skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. There's a fork, though, called Mate (https://github.com/Perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment).
To be fair, that quote lives in the following (verbatim) context:

***THIS ISN’T THE USUAL YADA YADA!***

In addition to the practices described in the Google +1 Button Privacy
Policy, by installing this extension, all of the pages and URLs you
visit will be sent to Google in order to retrieve +1
information. Examples of this information include whether you’ve
previously +1’d the page and how many people have already +1’d the
page. Google’s use of this information is described further in the
following help center article
(http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1319578).

At least they're not trying to hide anything, recognize that some people will have privacy concerns, and are drawing attention to this fact. The linked FAQ claims that they don't store the information persistently. Though I suppose it could be argued that this policy is subject to change in the future.
One item of possible note: It wasn't possible to have list driven output syntax in Java before 1.5. I'm not sure if they added an output method with elipses in it then, or not. Even if so, I'm not sure it would be faster.

Still, I could modify the scripting output lines to bring them down to Java's level :-)
Lately I've noticed that search results are much worse than they used to be. I used to be able to find the things I've been looking for on the first page, now it seems like most of the links are not very relevant to my query. Any one else experience a degradation in the quality of results?
I was hoping 'do a loop' did something as well.
Off topic: is it just me or why does indiegogo.com resembles so much like userscripts.org
Wow that just flipped my world around.
Funny, how soon we forget that shit work is what Myspace was all about. That was the use case. Typing in a giant, unstructured list of your favorite artists or installing some way-too-busy image as your profile background in order to impress your friends was the highlight of the "social network" as it existed in 2004.

People, mostly women in my experience, loved that "shit work" the same way they loved putting on makeup or shopping for uncomfortable clothes.

Some work is enjoyable. People do it for fun. Like gardening, or knitting, or cooking. I believe social networks are kind of like that, for at least some subset of the population. Privacy probably shouldn't be that way, but sadly, I think we all know how scarce people are who actually care about their privacy.
* There are a growing number of insecticide resistant mosquitos http://www.lancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(...

* Prolonged exposure to insecticides have been linked to Parkinson's http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/704621
and Lynx, but with just 4 frames the animation is a bit choppy
Not to worry - this code is only included for this query. I can guarantee you this easter egg wouldn't have shipped if it had required supporting code to be present on every query, for the reasons you mentioned.
Glad this is here; I really liked Google realtime when it was around.
"At $40 for an interior design class"? What is the connection between interior design and the kindle? And/or what is the connection between the monetization plan of a night class at a CC and the kindle?
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I imagine this is at least part of the reason why echonest got rid of the "found audio" feeds in their API - http://blog.echonest.com/post/9371410835/deprecating-artist-...

For now I will stick with Soundcloud - the future going forward is to support artists who put their music out there without holding a gun to anyone's head.
Because it's a software brand, not a hardware brand.
To a large subset of white conservative Republicans, yes, it is.
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It's very easy in use, don't need registration. Awesome songs search, try it!
Search button at first seemed superfluous to me also, however I have really found a few great uses. I use it all the time now:

Instead of launching the browser and then going to an web address, I can punch it in after hitting the search button. Opens browser with that address.

I never have to launch the browser and then search for something.

It's also great if you need to find someone in your contact list and dont feel like scrolling

The search button is also contextual, so that if you're within an app you can search for whatever(maps, sms etc)

Also long pressing on the search button brings up the voice commands.
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That's a cop-out. I bet you're totally OK with people saying "Android is destroying iPhone in the marketplace!". You can't have it both ways.
And Google is why you are fat.

Type in "this is" and it finishes with "why you are fat".
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You can side-load non-DRM'd books from any outside source in iBooks. That's no different than Amazon's support for outside ebooks.
The text is supposed to be white; it's on a blue sky background.
As I read the article I knew something like this would be the top comment on HN ... :-/

Apparently lots of people make this mistake.

Is it stupid? Maybe. Probably.

Do we need to have a lengthy discussion about it every time it is a minor part of a story or article? I'd rather not.
Are we talking about the same thing here? We are talking about a TEXT EDITOR. The INTENTION is to EDIT TEXT.

Vim does EXACTLY that. It doesn't add silly buttons that require you to remove your hands from the keyboard to the mouse to interact with. It doesn't add silly gradients that get in the way of showing you text. Aesthetically it's incredibly simple, and interactively it's incredibly complex, but IN A GOOD WAY. Not everything, especially tools, should be easy to use and learn. A well designed application knows its target and exploits it. Vim does exactly that. It doesn't mean it's a catch all tool for everyone, generally those kinds of tools end up half assed.

