skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't really agree, at least not based on my experience with it.

This is why I sad "a chunk of people" not "everybody". I don't like it either. If and when 12.10 works on my laptop I'll kill it straight away.

My partner, however, likes it. She's often searching for book refs and amazon stuff. This makes her life easier and better.

Just because a group of people don't like something doesn't necessarily make it a bad UX. The mantra of everybody in the UX profession is that "you are not the user". My likes and dislikes do not matter if I am not the target market.

Does it matter if N techies hate something if N x 100 in some other larger group love it to bits?

Once you are in this mindset you start to think "why should amazon get special treatment?" and you say "hey, we should search ebay too and what about netflix and pornhub?" and suddenly you have an entire screen full of crap and are leaking information everywhere.

If and when that does happen - that'll be bad.

Hasn't happened so far with Google.

I don't see the Ubuntu folk being dumb enough to make that happen on their platform.
I guess there are lots of people who get a regular salary from running casinos or producing gambling-machines, too.
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Upgraded from FF 16 to FF 17 and still unusable.

Works fine in Chrome although it doesn't scroll properly on a trackpad.
In case it's not clear, this is a development version along the road to the stable 5.18 release, expected in May 2013.

The Perl core team are getting very good at timeboxing their development and releasing on time.
I don't know where you live, but here in the Netherlands everybody is using it...
Just noticed that Cobbler are having a fund-raiser to help support the next version.

For those who don't know, Cobbler is a Linux installation and update server. It does all of the stuff you need to do to a new server between building the hardware and running Chef/Puppet.

More info on it can be found here: http://cobbler.github.com/

The money they are trying to raise is a pittance for the pain they solve, and whilst I'm bootstrapped to the point of having virtually no disposable income I cannot help as much as I want, so I've shared here hoping others might be in a better position to help.
Patents are the very definition of not freeing.

Oxymoron title.
Here's the delta with the changes: https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perldelta.p...
I've added PandoDaily to my list -- which contains the same sources you've listed.
Was this example really necessary? You basically said: If terrorists (who, by the way, happened to travel to Afghanistan once) attacked the WTC, the US have a casus belli against Afghanistan.

See, the reason why the war in Afghanistan is controversial is precisely because it is not clear that a country has a casus belli against another country if there is a (remote) connection of offenders to that country. In fact, the pilots lived and planned most of the plot in Germany.

A better example of a failed state would be the results of the war on drugs in Mexico.
Has Microsoft finally served Intel with divorce papers?
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I've used kde and Gnome on ubuntu since 7.04. When Miguel de Icaza wrote his piece on the death of desktop Linux a few months ago, discussions on Unity as the "doom" of Ubuntu crept back up and I got curious about it enough to give it a try and see for myself. My conclusion is that although many people feel the way you do and are pretty vocal about their discontent, they apparently don't represent a majority and some of the comments are increasingly out of touch and are even becoming misinformative.

I've ranted about the dumbing down of UIs previously on HN (re: Windows 8 Metro/WinRT, OS X Launchpad), but none are as terrible as Unity. It's impossible to find what you're looking for with it, it's terribly unintuitive, it hinders productivity more than any of the other offerings, makes it impossible to find out what applications you have

This is an example. It's been my experience as a full-time user that the launcher does a great job to help you find what you're looking for. Not only can you simply type keywords and suggestions are most of the time pretty accurate, but if for some reasons you don't find what you want, you can use filters.

For example, to find applications the old-fashion way (nowadays, most people just ask what they want and it comes up):

- press super (brings up the launcher)

- click the Applications button (2nd button). The app filter is now on

- click on the second sub-header where it says "Installed" for installed applications. You should see all your apps.

- if you need to further filter by type or other, open the filter and pick one (games, internet, education, etc).

Otherwise, to do like everybody else, to launch firefox:

- super

- type fir[efox] <enter>

or

- super

- type int[ernet]

- click on firefox icon

I'd like to share this little comment that I found the day I moved to Unity. It reflects pretty much my experience http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=12042350&postcoun...

It's not to say that Unity is perfect, far from it, the thing still needs work, but I think it's more than time for some Unity critics to accept that maybe they're opinions are becoming non-constructive, especially when they don't address the real issues of the desktop.
How representative are the "160 million users" that Net Applications is using (yes, I did read TFA and I find it very light on their metodology and on what they're actually measuring) to produce these numbers?

