skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It also took me DAYS to find how to deactivate this really annoying desktop switch when the mouse reaches the side of the screen.

OK, I can see how navigating the System Settings can be confounding but search (in the System Settings search bar) on "screen" and "Screen Edges" comes straight up. Then you can disable it. Days?

A while back I tried to make the shift to Gnome, found it impossible to _work_ with, what you're used to makes a heap of difference (eg those familiar with KDE will be familiar with screen edge switching from KDE3 and will find it a lot easier to disable).
Ironically, "never or rarely" seems to be the most popular choice.
Yes, while it's not my main browser, I use it for more than just testing.
That's why every poll is biased.
It's a nice sentiment, but it's the same sentiment expressed any number of times after terrorist attacks in the US, UK, and Spain over the last decade. The point isn't to just say "we aren't going to let you take away our tolerant way of life," the point is to actually not let enhanced security measures do that.
There is no failure when creation and learning has occurred.
Some users are uncomfortable with the idea that even if they avoid Google entirely by not using their search, OS, email, or maps, that Google can still have a profile of them and which sites they visit.

If you don't like the company and want to avoid them, you will now have to choose to not visit websites served through their DNS. That's much more difficult than just using a different email provider.
HN Digest (daily HN newsletter) now includes Nettuts updates
I agree, I might have one 'app' that is what I consider my actual application, but then alongside it at the same level, something like Django OAuth. It would be a stretch to call django-registration or OAuth an 'app', since they can't do anything alone.
Proposal Research Paper
The writing of research papers is mandatory for all students. The research paper proposal is a part of the research paper writing process. It is of great importance to write the proposal in the proper manner in order to ensure that the research paper will be approved.
Sample B2B Content Marketing Strategy
Signs You Are a Blog Comment Spammer
How else would you ask this question to obtain an unbiased response?
Content Doesn’t Have to Go Viral to Be Successful
My Site Tested Slower With Google Page Service
And the fact that that's with the bias really tells something.
Consumers have chosen fragmentation and rejected sameness. We're never going to live in a world where everyone carries around the same phone with the same resolution and all the same features. Devs, of which I am one, have to conform to reality. Apple and other platform companies have to make it as easy as possible for their developers to create applications that work on multiple resolutions (separate .xibs for iPhone and iPad is not the way), but their #1 concern is their customers, and if their customers want different styles (I think they do) then they should provide them.
why try to quantify the unquantifiable?
Ask HN: Is Google's +1 button one of the signal for Google Search?
Hi,
I wanted to know if Google's +1 button is really effecting website's ranking on Google Search. And if it effects, how much it really counts?
Thanks
Maybe just ask which browser people use from a selection, obviously including Opera as an option.

Edit: OT, but it would be interesting to do this in the near future to compare and see how much bias there really is in this poll.
The government loses a lot of money by being so incredibly tight-fisted.

All costs must be approved in advance, to ensure nothing is wasted. So nobody in government can run a small project, see how it works out, then scale up if needed. It's all-or-nothing.

Ironically, governments have less to lose if budgets go a little under or over - they get pretty cheap financing, and they are a big outfit who can absorb small variances within the system (as long as it's not systematic). If a small company has a project go over budget, it can kill them. But governments (who can afford the risk) pay extra for the surety.
I voted for main browser (desktop), but it's not entirely true.

At work, IE8 is mandated (though I did manage to score Chromium recently and switch over).

At home, I've kept the same Opera session alive for the past year and a half. I use Opera for the sites that I never really leave, just refresh every morning and evening. Many of the tabs have been open for the entire time.

But when I just want to pop into a site for a little while, like HN or something, I open Chrome. It feels so much faster even though it probably isn't in absolute terms. (Also, I operate one Twitter account from Opera and another from Chrome, so it's convenient to have two browsers anyway.)
the undisputed weakest and least sophisticated of all the mobile platforms when measured on its own merits.

Oh my fucking God, please. I wasn't sure before, but you just outed yourself as a huge Google -fanboy.

