skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, there will always be naysayers...
Next Tech Boom - How has everything changed since the Dot Com Boom
Or stupid pieces of software installed with drivers that look like they were designed by a 12 year old (Let's make the interface surrounded by animated flames... then Evel Knievel can burst through the flames when the program loads... and then burst into flames! Yeah! Oh, yeah. We'll also throw in some hardware controls to turn on/off the bluetooth adapter that this is packaged with... ATI Catalyst, I'm looking at you...)
I've just switched to a Lenovo X201. Everything worked perfectly out of the box with Ubuntu 11.04, with the exception of slightly erratic battery life reporting. The experience overall has been more straightforward than any Windows install I've ever done and not too far behind OSX.
Sure sounds like all the complaints are with Gnome or KDE. Who are all you people not running tiling window managers?!
I was joking.

There is no rational explanation. Some people perceive the highest price as being the best.

Relevant discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2640685
Comedy?
Why would anyone need a car that goes over 65 miles per hour?
AMD drivers are much improved now. In fact these days I prefer them to Nvidia since doing screen specific color correction is a breeze.
Code Wars - prepare to fire a broadside mateys
Thank you for this.
I have a personal peeve with the direction that KDE has been taking with the semantic desktop - the tremendous slowdown because of that and absolutely no focus on usability. Plus the desktop looks like an 80's Eurodance video (as compared to Gnome 2).
They continue to use konquerer and KJS (built into the core desktop) rather than webkit or V8.

Power management with linux on laptops has been going downhill since sometime and today I get atleast 30% less battery life as compared to Win7 (maybe Phoronix is right with its power regression hullabaloo)

Suspend and resume still sucks (https://bugs.freedesktop.org//show_bug.cgi?id=28739 presumably fixed in 2.6.38 but still gives me problems frequently).
Displayport/HDMI out on my laptop does not send out audio and until I used a custom PPA kernel, multi-monitor out on my laptop used to lockup frequently.

All of these things work seamlessly on Windows 7.

I am willing to pay good money for a seamless Linux desktop (~100$ for something that works seamlessly and timely updates) - if that's what it takes to get someone to focus on something of value, like TuxOnIce, rather than placement of close buttons on the left vs right.
This is why I fully support what's going on with the ubuntu desktop. While I love the open source model, I think we need more cohesive top down decisions if we want to be able to use a desktop with a cohesive feel.

I really feel natty is heading in the right direction.
Interview here: http://993c4s.com/porsche-culture/humor/floating-porsche-964...
It's great for a large family or office where everybody is doing bandwidth intensive tasks. The percentage of households that need it is probably quite low but having it opens up new doors.
The important question isn't whether you think you need it now or not, but rather, what can you do with it once you have it?
Citroen's Survolt a challenge to Tesla and Fisker Karma
Citroen has developed a very stylish and performance based EV
It looks like it has become a hybrid pixel / vector graphics editor...note the screenshot at the bottom right and the control points highlighted on the butterfly.
Myths in web hosting for WordPress site debunked
Why can't this be a software application instead?
$100 is not what it will take. It will take a vendor that's willing to build the laptop out of supported hardware instead of whatever they can source most cheaply.

Apple does it and that's why their hardware mostly works. (But to be fair, I've had plenty of issues with Windows and OS X. Software sucks. Hardware sucks. That's why you get a supercomputer with 15 hours battery life for $500, though. If you wanted it to be perfect, it would cost you $100,000.)
I have a family of 12. We live together in one house. Each family member requires their own 720p HD stream.

I also have 16 HD surveillance cameras, all of which are remotely monitored in realtime.

We also run our own live streaming video servers using Wowza.

Just kidding, I have no idea why a home user would need 1gbps, unless they are a huge family with many hulu/netflix watchers (maybe a frat/sorority) house or a home-based business with the server hardware onsite.

I am assuming it is 1gbps up and down.
10 Technology Pillars of Blogging
I might have been tempted to put a smiley at the end of the title, but then I suppose it would ruin the impact for some readers. Well played, sir!
But legacy hardware support doesn't improve in OS X. Try upgrading your PowerPC-based machine to Lion.

Now try running Linux 3.0rc on, let's say, an aging SPARC 5 workstation. Just Works.
Oh pardon me. It was answered. Although the answer doesn't make any sense, atleast to me.
it is really difficult to read. supposedly a redesign of the site it coming plus possibility for pdf and epub which some might appreciate.

in the meantime, i'd suggest using something like readability.
It seems better :) I think the finder was rewritten for snow leopard and I haven't noticed the same horrible clunkiness in relation to slow/unreliable network shares. That said, I nearly always use AFP or SFTP for moving stuff around so those protocols could still be dodgy.
Tennessee law bans 'distressing images,' opens your Facebook inbox
Did you get an SSD for that price? Probably not.

