skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Launch of YouTube Channel for the environment and storage media
It's pretty, but it systematically freezes about 2 minutes in on my Mac with Chrome 14.0.835.202.

Also, if it's laggy, try resizing the window.
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I'm excited for Ubuntu 11.10 if only because it means I can flatten and reinstall, thus relieving me of Firefox's performance woes for another few months. It's really crazy the amount of memory it uses and the slowdowns that happen when you keep it open for more than a few hours.
At the top I see a blurb from the English Language StackExchange linking to http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/2/where-does-the-... - is that not coming up for you?
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Congrats guys, welcome to the space!

-Team Crittercism
What problems have you had with your T510? I have the T510 running 64-bit Ubuntu - it worked fine out of the box. I think the only thing I had to tweak was the auto-idle-brightness-reduction. Even dual monitor has worked just fine.

Admittedly this is 10.04 - I haven't tried the newer versions on it yet - and I didn't try to get Optimus working.

I do wonder why they're so careful about specifying 32-bit - I guess driver availability. Hopefully this shows Canonical and/or the laptop makers themselves are putting a higher priority on compatibility, so maybe 64-bit support won't be far off.
How the Tech Bubble Stifles Innovation and Hampers Cloud’s Adoption
You used to be able to group search terms using () on Google. It appears that you can't do that any longer.

Google will sometimes substitute words for you, and say "did you mean X?". That's gently frustrating; I'm sure it's great for most people but not for me.

Worse, sometimes google will sub words and say "Search for X instead of Y".

Sometimes, and this is what really bugs me, is you'll include three or four words in the search term, and Google will silently drop one. I only find out when I open the URL, and having wasted a few minutes noodling around the document, I try to find my word using a ctrl F and I discover it's not there.

Here's an example (that appears to work now): (I'm fully aware that maybe I'm doing it wrong, and I welcome advice about best current practice for Google searching. (For example, did Google ever group words in brackets? When did they stop doing that?))

+("os x" OR "osx") +temperature +(console OR "command line")

I expected this to return URLs that:
1) MUST CONTAIN either "os x" or "osx" and
2) MUST CONTAIN either "console" or "command line" and
3) MUST CONTAIN the word "temperature".

When I was trying it the first page of results did not contain the word temperature - obviously very annoying.
That sucks. Is the T510 a 64 bit system? I don't think Linux is quite there on 64bit (although I haven't tried it myself yet).
Yeah. I like the look of the Vaio line a lot but I really want a machine that will run linux well. Ubuntu seems like it would be the best distro for a vendor to partner with.
what should be done instead is a fork of Ubuntu designed to run well in the best laptop hardware out there: macbooks.
Nope :-(

I get this:
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Not freezing on me. Wow, very interesting.

I didn't even realize I could control where it was going till half way through. Had a blast trying to avoid the spotlights. Nice job!
Let me know what information you need and I'll send it to your feedback page. I might not be for a few hours though!
Weird - would you mind sending a screen shot to help@duckduckgo.com?
Even with inch wide menu bar items, the fact that the menu bar is a mile high still completely overwhelms the cost of the distance of moving the cursor to the menu bar. And you can move back and forth while still moving up, to switch between menu bar items without losing the menu bar target. Do the math. Do the experiments. Measure the results. Read the papers. Thought experiments are no good.
On the book : The tone is a lot more like a 'Management Book' than the (very engaging) blog and videos. If you'd like to dig out the content yourself, to see whether it's just self-advertising, start with :

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/11/what-is-custome...
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-...
Really well-done! This impresses me a lot more than dropping a sphere in a box of water.
Most of the people around me seem to think that the safest route for me is to go pre-med, because it is a well-defined path that leads to a stable career.

