skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that I really appreciate about Steve Jobs is his honesty in these matters.

He could have ventured on saying that the iPad is the next step that would have been very marketingish. Instead of speaking in certainties he treats his own products with a respect for reality and critical thinking.

Just imagine if more CEO's would actually participate in honest discussion about their products like this.
Linux desktop market share : %1,67 [Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...]

Just please stop fighting with Microsoft and make a good desktop computer os.

People will use Linux if it's good, not because Windows is bad.
Ug. Is that guy stuck in the early 90's? Hideous website!
Cool programme though.
Normal people are people you don't know very well.
It wasn't like they were showing the failure with the sounds and the proclaimed that the car doesn't work. From what I remember, Jeremy said that car has overheated and has reduced power (then they showed car stopping at the side of the track with the sound, which sounded very much like sound-over effect instead of make-believe real sound). At the time I thought that stopping because of overheating is normal and can happen to any car on the race track.

The "does not work" came later, near the end of the segment, and it was clearly stated, that the car does not work in the real life (because of the charging times), not that it doesn't work literally.
I'm reminded of Alan Kay talking in 1987[1] about GRAIL (Graphical Input Language) on the RAND Tablet, which he calls the first "data tablet":

"When I saw that, and used it for half an hour in 1968, I felt like I was sticking my hands right through the display and actually touching the information structures directly. This was the first system I'd ever used, and practically the only one since, that I've called truly intimate. It was this degree of intimacy that was so important in a user interface."

Interestingly he mentions that one of the reasons for the creation of the RAND Tablet was that their economists and other computer users complained that they couldn't type.

[1] http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987 Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols GRAIL part starts at about 23:40
I'd find cp much too unintuitive as an abbreviation for cherry-pick to use; less so but likewise with sh for stash.

I like the aliases at http://ruderich.org/simon/config/gitconfig
though I'd call "fsck --strict --full" fsf.

There was an SO qn: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/267761/what-does-your-git...
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Yeah. I understand why it is claimed to be bad. But in all my years of using it, I've never had a problem like that which you just described.
Read again the data I shared here: http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2011/04/01/sell-your-google-sto...

Facebook definitely works for me, despite the fact that my target audience is not particularly fan of Facebook (just like HN ;-)
Interesting. I've been using OpenVPN in this mode for years, without issue.
The intellectual contortions used to justify piracy continue to amuse. Unbelievable that this gibberish is at 10 points.
Uh! I forgot about ParisJS. :P
Interesting that this article is from 2006. Whats happened since then?
Ctrl+MousewheelUp is all I need
Yep, Linus sometimes complains about gcc too.
In the upper layer, wouldn't it be possible to just drop those retransmitted TCP packets again by the tunneling application?
"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win"

-Mahatma Gandhi
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Should be complemented by a brief hystory of Steve Ballmer tantrums:
http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/09/ballmer_throws_a_c...
http://www.gearfuse.com/ballmer-lashes-out-at-microsoft-empl...
How to connect employees, customers and suppliers in the cloud?
Nope, you've got it wrong. Here's the clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXfV2hw_2Xo&t=4m45s

The parts in question is between 04:45 to 07:45
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Trying to foster local JavaScript communities. Feedback welcome.
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I've had a sleep cycle alarm clock for a couple of years now (they've been available long before this WakeMate thing, and mine also collects sleep data, altough I guess the WakeMate interface is much nicer) and although it kinda works, don't expect to wake up refreshed if you're shortchanging yourself on sleep. If you're only getting 5 hours of sleep a night you're going to wake up tired no matter what.

Since most of the time I don't really have to get up at a specific time, I usually let myself be woken up by the sunlight, which is the most consistently effective way of waking up refreshed that I've found.
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They are saying that it is NOT for sale. They "might" have a contest because I have twittered and FB'd about wanting it. I have to have it. Hacker News please help me get one!
ChitChatRooms : how we earned our #GoogleIO ticket
Overwork is Bad For Entrepreneurs' Health and Business
Gap of about 20ms between compiled Linq2SQL and this looks enticing. I guess this can be used at hot spots with optimized SQL queries using existing LINQ2SQL entities.

Definitely not for everyone. The whole reason it exists perhaps is to kill SQL translation time and avoid dealing with data readers.

Kudos for making it OSS.

Also, Entity Framework takes about 800ms unoptimized. That is almost a second to execute a query. I can't begin to imagine what the performance of its solution would be in the hands of a new developer.

