skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows 7 allows you to do something similar.

The window layout manager is smart enough not to let you push the window totally off the screen, but if you grab a window and pull it down under the taskbar (assuming the taskbar is in the default bottom position and does not autohide) in Windows 7, you're somewhat boned because while the window is still there, the taskbar's zorder makes it impossible to click on it to recover it. You can fix this situation by unlocking the taskbar (if it is locked) and moving it or by setting it to autohide, but neither of these things is a particularly intuitive move for the average user, I'd guess.
While I am aware some discussions on HN make it sound like everyone in the US has a Silicon Valley type of salary, I assure you that is not the case, and the average US salary about $43000/per year, or closer to $3500/month (which, without looking it up, I think is about €2500).

Having said that, I still note that everything is more expensive in Europe (er, well, Netherlands and UK, the countries I'm most familiar with) than in the United States.
I would like to point that the word all isn't emphasized enough in that sentence.
It actually doesn't need to be activated on a computer anymore. iOS 5+ allows the user to activate and start using their device without ever connecting it to a computer, and updates are also over the air.
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You can pry it from my cold, dead hands.

I continue to insist on experiencing the web the way I want to. Firefox -- together with its extensions -- continues to do the best job of this. (Although I have not been pleased with its GUI "Chromification".)
You can upload by clicking the "web" button or using the bookmarklet. The source should be kept in the resulting page.
How long ago did you last try it? The Mozilla team has been kicking some ass over the last few months.
Sometimes I upvote a submission in hopes that it will incite an interesting debate in the comments.
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Please do so.

I also have this problem a lot (windows 7);

Ill have Chrome or Acrobat open on my second display when docked at work.

I sleep the machine, undock and head home. When I open it up, chrome or acrobat still maximizes to the now disconnnected second screen.

I have no way to get it back. FN+F8 for projector control does nothing. neither does resleep or hibernate. Closing chrome doesnt work because it re-opens in the same place as last time. Only a reboot fixes this problem.

I hate rebooting my machine. I go many weeks without rebooting and this always pisses me off.

It would be better if you could right-click an app on the task bar and say "send to primary screen" or "send to secondary screen"

there used to be this option, but only some-times, and I don't know why/where to find it.
A cellphone battery is say 1 Amp Hour. Assume an equivalent capacitor is 3600 Amps for a second. Assume the capacitor is charged to 10x the Voltage, and is charged in 10 seconds. That needs 36 Amps - copper wires a bit thicker than those in a kettle cord. Bad approximations made, but right order I think.

Also there are real safety issues with something that can be charged that fast, because it usually implies it can be discharged faster. A shorted Li ion battery may burn, but a low-resistance capacitor will cause an explosion. Capacitors are fun :-)
I don't care about memory, i have 8GB and i am not somebody who has 500 tabs open. What i care about is independent processes. When a site freezes the rest is unaffected. The same with Icognito Mode, this is a total joke on Firefox.

What counts in the end is speed, security and api's.
i have experienced some issues when using internet explorer 8. the ready event of the player is not fired so you cant bind any media to it..
What I actually find interesting is that the Firefox trend already seems to be turning around again... Over the past few months, the decline has been slowed, and the latest data point has Firefox actually gaining share.
I think many regular buyers ask their friends for recommendations. If most of these friends don't have a problem with the iPhone 4 reception, they're going to buy one anyway. (As for the initial sales, major web sites hadn't discovered the antenna problem , and most reviews recommended it AFAIK.)
Semantics, LESS, and Sarcasm
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you can use win+shift+left or win+shift+right so move windows across monitors.

it also works with win+left/right to move things to the left/right of one monitor and then again to jump across to another.
No, the distinction does not make it okay. Other things make it okay.
long-term "blue sky" research is, by definition, done without an eye towards profitability.
Seriously, everything should have tabs.
> What most employers don't do - either by system or personally - is man up and admit they hired the wrong person, replace them with severance and move on.

For better or worse, that is legally difficult in many places. Once you commit to hiring a permanent employee, you are obligated to some extent to try to work with them and resolve any problems. Firing them outright can be almost impossible unless either their position is literally redundant (in which case obviously you won't immediately be hiring someone else to do the job, will you?) or they are guilty of gross misconduct (such as doing something that involved the police being called to remove them from the office).

