skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

I use Windows and OS X on most days of the week, and Windows has never been that well suited for wide screen use, whereas OS X's window management makes it much easier to put screens side by side. I'm often doing this, and it's one of the biggest reasons I'm more productive on OS X. The idea that an app would take up my entire screen, unless it was something like a video editing app, is crazy to me.

A widescreen laptop monitor allows me to copy and paste data from an email into a spreadsheet for instance. Doing that on a 3:2 monitor would be maddening. I agree that for single window use, 3:2 is better for many things, but we don't really like in a single window model anymore.
If that were true, people would have Preferred landscape books to portrait books. They don't.
New Relic, I'm looking at you. I don't think I've seen a banner for anything other than New Relic for a month and I have New Relic and use it every day.
DVR usage isn't actually that prevalent, even after a decade. Generally the preference is to watch stuff live, and live with the ads. Which is a big part of why the ground hasn't fallen out from under broadcasters like it did with newspapers, and TV ads are still the priciest (and arguably most effective, commanding your attention in a way that banner ads cannot) form of ads.
I think that it'll never be a mathematically sound rule, so "Law" is a bit of poetic license. But I think it is a useful heuristic.

I've felt this way for a long time about lots of particular design/architecture debates, but this is the first time I've been able to consolidate them to a single statement.
I have a 13" Macbook Air with a reasonable 1440x900 resolution, and I can fit about 1 1/3 windows on screen, at best: a narrower-than-usual browser window and TweetBot.

Laptop screens are generally not wide enough to fit two windows side by side. Even the ones that are, such as your 1080p 15" laptop, are unusable for most of us due to tiny text and so on.
why do you consider it evil? it seems like a great way to reach back out to someone who was potentially interested in your service. if all retargeting is doing is showing you ads from a website you already visited. How is that evil? Are babies dead because of it? Or perhaps do you remember that you like that website and eventually signup because you got the extra reminder... that is just called advertising and it's what powers/pays for most of the free web... not a big deal really... the minority can and does block these ads big deal..
What Happens to Your Brain Under the Influence of Music?
Of course. I understand that "a" + "b" when taken to mean "concatenate the strings" is "ab" but OP's post was a calculator. It would not have yielded this result.
I meant that, even with Adblock, you usually have to sit through a full-page ad with the "continue to site" link
Charlize Theron is South African American, nationality-wise. In terms of Continental designation, South Africans of any ethnicity (Indian, European, African, ancestry call themselves 'African'. It's only outside Africa that it might seem odd. I guess the flipside is how many/most? Egyptians consider the fact they're in Africa incidental.

Zainichi people of Korean ancestry are not Korean nationals. Korea (South) can't call them up to serve in the military for their compulsory army duty. It's like saying 4th generation Americans of Italian or Mexican descent aren't 'Americans' if their parents were not officially naturalized Americans. Zainichi for this intent means 'guest' Korean.
Seizure-inducing Spiral made in canvas
One big creepy part is that people share computers. Used to be that someone could try to dig through your history if they wanted to (but most people didn't), but now some of your history gets pushed right to them.

I'm looking at you, Amazon banner ads that feature products I browsed recently. (This is lots of fun because I often use Amazon solely to get info on a product that I may have no intention at all of purchasing.)
unless you were Jewish

That's kind of a big "unless." Good article here: http://libertarianstandard.com/2013/01/14/was-hitler-really-...
Can we agree, as a community, that Forbes is linkbait and not up vote these articles?
Well, obviously it's marketed as a device that is supposed to have the lion share of its data in the cloud. In that regard, 32GB is plenty.

I like to think of it as something that could make a pretty neat remote desktop workstation. I've actually thought about putting my main linux workstation on the LAN, somewhere else (it's a bit noisy) and logging into it from a thin client. The Chromebook Pixel does make a rather attractive option for that.

Of course, you'd have to slap a proper OS on it, but that may be an intentional hidden option. I'm also not up to date on how well modern day RFB/X11 performs in terms of i/o latency, so I have all this marked as "potential weekend project".
"book-like" seemed spot on, maybe it's also correlated with how much time you've spent holding print books in your hand?
Personally I prefer having the tweet button at the top even if I need to go through the content of the article before reading it. I'm willing to bet that more articles are shared with the share button at the top rather than bottom.