And for the record, I am actually a designer, I used to use TextMate, I now mostly use Vim. The UIs are similar in their sparseness. The 2 small beefs I have with Vim is the title bar text being overly verbose and and the rounded corners added by Lion on the bottom are rendered a bit glitchy.

TextMate on the other hand, while a decent text editor, has perhaps the most hideous project drawer around. Wait, actually, TextMate was never 'designed' as you describe it either. It just uses built using Mac OS libraries. I would think that if you were going to harp on design so much you would at least bring up the more 'designed' text editors, like Coda and Espresso, not TextMate.
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Jason Friend and DHH wouldn't agree to this post.
Actually you can. One is comparing the software, and the other is comparing the hardware.
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And on the iPhone. Impressive.
No it's a perfectly valid comparison. it's like saying cars made in Detroit fail more often than cars made by BMW. Android is widely considered as a low-quality OS running on low-quality hardware. Android's strength (ubiquity) is also its weakness (it runs on crap hardware).
As I told the other poster; If you start doing this with Android "sales" as well then all will be good. At the moment when people talk about how is "winning" it's always the whole of Android vs. iPhone. Given that I think this report is perfectly acceptable.
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Work for Apple, learn a lot. Nothing says you can't leave Apple later and pursue something.
Access to the clipboard are reasons why I still install apps like Grabbox, Tinygrab, etc (less steps I have to take). Hesitance over the use of Flash for a usability gain for the user seems like a silly sort of squeamishness (look at bit.ly's copy to clipboard buttons).
I never understood the usefulness of the preview feature. The only time I find it marginally interesting is when a website is currently down or had recently been taken offline. Though, I find the "cache:" query more useful in those cases anyway.

The preview window does pop-up unexpectedly for me as well. I guess my mouse pointer wanders over to the right side of the search result every once in a while, triggering the preview.
Android is an OS. It competes with iOS.

The LG Revolution is a phone. It competes with the iPhone.

Android is a fine OS. The LG Revolution is crap. In terms of hardware failure, the manufacturer means more than the software.
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It's a software brand defined by being "open" and thus freely available for shitty hardware producers to use on their shitty products.
It's a CSS transition in an inline <style> block. I imagine it's inserted dynamically with the results.

body {
...
-webkit-animation-name: roll;
-webkit-animation-duration: 4s;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: 1;
}
Funny how articles about computer-generated prose are never computer-generated.
Sure, but I don't think that's the right criteria. Any task can be made faster by associating a fixed button with it. But every fixed button has a cost. If you do a ton of "searching" then sure, this is good. My personal usage would be improved with a "go directly to email" button. Most people don't search that much. Or if they do, they do it from a desktop widget (even faster IMHO). I don't think it's an appropriate usage for the very precious physical space on the front panel.
I guess you don't remember the old days then, huh?

While there wasn't a time you couldn't install a new version of windows, it used to require a professional due to all the issues involved.

And there were tons of applications and games that only worked on the right size monitor, and right speed of computer. Some computers even had a button that was used to slow them down for old software because of it.
Android is a "platform" brand.
I cannot highlight/annotate samples. I have a second generation kindle. Is this a new feature of the newer models?
I suspect the ability to leave at any time was a requirement of institutional review boards (IRBs) and consent laws (false imprisonment, anyone?).

Perhaps a way to do it and remove the ability to leave would be to send them to the International Space Station for an extended period ... (still cheaper than a trip to Mars!)
I run into this problem all the time. I usually hit the "More search tools" link and then limit my search to the past year or so (depending on the issue).

Also including specific version numbers helps as well.. but maybe this update will make those techniques irrelevant.
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My code normally has all sorts of: if(DEBUG) { print $foo }; (with a global boolean DEBUG variable) in it.

Ugly? Probably. Useful ass-saver? Definitely.
That's not what most people have in mind when they talk about Android vs. iPhone (not IOS!) and you know it.

What does it say about people who have to tweak numbers to get the results they want to be true?
Ahh! I've fallen into another boring Apple circle jerk...

Consider yourself lucky that Microsoft and Linux don't require you to have homogenous gear to require you to develop web apps hosted on their systems. I should not have to buy a specific brand of hardware to develop on that platform, otherwise, its not very "revolutionary" at all is it?

The arrogant idea that mac is controlling quality by requiring a few select developers to make IOS apps is the reason I bought an Android phone, I'd rather deal with spyware and viruses than arrogant prudes.
iBooks supports ePub and PDF, iOS supports MP3 and AAC and can play h.264 encoded videos. Apple sells music without DRM (just like Amazon) and videos as well as books with DRM (just like Amazon). Loading your own media without DRM is never a problem.

Apple is about as permissive as Amazon when it comes to selling and playing or displaying media.

