skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open University is quite expensive if you're not a local tax payer. They could probably do well by dropping their prices to foreign students to increase volume. From what I have seen, their courses are good and I tend to recommend them to others.
I'm getting errors in my console (Chrome/Linux).

Also, the page looks great, but the top bar could be a bit more flashy. See Bootstrap's top bar (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/).
Cable News Realizing That SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad News
The Unix security model is designed for mutli-user hosts. Shared hosting works very well under Unix, iff the admins know what they are doing. Why do you think that before virtualization got popular people were using shell accounts, chroots and BSD Jails for their webhosting/IRC/... needs? Why do you think we have CGI, SuExec, ...?

I won't deny that VPS are great, but a properly set up shell server will allow you to do many of the same things a VPS can do.
Thanks for pointing it out. It is a leftover from our previous design where were still trying to figure out the positioning. Will remove it :)
You really need to target the large international banks. UBS, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche, Credit Suisse. They use agencies/recruiters a lot, so that might be an angle of attack worth exploring.

If you do that you are fine in HK with english-only (professionally speaking. Socially, I could see it annoying some people (english is an official language in fact only), but it has never bothered me). As for salary, I don't know if they are identical to NY or London salaries, but it's gotta be in the same ballpark.

HSBC might be the only large international bank where english-only would be a problem (though I'm really not sure, just heard a few things).
There seems to be some issue with the Vimeo JS wrapper that I am not able to figure out. However it worked so I pushed it. Will check it out again or atleast hide the error :)

Yes, I have looked at bootstrap. Do you mean the header background could be better?
Couple of things:

1. Not too sure about the title "Kiss Your Complicated Help Desk Software Goodbye!" as well as the statement below it. Big words, which can easily be replaced by smaller words and more images of the product.

2. Not a fan of Serif and fantasy fonts either. Try some Sans-Serif fonts instead. Will make the copy more legible.

3. The boxes which show product features look like blobs of text. Use images with text. Keep the feature boxes less and instead give a link to a separate "Features" page.

4. The "play" button image on the video looks odd. Doesn't gel with anything else on the page.

5. Put more testimonials and put shorter ones on homepage. Shorter ones tend to have more punch. Make a separate page for testimonials where you can allocate the bigger ones.

Really dig your product by the way. All the best.
That's exactly what I was wondering. I mean, the Metroid series is known for having loads of collectible items and exploration to the point of actually spawning a subgenre.

And precision combat? The Metroid Prime series is probably the most difficult thing Nintendo's put out in the past 20 years. While they're not the most difficult games ever, they require you to think and analyze the enemy and your surroundings, then finding the perfect way to attack it. With Zelda, you're given the weapons you need to use right before fighting any boss and it's just a matter of hitting the action button and rolling out of the way. They're notoriously easy games (the first two games aside).

I love Zelda, but I'd say Metroid fits the bill better than Zelda does.
There is a good middle ground between Heroku and setting up your own hardware: VPS hosting like Linode.
By "people" I refer to the human beings who run the corporations, not the corporations themselves. I doubt very much that executives behind these moves at corporations have taken being held responsible personally into account. In my opinion, they should be held accountable personally, not only by shareholders, but by society at large.

I believe that corporate executives act with impunity because society, as a whole, has come to consider corporations as people (beyond the legal fiction of Personhood). Executives hide behind this "personhood". Why should we stop at: "BigCo is doing something evil", when the individual board members and executives of BigCo are ultimately the ones who make the decisions?

Zuckerberg, and in an earlier era, Gates, are examples of two CEOs who are held personally liable in the court of public opinion for the misdeeds of their corporations. In my opinion, more of that would be healthy.
Also highly recommended:
Accounting for Computer Scientists

http://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-comput...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298471

After reading that article it finally all made sense to me.
Writing API clients in Perl and Python
They just burning money, it'll collapse before 2015. Probably trying to bloat the cost of the company for the successful exit.
Not to sound harsh (well maybe), but that blog post doesn't really seem to add anything to the article it links to. Why not just link straight to said article?
Reminds me of games with lag compensation. It has been observed that players missing their shots due to lag get incredibly frustrated.

The best way to deal with this is to use the latency of the shooter to predict what their bullet would of hit at the time they fired on their screen. This just cleverly shifts the lag from the shooter to the target, but players getting hit by lag compensated shots will rarely notice or care; certainly not as much as a shooter would when their shots miss.
Thanks for the detailed feedback.

> 1. Not too sure about the title "Kiss Your Complicated Help Desk Software Goodbye!" as well as the statement below it. Big words, which can easily be replaced by smaller words and more images of the product.

I used to think that way too but experimenting with some tips in the CopyHacker book - http://www.copyhackers.com/. Will post back results here in sometime.