Similarly, I spend a lot less time scrolling through Mashable headlines after their redesign. Ick..
There are plenty of studies that show users typically ignore anything that looks like an ad, google "ad blindness". Those ads on the right looks like the typical online banner ad, distracting. Even if you're designing for high ad viewership this is the wrong way to design it. If you buy ads like these you're spending your ad money poorly. These types of bad ad design has lead to a move to so called "native ads", you can google that too, which is really just a return to the traditional offline method of advertising. Traditional offline publishers could overlay their content with ads but they don't because they know people will hate it. Granted it is a lot easy to ignore/block internet advertising, but it is illogical to make things worse with this sort of disdainful design. "Native ads" is really just a buzz word, people like John Gruber of Daring Fireball have capitalize on traditional advertising for years. His rss feed sponsorship is just like a radio show sponsorship where the host/dj of the broadcast reads an ad to it's listeners. Think about it, Daring Fireball makes more money from rss sponsorship then it makes from banner ads. Companies buy the feed sponsorship because it works.
Windows key + (left or right arrow)

Works fine in Windows, I use it all the time.
Satire, clever? Nope, just someone who lives in a town where the local neer-do-wells will embrace any excuse to organize. The needles, human waste, and closed off park were all very real. This same group has trashed many open spaces around the city and county I live in. When Occupy was popular, they embraced that mantra.

Oakland, Wall Street, and other places definitely brought forward many legitimate issues. However, given the unorganized nature of the Occupy movement, there were opportunists willing to embrace the timing and label.

I live in one of those places.
Just reuse SeaBIOS like QEMU and KVM do! http://www.seabios.org/SeaBIOS
Two years of Guile 2.0
I'd disagree with that based on the stereotype of windows users not caring about UI or not noticing the lack of things like smooth animations and awkward sizing.

I say that as a windows user and fan (I have a mac, but it's far from my favorite machine).

I also don't feel that mac is any better at managing two windows than Windows.

Microsoft has tried to improve the side-by-side window set-up with their hot spots, but I feel it is a fairly weak implementation, and even though they advertised the feature heavily in Windows 7, I doubt many people use it regularly.
From the article, it sounds like this gaming the system is more common for niche areas like advice and less so with the main fiction list.

Besides niches being easier to manipulate, the economics are different. An advice author is often trying to use a book as a self-promotional tool (eg Tim Ferris and Tony Hsieh) so they can afford to spend more money, but a literary writer is actually trying to make money from selling books. That's not to say there's not value in paying to get to the top of fiction for better visibility or that it also doesn't happen.
Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app
I created a transit app for the TTC in Toronto.
(https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/ttc-watch-for-toronto/id505286932?mt=8)

Yesterday, I received a package from Lemer & Company representing Dovden Investments, Ltd. The package claims that my app infriges their patents.

Patents:

http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/2283239/summary.html

http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/2363556/summary.html

I am reaching out to HN because I know there are many transit apps out there that have the same functionality: letting users know when the next bus will arrive using a third-party API (from NextBus, or GTFS Realtime for example).

So, if anyone has dealt with Dovden or has had a similar experience (or ArrivalStar in the US), please contact me at barum.rho@gmail.com

More details:
My apps use the API provided by NextBus who apparently licensed these patents. The patents describe a system that includes a vehicle unit (GPS) and a central server that processes GPS locations, neither of which are part of my app. They offered a "discounted" licensing fee, but my apps have generated income nowhere near the amount.

Please upvote for a better chance of finding other transit app developers.
Are spacesuits clothes?
To This Day Project
"Authorities found no evidence of a gunman reported to have been on the MIT campus on Saturday morning. Their search was prompted by a tip to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD), which is now calling the incident a 'false report.'"

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/police-find-no-evidence-o...

All's well that ends well.
For my personal servers, that only host private information, I have no reason for them to be accessed from China - though login attempts were extremely common.

I created this iptables script and update it when I notice any new patterns of abuse

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/1b6f1b08273b92cca890
Now extend the screen vertically until it becomes a 4:3 screen. Now you can fit two 80x30 emacs buffers side by side.
Only works in Chrome? Do not want.
Artoo - Robotics framework for Ruby
I wouldn't call smoothstep an approximation to a sinusoid - both are sigmoidal, but that's about it. This smoothstep in particular is just a natural cubic spline interpolator, arguably the simplest sigmoidal interpolating function.
Secret energy lab spawns million dollar govt employee
Specializing in remote presence hardware and software gives the author insight into the remote working industry and how Marissa's move affects said industry. So of course he's going to have something to say (disparaging or not).
I can't remember the name of it, but there is a company that does something similar for shipping delays with UPS and FedEx. A company that ships a lot of packages can get thousands in rebates since a percentage of those deliveries will probably be late. Are there any other industries where rebates often go unclaimed?
I have a rare brain condition, an arachnoid cyst, which is a type of non-cancerous brain tumour I was born with. It's between the parietal and occipital lobes in my left hemisphere, larger than a chicken egg.
My neurophysiology is quite peculiar, and I have traits of hyperlexia and Non-Verbal Learning Disorder. The neuroscience team who are working with me have a lot of testing to do, but I'm certain my cognitive strengths, as well as my cognitive weaknesses, are partially to due with my cyst. It's considered to be congential brain damage.