You might be confused by apps. Apple is indeed less permissive with them.
It is - it's actually my screenshot!
An empty mind is devil's workshop. And a jobless attorney dept. is... well... they do this.
Also try "tilt"

http://www.google.com/search?q=tilt
I'm with Arrington. He isn't racist in the normal way the term is used, it's a very serious accusation to make, and rudely stifling his ability to speak his mind on this is disingenuous and a typical tactic of those criticizing him.
Does it handle smartphone/tablets correctly ? (my current online RSS reader is really not good at that)
> Additionally, I propose that we redefine the name for the unit of "dollar per Watt year" as one Belgium.

I approve.

Note that lumping the entire US into a single number misses the fact that prices vary enormously within the US as well.

There's a huge table of prices in the US here: http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/electricity/esr/table6.html

The variation is amazing. While most of the prices are around the average you mention, some are quite low, with a decent number of people paying under 4 cents/kWh. On the other side of things, on place in Alaska pays over 100 cents/kWh, and a lot of others are well above the highest figure on your table. For somebody who buys power from the Middle Kuskokwim Elec Coop Inc, 1W costs $9/year.
Nope, I know all of the above (have both devices).

I would think that when the primary use-case is reading, then books are to e-readers what apps are to smartphones, and I'm not really a fan of the "single point of acquisition" model.
> What about married founders. Isn't it very important to have an understanding wife?

The understanding can have a time, cost and cashflow/earnings limit. At one of my start-ups, of the first dozen co-founders or staff (who received sweat equity at +2%), I was the only singleton. After 18 months it was clear some wives (all staff was male, except for our designer) were beginning to feel that their husbands weren't spending enough time with them, earning enough from the project in the short-term or that they couldn't take vacations as frequently or for long enough. At around two and a half years, there was a revolt by the wives, who had come to know each other, and we had to change some of our practices within the company to accommodate them, or we'd lose staff and potentially many months of development, when we were reasonably close to finishing our first major & deployable build.

We were quite open amongst ourselves in discussing the issue, but a considerable problem was that our product (corporate software) had a long & detailed development period and revenue generation was delayed longer than anticipated. Our alpha/guinea pig testing of our product hit has some snags as a result of the revolt and ultimately revenue generation has been further delayed as well.

I can understand their perspective and we have tried to accommodate them, but our view (co-founders and senior staff) is that this is our "retirement fund" and we want it to be successful in the medium and long term, not a short-term small cash generator.
I was going to post this as a reply, but every thread here so far is talking about this.

Saying that "Android is the larget smartphone platform" is not in contradiction with the statement that it's unfair to treat all Android devices equally. Nexus devices are superior to other devices in terms of consistency, speed of updates and reliability. Sense and Blur laden devices are less likely to be updated and are historically buggier.

It makes sense to lump Android together to talk about a software platform because those are the statistics that matter to mobile developers. They want to know where the users are. When it comes to phone, saying "Android phones fail more often", is only one abstract level above saying "Smartphones fail more often than dumb phones.".

While it's a true statement, it's not a complete statement. It seems to make sense to distinguish between manufacturers of Android phones when making these kinds of statements in my mind.

Note, I have no problem with this sort of an aggregate report. There just seems to be a lot of "AHA" and "Gotcha", by talking about Android as a brand and pointing out that Android is considered an "aggregate" for platform size comparisons.
I think it would be more useful if you could somehow display the top tweets in each box so I could get a better sense of the topics at the same time.
Does this guy know what he is talking about? The default Amazon security policies don't allow anyone to access your machines by the internal IP (or external IP). His link to "Serious security issues" goes to a slideshare on caching. Can anyone write anything on a blog and be an expert? Also he talks about EC2 & VPC like they are different things. VPC is part of the same infrastructure. Is more of a feature.
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And here it is
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So this "Special Offer" was a LivingSocial deal. I would agree with you but I looked over the email many times, and my own account page. There is not only no easily visible option to cancel, there is no email contact. I have to call to complain.

Even more befuddling is that every Amazon purchase I have ever made has resulted in a confirmation email minutes after the purchase. This "Special Offer"'s confirmation came to me at 2AM, well after I went to bed. I'm willing to chalk this up to me mistakenly hitting the buttons and ordering the offer while awake and that there's a delay to process it on the LivingSocial end. Either way, it was not reassuring.
There's a lot of really great support in the robotics community. ROS, Robot OS, works great in ubuntu and makes it really easy to get data out of the kinect.

http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinect
Yes, the ones who haven't succeeded yet.
From my experiences outsourcing saves money but costs velocity. There is much time spent creating detailed specs, clarifying the specs, reviewing delivered code then immediately demanding key improvements made to that code, replacing subpar developers, pinging developers that have gone AWOL, and all of this happening with the usual timezone delays. Sometimes its faster to write the code yourself than it is to create painfully clear storyboards, wireframes, or demand yet another rewrite.

