skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LibreOffice has now left OpenOffice in the dust, and is a viable replacement of Microsoft Office for all but a tiny minority of users. LibreOffice Calc may not yet be as shiny as Microsoft Excel, but it works well and reliably -- I use it regularly with fairly large spreadsheets chock-full of array functions that manipulate vectors and matrices.[1]

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[1] Yes, LibreOffice forumals can manipulate and return vectors and matrices, not just single values -- see https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Array_Functions#What_is_an...
Well, since two of the original three developers (Pike and Thompson) were part of the Plan 9 team, it makes perfect sense that they based the compilers on the Plan 9 ones.
I disagree.

As an example, even though I'm not a designer, I use Photoshop to create assets for my software. That would the same tool that my father, an ex-lithographer, uses for DTP and digital retouching.

A counter-example to my idiot-using-rocket-scientists'-tools is my girlfriend. She's an economist at a rather large central bank, and uses Excel to model what economists model when they're defining monetary policy. Those models are huge, and many run overnight. She comes home and Excel is the thing she uses for anything even vaguely resembling a list.
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Why not just run an office suite locally if that is your requirement?
In the early 2000's, I knew a number of people that would upgrade every cycle or so by reselling their old Mac and buying the shiny new one.
Ask HN: How do you stay focused on your 9 to 5 whilst bootstrapping a startup?
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Heh, I wish this sort of stuff happened to me.

I don't receive recruitment messages, not even the spammy ones.
His LinkedIn profile has an alphabet soup of technologies and programming languages. Even if a recruiter did read it, like he requests, they would have no idea what this guy's real focus is. It even mentions Windows, as well as Xcode and iPhone development when he is clearly a server engineer.

Maybe he needs to revise or shorten his resume before lashing out at recruiters for not reading it. I'm not a recruiter, I'm a developer who makes $225k, has unlimited vacation and lives In San Francisco. As a developer, I feel that guys like him give us all a bad name and make us look arrogant, inflexible and hard to work with. Maybe this attitude is why he still doesn't make his ideal salary of 200k.

After this blog post I doubt he's going to get any other job, let alone one that meets his minbar.
Yeah. "Progressive enhancement" is a dirty term depending on who you talk to.
Difficult to say without an A/B test or similar.
The site certainly doesn't look any worse than a great many fortune 500 websites that continue to do billions of dollars of business.

It is also significantly more usable than many of those.
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Sure, we all do, but there's a difference between using something because it is the best tool for the job, and using it because "we use hammers for everything around here."
Try posting a public resume on Monster sometime, and wait for the multiple e-mails about a perfect opportunity, and then if you follow up on them it's a 3 month contract in Lower Bumfark, Kansas.
pg, is there any chance you could implement a basic tagging system for Hacker News comments? Right now there is no way to know if someone has replied to a comment without manually checking.

For example, yesterday the user dweekly submitted a post about his new idea and after my initial comment, told me he would welcome further feedback. A tagging system would, in this example, notify a user like dweekly that someone had made a follow-up comment or reply.

Just a thought.
Dave Cutler was very fond of MIPS and worked on that port, but I think it was done concurrently with the x86 version.
These days, I reply to recruiters with what they can realistically expect in the market, job description vs. expect pay rate. More often than not, the pay they're offering is way, way too low for the market at large, never mind myself.

Sometimes I get a reply, sometimes not, but I get the feeling that by & large the terms are out of their hands, and I doubt the recruiter sending the emails/making contacts is the same person that got the req from the hiring manager/company. It's that person, the person accepting the req, that needs to know the market and work with the hiring entity to put together a realistic job package. It's that person you should be frustrated with.
I like the idea. However, the website is poorly executed because it took me too long to figure out what it is you guys do.

"On Webshell you write scripts in the API Editor and once pushed on Webshell's server, you can call them as a new API" is just not descriptive enough because it says nothing about integrating/aggregating multiple APIs through the Webshell API.

Poor spelling and grammar only made understanding harder. That said, the product is impressive. Let me also point out to those that missed it, the project is open source [1]. I just hope the creators add a licence file - because IIRC you can't just appropriate source code without a licence.

On a side note, I really like this other service called Zapier [2] that makes "your service talk to others".

[1] https://github.com/webshell/APIs
[2] https://zapier.com/
I really don't mind recruiters badgering me by email or any form of non-disruptive communication. Keeps me nicely updated on the market, and tells me who to avoid should I actively be looking for something.
Looking at the version history, I totally forgot about the early days of the web when browsers by default only came with 40-bit encryption because of US export regulations.
All I have to say is - fuck Wall St. Apple's cash generates power and leverage that's simply not quantiyable in quarterly statements. Apple has already instituted dividends as well as a one-time payout to their investors. And having around $100B means that if they lay down $20B for some super strategic shift, it doesn't require debt to be serviced.