These people are idiots. The path to a successful career in medicine is a long and difficult one. There is no such thing as normal hours, you will be working almost all the hours there are. On top of that you will be poor until your 30s, at which point you will still have a staggering amount of debt. A career as a medical doctor is a calling. If you do it for other reasons (such as it being "safe") you will burn out.
But remember to get out if you end up in a crap group. Learn what you can, but remember to get out before you develop Stockholm syndrome.
Sorry, I'll delete it, didn't mean to rick roll anyone, it was just referring to other memes I wish would die.

Evidently the negative hits to my karma means that belief wasn't shared and y'all want rickroll to live on.
Chrome hang's too, especially when I have 12 engadget tabs open on engadget. Firefox not so much then I have those same 12 tabs. This is on OSX.
Ask HN: Blogger, WordPress or Posterous?
Which of these is a better platform from a publishing tools and traffic point of view?
More reasons why it is important to do a "soft launch" first. If PR is the reason, then I can think ways of easily spinning that most popular being "We are in Beta this week and our official launch is next week".
I just started learning RoR 3.0 using Agile Development with Rails book a few days ago, and I stumbled across this today. Thanks a ton for these lessons. :)
Stop the Silicon Valley comparisons and take a look at why NYC is kicking butt
Ask HN: What is a mobile only blogging platform?
Wow I haven't looked at Ubuntu since Gutsy. This demo certainly makes me want to give it a whirl again. Before I spend hours playing with it, can anyone clue me in on its media performance (playing flash videos, dual screen, music software, etc.)
Says it doesn't support my browser :S Got a new iMac with OSX Lion and tried with with both Chrome (15 beta) and Safari.
Leadership – An Essence of a Big Change, Part – 2
n first part, we discussed What is Leadership and what are its Ingredients? In this second and final part we will take a look about differ styles of leaderships, their bases and classes.
It's now more of an argument over the usefulness of the menubar, not which is easier to hit. Of course the Mac menu bar is easier to hit. The question to ask is why do we need a menubar at all?

By not having a global menubar, Windows has permitted the development of infinite-width tabs-on-top in Chrome, the Office Ribbon, getting rid of the menubar entirely in Windows Explorer, etc. It's impossible to do things like that in OS X, because we're stuck with a menubar from the 1980s.
> So I'm downloading fedora or anything that makes it usable again.

Good luck with that - Fedora uses GNOME 3 by default.

It seems the only WM I'm personally happy with nowadays is XFCE.
It's amazing. At first I was like - oh shoot, how did they license the music but then I was "oh".

Try banking hard right (or left) and then when the sky starts to go technocolor pull up hard. Wow.

Works great in Firefox 7, unless I go full width (2048x1152).

Chrome seems to spaz out if I try to change the window size.

Opera fans with full OpenGL drivers can now use WebGL too http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2011/10/13/introducing-...
Put up or shut up: A live brainstorming concept
Erlang R14B04 released
Most user interface designers and programmers gave up on the Linux desktop and moved over to Macs years ago. The Linux desktop is like Perl 6. Don't hold your breath. And if it finally arrives, hold your breath and don't breath in, because it stinks.

Even if good user interface designers attempted to contribute to projects like Gimp, they would quickly be driven away because of politics and NIH.
I haven't used the built-in bookmarks feature for years. I checked just now, and I have 10 bookmarks stored (all of them used for quick searching in FF). I still use the concept though, I just offload them to Delicious where they can be properly tagged and shared.
I'm impressed by the passion with which people want http:// back in their URLs. Perhaps it's tangential to the original thread, but why's it such a big deal?
While it's not the same, my sister is now a pharmacist. Even for that, she burned out once, and almost burned out a couple more times. She was doing it for the money.

