skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still shaking my head -- really, Joey? You? You have to see how undermining the "Google Chef" narrative hurts guys like you probably more than anyone. It wasn't too long ago that you were looking for experienced Rails and Mongo devs to help with Earbits. If you were starting today the dynamics would be very different.

I understand that from your perspective as a CEO/Founder there are nuances here that make the business ethics not so cut-and-dried. But for the vast majority of talented devs, the take-away from all this will be a simple story:

Once upon time the "Google Chef" could become a millionaire.

Now he can't.

The End.
cletus and drivebyacct2

I've discovered recently that its the video hardware and how that interacts with the precise (sic) choice of graphics driver that governs Unity speed.

cletus: you can test my hypothesis by logging in with the Unity 2d session and seeing if the UI becomes more responsive. Scaling (super-s) will be 'ragged' without 3d effects but should be faster.

drivebyacct2: what is your graphics card and what driver? I need a new desktop box soon myself...

I'm giving Unity a try and I have to admit its a little fussy and busy. My fallback is Debian with a tiling window manager (dwm) so I've been going in the 'menuless' direction for some time.
the prevailing theme in most comments regarding mint i've seen on reddit and various blogs is that people like mint because it's easy. one of mint's big selling points is that they include the ubuntu-restricted-extras package by default, rather than making people install it.

if people can't install a single package, i don't think debian is for them.
dyn.js:

http://jsconf.eu/2011/dynjs_-_100_invokedynamic_java.html

Interview with the developer here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/10/dynjs
Ouch, that is a lot of money.

I got a free Revue from Google, and we use it a lot to watch streaming Netflix movies in our living room. I would hope the next TV that I buy has Google TV built in.
How Facebook is using your friends ... to protect your online security
Your points are well taken, but the minor nitpick is a bit unfair. I was using the phrase "quantum physics" as shorthand for what, I suppose, I could have more specifically described as "...the mechanics and dynamics of matter at a subatomic level, at least according to theory."

I'm a layperson, and you are a physicist, and there is no question that you understand these domains a lot more clearly and thoroughly than I do. And there is no question that my usage of certain terms is going to strike you as imprecise. That said, I believe there can be some leeway in the usage of terms to make them more immediately communicable to an audience of mostly laypeople. Smart laypeople, sure, with a greater basic understanding of these topics than your average person on the street. But, by and large, not an audience of trained theoretical physicists.

When I said that "quantum physics" is "the problem," I did not mean to reify quantum theory. Then again, I don't think most readers of my post would assume I was trying to do so. While your nitpick is fine, in as much as I wasn't as specific as I could have been, it seems a lot of quibbling over a semantic triviality.
yeah at least go full retard and make it "4 ur" instead of "for ur"
I've been running Arch on a vps for a few months and I really like it. It feels like a more modern slackware + good package management. Very solid, and it doesn't pointlessly deviate from the standard way of doing things.
That is like saying google.com when it launched should have had low engagement because there was also yahoo.com as the dominant player. It makes no sense. Google.com had crazy engagement because the product rocked. It did have a gradual growth because it took a while for people to hear about it but when they did try it, they got glued. Same with facebook.

I simply don't see many people getting glued to google+. Now you can argue that it's because not a lot of people are on it to which I counter that 40+M people are on it; way more than enough for a good product to score engagement.

You can also argue that 40+M members are too isolated groups, to which I say who's fault is that? A big part of doing social is having a growth and engagement strategy. The only strategy google seemed to have is to slap a G+ signup button on their homepage. All that has done is deliver false signs of success.
This is a good example of why Google became a great company: they understood the big picture. Zynga apparently does not.
DNS Monitoring for Both Sides
No that's the author of 100-Hour Body (definitely not my opinion of worthwhile literature), right? But I think I understand why you'd have that impression. This kind of "personal branding" definitely has a similar taste to that kind of ethos. Although I don't think it's fair to necessarily opine on this particular blog post, there's nothing abjectly wrong with it, by the same token it does seem a little off for HN. Still, if your goal is to build a brand so that you can sustain yourself, maybe it's not such a bad thing. Approach is definitely important though...