Wall Street wants all companies beholden to the quarterly cycle - and if that company has to kill it's future to make the quarter, then so be it - all the better for those who make money on both sides of the trade.

That's bad for the company and bad for customers.... all so the hedge fund manager can make an extra bonus by killing jobs and US competitiveness.
Utterly irrelevant.
I don't think this is true. From what I can figure out, Windows was ported to MIPS, but had always been first done on intel hardware.

Do you have a link or reference for this? Curious.
Tip: if you have an image-heavy blog, don't host the images somewhere that charges extra for exceeding a network traffic limit. Getting an overage charge email was how I discovered that my fractal article full of pictures was on HN.

As an aside, I found that being on Reddit can give much, much more traffic than HN.
As long as you obey their robots.txt, who cares? Google is scraping them far more often then your one-off script is going to.
Because often it's a crippled or broken experience, where half the images are missing, or you can't zoom, or the text is cut off, or the columns too narrow.

Edit: Ironically, most of the issues above impact me the most when I really am on a mobile device.
You have to import stuff under 50 USD to get it without taxes, but then the shipping gets (proportionally) expensive.
Adobe Photoshop 3 was released for Solaris

Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere all were released for IRIX. It's almost as if IRIX and Solaris used to have a very large workstation customer base then everything was migrated to NT, Mac, and Linux, how spooky those crazy expensive workstations didn't stay viable for long. O-M-G girlfriend, history is like totally repeating itself!
How Facebook moves fast and breaks things
What evidence would convince you that Aaron was depressed?
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What I want is even simpler.

On LinkedIn I told you that due to family circumstances I am not available for full time work until the summer of 2014. Is it 2014? Do you have a part time contract? No and no? Then why are you contacting me?
Why? It's a relevant article. If the 'TIL' itself annoys you then that's your problem. There is no correct way to do language, especially on the internet.
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>In the case of "sexism", when we are talking about it here we are usually talking about it from within the disciplines that actually deal with it

No, we are not. That is the entire point. We are not in a women's studies department. We are not women's studies majors. We are not talking about women's studies. So the terminology of women's studies is not relevant.

>Within all of these fields, sexism is a technical term that means (with slight variations between fields) exactly what steveklabnik above summarised it as.

No, it is not. History and philosophy do not use sexism that way. Only a minority of sociologists do. The only example you listed that is actually correct is women's studies.
It is interesting to see the different reactions to this article. Byrne is clearly sympathetic to Aaron’s cause, and to the fact that civil disobedience and other sometimes subversive methods can be effective in dealing with injustice.

There seem to be many comments attacking him for various minor gripes, choice of language, his incomplete understanding of the situation, etc. But that seems to miss the point. He’s ultimately asking how did this end up so wrong, and what can we learn from this tragic situation. How far should someone need to be prepared to go when taking a stand? How might more effective publicity/messaging have furthered the cause or helped prevent the judicial process from spiraling out of hand.

Technical advancement and the proliferation of data create scenarios that are clearly not intuitive to the average person. There seems to be a tendency to sometimes attack/lecture less technically proficient observers, rather than try to more meaningfully communicate and get to the heart of the issue.

Byrne connects the JSTOR situation to the very different realms of wikileaks, manning, music publishing, etc. For those who care about the rules governing information sharing, IP, etc, this begs the critical question of “how do we differentiate among these ideas, so they are not all muddled together in the public’s eye.”
With Chrome I find that all the slow downs / freezes I've noticed have been while flash is running in one or more of my tabs. Flash + Chrome just doesn't seem to be a great combination.

BTW, you can disable flash in chrome by going to: chrome:plugins
Fair enough I miss-read the intent of your message, for that I apologize.
Neurolosit claims to find "where evil lurks" in the brain
I agree with this 100% however Excel is also grossly overused in my oppinion. I have seen many cases where companies would (theoretically) have been better off migrating a bunch of the stuff they do in Excel to their ERP system.

My conclusion in most of these cases was that said ERP systems must suck (and that it's really hard to get someone, especially execs so switch IT habits) :D
On average I'd guess that people only buy 3-4 big name games a year which are over 1-2 GB so they probably won't bust their download cap. Also lot of steam games are Indie games which are usually 300mb-1Gb. When I was younger and couldn't afford games I would rent one or two every week, if everything were to go digital that download cap would be reached in a week or two.
Classic programmer's solution to a design problem. "Oh they want it to look different? Here, make it look however you want! Problem solved."

