skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Siracusa strikes me as a power user type so I'm extremely surprised that he neglected to mention how patently awful and useless Mission Control is on multiple monitors.

Whereas in the Spaces view in Snow Leopard I could move a window to a different space AND a different monitor with a quick drag, Mission Control doesn't allow this - I have to first move the window to the correct "Desktop", then exit MC and drag it to the correct monitor.

Full Screen Apps are similarly useless on multiple monitors - regardless of which monitor the window originates on, clicking the full screen button returns it to whatever display is designated "primary". Even worse, while you're in full screen on one display, the others become useless as it blocks them out with Apple's new favorite canvas texture. Why?

At first I thought all this was intentional and that Apple was leaving multi-monitor users in the dust to focus on Macs that are very close to iOS devices (11" Macbook Air comes to mind), but today they also announced a new Cinema Display that lets you daisy chain two monitors off a single Thunderbolt port. Clearly it's still a mode of operation they intend to support for some time - so why have they crippled it so horribly in this release?
I agree with every word, I just think for moderate users using mid-level or above machines, crapware is a big enough problem that MS should be being worried about the impact it's having on the public perception of Windows.
How to Run Multiple Domains from a Single WordPress Install
The title is "when employees misinterpret managers". Anybody who thinks that phrase implies it's anything but the manager's fault is either not a manager or is a bad manager.
The problem is that + is not an allowed character under IDN rules, and it certainly not allowed in the .com TLD. Google most likely will NOT be able to renews that domain under Verisign .com rules.
I forgot people really used it without the developer program. Good point for those users.
What do you do about it? Why, use Erlang! :-D
what a stupid article
I'm not saying he's leading anyone astray. But I do think it's a sock puppet account, yes. Just not a very effective one, that's why I made the mistake of trying to provide some feedback. But hey, that's just me.
> Granted, it is odd that it's the opposite way round on the iPhone which I use almost as much as my laptop. Go figure!

It's pretty simple: on a touchscreen you're moving the application itself. So having the application "stick" to your finger makes intuitive sense, that's like moving a sheet of paper on a desk, behind a stencil.

On a laptop, you're not really moving the application itself, it's closer to moving a remote-controlled window in front of the application, so moving "up" will move the "window" upwards, and show you what's above the current stuff in the process.
Rarely, but not never. My 2nd gen top-of-the-line macbook air was £1850, top of the line now is £1450. That's a fair difference.
After shuttle lands, Mission Control to go quiet
It also sounds like he's not the stereotypical patent troll who hasn't created anything himself, but just buys patents.
The Apple prices on RAM and HDD are ridiculous. Buy the cheapest variant and upgrade using regular priced parts?
Now the questions are:

* how warm will the MacBook Air get with the Thunderbolt in use / not in use? Will the fan kick in more often?

* what effect has the i5 or i7 wrt. to heat?

* will the average battery runtime be better or worse? Are the Apple numbers realistic?

From what I hear, the Thunderbolt MacBook Pros are using the fans to cool the machine more often.
“I definitely don’t want it in the newspaper,” he said. “I’m worried that even little sign posts toward what I want to build are dangerous.”

While I understand just keeping quiet about something you think is a good idea, this combination of hype* and paranoia seems really strange to me.

* Probably only in his own mind.
Do you mean all 9 passengers being malicious?
no he circumvented the MIT guest system to download those JSTOR DOCs..
Backblaze open sources 135TB storage architecture
Don't worry - Adobe won't be updating the Creative Suite with these features until at least the next release cycle. I imagine that, as you said, "Resume" will not be supported for performance reasons alone.
The biggest issue with IDE is screen real estate, rather than performance. While eclipse is an absolute dog, 4GB RAM and an SSD should be sufficient to work with it. The painful part is the surface eaten by the various panes and bars of the IDE.
YMMV but I'm using an Air as my main dev machine at the moment. I bought it just because I need a mac for a few things but I seem to have ended up using it all the time. I'm used to having very small laptops though. I would say you definitely need the 128GB version, I originally partitioned mine into two 64GB partitions (I was going to put Ubuntu on the other which turned out to be very hard, but that's another story) and found that the 64GB filled up from just the OS plus the applications I use for development.