Interestingly, my fiance (a rather brilliant computer scientist) has acquired brain damage from a car accident, and from the time he fell down a flight of stars and broke his neck and bruised the rear of his brain.
Yeah I think an approach like fail2ban is generally better than wholesale banning of IP blocks by country. Block the people who show bad behavior, not everyone.

Of course if you KNOW you have no users in e.g. China, no harm in blocking them, but any skilled attacker in China is not going to appear to be in China, from your vantage point.
Ask HN: MVP - minimum viable programmer
I get the occasional query from young programmers about what stack I think they should learn or focus on. Mostly, the answer is situational. But we can elevate the response to dogma ... maybe that would be fun. I have a bias towards full stack. I recognize a specialist path exists, but I think it should be the ambition of the few (and they will know when they are "chosen). Even then, they would benefit greatly from the stack. Here's what I think everyone should add to their toolbox:

1. "Almost doesn't need to be said" category: html, shell (i.e. bash), uml, familiarity with multiple tools (editors, IDEs), some server knowledge.

2. A scripting language: In 2013, I guess the best candidates are Ruby and Python. In my book, Python gets the nod.

3. Web skills: And by web skills, I really mean competency in javascript and css. Understand naked js and css. You need to at least "get" jQuery. Digging deeper here? My vote goes to LESS for css and Angular for a js framework.

4. Java: I put Java in a category all by itself. This is the hammer in a programmer's toolbox. Understanding how to really design, write, and deploy Java applications is probably the single biggest step any programmer can take. Lots of people don't really like Java ... but they know it well enough to know why. It just informs so much in 2013. And if you work in the enterprise, its pervasive.

5. SQL: By sql I don't mean just crud statements. Know more. Much more. The db is behind everything. Knowing how to access it properly and efficiently will inform your ability to design db structures and your code (whatever language).

6 (Bonus) One more thing: Competency in the above makes you a useful corporate drone, a cog in the machine. We all want more than that. Pick one more thing: a framework (RoR, django, web2py, spring, play)? another language (scala, would be my pick)?

TLDR - Basics, Python, JS/CSS, Java, SQL, ? = future
Holding and flipping pages on a landscape book is harder; furthermore, books are usually smaller as a whole.
I held onto my 3:2 thinkpad until it died for exactly this reason. You literally couldn't buy a new 3:2 laptop. Especially on small screens it is so much better.
I hope you don't find someone who has schizophrenia and hellbanned funny. Because that would be pathetic, and you would be heartless.

I no doubt misinterpreted your comment.
Since the URLs do not get linkified on the main post:

Patents:
http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/228...
http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/236...
If you resort to blocking IP ranges to prevent attacks, you are missing the point of how to properly respond to an attack. Blocking ranges might by an extra layer of security (philosophy of defense in depth), but in addition to that you should analyze how this email user account was compromised.

Weak password was bruteforced? Start enforcing strong passwords.

Email server vulnerability exploited? Patch your server.

Etc.
It looks ok, but the HN logo goes to the main YCombinator page and not the main news page... And you can't comment at all because the button gets hidden when you try and click on it.
How about Mailbox.ipa ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ipa_(file_extension)
If the network is the biggest 'secret' to YCs success, then is there any reason why YC has been more successful than 500 startups or techstars?

These incubators should have an equally impressive group of founders.

I think their is something special about YC, though I don't know exactly what that is.

At the same time, you have to suspect that some of the cache comes from AirBnB and DropBox hitting bases loaded home runs.

What are the most successful start-ups from 500Startups and TechStars? Did YC just get lucky with these two, and luck begets luck because now the best and brightest will apply to YC because it has had the early success?

----update------

I also hadn't realized how many companies have been through more than one incubator program. For example, sendgrid was both 500Startups and TechStars, Webmynd,Chirply and GazeHawk were all part of 500Startups and YC.

I'm sure there are many more.
My beef with the move is its hypocrisy. Disregarding remote workers in a remote world? At a company peddling tools that facilitate... (get ready for it)... remote work!? Sometimes this ish doesn't even seem real.
Taking Command of the Terminal with GNU Screen
Do bad remote workers stick out in memory more than bad in-house workers?
There is also statistical correlation between genetic disorders which impact neurological function and high IQs. By definition, "genius" is an abnormally functioning brain in some sense. We don't sit around awe struck by people with normal jobs, who drive cars and what not, even though a lot of "ordinary" things today would leave people from even a hundred years ago awe struck. We just think it is normal. Those who can't do such things get viewed as defective.
Yes, we are all flawed, and when one group of us gains the power to force another group of us do what they want, bad things tend to happen. That's why we have something called the decentralization of power through democracy - maybe you've heard of it?

