skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a similar setup. Xmonad as the window manager, conkeror for the web browser (why would an emacs user use vimperator?), and emacs for everything else. (I also use rxvt-unicode, since it is scriptable in Perl and handles Unicode correctly.)

Some other things I use:

* bitlbee for non-IRC chat networks. I keep irssi running under screen on my remote server, and this means I am always on IRC and AIM (which I use instead of email, mostly). I get IRC/AIM/Jabber in emacs via ERC and irssi-proxy from the remote server.

* xmms2. It manages my music library like Amarok or iTunes does, but is very easy to control from external scripts. Back when I used amarok, I would always have to switch from emacs to my amarok desktop to change to a song by name. Now, with the help of a small perl script, I can hit C-c a a in emacs to change to any song I want. It's great.

The only major issue I have being mouseless is that there is always the occasional website that doesn't work right in Conkeror (hello, Stack Overflow), and I haven't found a good PDF reader yet. #xmonad didn't have much to say, so I use emacs for now. It is definitely non-optimal, though.

Anyway, I agree with the sentiment expressed in this article. Pretty desktops are nearly worthless for productivity. They may help inexperienced users achieve some minimal productivity, but once you are comfortable using your computer, they really get in the way.
I do count myself as lucky -- very lucky!

However, I continue to be amazed at how many men I find that are scared by smart women. But that's a topic for another thread. And perhaps not on HN.
Drinking $5 cups of Starbucks is not Lower Middle Class.
Forgive me for naivete, but isn't that the point of OpenID? Using one account to log in everywhere? Or am I mistaken about something?

Further, OpenID is about positively identifying somebody online. Since Facebook has one of the stricter naming policies online, isn't that a good thing that they want to make Facebook IDs more openly available?
Plenty of schools offer generous academic scholarships ( Rice, Carnegie Mellon, Vanderbilt). If you shoot for a school a half tier lower than where you'd otherwise go, you can probably get a good scholarship. That's probably your best option.
After driving HP down the drain I don’t think Carly Fiorina is best to tell what is good for businesses.
I love it! I'm a computer engineering student, as well, and I would even pay for such a resource.
Yep! They had 60% before. The optimal answer is probably somewhere between the two.
A Day Without Mono is like a Day Without a Bullet in my Head
I get a weird bright yellow on dark gray, which is even harder to read
Ask HN: Orange names?
I see a few threads going on right now about orange names.

Am I missing something? Everybody seems to be the same shade of light gray to me. Where are these colored names you're talking about?
Yes, but the point is that right now, everyone provides an OpenID, but they don't let you log in with OpenID. So OpenID is essentially worthless, since you can't actually use it anywhere.

It will become very worthwhile when major sites start letting me use it to log in.

(I always compare OpenID to email. Going with that analogy, right now, every site gives you an email address that anyone can send to. But each site will only send e-mail to its own addresses, completely eliminating any value.)
Thanks for your comments, I'll file some issues in TRAC.
We'll definitely be adding a "parks by state" page, and giving people the difficulty rating of trails, which is actually pretty easy to derive from the timestamps on GPS files.

Per your comment about trail distances, I do believe if you click a trail, it shows you the trail's length in the floating widget, next to the name of the trail. Maybe this needs to be highlighted? Also, if you click several trails, the 'Plan' tab will total up their distances for you.
awesome, mrxvt, zsh, vim, finch, irssi

Awesome and XMonad are the only tiling window managers that handle multiple monitors in a sane fashion, and I happen to like Awesome's a little better than XMonad's. ( 9 virtual desktops per screen vs 9 virtual desktops shared between all screens )
You are referring to what is called a "merit scholarship." That takes off the table all the colleges that do not have such scholarships as a matter of policy. (So that means no chance at any of the eight Ivy League colleges, nor at Stanford nor at MIT.) But I agree that Rice, Carnegie Mellon, and Vanderbilt, among others, seem to offer some great learning opportunities. So certainly a young person who might otherwise get into, say, MIT should be sure to apply to one of those colleges as well.
Well, the problem is GE turned themselves into a hedge fund that happens to manufacture some real goods. They also have a history of lying to the street -- I don't remember the date, but they went from Jeffrey Immelt proclaiming they were doing really well to slashing estimates inside 10 days if I remember correctly. Not exactly confidence inspiring.

http://clusterstock.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/ge-on-second-tho...

So -- factor in a history of an incompetent CEO who doesn't understand what the bit of his company that made 40 percent of his profits last year is doing, a precarious climate for any financial firm, plummeting fixed investment, and... why are you surprised?
The answer is to align the interests of executives and the board members who determine their compensation with those of the shareholders. They've become progressively more out of whack over the last 20 or so years, and that's why we are where we are today.

