skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people looking at your Purchase page are not willing to give you money. A typical shopping cart abandonment rate is more than 75%.
It's not without precedent; In Windows, tapping the Alt key moves keyboard focus to the menu-bar (at least, it did in older version of Windows that had standard menu bars).

To be fair, I've nobbled that particular behaviour of GNOME 3.0 because it prevents using the Super key for any other keyboard shortcuts. If I read bugzilla rightly, that should be fixed in 3.2, though.
You also need to end the Federal Reserve and make fractional reserve banking illegal so no one can create new money and give it to themselves. Allow the market to handle the distribution of purchasing power. Not the government banking cartel.
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Yeah, I love how, for example, http://thenounproject.com/noun/bread/ is basically a vectorisation of http://www.gerdarntz.org/node/255 without acknowledgment.
Isn't the whole problem with patent trolls that defensive patents don't protect you against them? For better or worse, the current system is largely based around mutually assured destruction. The patent trolls don't make any products, so they don't actually have anything to lose from the assertion of these defensive patents against them.

It seems like what Gruber is actually saying is that the patents Google is violating are legitimate, invented and/or owned by companies that are actively making products based on those patents. The fact that some of those companies (Apple, for instance) may choose to then enforce their intellectual rights doesn't make them patent trolls; having your company's sole business be suing people over violations of patents you purchase makes a company a patent troll.
One separate Hacker News page for Software Patents News, with every submission that mentions "software patents" automatically diverted to it, and that allows the remaining ten percent of articles to appear on the original Hacker News page.
I don't really understand the difference I guess. Does Ted like to do something else with his dollar bills that I don't want to or can't imagine?
Microsoft Email Showing It Tried To Work With Google On Buying Patents
define "work" for purposes of this poll. work at job? work at job + side projects? work around the house? does commute time count? any hours inside an office as an employee, including reading email or chatting at coffee machine? time spent fleshing out ideas in the shower or mulling over difficult problems on a walk?

I have no idea how many hours a week I "work" for most definitions. About the most I can do is say how many hours I bill a contract client, which is, I hope, ostensibly/approximately how much I work for them. But even then it's not an exact science. I try, but it is arguably impossible to measure with perfect accuracy.
Renouncing your citizenship for tax reasons triggers secondary tax laws that offset any benefits. (It's been a few years since I reviewed any tax law, but I've not heard of any changes in this area.)
Perhaps I misunderstood what the OP had an issue with. I perceived it as, when you attempt to run an application from a large, collective menu of all applications, if an instance is running, it would go to that instance, instead of starting a new one. This is not the way it is in Windows.*

If the OP declared that clicking a running application opened the running application, then yes, that has been the way it is for a while now, but it was that way in Gnome2, so I suspect this is not the case.

* added this sentence in edit.
Getting sued sucks. Getting your customers sued... ouch.
How do I download it?
What does this all mean? How does it impact startups and anyone else that runs a web site, and how can we avoid getting sued?

Is this a completely ridiculous lawsuit, considering how many websites use Kissmetrics and other tools?
I spent a few years using OS X, and clicking on some corner of some terminal somewhere and hitting Cmd-N to get myself a fresh terminal (or clicking somewhere on the desktop and hitting Cmd-N to get a fresh file-manager window) was so convenient that even in GNOME 3 I have Super-N bound to 'new terminal window'.
Well. You could argue the Super key is not a Modifier key, afaik it was popularized as they "Windows" key, which when it became popular pressing it by itself caused the start menu to open, doing something similar to what one of the most popular operating systems (XP) gas done is at least not something unexpected to normal users.

That said, I switched back to Gnome 2 because I find Gnome 3 basically unusable for anything other than browsing the web in a single window.

Also, in case someone mistakes my point of view I should say I don't use windows nor like it at all.
I Want to Monitor my Kids Mobile Phone
freshmen are easily bored?
An Interface for Your Living Room
Another problem with taxing capital gains heavily is that it distorts investment by discouraging dividends and buybacks in favor of risky attempts at growth. Companies irrationally choose to grow and make high risk acquisitions rather than simply pay out big dividends. This contributes to business cycle instability, as well as inefficient allocation of capital; the incentive is to keep capital locked up in a conglomerate.
You might find this recent interview with Abelson to be interesting, esp with respect to the history of SICP at MIT:

http://www.codequarterly.com/2011/hal-abelson/
That's not true. How about Hong Kong or Singapore where you certainly get a western style life with extra benefits: safer, cleaner, live-in maid service, better access to healthcare and a 15-20% all in tax rate. Have you been to Thailand or Indonesia? Sounds ridiculous but this is happening right now. I'm in banking and I hear my clients talk about it all the time. They're doing it as we speak (slowly migrating their business operations and key personell)