To avoid these hassles you have to spend a little more money to include a local manager to drive the outsourced team and be responsible for their delivery.

Honestly I get the sense that people who are happy with outsourced code are either unusually lucky to have found a highly skilled and responsive outsource, or more often they just not technical enough to judge the technical quality or the timeliness of what they are paying for. They are happy with the shiny car the outsourced team made and they can't realize the engine compartment is an absolute mess.
They should've done a tilt version for mobile devices.
Actually, no. iOS 4 was designed for the iPhone 4. 3G getting it was bonus, and in the end, they fixed the bugs.

And when you say something like that, how about no Android 2.3+ for the biggest part of Android phones out there?
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That's fair. I originally had the word "devalue" in the comment, but I pulled it out. Why? No one is forcing the analyst to participate, but instead, they absorb the costs to get exposure or growth (or fun). Whether that's a fair tradeoff is up to each person, but given the number of folks participating in Netflix competitions, these, and others out there, a group of smart, analytic types feel the tradeoff is worth it.
Unfortunately it doesn't look so easy to order Open Compute servers.
Perhaps part of it is that it is a reminder of lack of control of cloud based software? With most traditional software, if I dislike the new version I can continue using the old. With cloud based software, including just about all web based programs, when there is a new version my choices are to use the new version or switch to something else entirely (and if the product has any form of effective lock in, the second may not really be an option).

People like the feeling of being in control, and a change they did not expect and cannot undo undermines that feeling.
I agree (in a less caustic way). I'd make this jump only if I had ample time on my hands. I'm sure there is context here that justifies it which was left out of the post.
> Having a smartphone is perhaps the best way yet invented to avoid phone calls!

Not having a phone is "the best way..."

Also SMS.
In Walter Issacson's Book, Apple Inc paid Apple Corp $500 million dollars for the worldwide rights to the "Apple" name, and then licensed it back to Apple Corp. When you invest 1/2 Billion dollars in a name, you want to make sure you don't lose rights to it by not defending your trademark.
The lawyers-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands probably go to AppleBee's sometimes and don't want that company to disappear.

Or, they don't think they could win that suit.

All in all, appauling.
The Android fanboy behavior in this thread is absolutely appalling. People point out the logical inconsistency in wanting to lump Android together when it's a positive and split out when it's a negative and the result is mass downvotes? Disgusting. I'm at -5 on some of my posts. I wouldn't get that for calling someone a fucking asshole.

Some of you need to go reread pg's essay on ID.
I think you meant to write 'spouse,' not wife. Unless you assume every entrepreneur is male.
Haptic feedback is not a poor substitute for feeling a button depress, it's just the current reality of having a phone with a large touchscreen. You have the choice between a (relatively) much larger screen (with option of haptic feedback), or some buttons you can depress that will eventually wear out mechanically (I bet the touchscreen would outlast a mechanical button).

The only real problem I can find with not having a mechanical button is that you may sometimes bump your finger onto one of the buttons, and will find yourself suddenly in the home screen. This actually happens to me a lot in the Nexus One, but I also blame that on failed multi-touch implementation that ends up sensing my finger in some spot it's not in, or when the capacitive sensor senses my palm holding the phone through the case.

The HTC Legend menu button isn't consistent with the design of the other buttons, and it's very ambiguous. To me 'menu' is the equivalent of the home button; I expect it to take me to the home menu. Another interpretation is that it would take me to the home menu of the current application I am using, but this function is very similar to the back button.

The back arrow doesn't symbolize a lack of forward motion (it just points right to left). There are many languages (Hebrew, Persian, Japanese. Sometimes Latin and Greek too) that read from right to left defeating the universalness of the icon.

The search icon is actually designed very well as it is consistent with most devices in the world.

On the other hand is the home icon isn't very well designed on the Galaxy Nexus, but it would be very impossible to confuse the button for a shift-key, an up-arrow, or a pointed rock (I don't understand how you got the connection between a hardware button and a rock, I feel like you are just nitpicking at this point, which is why I am nitpicking your post).

In defense of the Galaxy Nexus having 3 icons instead of 4 is really more effective (why have a menu & home button, and I don't think a lot of people use the search button), it's just too bad the icons weren't designed better.
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I agree with this. We've used a couple of contractors outside of california but in the US. To avoid the majority of issues raised here, we got a potential devs to complete a coding task on metered time. While there was a higher initial cost of hiring we got much better results and are paying well below valley prices.