It seems common in the jurisdictions I know about for the full employee protections and benefits to kick in over a period of time, maybe on a sliding scale so they aren't fully in effect until a year or two after taking a job, so it's not completely one-sided. But you definitely get employees who play the game and make things that IMHO should be their personal responsibility into an employer's problem. For example, here in the UK there are rules about statutory pay for things like maternity leave. It's not uncommon for someone to take maternity leave for several months, with their employer required to keep paying them at a certain level throughout, and then not go back to work at the end. The problem is, sometimes an action as significant as having a child really does change your perspective and priorities that much, and the employee did go on leave genuinely expecting to return, and other times they knew damn well they weren't coming back the moment they walked out the door but cashed in anyway, and there's no objective way to tell the difference.

To a larger company, where this isn't going to happen very often, you can to some extent write it off as a cost of doing business. But to a small company, being down a member of staff at all can be seriously damaging, and paying out a load of statutory benefits and then getting screwed can literally cause your business to fail. But the rules are what they are, and as long as you have to play by those rules, any employer in such a context is going to be very careful about who they agree to hire on a permanent basis, and a probationary period after hiring isn't unreasonable IMHO.
Awesome, love to hear about robotics used for something other than hunting and killing!
That is indeed what I did, there is no source shown here http://www.pinwords.com/pins/e68d21f0720b11e1aaccfd54b73b70c.... Try it http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/on-the-street-somewher...

> The page at www.pinwords.com says: Not a valid image.

Which to me, means it's either not able to scan the page for images or only accepts direct links to images.
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>> He shouldn't have done that.

To hell with "should" or "shouldn't" -- he did. And you're accusing people who wouldn't give him money to see his show because of what he did of "being petty."
I disagree. There are plenty of people who actually really pay attention to version numbers. Maybe they aren't in the majority, but I've encountered plenty of people who proudly tell me that they have 'the latest version x' before telling me off for sticking with the older version.

I've stopped explaining the memory management and other issues to these kinds of people.
where does that figure come from?

Really? It's the first two lines of my comment, specifically spaced out to make it clearer.

As for the other issue, excess weight is easy to convince the public about, especially now that they're doing more of the 'please standardise your luggage' where individual pieces also get weight limits (as you found).
A candidate who is at an elevated risk of being replaced by severance, which is a position most new hires are in, is probably putting their aspirations on hold while you figure out if they are the right fit. Severance is typically enough to keep an employee above water for a time while they find a new position that fits them better, but it certainly isn't anything people can build dreams on top of.

I think there is a common point of view that wants to assume that recruiting a good fit is something that you determine based on a set of input, and then commit to. If you have to reassess at a later time, and especially if you have to reverse your decision, you've failed at recruiting, and in a way that is preventable in a deterministic way. Experience suggests that people who believe this do one of two things: either they attach an ethical weight to the employee/employer relationship that means you have to weight the cost to your business against the cost to your sense of self-worth; or, they have gotten lucky enough up to this point to meet/interview/hire people who have not misrepresented themselves or otherwise projected an image that they would be much more valuable than they proved to be.

Having been involved in a number of instances in the last two years that have exposed me to the randomness of recruitment and hiring, even using all of the hacks people use to remove the error, I'm honestly a little surprised that people can have any imperatives about recruitment. The whole things seems at best stochastic, and errors are unpreventable.

I think the reason why people are so reluctant to man up is because it means they failed at something we believe they shouldn't fail at. I would argue they've failed as something we all fail at, and that accepting that will make the whole process better for everyone.
Oh, no, this post wasn't one of them; sorry for the confusion. The "Go is great!" versus "Go is bad!" dueling posts were a day or two ago. They weren't even 100% bad either, it's just that I'm noticing that pattern of clean, uncomplicated, opposite positions pop up a lot, and I find it enticing sometimes myself. But "Why I like lots of languages, and Go is pretty neat too" is a pretty moderate position. :)
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I completely agree. The biggest difference I have noticed, ironically, is while loading _google+_ (try it, firefox 10/11 is faster). The only reason I would use chrome over firefox is because of the incognito mode. I like randomly opening a page in incognito mode without losing my current session.
So RepRap will be able to print it own circuit board? Astonishing.
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Separate question;

Why can I have multiple documents open in any MS Office App, which allow me to show one document on one screen and another on a different screen -- EXCEPT Excel?

This drives me NUTS. I can't easily compare data between spreadsheets without stretching the app across both screens -- then manually adjusting each document window within excel.

Who the hell is responsible for these inconsistencies over there?
Admit One Security already does this as a part of their keystroke dynamics tool. One interesting thing they do with it is to use key strokes to see if users are sharing passwords for subscription services.
http://admitonesecurity.com/keystroke_dynamics_advantages.as...
What's the point? Either pay the $100, or don't.

