skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently tri booting arch linux, os x and windows on a retina macbook pro.

I almost only use linux, support is much better than suggested here. Yes, if you expect the latest build of Ubuntu to just work you're going to be disappointed.

The trackpad works excellently, equivalent to os x (with mtrack), as does wifi. Graphics are fine with the nvidia binary, which offers better performance than nouveau anyways. On that note, there is progress with getting nouveau to work. Just a few days ago a bug was fixed in the i915 driver, and intel graphics work now. It is true though that Optimus support is bad on linux, and probably will be for a while. That said I'm at 86% battery, and I have about 3.5 hours left.

Its pretty easy in linux to change the font settings for applications, having the 2880 resolution with a sane font size is really great.

Also switching between the os's is really really fast, around 30 seconds. Probably in a month or two the majority of hardware will work without development packages or other modifications on an arch install. Until then, installation is tricky, I wouldn't suggest it unless you already know linux pretty well.
I find it extremely sad to see companies that we are supposed to respect like Google for example, not accepting any competition anymore.
The aim of any company is trying to answer and fix complicated problems to create wealth out of that problem. Fixing a hard problem offer some assurance that others won't be able to fix that problem, hence allowing you some advantage and creating the wealth you expected.

But for a few years now, all we hear about is not anymore technology advance or revolution, it's just every company doing the same thing and trying to destroy the others by finding some patent complain they can sue about.

Every single time company A sues company B for patents infringement, it's either BS and then the lawsuit goes nowhere and you can be sure company B will instantly fill itself a patent suit against company A; The defense is offence right?
Or the lawsuit is legitimate, and instead of just hoping to get back what they seem to deserve, the suing company always seeks the termination of the whole company...
that's just sad, because we used to see Google as an example for startups we build, in the culture, the way to manage. But this kind of behavior, which will cost them more than what they'll get in return anyway, is just sad...

Do you really think Apple will be stopped from importing its products in the US? What Google/Motorola expect from this? That it passes and Apple slowly dies because of the loss of the US market?

I mean seriously... it looks like third grade :(
This made my brain hurt. Terrible article.

> Lots of rubyists defends this aproach with arguments that GIL makes single threaded apps faster and makes writing of the multi-threaded apps easier. You know what… that’s total bullshit.

No, it's not. It's a fact.

Article also confounds parallelism and concurrency all over the place.
They are suing their biggest competitor, yes, but I'm not the only one who thinks Samsung made a few models with a UI that looks like they knocked off iOS.

WP and WebOS might be bit players, but they have novel UIs that are actually good and arguably better than iOS. In particular, WebOS had the best notifications.

WP and WebOS prove Apple's notion that it is possible to compete without an 'iPhone Skin'.
or this case could have the best of both worlds and use an HSTORE column - which can be queried by field - in PostgreSQL.
Mysql has had quite solid transaction support for many, many years. It hasn't been the play database you think it is for a very long time. This seems like an important topic to you so you should seriously consider looking in to it.
> Search is nice but a lot of people like to browse.

Could you categorise an item under the search term that people used to look for it? For example, let's say they enter a search term which brings up a range of items and they click on one. You can then add that item to a category whose name is the search term. Clicking on the category would bring up all the items people searched for successfully in the past.
Had been using mysql for 8 years. The product has improved over the years, and is still very simple to use. It would take a compelling reason for me to move to Postgresql. And right now, I don't see any. I want shit done!
The writing has been on the wall ever since MySQL AB required copyright assignment.

Monty doesn't come to this with clean hands.
I miss Sun.

They made some seriously cool stuff, and in their later years they were really quite progressive in their outlook and approach.

Jonathan Schwartz, for me anyway, kicked off the whole cool, open and chatty top exec thing that's so common now.
You can't wait to drive her home first?
Cracking the Biggest Barrier in Online Education: Motivation
Flawless. Well done!
I saw similar booths in the Munich airport a few years ago, where they were called "NapCab". I had had a rough overnight flight and a messy transfer in Heathrow, a six hour layover in Munich, and of course server problems came up while I was in the air - so a small private room with calm lighting, power, and an internet connection was a godsend.

