skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to your point, the problem with cross-website tracking is that it breaks the mental model that people have about these web services.

For instance, one would expect for Google to know everything you searched for. I don't think that anybody is naive enough to not realize it, even non-technical users. So if you're searching for something and you don't want Google to find out about it, then the simplest thing you can do is to NOT search on Google.

And the problem with cross-website tracking is that this model breaks. Now Google / Facebook know what websites you visit, even if you were careful about not searching on Google, or not sharing/following links on Facebook.

It's pretty scary actually.
Yahoo open sources Mojito (client+server JavaScript framework)
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This is what I was thinking, and since this guy said it, I gave him an upvote. Now I'm not sure if I'm making a mockery of the system or falling for it...
#rofl
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Replacing MS Office with Libre Office, especially based on comments so far seem to be not that great choice. People not calling support, it might be tu number of reasons. I bet if they did survey on what people think about impact on their work, they would get different results.
I was thinking and Google Docs would probably be better choice as alternative to MS, however, this is just another provider ie. you don't get open source.

I am all for open source, and cities like Munich getting into it is welcome news, and will influence improvement in apps, however I suspect there is a lot of negativity pushed under the rug here.
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Ok, I follow you. But if the thing that bites us about cell tower logs is the retroactive character of it, what about other technologies that make it easier for the police to surveil us? For instance, the police already have closed circuit camera networks for which they need no court order to monitor people on. In fact, they can even use them to research subjects retroactively.

What about image recognition on those cameras? It won't be long before they can just punch in a license plate number.
Yes I do.

I pay my rent with money, not with good intentions by some guy who has been granted a nighthood.

That said I assume a fairly standard webpage is rendered decently in Opera so I wouldn't block it (as I would haave done to IE if it had had the market share of opera).
How do I install this for use on my website? I've never included fonts before, outside of the Google Web Fonts API which just asks I stick a link tag in the template.

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oxygen rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
Erm, where's the six years option? Because that's exactly where I fall...
Who cares about fake ids? Use your real ID and use a fake boarding pass, like Bruce Schneier and others have long pointed out.

The hypothetical solution "have the actual driver’s license queried back to the issuing authority, whatever state issued that driver’s license, to make sure that that license was issued to that person" is bogus - how does the TSA id check verify that foreign identification, ie passports, are not counterfeit or otherwise fraudulently acquired?
Link dead or wrong
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Are you completely ignoring SharePoint integration with Office?
Github: https://github.com/yahoo/mojito/
Yeah, it wouldn't be surprising if this kicks off a wave of meta-discussions culminating with a poll asking if HN is too meta.

It's like complaining about down-votes; it's unfortunate that a quality comment is down-voted but it usually corrects itself with a little time.
The ethics part of me just raised a flag. The hacker part of me salutes you :)
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Read and understand about "Cognitive Distortions" - the methods we use to lie to ourselves. It has helped me significantly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion

I also suggest you enroll in an MBA program, even one class at a time, if necessary. Optimism is alive and in abundance in MBA programs, and it will infect you in a positive way. Plus, the skills gained will support practically everything you want to do for the rest of your life.

If an MBA program sounds suspicious to you, pick any issue of Harvard Business Review and read it cover to cover. The articles are "how to" for business situations, but in reality are describing how to accomplish goals at the edges of one's capabilities. That's infectious too.

And, of course, exercise 3-6 times a week, eat all your meals, eat healthy meals, get good sleep, and completely ignore recreational drugs, including alcohol. There's always time for that crap after you have some professional and financial security beneath you.

A book I really got inspired by: "How to be a Billionaire". http://www.amazon.com/How-Billionaire-Proven-Strategies-Tita...
This is pretty hard to define for me. At work, I primarily use Windows 7. My away-from-work computing is pretty evenly split between my laptop (MBP running Lion) and my desktop (custom box running Ubuntu 11.10).

I'd say my time pretty evenly split between all of these operating systems. I think I prefer Ubuntu overall, however the ease of use of OS X and Windows 7 are pretty tempting a lot of the time (try installing Spotify on Ubuntu 11.10 and get it to play local files). I'd probably prefer OS X among those 2, though since it's much better for development. However, for the most part it really doesn't matter what operating system I'm using.
I don't know, it seems like it is going the other way. At least for the buyer, internet ads have become more expensive over time. I imagine mobile ads will become more expensive as well.
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Hmmm... so this is a poll about polls... about polls? :)
Yes, in layman's terms - on the console you talk to the hardware as your buddy, you trust each other, and get along doing business better.