Edit: apologies, the author of this article and the referenced are one in the same, according to the author. My mistake!
Even if we postulate that it's more difficult to become a chef, or that fewer people are capable of becoming chefs, the economics of software - the borderline-nonexistent inventory and marginal cost of goods sold - conspire to make software engineers generally better paid than chefs. It's difficult to draw conclusions about how important the skill of this particular chef was to the success of Google, because we don't have a lot of data about "successful startups with chefs as early employees", but we do have a lot of data about "successful startups with talented engineers as early employees".
Celsius please, or at least have both.This is supposed to be science not a localised weather report.
a sad day for internet users indeed
It seems to me, though, that there's room for all the people interested in developing a "for everyone" UI to rally around a single project.

The people interested in making Unity/Gnome 3/etc aren't the people interested in making ratpoison.

I wish desktop Linux would look a lot more like Rails 3: a "sensible defaults" stack that is ready-made for picking up and using, but with the ability to easily swap out SuperFriendlyDesktop for MyBadassTilingWM, the same way I might swap out ActiveRecord for DataMapper.

Of course, every distro thinks they're that, or are trying to be that. The problem is that there's no agreement on those defaults, partly because none of them are good enough (partly because they're no agreement, and around and around we go...)

The problem we're seeing with fragmentation isn't choice per se, but rather what we're seeing proven over and over again is that everyone trying to create their own "friendly" desktops results in none of the projects getting enough traction to get over the hump.
Desktop Linux users are flocking to a distro that looks like an uglier version of Windows 2000?

"Tonight we're gonna GUI like it's 1999!"

I guess if they had any aesthetic sense, they'd probably be switching to OS X...
Yeah, it is. So? Why would doing personal experiments to improve yourself be a negative for personal branding?

Some of his experiments may be considered silly by some people, but that doesn't take away from the fact that he is working on becoming the best version of himself he can be - an admirable mission everyone should strive to have, but few unfortunately do.

I don't know Jason, but he seems like a really cool guy with a lot of drive, dreams and ambition.
Ask HN: How to host a Show HN project affordably?
Am working on an editor type of project more because I need it than because I plan to spin out a business. On the other hand, I think there might be a number of folks out there who would be interested. So I was thinking of buying a domain, and setting up on a public host. But it appears that the really cheap options would get expensive fast if there were any substantial traffic, and the expensive options wouldn't make sense if this turns out to be a less common problem after all. Just wondering how the rest of you handle this? For the sake of understanding, I will point out that as a married father of three, with a handicapped child in the mix, I consider expensive to be anything that would cost more than $50 for the first two months.
A lot of creative haircut styles for men
Hmm. I would have to disagree with Atwood. Most software development is still on the desktop. That is to say, there is still a very, very large sector of chip designers, robotics, medical devices, embedded systems, aircraft/spacecraft/cars/etc., OSes, hand-held gadgets, blah blah blah that all write non-javascript, non-ruby stuff.

This website seems to be focused around the startup-website culture, so maybe this isn't the best crowd to reality-check. Sometimes a different perspective is useful, though.

As for Atwoods Law, that's pretty ridiculous.
Disclaimer: Only having read the WSJ article and knowing nothing more, I think it’s more or less a form of blackmail—the employees are unfairly being put in a no-win situation.

That being said, my takeaway was that they had thrown around equity so liberally that they’ve exhausted their employee options pool and it’s going to interfere with their ability to recruit going forward. Is that the wrong interpretation?

If it’s not, and given such a situation, do you think it’s fair to say that a startup should generally be trying to allocate its options carefully such that a chef doesn’t end up with $20M worth of equity?
> Frankly, I'm not even sure it's possible to "drive off teh road to a new place" when it comes to desktop UX

Sure it is.

3d file managers[1] never took off. With todays hardware they'd be a lot nicer to use.