Yeah what's Apple's platform got going for it? -It just changed the whole industry and showed How It's Done. It's also regarded as technically very solid, and pleasant to develop for.
The project team did an amazing job with this release. I'm not a Symfony user myself, but their website is very professional and well organized and the documentation is excellent -- very thorough and updated for the new release.

Beyond methodology and community, one of the major decisions involved when selecting a framework is being confident that your codebase will be supported in the near future. The Symfony developers and community seem very committed to their framework. Great Job!
And, more importantly, a change in rating from AAA to AA+ doesn't mean anything compared to a sovereign being derated from investment-grade to non-investment-grade.

Derating may be a black eye to the US's status in the world economy, it's hardly the end of anyone investing in Treasury Bills.

[EDIT] That's from the podcast itself. I listened to the whole thing. Downvote the parent if you disagree.
Fixing a memory leak in a running python process with GDB
Today at work we had a really funny challenge: fixing a memory leak in a python process that was already running and couldn’t be stopped.
Here is a short description on how I tried to fix it.
Compiling executables on Heroku
web streaming from real live radio stations
Around 1995, when Ruby was created, Python was "notenough OO".
Twitter, is that you? :-P
I use Firefox/Chrome/Opera, each for different purposes. No option for, "Yes, not my main browser."

For instance, I use Opera for access to my company's Google Apps suite. And I use FF for personal. Chrome for social media for my job.
Things That Tweet
I don't think you understand the math there. Unless competitors claw their way up to Apple-like margins, market share (or share growth) will decline much faster than profit share will. Even if profit share declines, that doesn't mean that actual profits decline.
When Eric Schmidt allows me to search through his wallet and home, he can collect the web pages I browse and the cookies, sessions and httpauth data attached to them.
Programming Mother*******
Other: mp3 blogs and forums. I like to discover new music by reading something about it first, preferably from writers whose taste I like. When a description sounds intriguing, then I'll download and listen. That also fills me in on cultural and musical knowledge along the way, since they usually provide some context on how the album being discussed fits into its genre, predecessors/successors, etc. (basically, why they posted it, and why I should care about it).

I've discovered some interesting stuff via Last.fm as well, but somehow the streaming-tracks approach doesn't do it for me. It might be in part that I prefer albums to singles, and in part that the cultural context is interesting to me. So algorithmic recommendation feels disembodied on both counts: random songs separated from their album, streamed at me in a jumble with no explanation.
eMusic, mostly because I have a pretty good annual plan that was grandfathered in.
Sorry for the cynicism, but I'm boiling it down for you without any sugar-coating.
Hi everyone, blog post author here, and I'd like to apologise if this reads like a bit of a grumpy whine, despite the fact that the tool's making money :)

I'm currently experimenting with various marketing efforts), and they do sometimes seem like an uphill effort, with very few definite answers other than "Experiment and see!"

I'm trying to work out how far to experiment with this one, and will keep on writing updates as they happen :)
Err, I thought Perl led to Ruby. The name being a play on gems after all. I think you're right. Either that or its just for fun.
http://url2png.com/dom2png/

I threw together a hybrid of client side DOM and url2png's distributed webpage rendering farm.
This proof of concept should be enough to kickstart a team needing this functionality today.
Best of both worlds in my (biased) opinion.
I find it quiet greedy and tightwad to ask for money for this thing, for 2 reasons:
1) It will help sick people.
2) It's based on other people research.

EDIT: think about those who made great software (Linux, emacs, etc.) and made it available for everyone, for free, and think about a guy who ask 2$ for a font that might help sick people.
I used to, because I loved the keyboard-only navigation (and Vimperator required me to hit number keys accurately, which is kind of awkward). Vimium on Chrome has left me only a few reasons to use Opera (mouse gestures, bookmark syncing), and they just aren't important enough.
The racial performance gap explained
It just changed the whole industry and showed How It's Done.