The thing about entrepreneurs is that they are an irrational bunch. I could introduce you to a couple of people who would rather put all their money into a boat and sink it than pay it as additional tax. Sounds crazy but from a growing number of people's perspectives, the problem isnt excess taxation, its excess taxation coupled with gross mismanagement. Nobody likes seeing their money go to waste, especially to causes they dont agree with (ie union pensions for government employees that retire after 20 years of service).
I thought this would be related to the story last week about KissMetrics using etags for tracking (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/undeletable-cookie/) -- but it's not. Maybe that will bring another lawsuit entirely.

edit: corrected below, thanks!
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Yep, fiat money systems are at the core of modern wealth inequality. Regulations and other measures will have little impact until we address this. Bailouts, taxes, budgets, deficits, regulations: none of it has much relative quantitative significance when the Fed is doling out many trillions behind the scenes. This money directly benefits the very wealthiest and regressively dilutes the rest on a scale that vastly exceeds the effects of any other policies. Abuse of fiat money is the ultimate economic elephant in the room.
These CC Attribution licenses always scare me off. First off, what the heck does this even mean?

You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author

The author almost never specifies how they want to be attributed. But since they're using an Attribution license they must want to be attributed some how.

So how am I going to attribute an author if I'm using their icons in a mobile app? That seems like quite a bit of extra work.

I don't want to sound unappreciative, this is an awesome project, but I need a "how to use CC attribution art for dummies".
I will wager a guess that anybody coming out in favor of software patents either does not understand software or has ulterior motives.

To a software engineer it is clear that patents on software are worthless (i.e. don't serve society) and hamper innovation.

At it stands I predict that we'll either have a 5 year all out patent war after which companies will beg law makers collectively to abolish patents on software or have 5 decades of patent cold war.
the difference in principle is that some kinds of curiosity are potentially fatal
With this, it is difficult to believe and trust whatever Drummond is selling (apple and microsoft ganging up on google).
It's more helpful just to say

s/begs the question/raises the question/

In most cases, that's what is really meant.
There is no true "healthy", but there is a truth about the state of your bodily function, we just do not know it whole most of times, even doctors. Physically alive and not alive is very objective.

We let doctors do whatever they suggest a lot, we also have the right to refuse medical help if deemed mentally capable. Random people with common sense decide for theirselves.
Western states? How about eastern states?

I think you really underestimate how big this country is and how small a 50-mile radius is. That kind of coverage would be absolutely impossible to do.

Hence, trucks.
A typical article spreading hate towards the rich portraying them as people that have insight into secret evil money making techniques unavailable to other people.

Any ways that hate has always been there and I don't think it's going anywhere.
Just delete it from HN, no need for it here.
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Google almost certainly does not intend to suddenly start charging for Android once iOS and Windows7 are out of the picture.

More likely their intention is to keep it free, but with additional "conditions" such as Google search being the only way to find information. Mandated use of Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar, Contacts. Heavily integrated Google Plus social features like chat, blog, and photo sharing.

Google won't need to charge for Android because there will not be a way to avoid a Google tentacles if you use their OS. Google is trying to burn down the ecosystems of it's competitors with free products and make money by being the gatekeeper of your every activity with a smartphone.
I personally don't care much that these people are wealthy or even able to evade paying as much taxes as we do. The problem I have, and the problem I think the author is trying to expose is that DUE to their wealth, these top 0.1% are able to exert a vastly disproportionate amount of influence on our political and legal system, often times to the detriment of the other 99.9% of us, and preventing politicians from making the level headed, balanced decisions they need to make.

Even if the people as a organized collective can get together to rally against a certain issue, and even if that group can win, anybody with lobbying power (e.g. money) can simply lobby again at a later time to throw in some rider on a completely unrelated bill to pass some law getting what they want.
This comment sickens me.

EDIT - I will always speak out against anything racial so that I never become a silent witness to a hate crime. However, thank you for clarifying your comment and best of luck to you.
Wonderful article..

- Lambda - The Ultimate Ponzi Scheme ;)

- SICP is a bit old book :(

- Things must EVOLVE, Mutation is bad ;)

- The best way to make both ends meet is to tie a knot ;)

- SICP 2.0 - Why don't the nirvana hackers hack the SICP book and lay down stuff they have learnt since their enlightment, as a legacy for all the future CS students? :)

- It will be a OPEN book, highly reviewed and revered ;)
What's your point? The author is talking about the top 0.5%, or even just the top 0.1%.

The Forbes 400 represents the top 0.0000132%.

Sure, maybe entrepreneurs are the majority in that group, but don't trick yourself into thinking the other 1.5 million in the top 0.5% are too.
But you listed "puzzles' in your work, and you included your lunch and co-worker conversation time, unless you're always in front of your screen, zero distractions. If we're all counting all that time, then that changes these numbers a lot. We really need to clarify what 'work' is for these numbers to be useful, at all.
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You have the answer in your own comment:

For better or worse, the current system is largely based around mutually assured destruction.