Users have been limited to quite small (sorry about my incorrect terminology here, I'm going to go read some man pages) total virtual screen size within which their windows were located. Now graphics cards, and system memory, are huge; this leads to possible radical new interfaces.

Imagine a "Zoomable UI" - documents open in their own full size window; any document opens in its own window tiled next to it; the user can zoom in as far as they like to do detail work, or out as far as they like to organise all these documents. Programs would open toolbars in their own windows. Any toolbar would be able to work on any document (because it's Unix, so all input and output is text, right?) - but the result wouldn't necessarily make any sense.

That's not particularly radical; tiling WMs exist already.

[1] (http://nooface.net/3dui.shtml) {my favourite is FSV.}
I don't know for certain, but I suspect in plasma situations it stops be H2O and becomes hydrogen and oxygen plasmas separately and can't really be considered water any more.
I thought geeks only got pedantic when talking about legos... :-)
Take minimum requirements for my major.

Take more interesting classes (Evil & Decadence in Literature), less classes that I thought would help my career (Management in Engineering).

Hang out with more people who are interesting. Spend less time with people who are just fun w/o much substance. Don't waste effort on being friends with assholes because they seem cool.

Don't fall behind coursework.

Waste less time with stuff I cannot really remember: watching sports, TV, lectures by professors who cannot teach, video games, ...

Take more road trips.

Talk to more girls.

Enjoy the experience with a good attitude.
Giant Sunspot Now Aimed Directly at Earth
fwiw, we at Mozilla Developer Network think this is awesome. :)
I'd be interested in hearing more as well.
Pristine Big Bang Gas Found
I think http://bandcamp.com/ seems to be along those lines.
"Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

Nice! Nodejs is very much proving this theory to be correct.
Dave McClure's UX rant
Nice. I once developed an ad-hoc version of something like this (it had "call at time X" functionality) to page me out of meetings...the next logical step would have been to tie into my appointment calendar, so that scheduled meetings automatically triggered the page request.
I'd suggest 'panel people' have a look at Xubuntu.

I don't expect Canonical to do anything, but I'd like them to include the Xubuntu desktop packages in the long term release support cycle as an option for users.
Hehe I did the same thing. Hopefully, the services themselves did too, so they can consider revising their priority lists ;)
There have been some problems with the video. If you experience difficulty, sent email to allison@stanford.edu. If you find this talk interesting, you may want to check the program for the series at http://ee380.stanford.edu.
Creating Languages in Racket: Sometimes you just have to make a better mousetrap
I wouldn't say that I am targeting a frugal, less picky market. I think those buyers just get a box of tea from their grocery store every week.

I plan on sending teas like the organic Long Jing Dragonwell tea. Depending on the number of subscribers that month, I'll likely take a loss on many of those teas since the tea and associated shipping costs may exceed the $24 monthly price.

I have to reach a certain threshold of monthly subscribers (with a fixed churn) to reach profitability.
You can always use kickstarter.com to fund projects like this one.
I don't want music to ever be free. I want my artists to be able to continue their craft and keep their concert costs relatively low. I want to pay them for their goods :) The people I listen to tend to be good enough for at least a dollar a song.
"One trouble with much of programming..."
Easiest thing would be to send the list to Hotmail
Thanks for the great list. I took a look at Outright. The service may be useful, but this bugs me...

> You can use your FREE account forever - No trial or expiration date. Paid accounts are just $9.95 per month. See details when you log in.

I know there's a catch, but I'm forced to create an account to find out about it. I'm either gonna use dummy info or just leave since I don't want another account until I understand what I'm signing up for.

I realize this is a tactic for getting me to try the service, but I don't like it. I ended up just leaving.
A checkbox you can click to do a non-regexp exact match search would be handy.
Another great reason to protect your online identity. I don't use any of my real information on any of the social media sites I use simply for this reason.

Had these people taken better steps to conceal their identities, they wouldn't be in the jam they are now. Live and learn I guess.
AMA: First Round Capital investor Charlie O'Donnell (ceonyc)
Start with a budget webhost like DreamHost for $9/month.

