS chrome. OS UI should be as minimal and simple as possible.
how those former startup companies have been and will be evolving is part of the story.
comics cant be interesting unless it really sees the point.
I agree. I think the article speaks to the founder and his/her vision and intent rather than the product.

Sometimes the planted flag is much different from the fully implemented product.
I never noticed how fast my GPU was until I crashed the theme engine by accidentally xkilling the bottom panel.

And I don't think it looks that bad.
For those who are unaware, Francis Fukuyama is the Hegelian who said at the end of the Cold War that we have reached the end of history. I think it's one of the most provocative and misunderstood statements of the past 20 years.
Wow, I've got to say I'm a bit shocked.

Thanks for all you've done around here, not the least your role as a kind of "institutional memory" when it comes to dupes and previous discussions.

Best of luck to you further.
These ribbons look to be the same thing that exists in MS outlook. I must say that I think the outlook UI is messy. Way too much going on. If I used it more I would spend more time to learn the shortcuts. Since I don't know them I have to hunt through the numerous icons/options in the 'ribbon' like header which can be very frustrating.
I've been using the 11.04 beta for a day or so, and it seems ok to me. Sure, it's not exactly the same as Gnome 2.x, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's worse. I never used panel applets much anyway, and like the keyboard shortcuts and the universal menu bar. So far I havn't found anything which I thought was really irritating or stopping me from working.
I didn't like that page. Thought the text was too big.
I remember there was about the same whining last time about the "wrong" placement of the window controls. How old this seems now :)
Great article Joel. It is hard to get into that way of thinking when you're being a perfectionist over things, but you're right. Getting validation early and often will drive your featureset and refinements going forward.
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Yeah, sort of like the way they threw out their old smartphone OS and started from scratch with WP7. I suspect this would be heresy for their main OS, sadly.

EDIT: typo
Catchy name.

I believe the Unity shell will generate that kind of buzz. Programmers (and any Linux distro is geared towards them) are notoriously averse to change and get really attached to their tools.

I only hope the new shell makes sense on multiple 30" monitors, because I don't really like using the built-notebook screen unless I am out of the office (and not on my desk at home) and OSX is weird when you have your document on monitor C and its menu on monitor A...
I expect that the new interface will divide opinion. If you remember what a kerfuffle there was over moving the close button from right to left then this is a much bigger change.
It seems to me like Nuclear is the safest form of energy in the short term - very few people die per gigawatt hour, if you will. But in the long term I'm still not entirely convinced - we've only had nuclear power for a few decades, but the waste is going to stick around for a lot longer than that, so calling it "safe" on the basis of a very small amount of data relative to the whole time we'll be affected by them seems...premature.

That said, we could solve a lot of the problems - and even get rid of existing waste - by switching to newer reactor designs that are, among other things, much safer.

Fat chance of that happening, at least in this country. We're just to firmly wed to what is essentially a generation of outdated reactor designs.
Takes a lot of guts for a company to say "Pay us so that you can eventually work here." And it's such a tough time for young folks these days that they essentially need to take the deal or run the risk of not finding employment after college.
Related (from 2008):

http://www.wilsonminer.com/posts/2008/oct/20/relative-readab...
>The rate of people who would visit your new product and then immediately leave would be high. Generally, this is called bounce rate.

Would that be a bad thing? Even those that left would then know that your site existed, which isn't without value.

As far as names matching a character in a movie, I think it would be very difficult to make a suit out of this. If anything, you could then change your name slightly, and get some press about it.
I might be hitting a bug then on the nouveau drivers. because I am getting completely unthemed gtk which looks a lot like Tk.
I also use server density and have been happy with them. iPhone push notifications are nice. Integrates with pager duty.
It seems like the author of the piece points to a frayed connector and says "see! Their products aren't durable!" Jumping to conclusions, in other words.

That said I am on my second Macbook, and I do notice they don't seem to take punishment quite as gracefully as other laptops...
Maybe. Probably. But after being here for 2 1/2 years, and getting in the top 20 on the leader board, and having replied to so many people, I thought it courteous to let them know.
Thanks for the comment. I am the OP. It's true that both consulting and angel money will distract you front building the product. One key difference, though, is that getting a $20k invoice paid for work done is much easier than convincing an angel to give you $20k for an idea.

As many have pointed out, though I did consulting work, I never let it "take over" (well, at least not for more than a couple weeks at a time). However, I have seen the angel fundraising process "take over" the life of a startup for a few months, and often with a $0 eventual outcome.
who are these people? Marcel Broodthaers and Edward Said appeared incredibly smart in those chat logs. And Ronald Reagan? would it be politically incorrect to say that he sounded like a close-minded, conservative, ignorant prick? how this guy ever became a president? I wonder...
- query-able versioned filesystem (whatever happened to winfs?)
- built-in appstore a-la osx (which would be huge for startups aiming at desktop development, freeing them from the piracy issues)
"Live to fight another day" -- so important. I noticed that the more time went on with Parse.ly, the more important the individual fights became. If we had died prematurely, we would have missed out on the ability to participate in the fights that actually mattered.
A poster child for the Innovator's Dilemma of how traditional management excellence kills disruptive innovation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology
That's odd since the iA site has media queries to account for other resolutions and devices. Is it because the fonts are too big to you? Just curious.
If I'm not mistaken, this might very well be the first recorded instance of internet trolling!!

