skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Changing your computing habits may not bee too hard; the problem is changing your computer hardware. Like in TFA, it's that Windows 8 has been so focused on providing a compelling interface for touchscreen users that it fails to provide a decent interface for keyboard&mouse users. The problem runs so deep that Win8 takes away much of what we've come up with in the course of decades' worth of experimentation with how to use a keyboard and mouse to interact with computers, and instead asks kb&m users to emulate touchscreen idioms such as swipe gestures.

The problem isn't insurmountable - the fixes are actually quite small, as the blog that hosts TFA points out pretty often. In fact, I'd like to point out that there wasn't quite so much of this hubbub over Windows 8 developer preview. This is because developer preview had a decent (not necessarily great in Metro, but decent overall) interaction model for users of normal computers, which Microsoft subsequently removed for no apparent reason.
Great, I will give it a try (but probably go back to MIUI).
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I have a hard time gleaning much of value from his posts. They are well-written, though.
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Thanks! I guess to me, more important than the selling price, was the process as a whole. It's a product that I took from an idea, built out and eventually sold. In there were a lot of lessons that I thought might be interesting to people.

$3,500 might not be a lot to you. And obviously it's not enough to go away on. But it does mean that I can work full-time on my startup this summer.
> Python is declining sharply in interest

Maybe it is only me, but I feel the number of Python-related articles is higher than ever on HN.
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I like the content - but not the tone - it’s just a bit too snarky to send to a designer that you have to work with. Particularly if she’s getting much of it right - and you’ve clashed over this stuff before.
This is awesome, but I keep getting this when I try to copy to clipboard:

mehmet@cake:~/fu$ fu query wiki

1	# Query Wikipedia via console over DNS

dig +short txt <keyword>.wp.dg.cx

2	# Query Wikipedia via console over DNS

mwiki () { blah=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/ /_/g'`; dig +short txt $blah.wp.dg.cx; }

3	# Query Wikipedia via console over DNS

mwiki() { dig +short txt "$*".wp.dg.cx; }

488ms total:6

mehmet@cake:~/fu$ fu 1
fu: Error invalid index number!
Please see https://github.com/samirahmed/fu/issues/1

I have outlined a set of possible problems/fixes!
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> I set up 3 instances (two production and one staging) and thought I was a boss. [..] Lesson learned: don't use anything but Heroku until you have to.

Did he really need 3 instances? Or even a separate staging environment?
Honestly, fairly useful as a general feeling of an Akka application, which tend to be a bit opaque.
On the other hand, the BBC Micro would almost certainly not have been the success it was without the Beeb and the lift it gave to Acorn in the educational market.
Knuth-esque ..
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Holding up Facebook and Apple as examples of hacking is kinda... weird. I guess skunkworks isn't a byword anymore?
I'll take a stab at this.

The best tool, that I am aware of, that is along the lines of what you describe is Fireworks. But Photoshop is more common simply because for the longest time it was far easier to obtain Photoshop than Fireworks in a suite from Adobe. For instance, right now there are five different Creative Suites and a version of Photoshop is in every one. Fireworks is in three. Therefore, in a big enough company with various people with various production needs you could assume that everyone has Photoshop. Thus, trading files in PSD is the norm. Also, I'm willing to bet most schools have a course in Photoshop but not in Fireworks.

Plus Fireworks didn't come into it's own as a HTML and prototyping tool until recently, I don't remember the version. These days it's a wonderful tool to design graphics for just about any device and I highly recommend it. But if you've been using Photoshop expect a slight learning curve since it is different.

Do I use Fireworks? Nope, much for the reasons stated above.

Does Fireworks address the developer part you mentioned? Possibly not, it just depends. Mainly because you don't really "code" in Fireworks. I'm not aware of any tool that allows a designer to create graphics and a developer to code for the same project. Usually that's broken up between software packages with different expectations, feature sets, and goals.

Now, a software tool that allowed designers to design and coders to code in the same file that outputted valid HTML (maybe even some server-side code) would be interesting. But I think it would just generate new issues to work out as opposed to solving current workflow problems.

I think it would be better for designers to learn HTML and CSS, the basics at least. Of course in my experience the same could be said of server-side developers. As a front-end developer I'm constantly amazed at the oddities I see being stuck in the middle of the design/front-end/server-side dynamic. But sometimes it makes things fun.
Why not just use energy harvesting. You move & you're warm.
They cannot afford clinical trials in developed countries, so they turn to poorer countries.