Right now I've got it plugged into a huge cinema display (which I have on loan for 6 months, it's very nice) but I have also used it quite a lot as a laptop.

I'm mostly writing Python here, so no long compiles. I imagine that would be a killer if you were working on C++ projects...
Flexiglass is the best:

http://www.nulana.com/flexiglass
Horrible article. This guy seems to have a personal chip on his shoulder:

I have a hunch he’s 1980s Microsoft-smart, which is to say he’s about as much fun to be with as a talking Wikipedia page, but hey, some people like that.

While Myhrvold has only done things like created the most prominent computer science research institution in the world, written what is now heralded as one of the finest cooking books ever written, co-authored a NY Times #1 best-seller, and was amongst the most highly regarded young physicists of his time -- among other things.

And this guy Kedrosky apparently does finance and apparently nothing of merit in or beyond that. As they say, those in glass houses should not drop huge boulders on their toes.
Please explain how native Coffeescript is available on Windows. I haven't been following that closely.
The green button tries to remove all scroll bars and it will also shrink the window down to where there are just no scroll bars (i.e. shrinking it one more pixel would activate the scrollbars).
Interesting that the wattage is much higher. Does this mean that a bigger battery was required (possibly explaining the minor bump in weight)?
I haven't worked with them, but take a look at www.SproutBox.com
They are a VC firm with a pretty cool model. It appears as though they have worked with non-developer founders in the past (i.e. Proposable).
Multiplayer Lag Compensation is Hard, So Let motion.js Do It For You
Unless the Macbook Air screens have changed, they're far worse than Macbook Pro screens for displaying color. I've used a 13" MBP and a 13" MBA and it's easy totell the difference. You can go to a store and see for yourself: the colors on the MBP are more vibrant than the MBA.
David Ellerman [...] argues that the employer-employee relationship is more like the master-slave relationship than we are inclined to believe.

Me too! (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287346) I've never heard of David Ellerman. Anybody here read him?
Divorce yourself from all contact and live on a pillar somewhere in the Sinai desert. I think those folks were called anchorites http://wikipedia.orange.co.uk/wiki/Anchorite I'm surprised that a connection to the internet is allowed on a more than---oh say weekly basis. As you might guess, I don't particularly agree with the article. Only cure to the problem at hand is self discipline. Anything else will fail...
i bought the maxed out 13" last year as well. pulling out my credit card...
"Eden Guide To Hacking" ~ Chapter0 fundamental#Defining reach it's 1st stage
It fits the window to the size of the content. Or something. Can't deny it's confusing and I never use it myself

I'll have to give cinch a try, I've just gotten used to really janky window layouts in OS X.
Damnit..
For those that don't like reading, the document describes multiple employees of the "nonprofit" with compensation in excess of 200k.
I would venture to say that this is indeed very common. It's the same for web-design, graphic design and pretty much every creative industry out there. And now that "apps" are the mainstream buzzword, programmers are seeing it too.
New Mac Mini Now Available on/in Apple Store
"Duncan Stewart's retweet of"...

I am honestly curious -- why wouldn't you just say "Andy Levy said it best"? Is there some onus of attribution regarding retweets? (Not snarky -- seriously curious. My personal opinion is that you blog about or retweet or share something because you think it's notable, deserving no attribution unless you've actually added something interesting to it)

Twitter celebrities will have a natural aversion to any medium that essentially puts them at ground zero, and they're going to look for reasons not to like it. For the overwhelming majority of ordinary people, however, it does fill a need. The first-class nature of circles and the privacy controls have completely changed social networks for me, making intermixing classes of relationships much more relaxing.
I'll echo what I said on the Siracusa thread: Has everyone managed to overlook how patently awful and useless Mission Control is on multiple monitors?