Luckily, she has found she likes the job, but that wasn't her initial reason.
What's also sad is that those very entrepreneurs are sometimes right (youtube, skype). It makes it harder to be critical of that strategy.
Word clouds considered harmful
Wordpress on your own web hosting. Seriously. I've used Blogger, Posterous, Tumblr and Wordress.com and pretty soon I find myself in a situation where I either need to pay for some basic feature (Wordpress.com) or not have access to that feature at all (Tumblr, Posterous). With my own Wordpress installation, I can install any plugin or theme I want and since I already have Webfaction as my hosting it doesn't cost any extra.
Good write up, Nathan. Nonetheless, you started by saying you were going to challenge the basic assumptions of how data systems should be built, but the resulting system architecture is in fact very similar to a lot of data streaming systems that the academia and industry have proposed and built for a number of years. An example of such system is Google's Percolator [1].

In essence, you separate the system into two parts, a read-only part and a real-time part. CAP explains fundamental trade-offs in OLTP type of queries, whereas this system design is catered towards streaming, analytical queries. These are two very different contexts.

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36726.html
Are there any signs for non-technical co-founders that we should take as 'positives' - like this guy knows what he's talking about ??

I guess the one that springs to mind for me is someone who has previously launched some startups and had some success ...
I don't think "self-hosted" means what you think it does, given that the "Source" tab links to https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq
dual monitors where both monitors are the DVI docking station? fine

dual monitors where one is the onboard LCD and the other is a monitor connected via the VGA port? fine

three monitors, where one of them is the onboard LCD and the other two come from the DVI ports? nope! (this works in windows).

going from windows to ubuntu, there are three big things that i ran into:
no 3 monitor support,
less battery life, and
wifi issues (google for ubuntu iwlagn, all kinds of awesome ways to get it work like iwconfig wlan0 mode 1M, welcome to 2001, and turning off g/n support)

also, suspend/resume has a 1/10 chance of not resuming. this is worse than window's 0/10 chances of not resuming (every. time. i pulled my windows T510 out of my bag and opened it, it was there. with linux? i cross my fingers)
Wow, this article is full of clear, coherent, well thought out points... and references!
Looking forward to your improvements to PLCrashReporter, hopefully they will be open-source as Landon's work. Welcome to the space!

- Team HockeyApp
Awesome demo. I kinda got scared when I saw that I'm logged in with my google account, inside firefox browser inside the demo...

Until I figured it out: it's an iframe. Brilliant for a demo, kudos to the team for the idea and implementation.

Naturally, I'm posting this from inside the demo. :)
If they are vitriolic about the issue then they are likely to be a wacko. Whether liberal or otherwise is TBD.

After all, only a wacko would say "f* Cloudant" to someone's face who they just met or heard about.
Wow, the last few seconds of the video are so beautiful.
Why Audio Matters: Hacking Gamers' Memories
Uh, no, of course it doesn't. Something is seriously fubar on your side.
Yep, same problem. Firefox hangs whenever I try to do anything "intensive" with Places, such as selectively deleting stuff from the history or reorganizing a large number of bookmarks. It's gotten much better than before, though.

Weird thing is, Firefox is still faster than Chrome on my computer (Win7x64). I don't know what's wrong with my computer, but Chrome is noticeably slower than Firefox in day-to-day use. This only happens on this particular computer. Chrome is indeed faster in every other computer I've tried. Very strange.
For those who don't watch the markets, check out triquant (NASDAQ:TQNT) http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TQNT

The rally seems to stem from the fact that iPhone 4S uses some triquant chips
all intel x64 systems are capable of being 32 bit. also almost all non-netbook laptops are x64 systems now (and have been for many years). however, if you run 32 bit, you can address less RAM. so. have fun! :(
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Como se quita el acne
hi everybody is a pleasure to be member of this community, I hope to share useful information with all members of this community. thanks
Where are those awesome headphones from? Link?
I have really enjoyed Unity. I think there are a lot of very good UI choices that are better to the normal gnome desktop. I am bummed to hear that alt-tab affects all workspaces. That is one of the things that drove me crazy on OS X.
Google Wallet - Getting good design done in an engineering-driven company
Ask PG: Can we have another bar to mourn the passing of Dennis Ritchie
try and implement a classic game that you know the rules of really well (Astroids, Missle Command, Pac Man) using canvas for graphics and spine js/jquery html5 local storage for the ui/high schore/save game/network communication.
A postitwar tool generator online
You can upload image for generating it in post-it and calculate numbers and cost of post-it !
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> The problem with your stance is that preventing the expression of emotion is often a cover for elitism.

