skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is touching to see the human element from idols who have always put on a public face. In this case, Colbert's character put away for a moment, which let you see the person behind the mask. Steve Job's death adds the human element to his legendary career and persona, which is what has captivated me the most. I look forward to reading Steve Job's biography to better understand one of the people that I most admire.
It appears his influence was in the layout of the building itself. We really don't know enough about the layout to the new Apple campus to make the same kind of judgement.

From what we do know, I already see one counter example. The new campus only has one place to eat, ensuring that many people will run into each other on the way to cafeteria. This is much like Jobs placement of things like meeting rooms and bathrooms in the center of the Pixar building.
Can Federer win another slam? How can he do  it?
According to what I read it's a hassle to get it installed and then working. Also, I don't know how it behaves on updates. The Ubuntu help page linked in the article mentions something about a post-install script which might needed to be run more than once...
We are The 99%
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It is true. Check out the iFix it teardown[1]; you'll see the RAM is soldered to the board. I still don't think 4GB versus 8GB matters as much -- you'll be paging to an SSD, after all.

[1]: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Air-13-Inch-Mid-2011-...
I have to wonder about the Linux requirement though? What do you do on Linux that can't be done with OS X underlying BSD? If you are a linux developer then I can see it but if you are doing almost any other development or design, there is little to recommend Linux over BSD and many reasons why OS X is superior as a desktop OS.
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"Win $50,000+ in start-up-friendly prizes to kick-start your business"
Interesting subtext beneath the article - with Jobs gone once again Apple is going to slow down and eventually die. I'm sure I'm not the only one that read that in the article; there will definately be a lot of, "Can Apple continue to innovate now that Jobs is gone?" articles in the coming year.

Unless he passed on to someone his vision for what he sees as the future of the iPhone or communications in general, I think Apple will begin to flounder again and eventually fade off into history.
You have a point that function calls should look like function calls, but keep in mind that, in Ruby, juxtaposition is how function calls look. The same goes for quite a few other languages as well (Haskell and ML off the top of my head, but there are others).
My guesses for who's name will be most widely known by an average person 1000 years from now, no particular order:

Hitler

Neil Armstrong

Gandhi (showing effectiveness of nonviolent resistance)

Einstein

Vanevar Bush (for his essay "As We May Think")

Bin Laden (showing power of terrorism)

Craig Venter (as important early bioengineer)

Milton Friedman (market economics)

Lawrence Roberts (Arpanet)

Steve Jobs (mainly just for the iPhone)

William Shockley (Head of transistor team)

Wright Brothers

Richard Stallman (Just because DRM will always exist and he will be known as an early popularizer of related issues)

Darwin will be far more important than any of these, but is outside your date range.

Who I don't think will make the cut: Tim Berners Lee (world wide web will be too anachronistic) Turing (no emotional resonance with his work, unlike Vanevar Bush)
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"Initially, I tried to work with Windows 7. It really is not bad at all, but my brain seems to be hardwired to use a Unix command line (and Vim) at this point, so after a while, I had enough and sought refuge in Linux-land."

Have you tried Cygwin? I've been using it for years, with no problems. Unix command line goodness in Windows.

Also, you can install vim from the Cygwin packages, or install native Windows vim. Both solutions work well.
We're targeting Debian, so running that (in a VM) on a 4GB MBA is not pleasant. Borderline unusable, sometimes. That's why I'd have preferred an ultraportable with either more RAM or the ability to run Debian natively on. Turns out, I found none so far.
Recently net neutrality ended and now we have 250 GB/Month bandwidth caps as Comcast customers.

I don't consider a bandwidth cap applied univerally to be a violation of net neutrality. There may or may not be a legitimate justification for it, but it's still treating all traffic the same. The violation would be if they charged/extorted sites like Netflix or YouTube to collect payments in exchange for traffic to them not counting against the cap.
Ask HN: How to ask for a raise at a startup?
Dear HN,

I work for a small (<25 people) but profitable software shop in the US that has been around for a few years. The company has seen very steady growth in terms of revenue (double digit percentages) over the past few years. I have been here for about a year and a half (my second job after graduating from the university) and now feel that it is time to ask for a raise. I think so because I have delivered a number of really large projects for the company and am the "go to" guy for a lot of architecture and software design questions.