I may not like your tone, but if nothing else you are correct about this point. Apple was clearly the company who made everyone else understand that delivering a good smartphone involved good software in addition to hardware and that good hardware alone was worthless. For this they deserve recognition.

That being said: They created a platform, a very simple and limited platform, which worked adequately for people of limited needs. And for an initial release it was absolutely stunning.

That said, this does in no way translate into a platform which ages and evolves well. My complaints are mostly in this department and this is where I think Android is (and will remain) miles ahead of iOS.
The big company probably eats the risk of the small company stuffing up, or the government changing requirements halfway through the project.

They also do all the unexciting tender work, certifications, negotiations, rainmaking, etc.

If a government employee asked a savvy web dev to scope out and implement a solution, it would be cheap. But they can't work that way. The project has to be specified upfront, in advance, because otherwise the government might get cheated by an unscrupulous developer. They would rather be sure they are getting cheated, that way there's no way they can be accused of favoritism.
> Justice Arnold ruled that BT must use its blocking technology CleanFeed - which is currently used to prevent access to websites featuring child sexual abuse - to block Newzbin 2.

Good old slippery slope.
I hope Norway can live up the that promise. We sure didn't back home.
I've used it since v5. I love it, but seem to think about switching every once in a while, but no one seems to have mouse gestures which can match Opera's. Also, I love the speed dial.
It _could_ be. It could also be any one of a 100,000 other institutions which trade treasury futures. This is not a big trade or a big deal. This article is very ill-informed nonsense.
PCMag's Original Interview With Bill Gates From 1981
If you feel you've been unfairly downvoted, give it time. The rest of the community usually balances it out.
It's worth investing the time to familiarize yourself with London's bus network. I'm a big fan of the "spider maps" they introduced a few years ago. They're kind of like mini tube-style maps for each neighbourhood:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/busdiagra...
Did anyone die in those attacks? Didn't the plane hit a segment of the Pentagon which was under construction and unoccupied?
The Debt-Ceiling Debate: The Death of the "Risk-Free" Investment
There's an old investing axiom that says "there's no such thing as a free lunch" - which basically tells us we can't earn a profit without taking some risk.
Your safety should still be your top concern. You should not be relying on another to provide it for you.

I'm sorry, but I find these type of comments useless. So you're saying there's nothing AirBnB could do and there's no need for them to worry about it, so we can just end the conversation right now?

I think the point that was made was that there is an inherent asymmetry in that the guest can remain more anonymous than the host. Since the guest is more anonymous, there are less incentives to don't do stupid stuff as you can more likely avoid repercussions.

I interpreted the suggestion as thinking of ways to hold the guest more accountable. Maybe by having a verified bank account? Maybe a credit card held for long enough that it's reasonably not stolen (though could still be a stolen identity).

And yes, of course any system can be circumvented by a sufficiently motivated individual. But, like with locking your front door, it's about making it complicated enough that it's not worth it given the reward.

* Nor should you expect them to put systems in place that violate the rights of the majority*

This makes no sense. How exactly would AirBnB violate anyone's rights? It's a voluntary service you can use if you so desire.
I rather see it as highlighting a weakness in the system. Arresting someone on suspicion without evidence tying the human to the twitter account and to the actual crime is a sad state of affairs. People should be made aware that this kind of thing cam happen with little recourse for the mistakes of the police.
Very good question. For some reason having differentiation in the smartphone space is known as "Fragmentation" and bad.

Personally, I'd be very happy with Apple bringing out a wider mix of phones, but they seem dead against it.

Edit: Just seen your comment at the bottom of the page - I totally agree - Apple's lack of different options is probably going to go badly for them in the long run.
When I was considering moving from Kubuntu (my previous long term distro was Slackware; I tried a lot in between) I was considering OpenSUSE because they appear to integrate KDE better than other distros. It's not vanilla but I hear it's KDE done right, properly integrated and extended - I've not made the jump (too entrenched now probably).