That's the compromise that the reviews were complaining about. It's instant-on, but there is only 16G of space. Well, if you paid $100 more, then you'd have 80G of space and it'd be instant-on. Or, you could have 500GB of space, but it wouldn't be instant-on anymore.

The less something costs, the more compromises there are. That's all I'm saying.
> The success of many open-source projects including Linux itself (on everything but the desktop) is proof that the model works, and can produce quality software, often better than the proprietary alternatives.

And a big part of the difference is the environment:

On the server you have a relatively homogeneous hardware platform, many deeply technical users who can and will fix things that are broken, and good connectivity of related environments so that useful innovations spread quickly and the people who made those innovations possible benefit from their spread.

On the desktop you have a much less uniform hardware environment, relatively sparse numbers of technically able users, multiple obstacles to connectivity, and almost no individual recognition for people who make important improvements.

And the problems that are being solved are different, desktop software usually has to put up with a lot of bureaucracy and rules; writing desktop applications requires that developers be aware of the conventions of the system they are operating in and play well with a host of other software for something as simple as drawing a dialog box for the user and capturing input from it. On the server it's relatively easy to partition processes from each other so that they don't interfere with each other; whereas on the desktop you have to support every conceivable action that someone could possibly take.

That said, Linux "winning the desktop" isn't necessarily a worthwhile goal. Don't get me wrong; having Linux desktops available is a good thing all around, it keeps Apple and Microsoft honest. And it's unfortunate that intellectual property concerns have hobbled the development of multimedia in open source to the extent that they have.

Do we really need more WIMP style desktop operating systems that are attempting to be familiar to both Mac and Windows users?

Shouldn't Open Source Desktops be a hotbed of innovation? A carnival of new ideas, metaphors, experimental interaction designs?
LOL. your boss knows your HN id?
Also, this really sets the stage for having your own home 'cloud' device.

Instead of all these offsite services that stream 'licensed' versions of media, why not have it all stored at home on your 'cloud' appliance, and it can stream your music, videos, and photos to any of your devices wherever you are (country agnostic).

So, if you have a decent size family, they can watch their shows at home, in the car, at a friend's house, or wherever there is a suitable connection.
The Helix-IR concept.
It was still very poor outcome-oriented thought. There are dangers associated with pencils that are solved by a pen. Space flight's outcome should be safety, so regardless the answer won't end up being a pencil.
http://youtu.be/T-CkD98FJ24
yes, I tested divvy too and wasn't too happy with the result.
I'm kind of curious who has the selection bias here, me and my social group or the people responding to this thread. I've been using Ubuntu since 2008 and before that some hodgepodge of Gentoo and Fedora since '06.

Since going to Ubuntu, I seem to never have trouble with applications working, Internet connectivity, or graphics. I have two computers a desktop circa 2006 with an old ATI card (x1900, I think) and a dell mini 9 both running the Ubuntu 11.04.

I certainly have troubles with Flash, but they are infrequent and usually only necessitate killing Flash from Chrome's task manager.

On the Dell Mini, I occasionally have wifi issues, but since the 10.XX series, the frequency of these problems has dropped significantly.

As far as changing to Unity, I honestly don't care. I've been using Gnome-Do since around '09, so ditching the menus hasn't bothered me at all.

I have friends using Ubuntu as well and they don't seem to have insurmountable problems either, although they have been migrating to OS X in search of a more beautiful user experience.

But going to Windows? I couldn't imagine getting any development done on that OS.
This is the real gem in this whole thread.
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Thanks for your reply! This sounds like one of those perfect examples, why beeing your own boss can be several magnitudes more effective [1].

I totaly agree to 1) and 2)
plus I do agree, that it would be great if everyone who has a computer would be able to really make use of it. And that, sure does require programing skills.

[1] I'm suffering with you here. Writing this post on a lab computer where I'm not permitted to install software. Hence, I can't install GIT and now use Dropbox web interface to transfer the code that I develop on my Mac Book. No wonder procastination is more fun ;-)
i didn't make it up. i heard it back in the early days of the social web, in 2002 or 2003. i've seen it to be true (within a range of numbers) again and again
Poor example.
My overall reaction after reading this piece is: who cares?

I don't put any big secrets or personal information on Google Groups, and I don't want to manage my own mail server. They have a good product that works, and I want to spend my time being productive rather than paranoid.
I fail to see how you can recommend good songs to me based just on my username? Seems very random.
I agree with you that open source model should (and often does) solves problems with hardware support, at least in theory. Then again, my bluetooth on linux simply refuses to work, no matter what I do (while on the same hardware windows never had any problems).