My question is how do I ask for a salary raise? Sites like salary.com seem to contain a lot of information about larger or more established businesses which might throw off my numbers. What kind of a percentage bump can you typically expect out of a raise at a profitable startup? Are there any techniques beyond "show your achievements and show that you deserve a raise in the current market" that I could use in the negotiations?

Thanks in advance.
I can't keep track of all the models around, so I picked the biggest competitor to the MBA. On a glance, that Asus doesn't seem to have a particularly sturdy case and also Nvidia Optimus might make it a nightmare to run Linux on.
This may be a nitpick, but how can something be "fairly deterministic"? Is it possible for there to be degrees of determinism? I would consider determinism to binary, either something is deterministic, or it is not. If a thing cannot be demonstrated to be deterministic 100% of the time, then by it's very definition it is non-deterministic. By that logic, I would actually conclude that the entire universe does in fact behave deterministically. If it didn't, then I don't see how science would even be possible.
There is one reason: If you think bitcoin is some kind of pyramid like scam he is going to make a lot of money from it. As the creator he was able to accumulate many bitcoins while mining was still easy.
I used to use Windows, even though I had gripes, because it was okay and there was no good alternative.

GNU/FSF/RS helped create a good alternative.

I've used their stuff, despite my gripes, because there was no good alternative.

Now there is. There's a tremendous amount of rock solid, MIT & other licensed open source software out there. And I want to switch to that. And ditch GNU/FSF/RS.

It's a free marketplace, and RS & Co. have to compete too. They got me to switch from MSFT, but now they're the ones who are behind the times IMO.
I had the same question:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=96815
Unfortunately, they're still US-only (so far).
Taking back U.S. for the other 99 percent
My previous company did something sneakier. They didn't ask us to sign a non-compete, they made an informal agreement with its clients and vendors not hire any of us.

Now I have 3 years of experience in this specific field but, after being laid-off, no company in the field will hire me.
Curious to hear how this was possible. You just put the RAM in? Did the Macbook recognize all 8GB?
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This project seems to be a poor-quality re-implementation of openssh's agent forwarding by someone who doesn't fully understand ssh's key mechanisms. In fact, it's a good deal less secure than `ssh -A`, as it exposes the agent proxy both in a unix domain socket AND in a tcp socket bound to localhost -- the latter of which is accessible by any local user.

The README uses very vague language, but my guess is that the author does not understand the difference between agent forwarding with `ssh -A` and copying private keys and starting a new ssh-agent.
Ram is soldered to the motherboard on the new MBAs.
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Jobs 'Driven by Demons' to Success
A correction. A relation is not a function but a function is a relation. A function is a restriction of a relation such that for each thing_a in A and thing_b in B, for a pairing of (thing_a's,thing_b's) by some relation f,each thing_a can only be paired with one thing_b in B.
Wi-Fi Finder for Android
Beyond bandwidth monitoring on a single machine, a simple snmp monitor would be amazing...
If clock speed isn't a primary concern... why bother upgrading the CPU in the first place? Why not just go with stock?
Well, yes. Science doesn't know, but that doesn't mean that scientists doesn't speculate, or that some of those speculations may at some point be shown to be more or less correct. Not knowing in a scientific way is a very interesting kind of "not knowing" :-)
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The iTunes Store is available in many countries around the world. The Amazon Music store isn't.
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> It's hard to compare PC and Mac hardware because part of the Mac value proposition is Mac OS X. If you're not going to run that I would have to ask: why buy a Mac?

