skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me this one looks buggy

> don't work too much

It implies "chillin' out" which is fine occasionally but will not achieve goal 5 "be happy" if over-used.

We put a lot of effort into planning, organising and executing our work lives and many of us are good at. The parallel tendency is ignoring our outside-of-work lives.

I'd postulate if we put the same kind of techniques we apply to work to our personal lives, it would be far more fulfilling than "chillin' out".

I'd also postulate it's a zero sum game - in any given time frame, e.g a week, we only have so much energy, desire and time to invest in being successful, planning, organizing etc.

So I'd propose changing "don't work too much" to

> reduce the effort put into work and invest that effort in personal life instead

Not so catchy unfortunately.
Domain squatters build domain portfolios.
Off-topic: Every new paragraph starting with an "I" comes off as distracting for the reader. Also the repeated use of "I would / wouldn't" makes it sound like it's a stylistic grip, but the sentences doesn't seem to be set up that way.

Seeing as you're interested in improving your writing [0] I thought I should mention it. Apologizes in advance if this wasn't the right time and place for it :)

0: http://swombat.com/2010/12/6/get-better-at-writing
Evolution seen in 'synthetic DNA'
Might be worth mentioning the Alt-F11 function in XFCE for those who don't know it already.

Alt-F11 removes the title bar from the current window, and ensures that the window uses the whole screen area. The menu is still on top of the window unlike the usual 'full screen' settings. Very handy on a 1024 by 600 screen. I have Firefox in one workspace, LibreOffice Impress in a second, e-mail client in a third and I switch between them using Ctrl-Alt arrows.
Is my site up? Node.js edition
classic example of "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". Many of the other comments explain why.
I wonder if this is one of the reasons we are stuck with crappy development tools in era of slick iPads. Not only do we balk at the amount being raised (also happened with ruby.app), we also tend to criticize any thing that looks new and trying to change status quo. At the worst this will be a half baked IDE while still offering some creative features paving way for (hopefully) better future IDEs. You don't see many people haring off to criticize other creative projects the same way outside programming world.
Yep I used to work for a company that owned a Registry (.coop) and the guys that did all ICANN liaison and bidding said threes a LOT of dodgy stuff going on with bots.

Domains are to cheap in my opinion.
Beware of that. Don't accept that traffic, all you're doing is helping the current owner of the domain to increase the value of the domain and to put you in a worse position to negotiate.
Actually, billing is pretty automated, but shutting down your account is not.
Oberon - The Oberlooked Jewel
You are right, it's not my place to comment here. Please accept my apology for disagreeing with you.
I find this 'critique' (it's not a critique, it's a takedown) to run against the spirit of Hacker News.

Someone built a concept showing how the experience of writing code, for their corner of the software ecosystem, could be improved. They found popular support, and they're now setting about to make that concept happen. Congratulations; this is what Hacker News is supposed to be all about.

And here's someone summarily piecing apart and nitpicking on that concept (and the details of the demo video) for no apparent reason—there's no feedback or suggestions for improvement, it's just saying "well Eclipse does this and this and this already". I'm not impressed.
This looks pretty awesome! After installing it though I get an error saying it can't find git... but git is in my path. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?
Similarly, everyone else's points are basically "we think it's rude so it's rude".
Don't agree with everything the author has to say (particularly functions) but I think it's fair criticism.

LightTable isn't going to be a great fit for some languages, specifically c, c#, java and c++ style languages; I'm extremely dubious you'll be able to get the sort 'instant feedback' shown in the demo for that sort of compiled complex language with cyclic dependencies (A imports B imports C, imports A. Yay, java... :P).

...but really, that's not what it's targeting.

So, fair criticism to the author I feel: don't complain you won't be able to use a hammer to cut down a tree.
Don't be that guy
Excellent points. According to the project site, "Lua" is correct.

> "Lua" (pronounced LOO-ah) means "Moon" in Portuguese. As such, it is neither an acronym nor an abbreviation, but a noun. More specifically, "Lua" is a name, the name of the Earth's moon and the name of the language. Like most names, it should be written in lower case with an initial capital, that is, "Lua". Please do not write it as "LUA", which is both ugly and confusing, because then it becomes an acronym with different meanings for different people. So, please, write "Lua" right!

("What's in a name?" from http://www.lua.org/about.html)
How long do you have to wait for the Dash to appear when you tap the Super button or click the Ubuntu icon?

Unity has dynamic search &c and I find it takes a little time to build the Dash home lens.

Because the Gnome Shell 'Activities' overlay is not building a dynamic list, it seems to appear almost instantly.
>>China’s clever solution is to make every fapiao a lottery ticket.

That's not "China's clever solution" but quite common. They had that in Mexico already more than 10 years ago when I lived there (the cash register in stores whould print out these "lottery numbers" onto the receipt).