Your original comment was a little bit ambiguous: you were primarily thinking of legacy hardware support as in "legacy hardware support is often ongoing". I read the first part of the sentence "Problems are ironed out" as if that's only valid for linux, which I don't think it is.
Show HN: My summer project - simulated CPU built from NAND gates
Sonic is the only ISP I've ever had that hasn't sucked. They're terrific. Their techs actually know what they're talking about and, as I'm sure others on HN can relate to from dealing with other ISPs, they don't treat you like an idiot when you call up. It was a great decision by google to have sonic act as the ISP for the Stanford deployment. I hope they're able to roll fiber out quickly.
You mean the story of "John Henry" perhaps?
Google Wide Profiling: A continuous profiling infrastructure for data centers
This is a project to teach myself more about the inner workings of CPUs, so I'll need to learn a lot in the course of this project.

So far I've just defined some basic components (logic gates, adders, latches), working from class notes, Wikipedia, and the computer built in Wireworld. If any HNers can point me in the direction of better resources, it would be much appreciated.
YUI3: Below the surface [video]
That's why I keep a Dropbox folder called "linux_tweaking" with some of the config files. If I need to install arch on a new machine I can do it without hassle.

Also, it's true that as you grow older you value time more. And that's why I use linux in the first place. I am faster with it at pretty much anything. The only thing that really drives me mad is skype but my wife has problems with skype also on her windows and mac computers so it's not linux to blame.
"I think that social services that are public by default and have huge logged out user bases, should "phantom register" their logged out users by storing activity against their cookies and building user profiles on their logged out users."

What about if the user isn't allowing data to be stored, is using a vpn or proxy, a dynamic IP, or something else that prevents you from "storing activity"/comparing/etc.. I've seen this done before to target advertising to phantom users on adult sites, it doesn't work. Most of those people who aren't logging don't won't to log in/participate and "comparing activity" isn't exactly a piece of cake and is depending on those users having cooperating connections. You might argue that these people are fringe users but even then I doubt the ability/feasibility to accurately retain and compare data usefully and not just using IP or something to compare visits.
I don't donate to things like this unless they can explain why their costs are so high or why they need the money, what's it for? I'd be more that happy to donate if they ould explain their costs.
A good example can be seen with Youtube. On a fresh computer with IP address, I was given an old game video from a friend. Finished watching it and talked other stuff.

An hour later, when I went to youtube.com (main page) to look for a different old game video, I noticed the frontpage suggestions were the same as alongside when I watched the video. Quite a basic guess of what the user wants but seems effective to me.

Although I have an account with youtube, I rarely log in. What's the point?
So what? Just because I it will most likely happen doesn't mean anyone knows, when it will happen.
100 megabit service is available at consumer-oriented pricing in Japan and other places. One obvious use of very fast service is to substitute OTT TV for cable TV, or to provide server-based 3D gaming, or, for non-entertainment purposes, to provide high-definition video conferencing. I'm sure others can enumerate a long list of applications.

But, the real point is there has never been a shortage of uses for more bandwidth. Instead, it has always opened new possibilities and created new value.

The great risk in not having inexpensive, fast Internet service is that the next great value-creations on the Internet will happen more often outside the US, and therefore not help to restore economic growth in the US.
You're right, there are examples, probably many where you will show linux supports hardware better than osx or windoze.

But hey, I use linux for the last two years for all my desktop computing (and more for servers). I love it and find it superior to windows. Except my bluetooth doesn't work: and it did with windows.

C'est la vie, I guess...
Your problem isn't creating ideas or a hypothesis to test, it's finding problems. Finding problems worth solving is really difficult unless 1) you're already an industry insider (scratch your own itch) or 2) you listen very closely to industry insiders. The hard part about listening is mustering up the courage to talk to somebody you don't know. But it's well worth it.
Go to 7:08

http://youtu.be/OWDt-6UIwPo
Way too much sensitive data in my gmail account that I don't want broadcast to the world via twitter. It doesn't matter what kind of controls are in place, I'm not taking the risk that all of my online shopping, password resets, private email, etc. gets accidentally tweeted.
A Blog Is Not A Diary
I had the same experience on this cheap Acer laptop. A few native Windows apps are the only thing that keep me from wiping it and going Ubuntu single boot.
Linux unquestionably has problems - many of them revolving around hardware vendors not being too worried about linux driver support quality and the distros just not being able to QA enough platforms before release.

However, it sounds to me like this guy had just had enough with the platform for whatever reason - and then proceeded to make a bunch of decisions that put him on a collision course with failure. Not saying he didn't run into valid issues, but someone with that much linux experience should have well known about some of the issues he was about to run into.

Running Fedora 15: This got released a bit more than two weeks ago. Fedora always seems to have a bunch of issues for me in the first month or two until they get a bunch of user submitted problems ironed out. I know this well with F15 right now - I'm running it and have run into power management problems, nfs blocking hibernation, occasional extreme gui lag, an incompatibility with gnome shell and fglrx etc. There are tickets open on these and I'm confident many of them will get resolved. F14 has none of these issues now - if you want a super stable and reliable desktop experience you generally shouldn't run a brand new Fedora release.