It worked with a credit card and cost (IIRC) about 15 euros per hour (10 euros/hr in the evening). There was a touch-screen for setting lighting, audio environment, and a wake-up alarm. It also had a bottle opener and a bottle of water. When you're finished, I gather that janitorial staff are notified and the NapCab is cleaned up and restocked for the next person.

Their website doesn't seem to be active anymore, so maybe the company didn't succeed - but here's a not-very-good picture of what mine looked like:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26099052@N03/4733241817/in/set-...
You can set the right part of the track pad to be the right button, just like every other laptop. It has always been this way.
FameTube is YouTube without the junk 
FameTube helps talented artists who deserve fame get discovered free. The site controls what videos get uploaded enabling musicians extra exposure versus being overshadowed by pointless or viral videos. Think of it like YouTube but without the non-talented videos.

Every video that gets accepted is uploaded on the homepage, and the most popular videos throughout the month are featured on the homepage leaderboard. The #1 video each month earns a permanent spot on FameTube's homepage for an entire year.
Know why that is? Because their pads are goddamn terrible. Every time I see a mac vs. pc argument it gets down to the mac user saying 'it's because of the trackpad' and the pc user saying 'I don't need no trackpad'. well.. there might be a reason for that you know.
Build one! It's not that hard, hardware stores will cut materials for you, and your local hackerspace will help with design and technical stuff. And it will have the extra sweetness of being your own hard work.
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Accidentally announced 1 mth before? Reference please. I believe it was longer than that,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada#iPhone_controversy

The reason this IS so important is because it re-enforces the "emergent technology" argument that many forget, which is the antithesis of what many argue...

Do you recall Knight Ridder had something looking almost the same as the iPad... In the video from 94, the speaker talks of emergent technologies enabling the future, not "first to market".

Society should outright reject any notion that emerge t technology is patentable, regardless if the "evil corporation" driving the insanity is Apple, Samsung, Google, etc
"Mobile Mating App – You define your gender and parameters of your phone. Then you mate it with other peoples phones..." -

hmm, all my phones are spayed and neutered to prevent phone overpopulation.
The problem, I think, is that engineers have been taught over and over to see the humans as outside the system. You have the system components, you have a user interface, and the user. This makes sense in a way because you can mathematically understand the components of your software, but you cannot mathematically understand the user of your software.

Recently I have started to realize just how wrong this is, first in reading what others have written on IEEE spectrum on the so-called "Automation Paradox" and later internalizing that business systems usually treat people as integral components. Even if humans are relegated to a supervisory role it is important to given them enough to do to maintain the system and failure to do so in vehicles can result in air travel catastrophes or ships running aground. But the same holds true for every other field. There is such a thing as too much automation. Especially where we are dealing with social environments, like HN, that human touch is what is most important.

I think in this the first question is what should humans be doing, and the second is how can the computer system enable them to do it. Unfortunately engineers tend to forget the first question and so never reach the second.
In simple, harsh words, basically you say that teaching of good values has no value. I think that the things are much more complex that that.

Perhaps those values from military doesn't have/had any resonance because they weren't, in fact, good? Or, told in a good way? (I'm thinking now that tyranny in teaching generates repulse not acceptance)

Also, if we consider that the teaching was correct (both as content and form - I dunno of course) who knows if the "soldiers who didn't change" would be worse if this teaching would be applied?

I think that the human being is the victim of influence and good influences play a determinant role on his behavior. But now what means "good" - this is entirely another chapter...
that was great, thanks for posting
Same situation.

I found that VMWare workstation & parallels with the i7 imac (2011 model or something? it is a brand new iMac 27") causes mass tearing when using Linux, maybe a vsync issue?