I'd say Arch gets most often reported as most vanilla, but I don't think most vanilla is necessarily a good thing.

http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=6673&start... (the question comes up often)
http://www.tylerburton.ca/2010/03/my-search-for-the-best-kde... (a bit old now)
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hpcmr/what_is_the_bes...
What do you think Go fixes ?
You can use this app as a learning experience (education) for creating a bigger and more profitable app
Is HTTP header just a codeword for cookie? How does a website get the browser to send custom headers?
Opera 12 brings big speed boost, crushes network latency
An hour seems too low. I'd say more like 4 hours at least, more if you are taking time that would normally be wasted anyway.

Otherwise, I agree with the rest of your comment.
Cloudflare does have the ability to let you define CNAMES for your site and manage those in your own DNS outside of Cloudflare. I believe it is in limited beta right now but we are testing it and it works great.

Contact them for more details.
Yes, 125 people died at the Pentagon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks#Casualties
I found it particularly amusing that Common Lisp solved the "too many dialects" problem, being a Lisp dialect itself...
use git -> fixed
As someone whose name looks like a misspelled English version of the name, I think you're jumping to conclusions there.
Opera was the most suited browser for my eeePC (1gb ram, Atom in ecomode most of the time). I originally planed to use Chrome as I thought it was lighter and faster, but quickly found out that Opera fared much better globally.

Beyond the numbers, Chrome seemed to perform worse as my number of tabs growed. I had freezes and the pages didn't scroll smoothly. I don't have such problems with Opera.

I have over a thousand of synchronized bookmarks, 4 email accounts set-up, in the end it just saves me a ton of ressources as I don't have to open anything else for my needs.

Chrome is perfect as the secondary browser who doesn't save sessions, the launch is blazing fast.
(That's a terrible analogy.)

I'm comfortable with using IP addresses to issue warrants -- I don't think it's a stretch to say that a reasonable percentage of the time it'll turn out to be accurate.

The way computer seizures are handled is fucked up, though, totally with you on that.
I'm a bit old fashioned, I guess: if I'm not looking to use Grooveshark to listen to something specific, I find that you can't replace a good DJ playing a good mix of music.

I've found more great music listening to WFMU (http://www.wfmu.org/) than anywhere else. It's a fantastic freeform station that has something everyone can love.
The app is still new. After a while, it may make more. Or it may not. Who knows? I wouldn't call it a failure.

For instance, I haven't updated one of my iPhone apps in a few months, but in the past week or two my sales for it have been better than I normally get in a month. Sometimes it gets better, and you just have to let it grow.
Cloudflare user here..

Cloudflare does have JS and CSS minify features, as well as some asynchronous JS support.
Do you have any recommendations for how to find good mp3 blogs? What you describe sounds like exactly what I'm looking for, but I haven't had much luck with blind searches.
YMMV Note that I am not comparing it directly to my iPhone but to the previous Samsung non-smart phone I had which I lost, which was just a basic phone. I'd honestly rather have a basic non-Android phone than the Galaxy Europa.
Drop the price, study the market. Otherwise, I agree with the general sentiment that it's not a failure.
If you search from inside vim, it will load the results into the quickfix list. This means that it jumps you to the first result, and `:cn` and `:cp` will take you to the next and previous results, respectively.

This is much easier than searching in a terminal, noting the first filename (which may be buried in some directory), opening it in vim, then jumping/scrolling down to the relevant line.
I use Spotify when I know what I want to listen to and http://thesixtyone.com when I don't.
Colin, would a reasonable implicit assumption be that if the problem being solved isn't a problem for me, then I should stick with the language in question?

I mean, for e.g., if I don't care that Python's not OO enough, I don't need to know Ruby, right? Right?!

p.s: in case it's not apparent, I will be using these graphs to justify some laziness on my part :)
Not only is it arbitrary, it could be cool if it was realistic. But "Not pure -> ML" ? Seriously ?