Whereas in the Spaces view in Snow Leopard I could move a window to a different space AND a different monitor with a quick drag, Mission Control doesn't allow this - I have to first move the window to the correct "Desktop", then exit MC and drag it to the correct monitor.
Full Screen Apps are similarly useless on multiple monitors - regardless of which monitor the window originates on, clicking the full screen button returns it to whatever display is designated "primary". Even worse, while you're in full screen on one display, the others become useless as it blocks them out with Apple's new favorite canvas texture. Why?
At first I thought all this was intentional and that Apple was leaving multi-monitor users in the dust to focus on Macs that are very close to iOS devices (11" Macbook Air comes to mind), but today they also announced a new Cinema Display that lets you daisy chain two monitors off a single Thunderbolt port. Clearly it's still a mode of operation they intend to support for some time - so why have they crippled it so horribly in this release?
I did not downvote you, but you're wrong all the same: MAS is a frontend to a sub-section of the iTunes Store. Similar to the iOS AppStore (which is a part of iTunes on computers, but a separate store on iPhones or iPads). In fact, if you have a tracing firewall you can see it send requests to itunes's servers.

And as far as I know MAS does the exact same thing as iTunes: you can authorize an account on 5 machines at a time.
First of all I'm impressed with you being objective and not gnawing my head off even after discovering probably the thorniest part of the library (and so soon too)! I am aware of and on your side about the issues with patching the Object.prototype.

So, to be perfectly clear, the Object prototype will NEVER be modified in any way by default! The "enableSugar" method you have found (so resourcefully, I might add :) ) is something I added in later as an "opt-in" way of using objects as hashes in pages where you ALREADY have assurance that it won't break. It is intended as something of the reverse of "noConflict" in jQuery. By using this method you're basically saying that you're ready to live on the edge and will take responsibility for what breaks. More importantly you can turn it off again if something does start to break.

Now that having been said, even though I've added this method there is ZERO reference in it to the documentation. A few reasons for this: one is the backlash I knew I would get for even MENTIONING the sacred Object prototype (you may have proved that point, heh)... the other is that I'm not sure I ever really want it used... in the first place I sort of intended it as more of an "easter-egg" and I'm not sure I ever want to mention it in the docs...

In any case though it will NEVER be a default, and for precisely the reasons you've mentioned.
SizeUp is great if you have multiple monitors too, you can send a window from one screen to another in one keystroke.
What does Nortel mean for the winners and losers?
Just what tech startups need- more clueless MBA types telling the engineers what to do.

I'll cite this: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2081930,00....
Are You Pissing Off Shoppers Because Your Website Is Timing Out?
All Danish online banks and all government services relies on a common login system which uses Java Applets.

So no, they are most certainly not dead.
It'd be great if they were real Apple products, so the fake Apple store was selling fake fakes.
This is super common in sf bay. SV is a marketing / media term.. Most of the locals say "the bay", FYI
The introvert's guide to getting out of bank fees
Well at first glance it's interesting to see that the TC logo gets so much attention/clicks.

It's as if people are thinking "it should do something", or "wtf is that?".

All in all though, this redesign must be some kind of prank...
actually, no. My window management is like my desk - loads of crap everywhere, but I know where everything is and can get it it quickly (most of the time...)