The fapiao in the picture is from Guangdong, elsewhere I have seen only 100 kuai with scratch off fields, not ten kuai.
If the culture at Valve is one where everyone has self-determination, anyone trying to "dominate" others would quickly start to be seen as a dick, would stop being able to find collaborators, would stop being able to get much done, and would eventually be weeded out.

Anecdotally, I dislike telling people under me what to do, let alone "dominating" them. I much prefer working with people who are self-directed individual contributors. I would not want to hire anyone that I thought matched your description, and if I found out that they did, I would fire them when I saw any clear evidence of it.
All Alone in the Night – Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS
Can you rephrase that? How do these messages get the trash label?
Then what did you say?

andrewfelix was prompting you to elaborate. Just replying "that's not what I said" is completely unproductive - this is meant to be a conversation, not a game of twenty questions. We shouldn't have to guess at your meaning.
yes! So this. I agree; Let's see some constructive criticism and ideas for how to improve the LightTable idea, instead of just trying to shoot it down as 'not novel'.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/1204-poster-4.pdf

I did this poster aimed at end users going from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04, just in case it helps anyone who is supporting end users.

The best way to explore Unity is to click around of course.
I agree, if you are showcasing code, it should be easy to view. Ideally without even having to download anything by letting people view it on Github.
I was starting to feel some burnout a week ago after a couple of months of 10+ hour days 6 days a week. Refurbishing my roof worked wonders for me. Spending 3 days pressure cleaning, replacing tiles and painting did wonders for me. Obviously not the kind of advice that applies to everyone but it worked for me. Plus my roof looks great now :)
Why this over jsfiddle?
one reason is probably that he is the developer of a "DVR for Java" that "Record entire execution of your Java app" and allows you to "Play it back on any machine".

That and the clear lack of experience with anything different than Java is clearly heavily influencing his perspective.

And I think there is no malice, it's just biased without realising it
I wonder how a Japanese company would react to such a radical perspective on company management!
I stand corrected.

I'm sure I remember my parents calibrating their turntable under incandescent lights, though... maybe it was their halogen up-lighter instead of their standard incandescent ceiling light? It definitely worked with one light in their living room but not the other.
Java's annotations could be seen as 'part of the environment' (whatever that may mean). I often use annotations which indicate how a method should be used, and those annotations are used by static analysis to validate correctness.

When using Java, I often change my program while it is running. recompiling classes on the fly. It works in most cases, and when it doesn't work, I believe other languages would fail as well.

You say Java is deeply flawed. I argue that Java is one of the most successful languages around nowadays. It does what it is designed to do: be relatively easy to learn, a natural successor to C++ with a wide range of libraries. Yes, Java code can often be verbose, but this depends greatly on the kind of paradigms used. I can write verbose and ugly code in Clojure and write relatively concise and elegant code in Java. It depends on architecture, a good understanding of OOP (and its limitations), composition over inheritance. The problem with Java is the sheer amount of 'bad' code written in it (because of all the leagues of beginner programmers), giving it a bad name. Have you seen Clojure code of a large product (equivalent to around 1M code lines of Java), produced by a team of diverse programmers and maintained by another team during a 10 year lifespan? You would cringe just as hard.

Finally, lighttable is a proof-of-concept... It's not there yet; there are no reviews; leagues of smart engineers have tried to reproduce something similar and could not escape the POC phase at all.
Rackspace's Cloudfiles has been fantastic for us - we spent about $60 to serve 300GB of images to over 40 million visitors last month. That's over the superior Akamai network.

In contrast, Amazon Cloudfiles charges per 10K requests, while only bandwidth counts with Cloudfiles. If we'd been on Cloudfront, we'd have paid more than 5x as much.
Backlogs: How to stop teams context switching and start delivering
Pressing tab is buggy. It assumes that tab means "indent" when in fact maybe you just want to insert a tab.
The difference is that a caching proxy is a layer over the TCP/IP protocol. In other words, we're using a location-centric protocol to build a data-centric network. Now I'm not saying that this can't be done, it most certainly can. I'm saying that we would be able to, much easier, build a well-functioning, distributed data-centric network if the foundational protocol, on which we build the network ,is inherently data-aware and location-agnostic, instead of being location-aware and data-agnostic (as the TCP/IP protocol is).
Too hot gpu? If you have a ATI graphics chip on that machine, you can try one of the following:

- Installing the proprietary drivers (fglrx). https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
- Properly configuring power management for the libre ones. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1569512

Disclaimer: I'm not an ubuntu user (debian here)
>> If you can go from 4 to 10 in something new every few years, that's amazing ...

If you follow edw519's posts (and I recommend that you do#), you will see he is an amazing guy whose life revolves around programming.