Elitism is a good thing. HN is an elitist forum. Youtube is a forum for the mob.

There is a reason that Idiocracy portrayed stupid people as those who mindlessly cursed and raved in every sentence. Profanity has its place, but especially in comment threads it's a limbic reaction rather than an intellectual one. "F* you" adds no value, can be said by anyone, and can be heard anywhere. The more "f* you", the fewer posts by startup founders, technologists, and people who know what they are doing.

In other words, the fewer posts by elites.
This is a symptom of the upgrade to Gnome 3.20.
If you click through the picture, it says they are BXR red headphones. Not sure what that's from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ikayama/5696871115/
And yet, at each release, it seems the focuses on UI changes are the more important...

I've seen almost no UI changes in Firefox 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. All the change-logs were basically backend optimizations.
Use a different browser. I use iCab and it has DuckDuckGo as a search option built in. There are also lots of other good things, like modules to post to delicious/pinboard/read it later.
I think that's great advice. I'm trying to design a lifestyle business right now too. One other thing I thought of is that it doesn't just need to be one thing- it could be several small niche things, that when added together bring in lifestyle money.
Groupon tries to recruit DHH.
If you click on the picture, it takes you to a Flickr page with a caption. They're Astro A40 BXR's http://www.astrogaming.com/a40-headset-bxr-edition
I definitely agree with what you say about medicine. It's not always that simple though -- some people really feel parental pressure on their lives. And it's not just parental pressure, it's peer pressure too. On top of societal pressure.

I attended Yale and it feels like everyone is pre-med or trying to get into finance (consulting or investment banking). You sort of feel out of the loop if you're not doing these things (I was one of the dozen computer science majors in my year).

A lot of these people don't see the problems until it's too late. The perception by society is that being a doctor is a stable well-paying job -- most people don't take into consideration, like you said, all the tuition costs, and years spent in school.

If you go to Yale, you're expected to achieve great things -- that's just the societal pressure. Not everyone deals with it well. So some hide in the "safety" of what society expects, rather than pursuing their dreams. These people would be too embarrassed to pursue their dreams, if it meant say, being unemployed for years or working a minimum wage job. I suppose that's more of a pride issue, but sometimes it's borne of a want to please others (while unfortunately forgetting about self)

That said, she's not even at the school yet -- she'll probably change her mind when she gets there. Plenty of people do once they're given a chance to think for themselves in a new environment. But plenty of people also ending up burning out because they've pursued pre-med or finance without it really being their calling, or love.
Bill Buxton put it well: it is an unworthy design objective to aim for anything less than trying to do to the Macintosh what the Macintosh did to the previous state of the art.
The iCloud tax for Mac users
Naval sees one small slice of a very large market.

Given the bleak macro economic picture, funding has probably fallen on Angel List, where a lot of doctors, lawyers, and non techie investors look for deals.

But the overall picture for early stage funding, as concrete data shows, did not get any grimmer over the last two quarters.
(Not trying to dispute your experience, just presenting my own for balance, for the benefit of anyone trying to decide whether Ubuntu on a Thinkpad is viable.)

* Triple monitor: like you, I couldn't get this to work.

* Battery life: it's not been as good as in Windows, but it's been very acceptable if I tweak a bit using powertop. (Of course, I'd like it to be as good as in Windows.)

* Wifi: I have had no issues whatsoever; this worked perfectly out of the box, even with WPA, G/N, etc.