Edit: I misread about the EF performance. Sorry about that.
I'm pretty sure that in the beginning all cars were cars.
Luajit2 approaches C on speed [1] - and with the newly released FFI library the C is not really needed that much - so, pretty much all the work has been already done. Just use the results of it :)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=641313
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Disgusting that a post questioning Google gets voted down like this. Also you forgot where they made a big stink about China, claimed they were pulling out and.... didn't.
I guess normal people get bored with their "PC" quite easily.
Where have India's baby girls gone?
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Yes, will be putting the CSS on Github later in the day.
Are we sure this isn't the system working well?

Add a sketch of an article, someone else says if you don't have X,Y,Z it'll get deleted. People add X,Y,Z which only increases the usefulness of the article for any random reader.

The only step I missed out in the middle is people acting like martyrs and wasting energy they could be using to make the article better.
I'm pragmatic as well. What I find frustrating about this blatant Google fanboy-ism is that it is hypocritical on its face: any normal company thing they do gets trumpeted as "don't do evil! Weeeeee!" and every evil thing is defended with pragmatism.

They're just a big public tech company. They're no more good/evil than Apple, Microsoft or anyone else and it's really frustrating watching otherwise intelligent adults behaving as though they were somehow different.
Note that stylish has a repository too, so people can easily find it by site.

http://userstyles.org/styles/browse/all/news.ycombinator.com

So be sure to submit it there too, I will definitely try it.
Can someone please fix the typo in the title? It hurts!
Pretty awesome, I like it a lot. Well done :)
Control Windows 7 with Kinect's Simple Gestures [video]
Wow the comments on that article feels like being in a separate universe were everyone seems to find a crappy analogy that doesn't make any sense.
TCP minions is there to solve precisely this problem:

http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2009/tng/papers/pfldnet10-slides.pd...

TCP over TCP works well enough as soon as your packet loss is small enough to be within the fast retransmit. As soon as you have to timeout, all bets are off.
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Why open code is irrelevant to Android's success
If you're a fan boy then you're almost certainly neither enlightened nor correct.
Sure, and just because the x86 instruction set works for desktop PCs, it doesn't mean it works well for cellphones. Which was exactly my point: It will spread because of incentives, not because it's the "better" solution. And if another solution works well enough and is cheaper to implement, it will slow the adoption of IPv6.
I think it's really pretty! I'll be using it day to day, thanks!
A kind-of-follow-up is at H-news: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Why-I-was-wrong-about-... (same author)
No, EF is 800ms for 500 queries, not for 1 query. I've not seen EF overhead be a performance hotspot on projects I've been involved with.
What about out-of-the-office work applications? Storage rooms, hospitals, factories, delivery - everywhere you have to walk around with information instead of sitting by your desk.

I can imagine (I don't know if anyone actually tried this) a facility with many (company-owned) tablets that people exchange between themselves instead of paper reports and forms, much like PADDs in Star Trek.
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I like to scan comments by point values so it's easy to pick out good threads (shallow? maybe. effective? yes). Putting points next to the upvote arrow--and hence on the right side--seems like a better way to display them. It also helps frame the comments better.
It looks like it is using the Reflection Emit capabilities of .Net:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8ffc3x75.aspx
Ask HN: What was that Australian startup incubator/mentor site?
A few days ago I saw an item on HM about an Aussie startup website. Can't find it now - can anyone tell me what it was?
Could you share a screenshot? What OS, Browser?
Whoops HM = HN = Hacker News
From their pricing calculator it seems the deliver max 2k tweets per hour. Way less than your 6 million, and not that useful.
Radiation levels 7.5 million times legal limit found in seawater near reactor
I think the reference is to the HN submission title ("typogrpahy")
Game: Multitask - test your ability to mulitask
I don't know how many of the countries this reshipping service actually covers, but they don't ship to Russia, possibly to the whole ex-USSR. ("We currently do not ship to the country you chose" for Russian Federation, "No rate was found. Please contact our customer service." for Belarus and Ukraine)

I think one could use a better reshipping service: if you outsource reshipping anyway (and make your customers sign up for a separate, paid service at that), why not cover all countries as well?
The idea originated from a restriction that I wanted a particular styling on homepage with the source website link flushed right. On second thoughts I realised that this works way better for comments since the upvote should NOT have anything to do with current points or who posted a comment. Brings a fair setup IMHO.
Orchestra.io - PHP Platform as a service
Sorry. My mistake. :)
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2408755 by the same author.
There are lots of business that do exactly that. Give Small Giants a read, it's really quite interesting.

http://www.smallgiantsbook.com/
You cite only non-fiction reference material in your examples. I'd say that the book has more staying power in fiction. There's just something nice about reading a book to relax, curled up on your couch by the fireplace. That's different from opening a book to learn/check something you need for work.