Ever used Quicktime X? That's what I want :)
You can code client-side in Lisp now (or your favorite JS-targeted language). I do it every day.
In that sentence, employees is the subject, and managers is the object. It's the employees who are doing the misinterpreting of the managers. Only a manager would think that the title sounds like owning up to a mistake. :)
Thank You for Making Definition a Success
I really love that type of research and I guess I got myself all excited as well and forgot to say that one of the numbers I do remember is the childhood phone number but only because it still is the same!
I'd agree with this for the RAM, but the HDD on the Mini is incredibly hard to access for upgrading. Check out the teardown from iFixit for the last model.
OS X Lion Recovery removes need for physical media
FYI, the 13in MBA has the exact same screen resolution as the stock 15in MBP, and the 11in MBA is comparable to the 13in MBP (different ratio though), so both models can basically show the same amount of stuff on the screen (unless you were preferring something like a large iMac for XCode).
Yes, but it's also still my parent's phone number. I know it better than my social security number.
Not if they funnel their money though the US. Then they're taxed at 2%.
The new(-est) Macbook Pros have an option to upgrade to a 128G SSD for $200, which next to the base price of a higher end model is pretty appealing (unless you need tons of space).
I heard a version about an archeologist paying per-piece for shards of ancient pottery. So the locals broke the artifacts into little pieces to get more money!
I haven't owned an Apple since my old IIgs, but from playing around with friends' and Apple Store Macs, I always wondered if there was just a non-obvious way for powerusers to maximize Mac windows for an alt-Tab type window switching workflow.

Now I know there wasn't. Was this ever a pain point for powerusers, especially on laptops, or did you just get used to it?
Does anyone know of a scanner software that supports 8ish year old scanners? (epson in particular)

Since rosetta is not supported any longer, lots of scanners will not be working..
Native Russian speaker here - I often laugh during movies when they show Russian writing. 90% of the time, it's random gibberish.

The only time when the gibberish didn't seem random was during the movie Virus - there's a scene where they are choosing which language to display a control panel in, and one of the options is "Ebonics" - and the Russian underneath is just a random mix of letters, while the other Russian labeling was completely accurate.
IBook legacy comes to an end with white MacBook cancellation
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If I'm designing a schema, I always have a primary key column called "id" with an autoincrement sequence against it. Sometimes I'll have a domain table, with key varchar, description varchar.

Perhaps you deal with existing systems you didn't design. Aside from that - where is the cause to use a multi-column primary key?
yeah, I like what Ubuntu have done too. Same idea, different solution (probably better, imho)

I thought about the "bad ui" thing, and I can see where this coulf be confusing, but tonight (it's almost midnight here) I'm being selfish and voting for no scrollbars just because that's what I like.

Of course I'll have to reconsider this later when my father-in-law rings me up saying almost all his documents has gone.
Politics Trumps Security in Dubious White House Hire
Google To Aim For Higher Prices Of Chromebooks
i am sure folks here have already looked at this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc (RSA Animate - Drive), but doesn't hurt to spread the word again.

maybe marginally related to the article...
Lion’s Whole-Disk Encryption
> There is nothing illegal about running a store that sells only Apple products

I thought Apple only allowed licensed outlets to sell their products. My girlfriend worked for Best Buy, and if they sold certain items before the release date, Apple could have fined them or pulled all of their items from the store.
In theory, this kind of problems was what OAuth was designed to solve - access to protect (private) resources by requesting the user's permission. In practice, I'm not sure if it's trusted enough in terms of security to be used for this. Giving access to CC or SS numbers is 'somewhat' more sensitive than letting someone post on your Twitter account.
With every new OSX version update I just assume it's gonna take a solid 8 hours to get rails running properly again...
I wish they would go the xmonad route, and simply treat each display as an independent "workspace container". Being able to switch independently (and still use the other display when using a fullscreen app) is a huge productivity gain.
This begs the question, who did they buy it from? Also, will this show up in DNS soon? Because typing +.com to get to Google Plus would be convenient even if Verisign doesn't like it.
I'm not going to buy it unless I can buy a DVD with OS X Lion on it. Too much to transfer over a poor bandwidth mobile connection.
Mother of All Knockoffs: Fake Apple Store Spotted in China?
just installed on a second mac, notice that airdrop is nowhere to be seen (though it's on the GM).
Virtual Store Brought to Life via QR Codes in Korea
So would you go for the faster HDD by default? That's what I'm leaning towards...
I use the maxed out 11" as my primary computer. My usage is about 60% at desk, plugged into external, keyboard, closed clamshell, and 40% portable. The only complaint is the smaller 128 ssd, but it just forced me to get rid of stuff I really didn't need. The less glossy screen is great and the smaller size when I'm portable forces me to focus more. My typical software usage is Photoshop, Illustrator, TextMate, Terminal, iTunes, Chrome, and VMWare Fusion. It only really gets hot if I'm viewing flash content. Battery life isn't bad, but it's not amazing, 4 to 5 hours of mixed use.