How much cash money Apple has is orthogonal to how the developer program is structured. Maybe the $100 fee has benefits for gatekeeping purposes, but that's a separate evaluation and discussion.

I'm not an iOS dev, and anything I would do on mobile would be Android first, so I don't have any reason to try to defend Apple here.
I have to wonder if that isn't actually going to be a problem from now on, not a technical one but a marketing problem. Major version upgrades used to be a big deal and brought lots of publicity even outside narrow tech circles. Now they aren't going to get that for free. Google pushes Chrome a lot in ads, Firefox don't have that. So what are they going to do to spread the word?
Saying that any site which receives a ton of DMCA takedown requests is a piracy site is a ridiculous argument, and hopefully the courts will heed Google's defense.
I like firefox. I really do. I've donated to Mozilla, and wear my resulting FF t-shirt with pride.

That said, it's not just auto-update that makes Chrome more attractive. The omnibox, polarizing though it may be, sets Chrome apart from every other browser as far as U[I|X] goes. Oddly enough, that one feature alone is enough to make it my default browser. Were FF as fast as Chrome, I'd still use the latter because I just like using it more. Chrome's sandboxing, V8, and other intelligent features are just icing on the cake.

This, ultimately, confuses me more than anything about the other browser vendors' reaction to Chrome. They've copied or are copying just about everything about it: short release cycles, better JS engines, sandboxing... but not the one definitive UI feature that has made it so attractive to so many people. This surprises me. I would have though Apple, at least, with its commitment to minimalistic UIs, would have been quick to hop on that train, but no dice.
Love LESS, SCSS, stylus etc. LESS though is a great idea that was not implemented well. The grammar of the language is ambiguos and it has a ton of bugs.
Does this mean they will also use the GitHub issues instead of bugzilla? I would very much welcome this.
Absolutely. Time and time again they've shown that they'll do the right thing. Like with firefox sync, where data is encrypted on the client.

And its not like they're lacking in features or speed. Firefox for Android (while buggy) could view the same bookmarks/history/open tabs as my desktop browser and this is a great feature which only recently came to chrome.
Perfect - Thanks! Ill try that.
On both a very unrelated and totally related note, one of the co-founders of Kiva, Rafaello D'Andrea, dominated robo-soccer for five years.
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>...but it also has the downside of not being a metaphor for something physical.

Sometimes though we need it to be a metaphor for what we intend or imply

Rather than simply mirroring physical constraints in an unconstrained environment.
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The article is from Melbourne, Australia. We don't have scanners or pat-downs.

But anyway, I used to work in a call centre doing anonymous cold-calling social surveys for government. One survey had a section on sexual abuse and rape - and a few of us found it odd that some respondants would open up their private lives answering these questions, sometimes in a fair amount of detail, but still balk at the standard demographic section at the end where they are asked their income bracket. Some magic numbers are more significant than others.
I'm not a fan, also I don't like the name--I was expecting something like Wobbly Windows, but more fluid-y instead of rubbery. (Someone should at least edit the HN title to the original title of Fluid Corners.)

For the Windows version, dragging it pretty far to the right leaves essentially just the close button group left. So what if I want to drag it back? I'm incredibly more likely to accidentally click one of those buttons instead of correctly grab the tiny sliver of space to redrag. (Because when I drag things off-screen, I usually bring them back eventually, not to close them, but to use them.) This seems like a solution ot a non-problem. Do most people really close/minimize/maximize windows immediately after dragging them back fully on-screen?
>When a site freezes the rest is unaffected.

Interestingly, however, when Flash crashes on one tab it crashes on all of them.
Why don't more Desktop as a Service organizations get together and refine LibreOffice to heavily compete against Microsoft?

It clearly works; look at other open source solutions that are a collaborative effort. Linux as a whole, Python, Ruby, OpenStack, etc.
> Do you think that the military budget, at 20% of the federal budget, is worth every penny?

No, and I advocate against a lot of that spending too. But observing that some other money is spent unwisely doesn't justify spending even more money unwisely on something else. When talking about spending more on NASA, it's pretty much necessary to justify those marginal dollars on their own, not in the context of other government waste.

The other approach can be used to justify essentially any spending, considering how bad the size of our military is for this country. Almost any possible alternate project, including piling up a bunch of money and burning it, would be better than the marginal dollars that get spent on the military.