Using parallels seems to lock the vm at 60FPS so it feels natural. Back to being productive....
Website doesn't work here.
i had the same problem until i found Witch.
http://manytricks.com/witch/
To summarize:

Google: Nobody.

Oracle: Florian Mueller from FOSSPatents.
Exactly. Once you know that it's actually preferable to Alt-Tab doing everything. If you are like me with sometimes dozens of open windows it's nice to have one more layer of abstraction.
Underscore uses native methods for map/reduce/forEach when possible. For a modern browser the performance difference is comparable, or even faster for a map than an unrolled for loop:

http://jsperf.com/native-for-loop-vs-array-foreach-and-array...
Optimus doesn't work, but there's a kernel module called VGA_Switcheroo that you can use to switch between active graphics cards.
IMF Says Bailouts Iceland-Style Hold Lessons in Crisis Times
"This is the reason (IMNSHO) Apple spent so much money in the 90s putting their software in schools"

I've known that to be the case as well. I was able to find this to back up the point that you make:

http://www.marketingapple.com/

"In the late 1980s, shortly after Steve launched the original Macintosh he faced a similar problem to the one we were facing ten years later. Very few developers were interested in building software for a platform that was much smaller than the standard at the time (in 1987 it was MS-DOS, in 1997 it was Windows). Steve’s answer was simple: encourage higher education institutions to build software for the platform and hook students on the Macintosh, which they would later bring to their jobs after graduation. The AUC worked exceedingly well then, and so I suggested to Steve that we rebuild a similar program, and he emphatically agreed."
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I'd say probably niche apps would be worthwhile selling outside of the store as you will need to go and sell the apps to potential users and while doing that you can tell them where to download it.
Yeah, I let hjkl discipline slide for a long time, too; it's damn hard to interrupt a reflexive reach for the easier to align cluster whose labels actually correspond to what you want to do. Here's the part that finally pushed me over: arrow keys can supplement/mirror/tweak anything you find overly awkward, slow, or hard to remember in the "native" form. And you can remap them straight (no prefixes/modifiers) or build something arbitrarily deep and be certain you won't interfere with any other bindings.

See? the arrow key scan become four more user keys, and they have easy to remember direction/orientation if you need it. Having trouble navigating, swapping, and resizing, your layout (and accidentally hosing text with ^w in the wrong mode? I did, but 20 minutes after seeing someone else use a similar setup, I was using my own variant more comfortably than any console window management bindings I'd ever tried before.

tl;dr; Remap the arrow keys from movement to anything you struggle with normally, and be amazed how you survived before your four newest "user" keys were liberated!

(Also, if anyone wants me to, I'd be happy to post my re-binding config lines as a template/sample.)
I've been sleeping in my office a lot lately. My home environment is far too noisy. Now I would love a sleepbox but yes I question two things: hygiene and noise. Hopefully it's well ventilated and there's no bugs but oh how I'd love a showerbox attachment. Also, how well does it isolate noise? Airports are noisy places. Does it isolate low frequency as well? If it does, I'd buy one for my terrible apartment.
Mini vMac on Nexus 7
Not to mention focus groups, research across cultures, endless committee meetings, flying people around to take meetings etc.
Please note this mixes up the cost of a logo with the cost of a rebranding effort.

Creating the logo is only one very small piece of a rebrand.
"and the UK's main religion is a Atheism"

What? The last census (2001, since 2011 results are pending) put Christianity at 72% and "no religion" at 15%. Surveys in 2011 by other groups put Christianity consistently above 60%. Considering the UK has an official state religion, a monarchy and unelected bishops in political office.. I can't see how anyone can claim the UK is "atheist".
For "Online Mindmaps", there is already the awesome http://www.mindmeister.com/?r=5892 software!
Smell Explained 
Fucking Magnets how do they work
Often the last word is a descriptive noun. Take the last word of each product name and make it a category. Then, go through this list (much smaller than 150k) and mark the ones that are and aren't actually categories. Now, change your categorization script to choose the closest word to the end that hasn't been marked as not a category. Go through your list again, this time filtering out anything you've positively marked as a category. After a few iterations with these scripts you should have decent categories.