It should be
Turing machines -> Too awkward for modeling programming -> Lisp
Lambda calculus -> No typing -> ML -> Not pure -> Haskell
ML -> no objects/modules -> Ocaml
If earning $100/month is a failure, mine will be an epic failure. I'm totally not earning anything, plus it's still running totally based off my own wallet.

A way to indicate whether it is a failure or not is whether or not it continues to grow, if you're targeting a very specific market it is very unlikely that you will earn a lot of money (I personally don't have that much amount of email that I need InboxCleaner to do some job for me...).

If however it is an awesome thing, people will get to know it and start using it, then it won't be a failure.
Think about it this way, a ton of startups that get funded with huge amounts of money end up making $0/month :)
On the other hand, pricing is a real problem. I don't see many people paying $19.99 for it.
If you believe many people have this problem i'd suggest a very low monthly fee - although it will make less in the begining it could make more in the long run (as long as twitter doesn't implement a feature like this).
I have not used Emacs, but Vim feels incredibly powerful to me. I feel that I can tell it what to do in a very natural way: "change inside parentheses", or "delete from here to the word 'foo'," or "replace 'bar' with 'baz' inside the current set of curly braces."

Most of my time in code is spent moving around, editing and refactoring. Vim fits that: "Normal" mode puts an entire keyboard of commands at my disposal for for moving around and editing - no need to press Control or something to say "watch out, I'm going to issue a command!" Of course I am - that's what I mainly do. If I actually want to type, I go into insert mode.

I have written the beginnings of a book to explain the power of Vim, if you'd like to check it out. I'd love any feedback anyone wants to give.

http://nathanmlong.com/vanquish/
I'm guessing a bank of such size won't believe that a $7 scan can tell them anything. If he charged $10k they would probably think that it was worth acting on too ...
Wait, what? Symfony 1 and Zend framework are 2 of the most popular frameworks for PHP. If you've never heard of it, you haven't been paying attention.
Also, the Live Music Archive.
Yet reports seem to indicate Apple is planning on rolling out a "budget" price point phone [1], so they probably are worried about market share after all.

Apple is on a long term digital media dominance play. They want to be the one stop locked in shop for many people's music, software, video and books. Sure they'll continue to be interested in making good money on their hardware but their evolving iOS platform strategies clearly point to what they're looking forward to. And in that version of the world where content sales is king, market share means a whole lot.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/iphone-nano/
Of course it is. XKCD explained this a few weeks ago:
http://xkcd.com/927/
on Windows Opera is the best option.
U.S. Mint Ends The Dollar Coin “Scam” For Airline Miles
I've found Opera to be fairly lightweight. It handles large numbers of tabs with (a bit) less memory usage than Chrome. Admittedly, this is because it's not a multi-process browser. It does mean that it functions well on machines with limited resources.
You can send custom HTTP headers from the browser with XMLHTTPRequest, commonly referred to as AJAX. Not totally sure if this is what the poster is referring to, but its possible.
Does anyone have a short list of apps affected? I somehow doubt that Google shoveled any truly good and useful apps down the 50th page.
i'd suggest a very low monthly fee

I was previously charging $4.99/month, and before that $19.99/year. So far, the one-time fee is winning, although I'll be interested to see if that continues next month ;)

Quick edit: Right in the early days, I experimented with charging $1/month and $4.99/year, just to see what'd happen. End result: a lot of nothing. Still not sure what to make of that, other than people don't want to pay for the service ;)
>>many a time i have to rely on wikipedia solely.

As a more readable alternative, try this http://inperc.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Courses.
Im a little hazy on my DNS knowledge. I understand upto zone file, dns and A records. Haven't quite understood how i would achieve this with a CNAME? _ i've tried to understand many times what CNAME's are but never got my head around it.

Would you mind elaborating a little?
I did contact them about a month ago, and explained the problem and they just told me it wasnt possible at this moment in time(?)
The app is still new

To be fair, it's not that new - it's well over seven months old at this point :)
Hi creator of the font here - A Creative Commons doesn't suit me, but I do allow people to embed it in web pages if they give credit :)