The kindle and ipad do well enough to replace physical books for curling up by the fireplace, but the abstract concept of the book seems safe to me, for fictional pieces at least. Of course, none of us can really know until we get to the future. :)
Google or Amazon should offer to sponsor it and make the data accessible in their respective cloud computing platforms. There's tons of potential for data analysis / consultancy companies to work on this data and it's too big to process anywhere else.
http://www.startmate.com.au/
It's an extremely tough spot to be in if your significant other isn't the type who understands or is willing to put up with startup life (mostly the lack of time for each other). While it can work, often it doesn't.

I've been down this road quite a few times. To me, it really is more of a matter of asking is this person right for me if our lifestyle choices conflict. So in essense, the startup almost always win.
Exactly - I don't think having an iPad had changed the amount of time I spend sitting in front of a desktop PC or laptop. But it has changed how I watch video, read books and get my news over breakfast.
I did this on Linode:

http://library.linode.com/networking/openvpn/

Super easy to do even if you are a linux noob.
The link in the parent is really important. It shows that Microsoft has been successfully lobbying for new protectionist legislation that only really benefits them against organisations using open source in their supply chain.
Please fix typo in title (poweres).
How far can we stretch the notion of Web browsers and Web apps?
Since then Microsoft has abandoned it's server platform, and clearly Linux has won. Oh, no, wait....
Thank you for that, I'll give it a look.
"If I buy a book and read it, and then give you the book to read, I have broken no laws. Why is that not true for all media?" - Michael Moore
I like this a lot. Could we make it the default theme?
MongoDB Interactive Geospatial Tutorial
Congratulations, it's a really nice work.

I'd do just two small changes:

First, the comment's points are important and right now are hard to read/notice.

Second, I'm not a designer, but I've always heard you shouldn't use black typo on white background as it's a little bit to hard contrast, it's better to use a (very) dark grey on the type.
That is an awesome way to run a company. Of course, the nice thing about a software company online is there's never any closing time, but it would be nice to see a software company for once say, "this is big enough, I think we're good here."

Unless, of course, you start to earn a bad reputation for slow support times or bad customer service because your product is so popular, but I guess that is a good problem to have.

Thanks for sharing.
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That was quite a read. It is really unfair to make some one is US to pay because their vendor in offshore had an infringed copy of windows.
I just notice the vertical rhythm between paragraphs in comments is not constant, see: https://img.skitch.com/20110405-q2a81di6ew4gi1fcrckna6dwft.j... the 1st and 2nd line and much closer than the rest.

I'm using Chrome 10.0.6.648.204 on OS X.
Fizz buzz is very simple. It's easy to communicate, implement and test, there's nothing fiddly about it. It's the entry level indicator and requires no prior knowledge, other than the ability to turn a simple, stable specification into software.

If you can't do fizz buzz in your chosen language, then it's highly unlikely you can do anything more complicated.

It doesn't test your ability to do any kind of high-level design. It just tests whether you can program at all.

The ability to do high-level design is only important in one of these two situations:

1) The position you are hiring for only involves doing high-level design and not doing any programming.

or

2) The position does involve programming, and the person you are hiring is a competent enough programmer to do fizz buzz.
The author seems to really dislike Microsoft. He's obviously not alone, but it's a pity when the article is clouded with so much obvious bias.

For example, he complains about MS defending their patents, and sees this as a direct attach on Open Source. Other than the fact that Android is sort-of-open, there doesn't seem to be a relationship. As he points out the patent problem is the fault of the USPO, not MS. Yet still spends half the article on this topic. (To call MS out for patent litigation is completely absurd - the list of companies currently litigating over patents is really, really long.)

Exhibit B has to do with MS lobbying for favorable legislation. Again this is pretty much standard practice with large companies these days. Sure it's dumb legislation, but blame the politicians for failing their job, not the company for doing theirs. again the direct link to "attacking open source" seems weak.

So here you have a company indulging in activities that pretty much all the major players are doing these days. Patent protection and lobbying are not exactly MS invented tactics. Both exist because the legislative system allows for them.
I just download Chrome specifically to use this. It looks great! Thank you.
It's not that anyone in particular partaking in this system is evil. They all have to do it. It's the system itself that is evil.

I don't care who sues who. Software patents in general are an awful mess that should be abolished.
Unscientifically, posts with (almost) no comments are typically very technical (you need lots of background to comment intelligently); posts with tons of comments are typically very political or rant-y (because everyone is an expert on the US national debt.)