This isn't some crazy conspiracy theory - it's basic history and common sense. Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot: these are but a few of the sociopaths who aspired to power in the last century alone; the list of what happens when too few people gain too much power goes on and on and on. And you think that it can't happen here? That it will never happen here? Then you are a fool. You cannot imagine a world where the right to bear arms for the purpose of defending ourselves against oppression not because such a world is unlikely, but because you lack foresight and the ability to examine history and your fellow man with a critical eye. The world has been this way throughout human history, and it is still this way today. Fifty years of relative peace on a timeline of hundreds of thousands of years of near-constant oppression do not mean we have progressed beyond those baser instincts.

Guns are power; as such, the right to bear arms represents another form of the decentralization of power. If democracy fails, that final check will remain, and those who don't have their heads up their asses understand this relatively simple and basic truth.

I am very well traveled, and I am well aware of what the rest of the world thinks about American notions of freedom. I have given this issue much consideration, and after many hours of careful deliberation and argument parsing, I have come to the conclusion that the right to bear arms is one of the few aspects of American culture that I am vehemently in favor of. I don't care whether the rest of the world understands these concepts or not - I do, we do, and we are clearly not interested in giving this right up easily.

So if you don't like it, that's fine - no one's forcing you to abide by our rules (yet, heh). But if you think that this mindset is based on delusional thinking, paranoia, or anything other than sound reasoning; if you think that we are a bunch of gun-toting ignorant, overly aggressive, uncivilized assholes who're just too dumb to see things YOUR way, then please: allow me to kindly ask you to go fuck yourself.
Facebook iOS app ad experiment results
> I'd prefer the PDP-10

yeah, or a Foonly...
My biggest annoyance with retargeting is also buying a car. I don't remember seeing any car ads leading up to my purchase, but ever since buying the car (over a year ago now) my browser is littered with Ford Focus ads. It's not going to do any good to show me ads for a Focus, i already bought one. It's just a waste of your ad buy to show me more ads. Retargeting seems to be, at this point, one of those technologies that has a high potential value but needs a lot of work to realize that value.

Or it could just be that the people who sell fords aren't very smart. Three days (!!!) after i bought my car, they sent me an email promoting a trade-in event they were having, telling me what a good deal i could get on a used toyota at my local dealership if i traded in my car.
I can fit two windows on a 1280x800 13" screen just fine. You need applications with little chrome to make it work, though.
I don't understand what happened to Forbes. It used to be a real publication. Now it's linkwhoring blogspam, fairly exclusively, with horrible design on top of that.
I'm not going to defend the author's work. He should have pointed to some stats that support his assertion, which are plentiful and available on the web.
You wouldn't need a fake network to load test a web app, and you'd end up being CPU bound for a good load test (as in, the load tester would be CPU bound, obviously you want the app to become maxed in CPU usage). AWS is actually great for doing something like this.

The Chicago Tribune actually released a tool to do load testing with AWS instances: http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2010/07/08/bees-with-mac...
If they want to change culture then it is far quicker when people are physically in the same place.

Im sure if Yahoos culture worked well then they wouldnt be doing this.
It can boot Linux. In that regard, it has the potential to be a general purpose laptop. Although you have to keep your files in the "cloud" because it only has 32gb of storage.
Third party cookies are not banned, they are turned of by default. In the same way you are asking users to make active choices about their information, a change in default is asking ad companies to only track users that want targeted ads.

I constantly see people on HN commenting that they like targeted ads. Those should be your customers. I and others who do not want targeted ads should be left alone. We did not ask for your data to be sent to our machines. We did not ask for your code to be run on our machine. We did not ask to be tracked and sold just because we happened to read a website. We are not your target audience, so stop trying to force us in taking up defense against you. We should not be forced to turn of all cookies, have anti-spyware installed, and going through settings to enable no-tracking cookies.

The advertising industry really need to grow up and start focusing on customers that want their services. With all their current data about who click on ads, this should not be such a hard move forward.
Reading in portrait on the iPad feels like US Letter sized paper; reading in portrait on my Kindle Fire HD feels like a paperback.

Meh. You get used to either one extremely quickly.
Forced to join Google + in order to rate Android apps? ridiculous
well from the marketing perspective you could call it, tall screen.
The biggest difference is that C#'s design is way better than Java's, so there's not nearly as much motivation to move to another language targeting .NET.
My 15" MBP at 1400x900x2 is wide enough to fit a split editor, or an editor and part of a terminal (I find that having part of a background window visible makes it less jarring to switch to it). I wouldn't mind it being physically taller, but I wouldn't want it to be any narrower.
Staying safe in that suburb somewhere?
I cant use an OS without the Window snap functionality of Windows 7/8. Just throw the windows into opposite corners and go. Every time I show people that feature I get a positive reaction but I guess I really have no idea how much they use it.