Some people have no desire to use OS X, but the Air is an extremely nice piece of hardware at an awesome price. Except possibly for some ridiculous luxury models in a totally different price range, nothing similar is available from other manufacturers yet.

And no, the X1 is not even remotely similar. I don't understand why this article seems to think they make for a good comparison.
... so why upgrade the CPU if it's a net detriment to you?
The title "Hacker News" is a lure designed to draw more people in. It would be best if this place went back to it's old and far more honest name "Startup News".
Pre-orders are scams according to Paypal
I assume you're on Mac?

Right now the Dev build of Chrome on OSX doesn't allow you to install new extensions.
Why I don't like class-based generic views
This is what Rogers did in Canada. It used to be a 200+ GB cap then it slowly lowered to 60GB, 80GB, 120GB depending on your plan. (not sure if those numbers are 100% correct as I've since moved to TekSavvy)
Patent Troll Conflict of Interest?
On Dr. Ralph Steinman and Steve Jobs
Vimroom
Notice too the extremely slow push-in on the camera when Colbert gets sincere. There's a bit of cinematic wizardry at play to make it extra poignant. It emphasizes that Colbert was truly breaking character - the entire show broke character in a sense, by using some non-standard direction.
When will a language be fast enough and practical enough to replace C++?
The Effectiveness Of Distance Reiki.
Khan Academy - I point out the demographics in my post. It supports my point. Also note that it's free and a nonprofit, not a VC backed company.

Wireless Generation - They have been around for 10 years and were not profitable at the time of sale. http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/23/news-corp-deal-for...

Zinch - didn't really get off the ground. I know the founder and others on the team. Really great folks doing some great work. Part of the reason they sold is that getting any serious traction and turning it into a large business is going to take many many more years.

Put it another way. In the same amount of time that Wireless Generation was founded the rest of the Internet got: Facebook, iOS, YouTube, Wikipedia, DropBox, and much more.

There is a big difference between an industry being nascent (as the PC industry was in the 70s) and the fundamental dynamics in the industry creating certain types of companies (as is the case with education and some other industries).
PyPy's future directions
This is pretty cool, I thought it would overlap with Chrome's own tools but its a useful set of utilities that complement it
Yup. Win7 on latest MBA right here. Loving it.
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I'm not sure about that. I think it's about a lot more than just that =).
Old-(high)-school hack: TRS-80 controlled card punch
What I Learned From Steve Jobs
Actually thats not true about dumping the whole problem on customer. A customer could be a buyer or seller, i believe you are talking about the seller. If you read the SEC filings paypal/ebay takes some loss based on what type of scam/stolen/other it is.
I'm looking at my MBA right now and don't consider the screen "glossy". I've had glossy screens before, this isn't anything like that.
Weather forecasts are great, and a huge improvement. But another weather forecast reading app isn't such a big improvement, unless they're easier, more beautiful or have better forecasts. I think the first two points are pretty much covered (there is always room for improvement, but still). My point is that we should aim to improve on the third point.
Way to split hairs and miss the point, huh?

But that sorta proves his point. Linux isn't good to normal people today just because it's full of geeky magic dust. It is good today because it "Just Works™".
Google+ 2.0 From ICS - Offers New, More Polished Interface
Have you measured your usage over a month's span? With the amount of video content, streaming music, and "cloud" out there these days, it's a heck of a lot easier to use a big percentage of that as a single user than you might first think. But if you just look at text all day, maybe you can rest easy. "Ever" is a long time though.
Twitter revoked cree.py's API keys
I suppose it's stuff like this that leads to the dozens of abandoned language implementations that litter the world of software like balled up hamburger wrappers outside a truck stop.

It's enough to drive a man back to Scheme. Why do all of these sh++ languages get so much right and so much wrong? My personal preference from the list is Python, but it's full of irritants as well.
Thinkpad were the best - T, X and W series. Asus Higher end models are great in performance and build. Also check Toshiba.
I expect that, monetarily, things worked out just fine for him.
Coupons are not an option in Germany, that's why I compared stock prices.
Hey, NH, I'm not the poster, but why is this being down voted? Linux being easier to use and easier to maintain isn't something we all could benefit from?