If this is not the answer you were looking for, clarify your question or do some analysis yourself.
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The grey color for a:visited is too light. I have to strain my eyes to see it.

edit: Also, the extra space in comment-headers is wonky. And even with my nitpicking, great job!
Exceptions don't prove rules, they disprove them.
I think it takes a bit more getting used to, but I do genuinely like it. Good job, I love the white space.
Developing a Embedded System
Hi Friends,
I am interested in developing some gadgets. Say Tablet PC, With less features like viewing PDF's, writing notes, Paint, Calculator... How do I start? I know for a beginner it is too hard. So where do I begin? From microcontrollers or can I directly start from things like beagle board or something. Aim of this total thing is to understand the lifecycle of a product development.
Yes, that is an issue I am looking to fix. Basically has got to do with HN markup being the ugliest thing I have seen. Tables all along with no classes and whatsoever. So targeting is a pain in the ass.

Will see if using pseudo class for first element helps me out.
I have tried to tweak the layout without any browser extensions. This will work on any browser but it's a 'lite version' so you can only use these to read HN. Have a look:

Non AJAX version: http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/noajax.aspx

AJAX version: http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/
Pandora files for IPO, reveals investigation of privacy breaches
From what I've read, it only applies to orgs that use pirated MS software, so where did you draw the conclusion about "using open source in their supply chain"?
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The bigger the home you own and the more furniture and belongings you have, the bigger the moving truck rental you require and ultimately, the more difficult the task of loading the truck rental.
Normally you would not want to see that. I do not want to see it atleast.

Also that makes the URLs work as an Inbox/Unread badge for me. With what I can see as the unread ones I need to read before the end of day.

Will tweak it a bit though. Also different screens with different color gamut make it troublesome in corner cases.

edit: The comments whitespace treatment is next in line on by issue list.
Sorry, can't. The editing is gone hours ago. Apologies for the typo.
There are situations where ideas seem obvious in retrospect, but completely out of left-field at the time of their conception. These ideas weren't even in the ballpark when Gelernter first started publishing them.

Unless you can demonstrate that the people who implemented the Apple products actually read a single line written by Gelernter, the grandparent's point stands.

Ideas aren't, or at least shouldn't be, worth jack squat. Apple did all the actual work here.
And the ability of seeing the bigger picture (I know it sounds enterprisey, but that's how I see it). I can still remember our 1st year Physics professor telling us, a class of nerdy CS kids, about how familiarity and a deeper understanding of the field you're writing your programs for is way more important than pointers, data structures etc.
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Good work. You might want to reduce the width since long lines are bad readability wise.

Golden rule of 40-60 chars each line.
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A competitor's perspective on the $326MM Radian6 acquisition
It is hard to target comment points specifically without changing the color of entire line.

Also I normally avoid looking at Comment points to avoid any bias and bring neutrality in my reaction to a comment. Again this maybe different for you guys.

Also as a golden rule the popular comments (unless threaded) are on the top so not really that important for me.

Second: In design specifically the rules are not hardwired like physics. You can break them but you must know that you are breaking a rule when you do. Normally I use #333333 in all my works but somehow missed it here. Will correct and put up an updated version tonight.
Does _anyone_ bother to fact check on Hacker News?

The first cars were not trucks, they were carriages. And your 35 horsepower Mercedes in the 1900s was not being bought by farmers but was being purchased by wealthy urban dwellers. The word "truck" by itself did not even refer to a motorized vehicle until the 1930s. Cars started out as a post-agrarian weakly powered luxury good for passengers before they ever became heavy duty farm implements, SJ's narrative is backwards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck

Step outside of the reality distortion zone, please.
It's really interesting to see that so many HN readers describe themselves as "self-taught programmers". I would describe myself as that as well, despite just graduating from university last year with a Software Engineering degree (at my university, Software Engineering is a four-year degree that's essentially a superset of a Computer Science degree).

I think the use of labels in this instance are not helpful. A person who hasn't touched a piece of code before they enter university is unlikely to magically become a great programmer in the course of three or four years. Indeed, my first-ever submission to HN was spurred on by a bit of disgruntlement at the quality of some of my peers (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1902687 - not much in the way of discussion :).

My opinion on what you might get with a degree that you would be less likely to get without formal study:
> More study of development processes and tools (this might apply more to SE than CS)
> More study of the broad theory of computation
> Earlier exposure to team programming (this comparison is clearly with "self-taught" programmers that aren't working in the industry)
> Much, much more cruft that you're not really interested in :)

I'm personally glad that I studied SE at a tertiary level. It balanced out my other degree, it was a good way to meet other like-minded folks (and to compare my own skills against them), and perhaps most importantly I was exposed to a lot of stuff that I feel I wouldn't have sought out on my own. That said, I would feel it the height of presumption to "look down" on a programmer with a lack of degree. I know firsthand that a piece of paper does not make you a good programmer, and vice versa. The real determinant of how good a programmer you are is how good a programmer you are.