skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is, IMO, the nature of introversion. It is a myth than introverts cannot or hate social situations. While everyone is different, I can speak only for myself. Small talk is the bane of existence. If one has nothing of essence to say, one should shut up. Otherwise, I will find a way to politely (or not) move away to something of interest.

I can hold a conversation about software development topic X for probably hours with plenty of energy, yet another conversation about the weather for two minutes drains me more than the former.
I guess the point of the article is not "who's the best" neither in usefulness or cool features, but "diversity is good". Both to try new ideas (as you mention) and for diversity sake.

While I too love Linux and the pragmatic approach, it would be really sad if Linux really became the last OS.

Regarding the technically superior features of the mentioned OSs, I'm also curious and trying to find more info on them. ;)
The problem is not democracy but "an inefficient and unequal democracy". Rampant corruption exacerbates the problem. The problem with India is a failed law enforcement system and overwhelmed judicial system. It is very easy to bribe your way out of any crime, unless the crime has received media coverage or if the victim is someone influential(One recent example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jessica_Lal). Court cases drag on forever and seeking justice turns out to be punishment for the victim(it might take years to get a verdict for criminal charges and it might be decades for civil suits). For example 640 rape cases were reported in Delhi this year and assuredly none of the other 639 cases would have had of progress of this one case which received media attention.
All of that is true. But corruption (and neglecting the written law for the sake of 'traditions' like those described, on the part of government officials and law enforcement, is nothing but corruption) is also a part of the culture, not government. Nobody doubts corruption is rampant in India, but there is little government could do about it unless there is a wide understanding in the society that it and end should be put on it. Right now there doesn't seem to be much understanding, outside of the narrow educated class.
Really nice! Two comments:
• You should enable naming Unicode code points so that one could use Unicode modifiers. Say 2A42 is the code point of “superscript modifier”, one could define a macro to ‘sup any number to that power’.
• Why unit? why not zilch?

Love Haskell's concepts, and the formatting ones are mind-boggling!!
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There are a few stylistic differences between the real and fake ones. (font, for instance)

Also, the comments section breaks horribly with the formatting, as demonstrated in the original post. Although real Svbtle blogs don't have a comments section, which is disappointing...
The problem I have with that chart and the article - Vista was unpopular and didn't deliver on a lot of it was supposed to. So, people stayed on XP. When Win7 came out, it was a solid rev from both XP and Vista. Thus, the strong uptake in upgrading.

With Win8 - you have an install base that is already fairly content with Win7, a new interface that gets mixed reviews in the trade press -- yet people who use it find things they both like and dislike, and as others have stated computers have been "good enough" for awhile.

I'm not sure if/how Win8 will play out, but corporate upgrade cycles and OEMs will play heavily into that. That said, a number of formerly PC only corporate environments are becoming more Apple friendly, which will also have an impact.
It sounds like you have bad braking skills, and are blaming it on the toe clips.
Use whatever theme you want. Content should be judged on its merits, not on some blog "brand".

Most readers won't know svbtle, and of those that do, most won't think it adds any gravitas to the post. If I find a link rated highly on HN, that rating is the gravitas, not the blog's theme.
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I think the entire point was that the author was - and is - neutral to the brand, and that the only reason he picked the theme was because he liked it.

Presumably like-minded people, such as myself (I actually love the theme), will be encouraging, while those who endorse the Svbtle club and its prerogative to "own" a simple, minimalist blog theme, will not.
Ask HN: what should I do with SneakerGeeks.com?
I've been squatting this domain for 5ish years and collected around 3K email addresses on a landing page with the strap-line: "SneakerGeeks — the box-fresh forum for trainer collectors".

Guess you could say that means my concept has validated, but as I'm focusing most of my energies on CycleLove at the moment I don't have time to build a community around SneakerGeeks at the moment. Nevertheless I'mm loathe to let the domain name slip out of my hands (stupid I know).

I would love to do something along the lines of a Tim Ferris 'muse' with it, eg that generated a small amount of $$$ on auto-pilot... drop-shipped SneakerGeek products of some description, perhaps t-shirts?

PS. Here are some first t-shirt ideas I did a while back when I went under the Twitter moniker of @3stripe — https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5809556/Hacker%20News/sneakergeeks_product_roughs.png — not sure if I get away with using the Adidas logo like that though...

http://www.sneakergeeks.com/
I've come across a lot of posts in their network that are great, but I, like you, and many commenters here are confused as to how it works and how to get involved or follow what they are all up to.
It's not a fact, it's my opinion. AFAIK, there is no definition of "introvert" or "extrovert" by which to divide people up. But you certainly don't build software standing and talking by the water cooler. That's my experience in the industry anyway. (Unless your build process is running while you stand and talk by the water cooler).
I'm still using a 5 year old laptop with XP on it. So take this in that context.