* suspend/resume: I've never had a problem with resume. About 1 time in 100 it will fail to suspend (which is just as bad, since I have to hard reboot to turn it off). It's been nowhere near 1 in 10 for me though. Easily reliable enough for me to not worry about.
Flick list with its momentum/kinetic scrolling and deceleration
You haven't given any reason why implicit initialization of variables is better than explicit. Explicit initialization is already required for any initial value except 0 and it conveys intention. It's not onerous -- it's 3 extra characters, and it makes it clear that you meant it to be zero (and you didn't just forget to initialize it).

I think the case for omitting "= 0" is weak at best. If you encourage this style some novice/intermediate programmer could do the same thing for a stack variable, which will bite him/her. Given all these costs/downsides, what is the benefit of not typing those three characters?
Dive Into HTML5 would seem a good place. Here's one mirror:

http://diveintohtml5.ep.io/

(It was released under some CC licence, so I'm guessing the mirror is legit. )
I will take that 'issue' over the sluggishness of Firefox on my Macbook any day of the week.
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Crowdsourced Ubuntu hardware compatibility.
Happy to hear that!
How to make a better analog watch
My experience so far:

* Looks nicer.

* You can't modify the panels. I always had some shortcuts there, now I have to go through the menu.

* You can't even change the default icon theme using the customization app. You have to get gnome-tweak-tool (IIRC).

* ALT+F2 doesn't do anything by default. I guess the key bindings are changed/some are disabled by default.

* It tried to install the new ATI drivers, then miserably failed. Trying to fix it, I purged the old drivers, but it still didn't work. This only caused it to freeze at boot time, so I had to the recovery console to fix it.

* Bottom line: never ever upgrade from an old version. Always do a clean install (or pick up a different distro/OS).

* Note: I'm using Gnome (now not so) classic.
You DO NOT want to run a desktop user interface on a tablet.

Was Unity specifically designed for a tablet? Does the window system have multitouch support? Accelerometer support? Do any of the applications themselves support multitouch and accelerometers?
That's cool, but it seems a bit overcomplicated. We use an alias for each instance and keep that alias file in github. A new dev comes on board, they git pull, and they are off and running.

Maybe I'm missing something, but how is this python script better?
Is it just me, or is the music from SNES RPGs more memorable than any current day RPG music? I'm talking Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy (Kefka's laugh??) -- you don't hear music like this anymore.

Music, that when heard, makes you want to play the game or relive the memories.
The tax cost of actively-managed mutual funds
Also nice: Google Search Volume by Language: http://data-arts.appspot.com/globe-search
I was under the impression that Percolator was a purely incremental system. I'll have to give the paper another read to see if they're using a hybrid batch/realtime approach.

The system I described isn't limited to any particular "type" of query. It's a way of supporting arbitrary queries on arbitrary data, which encapsulates everything.

Most people assume mutable state and incremental updates when building data systems. This is in fact the approach that almost all databases take. These are the assumptions I challenged.
Is Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Another Headache?
The only sad thing about the advice to take "core" requirements during your first year and then do your major in your second to fourth years is that it hurts CS majors (and presumably others) who then end up forced to take multiple heavy systems courses in a single quarter, usually due to pre-reqs or every-other-year offerings.

If you take Operating Systems and Compilers in the same quarter, you're just not going to be able to get as much out of them as you would if you took them during separate quarters.

Even if you manage to avoid schedule overload, it still means that you're only just finishing the basic curriculum tree near the end of your senior year. That's too late to start doing independent projects with faculty, which are really the easiest way to both give you a better-looking resume and to find out what the graduate school experience is like.

I see this frequently with the students at the UofC, which actively encourages students to do nothing but general distro courses their first year. That said, I'm also a little jealous! By the time I took freshman physics as a senior, I was far too busy with research to care about anything more than a passing grade, and I probably missed out on some fun party tricks.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Telephone_rec... provides a good starting point. I don't know of an authoritative citation offhand.
In Mozilla's defense, they've handled Places-related issues well in the past.

http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/05/25/fsyncers-and-curvebal...
I disagree. It belongs in the browser.

Also, Opera has had it for years (right-click any form field and choose "Create Search" - no plugins or options screens needed)