Last time I checked there was this "mobile" thing and there apparently isn't a single day where there's less people browsing using their phone than the previous day. Heck, even my girlfriend is now using FaceBook from her Android phone and she isn't anywhere near a tech-savvy person.

I receive mails from family members sent from their mobile phones and I know they do read news, use GMail, use FaceBook and even check eBay listings from their phone.

I've got a hard time imagining this trend changing.

And what about the tablet market?

So are these stats done by monitoring 160 million desktop users and totally disregarding tablet / mobile?
Good to see so much active work on Unicode support. Really feels like Perl is coming in to its own as the language to use with Unicode text...
Chrome is very aggressively advertised and promoted in newspapers, magazines, on billboards and even on TV, not to mention on Google's Search and Youtube sites. I'm surprised its market share not higher, its actually falling.
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I would have expected the worst time to join to be right before a funding round because of your value getting horribly diluted. I know there was lots of talk of this some months back (and scumbag companies like Zynga trying to one up the evil) and assumed this practice would get even worse. Has that not happened?
They haven't won many heads-up elections, but they have won a few.[1] They're also pulling significant percentages in Germany, and close to a full percent in a few other countries. They're active in 40 at the moment. They're hardly a major party, but doing pretty well for one that's only six years old.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party#National_Pirate_Pa...
I think you meant to write

> Unless you're interested in startups (that Arrington has a personal stake in) generally.

> Or if you want to learn about new companies (that Arrington has a personal stake in).

et cetera.
The lack of a sign-up is huge. Off the top head, for myself and my circle of contacts I'd say we're 4-5x less likely to try something recommended by each other if it necessitates signing up.

Despite what seem to be a surprising number of detractors here, lets not forgot that it's a pretty good product - fast, stable, nice enough looking and very reliable.

It's also worth noting that if Google Talk / Messenger weren't such an inconsistent / unreliable mess, I'd never have gone for looking another means of messaging.
I've had Ubuntu upgrades go pretty smoothly so far.

I would like it if you could run an upgrade process to switch to a 64bit install though. It seems at the moment as if a reinstall is required (or major hacking).
That is a woefully low sample size...
That's some high level troll right there.
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15 years ago you could have replied to it on /. with "F1rst P0st" and been vaguely relevant.
This seems like a glaring error on their behalf, they made no explicit exemption of mobile browsing, so their data is highly misleading to anyone who reads it.

I would almost bet that this post was urged by Microsoft in some way, as their lack of success on mobile would have resulted in a major hit to IE's true market share .
Didn't mean to leave you hanging -- I deleted the comment you replied to b/c I felt I was going on too long on this.

Yeah, deliberately slowing down does seem outside the expected startup model. If it is true that they must grow at breakneck speed, and that they must dramatically improve their political positioning, they may have found themselves in a coffin corner. But is pg looking at sustained growth as a necessary condition of startup success? Or as the best heuristic for assessing startup health amid lots of uncertainty? If the latter then particular cases merit inspection. Uber has proved its market. The political issues are obviously strategic. There is no one way to win and they should think hard about applying conventional startup thinking to their own position.
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The one in the html should not be there.
It's not just a cost issue - depending on the size of the unicorn.

For example I know nobody who is really good at all of:

* user testing

* interaction design

* visual design

* HTML/CSS

* JavaScript

* user research

* branding

* information architecture

* cognitive psychology

* ethnography

* marketing

I know folk who are really good at a subset. I know folk who have some knowledge of everything. I keep seeing folk trying to hire for a stack of skills that rarely come up in a single person.

The person who does user testing five days a week fifty weeks a year is going to be way better at it than those folk who do one every other month. You can't expect that level of skill from an individual if you expect them to be really good at visual design, interaction design and generative user research too.

As an aside, I hate the idea of a visual designer that doesn't know markup, and someone else being responsible for building it - this does not make sense.

It's a hellishly useful combination to have certainly - and it's my preferred way of operating.

But other ways can and do work. I've paired with fantastic visual designers without HTML/CSS knowledge and produced great results in the past. They've had other skills outside of HTML/CSS that they could help the business with.