If CEOs of financial corporations had been paid largely in stock with a 10 year vesting period, they wouldn't have taken the exorbitant risks that led to this bailout.
Ticketmaster-Live Nation talks raise concerns
Or if you're like me and find all the white backgrounds hurt your eyes, its simple to enforce black background / green text which makes reading much easier on the eyes, it also makes grey text easier to read.
sort of

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sendi...

or maybe even

http://www.thinkingserious.com/2008/03/10/how-to-send-email-...
This is so true. I find it a little shocking that this poster isn't capable of writing with a pen.
how is she even relevant, she kissed her career goodbye when she ruined hp. the government isn't doing this b/c it wants to, it's doing this b/c it has to.
I mostly agree with you, but isn't $1500 a bit of an underestimate? Jersey City isn't that cheap; $1500 is definitely impossible in Newport or near Exchange Place, and I thought that even around Journal Square it would cost more than $1500 a month for a three bedroom apartment.
Should we track the race of students taking standardized tests?
NYT coverage has zero discussion of data standards or interoperability. that's the story, imho
Great- this means that everyone needs to start taking OpenID seriously. I'm not sure what incentive there is for Facebook to join the OpenSocial movement since, given enough time, Facebook Connect could easily become the standard open login protocol. If Facebook's goal is to integrate OpenSocial into Facebook then they could have skipped a huge headache for themselves and developers (in the form of a herky-jerky start) by simply going with OpenSoc from the beginning.
now parent is dead

haiku game will now wind down

thank you for playing!
John Resig Talk: Performance Improvements in Browsers
No, I don't. That part was a joke.

I was just using him as a case of someone who could obviously set his own salary working for a whole lot of places and decides to be compensated in other ways (stock, notably). He also went back at the brink of collapse and reanimated the company, so in that aspect it's similar.
Study says Seinfeld ads made MS brand image worse.
A bank should not, however, attach conditions which almost certainly detract from the client's ability to pay back the loan.

Banks do this all the time, they call it "interest".

The government is trying to make sure that the money is used wisely, much like banks want me to spend my loan on a house rather than hookers and blow. their money, their decision what conditions to attach to best meet their goals, which may not just be financial.
I am not certain if the works in the United States, but you could divorce yourself from your parents.

Then their financial standing would no longer affect you, because they would no longer be legally considered your family.
I hear good things about the book 'Head First HTML' from beginners, and if you're at any high level with computing you should breeze through it.

I whole-heartedly recommend this book as an introduction to HTML. It covers HTML, XHTML, and CSS in enough breadth and depth to get you started for most applications.

Of course, it won't make you into the best web designer out there, but it's a wonderful resource for edification purposes.
I wonder if this has to do with peripheral vision, because there's less feeling of a ceiling above you when the roof is higher because you see less of it. I wonder if there's a difference between sitting on the floor and sitting on a chair and how it affects a persons cognitive activities.
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"I didn't have a boyfriend; everybody I knew was from Microsoft."

Is this a typo?
We're maxed out on the current server.
A repository of source that has been opened up after it ran its 'commercial' cycle ?

After all, once a project is abandoned the 'source' is all there is. And eventually there will be an infinite amount of abandonware.

You could probably do worse than to approach vendors and ask them for their 'old stuff that nobody uses anymore', only to find out that plenty of people still use it.
Thanks for the insight. I didn't realize that CDN's like Akamai used a private type of network. Makes good sense.
I can't believe I was downmodded for that. :(
Does buying HBO shows via, say, iTunes cost more or less than subscribing regularly to HBO?
I typed in my address to see what was close. It would be great once you search to be able to increase the distance from your address you are willing to go hiking.
Aha, gotcha.

It's good for smaller sites, though. If I want to bootstrap my users and I'm going for a Facebook-like crowd, having instant access via Facebook ID might be nice to have.
No, I meant approved by me, as in I check to make sure the info is ok.

To the best of my knowledge, nothing stops you from walking into any lecture and listening. There are no rules (at least at any sane school I know of) against sharing notes. I don't intend to say "This is from course 0306-123, Computer Engineering on Rails", just have sections like "VHDL" and specific informative bits under that.
I saw some students working on Haskel homework sets in the Dartmouth computer labs last spring.
which may not just be financial

that's the point to consider
Deleveraging and conservative restructuring may work for a commercial bank, but not the hybrid commercial and investment banks that we're talking about here. These companies are involved in many diverse business lines and, bungling in the mortgage-backed business aside, many of these businesses are hugely profitable. This is why institutions like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were able to report large losses instead of collapsing: mortgage losses have been mostly offset by gains in other businesses. A CEO will need to continue to invest in the profitable business lines, with an eye on risk, to avoid being shut out of them by aggressive competitors, leaving the bank with nothing but toxic assets and low margin operations.