MARCEL BROODTHAERS
It should be encouraged to be freely available.

RONALD REAGAN
Marcel nothing is free you know.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS
I know Ronald. I know. We have your great nation to thank for this.

RONALD REAGAN
Yes Marcel I do believe you have much to thank this great nation for. Indeed.

RONALD REAGAN
America is great nation.

RONALD REAGAN
I can think of no other nation that has contributed as much to ideas of democracy and free enterprise as my own.
Isn't so much of this a matter of taste that would vary depending upon the audience and the subject matter?

Aesthetics are not absolutes, and they evolve.

EDIT: Why would this be downvoted? It's an honest question.
There are Wikipedia articles dedicated to them. Marcel was Belgian while Edward was Palestinian-American.
SpreadShirt, Zazzle and CafePress, all allow you to print t-shirts without keeping inventory. The profit margin is not large, but it is still good, considering you just have to focus on the design only.

You have to consider the materials of the t-shirts used, seems like most of the folks like t-shirts printed using American Apparel t-shirts.
He can say what he wants, is the thing. When you reply to a "why didn't you take the job with us?" feedback request, you can be as succinct/diplomatic as you think is appropriate. The OP did the same.
Windows 7 taskbar is certainly inspired by the dock, but it's also an improvement upon it. The context menu that each pinned item has is awesome.

The implementation of Libraries is awesome. No longer have to give a shit about where my docs or music or anything else is. It's like the gmail change from folders to tags. And it's super easy to make new libraries. I can create libraries for individual projects with code, specs, business documents, etc.

Before I had an SSD, readyboost was great. Unlike the Vista version it actually worked.

There is no longer a stability argument to be made. I've run Win7 since last april and I've had one blue screen since then. My system is often running 20, 30 days and I only restart because I've got several weeks of aggregated updates that I want to install.

The way Microsoft uses Virtual PC actually shows they have found the VM religion. I can install a program to run in "XP Mode" and create shortcuts to it, etc, as I normally would to any other program,. but it of course runs in an XP VM seamlessly. This is exciting for what it means going forward for the OS.

The "Homegroup" networking feature is great, i dont' use it myself but set it up at my dads house. His 4 PCs in the house were networking as easily as I've, in the past, setup a similar network in OSX.

It's just FAST.

Powershell is great. I don't use my OS for much: all my development is in Vbox VMs but when I do need to interact with Windows, Powershell is legit. Here's a 1 line reason why: You know how you can easily pipe output in bash from one app to the next? In powershell you can pipe actual objects, not just stdout output.

The way it handles cameras, printers, etc, that I plug in. Awesoem standardized control panel for these kind of devices instead of the old hodgepodge of whatever driver it had.

But mostly, once again, the taskbar. It turns out, when you develop in Vbox, the biggest interaction i have with my hostOS is the taskbar. The way it handles pinning, stacking, the aforementioned context menu, the way the notification area actually works now and I dont' get BS annoying "balloons" (oh god I hated balloons...)

Anyway, in good faith, those are the things that come to mind when I say I love Windows 7.
But, assuming we've been talking about before tax incomes, the mechanism by which you pay for your health care doesn't matter for the purposes of this discussion, does it? I.e. the U.K. has higher individual tax rates in part to cover the NHS's expenses.

That said, the U.K. spends a lot less as a percentage of GDP on health care, but then they have a substantially lower per capita GDP.

ADDED: off the top of my head, U.K. health care spending is 6-7% of GDP, US is 17%.
"Menlo College, a business-focused college in northern California, [...] sold credits to a business called Dream Careers. Menlo grossed $50,000 from the arrangement in 2008, while Dream Careers sold Menlo-accredited internships for as much as $9,500."

I hadn't heard about this before, but it's an interesting model. Perhaps some day we'll literally be able to trade academic credits like commodities.
RiderofGiraffes has been an awesome, insightful contributor here for years. I've learned a ton from his comments, and he's always been helpful and cool to anyone who asks his perspective on something.

Everyone in the community should really think twice before upvoting snarky crap like this. ROG has made three years of awesome contributions here, whereas this is krambs's fourth comment and he's contributed nothing to the community.

Yeah, we don't want too much meta and we wouldn't want to see tons of these announcements, but when a longtime contributor explains why they're leaving, what they're interested in, and how to get in touch with them - that's cool and snarky sarcastic jerkiness in response is not. Everyone think twice before you upvote mean-spirited comments, please.

ROG - godspeed and much prosperity. Drop a line if I can ever lend a hand with anything.