Bonus: have your script set multiple categories if the title has multiple words you have marked positively as a category.
Thanks! The database is mongo. We can't put a date on production yet. Local development is a feature we've thought about a lot. Our servers rely on several third party tools, and ensuring those are available locally would amount to building a package management system, or having a lot of dependencies. We think part of the value proposition of backlift is its minimal installation, and both of those strategies add complexity. We have, however, tried to make backlift work with external build tools. So in theory you could use backlift with something like brunch.io.
We all knew that oracle mysql branch will go closed source and this is about that old prediction with the fact that now it really happens
heroku is on postgresql
engineyard is on postgresql
can you spot some pattern here ?
people started to leave mysql it's true that at a slower pace
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/postgresql-is-our-new-de...

the most popular ? hmm i think the sqlite is more popular with more deploys at least on mobiles : android,ios ...
Nice Report about an cheap iPadcase
I agree the startup ecosystem would be better if there were more of a premium for revenues over traction, and hope things develop as you say, but don't think that describes the way things work right now for anything past seed-stage rounds.
That could be the case (FUD) but as someone who just tried to get Solaris 10 from Oracle which a few years ago you could get w/o restriction you now can download but can't get any patches unless you purchase a service contract. I believe the cost is roughly $700 - $800 per year USD.

The way it was:

http://news.cnet.com/Sun-releases-Solaris-10-for-free/2100-1...

http://news.cnet.com/Sun-to-set-Solaris-free%2C-after-a-fash...

The way it is now:

"Production use of Oracle Solaris requires a support contract."

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris10/d...
Not a bad idea tagging by first letter, although I'm not sure how useful that would be. If I visit the site and want to browse for batteries, I may not know all the brand names. Might be a good first start though.

Regarding blank pages: those pages are blank for two reasons. First, I just launched an updated version of the site. I haven't added any redirects from old to new yet.

The second is that I accidentally let Google index those pages in the first place. As you mentioned, Google doesn't like thin content. I received good long-tail traffic until Google (rightly) booted my pages down to the third or fourth page. I now have a robots.txt in place to stop it, and don't particularly want Google to index my product pages at the moment.

Moving forward, my plans to make product pages better involve various parametrics (which I'm working on). Being able to play with interactive graphs of various parametrics, such as mAH/weight or discharge/cost ratio. Then generic sorting based on price, availability, etc

I'll selectively unblock certain product pages and allow Google to crawl them when they are more useful to the user.

Basically, Octopart is my role model.

Backlinking strategy right now is contacting bloggers and podcasters to get my site into the hands of a few hobbyists, so I can start to generate feedback. I also got a mention on Hackaday a few days ago which is helping. I have a few features planned which will incorporate more sharing.
Copyright assignment is basically required if you're going to sell an open source project under a different license. It's not usually nefarious, all that contributed code is still available under GPL.
You could but then you're really trying to jam a JSON style modal into a relational database. You CAN do it. But the tools and query language will make it much harder to work with. Not to mention lack of indexes on individual fields.
Heavy fines get difficult when the buyer can deny the charges. Chargebacks are very expensive for the merchant; not only are there penalty charges on top of the refund ($25 seems to be typical) but credit card processors will refuse to do business with you if you get enough of them.
You start by having them only in First class lounges. Then you filter them down through to business class lounges.