> 2. Not a fan of Serif and fantasy fonts either. Try some Sans-Serif fonts instead. Will make the copy more legible.

Did you feel that way for headings or body copy?

3. The boxes which show product features look like blobs of text. use images. Keep the feature boxes less and instead give a link to a separate "Features" page.

We will work on a features page as well. I wanted to pick some icons/images but the problem was finding icons/images for some features like No-ugly case IDs or Realtime Email Importing. Any suggestions you have on that or examples from other sites would be very useful.

4. The "play" button image on the video looks odd. Doesn't gel with anything else on the page.
Cool. I'll try to find a better one.

5. More testimonials and put shorter ones on homepage. Shorter ones tend to have more punch. Make a separate page for testimonials where can allocate the bigger ones.
Thanks. Will work on a separate customers page and incorporate the feedback there.

> Really dig your product by the way. All the best.
Thanks. Very encouraging for us :)
Why is it strange? "Wally" (pronounced in "correct" Norwegian) sounds really weird.
Right now "Feh! forget torrent, i'll stream it instead" is probably a decent way. If laws like this pass, and you can't stream it, then people will learn about bittorrent
Why there might not be enough Raspberry Pi to go around
1. Your tag line could be shorter. What about instead of "Get SupportBee - The Simple & Snappy Email Ticketing Software that doesn't kill Your Human Face" rather using "Get SupportBee - The Simple & Snappy Email Ticketing Software".

2. The focus on not killing your human face sounds wrong. If you turned the sentence around it would come across as more positive - "Promote your human face" perhaps?
No one ever bought anything in an elevator
Quick thought on the copy -

"Get SupportBee - The Simple & Snappy Email Ticketing Software that doesn't kill your Human Face"

It took me a few seconds to realise that what was meant was a company's human face, not my literal face.
Thanks. We will split test and see which one does better. A lot of the messaging is trying out tips from CopyHackers - http://www.copyhackers.com and so may be a little too edgy.
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I've been a KDE user forever. It IS a good GUI, but the knock on it has always been it's too much like Microsoft Windows.

My fave distro is Kubuntu and I highly recommend it.
:-)

I was rather sad to find that the finger command is no longer installed by default in Fedora. Moreover I can't find a reliable/up to date/secure finger server. Latest one I can find hasn't had updates since 2006 which doesn't make me feel confident enough to install it.
BT is a state regulated monopoly in the UK for several of the tiers of the telecommunications infrastructure. The vast majority of IP packets from domestic and SME's will pas through their infrastructure at some point. Simplistically, if their costs go up then presumably their wholesale costs and everyone's phone bills go up too. In practice their accounts are heavily scrutinised (at great cost to the taxpayer) so there is probably some kind of complicated regulatory mechanism that prevents this.

Quick rant as an aside: Utilities and infrastructure tend to be natural monopolies as it costs so much to get them up and running nobody wants to do it twice. Competition in infrastructure provision for any given service of this nature always seems to end up being a wasteful and bureaucratic mess of government regulated artificially created 'competition' between a few companies. For more UK examples see British Airports Authority, Network Rail, Electricity, Gas etc. Infrastructure should allow one country to compete effectively with others by improving internal efficiency. Perhaps they should be independent democratically controlled state entities; every citizen gets a share.
I guess the way I look at it is this:

The relational model excels at exactly one thing: presenting your data in multiple ways for multiple uses. As you start to sacrifice this, the RDBMS starts becoming less useful, fast. A good case in point is something like an LDAP server. Not really a good use case for relational database, though you can export the data into a relational system or even store your master copy there and push out changes. But here you have a protocol that lends itself reasonably well to integration anyway and ad hoc reporting really isn't likely to be an issue.

The way I look at it is that using an RDBMS for almost any new project is a smart hedge, because an RDBMS is the most type of flexible data store. It will allow you to pivot more easily compared to a NoSQL store where things may be extremely scalable in the dimension that you foresee, but if you need to pivot your data model you are in for a massive rewrite. People complain about adding columns and indices to SQL databases vs the "agility" of just adding keys to Mongo or whatever, but honestly it's just a little busy work most of the time, it doesn't really hurt until your data gets huge, at which point you are going to be running into unanticipated bottlenecks anyway.

I am not sure either the cost of this is as great as people suggest, and adding/dropping columns on large tables in PostgreSQL is fast. Rather I think the fundamental issue is that a relational model requires more engineering to leverage than agile folks are usually comfortable with. I am referring of course to the N word (Normalization). The thing about normalization is that the goal is to organize your data based on functional dependencies (relational algebra-wise) within the data model, not functional dependencies (execution-wise) within the application. This means stopping and looking at the data and asking "which values are dependent on which values?" and normalizing that way. The thing is that this means larger numbers of joins and that tables are unlikely to represent the data model of the application directly.