That is what defensive patents are. Google is saying that they want patents so that no one will attack them (because then they'd sue back, hence bringing on said mutually assured destruction).

It seems like what Gruber is actually saying is that the patents Google is violating are legitimate

Do you think Gruber has read these patents? Also, it doesn't even matter since they were NORTEL'S patents to begin with, so Apple was violating them too up until the point where they bought them. If these are really valid patents, why wasn't he complaining about poor Nortel's IP being infringed on by Apple when the iPhone came out?
You can change the activities/overview screen shortcut in the 'Shortcuts' tab of the keyboard settings panel. It's located under the 'System' category.

I personally chose win-space instead of just win.
The coupon code field is only intended to be seen by people who already have a coupon code. Solution? Make the coupon code field inconspicuous and hard to find. Make it an accordion dropdown in small text somewhere in the corner, for example. Those holding a coupon code will not give up trying to find that place to type in their coupon code, while those who don't have a coupon code have minimal chance of being thrown off by the taunting "coupon code" field.
Shopping cart or checkout? I pile stuff in shopping carts and walk away from it all the time, but once I get to the checkout page where the coupon box is displayed, the purchase is going to happen.
Isn't your comment and Gruber's entire premise ignoring empirical evidence of how Google and (basically everyone else) uses their patents? I don't see Google rushing to make a cut from iPhone sales, and I don't see Google making more off of WP7 sales than Android sales. (Much the way Apple is wanting to make some ridiculous amount for each of Samsung's sales and the fact that Microsoft gets more revenue from Android licensing than WP7).
Windows 7 is extremely stable, and the ONLY people to claim otherwise are people who NEVER run Windows 7, like Apple and Linux users, ha ha.
Awesome service motto. High quality Logo design at $10... you rock Mr.Jaghanivasan
"The insane technological & medical advancements in the past decades cannot be attributed to a few ivary-tower scientists, but to hundreds of thousands of profit-oriented companies. Scientists don’t create much new life changing technologies, for-profit companies do. Scientists then benefit from open-sourced projects."

This statement is so wrong it's hard to find a place to begin a counter argument. Academics are still, and always have been, huge innovators and contribute an enormous amount to the world. I don't understand where this sort of vehement anti-intellectualism comes from.
I'm in now way trying to bash on 99 designs, I'm just giving an honest account of my experience with them.

I put up a contest on 99 designs for their lowest package, the $295 one (I've heard that you get what you pay for, so if you're looking for more than ~15-20 designs for your contest, you should buy the more expensive packages). I also bought an admin template from themeforest for $20 that I needed the logo to match.

I'm not sure if I didn't communicate my idea clearly enough in the contest or even if I just didn't know what kind of logo I was looking for, but none of the logo's stood out to me when my contest was over. I ended up finding a unique font on some font site and it ended up fitting perfectly with what I had in mind so I created the logo myself.

I requested I get my money back guarantee from 99 designs, but never heard from them. I left them multiple messages and called their office multiple times during their business hours but they never answered or responded (You'd think that if a website is offering a money back guarantee and if they put their phone number up on their site that you would at least be able to get a hold of someone but I never heard from them at all).

Eventually I ended up getting my money back but I had to file a dispute with Paypal to get it.

EDIT: To answer your question, I created my logo myself.
I hope I have a project some day where I find myself wanting to work anything more than 40 hours a week. I have very modest living requirements and would be more than happy on whatever I could make working 25-35 hours a week. Of course, I'm not counting personal projects, my own learning or whatever. But 80 hours? That sounds (in a non-judgmental way), depressing.
Reports of Flash's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
I was a Linux diehard too, but I got a Mac laptop and now most of the time I just use Linux through SSH or occasionally through a VM...

I still love it as a development environment (I even get to do kernel hacking at work sometimes) but I'm not as sold on it as a desktop OS as I used to be...
Shell Hackery: The Use of “cd .”
Facebook and Twitter are creating a vain generation of self-obsessed people
Yes, mainly to reduce bandwidth and download quota usage. Given that I haven't bought anything through browser ads over my ten or so years of web surfing without adblock, I don't feel like leaving ads on will help much (particularly with newer flash based ads that jump around the middle of the screen etc).
Probably the in incompetent or barely competent professors people have to deal with in college. I know I've had my share. For my courses there were more competent ones than incompetent ones but the idiots really stand out in my memory.