In "How to Make Wealth" pg wrote about how salesmen are an exception to compensation rules because their performance can easily be measured. The same is true for traders who do not deal in positions that must be held for a long time the way mortgage bonds are. If a trader makes $30 million in this way, he is in a position to demand, say, $5 million to $10 million or he will be happy to join a different firm that will pay him that amount. Thus, the reduction of compensation at the top levels cannot trickle down to the lower levels without destroying the firm by causing its top performers to leave.
I couldn't decide if it was quaint or annoying. When these dead tree magazine/paper types figure out that hyperlinks can go to other servers we're going to enter a whole new age.
I'm so happy with Chrome. Google's seemed heading downhill to me: I've lost my love for some of their services, and after I got Mail.app I ditched the online Gmail largely. When Chrome came out it was like the Google I knew and loved: minimal, effective, and fixing a problem in ways other people hadn't thought to fix it.
You got it. I'll let you scope your search by distance from a point. We're working on a number of improvements to search - that's central for us at this point.
If you rely on your software to be up and running for your livelihood (aka any web startup), it is mission critical.
Narrow your browser window.
This year is definitely make-or-break for Facebook. And their business seems to be based around personal identity. If Facebook could take over credit card transactions similar to PayPal, it could be big for a long time.
I'm a baby boomer, which is another way of saying that I'm a good bit older than most people who post on HN. I distinctly remember the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated--the most memorable day of early childhood for many people in my generation--and I remember the "long hot summer" and other events of the 1960s civil rights movement.

One early memory I have is of a second grade classmate (I still remember his name, which alas is just common enough that it is hard to Google him up) who moved back to Minnesota with his northern "white" parents after spending his early years in Alabama. He told me frightening stories about Ku Klux Klan violence to black people (the polite term in those days was "Negroes"), including killing babies, and I was very upset to hear about that kind of terrorism happening in the United States. So I followed subsequent news about the civil rights movement, including the activities of Martin Luther King, Jr. up to his assassination, with great interest.

It happens that I had a fifth-grade teacher, a typically pale, tall, and blonde Norwegian-American, who was a civil rights activist and who spent her summers in the south as a freedom rider. She used to tell our class about how she had to modify her car (by removing the dome light and adding a locking gas cap) so that Klan snipers couldn't shoot her as she opened her car door at night or put foreign substances into her gas tank. She has been a civil rights activist all her life, and when I Googled her a few years ago and regained acquaintance with her, I was not at all surprised to find that she is a member of the civil rights commission of the town where I grew up.

One day in fifth grade we had a guest speaker in our class, a young man who was then studying at St. Olaf College through the A Better Chance (ABC)

http://www.abetterchance.org/

affirmative action program. (To me, the term "affirmative action" still means active recruitment of underrepresented minority students, as it did in those days, and I have always thought that such programs are a very good idea, as some people have family connections to selective colleges, but many other people don't.) During that school year (1968-1969), there was a current controversy in the United States about whether the term "Negro" or "Afro-American" or "black" was most polite. So a girl in my class asked our visitor, "What do you want to be called, 'black' or 'Afro-American'?" His answer was, "I'd rather be called Henry." Henry's answer to my classmate's innocent question really got me thinking.

So to agree with the submitted post, it is in some sense a defeat of the civil rights movement that we think of "black" as a category rather than as one arbitrary grouping of individuals among many possible groupings. The headline for the story about the recent release of the fifth AP Report to the Nation

http://www.collegeboard.com/html/aprtn/pdf/ap_report_to_the_...

could just as well have been about which state had the highest performance (Maryland) as about ethnic group differences in performance.
I just hope that guy who tears gummy bears limb from limb and then eats the heads last isn't a coworker.
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How to get RC33 on your G1 without the wait
Britain From Above
I wonder whether the researchers took into account how the sound in the space bounces around. A higher ceiling often means more bounce. Me, I lose all concentration where treble sounds are bouncing.
I found the search confusing.

When I typed in my address it gave me a list of thing sort of close to where I live (in San Francisco).

When I typed in Point Reyes (a lovely place to hike in Marin County) I got a bunch of trails that sounded really similar.

I think it would be interesting to let people just take the map view directly to the place/zipcode of where they type to scan for trails and then filter them on the map according to their preferences.

I love the idea though.
Creator of Dovecot Joins Mailtrust (which uses Dovecot)
Here are a few points:

The initial website has a "domain parker" feel to it. I think the colours/design are off. Just my opinion though.

The loading times (especially for the map) seemed long for a production website. The longer I use your site (the more searches I do) the more annoying this feels.