I think the idea isn't so much that every PC needs a touch screen, it is more that it is a good thing for the OS to be able to take advantage of one that is there. The marketing message certainly leans towards "You need a touchscreen", but I don't think that was driving the technical choices 2 or 3 years ago. If there is a touchscreen and the OS knows about it, it might as well be able to run apps designed for touchscreens.

(I find all the complaining about the missing start menu pretty irrelevant, hunt and click is a terrible interface compared to a searching launcher. But I guess they did a poor job of understanding who was going to end up using the new launcher.)
My enterprise is not even considering Win 8. We have 5000+ PCs to manage and there's no business reason whatsoever to upgrade. It was hard enough to get our users to deal effectively with their upgrade to Office 2010...(who moved my cheese!) Windows 8 would grind the company to a halt.
We're now having drama over stupid blog themes? Who cares what theme you use, the only important thing is the content. Write it in a .txt and post it to dropbox for all I care - I'll be just as intrigued to read it regardless of style if the content is good.
My state limited the max loan rate to under 50%. The service still exists for funding for people turned away from orher services. Around Christmas it was depressing to hear the increased number of ads and the guilt strings they pull for people to take loans to make their family happy.
I like how people comment on the UI of Win 8 when they clearly have not used it.

The new Modern(ex Metro) UI is a big Start menu(now called start screen). You go to it only when you login to your machine after restart,
after a login from sleep/hibernate/lock if you have left it on the desktop , it stays there.
Everything else is like or better than Win 7.

Also you only go to the start screen when you need to find or start an app.
Yes , for some users it would suck to see the Start Screen after booting, would be nice if there was option to select which screen to show after boot.

Also , the Start Screen is very good tool for organizing Apps. You can create columns of apps (not automatically though) by type , use case or whatever order your heart desires.
And i find the start screen better replacement of the desktop for placing my icons ( i dislike cluttered desktops as i see it more often than the Start Screen)
Vista nearly ground several of our offices to a halt when we began a rollout. It was a complete disaster. Windows 7 just works. Vista didn't.
Yes, it is, although most developers I've met I would say are introverts. Of course, that's just anecdotal. :)
I don't think it's wrong. You can consider it just a "theme", but why don't you make something more personal for your blog?

Even few changes would make it look different: move the left bar to the right. Get rid of the rounded buttons, change the font.

Make something unique, you just need a day to fiddle with your css and make it look yours.
You're missing the point.

What you're really trying to do is statistically correct for "defaultness"; i.e. remove the users who would actually prefer browser X but use browser Y because it's the default. Your methodology isn't a sound way of doing that, because it also excludes users who use the default browser on their operating system because they prefer it to all others. To be sound, your methodology would need a way to not count the former users while leaving the latter users intact.
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200 times - i am sure you used non-inflation adjusted figures. Current Indian average is some like 3-4x the subsistence figures and that's about the growth achieved since independence (when the vast majority of population were at the subsistence level and sometimes below). In fact, average economic growth in India since independence has been quite slow, shamefully slow for a country as poor. India had only slightly more per capita growth since 1950 than the USA - terrible performance given it is still somewhere near USA Civil War levels.
Show HN: My Weekend Project. "Are the Gunners on TV?"
The past 2 days I was bored and I wanted to play with Flask & BeautifulSoup a bit and continue learning Python.

With all this time I I created this small website that tells you if Arsenal FC ( A English Premier League Football Team ) are playing today and if so on which Channel ( US & UK ) you can watch them play. If you are not in the US & UK, it lists links to free live stream.

I used Flask, BeautifulSoup, Heroku & Bootsrap.

http://gunnerstv.herokuapp.com/

If you find any bug or have any feedback, please leave a comment :)
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Wow. Thanks. No less fascinating than that story from long ago.
Exactly for that reason.
How do you know the sex you're having with your partner is "regular"?

The answer is intuition, and even teenagers have intuition.
I don't think this post really answers the question. It tackles it more from the angle of "If you come across the theme without knowing about Svbtle, is it okay to use the theme?"

That's fine of course. You can't be blamed for not knowing about what is still a relatively small network.