On OS's, there is no buddy, friendship. The OS (kernel) does not trust you by default, and there is no friendly language to get quickly the stuff done as in the consoles.

You can't schedule a DMA user-space. You can't batch too many draw calls in one piece. You can't check, inspect more detailed what the system is doing. You can't talk to any of the devices directly, but have to delegate this through the OS.

Now, the consoles have gotten to be closer and "less" friendly in that respect. But then again, security becomes much more important these days, especially with online games...
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I think banning them is a little too harsh. But you are right -- you don't get it until you can do it without the tools (then you do it with the tools anyway since you will spend less time that way, at least in most of the cases).
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I wouldn't say common, but a little occasional levity isn't such a bad thing, right?
You may as well just open up notepad and type "Hello, world!", and leave it at that. HTML is not a programming language; if you want to program on the Web you do have to jump into JavaScript.
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Razors, what a DEAL 
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HNFYI: /new page problem
Seems to be a spam bot camping on /new and voting up submissions regardless of quality.

Good content seems to be getting caught up as well, leading to dead submissions.
I answered OS X in the spirit of honesty. However, I would much rather use Fedora on a laptop at least equivalent to my MacBook Pro, if I could buy such a thing. Installing it myself works at home, but not at work.

I am familiar with System 76, but I personally prefer Fedora. Suggestions welcome.
With Linux clearly ahead, I'd be interested to see a "Which Linux distro(s) are you running in your production environment".
Judging by typeface design, samples, and description, the font isn't designed for body copy. Also, right now on the page font samples themselves play the role of “huge, super thin headline”—having more than one of these usually is not a good idea from visual design standpoint, so I wouldn't use it for headline as well with current layout.

That said, it would make perfect sense to have headline set in Subtle Sans, but with larger font size and font samples moved to a less prominent place.

By the way, the Download button actually uses Subtle Sans (not the best place for it IMO though).

Typeface is important, but not as much as knowing how to use it properly. In this regard, typographic solution from Twitter Bootstrap brought a very nice change to the world of ‘developer-built’ websites appearance.
The idea that "most people only want to consume" is
profoundly offensive and serves the interests of abusive
"producers" who tend towards rent-seeking (see the MPAA
for a worked example—most notably in how they run the
film classification system in the USA),

It does not matter if it is offensive, so I will just have to ask the question:

Is it true?
People care about their HN karma - I don't know if it's 1% of people or 99% of people (maybe a poll is needed for that) - but certainly some people do.

And because of that, "cheap ways to get a bit of karma" matter, because by their definition they are acts of people who are valuing karmic return over quality of submission, resulting in low-quality discussions that appeal to our lowest common denominators, not to our curiosity.

edit:

To take the discussion further... First, I wouldn't neccesarily say that polls are a cheap way to get karma. Is karma meant to be a reward for effort, or for value? Sure, a poll might get more points per minute it took to create than a great blog post or Show HN post, but it doesn't neccesarily mean it was less useful to have on HN. And in comments we don't discriminate, I've seen plenty of extremely-short comments get high upvote numbers.

And finally... while some people may be motivated more by karma than anything else, is this automatically a bad thing? Arguably if a poll (or anything else) gains the user karma, it is (in theory) a sign that what they submitted was good content, and therefore better that somebody submit it to get karma than for nobody to bother at all.
As an OpenStack user with several PB in production, thank you!
Please show me where this or a previous version of ASP.NET MVC can be hosted in a console app?
When speaking from your experience its easy to say 'many' users have had problems, just like how I can say I've never had a problem with a word document therefore 'many' users have never had a problem with a word document. :) Not sure what kind of editing you do. haha
OSX ahead of Linux and iOS ahead of "Other Unix variant".

Can we now get the name of this site officially changed to Hipster News?
You should probably split Linux into multiple Distros. That would be interesting.
It's good for them that they haven't caught the "SharePoint" (and soon, InfoPath) wave yet cause if they do, the migration cost will rise quite significantly.

Most offices these days do use SharePoint heavily and some of the BAs started their hands on InfoPath to make forms for data entry to SharePoint.

To make matter worse (or sweeter, depending your POV), these whole thing can be acquired cheaper by using Office 365 (their cloud version of Office) plus certain Office 365 offerings automatically gives you Office 2010 Professional Plus for free. Sweet deal if you ask me.