The cattle will never see them.
This is a great article - especially near the end where it compares the VW leadership's focus on product excellence and details:

Martin Winterkorn has a PhD in Metallurgical Engineering, and he has spent his entire career in the automotive industry. At the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, Winterkorn was caught on amateur video sitting in, and studying Hyundai’s newly introduced i30, a competitor to VW’s best-selling family car, the Golf. Here is an excerpt from a story about this incident published along with the video by The Truth About Cars, an auto industry blog:

“(Martin Winterkorn) pulled on the adjuster of the steering column, and heard – nothing. At Volkswagen, there is an audible (“klonk!) feedback whenever the steering column is adjusted.

Immediately, Klaus Bischoff, head of Volkswagen Brand Design was summoned. He pulled on the adjuster: No sound. “Da scheppert nix,” exclaimed Winterkorn in his heavy Bavarian accent. “There is no rattle!”

Winterkorn was livid: “How did he pull that off?” He, the blasted Korean. “BMW doesn’t know how. We don’t know how.” He, the blasted Korean, must have found out how to battle the dreaded Scheppern.

Tension is high. This could affect careers. Someone quickly explains that there had been a solution, “but it was too expensive.” That gets Winterkorn even more enraged. “Then, why does he know how?” For less money. He, the Korean. There is no answer. Hyundai has beaten Volkswagen at the Scheppern front.
How about a video camera inside the "box"? Or would that be too invasive for most people? Maybe you could just take "before" and "after" pictures?
Ask HN: Can a new LinkedIn competitor survive? If yes, what strategies can help?
He was being sarcastic. It's the kind of thing people keep saying even though it hasn't really been true for a while.
I like this idea. I already have a "Flag this" button in place: sometimes my algorithms have grouped products together (thinking they are the same) when they are really two separate products.

Enlisting the users to help categorize would be similar. Good suggestion :)
man, the lack of trust in modern (esp. american) society is just... awful.
Why won't you replace my phone apple? or should I say... your bomb
It's been two months with no resolution. After replacing the iPhone 4 battery turned into a bomb of deadly fumes.

My sister's iPhone's battery was swelling and not holding a charge. I figured I work at sprint, I've taken apart plenty of phones, it shouldn't take long- easy fix. I removed both of the screws at the bottom of the case and removed the rear cover.

After the rear cover was removed I went ahead and undid the screw that was holding the ribbon flush onto the logic board so that I could remove the battery. I went to pull on the tab and I noticed the right side of the battery pack bent. Next thing you know my room is flooded with Lithium Ion battery smoke, the phone is getting extremely hot in my hands, and sparks coming from the battery all at the same time. I dropped the phone to the ground and rushed to open the windows and door in the room at the same time yelling at my sister to get out of the room because the fumes are toxic. At this point I'm freaking out ( I've never had this happen to me before ), my sister is on the floor kneeling on the couch outside my door coughing her lungs up.

I contacted Apple shortly after that and got assigned dillonlong@apple.com. They offered me a refurbished unit for 160.00 after 1-2 weeks of no updates or calls. It's been two months now and they've done nothing to fix the issue all I'm asking is for them to replace the unit.

Apple claims I voided the manufacturer warranty by opening the phone and attempting to replace the battery myself. Let me ask you a question? what would have been the outcome if I had not attempted to change the battery and it would have blew up in my sisters pocket at school or at work.

I've included pictures of the phone in my dropbox below. Oh yeah the bio-hazard bag is compliments of Apple :) so even though they claim I've voided my warranty and they can not replace the unit at no cost I want them to understand one thing YOUR DEVICE BLEW UP IN MY HAND.

I'm posting this here in hopes some one can help me with this situation I've left numerous voice and email messages for my case worker and I've gotten no response I'm assuming they've tossed the case.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2fwmnstfz71lrxy/uhARqE1lg7
Though a good one, its been posted a few times already
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%09...

Please try HN search before posting oldies.
Clever...I think I may have that data logged right now. I'll see about retroactively using that data to model categories and see if they are relevant. Thanks!
You could use an algorithm to identify keywords in your dataset and the manually classify the most common ones.
and they don't like people peering in on them