You need all of the skills for building a product on a team. They don't necessarily all need to be in the same person. Folk hired into design roles are sometimes expected to have an unreasonable number of skills in my experience.
My idea is that encryption must be so easy as to be used by all without configuration. It will make much harder mass surveillance, all other methods you cited are much more expensive methods, in most of them you must have physical contact or dedicate an attack against somebody, but to find that somebody you need to follow his correspondence.
no.

I'm not suggesting that is why Dropbox are moving to Ireland. I'm saying that if that was the reason as brought up by the OP then they should be aware of current events in the UK where companies like Amazon are making billions of pounds in the UK and paying virtually no tax - even though they use our roads and infrastructure to conduct their business.
Yeah they'd cost me like £200 a month for what I use. Not going to happen. They do look neat though.
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No argument that it helps - and I vastly prefer working with folk in that mode.

But I've also worked successfully with great visual designers who figure out the medium's constraints without knowing CSS/HTML - and bring other aspects to the team (e.g. great user research skills).

I'd be a fool to reject them just because they lack HTML/CSS. I just pair them with somebody who does. They both learn.
1) It's a predictive argument

We might be there already.

2) Glorification of the past

I don't think so. More like a broken promise.

3) The increased transparency brought on by the internet is a good thing. ,I'm glad Petraeus got his ass busted

That's just disingenuous. The secrets that really matters about military operations are not public in any way, while you are happy because this guy gets caught cheating his wife. Meh.

4) There is no way the public at large is going to start encrypting their communication.

Oh, that's a predictive argument. Make something usable and we'll see.

5) The benefits created by network effects will be significantly diminished by introducing private encryption.

So that networks effects are more important that freedom, aren't they?

6) Efforts at resisting tyranny can be demonized, and crushed, more readily if conducted in secret.

Sorry, that's total nonsense.
My next question is, how well does this compare to watching television before going to bed. Research shows that to be detrimental to sleep quality as well. I'd almost like to see a study with participants watching a screen of light before sleeping and measuring the quality of their sleep...
tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance on the scale of Amazon, Google, Starbucks and Facebook is imoral.

It's pretty obvious that these companies have been strategically set up in Ireland as a way of paying less tax.

You think it's acceptable that Amazon sold billions of pounds of items in the UK and pay virtually no tax, but still use our roads to facilitate those sales. They basically use our infrastructure for free.

Would Amazon let me use a few EC2 instances for nothing, by increasing the hosting cost of everyone one else by a few cents, to host my multi-million dollar website?
i see at TC as guide for trends , best practices for start ups, of course there will be challenges, it's upto you, how do you want to handle them, blaming TC or not reading TC you will miss few things man!
I agree TC dishes a lot of rubbish of late. But at the same, the author looks to me like a headline hogger. I'm not really convinced by his reasoning.
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Do Freenet now have any social features in it? Last time I looked (few years ago) it didn't have any significant.
Craigslist should be worried.
You've absolutely nailed it!

I stopped reading TC a few years ago. However, you made a very interesting point about focusing on your own context and not benchmarking w/ other startups, wise words.
love the detailed writeup, thanks for this.
And below are all the delta changes in 5.17 uptil 5.17.6:

* 5.17.0 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5170del...

* 5.17.1 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5171del...

* 5.17.2 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5172del...

* 5.17.3 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5173del...

* 5.17.4 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5174del...

* 5.17.5 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5175del...
Just to provide a counterexample: for me, the hard deadlines are really helpful. That, along with the near-instant feedback, are what make the experience so much better than just watching a series of lecture videos. They act as a motivating factor & help prevent me from getting too sidetracked by things where I wouldn't be learning as much.

Maybe that's an area where online classes can innovate further: hard deadlines could be optional. People like me who want them could enable them when they start a course; people like you who don't, could disable them instead.
wchar_t should never be used in any new code
great work.

it'd be also great to do an analysis of the geometry data as well, if you can!
Graphical Web 2012 / SVG Open 2012 conference videos
It's difficult to work on a project when you don't see the support, the people who would like to use it.
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From 5 hours ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864190
yes - that is also my interpretation - you mouse over the canvas, and the block of code that "lead" to the bit that you "highlight" in the canvas lights up so can directly navigate from the final output back to the source code (and vice versa).
I'm on Ubuntu and scrolling with the mousewheel feels like I'm scrolling through tar. A lot of these sites with fancy scrolling hooks seem to do the same, really annoying.
In absolute terms, but the comparison is not what you personally gain and lost before the VC, it's a comparison of what you have now and what the next person hired will get.
Despite being a pythonista at heart and a rubyist at work, Perl is still my go-to language for when I notice bash scripts getting messy and growing out of scope and destined to enrich my personal long-term unix toolset.