India is one of the biggest hub for most of the pharma's clinical trials due to huge poor population. The rules are lax and they take advantage of it. Lot of people die and many turn paralyzed or disabled permanently due to drug's unknown side-effect.

These corrupt pharma companies want to use India as it's test-bed but want to sell the drugs tested here at an abysmal high price such that it is even out of my reach (even though I am well off).
We can't just return it, but The Sale of Goods Act 1979 makes it an implied term of the contract that goods be as described, fit for purpose and of satisfactory quality. That does give you some measure of leeway. Otherwise Buyer Beware indeed!
It fit the bill but at what cost? This fool still walks free for cooperating and selling out his peers? I can't believe this guy actually has a twitter account with 30k followers. Since when has hacking become about being in the public eye? I get the activism of it all, but they went about it horribly from the beginning.
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What, exactly, is the POINT of unit-testing that function, other than patting yourself on the back? You might as well unit test that 1+1 = 2.
Store electricity like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turlough_Hill - pump the water uphill during daylight and let it flow down when needed.
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Sounds like it is finally time to migrate off flickr. I wonder what the best options are -- self hosting of full res, plus FB Photos for social? Is Picasa worthwhile?
> But yes, big pharma relies almost exclusively on patents to recoup R&D costs.

What? I was under the impression that they rely mostly on advertising to recoup costs, their advertising budgets are generally much larger than their R&D budgets.
>even this particular company is well known for not following the duty of making the most money for its holders

The selling of a company doesn't exactly fall into maximization of shareholder profits: it depends on a couple things. The board of a company has no obligation to maximize it's short term value. Otherwise, anytime someone is offered a profitable buyout and turns it down they would violating their social responsibilities. I could be wrong, but I had a similar discussion with a close friend who is a big dog in the world of finance and that's the message I got from him.

Here's some relevant info:
>The role of such statutes is especially important in light of the QVC decision, which prohibits directors from simply approving a strategic merger based on their business judgment that the transaction provides more value in the long term.
http://apps.americanbar.org/buslaw/blt/8-3shareholders.html

Also, you may be interested in this.
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/executive-adviser/2010-3/5231/the...
Depends on why your returning it right? I've successfully argued that games that do not run on my machine, because frankly someone was dreaming when they wrote out those minimum requirements are not "as described".
Honestly, I've been in a couple of startups (including one that got a lot of funding from VCs and going public) and I've never seen anything like the inefficiency that was normal in the public sector projects that I worked on.

Not that I'm against public funding of research - I'm absolutely not. But my experiences of public sector research funding on "large" projects completely put me off working in that sector (so much so that I left academia to co-found a start-up).
css3pie[0] fixes most of that!

[0]http://css3pie.com/
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The outcome of this will be interesting to see. A CI running a group like this isn't unheard of, that's not the issue. The issue is how he clearly organized and promoted crimes. IANAL but based on my experience working on both sides of the law I can see what he did crossing the line of what LE is allowed to do and having other cases thrown out because of it.
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They might be used in phones, just not as the CPU/GPU. Think, flash memory controller etc.
Funny that him being a VC is specific enough to argue your case, yet an official blog post from his company, written by a partner of his, is a little too vague and probably doesn't represent his opinion.
Right, because that's what they're going to push through: legislation that levels the playing field.
<i>Where? What?</i>

Come on. Now you're just pretending to be willfully ignorant.
The open source initiative failed to obtain the trademark. So "Open Source" as a term is not trademarked, and can mean anything.

IMO, the only useful description of open source is source code licensed under one of the licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative, but there is no trademark protecting that particular use.
By the time my SGII phone officially gets it here (Canada) I'll have moved on to another phone.

I don't see the point in such long delays, I know there is some checking to see if it works on certain hardware which makes sense.

Phones have a shorter lifespan than computers and may very well be obsolete in a year or two releasing an updated OS extends that lifespan (maybe I'm being paranoid).
To be clear-- the reason energy is cheap at night is not JUST because it is used less-- it is also because there are certain continuous energy sources. Nuclear power, geothermal, tidal, wave and wind power are all producing energy round the clock and if you don't harvest it, it's lost.

We are not heading towards a world where we have a single power source (solar), and most of our power uses cannot be rescheduled. As fossil fuels are one of the few sources which can be turned on and off at our choosing, I would expect they will function to fill in temporary gaps between supply and demand once renewables capacity is large enough to take the average load. I don't see these gaps occurring predominantly at night.
As an Adderall user, I can back this up. The symptoms of use are very similar to meth. Ever seen that "meth jingle" ad? The whole "pulling hairs out of your face, cleaning everything, etc" pitch is spot on to Adderall side effects. The difference is that Adderall side effects are dramatically more mild due to (as betterth said) a properly calibrated and reliable dose.