Some of us would like to see Linux to win the battle especially when it comes to cost perspective. Unfortunately, Microsoft took notes and they had adjusted their licensing cost as well.

For example: in the K-12 sector, I heard schools are getting 90% discounts. Ninety percent discounts.....
This might help http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
Interesting that the OP of this poll wrote this at the top of his last poll post:

"(Please be sure to also vote this poll up as well as vote for a choice; voting for a choice doesn't up vote the poll!)"

I don't care about the karma from polls per se. I mean it's nice, but I've been an HN user for a while now (580 days) and haven't felt the need to seek it out.

I feel the choice of OS is an interesting question these days. The OS climate has changed significantly over the last few years.

Asking the question has also spawned quite a bit of discussion (currently 310 comments) with relatively little flaming going on, so that demonstrates another interesting property of HN readers: that we're capable of having non-childish discussions about things.

For me, as a long time linux user, the question seems relevant as well. I've seen quite a few posts in recent weeks declaring that linux is dead on the desktop. And yet, so far in my poll, it beat out windows and is not that far behind OSX among HN readers, who we'll assume are synonymous with "technical users". With the number of votes that's been collected, I think we can call it a decent sample. The results are definitely not what I would have expected.
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Can I just say that for a site about typography, the primary font on that site is appalling at least in Chrome under Windows.

Calluna is the offending font as far as I can see.
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"Most surprisingly, the city claims its IT department is fielding HALF as many (!) user complaints with Linux than with Windows, reducing another major cost forever."

Uh, what? Complaints can change at any time and due even to "small" changes. Also, there could be changes in the opportunity cost of running Linux vs other operating systems in the future which could be realised/visible to ordinary users and thus cause a rise in complaints. But yes, for now, if the facts are right, they have saved themselves significant support cost.

Rest of your summary deductions are sound.
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Cpus comparison is completely wrong in this article. Cell Broadband Engine has 200+ GFlops throughput only in single precision, while Core 2 Duos has 24 Gflops in double precision
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That used to be my routine at my old job. Fire up WinXP and Win7 VMs to do .net development and other client work.

My new job doesn't require interacting with Windows at all so I work in OSX/sshed linux sessions all day.
Started with Basic and 6502 Assembler on the first available Personal Computer (Commodore PET-2001).
Processing is way way cleaner than PyGame. It is nice that people are creating interesting things in PyGame but I think more good would come about if it didn't exist so something better could flourish.

And I say this as a python programmer since 1998.
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This argument is, and has always been, ridiculous. The GNU user land is no more an operating system than the Linux kernel or the K desktop environment. It's just one component of a larger software system which most refer to by the convenient moniker of "Linux".
LissaExplains... Now there's a site I haven't heard of in a long time. Does anyone know what she's up to these days?
How I have been screwed up by samsung and Google
an anonymous utility function.
Tired of SV gossip? Read something intelligent instead.
I imagine that getting one's hands on blank lotto ticket paper stock roll is probably beyond the scope of this "hack".
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"We build computer networks and use them to argue about what sets us apart from other mammals".
True enough, but that may end if we get an actual working payment system or if the "price" of free becomes too high.
How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue, by Al Franken
Quite. Charlie Sheen survived assault charges, and got canned in no time flat for mocking his boss.
More RAM, period.

Going from 4GB to 8GB on my mbp made a huge difference running VMs. Also, get Fusion. For working in VMs all day Fusion has worked better for me over VirtualBox.
Why is this getting upvoted instead of flagged? This adds nothing of value whatsoever and is the kind of thing that normally gets flagged to hell. Seriously, we don't need this - there is no useful information to be obtained here and no potential for interesting discussion.
should HN be optimized towards mitigating user prejudice or an enhanced experience for the enlightened?

Unless you really think that increased prejudice on HN would enhance the experience for the 'enlightened', then this is a false dichotomy.
I'm curious about those using Windows. I can see four main reasons to use it:

- You are a "business type" and prefer some app/workflow that you are already familiar with and don't want to change.

- You used to work at Microsoft and you know it way better than other OSes.

- Your target userbase has strong Windows lock-in so it makes the best business sense to use it.

- You are really into gaming and don't want to dual-boot.