And for fucks sake, don't say "it's FUD". I had a hard time installing drivers for an NVidia graphic card this month in Ubuntu's latest stable version, running in Dell workstation. I could even put out some videos.

I'm tired of people who had difficulties with Linux being called liars and getting down votes here.

Linux is great, but it's not finished yet. There's room for improvement. (Same with Windows. Same with OS X).
The features I love most in iOS5:

- Multitasking gestures on iPad
- New notification view and widgets (only weather and stock at the moment)
- Wireless syncing
Hmm... Downloading a DMG without knowing if it was not modified or not... I will rather wait for the official release in a couple days and get it from Apple. At least as a regular user I will do that... Being an official iOS dev, the GM is already on my iPhone and iPad.
After hearing Woz speak and reading his book I think for him it's all about the challenge, solving the puzzle. The guy is simply not motivated by money, it's ideas that drive him. He is quite simply a pure hacker and that's why I so admire him.
A cloth which CLEANS itself.
The labels gave DRM-free music to Amazon first in an attempt to lessen iTunes dominance. Apple was publicly rabble-rousing for DRM-free music before that.
I didn't know I wanted something like this so much.
Yeah by invoking Microsoft I was expanding "taste" to a much more general meaning there, sorry for the confusion.
Steve Jobs and the Power of Taking the Big Chance
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It seems like you check for SYN packets, so there is no way to just see the connection currently active. This in my opinion limits the usefulness of the application, it would be cool to see an update that can have a tab for "live" connections and one for the "history". Thanks for the app anyway.
So now Google will be targeting advertisements using information about keywords you read from the screen all day long? Great.
I was going for full specs in the comparison.
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Yes, because we all know that the occasional configuration problem is unique to Linux.

Really.

Counterpoint to your story: I bought a notebook with a 3G card in it, couldn't for the life of me get the thing to work under windows vista (which it came installed with). It got so bad that I suspected that the hardware must be broken.

For kicks I booted the machine using ubuntu NBR, not only did it detect and configure all the other peripherals properly but it also auto-detected the 3G card and it made it work instantly without further configuration, other than clicking the 'connect' entry in the menu and entering the PIN code (four times '0').

Just because there is the occasional glitch I'm not going to say 'windows vista doesn't support lots of hardware'.

If you say your soundcard/wireless/etc doesn't work under a major distribution then that's really unfortunate, but that does not make your story representative of the vast majority of Linux users. Personally I haven't seen any configuration issues in Linux for over a decade unless it was because I was using some very rare and either very new or totally obscure hardware, and even in those cases I could always get it to work by using google for a bit.

Except for that one time with the 3G card under windows. But that's not proof of anything other than that there was at least one instance where someone had a hardware issue with a windows machine.
Amazon spins off Kindle Fire products into separate company called Seesaw
I meet interesting guy at meet-up, or friend of friends.
that's why I build meetcliv.com
It collect & analyze the information from web and let u meet the guy u want to meet. :)
I don't understand this logic, what would the higher tax accomplish?
A list (with less than 10 elements a time) to store easy things. I think only few people's brains can function like a graph.
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Read patio11's past comments. He generally has very good advice on this issue.
That was a problem with the t400s and t410s that were manufactured for a period. The problem is now fixed in newer t410s and all t420s.

I love my Lenovo t400s. I went around the world with it, dropped it, smashed it, and just did terrible things to it. And yet, it keeps on chugging along. My t400s is like a car that never wants to die. The consumer in me wants to upgrade but I can't find a sensible reason to do so.

It's like my mother: always present, reliable and stable. It's the only piece of hardware that ever made me smile.