Example: My university imported a professor somewhere and had him teach Java. This professor had never seen the outside of a compiler before and had no clue want OOP was. He also down marked any solutions that weren't done the way he had envisioned. (Which he didn't often share with us before the assignment was due) Have this guy try to teach Swing to people that have never programmed before. Sadly, I formed a very bad opinion of him which did not improve as I continued my schooling. He was probably a decent guy. Unfortunately after four semsters of his classes, I gave up seeing him as anything other than an obstacle to my academic development.
Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons
Also, apparently Microsoft offered Google the chance to join them in bidding for the patents and they declined.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/03/interestinger
Awesome, I'm going! I don't regularly tweet, though (: Google Plus? https://plus.google.com/101179288103685104802/
Hi! As a member of the Python community, could you please pick a better textbook than Dive into Python? Think Python is a far better book, off the top of my head, but nearly anything's better than DiP for people not acquainted with the language. (http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/)
For the backstory: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/tracking-lawsuit/
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/kissmetrics_reversal/
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/undeletable-cookie/
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/zombie-cookie-settlem...
This started off sounding like it was going to be a Repub/TeaParty/Koch-style political propaganda piece, but the further I went into it the more pleasantly surprised I became. Makes some good points about the distinction between different groups and tiers at the top of the American income ladders. It's true that the concerns and goals and challenges of upper income "working class" folks like small business entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers are different than the folks from Real Money and the big financial firms, banks, executives of huge multi-nationals, etc. I also have become increasingly confident in the theory that the so-called credit crisis a few years ago was basically a setup or con job. There's a lot of evidence, at least at the level of circumstance and motive and means, aligned with it being true.
It is. The suit alleges both ETags and LSO.
That is why RetailMeNot exists.
Google has 740 or so patents so far.

It would be great for them to dissolve their rights to Patent No. 6,529,903 (page rank)

or 7,136,875 (adwords)

or 7,158,878 (Google Earth)

but they won't.

Apple has over 4000 patents listed (my favorite is 4,136,359, Microcomputer with timing based display, by Woz).

Facebook, 11.

Not sure what is pending on the FB front though but surely a lot.

Point being: unilateral or nothing. Lawyer to lawyer wars of words, however public are tedious.
I don't find social icons :-(
Apple Has Secret Deals In Place To Launch A Video Streaming Service
What do you think about the fact that Microsoft council claims the following:

Google says we bought Novell patents to keep them from Google. Really? We asked them to bid jointly with us. They said no.

https://twitter.com/#!/BradSmi/status/98902130412355585

Why would Google decline to be a part of this consortium? It would have disarmed its competitors.
This could backfire massively if the court says "no problem".

Better Privacy and Ghostery plugins are your friends, turn off local storage in about:config -> dom.storage.enabled

Etags is rather clever though, not sure how to ignore those.

added: also remember to turn off third-party cookies in Firefox (it's there but buried in Chrome)

Note to developers: please never, ever, rely on third-party cookies!
It makes sense that the members of the top 0.1% that a professional money manager comes in contact with are associated with the financial and banking industries. Yes, that I agree with.
When confronted with the same problem - the taunting "coupon code" field - our solution was to use URL parameters in combination with the canonical hint.

Only users with a coupon code know this URL. The URL parameter won't show up in a Google search, because the canonical is in place. The coupon code works only for that session and will automatically show up on the checkout page.

Works very well for us.
Gruber: "Sour Grapes"
One thing I always wondered with Backbone, since views are kept in memory, is there a performance penalty after some number of views are instantiated?

If I've got a e-commerce store and a user wants to browse through 40 products, it seems like a view will be there for each of these products. Or am I doing it wrong?
According to you, we are paying a low price for goods to be safely transported. What's the problem?

The point is that we're willing to put truckers through harsher and tougher conditions in exchange for cheaper goods. The tradeoff is less safety. It'd be perfectly possible for a company to have truckers drive max 8 hours a day, with 2 hour stretches of driving separated by 15 minutes of rest time. This would be safer for the trucker and for other drivers, but a company that did this would simply be unprofitable unless other companies were, one way or another, mandated to do the same.

If that were true, I'd have a very easy time hiring programmers and artists. Or are the laws of economics somehow different for truckers than for programmers?

This is a slightly muddled understanding of economics. You're acting like the reason things suck now is that the labor market for trucker labor isn't in equilibrium. The issue is that it is, almost by definition. The reason truckers drive at a different level of safety now than in other possible realities is because that's how the market is. To change that you'd have to change the current regulatory regime.

Descriptively speaking, the structure of the labor market in trucking is different than that for programmers. Markets can empirically differ, you know. Engineers have specialized skills and multiple purchasers for their labor. Indeed, in lots of ways an engineer has some level of monopoly power over her employer, due to the non-fungibility of her labor and the search costs.

The same is not true for truckers. They don't have specialized skill sets, and their labor is demanded by only a few large firms at most. Search costs are almost nonexistent. This gives employers significant power over them in the labor market.
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