If it takes off, you can migrate to their (also budget) VPS service.

If it doesn't take off, take advantage of their 97 day refund policy.
From the NYT frontpage on November 11, 1911
Why do we cringe at the idea of single-digit numbers of record labels, movie studios, or publishers, but not at search engines, operating system vendors, etc?
Google Tasks Canvas
NPR on Shortage of Women in Silicon Valley
Water is a molecule, not an atom. There are no molecules in plasma since the electrons have all wandered off. So if you heat water gas enough, it becomes a plasma of hydrogen and oxygen.
So, it was because Xerox PARC was using a mouse + GUI interface that Apple went in that direction. In other words, what everyone thought before.
Your location is linked to your IP, your IP is linked to the identities. You can't hide.
Is Google+ worth your time and effort?
Depends on what you mean by expose. Root it, install terminal app, and go nuts.
The history of multitouch isn't easily summarized, but I see capacitive multitouch in 1985 and then again in 1998: http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
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Logitech dropping Google TV, says Revue was an expensive mistake
Because Gnome is breaking traditional Gnome workflows; Gnome 2.xx is only going to work for so long before dependency hell sets in; and Gnome 3 has some of the same problems for users as Unity.
Computing a disparity map in OpenCV
This post shows how to use the Stereo Vision with OpenCV.
I suspect that users of tiling window managers are already quite a long way along the axis that Gnome appears to be moving along.
Cuidar tu Cabello Durante el Verano
Marvel to include free digital codes with comics
Now that I think about it, I've used usesthis.com for this very purpose - to get some anecdotal "votes" for particular categories of services. If this was listed out in an easier-to-read fashion, I personally would love that.
Who will create Coffee as a Service? :)
, Startup Networking Tips: Setting Up Meetings by Jason Demant
Funny note aside, Apple GUI Regions were added by Atkinson based on what Jobs thought he saw on the PARC system. Turns out this was kinda imaginary (IIRC) .. it's all a wonderful mistake build on faith, passion and Atkinson insights.
You are almost 100% right. There are almost never any molecules in plasma: http://physics.aps.org/story/v22/st17
Cat [to Rimmer]: What is it?

Rimmer: It's a rent in the space-time continuum.

Cat [to Lister]: What is it?

Lister: The stasis room freezes time, you know, makes time stand still. So whenever you have a leak, it must preserve whatever it's leaked into, and it's leaked into this room.

Cat [to Rimmer]: What is it?

Rimmer: It's singularity, a point in the universe where the normal laws of space and time don't apply.

Cat [to Lister]: What is it?

Lister: It's a hole back into the past.

Cat: Oh, a magic door! Well, why didn't you say?
"I think it's beautiful how Linux is capable of branching and splitting so painlessly."

You've nailed it for me with that quote. Thanks. Points up the difference between commercially packaged OS and a free (ish given Ubuntu's binary blobs) one.
Solar System May Have Lost Fifth Giant Planet
I don't mean track in the sense of continuously tracking location. I mean track in the sense that you could put a scanner in an entrance to a store and as you walk through the door you'd be scanned. Sort of how an Internet tracking cookie identifies a visitor.
Trello has worked beautifully for this
I bet 99% of kindle owners don't know that.
People can only escalate the cost of having their identities uncovered. I don't believe it's possible to be completely anonymous. Of course, when the people who want to know about you have no economic limitations (i.e. governments or the odd billionaire), you will eventually be found out.
It's interesting that Netflix mentions the cost of infrustructure.

At the moment, owning dedicated servers and coloing them yourself is orders of magnitude cheaper then a cloud provider. It's only "cheaper" if your cost of money is stupidly high, ie. you're a startup, or other factors dominate your TCO, ie. you're a startup.