Running gnome 3 / gnome shell: This is also brand new and it should be somewhat of a nobrainer that there are going to be some issues. Early KDE 4 had similar issues. But then again so did Aero when Windows Vista was brand new. Want a stable, polished experience? Run something that's been worked on for a while - this is more or less true in any OS.

Driver issues with new hardware. Maybe it shouldn't be this way, but it's a reality. If you don't want to fuss with drivers consider buying stuff that's been out for a little longer. My ironlake gpu is supported 100% perfectly in fedora 14. Then again I've seen F15 running on a sandy bridge gpu working just great so I'm not sure what issue he's running into. It seems quite possible that the dual gpus are confusing the issue. My laptop with dual gpus (ironlake and radeon) has some issues until I ban the radeon driver from loading at boot (it can still be loaded before switching to the amd gpu before X loads).

A lot of his rants about GPU drivers honestly don't sound very accurate to me. Intel drivers are garbage? Not in my experience - it seems to me that the Intel maintained open source drivers are some of the best of the open source solutions and generally work out of the box on everything I use them on. Maybe he's running into a problem because Sandybridge has really only been practically in use for 4-5 months. AMD drivers are garbage? There is an element of truth here but it's quite overstated.

If linux doesn't agree with him any longer that's perfectly understandable. Hopefully he'll be happier under Windows. But to me it sounds like this guy has some rage issues and has either warped his own perspective of the situation due to them or is intentionally looking to make the situation look worse to the reader.

/shrug
Part of this is probably due to Sonic's small size. The people answering the phone are actually engineers. With a big company like Comcast, the people answering the phone are trained to follow a specific (and often frustrating to the customer) algorithm to solve your problem.
Microsoft's online services don't have many ads, and they lose half a billion a year (9 billion this year including Skype). Apple have bigger cash reserves, bigger profits, and so on. If you're drawn to Microsoft because of their online services what do you buy? Other than the Xbox, 7 and Office (direct sales of 7 and Office are probably small) it's all third party hardware/software. With Apple, there's an ecosystem over several high quality, high profit items.
Since Photoshop Elements is in the same price range which is better?
2 PSP RPGs with the Most Bang For Your Buck.
Google Offers Is A Cheap Knockoff
The "Phantom Profile" Fred Wilson talks about is a great concept.

I particularly like Stack Overflow as an example here. You can visit Stack Overflow and ask a question, all without having to create a profile. You are given a name, given a profile, and given most of what a regular user gets.

As soon as you do decide to sign up "for real", your temporary profile is turned into a real profile. The biggest difference being that you're not cookie-based (you can log in to the profile from other machines).

Despite Jeff Atwood complaining loudly about how so many users have stayed cookie-based for so long, Stack Overflow has gone to great lengths to make sure their site is completely usable with a minimum of hassle, which makes it a much better site in my eyes.
KyMaLabs adds an all new service, Wormwall, Web pages in a minute
Schema.org - CoffeeScript scraper
The XSLT stylesheet scrapes the metadata for the schema definitions found on schema.org, transforming them into CoffeeScript class definitions.
Why do we need to have all the RAM, Gigahertz, TBs of storage in our PCs currently? The hardware specs of modern computers would have been viewed as frivolous just a few short years ago. Now people enjoy desktop eye candy (perhaps not entirely necessary in some cases, but it can make things easier for non-techies), getting rid of CDs and DVDs and so on.

Similarly, by raising the limits on internet speed, new web apps that are inconceivable now will come on stream. For example, an infamous 'dot bomb', boo.com, would make more sense in the broadband era than the 56k modem era[1]. Similarly, there will be new ideas that aren't viable currently that will become viable with 1Gbps.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com#Problems_with_the_user_...
It's an old rule, "lurkers make up over 90% of online groups"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker

And the 1% rule:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
EFF on the Lodsys patent claims
I run logged out on many of these services because I'm not interested in having all of my preferences and interested logged and having my experience customized for me. In fact I intentionally log out of many of them when I'm done with my logged in activity (google is the best example of this). I also have cookies clearing on most of these services on a timed basis. Work against my interests here (and put it in my face) and you're more likely to end up on the cookie clearing list or simply not get used any more (facebook features on third party websites is a great example of behavior that pushes me away from facebook). I wonder if I'm all alone here, or perhaps your unlogged in users would prefer to be a bit more forgotten than you're suggesting.
I'm disappointed about what they provide... Almost every point of their About page I disagree with. Blocking random network blocks is not proper security, no IP database is "current" or "accurate", webmasters should work on actual security in the first place, not on rejecting some arbitrary portion of internet.