#see http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edw519,
free ebook, "The Best of edw519": http://edweissman.com/53640595

Also well worth following:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11, http://www.kalzumeus.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tptacek

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cperciva

and many others...
I smell 'ad hominem'
The old design will completely go away in the next few days. From a development perspective it's just not feasible to make everything work for two different designs (with many many themes). It's better to spend the time on cool new features.
Yes, this is not instantenous, but ok fast, few hundreds of ms for me. Also using Unity 2D instead of std Unity bothers me a bit.

Anyway I am really suprised by overall performance, apps start very fast and laptop has 4 sec suspend/3 sec wake up. (altough it often takes additional timea for wifi to reconnect again).
Bob Moog. Fairlight CMI 1983 - Intro
I prefer a black background, it's easier on the eyes. Green on black is my preferred setup. Gray on black is far better than white on black. It's also better at night if there is little to no light in the room.
or worse still, more consistent

So you believe that consistency among UI screens should take a backseat to usefulness? I agree with this but I know there are a lot of people who believe the opposite - that consistency is more important to good design. And this isn't limited to big companies.
Does anyone have examples of good quality criticism of GUIs? Examples of reviews that changed the way you think about the GUI would be very welcome.

We are going to get a rash of articles like this one, which make some valid points, but do not really compare Unity in its 12.04 guise with any kind of model of interaction or external standard.

It would be nice to try to produce something better. Canonical design have done a lot of testing and have documented some of their work. I think they deserve a critical essay rather than the kool-aid type response, or the instant dismissal that seems quite common.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

That's the blog of a company that makes a tool that integrates with Eclipse.
Bob Moog. Fairlight, part 1 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf3Ich9lT2w
Someone should write a nodejs to remove all nodejs posts from my news sites. THANKS.
Sorry, dont have ATI, I have Nvidia NVS 160M, using proprietary drivers. I think I'll try to figure out power management again in few weeks, but I'll decided to stay with 2D for now.
Lewis Carroll logic puzzles (as a game)
As pointed out in other comments, you didn't actually bench them and it turns out that Rackspace is better bang for buck in CPU terms. I wonder how much of your data is flawed in the same way.
In theory that's how it works - but it over-looks a price optimization that everyone uses. Essentially, when I walk into a restaurant/business to buy something, I'm in one of two situations:

a) I have some relationship with my employer whereby I need fapiaos to essentially reduce my income tax (i.e. count my personal expenditures as business expenses). Thus, I will ask for a fapiao.

b) I don't need a fapiao to write off income tax. Now, we play a simple numbers game:
Say there is a 10% chance of me winning some small percent of money by receiving the fapiao. But there is a 100% chance that if I ask for the fapiao the business will need to pay tax. So, we strike a win-win deal. The business gives me a discount, that is, say, 50% of what the tax is. I pay less. They make more. Everyone but the government wins.

Other notes:

a) The lottery on fapiao has been around for a while. Its not new.

b) The above deal is less and less common in big cities as more people use UnionPay (debit cards) and businesses essentially assume that people will ask for fapiao.

c) There are a few factual errors in the article. Some restaurants, yes, provide a "stack" of pre-printed fapiaos. Most have a printer that is essentially connected to the tax collection offices computer and can print at the bill's value.
If you have two lists, why not three? Maybe you should just have a list of lists.
You are asking to force the question into an artificially created box that doesn't help us get to the truth. The Smalltalk experience is naturally - and more fairly - compared to Ruby as an experience.

They are both tools, and thus we're primarily concerned with their utility, not inherent value. One wants to know: how will these tools help me to achieve my goals. The answer is that the turtles-all-the-way-down experience of Smalltalk helps devs achieve those goals more quickly, easily, and joyfully.

p.s. Thanks for pointing out Pry! I didn't know about it and it looks really cool :) As it relates to this conversation though, a more-advanced repl is stone-age technology.
Thanks, I'll take that as something like a fifth to a quarter of a second! I'm seeing nearer half a second, which is above my annoyance threshold.

The Dash home lens is actually providing a lot of context by listing the recently used apps/modified files/and even the played music. I sometimes wonder how many people use that context!

The times for the app loading and suspend/resume is down to your hardware which is obviously fast with the ssd.
Hey thanks for that, appreciate you'd bring it up.
Generally I think this is unlikely to happen because people who are freelancing often are doing so because their need is liquidity (read: cash, relatively soon) and not equity in a maybe successful venture. Thus they're looking to be paid now for work, not be involved in a longer term personal investment, whether in someone else's company or their own. So by definition, someone freelancing has very different goals than someone with the security and desire to be thinking about startups. For your question, I think you'd need to find someone who very specifically is freelancing but also is looking for a good startup idea, which I think is rare.
It says more about the quality of the review than about the relative merits of the 3 systems.

These things are simple: If Ubuntu were so much better, or just plain better, than other operating systems, more people would use it.

Firefox is, and has been for a long time, much better than IE, and so people use it.