What is interesting is that supply side there is no reason for this to be so. Furthermore there are reasons to expect that the equilibrium price for cloud to be below the cost of dedicated hardware/colocation.
Because the lay-person that doesn't give two flips about how your website works, just wants to know if it's modern/exciting... cares?
ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick to Launch Plexus Engine
Firefox Mobile 9 For Android Review
Raskin sounds similar to what you describe for a "Zoomable UI".

http://www.raskinformac.com/
That was my first thought. I'm sure a few of us would pitch in and see if we can hack one of these together for freejack!
Internet Drastically Short on One's
Check out graze.com, very similar service in the UK (though with healthy snacks instead of tea). They deliver weekly and manage to get cheaper postage by declaring themselves as a 'magazine'.
For graze, you say which snacks (tea types/sources in your case) you like and which you don't like. Then they deliver a new one on your 'like' list every week. Every week it's 4 different snacks that are mailed to you.
His post is also mirrored on Google Plus here:

https://plus.google.com/117421021456205115327/posts/HXFH7m5j...
Valentino Men's Discount Dress Shirts Only At ShirtsGoneWild
>But how do you convince a Silicon Valley venture capitalist to invest in something like this? If you say "we're building devices to help people walk" and some YC-funded group says "we're building a location-based restaurant recommendation app" who do you think is going to get millions in funding?

while i'd share you sentiment at emotional level, at practical level lets be just toward the VCs. They don't have the scale of money to invest into "building devices to help people walk" - to reach the stage when it can be sold (ie. FDA approved, blah-blah-blah, and without that your device would just not be able to reach the majority of the people who would need the device) it would take not millions, at the best case scenario it would take high tens of millions.

On the other side by financing "a location-based restaurant recommendation app" the VCs' millions help to generate super-wealth which can take on the next scale challenges - look at Musk for example. Unfortunately, there aren't many Musk-s around (honestly i don't undestand why whouldn't Brin or Page or Ellison do something like Musk, they even have much more money than he does (he is even not that super-wealthy, more on the lower side of the range))
Interesting, but is there anything that can easily process syslog on the other end? ie. split data like this out into something useful?
> Today's professional musicians have to tour constantly to be profitable enough to survive, not to mention constantly churning out new tracks to remain relevant.

I think this is just the nature of the beast, so to speak. Due to the large number of musicians, the very, very low cost of recording a track, and the global, nearly free distribution channel of the Internet, the value of a pre-recorded piece of music is practically $0.

However, going to a show, seeing a real performance, feeling the music, etc etc, is still worth $10 a ticket to me, even for music that isn't particularly good. You can't copy/paste that experience on to someone else's iPod.
Uhmm, no, really ?
Logitech says Google TV was a big mistake
Yeah, this is kind of a, "Hey everybody, we landed on the moon!" discovery.
But those are hard work. A pill is easy. And you can make patent and sell it (not so with diet and exercise). /cynicism
> They can't directly compete with Apple and Microsoft, so experimenting with what Linux can be specialized in or how to make it unique are worth disappointing a few users,

To me this feels a bit like what Opera has churned through - first you pay; then you pay to get rid of ads (or not); then it's got great CSS (which is rigidly compliant but makes some sites look weird); then it's free; then it's got versions for mobile technology; then it's got social stuff built in; etc etc.

Opera is a great browser. Unfortunately, not many people know that it's a great browser, because they use IE or Safari or Ff or Chrome.

Facebook does get a lot of criticism from users when it changes UI. I think the difference is that you only read that if you're already using Facebook. All the furore about $LATEST_CHANGE_IN_OS is written on blogs, and that gets read by people trying to decide whether they're going to go for some Linux distribution.

Many Linux distributions aren't very good at "elevator pitches", and most users are too lazy to plough through a bunch of wiki pages to find out just why Mandriva is different from Mageia.
I'm getting the impression you don't entirely understand how CSRF exploits and mitigations work. Things like CSRF cookies are intended to protect persistent state at the server. I don't think I've ever seen CSRF mitigations used to gate response output. And to be honest, it doesn't sound like a good strategy because it wouldn't necessarily protect the target from exploit. You're still likely to have other vectors of bypassing a CSRF protection used in such a manner.
I was thinking more along the lines of "gyp" (sorry).