Also, with Adderall, you can't afford to just take more to offset withdrawal symptoms, because you only have so much. The temptation to take another as it wears off is pretty substantial, especially for long-time users.
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Coincidentally, I just posted a huge rant against, "It's just marketing" in another thread, but I'll respond to this much less rantier.

Big pharma uses patents to protect their monopoly on a drug for seven(?) years after its introduced. Once that window is up, generics come in and take a huge chunk of sales. Pharma uses marketing and advertising to push their new drugs to try to sell as many during the patent window as they possibly can, when they have a large markup on it.
Amazing tool (definitely one of those "Why the heck didnt I think of that?!" things) and an amazing site too. Commandlinefu should be in everyone's bookmarks.
I don't think that in general the practice is something over which the VC industry should feel guilty. Venture Capital has historically and continues to fund industries where patents are appropriate, e.g. semiconductors.

Software patents are problematic, but only because of the general features of the patent process and the fiduciary responsibilities of boards of directors to their shareholders.
what sort of substantive analysis of the patents in this case have you done to justify claiming that this case indicates we need patent reform?
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> For others who have not seen commandlinefu.com, it's a collection of interesting commandline commands.

ooohh thank you. Without that context I was wondering what the heck this tool was supposed to do.
Take Grand Theft Auto III for example (or any other high-end game). You can't expect it to run on an HTC Aria with a 600Mhz processor.

Don't know if it has changed but when GTA III was new (on android) my phone, Nexus S, wasn't supported - and thus I couldn't even find it in market.
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For some tech details, this is an Akka actor monitoring dashboard, powered by a Play 2.0 app that interacts with the Akka Atmos system.

The front end is all CoffeeScript and Canvas and uses Server-Sent Events (falling back to comet) to talk to the server.

One the server-side we're making heavy use of Play 2.0's Iteratees https://github.com/playframework/Play20/wiki/Iteratees to control the data streams.
I just hope they have a presale for prior years attendees like they did last year. Last year they opened registration 2 weeks early for people who had attended I/O since its inception, and then one week early for 2010 attendees.

Buying an academic ticket in 2010 meant I did not get in on the 2011 presale and barely squeaked by at registration. Did not buy an academic ticket in 2011, so hopefully that counts for something come registration time.
But this really isn't the way to make any friends.

I'd be surprised if anyone wants to do business with people like this ever again.
Fwiw I'm male and I enjoy watching James Deen -like stuff a lot more than the mainstream posing BS that's out there.
I read the book and your guess was right, it is one of those "Learn X in 21 days" books. I'll ask for a refund.

A much better book seems to be Language Implementation Patterns by Terence Parr.
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And this is a beautiful example of manufacturing innovation and advancement, evolution and revolution, coming from those that actually make things. When you make things you find a way to make them better. This is why I believe we in the USA need to maintain a strong industrial/manufacturing culture. Not simply to employ people but rather to be at the epicenter of where innovation happens.
Prior art: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc821 (Section 3.4) Yes, there were systems that implemented this.
Simply because you are forced to pay fines doesn't mean you are "corrupt".

The abstract indicates most of the fines come from "illegal off-label drug promotion" and "overcharging state governments". It could be argued that the first shouldn't even be an issue, and the second, depending on how "overcharging" is defined could be outright fraud on the part of big pharma, fraud on the part of state governments, or something in between.
Is there any way to have top display this information?
As a publicly traded company, Yahoo does not have the same discretion as a company like StackExchange.

I also suspect that startups capable of the sophistication StackExchange brings to the selection of a VC are a distinct minority.
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Does anyone know of a good book about Ooka Tadasuke? He sounds like an interesting guy to read about.
And relevant article:
Traps detection during migration of C and C++ code to 64-bit Windows
http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0012/
Congrats on the 'exit', and on all you learnt from it. Looking at your stats at the bottom of the post, what exactly is meant by 'Fee to License'?
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Um, no mention of shell functions? I recommend to the author that he spend a full day carefully studying the bash man page.
same sentiment here. I've been using y! mail for a decade. Y! 'wall streetish' behavior is a good incentive to sever all ties. I am also certain , lot of their portal traffic comes when users are redirected to the portal home page when users sign off their ymail accnts.
Yeah, there were more than a few instances when I would try to attend a session and got turned away at the door because the room was at capacity.
Thanks for the comment! Obviously 3 instances were too much. But the point remains that if you're running a low traffic Rails app it's a lot cheaper (free) to host on Heroku than it is on EC2. And if you're running at the scale that DomainPolish was that makes all the difference in terms of take home profit.
>This fool still walks free for cooperating and selling out his peers?