OpenOffice/LibreOffice is not better than Microsoft Office, and so people don’t prefer it over Microsoft Office.

Ubuntu is not better than Windows or OS X, and so very few people prefer it.
This Homemade Headphone Amplifier Is A Work Of Art
The kernel shipped with Ubuntu has hundreds of patches. They simply don't bother sending them upstream. Whether this is because they don't care, because they know they are poor quality and would be rejected, or because they want to "differentiate" I do not know.
Yes, speculating in general is a zero-value-add activity except in that it sometimes makes markets more efficient/liquid. I would argue that domain squatters don't even make the domain market more liquid at all, because ICANN is an extremely-easily-accessible seller, and the squatters rarely provide the service of buying a domain from someone who has improved it/made it popular/etc.

But in general, I have little respect for most people who make their money via speculation due entirely to demand outstripping supply as in the case of event tickets and boom real estate markets. Basically, anytime someone is extracting money from the economy en masse without providing much/anything in return, is when you should be mad. Scalpers and people who buy a ton of land in a high-demand market just to sit on it rather than developing it definitely qualify, so yeah, I'd be mad at both.
"Let the down-votes commence."

Quoth the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.
My yearly "lets see if Ubuntu is good enough now" a few days ago: installed the beta, froze when I connected the external monitor. Then the same happened with 11. And with Xubuntu. And I went back to Windows 7.
Thank you, thank you, thank you...
Yes, I can't understand why highly computer-literate people use GMail. There must be something very compelling about it because it's so popular, but no one's ever explained to me what it is. If anyone here wants to explain, I'd appreciate it!

I use mutt too, which I find incredibly flexible. The only downside I experience compared to GMail is that searching is not as powerful. Am I missing something?
not really, just that all of us come with a point of view and I think his is made clear by the work he is doing on that project.

Never used it, looks interesting and useful for Java. That's where I think the problem is: if you have used only one tool you tend to see everything from that perspective.
Is the demo a bit contrived? Sure, but it's an inspired vision that was whipped up inside of a week. I don't think the creator has any illusions that making the vision a reality will be easy. However, it is clear that this vision is inspiring to a lot of developers and has some traction.
Took me a while to find a live copy, but here it is.
http://read.pudn.com/downloads118/sourcecode/windows/502418/...
I can't help but think they're writing with the Yogventure! kickstarter in mind.

The article mentions a "two-man team with a game prototype", an unproven studio, an example of a minecraft-related game costing over 1.2M and much discussion about the cost of development being high.

These talking points match criticisms held for the Yogcast kickstarter project. The main concern being that their budget is incredibly small for a game with such an ambitious feature list. That the duo don't have the necessary experience or expertise to develop a title. That the studio is unproven, with this as their first project. Alongside a feature list which reads like "Minecraft /w better graphics."
Not a fan, but Lync even allows XMPP access (if so configured), so all your GTalk buddies can message you from GMail (at least that should work - didn't try).
The innovation we need to see before eBooks can completely replace pBooks
The problem with start ups is that engineering is fun but business and administration is no fun. Nobody is enthusiastic about filling out tax forms and yelling at people because they are missing deadlines. People with experience in administration are rarely looking for a chaotic start up that can't pay a good salary.
Been a while since I looked at JSBin, looks like it's had some nice improvements. I really like the realtime preview and the linting of your JS while you edit.
not to be snarky but adding a few comments wouldn't have increased the LOC

(I'm aware that okal is not the author)
How to Create PDF files in Office 2007 – word, powerpoint, excel
So you have installed office 2007, Great.
Its very nice to work on office 2007, word, powerpoint and excel sheets. Now the interface is also very attractive and with lots of functions.
When I read this article, I was open to hearing how this could be the case, but then I read:

"Working with Ubuntu 12.04 is quite simple and elegant… until you want to sit down and see what applications are available on your system."

Which sounds like it really doesn't blow anything out of the water. Then I also read:

"click the “Ubuntu” button in the top left, then click the little white icon on the bottom center that is, I assume, representative of “a comb, a pencil and a building with pacman on it”. Then you expand the “Installed” section by clicking on the left/center of the screen. Then you click on “Filter Results” in the top right."

WAT? That's the complete opposite of a well-thought-out experience for the user.

So why is it that this GUI environment is superior again?
That are those alternatives, and I's rooting for linux, but t until you don't have to think about changing your window manager it can't win.

Also, since I deploy Ubuntu I would like to work on Ubuntu (apt-get).
Europe has been flooded in recent times with three cylinder cars, the Citroen C1, Toyota Aygo and Peugeot 107, VW Polo, Seat and a whole slew of others.

By American standards these are tiny but for EU commuting / shopping / city driving they're fine.

Fiat even has a two cylinder car on the market.
That was serious overlooking on my part. I didn't realized that most people read at night with little or no light in the room.