The more important thing is what you do now. You now know that the theme was made to copy exactly the design of a network which is attempting to create a curated community, but it's very obviously a good design by itself.

It's your own choice whether or not you're happy with that. People will agree and disagree with you either way, but isn't that the point of a personal blog?
Not trying to be a MS fanboy here. But, while not truly distributed, this is the one area where I feel Windows 8 might be interesting. I really want to see how (if?) they'll try to provide that experience as it's on phones, tablets, and regular PCs.

Any practical experimentation in this area can provide good insights and help future attempts at other OSs.

At least that's what I hope happens. :)
Oh I completely agree with you and were moving to java slowly. All in saying is that WCF is about the most mature thing that shifts SOAP on windows which is the backend of most of our integrations unfortunately (they are corporates mainly).

If i had my choice, I'd do it in Go.
It is very beautiful because it seems to match quite closesly the diagrammatic interpretation of a symmetric monoidal closed category. For example because of the functoriality of the the monoidal tensor we have

(g ∘ h) ⊗ (i ∘ j) = (g ∘ i) ⊗ (h ∘ j)

so the two expressions should be indistinguishable. Indeed, in this Z syntax the expression

k g h

i j

could be parsed either as k ( g(h) ⊗ i(j) ) or as k( (g⊗i)(h⊗j) ) but this ambiguity does not matter since they are equivalent. I wonder if

k g

h

is a partial appilcation that would give you a function of the right type, i.e. the type of h ⊗ j.

Anyway, beautiful stuff.

PS. Not sure how to typeset this properly in this web site.
PS. Thanks to commenter.
The January 2007 and September 2012 economic environments are vastly different.
Yeah, I didn't even know who he was before the Svbtle debacle. Now I know that he's some elitist who got pissy when his (not all that special) blog theme got copied.
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I upvoted you back to above zero, but you should probably try and keep your posts shorter and link to your jobs page instead of copy-pasting it here.
>>Do you really, honestly think the author will be happy - and for long

I don't give that good odds for their happiness. But as good odds as I give my self.

It is 9 months in, the author and the woman are incredibly in love. Many people never get that, at all. Ever. I had it and lost it.

So I disagree with your dissenting opinion. It is worth trying.

The hard part is to leave failed relationships before getting so much scars that you will be emotionally dysfunctional after the mourning phase. If their relationship fails, I hope they get out ok. [edit: The failure modes here seems as _the_ scary part.]

And now a New Year resolution that will garner me many an upvote -- talk computer stuff on HN. :-)
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Rubbish. The trade-off in this case is that a more mealy-mouthed warning would lead to more people clicking through.
In the UK there are several ways a person can be "detained under section of the mental health act" - there are a variety of short detentions that can be started by a qualified nurse and agreed by a doctor; or by a police officer to take someone to a place of safety; and longer stays for assessment; and then 6 month detentions that have to be agreed by two doctors and an Approved Mental Health Professional (usually a social worker).

Once on a section medication can be forced. But lack of capacity to make the choice is not automatic, and so people have to be careful when forcing treatment. This is especially true if there are "Rainy Day Action Plans" or "advanced directives" where the patient has (while well) laid out plans for their treatment when ill.

There are also community treatment orders where people can be forced to take medication while living in the community.

In theory there are protections for patients. In practice there's a scary amount of abuse of the system. Doctors use coercion (they say "go in voluntarily or I'll section you", with they must not do) or once in hospital patients are forced to take medication which they disagree with, and which they haven't consented to, and which they've had previous bad effects from, while not allowed to take a medication that they've used before.

The UK has a complicated system of NHS (free) health trusts buying provision from private hospitals. This especially happens with mental health services. Services for young people are underfunded and over crowded. Services for people with learning disability are the same. These are some of the most vulnerable people in our society; they may have suffered horrific abuse at the hands of a family member; and abuse may continue when they go to hospital. (There are a number of high profile cases in the UK that came to light last year.)

When $1,500 of tax payer money is being used every day to detain young anorexic women in hospital you don't want former Mugabe torturers working with them. (http://nehandaradio.com/2011/07/19/mugabe-cio-henchman-in-uk...)