I'm a lenovo fan fo lyfe!
I don't really think popularity is a reason to suppress rms' constitutional rights (he is a US citizen as far as I know), no matter how crazy or alienating his opinions are.
What’s So Great About Siri?
This. Macs are the only short/medium-term future proof machines right now. I use Windows 7 on a new Macbook Air 13" for my daily stuff but dual boot to OSX to work on iOS.
Ever heard of "blame the game, not the player"? Trying to put all the blame on Steve Jobs' shoulder, right after his death, is horrendous.

Steve Jobs wasn't the enemy of freedom RMS paints him as. That he personally wrote letters against DRM on media-stores and against the closed-platform called Flash asking everyone to favor HTML5 made much much difference in those two specific areas than most things Stallman did lately.

(Funny, reminds me that that FOSS advocates here on NH are okay with Android prolonging Flash's life and using closed-source software only as a means to gain market share)

Granted, he never open sourced the whole operating system, but why would he? To see Apple collapse again while Dell/HP and others strive? What's the point? Then we start all over again? We'll have open-source chips manufactured by 2 or 3 companies? What's the fucking point?

Seriously, I'm tired of Stallman's half-assed socialism. It's an offense to me. You don't destroy capitalism by destroying companies, or people. You destroy capitalism by destroying the core of it...
Pre-sales of ‘disappointing’ iPhone 4S fail to disappoint
Does the Android world have literally no respect for copyright? This is obviously a leak of copyrighted Google Code and I highly doubt that this website has permission to redistribute it.
> It's hard to compare PC and Mac hardware because part of the Mac value proposition is Mac OS X. If you're not going to run that I would have to ask: why buy a Mac?

I brought a Mac as I wanted a POSIX compliant operating system with a good battery life and flawless and fast suspend. Linux was unable to provide that for me.
You can upgrade it to an i7 though (not sure the parent was saying you couldn't).
I am not saying your conclusion is wrong, but:

- CPU caches are wired much more complex than SRAM memory modules would need to be. It may be shared between CPUs, and being n-way surely requires silicon, too.

- if the ratio is way more than 10, why, then, do I find zillions of references stating that a) DRAM needs a transistor per bit, and b) SRAM can be built with 6 transistors per bit?
as a security person im always afraid those especially popular downloads have malware. specially on android as its trivial to add functionality to an existing apk.
i wish all of the apks were signed.
Not sure how that'd be possible; wouldn't a competitor have to run cable of some type to the homes? Its hard to compete when your competitor has all their infrastructure down and you have to build yours from scratch.
I think it was because they didn't do the outro music, and the audience didn't clap and cheer. Just a straight fade out.
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Doesn't swapping to an SSD should make supposedly 4GB of RAM acceptable? I don't use Eclipse (Dog forbid, I'm an IDE hater) but I can't fathom it needing more than 4GB of RAM. Heck, I run 2 virtual machines, Firefox and my editor on my 2 GB MacBook.
Neat, my implementation of the command-line TODO list manager is sh-todo (written in POSIX compliant shell for maximum portability):

https://github.com/asb/sh-todo
love this. I've been crafting my blog articles in vim lately as well and this will definitely make that a more pleasant experience.
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Are Computer Scientists Are Hypercritical?
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I don't know if i really like all the buttons being moved to the top.. i don't see the benefit, it's only worse to reach when using the phone one handed, imo.
> many reasons why OS X is superior as a desktop OS.

I'm posting this from my MacBook, but I'd say only one thing: Focus follows mouse. That's the one true way.
I live in India. Is there a way I can help? I looked at BeTheMatch, they do not have a collection center here.
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So Steve Jobs was a watered-down moderate?
How does this stand up when there are split windows? Is this mostly for single window/terminal use?
The version of the "Think Different" ad with Steve's voice was surprisingly emotional to listen to. It's always an odd mix of comfort and sadness to hear a familiar voice that belongs to someone who's gone.
Found the same thing on emacs:
https://bitbucket.org/phromo/darkroom-mode/
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...or in JavaScript getting 'var' everywhere for free.
Punishing the greedy capitalists?
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