I'm curious if any windows users have any other reasons...
Is it really that paramount to keep most of the web around? The obvious knee-jerk answer is that it’s a great resource about our history, but honestly, I would not care if most of the web simply perished the natural way. It’s only seldom that I use the Wayback Machine and if the content I’m looking for would not be there, it would be no big deal for me. Where is the point of storing too much information?
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One fear I have is that HN is going to turn into reddit or digg. I have always come here for no-nonense hacker news with a strong emphasis on startups and technology for startups. I hope that we can avoid posting too many memes, joke replies, talks of karma, and "what's your favorite flavor of os/language".
> or falling for it

:) That certainly wasn't my intent. The usefulness of upvotes is that the most useful information goes to the most readable place. (Usefulness being defined by the number of upvotes!)

Having a history of providing useful information might be good for somebody's personal ego, to which I say: Get a life. But does anyone here bother to look at somebody's karma count and say, "Now THAT person needs listening to!"
Yahoo open-sources JS/Node framework Mojito
I would like to see a graphical chart where I could follow the votings over time. That would be interesting.
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I think the quality of the current crop of polls is a greater concern than the quantity.
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You've already acknowledged that the intent is to reduce prejudice and priming and to allow comments to be judged on their merits.
The people behind Wuala seem to have figured out a way to deal with the redundant copies on client hardware.
The analogy falls when you compare physically created goods from digitally created goods. The cloth buttonmakers were not downloading and selling the guild's buttons, they were making their own buttons and selling them as an alternative product.

Like the buttonmakers breaking the protectionist cycle, we can destroy mpaa and riaa if we can crowdsource and opensource movie and song creation and provide better payoffs to James Cameron and Brittany Spears for creating addicting quality content, then like the buttonmaker guilds, riaa amd mpaa can be made irrelevant.
Shackleford: What’s RIGHT with Infosec
Ask HN: Anyone else notice that a bunch of legit pages are being labeled DEAD?
Even ones with a ton of upvotes, some on the second page of HN
I use OpenBSD and FreeBSD for production servers (depending on use). OpenBSD has one spot in the install that is troubling (the partitioning), but, to me, is really easy to setup. FreeBSD is a little harder, but I chalk that up to being away for a good many years.

They are both pretty robust and FreeBSD is really good when loaded.
TBH, until they stop making disposable, easily broken headphones with non-repairable connectors, I'm not going to pay over £10 for them.

I have signed up for this KickStarter project though: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendary/earbuds-time-t...

NB: I'm not an audiophile - most of my listening is podcasts.
White House IP czar: anti-piracy laws should not block free speech
originEl if present overrides originX/Y. It wouldn't be too hard to build a similar tool that absolutely positions a canvas within an element, but there's a tradeoff in complexity. Setting a CSS background is a nice, simple approach.
Serious hackers use the keyboard.

(Awesome WM, vim and vimium on chrome).

Joking aside, I've never found any trackpad Apple or otherwise that I could use as efficiently for pointing and clicking as even a cheap-o mouse. But gestures and scrolling are so smooth and so useful on OS X that I keep one around (even when I'm at my desk - I now keep a mouse to the right and a trackpad to the left).
Last I heard (according to Agner), Intel's compiler still intentionally incorrectly detects AMD's CPUs and throws them to the CPU-generic code. x264 has a hacked loader function (borrowed from Agner) to avoid this, though I don't know if the test used it.

Now I'm not sure how much this'd actually affect. The autovectorization in Intel's compiler is weak and, at least on Win64, sse2 is allowed in normal code without CPU dispatching. It does affect library functions like math and memcpy, but that'll only matter if your program spends a ton of time in them.
Linux? Seriously. A PDP-11 with ed is more than enough. Linux is overkill.
When you say Nintendo "ate everyone's lunch for 5 years," do you mean in sales or in profit? My impression is that XBox 360 and PS3 are much more popular consoles (but this is just based on anecdotal evidence).
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How is that a counterpoint?
Feature request: a reverse showdead for polls.
Exactly the same thing happened to me. Getting a sparkly cake from him feels like getting a geek merit badge.
i like them. it would be nice if we could see past polls for referencing or comparing.
Maybe I read the article wrong, but my spidey sense went off when reading the article. They're comparing the maximum_complaints_per_month quantity before and after switch. i.e., the peak value of complaints_per_month. Not average or annual.

I agree with your other points.

FTA:

The maximum number of complaints was 70 per month
before the beginning of the switch to LiMux. After the
number of LiMux workplaces increased from 1,500 to
9,500, the maximum number of complaints per month
dropped to 46.
30 trends that will shape the web & digital media business in 2012
The great blogpost to this presentation is here:
http://medien.nrw.de/apollo-m/2012/03/31/30-us-trends-that-will-shape-european-web-digital-media-business-in-2012/