Problem not solved.
"I have no use" != "world has no use", please distinguish between these two. For one, I wouldn't trust Joe Cloudfarmer with my tax return calculations, thankyouverymuch - server data compromise is a matter of when, not if (last year's Dropbox fiasco, anyone?).
Thumb on the scale? Broadband meters are inaccurate
I don't buy that wiring up code explicitly in plain old java without the help of an injection framework is as painful as some people seem to think -- and if it really is: I suspect the reason is bad design or that they just haven't given the problem much thought. That happens.

If people need the assistance of a framework to wire up their application, it is probably because the API design sucks ass and there are too many moving parts the programmer is forced to pay attention to. (And when I say API design: all code design is about APIs -- every time you create a class or an interface you are creating an API of some sort). Good APIs hide and abstract. And good implementations take care of things you don't need to see or know.

And I say if, because most of the time, applications are not so complicated that you need help to manage wiring them up. Most of the projects I have worked on the past 15 years can usually be wired up in less than 40-50 lines in a Main.java. I have worked on some projects that needed considerably more, but interestingly, managing that code was never a problem.

Explicit wiring you can read from start to finish beats vague declarative shit that you may be able to figure out if you pay close attention.
I believe companies usually claim back 'stolen' domains with trademark claims. I wonder if the his claim that it's "Michel in Guides" will do anything to hold this claim at bay.
Dear potential candidate,

I promise you. I will not tell you how to do your job or be critical of the way you are doing your job - even if you are sometimes wasting my time.

Sincerely,
Your potential recruiter
Funny MS suggest they'll do this themselves:
"We use the information we collect to provide the services you request. Our services may include the display of personalized content and advertising." from http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/default.mspx
Adding a criteria filter is also a feature I'd pay for. Great Idea.
I think that's a great idea if MS/Sony were to get such a deal set up with ISPs.
This looks very interesting, thanks for the link.
Which provider is that? AWS? I feel like it's only a matter of time before auto-scaling works well enough that it's just a standard feature.
No, there are plenty of JS heavy pages that can all but bring Firefox to its knees as well, and - if the machine is heavily loaded already - basically freeze the entire machine. I surf using both Chrome and Firefox at different times on different boxes, and I see this behaviour across both.
It does seem that Microsoft could still be massively profitable if they nearly gave away Windows for desktop while still charging for Office and Windows Server.

There'd be little incentive to pirate Windows if it only cost $25. If you want to monetize that further, sell support packages, offer a Backblaze-like backup service for a monthly subscription fee, and so on.
Or how about the hedge fund that is suing them?
This didn't work for Pana Vision, a cybersquatter that displayed photos of Pana, IL on panavision.com. Panavision (the company) ended up with the domain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Pro...
To add to that. You can add a whole lot these days via Javascript. You want to get some comments? Just embed a Disqus widget. Want some feedback? Embed a getsatisfaction widget.
>are very important in sociology

No, they are very important to sociologists who also happen to be into women's studies. Pretending all sociologists go along with that is dishonest.

>and were coined in large part by sociologists looking for a way to describe social phenomenon that they'd observed.

No they were not, see the rest of the thread.

>but when sociologists and academics use them

Which is relevant to lay-persons using them here on this forum and then being told they are wrong when they are not wrong?

>I'm sad to see that steveklabnik has been downvoted so much on this board for saying something that is so very correct.

I suspect the downvotes were more due to the way he told people their correct use of a term is incorrect, simply because there is a second correct use of that term.
Rather, he gained access to a network closet and hid his identity as he attached his laptop to a switch. He then proceeded to violate some TOS that everyone agrees nobody cares about.

So let's say somebody steps into your office, opens your network closet and leaves a laptop there overnight. You don't know who it is and you see it sucking down some data from some service you incidentally pay for.

Can you honestly tell me that when you discover the laptop doesn't belong to anybody in your office, you'll just step out the closet and let it continue doing it's thing while you wait for the owner to return?

It's clear nobody cares about JSTOR, what Byrne is bringing up vis-a-vis historical precedents of civil disobedience and closes with is that when you find the laptop, your real worry isn't about JSTOR's feelings, it's the subterfuge.

Why it's 'complicated' and 'sloppy' is because you now have to divorce your feelings about your network's violation from your ambivalence to casual TOS violation, which is hard.
Taren is arguing he wasn't depressed, or at least that the prosecution was the main cause of his depression. I would mostly look for evidence that presented itself before the suicide, with a preference for self report.
- Meta comments like this aren't always useful discussion.

- There is a flag option on a story. If enough people agree with you, then it will affect change.

- It doesn't make the front page of HN unless it gets upvoted, so obviously there are HN users that disagree with you.
Recommendation, EE Smith's Triplanetary. This is the first book the Lensman series, unfortunately I do not see the rest of the series available through this means.