There is good data on here for near where I live.
Walmart Growth Video -- including how it was done
Blackboard usability
I think tennis can be a great place for analogies. But I dispute. Tennis has a great scoring system. At any point in the match, you can win. You're chances are never bad until it's over. All you need to do is play from now on at least as well as your opponent has played up till now. The only thing required of you, is known to be doable because it is exactly what has just been done to you. Half-time never ends. Not till the last point. Couple that with being a one on one game, & it's very psychological.

But the fact is that once a player establishes dominance, they can be very hard to beat.

Nadal's strength, as any great player's is learning from the past but not being influenced by it.
I think it's disgusting that bank executives have been giving themselves outrageous salaries and bonuses while running their companies and the national economy into the ground. I'm angry that tax payers have had to bail them out and they continue to collect outrageous salaries. I absolutely believe their pay should be cut. In fact, I wouldn't even mind a little mob justice.

That said, I think I'm bothered more about a government capping the salaries of those charged with using our money to turn things around. We need the best minds working on a solution and I can't help but feel like we're shooting ourselves in the foot when we've handed over all our money and then severely limited recruiting potential.

Who will want to step up and try to right the sinking ships for comparatively low pay when there are opportunities at companies not subject to a government imposed salary cap?

You can't hire the best candidates when you pay the least, and on top of it all can only provide a hostile environment.
Yeah, it's definitely too slow right now.

We're paying $15/month to host it on a small slice, and we've been working hard to make it work on few resources so that we can scale it up inexpensively.

That said, I'm getting to the point where I just want to throw a dedicated server at the problem. The site runs smoking fast on our internal Linux server.

We also need to do more caching. We made a lot of progress on this (like if you click a national park the data is cached and fast), but in general, map loads need to be snappier.

One interesting thing to note is the bigger your browser window, the slower the site.
One critical thing missing from the search results is a map. I think that will solve this problem for you. I'll add that this week as well.

For search, what we are thinking is the search will provide search results on the home page, but zoom directly if you invoke the search from the map.
EDIT: Coding from scratch will be hard. Go Blender!

I briefly looked at writing an iPhone app to simulate the Wave Machine. As far as I can gather, fluid simulation is quite a massive (graduate school level) topic.

http://developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems/gpugems_ch01.html

The references section (1.6) is a good starting point (including this one)
http://www.darwin3d.com/vsearch/FluidSim.txt

http://graphics.pixar.com/library/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=FEA+%2B+droplet+%2B...
OpenSocial and OpenID aren't really related (except that they are both part of the open stack).

Facebook can easily continue to do whatever they want with their API and still do OpenID. It would be nice, however, if they did a hybrid OpenID/OAuth flow and then have an OpenSocial API that you could get access to with the oauth token. The user experience would be pretty much the same.
Oh no, people are having fun on the internet! Quick, somebody write an article on time.com and stop them! If people enjoy sharing random things about themselves, then let them be. I personally think the 25 Things fad, while maybe a bit 'lame', is interesting. It allows me to feed the narcissistic side of myself, while learning random things about my friends. The horror.
Deleveraging and conservative restructuring may work for a commercial bank, but not the hybrid commercial and investment banks that we're talking about here.

AFAIK, Morgan and Goldman are now commercial banks and restructured to this form to stay alive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/business/23wall.html

These companies are involved in many diverse business lines and, bungling in the mortgage-backed business aside, many of these businesses are hugely profitable.

Is this legal since they are now commercial banks? Do you have any citations on these hugely profitable non-core businesses? At any rate, gains from trading desks will be seriously diminished by holding/leverage requirements.

If a trader makes $30 million in this way, he is in a position to demand, say, $5 million to $10 million or he will be happy to join a different firm that will pay him that amount.

Do you have any stats on any member of the trading desks of these firms doing these types of numbers? Further, is it reasonable to assume these traders can continue to be as productive in this leveraging/financial climate? Is the current market for that talent still as strong?
as long as people are self-serving and short-sighted, they will always try to get ahead of other people unless regulated. people can't help trying to do better than their peers, regardless of where the bar is set. i'm optimistic that over time we're headed towards a fundamentally different culture that teaches self-enlightenment and the big picture. i see these regulations as part of the wake up call inspiring a cultural revolution. (i know, there have been many before, but we're making progress and doing our best)
Nope, that is correct. Joel is gay.
I always decline to answer. I dont think the answers are meaningful, except perhaps in medicine, where there are real differences. Income will tell you more about a person's chances. Give help by income; it will help all the disadvantaged by whatever classification. Otherwise the data will be misused by those with an agenda.
scientifically correct? If no, check with the blender foundation. Blender has had fluid sim for a while now. www.blender.org