The portable size is amazing. From time to time you'll catch me caressing it and whispering sweet nothings to it. I can bring it everywhere with me and I don't need a huge bag to lug it around. I use a protective sleeve, which offers a bit more protection than the other types of sleeves. http://www.hardcandycases.com/bubble-sleeve-macbook-air-case...
700 MHz opportunity down the toilet (no, make that stolen)
I really wish there was a way to name spaces in Mission Control
wasn't ready in time and will be fixed for 10.7.1?
Make a 3D Scanner with a Webcam, Laser Pointer and Free Software [video]
Gah! Just ordered one off Apple.com and they estimate it will arrive next Thursday :P
Here's an example:

void do_stuff(char *name) {
char *my_name = strdup(name);
if (condition_signalling_no_work()) goto done;
if (do_something_with(my_name)) goto done;

...

done:
free(my_name);
return;
}

If it helps think of it as a finally block. The function does some things and no matter what it has to run that block at the end.
Business proposition
Hi all,

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Unfortunately I am not a programmer, but I understand IT and technologies fairly well, I work in IT/Networks/Security sales and I have a good business acumen, or so I think. I am based in Ireland. I also have about €6K

These are only 3 domains, but I have a few more.

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I had a 2GB 11" Air that was swapping out around 350Mb with my workload and it was noticeable although not a deal breaker - think slight switching delays and rare mouse freezes for split second - obviously much better than if the swap was on 5400RPM rotating disk.

I ended up returning it anyway - 2GB isn't nearly enough for anything other than just browsing.
My fault. I actually not familiar with Andy Levy, and I felt DS's opinion mattered more on the issue, considering his area of expertise.
Wouldn't be surprised if they got an iPad app out before Facebook.
I agree. My problem is when people say that you don't have to consider concurrency and synchronization at all. And I also agree that such abstractions make the reasoning significantly easier - much as reasoning about the flow of a sequential program is significantly easier with structure programming than with code that has gotos all over the place.

In fact, I made a similar argument in the conclusion of my dissertation (first full paragraph on page 96): http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/papers/scott_dissertation....
The canonical example is a when you have a many-to-many relationship. You have table A, table B and a join table C, with columns (a_id, b_id). This table by itself is meaningless and does not need it's on primary key. Thus, you want to set your primary key to be (a_id, b_id) or (b_id, a_id) depending on how you want the data clustered on disk. You then also want to add a unique key with the opposite order of columns to make lookups fast when going the other way.
Look at the trend for Britney Spears compared to PostgreSQL (http://www.google.com/trends?q=britney+spears%2C+postgresql&...). I'm not sure what to make of it because Britney Spears and mongodb do not offer a tenth of the features of postgresql, yet they are clearly more popular.

In computer science, I believe everything can be seen as a graph so of course, graph databases are a great fit for every problem. Object databases were also a great fit for objects. But where are object databases now compared to relational databases?

It's great to have so many options now and it's great to see nosql databases giving ideas to sql databases (http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2010.html#April_10_2010_...). Although relational databases might be less elegant for immediate programming problems, they are far more flexible when new needs emerge and their ACID properties have a far better track record than most (if not all given their age) nosql databases.
"Illegal" in a "violates Internet standards" meaning, not "against the law of a government that has jurisdiction over Google"
Great story, but from the briefest of googlings, it seems poorly sourced. References to business literature are unreliable. Are there good historical sources for this?

The story itself reminds me of John Gall's classic book on systems (originally Systemantics, now The Systems Bible).
Anyone remotely interested in living a "random" life should read this book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man
The $799 one does have a dual drive option. You can upgrade to a 750GB 7200RPM drive, a 256GB SSD, or the SSD+7200RPM drive.