The advantage is then that you can then take your data and use it in a few other applications. The disadvantage is it is very hard to do this in an agile way.

So it seems to me that where RDBMS's are concerned, the smart thing to do is put engineering effort into the database and then try to ensure that agile applications can be built on top of it.

The way I look at it is that using an RDBMS for almost any new project is a smart hedge, because an RDBMS is the most type of flexible data store.

But this takes a willingness to ensure your data is modelled in the db in an application-neutral way (or at least an approximation of application neutrality).
I know it's not the HDD cache. I can monitor physical disk requests vs logical filesystem requests (diskmon vs procmon). But I repeated it anyway on my SSD, and the results are the same.
Many here like/love the idea, me included, so I think you have the good idea.

The execution that would make the idea successful though is not just getting the app written and posted to the app store — contact someone who makes cooking books and do some cross-promotion / integration, a supermarket, etc. — that part is hard, but also necessary if you want to really succeed, and that’s why many say ideas are worthless and execution is everything.

Adding to promotion is of course making sure the application is easy to use, appealing, comes with recipes I actually will like, are easy to follow, use ingredients available from the normal store, etc. — that’s another part of execution.
"Why is Windows so slow?
I’m a fan of Windows, specifically Windows 7."

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A very minor thing, but I find it difficult to read the text quickly.

I think the problem is best summed up as, "When in doubt, capitalise everything.".

Example: "The Simple & Snappy Email Ticketing Software that doesn't kill Your Human Face".

Would be better as: "The simple & snappy email ticketing software that doesn't kill your human face".

Though I'd also change the phrase "kill your human face" to something that sounds less like a slasher movie.

On capitalisation: If it's not a name, trademark, acronym or the first word in a sentence, then don't capitalise it.

But if you are going to capitalise every word in a sentence, be consistent: : "Real-Time Email Importing", is one title, and another title just above is ,"Stay in the loop".

Very minor, but when you have a well designed page it's a shame that the copy is the weak point.
Actually, because we compile to simple JavaScript ... code compiled with any version of CoffeeScript is interoperable with code compiled with any other version. Because of that, we're more comfortable with breaking backward compatibility if the goal is a good one. Did you have a specific change you wanted to make?
The shared hosting I'm using has restricted access for users above certain UID to other peoples home directories, regardless of the permission bits.
File-Sharing 3 Strikes Killed in Ireland, Government Promises Site Blocking
20 HTML5 sites that changed the game in 2011
i think another replier here may also be correct that chaitin, in particular, includes the length of the decompression code. unfortunately i can't delete my answer for some reason (too old i guess).
Nobody wants an unstable North Korea with nuclear weapons, period.

Well, except maybe North Korea.
I love this idea. Any chance I can get a beta invite?

Video could use a little more work. Give specific use cases, ie "we sold Johnny 6 widgets and he contacted us and wanted to return one. I reply, and it automatically removes him from the main view. If I want to follow up with Johnny, I can just 'star' it. etc, etc"

What I'm trying to say is tell them a story. People LOVE stories, but they hate listening to someone explain features :)
> Cool do that. Perhaps even A/B test it ;) [Disclaimer: I work for Visual Website Optimizer]

> I think bad copy exaggerates this. Serif fonts look great, if the rest of the web page design supports it. It doesn't right now. Same thing about that fantasy font.

> The sync button can be used to denote "realtime email reporting". Look at the Pictos font pack for more sauce http://pictos.drewwilson.com/
Yeah, they were productive. At mayhem and conquest :)
Thanks for the suggestion on the Video. We are definitely going to do that for our next iteration.

How do I send over the beta details to you? Could not find an email address. You can signup here btw - http://supportbee.com/beta-signup
Open Source - and Commercial?
"do you think it's more important to have a deep knowledge of a few topics or a fair understanding of a lot of topics"

I have been thinking a lot about this. My conclusion is that the optimal thing is somehow both. When I say both, it sounds bullshit, but it is not. I think the key is to be ABLE to study specific topics deeply, know what is deep understanding, know what really tight focus is, learn and practice one or two specific topics very deeply AND with this kind of developed mind, go into lots and lots of quite diverse topics following your interests and needs. And be brave to sometimes dig a bit deep into something which no one expected you to dig into.

So optimally your knowledge should be 'incalculable' by other people. A kind of interesting, a little bit strange knowledge-portfolio which is not very common.

TL;DR: Go very deep into something (extremely deep if possible), learn a little a bit of everything (extremely only the basics about extremely lots of things) to avoid knowledge holes, and go a little bit deep into unexpected things to make your knowledge-base incalculabe and interesting.
I'm getting a loading error using iPhone.the right handside of page is blank. Header background for example cuts off half way through beta text. All content below the header is Formatted onto left half of page and all right hand side is blank.
Touchless smartphones and TVs could be on sale in 2012
> The Unix security model is designed for mutli-user hosts.