I do agree that it's worthwhile to correct people's perception of the size of NASA's budget. To be honest, I was quite surprised that it was even 0.5% though.
I think the OP's explanation and reasoning demonstrate why it isn't a "hack" or at least why that word conveys the wrong meaning. The thing is that all preconceived, non-knowledge based interview questions are hacky... they're asked to get a certain response. In my opinion, a poor interviewer will expect a right or wrong or specific answer in those responses. A good interviewer will genuinely try to get to know the candidate through those questions. He says something to that effect here:

"Mind you there isn’t a right answer. It just helps to place the candidate in a coordinate system that I can understand and interpret."

It's all about coming to understand the person, rather than evaluating them on a set of criteria. The difference is critical.
Do we need web standards if everyone is using webkit?

At least webkit is open source, unlike IE6
Totally agree. I've spent tons of time pouring through their advanced settings and googling around for an answer to this. I must want to have 2 Excel windows open to compare values 10x more than any time I want to use their tiling features.
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It doesn't really make sense. Given we use a left-to-right and up-to-down, \ can be seen slashing forward in writing direction, starting from the top, and / backward.

Upslash / and downslash \ would make more sense, but this is what we have. My mnemonic is that forward and back are the opposite of what makes sense.
If such a system existed the benefit would more likely be at the manufacturing end rather than final delivery to a consumer. You could have artisan manufacturers making everything to order using a distributed system of parts delivery. This would allow smaller firms to hold very little in stock, and deliver much more quickly. Final delivery of a product like a phone is much simpler than the supply chain of all the parts.
I don't get IE9. It's not compatible with the legacy IE6 rubbish, and yet not conformant enough with HTML5 etc so it requires much extra work to support compared to FF, Chrome, Safari. Thank goodness for Chrome Frame.
This makes me think of crowd-funded space exploration.

Kickstarter is still far from mainstream and making million dollar projects. Petridish.org opens the possibility of tax-payers willingly donate a monthly value to science. Now imagine if all of these went mainstream with a celebrity like Neil Tyson as the front face of a project to help fund SpaceX? Viable?
I think at netbook sales have gone down a lot (and that used to be the "hot" trend in PC sales before that because they were so cheap). That would sound logical as many people wanted a netbook as a "couch PC", and the iPad fits better in this setting.

I know at least one couple personally that has said they don't use their laptop anymore.
_the millions of foreigners who just use what's provided._

Funny thing to say after seeing the statcounter shown in the comments show that >40% of north americans use internet explorer compared to ~30% in europe 35% in asia, 30% in south america and 30% in africa. Infact North america is the only place where internet explorer has >5% lead over their next biggest rival!

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-af-monthly-201102-201202

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-as-monthly-201102-201202

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-monthly-201102-201202

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-na-monthly-201102-201202

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-sa-monthly-201102-201202
Shouldn't be surprising or news to anyone who has looked directly into an access.log, all servers are constantly being probed by bots, crawled by spiders, etc.
The incapsula "article" is some combination of marketing and FUD, even though the title is true.

Using a second form of analytics never hurts.
If you have a webserver, run analog on your own log files.
Understand that GA only counts accesses when a client accessing your server also executes the javascript code on your site and successfully accesses their site.

Note that many hosting sites do not give you access to error logs, or only provide a web interface to show some of the most recent error messages.

A better title is probably
"Google Analytics doesn’t show you 51% of website noise"
15 USC §1:

"Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal."

Such is the very first sentence of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Getting convictions can be a pain in the ass, and there are many things that could be violations but are not usually treated as such in practice, but the statute in theory is very broad, and the general principle is that actions which seriously harm competition in a market are unlawful. The acts do not have to be specifically enumerated in advance.
Anecdotal evidence, but over the last month I've seen Chrome not work on a few websites (broken js) and have seen the crashes due to flash a few times too. Recent changes have not been for the better.

I've recently switched back to FF and found that it worked in the places that Chrome didn't.
So at 5% efficiency, a solid state engine in a battery form factor in my cellphone is going to need to get rid of approx 20 times the Watts used...

Hot :-)
Agreed, but this is also a shame. So many exceptional people don't have a chance to get hired because we're fitting the process towards the median of the distribution. Isn't there a system to recruit and develop truly great people?
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It's pretty great for catching up on your own feed or someone else's profile
This would be an interesting project: Finding a way to make the time of posting irrevelant. Probably impossible in today's super short span internet. But maybe with a different frontpage and "new page" sorting?
There is also :
- http://rubyfiddle.com/
- http://pythonfiddle.com/