Yes, Perl is still very relevant today, for me and for countless others[0]

[0]: https://github.com/languages
If you've initially installed a 32-bit OS and you expect a seamless upgrade to a 64-bit OS then it's honestly a use case that shouldn't be looked at or have resources devoted to solving.
wchar_t is implementation-specific.
Brainly.com now available in Portugal and Brazil
Brainly is now available in a special version for Portugal and Brazil

Since recently, students from Portugal and Brazil have been able to take advantage of the educational network Brainly.com.br, which promotes knowledge sharing and mutual help with studying.

Social learning, gamification and support for education - these are the main assumptions of Brainly.com. They make the learning process easy, efficient and enjoyable. By combining such elements of gamification as rankings, achievements and motivational rewarding system, Brainly encourages users to actively participate in explaining the most difficult issues. Brainly proves that the process of learning and helping each other can be fun and give a lot of satisfaction.

In order to meet users' expectations - both in Brazil and Portugal - Brainly.com.br is available in two language versions, yet the content remains the same. This allows students from Brazil and Portugal to study and work together. The mission, that Brainly has chosen, is to deliver the idea of social learning to students from every corner of the world.

What do users think?
Here is what one of them: " I think [the site] is great, because it’s always better to study in group, this way the process of learning is more unconstrained, more memorable and children really learn!” (hbrennog, Brazil, 18 years)..
How are the different online-education websites in terms of being able to take courses at your own pace? I'm interested in trying an online course out to pick up some statistics and machine learning, but I probably wouldn't be able to follow it week-by-week (and not having to wait for a given start date would be great).
Same motivation though.
Where are you collecting the data from? Will it be possible to provide the name of the people also?
There's a theory that says top tier candidates aren't often on the market, as their employers are keen to retain them and people in their personal networks are keen to offer them work.

It makes sense to me that an employed, well paid person who isn't actively seeking a job wouldn't be as motivated as an unemployed, unpaid person who is actively seeking a job.
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I stopped reading TC years ago. Was sick of the petulant whining by egomaniacs like Arrington, Tsotsis, and the crown prince of pussies MG Siegler.
I found this amazing lecture on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Sa8fLOajA

(Gilbert Strang - my first time watching him teach. Such a great paced lecturer)
Unless you've been living under a rock Perl has been the goto language for Unicode support for half a decade now.
They say violent so one assumes by violent they mean a violent action game. But what you says stands.

To add a general comment, no shit Sherlock, I just finished playing 2 hours of Planetside 2 and my adrenalin is sky high. I am going to need at least an hour of reading before bed.
I’ve learned that glorifying money raising is a massive mistake

This, in my opinion, is what the metaphor of not reading TechCrunch stands in for. Each article celebrating a round of fundraising has a backstory about an entrepreneur who has less ownership of their company. Often that backstory is that they have less or even no control.

Jobs took outside funding. Gates did not. Both acted like jerks in the 80's. But nobody could fire Gates because nobody had the shares to bring in an outside CEO to Microsoft.

Fundraising is a two edged sword. It should often be accompanied by both congratulations and condolances.
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Nonsense. I've been using Ubuntu exclusively for a year, and alongside with Windows for at least three years before that, and I've never used Unity. First I've ditched it for Gnome Classic, then for Gnome Shell and finally for Cinnamon, and I've never had any problems that would arise from the lack of Unity.
its a good exercise to work out how to stop it from moving "forward" and get the mouse to control the camera. Its a little tricky, but you can do it with about 10-20 more lines of code.
Though, these days, the median wage in Ireland is actually substantially higher than in the UK.
I see no reason why not. I'm making a sustainable salary, it comfortably supports my lifestyle (which is not exactly frugal) and I can put a bit away for the future. Of course lifestyles change, but if I've got money in the bank and a transferable skillset then I'd say that puts me in pretty good shape for the unknown future.

I think people living the way the article described are far less likely to be doing it in 10 years' time. IME very few people treat their job as their passion after starting a family.