Reminds me of the story of RMS complaing about evil admins that were restricting root level access. The views on computer users and security were quite different in the early days of UNIX.

edit: link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518881
Does it matter during development though? You could always develop on GNU toolchain and then make a final build in VC once the feature code is complete.
Please show me something to back this nonsense up.
AIM is also used loads in the dance music production scene to send/swap music files.
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I'm exactly the same. I'm in my 40's now but have always been this way; the big difference that age has brought me is that I'm less flexible about it. In college I could get by with a few 3-4 hour nights in a row, as long as I made it up (and all of it) over the weekend, but now I can't carry a deficit nearly as well, so I don't.
The close button on the video overlay doesn't work, at least in Chrome 15. Also, one should be able to hit the escape key to close the overlay as well.
Other key needed:

* A way to pay for it.
The patents were filed in the US: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
Thanks for pointing it out. Will have it fixed. We are using Reveal JS that comes packaged with Foundation - http://www.zurb.com/playground/reveal-modal-plugin.
It's going to be all about mobile in 2012
With regards to the products ux, one thing that I don't understand from the video: why does a tag for a ticket need to be dragged on to a ticket, why not a simple "click tag click ticket" system?

The only reason dragging should really exist is when there is the potential for the decision to change, where up until the point where the drop is executed the decision is undecided.

The best way to do it would be a simple system where the agent clicks on the tag then clicks on the ticket and that ticket now has that tag; if you have to drag and drop it requires precision and extra attention to be paid; it's much easier to drop a tag in the wrong place than it is to click, because people have different expectations about which part needs to match. The only way to solve this would be to have the ticket that the drop is about to be executed on highlighted when the tag is over it, but even then that's more work than it is for click tag.
I think I must be doing my bit by making sure I don't ever go over my 40 hours, even if I work in teams where others or the manager works long hours.
I think the recursive search is the thing that is broken.
When the KDE 4 rewrite first released version 4.0, it was not very polished and even had a bunch of features missing. 4.1 was better, but still not enough to satisfy reviewers (although actual users liked it somewhat better). By release 4.4, it was back to being polished and pretty complete, but everyone had stopped paying attention after a few "bad" (according to reviewers, if not actual users) versions.
Have you ever seen those desktop toy's where steel balls 10+ steel balls are strung up next to each other. You drop one and it fall hit's one end of the chain and in less time than it would have taken the first ball to move that distance the last one pops off the end? Same concept the final ball moves a little slower than the first ball that hit the chain, but it start moving sooner than it would have taken the first ball to move the distance of the chain.
If it helps, I'm go-authoring a book with Derek Sivers on Taiwan. Leaving next week for Taiwan to write the book over the next month. It's an awesome place to do business because of their low cost of living but their taxes are similar to the US>
This concerns me about my investment as a user in Twitter. Even if it's only 3.75% of Twitter the company now owns, I don't necessarily want to support the venture of a Saudi billionaire. Maybe if they are really proponents freedom of speech and the press, it isn't such a bad thing.
You're absolutely right, and it's a useful thing to do - but it's not about actually getting a degree. The headline is misleading.
Now Every Company Is A Software Company
Wow. Never thought about it that way. The decision to have it drag and drop comes from the fact that Gmail does it that way too and we wanted to stay as close to Gmail as possible to avoid any kind of learning curve.

One thing that we are missing and will add is the row on which you are dropping getting highlighted when you move the label over it. Gmail does that.
First impression, my inner monologue:

"It looks like an email client. So why don't I just use an email client?"

End.
Networked Society 'On the Brink'
The Last Five Feet: The Local Internet Versus Receptionists
To collaborate with your team. If you are the only one doing support in your company and never need to involve anyone else, then yes, you can use an email client.
Getting promoted too quickly
Show HN: Track SOPA votes by local Congress members with mobile web app
Built this simple geo-locating app to find your local Congresspeople, allow you to contact them, and later show how they voted on SOPA (so you can vote for or against them).
I should have written fascinating, not strange.
The movement should create advocate SOICA, Stop Online Internet Censorship Act. The opposite of SOPA and likely SOCPA.

This means that congress would have to repeal this SOICA in order to pass SOPA related laws.
I think the best quote about this, during reports from Prof Jim Horne about people people different in this respect: "In a nutshell, if you sleep for eight hours a night go to work and find yourself lolling and drooling on the keyboard, you aren't getting enough. If you're sleeping five hours and running the country, you probably are getting enough." The latter was in reference to Margaret Thatcher who seemed to function fine with about 5 hours sleep at night.