While a product of his time these stories are incredible. If you like space battles he had some very original ideas, some of which even many modern science fiction writers haven't touched.
I don't think it's possible. Just put 30 hours into the startup on the weekend and try not to work on it too much during the week.
And the article links to the wiki... if it's been compromised, how should I know it's now safe to visit?
I'd also like to suggest, as a matter of politeness, don't just hotlink to images on other people's sites either. Then you're just screwing someone else over. I'm still getting requests for an image I posted to an old wordpress blog years ago because random j. user liked it and reposted it to a forum. It's a popular forum, judging from my logs.
Yup, WIPO has a arbitration system that should theoretically allow them to get their domain back.
Ah that makes much sense. Although, how does someone define what reserves a company should keep for business to continue? Especially in the tech world where they might need to drop a billion dollars on an acquiring another company.
My major frustration with Office products (Excel specifically) was the cell limits (size, #cols, #rows) that prevented me from managing large quantities of data (e.g.: Excel 2003 could only manage 65k rows - IIRC, in 2007 that increased to 2M, but even that's too little for some heavy applications).

Does LibreOffice have similar limts?
As irrelevant as the criticism of the LibreOffice website design.
Having enough cash to, on demand, fund creation of new technologies at commodity prices is a VERY powerful industry tool.

IIRC, Apple wanted "retina displays", there weren't any producers for want of enough capital to build the production facilities, so Apple wrote a check for well over a billion dollars to have the factory built, and built to a level where production was as cheap as if it had been running for many years, approaching commodity prices. Result? First product line to feature such high resolution, and at a price competitors couldn't come close to matching.

Likewise other technologies and supply chain issues.

You can't move that fast, stay that far ahead, with costs that low, without the ability to fork over VERY large amounts of money on a moment's notice.
Not locally: I've seen many organizations admire the synchronization and collaboration features of GDocs, with a major caveat: the data is centralized in the cloud provider's hands, not the organization's. "Oh look, you don't own your data anymore" is a very theoretical scenario, but "oh look, you suddenly can't access your data anymore, we're not bringing them back, and you have no recourse" has happened with many cloud storage services, for various reasons.

Hosting your own network-based office web-app solution would be convenient for many...especially for the security.
Not gleeful, I just don't understand why it is such a big deal to some. I think I'm jaded by all of the overreactions at Neogaf.

Lots of people saying "I would never buy the system if they support that", but in all likely hood any gamer would probably give in for the latest shiny consoles regardless of the used game restrictions. Maybe it wouldn't be a day-one purchase, but Sony and Microsoft don't care about that in the long term.
What evidence do you have that he was depressed, other than hearsay and guesswork?

Why is that more reliable than direct statements from someone who lived with him?
Love it. Make the talks available if possible I'd love to hear some of these stories.
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>>“There are cases where someone becomes criminal as a result of a tumour or an injury in that area, and after an operation to remove the tumour, that person was completely normal again"

I'd love to find out more about these cases. I know PFC injuries can result in lack of self control, but criminal behavior due to a brain deformity. That's a pretty bold claim. Can early detection lead to lower crime rates?
I agree, but we weren't talking about maintaining your own server, just static languages and blog platforms.

I use Jekyll/Octopress all the time, I totally agree, static sites are great. But non-programmers are never going to use it.
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Exactly. Luck is necessary, but not sufficient, for massive success.

But on a deeper level, the big problem with the "luck vs. talent" debate is that we have done a pretty decent job quantizing talent -- but we haven't done so with luck. We treat "luck" as this singular, mystical force. In truth, luck is reducible to further components, just as talent is reducible to constituents like intelligence, practice, ambition, curiosity, etc.

There are different types of luck. There's luck on a macroscopic scale, such as being born into a stable family with access to necessary resources. There's luck on a microscopic scale, such as the circumstances surrounding each encounter over the course of one's day (e.g., who happens to be in line with you at Starbucks, or who's sitting next to you on a plane). And then there's the crucial component of how you expose and act on the luck. (You may never realize that your seatmate is the CEO of a hot startup unless you manage to strike up an amiable conversation; in this case, you need to expose and "uncover" the luck around you in order to take advantage of it).

Truly dumb luck -- like discovering you're the long lost heir to a megafortune, or winning the lottery, or being discovered at a restaurant by a talent agent -- is fairly rare, and at any rate, one can't count on it.

Given all of the above, what makes for an ideal luck strategy? Go through life assuming you're lucky, but that your luck is hidden from plain sight. It needs to be uncovered.
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The key part is the

... Then you take another ball and run with it and when you’ve crossed the goal you take the second ball out of your pocket and reinflate it and score twelve points instead of six.

I believe he's talking about innovation, and the mindset behind accomplishing things at Intel (allegedly). Instead of "running with the ball", you find ways to "score more points" by finding ways to "carry more than one at a time".