I'm very, very torn on this one. On one hand, I applauded a number of the Lulzsec hacks, and it's kind of hard not to cheer for someone "sticking it to the man". On the other hand, Sabu is a very distasteful sort of fellow, and IIRC Dante had the lowest circle of hell reserved for traitors and backstabbers.

He isn't walking free, though. If memory serves, he's still going to be a convicted felon who spent a couple of years in club fed.
That's because we're not his intended audience; our bosses are.
Use `htop` instead. It displays the information in a bit more verbose way. You'll get each section of "used" memory colour-coded, so that the last yellow area can be ignored as cache.
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Actually it's almost impossible to rig the statistics. And every drug on the market has shown efficacy compared to placebo in large tests calle phase 3 clinical trials.
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R&D costs actually make up a pretty small portion of the pie. It's unclear what if anything patents are doing to recoup those since they're all just copying each other with designer drugs that are just slightly different enough to not violate someone else's patent. The pharma industry is probably a better example than the software industry for why patents suck. http://www.dklevine.com/papers/imbookfinal09.pdf
Hell yeah. Very cool service.

I mainly use it to correct strangeness in sites' RSS offerings. For example, BBC iPlayer offers feeds for channels but not per show (?!), and Penny Arcade doesn't offer a feed for just the comic without the news posts.
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Facebook's idea of hacking: "find thing that works, break it, reimplement it, release early, fix bugs later" . That's how their platform has (not) evolved over the years.

Apple's idea of hacking? I have no clue, i guess it's "brushed aluminum"
GNOME Shell is one approach: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/GNOME_She...
So I ended up licensing the codebase to someone else so he could build a different Mechanical Turk app. I kept all the IP but he got the codebase to use. Thanks for asking I'll try and make that more clear in the post!
Since all TVs/Monitors/Projectors have had HDMI for some years now, i think it was a wise choice. IIRC there is still composite out for those stuck with only analogue connections.
Unit testing isn't really about ensuring correctness.

First and foremost, it's a design tool. Code that can't easily be unit tested is often poorly designed. The most common example in the MVC-world is a fat controller. It's hard to test any method that does too much because of all the setup that you'll have to do. If an action is doing too much, dependent on too many parts, and not very cohesive, you'll feel the pain when you try to test it.

Of course, it's just an indicator...a warning symbol. Some times method need to do a lot...sometimes they do a lot while being cohesive and not having a lot of dependencies. Ultimately, your brain is the judge, a unit test is just a tool to help measure a method's entropy.

Secondly, it's a refactoring tool. Or, put differently, it's about future correctness. Broadly speaking, in this sense, it's also documentation. At a unit test level, this is tricky...and I've struggled with it quite a bit...if you overly concern yourself with internals (using a strict mock), you'll have a brittle test which is largely focused on the current correctness. However, using loose stubs, it really can prevent the introduction of bugs without being overly brittle.
Offtopic.. But I'm not so sure about this.

I used to work on downloadable desktop apps, and we always played to the lowest common denominator. It ended up being a big weight around our neck when we wanted to do something 'cooler' but a little more resource intensive. I think we supported Windows 95 even after Microsoft stopped... simply because so many end users were still running it.

Another example: We have a "lesser" brand of mobile phone now, and I notice angry birds is frustrating to play on it... Even though it's perfectly acceptable on an old 8Gb iPod touch I had. Sure, they could spend a lot of resources on it to make it better, but that's likely to be a poor usage of resources.

You definitely need to hit the sweet spot of the performance bell curve, though.
It's cute that this pops up every few years, and I think it points to a steady (if slow) attraction of new users to Linux.
I thought the post was great. $3,500 is better than the $0 that most people get for their side projects.

Congratulations on the sale and it sounds like it was a great learning experience.

edit: If you don't mind sharing, how did you end up finding the people who were developing their own sites? The post mentions customer engagement but not how you found them in the first place.
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congratulations on your experience!

It really is difficult to name a price, I would have ignored any offers below 10-15k but on the other hand you can now concentrate on a new project and for 6 months from 0 to sale is remarkable.
I hope not. Not all of us were lucky enough to attend I/O the past few years. I don't think it's somehow fair that previous attendees continue to get a leg up over the rest of us.