Having said that, we have good services for people with psychotic illness. And we've developed good services for "people with first episode of psychotic illness" because early intervention is helpful.
I don't think Android is a good mobile OS. I think the hardest part for a new mobile OS is to take on the Android ecosystem.
I don't think I can agree that "{{language}} tutorial" as a measure of "growth" is valid. When I am looking to learn a language, I don't Google for tutorials because you end up with mostly worthless information and maybe a single result that has any value -- and 9 times of 10 that result is on the website of the language, so my query becomes "{{language}}". Further, as I'm learning a language, I'm more likely to Google for a language or API reference than I am for tutorials on how to do particular tasks X, Y, and Z. That leads me to write queries like "mdn {{some DOM/HTML/JS/CSS thing}}", which oddly enough, are also the same kinds of queries I write when using a language I'm entirely proficient with.

So in that case, I don't think a general "{{language}} tutorial" accurately represents the growth of a language. Perhaps interest, but this isn't limited to programmers, either, which makes me feel like it's even more misleading. For instance, the only time I entered "python tutorial" into Google was when I wanted to see a quick few basic programs to get an idea of whether or not I'd like the language. I don't really use Python personally (<rant>never will, it's terrible</rant>), but I've hacked around in it at work, and I never once used "python tutorial" to get my work done. I think one was "python reference urllib" which took me directly to the python reference page for urllib.
[Note: I've uhmed and ahed about whether to promote my own stuff here, but given how quiet this question has been...]

Yep, plenty. Enough, in fact, that I took the time to wrire them up in a book, which I'll also be extending as time goes on, based on feedback/requests from readers:

https://leanpub.com/freelancedeveloperbook

Use the coupon SHAMELESSPLUG before Jan 4 to get it for $9.99
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How do you account for the users that would choose the default browser anyway? For example, were Chrome the default on Ubuntu, I'd replace it with Firefox, but as Firefox is the default, I don't need to do any switching.
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He also got a designer at American Airlines fired when he ranted about their design on his blog. (The designer sent him a polite reply about what he was doing to improve the state of the design, but then AA fired him for no apparent reason.)
+1 for the transparency of the posting. Getting the salary range out there, and the equity range out there makes a lot of sense.

Quick tip: People are somewhat jaded with platitudes like "be amongst people who are striving for success..." Instead, try to bring out examples of the awesome Buffer culture. What makes you quirky and rare? What can you say about yourselves that few other startups would say?
To be fair, he is not the one who manufactured the drama:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4373743

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4920905

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4373565

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4403236

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881610

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3770722

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881055

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3744237

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4610042

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4713517

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3744950
Yes, it's absolutely silly. Here's a graph where X is always greater than Y, except for one data point which hasn't been fully measured.

Therefore, Y > X? What the fuck.
No, it's not wrong. The whole idea that it might be reeks of elitism. Use whatever theme you want, and let the "members only" Svbtle clique be judged based on the quality of their content, rather than their association with some self-professed blogging luminary.
I think there could be problems if we allow too simple of designs to be design copyrighted. Imagine if the first newspaper column layouts were copyrighted and enforced. There really are only so many grid structures that exist and make sense. Our eyes and how we perceive things are relatively the same, and so good design looks like good design.

And is there a difference between physical products and digital products? I don't really know, though if you download content that usually isn't freely available, then you might want to think twice to not accidentally be a hypocrite.
Definitely, something that 'clicks'.

_why's book for Ruby, pg/norvig's books for Lisp ... they're so enjoyable to read that you don't need to exert yourself for the subject to 'click', which is pretty impressive considering what you're learning.

I don't want to go to school to learn machine learning, but I'd be willing to pay money (maybe quite a lot of money) for a book that made it enjoyable.
I'm going to need a source for the claim " As the music industry was ravaged by file sharing" That seems to contradict the facts. As a person that feels morally obligated to pay for the bits I consume (via Netflix and Hulu Plus) I just read this morning that the movie industry has realized record profits... once again. Is their math based on theoretical maximums? That's not sane. One can not build a model on "if everyone whom has seen a movie were to pay up". That negates group viewings and many other random displays. In my field (maybe "our" field) I try to pay for EVERY book I read. Often the authors make themselves available via email or right here in HN comments. Also, these guys are typically writing about moving targets. I'd HATE to be writing a book about something like Node.js or Scala right now. The landscape is moving just rapidly enough as to make your book out of date in a year's time. But I'm just not so sure piracy should be blamed. Sure, I could hit a torrent site and look for a book. I could also get a membership to my public library. And in the end, I WANT to support they gal/guy whom is going to write the next great book on Dojo/Clojure/Backbon.js/Play Framework etc. My point being. Consider the public library, the radio, and network television. Not everyone that is willing to consume free materials, is a pirate. Not every industry that has a price on a consumable resource is losing money if people find a free way to consume said resource.
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